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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1869.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION
DAILY PAPER, per annum in advance, $8 00
TRIWEEKLY, per “ in advance 4 00
WEEKLY, “ “ in advance,.., 2 00
“ if paid within six months, 2 50
“ if paid within twelve months, 8 00
Forsyth Superior Court.
We are requested by the Clerk of the Supe
rior Court of Forsyth County, to give notice
that the Superior Court of that County, stands
adjourned to the 3d Monday in April next.
IIP Me. Stephen Massett, or “Col. Jeems
Pipes,” will shortly be with us to give remi-
nicences of travel, which he calls “Song and
Chit-chat.” “Col. Pipes” has recently been
the recipient of a Complimentary Concert in
Charleston, which was attended by the elite of
the city. We anticipate a rich treat in listen
ing to the history of this far-famed traveler’s
perigrinations,
gg°The North Georgia Times, Dalton, Ga. f
has undergone a change. Anderson J. Rodg
ers, Esq., has retired from the chair editorial,
and is succeeded by Messrs. J. T. Whitman
and J. L. Caldwell.
Mr. 'Whitman was in our sanctum on last
Friday, and looked as though he was able to
do good work for the Cherokee Democracy.—
Success to your new enterprise, gentlemen.
We hope you will do your work up Brown.
The manner of conducting the Editorial and
mechanical departments of the “Intelligen
cer,” has by a proper division of labor, been
so arranged that the Editorials of the paper
will be mostly prepared by the Senior Editor,
Col. Gaulding. Where several editors are con
nected with the same paper, the personalities
of the press have become Such, and we cannot
'control them, that the Junior Editor of the
“Intelligencer” has thought it advisable to
resume the editorial V, over which his first ar
ticles in this paper appeared. The Junior Ed
itor, desiring to devote the most of his time to
the reading and practice of law, will not be
expected under present arrangements, to write
much for the “Intelligencer.” Injustice to
Col. Gaulding, we have taken the course
named above, without any intimations upon
his part, upon the subject.
V. A. GASKILL.
Hon. B. C. Yancey.
We have been shown a letter from one of
the family, of the above named gentleman,
now United States Minister, at the Argentine
Confederation. The letter is dated 15th Dec.
last, and contains a brief account of the jour
ney of Col. Yancey and family, from Atlanta
to the theatre upon which his official acts are
to appear. lie arrived with his family, safe
and sound, and we by permission make the
following extract from the letter above refer-
ed to which was written at Panama. The
writer says “the town is built a mile from
the river, and on an elevated situation. The
climate is said to be the best on the globe.—
They never have fevers here, and their win
ters cannot be very cold, as the houses are
built, without fire places. This is their first
summer month, and we have already felt some,
very warm weather. We now find here, Apri
cots and Figs ripe; and next month they will
have an abundance of Peaches, Watermelons
and other fruits.” Think of it people of At
lanta ! summer in the month of December.—
All true no doubt.
The “quid Kune.”
This is the title of a Weekly Newspaper, the
first number of which we have received and
examined. Its name has been recorded on
our list of exchanges—but, oh! what a name !
“Quid Nunc,” which being interpreted, means
“What now ?” And published at “Grand
Junction.” And what a name for a town or
city! “Quid Nunc” and “Grand Junction!”
They suit exactly. Mr. J. B. Pryor is the Ed
itor, and J. B. Synnott is* the Publisher. In
his inaugural address, Mr Pryor professes to
be independent in politics, but seems to have
strong proclivities for Stephen A. Douglas.
This is bad, but the worst thing we see in his
address, is the remark in reference to the Ad
ministration of Gen. Pierce, characterizing it
as “inexperienced” and “inefficient.” We
fear the Editor of the “Quid Nunc” is either a
Nnow Nothing, or prejudiced against that
sterling patriot, Franklin Pierce. But enough.
The “Quid Nunc” is a respectable sheet, as re
gards size and mechanical execution, and the
editorials evince ability on the part of the Ed
itor. We wish him success in his enterprise,
and hope it will not be long before the name
of his paper, his town, and his politics will be
changed.
Tlxc Corner Stone.
Gen.Betliune is determined to be incomi-
gable,—politciaily we mean. We know what
to do with a Know Nothing, but when we come
in contact with one of these Democratic—Fire
Eating—Disunion—Free Trade and Direct
taxation Presses, “we acknowledge we are
stumped.” Here’s the “Comer Stone.” The
“Southern Confederacy” the “Auburn, Ala.,
Signal,” eternally fighting the Democracy all
the year round, and when election day comes,
the editors go and vote the Democratic ticket.
Now what can we do with such men ? Echo
answers what? We can’t undertake to an
swer the article of Brother Bethune, fully for
the reason that it would crowd our columns
too much, and moreover we have no fondness
for fighting Democrats—and lastly our friend,
the Genera], “would not be persuaded though
one rose from the dead,” and finally, he will
have “the last lick,” in spile of faith. Gen
eral accept this as our answer to your on
slaught upon us, which we offer in all kind
ness.
Read Tills.
We have many kind friends in Atlanta, who
have shown their friendship substantially in
various ways. A minister was once asked, if
the people to whom he preached, loved him ?
Well, said he, I hardly know; my hearers
treat me kindly, listen patiently to what I say,
and treat me hospitably at their homes. 0,
said the inquirer, that is not the answer I
want. Do your hearers ever put their hands
into their pockets, and hand you any money ?
The parson replied, they have handed me none
yet. If they have never handed you any mon
ey, you may be sure, said the. querist, that
your hearers do not love you.
We have often heard that the pocket nerve
lies near the heart. If the above furnishes a
true standard of friendship, taking into con
sideration the many favors which have glad
dened our hearts in the past few months, we
really believe that we have many good friends.
On Friday morning, a box was laid upon cur
table, all the way from Macon. Our curiosity
soon compelled us to open it. We found a
nice little note lying upon the contents of the
box, reading as follows: “To the Editors of
the “Atlanta Intelligencer,” with the respects
and best wishes of the Faculty of the Reform
Medical College of Georgia.” We removed a
little straw, and then a nice bundle of cigars
and two bottles of the very best champagne,
and two bottles of excellent sherry.
Gentlemen, thank you! Your medicine is
very palatable. May we never have to take
anything worse. We were surprised, as much
so as was Frank Pierce when he was nomina-
nated for President. But what right had we
to be surprised. Why not have those who re
member us kindly in Macon as well as in At
lanta. We shall try to conduct ourselves so
as to deserve the “best wishes” of all the good
people of our beloved State.
“A catalogue of the students and graduates
of the Reform Medical College of Georgia,”
has found its'way to our table. The number
of students reported in connection with this
school, shows a high state ofprospertty. “The
class of 1858 and 1869” speak very highly of
the above Medical College, by saying thafcit is
“second to none in imparting a scientific
knowledge of medicine.”
The “Intelligencer” n. Lather J. Glenn.
Such is the heading of a leader which ap
peared in the Southern Confederacy of the 4th
inst. We (the Senior Editor) cannot claim in
justice to our associate editor, the honor of the
authorship of the article to which the leadeT
above referred to, was intended as a reply.—
The conspicuous position in which we are pla
ced by our Mend of the “Confederacy,” de
mands at our hands, a response to his article.
