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LOU'S NAPOL' ON—POPULARI
TY AND HABITS.
Moses Y. Buach, re visitiug Lniupp
niter ainnyjea.r., writes home a glowing (
TUB MAIL ROBBERY CASE. I
We hove heard rumors for severa'
tys that J. U. Wright, th
lar*,- bu
” that ▼we
description of public works in progress robbing
at Piiris uud. rth** Emperor Nrpoleoii. bail, ‘ “
ii j i * couii
He adds:— M
Every improvement, let u he ever s
grand or insignificant, is tne work ot
A T «i/H/leotr} every bout, steamer, ha h
house, bridye, bill, valley or whatever
else it may be, is nil Napoleon, and it is
Najwlmn so much th<t tlie French peo
ple are beginning to think the Lord nev
er created much of anything else besides
their Emperor and France. They have
a faint notion that something has been
said about such a place as Russia, but
their ideas are not very clear on the sub
ject. The way England sprung into ex
istence is not clearly defined; and that
there is such a country as the United
States is only evident to them through
the “ Muses Americaine,” containing a
few Indian botvs and arrows and painted
wooden images and dishes, picked up
somewhere in South America.
The Emperor is very erratic as well
as industrious. lie sometimes rides in
atate, in an open barouche, drawn by
four magnificent horses, with outriders,
all furnished and trimmed in the most
lavish manner with gold mountings.—
At other times he may be found in a clos
ed carriage, drawn by two horses; some
times, oven, in a cab, whereto a sorry
single beast is harnessed, and anon he
use* shanks' marc pretty freely. Some
times he goes out at one of the many
doors to his various palaces and some
times at another, llis dress is equally
varied, and hut for having Itecomc fit-
miliar with liis face we should often be
at fault. In a word, he is constantly
moving, changing places, dresses, con
veyances and mutes. You go with the
expectation of meeting him at one point,
and he is in quite a different direction.—
It would puzzle a Philadelphia Lawyer
Jo keep track of his movements.
His six or eight palaces we have ex
amined pretty thoroughly, and estimate
that, in all of them, there is not far from
forty miles length of walls, fifty feet high,
and these walls arc utmost entirely cov
ered with the richest and most costly
kinds of paintings The ceilings of the
various moms, averaging thirty or forty
.feet in height, arc also adorned with rich
paintings, by the first artists of the world
The pa ntings in a single room, estimat
ed from price they formerly brought at
auction, amount to a sum exceeding two
jttilliotts of dollars, so th it the value of
the whole forty miles of rich paintings,
may be set dowo tut hundreds of millions
ef dollurs.
To these great collections the present
Emperor is constantly making additions.
Magnificent statuary is to be met with
in every direction. The Emperor'? pala
ces and gardens the zoological gardens
and hosts of other places, are free to the
public, who are there invited on Sundays,
fete days, or at other times,
has been admitte
rior Court x# De
of four thousand
t until Saturd
re received nsiwCrwicetftha
w as the fact
\Ve have been informed that Wright
confessed to at least two instances of
robbery. We are not fully posted as to
the laws regulating and providing for
snch cases, hvtt we must think it a mo-t
extraordinary result. About one year
ago an old Whig was removed and the
place given to Mr* Wright on the score
of Democracy.—Atlanta Republican.
This is indeed a most remarkable
case. Wxigbt was arrested for rob
bing th# mail, and confessed haying stol
en two or more vaiuable letters'; .and as.
published until alter the organization of
ooe'contajyiing I wo“thousand five'hum! *e Ilouse-which, judging from pres-
uea —ui.:, eQt indication. 3 , will not occur soon.
ATHENS, GA.
-THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 6, 1855.
¥
CONGRESS
The Senate was organized on Monday,
and in the House three balb dings were
had for Speaker, without any prospect
of effecting" an election. Richardson
received the highest vote.
The President's message will not be
dred dollars, which wis mailed in this
city in'the mail with which he went itp,
was stolen, there is no dpnbt but he was
the thief,'althbugh be denied it. Yet
in the face, of this acknowledged guilt,
he has been discharged bn bail, and lias
doubtless placed the stolen money, or its
equivalent, id'the hands of his sureties,
to indemnify them for the forfeiture of
the bond, as we learn he has not been
seen since bis discharge. What a com
menlary.is this upon the administration
of law and justice, when an acknowledged
thief is discharged on bail, and be appro
priates the stolen goods (the property of
other men,) to indemnify his sureties.
