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A loafer's Soliloquy—A Wild
Cat Buli —Loxfpr snlilnquiseih:—Let s see;
where ‘im I ? 7 hi* l ip—ronl I m iHyin on.
flow'd- I Bis here ? (reflects.) yes, I mind now.
Was coinin’ np—met wheel-barrow, fell over
m p, nr I fpll over flip wheel-barrow—and one
on ns fell in flip rellar; don’t mind liich now
guess it must have Upph mp. Inin a nicp min, I
hie, Im tore! tight ! shot ! drunk! Well, I
ran’t help it—'taint my fault; wonder whose
fault ’lis? Is it Jones’ fault? No. Is it mv
wi'e’s fault?—'lis. No-o. leV the wheel,
barrow’s fault! Has lie a large ‘amity ? Got
nfany relations? All poor I reckon! I think
I-wnn’t own him any more. 111 cut his ac, v
qtrainbinoc—l’ve had that notion about ten |
years, and always hated to do it for fear of hurt I
in’ his feelings—l'll do it now—l tnink. Li
quor is injurin’ me. It’s a spoilin’ my temper.
Sometimes I get mad, when lin drunk, and
abuse Betz and the brats—it used to be Lizzie
and the children—that’s some time ago; Lean
just mind ; when I ns< and to cotde home evenin',,
she used to put her arms round my neck and J
call me her dear William. When I come home i
now. she takWher pipe*out of her mouth, and j
puts her hair nut ol her eyes am! looks at me
and somethin’ like—Bill, you drunken brute !
shut }he door alter you, we’re cold enough,
havin’ no tire, ’tliont lelliti’ the snow plow in |
that way. Y’ S, she’s Betz and I'm Bill now ;Ii
ain’t a good Bill nnther—think I am a counter- |
fell won I pass,—a tavern ‘thout going in and
getting a drink. Don’t know w*hat Ba klin ■
Oh—shouldn’t wonder il l was on wild cal
hank—the At'nnta—Bank of Milk (Igeville, or
Merchants’ Bank ol Macon—l fejl rattier wild ;
last Sunday I was on the river hank, drunk.
I stay jjrettlate now, sometimes l’/n out all
night—lad is'. I'm out pretty lunch all over
out of fMooi[>?*~uui of pocket—out at the elbows
aid knees, and always outrageously dirty, so
Betz says—but then, she’a no judge, for she’s
never ciaajj herself. I w aider why she din’l
wear good'dot lies—may he slip hasn I got em ;
wlin-o fault’* that? Taint mine—it must be
whisky’s.
Sometimes I’m in, t-owr-ver—l’m intoxicated
now, and in somebody's coal cellar. I nere’s
one good principle I've got—l won’t go in dehl;
I ‘never could do it. There, one of my coat tails
is gone—got tore ctT I Vpect wheu 1 fell down
lure. I’ll have to get anew suit 6oon. A lei,
low told me the Other day I’d make a good sign
for a paper mill; il he wasn’t so big Ida licked
him. I've had this shirt on for nine days, and
I'm a'raid it won’t come off w ithout larin’. Peo
ple ought In respect me more’ll ‘hey do, for I’m
irt liotcly orders. 1 ain’t a dandy, though mv
clothessre nearly all greaseian style. 1 guess
1 lore this winder shutter in my pants, behind,
the other night, when I set down on tfie wax in j
Ben Slingg’s shop. I'll have to get it mended
np nr I'll ci Id—l ain’t very stout as it is, though
1 am full in ilie lace—as the boys say I’m ’bout
as fat as a match and as healthy as the small
pox. My'bosl hat slandin’ guard for a window
pane that went nut the other morning at the in
vitation of a brickbat. It’s gitten’ cold down
here ; wonder how I'll get out ; I ain’t able to
climb. Il I had a drink I could think belter—
let’s see ; I hain’t got no three cents —will I
was in s tavern, I could sponge one. When
anybody treats, and says “come up fel ers,” I
always think my name’s fellers, and I’ve got too
good ms oners in refuse. Well, 1 must leave
tiffs, or they’ll arrest ine lor an attempt at burg
lary—l ain’t mine to that yet, toy how. It waa
the wheel-barrow done tin 1 harm, tint me.
