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THURSDAY, APRZZ. 4.180L
or nineteen per cent.; Connecticut, 89,857, nearly
twenty-fire per cent.
MIDDLE STATES.
States. 1850. 1860. Reps. Loss. Gain.
New York 8,097,894 8,887,542 31 2 0
New Jersey... 489,791 672,081 6 0 0
Pennsylvanie.2,311,786 2,906,370 23 2 0
Total 6,898,971 7,465,948 69 *4 "o
Gain in ten years 1,576,912, or 261 per cent.
New York holds her proud pre-eminence as the
Empire State, increasing since 1860 790,148, near
20 per cent., the same as New York. New Jersey
Passing Contrast of the Two Governments.
The Confederate States of the South hare dissolv-
* ed their connection from the Union, and hare erect
ed for themselves a simple, plain, hut correct and
sublime structure of government. When tho people
of our Western continent rebelled against the Gov
ernment of England, the apprehension both in this
and the old jrorld reigned, that the experiment would
soon prove a failure—yet time stamped the attesta
tion of its signet, and tho experiment of man’s ca
pacity for self-government proved a success instead
of a failure. The North, by her own act, drove the
people of the Southern Confederate States to that
extremity, that they were compelled to declare their
political equality and independence. The South
has done this, and declared her sovereign rights to
the world, and she now has sent forth to all powers
the majesty of her own direct and willing act. The
Montgomery Convention laid the corner stone of u
Government whose people are an acknowledged em
pire of freemen, whose only aim is to assert and
sustain the political equality of man. The North
taking a glance, yet gloomily looking on at the pros
pect before us, assures herself of our sovereignty,
and feels startled at the novelty of the experiment.
The world will look with amazement and admira
tion at the principles of right and justice which we
have asserted, and will recognize and applaud the
bold and independent demonstration. The fabric
which we have erected will stand on the enduring
basis of established truth, and while the vicissitude
of years will shake,*'to the centre, the foundation of
otheT artificial Governments, it will but augment the
brightness of the seceding States, that they may
shine with that benignant splendor which will re
flect joyfully upon its own destiny and upon its
moral and future good. Our Southern Government
is good enough for us—let us never surrender it
into the fanatical hands of those from whom we
took it.
any of the old States.
NORTHWESTERN STA1
States.
1850
I860.
Ohio
1,980,429
2,839,600
Michigan..
397,654
749,112
Indiana......
988,416
1,850,479
Illinois
851,470
1,711,763
Wisconsin.
805,391
775,873
Iowa
192,214
694,918
Minnesota
6,077
102,022
Kansas—..
107,110
Reps. Loss. Gain
Total .4,721,661 7,870,890 61 4 12
Gain for ten years 8,149,346, or about 67 percent.
These States lose 4 and gain 12 representatives.
Ohio, the oldest, gains 869,270, over 18 per cent.
Michigan, 861,468, almost 90 per cent. Indiana,
362,063, nearly 87 per cent. Illinois more than
doubles, her increase being 860,283, or more than
101 per cent. Wisconsin grows .470,482, or 164 per
cent. Iowa gains 482,734, about 251 per cent.—
Minnesota and Kansas needs no comparison, as they
are entirely new States.
TACITIC STATES.
States. 1850. 1860. Reps. Loss. Gain.
California, 92,507 330,016 8 0
Oregon, 13,194 62,564 1 0
Total, 105,891 432,479 4 T
Grin in 10 years 826,588, or nearly 310 per cent.
California gains 287,418, over 310 per cent. Ore
gon 89,170, or 308 per cent.
THE riEI TEItniTOBIES.
Territories, 1850. 1860. . Increase.
Colorado ..84,197 34,197
Dakota, -4,839 4,839
Nebraska, 28,842 28,842
Washington, 11,578 11,578
New Mexico, 16,547 98,5-11 31,994
Utah, -11,880 40,205 28,915
Total -72,917 213,292 140,375
The entire population and increase in the free
States is summed up in the following figures:
1850. 1860. Increase.
Total -13,454,629 18,904,619 5,450,000
Territories,........ 72,917 213,292 140,875
Fort Sumter and Major Anderson.
The long and impatient “looked for” surrender of
Fort Sumter to she Confederate States has not yet
been accomplished. Major Anderson seems to hold
on to the Fort with the same tenacity that his dis
position would appear to hold on to office. It has
been ascertained by telegraph, most positively, for
some time past, that the post would be surrendered
in the course of every two or three days, yet days and
weeks pass and no surrender. In the face of a cer
tain surrender of Fort Sumter in a few days, it has
also been stated as a positive fact that our commis
sioners at Washington are about to make every hon
orable and sat isfaciory adjustment of existing causes
which has led to a misunderstanding in our nation
al difficulties. Yet it appears that thus far, efforts
to that extent have thoroughly failed. The Lincoln
Cabinet require time for reflection, and that time
. has been granted by our Commissioners, but yet no
answer—therefore our Commissioners should return
home, and if an overture is again to be made, let it
come from the North, and if it ii upon the right
principle, it will be received. If it is not, the over
ture will most certainly be rejected. We neither
give nor ask favors, unless it be of that character
which properly belongs from one nation to another.
This is all we have a right to grant, and it is all
that any nation has a right to expect. So far as
our views may extend, or be received, we should
have nothing to do with Lincoln, his Cabinet, or
his party, unless attacked in a military point of
view. We did not assist in his election, and as his
religion and his government will be diametrically
opposed to the fundamental principles of established
right, which we adore and admire, it Is right on tho
part of a free, enlightened and independent people,
to reject an insult on national affairs to the same
extent that they would reject a personal indignity.
