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' 4 ;• VOLUME XV. ROME, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, I860. Sttt •( ••.- / r':<r •••; ■ -— ■ NUMBER 42 fuY M. D 1 Editor ond Proprietor. “Tonus of Subiorlptloo. EMHKSflffi Term, of AdrortlfIn*. iMW " | r gnitnro of 10 linos or less, i«r fc«ff ra, . I rA £ at* Xfnntlia. 'j F ridgy »or»lM, Ai|,.t H, 1080. Bell i Xr.on?o°orbWl) t omoemtlorrl< portion ohai'gliig-Mr. Doll with having boon in faib>r of abolition of Slavery in the Dis trict of Columbia, no publish tho vote on the suppression of ilio Slave tratio for thoir spooinl benefit, as a roforonco for thorn to uso against each other in their fratricidal war. Tho Douglaslfcs will plain I ti oo wpn 'dii Montbi, • i s i » oo Now, gentlomon, pitch in arid glVu ,1 Twelve Months, : > ' each'other fits, end when you got tired Liberal Disoount amounts* m “ d0 t0 ' th0B ° of that *c<uus W com® back and we gory. Iidvertiso larger amount!* of thftt cc liluanM „f more tkan (lyo Hues charged will givo you onough of tho samo kind f e ns advertisements. '* to koop you fully employed from now November! lilOuiiisly to thl Bourisrj Tho friends of Tho voto mny lie found on pngo 1830, "ZJ'wlS a"X™,™: 1 nnZ '“' S' 'of tlm Congressional Globe a. I (tccotnpanloa wun n , Ihev will bo published with pleasure. follows: 1 —• “Mr. Hale—Mr. President, I rise to The Ltiw of Newspaper** inquire wlmt is tho question before tho Lsubseribnrs who do Senate? L the contrary, are considered a* wishing ,« r inlintte thoir subscription, Tue President—It is on tho passage ttffibSribSJtS*"® discontinuance of the bill “to suppress the slave-trade leir newspapers the publisher may contln* in the District of Columbia. I W nd them until all arroaraces are paid. * * * * * * Ltf subscribers ncalpot nr refuse to take Mr. Mason called for the yoas and riiewspapers from th« nffleo to which the- •* a office to which they nays on the passage, and they were or* | irM t«d. W ere hjM until de „ n ,l _were a. follow, t _ | have Mttl«fi tb« bill, and ordered then, Yeas-Messrs. Baldwin, Benton Bright, Cum, CIimo. Clark. Clay, Cooper, - — Davin, of Massachusetts, Dayton, Dickin- NPW ENTERPRISE, son, Badge, of Wi.cou.ln, Hodge, of Iowa, I flli w nil a a,*nn unuaj, ■ m**, Kromont, Grrmt, M " W lllilllj HilU Owm, Hide, Hamlin, Houston; I/arrii. I Jl n W HI AW. donu, Soward, ShirtJr, Spriutnco.Stiir- . ■ * V. o<1 , Underwood, Wale.! Walker and Winthrop—33 I Nays— Messrs. Atchison, Exclusive Dealer in iOCKERY, CHINA, Badger, Barnwell. BELL, Berrien, Butler, Davis, of Mississippi, • Dawson, Downs, Hunter, King, Mangum, Mason, Martin, Pratt Sabastlan, Houle. Turner and Yulee.— 19. ALSO, Crops and Politics in Middle Georgia. Wo take tho following items from a privato letter from a gentleman of ikillJJ (llflSSCS & Plated WurCj this county, now in Oxford. Ho says, I Broad St., Rome, Ga.. I Urge supply I of all* kinds “Tho few rains, limited both in quan tity and extent, have parti illy redeem* : ed tlio crops of corn* !Jn Putnam, Mor gan ond. Newton the early, plantings , will exceed tho estimates mode a month , sineo. The drought, however, in Us : | generate influence is unabated and i hundreds of acres will scarcely return • tin* soed. Tho crops of cotton will bo ii-i qualities, for tabio ami culinary very small. Picking is begun, and I 1 n.»,tm...tor Flue Mirror., *»«* Jgj ”°P wil1 *» 8b'bored 1 supply of Pla*od Ware, inelud*, by tho 15th of October. ' 8ftr * r ° n88 ’ an<i ( "Tho Douglas men claim a small mu .Subscriber will koap a larger stock ofljoriiy in tlie village of Eutonion, the ikery and Glass Ware, than bus hitherto 1 coun ty of Putnam, I am informed will I Vent bv alt tho Merehantsof Roiuo—tho ' Lt stock in Cherokee Ga..and by haying give Brocklnridge a larger vote than Jeer quantities, ho will cot them cheaper, Douglas. Bell will got a plurality In llte able to soil lower Uian the former Alio Glass Ware, In all Us various 1 public are respectfully Invited to call ..... c—t a— above MvCIung's, and WM. T. NEWMAN. J» store, first door above McClutig* line Goods and prices, Imtrlly. B. EVE, manufacturkii of Ind Dealer Extensively in of all Styles. , i%, Quality and Pricer Challenged. THE FARMERS |RK requested to examine my largo as sortment of Plantation Bridles, Collars, jelling and Team.Guar complete, St tho lowest Possible Cash Prices. 'sand Goar made to order, and repaired Hart notice. My stock will b-ar lns| come ami see before purchasing. hSe*> Advortlsemen* in another nsp«c- Putnutn, Morgan, and Newton. In Morgan tho Democrats are almost equal ly divided, Breckinridgo in tho majori- Ity. Indications from other portions of tho State render tho election of Brook inridgn before tho people probable. Tlie fact tlmt tho writer is a Jireekin• tllye Democrat accounts for litis lust sen iehoq. In tho counties whero lie has been Boll i» ahead, but ott* at a distanco somewhere, nobody knows where. Breckinridge is going Jo gel enough votes to elect him. And so it is in each county, The Brockinridger’s do not, hopo to Carry it, but other counties will come,to the rescue. Tlie election will set all this right. CXRAIIOO NEW TRM1 I00RE & DUNNAHOO, rROCERS! BaecKiNRiDOE Er.ECTORAL Ticket.