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WATKINS & WRIGHT,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
LUMPKIN;
Saturday: : : December 15, 1860.
The President's Message.
The last Message of the last Presi
dent of the United States, as it is call
ed by some of our cotemporaries, and
as we are forced to think it is, was re
ceived here through various newspa
pers on Sunday last, and we suppose
there are few if any of. our readers
who have not ere this had an opportu
nity of perusing it. Thinking that it
would consequently be as so much dead
matter in our columns, we deem it
better to otherwise employ the space it
would occupy.
This document was looked for with
much interest by the people of all par
ties, but we dare not say that any have
read it with that satisfaction which
they expected. For our part, we were
never more disappointed in anything
which we had seized with the same de
gree of interest. It is not such a mes
sage as we looked for. Far from being
sufficient unto the times, it is about the
same as no message at all. It is not
able; it is not well-prepared; it is not
bold; it is not clear; it is hardly read
able. The very best that can be said
of it is that it is cautious—extremely
cautious—and powerless for effect, cith
er good or bad. So regarding it, any
further comment would waste time and
space, and tax patience.
Foreign Goods.
The Savannah Republican of the 11th
says the arrival of the bark Henry at
that port may turn out to be a more
important event in the history of the
South, and, indeed, of the entire com
merce of the world, than one would
suppose on reading a simple announce
ment of the event.
It i s known that the leading object
of her voyage was to bring over a con
signment* of manufactured goods, in
great variety, from Germany and
France, for exhibition and sale at the
Cotton Planters’ Fair, which is now
progrossing in the city of Macon. No
department of the exhibition will be
sought after and criticised with so
much severity and interest as this. It
is to develop our true relations with
the manufacturing world, and teach us
whether or not our interests are best
promoted by our dealings in the pres
ent channels of commerce. It brings
the North and a foreign competitor
face to face in the presence of our peo
ple, and grand results may hang upon
the contest.
Spurious Money.
For the benefit of such of our friends
as may handle money occasionally, we
copy from the Augusta Constitutionalist
a description of spurious ten dollar
notes purporting to be issued by tl<
Mechanic’s Bank of that city :
One, letter A. No. 704; dated Octo
ber 4, 1859, and signed M. Hatch, Cash
ier, and Thos. T. Metcalf, President.
One, letter B, No. 1,424, dated July
4, 1854, and signed as above.
These spurious bdls arc totally dis
similar in appearance to any genuine
bills issued by the Mechanic’s bank,
although the engravings and paper are
calculated to deceive.
We give this dcscriptoin of the
plate: The lower left hand half repre
sents a man attending to machinery—
right hand represents two men pour
ing molten metal, and others in the
rear are engaged in other foundry ope
rations.
The word “ten’’ is in red, and the
character, X, is in green ink. On the
genuine bills no colored ink is used.
None of the issues of the Menchanic’s
bank have colored inks on them.
These spurious bills represent the
capital of the bank to be three hundred
thousand dollars, while the capital of
the Mechanics bank is five hundred thou
sand dollars.
The engravers’ names on this spuri
ous bill, are “Danforth, Wright, Co.,
New York and Philadelphia.”
These spurious bills came in a pack
age from Memphis, Tenn , to the Geor
gia Railroad Bank.
Governor of South Carolina.—Much
interest is very naturally felt with re
gard to the individual who is to become
the first Governor, or President, of the
new Republic of South Carolina. The
Columbia correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier has the following informa
tion on the subject:
The ballot for Governor will com
mence on Tuesday next. The most
prominent candidates now spoken of
are Messrs. B. J. Johnson, J. 1). Allen,
F. W. Pickens, F D. Jemison, and R. B.
Rhett. As all is yet conjecture, and
the friends of each appear to be san
guine of success, 1 shall not indulge
in what might prove a mistaken fore
gone conclusion.
Capt. West, who went to Trux
illo after Gen. Walker’s remains, lias
returned to Mobile without them,, in
consequence of an Honduran law pro
hibiting exhumation.
Col. Rudler was well, humanely
treated, and hoping for a speedy re
lease.
Milledgeville Correspondence.
Milledgeville, Dec. 10, 1860.
