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i£|rmiitlc iic Sentinel.
From He Mar,or, (S. C.) Slar.
I.rllrr from Hon. 1.. M. Kelli.
' >' oul I” • ' w tender you ho invitation to
' "i'.',r, » • and partake of a public dinner, as
M i,i „ k,it*h mnreciation we have of your
" mbbld us political character,
..i'JEIi.. defence of Southern right*.
We ta»« the honor to be, with bighoOße.derat.on,
y ' ,U N n p'hillip« d f ' J ° W f, d Z li«nil,«B Henegan.
EH. Wheeler.
Marion. < IX., S C., July 23, •
w..n r St i I’Ht K, V* , August 3, 1857
11 1 h «v* the honor to wknowkdgo
(ifh ■u!t .in Which yon tender me a
your ot ofth® State* Demo
i«- dtnr. r ’ { regret my inability to accept,
fra yot .i ♦ rlieerfuUv coumel witli you, both
;iJ ? vtiiu o i, surround the cause of
3 ‘ Soatl ( 'axd the policy which be should adopt Jin
1 1,;'#.-* ntexigencyot affairs.
' a-v,, 1, rnv inUiTTient are hurrying to a ensie,
iM hion lhe iy>ulh will have to stake her rtgnts and
r vs. ty tipon her own union, and vindicate her exts
- 4( 1. >i*))v Lerown resource®. ,
»I.;. day put when treacherous concession . and
V ‘ * ... ■•r-r'i < c.n r f ay buck fh.iMik ism;
I 'l*'j I • rU* t‘i. "dav'v. ill n'• ver come wh«a nn
. i .-annas to the Union will
V ,T , ' l . or arm v. >;i made bare to«nik«-
W P H ; at tbe North
•1 Vi . S. h are /Jx ut to iac® each other, and
wiaanii Qor r , lUV ulsive iulministra
!"’ . v nartie*, can avoid the conflict or
,l ". the shook. A spurious and lachymoie
it I'lgiit*; • _ j , )US w iH, pauperism aid riot.
!" ' d,vn upon tin pointed spears of
k' Vi* ni ‘ Never before bave they fairly
. .* I-J 'i ni. er, but all artificial obstacles ere
,d| y lii.jiie. niir.tr. ai.dthe contest is beginning
1 earned Hot efui and patriotic men believe that
ti e e-mlt t W 'Uldbo nut gated into rivalry, and
~ willin'due bounds by tbo priiu-inlea of
JJ- kVr.su--Nebraska bill Under its sheltering
; • . believe that the different forma of
'’ Tw.iv North and S ,uth, o.uiii expand and de
i v 'i-ie and 1 1, -t tie machinery of gov
-1 , I enr emoveonw .lhout being broken
•' ,P ~V.r , i,tUd Iromita track. Tlie bill itself
w !• finteded upon tne fact tbat the for.na of society
V i.ri tl * North nr.d at the S«u'h, were diffe
*l i ai d it- provisions were intended to secure ail
!-- 1 •I ' d amicable rivalry between them.
Ti e K< u’e-al Government , as the agent of both, waa
tih doed lo an -i flexible neutrality, while the nbarn
ci'ch struggled to advance their respective
, ,-utrality of the Government, it is be
lieved "would ailow legitimate expansionandde
v.loprnci'' U-- Muring Mr.
■ ; ' '"'Cy *as li,;,m
--i.... |.| . o ut. ". *l. sigh perjured by Goy
. (' . •• betraying their trusts, violated it.
Tl -V we, c Minoved, end i! was well known that
the Adniini-tration did not sympathize with tneir
Ilai'the nreaent. Administration fairly carried out
uroviKiorw <>f IbeKm a-Nebraska Bill ! Hare
OnQth 1 The Brat act wa* tli* appointment oa Wr
" rH , KaurfH of it man of broken fortunea and
J u iod tnttii**; a needy adventurer, who traded up
«»ii tii<- Kin* * n! v *‘l the South, and stole into her con
lidonco, through deceitful professions. Wl.at wait
I : || r i , u t | To debauch K a near from ahegiaireo
he .South' and deliver her into the hands of firee
(lll , 'jo etty that ib.-jeouse ol the South wan
I ... | fJ | v , prr..r to the appointment of Wal-
I i , t.> palliate n aud.hy falsehood. A plain state
,,l of facts will show the truth in t lda particular.
"l "non tie- nn, oge of tin Kansas Nebraska Bill, an
, port wee immediately made by both sections, the
South to ■ Htnl.huh, the North to prohibit slavery.—
TU'iK ism- i |, orbed nil others, and constituted the
, riv . very Contest ill that Territory. Cnm
n inn v e organized at tlie North, and money
l.eely contributed by Legislatures and individuals,
1 o eoloi,:/' Kansas with treosoil incendiaries, and
expels ehn ery from its limi's. Tlie South was roua
|,y the tierce and plunging propapandism of the
Soith ami her sons wentato(-hnnipion her cause in
lie new Territory; aud her money was given to
maintain them r toe struggle. At the very begin
,n g of its Ter itorial exis'enee, Kansas beearne tbo
ilatlle ground, where the lotina of society and labor
North anti South, strove for the mastery. This was
fl„ only question agitated in the Territory. Contest
loneecded contest, end the South won in each;
triumph followed triumph, and each waseinblszon
, d nriott her banner. Three times was Gen. Wbit
,e Id eleep d the Ueh :tate from the Territory, and
.nt h time he was elected as the pro-slavery repre
italic, . A I tge majorityof the members of the
Territorial Is gi lature liave always been pro-slave
ry men suet the constitution, which is expected to
r inse the Territorial career of Kansas, and inaugu
rate lee -a Stab', is absolutely irt the hunds of the
.- one party. Public law makes this convention the
ahr white architect of the constitution of Kansas,
and usage in many similar ra. s, dispenses with the
• nbmissHtit of the constitution to popular ratilica-
Why were companies organized and money lev
, rl at tli- North, hut to make Kansas a free State 1
Why were efforts made at the South to colonize
Kansas, and money given to accomplish this, but
trr oraki- hern slave Slate? livery effort, every
. Haggle, every movemeritnir either side, were trade
la make. Kansas a free or slave State. The Fede
ral Government, as"t.hc agent of birth parties, was
pledged to absolute impartiality between the con
tending par tier'. The South won on every phase of
lire issue, and at every step of the light, and now
when the -eeplre of control is in her very grasp it is
suddenly and rudely tern away from her. How
. mrios it that this change lias so suddenly happened?
