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Lnmpfc'n nnd A, „ tr j Cn , Road
‘V O publish this week an article Irom ‘-Lump
'in, with the above caption, which el.ouhl have
Hppeared ionur last issue, but came in too late,
“e admire the expression and suggestions or i
the writer very much, and, in our opinion, he
’ seems to take a very libera! and correct view of
the subject. jfcj
The writer intimates that to terminate the
tftilfßuad at tlnsplace would more greatly bene 1
fit our town a ,,d county, ,l„ in a continuance!
f!? U f h ‘“Eufauia We very readily coincide
Mth him upon this point— .not a particle ofobicc.
n-n, provided .t can be done. But the question I
bother this .can he cfil.ctcd. Are our
lake hold of this enterprise and (
any foreign aid. We ‘
i the swcalih, power and
But oiir citizens
■MUtt"’ this sutijcct so
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UMPKIS SXU AHWUcfs Hill, UOaB
M nssns.
liie very reasonable and appropriate
| the subject at the head of this article, in Jur
last Editorial. You will permit me to avai'Xy.
self of the hints so judiciously thrown ot; b v
yourselves, as the ground wotk of a few.= i or t
j numbf,rs intended to present this enterj >j, e
more fully before our peop'e.
And in the outset, it is proper that we sb aid
deal candidly. Asa town we have no motive to
extend this Road further westward, or to nfflfcate
ourselves with any interest or people whAan-’
not assimilate with us in efforts. Such polirTv ill
but serve to increase the probabilities of defeat
ing or retarding our immediate object, an Buev
t*r can do u.y any good.
/will bestow a few llioughts on th.e-mpor
tance of the measure to our towiFand cottnty.
And shall then show its easy and convenient
practicability. |,ii*other words f will sliiv that
the enterprise greatly liour interest Jid that
it is fully withjff our 4
Our town would be
the >• ‘V and Ceuti
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W,’ M “It i■ r ipHBSRk •’ ■
Even with an average dtljc a
Pcent in the pound in our favor in the price of oar
r great staple, what an immense annual contribu
• lion would this Railroad annually make, to the
wealth of the county ofStewart ?
3rd. And last. There would be at once cre
ated in the midst of our country a market where
the Stewart county planter could control and
e,l his cotton for increased prices,’ when lie could
keep every thing under bis own eye and where
all the supplies of his family and plantation could
be purchased, at reasonable prices, at, as it were
J hs very door. a’
Who.can fail to perceive the- immence infiu
ences, which would and must accrue to our plat *
ten*from this road, from year to year and to all
coining time ? It is no! too much to say that
every year from the moment that the first whistle
of the engine is heard in our streets, there would
be received by our town and county, a bounty
from this Railroad that, collected together and
viewed in the agregate, would amount to a sum
Ibat would insure, at once, its completion and
equipments and places at and in possession of
commercial advantages far beyond my abilities
to describe or foresee. When shall we awake I
to our true interest?
EU.MPKLY. I
Protection tii :li„ American Citizen. I
IVesident Pierce, in his inaugural.)
RailroadiiLuinpkiii--Amrricu4— Aibn ny-~
Savannah ami Biuiigmck.
It seems to be a settled point, that
, the South-Western Road is to be ex
i tended from Oglethorpe to Americas;
j an d the Georgia Courier , in remarking
j upon the fact, encourages ihe people
! of Stewart county, to extend it still
further (thirty-six miles) to Lumpkin.
I here are some things connected
withjthis subject, which are not so far
in the future as to cast no shadows be
fore. We say then, that sooner or
later,and we think within a few years,
there'will be aR a 1 Road from Bruns
wick to Columbus, as well as fromthe
i i°rmer to Pensacola. The
i P" 8S f hrou S h Albany and Lumpkin.
Wc give the proof in a few words.—
Brunswick is by far, and in every re
spect, a better location for a commer-
cial seaport-town than Savannah is.
Her harbor is amply large, and deep
enough lor vessels the largest class.
[•She is healthy at all seasons. The
Railroad connecting her with Colum
bus, will be free from curves, that will
materially increase its length or retard
hespeed o travel flpon it . it sa cmal
length will he ( -snout fifty miles less
than that of the Railroad between
MMgmaajßflnd’
brunswiclv Rond ytmll have
■died Albany, its -Stockholders, as [
Hi as the owners of land along the
Hs, and of lots in the city, will see,
■ plainly, the advantages she will
Hve over Savannah, by contesting the
Hid with her in Columbus. Colum
ns*'.’ too, will see the vast advantage
■her of having another (and wc think 1
Httcc bidder for her trade, than Sa-
Hnnah will be—better by far at least
Han Savannah will he without ior-
Hidable competiton. By this Road,
Brunswick will be connected with the
State Road, and thereby with the Mis
sissippi Valley, and by the Operlika
Imd Chunnenuggee Ruuds, with the
■cart of Alabama.