Messrs. Editors :—I did not fulfill
my promise of writing “ a correspon
dence’’ for your second number, and
even now I doubt whether I can furnish
any items of interest to your readers
other than those already known to
them. Many important measures are
still unpassed so far as both houses are
concerned, and to-day an effort is being
made to prolong the session. The
growing evil of Local legislation must
be in some way suppressed, or the forty
days session provided by the Constitu
tion will soon have to be extended to
eighty.
An earnest effort was made last week
to pass a bill, amending the Constitu
tion so as to reduce the Senate to forty
four members, giving one Senator to
three contiguous counties. This reduc
tion would save the State about $20,000
per annum and secure a Senate that
would be some check upon any hasty
and impulsive action of the House. It
could not have become a part of the
Constitution until voted fur by two
Legislatures, and if it had passed at
this session the people could have de
cided in the next election whether or
not they desired reduction of their Sen
ate. However, the bill failed to re
ceive the required vote.
The relief bill to which I referred in
my last communication, was vetoed by
the Governor and then passed with the
purpose of passing such amendatory
acts as would cover many of the Gov
ernor’s objections. Accordingly the
Senate to-day passed a bill providing
that the costs should be paid by de
fendants in execution, and also author
izing the fi fa to be levied, should the
defendant sell to a third person, and
that person attempt to remove the pro
perty. The house has a bill to relieve
defendants in the Federal courts, but I
have not seen the bill, and know noth
ing of its provisions. It may not be
out of place here to suggest that since
this bill has been passed so as to afford
relief to all persons whose debts are
not within the jurisdiction of Federal
Courts, and necessarily leaves mer
chants and traders subject to the mercy
of foreign creditors, every man ought
to pay his first money to that class, so
that they too may have relief as well as
others.
Among the measures referring to our
Federal affairs, one of the most signifi
cant is the passage of certain resolu
tions, for the credit of which Mr. Cul
lens, of Clay, is entitled. These reso
lutions declare in substance that Geor
gia will resist any attempt on the part
of the Federal Government to coerce
any seceding Southern State back into
the Union. Many able speeches were
made in the House, on the passage of
the resolutions. Mr. Cullens lead off in
the debate in a compact argument,
showing that no power to coerce was
delegated to the General Government,
and should such power be usurped, the
unity of interest, and community of
feeling and destiny between the South
ern States, required that they should
combine against the General Govern
ment. Good speeches were also made
in favor of the resolutions by Mr. Hart
ridge, Mr. Gibson and others. The ar
gument against the resolutions was
mainly confined to the question of ex
pediency; no speaker claiming for the
Government the right to coerce.
Another bill of general interest is the
bill to encourage the building of an
Armory in the Cotton States. This act
authorizes the Governor to purchase
arms to the amount of $50,000 per an
num, for five years, from such armory,
provided the arms are equal to those
manufactured elsewhere.
The bill requiring all free negroes in
the State to choose masters by the first
of May or remove beyond the limits of
this State lias passed the House, and
probably will pass the Senate and be
come a law.
A bill has been introduced and will
probably pass, to incorporate a “Steam
ship Navigation Company,” to carry on
direct trade between Savannah and
European ports. This measure is a
recommendation of the Governor in a
recent special message.
Another bill is <o commit to the In
ferior Courts the power to change coun
ty lines. This bill will relieve the Leg
islature of much troublesome legisla
tion.
Another bill having for its object to
relieve the Legislature from local bills,
confers upon the Inferior Court power
to incorporate associations of men for
various purposes.
A general incorporation act has pass
ed, under which each volunteer corps
in the State is incorporated and ordered
to be supplied with arms.
A bill has also passed the Senate au
thorizing the Governor to accept the
services of 10,000 volunteers, and pro
viding for their organization into Bri
gades, Regiments, Ac.
According to invitation the Governor
and members of Legislature will visit
the “Fair” at Macon, on to morrow.
If anything of interest occurs on the
trip, or anything of importance is seen,
I will furnish you with a description.
Yours, Ac., f
An exchange says that dollars
and sense are a very rare combination.
But if one has the dollars, he is a great
man without the sense.
Free Persons of Color.