flow comes it that the I’truat of the South basso
suddenly glare down l Perjured governors have
In eken faith to blast her cause, and yet she bravely
;•!i nggi, re and wins lire victory against all odds.—
Prostituted patronage insinuates its debauchery,
and yet lire nerve-' of the South are unslnokeiied and
he; energy mu rue lied. 1 ear after year the territo
ry is shaken with revolt, i- stained with blood and
wrapped in halm s and yet the cause of the Soullr
prospers, and her banner is triumphant. The last
mut closing r.t Higgle is nrudo, ami the victory is
I, is' when lot its fruits turn to ashes in her hands,
e.nd despair settles upon her cause. Why this, so
. ridden . hange .' is it uni the nefarious and fraudu
lent iu!m\ r rile n of tho Federal Government?—
There wi re perjured Governors in Kaesas before
Wu-kor ■ I red by 1. -11' 1- ■ .<! I ) T .'Hill V , bill
their crimes were fruitless, because tire Administra
tion war known not to sympathise with or connive
at the fraud and wrong, liow happens it that Walk
,-r’s dishonest intrigues too have not been bootless
i,|-i, r is it not because the Administration is be
lieved to sympathise with and abet the fraud and
wrong.' I-it not because he is believed tube
clothed with the sanctions of the Federal Govern
ment, that he lias succeeded in his foul and subtle
jnaebinr. l .. -! If the cause of the South is lost iu
Kar a, it lout through the base betrayal of a per
■;Ui (i minion o) Federal appointment. If the cause
n! the South h. he! m Kansas, it is lost because a
Federal official, with the tarnished tinsel of office
ar.mud him, has traveled through the Territory as a
v a t aut orator, si r oiling player and political mounte
bank, corrupting and debauching, tricking and bul
ly "g,' w! ere vet licosoii objects could be accomplish
ed by these base appliances.
The hsa of Kansas to the South ts a great loss
And dws it Income the mtuions of party in tlie
losing section to stigmatize these who have shed
their libioil aud given their money b avert this ca
lamity. b> saying that the cause of the South was
l„ng ago hopeless? No—the sacrifices were patriot
ic. and tiro*efforts made to sav. Kansas to tho
.smith wi re ro.ble. Nor were they bootless, until
lire Federal Qo\eminent fraudulently interferred.—
Is it horn.-!, is it manly, is it decent, for the adtnin
i .nation to gather the spoilsol the fraud committed
by ils minion, ami then shtillle off the responsibility?
To do so is rh -pic.able cowardice and vulgar mean
ms-. I will not strike the minion and bend the
kin eto the master. 1 will not have gauull.te for
the fortn r and velvet for the latter.
Willi treachery and fraud tricking us out of Kan
sos, wliat it •ur policy ? 1 answer, that it is the
duty as "‘ll iwtln* policv of the State to take her
etaud by lie Ride of (Georgia and Mississippi.—
These pntrioti* States have promptly rebuked the
dishonesty and intrigut > which have affected its in
Kansas, *ml have put forth a high vindication of
Southern right*. Let us co-operate with them. If
tl • South i <j eted from Kansas, it is done to con
i., ! date and -.lengthen the Freesoil Democracy of
Ihe W'l't!'. The various fragments and factions of
Democracy are all more or less Freosoil, are each
rimtitn’ils “ fog b»! " to prevent conirion, and arc
/ill ready to b< soldered together again by Freesoil
cement. T<* aocompV.sh this foul union, the South
, s to be sacrificed in Kansas. What boots it, wheth
. i the South is sacrifice l through Freesoil Democ
racy or Black Republicanism!
'fhat wi.ich chiefly recommended the Nebraska
to the S. . was a committal of the Democratic
party to a clearer vindication of her rights This
w
«’ Mr Bm ’ annu was nominated by the North
sa ti el i ted by the South. and any act of perfidy on
his part will be doubly damned. Democracy at the
North is hop* lessly prostrated, unless it can be re
vived by some Ireesoil application. In any issue
b< tweet* slavery and abolitionism, the North will
accept the latter , and ns that is the main issue be
fore the people, the Not th eamiet be relied upon.
The only el.a.« e that letnamed, viz : that of allow
ing each section t-> legitimately develop its institu
tions through fair rivalry, has been destroyed by the
fraudulent int rvention • t the Federal Government,
•pi.o ,-onti. ■ i.‘ rapidly coming, and the South must
i,'lv upon herself. Though her efforts be stigmatized
by*Federal minions, ami the resolutions©! sovereign
States denouncing fraud and wrong, be pronounced
•‘ungracious’' by an Executive of her ow n creation,
yet she must achieve her safety, though her arm
’■hould fall heavily upon a cabinet of mutes and a
paialytic Administration, la 1850 the Whig party
of the South which had elected Gen. Taylor, tram
plod him from power when his treachery was made
manifest : and will the Democratic party of the
S mth be le**s true to our rights ami honor, or less
haughty and indignant against fraud and wrong *
The Democratic party owes its ascendancy to the
South, and « \>ry mi of treat horv should be*met by
consuming cuisos. No leader Is amuated against
lhe vengt a nee of an outraged people, and no offi
cial is so high that popular justice cannot reach him.
