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WE IIWMIHT mm. BYJ. A. TURNER.} VOLUME 11. THE INDEPENDENT PRESS, j A Weekly Miscellaneous Journal, i‘lHl ISHKIJ IX EaTOXTOX, Ga., AT $2. PER ANNUM, IX | ADVANCE, j BY J. A. TURNER. A square will consist ot' ten linos, but every a«i- Tertisement will be counted a square whether it reaches ten lines or not. All over ten lines ami under twenty-one will be counted two squares—all over twenty lines and un der thirty-one, three squares, Ac., Ac. RATES OF ADVERTISING. PER SQUARE OP TEN LINKS. One insertion f 1 00, mid Fifty cents for each subse- j quent continuance. Advertisements scut without a specification of the ' number of insertions, will be published till forbid, j and chanted accordingly. Business or Professional Lards, per year, where they ! do noteicecd oue square, - if 10 00 A Ukeral contrast icill be mails frith thoss who wish ’ to aditrtis* by the year, occupying a specified s/mce. j J Legal •Advertisements. of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or Guardians, arc requireo by law to tw held on the first Tuesday in tlie month, between the hours of lo iu the torenoon and 3 in the after noon. at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. # Notice of'these sales must be given in a public i garotte 40 days previous tQ the day of sale. j Notices for" the sale of personal"property must be ' given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. j Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate j must be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court j <•{ Ordinary. fOr leave to sell Laud or Negroes, must j t>« published two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardian- j ship. Ac., must be published 30 days —ior dismis- j *hm from Administration, monthly, sir months —for I dismission from Guardianship, 40 days. Kale" for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub- , Lilted monthly, for four months —for establishing i,,«t papers, for the full spars of three months— for compelling titles from Executors or Administra tors, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, at the following K A T E S: Citations on letters of Administration, Ac. 42 75 do. do. Dismissory from Admistration, 450 do. do. do. " Guardianship, 300 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 4 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, * 00 Bales of personal property, ten days, 1 square, 1 50 Bale of Land or Negroes by Executors, &e., “ 500 Xstravs, two weeks, 1 60 For a’man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Announcing candidates," 5 00 l.srge letters and cuts will be charged by the I space they occupy. i Letters on business must be Post paid to entitle j them to attention. We have adopted the above rates from the j Mille igevilie papers, by which we will be governed j in all cases. Advertisers are requested to pay par- j ticnlar attention to these rates, and they can make ' out w hat will be the cost of their advertisements Rs [ well as we can ourself. 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 j 'TM-’’ EE3 R JSK 9 ) $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.