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ATLANTA, APRIL 24, 1856.
Flour.
We are pleased to see that the price of Flour
in the North and West is getting down tq» a
reasonable figure, as the‘knowing ones term it.
This has already proved a great relief to the
hard working man and the poor in those sec
tions of the Union, and we trust that it will
have a direct influence upon the Southern mar
ket. The crops of the past year all over the
Union, were more than abundant, and bread
stuffs of all descriptions should be correspond
ingly cheap. Thus far, however, they have
commanded high, and at one, period extrava
gantly high prices.
Bank of Fulton.
As we predicted on yesterday, the stock of
this Bank was liberally subscribed for. At
the office of Mr. Holland, we have obtained, in
relation to it, the following information. The
number of shares, up to 12 M. yesterday, sub
scribed for was 1560, upon which SSO per
share was paid in, in gold coin, amounting to
$78,000. These sharesAverc taken by gentle
men of high standing, in whom our people have
unlimited confidence, to wit—Judge William
Ezzard, E. W. Holland, A. W. Stone, John
F. Bell, by his attorney Ossian Gregory, of
New York, and Jno. R. Wallace.
As provided in the charter, the Bank was
then organized, by the election of three Direc
tors, to wit—William Ezzard, A. W. Stone and
J. R. Wallace. Mr. Stone, was then elected
President, and J. R. Wallace, temporarily, its
cashier. The Books are still open for sub
scription. It is expected that the Bank will
go into operation on the Ist proximo.
We trust that our merchants and citizens
will take the remainder of the stock, and there
by secure to themselves the advantages which
must result therefrom.
Rail Road Harvests.
The business of Rail Roads, North and
South, far surpasses all that the most sanguine
stockholders in them under the influence of his
brightest visions could, a few years ago, have
calculated upon. In one of our New York
exchanges we see it stated that “The estimated
receipts of the New York Central railroad for
the year 1856 are on/y $8,000,0001”
And in another, the Rochester American,
we find the following.
“Yesterday morning before ten o’clock one
hundred and seventy-five loaded freight-cars
left this city for Suspension Bridge. These
were divided up into nine trains. In addition
to this, vast quantities went out over the road
to Buffalo. Never has the freight business
been heavier. The capacity of the road is tax
ed nearly to Its utmost to accomadate the
freight and travel this spring.”
A tine harvest this, for the New York Cen
tral Rail Road. In'Georgia, too, the harvest
has been a great one for all of our prominent
Roads—the State, the Central, the Gsorgia
the Macon A Western, the LaGrange, and Co.
lumbus Rail Roads. In bn t one these
the people havo a direct interest . That ouo
is the Statu, or Western A Atlantic Rail Road
which is now, and has been, for twelve months
past, doing a business far surpassing all previous
calculations. Under the excellent management
of its energetic and skillful Superintendent-
Maj. Cooper, it is earn ing for'the'State, SIOO,
000 per month, and, all things considered, this
is equal to the business of New York Central
Road. We can say to our Northern friends,
that the stockholders in Georgia Rail Ronds
io which we have referred, arc as contented a
set of fellows as can be found any where North
of Mason and Dixon’s line ; and that the peo
ple of our State, despite the efforts of politicians
arc quite content with the returns of the Wes
cm & Atlantic Rail Road. All that we fear
is, that the surplus in*our State Treasury, will
be soon attracting the attention of the avari
cious.
The Presidential Nomination.
HON. STEPHEN A DOUGLAS.
I’he people of the South owe more to this
patriotic and distinguished Senator from Illi
nois, than to any man North or South,
East or West, who is spoken of in connection
with the Presidency. With due respect for the
opinions of others, had we control of the entire
vote of the South, in the Convention which is
to assemble at*Cincinnati, it should be east
for Douglas over uM others of his competitors.
For the stand which the present incumbent of
the first office in the gift of the people has
taken : for the sentiments advanced by him in
his annual message to Congress: as a South
ern man, we feel truly, grateful. But for all
that, he is not our first choice for the nomina
tion soon to be made at Cincinnati, lie is not.
in tho first place, because we are earnest, and
uncompromising advocates of rhe one term
principle ; and. in the second place, because
we believe that Georgia has not. at the bands
of his administration, in the. distribution of
official honors, received that consideration
which she is itle.l to, fri m her position,
her importance, the services, talents, or patri- |
otisnuff her sons. Nor is Mr. Buchanan our
first choice. Gifted as he is ; eminent os have
been his services to the country; in our hum
ble judgment, the services which have been
rendered the South by the " LdtUe Giant," as
; ome are pleased to term the gre, t .Statesman
>i the West, should command for him. over
Mr. Buchanan, its united vote in the pen.
vention. If ever the South owed a debt of
gratitude to any Statesman beyond its bounds,
J?. Stephen A. Douglas, and the soon
er it is paid to ’him, the better. This it can
easily do, by uniting with his Western friends
to nominate him at Cincinnati as a candidate
for, and then to elect him, President of the
United States.
The position which this distinguished man
occupies, in regard to all questions affecting
Southern interests, does not admit of doubt.