Mr. Sprayberry, of Catoosa, has in
troduced a bill in the House of Repre
sentatives, to allow free persons of col
or in this State, to go into voluntary
slavery, or to compel them to remove
from this State, which provides—
1. That every free person of color
who has reached the age of fourteen
■years, may choose an owner and go into
voluntary servitude for life, by filing a
petition, stating age, occupation, and
the desire to become a slave for life to
a particular owner. In such case, the
Inferior Court shall examine such free
person of color, and if it shall appear
that the application is voluntarily made,
the court shall pass an order declaring
said free person of color a slave for
life, and the absolute property of the
chosen owner. Parents may choose
owners for their children when the lat
ter are under fourteen years of age.
2. That all free persons of color who
may be found in this State after Ist of
May, 18G2, who have taken no steps to
select owners, shall be liable to be
seized and sold at public outcry by the
Sheriffs of the several counties, after
the usual advertisement, and the Sher
iffs shall execute title to the purchasers.
The proceeds of the sale shall be paid
to the county treasurer, and shall be
come part of the fund for county pur
poses.
Cotton Culture Abandoned in India.—
Foreign papers contain the following
very significant paragraph, showing
that after all the protracted efforts to
grow cotton in the British Indian pos
sessions, the attempt has been at
length abandoned as hopeless:
“In the annual report of the Bombay
Chamber of Commerce a statement an
nounces that the Indian Government
had finaly abandoned, as being a hope
less failure, their experiments at cot
ton-growing in that country. These
experiments had commenced as far back
as 1789, and were prosecuted almost
without intermission during the seven
ty-two years that have since elapsed.
They had cost, from first to last, <£3so,
000, and, as the report states, had ab
sorbed “ the energies and intelligence
of governors, collectors, commissioners,
American planters, and painstaking
amateurs.”
Y’et the result of this prolonged ef
fort and enormous outlay had been
nothing but a continued scries of dis
appointments. One solitary success is
recorded as having been achieved, on
‘a small scale,’ by Mr. Shaw, Collector
of Dharwar, who, taking up the enter
prise in 1840, upon an area of only
220 acres, developed the results so rap
idly that in 1851 there were 31,688
‘kupas’ planted with American, and
224,314 with native cotton, and in 1856
the area increased to 155,316 kupas ap
propriated to the American, 230,567 to
the native variety of the plant. It does
not appear that Mr. Shaw was assisted
by any government grant in this work;
and at all events, all direct co-opera
tion of the State with the cultivation
of cotton is now summarily abandoned.
The Sugar Estates of Cuba.—From a
work on the Cuban sugar estates, by
Charles Rebcllo, British Vice Consul,
at Cardenas, it appears that there were
in full operation in Cuba lest season,
one thousand three hundred and sixty
five sugar estates, which produced one
billion one hundred and twenty-seven
million three hundred and forty-eight
thousand six hundred and fifty pounds,
equal to five hundred and sixty-three
million six hundred and seventy-four
thousand three hundred and sixty-live
plantations, nine hundred and forty
nine use steam power, and four hund
red and nine ox power, in the old prim
itive style. The extent of land plan
ted with cane on these plantations is
six hundred and ninety-one thousand
nine hundred and seventeen acres, while
the area on the estates used for other
purposes, viz : cattle fields, fruit, veg
etables, garden, Ac., comprises one
million two hundred and eighty-nine
thousand six hundred ami fifty acres,
or nearly double the quantity used for
cane. The crop of sugar the present
year is expected to yield oneJiundred
and fifty-three thousand six hundred
boxes more than the last.
Holding Back Cotton.—lt is said at
New Orleans that it is now’ fully as
certained that the planters have re
solved to hold on to their cotton, and
the sudden falling oft’ in the receipts
at the ports (amounting to nearly one
half) is ample confirmation of the fact.
The reason assigned by the planters
for their course is the severe depres
sion that exists in the Atlantic and
Gulf markets, and the suspension by
the Banks of Georgia, South Carolina
and other States, through which their
exchages are done.
It is thought that this action of the
planters will have a tendency to arrest
any further downward movement of the
staple. The decline already submitted
to on the balance of the crop yet to be
received, (estimating the whole crop
at 400,000,000 bales) amounts in round
figures to about $15,000,000.
Hogs.—We notice that during the
past few days a considerable number
of hogs have passed through to the
South. About 3,000 have already been
shipped. We hear of no sales at this
point. The prices asked, 7 and 8 cents
net, are altogether too high for specu
lation or safe investment.— Chattanooga
Advertiser Ith.
Political News From Texas.
