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TUESDAY, JUNE 26.
fkc Ckrtaldc * Icktlad Reader.
We give tn another column of this mor
ning’s paper foe laborious /do <fc «e of the
Chronicle d- Sentinel, in reply to oar r ®*
marks upon the present relations of Gov.
Reeder towards the Administration. With
the exoeption of its arrogance and the good
natural stupidity with which the rejoinder
of our cotemporary furnished us to our
hand a full refutation of all it has said and
has to say upon the subject of Reeder’s of
ficial position, there is literally nothing
whatever in this reply. And, by-the-by,
just let us say here to the Chronicle & Sen-
find, that its swaggering air is in very bad
taste. Augusta once was a grocery market
and the Chronicle once gave the earliest for
eign nows, and the editor of that sheet
pluming himself upon his accessories, could
years back assume metropolitan airs with
some show of decency. But now we will
have the Chronicle to know that its inland
position and its present gouty inefficiency
make all this sort of cockney assumacy very
funny.
But to the question. The real issue be
tween the Chronicle and ourselves is, did
we, for the purpose of “ gulling ” the pub
lic, assert that Gov. Reeder would not be
sent back to Kansas by the President, and
has he “relumed?" Of course only such a
“ slow coach ” apprehension of an argu
ment as we usually find in our cotemporary
would have stumbled on the idea that we at
tached the least consequence to Reeder’s
bodily presence in Kansas.
We asserted, upon what we yet regard as
perfectly reliable testimony, that Governor
Reedor would not be returned officially to
his post-, and in our recent comments upon
what the Chronicle & Seniind had to say
upon that subject, wc gave it as our belief
that Reeder had not been allowed to go back
to die territory as its Governor. We are
not in the habit of reading for the sense of
what the Chronicle says upon political ques
tions the mere language which it em
ploys. That paper, in most instances, in
sinuates impressions obliquely, rather than
says what it has to 6ay in round, unam
biguous terms. We knew well enough that
in the present instance the attempt is being
mado to insinuate that we asserted that Gov.
Reeder would not be suffered to return as
Governor of Kansas, and that he has never
theless so returned, and yet whon the event
—as we firmly believe it will do—comes,
our contemporary will dodge out by saying
for once tho literal truth—that Reeder did
carry his carcass back to Kansas. Don’t
you see? The letter of Marcy quoted by a
singular fatuity of the Chronicle proves as
clearly as documentary proof can establish
anything, that, so far from the President’s
allowing Reeder to return as Governor of
Kansas, that worthy contumaciously refused
to account to tho superior authority who
had already begun an inquisition into his
improper conduct, and darted off in hot
haste,jas if on purpose to elude the removing
power. What if Reeder’s successor is noic
on his way to oust him? What if he is
ousted ? Will the Chronicle “vehemently”
applaud a step so just and patriotic?
Will it “stick a pin there?” We see the
Editor of the Chronicle sticking that pin
now—over one of our shoulders. No argu
ment can be adduced against the Adminis
tration. because it did not begin in time
with Reeder’s case. From many respecta
ble quarters, we have all heard that ever
since Reeder’s return from his post, his mal
feasance in office, has been a subject of cabi
net consultation. The correspondent of the
Charleston Standard, who has by liis circura-
speotness, acquired the highest character
among Washington correspondents, has fre
quently alluded to this topic, and as far as
the news of what was done at the Council
Board lias transpired, he has given the
country to understand that Reeder would bo
brought to account. Here is his last letter
which we give the Editor of the Chronicle,
to show that we do “ read the papers ”
sometimes.
Washington, June 19th, 1855.
A few days since I gave you the result of
a consultation held at tho Prosideut's House,
in relation to Governor Reeder and his
speculations in Indian lands. I then stated
that it had been determined by the Presi
dent, that Gov. Reeder should not return to
Kausas, and that his associates in land
speculation should also retire from office.—
An interesting correspondence, published
in the Union of yesterday morning, con
firms all your correspondent stated, and
proves his socrces of information to he en
tirely reliable. It was determined by the
Executive that Gov. Reeder should not re
turn. and Secretary Marcy finding the Gov.
in New York and about leaving for the West,
attempted to arrest his progress by writing
him that the President, “consistently with
his convictions of duty, could not ailow his
present official relation to the territory to
continue, unless the impressions which noir
rested upon his mind should be removed by
satisfactory explanations.” It was believed
by Secretary Marcy that this note would
act as a tie exeat upon the movements of tho
Governor, but in this ho was Radiy mistaken
for the Governor with the greatest sang
for id imaginable, informs the Secretary of
State that his note was filed away to be ans
wered at a moro convenient season, when it
could he attended to ‘without a gross neglect
of official duty.’ This cool dodge of the
noose aroused the lion in the old Secretary,
and it is now understood that a successor to
Reeder will he appointed at once, with in
structions to push on to Kansas with all
possible dispatch, and bearing in his pocket
the card of dismissal for Reeder.
Now bear in mind, that, at au early
date, according to newspaper reports,
Reeder’s misconduct hod been upon the
tapis, that virtually he was suspended, and
any honorable mind would so have construed
the circumstances, and that os far back as
the fifth of June, a copy of Clarke’s letter of
impeachment, was forwarded by the State
Department to Reeder at Easton. This is
perfectly conclusive with any man that will
listen tc au argument that the Administra
tion has I jeon completely tricked by this
artful dodge of the Kansas Governor.
Here is no doubt the whole truth about
Reeder. He was, on paper, sound as need
be on the Wihnot Proviso, the Nebraska
Bill and all kiudred questions. After his
appointment the tremendous Freesoil and
K. N. revulsion began and anti-Nebraska
bore down all before it. And if the editor
of the Chronicle “stuck any pins there,”
we never heard much noise made about it,
at least iu that paper. Reeder soon saw
that, after making all he could reasonably
expect from the unlawful specula*! - in
Kansas lands, he had another chance n. ft to
aggrandize himself, and he has no doubt
made good use of it. He has resolved to
compel the President to remove him, and the
day that this is done the freesoilers aud K.
N’s. will decree to make Reeder Goveruor of
Pennsylvania. And when this is done we
now give our cotemporary fair notice, we
will be looking out for them pins, and a
share of our “ vehement reprobation.”—
But any way we are very secure in our state
of mind. We love no man, North or
South, so well that we will place his fortunes
against our rights. Let the Chronicle feel
easy about that. We would be rejoiced to
aaj, with the same sincerity that we believe
that our cotemporary did not hate remorse-
I—sly enough to do this.
previous history, but tothe ordinary utotives
of human conduct, in formingour opinion
of Ids course as to Reeder. And in this
view, what earthly inducement could have
led the President to efihee at this late day a
record full of honorable desert, by a petty
little manoeuvre that oould not have result
ed by any possibility, in the least personal
advantage in the eyes of freesoilers—while
it utterly destroyed him with all sound con
servative men. After breasting the storm
of abolition fanaticism till it overwhelmed
him, is it at all likely that when he had lost
all but his honor, that he would have thrown
this after his other losses ?