Tire South must n .uutain her rights, though she
iuma deaf ear to the appealing shrieks of shivering
l 'abiuets. of h\>U-ru u Fresid'i ts, and dissolving
pariit-s Her s.v'ety is in her union, and Georgia
and Missis.-ippi have gloriously led the way. Let
South Carolina wheel into line with them, arid march
with steady *vp along : sair.e bright track of con
stitutional integrity. her be no laggard in that
contest in w’iu h the rights and houor ot the South
are to be vimi ~ ated. There should be no dissen
sion iu the S uthem camp, ar.d I trust there will be
none, when the hour arrives, in which loyalty to ,
j.aity will bo 'reason t.. ibe South.
Lawrence M. Keitt.
To Mess: s |-s. V. !er, Wheeler, Evans and
others, Marion C. 11., 8. C.
A noth eh \\ m.kfk 1% \ reo t r ■«' s — Some parties
in this city who hsv e hereti-tore been conspicuously
« tig aged in General \\ a’ker s Central American
ctusaae, significantJv assort hat preparations are
oU foot for another grand demonstration, at no dis
tant d v. A secret plan is said to exist which con
templates the raising of an army of ten thousand
men allot'whom shaii embark, or set sail, about
' v
ir to be left uudoiie which shall tend to secure
, ffioieney anu eventual success. Baltimore is to
furnish from three to four hundred, as her comple
ment oftheab 've named army, with full equipments,
money, Are. 1; Is further stated that persons, fully
pledged, have already been secured in the city,
*ho are on! v waitlug* due notice, and the lull eon-i
t Miuuativ n<V G<•* era! Walker’s plans, to be off. It
known as i e “Central American League." Who
t: parties are attached to this league, we are
unable to -ay: or whether they have been absolute,
iy * oneoh< i, das rumored, cauuot be fully ascer
tained, eiv ept o far as eu rent rumor goes. Such
secret filibustering expeditions are reprehensible,
and if the one in question does really exist its move
ments will, doubtless, be more fully ascertained in
due time. New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New
Orleans, and all the other leading cities of the
Tuion, are said to be united in this movement
J ail. Patriot.
Reform Among Law\*ju—The work of purg
ing tlM’bar of Albany of uiaserupuloua member? haa
bomuieuetni in good The District
Attorney h*«« .included the investigation ordered
by tite last Geu*.«uAfc>eA<ioiis, and he wili »! the next
e*»eaeral Term of the Circuit, hand over the papers
to that Com Upon this being dune several uieui-
I*rs of the bur will i>*- called upon to show cause
why their i.iur.cs c*ln?uli mu In* stricken from the
joilofattui v* and( va; - fllc ra in the State. Every
ti right, hv". men er t.<J the bar. say? the Albany
Evening Journal,not on'y owes it to himself and
nrs«*eiates at the to the community at large
to expose t .he s/atfcm of wholesale cruel plunder
that hae been c'-iried on for some time in that city.
A a example should be made ol those who have
been guilty <>t obtaining htrge stiuw of money out
of poor criminal* for iiuie if any and w* do
1,,.pc that ii . i- re -? clearly proven guilty
«,f such act ;. i no member oi the bar in good
ntmtding v»«. ct.erupt to screen them. —Boston
'traveller.
Tl»** BriiMi i**i<l I blofiP*
L »n*j«*ii 7 'itwx lim a correupotideht in China
who furuiahe® that journal with graphic **keU*.he« of
the exciting acene* at present enacting in the “cele®-
tiai kingdom.” His description of the deaperate
engagements between the British fleet and. Chinese
junks arc of much intcrot, but we haveonly space
for the following sketch <»f tbe affair in which Com
modore Keppel waa engaged:
Bat now tbe junks are concentrating, and in or
der to attack them the British boats muat pass
through one of tw’o paeaagt*, l>oth of which narrow
to a tunnel, and upon that narrow neck of water
the whole fire of 20 junks will be concentrated. —
One of these tunnel p&uagea Laa been staked and
is impassable. The other has not water to f ** : y
two abreast. At this perilous paaeage Keppel and
his crew now dashed. The three boom-boat® took
the ground in attempting to follow. Tbe base of
this triangular bland consist® of high land which
the boom-boat® could not fire over, eo their guns
were useless. The apex, or to u®e ray more
familiar i lustration, the knuckle part was low pad
dy fie his which tbe junks’ gun® could not sweep
across. It was a position worthy of a Gartchgeman
—locm incuhi* natns.
No s.*oner did the boats appear in the narrow
parage luuu tilt 32-poundere sect -JU round shot and
a hundred smaller guna Mult their full charger of
gri. ,e and canister at a range of M£* rl
aninng them. The c-tT,*t #«.- terrible. Keppel waa
Bounding with a boathook for water for the boom
boat, and went, back amid a storm to Ket them ujn
They atkrt afreeii and make another effort to get
•hrougli 1 lie Commodore pusher on ahead, ihere
was Captain beckie in hia galley, with Major Kear
ney by hi- ride. There wa- Captain Koliand m the
launch of the Calcutta, and Lieut. Seymour in the
harge of the same ship. Tbe Tribune e cutter wee
m aumug them. The Hong Kocg, who had worked
her-elfup through the mud to within 500 yards o.
