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, < « m BY RUGGLES & HOWARD. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1855. VOL. VI. NO. 4,1. T1IB ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER Dally, TrI-Wcekly and Weekly. BV RUGGLES & HOWARD. w. b7 UUGGLL8,| Edltor( T. O. HOWARD, J Itauijnet to sir Charles Napier and Lord them, they will immediately discharge me Cardigan. j and turn me out of the service. [Hear, hear bitter invective bv sir CHARLES xapier— and laughter.] The Admirality perverted curious disclosures. my language. They not only did that, hut The Lord Mayor of London gave a pub- the T me “os? goading letters MONDAY, MARCH 5. $e.oo TERMS OF SCBSCRIPTXOS Daily Intelligencer per annum, in advance- Tri-Weekly, Weekly, “ RATES OF ADVERTISING. ^ _ Advertidns in ImeUigencer will bo miralNapier‘andCapt." Lynck inerted ftt tho ioU<^vui S rate* per square of ten 1 - New Hat Store.—The attention of our readers is invited to the advertisement of J. j a ,— - - _ Taylor, jr.,' who is about to open a regular lie banquett Nov. Gtb. Among the notables j th «T T c °“ Id write; they asked me j hat store in Atlanta. This is an enterprise ! dd&aSjZ *- needed in « ein-, and other officers returned fi-om the Crimea ' te U .S‘Y ,R g . an account of how Sweabog ! there having been, up to this tune, no e 0 - 4 on and Baltic. Enthusiastic cheering greeted mi ght be token, upon the 4th of October— j tablishment of the kind in Atlanta. the appearance of Cardigan and Napier.— ' lhe very uay tne reports reached this coun- Thc Lord Mayor proposed the toast of “the *7** ^ ^.ng oT Sevastopol. Navy,” coupling withit the names of Ad- linen : Oi c ins«rtioii, (.0 cLs. One inonlb, Two “ $1 00 Two -‘ Three, “ 1 25 Three “ Fo.ir “ 1 50 Four « live “ 1 75 Six One veek, 2 00 Olio year, $5 00 S U0 10 00 12 00 15 00 25 00 Special contracts will be ramie for yearly ailvor- tbomciits occupying a quarter, half or whole «>!- jjjV* Advertiscn’-cois front must be paid in advance. transient persons The health of the gallant Admiral having been cordially toasted, Sir Charles Napier, in replying to that toast, said: My Lords, ladies and gentlemen, if an officer, having returned from a foreign service, like my noble friend near me—if he will allow me to call him so (the Earl of Cardigan)—after having performed prodi gies of valor, lias been received in the man ner he has been received this day, how much move proud I must feel, who have re- A Superb Property for Sale. On the 9thof Of October: 1 the news came J die attention of capitalists abroad that Sevastopol was not taken : but the Ad- i t0 the advertisement ot Mr. J. F. Trout in miralty had not the plain straightforward j this mornings issue. The offer of this line dealing, or the honesty to write and apolo- oropertv for pale lias taken us by surprise, gile to me, but they perverted what I had . we h ‘ ave knov , n that f rom the first day of written, and which gave them apian for the ... , - ’ — - e - 1 - its being open to tne public it has been more Legal mlvcrtiscincnti published at .ho usual j turned from my command having hardly rato=.° Obituary notices exceeding ton lines char;;- performed any service al all, and been cell ed os advertisements. Announcing candidate? fer ] Sl - re q fo- ; l iC Government and dismissed ■ m m all tho u- ; my wrnroimd? (mo, of “m, oo,”) 1 « •—* ** i rcVL Sriifr ^o-Sid'wSc aking of Sweaborg. 1 was not going to j stand that [a laugh and cheers.] I am not the man ro put up with an insult, [renewed cheers! I remonstrated most strongly: but, ; after all my remonstrances, the Admiralty I persisted still in saying that I had led them i astray. Y/hat could i do ! I was not going i to be driven into ail this, particularly us than realizing all that was anticipated.— Private considerations, not in any way con nected with the success of the Trout House, induce the proprietor to offer it for sale.— Under its present management, and hard as the times are, it is a splendid interest.— Sir James Graham, during the whole time Those who have the capital should avail including 25 per cent, will hr added to the above rut Tbo privilege of yearly advertisers is strictly J present company that some account should limitod to their own immediate and regular busi- },c. given of the very small services perform- ness. _ cd in the Baltic by the magnificent fleet Professional Cards not exceeding .-.is lines, S>lo %v jp iC ]j was scn t oa t from this country.— per annum. //-«i ,. \ Advertisements not specified as to time will bo j V ,.1, 3 'J published till ordered out, and charged at regular j rate Advorti.-ument inserted iu the Weekly pi only will be clutronl at former rate-'. per TJJE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. PUBLISHhi) KVERY TIICKsDAY >:VI XJN«i. Ttn\\%—$2 00 per aintuht, z n rttriu hb, in "tier SATl'RDAY, MARCH. That fleet was certainly magnificent to a ■ degree, but it was very badly manned auu worst disciplined: bn!, however, we managed to take it to the Baltic without pilots, with out charts, all the officers being perfectly unacquainted with the sea and the difficul ties of if.-; navigation, and we succeeded in getting there iu perfect, safety. Now, the first object I had in view waste endeavor, if • i possible, to satisfy the wishes of the people • i of this country. 1 was quite aware, when I ; went there, that not one-tenth part of what j was expected, coulu be performed; hut, ne- j vcrthcle.-s, 1 was determined to do the best . { I possibly could. When wc first went up, iny view was to give Russia every chance of sea with her fleets. I divided my two squadrons. 1 left one in the Censure of (lie sjni»er.«ntcmtc»t of <!ic State Itor.tl. Whatever other objections may be made to the conduct of those entrusted with the management of the State Road, wc arc very , to certain that nothing that the Superintend- 1 ,, ee(; • ” to t ent has done in repairing the great damage j Gulf of Finland, and the other not very far " off-—at the Island of Gothland. However, we have lately suffered by the loss of Etowah Bridge can be justly censured. We arc- sorry to see a disposition in one or two pa pers in the State, to take captious and par tial views of Maj. Cooper’s course in refer ence to the increase of charge in freight and passage money. If this had been done simply to swell profits, already large, or from any other motive than to reimburse the people of Georgia for an extraordinary outlay, made to save the community from far greater loss, by delays and hindrances in the business of the Road, wc would not have a word to say. We claim to be im partial judges in all that relates to the administration of the lload, so far as wc are advised of it, and wc would not hesitate to condomn the late changes in the tariff of charges ifwc thought them blameworthy. The question is, should lhe public call upon the State of Georgia, after all her generous expenditure inbuildingup this great interest, to suffer any further loss, when by the division of the extra charge on freights be tween our own people and three or four oth er States the burthen