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THE EMPIRE STATE
is PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
By a. A, G-auldlng.
teems: TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE, OR THREE DOL
LARS AFTER SIX MONTHS, rER ANNUM.
jß®“offiee up-stairs over W. R. Phillips & Co.^ff
Advertisements are inserted at One Dollar per square for
the first insertion, aud Fifty Cents per square for each m
*OlA will be made to those who adver
tise by the year. . , , ..
All Advertisements not otherwise ordered will be continu
ed till forbid.
Sales of Lands by Administrators, Executors or Guar
dians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday
in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and
8 in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the county m
which the Lrfnd is situated. Notice of these sales must be
given in a public Gazette forty days previous to the day of
Bales of Negroes must be made at public auction on the
flr*t Tuesday of the month, between the usual hoius of sale,
at the place of public sales in the county where the Letters
Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship may
have been granted—first giving forty days notice thereof in
•ne of the public Gazettes of the State, and at the Court
House where such sale is to be held. .
Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given m
like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must be
published forty days. . ~
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Or
dinary for leave to sell Land, must be published for two
Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published two
•nths before any order absolute shall be made theieon by
he Court. . , ~
Citations for Letters of Administration must be publish
ed thirty days ; for Dismission from Administration, month
ly six months ; for Dismission from Guardianship, forty
for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish
ed monthly for four months ; for publishing Lost Pa
*rs. for the full space of three months ; for compelling ti
tles from Executors and Administrators, where a bond has
been given by the deceased, for the space of three months
JAMES H STARK,
ATTORNEY a t l aw,
•Grim.. Georgia.,
WILL practice in the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and
in the Supreme Court at Atlanta and Macon.
Feb. 13, 1856....41....1y
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
attorney at law,
Office front Rooms, over John R. Wallace & Bros., corner
of White Hall and Alabama streets,
ATLANTA GEORGIA.
January 30,1856 ts _____
* W. L. GORDON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN GEORGIA.
January 30, 1856 30 ly .
* HEXIIY HENDRICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Jackson, Bulls County, Georgia.
Hay 3, 1855. __ * {
H. &/ G. Ji GREEN MARTINj
Attorneys at Law,
en.BRN j. green, I Griffm> Georgia,
HATH) N. MARTIN, 1
Hartford okekn, Zebulon, Geo.
May 3,1855. _T_
DANIEL & DISMUKE,
Attorneys at Law,
Ctrl An,
L. B. DANIEL, F. D. DISMUKE.
May 3,1655. ___
’ w. POPE JORDAN,
Attorney at Law,
WILL practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit.
May 3,1855. „
STELL & BECK,
Attorneys at Law,
..... , Georgia.
Bl’Donough, °
ALL business entrusted to their care, will receive prompt
aU * nUOn ” .. . E . W. BECK.
K- M. STHLL, ts
May 3, 1855. _
DR. 11. W. BROWN)
Griffin, Georgia
©FFlCß, in the basement story, under the Store of Messrs.
J. A. A J. C. Beck*.
May *, 1855. ‘
“ J. 11. M AND H AM,
Attorney at Law,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
May , 1855-ly 1
‘ ANDREW M. MOORE,
ATTORNEY Ji t law,
LaGRANGE GEORGIA.
WILL practice in the Courts of the Coweta Circuit. All
business entrusted to hiH care will meet with prompt
attention.
July 4, 1855- 9 ~ U
’ IVM. li. fTiall,
attorney at law,
ZEBULON GEORGIA.
July 4, 1555. °~ tf
A. D. NUNNALLY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Jure, 27, 1855. 1 7~
UNDERWOOD, HAMMOND & SON,
attorneys at law,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WILL give personal attention to all business entrusted
to their management, and attend the Sixth Circuit
Courtof the United States, at Marietta, the Supreme Court
at Macon and Decatur, and the Superior Courts in Cobb,
Morgan, Newton, DeKalb, Fulton, Fayette, Spalding, Pike,
Cass, Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, Troup,
Whitfield and Gordon, in Georgia, and Hamilton county,
(Chattanooga,) in Tennessee. May 3,1855. tf^
4. e. acres, w. b. fuller.
GRICE & FULLER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
Decomber 10th, 1855. 33—ts
W. L. S. WALLACE.
GRICE & WALLACE,
ATT O RFE YS AT LAW ,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
PERSONS intrusting business to them may rely on their
fi lelity, promptness aud care. Dec. 10, ’55-33-ly.
