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GIBKHNATOHIAL t.'ONVKKTIOK.
Miu.EDi.tvn.Li, Oa., June 42, 1868.
At« meeting of the < onucrvative men of Geor
gia, standing upon the principles and declarations
of the Address and Resolutions adopted by tbs
State Convention of 1850—
For tlie purpose of organising the Contention,
on motion of C. Peeplc*. Esq-, C°U. w*Paine’ '
Gun by was called to the 6hair tad"- I
Os Telfair, and Thomas F. Walls, of Washington,
requested to sot ss Secretaries-
On motion of Mr. Clark, of Newt ?P’ °J
the Connties wan made, wberoapon the foUowjnjr ,
Delegates enrolled their names and took their
HMtA :
Baker—John Lyon and Thomas C. Spioer.
Bal lwin—Thomas B- Lamar, L. J. Bmi.h and
T. Nis bet, Wm. Lundy, and J. F.
I V*-*'—J. F. Brown, Jno. W. A. Sanford,and J.
J. Word.
( .uit'/'ora—John 11. Echols, and Morgan Callo-
W * j’.rk-C. Peeples, M. 8. Durham, W. Dioken,
and .1. Knowles.
C..nb—ll. G.Cole.
r 'oo.'.is—Jno. K. Wilson, Jas. K. Wilson, and
p. Kamsty.
(j ». * -John. E. Robinson.
Crawford—O. W. Norman.
Do-.lv—D. J- Bothwell.
KlH' : rt—ll. P. Mattox, and Thomas W. Thomas.
Kajet’e—M M. Tidwell, and W. Bennett.
Flmd —A. M. Lanb and John Harkins.
Greene—G. O. Dawson, J. F. Zimmerman, 11.
A. Watte, and A. T. Scott.
H.n ek—Unton Stephens, 8. G. Evans end J.
NlVrm-W.W. White, 11. L. MoGehee and D.
f> ||i|) a
Henry—A. W. Turner, snd John H. Lowe.
Houston—J. j. Hampton, K. L. Mims and W.
A. Matthews. . . , ,
Jn.-f,«-r 11. 8. Glover, W. W. Anderson, John
Jack ><>n and James Jackson,
j. tfcrson—H. Kaiford, H. B. Tood, snd Oeorg|
**Jons»—C. L. Ridley, H. Brown, T. O. Bowen
•od K. Oodird. . _ _. ,
] jC(i ThomM Moughon, G. Butler and 8. Lind
towndea—B. M. Orme,jr.
Macon—Doct. T. I*. Oliver, J. K.Cook and P.
ii. Ariogton.
Mclntcmb —£. M. Blount.
Monroe—Jarnee Norria, J.T. Crowder, J. T.
Stephens, J. Taylor, G. W. Taylor, and T.W.
* 1 Meriwether—G. W. Grant, F. McLendon, and
C ’M»rfon—"G. A. Brown, A. B. Hornady, and W.
A ’Morgan— A. 8. Wingfield, H. M. Harris, K. P.
Zimmerman and Charles E. Nisbet.
Murray—John Hamilton, J. N. Cato, and D. J#
11 Muscogee—U. M. Gunity, Thos. Wooldridge, E.
G. Dawson snd A. J,. Garrard.
Newton—T.M. Meriwether, E. L. Thomas and
W. W.Clark.
Oglethorpo—F. L. Upson and Z. A. Clarke.
Polk—ll. F. Wimberly.
Putnam—B. Pearson, Q. T. Davie, F.S. Jenkins
and C. 8. Credille.
Richmond—John K. Jackson aud Foster Blod-g
get, Jr.
Kpalding—J. N. Simmons and W. P. Maiaier.
Stewart—J. T. B. Turner and D. A. Vahon,
(proxy.)
Sumter—H. K. McKay, John U. Fletcher and E.
K. Brown.
Talbot—J. G. Dismukes, T. Brown and L.
Wimberly.
Taliaferro—A. 11. Stephens and W. A. Dyer.
Tattnall—B. Bruten snd M. J. Meody.
Tellair—W. W. Paine.
Troup—B. Reid, W. L. Stsnloy, P. H. Green
and R. J. Morgan.
Twiggs—U. Hughes, R. R. Wimberly and 8.
Hatch.
Walker—D. 8. Anderson.
Warren—J. M. Jones and W. K. Heath.
Washington—John B. Turner. Silas Floyd, E.
C vT'lliaufon end James H. Gilmore.
Whito.' >l d—John Hamilton, J. N. Cote and D. J.
" wMkes—Robert Toombe, J. B. Weems and J.
R. Sneed. „ _ .
WI kmson—N. A. CarSWtll, E. I. Massey and
W. M. Whit ihorst. T .
On motion of Linton Stephens, U4D, John W.
A.Huiilord was hy iteolomation cullod to preside
over the deliberations of the Convention, and
Mex-rs. Wooldridge, of Muscogee, Word of Cans,
and Peeples of Clark, wero appointed a committee
to conduct Inin to the Chair.
The President on taking the Chair addressed
the Convention ae follows:
I am happy to mcot you here, gentlemen, and I
thauk you very slneorely for tho honor which you
have just conferred upon mo. lam happy to find
that wo liavo again assembled to tnko counsel to
gether, and under lar happier auspices than when
wo last met. 1 rejoice to know wo have not come
hero now to calm the rage of popular cxcitemont,
or to eurb toe spirit of meditated hostility, but to
strengthen mid consolidate a Party which has de
n. un»trated itself worthy of hoiug perpetuuted, not
0 1, view ol the incalculable good it has acoom
nlisheil '*> this respect, but us the organized meane
of i.roteitii.'' ourselves against tho threatened
wrongs of iutolo.'»ht and despotic domination. I
rep, it, wfi are hero,. '>01 as we arc tauntingly told,
“to save .he Union agent,” but to save ourselves
from the intrigues and inaoliiii>U c>Uß °| men mad
den®.l hy torsibr defeat and madly ?BWiug rutalia
tory vengeance W our overthrow. Although tho
coufliets whioh nave thus omhittered their f clings
wi re ihose ol their own oreating, and defeat but
the merited consequence of their temerity and their
folly—allhough our acts as a party were in bar
mouy with tho public will and the dictates of en
lighteue I reason and enlarged patriotism—although
our opponents arc to-day enjoying in common with
ourselves the blessings preserved hy your offorts,
yet, notwithstanding all this, an exterminating
war is being waged ugulii.it Union men, aa though
they had been guilty of crimes of doep and damn
ing dye.
But, gentlemen, we can look back upouonrbrief
existences* a party with foolings of proud oxulta
i; ,n. our triumphs, though bloodteasly won, have
—I,; a veil moro; this day they speak in louder and
deeper 'ones for tho cause of politioal fieedom and
republics it institutions than all the cannon thut
have thundered since the days of onr Revolution.
Had the strife beau even fiercer still, tho prise had
been worth the cosf- -But our career has been
marked by no act that requires puliation, nono that
fornids oar standing up herein ths orect attitudo
of men having welF and nobly dischareod their
duty to tliomeelves, their country, and to their
whole country. Wo liavo established no now faith,
and proclaimed no creed violative of principles
which men liavo been taught to revere. Wohavo
committed no mischievous errors in tho exercise
of our power, and indulged in no party exoeases
that exact of us the surrender of that powor into
abler and safer bunds. If the advocaoy ot a policy
tending to promote the happiness and prosperity
of lhe land, w.tli the avowod determination to
adhere to each and all tho provisions of the Con
stitution. may claim for a party the term “nation
al “ then aro weontitlod to that significant appel
lation. Wc claim not only to be this, but that wo
derive our origin from tho Constitution itself, and
that its purposes, limitations and restrictions aro
the orbit ill which we move and have our being.
If, therefore, wo cxpoJ? to havo a government ad
ministered according to its provisions, it would be
worse than childish oroiulity after what wo have
witnessed in different quarters, to look for it* sta
bility in tho hands of those whose wanton oaprioe
m hit incline them, in tho future as in the paxt, to
regard the ligament which binds us togotlior a* a
rope ot sand; nor yet in tho hands of those whoso
rea-lv implication would make it strong enough
and 'flexible enough to do what they will.
Lot ns then remain immovoably where wo arc,
standing by the organic principles whioh gave
birth to the Union, and which can alono seotiro its
permanence. In separating oursolvos from others,
our separation does not preclude us from forming
hereafter in line with those whose views and pur
poses may bo identical with onr own. We need
not tear, therefore, that wo shall bo bastardized as
a spurious party except by those who, whatevor
their guise, can alone trace their parentage to tho
heated and morbid passions of tho day. When
their legitimacy and powor aro established, wo
may roll up the map of the country and bid its
nationality ndion. But the tiuio for that sad act to
be |«*rtormed has not yet come, and nover will
come until men surrender tlioir freedom of thought
and f reedom of action, and aro content to be “ser
vile minions and ahjeot slaves.” But gentlemen,
our cause is still in the hands of brave and stout
hearted men, who aro not alarmed ot flitting sha
j,,'w- nor to be decoyed by seductive words and il
lusor v promises from the position which they have
as- imei! They justly look upon it os the causeof
the country and the Constitution, aud are deter
mined to msiiftein it to the last extremity.
On motion of MV. Toombs, a committee of two
fVom each Congressional District was appointed to
reiH>rt business for the aoUen of the Convention.
The tollowiug oomiuittee V** appointed by the
Chair, vit:
Ist District, M. J. Moody and E. M. Blount.
2d “ E- R- Brown aud I>. J. Bothw*«lL
Sd “ J.J. Hampton aud J.T.Nisbot.
4th “ R. I. Morgan and M. M. Tidwell.
Stii “ J. J. Word and D. 8. Anderson.
6tli “ C. Peoples and M. S. Durham.
Ttli “ L. Stephens and G. O. Dawson,
gth “ K. Toombs and Geo. Stapleton.
Ou motion, the Convention adjourned until three
o’clock, I. M.
* i o’clock, p. m.
Tho Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
The committee of sixteen, through their chair
man, Mr. Toombs, submitted tho following report,
which having beeu read, was. on motion of Mr.
Peeples, unanimously adopted:
Ees'lvtd, Tiiat this Convention now proceed to
the election, by ballot, of a Candidate tor Gover
nor, and that each county shall be entitled to one
w;o for each Senator, and two votes for eacfc Be
il rosentativo, and a majority of the whole »ha)l
Ass.'/rsd, That this Convention of Ropabl'can
Citizen-* ot Georgia, invite the eo-operation of all
those whether Whigs or Democrats, who agree
with them in tho principles herein set forth and
J *A' . r °h s/, That wo adhere to the Report and Re
solutions of ti e Georgia Convention of IStO, be
cause we consider the principles therein proclaimed
are not less important to the maintenance ot the
rights of the Slates than of the Union of the States;
and that wo consider the rights of the Southern
Stales U s in great and imminent danger, and the
principles of the Georgia Convention greatly jeop
arded bv »nv politic 1 party whatever may be its
name, which recognizes Abolitionists and tree
aoilors as worthy of public honors and public emo
luments. .
AVs -That in the opinion of this Conven
tion, note the Whig and Democratic parties of the
United States have been faithless to their oft re
peated pledges of economy in the expenditure of
the public money, and that we view with great
alarm ami disapprobation the partial, unequal and
unjust approprintiot ol the public lands to inter
nal improvements in particular States, and of a
local character; and of the public money; to wild,
reckless and gigantic schemes of internal improve
ment. intended for me promotion of particular in
terests rather than the general benefit of those who
bear ihe burthen of Taxation.
AW ml That the public lands are the common
pro pern of ail the States of the Union, and in
their appropriation equality is the on.y true rule
of equity, and that any alienation ot them, ex
cept to bring money into the public treasury,
should he for the equal benefit ot all the States of
the Union, old as well as new.
ArWW, That while strugg.ing freedom every
where enlists our warmest sv mpathy, we still ad
here to the doctrine of the Father of his country,
as announced in hi- farewell address, of keeping
ourselves free from all entangling alliances with
foreign countries, aud of never quitting onr own
to stand upon foreign ground. That onr mission
as a republic is not to propagate our opinions, or
impose oil other countries our form of government
bv artifice or force, but to teach by example, and
•how by our success, moderation and justice, the
blessings of self government, aud the advantages
of fro* lustitutiou*. .
AWiW That this Convention even* that the
mainteuano* of the honor aud dignity of the posi
tion as-umed by Georgia in 1850, aiid the promo
tion of the moral, social, intellectual, and national
interests of her people to be objects of far
importance, than the success of any national party.