Neither North nor South; neither within the
limits, nor beyond the limits of the slavery
States; can there be found the man whose
position upon all the points of controversy that
now distract this Union, is more clearly defined
than that of Stephen A. Douglas, and upon, and
in whom the people of the South have more
confidence. By his works let him be tried
This is our deliberate judgment, and it being
so, backed by a host of his political friends in
Georgia, we shall urge his nomination as the
candidate of the Democratic and Anti-Know-
Nothing party, over both Pierce and Buchanan.
His unflinching and able advocacy of the right
of every State to regulate its own domestic
institutions ; his defence of that civil and re
ligious liberty guarantied to the people of this
Union by the Constitution, from the assaults
of Know-Nothingism ; his gallant bearing in
behalf of the South, when even at his own
hearth-stone as it were, his life was threatened
by an infuriated, fanatical mob ; his patriot
ism and devotion to his country ; his ability and
statesmanship ; all, all commend to,',the South,
and we shall be the last to cease proclaiming
the great truth, that to Stephen A. Douglas the
South owes a debt which she cannot discharge
until upon its broad banner is inscribed—“For
Pres ident of the United States, Stephen A
Douglas 1”
Rifle Sermons 1
A novel entertainment are these “Rifle Ser
mons,” for the intellectual and polished, the
pious and philanthropic puritans of New Eng
land, and the North ! ! Verily their devotions
are paid at strange shrines, and in a strangely
zealous manner I Led on “in the name of God
Almighty” by their Henry Ward Beecher, their
Rev. Mr. Dittos, and others of like stamp ;
and .with the cry of Amen ! from Profess* r
Silliman, and others of New Haven's literary
savans ; these fanatics in religion and sedition
ists, in politics, are, blasphemously, on every
Sabbath day, congregated together, under the
pretence of worshipping God, to hear “Rife
Sermons," and to shout hosannas at abuse level
led at the South and her institutions. False
hood, profanity, fanaticism, rule in their midst;
and the God they truly worship is the fell spir
it of abolitionism. At these orgies, mirth and
fun usurp the places of prayer and praise, and
he who talks loudest of Sharp's Rifles, and
prays longest for the blood of the slaveholder,
is the popular preacher of the day. Such a
prostitution of talents, and, in many cases, of
learning and eloquence, is of rare occurrence in
any country. Its parallel in this, can only be
found in the history of the days of “ Salem
witchcraft.”
In one of the religious papers of the North, the
“Presbyterian,” is the following extract from
one of these sermons.
“ The Rev. Mr. Dutton, of New Haven,
whose church was the siA. e of the late memor
able Sharpe’s rifle desecration, and who was a
prominent actor on that occasion, preached a
sermon on the following Sabbath evening on
the same theme. His text was: ‘I come not to
send peace, but a sword.’ He stoutly defen
ded the proceedings of that shocking meeting,
and gloi ied in his shame. Speaking, also, of
Professor Silliman’s participation in the affair,
he says: ‘I make no apology for it. It was
right.’ ”
A fine text truly for a man of peace, u fol
lower of the “Savior of Mankind!” It is the
sword he would wield, forpe<zc?hedesirethnot 1
No doubt his hearers were deeply impressed
with the belief that their beloved pastor was a
second "Gideon.'’ The text though might have
been materially improved upon, for his pur
poses, hitd lie changed its last word, ‘-sword'’
into “Sharp’s Rifle.’’ Professor Silliman
doubtless, could, in a« essay, clearly demon
strate that the one, means the other, and there
would be little dificulty then in making "Sharp’s
Rifle,” the "sword of the Lord and of Gideon”;
Commenting upon the course pursued, and
pursuing, by these reverend bullies, the “lowa
State Democrat,” uses the following language.
"When, ‘iu the name of God Almighty,” the
thirtv-fivc hundred Protestant clergymen de
manded of Congress a repeal of the Nebraska
act . we did not dream they would dare disgrace
their heavenly calling by openly advocating
civil war. butchery, and bloodshed.”
That was, if not the " beginning of the end.”
of abolitionism, at least the beginning of a
priestly interference with tbs politics of the
country, that boiled no good to our Republi
can institutions. We mean the demand made
by the thirty-five hundred Protestant Clergy
men. “in the name of God Almighty," upon
Congress, for a repeal of the Nebraska act.—
We thought so then of it, and we think so still
It has licensed the Duttons, and Beechers, and
others of their stamp: men intent upon mis
chief, and self aggrandizement : popular preach
ers, infidels themselves at heart, upth fashiona
ble infidel congregations; to go step by step
further, until the ery now is, “civil tear, butch
ei y' and bloodshed What is to be the end of
all this fanaticism time only will tell! We
can only say to these men at th? North, come
what may, the South stands prepared to meet
the storm, though it rage with the fury of a ’
thousand whirlwinds.
But we did not design, in the outset of this
article, to treat this subject with any degree of j
seriousness. Our attention was directed to it l
during the hour we devoted to •• clipping ” for I
our columua. by the foregoing extracts, and die
following, which puts u,e Rev. Henry Ward ■
Beecher in a position so laughably ridwulops I
that we give it to the reader entire. It is from'
the New -York Sunday Courier.