will be trilling. Re verse the thing, and let Georgia bear all the loss that our Road has sustained, both by the destruction of the Bridge and large out lay that must have been incurred in passing freights over tiie River, and how unjustly this would have worked towards tiie larger portion of the State. IIow little do our people below ibis point, comparatively, cpjoy of tiieadvantageof the Road? Except in the way of clear profits that go into our Treasury, uot one iu a hundred of the people of lower Georgia can have it to tay that the Stale Road lias been of the least advantage to him. Wo do then most respectfully sub mit to our readers iu upper Georgia if it is just, after all they have enjoyed in tiie en hancement in tiie value of their land, the convenience of transportation and locomo tion, to insist upon having all the State to contribute in bearing an expense the advan tage of which is really so partial. This ar gument holds good more especially in the matters of the extra charge of fifty cents on passage money. As io the freights, it is strange that Georgia newspapers sLold raise anv objection. IIow much, for instance, of all down freights do (leorgians have to pay? Possibly onc-thiul, probably even less than one-third. As iax payers, wc, for one. say tlui t so long as you do no injustice to those living beyond our Stale limit.-, lhe idea of having this tax borne by others rather than .ourselves is not a subject of much inquiet ude. AYc say so long as we do no injustice. This will never be done so long as v.e only charge men just what we must pay to serve them efficiently. As to the contract for transhipment at the River, of course know ing nothing, we can say nothing. For ali that has been done the public will expect aud get an account. But one thing is sure, if no energetic steps had been taken to ease the Road ol freights, and they had been al lowed to dam up this grand channel of trade aud travel— or agents had beer, cm- ployed that could nut have been readv at a day’s warning to begin the transhipment of freights, such disorder and loss would have Hollowed upon this state of tilings as would have created au outcry from Savannah to Nashville. ti-o Russians did not think proper to come out of their harbors. Our next object was to go to Cronstadt and see what was to be dene there. We went there with the assist ance of a French squadron, to do all vc possibly could to attack the place, should the emergency arise. We found the thing totally impracticable. In the first place, the batteries were of such strength that to attempt to attack the place would be to risk the fleet, with the almost certainty of its destruction, f, therefore, think 1 acted a prudent part in the course 1 pursued. The ' I was iu the Baltic, had written to me, call ing upon mo to beware of the scone walls— not to risk her Majesty’s fleer—that these stone walls were not to be trusted, and say ing “when you ver going to the Baltic, you were gone-ally accused of want of discretion, but now you have pru\ v.l yourself a consum mate commander in chief.'’ After chat came the most insulting and degrading letters ever addressed to au officer, and I mention this particularly, and I hope it will go tlioughout the world, and that Sir-James Graham vill be preueuted from every sitting again in the administration as the First Lord of the Admiralty. I state it to the public, and 1 wish it to be known, that, had 1 followed the advice ofSir James Graham, I should most inevitably have left the fleet behind me in the Baltic. I will prove ic before all the world, and ifSir James Graham Las one single bit of honor in him, he will never take his seat at the Admiralty until this matter is cleared up : and 1 have no right ever to be employed again, and 1 ought to be scratched off ike navy list if I am not telling the truth. [Cheers.] Iam taking the first opportunity, and the only one 1 may statement fectly ready the- House of Commons, whenever they choose to call upon me to do so. Instruct ions Io -Mr. Bachaaan. themselves of this excellent opportunity, to seciirc the best Hotel in the South. Those papers that have received the first advertisements of Mr. Trout, will please in sert the one we give this morning. Offer sell the fugitive Burns.— Rev. Mr. Grimes, tiie colured clergymen in Boston, stated in the Old South Chapel, a few days ago, that he held the written con tract of the master of the fugitive-slave Bu rns to sell him for the sum of §900.— Mr. Grimes also said that he liad already raised full one-half of site required sum,and he had no doubt that there st would be sub scribed, and that he -hould soon have the pleasure of introducing Burns to those who attend that meeting. 8@i=Cliureh going has become a very ex pensive matter in San Francisco; at a sale of pews in Dr. Scott’s Church a few days since several sold as high as twelve hundred dol- perhapa ; lars, equivalent to about §22 per Sunday.— no I may lime, ol making this ; R very much as Dow remarked, “Religion pablw- :i = J. now <2 >, and I am per- j ias g 0t t0 ] j0 expensive a luxury, a poor ■V to answer lor my conduct before , , v i.:au stands no kind of a chance of getting to heaven.” Iu the counties of Sonora and San Hie special Washington correspondent-of , the New York who pretends to Francisco, Colifonna, fave hundred murders know everything tk-u 1- pa—ing in Wash- have been committed in the last five years, iuglon, writes: and only throe of the murderers have been “ -Ur. Marey is preparing to Mr. Buchan- j executed under judicial sentence, an a letter requesting to know the true ob ject in view by the British government foi l-entering so large a naval force in the Amer ican waters, anu for explanation regarding French Admiral entirely concurred in this English and I-reach interference null pur j opinion; and wc returned thence to our affairs in South America and in the 1 aoific. j former anchorage, and proceeded to Bomar- This letter is to anticipate a resolution about j : to be presented to the House calling for m- j I had written before to the English Gov- j formation upon the latter subject. The res- j eminent, proposing to attack Boniarsund.— 1 oluthm will oe replied to by scuuing a c i wanted no other troops to go there. 1 had troops enough [a laugh and cheers} but tiie French Admiral thought it more proper a to have some. The Fiench Government sent out ten thousand troops. 1 did not want them. They had much better have been employed at Sevastopol. 1 only asked for one or two thousand men, to make the thing more sure; but 1 could have done the thing without them, [a laugh,) and I -wrote home to that effect. However, the Government sent out 10,000. It is needless for me to say how quickly the thing was done. [ A laugli j Bnniarsund was taken in no time I renewed laughter]—with little loss a great fortification was destroyed—a series of forti fications, which extended a considers bit- dis tance over tiio Baltic. 