Therefore we repeat, that the people of the co-sor-
cicign seceding Confederate States of the South
should have nothing to do with Lincoln and his
blind, deluded and reckless Abolition party.
The Eighth Census.
Messrs. C. C. Usher and I. M. PeLyon, of Sa
vannah, will accept our thanks for their compilation,
in card form, of (he Eighth Census of the United
Scales. We believe it generally to be correct, but
we observe one discrepancy relative to Dougherty
ooumy. It docs not show the value of the properly
holders of ibis county but falls far short of the re
port of the Census < akcr. This, however, we pre-
Biime may be a typographical error.
We publish below a synopsis of the Census, show
ing population, representation, &c., which we clip
from the Savannah Daily News. The compilation is
highly creditable to those gentlemen. Persons wish
ing copies of the Census can have them sent by
mail on application to either of the compilers, by
addressing them at Savannah, Georgii
Population of tho United States and Territo
ries—Interesting Comparisons.
The eighth census of the United States, taken
in the month of June of last year, has been official
ly ascertained and made public. Compared with
the last census, taken in June, 1850, it shows the
following aggregate results in the several States and
Territories :
Total -18,627,446 18,117,911 6,690,465
The increase in all the above in 10 years is not
quite 41} per cent. There are 29 slaves in Utah,
New Mexico, and 10 in Nebraska, in the above
figures.
BORDER SLAVE STATES.
1850.
Slaves.
2,290
90.368
472,528
States. Free.
Delaware, 89,242
Maryland, ...402,666
Virginia, ...—939,133
N. Carolina,. 680,491
Kentucky 771,424
Tennessee,... 763,258
Missouri -594,623
Arkansas, ...-162,797
Total, 1,403,633
1860.
Stales. Free.
Delaware 110,420
Maryland,......599,846
Virginia, ...-1,105,196
N. Carolina,...661,580
Kentucky,...- 930,223
Tennessee, ..—834,063
Missouri,...-1,058,322
Arkansas, 824,823
The free States that lot e are, Maine, Massachu
setts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Vermont one
each, New York and Pennsylvania two each, and
Ohio three—in all 12. Those that grin art, Cali
fornia one, Michigan two, Iowa and Wisconsin, three
each, and Illinois four—in all 18; net gain, one.
[For the Albany Patriot.]
To the Flag of tbo Southern Confederacy.
Ne’er waved beneath the golden sun
A lovelier banner for the brave,
Than that our Southern ladies spun
And proudly to their country gave;
Not earth a fairer gem can bring.
Or freedom claim a brighter scroll.
Than that to which our free hearts cling—
The flag that lights eaoh Southern souL
Its glorious stars in azure shine,
The radient heraldry of heaven;
Its stripes in beauteous order twine,
The eipblem of our Union given;
And fanatics with a trembling gaze
Survey its bright and meteor glare,
While glorious beams around it blaze, ,
And rest in fadeless splendor there.
Look, patriots! on its streaming folds,
As gallantly they range afar;
Where the Southern eon undaunted holds
Its crimson stripes, its radient star;
While up towards the etherial skies,
With feelings which every heart expand;
It will with grace and grandeur rise.
To proclaim the rights of our Southern land.
May the star-wronght ensign sweep
From oar land fanaticism’s bane,
And be unrivited on the foaming deep,
Unconquorcdon the battle plane;
Along the exulting mountain gale,
Be borne with wild majestic flow,
As trailing meteors skyeward sail,.
And leave the dazzled world below.
- May it from shore to shore, from hill to hill.
Where freedom’s voice has yet be whirled,
Be welcomed with a holy thrill,
And round their bosoms gently furled;
Around the globe, through every clime.
Where commerco wafts or man has trod,
May it float aloft unstained with crime,
Unsullied by opprobrious blood.
Banner of the brave! bear on thy way,
Undimra’d through ages yet untold ;
O’er earth’s proud realm thy stars display
Like morning’s radient clouds unrolled.
* Banner of the skies! with glory shine
Through ether’s azure vault unfurled,
Till every hand and heart entwine
To sweep fanaticism from the world.
ARTHUR.
Wc-rlk county, March 1861.
1,438,696 5,842,329
Slaves.
1,798
87,188
490,887
831,081
225,490
275,784
114,965
111,104
Total.
112,218
6S7.034
1,596,033
992,667
1,155,713
1,109,847
1,177,317
435,427
Total, 5,624,009 1,038,297 7,262
Gain in slaves for 10 years, 199,601, or not q
14 per cent. Gain in free population, 220,376, less
than 28 per cent. In Delaware and Maryland,
slaves have decreased considerably. Virginia shows
but 18,000 more than in 1850 ; Kentucky not 15,-
000 moro. Arkansas more than doubles both free
and slave. Missouri adds 400,000 to her free, and
70,000 free and 85,000 slaves; North Carolina 80,-*
000 free, 43,000 slaves.
SECEDED SLAVE 8TATES.
1S50. -
States.
Free.
Slave.
Total.
South Carolina....
....283,523
384,984
668,507
Georgia
... 634,503
881,082
906,185
Florida
.... 48,135
39,310
87,445
Alabama
342,844
771,623
Mississippi
...296,648
309,878
606,620
Louisiana
...272,953
244,809
617,762
Texas
... 154,431
6S,161
212,692
Total......
