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|y A few days ago, at the invitation, of Mr.
Q. C. Rogererwho keeps a Tlivery Stable just
hack of the Washington Hall, we took a look
at his homeland equipments, for accommoda
ting" those who wish to Tide. We had no
thought of seeing in Atlanta, so fine a set of
horses for the accommodation of the pubic.
We doubt whether any stable in Georgia, can
furnish a better “torn out” than Mr. Rogers.
He has a pair of horses and carriage, that he
considers worth $2,000. He has one horse
that he has refused to take $500 for.
Mr. R. admires fine horses, and keeps them
always on hafid. Hurran! for Atlanta. May
great prosperity attend all our business men.
Banlc of Fulton.
Speaking of Banks, we are prond to have
the opportunity of saying, that the aboxe
named Bank, the only parent institution <f
the kind, in our city, is among the number of
those which have always complied with the
laws of the country, in making its returns.
Although the Banks of Savannah and AugUb*
ta, have refused to accord to this institution,
the credit to which it is justly entitled, vet it
has proven itself as competent to meet all its
responsibilities, as any of those which have
manifested a disposition to cripple its credit.
Some of them “will find out by waiting,
that this Bank is not without means. A few
days since, the Augusta Banks had to fork over
Fifty Thousand Dollars in coin, to the Bank of
Fulton. We are gladjhey had the funds to
respond to the call. Gentlemen of the Augus
ta aristocracy, how do you feci ?
The Sew York Albion and Charleston
Courier.
We had the pleasure, yesterday morning, o.
greeting in our sanctum, Mr. E. L. Snow, the
gentlemanly Agent of the above named pa
pers. The Albion is a weekly paper, devoted
to “News, Politics, and General Literature,
and has been in existence more than a third of
a century. The Courier needs no commenda
tion from us. Its character is well known in
this community, and every body acquainted
with it, knows it to be one of the best com
mercial papers in the Southern country. Me
commend Mr. Snow, and the papers he repre
sents., to the liberal patronage of cur fellow-
citizens of Atlanta.
The Albion contains 12 pages ; is published
weekly; price six dollars per annum. Each
subscriber will receive a fine steel plate engra
ving, in addition to the paper, which is worth
at least half the suliscription price.
bock notices-
“Southern Cultivator,” Augusta, Ga. Devo
ted exclusively to Southern Agriculture,
Horticulture, Plantation and Domestic Econ
omy, Manufactures, the Mechanic Arts, &e.
Daniel Lee, M. D., and D. Redmond, Edi
tors. One dollar a year. Published month
ly. W. S. Jones, Proprietor.
The January number is before us. The “Cul.
tivator” is an excellent monthly, and will well
repay any farmer, who will patronize it.
HP* We have just received from “the South
Western Publishing House,” Nashville, Term.,
“the Southern Baptist Register,” for 1859.
This is a nice little book, and contains much
valuable information. Price 10 cents.
Jgp” “A Concise view of Christian Baptism.
By John Craps, England.” Published by the
“South Western Publishing House. “Ibis
Tract has already reached a circulation of 70,-
000 copies, in England.”
Bank of Middle Georgia In Bad Company.
Wc are pained exceedingly, to find that the
Bank of Middle Georgia is one of the few »
which stand out in defiance of the laws of the
c mntry. We hove thought, that if there was
any sound and solvent institution in Georgia,
it was the above named hank, and we hope to
be pardoned in expressing our mortification,
that our friend Isaac Scott, to whom we are in
debted for so many acts of kindness and cour
tesy, in days past and gone, should have align
ed himself with the very few banks in Georgia,
which stand out in bold defiance of the laws
of our State. But he, no doubt, has his reas
ons for this course, and we hope they are sat
isfactory to him, if not to the people of the
country. We are sick and tired of this war be
tween the Banks and the people, and if all the
solvent Banks in the State had made their re
turns, in compliance with the law, this con
troversy would have received its quietus. So
far as Mr. Scott, and the Bank over which lit
presides, is concerned, we speak of their dere
liction more “in sorrow, than in anger.” Me
hope, yet, to see him fail into line, and show
to the world, that his Bank is not only sound,
but a law abiding institution.
The LaGrangc Reporter.
Our cotcmporary of the Reporter seems to be
very much inclined to pick a quarrel with us.
Well brother, you can’t do any such thing.
If you want to do any quarrelling, you may
have it all to yourself. We have made an ex
planation, which, we thought, ought to be sat
isfactory to any kind-hearted man. But it
Geems our Lagrange brother is determined not
to be satisfied. His own county man, of West
Point, struck the fated blow, and for him, he
has no anathemas. They arc all reserved for
our poor unoffending head. The West Point
game is either too large, or two small for his
calibre, we will not undertake to say which.
Well, brother Reporter, you need not under
take to incense the people oi your town against
ns. We are going down there, shortly, and
have no fears of being mobbed, and expect to
get a large number of subscribers, and don’t
expect to pay any Rail Road fare, or any tav
ern bill. Put that in your pipe, and smoke
it, brother.
ColDndpa San and Ourself.
It seems of late to be our peculiar misfor
tune, to incur the displeasure of our cotempor-
aries even if we happen to mention them, the
most incidentally. As an instance ; in speak
ing of our brother whom we love, and who
has all ouP sympathies for his well being in
life, and has lately embarked in a newspaper
enterprise in Mississippi, we took occasion to
allude to his political aberrations, and attri
buted them to his connection with the “Cor
ner Stone” and the “Columbus Sun,” where
upon the “Sun,” pitches into us like “a thou
sand of brick; What the Comer Stone
has said about us, if any thing, wc are not ad
vised as somebody usually steals that print
from our sanctum -'is s on as it makes its ap
pearance. But as to the “Sun,” the Editor
of that paper ought not to make any preten
sions to being a Democrat. The genuine Dem
ocratic Press of Georgia, “ourself among the
rest ” are as much opposed to Senator Dou
glas and the Frecsoil Democracy as he can be,
and we challenge the examination of our col
umns, as Editor of the Empire State, and of
the Atlanta Intelligencer, to prove the asser
tion. And while writing upon this subject, we
wiil say, that Gen. Betbune and Mr. Do Wolfe
have spoiled as good a Democrat as the writer
of this article is. Wc. know that Jim’s pro
clivities were in a wrong direction so far as re-
gaids his Fire Eating propensities, but we be
lieve, that if he had never seen the “Comer
Stone” or the “Columbus Sun,” he would
1 now Ik, as he was bred and bom, a good,
sound Conservative Democrat. That’s all we
we have to say in reply to our cotcmporary of
“Sun.”
150, 1
Ledger, now,
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ett.” The subject of lie article'in this paper,
is “the house of Frank Un.” “On some fu
ture occasion,” Mr. Everett says he “must
speak”, of Franklin, as .“the illustrious me
chanic, philosopher, statesman, patriot, and
philanthropist.” We shall eagerly look for
the Franklin article, and. hope it may soon ap
pear.
RmwI’i Magazine, Charleston, S. C.
The January number is Before ns. ‘The
work will be supplied at Tbbb Dollars per
annum, payable in advance, or 25 cents by
numbers.” We are pleased with this maga
zine. The selections are readable and good.
The “Editor’s table” is not the least attractive
part of the book. Those who desire a month
ly magazine, would do well to notice Russel’s.