1 now come to a subject of greater conse quence, and I think it my duty to make known as 1 can do here, because I have not a scat in Parliament. I have been very much censured by the Government. Groat clamor has been raised against me, and in stead of the Government discountenancing that clamor, they hate actually supported it. The moment it was known in England and France that the army intended to re turn home, seeing that it was perfectly im- -f the lhesideut's letter to Mr. Buchanan. Bo not surprised to learn, at the last mo ment, Congress voting to tiie President ten millions and upwards ol' dollars, subject to his demand. The question is now before the Committee of Foreign Relations in the House, with every prospect of a unanimous conclusion. Marey warmly advocates the necessity for such an appropriation, and Senators Cass. Douglas and Mason stand ready to lend it their aid.” U r.cn we leaf! the shocking accounts from the Briii h camp in the Crimea, and then of the preparations now making, under the war-loving Palmerston administration to repair the disasters of the Iasi campaign, we regard any immediate demoustiaiioitj of hostility from England a improbable. It trui (For the Atlauta Daily Intelligencer.] We hear a good deal of flippant decla mation about the march of mind,” pro gress and discovery, Ac. And v. e mav ad mit there have been some discoveries, some ad vancement in the precise sciences; vet wc may- be admitted to doubt whether the time may not have arrived when this “march of mind” should not countermarch a little and come back into the region of common sense. But the most astonishing j discoveries of the times are the discoveries i made by Senator Douglas—that Moscow was not burnt at all, but merely a few in- j significant outbuildings and those outside of the city-—that Napoleon and the French ! army were all mistaken as well as all the inhabitants of the place and the Russian ■ Empire, and have remained under the delu- 1 si-.-n ever since, until Senator Douglas passed j through a few years ago and made the dis- j covery. In addition, a Miss Bacon, of I England, (whether an old maid or lass in the last degree j her teens, we tire not informed,) has latterly ic- immense fleet is j found out that no such man as Shakspeave iu a great measure disengaged, but her pov- i over did exist at all. Will not tiie next er must have a wider range than this to do . draft upon our credulity- require of us to be- us much harm, it i: kes money, and vast } lievc that no such AVm Roue’s Recollections of John Wes ley. The following extract from a brief memoir of the late William Hone, for many years a noted infidel, is not only interesting in itself, bat conveys a lesson which parents and guardians would do well to meditate.—Lon don Watchman. The account he (William Hone) at dif ferent times gave me of his conversion, be gan with that of his early belief, and the causes of it. His father was an indepen dent dissenter, aud brought him up very strictly, the ordinary penance for a slight fault being to get by heart a chapter in the Bible. On one occasion, being sent to get his task, setting on the garret stairs he threw the book from him down the whole flight, saying, ‘ When I am my own mas ter I never shall open you.’ ‘And, alas!’ said he, * I kept my word but too well; for thirty years I never looked into it.’ * My father and his friends,’ said lie, ‘ were in the habit of speaking much anil bitterly of John Wesley-. They frequently- called him a child of the devil. I had a most terrific idea of this child of the devil. Being under six years old, I went to a dame school to learn my book, and to be out of harm’s way. My dame was a very staid and pious woman; she was very fond of me, and I was always good to her, though naughty at home. She lived in one room, a large underground kitchen; wo went down a flight of steps to it. Her bed was always neatly up in one corner. There was a large kitchen grate, and in cold weather always a good tire in it, by whicit sbe sat iu an old carved wooden arm chair, with a small round table before her, on which lay a large Bible open on ore side, and on ttie other a birch rod. Of the Bible she made great use, of the rod very little; but with fear we always looked upon it. There, on low wooden benches, books in hand, sat her little scholars. We all loved her, I most of all, and I was often allowed to sit ou a stool by her side. I was happier there than anywhere. I think I see her now; that placid old face with her white hair turned up over a high cushion, and a clean neat cap to the top of ali, all so clean, so tidy, so peaceful. I was happy there. ‘One morning I was told I was not to go to school, I was miserable, haughty-, dis agreeable, cried to go to my dame; I got up hoping to go to school; but no I might not and they told me she was ill, and then I cried myself to sleep. Next morning cv- body- was so tired of that, tiie servant was told to take me to her. As we ap proached the house, all was still—it gave me an awful feeling that all was not right. The kitchen door was shut, the servant tap ped and the girl opened it; no scholars, no benches, the bed let down and curtained, the little round table covered with a clean white cloth, and on it something unintelligi ble covered up with another, ‘llero is mas ter U illiam—ho would come,’ said my bear er : and a low hollow voice from the bed said. ‘Let him stay, lie will he good. There lay my dame ; how altered! Death on her face, but I loved lier all the same. My lit tle stool was placed near her bolster and I sat down in silence. Presently- she said to the maid, ‘ Is he coming!" The maid went to the window anil said ‘No.’ Again the same question and the same auswer. Who could it be? I wondered in silence and felt overawed.— At last there was a double knock at the “The hero of San Jacinto is not helping the Know Nothings by talk like this: Tie congratulated the North upon the en lightened, refined, elevated state of society which he saw. But, he asked, do you be lieve that but for the influx of foreign la bor, you would have these railroads?— Would you alone have been able to build them ? Would the people of New England since the revolution have been able to do the digging in making these works? [Ap plause and laughter.] You never would have done it in the world. [Applause.] Well, it is done, and we are glad to see it done. But, let us reason a little farther.— Suppose this work had been laid out, and uo foreigners had come to these shores.