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miscellaneous.
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tn the Press of last Saturday—two
Greeks ago, I found the following ex*
tfafct Frttttt some of your exchanges,
%hich I think is not strictly in* accor
dance with facts: -
“Our Sentinels. —The" United
states is represented at Madrid by u
renchman, at Genoa by an Italian,
the Hague by a German, at Naples by
a Scotchman, and by an Irishman at
Lisbon. Ilebbe—-Russo-German —-rep-
resents tls somewhere abroad —we for
get where?’
The United States is represented at
the Court of Sardenia by John M.
Daniel as Charge d’A Hairs. He is a
native of Virginia, and formerly ‘ one
•of the Editors of the Richmond Ex
(wither; In the Dominions of the
Netherlands} the United States is rep
fesented by Augustus Belmdtit as
Charge d’Affairs; He is a native of
Germany and his adopted State New
York. In the Portuguese dominions
at Lisbon, the United States is repre
sented by Charles B. Haddock as
Charge d'A flairs, a native of New
Hampshire. In the Two Sicilies,
Naples its capital, the United States is
represented by Robert Dale Owen,
charge d’Affairs, and a native of Great
Britain, adopted ‘State Indiana. At
Madrid by P. Soule, a native of
France, adopted State Louisiana. In
the Austrian dominions, Vienna its
eapital, the United States is represen
ted by Henry Jackson, as resident
minister; a native of the State of
Georgia. At the Court of St, James
the U. States is represented by James
Buchanan, a native of Pennsylvania;
and at the Court of St. Cloud, by Mr.
Mason of Virginia.
The United States, also, is represen
ted at Stockholm, Sweden ; St, Peters
burgh, Russia ; Berlin, Prussia; Con
stantinople, Turkey ; and at Berne,
Switzerland, by native born Ameri
cans. Mr. DeLeon, Consul-General of
the United States in Egypt, is a native
of South Carolina. Our Consul-Gen
eral at Tunis, and our Commissioner
a*. China are both native born Amer
icans. Our Minister to Mexico, our
Envoy at Central America, including
the whole of our representation in the
South American States, are native
bom Americans.
"We have only three adopted citi
zens representing the United States
abroad at places of any importance.
All our other “Diplomats” are native
Americans. But the question mdy be
asked *ean’t we send all native born
Americans to represent the United
States abroad ? We answer ves. But
if it is Constitutional to send abroad
able adopted citizens to serve the gov
ernment and people, and being, also,
in accordance with the usage establish
ed by the Founders of the Republic,
why fbrbid it now ? Are present pol
iticians uisef , or more honetst, than the
Statesmen and Founders of the Repub
lic? Let every one who can read an
swer the question to himself.
It is true we have able native born
citizens to represent us at every foreign
court upon the globe. But those able
and honest ones, do not al ways apply
for such places. They prefer staying at
home. Among many other reasons, is
this, that the government don’t pay
sufficiently its employee abroad to
support themselves in decency.—
The Department of State is often
perplexed about the applicants for
the foreign service in consequence
of their ignorance of the language of
the people in whose dominions they
are going to reside as well as of the
French, which is the Court language
of the world. Ilcnec the reason why
we find an adopted citizen here and
there appointed to an important
office; and wc deem it exceed
ingly convenient as well ns a
privilege to our government, to have
it in its power to procure the ser
vices of its honest, able and adopted
citizens lor its service, whenever it
can’t procure those of its native born.
This prrcticc has been followed by
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Mon
free, Gen. Jackson, Polk, Gen. Taylor,
as well as by Gen. Pierce.
| »But it is reserved for the new polit
ical luminaries of our (lay, who con
sider themselves wiser than their Fath
ers ; who have taken counsel in secret
to overthrow the wise policy adopted
by past Administrations—-and to dim
the light of the present—and by se
cret oaths as well as by threats of pains
and penalties against all recusant fol
lowers in case .of disobedience to or
»knr» from their Superiors, are endeav
oring to'enlighten the people of these
United States. From the inmost re
eesaca of their Lodges, and by secret
orders in council, they hope to change
the genius of ottr Republican govern
ment, alter the Constitution of the U,
States, erect an alter of conscience, cf
religion and proscription, convenient
only for sainted politicians ; and finally
upon-the ruins of the Republic which
had cost some of the best blood of the
Re volution, create a Doge for a Prcsi
dent, erect a tribunal of Forty to reg
ulate the consciences of the citizen, and
a secret council of Ten, to compel all
to bow tlld knee before this Aristocratic
Baal.
