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JA.ME3 H STARK,
ATTORNEY A T L A W ,
Griffin Georgia.,
W TILL practice in the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and
W in the Supreme Court at Atlanta and Macon.
•Feb. 13, 1-350 41 ly
T-~-
J Alt El) IRWIN WHITAKER,
A TTO RNE Y A T L A IV,
Office front Rooms, over John R. Wallace <fc llros., corner
of White Hall and Alabama streets,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
Jauuary 30,1856 ts
W. L. GORDON,
ATTORNEY A T L A W ,
GEORGIA.
January 30, ISSG 30 ly
HENRY HENDRICK,
A T T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
Jackson, Butts County, Georgia.
May 3, 1855. U
H. &, G. l GREEN St MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
011-BKN j. o been, l Grsffin Georgia,
MAVII) N. MARTIN, j
HARTFORD UIIKKN, Zebllloil, Geo.
May 3,1855. ___
DANIEL & DISMITKE,
Attorneys at La w ,
Griffin, Georgia.
1.. K. DANIEL, r.D.DISMTKE
May 3,1355.
VV. POPE JORDAN,
Attorney a t Law,
_ . , v Georgia.
WILL practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit.
May 3,1855. U
STELL & BECK,
Attorneys # t Law,
g ,a *
ALL business entrusted to their care, will receive prompt
atteDtion ~ . K. W. BECK.
&. M. BTKLL
May 3, 1855.
DR. 11. W. BROWN,
Griffin, Georgia.
OFFICE in the basement story, under the Store of Messrs.
J. A. & J. C. Bceks.
May 3,1855.
_____ I U MA.NGHAM,
Attorney ib
RUIEFIIi, GEOULIA.
May 3, 1855-ly 1
’ ANDREW mT MOORE,
A TT O 11JVEY A T L A U ,
LaGUANGE GEORGIA.
WILL practice in the Courts of the Coweta Circuit. All
business entrusted to his care will meet with prompt
attention. ...
July 4, 1355.
WM. li. F. IIALL,
attorne y a t l aw,
ZEBULON GEORGIA.
July 4, 1855.
A D. NUNN ALLY,
AT T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Jane, 27,1555.
UNDERWOOD, HAMMOND k 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 m Cobb,
Morgan, Newton, ReKalb, Fulton, Fayette, Spalding, 1 ike,
•Cass, Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, I roup,
’Whitfield and Gordon, in Georgia, and Hamilton county,
.<Chattanooga,) in Tennessee. May a, 1855. ti
c. Grice, n. fuller.
GRICE & FULLER,
A TTO R N E Y S A T L A W,
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
December 10th, 1855. 33—ts
„ . oricf. WM. S. WALLACE.
GRICE & WALLACE,
A T T O R F E Y S A T LA W,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
PERSONS intrusting business to them may roly on their
fidelity, promptness and care. Dec. 10, ’55-33-1 y.
GAIITRELL & GLENN,
attorneys a t la w ,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
MX TILL attend the Courts in the Counties of Fulton, Rc
vV Kalb, Fayette, Campbell, Meriwether, Coweta, Car
tll Henry, Troup, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding.
Lucius J.Gartrell, | Luther.l. Glenn,
Formerly of Washington, Ga. | Formcrlyot McDonough, Ga.
May 16, 1855.
A Valuable Plantation for Sale
TN South-western Georgia, containing 303$ acres, as good
I 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, ftw, AH indebted will please
call and settle. lam determined to close my business, as I
Riiiactually determined to move to Florida.
Oct. 17, 1855. .25 . . .ts C. T I)KUPREE._
CARRIAGE V\D SMITH’S SHOP.
