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FRIDAY, APRIL 7.
[From the Washington Union.]
tHas
ary A. Wise la Virginia.
There is a knightly bearing about Henry
A. Wise in his present contest against the
serried hosts of proscription in Virginia
fh.
proecnptii
that enlists attention in all quarters, mere
is an energy in his labors, a freshness in his
thoughts, a bold frakness in his' counsels,
and a lofty disinterestedness in his tone,
that show how fully be appreciates the noble
responsibility confided to him. He seems
to reel as if such a cause as that in which
he engaged it is a lofty honor to be a leader.
A Whig Know Nothing paper in Mem
phis, Tennessee, the Eagle anil Enquirer,
notorious for its personalities and maligni-
n u insertion. 60 cts. on# menu. •» •>» ties, cannot forbear doing justice to the
Tw* “ 91 *0 Tw# " t 00 course of Mr. Wise. In a late number of
fhrse, " J.g Thrs# ** 10 0* that print the editor says:
Fonr " J “ Hon. Henry A. Wise, Democratic can-
u . 00 0n . «. no didate for Governor of Virginia, delivered a
On. week, * 00 One y«r. 16 8peech the ^hcr day at Alexandria.
which we find reported in full in an eastern
paper. It is a great speech, barring its
special pleading on ‘the American question,’
end conclusively establishes the fact of Mr.
Wise’s eminent ability as an orator and as
a statesman, whatever may be said of his
past career, or of those peculiar crotchets
with which his brain sometimes becomes
tangled.
“Now, with all his faults, we contend
that Henry A. Wise is a brave and glorious
man to say such things as these in this cor
rupt age and standing in the position be
does, as the candidate of the democracy of
Virginia! The sentiments and the chivalry
of their utterance are worthy of the better
days of the republic.
“We had always rather praise than
blame. And we are sure we nave quoted
enough to show that if Mr. Wise makes
such speeches as this all over the Old Do
minion the man who runs against him—be
_ .. . ,, . , it Mr. Summers or Extra-Billy Smith—will
1 9 j have to get up before day every mormugto
bent him.
“ But he is* particularly eloquent when
speaking of the immense resources, but
We are glad to learn, that of the ten
thousand dollars of the Stock in the Gas
Company, which remained to be subscribed
to ensure the success of the enterprise,
about six thousand dollars have been sub
scribed by responsible citizens since the
opening of the books. The remaining four
thousand will, of course, be mode up with
out difficulty. So we may consider the en
terprise of lighting Atlanta with Gas, as
among the “ fixed facts.’’
Gwinnett County Presentments.—We
learn from the Grand Jury Presentments of
Gwinnett county, that the taxable property
of that county last year was estimated at
$3,332,667, and that 750 children have for
the last three years received the benefits of
education at tie exponse of the county.—
The Grand Jury are of opinion, that the
experiment of biennial sessions of our State
Legislature has proved a failure, and they
recommend a return to annual sessions.
8®* The sale of the late Mr. Webster's
estate andstock at Marshfield on Wednesday
by Coi. Thompson, was well attended. The
right and title of the Mansion House and
340 acres surrounding it was bid off by J.
W. Paigo for $200, and this portion of the
Marshfield property will be kept in the fam
ily, according to the request in the will of
the deceased.
It is stated that the Hon. David J. Bailey
will be a candidate for re-election to Con
gress from the Third District.
Hon. E. W. Chastain writes to the editor
of the Cassville Standard that he is willing
to abide the action of a convention of the
Democratic party of the Fifth Congressional
District.
Griffin Municipal Election.—We learn
from Griffin, that the municipal etection in
that place on Monday, resulted in the suc
cess of the entire Temperance ticket.
IQy The Democratic Convention of Ten-
nosse met at Nashville last week. Andrew
Johnson the present incumbent was nomin
ated for the office of Governor. Resolutions
were passed denouncing the Know Nothings.
Mr. Gentry, whig, who refused to support
Gen. Scott, has been in the field for some
time as a candidate for the same office—by
virtue of a self nomination. He will prob
ably be supported by the whigs and Know
Nothings.
meagre developeraent, of the old Common
wealth—that grand old mother of States and
of statesmen. Witness the following:
“The State of Virginia has every element
of commerce, of agriculture, of mining, and
of manufacturing. On the Chesapeake Bay,
from the mouth of the Rappahannock to the
Cape of the Chesapeake, you may have
rondsteads and harbors sufficient to float the
navies of the world. From the river of
Swans, on whose margin we are, down to
the line of North Carolina you have the Po
tomac, the Rappahannock, tnePenankatank,
from Mob Jack Bay to James river and the
Elizabeth river—all meeting in the most
beautiful sheet of water of all the seas of
the earth. You have the bowels of your
western mountains rich in iron, in copper,
in coal, in salt, in gypsum, and the very
earth is rich in oil which makes the very
rivers inflame. You have the line of the
Alleghany, that beautiful blue ridge which
stands placed there by the Almighty, not to
obstruct the way of the people to market,
but placed there in the verj bounty of Prov
idence to milk the clouds, to make the sweet
springs which are sources of your rivers.—
[Great applause.] And at the head of eve
ry stream is the waterfall murmuring the
very music of your power. [Applause.]—
And yet commerce has long ago spread ner
sails and sailed away from you. You have
not jet dug more than coal enough to warm
yourselves at your own hearths. You have
set no tilt hammer of Vulcan to strike blows
worthy of gods in the iron foundries. You
have not yet spun more than coarse cotton
enough, in the way of manufacture, to
clothe your own slaves. You have bad no
commerce, no mining, no manufactures.—
You have relied alone on the single power
of agriculture; and such agriculture!—
[Great laughter.] Your ledge patches out
line the sun. Your iuattention to your
only source of wealth has seated the very
bosom of mother earth. [Laughter.J in
stead of having to feed cattle on a thousand
hills, you have had to chase the stump-tail
ed steer through the ledge-patches to pro
cure a tough beet-steak. [Laughter.] And
yet, while your trust has been m the hands
of the old negroes of the plantation ; while
the master knows as little as his slaves about
the science, the applied science of agricul
ture ; while commerce, manufactures and
mining have beeu hardly known, and agri
culture neglected—notwithstanding all that,
and notwithstanding the effect of this has
beeD that you have parted with as much
population as you have regained—notwith
standing all this, I sav, Old Virginia still
has a million and a half population left
within her limits.
