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ATHENS, TEM., FRDAY, JUNE 3, 1853.
VOL. V.-NO. 245.
BY SAM. P. IVINS.
TERMS:
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THE POST.
Athens, Friday, Jane 3, 1853.
kJfWe learn that the lnte democratic
convention at Waynesboro' nominated Col.
S. C. Pavatt for Congress.
BJr "Inspector," of the New York Cou
rier and Enquirer, writes from Washington
that:
The Sandwich Islands, lying in the track
of trad: between California, China and Aus
tralia, become an interesting object in our di
plomacy. It is designed to nppoint a Com
missioner of distinction and ability, to these
Islands, with instruction not to refuse the
offer of cession which waa made to Presi
dent Fillmore, if that ofTcr should be repent
cd. In short, the acquisition of these Islands
will be one of the measures of the Admin
istration. Mr. Angel, of New York, has been
appointed Consul to the principal port of the
group.
fj?" A democratic paper in this State ex
ulta ovor the Virginia Gerrymander as a
clever and praiseworthy democratic font.
Hear its conscientious editor
"The Legislature of Virginia have so dis
tricted the State to secure an entire delegation
to the thirty-third Congress. Huzza for the
Old Dominion!' That's a clean sweep of
whiggery, isn't it!"
Fall or Catfish. The Norfolk Argus
states that a curious phenomenon attended
the hail storm in that city on Tuesday night.
Quantities of catfish, some measuring a foot
in length, fell in different sections of the
city, and some of the fields were literally
strewn with them. Hundreds were picked
up in the morning. This (says the Argus)
is no piscatorial fabrication, but ft fact which
is attested by hundreds of citizens.
fcgJitiatxTt Chuxbm -Ts following
net has been recently passed and approved inj
Massachusetts:
"When after the birth of an Illegitimate
child, his parents have intermarried or shall
intermarry, and his father has acknowledged,
or shall after the marriage, acknowledge him
ns his child, such child shall be considered as
legitimate to all intents snd purposes.
5?The N- Y. Lantern suggests the fol
lowing remedies for railroad accidents:
1st Hnng two directors at each terminus,
and one every fifty miles of the rood.
3d Hang one engine driver every twenty
five miles, and three wherever the road cross
es river, or runs along the side of a hill.
3 Legalize the use of "lynch law" by
the passengers, whenever an accident occurs
Lonq Railroad Trains. A few days
ince there started from Detroit a train of
eighty-five cars In ono string, propelled by
two of the most powerful locomotives in the
.country. The train was bound for Chicago,
and the greater part of its vast load was for
the merchants of that thriving place. On
Thursday evening a passenger train left the
depot for the west composed of twenty-nine
of the splendid new passenger and luggage
cars of this company, containing 900 posscn
- ,gcrs and almost one quarter of a mile long.
Religious Troubles in Holland. The
irritation of tbe public mind in Hollnnd, it is
stated, increases agninst the recent papal usur
jiation, and tho ill-feeling awakened betweon
the Protestants and Roman Catholics, is so
great that it is feared ft conflict will happen.
The more timid mong the Catholics are
leaving for Belgium. The ministers asscm.
We daily. This is tho Protestant.vcrsion of
tho story.
New Orleans, May 24.
On Tuesday 5000 bnlos of Cotton were
disposed of at steady prices. The receipts
for the last four days only amount to 3100
Wos. The increase in tho receipts at New
Orlcana is only 333,OOQ4a!es ss compared
with tho same period last year, and at all the
ports 843,030 bales. The stock of Cotton
on haud amounts to 155,000 bales.
J-$r Undor the New York statute the
damage recovered against the New York and
Now llawm RnTtroad Company, for those
Who wore killed at Norwalk, would amount
to 255J000, and the damages for injuries to
Mnoni and destruction of property to $50,.
nnn nr H00.000 more. Under the statute of
Connecticut, the damages for the dead might
run up to $400,000 or 5O0,O0O.
Evidence or Follt. Neglecting to ad
vortiscsnd wondering that you do not suc
ir-nd in business.
B.r...:MA in anl. . nnn-munrr. and beinff
surprised that people should laugh at yor
Ignorance.
O iieen Victoria and Prince Albert
Married at the ftges f twenty-one years, and
t..nn man and wife for thirteen years.
'k.l. ntAircnv consists of eight children
... .Mil four daughters all alive and
Vfekinu.
tXf There are many doublings In the bir
T .I.1..L. A... M.n fiti4 mil fha
man heart; tro no um j" -
hols of roan's real character ur.
THE ABOLITIONISTS.