As we are in for a penny, we will go in
for a pound. One bit of gossip having in
volved us in some caustic notices, we will
make another venture in that line upon the
homeopathic principle that the “hair,” &c.,
Ac. A gentleman—Democratic Know Noth
ing—once distinguished in Tennessee poli
tics, noic more notorious than distinguish
ed, said iu Atlanta a day or two since, that
"Reeder would go to Kansas to be blacked
and riddeu on a rail per contract,” which
being interpreted means, we suppose, that
now the Administration is conniving at any
sort of outrage upon the person of Reeder
that will give evidence of its bad feelings
towards the Governor.
This state of feeling, if it really exists,
does not consist, we think, with the degree
of tenderness that the Chronicle seems to
think, is entertained at Washington for this
Government pet. The events of a week or
so will settle the argument, however, be
tween ourselves and the Chronicle, and we
will then see how much is to be unsaid be
tween us—how much “vehement reproba
tion” there will be expended, or how many
“pins stuck” by our reading and watchful
cotemporary.
One word in conclusion. The Chronicle
tries the President as the Puritan tried the
witch. He threw her in the river to test
her innocence. If she Bank and drowned
she was acquitted, but if she floated she
was to be stoned to death for a witch. If
Pierce did send Reeder back he should die
the death. If he removes him because he
speculates in lands he should still receive
no mercy. Any way, Pierce must die at
the hands of the Chronicle. We think
more because he is a Democrat than because
he is a Freesoiler.
[Fr*m the Chronicle & Sentinel.]
Gov. Reeder.
Governor Reeder is not “understood to
have returned to his post” We don't, in
WEDNESDAY JUNI
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fa L«>t.
of wit 1
the first place, believe that Reeder could be ! ’V’’. V1
sent hack*. We saw a gentleman yesterday, ; the 5>ni
just from Kansas, who roundly asserted that S enc I llke 006 "“cb i-resse* us m the
so great was the indignation of the people foe Reeder cate, we think we can make bet-
in the Territory, against this functionary’s ' ter shift with logic than wit; and so we
abuse of his office, that if Reeder returned i will compromise on these terms with the
We toerfdon’ t* belie ve^ that 6 cSnend Pte£ ifif-oglHend Hooper takh^bg laug\
that they are watched, and will be brought
We hare not only looked to Geo. Plane'* to «oeoi»ot fox violating the law oo the 4th.
[From tho Columbus Times & Sentinel.]
Gov. Johnson on the Georgia Platform.
Executive Chamber, 1
Milledgeville, Ga., June 21, 1855. j
Dear Sir: In your note of the 19th inst.,
you refer me to the following language con
tained in my letter to Maj. Howard, to wit:
“ Suppose Kansas witli such a constitution
should be rejected, as she probably will,
aud an appeal should be made to the non
slaveholding States to return members to
Congress, who will vote for her admission,
what hope should we then have of a suc
cessful appeal, if we shall have dissolved
our party alliance with them ? Absolutely
none.” You say that my “ opponents con
tend that in this paragraph I show a dispo
sition to dally with the North, instead of
meeting the issue fairly and squarely made
by the 4th Resolution of the Georgia Plat
form.” Hence, “ to place tho question be
yond all cavil,” you request me “to indicate
the course I would pursue as Governor of
Georgia, if Congress should reject Kansas,
because of the existence of slavery therein.”
I comply cheerfully with your request. I
wish to be understood upon this subject—1
intend to be. Though I think my letter,
construed as a whole, ought to satisfy the
most hypercritical, “ yet 1 will say, that I
6hall never “ dally with the North ” upon
any question involving the rights of the
South—no, never, never. But to the point
of your enquiry.
Tho 4th Resolution of the Georgia Plat
form contemplates dissolution, upon the
happening of certain contingencies. The
rejection of “ Kansas because of the exist
ence of slavery therein,” would be one of
those contingencies. The separation of
Georgia from the confederacy must he the
act of the Sovereignty. As the Executive
of the State, tho 4th Resolution clothes me
with no power to proclaim such separation.
Nor am I vested with it by constitutional
provision. Therefore, if Kansas should
thus he rejected, I would feel bound to take
such steps, as would elicit the action of the
sovereignty of the State, in execution of the
Georgia Platform. Indeed, I shall bring the
whole subject before the next Legislature,
and recommend to them to provide forthecal-
ling of a State Convention, in theevent of such
rejectiou. to determine the time and mode of
the “disruption of every tie that binds her to
the Union.” Whether elected or not, this
much I shall do, in my message to the General
Assembly; and if elected, and the emergen
cy shall arise during my Executive term, I
shall unhesitatingly act as above indicated.
The Georgia Platform is the voice of the
State. It emanated from the same source
that framed the constitution. It is equal to
that in solemnity aud validity; and as Ex
ecutive of the State, I am as much bound
by it as by the constitution itself. So I
construe my obligation as a States Rights
man, and so would I render to it tbe most
implicit, prompt and energetic obedience.
Your ob’t. serv’t.,
HERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON.
Col. T. Lomax, Columbus, Ga.
The European War.
Tho news from Europe for several of the
late arrivals has had a very lively interest
on this side the Atlantic, on account of the
extraordinary speculative demand for Cot
ton which has characterized the commer
cial part of the intelligence. This really
lias nothing to do with the War. It iB sim
ply the result of the now established fact
that the supply of Cotton will be much less
this season than was confidently anticipated
in Europe. The extent of the supply is now
pretty well appreciated, and prices are lik
ely to 1)0 more steady.
But the political news hv the recent ar
rivals is of great interest, and has much
more of the positive than had hertfore char
acterized our intelligence.
The attempts to patch up peace at Vienna
have failed and are abandoned. War, for
the purpose of forcing peace is now the cry
of the Allies. Their movements in the
Crimea have felt a corresponding invigora-
tion. Their operations have been more hold
and more successful. With vastly increa
sed forces they have exhibited enlarged
plans, and have gone no small way toward
the conquest of the Crimea.
It does not seem that Russia has put for
ward the same amount of force to defend
the Crimea that the allies have gathered for
its conquest. Why should she; Accord
ing the best appearances the siege of Se
bastopol, even if the allies capture theplace,
will hav6 cost them the best part of a two
years campaign, the sacrifice of two hun
dred thousand men, and the c.ost of three
hundred millions of money, its capture,
with the conquest of the whole peninsula of
tho Crimea, will not impair the ability of
Russia to defend the body of her territories,
and will therefore be no step towards the
humiliation of that empire. It will simply
he a change of the scene of tho war to posi
tions which Russia will have greater means
of defending, and the allies less facility for
assailing. The question will then become
one of time and endurance. Thus we have
the prospect of a war of indpfinite endu
rance. Russia may abandon the Crimea,
and France contend to hold the practical
sovereignity of Turkey, while England acts
as High Constable of the Seas, laboriously
expending her money for the agradizement
of ner rival.—Ch. Mercury.