— You would have had negroes working upon these railroads sure as the world. It is ne cessity-, convenience, profit, that produce slavery. This is the great receptacle of foreign labor, because it is cheaper to em ploy it than to employ slaves. When for eign labor shall in the same way reach the South, will she retain slaves ? No, she will construct ships—though they are no hands at it—[laughter j—to transport the blacks Africa, rather than have them among The merchants of New Orleans are mov ing in the matter of short credits. The system of long credits has prevailed in that city to a greater extent than in any other. Twelve, eighteen or twenty-four months are said to be common, and of these credits the Crescent says: “After the present monetary troubles have been outlived, we trust our business men will abandon their 3y3tem of selling at long credits, because they can thus dispose of a larger bill, and content themselves with and sure profits. If, in some is, the profits are not so great, the risks certainly much less; and when one man :e3 a fortuue by this gambling in luck, one hundred lose all they are possessed of.” We lately saw a very lino article upon the subject of short credits in the Columbus Enquirer, which we would have been very- glad to insert if we could have made room for it. It has occurred to us, that as the public have voted so large a province to ed itorial labor, and taken every suggestion affecting the public weal so kindly from the press, that much good might be done by a united effort of the editorial corps in chang ing the universal custom of our people of It has been them. These are the things we have to Ju k , a A ,,H sI:l ' e i become unprofita- j making accounts'on long time, ole, and the Soutn will throw ir. ofl. i , , ... . ,. , j not an injurious Habit only, but the- capital Admiral Nafiek and his Sfeecii.—In i vice of the times. Merchants, the fashion the House of Commons, on the 9th, Mr. j is to sav, must go in debt. Yet, whenever Crawford asked the First Naval Lord of the L. n Admiralty whether it was true-as it would ! 7 ] ° n °, ? f ^ at Chlss abstamin S appear from a speech stated to have been ‘ h ' on * C1 ', f:dlt - 0r :ls king it sparingly, we gea- mado recently at a public dinner by the j er ally find a man who succeeds in the long late Commander-in-Chief in the Baltic fleet ' - Baltic’ fleet I r un. It was long ago said by Sterne that —that the Board of Admiralty had dismiss- i nothing acted as such a powerful retrain! ed ami censured Sir Charles Napier, and ] upari the imagination as ready cash. Mr also what were the instructions given to the . n ail -j , , gallant admiral, and whether o? they were ! Randolph said that the tru0 P blI °sopher’s such as would fetter him in the performance 1 stono was » “pay as you go." The peoul- of his duty ? Admiral Berkeley—No one could regret more than I myself do the necessity the honorable gentleman feels in putting this question. No one can regret more than I myself do that my old and gallant friend, Sir Charles Napier, should have been so highly indiscreet as to make the speech which he is reported to have made at the late dinner at the Mansion llonse. [Hear, hear.] Having _ expressed these regrets, it is my duty to inform the House that Sir Charles Napier has not been dismissed from his command ; and that Sir Charles Napier was not goaded into improperly attacking any one fortification in the Baltic ; that Sir Charles Napier was not restricted in any way from attacking those fortresses, if he had so thought proper: and that Sir Charles Napier was informed by the Admiralty that the country expected everything that such a fleet could perforin to be carried out and ex ecuted against the enemy. [Hear, hear.J l regret extremely that Sir Charles Napier is setting so bad an example to those officers whom lie would command I regret ex tremely that it is my duty to stated as the senior naval officer of the Admiralty, how highly wc must disapprove of such conduct in any officer in her Majesty’s service.— [Hear, hear.J While Sir Charles Napier is complaining of tiie want of confidence in the Board ut Admiralty, Sir Charles Napier should reflect, whether by such conduct— whether by the conduct he is pursuing to wards his superiors—lie is showing an ex ample fitting for those who are under him door above, and the maid said joyfully, ‘U madame, Mr. Wesley is come ” Then I ; to follow—whether heTs abfefby 7u‘clT c‘om was to sec the child of tne devil! I crept duct, to secure the oonfirUnna, ,\v +w.„ io the window, I could only see a pair cf black legs with silver buckles. The door was opened, steps came down the kitchen stairs each step increasing my terrow, I saw the black legs—then came in au old man, with, as it seemed to me, the countenance of au angel, shilling silver hair waving on his shoulders, with a ' sums of it, to prosecute suck a plan of op erations as now await filling up, and tho-igii the English people are rich, ;lie English Government i. not. We are probably ink ing a running start of the warlike prepara tions which are proposed, but we think ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ oii'Im possible at that season of the year to per- - - form any further service without risking her theie will be ample tunc mu v> cool > Majesty’s licet, the Government became dis- 3t ' re we _ :L 1 r9ne “ t;L English foe, satisfied, and ordered a council of war to be nieiiai ;i Horse, held. 1 dare say nobody ever heard vet cf Gov. Uerberc inane a presentation speech j a council of war lighting. [Laughter.]— to the owner oi Lecomte when the honor of j IIow ever, wc did not want that to drive us a medal was awarued to Die cuampion of fir , the American Turf, and he-re ton ever existed at uy such occurrence as our Revolutiary Truly our progress is wonderful. ' MUNCHAUSER. V. Washington, Feb. 27. An eiectiuii was held yesterday in George town for Mayor and Councilman. The Know Nothing ticket was elected by a large majority. “ At an election in Frederick, Md., on Monday last, for members of Council, the the horse’s ' Know Nothings triumphed by an oyer- But the whole subject was oaaefully aud r °p|Y b T proxy: .. j whelming majority - - - Gen. \v ells replied with mac.i emotion.— r Washington, Fob. 28. He said: ^ ] The nomination of Gen. Scott as Brevet “1 thank vou, gentlemen, for the honor you have done uie. It is painful, nay, im possible, for me to say anything of myself, but the manner in which tids compliment is paid, and the source through which I re- thoroughly considered by a marshal of France, a French admiral, a general of French engineers, and by no less than three British admirals, and they unanimously de cided that it was perfectly impossible' to proceed farther: and had we done so we should have encountered the rfek of almost cers who arc under him, if such confluence they have in him: and whether such con duct is becoming in an officer who assumes to command a fleet in conjunction with our allies the French. [Cheers.] Sketch of the Leader oftlic Chinese Re publican. The Rev. J. F. Roberts, a missionary to China, recently delivered a lecture at Lou isville, ou the insurrection. He alluded dame, but he took her hand and spoke so ; p art3CU TwIy to the leader and said that lie kindly to her, and my dame seemed so glad! bad brst visited the houso of Mr. Roberts in 18-19. He was then a literaw man, enga- >it was su- table, and | pormuuccu oy a design to learn from Mr. R. I saw- the bread and wine at iny father's i w,I,at -’.e knew concerning the new faith, as chappel, and then he knelt down and pray- i teimcd the Christian roligon. AYith ed. I do not say I prayed, but I was aw i b > u L- : to inmate of his house, a close student, fully impressed, and quite still. Aftor it 3n j l3S attendance on worship, and was over, he turned to me, laid his hand on : d33 ’o 0nt 3n pursing the Bible—lie remained beautiful fair and fresh complexion and the sweetest smile ! This was the child of the devil! And be went up to the Led—I trembled for my poor person as Gen. Washing- 1 ^looked _at me and said something: she; 18d0 .