— Tjie following electors were nomina ted by the Breckinridge State Conven tion on tlie 8thInst s Stute ntr largo—O. J, McDonald and ll<niy R. .Id ok sop. 1st District—-Peter Gone., i-nd. Di-triet—Win. Slaughter 3d. 'Disjriut-MJ. 0. O.hson. 4tU District —Hugh,Buchanan; 5tl» District—Lew is Tomlin, titli District—Hardydiliiek hind 7 ! li District—W. A. Lofton* 8th D strict—W.-II. McIntosh. A fu'd' Assortment of, FAMILY SUPPLIES ICI.UDINO Fliuir, .Moil, Sligir nt nil Sindn, CciITm. Buitgr, Eg*.. Kill, of dlf- fclt kln.lS.-Drlfe'H Fruit., and I'rc. rvt.l , All kind, of Nut., Cnudloi, Clgurn, io, Finn Lti|iiora; ter.., Ac. |wish it Distinctly Understood thnt Ye will Sell on Credit to J resnonsible men, who etk Ithe habit of paying ai the Tie agreed upon. le wilt duplteatu upon timn to prompt ling men, any cash purohnso inudo in re us a call and satisfy yoUrsolves a Ids and prices, IbBwly.j -MOORE. A DUNNAIIOO. Howard association, rniUADELPIIIA. Bcnovolont Inititation established by spool- |1 Kndowiuo'nt, for tho Rolief of tho Blok liul Distressed, ufflictud with Vlrulout and Ipidomio Diaouses, and especially fur the iro of Disuasos of the 8exual Organs. [HDIOAL advice givon gratis, by tho ac- J. ting Surgeon, to .all who apply by , | with a dospription' of thoir. onn< •cupation, habits of life, dm,,) and in f oxtrurao povorty, Medicines furnish* Tof charge. faluablo reports on 8pormatorrhooo, and r Diseases of tho Sexual Organs,, and on NEW REMEDIES,employed 1 In tho Dla* iary, sent to the affliotod fu Booled .lot* ionvolopos, tVeo of charge., Two or threo mpi for postage will be aeceptoblo. ddress, DR. BKtLLEN HOUGHTON; K g ^!' r fl eon ' Howard Association. No. 2 “h Ninth Street, I'hilaaolphio, Pa. By No Oo,—The Bicckinridgers in tliis piaco, learning that Mr. Yancoy, would pmw through this place on route to his appointment ut Centro, Ala., to : dny annum - .ceil tlmt Hon. William. iV-Yan •cy would speak at Romo on Thurs day night, and notifiod him of tho fact. Whether ho was offended at tho appointment without consultation with him, or at tho unwarrantable liberty they took with his narno, wo ca say, but lie did not come up to schedule time. He pusfted through the next morn- hr of tho Directors. I EZRA D. HEART^ELL, Pres, |bo. FAiaqmLP, SooRy., fobntrily. Plantation for Sale. |M^ The Subscriber offers lor salo.his. Plantation, 16 milos below'Rome in Floyd. Bounty, on Coosa river, containing 176 aoreg—80 cf which is in a fine stato of cultivation.— _cros on the Romo and Cedar Bluff wth Dwelling, fine Gin. Houso, good well arranged Cabins, Stables^Orohards, Since the foregoing was in type loam that the trains failed to connect at Atlanta, and hence. Mr Yancey could not reach this place ihursday afternoon. Narrow Escape from Fire.—About o'clock on Wednesday night the house of W. T. Tramraollj Esq., a mile and half from town, was saved by mere chance almost from being burnt to the ground. Mr. Trammell wits' absent from homo, but as soon as'the alarm was giv en, three or four gentlemem spending tho evening at Dr. Miller’s, two or three hundred yards off, rushed over and ex tinguished the fire. It lmd burned s bed and bedding in. one off the upper rooms and through;:the Wiill. Alter* wards, .upon opening ft door, to another apartment they discovered a bed in that also.burning. Whether the beds were set afire accidentally by tho* children, who had been playing in. the upper sto ry with candles, or designedlyhy qthers, it servos as a warning. . - arrangett uaDins, oiaoiet, urouuraB, _» w j*h 220 aores cleared—tho land is li | e * from tho river. For furtCor informa* “ apply to tho aubsdribor, - N. B. DREW, Missionury Btatlon, Floydcd., Ga* The Southern Recorder learns that Hon. C. J^ Jenkins has accepted the ap pointment as Judge of the Supremo dourt. ■Miss Abby Fay, a.young Amor bby.FaV, can vocalist, had made aulte a sem tion at a nerrormance in Florence the benentiof Garibaldi. and Everett Meet in* in Gordon largo and most highly respcotable on of this Mends of Bell and Evor* mot in the Court llouso on Tuesday th® 7th, inst., to appoint delegates to Miiledgevillo State Convention on 13th of August. On motion or John Harkins, Muj. Joshua Datijel was called to the Chair, and J. N. Scott requested act ns Secretary. Mnj. J; Daniel being callod on to ex* -‘tv the object of the meeting did so fow brief remarks. On motion of Col. J. E. Parrott, the following Committee wore appointed to report business for tho meeting, vis: Col. J. E. Parrott. John M. Nool. P. R. Mulnno, L. D. Colo, and Wylie Roborts. Wiiile tho Committee wore out, Doctor of Floyd,ontertalned the audianco a very appropriate and woll timed spoeoh.in beautiful terms sotting forth tho purity and fidelity of our Constltu* tiotml candidates for the Presidenoy. Mqjor James Freeman being loudly d dhthusiasticaHy called for appeared tho stand and stated that lio was hot publio speaker, but thnt ho would challenge the world to put forth a purer and hotter man than 'John Bell, and took his scat amidst great applause. Tho Committee having returned made the following report which was unanimously adopted. Resolved, That we nro in favor of the Platform adopted by tho Constitutional Union Convention nt its late session in City of Baltimore, and recommend to tho favorablo consideration of nil of all parties in the United