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VOLUME a ~ CAM1)EX, SOUTH-CAKOLTXA, APRIL 2,1850. NUMBER 26.
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JJoctical Department.
REFORM.
By THOMAS T,. It VI! It IS.
A voice peals o'er life's wildly heaving waters,
More startling than the anthem of the storm;
Sweet as the hyim wherewith Etruria's daughters
Went forth of old to welcome in the morn;
It shakes with fear the despot stern and hoary;
lie totters on his blood-cemented throne?
It breathes into the warrior's ear the story
Of days when fields of blood will be unknown?
It fills the gray old idol fanes, whose altars
Are fitly budded o'er the hollow tomb;
The priest amid his incantation falters,
And trembles with the presence of Ins doom;
Falsehood, with fearful agony dissembles,
And vice, within her gilded chamber trembles,
And hate grows darker still with idle rage.
But the crush'd bondsman hears it, and unspringetli,
To burst his shackles and once more be free,
And shouts aloud until the echo ringetli
O'er the far islands of the Eastern sea.
The faithful lover of his race rejoices?
The champion girds his gleaming armor on?
The seer saith "God speaks in those earnest
voices:
Earth's fearful battle-field shall yet be won.''
Each hallowed martyr of the ages olden
Leapet h for joy within his darkened grave,
And new-born poets wake with voices golden
To chant the glorious actions of the brave;
O'er earth it rolls like peals of gathering thunder,
And nations rise front slumber on the sod,
And angels list, all mute with breathless wonder,
Its echo in the living soul of God!
O'er every radiant island of creation
The music of that swelling peal is borne,
Land bears to land, and nation shouts to nation
The war-cry of the age?reform ?reform !
List to the mighty music?O, my brother,
Hear thou those anthem voices as they roil,
Like bursting fiarues that darkness fain would
smother.
Through the deep chambers of the inner soul,
Waking the spirit, in its deathless power,
To gird its armor for the daily fight;
And in the present's dark and fearful hour
Go forth to battle for the true and right,
Hearken, and burst the slimy chains of fashion,
Let the false wordling scorn thee if he will: '
Rise, sun-like, o'er the storms of earthly pass ion,
And stem with fearless breast the tide of ill.
Success will crown each arduous endeavor,
And from the strife thy soul rise great and frccj
And deeds give birth to deeds that roll forever
Wave after wave, o'er time's grand azure sea.
A crown oi thorns the foe may twine around thee:
Press on?the way is open, heed not them?
The mournful wreath, wherewith their hands have
bound thee,
Shall change unto a starry diadem.
The grand of soul, the true, the noble-hearted,
Will hear thy strokes and rally at tliv side,
And round thy brow, through lilted clouds and
parted,
Streams down the smiles of God. O, glorified !
From life and voice the; wakened world inherit
A legacy of truth and love sublime,
Whose charms shall echo when thy earnest spirit
Rests with the mighty of the olden time;
Rests filled with joy beyond all human story,
As looking down, with calm and god-like eyes,
It views the race in mind's transccndnnt glory,
Scaling the star-crowned mountains to the skies!
For the Cam len Journal.
GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA.
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My 2, 20, 13, 22, 10, 11, is a river in South
Carolina.
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my <*, i, zi, o, is a luruucu town iii i?oiiemia.
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My C, 15, 15, 18, 12, is a county in Kentucky.
My 7, 14, 24, 20, 10, 28, is a city in England.
My 8, 20, 20, 13, 22, 10, 29, is a county in
Vermont.
' My 9,23,1,14,5, 4, is a city in Hindustan.
My 10, 5, 13,22, 25, is an island of Mexico.
My 11, 12, 25,2(5,5, 13, 14, is a lake in
North America.
My 12, 13, 23, 1, 2(5, 5, 30, is a celebrated
waterfall in North America.
My 13, 17, 22, is a town in Austria.
My 14, 25), 25, 30, 5, 13, 11, is a county in
New York.
My 15, 10, 0, 1, 28, 30,29, is a city in China.
My 10, 18,15, 27, 12, is an island of Sweden.
My 17,23, 5, 13,22, is a large city in Franco.
My 18, 20, 21, 24, 25, 14, 3, is a town in N.
