The organ. (Hamilton, Ga.) 1852-18??, March 01, 1854, Image 1

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KEUTRIL XI POLITICS & RELIGION—DKTOTED TO ART, SCIENCE, lIOCCAITION. MORALITY*4ND TIIE ADVANCEMENT OF SACRED JttESRC. *7* i. _Y ‘i- .v ‘ .a* - ‘ ■ w . B F. WHITE, SUPBRINTEDEKT.* ] I WOULD SEE JESUS.—C. M. D. Original. ’B ‘ v Ftfr rne (flp§ari, by L. P. Breedlove. - Tl^iY r^''ul mr fl all M lean >Unia on Ihiii... General Intel! i uence, 1 ENGLAND and IRELAND^ ” Our papers have been a good deal oc’ cupied lately with reports of public meet’ ings held in New York, and other cities in the United States, to give a welcome to the Irish refugees. Perhaps this is a delicate subject, but honesty will nut let, me pass it by. As an Englishman, Wri.; ting to Americans, I feel jealous of my: country's honor. It excites no concern that the political condition and conduct of Great Britain are misunderstood bv a few millions of Russian serfs but that such a misunderstanding should prevail among a people so intelligent so free, and so nearly related to us as those, of the United States, cannot hut excite the most pro found regret. I feel that the future po litical relatione of our two countries must be of a most precarious nature, ao long as American citizens accept as true the ca-J lumnious representations of Mr. Mitch ell and hit associates. ‘ II those represent tations are correct —if out 'Queen is in’ deed a “ she-iyrani if any pirt of our empire it as systematically oppressed as Ireland is represented to be—then Great Britain is at bad as Austtia or Russia or Naples; then do we deserve the execra tion* of your frrt and, in the event of war you might regard it as just an even question whether you should throw your influence on your side rn op posing the rampant despotism of Conti nental States, or take part with Russia or Abiiiria A lasting alliance be tween two nations ran only be the result of internal sympathies. Self interest, a mere preponderance of dollars, may patch up a temporary compact but treaties wor thy of the name must spring from the hearts ol the people. How can your cit izens respect us if the picture presented at the meeting at which. I believe, the Mayor of Brooklyn presided, is correct ? And unless we respect each other, what safeguard have we against the bititreM hate* From what I read I cannot resist ■ the impression that England is profoundly misunderstood by a large proportion of the citizens of the United States; and this being the case, I should not deserve the name of English Correspondent- to the New Yoik Recordt-r i( 1 did not endeav or, so far as facts are concerned, to set you right. On the Irish question, details cannot now be entered upon, but a re mark or two may not be useless. The whole case of Ireland may be expressed in a sentence: social disorgan zation, arising in a great measure from h di-jmnt ed system of landed proprietorship, but traceable mainly to the pernicious influ ence of the Roman Catholic religion upon the peasant population. The evils con- j nected with the tenure of land are no doubt to be ascribed in part to the princi. pie of primogeniture, which holds in let*, ters an immense proportion of the landed property of the United Kingdom. Still,! this in itself involves no peculiar haidship j with respect 16 Ireland ; if it is consistent with the fullest enjoyment of political ireedom in England, there i§ nothing to prevent it from being equally consistent with it across St. George’s Channel. The great abuse of the piinciple in question among our Irish neighbors arose from the immense incumbrances, in the shape of settlements and mortgages of ya'ri us kinds, which often rendered the nominal owner of an estate the slave of a host of claimants, and left him without a penny of capital to spend in the improvement of the land and the employment of labor The establishment of manufactures might have achieved a practical deliverance from these evils, as it has done in Kng land, but it is notorious that property was insecure in almost every district of the country. A Protestant capitalist lit erally held his life at the mercy of the parish priest; if he displeased the piiest, he was soon denounced from the altar, and then ten to one it a musket, levelled with murderous aim from behind some hedge row, did