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ATLANTA, GEO., THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1859.
NO 29
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THURSDAY, MAY 12, 1869.
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Our Poetical Correspondent.
\\’e would respectfully call attention to a
poetical communication which we publish to-
(jay, from our special friend, over the signa
ls of “Kate.” There is something in the
effusion which is delightful to us, at this the
spring time of the year, and we have no doubt
many of our readers will appreciate its mer
its.
AYhlt field County Right Side l'p.
\Ye received yesterday, a note from a friend,
saving in reference to Whitfield county, “all
for Brown any way you can fix it.” The fol
lowing delegates have been appointed for that
county to the Gubernatorial and Congression
al Conventions. To the former, Messrs. Mtfore,
Hanks and Stancell ; to the latter, J. T. Tay
lor, J. N. ('ate, and J. A. Glenn. Well done,
Whitfield.
DrKalb County Democratic Meeting.
We publish to-day the proceedings of a
meeting held by the Democracy ofDcKalb
,-ouiity for the appointment of Delegates to
the Gubernatorial and Congressional Conven
tions. It will be perceived that a resolution
was passed endorsing Gov. Brown and Col. Gar-
trcll, and instructing the delegates from that
county to use all honorable means to procure
their nomination for the offices which they
now hold. Tiie Democracy of DeKalb belong
to the “old guard,” and are impregnable to
the assaults of disorganize. Vcrbum sat.
Weights and Measures.
A friend writes us from New York, that he
lms closed a contract with Mr. John W. Kis-
gatn of that city, to manufacture, by direction
of Gov. Joseph E. Brown, one hundred and
forty setts of standard weights and measures
for the State of Georgia, to supply some of
the old. and all the new Counties created since
1841, under an act ot the last Legislature.—
They are to be delivered at Savannah in four
months. This is sill light. Every county
should have a standard of weights and meas
ures. by which all should be governed.
Tlir Atlanta Mineral Spring Company.
The Stockholders who have subscribed to
the capital stock for improving the Mineral
Spring in this city, met on Monday night last,
to organize for the purpose of proceeding with
the work. Hie Board of Directors were elect
ed. and consist of Thomas S. Powell, J. N.
Simmons, J. W. Duncan, O. H. Jones, and V.
H. Tailiaferro. The Building Committee con
sist of J. L. Dunning, S. B. Oatman, Wm.
Barnes and Sidney Root.
At a subsequent meeting of the Board of
I tireotors, Dr. Thomas S. Powell was elected
President, aid Mr. S. B. Oatman appointed
Treasurer. The Board passed an order, that
the Building Committee proceed forthwith, to
erect the building immediately over the Spring
—and that the Treasurer apply such amount
as may be needed, from the sums already sub-
scribed, to the purpose.
Our c itizens, seeing the zeal and energy with
which this movement is prosecuted, should
tome up cheerfully, and aid in carrying it out.
A very small amount will suffice—not over
fifteen hundred dollars. Among a large pop
ulation like Atlanta, it should not he difficult
to raise such a sum. Let all our merchants
and property holders lend a helping hand.
Oelegntx In Attendance at Rail Road Con
vention In Atlanta, May 4tli 1859.
Georgia R R.— Jno. P. King, President
Geo. Young, Superintendant.
Memphis 8f Charleston R. R.—Sam Tate, Pres
ident. W. L. Ross, Superintendant E. D
B. Ayres, Superintendant W. D.
Mestmi &f Atlantic R. R.—i.r. J. \f. Lew ,
President. E. B. Walker, Master ot lnns-
IMirtatiou.
Xashville Sf Chattanooga R. R.—Jas. A. White-
side, Vice President.
F. Tennessee of G for get R. R.—C. Wallace,
President. R. C. Jackson, Superintendant.
E Tennessee if Virginia R. R.—S. B. Cunning
ham. President. M. S. Temple, Superinten
dant,
South Carolina R R.—W. J. McGrath, Gen.
Agent.
Macon 8f Western R. R.—Alfred L. Tyler,
Superintendant. J. E. Day, Gen. Agent.
Central R. R.—Geo. W. Adams, Superinten
dant. J. M. Selkirk, Gen. Agent.
South Western R. R.—Virgil Powers, Super
intendant.
Muscogee. R. R.—J. L. Mustian, President, &
Superintendant.
Atlanta if Lagrange R. R.—R. Peters, Direc
tor.
Montgomery if West-Point R. R.—Daniel
Cram, Superintendant.
Snmnte R R Mining Co.—P. A. Mitchell, Su-
perintendant. Charlse W. Anderson, Gen.
Agent.
JNO. T. KING ,Chairman.
B. Ayres Secretary.
Judge Deauder W. Crook.
We know the above named gentleman
well. He is one of Georgia’s noblest sons,
“True as steel” to his native South, and the
interests of the Democratic Party. We sub
join an extract from the Grand Jury Present
ments of Gordon County, as published in the
Georgia Platform of 28th uit., from which his
worth as a man and a Judge may be learned.
Nine cases decided by him were carried up to
The Supreme Court which recently closed its
Spring session in this city. Seven were affirms
ed. and two reversed. What judge in Georgia
can show such a record ? Judge Crook de
serves irreat c edit for his ability and fidelity,
and we are gratified to find the Grand Jury of
Gordon County duly appreciate his worth.
In taking leave of his Honor, Judge Crook,
we most respectfully tender him the sincere'
and heartfelt thanks of our body for his affable
intercourse with us and his polite and courte-
ous attention, and we respectfully digress from
the routine of such returns so far as to dwell
upon a matter that concerns every good citi
zen. We beleive we express the feeling of ev
ery good citizen of Gordon county when we
say we are heartily gratified at the dignified,
mild, yet firm, courteous, energetic, impartial,
and prompt manner in which his Honor has
presided during the present week. We togeth
er, as we sincerely believe, with every other
ffood citizen of the country, feel that we are
highly indebted to his Honor for valuable sug
gestions in regard to a common School system,
anil we not only feel grateful, but proud of
the earnest manner in winch he recommen
ded the the enforcement of the criminal laws
of the State, especially in regard to trafficking
with slaves or free persons of color, and gam
ing. In conclusion of this, our body would
express its heartfelt desire for the long life
and prosperity of his Honor, and that his offi
cial career may continue a ssuooessful and bril
liant, when the official mantle foils from his
shoulders, may it not only fall bright and un
sullied upon his successors but may its bright
ness and purity given by his Honor’s present
administration ever shine a beacon light to re
mind succeeding generations of the respect
that a correct and pure judicial administration
wins.
For the InteUigenoer.
TO A CITY FRIEND.
Sweet spring is here, I feel her breath,
Inhale her rich perfume,
And all the country round’s a waste,
A boundless waste of bloom.