States. Resolved, That we ratify tlie nomina tions of Joint Bell and Edward Everett, the Presidency and Vice-Presiden* and plodgo ourselves to uso all hon orable means to secure them the votes Gordon county. Resolved, That in the opinion of tills meeting, tiio success of this ticket can ftlono (tinder • prosent circumstances) secure tlie perpetuity of the Union and maintaiiiance of poace. Resolved, That tho preservation of tiiis Union, according to tlie Constitu tion and the Laws, is a paramount ob- of patriotic desire and should * iriv duco nil men who lovo tho Union and desire to transmit to posterity the liber- which wo have inherited from our fathers, to cast their suffrages lot these men whose lives and whose patriotism afford a sufllcieut guarantee that In’ their hands tlie interests of the Rupub* will not suffer. Resolved, That W. J. Cantrell, James reenmn; J. E. Pnrro.t, A. P. IJuilry, F. Cabot, John S. Dobbins, John II. Start, Jamos Hill, Wylie Bober is, James Harlam ond John McClure be and tho same are hereby appointed to vep resent Gordon county in the approach* iug State Convention to be held at Mil- ledgevillu on the 13th of this month th power to each to till viicunet< Resolved, That tho proceedings of this meeting l»e forwarded* to tho Chronicle & Sentinel" mid the Tri-Wcek- Roino Cmirim for publication, and at other papers in the Stato friendly ho requested to insert them. On motion of CdT. J.’E Parrott, tlie tneetjug unjoinwd sine. die. JOSHUA DANIEL, Ch’n J. N. Scott, Seo'y. For tho Courier. Hell nml Everett in Kentucky. Camioun, 7th Aug., 1800 The Maysvillo Eaglo notices a rally Jndge Long street on tho Inanlt to Mr. Dallas. Wo have boforo us tho London Morn ing Chronicle of July. 21st,' containing a letter of Judgo Longstreet to tho editor nomination of B.U nnd KWrttTand point delegates to attend tlio Mllleilgc- Rio siwcnli of W. II.. Vvndswortli, 11 »t tko Htntlstical Congress, llo publi.h- villo Convention to meet pn . the 13th -was an. audienco of which any speaker _^ c inst., camo off to day. J mlglit well bo proud. Every precinct Itwoa dne of the largest political ! n I 1 ® co “ ntr ^ W( $ represented by a . % . ■ i largo numbor of gallant nnd true men | mootings which has taken plaoo in our an d oyen from Nicholas, and Fleming county for years. It was rathqr amus* and Lewis, and. from the adjacent coun* ing to look upon tho long facos of some i ln 9i)\0» old men and young men of tho Democrats, as they stood around ‘ "n ii tM 5 t° nrty ,f ntT ‘ U9in8 * tl.o ouUkirt. of thn crowd, nml .nw “After tlm cnllclulmontio apcecb, many men \yliom tiioy had oltiiraed as the Maysvillo Qundrilto Bm>l played belonging to tiieir party, participating one of the national airs, andithe hearty, l„ this meeting. Such ithe demon. .tmtlonn inudo In favor of our oamd. 1 aro f 0P Tko] 1 and Kvcrctt. and thoy must dates that tho democracy became alariu- j add will triumph.” ed and on tho adjournment of our meo* . . - —, ting, gnvo nottoo that thoy would linvo a > ANorttEn Dlitn Scott Case.—Wo un- apacoli that ovonllig from .onto of Uioir dcratand from tho Shclbv (Kv.) Mem pelt. I did not attend, but understand 2}]Sfr*£!“ in ,ho thoy had but a small orowd and a poor ppnooh. I will koop you posted in fu* turo. GORDON. University ofGoorgln. ‘ofIllinois, nnd took tlto plaintiff to Wo loam from tho Athens IU M >i i'!"'"’ ft 1 * hl !V llt | ring tlmt (L D. nl .it;. M tu tu .u i , tho period of his -residcnee tlioroln.— that tho Faculty ol this Institution hut Tho plaintiff claims that hv virtue of boon reorganised' by the Trustees, as . thp ordlnance 0 f 1787 and tlie ConsMtu* follows: I tioii and lawn of Illinois, ibis residence Rev. A. A. Lipscomb, D. D„ President \ hlm r,ora «l«»vcry. nnd Proi'essor of Bollcs Lottros and Ora* t ; —•—*——- - n t T »»■ it .v j t,,: Startlixo and Splendid ’ Di?coverv. Mora ^ Pfidoa* j —It is said tlmt Mayor Tiomnn, nt his Wtu, 1l. w^ViAi. A \r ah«u..Y t:.». ! inManiinttanvillo, \\nsdx- eWituro, Win. Rutherford, A. M,, Mnthoraati* dun and Astronomer. Rev. Jas. Woodrow, A. M„ Natural sScience nnd Experimental Philosophy. Daniel Lee, M. D.,-Terrill Professor Agriculture.. Wip. 1). Walsh, A. M„ Adi. Professor Mnthetnati<» and Natural Philosophy. The ProfoAorship of Rhetoric and illcs Lett res. hus been abolished. Pro fessors Johnson and Humtuondhavoro* ' :nod. 'ho throe vacancies in tho Board of Visitors wore filled by tlio election of Mr. DoUglas, of Randolph, Dr. Milior, of Borne, nml Col. B. G. Vancoy, of At lanta. Commencement hereafter on second Wednesday in July, alter which vaca tion until 1st of September. .Second .va cation from' 1st December to fill: Janu ary. Killed by Lightning while the Sun wns Shining. On List Tuesday n negro bov, the pro- •ply of Rev. Elflnh Byrd o**Poikeoiin . while at work in a field belonging to Mr. 8. M. II. B.Vrd. was struck by liulit a nnd instantly killed. At tlio tinv of tho accident tho sun was shining nnd l;y clear, with tlie exception ot in ill cloud immediately over tlie field The lightning first struck a tree am when about six feet from tho ground left it and entered tho body of tlie boy who was near by. Efforts wore made resuscitate diim.’but without success.