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§::■ THE ntOEPKNOENT FREtk«,
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without hope can love the brightest tuir,
Hpove can hope, where reason would despair,''
Mpough reason hid me.to forget,
■she hour, the day, when first we met,
HHjjind though it bid me to despair
Bjjfh' winning thee &•> tirighf gnd fair,
Hpopc whispers it). niv willing oar,
H|A i-.onsoliition ever degr.'
Bp'hough iin |teurt's love be gnK'hjfued,
Bpit least it never ran be spurned,
KBy one, whose sympathizing heart. .
F" would blwni to launch the cruel dart,
r Which well it knows would ever blight,
I And sink my hopes in endless night.
Though I cannot hope to win thee,
l<et thine image ever with me
Stay, cherished as youth's brightest dream,
And on life's gloomy moments beam;
hot that bright image now inspire
The members of my humble lyre.
As down life's gloomy stream I glide,
W'hate’ar the, weary barque betide,
That imago shall a bem-on l»e,
Evtirlo turn ruy thoughts to thee,
** Atid ittsplrd ih'saddest hthtr,
W licntlomls and dark ness round m q Tow or. *
Tliough tliOu forget the virgin vow.
Which once I ottered thee, and now
Pearce know’st that e’er we met as friend*,
(’hat brief remembrance to life lends
The aspect of a brighter glow,
Than could the pomp of earth bestow.
Though fame should seem my idol now.
As at its shrine I seem to bow;
And though to win a name should seem
Mv dearest hope, my foudest dream,
tine smile from thee, to me were worth
The plaudits of the whole of earth.
Fate may decree that we shall meet
No more again—That all those sweet
Aud haripv hours with you I’ve passed
•Should be of all their kind the last:
Well be it so—Let mem’rv still
With happiness my bosom fill.
May 10th, 1854. EUGENE.
FOB TPE INDEPENDENT PRESS.
“Far? thee well, Dearest Ellen.”
A SONG.
Aik :—“ Tis Ok last Rose of Summer,"
Fare thee well, dearest Ellen,
No longer mine own—
And my life’s brightest vision
Is faded and flown!
Oh! no more may I linger
Like Eve at the gate
Os her Eden’s fair bower—
So dark is my fate.
We have loved weil together
In moments now flown,
And the path we have trodden
With roses was strewn:
But their leaves now are faded,
Their fragrance is fled,
And our hopes, like these roses.
Lie scattered and dead.
Nov. 20th, 1854.
IJisallitraus.
Some Ghost Stories.
Left Holland House in time to get to
Rogers’, where Sir W. Scott was to call
tor us. Called at three to take us to dine
with his son Major Scot t, at Hampton.—
Scott very agreeable on his way. Told
hiru our conversation at Holland House
about ghosts, which brought on the same
topic. His own persuasion, one night,
•that he saw the figure of Lord Byron.
He had cither been talking of or reading
him; and on going into the next room,
was startled to sec through the dusk
what he could have sworn was Byron,
standing as he used to when alive. On
returning into the drawing-room, he said
to his daughter, “Ifyou wish to see
1 -oi and Byron, go into that room.” It was
the effect of either moonlight or twilight
upon some drapery that was hanging
up, which, to his imagination, just then
full of Byron, presented this appearance.
Rogers’ story of the young couple at
Berlin, in their opera-box, between
" bom, at a distance, there always ap
peared to be a person sitting, though on
.going into their box it was found that
( here was no one there but themselves,
b rom all parts of the house tiiis super-!
natural intruder could ue seen; but peo
ple differed as to its appearance, some
saying it was a fair man, others a dark;
some maintaining that he was old, .and
others that he was young. It should be
mentioned, that there was some guilty ■
mystery hanging over the connection !
between these young people; and as, at
last, no one ventured to visit their box,
they disappeared from Berlin. This
anecdote of Lord Wriothesley, Russel
brought with him from aboard. Scott
( who evidently did not like the circum
stances being left unexplained) proceed
ed to tell a story of Mrs, Hook, the wife
>»f Dr. Hook, who wrote the Roman Ilis-'
tory; “It being .as well,” he said, “to;
have some real person to fit one’s story j
on. ’ Mrs, Hook becoming acquainted |
and intimate with a foreign lady, a widow j
lir resolving to live together j
saying to her friend next j
had a visitor yesterday?”