They may go farther and do no better. The
following, on criticism, is rather unique, and
we give it for the entertainment of our read
ers:
“Criticism is a grand science, and may be
divided into three branches, viz: to tickle, to
slash, and to plaster; to slash, is, speaking
grammatically, to employ the accusative, or
accusing case; you must cut up your book
right and left, top and bottom, root and
branch! To plaster a book, is to use the da
tive, or giving case, and you must bestow on
the work, all the superlatives in the language;
you must lay on your praise thick and thin,
and not leave a crevice untroweled. But to
tickle, sir, is a comprehensive word, and it com
prises all the infinite varieties that fill the in
terval between slashing and plastering. This
is the nicety of the art, and you can only ac
quire it by practice.”
Constitutionalist.—Col. Gardner.
The Constitutionalist seems very much grat
ified to gather up anything, however small
the morsel, that may have a tendency to in
jure Gov. Brown. It ought to be more care
ful about what it says. A public journal
should never misrepresent, for the sake of in
juring, especially its chief magistrate. We do
not think that the facts will warrant the Con
stitutionalist in asserting that the defeat of
Col. Hanks for Solicitor, affords an evidence
of the unpopularity of Gov. Brown in the
Cherokee Circuit. Thousands of Gov. Brown’s
warm friends supported Col. Johnson in the
late canvass.
The Democratic papers at Dalton, Calhoun
and Cassville, all supported Johnson for Sol
icitor and are the unflinching friends of Gov.
Brown and we will venture the assertion, that
the Editors of y those papers do not approve
the course of the Constitutionalist, towards
our Governor. We are creditably informed
that the issue in the race between Hanks and
Johnson was, who was the best friend to Gov.
Brown, each claiming to be friendly to the
Administration.
We regret to see that Col. Gardner endor
ses the course of the Constitutionalist. Why
he assumes the position of “masterly inactivi
ty” now, after having been so many years a
firm and unwavering supporter of our past
Democratic administrations, we will leave our
readers to conjecture. Col. Gardner has been
a great hand to whip bolting Democrats into
traces, but now, we are to hear for a season
no more the keen crack of that Democratic
whip.
The Grape Culture.
We have no apology to make for the liber
ty we take in presenting this subject to the
consideration of our readere. The time is now
near at hand, when those who are disposed to
embark in this pursuit, should be preparing
their plants and cuttings for the ensuing
Spring. Our enterprising fellow citizen, Mr.
H. Muhlenbrink has, for some time past, in
connection with Mr. Axtof Crawfordville, been
engaged in this business. They have a vine
yard of seven acres in this vicinity, besides a
large one at Crawfordville, where Mr. Axt has,
for some time past, been making the finest Ca
tawba wine in the United States, which can
he bought at Mr. Muhlenbrink’s store, in this
city. We might, if we had time and space,
moralize a little upon this subject. A great
deal has been said and written about the evil
consequences of the use of ardent spirits, and
very justly said.
Let the culture of the grape, and the ma
king of wine in its purity, be inaugurated in
this country, and there will be no need of tem
perance. societies. In France and the German
States, where the pure juice of the grape is the
common drink of Ihe people generally, drunk
enness is almost unknown. Strychnine and
other drugs, which make up the principle part
of our drinks at this day, are the fruitful sour
ces of the most of the evils which flow from
the use of ardent spirits in this day and gen
eration. Let every man in Georgia have his
own vineyard, and make his own pure unadul
terated wine, and the price of strychnine would
fall fifty per cent. “We speak as unto wise
men, judge ye.”
Howard's Distillery.
We have been to see ! Howard’s Distillery.
We are a temperance man and not much in
favor of drinking liquor, yet we feel inclined
to notice as the occasion seems to require, the
various businesses in and around our city.—
One of the largest and apparently one of the
most money making concerns around Atlanta
is Howard’s “Empire Distillery.” Just think
of 100 bushels of cem, going everyday, a part
into Whiskey barrels and a part into hogs.—
Just think of 5 great fomenting tubs in one
house, holding 100 bushels of ground com
each, rollicking and swimming about, pre
paring itself in its angry surgings and quar-
rellings, to sever its long established friend
ships and one party hastening eagerly to pass
quietly through “the worm that never dies”
and the other party rolling lazily along'to swell
the dimensions of the prince of “grunters” who
as soon as his majesty is sufficiently developed
falls under the vengeance of the blood-thirsty
butcher, to satisfy the insatiate tooth of unre
lenting humanity. Extremes meet at the
Distillery. One man seeks the bristle-bearer
for Jthat meat which perishes not with the
using, auother seeks the.exhilirating fluid, for
that momentary pleasure, which always ac
companies the use of the jovial bowl and ea
gerly U6cs that which he knows will make
him perish by the using. Ju8t think of a
thousand hogs revelling in luxuries at,' one
end of the Distillery and barrels upon barrels
of the clear, tempting fluid at the other end
just filled to make hog ofman, a provided he
lias hog enough in him, to drink till he comes
to the hour of granting and wallowing. But
we will leave moralizing to the Crusader and
close by sayiug that Howard is doing an ex
tensive business. From a short acquaintance
wc think kindly of Howard and will not abuse
his Whiskey, for it mixed with camphor,
helped our sprained foot mightily the other
day. And that bottle of “otard’ ’ is over half
gone and we must not be too saucy or we may
not get another. It is a great pity that men
will not use the good things of this world
without abusing them. Liquor is a good
thing in its proper place, but when handled
too freely, it carries with the serpent’s bite
and the adder’s sting.
Wf
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thejtocket of a gentleman, in an auction room
the other evening, the son of $150. This
dextrous youth, thanks lo the vigilance of
our police, has taken rooms at the Hotel de
Calaboose, to await his trial.
gy* We tender our thanks to the Hon. L.
J. Gartrell, for » copy of the “Report of tb e
Secretary of the Treasury, on the state of the
finances, for the year ending June 30,18587’
The Secretary of the Treasury seems to be a
friend of the former. In his report, we raid,
“no class loses more heavily, or sustains great
er privations, in a period of general revulsion,
than the agriculturists, and it is asking too
much of them, to submit to additional bur
dens in order to exempt a favorite portion of
their fellow citizens from the common calam
ity. ti>t
Boll Road Accidents.
A man by the name of McRary or McCraevy,
was killed,^Tuesday, in attempting to couple
some cars together, on the Etowah Bail Road,
running to Cooper’s Iron Works, in Cass Coun
ty-
Another man by the name of Anderson was
seriously if not fatally injured on the State
Road, same day, first station above Marietta,
by being knocked off the train by the water
spout at the station. He was ran over by the
cars, badly’bruising his head, and mutilating
one of his arms to such an extent that ampu
tation was resorted to as soon as he could be
removed to Marietta. His life is despaired of.
fiT* “Kay’s Book Store” is almost synony
mous with the city of Atlanta, for nearly every
one who has ever heard or seen anything in
regard to the city, heard or saw something at
the same time, relative to Wm. Kay’s Book
Store. He is known far and wide, and is pre
pared to furnish people with books and sta
tionery of any and all kinds. He is a polite
and accommodating gentleman.—The Georgia
Temperance Crusader, of the 14th inst.
Ages or President al Aspirants.—A corres
pondent of the Southern Monitor says the fol
lowing figures will he the ages of the persons
named in the year 1860:
Crittenden will be 77; McLean 76, Rives 71;
Bfell 72, Com. Stewart 82, Seward 70, Choate
69, Cushing 68, Hunter 67, Hammond 70,
Breckinridge 38, Bigler 69, Dix 67, Dickinson
70, Caw 91, A. 7. Brown 70, Wise 61, Slidell
71, Douglas 49.
The Winding np of the Election.