- Ue was thou a literary m i ,i i said, ‘lie is a good boy, he will be quiet - i A-'- 3;! leaching ssuool. Bis visit ,‘ d t 7t° re »”® V fV ,V0S After much talk lie uncovered the table, and : penuduced by a design to learn ft Lieutenant General, under the late act re viving that rank in the army has been con firmed by the Senate in Executive session, j Boston, Feh. 28. ! ILo Royal Mail Steamship Asia sailed to i my head, and said ‘ God bless you my child and make you a good man.’ AYas this a child of the devil ? I never saw Air. AVes- ley again. My dame died; but from that hour I never believed anything my father said or anything I heard at Ills chappel. 1 feit, though I could not have expressed it, Low wiekod enmity was between Christians, and so lost all confidence in 1113- father, and I : lC t °* m - s in all his religious friends, and so in all v e- brobr ‘ ;ll “ ligion.’ ' 1 over two months. Then he presented hint- self as an applicant for baptism and church membership, hut at the suggestion of one of the members, deferred being baptized until some meant of livelihood could be obtained. This was necessary, as instant lie left his native religion, he would lose his caste. After that Mr. Roberts heard nothing fur- ’ - 1 ' pupil until! the insurrection Ci > =]' 5 if men last At- Tv One of the <h got iantu It'jnihtiani says of the mice Convention: “ What in the world arc they there for, but for their own and their country’s good.” About as unsophisticated ami green, itiis, as the speech Queen Caroline, when fresh from the Dutch, made to the crowd that mobbed her carriage: “ AVhat v.u dint, wc come for? For your goots—for all 3'our goots.” SsaT AYc understand that Viokhousc, alia; Pool, whose arrest for negro stealing, we engineers, er council of war, in order to ascertain whether French generals and English ad mirals would abandon their own opinion and adopt that of the Admirably-. The French generals felt insulted at die propos al. Had 1 been desirous to consult the opinion of the brigadier general of English j engineers, and to give up my own opinion, j still, when the ocher members of riie council had once giuen their opinion, iliey thought it was necessary to hold another council, and the French admiral also very properly refused to join in such a step, lie said, "1 have already given iny- opinion, and it is not- the sentiments of any general of engineers, whether he lie English, French, German, or of any other country-, which will make me change that opinion, uii the subject of an attack purely naval in its character.” The g rvermont at home was not satisfied with that. The French general oi engineers send another report home, still more ba;c than the first, and it i.-- unnecessary for me to say that we nil concurred in condemning that opinion also, and the French army returned home, and 1 believe, and have no hesitation in saying that had they gone up the Gulf of Finland again, instead of returning home, our fleet would not have been totally- lost. Not satisfied with this, however, I went up, determined to have another survey of that fortification, which is one of the stron gest in Europe. This was in the month of September, and that month in the Baltic is equal in severity io the month of Xovmber here, and among the Channel Islands. I sent home a report of the survey 1 had made after great care and deliberation, aud with the intention of doing all that man could do it possible, te satisfy the expectations of the people <>t England. At the moment it was it was Lie, time lowed Lecom feet of the v; defected and iibii. .. house i . _ . . . p,ts ; - iter ike finite stake I fol- for 2d volume of Thirty Wears iu Benate, j , . ike liable to -I'i. the ef- which were in the library, have been lost ; I,: up It.:-.-,: I Annul Jliin; ; tlm flames haring paid no respect to the la- mclanchoiy. ! 10 said: - Air. i box-of years. ht. A new Anaesthetic Agent.—Professor Dugas, in the Medical College of Georgia, a few days since had to extirpate a large tumor from the hack weighing about ten pounds. He surrounded the base of the tu mor with the freezing mixture for four or five minutes, which so obtunded the sensi- bflity of the parts, the operation was per- oirmed with comparatively little pain. r.ce f n- l in the the Worst abused AVells, you have the best world, aud he lias been itorso in the world.’ To console 1 im, 1 re plied, * Wc v! ; l try 15m agoix. Hark.’ To this he sail. • li \..ii can get Ah to ride Lecomte he will beat Lexington, cerinin."'— Therefore, gentlemen, for the gray old man, 1 will give you ten-fold thanks, and ho will appreciate this honor as the _ „ of hi, life : and I will accept these medal- as a pledge that on future fields, as hereto fore, Lecomte shall always give a fair and honorable contest.” A dispatch from AVashington .-ays. “It is an error to suppose that the French Spoliation claims arc effectually smothered by the veto. If the House should pass the •Senate bill for the establishment of a Court Thomas Kcutoit avid tlie Baptists. j A Texas correspondent of the A. AV. Bap | tist, says: Some time since the Rev. Daniel Baker, | ol the Presbyterian Church, in a sermon on | the Republican form of that Church, refer- i red to Ex-President -Jefferson as proof. If Elder Baker made the statement, as I un- • derstand he did in the town of Huntsville, 1 Texas, and lie has the testimony, we should : Louisville, Feb. 28. ni-du. i ! ,c §^ ad 30 sec 3 b 3n connection with tiie fol- j is a singular document to come from 5 him. Tne river is closed above. Navigation j lu 7i n o> lls made by- tiio Rev. Dr. Fishback, 1 AVhy, he professes to stand side by side of suspended. To day is tiie coldest of the . Ecxiugton, Ky., to the editor of the Buj>- j the ultra Southern State Rights platform of season. j list Guardian, Richmond, Ya. “The fol-! the 1798 ATrginia and Kentucky resolutions! New Orleans, Feb °7 lowing circumstance which occurred in the j But will the State Rights The tow-boat Thomas McDaniel exploded I State of Virginia, relative to Mr. Jefferson, j stand by the side of him ? Senator Wilson’s Better. Henry AYilson’s letter on “ State Rights ’ men consent to , —w v^j/.vuvu , .. „ Let us see. lie her whole six boilers yesterday below the ) v . as ae toitcd te me by Elder Andrew Trib- i went to AYashington with vows ofur.com- kiliintr seven net-sous and inimdnrr ; ,3iC > a ^° at S1X years ago, who since died j promising hostility to Slavery on his lips ; city, killing seven persons and injuring i ,1 a00at six y< glory others, and somewi at damaging two vessels i , en ninety-two or three years old. An-, at the Burlingame lecture he "unequivocally in tow. The boat is a complete wreck. j dic ''. Fi-iLiL>le was tne pastor of a small j endorsed, 1st, repeal the Nebraska bill: 2d, iar moral influence and effects of long credit are so well understood among us that they have become a sort ox stock in trade that tho skillful so well understand how to use. The crafty merchant will connive at imprudence in the solvent purchaser and use all his ingenuity in decoying the wary trader upon his books. ’Tis very singular, too, to see what a complete transformation is effected in the character of almost any one who, after trading for cash, trusts himself to the infatuation of unrestricted credit.