— Several negroes in tho field woro shook ed but nonohurt. Sight-Seeing Extraordinary. *Whilo several gentlomon from Geor gia, including three or four from Rome, wero.o week or ?osince,traveling through Canada, bent on seeing everything atall wonderful, they entered a convent 1 Montreal, nnd feasted their curiosity tho mysteries of Catholicism, when their sympathetic hearts brought them around the.couch of a little orphan boy who was evidently shftbHng greatly,and apparently from measles. Alter com miserating his condition for-a lew min - ntes, with mournful countenances and. perhaps, tearful eyes, on oof them asked attendant “what was tho matter with him?” She replied immediately, “small pox!' 1 Those kind-hearted gentlomon left rather hurriedly—and our opinion they.will “never go there no more.” ggyllon, Howell Cobi) will speak Augusta on next Monday. Senator Toombs did not Sav it.—A statement lias been made in aovoral of the opposition ; Newspapers, that Mr. Toombs said in his speech in Warrenton$ that Mr, Boll wns as sound on the Slav ery question as ho was. We have Mr. Toombs own authority for saying, that he made no such statement.—Jhed. Un- Shelby Circuit Court involving tho ques tion of slavery in the North-western Territory, as affected by tho ordinance of 1787. Tlio plaintiff assorts that his master became a permanent resident 'nPIlllnAia nnrl <nnL *l«<, in fore tho explanation of Lord Brougham, In whjcli ho administers a most polish ed nnd scathing rebuke to the Spirit winch prompted, nnd showed .manifest ondorsment fora remark which'was r luitous nnd insulting. Ho says Lord nroso immediately aftor Prlnoo Al bert. hod concluded his, .admirablo ad dress, “and turned, to .the Amoripan, Minister und addressing liini* across the tnble of Iti? Royal Holiness, wild, *1 call tho nttemion of Mr. DtUlas to tlio fact, that there is a negro present; nnd I iiopo ho will feel no scruples on tlmt aocount.’ This appeal to tho . Ameri can Minister was received with general applauso by tho house. Tho coloreds gentleman roso, nnd said, ‘I thank Ids Royal Highness nnd your lordship, nnd have only to say that Jama man.” And this was received, with loud applause l” •iin,7iMfa Dispatch. Judge L., in tho courso of his review of tlio matter; says: Now if tho noblo lord's oddross to tho Amorlenn Minister won in emit for Wnddol. A, it., Ancient Ut,\Sto^;£2SSS2SZZZ} ThkTtr j threatens torcvolutioize horticulture.— One ol tho factory hnnds having thrown some liquid green paint of n particular kind, an n fiower-bed, occupied by white anemones, tho flowers have since made thoir appearance with petals ns green as|grass. Tlio paint had in it a pe culiar nnd very penetrating chemical mixture, which Mr. Tiornun 1ms since applied with other colors, to other plants, annual, John Dell nnd Win. L. Ynnecy. Wo sec* going the founds of tho press, what purports to he a letter from tlio Hon. Will, L. Ynnecy, addressed to gentlemen m Alabama, in which ho as sert h that t lie record of Ml*. Boll shows, among oilier tilings, that Mv. Boll holds tlio opinion “that. |i the AVihnot Proviso were to bon limited to Territorial bills. would hi* rmht to sanction it.” Well tippose Mr. Bull does hold,.this opinion mil any gentleman point to u vote of his, which proposed to tumclinn the doc trine in practice? Does Mr. Yancoy liotd tlio opinion attributed by him and his adherents ft John Bell? Let fact a answer. The Wilinot Proviso was attach ed to tin* bill organizing the Territory of ind. if we mistake not, Mr. .j. in the Houro of Reprcsenta- Ives, under his oath to support tho Cbn- stitution,.votedfor tlmt Bill. Howell Cobb voteJfor the same bill, under oath—most of the South Carolina delegation voted for the same bill; Janies K, Polk, a Southern Democratic Pfcsirlont, under his oath to support the Constitution APPROVED the bill. If Mr. Bell’s opinions be so liouH, his acts are uo£ such : but wlmt shall we say of those sound, tme Southern wrats, whose acts under oath, wlmt- bo their opinions, sanction tho Pro- attached to Territorial bills, •right ?”—Chron d> Scf . . . - diennial and of the shrub kind—tlio result being invurin- bly tluit the flowers so ivalcred took the hue of tho liquid deposited ut their roots. By .commencing experiments earjv next year, during seed thno, and applying'different colors, wo shall, no doubt, soon bo enabled to “paint the lily/* which was Solomon’s ambition — When this experiment shall have been fully tested, nnd acknowledged as a success—then by skillful application of tlio dress-patterns used . in cotton inUls, we may bo able to give printed form ns well as color, to the vnrh iV. r. Leader. dous flowers.— - Mr. Howard’s Oration.—Wo had tho pleasure of Jistoniug to the oration bo fore tlio Literary Societies,*qn Thnrsday .lust, delivered by the Rev.* C. W. How ard. of Oi«s cofinty. Ills tlfqme was <he life and ehnract««f of tlie founc|oV of G«;, (*eu. OgT&flioWm and most ably'and eioquontly did nC- troat it. Wo have not heard such an ad dress for a long time. As it will doubt* less bo printed, those who failed td iiear It', will do well , to get a copy of it.