Origin of the Term, “ Old Domin
ion."—Few things are so well calculated lo
a Waken in the mind ol tin 1 proud Virginian, when
wandering in foreign lands, lunching rnnini-oen
ces of Inline and kindred, as the simple mention
of the “Oil Doylkion.” And yet there are com
paratively fewP'wlin are aware ol the origin o! ‘lie
term which has sv long and so generally been
applied lo Virginia. It originated ‘bus; Dur
ing the Cromwell, the colony ol
VW I vvle< lire lav ; n —I
unit declared itset) nnfMnHHhjHHHPRmM
when Cromwell thre'ateiionhisenv^ni'ef-and ar- j
my to reduce Virginia lo subjection, the alarmed
Virginians sent a messenger lo ( buries 11., w ho
was then an exile In Flanders, inviting him to re
turn in the ship with the messenger, and be king
of Virginia. Charles accepted the invitation, and
was on ihe eve of embarkation, when lie was
called lo the throne of England. As soon a, lie
was fairly seated im his throne, in gratitude lor
the loyally of Virginia, lie caused lie coat of
arms to be quartered with those ol England, Ire
land and Scotland, as an independent member of
the empire,—a distinct portion of the ‘•olddounn
ion.” Ili-iire a rose lhe origin of ihe.tenn. Cop
per coins of Virginia were wMitid, even as late as
the reign of George-IH.. wliiClVbore on one side
ibe roais of arms ol -Eiijflund, Scntland, Ireland
and Virginia. ’ ,
Tullow 4<l l.:vril. —l’ appeirs from a
ioLoi'ess circ.ukui mi’ £s.v-wyw, Wallace &, Cos.,
New York, that-thiy import of tallow last year
into England Ir on Jgii-'sia amounted lo 95,000,-
000 lbs , being 72 jter cent nl the entire imports
from <ll count ries, and equivalent to ab ml 350,-
COO barrels and tierces lard. The present war
ir.iVii ol enuf-fc cut ofT.all trade between the two ,
belligerant powers, ltns-ia and England. Tal
low has already consequently gone up lo a very \
high price, and in view therenl, lard—American j
lard —will have to be substituted to a considerable |
extent, a- it has been heretofore under the scar- ;
city Hnt! high price of tallow. Il would requite j
not less than 4.000,000 lings to produce the large ]
quantity 01'350,000 barrels and tierces of lard,
and this is neatly double the entire products of
tins Country for commercial purposes. It appears
al-o that England and rives from Russia 75 per
cent, nl linseed and flax-seed lor oil purposes;
and nearly equal in quantity to tallow. \\ hat
is hketi lo be the value of these articles in our
mark-is in view of these laet-, tlio.-e conversant
with the trade are best able to judge.
Fot'l!iro:niir; Oavclopmciita.-We
hive seen tue proof sneets of Ine •• Biographies o!
Hermit’s Washington Caritin Birds”—the men
w in collect filth, in this cil}. for the 11-fald
in which a perfect daguerreotype of each indi
vidual is given. When this publioalUut is given
to live public, an expose of the tnanrlef in vv liich
—rill'll I ra-ieavbr In gel news will be
seen, that ,;\t be perfectly a-touLdijig—some
t'ling heretofore unequalled in the annals ol news
gathering. —Was.'iington Si ir.
“ My’ friend;” said the keeper of a hnfr! to an
over voracious boarder. “ you eat so much that I
shall have to charge you an extra hall dollar.”—
“ An exira half dollar,” replied his boarder with
his emnneii nice lire very picture of despair; “ for
goo Ine-s sake don't do that, I’m most dead now
eiting three dollars’ worth, and if you put on an
extra half do'lars’ worth, I shall certainly burst
—1 shall.
Ah agriciFfufikt, who lias tried the experiment
eatuta m irily, says thvt a fe-v seels of tnmtlo
drop ie I into the hill with cucumbers, or a toma
to set oil', wliic.ti he says is tlie belter m ide, will
keep ~ff til.,-It fi -as and striped bugs, as they
dislike the fiivnr ol the tomato.
Th* Leiw Muskets no vat New Orleans, are
Slid t > have h*eo in'eiide.J f.r the Fullibosiers
under Oip'. VV ilker, (nil as ilm Caniain is now
a little under the weu’li-* , the inu-kets are held
to abide the course of events.
English Cotton Shirts with a synopsis of the
K ‘ran pri lled otftlieui in blue letters, are eager “
ly sought for hv the Tu'ki-h sol her-*, who con
sider them is Tvtu il pre*ui <-.i'.ivei f, j q (ijiioe-,
a th? IV yh u's o v . rj...
THE COURIER. I
ALBANY. GEORGIA.
Saturday, April 29, 1&54.
ETA -School Teacher’s” Enigma is much
too“nii-cel!anedbs,’’besides beiligtoo personal for ,
publication.
The “Weather.—One extreme follows’
another. Last week we seemed in tl* midst of
winter, white ‘during- the present we have had
ultra summer Weather. We’ate yet without rain
and ilia* crops'hie suffering for want of it.
ltain —On Thur.-ilay allernoon we wer p
visited wi.fi a gentle and refreshing shower, the
fiisi fur several week*. It was very grateful and
“good as far as it uenl” which was not more
ihan a couple of inches below the surface.
Mr. L. H. Durham has laid upon our table an
ear ol corn in full silk. It was picked from his
garden, where tn< re of the same sort are growing.
Dcatll of Judge Sturgis.— The Hon.
Jo-epli Sturgis ol Columbus, died in the city ol
Washington, on the I7ili instant, after a very
protracted illness. Mr. Sturgi waslhe Senator
from Murcogee in the late legislature, lie was
a man of mark in the Slate, and his load will be
deeply fell.
Fatal Accident.—VVe regret to learn
! that a lad by the name of John Carter, aged
twelve or fourteen years, sou of Mr.Tuomas Car
ter oflhis county was thrown from Ida hor-e on
Friday of last week, ands > seriously injured that
he died in a fe.v hours. His skull was fralured
by the tail, and he was nearly sensiless tc the
lime of his death.
