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ATLANTA, DECEMBER *b 1855.
Our Milledgeville News.
We are sorry to be compelled to acknowl
edge again the failure of our Milledgeville cor
respondent*. We know our readers are desi
rous of receiving all the details of legislation
at the Capitol, at the first possible moment.—
We would give them promptly every morning
if we could regularlaly receive them. The
mails are irregular not only here, but according
to our exchanges, almost everywhere.
Boston Belting Company,
For the manufacture of Machine Belting.
Steam Packing, Engine Hose, and Vulcanized
India Rubber, under the agency of Tappan;.
Mcßurncy, & Cheever, 27 Milk Street, Bos
ton.
This company has established a new enter
prise which is in strict harmony with the wants
of the present progressive age; and, judging
from the already enviable cliaracter it has made
for itself, we know of no other manufacturing
establishment to which fire companies, steam
machinery agents, or India Rubber dealers,
could apply for equally good furnishings or
bargains. While the domestic tradehas drawn
largely upon the fabrics of this energetic com
pany, the foreign markets—especially of Eng
land —have extended to it a highly liberal pa
tronage.' See advertisement in our Weekly.
Speech of Mr. McMillan.
A few days ago it wus stated in our “Mil
ledgeville correspondence" that on a future oc
casion. we would, publish tho remarks of the
Ikn. Robert McMillan, the Senator from Hab
ersham, on the Bill to consolidate the Greenville
and Chattahoochee Ridge Rail Road Company.
At our urgent solicitation, however, that Sena
tor bus written out his remarks, and has kindly
favored us with them for publication. We
therefore present them to-day to oar readers
trusting that the enlarged and statesmanlike
views of the Senator from Habersham upon the
important topics embraced in his remarks, wil
be perused by each and every one of them.
The Adams’ Express Co.
Have given, in one of our advertisement col
umns, a prospectus of their enlarged sphere of
action and numerous facilities for serving the
public in a general transportation business.—
The propmtness and energy which have ever
characterized this company will retain the pub
lic confidence so worthily gained. To say more
would be unnecessary. Sec advertisement •
A Handsome Compliment.
It affords us unusual gratification to lay be.
before our readers an account of the ceremonies
of the recent presentation to James Gardner,
Eaqr., of the Augusta Constitutionalist, of a
service of plate from the appreciative readers
of his paper during the recent exciting canvass.
The fact of the presentation itself speaks more
eloquently of Mr. G’s. distinguished defence of
civil and religious liberty when attacked by a
misguided party, and we have only to add that
tho well merited compliment so handsomely
paid him will be the subject of unmixed satis
faction to every member of the press throughout
tho State.
An editor’s life is at best but a trying one,
made up of one endless succession of unremu
nerating labors and disappointments, and he
is indeed fortunate who meets such a response
to his efforts as Mr. Gardner has from bis grat
'tied patrons. None more eminently deserved
t, and it must have been a proud moment for
him when, after the exciting interest of the
campaign had subsided, his friends met to offer a
te timonial of their regard as unexpected as it was
unusual. Long may he live to enjoy so large a
share of the good opinion of the public.
. Kansas.
The Kansas Convention held in November
for tlie purpose of taking decided action on the
new Constitution of that Territory, hove de
clared to submit it to the populur voice of the
people on the 15th inst. If the people receive
and confirm tho Constitution in its present
shape, the first Constitutional action to be had
will bo tho election of Executive and Judical of
fleers, which aro Governor, Lieutenant Gover
not, State Auditor, Judges of the Supreme
Court, and Attorney General. For the elec
tion of Assembly members the Constitution
fixes the third Tuesday in January next
See Our Book Advertisements.
“Henry vhi. and Hts Six Wives.’—A thrill
ing story by 11. W. Herbert, in which the au
thor give' highly graphic pencilling? of the
customs of early Eiglish nobility, and pre
sents truthful biographies of Henry and his
victim wives. To read the matrimonial history
of Anne Boleyn—the most seductive and beau
tiful woman of her age—is worth the price of
the book. Life-like portraits of the several
characters embellish the work.
Miller. Orton and Mulligan , publishers, 25
I’ark Row, N. V.audlOi Genesee street, Au
burn. Price?l .25 for tale at Kay’s Cheap Book
Wtor s.
“Fern Leaves,”- Ist and 2d series—by
Fanny Fern, and publish dby Mason Broth
ers, No. 23 Piuli, Row. N. T. The acknowl
edged adaptation of Fanny’s writings to the
present time is so general, that, commendations
from u*> is wholly 'innecessary. Published in
one large volume, at 81.25, and for saleat Kay’s
cheap Book Stores.
“Ellie, oa ins Human Comedy.” Price
81.25.
“A Southern Home."—By a lady of Vir
ginia. Price 63 cents.
“Peuass’ History and Indian
Pricc 82.00.
“Sciology for the South.” Price $1.25
History or THE V alley op Virginia Price
$1.50.
The above works' published by A. Morris.
Richmond, Va., and fore sale at Kay’s cheap
Book Stores, For their literary and historical
merits, see advertisements.
“The Bkaitifil Gate, and other Talks."
By Caroline Cbesboro. Decidedly a gem for
youth, and well calculated to inspire a taste for
reading. The size of the book and its fine artis
tje style-, independent of its literary excellence
—make it cheap at the price asked. It b a
duodecimo of 235 pages, copiously illustrated, I
and bound in superb gilt muslin, at the low
price of 75 cents—to be had at Kay’s Cheap
Book Stores.
Messrs. Miller, Ortou 4. Mulligan, publisher*
25 Park Row. New York.
Six'new Juvenile Publications. By Mrs.
Sarah A. Myers, long known for her success in
developing the mental faculties of youth. This
elegant little library comprises the following 50
cent books, each of them highly ornamented
with colored engravings.
“Christians Gift for Young People.'
“Beads and Shot.”
“The Balloon, and other Stories.”
“Louis, or the Reformed Boy.”
•‘Baron Von Wollheim and his Children.” i
“Frank, the Little Cheat.”
Published by C. G. Henderson A Co., corner
sth and Arch Street, Philadelphia, and for sale,
by single numbers or in setts, at Kay’s Book
Stores.
“Our Folks at Home."—Published by the
above firm.
4 This is Hie best book extant for the softening
of asperity and promoting a healty, social feel*
, ing. The volume comprises several stories, all
'tending to instruct in the Christian precept
taught in the golden rule. We recommend it
to hypochondriacs and misanthropists os a clieap
and speedy curative for morose tempers. The
book contains 300 pages, is bound in cloth, and
illustrated with ten engravings from original
designs. Price 75 cents. For sale at Kay’s
Book Stores.
