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\Goou from home, good-newa for mo,
Has come across the deep bluo sea,
From friends that 1 have loft in tears.
From frieuds that I’ve not smuin years*.
And sis ice wo parted long ngo|f
My life has been a scene of woo;
lint now a jovlisl hour lias come:
For 1 have beard good news from home.
citoucs.
Good nows from home, good news for mo,
Has eomo ncroaa the deep blue son; ’
From friends that I have left in tears,
From friends that I've not seen tor years.
No father near to glide menow,
No Mother's tear to 'soothe my brow,
No sister’s voice falls on my ear,
No brother's smile to give me cheer,
lint though 1 wander far away,
My heart is full of joy to-day ;
For friends across the ocean foam
dtnvo sent to me thod news from homo.
When shall I see that cottage door,
•Where I've spent years of joy before?
T was then 1 knew no grief or care,
My heart was always happy there.
Though 1 may never see it more,
Nor stand upon my native shore,
Where'er on earth I'm doomed to roam.
My heart's with those I've left at home.
Piscellanmis.
Utility and Sagacity of Siberian ;
Dogs.—Ul‘ all the animals that live in
the high north latitude, none are so |
tieserving of being noticed as the dog.
The companion ot man, in all climates, j
Irom the islands of the South Sea,
where he feeds on bananas to the Po
lar Seas, where his food is lish, he here
plays a part to which he is unaccustom
ed in more favored regions. Nobesi
ty has taught the inhabitants of the
northern countries to employ these com
paratively weak animals in draught.
On all the coasts of the Polar Sea from
the Obi to Behring's Straits, in Green- j
land, Kanischatka, and in the Kurile i
islands, the dogs are made to draw |
sledges loaded with persons and with I
goods, and for considerable journeys. ;
The dops have much resemblance to j
the wolf. They have long, pointed
noses, sharp and upright ears, and a
long busliy tail : some have smooth
IL and some have curly hair ; their color
is various—black, brown, reddish
brown, white and spotted. They vary
also in size ; but it is considered that a
good Sledge-dog should not be less
than two feet seven’snd a-half inches
in height, and three feet three quarters
of an inch in length (English measure.)
Their barking is like the howling of a
wolf. They pass their whole life in
the open air ; in summer they dig holes
in the ground for coolness, or lie in the
water to avoid the mosquitoes ; in win
ter they protect themselves by burrow
ing in the snow, and lie curled up with
their noses covered up by their bushy
tails. The female puppies are drown
ed, except enough to preserve the
breed, the males alone being used in
draught. Those born in winter enter
on their trainings the following autumn,
but arc not used in long journeys until
the third year. The feeding and train
ing is a particular art, ar.d much skill
is required in driving them. The best
trained dogs are used as leaders ; and
as the quick and steady going of the
team, usually twelve (dogs, and the
safety of the dri'.er, depend on the sa
gacity and docility of the leader, no
pains arc spared in their education, so
that they may always obey their mas
ter’s voice and not be tempted from
their course when they come on scent
of game. This last is a point, of great
difficulty; .sometimes a whole team, in
such casesif will start off, and no en
deavors on the part of the driver, can
stop them. On such occasions we
have sometimes had to admire the ;
cleverness with which the w. 11 trained
leader endeavors to tarn the other
from their pursuit ; if other devi
ces fail, he will suddenly wheel round,
and by barking as if he had come on a
new scent try to induce the other dogs
to follow him. If travelling across the
wild tunda.’in dark nights, or when the
vast plain & veiled in impenatrablc
mist, or iiSstorms or snow tempests,
when the tSifVeiler is in danger of miss
ing the sheTtea ing dowaima, and of per
ishing in the snow, he will frequently
owe his satety i&a good leader ; if the
animal has ever bleu in this plain; and
has stripped, with, his master at the
dowarna, he will be sure to bring the
sh’dge to the jdapß where the hut lies
deeply buried in -|he snow ; when ar
rived at it, he stop, and
indicate signilkantjv, the -pot where
his master invistdig| | --J'f>n 11 ranch's
)*<ftar Sea#.
Wonders of Ojilmirtry.—The
■horse-shoe nails dropped jn the streets
/luring the daily . i’C-nppear J n
in t.lic shape of.swords and guns. Tnc
/clippings of the traveling tinker are
mixed with the parings of the horses’
?Uoofs from the srnit% or the east off
woolen garments of the poorest inhabi
tants of a sister i.-sll, and soon after
ward, in the form of dyes of brightest
blue, ’grace the dress of courtly dames.