What we specially desire to call the
attention of the public to, is the fact an
nounced in the concluding seutence—-
that a competent, h -nest officer who was
a whig, was discharged to make way for
a democratic thief. The former remov
ed for no cause save that he was a whig,
the latter appointed alone on the score
of hi* democracy ; for we do not suppose
his thieving propensities were known, or
if known that they commended him to
the Department at Washington. But
.does any man of common sense feel any
suprise at the J-iily, aye almost hourly
thefts committed in the Post Office De
partment and the Goveruroent in a" its
ramifications, when the administration
displays so much corruption in the Avow
al and practice of a principle so degrad
ing, demoralizing and. corrupting, as that
upon which the honest whig officer was
removed and the democratic thief ap
pointed ? We think no imeiiigeiR re
flecting man will feel any surprise—cer
tainly they should not.
No department of the Government re
quires to be watched, with so much care,
to guard against thieving as the Post Of
fice, and yet the head at Washington
avows a principle and adopts a system
of practice the most certain to secure
the service of rogues.
What should be thought of the head of
a department, who knowingly retains an
incompetent and inefficient officer in the
(9* We regret to learn that. A. G.
Murray, Esq., for many years the able
editor of the A merican Union at Griffin,
has retired from the editorial ranks.—
His successor, (Mr. Barr) is a gentle
man of experience and ability, and will
no doubt keep up the American fire
with spirit.
. , oiner times, to amuse p ogt Q ffice B } mp iy because a democrat time 1
Shem elves, nominally at the expense of l f in Vbe vicinity cannot be
the Emperor, but m reality Uallcora,* found who wi| , uke lho It mU8t
out of their own pockets. All the Em- ^ democrat, or the incompe-
peror gets for he lavish expense of the ten f and i neffic i ent officer must be Ve
nation, his toil, and the risk of his head d to the * detriment of the mail
a every step, is, simply, h.s victuals and Certainly such a Postmaster
clothes, like any other laboring man.-1 Genera , deserves the censure of every
man in the country, and such a Post
master General is the present incura
boat.—Chronicle &. Sentinel.
Did he ever think of that.
Dr. Franklin’s Opinion of For-
kipn Convicts sent to this Country.
—During the administration of Robert
Walpole, the transportation of convicts
lo this country ... rerarded «, » ,ery, N btWled a ^ » d „ o0l , lU ,g
great grievance. Dr. Franklin wrote to’ “ ... .. - °
the Minister the thanks of the Colonists
for the matorial aid of Britain to this
A BOLD PROJECT.
Cap*. William Allan, of the British
the conversion of the Arabian Desert
into an ocean .—The author believes
. . ... that the great valley extending from the
country, so strongly manifested in this gouthern e depression of the Lebanon
instance; and as a satisfactory proof of *lbe head of the Gulf of
Amercan gratitude, sent them a collee- Ak J ba i Mbeenoncvm ocean . It j 3 in
turn of rattlesnakes, which he advised | mftny pIace8 l300 feet below lhe , evd
of the Mediterranean, and in it are situ
ated the Dead Sea and the Sea ofTybe-
rias. He believes that this ocean, being
cut off .from the Red Sea by the rise of
the land at lite southern extremity, and
being only fed by small streams, gradu,
him to have introduced into his Mu
jesty’a gardens at Kew, in order that |
they might propagate and increase, assu
ring him that they would be as beneficial I
to his Majesty’s English dominion as
the British rattlesnake convicts had been
to America.—American Museum, June
1770.
THE RECENT GEORGIA ELEC
TIONS
The Spirit of the South, rt Secession
paper, says;
"No man in Georgia has done as much
to crush the new u ism" and secure Gov,
Johnson's re-election as Alex. II. *>te-|of 20dO square miles in extent, for a
phens. Gov. Johnson's gain in his dis- barren, useless desert; thus making the
trict is about 4000 votes,. As a single [navigation to India as short as the over-
instance of the extiaordiiuiry clrango in (and route, spreading fertility over a now
his favor we may mention the county of arid country, and opening up the fertile
Elbert, where two years ago, he was regions of Palestine td settlement and
beaten nearly 1 OOP votes lie beats Jctiltivaf'
ally became dried by solar evaporation
He proposes to cat a canal of adequate
size from the bead of the Gulf of Aknba
to the Dead Sea, and another from the
Mediterranean, near Carmel, across the
plain Esdrsedon, to the fissure in the
mountain-range oF Lebanon.