The crowded condition of our columns with
advertisements, precludes the possibility of
our replying in extenso, to the numerous prop
ositions and queries of our Mend. He mis
states the case. There is none such pending
in a political, or any other court. “The In
telligencer vs. Luther J. Glenn” !! The idea
is preposterous. Why, Doctor, there is the
best sort of feeling between the Editors of the
Intelligencer and “Luther J. Glenn.” The
writer of this article has often partaken of the
hospitalities of his domestic circle, and if there
is one man in the world, above all others, with
whom we are most intimate and friendly, that
man is Luther J. Glenn. We have for the
last fifteen years, labored for his personal and
political promotion, and at this late day to
abandon him without cause, would in us, be
most ungrateful and inconsistent. Why, broth
er Hambleton, you hurt our feelings. Ingrat
itude is the blackest crime, in our estimation,
known to the moral criminal code. We would
as soon be accused of forsaking one of our chil
dren, as to be charged with infidelity to Luth
er J. Glenn.
But to the charges of our cotemporary, spe
cifically. We have nothing to say about the
“bull on the track,” and all else connected
with that figure of speech. We are for Gover
nor Brown’s renomination. “We have nailed
the name of Gov. Brown to our mast-head for
renomination,” ■premature or not premature.
If there are at present any “wings” to the
Democracy of Georgia, we are not aware of it.
In 1851, “Col. Gaulding” belonged to, and
acted with the Southern Rights Party of Geor
gia, for which we have nothing to regret.—
We were then, and are now, “conservative.”
We don’t know exactly what our cotemporary
means by rotation in office, as alluded to by
him. If he refers to the refusal by Gov.
Brown, of re-appointing the Senior Editor of
this paper, to an office which he held when
Gov. Brown came into office, all his efforts to
make capital out of that is “love’slabor lost.”
That is a.personal matter between us, and can
not in any manner, affect our political relations.
In the language of Judge Whitaker, we say,
“it is not inconsistent for one Democrat to
support another.” W" were never in favor of
a “Southern Confederacy,” except upon the
contingencies named in the fourth resolution
of the convention of 1850, known as the Geor
gia Platform. As for “fighting for the policy
of Howell Cobb,” we are at a loss to know
what the Doctor means. I£ Howell Cobb has
any “policy” opposed to the principles of the
National Democracy and “the Rights of the
South,” we are yet to be informed of it.
As to what our co temporary says about the
“Augusta Constitutionalist,” we must beg
leave to say that it is by no means, good au
thority where the interests of Gov. Brown are
involved. What the Confederacy says about
the “conciliation between Gov. Brown and the
Lumpkin regency,” is all Greek to us. We
know nothing about it. This, we presume, is
of a piece with the report we heard a few days
since, that the Senior Editor of the Intelligen-
ger, some week or so since, “had slept with
Gov. Brown, in the city of Atlanta,” when the
truth is, we have not seen the Governor any
where, in the last five or six weeks, and never
slept with him in our life, how muchsoever we
might feel honored by such an association.—
Talk about ‘ ‘hurting’ ’ Luther J. Glenn. There
is much more reason to fear that Mr. Glenn
will not only be “hurt,” by such Mends as
the Confederacy, but “killed outright,” than
that he shouid rereive the slightest injury
from the Intelligencer. Our cotemporary wish
es to know “if Mr. Glenn is the Intelligen
cer’s choice, if Gov. Brown fails in getting the
nominination?” To which we reply, “can
didly and unequivocally, ’ ’ HE IS. When the
time comes to push on the car of “Luther J.
Glenn’s” political fortunes, all we have to ask
of the “Confederacy,” is to stand shoulder to
shoulder with us in the fight. Will he do it ?
We shall see. We have thus replied laconically,
to the multiplicity of queries and charges con
tained in the leader of our <Jotemporary. We
might have elaborated ma4^ of Jbe ideas con
tained in this article, but th% want of space
forbids it. We will say in conclusion, that so
far as the antecedents of the proprietors of the
“Intelligencer” are concerned, they have al
ways supported Mr. Glenn, whenever he has
been a candidate for office, and they had the
right to vote in the election, and they are well
satisfied now, that they acted right in so vo
ting. Lastly, we ask pardon of our Mend of
the Confederacy, for suggesting to him that if
he would war more upon the doctrines of the
Know-Nothing Party, and less upon the De
mocracy, he would do more good to the party
to which he professes to belong, as well as to
his country, than by the course he seems in
clined to pursue.
r We invite attention to an account in
our issue of to-day of a “public meeting” in
Fayetteville. The resolutions are temperate
and well-timed. We hope the resolutions
may be used as the basis of a settlement of the
matters discussed. The case in Fulton coun
ty which went to the Supreme Court was
commenced by the Tax Receiver, under the
instructions of the Inferior Court. It would
be better in all cases of information,'if the in
formers would get the consent of theInferior
Court before they commence any cases against
delinquent Tax .payers. Under the law any
citizen of the State "has the legal right to in
form, but to avoid .public clamor and to keep
peace in the community, informers would do
well to secure the sanction of the Inferior
Court. We have not felt It to be our duty as
a public journalist to write as bitter things
as have appeared in many papers in this State
about informers, especially those-who live in
Fayette county. '-We are well acquainted in
Fayette and consider the parties involved in
the unhappy controversy, on both Bides, as
respectable citizens of this commonwealth.—
We have not felt, that we could truthfully
publish the gentlemen engaged as informers,
as “rascals,” on account of theiriconnection
with this affair. ; v We do not approve the
wholesale inlormationas it has been conducted.
But it seems to us Tather a matter of taste than
of criminality. The State of Georgia has invi
ted information and sundry gentlemen in
Fayette and elsewhere, for gain no doubt, have
taken the matter in hand. They will secure
censure enough, without a combined effort on
the part of the press to inscribe their nnmop
upon the “roll of infamy.” We have endeav
ored to carry our paper through this affair in
a dignified manner, without accusing Tax
payers of “corruption” or ihformere of “ras
cality.” We have kept too cool thus far, for
both sides but we believe that the “sober second
thought” of good citizens will finally approve
our course. We feel that the people of the
various localities, where informations have
commenced have sense enough and vir
tue enough, to arrange these matters
among themselves, without being ladled into
fury by newspaper epithets. We object to
several editorials we have seen throwing ridi
cule upon Fayetteville and Fayette county.
Fayetteville jtnd Fayette county win compare
well, in integrity ami intelligence, with those
who have too freely criticised them. If these
cases have to be litigated*, are not many good
and true citizens, running the risk of so far
committing themselves, as to render it quite
indelicate to take seats in the jnry box ? We
sincerely hope, that this matter may be hon
orably disposed of, without the aid of “mob
law’ ’ or personal violence of any kind. Were
we an informer and we beeame convinced,
that a large majority of the county opposed
our course, where we were operating we should
cheerfully accept such a proposition as the
one made in Fayetteville. May our citizens
in managing this exciting subject, remember
the inscription upon the great seal of our
State—“Justice, Wisdom, Moderation.
V.
Sabbath Evening Reflections .—The
Apostles.
The twelve were a remarkable set of men.
They were appointed to their divine mission
by the Son of God. ‘ ‘He ordained twelve that
they should be with him, and that he might
send them forth to preach, and to have pow
er to heal sicknesses and to cast out devils.”
They received their title from Christ. “He
called unto him his disciples; and of them he
chose twelve, whom also he named Apostles.”
They were called by “God the Father.”—
‘ ‘Paul, an apostle (not of men, neither by men t
but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who
raised him from the dead).”
They were also called by Christ. “When
he had called unto him his twelve disciples,
he gave them power against unclean spirits,
to cast them out, and to heal all manner of
sickness and all manner of disease.”
They were also called by the Holy Ghost.—
“So they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost,
departed unto Seleucia.”
