Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-04-02

GEN'L PIERCEs CARRIAGE AND HoRsEs-On
Thursday the splendid carriage and horses pre-
sented by the Boston people to Gen'l. Pierce ar
rived in New York, en- route for Washington The
horses, which cost s 400 are of light bay col
or, with switch tails. The carriage is very cost
ly one, the materials used in its construction be-
ing all manufactured in New England 1t weighs
about 1900 pounds and cost about 81 500 1t
is made in the French caleche style. The whole
equipage, including harness, DC, cost $780,
This handsome present will be presented to Gen.
Pierce at Washington, by Messrs. Dunbar, Rid
die and Fetridge, who are the committee on be
half of the Boston people.
A PARTY IN RoME-A letter from Rome saws
''Miss Cushman and five other ladies', including
Grace Greenwood, Miss Hosmer, the young sculp-
tress--a funny little fellow, bright, wide awake
and short as pie crust-Miss Vaughan, Miss Hays
&c, are living together like the Happy Family,
in the COrso. Wicked wits call them the strong
minded party They have receptions every Wed
nesday evening"
A MODEL SPEEcH.-Here is model speech
made by the President of the Northamptonshre
(England) Farming and Grazing Society, on pre-
sentlng prize cup to young man =
''Now, young man, take that cup, and remem-
Der also to plough deep and drink shallow.
Strikes among the mechanics for higher wage.
are now the order of the day in cities The brick
layers of Cincinnati have struck. The fnishers
blacksmiths, moulders and makers of patterns o
that city, also held meeting to take measures fol
higher wages on Tuesday night at which two
thousand persons were present While money il
so abundant and the prices of every thing advanc
ed, 1t is of course right that the wages of labol
should rise in proportion.
A planter informs the editor of the MiIledgevill,
Union, that the buzzards are attacking his stock
He says that, within few weeks so great had beer
the destruction among his lambs and the youns
! pigs, by the buzzards, he could no longer trus
them out OF the supervision of some person on hi
premises. He had witnessed an attack made b,
them upon a full grown eve, which would havI
proved successful but for timely interference
An old lady once said, that her idea of grea
man, ''a man who is keerful of his clothes, dom
drink spirits, kin read the Bible without spelin,
the words, and kin eat cold dinner on wash da1
to save the women folks the trouble of cooking.
There is sometimes savage stretch of the i'm
aginaton in abuse. Two editors ouarrellnp ON
west, one says that the other is so internal meal
that he will have to die by subscription.
"My good woman" said the evangelist, as b
offered her tract shave you got the gospel here?
~ siI' We maven I, repled the old crone, "bu
they got it awfully down to New Orleans
The editor of the New Orleans Picayune wa
shown the other day couple of gold watches, re
Gently rescued from the wreck of the old steame
Tennessee, which was sunk nearly thirty year
ago. They were found on her deck under nearI
fifteen feet water, where they had remained a
that long time with an amount of water and din
flowing over them sufficient to have made anothe
State. The gold castings were not at all injured
The steel work was very much rusted, and til
crystals broken. The painting on the face howev
Ter. was as fresh As originally.