But in haste,
A Subscriber.
Circumstantial Evidence*
There is no axiom more triitJ than
that “ murder will out.” Some vestige
is constantly left in the hurry and con
fusion attending an act of violence.
Nay, the very means taken for con
cealment often lead to detection. It is
justly remarked by Starlcic, that the
eonsideiation of the nature of circum
stantial evidence, and of the princi
ples on which it is founded, merits the
most proiound attention. Scientific as
sistance has been eminently useful in
saving the innocent and detecting the
guiltv. In some remarkable trials for
murder, many offenders have been de
tected by the observations of medical
men, who have traced the facts by
slight and unexpected circumstances.
Many cases mentioned in Taylor’s
Medical Jurisprudence, to which we
are indebted for most interesting in
formation, well illustrate this state
ment. He mentions that Sir Astley
Cooper was called to see one Mr.
Blight, of Debford, who had been mor
tally wounded by a pistol shot, in the
year 1807, he inferred, from an ex
amination, of a left-handed man. The
only left handed man near the premi
ses at the time, was a Mr. Patch, a
particular friend cf the deceased, who
was not in the least suspected. The
man was afterwards tried and convict
ed of the crime, and he made a full
confession of his guilt before execu
tion. Yet medical evidence is found
to be not always borne out by the
fact. A man was stabbed by another
in the face. A knife, with the blade
entire, was brought forward as evi
dence against the prisoner at trial, the
surgeon having declared that the wound
must have been produced by this knife;
the wounded person recovered, and a
year afterwards a fistula formed in the
face, and the broken point of the real
weapon was discharged from the sinus;
the wound could not therefore have
been produced by the knife brought
forward against the prisoner at the tri
al.
Georgians.
This is the attractive title of a book
just issued from the press by D. Apple
ton & Cos., New York. The title
page, however, limits the scope of the
work to Sketches of some of the first set
tlers of Upper Georgia , of the Chero
kees, and the Author , who is no less a
personage than George R. Gilmer,
Ex-Governor of Georgia. The intro
duction gives the following account of
the book. “The Author is an old
man, who has passed his sixty-fourth
year. Continued ill health rendered
him unable for along while to under
go labor, or bear much jostling from
others. He has endeavored to pass
quietly on, by getting into an untrod
den track. Scribbling, when tired of
reading, he found to be u pleasant re
lief from the tedium of unoccupied
time. He wrote until he disliked to
lose his labor. He publishes his
scribblings with the hope that others
may think that he did right ill not
throwing them away.' 5
In this opinion we heartily concur.
His “sketches” are unrivaled except by
the Georgia,Scenes. Indeed they are
rough stones from the same quary in
which Longstreet labored with so much
success and from which he retired to
the regret of all lovers of inimitable
humor. But we gladly accept Gil
more’s biographies for Longstreet’s
Scenes. They were written in the
simplest Anglo-Saxon, and betray as
good and unsophisticated a heart as
ever beat in a human bosom. He
scorns all disguises; stoops to no con
cealments ; what he thinks he says,
and in homespun English too; his
book is the gossip of a grand father
around a Christmas fire when sur
rounded by his grand children, and
warmed to loquacity by a Christmas
goblet. The reader often laughs at
the simplicity of Primitive Georgians,
and sometimes weeps at their unshrink
ing courage and unswerving fidelity to
truth, duty and their country, but
never tires of the hoDcst, good, truth
ful old man who tells their history.
Part Ist is devoted to the first set
tlers on Broad River, and contains
most interesting sketches of the pro
genitors of the Gilmers, the Grattans,
the Lewises, the Strothers, the Math
ewses, the Meriwethers, the Bibbs, the
Johnsons, the Crawfords, the Barnetts,
the llarvies, the Andrews, the Talia
ferros, the McGehees, and others with
whom they intermarried. Justice is
also done to Nancy Hart.
Part 2d is devoted to the early set
tlers in Wilkes county, but more par
ticularly to Elijah and John Clark,
Duncan G. Campbell, John M. Dooly,
Austin Dabney, Felix Gilbert, Nicho
las Long and their families.
