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EATONTON, GA.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1854.
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TJfoe Boston Riot.
jßoston, the cradle of liberty, the seat
of learning and science, the keeper ot
literature a n( i art, the city of wealth
and refinement, the metropolis of mo
rality religion, tire modern Athens,
is now the scene of riot, bloodshed and
jtrcason. The drawn sword .qf Justice
is not sufficient to awe the mob and
keep them down, but her halls require
the presence of gens Jamies, with lead
en pellets, sugared in the villainous
saltpetre, and bristling bayonets, to
keep balanced the scales she is accus
tomed to hold. Boston presents the ap
pearance of Paris in one ol her erneutes.
Nothing but beastly, slavish fear pre
vents her citizens from rearing the guil
ptine. They thirst for blood. Sum
mer degrades the classics to gild his
sentiments of murder, treason and pil
lage. The solid men of Boston expend
their wealth to provide the munitions
of servile war. The Rev. Theodore
Parker grins a ghastly smile of blas
phemous defiance in the very teeth of
God, and wrests the words of the sa
cred volume which says “Thou shalt
not kill,” and which exhorts submis
sion to the powers that be, for the pur
pose of suborning men to bathe their
luqids in their brothers’ blood. Fana
tics howl, demons scream, ghouls chat
ter .their gibberish over the corpse of
.the dead: And this is the fruit of Ab
olition : of the absence of negro slave
ry : And this is in Boston !
That man has read the chapter of
Abolition in our country’s history to
but little purpose who fails to see two
things—that the negro-mania utterly
repudiates constitutions and the bible.
The Abolitionists deny any obligation
whatever to government, but each man
sets up, as the ruler to whom he owes
his allegiance, what he is pleased to style
his conscience, but what is nothing more
•than the very worst passion in his
breast, clothed in a little crazy reason
ing. And when this temporal govern
ment has been established, a union of
.church and state follows, and he deifies
his conscience, repudiating the Bible,
anJ dethroning God, because he finds
in the oracles delivered from Sinai a to
tal condemnation of the molten calf he
j,ias set up to worship. The two essen
tials of society—the bible and consti
tutions, —are repudiated by Abolition
ists. They know no government but
their own evil passions, to which they
are the most abject slaves, and they
ktiow no God but one of their own cre
ation. Each man is a government and
a god unto himself. In the volume of
Higher Law are written the statutes of
the former, and the leaves of diabolism
contain the law and the prophets of
the other. Mobocraey is their civil
ruler, and polytheism their Jehovah.
Their worship is Manicheism.
The streets of Boston are drunk with
the blqod of Batchelder. The cry of a
brother's blood goes up to Heaven.-
Treason to the Government soils the
land of Massachusetts.
# And what is the remedy? Has the
United States Government, strength
enough, and power enough to override
this riot in Boston, by using powder
and ball —by calling into requisition
the halter and the gallows—or is it an
abstraction, a mere myth, that must
--4 alone in diplomacy, despatches and
proclamations? Shall the murder of
one of our Government officers go un
avenged, and shall her laws be trodden
under foot, while ttye nation’s constitu
tion is set at defiance, and fter God and
her Bible laughefl to scorn ?
For onr pari, we believe that the
G overnment has power, under the Con
stitution, to see to this matter of mobs
and treason. She has an army and na
vy at her command to force obedience
to her laws. The Administration, if
necessary, should use them. 11 the
President and Cabinet are in doubt
about it, let the spirit of the great Con
stitutional Expounder bo summoned
from ijades, and an expression of opin
ion be given by him. Let his speech
in peply to Mr. Hay no be read by the
Cabinet. And if this does not suf
fice, let the ghost of Audrew Jackson
for a day, seize the helm of the ship
of State, and we will warrant that she
careers proudly o’er these refractory
billows.
There is nothing that would do so
much to quell Abolitionism as the dis
location of the cervical vertebra? of a score
or two of those 3,000 heaven-liveried
worshippers of the devil, in New Eng
land, calling themselves clergymen. —
A suspension of their clerical corporos
ities between heaven and .earth, would
act like a charm upon those whom they
suborn to comigit murder and treason.