A late dispatch from New’ Orleans
says that Mr. Stewart, a member of
the Texas Legislature, from Gonzales,
has issued a circular, in accordance
with the resolution published at a meet
ing held at that place, inviting the
members of the Legislature to meet at
Austin, on the 3d Monday in December,
to hold an extra session to call a State
Convention. The hoisting of the “Lone
Star” flag in Texas still continues, and
the people are united in resistance to
Lincoln’s administration.
There is an understanding between
the members of the Texas Legislature
that they will meet at Austin, on the
17th of December, without a formal
call from the Governor. It is under
stood that the Legislature will call a
Convention for the Bth January.
The latest accounts from Texas say
that Gov. Houston, notwithstanding
his opposition to calling the Legisla
ture together for existing causes, has
agreed to issue a proclamation, should
it appear that a majority of the people
desire it.
Price of Slaves.
A lot of negroes were sold at Sa
vannah on the - 4tli at an average of
six hundred dollars cacii. A valuable
young negro man was sold in Upper
Marlboro’, Md., on Monday, Nov. 26,
for eight hundred and fifty dollars. A
month ago he would have brought one
thousand five hundred dollars.
The Huntsville (Ala.) Advocate of the
sth says t
The sale of negroes (one hundred
and sixty-five in number,) belonging to
the estate of Sam Townsend, deceased,
was commenced in this place on Mon
day, and will be continued ty-day until
concluded. The terms were twelve
months credit, with interest from date.
The prices was very high—negro men
bringing one thousand five hundred,
one thousand six hundred dollars, and
upwards, and others in proportion. A
large number of persons were in at
tendance from this and other coun
ties.
The Rome (Ga.) Courier says :
On last Tuesday the land and negroes
belonging to the estate of Francis Ir
win, deceased, were sold before the
Court House door in Rome. There
were fifty-two negroes of both sexes,
old and young, but remarkably fine for
a family lot. One very fine boy sold
for $1,500, and another for $1,600. The
52 sold for $35,531; or on an average
of $683.30, each. Most of them were
purchased by the legatees. The land
on Coosa river, 1,000 acres, of which
450 are botton land, sold to Col. N. G.
Foster of Morgan county, for $24,560.
Terms of sale, one-third cash, and bal
ance in 12 months, with interest from
date.
Eli Whitney.
At Charleston, South Carolina, there
is a monument, made after the model of
(that of Scipio at Rome, with the follow
ing simple inscription: “Eli Whitney,
the Inventor of the Cotton Gin.” Sim
ple as is this inscription, it speaks as
much as one more labored, for it records
in enduring characters the invention of
a machine, which has contributed as
much as any’ other single effort of hu
man genius to the wealth and prosper
ity of the United States, and particular
ly’ - of this section, where cotton consti
tutes the principal product. It has fur
nished a large part of the population
with a lucrative employment, increased
its resources and consequently its cap
ital, and greatly augmented the value
of landed property. Now that we are
familiar with the machine, and know
that almost any ordinary mechanic can
make one, there is hardly one in a hun
dred who can tell the name of the in
ventor. While we are receiving bene
fits we are in general too apt to forget
the benefactor; but this cannot be said
of the people of South Carolina, who in
the erection of the monument above
mentioned have perpetuated the name
of the inventor with that of the inven
tion.
An Invention to Secure Fine Weath
er.—There is now before the Academy
of Sciences at Paris, “a wonderful in
vention” of Mons. Helvetious Otto, of
Le’psic, by which he promises to “in
sure fine weather.” He erects a plat
form at a considerable height in the
air, on which he places a “propeller,”
or huge bellows, worked by steam.—
With those bellows, which are “very
powerful,” he blows away the clouds
as they gather; and as rain comes from
the clouds, it must necessarily folloAv
that where clouds are not allowed to
gather there can be no rain. lie main
tained that if a certain number of his
rain propellers, or “pluvifuges,” as he
has named them, are placed at inter
vals over the city, he can provide for
the inhabitants a continuance of fine
weather, and a certain protection from
sudden showers and muddy streets, so
long the terror of fair pedestrians.
Lunatic Asylum Burnt.—The Lunatic
Asylum at Hopkinsville Ky., one of the
largest and finest buildings in the State
of Kentucky, was destroyed by fire on
Friday morning last, and several of
the inmates perished in the flames.