God the Father—God the Son and God the
Holy Spirit, all united in calling the twelve to
their glorious work.
They were unlearned men. “Now when
they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and
perceived they were unlearned and ignorant
men, they marvelled and they took knowledge
of them that they had been with Jesus. ’ ’ They
were selected from the lower walks of life.
‘ ‘For they were fishers and he saith unto them,
follow me, and I will make you fishers of
men.”
They were sent to the house of Israel. “Go
rather to the lost sheep of the house of Is
rael.”
Their commission was subsequently enlarg
ed. “Go ye into all the worhPand preach the
gospel to every creature.”
Christ promised them his continued pres
ence. “Lo, I am with you always, even unto
the end of the world.”
They were told to have no fear of man.—
“Fear not them which kill the body, but are
not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him
which is able to destroy both soul and body
in hell.”
They were guided by the Holy Spirit. ‘ ‘He.
breathed on them and saith unto them, re
ceive ye the Holy Ghost.”
They were taught by the spirit what to say
to their adversaries. “When they bring you
unto the synagogues and unto the magistrates
and powers, take ye no thought how or what
ye shall answer, or what ye shall say; for the
Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour,
what ye ought to say.”
They were taught humility. “Whosoever
will be chief among you, let him be your ser
vant.” They were taught self-denial. “He
that taketh not his cross and followeth after
me, is not worthy of me.”
They were commanded to “love one anoth
er.” They were told that the world would
hate them. “Ye shall be hated of all men
for my name’s 6ake; but he that endureth to
the end shall be saved.”
They were forewarned of persecution. “I
send you forth as sheep in the midst of
wolves. ’ ’ They were to be witnesses for Christ,
having seen him. They “from the begin
ning were eye-witnesses, and ministers of the
word.” “Am I not an apostle? Have I not
seen Jesus Christ our Lord ?”
They were to be witnesses of his resurrec
tion. “Him God raised up the third day and
showed him openly ; not to all the people, but
unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to
us, who did eat and drink with him after he
rose from the dead. ’ ’ They were to be witnes
ses of his ascension. ‘ ‘While he blessed them,
he was parted from them and carried up into
heaven.”
Truly were the twelve a remarkable set of
men. The world has never seen such another
dozen. What a jury, to listen to the proof
and pronounce according to the evidence sub
mitted, upon the claims of their great leader
to the title of “King of Kings and Lord of
Lords.” That jury was soundly convinced.—
The devil lost even the benefit of a mis-trial.
“When the Centurion and they that were
with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake
and those things that were done, they feared
greatly, saying, truly, this was the Son of
God.” The verdict of the Apostles has never
been set aside. Eighteen hundred years have
rolled around and still that verdict stands un
impeached, fraught with the destiny of our
race, and permanent as the throne of God, al
though man in the excess of his folly, has of
ten attempted to assail it. Noble twelve,
though they waded through the waters of trib
ulation to enter into the kingdom, now they
rest from their labors, and their works have
followed them to their “twelve thrones” in
heaven. The “fishers of men” while living,
rejoiced over the conquests of the “truth as it
is in Jesus,” yet theirs was but the dawn of
thatglorious day, which, in its meridian splen
dor, shall envelope in heavenly light, a world
of willing followers of Apostolic teaching.
In humility they struggled, in glory they
are feigning. Ignorant they were called, but
well versed in the science of salvation, they
confounded the wisdom of the worldly wise,
and became teachers of the learned. Selected
from obscure stations, they wandered about
doing good in the name of their master, till
they became the “observed of all observers.”
Self-denying, they .manned and pushed the
“Old Ship of Zion” out upon the tempestuous
waters of life, and worked with true sailor’s
courage, till the great ‘‘Captain of their Salva
tion,’’* ordered an anchor in the haven of eter
nal fist, where all labors are ended and all
wants supplied.
Timid for a season, and cowermg before a
a maiden's reproaches—they at length became
bold.as lions, and willingly suffered the maf|
ty’s death. Men of the world and following
worldly callings, they .forsook the world, and
soon found that if in; this world only they had
hope, they were of “all men the most misera
ble.”
At one time full of fishing and of fun (for
fishermen are jovial)^at another, preaching
in synagogues by the way side, before Felix
trembling, and singing in prison and in chains,
they joyfully go where the spMt leadeth, and
rejoice in being counted worthy to suffer in
the master’s cause. Hated much by the world,
they loved their Saviour more. Full of the
spirit, they loved themselves len. Witnesses
for the truth, they take the stand like those
who “have been with Jesus,” and eagerly, yet
convincingly, narrate what their eyes have
seen, their ears have heard, and their hearts
have felt. Full of weakness, yet strong in
the Lord, doubting, yet struggling for faith,
often despairing, yet increasing in hope, poor
in spMt, yet rich in grace, onward and upward
they wended their way,'and ended their strug
gling in endless day. Y.
Reception of Smith O’Brien, in K. Y.
The distinguished Irish Patriot, Smith
O’Brien, arrived in New York, a few days since
and met with a warm" and enthusiastic recep
tion, worthy of the, patriot and devotee of
Irish liberty. Judge O’Connor in the name of
the committee of reception, delivered_a short
but beautiful and 'eloquent address to which
Mr. O’Brien responded in the following happy
and pathetic language.
MR."o’BRIEK’S RESPONSE.
Mb. O’Connor and Gentlemen—You are
quite right in supposing that I have not come
to the United States with a view of calling
forth any demonstrations or parade that
should be at all personal to myself. (Ap
plause.) At the same time I will not pretend
to be indifferent to the kindly feelings of my
fellow-countrymen, and it will assuredly be
pleasing to me to meet on Mendly and famil
iar terms, in this informal manner, all those
who desire to make acquaintances with me.
(Great cheering.) But I wish it distinctly un
derstood that I have not come here with any
political object, further than concerns my own
instruction and information. A large part of
my life has been devoted to political affairs,
and I have naturally felt a great anxiety to
study the institutions of this country—the
only country in which they can be seen with
advantage, or judged with impartiality. I
have learned so much to distrust the reports
of travellers that I greatly prefer to form my
own opinions rather than to adopt those of
others, and the more especially in regard to
the United States, inasmuch as the observa
tions of travellers here have generally been
written with the gal of prejudice. (Applause.)
I come here, therefore, for the purpose of in
vestigating those social problems which are
connected with the institutions of this coun
try, the only one, I may say, in modern times
which possesses, upon a large scale, a Repub
lican rather than a Monarchical form of Gov-
ernmenment I confess, too, that I have been
very anxious to know how far those millions
of my countrymen who have been compelled
by adverse circumstances which I need not
now recapitulate—for alas! they are too well
known to all of you—to make the United
States their home, have succeeded in their ef
forts here to improve their fortunes. It is
probable that I shall have an opportunity of
seeing, not only in the great cities of Ameri
ca, but in the remote West, many thousands
of my fellow-countrymen, and it would be
very satisfactory to me to be able to assure
my fellow-countrymen, on my return to Ire
land, that I have seen their kindred, whether
by race or birth, in America pursuing a flour
ishing and prosperous career, and that I have
found them preserving an undying attachment
to the land of their fathers. (Loud applause.)
In the presence of my Mend Mr. Meagher, it
is unnecessary* for me to remind you that there
is another object for which I came to tins
country, and that is, to see friends who have 1
long been separated from me by adverse fate.