“Burn Hail.”—By Fanny Fern—the best
of present day female writers. For testimoni
als of the literary worth, as Recorded by the pub
lic press throughout the .Union, see advertise
ment. We feel that can say nothing that
would add a cubit tfi lier height. Price $1.25
—the whole in one volume of'4oo pages—pub.
lished by Mason Brothers, 23 Park Row, New
York. For saleat Kay's Book Stores.
“ The Life of Christ and his Apostles."
By John Fleetwood, D.D., price $1 25.
A splendidly printed book, replete v ith reli
gious knowledge, made easy of apprehension
by the aid of beuatifully appropriate pictorial
illustrations and commentaries. It would
seem that the author lamented the want of
Bible reading so characteristic o this hurly
burly age, and took this happy method of iu
| spiring a taste for a more noble literature than
cumbers too many of our librariis.
’ “ The Pilgrim’s Progress.” By John Bun-
[ yan. Price $1 00.
This good book, by virtue of its already great
celebrity and universal acceptance with the
Christian world, makes commendation from us
■ an act of supererogation. We would not no
s tice it now, were it not that we desire to call
1 public attention to the elegant new type and
• spledid pictoral embellishments that lend new
‘ grace and beauty to its pages of the present
■ edition.
! Three Valuable Books for Young Ladies
Ist. “Woman’s Mission.” Price 75. cents.
2d. “Health, Beauty and Happiness.”—
Price 75 cents.
, 3d. “What Women may and should be.”
Price 75 cents.
’ Os the actual merit of these books we can
l say but little, as we have not had time to give
them more than a cursory reading at irregular
j intervals. Bnt the reader may refer to the ad
[■ vertisement for tables of contents, and thus en
t able himself to sro, in detail, at one compreheu
t sivo view, all the subjects upon which these
, books treat. Knowing that in proportion to
man’s veneration of woman, man himself is en
t nobled and drawn near to the God in whose
image he was created, we believe every individ
ual should patronize such literary works as tend
’ to woman’s emulation, remembering thut
; “Min the hermit sighed till woman smiled.”
" Miller, Orton & Mulligan, publishers 25
Park How New York City, and 107 Genessee
I Street Auburn New York, sent to every part
r postage free. A large lot for sale at Kays
, cheap Book Stores, at publishers prices.
Colbu£n’sA rithmatic.—This is the latest
publication in tho way of useful school books
wo have received or had occasion to notice.
The book contains 366 pages, aud evidences a
highly artistic taste in the printer who superin
tended the work. According to the table of
contents, the general rules of Arithmetic in
connexion with useful rules of instruction upon
minor points, number 250. As a new and
highly necessary feature in Arithmetics design
ed for schools, we heartily commend Colburn
for tho numerous commercial tables and forms
which give a uew interest to bis book. Among
those we discover tho several legal forms of
promissory notes, bills of exchange, drafts, bills
of sale, bills of goods, new modes of compu
ting interest, &c.
This book, although very recently committed
to public criticism, has received a flattering
annmeudatioD from the most distinguished of
our mathematicians.
Price see advcr'iacmont, and call at
Kay's clieap Book Stores.
“Mitchell’s Primary Geography,” like all
'looks for general instruction should be, Mitch
ell’s Geography impresses its teachings upon
tho pupil by appropriate aud highly expressive
engravings, indicating the characters of tl e
several lessons they respectively illustrate.—
Apart from tho loug established reputation of
tjamuel Augustus Mitchell, as a publisher of
maps, charts, and geographical ecbool-b<>oks, his
Primary Geography has received unbouudixi
praise from more than one hundred and fifty
piiucipaboi' schools of the highest educatiuusi
merits.
Published by the celebrated house of H.
Uoperthwait * Co., No. 207 Market street,
Philadelphia, and for sale at Kay’s cheap Book
Stores at per copy.
“Berard’s United States,” published from
the same house as mentioned above. Thia is
an elegant printed duodecimo volume of 224
pages, abundantly embellished with superior
pictorial illustrations, aud put up iu neat mus
lin covers. We do not remember that we have
ever seen a school history so fitly adapted to
the understandings of the young as tho last one
by A. B. Berard. The author must have been
well versed, not only in American history, but
in providing nourishment to the young mind,
else he could not have succeeded in the consu
mation of a historical text-book so eminently
fitted for awakening in the youthftil mind a spir
it of research. Testimonials of the highest
character have been awarded to it, for which
see advertisements and call at Kay’s cheap Book
Store. Price
“Nut Cracker and Sugar Dolly."
above for sale at Kay’s cheap Book
Stores.
“Th» Carmjna Sacks.”—a collectfon of
Church Music—by Lowell Mason. Published 8
by Mason Brothers, N. Y. Price SI.OO. The 3
moat populur compilation of Church Music nt i
present in the Southern Churches, is “The Sa- c
cred Harp.” which has had no superior until the c
appearance of “The Curmina Sacra.” This It
last book not only comprehends all that has ’ ’
heretofore characterized church melody, but I'
embodies many entirely new pieces that give it • ’
a charm which no other book enjoys. For sale i ]
at Kay's cheap Book Stores. ! <
“Standard Juvenile Books for all Ska-!
sons.”—Published by C. G. Henderson & Co., i
corner of sth and Arch Streets, Philadelphia.
These books comprise six in number, and are
; respectively entitled ‘ Moral Tales,” “Popular
] Tales,” “The Fire-Side Story-Book,” “Waste
j Not, Want Not,’’ “Lazy Lawrence,” “The
i Bracelets.”
Maria Edge worth, one of the most popular
female writers of the nineteenth century, is the
authoress of the above excellent books for chil
dren. They arc embellished with numerous
elegant engravings from original designs, and
for sale at Kay’s Cheap Book Stores.
Lucy Bo ston, or Woman’s Rights." By
Fred Folio.
This is the book of books in the way of un.
in asking and correcting the follies so uncon
genial with the enlightmeut of the present age
All such systems as owe their origin to Robert
Huie Owen, Joe Smith, Fanny Wright, Mrs.
Fish, Madam Bloomer, et id omnia genus, may
get behind the curtain now. After this expos
ition we would not acknowelege membership
with either of the above brother or sisterhoods
. for our weight in Bloomer dresses and Mormon
. Bibles, kite advertisement and call at Kay's
. Book Stores.