She still has her iron, her coal, her, gyp
sum, her salt, her copper. She still has bee,
harbors and rivers, and her water power,
aud every source of wealth which thinking
men, active men, enterprising men
apply to. What boast like that can be made
Third Congressional District.—A cor-1 for any other State on earth? What, then,
respondent of the Maoon Telegraph suggests i ' 8 our duty as \ irgiuians as patriots, as
,i „ f T n n i r I men worthy of our fathers—worthy to be
. , , J.,!*. . i the husbands of our wives? What is our
suitable representative of the Ihird District j diujj Come to the poll and vote against
in the uext Congress. Mr. Lamar, says the . me, and welcome. 1 am nothing. Record
writer, is a modest, unassuming, accomplish-; your votes under the influence of any blind
ed gentleman, and a true Demacrat; besides, | prejudice you please. Record your votes
as an orator he has few if any superiors, i ?? ain8t rae \ You strike down but an bum-
j , . , ‘ ^ ' bio man when you strike me down, and
and possesses talent of the first order. -- ...
though you 6trike down a man who is too
v „ _ j proud to beg you to vote for him vet he
Know Nothings Giving up tub Ghost.— « Ht>!« im n W
The New York Daily American Times, after
a month’s devotion to Know Nothingism,
has departed this life. The same disaster
has fallen upon the Guard of Liberty, pub
lished at Rutland, Vermont. The “ thing’*
seems to be dying out from Vermont to
Georgia.
'P.
you to come to the pools, to do something,
to put forth your strength to raise up this
blessed Old Commonwealth. [Great cheer
ing.] Her head is in die dust. With all
this plentitude of power, she has beeu
dwarfed iu the Union; but by her gods 1
say that she has the power now, the energy,
the recources—may I say the rneu?—to be
, put upon the line of progress to the eini-
West Point, Georgia.—The West Point j nence of prosperity, to pass New York yet
Beacon gives must encouraging accounts of i ^ ter iu the Union, then ever New York has
the increasing prosperity of the place in > her. [Cheers.] You have been call-
• i ... T..| I m, F ; ed the “Old Dominion.’ Let us as Virgin-
- nr lt 18 J )UD lS .' C ^' . * ie Editor says: ( Jans, I implore you this night resolve that
West Point is evidently going ahead, a new era shall dawn, and that henceforth
am. will ere long rank among the first in- j she shall be called the New Domioion.”
land commercial towns of Georgia. No ; [Cheering.]
place iu the State, we venture to say, hus | What a picture is this! While the en-
unproved in-»ro rapidly in every respect, . emies of die Democracy of Virginia go back
within the last six months, than has our to the charnel-houses of the past, ana bring
embryo cuy ; and this spirit of improvement thence the dead and buried proscriptions
is not nagging the least. Preparations are defeated by Jefferson and his associates, and
making for immediate erection of other aud | cloth diera with the thin disguises of a spur
moie exteusive business bouses, which will , ious Americanism. Wise unfurls the ban-
be m readiness for toe fall trade.” j ner of progress, looks boldly into the future,
h ; prepares V irghiia for the contest with her
Honoring a Musical Composer.—Meyer-! sister States in the march to substantial
beer, the lainous German musical composer, j greatness, and infuses into all his speeches
was lately honored with the cross of Com- the rarest eloquence. How appropriate
mander of the Order of Albert, at Dresden, j this noble attitude with his thrilling appeals
by the King of Saxony, in consequence of; to the broadest liberal doctrines—his scorn
the ^reat successs there of his opera “ Etoile | of the little jealousies of political bigots—
du \urd.” j his contempt for the narrow schemes of con-
I ] I ~ * _ , tracted demagogues—his reliance upon the
EOROXRIES.-Lewis L. Taylor, clerk in truths that gave us our freedom and are to
the First Auditors Office at Washington, ip I perpetuate our insdtutions!
reported to have forged the name of the i —;
Secretary of War to notes amounting to ten j IS> The new steam frigate Niagara,
or twelve thousand dollars. ; building at New York, is intended by her
—— builder. Mr. George Steers, to be thestrong-
Scarcitt.—In some sections of the State • est and fleetest of her size and class afloat,
of N. Y., and especially some of the western i rhis vp ' 11 stir up the naval constructors of
countries, there is a scarcity of hay almost. ot h«r ports, and we will see where the great-
unprecedented. The Buffalo Renut,Hr ! est talent in naval architecture resides. The
many farmers have l*en obligXseTlS
cattle to considerable disadvantage, to save
them from starvation. 1 ty
el<
sell their • Kiagnra is to be three hundred and forty-
re | five feet long, fifty-five in breadth, and thir-
-one in depth. She will carry twelve
[epth.
even-inch swivel guns.
Mr. Steers says
IS>A memorial is in circulation in North i *^ e Ba *^ seventeen miles an hour* under
Carolinia for a change in the laws rugula- an orainar J P re88 canvass, and is willing
ting the slave system. The following re-' to risk 11,1 “® can command upon the Niaga-
forms are proposed:—The introduction of ra i? lfil,in 8; thi8e ?P5 ota . t !. on - , .
marriage among slaves, with legal guaranty ! ■ he u8ual speed of sailing vessels of this
for its perpetuity; the recognition of the tie j ***?- ander a L fu11 8 P rea <* «f canvass being
of parent aud child, and the instruction of i from ® ,ght to ,en m ' ,,es an bour * an “
the slave in reading and writing j from ten to twelve miles being considered
2} , j extraordinary speed.
Col. KiNNxr.—Thio .Oomewkat famous j " V ^ V - ' „ • ^
gentleman has, it is said, sold hie fine ranch I A J oun 8 m * n front Mmsachosetts
at Corpus Christi, Texas, to a French wm- {*** rode on a ***1 at Greensboro, Ga., on the
paoy iit $105,000- oaoh dowa lOOgUOO. 117tk oik. for baisf aa aboUauniot.
leua’s KlagOea TessMisg Pewa.
“Toombs amp Stephens.—We ate glad, to
learn that both of these distinguished gen
tlemen are open and avowed in tbeir oppo
sition to this secret political organization—
Know-Notfaingisia. With tbeir well known
influence with the great body of what once
constituted (be Whig party, and the almost
united opposition of the Democratic party,
we have nothing to fear on this subject.”
The above is from the Macon Telegraph
of Tuesday morning. At first we were in
clined to diaeroditit. But then the announce
ment, which is made in the Telegraph’s ed
itorial columns, is so positive, and our oo-la-
borers ale so sddom wrong in tbeir state
ments, that it must needs be true.