In pursuance of the first resolution, the Conven-
J" Lpceeded to ballot for a candidate for Go
eernor and on counting out the ballots, it ap
* w’that the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins of the
? e «ntv of Richmond, received 170 votes ;t be Hon.
• J Swtar ll votes; the H n. Asbury Hull received
ffioXe, Hoa - J • “• BerTieU r6oeiT#d 4
T °nn'motion of Mr. Dawson of Greene, the nomi
p.tion of CH° klxs J. J»«*s wa then made
Jenkins of hi* nomination and reqneet hia accept
ance, vix:—Robert Toombe, B. T. Davie, John J.
Word, Cincinatue Peeples, Joshua Knowles and
Thomas W. Thomaa. . _
On motion of Mr. Stephens of Hancock, a Com
mittee of flv# wa« appointed to prepare an addreaa
following gentlemen as
that Committee: Mesers. A. H. Stephens, George
Stapleton, M. M. Tidwell, W. W. Clarke, and 6.
K. MeCay.
On motion, tbe President appointed the follow
ing gentlemen tbe Executive Committee:
Meears. J. Knowlea, of Baldwin, J. T. Nisbet,
of Bibb, Eli Warren of Houston, Warren A kin ol
Casa, and P. W. Alexander, ol Chatham.
The following resolution waa offered by Mr.
Lnndy of Bibb, and passed—
Rooked, That the think* ofthis Convention be
tendered to the President and Secretaries for the
faithful, able and oourteons manner in which they
have discharged the duties of their several stations.
On motion ol Mr. Stapleton, a vote of thanks
was returned to Mr. Kramer for his kind attention
to tbe Convention.
On motion of Mr. Peeples, the several paper l of
the State were requested to publish the proceed
ings of the Convention.
On motion of Mr. Toombs, the Convention ad
journed tint dit.
J. W. A. SANFORD, President.
W. W.Pamx, I a , .
Tbos. F. Will*, { Secretaries.
Tbe Convention was eloquently addressed by
Hon Robert Toombs, and Thomas W. Thomas,
Esq., and the greateet harmony and enthusiasm
characterized its proceedings.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
We extract from the English papers brought by
the Humboldt, at New York, with Liverpool dates
to7th, some interesting items of intelligence in
addition to what waa furnished yesterday in our
telegraphic summary.
On the 2d inst. tbe ratification of the treaties for
the renewal of the Zollverein were exchanged at
Berlin.
The weather in England was very genial, and
most favorable for tho growing crops.
When the Humboldt left, Commodore Vander
bilt’e steamship yatoh, the North Star, was excitiug
great attention at Southumpton. She had been
thrown open to public view, admission being ob
tained by tickets isened at the American Consulate.
Crowds of people availed themielve* of the facili
ty and appeared greatly gratified by the sight of
this magnificent specimen of naval American ar
chitecture. The Daily News states that “the
Mayor of Southampton had brought before the
Municipality of that town the propriety of some
public manifestation towards Mr. Vanderbilt, on
aeoount of his having honored Southampton by
selecting it as tbe rendezvous of his gigantic steam
yatch.”
Whea the Humboldt sailed, the impression had
gained gronnd both in London and Paris, that al
though the Emperor of Russia mkht make some
demonstration against Turkey by menacing, or
even by crossing tbe Danubian frontier, yet that
actual hostilities would be avoided by a diplomatic
settlement of the question. Telegraphic despatch
es from Vienna state that the Russian forces had
already commenced their march toward Moldavia
and Wallachis.
The fourth army corps had also been ordered
from Bt. Petersburg, to proceed from Warsaw by
forced marches to Bessarabia, a Russian province
adjoining Moldavia. Tbe Turks, on tne other
hand, were not idle, and were preparing fora vig
orous resistance. The Egyptian fleet aud an army
ot 80,000 men wore proaceding to the support ol
the Saltan, whilst the Turconian chiefs were rais
ing 100,000 men free of expense to the Porte, for
tho defenoe ot Islamism.
Notwithstanding these portentious signs, it was
generally thought peaoe would be preserved. The
mediation of Austria and Prussia was spoken of.
Count Nesselrode has also arrived in London with
despatches.
Tne Tckkish Question. —Wc have received,
say* the London Times, a telegraphic message
from Berlin, stating that intelligence had reached
that capital from St. Petersburg, in which it is uu
nouuced that tbe Emperor of Russia had despatch
ed a courier to Constantinople, with a demand
that Prince Mei.BcikolTs laet proposal should be
accepted within eight days.
On the 21st, M. Kill, the Austrian Charge d’Af
fairs, was commissioned by Lord Stratford de
Kedcliffe and M.de la Cour to see Prince Mcnschi
koff, and make him change his mind about leav
ing. He was, a* wej already know, unsuccessful.
There was some question of the Sultan naming
his brother-in-law (and former Minister,) Halil
Pasha, Ambassador Extraordinary to St. Peters
burg. The fleet under the order es Achmcd Pa
sha nad arrived at Constantinople and that of Ab
bas Pucha was expected from day to day. From
25,000 to 80,000 wax about the military foroo ox
pected to bo furnished by the Pasha of Egypt.—
On the 22d 4000 barrels of powdor were taken ont
of the magazine and prepared for immediate use
if necessary. The letters add that the greatest ex
citement prevailed at Constantinople, anil that the
Sultan had gained much in popularity in conse
quence of his firm and dignined bearing through
out the crisis.
it was believed that a manifesto would soon ap
pear from the Porte, containing not merely an ex
position and defence of its conduct in tho differ
ences with Russia, but also a programme of the
reforms contemplated in tho situation of its Chris
tian subjects. The departure olM.de Nessclrodo,
with despatches for Vienna and London, is also
announced, but nothing seemed to bo known at
Constantinople ot the real nature of his inßtruc
tions, aud even in l’uris all is mere conjecture of
tho kind I have already noticed.
From St. Petersburg wo have, I believe, no nows
as yet. The French Foreign Office is. lum assur
ed, as much in thedark as any one olso I doubt
much if M. tie Kisseleff has received for eevo
ral days past any communication from his govern
ment. He professes as muoh ignorance as the
public of the nature of M. do Nossolrode’s mission
to Austria and Eugland. Notwithstanding tbe
opiuion still expressed in one or two political cir
cles of the probability of hostilities, tho idea evi
dently gains ground in favor of a pacific settle
ment, without the Porte being compelled to make
ooncessi..n« inconsistent with it* dignity aud in
dependence.
From the London Tima of the Ith.
The fact which wo were enabled to state yester
day in a third edition, that a courier had been
despatched from Bt. Petersburg to Constantinople,
with a demand that Princo Monschikoff’s last pro
posal should be accepted by tho Porte within
eight days, ts, on several amounts, of great im
portance, and it is, we think, less unfavorable to
a pacific solution ot this dispute than it might ut
first sight appear to be. In the first plaoo it proves
that the ltu sian Government haß not procooded,
on tho first intelligence of Princo MenschikotTa
failure, to adopt belligerent measures, either by
sending tho fleet from Sebastopol to the Bospho
rus, aa Mr. Disraeli and Lord liardwicke had an
ticipated. or by directing tbe army of Bessarabia
to cross the Pruth.
i On tho contrury, the despatch of nnothor oourior
i is a fresh proof that the system of temporization
i and hesitation whioh Prince Mcuschikoff had bo
i gun is still pursued by the Emperor Nicholas him
i self. If his chief object had been to pick s quar
- rol, there would bo no need to prolong these pre
-1 liminarios, and the Court of St. Petersburg cannot
' bo lgnoront that every week and evory day that
passes ia au immense losa of ita own opportunities
and influence, while it Increases the oonfldoueo of
Turkey m the combined support of the rest of
Europe. But it uppoars, further, that this courier
is to insist on the acoeptanoo of Prince Menschi
koft''B last proposal. That proposal, wo believe, is
not identical with tho convention so haughtily
demanded on tho sth of May; on tho contrary,
subsequently to that date, and just before leaving
Constantinople, the Russian Envoy addrossod a
last communication to Kedsohild Pasha considera
bly less objectionable in form, though still not ac
ceptable to the Turkish Government in substance.
lfafter all, the demand made upon the Porte can
bo satisfied by a declaration of good will towards
all ita Christian subjects, and if this declaration bo
addressed, not to Russia alone, but to all the great
Powors which arc interested in the welfare or the
oast, there ia no reason that such a declaration
should not be made, for it would further establish
that policy which tho Turkish Government hus al
ready resolved to pursue, and it would demonstrate
that Russia has no peenliar claim whatever to. bo
oonsidored tho guarantee or security of the im
munities of the Christian population.
As tho question has now again assumed the
form of diplomatic negotiation, we think it by no
means improbablo that some such mode may bo
found to enable tho Russian Govornmontto escape
from tile consequences of its arrogant pretensions
and itsreceutdefeat. Woarofurthorcorroborated
in this opinion by the circumstance that Count
Nesselrode (the same, wo presume, who accom
panied Monschikoff to Constantinople,) has arrived
m London; and wo tako this occurrence to be a
strong additional proof that tho Emperor Nicho
lae is, on all accounts, muoh more disposed to have
recourse to negotiation than to arms.
Mcanwhilo, tho langnngo held by all tho otlior
Governments of Europo is firm, united aud ouor
getio; that of Austria moro so than wo had ven
tured to anticipate, though not more so thun her
peculiar position requires; that of France, tempe
rate and consistent with the general interests and
dcoision ot Europe. Upon the whole, therefore,
we are confirmed in tha hope that this crisis will
simply recoil upon its authors, and, unless somo
fresn cause of dissension should arise, it stems
not improbable that the Russian Government will,
nndor tho show of insisting on its claims, accopt
such terms os Turkey may offor in conjunction
wltu the other powers of Europe. They, on their
sido aro interested in not adding to the difficulties
of the question; and »s dueto Lord. Stratford do
Redclitfe to express oar eenviction that, while ho
has supported Turkey against any attempt to bul
ly her, he has been less noxious t<3 find some expe
dient which may restore peace without too deep a
humiliation to the honor of either party.
Austuia.— The various organs of tho Austrian
press contain information from the Turkish capital
of considerable importance, but the place of honor
must bo accorded to the opinion of a person whose
communications have not once proved inoorreot:—
** It ia now plain sailing. Russia iusifts on. the oc
clusive Protectorate over the Greeks residing in
Turkey. The Porto offers to grant complete civil
emancipation to all ita non-Mahomedau subjects,
and to place them nndor the protection of all the
great Powers. Lord Strattord and M. do la Cour
declare that nothing moro can in justice be re
quired of the Porte. The repretentatives ot Aus
tria and Prussia for their own part approvo of the
plan, but they have not such full powers as their
fellow diplomatists. Russia must eventually yield,
but certainly not until a demonstration has been
made in the Daunbian Principalities.”
TURKEY AND RUSSIA.
The Official Document* between the Prince Men
acnikolTand the Torte. •
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
writes, under date of June Bd, as follows: —
I am enabled to give yon tho text of the docu
ments of which the Journal des Debats has pub
lished an analysis, with certain common's, which,
whether just or unjust, have drawn on it the anger
of nearly the whole of the journal* of Paris—minis
terial and opposition—the Pays and the Presse, the
Oonstittitionolle and the Siecle. I have translated
these documents as literally as possible from the
French. „ , , „
The first paper is entitled tho “\erbal Note
eommunic ted by the Ambassador of Russia to the
Minister of Foreign Affairs ot the Porte:”—
Pera, Aptil 19, 1858.
His Excellency, the Minister, of Foreign Affairs,
in taking cognizance, at his accession to office, ot
the negotiations which have taken place, has seen
the duplicity of hia predecessors: he must be per
suaded how little regard has been paid to the
respect due to the Emperor of Russia, and how
great is his magnanimity in offering to tho Porte
the means of getting cut of the embarrassment
which the bad faith of its Ministers has placed it
in. They (the Ministers) have abused the good
faith of their sovereign in placing him in opposi
tion with hie own words, and placing him, a* res
pects his ally and his fr>ends, in a position which
neither high decorum nor the sovereign dignity
can admit.
While wishing to be forgetful of the past, and
although not demanding byway of reparation any
thing but tbc dismissal of a deceitful minister aud
the patent execution of solemn promises, the Em
peror found himself obliged to require solid guar
autees for the future. Ire requires them formal,
po-itive, and securing the inviolability of the wor
ship professed by the majority of the Christiau
subjects, as well of tho Sublime Porte as of Russia,
aud, in fine, by the Empuor himself. He cannot
desire others tliau those which he shall find hence
forth in an instrument equivalent to a treaty, aud
independent of the interpretations of an ill-advised
and unscrupulous delegate (<fun mandatairt mal
anti tt p*u eonscisncisuss.)
