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ARRIVAL OF TUB i
juMmx
. Halifax, J=m. 17.—The rte.ime ,
America lias arrived with oiie week’s
laft*/views from 1vjruf>t\
Liverpool.market.
Li*br*o6l, Tanr^—Co’riW 'fuil
declined at* fol. ShI^s /ip e <>>e Atlantic
‘ 24,01 >0 liaies. fair Orleans 6£d.. Mid
dling 5jd. 1
Consols 87$ a 87{.
BnadstufTs unr.h >riged. '
Prospects of peace had not TintfroWd/
The Czar’s answer to Pirinee Ester haky
w;-.snot expected until the 1st irist.^but
Nesselrode had put forth a circular in
which hi had pn; an interpretation upon
the 3d point, to which the Allies could
not agree; viz: that Russia and Turkey
should mutually agree as totheMrenglh
of their respective fl« ets in the Black
Sea.
-FURTHER BY TUB AMERICA.
Halifax, Ja’rf. 17-—The quotation of
Fair Upland Cotton is 5^d, and Mid-,
dling 5}: The mjelMihBlcsed dull. Ex
porters and
Floor w.
- 43s. Cif iur Ohio, jncnardsoii qailles
a decline of 6d., and quotes Ohio at 424.
a 42s. 6d., Beef active at lower rates.
Pork quiet. Lard 09s.
Money is lighter. .The bullion in the 1
Bank of England had decreased £179,-
090
Appearances .indicate that Austria
will not take the field unless as-urdd of
the active support of the German Bund.
Russia was displeased at Baron Ley-
bach s Mission to St. Petersburg,' and
fuPjts speculator to rmswer.the myslerv
of that Northern Sea grows xnafedjtci-
ie^tliygrdnd’Ht-e harrier^cli Dr
K-anfe^pi. SM was a new Intxt, wml A* -
lied it Washington. gbing jiarm-s also
it# |j»y» «nd capes. Bey olid this r tf
■PI mwSm
ilit-rn JLiglits in its keeping—will mail
ever solve that secret und open up that
tinUiiOwn world?. We shall pfttiemly
await in hope, tiir in our minds is a vague
thought floating, that thesea’which whirls
arpuntf the poles of the earth,-holds in its
keeping the key to a thousand mysteries
arid Vie have faith 1 to believe that in bur
Jears, should they be three score or
more, that mythic sea shall give up-Us
long kept secret'.— Sandusky Remitter,
—:.
BOGUS DEMOCRATS.—WHY SO
CALLED.
“When pewter dollars are made and
covered with silver, so as to deceive the
unwary and cheat them out of their
property, the coin is. by common con
sent, denominated bogus. The faith of
(lie democratic Republican fathers hav
ing been repudiated and new principles
engrafted upon their creed, the ranks of
the party filled up with new material—so
that the party is a cheat,the term '‘bogus’’
is peculiarly applicable.
‘ If the decimated regiments of Great
ritairr now in. tli-- Crimea wererecrult-
4) their companies filled up with Poles
and Germans, though the army would
still he the English army, it would not be
composed of Englishmen. The present
adminstration party has the name of the
old Democratic party, but its rank and
file! as well as officers, have been recruit
ed from the ranks of the early opponents
of the Democracy, Thus we find the
triumph of the bogus Democracy in
Virginia won by whig votes, and the
successful candidate an old cider Whig
of the 1840 Stamp. Tile appeals of the
had sent Baron Lanteuflvf to Dresden, .speakers and editors of this Democratic
to enquire to what extent B,avana ' and
Saxony had engaged * themselves with
the Allies.
Advices from Sweden were warlike
The military commanders had received
orders to have their corps in the highest
slate of efficiency before spring.
Denmark had consented to (he esta
blishment <.f depots for the English fleet
at Kiel, and it would rendezvouz "there
in April.
Large bodies of Russian troops were
marching to Bessarabia.
A fleet of Allied gun-boats were
frozen up at Kingburn.
Omar Pacha had given up the inten
tion to attack Kutaia.