Toombs and Stephens backing out of
Know-Nothingism! Astounding intelli
gence ! We should as noon have expected to
near of Satan backing ont of ein. is it not,
indeed, Danaos dona fir entsx. “ Greeks
bringing suspicions gifts” after all, or can
it, by any possibility, be true? If so, where
will our ootemporiee be, the Savannah Re
publican, Chronieb. As Sentinel, La Grange
Reporter, Southern Records, he., they who
have pot tbeir Know-Nothingism in black
and white? Will not those furious invec
tives against an honest class of citizens, who
though foreign-born have never done them
harm, will not they rise up like Banquo’s
ghost aud never down ?
Surely the little dictator must be trying
his dictatorial powers to the utmost. At first
he shrewdly leads his organs into t'ue sup
port of the secret order, and then, not only
deserts them, but, as it were, commands
them to whip round with him and the times.
Will they do it? Doubtless. Whoever knew
a Georgia Whig to disobey Toombs and Ste
phens ? It will, it is true, be something of
a somerset, after proscribing foreign-born
eitizens, in the army, navy, couucii, and at
the ballot box, to turn round all at once,
and “ admire that rich Irish brogue.” No
more sadden, however, than they have turn
ed before, when votes were needed and spoils
were in the distance. Georgia whiggery is
a history ef somersets, and many of them
more skilful and complete than that which
Stephens now bids his menials turn.—Sav.
Georgian.
AccMcxt to Mrs. Webster-
The New York Tribune, of Saturday says:
“Yesterday afternoon, as the carriage of
Mr. Curtis was passing through Fourteenth
street, the horses become frightened and
ran away—the driver loosing all con
trol of them. Mrs. Webster, widow of the
late Daniel Webster, was in the carriage at
the time, and, becoming alarmped, jumed
out of the vehicle, in consequence of which
she was severely injured, she was thrown
with great violence upon the pavement, and
striking upon her head, was badly cut.-—
Some citizens, who witnessed the occur-
ranee, hastened to her relief and conveyed
her, in a state of insensibility, to the dewl-
ling house No. 76 Fourteenth street. Med
ical attendance was promptly at hand, and
Mrs. W. recovered sufficiently in a short
time to be conveyed to ner residence. The
injuries she sustained are of a very serious
nature.”
Honobs to tok Late Emfebob of Russia.
—A letter from Berlin, Prussia says:
“ The death of Nicholas bad made a pro
found impression on the court of Berlin,
and particularly on the king, who is report
ed to have been for some time in a state
bordering on frenzy. Unusual honors are
paid to the memory of the deceased, all the
theatres are closed, and the whole Prussian
army is put in mourning. Quite a mob of
princes and princesses are passing through
this city for St. Petersburg, to express their
sympathy with the bereaved family, and to
be present at the funeral, which, it is expect
ed, will soon be followed by that of the Em
press, who has been for years in a most del
icate state of health, and will probably not
long surrive her husband.”
What is a Pamphlet?—The Post Office
Department in determining the rates of
postage legally chargeable on various things,
thus define what is chargeable with pamph
let postage:
“ A pamphlet is a printed hut unbound
publication, relating solely, to some subject
of local, ephemeral or temporary interest or
importance only. Hence, with the excep
tion of those not containing more than six-
tee octavo pages each, for whioh under cer
tain conditions, the act of August 30, 1852,
has made special provisions, no publication,
although folded and unbound, can be per
mitted to pass in the mail as a “ pamphlet,”
instead of a “ book,” unless its scope and
subject are such os to bring it fairly within
the distinctive definition above given.
Riot in Cincinnati.—At the municipal
election in Cincinnati on Monday, there was
great excitement and bloody riots between
the Americans and Germans. The cannon
was used and ten or twelve killed. The
11th ward ballot box was destroyed. Frauds
were discovered in another ward. The elec
tion was close and the result is doubtful
between Taylor, American, and Faran, Dem
ocrat.
Hard Times in Pulaski.—We learn that
there are two hundred and thirty-six civil
suits docketted for the April term of Pulaski
Superior Court. This is thought to be the
largest number of cases ever known on re
cord in this county at one term of Court.—
Certainly there must be a’“screw loose”
somewhere. Either the times must be very
hard, and money distressingly inconvenient
to fingers, or else a determination of the
people not to pay their debts must be the
cause. Pulaski hitherto has been very just
ly noted for prompt paying disposition, and
we feel much at a loss to acknowledge her
inability to sustain this enviable position,
which she has so faithfully regarded as a
model virtue in the history of her former
character.—Ifaickinsville Herald.
From Havana.—The steamer Black War
rior has arrived at New York with dates
from Havana to the 29th nit. More arrests
had been made.. The acting American
Consul is said to have entered a strong pro
test against the execution of Estamps, and
that Concha had resolved to refer the mat
ter to the Spanish Minister at Washington.
The steamer Star of the West has arriv
ed with a quarter of a million in gold.
Charleston.—The Standard of Saturday
says:—The money market, for the few days
K , has evinced some little stringency.—
necessity of making returns at the end
of the month has induced upon the Banks
the necessity of curtailing accommodations,
in order to show as fine a balance os possi
ble in the way of specie. It is possible, al
so, that the diminished receipts, arising
from the diminished price and the shorter
crop of cotton, may leave a deficiency of
funds necessary to meet the foreign indebt
edness of the community, and that to some
extent there may be a. balance occurring at
this period whioh has to be met; but, re
stricted as have been our operations within
the last year, we cannot believe that such
deficiency will ultimately rest upon us, aud
we contemplate with some certainty, there
fore, if not the flush times of a year or two
ago, at least a very fair aud comfortable con
dition of monetary affairs.
A Nxw Invention.—We have seen spec
imens of a superior article of printing f>a-
JeO|suM *a Darien Bank Claims.
The Federal Uniem of the 2d inst., says:
—Judge Hardeman held an adjourned term
SATURDAY, APRIL. 8.
Messrs. E. J. Camp and S. A. Caldea
i £ Friday - la f t ’ bave « prospectus of a weekly cam-
i the 30th ult, chiefly for the purpose ot de-1 . - . ,, . .. _ r _
j ciding the claims of the creditors of the i P^P® r be called the Georgia Pro-
1 Bank of Darien carried up by appeal from j hibitioniefc.” the first number of whioh is to
~ of Commissioners, be issued in Marietta, Ga., about the 20th
inst. The object of the paper is the advo
cacy of the great temperance movement on
the basis of the Atlanta Platform and the
claims of B. II. Overby the temperance can
didate for Governor.
Blackwood’s Magazine.—We have re
ceived, from the American publishers, Mesrs.