not end his career within a tew weeks. Instances ot such tacts I could b# given by scores, and they are! THE ORGAN. ! account for a large propoSnn of tfife wretchedness which has psHailed. The political fran chise is enjoyed to the same extent in Ireland as in England ; but here again the priest steps in and spoils all. What would you think of men being literally whipped to the poll ? Yet this has not unfrequently occuried. What would you I t/tink of a priest standing on the altar, 1 and devoting to eternal perdition all who ! should dare to vote against the Romish candidate? This has been done again and again. Specific proofs could be quot ed (tom Parliamentary documents, anil ir reference to the last general election •The men ihus sent to Parliament are for the most prt. mere adventurers, ready ‘0 sell their vote after all to the highest bid der, having previously rai-ed its value by factitious opposition. Give Ireland a hundred patriots in the British Senate, I instead of nearly as many sworn tools of the Vatican, Bnd what a change might not have tiken place ere this! As it is, it may he affirmed that every good avas ure lor Ireland has been the work of En glish Statesmen. and been passed without the aid oi Dish members. Mr Mitchell says our government caused the famine. Whether the failure of the potato crop could be laid to our charge, may fairly be left to the judgment of your readers; but I will tell them what we did do to miti gate that calamity. We gave them fifty millions of dollars out ot the nationnl treasury to purchase’ food, and thousands of JJLtroughout England denied themserve# of luxuries, and even necefrsa riea, in order to help Iheir Irish brethren. Ten years ago, when Sir Robert Peel in tmduced his Income Tax, w hich levied five or seven per cent, on all incomes above a given amount, though the object was strictly national—being intended, in fact, to create a. surf,lns in the exchequer which would admit of the carrying out of a Free Trade policy—lreland was exemp ted from its operations. During the pres ent year, on the renewal of this Income Tax for the same putpose. it was thought that the improved circumstances of Ire land justified its being extended to that patt of the kingdom ; but mark w hat was also lobe done: Twenty millions of dol lars. advanced in aid of the Poor Law’ relief of Iteland, and for which interest has been paid’ for several years, was en- ‘ tirely remitted, Ireland is ‘notoriously improving and that at a rate altogether be voiid expectation The Encuibbered Es tates Bill has set free au immense qnanti ty of land from the burdens to which I have adverted, while such men as Mr. Dargan has done more for Ireland by car rying out the Great Dublin Exhibition, than all the O'Uonnels and O’Briens that ever lived. These remaik*. for which I claim the generous indulgence of American readets, have detail, long, and 1 must ’ hastily Cor. N. York Recorder. ! ‘The N. York says that, the one thousand vessels damage at sea, and period, the losses sustain* II street insurance otfices. exceed four millions five hund* red thousand dollars. Many vessels that have been exposed to the gales; which swept the ocean in December J and January, have yet to be heard from, and when heard from, may help to swell the enormous sum which is known to have been absorbed by loss*; es. In New Yoik. five insurance companies have rendered statements covering a portion of the Season which ! hs proved so disastrous to marnlimo interests. Os these five companies, the Atlantic declares a dividend of 16 per cent., the Union 31 per cent-, and the Allas 20 per cent., and the As’nr Company declared ho divided, and the I General Mutual Company is closing its business. In Boston none of the { Hamilton, Ga. iflarcli 1, 1§54, Mutual Companies have declared any dividends on the hu-iness of the past year, anti the largest company there shows a deficit of some sll4 000 Information Wanted. — The Sel tnn (Ala.) Sentinel, of the 11th inst., says, “C. D R. Woodruff left his home at Randolph. Bibb county, Ala,, on the 24th January, to go to Cahabtt, Ala. The register at the livery stable of Vlessrs. Allen <fc Reynolds in thi< city shows him having taken his horse ; from their stable on the 25th, since which time nothing has been heard of j him. Any information