The delays which have been occasioned hitherto
in adopting a final decision on the propositions of
the Ambassador of Russia, oblige him to domand
from the Porte a categorical reply, aud which he
cannot await any longer. He demands, conse
quently—
1. An explicative Firman, and form of which to
be agreed to, concerning the key of the Church of
Bethlehem, aud the silver star placed on the altar
of the nativity in the subterranean part of the same
sanctuary. The possession of the grotto of Geth
aemene by the Greeks, with the admission of the
laitins to exercise therein their worship, but yet i
piaintaining the precedency of the orthodox, and
their priority for the oelebration of tho divine ser
vice in this sanctuary; and, in fine, in what relates
to the common possesaijn of the Greeks with the
Latins of the gardens of Bethlehem, and the
whole according to tbe basis discussed betwt a l
His Excellency Pifaut Pasha and the Ambassador.
2. A supreme order for tbe immediate repair by
he Ottoman government of tbe cnpola of the
Temple of the Holy Sepulchre, with the partipa
tion of the Greek Patriarch, without the inter
medling of a delegate of any other worship, for
the walling up (cloture muree) of the harems hav
ing a view on the Banctuarr, and for the demoli
tions of the harems contiguous to the cupola, if the
possibility of that domolition be proved.
The Ambassedor is charged with obtaining on
these points a formal assurance and notifletaion.
8. A sened, or convention, for the guarantee of
the strict statu quo of the privileges of the Catholic
Greco Russian worship of the Church of the East,
and of the sanctuaries which are found in posses
sion of that worship exclusively, or in participa
tion with other rites at Jerusalem.
The Ambassador must repeat, in this place, to
the Minister of Affairs, that which he baa
already had occasion to express to him many times
—that Russia does not demand from the Porte po
litical concessions; her desire is to tranquilixe the
consciences of the devout by the certainty of the
maintenance of that which is, and of that which
has always been practiced up to our times.
It is then in pursuance ot the hostile tendencies
which are manifested for some years past, to all
which touches Russia that she requires in the in
terest of the religious communities of the orthodox
worship, an explicative and positive act of the
guarantees—an act which would not affect in any
degree either the other religions, or the religions
of tne Porte with other powers.
Tlie Ottoman Cabinet will also please to weigh
well in its wisdom the gravity of the offence com
mitted, in comparing it with the moderation ot
the demands of reparation, and of the gnarantcea
which the sentiment ot legitimate defence might
have placed in a sense more extensive and more
peremptory,
The rep.yofthe Minister of Foreign Affairs will
indicate to the Ambassador the ulterior duties
which he will have to fulfil, and which will not be
otherwise than comfortable to the maintenance
of tlie dignity of the government which he repre
sents, ana or the religion which he professes.
Tho second is a note addressed by the Ambas
sador of Russia to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
of the Sublime Porte:—
Plra, May 25.—The undersigned, Ambassador
of Russia, had the honor to address to his Excel
lency, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Sub
lime Porte, a confidential communication of the
draught of an instrument, calculated to offer to
the government of His Majesty the Emperor, solid
and inviolable guarantees for the future, in the
interest of the Eastern Orthpdox Church.
The Ambassador thought that he might expect
to meet, on the part or the government of the
Sublime Porte, an anxious desire to renew, on that
basis, relations ol good and cordial amity with
Russia. He must confess, with deep regret, that
he was shaken in tho conviction, with which he
had been inspired from tlie beginning, by tlie gra
cious reception of his Majesty the Sultan.
Animated, nevertheless, with that spirit of con
ciliation aud kindness which distinguishes the
|>olicy of his august master, the Ambassador did
not reject the previous observations mado to him
by Kifaat Pasha, both as respects the form of the
above mentioned act, and the tenor of some of the
articles which were to be introduced into it.
With regard to the form, the Ambassador main
tains the declaration, that a long and painful ex
perience of the past requires, in order to prevent
hereafter all coolness and distrust between the
two governments, a solemn engagement having
the force of a treaty.
As to tho contents and wording of the articles of
that act, he insisted on a previous understandirg
and,seeing with profound pain tho procrastina
tion of the Ottoman cabinet, and its evident desire
to elude the discussion ho considered himself
obliged by his verbal note of the 7th—l9th April,
to recapitulate his demands, and to embody them
in tho most pressing manner.
It is only to-day that the note of His Excellency
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanying the
copies of the two sovereign orders, relative to the
sancturaries of Jerusalem and the cupalo of the
Holy Sepulchre, lias reached the Ambassador. Ho
considers that communication to imply a continu
ation of negotiation as to the two first demands
contained in his noto of tho 7th—l9th of April,
and will regard it as a duty to place those docu
ments under tho eyes of his government.
But, not having hitherto obtained any reply to
the third and most important point, which claims
guarantees for tho future, and having been recent
ly instructed to insist with greater force, in order
to arrive at an immediate solution of the question,
which constitutes tho principal object of the solici
tude of His Majesty the Emperor, the Ambassador
is obliged to address himself to-day to his Excel
lency the Minister of Foreign Affairs, confining
this time his reclamations within the last limits
proscribed by superior directions.)
Tho basis of the arrangement he is charged to
obtaiu remains materially the saino.
The Eastern orthodox wvrship, its clergy and
its possessions, shall enjoy iu future, without any
molestation, under the itgis of his Majesty the
Sultan, the privileges and immunities insured to
them ab antiqun , and in virtue of a principle of
high equity, they ahull par: icipate in the advanta
ges granted toother Christian worships.
At Jerusalem, the Russian monks and pilgrims
shall be assimilated, ns respects prerogatives, to
those of other nations.
These points, herein summarily indicated, shall
form the object of a Sened, which will attest tho
mutual confidence of the two governments.
in this act. the objections ana difficulties repeat
edly expressed by his Excellency Rifaat Pasha,
ntid some of bis colleagues, have been taken into
consideration, as his Excellency will perceivo by
the draught of a Sened, which the Ambassador
htiH tho honor to annex to the present uoto.
Tho Ambassador flatters himself with tho hope
that hereafter the just expectation of his august
master will not be deceived; and that, laying aside
all hesitation and all distrust, from which its dig
nity and its generous sentiments would have to
suffer, the Sublime Porto will lose no timo iu for
warding to the Imperial Ambassador the sovereign
decisions of his Majesty the Sultan, in reply to the
present notification.
It is with that hope tho Ambnssador requests
iris Excellency Rifaat Pasha to liavo the kindness
to forward to him that reply, on or before tho 28th
April, (10th May.) He must consider a long de
lay only as a want of courtcsey towards his gov
ernment, which would impose upon him the most
painful obligations.
Tho Ambassador of Russia offers to his Excellen
cy tho reiterated and sincere assurance of his high
consideration.
(Signed) Menschikoff.
The following is entitled Project of Sened, or
Convention proposed between the Ottoman Porto
and tho E nperorof Russia.
“ His Majesty the Emperor and Padishah of the
Ottomans, and his Majesty tho Emperor of all the
Kuasins, iu the common desire of maintaining tho
stability of the orthodox Greco-Russinn worship,
professed by tho majority Os their Christian sub
jects, and of guaranteeing that worship from every
encroachment in future, have appointed, viz: H.
M. the Emperor of tho Ottomans , and H.
M. the Emperor of all the Russias , who, af
ter exchanging explanations, bavo agreed on what
follows:
Art. 1. No change shall be made in the rights,
privileges and immunities whioh have been CDjoy
ed, or which arc now enjoyed, ah antiquo, by the
churches, the pious institutions, and the orthodox
clergy, in the States of the Sublime Ottoman
Porte, which is pleased to secure such to them
foreveV, on tho basis of tho strict statu guo at
present existing.
Art. 2. tho rights and advantages conoeded by
the Ottoman government, or which shall be so
conceded in future to the other Christian religions
by treaties, conventions, or special provisions,
shall be considered ns appertaining likewise to the
orthodox worship.
Art. 8. It being admitted and shown by histori
cal traditions and by numerous documents, that
tho orthodox Greek Church of Jerusalem, that its
Patriarchate and the Laics, who are subordinate to
it, have been from all time, since the epoch of tho
Caliphs, and under the successive reigns of all the
Ottoman Emperors, especially protected, honored
and confirmed in their ancient rights and immuni
ties, tho Sublime Porte, in its solicitude for tha
conscience and the religious convictions of ita sub
jects of that worship, ns also of all tho Christiaus
who profess it, aud whose piety lias been alarmed
by divers oveuts, promises to maintain and cause
to bo respected tho-a rights and those immunities,
as well in the city sf Jerusalem as without it, with
out any prejudice to the other native Christian
communities. Rayas, or strangers, admitted to
the adoration of the Holy Sepulchre, and of tho
other sanctuaries, whether in common with the
Greeks or in their separate ora!ories.
Art. 4. His Majesty, the Sultiiu, now gloriously
reigning, having jmlgod it noeessury and equitable
to corroborate and explain his sovereign Firman,
coaled with the Hatti-Huinaynn, in the middle
period of the rnoou of Relief Akhir (end of Janu
ary, 0. S., 1860) by his sovereign Firman of ,
and to order in addition by another Firman dated
Temple of the Holy Sepulohro, these two Firmans
shall bo tcxtually oxecuted, and faithfully observed
in order to maintain for ever tho strict statu quo of
the sanctuaries possessed by the Greeks exclusive
ly, or in common with other religions.
It is agreed that an. understanding shall be ulte
riorly como to for the'settlement of certain points
of detail whioh have not found a place in the
aforementioned Firmans.
Art. 5. The subjects of the Russian Empire, se
culars as well as ecclesiastics, to whom it ia per
mitted, in pursuance of the treaties, to visit the
Holy City of Jerusalem, aud other places of devo
tion, having a right to bo treated and considered
on an equality with the subjects of the most favor
ed nations, and these las , Catholics as well as
Protestants, having their prelates and their spe
cial ecclesiastical establishments, the Sublime
Porte binds itself, iu case the Imperial Court of
Russia demands it, to assign a suitable locality in
the city of Jerusalem, or in the environs, for the
construction of a church consecrated for the cele
bration of Divine service by Russian ecclesiastics,
and of an hospital foi indigent or sick pilgrims,
aud which foundations shall be under the sur
veilnnee of the Consulate-General ot Russia, Syria,
and Palestine.
6. It is understood that the present act, occa
sioned by exceptional circumstauecs, affects in
nothing any of the stipulations existing between
tho two courts, and that all the Interior treaties,
corroborated by tho separate act of the treaty of
Adrianople, maintain all their force and value.
The six articles which precede having been de
termined and concluded, our signature and the
seal of our arms have been affixed the present in
strument, which is delivered to the Sublime Porte
in exchange for that which is delivered to us by—
before mentioned.
Done at —, the , 1858, and to the
Ilegira.
(Signed)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
to his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russia* to
the Ottoman i’orte."
Thx North Pacific Exvloring Expedition. —The
U. S. Survey and Storeship John P. Kennedy sails
this morning for the China seas. She is the fifth
ami last vessel of the North Pacific Exploring Ex
pedition, the first lour vessels having sailed on the
Uth iuit from Norfolk. The Kennedy goes via
Cape de Verde Islands and the Cape of Good Hope,
to Batavia on tire Isresd of Java. Being a fast sail
er it is supposed that she tfill reach Batavia, the
port of rendezvous, ahead of tho other vessels of
the sqn«ui»on. She goes in a double capacity,both
as a surveying vessel, and as a store ship, and be—
trepig and swift, well manned and equipped,
with Hv.‘f>o(sre”hu; and other instruments, andnn-
of able toilful office™,
will doubtless prove of great service in r
ing the objects of the Expedition. Jt
tea that during the winter these vessel ™
ployed iu taking soundings and making chart? 01
the comparatively unknown seas about the North
ern Chinese Coast; during tho summer, they will
transfer themselves to the whaling grounds iu and
arouud Behring's S'raits; the principal object of
the Expedition being to procure reliable charts of
tho dangerous and comparatively unknown por
tions of the North Pacific which are frequented by
our whalers.
The objects of this expedition being entirely dis
tinct from that of the Japan squadron, it is not
probable that the two will meet, unless nnforseen
emergencies should make it necessary to increase
the force under command of Commodore Perry.
The duration of the cruise is uncertain, depending
upon the extent of duty to be performed, and up
on the future action of Congress. Wc understand
that the appropriation of one hundred and twen
ty thousand dollars has been already expended,
and turtber appropriation will be Beeded.— N. T.