On Monday evening after the votes were
counted out and the result announced, a pro
cession of the Democratic Party was formed,
at the City Hall, led by a band of music and
marched to the Atlanta Hotel, where Mr.
Douglas, Ex-Mayor of the City of Memphis
was stopping for the time. Col. Glenn, the
Mayor of the city and the Mayor elect, was
called out and made a speech. Mr. Douglas
was then called for, appeared on the Piazza
and responded, as we are informed, most felic
itously. Col. A. J. Rogers, Editor of the Dal
ton Times, was then called out, and respon
ded in a speech in which he spoke of the prin
ciples of the Democratic Party, as sq,t forth in
the Cincinnati Platform.
Mr. F. S. Fitch also made a speech, and
there was considerable enthusiasm in the
company. We had retired before this de
monstration came off, but from what we leara
from those who were present, we feel assured
that the Democracy had a good time of it.
Oar City Election.
On Monday last, the people of Atlanta were
called upon to choose their municipal officers
for the present year. There was but little ex
citement, compared with what is usually the
case on such occasions. Everything passed off
peaceably and quietly, so far as we saw or
heard. There was no breach of the public
peace, no riots, no bloodshed, such as usually
occur in our sister cities, at election times.
This speaks well for the good order and moral
ity of our people. By reference to the returns
which we give in another place, it will be seen
that the whole Democratic ticket is elected by
a decisive majority.
By comparing the vote for Mayor, at the late
election, with that of last year, it will be seen
that Col. Glenn received six votes more in 1858
than in 1859. His vote at the former election
being 514, at the latter 608, while the vote of
Mr. Thomas, the American candidate, is 439,
being only thirty-two votes over that of Mr.
Winship, the American candidate in 1858,
which was 407. Nevertheless, some of our
American friends are disposed to exult over the
result of the late election, as a great gain in
favor of that party. The comparatively small
majority of the Democratic Ticket, may be
easily accounted for. In the first place, our
men, who* are usually most active in our elec
tions, were too confident of success, believing
their opponents to be powerless to carry an
election in the city. This caused them to re
lax their efforts, to a considerable extent.
Again, certain collateral issues were sprang up
on the canvass, not legitimately belonging to
it, which caused some of our Democratic friends
to vote for the American candidate for Mayor,
or not to vote at all. Again, the leaders of
the opposition were vigilant and active, form
ing their plans, and making their efforts in a
private and quiet way, thereby lulling our par
ty into a dangerous security, which, though
not on the occasion alluded to, yet at other
times, has proved fatal to our party. When
all these things are taken into the account, we
can perceive no good reason why our late tri
umph is not as complete as that of a year ago.
The American party “will find out by wait
ing,” whether their great gains, on Monday
last, has paved ihe way to their future success.
Many a Democrat, who refused to vote for our
candidates then, will, on future occasions, be
found rallying around the standard of Democ
racy, and battling for those principles, which
we hold so dear. And, in this connection, we
cannot withhold the meed of praise from those
noble, generous hearted Americans, who came
forward and cast their votes for Col. Glenn,
from a sense of duty to our city, a just appre
ciation of his past services, and his superior
qualifications for the position of our chief mu
nicipal officer. We don’t expect, by this act
of generosity on their part, that they intend
to fraternize with the Democratic party, though
we should feel proud to give them the right
hand of fellowship, and welcome them into our
political brotherhood. We have said thus much
in this connection, to correct any false impres
sion that may exist, as to the real strength of
the Democratic party of Atlanta. When the
time comes for action, they will show “to the
world, and the rest of mankind,” that they
will be united and “know how to conquer, and
how to profit by their victories.”
C.LOMOVS TMVHPII OF THE DE
MOCRACY !
The Municipal Election.
We give below, the result of our Municipal
Election which took place on Monday. We
regret that we were unable to give the vote
in our paper of yesterday morning, but the
lateness of the hour, at which the ballots were
counted, must be our apology.
FOR MAYOR.
Luther J. Glenn, (Dem.) 508
Thomas'L. Thomas, (Amcr.) 439
FOR ALDERMEN—Democrats.
Healy, 491
Haney,. 504
Dunning, 474
Watkins, 601
Blackwell, 490
Wood 609
A. M.’Wallace 622
C. H. Wallace ...600
FOR ALDERMEN—Americans.
Strickland, 446
Cassin, 430
Andrews, 434
Crew 458
Whaley, 441
Crawford, 429
Hubbard, 430
Beach, 426
John Glenn, 462
Thomas Kyle, 421
—
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“De Bow’s Rgrntw,” Edited by J. D. B. De-
Bow. PqtifwheAraonthly in Neir Orleans
and Washington City. Terms, $6 per year
in advance.
We know of nothing published at the 8outh,
that can supply the place of DeBow’s Review.
It ought to be extensively patronized.! The
January nurntp for the present year, is be
fore us. We nave enjoyed ite perusal, and
*h«!t greet it Cordially, as it foils monthly up
on our table.
WL Was. F. Sunford
We have heretofore omitted So notice the
re-accession to the editorial tripod of the dis
tinguished gentleman whose name heads thfa
article. Col. Samford has taken charge of the
Auburn Signal, and will henceforth devote his
attention to its columns. His reputation as a
political writer i«so firmly established in this
and neighboring States, that we feel confident
of a large increase in the subscription lists of
the Signal, so soon as the public shall become
aware of the fact of its being under his man
agement. We regret to see that the Col. still
adheres with a pertinacity and devotion most
unaccountable, to the political fortunes of
Henry A. Wise We consider Wise one of the
most dangerous of Southern men, and candid
ly believe, that the only tolerable point about
him is, that he should have succeeded in gain
ing the political friendship of so earnest and
ardent a Southern man as Wm. F. Samford.
The Signal’s gain, is our loss, for our read'
ers will miss from our columns the graceful
and vigorous effusions over the signature of
“Will Warwick” and “Uncle Ben,” that have
so often delighted them. We wish Will War
wick all possible bad luck in his endeavors to
make Henry A. Wise President. In all his
other undertakings, may he achieve that
brilliant success which he so well merits.—
Mont. Advertiser.
As Atlantic Cable Operator Returning to
England.—Mr. Charles Gerhardi, one of Mr.
DeSauty's staff of telegraph operators at Trin
ity Bay, came to New York from St. John’s
N. F., by the Pacific, and takes passage on her
to-day to return to England, himself and
one or two others of his associates having been
ordered home by the directors for some pur
pose, as yet unknown to them, in connection
with the Atlantic cable. The feeling among
the operators and others who are well acquain
ted with the situation of the cabel is one of
much confidence that it will yet be put in a
condition to transmit messages without diffi
culty. Four or five operators, including Mr.
DeSautv, are yet remaining at Cyrus station,
and day and night duty is kept up; the least
deflections of the galvonometer are carefully
watched, and will be reported to the directors.
When Gerhardi left the station on the 16th of
December, there were constant evidences, by
currents passing over the cable, that it was
unbroken although they were not intelligible
to be made out. Mr. Gerhardi expresses the
greatest confidence, that if the present cable is
not restored to a condition to be used, another
cable will be laid down at no distant day.—
He also certifies with much earnestness to the
entire willingness of Mr. DeSauty to commu
nicate whatever is of the slightest interest to
to the public relating to the line, in proof of
which he cites several instances in which he
has volunteered to notify the New York tele
graphic agent of the evidences of the existance
of continuity in the cable.—N. T. Times.
The Maine Legislature.
RE-ELECTION OF HON. WM. P. FESSENDEN TO
TIIE U. S. SENATE.