We stildom publish anything relative to
the movements of til e Abolitionists first,
because we believe they owe ft largo amount
of their importance to the attention which
they are codtlnlinlly receiving from the pi ess
of the countrv, and, secondly, becauae we
cannot perceive any good that is likely to re
suit from constantly referring to the object
which they profess to hsve in view the
abolishment of slavery and thus familiariz
ing tho minds of the people with it as a
scheme thnt is some day or other to be car
ried into effect. We cannot however refrain
from giving the following extract from a ro
centarticle of the N. Y. Mirror, as it serves to
olucidata some points that were brought to
bear in the late Presidential canvass, taken
in connection with other things that have
transpired since the inauguration of the new
President. The Mirror was one of the whig
papers that could sot support Gen. Scott be
cause it believed, if elected, he would ap
point Frco-soilots men opposed to the Com
promise measures to office. The article in
question gives an account of a recent gath
ering of the Abolitionists in New York, Mrs.
Stowe's reception in England, and continues:
"Surely the star of Abolitionism is in the
aacendant; and sympathy for niggers is the
ruling passion of the hour. Nothing is
heard to-day in England but the clink of
African chains. The groans of the dying
white man. slaughtered in battle for British
dominion; the sobs of the starving needle
woman, wasting to a skeleton in the loul nt
mosnhere of a London crarret; the uncover
ed corpses of famished Irishmen, rotting in
their own pestilential nogs, cannot excue a
throb of sympathy from the heart of Eng.
land, just now captivated by the Uncle Tom
romance, and oil-absorbed 'in its worship of
the Ebony Image.
"But we ground our fears of abolition pro
gress upon causes and dangers more vital
and imminent than those we have suggested.
The nigger furore in England is but the
fleeting fashion of an hour. Its influence
will be felt there among the mines of Corn,
wnll and the manufactories of Manchester,
before it reaches here. Our peril comes from
other quarters;, the danger to our institutions
lies nearer to the heart of the nation. It is
not the moral madness of tho Abolitionists
that we have to fear; nor the popular ap
pUuse bestowed upon the colored heroes
and heroines of Abolition fictions. We re
gnrd these causes as more transitory fluctua
tions of public sentimont; and the ebb of tho
tide is alwavs in Drooortion to its flood.
These noisy but incoherent waves dash
against the rocky foundations of our Union,
break into brilliant foam, and harmlessly re
tire. It is from political sources orlt
that tho fatal calamity of dissolution can
come.
And what ore tho signs of the times
what are the portents of the political hori- ;
zon, scanned by the lights ana bearings of
the present Administration. How stands the
horoscope at Washington? With the elec
tion of President Pierce, the people looked
for Uietauuruti.nswM- Uo Pas
ty -for the prompt repudiation yea, utter
annihilation of all antagonists to such s glo
rious Party, undor whatever name vney
might be disguised. Thousands of Union
Whigs opposed the election of Gen. Scott,
because they feared the influence of anti-
. i i . .i -
union mon, wno mignv "uuiiu pmi n
his administration. These men went for
Webster, until their groat luminary sunk be
low the dark horizon at Marshfield; and then,
either voted for Pierce for his avowed Union-
ism, or did not vote at all. To this class or
men Gen. Scott owes his defeat and Gon.
Pierce his election. Have our hopes and ex
pectations of the new era that was to dawn
with the new Administration been entirely
fulfilled? Decidedly not The "Inaugural
Address" of tho President promised all that
the most sanguine Union man could desire.
It endorsed the Compromise in general, and
the Fugitive Slave Law In particular, to the
fullest extent, and in the most emphatic man
ner. And what followed? A Cabinet com
posed of a prominent Barnburner on one
side, and a leading Secessionist on the other?
And what follows the initial act of the new
Government? Tho Freesoilcrs, Barnburners,
Soft Shells, or by whatever othor alias the
Now York Abolitionists seek to veil them.
selves, are evidently in the ascendant. Prince
John Van Huren, the ncro oi ine uuimio
platform who played the port of Brutua to
the Caesar of Gen. Cass in the drama of
1848, is among the first to dine at the White
House, among the first to secure the appoint
ment of his candidate! In the language of
tho turf, the Hunkers here in Now York are
literally "nowhere."
It is this wnicn nas strongvnencu mu
hands and tho hopes of the Abolitionists
this marked complaisance to notorious free-
soilers, Abolitionists in disguise, that has re
vived the onti-slnvery sentiment av vne
North, and emboldened its leaders to raise
money, establish newspapers, circulate pam
phlets, and re-organize all their internal ma
chinery for tho overthrow of the Union." .
tj ij10 y Z." correspondent of tho
New York Herald, writes from Washington
under date of the 20th Instant, that there is
rumor afloat that John Van Buren U to
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go fts Minister vo r ranee, "
Wise's son aa Seorttary of legation."
IW A modest cotemporary calls veal "un
finished beef." This Is pretty good; but why
not extend tho voeabularly? Suppose we
term lamb "incipient mutton," na uenomi
nnte pig "premonitory pork!"