The higher the gallows, the better for
them, as they would doubtless be near
er heaven then, than when at a dead
level with t)ie earth. We knqw of no
one more fit to begin with than the
Key’d, murderer pf Batchelder, Theo
dore Parker.
College Education.
The great object of educatiqn should
be to fit mankind for the performance
of the duties which they OAve God and
their felloAvmen. 13 ut strange as it
igay seem, it is emphatically true that
not ope in one hundred aeknoAvledge,
if Ave may judge persons by their deeds,
the force of this obvious truth. Our
whole idea of education is founded up
on a fallacy—the fallacy that Avhen a
boy goes through a certain number of
books lps education is complete.—
Hence it is that parents start their chil
dren to school at an early age, with
the direction given the teacher to rush
them on through the elementary
branches, then through Latin and Greek,
so that they may be actually hurled in
to a college, Avaiting their reception. —
We said they Avere rushed through the
elementary branches. Nay, these are
beneath their dignity, and long before
a boy can spell correctly in his mother
tongue he is hurried to Andrews and
Stoddard’s Latin Grammar, Avhich he
looks at once or tAvice, and then, helter
skelter, pell-mell, here he goes into
Caesar, Yirgil, Tacitus, Thuycides,
Aristophanes, Plato. Did any one
ever Avitness such hot progression—
such manifest destiny, driving one on
into the very midst of a classical educa
tion ?
Let us not be understood as oppos
ing an acquaintance with the languages
of Livy and Theocritus. Far from it.
But “ there’s the rub”—in that very
word acquaintance. And we boldly
assert, without fear of successful contra
diction, thgt not ten out of every one
hundred of the boys wlio spend their
father’s hard earnings, and forget their
mothers’ precepts of morality, at one
of those fashionable places of idleness,
dissipation, frivolity and humbug,
yclept colleges, know anything more
of Latin and Greek when they receive
their diplomas than the old darky
Sambo, who attends to their father’s
stables, or follows the honorable occu
pation of daily, social intercourse with
the handles of the plough.
We do not consider A man’s education
complete without a knowledge of the
classics. Thole whq have the time,
money and talent to bestow upon a
a learned education, should acquire one.
But it is worse than folly to employ
from four to ten years of a boy’s life in
a fabled acquisition of Greek and Lat
in. They arc not necessary in a ma
jority of instances, from the simple
fact that an acquaintance with them is
not essential to the pursuits of the great
mass of mankind. What sense is there
in a stupid boy’s undertaking to learn
what he never can acquire?
We know it has become very fashion
able to bold that we are all equally
endowed with intellect in our infancy,
and that it is cultivation or neglect
which makes ihe difference in after
’years. This is all doubtless consola
tory to that class of people who are
always crying ‘ I could do so if I would.'
It is all folly. Men are not equally
endowed with intellect in their infancy.
And therefore, what is a proper study
or pursuit for one, is not so for another.
There arc boys in whose heads you
can no more drill knowledge than you
can drive a needle to the centre of the
Stone Mountain. You can’t make a
Franklin or a Jefferson of a dunce.
Such boys as we speak of, would
make yery good mechanics or farmers,
or anything .whicV wqnld not require
a superfluity of intellect. Q.r if they
were men of property, would make
prime “gentlemen of elegant leisure,”
and could become very useful citizens
of the gevermnent in the discharge of
moral obligations between man and
man. They could spend reputable lives
and go down with credit to the grave.
But that they should ever soar high in
the regions of mincl could pot be ex
pected.
Idie idea which WP Wish to incul
cate is the one >yitfi which we set out,
namely: ibfif, education is designed to
preparp p uppi for the calling which he
is to follow through life. And the ef
forts pf his teachers should be directed
tp tips end, instead of to the worse
than lmrnbuggery of fashionable, or
college education, which is a fraud
upon the parent, a fraud upon the com
munity which has a right to tjie ser
vices of the young man, pud ruinous to
the young man liiipself,
The Weather.
Dame Nature is surely more cap
ricious than we eyer knew her. On
Wedpesday night >ye went to bed re
pudiating all cover, but waked up about
12 or 1 o’clock in search of blankets.
Since then, over-coats and fires have
beep in demand.
LOCAL ITEMS.