Then leave, oh! leave the city’s walls,
Its dusty streets awhile,
And come, my friend, where nature's works
In sweetest beauty smile.
Yes, leave awhile the city’s show,
Its tinfoil tinsel glare,
And roam where nature’s voice unites
With ours in praise and prayer.
Yes, come and roam the woodlands oe’r,
Where all is bright and free,
Or sit beneath the cool green boughs
Of some old forest tree.
And listen to the melody,
The wild bird’s happy song,
And the glad streamlets as they dance,
In joyousness along.
And watch the violets eyes of blue
Peep up in glad delight—
The goldpu honeysuckles lean
To kiss the waters bright.
Yes, come, and I will pluck the flowers,
’The loveliest ones that blow,
And twine a garland bright and fair,
To place upon thy brow.
I’ve read of those of olden time,
Who hung up fruits and flowers
Before the Altar shrines of those
They called superior powers.
I’ll imitate this ancient rite
In this enlightened day,
Will gather buds and wild flowers rare,
And strew them in thy way.
And I’ll interpret them for thee,
^ Their language to thee teach,
For unto every one’s assigned
A sentiment or speech.
And then in flowers we’ll talk, my friend,
That most romantic tongue,
Which those in for off Eastern lands,
Their hopes have said or sun^.
And when this pastime has grown stale,
In the calm hours of even,
We’ll turn from earthly things away,
To brighter ones in Heaven.
And roam in fancy through those climes,
Those amaranthine bowers,
Where all the blest of God are crowmed
With bright eternal flowers.
May 3d, 1859. KATE.
The Streets—Taxes.—For what do people
pay taxes. In consideration of certain bene
fits which they are supposed to receive as
considerations from the tax-exacting power, is
it not ? If these considerations foil, can the
people ho forced to pay their taxes ? We be
lieve the issue lias not been made in this city;
but it strikes us there is good ground for it.—
Elsewhere, suits are frequently brought against
corporations for damages for neglect to per
form the duties incumbent upon them. Thus
if a man falls through a hole in a side walk,
and breaks his leg, he recovers damages of the
town for neglect to keep the banquette in pro
per order. So, if a horse ^breaks his leg by
stepping upon a rotten bridge, etc, etc.—
Would not the principle hold good in New
Orleans ? We may have something more to
say upon this matter.—[ New Orleans Bulle
tin.
The above questions are not only appropri
ate, but applicable to our own city. Every
tax payer has a right to complain when the
streets aud crossings in his part of the city are
left untouched from one year to another, while
the money received by taxation upon his
property is expended upon streets, alleys, &e.,
less used than his own. There are some streets
in this city—streets too, that are extensively
used by the travelling public, that have had
no attention from our city fathers for one or
two years. When people pay taxes for a sjic-
cifiic object, they like to see it equally distrib
uted, or as nearly so as circumstances will al
low. Because a man may live in a fine house
on some prominent street, it is no reason, in
our judgment, that more attention should be
paid him, than his poor neighbor who does
not pay quite so much, and happens to live
in a more retired locality in the same place.
Equal justice and equal rights should charac
terise all well regulated governments—Fede
ral, State or Municipal. Our city fathers, we
hope will look into this matter, and remedy
the evils complained of in many portions of
our prosperous city. JUSTICE.
Democratic Meeting In Dc Kalb.
Decatur, Ga., April 26tli, ’59.
According to previous notice, a large poi-
tion of the Democratic Party of De Kalb Co.,
assembled at the Court House on this day—
when on motion of C. W. McGinnis, Esq.,
Judge Lochlin Johnson was called to the Chair,
and John W. Scraggs, Esq., appointed Secre
tary.
The object of the meeting having been ex
plained, Col. Robt. M. Brown offered the fol
lowing resolutions ;
Resolved, That we appoint three delegates to
the Democratic Gubernatorial Convention, to
lie held in Milledgeville on the third Wednes
day in June next; and ten delegates to the
Congressional Convention, to be held at New-
nan at such time as may be agreed upon, and
that each delegate have power to fill his own
vacancy.
Resolved, That a committee of seven be ap
pointed by this meeting, to report the names
of suitable persons as such delegates.
The Committee appointed under the above
resolution are Col. R. M. Brown, C. Ragsdale,
F. H. Gay, E. A. Davis, J. C. Elliott, Daniel
Johnson, and J. B. Wilson. The commit
tee, after consultation, reported the following
named delegates which was adopted by the
meeting:
To the Gubernatorial Convention :
E. A. Davis, John C. Ragsdale and M. A.
Candler, Esqrs.
1 TO THE CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
From Stone Monntain Dist., J J Diamond.
“ Decatur “ J B Wilson.
“ Lythonia “ E A Center.
“ Diamonds “ Wm. Smith.
“ Flat Shoal “ FHGay.
“ Pantliersville “ SC Masters.
“ Evans’ “ Jas. Hambrick.
“ Browning's “ Jos. T Hendry.
“ Cross Keys “ Jas. S. Elliott.
“ Shallow Ford “ Elijah Copeland.
On motion of James J. Diamond, Esq., the
following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That while we greatly prefer that
the present worthy incumbents, Hon. Joseph
E. Brown and Hon. L. J. Gartrell should be
put in nomination by said Conventions, and
hereby instruct our Delegates to use all hon
orable exertions to do the same, yet we will
cheerfully support any other faithful exponent
of the principles of our party that may be
selected.
On motion of E. A. Davis, the proceedings
of this meeting were ordered to be published in
the Atlanta Democratic papers, and the Stone
Mountain “Independent Press.” The meet
ing then adjourned.
LOCHLIN JOHNSON, Chm’n.
John W. Scraggs, Sec’y.
Floyd county Delegates are instructed to go
for Brown for Governor, and for Wright for
Congress. Polk county delegates are instruc
ted to go for Brown for Governor, and Ter-
hune first and then Wright for Congress.
(Standard.
pf* Never employ yonrself to discover the
faults of others, look to your own.-
A
love
wise man will speak well of his neighbor,
his wife, and pay for his newspaper ,
From the Boston Post, April 6,1859.
LETTER FROM THE
HON. B. F. HALLETT.
We have the pleasure this morning of pub
fishing the letter written by the Hon. B. F.
Hallett in reply to an invitation to unite with
the Democrats of Salem in celebrating Jeffer
son’s birth. It is market by that fullnesof in
formation, sound Democracy and vigorous and
lucid expression which usually characterize
the productions of this eminent gentle
man.
[leiter.]
Boston, March 31, 1859.
The professional duties of counsel in a capi
tal trial just commenced in the Circuit Court,
compel me to relinquish the pleasure I had
anticipated of being present at your well
timed festival in honor of the birthday of
Jefferson.
It was said, many years ago, by one of bis
biographers, that it was the fate of Thomas
Jefferson to be at once more loved and praised
by liis friends, and more hated and re^rile(j,by
his enemies, than any of his compatriots.