Leonard Scott A Co., New York, the March
number of this valuable Magazine. The
following is its table of contents: The Beg
gar’s Legacy ; Zaidee’: A Romance—Part
IV.; Vagabond Life in Mexico; Civilization:
the Census; A Peep at Paris; The Story of
the Campaign, written in a Tent in the Cri-
Part IV.: The Ministerial Changes.
| the award of the Board
i The effect of the judgment delivered by
ihim—is to lessen the amount of the first
j award more than one-half—making the
! State liable for about $94,000.
| The Act of 1834 was-declared to be con-
i stitutional—and that tbe State had no right
j to refuse to pay any further instalments
I than she had then paid—and did actually
j refuse to do so. The effect of this decision
I is to throw ont all claims founded on certifi-
' cates of deposite, Ac.
| Bill holders receive the whole amount of
j their bills, without interest, except in those
i casese where an actual demand was made
upon the State of Georgia, through her leg
islature ; that demand running from an ad
journment of the legislature of 1849—which
was on tbe 23d of February, 1850—the Di
rector of the Central Bank having made his j _ - .
report of certain claims filed in the Bank at j For terms of Blackwood and the other for
that time. ^eign periodicals, see advertisement in anoth-
The Judgment held by tlie Planters Bank j er column.
1 receives $27,000. and that held by the Bank i
j of the State of Georgia, $10,000. The Bank ; The Temperance Candidate.—A writer
; of Milledgeviile receives about $3,000 on its . in the last Athens Watchman, a Whig pa-
! judgments on Bank Bills. j per, thinks it entirely useless to bring out a
j. Tbeciaimof James Ilolford for $17,000, Wh ; candidate for Governor> and 8ay#
is paid with interest from February 23d, , . . , _ ’ _ J
I 1850, the adjournment of the legislature, to * t * ierc 18 no chance for a Whig Governor
which it was reported. while Mr. Overby is before the people.”
As will be seen, the whole amount to be Ilis advice is for the Whigs to rally round
i paid under this decision, is less than one- j and nominate Mr. Overby, The editor of
rSe°n the al - egCd lkbUitie8 ° f theBankof j the Hatchman, however, thinks there is no
< . ! chance either for a Whig or Democrat Gov-
, correspondent of the New Orleans Delta , ®™ 0r ’ f S * m . P rol * lb1 / a «end M
j writing from the city of Mexico, March 19, j filbng the executive chair. Is this the same
| thus chronieles this event: 1 “ Sara” that is now trying to fill the Lieu-
i Santa Anna returned late in the evening, , tenant Governor's chair, in Virginia, with a
j and was received with no pomp or triumph- , man w jj 0 voted in Congress to abolish slave-
l a! entrance. He rather stole back, in the : . .. » « . .. ,
' gloom of night, to the consolation of his pal- j r - v ‘ ‘J 6 of Columbia ?-the same
! ace: and the^e again to enjoy, in dreams, j *' ^ am object John P. Hale sava is
i the visions t»f empire, which the “ Barbari- i to Abolitionise the South ?
i an Alvarez” has, for a time, “ dissolved in- j The recent resolutions by the Law
I to thin air.” Since his return- he and bis , . _ . .. , J
j Ministers of State have been in seclusion— i indents in Cambridge, upon the removal of
| and even the prying-eyes and attentive ears ! Judge Loring, were passed directly in defi-
j of the whole diplomatic corps, and their i once of the expressed will of the Faculty.
I feelers, have been unable to get at the histo- j This fact gives them a still higher value ;
j ry or de *ig ps the conclave. j f or otherwise, probably, the majority of votes
! Fatal Bravado.—A man named Stedman, I would have been still stronger in their favor.
The Professors now, it is said, are very fool
ishly determined to inquire into the matter,
and set forth, that the assembly, by which
the resolutions were passed, is dissolved.—
; a cabinet maker, at Aurora, Portage coun-
j ty, Ohio, one day last week, remarked to a
j homcepathic physician there: “ I could take
i any quantity of vour pills without injury.”
‘ The d<*etor replied—“ If you were to take
! such a quantity of this,” pointing to a spe- j College Faculties never “make anything”
i cial medicine, “ it would kill you.” The i | u contests of this nature with students.
; foolish man swallowed the medicine before i .
| he could be prevented, and died the same ; It seems to tie pretty well resolved
; day. j in Mobile, that the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road shall be completed. Citizens have al
ready subscribed to the Income Bonds of
the Company to the amount of $100,000.—
The local moneyed institutions of the city
have subscribed $100,000 more, which it is
thought will be increased to $130,000, and
it is considered certain that before the close
of the present week, $500,000 will be ac
counted flir in the city. If th6 people in
the country are as ready with their aid, it
is thought that in a few weeks a sufficient
sum can be made up to ensure the comple
tion of the work to Columbus, Mississippi.
Good Dividends.—The Bank of Augusta
has declared a semi-annual dividend of Five
Dollars per share, payable on demand, and
the Mechanics Bank of that city has declar
ed a similar dividend, also payable on de
mand.
A Challenge to Daniel Webster.—A
enrresdundent of the New York Dost dis
closes a fact not known even to many of Mr.
Columbia. April 2, 1855.
Columbia Municipal Election.—Colum-
I bia having become to-day a city by the new
| act of incorporation, it devolved upon her
| citizens to select a Mayor and six Aldermen
j to take charge of her affairs. The follow-
! ing is the vote for the Mayoralty:
i E. J. Arthur 342
Wm.UA) bin, ,211
' T. H. Wade, 91
Mr. Arthur is claimed as the Know Noth-
! ing candidate, and Col. Maybin as the An-
j ti-Know Nothing representative.
The six Aldermen who were elected are
also claimed to have been on the Know
Nothing ticket.
Cincinnati, March 29, 1855.
Slate Excitement in Cincinnati.—A
1 colored girl named Rosetta, brought here
from Kentucky by an agent of her master,
i and who was declared free by the State
Court at Columb.us, has since been arrested
under the fugitive slave law; but Judge
Parker declared that when ever a slave by
consent ef the owner sets foot on Ohio soil,
ha is free; and therefore he declared the
girl free. The United States Marshal at- _ , , . . . .....
! tempted to arre<t her, which caused much j Webster s most intimate friends, that he was
j excitement, and a mob being apprehended : once challenged by John Randolph. Mr.