The coolness of the weather at the
time of this writing, has made us al
most forget to thank Ike for his last
glass of Ice Cream.
That Bank of Dirt has not yet
been removed, by order of the Com
piissioners.
No Mail comes here on Sundays
from Madison, though the Stage does.
Query -Is the sin any greater for the
Stage to bring the mail than to bring
itself?
Would it not be better for the cars
to stay here all night, and leave in the
morning, than to run up here at 12,
and then rpp right back, before one
has time to say Jack Kobinson, much
less to write and mail a letter ? We
merely ask for information.
We hope that if good crops are made
this year, the male and female Schools
will be built.
Our Grave-yard demands the se
rious attention of our citizens. In re
ality, we have no legal title to any bu
rial-ground. The spot which is now
used as a Cemetery belongs to the
Academy Lot, and is only used by the
sufferance of the legal holders. We
deposite our dead there in defiance of
the law. Even if we had the best ti
tle in the world to the land, the space
is already exhausted, aud the graves
are, even now, too crowded.
The want of a Cemetery in a proper
location is a reproach upon our town,
which should be speedily wiped out.
llow often during the year are the liv
ing called upon to perform the sad ol
fice of bearing to their final resting
place the remains of a deceased friend!
And are not our departed friends enti
tled to a resting place, fit and proper,
in some secluded spot ? It is the last,
and least thing, we can do for them. —
In fact we are but acting for ourselves,
for God has written the decree concern
ing us all, “Dust thou art, and unto
dust shalt thou return.”
A beautiful spot almost any where
around town, might be purchased for
a burial ground. The land need not
be costly. Indeed the most appropri
ate growth we have here for a Ceme
tery is the pine, neatly trimmed. An
old pine field, properly fenced and ar
ranged, would answer the purpose bet
ter than any thing else.
Franklin College.
We omitted last Aveek to notice the
handsomely printed Catalogue of the
above institution, put up by “Christy
aad Kelsea, printers, Franklin Job Of
fice,” Broad street, Athens, Geo. From
it avo gather the following summary:
Seniors, - - * 37
Juniors, - - - - 53
Sophomores, - - - 57
Freshmen, • - - 22
169
Not returned
In aetual attendance 2nd term, JSO
The Southern School Journal
For May is received. It is ably
edited by Prof. E. 11. Myers, Macon,
Geo. SI,OO per annum, in advance.
The Knight of Jericho,
A semi-monthly family Journal, de
voted to Temperance, Morality, Pleas
ing Literature, &e., edited by C. 11. C.
Willingham, and published by C. R.
lianleiter, Atlanta, Geo., is a superior
paper in mechanical execution, aud lit
erary contents. The publishers have
ommitted the price of their paper.
p •+•<+!*- :
The Southern Medical Jour
nal
For June is out, filled with well
Avritten articles.
Soil of the South.
The number of the above Journal
for June is promptly on oup table, fill
ed with its usqaf variety of Agricultu
ral and Miscellaneous articles, Each
number Avoulcfbe worth the subscrip
tion price, ($1 00,) if our farmers would
but follow its suggestions .-—Columbus
Oa., Lomax & Ellis, Publishers.
If it is not asking too much, we
would be obliged to the publishers to
send ps the first four numbers of the
presept volume, as wp wish to bind
them af the end of the year.
The Georgia University
Magazine
For April is on our table, ip a neat
cover, well printed and well filled. Our
young friends, since they honor us
with an exchange, will please strike
our individual name from their list.
Southern Eclectic.
We neglected tq notice, at a proper
time, the May number. It is an ex
cellent Journal, Augusta, GaD. R.
Whitaker, Editor. $3 00 per, annum, in
advance.
The editor will please pote the re
quest we make of the Georgia Univer
sity Magazine.
Tri - Weekly Citizen.
Our thanks are tendered the editor
of the above journal for sending us his
Tri-weekly. The Georgia Citizen is
one of the most ably conducted papers
that comes to opr office, from North or
South, and is also a very handsome
sheet, mechanically. Edited and pub
lished ip Macon Ga., by L. F. W. An
drews. Whekly paper $2,50 in ad
vance. Tri-weekly, (we think,) $5,00.
Savannah daily JYews.