Foilgrcss.— This body is doing little of gen
eral interest or importance. The Senate has so
stricken out, amended and patched np the Gads
den Treaty, tlmi its own fat her would not recog
nise it. lis fate is stiil very doubtful. II it ev
er gets out ut the Senate alive in any sba|>e, it
is doubtful il Santa Anna will accept it.
In the House tlie Nebraska bill still lingers,
and it is doubtful when its fate will be decided.
We give a synopsis of all Congressional doings
of interest for the week in to-days paper.
That Carpet Hag ( a c.
We published l ist week a statement of the
facts of this case which was then sub judice. —
Since then a Court of Justices at Atlanta have
decided that the passenger who carried his specie
overlhe road, must pay the legal rale (one tenth
of one per cent ) for the transportation of specie
or bullion. Ar< ordingly he paid S4O under pro
test—that being the anfounffclaimed by the Com
pany
Now the inconsistency of the thing seems to
us to lie here. It was’ admitted by all parlies
j that it the money had been lost the Company
i would not have been responsible (or it. Why
l lliert'Compel a pasW'gV; lo pay forty dollars lor
which no equivalent w>as given—why oblige him
lo pay for taking his own risk This may be
law, bet it looks to us to be very one sided jns-
I is
The defend*lit appealed from the dee.isinnxaod
Ofi v. —vjqf
fhigher tiibunul, and the law which governs ti,
settled.
j Tlie t'oiiniicrcial Convention.
It must bi* a source of gratulation and pride
to eVerv right-minded man that the proceedings
of the late'Convention in Charleston were'char
acterized bv so mneh moderation. Nothing cal
culated to irritate or to provoke sectional preju
dices was said or done, and we believe the dele
gates left the Convention with a ‘sir< nger feel
ing of good will towards all sections of our
country than they entered it with.
Socially, the Convention was no doubt a good
thing. Judging ‘from the ‘ published reports of
the dhiners &c., we think the delegates must
j have had’ a good time of il. Moreover, ihe in*
; terchange of opinions between eight hundred
intelligent citizens (rora'all parts of the South,
cannot fail to have a good effect. Perhaps,too,the
: tacts adduced, and the suggestions brought for
; ward may waken our people to their own inter-’
> e-Land set them to work earnes'ly in the right
! way. So far then iheConveution may have done
I some good.
But That any of its long resolutions for hailH
iiur Railroads establishing lines of steamers,
‘opening new channels of Commerce, &.C., w ill
j amount to anything we do not suppose for a mo
j ment. If the Convention had hid the money so
; buck all these very good resolutions, we should
hope for “practical results,” but as il was, the
! resolving was done by one set of nicp, but the
| carrying out will fall to the lov ol quite a.iotlier
! class.
On'the whole, as an organized, formal body
we think the Commercial Convention pretty
’ near a failure, but as a social, informal gatlier
! iug of Southern gentlemen, it was both pleasant
ami instruc'ive,and will not be without benefi
j cial resuils.
i ITIr. Fillmore.—Ex-I’iesidenl Fillmore’s
| progress through Ihe Southern Stales rseinble’ an
j ovation more than anything else. Every where
he lias been received with enthusiasm:"At Lou
isville, Memphis, Vickshnrgh, Natchez. New
Orleans, Mobile,Selma, Montgomery, Cnladibus,
1 Macon, and Savannah, lie lias heerl received as
live guest of ;h“ pe"ple, and greeted with a war
-1 mer welcome than would be accorded to many of
! our public men. On Tuesday morning he left
Savannah for Charleston ‘ After spending a few
days in that city, it is understood that lie will
pass through Augusta oil his way lo Nashville,
and that he wrlf return lo his home by wav of
Washington city. The heartiness ol his wel
come demonstrates clearly that our people re
member and appreciate h.s efforts when at Ihe
bead ol the nation to maintain the rights of every
section <>f our country against faction and vio*
lence.and that Ids policy then meets with their
highest approval.
All this innsi he and is highly grati f ying to the
Ex President, the more so as it was by no means
expected on his part.
Mr. Fillinureas we saw him alew weetcssinCe 1
is a fi ie, halo, noble looking gentleman, plain
and republican in his dre-s and manners, who
looks as it he could yet do go and ba'tie in the ser
■ vice of hi* country.
Taking it Cooly.
The last Columbus Times is out with a long
editorial in which it attempts to account philoso
phically for the very great and general defection
in the Democratic par*y from the Administration
i * ‘
o’ President Pierce. After refering to th politi
cal stain# of ihe country at the commencement
of ihe* last Presidential campaign the ’Times
says : . |
“F.verv hungry politician from the Atlantic to
Hie Paeifir.enli.-ied under the Pierce banner and
went howling over the country like roaring lions
i •‘dragooning’’ the people into his support; or
blow ing bugle blasts upon every hill lop jp his
praise.
Well, we have no desire to debate this point
with ourcotempory. Very likely he speaks the
truth. But more un this point soon.