Thbre were three hundred patients in
the Asylum, and it required almost
superhuman efforts to rescue the saved,
and a great many of these, rendered
still more delirious by the appalling ex
citement of the occasion, broke loose
from their custodians and the citizens,
and are still at large.
Something about Matrimony.
FOR THE PALLADIUM.
Messrs. Editors:—l was very much
pleased with a short piece about “Old
Maids,” which I read in the last num
ber of your interesting paper; so much
so that I cannot refrain from express
ing a few thoughts which occurred to
my mind at the time.
I am not an old maid myself, nor a
young lady, but a wife and mother, and
it cannot be considered amiss in me to
speak a word concerning the maidenly
aunts, and advise the gentlemen to
give them their “distinguished consid
eration.”
I would advise any gentleman of ma
ture age to marry an old maid—not too
old—a good old maid, who is settled in
her good habits and true in her affec
tions. Yes, sirs, she is worth all the
double-minded misses who are all the
time hunting for husbands. I tell you
that when a woman gets to be twenty
five or thirty, she settles into a calm;
in other words, she anchors in deep wa
ters, and is safe from shore.
There never was a class of persons
so belied as these dear “ancient mai
dens.” They are called peevish, fretful,
quarrelsome, and all that—having no
warmth of affection, and no regard for
those who have. This is a most egre
gious error. Look upon it as no re
proach to a woman that she is not mar
ried at thirty or thirty-five. Above all,
full not into the vulgar notion that she
is continually lying in wait to catch a
bachelor’s heart. For one woman in
the calm of years who is anxious to
catch a beau, I will find you fifty girls
in their teens who lay a thousand and
one snares to entrap somebody. Be
careful, gentlemen, lest you be sought
as a lover with the cold-blooded intent
of exciting jealousy in others, as a last
resort. How would you like to be
treated in that way? Marry a healthy
woman, between twenty-five and thirty
five, who is inclined to love you, and
never bewilder your brains with suspi
cions about whether she has intentions
on you or not. What if a woman does
show that she loves you and would
marry you? This is right, and you
should take it as a reason for self-con
gratulation, but not suffer it to puff up
your vanity. The most loveable age of
woman’s life commences at twenty-five,
and lasts till she shows the marks of
old age. My advice to every sensible
man is, to marry a woman who Is old
enough to think for herself, and he
will never have cause to repent it.
MATRON.
RicAZani, Dec. 10, 1860.
There is doubtless a good deal more
truth than poetry in the above, yet we
are inclined to think that the matronly
writer is rather too severe upon the
girls. These precious exotics from a
better world certainly cannot be so
heartless as she seems to think they
are. For our part, we admire all good
maidens, whether old or young, plain
or handsome, and don’t like to hear any
class of them spoken of disparagingly.
We set ourselves up as defenders of
the girls against all such attacks, from
whatever source they come, and shall
see that justice is done them so far as
our paper is concerned.
The impression seems, to prevail,
among old folks, that young persons
don’t amount to much, any way—that
they are good-for-nothing creatures, in
capable of doing anything properly.—
Now, this is a mistaken notion, calcu
lated in its influence to effect no good,
but a vast deal of harm. Encourage
rather than discourage the young of
either sex, if you want them to become
useful men or women.
If every sensible man is to marry an
old maid, we should like to know what
the girls are to do for husbands. Must
they be content with fools, or wait till
they too become old maids? This would
never do. We are decidedly opposed
to any such arrangement, and are sure
the girls would never submit to it.
We would not be understood as ad
voting - early marriages, for we do not
think it advisable for young persons to
assume the responsibilities of the mar
ried state before they are prepared for
them, but there can be no good sense
in waiting till they reach the shady side
of thirty before beginning a life of use
fulness and happiness.
Movements of the Southern States.
North Carolina Legislature, (regu
lar session), metj November 19th.
South Carolina Legislature, (regular
session), met November 26th.
South Carolina election for members
of Convention, December 6th.
South Carolina State Convention,
meets December 17th.
Louisiana Legislature, (special ses
sion), met December 10th.
Alabama election for members ot the
Convention, December 24th.
Alabama State Convention, meets
January 7th.
Virginia Legislature, (special ses
sion), meets January 7th.
Florida Leguslature now in session;
election for Delegates to the State Con
vention ordered 22d of December; Con
vention meets 3d January 1861.