We are indebted to the above paper
for an extra sent us promptly after the
affair reach Savannah, containing an
account of the Boston Riots. The News
is edited by Wm. T. Thompson, author
of Major Jones’s Courtship. Daily pam
per $5 00: Tri-weekly,s3 00.
Tobacco.
A great deal is said against the use
of alcohol, and very properly said. But
at the same time, alcohol is not the on
ly thing which goeth in and cometh
out of the mouth, that defileth the man.
Aside from beastly drunkenness, we
know of no more useless, disgusting and
loathesome practice than the use of to
bacco. In saying this, we are aware
of the probability that but few will
agree with us. And why? Because
there are so few who do not use the
weed.
Look at that man, now, will you?
Ilis cheeks are distended like those of
the Dormouse. With what? W ith
that foul, ill-smelling poison, called to
bacco. And you must look out, too.—
If you don’t, you will get spit upon. —
Here it comes —a stream of offensive
saliva, enough to make a canine eruc
tate. First, he emits it on this side,
now on that —now before him and now
behind him, until he has a puddle
around him sufficient to drown every
prospect of decency even, to say noth
ing of neatness.
Your tobacco-chewer befouls every
thing. He drops his spittle on his own
clothes, and on those of others. He
makes your floor the,color of ambeer,
and your furniture has the villainous
smell of tobacco. You can’t even go
to church and kneel down without dan
ger of getting your knees in tobacco
juice, for the lay member munches at
his quid, while the priest addresses the
throne of grace with his mouth fre
quently befouled by the noxious weed.
Neither has respect enough for God to
abstain from a filthy and sinful practice
while in his house.
Let us suppose for a moment that Ave
had never seen any one use tobacco,
and that there Avas an absence of the
expectorations consequent upon it.—
Let there be assembled a company of
refined ladies and gentlemen; and noAV
introduce your tobacco-chcAver, making
an engine of his mouth, and a hose of
his lips, squirting his ambeer right and
left, fore and aft: What Avould be
thought of him ?
And yet the impression made upon
the company in this instance is the ve
ry same which the American nation of
tobacco-chewers makes upon Avell-bred
foreigners Avko visit this country, and
Avho are not accustomed to so much
spitting. And this is Avhat gives occa
sion for the gibes and sarcasms of your
Halls, your Dickenses, etid omne genus.
The Americans themselves point the
very shafts which are quivered in their
bosoms, by the hands of their enemies
from across the Avaters.
Jack Campbell.
Os all the remarkabilities Ave have
ever seen, heard of, or read of, Jack
Campbell, a negro servant in the Plan
ter’s Hotel, Madison, Ga., is one of the
most notable. In the first place, there
is his remarkable physiognomy. He
has a low, fiat forehead, cumbered
somewhat by wool—a broad, flat nose,
which dilates considerably about the
nostrils, but becomes pointed —some-
what—towards the end; so that it looks
a good deal like a spreading-adders
head. Then he has twinkling, serpent
like eyes, and altogether his counte
nance has rather a snaky appearance.
His cheek bones are high, his mouth
large, and his cheofcs furroAved pretty
deeply by the plough-share of time.—
He affects to Avear rather a petulant
look, but one who Jod ks tfytr.d t
surface, cap see that this is only “put
on,” and that beyond first appearances
is an evidence of remarkable good four
mor. Indeed, one of Jack’s character
istics is what may be termed a goqd
patured petulance.
The first thing tq be remarked here
of our hero—for he is a hep —is his
extensive acquaintance. He is Isnown
from one extremity of the Union to
the other, and the person who has not
heal’d of Jack Campbell, pray rest as
sure. 4 that he is behind fhe’ times, —
Whoever has read Major Jones’s Oourt
sliip, is somewhat acquainted with Jack;
and whoever stops at the Planter’s Ho
tel, where travelers from all parts of
the world “put up,” also know Jack.—
To strangers, especially, lie delights in
making himself peculiarly interesting;
and np one who has ever seen him ev
er forgets him. The “Razor Strop Man”
took good notice of Jack in one of his
epistles, and that prince of humorists
seemed we]l pleased with the ebon
jester.