Part 3d is devoted to himself and is
a very complete history of Georgia du
ring his terms of ofliee as Governor.
This part of the work is a valuable ad
dition to the literature of the State.—
We have not, however, had time to
investigate its claims to history.
Old Georgians will find much in the
book to interest and amuse them;
some will be gratified, and others cha
grined at its exposition of the sayings
and doings of their ancestors. It is
an original book and well worth pe
rusal. Only a small edition has been
published. The price is $3.
[Times <h Sentinel.
“ What are you writing such a big
hand for; Pat?” “ Why, you see, my
grandmother’s dafe, and I’m writing a
loud lether to her !”
“ Ma, that nice young than,. Mr.
Brown, is fond of kissing.” “ Mind
your seams Julia, who toi a yoi||?suck
nonsense ?” “ I had it from hn 6wn
lips, Ma.” *
English Press on the President’s
Message.
The London Times thus speaks of
the message with which President
Ptefbc greeted the two houses of Con
gress on their recent assemblage:—
“Upon the whole, this message,
which is considered tame at Washing
ton, has, at least, the merit of being
inoflcnsive abroad. It is not very cor
rect in its language, or very states
manlike in its views. It leaves the
more difficult questions of the policy
of the United States unsolved ; but it
furnishes fresh evidence of the pros
perity of the country, and nothing is
more creditable to the institutions of
the United States than the fact, that
the affairs of the commonwealth do
not suffer materially even in the hands
of those who have small claims to po
litical foresight or ability.”
The London Chronicle is dissatisfied
at the neutrality of President in rela
tion to the existing war between Rus
sia and the allies. Its editor re
marks
“We do not look for formal expres
sions of sympathy in documents such
as that on which we are at present
commenting; but we must confess
that our estimate of • the American
character will be materially lowered if
there be not, before long, some satis
factory repudiation of the Russianising
tone adopted by a portion of the press,
and therefore, it may be supposed, by
a portion of the public. Fraterniza
tion between democracy and absolu
tism is unnatural and discreditable; and
in this instance we may venture to
conjecture that it will be but short
lived.”
To which the New York Sun re
plies :
“This is rich from a government
fraternizing with Louis Napoleon and
Francis Joseph of Austria.”
New Year’s Courtises in Wash
ington.—The National Intelligencer
says: Never since the world began did a
brighter or finer day shed its light
upon the human family than that
which marked the opening of the year
for the good people of Washington and
“the strangers within their gates.”—
Every body seemed to enjoy it, for
even to the invalid it brought pure air
and hopes of renovated health ; and
old and young of both sexes went the
rounds on visits of cordial greetings
and warm congratulation and there
were many re-unions of friends long
separated,* if not estranged.
At twelve o’clock the President’s
Mansion was thrown open to visitors
generally, (the Diplomatic Corps hav
ing previously paid their respects to
the Chief Magistrate and his family,),
and for two hours the multitude of
persons who were introduced and ex
changed salutations was immense.—
The President welcomed them all with
his accustomed urbanity, and men of
all shades of opinion left the mansion
favorably impressed with his courte
ous bearing.
The several Heads of departments
received the visits of many thousands,
and entertained them most kindly.—
Thr President of the Senate, the Hon.
Jesse D. Bright, and Mr. Speaker
Boyd, of the Hmise of Representa
tives, threw open their hospitable sa
loons ; as did also the Mayor of the
city aud other prominent citizens.—
Altogether the opening of IBtio Is an
era to be remembered as a fair speci
men of the best of everything which
a favored and a prosperous people
could desire.
The way to get husbands. —
We commend the following to all la
dies who are in haste to get married.