Cour. if- Enquirer.
West Point. —The Board of Visitors of this In
stitution have recommended several important
changes. Among them are the erection of a new
bnildingfor cavalry exercise, the enlargement of
the Cadet’s Hospital, additional quarters for offi
cers, an iucrease in the number of cadets, so as to
give two additional to each State corresponding
with the number of Senators; an extension of the
period of instruction to five years; an increase of
the pay of the cadets from (24 to (28 per month;
the equalization of the pay of all the professors,
and alao the pay of thair assistant*, with tome
othere of leee moment*— Ch, lUmry.
Weather ui Crop*.
The Trov (Pike county, Ala.) Palladium, o
Tuesday lrst aaye :—lt ia row nearly nine weeka
since we have had any rain in theee parte. The
days are long, hot and dnsty, and the nights cool.
The crops, where there are any, are in the last
stages 01 a galloping decline. A friend of ours,
in from the country a day or two ago, says that
boshes and even large trees are dying in the
forest.
The Capitolian (West Baton Rouge) Via-a-Vis,
of Wednesday, 15th instant, says:—A storm of
wind passed over our parish last Saturday, doing
much injury to young corn, fences, &c. The storm
was followed by a gentle shower which was much
needed by thecane and corn.
The Marshall (Texas) Republican of the 4th
inst., says:—We have never known, since onr
sojourn in Texas, such a cold, wet spring. In
our last, we mentioned the fact that the rains
had retarded, if they bad not materially injured
the crops. During the past week we have had
still more rain. The prospects of the crops are
gloomy. Our planters all wear long faces, and
contend that they are ruined. We are in hopes
that their fears will not be realized, and the crops
may be better than they seem to expect. If the
balance of the summer should be seasonable, and
we are favored with a long dry fall, they may make
a fair average crop of cotton. A good corn crop is
almost certain as it is.
The Jefferson (Texas) Herald of Saturday 11th
inst., says:—We are gratified to learn that the
prospect of geod crops is flattering in this section.
The recent warm ana favorable weather has crea
ted quite a change in'the appearance of both corn
and cotton. With some exceptions, it is thongbt
the present crop of cotton will be as good as that
of last year.
The Shreveport (La.) Gazette, of Saturday 11th
inßt., says :—The weather since cur last issue has
been highly favorable to the growing crops. The
cotton is now doing finely, though this cannot
remedy the past evil, as many of the planters have
been compelled to turn out some of their laud on
account of the grass. The corn crop promises au
abundant yield.
The Minden (La.)Herald of Saturday 11th inst.,
says : —During the past week portions of the sur
rounding Country have been visited by heavy
rains, and we have had cool weather again. Too
health oi the country is generallyjgood, and crops
as promising as conld be expected.
The Mansfield (La.) Advertiser, of Saturday
11th inst., says:—The rainy and backward spring
in our section, had the effect of retarding the
growth of the crops, and giving an undue ascen
dancy to grass and weeds. But recently we have
enjoyed the fairest and most favorable weather,
and onr planters have succeeded in cleaniug
their fields, and they now look forward with
well founded hopes to a fair and remunerative
crop.
The Washington (Ark.) Telegraph, of the Bth
inst., says -.—The weather, thus far, has been very
unfavorable for planters ; too much rain for the
crops, which as a general thing are backward, and
considerably in the grass.
The Little Rock Gazette, of the 10th inst., says:
—ln the southeast portion of Jackson county, on
Sunday evening, the 22d nit., the wind blew
down the timber, the rain inundated the country,
and the hail finished the work of desolation. It is
said that $30,000 would not repair the damage
sustained in the Point Settlement beyond which
we know nothing, hoping, however, that its vio
lence soon wasted.
The Paulding (Miss.) Clarion, of Saturday 11th
inst. says:—On Thursday evening the clonds be
gan to gather from all quarters, the thunders
gave their unwonted and welcome reverberations,
and the rain poured down in torrents upon the
thirsted earth. It was a glorious storm; the very
lightnings, vivid as they were, seemed to flash
benedictions around. The rain was general, and
this morning many a farmer’s heart is buoyant
with freshened hope, and many a planter’s eye is
brightened, for the God of the harvest hath mani •
tested his kindness.
The Sandersville Georgian, of the 21st instant,
says :
Rain I —Aswepntonr paper to press we have
delightful showers falling, with prospects of more
of tho same sort. So far, it is the best rain we
have had at this place sinco the 26 th day of March.
We hope it has extended through the country.
The Weather and the Crops.— The weather
continues dry, and the country is literally burning
up. Since the 22d of March, there have been but
few showers, and those wero only partial in their
full, some sections not having had a drop of rain
since that time- The crops, of course, are most
unpromising, although good seasons may yet pos
sibly bring out and savo-the cotton crop. Corn is
beyond redemption. That important crop is al
most a total failure. Probably not five bushels to
the acre will bo averaged. We have observed that
on the pine lands corn is larger and suffers less
from the drouth than on the better lands. The fall
of rain on tho Bth, mentioned in our last, was ta
ken advantage of by some to replant, with the
hope of at least making bread. Others are wait
ing for another season to plant the Guinea corn
for stock. How the thing will end, we know not
—but there is now overy prospect of no provision
crop. It ißfortunate for this section that New Or
leans is so nour—otherwise we should anticipate
great suffering, consequent upon this failure. As
it is, supplies can bo obtained at a small advance
on the price at which corn ordinarily sells in this
market. —TaUahaasee Journal, 18(4 inst.
Disunion Gubernatorial Convention. — We
publish to-day the proceedings of this Convention,
which met in Milledgevillc on Wednesday last.
The result of their labors is the nomination of
Herschell V. Johnson, better known throughout
Georgia as the chiof oi the Bullfrog aristocracy.
Mr. Johnson, we are informed, has been devoting
much of his time for the last year or two, to the
study and practice of the science of spiritual mani
festations, vulgarly called “spiritual rappinge,”
and lias, we believe, attained to tolerablo profi
ciency as a “ Medium." In the political campaigns
of ISSO and ’sl, Mr. Johnson was more distin
guished for his bitter, unsparing partisan malig
nity, and oponcd mouthed disunion sentiments,
than for any great statesmanlike qualities. Qc
was once appointed by Gov. Towns to fill out an
unexpired term in the United States Senate. A
singular fatality soemed to direct Gov. Towns,
in noth the pardoning and appointing power, for
he turned most of the worst convicts out of the
Penitentiary and appointed Herschell V. Johnson
Senator. We do not wish to be understood as
classing Mr. Johnson among the criminals and
Penitentiary convicts, we only mean to say that he
made a very poor Senator. We remember that ho
made one speech while in that body, known as the
“spelling book speech,” in whioh he introduces
for the consideration of grave and dignified Sena
tors, the fuble of the old man throwing tutta of
grass at the little boy in the apple tree. The re
mainder of that speech, we believe, was never re
membered by any one.
We have called this the disunion Convention.
“By their fruits shall ye know them.” They have
nominated a rank disnnionist as their candidate
for Govornor. None but apple trees bear apples,
unless there bo engrafted a foreign twig, and we
are prepared to show that this candidate grew up
on a native branoh.
In those trying days of the Ecpublie, when
•very patriot heart trembled lest that government
which was founded by Washington and his revo
lutionary associates, and cemented with the blood
of a seven years’ war, shoidd be ruthlessly torn
down, and the liberty which existed under it
swept down in a wild storm of anarchy and civil
war, where was Mr. Johnson, and what part
was ho playing in the grandjj drama ! Was ho
appealing to his follow citizens to dissuade
them from any hasty and ill-considered action?
Or rather was he not writing and circulating in
cendiary documents in the form of letters, to stir
up the people to unnatural strife? Has he ever
recanted any single item of that political faith ? If
he has, we call for the documents. If he can show
no documents going to prove that ho has given up
any of his disunion sentiments, then he is a dis
unionist still, and we are right when we call the
convention which nominated him, the “ disunion
convention.” — Columbus Enquirer.
Murdeb. —A most unparallellod murder was per
petrated on the 2lßt instant, upon the plantation
of Col. B. H. Brown, near this place, on the child
of the overseer, Mr. James Kirkland. It appears
that in the forenoon of the same day, Mrs. Kirk
land had occasion to chastise a negro girl, about
11 or 12 years of age, who played with the children,
and was a house servant. About 12 o’clock, or
just before, she was heard to say to the little child,
about three and a half years old, “let us go to tho
plum orchard,” which they did. Soon alter a Mr.
Phelps, ot whom tho little boy was very fond, came
in and enquired for him. He was told that ho was
somewhere about tho place. His little sister,
anxious to gratify her brother with the news of Mr.
Phclp’s arrival, asked for him, and was told by
Rose, the girl above mentioned, that he was in
the plum orchard; (about one hundred and fifty
yards from the house.) She ran to the orchard,
where she found the little fellow weltering in his
blood, and in a state of insensibility. She took
him up in her arms, and boro him to the house.
Tho mother, horror stricken and frantic with grief,
accused the negro girl, Rose, of killing her child,
which she denied, but upon examination, it was
found that she had blood upon her clothes, and
was seen afterwards to wash her hands. Mr.
Tbclps then went to the plum orchard, where the
little boy. had been lying, and found a pool of
blood, ai d within a few yards, a plum stick and
lightwood knot, with which he had evidently been
beaten to death—they both had hair and blood on
them. Dr. J. O. Hagood was sent for, but the
little boy lived a very short time after he arrived—
he was struck several blows upon the head, frac
turing his skull. He was said to be an interesting
little fellow—loved by the whole lamily.
A jury of inqest was summoned to appear at the
place, before W. J.Mixson, Coroner, who from all
the circumstances connected with the case, return
ed a verdict that he came to his death, by the felo
nious act of the said girl, Rose.— Barnwell S. C.
Sentinel, 25th inst.
Bailroad Meeting at Bkunswice.— We learn
that the meeting of the stockholders oi the Bruns
wick and Florida Bailroad Company, on tjie 23d
inst., was numerously attended by delegates from
Baker, Thomas, Lowndes, Ware, Clinch, Wayne,
and other counties. The amount of stock sub
scribed is about $1,700,000, of which $1,800,000
was represented. The Georgia subscriptions were
increased daring the meeting SIIO,OOO.
No doubt seems to exist now in regard to the
completion of the work. Nine miles of the track
have been gTaded; and the iron, a heavy T rah,
has been laid upon five miles. The contractors
pledge themselves to have thirty miles of the
road, as far as Satilla river, completed by the Ist
of January.
The planters of Lowndes, Thomas, Clinch and
Baker, we learn, have agreed to grade the road
through their respective counties, and to lake
stock notes in payment for tho work. Twen
ty-four miles of the road were let upon these con
ditions during the past week, a d we are informed
tnat the entire line will be placed under contract
at an early day.
The Canal will be completed in about sixty days.
After which time, the force now employed upon
that work will be transferred to the road.
We understand that the Eeport of the Board
of Directors was very lull and explicit and in
spired the utmost confidence in the minds of the
local stockholders. We have conversed with some
of these gentlemen, who, previous to this meeting,
entertained serious doubts in regard to the capaci
ty of the Company; but who are now satisfied
that the road will be built.— Savannah Courier.
As Imposter. —The Rev Dr.J. F. Minor came
to this eify last June from Montgomery, Ala.
He had just married an amiable young wife, and
was in search of a home. He was, we understand
a regular accredited clergyman in the Methodist
Ohurob, over the signature'of Bishop Andrew. He
preached here repeatedly, and as be bore himself
<iita a true Christian, and he possessed an agree
-.. he readily ingratiated himself into
able atm. ‘racUhg many debts and becom
favor. After com •*- foi Florida,
ing involved he took hn, purpose of
leavine his wife here, with the avo». v. jc,.
returning with some negroes he owned in “
State. He had not been gone however no more
than a month before his wife received a letter from
Mobile, enclosing a ring he had taken from her
and announcing his death.
Through the exertions of the Bev. A. B. Win
field, we learn that means were raised which en
abled Mrs. Minor to return to Alabama, where
she now lives.
This heartless villain we have been informed is
not dead. Hewaaseenby one of our citizens a
few weeks ago in Philadelphia in company with
another lady, no donbt another victim of his de
ception.
Dr. Minor has hia left hand off just above the
wrist, is tall and slim and quite delicate, and well
calculated to deceive.— {Utile Bock {Ark.) True
Democrat.