Carolina.
M y 19,8, 1, 8, 5, 8, is a mountain in (Jrooco.
My 20, 23, 15, 15, 30, 22, is a county in
Alabama.
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town in Mexico.
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Carolina.
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in South Carolina,
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TV Selected <?nlc.
THE FOLLY OF tfOT KEEPING
COOL.
BY T. S. AUTHOR.
" There, sir!" said a dehlnr, against whom
a man had prosecuted a claim, and recovered,
thp amount due him, bv execution and sale.?
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" Then1, sir!" rtnci me. wmus wnu cynr-u .
with rebuking emphasis. " "Yon have {jot your
own, and may it do yon much pood ! Hut,
while enjoying it, let the fact come in lo sweeten
the remembrance, that, in getting a thousand
dollars rightly your due, you sacrificed two
thousand dollars belonging to others. That, j
in forcing your debtor to pay, you look more j
than your own. While enjoying every luxury i
thnt money can bring, it will, I am sure, add I
much to your feelings of comfort and case, to
know that you have broken up my business, destroyed
my prospects, and turned my family out
of a pleasant home."
Having said this, the. man went off quickly,
and left the person thus addressed, who walked
away with his exes upon the ground. The
n tuiP of the creditor w ho had been so warmly
a-sailed was Albiight. Notwithstanding the
extreme measures lie had pursued, he was not
entirely devoid of sympathy fir others' misfortunes.
Hi* had trie I, fir some time, to get a
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settlement with his debtor. t?iu wiuioiu eiien, j
and at last made use of legal measures to o!?.
tain what was justly due him. The immediate
cause ol his coercive proceedings, we will relate.
The debtor's name was Blake. Hp owed
Albright a thousand dollars, and was not aide to
settle it when the money was demanded. Instead,
however, of meeting the demand in a
right ipirit. and explaining, in a satisfactory
manner, the reason whv he was not ab|p to pay
the account immediately, he became Iretted at
I ping''dunned," a? he said, and sent Albright
a very indifferent and really insulting answer.
The creditor did not exactly like this, hot
kept cool about it. AftPr waiting (or three or
four weeks, he sent one of his clerks to Blake
again, witlra request that his claim might be
seiueci.
It happened, ilia!, on (ho very clay this second
demand was made. Blake was in trouble about
money matters, lie had several notes In pay
in hank, and between borrowing and trying to
col'ect, was almost worried to death. The sum
he was under the necessity of raising, or else
stifT-r protest, was a thousand dollars. Until
wiihin a few months, lie had not done much in j
ih borrowing way. am!, therefore, bad but lim J
ited facilities for raising money out of his re?u- I
lar business. As he had already borrowed, to
meet previous payments, quite largely for him. J
he found the effort to obtain what was now required,
exceedingly difficult. At ten o'clock in
tlie morning, when ho began In look Ins notepaying
mailer* in I he face, he found himself with
a balance in bank of I wo hondred ami fifty dollar.-'.
lit* had. therefore, just the sum of seven
hundred and filly dollars to rai?e, the most of
which would have to be obtained by borrowing.
Still, he had some hope frotn collect inns, and
the first movement lie made was to send forth
one of hi* cleiks with a number of hills, direct,
iug him, before lie went out, to return by twelve
o'clock, and report his success up to that lime.
After the clerk leli, Mr. Blake spent nearly
a quarter of an hour in determining who to call
upon and request the favor of small tempo'ary
loans. Tim few friend*, to whom he iMially
made application, when he wanted a little money,
had all been borrowed from during the pre
ceding week, and he could not think of going
to them for new favors until the old ones were
cancelled. The lact was, Mr. Blake cou'd not
think of a single individual to whom lie could
apply with any certainty of success. But, a<
matters were pressing, and seven hundred and
fifty dollars must Ire raised before three o'clock,
no time was to he lost. He must he ii|> and
doing. So, to begin, Mr. Make started out,
determined to apply to a merchant with whom
he occasionally dealt, and who was reported to
have plenty of money.
"Can you spare me two or three hundred
dollars, for a week, Mr. A.he asked, on en.
lering the store of this individual.