GARTRELL& GLENN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WILL attend the Courts in the Counties of Fulton, De-
Kalb, Fayette, Campbell, Meriwether, Coweta, Car
111, Henry, Troup, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding.
Lucius J. Gartrkll, I Lutukb J. Glenn,
Fermerly of Washington, Ga. | FormerlyofMcDouough.Ga.
May 16, 1855. 3tf
A Valuable Plantation for Sale
IN South-western Georgia, containing 303$ acres, as good
Land as any in Georgia ; Corn, Fodder, Oats, and Stock
of all kinds sold with the place, if desired.
My Lot containing 2 acres, and a large and convenient
DWELLING, in West Griffin. *3, All indebted will please
cal! and settle. lam determined to close my business, as 1
am actually determined to move to Florida.
Oct. 17, 1855. .25... .ts C. T DEUPREE.
THE subscriber r.espeetfully announces to
the public, and his numerous friends, that he o—
will open a shop on Broadway, below New Orleans Street,
at B. W. Doe’s old Ware-House, w lie re h,e will be prepared
to do all kinds of
BLACKSMITH WORK,
IN THE BEST STYLE AND
AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE.
He hopes by strict ATTENTION TO BUSINESS? to merit
*6 well as receive a liberal patronage. v
A. A l uRTEK
Griffin, PcctEfcer ltth, -50. .94. .ts
tie tiipire 51 ate.
% J. £siloi\
VOL. 1.
BOOK AND JOB OFFICE
THE EMPIRE STATE,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE
Having recently received a large assortment of
NEW AXD BEAUTIFUL
FANCY TYPE AND BORDERS,
Are now’ prepared to execute, in the best style, and at short
notice, all kinds of
‘|>lara anil iDrairairntal printing,
SUCH AS
PAMPHLETS
Circulars, Labels, Business Cards,
Catalogues, Programmes, Address Cards,
Bill Hoads, Posters, Visiting Cards,
Bank Checks, Hand Bills, Freight Bills,
Blank Note*, Legal Blanks, fye., fyc., Sf.
PBiHTllT@‘li''eoLoßS
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
rates of abverWjn¥.
THE following are the Rartes of Charges for Advertising,
determined on between the undersigned, to take effect
from the time of entering into any new contract: —
US-Transient Advertising, $1 00 per square, for the first
nsertion, aud 50 cents for every subsequent one.
CONTRACT ADVERTISING, 3 rnos. 6 mos.|9 mos 12 ms
1 square, without change, $ 6 00 $ 8 00 $lO 00 sl2 00
Changed quarterly... 7 00 10 00 12 00 16 00
Changed at will, 8 00 12 00 14 00 18 00
2 squares, without change,.... 10 00 15 00 20 00 25 00
Changed quarterly,.. . 12 00 18 00 24 00 28 00
Changed at will 15 00 20 00 25 00 30 00
3 squares, without change 15 00 20 00 25 00 30 00
Changed quarterly... 18 00 22 00 26 00 34 00
Changed at will, 20 00 26 00 32 00 40 00
Half column, without change .. 25 00 30 00 40 00 50 00
Changed quarterly,.. 28 00 32 00 45 00 55 00
Changed at will, 35 00 45 00 50 00 60 00
One column, withoutchange,.. 60 00 70 00 80 00 100 00
Changed quarterly,. . 65 00 75 00 90 00111000
Changed at will 70 00 85 00 100 00:125 00
tfS~ All transient advertisements will be inserted until or
dered discontinued and charged for accordingly.
A. A. GAULDING, “Empire State.”
A. P BURR “American Union.”
CAR RIA G CAB IN E T
SASH MAKING!!!
THE subscriber takes pleasure in
cing to the citizens of Griffin and sur 'F§|lS2gpCj.
rounding country, that he still continues theVS?
business of CARRIAGE and CABINET Making. CARRIA
GES, BUGGIES, and WAGONS made to order at short no
tice. A few of the best made Buggies always on band.
He has recently added to liis establishment the business of
SASII MAKlNG—cheap, and good as the best.
a ' S °
L: JILUjJfJ ’ a .
ees, newstyle. He will be found at liis old stand, always
ready towait upon his customers. Give him a call.