Jack is particularly attached to the
members pf the Ocmulgee bar. He
always calls to see Judge Cone, and
Judge Dawson whenever he has an op
portunity, and one of the excellencies
of these hpnorable gentlemen, is that
they can appreciate Jack’s fun. They
both tell a joke very handsomely, them
selves, and enjoy humor in others. —
The man who does not enjoy Jack’s
sallies is pot a man.
We opce heard an anecdote of a re
partee made by our sable jester upon a
pert, upstart college boy, Avhose man
ners were as disgusting to all true gen
tlemen as lobelia to a weak stomach.
Our Freshman was a fussy, noisy,
strutting little felloAV, ahvays where he
should not be, putting in his gab where
lie should be silent, and making him
self as generally disagreeable as possi
ble by an excessive rudeness and fa
miliarity of manners. He was as fris
ky as a fice in a crowd of big dogs,
and imagined everything he said of so
much importance as to be spoken in a
very loud tone of voice. At the table,
in the bar-room, on the street, you
might hear his voice—might hear him
talking as if he thought the Avorld
would halt upon its axis if the most
trivial word uttered by him was not
heard by the whole town.
One day, when he started to the din
ner table, his hat, which should have
been some where else than on his head,
was jostled off by the crowd, and fell
to the floor, losing out of the crown
some papers. Jack was close by, and,
politely as a dancing master, stooped
down, picked up the hat and papers, and
restored them to their owner. Now
let us premise here that the Freshman
was not at all guilty of giving the ser
vants who Availed on him the dimes
which custom has allotted them. This
rigid adherence to the hold-tight prin
ciple, did not, by any means, meet
Jack’s approval, and lie was longing
for an opportunity to make the person
who denied him his just modicum,
smart for it. The embryo Newton
was of course also anxious for an op
portunity to speak loud, big and pom
pous words. When Jack handed him
his hat and papers, he said, “ oh thank
you Jack, thank you ! I really think
your politeness will some day gain you
a recompence!”
“Never mind de recompence master,
es I could jest get a sevenpence !”
Jack, as usual, had the laugh on his
side.
When the Northern part of the State
of Georgia Avas being laid off into lots,
sections, or districts, as the case may
be, Jack ran aAvay from his master,
and, after staying out for some time,
returned home. Upon being taken
up under the provisions of the fugi
tive slave laAV, he put in the plea that
he had received a commission from the
Government to go and help survey the
Cherokee lands, and as he felt the calls
of his country to be more imperious
than those of his master, he hoped his
absence might be excused on this
score.
It is said that upon Mr. Fillmore’s
recent visit to Georgia, Jack called up
on him and offered the ex-vice presi
dent his congratulations, assuring the
distinguished guest that he (Jack,) and
the Rev. Dr. Means, Avdio Avas present,
had been school-mates.
But Ave must draAV our lecture upon
this Ethiopian specimen to a close. —
Uncle Tom may be a hero, but it should
be remembered that there are Uncle
Jacks as Avell as Uncle Toms.
WEEKLY SUMMARY.
DOMESTIC.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE AT BOSTON.
About 8 o’clock on Wednesday
evening, 24th ult., says the Baltimore
Patriot , U. S. Marshal Freeman arrest
ed, on a Avarrant issued by U. S. Com
missioner E. G. Loring, a negro named
Anthony Burns, on a charge that he
was a fugitive from service, having es
caped from his master Chas. T. Suttle,
merchant, of Alexandria, Ya Burns
Avas arrested in Court street, near the
head of Brattle street, and conducted
to the Coqrt House, where he remain
od under guard during the night.----
Burps is satd to have escaped from liis
piaster in Bichnipnd, Va., in March
last, and came to this .city, where he
has been at wqrlv for Cpffin Ihtts, deal
er in second hpnd clothing in Brattle
street. The proceedings were conduct
ed so quietly that very few persons be
sides the officers kuew what was going
on.
Subsequently, however, a very ex
tensive riot Avas gotten up by the ne
groes anti abolitionists. Mr. Batchel
der, U. S. Deputy Marshall, was mur
dered in the roAV. The U. S. and
Massachusettsmilitia Avere called m to
aid the police in suppressing the not.