THE undersigned have associa
ted themselves together under the ,
firm name and style of ‘ •. • . tZT
CLARK & NIX, ; mcmS
For the purpose of carrying otfthe CARRIAGE MAKING
find REPAIRING, WAGON MAKING and
WMITH’S BUSINESS, in all their various branches. Their,
Shop is on the corner of Hill Street and Broadway, oppo
site the Georgia Hotel, down stairs, in the house formerly
occupied by A. Bellamy Esq. Promptness, dispatch and
durability of work, they feel confident will secure for them
a liberal patronage. GEO. w. CLARK,
ti* W la>
Gfjffin.Pec.24,lßss. .35. ts
®fie (Empire State.
% S#)iocj, cplioh
VOL. 1
BOOK AND JOB OFFICE
THE EMPIRE STATE,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
THE PROPRIETOR OF THE
Having recently received a large assortment of
” NEW AND BEAUTIFUL
FANCY TYPK AND BORDERS,
Are now prepared to execute, in the Lest style, and at short
notice, all kinds of
|Mtt nnii iDninnifutnl printing,
seen as
Circulars, Isabels, Business Cards,
Catalogues, Programmes, Address Cards,
Bill Heads, Posters, Visiting Cards,
Rank Checks, Hand Bills, Freight Bills,
Blank Note*, Legal Blanks, <se.. §-c., fy.
f> B 1 nTI m 11” £ 0 LOBS
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
bates of Abyisfisiw©’.
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from the time of entering into any new contract:—
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nsertion, and 50 cents for every subsequent one.
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dered discontinued and charged for accordingly.
A. A. G AULDING, “Empire State.”
A. P BURR “AmericanUnion.”
CARRIAGE, G A BIN ET
SASH M A KING!!!
rpi-lE subscriber takes pleasure in
1 cing to the citizens of Griffin and
rounding country, that he still continues thcVAy w
business of CA HRI AGE and CABINET Making. CAKUIA
GES, BUGGIES, and WAGONS made to order at short no
tice. A few of the best made Buggies always on hand.
He has recently added to his establishment the business ot
SASII MAKlNG—cheap, and good as the best.
* S *^ S °
ses, newstvle. He will be found at his old stand, always
ready towuit upon Lis customers. Give him a call.
A. BELLAMY.
Griffin, Ang. 20.1855.... 18.... ts
J. K. WILLIAMS, .TNO. RHEA, WM. M. WILLIAMS.
J. E. WILLIAMS & CO,
Successors to J. E. Williams,
General Commission Merchants 3
AND DEALERS IN
GRAIN. BACON, LARD, FEATHERS, ami TEN
NESSEE PRODUCE, GENERALLY,
Decatur Street, near the “Trout House,” Atlanta, Ga.
fs3T Letters of inquiry, in relation to the Markets, &c.,
promptly answered. May 16,18.75.-3tf
~~ IT. JL. WRIGHT, - ”
EXCUSING /: BR OKER ,
ATLANTA, GEO.
\TTILL attend to collections entrusted to him, and remit
V V promptly, at current rates of Exchange: buy and sell
uucurrcnt Bank Notes, Coin, &c. The highest cash price
paid for Bounty Land Warrants. Apply > W. C.
Wright. Griffin, Ga., for sale of Land Warrants.
REFERENCES.—John Thompson, Banker, No. 2, Wall
street, and Cariiaiit, Bko. & Cos.. New York ; Converse
Si Cos., New Orleans. Atlanta, May 16, ’55 ts
• J. THRASHER, J. M. HORSEY
J. J. THRASHER & CO,
wholesale and retail
Grocers and Commission Merchants j
(At the Warehouse formerly oce npied by J.E. Williams,)
A TLA NT A, GE OR GIJ.
n. H. GLENN, W. A.CHAMBLESS
May 16, 1855. 3-ts
NOTICE.
CURIE advertiser would respectfully announce to his cus-
X 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,*2 25;
Horticulturist, (plain) $1 03 ; Little’s Living Age, $5 00 ;
Frank Leslie’s Gazette of Fashions, $2 25 ; Ballou's Picto
rial, $2 50 ; Ladies’Repository,, (Cincinnati,) $1 63; Ar
thurs Home Magazine, $1 63.
He 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.
t&L 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.