The Liquor Lait.—Considerable appre
hension is entertained that serious trouble
is to come out of the enforcement of the
Liquor law, at New York, od the 4th of
July. The Commercial says Mayor Wood
is placed in a most trying and unpleasant
position, and it recommends that no arrests
be made on that day, bat that the Mayor
issue his proclamation to warn liquor dealers
would so outrage the common sense of jus
tice in tbe country, or so wilfully cast from,
him the confidence and support of the South,
by a step so wanton and silly. So far from
attempting to “silence the clamors of tbe
Democracy against the Administration,”
should this step be resolved upon, we will
do our utmost to call public attention to so
reprehensible a course, and will visit it with
the most vehement reprobation. After the
intelligence from Washington, current in
every direction, it is surprising that any
one will presume to say Reeder “is under
stood to have returned to his post.” Wait,
and we will see if the President is crazy, as
some would have us think.
The above is the reply of the Intelligencer
to our statement, on the 19th inst, that
“Reeder was understood to have returned
to Kansas.” In charity for our contempo
rary, we give him credit for not having read
the papers ; otherwise he would not have
controverted, much less contradicted our
statement; unless he would raise a quibble
and assert that Reedeb could not be said
! “to have returned” to Kansas, when he was
j only on his way there. When we penned
| the article, his departure from home and
j passage through New York on his way to
! Kansas bad been annunced, and had reached
us through the New York and other papers.
Since then tbe following correspondence
has appeared in the Washington Union, to
which we desire to invite the attention of
all Southern men, especially those Demo
cratic journals who have gulled their politi
cal friends with the idea that Reeder would
be removed because of his Freesoiiism! So
far from that being any objection to him
in the estimation of the President, is not
even alluded to iu Mr. Marcy’s letter, but
he is called to account for an entirely dis
tinct matter—“land speculations”—and no
allusion whatever is made to his efforts to
enforce liis Freesoiiism upon the people of
that Territory. Will the Intelligencer ex-
! >lain this? Does the President fear to of
fend his Freesoil friends at the North by
j placing his removal upon the Ground of
j Freesoiiism? We pause for a reply, prem
ising when the Intelligencer “visits the ad-
| ministration with vehement reprobation” for
, “a step so wanton and silly—so reprehensi
\ ble a course”—we will make the fact known
! to our readers, and ask them to “slick a pin
| there.”
But to the correspondence. Here it is:
IF. L. Marry, Esq. to Guv. Reeder.
Department op State,
Washington, June II, 1865.
j Sir : I am dircetu by the President to inform
you that, with the developments before him in re
ference to purchases of Kansas half-breed reser
vations mado by you in the Territory of Kansas,
aud in which, as you stato, Judges Johnston and
Elmore, of the Supreme Court of the Territory,
and Mr. Isaacs, the district attorney, participated,,
and in reference also to other speculations by you
in lands of the territory, apparently in violation of
acts of Congress and of regulations of the Depart
ment, he feels embarrassed to see how, consistent
ly with his convictions of duty, ho can allow the
present official relation to the territory of yourself
or either of the other gentlemen named to continue
unless the impressions which now rest upon his
mind shall bo removed by satisfactory explana
tions.
The President will, however, be glad tc receive
and consider any explanations which you may de
sire to make in regard to the character and extent
of tho transactions above referred to, and particu
larly the matters spoken of in the letter of G. W,
Clarke, Indian Agent, dated May 8,1855, and ad
dressed to tbe Superintendent of Indian Affairs
for Kansas, a copy of which was forwarded to you
at Easton on tbe 5th inst.
, I nm. sir, very respectfully, your ob’t. serv’t.,
W L. MARCY.
1 Hon. A. H. Reeder, care of John Cochran,
Surveyor, Ac., City of New York.
Gov. Reeder to W. L. Marcy, Esq.
Sir: Your letter of the 11th, postmarked the
: 12th, was handed me between ten and 11 o'clock
j last night, after I had made all my arrangements
! to leave for Kansas at 6 o’clock this morning.
I could not remain at home to reply fully to the
| communication without gross neglect of my offi-
i cial duties, and it is equally clear that I cannot
give to the grave matters it contains the deliberate
reply which they require while I am en route day
and night. Nothing is left me, therefore, but to
proceed to tho Territory and reply to your com
munication there. I wrote to tbe President yes-
day from Easton, ami must express my regret that
your communication was not made at an earlier day.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
A. H. REEDER.
Hon. W. L. Marcy Sectary of State.
This correspondence not only makes no
allusion to his Freesoilsm and efforts to car
ry the elections in Kansas upon that issue,
but charges him alone with improper land
speculations, and invites his explanation of
those charges; and those alone which im
plies an assurance that if bis explanations
are satisfact ry, be will be retained in office.
Has the Intelligencer recovered from its
“surprise” at our assertion.
Resignation of Gen. Canrobert—Pellssi-
er and Pieton.
A Parisian correspondent writes to the
N. Y. Courier & Enquirer:
“Now. incredible though it may appear—
all this has taken place without the slight
est suspicion of Canrobert’s personal cour
age—of which, indeed, he has given on sev
eral occasions unmistakable evidence. Tbe
fact is that he wanted that devil in him
which Ney, and Murat, and Uocbe, aud
Augerau, and Kleber, and Lsissalle, and
Pajol, and Excelmans, and even Westerman
had, and which Peliissier has. Canrobert
would head a charge and mount a breach
os fearlessly as Peliissier, hut he would nut
calmlv and unreleutlessly suffocate in a cave
as Peliissier did, twelve hunded human be
ings, of all ages and of both sexes. Brave
as Iloche, Moreau or Kleber, Peliissier has
not their humanity. Daring, remorseless,
bloody, he is, I fear, ‘the man’ for the occa
sion. ~ If he possesses talent, and he live, he
will occupy a distinguished place in histo
ry.
“There is a remarkable similarity in his
character to Sir Thomas Pieton, whose dash
and courage attoned for his less amiable
qualities. Peliissier is the favorite of those
dare-devils, the Zouaves, as Pieton was of
those wild Irishmen, the Connaught Ran
gers, (the 88th regiment of British infantry)
and whom (I wonder why) he dignified with
the title of ‘Connaught Robbers.’ ‘Ye eve
ry thing but cowards,' he used to say to
them, and yet when he joined the British
army in Jnne, 1815, immediately before the
battle of Ligny, those identical Connaught-
men rushed upon him, kissed him—yea,
kissed his horse and his trappings—such
was the respect they held him in because of
his intrepidity.
“Like Peliissier, there was a blot in Pic-
ton’s escutcheon—inhumanity. The name
of the tortured victim of his cruelty—Lou
isa Calderon—sullies a reputation which
would otherwise ba anviablp, as the smoke
of the Daran obscures the glory of Peliis
sier.
