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VOLUME 11.
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tirJob Work of all kinds dene
with neatness and despatch.
professional i business € arils.
Agency of the Bank of Savannah.
Vm ppLY AT MY OFFICE.
Jan. Ist. 1*55. J. A. TURNER.
JOHN A. WRIGHT,
RESIDENT DENTIST,
EATONTON, GA.
May 15, 1154. ,
8. W. BRYAN,
BOTANIC PHYSICIAN,
EATONTON, GA.
Office over Carter & Harvey’s store.
I take this method of informing iny tinßids and
the public generally, that 1 will pay particular
a:t*-ntioii to the treatment of all chronic diseases,
such as Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Liver complaint
and Dror.sv ; also diseases peculiar to females, the
which has universally attended the Botanic
practice, in all chronic com in ain ts is it * beat ree
con.inundation. S. W. BEY AN, M. D.
Reference TKY HIM
Eatonton, March 3rd, 1855,
DR. LAWRENCE.
T HAVE moved my office to tho buildini occth
J pied as a drug store by Messrs. GRAY BILL &
HARWELL, where 1 shall always Ire prepare*' to at
tend professional «*»*£ J j,a WHENCE, M. D.
Jan. 18th, 1855. ~- rt
W. A. DAVIS,
tJT ill bills made with him are considered (Imp and
when, called for with interest J rom date of
bill. , ;>*ya
April 18, 1854- _
S. S. DI'SEN BERRY,
r.f s nio.YA**J*E TeiiirOi:
-||TE warrant to’ please all who J*' 0 l aUt * 1
\ty style ot dress! Bhop up stairs, over C. D.
I’curson’s store.
April 18, 1854. ■
C. D. PEARSON, & CO.,
WtiS SWs
v!,u v nrnl Domestic, Gr-x-eric**, Crockery, Hurd
“! .* £" Their Good* ure nil Dew, havmg
T r ’ recently selected with tfreut cure it; Oil
tnV A" All eudeu- votir to fit all in gunneutannd
In price*. ——
ADAMS & BROTHERS,
jE ,ITOJTTOJr, GJi.,
■W VV-ITE the attention of the eitizcrw of Putnam
I and life udjoiuin* conn**, to their large *tock ot
DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES,
tjonttdent that they can p’eaee them m style, quali y
interest to give us a cull. •
April 18,1854. , r »-
"nTYwlYoods
AT
•MP&us *r nnoTUMins
-I»rE would be pleased to exhibit, to.the Ddie*
VY and gentlemen of Putnam and the adjoin
lug counties, our large stock of
fall and WINTER DRESS GOOD,
complete in variety BROTHERS ’
Jibtoixton, Sept. 50,
% Mlcckt| Jaiu‘iuii:--§tWci) to Jltcnitnn, politics, sttii femoral lilkdliiiin.
A ilusintss Cavils.
DA VIS & WALKER
EATONTON, GA.
DEALERS in Groceries, Tobacco, €it,..rs, Snutt
Shoes, Huts, Drugs. Patent Medicines, Hard
Hollow and l''wd ware, Cutlery, RowJer and Shot,
Candles, Soaps, Crockery, Fine Liquors and Wines,
and various otlief articles. Call ana examine before
purchasing elsewhere. Bargainu can be had.
April lx, 1884.
sSillBID*
I TAKE this method of informing mv friends
that nnv business of a professional nature left
in mv hands will meet with prompt attention.
Jau. 13th, 1855. 2-ts J. A. TURNER
st©tra<m,
DR. J. G. GIBSON
/ \FFERS his professional services to the people
V./ of Putnam County. Office next door to Ad
ams & Brothers. Residence at the Parsonage, at
one or the other of which places he will always
be found unless professionally engaged.
Jan. 20th, 1855. 3 —tt
"house painting,
In its Furious Bret tithes,
EXECUTED PROMPTLY AND WITH 7.E3PATCU.
Pit HAVING a number of hands in connection
iBiUL with me, 1 am prepared to do jobs not only
iu Putnam but in the adjoining ee mtios. Any com
munication from abroad w ill reach me through the
Post Office here. lam also prepared to execute pa
pering with neatness and ongoodterms.
April, 18, 1854. JEFFERSON WRIGHT.
MARSHALL, MCKAVITT & CO.,
.MANUFACTURERS OF
mrm _ CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAYS,
Two-Horse Wagons, &c.
EATONTON, GA.