By this. means the Mediterranean
would rush in, with a fall of 1300 feel,
fill up the valley and substitute au ocean
MAMMOTH PUMPKIN.
We were presented the oi her day with
a pumpkin grown on the plantation of
our friend Mr. John Nichols, near this
place, wbieh weighs upwards of 50 lbs.
and measures 4 feet and 7 inches in cir
cumference !' Can any body beat this 1
If so,, send on your specimens.
thanks'givjng.
Thanksgiving Day was observed as
usual in our town on last Thursday.—
All places of business were closed, and
snch of our citizens as did not go bird-
hunting nor seek any similar amuse
rnent, attended the Methodist church,
where a beautiful and appropriate ser
mon was preached by Dr. Brantly of the
Baptist church, followed by a well-timed
exhortation from the venerable Dr. Iloyt,
of the Presbyterian church.
Many of our country friends visiting
to\yn on business were sadly disappoint
ed—inasmuch as, from the shortness of
the notice of thanksgiving, they had not
been apprised of it before leaving home ;
and there being no business transacted
during the day. they were"detained in
town longer than they expected; nor
was this the worst feature of the ease—
cotton declined half a cent during the
ABOLITION—WHO FAVORS IT!
We have shown, by copious exiracts
Vom the National Era and dlher Abo
lition papers th it tha Abolitionists stf the
North regard the American party as thfe
most dangerous enemy to them that has
ever been in the political Reid;—beeause
that party not only proposes to quiet th'
Abolition agitation forever by pledging
itself to.sustain the legislation of Con
gress on this subject—including the com
promise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebru-
ka bill—-but aims to cut off forever the
filthy stream by which it is now con
stantly fed;' we mean the foreign emi
gration to our shores—uine-tenths of
which, (being bitterly opposed to slave
ry) seeks the Free States of this Union
as its permanent location.
We do not wonder at Abolitionists
uttering such sentimenLs«as the follow
ing from the National Erai’to which the
Nashville Republican Banner calls the
attention of.its readers in the ableiuticle
below. But that patriotic Southern
men—men whom we know to be as ar
dently attached to the “ Sunny South'
as we are ourself—should be so far.mis
led by designing politicians as to suffer
themselves to believe the abominable
absurdity that the American party seeks
to further the nefarious views of the
Abolitionists, (by all of whom it is fierce
ly denounced) is, to us, we must’eonfess,
the greatest wonder of the nineteenth
century!
So far from the charge being well
founded, we do know it to be one of the
most unfounded and malignant Lies ev
er invented by the Evil One to delude
his victims; and the only way in which
we can account for any man bi-lieving
it—(the authors and retailers of it never
did believe there was a word of truth iq
it)—is the supposition that they belong
to that class of mankind who are •* suf
fered to believe a lie, that they may b*
damned.”
time of the national schism 1
all be summ
intermitting
etther by mat
t tr>
AMERICANISM TIIE GREAT OBSTACLE
TO THE SPREAD OF ABOLITIONISM.
So says the National Era, the able and
influential anti slavery organ at Wash
ington. In the subjoined article, that
journal reviews the results of the late
elections, and shows how damaging
Americani-m has been to Abolitionism
in the Free Stales—how it paralyzed
the anti slavery movement in Indiana
'and New Jersey—how it involved that
movement in Pennsylvania" in inexpli
cable embarrassments/’ and how, but
forlt, "Iowa, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, New York and Mnssachu
setts,” would have been now Republican
Their complaints were long an 'l(-Stat e 9 in fact and in name. The Erii
loud.
Of course no blame could attach to
our citizens. It was their duty, as good
Christians, to observe the day, when ap
pointed. It was all the Governor’s^fault;
the notice was too short. The procla
mation appointing Thanksgiving day
ought to have been published at least a
month earlier.
NEW COUNTY.
We ^understand that some of ourciti-
, v .The.conceplion is a mag
nificent due, but.no sufficient survey has
been made to determine its practicabili
ty orits.cost.