— Prodigal men are oftentimes made to think more than twice before they part with means that they- have in hand, and even the most skittish and niggardly tire sometimes hard to convince that the twenty-fifth day of De cember next will over overtake them. AVhat now would be the condition of every por tion of Georgia were the creditor part of the community to press for immediate pay ment? AVliero would tneu stand, who have been purchasing negroes at §12,00to §15,00, with fair prospects ahead, if now they were called on for payment, with cotton—and a short crop at that—at present prices?— Farmers, above all men, should pay as they go, and be the lenders if there needs must bo borrowers. But after some experience, that lias left scars on our memory, wc do not hesitate to say that the community that is made to “ pay as it goes ” is very fortunate. Because this thing is not so in cotton grow ing countries wc think is the true cause why so few, comparatively, to the number en gaged in the business of cotton raising, ever grow rich at it. It takes, as the popular phrase has it, twelve months to make a crop of cotton, and consequently overtrading on the faith of a crop not above ground is the easiest thing in the world. It cannot bo that cotton producing is more uncertain or less remunerative than other branches of industry, for at 8 cents per pound, or say three good sized bales for §100, we had rather raise cotton for a livelihood than trust to any other business accessible to men of ordinary means. A v e have been somewhat surprised at the marked difference between this city, in re gard to the extension of credits, and the lower portions of the State. And, so far from regarding the custom here as hard or unpalatable, we only regret, for the sake of all concerned, that the rule is not more stringent. AVc arc nut sure, however, that the custom of short credits did nut begin along the wrong line. For men must eat, whether they can “ down with the dust” or not, while people can wait for cashmere shav.-ls, ten dollar handkerchiefs, and bro cade silks, at least we know that husbands can. AYc, for one interested party at least, can say that, until times press with some more mercy, we should be pleased to see the leader of fashion among the men of At lanta, (whoever he is,) stoutly set evil tongues at defiance by walking the streets in a seedy suit, and we should then not care the snap of a finger for all those ill manner ed cards that stare at us from every other door ir. the town—“ Don’t ask us for credit if you please.” The Capital of Neck ask a.—Omaha City, the present capital of the newly organized territory of Nobraska, is described as con taining from sixty to eighty houses, . located on a rising ground on the banks of tho Mis souri river. The government house, occu pied by- the Governor and Council, is a two- story brick, and the principal hotel is also two-stories with a wing, tho rest of the houses being of all sorts and sizes. In Au gust last there was but one small hut in this place, but now it contains taverns, stores, shops, dwellings and a government fully or ganized in all its departments. 83L.AA r e are informed by the Rome Cour ier that a gentleman from Pennsylvania is about to establish in that city a large shop for manufacturing the various kinds of ma chinery- from a steam engine down to mill irons and gearing. There will ho connected with the establishment an iron foundry.— The proprietor has twenty thousand dollars worth of machinery- with which to furnish his shop, and lie proposes to do business on a large scale. Miss Catherine Hays reaped a rich Har vest in Sydney ere she left that city for Mel bourne—some £7,000 from nine concerts, besides presents of plate and jewels. Her visit was one continued triumph—tho “Queen of England could hardly have received mure attention.” Music evidently hath very powerful charms at the Antipodes. British Constitution Attacked One of the most remarkable features ot the new position of tho statesmen and press of England, growing out of events connect ed with the existing war, is the fierce attack upon the far-famed British Constitution.— Taken in connection with the afflicting re cord with which our readers are already too familiar, it is indeed one of the most signifi cant events of the present day. It shows not only that, however long justice may be deferred, the day of reckoning is sure a last to come, but also, that the only safe founda tion of a Government, is the people and equality of political rights. Hear the Lun- don Times, speaking of the recenc heart rending calamities:— “There is no reason to suppose that Eng land would, have fared better in other possi ble hands. The result is failure ! failure ! failure!—and the cause of the failure is the system.” Again, alluding to the “dead-lock” to which things had come, the 'Thunderer To Louisville, Feb. 27. ; Baptist Church which held its monthly; The river is falling fast. AYcather clear i nle< ]tiiigs a short distance from Air. Jeffer- and cold. Navigation is still open below, eight or ten years before the The river is closed at St. Leu is. : Amenean Revolution. Air. Jefferson atten- ~ - — j Jed the meetings of the church for several A Ch allenge to the South.—The owner j mouths in succession, and after one of them ot me famous race horuo Wild Irishman ; asked Elder Tribble to go home and dine nas challenged Lecomte, or any other South- j with him. with which he onmrJiod repeal die Fugitive Slave Law; 2d, abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia ; 4th, abolish the inter-state Slave Trade: next he would declare that Slavery should not spread to one inch of the territory of the Union ; and he has again and again given his pledge to the doctrine of “ no more Slave States?” Will the State Bights men who stand on the resolutions, go with him ou Tins is the terf. AVe have that indicates any change iv Senator, and we predict questions he will vote just elf would vote if he were iroin Tun Ten states that aecordii from AYasliinp a powerful oil! the i'resilient The X. Y. Hnuld its special advices there is a probability that vill be made to grant to i’.screuumirv fund < l ten noticed a few days since, is in a fair wav of re I'° r led that Sevastopol was tak being proved to be a thorough going “Aim- ;ll ?° rt ^. ked ’,“^ hy does /1 n ( S t Adn, f l J Xa J». cr fact it was asked, “AVhy do you not go and take Moscow?” [ Laughter. 1 Now, I did millions in view which may arise gre.-s, especially with Spain. A Bitter fi.m §20.50. Las been York, from Col distributed ainuii of the possible exigencies during the recess of Con- in a few uf our relations reputation of the thinks AVild Irishman match for the best of t ance, last season, o beating Red Eye, Berry. Granita, Selinei .’