"lATyE keep on hand articles of the above descrip-
V \ tion, fitted up in good style, of different quali
ties, of our own manufacture, which we are wil
ling to sell on reasonable terms, or any of them
will be made to order, and upon short notice.
Repairing will also be done in tlie best and
most approved style, on reasonable terms, and up
on shortnotiee.
MARSHALL, McKAVITT & GO.
Eatonton, May 23, 1854.
MILLINERY
AAin siajiasa &r&sasKß»
Bonnets, Caps, .ft ill inert/ and
Fancy Goods, Hr ess Trimmings,
II 'ir ought Collars, Cnder-
Sleeves, Face Weils, Sfc., Sfc.,
BY MRS. A. W. OSBORNE.
Rooms at SIDNEY PRUDDEN’S.
Jan 20, 1855. 3-ts
DR. R. B. NISBET
OFFERS bis services to the people of Putnam, in
the practice of Medicine and Surgery. Can
always be found at his office—at the old stand of
Branham, Lawrence & Adams —or at his house (the
late residence of Dr. R. Adams,) unless profession
ally engaged.
Jan. 20th, 1855. 3-ts
To My Friends in Eatonton and
Vicinity.
HAVING sold out my entire interest in the prac
tice of Medicine "to Dr. R. B. Nisbct, 1 can
ntost cordially recommend him to the public ns a
safe, prudent,' and skillful physician. To those who
may be influenced by me, 1 will state that my ser
vices can be had in conjuction with his, at any time,
free of extra charge. ROBERT ADAMS.
Jau. 20, 1854. 3-ts
DR. J. R. GODKIN,
HAVING located himself, permanently, at Mrs.
Turner’s, Putnam County, again offers his
services to the citizens iu tha’ vicinity.
Putnam Cos., Jan. Ist, 1855. I—tr
DR. BRANHAM.
A T the earnest request of many of my old
jr\_ Friends and patrons I have determined to re
main in Eatonton and continue the Practice of Meu
icine. I offer ffiy services to the citizens of Eaton
tou and Putnam county, and will attend faithfully
to mv Profession. I will give special attention to
obstetrical cases, and the diseases of women and
children. Having had many years experience in
the practice, 1 hope to get iny share of patron
age. My office is in the House occupied by Win.
A. Reid* Esq., as a law office. Calls left there, or
at mv residence will be attended to.
P ' JOEL BRANHAM
Jan. 13th, 1855. 2—ts
NEW SPRING GOODS.
HURD & HUNGERFOItD,
MONTICELLO, GA.,
RESPECTFULLY inform their patrons and the
public that they are now receiving from New
York, their first shipment of New Goods, (to which
large additions will be made weekly.) and arc
prepared to exhibit an unrivalled stock m every
department of rich and Fashionable Goods, adapted
to the wants of the whole community. All ot
which are oifere.l at hw prices. _
March sth, 1855. 10 ~ St
EATONTON HOTEL.
HAVING taken charge of the übovc hotel with a
determination to make it me of the best Iron-
P es m th.- country, 1 announce to iny friends and
the public generally that they may always lint
with me such accommodations as are desired by the
boarding and traveling community. Allthatcon
venience or comfort can suggest at the table or by
wuv ct'i i>di£Wi£ rthall bo luruirtliod von at moderate;
terms, and 1 warrant that no man shall go away
dissatisfied. Good lodging, attentive servants and
a good table shall always greet you with a cordial
J&'SP'TAc »»■ own l -*-
" LUMBER, LUMBER!
WE arc prepared to furnish Lumber at the re
milar market price, to wit: One dollar per
hundred iect. For extra lumber w e will charge one
cents. In no instance will we uu
rt,.ke bills if they-are to be refused because not
sawed by a spceifie«l time VVc will saw as fast as
we can, and suw the bills in the order m which
Uifey come i n—first come first served. W e trequent
lv tail in getting cars to take lumber off, and somc
-1 ltl w we have loaded the ears, they stand on
e mri om four or five days. We will do our very
Zest to execute all orders sent to us promptly and
faithfully, and we respectfully and confidentially
solicit of the very liberal patronage
we are now enjoying. Persons living in Putnam
will please pay postage on letters to us and put them
hr the hands of J. A. Turner, Esq., who will seud
Teruei.l, Tuhneb & Cos,, Whiting,
Eatonton Factory.