“Religious Rifles.—We understand that
the R—d H—y W—d B—cher, in giving out
the morning hymn last Sunday, iu his church
in Brooklyn, to the great horror of his congre
gation thus began:
Come holy rifle,
Heavenly arm,
With all thy sharp-set powers.
The reverend gentleman immediately discov
ered the blunder he had made, by the amazed
look of his flock, and attempted to recover him
self by saying, “Let us sing in . the praise of
Sharp's rifle.” He stopped again, and at last
succeeded in collecting his thoughts, so that he
could go on with the regular services of the
day; but in the course of his sermon, when
about to urge his hearers to fix their thoughts
on things above, he said “fix your bayonets,”
but directly mended his discourse, and went on
very well to the close;.after which he informed
his people that he had pledged his church, at a
meeting in New Haven, for twenty-seven
Sharp’s rifles to arm the Kansas emigrants
with, to enable them to shoot Missourians, and
he hoped that the members of his congregation
would subscribe the needful before they went
out.
Congress.
nr .. . A a- —~ ...
We were pleased to see, a day or two ago
the move made by one of the representatives
of this State—the Hon. Howell Cobb—that
Congress “do adjourn” about the middle of i
July. The motion, however, was voted down, |
but will doubtless be renewed at the first con- ’
venient opportunity. These long sessions of
Congress are anything but blessings to the ;
country, and reform, in regard to them, injour |
humble judgment, is demanded by every reflect
ing man. We venture the assertion, that, were
the pay of the members of Congress fixed—say
at SISOO, or S2OOO per annum—whether the
sessoins be long or short, as much of useful le
gislation would be done_for the country in
four as in a session of eight or nine months.—
The per diem pay system works badly, we think,
in either State or National Legislation. It
encourages a waste of time, and is attended by
evils which we care not now to enumerate.
A glance at the actings and doings of the
present Congress will satisfy any reasonable
man, that the sooner it adjourns, the better for
the country. The hall of the House, and the
chamber of the Senate, have, during this whole
session, been desecrated tn the work of black
republicanism ; to assaults upon the Constitu
tion and the slavery States. Threats even have
been boldly uttered, that if, in reference to
Kansas, and their design upon that territory
the Black Republicans d id not succeed, no up
propriations to meet territorial expenditures
would be made. It is for a purpose like this,
that the treasury is to be drained, and the ses
sions of Congress prolonged from month to
month, until the people become weary and dis
gusted at reports of its proceedings. We barc>
ly hope for a reform of the evil. It may take
place some day, but not until the fanaticism of
abolitionism is banished from the land.
In reference too to mileage of members, re
form is demanded. The abuse of this allow
ance has been carried to a great extent. Even
defeated candidates, contestants of elections,
have made it a matter of speculation. A fair
illustration of this abuse will be found in the
following, which we take from the New York
Express.
“A single illustration will suflice to show
how the system may be abused, and how ab
surd. it really is: 1 may go next year to Cali
fornia or Washington Territory, run for Con
gress, receive a half a score of votes, come on to
Washington, claim my seat, and contest that
of my successful rival’s, be repulsed and thrown
out by the Committee of Elections, and yet,
without the shadow of a right from first to last
I am allowed to receive several thousand Hol
lars for my travelling expenses, besides my per
diem allowance, precisely the same as is given
to the bona fide member—thus rendering my
position far preferable to his, as I am relieved
at once from all the labor and annoyances at
tendant on congressional life. Certainly this
cannot be right, and one refusal to make this
allowance would tend to prevent in future these
troublesome contests. Let that refusal be (riv
en yet this session.”
Georgia Air Line'Rail Road.
At a meeting of the citizens of Atlanta, held
at the City Hall, on the 16th day of April,
1856, Hon. Wm. Ezzard, Mayor, was called to
the Chair, and John B. Peek requested to act
as Secretary. After the Chair had briefly ex
plained the object of the meeting, on motion of
L. J. Gartrell, Esq., the Chair apppointed
L. J. Gartrell. Esq., J. Norcross, and James
M. Calhiffui, Esq., a committee to prepare
business for the meeting, who submitted the
following Resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted :
Whereas, it is proper and right in the under ,
taking of a great enterprise, that ail parties in
terested in it, or affected by it, should be eon
suited as far as practicable ; and whereas, th?
proposed Georgia Air Line Rail Road directly
involves, and is to effect the interests ol fully
one hundred thousand of the people of Georgia-
Be it therefore
Resolved, Ist. That this meeting du recom
mend a Convention of the friends of this enter
prise, to be held at Carnesville on the second
Tuesday of July next, to consult in regard to
the ways and means for building this Rail
Road.
2d. That a committee of three lx? appointed
by this meeting to be called a committee of
correspondence with citizens along or near the
line of the proposed road, iu regard to this en
terprise, and particularly in regard to the pro
posed Convention, and to act ns at: executive
committee ; also, for the people of this City in
all matters relating to the said enterprise.
3. That the best interests of the people along
the line. and the entire Northern portion of
Georgia require that the Georgia Air Lin
Rail Road be speedily built, and that those di
rectly interested have the power to cause it to
be done.