•laid of Orleans Gratli, Ac., in the best time ever made on the Island, mark him as a elebrated nags, and litf'e more than a etn. His porform- the National Course, m the best plan o f Gocernment for the Aincri can Colonies. This was several years be-1 " Rt Oku and tiie Collins Steaji Ship fore the Declaration of Independence. ‘ Lin e.—ifessro. Editors : — Gentlemen :— Harmony of n»c Democracy. | Your AVashingfon correspondent is in error The Southern Banner, alluding to the fa- j when he states that I have ehangedmy opin- vor with which the prospective return of j 3011 ( ls the compensation now paid the Ex-Governor Cobb to Congress, is universal-! Collins steamers. I voted in 1852 against hi i;.st extraordinary horse, and warrant the j ly- received by the Democratic press, makes j increasing their compensation from §19,600 igb estimate placed on him by his owner, j the following very just and received in tl minis, Missisippii, t the lieodv colored adoring of New .'ir. James irvin. Feb. 28 Conv ention today at this place re-nominat- cl by acclamation the entire St State linat- e State ticket of 1 rcll man,” 011c of an organized gang, uf ne gro stealers extending from Florida to Ten nessee. Immediately after his arrest our energetic Alayor dispatched Deputy- Mar shal Ilunnicutt to Tennessee to follow up his trail and find what manner of man lie is. AVe were shown a letter yesterday from the Debuty Marshal in which he informs tiie Mayor that he had succeeded in collecting evidence of said Vickhouse’s villainnics to not expect that the Admirality would join in that clamor. I say, I certainly never ex pected that they would be so mean and de spicable [a laugh, and hear, hear,] as to join in that clamor, in order to bring odi um upon a naval officer who had done the sons in that city. Luted by slaves ii cents up to two ci The Journal ot letter was enclosed, remarks: rfjord, Feb. 28.—The AVhi„ State is again an united and harmonious party. Past differences and dissensions are ;.t year. I forgotten and buried. The spirit of jealousy ^ , The convention passed a series of resolu- I an< ^ suspicion has given way to the more lhe money was c.ntri- J {j uns endorsing tiio American principle, in- noble spirit of confidence, and we present 11 sums ranging from five eluding protection to American industry, dic picture of an united brotherhood, eo-op- ollars. and declaring that the|repeal of the Missouri i er ati:ig in the maintenance of our time-hon- '(.'t.-minsive, to which the cumprumise had put an end to all eompro- • ore< ^ principles. And surely there never followin'* U1 ises on the slavery question. Also, ex- 1 " as a time when the union and harmony of ‘ •" pressing a determination to resist-, by all ^ le Democratic party was more important . . . constitutional means, the admission of any : ^ lan present. All other parties, factions “In several points of view this is a very more slave States: denouncing Senator fragments arc busily engaged in uniting . . . _ interesting affair, -t shows a becoming Toney’s course in the U. S. Senate; con- dle31 ‘ discordant elements for the purpose of best in Ins power to bring honor aud credit 1 sympathy between colored men North and detuning the veto of the river and harbor "’arring upon the integrity and principles to ms country, j Hear, hear, hear.] AVliat South, it shows that southern siavc-s have and French spoliation bill; approving tho i of the Democratic party. 'AVe must ho pre- ‘Bu I do? I sent home a clear and detailed money to spare, when tree colored men, and Connectieot prohibition law ; and declarin'* : P ared to meet and defend them ; and in our secure him a place in the penitentiary dm- ^unt to the Admirality, stating to them ; free white men,-too, are in distress for the ; t ] ia t President Pierce’s administration ; bonest judgment, that preparation is well ing the balance of his davs It, kpluuk fhnt ni ^ °P in . ,on ‘ i > and what appliances were ne- necessaries of life. 1 entitled to little respect. , nigh consummated, when we willhavein- , i’-'ii - “ .t-t...! ggk, The new county Jail of Polk eoun- j Baltimore, March 1.—Flour firm at §8 -‘ 5 ul ’ ed un i QD ‘and harmony in oar own ranks. ty, and which cost §3,500, was set fire to on ! G2\ for Howard Street, and §8.25 for City 1 i2h,$S*. th !v Samo 8 P ir „ it ' vhic ^ j, u« muv v > » lVTill« .toll -1,7, i exhibited m the t-ase of Gov. Cobb be felt Sunday morning the i8th. and entirely con- , { H rau ?L duU - of white AVheat , „„ . .... , , , . o , at fil.lJf. Corn—we note sales of white v - r?L a : n ? S | at 86@87 cents, and yellow at 88 cento Washington, March 2.—The U. S. Treas- _ _ appropriate re- j P ei ‘ trip. At tho last session I voted to give marks: j notice to Collins & Co., to terminate the ‘ It indicates that the Democracy of the present contract. I cast the same vote at ' ” ’ ’ ’ ‘ the present session. . So far from bavin .. days, ai seems mat . cessary in order to take Swenbog. You will v iCkhousc has lately had six negroes in pos- j not expect me to state what these opinions session two of which are here in custody, were. ^ [Hear, hear, hear.] Suffice it to say and we hear that two at least of the ne-roes i dlat the , re were two .opinions given, of which , i c ... ., ° ; 1 tnought was certain to obtain su were stolen from near the 1 lorida line. - - - Boston, Feb. 28.—AY in, Jackson, former ly a member of Congress from this State, and a leading fxee-soifer, died yesterday. _ success, the other certain of insuring destruction. AVliat did the Admirality do? Now mention this particularly and plainly, in order that there may be no mistake whatever—because if tho Gonenunent have the least spirit about before, been received by the Inferior Court. The Republican says “ it was beyond all doubt set a fire by some incendiary, as no fire Had been about it for several weeks. uver’s statement for February, shows that tho total ^amount in the Treasury, sub ject to draft, is $23,500,000. exhibited in the case of Gov. Cobb be felt in all our nominations and elections, and the October elections will add another to the brilliant triumphs of the Georgia De mocracy. Senator AYilson, of Massachusetts, has agtiin, for the third time lately, “ defined his position,” on the slavery question. The following is given as a brief programme of his principles and intentions, as avowed du ring the late exciting debate in the Senate, on Friday night last. lie wishes the fugi tive act repealed, slavery in tho District°of Columbia abolished, the AVilmot proviso es tablished ; ail new slave States excluded; all connection between the general govern- meat and slavery abolished, and agitation of slavery continued until these objects are ac complished. He understands these views to correspond with those of the Know Noth ings as a party, so far as they have taken any position on the question. no time fur diffidence, or oven for too much scruple. AVc never were in a worse scrape. AYc have lived since tho peace on the military reputation we gained in the