Prince GortschakofT announces that,
on the 16th Dec. a detachment of
Cossacks defeated V strong squadron of
Gen. Vivian’s cavalry. '■
Russia advertises for immense qlianti
ties of war like stores. New rinfe re
giments were being enrolled.
A serious difficulty had occurred all
Ilong Kong. The American Cortsftl
had been imprisoned by the British au
thorities, for attempting to rescue the
captain of the ship Reindeer, who hail
been fined for an assault oh the carpentir
ol the ship.; Commodore McGIenney, o'
the Powhatan,-declared that the action
of the Court was illegal, and he would
re-ist by force any attempt 16 exercise
any jurisdiction over"American citizens
in American ships.
Two hundred and fifty coolies had
died of suffocation on board the Ameri
can ship Waverly, and the mate and
crew had been- imprisoned. ■
THE MYTHIC SEA.
For ages there has existed a -myth
concerning a Northern Ocean; its shores
are impenetrable barriers of ice, ami its
waters had n life and music all its own
The Scandinavians remember the myth,
and to this day, in Sweden and’Norway
and the Northern Islands the great un
known sut lias existence in the belief of
cvtrv superstitious mind. To us, win;
reason so philosophically.,! lmt,nothing j
hidden, it was not deemed prob due any
such body cf watc-f did yr could exist; and
though many navigators asserted, their
belief in the myth, it hjis not had suffi
cient data to c'trm ntteD'ioiv. A fen-
minds keen from observation and sagaci
ous from nature, still clung to the ancient
story, and suffered it not to die. One of
these minds is Dr. Kane, who returns
home with tidings tbai Mte lost sea is
found. . "
Our readers d mbtlcss perused the
narrative of the Kane Expedition with
a breathless attention, and front it
learned that the intrepid navigator left
his vess<d fast in the almost impenetra
te moun ants pf ice. in latitude-78o
45 min. north, pushing his way in
sledges and on f.iot to latitude 82o $0
min. where Ih?"*t6'h1 ‘upon’ the shores
«.f, to Itis eye?,. :i limitless sea. Tlirl-e
thotisaud square niih-s did ho "scan Wif.lj
eye au-l ghrsr. an I yet no bound-* to tliat
expanse of. water were found, For
fifty-two days ilnra heavy gajeTiom the
north heave up the heavy surf, and yet
brought down tip! a particle of ice-
showing that around the pole wisWi-jm
life instead of frigid . death. Titus was
the veil penetrated ; surprise sel^ell Uj4>n
the philnso|diical speculator, and now
the world ’ is biisy at the solution of
the wonderful problem of a Northern spa.
1st. The Dr. represent lliose wa
ters as limpid as any summer sun. By
what process in Nature cart" (hat high
latitude so modify the tempera! ureof die
air as to leave the sea unfrozen ? Where
die,Dr. wintered, the thermometer often
stood at Oo below zero, a>’jd yet in a
still more north rn clime ihcrc is a se;
which never is frozen. Science stands
stupified, for all its axiom- 1 an; repudia
ted and new laws are to reconcile ’this
theory to facts- , * -
2d. Birds and fLU.Iffe is there exis-
tant in the utmost profusion. . There the
hawk and eidecduck. range in ultimate
freedom, while whale* and walrus' ej>ort
it such herds as to make the water swarm
with tbeir huge merriment. . Can those
party -are earnest and incessant to the
national Whigs 16 join them.”