4. That the Chairman of this meeting ap
point twenty delegates to represent the County
of Fulton in the Convention.
The Chair appointed J . Norcross. 1. E.
Bleckley and J. B. Peek, a committee of cor
respondence in accordance with the 2d Resold.
tion.andL. J. Gartrell, J. Norcross. James
M. Calhoun, B. H. •verby, John L. Harris,
J. A. Hayden, L. J. Glenn. S. B. Hoyt, L. P.
Grant, C. H. Strong, Robt. M. Clarke, I. O-
McDaniel, R. Peters, S. G. Howell, A. W.
Hammond, G. B. Haygood, J. I. Whitaker, C.
R. Hanleiter, J. Thompson, Wm. Herring,
and T. C. Howard, Delegates to the Conven
tion. •
WM. EZZARD. Chairman.
; Jxo. B. Peck, Secretary.
1 Department News.
i
Interior Departnient-
1 Indian Bureau—lnteresting News from Ne
1 braska Territory-—Perilous Situation of an
1 Indian Agent, ire-
i A report from Colonel Cumming, superin
s tendent of Indian affairs at St. Louis, giving
1 further intelligence of the condition of the In
a dians in his superintendency, was received yes
t terday by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Enclosed we find a letter from Alfred J. Vaughn
Indian agent for the Indians on the Upper
Missouri, between Fort Pierreaxd Fort Union,
dated Fort Pierre, Nebraska Territorv, the
15th of February last, from which we make
the following extract s. This let ter was addressed
to Col. Cumming:
■ “A short time after you left me on your way
I down, ‘Big Head,’ one of the Yanctonie chiefs,
I accompanied by twenty of his principal men,
! (and whose people beyond doubt stole your
I | Col. Cumming’s] mules and horses, although
I those Sioux were represented to you by many
I to be harmless and inoffensive people, notwith-
I standing- all I could say to the contrary,) ar
rived and expressed a wish to see the presents
I had allotted to his band. After he had in
spected them, he remarked that he could only
prevail upon the few men I saw to accompany
him, owing to the severity of the weather, and
that nothing but the destitute condition of his
people induced him to turn out, and that he
would take along with him of provisisons,
blankets, cloth, and knives as large a quantity
-1 us the few animals he had with him could car
: | ry ; which he accordingly did, and left appar-
■ entiy satisfied. Some few weeks after the
i above occurrence, he returned with eighty of
! his principal men, all of whom were well armed,
I I showing, as far as they could be seen coming
• i over the plains, and after their arrival at the
. fort, unmistakable signs of hostillity. 1 met
, them, and treated them kindly, and remarked
that, as they had traveled a distance through
the cold, I would in a short time have a feast
prepared for them. After it was ready, I in
vited them to partake, which they did, all the
, ■ while manifesting a cold, independent indiffer-
I ence. I saw trouble brewing, and passed a
1 1 sleepless night, and before ten o’clock the next
• day all my anticipations were fully realized.
, I “’l’he chief opened the council by deliberately
lifting my spectacles from my eyes, and saying,
I in a passion, that he wished to see the presents
|he had left. Wishing to be as brief with
, tLem ai possible, I got up and started with him
, i and five of his braves to the store-room, the
< Indians having their arms in their hands. It
i was an exceedingly cold day, (the thermometer
’ being 22 deg. below zero ;) and from the mo
-: jient we entered the Indians outside of the
- house kept up a constant fire of guns for a pe
riod of three hours. Nothing was indiscreet
i enough to cross their path except a cat and
I seven chickens ; the latter were all killed, and
' a volley was fired at the cat, which escaped.—
i During this time I was cooped up in the store
room, and the Indians were pouring out a tor
rent of abuse upon me and their Great Father.
■ They stated that they had.been told that their
! portion of the presents was $2,000. while
that which I had offered them did not
I amount to half that sum, an I the like.—
They wanted to know where the powder
! and balls were, the rice and the guns, Ac..
! large quantities of which they said they ‘had
been informed’ I had brought up. 1 told them
; that 1 had brought up no powder, nor balls,
i nor guns; to which they replied ‘you lie.”
"1 found the more 1 said to them the more
. furious they became ; so I cased myself from
I them the best way I could ; they remarking, as
I left them, that these articles were hid in the
fort, and intimated that they would have them
| before they left. 1 made for my room, expec
> tin" every moment, and so did every one else,
that I weuld be blown into atoms. After
making all sorts of threats, they scattered : and
I saw but few of them until the following day,
. when the entire party rushed into the fort, dis
discharging their guns, placing a number of
sentinels nt each gate. Twenty rushed into
my room and closed the door, five remaining
outside as sentiuels, and a number were placed
as sentinels at the doors of the different rooms
where the employees of the company had fled
for protection. As soon as they entered my
room, they furiously struck the butts of their
guns on the floor, drawing the balls, putting
them into their mouths, then dropping them
into their hands, rubbing them dry, and put
ting them back into their guns. This was
done that I might sea that they were prepared
for execution as well as any emergency. It i
did not, I assure you, require a Solomon to see I
from every action that they were inspired by
designing white men. who have been the cause
1 of much trouble, and will continue to be so un
til the larger number of these renegades and
. half breeds are driven from the country.”