iwering, “No; she had seen
Mrs. Hook left her.” Mrs.
|* uuujviug this odd, going another day
lake ayd seeing the same officer there
alone stretched on the sofa. Boimmiow
she was carrying on, determined grnd
unlly to give up her acquaintance. The
foreign lady soon after preparing to go
to London; and tyfj'g. Hook, being ju the
room when her maid was packing (the
j lady herself not, being present) saw a.
immature pase fallout pftho portman
; teau; and taking it up and opening it.,
j saw the very person whom she hud met,
on the stairs. “ That’ said the maid, ‘’is
i the picture of rnv mist.i'O.Vs husband.'—
I “Her husband?” “Yes.” answered the
1 maid ; ” lie died a short time before wo
.left Germany.” Inn low weeks after
wards, there arrived an order in England
to have this foreign lady arrested on a
charge of murdering her husband,— j
Moore's Diary.
Personal Sketches in Con
gress.
We find in a letter to the New A pile
Times, a number of sketches of mem
bers cjlth.e House of Representatives.—
After alluding to the ordinary appear
ance of most of the gentlemen in that
body, the writer proceeds;
“Yonder is one pf them —that, spare,
wan-looking man, With a head about
the size of a, chijd’s qf twelve years old,
a low forehead, with dry brown hair
combed carefully down over it, the sal
low and beardless face, the small nose
and compressed lips. That is Alexan
der 11. Stephens, of Georgia, a very in
ferior-looking man, you would say, and
yet as a parliamentarian and a debater,
he has no peer in the present House.
The first tone of his shrill, piercing
voice, as he shrieks out, “Mr. Speaker,”
rivets the attention of members ; the
newspaper is cast, aside, the pen drops
from the hand, and every word that falls
from his lips is listened to with breath
less interest. Away there, far to the
left of the Speaker, that rough, hardy
old fellow, with the ragged white locks,
and bull-dog countenance, is Joshua R.
Giddings, of Ohio, the oldest, member
of the House. Ever pregnant with ab
olition harangues, a ready and fluent, de
bater, he misses no opportunity to ob
trude his peculiar sentiments on the ear
of the House. To his left sits another
noted abolitionist—Gerritt. Smith, of N.
York, Yes, that is he, in the blue coat
with metal buttons, and .spotless^shirt
collar turned down over the black cra
vat. Ilis countenance- is pleasing and
benevolent, but deficient in firmness,
and his style of speaking chaste and
persuasive, although his tone would,
perhaps, better suit, a camp-meeting or a
revival than a legislative body.
Gerritt Smith is a great man among
the motley crew of “Reformers” now
I gathered together in Washington—a
| very whale among minnows. He is a
1 “ land-reformer,” and abolitionist
J preaches teetotalism at the Temperance
i Hall—and, for aught I know to the con
! trary, be may be a believer in vegeta
| bie diet, phonography, and spirit-rap
pings. On the opposite side ofthe hall
is a cluster of New-York "Hards.” I
need hardly tell you who the short,,
thick-set young man with red face and
coarse black hair is, for every New-
Yorker knows Mike Walsh. Reside
him sits Maurice, of Broekiwu - 1 -- p
gentlemanly-looking little fellow, with
ample moustache und stylish dress. And
there, immediately in front of Mike, is
the lion of the House, with luxuriant
moustache and beard, piercing eyes, and
flowing locks. Observe the gaudy pink
silk neckerchief, and then the pattern of
the pants —the envy of Beau-Hick
man —an ingenious mingling of snakes
and terrapins, done in black upon a
gray ground. There is not such anoth
er pair of pants in the House; no, nor
in all Washington. Beau would give
one of his ears to be possessed of them.