The main inplpdient of the ink with
which wJSIe was possibl y once part
of the bpßefi hffop of an old beer bar
rel #The bones of dead animals yield
the ©lief constituent of lueifer-matches.
dre^of port wine, carefully re
jected bv the pbH wine driiikpr, in de
puting bis favorite beverage, are ta
ken by him in the morning, in the
form or midlife powders, to remove
the effpts pf his debauch. lhc offal
the’streets and the waiting of coal
gas, rc-appcar carefully preserved in
phe ladv’s smelling-hottle, or are used
by her to flavor bfanc mav'f lor her
Twfe
Oa R PETS V ERSU »s BLA NK KTtfy-r-I.il A
■certain township iif New-Hampshire,(
where little is known of the appliances,
of modern and tvs, a. (young farmer had
occasion to call on the 'minister, who
had just removed in from Massachu
setts, and was shown in to the “ best
room.” When the minister eathe
down to seS him, he found him sitting
in a chair on the door-sill, with legs
outside in the entry. The astonished
clergyman asked him why lie did not
go into the parlor. “ Oh,” said he,
“ I was ai’eard of spilin’ your blanket \
by treading on it.”
English and American hotels. —
jWe could hardly picture to ourselves
a greater contrast than that between
I an old country and an American hotel.
The two things ai& not in the least
’alike. Arriving at an inn in England,
you are treated with immense defer
i et.ee, allowed the seclusion of a pri
i vate apartment, charged exorbitant
jly for everything, and, at departure,
I courtesied and bowed out at the door.
; as if a prodigious favor had been con
torted on the establishment. In the
) United States things are managed dif
ferently. The Americans, with some
faults of character, possess the singu
lar merit of not being exclusive, extor-
tionate, or subservient. But where all
travel, hotel-keepers'can afford to act
magnanimously. Instead of looking
to livelihood from a few customers,
scheming petty gains by running up a
bill for the use of candles, firing, and
other conveniences, and smoothing- ev
erything over by a mercenary bow,
the proprietor of an American hotel is
a capitalist at the head of a great con
cern, and would despise doing any
thing shabby: hundreds pour into and
out of his house daily ; he notices neith
er your coming nor going. W ithout cer
emony you arc free of the establish
ment ; and when you pay and de
part, there are no bows, no thanks, but
you are fleeced; and that, is always felt
to be a comfort.—[ William Chambers.
It's What You spend. —“ It's
what thce'U spend, my son,” said a sage
old Quaker, “ not what thee’ll make,
which will decide whether thec’s to be
rich or no.' - The advice was rigl.it,
for it was but Franklin’s in another
shape. Take care of the pennies
and the pounds will take care of them
selves.' But it cannot be too often re
peated. Men are continually indulg
ing in small expenses, saying to them
selves that it is only a trifle, yet forget
ting that in the aggregate it is serious,
that even the sea-shore is made of pet
ty grains of sand. Ten cents a day is
even thirty-six dollars and a half a
year, and that is the interest of a capi
tal of six hundred dollars. The man
that saves ten cents a day only, is so
much richer than lie who does not, as
if he owned a life estate in a house
worth six hundred dollars. Even in
sixteen years ten cents a day becomes
six hundred dollars : and if invested
quarterly it does not take half that time.
But ten cents a day is a child’s play,
some one will exclaim. AVell, then,
John Jacob Astor used to , say that
when a man who wishes to be rich has
saved ten thousand dollars, he has won
half the battle. The advice here giv
en should be cherished by every lit
tle boy and girl in the land. Much
good will result therefrom.
Ax Error.— We notice that most
of our exchanges are attributing the
letter on the Slave Trade, lately
published in Mitehel’s Citizen, to Ex-
Governor Cobb. T’iiis is an error.—
The writer is llowell Cobb of
Houston county, editor of “Cobb’s
Analysis and Forms,” and a lawyer
of reputation, hut in no way rclatedto
the Ex-Governor.
We had marked the letter for in
sertion in this week’s paper, but it is
crowded out. It is written in an
swer to an enquiry of the .V. V.
H'raw/elist, as to what tin'. South
thought of the revival of the Afri
can: Slave Trade. Mr. C. thinks that
‘‘the ft tilth, hi noir, an it hem . aver been
nil tee the tmdn hectme unlaufnJ, UTTER
LY OPPOSED TO ITS REVIVAL,” but
thinks that the question might be as
ked -whether ftorlhern awn ever nit:ud
to 7'elinquhih the trafjw, the whole his
tory of that trade going to shew
that they have been almost cxclusively
engaged in it before and altogether so
since its prohibition.
j Gmvillt}; fttondanl.