the scene of action, had rent her gig. Perhaps there
were others, but, amid no much smoke and hre,
even those who were in it cannot agree aa to minute
aetaiL;. If the gunner, of the hxcelleut had been
in those Chinese junks, and had worked those 32-
pounder gunß, they could hardly have thrown the
round shot etraigbier. Keppel a galley, not
mark, is hit three times in lwo minutes ; a 32-pound
-hot strikes Major Kearney in the brea»t*e*ntig
him to piece* He must have died without a sensa
tion Young Barker, a midshipman cf the Tribune,
who wore upon hia linger a ring bequeathed to him
by hia brother who was killed at Inkermann, is
mcirta U wounded “That was close, \ictor, raid
Keppe! to 1-i- flag lieutenant, ns n cannon shot pass
ed between their heads. Fortunately \ ictor (Pnuce
Victor of Uohenloiie, aa thorough nud as unpretend
ing n British seaman as if Lia name were Brake or
.J-rvi- wm, leaning torward and using his handker
chief a* u tourniquet to stop the bleeding afa
seaman whose baud had just been ehot off, other
wise that ba! 1 must have taken \ ictors head off.
A* this time the galley was disabled, and she was
drifting down under the guns of the junks. Lven
H eppcl saw that it would not do. The matter waa,
however settled for him, for tire next shot tore away
the stern-sheets of his galley while he was fortunate
ly etandiDg up witli tire tiller rqpca in hia hand.—
“Seymour, yourmuHt take me in,’ and be stepped
frorn Ida sinking galley into the barge of the Calcut
ta All the other occupants of the galley were also
reinoi erl into the barge, all except the mang.ed
corpse of the coxswain and the favorite dog of the
Commodore, who had been accustomed to be ten
ded by that man and would not leave Ins body.—
YVi'h tbia freight the wreck of the galley drifted
with the r sing tide up toward the junks.
Now the boats retired ainid a souuding of gongs,
at ranee shouts of triumph, and a redoubled tire.—
Theyretired to the iloug Kong, which was aground
astern, but, supported by the Starling, threw shot
and shell vj> among the junks, and received from
them a full equivalent for their hre.
The Commodore was waiting .or reinlorcements
and for more water in the river, and meanwhile lie
piped to dinner. The men were gett ng the rations,
uml were devouring them when the hre from the
junks slackened. “Three cheers for the Blue,”
cried a Ualeigk boat that now came up. “Man th j
boat., lads; those rascals are gett nig afloat. On
they go again, dinnerless, but in high spirits, and
under a fire so hot that the Calcutta’s launch is sunk,
and Capt. Koliand has to scramble into another boat.
This time they find water enough in the narrow
passage, and, dashing through the shot, find the ene
my afloat and in movement, ft has now become a
chase. Thesejunks, manned by from 60 to 100 row
ers, go faster than our heavy boomboats can follow.
But sbarpnell shell go faster than even a snakejunk.
There are twistings in the creek that are not shown
ill the chart, and in following these windings pur
suers and pursued often find themselves Bide by
aide, with an interval of land between them. They
fire at each other across these peninsulas, and the
guns are so well served and the sheila are so terri
fying that every now and then the crews leap out
and the junk ia deserted. Spike the guns and push
Oil Six miles this hotchase lasts, and there are now
but eight junks uncaptured; when rounding a Bhsjp
point liuraued and pursuer, rush almost together in
to the city of FatsUen. Chinese town is not seen
far off; the pagoda and the pawnbrokers’ warehous
es are the only high buildings. Three of the junks
escaped; the oilier five are headed and are aban
doned. But the braves of Fatshan would think it
a shame that their five junks should be taken from
under their eyes. They turn out in martial array;
they ring bells and beat gongs; they come filing
down a fosse, so covered from view that only their
waving banners and their brandished swords and
shields are visible. “We are terrible; flee before
Uri !'* they ave supposed to sing or cry. Keppel has
his own way of settling these matters. He turned
his marines out of his boats, drew them up on the
margin of the supurb, and poured into the Fatshan
militia such a volley of Mime balls that the Chinese
army went quickly up its fosse again. H* proposed
to land his howitzers and pasa the night in the city,
a daring scheme, which might have produced a ran
som of half a million of dollars or utter destruction,
as the fortune of war might incline. A message
from the Admiral, however, recalled him.
lie had his five junks towed out before him, and
ns he left the city he stood up in the stern-eheeta of
liis boat and shook his fist, good humoredly saying,
“You rascals, we’ll come back to you soon again ;”
and those extraodinary Chinese, they too laughed—
a broad, good humored grin—and so they parted.
It was three o clock when Commodore Keppel
returned to the flag ship, which was now anchored
where the Chinese Admiral’s junks had been moored
at the commencement of the engagement. As he
came down his dog recognised the yellow Raleigh
boat and swam off to his master.
N it ajunk was preserved. Their material* are eo
inflammable that they readily ignite one another, and
we can make no use of them. They are not worth
saving at the price ol danger to the men. As it
was, the allot trora their heated guns mailed about
in a most unpleasant manner. At sundown the
view from the deck of the flag ship was a mixture
of the grotesque and the sublime. The boats were
all adorned with barbaric spoils; banners of every
amplitude, some of them adorned with colossal pic
tures of the fat god Fo, flaunted iu the breeze.
Mandarins' coats and Mandarins’ breeches were
freely worn. Commodore Elliott’s crew were equip
ped each witli a Mandarin's hat and foxes' tails.
They had dutifully reserved one for the Commodore
but I must confess I did not see him put it on.
Around, far as the eye could reach, following the
windings of this maze of creeks, eighty-nine war
junks wc; i smouldering or blazing, and every five
minutes an explosion shook the air. The Cantonese
had said that Commodore Klliott’s expedition in
Escape Creek only captured a few deserted fishing
boats. From their own verandahs they could tee
and hear what hud been done in Fatshan Branch.