W The'N. Y. Mercury gives tho follow
ing bit of advice to some of the custom
house officers in that city who hnve been per
mitted to hold on to the present time:
"Those gentlemen who have been serving
their country (at the rate of three and five
dollars nor dionrt in the New York Custom
House, during the last three or four years,
and who daily anticipate a poiiw
to 'step out,' will have to look for sympathy
.nil nnailntinn in the nlnco Pointed out by
the negro preacher. "My brudders in inflic
tion,' said ho, 'in all your troubles, dare is
one place whore you can always find sympa
lliv.' Vhnr wharf innnircd several of his
hearers. 'In do dictionary,' replied Sambo,
i i ll. J l.:. . 1. -t
anu lie runvu in. rvua ju.
Ingenious. A tavern keeper in Vienna
lately reaped a great harvest by announcing
that, on a certain day, he would sell at retell
a tun of herring, with eno herring in it con
taining a gold ducat, tho latter to be the pro
perty of the person who might get tho her
rlnit. The sale of thehcrrlncsv and tho prtoe
of the liquor drunk In consequence of ting
them, rroiignt him an snormous prom.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, May 33.
You have had before you, ere this, the list
of foreign appointments, diplomatic and con
sul.ir. The most formidable task of tho ad
ministration was to dispose of these and of
the domestic appointments in a manner that
would promote the public service, and, at
the same time, b acceptable to the different
interests of tho democratic party, the com
bined force of which had brought them into
power. That task is now nearly completed,
and in a manner believed to be, on the whole,
very satisfactory. Complaints will be made
of these appointments by those who are dis
appointed, but no administration can expect
to please nil its friends.
The administration now turns to a task of
equally great import. They are to give
practical effect to their theory of the foreign
policy of this country, through immediate
instructions to our ministers. Mr Buchanan
is here awaiting his instructions. They must
necessarily be of a very important character,
if it be true, as generally believed, that this
government is to strike off into new and
independent track of policy.
All the Ministers lately appointed are to
come here and receive their instructions in
person, and orally as well as in writing.
They are to bo required, however, to spend
only two days here, for this purpose. Mr.
Soule is expected to arrive here next week,
to take his instructions. They are all to be
sent out in June.
The Gardiner trial, after occupying six
weeks, came to an end by the submission of
the caso to the Jury by Gardiner's counsel,
without argument, after the District Attorney
had occupied three days in a speech, on the
part of the prosecution. The Jury have, at
the moment of this writing, been out for thir
ty hours, and have not agreed. They are to
render a sealed verdict, if they agree before
10 o'clock Monday morning, when the Court
again meet. The Jury stand ten for acquittal
to two for conviction. When this trial shall
be over, there are others pending in regard
to the same case, that are to be commenced,
and will give further evidence of the imbe.
cilitv of our Criminal Court.
P. S. Tho foreign appointments have
been kept back by tho occurrence of ft difB.
cnlty between the President and the Cabi
net, in regard to New York appointments,
and to the appointments given to Young
America.
Tho list will, it is said, be completed on
Monday, and published on Tuesday. Cor.
Char. Cour.
On the 30th of
June 1850, there weri six thousand three
hundred and eight miles of iron highway
open for trafic in the Kingdom, having two
thousand and thirty stations, and employing 1
sixty thousand three hundred and twenty-five
persons. These figures if averaged, .would
give one station snd twenty-eight officials
and servants to every three miles of road.-
That the railroad companies of Great Britain
insure passengers against accident, both on
periodical ana single journey uinem, uuu mm
nearly all now nflord facilities for carrying
ni iho nnnfinln. In ease of death the exe
cutor or administrator of tho deceased is
authorized to bring an account against tne
nn-tiA. cqiiainrr thn acidnnt. for the benefit of
th. urifV hiiHlmnd. naront or child, and the
jury finding the damages, may divide them
amongst tne ponies compiaimug iu such
shares as they deem proper. I
Enchanted Mount AiN.-They have strange
things in Texas, as well as wicked doings.
The following account of a great natural
curiosity in that country, is from the Texas
Telegraph :
"This singular mountain, or lull, is situat
ed on tho head waters of the Sallcc ft small
tributary of tho Colorado, about 80 miles
from Uastrop, in ft northwesterly airecuon.
It ia ntint Ihrn. hnnitrpd fiit hitrh. and fin.
rars to be an enormous oval rock, partly
i ii j ! . .i. ttri - it. ..i.:
llnDCuutu in inn eartn. it lieu uiu buu biiiiiub
the light is reflected from its polished surface,
ns from an immense mirror, and the whole
mountain glows with such a dazzling radi
ance, that the beholder who views it, .even
from tho distance or tour or live nines, is
unable to goze upon it without experiencing
a painful sensation, similar to that which is
fAlt wknn Inrtkincr linon the risiniT 8IW. The
ftscontof the hill is so very gradual, that
persons can easily walK up to tne vop; out ine
-..ir t- amnnili flntl .liimerv. that those
that make the attempt are compolled to wear
moccasins or stocmngs, insieau oi .noes.
This act, together with the name of the place,
Holy Mountain, remind the visitant very for-
cibly or the oommana mooe vo amaca
Mount Horeb, "Put off thy shoes from off thy
feet" The Camanches regard this hill with
religious veneration, and Indian pilgrims fre
n..Anfiu HumKU from the remotest borders
of the tribe, to perform their Paynira rites
upon its ssinmit.