; -V-
Trade and Commerce of the Uni-
States.-—A Washington letter
Andrews there now about one - hundred
nd fifty,
From this, and from many other para
graphs and facts, we find in various
*pers relative to the recent election, it
in be clearly shown iliat the success of I ted
■38 Antics is due to lhe woiwk-rful iuflt - says
ice of the names of Toombs and $:e- The annual statement of commeree
; tens, over the people of G-orgia. That I and navigation is complete and iisprint-
wey lmvo an almost magic influence has ing is now nearly finished. Tha aggre
*«en well recognized by us, and by thou- gate amount of our domestic exports for
and*, since lh<-y did so much iu deMroy ihe last ficalyear was 246 millions; of
the Whig parly, which first built them which 54 millions were of gold, silver,
up. These inert are believers iu them- buflion and coin. The amount offoreign
selves—TqoikL: and Stephens. They I imports was 26 i millions,
would betray any and all interests of It appears that nearly two-thirds of
party and country to advance any self-jour trade is with Great Britain' and her
elevation. They have proved that, and | dependencies—showing that at present
wo do not envy the people of Georgia i here is no great danger' 1 of a war with
their lead. The idea of Hny body else | her.
but creatures of (heir own selection hold
irg place in Georgia, is a simple absurdi
ty, after this. Yet we shall hear some
simple-minded people, doubtless talk of
a democratic triumph in the recent elec
tion in Georgia ! Nothing cau be more
•bsurd, or hardly further from ibe truth.
STEAMER SALLIE 8UANN
BURNED!
Two Lives Lost—Boat and Cargcr
Total Loss/
At two o’clock last night' about ninety
miles above Mobile, the ateamer Sallie
'ohnson.and all the little fry, beloug s P a “ look Areand burned up, with 1,079
ody and soul to Toombs and .Stephens. | bales cotton on board.
Jy themselves they could have done
othing. We shall cumulate proofs of
-ese facts, and place them before the
A deck Land jumped overboard and
w«to drowned. The second cook is rais
ing—supposed to have burned to death
jblic. if the enemy do not keep quiet, j engine room. Boat and cargo a
.-Selma Sentinel, Democratic."
total loss—[Mobil,- Evening News, 22d.
zens take our remarks in reference to a
new County in high dudgeon—threaten
ing to discontinue taking our paper on
the strength of it. We are always sorry
to lose subscribers from any cause, and
poorly able to do so—but we think that
'those who know us will do us the justice
to bear testimony to the fact that we
would rather lose every one on the list
than to shrink from what we regard as a
conscientious discharge of our duty.—
We believed when we penned the article
that we were right in what we said, or
wc should not liaVe said it. We cannot
expect that every body will agree with
us in opinion, nor do we expect that all
who do not will discontinue their papers
Convince gs that the interests of the peo
ple of Clarke County require that it
should be divided, and we will favor a
division ; but so long as we believe that
the prime movers in the matter only seek
to make political capital out of it at the
expense of the honest tax-payers, we
shall oppose it.
Now, just here we wish to be under
stood. We do not by any means wish
to create the impression that all who seek
a division of the county do so from po
litical considerations. We know that
many of them look to : other matters en
tirely. But we do know that ever since
we have been a resident of the State cer
tain individuals have agitated the sub
ject of removing the court house, divid
ing the county, &c. &,c. solely for the
purpose of advancing the interests of the
party to which' they belonged. We have
always suspected that 9 cat was conceal
ed in the meal, and have opposed all
these movements. We think we can
see the claws ‘‘sticking out’* now, and
declares it passes its comprehensirn,
“ how any real friend of freedom could
for a moment tolerate Americanism, or
hesitate to denounce it as the great ob
stacle to an effective anti slavery union.”
In the facq of such denunciations by
such papers as the National Era, and
what is more, in the face of the facts cit
ed by those papers which show ct nclu
sively how Americanism has arrested the
progress of the Republican or Freesoil
party, the Southern Democratic organs
aud speakers are still deluding their
Democratic readers and hearers by mak
ing them believe that Americanism is
but another name for abolitionism ! But
to the article in tlie National Era. Here
it is. We call the attention of every
reader of the Banner to it.—Nashville
Banner.