“Like the delight of the Connaught Ran-
f ers when Sir Thomas Pieton joined the
Iritish army, four days before the battle of
Waterloo, the ecstacy of the Zouaves at the
arrival of tbsir idol. General Peliissier, is i
unbounded.”
Louisiana on the Georgia Platform.
The platform of principles laid down by
the Democratic State Convention, at Mil
ledgeville, In not only the true ground for
every man in Georgia to stand upon, in the
present crisis of National politics, but is the
g-ound on which every other Southern State
should, and we believe will, eventually, rally
in defence of the rights of the Sonth.
Louisiana, we are gratified to see, has taken
her stand by the side of Georgia. At the
recent Democratic Convention in that State,
held at Baton Rouge, the Georgia Platform
was formally adopted os an integral portion
of the Democratic creed. In regard to this
position.- the N. 0. Bulletin, a Whig paper
says;
“This is a rational, national, conservative
profession of faith, which every good citizen
can subscribe to, and the party that does
not adopt it in its details, as well as in the
aggregate, cannot expect to be sustained bv
Southern rote*/’
and 'Kethaetrgument. We are pal into the pil
lory of oar contemporary’s raillery on the
22d after this sort:
Editors in Court.—“Mr. Sheriff, call Mr.
Howard, of the Atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer.
A neat, well-dressed gentleman, of fine
expression of countenance, indicating firm
ness and intelligence, enters the courtroom.
“Call Britain, of the Advertiser and Ga
zette.
“Here 1” answers a tolerably good look
ing fellow, with rather an impudent air.
By permission of the public we shall cate
chise these gentlemen, in regard to the case
of the people of the South vs. the Pierce
Stock Jobbing Company.
“Mr. Howard, be good enough to give us
your attention. Are you a Southern man ?
“Bone and gristle!” (This with tbe air
that makes you believe it.)
“Can you inform us who is the Governor
of Kansas at the present time?”
Howard flushes up a little, and says that
he cannot say with absolute certainty.
“Pray give us your best impression on
the subject.”
“Well, sir, I believe—I fear—that Gov.
Reeder is still the Executive of that Territo
ry.
“Ah, indeed 1 Can you tell. Mr. How
ard, who appointed Reedor to rule over Kan
sas?”
Brittain at this point begins to shuffle in
to a corner, muttering very savagely. Mr.
Howard answers with a jerk:
“The administration, sir!”
“The present able, constitutional, Demo-
ocratic Administration—is it ?”
“The same, sir.”
“Then, I suppose, Governor Reeder is a
correct exponent of the principles and prac
tice of the administration, so far as politics
—and especially the subject of slavery—is
concerned ?”
“You A-now he ain’t 1” growls Britain.
Howard replies:
“He is not, in my opinion; and I beg to
say that only a short time since, I was as
sured by a distinguished member of the Ad
ministration, that Reeder would be re
moved, and not suffered to go back to Kan
sas.”
“ Very good. Mr. Brittain, you say very
emphatically that Reeder is not a true ex
ponent of the principles of the administra
tion—pray, in what does he fail to exhibit
their views?”
“He’s a d-d freesoiler, and imposed him
self on Pierce. The administration, I learn
has forced him to resign?”
“Ah. well wasn’t the administration forced
by the clamor of the South, to ask him to
resign?
Both Witnesses: “No! This constitution
al Democratic administration became sat
isfied that he was a freesoiler and had at
tempted to swindle the South out of Kansas
and told him, mero motu, to walk the
plank!”
“Mr. Brittan, as you have some papers
under your arm, will you he kind enough to
examine if you have any from New York,
of the 26th June, inst?”
“I have.”
“Any notice of Reeder, therein?”
“1 find,” says Brittain, actually blushing
a deep purple blush, “that Governor Reeder
passed through that city, en route fur Kan
sas. on the 15th inst., accompanied by his
private secretary.”
“Then he hasn’t resigned nor isn’t remo
ved?”
“Spose not—but what the devil business
have you to do with whether this Democrat
ic administration removes Reeder or not—
you're no Democrat 1”
“Hold on! Have you heard any thing
(as per correspondence of the Charleston
Standard,) to the effect that bis associates,
Judges Johnson and Elmore and Attorney
General Isaacs, will also be driven out, in
order to place the whole change on the
absurd pretence (as to them.) of “ official
speculation,” and to convince the freesoilers
that Reeder wbb not removed for being a
freesoiler?”
“At this juncture, both editors hear a
noise in the street, and being afraid some
body will get hurt out there, rush incontin
ently forth into the cool air—and break up
the investigation.”
But on the very next our amiable friend
either relents or forgets and makes the
amende after this sort:
“ We think it is a pretty well ascetained
fact that Reeder has gone back, “ with his
private secretary.” And yet, it is possible
that Pierce—or rather Marcy—to appease
the dissatisfaction of such out-spoken Dem
ocrats as our friend of the Intelligencer, may
intend to remove him.”
Handsome Prizes.
We unintentionally omitted, at the time,
to record the fact that a friend of ours—a
citizen of this city, and one who earns his
bread‘‘by the sweat of his face’’—had the
good fortune to draw the snug little sum of
$2,000 in class 2 of the Fort Gaines Acade
my Lottery. We have no idea how he feels
under the sensation ; but think, if we were
a Peck and should meet with such a wind
fall, it would swell us to a half bushel!—
We congratulate him on his good luck.
The following which we clip from the
Norfolk (Va.) News of recent date, is equ
ally gratifyiug, since it records the good
fortune of a poor orphan. Qur friend
Swan seems to dispense his favors in the
right channel. Success to him 1
“An orphan boy, named Henry Miller,
residing in this city, some time in last March
purchased a lottery ticket in the Southern
Military Academy Lottery, at Montgomery,
Ala., (to which place he sent for it,) for
which he paid $2 50—the only money he
had in the world. He did not receive the
drawing as soon as he expected, and gave
up all hope of ever receiving any return
for his invested capital. Judge of his sur
prise, when he received last week a letter
from Samuel Swan, the manager, announ
cing that his ticket had drawn $4,000! He
has already comeinto possesion of his splen
did prize, and has placed it in the Fells
Point Savings Institution.”
Maj. Qqnal^aoq
A New York paper, in describing the late
Know Nothing ratification meeting in that
e ty, at which Maj. A. J. Donaldson, of
Tennessee, figured, gives a very accurate
measurement of the unhappy politician, in
the following paragraphs:
“Among those who were so unwise as to
seek notoriety at the meeting on Monday
evening, was Major Andrew'Jucxsoti Don
aldson, of ffennessee. lie plead a severe
cold as an excuse for banding to the report
ers a long and feeble tirade against the
present administration atWashington, which
he professed to be unable to read.
