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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