AmcDOTC oj.th " Psm- The hard
pressure for appointments to office under the
new administration at Washington, gives rise
to some amusing Incidents. The following
is told of the Secretary of fctote:
Among tho host of besiegers in the pursuit
.full., v.. wnmnn who was extremely
anxious'that her husband should be made
postmaster in some country village, one was
most persevering in her solicitations, in seas,
on and out of aoason. She stood at the
Secretary's door when he camo out of his
room in the morning; she intercepted him on
his way to his meals; alio followed him to his
lodgings at night. On one occasion she re-
mninoa mere unusuany inw)i mo umonui
listened to her as long as ho could, when he
requested her to excuso him, but she lingered.
At length every gentleman, but one had gone,
and tho Secretary took off his shoes. Still
she stood her ground, quite unmoved.
Growing dosperato, the Secretary finally rose
from his seat, and prococdod to atrip off his
coat; then, turning to the woman, he exclaim
od: "Madam, I am going to bed, and if you
don't withdraw. I shall write to Mrs. Mnrcy
about you." The lady immediately retired
from the room.
3f" An Indian was ordained to the min
istry by the Baptist Home Missionary Socio,
ly In trey New York, last week, who to at
tend the Convention Mikfd $ix nuKcVes
milt', accompanied by his wifo and child.
3T" Mr. Walsh, writing from Paris to the
Journal of Commerce, expresses his gratifica
tion, and the general gratification felt by
Americans abroad, at the appointment of Mr.
Buchanan aa Minister to England. Touching
another topic, we quote from Mr. Walsh's
letter:
I used to suspect the British government
and people, and thought that it was with
them the United States would ultimately
have to engage in a strife mortal to one or
the other. My present impressions are wide
ly different Dispositions and views are not
the same in Great Britain. The universal
seuse of a vast enlargement snd irresistible
advance of American power; tho indefinite
extension and multiplication of mutual inter
est; the more frequent, various, and intimate
personal intercourse; the religious, literary,
and scientific intercommunion; the effects and
facilities of steam navigation; American im
portance with the world at large; the new
sympathies and t'ifs resulting from the pro
digious emigration, and the progress of the
Democratic element, apMt, influence and ten
dencies in the BrMsitpoBlical and social sys
tem these, and other salient changes, have
begotten general good will, a rule of con
ciliation, a general earnestness lor tne per
petuity of relations and feelings such as be
come cognate race and institutions, and a
common acknowledgment of the precepts and
ends of Christianity.
Brief and to the Point. The following
is a specimen of California pleadings, taken
from the files of the District Court in San
Francisco. We commend it to our Tennes.
see lawyers as suitable for some cases they
have to deal with:
Rufus A. Lock wood adt. Elkanah II.
Hodges. The said defendant, for plea and
answer to the complaint of said plaintiff, on
his behalf says that he never Intends to pay
the said plaintiff 'a red' of the sum of money
claimed in said complaint, or two other notes
held by said plaintiff, unless, nnd until, (should
such unlooked for event ever happen,) the
said defendant shall have mors money than
he knows what to do with, or to disposo of
otherwise; and should the plaintiff succeed in
getting said money otherwise or sooner, the
said defendant will be glad to be advised
thereof.
Wherefore the said defendent (in lien of
the prayer for judgment in such cases) says
"let her rip." R. A. Lociwood,
In proper person.
The Newspaper that Pleases. That
editor has the wisest tact, and will have his
paper most read, who is able not only to an
ticipate public opinion, but give it form and
existence, in the most pleasing and acceptable
dress. The London Leader makes the fol
lowing observations :
"It mav be verv wise to see both sides of
a question, and to lie more anxious about
what can be said against you, than what can
be said for you; but the fact is that the object
of most men in buying a newspaper, is to
enjoy the statement of thnir own inarticulate
notions in the shape of articl development
and expression. A reader lever so thorough
ly enjoys a paper at when he ean say, 'That
is exactly what 1 hat? Stud iuyse; and he
always tries to buy that paper which can
givo to his own opinions'an air of the great
est point and wisdom. It is looking iuto a
mirror which tells him not the superficial
aspect, so inadequate to tho expression of his
real beauty and dignity, but that inner truth
which is a more perlect portrait oi me wnoie
man; a mirror which makes Simpson see with
his own eyes the Socrates that he feels him
self to be. For this reason it is to be taken
that the papers which are purchased repre
sent the opinions of their purchasers."
An association of capitalists has been
formed in Santa Fe, under the title of "Rail,
road Association," and the Hon. II. N. Smith
has been elected President. The Gazette
says:
Membership is constituted by a subscrip
tion of such sums as may be consistent with
tho means of .each member. The amount
thus raised is to be placed in the hands of
bankers, members of the association, to be
invested in railroad stock, in the great Atlan
tic and Pacific Railroad, provided the mnin
trunk passes through New Moxico, making
Albuquerque a point We are not advised
of the precise amount subscribed by this as
sociation, but we believe it is largely over a
million of dollars.