We extract the above from the Mad
ison Courier, a Democratic paper. It
depicts truly the constituent elements of
the mongrel party at present apposing the
American movement. This anti-Atner
ienn conglomeration of odd and ends of ail
parties, with the mass of foreign popula
tion as its chief element has endeavored
to-srealthe name of Democracy. Itis,
in truth, only a- sham Democracy. It
has no principles of its awn. Its only
idea is opposition to Americanism ; its
only object is public plunder. In dis
tricts in which there has hitherto been a
strong Democratic party - par excellent,
il nominated Democrats tor its candidates
and denouncesthe' American party with
great bitterness as a Whig trick; but
wherever the Whigs have hitherto had a
majority, it becomes very graciously a
fusion and Know-Nothing party, and
puts up as its candidate some weak-min-l
ed Whig, who has been lured into its
association by the hope of political pre
ferment and an overwhelming thirst for
spoils. <
There are in the country three distinct
political parties— the Republican party,
composed of Abolitionists who have for
merly acted with either the old Whig or
the old Democratic party, and are now
united into a very powerful organization
to oppose the extention of slavery ; the
Spoils party, which assumes the name
of the Democratic party, powerless at
the North, and composed chiefly of for
eigners at the South, willing to sacrifice
everything for party success ; and, lastly
tho American party, demoted to the pre
servation-of the Union, the maintainance
of the Constitution, the strict observance
of flie laws, the banishment of nil sec
tional agitation, and seeking to secure to
the native born citizens of the United
Slates the control of their own Govern
ment. Of these three parties, the last
alone possesses any claim to nationality,
any element of stability. In the brief
period of less than two years since the
commetieement of its organization, ii
h is already acquired strength and pow
er gre iter than was poss- ssed by the
old Whig party or the old Democratic
p crty lifter several years of constant
struggling. The peoplecire everywhere
tallying to its support, and the more its
principles and purpos- s ure discussed,
the more they are mode known, so
itiuch greater is the increase of true
hearted patriots in its rankB.— Louis-
ciHe Jour.
■iwy-dingersTCnw povVrtjrbj
among us—can education spread, can
tile Ij^ualiiy ,»f so. many of eur popula-
thift lie pprboted—tjan ajl 'or anything
that good men look for, come 16 us—
while the fruits of,our industry, tte
{of all social and moral goodi
ered tn this manner?. Pursue
pliartttvn wf militaPy. glory for ten
years, and expend in that time a sum
equal to all the visible property of York
shire, and Lancashire, and then compare
yourselves wkh;the United States of
Amer ica, and where’ will you beT Pau
perism,-crime, and political anarchv,
are the legacies we are preparing for
our children, and there is no escape for
us unless we change our course qnd
resolve to disconnect ourselves from the
pojicy' which tends incessantly to embroil
us with the nations of the continent of
Europe/
HOW HE TALKS.
The Washington Union, whilst ad
mitting that the Democratic party are in
rather a slim, majority in the House of
Representatives; contends that every
body is mortally alarmed at their tre
mendous power. All parties, it would
seem, are combining and confederating
to crush that amiable and patriotic or
ganization of discordant politicians ai
the present time, in order to make, it
powerless in the Presidential election!
The Uniou thinks the effort will 'fait,
that the Democracy, although rather
weak iu the House, will be alt powerful
before the people, ** and will certainly
sweep every thing before if in the coming
campaign.” This is a clear case of
hollowing before a fellow is out of the
woods. Perhaps the Union begins to
belive, with the rest of mankind, that
the democracy are ■ very ' weak when
attempting to rally on any grtfat princi
ple, hut will probably prove themselves
a conquering host when uniting to do
battle for the public plunder. Circum
stances do alter cases.—{Col Enq. .
* UW t ORDER, AND THE CONSTITUTION..'
ATHENS, GA.
‘THURSDAY MORNING. JAN.' 24. 1866.
PROLIFIC COTTON.
*We were presented the other day, by
Mr. W. P. Turner, with a stalk of Boyd’s
Prolific Cotton, which is a “perfect
show.” Those who are carious in such
matters, can see it by calling at our of
fice, and those who wish to purchase seed
can find a supply at the store-of Messrs.
Coit & Colbert.
THE NATIONAL AMERICANS.
The American members of the Ken
tucky Legislature held a meetingou the
4ibinst.. and adopted the following reso
lutions :
Resolved, That the protracted delay
in organizing the House of Representa
tives in Congress is attributable to On
effort of the so-called Republican and
Democratic parties to make political cap
ital out of the slavery agitation.
Resolved, That the American Part jr
stands on the true conservative groand,
distinctly marked out by the Philadel
phia platform, and on that the battle
against sectionalism ought to' be fought
andean be won.