It is the best recipe for single blessed
ness that we have seen :
A gentleman of the bar in a neigh
boring county, in easy circumstances
and pretty good practice, had render
ed himself somewhat remarkable by
his attempts in the way of matrimo
nial speculation. A maiden rather ad
vanced in years, resided some miles
distant in the neighborhood, hearing of
this lawyer’s speculating propensity,
that his character was unexceptiona
ble, and his situation in life tolerably
good, resolved upon making him her
husband. She hit upon the following
expedient: She pretended suddenly
to be taken very ill, and sent for the
man of law to prepare her will. He
attended for that purpose. By her
will she devised .£IO,OOO in bank stock
to bo divided among her three cousins,
some thousands in bonds and notes
to a niece, and a vast landed estate to
a favorite nephew. The will being
finished she gave her lawyer a very
liberal fee, and enjoined secrecy upon
him for some pretended purpose, thus
Erecluding him from an inquiry into
er real circumstances. Need I men
tion the result? In a fortnight the
lady thought proper to be again re
stored to health. The lawyer called to
congratulate her on her restoration—
begged permission to visit her, which
was politely given. After a short
courtship, the desired offer was made.
The bargain was concluded and rat i
fied by the priest. The lawyer’s
whole estate by his wife’ consists of
an annuity of sixty-five dollars.
[English Paper.
Against Secret Societies. —Dan-
iel Webster not many years ago, ex
pressed himself thus:
All secret associations, the members
of which take upon themselves extra
ordinary obligations, and are bound
together by secret oaths, are naturally
sources of jealousy aud just alarm to
others, are especially unfavorable to
harmony and mutual confidence among
men living together under popular in
stitutions, and are dangerous to the
general cause of civil liberty and good
government,
Mr. Everett, when Governor of
Massachusetts, said in his inaugural
address, in 1836: Up
All secret associations, particularly
such as resort to the aid of secret oaths,
are peculiarly at war with the genius
of Republican Government,
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, Dec. 18th, L 854.
The proceedings of Congress during
the past Week have not been entirely
devoid of novelty and cxeitement. —
The speech of Alex. 11. Stephens of
Georgia} excited no little attention,
and among the spectators sitting
around him on the floor of the House,
there were many Senators; among
whom I noticed particularly Gen’l. Cass,
Mason of Virginia, Butler of S. C.,
re-elected a few da\'s since, Stewart of
Michigan,? Chase of Ohio, and Sum
ner of Massachusetts. Ft was a pow
erful effort and fully sustains the dis
tinguished reputation he has acquired
in Congress. Mr. Mace of Indiana,
to whose remarks on the previous
day it was intended as a reply, literal
ly quailed beneath the ponderous
blows as they fell in crushing power
upon his head. The personnel of Mr.
Stephens has been so frequently pain
ted for the “mind’s eye” of your read
ers, by pencils of artistic finish and
harmonious coloring that I dare not
enter upon the task. It is enough to
say his voice is of a scope and power,
the frail casket in Which his mighty
mind is held, would never indicate.
[Correspondent Baton Rouge (La.) Adv.
Conclusive Evidence. —A Pro
testant journal in America lately spoke
of the old lady who triumphantly
pointed out the “Epistle to the Ro
mans,” and asked where one could be
found to the Protestants !
The Cdtholic Mirtot happily retorts
by telling us of a negro Baptist at the
South, who said to his Methodist mas
ter.
“You’ve read the Bible, J s’pose.
“Yes.”
“Well you’ve read in it of one John
the Baptist hasn’t you ? ”
“Yes.”
“Well, you never saw nothing about
John the Methodist, did you ?
“No.”
“Well, den you see, dere’s Baptists
in the Bible but there aint' fc no Metho
dists. So the Bible’s on my side.”
———-m
A saucy boy in the street is an un
erring index of ill breeding at home.
Parents will please make a note, for
this garment will fit not a “few.”
Dow a Siege is Carried On.
The first object is to establish a body
of men in a protected position within
a certain distance of the place to be at
tacked, or, in technical language, to
“open the trenches.” The trench as
its name implies, is an excavation,
forming a kind of sunken road in a
direction parallel with that of the en
emy’s fortifications,- and of such di
mensions that troops and guns can
move along it at pleasure. The earth
taken from this roadis thrown up on
the side towards the town, so that a
bank or parapet is raised for the fur
ther protection of the troops in the
trench. At the most favorable points
of this covered road, batteries are con
structed, which open upon the works
of the place, and when sufficient ad
vantage has been obtained through
their fire, a second trench, parallel to
the first, and connected with it by a
diagonal cut, is opened at a shorter dis
tance from the town, and armed with
fresh batteries, which go to work as
before.
This process is again and again re
peated, and the “approaches,” as they
are termed, are pushed forward by
successive “parallels,” until they are
carried up to the very walls of the
place, which by that time have been
“ breached,” or battered down at this
point by the besieger’s guns. Then
comes the period of the “assauit.”