After the election the it was found
that there were more “dogs than bones”—which
we have no doubt was the fact. Consequently
the disappointed ones have turned against the
Administratirin and now rank with its bitterest
enemies. Now see how the Times sucks the
honey of consolation out of this: ■——*^
“Their desertion has weakened the Adminis
tration in numbers, but what the party has losi
in numbers il has gained in honesty, ana we are,
therefore, contenl to lose them, and will, if it is
necessary, give them a lift, in the rear, as they
run.”
Now supposing that the disa
seekers had been (tie successful applicants—sup
posing they had got what the Times says they hur
raed lor Pierce for, i.e. office and its emoluments,
how would the case hsrie been then? of
course they would have fawned on the lianmihat
fed them, and would have been to day the most
servile and unscrupulous tools of the President.
If the hope of office could have caused them tp
enlist with such eagerness under the banner of
the Brigadier Candidate, the possession of it
would have kept them, the “true and honest”
friends of democratic principles. They would
have been just what the present office hoTdere
are, and would have been placed by the Tunea
in the catagory of honest deinocq|jj^.
We cau draw but one inference from the Time’s
ariic.le riz'—that tne one greiVcohering power
that keeps iti party together, is thß sp6it.i.‘ A
large faction (if it includes all the deserters
since; Might solely for when they
lound they were disappoint’ and in this, an I that
there was no prize money lor them, Ihe only bond
that held them to Ihe party was severed, aud'they
flew v-fT in a tangent.
This is a sorrowful picture to contemplate,and
one which we hardly thought the Tim s was
candid enough to sketch of its own political
brethren.
Rail Hoads.
A Vvcek nr two since the <Xk" ,,9VV,< 'k'NEWs ‘
announced that the Bfhnswick & Florida and
the Savannah, Albao'y & Gulf Railroad Lonipa
nies had united; and that alter each company
had built its own road irdin the two Atlantic ter
-1 mini to a common point, they would join their
■ forces and construct a road in the direction of
Florida, which should be the cvi'mVnoii property
of Doth companies. Now knowing’how easy it
is to he mistaken in the Railroad alLirs of South
ern Georgia, we were inclined to regard this
announcement as apochyphal, especially as we
could not ascertain who hud acted as the a-ents
“of the high cvliiUaWmi^^j^oJijJtaJL^-jb
.oVC-U alt
01, hut we have very good reasons tor believing
that nothing definite has, or at least had at that
lime,’ been done towards effecting it. Nor are
we by any mean* convinced that such a move
ment is one which the citizens of Dougherty,
Baker, Thomas and adjoining counties ro-uld
regard with favor. We know something of the
interest and feelings of Savannah, aniFwc should
fear that AaVo'n's rod would swallow up all the
lesser rods, and having digested them, would
have tilings pretty much its uw n Way. However,
if after reaching the point of junction (say some
where near Wayusville) the consolidated compa
nies should run a common road through the sea
board counties, so as lo eiiter Florida “ as far.to
the eastward” as possible, and thus leave the
counties mentioned above, ccknjMe'lely off the
line, it might bring affairs to a crisis. We of
South western Georgia should then have some
thing tangible and certain lo act upon. We
should know (which is more than we have ever
yet done) exactly where we stood, what oor pros
pects were, and instead ol waiting year alter year
like Mr. Micawber for something “ tu luri: 6p”
from Savannah or Brunswick, we- should seethe
necessity of going to Work so help ourselves.
We need a Railroad, and every year the need
is becoming tndrs ‘manifest and imperative ; and
we believe if our people were once thoroughly
convinced that the only way to get ctil* is lo
build it ourselves, that we should have one in
three years. But hs long as we rely on the prom
ises of other parties’ to build a road for us, we
deserve (and we are pretty likely to get our des
erts) to he compelled to “ box” our cotton down
Ihe river, or to haul it forty to sixty miles to a
Railroad, and to get alt our supplies Irom market
in the same slow-coach way. Nor can we blame
the“othei party.” If Savannah nr if the Bruns
wick company, or if companies ei'lter North or
South see it for their interest to build a road to
our doors, they will do il, but if they do nvjyso
see it, they w i.l most assuredly not do it, aojJ if
they are men of sense we cannot expect it of
them.
The fact is, as every one krtmvs, we have had
altogether too many railroad schemes. Our feel •
ings, ourt'energies and our mrttvey have been di
vided atlt? split up “Hope deferred has madtTthqi
heart sick,” and. already our “people’are
confidence, and look w ith distrust on all. If the
public feeling and interest had bedii Concentrated
on one roud it would have been built, but by'be
ing distracted into so many channels il became
weak, and nothing apparently has -resulted.
Now what is Ihe prosp et ol a Railroad to
Soutli-We6tern Georgia. On this subject vve do
: nut pretend to speak ex cathediia. We con
fess ourselves very much in the dark, and would
be thankful for any reliable informvtion. But
one thing is plain. The Brunswick & Florida
company are dning-Hllle or rtothing-towards com”
pleling their road to TliotnasviHe, and very many
•jf the strongest friends ol the road agree that it
will never be built under the present contract.—*
Tire TlnmvvsvtUe Watchman, of last week, after
: siat'iig that the beliel ilia’ the road would be
| built had been general iu its section, continues
j thus;
*’ It would have been better, Imd they them
selves (the friends of the enterprise) known it, to
have told them [the people] plainly and emplia(- i
icully, at the start, tnal unless they pul in their
money the road could not, and woujd not, be built.