. SVI. WILLIAMS,
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Hill Street, over Banks’Boot & Shoe Store.
May 3, 1855. ts
Eost.
THE subscriber :as lost three Notes on Hugh B.Cambell
two notes for twenty five dollars each, one for eighteen
dollars, all given the 3d of June, 1855, and due one day af
terdate. All said notes given to Berry Couch, and is the
property of the undersigned.
WM. B. COUCH.
Feb. 19th 1856... 3t 42 *
MARSHALUOLLEGE.
BEING left alone in the managemet of this Institution for
the present, the rates of tuition will be as follows :
Ist Term. 2d Term.
For Spelling, Reading, Writing, &c 10 00 8 00
For Arithmetic, Geography,Grammar, Ac.. 12 00 10 00
i- ~r Algebra, Philosophy, Geometry, &c 14 00 12 00
Foi- Latin, Greek, Trigonometry, &c sl6 00 sl4 00
lj®,No extra charges, except for damage to the College
Building
The first term will close about the 4th of July.
The second term will begin on the 4th of August, and
close about the last of November. J. M. CAMPBELL.
Griffin, Feb. 13, 1856....41 ts
VALENTINES ! VALENTINES !!
JUST received and for sale at COOK & CO.’s Cheap
Book and Music Store. Also, we have the following in
te resting works, viz :
MTaußy’s History of England, $d and 4th Vol.
ROSE CLARK, by Fanny Fern ;
THE HIDDEN PATH, &c.
B®. A large and well selected stock of SHEET MUSIC
received to-day.
Ecb. 6th, 1856.. .40. . ts.
“ifo \e\}\ i|p titled ecrjfrqcfs oi|i* £otoet*s—Jbe tohole boundless Contfirt fe @i|i v s”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBUARY 27, ISSG.
Si, i $ 11 1 tn nco n$ ,
f -
Who murdered Richard Downier
Ab nt the end of the eighteenth centmy,
whenever onv student of the Marisehal College,
Alberdeen, Schotland, incurred the displetsure
of the humbler citizens, he was ass tiled with
the question, ‘ ‘ Who murdered Downie l”
Reply and rejoinder generally brought a col
lision between “ Town and Gown,” although
the young gentlemen were accused of what was
chronologically impossible. People hare a
rforlit to be angry at being st'gu atized as
murderers’, when their accuses have proba
bility oh their side ; but the ‘taking off’ of
Downie occurred when the gownsmen, so
maligned, were in their swaddling clothes.
Put there wai a time when to be branded as
an accomplice in the slaughter of Richard
Downie, made the blood run to the cheek of
many a youth, and sent liim honib to l;! books
thoughtful and subdued.
Downie was sacrist or janitor at MarLckal
College. One of his doctrines consisted in
securing the gates by a certain hour, previous
to which all the students had to assemble in
the common hall, where a Latin prayer was
delivered by. the principal. Whether in dischar
ging this function Downie was more rigid
than his predecessors in office, or whether he
became stricter in the performance of it at one
tin e than another, cannot now be ascertained ;
but there can be no doubt he closed the gate
with austere punctuality, and that those who
were not in the common hall within a minute
of the prescribed time, were shutout and after
wards reprimanded and fined by the principal
and professors. The students became irritated
at this strictness, and took every petty means
of annoying the sacrist ; lie, in his turn appli
ed the screw at other points of academic
routine, and a fierce war soon began to rage
between the collegians and the humble function
ary. Downie took care that in all his proceed
ings lie kept within the strict letter of the law;
but bis opponents were not so careful, and the
decision of 1 lie rulers were uniformly against
them, and in favor of Downie. Reprimands
and fines having failed in producing due snbor
dination, rustication, suspension, and even tffe
extreme sentence of expulsion had to be put
in force, and in the end law and order prevail
ed. Rut a secret and a deadly grudge con
tinued to be entertained against Downie.—
Various schemes of revenge were thought off
Downie was, in common with the teachers
and the taught, enjoying the leisure of the
New Year’s vacation ; the pleasure no doubt,
greatly enhanced by the annoyances to which
he had been subjected during the recent bicker
ings ; when, as he was one evening seated
w.th his family in his official residence at the
gate, a messenger informed him that a gentle
man at the neighboring hotel wished to speak
with him Downie obeyed the summons. and
ushered from one room to another, till at
length lie found himself in a large apartment
hung with black, and ligl ted by a solitary
candle. After waiting for sometime in this
strange place, about fifty figures, also dress
ed in block, and with llach masks on their faces,
presented themselves. They then arranged
themselves in the form of a court, and Downie
was given to understand that he was about to
be put upon his trial.