The troops advance in strong columns,
from their covered road, rush through
the breach, and take the town. The
best chances for the defence consist in
difficulties of the ground, which may
either be so rocky as to prevent the
execution of the approaches, or, as is
often the case in Flanders, so exposed
to inundations at the command of the
garrison that the trenches may at any
time be put under water, and the be
seigers swamped at their posts. If the
garrison too, is very strong it may
make successful sorties, fill up the
trenches opened by the enemy, spike
their guns, and greatly delay the ap
proach of the batteries to the walls of
the town. In the absence, however,
of any such impediments to the work,
it is perfectly understood at the present
day that every place, however strongly
fortified, must ultimately fall.
A “Little Cloud.”
Lloyd’s Weekly paper—one of the
oldest of the English publications, and
associated essentially with the com
mercial interests of Great Britain—
gives expression to sentiments re
specting this country which, we imag
ine, are those of a large portion of the
enlightened classes for which it speaks.
We make the following selection from
une of its articles, as germane to the
times. It says:
“The little cloud is growing. Day
by day we see the two great Anglo
Saxon States stand further apart; and
causes of complaint are being multi
plied —we grieve to say it—-on this
side of the Atlantic with the great re
public. Is this the fruit of our Aus
trian and French alliance ? American
hatred and distrust of Austria are as
fierce as a passion ; and whenever we
conclude a defective alliance which
shall give us anew friend at Vienna, we
must reckon on finding anew enemy
at Washington. This is in the course
of things. Our Austrian leanings all
along has turned from us the hearts
of our cousins. But now we are to
suffer for the quarrels of the French
Emperor. Three or four weeks ago,
official papers began to abuse the Amer*’
icans. Within the last few days Mr.
Soule, an American ambassador in
Paris, is about to demand his passports
and withdraw ; and rumor designates
the winter duty of the Baltic fleet
as a cruise across the Atlantic! Where
are we drifting? Jonathan, like John,
is high and mettlesome. If the fleet
go out, blood will be shed, and in a
cause not ours —the blood of men who
speak our language and obey out laws,
the blood of brothers. Are the sto
ries false? Or are our ministers gone
mad? Have they not enough upon
their hands? We tell them, England
will tell them, that the first wish of
all hearts is peace, friendliness, concord
in our own family—that no alliance,
however splendid can be welcome to
us that involves the aiieiition of the
United States.”
Tobacco and its Effects.
“We are told that in 1840, 1,500,-
000 persons, one-tenth of the entire
population of the United States, were
engaged in raising and manufacturing
Tobacco, ttnd at the present time, not
less than 2,000,000 are thus employed.
The tobacco crop of the United States
in 1850 was very nearly 200,000,000
pounds. And if we take into account
the waste of laud and labor in raising
it; the expenses attending its manu
facture and traffic, with the loss of time
occupied in smoking and chewing it,
arid the consequent idleness and indo
lence it begets, $40,000,000 would be
a low estimate of the present annual
loss to the nation; a sum sufficient to
provide every district of our country
with a free school, eVefy hamlet With
a free church, and every pauper With
a free home;
“ The consumption of segars alone
in the city of New York, in 1851, was
computed at SIO,OOO a day ; While the
whole c|ty paid but $8,500 a day for
bread; this would be $3,650,000 a year
for segars alone. The grand Erie Ca
nal, three hundred and sixty-four miles
long, the longest in the world, with its
eighteen aquaducts and eighty-four
locks, was made in six years, and cost
but little over $7,000,000. The segar
bill of New York city would have
paid the whole in two years. If a
line of Atlantic steamers, the pride of
the ocean, were all sunk, how soon
would the segar bill of that one city
rebuild the whole! It is a very mod
erate segar smoker who spends only
six cents a day ; and yet it amounts
to s2l 90 a year; a sum which would
be called an enormous tax, if laid on
a young man for the purposes of gov
ernment, or the support of religious
institutions. The same trifling sum,
if put to annual interest, would, in
thirty years, amount to $8,500 30 ; and
who does not wish that segars were
banished from the world, when he
thinks in how many hundred ways
this sum might have done good, if laid
out ill educating and elevating his chil
dren.