A. BELLAMY.
Griffin, Aug. 20, 7855.. ..18... .ts
J. K. WILLIAMS JXO. RHEA, WM. M. WILLIAMS.
J. K. WILLIAMS & CO.,
Successors to J. E. Williams,
General Commission Merchants,
AND DEALEKS IN
GRAIN, BACON, LARD, FEATHERS, ancl TEN
NESSEE PRODUCE, GENERALLY,
Decatur Street, near the “Trout House,” Atlanta, Ga.
tfS~ Letters of inquiry, in relation to the Markets, Ac.,
promptly answered. May 16,1855.-3tf
U L. WRIGHT,
EXCHANGE BROKER ,
ATLANTA, GEO.
WILL attend to collections entrusted to him, and remit
promptly, at current rates of Exchange: buy and sell
uncurrent Bank Notes. Coin, Ac. The highest cash price
paid for Bounty Land Warrants. &3~ Apply:* W. C.
Wright, Griffin. Ga., for sale of Land Warrants.
REFERENCES.— John Thompson, Banker, No. 2, Wall
street, and Carhart, Bro. A Cos., New York ; Converse
A Cos., New Orleans. Atlanta, May 16,’55 ts
. J, THRASHER, J. il. DORSEY
J. J. THRASHER & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Grocers and Commission Merchants,
(At the Wareliouseformerly occupied by J.E. Williams,)
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
11. 11. GLENN, W. A. Cn AMBLF.SS
May 16, 1855. 3-ts
GRIFFIN HOTEL.
THIS large and commodious Hotel is now open for the
accommodation of the public. The furniture is new,
and the rooms comfortable and well ventilated. The table
will at all times be supplied with the best the market af
fords, and no pains will be spared to render the guest com
fortable. 1 also have in connection with the house, the
large ami roomy stable, formerly occupied by W. S. Bil ge,
by which stock can and will tie well taken care of.
It. F. M. MANN, Proprietor.
Griffin, Feb. 13, 1856... .41... .ts
ZOIiaolSL Xiino.
/fC'sov The undersigned being the Con
tractor to transport the U. States
011 routes, Nos. 6339 and 6340,
takes this method of informing
the public generally, that he will run his Hack as follows :
Leave Griffin Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays via Erin,
Warnesville, Jones’ Mills, Greenville and Mountville—ar
rive at LaGrange the same days. Leave LaGrange Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays via the places above in en
rolled —arrive at Griffin the same days. Leave Griffin
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays via Zebulnn and Flat
Shoals, and arrive at Greenville the same days. Leave
Greenville Mondays. Wednesdays and Fridays via the pla
ces above mentioned, and arrive at Griffin the same days.
1 will further add, that 1 have good teams and sober dri
vers, who will spare no pains in making passengers com
fortable, and put thorn through in good time, at very mode
rate prices. B. I*'. M. MANN, Proprietor and Contractor.
Feb. 13, 1856....41... .ts
NOTICE.
riTHE advertiser would respectfully announce to his cus-
A tomers and the public generally, that he continues to
supply the various Magazines named below at the prices
annexed :
Harper, $2 25 ; Putnam, $2 25 ; Knickerbocker, $2 25 ;
Household Words, $2 00 ; Blackwood, $2 25 ; Godey,s2 25;
Horticulturist, (plain) $1 63 ; Little’s Living Age, $5 00 ;
Frank Leslie’s Gazette of Fashions, $2 25 ; Ballou’s Picto
rial, $2 50; Ladies’Repository,, (Cincinnati,) $ I 63; Ar
thur’s Home Magazine-, SI 63.
lie is prepared also to fill orders for standard and miscel
laneous books, whether from the trade or persons in other
walks of industry. Having had an experience of 15 years
in the Book and Periodical trade, he can give satisfaction to
all parties entrusting him with orders.
Specimen numbers of the Magazines on receipt of six
Post Office letter stamps for the $3 or $2 Magazines, and
for twelve such stamps a sample of the $5 or $6 works will
be sent. Letters of inquiry must contain a stamp for the
return postage. Books sent post paid, on receipt of the pub
lisher’s advertised price. Address
WILLIAM PATTON’ Bookseller,
Hoboken, New Jersey.
*3.Publishers of newspapers giving the above advertise
ment, with this notice, a few insertions, and sending a
marked copy to the advertiser, will be entitled to any one
of the Periodicals in the above list for one year.
Feb. 13, 1856.
”©7¥TWILLIAMSi
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
GRIFFIS,. .tiKORGIA.
agjOfficeon Hill Street, over Banks’ Boot & Shoe Store.
May 3, 1865.
Window Ola !
TTIRENCH Window Glass, of all sizes, for sale by
r Sept 19, HILL k SMITHtfoo-.