That is Caleb Lyon, of Lyonsdale—poet,
orator, and traveller, and a pleasant,
good-hearted fellow, with all his eccen
tsieity.
The tall, stiff, gray-headed man is
’Peckham, of Albany, who has been very
much bepuffed in the newspapers, but
; has not yet distinguished himself in any
j way. Peck itnd Oliver, of the rank and
| file of the “ Hard” faction, complete the
j group—-ordinary looking men enough,
! aud with no claims to particular note.
But see—the business of the day has
| commenced in good earnest. Thegood
; tempered looking little man down there
in front., who is shouting at the top of his
voice, endeavoring to make himself heard
i above the din of the Speaker’s descend
ing hammer and the laughter and cries
j of “ Order !” fori mall parts of the hall, is
I Col. To m. Florence, of Philadelphia—a
j jovial hatter he, who likes better toad
l dress the House than any other man
j here, and has more difficulty in obtain
-5 ing a patient hearing, lie is silenced
| at last, and retires to his seat with a mor
j tilled air. The Colonel is always war
ring upon some "measure that may re
motely benefit X. y M U nd has shown so
| much jealousy of the Empire City since
| he came here, three years ago, that his
| motives are % ghvays suspected by the
House, The three industrious scribes
in the centre of the area, perched high
aloft on long-legged chairs, with revolv
ing seats, and desks of wondrous me
chanism—evidently designed for muse,
not ornament—are official reporters for |
the Congressional Gfobe. Through out
the session, they are constantly on the
move, ever changing places. The most
THE IMiEI’EMiENT TRESS.
EATONTOS, GA.
TOq-iU.IY MORNING, MAY Js3, 1854.
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dr Our Subscribers.— pur subscribers who
fio not live in town, will plopso call at our office and
get thoir puperfc, as we are not’allowed', l- Kv law, to
put them in the Post Office.
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E3T To Correspondents.—^ Correspondents who
live in town, or in tue county, must drop liaqr favors
iu our box at the Post Office. No notice v ill be
■ taken of thoijo which come any other way,
Bad Crops — The Remedy.
The coniplaint of btyd crops is mover
sitl. Here in Middle (Georgia, especially,
tin; farmers, for the last several years,
have made actually nothing. Many of
them, we are inclined to think, have
sunk capital;—we confine ourself, in
tips remark, to actual farming, leaving
out of view increase in negroes, and the
enhanced value of property. And we
repeat, that, taking into consideration
the interest on capital invested, in con
nection with the number of mules, hogs
and barrels of corn purchased by our
farmers, we believe many of them have
sunk capital. -
The climate of this section, it would
seem, is undergoing a change :—from
what, cause we do not now pretend to
say. It is almost true that we have but
two seasons,-the wet and the dry. Nearly
all the rain falls in the winter, and
drought folfo\v§ in the' spring and sum
mer. When we plant our corn and cot
ton, it is with no probability that it will
come up. The cry from every quarter
is, bad stands of cotton and corn. And
without good stands, we cannot secure
good crops. Our troubles and our com
plaints begin early in the spring, when
there is not moisture enough to sprout
the seed we plant, and they end only
“on or before the 25th day of December
next,” when we have to face, with our
last dollar, the hog and mule-drover,
to begin again as soon as rainy, sleety
January ushers in the new-born year. —
The plain, glaring truth stares us in the
face, that our farming community is in a
distressed situation. And, of course, if
the backbone and sinews of the coun
try are not performing their functions,
the whole body politic suffers.
Is there no remedy? Emphatically,
there is. There is a sovereign remedy
for all our woes, a-specific for all our
troubles, a panecea for all our griefs.
And that is, plant less land, The
remedy is embraced in these threc words.
The farmers motto, when he goes lo
plant should be less, lesser, LEAST.
Now of course we do not mean if
the farmer plants less land, without do
ing any thing else, it will answer the
purpose. But if he plants less land, it
will leave him time to do other things.
He ought never to plant more land than
he can prepare v r ell in the spring, and
keep cultivated like a garden in the
summer. Instead of planting from 18
to 25 acres to the hand, let him plant 10,
and from that down to 5.