That was true in his lifetime. At his death
all statesmen, all parties, all mankind united
in canonizing his virtues. But now, and what
perhaps most of all endangers his fame, in
thirty-three years after his decease, his worst
enemies, because they are the worst enemies
of the Union, attempt to claim liim as the
Apostle of their creed ot Liberty without law,
because he was the Great Apostle of civil and
religious freedom, regulated by law. You do
well, therefore, on this day, to rescue his mem
ory from such unhallowed uses.
It was the fate of Mr. Jefferson during his
fife time, to be misrepresented as to his princi
ples ot popular government. It is his fote af
ter his death, to be misrepresented as to liis
opinions upon the duties of the States to each
other, and to the Union under the Constitu
tion.
I have not time, nor is a letter the proper
medium, to enter into an opposition of the
relations of the Democratic party to Mr Jef
ferson, from the first division of parties in the
Federal Union, to the present.
But if I were called upon to name the one
discriminating principle which has guided him
and them from the foundation of that Ameri
can Independence which he first embodied in
his grand Declaration, and which has marked
he broadest and most enduring line between
he two politics that have devided the states
men and the parties of the country ; I should
find it in that comprehensive policy, inaugu
rated by Jefferson, of the extension of the
territory, and the increase of the States of this
Union.
We owe to him more than to any one man,
but in common with other statesmen, the
Democratic and at the same time conservative
elements of our republican forms of Govern
ment. But we owe to him almost alone, the
extension of the territory of the Republic.
Democracy, as developed by Jefferson, was
the problem of man’s cap icity for self gov
ernment. It sought first the largest individ
ual liberty consistent with well-ordered gov-
ernmut. That was the Republic within the
State. It then applied a larger principal of
union in a general gove; nment of delegated
powers from the States, and yet conserving
the equal rights of each of the States. Reach
ing beyond this, it sought for a still more en
larged and comprehensive policy that should
go onward progressively, extending territory
and increasing States to cover this whole Con
tinent with commonwealths, each indepen
dent, within its own sphere, and all united in
a General Government, supreme only in the
limited and certain powers conceded by the
States.
This policy required absolute political equal
ity of the new with the old States, and abso
lute equality of all the States in all newly ac
quired territory. That was the comprehensive
policy of Jefferson from the beginning. That
is the comprehensive policy of the Democrat
ic party now, and that is the only governmen
tal relation to slavery which they hold under
the Constitution, as a National party.
On no other principle could the thirteen
'■riginal States have now become thirty-
three.
All our history shows that the Democratic
party were with Mr. Jefferson in the initiation
of this grand policy of American-Republican-
Einpirc. His and their opponents resisted it;
and the slaver element, in the new States and
Territories which Congress had no right to
meddle with, has always been the pretext for
that resistance.
The federal statesmen of his time, no doubt
honestly, feared the extension of territory and
the addition of distant States as fatal to the
Republic. But all the obstructions to the en
largement of the United States have, from
the beginning, come from the party opposed
to Mr. Jefferson and to Democracy- This was
the marked dividing line between parties in
1800, and it is equally marked in dividing
them now. It was Louisana then. It has
since been Florida, Texas, Oregon, California,
New Mexico, and it is Cuba now.
All the New England statesmen of Jeffer
son’s time not of his party, resieted the ex
tension of territory and the increase of States.
In 1796 they opposed the admission of the
first new State formed out of territory ceded
to the United States, Tennessee, alleging that
■t was because she held slaves. But in 1802
they resisted the admission of Ohio, though a
sree State, formed by the liberal endowment
of Virginia out of the Northwestern Territory
because, as they then said, it would depopu
late New England and carry power from the
Atlantic to the Wes,.
•And because Mr. Jeffesson approved the or
dinance of 1787, framed under the confedera
tion, and before the Constitution had formed
the Union, it is assured by modern sectional
“Republicans,” that he must have b-en an
Abolitionist. They forget that it was the be.
loved State of Jefferson, standing at the head
of the slaveholding States, then a majority in
the confederation, Virginia, that was the
granting party to that noble gift and compact
of cession to the North. Nor do they choose
to remember that in that same ordinance the
statesmen who made it, wisely comprehend
ing the adaptation of the territory solely to
free labor, carefully preserved the rights of
the South to reclaim from that territory all
fugitives from service. A stiange paternity
indeed, for those who resist unto blood and
disunion, that Jeffersonian compact of good
foith between the States, sinee engrafted into
the Constitution ; and who now use a 11 their
power in Legislatures to nullify the Constitu
tion and laws of the Union, which they have
sworn to support and maintain.
Now if any young man is desirous of know
ing what party Thomas Jefferson belongs, and
to what policy he himself owes the honor of
being a citizen of these United States as they
are now, second in power to no nation of the
earth, and superior in good government and
private rights over all; let him take the map
of North America and cross off the accessions
of territory and States made by the Jefferson
ian Democratic policy since 1802 ; before Lou-
siana, Florida, Texas and California were ours.
See British America stretching across the con
tinent from Nova Scotia to the Pacific Ocean,
from Newfoundland to the Russian settle
ments, from Davis Straits to the Arctic. See
the very back bone of the United States bro
ken—all West from the Mouth of the Missis
sippi to Lake Superior; Lousiana, Florida and
Texas, resting on the Gulf of Mexico South,
not our sister States, and onr marts of free
commerce, but colonies or dependencies ref
Great Britain ; for if Jefferson had not made
the treaty with Napoleon, Louisiana would
have been, in ninety days after, the conquest
of England with her fleet then on the way to
wrest it from France. Florida, too, would
have fallen from the the fjgeble hands of Spain
to England. Texas, if rejected, would have
beeome her dependant or ally. Oregon would
have been a parcel of the new “Victoria to
be formed out of the vast possessions of the
Hudson Bay Company. Mexico would have
retained the golden California still a desert,
and not a stripe of the AmericBn flag would
have touched the endless shores of the Pacific
or the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Who would now wish to be an American
with such a narrow heritage, hound within
tiie folds of an overshadowing British Empire
in North America? Or that other alternative
of a great Southern confederation of republics,
comprising all this rejected territory with
Mexico and Central America, and guided by
the indomitable statesmanthip of our own re
volutionary Ace, controlling the markets and
the industry of the world, by holding the great
staples of that industry in their hands?
And that it is not so, we owe it the large po
licy of Jefferson and his Democratic compa
triots. There is the history. Bead it. In
1802 Spain owned Louisiana, and we had a
poor treaty with her for the right to deposit
American goods at New Orleans. Spain broke
the treaty and forbid the deposit. President
Jefferson demanded redress, and was answered
that Spain had ceded Louisiana to France.—
Napoleon had no navy to protect it, and En
gland was about to dispatch her fleets for the
conquest. Thus the purchase of Louisiana
from France was the only measure to secure
the free navigation of the Mississippi.