Ail indebted to the Eatonton Man
\ iifncturing Company, previous to the year
1855 by »ote or account, are■ iiof-flod. that miles*
rm.v’iii'ike payment he few* last return day to March
«■ jyay'un.u.ay iPiivcuai ©la
EATONTON, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1855.
lotto.
Try Again.
llow oft lias disappointment marred
Some cherished plan of mine,
And bidden winter clouds appear
Where summer’s sun should shine;
Yet as they darker grew,
I’ve seen some wondrous pen
Upon the very blackest write
The sentence, “ Try again. ”
How often, in the stilly hour
Os night, the heavy sigh
In sympathy has strove to meet
The tear-drop in my eye:
And then, like angels whispering
Their messages to men,
I’ve heard the quiet breathing of
The sentence, “ Try again. ”
llow often, as I’ve walked amidst
Life’s ever busy tide,
And jostled with its favored ones
On each and every side ;
When my misforunes seemed to bo
O’erwbelming, even then
Has some good spirit breathed to me
The sentence,. “Try again.”
My guardian angel it must be,
Or else the weight of care
Had sunk me in the very depths
Os sorrow and despair:
But, oh, my heart much lighter seems,
And hope shines brighter, when
I hear that spirit softly breathe
The sentence, “ Try again. ”
T 1 1 [*—-in»-T»niiir n■■ umim m» un mViflinrß ri
UlisttUawoas,
Whom Shall We Marry ?
[Such is the title of a sparkling yet
sensibly written article in the Novem
ber number of Harpers’ Magazine,
from which we select the following
passages. It is attributed to the pen
of Dr. Robert Tombs of this city, one
of the best contributors to our period
ical literature. From the tenor of the
essay it is clearly the production of a
bachelor.]
OUR WOMEN TAKING THEIR WEIGi.T
IN GOLD.
The beauty of American women
we cons'der an established sact —a fact
of which none seem m re conscious
than themselves. The Grand Mogul
was in the habit, as we are to'd by
some of tlie old travelers, to take his
weight annually. His Oriental majes
ty would place himself on one side of
the balance, and pour in diamonds and
rubies in the scale of the other, and thus,
year after year, estimated his value.
O r calculating country-women follow
the Grand Mogul’s wise example. —
They are no sooner ready lor a mar
ket than they step into an imaginary
scale, and balance themselves with
gold. There is not a smile but is esti
mated at a fixed pri e by the ready
reckoner; and :.s for virgin blushes,
they, according to the’r rarity, are set
down at a sum only to be encompass
ed by the accumulative imagination of
a Wall-street financier. A pretty wo
man between fifteen and twenty is
held at so enormous a price, that none
b it the luckjr heir of a fortune, or the
millionaire, grown luxurious in his old
age, who has consumed the whole ol
youth and the bette. part of manhood
in amassing his millions, ca:i hazard a
bid. And it is the latter who, oftener
engaged in the matrimonial trade, gen
erally smacks his dry lips over the
possession of purchased beauty in its
youth and tenderness. The young
heir of fortune is more transitory in
his enjoyments, and looks only to
matrimony as a retreat for tired life in
the future.
A man of wealth, possessed say of
three or four hundred thousand dollars,
marries his daughter. He has early
inculcated her, by precept and exam
ple, with a reverence for the idol of
his worship; he decks her with the ex
pensive gewgaws of fashi n; he ac
customs her to the habits of profuse
expenditure; he, with the aid of Mad
ame Gigaway, or some other Parisian
fashioner of female youth ala mode ,
laboriously unfits her fora useful life,
by furnishing the chambers of her
mind with the tawdry furniture of
fashion, where substantial knowledge
and plain common sense are never
guests. The spoiled maiden, though
fair to outward show, i- married.—
There never was a prettier brid
more richly attired. Her veil from
Paris; her robe of the glossiest and
thickest white satin; her diamonds, a
present, probablv, from her betrothed ;
her Irosseau, with its treasures of silk,
fine linih and genuine lace; the wealth
of presents, mostly contributions of
friends and relations; the jewels and
plate; the golden-leaved an.l heavily
clasped Bible, “ her affectionate father,
with the blessings of God,” are deli
cately exposed to stimulate tlie emula
tion of riyal donors, and become the
talk of the town for a week. Papa re
signs his daughter Nvitifia .kiss, - hands
a check, perhaps for a thousand doi
j lars, perhaps for two or three, to his
i son-in-law, with the express under*
, 42*? «# T? L llgjtfJjr
str- I few » Y ' A
standing th ;t it is to be laid out in
rosewood and damask.