Travel on the Baltimore and Ohio
IUii.noAD.-We learn that upwarda of ninety
through passengers from Wheeling arrived
in the cars this morning, and tho travel is in
creasing so rapidly that the agent at Wheel
ing has written for more passenger cars,
which will be immediately Bent out We
also learn that three first class locomotives
were recently put on the road, and that hve
more have been purchased, to be here in n
few days. The freight is now brought over
as fast as it arrives at Wheeling, and the in
creased motive power to be brought into use
will enable tha Com Dan v to despatch all bu
siness that may offer. Bait. Patriot 13.
Jf The Christian Inquirer has this fine
remark: -;
"The iriddr"toftf'id the overworked
seampstress are extreme forms of the same
menial impovengpniNii.- ,
The Inquirer tufthor observoa:
"To our view, one of the worst things in
American Society is the studied Indifference
of female education to everything truly use
ful and exalting. Ostentation in high life is
a fair match, in point of degradation, with
grinding want In low life."
Secretary Gothrii. The new mode
adopted by the "Prairie Plow," of making
transfers of the public money, goes on brave
ly. A regular corps f 'leg treasurers' have
been established for the purpose of escorting
the money from place to place. The New
York Journal of Commerce, in relation to
this matter, toys:
"The same Cerberus that went to St Louis
with his musket-marked boxes, is to take a
large sum down to New Orleans.
I notice a statement In the papers that
Corcoran &. Riggs had half a miHion from
Mr. Corwin for the purchase of United States
stocks, and returned the money to the Gov
ernment on the secession of Mr. Guthrie.
This is not so. Corcoran &. Riggs purchased
throe hundred thousand dollars of stock for
the Government and gave the stock, redeem
able in June, at par, to the Treasury. In the
month of March. They had no Government
funds In return.
Th Batavia Times gives an account
of a Shangai hen, which laid an egg six snd
half Inches In eircumferenee one wav. by
eicht the ethsr. She Is doinir is well as
I coma oe expectca.
The Old Maid. We admit, at once, that
the "Old Moid," so far as the great obligation
of female life is concerned, is obnoxious to
the charge of being only of a numerical value
in the world. We are, however, not at all
disposed, as is generally the case, to make
her lonely condition the subject of continual
sport and badinage. Our experience would
not justify us either in associating sourness
of disposition, or ill-nature, as a necessary
consequence of old-maidism.
Nature is abundant in her resources, and
observes well the laws of compensation. If
one faculty .becomes blunted, another is
sharpened, and so on; and we have often
thought the old maid has been blessed with
a more than usual share of the milk of human
kindness, because nature despaired of the
"old maid" ever having a flow of any othor
kind. We by no means insist upon this
theory.
Those ancient virgin, who have reached
beyond the grand climacteric of life, and are
traveling to the grave, vexed at themselves
and all the world, who find, when it is too
late, that they have selfishly thrown away a
life-time, and defeated the end and aim of
their existence, have mostly themselves to
blame for the lonely and uncared-for misery
they endure.
This class of antiques were generally great
belles in their youth, receiving universal
homage, whether they were dispensing their
charms from tho opera box, fascinating the
toe-bred dandies of the ball-room, or gracing,
with their heartless coquetry, the social circle.
The number of her admiring subjects not
only confounded her judgment but cut her
affections up into such little pieces that none
who sought her hand were willing to take so
small a portion of heart. So long as her
beauty lasted, this was all very woll, but when
that began to fade, and time would roll on,
she began to think seriously of making a
choice; when, gathering up the fragments of
a heart which had been true to nothing in
detail, she offers it wholesale, in time to dis
cover it was a depreciated thing in the mar
ket A heartless flirt through the best years
of her life, she cannot expect much sympathy,
if, in her old age, she becomes the object of
merited contempt to those whose hearts she
herself seared against her.
Postoffice Robbert. We regret to say
thnt we have never suffered so much from
the practice of purloining money from letters,
(always a heavy tax upon New York journ
alists,) as during the past two or three weeks.
We have before us a list of memoranda, made
by our entry clerk since tho 20th of May, by
which it appears that money has been taken
from letters forwarded to us from seventeen
different persons, in addition to twelve dol
lars taken from another letter, enclosing
names, which have not reached us. All of
these louses have occurred within the States
of New York aad Ohio, Not i day. passes
scarcely that the mail does not bring us com
plaint at the non-arrival of papers, for which
money has neon sent mat never reacnea us.
What mav be the explanation of this, we
cannot pretend to say; but we can suggest a
remedy, which, we venture to assure tne
Postmaster-General will be efficacious. Let
him require every postmaster, whom it is not
the immediate intention of the department to
displace, to produce satisfactory evidence of
his honesty and capacity, failing in which, let
him be removed. There is no doubt that
there are some rogues among our postmas
ters, and the quicker they are detected and
put away the better. Meantime, we would
recommend those remitting money to us, to
take receipts from the postmaster where their
letters are deposited, that the govornment
may be facilitated in tracing out the offen
ders. y. Y. Evening Po$t.