.2,008,972
1860.
1,761,668
2,770,640
Free.
Slave.
Total.
South Carolina....
....301,271
402,541
703,812
Georgia
.... 595,097
462,230
1,057,827
.... 78,686
61,753
140,439
Alabama
.-...529,164
435,132
964,296
791,395
Mississippi
854, G99
436,696
Louisiana
....376,913
332.520
709,433
Texas
180,388
601,039
From t he Macon Daily Telegraph.
Military.
The volunteer companies came pouring into town
last night by the different railroads, and the scene
was warlike and animating beyord description.—
With the accessions which the companies already
here will receive this morning, the number of men
under command will be over one thousand. The
alacrity with which -lie voluo-eercompaniesthrough-
out the Slate have responded t^Gov. Brown’s re
quisition for troops needs no comment. Indeed, the
ranks were fil'ed up so quickly that many were ic-
fused, as each company is limited to eighty men.
The Quitman Guards, of Forsyth, uuder com
mand of Capt. l'iiickard, took our c : >izeus and vol
unteer companies by suipvise, as they came on spe
cial train early yes. e» day evening, and slipped into
town as quietly as if their intentions wers “peace
earth and good will to men,” and not the extern
nation of the Lincoln ra»s which infest Fort Pickens.
For this slyness they failed ’o receive *hc at tern
which our companies wee determined to give them;
but, as an offset to Ibis, they have secured the most
eligible place to camp in the whole enclosure, which
will, no doubt, amply compensate them for the
omission of a formal recep»ion. Capt. Adorhold,
with a detachment of his company, on tearing the
drum of the Guards, hastened wi'h commendable
zeal and escorted them to their present qbarteis.—
The Guards number e»gh y men, and nr© aU from
Monroe county, with one c-cepiion.
The train containing the Ga«e C» y Gua-ds, Eto
wah Infantry. Ringgold Infan cy and the Newnan
lards, was considerably behind time^so much so,
at the crowd in waiting were impatient.
We speak mo~e fully of the Quitman Guards, be-
use they were on ihc ground early. The olbci
on pa dies nve splendid looking bodies of men. and
ok precisely like men who can demons-
odevick Dhu Greeley the unpala able fr
twever much he may be in doubt as o >1
nee of his Government, we have got one here, and
illing hands to defend it. The Philosopher said
w days ago that he was ieaUy s ; ck at the hunrli-
iug thought of giving up Fort Sumter. What will
s his condition when he hears of this other wing
r the “moral necessity !” Look out for some con
liraentary epithets four or fire columns of ed»i
Suspended Banks In the Confederate States.
The following Circular from the Treasury has been
sent to the President and Directors of each of the
Banks in the Confederate States which have sus
pended specie payments.
The Circular explains itself, and if the sugges
tions of the Secretary are met, as they should be by
the Banks, the happiest results will follow:
CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.
Txxasuxy Department, 1
Montgomery* Ala., March 27, 1861. /
To the President and Directors :
Gentlemen :—It is well known that the Suspen
sion of Specie Payments by the Banks in the Con
federate States during the past winter, was the re
sult neither of Speculation, nor of a desire of gain,
but that it was a political act, done by the authority
of the State Governments, and that urgent public
necessity justified the action of the public author
ities and of the Banks. The object intended by
both was the public good. Permit me in farther
promotion of the same good, to request you now to
modify that Suspension.
Congress has authorized a loan of fifteen millions
to be taken up for the public defence—part of which
is to be offered on the 17th April. In the States of
Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and the lower part of
Alabama, tho Currency is either Coin, or Bank
Notes, redeemable in Coin; while in Georgia, South
Carolina, Florida, and in the upper part of Ala
bama, the Currency is in Bank Notes, which aro from
two to Three per cent, below the value of Coin. It
is obvious, therefore, that under existing circum
stances, the Subscription to the Loan cannot be
paid in Bank Notes in all the Confederate States,
without producing inequality and confusion. Tho
only means*of making the Subscriptions equal, is to
require payment in Coin, or in Currency, at its val
ue in Coin. And as the former would be an imprac
ticable condition, the Department has been com
pelled to adopt the other alternative. You will
readily perceive, however, that in all the States oc
cupied by your Currency, a serious obstacle will
arise to individual sul
the Two or Three per
value of Bank Notes and Coin, is a premium paid
on the loon. I would earnestly recommend to you a
measure, which will remove this obstacle. It is the
immediate adoption by you of a resolution that you
will redeem in specie, such of your notes as may be
paid in upon this Subscription. Such a resolution
will immediately raise these Notes to the value of
Coin, and will disembarrass the entire Subscription.
It is true, that this amounts to a virtual return in
part to Specie Payment, but it is made to advance a
great public interest, and the cost of providing
specie for the entire loan, would amount to less than
$150,000, to be distributed amongst all the Banks
of tho Southern Confederacy. But it will be far
less than that to you, inasmuch as more than half
the loan will probably come from the Specie-paying
States, and the real burden would not amount io
mere than Eighty Thousand Dollars, equivalent to
an abatement on your Annual Dividends of about }
of one per ceni. on your Banking Capital.
The difficulty will be further diminishel to you
oh, Bo not tho Unit.
•“‘ft
We none of us know one siwjher,
And oft into error we »»i
Then let ns speak well ot n brother,
Or speak not shout him «t ell.