Portland, Me., Jan. 11 —Hon. Wm. Pitt
Fessenden was to-day re-elected United States
Senator by the Legislature. The vote was as
follows :
In the House.—For Fessenden,... .93
“ “ Smart, 42
In the Senate.—For Fessenden, 29
“ “ Smart —
The Massachusetts Legislature.
RE-ELECTION OF HON. H. WILSON, AS 0. S.
SENATOR.
Boston, JaD. 12.—Hon. Henry Wilson has
been re-elected United States Senator.
The vote of the House to pay stood ;
Hon. Henry Wilson, 199
Hon. (Jableb Cushing, 25
Scattering, 11
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
XXXV Congress—Second Session.
Washington, Dec. 14, 1859.
Senate.—The Pacific Railroad Bill was fur
ther loaded with amendments, but before
any action was taken the Senate adjourned.
House.—Private bills were acted on. The
committee on foreign affairs have agreed to
report a bill similar to that of Mr. Slidell’s
proposing to place under the control of the
President $30,000,000, with which to nego
tiate for the purchase of Cuba.
Later from Havana. •
Savannah, Jan. 14.
The steamship Isabel, from Havana, with
dates to the 8th, touched at Tybec, yesterday.
She reports that sugars were quiet, in conse
quence of the holiday. The slave trade on
the island is very active; nearly 2,000 negroes
are reported to have been recently landed.—
Extensive smuggling in sacks marked pota
toes has been discovered. An order will soon
be issued requiring the cargoes to be certified
by the Spanish consul.
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, Jan. 14.
Yera Cruz dates to the 9th, state that Geu.
Juarez hail refused to listen to Commissioners
from Gen. Robles. Zualoga, before his fall
had approved the propositions of France and
England for a settlement of the Spanish ques
tion. Spain will thus be satisfied. The U.
S. frigate Saratoga was at Sacrificios. Five
French, four Spanish and three English vessels
of war were also at Sacrificios.
Later from flail.
St. Louis, Jan. 14.
The Salt Lake District Court would meet
again on the 17 th December. The excitement
concerning the mysterious disappearance of
the deaf and dumb boy sanctions the charge
of foul play.
The Border Warfare.
St. Louis, Jan. 14.
A special messenger from Gov. Medary, to
Gov. Stewart, of Missouri, reports that the
bandit was fortifying himself is near the Mis
souri line, and recommends that Government
troops be sent to that vicinity The volun
teers were forming rapidly. Six hundred
muskets had passed Jefferson City to Kan-
sis.
The Acquisition of Cuba.
Washington, Jan. 17.—A caucus of Demo
cratic Senators was held on Saturday, to de
cide upen some action inrelatkn to Mr. Slidell’s
bill providing for the purchase of the Island
of Cuba. The bill was favorably considered
by the caucus, and it provides for settling the
existing and removing future difficulties with
Cuba and Spain, by authorising the President
to pay thirty millions of dollars for the Island
of Cuba. Among those most active in favor
of Mr. Slidell’s bill were, Messrs. Douglas,
Toombs, Iverson, Gwin, Davis and Slidell. It
is understood that the committee on foreign
affairs will report in favor of the passage of the
hill, in a few days.
Messrs. Hunter, Mason and Shields thought
that action in the matter, at this time, was
impolitic.
Government Forces In Kansas. *
Washington. Jan. 17.—It is understood
here that the government hasjordered five com
panies to act as a posse comitatus under Gov
ernor Medary against the lawless band under
Brown & Montgomejy in Kansas.
The French Spoliation Bill.
Wdshington, Jan. 17.—It is believed that
an effort will be made this week to pass the
French spoliation bill under the call of the
previous question.
MARKET REPORTS.
Charleston, Jan. 17.—1 o’clock, P.
M.-
COTTON.—The sales this forenoon were 1,-
100 bales at from 9$ to Ilf cents. The mar
ket continuese dpressed, particularly for the
lower grades. x
Charleston, Jan. 15.—Sales of COTTON to
day 2,000 bales with a declining tendancy.
Mobile, Jan. 15.—Sales of COTTON to-day
4,500 hales. The market closed firm, at lljc.
for Middling, which establishes an advance of
4 cents.
New Orleans, Jan. 16.—Sales of COTTON
to-day 21,500 hales. The market is stiffer,
but quotations are unchanged. CORN is ad
vancing, and prime lots are worth $1 14 per
bushel.
gjp At Memphis, on the 8th inst., the cor-
norstone for the inauguration of the Bust of
General Jackson, was celebrated by a public
procession, and the observant* of other appro-
E riate and becoming ceremonies. The oration
y Hon. Andrew Ewing, of Nashville.
W. Forney thus concludes an article
evils of office Banting:
There iff one more view of the evils of office
hunting, which is the raoat ssddsning and
painful of all, and that is the miserable degra
dations and self-stultifications, to which men
submit in their efforts to appease power. We
read in old histories, of Kings upon their
thrones, with base, subservient, and cringing
courtiers around them, and turn disgusted from
such exhibitions of the meanness of humanity.
But have we nothing like this in our country ?
Do we see no men lying prostrate at the feet
of power, abjuring their own honest convic
tions, and indorseing what in their hearts they
know to be miserable rascalities or wrong;
surrendering up their judgment, conscience,
and manhood, on the shrine of executive dic
tation, and famishing in republican America,
parallels to the most degrading acts of servili
ty that have ever been witnessed at the most
exacting courts of the Old World ? Have we
seen no subtle Hamlet saying to those Poloni-
uses, that a cloud was shaped like a camel, a
weasel, a whale, and finding them answering
in quick succession against the clear evidences
of their own senses: “Yes, my lord?’ Have
we not seen myrmidons of power, as eager to
execute despotic edicts in our own land, as if
they were remorseless and corrupt favorites of
a tyranical monarch ? Have we no hired braves
ready to commit political assassination ? Have
we no trembling cowards who disgrace their
manhood, and quake and tremble like aspen-
leaves. at the very echoes which ring through
the White House ?
Good doctrine is not unworthy of accep
tance, if the Devil himself is the preacher;
and utterly corrupt as John W. Forney is, he
is yet a man of strong sense, and paints in
truthful colors, a great and crying evil.—[Ea
gle & Enquirer.
Has not Jere Clemens, the new Editor of
the Eagle & Enquirer, made a mistake in quo
ting John W. Forney as above, and in append
ing the remarks he has made ? He compares
said Forney to the Devil. Now if the Devi]
and John W. Foraev talk alike about “the very
echoes which ring through the White House,”
and if said Forney is “utterly corrupt,” why,
we shall take what Forney and Clemens has
said, and put them together, and consider that
they have paid a merited compliment, where
they did not intend it. We do this, because
a bettor than Clemens, has said of the Devil,
that “there is no truth in him”—that “when
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for
he is a liar and the father of it.” Try again,
Bro. Clemens.
Progress of the Baptist Fead.
A serious split has occurred in the Baptist
Church at Jackson, Tennessee. It originated
from the fact that the minister, Rev. Aaron
Jones, several weeks ago, invited Rev. J. R.
Graves to take a seat in his pulpit. This gave
offence to the anti-Graves members, and they
seem to have expressed their opinions quite
lreely. The minister remonstrated with them,
but finding them intractable, a meeting of the
church was called for the purpose of investiga
tion. A resolution was adopted by the Graves
party, declaring that they would no longer
fellowship with the anties, whereupon the lat
ter seized the key of the church, and took pos
session of the building. They nailed up the
church and removed the hell. A law-suit be
tween the parties will he the result, as both
parties claim to be the church, and the build
ing will not be used until the suit is decided.