“ He wouid have reason to congratulate
himself if bjs cold bad incapacitated him
from writing as well as reading it. He hqd
been, it will be remembered, an applicant
to the President for the offices of miniver
to Berlin and consul to Liverpool, liis
qualifications for those places were more
correctly estimated by the executive than
by himself, and he was not appointed. It
is a common infirmity of weak men to re
sent neglect in exact proportion to tbe de
gree they may have deserved it, and so it
has proved with the Major, ne joined the
Know Nothings for the better chance he
thought it afforded him of striking at the
authors of bis disappointment, and has pub
lished a speech for them which would occu-
S f a column and a half of the Evening
'osl, in which nothing is so distinctly
proved as that he is far less troublesome to
the administration as an enemy than as a
friend.”
Floui) on the Decpin$.—4* ypw Qrlpqqs
flour has declined fifty to sevpntyrfive cents
within a day or two, and superfine was sold
ob Tuesday at $8 50 per bbl. This will be
food naira for hoosskispan.
[From jjfifci. Y.i&tizcn.vMBe 23d.]
The “YictMiei” la the Crimea.
. The story of the late brilliant victories in
the Crimea must be received with caution.
Tbe news, be it remembered, had only
reached England, up to the'‘sailing of the
last-steamer, by telegraph, and that instru
ment is in the hands,- and under the exclu
sive control of the government, and we may
be sure they will use it for political purposes
at home. Tbe London press does not hesi
tate to say that intelligence has been re-
oeired, which was not promulgated; nor is
it likely in this ease that much which was
announced, was not received at all. The
inconvenient habit of telling the truth about
the conduct of tbe war, threatened to over
turn the oligarchy which so miserably con
ceived and carried out the Crimean cam
paign. A continuance of disasters would
have provoked revolution, so it became
necessary to counteract the popular indig
nation by exciting popular enthusiasm.
John Bull is always ready to believe that he
has beaten h : s enemy, no matter upon
what doubtful authority the assurance is
based; therefore, we find the English press
teeming with windy boastings ; setting down
the very first advantage gained by the
Allies, since the war began, as a certain
victory, and proclaiming the conquest o
the Crimea already achieved. But “Sebas
topol is not taken” though Kertch and
Arabat may be; the position of the Rus
sians is not turned, though the Palace
d’Armes is occupied by the soldiers of the
savage Pellisier.
Granting that the Straits of Kertch and
the Sea of Azoff are in the possession of the
allied cruisers, and that, too, without a con
test for their occupation, it only proves that
these points are not indispensable to the
Russians. If they were, he assured that
they would not have been left undefended
for eight months, with the British fleet lying
at Balaklara, Alushta in the bands of the
allies; and the whole coast from Eupatoria
to Kertch—from the western to the north
eastern shore of the Crimea—open to their
fleet; without a solitary battery mounted
with Russian guns, or a solitary ship to
cross the path of any expedition destined
for the capture, now so tardily attempted
and accomplished. So far from the occupa
tion of Kertch and the ports on the Sea of
Azoff, placing the besieged city at the mercy
of the besiegers, we think it will be found
of very small importance, amounnting pro
bably to a trifling inconvenience to the
Russians in getting supplies of provisions ;
but to suppose that the garrison has been
s > dependent up>n this mode of transit, as
English journals would have us believe, is
to charge the Russian commanders with the
grossest carelessness and mismanagement;
a conclusion which is not warranted by a
single act of theirs during the campaign.
That the line of the Tcheruaya should
he occupied hy the allies is not a matter of
surprise; it might hare been so at any time
within the last three months, if there was
pluck enough to attempt it. The Russians
are not a match for the allied troops on the
open field. Alma proved that—if it needed
any proof; and the Russians have shown
by their tactics since then that they are a-
ware of the fact. Thus we find them, ac
cording to Peliissier, retiring from the open
field, and taking shelter behind their en
trenchments when the French troops ad
vanced. And .of the victory of the Place
d’Armes, says Gortschacoff, we lost twenty-
fivo hundred men driving back the enemy:—
driving them back from where ? There is
not a word about being driven back in the
French and English despatches. It is all
a “brilliant victory” in them. Did not the
French attack the entrenchments, and were
they not driven back with a loss of “about
1,200” as Peliissier says—but, no doubt,
with a loss of a great deal more— *n episode
which the official despatches (as they come
from the Tuileries and Downing street) do
not care to relate. By that attack it does
not appear that the allies took any impor
tant Russian outworks; it was merely a
trench commenced the day before. The
next steamer will furnish us with the de
tails of these victories. They will be inter
esting ; and we think they will prove that
Sebassopol is not much nearer being taken
now than it was six months ago.
Reported Cap*me of Kort Lamarir by
Indians.
The telegraph brought us yesterday t‘ie
report of the capture of Fort Lamarie, in
Western Kansas, by the Indians. The
report was based on accounts contained in
the St. Louis Republican.
We have now before us the Republican of
June 16th, with the startling intelligence.—
It is embraced in the following letter from
Kansas Territory:
[Correspondence of the Republican.]
Whitehead, K. T. June, 9, 1855.
Mi - . Henry Smith has just informed us
that a man stopped at his house this morn
ing, who told him that he slept at the Great
Nehema Mission last night, with an express
rider, who brought startling news from the
Plains. It was to the effect that Fort La
marie was in the hands of the Indians, and
that Messrs. Nave and McCord of Andrew
county, Mo., had been robbed at Ash Hol
low, of four hundred and twenty head of
cattle, sixteen horses, several wagons, twen
ty-three mules, aud all their stores and pro
visions, and were left entirely destitute.
The particulars of the capture of Lamarie
were not given. The express merely stated
that the Indians had gathered there in great
force and had taken the lort, and that, as he
came by Ash Hollow on his way to the
United States, be saw Messrs. Nave and
McCord and their teamsters and drovers,
who were without horses or food, and stated
to him the fact of the robbery, and that no
lives were lost. This news has occasioned
great excitement here and in St. Joseph.
If it is true, the small force of infantry
that has just started out, will only afford to
the Indians so many scalps. They can
offer no more resistance to two thousand
warriors upon the plains, than could an in
fant to a giant.
I have always contended, and am sustain
ed in my view by every frontier war, that
the Government should have employed some
two or three regiments of Western volunteers
for this service, and appointed officers to the
command who had some experience of the
? tains and mountains, and the Indians; and
mentioned Col. D. D. Mitchell, of St.
Louis, as a gentleman eminently qualified
to lead the expedition. They would have
gone out understandingly, and if they found
it necessary to fight, they would knew how
to do it effectively, by out-riding the In
dians, cutting them off from the Buffalo,
and allowing them no time to recuperate
themselves or their horses.
The Indians carry no stores w]th them,
and depond upon tbp chances of each day
for their “ daily bread,” and can fight as
long as they roam with the buffalo, and no
infantry can cut them off. Western men,
mounted on good horses, and armed with
rifles, and who are familiar with their hab
its.and modes of warfare, would pursue and
hunt them down, and whip them into sub
mission at a saving of many lives and much
treasure to the country. If they found it
advisable to make peace with them, they
would understand the best terms on which
to predicate their treaty.