A smile or a sigh may awaken
Suspicion most false and undue,
And thus our belief may be shaken
In hearts that are honest and true.
How oft the light smile of galdness
Is worn, by the friends that we meet,
To cover a soul full of sadness,
Too proud to acknowledge defeat.
How often the sigh of dejection
Is hesved from the hypocrite s breast,
To parody truth and eflection.
Or lull a suspicion to rest.
How often the friends, we hold dearest
Their noblest emotions conceal;
And bosoms the purest, sincerest, -
Have secrets they cannot reveal.
Leave base minds to harbor suspicion,
And small ones to trace our detects—
Let ours be a noble ambition,
For base is the mind that suspects.
We none of us know one another,
And oft into error wc fall;
Then let us speak well of oar brother,
Or speak not about him at all.
An Editor in a new 8ai» '
. Clark, editor of the Kendall (
a man who loves a good joke, and -a*
port unity which promises a dish of fan”*, ‘ 1 41
of his lasts * «eTej,|
“We have lately got a new W it„r clol ,
ir-.n could be more effectually di,us
like a gantlemen. Upon first puttinTji w t J
fell like a cat in a stmoge garret, aod *1
thought we were swapped off. * ‘oofi
We went to the house and scared iKaUl
into fits; our wife asked us if we wnun 1
Clark,am! told ns we would find him ail! 8 '
went there, and pretty soon one of oar bn •
came in with a strip of paper in his hand ^
ed if the editor was in; told him we thorn*. *
ed him if he wished to see him particuif? 110
wanted to pay that bill; told him we did s *
he’d be in; business man !efu. an ^ i
We started to the house again; met
young ladies ; one of them asked the °
handsome stranger is that?’ In oar hi!
met a friend and told who we were, and * ■
introduce us to our wife, who is now ». SI
as can be. PMofi
The next time we get a new suit of ©kL. I
shall let our wife know of it before hand.
Immerse Trees in south Ameri C 7 i
Pizarrow, exploring tire equinoctial regi^Ti? J
America, discovered trees so large that sin? *
could barely encompass one ol iTicra with!
arms. Allowing six feet for the spread of
arms, this would make the tree ninety^ »
cumfereuce and ihirly-lwo feet diameter [J"i
from the ground—as large as the Calaveri*to J
Humbolt menl ions a tree at Oaxaca which £i
hundred and twelve -eel circumference—©verti
seven feet diameter. *
Total.., 2,656,481 2,311,260 4,976,741
These States gain in ten years in slaves 549,592,
little over 81 per cent.; of free inhabitants, 647,-
509, less than 88 per cent. South Carolina grows
in slaves 18,000, in free about the same number,
slaves making four sevenths of her emire popula
tion. This and Mississippi are the only States in
which the slaves outnumber the free ; in the latter
there are 80,000 more slaves than freemen. Texas,
of course has grown the most rapidly, having near
ly trebled her free, and quite trebled her slaves.
Georgia has grown about 12 per cent. ; Florida
nearly 70 per cent. ; Alabama about 25 per cent,
and Louisiana 88 per cent. •
DISTRICT or COLUMBIA.
1850. 1860.
Free .. 48,000 71,895
Slave 8,687 8,181
Total 61,687 76,076
The summary of t he returns far all the slave States,
and including the District of Colambia, is as fol
lows :
1850. I860.
Free 6,460,605 8,352,385
Slave 8,202,051 8,952,801
1850.
1860.
Free pop’lat ion 19,987.563 Free pop’lation 27,477,090
Slave 3,204.318 Slave 8,952,801
b
Total 23.191,870j Total 81,429,891
The free population has, since 1850, increased
7,489,537, and the slaves 748,488. ’ Total increase
in ten years 8,238,025 souls.
The following summary gives the free and slave
population of each »iste, the representation in the
next Congress, and the losses and gains in the Con
gressional representation in the several 8tates, to
gether with the geographical divisions of the coun
try, the increase and decrease of population in each,
sad other interesting facts :
NEW ENGLAND STATES.
States. 1850. 1860. Reps. Loss. Gain.
Maine 583,169 628,276 6 1
N. Hampshire 817,976 826,072 3 0
Vermont 314,120 315,116 2 1
Massachusetts, 994,5141,231,065 10 1
Rhode Island...147,515 174,621 1 1
Connecticut 870,792 460,151 4 0
Total 2,728,116 3,135,SOi 25 1
Gain in ten years, 407,185, or 15 percent, nearly.
By the now ratio for representation, New Eng
land loses four members of Congress. Vermont Iim
stood still, showing only 996 increase in ten years,
or less than one-third of one per cent. Maine grows
only 45,107, or less than eight per cent. New
Hampshire only 8,096, or a little more than two and
• a half per cent. This shows that the agrionltnrol
population of these cold regions migrates rapidly to
the more fruitful soil and temperate climate of the
West. In the manufacturing sections of .New Eng
land, especially in the villages, the growth has been
much greater. Massachusetts grows 287,561, or
•bout twenty-four per cent.; Rhode Island, 27,270,
by tho fact that the Notes will be in the hands of
the Government, and will, of course, be used in such
a way as to produce the smallest inconvenience to
the Banks which had thus come forward to the aid
of the Government. Coin will, in fact, be wanted
to a very small extent. At home, the Bank Note
Currency will pay current demands ; andexchang*
foreign nod domestic, can be substituted for Coin,
and will faraish a more convenient means of re
mittance to pay demands upon the Government,
Besides these, another important relief to the de
mand for Coin, will arise from the issue of Treasury
Notes, which is to be made as soon as they ca
prepared by this Department.