concerning! him will he thankfully received bv his . v v distressed wife. Mrs. Woodruff, or John Massengale, at Randolph Ala , or at the office of the Alabama State Sentinel.” AN INCIDENT. A letter from Washington, snvs the following incident occurred at the Ntu vy Department on the 4th inst: “A young and accomplished lady was to see the Secretary relative to some sus picions which hung over the legality of the ceremony of her recent marriage with a Lieutenant in the Naval service. She states that some months since she was conducted to a house in that citvg and there married to her supposed hojd band by a ohnng*l, a ed together, yikm he whs smtujfl called off to the Pacific. Doubts has® been raised as to the legality of tliß marriage, and she entertains a datk ! suspicion that there has been an impo sition practiced upon her. lmmedi jatelyon hearing the ladies narrative, \ Secretary Dobbin, with that energy and uprightness of character for which | he is just ly distinguished, peremptory ordered the Lieutenant to report, in person, to him, at us early a period as 1 possible ; declaring, with emphasis, that if it did turn out to be true that lie had practiced a fraud upon the poor girl, his name shouid be stricken at | once from the roll of the Navy.” EXTRACTS From Scott s Weekly Paper —Philadelphia. THE BEARDED LADY. Through the politeness of Col. Wood wc are enabled to give to our readers a correct hkeness of Madame Cloful lia, better known ov-r the country as the ‘Bearded Lady.’ When the A id’ hoik first allowed a well know N* York manager to announce her as one oi the wonders of the 19th century, the mat ter was deemed an entire humbug, in fact one incredulous individual, who had invested twenty-five cent.', lost all his g dlantry at the sight of the whi>k-l ers, and went boldly out and denounci. cd the Madame to be one of the stern er sex. Mr. B •runm fearing that the lady's reputation would suffer fiom such assertions, proceeded to the Tombs, and there produced evidence from the physician and Mrs. Foster, the matron, that at once convinced the ! magistrate and all others interested, that she really was a worn *n. The early history of this lady is un* usually interesting. She was born in Switzerland, in a neat little village know as Versoix. situated on the edge of Lake Leman. Her father’s name was Joseph Boisdechane, her mother was a Mad’lle Masset a lady who was: delicately beautiful, and a native ofj France. H* r father was not deemed a homely gentleman, neither had he a sufficiency of beard to enable’ him to cultivate, what the young men of this age would style a fine pair of whisk ers. The ried pair, in suitable timeMrewarded with an heir in the person >ur hero ine. to whom they gave the name of Josephine. Shortly after her birth, an unmistakable hirsute appearance was observed on her face. This gAe her parents much anxiely. and they imme’ diately consulted their physician in re gard to affecting a removal. He en- i deavored to accomplish their desire, but the down soon changed to hair, land in spite of all their efforts, by ihe time she was eight years of age. her beard was three inches in length. She was sent to Geneva, to boarding school where her attainments were so satis’ factory that her father determined to give her a thorough education. At the age of 15 her mother died, after giving birth to four other child ren, two of whom were females,neither of them presenting the peculiarity that so distinguishes Josephine. ~rttyV~S, The very fact of 1 tef h brought perSL"‘ * <- : la?j4; 1 t . oul „*v • ■.“* ,bw 4 ‘-V v JS tim>anilelh||f t” *• !<> their intro<J^fl lv ‘ ll J| . i,i in w JF* • ; ;i pi > ■ to ‘** bletmiii At the next app- tired . -dHMk ’• uj the London pronounced her the’ ers. Dr. H. TANARUS, Gornclins ; wns her physician nod on the morning of the 26th of December. 1851 deliv ered per of an interesting little girl, who utter growing beautifully died at the age of 11 months. Since then Madame has once more been made a mqther, and her little son now about fifteen months old, is doing well, and Ins- body covered with hair and in all probability will be as hirsute p curios* ity as Ins mother. 