From the National Era of Nov. 15.
The Late Election.—The excel
lent editorial in the last number of the
Era, entitled “ The Presidency,” was
prepared by a .friend, during our tempo
rary absence from the city. Its general
positions are sound, and ably uiaiatain-
ed, but its incidental assumptions in re
lation to the impotency of Know Noth-
ingism, are not ir. accordance with the
views we have constantly presented in
the Era. Would to Heaven that the
miserable delusion had exploded! But,
our readers will recollect how continual
ly we have insisted that ihe one obstacle
to an effective union, of the free States
on the Slavery Issue, was this bigotted
organization. Twelve months ago we
took this ground, and were made to suf
fer for it. We called upon Anti-Slave
ry men to ^resist an Order, founded upon
principles, and pursuing an object, di
rectly at war with their whole scheme
of pblicy^-iind' we invoked the Anti-
Si a very/press to expose its true charac-
io:i, passes our comprehension.
See how utterly it has paralyzed the
Anti-Nebraska indvernentin Indiana rtnd
New Jersey, and the almost mext • icable
eml> irmssments in which it h»s involved
it in Pennsylvania! See how uncertain
it renders the state of things in Iowa!—■
And what a spectacle ithas made of the
great States of New York and Massa
chusetts! Had (he Anti-Nebraska Move-i
ment-, in other words, the Anti Slavery
Movement, been let alone, Iowa, Indi
ana. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New
York, and Massachusetts, would-have
been Republican, in fact a«d in name,
and there could have been no doubt as
to their position in 1856. Can any one
now tell us where they will then stand !
Your Union saving Know Nothingisra
has conquered some of them, given the
rest to Nebraska Democracy, arrayed
them alt, nominally, against the Repub
lican Party, the only Party organized
to represent and carry out the Sentiment
of Freedom, in Opposition to. the policy
of Slavery Propug indism. Aye—Know
Nothingisra has divided and, continues
to divide the Free Sta'es, and.unless its
power be broken before next November,
it will lay them prostrate .again at the
feet of the Slav.e Power.
How can any Anti-Slr vefy man in
Massachusetts look at the following, and
not blush for the countenance lie ffiav
have given lo an organization, which
this year has just as effectually placed
Massachusetts against the great Free
dom Movement, as the'VYhig and Demo
cratic Parties used, to do ?
" Returns from ull the towns in. the
State, except Nahum, foot:
Gardner 51 780 1 Beach 34,991
Rockwell -36 770 } Walley 14463
Gardner's plurality over Rockwell T4,‘J-59
Majo.-ity against Gardner 34,50(1
The Senate will probab'y stand;
Know Nothings. 29; Republicans, 9;
Democrats, 2 ; and the House nearly as
follows: Know Nothings 153; Republi
cans, 80; Whig3 and Liberals, 57;
Democrats, 30.” - -
Do our readers recol'ect the exclama
tion assigned last ye irbyour Anti Slave
ry friends for the astounding revolution
in Massachusetts? “ Oh, it.wasA frol
ic, the masses hud gut sick of the v>ld
parties, and were determined to have a
good time of it. Know Nothingisra they
did not believe in, but they saw it could
be turned to account in braining_lhe old
parties, and so they usL-d it. It was
merely a temporary excitement. They
meant nothing more by it. Trust them
—every tiling will come out right.—
Massachusetts next year will be on tl«e
Republican platform,” &c.
VVhe 1, doubting all this, we undertook
to remonstrate, to discuss the doctrines
of the new Order, to protest against its
policy, assuming that the masses who
supported it, really were misled, we were
sneered at by some, denounced by others,
kindly admonished by others that we
were only beating the air, f6r '*• nobody
believed it.” And so, instead of meet
ing the mischievous delusion face to'face,
grappling with it, laboring to rescufe the
people from it* grasp, they were silent;
let it have free course, and the result to
day is—the triumph bf Gardncrisui over
Republicanism by fifteen thousand voles !
IMPORTANT BILL.
is the bill of Judge
ferred to in the Leg-
as the bill to c
of the third ar
It will be seen th
>ortant changes in our
AJHLL
. TuLc emiiltyl an Act to alter and
amend the first section of the third Arti
cle «if the Constitution of this Stale.