The court-house Avas surrounded by
bayonets while the examination pro
ceeded, ffom day to day.
On the 2d day of Jue inst., the fugi
tive was remanded to his master, and
put onboard a A r essel which sailed for
Norfolk.
FOREIGN.
the city of Glasgow—passengers
PROBABLY SAFE.
Reports Avere curent in Liverpool,
when the Asia spiled that the Steamship
City of GlasgOAV, had foundered at sea,
but that her passengers AV'ere taken oil
by a vessel bound for the coast ot Afri
ca, Avhere they were landed in safety.
This report, it is said, was reeei\'ed
from a gentleman who had the intelli
gence direct from one ot the unfortu
nate passengers. Should this rumor
prove correct, it Avill cause great rejoic
ing among the friends of the five hun
dred persons Avho left Liverpool in the
illfated vessel in anticipation of being
landed in Philadelphia in the course of
: fourteen or sixteen days.
DAMAGES TO THE ARCTIC.
The U. S. mail steam ship Arctic,
Capt. J. C. Luce, struck on the Tuskar
rock off the coast of A\ exford Ireland,
on the morning, of the 18th ult., and
was compelled to return to Li\ r erpool,
Avhich port she left for NeAV York on
the previous day. She was, however
but slightly damaged, and Avlien the
Asia left, on the 20th ult., it was con
sidered probable that she Avould be
ready for sea in about a Aveek.
The British ajnd North American
Royal mail steanji ship Arabia, Capt. C.
11. E. Judkins arrived at Liverpool on
the 20th ult.
AVAR BETAVEN SPAIN AND THE U. S.
The difficulty i between Spain and
the United State; i is exciting much at
tention in Europ “. Mr. Soule has sent
a special messen* [or in the Asia, and it
is stated that Sj fun has peremptorily
refused all repar ition in respect to the
Black Warror affair, av ith the excep
tion of remitting jtbe fine. The Lon
don Times says flat Avar is inevitable
betAveen Spain and the United States.
AVAR ON 1 HE DANUBE.
The news from the East is of a far
more Avarlike cliai acter than ever. The
greatest activity prevails among the
belligerents on al sides and they seem
to be moving wit 1 a degree of activity
hitherto unknowr.
The Turks hav 2 gained lavo victories
on the Danube.
Marshal PaskiejiHtch is endeavoring
to turn the seat <A' war toAvards the
banks of the Serein and the Dneister.
Misfortune appeared to be staring
the Rusians in thejfacc, Avliichever Avay
they turned.
They had been lefeated successively
at Russova, Myap< lis and'Silistria. In
the last battle theA sustained a loss of
fifteen hundred lei. led.
To add to their greivances, an im
mense depot containing munitions of
Avar had been burned at Chony.(?)
FROM THEiBLACK SEA.
TAventy Russiaii ships have been
captured by the allies since the bom
bardment of Odessk.
The announcement of the bombard
ment of Sebastopoljproves to have been
correct. The place Avas bombarded
for four days by t|e combined fleet.
The Turkish fleet had entered the
Black sea, Avith the intention of destroy
ing all the Russian possessions on the
Circassian coast. The plan of cam
paign is said to b< to invade Russia
Proper.
FROM TI E BALTIC
On the 9th ult, Admiral Napier’s
fleet Avas within U enty-five miles of
Cronstadt. The re )ort circulated by
the London Sun iat the place had
been bombarded, is Ave anticipated,
turned out a hoax.
The Russian fleei ias left Helsingfors
for the purpose of j lining the fleet at
Kronstadt. Admii ilNapier, hoAvever,
Avas laying with his ieet about twenty
five miles from Kre istadt, in order to
intercept them.
DISTRESS AT SI PETERSBURG.
The inhabitants e ’St. Petersburg are
reported to be in tl 5 greatest distress
imaginable. Ever} king they have
that ’may be require to sustain the Avar
is seized upon with npunity; and be
sides, all who are a e to bear arms
are at once drafted ii p the army—thus
leaving the aged an< the very young
in the most deplora |e condition. It
may be as well to emark that this
report CQines throu !* English chan
nels, *
The Inhabitants of St. IVfl
had been oblidged to find qua™
the troops, pud there AveroM
Cossacks in the en virons of tluH
The Cologne Gazette states ■
Emperor ,of Russia had sufferfß
, apse of his illness,
GR,EAT FIRE AT CONSTANT! NlB
.A tremendous conflagration <B
at Constantinople on the 4th of B
Four hundred houses, with nl
heir contents, Aimre entirely conß
The loss Avhich Avas immense, |H
duced i i? conceivable suffering I
those who were thus unexpß
deprived of ajl they possessed. !