! she was finally conveyed to the Woodruff j Webster declined, but the correspondence
j House, where she now remains. j which passed between the parties, Mr. Ben-
WyiheoiUe, Va., April 2.—On Saturday i ton acting as the friend of Randolph, ap-
1 p *gbt last, a most shocking tragedy occur- j pears to have been highly creditable to the
: red here, by which- one of our oldest and I
i most influential citizens was instantly killed, ;
| and three other persons dangerously*wound- j #Sk- The Augusta Constitutionalist & Re-
' ed. The particulars of the bloody affair, as j public has no doubt of the ultimate comple-
j far as I am ab'e to gather them, are as fol- j tion of the Savannah River Railroad, now
■ .• ^ * a t a j that the South Carolina Road has exhibited
i For some tune past, a man named J. Aus- ' . , . , , .. . . ^ „
I tin Graham has been paying his attentions j a helping hand. .Ir. Arms, the First Kn-
j to the daughter of a wealthy old gentleman ! gineer, proceeds immediately to survey the
j named W. 11. Spillcr, who is reported to be | road from Anderson to Aiken, which latter
: worth about $200,000. Graham was unsuc- ! place is understood as intended to be its ter-
! oe " f i 1 ” h " 9 “J> the fact th , a * tke I mination. For the benefit of Augusta and
young lady loved, and was engaged to be „ , . ... , . , “ . ..
i married to a physician named Dr Hamet. I Ilambur g there will be a branch road of ten
j Graham, on aucouotoif this state of things, : miles length to the latter place.
has been very violent,, and threatened to! . .7 ,, . x . v ,
' take the life of his.rival the first opportuni- j I®* ^ sporting gentleman in New Y ork
i ty that offered. ' j offers to bet a large amount that during the
On Saturday night, about 10 o’clock, he i coming Summer he will drive from the
entered the Wytheville Hoiei keept by Mr. ; As tor House to Union Square in a light-
wagon drawn by rats. He calculates that
he can accomplish the task with one hun
dred rats in harness.
Death of Mrs. Twiggs.—The New Or-
i Thomas J. B.iyd, where Mr. Spiller was sit-
! ting, in company with Mr. C. F. Trigg, tel-
i ler of the Exchange Bank at Abingd.un;
■ Mr. C. Cox. an attache of the hotel, and a
Mr. Terry of this place.
Graham drew a rev lver and commenced , .
i firing into tbe crowd, killing Mr. Spiller at ,eaus ^ ca V une of the 27th ultimo announ-
i the first fire. Mr. Cox is very hadiy wound- oes the death of Mrs. Telitha Twiggs, wife
| ed; but will, it is thought, recover. Messrs. ! of Major General Twiggs, of the United
| Terry and Trigg were wounded, but not I States army.
j seriously. _1— ;
The murderer fled immediately after the j n bread making, the vinous fermentation
; commission ot the bloody deed, and has not .. . , ,, •,
! since been heard from. I sometimes passes into the acid, thus ren-
Yours F. 1 Bering the bread sour and disagreeable.—
I New York-, April 2._In the Court of Oyer j Liebeg has iateIy formed a series of ex-
. and Terminer this morning, a motion was ! pcrimeDts to improve the preparation of
i made by the counsel of Morissey, Ilyler, ; bread, from which he comes to the conclu-
i Irving nod Lynn, who are charged with lie j gjon that the only effective and innocuous
ing accessory to the murder of Win. Poole, means 0 f improving tie quality af wheat
rj&x&sss. Hm * e “- _ i r t, •r*. *• itae a
A motion was then made to admit them , duU S b lie advises one pint of clear lime
’ to bail. There has lieen some taik about in- ! water, to be used for every 5 lbs. of flour.—
Lime water can be prepared by stirring
some quick lime in a vessel containing pure
cold water, then allowing the sediment to
settle. The clear is then to be poured off
and kept in a bottle for use.
Rabun Gap Road.—We learn that a party
of the Engineering Corps of the Blue Ridge
Railroad Company, which was detailed for
the purpose of examining the line of the
branch of that road from Citico, on the Ten-
creasing Irving’s bail to $25,000. Irving is
still at large.
Baltimore, April 2.—Howard street flour
is seeling at $9.25@$9.37 per bbl. Wheat
: has advanced—red is quoted at §2.20@
$2.34; white $2.30@2.40—the highest fig
ures ever held in this market. White corn
command 89@91 cents per bushel, and yel
low 91 cents.
Philadelphia, April 2.—In the Supreme
Court, this morning. Chief Justice Lewis
gave a decision Rating a writ of error in ; Iiessee river to ^ on the line of
the case of Dr. Beale, the Dentist, convicted L. -r, ' a, r , ,, . r, , -
of violating tbe person of a young lady. 1 the Tennessee and Georgia Road, is
The writ of error was granted, on the j engaged in that work at present.
ground that the jury in the case had been ! Barnum annouces that twenty-seven
sworn to try the guilt or innocence of the | vladiBa o have already entered their children
prisoner, instead of being sworn to render ! . “ "
a verdict according to the evidence in the I as competitors in his national baby show.
' ease. j We doubt the fact of any lady being con-
, Another ground for granting the writ of j neoted in any way with so gross, debasing
error was, that instead of Dr. Beale having j and obscene exhibition,
been sentenced to solitary confinement at -
! labor, be had been sentenced to imprison
ment at hard labor.
per said to be made entirely of cane poles,
which invention, if all we hear is realized,
will work a great revolution in the printing
biuinese. The paper is superior to that
made of rags, and at one-third less cost.—
The steamer Charleston which passed here
a short time since, had on board twenty-five
tons iff cane poles, destined for Wheeling,
where they are to be manufactured into pa
per. . Mr. -B. A- i»ayender, uf Baltimjre,
who is interested''in the project,-has made
contracts at the South for large quantities
cf him poln^XoiiMlIi Oturitfm
‘The Georgia University Magazine,
for April, has been received. It is an unu-
! Know Nothing Movements.—'The Know 8uaU J interesting number, containing the
' Nothings in.several States are dividing off I annual anniversary addresses before the two
j into several cliques and coteries. In New j Literary Societies of the College, the Phi
f York there ate three factions: 1st, Baker’s K ft ppa and Demosthenian.
party called Hindoos; 2d, the Allen party, ; tSt" A Breach-loading Cannon was tried
called Originals; 3d, the Utica organisation, j at the Charlestown (Maas.) Navy Yard on
1 called bogus or Seward Know Nothings.— i the 29th ult., in tbe presence of some United
: In Massachusetts, New Hampshire and N. I States officers. Dischargee were made re-
- Jersey, there are two factions in each. All i peatedly, as often as 6 rimes a minute, hut
' this is, says the New Yor\p,Herald. weaken ;ifis claimed that, having everything perfect,
J ing. Unless-they Unite iH <eaeh: Stnt«-and j from 15 to 18 dischargessaneasily U-made
then in all the States, they will be demolish- j in that time. This is pronounced a furmid-
ed by the democracy. I abb weapon for naval warfare.
Arrival of the Daniel Webster.
Eight Days laater from California.
We find in our New Orleans exchanges
eight days later news from California,
brought by the steam ship Daniel Webster.
She reached New Orleans last Friday night.