The members seem to he about equally divi
ded. The excitement was intense, and ex
tended to the citizens, who had no connection
with the church. We glean the above facts,
from a lengthy, rambling account of the af
fair, which we find in the Brownsville “Home
Journal.”
SUPREME COURT-
Friday, Jan. 14th, 1859.
Cases Decided.—The Savannah & Ogeeche Ca
nal Co., plaintiffs in error, VS. Robert W.
Habersham et. al. relators, defendants in er
ror. Mandamus from Chatham.
This was an application for Mandamus by
defendants in error, against the Savannah &
Ogeechee Canal Co., to compel said Company
to build a bridge over its canal, where it inter
sected a road used by the relators and others.
The Company filed its answer which was tra
versed by relators, and submitted to a jnry,
who found the same false, and that a peremp
tory Mandamus issue. Respondent moved
for a new trial, which the Court below refused
and respondant excepted. Held. 1. [Benning
J. delivering the opioion.]—That respondent
Mas bound to erect a bridge across the canal
where it intersected said road, although the
same was a private road. 2. That the relators
were not barred by lapse of time—laches. 3.
That Mandamus was the proper remedy.
Judgment affirmed.
Ward, Jacxson and Jones, for plaintiff in er
ror. Harden and Lawton,—contra.
Daniel F. Dickenson, plaintiff in error, VS.
Lizar Solomons, defendant in error. Trover,
from Chatham.
This was an action of trover by Dickinson
against Solomonsons for three negroes .
Both parties claimed under one Joseph
Bush, deceased—plaintiff as purchaser, and de
fendant in right of his wife, as heir at law of
deceased. After defendant had closed, the
plaintiff Dickinson offered in rebuttal, a promi-
sory note, given by said Bush, in his lifetime
to plaintiff for the hire of a negro woman and
child (two of the negroes sued for) for one year
and four months. The presiding Judge re
fused to admit this note as evidence in rebuttal,
holding that it was not rebutting testimony,
and to this decision pteintiff excepted. Held,
[McDonald, J. delivering the opinion of the
Court.]—That the Court below erred in re
fusing to allow said note to go to the jury as
evidence; therefore on this ground the judg
ment of the Court below was reversed—Jones
& Sturgis, for plaintiff in error. Ward, Jack-
son & Jones, contra.
Cases Heard.—The argument in the cases of
Jordan and others, VS. the owners of the
steamboat Hartridge, was concluded by C. B.
Cole, for plaintiff in error.
Carrie, et. al., Caveators VS. Cummins and
Dugas, propounders—Argued by Mr. Jackson
for plaintiffs in error. Mr. Jenkins contra.
Charles J. Carpenter, plaintiff in error VS.
the State of Georgia, defendant in error—from
Richmond.
Messrs. Jackson and Walker for plaintiff in
error ; Attorney General McLaws, contra—Sav.
Hep., of Saturday.
A Typographical Duel.—A couple of prin
ters in the office of the St. Louis Democrat.—
William Beasely and James McGowan—having
had a misunderstanding, the former a son of
old Virginny, challenged McGowan to mortal
combat, which was accepted. The time was
Saturday afternoon, the place, Bloody Island,
weapons, pocket pistols, distance, fifteen paces.
The affair is thus described in the Republican,
but we fear none but printers will be able to
master all the professional phrases in which it
is done up:
The scene was imposing. The Virginia type
setter showed clear proof that he had fully
measured the matter, and run over all the
points in the case. As he held his shooting-
stick in his fist, properly leaded, as he
thought, he looked daggers at his opponent,
with evidently no idea of exhibiting a running
title to regard, and with no fears of a hanging
indenture in case he put a period to his fel
low’s life by transposing him to quad. He
was certain he had been picked up from the
wrong font, if he had been taken for a coward
—a bad impression he was resolved to correct.
McGowan too was straightened up, and dis
played a solid form, quite nonpareil, for he
knew no leaded matter had been inserted in
the pistols, and was, consequently justified
in having a dash to his head, or being other
wise knocked into pi. At the word, both
weapons went off, but a note of exclamation
was set up from the fact that both men were
left standing. He would consent to no break
in the fight then, as that was not consistent
with the idea of the rules. He insisted on a
smaller space. After considerable debate,
distributed among the bystanders, the dis
tance was shortened to ten paces, and another
fire had, with the same harmless result as be
fore, exeept that this time McGowan was able
to show a hole in his shirtsleeve, which had
been bun in before hand. The latter’s second
exhibiting the “bullet-hole,” claimed that
the affair had gone far enough for the satis
faction of Bcaseley’s wounded honor; and,
thereupon, an “amicable adjustment” was
made, the duellists taking each other by the
hand and swearing eternal friendship. (?)—
The party then wet their matter and re
turned to the city. The “meeting” has af
forded great glee to those who were in the se
cret, and has convinced them that the Vir-
gian is the “clear grit.”
Dr. G. W. Newtom’i Will.
Conflicting rumors being in circulation re
garding this gentleman’s will, we deem it nec
essary for public information to state, that
there were but two or three items in it. Af
ter making bequests of about $13,000, he
gave the rest and residue of his estate to the
Augusta Orphan Asylum, thus placing that
institution upon a firm basis. The real value
of his estate is supposed to be about $225,-
000.
Sinister.
xsvw wiuHiJiuniNcr.
The New Yinfc TImeagivefl us the Rowing
informationtoncerniiig the successor of Lord
.Napier :
“Lord Nqpier, It appears, is, after all mere
ly to execute an exchange of positions with a
nobleman higher in the diplomatic service of
Kngiftnri, as well as in technical rank, than
himself. Instead of making way for a youth
ful Secretaiy, just advanced to the Peerage,
like Lord Lyons, Lord Napier succeeds at the
Hague one of the most accomplished of En
glish Ministers, the Hon. Sir Ralph Abercrom
bie, now become, by the death of his tether.
Lord Dumfermline. The Legations of Eng
land m Holland and the United States are of
equal diplomatic dignity, while those of our
own people who are curious in such matters
may gratify themselves with the knowledge
that we lose in a Scottish Peer only to gain a
Peer of Parliament in his place.
Lord Dumfermline, second baron of the ti
tle, horn in 1804, succeeded to the estates and
,honors of his father, (who was raised to the
peerage on retiring from the Speakership of
the House of Commons in 1839,) butafew
months since. He bears a name already well
known in American history, through the dis
astrous campaign of General James Aber
crombie against Ticonderoga and Crown
Point in the old French war, and is the grand
son of the heroic Sir R. Abercrombie, the vic
tor of Alexandria, and deliverer of Egypt from
the arms of France, who deserves even a high
er fame as the noble chieftain who refused
to execute in Ireland the commands of a fierce
and bigoted Ministry, during the Irish Re
bellion of 1796. The title of Lord Abercrom
bie, won by the great deedB of this celebaated
General, is borne now by the nephew of the
present Lord Dumfermline, a boy of nine
teen.
Lord Dumfermline is a Knight Commander
of the Bath in the Civil Class, that honor hay
ing been conferred upon him for diplomatic
services in 1851. He is a diplomatist of re
cognized ability—a man of family, and in eve
ry way a most acceptible representative of the
Government which commissions him to re
place the present gifted and popular Envify of
England at Washington. There is nothing
in his antecedents, or in the character of the
position from which Lord Dumfermline comes
to justify the rumor that Lord Napier’s recall
is to he taken as a token of displeasure with
his course in this country on the part of Lord
Derby’s Cabinet.