Resolved, That the people of Ken
tucky heartily approve the course ot
their Representatives in Congress (be
longing to the American Party.) and of
the patriotic men acting with them in the
contest for Speaker. And we earnestly
counsel them to persevere, without yield
ing or modifying their position ; and to
leave the responsibility of delay or dis
aster from not co operating, to rest
hose who causelessly refuse to eo-operate
in bringing thiscontest to a satisfactory
conclusion. ‘
It gives us much satisfaction to place
on record this emphatic endorsement of
the noble banJ of conservatives who
have steadily voted in the House oi
Representatives for Mr. Fuller. Itis
no more than what is due to them, for
the gallant stand they have maintained
on truly national ground, resisting Black
Republicanism on the one liau<j,and the
Democratic agitators on the other; They
have done all they could do to prevent
the triumph of sectionalism, and up l»
the close of the 6th inst., with success
If Banks ii< the end shou d he elected, it
will not be by any dereliction of duty
ilietr part, for we feel assured that, in no'
event, will they swerve from their portion
No, if (lie black Republican banner is
to he unfurled over the Capitol, it most
he by the aid of others, of men voting, for
Kicliordson, and professing to he Nation
ul in the.ir views.—Rasheville Patriot.
SKATING.
| Many of our citizens, we understand,
have, within the last few days, enjoyed
fine sport on Col. Carr’s pond. We
regret that our engagements have been
such that we could not enjoy the pleas
ure ofparticipating in this delightful
amusement. Though “absent in the flesh
we were with them in spirit.”
CONGRESS.
No speaker yet! How long we may
have to reiterate this brief announce
ment, Heaven only knows. The Bogus
Democracy, true to their instincts,seem
determined to rule or ruin I What is
to become of the country, they don’t
seem to care, providedthe party
shall sncceed in its nefarious -schemes.
On the 12th inst., a resolution was
lopted at the instance of Mr. Zolll-
coffer, of Tennessee, inviting a free
and full expression of the opinions of
the several candidates for the Speaker-
ship on the exciting questions of the day
Banks proved himself to be a thor
oughbred Freesoiler, as everybody* knew
he was—-Richardson, the Democratic
caucus nominee, showed himself to be
comparatively sound, and Fuller, the
American candidate, showed that he
was “true as steel,” although subjected
to a close and searching cross-examina
lion on all sides.
Notwithstanding all this, however,
the organs of the “Patrick McWhig
Democracy ” will probably still maintain
that the salvation <>f the country de
pends on the elevation of Richardson !
duck infest these regions without |i
berries and grasses and bulb- for su
•istence ? Here, then, is anot her query
WARWlTn ENGLAND-AN ENGLISH-
MAN'S VIEWS
'At a public meetiug. of the Marden
Mechanic’s Institution, at Manchester,
‘England, on the 14th December. Mr
Bright, M.P., in the course of a speech,
deprecating the war, said: •
C'Mahy'of-you have relatives or
friends in A merica. - That young nation
has a, population'about equal to outs in
these island-.—It Ins a great internal
and external commerce. It has more
tonnage in shipping than we have, It
has more railroads than we have. !t
lta.vjitorc newspapers than we have.
TrhnS more institutions more free than
we have—that horrid slavery «tthe
South excepted—and which is no fruit
of its institutions, but an unhappy legacy
of the past.—It has also a great manu
facturing interest in different branches.
That is the young giant whose shadow
ever grows, and there is the true rival
of this country. How do we siand or
start in the race? The United States
Government, including all ; the Govern-
uieufs of all the sovereign rita'ev raises
in taxes probably from £12,000,000 to
£15000’0t)0 sterling in the year. Eng'
land this year will raise in taxes and
loans, ’ and'will expend, nearly £100
000,000. This'population mhst raise,
and will rpend, probably £80,000,00!!
iii llie year more than thuu’populatinn
will raise and spend, and in Alnerica
there is far less poverty and pauperism
than in ~~
Can we run this race <m these terms
and against these odds? Can we hope
all live without,proper fumlt JDaeatliM io be as well off as America, i( the pi o-
ductsof our industry are thus swept
away by the taxgatherer, in the' ruin
scheme of saving England from imagi-
The Administration and tiie House
ok Repr: s ;ntatives.—Accounts front
Washington represent the Aduniii.-tra-
tion and the Democratic members of
Congress as very well content with the
continued disorganization of the House
of Representatives. Being in a minority
the responsibility of the failure to elect
a' Speaker they contend, lies with their
opponents who must meet it before the
country. As regards the Executive
Branch of the Government, the Star
says it will hardly feel the want ofa
dollar for carrying on its portion of the
public business, until, perhaps,, next
September—the means for footing the
bills until the first of July next having
been provided last winter.