Impure LangUAGEA-There arc
some habits which wc. can never
entirely annihilate, after we have
once formed them. Tim use of impure
language is one of these habits. It may
he subdued and slumber for years, till
its existence is almost forgotten ; and,
then in the delirium of fever, it may
suddenly burst forth, to the astonish
ment of all who listen. Many a devo
ted Christian in the delirium of a sick
bed, has shocked his friends by the
use of profane "and obscene language,
which could be explained only ,by .the
fact that he had been familiar, with
such language, in early life. 1 n read
ing the memoir ot Hr. Grant, the mis
sionary to the Nestorians, 1 was struck
with a fact relating to his last illness.
For seventeen days previous to his
death, lie was in n dtliriith; ImUsays
his biographer, “though speaking al
most constantly on many topics, in
three different Languages —jjjjhat s,is,
English, Turkish and did
not use 'a single word lie would have
been ashamed of afterwards. His as
sociate's listened to' these disclosures of
his secret heart, and wondered that
nothing appeared they would have
wished to conceal. ll <'U S/ieiny.
Follies of Fashion.’- I—ln 1 — In no in
stances have the folly and childish
ness of a large portion of mankind
been more .strikingly displayed than in
those various and occasionally very op
posite modes they have de
parted from the st andard ot nature, and
sought distinction even in deformity.
Thus, while one race of people crushes
the feet of its children, another Hattons
their heads between two boards ; and
while we in Europe admire the naked
whiteness of the teeth, the Malays tile
off the enamel, and die them black,
Tor the all-sufiieient reason that clogs
teeth are white ! A New Zealand
chief has his distinctive coat of arms
emblazoned on the skin 61 his face, as
well as on bis limb; and an Esqui
maux is nothing il lie have not bits ol
stones stuffed through a hole in each
cheek. Quite as absurd, and still more
mischievous, is the i’atuation which,
anion a sonic Europeans, attaches beau
ty to that modification of the human
figure which resembles the wasp, and
compresses the waist until the v ei y
ribs have been distorted, and the func
tions of the. vital organs irreparably
disordered. —77 ie Ch(/ >ese.
Grandma, what’ll be the last card
plaving ?
I’m sure I don’t know. What dear?
When the angel Gabriel plays the
last trump.,
A poor fellow having got his skull
fractured, was told by the . doctor that
the brain was visible, on which he re
marked —“Do write to tell father, for
he alway s swore I had none.”
What is a Fop. —The fop is a com
plete specimen of an outside philoso
pher. He is one-third collar, one-sixth
patent leather, one-fourth walking stick,
and the rest kid gloves and hair. As
to his remote ancestry there is some
doubt, but it is now pretty well set
tled that he is the sou of a tailor’s
goose. Ife becomes ecstatic at the
smell of new cloth, lie is somewhat
nervous, and to dream of tailor’s bills
gives him the nightmare. By his hair
one would think he had been dipped
like Achilles, but it is evident that the
o’oddess must have held him by the
head instead of the heels. Neverthe
less, such men arc useful. It there
were no tadpoles there would be no
frogs. They were not so entirely to
blame for devotion to externals. —
Basted diamonds nc:d splendid setting
to make ’em sell. Only it siiems to
be a waste cf material to put five
dollars worth of material on live cents
worth of brains. —May Hill Sentinel.
Music and Politics. —The tele
graph informs us of the important tact
that William Bigler, Governor of Penn
sylvania, lias been serenaded by the
‘‘young democracy ol Washington.
Bigler has just been beaten in the
race for another term by forty thou
sand majority, and it seems proper
that music should be called in to soothe
his outraged feelings, lie has the mu
sic, and Pollock gets the spoils. All
right. A fair division of every thing
is the true platform. The New York
politicians need not fear. Their time
is coming, but if all the defeated candi
dates in this State are to be serenaded
there will not be bands enough for the
music that will be required on the
night of the seventh of November. —
Look out for a ‘‘grand crash” in some
of the orchestras! —.V. ) r . Herald.
“Ma! ma! Cousin John is in the
parlor with sister Cal, and he keeps a
lutin’ her.”
‘Cousin John biting 1113- Cal?’
“Yes’in; I seed him do it ever
so many times, bite her right 011 the
mouth, and the tarual gal didn’t holler
a bit neither.”