The respectable p rent now buttons
his pockets, congratulating himself
that one of his family is off his hands,
and his current expenses diminished
by a thousand dollars perannum, more
or less. The shrewd tradesman never
made a better bargain, in all his wide
experience in Pearl street. By a small
investment of two or three thousand
dollars he saves the annual interest of
some fifteen or twenty thous nd. A
splendid transaction, which and escredit
to the head of the knowing calculator,
and is the very best disposition he
could ha\e of his daughter for
the advantage of—himself. The p.ac
tice of marrying children without
dowries began in this country
daughters and large fortunes were
scare ■, and it has been continued until
now, when both are comparatively
abundant. When habits of life-were
simpler with us—when it was cheap
er to live and easier to support a wife
—there was no occasion for any aid
from the father-in-law. Now howev
er, the ability to sustain a family, in
consequence of the luxuries and ex
pensive requirements of living, is not
easily acquired, and seldom at an age
when men should marry. The with
holding of the-dowry is another ob
struction, in addition to the inordinate
desires of luxury, to th se early mar
riages which are essential to virtue, as
they are in accordance with the in*
sticts of na ure.
THE FAST YOUNG LADY.
,The fast young lady is one of the
developements of female liberty.—
'Young and handsome she is of course,
and brim-full of vitality. Daring and
dashing, she does a thousand extrava
gant things; but youth an 1 beauty
lend .such a grace to all she does, that
we are attracted more than is quite
right for our prim propriety to ac
knowledge. From the very first, she is
not veiled by maiden blushes, andufiieck
ed by no Coy shyness, but boldly faces
the world and rushes into, its embrace.
She becomes known everywhere; she
is at every ball of the season and eve
ry party of the night. She is as fa
miliar to the frequenters of Broadway
as the Astor House. Her reckless
doings are on every tongue : how she
was at six parties in one night; how
she kissed young Dalliance in the ball
room, outdrank him in champagne at
the supper table, and smoked one of
his cigars on her way home. She is
indefatigable in her coquettery ; while
revolving in the arms of one beau,
she will illuminate another by her
bright glances; her hand will return
the warm pressure of a devoted ad
mirer, while her little foot is busy in
it- intimate confidences with his rival.
In the face with fashion our fast young
lady is always ahead. If re 1 is the
prevailing color, she will flame in scar
let; if it is permitted to display the
shoulders, she would reveal to the
waist. Her daring spirit is always liv
ing beyond the verge of decorum, and
hovering in that dangerous neighbor
hood of vice.
FEATHERS AND FINE WOMEN.
„ The fondness of our fashionable folks
for fine feathers is far famed. A mar
chande des modes, who entices our
wives and daughters with her luxu
rious displays of the fashions, at No.
Broadway, and frightens fathers
and husbands with the enormity of
her bills, tells us that in her annual
visits to Paris her difficulty is not in
finding what may be tasteful and beau
tiful, but what may be sufficiently
costly to suit 'the sumptuousness of
American prodigality. Every sover
eign republican must be clothed in pur
ple and fine linen. lioyal magnificence
of and apery is barely sufficient for the
splendid loins'of our Dives. Ostenta
tion here shows its shoulders at the
mantle of foreign grandeur. Our in
formant tells us, moreover, that the
scope of Parisian modes is not sufficient
ly broad to suit the expensive views
of the cis-Atlantic fashionables. Her
imagination, she declares, is constantly
on the stretch, to make what is fash
ionable more fashionable still. If an
inch is assumed abroad an ell is insist
ed upon here. If low necks and short
skirts prevail in Paris, the former
must descend to the waist and the lat
ter rise to the knees in New York.
We will not disclose all the revelations
made, enlre nous , by Madame Caroline,
our ingenious friend and cunningadorn
er of the New York ladies, the above
mentioned marchande des modes , but
we can, we think, without an abuse
of confidence, state generally, upon the
word and honor of Madame, that the
American ladies are more made up
than any other women in the world.
We had taken occasion to remarkup
on the improved health, the increased
developement of our beauties.