But this'idea'has never lolly entered the minds
of the people. The master tfaa arrived at that
point now, however. If we get a railroad to
Thomasville at all, the peqpte of Thomas emm’ y
must do that which they have never done—aub
scribe for more stuck and pay in their money.”
The prospect of the road’s reaching Thomas
ville, then is rather dimq and if it should come
there, Dougherty and Baker are exiiocted to sub
scribe stock enough to bring it to this point if
they expect to be benefitted by it. As to Ihe
Savannah, Albany and Gulf Road we need only
to reter to the extract from a Savannah paper
quoted last week by our correspondent “ Kincha
foonee” to show that very great doubt hangs over
that enterprise, also for the present.
Novt’we are favorable to both the shove pro
jects. We have waited patiently to see them
realized, and would rejoice to know that there
was a reasonable certainty that either or b >th
roads would be built. But there is, to say the
least, much doubt hanging over both, and the
public are ignoront of the plans and designs
those who control them.’
Under such circumstances would it not be
better to turn our attention, in another direciion
to a scheme less magnificent, but one_ which is
not of such leviathan proportions, bul that wb
can manage it ourselves. We can build a road
from Aitiericns to Albany if we will". Sue!: a
road would answer our wants for the present, and
if a demand rpally exists for roads in ollier'direc
tions, this is the,-very way of all others to find it
out, and >o build them.
We shall recur to this subject again next week,
and we will gladly open our columns to commu
nications oil the subject.
The following good toast was given by the
President of the Press Association at their meet
ing in Charleston, during the session of the
Commercial Convention in that city :
Thf. h’ouTHF.KM Press. —May it ever be em
phatically the Cotton Press— and hold it to be
its pride and its duty, at once, to impress South
ero principles and express Southern sentiment;
and to resist every attempt either to oppress
Southern interests, to depress Southern staples,
or to repress Southern enterprise.
He added : “ Let us bul do this, and ’hen ev
ery true Southron will dwell under his own vine
and under Iris own fig tree, none daring to make
him afraid—permitted, in peace and prosperity.
In press lo his heart the girl he Hdores, or the
wile that he loves.— Charleston Mercury.
From Washington.—The correspond
ent of the N. Y. Tribune, writes:
The impression now is that a Treaty may
pass. Mr James, of Rhode Island moved the
reconsideration.
Mr. Douglas claims credit among the “Hard”
for the defeat of Angel as Consul at Honolulu,
and says that if any more Freesoilers come
before the Senate they will be served in the same
manner.
Cuban affairs remain in statu quo, but Ihe Ad
ministration is determined lo give the Spanish
authorities a'Severe overliaiffing.
Nothing has yet ben done with Col. Forney,
but it is snll said he will be ariaigi.eil.
It is confidently asserted that Mr. Belt’s amend- t
men! to the Gadsden Treaty, recognizing Ihe ,
j Sluo Grant will be carried and the treaty saved.
re tost a1 e I
tribute grants of public 1
land; fur insane person*
passed the House of Representatives yesterday,
alter a strenuous hut unavailing opposition, by a
triumphant muj >ritv ; and,lt no.v culy requires
approval of the I’resident to bee-nine a !aw. We
certainly a j ‘ice in the success of Ibis beneficent
measure fenithe sake of the comfort and relief it
is destinedlvybring to the most’ pitiable I’ofiii of
human iiusrfry ; hut we.-dt'rive from its passage
unleigned plea.-ure, and - pride ufsu for the hotiof
abjeproot it offers hi ttaFwofld ol the humane
sentiment of the national representatives. We
might find also a source of deep satisfaction in
the inexpressible happiness it'brings to the heart
of the gentlewoman “Iq wlinse mild energy, un
vveiried pcrsevercnce, fcnd persuasive influence
the country and humanity are, after ail, indelped
lor this noble act ol legislation.—-'National Intel
ligencer, 20th.
Tlris bill which has* been before Congress for
sometime, has hem known as “ Miss Dix’s Bill.”
Orheriffirts the'lntelligencer -ays:
Thus have the labors of Mi-s “Dix, the perse
vering patron of this beneficent act, been crown
ed with triumphant success. She pursued Ite
olij cl with unflagging z-ai, yet with a womanly
grace that was irresistible. How many afflicted
iamilies will pour mil their thanks lor her heroic
efforts, and send uptneir prayeis for her temporal
and eternal happiness !
The Late Storm -Shipw reck*.