“But, Mr. Editor, when do you con
sider land well prepared ?”
W r o consider land well prepared when
it has been well and deeply broken, or
bedded, at least tv icy when the hill-
Ad:* buVe been wdi uliehfo, :;A when
every furrow to be planted, lias been
filled with well rotted manure. No
farmer ought to plant a foot of land
which has not been prepared in this way.
It matters not what is the character of
the soil—barren or fertile—it should be
tended in this wav. Then, if we can
not prepare ten acres, lot us prepare
live; and if not five, two and a half.
When the land is prepared in this
way, it is ready to receive the cotton
seed, and the corn. Then we should
not be in too big a hurry to plant.
Wait till spring comes, and the earth
gets warm, and then seize a favorable
opportunity for seed-time. Having but
a few acres to plant, we can then get
through with planting in 5 or 6 days,
and the seed will come up and grow off,
instead of lingering in the ground, fear
ful of poking out their heads lest they
be nipped by the frosts. In this way
they get in the habit of staying in the i
ground, become timid and cowardly,
and don’t know what is good for them,
even when they ought to be stirring out
of doors for the good of their health.
But plant your seed at the proper time,
and the genial rays of the sun by day,
and the cooling dews by night, are invi
ing them out, until they are speedily in
duced to leave their earthy retreat, and
away they go, in a frolic, into a healthy |
and vigorous growth. This is the way j
to secure stands.
As much complaint as has been made j
for the, past several years, of drought, |
we do not recollect a year when the 1
course we recommend, would not have '
produced good stands, and good crops. |
Nature has done enough for us, if we \
had only done more lor ourselves.
But another thing. When you go to
plant, be sure to have two acres of grain,
including your wheat &c., to one of cot
ton. You may not make quite as /nueh
cotton, but more clear money, since
you will not have any to lay out for
mules- —having had time to raise them—
and none to lay out for meat and bread
for your family, white or black.
“ \Mhy what a young American tin's I
man is,” we hear some old fogy say, who I
reads this article Why all this is
book-fanning--it is ideal—it is abstrac
tion—it is not practical!” |
W" 114** 3 11 +L , , j
1 f FTr. Benton the Might of t*e
titio *f t
At the close of Mr. Tientpres http, pnti*
Nebraska Speech, he speaks qf the fact
that no petition lias gone in from the
South in favor of Mr. Douglas’s bill,
and lays great Stress upon it as sshpyviug
that the Southern people do not desire
the passage of the bill. In this Mr.
Benton lias uttered a mistake, and lie
knows it. It would be lolly in us tp gup
; post! that a man of Okl Bullion's knoY'l-.
! <A&<\ was ignorant ofthe fact that South:
j ei;n people do not petition. They ask
j nothing but their rights, and these they
| demand of their government and their
i legislators as being the subject, and not
j the so vereign. Li America, the people
| arc the sovereign—the government the
j subject. It is reversing the order of
| things for the sovereign to become the
petitioner.
The word petition implies inferiority in
the person wh6 is seeking something.-
It smells of the bended knee, and the
suppliant att.ifqde-an attitude that South
ern people do not assume.
There is more folly and more hum
buggery in this to-do about the right of
petition than a little. It is one of the
instances in which we have followed an
English precedent, utterly regardless of
good sense, the necessity of the ease, or
reason. Blaekstofte enumerates the right
of petition as the 4th of the secondary
rights ofthe subjects of the British realm.