“ If the tobacco consumption of the
United States goes on in future increas
ing as it has for twenty years past,
have we not reason to fear that the
nation of native, seemingly inventive,
enterprising, efficient Yankees, flying
all over the world, will be actually
smoked down to a nation as phlegmat
ic and stationary as the smoking Dutch
men of Holland?
“In the United States, intelligent
physicians have estimated that 20,000
die every year from the use of tobacco,
and in 'Germany, where the streets,
as the houses, are literally be-fogged
with tobacco smoke, the physicians
have calculated that of all the deaths
that occur between the ages of eight
een and thirty-five, one-half originate
in the waste of the constitution by
smoking! Tobacco exhausts and de
ranges the nervous powers, and pro
duces a long train of nervous diseases
to which the stomach is liable: and
especially those forms that go under
the name of dyspepsia, with their kin
dred train of evils. It also exerts a
disastrous influence upon the mind,
and frequently produces an enfeebling
of the memory, a confusion of ideas, ir
ritability of temper, want of energy,
and unsteadiness of purpose, melan
choly, and sometimes insanity. These
are the ultimate effects of the use of
tobacco, and though one may not per
ceive them in his own case, we are as
sured that the tendency of the drug
is always towards disease.
“ All writers agree that the only
remedy for the ruinous effects of to
bacco is *to touch not, taste not, han
dle not.’ Dr. Thaw says, charlatans
may go about, as indeed they have
done, pretending to have some secret
remedy by which ihe tobacco appe
tite may be permanently destroyed.
But all sueh pretence is from the fa
ther of lies. If, through reason, con
science, and religion, a man cannot
break off this habit, his casd is forever
a hopeloss one. A season of sickness
is an excellent one in which to com
mence to reform : because, under these
circumstances, nature, true to herself
takes away all longing for the accurs
ed drug. True, no one should wait
for such an opportunity; but when it
does occur let it be improved. The
slaves of tobacco, who have undergone
a course of hydrophatic treatment, tell
us that the healthful stimulation af
forded by t.he water process enables
them far more easily to rid themselves
of this pernicious habit.”
Gen. Davis’ Camels.— The Secreta
ry of War renews the recommenda
tion which he made in his report of
last year for an appropriation by Con
gress to test the -value of camels and
dromedaries in transporting military
supplies on our Southwestern and
Western frontier. It is known that in
those regions .which our troops are
obliged to defend from the incursions
of the Indiaus, there n*e table-lands
and extensive deserts, where large
tracts must be traversed which afford
no water and but little scanty her
bage. When springs are at'length
reached, they are often so blackish
that horses and mules refuse the wa
ter.
The camel, from the great weight he
can carry, the longer time he can go
without drinking, his power of subsis
ting on coarser food than the horse,
and his willingness to drink blackish
water, is admirably adapted for that
region of country, unless the climate
should prove an obstacle to his intro
duction. On the Eastern Continent he
lives and works in almost every lati
tude and climate, and is extensive
ly used for the purposes for Which it is
now proposed to employ; him, by the
British in the East Indies anu the
French in Algiers. Experience has
proved that horses and mules are ina
dequate for the transportration of mili
tary supplies in a country of the charac
ter of our Western frontier ; and the
experiment recommended by the Sec
retary of War seems so reasonable and
so likely to succeed, that we hope Con
gress will not fail to make the neces
sary appropriation. —Buffalo Advertiser.
FROM THE SOUTHERN BANNER.
Salutatory to the Public.
The inimitable Theodore Hook rep
resents, in one of his works, a lawyer
who, changing from the Bar to the
pulpit, was greatly embarrassed in his
new vocation. But he took courage
in his sermon from the fact—“ there
was nobody on the other side.” With
us the case is different. We enter a
new arena of letters, where are many
gladiators who wield the sharp blade
of Toledo of science, or the keen Da
mascus of politics. Yet, though un
tried as Glaucus, we shall endeavor to
stand on the broad basis of American
Democracy, as exemplified by Jeffer
son and Jackson.
The first inaugural message, in 1801,
of the author of the Declaration of
Independence, stands as a guide and
landmark m our State and federal re
lations, wherein tve can safely Walk:
“Moribus antiquis stat Roma '
Our government is double —Con-
gress for national —State for domestic
affairs. The latitudinarian construc
tion of that clause of the Constitution
which gives the power to provide for
“ the general welfare ,” will be met
wliereever Congress interferes in the
reserved rights and prerogatives ot the
States.