It is with great pain that I feel, on shaking
his hand again, after a separation of several
years, that he is not in the position which I
now occupy—in perfect freedom to revisit his
native land, to again look on the scene to
which he is so deeply attached, to again greet
those friends who admire his genius, und again
to receive those assurances of affection which
he never failed to evoke from all who knew
him. (Applause.) Frankly, gentlemen, and
distinctly I will say to you that I consider the
prohibition which still excludes him from his
native country, after a lapse of ten years, and
after so many other matters have been con
signed to oblivion, is unworthy of the Rritish
Government.
Nor will I affect to say that I am indifferent
to the manifestations of feeling that was ex
hibited here in reference to myself when I was
similary circumstanced. At a time when I
was suffering the privation of almost every
thing that can make life delightful, at a time
when I was confined in a narrow circle, beyond
the limits of which I could not transgress,
save at the risk of being consigned to a pris
on—at that time the people of the United
States, including not the Irish population
alone, but a very large portion of the native-
born citizens of this country, came forward in
the great cities of the Union, first in Balti
more, and from Baltimore to Boston, calling
on the President to interfere with the British
Government in my behalf. Nor had I forgot
ten the enthusiastic feeling which was exhib
ited here on the occasion of my being permit
ted to return to Europe. I cannot forget
that at the great meeting which was held
here in the Tabernacle—a meeting which had
the countenance and the attendance, I have
reason to know, of the leading men of New
York—a congratulatory address was present
ed to so humble an individual as myself
which, as well in the terms in which it was
expressed as in the circumstances attending its
adoption, has seldom been paralleled in any
period of the world, especially when we con
sider the influence and position of the city in
which we now stand. Without arrogating to
myself any claim to public respect, I might
be forgiven if I entertain some vanity when I
recollect such marks of friendship. I am
here, therefore, in person, to acknowledge the
svmpnthies thus expressed; and, though I
earnestly desire to avoid, as much as possible,
everyth ng in the nature of parade, yet you
are at liberty to say to your friends that 1 ac
cept with gtatitude those demonstrations of
kindly feelings which your presence here to
day betokens. In regard to the future, it is
perhaps right for me to state to you now ex
actly and candidly what are my intentions.—
I am very anxious to be present at the meet
ings of Congress before it ’breaks up, and I
understand that its debates for the present
session will terminate next week. I propose,
therefore, to leave New York either on Sun
day afternoon or Monday morning, and then
to repair to Washington without delay, so
that 1 may have the satisfaction of glancing
at the proceedings of your Republican Legis
lature. From Washington I propose to go
Southward, probably to Charleston, from
whence I have not decided precisely in what
direction I shall proceed, but I trust to be able
to pass up the Mississippi to St. Louis, then
Northward to Chicago, Detriot, Toronto,
Montreal and Quebec, and back by Boston
to New York. If no impediment shall pre
vent the accomplishment of this tour, I shall
arrive again in New York in May, so that I
hope to see then, under more favorable cir
cumstances, all the scenery and objects of in
terest in your neighborhood. I shall then,
also, I hope, have an opportunity of meeting
my countrymen freely, and shall comply with
the wish contained in the address you have
just presented, as far as may be consistent
with my desire to make this a private visit,
unconnected with all public politics. (Ap
plause.) I had almost forgotten to say that
among those motives which induced me to
come to America, a desire to visit those ob
jects presented by nature, which are worthy
of observation and calculated to excite inter
est, has not been the least. And no one can
enter this beautiful port feeling that if Amer
ica presents many such scenes to the tourist as
that which I have seen to-day, they would
amply reward a visit. (Applause.) It is un
necessary for me to detain you longer, further
than to repeat my thanks for your kindness
and my wishes for your happiness. (Loud
cheers, frequently renewed.)
The Battle of Trenton.—A correspondent
of the New York Tribune, writing from Tren
ton, N. J., relates the following incident of
the battle of Trenton :
Another interesting relic of that day is the
old house in widen Colonel Rahl, the Hessian
commander, was said to have been playing
cards the night Washington crossed the Dela
ware. Tradition says he had some warning of
Washington’s design, but as Colonel Washing
ton that evening had made one of his dashes
upon them, Rahl concluded this was all that
was to be attempted, and went to his play in
that House, giving the servant orders not to
admit any one. The movements of Washing
ton had been noticed by a tory on the Jersey
side, and he sent a note to Rahl by a messen
ger, with instructions to give it to no one but
Rahl.. The servant refused the messenger ad
mittance, but promised to put the note in his
hands, and did so just as he was dealing out
the cards. He put tlie.npje in his pocket, and
forgot it—a most fortunate forgetfulness for
the American General,. -Tradition says that
the success of that night, 'Which made Tren
ton so worthy and so venerated a name, hung
on so trifling a circumstance as that.
fiT* A man named Givin, a tobacco planter
in Vuelta Abajo, (Havana) has become mad
from religion. Strange as it may appear, he
declares that he is a Saint on earth, and that
a crucifix, which he possesses and to which he
addresses himself as though it were a thing of
thought and feeling, has bestowed upon him
the power of restoring the blind to sight, to
heal and cure the lame and halt. What is
more extraordinary, is that his Mends and
neighbors positively believe he does really
possess these powers, declaring that by mere
ly laying his hands upon a man, who had been
lame for many years, he *had rendered him
sound and whole.—[Havana Cor. Charleston
Courier.
—— — —«
_ There is and Irishman down East, who,
when he calls the folks to dinner, has two
bells—a large one and a small one “for the
children.”
According to previous notice, a large num
ber of tbe citizens of'Fayette county met in
the Court House, at Fayetteville, this day,
for the purpoie of giving an expression of sen
timents upon the excited Btate of feeling ex
isting among the citizens generally, owing to
need against
the many suits commenced against our citi
zens upon the charge of defrauding the county
and State by giving in their taxable property
at too low a estimate.
Rev. John S. Dodd, upon motion was called
to the Chair, and S. W. T. Minor, appointed
Secretary. Col. M. M. 'Tidwell, by request,
having explained the object of ihe meeting in
a few remarks, the Chair then, upon motion,
proceeded to appoint a committee of five, to-
wit: CoL M. M. Tidwell, S. T. Whitaker, Eli
Edmonson, J. P. Shropshire, and W. A. Crom-
bie; which Committee should deliberate upon
and report business for the action of the meet
ing. The Committee retired a few minutes,
and then reported the following preamble and
resolutions:
Whereas, there is great excitement in this
community in consequence of the institution
by Thos. C. Moore, of Paulding county, as in
former, of divers suits vs. a portion of our citi
zens, under the charges and allegations, that
said citizens have made fraudulent returns of
their taxable property,—which excitement is
but natural, as it indirectly charges those sued
with falsehood and corruption; and which
charges, as thus made, rest upon onr heaviest
tax payers, and many of our oldest and best
citizens. Your committee cannot do other
wise than conclude that said suits were ill-
conceived and badly advised, and in reference
to this matter think the informer and his
counsel mis-directed and overreached by the
decision of the Supreme Court in one single
case. •
We, therefore, in order to restore peace,
harmony, friendship and quiet to our uni
formly peaceful community, by resolutions
make the following suggestions and request.
1st. Resolved, That this meeting uncondi
tionally condemn and disapprove of the policy
and manner of bringing suits, refered to in the
foregoing premble, and would suggest to the
plaintiff the propriety of at once discontinu
ing and abandoning them. And in this we
would not presume to dictate to him or his
counsel, but knowing it is human to err, and
beleiving they have done so in the institution
of said suits, either by acting from sadden and
hasty impulse or from a misconception of their
legal rights, we have made the suggestion.