—AM- ens Watchman. *f'i of freedom ni.v. u* muaiu- ry tlmn nil llp-compltnionU of all hor nobles put together. Or, If that seat was too low for tho doctor, why was he not placed between Lord Brougham nnd pleasantry, 1 must bo permitted to sny tlmt tho time, thftsutyeot,and thbplnoo doctor is a member of tlio Geographical stand as oiio of tho vieo-presidonts, and placed right between Mr. Dallas and my soli ? Here would have boon a scon- io representation of thrilling mot feet, more eloquent, of .OUT England’s .tlio ofinir {. Had I seqn hlm lnpro, ver ily my own lioart- Woul&hhva swell- o« with a coniplimoht to hoblo Old Like a sportful fawn she boundeUi England, which no lips could Imvo fitly littered. Whoro was tho doctor ot tho PrfncoV roooptioii? I did not seo him there. To wlmt section docs ho .belong ? I do not find him' allotted to cither. . To how. many of tho entertnlnmcnts lms iio been invited? Now, In all this I dotoot ft lurking feeling ever mid- anon pooping, out, which convinces jno that tho colored mnn is yetfur { vory far, bo- uuu uutuiuu IIIUI1 19 j UI> IUI . VVI) 1111, uu- low Ihowliltoirmnin publio ostiiimlion, oven in Kuropo; nnd, until this in 0011- quorocl, lot not the European nssumo to Te'“' lecture tlto Amerionn upon Ills duty to thonlavo or upon tliu cqunllty of tlio races. Why, If the thing is fated to us, liko dcatli.cnn any mnn of common hu manity and generosity take pleasure in irero exceedingly unpropitious to such .allies. If it was meant far sarcasm, It wns equally unfortunate in conception and delivery. If it was meant for in sult, it was mercilessly cruel to Ids.lord- ship's heart, refinement,-dignity, and moral- souse. I could readily have found an apology for it in Ida lordsli.ii'a locks and wrinkles, If it had not been so triumphantly applauded. Tlio Euro pean delegates understand it—the col ored gentloniati understood itj and, from the response of tho lattor, wo can colleot unerringly ita import. It,wns meant ns a boastful comparison to IiIb lordship’s country with the Minister’s. It was meant as a cutting reflection up on thnt country, where negroesaro not adinittod to tho councils of white men. throwing it in his tooth ? Slavery is either a blessing or a ourso. If a hles- ig or a ourso. If, sing,why disturb US in tho enjoyment of itl. .You Englishmen ought to plumo Slio coinos, the spirit of our childhood— A tiling of mortal birth, ot breathing still a breath of Heaven, lo redeem her from tho earth. Slio comes in bright robed innocence, Uncoiled by* blot or blight, And passed our wayward potli, A gleam of nngol light. Oh! blessed things rea children I Tho gift of heavenly lovo; dlsdnohant Us of tho delusion ? You sny -'U is a groat aln.”. . I doubt it, ns I find EphTae W* A Lapsus Linou/E—Tho Burlington (Vi.) Free Press, speaking of Mr. Doug las’speech in that city on tho 30th of July says: Den i spoko lions and*labors of a settlor in a’ now country—one who had to make his i.wn “iMices, nnd “sidit his own rails,” tho in- idontal application In-o-ight out a hearty and general round of acclama tion from all over tho house, which told the speaker nt once, where ho was, and that his nB-emblv in tho main had thoir hearts on Ah'uhnm Lincoln, and not on Stephen A. Douglas. exfts Items—The Insurrection Ex* citoment. Too excitement consequent upon the .abolition disturbances inis not entirely m-dout. A meeting of slave owners tioid in the town of Anderson, tlm Sliili. A vigilance eoipmUteo was orga nized and h'solutions adopted, recotn ending tho expulsion of all white per* ns suspected of eutortaining Abolition ntiments, reprobating the practice ol giving general passes, and soil' id arms to slaves. A meeting, with a similar object in . _ew, was held in Hempstead on tlie samo day, ut which precautionary measures Vo tuken. In Wood county a publio moot ing was hold on tho 19th, nnd a vigi lance commit too was nppointad, us well os a watch for tho town of Quit- man. It has boon ascertained that tho no- groei Of Grimes county have hold secret meetings, nnd many .of thom aro suppli ed with arms. A .mass mooting pf tho citizous >f Lamar county was Jiold. at- Paris till tlio 28th ult., tor tlio purpose of taking -steps to ferret out persons suspected of abolitionism in that vicin ity. In Fayette county, a band of .uuaways. was thought to luve bee organized, thoir destination being Mox Tho Gilmer Tribunereports tlio arrest of throe negroes in thnt town on tho 19th. They hud ip thoir |>ossi»ssion pas ses,^'papers, nnd various documents, way bills to tho Indian Nation, pistols, powder, cays arid writing materials.— Vlfoy said they were from Henderson county. The Houston Telegraph thinks tho late diabolical plot was only perfected -v. - - P®M®Cl in two piaccs—l)*iihis und Denton—but had it not been discovered,; ft; would soon have extended to half tho counties in tho Stato. Abolitionists in Alabama. — Tho Butler (Choctaw county, Alabama) Democrat contains,the proceedings of a meeting of the citizens of Clarke and Wayne counties, Mississippi, and Choc taw and Washington counties, Ala., to consider with regard to a society exist ing in Chootaw county, arid supposed to be an abolition concern. It was organ- We mail® this statement upon the authority of the Chronicle <6 Sentinel, ns much ft- compliment to i Mr. Toombs’ fairness, as an evidence of Mr.» Bell’s soundness. If wo; were mistaken we willingly make tho correction. No body loses anything .by it but-Mr. Toombu. .