“ ifo up coi'ifrqcfc oi|lr toMe 6oiir}Dte Goitfirt 1$ 01^3.”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBUARY 20, 185 G.
fH 0 t t X tj V
From the New York Spiritual Telegraph.
My Wife.
.WRITTEN WHILE RECOVERING FROM A SEVERE SICKNESS.
I heard her, O how cautiously,
Opcu my bed-room door ;
I beard her steps as noiselessly,
(To my couch) across the floor.
I felt her hands my temples pre*g,
Her lips just touching mine ;
And in my anguish and distress,
’Twere sinful to repine.
Our pilgrimage is nearly through—
We’ve passed life’s mountain brow ;
I thought I loved her years ago,
I kr.oiv I love her now'.
Her face was hovering over mine—
Her warm tears on my cheek ;
Her whispered prayer of thought dijriue,
Rose fervently, but meek ;
Her bosom rested on my arm,
1 felt its troublous throe ;
I knew the cause alarm,
I knew its source of woe ;
Aud then the blood my system through,
Came pressing in my brow—>
I thought I loved her years ago—
I know Hove her now.
Thus watched that tried and patient one,
By night as w r ell as day,
In sadness, and almost alone,
Till weeks had passed away ;
Bereft of sleep—deprived of resta-
Oppressed—borne down with care,
Till, oh ! her labors have been blessed,
For God has heard her prayer.
Her cheek resumes its wonted glow,
And placid is her brow—
I thought I loved her years ago—
-1 krow 1 love her now.
Fun in tlie Senate.
The correspondent of the Augusta Chroni
cal & Sentinel furnishes the following racy de
scription of some of the ‘doings’ in the Senate
on the 2d inst.
The Senator from Kinchafoone, a very pol
ished aud refined gentleman, but as innocent
as a lamb —too honest aud unsuspecting to
doubt for a moment that a man can be serious
without being in earnest,had introduced a biil
to sell into slavery next Christmas, every poor
wiglrt of a ‘‘free colored person’’ found
in the State on that World’s festival day.—
The bill came up this morning on its third
reading, when the wag of the Senate took the
floor, and made a very able, ironical speech,
in which he said that he considered the bill
most outrageous; its provisions extened to
free persons of collor. He belonged to that
class, (the gentleman has a very dark brunette
complexion, suggestive of hard service iu a
torrid climate) —and if the bill was intended
to strike at his rights and his liberties—and
why should it not’! —he had no language iu
which to express liis sense of iniquity. [Oh !
If you could but have seen at ibis moment the
Senator from Kiuchafoone ! —breathless to
explain, and the torture of his bosom but too
plainly written on nis frank, open face!] —It
struck at the dearest rights of thousands of
the citizens of Georgia, &c. After piling
up the agony iu this strain for some minutes
longer, the wag resigned the floor to the Sen
ator from Kinchafoone. The latter gentle
man answered, the Senator from Bibb that he
had no covert intentions upon his liberty. Oh,
no ! by no means ! The bill was not intended
to apply to dark-skinned persons, citizens of
State; not at all 1 And he hoped the Honor
able Senator would calm his fears, for he cuuld
assure him the bill was not meant for him He
had introduced the bill because a set of free
persons of color, in his county, had instigate
some slaves to murdei their master. And to
prevent such recurrence p or the future, was the
object contemplated by the bill.
J3y this time, the Senator from Bibb had
made his way into the gallery, which was lit
erally radiant at the moment, and wearing its
brightest smile. I mean to say there were
‘ladies in the gallery.’ Noticing this fact, and
the position of the Senator from Bibb, who
was doing his agreeablest t o some of the ladies
the Sena or from Wilkes took the floor, and
bitterly denounced the feature of the bill ob
jected to by the Senator froin Bibb, in a strain
of eloquence not less fervid than feint, con
cluding his einarks with a touching picture
of the Senator from Bibb, se zed by the she
riff, torn from the bosom of his family, aud a
bout to be put on the block despite the tears
and lamentations of his little ones, his kindred,
and his friends !
‘i he fuu grew fast aud f .rious—the Senate
was in a roar, saving and excepting one lone
individual, who sti 1 didn’t see the joke, so
sterling was his honesty—so unsuspecting his
heart. The lobbies, catching the infection,
shook with laughter; and the very galleries
were startled from their sweet propriety,
and incontinently tittered, in the midst of
which the wag, unable now to quell the tem
pest he had raised, and too modest to brave it,
beat an inglorious retreat —some say in the
other end of the Capitol.