Alabama and Florence Bailroad.— The City
Council of Montgomery has subscribed $500,000
to the Pensacola road, provided a like amount
shall be subscribed by responsible persons in
Alabama, and the real estate holders in the city
shall ratify the aubecription. We learn froi the
Alabama Journal that the Mobile and West Point
Bailroad Company has subscribed $200,00® and
that private citUtu h»v» lubecribed SBOOJSOO-
Cdurntnu Tm*.
WEEKLY
<%(mirlt & Sentinel
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING JUKE 29, IMS.
The domination.
Movt cordially do we congratulate the Conserva
tive menof Georgia upon the resnltof the labors of
the Convention, the proceedings of which will be
found in this day’s paper. The nomination of the
Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, as their candidate for
Governor, was one most “ fit to be made.” It is
particularly appropriate that they should have as
their standard bearer one so pre-eminently dislin
gnisbe! for his great private worth, his high
intellectual capacity, his sincere and devoted
patriotism, his sagacions statesmanship, and
his liberal and enlightened conservatism—all,
all of which have been so signally illustrated
throughout his whole life, both public and private.
Devoted as are the Conservative men of Georgia
to the Union and Constitution, not less than the
rights of the sovereign States, it will be particular
ly gratifying to each and all of them to elevate to
the first office within their gift, the distinguished
author of the Georgia Platform, the production
of which, if he had never performed another pro
minent act in her history, was quite sufficient to
have classed him among the first men of the State,
and to have rendered his name immortal.
Again, the nomination is most appropriate, be
cause he is one of the acknowledged leaders
of the Conservative men of the State—and the op
position have placed in nomination for the same
office, the Hon. Herschell V. Johnson, a promi
nent leader of the secessionists.
The opportunity is, therefore, directly present
ed to the people of the State, to elect a Conserva
tive or a Secessionist, a radical of the broadest and
boldest cast.
In Mr. Jenkins we have a man whose early man
hood and mature age, has been devoted to the best
and great interests of the State and the develop
ment of her resources, with a singleness of pur
pose, an unfaltering energy, and a power of intel
lect rarely equalled, and, perhaps, never surpassed
by any man in her Legislative councils. Indeed,
there is no important event in the history of the
State, sinco he entered upon public life, with
which his name and power and influence are not
prominently associated, and in which they were
not zealously, and earnestly directed to the pro
motion of the best interest of the State and the
happinessand prosperity of the people.
But why need we descant upon the character
and public services of Charles J. Jenkins, to a
people so familiar witb both, a people who justly
appreciate him and are proud to number him
among Georgia’s brightest jewels. We will not say
more, we could not, in justice to our own feeliDgs
and our convictious of duty, have said less, in pre
senting tho name of such a man for the first office
in the State.
Judge Hill’s Letter.
We yesterday received the following letterfrom
the Hon. E. Y. Hill. When we state that we only
regard those men who hold office or public station
public men, and per contra, a man who devotes
himself to his own private pursuit, whether me
chanic, planter, lawyer or merchant, a private cit
izen, and in private life, it will be perceived that
our notice does him no injustice. However, we
have no objection to let him speak for himself:
LaGranse, June 28,1852.
Ed. Cronicle & Sentinel. — Dear Sir: In a very
short editorial notice of my determination not to
suffer my narao to bo placed before the public for
any office at this time, you say my reason is, that I
wish to retire to private life. Now, I did not in
tend to be so understood, exactly. Perhaps a more
perfect expression of my reasons would have been
that I wished to fall bach on professional life. But
1 indulge the hope that a generous public and nu
merous kind friends will not permit that life to be
very private. They will not offend me by making
it os public os possible, or disturbing its repose at
their own good pleasure.
Iu ordor, therefore, that no one may labor under
a misapprehension, which might redound to my
injury, may I not request you to publish this cor
rection in your very useful and widely circulated
paper ? By so doing you will oblige your old and
constankfriend, Edw. Young Hill.
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Fatal Accident. —W e regret to learn that Pow
ell Calvert, the foreman of Messrs. Finn A Os
mond, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon by
the lallicg of a timber, while engaged in the con
struction of tho Mcßean bridge, on the Waynes
boro’ Railroad. Ho was originally from Chester
county, Pennsylvania, and had been about four
years in Georgia. He was a very worthy man, and
leaves a wife and four children, who were depen
dent upon him for a support.
John Caldwell, of Charleston, has been elected
President of the South Carolina Railroad vice H.
W. Conner, resigned.
Hon. P. W. Tompkins, formerly a member of
Congress, died in San Francisco, on the Bth of
May, after a lingering illness of three months.
Georgia Mammoth Mule. —The great mule,
“Henry Clat,” now on exhibition by Col. Wm.S.
Birge, is certainly the most wonderful animal of
tho kind that we have ever seen. He is a little
over 5 years old, nineteen, and a half hands high ,
finely proportioned, and in all respects a most no-'
ble and gigantic animal. He was raised by John
Howard, of Monroe cO., Ga., and is a credit to his
breeder and the State. The hog, “ Sam Houston,”
and the negro skeleton, “Wade Hamton,” are
also great curiosities in their way; and the whole
exhibition is well worthy of a visit.
Homicide. —Wc learn that Mr. Cuyler, a lawyer,
residing in Adairsville, Cass county, was killed on
Saturday night last at that place or in the vicinity.
The cireumst. nces as we heard them are as fol
lows : During the day Cutler had a quarrel with
a party of four or five persons, after which they
all became intoxicated. Cutler laid down and
went to sleep, when found his head had been
mashed with a large stone.
Five persons had been arrested and were in cus
tody when the cars passed Sunday morning.
Hot Weather. —Yesterday was a real scorcher.
Thermometer, at 8 P. M., in opr “Sanctum,” in the
shade, indicated a fraction over 21 degrees, and
the mercury “rising slowly.” “Oh, for a “ lodge
under the shady aide of an ice berg, till mos
quitos disappear and cool nights return.
Wilmington and Manchester Bailroad. —We
learn, says the Darlington Flag, that obstructions
have several times been discovered on the track of
this road in this District, evidently laid there ny
some malicious person or persons for the purpose
of throwing off the train. We hope the villain
may be found out, and receive the punishment he
so richly deserves. A reward ol SSOO, wc under
stand, has been offered for the detection of the
guilty persen.
W omen or Kenttcxy. —The Bowling Green, Ky.,
Standard, says a difficulty occurred in that county
on the 3rd instant, between Mrs. Marion Bunch,
and Miss Brown in which the latter was killed.—
The particulars which led to this horrible tragedy
are unknown, or the means by which it was ef
fected. A sister of Miss Brown, in attempting to
appease the affray, received several severe wounda
which it is feared will prove fatal.
The Indiana Black Laws have caused the re
moval of laige numbers of colored persons from
that State, as the penalties incurred by residence
there are quite severe. The Cincinnati Commer
cial says that it is scarcely possible to pass along
the river front of that city without observing one
or more colored families from the Hoosier State.
They appear to be persons of some property, hav
ing vT ~h fine stocks of horses, mules and
milch cows.
Broke JaiL.-The Edgefield Advertiser mention*
that on Monday night last two prisoners, Williams
and New, effected their escape from their new
Jail. The crime of the former was burglary—of
the latter, negro stealing. A writer in th*t paper
says it was from the “ very culpable neglect of the
jailor.”
"a British naturalist has calculated the fiight of
the elder duck as equal to ninety miles an hour.
A writer in the North British Beview thinks that
this progression must, in the estimate of this
bird, render travelling express by railway train a
most unwarrantable waste of time.
The ship Sterling, Capt. Henderson, which ar
rived at Savannah, Monday, from Cardiff, Wales,
has TOO ton* Don for the August*4 Waynesboro 1
BftUittd'
' The Harmontooa Democracy.
The evidences that the .'e-union of the Seces
sion and Union wings of the Democracy, are Dot
likely to be so cordial and harmonious sa was
fondly anticipated by them, are daily increasing
and multiplying. There are various causes for
this, which we will not pretend to enumerate,
bnt rather content outsell with supplying a small
portion of the evidence, most of which for the
present, we oollect from the Marietta Un ton and
Rome Courier, both of whioh journals are edited
by Democrats. These extracts speak a language
not to be mistaken or misunderstood. Here they
are:
The Executive Appointments.—We cannot be
lieve that Gen. Pierce has adhered to one, at least,
of the declarations of his Inaugural. He pro
claimed himself the President of the masses and
declared that he wculd recognize the claims of no
party. Some how, it has happened, that the free
soilers and disnuioniats are getting all the appoint
ments —they being manifestly regarded as tho great
wings of the democratic party. The rest oi the
country—men who live outside of freesoil or seces
sion sympathy are either removed or unrecog
nized.
Tneso facts have induced us to inquire “ what
constitutes a Democrat ?” in the days ot Jackson
anyone who supported Union principles against
the doctrine of uuiification and secession was
recognized and accredited by that old Republican
hero. Not so how. Union principles now are
nothing. In the South the only question which
the President appears to ask, upon the application
of any one for office, is, was he a disunionist or a
Southern Rights man in 1650 1 It so “he can
come in.” Take an illustration, the appointment
of Mr. Smyth as P. M. at Augusta. Mr. S. had,
prior to 1850 been long known to the people of
Georgia as an ultra Whig. He was for Harrison,
for Clay, for Taylor, and against the democratic
nominees and party. What did he do in 1850
aud 1851, which conveited this gentleman into a
democrat whose claims are more readily recog
nized than are these of any U nion democrat of un
devialiug consistency in ail the mutations of par
ty ? He became in 1850 a supporter qf the Nash
ville Convention—an enemy of the Compromise—a
friend of disunion, and this has gained him at
Washington precedence ae a democrat —this has
obliterated, every trace of his former character as
a whig.
In the South this seems to be the test of de
mocracy. No one is admitted into Ml commu
nion who did not act with the disunionistß—and
no one is excluded, even if he has warred all his life
against the democratic party—if in 1850 he quit
the whig party and became a disunionist.
The poficy is strangely in contrast with the
principles ot the Inaugural and is manifestly bad
policy. But, our objeot is not to inveigh against
it, but simply to give our readers to understand
what in this, our day, constitues an unquestioned
democrat. There are whigs all over the State—
there are whigs in this county— who are democrats
only by virtue of their having been disunionists
who are regarded and received and honored as
democrats, while men who have never departed
for a long series of years, from the creed of the
immortal Jackson, are frequently denounced as
whigs—and amusing as it may appear, these new
fledged whig—disunion—democrats, echo the de
nunciation and declare the very name of whig
odius. We have in our mind’s eye, some of these
gentlemen who have been whigs all their lives—
who will tell you that the compromise is a settled
question, and who are now democrats on the old
issues —issues that tho whole country admits, and
Gen. Pierce recognizes, as beyond the power of
resurrection. Is it surprising that honest men
should sometimes become disgusted with poli
ticians ?
There were two parties whose measures in 1850
threatened a dissolution of the Union. The free
soil party urged the passage of the Wilmot Proviso
with reference to the acquisition* from Mexico.
The object was defeated and the Union saved by
the passage of the compromise. The Southern
Rights party urged resistance, “even to a dissolu
tion of the Union” to the Compromise. In both
instances the conservative men of the Union saved
the country from dissolution and civil war. And
yet, monstrous as it may appear, a President,
elected by virtue of the Union sentiment, has done
all that he could do to give to the friends of free
soil and disunion tho ascendency in their respec
tive sections. What he proposes to accomplish by
this we cannot divine. The probable result would
seem to be a fiercer collissiou than that so recently
witnessed.— Marietta Union.
The Southern Rights nomination for Governor.
We have little to add to the opinions expressed by
the Savannah Republican, which we endorse, with
reference to Judge Johnson. He is what we have
heretofore represented him to be, a man of superfi
cial intellect and a mere trading politician. These
are disqualifications—but our greatest objection to
him is that he is now put forward as the represen
tative ot the S. R. organization of Georgia. That or
ganization is preserved, perhaps, slightly strength
ened. It has no where—in no county or district
of the State, been dissolved. The men who con
trolled it, control it still, without haviDg recanted
a single principle upon which it is founds I. We
would just give Jive cents to know whether Judge
Jackson, now thinks tho S. R. organization has
been preserved and whether he feels that he was
failty of treachery to the Union party and of sacri
cing his principles l
The Savannah Georgian romarks that the Union
Doinocrats is the Convention voted for Johnson.
There were not more than a. dozen, perhaps, in
the Convention—not as many, as there wereS. R.
whigs. Gov. Cobb doubtless used his influence for
Johnson; but if we are rigntfully informed, it was
lor a oon-si-de-ration, which accounts sufficiently,
perhaps, for so strange a circumstance.— Union.
The Fraud Substannially Acknoledqed.— Mr.