“Uncle John’s Panorama Picture Books.”
i —Bound in an illuminated cloth cover, at 25
. cents each, and composed of the following ex
' pressive titles:
“Uncle John’s Panorama of Europe.”
“Uncle John’s New Pictorial Alphabet.”
••U cle John's Stories of Animals.”
“Uncle John’s Games and Sports.”
“Uncle John's Panorama of America.”
“Uncle John’s Picture Alphabet.”
In connection with the above, and from the
same publishers, are,
“Aunt Fan ty’s Stories and Legends.”
“Thrilling Stories of the oeean.”
“yEsop in Rhyme.”
“Watts’ Divine and Moral Songs.”
“Carlo Franconi."
“Maja’s New Pictorial Alphabet”
“The comple Book Nursery Rhymes. ’
The Slavery Lectures in Boston.
There seems to be a great difference of opin
ion in relation to the propriety of Southern
men's acceptance of the invitation to lecture
upon the institution of slavery in Boston, be
fore the Abolition Society there. Did there
exist any poesibilty of good resulting from such
lectures wc would say by all means let it be
done. But when it is considered that the
audiences to whom these lectures are to be ad
dressed have so prejudged the question that ar
guments in our favor are worse than wasted
upon them, we acknowledge we cannot see what
advantage can possibly result in debating what
is the fixed law of the land, and to alter which
would rend asunder the whole fabric of our
government. We regard the men who are to
hear these lectures as beyond the reach of rea
soning, and why should wc lower ourselves to
discussing with them, when our arguments
would mark no more impression upon them
than if addressed to so many stones. We are
for anything that can be suggested, which
promises to relieve the country from tho criti
cal position it occupies, and which does not
compromise our honor, but we can see nothing
in this that promires the first or evades the Ist
ter.
The following extract from a letter to the
Society from Ex-Senator Dickinson, of New
York, in response to their invitation, expresses
our views so perfectly that we give it a place
here, with our hearty endorsement of ita lan
guage throughout.
“To lecture upon this disturbing subject, un
less it is proposed to act upon it, would seem
to be a barren and profitless gratuity; and if
action is proposed, it must have relation to the
domestic concerns of our soverejgp equals, with
which wc have no right to interfere. They
left this question in other times, according to
the true lense of the constitutioufto the people
of New York and Massachusetts, with all its
responsibilities and irritations, to dispose of in
their own good time and manner; and may we
not, in the same confiding spirit, leave it to
those upou whom it rests? Determined long
since to leave this question where the constitu
tion left it were I to accept your invitation, I
would choose for my theme “The Duty of the
People of these Free States,” and would endea
vor to inculcate the valued admonitions of the
Father of our Country upon sectional distur
bances. Lest, however, a formal lecture, as
proposed by your course, even invoking non
intervention in the affairs of sovereigns tatee.
might be construed into an admissiirtßHbat it
was an open question, and that by the same
rule Mtlicrs might arraign and assail, I have de
tvrmWt'd thut I shall best contribute to pre
serve the public peace by declining to take
part in the proposed discussion.”
Children in Jail.—The Rutland (Vt.)
Herald states that there are three children con
fined in tlie jail at that place. A boy, e even
years of age. charg'd with the crime of stealing
butternuts, was imprisoned there a few weeks
ago.
Next to Massachusetts, Vermont is the meet
contemptible Abolition State in the Union, and
perhaps, the most illiterate and fanatical in ptr
litic.,l and religious intelligence.
From a host of State statistics we have late
ly collated, we are informed that Vermont, in
proportion to her population, has more wholly
unlettered inhabitants than any other State
in the American Confederacy. Hence, we are
not surprised that she is designated as the
* Green Mountain State, and when we cal cu
•late hci want of common school literature and
the laek of a wholesome code of Christian juris
prudence, we are not astonished that, while she
cherishes a sickly tree-negro sympathy for Afri
can slavery, she luxuriates in the unjust impris
onment of irresponsible infancy. Shame on our
sister! who, in the midst of christrian enlighten
ment and humane institutions. has given up
herself, like the idolaters of old, to the worship
of false gods.
Let Vermont now. henceforth, and forever,
hold her peace ia her prejudice to slavery in the
South. Our sunny clime provides churches and
preachers for the religious emulation of its col
ored population, and knows no law or custom
that authorizes the imprisonment of children ia
their swaddling clothes. The warm-hearted
citizens of the South, by reading the Bible and
trampling down fanaticism, have learned to
“bring up a child in the way he should go, and
when he grows old he will not depart from it”
“Go and do thou likewise;” and while your
Shylock merchants suffer their worn-out, hag. j
ganl needle-women to perish over a cent candle 1
in a mother’s effort to nourish her famishing ‘
children, remember that the statutes of some of\
our Southern States impose fine, imprisonment,
and forfeiture of projwrty upon slave-owners 1
who by selling, separate mother and child.— i
Who is it, you sickly, sentimental Vermonter, i
that barters human life and liberty for a few ,
ponce ? As Nathan said unto David, “Mow ;
I ors du man !"
More Fanaticism.
Notwithstanding the age and boasted intel, »
licence of the Northern States, more fanaticism j ’
is engendered and more superstition tolerated t
in those States, than ore evidenced in any other; 1
part of the Christian world. At an early peri- i
od of American existence, Massachusetts made 1
herself ignobly remarkable for burning, behead
ing, and otherwise murdering innocent men and
women, on the charge of witchcraft. Tn very
recent times—times within the memory of many .
now living citizens—New York permitted the
Mormon prophet to find, witinn her geographi
cal boundary, a copy of the only true Bible
But a few years subsequent to that memorable
period, the same State generated an insane re
ligious nondescript in tlie person of Miller—the
world’s-end man—who created such a furor in
certain localities, that a large proportion of the
citizens York built themselves a temple,
sojourned in it with devotional prayer and sat
up a whole night, waiting for the blast from
Gabriel’s trumpet that should summon them to
go aloft, And now, at the present moment,
that boasted Empire State of States is sending
forth thousands of copies of publications advo
cating tho lunatic doctrine of srpiritualum,
and claiming that, by the exercise of some
of the arts of legerdemain, the material or finite
world may readily command a face-to-face col
loquy with the “ransomed soul” or “ghost or
goblin damned.”
Wherever you find such absurdities in reli
gion, you will discover that the cause therefor
is the morbid sympathy for African slavery, il
legitimately begotten by the fanatical spirit of
Abolition. As a proof of the correctness of
our assertion, look at all the free States, of
, whatever locality, and you will find that the
same spirit of fellow-feeling, politically and so
cially, prevails mutually among them.