We believe —in opposition to the
learned Hamiltonian teachings —in the
great fundamental principle of the ca
pability of the people for self-govern
ment. We have faith in that which
elevates, and in the elevation of the
masses, “in the political equality and
supremacy of the people.” We shall
give our earnest support to the present
National Administration , which has
maintained the honor of the country
abroad, and faithfully carried out the
laws and Constitution at home ; an ad
ministration which has the Conserva
tism, which holds fast to that which is
good, and yet is boldly marked by the
Progression which keeps pace with the
grand, onward movements of the age.
Pretending to no infallibility of opin
ion, or the mode of expressing it, we
shall try as far as in us lietli, to pre
serve the strictest decorum to friend
and opponent, and never knowingly
forget the -elegant courtesies of life;
for in the changing microcosm of our
present being, we have seen the friend
of yesterday pass coldly by to-day, and
lie who once opposed, now stand by
us as a brother.
In the republic of science, literature
and belles letters, in the cultivation of
the beautiful, we shall adopt the motto
of the Merchant’s Fire Company of
Mobile : “ Optimum facere Volumus ,”
[we are willing to do our best,] to keep
our readers up with the progressive
nineteenth century; blit wherein we
fall short, let charity remember that
the young lark in its first attempt to
fly, when near the ground, makes not
those bold, brilliant, baeutiful notes
which the old experienced one does
as at mid-day she circles high in the
heavens.
We own to a solidarity of Democrat
ic feeling; not bounded by State lines,
not fettered by the limits even of this
vast republic, but wherever the mind
of man asserts its freedom and inde
pendence, wherever liberty dwells,
there it exists and fraternizes. We
admire the sublime sentiment of Maz
zini, who thus spoke at Milan in July,
1848, on the death of the brothers
Bandiera, who died for their free prin
ciples :
“God and the People—God at the
summit of the social edifice; the peo
ple, the universality of our brethren,
at the base. God, the Father and Ed
ucator ; the people, the progressive in
terpreter of his law.”
A. A. Franklin Hill.
The Russian Troops and their
Habits*
It is said that the Russian troops had
been liberally supplied with liquor
previous to the attack of the 6th.
Their continued and loud shouting,
and the impetuosity of their attack,
render it probable that they were un
der the influence of some artificial
stimulus of the sort. In the canteens,
also, of many of the killed on the
field, was found a mixture of raki and
water. The men who have fallen into
our hands, though, are generally of
short statures, with chests, and
well developed muscular legs. Their
clothing is well mad© and warm ; and
though course in texture, an amply
sufficient protection against the weath
er. . s -
The voluminous folds of their great
coats, the sleeves of which are doubled
back nearly as far as the elbows,
while the skirts descend to the ankle
—throw the “skimping” ordnance
great coats issued to our troops ecm
pletely iu the shade, as regards com
fort and warmth. To prevent the
length of the coat inconveniencing the
wearer when walking, the skirt all
around is made by a very simple con
trivance to loop up above the knees.
So, also, the coat can be worn loose
like a cloak, or drawn in at the waist
Ibe men carry with them mittens of
thick black cloth, the forefingers being
together in one, the thumb in another
division of the glove.— English Paper.
\ Phenes says it seems paradoxical,
but it is nevertheless true, that the la
test intelligence always consists of the
earnest news.
A bare pasture enriches not the soil,
nor animal nor increases the
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[FROM THE TIMES AND SENTUfH ]
A Paper without any Subscribe
; The WooDsAVYEK.-*-=T'hi3 : ' I
title ot anew paper just start* * 1
Crawford, Ala., devoted to “fun l 1
news in general, and advertising I
particular.” The Woodsaibyer* * I
don t know his name, opens with ? j
following very witty remarks: ' |
“Our terms are one dollar
inevitably in advance. NoTne n S
expect to be favored with a week!
view Os our cheerful chiz, with o £
first making a deposite of the needy
with the cashier. We speak thus in- I
dependently because we feel (as o ur
name implies) eminently independent
We didn’t expect to get many subscri
bers, when we first thought of this un
dertaking, for we knew the people of
this county well—that thev were
hard-hearted and stiff-necked genera
tion, much given to the worship
strange gods; and that they would
rather send ten dollars of their money
anv time, to swell the hoards of V an--
kee humbuggers, than give one dim*
to a poor printer at their door, who'
strives and struggles and starves, ’ sole
ly for their benefit. No, no; en
to tamed no such utopian expectations
We were in possession of the mate*-
rials for publishing a paper, and we
determined to establish a publication l
on such a basis that it would b ; able'
to get along without any subscribers.