And lastly, it may be urged that a preparation for
general resumption of Specie Payment is alwayt
desirable, and that season of the year when crops
have all been sold and when calls for money
less.urgent, is the most appropriate period for such
preparation.
I would, therefore, respectfully ask your imme
diate attention to this”subject, and the adoption at
your earliest convenience, of such a resolution as
that above recommended.
With much respect, your obedient servant.
Signed C. G. ME.MMIXGKR,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Companies already arrived are as follows:
Quit man Guards, of Foray* h. Captain l’inkanl.
Newnan Guards, of Newnan. Capt. Hunvoy.
Southern Guards, of Columbus, Capt. Wilkins.
Etowah Infantry, of Etownh, Capt. Larrcy.
Southern Independents, of Bainbridge, Cap!a
Evans.
Ringgold Infantry, of Ringgold, Capt. Spray ber-y.
Gate City Guards, of Atlanta. Capt. Ezxavd.
The Floyd Rifles, Capt. lla i tkiuau, and the Ma
con Volunteers, Capt. Smith, turned out with fall
ranks, and escorted the companies to their quarters.
The Macon Guardu will receive the Southern
Rights Guard, of Perry, this morning at the depot.
P. S.—The Walker Light Infantry and Ogleihotpe
Light Infantry, of Augus.a. arrived in this city last
night on 11 o'lock Train, all safe.
Professor Slbbs’ Chinese Wonders.
“Sibbs’ Great Exhibition of Chinese wonders”
gave an entertainment in Quincy on last Friday eve-
Washington News.
Washington, April 1.—Those that arc best
formed outside tho Cabinet confidently assert that
tho Cabinet on Saturday resolves upon an imme
diate evacuation of Fort Sumter. The above, bow
er, should not yet be accepted as a fixed fact.
The New York Tribune’s special from Washing
ton says that the President reserves to himself the
ultimate decision in regard to the reinforcement of
Fort Sumter, about which the Cabinet were unani
mous, with one e: ception, two weeks ago but dif
ferent views have recently been presented,not with
out leaving an impression favorable to the feasibil
ity of introducing men and supplies.
Tho correspondent "adds that several lending
val officers have expressed the belief that th© bat
teries guarding the entrance to Charleston harbor
might be run by with steamers without more than
ordinary risk, but they agree that the enterprise
should be executed at night.
The above view is entertained by the agent that
sent to make a personal inspection for the sat-
Tho U. S. Army is In rebellion! In other
words it has leSu satisfactorily ascertained at the
War Department through the officers in command
of the several posts at which the army is distributed,
that the rank and file refuse to be employed in com
manding, fusilading and bayoneting their fellow
countrymen.—Thev declared they were enlisted to
to flight Indians, Mexicans, British, Fiencb, Span
iards, or any other enemies of the country who might
present themselves; but not to fight Americans.
So the business of coercion is at a dead look for the
good and sufficient reason that “coereives” are not
forthcoming. Hence, Fort Sumter find Forts Pick
ens will soon evacuated, because reinforcements can
not be obtained for these posts. This movemeut to
on the part of the Federal Government now
seems inevitable.—N. Y. Express.
Cold Feet.
It is impossible, says Hall’s Journal of Health, to
have vigorous health if the feet are habitually cold;
no Ahntint ofexiernal coveting can keep them warm.
Wearing pepnerand other irritants in the stockings,
is generaly inefficient, u always hurtful in its ten-
dences. and never accomplishes a permanent radical
good. One of the most uniformly efficient means of
keeping the feet warm is to wash them in water at
least as cold as the atmosphere of the room, night
and morning; let it be done within a minute in very
cold weather, then wipe and rub them rapidly and
thoroughly with a very coarse towel, dress,and when
practicable, take a walk, or dry them by the tire,
rubbing them well with the hands.
In addition, let ha If an inch of curled hair be pas-
ed to a peice of clothe and slipped in the stocking,
the hair touching the soles of the feet it titillate the
skins, and thus aid in drawing the blood thither to
warm them. The hair conducts the moisture from
the feet to the woolen cloth, and thus keeps them
dry. These hairsoles should be place before the fire
at night, so as to be thoroughly dried by the morning.
Cork-soles absorb moisture from the shoe and the
feet also, and require several days to be thoroughly
dried. India-rubbers confine the dampness nboui
the' feet, hence they should be promtly removed as
the water ceases walking, nor should they
be used in muddy, slushy weather.
Brunswick and Florida Rail Road.
We learn from Mr. Piltar, Chief Engineer of the
above road, that the (resile bridging over lhe St 11
la River, was completed last week ; that the iri
and cross-lies are ready,and that n large force
employe! in laying the track on this side of the riv
Troops Landed at Tortngas and Key '
New Yore, March 31.—The *iei>mth>p t
sr«.r has arrived end tepoiis burin? ljodH
son,Tortuga*. Companies S nod .J,first AniiU,
Fort Taylor, Key WeM companies F end K of »V.. 1
reghneot.—Georgia Telegraph.
Drill Room AlbaxtG^^
Company Meeting, April 1st, Rwi. ’
Whereas, this Company was tendered to Gi
Brown during last fall, for any volunteer
that the State might require, and whtrtas
doubt exists as to -whether such tender was
proper form; therefore
Resolved, That the Albany Guards be and
are hereby tendered to Gov. Brown for twelve
as Volunteers, and
Resolved, That we will hold ourselves in reai
to march on the reception of orders.