The above remarks were induced by reading
an extract from a speech delivered by Thomas
H. Ford, at a Fusion festival in Ohio, on the
16th ult. From that speech we clip the follow
ing desperate position of the speaker:
“I am a know-nothing, and, I glory in the
principles of the know-nothing party. If ne
cessity should call the know-nothings to arms,
I would go up to my knees in BLOOD to aid
them."
This Bombastes Furioso— Thomas H. Ford—
was a regular Know-Nothing nominee for the
Legislature, and placed on the ticket with Sal
men P. Chase, the open-mouth Abolitionist and
present Know-Nothing Governor of the free,
negro State of Ohio. The following paragraph
from a Cincinnati paper, furnishes Mr. Ford’s
counterpart in bold relief:
“A Negro on the Stump in Senaca Coun
ty.—A colored man by the name of Day made
a speech in this city on Saturday evening last,
at the Court House, in favor of'brudder Chase.’
This is part of the programme : Negro stump
speakers! Negro voters!! Negro jurors!!!
Negro office-holders Ill!”
As all Know-Nothings are Whigs, and all
Abolitionists Know-Nothings, we may resolve
these three into an idol trinity which all politi
eal fanaticisms devoutly worship.
Tennessee Penitentiary.
The Nashville Union publishes an elaborate
statistical account of the condition of the Ten
nessee Penitentiary, from which we make two
extracts:
“There are at present 240 convicts confined
within the Penitentiary. Os these there were
born in Tennessee 121; Virginia 25; North
Carolina 13; South Carolina 8; Kentucky
-10 ; Alabama 6; Georgia 3; Arkansas 1’;
Louisiana 1; District of Columbia 1; Illinois
1; lowa 1; Ohio 3; Pennsylvania 5; New
York 7 ; Ireland 23 ; England 5; Sicily 1;
France 1; Canada 1; Switzerland 1; Germa
ny 2.”
In this part of the report it will be seen that
the Empire State of the South, has a smaller
representation in that institution than any oth
member of the “ Old Thirteen.”
Os the several occupations claimed by the
convicts before commitment, the following is
the official apportionment:
“Laborers 55; farmers 79; shoemakers 6;
physicians 3; hatters 2; wagon-makers 3;
tailors 3; blacksmiths 10; carpenters 8 ; mar
iners 7 ; teamsters 7 ; painters 1 ; sportsmen
8 ; brick masons 5 ; peddler 1 ; clerks 2 ; wheel
wright 1 ; grocery-keeper 1; engineers 2:
foundrytnen 2 ; miller 1; colliers 3; boatmen
6 ; cabin-boys on steamboats 3: saddlers 5 ;
stone-cutters 3; tanners 2; mail-carries 2; den
tist 1; machinist 1; cook 1.”
This last extract shows thirty-one different
vocations and professions—some of them highly
respectable—yet we cannot find one printer
among them. Why ? because printers are des
tined to a mission that exposes crime and aids
in the propagation of good. A majority of the
world-wide press is edited by printers. Print
ers frequently become city mayors—in a few
instantea they have been Stgte Governors—
some have distinguished themselves in the church
ministry—and no Congress, since the organiza
tion of the Federal Government, has hsd less
than two printers as elected member?, to that
body. In truth, printers can write, teach, ped
dle, appear on the stage, become soldiers, pray
to-day and back-slide to-morrow. In a word
they can do anything but take board and lodg
ing in a penitentiary. That they never do—
no, never !
Committed.—Nathaniel Lewis, cbargsd with
the murder of young Hyatt, in Savannah, on
the 27th ult., was, on Wednesday last, in ac
cordance with the testimony, committed for the
next (January) Term of Chatham Superior
Court.— Columbus Times.
Population of LaGrange.
By a recent census, the population of La-1
Grange, Troup county, is shown to be 1068 : I
White Males, 299
“ Females. 232—531
Black Males, 214
- Females. 323—537
Total 1068 i
Washihgton, Nov. 26. j
Adivces from Hamburg of November 3 state
■that there was reason to I elievethat Russia had 11
agreed to meditate between Denmark and the ■
United Statts- aad had repropoeed to Denmark
to cede the Island of dt. Thomas to the United
States for five milhons, and exempt the Ameri- 1
can ships from tlie payment of Souml dues.
11 * ••• • - ——l
A new jKst office at Bawaey s Moun
tain. Foreyth county, has been established, and
Isaac Tinsley, appointed Post Master. 1
[From the Augusto Contiiutionolist.) ' 1
Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OFTHEBTEAMER
ATLANTIC.
Columbia, Nov. SO, 10 p. iu. ;
The Atlujutic has arrived, with Liverpool
dates to tlie 17th Nov.
At the first of the week the Cotton market i
opened buoyant, but closed quiet. Salta of the '
week 49,000 bales, Including 15,000 taken on !
speculation and for export. Fair Orleans is ‘
quoted at 6 3-4, Middling 5 7-8, Fair Uplands
6 1-8, Middling 5 3-8. Stock of American 209,-;
000 bales.
Flour advanced 6d. Wheat 2d. Yellow,
Com 6d. White Corn large advance and!
scarce. Yellow Corn 47 to 47 Gd. White j
55.
Provisions advanced. Money tighter. Con
sols 87 7-8. American Stocks quiet Sugar
dull.
'The latent dispatch from the seat of war re
ports officially from Lord Stratford Redclifie of
the victory gained on Nov. sth, by Omar Pasha
over ten thousand Russians, mostly Georgian
militia, at the River Ingour, which Omar with
Turkish army, twenty thousand strong, crossed
at Jour points, taking sixty prisoners, three guns,
hundred killed and wounded. Tie Turk
ish loss three hundred.
A private dispatch evidently relate the same
encounter, but says the Turks crossed the river
Anakava, and stormed the Russian redoubts, af
ter which, he pushed forward towards Kutais
Kars, which was still besieged. Appearances
indicate that the Russians will retire to Teflis.
Nothing from the Crimea, only a few ships
remain in the Dneiper. The bulk of fleets are
returning to Constantinople.
Peace rumors are prevalent, but vague diplo.
macy active, especially in Stockholm, Vienna
and Brussels. Paris exposition closed, twelve
thousand prize including numerous decorations,
legions of honor, &c.
The latest rumors are about an early dissolu
tion of Parliament
New York, Nov. 30.
Cotton.—Only three hundred bales sold, and
the market in a drooping condition.
Floub.—Has advanced. State $9 56 and
Southern $9,94.