I Now il we were citizens of Lump- ■
kiii. we should come to this conclusion : ,
I We will exert every muscle to form
ft. connection with Brunswick All
Ihe means wo have to share, shall go.
Into the project. It will secure to us j
ft better outlet to the Atlantic, and til
■lO same time, will connect us with
lie up counties of Crorgia. and oven
I'itli the \ alley of the Mississippi—
Irith Savannah and Augusta, via Co
s by a route hut. little greater i
■1 length than by Americas and Ogle
■lorpo; and lastly, it will compel Sa-
Bannah to build without our aid, the
Birty six miles between Amerieus and
■umpitin, or relinquish all hope of
Bmllnereialiniercour.se with us. She
Bill htiild the road. \V ■ therefore
Bit three roads by moving fa the ili-
Bction of Brunswick—first. Hie Bruns j
tho road to ( olumbus.
u. wM i t •►mV •
ominous from a direct Railroad;
connecting with Brunswick, would he
many and important, and are too ob
vious to require ducussioti.— Tunes <§•
Scut hid.
XaPoT.EiiS’s WIU, JSI'KKI'.XI'CKKII To I’IiASCC I
— The lasi will and statement ot ipnlenu If -
naparle, nn the 17tn ins l ., were deuvert-d over to j
the French Government at the request ul ti e
Ci'ieen s udvoraV, speaking lir the Serretan el
State for Foreign Adairs m the Prerogal.ve
Court, j rmi!en. I tie ajipiit'atiou was i.eard ..r
----gued as a point o! law, and derided nke an mail
nary ease in iavor o! the applicant. Napoleon's
will, therefore, will he transtered Iroin the lint
ish Court to the custody of his own cuuntrvmoii, I
and this proceeding billowing on the trans'auou
of his remains, may be said to extinguish the ;
last record of his detention. The London Times
say s:
” Napo'ecn exp r and in the British possessi. n
of St. lltdana, on the fl’h of ,\!av. 1821, eiving
aiToperty to the amount of some jjiiOO ithin the
iiroperjurisdiction ot the comt at question. In
jthe month ot August, 182 1, his nil 1 , with seven
podicals, was duly proved by the Court de Mon*
lholon, one of his executors, and deposited in the j
registry. The question now, was whether, con*
lormable to law and tmge, it could be taken from j
Ibis registry, and surrendered to the keeping of,
lathers. Lord John Russell, in whose name the
Application was preterred, had communicated liis
Intentions of delivering the will to the French
■government, and lie put in an affidavit to the et
■ect that the whole proceeding was based upon
■[roundsof public policy. The Judge, however,
■jhatacteristieal'y observed, tlmt ‘public policy’
■otild not be allowed to determine of itselt the
Hecision of an Knglish Court, but that the au-
Ribrity of the Court to act in (he first place, and
Hi the next the warrant lor action proved no
Hasv matter. A search into precedents disclosed
Holy three cases in which assent had,been given
Hi similar applications, ami these cases were
Bertainly wanting in precise analogy. However,
■ doubt existed, and it was turned, as it should
Have been, to the advantage of the application,
Hnd the satisfaction ol a neighboring State.—
Bubstituting merely ‘the legal French authori-
Res.’ in place of the ‘French government.’ as the
Harties to whom the will should be transferred,
Bir John Dodson made the requisite order for its
■elivery bom the registry of the Court, and the
Hast testament of the lir-t French Emperor will
Bow find its proper place in the archives of
B’rance.”
I Mb. Clayton's Defence of his Treaty.—
B'lte Washington correspondent of the Charles*
Bon Courier says :
H_MoCUytoii was very prompt in bringing be
l entale Priests in I'cuierai Africa-
One of the most singular customs of
j Grewhe, says an African traveller, is
[ the admission of females into the order
; of priesthood. A young female, gen
erally the daughter of a fetchic man,
i or priest, is selected for the purpose,
1 who undergoes a probationary pen-
I ance that continues six months previ
ous to her admission into holy orders.
During this period she is initiated by
. the priests into all the mysteries and
(chicanery oi the religion of their fore-
I fathers, which consisted in the worship
ot the black and white snake, dnd in
the mummery of giving sanctity to
* bones, rags, dec. When she appears
in public during the period of her pro
bation. her manner is grave and sol
; emn ; her skin is painted with a kind
of white clay; rows of shells of vari
ous forms and sizes, are hung upon
her neck, aims, and ankles; and her
loins at e girt with long grass, which
reaches to her knees. A dwelling is
provided for her, m which she eats
and sleeps alone, and into which none
tire admitted but fetchic men and wo
men.