2nd. That while this meeting disapproves of
the course pursued by said informer, it no less
condemns the man who wilfully and know
ingly conceals from the officer, of the law, for
the purpose of gain, thereby defrauding the
State and County out of that which he should
pay, as his part of the necessary expenses of
the Government and laws which protect him;
and would therefore suggest and do hereby
requset our Inferior Court (upon an abandon
ment by said informer of bis present suits,)
upon his or any other persons desiring it, to
meet &heai$uch evidence as such informer may
be able to adduce against such fradulent tax
payer, and if in the opinion of said Court they
shall have made out a prima facie case in law,
of fraud and concealment, then to pass an or
der to prosecute said delinquent, which we
believe can only be the sprrit and meaning of
the law sought to be enforced. And in such
suits would advise the good and law-abiding
citizens of this county to oppose no obstacle to
a proper investigation of such cases. And the
committee are informed that the Inferior
Court refused to grant the said T. C. Moore
any order unless he would make out befo.e
them such a case, as suggested in this resolu
tion.
3rd. Th at in the event of the failure or re
fusal on the part of said informer to pursue
such reasonable course as suggested, we will
prepare for a defense of said cases and resist
them to the last extremity; aitd hereby pledge
ourselves to use our utmost power in an hon
orable way to defeat recoveries in said actions.
Your committee have also thought proper
to notice another matter which may be regar
ded as somewhat collateral to the object and
business of this meeting, yet we believe it
due to this community to give an expression o.
opinion in reference to the matter. We allude
to imputations indirectly made against our
place and people by the public press, in ma
king this place the head quarters and fountain
from which issue the corruption and villainy
charged on certain citizens by them, these
charges, we believe, thrown out in general
terms, may make with strangers who do not
know our place and people, an unfavorable
impression, which imputations we repel as be
ing unjust by placing us in a false position—
without egotism or vanity, we must, can, and
will say that, there is no community where
wrong and corruption would be more prompt
ly condemned than in Fayetteville.
The spirit of prosecution did not originate
with our people, while it may be true that a
few of our attorneys may have been employed
to bring suits in this and other counties, and
some few of our citizens are informers in other
counties,
On motion, ordered, That the proceedings
of this meeting be signed by the Chairman and
Secretary, and published in the Literary Cask
et, and other papers in the State friendly to
the proceedings are respectfully requested to
copy. JOHN S. WOOD, Chairman.
S. T. W. Minor, Secretary.
Fayetteville, Mar. 1, 1859.
AVALANCHE extra.
Memphis, M.thcii 3, 1859.
TO THE FRIENDS AND PATRONS OF THE
AVALANCHE.
The villianous incendiary, after repeated at
tempts, has at length succeeded in reducing
the ‘Avalanche’ office to ashes. Whether the
enmity of the cowardly wretch was leveled
alone at us, or at us with others, we have no
means of knowing. But it is not surprising
that a paper like the ‘Avalanche,’ which is but
an epitome of frankness—which expresses,
without fear, favor or affection, the opinions
of its conductors, and which, whenever neces
sary, attacks its enemies and defends its
Mends—should be made the object of bate by
a skulking scoundrel.
Our office, which joined the ‘Eagle and En
quirer, has been set on fire on several occa
sions. Hereto: ore, the sleeplessness of our
compositors, and their brompt measures to
subdue the flames, have saved us. But yes
terday morning all efforts were unavailing,
and all exertions useless. To our foreman Mr
Gailor, and to our accountant, Mr. Barker, to
whose prompt efforts we are indebted for the
safety of our books and accounts, we owe many
thanks, as also to our gallant firemen, for
their vigorous exertions and praiseworthy in
tentions, which, but for the scarcity of water
in the public cisterns, would have proved
more efficient.
The friends of the ‘Avalanche’ must now
sustain us. New material, of every descrip
tion necessary to print a handsome sheet has
been ordered, and will be here as soon as the
steamers and railroads can place it in Mem
phis.
Our losses are heavy, and such, too, as are
irreparable - Our files, new and old, scrap
books, manuscripts, library—all of which pos
sessed a peculiar value in our eyes—have dis
appeared. We are insured for an amount suf
ficient to cover two-thirds of our loss in prop
erty, but the delays and annoyances which
must result, both to ourselves and our readers,
can only be compensated for by the kindness of
our subscribers and the increased activity of
our friends. Will not these friends and sub
scribers everywhere aid and assist us ?—not
by loans or donations—these we neither ask
nor except; but now, as heretofore, we offer
a quid pro quo, and only desire the assistance of
those who feel an interest in our sucess in ex
tending our circulation, and the same liberal
share of advertising patronage which we have
heretofore enjoyed. If each subscriber will
send us an additional one, it will go far to can
cel our losses, and to enable us to make the
‘Avalanche’ at once, what it is destined to be,
one of the leading organs of the true Democra
cy of the South.
GALLAWAY & CAMPBELL.
Memphis, March 2, 1859.
Exchanges will confer a favor by copying
the above*
Fair Plat for Printers.—We have a mind
to have this set up in capitals and leave it
standing at a column’s head; it is a great
truth compressed into a small space:
“The public have a fancy notion about
printers. They think it costs notning to puff,
advertise, &c. And one and another will
sponge an extra, a puff or some benevolent ad
vertisement. They forget that it takes money
to pay compositors—to buy ink, type and pa
per—and lastly, they forget to even thank you
for working fo** nothing by gratuitously puf
fing their business.”
J©” A Rochester man was kicked out of a
New York hotel, a short time since, because
he couldn’t, or wouldn’t pay his bill. When
asked if he didn’t feel bad und sore over it,
with true Rochester sang froid, he thus re
plied !
‘Oh, no, I only feel a little put out about
A very little gentleman was one day a
hunting, and his servant asked a clowon
whether he saw any gentleman ride that
way.
“Truly,” said he, “I saw a h t upon a sad
dle galloping that way a while hence.” i
The Tragedy at Washington.
When the community is startled by a hor
rible catastrophe, the popular feeling excited
is too apt to expend itself in more wouder and
horror at the crime and its effects, without
being led into a channel of wholesome reflec
tion. Yet, such wounds to the general peace
are designed, in the administration of Provi
dence, to do good,—as the cutting or cauteri
zing of a sore answers a benificent purpose in
the animal economy. The social heart is cor
rupt. Such an outbreak should direct "atteu-
tion to the meaus of preservation and cure
which edfery good citizen and every moral
person ought to aid as much as possible.
In the first place,—as intelligent foreigners
have remarked,—the American lady is gener
ally an idle person. If we cast a look over
the whole broad land, and observe life in our
cities, we shall find women whose fortunes
raise them above the necessity of labor, idle
from a sort of necessity, “Public opinion”
would frown upon their betaking themselves
to any regular employment. Mrs. Grundy
would be highly displeased should they be
so independent as to attempt making them
selves useful, except to serve the purpose of
vanity or ostentation. If a lady has children
who occupy her whole time and attention,
so much the better for her. She may be de
voted to them without defying custom.
Or, if governed by the love of doing good to
her fellow-creature, she enlists her sympathies,
or employs her time in labors of love for the
tens of thousands, young and old in every
community, demanding her aid and her efforts
for their moral and physical comfort, it is
wise and well for her thus to use the precious
hours of life. But If,—without affection for
those who are the lost children of the world—
she is left to suffer ennui, or to fill up her
hours with frivolty and dissipation, she would
be laughed at, and should she dare think of “a
profession,” her husband would be mortified.
He must see his wife as useless and as fine as
her acquaintances. So she is left to expend
the vitality God has endowed her with, on pur
suits utterly unworthy a rational creature.