Resolved, That these resolutions be jrabluhtti
the Albany Patriot, and a copy furnished Gov.
and Adjutant Wayne.
Y. G. RUST, Cai
Ike Welch, Sec’y pro tem.
isfaction of the administration.
Taking tho Veil
The Journal do Loire! relates the following:
“M’lle Blanche de Boa u val, a wealthy heiress of Or
leans, was eight months ago to have been married to
the Viscount de Chamony, but as the bridegroom
elect was in delicate health he was recommended to
go for a short time lo Italy, and the ceremony was
postponed to October last.—The viscount, however,
never reached his destination, having died on his
way thither, and the lady, overwhelmed with grief
determined to take the veil. Her resolution was
carried into effect th*ee days ago, at the Carmelite
convent in the Faubourg du Route, at Orleans. At
the hour fixed for the ceremony the chapel was filled
with persons who had been invited to be present,
and soon after a door leading from the interior of the
convent opened, and Madenioscil) de Beauval, in the
ning, and intended repeating on Saturday evening, prime of youth and beanty, entered, leaning on the
but we were satisfied with one “peep at the elephant,” »rm of her uncle. She was dressed in a bridal cos-
~ * ‘ 'ey found bu
Total 9,662,666 12,805,186
Gain for slavery in slaves, 750,687, or 8] per
cent.; in free, 1,891,780, or 29 per cent. Total
gain in ten years, 2,642,467, or 27| per cent.
REPRESENTATION IX COXGBCSS.
The whole number of Representatives is by law
fixed at two hundred and thirty-three, who are ap
portioned among the States respectively, by dividing
the number of the free population of the Slates, to
whieh, in slaveholding States, three-fifths of the
slaves is added, by the number two hundred and
thirty-three, and the product of such division (re
jecting all fractions of a unit) shall be the ratio of
representation of the several States; but as the
number and amount of tbo fractions among so many
dividends would, of course, in the aggregate, be
sufficient to reduce the number of representatives
below the number specified, it was provided that the
whole number should be supplied by assigning to
so many States having the largest fractions an ad
ditional member each for it* fraction, until the num
ber of two hundred and thirty-three members should
be reached.
The next House of Representatives will consist of
151 members from the free 8tates, 60 from the bor
der slave States, and 82 from tho Southern Confed
eracy. should they send Representatives, an event
at at all probable. The seceded States lose 4 and
gain 3 Representatives by this census. The border
slave States lose 8 and gain 8 by the same figures.
Net loss to all the slave States 6 Representatircr, A
follows:
Reps. Loss. Gain. Reps. Loss. Gain.
and on Saturday we informed they found but one
man to witness their performance. They made a
signal failure in every thing they attempted, and
even murdered “Dixie.” We advise all our sister
villages to treat them coolly. And if you do go to
witness their perlormanci s, be jvery careful not to
take tickets in change lo be redeemed. Change with
them was very “scarce” and they disposed of some
tickets in that way here and did not redeem them.
For instance, our “Devil” handed them a dollar and
they gave him an extra ticket for the change due
him, whirh he yet holds. Our opinion is, that he
who would in that way defraud a poor little printer,
would, as Sut Lovcngood says, “steal rotten acorns
from a blind hog.”—Quincy Express.
Extraordinary Phenomena in Boring for Oil
in Canada.
A number of residents of Michigan went over to
Sombra, C. W., some lime since, and commenced
boring some fifteen or twenty feet from a creek, un
der the belief that oil would he fouud. When they
bad gone down about fifty seven feet they struck a
vein of gas. On removing their auger the gas rush
ed with great force from the apperture,aikl continu
ed to throw up dry sand for an lionr. It then ceas
ed, and the boring was resumed; but as soon as this
was done the gas rushed up with such violence as
to throw the drill—a piece of iron one and a half
inches in diameter, eight feet long, and weighing
fifty pounds—clean out of the bole, and it continued
discharging np water and stones, some of the latter
weighing twenty-five pounds into tho air the distance
of one hundred feet.
The stream widened ont to the diameter of a bar
rel, after leaving tho hole, and the quantity was such
as to raise the creek considerably above its ordinary
level, though it is here about twenty-five feet wide.
After the nk>w of water subsided the gat was fired,
and an explosion took place which shook the ground
for 4 half a mile, and then continued to throw up a
sheet of flame as high as the water had previously
gooe. The flames could be seen for miles, and were
ultimately extinguished with difficulty. Itisthooght
that the oil spring, for such it proved to be, will be
one of the best in the country.
Dkioty.—An ignorant man who "stands upon
his dignity” is like the fellow who tried to elevate
himself by standing upon a piece of brown paper.
tumenfwhitesatin,trimmed with rich lace; a wreath
of ovan^e blossoms encircled her hair, and a large
white veil was over her head.—She took the eeat
prepared for her, and the officiating prieet delivered
a short address. She then quitted the chapel, whlbh
is divided into two parts by an iron railing, colsed
by a curtain. In a moment after the curtain was
drawn, and she was seen on the other side of the gra
ting on her knees. Tbo priest approached and ask
ed whether she still peisisted in her resolution to quit
the world, to which she replied in a firm voice, ‘Yes,
On this, one of these nous who were standing by re
moved the bridal wreath and veil from her head, let
her beautiful hair fall on her shoulders, a ml then
with a scissors served the tresses close to Iter head.