Be it enacted by the General Assent-
bf of the State of Georgia, That so soon
1 he following Section shall have passed
1 L'i iqjfefable ut the
r^pii eta cuts of tue*Constitution,*ic‘shi»U
be tiekl and tnhen as the first section'of
the third Article of the Constitution, in
lieu of the* resent first section of said
third ‘Article. '*7, ’ fo .
Section 1. ^lie Judicpl powers of this
State siiafl be vested in a Supreme Court.
Superior Cofrrts, County Courts and
Ju stices’Conrts, and fn'sileh other Courts
a5 the Legislature shall, from time to
time organize and establish. The Su
preme Court shall consist of three Judges
who shuH be'elected by the citizens of
the S;a\eqcial|fled.t(>' yoje for. members
oT the General Assembly.
They shall hold their office for 6u«h
term of years as may be 1 prescribed by
law, and shall continue in office until
their successorsare.plected and qualified
removable by the Governor on the ad
dress of unrthirds-of- both' brandies of
the General Assembly for that purpose;
or „ by impeachment and conviction
thereon.
■ Said Court shall hitve-no firginal juris
diction, audits jurisdiction shall extend
billy to t|ic trial, nearing and correction
of errors in ail cases in law and equity
that way bo brought boforo it from the
Superior Courts, or from such other
Cdiirtsfos rfwy be prescribed by law, and.
the wpde undwaMupr of -bringing *ucb
cases before the Supreme Court, and of
j>r©c««(ling inlaid Court; diall be pre-
Courts. under such ruleo and regulations
prescribe. It
the Legislature
criminal juris-
Article of ibe
the County
urt8 in each
shall have Juris-
ctive * Districts in
all matters of debt and account when the
amount in controversy does not exccqd
the sum oflhtriy dollars.
There shall be a County Attorney for
each county, elected : h(y the citizens of
the county qualified to vote for members
-of theGeitetal Asemfaly; and whd'Shall
hold bis offiea for the term of four years
and until his successor is elected and
qualfied, and wbosa duty k shall be to
prosecute all offenders in ttys County
Courts, over whom said Courts ..have
jurisdiction; and also all persons for
neglect in relation to roads,' ferries,
bridges and any other neglect of doty _if»
the performance of which the people of
the county are Interested, under such
rules and regulations as jtUel
may by law prescribe ; and the Judge*
of tlie County Courts and the County
Altornies shall have such compensation
for their services at the legislature ah&U
by law prescribe.
.. .. r r-rSfe
ARE THEY SOUND? ^
We eommebd to the attention of all
our readers—not only old-line Whigs,
but Demqcfats too—the following arti
cle from the Qhrp(iicie'& Sentinel. Let
Southern men of all parties soberly pon
der and reflect before they rashly com
mit themselves" "to the support of the-
nominee pf the next Democratic Nation
al Convention. Is the proposed Cincin
nati Convention likely to be a proper
place for Southern men to be found?—
Can they mix with such a crow J and
hope to remain uncontaminated ? Have-
we any reason to expect that the Democ-
^rtbed'by; la"’, and Hie pUtce^or pfoces, j rac y 0 f^e other Free States will exhibit
any stronger claims to soundness than
There shall be one Jod<'c of tlie Supe-1 h » ve tho9e Ohio : ? Read their reso-
nor Courts.for fcifcft of the circuits rhal lutiori, and then answer, are they sound f
are, or may be-hereafter Organized
in this State, who shall hold their oflice
for the n.rm of four-years^apd until, their |
successors are elected and qualified^ re
movable by the Governor oti the address I
Qf twp thirds of both branches of the |
General Assembly, oc lay impeachment venl j on .
and conviction thereon.
Tlie” jud^e of each 'circuit shhll reside
in the circui^and shall be elected by 1 ,tlie
citizens of thu circuit qualified to vote for
members of Via* General- Assembly.
Said Superior Gtourfs shall have ex
clusive jurisdiction fin all'cases respecting
the titles to real estate, which, shall be
tried in thfe county ’Where the real estate
is sMualcd, and-shall also have jurisdie
shall continue our opposition to U\e new
movement until convinced we are mis
taken in the premises.
BUSINESS.
For two or three weeks past, otir
streets—though usually crowded at this
season of the year—have presented
more animated scene than vve remember
to have noticed at any time heretofore.