“Oh! —ah! never mind, Ned, I
guess he didn’t hurt her much.”
“Hurt lief! by gosh she loves it.,
she does, cos she kept a lel tin him, and
didn’t say nothin,” hut just smacked her
lips as though ’twas good she did. J
seed it all through the key hole, i’ll
lire tutors at him by gosh!”
A Young preacher out west who had
just started on his travels as an itiner
ant, was one evening holding forth on
the deluge, and alter describing the
manner in wjiiclt Noah built the ark
fl nd filled it with animals of every kind
by pairs, closed his, solemn tone thus:
You must know, my dear hearers,
that it was an arduous task for North
and his sons to ' get a’paiy ot whales in
to the ark! A light squeeze, cer
tainly. Some accounts say tluit Noah
employed a whale for a rudder. ( )ther
accQiuffs s:iy tHfft the whale in them
days were quadrujeds- lish not being
needed in the ark.r—U-°' v doc to is dis
(hr!
N ! .g A —* "T
The Washsuin jnn Star says:—
“It is understJd that the lion. Sen
ator A tchison.. ol’Missouri, will not.be
in Washington jduring the, coming
session of Congnls. ilis term expiies
on the 4;h of Mirch next, and we
take it for granted that his determina
tion to remain injMissouri during the
winter is the betLr to enable him to
attend to his shafe of his contest with
Col. Benton, tlij end of which may
not come off lei some months yet.
Ilis absence fro it the Senate Chamber
will make the diction ot another pro
tern. President and the Senate necessary.
From all wc K-:/n, t here can be but lit
tle'doubt thathhonor will fall upon
Senator Rusk J' Texas. At least, that
is the opinion <j all here who are credi
ted with beingmen of shrewdness in
looking upon Lings political.
INDEPENDENT I’KESS.
“ Without Fciir, Favor or Affection.”
EATONTON, GA.
SATURDAY MORNING, NOV. 11,1854.
“ DiJymus ” will appear next week.
I-
Printers Wanted.
Two good compositors and pressmen are wanted at
this office immediately, to be paid by the thousand
m's. None neal apply Who arc in the habit of using
intoxicating ljitiors.
Nov.th 1L (854.
behavior at Church-
VYe are a church-going people. Whether actua
ted by the prober motives or not. it is not our pur
pose now particularly to enquire. Some of us go
for one thing, (ind sonic for another. Some go to
show their line clothes : some to look at the girls:
some to see whether their neighbors are dressed
fashionably or in costly attire : a few. a very few,
go to worship Clod in spirit and in truth. But nev
er mind : People go to Church, and, in going, they
should know bow to behave themselves, and know
ing, they should act accordingly.
Let us begin at the smallest class—those who
enter the house of God for the purpose of worship.
To be sure they ought to know how to behayO
themselves: but they''don’t always do it even if they
know how. Perhaps we can better tell what they
should not do, than what they should. They ought
not to gaze all over the house during divine ser
vice, as if they were at an animal show; and es
pecially during prayer, they should not raise them
selves up. if kneeling, and look all around them
with malice prepense to indulge in bitter feeling
against those who are not coining up to their stan
dard. Christians should be very tender in their
feelings to those who, they think, err :
"Be to their faults a little blind,
And to their virtues very kind
For if they do not. how can they expect their
Heavenly Father to boa “little blind” to their sin
committed in the act of watching with unchristian
spirit those who are not acting according- to their
views of propriety ? "Except ye forgive men their
trespasses, neither will your Heavenly Father for
give you your trespasses.” Therefore if you see
somebody doing wrong during prayer, don’t let
your heart be led off into sinful thoughts of hatred
or revenge against your erring fellow mortal; but
pray on : You can do him more good by humbly
praying for him than by looking sour at him. We
say by humbly praying, beeauso we have known
men to put up angry prayers, just as we have
known negroes to shout when they become angry.
Wc have heard sinners prayed for when they have
been doing wrong in Church, or at eanip-meeting,
when the tones of the prayer indicated anger, rath
er than humility. It does no good. Then the
Christian at Church should keep his mind in a wor
shipful, and not a sinful mood. Don't let it either,
strav off upon some note you expect to shave at
25 per cent,, or to your plantation, ledger, doctor’s
shop, or lawyer's office.