What wonder she falls in the hour of tempta
tion !
Another cause of the too frequent occur
rence of instances of female frality, is the un
deniable fact, that in general, American ladies
seldom have an education worthy of the name.
They acquire superficial accomplishments,
that enable them to shine in that they call
“society;” but the intellect—the heart—have
no cultivation. They have no mental re
sources; they have no access to the treasures
of literature. The fleeting enjoyments of
sense and vanity are all they can command;
and these they seize with no idea of modera
tion regardless of the tendency to sap the foun
dations of virtue. The love of dress and display
becomes inordinate, and swallows up almost
every good and generous impulse. “A youth
of folly, an old age of cards,” ensue—for the
depreciated being is fit for nothing else.
Again the freedom of manners prevailing in
our fashionable circle is dangerous to female
honor. A lady can go where she pleases, and
with whom censured occasionally by a few
“old fogies,” but despising their admonitions.
She smiles disdainfully at warning looks when
she is carrying on a flirtation” in the drawing
room, and faces the public eye without a
blush when another than the one to whom
she has vowed allegiance, or some one who
has a right to be there, is at her side. The
unhappy woman whose fate is now the com
mon table-talk, was long the theme of scan
dal for such conduct; and many feel that the
living husband, as well as the dead professed
friend of both, was responsible for this scandal
as well as for the consequence which it led to.
And often it is not merely young and beauti
ful, but women of mature years, who are seen
indulging in this species of folly. How many
such revel in the gaze of admiration till they
forget all self-respect? An amendment in
the {general practice would be productive of
happy results. If it were esteemed improper
for a married,woman to be often seen in pub
lic with any gentleman other than her hus
band, or not privileged to protect her by right
of blood or one of known character and honor
—the true friend of the husband not less than
the wife-the evil would soon undergo a marked
diminution, if it were not rooted out entirely.
It is the “fatality” given to vice by our free
and easy habits, that does such fatal mischief.
—[N. Y. Express.
Gov. Brown’s Rc-nomlnatlon.
We find the following paragraph in the Ma
rietta Advocate, commenting upon an article
in the Augusta Constitutionalist, with regard
to Gov. Brown’s re-nomination. The Advo
cate says :
“There can be no doubt that throughout
this section of the State, ninety-nine men in
every hundred of the Democratic party are
decidedly for Gov. Brown’s re-nomination.—
We have not seen a particle of evidence going
to show that the same feeling does not exist
throughout the State The only influence that
can by any possibility bebrought to bear against
him in the convention is that of the cities
controlled by banks. This may be all power
ful to defeat him in convention, But it is un
deniable that the wishes and preferences of the
Demccratie party and of the people of the
State are for his re-nomination. And we may
ask if Gov. Brown is to 1)3 nominated for re-
election, who is to be the Democratic candi
date? Who will permit himself to be used to
defeat him.”
We heartily endorse the above sentiments
of our Marietta cotemporary, and have no
hesitancy in alligning ourselves with that por
tion of the Democracy, who are in favor of
holding a Convention, in accordance with a
time-honored custom of the party, and unan
imously re-nominating Joseph E. Brown, the
undoubted choice of the people for the Guber
natorial Chair.—[State Press.]
Bishop Capers, ox Children.—The following
sensible thoughts about childien, and chil
dren’s amusements, occur in the autobiogra
phy of that lamented bishop of the Metho
dist Episcopal church, Rev. Wm. Capers, D.
D. :
‘ ‘And I say now, let the children be children.
Let them have their plays in their own way,
and choose them for themselves. We only
spoil it by interforrng. And I say more ; away
with all sickly sentimentalism, and the cruel
ty of unnatural constraint. What a depriva
tion it would have been to me at Belle Vue to
have been refused my traps because it was
cruel to catch the birds ! But I had my traps
and never dreamed of any cruelty in the mat
ter. My father made the first one for me,
and taught me how to make them, and how to
set them, and to choose proper places for them.
But he never made a cage for me, nor did I
ever want him to make one. God had given
me the birds to eat, if I could catch them ;
but not to shut them up in cages, where they
could do me no good. No artificial cases of
conscience were made for me. I loved the
birds. I loved to see their pretty feathers,
and to hear them sing ; but I love to taste of
their flesh still better. And I might do as in
offensively as a cat, for anything I was taught.
The use gave the measure of right in the case,
Such as I could not eat, I would not catch.—
And I hate this day the mawkish philosophy,
which gives to the birds the sympathy due to
the children. Let the children be free and
active. Let them have a mind and will. And
let them have a parent’s gentle, faithful guid
ance : neither the ill-judging weakness, which
is ever teasing them with interjections that
mean nothing; nor the false refinement which
while it must have the birds go free to carol
in the groves, makes caged birds of the little
children; nor the tyranny of constraining
them out of all their simple gleeful nature, to
behave like old people.
Canght In Ills own Trap*
The Oconowomoe Free Press relates a re
markable occurrence which took place in Erin,
Washington county, Wisconsin, on the night
of the 1st of February, and the particulars of
which arc derived from a reliable source. The
town treasurer had collected most of the taxes
and had the money in the house. In the af
ternoon he told his wife he was going to a
distant part of the town and would not be
back till the next day. That evening a ped
lar well known in the neighborhood, and who
had been in the habit, when in that place, of
stopping at the treasurer’s house came along
and as usual put up histeam and retired to
bed. In the night three men, disguised, en
tered the house, and two of them seized the
woman and threatened to shoot her if she
made any noise. The pedlar was aroused,
came out with a revolver, fired and killed
one of the robbers on the stairs, when the
othe two instantly fled. A light was piocured,
and, upon examination, the dead robber was
found to be the town treasurer himself.—
There is quite an excitement in the neighbor
hood, and strong efforts are being made to dis
cover his two accomplices.
A Type of Woe.
IIP A poor Editor, out somewhare, falling
into the hands of the Phillistincs, broke forth
in the following gizzard moving appeal.
Sheriff spare that press!
Touch not a single tye ;
Don’t put me in distress.
To stick to me through life.
’Tis all in all to me,
Ii lost what shall I do ?
Then why not let it be ?
Oh, Sheriff! boo ! boo ! boo !
fiT Jenkins, Esq., beiag asked if he liked
sausages; remarked that he had never eaten
any—they were to him a terrier incognita.
A Feeler.
The daily Intelligencer of the 27th ult. says;
“The Southern Confederacy, of last Friday,
comes out in a leader headed, ‘Hon. Luther
J. Gleun, for Governor,’ ” and says, “there
are some things in the above named article
which our duty will not let ns pass. We have
no hostility to exhibit againstJtfr. Glenn, yet
we tincerety believe that the article under
consideration, at the present juncture of af
faire, will do Mr. Glenn no good, if it does not
do him harm.” Now it does appear to us that
the Confederacy is rather too young in the
horn to dictate to the old guards who have
stood upon the walls and cried aloud and spar
ed not. We suspect that there is a fly in the
lock. Wedo not impeach the Confederacy of
being under Bank influence, nor of being con
trolled by any particular hidden instrumen
tality. But we do say that we caunot imag
ine from what quarter he derived the facts
from which he asserts that—
“The approaching Gubernatorial Conven
tion, from every manifestation of public sen
timent, threatens to be one of unprecedented
acrimony in the annals of the State, with the
almost certain attendant evils of schism, dis
cord incurable, and prejudices that will en
danger the success of the party.”