Jefferson sook the responsibility for posteri
ty and achieved it. On the 28th of October,
1803, Andrew Jackson, a Senator from that
same Tennessee which New England had re
fused to admit into the Union, rose in the
Senate of the United States, and moved that
the Senate do advise and consent to the ratifi
cation of the treaty made at Paris, April 30th,
1803, between the United States and the
French Republic, by Robert R. Livingston and
James Monroe, and Barbi Marbois. New En
gland Statesmen and New England politi
cians opposed to Jefferson, all opposed it.—
“Whaat,” they exclaimed, “pay fifteen mil
lions for a place of deposit for Western pro
duce ? This is indeed insufferable ! Why, if
they have that, our New England lands will
become a desert from the contragion of emi
gration.” And then they fell to ridiculing
Mr. Jefferson and Ids “Salt Mountain” in
Missouri.
Why, if logic, like malleable glass, were not
among the lost arts, we might wonder a little
that the dead Jefferson should now lie claimed
by a party whose livihg Patriarch here in Mas
sachusetts, the venerable Josiah Quincy, stood
at the head of opposition to that grand Jeffer
sonian policy of extension, with or without
slavery, wden he moved in Congress the im
peachment of Thomas Jefferson for purchasing
Lousiana ! And who again, when Lousiana
asked to l>e admitted a State with her slave
population, declared in his place (January 15,
1811)—“if tliis bill passes it is virtually a disso
lution of the Union ; and as it will be the right of all
so it icill be the duty of some, to prepare for a separa
tion, peaceably if they can, forcibly if they must.”
Then it was -that first rose the sectional cry
of “no more slave States,” and so it has gone
on ever since, until now the cry is no more
Free States without negro suffrage and negro
equality! And thus we trace down the di
viding line between Jefferson and sectionalism
until we find the now mis-called “Republican’ ’
party, doing just what the opponents of Mr.
Jefferson did in 1802, when they voted against
the admission of free Ohio, viz: voting against
the admission of free OregoD because she will
not consent to absorb the negro race in her
white body politic. An 1 this they do upon
the avowed doctrine that Congress has the
power to make or amend Constitutions for
the new States and for Territories, so as to
regulate the status and condition of their in
habitants.
Now, that was the very heresy in the Fede
ral Government most denounced by Mr. Jef
ferson, touching the power of Congress to lim
it the sovereignty of Missouri in 1821. “The
real question,” said he, in his letter to John
Adnns, is—“are our slaves to be presented
with freedom and a dagger! lor if Congress
has the power to regulate the condition of
the inhabitants of the States, it will lie but
another exercise of that power to declare
that all shall be free.”
And this heresy so denounced by Jefferson,
is the precise doctrine to-day, of Mr. Seward’s
“irrepressible conflict” to make all free or all
slave States.
He who moves a step in that direction,
travels farther and farther from Jefferson.—
Why, the only event ever raised a doubt In
the mind of that calm philosopher of the per
petuity of the Union, was the attempt made
by the North in the Missouri controversy to
draw a sectional line between free and slave
States. “Like a fire bell in the night, it
awakened and filled him with terror.” From
the battle of Bunker Hill to the Treaty ofTar-
is, said he, we never bad so ominous a ques
tion—a geographical line, drawn in the op
posing moral and political views of sectional
parties, and held up to the angry passions of
men with every local irritation to make it
deeper and deeper, until it should become the
line of separation of the States. And this idea
once suggested, would brood in the minds of
all those who prefer the gratification of their
ungovernable passions to the peace and union
of the country. The old schism of Federalists
and Republicans threatened nothing like this
because it existed in every State, and united
them by the fraternization of party. But this
sectional division of parties on geographical
lines was a blow at the grand experiment in
America which is to decide whether man is ca
pable of self-government. Nay, it was trea
son against human hope.
Such were the best considered views of the
illustrious sage in the calmness of his retreat,
and near the close of that grand fife which he
had given to his country. And these warn
ings and rebukes, then so solemn and mo
mentous, to whom and to what do they now
apply, with renewed force, but to the leaders
and the purposes of that sectional party of
today, calling itself “Republican” and yet
aiming to shatter the Republic into angry,
disjointed and hostile consideration, on either
side of a geographical fine ?
If they indeed respect and venerate Thomas
Jefferson, let them heed the admonition that
comes to them from him, as if uttered but
yesterday.
“Would they,” said he, “but weigh the
blessings they will throw away by disunion,
against an abstract principle more likely to be
effected by union than by secession, they
would pause before perpetrating this act of
suicide on themselves and of treason against
the hopes of the world.” AYul still more
suggestive of the present among his last words
ever uttered were “the hope that the mass of
liis honest brethren of the Northern States
would discover the use designing men were
making of their best feelings, and see the
precipice to which they are led, before they
take the final leap.”
These are the lessons of wisdom and warn
ing to his countrymen which come down to
our time, and, as if a special legacy, to the
young men of America, from the great states
man whose advent as the Apostle of Freedom
under Government, of Liberty within Law, you
to-day commemorate.
Taking these principles of popular govern
ment and of an united Republic of indepen
dent and expanding States for their guide, the
party which has nearest followed the teachings
of Thomas Jefferson has never can fail, to be
the party of Union, of State Rights and of Na
tional greatness ; and no party, class, or sec
tion repudiating them, in their relations to
the whole country, can justly claim to be
either Jeffersonian, National, Democratic or
Republican.
I have the] honor to be, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,
B. F. HALLETT.
To the Committee of Arrangements.
Tennessee*
The following is a list of candidates for Con
gress in all the districts in Tennessee, so for
as the nominations have been made:
1st District—TA R Nelson, Opposition; L
C Haynes, Democrat.
2nd District—Horace Maynard, Opposition;
J W McHenry, Democrat,
3rd District—Reese B Brabson, Opposition ;
Samuel A Smith, Col. Minnis, Democrats.
4th District—J M Shield, Democrat; J H
Savage, Democrat.
5th District—Charles Ready, mixed.
6th District—W H Polk, Democrat ; J H
Thomas, Democrat.
7th District-John V Wright, Democrat.
8th District—J M Quarles, Opposition; Thos
Menees, Democrat.
9th District—Emerson Ethridge, Opposi
tion; JDC Atkins, Democrat.
10th District— W T Avery, Democrat; D M
Curran, Democrat.
Sad Occurrence.
In firing a salute at Fort Valley on yester
day morning, on the arrival of tire cars from
Columhus with the Montgomery True Blues,
by the premature discharge of the cannon,
Messrs. T. Harvey and Postell McKay were
seriously if not fatally injured—the face of one
being badly burned, and the arm of the other
being terribly shattered. We sincerely regret
fhiR sad occurrence.—Journal & Messenger.