Peninsula and at AVaterlou : we have now lost itin half a year. AYc have upheld, till now, the efficiency of constitutional Government, till absolutism itself was al most converted. This, too, breaks down, evidently to the intense satisfaction of nu merous neighbors who have never loved or trusted us, and who now affect to find their suspicions and dislikes more Hutu ju-iif.d. But whose fault is it if tiie army, ii Gov ernment, if the constitution appears I■. give way, and, like a cumbrous and ill-adjusted machine, to snap, to bend, to twist, to crum ble under trial ? is singular enough, that this fierce at-’ is made upon that very feature of tiie British system, which distinguishes it from most other Constitutional Governments, and which has so long been the Englishman’s proudest boast—we mean the ari-cocratic feature. In one place, the Times say s, “the English army is being made one vast job, the plaything of tiie aristocracyin anoth er, it charges the Government anu House of Commons, with selling themselves to tiie aristocracy, and, though the arislocrucv, to their enemies. Still another article contains tho following very significant sentence: “ If the British people does not see tho ultimate tendency of all this, we will ven ture to enlighten their innocence. Thc-c are the steps by which constitutional nations sink into despotism. They are rapidly lead ing us toward that very state of. thi *-■ V-J u-nu.u l title T \tS. y D-AtiiV V'*. l which in France has been held to justify the Imperial usurps lion.” This is pretty plain talk for a paper cir culating in almost every family of Great Britain, and supposed to represent the;:- opinions. It may well ho considered one of the signs of the times. But it is not confin ed to the press alone. Is is heard iu Parlia ment, and if we may judge from authentic accounts, it originated with and constitutes the staple conversation of the people. Thu arrogance, the in competency, and the injus tice of the aristocracy is the cry- every where, and meuc ■ineneickelitphursiu is vvritteu up m the oligarchical polity. If the present war shall accomplish no uthcr good, it promises at least to break down an oppressive system, which has long been a slander upon consti tutional government.?, and restore equal by and their long lost rights to the various peo ple of Britain and Iter dependencies.—Sa vannah Georgian. changed my opinion, observation and addi- Prolia’jle Iufauticide. AYc understand that on Thursday last some boys being at play in the neighborhood of a house, in tho outskirts of this city, which in times past has bornearather doubtful character, one of their[dogs attracted their at tention by scratching under a log, and upon examination the skeletons of two children were found wrapt in a small piece of flan- tioiial information has confirmed its propri- j nel. One of the boys having told the cir- ety. The compensation greatly exceeds, in m y judgment, the value of tho services rendered. JAMES L. ORR. AVasliington, February 24, 1855. “ Piling ur the Agony.”—At a trial the other day, at Sherborne, Sergeant AVilkins called to the jury, in tho most touching terms, by their verdict to restore the S risoner to the bosom of his family, and welt on the effect tho result of the trial would havo, for happiness or mis ery, on those who arc so dear to him. AVhen the learned Sergeant sat down, wip ing his forehead after the effort, he was a little surprised to learn this touching allu sion to wife and children had been on be half of a bachelor! W^T Jullien was giving concerts at Ox ford, Eng., at last accounts Sale of Daniel AYebster’s Homestead. —The homestead farm of Daniel AVebster, in Franklin, New Hampshire, was sold for $16,000, on Thursday last. Rufus L. Tay, of Boston, was the purchaser. eunistauce to a citizen, he visited the spot aud found the facts substantially as stated above. lie says the skeletons were of new born infants. Futlier by tiie St. JLouis. The Paris correspondent of the London Daily- News, says that Mr. Suole consider.- the scheme for the purchase of Cuba euin- pletely withdrawn. The English Parliament re-assembled on the IGth. Hammond, under Secretary of Foreign Affairs, accompanies Lurd John Iiusseil to A'ienna. The Duke of Genoa is dead. Despatches frouVaglan of the 27th report that the days arc fine but the nights are cold. Hats are being got up with much difficulty. The India mail has arrived with dates from Bombay to the 10th January. An insurrection had broken out iu Cabul, and 12,000 Persians were besieging Bentie Cc- brasi. A murderous conflict had taken place and the beseiged had offered a fierce resistance. The French government has offered to raise in France ten to twenty five thousand men for the service of the English govern ment, half the number to be ready in fifteen days. The English government is disposed to entertain the proposition It is reported that the Czar has issued a proclamation, dated 12tli Febuary, calling tho entire male population under arms.— An additional Russian force of 300,000 men was to be sent to the Crimea. The latest dates from Sevastopol was to the 31st January. The weather was grow ing milder. Movement of the Allies.—The N. Y. Herald has a report, brought by the George Law, that they were daily expecting in the Pacific a French squadron of five large ves sels, under Admiral Fournichon, despatch ed it is believed, to effect, if possible, the reduction of Potropaulowski. It will be recollected that an English expedition against that place was repulsed by the Russians af ter a conflict of several days. Philadelphia, March 1.—A fire broke out last night in Chesnut street, below Seventh, which consumed’ the building known as Fisher’s Block, occupied as stores. Loss. A Mayor Circumvented.—The Mayor of Detroit determined, a few days .-ince, to put a stop to the driving of fast horses through the principal streets of that city. So. In Company with a posse of policemen, he walked deliberately through tho middle of Jefferson avenue, a beautiful wide street, which is generally the course for trotters. Arrived at the end of his promenade the worthy Mayor, was fatigued, and gladly ac cepted the invitation of a gentleman to take a seat in his cutter. No sooner was he seated than the horse broke into a 2.40 pace and tho conservator of public morals found himself flying along at a speed quite des tructive of anything like dignity, and enti rely subversive of municipal discipline.— The proprietor and driver of tho sleigh mado the most strenuous efforts to stop his horse, and pulled upon the lines till his nrmos were lame, which everybody knows is the way to stop one of our American trotters, but the animal could not be induced to tarry, and dashed on. The other fast ones inthe street, seeing the Mayor set the example, at once ontred into the contest, and a merry time was the result. The owner of the horse has since extreme regret that his animal should have behaved so badly and threatens estimated at $40,000. The fixe originated to sell him, while the mayor has not since from a defective fltue. | been seen promenading the evenue.