" I am sorry to say that I cannot," Mr. A.
replied, with a bland smile. "I shall not have
a dollar over to day."
Mr. Blake tried not to appear disappointed.
But hr* feelings showed themselves in spite of
his cir.it, and lie was conscious that this was
the case, lie left the store of Mr. A., with the
thermometer ofhis (feelings at least ten degrees
lower than when !:e entered if.
He next called on Mr, II., it neighbor with
whom lie had a speaking acquaintance.
"Have vou any thing in bank, to.dav. that
you do not wish to use ?" he asked of Mr. ti.
41 Not much, I think," replied Mr. It. "But
whatever I have, is at your service."
And Mr. B. took out his check hook, and
made a lew figures on the margin thereof.
4 Will ninety dollars ho of any service to
you?" he asked.
44 It will help a little."
4* Von can have that in welcome. And I
wish it were more, for your sake."
And .Mr. B. drew a cheek for ninety dollars,
and handed it to Mr. Biake, who took it, and
went on his way. Mr. C., and Mr. 1)., to
whom he next applied, could do nothing. From
Mr. IS. he obtained a hundred and ftf'v dollars.
And this was all hn received up to twelve o'clock,
when lie returned to his store, to see
what success his clerk had met with in the mntler
of collections. The voting man had not yet
come in, although he had charged him to he
punctual. Impatiently lie waited for full hall
an hour, before the clerk made his appearance.
" Wlmt success have you had William?" asked
Mr. Blake, with ill-concealed anxiety.
"None at all, sir. I have only collected
one hill of twenty dollars."
" Gracious ! Did you see Parker ?"
"Yes, sir."
" Well ! What did he say V*
"Had no money."
"Humph ! And ISIder?"
"Yes. He will pay on Saturday,"
"And Green ?"
"flrnnn iv:i? fllll flPtnlVfl."
' What did Winter say ?"
"There's a mistake in his hill, so he alleges."
"A mere pjcuse for net settling it."
"So I think. Williams will give his note at
three, months."
He's already had nine months' Credit."
"So I told him. But it's the best he will do."
"Have you seen EUvood?"
"I called there, but he was not in."
"And Harper?"
"He was out also, and so was Morse."
"Try and sec them again, at one o'clock. In
all probability they will be in then."
"Yes, sir;" and the clerk turned away.
It was nearly one o'clock when Mr. Blake
started forth-again, and two o'clock when he
came back, with only one hundred dolla'rs additionnl
in his pocket. His clerk had been out,
and returned as he went. The parties he called
noon were not just then prepared to pay.
Four hundred dollars were still to raisp, and
flip minute hand had passed the hour mark of
twelve, nnd was on its way f.r n new revolution.
When that was made, unless this money
had hern procured, the commercial good name
of Mr. Blake would he lo-t, und his business,
perhaps, lie broken up as the result.
While the distressed merchant was sitting in
a bewildered state of mind at his desk, trying
to think of some new and certain resource in
this, his great extremity, a young man entered
his store, and came hack to where he sat?.Mr.
Blake looked at him enquiringly.
o Mr Albright."said the visiter, " wishes to
know if you can't let him have the thousand dollars
you on e him ?"
"No, tell him I can't !" replied Blake, in a
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Jill, just at that time, seemed almost 'ike an in.
suit, arid he could not control iIip feelings of inj
(liquation that instantly arose in his mind.
" When will you settle it?" enquired the
young mnn.
44 Can't tell." And Mr. Rlakc, as he said
(hi?, with a knit brow, arose from his sear, buttoned
up hi* coat, and turned away, leaving the
young man standing where he was. The Int.
ter felt angry, for the manner of Blake was insulting.
When he went back to his employ
cr, Mr. Albright said?
' Did you see Blake ?"
44 Yes, sir."
44 What did he say?"
44 He insulted me !"
44 Insulted you!"
44 Yes, sir."
44 How?"
44 By ilio n?niinor in which be refused lo pay
I your account."
44 He refilled to pay it then ?"
44 He did what was equivalent llierpto.?
When I nokeri him it* lie could pay you the
thnticand dollars, lie replied, in a quick, angry
insulting tone?4No ! Tell liirn I can't.'* I
then said, 4 When will you settle ill' 4<'an't
tell," was his frowning answer, as ho c"t up,
and MirningTrorn lite, buttoned his coat, and
lell the store."