Thj$, being the case, we bnve no objec
tion to an indefinite repetition of the bal
loting? for Speaker,-—There is no doubt
that hU election will at once be followed
hy efforts to do mischief by tile black re
publicans.
The above is from the Washington
Star, a Democratic paper. Our readers
will probably be surprised at the coolness
with which this Democratic organ ac
knowledges that its putty cares nothing
for.the great interests of the country, so
long as it can take care of its own interests
as a party. It»is what we have often
charged upon.it, but we do nut remeiq
her to have seen so unblusbiug an ac
knowledgement of it L Tore.
This has occurred too under tbe ad
ministration of a Democratic Presiden
backed by all the Government patron
age. . Does not ibis state of tilings show
■ he necessity of the reform advocated by
the American Party/—Southern Recor
der.
Compliment To Mr. Fillmore —In
his last argument before tbe Supreme
Court Attorney General Cushing paid
a high compliment to| Ex-President
Fillmore,who he declared had left in his
office marks of the highest integrtty’and
intelligence. These evidences of abili
ty and character were made most up
parent’ on the records of the Attorney
General’s office,—Norfolk Herald.
COLD! COL l'!
Intelligence from all parts of tho coun
try warrants the belief that the present
•cold spell” is the must remarkable one
experienced for many years. Not only
sirs the great rivers frozen over, but i
some localities railroad travel is almost
entirely cut off, in consequence of the
ice and snow. At the time we write,
(Tuesday afternoon.) the remains of the
snow which fell last Friday-week, and
which was the heaviest one within the
recollection of the “oldest inhabitant,”
are stilf visible on all sides, and there is
a prospect for,more before it leaves us !,
The present temperature of the atmos
phere would do credit to Buncombe
itself.
THE PRESIDENCY. ^
On the first Thursday of November
in the present year, the A merican people
will; be called upon t>» electa President
fur.the ensuing four.years,. In the ap-
proac liing election, questions of vital im-
.portrtneeas rtepecEs the AituWof this
great People, are to be definitely set
tled, perhaps for all time—questions
which though new, are of such trahscen-
dant importance that all true patriots
must await the issue with trembling
anxit-ty.
We think it well settled that the pres
ent parties in the House of Represeuta-
tives will each present a candidate for
the suffrages of the American people.
The Republican, or Abolition party,is a
sectional—Northern, Free Slate organi
zation—and, of course will not receive a
single vote at the South. The Bogus
Democracy, which still pretends to be a
national party, will, no doubt, run its
ticket in :«very State—while the only
truly national organization, the Ameri
can party—which is now the hopt^of
the country—will meet ths 1 Bogu^
.crowd on every field, aud we'.traat,
defeat them North, South, l Ea^ and-
West, and utterly prostrate the Black
Republicans forever. • ’’ . h -
In. order to do this, two things are es
sential. 1st. A thoroughly national can
didate of first rate abilities—rno mere
county court lawyer, but a statesman of
enlarged views, “ knowing no East, no
West, no North, no South,” but whose
patriotic heart beats warmly for “ the
whole country,” 2d. A careful avoid
ance of all extraneous issues. -Lot out
platform embrace only such issues as
are fairly before the people. Let our
principles be clearly and distinctly, but
briefly avowed. With such a man and
such a platform, we can enter the field
with our glorious watchword, “ Let
Americans rule America,” ar.d save the
country from Bogus Dem cracy and
Black Republicanism,as well as from the
Foreign Jesui'ical dominaton with
which it is threatened.
In all the movements hereafter made
by the American party, it is of the utmost
importance that prudent counsels should
prevail. A false move may greatly
jeopardise the almost certainty of suc
cess.- It is to be hoped, therefore, that
the approaching National Convention
at Philadelphia on the 22d of February,
will abstain fr.-m the nomination of a
candidate for the Presidency at that time,
but appoint the 4th of July as the tjnje,
and Philadelphia as the place for said
nomination.