Executive adjournment of a Legislature.
Gov. Conway, of Arkansas, was lately re
quired to resort to the unusual exercise of the
authority, conferred upon him by the Consti
tution of that State, of adjourning the Legis
lature. Previously to the 23d ultimo a disa
greement had occurred in the two houses in
regard to the time of adjournment, and on
that day a quorum not appearing in either
branch, no constitutional power existed other
than to adjourn from day to day and send for
absent members, which proceeding would
have involved considerable expense to the
State, and, as it was supposed, would have
been ineffectual in procuring the immediate
attendance of the absentees. Under these
circumstances the Governor adjourned the two
Houses on the 23d ultimo to the 17th of the
present month, by a proclamation transmitted
to each, in the following words :
THE STATE OF ARKANSAS.
To all of the Members of the General Assembly of
said State, greeting :
Whereas, it has been made known to the
Governor that a disagreement between the
two houses of the General Assembly with
respect to the time of adjournment has occur
red, and that so many members are now ab
sent that there is no quorum in either the
Senate to House of Representatives; and
whereas true economy requires that the ex
penses of the General Assembly should cease
until a sufficient number of members can be
assembled to constitute a quorum in each
House:
Now, therefore, I. Elias N. Conway, Gov
ernor of the State of Arkansas, by virtue of
the authority in me vested by the Constitu
tion of said State, do hereby adjourn the
General Assembly of the State of Arkansas
over to the 17th day of January, A. D. 1859,
upon which day all of the members of the
Senate and House of Representatives are re
quired to assemble in their respective places
in the legislative halls of this State, at the
seat of government, to complete the unfinish
ed legislative business, and to enact such
laws as the public interests require.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed
r , my name and caused the seal of Ar-
L L . s.j ]- ansas jjg a ffixed, at Little Rock,
this 23d day of December, A. D. 1868.
Elias N. Conway.
By the Governor:
D. B. Greer, Secretary of State.
The absence of so large a number of the
members of the Legislature is ascribed to the
sickness of some of them and the sickness of
the families ot others.
[From the Toronto Globe.]
Tlie Red River Expedition.
Mr. Hind returned from his last exploring
expedition to the Northwest Territory about
ten days ago. Mr. Hind was accompanied by
Lord Cavendish and Mr. Ashley as far as Chi
cago. Lord Grosvenor, a few days before the
party left Red River, took a fancy to go on a
buflalo hunt, and started off on horse-back,
with a half breed guide, on a journey of sev
eral hundred miles, although the therome-
ter was below zero.
Mr. Hind and his party thoroughly explor
ed the nighborhood of the Assiniboine, and
traversed the south branch of the Saskatche
wan! some hundreds of miles. He used can
oes going one way and for the other took hor
ses, by which he secured a more thorough
knowledge of the country than the fur traders
who travel by water entirely. The Company’s
people have always reported the Saskatchewan!
as running through a sandy plain utterly un
fit for cultivation. Mr. Hind’s people admit
the banks of the river to be sandy, but say that
five miles from it the land is even richer than
on the Red River. The climate is much mil
der and the vegetation most luxuriant. From
the accounts of the hunters it would appear,
however, that the slope of land at the eastern
base of the Rocky Mountains is the finest part
of the Territory. The snow is said never to
lie deep there, snow-shoes being unknown to
the Indians, and it is a well timbered county.
This is the locality, also, in which the coal
beds exist. Mr. Hind did not penetrate so
far, but he had undoubted proofs of their exis
tance. At Fort Edmonton and other western
posts of the Company they use the coal for
their forges. It would appear from Mr, Hind’6
researches that the hope of finding good coal
on the Assiniboine has proved groundless.—
Lignite is found, but not in such quantities as
to he profitable. There is, however, over the
whole country sufficient wood for building and
fuel during the first settlement of the country,
and afterwads there are ample stores of timber
to the North, for which there are easy means
of transportation to the prairies.
In the way of transportation it is believed
that Mr. Hind’s party made a discovery.—
They found that an affluent of the Asfiniboine
approached within a very short distance of the
Saskatchewan!. If the two streams could be
joined there would be a very great saving in
distance. The only route previously explor
ed was, by the lake, to the mouth of the Sas
katchewan!, and thence passed the barrier of
the falls up the river. The northing and
southing would be saved by the newly discov
ered route, since the branch of the Assiniboine
runs almost due west from Red River. At the
highest point at which Mr. Hind saw the Sas
katchewan! it was half a mile broad and seven
feet deep.
Import* of Dry Goods at New York.
The imports of foreign dry goals at the port
of New York during the year 1858 have been
less than any previous year since 1850. There
may be some differences of opinions in regard
to the remote causes of the depression, but the
reasons for the immediate decline in the im
ports, says the Journal of Commerce, are read
ily understood. When the financial crisis in
1857 had culminated in the suspension of the
banks, the foreign trade of this city was found
to he more disorganized than at any period
during the previous ten years. We have nev
er seen a time when it was so difficult to close
out an invoice of goods at either private or
public sale in this city as during the autumn
of 1857. This cut off the orders for the spring
of 1858, and in fact created such a distrust
abroad that hut few orders would have been
accepted if they had been sent.
There has been a fair trade during the last
few monthB of the year, but the total imports
of dry goods for 1858 are $30,379,620less than
for 1857, $33,208,384 less than for the year
1856, and $4,819,563 less than for the year
1855. The imports during the past three
years were as follows:
1856 $93,362,893
1857, 90,536,129
1868 60,154,600
The greatest comparative decline was in the
imports of cottons, the decrease being nearly
40 per cent.
(ip"How folks differ ? We chew tohacca.—
The Hindoo takes lime. The children of this
country delight in candy, those of Africa in
rock nit* A Frenchman 'goes his length’ on
fried frogs, while an Esquimaux T ndi**t thinks
tallow the climax of dainties.
&
. ANA
Tor the better iovemmenl
w
Western ft
Mlvnfr Railroad; to suittifcfidelity to its
fiscal agents, slid all other persons indebted
to said Road; and to prevent as for as possi
ble, fruitless and exwmsive -BtfgSStion; and
to make the account-wboks of Said Western
ft Atlantic Kailroad evidence in certain
cases, and for other purposes.
Whereas, in the management of the Western
& Atlantic ifotisoad. by-tfte msns jnagi
doubtless, occurred, and are liable to occur,
unless frequent settlements are expected of its
fiscal agents, and tbe State invested with sum
mary remediesagainst defaulter^;
Sec. 1. From and after the passage of this
Act, all and every agent, officer, employee or
servant, having funds in his hands, the prop
erty of said Western & Atlantic Railroad, shall
be, and is hereby placed on the same footing,
as to liability and accountability, as Tax
Collectors of this State, and may and shall
be proceeded against as hereinafter directed
in section six (6) of this act.
Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the Superin-
tendant to cause each and every fiscal agent
of said Western & Atlantic Railroad, to pay
over to some one by said Superintendent duly
authorized, weekly, and from week to week,
all moneys of the Road, in hand of such agent,
respectively, on whatever account received by
him, and that the same be promptly paid to
the Tieasurer of said Road.
Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,
It shall be the duty of each and every agent
of said Road, to make out monthly, and
from month to month, a full statement of his
indebtedness to said Road, particularly specify
ing what amount ot cash on hand, what
amount duo for freight delivered, or to be de
livered, showing the full amount due from all
sources whatever, and shall sign such account
at the foot thereof, and such admission shall
be prima facie evidence of the amount due, as
against such agent and his sureties.