Cuba, her Labor and Products. A Ha.
vano correspondent of the No w York Express,
of alate date, says:
"The commerce of the Island is not only
largely American, but much of its productions
is in American hands. Planters coin money
here who visit their estates but once or twice
a year. At present, howovor, there is not
more than one-fifth of the Island cultivated
at all. Tho export of five hundred thousand
hogsheads, nr one million five hundred thou
sand boxes of sugar per annum, could easily
be multiplied four or five fold, and would be,
if the country belonged to the United States,
and labor could be procured.
The slave trade and slave births do not be
gin, to meet the demand for labor, and slave
property has savanrea enormously nere wiin.
in a short time. The estimated annual im
portation is from twenty to thirty thousand
from Africa. Gentlemen who have traveled
all over the Island, the past winter, tell, me
that slaves have arrived lately at every port
from Africa; but still there is a constant de
mand for labor. The Chinese importation of
1,200 to bo increased to 6,000 is but as a
drop in the ocean. Occasionally European
white labor has been tried, but aside from the
Indolence and inertness of the white laborers
brought here, there are no white people ca-
f able of enduring heat but the natives of the
aland-
A Fix. A Cleveland friend, who has just
returned from a trip to Washington, gives ns
the following, nnd assures us that it actually
took place:
Scrn in the Iiand Office.
A .lk rnilAn anil findinlr the Commis.
sioner unengaged, says : "I have received this
notice, stating mat my sorvices win noi uc
i . -onu'iriut In thi. department will vou
favor me by stating the cause of my removal ?
I have a family ana
Commimioner You need not go into par.
ticulara, sir. 1 regret the necessity of your
removal; but you know, sir, tnnt wnen icmo
crate come in, Whigs must go out; it is the
fortune of war.
Clerk But I am not a Whig, and never
voted any but the Democratic ticket In my
life. I receivod my first appointment under
Mr. Polk, and the Into Administration made
no enquiry as to my politics, but promoted
me, unasked, to a better situation.
Conimittwner. He be hern Mr.
jj there has been some mistake hero
you mny retire, and I will see it rectified.
Exit clerk.
w i Tk. (VI that a Locofoco Clerk
has been promoted for good conduct and
ability, is prima oeiVevidene st Washington
that he hat turned Whig. Detroit Adv.
13T The true test of a man's temper is to
ker p him waiting five minutes for his dinner.
BECKY WILSON'S COURTSHIP.
Oh' now do tell US' about itT sea the gals.
Becky hadn't been married more'n a month,
and hadn't got over her bashfulness ye.
"Bout what? aes she.
Why' bout your courtship,' ses the gals.
'Shaw!' ses she, turning her head an' blush
ing dreadful; 'you better tell your own court
ships yourselves, I reckon.' . ,
'Yes, but none of us ever bod any beaux,
Beck, and you's a married woman. Come,
now, do tell us all about it I do love to
hear about courtin' so much!' ses Betsey
Powers.
Oh, yes, Becky, do tell us.'
Well,' ses Becky, after a great deal of
blushin' and twistin about 'I'll tell you all
how it was, if that will satisfy you.'
'Well,' ses the gals, all gcttin 'round her
so they could hear her good.
'Well,' ses Becky, putting an emphasis on
about every other word, 'John he cum to
our house to see me, she ses, tnrnin' away
ber head, kind o' lookin' rown sideways un
der her arm; Fool! he bad better go to see
his self, I reckon. Gracious know I don't
care notliin' aboat him.'
Wjsll,' ses the gals. -
Welt,' John sed he loved me, Fool! better
love his self, I reckon.? J, '
Oh, that's so funny,' ses the gala; Iff AD.'
'Shaw !' ses liecky, 'I won't tell no more.
Oh.' ves. do do Becky, says all of em,
'Well,' then, John, he axed me if I wouldn't
hnve him. Him fool I better nave his sell,
I reckon.'
'Then, what did you say?
'Hem! I never said nothin. Gracious knows,
he wasn't gwine to git nothing out of me.'
Oh, ohr ses the gals 'do go on, Becky.,
'Then, John, he asked mother if he moughn't
have me, Fool! he better have his self, I reck
on.' 'Well, says the gala. .
Well mother, she got kind o' flustricated,
and said yes. Fool, she better mind her own
business, I reckon.'
'And then what? '
Then, John he asked daddy he moughtn't
have me; and daddy ha got kind o' flustrica
ted too, and sed yes, too.'
'That's the sort of daddies ses the gals,
rubbin their hands.
'Then mammy, she went to town and got
a white frock for me, and white gloves to
put on my hands, for me to be married to
him; Fool! better git married to him her self,
I reckon.'