ALLIANCE BESAVEEN PRUSSIA®
RUSSIA. jl
It is said that anew treaty ■
bailee is being formed between Pi
and Russia. Nothing definite,■
ever, is known Avith regard to tfl
ture of these negotiations furtheifl
that the former power is in an eJ
ly unenviable predicament, and I
sirous of bringing the Avar to a I
as speedily as possible.
Austria and Prussia had acted tol
er up to the present time, but the rl
authoritative demands of Russia I
the latter, appear to have giA r e|
fence to the young Emperor, and ll
his extensive millitary perparatioii
the frontier. Nothing new has tj
tired relative to the new term]
peace that were to be offered td
Czar by Austria, by and with the
vice and consent of England.
The London Times is urging tin
pointment of anew Minister of \Y
MORE OPPOSITION TO RUSSIA. B
Austrians raising large mimberßj
troops and placing them on the fßf
tiers. Site declars that she will nfl
submit to be bullied by Russia.
The fleets of Sweden and Norß
had arived at Ilolsingfbrs, it being ;fl
mention to co-operate with the ulfl
THE GREEK INSURRECTION. ||
The Greek insurrection had bH
nearly quelled, and little further trfl
ble Avas apprehended from that qifl
ter.
It is asserted that the Russian < fi
eminent had insured the Greek <i<H
eminent a subvention of one millil
of drachmas per month, and that fl
Greek Government had granted lettfl
of marque to the pirates avlio at presfl
infest the Levant. W
POSITION OF AUSTRIA. 1
Austria’s position is decidedly lnl
tile to Russia, and she has called ol
100,000 men to defend the front™
against the Russians.
It is reported that the Veinua Cos
ference avill be removed for the pu
pose of forming a basis for an Austin
and Anglo-French alliance.
FROM WASH INGTON.
The Black Warrior affair has bee
settled —Spain apologizing arid remi;
ting the fine of $6,000.
The President has signed the Nc
braska Bill, and put out a proclamatioi
against the filibusters.
A recess from some day in July til
October is talked of in Congress.
C
Improvements in Brick-ma
king— Wm. 11. Stiles’ Work
It is generally knoAvn that the Hoir.
\Ym. 11. Stiles, of this city, has for
some time past been lately engaged in
the manufacture of brick. Proprietor
of extensive grounds from Avhich an in
exhaustible supply of the best material
could be obtained, dissatisfied Avith old
machines and old processes, and being
somewhat progressive in his nature, as
all good democrats are, he has recent
ly turned his attention to improve
ments —not in democracy—but in the
mechanical and practical business of
brick-making. It is believed that they
Avill have an important bearing upon
the building up and beautifying of the
city of Savannah.
Mr. Stiles’ latest improvement is the
introduction of a Dry-Clav Brick Ma
chine, being the patent of Messrs. Mow
er k Woodworth, of Boston. We had
the pleasure of seeing it in operation
on Saturday, and can testify to its com
plete success. Specimens of the Avork
can be seen on our Reading Room table
by such as take an interest in bricks
and brick-making. It will be observ
ed that they are much heavier, more
compact and in all respects superior
to our common bricks. There were
present, during the experiments on
Saturday, nearly all the architects and
master-builders of tho city, who unan
imously concurred in the opinion that
the bricks manufactured by this ma
chine are the best that they have ever
seen, possessing the beauty of Northern
bricks, and combining greater firmness
and durability,
The mode of operation, in the Ayprds
of the inventor, is as follows;
The clay is ploughed, shaved or dug
up to dry, on a surface sufficient to se
cure a supply for the machine, When
dried it is put under cover of a machine
in quantity to insure a supply for a
Aveek, so that the machine may run
without interruption. The clay w
to a powder, It then passes through