It was bruited in Hong Kong that a Maudarinof
high rank, one greater than Yeh, had come down
from Pekin to Canton. It so, he now gained his
first experience. Then came Dr. Anderson 8 sad
laborot marshalling the wounded for transport
and collecting the reports of the assistant surgeons.
But tlie pul lie despatches will tell all this. Enough
for me to state that in these two battles of Tung
kcou and Fatshan eighty-four men have been killed
or wounded. That night the two Commodores slept
side by side, the sleep of the weary, on the deck of
tlie Coromandel; and so ended tbe Ist of June.
Next morning, as we passed dewn the river, two
war junks appeared three miles astern and tired a
gun. They were chasing the barbarian fleet!
Reported Seizure of the Island of Formosa
bt the U. 8. Naval Force.— A correspondent of
the New York Times, writing from on board the
U. S. (lag ship San Jacinto, at Hong Kong, asserts
that the Government of the United States lias de
cided to take possession of the Island of Formosa,
as security foi payment by the Chinese Gov
ernment of Ih* -! anility demanded for aamages
done to Amen interests during the disturbances
at Canton. T • itnes says its intelligence comes
from a source ...oly to be well informed, but hesi
tatcH about giving full credeuce to it. The corres
pondent’s w ay of tolling the story does not increase
confidence in its correctness. He says :
“Some three months since Capt. J. D. Simms, of
the United States Marine Corps, attached to the San
Jacinto, was mysteriously missing, gone nobody but
our executives knew where It was understood
after a few weeks ' hat he had been detailed for
duty ; where and for what kind, was known only to
the elect. It is now ascertained that his instruc
tions were to proceed to Formosa, and iu the city
of Fungehan hoist the American Hag and take for
mal possession ot the islaud. It is to be held as an
indemnity for the losses sustained by American citi
zens during the present war. Ours beiug the prior
claim will of course be respected by the contending
parties, by the English, French or Spanish, all of
which Powers tnay have a finger in this pie.
“This step has given the English authorities in
China huge satisfaction, as every successive step
towards further collision with the Chinese does.—
This, inmy opinion, is A wise step towards securing
our rights in China, aud a safe way of making
sure of remuneration for our losses. Should we
seek territorial acquisitions iu this part of the
world, no more desirable portion of the Chinese
Empire could be seized upon than Formosa—rich
iu mineral and agricultural wealth, its valuable
coal mines make it a coveted spot with the mari
time nations of the world. It is only within a few
years that its resources have become known, ow
ing to the hostility and exclusiveness of its people,
who are Chinamen. Already there is a profitable
trade earned on between foreigners in China and
its people, and it only needs developing to make it
invaluable. Os this more anon."
The Island of Formosa, reported to have been
seized lies about ninety miles off the southeast coast
of China, embraces &u area of about 15,000 square
miles, and contains over two millions of Chinese
inhabitants, besides au unknown number of na
tives, who inhabit principally the eastern portion of
the Island. The Chinese who lire on the Islaud are
generally of a bad character, as Formosa has for a
long time been used as a sort of penal colony for
the Chiuese Empire ; the natives are half civilized
aud cruel. The country is well watered and fer
tile. aud produces great quantities of cotton, rice,
sugar, with wheat, maize and various tropical
fruits.— Bait. Amer.
The Physical Power of England.— The phy
sical power which England derives from the trans
formation of the latent power of its coal into active
force is scarcely conceivable by unscientific minds.
Professor Rogers, of the United States, furnishes us
with the following estimates : —Each acre of coal
seam, four feet in thickness and yielding one yard
not of pure fuel, is equivalent to about 5,000 tons;
aud possesses, therefore, a reserve of mechanical
strength iu its fuel equal to the life-labor of more
than 1,000 men. Each squarwinile of one such sin
gle coal bed contains 3,000,000 of tons of fuel;
equivalent to 1,000,000 of men laboring through
twenty years of their ripe strength. Assuming for
calculation that 10,000,000 of tons out of the pre
sent annual products of the British coal mines,
namely 65,000,000. are applied to the production of
mechanical power, then England annually summons
to her aid au army of 3,300,000 fresh men, pledged
to exert their fullest strength through twenty years.
Her actual annual expenditure of power, then, is
rt pri .-ien.ed by 60,00h.000 of able boaied laborers.—
ine latent strength resident in the whole coal pro
,ct V 1 kingdom may, by the same process, be
calculated at more than 400,000,000 of strong rneD.
or more than double the number of the adult males
now upon the globe.— Mechanics' Magazine.
An Interesting M asonic Bible.— I The Free-
Masons ot the 4fith British regiment, now stationed
at incisor, England, have in their possession the
original Bible belonging to Lodge No *227 of the
Irish constitution, once in existence in that corps,
upon whicn George Washington—afterwards eom
mander-in-chief of the anfiy of the United States—
was initiated into the rights of J?ree Masonry. This
book wa.- taken in battle in 1777, during the Amer
ican wat. by our troops, aud honorably restored to
the Lodge of the 46th, with a military’ escort as a
guard of honor.
Washing Calicoes. —The following method of
washing dresses of printed muslin, so as to preserve
the colors, is recommended by a competent authori
ty : The dress should be washed in lather, acd not
m the u?nal way by applying the soap direct upou
the muslin. Make a lather by boiling some soap
and water together. Let it stand until it is suffi
ciently cool lor use. Previously’ to putting the dress
into it, throw a handful ol salt. Rinse the dress,
without wringing it, and rinse it again in a fresh
supply of clear cold water aud sait. Then wring
the dress in a cloth and hang it to drv immediately,
spreading it out as soon as possible, so as to prevent
any part lying over another. Should tkerebe any
white in the pattern, mix a little h ue in the water
A Large Tannery.— A tannery is about to be
erected in Kidder township. Carbon county, Pa
the main building of which will be between six hun
dred and seven hundred feet long and fifty feet wide
calculated to tan 35,000 hides in a year—more, it is
said, than any other tannery in the L’nited States.