The Parser furnishes the following particu
lars in relation to the insult offered this ves
sel by a Spanish sloop of war:
Steamship Daniel Webster, Capt. T. D.
Lucas, left New r Orleans on her regular day
of sailing, 14th of March, for San Juan.—
When three days out, while passing Cape
San Antonio, was brought to with a shotted
gun from a Spanish sloop-of-war mounting
24, and papers demanded and overhauled,
under protest of the Captain, and the only
reason given for so doing was that they
served all the steamships that passed the
Island the some way; after which we were
allowed to pass on our course.
The Alti California, of the 9th of March,
in its summary of the week, says:
The events of the past week are neither
numerous nor startling. The bank excite
ment has in a groat measure subsided. The
suspended banks have not resumed, and it
is altogether improbable that any one of
them, with the exception, perhaps, of Page,
Bacon & Co., can resume. At Sonora, on
Sunday last, a mob gathered and bro^e open
the banks of Adams & Co., which had been
closed since the 23d ult. A committee was
appointed and depositors paid off to the full
extent of their certificates. Some $10,000
above the evidence of deposit was found in
the vault. The creditors of Dr. Wright and
Robinson have held several meetings, with
no result, however, other than satisfying
everybody that the assets of these “ savings
banks” have been placed beyond the reach
of attachment.
Among the failures of mercantile houses
during tbe week may be mentioned those of
Chapin, Sawyer & Co., and S. B. Conrey.
Tue newly discovered diggings—the Kern
River mine-.—receive their full share of
public attention. People are flocking thith
er by land and water. The most wonderful
stories ar® reported, many of them undoubt-
ly very much exaggerated.
The rain has fallen abundantly of late,
and all the streams are swollen. At Sacra
mento the river has been rising rapidly for
several days past, and was only two or three
feet below the maximum height attained
since the foundation of the city.
The Supreme Court adjourned on Tuesday,
hating rendered a number of very impor
tant decisions. One decision was to the ef
fect that persons who enclose lands in the
mining region cannot hold them against
miners.
A “conflict of Courts is becoming quite
interesting. The Supreme Court of thi3
State decided a month or two ago, that ap
peals could not be taken from the State
Courts to the United States, and Judge Shat-
tuck of the Superior Court, of San Francis
co, disregarded this decision, and transfer
red a cause to the U. States District Court.
Down comes the Supreme Court with a per
emptory mandamus commanding him, &c.,
but it was of no avail, Judge Shattuck re
cognizes a higher law, and says he “shall
not touch the case again.”
The charter elections in Marysville and
Oakland have resulted in the triumph of the
Know Nothing candidates.
The Pacific Express Company has taken
the place of Adams & Co.’s Express.
Gov. Bigler has granted on unconditional
pardon to John Tabor, of Stockton, who had
been convicted and sentenced to execution
for the killing of Mr. Mansfield.
The Alta Calijornia, in its commercial
article of the evening of the 8th, says:
The business of the past week has not
been so heavy by any means as it was gene
rally supposed it would be. The idea pre
vailed heretofore that the first week of con
tinuous rain would bring about an imme
diate revival in trade, and induce an active
demand for goods. Such has not so far
proved to be the case, but we see in this no
cause for discouragement. We look upon
the business of the country as certain, and
'although the financial crisis through which
we have just passed may retard orders, and
the conditions of the roads may impede the
transportation of goods, the wants of the
country must be supplied sooner or later,
and the trade of this week or of this month
will only be forced into the next, as soon as
business commences.
Policy of Louis Napoleon.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the New Y. Journal
of Commerce writes: *
Late letters from Paris have attracted
more than usual attention, on account of
their disclosure of the designs and policy of
the French Emperor. He will not only go
to the Crimea, and take tbe war into his
own hands, but will greatly extend the field
of its operations. Napoleon believes in the
star that led him successfully to the Empire,
through the coup d’etat of the 2d of Decem
ber. After he shall bring the Russo-Turk-
ish war to such a conclusion as he aims at,
he will not, probably, follow the example of
his uncle, in repudiating an unfruitful wife,
and espousing a princess by whom he may
expect accession to hi9 strength, as well as
to perpetuate his dynasty in his family?—
Then, will he not attempt the crowning act
of his destiny—the invasion of England?
These are shadows of events that may not
be distant.
On the other hand, if Napoleon fell a vic
tim to his Crimean expedition, the results
will bo quite as important to the world; for
it may be followed by democratic revolution
in France, and political convulsions every
where. A long series of wars and revolu
tions, seem to menace the world. Even
were the Conference of Vienna to result in
a general pacification, it would nut be but
of momentary duration.
But the opinion gains ground, that the
continuance of the war in Europe will not
be hereafter, so detrimental to our industrial
pursuits, as has linen generally supposed,
provided we may be able, for some twenty
years longer, to maintain peaceful relations
with all foreign powers.
“ The Fir momentum or mud fires are eve
ry day improving in public estimation. Their
applicability to all steam purposes has been
severely tested. We understand that an ex
periment was tried a day or two since upon
the Jackson Railroad with this wonderful
material as a steam generator, and was en
tirely successful. A train of cars was run
for a distance of some fourteen miles upon
this road with only one fire, and that with
the fire box only about half jull of the mate
rial. Enough of steam was produced for all
purposes, and the trial was perfectly suc
cessful This test is probably , one of the
strongest to which it could be subjected, for,
if with the constant escape and use of the
steam a locomotive requires a sufficient
quantity could be generated, surely, for all
other pupnses to which steam is applied, it
is especially adapted.”
An Odd Idea.—Among amusements, the
latest novelty we notice is the excentrio tar
get at Mr. John Travis’ Pistol Gallery, on
St. Charles street. A shot, skillful enough
to strike the “ bull’s eye.” sets in motion
certain ingenious machinery behind the
scenes, and the uninitiated sportsman is
amazed at beholding the target slowly open
in the centre, disclosing the figure of a
beautiful dancing girl, who stands before
him in the attitude of cutting an extra pig
eon wing, and it is then hidden from view
by the closing of the iron slab. Whenever
we saw this occur, it appeared to us precise
ly as if the lady knew when a good shot
was made, and wished to know who had
fired tbe pistol.—N, O. Bella.
89* There were sold before the Court
House in Savannah, on Tu^day, t«s* shares
on the Bank of Savannah, qt.$jOfoi>«r share,
and forty-seven shares Central “Railroad at
$104.
sSenetklag flatten la Danmark.”