FRIDAY, MAY 6,1859.
A Beautiful Sight.
Eight hundred and sixty three children
marched in the procession at the Sabbath
School celebration, in Macon, on lost Satur
day. Seven Sabbath Schools united in the
procession. The “Journal & Messenger,” no
ticing the celebration, says that it “will be
remembered as one of the happiest that has
occurred in this city.” We hope to be able
to say os much for a similar celebration on
next Saturday, in Atlanta. We hope for a
pleasant day, and a celebration to be remem
bered with pleasure for years to come. V.
What an Idea !—Fanny Fern says, “Verily,
take editors and ministers cut of the world,
and it would collapse like a week-old muffiu ! ’ ’
“Editors and ministers” in their efforts to
keep “the world” from collapsing, many of
them, well nigh “collapse” themselves. “The
world” owes them a debt of gratitude and of
material aid, which is very seldom fully real
ized . ‘ ‘Editors and ministers’ ’ do more ‘ 'char
ily practice,” than any other class of men in “the
world.” V.
Atlanta Medical College.
Yesterday, we enjoyed the privilege of lis
tening to a very interesting lecture, by one of
the Professors of this institution. We would
be happy to speak of it aslt deserves, but lest
we should be subjected to the charge of ma
king invidious distinctions, we forbear. We
will say, however, in this connection, that the
College is in a prosperous condition. The
class is already large, and daily increasing.—
The Faculty of this institution will compare
favorably with any in the South, in point of
ability, and under their auspices the progress
of the College is onward and still onward.
We received, on yesterday, from our
friend J. J. Richards, an india-rubber ink-
stand with a glass top, filled with excellent-
ink, which takes us completely. Reader, if
you want an inkstand, what is an inkstand,
call on Bro. Richards and you can get accom
modated.
Bro. Richards has a good assortment of
books, stationary, &c., and will promptly at
tend to the wants of any who may call upon
him at his book-store, for articles in his line
of business. Thank yon, friend Richards ;
may this well-timed present be as seed sown
upon good soil, and produce a sale of scores of
this excellent article. V.
array County Democratic Meeting.
A correspondent writes from Dalton, that at
the Democratic Meeting held in Murray coun
ty, on Tuesday last, for the appointment of
delegates to the Gubernatorial and Congres
sional Conventions, the following named del
egates were appointed. To the Gubernatorial
Convention, J. Bryant, E. M. Galt and James
Connelly; to the Congressional Convention,
J. Torrv, S. M. Wilson, W. A. Suffman. The
delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention,
were recommended to go for Gov. Brown.—
Our informant states that “Col. Edmonson be
came displeased with the action of the meet
ing, and withdrew, requesting all who con
curred with him in opinion to follow his ex
ample ; four others accompanied him in his
exit.”
Democratic Meeting lit Cass.
The Democracy of Cass county have appoint
ed anti-Brown delegates to the Milledgeville
Convention. Resolutions denouncing Gover
nor Brown, were defeated “by a vote of 64 to
53.” Resolutions asserting the belief that
James Gardner “is the choice of the Democra
cy of Georgia, for the Executive Chair,” were
adopted “by a vote of 52 to 48.” The dele
gates to Milledgeville comprise the following
names, viz: E. V. Johnson, J. A. Crawford,
Levi Bronson, J. M. Veach, and John Patter
son. The proceedings of the meeting are so
lengthy, that we have condensed them in the
above statements, so that our readers may get
the main points, without crowding our issue,
as we have already sent up nearly matter
enough for to-day’s paper. V.
Say what you will of Howell Cobb, he is a
good Democrat.—[Atlanta Intelligencer.
“The fact that a man is a gootf Democrat, is
no assurance that he is a good man. The worse
the man, the better calculated he is to he ‘a
good Democrat.' ”
We clip the above from the “Lagrange Re
porter.” There is a little more of venom con
tained in this extract than we expected to see.
“The worse the man, the better calculated he
is to be a good Democrat.” We have li.ved
in vain, if we have always been in ignorance
of what it takes to constititr.te a “good Dem
ocrat.” Our understanding of the term is,
that to lie a “good Democrat,” a man must
be true to the principles of Republican Gov
ernment, true to our country, and faithful to
our institutions. Gen’l Jackson, John 0. Cal
houn, and their associates, were not “good
Democrats,” because they were good men aud
true patriots. Such is the legitimate conclu
sion to be drawn from our cotemporary’s
premises.
clilldreu nnder Fonrteen at the Theatre.
An act in relation to the New York thea
tres, passed by the last Legislature, provides
that it 3hall lie unlawful for any owner, lessee
manager, agent or officer of any theatre in
the city of New York to admit to any theatri
cal exhibition, held in the evening, any mi
nor under fourteen years, unless such minor is
accompanied by and is in the care of some
adult person. The law makes any person
violating this provision guilty of a misdemean
or and liable to a fine, not less than twenty-
five dollars, nor more than one hundred dol
lars, or imprisonment for a term not less
than ten nor'more than ninety days for each
offence.
Such a law* no doubt, would work well in
this latitude. Young America from 5 to 10
years of age in a majority of cases occupy the
front scats at all our theatres, shows, &c. A
law to keep them out of the streets after
nightfall without a protector, would have a
tendency to make some of them think more
of themselves than they do ; and in the end
act as a preventative to their going to the
work house or as a dernier resort to the State
prison as a punishment for crime and habits
contracted while in their swaddling clothes.
Parents should be careful how they let their
children ran about after dark. The strict ob
servance of a rigid rale in the training and
government of little children, would save the
parent many a long sigh in days to come.
Action.—Men, says Dr. Hall, who have half
dozen irons in the fire, are not the ones to go
crazy. It is the man of voluntary or com
pelled leisure, who mopes, and pines, and
thinks himself into the mad-house or the
grave. Motion is all Native's law. Action is
man’s salvation, physical and mental. And
yet nine out of ten are wistfully looking for
ward to the coveted hour when they shall
have leisure to do nothing, or something only
when they feel like it—the very Siren that has
lured to death many a “successful”- man.—
He only is truly wise who lay* himself out to
work till life’s latest hour—and that is the
man who will to most purpose.
Fulton Connty Democratic Meeting.
At a meeting of the Democratic party, of the
county of Fulton, held at the City Hall in At
lanta, agreeably to a call made through the
public Journals, for tiie purpose of appointing
Delegates to the Congressional Convention to
be held at Newnan.
The body was organized by calling Hon.
J. A. Hayden to the Chair and appointing C.
A. Haralson, Sec’y.
’The object of the meeting was stated by
the Chairman, when on motion of Col. J. W.
Duncan, a committee of one from each mi
litia district in the county, was appointed to
nominate suitable delegates to represent the
Fulton Democracy in the Newnan conven
tion; it being decided upon by the meeting to
have three delegates appointed from each Mi
litia District in the county.