With a smile at our simplicity and
a shrug of her French shoulders to
indicate her own superior knowledge,
Madame, with the coolness of an ex
perienced anatomist, set about dissect
ing a beauty for us, and did it so clear
ly andjsatisfactorily, that we must have
dull not to have and
foolish not to benefit to the end of our
liyehby the revelation. There is the
robe ■ m . »oir, with four additional
breadths, and wadded here, there, and
everywhere; there is the silk jupoft ,
the hair cloth, the flannel, the linen,
the cotton, the— but we dare not fol
low Madame in her bold inroads upon
the precincts of beauty. Let it suffice
that we exhausted the numerical Ca
pacity of our ten fingers in calculating
jupons only, without taking account
of innumerable other ingenious arti
fices for enlarging tlte sphere of beauty.
When Madame had technically de
scribed, with the minutest accuracy,
every < ontrivance of female art, and
reached the precincts of nature, I ask
ed, “ What then ?” u Ma foi, rien de
tout , que la peau et la squeleete ,” was
her answer. The practical experience
of Blubberly, a married acquaintance,
confirms the theory of. Madame.—
Blubberly was always carniverously
disposed, and as he is rich, he had his
choice of the first specimens of flesh
and blood in the market. So he chose
a wife for her substance; -but not hav
ing consulted Madame Caroline as we
have done, was sadly taken in in the
bargain, and found himself the posses
sor of a large bulk of Madam’s art,
and a very scant supply of nature.
“ I thought I had forty stone at a
small computation,” groaned Blubber
ly, “ but by all that’s true, there is no
more flesh upon her than upon the
pickled carcass of a Spring chicken.”
THE POT-AU-FEU.
As long as we can hire go >d cooks
for twelve dollars a month, we have
no desire to have our broth spoiled by
the interference of the ten pretty fin
gers of our wives. The turning of the
spit and the boiling of the pot are,
however, by no means contemptible
influences in the happiness of life, and
should not be lightly contemned by
women. Rousseau was, as we all
know, so full of sentiment that he fair
ly boiled over, and not only blubbered
outright himself,- but had all France
blubbering with him for a score of
years. Now,, while the author of He
loise was puling in his books and the
orizing about bis heart, he did not fail
practically to realize his possession of
a stomach ; and took to his home a
skillful caterer to his wants. She who
lived with Rosseau nearly a half a
century, had, according to the united
testimony of his cotemporaries, only
one good quality to recommend her,
and that was her skill in the kitchen.
Cooke, the actor, was so charmed with
a beefsteak at the old Totine coffee
house in this city, that lie swore he
would marry the kitchen wench who
cooked it, and he kept his vow. We
assure our fair dames that better les
sons of the heart can be learned from
Miss Beecher’s cookery book than, from
the Sorrows of Werter.
CAVALIERS MADE DRUDGES.
There is one manoeuvre on the part
of our ladies which we here, in the
name of manhood, protest against, and
that is the Ingenious one of shifting
their own burdens upon the backs of
their husbands. Nineteen out of twen
ty of the once proud cavaliers of our
queens of beauty are broken down
into mere domestic drudges. They
do four-fifths of the family duty—go.
to market, select the dinner, leave the
orders at the grocer’s, stop on their
way down town at the intelligence of
fice, leave word for the sweeps, go at
midnight after their wives to bring
them home when they are sated with
pleasure and dissapation abroad, keep
house in the dog-days in town, while
their fashionable spouses are coquet
ting at Newport or Saratoga, run after
the doctor at all hours, and spend the
better part of the winter nights in
nursing the baby. If this is to con
tinue, we might, better transfer one of
those painted, vvell-suffed and elegant
ly dressed wax-figures, which revolve
in Trufit the baruer’s window, to our
drawing-room, and dispense with an
American wife.
An Incident in Church.
The Rev. Mr. Moriarty delivered a
discourse on St. Patrick’s Day, in the
Cathedral in New York. A letter
from that city says:
In the midst of his discourse the
Rev. speaker abruptly stopped, making
along and apparently angry “point.
The house was still as death for about
a minute, when the words of the priest
were heard, and all eyes were directed
towards the object of them, a young
lady sitting in one of the pews. He
said:
“Take down that eye-glass, ma’m—
take down that eye-glass ma’m:—you
can see me well enough without it;
Pm sufficently big enough to be seen,
without an eye-glass; and don’t be
making signs at that other girl and
making her laugh.” .
Quite a sensation ensued; the un
lucky lady with the quizzing glass
seemed overwhelmed in the presence
of the staremg congregation, * .
Edwin Forest, the Tragedian,
Has lately had an offer of fifty thou
sand dollars to act fifty nights in Cal
ifornia. He has also just received an
offer of . six thousand dollars to act.
twenty nights in St. Douia
Can a Man Live With a Bullet in
his Heart ?