So much lor Christians, and now tor sinners:
When you go to church, you arc just as much
bound to behave yourselves with propriety as your
Christian brethren are. True, you are not bound
to take an active part in the public services—to
sing and to pray, and to participate iii tho ordi
nances. But you are bound to preserve a decent
exterior, to lie orderly in your conduct, and not to
whisper, or laugh. It is positively ill-mannered
and rude to do so. We are putting your cases
now upon the basis of your duties to your fellow
man. Wo intend to try you by the rules of strict
gentility, and ol good breeding. \ou don t ac
knowledge your obligations to your Maker, and
hence we will not test your conduct by the duties
you owe to God : (If any man has the right to do
this, it is the preacher, and we don't belive that he
Inis—for little as people think of it, a preacher is
but a man:) Ilcnco we will square your conduct
by obligations which you do acknowledge, leaving
your account betwcenyourself and your God t.o bo
settled by a higher tribunal than auy before which
yo.u have to appear on earth.
Now to the test : Would you. claiming to boa
gentleman as you do, go into the parlor of a friend,
where there was company assembled, and engaged
in any particular occupation, or amusement, what
ever it might be, and seating yourself off in a corner
with one or two others, commence to criticise the
assembled company, and laugh, and titter, and dis
turb them ? You answer, no. Then you have no
right to do so in church, either. And the day
ought to come when such conduct would meet with
as sudden pedal application, as though it wero in
dulged in, in tho parlor. Not that, wo would re
commend any of our Christian brethren to kick a
misbehaving man out of church, but there might bo
some clover sinner appointed to do it. For even
sinners can Sometimes bo put t> a very good use,
and may, hence, bo useful articles.
Now our gentleman may bo disposed to answer
“ Tho sermon is so dull and uninteresting, or they
squall and hallo so much, I can’t Stand it, and can t
treat them with respect." Well, if you can t, you
should leave the house —you liavb no business
there. Our constitutions guarantee to a man tho
right to worship God as ho pleases, and it you
don’t like his manner of worship it is a free conn,
try, and you have a right to retire. But tho coun
try Ls not free enough for vou to have tho right to
stay and disturb your neighbor.
Then, 'children should not be allowed to go to
church and disturb tho worship by laughing and
talking. A great many ill-mannered brats do tins
tiling, aud it is for want ,of a proper traiuing. IHo
good book says “Train tip a child in tho way ho
should go." How many Christian parents do it ? j
Is it an uncommoii thing in those days of Young
America to see the children of Christians disturb |
ing publiu vmMliqi? Every body wlio t«KOS 1119
diiltl to /-liurpli should make lilm belmvc ifjjftvlf,
Moral suasion should be used to -this cud, grid if
; this won't answer? apply .Solomon'sargument: For
as one lias said, a ohild is much like ft lo'cornotiTo
1 there is nothing so well calculated to get him on
1 the right track, in certain cases, asihe switch. Now
! all jvo say hero is, if you carry yotfr child to church,
' make him behave Imfiself Hut tlibrcds. n point to
bo guarded against here, we will say, by the wav:
If you are too stern with your children with refer-.
once to church, the sabbath and religion, you make I
them hate all three. Many parents arc doing this]
every day of their lives. Hut wo can't elaborate I
here. /
Finally, wo would say to saint and sinner, be/
have yourselves at church. Don't disfigure God*
house with tobacco juice, even if you see tlJp
preacher in the pulpit with his quid in his niout i.
And don't yawn and gape in the preacher's far;,
even if he is dull, which ho has no right to be—b it
oftentimes can't help. You who go to show yo ir
line clothes, make as little display of them as is eo i
sistent with tho leading object you have in vie r.
You who go to see what kind of clothes your noiJh
bor has on, make your observations as <pii t!\ las
may lie, so as to disturb the worship the least Jos
siblo. amount. You who go to look at the girls/ do
it in a decent way, and don't sit all the tiineoffcer
vice with your great pewter eyes like dim staiji in
a misty firmament, gazing and staring the fairer
portion of the community out of countenance. These
love to be looked at, but not stared at. (.And
above all tilings don't stand around the doors, filler
service is over, to ga/.o at the fair sex, but go ljt>me
and eat your dinners, \
Jokes-
In reply to our brother Sneed’s intimation of Bio \
institution in the “ vicinity of Milledgeville,'! »e ;
miglit suggest for his benefit tho existence oft hit
other institution, not “in the vicinity,” but in? b|c j
corporate limits of tho city. Hut our brother t-oR !
not take our jokes kindly, and wo will not joke v*n
any more. Hut really we did not suspect that A
cotemporary wonld think seriously enough of : W
little squib to reply seriously to it.
The News.