A judge took his seat upon the bench; a
clerk and public prosecutor sat below ; a jury
was Ci’npannelltd ; an A witnesses and specta
tors stood around Downie at first set down
the whole affair ns a joke ; but the proceed
ings were conducted with such persistent gravi
ty , that, in spite of himself, he began to believe
in the genuine mission of the awful tribunal.
The clerk read an ind ement, charging him
wiiii conspiring against the liberties of the
students ; witnesses were examined in due form;
the public prosecutor addressed the jury; and
the judge summed up.
•Gentlemen,’ said Downie, ‘thejoke lias
been carried far enough ; it is getting late,
and my wife and family will be anxious about
me. If Iha ve been too strict with yon in time
past, I am sorry for it ; and assure you I will
take more care in future.’
‘Gentlemen of the jury,’ said the judge,
without paying the slightest attention to this
appeal, consider your verdict ; if you wish to
retire, do so.’
The jury retired. During their absence the
most profound silence was observed ; and ex
cept renewing the solitary candle that burned
beside the judge, there was not the slightest
movement.
The jury returned and recorded a verdict of
‘Guilty !’
The judge solemnly assumed a large black
cap, and addressed the prisoner :
‘Richard Downie ! The jury have unani
mously found you guilty of conspiring against
the just, liberty and immunities of the students
of Marischal College. You have wantonly
provoked and insulted those inoffensive lieges
for some months, and your punishment will
assurdedly be condign. You must prepare
for death 1 In fifteen minutes the sentence of
the court will be carried into effect ’
Thejudge placed his watch on the bench.
A block, an axe and a bag of saw-dust were
brought into the center ot the room. -A figure
more terrible than any that had yet appeared,
came forward, and prepared to act the part of
doomster.
‘lt was now past midni ght There was
no sound audible save the ominous ticking of
the judge’s watch. Downie became more and
more alarmed
‘For God’s sake 1 gentlemen,’ said the ter
rified man, ‘let me go home. I promise that
you never again shall have cause for complaint.
‘.Richard Downie !’ remarked the judge,
‘you are vainly wasting the few moments that
are left you on earth. You are in the hands
of those who demand your life. No human
power can save you. Attempt to utter one cry,
you are seized, and your doom is completed
before you can utter another 1 Every one
here present has sworn a solumn oath never to
reveal the proceedings of this night ; they are
knowfn to none but ourselves ; and when the
object for which wc have met is accomplished,
we shall disperse, unknown to any one—
Prepare, then, for death : five minutes will be
allowed you—but no more l’
Ihe untortunate man, in agony of deadly
terror, raved and shrieked l'or mercy : but the
avengers paid no heed to his cries. His fe
vered trembling !i s then moved as if in silent
prayer ; for he felt that brief space between
him and eternity was but a few more tickings
of that ominous watch
‘Now !’ exclaimed the judge.
Four persons stepped forward and seized
Downie, on whose features a cold clammy
sweat had burst firth They bared his neck,
and made him kneel before the block
‘Strike !’ exclaimed the juge.
The executioner struck the axe on the floor;
an assistant on the opposite side lifted at the
same moment a wet towel, and struck it
violently across the neck of the recumbent
criminal. A loud laugh announced that the
joke had at last come to an end.
But Downie responded not to the uproar
ous merriment.