Georgia Legislature now in session ;
election for Delegates to the State Con
vention ordered 9tq January, 1861; Con
vention meets 22d January. 1
The Legislature of Mississippi, (spe
cial secession), met on the 29th ult.—
Bills were immediately introduced pro
viding for a State Convention, which
will probably pass unanimously.
Interesting from Europe.
Arrival of the Kedur.
TERRIBLE BATTLES IN CHINA.
New York, Dec. 12.—The steamship
Kedur arrived to-day at this port with
advices from Liverpool to the 27th.
In China two fierce battles had oc
curred, in which 30,000 Tartar cavalsy
were completely routed, 2,000 killed,
and 50 guns taken. The Allies had 18
wounded.
The Times correspondent says Con
sul Parks and three officers had been
taken prisoners and conveyed to Pekin,
where they were well treated.
The Chinese had sent a flag of truce
with propositions for a treaty to the
Allied camp. Lord Elgin demanded a
lease of the prisoners before the com
mencement of negotiations.
All was quiet in Shanghai at latest
dates. The Government despatch says
the Allies were within six miles of Pe
kin.
The London Times reviews the Pres
i idential election in the United States,
and the serious movements towards
secession, and reiterates the belief that
the Union will be maintained.
Count Halant had been appointed
French Ambassador to London.
The King of Belgium was seriously
ill.
In Italy, the whole of the Diplomatic
corps, at the request of Francis, had
left Gaeta and gone to Rome.
Further by the Europa.
General Markets.—ln Liverpool flour
was dull, and all qualities slightly de
clining. V heat dull and declined 2s
R) 3s. Sugar dull and declined 6d.—
, Coffee quiet. Rice quiet and unchan
i ged. Rosin heavy at 5s 2d ft 5s 4d.
Turpentine dull.
Washington News.
Washington, Dec. 6.—To-day the
Speaker’s warrants for pay of the mem
bers of the House, were refused at the
Treasury for want of funds. The war
i rants will be formally protested to
i morrow. About two hundred thousand
dollars only, have been paid to the
members since the commencement of
the session.
Congress, &c.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The Senate,
to-day, reduced the House Relief bill
to three millions, and then passed it.—
Mr. Powell’s resolution was then deba
ted until the adjournment.
In the House, about a dozen Union
saving propositions were introduced,
debated, and referred. Several unim
portant bills were passed.
General Bonham resigned his place
on the Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. Cobb’s letter of resignation, and
and the President’s acceptance, are
published in the papers to-day.
Manifesto from Mr. Cobb.
Washington, Dec. 11.—Hon. Howell
Cobb, having sent in his resignation to
the President, will leave to-morrow for
home. He has prepared an address to
the peopie of Georgia, calling upon
them to arouse all their manhood and
maintain their independence out of the
Union. They will never again have
equality and justice in it. He enter
tains no doubt of either their right or
their duty to secede.
Southern Caucus Saturday Night. No
Conclusion 1 Seven States will Se
cede.
Washington, Dec. 9.—The Senators
from the slave States held a caucus to
consider the State of the Republic and
the chances of compromise, yesterday.
No conclusion was arrived at tend
ing to encourage the belief that any
harmonious action could be secured.—
No proposition was put forth requiring
a vote.
Senators Powell and Crittenden, of
Kentucky, made strong and eloquent
appeals, but the caucus adjourned fully
convinced that at least seven States
would withdraw from the Confederacy.
There is no prospect and hope of sa
ving the Union.
Col. Henningsen, of Nicaragua mem
ory, is out in a long letter, urging the
South to stand up for her rights, and
pledging his own services and those of
all his old companions in arms, for her
defence.
New Jersey Commissioners.
Trenton, Dec. 12—The Union Con
vention, which assembled here yester
day, appointed its chairman, Commo
dore Stockton, also a chairman of a
committee to confer with other States
in relation to the crisis.
Tennessee.—Gov. Harris has issued
a proclamation calling an extra session
of the Legislature of Tennessee, to
meet on the 7th January, the same day
on which the Virginia Legislature is
called together. The Legislature of
Kentucky will also, probably, assemble
at the same time.
Oregon and California for Lincoln.—
News from Sacramento, California, via
Fort Kearney, in reference to the Pres
idential election, confirms the intelli
gence heretofore received to the effect
that both California and Oregon have
certainly gone for Lincoln.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior.