After an absence of a few minutes, the
committee returned from their room and
through their chairman Col. Duncan submit
ted the following report:
“The Committee appointed to select dele
gates to represent Fulton county, in Jthe ap
proaching Congressional convention at New-
nan beg leave to report—
Delegates from Atlanta District.
P. E. McDaniel, W. T. Wilson, S. B. Hoyt.
Stone’s District.
Thos. A. Kennedy, jr. W. A. Green and Joseph
Willis.
Black Hall District.
Edward Taliaferro, A. K. Avery, and Alex,
llattaree.
Buckhead District.
Henry Irby, S. H. Donaldson and Clark
Howell.
Oak Grove District.
Lewis Wright, Peter Ball and Esquire Aber-
nethy.
Cook’s District -
B. F. Bomar, Matthew Ozborn and Westly
Hudson.
Which report was unanimously adopted.
On motion, each delegate was authorized to
fill his own vacancy in the convention.
The following resolution was then offered
bv^ Col. W. T. Wilson and unanimously
adopted by the meeting ;
Resolved, That this meeting heartily approves
the course of our Representative in Congress,
the Hon. Lucius J. Gartrell, and for his faith
ful, able and efficient services, we cordially
unite with his immediate constituents in ren
dering to him the richly deserved tribute of
“ vVel 1 done thou good and faithful servant,”
and that the Delegates from Fulton county lie
recommended to use all honorable means to
secure the re-nomination the Hon. L. J. Gar
trell.
The following resolution was then offered by
Margcnius A. Bell:
Resolved, That the democracy of the several
militia districts in this county, lie requested
to appoint ten delegates each, at such time as
may suit their convenience, to meet at the
Court House in the city of Atlanta, ou the
first Tuesday in August next, to nominate
candidates for the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the State of Georgia.
Pending this resolution an animated discus
sion arose, between Messrs. A. M. Wallace,
J. W. Duncan, W. T. Wilson, M. A. Bell, V.
A. Gaskill, A. A. Gaulding and others—Mes
srs. Wallace, Wilson and Duncan contending
that the measure was unwise and improper,
that a mass meeting of the Democracy in the
county would be more acceptable. T o
other gentlemen advocated the adoption of
the res ilution.
Tt was moved by Col. J. W. Duncan that
the resolution lie laid on the table—which
motion was lost by a majority of one vote.
Mr. Wallace then offered an amendment to
the resolution, substituting one hundred dele
gates instead of teu—amendment was lost.
Other amendments substituting fifty, twenty-
five and twelve delegates, were also lost.
Mr. Gaskill called for the previous ques
tion, when a motion was made to adjourn—
Motion was lost by one vote.
The original resolution was then submitted
to the meeting and was adopted as read; twen
ty-four voting in the affirmative and ten in
the negative.
On motion, it was ordered that the proceed
ings of the meeting be published in the “In
telligencer” and ‘’Confederacy. ”
There being no further business the meet
ing adjourned.
J. A HAYDEN, Ch’m.
C. A. Haralson, Sec’y.
Onr Visit to Atlanta.
On Saturday last we paid the thriving city
of Atlanta a visit; but unlike mo6t of onr ed
itorial brethren, we did not fly, but went up
on the train. The improvements which have
been made in the appearance of Atlanta are
very many. Many magnificent buildings
have taken the place of old wooden ones.—
Among the new buildings which have gone up
in that city is one of magnificence and splen
dor, and would lie an ornament to any city.
We refer to the one occupied by Messrs. Hun-
nicutt & Tayler as a Drug Store, and owned
by Mr. Collier, an old bachelor and an eccen
tric man. We were told that he dresses very
plainly, and did not hesitate during the erec
tion of his magnificent building, to pull off
his coat and shovel dirt with as much energy
as any of the laborers. We might mention
many other improvements in Atlanta ; but
our space and time will not permit us to do
so. —
We visited all the printing offices; and tak
ing all together few cities can boast of better.
We had the pleasure of making the acquain
tance of Dr. Taliaferro, one of the Editors of
the Medical and Literary Week, whom we
found to be a very accomplished, and agreea
ble gentleman. We are glad to learn that the~
prospects of his paper arc encouraging.—
Among the many pleusant acquaintances we
nrnle is Dr. T. S. Powell, of the Atlanta Med
ical College. We were glad to learn that the
indications are that a great number of stu
dents will be in attendance upon the Course
of Lectures which was opened on Monday
last.
Of course we saw our old true friend, Col. C.
R. Hanleiter,' the “veteran” editor of the
American, and found him in the enjoyment of
good health. Really, we cannot conceive
why the Colonel is called veteran. He’s not
very old, nor does he look so, though he has
done enough hard service in the editorial har
ness to have been considerably rubbed. Our
friends Peterson and Slaughter are each doing
noble service as editors of the American.—
With such a corps of editors wc are not puz
zled to know why that paper is becoming so
popular. There is more real hard labor be
stowed upon the American than on any other
paper in the State.
We visited the Crusader and found our old
friends, Messrs T. A. and J. S._ Reynolds,
whom we were very very glad to meet. We
made the acquaintance of Mr. Whidby, who
is connected with the Crusader as Agricultu
ral editor. At the Intelligencer office we i
found Mr. J. I. Miller and our old friend V.
P. Sisson ; but did not meet with the Editors,
A. A. Gaulding and'V. A. Gaskill.
Altogether our visit to Atlanta was very
pleasant and we are sorry we could not remain
longer. We went to “Cousin Johr’s” house,
where we were hospitably entertained.. “Cous
in John” is indeed a “host,” and gives gen
eral satisfaction to all who stop at Washington
Hall.
We left Atlanta more impressed than ever
that there is more energy and enterprise in
that city than in any other in the State of
Georgia. On every hand you see improve
ments and enterprise going on; and the place
looks very much like a large bee-hive with
but comparatively’ few drones. All the new
buildings, and those in course of erection, are
of the most substantial and tasteful in char
acter.—[LaGrange Reporter.
The valuation of property in Cincinnati is
$110,003,000.
THE TWO PRAYERS.
Two hands upon the breast, and labor is
past.—Russian Proverb.
“Two hands upon the breast,
And labor is done ;
Two pale fleet crossed in rest,'
The race is won ;
Two eyes with coin weights shut,
And all tears cease;
Two lips where grief is mute,
And wrath at peace.”
So pray we oftentimes, mourning our lot,
God, in his kindness, answereth not.
“Two hands to work addrest,
Aye for his praise;
Two feet that never rest
Walking his ways;
Two eyes that look above,
Still, through all tears;
Two lips that breathe but love,
Never more fears.”
So cry we afterwards, low at our knees;
Pardon those erring prayers! Father, hear
[these.