This question has been answered
in the affirmative, by a post mortem
examination of the. prize fighter, Bill
Poole, who died from wounds receiv
ed in the late assault upon him at
Stanwix Hall, in New York, a few
days ago. The following account is
from the New York Tribune:
A post mortem examination was
made on Wednesday, b.y Dr. Finnell,
in connection with Drs. Carnochan,
Putnam, Cheeseman, Hart, AVood and
others. They found two wounds on
the surface of the body—one in tlie
lower and outer portion of the thigh,
the other in the chest. The one in tlie
thigh had two openings about an inch
apart, and measuring a quarter of an
inch in diameter. It passed through
just beneath the skin without touching
the muscle of the leg. The ball in the
chest entered the sternum just at its
junc ion with the cartilage of the fifth
rib, passing through the bone and per
icardium into the substance of the
heart, where it was found. On raising
the breastbone and exposing the peri
cardium it was found very much dis
tended, measuring five inches in trans
verse diameter, and six in its vertical.
It contained about thirty ounces of
sero-sanguineous fluid.
The external surface of the heart
was covered with tibrinous exudation,
the recent product of inflammation.
The heart was washed and laid aside
with no suspicion that the ball was
lodged in it until after nearly two
hours’ search in the cavity of the
chest, and especially along the side of
the spine. At last the heart was very
carefully felt over, and the bullet was
found imbedded in its muscular tex
ture. On making an incision it was
exposed. Its lodgment was in the sep
tum, between the ventricles, about an
inch and a half from the apex of the
heart, and a quarter of an inch from
its surface.
I’he muscular substance had united
over the ball and healed so far that
the point of entrance was obliterated.
He lived for 12 days without any pal
pitation, or any fainting or syncope
such as is usually experienced in a
morbid condition of the heart. Its
action was perfectly regular. There
is no question but that, under favora
ble circumstances, he might have re
covered, and experienced little if any
inconvenience from the ball. Four or
five days after be was shot he was
quite strong. A story goes that a man
came to see him with whom he had
had some difficulty, and asked him
how he was getting along, whereupon
he jumped out of bed and said: “I
ain’t dead yet; lam well enough to flog
you yet.” He died from effusion in
the pericardium, stopping the action
of the heart. It is probable that on
Wednesday night the effusion began
to come on, and it rapidly increased.
At 9 o’clock on Thursday morning it
suddenly increased, and he sunk im
mediately. The lungs were pale and
oedematous. The liver, kidneys, stom
ach, and other organs presented an
unusually fine view of organs in a
sound condition. The whole body
was a most perfect specimen of fine
muscular developement; even to the
ends of his toes the muscles were re
markably developed.
An Archbishop Among Presbyte
rians.
A correspondent of the Newark Ad
vertiser writes from Rome on Feb. 23,
as follows:
“Among the eminent Americans
still here is Archbishop Hughes, of
New Yoik, who came to attend the
recent Immaculate Conception Convo
cation. I had the pleasure of meeting
him in fine spirits at a recent soiree at
the lodgings of a devout Presbyteri
an family from Georgia, in company
with his friend, Bishop Bedini, who,
by the way, soon goes to Lisbon as
Nuncio. Several new Cardinals are to
be announced shortly, as I am well ad
vised. There are some twenty or thir
ty American families here, living in
the most friendly social intercourse.
Most of them attend the services of the
American Chapel on the Sabbath.
The ministrations of tlie chaplain (the
Rev. E. D. G. Prime, of N. Y.,) have
also attracted a number of English
families, though there is a British
Church here.”
Gen. Cass Triumphant at Home.
We are gratified to learn from the
Detroit Eree Press that the true De
mocracy of Detroit have achieved. a
most splendid and magnificent victory
over the combined forces of the Know
Nothings, Fusionists and Bolters. Eve
ry inch of ground was con tested'by
these factions—every conceivable arch
flee was resorted to bv them to carry
their city and ward tickets. The se
cret agents of the order were every
where present and everywhere active;
but all to no purpose. . The united aud
indomitable Democracy met-the opm-.
man enemy and routed them. The
victory is complete. Know Nothmg
ism is buried in Detroit ; Fusionism
Fas-breathed its last gasp; the Bolters
are uowli»r©. j
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) $2-00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 13.
Murders in the Royal Family of
Russia.