Well,' ses the gals, go on Becky.'
Shaw, now, I ain't gwine to tell you no
more about it, so 1 ain't
Oh, yes, Becky, do go onl Oh, do tell us
all about the weddin, Becky that's a good
soul.' .
Oh, hush, gals, 'bout sich nonsense.'
Oh! do now, that's s good soul.'
Well, by-and-by the preacher man he came
to our house, and a hole heap of people to
marry me. Fools! they great deal better
staid home, I reckon. Gracious knows I
didn't want to see 'em.'
'Never mind, Becky go on.'
'Well, then, John he came to take mo op
to the preacher man, for to be married. Fool!
I never did feel so mad; and then Oh,
shaw, gals I can't tell any more.'
mi. on nn '
Well. then, the prVavher man, he axed me
if I would have John to be my lawful hue.
bond. Him, fool' better have bis self, I reck
on. And then shaw, gals, I fctmm'( tell
any more.' ...
Oh, do, ueck-y! wow you re jest coming
to the interesting part Oh, do tell us the
rest Beck v.
'Well, fnever said nothin,' and tho preach.
er man he said I must have John to my bus
band when he was sick, when he was well;
and when he was better or worser, and rich
and poor, nnd love k'" and Lord only
knows what a heap of things; and then he
said people what he put together, it was agin
the law to take apart; and so I was married,
hard and fast, the fust thing I knowed, to
John.'
'Well, what then, Becky?" ses the gals,
gettin' more and more interested all the
time.
Whv. tho preacher man he went home,
and then all the fellers came a pullin' and
haulin' me, and kissing me and squeezing
me, and sich other carryings on as they did
cut up. Fools! they great deal better Kissed
their own selves, i.recKon.
Go on, Becky! tell ns about it,' aes all the
gals.
'Well, then, after, they all went nway, and
we went to bed, John he Oh, show,'
ses she; "I ain't gwine to tell yon another
wnrd mom. When vou pit married your
selves, you'll know all about it' I reckon."
MORN AMID THE MOUNTAINS.'
Morn amid the mountains!
lively solitude,
Gushing streams snd fountains,
M urmcr, "God is good."
Now the glad sun breaking,
Pours a golden flood;
Deepest vales awaking,
Echo, "God is good."
Hymns of praise aro ringing,
Through the leafy wood.
Songsters sweetiy singing,
Warble, "God is good.'T
Wake and join the chorus,
Man, with soul endued;
Ho, whose smile is o'er us,
God, our God is good.
iiVnuf n. 1InM!"In tha memorandum
book of Mr. Ring, one of the victims of the
I. to llm.il rair1 at Nnrwalk. was found
entered the following sentence: Friday
morning. Now for home: ucnr iatner uor
mother." What a commentary on life.
The Hen Law. The following is pro-
posed as the proper trestmont of the hens
when found in your garden:
1 . Cin ItiA.nnMrannA of hens in ths par
don give the owner notice. 3d. On their so.
cund appearance, kill them, and throw tho
bodies over ine lence oi mo u.ikh .
ii tha .uhiAnuent nppesrances of hens,
through the season, kill and eat them!
rff" "Mister, your tign has fallen down?
xried a temperance man to a grogshop-keeper,
before whose door a drunken man was pros
trate. 3T Within the space of ono month past,
tho public press have recorded the destruc
tion of the steamship Independence in the
Pacific, the Ocean Wave on the Lakes, tho
Jenny Llnd in California, the awful railroad
calamities at Chicago and Norwalk, and the
loss of tha ship William and Mary at sea
near the Bahama Island. These six disasters
have hurled into eternity not leas than fiv
hundred souls!
Queer Operation Spirits amono the
Bones. The race of asses is not dead. Oh,
no I It is perennial. It pokes its long ear
into the face of Christianity, and whisks its
tail into the eyes of civilization. Witness ths
following facto. A number of spiritualists
in this city, with one or two, we believe from
Chicopee, received intimation that they must
enter a certain large and unoccupied house;
They accordingly sent for the key ( of th
house, which was unsuspectingly delivered td
them, tho holder never dreaming of the ptlr
pose for which it was to to used. They en
tered the house, and there was soon heard
coming from within; by a gentleman passing,
the most terrific screams. He declares that
It sounded as if some one was suffering from
the fear and pain of a murderer's knite. A
female medium waa taken possession of, It
seems, by the spirit of a murdered man whose
bones were declared to be burled in the col
lor, nnd so she imitated his dying agonies.
The spirits finally ordered the digging up of
the bones, and designated a certain geutle
man to use the spade. It is ssserted, though
we know not with how much truth, that the .
medium was token up bodily y the spirits;
and carried to a place on the cellar bottom,
directly over the alleged deposit of the bones.