Wheat.—Dull. Rice and Freights firm.
There is a report that the Hon. Stephen A.
Douglas is dead, but it is generally regarded as
unfounded.
The steamer George Law has arrived, but
gives no news of interest from California. She
brings nearly two millioes of gold.
Charleston, Nov. 30.
Cotton.—Three thousand bales sold. The
market is firm and prices stiff. Middling Fair
Affairs in Nicaragua.
W. J. Howard, Esq, who arrived at Galves
ton on Friday last, in the steamship Charles
Morgan, from this port, on bis return from
California, via the N icaragua route, furnished
the Galveston News with some information os
to the state of affairs in Nicaragua. The
News s.iys:
Mr. Howard informs us that Gen. Walker
is universally popular, not only with his own
soldiers, but even more so with the natives who
express the most unbounded confidence in his
capacity and patriotism. He is said to be
extremely modest and affable in his manners,
and witball a man of undoubted courage and
great sagacity. He took Grenada, a city of
fifteen or sixteen thousand inhabitants, with
only fifty men. But he had many friends in
the city, and at the time of bis attack, all the
troops had left. Walker's loss was only one
man, while fifteen of the natives were killed in
the attack.
Mr. Howard is of opinion from what lie
could learn, that negotiations were going on
between Col. H. L. Kinney and the Transit
Company, which will probably result in a com
promise of their differences.
Mr. H. informs us that when he left Nicara
gua. the country appeared to be quietly settled
down under the government established by Gen.
Walker, there being no appearance of opposi
tion from auv quarter whatever.
Gen. Walker is now offering SIOO per month
and a land bounty of 500 acres for services
during such time as he may need them.
Arrest of Negro Stealers.
The Richmond Dispatch gives the following
account of the party who were wrecked on the
underground railroad:
“During the gale of Wednesday night last,
sehr. Mary Ann Elizabeth, Capt. Wm. Lam
bert, went ashore at the Hollies, five miles be
low Cape crew, consisting of the crew and
mate, and the passengers, consisting of five run
away.uegroea from Norfolk got ashore, 'rhe
next morning they went to the house of John
S. Rainey, and desired to be taken to Norfolk.
Maj. J. Hunter, wreck Commissioner for the
district, arrested the whole party, and landed
them in Norfolk on Friday. One of the ne
groes belonged to Mr. Chas. H. Shield, and
two to Mrs. S. Shepherd. The Captain is from
Wilmington, Delaware, and declares that he in
tended to return the slaves to Norfolk, and in
quired for a magistrate, after be was wrecked,
for that purpose. The mate’s name is Bcnj.
Collins, from Port Forris, Del., declares that he
knew nothing of the slaves being on board un
til they got to sea, and the vessel was wrecked
in trying to bring her back.
“The negroes stated that the schooner came
ikrp from Petersburg, and, entering our wa
ters. raised a signal which they understood, and
soon went on board, when the Captain set sail
and steered for a northern port. He denied
that he hud received any pasture money from
the negroes, but one of the latter stated that he
had been paid one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars in specie, whereupon the sum named was
found in gold as described, in the Captain's
pocket.
“The whole party »ep> lodged in jail at Nor
folk.
" These glaves are five of the eighteen who
recently stampeded from Norfolk and Ports
mouth."
The Dispatch adds : —The people engaged in
this nefarious traffic are more degraded than
the negroes; more dishonest, false and brutal.
It ia to be hoped that the whole party will meet |
with the most summary punishment.’ The law
ought to impose new and severer punishments ;
upon negro stealers, aud especial attention should
( be given to the Northern coasting vessels, many ‘
■ of whom, it ia to be feared, are the instruments'
of constant depredations of the kind upon South-1
**u property.
Deaerate.—The finances of the editor of
the Elkton (Ky.) Banner, are in a desperate i
condition. In an appeal to his subscribers to!
pav up, be says:
Priends, wc are almost penniless—Job's tur- ■
key was a millionaire, compared with our pres
ent depressed treasury ! To-day if the price of
salt was two cents a barrel fall, we couldn't buy ’
nough to pickle a jay-bird !
Two deaf mutes, named George M
Baker and Amanda M. Bugbee, were mar
ried a few days since pt Albany. N. Y. The i
Argus of that city says that thev appeared |
very happy although they D»rtr' told tteir I
love.’
To the Subscribers to the Gardner |
Testimonial.
Gentlemen—The Committee,in Augusta, to
whom were entrusted the pleasing duty of ob
taining and presenting to James Gardner, Esq.,
Editor of the Constitutionalist Ilejiublic, a
testimonial of their appr ciation of the im- i
portant services rendered by him during the late j
political canvass in Georgia, feel gratified in an- j
uouneingto the subscribers forthat purpose, in
tl e different sections of the State, that they .
have performed that agreeable task. Ou'
Thursday last, 22d inst., the Committee met at j
Augusta Hotel, and presented, through J udge |
Ebentww Starnes, a service of silver, consisting j
of—
A Tea Set, iu Egyptain style, with the leaves I
of the lotus beautifully embossed thereon.
Pitcher and Goblets.
One large Household Pitcher, with six Gob-1
lets. Engine turned in circles, ami engraved. A ■
; new style and very beautiful.
The inscription on the service is:
To James Gbrdner, Esqr..
From bis political friends,
For eminent Editorial services,
in 1855.
I Omnibus senbendi datur libertas, puucis fnc
ultas.
In tendering to Mr. Gardner this testimonial
I Judge Starnes said :
Mr. Gardner :—Anxious to testify their ad
miration of the manner in which your duty as
Editor of the Constitutionalist was discharged
during the recent political crisis in our State,
many of your political friends in different sec
tions of Georgia, have delegated to a commit
tee of your immediate fellow citizens, the task
of procuring and presenting to yon some suita
ble token of such admiration. As one of that
committee I have been requested to ask your
acceptance of the testimonial which lias been
: prepared, and is now before us.
■ 1 suppose that those who have assigned me
this pleasant duty have been encouraged to do
so by a knowledge of that long friendship which
has existed between us, which bad its origin in
boyhood, accompanied us into the shades of the
Academy and the College, which in our advanc
ing manhood was strengthened even by prole s
ional rivalry, and which, by the experience of
our mature years, lias been hardened into tlie
cement of well tried confidence and esteem. It
has been thought, no doubt, that for these rea
sons the task appointed would be peculiarly
grateful to me; and in the relations which exist
between us, would have the guarantee of heart _
felt sincerity. I desire that sincerity to empha
sise my language when I tell you, sir, that 1 re
joice and am proud in being able to say, for
your politi, al associates, in various parts of
this great State, that the ability and discretion
with which your pnss was conducted during the
difficult crisis to which I have alluded, was equal
to the emergency of that crisis; and was emi
nently successful in achieving its triumphant
results. It would be difficult to award it high
er or in more eloquent praise.