There appears just now, from what hid
den cause we cannot divine, to be a gener
al bouleversement in the domains of Whig
gery, throughout Georgia. Either tbe wires
are not skillfully pulled or they are badly
laid. The Republican a few days since at
tempted gently to ease Mr. Jenkins.off the
stage, it “ being unwilling to assist in
forcing him into the position of a candidate,
especially under the peculiar circumstances
which surround parties at this time in Geor
gia.” Alarming this! critical state of af
fairs .' Mr. Jenkins is evidently not the man
for the times. For this temporary distrust
and disobedience the Southern Recorder
takes occasion to rap his editorial brother
rather rudely over the knuckles. “ Noth
ing,” it says, “U farther from our desire and
intention, than to attempt to force Mr. Jen
kins into the position of a candidate. If
our recollection serves us, *a writer in the
Republican first agitated the Gubernatorial
question, and suggested the name of Mr.
Hull, &c.”
Again “ we trust there will be no falling
out by the way, upon mere questions of pot
of those who'
icy of those wl
tied together.”
nave heretofore nobly bat-
Rather scary times these!
One pulling one way another another, and
all “ falling out by the way upon mere ques
tion of policy.”
The Republican takes all this very meek
ly, and assures its cotemporary that “ there
snail be no falling out by the way, so far as
we are concerned.” This is as much as to
say, let us have our own way and there will
be peace in the wigwam. As for Mr. Jenk
ins, the Republican seems still “ unwilling
to see him placed prematurely in the posi
tion of a candidate, and before it is known
that he can be elected.” That is oertainly
wise. Our neighbor closes by a very sug
gestive compliment to “ Mr. Hull, one of
the soundest men in the State,” and further
adds that “ there is time enough yet to de
termine what is best to be done.” There is
PerelfB Powers Protesting Against? V.
8- Treaties.'
The United States Government have re
cently entered into a commercial treaty with
the Equatorian Government, by which it is
said the former grants a protectorate over
the islands of Gallipagos. This treaty,
which is proper enough m itself and which
is within the sovereign powers of the two
nations to ratify, has been protested against
by tbe minister of Peru, the charge d’ affairs
of Spain, the charge d’ affairs of France,
and the English consul at Quito, on the
gaound that the Government of Ecuador
cannot and ought not tc bind itself without
the assent of the four nations they repre
sent. Here we have another unjustifiable
and impertinent interference with the na
tional rights and prerogatives of the United
States, and an addition to the combination
against its interests. We cannot make a
commercial treaty giving us snob advanta
ges as any other sovereignty chooses to con
fer, bnt we are to have the leading govern
ments of Europe, with a South American
State combining against it, and asserting a
right to be consulted, though the matter, as
between the two contracting nations, is
clearly none of the business of such inter
meddlers. But what will such a protest as
this avail? Who cares for it? What will
it accomplish, except to show the arrogant
pretensions of the parties making it ? It
will amout to nothing at all. Such pre
tensions as these no nation will submit to
that has any respect for its dignity and hon
or, or any power to assert its own just rights.
The people of this country care not whether
other nations are pleased with their progress
or not. They will make such treaties as
will promote their own interests, always
bearing in mind, however, the rights of oth
ers ana the obligations of international com
ity. Acting justly, fairly and honorably
towards others, they will submit to no im
pertinent intermeddling with themselves, or
their progress. The nations that attempt it
nothing decided then yet. Everything is ! sh ™J a be warned in time, and see the ab-
still afloat. But the entanglement does not
end here. The LaGrange correspondent of
the Recorder discusses at length the dubious
question, “ what effect will the Temperance
nominations have upon the October elec
tions ?” He rationally concludes that as
Mr. Overby is a Whig and his followers of
that ilk, that the Whig party is in danger said to be that wri
of being drawn off to an alarming extent The following is ai
by that leakage. How can it be stopped?
That is the very question. The writer turns
it over and over in a variety of ways, first
pressing Mr. Dawson’s claims then Mr.
Hull’s, and finally Mr. Jenkins’. Light,
however, will not come ont of darkness, or
der out 6f disorder, nor peace out of discord.
There are a great many conflicting claims
to be adjusted, and many difficulties in the
way. above all Mr. Overby sticks, and
there’s the rub. If ho cannot be wheedled
off the track, there is little hope for Whig
gery. Query! How far Toombs and Ste
phens backing out of Know Nothingism is
due to these intestine troubles.—Sav. Geor
gian.
“TO* Lett A. K. JHcClnug.
The death of this daring Mississippi&n by
his own hands is very generally noticed by
the press. From a friend who knew him
well and admired him much, we learn that
he was a native of Kentucky. It is said
that first and last he was engaged in nearly
or quite a dozen combats, most of which re
sulted fatally to his antagonist. But he
was something more than a duelist. He
was an orator of no mean rank. One pas
sage of surpassing eloquence, we well recol
lect, taken from a euology called forth by
the death of Mr. Clay.
The following remarks we find in the
Petersburg Exprees.
We recollect to have been much impressed
in reading a Biographical Sketch of Alex
ander K. MeClung, in the Southern Lite
rary Messenger for January last, to see how
much there really was to be admired and
remembered gracefully in the character and
career of this unfortunate man, whioh never
theless overshadowed by the cloud of a great
remorse and thus hidden from the sight of
the world. Col MeClung was a generous
and magnerous and magnanimous spirit—a
brave man, if ever there was one, which
cannot be said always of duellist by profes
sion, and he was gifted by nature with en
dowments that would have raised him to
eminence in any profession he might have
chosen. Over sensitive in the point of his
personal honor, he was led to the bloody
combatsof the pistol and the knife upon slight
provocation, and having como off on every
occasion only too victorious, leaving* his
antagonist dead upon the field, there was
peace for him no longer upon this wide
earth. The nemesis of an accuesing con
science fastened upon his soul. As it pur
sued Herod and Macbeth, it pursued him.
The furies hovered over his bed. In vain
he sought relief, in change of scene, in the
distractions of public business, in the wild
rage of battle. He travelled much—he
accepted a ^diplomatic position under Gen.
Taylor in South America, but without find
ing beneath fereign skies that forgetfulness
of the past, which lie failed to experience
even amid the excitements of the Mexican
War. Wherever he wont, there was no
“surcease of sorrow,” no nepenthe for his
tortured being. And as a last fearfulrofuge,
he went into the world of spirits unsum
moned, without hope, it was a leap in the
dark? A friend of ours who once occupied
an adjoining chamber to Col. MeClung, at a
hotel in New York City, tells us that thorugh-
out tbe live-long night, that wretched man
walked up and down his apartment or the
hall leading to it, as if fearing to throw
himself upon that couch from which sleep
had departed.
Later from China.
We make the following interesting ex
tracts of a letter from a highly responsible
and intelligent source, which has been
kindly submitted for our perusal:
Shanghai, December 30,1854.