Dent is cut in a letter to the President of the late
Caucus at Newuan, suggesting that various rumors
are afloat that his nomination was fraudulently ob
tained. He says if this is so, be does not wish to
occupy his present position as a candidate and
authorizes the President to re-assemble the Con
vention in order to have his nomination endorsed
or reversed.
’the President, Maj. J. Welch, replies, substan
tially, that he has no authority to re-assemble the
Convention. He then alludes to the mode of bal
loting in the Convention —an allusion which seems
to sustain the charges of foul play heretofore made,
aud concludes with the announcement, that on the
last ballot '■'■too many totes were polled" —that is to
say on the ballot which nominated Mr. Dont more
voteß were polled by some 80 or 40 than belonged
to the Convention, Major Welch says that he has
no doubt this was an accidental error ; but we must
ascribe that expression rather more to his good na
ture (as we are confident ho must feel sorry for
Dent,) than to the facts of the caso. That the
whole concern was a most unmitigated fraud and
that it will bo received by the pcoploasacontemti
ble humbug, we entertain no doubt.— Union.
The Nominee. —The “agony isover,” and Judge
H. V. Johnson is presented by the Southern
Rights, alias Domocratio party, as their candidate
for Governor, Judge Warner, the only Union De
mocrat whoso claims wero urged, was distanced
on the first beat; aud so little chance was there
for Lumpkin, that his friends did not propose his
name. How exceedingly complimentary is this
state of facts to those Union Democrats who have
lately become enamored of Southern Bights lead
ers and who have so opportunely discovered a host
of beauties in the Calhoun creed.
We will not deny that Judgo Johnson is agontlo
man of more than average ability, notwithstanding
*his proneness to indulge in school boy declamation
and common place quotations. But we must be
allowed to question his statesmanship as well as
his intellectual fltneßS for the position of Governor
of Georgia. Georgia is now the Empire State
lier interests vast and complicated—and we need
something far above mediocrity to guide the helm
of the Ship of State.
Os course we shall hear a great deal about the
nominee’s unswerving devotion to Democracy—
yet, if we mistake not, he was a ringleader of the
sect called Fire-eaters, until it ocoured to him that
by an affected display of liberality to the Union
Democrats he might achieve a commanding posi
tion with both wings. His, however, was a vaulting
ambition that overleaped itself and has left him in
bad odor with both Hia old and new associates.
It is likewise alleged (we know not with what
truth,) that he has a mortal aversion to spirits; bat
by a singular contradiction is a partial, perhaps a
full, convert to the inanities of modern spiritual
ism. As these latter-day saints discard the old
fashioned Bible, we suppose that if Johnson is
elected he will have to be sworn on a copy of
Andrew Jackson Davis’ Book of Eevelations.
Whatever Judge Johnson’s views on spiritual
questions may be, we are quite sure that they pro
ceed from no disrespect for religion. He is gener
ally reputed to be a Christian gentleman, and it
must be regretted that he has given currency to
this unhallowed delusion by any thing which he
may have said or done.
As respects his political tenets wo are less at a
loss. He is an avowed Southern Bights Democrat,
and daring the memorable Compromise Campaign
was regarded as the head and front of the Nash
ville faction. Tho Virginia and Kentucky Beao
lutions are his political guide-book and the Con
stitution itself he esteems incomplete without the
accompaniment of that famous oommentarv.—
We are not apprised that he ever actually enrolled
in the Coffin Begiment, but we do know that he
was its principal recruiting officer, and that he was
unsparing and fiercely vindictive in his abuse of
Union men. For all of which he is to be reward
ed with the suffrages of Union Demoorats.
We have not the leisure nor the inclination to
say more of the nominee in our present issue, but
hereafter we shall furnish our readers with a bird’s
eye view of his Senatorial career, and other mat
ters appertaining to his political history.— Courier.
Facts for Union Democrats.— H. V. Johnson,
the candidate for Governor, is a Fire-eater—Da
vid J. Bailey, the nominee for Congress in the Brd
.iistrict, is a Fire-eater. W. B. W. Deqt, the
nominee for Congress in the 4th District, is a fire
eater. James L. Seward, the nominee in the
Ist Congressional District is a Fire-eater. Tho
Fire eaters in the 2nd Congressional District aro
in full pursuit of Hon. James Johußon, (a Union
Democrat,) und will vote against him to a man.—
The prospect is that a full team of Salamander
Siliticians will be hitched in the car of so called
emocracy. This looks likoequality—inahornl
— Courier.
Voting Democrats. —The proscription of Mur
phy, in the 4th Congressional District—the oppo
sition to James Johnson in the Second—and the
nomination of a high-mettled Secessionist for
Governor, leave *he Preachers of Harmony no pre
text for boring the public any longer with their
baby-talk about forbearance and mutual forgive
ness. The deceiver is finally unmasked—his sil
ver veil torn off, revealing to the gaze the hideous
features of Disunionism. Events of an hour’s age
teach us that Union Democrats who enter the
Southern Bights organization must forego the
hope of promotion. Admirable fellowship, in
effable equality ! what wretch so UDgrateful as to
find fault with such an arrangement.
But one privelego is conceded to Union men,
and that is the glorious privilege of toting for
those who heartily despise their servility whilst
they pretend to be kindly affectioned to an inore
dible degree.
Oh, for a forty parson-power
To chauot thy praise, Hypocrisy.’
And yet there are a few well-meaniDg creatures
who obstinately shut their eyes to these sober
truths, and persist in reiterating the stale non
sense, “Let bye-gones be bye-gones.’’
What a spectacle it will be to behold Union De
mocrats marching to the polls under the Captaincy
of a Southern Bights leader aDd casting their bal
lots for Johson 1 It looks manly and dignified—
and then too, it is so bewiobingly consistent.—
Poor fellows they dare not murrner at the yoke,.
although it sorely chafes their bowed necks. All
their degradation is more than compensated in be
ing permitted to call themselves Democrats by the
men whom they have heretofore denounced as
heretics and disorganizers. They belong to a new
class which may ds appropriately denominated
Voting Democrat*.—Courier.
The following paragraph from the Savannah
Courier affords additional evidence :
Democratic Meeting. —A portion of the Demo
cratic party assembled in this city last night for
the purpose of ratifying the recent nominations.—
The nomination of Judge Johnson was unani
mously confirmed. The recommendation of Col.
Seward, however was strenuously opposed upon
the ground that the candidate was an old deter- 1
mined aDd uncompromising Whig who had not
given sufficient evidence of his conversion to the
true Democratic faith—and that he had neither the i
ability nor standing necessary to qualify him to 1
represent the Democracy of the District. Upon ■
this resolution we are informed no action was ta
ken. We made all necessary efforts to obtain the 1
proceeding* of the meeting but were unable to I
procure them in time tar this issue.
At Greenwood Cemetery, New York, eighteen
interment* take piece duly; end passing the gate
way, from morning till night, is a nearly unbroken
line of funeral processions, Paring a small por
tion of the year the daily number of interments
reaches twenty-fire or thirty. The total number of
interments since its first organization to the pre
sent time, is twenty-six thousand four hundred
and seventy. The first interment took pise* in
•tptaaber, IMS.
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I'olon Candidate lor UoverMF.
We are highly gratified, says the Savannah Re
publican, to announce to our readers that the
Union State Convention, at Milledgeville, has
nominated for Governor of Georgia, one of her
most distinguished sons, the Hon. Charles J.
Jenkins, ot Augusta. We have no doubt but
that this nomination will reoeive the hearty ao
claim of every patriot of Georgia, and at tho same
time, strike terror and dismay into the ranks of
our opponents.
As a man Mr. Jenkins’ amiable, social, and mor
al qoalties have strewn his pathway with the flow
ers of friendship and peace; as a lawyer few can
boast of being his equal; ss a statesman, though
modest and retiring, he posserßea correct and com
prehensive views of the theory and practical opera
tions of government—especially of our form of go
vernment—and as a politician and patriot, there is
no man more deserving the confidence of the peo
ple, or who will discharge the executive duties of
the government, with greater ability or fidelity
than Charles J. Jenkins.
Mr. Jenkins is well known to the people of
Georgia. He has frequently served the people of
Richmond county in our State Legislature, where
his abiltieß as a legislator gave him influence and
power. He was at several consecutive sessions of
the Legislature elected Speaker of the House, and
be always discharged his duties with dignity and
impaitiality. He was offered a seat in President
Fillmore’s Cabinet, as Secretary of the Interior,
but this office he declined. But his most distin
guished service to the people aud the country, was
rendered in the Georgia Convention of 1850. It is
known to the people, that the oelobrated report
and resolutions, adopted by that Convention, and
familiarly and appropriately known as the “Georgia
Platform” was prepared by Mr. Jenkins. In those
stormy days when fanaticism at the North and
ultraism at the South, were shaking the very
foundations of the Goverument and threatening
it with destruction—it was then, that Mr. Jenkins
put forth his intelleotual strength and illumined
the darkness of error, by roaring a beaoon-light to
guide us away from the rocks and breakers whioh
threatened us with ruin and disgrace. He it was
who constructed tho “ Georgia Patform,” and the
people have done wisely, in placing him upon it,
where he will nobly stand in defeneeof its princi
ples aud the people’s rights.
With such a leader wo have nothing to fear.
His name is a tower of strength to our osubc, and
we call upon the conservative men of all parties,
to rally around the standard of Hon. Charles J
J ENKINS.
No Whig can certainly hesitate between Jenkins
and Johnson —nor can any honest Union Demo
crat. Then let us put our shoulders to the wheel,
and the day is ours. We desire not now to con
sult tho “Modiums” to know who is to be our
next Governor, and the Southern Rights candi
date had as well hang his harp on the willowß and
cease his “ rapping” at the door of the Exooutive
Mansion. The “ spirits” have “ turned the tables”
on him.
Among the companies recently started in Lon
don, is one termed the “ Eleotric Power and Color
Company.” For some time after the stock had
been taken up, few had any idea as to tho preoise
objects and nature of the oompany, but it now ap
pears that they have purchased some three or four
patents of a most valuable nature iu whioh eleo
tricity is used as the agent for light and ooloring.
Their first sole of a right was made a few weeks
since to tho Citizen Steamship Company, whOBO
boats ply on the Thames. One of theßO was fit
ted with one of the Company’s Electrio Lamps
and Parabolic Reflectors on each paddle-box, and
at 9 P. M. started from London Bridge for Graves
end. The night was dark as Erebus, but no soon
er were the lamps put in ordor than both sides of
the river were illuminated up as though by magic.
So intensely vivid and powerful was the light that
the sma lest object on the water and on shore
could bo discerned within a circle of at least a
quarter of a mile. The light is ssid to be vory
cheap, and will undoubtedly soon oome into gene
ral use. ,
The Cincinnati Railroad Record says There
are now 2400 workmen engaged on tho Central
Road between Zanesville and Wheeling, and 1000
more aro needed. Thero is plenty of work, prompt
pay, high prices, and a healthy country.
This division of the road is to be finished and in
operation in twelve months from this time. It will
be, in fact, a prolongation of tho Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad into the heart of central Ohio, forming
connections with theextensive raildroad system of
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, presenting a short, di
rect and speedy route between Baltimore and Cin
cinnati.
The Portland Advertiser explains how it hap
pened that the splendid ohaise, built as a present
to Gen. Pierce, from his friends in Portland, oame
to be given to Col. Strickland. The ohaise, un
fortunately, was not completed till after the offices
had been distributed, whereupon the zeal of the
givers so much cooled, that it was put into a store
instead of boing sent to Washington. Finally it
was given to Col. Strickland, who was a disap
pointed applicant for tho Bangor Colloetorship.
What a falling off! intended for the President of
the United States, and given to a rejected office
seeker.
An Xmerioan Yaoht Abroad. —The beautiful
yacht Silvie, of 105 tons burthen, ownod by Lewis
A. Depeau, Esq., of Looast Island, Weatohester,
sailed from tho harbor of New Rochelle, on Satur
day last, for England, under the command of
Captain Comstock, for the purpose of contending
for the prize at the yacht race off Cowes, on Tues
day, the 2nd of August next. The Silvie was
built by Mr. George Stoers, tho builder of tho
America. It is confidently stated that the Silvie
is the fleetest sailer of tho two, and on that account
her succoss in coming off the viotor is sanguinely
expected. So sayß the New Rochelle News.
A number of veterans celebrated at Philadel
phia, on the 18th inst., the anniversary of tho de
claration of the war with England, in June, 1812.