Democratic Meeting In Milton Comity.
Pursuant, to a previous notice a large and
respectable portion of the Democracy of Mil-
ton county assembled in the Court House on
Tuesday the 3d of May at an Early hour.—
The meeting was organized by# calling Capt.
Lawson Fields to the chair, and requesting
Samuel H. Baker Esq. to act as Secretary.
On motion of Rufus L. Erwin Esq., a com
mittee of five was apjiointed to report busi
ness for the consideration of the meeting.—
During the absence of the Committee Col. J.
M. Cowen adopted the meeting in his usually
eloquent and Enthusiastic style. After a few
minutes deliberation and consultation the
Committee petitioned and through their
Chairman Rufus L Erwin Esq. submitted the
following :
Resolved 1st. That we must cordially and
heartily approve of and endorse the adminis
tration of our present Chief Magistrate, the
Hon. Joseph E. Brown ; That we especially
endorse and approve of his policy as setforth
in his Bank veto-message, and of his policy in
relation to the affairs of that great interest,
the “Western & Atlantic-Railroad.”
Resolved 2d. That Gov. Brown is entitled
to the thanks, and worthy of the admiration
of every Georgian, for the honest, able and
statesman-like manner in which he has dis
charged the fltaties of his office: That tiie pol
icy of his administration has lieen dictated by
wisdom and prudence and executed with firm
ness justice. 1 hat he has shown himself to be
an hottest politician, an unflinching Democrat;
and a wise and for seeing statesman, in et’ery
respect, worthy to be the Chief Magistrate of
the “Empire State” of the South.
Resolved 3d, That inasmuch as it is a “time
honored” usage of the Democratic Party to
rc-nominatc the incumbent of the Gubernato
rial office for a second term, and the adminis
tration of Gov. Brown has received the hearty
approval of the people of the State. We can
see no good reason why he should not be
nominated, but very many why he should.
Resolved 4th. That Eli McConnell, W. C.
Anderson, Jolly W. Camp, J. J. Stuart, Jack-
son Gregor} - and James J. Vaugn, be appoint
ed as delegates to represent us in the ensuing
Gubernatorial Convention, with instructions
to cast the vote of Milton county for Gov.
Brown, from the first to the last ballot, and
from the beginning of said convention until
the end thereof.
Resolved 5th, That our thanks are due and
are hereby tendered to Dr. John W. Lewis and
the other officers of Slate Road for the able
and faithful manner in which they have dis
charged the onerous duties of their respective
position.
Resolved 6d, That F. M. Owen, John Mil
ler, J. B. McCollem, J. J. Key, W. P. Slayton
and P. Coleman be appointed as Delegates to
represent us in the congressional convention
for the fifth District, with full power to caste
the vote of this county for any competent and
reliable Democrat.
On motion it was ordered'that these proceed
ings be published in the “Atlanta Intelligen.
cer” and that all other papers friendly to the
present State administration be requested to
copy.
On motion the meeting was adjourned sine
die.
LAWSON FIELDS Chr’m.
Samuel H. Baker Sec’y
May 3d. 1859.
CONFERENCE
Of Young Men’s Christian Association In
the 8th District of the Confederation at
Macon, Ga.
The Conference met, pursuant to adjourn
ment; at Macon, this April 29th, 1859, in the
Baptist Church, Robert A. Smith, Vice Presi
dent of tire last Convention in the Chair.
The conference was opened with singing,
and prayer by Rev. L. M. Carter, of Augusta.
On motion, C. D. Rogers, of Savannah, was
apbointed to act as Secretary pro tem. The
roll of Associations in the District was then
called, and the following presented their cre
dentials :
Augusta.—Rev L M Carter, Thomas P Sto
vall, J R W Johnston.
Columbus.—J S Pemlierton, J G Peacock, W
K Saffold, T J Nuckolls, T T Fogle, Geo W
Freeman, RG Weir.
Macon.—C Anderson, R A Smith, Rev S Boy
kin, J A Pugh, S Hunter, R H Nisbet, E Sa-
ulsbury, LN Whittle, WT Hodgkins, Dr J
Dixon Smith, U Van Giesan, Rev Geo D
Smith, Geo T Morgan, Rev John W Burke,
Charles E Campbell.
Rome.—Geo T Stovall.
Savannah.—Y J Anderson, V W Skiff, W R
Rogers, C D Rogers, Jas K Barnum.
C Anderson then moved that a Committee,
consisting of one Delegate from each Associa
tion represented, be appointed to nominate
permanent Officers of the conferance.
The motion being carried, the Chairman ap
pointed the following Delegates to compose
that committee : Rev L M Carter, of Augus
ta, J S Pemberton, of Columbus, E Saulsbu-
ry, of Macon, Geo T Stovall, of Rome, and V
W Skiff of Savannah.
The Committee retired and after delibera
tion returned, and presented the names of the
following Delegates as Officers of the Confer
ence:
ROBT. A. SMITH, President,
GEO. T. STOVALL, Vice President,
W. S. LEE, Secretary,
W. R. ROGERS, Asst. Secretary.
The Officers then took their seats.
The President on taking the chair, made a
few appropriate remarks.
C. Anderson then moved that the Rules of
the Confederation, so tar as they are applica
ble, be adopted as tlic Rules of this Confere-
ence, which motion was carried.
Welcome to Onr Guest*.
At the proper hour yesterday morning the
Macon. Volunteers Floyd Rifles and Bibb
connty Cava'ry, together with a large number
of our citizens assembled at the Passenger
Depot in this city to receive our guests, the
Baldwin Blues, of Milledgeville, and the True
Blues of Montgomery, Ala.
On their arrival they were welcomed to the
hospitalities of the city by Capt. Hardeman
of the Rifles, in a neat address which was re
sponded to by Capt. Doles of the Baldwin
Blues and Lieut. Holtzclawof the True Blues.
After the ceremony of reception was over
over they were escorted to Camp Oglethorpe,
by the different companies of our city, where
refreshments were prepared for them. The
remainder of the day was passed by them in
social intercour.-e with the members of the
Macon companies and citizens generally.
The visiting corps respectively number up
wards of fifty membere, .rank and file, and we
will venture the assertion, that, two or more
imposing or efficient companies cannot be pro
duced in the United State Army. The men
give evidence of superior drilling, and judg
ing from the enthusiasm manifested by them,
they would prove a formidable foe in the event
that any contingency shonld arise requiring
their services. If the smiles of fair women,
and the assiduous devotion of our own citizen
soldiery, can tend to add a joy to the soldier’s
life, and then our friends from Montgomery,
and Milledgeville, will nonreturn home disap
pointed.-[State Press.
THE CHESS-BOARD.
B Y O W BN XIBIDIfH.