The Senator from Harris next followed,
concluding with the remark that ‘most mur
ders were instigated, not by free persons of
color, but by the and 1 ! Where
upon, the learned and ‘gallant’ Senator from
Greene, offered an amendment which provided
for the sale of His Satanic Majesty, on and af
ter the 25th of December next, if found at
that time in the State. The President’s ham
mer here resounded through the Chamber,
the fun gradually subsided, and bill aud
amendments were laid over for the present.
A Petrified Indian. —While engaged in ex
cavating recently, upon the Milwaukie and
La Cross Kailroad, near Schlesengerville,
1 lowa, the workmen came upon the petrified
remains of an Indian, and with the remains
some singular relies of olden times. The body
was perfect, not having snfferedby decay.. His
height at the present time would be considered
gigantic, measuring 1’ feet 3 inches. Oh his
breast was a plate of copper on which were
engraved numerous hieroglyphics, the meaning
of which can hardly be imagined. An arrow
tof considerable strength and curious sonstruC
tion was also found with him. *’*’
My Husband—A Life Sketch.
“My husband is a very strange man. To
think how he could have grown so provoked
about such a little thing as that scarlet scarf.
Well, there is uo use in trying to drive him,
I’ve settled that iu my mind. But he can
be coaxed ; can’t he though ; ‘and from
this time shan’t I know how to manage him ?
Still there is no denying, Mr. A lams is a
strange man.
“You see, it w n this morniug at breakfast,
I said to him, Ilenrv, I must have one of these
ten dollars scarfs at Stewart’s. They are
perfectly chaiming. and will correspond so
nicely with my maroon velvet cloak. I want
to go this morning and get one, before they
are gone. ”
“Ten dollars don’t grow on every bush,
idoliue, arid just now tin es are pretty bad,
you know,” he answered in a dry, careless
kind of a tone which irritated me greatly.
Beside that, I knew he could afford to get me
the scarf just as well as not, only my manner
of requesting it did not suit his lordship
“Gentlemen who can afford to buy satin
vests at ten dollars apiece can have no motive
but penuriousuess for objecting to give their
wives as much for a sc off,” I retorted, glancing
at the money which a moment before he had
laid by my plate, requesting me to procure one
for him ; lie always trusts me in these matters.
I spoke angriiy, and should have been sorry
for the next moment, if lie had not answered:
“You will then charge it to my penurious
ness, I suppose, when I tell you that you can
not have another ten dollars.”
“Well, then, I will take this and get a
scarf. You can do without the vest this fall,”
and I took up the bill aud left the room, for he
did not answer me.
I need it, and must have it, was my mental
observation as I washed my tearswollen eyes
and adjusted my bairfo/ea walk on Broadway;
but all the while there was a whispering at
my heart : Do not buy it. Go and buy a
vest for your husband ; and at last that inner
voice triumphed. 1 went down to the tailor’s,
bought the vest and brought it home.
“Here, it is, Henry ; I selected the color
that I thought would suit you best. Isn't it
rich ?” 1 said as I unfolded the vest after
dinner, for somehow my pride was all gone
I had felt so much happier since the scarf had
been given up.
He did not answer me but there was such a
look of tenderness filling his dark eyes as his
lips fell on my forehead, that it was as much
as I coeld do to keep from crying outright.
But the cream of the story is not told yet
At night when he came home to tea he threw
a little bundle into my lap. I opened it, and
there was the scarlet scarf, the very one I
had set my heart on at Stewart’s yesterday.
“Oh, Henry !” I said, looking up and try
ing to thank him, but my lips trembled, and
the tears dashed over the eyelashes, and he
drew my head to his heart and smoothed down
my curls,and murmured the old loving words iu
my ear, while I cried there a long time, but
my tears were such sweet ones.
He is a strange man, my husband, but he is
a noble one, too, only he is a little hard to
find out sometimes ; and seems to me that nay
heart says it more earnestly to-night than it
ever did before. God bless him !
The Trial Trip of the First Locomotive.
Major Horatio Allan, the Engineer of the New
York and Erie Railroad, in a speech made
during the recent festival occasion, gave the
following account of the first trip made by a
locomotive on this continent:
When was it ? Hho was it ? And who
awakened its energies and directed its move
ments ? it was in the year 1828, on the
bauks of the Lackawaxeu at the commence
ment of the railroad connecting the canal of
the Delaware und Hudson Canal Company
with their coal mines—and he who addresses
you, was the mly person on that locomotive
The circumstances which led to my beiug alone
on the engine, were these : The road had been
built in the summer, the structure was of hem
lock timber, and all of large dimensions no
ticed nn caps placed far apart. The timber
had (.racked and warped from exposure to the
sun.