This we believe is the only footing on
which a newspaper can stand firmly in
this county; it must be as independent
of subscribers as a duck is of an unn
brella.”
AY ell said T Voodsawyer. At the*
next meeting of the craft we will move'
a vote of thanks aad a gold medal-for
for that paragraph. You have reach
ed t.ie hidden secret of newspaper
success at the South. Every paper".
South of Mason & Dixon’s line, except:
the religious press, is either able like
the Woodsawyer, “to get along uithout'
any subscribers ,” or is compelled, like
the Russel Register , after a brief but
animated existence. Credit subscri--
bers are valuable as an inducement to
advertisers to patronize the press, but
for nothing else ; and are tolerated be
cause publishers can afford to give
away , as you propose to do, a good
portion of their sheets and still pay
expenses. We have some experience
in this way. In 1852 we sent the
Soil of the South to all our subscri
bers for 1851. They were all highly
respectable farmers, all in easy circum
stances, and yet as many as 20 at one
Post office failed to pay the subscri p--
tion price of sl. The amounts were
too small to collect and we lost in one
3 r ear not less than one thousand dollais.
Next year we adopted the cash system
and have adhered to it strictly. The
Soil of the South has consequently
reached its sth volume and bids fair
to survive to a green old age.
We thank you hear til}’, Mr. Wood
sawyer, for the wholesome truths you
have enunciated and the good exam
ple you have set.
Washington Gossip.
The Washington correspondent of
the N. Y. Journal of Commerce writes:
The few Senators here are consul
ting upon two or three important mat
ters which are to come up next week.
Mr. Sumner has proposed a resolution
on the subject of a mediation in tho
present strife abroad. The Senators
generally are iu favor of a resolution,
advising the President to offer the me
diation of the United States to each of
the belligerent powers.
It is now undetermined whether
they shall be adopted in open or in se
cret session. It is apprehended that,
in open session, a discussion might
dwell upon the merits of the war, and
the promulgation of conflicting views
of Senators on this subject would not
be promotive of amicable adjustment
of the controversy.
“S,” the N. Y. Times correspondent
says:
The discussions of Col. Kinney's
Central American Colonization project,
in confidential circles, has brought out
the knowledge of the fact that the
Government of Nicaragua has long
been and still is desirous of ceding
the entire territory of that republic to
the United States in order to secure
good government and the various ad
vantages, political and commercial,
flowing therefrom.
Unless lam misinformed, the prof
fer of cession has been made to the
President as directly as the circum
stances of the case would permit.—
There is nothing surprising in this,
although there is much that is novel-
The internal disorders which have dis
tracted Nicaragua lately"—the en
croachments of Great Britain, under
cover of its privileges at the Balize,
and under its assumed Mosquito Pro
tectorate—its border difficulties with'
Costa Rica, and the defiance of its au
thority by tho inhabitants of Grey
town—have all, doubtless contributed
to create the feelings of disquiet andi.
fear of falling into anarchy or decay,,
which has prompted the proposed*
cession of territory and sovereignty.
Life of Greely. —lt is stated in
the Life of Horace Greely", that Legget
once discharged him from a compositor’s
situation on thc'Evening Post for
his slovenly appearance. Greely’s
first employment in New York was ob
tained from W. T. Porter of the Spir
it, iviio was then foreman of West’s
printing office. In 1833 Greely star
ted the Morning Post, the first pen
ny paper in the world; it lived six
teen days and begat the New York
Sun.
Yenetain remedy for hydrophbia is
vinegar. It is said that a pint, taken ev
ery morning, noon, and night, will cure
it entirely.
The Washington Star undersands
that necessity for his labors has vir
tually ceased, the Superintendent of
the Census, Mr. Deßow, has resigned
that office. 9