Don't ask au_v thing about the news. Tlunvii
none. At least if there is, wo don't get it. 'Vf<
get an exchange semi-oecasionally, and very bar
ren of news when we do get it. The yellow fever,
tho cholera, Tom Walker and his Satanic majest-w,
together with James Campbell, and the South Caij
olina Railroad have thrown things sadly out I
gear. Could you expect tho mails to be transmit!
led with celerity bv a,camel ?
“Don't get my Paper ” 1
So say sonic of our subscribers abroad. Well we
don't get ours either, as we have shown above. It
is impossible for papers or letters to reach their des
tination when the mails are managed as badly as
they now are. The complaint in universal. We
have a proposition to moke to our brethren of the
press. It is this: The next presidential candidate
who is put up for our support—let us question him
very closely about whom ho will make post-masicr
general, and how lie intends to have the mails man
aged. This Is a thing in which we are all interested
Come, now, what say you, brethren ? We have
served the purposes of “scurvy politicians” long
enough: Let us serve ourselves awhile.
State Fair, &c-
The State Fair has been again postponed until
the Ith of December, next. At that time it will
positively be he ld, in Augusta.
The medical lectures in this city (Augusta) will
commence on Monday l.'Uh Xov. inst.
Received.
The following journals lor November have been
received: The Southern Literary Messenger,
Southern Medical Journal. Georgia University Mag
azine, Southern Cultivator, Soil of the South, and
Southern School Journal for October—all of which
we commend to the patronage of our readers.
Pierce Female College-
Wc have received the catalogue of this to-be in
stitution, ami are sorry to liavo to record the
springing-up of another one of those women-ruin
ers in tho shape, of a female college. We look up
on these institutions as money-making speculations,
at the sacrifice of the health, morals, manners and
minds of the fair daughters of this favored land. (
Election News. /
In the State ofNevv-York the contest for Goy-J
ernor is entirely between Daniel Ullman, the Knovv i
Notliing candidate, and Seymour, the Democavtijo
candidate.
Seymour lias 12.000 majority in Now York (j'g
ty. The Congressional delegation in New Ycirk
will be anti-Administration.
In New Jersey, four Whigs and one Adminis
tration candidate have been elected to. Congress.—
The Whigs will have a majority in the I-eggisla
iurc, ( /
Scattering returns from Illinois and Wisconsin,
arc favorable to the opposition of tho Adhiiiuistra
tion. *
From Savannah. /
Wc acknowledge the receipt Jof the
following letter and resolution:* from
Savannah, which should havje been
published last week, but whij-h were
crowded out, for want of space#:
MAYOR'S OFF'YX.J )
City of Suvh-'£_llli,
26th Octf 1854-. \
J. A. Turner, Esq., Faton./ion, Ga.:
Dmr Sir :■ —The enclosed preamble
and resolutions were adopted b} r the
Mayor and Aldermen off this City, in
Council assembled, at th'Jbr meeting, &n
19th Oct., 1851. Theyfcoutain an in
adequate but heartfelt expression of the
thankfulness of this Cojf poration to you
for receiving and remijtting the benev
olent donations of thef citizens of Ea
ton ton and Putnam cA Foujtity, lor the re
lief of the sufferers 1 >y/ the late epidem
ic in this City. 4
Very respecti/Viljfy,
Your 01/j't. feerv't.,
JOlfe j. WARD,
Mq I vo/ of Savannah.
IN Cd/)('NCIL,
SAVANNAjf/i, flpth Oct.., 1854.
Present JollX Eff 'U' a UP, Mayor; Al
dermen V.\/nI / Horn, Scriven,
Walker, aim liCkwis.
Resolutions /,-J'r||l and unanimously
adopted: / I 1/
By Aldernifuf "''Screvex, seconded
by Alderman 'M^/vlker.
Whereas, by*/ the dispensations of
Providence, jthifi/ City has been alllict- '
edjbv an Epidemic and the litflst ndai
character, and its inhabitants during
its prevalence, have been the recipient!
of the munificence'and benevolence of
various Public Bodies, “Charitable .As
sociations and Individuals.
Jfe it therefore Resolved, That the
thanks of this body are due, and are
hereby tendered to the Corporate Au
thorities of otir Sister Cities,' for the
sympathy they have, manifested in the
afflictions of this City and for their gen
erous contributions in fiid of its sutler
ino' and destitute inhabitants.
Resolved, That the thanks of this
body are due, and are hereby tender
ed to all Benevolent and other Asso
ciations, and to Individuals who have
in any manner contributed to the re
lief of the afflicted in this City.