PYEAR
Our lady readers are no doubt aware
that, this being Leap Year, it is tHeir
privilege t«> relieve the stern “ lords of
creatiun v Qf that often difficult and
always embarrassing task of “ popping
thfeVesKom” %e have never been
able to learn the origin of this custom,
which ha* prevailed in many countries
for hundreds of years. It matters not
where it originated, however. It has
now bee. one one of the imprescriptible
privileges of the fair sex,and we hope they
will exercise itte its fullest extent this
year— more particularly a* we intend to
exact a fee hereafter for the annouuce
meats that frequently fojlow “ popping
the question.”
By at ancient act of the good old
Scottish parliament, passed in ute reign
of Margaret, about 1288, it was “ordonit
that during ye reign of her maist blessit
Majestie, ilka maiden ladee ofbaith
high and low estait sholl hae lieberly to
speak ye man she likes, gif he refuses
to take her to be his wife, he shall be
mulct in the sum of a hundrity pundis
or less, as his estate may be, excepit
add always gif he can make, it appear
that he is betrothit to apaither woman
(tbeh he shall beaset free."
Frb^tba^liifcteuDlap’it/•Des
cription o^Tn^^KraTm^^iocluding
several provinces of the kingdom of
Poland.”' published at Rouen in 1662
it appears that at that period tho Cos-
MILLARD FILLMORE.
In various county meetings and dis
trict conventions in different section* of
the c. .untry, we observe the name of
this di tinguished patriot and statesman
recommended for the next Presidency.
We are glad to see this—as we feel ful
ly persuaded be is the first choice of a
large majority of, not only the Ameri
can party, but of the American people
for that responsible station.
When we announced him last sum
mer as our candidate for the Pre>idency,
we entertained a hope, which has been
daily strengthening, that he would at
the proper time be put forward under
the most favorable auspices. He is
now, as he has been for years past, our
first choice, and we hope the American
National Convention will unanimously
nominate him- No ond can cal! iu
question hisitooesty, bis ability, his pat-:
riotisin or his nationality.
INDIAN DISTURBANCES.
“ Uncle Sam’’ is likely to have a
troublesome time with the Indians. Iu
the Western territories—iu Kant
Oregon sidS Wafehfggton—-they seem to f
be ben: on mischief. Advices of a bat
tle in Oregon, in which several solt"
and many Indians were killed,have been'
received. In Florida, too, there is
sack damsels also madj proposals of) ]|} ce ]y to be another protracted Indian
ir.nmntTA lUnnfliHiir Ken ii man savs .* % .
war. This is much to be regretted, as
the friends of humanity had hoped that
“SAMUEL.”
Our readers will no doubt be pleased
to learti from the following note, that
Samuel” will be '‘on hand” when the
proper time arrives. He will no doubt
prove himself a Samson among the po
litical Philistines of the present day.
For the Southern Watchman.
Mr. Editor :—I understand much
solicitude is being expressed in certain
quartern, iu regard to myself.
I wish to announce, through the me
dium of your valuable- paper, that I am
yet in the land oi the living, and not
without hope, by a long jump.
I am attending diligently to my pri-
yate and professional business, and am
bvepingonysetf posted clean up, .in tbe
mean tithe, in reference to the progress
of measures, State and National, as
well as the acts of men. When the
show commences in the approaching
contest for Presidential honors, your
readers may look out for me in your pa
per every week. I have now an inex
haustible quantity of the rough material
on hand, and the way I shall make
‘"jobd of some rascals, will be a cau
tion to the whole world and half of Tex
as. Howell Cobband his satellites, great
and small, including a certain judicial
functionary, will have “to stand from
under,” or catch many' a scaffold of
bricks. SAMUEL.
FROM KANSAS.
Advices have been received at St.