In saying this I have pronounced an ora
tion 1
If more be needed, permit me to express it in
tlie words of the gifted and critical Scaliger,
which are inscribed upon cur offering, and to
say, that in the conductor your paper, you have
indeed furnished an illustration of the fact that,
“io every one is given the liberty of composition
to but few the faculty.
Before concluding,! cannot refrain from add
ing, that your friends have been strongly im
pressed with the wellbred urbanity which has
in general characterized your press, even when
most firmly combatting what you believe to be
dangerous and delusive errors, and to it we as
cribe much of its efficiency and success. We
have not failed too, to remark, that that mag
nanimity which every true gentleman feels over
a prostrate antagonist, in the moment of victo
ry, breathed from the periods of that press, and
brightened the eye, and swelled the full heart of
its editor.
As a substantia! token of these sentiments,
and of our esteem, allow me, sir, iu the name
I of your friends, to tender you this testimonial.
Ta the address of Judge Staines. Mr. Gard
ner made the following reply :
Mr. Starnes and Gentlemen—
For your generous appreciation of my edito
rial services, and for the flattering terms in
'! which partial friendship has portrayed them,
' i accept my warm acknowledgements.'
' I Deeply to feel that we have deserved success
, is the sweetest ingredient in the cup of victory,
as it is the purest consolation in the hour of
‘ defeat. In the conviction of this great moral
truth, I toiled during the late canvass, devoting
■ to it the best energies of my mind, and the
' i purest impulses of my heart. I felt that I was
I I invoked to a service more sacred than any the
mere claims of party could inspire, and strug
gling for results of vital importance to every
1 citizen of the Republic. I felt that 1 was in a
great battle for human rights, civil and relig
ious—for the very soul and escence of liberty
• as embodied in the organic law of our country.
' I felt that every effort 1 made to impress the
public mind with the truths so indelibly stamp
' cd on my own was a labor for the benefit of
all—to protect tlie rights of all; for it was in
vindication of principles which aac the common
heritage of all American citizens—and valuable
1 to the whole human family.
' Well hath said England’s great moralist, Pope,
“Self love but serves the virtuous mind to wake.
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake;
The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds.
Another still, and still another spreads;
Friend, parent, neighbors, first it will embrace,
His country next, and next al! human race.”
In this spirit have I sought to do my duty as
a public journalist; find the pleasing conscious
ness of this fact enhances the triumph which 1
share, in common with you, Judge Starnes, and
your associated friends. It is a triumph which
must bring in its train blessings to our country
and our race, as time will prove even to our op
posing fellow citizens. According cheerfully to
them that I have claimed for myself, honest
convictionsand purpose, I shall continue to
argree with them in the same spirit. Though
hot and angry the contest which has passed, it
planted no thorns in my breast. It left there
no rankling memories.
I trust 1 have planted no thorns or rankling
memories in the breasts of others, for such was
never my purpose orjdtshes.
That the manner in which I have borne my
share of the contest has won the approval of so
large and intelligent a poition of my fellow cit
izens, as those now present, and those absent,
for whom you speak, will ever be to me a source
of profound satisfaction. Os this approval the
beautiful testimonial now before me is mv
voucher, and thia will make it valuable above
all estimate. It will stimulate me to renewed
zeal in behalf of the principles with which it is
identified.
The mode of the presentation, and the lang
uage in which the compliment U tendered, throw
around it an additional charm and give it an
enhanced value. Indeed, the graceful tribute of
friendship which accompanies the gift, from a
source so valued, and associated with memories
so pleasing, is of iiseff a compensation of the
most welcome character. It is" at once flatter
ing to my pride and grateful to my feelings,
sence it emanates from the heart of a friend
whose whole manhood has been an unbroken
■ career of professional success and official dis
tinction. and who has been honored not less for
i his virtues than his attainments.
I To be thus appreciated by so many of my
, immediate fellow citizens, residing and’ holding
i high social position in this city of my nativity
i gratifies in me a sentiment of our
I common nature. That sentiment is beat con
’ ceived by those who can appreciate the emotion
; felt at praise uttered by esteemed lips in the
: reach of those we love, and in the midst of per-
I sons and scenes most dear to the heart.
To those gentlemen residing in other portions
i of the State, who have united in this testimonial,
not less than to those present, do I tender my
heartfelt acknowledgements. Proud of the
good opinion they have evidenced of my past
efforts, 1 cherish the hope that 1 may, in the
future, preserve their esteem.
In closing their business relation in this mat
ter, the committee return their thanks to Clark
<k Co., of this city, for the neatness and artistic
taste displayed in the execution at the silver
service, and their prompt fulfilment of the order
-It is alw ivpwtftjlly requested pa-
pers in this city bo requested to copy these pro-]
ceedings.
COMMITTRS.
Geo. W. Lamar, Dr. J. B. Walker, John Da
vidson, Charles Delaigle, W. H. Howard, E. H.
Rogers. O. E. Cashiu, I»r. G. M. Newton,
John Bones, Thomas Barrett, Turner Clanton.
T. W. Fleming, John P. Setze, C. E. Giranly I
A. A. Beall, B. Bignon.
S&' The Opixiimr of Turin lota a letter
from a eorresjxindcnt at Balaklava, which as- >
fords some insight into what is now jmssiug iu
the allied camp. The writer says:
. “ The ollies do not appear disposed to regard
, the Crimes merely as a field of buttle; the
i things they are doing tliere would seem to inti
mate that they intend to keep it. The English
. are executing gigantic works nt Balaklava.—
I Thousands of Turks, most of them from Con
' stantinople and the neighboring coast, (Tartars,
I Pialinontesc, and others) are paid by England,
; at the rate of three i raucs a day, besides rations,
: and with a great number of beasts of burthen.
1 are engaged in landing an immense quantity of
| materials on the shore of the bay. Whole regi
ments are, at the same time, employed on impor
tant works of construction. Afi along the
shore of the bay a quay has been made, at which
the largest vessels can land their cargoes with
out the assistance of boats. In short, there is
now collected at Balaklava an immense materi
al, sufficient for an army, not of twenty-five
thousand or thirty thousand men, but of one
hundred thousand men. Certainly all these ex
penses would not be incurred if there was any
idea of evacuating the Crimea."