They adopted resolutions rocommending the sur
vivors of the war of 1812, annually hereafter, in
every State, to celebrate the 18lh day of June as a
general jubilee, and providing for the call of a con
vention of all who served in the war of 1812, to be
held in the city of Philadelphia on the Bth of Jan
uary, 1854, to be composed of delegates from the
several States, to deoide upon such measures as
they shal I deem expedient, for reviewing and keep
ing alive the records of their past history, and do
ing justice to those who may have claims upon our
common country.
The Celestials on Horseback.— Tho Alta Cali
fornia says :—“There is no better fun than to see
a Celestial on horseback, especially if the animal is
in any way vicious or refractory. Upon two or
three oocasions we have noticed them in that par
ticular fix, though it was impossible not to sympa
thize with them in their terrible and unpleasant
situation. Now, and then one, in taking a morn
ing ride, or turning out upon a public occasion,
mounts a sprited animal, and never for a moment
thinks of navigating by the reins. They take a
death grip with both hands on the pommel of the
saddle, and sit and shout aloud in an unknown
tongue, while the animal uses his own pleasurs as
to speed and direction of travel.”
The Oswego Times speaks of the arrival of a
train from the West, on the New York and Erie
Railroad, which it calls tho train of the season.
This train was made up of seventy-five oars,
drawn by one engine. Its entire length was 2182
feet—Freight 847,181 feet of boards, weighing
750 tons. The freight bill upon this cargo amounts
to the niee little sum of $8,888.88.
They made the run from Corning to Oswego,
55 miles, In 5 hours and 20 minutes. For a good
sharo of the way, the speed was at the rate of 20
miles an hour.
Ctßious Cass. —A somewhat curious case has
lately been decided in the U. 6. Pension office. In
1646 Commodore Crane, at the head of one of tho
Naval Bureaux, took his own life while suffering
under an undoubted attaok of insanity. His widow
claimed a pension on the grounds that tho occa
sional fits of insanity, and in tho last of which he
had perished, were oauaed by diseases contracted
by exposure while employed in the line of his
duty. The Commissioner of Pensions deoided
against the claim, but he has been overruled, and
the window is entered upon the pension roll us
entitled to SBOO from the date ot the Commodore’s
death.
The American Baptist publication Society pub
lished during the last year 1790 copies of the new
issues; of older issues, 858,700; making the total
number of publications for the year 482,700. These
publications contained 4,508,000 ootavo pages; 8,-
705,000 duodecimo; 15,288.00018 mo.; 160,00082 mo.;
1,072,000 48m0.; making a total issue of 19,678,800
pages. Nearly 8,000,000 pages of tracts were also
printed and distributed during the year.
The North Carolina Company’s copper mine
proves highly productive. In but one day last
week, ot twelve hours working, a quantity of ore
containing 80 per cent, of metal, valued at |B,OOO,
was taken out by a few miners working on the
engine shaft. One hundred men are now at work
—a force sufficient with the new machinery, to
bring to the surface 50 tons of ore per day. With
only a email part of the force, tha company obtain
ed 6to 8 tons of ore per day. This small quantity
Is sufficient for annual dividend of 50 per cent.,
besides paying for machinery, and without calling
on the stockholders.
The Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs has
addressed a circular to the representatives at for
eign courts, in which he declares formally that the
meeting of Sovereign Princes at Vienna had
nothing whatever to do with politics.
The Boston Post says “ Naomi, the daughter of
Enoch, was 580 years old when she was married.
Courage ladies 1”
The Paris correspondent of the New York Cou
rier desEtats Unis, says: “ The numerous passers
by Nenvede-Bivola-street, stop near the Hotel de
Ville, to admire anew and most magnificent man
sion, which has cost more than half a million of
francs, and which has been built for a man who
was formerly a porter in the market.”
The New York Commercial Advertiser supposes
that the charge of admission to the Crystal Palace
will be fifty oents during the rush of the first few
weeks and that it wiU subsequently be reduoed to
twenty-five cents. One of the conditions upon
which the New York corporation granted the lease
of Beaervolr square to the association for five
years was that no single entrance fee should ex
ceed flftyoaftte.
Labor under Difficulties.—“ Fallow-citizens,” I
says the New York Sunday Timas, and as the re
marks are most peculiarly appropriate at our pre
sent writing, we oordially adopt them—“ Fellow
citizens—as you sprawl on yonr sofa this pleasant
afternoon, or make an inverted Zof yourself by
propping yonr chair-baok agaiust the wall, yon
probably think it must be easy to write what you
find it easy to read. Did yon ever plough, hoe
oorn, or plant cabbages! We have been engaged
in all these rural exeroises, and have also swung
the scythe snd cradle under the hot sun of the
South; and we solemnly declare that the phyßioel
labois aforesaid are mere recreations in compari
son with the exhausting toil of writing for the
press in a close office with a southwestern aspect,
when the thermometer is in the neighborhood of
the nineties. The vigorous ideas that should find
their way by electric telegraph from the brain to
the pen, liquify on the road and ooze ont in big
globules of perspiration, while the more delicate
fancies evaporate by tho ‘ insensible ’ process. Ex
cuse, therefore, the short-oomings of genius under
the sudoriflo influence of the summer solstice; for
be assured that a vertical sun, however it may dul
cify and mature cherries, plums, and other fruitful
‘ plumpitudes,’ is by no means favorable to the
development of intellectual products."
At the sitting of the London Astronomical So
ciety, extracts were read of a letter to Sir John
Hemchel, from the Reverend Mr. Stoddard, an
American missionary versed in astronomy. The
letter is dated Oroomiah, Persia, Ootober 29,1852.
Mr. Stoddard beginß with an acoount of the sur
prising distinctness with whiob distant objects are
seen in Persia. The snowy peak of Arrarat—he
relates—is just as bright and beautiful when two
hundred miles distant, as when we stand near its
base. Though accustomed to watch the Heavens
in different parts of the world, he had never seen
anything like the splendor of a Persian summer
evening. “ Were it not for the interference of the
moon, we should have seventy-fivo nights in three
summer months, superior for the purpose of ob
servation to tho very finest nights whioh favor the
astronomer in the New World.” He distinguish
ed tho satellites of Jupiter and Saturn with tho
unassisted eye; deemed altogether telesoopic be
jects before.
A conference will be held in Munich this month,
with a view to put an end to the indesorihable
oonfnsion caused by the variety of coins ourrent in
Germany. The two principal questions to be con
sidered are these : In the Southern States of Ger
many they count in florins, in the others, in tha
lers ; in Saxony they have adopted the decimal
system, in the other States of Germany, the duo
decimal. The objoot is to make a fusion of those
two systems.
A telegraphic despatch in onroolumns on Tues
day stated that thero was a rumor current of tho
loss o( the U. S. frigate Macedonian. The Navy
Department have had no information on the sub
ject, and they believe the rumor to be unfounded.
The Earl of Ellesmere, it is said, went to Wash
ington upon diplomatic business, with which he
Vas expressly oharged by his government. He
wsb expected to return toNew-York last Saturday
Miss Martha H. Mowry, M. D., of Providenoe.
B. 1., has been eleoted Professor of Obstetrics and
Diseases of Women and Children, in the Female
Medioal College of Pennsylvania.
Later from Venezuela.— By tho arrival of the
barque Venezuela, Capt. Wilson, at Philadelphia,
from Porto Cabella, whioh port she left on the Ist,
we learn that several serious outbreaks had oo
ourred lately in the interior, fomented with a view
of putting down tho present rulers. Business ge
nerally was at a stand, and the produoe of the
oountry scarco and high.
Extravagant.—At one of the New York city ho
tels, a merchant doing business in that oity has
rooms for which he pays |4BO a teeth I His family
consists of five persons.
Sour Spots. —The Rochester American says that
an examination of tho Bun, by Prof. Dewey, of the
University, through his reflecting telescope, dis
olcscd a large number of spots upon its surface.
One of them was 12,000 miles in diameter. An
archipelago of spots was discovered, whioh, if
united, would cover an area 40,000 miles long.
Railroad Dividends.— lt is stated that the Board
of Directors of the South Carolina Railroad, at
their late meeting, decided upon declaring a somi
annpal Dividend of (4 a share for the Road, and
$1 for the Bank.
The Hon. Robert Toombs has ordered an en
gine, on the Ericsson prinoiple, for his cotton gin,
in southwestern Georgia.
One of the largest and finest masses of copper
ever seen in the world, has been shipped from a
Mmcsota mine to the great exhibition. It is a
large square blook, weighing 5,072 lbs. It was out
from a piece weighing about 80 tons! Several
hundred tonß of a similar character, some of them
nearly as heavy, are also to be sent on.
At Boston, on the 18th inst., the thermometer
rose to 90, for the first time since the 22d of July
last. On June 18th of lost year, it roao to 98%
on July 9th to 95; July 10th to 98; July 21st to
91, and on the 22d to 98%. In August its great
est altitude was 87, and in September 88%.
The Sugar Planters of Lousiana havo taken
mesures to prevent the introduction of sugar into
thf United States nnder the name of conoentratod
molasses. It isallegedlt has been done at St. Louis
to avoid the payment of duties on sugar.
Wo see It stated that Dr. Newman is deop in
stndy with the Dominicans, and intends found
an order of Roman missionaries for converting
England.
- Gen. Jackson, when President, refused to re
move Gen. Solomon Van Bensselaer from the
Alban; Postoffloe, because he had been wounded
in his country’s service, and had an unoxtraoted
ball in his body. A wag speaking of this, writes
that Jackson made up his official programme as
the foreman of a newspaper does his dally^Torm—
leaded articles first.
Declination.— We learn from the Georgian of
Sunday morning, that the Hon. J. W. Jackson
has withdrawn his name from before the people as
theoandidate for the Judgeship of the Superior
Courts ofthe Eastern Cironit.
In the contemplated celebration of the Fourth
of July at Springfield, Massachusetts, it is said
that a cavalcade of yonng ladies and gentlemen
will bo formed, drossed in old continental style,
with oocked hats, broad flaps, tights, kneebuokles,
silk stockings, short waists, powdered hair, pil
lions, Ac.
The Nashvillo and Chattanooga Bail Boad Com
pany have been subjected to $5,000 damages for
breaking the leg of a passenger named Massino.
The counsel for the plaintiff plead that the acci
dent was the result of the negligence of the engi
neer, and the Juty’s verdict seems to have been
renderod accordingly.
They had a oalf at Chicago, a few days since
possessed of such financial hankerings, that it
swallowed a pocket-book containing SBOO in bank
notes. The greedy customer was soon after killed,
and upon opening his stomaoh the bills were found
partly digested, but $450 was recovered.
The German papers give an account of an Aus*
trian lady who is so charged with electrioity that
sparks are constantly giving out at her finger ends.
It is seldom a lady is found sending sparks away
from her, though it Is a common attribute of the
sex to attraot sparks, and even to twirl them
around the finger with the utmost ease. We sus
pect that the accounts in the German paper is, like
the electric lady herself, a little overcharged.
Oub Bailroad.— The Anderson, (8. C.,) Advo
eale, of tbo 42nd instant,says:—We understand
that freight will be conveyed on the cars up to
within three hundred yards of the depot at this
place, on this (Tuesday) evening. If iron could
have been had in time, the passenger train might
also have come up to the depot this evening. The
cars will run np regularly every day to the Ander
son depot before another nnmber of our paper
aball be issued.
The entire amount of gold taken from the seve
. ral Australian mines in 1852, was 4,175,247 ounces,
r which at £8 19a per ounce* is equal to £14,188,864,
I or about $70,000,000. “ With such mines of un
> counted wealth at our command,” says an Austra
lian paper, “ what might we not become if our en
; ergy, intelligence and public spirit equalled our
l riohes*”
The U. 8. mail eteamsbip Marion, Capt. Berry,
arrived at her wharf, at New-York, from Charles
, ton, at 10 o’clock on Monday night.
Th* Dardanelles.— The European Times says
1 let the Russians occupy the Dardanelles if they
dare. If they do, they must be prepared to stand
the shock of the united strength of Great Britain
and France, and such a violation of the rights of
nations must involve all Europe in a general war.
Anniversary o» th* Battl* Fort Mobltri*.—
The anniversary of the Battle of Fort Moultrie
will be duly oelebrated on the 28th inst., at Sulli
van’s Island. An oration will be delivered on the
occasion by W.Gilmore Sims, Esq.
Charles Loosey, Esq., the acting Consul-Gene
ral for Austria, has been appointed by his Govern
ment as Commissioner to the New York am
bition. Austria was among the first to introduce
the American plan of locomotives, which is now
universally in use on all the railways on the conti
nent of Europe. A steamboat built at New York,
has also been sent oat to the Danube.