'l'he letter gees on to state that General
, Harney exercises a salutary influence over
these men. and that it is thought that ere long
he will destroy the power they hold over the
different Indian tribes in that section of the
country.
On Agent V.’s arrival at Fort Pierre he
■ found assembled ten of the principal men of
the different bands of Sioux under his charge,
except of the Brulies and Big Heads bands, in
obedience to the sumn#>ns of General Harney
to attend the big council, which was held on
the Ist of March last. We copy one of the
appeals addressed by these chiefs to Agent V..
asking his influence with Gen. Harney in their
favor. Tl-e followin'? is the language as in
terpreted:
• Father, we heard you were coming: we
have been looking and looking, and you have
come: our hearts are glad. You see us with
pale faces, and with heads bowed down. When
the child is in distress he flies to his Fatter: do
tell us how we must do an act to be saved.—
Wc now plainly see that the advice you have
so often given us was good: we should have ta
ken it: but we now feel it is too late. You told
us soldiers would come to fight us if. wc did
not take our Great Father’s advice;/bnt we
closed our ears and would not listen: but our
eyes are open and we now see. and are satisfied |
that yon have not been talking tons with a|
forked tongue. Many of our red children have I
treated you badly, anil you have cause to com- i
plain an<l be angry. Your heart jnust be stood i
foj we never saw you angrv: neither did we I
ever c -me with empty hands but what you til- I
led them. We now know that your arm isj,
strong, and your heart big: do. Father, plead i
our cause. The big chief ol the soldiers [Gen I,
H.j is an awful man: when he speaks to us he I,
makes us tremble.
Front the Irish News.
The Irish in America.
The following article is from the first issue
of the Irish News, a weekly paper published in
New York, and edited by Thomas Francis]
Meagher.
Chateaubriand, in his beautiful Memoirs,
speaking of the foreign names to be found on
the map of the United States, observes, that
the oppressed of every country have brought
hither their memories and affections.
Disagree as people may about it, the fact is
so- Prohibit and condemn it, the fact to the
conclusion of the chapter will be so. No na
tion forgets its past. Tn glory or in tribula
tion captivity or freedom, the recollection o it
survives—becomes the theme of triumphal ode
or loving lamentation, the inspiration of revo
lution, monumental art, ths romance of history
or military daring.
Greece rises in the midst of her transcendent
ruins, centuries after her fleet had rotted in the
./Egeaii, and the phillipies of Demosthenes had
been transferred to distant colleges, and the
field of Marathon had been sold for a few pias
tres.
So, too, with Poland, the kingliest of king
doms, with the sumptuouschivalry of her camp,
and the inextinguishable piety of her altars
Sobieski dies ; Kosciusko dies. Ye t when the
worms have been busy with them for years,
when Poland, they say, has stifled her last
throb for freedom in the folds of her led wind
ing sheet; when all Europe is asleep : just then
is heard,along the Carpathian base, and through
the startled courts, senates, and streets of Eu
rope, the cry of—Poland is in arms 1
Thus with other nations. Thus with those
who have suffered most—had most reason to
bow their head and accept their fate in deep
despair—or in their agony mutter contrite words
to propitiate their crucifiers.
Is it strange, that to this grand lesson the
Irish race should present no abject contrast?
Strange, that even here, in the midst of plenty,
in the full fruition of the largest liberty, with
many blessings to sooth the quick promptings
of revenge long baffled, or of hope deceived,
they should still think ardently of the land,
from which, sorely pressed by poverty or
scared by famine, they have tied, or striking
for the rights and fame of which, they have
been routed, proscribed and driven.
It would argue poorly for their loyalty to
the Commonwealth in which they have settled
down, if the proitious change in their govern
merit and fortunes were to sap their first love,
efface the pictures of home and the story of
their fathers, leaving their memory a confused
canvass from which the grand impressions made
by nature had been blotter! out. The preser
vation of these memories and affections is not i
only natural, inevitable, full of goodness and
full of beauty, but unequivocally compatible
with all the duties and liabilities the oath of
citizenship provides and sanities.
Especially of the Irish in America is this
t ue, since the recollections most dearly trea
sured by our race, are those which intimately
associate themselves with the resistance to the]
Stamp Act, the reverses and endurance of the
army of the De’a. are, the guerillas of Marion,
the funeral urn of Montgomery, the pure elo
quence and compact logic of Calhoun, the
stern word and 11.-ce success of old Jackson.—
Resistance to England, hatred of her intoler
ence, defiance other power, these are recollec
tions and virtues common to the citizens of]
America and the emigrants of Ireland. Would
that with similar hopes and Bufferings, they
had equal victories to celebrate.
Nor does the perpetuation of the sentiments
and reminiscences we bring from home concur
merely with our good faith, duty and devotion
to the republic. It deepens that devotion, ami
into a high ambition translates the sense of
duty.