The New York Herald.nl Thursday, contains
some further particulars of the shipwrecks that
have lately taken place on the Nor hern coast,
caused by ihe recent violent gale Tl.p passen
gers ol the packet ship Underwriter, ashore at
Squam Beach, have all'arrived in safety at New
York.’ Assistance has’ nee’n despatched tu the
vessel, a,ml it is thought she wiH'begift off!’ The
ship Humboldt, Paulson, with passengers, Irohi
Hamburg for New York, is reported to be the
ves.-eh ashore at Bafnegai. The ship IVwlist
ten, of Baltimofe, Irom Havre for New York,
which went on shore early on Sunday morning,
near Egg Harbor light, as slated in out ‘despatch,
was completely destroyed. She hau about 200
German emigrants on board,every soul of wh->.n
perished. Fiity-eighl bodies have been cast up
on the beach of Abescnm. The schooner Man
hattan, of B-rngor, was also lost irt the same
neighborhood,''anil art on board, save fine man,
dr. wued. There are reports of many other ves
sels being on shore, and the loss ot life cun hard
ly. be estimated. This has been a season of
i disasters anparalleled in the history of our com
merce. The destruction of vessels and their
‘i cargoes, during the past w inter, in which Ame
ricans ate interested, involves, it is believed, a
loss of between two and three millions of cellars.
[Sav. News, 25:h inst.
The fdltnwihg Territories now rem in to be
organized into States:
Square Miles. .
New Mexico, 119.774
Indian or Kansas, 187.171
Mjnnessota, 83,000
Oregoifand Washittglon, 341.468
Utah, 187.923
NebraskaMnd Notthwestern, 72; ,261
Total, 1,336,650
Accounted For.~The New Haven
Register, says, this unseasonal le weather esn
he>only accoMined for, on the- sorpoeitinn that
Ihe persons in search of Sir John Ffanklin have
gone through the North-west passage, and ne
glected to shut the door a!ter them.
NEWS ITEMS, &c.
How. Edward Everett was eixiy year* old or>
theHth. He was born April lltli, 1794.
The observance of Lnt took place in Eng
land tor the tirsl time in 640.
The English quarter- of grain, it is said, is
‘equal to 8) of our bushels, not 8 bosliels, as is
generally supposed.
The Columbus, Columbia county, Wisconsin
Reporter, toist* the name of Gen. Houston as a
candidate tor President in 1856.
A bloomer is a woman who pasts for noto
riety.
It is reported that Monsignor Benini has been
appoimed the Papal Nuncio in Spain.
The Archbishop of Paris has addressed a pas
toral letter to the clergy and people inviting that
prayers be offered tor success to French arms in
the Eastern war.
The real estate of New York city is valued
at $488,000,000. Tse increase during the past
year is estimated at $87,000,000.
A telegraphic agent has been imprisoned in
France, one month and fined 1000 francs, for
publishing a false repoit of the price of consols.
Cholera is re-appearing at various points on
the .Missouri and Upper Mississippi river. At
Keokuk, lowa, twelve etnigrauts have died.
hi France, it is said, good printing paper has
be£ii made out of wood, ground M> an impalpable j
powder and mingled w ith a suiallwjuropurlioii of !
rags.
The Geological Survey of Illinois, now in pro- j
gress, has developed the fact the Southern ll'i- j
unis is rich in marble of the most valuable
varieties, both variegaied and black.
A line of four steamers has been established
between Boston and Baltimore.
Miss Mary J Reynolds ha 9 been appointed j
Light House Keeper, at Biloxi, Miss., at S4OO :
per annum*
It is stated that since the first of November
last $200,000 worth of tobacco has been sold at
Louisville, Kv.
Foricgn stems.
The untoward nccurance at Cuba connected
with the Black Warror has had its share also in
disturbing the comparatively quiet bubbling of
ihe political cauldron. The strongest sympathies
are every where expressed lor the rights pi Airier
ica.anil the idea of any quarrel spr iigtr.g up be
between her and France, no matter what the al
liance, is looked upon as a thing ton terrible in
think 01. The predominant feeling is a devout i
hope that the Spaniards may be soundly brought
to book.
Tlip passage of the Danube by the Russians
near Ibraila and Gala x has caused an alarm lest
they should arrive at Consiantiiiople belnre the
arrival of the anglo French army. It appears to
be the general opinion that Outer Pacha liasbeen
deceived; that alter having stimulated sharp at
tacks on Kalelsi, and drawn to that place the
greater part of the Turkish forces, the Rns
sians succeeded in causing the Lower Danube
to lie lell undefended, and profi’ed thereby. They
have still, however, to force the passage of the :
Balkans,ol which Varna anil Schwmla lorm the
double key ll is clearly evident that there is an
em my a foot alike lor., idnble truin its numbers
and its perseverance.
There is evidently some significant prepara
tion going on at the Au-trtan frontier. An or
der has boon given to form a moveable headquar
ters at Buds. Simmers full of troops and can
iidii, are daily moving down the Danube, as tlio’
a military emigration were taking place. The
army numbers it is said, a I ready* 159.000 men.
As lor Pi ussia, the only’ interesting circum
siauce is that her king is convalescent. Had it
|1..'1"1 I< nit mi. Sw’ w * lS >’ Wrtn■l'Srter
iniglu . have been the gain of, many a better
man. It appears that while strolling in his park
a gust us wind Jure iffHie bough of a thorn,which,
striking the king beneath the eye, ruptured an
artery and erysipelas ensued. Really serious
consequences were apprehended, and hence the
issue of bulletins.