Sec. 4 .Beit enacted by the authority aforesaid,
It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to
require of each and every agent of said Road,
by or before the first day of January next, a
fresh and new bond, with good and satisfac
tory security, in the penalty or sum respective
ly, as now required by law, or if too small to
cover all loss, may increase it; and- on the de
livering of said bond, it shall be accompanied
with a statement, in writing, signed by suen
agent, whether for cash received, or freight
on hand, or from any other cause or source
whatever, and such admission, so signed, shall
be prima facie evidence of the amount due by
such agent and his sureties shall be bound
thereby and liable therefor; and in all cases
when a bond is taken, such certificate or ad
mission, shall accompany it, and be filed
therewith.
Sec. 5. Any officer or agent, failing to pay
over the funds collected by him, weekly, when
thereto called upon, or failing to furnish the
Superintendant with a monthly statement of
the financial condition of his office, except
for providential cause, shall be forthwith dis
missed from office, and an account shall be
had and taken of all the freight on hand, and
such agent shall have a credit or receipt there
for, and he answerable, together with his
sureties on his bond, for such sum or sums as
may be due by Mich agent.
Sec. 6. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That whenever, and as soon as an agent is in
default, or any person having funds of the
Road unaccounted for, and fails or refuses to
pay over the same on demand, or shall abscond
or conceal himself it shall be the duty of the
Superintendent, promptly and immediately, to
cause the real and true amount due by such
agent to be had and taken, and transmit the
same, together with tbe original bond of such
agent; to the Comptroller General of this
State, as earnings of the Road ; and the Comp
troller General shall, upon the receipts thereof
issue writ or writs of Fieri Facias against said
agent, so in default, and his sureties individu
ally, or collectively, as he may deem best for
the interest of the State, for fuch sum or sums,
as may be returned to him as due by such
agent, with interest thereon, at seven per cent
per aimum, from the date of the demand, on
the principal sum, andalso,the additional sum
of five per cent, on said sum. which shall be
in full compensation to the officer who actually
collects the money due on such li fa or fi fas,
and actually pays over the money so collected
to the Comptroller General of this State; or to
his order.
Sec. 7, Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That debtors to said Road shall stand upon
the same footing, as to liability and account
ability, as Collectors of Taxes are now liable
by law; and no judicial interference shall be
had, held or entertained, to stop or suspend
the collection of a fi fa when issued according
to the terms and provisions of this act ; but
His Excellency the Governor, for the time
being, may and shall, upon affidavit filed as
to the amount really due, upon affiant fully
paying tho sum admitted to be due, stating
all the facts in his affidavit, and therein show
ing why he is paid all that is really due, to
suspend the collection of the residue until the
meetingTof the next legislature, to whom he
shall submit the matter for their action.
Sec. 8. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That debtors to the Western & Atlantic Rail
road, shall be held, deemed, taken and con
sidered as debtors to the public in all cases,
whatsoever ; and this act shall be liberally
constraed to effect prompt accountability and
payment from debtors of the Road, and [so?]
that its spirit and intent shall not he defeated
or prejudiced for want of a mere literal compli
ance with its terms, where no real injustice
has been done to the debtor or debtors.
Sec. 9, Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the Superintendent of the Western & At
lantic Railroad for the time being, shall be
specially charged with the due execution and
faithful fulfillment of the terms and provisions
of this Act; and his neglect thereof, or inat
tention thereto, shall be good cause for his re
moval from office.
Sec. 9. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That the Account Books of the said Western
& Atlantic Railroad, shall be in all suits now
pending, or that may be hereafter commenced
prima facie evidence of the truth of what they
contain; and a full transcript from the Books,
as to all matters in controversy, verified by
the affidavit of the Book-Keeper, shall at all
times be received in lieu of the original Books;
but the defendant may, upon notice, require
the originals, when he will make affidavit that
the original book or books contain evidence
material to his defence not contained in said
transcript, specifying particularly what such
entries are; and the affidavit, in writing, of
the Book-Keeper shall be evidence of the
identity of the books to which it refers, when
the originals are produced, under such notice,
or otherwise.
Sec. 10. Repeals conflicting laws.
Approved, December 11th, 1855.
Dreadfull Affair—A Man Crushed to
Death.—On Saturday afternoon, about half
past two o.clock, a man, supposed to be named
Sulivan, came to his death in a shocking man
ner on hoard the steamboat Delaware, belong
ing to Alderdice's line of steamers, plying be
tween this port and New York. The vessel
had started from the wharf, below Spruce
street; on her trip to New York, when the
machinery was found to be obstructed, and an
examination being made it was discovered that
a man had secreted himself among the ma
chinery, with the intention it is supposed, of
getting a free passage to New York. When
found, the man was not quite dead, but in a
few minutes he expired, without being able
to tell his name, or how the affair happened.
The body of the deceased presented a shocking
sight, his skull mashed in. his jaw and cheek
bones broken, and his hack broken and bent
up. It appeared as if the force of the machin
ery had pressed his whole body into a space of
only three or four feet. He was
comfortably dressed, with pilot cloth, hangup
coat and black pants, and had in his pockets a
counterfeit half dollar, a few pennies, a pock
et comb and looking glass, and a pair of buck
skin mitts. He was about five feet eight in
ches in height.—Phila. Ledger.
Suicide for Love.—The St . Louis Republican
says that an inquest was held in that city on
Sunday, tho 2d inst., on the body of a stran
ger found in the woods, hanging to a black
jack sapling. He appeared to have been dead
about a day. In a small tin box on his person
was found a document, in the German lan
guage, which has been translated into English
as follows:
To Marie H.—I send you my Christmas
gift, which is my dead body. Now I again
sacrifice my self for you. You will no longer
find me in your path in relation to your mar
riage. I do not despise, I do not curse you—
for above,there we shall meet each other
again, never to be separated. Farewell, be
happy.
The deeeasee was a man of about five feet
seven inches high, aged 28 or 30 yeare, dark
complexion, auburn hair, haael eyes. He
wore a dark grey grey coat, steel mixed pants,
a black velvet vest, white -shirt, black silk
neck handkerchief, black hat, and a pair of
calf skin boots, half worn. About his person
were found a memorandum book, the tin box
referred to above, and a German prayer book,
on a fly leaf of which was written the name
of Christopher Strisburger, which is supposed
to be the name of the diseased.
tlett&n
tpoetmagerat Glenalta, ^
in this city yesterday ^
the mail of cheeksW
m the post office gw*’ 0 '?
letters. He presented a check for
the Bank of Colnmbus, signed bv w®* 1
Rawson, agent of the Bank of Colin W ^
Lumpkin, Ga., and payable to the ^ **
JfoJML McGebec of Marion. ° rd * r «
’"’"This check was taken out of the Poo*
at Glenaltu by Mr. Spinks, and pr egKOT .r® c *
the Mother Bank yesterday.
£ere qn a w a rrant from some citizens
on co., and earned before Wiley William t? af1 '
U. b. Commissioner, by Mr. J. D. Fril “
General Agent Post Office Depart meet!*? 1 ’
gram and Russell appeared as his Council ^
bail was granted him in the sum of $9 of^
til Monday next at which time he wiffuS -
ed, Messrs Hlackmar and King of the itr
of Columbus were witnesses against
tifying t > his identity as the man who
ted the check.—Col. T.mes.
svttws Fire ami Loss of Llf, „ t
Springs.