After about three hundred feet of straight
line the road crossed the La. kavvaxen Creek,
on tre.--.tle work bout 30 feet high with a curve
of 350 to 4UO feet radius lie impression
was very general that this iron monster would
either break do>vu the road or it would
leave the track at the curve and plunge into
the creek. My ieply to such apprehensions
was that it was too late to consider the proba
bility of such occurrences, there was no other
course but to have a 1 rial made on the strange
animal, which had been brought here at great
expense ; but that it was not necessary that
more than one should be involved in ;ts fate ;
that .I would take the first ride lone, and
time would come when I should look bavk to
the incident with great interest.
As l placed my hand on the throttle valve
handle, 1 was undecided whether I would
move slowly or with a fair deg ee of speed,
but believeing that the road would prove safe,
and preferring, if we did o down, to go
handsomely, and with out any evidence of
timidity, I started with considerable velocity,
passed the curve over the creek safely, and
was soon out of hearing of the cheers of the
vast assemblage, At the end of two or three
miles, I reversed the valve, and returned with
out accident to the place of starting, having
thus made the first railroad trip by locomo
tive on the Western Hemisphere.
Liberty. —The Boston 1 vansevipt states
that the new work by Mrs. Caroline Lee llen
tz, which has been announced as in prepara
tion, is now in press, and will be issued about
the middle of February next, by J P .lewett
& eo, of that city, they having secured the
manuscript for publication. The work “ill be
issued in their best style, and must have an
extensive circulation. The title is ‘Eriiest
Linwooeh*
He who is passionate and hasty t is
generally honest. It is your cool, dissem mg
hypocrite of whom yon should beware.
‘There,sno deception in a bull dog. It is on
the cur that sneaks up and bites you when
your back is imbed.’
leHflS—f2,oo, in fiance.
A Divorce Case in Philadelphia.
A case is about to be brought before the
Common Pleas, iu Philadelphia, which promi
ses rich developments, interesting to the litera
ry world. The facts, as given by a New York
paper, are as follews :
A gentleman of this city, of high literary
eminence, married his second wile, a Carolinian,
some ten or twelve years since, and went to
reside in Charleston, S. C., where her property
lay. After residing there for some six or
seven years, for some reason unexplained, the
geutelman wished for a divorce, and requested
the lady to go to Pennsylvania, in which State
his object would be more readily obtained.
The lady would not consent, and sometime
afterwards the gentelmau sent her a documeut
to sign, she then being at Schooley’s Mountain,
N. J., which document, it is alleged, was an
avowal written by her husband, as on her part,
asserting that she had “wilfully, maliciously,
and without cause, abandoned him.” ‘1 he
lady refused to sign, saying that such was not
the case ; in fact, that the statements made in
the document were unequivocally false,and she
would not be accessory to the disruption of
the marriage on false pretences.
At this time the lady had under her charge
the youngest daughter of her husband by his
first wife, to whom she had been constituted
legal guardian by the Chancellor, w ithout op
position from the father ; and upon whom she
had expended some five thousand dollars for
thf purposes of education. .On the lady’s
way to New York, with this little girl, who
appears to have been strongly attached to her,
the husband lay in wait for her, and as the
boat reached the wharf, he seized the child
and ran off with her, followed by his terrified
wife and one of the boatmen, who tore off
the skirt of his coat iu the struggle. Placing
the child in a carriage, the gentelman drove
off, but presented himseif the same day at the
house where his wife was staying, offering to
restore the child to her, and give a paper
confirming her perpetual guardianship beyond
the power of molestation, on condition of her
signing the important document which was to
secure him a divorce and enable him to mar
ry one of two or three ladies whom he said he
had in view. The child, miserable in her
separation from her guardian, and ill from the
shock and terror of her forcible abduction,
wrote imploring letters beseeching her “darling
mother” to yield to her father’s wishes ; friends
and legal counsel represented that her forced
signature could avail nothing ; the father
walked up and down the street —called every
few minutes to inquire “if the papers were
signed,” threatning eternal separation from
the child if they were not,aud in a hall distract
ed state—with a protest against its falsehood
—the weeping lady affixed her signature to
the document,and had the little girl immediately
restored to her -, the promised paper securing
her guardianship being withheld till he should
be sure of its efficacy in procuring the divorce
The promised paper was never given.