Is it possible that the Confederacy is so green
as to suppose such a fire-fly as the above could
intimidate Brown’s friends to falter in the
least particular in urging his claims before
the steady yeomanry of the country ? We
trow not. But if it is intended as a “feeler”
—which we suppose it is—then we say again
to the country people, to the farmers and me
chanics of Georgia, “have a care,” or the
town and city gentlemen will hold small cau-
cusses and nominate themselves as delegates
to the Gubernatorial Convention, in June
next, and nominate a hank man for your next
governor. You, fellow citizens, of Georgia,
remember very well the rough-shod manner
in which the bank party, by a two-thirds vote
in the Legislature of 1857, run over Gov.
Browns bank veto. Therefore we call upon
the lovers of equal rights, and just legislation
to call large county Conventions, and send no
•man to said Convention what they do not
assuredly know to be the people’s friend, and
the laboring man’s supporter. This do we
pledge tbe Blade and all its interests, that
Governor Brown will he nominated by a two-
thirds majority the first balloting, and the
Convention will not be tied four days as it was
before, jugling for particular partisan inter
ests.—[Independent Blade.]
Congress Adjourned.
Washington, March 4.—Owing to some
points of a punctilious nature, between the
Senate and House of Representatives, in re
gard to the policy of raising revenue from an
increase in the rates for postages, ail the ap
propriations for the land and ocean mail ser
vice, for the coining year, have been de
feated.
Every other appropriation bill was passed.
The Treasury note bill was passed.
The bills for the increase of the tariff, the
abolition of the frankling privilege, and the
bill for increasing the rates for postages, were
all defeated.
It is not probable that an extra session of
Congress will be called.
Both branches adjourned at noon to-day.
Washington, March 4,—8[ o’clock P. M.—
Public opinion is divided as to the necessity
of a call for an extra session of Congress.
All the appropriation bills have become
laws, except the postage bill, and post route
bill. The failure of the latter to become a
law, will cause no inconvenience to tbe pub
lic service.
The miscellaneous bill which was passed
contains a section extending the Treasury De
partment to meet the notes now shortly fall
ing due. The section abolishing the frank
ling privilege, and increasing tlierates of
postage was emphatically rejected.
In the House, among other appropriations
made, was three hundred and forty thousand
dollars for the existing mail contracts to Cali
fornia via Panama and Tehuantepec, to end in
September. Butterfield’s steamer mail bill,
for a route from Mobile and New Orleans to
the Mexican gulf ports, was passed by the
Senate almost unanimously, but was stricken
off, with many other appropriations in the
House.
Cotton Ship on Eire.
New York, March 4.—The ship Vanguard
for Cronstadt (a Russian sea port) loaded with
cotton, is on fire between her decks. It is
probable the vessel and cargo will prove almost
a total loss.
Death of Third .* ssistant Postmaster
General.
Washington, March 4.—Mr. John Marron,
the 4d Assistant to the Postmaster General,
died very suddenly this morning. Mr. M.,
has, for many years, conducted the finance
businessof the post office department; and was
regarded by previous, as well as by the pres
ent administration, as an able, worthy and
reliable officer.
Pride Most Fall.
When Napoleon was about to invade Rus
sia, a person who had endeavored to dissuade
him from his purpose, finding he could not
prevail, quoted to him the proverb, ‘ ‘ Man
proposes, but God disposes ;’ ’ to which he
indignantly replied, “I dispose as well as
propose.”
A Christian lady, hearing the impious boast
remarked, “I set that down as the turning
point of Napoleon’s fortunes. God will not
suffer a creature thus with impunity, to usurp
his prerogative.” It happened just as the la
dy had predicted. Napoleon’s invasion of
Russia was the commencement ofhis fall.
Resist the Beginnings.
The Arabs have a fable of a miller, who was
one day startled by a camel’s nose thrust in
the window of the room where he was sleep
ing. “It is very cold outside,’ ’ said the camel.
“I only want to get my nose in.” The nose
was let in then the neck, and finally the whole
body. Presently the miller began to be ex
tremely inconvenienced, at the ungainly com
panion he had obtained in a room certainly
not large enough for both. “If you are in
convenienced, you may leave,” said th# cam
el, “as for myself, I shall stay where lam.”
The moral of the fable concerns all. When
temptation, occurs, we must not y*ield to it.—
We must not allow so much as its “nose” to
come in. Everything like sin is to be turned
away from. He who yields even to the small
est degree will soon be entirely overcome; and
the last state of that man is worse than the
first.
A Washington letter writer retails an inter
esting bit of gossip about the President:
When he and Forney played the somewhat
heavy role of Damon and Pythias, Forney,
wishing to secure a property for his wife and
children, had the legal title vested in Mr.
Buchanan as trustee. Now, however, Forney
has not the same confidence in his Damon as
before, and seeks to divest him of his trustee
ship. The case is well put in this wise ; If
one’s country is not safe in the keeping of this
man, how can one’s children be secure ? But
Old Buck positively refuses, and sends this
proposition: If I cannot trust Mr. Forney,
how can I put this poor woman and these in
nocent children at his mercy? Exclusively
awkward, this want of confidence.”
She Would’nt Marry a Meahanic.—A
young man commenced visiting a young lady,
and appeared to be well pleased. One even
ing he called when it was quite late, which led
the yonng lady to inquire where he had been
so late.
“I had to work to-night.”
“What! do you work fora living?” she
asked in astonishment.
“Certainly,” replied the young man. “I
am a mechanic.”
“I dislike the name of mechanic,” and she
turned up her pertty nose.
1 hat was the last time the young mechanic
visited the young woman. He is now a weal
thy man and has one of the best of women
for a wife,
The young lady who disliked the name of
mechanic is now the wife of a miserable fool—
a regular vagrant about grog shops, and
the soft, verdant, silty miserable girl is obliged
to take in washing in order to support herself
and children.
A correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing from Washington, thus indicates the
estimation in which that veteran soldier and
democrat is held at the National Capitol.
“From present appearances General Joseph
Lane has the inside track for the Charleston
nomination of the Presidency. Mr. Buchan
an has highly complimented the General by
saying on Saturday evening that he was a
‘true statesman, a gallant and patriotic sol
dier, whose future would be more glorious to
him and his country than the past has been. * *
One would infer from the President’s language
that General Lane; the Senator elect from Or
egon was his choice for the succession. On
Saturday evening General Lane was serena
ded at Brown’s Hotel by the Marine Band.
Over four thousand persons were present.
® O O o Q' O O
If Lane is nominated at Charleston, Steph
ens of Georgia, will get the nomination for
Vice President if he wants it.
I®* My *on, what would yon do if your
dear father should be suddently taken from
you?
‘Swore and chew tobacco.”
EAct oF Ball roads In the Wtot,
The valuation of property in Ohio sta«j
thus at different periods :
in m2,
In 1868, .
Increase,
That is an annual increase of
,581,911
860,0''"
3SS >°00,’ooo
$58,000,000
per annum. .
The expenditures on railroads has been Sin
000,000 per annum, so that the improved,i
ue of State property has been six times irrelf'
than the whole amount expended on
roads.
The increased value of property, in the Norn,
western States, in the last six years, has kIt
about one thousand millions ; while theexneni' 1
tures on railroads in that time has been ,
hundred millions. ®°
Whatever effect on that increase of p roi ^
ty has been produced by railroads, it is cert!*’
that the North-western States could afford
give the entire cost of all their roads ; and yet h
left, near eight hundred millions of inerea^ i
value. Jse, ‘
Such a result, we undertake to say. has n
been produced by any species of social mack
ery in the same time, since the world T~
gun. De '
What is their discouraging in their hu ■
ness ? Nothing but the reduction of hinHn
in 1857, ’58. Why should that discouJ?
any one, when that reduction has been f
.less than in any other kind of business ? ar
Undoubtedly there was less decrease •
railroad business, than in any other kinds "f
business ; and, undoubtedly, too, that redn°
tion was owing to causes which have not vo
been appreciated by the public. In fi ve y e ~-
past we have had but two good crops" a Ji
hardly that. It is only strange that the fen
ing off has not been greater.