They laughed again ; but still he moved
not. They lifted Jim up, and Downie was
dead !
Fright I:3d killed him as effectually as if the
axe of a real headsman had severed his head
fiom his b.dv.
It was a tragedy to all The medical stu
dents tried to open a vain, but all was over ;
and the eonspiraL rs had now to bethink
themselves of safety They now in reality
swore an oath among themselves ; and affright
ed young men, carrying their disguises with
them left the body of Downie tying in the hotel.
One of their number told the landlord that
their entertainment was not yet quite over,
and that they did not wish the individual who
was left in the room to be disturbed for some,
hours. This was to give them all time to
escape.
Next morning the body was found. Judi
cial inqury was instituted, but no satisfactory
result could be arrived at. ’J he corpse of
poor Downie exhibited no marks of violence
internal nor external The ill will between
him and the students was known ; it was also
known that the students had hired apartments
in the hotel for a theatrical representation;
Downie had been sent for by them ; but
beyond this nothing was known. No noise
had been heard, and no p oof of murder could
be adduced Os two hundred students of the
college, who could point, out the guilty or
suspected fifty ? Moreover, the s.udents
scattered over the eily. and the magistrates
themselves had many of their own fannies a
mong the number, mid it was not desirable to
go into the affair too minutely.
Duwuie’s widow and family were provided
for, and his death remained a mystery ; until
about fifteen years after its occurrence a gentle
man on his death-bed disclosed the whole
part'culars.and avowed himself to have belong
ed to the obnoxious class who had murdered
Downie.
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Ais Infamous Suggestion.
The republican dictator, who issues his or
ders through the New York Tribune , an
nounces that the admission of Kansas as a
State, with the constitution lately adopted
against Hw, “is the question of war or peace,”
and that “it lies with the House of Representa
tives to decide it.” The mode of proceeding is
disclosed in the following infamous suggestion:
Washington Union
“Such being the state of the question, we
submit that a case has arisen in which the
people’s House is fully justified in exerting to
the utmost its power over the people’s purse
to carry out the people’s will. If the Senate
and Executive, in obedience to the slavery
extending faction, refuse to admit Kansas
with its free constitution, let the supplies be
withheld. To do otherwise is nothing else
than to put iqto the hands of that remorcse
less faction the means of involving the nation
in blood and flames, with the full knowledge
that they mean to do it After the nefarious
avowal which Pierce made in his recent
special message that he will sustain the acts of
the ruffian legislature- and the still more ex
plicit declaration of the proclamation which
we publish this morning, would it be less than
madness to subject the national treasure to his
expenditure, without some substantial guaran
tee that it should not be used to murder the
free States people of Kansas, or some act [jut
ting it beyond his power to do so ? Any
representative of a free State who votes a
dollar to the army of which Gen. Pierce is the
constitutional commander in chief, before such
a barrier is set up in behalf of the settlers in
Kansas, ought to weigh the question of his
own personal safety for some little time ahead.
He may be sure his vote will go to bring a
bout a state of things very different from that
in which slaveholders, who threaten to muster
their slaves under the shadow of Bunker-Hill
Monument, now traverse the North in perfect
security.”
Who is responsible.
Dovelopemcnts go to show that the election
of Banks, as Speaker, was the result of sneak
ing trickery On Friday Messrs. Whitney,
Yaik, Brown. Ac. ‘National Americans’ from
the North,voted for Mr. Aiken to be Speaker.
On Saturday these same gentlemen, with Da
vis, of Maryland, voted for Fuller, and there
by really for Banks —showing that the move
ment of the day before was intended to throw
dust in the eyes of the democrats. The V\ asli
ington Star says that it is generally believed
that if the votes of Whitney, Yalk, Brown Ac
had been necessary on the final trial to secure
the election of VJr. Banks, lie would have re
ceived them, their purpose ot creating the im
pression at the South that the Simon pure
Know Nothings of the North were disposed to
stand by the right of the slave-holding States,
having, a they thought, been secured by their
act of so long preventing an organization, un
der the pretence of indisposition to drill under
the command of Mr. Giddings — Exchang e.