44 That aou'tdo. I can't stand thai," said
Mr. Albright, compressing his lips and knitting
his brow, | don't believe he means to pay, if
he can help it."
44 Nor I either," said the clerk.
I .i ]?, t,nc
' I Ills is Uift RPCOIIU or mini uum sent
me an insulting reply when I asked for my
mon-y. I Jul it is ilic lust limo, for 1 will not
give I)ini another opportunity. When next he
hears from me, it will he through a different
medium. I will hear with another, if he is
civil, as long as anybody, lint, when a man
who owes me, acts as this person does, I have
! hut one way to deal with him, and that is to
I give him over into the law."
Mr. Blake's effnils, between the hours of
two and three o'clock, were, fortunately, successful.
lie was ahle to borrow the money he
wanted, and get his note out of hank.
Albright was in earnest in his threat. On
the very next day he placed Mr. Blake's ac
| count in the hands of his lawyer, witIi dircc|
lions to push it through as quickly lis it could
i he done.
j When the writ was served upon Hlnkc, he
| became very angry. Instead of going lo Albright,
and making some apology Ibr the rude
! and unsatisfactory manner in which he had
j treated his application for money, and seeing
what efleet that would have, he let tilings tnke
their course, under the infitteticu of a kind of
dogged spirit.
When the case was called in Court, there
was no defence, and judgment went liy default.
Hut not until a levy was made on the goods in
his store, under an execution immediately is.
sued, did the amrrv debtor fully realize the ex
! tremily to which things were about being driv.
on.
44 Von had hotter rail and son Albright, and
try and settle the matter with him," suggested
a friend.
" It would do no good. It is plainly his do.
torminatinn to uiuke use ot J ho advantage he
has gained,"
" There would ho no harm in trying."
' No, sir!" was firmly replied. 441 will ask
no favors of a heartless man like Itini. He knew,
t very well, that I was hard pressed, and deterJ
mined to get his own, regardless of loss to otli|
crs. He is a had man."
And so the matter was guttered to proceed.
The sheriff seized upon and sold the best part
of the debtor's stock, and obtained enough to
pay Albright his thousand dollars and settle all
court charges and officers' fees. But il was at
a serious waste of property.
There remained but one thing for poor Blake
to do after this, and that was to gh'e up what I
remained into the hands of his creditors, and
begin the world again upon nothing. While
this closing up of his affairs was going on, he
happened to meet Albright, when he addressed
hirn in the rebuking language with which our
story opens.
Mr. Albright was not really a hard, grasping
man, utterly indifferent to others. Ho had
adopted rigid proceedings, partly from the belief
that his debtor did not mean to settle his ac.
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uuiiiu ii in: tuuiu urip ii, urn* I'aiiiuiij mikmvhv
od by Ii is feelings. Had Blake asked a lillld
forbearance?had he stated his inahility to pay
for one, or two, or even six months?no thought
of a legal resort would have entered the mind
of Albright; but to have his application for the
account due him treated with indifference and
insult, was rather more than he was willing,
tamely, to bear. And it must also be said, in
justice to the creditor, that, had he known the
condition of Blake's affairs, he would have been
very far from molesting him, even under the ng.
gravating circumstance that existed. Such a
consequence as the destruction of his business
he bad not calculated. In fact, he had not refleeted
very closely upon the result to his debt j
or: bein<r too intent on iettlimz the mailer in i
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the quickest way possible under the influence
of a fretted and indignant state of mind, arising
from the unjustifiable manner in which Blake
had treated his applications tor money.
The words of the unhappy man, uttered with
so much bitterness, surprised, startled, and deep,
ly pained the individual who had caused his bu.
siness to fall in ruins upon his head, fie went
home to his luxurious and comfortable dwelling
that night; but, ns his innocent and happy
children gathered around him, he thought only
of the desolate hearth of the man against whom
lie had recovered a thousand dollars, and of his
wife and little ones turned out of their pleasant
homer' Every happy word, every loving smile,
every gay burst of laughter, rebuked him. As
eaily as he could, he relircd from the presence
of his family, to muse alone over the error he
had committed, and to determine upon some
scheme of reparation.