Reswired, That our thanks are due,
and are hereby tendered to the resi
dent Physicians of this City, for their
noble conduct, during the I'lpidemic, and
to those transient Physicians, who with
professional galantry and disinterested
ness came to the relict ot the sick,
when our devoted Physicians were
! falling, in our midst, victims to the
! faithful discharge of their duties.
Resolved, That our thanks arc due,
and are hereby tendered to our devot
ed Clergymen, who have without ex
ception pursued their holy calling,
dispensing charity, ministering to the
sick and comforting the afflicted,
Resolved, That the thanks of this
Body arc duo, and arc hereby tender
ed to the Young Men's Benevolent
Association of this City, for their ac
tive benevolence, and distinguished
/services to the afflicted, and for the
benefits they have thereby and in oth
er respects conferred upon this commu
nity.
CLERK OF COUNCIL’S OFFICE,
STATE OF GEORGIA, (
j Oil)/ of Savannah. f
I, Edward G. Wilson, Clerk of Coun
ts :il of the City of Savannah, in the State
IT Georgia, do hereby certify, that the
I bregoing is a true copy of the Resol u
jlt'ons unanimously passed in Council
; 101 this day.
I/Gi ven under my hand and the Corpo
i \ rate Seal of the City of Savannah, on
! \ this nineteenth day of October, A.
j TANARUS). eighteen hundred and fifty-four.
| * ‘ EDWARD G. WILSON,
CLERK OF COUNCIL.
| ill) the India Rubber patent case of
| Day vs. ll artsiioun e & Cos., re
; ceiVtlk' tried in the Dinted States Cir
j cnit (Court, at Providence, R. 1.,
Judn-e Pitman gave a decision, on
Ip . .
j Saturday last, sustaining the plan tiffs
j title‘.to the Chaffee patent, overruling
the defendant's plea which set up the
licence to use the invention of
Charles Goodyer and Wm Jui>-
SOX.j
Tl|e Jllon. Mr. Davis, Secretary of,
War,; and lion. Mr. Guthrie, Secre
tary j(f the Treasury, returned to
Washington on Friday evening.—
Dunojay R. Mcßae, Esq., Dnited
Stajtei consul at Paris, lion. M. S.—
l/Zatim, of California, and the Hon.
fiT. h Florence, of Philadelphia, mem-
Congress, have also arrived at
/ Waslii gton.
; Cdapletc official returns'of the re
cent Jt tie election in Ohio give the
following result : Supreme Judge—
Swail fusion, 186,437 ; Norris, Dem
ocrat,ll 10.912 —Swan's majority, 75,-
525. Auditor-—Biiekensdcrler, fu
sion, 1< 3,655 ; Miller, Democrat, 109,-
268—1 lickensderfer’s majority 74,-
392.
A letter to the Buffalo Advertiser,
dated Fort Leavenworth, October 7th,
says that a great change has taken
place in that part of Kansas Territory
west from Fort Leavenworth. Every
stream and every piece of timbered land
is now dotted with log cabins, and ci
ty lots are lively offered for sale even
as far west as the Republican
Fork.
A despatch from Boston, dated the
sth instant says :
“ Dr. A"bfaTTatn Tlbulct, the well
known physician of Lynn, while ri
ding ir his buggy yesterday, was run
into by the Saugus train, and had his
horse killed, his buggy smashed, and
he is severely if not ffufuly injur*
ed
T. B. Camming, the acting govern,
or ol Nebraska, lias issued bis procla
mation ordering'a census ol‘the terri
tory to be taken immediately, in order
that an election for a delegate to Con
gress, and for members of the territori
al legislature may be held at an early
day.
Dr. Rulus AY. Griswold has anew
book in the Appleton’s hands, “Theßc- j
publican Court, or American Society j
in the days of \Vashiugton,” to be issued ,
soon, in quarto form, with portraits of
21 distinguished ladies of Washington’s
time.
The argument of counsel, on both
sides in the case of Dr. Beale, tho-
PhiladeiphiS Dentist —on application
for anew trial—was closed on Satur
day. The Judge’s decision will bear-’
rived at and made known sonic time j
during the present week,
Fife New iork Journal of Com
merce says, that the Banks of that city
arc determined, if possible, to prevent
any further exportation of specie.
Eight more deaths have, occurred
from the effects of the late Rock ] s .
land Railroad accident, twenty-five
others still lie dangerously wounded.