Hfo,
On Saturday night last, between eleven
three o’clock, the dwelling-house oron^
teemed fellow-citizen, Major James \y
who lives about one mile east of the nuki
square, took fire, and burnt with such f
ful rapidity that an old negro woman
iug in one of the rooms, being unable t'o a T
her escape, was burnt with the bui! ( ]j n ,, , 5
was with difficultty that Major Hill himj!
escaped, as he was soundly asleep, and won!
probably have been burnt also, had be n
been rescued by persons from the immt-fliaf
vicinity. Most of the white family were ah
sent at the time, and lost everything C ice
the wearing apparel they had with them ^
The loss is heajry, as not only all the apn^T
furniture, piano, beds, bedding and a thonsa
other little necessary household articles h?
longing to Maj. Hill and his daughters ^
consumed, but the furniture of two of th
Majoi’s sons-in-law. Dr. Sale and our ih<.J
W A. P. Jones, both of whom were oa th! 9
eve of moving, was also consumed. e 1
By the accident a faithful old negro wom i,
named Sina was burned to death. Xone ca" ©
tell the cause of the fire, but as it orisrirmw lj
in the room where old Aunt Sina had <mne §
wait for the return of some members otV ^
family, who were at a party in town, the w %
sumption is that she hail fallen asleep, L Is
her clothes taking fire had set the building ?!
fire. She must have been suffocated soon af. I
the breaking out of the flames.
On Monday night another lire occurred ot
the lot of C’apt. Barney, which burnt do^
the well house, and had the wind teen 1
blowing would have destroyed his resident*
and other out houses.—Holly Springs iJ/m
Herald, 8th inst.
High Prices for Negroes.
The prices now paid for negroes is just as!
certain to get somebody in the “suck” us i
live. Because our crops have been mostluj. j
uriant, and we have obtained good prices for :
our cotton, it is no reason why we should run :
our figures too high. We would caution the!
people against such a ruinous (and we mav ■
say desperate) policy of paring such high pi j
ces for negro property. It is a known fact, j
that when money has been so plentiful ij J
times past, as at present, it has beengenetai. •
ly succeeded by “hard times” and bankrupt-^™
cy. We advise men of small means noth!®
deal too heavily in the purchase of negro* *
If they have any surplus money on ban’, ;
let them put it out at interest, and within ;
year or two they may purchase negroes a i
much cheaper rates, and thus, besides havin:.
the interest of their money, their capital wi£ 1
bring them a larger profit. Sagacious inti
will take advantage of the present flush tims
to lav up money for future operations, whet ‘
men will be pressed for money to meet th
engagements which they are now making.
In order to make a good operation, it would
he well for some man to try the experiments 3
selling what negroes he now owns, and pur-;
chase again when the present high prices rii
be reduced, at certainly we believe they will;
—Lagrange Reporter.
The Weather—Rain, Snow and Ice.
We have been having a great deal of rain
lately, with now and then a storm. On th
coast, there have been some slight frosts. Th
hill-sides anil valleys are already freshenii:
up with grass and flowers. In the interior i
the winter has thus far been more severe that -
usual. Two or three instances have occuirc
of people being frozen to death in the mom-
tains. Ice and snow are the principal topiu*
of the mountain papers. Most of the river-]
are frozen over, snow mantles the hills ari
mingles with the clouds on the loftier peak-
flumes and ditches arc frozen over, and mi'-
ing operations in the more northern counc
il a ve ceased. In fact this is doubtless th
hardest winter we have yet experienced it
California, as last winter was said to he one
the millest. The temporary cessation d
mining in many important gold-pnxlurin:
districts has had a corresponding effect np :|
the Mint operations in this city. Only 17,0(K
oudees had been received at the Mint up totkl
16th inst-., when not far from 50,000 Un
usually been received in that time.
A Wife Suing for Her Lord.—We ban
heard often of wives being restrained by tlit::j|
parents from their husbands, but seldom c*
husbands being restrained from their wivti S
In the New York Supreme Court, a few iiy-B
ago, Mrs. Elizabeth Sinclair brought sr.j
against her father-in-law John S. Sinclair j
to produce the body of her ‘missing’ h-La
band. It appears that a young man
James Sinclair, still in his minority enten:
into the silken bonds of matrimony
Elizabeth. Four day after the ceremony
young bridegroom informed Elizabeth thatl-HB
feared detention and constraint on the pan
his father, and charged her to take immedk fSi
proceedings to recover his liberty should :-§»
be missing. Her petition states that
father-in-law detained her husband. andsfttH
fuses to allow him to visit or live wtth
that John S. Sinclair has declared bis irA:
tion to keep his son away from her at all hri; d
ards, and will, if necessary, send him our
the country to prevent them from living t-9
gether.
The elder Sinclair made a return that L ||
son was a minor, domiciled, up to the date JfR
the writ, in his house, and wholly depemk'^B
upon him; that he was not restrained of
liberty by force or confinement, but only
manded under pain of the parental displea® SaM
not to leave the premises for a previous db-ass
bedience and disrespect for the commands js
his father. In conclusion, he states that l- M
son had already left the control and custsdv
his father with the consent of the latter. <t-'9
consequently could not now produce him *4®
required by the writ.
When the case came on for hearing.
parties not being ready, an adjournment
granted.
The “Minib” Rifle.—The term Minieno Jjjaj
has led many persos to conclude that there«Sjj
some peculiarity of construction belonging :
Are aims which" went by this name. The a'f*
however is, that every rifle in which an eipt -
ding bullet is used is a Minie rifle; the inves-ra
tion is embraced in the character of the bukf
not the rifle. It was always well known tbf
rifles were more deadly and destructive ;
warfare than plain bored muskets, but c* 8 ? I
to the difficulty of ramming down a bullet -JapP
loading a rifle—because it is made a little r
ger than the bore, to fill the spiral
the barrel—soldier’s could not load and -|B
charge rapid enough in line ; this wastheftt'®^,
cipal reason why, the old musket kept
so long as a weapon of human warfare. “3
France, certainly, belongs credit of first “ jaSLs
dering rifles capable of being loaded as
as muskets, and of first introducing
her arms, and subsequently into the Bfij-'pi
and other armies. This was accomplished : -®*
the uBe of the expanding bullet by Id® 1 ®
Minie, of the French army, and who has fi'r
erally been supposed to be the first invet 1 ^
The British Government, however, hasi^'Scffi^
ded to N. Greener, a mechanic of Binning^
England, $1,000 as a prize for being
inventor of the Minie bullet. It appears^*
in 1836 he brought the subject of such
before the War Department of that
ment, in 1841, in a letter published in
the London papers, and again in lS4i b® 0 *
the government.
Exploits of the Elephant in Missi* iir?! '3|
The elephant that got loose from themeaVln
rie, in Mississippi, the other day, and
in the head wih & Mississippi rifle a n “ J
very suddenly and easily, after k-rifyin? ;
inhabitants and doing considerable da»%'
other respects utterly ruined one pj 1 ^. j
Hinds county, according to tho YicB w |
Southern’s account. It says:
“Passing through his plantation, the
beast came across two stacks of fodder ^
the stacks he devoured instantly, j;
hoisted the other on his trunk, and * ie! r
before him, as a shield, he marched on
tary grandeur. He soon reached »r|J
where the negroes of the plantation j
taking their dinner, when the
which met their eyes, so frightened t(R rjj
turned white. When their fear subsid^a. a
ing that they were all white men ana ^1
they deliberately walked off, ■“* ‘liutfl
owner of the plantation without * |
darkey!”