An engine of ninety horse power will be put up, and
the establishment will employ about 100 hands.
EUROPEAN IST K 1. 1. itiKN «' E
I.ETAIU BV THE ARABIA.
Great Biutais— The Emperor and Express of
the French, accompanied by Count Walewaki and
a small suite, arrived at Osborne, on a visit to Queen
Victoria, on Thursday, titk instant, and were receiv
ed with a royal salute from the fleet at Spithead.—
Tbe visit was a strictly private one, and would not,
it was believed, extend beyond the tale of Wight,
and probably Portsmouth Navy Yard. A most
vigilant surveillance was kept up in the neighbor
hood of Osborne, and all over the Island by a strong
force of police from London and Pans, and boats
were stationed off the beach at Osborne to prevent
the approach of any shore or strange boats. It was
thought theimpenalparty would return to trance
on Monday the 10th. .
Bishop Biomfield, late Bishop of London, died on
the 15th instant epileptic attack.
A petition calling on Parliament to eend out a
much larger military force to India than was con
templated, was receiving numerous signatures in
Liverpool. . _
The house of Carr, Brothers & Co., of Newcastle,
extensive cilliery owners, had temporarily suspend
ed payment. Their liabilities were very large, bat
the assets were said to be ample.
France.— The trial of the three Italians accused
of an attempt to assassinate the Emperor took place
on the Cth and 7th, and resulted in a verdict ot guil
ty, with extenuating circumstances in favor of
Bartolotti and Grilii. The Court sentenced Tibaldi
to transportation for life, and Bartolotti and Griili
to fifteen years’ imprisonment. The trial excited
very little interest.
The Minister of War has decided that Kabylia,
recently conquered. Ehall form a new military sub
-41 vision.
Spain. —The Paris correspondent of the London
Times, in a letter upon the Spanish-American ques
tion, eaya:
“ From 40,000 to 50,000 Americans were ready to
march into the Mexican territory as auxiliaries
against the Spaniards. If any difficulty on the score
of nationality had been raised, they would have as
suined the Mexican flag and enrolled themselves as
Mexican citizens or soldiers. The Mexican govern
ment seemed to have no objections to a war with
Spain.” The same letter says:—“lt appears that
the Spanisn government goes on with its military
preparations as if no mediation had been accepted.
Tlie effective strength of the army is expected soon
to be 120,000 men, and there was a rumor in Mad
rid that the Royal Guard, disembodied under the
regency of Espartero, after the military insurrec
tion of 1841, would soon be re-established.”
Writing on the following day, the sth instant, the
same correspondent says: —“It is said inofficial
quarters, that, contrary to all expectation, the ar
rangement of the differences existing between the
Spanish and Mexican governments, has again been
suspended, in consequence of accounts received
from Mexico by the laet mail. I give the rumor
without guaranteeing i s accuracy.'
Tlkket A despatch from Vienna, states that
M. de Thouvenel, the French Ambassador at Con
stantinople, took down his flag on the sth, but iu
forined the Turkish government that he should not
leave his post for some days.
It is said that tbe notes of the Four Powers di
rected against Prince Vogorides were identical,
though presented separately. Prince Vogorides had
{iroceeded to replace the Metropolitan of Moldavia,
iceause he refused to preeide over the Divan.
Two hundred houses had been destroyed by fire
at Galata.
The tribes of the Mutualis had pillaged the Chris
tians in the town of Sour, and the French Consul at
Bsyrout had gone to the spot to demand a public
repression of the outrage.
The London Morning Post gives editorial promi
nence to tho following, on the affairs of Turkey :
“The charge of ministry has not yet led to any
solution of the diplomatic disputes existing at Con
stantinople. The new cabinet has offered to sum
men to Constantinople the Kamaicans of Wallacia
aud Moldavia, to hear from their own lips their ac
counts of the recent voting in the Principalities.—
This propoeal was declined on Tuesday last by M.
Thoavenel, who haughtily termed it 'unrofus de
risoire’ of his demand. Unless the whole of the re
cent proceedings are annulled, he threatens, with
the Russian Ambassador, to leave Constantinople,
and he is countenanced in this, we regret to say. by
the representatives of Prussia and Sardinia. The
Ambassador of England, and the Austrian Inter
uuncio take totally opperpte views, and deplore this
rough treatment of the Porte, which is calculated in
its effect to injure the best interests, and tocompro
mise the stability of the Ottoinau Empire ; whilst in
its overbearing and rude hostility it out-Menschi
koffs Menschikoff.’’
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had got leave to conr.e
home from Constantinople—another term—remarks
the Liverpool Post—for a rebuke if not a recall. It
is said, however, that he will not quit his post at this
juncture.
The Paris Pays of the tith announces that the new
Turkish Cabinet had consented to declare the Mol
davian elections null and void, and that it propsed
to fix the 15th of August for the new elections. This
lacks confirmation.
Denmark —A concession had been granted to an
English company for the establishment of a subma
rine telegraph between England and the Western
coast of Schleswig.
Russia. —The Emperor of Russia returned to St.
Petersburg on the Ist inst., after his visit to Ger
many.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that Seha
myl, with the maiu body of his troops, had been
beaten at Isalatavia; leaving 400 dead on the
field, while the Russian loss was only 05 killed and
wounded.
A letter from St. Petersburg states that Russia
has made an application to the Porte, with a view to
such modification of the Treaty of Paris as would
enable her to employ a large number of vessels of
war to carry on her present operations on the coast
of Circassia.