And so far from its being n right about
which Americans should make a noise,
it is now hardly a right about which a
British citizen should trouble himself to
say much, in the advanced state of freedom
in which he finds himself. It was aright
claimed by the British when th e
royal prerogative was much greater than
now—when there was not that facility
whichfexists at the present day for ma
king the will of! the people known, and
when the people themselves were more
nearly the slaves ofthe king than at the
present time. Under these circumstan
ces, the right of petition was worth talk
ing about. Now, however, in England,
and especially in America, the case is!
i different. And for citizens of the Uui
i ted States to be growing warm over the
j right of petition implies a relation on the
j part of the people to the government
j which does not exist, \Ye consider it '
! derogatory to the character of American
j freemen to talk so much about the right
lof petition. What is the right of peti
ition? (Jui-bono? It is a means used
! in kingly governments to acquaint the
| ruler with the wishes of his humble sub- !
jjects. For them to proceed in any oth- |
j or way to declare their l ights, would be j
treason against the crown. But in ;
| America we have our conventions, our !
stump speeches, our resolutions, our
; demagogues in Congress, and, above all, j
i we have the press whose thunders the '
i powers that be, dure not disregard, to j
i let our government know our wishes-—i
| and our government, knowing them,
would as soon think of cutting their own
I . °
throats, as of setting them at naught.
Why then should American freemen
£0 far dp-qi!: thrives as ic petition < |
W hy seek for any thing which they have 1
dot the right to demand' The right of
petition may be the privilege of those
living under despotic governments, but
the right of demand is the prerogative of
American citizens.
Those who make so much noise about
the right of petition must feel their in
feriority. Their necks are not very far
removed from the point at which they
j would be willing to take on the yoke.
; May it be long, long, ere the Southern
people think that it is essential to their
freedom and well-being, to have the right
of petition bruited and peddled about
by hack orators, and shin-plaster prints.
Nobody denies the right to be sure, but
it should be ranked with the right to
eat —the right to sloe]) —the right to laugh
and be merry.
Suaviter in modo, fortiter in re.
| ii Thc Georgia Blister and
Critic—ExtraJ ’
We have seen the above “Extra,”
containing a likeness of the editor which
all will recognize as being very striking.
The artist has performed his task with
marked fidelity.*
Os course, we cannot eqndescend to
notice the obscenity of the editor, which
is but a stereotype of all the vulgarity
| he has imbibed from the bottle and the
brothel for the last dozen years.
j J
i Ire cannot condescend to a contest of
J any kind with the- editor of the Quack's
Journal. But since Dr. Ramsay seems
j to be so very belligerent, we have upon
! our farm a gallant -beast, whose name is
j suggested by the lirst syllable of the
j Doctors, with whom, as a courtesy, ho !
| can have the privilege of gratifying his
propensity to his heart’s content:—Pro
vided he will put himself upon equal
terms with our animal by knocking off
one of his own horns—he already has the
■ cloven foot—as our beast has lost one
i of his in a former contest—perhaps with
the Doctor, as we know not what bad
company he may have kept before we
bought him : And provided, further,
that the Doctor will give us bond, with
good security, conditioned not to cor- i
nipt the morals of our Mam , or sink him i
to the level offt ifamsay.
The “Kxira" contains the picture of a vary ugly !
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Agricultural i'air.
AYe this week publish portions of
the Premium List offered by the Exec:
Utiye Committee of the Southern Cen
tral Agricultural Society of the State of
Georgia, for the eighth Annual Fair, to
be held in Augusta, Gu., on the 23d,
24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th days
of October, 1854, and call the attention
of our renders to the same. We would
be pleased to publish the whole* of the
list, did not, our limits deprive us of that
pleasure.
Bv sending a letter post-paid to Da
vid W. Lewis, Esq,, of Sparta,, Gu., the
Secretary of the above Society, a copy
of the Premium List, as also a copy of
Dr. G. F. Pierce’s speech, delivered at
the lost lqeetiqg of the Society, may be
obtained.
Another Premium lAst.
Some one has kindly sent as, from
Atlanta, the Premium List for the 4th
Annual Fair of the Atlanta Agricultu
ral, Manufactural, and Mechanical Asso
ciate!), to be held on the 9th, 10th and
11th of August, 1854, which we would
publish did our limits permit. The fob
lowing extract, however, will cover pret
ty nearly the whole ground ;• —
“We invite articles of every descrip
tion for exhibition, and all meritorious
articles, not enumerated in the foregoing
list, may be entered, and will receive
such premium as the awarding commit
tees may think best.
In case of no competition, the Com
mittee to act discretionary as to amount
awarded.