We have now come to a period when the'
will be a rapid increase of railroad businesf
and we hazard nothing in saying, that th
year 1859 will probably produce greater r 6
suits on railroads, than has ever been known
Daring Feat at Klngara.
A correspondent of the Chicago Press and
Tribune gives the following particulars of til.
recent insane hazard at Niagara Falls, of Sig
nor Gaspa Morelli alias Andrew Greenleaf \
daredevil Yankee boy, who, fora wager’ of
$1000, on Monday week, actually crossed
Niagara river, walking upon stilts,’ between
Goat Island and the Falls. The writer
says:
Punctually at 7 o’clock, Morelli app- ared in
fine spirits and condition. He had with him
a pair of stilts about twelve feet long, made of
wrought iron, flat, sharp edged and pointed-
shaped in fact, almost precisely like a double-
edged dagger. These were firmly lashed to
his legs, and he walked towards the terrible
river with a confident smile. The mornin"
was clear and cold, but he was attired vtrv
lightly, in a dress not unlike that usually
worn by gymnasts. At ten minutes past seven
he stepped into the water, which in another
moment was boiling, surging and rushim* be.
neath his feet. The boldest of the lookers on
held his breath in suspense, as the daring man
receded from the shore. He alone seemed un
moved, and passed on, slowly and carefully
avoiding the larger rocks which were made
apparent by the eddying current. His stem
at first were very short and carefully made
but afterwards bolder and longer.
The stilts, of course, were so placed that the
current struck only against their edges, ami
produced but little effect; but tlie danger from
the sunken rocks, and the conviction that a
single false step would send him to death
pro Inced a feeling that was horribly painful.
Once or twice be seemed to lose his balance,
and a sickening shudder ran through each one
of the beholders. Recovering himself he
still kept on—still receded, until to our
straining eyes he could hardly be hardly
be distinguished from the foaming waters.
The middle of the river was attained at last:
hours seem to have fled, but it was barely sev
enteen minutes since he left the shore. As he
approached the deepest and most dangerous
part of his route, the suspense became more
fearfully intense. No word was spoken, ex
cept that one man offered another five dollars
for a moment’s use of his lorgnette, which of
fer passed unheeded. Just as Morelli reached
lie swiftest and deepest portion of the current
he seemed to totter—sink—he threw up his
arms ! I closed my eyes. Opening them in
a moment after, I saw that he was still stand
ing. A few moments more and he had reached
the Canadian bank—and fell exhausted into
the arms of two men who were waiting for
him.
At this hour (3 p. m.) he has nearly recov
ered, and though still in-bed, receives the con-
gratulations of dozens of visitors who come
pouring in. He left the American sli re 960
feet above tbe fall, and came out about 10(0
feet above the Canadian. The money has al
ready been handed over to him, and all will
agree that it was fairly won.
Baron Aldeison to Ills Pod.
I have sent you to Eton that you may he
taught your duties as an English young gen
tleman. The first duty of such a person is to
be a good and religious Christian ; the next is
to be a good scholar ; and the third is to he
accomplished in all manly exercises and games
snch as, rowing, swimming, jumping, cricket
and the like. Most boys, I fear, begin at the
wrong end, and take the last first, and what
is still worse, np.ver arrive at either of the two
at all. I hope, however better things of you
—and to hear first, that you are a good, truth
ful, honest boy; and then that you are one of
the hardest workers in your class ; and after
that, I confess I shall be by no means sorry
to hear that you can show the idle boys, that
an industrious one can be a good cricketer, or
jump as wide a ditch, or clear as high a hedge
as any of them.
Bad St lection of a Hymn.
Ministers are not always careful iu adopting
hymns to occasions. A correspondent of the
‘Presbyterian’ says, that at a funeral of a late
pastor of a church in New England, the ofiici-
ating minister gave out to be sung as the con
cluding hymn, “Not all the blood of beasts."
and as the remains of the deceased clergyman
were carried down the aisle, the afflicted con
gregation reached the expressive lines,
“ Believing, we rejoice
To see the curse removed.”
This was as bad as the ill-timed ejaculation
of one of our shouting sisters, whose feelings
became so excited under the pathic farewell
sermon of a preacher, that she could not con
tain herself, but exclaimed, “Glory to God!
Our brother is going! Ob ! glory! we shall
never see him again ! ’ ’ Singing and shout
ing should be regulated by common sense.
A travelling Irishman who had gone the
whole round of the continent, was returning
home satiated with having “seen nothing,”
when, in a field by the road, he saw a fight:
he stopped his carriage, hurried to the scene
of action, took his side, with small reference
to the question at issue, obtained his due
amount of blinding bruises, and groped back
to his carriage, exclaiming. “By Jove, this is
the first bit of pleasure I have had since I
have been from home !”
Death of Mrs. Tnmlin.
It is with profound regret and sorrow that
we record the death of Mrs. L. E. Tumlin,
wife of Col. Lewis Tumlin. daughter of Mai.
Turner Goldsmith, and sister of the editor of
this paper. She died at the residence of Col.
Tumlin. two miles south-west of this place,
on Tuesday last at four o’clock. P. M . after
several weeks illness. She was loved and es
teemed by all around her, blessed with an
abundance of this word's good, she was kind
and benevolent in ministering to the wants of
the needy. She had been an orderly and pi
ous member of the Baptist Church for many
years, and evinced to the world, in her exem-
parly holy life, the genuineness of the relig
ion she professed to enjoy. She leaves an af
fectionate husband, loving and obedient chil
dren, father, mother, brothers and sisters, and
a large circle of relatives and friends, to mourn
her departure.—[Cart. Ex.]
Public Journalists—Mr. Pryor.
It is stated, and we believe truthfully, that
Roger A. Pryor, Esq., Editor of the Washing
ton States, will retire soon from that journal
and resume the practice of his profession at
Petersburg, Ya. Whatever difference of opin
ion may exist as to the orthodoxy of Mr.
Pryor’s political views, it cannot be denied
that he is one of the finest writers in the
country. For force, expression, eloquence
and logic, his editorials, we had almost said,
were equal to the celebrated letters of Ju
nius. He retires from the fraternity—satisfied
doubtless, as is always the case that the politi
cal editor is the last person thought of in the
world for promotion, albeit he devotes his
life to the success, and welfare ofhis party.
The obscure lawyer of the country village-
who cannot write a respectable leader, rises
above the fine essayists, who speaks with
every* impression of his journal as with a tli 0 ®'
sand tongues—bearing the blunt of his party»
battle—warding off blows—a General in the
fight, yet receiving a private’s pay.
We ask the intelligent reader, if there is not
truth in what we- say.—[Columbus Times
Immense Force of Ocean Waves.—Mf-
Stephenson, the builder of Eddystoue light
house, found by actual experiments, that tire
force of the breakers at the Bell Rock light
house, on the Atlantic side, was equal to three
tons to the square fool. A boulder present'
ed a square yard of resistance to the wave,
would have toe force supplied to it after a long
storm of twenty-seven tons! Who can won'
der that heavy rocks are frequently removed,
even upon an inclined plane, by the simp™
yet terrible power of disturbed wavers ?
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