A murmur of regret was heard atnungall the per
sons present when this sacrifice was commenced.
Mademoiselle de Beauval then left chapel, but reap
peared in a few minutes after, dressed in the garb of
a Carmelite nun. She lay down on the steps of the
chapel, a funeral cloth was thrown over her, the
priest recited the prayers for the deal, and tho ‘De
Profundis’ was sung while the persons in the chapel
were retiring.”
General Twiggs.
In noticing tho proceedings of a meeting in New
Orleans to receive General Twiggs, the Bulletin of
that city remarks:
The meeting, we are pleased to know, was of the
most respectable character. There was an earnest
ness in its tone, an enthusiasm in the frequent ap
plause and w fervor intbe language of the resolutions
and of each speaker that prove that this community
utterly spurn the cowardly slanders of the Washing
ton Government.—Though the gallant veteran
Twiggs needed ro indorsement of his name as a
brave and honorable soldier, yet we are glad that our
people have testified in this emphatic manner their
detesation of Mr. Holt’s malignant calumnies upon
one whoee manhood has been given in love and rever
ence and patriotic pride to the service of bis country.
Mr. Holt should be reminded that those “clothed with
a little brief authority play such fantastic tricks,” etc.
Such fantastic tncks as servile attempt to brand
with cowardice and treason a war-worn veteran, who
has served the flag of his country for nigh half a cen
tury, is io exhibition of such utter malignity and im
potent malice aa will earn for its inventor, we know
not whether moro of pity or contempt.
The trestle work over the St. Ilia being comple
ted—and in a superior manner, too—there is noth
ing now stands in the way of the road soon reach
ing Wares boro.—Georgia Forester.
Below the Atlantic.—Soundings iu the Atlan
tic have been particularly punished forward, and
have excited, on account of the telegraph cable, more
general interest than any others yet taken. They
have revealed the fact that at least two hundred and
thirty miles from the coast of Ireland the water is
a’ ill shallow; or, in other words, that there is another
Ireland only waiting to be raised—thus reversing
the famous panacea for keeping the couniry quiet.
It is just beyond this that the true Alia otic begins,
the gulf suddenly sinking to nine thousand feet.
"**iua Ireland may one day have a coast line as high
the Alps. The whole floor of the Atlantic is
paved with a soft sticky substance, called oaze,
tenths consisting of very minute animals, many of
them mere lumps of jelly, and thousands which could
float with ease in a drop of water; some resembling
toothed wheels; others bundles of spines of threads
shooting from a little globlue.—Some, however, are
endowed with the property of separating flint from
the sea water, which is more than every chemist
could; and there are hundreds of square miles cover
ed with the skeletons of these little creatures. Part
of the oaze U doubtless from the clouds of rain dust
which rise from the vest steppes of South America
in such masses as to darkea the sun and make the
animals fly to shelter, and, which, after sweeping
like a simoon over the country, lose themselves in
the “steep Atlantic.” No bones have been found of
the larger urn inals. so that the kraken and sea ser
pent might sleep their last sleep, and leave not a
bone or a vertebra to or strand, not a coin or a keep
sake has been found to testily of the countless gal
lant men who have gone down amid the pitlifess
waves.—All the Year Round.
LOAN OF $5,0
* TOE THE
Confederate Stales of America, I
B OOKS OF SUBSCRIPTION for tLetWe
will be open in Albany, Go., on the 17iL
lbth April, at the Agency of the Marine Bank,
g on the last day.
Bonds with coupons will be issued iu
$1,000 to $50, and when it is prefered, Slock Cel
tificatcs in the usual form may be had, bearing4
terest at eight per cent, per annum, payable
six months.
The punctual payment of the interest is
by a duty of one-eighth of a cent per pound
cotton exported.
Y. G. RUST, )
A. H. COLQUITT, U
A. E. HARRIS, J
Albany, Ga., April 4, 1861.
Wanted to Employ,
A WORKMAN to build a Gin Gear to her
water. Apply at this office.
Albany, April 4, 1861.
To Merchants and Deaiers,
O A Afl A SEG ARS on con^mnfnt -or
O U,UUU S.*tunl«3 i«j» v i»e s>eert at the b.o-e of X-|
L. Tia, or at ibe Bik'ge Building.
NELSON TIFT.
Albany, Ap .1 4,1861. S-5#
Ufolice lo Debtors and Creditor*.
GEORG I A.--Mitchell County. *"
A LL persons indebted to the estate of W.
son, sen., late of said county, deceased, tnl
requested to make immediate payment; and tUper l
sons having demands against said estate will pn-1
sent them duly authenticated within the time pro I
scribed by law, else this will be plead in birr of I
their recovery. F. F. MASON, Adm'rx.
April 4, 1861. «w.
Albinos.
The Albino is a white descendant of black parents.