All premiums awarded will be paid in
Silver Pitchers, Goblets, Cups, Medals,
&c., &c.”
We are gratified to see the Agricul
tural and Manufactural spirit so much
alive in Georgia, as is indicated by the
liberal premiums offered in the two Lists
we have noticed. We hope to see a
large number of competitors among our
farmers, manufacturers and mechanics
in attendance at both the fairs.
fish ing* Excursion.
We are requested to state that there
will be a fishing excursion on next Sat- i
urday, 27th, from this place to Little j
River, near the Railroad Bridge. Alii
are invited to attend, young and old. ;
An extra train will leave the Depot j
in Eatonton at half past 6 o’clock, and ;
will stop a sufficient length of time at !
Dennis and Meriwether Stations to ue-!
commodate persons who may assemble i
at those two places.
We are authorized by the citizens of i
this place to extend a special in vita'ion j
to the ladies and gentlemen of Mi Hedge- j
vide to meet them on the above occa- [
sion.
HI J. Scott's Address .
.Some friend has favored us with a
copy of the able address of the above
gentleman, “on the principles and ob
jects of the order of the Knights of Jer
icho,delivered in Atlanta on the 10th of
March, 1854," for which our thaeks
are tenured. The address is full of
thought, expressed in chasU language,
and replete with classic an 4historical
allusion. V
Brother Chapman.
Brother Chapman, after quoting what
i we said of President Pierce in our last
issue, says, “This, we think rather du
bious canonization.”
Wo asked our cotemporary about guns,
and he has gone off into canon*.
Hon. David A. Reese
Will please accept our thanks for
various public documents sent us since
the beginning of the present session of
Congress.
Our Prospectus.
A publication, or notice of our pros
pectus, by our exchanges, would confer
a favor. We should be glad at any
time to reciprocate.
Southern Ladies > Rook.
Shortly after the publication of this
Journal was suspended, Mr. Jones, the
publisher, wrote to the Georgia Home
Gazette , that he would give the cause
and circumstances of its early demise.
Will the Gazette enlighten us on this'
subject? We have a reason for wish
ing light.
A Request.
Til*'. Athens Banner, Southern Re
eorder, and Eleetic Magazine will please
discontinue coming to us individually,
as the two former have already favor
ed us with an exchange, and as we hope
the latter will. If we owe either of the
three any thing, we will pay the bill
when presented, as we are a great advo
cate of paying editors.
! The Black Warrior Affair.
A few days since we had the pleasure
of an hour’s intercourse with Col. Mitch
ell of Athens, Ga., e.n route from Cuba.
Among the many other interesting to
pics of con versation, he referred to the
one heading this paragraph, and gave to
his hearers a clear, though succinet state
ment of the circumstances which at- j
tended the affair. He says that the |
Americans were palpably in the wrong, j
and that had the Warrior been a Spanish !
vessel in American waters, an incidents !
similar to those of Havana had trans
pired, the shipand cargo would have been ;
certainly confiscated. We hope Hlfat j
that have led him ro the Conclusion
above stated, We would that taome
| thing may be said to check tin* spirit, of
-filibustering now so rifts amor A our
people, and so disgraceful 1o our (nation,
“ Let j ustiee be done though the Heavens
fill 12’ —Madison Visitor.
WEEKLY SUMMARY.
I /
THE MARKETS. I
The SteaM'SllU* Atlantic, from
Liverpool, arrived at New (Turk on
Monday 10th. The cotton market, and
provision market had both declined.. —
Trade in the Manufacturing Districts had
largely declined.
The London Money Market was
tighter—Consols 87 3-4.
Provisions, especially grain, contin
ue scarce and high at the South.
The Cotton markets generally, dull, i
FOREIGN. .
By the Atlantic avc learn that the j
report of the 24th of April is authenti- i
cated, that the allied fleets had bombard- ;
ed Odessa. The engagement lasted ten j
hours. Part of the city was laid in ruins, !
tour gun fortresses dismantled, eight
Russian and one Austrian merchant j
ships burnt in the harbor, and three
British bombarding steamers badly dam
aged. The attempt of the British to
land 1800 men, failed.