Be it in the workshop, at the press, in the I
pulpit, in the field of letters, administering]
great public trusts in the commercial world,
confirming them in the halls of legislation, ex
tending them in adventurous ships upon the
sea, or with swords defending them at the gates
and highways of the republic, the Irishman
well knows that his conduct will redound to 1
the credit of his ancient home. For better or
for worse, for panegyric or reproach, he is an ,
Irishman, the world over, and will be spoken
of as much.
This conviction stimulates his republican
life. It transcends the oath of citizenship.—
Far more strongly than this oath it impels him
authfully and generously, to acquit himself to
the constitution which, on the broadest scale,;
realizes the freedom that has been his fitful
dream at home.
The world h ;s heard of I ’atrick Sarsfield.—
Hardly a meeting o r Irishmen take place where
that name is not a thrilling invocation. lie
fought in Ireland, and after the capitulation of
Limerick, left it for Entering
the service of Louis the Fourteenth—pledging
him the soldier’s oath—he fought through the
siege of Naraurs and the campaign of Flanders.
Made a Marshal, he dies at Landen, heading
his countrymen in the van of victory, as Davis
tells us.
•■His last thoughts were for his country.—
As he lay on the field, nnhelmed and dying, he
put his hand to his breast. When he took it
away, it was full of blood. Looking at it sad
ly, with an eye in which victory shone a mo- ]
ment before, he said faintly—Old that this were 1
for Ireland.
To perpetuate the memories which thus in
cite to a great career, and then crown it with
a sublime prayer of filial love; and whilst all
that is good and precious in the past is treas
ured and kept bright, to chronicle, so far as in
us lies, the sayings, and doings, the struggles >
and successes oT the Irish in America, and else-'
where abroad—this is the dutiful and happy •
service to which we devote ourselves this d ty.
and front this day out.
1 Trial of a mas for murdering his wife
Sudden appearance of the wife' in the
court-room. —We copy the following from the
Cleaveland Plain Dealer:
“On Saturday an examination took place be
fore Esq. Hessenmueller of Michael Wyngert
' for the murder of his wife. This prosecution
was induced by the sudden disappearance of
the woman about six weeks since, and it was
supposed, from the habitual ill treatment to
which she was subjected, that she had been
murdered. No trace of her could be found,
and the statement of the defendant confirmed
the suspicion. The evidence had been heard,
and, though it was circumstantial, the proba
bility of the murder was strongly sustained.
At this juncture—the court room being densely
crowded by excited spectators—the woman
alleged to have been murdered made her ap-
I pearance, to the great surprise and gratification
■ of all, and especially of the culprit on trial.
The woman had abandoned her liege lord, and
sought the asylum for the poor at the infir
mary. where, sick and forlorn, she Lad re
ceived care and cure. She, of course, was
totally ignorant of the charge of murder
against her husband, and it was only by nizant
on the trial, and she was sought out ai.d pro
duced at the court, to the pl.war.* '-kment
of all concerned.
I The Abolition-Anti-Know-Notle.
iwg Candidate for the Presidon-
i; The difficulty of nominating a know nothing
1 1 candidate for the presidency whose antecedents;
I and present position are such as should secure
i i the black republican vote has, to a certain ex-
| tent, been solved in one or two of the western
States. The know-nothing State council of
. Wisconsin have nominated Hon. N. P. Banks
> 1 for the presidency; and the members of the or
• | dcr generally in that section of the country
’ would seem to be of the opinion that if the
'] black republicans are actuated by motives of
-1 interest or availability, or have an appreciating
' ■ sense of the aid and.comfort which they have
j. derived from the followers of Sam, they wili not
, I hesitate to adopt him as their candidate. The
1 Milwaukie American, (know-nothing,) after
t announcing the nomination of Mr. Banks for
.I °
the presidency by the Wisconsin State council.
. ; gives its readers the following chapter in his
,; history Wash. Union.
] We hail the unanimous passage of thasres
-1 ohition, following,as it does, the repudiation of
• the pseudo nominations illegally made at Phil
- adelphin, as an omen of success. Mr. Banks
■ has claims upon the order which few other can
1 ' offer. The first to raise his voice in advocacy
I ofits principles, he has ever been fearless and
■ i consitent in their support. During the contest
j for speakership—unprecedented in length in
-'] parliamentary histoiy—he was unremitting in
I I his efforts, awl invited into the Washington
1 ; council, of which he is president, ninety-seven
’ ] of the so-called ‘republicans' who were attempt-
\ Ing to secure his election."
;] Commenting on the above, the Chicago
; Times says:
i: “ Banks got •105’ votes, nine-seven of which
! 1 were given by men whom he. by his own hands
T had initiated into the order. We ask the Tri
. ; bune to explain this. Was Woodworth com
n plimented for voting for a know-nothing?—
! ] Were 105 guns fired on Dearborn Park over
J the election of a know-nothing? Who will
[; answer ?”
i the Augusta Constitutionalist.]
The American State Council,
The Council, which convened in Macon on
W ednesday, numbered “about thirty or forty,’
ias we learn by the Georgia q itizen. We pub
; lishcd yesterday morning the resolution adop (
ted, and the statements of tho Macon Messen
] ger, that the delegates were in favor of suppor
ting Fillmore and Donelson.