Fined for Wearing a Siiawl.— “A young
man named Kirk At derson has been arrested
in St. Louis, Mo., for wearing a shawl, on the
ground that it was not the apparel of his sex.
The case came up on Friday, and Anderson
was fined SSO. It has created intense excite
ment among the shawl wearing gentry of St.
Louis ”
Not the apparel of his sex ! The sugar
hogsheads might with as much propriety make
a similar objection to the ladies of wearing
hoops We submit it to the Secretary of the
Hoop Association, if we arc not right.— Sav.
Newt.
JettTOS—s2,oo, Stance.
How they Count in Cincinnati —John
Long —not Long John—Courted fair Made
line Crossman, and Madeline being in a hu
raor to won, was won so far as to promise to
become Mrs. Long, whereupon John fursished
with much taste a room —a bower—in which
Madeline was to dwell, visited occasionally by
John, until the day of the marriage. But
Madeline, not disposed to receive admiration
from that one John, even though he was long,
secretly admitted another John, whose other
name was Yi kats, with whom, in the absence
of her intended, she had long, not John Long,
but long and affectionate interviews John
—that is Long, could not stand this Long, so
lie visited the bower at an unusual hour, and
found it locked, whereupon he knocked. No
answer was made, but John Long be staid,
and peeping through the keyhole, his eye saw
that which it were well he had not seen II ?
koncked again, and by repeated knocking he
knocked the door open, and there stood Made
line the f.ir, armed with a chair, and John
Yokates, standing behind armed with like kind,
Madeline struck first, aud John Long bit the
dust ; Vokates let fly, and hit Long on the
eye. .John rose up in rage, and a war lie did
wage, until in an hour lie had turned “liis
own” bower, into a scene of carnage. Long
owned the furniture, and armed with his own,
he made vigorous use of it upon Madeline and
Vokates ; after dressing them well he marched
off in triumph Madeline accused him before
the judge of beating her, and John gave
security t o appear before a jury and prove lie
had served her right. ‘i he Cincinnati
Enquirer is responsible for the history of this
Woful tale of inconstancy and rage.
A Soldier’s Honor. —ln an old newspaper
printed soon atier the close of the revolution,
we find the following singular statement :
“During the march of a detachment of the
American army, through New Jersey, in the
late war, a silver spoon was found missing
in a house where a party of troops had billet
ed. Suspicion pitched on a soldier, who was
seen lo have entered the apartment where the
spoon was kept, and he was accused of the
theft.
“May 1 never meet salvation !’ exclaimed
the soldier —‘may 1 be sunk into the endless
regions of perdition, if I have seen, heard of,
or taken your spoon !’
But no one else could have taken it, replied
the host.
“The soldier again went through the ‘manuel’
of l is attestations of innocence,, and impreca
tions against himseif if he was guilty. The
landlord looked astonished, and being an
honest man, was obliged 10 believe the soldier.
But just on the point to leave the examination
—lie taking hold of the soldier’s coat and
looking him in the face—said : ‘Now say
upon your honor, that you have not got my
spoon, and 1 shall be satisfied.’
“Upon my honor, said the soldier to himself,
after thinking a few minutes. ‘Upon my
honor. Pol* ! blast you he cried, pulling the
spoon from his pocket, and giving it to its
owner —‘Blast your spoon—take your spoon
and bed and 1”
“ l lie host started surprised ; and while
lamenting that the irreat principle of religion
and morality should have less weight iu the
mind of an intelligent being than the principle
of what he conceived to be a mere sound, the
soldier swung his knapsack joined the corj*,
and marched off.”