My little love, do yon remember,
Ere we were grown so sadly wise,
Those evenings in the bleak December,
Curtain’d warm from the snowy weather,
When you and I played chess together,
Checkmated by each other’s eyes ?
Ah! still I see your soft white hand
Hovering warm o’er Queen and Knight.
Brave Pawns in valiant battle stand;
The double Castles guard the wings;
The Bishop bent on distant things
Moves, sliding, through the fight!
Our fingers touch ; our glances meet
And falter; falls your golden hair
Against my cheek ; your bosom sweet
Is heaving; down the field, yonr Queen
Rides slow, her soldiery all between,
And checks me unaware.
Ah me ! the little battle’s done,
Disperst in all its chivalry.
Full many a move since then have we
’Mid life’s perplexing chequers made,
And many a game with fortune play’d—
Wiiat is it we have won ?
This, this at least—if this alone ;
That never, never, never more.
As in those old still nights of yore,
(Ere we were grown so sadly wise)
Can you and I shut out the skies—
Shut out the world and wintry weather,
And eyes exchanging warmth with eyes,
Play chess, as then we play’d together.
Fire In Richmond, Va.
Richmond, Va., May 4.—A fire occurred in
this city this morning, on the Main street, and
several large shops, plaining mills, &c., were
destroyed. The loss is over fifty thousand
dollars, with only a partial insurance.
Foreign IntUlgence.
New York, May-A.—The associated press
think it due to the public to state that the
Nova Scotia TelegraphjCo., have, regardless ot
the wishes of a large majority of the leading
presses of the country, and owners of the Tel
egraph lines West of Nova Scotia, put an end
to the foreign news arrangements which have
existed during the past ten years; and it is un
derstood that the managers of the Nova Sco
tia line have made a secret and exclusive ar
rangement with a private party, who, there is
reason to believe, may use the European
news for speculative purposes.
For the present, therefore, the public should
stand on their guard.
As soon as the Niagara’s news comes to
hand, it will lie promptly made public on bul
letin boards; and, until then, the commercial
public must be at the mercy of Nova Scotia
speculators.
It is beleived that the Niagara is now at
Halifax, but the news will lie late in getting
through.
►**#.
Unlucky Advent are of Two Handsome
young Jewesses.
We find the following incident in the New
York Post of last evening, but are by no mean.-;
ready to vouch for the accuracy of the ac
count :
Last Sunday wa, the “Ram’s Head Festival’ ’
of the Jews, and many of the Israelites ap
peared in the streets masked. Two Jewesses
daughters of wealthy and well-known citizens,
entering into the spirit of the occasion so for
forgot their dignity as to attire themselves in
male clothing, and thus arrayed, walked up
Eighth avenue.
An officer of the Sixteenth ward observed
them and detected their disguise. He did not
know who they were, but naturally conclu
ded they were shoplifters, or something of
the sort. They had at any rate, violated a
wise legal regulation, and lie determined to
take them into custody, which he attempted
to do after having followed them as far as
Trinity-second street. They had no idea how
ever of falling into the hands of the authori
ties, and made a handsome fight for laities
unaccustomed to a pugilistic exercise of mus
cle as they were.
Several Jews were in thesetretin the imme
diate neighliorhoikl, and came to the rescue.
They were soon joined by others—the officer
was seconded by some of liis companions, anil
a general scuffle ensued, during which the he
roines of the adventure were relieved of their
gold bracelets and several articles of rich jew-,
elry. The blue coats got the best of it, how
ever, and the young women were taken to the
Sixteenth ward station house and locked
uy.
They despatched messengers to friends, and
their fatht rs made their appearance early in
the morning. Money was offered for their
release but refused, as the officers had no dis
cretion in the matter. A large number of
excited Israelites had by this time gathered
around the station house and it looked, at one
time, as though a free use of clubs would lie
required to prevent them releasing the fair
prisoners.
At last, the father of one of the young
women went after a police justice, who came
and opened court in the station house. The
fair prisoners were duly arraigned, plead guil
ty on the charge, and were dismissed with
such gentle admonitions as the magistrate
deemed necessary to uphold the dignity of
the law.
It is said that the father o/ one .of them de
clares his intention to sue tlic, officer for false
imprisonment, and also to arrest him for
3 tealing the jewelry.
Death of Porter, the Kentucky Giant.
This remarkable and well-known citizen of
Louisville died a few days since. His gigan
tic proportions (for he was the tallest man in
the world) has made him known by sight or
reputation all over the civilized globe. Mr.
Porter was born near Portsmouth, Ohio, and
was brought to this city by his parents in the
following year; since which, except for a
short time, when he was on the stage, he has
been living in Louisville. He was seven feet
nine inches in height, and when in perfect
health weighed near three hundred pounds.
It is remarkable that for the first fourteen
years of his life he was small for his age ; so
much so, that he was often engaged to ride
races cn the old track where the Elm tree gar
den now is. At seventeen he was apprenticed
at coopering, and his remarkable growth
commenced.
It is stated the most he ever grew in one
week was one inch. It was his habit, while
growing to measure every Saturday night,
and his own testimony and that of his family
tmd friends are evidence of this remarkable
fact. Mr. Potter soon got so tail that it was
impossible to cooper barrels, and he was em
ployed on hogsheads. This, however, became
equally impossible, owing to his remarkable
height, amPhe was compelled to abandon tho
business He then engaged in keeping and
driving*hacks. In the years 1836-’37 he went
East aud appeared on the stage in one or tvfo
pieces written especially for him. He returned
to Louisville, and a few years later bought
the coffee house which he was keeping at the
time of his death.
Mr. Porter was a large-bone 3, angular man
and in health appeared to have strength
proportioned to his size. In manners he was
quiet and unassuming; kind and sociable
with every one. He was highly esteemed by
all who knew him for his integrity and high
moral character, In his domestic relation—
he was never married—he was all a parent
could desire. Among his fellow-men he was
a high-minded honorable gentleman.
Several anecJotes are told of him. One we
remember. At the time that Charles Dickens
come to this country, there was a perfect furor
to see “Boz.” Ashe passed through Jhe ca
nal at Louisville, he sent a messenger to Mr.
Porter, of whose remarkable proportions he
had heard intimating n wish to "see him. Mr.
Porter replied to the messenger, that if “Mr.
Dickeus wishes too sec ine more than I do
him, he will come to me.” Mr. Dickens took
thwhint, audit was during the conversation
that Porter told the novelist that while he was
growing his mother had to sew a foot on his
pantaloons every night. Mr. Porter will be
greatly missed by all who knew him, and
we record his death with soilness anil sympa
thy for his afflicted relatives.—Louisville Demo
crat.
‘but
“Does Mr. Wilson live here ?”
“Yes,” was the reply of Mr. W’s wile, 1
he is not at home to-day.”
“I know he is not at home now, but he will
be very soon, for I’ve got him here dead in
the wagon.”