We are pleased t6 record this evidence
of the prosperity of both town and coun
try. They are, in some degree, mutual
ly dependent upon each other, and wc
trust' that both may continue to pros-
per.
Will not those indebted for subscrip:
tion, job-work and advertising reraem
ber that now, when their pockets are
well lined and their granaries filled to
repletion, is a good time to pay the prin
ter. And those who are not taking our
paper nor advertising in it will find the
present a good time to begin either or
both.
PROPOSED STATE CONVENTIOIT.
By the following Card from the chair
man of the Executive Committee, it will
be seen that the time of meeting of the
proposed Convention of the American
party at Miiiedgevitle, has been post
poned until the 20th inst., in order to
give all the counties time, to appoint
delegates. We trust our friends will
take this matter in hand at once. Let
every county either send a full delega
tion or authorize the American mem
bers-of the Legislature to act as dele
gates.
Senate Chamber,Nov.23d, 1855.
Messrs. Orme, Knowles Sf Orme.
Gentlemen : The Committee appoint
ed by the late meeting of the American
Party, its friends and sympathisers, to
invite and make arrangements for a
general meeting of the party, together
with all who oppose the present Federal
Administration, on the second Thursday
in December next, after a full and free
The stables belonging <0 the
Executive mansion at Milledgeville.were
consumed by fire 01
last.
nmg
OHIO DEMOCRACY.
The following very' significant resolu
tion was passed by the “ National De
mocracy” of Ohio, at their recent Con-
Resolvcd, That the people of Ohio,
new, as they have always done, look
upon slavery as an evil, and unfavora
ble to the development of the spirit and
practical benefit of free institutions, and
that, entertaining tht-se sen'iments, they
will at all times feel it to be their- duty’to.
nse all power clearly given by the terms,
of the national compact to prevent its-.
tion. over all other civil cases in
when the amount in c^nU'evt rsy exceeds j 1 s evils.
the sum of thirty dollars; and exclusive These, reider, are the principles and
jurisdiction in equity cases whiclv^ shall sentiments of the Pierce democracy of'
be4ried in the county where the defend 0hio _ the !ar - National Demo-.
ant resides, or where there are more 0 . .
defendants than one, in a county where crac S —and it wt I be with, men enter-
some one of the defendants reside, under taining these sentiments that the dele-
such rules and regulations as maj' be pre-1 gates to the National Convention at Cin-
scribed by law. cinnoti will be compelled to affiliate,
Say Swwpir Court, M al-o l.»yr nolon| from q.,; bl „ l r ,„ New York,
power Jo correct errors in Inferior judip- > 3 ' /
atorieSj by writ of certiorari, and to grant I an( l all the free States. The Charles-
new trials bp pfoperiand 'legal grounds, on Mercury declares ihit the S lutjt
Said Superiy^onrwa^ilt-itve apP'fjjywnqt vri’b honor, go into this
,te jtHWkhartritf as may be Hon ^ j, wou|d
pointed o«kt by-law, but no case shall be ... . . . , •' . . b ? „
removed by appeal from the county I followshtp with abolitionists and free-
wbtre it ’originated. Said Superior soilers. ' What think the old line con-
Courts shall also have jurisdiction over servktivb'whigs of’ Georgia, ot such a
all criminal offences committed by free ,, r ,, .. T , ... ,
i- „ \ „ ‘‘fellowship?” Is abolitionism and
wlute persons, when the offender, up-1 1 , ! ; if ’ ; •
on conviction, w’illbe subject to the pun- rfrecsoilism less obnbxious to them than
ishment cf death or confinement in the Americanism? In other tvords, will
penitentiary, whicbjliallbe tried in tlie they affiliate with the' Ohio Democracy
eounty where the offence was committed. ,xr . « ^ ■ i
There si,all,be one Judge of the andthe New York Softs, the Van
County C^Urt for each bf the counties Burens included, because of their hos-.
ttta{ now .are or may be liercaflerorgani-1 tility to the A m«rica'nParty, whose plat-
zed in this State. The Judge of each f onn on t |, e slavery question is the-
County Court shall reside in the. county. , . ,
and shall be etected by the citizens of soundest ever adopted. -by^ a^y Qattoaal.