Quio* Travillih®— One can go from Chicago
to New York now in two days, and from New
York te St. Louis in about three. Leaving Chi
gago at 9 o’clock P. M., one oan reaoh New York
in 48 honrs, with scarcely a possibility of failure,
and with very little fatigue. This is done via the
Lakes and the New York and Erie or by the Cen
tral line from Buffalo.
A Deputy Sheriff in Springfield, Masaachnsetts,
recently levied an attachment on a traveling show
that exhibited there, and the following was copied
from his returns“ By virtue of a writ, I this day
attached seven horses, three wagons, one gnzzly 1
bear, one Christ and twelve Apostles, one tent
with fixtures, and a lot of animals called the ‘ Hap
py Tamil/."'
later frinu Havana
By the arrival of tliu Stv .ui.r I Abel at Charles
ton, in fifty two hour*, running lime, (the'shortest
passage ever made,) from Hi vane, we I avo dutos
from the latter to the 22d inst..
Among the list of Consignees we observe the
namo of W. S. & T. H. RodeutS, of Augusta.
From the Courier wo gather tho following items
of intelligence:
We learn by this arrival that the brig Adda,
t-apt. Westendorff, on hor pataca from th * i • » t
to Havana on of lfith lust., fell in with the e ! r I>.
„ Clinch, Capt. Watta, in tho gulf stream, buWeoit
Havana and Matanzsa, from Kavj B»v. I" end
North—all hands sick, and tho Ensign Union
•vTVi n wo " t ? 10 5» s ‘d«. and on consultation
with the Capt. of tho D.L. Clinch, the latter was
taken into Havana at hie request, where she arrived
eafelv. The amount of salvage, wo understand,
wiU be settled by arbitration. 6ur fellow-citizen
Capt. Westendortl, deserves great credit for his
conduct on this occasion.
Havana, June 22.—During the few days that
havo elapsed smee my lost few lines, we havo heed
deluged with rain, which circumstance will cause
my report to bo more barren than usual, for wet
weather plays tho deuce with the news gleaner
Tho nrrival of tho Isabel, with some IT. 8 troops TP
has caused sonio talk, and the alaeritj which the
President has shown in this uffair with Mexico has
created considerable surprise, and it is expected
that he will boa regulur etui, viJi, t-ici, Vort of
character.
1 saw some two hundred men disembarked irom
a vessel from Spain for our garrison, and ccituitily
I never have seen a more pitiful act of recruits. It
may have been in consequence of the hardship of
tho voyage, but a ten years’ residence within the
tropics could not givo them a more cnletbli d up
peuranco. In height they were all about 6 feet 5
inches or less, and very narrow across tho chest,
with little iron in their countenances.
Two Prussian frigates nppoared off our port a
sow days since, on board of one of which Vitro
was a Prince. They did not cubr, as the Pros
sian Consol sent off a nolo giving iiilorinutlon that
tho yellow fever and cholera j r. vailing in thu city
would make it imprudent to come in.
It is reported that the pay of tho army is to
be reduced, if this be true, as on all such occa
sions, it will not bo rclishod, Tho pay of both
mon and officers is tittle enough as it is, and 1 can
not ooncoivo how they will be able to manage
upon a reduction of pay. Tho nows brought
from England in relation to tho slave trade, has
created a great stir, ami somo slave trader or
traders have been arrested, hut tho knowing ones
wink and smile. What can they mean? Wo
should be hi ppy to soo tho h!«vo trade put down,
as only a few speculators ure tho roul gainers by it.
Sovoral steamers and roiling vessels of war go
out to-morrow, on n oruise, with the Admiral on
board tho steamor Isabel il.
Tho place is becoming sickly. Crowds are still
going to the United States, among tlm passengers
by the Isabel, is Brigadier General Apadoca, a
very good man, lato Colonel of the Regiment of
Naples. His father was Viceroy of Mexico, and
the General was born in that country. lie is a
gentleman, and as such, is everybody’s country
mend, and sbonld bo received with courtesy.
M. M.
Havana, Juno 18, 1853.— Messrs. Editm i .-—Su
gars at this moment aro dull, and tho prices of
whites and low browns mid muscovado have do
clinod. Tho weather during the lust seven days
has boon exceedingly wet, rain having fallen lor
several hours every day, thus impeding shipments
and business in general. Tho exportation list
shows au exportation this wook of 28,000 boxes,
but much of this was ombarked bolero the had
wouther set in. Thero is no nppearnneo ot a
change at present, therotoro we must expect that
next week will bo worso than this, and that su
gars will renoh their lowest rate. This weather
must put a stop to operations for this eeasou, and
henceforward tho stock will decrease. Wo have
now in this markot about 220,000 boxes, and the
receipts during the last two works have declined.
Tho priuoipal shipments lor this period have been
for Cowes and a market und the llaltio. Some
6,000 boxes havegono to Spain, and abont 7,000 to
the United States, principally to New York.
Prices to-day aro as follows, viz: Assorted Su
gars 5%, 8% a 6% and 9%; Whiles 7% a 9%,
Yellow 6.a7%; Brown 5% a 5%; Cuonruchos 4%
a 5%; Muscovado 4% a 6% riulu per urrobu.
Molasses is not much enquired lor, but tho price
is 2% rials still for 5% gallons.
On the wharf, business has boon dull, tho wo. -
ther having prevented purchasers from coming
forward.
Freight*.— There is still a wont of shipping, ns
there is an immense quantity of Sugar in store.
To the U. B.lßs. Bd. a 15s Bd, for box Sugar 7% a
<« for lihds. and 2% a 3%c. for Molasses.
Exchangee. —On London, little lias been dono,
snd to-day it has fullun to 10% per cent, prom., at
this rate our principal houses have sold, l’uris is
at 1% a 2% discount, uud New York and Boston
1% a l% discount. Now Orleans pur to Ipi r cent
premium. M. M.
Curb for Virulent Bmai,l Pox, Scarlatina and
Measles.— A morohunt and whip ownor of Boston
has had tho following recipo sent to him from
England, where it was furnished by Mr. L. Bur
kin, member of the Koyul College of Surgeons,
who vouches for it as “ a modicino that will effect
a revolution in tho healing art, as regards tho pre
vention and cure, not only of small pox, but also
of measles and scarlatina, however malignant tho
type, in a manner moro efficient and extraordinary
than could ever have been hitherto anticipated
even by the moat ardent philanthropist
On tho first appoaraneo of fover or irritation
ushering in attacks, whether occurring in families
or large communities, the subjoined mode of trout
ment should at once bo entered on: Take ono
f;rain each of powdered foxglove or digitalis, (va
uablo in the ratio of its greenness—tho .dark
should be rejeoted,) and one of sulphate of zinc,
(thiß article is commonly known as white vitriol.)
These should bo rubbed thoroughly in a mortar,
or other convenient vessel, with four or live drops
of water; this done, a noggin (or about four
ounces,) more, with some syrup or sugar, should
bo added. Os this mixture a tublo-spooiilul should
be givon an adult, und two tea spoonfi Is to a
child, every second hour, until all symptoms of
discuse vanish. Thus conducted, convuloseonco,
as if by magic, will result. The rapidity of an
event no auspicious will equally delight dud as
tonish. It may, howovor, bo necessary further
to note, that should the bowels become obstructed
in progress of the disease, an evil by no means
common, then a draebtn of the compound powder
of jalap (formed ot two parts cream of tartar with
one of jalap,) and one grain of tho herb, treated
as above, formed into a pastil with syrup or sitgur,
should bo given to an adult, and half the quantity
to a child. This simple medicine shuts out ovory
other form or article whatevor, as totally unneces
sary, if not pernicious.
The mtthodva medendi of tlteso modicums, capa
ble of effecting results so gigantic, remain now
only to be given, and appear to be us follows:
The herb, by its anti-febrile properties, lays hold
at onoo of tho fover, the prolific sourco of woo,
which it immediately strangles, while tho zinc acts
the part of tonic, instantly restoring tho equili
brium.
Mr. Larkin adds:
No emigrant or government vessel should hore-,
after be allowed to put to soa without u few ponce
worth of these protectors; and it is further ardent
ly hoped thataa the dearest interests of ond com
mon humanity are so vitally involved in this dis
covery, tho press of all countries will give publi
city to this announcement.
At the Metropolitan Hotel, New York, is staying
f one Don Francisco Eschoberria, a millionaire of
t Chilli, who is largely interested in the silvern ities
l of that country, and whose annual income from
- one mine alone is said to bo upwards of half a
million dollars. Ho has somo of tho most mugni
fleent specimens of silver ore perhaps that have
i ever been seen. Tho specimens will be placed in
the World’s Fair for exhibition.
A meeting of gentlemen largely interested in
telegraphs was recently hold in Now York to con
eolidate their interests. We learn that Prof.
Morse sold his entire interest to the lion. Amos
Kendall. The organization and arrangements of
the consolidation will be more perfect and com
prehensive than wc have had. Wiro from almost
overy direction will be connected with tho Crystal
Palace.
Tub Winb Crop op the United States.— ln
1840 tho total wine crop of Phis country was only
124,000 gallons. In 1850 it wa., 221,249 gallons,
being an increaso of almost a hundred percent,
in 10 years. The amount imported last year was
8,180,000 gallons—an amount which our country
will be able to supply for its own consumption in
sixty years, even at tho prosont rate of increasS.
A passenger was ejected from tbo Canandaigua
and Niagara Falls Bailroad ours by tho conductor,
because he refused to pay tho five cent* extra
charged for tickets when thoy are not purchased at
the office. The passenger based his refusal on
the fact that he could not procure a ticket at tho
point of embarkation, on account of the absence
of the agent. Legal proceedings liuvo been com
menced.
To bill Lice on Poultry. —Boil onions several
hours, thicken tho water with meal, and foed to
the poultry.
Says tho Washington correspondent of tho New
Y ork Journal of Commmerco:
“ The end of tho month is looked to with ap
prehension by somo hundreds of Whig clerks, or
rather clerks appointed under Whig administra
tion. It is somewhat remarkable that at a time
when party spirit has little or no exertion any
where in the country tho system of party pro
scription should be carried on in a more scareliing
and thorongb manner than at any other previous
time. The reason is apparent, however. The
outside pressure upon tho Administration for offi
ces, even the smallest, is greater than it ever was
before.”
Prof. Ellet publishes a letter in tho N. Y. Tri
bune warning the people of that city against the
nnhealthful and poisonous effects of tho Croton
water when delivered through lead service pipes.
Fanny Febn.— The Boston Transcnrt, having
declined the New York Mirror's request, in be
half of a curious public, to raiso tho veil from
“Fanny Fern,” tho fair inoognita of tho press,
Cayuga Chief makes tho following poetic revela
tion :
“Fanny Fern is in tho meridian ol womanhood,
of the sanguine nervous temperament; ha* light
brown hair, with a curl in it. I have sometimes
seen a shower of ringlets falling oyer her ue<k.—
Her forehead is broad and high, brim full of poetry,
and the wine of life swells the blue veins until they
look like vines branching on her brow. She has
large, light eyes, a healthy honest, not handsome
face, beautiful bust; in a word, a term of perfect
mould. She walks with an elastic stop, which in
dicates unyielding energy of purpose. She is not an
Amazon quarrelling with Providence became sho
is not a man instead of a woman ; and without
being masculine, she has more courage, more en
ergy, more decision, moro firmness, more enter
prise, more heroism, than half the men.”
From Mexico. —The Brownsville Flag has dates
from Tampioo to the Bth instant, but there is little
of interest in the news. The Copimercio nays:—
The field of extermination and desolation now
oocupied by the Indians is so great that the State
ofSan Luis Potosi is the uctual frontier. Coa
huila is filled with them, and tbo peoplo of the
country are leaving their farms after having fought
nearly alltheir lives against tlio savages, because
they nave so increased in numbers that the natives
are unable to resist them. *
Don Valetin Cruz has issued a proclamation an
nouncing his appointment to the government of
the frontier, and calling upon all good citizens to
lend him their aid and countonanoe. lie says:—.
■‘all the public wants shall bo attended to ; no
useful thought shall be forgotten, and if any mea
sure should result contrary to the interests of the
people, itahali be immediately rescinded.”
A Washington despatch to the New York Cou
rier says—
The decided conduct at Washington, with re
ference to the Fisheries, and the firm, yetcono lia
tory representations of Mr. Maroy, have pioduced
a suspension of proceedings an the part of the
English, against the fishing vessels, in, the dispu
ted waters. There is now a clear prospect of a
ipeedy tad satisfactory adjustment.