1 Since the arrival of Madame in this country, she has been in New York, her levees being crowded with the most respectable audience i ever as sembled in any place. Col. Wood be ing aware of the desire of bur Phila delphia ladies, has engaged her for a j short period, and has placed, her in his ; Museum of Wonders, now open at | I No. Cliesnrit st*, wj|ere she can j j be seen daily in corijui ctlm with Mas* ! ter Ben English, Itfte d>%i^sl^iilnM! Drummer, and the CejofieT’s other! marvelous attractions x)f course, ev. erybody will go to see this wonderful Bearded Lady. Take Warning.— Ovid F Johnson, formerly Attorney General of this State, died in Washington City a few 1 days ago. having been picked np intox-’ j ; iealed and sent to the Vagrant De- | part ment of the Workhouse. Johnson j j was a man of ability., but as a politi* j cian la* the qualities which were I necessary to secure the popular confi j denee. He went to Texas. cmmeno ! ed a newspaper tSiere, and joined the Filibusters under Car’ njul. After that, failed, he returned to Washington.— Dissipation had. however, done its work, and the [tapers of Washington record the miserable termination of his existence. — Scott's Weekly, ! [ VOL. 3—NO.se. • * * r * * * ANIS tl QUEEN The scandals of the SpanisfiT have been the theme of gossip sot months, and the young queen has been charged with irregularities such as havjj rendered Spanish Queens of for mer times infamous in history. Even the legitimacy of the late Infanta has been doubted, and her death, when a ifew days old, while it enlarged the sphere of go-sip, excited no regret among the people: Indeed the event was the occasion of displaying about Madrid, placards in reference to the queen, in which there wjas more truth than dedency. Queen Isabella is indeed fast hurry ing into all those excesses, political as well as moral, that usually mark the career of weak w men placed in pro minent positions, and infatuated with a favorite lover. Her improprieties have excited the people. Her ministers , and most devoted servants have re- J monsirated with her, and, having lost athe affection of her subjects, she at’ ftempts to enforce submission and f compel allegiance. Accordingly, shb i Inis exiled Generals Concha and O’* Donnell, formerly two of her most faithful Captains-General in .Cuba, and several others to whom she is in a gteat measure indebted for the preser* vHtiooof her crown. Their offence was their too high a sense of morality, and their opposition to the scaad^lpofe rovfi intrigue. No one can suppo* i that such a high-handed measure can succeed in crushing the rebellious fee!* ing of the people. ! Isabella the Second is too weak in her own character, and her govern,, mens is too destitute of physical as well as moral power, for a coup d'etat to be eudufingly successful. Such affairs require the hand of a Napoleon, sus tained bv a great name and agreatar* tnv. Without these the little woman cannot violate ordinary decencies, or insult and outrage statesmen of ability and long service. /Such things were scarcely tolerated in the darkest days of Spanish History. They will never do in the nineteenth century, and we shall expect to hear soon of stormy : times in -Spain.— lb. Methodist Church Law*Suit, North ani South. -It is well known that the New York Commissioners and the Commissioners of the Church South, by the arbitration of Judge McLean, agreed on a division of the funds of thq New York Bonk Concern, without ap* pealing to the Supreme Court of the United States. Such is not the case ( with ihe Cincinnati Book Concern, I which will take the case, so far as. it is ! con3*rned, to the Supreme Court, the Southern Commissioners having refuse ed to aucede to the propositions made to them by the Western Commission* ers. ‘ ? The citizens of Syracuse, N. Y., are moving in regard to John Habcn, a re sident of that city, and a member of the La Fayette Guards, who has been incarcerated by the Prussian Govern* ment. Ilaben left Prussia at the age of seventeen, and came to this country, taking out his naturalization papers, and was for three years a vbter. He returned last fall to Prussia to claim an inheritance left him by his father* On charge of owing military service to that country, he was seized and thrown into a loathsome prison. A meeting has been held and a commit* tee appointed to draft a petition to President Pierce on his behalf.— Scott Weekly , DO* Be just and fear not.