The Russian fleet came out of Sebas- j
tapol during the engagement and threat
ened the allied fleets, but retired with- i
out a battle.
The Russians have evacuated Little I
AY allachia entirely. A wing of their !
army now rests upon Alata, their head I
j quarters having been established for the !
j present at Bucharest. Nicopoli, there- j
fore, is again becoming the scene of the !
most interesting part of the campaign. !
The Turks have come out of Kalefat, j
and are occupying all the towns in the
track of the retiring Russians. They ;
are also besieging Silistria, and would,
in conjunction with the troops of the I
Allies, attack it on or about the Ist of!
May.
There was nothing interesting from
Asia.
The Russian Government hud impos
ed a heavy war tax on all classes.
Sir Charles Napier’s fleet, whilst await
ing the arrival in the Baltic of the French
fleet, was blockading the Gulf of Fin- :
land. He was in the Gulf of Bothnia on j
the 21st, April.
The Greek insurgents had been do- j
seated. g
m .. j
On the 2nd May, tjhe ratification of 1
the treaty between Austria and Prussia 1
was exehanuvd.
DOMESTIC.
Mh. Gl-iKKN, our charge so Ecuador,
has resigned.
Mil Gadsden has gone to 'Mexico
with the Senate Treaty,'
J UK bI’KAM-POAf I.IITER is the name
“fa new invention designed to set Steam
boats afloat when ihev have grounded.
Post-masters, it has been decided,
are not obliged to register letters, con
taining money; but the Department ad
vises all Post-masters to keep a memo
randum of them.
Marks made to call attention to any
particular paragraph in a newspaper does
not subject it to letter-postage.
Poetry is being perpetrated in Cali
fornia after this wise
‘ Keep your eye fixed on the American eagle,
Whom we as the proud bird of our destiny hail;
For that wise fowl you can never inveigle
| By depositing salt on his venerable tail,’’
Mr. Daniel, formerly editor of the
I Richmond Examiner , and charge to Tu
| rin, has recently had a verdict of SB,OOO
| damages rendered against him in New
| York, for ridiculing Mr. Spooner and
his Boydell’s Illustrations of Shak
speare.
In Philadelphia large failures have
recently taken place.
In New York 4000 or 5000 persons
recently held an anti-Nebraska meeting,
and passed various Bedlamite resolutions.
The Ship Winchester, from Liver
pool to Boston, was wrecked in the
frightful gale of 13th ult. Her crew,
750 in number, Were taken off by the
Steamer Washington, the ships Marv
and Caroline, and Paragon, and the
Brigs Ann Edward, and Robert Bruce,
only about 30 minutes before she went
down.
Matt Ward is out in a card in the
New Orleans Delta, asking a suspension
of public opinion until the evidence in
his ease has been published.
FROM WASUING TON.
The Union advocates the blockade
| of Cuba if Spain does not make immedi
! ato reparation for the Black Warrior
affair.
The House was in session 35 consec
utive hours upon the Nebraska bill, the
members having their meals carried to
them.
Oregon is applying for admission in- j
to the Union.
Mr. Morton of Florida, from the j
Senate comm it te on agriculture, has
made a report in favor of the purchase
of Mt. Vernon by the government for !
the establishment of an agricultural
school.
~~ ££ll %
GEORGIA ITEMs.
On tiie 7th day of the il uora} c i
On the Bth day, (Tuesday 9th,) the
j clainvof Brother Davis, (lawyer,) lor a
i fee was turned over to Brother
i (miqist<.<Y for adjudication., A\ e repeat
| the hope, formerly expressed, that
‘ Brothel' Davis will get a good fee.—The
: Book Concern was discussed.
On the 9th day, (Wednesday fUth,)
the discussion was brought to a close,
and the Book Concern, South, triumph
ed. Its location has not yet been, deter
| mined, but Pratville, Athens, Altanta,
Columbus and Savannah have all spo
; ken for it. AVe think Savannah ought,
! to liyve it.