After Blake had enjoyed (lie satisfaction of
telling Albright a piece of his mind?a singular
kind of enjoyment?he went home to his fiirni.
ly. fie had several children. The two elder
were daughters, and had nearly arrived at the
age of womanhood. His wife, who was in very
delicate health, was a timid, shrinking, nervous
woman, to whom .almost every breath that passed
was a shock. Thus far he had kept his misfortunes
to himself. lie had feared to speak of
them at home, for he knfew, too well, that his
wife would sink undrr tho intelligence, and,
perhaps, become seriously ill. But every thing
was coming to a crisis. His business was near,
ly closed up, and, in a vpry little while, it would
be necessary to give up their comfortable home,
fall back from their social position, and become
familiar with privation in many distressing
forms. No time was, therefore, to be lost. His
family nuiM know ?ho truth he had boon so
careful to conceal from them. It was his duty
to speak plainly.
On arriving at home, lie found his wife in
one of Iter low. nervous spells. Something liar]
occurred to depress her spirits. A shadow, was
therefore, over his family, and he could not think
of making it deeper. ,
44 Ah !" ho sighed, gloomily, to himself, 44 the
sad truth must soon lie told?and what, what
will he its effects? 1 tremble to think of them!
Cruel, heartless wretch !" he thought of Albright.
44 Oh ! that you could but feci ns I do,
the conset|iienees of your own act!"
Not once did it occur to 15lake, that he was
more to blame for these consequences than the
creditor who had forced him into extremities.
He did not think of I he provocation he had giv.
en.
On the next morning, Mrs. Make continued
low in spirits, and her husband went off to his
store in a state of mind but little better. This
was to be his last day in the old place of bnsi.
ness* On the morrow, he would be adrift,
without a hundred dollars in his pocket, and no
certHin means of supporting his family within
his reach. It would be impossible to Conceal
hisnflairs much longer, for important changes
.must be made in the household economy.
Gloomy and restless sat the unhappy man nt
a desk, making up an account, when the shadow
..<Vivlm Inil iw>li>r<vl ilm store, and
walked hark Jo where lie was without lu*ing
noticed, fell across the paper on which he was
writing. He looked up quickly, and there stood
Mr. Albright. Instantly the brow of Blake
fell, and both eyes and countenance assumed an
expression of anger ami stern dislike.
" Well, sir ?" lie said sharply.
Mr. Blake," said the individual who had call,
ed, speaking in a calm voice, "angry words
never do any good "
" Have you come to heap insult upon injury
sir?" quickly retorted Blake
" No," was replied in the same calm way,
"but to talk with you as a reasonable man."
"Reason! Talk reason to a rriruinal on the
rack ?to a slave under the lash, Mr. Alright?''
"Uor your own sake, for my Rake," interrupted
Alhiighi, "let your mind fall hack from its
excitement to calmness. I hue come to talk
to you ns a man. 1 already sympathize with
you as a man. As for your misfortunes, which
you lilume upon me, they are chargeable as
much upon yourself as upon any one else."
44 Upon mo?"exclaimed .Mr. Blake.
"Yes, upon you."
"And how will you make that appear, pray?"
"You owed me a thousand dollars?"
"1 did!"
' I sent lor it."
"Well?" - -
'Was there any thing wrong in my doing
80?"
"It was'nt very kind, in you, to dun tne'to
death," ' n
"1 am not aware of having tent to you over
three or four times; and not once on thy doing
so, did you give my clerk the s.nnllest satisfaction,
hut rather, treated him with great inci*
villty, according to his itatement to me. In
fact, he at Inst, expressed a wish not to be sent
to ycu any more. You never said eVen so
much as that you would settle my account
soon; or that you would like it to stand longer.
You desired no respite and gave no satsfaction.
Now. 1 will ask vou, what would vou have
done, if any one else had treated you in a ifmi*
Iar way?"
"That's a very strange statement," said Blake,
in an altered voice.