such county, qualified to vote for mem-1 party? Will Southern* Whigjs, 'infclli-
bers of the General Assembly’. He shall | gent reflecting men, permit themselves
into
j to be !$1 into such an ’kffilillion, from.
| sheer prejudicefo-certainly ' no one but
I the place seekers will thusstultify them-
hold his office for the term of four years,
and until his : successor is elected and
qualified; removable by the Governor
on thd address of two thirds of both
branches of the General Assembly^or by ge j ves
impertcHhiefit and - convictiontherdon. _
The County Courts shall have jurisdic- But we are to,d thr if the Confen -
tion over all civil cases at law, except | tion does not adopt a sound platform..
the Southern wing’ wfllVetife, cut lqtoe..
some have hinted that thpAbo-.
ter.
For a time, we were left almost aK#ne
and unsupported, and when reaction be
gan to take place, we were coolly told
by those who had contributed nothing to
this reaction, that we had put ourselves
to unnecessary trouble—had beenrighte
ous over much—that Know Nothingism
was a mere humbug, and as they had
foreseen, would explode spontaneously,
&c. &c. Since then, if we might believe
these wise people the organization has
been constantly exploding, until nothing
is left of it.
It is time to tell the Truth, and meet
its responsibilities. When the Know
Nothing Convention at Philadelphia di
vidurt, we did not anticipate the extinc
tion of the Order in the Free State*. We
supposed that in the. States where the
Anti-Slat cry sentiment was dominant,
the Councils would concede something
to it for the sake of making it tributary
to their power; and in States wheie it
was not, they would remain in full a-,so- Legislature for several weeks past, have
Ciation with the National Order, so that directed me to postpone said meeting
the result would be, schi&m, but not ex until Thursday the 20/A day of Decem-
tinction. In fact, we apprehended that ber, at which lime we hope to see a large
it would be more difficult, than ever for indfull turn out of our friends from all
Anti-Slavery men to deal with it. Wen 'arts of the State,
we right. What has been the history ot Yours Iriily, ^ 'C. PEEPLES,
the Order in the Free States, from the Chairman of Committee.
. , . , - ^, boys.” .Similar blasts from
to Of or coofloe-f b , oouodo*!. 1*8,
m'-nt in the penitentiary, ana which shall °
be tried in the county where the offence wa s the result? Did they adopt
was committed. They shall also have a sound National Platform ? The his-
jurisdiction over all offences committed tor y D f that Convention shows, and that
kU,or V , bno« y: H,,e„b ? ^ .W. 8 k. J i
ishment of wInches now by law vested in nigtoti Unton, the great and tedding
Justices of tbe Peace, and which shall organ of the party. In speaking of that
also be tried in the county where the Convention and its Platform the Union
offence was committed. Said County
Courts shall have Jurisdiction over all sa J s:
matters connected with roads, bridges, *‘ When the Baltimore [Democratic^
ferries end-water courses in their respec- Convention [of 18523 assembled, the'
live counties; and all matters connected Democratic party was split into three
with providing for the poor, and sgch [distinct divisions in regard to the slavery-
other matters relating to the interests of issues.”
consultation with our friends here and
who have been in attendance on ibe
■Mnesm'-i/K**
SR - ftp
each particular eounty, the jurisdiction
over which is now by law vested in the
Inferior Courts of each county. It shat!
also be lawful for tbe Legislature to vest
in the County Court of each comity
jursdiction over testate and intestate es
tates, tbe appointment of guardians, and
all other jurisdiction* which is now by
law vested in the Courts of Ordinary of
each county, under sucb rules-and regu
lations as may be presnribed by law..
It shall be lkwfal for fbe : Legislature to
organize Criminal (
Counties in this Stall
and to vest jl
whole or any part of the criminal juris
diction of the counties in which such
Courts may be established, in
These three divisionsfowrtertatned
different and irroconcitcable opinions,
as to the merits of the lows passed in
1856, for the settlement'of tlje slavery
question.” -■ - i
“ It was impossible to agree upon anys
proposition which required either the
advocates or the opponents of these
measures to surrender their opinjipns,
and acknowledge that they have been in
error. Upon such a proposition the
disorganization and disruption of lhe'
n any of the party'were inevitable.
Platform had ex i
■r riisrtjiprm'rd tile
nominee
warn®
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