The lady thought proper to. caution the
lady to whom her husband was paying his
addresses, aud wrote to inform her that lie
had neither a divorce nor any right to one. Af
ter her return to Charleston, she was supprised
one day to see the announcement of his mar
riage to a lady in the State of Maine. Having
received no notification of the action for divorce
she directed her counsel in Philadelphia to
investigate the matter, and if a divorce had
really been granted, to enter ner protest
against the divorce.
The Court records gave no evidence, the
papers on the subject having, it was said,
been abstracted ; the Supreme Court, there
fore, could not act on that appeal , but the
couusel said he believed the plea had been
granted on the supposed voluntary statement
of the lady, and a point had even been stretch
ed to oblige her in the matter. Consequent
ly the lady’s counsel, D. P. Brown Esq., then
procured, in the Court of Common Pleas,- a
rule to show cause why the decree of divorce
should not be rescinded or annulled, on the
ground that it had been obtained by fraud
aud imposition on the Court. So stands the
case. Several authors, we understand, have
been subpoenaed and constrained to give
evidence. When the testimony is'made public
in full, as we understand it will be, strange
and curious practices will be brought to light,
shaming the invention of French novelists.
The third, wife of the gentleman in question, it
is said, has retreated from the comming storm
to the shelter of her brother’s house, iu Bangor.
Gun Powder.
At a Wednesday cveniug meeting at Hen
ry Ward Beecher’s church, Brooklyn,last week
the subject of Kansas got ahead of all others.
Mr. Beecher addressed his hearers in the fol
lowing Christian-like Manner:
‘lie beheved that the Sharp rifle was truly
a moral agency, and that there was moral
power in one of those instruments, so far as
the slaveholders of Kansas were concerned,
than in a hundred Bibles. You might just as
well, said lie, rend tfhc biblc td buffaloes as to
those fellows who follow Atchison and String
fellow; but they have a supreme respect lor
the logic that is embodied in Sharp’s rifles. —
The Bible is addressed to the conscience, but
when you address it to them it has no effect
—there is no conscience there. Ihough he
was a peace man, he had the greatest regard
for Sharp’s rifles, and for that pluck that in
duced those New England men to use them.’
The above (says the New York Day BookJ
would be humiliating,were it the first evidence
that Mr. Beecher had given of his total want
of all the requisites of a Christian minister
How the public can be deluded by such a cler
ical mountebank who uses religion merely as
the means of livelihood, is more than we can
understand. Christ relied on the Gospel as a
means of doing good. Mr. Beecher would
accomplish his missiou with ‘Sharp’s rifles.’ -
What are you coming to. —Uithwoiitk Eriquir
tr.
Hob. Robert Toombs, of Georgia, declined
to receive auy compensation for his lecture on
slavery and upou his request that the amount
should be given to a society for aiding emigrants
the committee have paid oyer the sum of one
hundred dollars to the German Immigrant Aid
Society of Boston.
London Correspondence of the Philadelphia Bulletin.-
The Peace Rumor*;
Affairs in the Principalites—French Finance, War
Preparations. .
London, Jan* 17th — All London is astir
to-night, according to “the latest,” has ac
cepted the Austrian Ultimatum “uncondition
ally.” It is after all, reported to be uncondi
tionally with a condition. She refuses to lea re
the Danube free, or in other words to “rectify
her territorial boundary with Turkey.” the
Times says that this is ingenious on the part of
Count Nesselrode, ?nd that Admitting so much
and refusing no more, is calculated to sow
dissensions among the Allies. Weeanuot for
the life of us, comprehend by what political
seer the Times is thus informed Looking at
the case logically, there seems no prospect of
dividing the Allies on such a question.—
England and France, Europe and the world,
are interested in having the Danube free ; but
Austria and Bavaria are most of all interested
next to Turkey. If we contend for the aban
donment of the custody of the Suline mouth,
we should do so, irrespective of Austrian in
terests higher up the river. If Austria enteii
into a treaty offensive aud defensive with the
Allies, we must consult her interests in the
Danubiau question otherwise she must look to
her own,
The Globe to-night, confirms the report of
the Times to day, of unconditional acceptance
of the Austrian Ultimatum by Russia. The
impression among men of good political infor
mation is that Russia is only seeking to. gain
time, that her hope still is a quarrel among
the Allies, which will make her mistfcSs of <h&
situation.