To send infantry to the plains is the veri
est nonsense in the world. Those who do
so are eminently culpable, and should he
held responsible for tbe consequences. The
Indians and till frontier men laugh at the
idea. It would only afford amusement to
the India* - t *•'*.: infantry for the next
twenty yeare. dutii fighting would he
comparative rej -e t<i them. Well mounted
volunteers are the only people that they
fear, and it is the force that can bring them
to speedy terms, and secure a lasting and
reliable peace.
The editor of the Greenville S. C.
Patriot, last wpek learned of forgeries to the
extent of seventy or eighty thousand dollars,
and moneys drawn on them from the banks
of Hamburg, Chester, Charlotte, the State
Bank and theCommercial Bank. No name
is given, hut it is said the criminal occupies
a high position in society.
•QrThe Memphis Appeal says that Co).
Gentry. Know Nothing candidate for Gov
ernor pf Tennessee, admitted and boasted
in a recent speech that he was the only mem*
her from that State who voted for the abo-
of slavery in the District of Columbia.
Blackberry WigE.—We extract the fol
lowing recipe front the Newberry Minor:
• Pomaria June 11. 1855.
Messrs. Editors : Having numeroue ap-
S lication* fur the recipie for making Black-
erry Wine, and as the seasonwill soon be
at hand for preparing it, I mast ask foe fa
vor of you to insert it in the Mirror..
I believe the public was first indebted
to the Rev. Richard Johnson, then of Beau
fort, now of Atlanta, Ga., for the recipe,
which be introduced from Virginia fifteen
or twenty years ago. By following the re
cipe, any family can readily prepare, at a
trifling cost, a supply for use in cases of
sickness, as it will ne found superior to most
Port Wine. The spices will give an aroma
and impart flavor to the wine which will be
pleasant and agreeable to the taste.
Yours truly, W*. Summer.
Recipe to Make Blackberry Wine.—To
every throe pints of berries, add ono quart
of water; suffer it to stand twenty-four
hours, strain through a cullender, then
through a jelly bag, and to every gallon of
the juice, add three pounds of good brown
sugar, the white of two eggs beaten toa
froth, and stirred in the juice; a little spice
with two dozen cloves beaten together, and
one nutmeg grated, should be put in a small
linen bag and dropped in. After all are
mixed, put in a stone jug, filled up, and
kept full with some of the juice reserved for
that purpose until it has done working,
which will be in two or three weeks. Cork
it tightly, and keep it in a cold place, for
three or four months, then pour it off into
bottles, with a little loaf sugar iu each bot
tle, cork and seal close. If the wine is
kept for twelve months, it will be still bet
ter, and it will continue to improve with
age.
New Orleans, June 22.—Advices from
San Francisco to the 1st inst., by the Daniel
Webster state that the Central Committee
of the Democratic parties had agreed to ig
nore past quarrels, and call a convention on
the 2oth to nominate Executive officers.—
The Democrats have elected the Mayor of
San Francisco. The other officers of the
Council are equally divided with the Know
Nothings.
A fire in San Francisco on the 18th. de
stroyed the square hounded by Davis, Sac
ramento and Commercial streets—loss sixty
thousand dollars.
The Central American Government has
issued a decree for the execution of Kinney
and Fabens. Thu war is about being ended.
The revolutionists have petitioned for par
don. A treaty of reciprocity has been con
cluded between Nicaragua and the United
States.
Prof. Trench, in his latest work on the
English language, points out a curious ty
pographical error in the 20th verse of the
23d chapter of Matthew. The words,
“which strain at a gnat and swallow a
camel,” the professor thinks contains a mis
print, which having been passed over in the
v friday.1^E%
*» FOR eO^RRSOB,
HEBSCHEL T. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
. '.ri* 1 - ' ’
F«tCf»rw«.-IUl District,
WTWAHr WARNER.
H. 8« Third Page.
A Ward to Subaertbere.
Since the union of the lists of foe Weekly
Intelligencer and Cherokee Advocate, it is
proper, perhaps, to say a word in regard to
foe subscription price of the paper. The
terms are two dollars per annum, strictly in
advance. The terms of the Intelligencer
have never been below this. The Advocate,
however, having reduced its price, some
months since, somewhat below this figure to
advance paying subscribers, the paper will
be continued to those who subscribed at the
reduced rate, until the expiration of the
year, when two dollars will be required for
a renewal. Considering the size of the
Weekly paper and the amount of matter it
contains, we are sure that no subscriber can
reasonably complain of the price, which is
already under the standard price of other
papers in the State of far less size. Our
Weekly paper is now by far the largest pa
per in Georgia outride of Augusta.
The Cincinnati papers say that a large
number of Southern steamers are laid up
there from sheer inability to do a rem uner-
ative business. There is plenty of water
but very little freight. This is very unu
sual for Cincinnati, for her tonnage is ordi
narily unequal to the trade.
The Cunard steamer Africa, which sailed
from Boston, Wednesday, for Europe, had
225 passengers, the largest number ever
taken in any steamer at that port. Some
were refused a passage, and others rather
than wait, took passage in the second cab
in.
cause they say it is not apolitical^’ W
propose to examine the propositional 1
how much truth it contains, and ho
commends itself to the favorable, farit
Hon. Henry A. Wise, Governor
elect of Virginia, has declined an invitation - . r — } .
to attend an “old fashioned Virginia barba-! ^ ^ 6D * at „P ar ^ s ^ ave a ^ wa J-
cue,” at Petersburg. He says he has de-
ThtJi
Th* Whij
er parties and is
at war with
oocracy, sefcS&Jj^*
anxious to impress upon Demo^ratsT^
election for Judge is outside of politic ^
Mtte
tion of the Democracy in the
Circuit.
Is the Presidency of the
political office? Are the members*/
Congress and our State Legislature Jr, "
in their bearing? Are not these S'* 1
filled under the express guidance of Civ
parties? Then are officers elected?'^
them to serve the party by which th t0 ®
elected? or are they in duty ^^
as solemn oath, bound to support the n^' 1
stitution and do justice to all perg 0 !,
classes whose interest may be submittlf D<1
their care while in office ? The P r -J to
of the United States is the servant ofT
whole country, of all parties; so ar* l
members of the —j - ~
And still there is no complaint that th
are all elected under the strictest ’
drill. The Judge of the Superior Court' 1
in no higher sense the servant of the 1*0/
His oath and duties of office in lii™ „
require mm to do justice between man and
man; and are we to be told that ho canno!
do that because he is elected by a party ?J
Judge Irwin himself was elected byupartT
The records of our State Legislature scared
ly exhibit a case in which the judicial rob*
have not been conferred upon a man of th>
party then in power. And are wc to be told
that Judge Irwin, and all the Judges in th t .