We extract the following interesting
account of murders in the Eoyal fam
ily of Russia, from the Philadelphia
Ledger:
The first surmise, on the an nounco
ment of the death of the Czar, was
that he had fallen a victim to some con
spiracy. There would seem, however,
to be no grounds for the suspicion;
yet the almost universal suspicion of
murder was not extraordinary, when
it is'considered how many of the royal
line of Russia have died forcible
deaths. What with the dissensions
among the Imperial family, and what
with the conspiracies on the part of the
nobility to remove an obnoxious Czar,
no dynasty of civilized princes has
ever suffered so much from the steel
and cord since the days of the Roman
Ciesars. Talleyrand’s famous defini
tion of the character of the Russian
Government, that it was a “despotism
tempered by assassination,” was as
true as it was witty, or rather, was
witty because of its truth. During the
earlier period of the Czarism, nearly
every emperor destroyed some rival or
was himself destroyed. Even in the
last century, the murder of a Russian
prince almost universally attended or
preceded the accession of anew mon
arch to the throne. The bloody drama
was opened by a father killing his own 1
son, and closed by a son consenting to
the murder of his father.
The incident to which we first al
lude was the secret execution of Alex
is, only son of Peter the Great, by or
der of his father, A. D. 1719. The
prince was hostile to the new measures
introduced by the Czar, favoring the
old Boyar party, which adhered to the
ancient usages and customs of his coun
try. For this Peter resolved to disin
herit him. Alexis, knowing what this
meant, fled abroad, but being discov
ered, was dragged back to Russia, com
pelled to renounce the succession, tried
by secret judges, and barbarously pul
to death.
The next great tragedy which oo
cured in the Romanoff family was the
murder of Peter the Third, by direc
tion of his wife, who immediately as
cended to the throne as Catharine the
Second. This woman, celebrated no
less for her profligate life than for hev
political genius, was the grandmother
of Nicholas. Her instrument in the
assassination of her husband was Prince
Alexis Orloff, one of her paramours,
a man of gigantic stature, who subse
quently unblushingly paraded himself
through Europe, and was viewed with
terror and curiosity everywhere as the
person who, when the Emperor resis
ted, had throttled the unhappy prince
with his own hand. A brother of this
monster went to Italy, where a princess
of the Romanaff line resided, whom
Catharine feared, in consequence of
her better title to the throne, and hav
ing inveigled the poor girl into a mock
marriage, trapped her on board of a
Russian frigate, and carried her a pris
oner to Cronstadt. The miserable vic
tim of this atrocious perfidy was
drowned in her cell subsequently, by
an inundation of the Neva.
The patricide to which we allude
was the murder of Paul the First,
father of Nicholas with the knowledge
if not the connivance of Alexander,
the predecessor of the late Czar. Paul
was set upon at night, in his chamber,
and assassinated after a protracted
struggle, in which he fought with despe
rate resolution, though unarmed and
in his shirt. At the period of this
bloody tragedy, Nicholas was an in*
font. " But his elder brother, Alcxan*
der, was a young man, and was, it ia
generally believed, aware of what was
about to occur. Remorse for the act
is said to ,have embittered the closing
days of Alexander. It is asserted- by
some historian that even this Prince
fell a victim to a violent death. It ia
certain that he died suddenly, when
on a tour in the Crimea; and as lie
had become quite unpopular with a
large party in his dominions, it is not
impossible that he was poisoned. In all
these cases of assassination, it was at
first given out that the Czar died of ap*
poplexy, nor did the truth appear un
til the'lapse of years had rendered
harmless the publication ot the facts.
In a despotism like Russia, when a
Prince is to be deposed, there is gen
erally no course left but to take his
life. He cannot safely be asked to ab*
dicate, fi r he would be a bold man
who could thus ‘‘bell the cat;” and
while he lives, even after abdication,
there is always danger of revolution
in his favor. Hence Talleyrand s re
mark. . ' ■ ■ - ’. .jad
Another Improvement,
A trial of a newly invented self
breech-loading and p™mng carbine,
has been made at the School of Mus
ketry at Hythe. Sixty shots can be
fired from this weapon in seven min* i
utes; out of that number, at a range
of one hundred yards, 47 struck the
bull’s eye. Total immersion m water
of the carbine loaded, did not aneot
its explosive power, the fusee being
readily discharged.' The rapidity of
the firing did not produce the slightest ..
derangement, the piece neither requir*
ing oiling nor cleaning.