* V . ized by men named McDonald an< bort. It wns proved by a large number of i witnesses that both McDonald and Gilbert were abolitionists, und tfint Gil- boma. —- t T’^T1IPCHriT-:iHWt — . nr i not exist in the Sjato threo years. Mc- 'Donald. it was also proven, had consti tuted himsolf agent for abolition publi cations and had engaged to furnish one of the witnesses with soveral books, Great Yield or Wheat.—A few days $o Mr. Ithuinhainmur redding near Jookvil.o, ParkCoiimy. Indiana, thresh ed five acres of whc.-it. whtbli produced sixty-four bushela »n i louite -n pounds to the ucro—over 321 on the tract, and which, is equivalent to at least $60 per acre. Oiio of liis neighbors had n forty»a< field near his five-acre tract, w'aioli yi ded u fraction over forty-three bushels per acre. Now, I take leave to say that a Brit on was. the last man on earth who should cast contemptuous reflections up on the United .Stales, nnd the dolegatcs tlie last man on earth who shouldhavo countenanced'-then). Not ono of them, not a man on .all tho broad surface of Europe, can Assail that country with out assailing some near hmueborn friend of his own languugo nnd blood, or some kinsman by short linengo from ft com mon ancestry. Sho spreads herself out from tlio Atlantia to tho Pnoifio, from tlie Gulf to tbo Lakes, nnd through all her length and breadth, Alia is ono vast asylum for tho poor, tho oppressed, tho down-trodden, tho persecuted of tho ; world. Her sons aro a multidinous brotherhood of a!l chinos, religions nml tongues, living togethor in harmony, peace nnd equality, so fur ns : thoro can potwibly prevail within her.borders.— Sny what you mny, think as you may, sneer us you may at her “peculiar in stitution,” sho is after nil, the good Su* niaritnn of nations. Do ft people cry and waste from fumino ? She loads her ships with supplies, nnd lays them at tho sufferers’ doors without uionoy and without price. Do an opprrssud people strike for liberty ? You will find somo of her sons, under their flag. Does a wife’s cry como aoross tho waters for help, to find a noble, long-missing bus baud? Sho fits out her idiips, her vol unteers man thorn, they search nearly to tho Pole, loam the husband’s fate, disburdens the wife's heart from sus pense and then Bo down and die from theoxposuro and toils af tho search.— Does slio find a nation's sloop of war afloat, still sound but unmanod? She puts hor in decent trim nnd sends hor to her owner, in charge of hor own mcn.uiidat her own expense—“Boar with mo,” If “I am become a fool in glorying, ye have compelled me, lor l ought to have been commended to you.” Such a nation is not to bo taunted, certainly not by Great Britain. Hor slavery is a heritage, not a creaturo of oh both ildos. If you cannot conde scend to our company, wo will not com- ?la|n at,giving a placo to Dr. Delnny, and wo can beautify you with four mil lions prooisoly such. Butin your intor- course with us do not, for your own sokes, forgot all tlio rules of dolioaoy, benoyolonoo, And humanity, for ovory adult of us call stand tin and sny, ”1 mn a mnn J’ 1 ' Fnrouoll to theo, London,for a short time I One moro bilof look at thy wonders, and tlion fnrdiroll for over. Another visit to Liverpool! I liko lior hotter than London bocauso slio likes my peoula bottor. "Interest I" ."cot ton 1’.’ It may bo so, but 1 am grateful for lovo of any Rind lii England. Nev er, in all my . long, lung Ufa did my rvTv.v .".union Is universally ac knowledged an inspired oplstlo. Hut supposoitailll! lms Gad commissioned you to reform it? Anil do you think you evor will, reform it by eternally sprinkling vitrol upon tlio roaster t As for your contempt, wq would rather not linvo It to bo suro s but if you will bo contont with that wo will livoin ponco Thoy link us with tlio spirit world lly purity nnd truth,. And keep our hearts still fresh and forever, for It is an article In.oqual storo ~ *-*«•-,-let If acquainted with you, I loro yotir coun try, I havo several lcinsmon , thoro.*’— I'lmt's natural, that's womanllko. It is fqr limn to draw’fuvours from d coun try and ourso hor. God bless her 1. And God hloss tho family in whloli slio said It, As Abraham, Isuao, and Jacob, RHMl' to, all s' slaveholders, nro in Heaven. I lit got thoro too. May I moot .the thoro I Hut, whither am I wandering! Liverpool, another look lit Liverpool, another bcuefico to tins English Cunard line, and tlipn farewell to Europe for over and over I A. B. LONGSTREET. P. Si—I forgot to moritlon ninny kind invitations tlmt I havo roceivod from distinguished personages. I declin ed thorn all, not indjlTorontly nor disrespectfully, but bocauso they word obviously given to nib as a momber of Congress, which I was not when they reached mo, nnd never shall bo. The Light of the Hearth. Slio comes with fairy footsteps j Softly their echo™ fa!’ Anri hor shadow plays flhndo Across the garden wall. Tlie golden light is dancing bright, • ’Mid tho mazes of her imir, And hop fair young locks aro waving free ’ To the wooing of the sir. So gloofully along, And us tho wild young bird she carol- loth Hie bur thou of hor song. Tlio summer flowers are clustering thick Around her dancing feet, And on hor clicok tho summer breezo Is breathing soft nnd swoct. TWrcry sunbeams soem lo linger, And tho wild fluwere n't’her coming Thoir richest fragrnneo shed. r lrP^J how lovqly light and fragrance Mingle in tho light within l li I how fondly do they nestlo Oh 1 how fondly do they nestlo Round tho soul that knows no sin! hoy stand botwixt our worldly hearts And bettor things above, hoy link us with tho spirit world tlio prciicnco of thoir youth.. Mimourl Election. St. : Loots, Aug. 8,--It in gcnorally concodod that J. Richard Barrett, Dem ocrat, is elected to Congress, for tho short term by 40 majority , but P. P. Polnin is elected for tlio long term bv —1 mqjority. unplo Orr, Esq,, (tho Hell nnd Ev- crettcamlidato. for Clovornor,) lms boon olectod by about 1000 majority. Ill tho St. Louis District tlio Black Republicans havo elected ft majority of tho county officers. From Washington. Wasuixotox, August 0.—Ex^ocrolnfy Conrad is now In this city, preparing for publior,tion, a letter urging n joint Boll nnd Douglas ticket in all of tlio Stales. Tho olootors thus ohosen, to cast their votes for tlio candidates having tlio greatest strength. * StaNiro irng Putnoc AoMs.— u'.ii-- stated that on Wednesday last, Hen. Thomas F. Marshal, of Kontiicky, led- turod on Tcnipornnco, nt roughkeoi)- slo, N. 1., nmfnt tho oloso signed tho total abstinonco pledge.. ' Tin: is trouble among tlio different religious bodies at St. Johns, New Brunswick, touching the preoedonco to bo givon w —beTflBL.^ to religious bodies in tho presentation of addresses, rccoived for reply that tho Churoh.of England stood first, and tlio Church of Romo next. Tlio Presbyte rians at onco took fire, threatening to wash their hands of tho whole concern. her own begetting. It was fpreed on hor against nor wishes, hor prayers nhd tier protestations—screwed down? upon her, pressed into her, until it has be come so completely incorporated with her very being that it is now impossible ’* ‘ ‘ ‘iiim • "alnvn Udolpho Wolfe and She Liquor Trade. This merchant is a public benefactor. Thoro is ono' spot in Ihe.lan'd, where a tnan dan go nnd purchnso pure liquors or any kind ; or description; Wo do not intoud to give un elaborate descrip- CASE OF UVDROPHOBtA IN ALABAMA.— Dr. E. P. Quines, of Toulminvillo, Ala., furnishes tho Mobile Tribune witli tho liarticulurs ofn vory distressing case of lydrophobiu. The victim was a Mrs. Tucker, and was bitten last February by a large dog, which afterwards bit his owner and was subsequently shot.— None of tlio ordinary precautions were used, under tho belief’ tlmt hydropho bia in this climate, nr that season of the year* wns impotable- but on Mon day, the 19th inst,, Mrs. Fuekor com plained of hc&dnchentid. f«-ver, nnd two days ufter, the sight of water brought un spapmodic symtoms. During Wed nesday slio grow rapidly worsn, and ex pired on Thursday niglit in extreme misery. perial regulation, but is also founded onan .onaotniontof tho . Loglslaturo of tho Province. - jy,/ §& ftfri Blondin’s Last Performance.—Tlm Buffalo Commfercinl Advertiser thus do* scriiics tlie last performance pf tho Bt- tlo Fronch Acrobat, at Niagara Falls; In a few minutes tho little man was seen coming towards tho American, attached to n heavy lumbering chuir.^— When about a third of tho way out, ho placpd tlio chair upon tho ropo nnd sontetl himself thereon, crossed his legs, nnd gazed , around with apparent unconcern. He then adjusted two legs of tho chair on tho cubic, again seated himself. Coming near to tho American shore, he again stopped and sat down; nnd then got up and stood in tho chair! When we considered that this was done on a single cable, stretched at a height of more than two hundred feet over ono of tho most fearful chasms and torrents in *he world, it seomB absolutely mirac ulous,. ... Shocking Accident. A snockingaccident occurred last eve ning, says tho N. O. True Doha, of tlie 4th inst., somo distance above the Jack- son Rail Road Depot, by a young man named Murray, incautiously applying a light to a half keg'of powder, which ho thought would not explode os it had be- como moist. Ho was unfortunately mistaken, and ho and .three other work men named John Kennedy, Jas. Har rington, and Wm. Buckley were terribly hurt. Others of a party of workmen who wore employed, there, and who amoniTwhich was one of Fred.' Doug- were resting alter dinner, were also in- 1..’ broke. )jurid. to cradicnto it. The term, “slave property,” is borrowed, it is hot of her coinage. In nil of her iliivo 8tates thero are not tori men living (until very re cently not one) who ever made a slave of a freeman, counting tlio Hottentot a freeman. Their sin; then, is hot in ma king slaves, but in not restoring them to liberty, in courtesy to tho sensibili ties Of those who made thorn for us.— Beforo thoy make this exaction of us thoy Burely ought to havo tho magna nimity cf Judas; and lay tho prico nt our feet. He then considers the slavory ques tion ut some length, for which we havo not now room, and concludes as follows: . Whatever his lordship did not intend by the remark—arid. I am ready to be lieve ho did not intend to wound—Iiq certainly did intend to briiiglothe Min ister’s notice that England madenodis tinction between men on account of their color. And herein his lordship was lamentably unfortunate, for tho whole scene showed that not only ho, but all hi? applaudem, make a marked distinction between color. Would not his lordship havo had moro respect for tho feelings of.any white man, than, to havo made him the object of special no tice, and such (i notico to men gathered from all quartet's of the world ? Would his lordship’s discourtesy to a white man havo been applauded as it was, by 'entlemen of refinement and delicacy ? True, it UitrDr. Delaney’s sensibilities oxqotly in the right place, for ho re turned thanks for it; but tho. chances wero a thousand to ono tlmt it would hnva enkindled his indignation. ‘^Yliftt ho was likely to have Bald, ‘is it .a boast of tho nobility of England that Lamad* mitted to a seat among white mon.”