And hore, oh reader! the gentleman of the1
apade stripped and went to work, f ter dig
ging a deep hole, and finding no bones, the
pursuit was relinquished. These are tho
main laces, as nicy come vo us, ana u i pro
per to say that this utter piece of torn foolerr
was not enacted by the mdre Ignorant of the)
spiritualists, but the principal actors are somsi
of the leading minds in this strange delusion;
If there is no devil, as the spiritualists aflirm,
there is Something thnt answers all tho legitU
mate purposes of a devil. Springfield R
publican. Scottish Justice. A poor fflari, half
century ago or more, was tempted to violate
the game laws, by shooting a deer, the penal
ty for the offence being a fine Of five pounds;
or in dofiitllt 6f funds, thirty lashes. Ha
gave half the deer to a neighbor, who had the
meanness afterwards to, complain of him id
order that he might get half the lino; the law
being that half must go to the informer and
half to the king. The offender was convlc
ted, and fined accordingly; but plead that he
had no money. "Well, mon," said the mai
gistrate'we'mun ha' the lashes then."i Tho
poor man was submissive. The magistrate
then said to the Sheriff, "take that man, the
informer, tie him till yon tree, ond gie hint
fifteen lashes, which will bo his half; nnd
When King George comes ovor, we will gie
him his half. Half till the informor and half
till the King."j
The Star or the Cabinet. Tho Hon.
Caleb Cushing, Attorney General, is Onques
tionnbly the leading spirit of the Cabinet Ho
has taken the whole building opposite tho
Treasury, lately occupied by the Department
of the Interior; and fitted up his rooms in
elegant style, with a regular"Audience Cham
ber," which is said to be even more thronged
with applicants for office than the "Ante
Room' of the White House. Tho Judicial
appointments have lieen transferred to the
Attorney General's department; nnd various
other "patronage"placed in his hands. In
Washington, Mr. Cushing has already receiv.
ed the soubriquet of "Richelieu;" and ho i
evidently crowding tho Secretary of State in
th .triiirirln formrcontive influence and Dono
lor admiration. As an accomplished scholar
and an adroit statesman, Mr. Cushing has no
equal in tbe Cabinet As a politician, Mr.
Morcy can beat him at long odds. A'ew York
Mirror.
Walking. Walking is good; not stepping
from shop to shop, or from neighbor to neigh
bor. but stretching out far into tho country
to the fresh fields and highest ridges, nnd
quietest lanes. However sullen the imagin
ation may have been among its griefs at
home, hore it cheers up sua smiles. Howev
er listless the limbs may have been when,
sustaining a two heavy heart, here they are
braced, and the lagging gait become bouyant
ngnin. Tho mere breathing of the cool wind
on tho face in the commonest highway is
rest and comfort which must bo folt at such'
times to bo believed. It is disbelieved In the
shortest intervals between its seasons of en
joyment; and every time tho sufferer has res
olutions 10 go IOIVI1 vo meev ih it inuiutruuw
to the very honrt in great surprise. The
fiold are better still, for there is a lark to fill
up the hours with mirthful music, or at worst
the robin and the flocks of field fares to show
that the hardest day has its life and hilarity.
But the calmest region is the upland, where
human life is spread out beneath the bodily
eye where the human eye moves irora tne
peasant's nest to the spiry town, from the
school house to the church-yard, from the
diminished team in the patch of fallow of
the fisherman's boat in the cove, to the via
duct thnt spans the valley, or the fleet that
glides, ghost like, on the norrizon. tnw
Marlineau,
tZSf Stnrnn'. ITnrln Tnhv a:ivs that nno of
t I' ' - J J - ------ -
the tricks of women is, to pretend that they
have acciaenuy gov someuiing in meir eye,
nnd induce a man to look for it; and he says
the man is sure gone if he looks there for
that something.
fif" A wagoner passing a store, waa ariked
what he had in his waon. Hd replied i
Three-fourths of a cross, and a circle complete
An uprigni w iters iwi iini-irira u uiocv,
A reotangla triangle standing on feet;
Two semi-eircles, and a oirole eomplete.
a II
Three-fourths of a cross is a T. A circle)
eomplete is an O. An upright where twc
i .. I. n A trl.naln atnnditi
M)UJI-VI(VIV. uiirw - - O B
on feet Is an A. Two seml-fclrclcs are CD
and a circle Is O. TOBACCO is what waft
in the wagon. '
Sentenced to be Huno for Kidnappino.
Joseph K. Groves has been tried st Clin
ton, N. C, on charge Of kidnapping, found
guilty, an J sentenced to be hung on the first
Friday of July.
K3Mrs. Harris says if a man wants hischil-
dren to look like him, tho fewer jaunts ho
makes to California tho hotter. Observing
old lady that
Sad Accident. A man "was thrown up
on his own resources" in this city last week.
Ho was Injured internally, but it Is thought
that he will recover, as tho resources woro
not very extensive or powerful.
Severe Falls. A new convert out west
recently "foil from grace," dislocating his
conscience and entirely ruining his moral
constitution.
A gentlcruan fell down in his own esteem
tho Other day. Fortunately lie had no brains
or they would havo beta dashed out.
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