A version lias been given to the assassination
of the Duke cl Parma of a romantic character
The Duke had invited several favorite officers
to his table, and while the wioe was freely cir
culaliivo ho- permuted himself to mention thp
name of a lady—lorgelling that she was the sis
ter ol an officer present—with something more
than lightness. A reiractibn was demanded,
which the Duke met by a blow, and the officer
immediately seized a knife from-ntl'tlie table and
stabbed him. His escape was connived ait by his
j confreres.—[N. ‘f’T Herald.
The Black Warrior affair iu Eng
land.
The London Gaze'tle commenting on what it
calls II e’“iinjiifeiifiahle treatment of the Black
Warrior at Havana, intimates pretty plainly its
belief, that the Untied States will make this a
plea lorthe long desired acquisition of Cuba, and
speaks nt the highly favorable oppportunuy how
offered for the consummation of that design, while
England and France have their bauds lull in the
Ea-t.
It then proceeds to denounce roost bitterly, the
o< induct nt Sjpain ‘ln perpetuating the African
Slave Trade in disregard of her treaties with
England, and even perhaps',’ with the very mon
ey which England has paid to her as indemnity
tor relinquishing Bd profitable but inlamous a
pursuit.
“Politically,” says the Globe “it would be
wmng to let the United “Stales possess Cuba ;
but morally and commercially it cannot too soon
change masters.” It declares its beliel that the
acquisition bv the United Sta’es is positively cer
‘lain; and though it does not actually reccom
ir.end it, or deny that in some respects it would
pretermit to see it, yet it will nevertheless rejoice
to tee the Island lost to Spain,“a country which
he.s'nelllier moral worth, nor poli'ical ii fluence
td command respect or consideration.” In short
the Globe’s article is decidedlV litlibusterish,and
will doubtless give great aid and comfort to the
fillibusters in this country.
Severe Bale—Vessels Wrecked on
the Coast—Eoss of Lffe.
The late storm waa- very severe at the Dela
ware Breakwater. Houses on the main land
were mirooled, and several ves-ws\vere driven
asliore at Ahsecnu Beach. Forty dead bodies
have been washed ashore, supposed to have be
longed to soma emigrant ship. The underwri
ters believed that the ve-sels will be got off at
high water, with tjre assistance of steam tugs.
Loss of the Emigrant Ship'?*owhattan —
200 Persons I’ekished — l W# vessel lost on
Ab-econ Beach was the ship Powlmttan, from
Havre, bound to New York. She went ashore
at three o’clock on Sunday morning',- with 200
passengers, all of whom perished. Tfte ship
has gone to pieces, aud uot a vestige of her is to
be seen.
Speed'of IHormoimin. —The Mormons
are exulting at the'spread ot their doctrines.—
The Desert News says twenty-five years ago
Morinonism was unknown! Now, like the tribe
of EphraitA, it is among “a multitude of nations
in the midst of the earth.” At Cape Town in
Africa, at Madras, Bombay, Poouah, Calcutta,
and other pJdce&in India, and in many of the
principal cities and boroughs of Europe, as well
as the islands of the sea, it “spreads undivided
and ojerates unspent,”
The Administration.
No Administration ever started under brigh-’
ter auspices—none has in so short a ir
redeemable ruined itself. It is a clear eaje of
felodese. Its pariy is a small portion of the
Democratic Partys proper, which grows small
by degrees and beautifully leas, and promises to
become as small as that band of desperate men
who followed the desperate fortunes of John Ty
ler. Its policy is so shuffling and so vacillating
and so contradictory that it would trouble the’
most ardent Administration man to give a simple
and plain exposition of it, which would be inteV
ligible to the uninitiated. The material of winch
this Administration is compo ed, fiom its chief’
down to the lowest officer of its appointment was
not such as to command at the outset, the un--
donbting confidence of the people of this coun- \
try, and they have done nothing since their as
sumption of office to.dese.rve it. There is no
man in office under the Administration,at home
ot abroad, with the solitary exception of our Min
ister to England—James Buchanan, of Pennsyl
vania, who has any hold upon the confidence or
affection of t.ie entire people of this Union—who’
is not tfte representative of a class, a clique, aj
faction or a section ; and there is no prominent
salient point in its policy, upon which the people,
can be rallied to its support The people have
learned one facjkfrom the history of this Admin
istration, which they cannot forget or overlook. ~~
and that is ’llrat General Pierce has systemat
ically and deliberately, attempted to consolidate
an Administration party upon the bassis ot the
spoils, and to make jluuder the bond o; its union-,
j irrespective of * platforms, principles or adminis
i trative policy. His own parly Repudiate bis ba-.
| sis of political organization, and it is all together
, too narrow forthe people to stand upon. , ,
But overlooking the policy of its appointments,
what has the Pierce Administration done to de
serve our admiration or respect? Governor
Marcy signalised his entrance into the State
Department, by issuing a circular upon diplo
ma tiff costume and naval beards—important de
j velopments of his peculiar American. System.