State from time immemorial, have been to
corrupt to administer justice with even hand
because they were elected hy a party and
were party men in feeling and sympathy
dined three other similar invitations, and
adds:
I would Have sacrificed much more than I
did in the late canvass to prevent defeat un
der my iead, but 1 assure you the labors I
underwent nearly cost me my life. I was
absent nearly five months from my children : • .. . .
and Mrs. Wise, whose health now requires ? ent services in tim6H P asfc and
my constant nursing. My domestic affairs
too, need every moment of my time until I
must leave for Richmond.”
been disposed to confer office, judicial
well as otherwise, upon men of their ov E
ranks ? It cannot he otherwise than a ju«
disposition to reward those men who ha t -
6tood up and done battle for their principles
Then is there any good reason why Col
Brown should not be rewarded for hit emi.
Slaves Protected by Law.—The most
°-“ 0nO k 1 e 6l L b „“»^ i ‘^“^ Z answer to the char-m made by .bo-
since
“ which strain out a gnat and swal’ow a
camel,” that being the correct rendering of
the original, as appears in Tynsdale’s and
Cranmer’s translations, both of which have
“ strained out.” It was the custom of the
stricter Jews to strain their wine, vinegar
and other portables through linen or gauze,
lest unawares they should drink down some
little unclean insect, as a gnat, and thus
transgress the Levitical law. It was to this
custom the Savior alluded, intending to say
that the Scribes and Pharisees, whilo they
strain out a gnat from their drink, would
yet swallow a camel at a gulp.
Beef Cattle from Texas in the N. Y.
Market.—The Albany Knickerbocker of the
10th inst. says, that on the • 8th a drove of
215 cattle arrived in that city from Texas,
being the first cattle from that State that
ever passed through Albany. They left
Texas some four months ago, and were
driven to the Mississippi, up the Mississip
pi to Illinois, where they spent some fifty
days in recruiting. From Illinois thev *ent
down the Lake to Buffalo, and from Buffalo
to Albany by the Central Railroad. By the
time they reached the Hudson they had
tramped about 2200 miles. They were in
fine condition (says the Knickerbocker) and
exhibited a shape that speaks well for the
cattle breeders of the South.
Owing to the absence of winters, and the
superabundance rtf postures, Texas must
and will become the greatest cattle State in
the Confederacy. At the present time good
oxen can be purchased in the vicinity of
Austin for $30 a bead.
The price of “prime” bullock in Albany
at the time of the arrival of these Texas cat
tle was from $100 to $225.
An English traveler, Mr. Weld, in a new
work an this country, relates the following
on the duties of the President .*—
“Although Gen. Pierce is remarkable for
his affability in private life, he is not popu
lar. He is an excellent man of business.—
More than once he complained of the tre
mendous labor of his office, which is so great
as scrcely to leave him a moment’s leisure.
‘Some change in the duties,’ he said, ‘must
be made, as no man can stand the work,
even fur four years. You can form no idea,’
he added, ‘of the number of voluminons doc
umenta connected with public business
which I have to read.’ Suggesting that in
many cases this might he done by a secre
tary, he replied; ,No, ’tia better to read and
master even tbe most lengthy document, for
then I am in a position to cut a man short
if he be talking nonsense.’ This admission
is significant of active participation in the
affairs of Government.”
A Mishap to the Steamship Atlantic.
—H having been determined to renew a
portion of the coppering of the steamship
Atlantic, she was on Monday taken into the
immense dry-dock at Green Point, hnilt, we
believe, for California. When she had been
raised nearly out of water—her keel not
being more than three feet under—she
proved too much for the dry-dock, which
capsized, throwing the Atlantic off her
blocking, partially upon her side. She fell
bodily about four feet! She was soon right
ed, and was found to be quite uninjured.—
What more commentary upon her enormous
strength ? How could it be more thorough
ly proven ?
The Atlantic cannot be taken into the
dry dock at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, with
out removing a portion of her wheels, and
to this there is a great objection. She will
not be coppered, therefore,until after her ar
rival at Livei pool, on her next trip.—N. IT.
Courier
The New Y°rk Herald, alluding to the
manifesto of the Cuban Junta, published
yesterday, says;
“ It appears that the amount of money
contributed by tho Creoles to set the revolu
tion in motion, was $370,000, not a half a
million of dollars as was stated at the time.
Of this amount, the treasurer, Senor Goi-
couria, expended $100,000, besides $40,000
of his own funds, in the cause. The balance
of the $370,000, or $270,000, was banded
over to the control of Gen, Quitman and
the South branch of the Junta by the di
rection of the contributors to the fund. Of
this amount it is said that Quitman spent
$150,000 in conditional contracts with
Capt. Graham for steamships and the naval
portion of the expedition ; the money was
paid in advance, and, of coarse, when the
scheme fell through, it was set down as so j
pinch thrown away. Moreover, some $20,-
000 were paid to the officers of the United ;
States army, in order to induce them to join 1
the expedition.”
Some time ago the experiment of paving
the streets with iron blocks-was tried on
a limited scale in New York, and the expe
riment has succeeded so well that a com
mittee of the board of couneilmen of that
city have reported ip favor of paving Mai
den lane and Cortlandt street with the iron
pavement, and there 1r a prospeot of their
recommendation being adopted. The iron
pavement, it is said, gives the street tbe
finish of an elegantly tiled floor, and there
is no mud or dust from it. In Boston,
the experiment of iron pavements was tried
two years ago, and it is said to have been
successful,
If tc BEST Honors.—There will probably
at the University of Virginia the very large
number of nine candidates for the degree of
Master of Arts, and three for foe degree of
Bachelor of Arte.
litionists says the New Orleans Vis-a- Vis,
that slaves are not protected by law in the
Sonth, is the casa of the State of Louisiana
vs. Hunter, in which defendant is charged
with selling a slave and separating tbe j
mother from her children, contrary to the
statute in such cases made and provided.—
On last Friday, the accused pleaded guilty,
and was sentenced hy Judge Robertson, toa
fine of one thousand dollars, six months’
imprisonment and forfeiture of the slaves.
School ii-xainitiation.
Attention is invited to the notice in our
advertising columns of the Examination aud
Exhibition of th» pupils of the Atlanta
Classical and English School, to take place
on Friday, the 29th ii*st.
Is there any good reason why that official
influence which tho Judges, sometimes will,
fully, but always from some cause or other
do exercise over the people in favor of their
own party, should not be in favor of th-
Democracy iu the Blue Ridge Circuit ? ]
do not mean that Col. Brown, if elected, i-
to he a political missionary in the district
but simply that if there is a natural influ
ence arising from official position, of which
there can be no reasonable doubt, that tin
Democrats as well have it in their favor ar
against them.
Is there a man in the district, Whig or
Democrat, “ Sam ” or what nut, who can
point to a single act of Judge Irwin, in hit
whole life, in which there was manifested
the slightest Democratic instinct? Has
there been an anti-Democratic movement
before or since ho came on the bench, high
or low, great or small, in which he did not
either act or sympathize ? Is he familiar
A Valuable Recrait. i Samuel ? Does he go at the dark and
We learn by a private letter from Polk 1 of midnight about the streets and
county that the Republican Union, of Cedar j corners of Marietta in search of the dark
Town, heretofore a rank Know Nothing pa- i l ai, tern crowd, to plot vengeance alike
per which flaunted at its masthead the name I against Catholics, foreigners and Demo-
of C. J. Jenkins for Governor, has recently : crats ? I take it as high evidence that such
changed hands, and will hereafter be under
tho editorial control of of II. Fielder, Esq.,
a thorough anti-Know Nothing Democrat.
