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Till IMPIKIi STATE IS PUBLISHED WEEKLY, By A. A. G-auld.ins. Terms: —two dollars in advance, on three dol lars AFTER SIX MONTHS, PER ANNUM. up-stairs over W. R. Phillips & 1'0.,@3r . Advertisements arc inserted at One Dollar per square for the first insertion, and Fifty Ceuta per square for each in sertion thereafter. A reasonable deduction will be made to those who adver tise by the year. All Advertisements not otherwise ordered u'ill be continu ed till forbid. „ Bales 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 3 in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the county in which the Land is situated. Notice of these sales must be Riven in a public Gazette forty days previous to the day of sale. Sales of Negroes must be made at public auction on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual bonus of sale, at the place <>• public, sales in the county where the Letters Testamentary, or Administration, or ’Guardianship may have been granted—lirst 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 iu like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate, must be jpublished forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Or dinary for leave to sell Land, must be published for two months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published two onths before any order absolute shall be made thereon by he Court. Citations for Letters of Administrating must be publish ed thirty days ; for Dismission from Administration, month ly six months ; for Dismission from Guardianship, forty day*. Notice for the foreclosure of Mortgage must be publish ed monthly for four months ; for publishing Lost Pa pers, for the full space of three months ; for compelling ti tS#s from Executors and Administrators, where a bond has been given by the deceased, for the space of three months 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©’. THE following arc the Rates of Charges for Advertising, determined on between the undersigned, to take effect from the time of entering into any new contract:— #r Transient Advertising, $1 00 per square, for the first nsertion, and 50 cents for every subsequent one. CONTRACT ADVERTISING, 3 mos.JO mos. 9 mos 12 ms 1 square, without change $ 6 00 jS 8 00 810 00 sl2 00 Changed quarterly... 7 001 10 00 12 00 16 00 Changed at will 8 00 1,2 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 wi11...... 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, without change,.. 60 00 70 00 80 00 100 00 Changed quarterly,.. 65 00 75 00 00 00 110 00 Changed at will,. .*. . . 70 00 85 00 100 00 125 00 All transient advertisements will be inserted until or 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. - 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. No, 43