Persia. —lt is stated that Mr. Murray, the Eng
lish Minister arrived at Teheran on the 7th of June,
and was received with the honors agreed upon.
The Latest.
India. —Major Gen. Wyndham the hero of the
Redan has accepted an important command in
India, and will proceed to the East as soon as pos
sible.
Delhi. —ln the city the belief in the fall of Delhi
seems to have become almost universal. The re
Sorts of the capture current previous to the 17th of
une, have been found to ire unquestionably false,
but the impression is that the event took place two
or three days later, and that although the news had
not yet been received by Government authorities it
had reached the native Bankers and had prompted
the purchase of Government stock which they were
making at advanced prices both at Calcutta and
Bombayjust before the departure of the mails. From
India, expectation is now chiefly directed to the re
gular India and China Telegraph which may be
looked for any time between Monday and Tuesday
next.
The Difficulties in Turkey. —The morning
Post publishes the following despatch :
Constantinople, Aug. ti.—The Porte having re
fused to amend the late election in Moldavia, the
Minister of France, of Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia
have broken off their diplomatic relations with that
power.
Th 3 morning Post publishes nn article on the
pr-sent state ot affairs at Constantinople, arising out
of the question of the Danubian Principalities.—
“The Porte wishes naturally to have two provinces
which she can control, rather than a new state of
sufficient strength to be always troublesome and
dangerous, and yet so weak as to be iu the predica
ment of constantly seeking aid from Russia. Eng
land spent £80,000,000 ami 1011,000 lives in a war
which began in the rescue of these very Danubian
Principalities from Russia. Russia advocates tho
union at all cost of the Principalities. With regard
to France, M. Thouveiial may® be acting in error,
but he is acting on behalf of a government honest
iu its pol cy, amenable to reason.' 1
Junius’ Letters. —The National Intelligencer
copies from the Dublin University Magazine a long
and powerfully written article touching the identi
ty ot Juius, a mystery which seems destined to exer
cise the ingenuity of the wits of England till the end
of time. According to the present writer, there
have been thirty-five candidates for the authorship,
and a hundred books and a vast number of articles
have been written by men desirous to point out the
real author. The Dublin scribe contends that Lord
Chatham was Junius, and he certainly makes out a
strong case, though, to our mind, it is clear from his
own reasoning that while Chatham may have been
rind probably was Junius, in the ideas, the general
scope, and, above all, the fierce, vindictive and
merciless spirit of the letters, it was the eloquent
and practised pen of Sir Philip Franois which em
bodied Chatham’s conception in the most masterly
specimens of epistolary invective which has ever
appeared in the English tongue.
There is but one link wanting in the chain by
which Lord Chatham is identified as the author of
Junius, and that is, he was not a good writer. Sir
Philip Francis, on the contrary, was skilled with the
pen as Chatham with the tongue. Chatham was
Lis patron, and his political friend. Francis was in
the lmbit of reporting his speeches, and it is stated
by one authority, composed many of them. It is
conceded by the writer that Sir Philip Francis may
have had his five hundred pounds a year in the War
office exchanged for a situation in India at ten thou
sand a year, on a hint from Chatham to Lord North,
that if young Francis were sent away, there would
be an end to Junius. He was sent away and the
letters ceased ! Lord Chatham remained, but the
letters were not continued ! The head and the hand
were separated; the one was in England, splenetic,
liery and powerful as in youth; the other was in In
dia, clutching the ten thousand a year, and—the se
cret—which, however much its exposure might
have enhanced the literary fame of Sir Philip Francis
would have brought ruin upon the towering crest of
Chat ham, his benefactor aud friend.— Rich. Dittp.
An Illinois Farm.— What will those persons
who have been accustomed to consider five hun
dred acres a large farm think of the following? The
editor of the “ Spirit of the Agricultural Press” has
recently been on a visit to the farm of Mr. T. Suili
vant. Esq., in the southeastern part of Champaign
county, Illinois. The farm contains over twenty
thousand acres, and although only about seven
thousand acres are yet under cultivation, employs
over one hundred men ? Three thousand acres are
planted in corn, and the editor estimates that the
farm will produce at least 15,000 bushels of whe •
this year, Desides large quantitia* of barley, oa
tlax. &c. Mr. Sullivant employs five different r» ap
ers this season, aud threshers immediately after cut
ting, employing a steam engine as his power in the
latter operation. A blacksmith's shop :s located on
the farm, and employed continually in repairing
farm implements : a school is kept up for the edu
cation of the children of the workmen. One hun
dred and twenty-five yoke of oxen and fifty hordes
are employed. *lt must be acknowledged that this
is something of a farm, and that Mr. Sullivant pos
sesses much executive ability to successfully man
age such a stupendous concern ; yet we are inform
ed that everything moves on as regular as the click
of a chronometer. This is but one of the many
large farms which now grace the broad prairies of
that and adjoining counties, none of which are so
as this, but large enough to excite the wonder
and admiration of outsiders, who know nothing of
the magnificent West. —Louisville Courier.
Volcanic Eruption.— We learn from a gentle
man who left the Sandwich Islands about fifty days
since, that just before he took his departure, news
was received that the volcano of Mauna Lea, on
the island of Hawaii, had again become fearfully
active; aud as the lava discharged at the last erup
tion approached within about seven miles of the vil
lage of Hilo, filling up the unevenness of the surface
down to that point, a distance of 60 or 70 miles from
the crater, there was great apprehensions that the
present eruption would either oury that village en
tirely, or uudermine it and carry it into the sea. —
This last apprehension resulted from the actions of
the lava at the last eruption: it having in several
instances appeared to stagnate for a while, but af
terwards burst out lower down the mountain and
carried all before it. Forests were broken down
and destroyed by it like bullrushee. The village ot
Hilo contains a population of about 500 persons, in
cluding perhaps a dozeu white families. It is situ
ated ou the northeasterly side of the island, and such
is the surface of the ground, that if the lava ever
finds its way to the sea it must be, apparently, over
the ruins of this village. The present eruption is
from the same crater as the last. It is not on the
extreme apex of the mountain, but from a position
somewhat lower down, on the easterly or northeast
erly slope, looking towards Hilo.—A. Y. Journal
of Commerce.
