The organ. (Hamilton, Ga.) 1852-18??, March 01, 1854, Image 1
KEUTRIL XI POLITICS & RELIGION—DKTOTED TO ART, SCIENCE, lIOCCAITION. MORALITY*4ND TIIE ADVANCEMENT OF SACRED JttESRC.
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B F. WHITE, SUPBRINTEDEKT.* ]
I WOULD SEE JESUS.—C. M. D. Original. ’B ‘ v Ftfr rne (flp§ari, by L. P. Breedlove.
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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
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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,
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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.