So rare is this freak of nature that many persons,
even in this conutry, where descendants of the Afri
can race make up nearly half of the population, re
gard the cases reported as either fictitious, or refera
ble to some mixture of the races. It is nevertheless
GEORGIA, 1 Cocbt of Ordumby a
Douohebtt County./Chambers, April 1st, 1861.1
W HEREAS, Lewis G. Sutton, Clerk of the5a-1
perior Court of said county, who has been by
this Court appointed Administrator with the Will
annexed of Thomas J. Johnston, deceased, has filed
in this Court his petition praying permission to
prove said Will in solemn form, and making knowi
that the legatees named in said Will are Martha C-
Jennings, a minor residing in said county of Dough
erty, and Mrs. Laura V. Smith, wife of Smith,
residing in Wilkinson county, Ga., residuary lega
tee and heir at law—that the heirs at law are Uwj
F. Johnston, Henrietta E. Moore of Barbour countj,
Ala., James L. Johnston, Sarah A. Rice, wife of Au
gustus Rice of Randolph county, Ga-.vho art of
full age; and William Y., Ann E., Thomas K- and Ja
cob H. Johnston, minors residing in Randolph countj,
and of whom Mrs. Elizabeth E. Johnston is G® 4 * -
dian. It is therefore ordered by the Court, that
said parties be and appear at the Court of Ordinaij
to be held iu and for said county, on the second
Monday in July next, then and there to show cause,
if any they have, why said Will should not be pw»*
en, in solemn form, and admitted to record as the
last Will and Testament of said Thomas J. Johnston,
deceased.
Witness, the Hon. Sam’l D. Irvin, Ordinary, thtf
the first day of April, 1861.
ap.4. JOHN F. CARGILE, d-c.c.o-
LIST OF LETTERS
REMAINING in the Post Office at Albany, Geo.,
April 1st, 1861,
Amerson, T. W., 2
Allen, Curtis L.,
Volunteers for the Southern Confedera
cy.—Yesterday afternoon about one hundted men left
this city, in the Norfolk boat, en route for Cliarleston
where they propose to enlist in the army of the Sn.,*
thehi Confederacy. They were under the command
of Mr. Robert E. HasIeU, who, with Mr. ThlS j
Goodrich, effected the organization, and refused io
accept the services of any under 19 years of am/ Z
»ny »»"»■* ■"»- AU of ‘hem voluntarily olK
their service*. They ere to receive from tia to
per month, «n4 to servo from 3 to 6 ye»rs._n^Z
more Sun. * oauim
Billings, William,
Bostwick, Dr. A. A.,
Bartlett, Winnefred,
Ballard, T. A.
fact, that the descendants of pure black parents are! Allentharn J F
someUmes perfectly white, and entirely destitute of : '*
the pigmenlum nigrum which cha>acierize8«lbe ne
gro race.
Two of the most remarkable Albinos, of which vre
have seen any account, are in this county. They
are now the servants of Thomas P. Peacock, Esq.,
the Sheriff of the county, are sisters, and between the
ages of twenty-five and thirty. When young, their
eyes were light blue and very weak, so that they
could scarcely keep them open on a bright day.
Their hair resembled very much the carded fleece of
a young lamb, while in other respects they were
fine specimens of healthy children. They are now
both healthy,stout women, wilh sight improved with
age, and hair still light, having only changed in
coarseness from ita appearance iu infancy.
The circumstance which renders them remarkable
is, that they both are married to negroes, and have
children, the one two, the other four, which are pure
negroes in every respect, demonstrating, without
doubt, unmi.ted African extraction. Tlie offspring,
we further learn, are healthy and vigorous. If there
Is another such an instance in the State, of undoubt
ed Albinos, we should be glad to learn of it through
some of our exchanges—Madison Visitor.
Johnson, B. C., 2
Jenkins, R. R.,
King, Wm.,
Lewis, L. B.,
Lewis, Mrs. Mary L»
Maize, E-, 5
Martin, Wm.,
ColHcutt, Hon. Thos. C., Mims, R. L.,
Connell, S. B.,
Crain, Georg©,
Cox, Dr. W. C., 2
Cohl, Wm.,
Dozier, J. L.,
Durst, Mrs. Nancy,
Duncan, D. P.,
Dixon, Marshal T.,
Fowler, W. W.,
Foster, Moses,
Gatewood, J. M., 2
Guttins, Capt. L., 2
Gregory, A. T„
Gregory, Thomas,
Glover, Adam B.,
Hunnicutt, J. R.,
Huff, Mathew R.,
Helms, M. R.,
Heater, N.,
nicks, Wm. M., 2
Harris, William A.,
Hanson, H. R.,
Ivey, Jasper,
Isham, Wm. T.,
Jackson, J. A.,
Jones, J. M„
Johnson, H. M., 2
Jeffries, T« F.,
Johnson, Louise,
Jones, J. C., "
Jenkins, J. P.,
Johnson, John S., • . *
8^* Persons calling for any of tho above I» M *
win please say that they are " advertised.”
\ E. RICHARDSON,P.M-
Morris, Dr. W. H.,
McCrame, Elsa,
Minchart & Co.,
Morrow, Robert,
Nevils, R. F.,
Newman, Joann*,
Pyles, Samuel M-,
Pitman, Henry W.,
Pc.kins, Edward,
Pallello, Jos.,
Reynolds, Mead,
Robinson, Mrs. M*rt**»
Sims, John A.,
Simmons. L., 2
Spence, Thomas,
SwiUey, B. C.,
Smith, A. W.,
Tlnncrmgns, A. J-, -
Tinneraons, Goody,
Thomson Miss Mary »-i
Taylor, Johno,
Turner, G. H., 2
Thurmon, Wm. L-* .
Wright, Miss Mary J-. 4
Woodall, Jesse A„
Wheeler, John T-»
Whitsett, Thomas,
Welch, J. A.,
Wiley, Nicholas,
Wright, Miss J. R,
Wright, Mrs. Louisa,