Os the Public Lands we learn that
12,060,033 acres have been disposed of,
3,977,619 selling for cash, yielding $2,
021,425, and $2,665,723 absorbed under
railroad grants, and the rest in bounty
land warrants and swamp grants. Over
a million of dollars were expended in
the payment of pensions during the fis
cal year. The income of the Patent
Office is SB,OOO above expenses; 3,896
have been issued and 3,612 applications
have been rejected. The Census will
be prepared for the present Congress.
The necessity of revising the present
laws prohibiting the slave trade, and
especially in providing for the disposal
of rescued negroes, is urged.
Manufacturer’s Bank.—lt is believed
by some that this bank has not failed,
but only suspended. We learn from
the best that it is hopelessly
broke—that its own stock holders will
not take its bills. We have heard of
some persons buying up the bills—all
such must lose, as the bank is broke.—
Federal Union.
Rumors and Reports.—Rumors are
current, says the Columbus Enquirer,
that Gov. Letcher, of Va., has appoint
ed a joint commission, consisting of
Ex-Presideut Tyler, Senatoi 1 Hunter,
and Hon. Wm. C. Rives, to visit South
Carolina at once, and urge delay in her
action; and Gov. Magoffin, of Ky., has
responded to this action of the Virginia
Executive, by deputing Vice President
Breckinridge, Senator Crittenden, and
Hon. James Guthrie, on a similar er
rand.
Senator Clay Resigned.—The Mont
gomery Advertiser of the 7th instant,
says : “We have before us a letter
from the Hon. C. C. Clay, jr., tendering
to Gov. Moore his resignation of the
office of Senator of Alabama in the
Congress of the United States, to take
effect on the 4th of March next, unless
the State should at an earlier day dis
pense with his services in that body, as
he fondly hopes and expects.”
Official Vote of Missouri.—The of
ficial vote of Missouri has been an
nounced. It stands as follows: For
Douglas, 58,801; Bell, 58,382; Breck
inridge, 31,317; Lincoln, 17,028.
Hon. R. J. Hill.—We regret to learn
from the last Sumter Republican, that
this gentleman, the Senator from that
county, is very ill of a malady contrac
ted the first week of the session and
considered to be in a critical condition.
Commissioner of Alabama.—Col. John
A. Elmore, of Montgomery, has been
selected by the Governor of Alabama,
as a Commissioner to South Carolina,
to advise with her as the representa
tive of Alabama in the pending crisis.
Falling-off in the Customs.—
The receipts at the Boston Custom
House for the past week were only
$30,000 —insufficient to pay the monthly
salaries, which were forwarded from
Washington.
Right thinking has a practical val
ue, even though the thinking never be
published, for from right thinking
springs right acting, and men will pro
fit by the example, although they are
never otherwise taught the lesson.
It is reported that Secretary
Cobb has resigned, and was to have
est Washington for Georgia on Thurs
day last.
A telegraph cable was success
fully laid across the Mississippi river
at Vicksburg on the 7th inst.
A dispatch from New York says
that the shipment of specie to the South
still continues. About one million dol
lars shipped last week.
The Mayor of Milledgeville has
called a public meeting of the citizens
to take into consideration the condition
of the suffering poor of that city.
Queen Victoria has been presen
ted with four of the smallest horses in
the world. They are entire horses, of
perfect symmetry, well matched, being
all of a color, (dark brown,) and the
highest of them is barely thirty-one
inches. They are from Africa.
The Express and the Mails.—Some
of the Northern papers are “dreadfully
taken” with the idea of Gov. Gist of
South Carolina, to carry letters by the
Adams Express after the Federal post
offices and routes are abolished. The
Post considers it the only sagacious
idea in the programme of the secession
ists, and worthy of general acceptance
in lieu of our present defective system.
Byway of a pun, it characterizes the
suggestion as the “gist of the matter.”
The Planning of Cities.—The London
Builder says that a spider’s web fur
nishes a better plan for the laying out of
our new cities, than any which has yet
been devised by surveyors or engineers.
Any one who can find a distinct and
complete web unbroken will see how
beautifully regular it is, and how per
fectly adapted for the quickest passage
from one point to another. The con
centric rings are not circles, but poly
gons, the radiating exquisitely regular
and straight.
Bgu Governor Brown has vetoed the
bill for the pardon of W. A. Choice.