The next issue of the Union, we under
stand, will raise the name of H. V. Johnson
as its candidate for Governor.
Know Nothingisin, it is said, has been
tabooed hy the Pittsburg Presbytery of the
Lutheran Church, which body has adopted
a resolution declaring “that in the opinion
of this Presbytery the principles of our
church exclude from communion the mem
bers of tbe secret society ca'led know noth
ings, and tbe members of all such societies,
and that the Presbytery direct the sessions
to enforce this opinion.”
[communicated.]
Public Notice.
The members of the Democratic party of
Cherokee connty are respectfully requested
to meet in Canton on the first Tuesday
in July next, for the purpose of taking
counsel together as to the best mode of pre
senting candidates to represent the county
in the Senate and House of Representatives
in the next Legislature.
Also, all Whigs or Union men, (just as
they choose to denominate themselves,) who
feel disposed tu unite with us, on the great
Democratic and Constitutional Platform, as
laid down by the late Gubernatorial Con
vention, which met in Milledgeville on the
first Tuesday inst., are respectfully invited
to meet us in counsel on that day, as it is
reasonably conceived that all patriotic men
may meet and stand together on that plat
form with honor and mutual self respect in
the maintenance and defence of the great
and paramount principles and issues of the
day. Como one, come all.
MANY VOTERS.
June 12th, 1855.
State Temperance Convention.
We are requested to say that the State
Temperance Convention will meet ir. Mari
etta on the second Wednesday in July.
The New Haven Regiseer calls attention
to the strange coincidence noticeable in that
city, that the Medical College is on the road
to the Cemetery; Divinity College to the
Poor House; and the Law School to the
Jail. New Haven has long enjoyed the
reputation of being the “best laid out” city
in the Union.
Ex-President Van Buren at an Earth
quake.—An American gentleman writes
from Niee, Italy, that during the last sea
son, while Mr. Van Buren was in that city,
hearing that earthquakes were formerly
preva'ent in that part of the country, but
no shock had been felt for a number of
years, told his Italian host that, for the
rarity and novelty of it, he would like to
have a “ small shake ” happen while he
was there. Sure enough, in a few weeks
thereafter, in the dead of tho night, the
whole city and mountains commenced rook
ing, and the inhabitants, ip the greatest
consternation, flad to the streets. Among
others in the park, which is near tho hotel,
was Mr. Van Buren in primitive costume,
and in a high state of excitement. The
Ex-President and tbe citizens passed the
balance of the night in the streets, and were
perfectly satisfied with the “ small shake.”
Gov. Johnson’s Apyoint*jexts.—The Ma
con Telegraph 6.ays: Gov. Johnson will ad
dress the p&ple on the political questions
of the day, at the following time and places:
Knoxville, Crawford co., Friday, June
29th.
Butler, Taylor co., Saturday, June 30th.
ColumbuB, Saturday, July 9th.
Americus, Monday. July 11th.
Lumpkin, Wednesday, July 13th.
Cuthburt, Friday, July I5ih.
Fort Gaines, Saturday, July 16th.
Blakely. M onda y» July 18th.
Bainbridge, Wednesday, July 20th.
Newton, Friday, July 22d.
Albany, Saturday, July 23.
It may become necessary to change some
of the above appointments and to make oth
ers. If vo, timely notice will bo given to
fort***,
is the fact, that all the “ Sams,” young ar.d
old, are for him. I wish to do him justice
on account of my own self respect and the
many amiable qualities and virtues I know
him to possess. Therefore, I do not charge
him with being a member of the secret or
der ; but simply ask for information : Is it
true that the Judge of the Superior Court
of the Blue Ridge Circuit is so indoctrioat
edwith the politics and prejudices ofthe time)
as to shun the light of day, seeking the cov
er of midnight in dark holes and corners,
subscribing to horrid oaths which strike at
the vitality and freedom of religion, which
inevitably tend to prostrate that constitu
tional liberty which it has been the labor
and the pride of the Republican Democrat
ic party to build up and foster, plotting
against Democrats and Democratic move
ments with an eye single to the triumph oi
our enemies, and then come forth hy his
political hirelings and emissaries, and ask
Democrats to consider that there is no poli
tics involved in his election ? Is there a
single Democrat in the circuit who will be
lieve them ? EMMET,
Gigantic Rye.—Mr. W. B. West, 01
Stockton, San Joaquin county, California,
makes the following statement of the yield
of eight grains of gigantic rye:
“The year before last, from eight grain-
of gigantic rye, I raised two pounds ofseed,
from which the past season I obtained two
hundred and forty-six pounds of gTain.—
Many of the heads were a foot in length,
and the straw about five feet in high*., re
markably sweet, and muoh relished by ani
mals. The grain was more than double the
original size, flinty in its character, light-
colored, and resembling flint wheat, eicep’-
in length, being shaped like common rye.”
[By Authority of the State oj Aluhom]
SOUTHERN MILITARY ACADEME
lottery.
Conducted on the Mavanaplan.
GRAND SC HE-HE!
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TO BE DRAWN THE 23d Or J'JKE 1855-
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10 Prizes
400 is.
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150 is.
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120 is.
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ONLY TEN THOUSAND NUMBERS,
Sa-Tiokets »S—Halves S4—Quarters *2 00.
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SAM’L SWAN’. .Vgett'-'
At the Bronze I.ions, Montgomery. A“-
Reorders for ticket* received by the agent ot -
Fort Gaines Academy Lottery, Atlanta, Ga.
bv the
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(By Authority of the State of Georgia.,
MANAGED, drawn and prizes paid
well-known and responsible firm of
GREGORY <t MAURY
^•S^Office ip Couoert Hall-oppos te Postoffic
Delivery.
CLASS NO. 155.
To be drawn Friday, June 29$.
Capital prizes, $10,000, $3,000, 2,000, $2,000
Tickets $3,00 halve* and quarter? in l"’ 0
portion.
Extra CLASS 1ft.
To be dr'tum Saturday, June SOM.
Prises $3700, C$15,000, $6,792, 20 of $3,000, *
Tickets $10 shares in proportion.
CLASS 157.
2b be drawn Monday, July 2d.
Prizes $10,000, $3,000, $2,400, $1,619, Ac-
Jf» Tickets only $2.50 shares in proportion
Sales close at 2 o’olock on the day of each *
lag.
All oommunicationa strictly confidential. *
dsrs by mail will rsoeivo prompt attention,
oopiss of the drawn numbers forwarded to p
chasers when desired. 0*0. L. BOOTH.
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