Then came front the Secretary of,4he Treasury,
the assertion of the right of the Federal Goverti-
I mein to control the appointments of its subordi-
I nates, and the decapitation of Bronson, lh,e Coj
lector of New YorlCbocai'se he would not rec
ognise Free Sellers as D.enmfijtaJ* iu a w ay which
would carry conviction wuth.it, i. e. by giving^
them office. Then came the Ko-ta letter—a--
clever electioneering documeut, which dragged
Ko-ta unwillingly from his home to starve in
Hie streets of New York. Then can e the Black
Warrior message,as weak as ill- watered milk
which Gothamites drink, And on the lapis,yet ,
are the Gadsden Treaty, and the Nebraska Bilt
the one altered in ibe Senate until its own spon
sors could not recognise it. *"d then killed—
tho other virtually killed in the House where tne ,
! Democracy have a eohtninriig'majurily. This
is Hie brilliant programme of Hie present Admin
istration, and we are so ob’u-e, that we cannot
see in it anything which should bind us to its
support. —Journal &, Messenger.
Culm iu Parliament.—An interest
ing debate iu Parliament upon the war message,
and a discussion upon the relation of Great Brit
ain aud the United . States to Cuba, are the chief
points of interest iu the news from Great Britain.
In the course of lire Cuoaii discussion,a Mr.
Baillie made this remark : ,• •
. “ Most assuredly, unless she (Spain) fultTferl
her engagi inents with us, and look care ‘hat
Cuba should on longer be ..the grand, and indeed, .
sole seat ol the slave trade, which she had mi- .
deriaken to suppress, sbe could not latrly coins .
plain it England took no, measure In prevent .
Cuba from lulling m'o the hands of the Ameri
cans.” ; - • r<
To which Sir James Gr ham officially re
sponded : ,
“ That though he could not at all concur in
lho proposition that, by way of collateral argil
j meni, we “ere to hand over Cob* to the U. |f
States, thp epdyyjfrs of our erdisers, bo’ll on
ihe coast oTUuWfstid on the coast of Alripa,
should be. il possible, augmented, and every,
means used for securing tho real co-operation
of the authorities of Cuba.” [Hear ]
Mr. Ciibden took up the defence of his col
league, and made the following emphatic decla
ration :
“ Without saying one word about the expedi- .
ency of giving Cupa to the United States,.or
assisting that country to take possession of the’
island, he lliniight il would be greatly for Hie
interest of humanity if the U. Slates, or any oth
er power that would a together discountenance
ihe slave trade, should possess il.” [Cheers.]
Spectacle.*. —Reader, has the rapid rail- ,
road of lose wPvrled yaiu past the 50th or 60th ■
degree of the norm latitude of age? I'nen you
are mine frigid regions,ol manhood, and your
optical lens HTe flaliened and oblate, and goiaJ
English is ail Greek to you, without toe aid of
convex assistants., ,Was you ever in a situation
without your ‘ sfjirintacles,’ that you would give_
a dollar to Ire able to see, read or * rite, as well
as you could in the days ol your jnkenalily ? If’
so, read the lollowing discovery, ptcf‘yepd the
money to the primer, for the benefit cf any cnari—
ty you plea-e.
Make a pin hole throngit a glip of ootnmoiy
playing card, or an address egrd or even siiti let- t
ter puuer, and place it clo-e to the eye, shilling’
the other, and with a good light the vision is as
perfect as in youth. It is a device that 1 litva
often availed myself o!, to my great advaoKigec
A correspondent ol the R'tfral’ New Yorker
writes as above. As we cannot, unaided by
sp-etacles, read even a line of Ling Primer cap
itals, we tell inclined to try this experiment.—
Sure enough, we cntHd make out the smallest
print, though not without causing the eyes to
ache with the effort ol a few seconds. As to.
reading aud writing as well as in youth, by
merely looking through a pin hole, to that we de- •
mur most decidedly, Asa temporary expedient!
to be u.-ed lor a few moments, it is worth know
ing; but, beyond that, lire strained vision would’
rebel.—Arthurs Home Gazelle.
The Gadsden Treaty. —The following
appears to be the present posiliott of this treaty’
in the Senate :
That the territory shall be only sufficient for*--’
railroad route, and that the compensation shalb
be reduced to seven millions. A total omission- ’
of the private claim clause; A total abnegation,
of the eleventh article of the Treaty of Gouda
loupe Hidalgo nod a retease of the United Staten
from all claims set up under it. Tire provision
for the Garay claim was strucktful unanimously.
! An effirt to incorporate the priheiple of the Con
kling Convention is pending with prospect of
success. This proposition amounts to.a protec
torate over the Tehauntepge wotk, whether. Plank ’
Road, Railroad, or Canal.’ The beet informed
persons believe that Saiita Anna will accept, {
those terms.
The Carpet Bag Case.—The case to wliichf 1
we alluded in our last, as pending between the
State Road and a passenger named
in regard to the carpet bag detained by the offi* !
cer6 of the Road upon tire refusal of its owner
to pay the regular rate of freight on thb specie”’
it contained, was decided in favor of the Road.
Mr. H., we understand, received his property
trom the officers by paying the amount of freight *
demanded by the Road, which he paid under 4
protest. We understand that he intends carry- ’
ing the case into the United Stales Court.— •
Atlanta Intelligencer.
Nebraska Indians. —Nineteen Indiana
of the Deleware and Shawnee tribes accompani
ed by two interpreters arrived at Wasbingtoi<onu
Thursday, the object of their visit being to maker
treaties.