— His thanksgiving, too, was applauded, a thing not exactly in keeping .with our ordinary dealings with white men.— And when he proclaimed tho indubita ble fact “that ho was a man," again he was applauded. If any .other mon had arisen in' the assembly, and said the selfsame thing, hfuvould have been laughed.at, not ap- pluudod. Again, his lordship pointed him out as “a negro”—that was tho word—not as somo of the gazettes • have it, “a colored person” or “colored gen tleman”; tho Times has it right. Now, if ho had felt a due regal'd for tho doc tor’s rank, would he not havo softened his destination, as tho papers havo kind- It. rl Asi/i (ai* tiini 9 T .ns *a1«I *kaf stranger in town to visit. Nos. 18,20 22 Beaver stroot. Thoro wo saw Liquors anil Wines in quantities quite startling. A stock of Bramlies, pure and choico, valued at (?150,000) ono hundred nnd fifty thousand dollars. Wines of all tlio olioloest vintage, Port, Maderin, Sliorry, valued at ($130,000) ono hun dred nnd thirty thousand dollars, im ported by Mr. Wolfe direct from Mndo- riii, Portugal and Spain, and also from tlio London docks. His Schnapps business hus increased, until now his sales amount to (180,000. dos.) ono. hundred and eighty thousand dozen of bottles of Schnapps annually. In flvo years ho will be'equally success ful with his" Brniidlos and Wirios.— Heaven grant it may ba so, for ho is doing a world of good. How muny thousands of our most clever mon aro out oil' annually by tho poisonous bad. liquors 1 How many thousands of val uable lives would havo boon savod, had Mr. Wolfo commenced importing aiid bottling puro Liquors and Winos years ago? But it is not too latonow. nis business merits tho patronago' of ovory lover of Ills species. If no only'suc ceeds in preventing the Bale of onc- - Tho N,. Y. iday, in an elaborate nr- •— iimontlng on -Brougham to tho American Ministor ill England, nt a sossion-of. the Statistical Congress, takes conduct Ir^tl^TMia^ his immodiato recall. Vituperation is so much tho' order of tho dnv in New York, nnd wlion nil "Aldorman Boole’’ tolling a thing to call "Boolo" a liar and scoundrel, that ‘any other course of notion^ appears tamo and inappropriate. he will doBervo tho gratl kind.—Nem Yorh Courier. maud e _ him, and wo shall probably linvo in a foiv Uayo nn,answer to, tlio vory elegant MM MIhH tain all tho ndjeotivos which it is thought Mr. Dallas should havo used, expl dor that wo may know precisely what is ?mo 0 ciraun!slane™i C “ n Uini8te, ' " n ’ Mr. Dallas was not a momber of tbo Statistical Congress, and lmd, therofor, no right.to speak at nil; ho'therefor treated tlio remark with tho silent con- L .Hadjio dol v rlioio col- I havo low ered himself ami disgraced tho country. As it wns, his dignified conduct has mot tho approbation of Ilio world, nnd bus produced nu immedi ’ ' produced nu immediate apology.—/Vi>Y- adclptda Inquirer. Vom M'tTEoas Coinxo.—A soiohlifio correspondent of tbo Pbiladoiphia electrical phenomena, nnd on tho 19th and 20th, tho Aurora was beautiful, qulta unusual for July! thq-motror of tho 20th was magnificent. Conditions will bo again favorablo during ,tho week from tho 15th to tho' 2Srd'of August, and from the 12th to 10th ol Septem ber ! nnd Uioso who havo tho leisure will, in qll probability, bo highly onter- tainod should they ' ’ ’ the- ‘ lOtti, , 14th, 15th ond 16th of 8optomber. * ’ - *" 'lit- qnestfjiflLir »rJ OB' g@*DohoUl G. Mitolioll, known to fomoand oovoralyoung damsels, by tho namo of “IkoMarvel,” has a snug littlo farm four miles out of Now Haven,— He Is nt presont.writing a history of Vo- nioo. Donald is doing well, financially and domestically speaking, is oits, sober, and almost rich. ly done for him? Iam told that the who „ Mountains, ... tho Missouri and Collumbia rivers nro so noar together, that ho at ono time drank from tho Missouri, ou tho east side of tho Rooky Mountains, and ahalf Rida or tbo Kocxy juounwn«», »uau houv afterwards from the Columbia, on the Pacifio. Calculations' based upon the mostauthentic returns have established that since the introduction of railroads into Franco, thcro'hfts boenonly ono traveler killed outright in every two millions of passengers, nnd only one wounded in overy nvo hundred thous- H^Col. Ellsworth, Captain of the Chicago ZotmveR, has not Been bred to any rogular business. He will soon en ter tho law oflioeof a Black Republican loader os a student. He will shortly exchange his normal condition, and be come tne fortunate husband of a fair daughter of the “Garden City. 19* Veal is now called “unfinished beef;” lamb, “ incipient muttonand a sucking pig, “premonitory pork.” ” ' - ■hhhhh -