The Towa Conference of the Metho
dist Episeopal Chureh already embra
ces the Kansas and Nebraska Mission
District.
A statue of Beethoven, for the Bos
ton Music Hal!, has just been east in
bronze at Munich. It is said to meet
the approbation of the best European
judges of statuary.
The “Fusionists” of Ohio are to hold
a mass State Convention at Columbus
on the 22d ot February, to nominate a
State ticket.
The receipts of the Washington
M nurnent dining the month of Octo
ber, were 1 ,BOG,GB, and the amount
expen dec! $2000,82.
It is said that during the past tew'
weeks, between 4,000 and 5,000 per-
SOUS have Wen naturalitioff in NT-.w'
York.
The choiefß in Pittsburg occasioned
1 five deaths from the 22d to the 20th of
! October,
During October there were only 42
| deaths in Norfolk.
Madame Rosa de Vries is Concertiz
! ing in St. Louis. She has left tlic ope
ra.
Thanksgiving day in Rhode Island
: is appointed for the.ooth inst.
i John llowland aged 97, the oldest
inhabitant of Providence, R, 1., save
! one, died in that city yesterday.
The Governor of Georgia lias ap*
| poinded Thursday, the 23d inst. as a
; day of thanksgiving and praise.
Anecdotes of Frederick the
Great. —From Dr. Vehse’s “Memoirs
of the Court of Prussia.” we take the
following characteristic anecdotes of
Frederick the Great:- —“One of his
valets, one evening, had to read
prayers to him. Arriving at the
words, ‘The Lord bless thee,’ the silly
man, in Ids habitual subserviency,
thought he must read, ‘The Lord bless
your Majesty on which the king at
once cut him short, ‘You rascal, read it
as it is in the book; before God Al
mighty I am but a rascal, like yourself.’
The servants were never safe in his
presence. He had two pistols, loaded
with salt, lying hy Lis sulry which if
they blundered, he would fire at them.
In this manner one bail his feet dread
fully injured, and another lost an eye,
notwithstanding all which, he was
quite offended that he should generally
be considered a tyrant. Terror might
be said to go before him. A function
ary who was once unexpectedly sum
moned to his presence, fell down dead
from fright. His cane he applied so
unreservedly to every body, that one
day he maltreated with it a major, in
front of his regiment, on which the
officer at once drew his pistols, tired
one before the feet of the king’s horse,
and with the other shot himself through
the head. It was a very awkward
thing to meet the king in the street. —
Whenever he was struck with the ap
pearance of any one, he rode up to him
so closely that the head of the horse
touched the man’s chest. Then fol
lowed the usual question, ‘Who am
von?’ Those fared worst who tried
to fly from him. It happened one day
that a Jew, seeing the king at a dis
tance, took to his heels, but being soon
overtaken by him, the poor fellow
confessed that he had been afraid.—
The king jirmiediately began to cudg
el him. with the words, ‘Love me, love
me, you shall, and not fe.tr !
Female Beauty. —The city of Con
; stantinople, as seen from the Bosphorus,
is said by travelers to be a most impo
| sing - and beautiful sight. Ihe toun.-t
! at a distance as he gazes upon its lofty
domes and crescent-crowned minamts,
; revels in imagination over the beauties
; which a closer inspection shall rewaf.
;He hastens with ardor to feast his
senses upon the wonder of'the
; rnedan capital. But a nearer approach
| dispels the illusion; for travellers
j inform us mat thvLty is aditty,crook-,
j ed. ill shapen mass ; that its low, wood-.
I eh buildings, its narrow,cheerlessthor
j oughlares, arc far from interesting,
! and the visitor retires in disgust,
j It is thus with female beauty. It
; catches the eye, and challenges the ad
i miration. But if a more intimate ac*
j quaintancc shows that it is not associa
i ted with goodness and truth, with
j good sense and a good heart, admira-
I tion is turned into disgust, and the sen
j sible admirer retires with as much
■ haste as the tourist from the sublime
! city of tin 1 Sultan. — Home : Gazette. —
i Habit.—“ I trust everything, un
der God,” says Lord Brougham, “to
habit, upon which, in all ages, the law
giver.as well as the school-master has
mainly placed his reliance; hab’.i, which
makes everything easy and easts all
difficulties upon the deviation from,
the wonted course. Make sobriety a
habit, and intemperance will be hate-,
ful and hard.; make prudence a habit,
and reckless profligacy will be as con-,
t vary to the’nature of the child, grown
or adult, as the piost atrocious crimes,