An Extraordinary Case. —A young lady,
daughter of Mr. Henry Walker, residing in
Thoroughfare Neck, New Castle county, was
taken about ten clays ago with a most agoni
zing pain in her left foot and ankle, threatning
h?r with lockjaw, caused by a piece of glass
having pierced her foot when about three years
old It appears she had suffered no inconven
ience for three months after the accident until
about ten years ago, when her father became
alarmed, and took her to Philadelphia to get
the opinion of Dr. Chas D. Greene, who de
cided that a piece of the glass still remained
in the foot, and advised an operation, to
which Mr Walker consented, and severe as it
was, it was borne with great firmness. Dr. G
performed the operation, and found one piece
of glass—measuring an inch in length and a
quarter in width imbeded in the hollow which it
had formed in the heel bone, being covered by
gristle very difficult of cutting through—ex
plaining the reason why it remained in one po
sition so long, having been in that situation
fourteen years, as Miss W. is now seventeen
years of age— Wil. ( Del .) Rep.
Meanness does not pay.— There is no great
er mistake that a business man can make than
to be mean in his business Always takng
the half cent for the dollars he has made and
is making. Such a policy is very much like
the farmer who sows three pecks of seed where
he ought to have sown five; and as a recom
pense for the meanness of his soul, only gets
ten when he ought to have got fifteen bushels
of grain
Every body has heard of the proverb of pen
ny wise and pound foolish. A liberal expen
diture in the way of business is always sure to
be a capital investment There are people in
the world who are short sighted enough to be
lieve their interests can lie best promoted by
grasping and clinging to all they can get, and
never letting a cent slip through their fingers.
Asa general thing it will be found, other
things being equal, that he who is most liberal,
is the most successful in business. Os course
we do not mean it to be inferred, that a man
should be prodigal in Ids expenditures; if he is
a trader, or those whom he may be doing any
kind of business with, that in all his transac
tions as well as social relations, he acknow
ledges the everlasting fact there can be no per
manent prosperity in a community where ben
efits are not reciprocal. — Hunt's Merchants’
Magazine.
With a true wife the husband’s faults
should be secret. A woman forgets what is
due to herself, when she condescends to that
refuge of weakness, a female confidant. A
wife’s bosom should be the tomb of her hus
band’s failings, and his character far more
valuable, in her estimation, than his life.
Desperate Affray in a School House.—
The Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald, of the.24th fllt.j
gives the following account of it teirible and
fatal f glit in a school room in Wilson
in that State :
“The most distressing homicide we ever
heard of occurred In this county, about three
miles north-east of Lebanon, on last Monday
morning was a week ago, between Rufus
Watson and his three sons on one side, and two
sons of John New on the other. The unfortu •
ate difficulty occurred in a school-room, young
New, aged about nineteen years, was idiot
through the heart and expired immediatleyf
and his little brother, some thirteen or fourteen
years of age, was almost literally cut to pieces
receiving no less, we laorn, than seven
dangerous wounds. Strange as it may appear,
lie is still living, and hopes are entertained of
liis recovery. Rufus Watson relieved the
contents of a pistol loaded with birdshot,in the
breast, but was not seriously hurt. The
difficulty grew out of an old grudge that has
existed between the heads of the respeected
families.’’
Marrying tiie Wrong Woman. —Soon after
it was known that LeidesdrofT.s property Id
this city was immensely valuable, a well known
gentleman then living here, but since dead,
left town in a great hurry and was absent
some mouths, when he returned to the great
wonderment of his acquaintances, who were
entirely in the dark as to what he had been
in pursuit of. After awhile it leaked out that
he had been to the West Indies, looking np
Leidesdoff’s heirs, nnd finding, ns was said, a
lemale that he believed was a real Simon Pure
heir of the vast estate, he, without ceremony
popped the question, was accepted, and mar
ried forthwith, congratulating himself that
Capt. Folsom and all other claimants would
have to stand aside, while he the great nabol/
of California, would be without a rival in the
Golden State. After the marriage, in prepar
ing the necessary document and getting testi
mony to substantiate the claims of his lady
fair, he lound to his astonishment that he had
made a small mistake,and that in fact he ‘mar
ried the wrong nigger.’-San F>ancisco Chron
icle.