Among the Representatives elected to Con
gress from Mississippi is Gen Quitman. The
General was nominated und electai by the Dem
ocrats and Anti-Know Nothings over Mr. Hill
yer; but he announced in advance that be would
preserve his independence, and would only act
with the Democratic party while it stood on the
Southern platform which he should occupy.—
It is anticipated that he will make one of the
most independent, bold, and truly Southern
Representatives in the coming Congress. Be
ing free from party restraints and party policy,
there is little reason to fear his compromising
the rights of his section.
The Colossal Washington Monument for
America.—The London Builder gives the fol
lowing account of an important step in the pro
gress of this work:
The casting of the horse for this monument,
at Munich, is one of the great feats of modern
foundry, as fifteen toift of bronze had to be mel
ted, and kept in a state of fluidity. For seve
ral days and nights previously a large fire was
at these, huge masses, which required to be stir
red at times. When the bronze was liquified,
an ultimate assay was made in a small trial cast,
aad to heighten the color some more copper
was added. Successively all the chambers
through which the metal had to flow in the form,
were cleared of the coal with which they bad
been kept warm, and the master examined all
the air spiracles and the issues of the metal; the
props of the tubes were then placed, and every
man had his duty and place assigned to him.
Finally, the master, amid the intense expecta
tion of the many art amateurs present, pronounc
ed the words, “ In the name of God," and three
mighty strokes opened the fiery gulf, out of
which the glowing metal flowed in a circuit to
the large form. The sight was magnificent,
und in the little sea of fire stood the master,
and gave his commands about the successive
opening of the props. Hot vapor poured from
the air spiracles; in the conduits, the metal
boiled in waves; still no decision yet, as the
influx of tlie bronze in the very veins of the
figure could be but slow. At once, flaming
showers jumped out of the air conduits, and
the master proclaimed the cast to have suc
ceeded. A loud cheer followed, when the mas
ter approached Mr. Crawford, the artist of the
Washington monument, to congratulate him
on thia success. Another cheer was given to
M. de Miller, tlie chief of the royal foundry of
Munich, who hud personally conducted the
work.
A Good Old Age.—The son of the venera
ble man referred to—himself 74—sends us the
following:
Gideon Bently, a Revolutionary soldier, was
born in the State of Rhode Island, and was in
the iqival and land service of the Revolutionary
wy lie was born on the 12th day of August,
liso, and was one hundred and five years old
on the 12th day of last August. He has bad
two wives, both of whom are now dead, and by
his two wives be had thirteen children, all of
whom are now living—the oldest 74 and the
youngest 40—all hale aud hearty. He now
resides in Constantina, Oswego county, New
York, and was at his last birtli-day, in good
health, with very good use of his limbs! could
walk and go about very actively with the aid
of one staff. He is but very little bowed down,
and converses well on most subjects.
[Albany Journal.
A committee of the Baltimore Board of
Trade have issued an appeal to the people of
that city for the means wherewith to purchase
and equip a vessel and furnish a nautical teach
er for the purpose of establishing a floating
school for the education and training of boys
for seamen. The commissioners of the public
schools have already agreed to supply teachers
in the same course of instruction as is now
pursued in the public school apparatus. Such
schools ought to be established in every large
seaport! They would do much towards sup
plying a superior class of seamen, and meeting
the increasing demands of the commerce of the
country.
Barnum's Museum never in its eventful
history presented such a host of attractions as
it does at the present time. It has crowded in
to it enough of the curious, amusing wonderful
and rare, to stock decently half a dozen places
of the kind. But the fact is Barnum himself is
now at the Musenm directing his entire person
al attention to it, and he is crowding on the
novelties steep. But in addition to the other
attractions, the fact that Barnum himself is
henceforth to be one of the curosities of the
establishment will draw immensely.— N. F.
Sun.
t&'A comic writer in the California Pioneer
says that on the plank road near Southwick's
Pass, an inn or hostel is kept by a native Atner
.ican Irishman, whose sign exhibits the harp of
Ireland encircling the shield of the United States,
with the mottoes:
“Erin go unum.”
“E Pluribus bbagu.”
BaYffhe Madison (Indiana) Banner says
every body in that reiegnare engaged in build
ing com cribs. The like of crops in Indiana
and Kentucky was never known before—The
farmers have their hands full.
A Legal Light.—A legal gentleman in one
of the Western States made out a writ aginst a
common carrcr for the loss of some goods, and
said in it:
That the said goods were to be safely carried,
insured aginst all perils save the act of God
aud the public enemy; “but said goods were lost,
damaged, mutilated, hurt, injured, damnified,
burnt, deteriorated and annihilated, not by any
act of the aforesaid God, 4c.”
Personal— Foreign alliance—M. Gevere,
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotenti
ary of hi* Majesty the King of the Netherlands
to the court of St. Petersburg, was married on
Tuesday last, in Newark, New Jersey, to Miss
Catharine Maria Wright, only daughter of the
Hon. William Wright, United States Senator.
The annual meeting of the South Carolina
Conference will commence at Marion C. 8.,
on Wednesday next, Biabop Early presiding]
acd close its session on the Wednesday follow
ing- _ _
A Sensible County. —El Paso county, Tex
as, at the late election, gave Peaac, (Democrat)
for Governor, seven hundred and fifty votes, for
Dickson, (Know Nothing) none.’’ What a
county ! Not a single ’American’ in it, all ‘dead
furriwr?.’
Th c Dog’s Voice.
The dog's larynx (lire upper part of thewind
pipc.) lias many peculiarities. It u vt . ry
plicated, and exquisitely constructed. Few
persons have, perhaps, ninth attendee] to the
n otes of the animal's voice, bnt those who will
observe the sounds, may observe these take n
range fur more wide than is generally imagin
ed. The dog's voice is remarkably expressive
and to my car it speaks very intelligible music.
The dam growl is not without variety—for,
by tlie reeling of tlie animal that emits it, the
note is always modulated. The rumble of ex
position the favorite gives utterance to, when
the master pretends to take away its bone, does
not resemble the rattle of joy 'with which tlie
child s playmate' accompanies a game of rornps.
Both, however, arc distinct from tlie suppres
sed warning with which the watch dog an
nounces the ad- anting stranger,’or the sharp
defiance by which he signifies his determination
to attack. The. I’ark, also, is not by any means
monotonous, but is capable of infinite variety.