*
On tiie 10th i>ay, (Thursday 41th,)
j Dr. Taylor from Shan glial addressed tin;
j Conference.—not on the subject of chick-
Lens but—on the topic of educating* Chi-.-
i nose youths in this country.
A File, of the London Gazette front,
1656 to the present time—the only com
plete file in existence— has been added
to the Library of Congress.*
Since 1846 the value of city property
has inerased four or live millions..
Ji is rumored that General Pierce’s
Administration is assuming a Hurd
Shell basis, and that it will be support
ed by the men at the North not crazy
about niggers , and the whole South. So
mote it be.
It is reported that adiveeshave been
received from tho Spanish Government
refusing all the demands of Mr. Soule,
On the 11th day, (Friday 12th,) the
time of the Conference was principally
taken up in the discussion of an increase
in the number of Bishops.
On the 12th day, (Saturday 13th,)
the subject of a great central newspaper
was introduced.—The Bishop discus
sion was continued.—Of course there is
nothing said in the proceedings of tho
body as to who the new Bishops will
be, but wo learn from other sources that
Dr. George T. Pierce will probably bo
one.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Our thanks are due Ike lor that? At ?
; Cream he sent us. If you want a good
dinner, and other good things, cull at,
Ike's saloon, under the store of Messrs
Lincli & Davis.
A\ r e had fine ruins in this countv on
last Tuesday and Wednesday. tVops
are brightening up considerably.
Some few of our farmers are cutting
wheat. Although this crop will neces
sarily be Aery poor, still it Avili be bet
ter than once anticipated.
Airs. John 11. Orafton sent us, a few
days ago, by far the largest beets we
have seen this season.
Our esteemed correspondent “G,”
must excuse us for the non-appearance
°f AG article. It is partially in type,
but avus croAvded out by matter which
•u:nc in before his did.
‘ MISCELLANEOUS AND LATEST!.
I ll e Steamer Europa arrived at N.
h ork on the 19th, (Friday) with three
1 days later accounts than those bv the
: Atlantic.
In the Cotton market middling and
! lower grades have declined, but better
qualities remain firm.
The Money Market was tighter.
The War news by this arrival, is of
! unusual interest. The fighting has com
menced in earnest on all sides, and each
i day brings the news of important and
' startling events.
j Tiie Allied fleets have bombarded
| Sulina and Boghaz at the mouth of the.
| Danube. The details of the action have
not yet been received.
Omar P ascii a has signally defeated'.
| the Russian forces under General Lu
ders.
The American privateer Grape Shot,
it is reported, has been captured by a
j French brig of war off Land’s End.
SECOND DISPATCH.
On the 18th and 19th of April Omar
; Paschn, with 90,000 men, gave battle t«>
! General Luders, between Silistria and
Rustchuk.
The battle which was a very sanguin
ary one, confuted for several hours.-
During the previous night Omar had
sent a division of his army towards the
sea.
This division, during the night of the
battle, attacked the Russians fiercely in
the rear, causing great panic and confu
sion among the Russians, who retreated
behind Tehernavova with the loss of
many stores, baggage and the military
chest of the army.
1 he Russians are still carrying on the
i siege of Silistria.
The Turks crossed the Danube on
April, for the purpose of destroying the
Russian batteries on the opposite side
of the River. They advanced to Kut
< huk, and after two days hard-fighting,
retreated on the 23d to Listria in good
j order.
j 1 askiewitcii, the Russian command t
j er-in-chief, lias ordered his armies to ad
J \ anee no further into the Dobrudseha.
An important battle was fought on
, the 25th, between the Turks and Greek
Insurgents. Aila was taken by assault
in fifteen minutes by the Turks!
Lhe Greek leaders, Karaskaki and
Jeballas, fled. Considerable slaughter
ensued.
riiE important town of Meizos was
also taken by the Turks, and pillaged by
the Albanians.
fHE Greek leader, Friries, fled. Ex
cept the Piros. all the coast of Greece
ls blockaded by the Allied