The Georgia Citizen of the 19th inst., afte
publishing the resolutions, says:
' These were the resolutions actually passed
, after an animated discussion of'the report of
the Committee, and the striking out of a reso
] lution indirectly endorsing the nomination of
, I Fillmore and Donelson. Several gentlemen
were anxious to do this, but we are happy to
say, through the able efforts of Dr. M.A.
Franklin of this city, and Jonathan Davis Esq
■i of Lee, the American party of Georgia have
I ] not been blindly committed to the action of the
Philadelphia Convention. Our readers wijl
1 recollect that the Platform of the February
. Convention expressly places the American par
. ty in opposition to the course of President
Pierce, on the subject of Kansas. Now, how
! ever much we have been opposed to President
Pierce, and to some of the features of the Kan
sas Nebraska bill, we are not prepared to
make an issue with the President cn that
■question It would be folly to do so. —
' Besides, we do not know whether Mr. Fill
more will accept the nomination, on the basis
of the twelfth section of the June Platform
and it would be premature to ratify his nomi
nation until his position is clearly ascertained.
I These were the views taken, by the gentlemen
named, and they are the views, we believe, of
nine-tenths ofthe American party of Georgia.
' There is also another reason for postponing
a ratification of the nomination. Its President
was not in attendance, and but few, if any,
regularly elected delegates from living Coun -
cils. The object of the meeting, as we under
stand it, was simply to dissolve the organiza
tion, formally. It had therefore no business
with the nominations. The recommendation
to the executive Committee to call a general
Convention of the party, hereafter, is, however,
well enough. Let that therefore
act with discretion, and make a call of the
party at some day, not earlier than the fourth
of July, when it will be time enough to ratify
or do otherwise, as the whole party may desire.
Miss Man L. Schmidt attends a
Ball.
A few evenings since, a ball was given at.
the house of a Mr. Hans Swackheimer in ]
Washington street. Among the ladies who at-!
tended was Miss Mary L. Schmidt. In dan- 1
cing a “swing waltz’’ with Mr. Alfred Snyder,
she was tripped up by somebody, and “fell mit
the door against der banisters.” The young
i man who caused Miss Schmidt to “fall mit der
door against the banisters,” was Mr. Jacob
Braining. Miss Schmidt swore out a warrant
against him and had him arrested. The exam
' ination came off before Mr. Justice Cole : I
“State your case Miss.’’,
“Sho I vill, and ven I states mine case, you |
vill see. Veil, sir, I goes to der ball, and Mr.'
Alfred Snyder says, “Miss Schmidt, vill you ;
dance me mit a swing waltz?' and I says 'Yes,' ]
i and takes his hand mit my arm, and we start I
mit a whirl, and we waltz and waltz till wo ]
come mit ter bencher', when Mr. Braining put I
out his leg mil his foot and trips me down mit j
-a fall. I strikes mit der floor and der blood
, rushes past mine head till I hollers out mid a
] fright. A shentleman he comes aud picks me ;
up, and says, ’where's your hurt, Miss,’ and I
says ‘by the doorway,’ and he says, will you ,
■ dance mid a polka mid inc .’’ and I says ‘yes,’ j
: and we dances mit a polka, and we conies mit;
•der bench once more, and when we comes mit
a bench. Mr. Braining sticks out bis leg mit
hi? foot and trips me down again. 1 falls mit ]
der doo: against der banisters, and finds myself ]
so mashed I screech murder, but says noddin
four times—but it wash no goot. 1 ter more 1 j
said noddin, der more Mr. Brainning say ‘shut ]
yer Lush and go to der tuivel 1’ But I would I
not hold mine hush. Der more he says go to ]
der tuivel the more I hollers noddin for der I
perlite."—State Police Tribuue.
•
BgL.'l'he correspondent of the Augusta Con I
i stitutionalisL writing from Washington says: |
■ The Black Republicans hold regular cau- ]
I cases thrice a week. The contest for nomina- '
lion for President is between Judge McLean
and Wm. IL Seward. Grcelywill listen to no]
: compromise, and must have Seward or no ]
feif’Judge Dayton, of New Jersey. i. spo
ken of in connection with the Republican nom
ination for the Presidency.
Ti ne Greatness.
1 Chief justice Marshall was in the habit of
going to market himcclf, and carrying- home hi?
purchase. Frequently he would bescen return
mg at sunrise, with poultry in on.’ hand, 1 vc"-
tables in the other, tin one of those occasions,
a fashionable young man from the north, who
had removed to Richmond, was swearin"’ vio
lently because he could find no one t<T carry
home his turkey.
Marshall stepped up and asked him where
ho lived. “That is my way. and I will take it
for you.”
W lion they came to the house the young man
inquired, “what shall I pay you.”
"Oh: nothing,’ said the Chief Justice, •‘you
are welcome, it was on my way and no troub
le.”
Who is that polite old gentleman who brought
home my turkey for me?” inquired the young
man of a bystander.
“That," replied he, “is John Marshall. Chief
Justice of the United States.”
"Why did he bring home my turkey?”