Tlie cries of the anima! are remarkably modu
lated; but the soft and gentle sounds it cun emit
when inclined to coax its master, or an wering
to the excess of pleasure which his caresges
create, are full of natural inusie. Tlie dog’s
voice is not to my car less beautiful than the
song ol a bird, but more delightful, because it
is more full of meaning. The nightingal has
but one song which it constantly repeats. The
cur has many tuneful notes, wi'th which it re
sponds to my attention. Music has been re
cognised in the tongues of the puck, but I have
heard harmony more delightful from the hound
in my home. 1 like to hear the dog’s voice,
especially when not too loud; and, having stu
died it, 1 have wandered the animal did not
.qieak. There can be but little doubt it would
lie able to frame words, if it pessed the power
to comprehend their meaning; but the high in
telligence of the creature unfits it for parrot
like mimicry. The dog is, in all its doings
guided by reason and it performs no act with
out a reasonable motive. If any physical in
capacity exist, it is to be found rather in the
formation of the mouth, than in tho construc
tion of the larynx, which presents uo explana
tion of the dog’s inability to frame definable
sounds like words.
Destitution in Italy. —The correspondent
of the Newark Advertiser, writing from Rome
Oct. 26th says:—“The vintage und harvest
have failed again tin’s year, and the government
has therefore interdicted ttn exportation of oil,
wine and grain. It has also established public
bake-houses in tlie chief cities, to supply the
poor at cost prices, and thus prevent extortion
bv the bakers. Public depots of oil have been
established for the same purpose. As to wine
there s next to none in the country, the old
stock having been nearly or quite consumed
during the three years’ failure of the vine.
The grape lias been cut off again all over the
peninsula, and the people are drinking various
vile doctrines and compositions, for they will
not take water with their cliesti uts and 'beans,
the sole food of thousnnds of families. These
who can afford polenia, made of Indian meal,
fare sumptuously. The almond-tasted kernels
in the cones of the pine tree are also reckoned
a great luxury in the mountains.”
Death of a Murderess.—Elizabeth Harker,
who had been confined in the jail at Hunting
don, Pa., since the fall of 1853, under sentence
of death, for the murder of her husband and
sister, by poison, died there a few days ago.
She was sixty-five years of age when she com
mitted these murders, and in consideration of
her sex, and extreme age, Governor Bigler
humanely withheld her death warrant, and she
was allowed to drag out a life of remorse and
wretchedeness, until calk'd by Providence to her
final account.
The Pacific Railroad Ruined.—The affairs
of this road, it is said, have reached a crisis by
the late disaster. Bridge after bridge has bro
ken down, stopping travel and cuttiug t offreceipts
and its condition is represented ns little bet
ter than bankntptcy. Commenting on this, tlie
St. I/iuis Intelligencer says :
“Although the President and Directors have
not yet acknowledged the fact.it is nevertheless
well known that the road is utterly broken
down in means and credit, and must soon be
abandoned as hopelessly bankrupt, unless some
new and as yet unadvised step be taken by the
city of St. Louis and by the State to save it.
The Board of Directors nerhaps feel reluctant,
inthe present, state of public feeling, to throw
up their trust and acknowledge their inability
to sustain the work. But it is no time for false
pride, and the sooner the confession is made the
better."
At the drawing of the Havana Lottery on
the 19th inst., the principal prizes fell us fol
lows:
10,107, $100,000; 19,314, 850,000; 3,292
S2O 000; 11.064, 810,000; 12,287, $5,000;
2.826,82,000; 11,375,82,000; 20,143, $2.000;
1,836, 81,000 ; 13,299, 81,000.
f Napoleon 111. and His Successor.—A
1 Paris correspondent of the New York Post
’ writes as follows :
“The Emperor is excessively reserved—docs
t not see aiiy one. and grants no audience. Pcr
! sonages of high degree have sought an interview
: in vain. It is said, but Ido not know with
' what truth, that he wears a cuirass, and that it
r was this very cuirass which turned the ball of
i Pianori. It is further slated that he has made
■ his will—according to which, if the child, wheth-
• era boy or girl, to which the Empress will
; shortly give birth, should die, aud if at the
> death of Napoleon 111. he should have no dire
to heir, France is again to become a Republic,
the chief of which is to lie Prince Napoleon.
I who for this reason, affects Democratic tenden-
• cies.
I A Woman Swimming the Mississippi.—
i Lloyd's forthcoming Steamboat Directory gives
i a thrilling instance of the necessity for women
knowing bow to swim. When the ill-fated Ben
Sherrod was in flames on the Mississippi river,
and the lady passengers who had thrown them
selves into the water were drowning around the
boat, the wife of Capt. Castleman jumped into
the river, with her infant in her arms, and swam
ashore, a distance of helf a mile, being the only
woman saved out of sixteen. She had learned
to swim when a girl.
Damages Recovered erom hie Macon <k
Western Railroad.—ln the cose o! Malinda
Winn tried at Macon a few days since, the jury
gave 87,000 damages against the Macon A
Western Railroad. The Telegraph relates the
circumstances, (already familiar to the public)
giving rise to the suit, us follows:
The engine coming in collision with a car
riage, containing Mrs. Winn with three chil
dren aud a negro driver, the consequence was
that two of the children aud the driver was
killed outright—that Mrs. Wlun sustained a
fracture of the ann—aud that the third child,
the plaintiff in this case, sustained a severeTrac
ture of the skull, from tlie effects of which she
lias never wholly recovered.
Kentucky Hog Trade.—The Louisville
Times estimates that at least one hundred thou
sand more hogs will be killed iu that Ktate this
season than were killed in that State last year,
with an average increase iu weight of about
20 per cent. Up to Saturday evening fast 8,-
339 had been killed in Louisville, where the
prices then were $6.50 a 86.85 net. The same
paper notes purchases of 20,000 or 25,000 hogs
by dealers at $5 gross, equal to about $6.85
from the hooks. On green river, in Kentucky,
extensive pr* parations are made for slaughter
ing. At Bowling Green alone it is cxpccte
that 20,U00willbe killed and about 10,000 at
other pointe on the river. The number killed
on Green and Cumberland rivers will be con
siderably in excess of last year.
An Aged Congrlgatmin.—ltev. Dr. Emer
son, of Salem, Ma®, now in the 51st year of his
pastorate, recentlmircuchcd to the aged from
the text, “When Tam old and grey-headed, oh
God, forsake me pot.” The venerable Doctor,
who claimed the e» his aged friends
with propriety, ituteWPfcuarkuble fact that
in hia congregation yet living eighty
persons who are upwards of seventy years of
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