Insanity in Maine —From the annual re
ports emanating from the Maine Insane Hospi
tal, we learn that the number of patients now
in the Hospital is 154.a larger number than at
any previous time. There have been admit
ted during the year 115 patients, 88 having
been discharged, viz : 41 recovered, 14 unim
proved, and 19 died. Among the carious
facts noted in the Superintendent’s report, are
—that more insanity appears in the spring
than at any other season—and that the insane
relish newspapers much better than books.
Mechanical restraints have been less employed
than in any previous year, and there has been
no solitary confinement. It is calculated that
there are 1,800 lunatics in the State.
Advice to all who Dye.-To dye a madder
red. get mad with one party nnd then turii
know nothing in hope of getting an office.
When the disappointment comes the redress of
the original anger will be but a faint blush
compared there-with. To dye a fine scarlet
red, client your creditors by four or five time*
failng, or a thousand of credulous stockholders
by ruining a corporation and by holding the
acts up before the fire of conscience a scarlet
dye is the result that never will fade
To dye p, permanent blue begin at seventeen
to think you cannot get along without your
beer; continue as begun strengthening your
pot aliens as you go on. By fifty the blue
will be permanently fixed-aud the dye will bo
cast.
To dye green invites money in fancy stocks,
| give freeiy to organ grinders, believe all you
| hear including the story of the sufferers by
Vesuvius,take patent medicines, attend auctions
go largely into gift, enteprise and your prospect
is good of dying a most decided green. — Bos
ton Post.
[From the X. Y. Evening Post. (Frocsoil.)]
Peace-Makers for Kansas.
General Pomeroy addressed the citizens of
Worcester, Mass., on the 10th instant, in be
half of the freemen of Kansas, and in the
course of his remarks observed that” on thd
Saturday previous he had been able to send
to General Robinson $1,500, and on the
previous Saturday $2,000, all of which had
been generously contributad at a few’ meetings
which he had been invited to address.
At the close of his address, the President
called upon Eli Thayer, Esq , who is reported
by the Spy as follows:
“He said he saw a peace-man, and his offer
to furnish a thousand superior rifles was based
upon an earnest and sincere desire to prevent,
the shedding of blood. A large number of
men were engaged in their manufacture in this
city, and a portion of them would be complet
ed in the comining week ; but as it was de
sirable that some additional arms should be
sent to the territory at once, he proposed to
pay for ten Sharpe’s rifles at $25 each, on 1
condition that, during the comiug week,
other citizens of Worcester would subscribe
enough to make up the number to one hun
dred rifles.
“Several genUcmcn subscribed for a rifle
and sent their names to the chair ; and before
the audience left the hall, twenty-three’
rifles, equivalent to the sum of $515, were
subserbedfor. Mr. Thayer’s generous propo
sal was received with great applause, and a
committee of three was appointed to solicit,
subscriptions for the requisite number. Os
course they will find no difficulty in scouring,
the material aid necessary.”
• •
More Truth than Poetry.—Whether a man
leads a sober life or not, depends altogether on’
the temper of his wife. No man will listen all
night to a scold, who knows where a “good
warm sling may be bought for a sixpence - At*’
Cocktails the other night we found no less thatF
thirteen married men who spent six evenings a
week in squirting tobacco jhice on a coal
stove. We thought we would find out who they,
were. On inquiring, we learned that eleven of
them are blessed with wives who- “jaw 1 ” from
Monday morning till Saturday night, while the
other two wedded acoupel of she missionaries,’
ladies so constantly engaged iu the “welfaro
of Central Africa” that they have no’ time to
keep their husbands shirts whole.
Washington Feb., lfi.—Letters Continue
no be receired in this city from Kansas, stating
that the determination of each party in thd
territory is to carry through their respective
porpost-s. The letters predict that armed*
collisions will ensue unless the
ment promtly interposes.
It is a mistake says the American Exponent
that the Democratic party plays upon a liarp
of a thousand strings, the organ of that party
is a lyar.
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