' Ifit is not true correct meat any points
Rut, do me the justice to believe that nothing
hut a feeling of indignation at such treatment,
united with a suspicion, arising therefrom, that
you were totally indifferent about settling my
claims, ever would induce me to put my account
in the hands of a lawyer. And, further, believe
me when 1 say, that, notwithstanding all
this, if 1 had supposed my ordering an execotion
and sales was going to break up your business,
I would have thrown my claim imo the river
before I would have pressed it. You now see
I trust, that the error is not all on my tide.?^?
That if I am to blame for the unhappy consequences
that have followed, so are you."
This was a mode of putting the question al.
together unexpected by Blake, and one for
which he was nol'prepared. He saw and felt,
instantly, the error he had committed, and flfo
blame that justly belonged to him, for he remembered,
very distinctly, the manner in which
the clerk of Albright had hcen received.
i* I ennnncn f wn? wrnnsr." hn anid. in a Inw.
* ?I I - " " O'
subdued voice ; ' but a man situated as I wis,
hardly knows what be does sometime!.**
" How do you mean?'*
4 In no case did your clerk call upon me for
the settlement of your account, that! vrap.pot
worried and fretted about money matters; so
much so, that tny feelings were hardly onder my
control. And a demand for the payment of so
large a sum as a thousand dollars, coming upon
this state of mind, completely unhinged me.?
It was tvrong, I sec, but I couldn't help H at the
time. Or, at least, I did not reflect. The
last time you sent me, your clerk called when
my mind was in a state of feverish anxiety
about some payment into Bank, that I taw ho
certain way of meeting, I don't know what I
said to him. No doubt my language was ofleif*
sive. Rut, it is all past now. Sorely have I
paid for my part of this unfortunate business?
and still sadder penalties are to be visited upon
my poor wife and children."
The voice 01 uiake ten itno a tow, unsteady
tone, m he uttered the closing sentence.
44 A word of explanation: a kind reception
of my messenger; almost any answer but
such as you sent me, would have prevented all
this. Still, 1 do not consider myself to have
been entirely blameless in the matter. I fee*
ted from impulse and passion more than from
reflection; and when a man does this, he generally
does wrong. But, as you say, all ia
past now, though it is not two late, I trust to
repair some of the evil that has been done. I
am ready to do my part in this work. Is your
Hi mil v ownrn nf thp misfortune 7"
" No. I have not yet had the courage to
tell them. But I can conceal the matter no
longer. I intended doing it last night, hot
when I went home. I found my wife's spirits in
so depressed a slate that I dared not speak on
the subject-"
"It's as well. Say nothing at home for the
present. Fortunately, I have means sufficient
at my command to aid you, and I feel hound to
do all in my power to get you on your feet
again. Come and see ine to night, and we
will go over the whole matter nnd determine
what is best to be done,"
A proposition so unexpected and from such a
quarter, expelled every feeling of unkindnesl
from the heart of Blake, and caused him to see
how groat had been his weakness and folly;
and to that effect he warmly expressed himself
'I trust we will both act more wisely In (ha
future," replied Albright, Kind and respect,
fill words cost nothing, and the use of (hem a),
ways does good. I can understand very well
the stale of mind you were in, and can forgive,
to some extent, the manner in which yuil trea.
ted my application for money. But the ftu&ctiouupon
yourself has been so serious, that I
am sure no one else will prer have cause to
complain ofyou for the same error. As far at
in our power lies, let us repair the injury that
lias been done, and take good care not to com*
mil any like follies in the future."
California emigrants, says the St, Louis He-,
publican of the 13th, are crowding in upon us.
Many go to Independence, St Joseph, and other
up-river towns, to "outfit," While others are
availing themselves of the passenger trains getting
ready in this city. Among others, Messrs.
Jerome, Hanson, and Smith, are nearly ready,
and their carriages; niado under their owp personal
inspection, give every reason to suppose
that they will stand the trip well. They are as
stout and strong aswooa, iron ana leamer can
make tlicm; and they propose to take every
comfortable thing with them. The proprietors
have taken the wise precaution to purchase all
their mules in advance of the time of starting,
and they are of an age, and will be put in a condition
which will insure the safe performance.
of the journey to California.
There are now in all Germany, including
Austria, 1,410 temperance societies, and no less
than 1,0*10,701 members.