“To give you a severe reprimand, and teach
you to attend to your own business,” was the
reply.
True greatness never si above doing anything
that is useful, but especially the truly great
man will never feel above helping himself. Ills
own independence of character depends on his
being able to help himself.—Dr. Franklin, when
he first established himself in business in Phil
adelphia wheeled home the paper which he pur
chased for his printing office, upon a wheel-bar
row with his ow n hands.
Personal Courage.— An English officer,
returned from the Crimea, (where, he says, he
had been studying metaphysics,) under the head
of “Philosophy of Sebastopol,” in Chamber’s
Journal, makes the following remarks as per
sonal bravery:
“Men, when they prize their life highly on
account of the capacities they feel to be with
in them are capable of acts of great bravery,
provided an aim of high ambition is before
them; but they will not encounter the chance
of destruction for a straw; those, on the other
hand, who have not learned to cast up accounts
with themselves, will as soon face the cannon’s
mouth for the most trifling object, as for the
highest and grandest achievement. This, no
doubt, is coolness; my own observation has in
duced me to hesitate as to whether I would ac
cord to it the more dignified appellation of
courage. In the majority of cases in which it
occurs in the ranks of a British army, I am
convinced the coolness is born of indifference
rather than of bravery.”
This distinction between the true courage
and mere indifference to danger, (says a New
York paper,) has been illustrated in the epi
grammatic reply of one of Wellington’s officers
to a subordinate.
Col. Rivers, ■: tried and gallant officer, never
went into action without manifest emotion;
and on one occasion, when leading his regiment
under fire, a raw subaltern who noticed tho
quiver which shook his frame, had the imper
tinence to remark, “Why Colonel, you’re
afraid!”
“Yes, sir; and if you were ' half as much
afraid as I am, you would run away.'
Charlotte Cushman.—All who have seen
and heard tha celebrated actress, Charlotte
Cushman, could not fail to observe her unu
sual masculine development both in person and
voice. Her unfemininity on the stage destroy
ed much of the ‘.harm of her personations-
For it would not require much stretch of fancy
to imagine that her “ Mrs Haller ” or “ Meg
Merriles” was a man in disguise. On her first
appearance on the London boards this peculi
arity was immediately noticed, and her exact
resemblauce to a distinguished English trage
dian formed the subject of many spicy articles
for the public papers. The following appear
ed in one of the Sunday papers of that time :
“Possibly it may not have been very gener
ally noticed that, since the appearance of the
talented American actress, Miss Cushman,
upon our stage, the admirable tragedian Ma
cready has been seen nowhere in London either
before or behind the curtain. Some have
imagined that he purposes retiring altogether
from the scenes into the quiettide of private
life. Others—of his friends, be it observed
who have inquired for him at his residence in
Regent’s Park, affirm that ho is now engaged
in making a provincial tour. We are, howev
er, credibly informed that such is not the fact.
Anxious to extend his repertoire, he has ven
tur, d upon a bold and hazardous experimcat,
in which we have the happiness of saying; that
he has most fully and completely succeeded,
He has donned the petticoats, anti may be seen
at night by all who have the desire to measure
his ability in wearing them, under the as
sumed name of Miss Cushman and in the part
of the 1 ady Macbeth on the stage at the
Princess’ Theatre. TIMOTHY.
Barber’s Poles.—Their Origin. —The or-
I igin of the barber's pole is to be traced to the
| period when the barbers were also surgeons
I and practiced phlebotomy. To assist this op
eration, it being necessary for the patient tn
grasp a stall’, a stick, or a pole was always
kept by the barber surgeon, together with u
fillet or bandaging he urel for tying the pa
tient’s arm. When the polo was not in use,
the tape was tied to it, that they might be both
together when wanted. On u person coming
in to be bled, the tape was disengaped from
I the pole and bound round the arm, and the
pole was put into the person’s baud. After
i it was done with the tape was again tied on
the pole and in this state, pole and tape were
often hung at the door for a sight or notice to
passengers that they might there be bled. At.
length instead of hanging out the identical
pole used in the operation, a pole was painted
with stripes round it, in imitation of the real
pole and its bandaging, and thus came the
sign.
j Middle Ground Railroad.—The Griffin
| Empire State publishes a call for a meeting of
] the citizens on Saturday next, to consult on the
I propriety of appointing some day to have u
meeting of delegates from the counties intores--
ted, for the purpose of taking some action in re.
gard to the construction of tho road. This
road is projected to connect Covington, on the
Georgia Railroad, with Columbus, running
through McDonough. Griffin, Greenville, and
Hamilton.
Donation.,.—Senator Douglas has made
handsome donation to the Thirteenth st. Bap.
; tist church (Dr. Tensdale's) in this city. He
i has also lately conveyed to the Baptist denom.
] ination of Chicago, Illinois, ten acres of land—
' a grove, beautifully situated within the city lim
. its for the purpose of erecting thereon a uni-
I versity : with a condition that the trustees shall.
; lay the foundation of the edifice during the ap
proaching fall, and spend armually towards the
building $25,000 until completed. The value
of the land is estimated at fifty thousand dollars
W’di. Organ.