Louis from Kickapoo, announcing that
a conflict had taken place at Easton
between n company from Lawre tce
under Copt. Brown, und the Kickapoo
Rangers. Numbers were killed and
wounded on both sides. Many persons
were flocking into Easton- Thy dis
turbance war supposed to have originat
ed at the electjpn of the 15th-
There is, we think, a peculiar fitness
in the time and place suggested. It
was in Philadelphia that the Fathers-of
the Republic met, and' the Fourth.of
July was the day on which they declared
their independence of the Government
of England. Let their children meet
on the same day, in the same city, to de
clare their ability to administer thecon-
stitution and laws of the United States
themselves—in short.their independence
of all Foreign Governments—their re i
ance upon American arms and Heaven's
protection, to preserve, inviolate the
sacred chart of our cit il and religious
liberties, which shuffling priests and
gambling demagogues have conspired to
pertert to their unhahowed purposes
The Bogus Democracy have resolved
to hold their convention on the 1st of
June. What impnpriety can there
be in making lh<- American nomination
a month later ? There will then be
campaign of four months—time enough
in all conscience to discuss the princi
ples of parties and the merits of can
didates.
CITIZENS’ TICKET IN ATHENS
“In Athens, a stronghold of the
American party, the t>e pie, tired with
eeing mupieipal affairs made party
playthings, have, we learn, elect.-d
citizens’ ticket for Mayor and Council
men.”
We copy the above from the Atlanta
Intelligencer. Most grossly have tbe
editors been deceived. Precisely the
teverseof what they state a.-i true, was
the fact here. In all former elections,
Athens has selected a ‘‘citizens’ ticket”;
but the Bogus Democrats having become
dissatisfied with this, ail attempt was
made by them to elect a party ticket.—
Their failure was so signal, that we trust
that in future, as heretofore, they will
be content to keep party politics out of
our municipal elections. It remains
with them, however, to say whether
this shall be the case or not.
marriage. Monsieur Beauplan says
Here tlieh, contrary to the custom
of all other countries- may be seen young
girls making love to young men, aud a
superstition among them and very care
fully observed, causes them scarcely
ever to miss their object, and indeed,
renders them more sure of success than
the men would be, should the latter
attempt the wooing. They proceed
somewhat after the following manner:
The maiden goes to the house of
the father of the young man whom she
luves, when she thinks the family are all
together and says, on entering Pomaga-
boy. which means, God bless you. She
pays her compliments to him who has
made so. great an impression on her
heart, and tells him she think-;Tie will
know how to govern and love his wife.
‘Thy noble qualities,” she continues
have led me to pray thee very humbly
to accept me for thy wife.” She then
asks the father und mother to consent to
the marriage. If.-he receives a refusal,
or some excuse, as that he is too young
and not yet ready to marry, she answers
that she will riot depart until he has
espoused her. Thus she perseveres ami
persists in remaining until she has ob
tained a favorable answer to her de
mauds.
After several weeks the father and
mother are not only constrained to give
their consent, but also to persuade their
son to look upon her more-favorably.
At the same time the youngman seeing
the maiden so determined in her affec
tion fur him, begins to regard her as one
who is destined to be the mistress of his
desires. Finally he prays his father
and mother to permit him to espouse
her. Thus she accomplishes her pur
pose, and the entire family, through tear
of God by expelling her from their
house, are constrained ‘ to give their
consent to the union.”
Mr. Johp Ellwood, a graduate of
Kyntucky-Miliitary Jn-tiiute o( the class
of 1854, and resident, graduate during
the succeedliig year, has received the
appointment of First 1-icutensnt in the
Russian army, through the Russian
Minister at Washington, and sailed for
New York on Monday last, on his way
to Berlin, where he Is to await driers
from St.* Peterafcurg.
HP On our first page we publish a
short appeal to the patriotism and phi
lanthropy of the Legislalure^of Georgia,
behalf of the forty-two thousand
adults in the State, who cannot read
and write. It is copied ‘from the Co
lumbus Times &, Sentinel; an.l howev
er we may differ with that print in refer
ence to party politics, we are glad to
welcome its powerful aid in calling
the attention of our legislators to the
import mce of doing something for the
education of the poor children of Geor
gia—a subject which we have frequent
ly presented, and one worthy the atten
tion of every patriot and Christian in
the land. Will not the press, generally,
speak out on this subject, and plead for
the interests of the poor and destitute. 7
Will not the Legislature abandon the
construction of party -platforms for a
season, and give this subject that atten
tion which its vast importance demands?
” CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, Jan. 19.—Oue- ballot
was taken_ in the House to-day for
Speaker. ^
, A resolution was adopted that no
deltaic should be in order for the week.
6xce[M by unanimous consent, unless a
Speaker was sooner elected.
OCT The IMacon Telegraph says the
entire Democratic ticket was elected in
Clarke county!! Surely the ed.tor did
not mean to say that! Some accident
must have stuck Clarke among the De
mocratic counties on his list. He cer
tainly knew better.
Tbe choleta is raging with great
fatality in the Island oi Porto Rico. In
one village of about 1,000 inhabitants,
500 had died in 42 hours.
the repeated chastisements inflicted upon
the red men woutd prevent in luture a
recurrence cf those dark and bloody
scenes so common in our early history.
ENGLAND AND THE UNITED
STATES.
The Washington correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun, who is usually very
w#ll informed of the progress of events
in Washington, announces through that
journal the following important(if true)
intelligence:
The Cabinet have had under conside
ration the expediency of suspending di
plomatic intercourse with England, as a
mode of resenting the refusal of the Brit
ish Government to afford reparation to
the United States for the alleged viola
tion of our laws and natural rights by
recruiting troops in this country. As
no congress is in existence, the I’resi-
dent <.anuet take tbecourse which I sug
gested yesterday—to send a special
message to Congress, and devolve upon
them the rosponsihiity of action, forthe
pi election of the national character,
lie may therefore take more direct
means. The proposition before the
Cabinet is to withdraw our minister from
England and not send another until the
British Government shall comply with ^
oui demand for redress and satisfaction.
There is little doubt that this course was -
determined upon last evening.
The siluation of the House, and its
utter abandonment of its constitutional
functions, will render necessary and af-4
ford an apology for the assumption and
exercise by the Executive of such powers
as the constitution may confer upon him,
under the most liberal construction of
tha t instrument- Therefore, : f I am not
mistaken, the President is about to take
some steps, independently of the suspen- |
ston of diplomatic intercourse with Eng
land, which may precipitate an issue
between this country and Great Britian.
It ss ve - y important to the interests of
the country that the Senate should be
taken into the counsels of the Executive
government, and that (he measures to
he lak‘‘n for the maintenance of the
honor of the country should at least
have the sanction of that body.
But no such measures as these, if
taken while Congress is in its present
paralyzed conditii n, will have the ef
fect to induce the British government
to do us justice, or to change their poli
cy in relation to the questions in dispute.
The Executive power of such a gov
ernment as this can command no respect
abroad unless supported hy the repre
sentatives of the people. But Congress
is no.v regarded abroad as it is regarded
here, as a body more dangerous to peace
at home than formidable to foes abroad.
One of the Strong Minded.—The
Alexandria Sentinel of Thursday, says :
A lady, with hair cut short."pistol at
her belt, and masculine air generally,
wqni up the railroad >qstetday. She is
a student in the Philadelphia Female
College, and her dress and equipment-
are. said to be the uniform of bee college
mate?; *
A Fact Worth Knowing.—
Astronomers say that if a cannin ball
were fi- ed from the earth to Saturn, it
would be one hnndred and eighty years
in getting there. In that event. Prof.
John Phenix thinks the people of Si’.urn
would have time enough to dodge ihe
shot.
The National Convention.—The
Democratic Executive committee have
fixed upon the third Monday in June, as;
the time for holding the National Con-*
vention in C.ncinnati.
There is a fortune of a millioaand e
half of doDats left to the heirs of Johik
White, who emigrated from the couaty
of Armaugh, Ireland, some time about,
the year 1814 or’15.
Eclipses during 1856.—There will
be two eclipses of the Moon, this year K
A total eclipse of the sun will take p'ack
on the 5th of April, and an annular
eclipse on the 28th of September, both
invisible here. There will be a partial
eclipse of the Moon on the 20th of April
-Which will be visible early in the morn-*
ing; and a similar eclipse on the 13th
of October, also visible in the eveo-w
ing.
The New .York Times estimates thak
-me hundred million of eggs are cor>
sumed in that city annually.