We are still in a state of war at this port,
and the French have been drawn into the
quarrel. The rebels undertook to build a
battery on some land near the city wall;
the Admiral told them to desist, as the land
had been sold to the French; they persisted,
and he sent a file of soldiers to demolish
their work. The rebels fired on the soldiers
—killed one, and wounded several; there
upon the French ship fired upon the town.
It is said the Admiral is determined to in
sist upon their surrendering the city to him,
aud it is admitted on all hands that he could
soon reduce the city to a heap of ruins, by
throwing shell from his ships, (a frigate and
a steamer,) hut he postpones this method of
warfare, as it would involve the death of so
many women, childern, and other innocent
persons.
The rebels are set on by some renegade
foreigners who have joined them, who give
them be-1 advice, and teach them to despise
the Frc i; they offer to surrender the city
to the A erica.is and English, but declare
they wir. never give up to the French. The
Americans and Englis Captains, Pope and
.O’Callaghn, answer to this, that they are
not at war with than, and it would he non
sense to surrender to them, bnt that if they
will surrender to the French they will,
through their mediation, guarantee all their
lives. To this the French Admiral assents,
but they, poor infatuated creatures, refuse.
It will be great relief to this neighborhood
to get rid of both the rebels and the Impe
rial troops. a . . _
We du not feel oureelve# in any da
from either party. Both know that
their beef policy to keep on good termBwith
Wbat we have to dread moet^s
tbe French
foreigners;
anarchy.
Since I commenced writip
have commenced bombarding;
I now hear their, cannon; Booming
air; it is a sad sound,, that I truat-yqft-y
never hear in any one of year peaceful
surdity of attempting to impose upon this
continent the nonsensical theory of a bal
ance of power, which has so often deluged
Europe with blood.—Phila. Ledger.
Nicholas and the Philip of Macedonia
Of the many English obituaries of the
late Czar the most striking and eloquent is
ritten by Mr. Urquhart.—
an extract:
Commencing with a usurpation and a
revolution, close followed by a victorious
war beyond the Capian, close followed again
by a triumph in a struggle for life and death
on the plains of the Danube, instantly suc
ceeded by a similar daring and achievement
on those of Snmertia, a revolution of Europe
by a mechanism, the springs of which were
forged at St. Petersburg—such were the first
five years of his illustrious career, when cir
cumstances arose which seemed to bar him
from the fruits of success, aud dis
place Russia from her high position among
nations—the commencement of the recon
struction of Turkey, and the political union
of England and France. Cautious now, ns
hitherto daring, four and twenty years of
peace succeed, in the course of which time
he convulsed Europe from end to end, con
verts Hungary for Austria into another Po
land and his, secures the succession of Den
mark, sets up an Emperor in France, and
ruling all the nations and courts of tho
West through his embassadors, and making
use of their cabinets and statesmen ns the
tools with which he worked, finally accumu
lates the armies of Europe on tbe soil of his
secular enemy, the old Ottoman Lion, to
crush him by their weight and friendship,
then draws them upon the soil of Russia,
not only to defy the Western world, but to
annihilate tho armies.
Vanishing from the scene after bringing
the power of Russia to the highest point
that it ever has attained, or ever can attain,
that in which, by combining the two’ great
nations of Europe against Russia, he has in
sured between them an internecine strife,
which must make his country mistress, not
of Constantinople and Calcutta alone, but
of Europe and the world. Let the Russians
inscribe this epitaph upon his tomb: “He
has accomplished the will of Peter.”
“ There are strange parallelisms in histo
ry. Nicholas had his antetype, and so have
we. There is nothing in events but Phillip
of Macedon, to put beside Nicholas. The
Athenians did say Phillip was nmd—the
English did say Nicholas was mad. The
The Athenians did say, ‘ Phillip is dead.’
The English, in the same sense, are saying,
‘Nicholas is dead.’ And Phillip was all
Macedon, while Nicholas in Russia was but
an Emperor. Though Phillip was all Mac
edon, and did die, although the Athenians
did rejoice, Athens and Greece did perish.
Phillip was only a barbarian, while Greece
was civilized.”
An Augury.—Whilst Gov. Smith, was ad
dressing his constituents at Rappahannock
court-house on Monday the 12th ult., and at
the precise moment when he endorsed a por
tion of the Know Nothing platform as con
taining “ much that was democratic,” a
small bat, of the leather winged species, tho
first and only one we have seen this season,
suddenly issued from some hidden nook in
the court room and proceeded to perform
sundry gyrations around the Governor’s
head, its sudden appearance at the partic
ular juncture created a general burst of
merriment, and this, with the volley of
shouts of “there goes the Know-Nothing
eagle,” and the shower of hats from the
boys which accompanied the flight of hi9
Know-Nothing-ship around the loom added
not a little to the noise and confusion of the
hour. We thought of JEsop’s battle of the
beast and birds—looked at the speaker and
ruminated.— Warrenton Flag.
We arc surprised to learn, that. notwith
standing the repeated notices from our own
and other papers, of the change in the pos
tage law, requiring prepayment in all
cases, on and after the 1st inst., that nearly
fifty letters were detained in the Post Office
in this'city, on the first day of the operation
of the new law. And about thirty more
were added the two days following—all in
consequence of the non-payment of postage.
Columbus Enq.
What For?—We learn that several men
have been for some time assiduously engaged
in digging up portions of the earth on
Tybee Island. They have a long instru
ment, like a ram-rod, with which they probe
the earth, and when they strike anything
dig down to it. They some days since found
a box containing horsemen’s pistols, and
more recently have discovered some china
and other articles, which were doubtless
stolen from wrecks and buried.—Sav. Rep.
Destructive Tornado at Danville Ky.
—The Louisville Eveniog Bulletin says that
Danville, Ky., was visited by a most de
structive tornado on the afternoon of the
I6tb, about 4 o’clock, which resulted'in the
destruction of about fifteen houses, besides
doing much damage to churches and other
buildings, demolishing windows, throwing
down chimneys, etc. The loss will not fafi
short of $15,000. Mr. Collins had the entire
roof of bis house carried a distance of fifty
yards. The storm was followed by an im
mense fall of rain, which contributed great
ly to the loss of -property.
in Operation.—The Alta
e 9th ultiino, says: .
coining silver yes-
ana* we understand strdek off $7,000
,000 to-day. The. only denomination
so far, is half dollar, bat they
mence-niaking quarters very short-
coin before us looks tolerably well,
with the exception of the date, the figures
city, this present piecesbeora the' letter 75 on
tha reverse, under tho figure of th* oaglo.