At the expiration of the six months,
a large assemblage oj’ men, women
and --hildren, accompanied by the va
rious orders <?f priesthood, and the
musicians belonging to the town, takes
place in an open space of ground, to
assist at, and also to witness, the last
grand ceremony. Soon after assem
bling, the women form a circle by
joining hands, among whom are the
companions of the noviciate’s youth,
and also her relations, who commence
dancing circularly, reversing the move
ments alternately, after making one
complete circle. The dancing is ac
companied by the most barbarous and
horrid din imaginable, caused by the
musicians beating on drums, tom-toms,
gongs and blowing horns manufac
tured out of elephant’s teeth and reeds;
lo which are added the most strange
and uncouth grimaces and contortions
of the facies and bodies of the priests,
so that a spectator might easily imag
ine them to be a number of maniacs,
who had been turned loose to eive
o
effect so the ceremony; and were it
not Jpr the presence of the little chil
dren, who look on with fear and aston
ishment depicted in their countenan
ces, would be no bad representation
of Pandemonium.
The noviciate, soon afier dancing
commences, is biought, out, by appa
rent force, from a little but which had
concealed her Iront the spectators, and
placid in the centre of the circle
lormeti by the dancing females, from
whom she endeavors to-escape to the
hut whence she had been brought, and
this she is allowed to accomplish.—
This ceremony is repeated three limes;
an ine;i> tatton is then delivered by the
Chief pti's's, and the tbree qndaaflHß
< >n <| •*> <•11101 KDtHIM lasil
a lemale is admitted into the order of
priesthood, is that of leading a life of
celibacy, and renouncing the pleas
ures of the world; and but few are
permitted to enter it at all.
Mf.T!T'liis.m in the. United States.— The
editor o! t: e Zion's lb raid takes the following
vlf w of the pr gre.-s ul Mctlu di.-m in this coun
trv lie say-:
■ Aoi tiimii M oluidis'n is not yet a century
oL 1 > ttie o cicd lily shoil space ol eighty*
v ni years, ii h. - bio.lt tour tin sand two Inin
(!:■ and .mil twenty churches, (which is a little less
t an oi.o tor every work of her existence,) at a
cost of ton tern millions seven hundred and thirty
thousand fiNr hundred and seventy-one dollars.
It Inis a!-o erected aid endowed its college and
numerous academics w ith large sums. It has
bat iumoneralle parsonages, and suppliei itself
with Church and Satnb tit school literalnre.—•
Now, most of tl ese churches, having been newly
erected, rebuilt, or remodelled, and most of these
vast outlays having hern made in within the last
quart* r of a century, we think it no exaggera
t on to estimate the expenditures of Methodism in
the United States for home purposes, at an ave
rage very little short of one million of dollars
per annum for the last twenty-five years ; in ad
dition to that, it has paid lor the support of its
ministry. - ’
Progress.—lt seems that Miss Lucy Stone
had appeared as a public lecturer in men’s
clothe.-, somewhere down eu.-t. Tins indicates
progress among the he women, as this class of
reformers are getting to be called. They aim at
having things common between women and
men ; employments, dress, political principles ;
and the final consummation of “ bed and board.”
Fanatical reforms have always tended to such a
result.—Petersburg Intelligencer.
An Item for Mrs. Stowe. —The Fredricks*
burg Herald says:
“ Had Mrs. Stowe witnessed the funpral of
M avor Semple, one of its features would have
taught her wisdom, and may bo, incubated a
spirit of charity in her breast towards us in re
gard to our colored population. In the rear of
the procession, and dressed in as shining silks
and pure broadcloths as the most favored, march
ed a company ol blacks, male and female, num
bering near one hundred. They came of their
own accord, took position, and were as deeply
afflicted with the loss of the town and themselves
had sustained, as any other class who parlicipa
j ted in the sad and solemn obsequies of the day.
The Rush ecu the Treasury. —The
Charleston Standard >ays ; “ All ac
counts agree that the rush at Wash
ington, for office, is a downright Ni
lagara. Secessionists, Co-operation
lists, Union men, and Democrats of
■Brery hue, all join to make up the tor-
Irent. To crown all, the correspon
dent of the Carolinian says, that the
ll’almetto Attorney, built to manufac-
Iture arms to fight the General Gov-
I eminent, have received a contract
Itromthe “War Department to make
I arms for Uncle Sam. He also says,
Ithat they will be better than those the
I Yankees sent South Carolina in nulli
■ fication times, a portion of which,
■ though good looking guns, had no
■touch-holes. Succcssattetul the South-
Hern Armory.”
1 Have the courage to let your igtior
■ance be known in order that you may
Hlenm.