The news from the unfortunate Provinces of
old Dacia is distressing. The Austrian occu
pants, and Stirbey, their infamous satellite,
arc rejoiced at the phraseology in which the
Austrian diplomatists have conveyed the ex
pectation of the Allies concerning the,province.*L
The treaty between Russia and Turkey, which
regulated their present constitution, was more
liberally expressed, yet the administration wn£
as complete a tyranny as a despicable oppres
sion could be, for tve admit that a tyranny to
be complete must be respected.. It is the
opinion of many here that France is, to a certain
extent playing into the hands of Austria. It
is not supposed that the Emperor of the
French means to betray his ally Victoria, but
only to beguile her. The injury is not medita
ted to her, but only to Turkey and the Molda
vian Provinces. It is the French policy
secretly cherished (we have good reason for
affirming this,) to hand over the Wallachian
territory to Austria as a quid pro quo, some
where. Turkey is to pay the penalty ; nothing
is to be done affecting the interests or enkia
diing the jealously of England Her amour
propre is to be consulted delicately aud sedu
lously,but Austria and France are to serve the
cause of despotic monarchy, if they can.
The condition of French finance; as evinced
by the development of the recent budget by
the French finance minister, lias. caused the
funds to rise, and greatly contributed to the
confidence of people iu the continued conduct
of the war, should Russia seek to make diplor
matic sport of us when she pretended to accept
the Four Points. . .. ..
The government is likely to open Parlia
ment well supported. Parties have rapidly
shifted of late, like the scene in a moving
diorama, and the government is greatly
strengthened. The opposition have no ground
to stand upon, except that , which the torics
will occupy as to fhrs want of vigor fn tlie
prosecution of the war, and the fall of Kars.
The ultra liberals will give the government
some trouble, and the Court still more on the
subject of military, promotion.
The difficulty of getting recruits isvery
great, and this arises, uot from the unwilling
ness of the pople to serve, hut from the. bad
management of the executive.of the aptny and
the conviction among the people that the
soldier is not carejl for by either his officers
or the government. •
Preparations for the war iu the Baltic ore
rapidly making, and on an appalling scale.—
Two ships have already arrived there, to cruise
in sight of the Russian forts the moment the
waters are free from ice.,
Troops are preparing both in England and
France for Asia Minor ; the war will be open
ed there in the spring with great vigor. It is
rumored that timer Pasha is to be the Turkish
Ambassador in England ; this arrangement
is alleged- to be desired in order to havo the
benefit of his’ counsels constantly at headquar
ters in reference to the conduct of the war in
the East. Besides thgise facts and rumors
London is dull. Ileyond what we haye indicat
ed, politics and party are for one day qniet.
Albion,
No. 42
The Isthmus of Suez.
The last files, of the European papers tith
nounce the return of the Commission seat by
the principal nations of Continental EtVropc
to investigate the subject of a canal across the
Isthmus of Suez. These report exceedingly
favorable with regard to she practicability of
the enterprise, at an expense, tidt exceeding
$40,000,000. The immense trade with which
Asia has for so many years enriched Europe
will by the execution of this great work, be
vastly increased, and rendered much more
advantageous,to the la.ttcr, while the former
may be, what it hitherto has not been, benefit
ed by it. In a commericnl view, the import
ance of this work is indeed inestimable, while,
in thus being brought into contact with Europe,
not alone with her sharpers and traders, Asia
makes a grand step towards civilization The
and flerence of the two routes, via Suze and via
the Cape of Good hope, between the Med
terranean and that of the East Indies is about
one-half of that of the latfeiV To properly ap
preciate this we must consider that it now
requires a vessel some months to make a voy
age between London, or Marseilles, and Bom
bay-.,
V\ ith the completion of the Suez Canal,
oust anti noble becomes a point of vast com
mercial ini; ortance, and if not, what her
founder intended she should be, the Queen
City of the World—at least the centre of the
trade ol the Eastern Hemisphere. England,
for obvious reasons, has ever opposed this
enterprise by which the Mediterranean port*
are to be opened to the riches of Asia, and
lias exercised all her influence with the Sultan
to prevent its execution. But the French,
too, have.the Mahotnedau’ ea , and what is
mo, i, is capital, and Louis Napoleon has at
len th suceeded in obtaining his consent to the
construction of the canal througfi his dominions.
‘The opening of the Suez route strikes a terrible
blow at the eastern trade of England, a trade
by which she has risen to her present high com
merieial position. The difference between
Marsailies and Liverpool is 2,228 miles. The
advantage is incalculable, nor can it be be
lieved but that the vigorous genius of
Napoleon will seize upon it, and make France*
what his great predecessor dreamed she would
be made, the chief commerical uatiou of Eu