~^Y, UL Effect or Lightning.—During the
thunder storm yesterday about *2 P. M., a boy nam
wKiU^S 18 ** Meischner, was struck by lightning
umir a f r owacro '* a field at Lowell, in the
were looking .A man and woman who
were looking in the direction of the boy at the time
«"* observed ,
* kilW? rspidl >’ aad strike the
D°y on .je Head. killing him instantly When ex
ain.ued the hair on the left side of the Lead wi
singed and a bine or parole mark extended from
his head to his knee, on the left side. In the W
there were no marks, bat the foot presented a b!u
ish bruieed appearance. Under his foot was a ho’c
in the earth, which penetrated some three inches
The shock was so violent that every joint ot the
boy s body seemed to be dislocated. His clothes on
the side of the body struck were literally tom off
aud scattered around him for several feet, and frag
ments of his shirt, more particularly, were lying
around in particles not more than three inches
square. The boy was only-14 years old, was a na
tive of Germany, was *an orphan, and was in the
employment of Christian Carl, who resides in Low
ell.— St. Louis Rep. , 13M.
Death of Col. James Brannon. —This gentle
man, one of the oldest and most prominent of our
citizens, died at his residence in this city on Monday ;
evening last.— Marietta Georgian.
WEEKLY
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. iI6, 1557.
FOR GOVEBNOB,
BENJAMIN H. IIILL,
OF TROUP.
FOR CONGRESS,
3d District, Hob. ROBERT P TRIPPE.
■ltli “ Col. M. M. TIDWELL.
7th ■« « JOSHUA HILL.
Bth « “ THOMAS W. MILLER.
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
FOR THE CAMPAIGN.
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Chronicl ? <f* Sentinel during the campaign can
be accon iodated on tha following terms :•
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lion. T. W. Miller’* Appointment*.
The Hon. Thos. W. Miller, candidate for Con
gress, will addrees bis fellow-citizens of the Bth Con
gressional District, at the following times and
places, to which the people are invited.
It is hoped that his friends at the several places
will make the necessary arrangements for the occa
sion :
Weda'day, Aug. 26, at Thomson, Columbia Connty*
Thursday, “ 27, 44 Mount Moriah, Jefferson “
Friday, u 28, 44 Louisville, 44 “
Saturday, 4C 29, “ Davis’ Spring, Burke 14
Tuesday, Sept. 1, “ Svlvaaia, Scriven “
Friday, “ 4, “ Pine Hill, Richmond “
WecUrday, 44 9, “ Appling,.Columbia 44
Monday, 44 14, “ Lexington, Oglethorpe 44
Tuesday, 44 15, 44 Woodstock, 44 44
Thursday, 44 17, “ Elberton, Elbert 44
Saturday, 41 19, “ Mrs. Rumsey’s, Elbert 44
Tuesday, 44 22, “ Washington, Wilkes 44
Weds’day** 44 23 , 44 Danburg, 44 44
Friday, 44 25, 44 Lincolnton, Lincoln 44
Saturday % 44 26, “ liaysville, Columbia 44
B. H. Hill’s Appointments.—Mr. Hill will ad
dress h\B fellow citizens as follows :
At Van Wert, Saturday, August 29th.
At Cartersville, Monday, August 31st
At Canton, Tuesday, September Ist.
At Dahlonega, Wednesday, September 2d.
Appointments for the 3d, 4th and sth of Septem
ber will appear in the “Mountain Signal” in due
time.
Hon. J. E. Brown is respectfully invited to con
sider the appointments mutual.
The .Southern Cultivator.
The September number of this popular and vain,
able Agricultural journal is on our [table. The sub
joined table of contents is a higher commendation Os
its worth to every man who cultivates the soil, how.
ever limited, than any thing we can say in its be
half :
Plantation Economy and Miscellany. —Work
for the Month . Milk ; Successful method of Rais
ing Ducks; “Free’’ Society—Life in New York,
&c ; Stanford’s Wild Oat Grass—Rescue, &c ; In
quiries ; The Origin of the “Bill Bug,” or Corn
Borer, and inode of Destroying the same ; Good
Plows ; A good and cheap Sugar Mill, (Illustrated);
Hill Side Ditching—Level Rows ; Chinese Sugar
Cane in Texas ; Wine Prospects in South Carolina;
Crystalizationof the Chinese Cane ; Exhaustion of
Land ; liaising Watei for Irrigation ; The liaising
of Clover ; The Crops, Weather, &c.; Apiary, or
Bee-House of Mr. LaTaste, (Illustrated): Sugar
from the Chinese Cane ; Keeping Corn Jjreen for
Winter ; Improvement of Sandy Laud, &c ; Want
of Appetite ; The kind of Education best suited to
Young Farmers ; Mutton vs. Pork ; Southern Ab
senteeism ; The next Tobacco Crop ; Shoeing
Horses ; Female Health and Beauty.
Editorial. —Answers to Correspondents ; Geor
gia Wine ; Wine Premiums at the Louisville Fair ;
Our Book Table ; Muscadine Wine ; Chinese Pro
lific Pea—Mr. Fleming’s Crop; New Advertise
ments; A great Coffee Pot; Negroes and Cotton,
&c.
Horticultural Department. —Pears on the
Quince ; TlieCurculio—its llabils, dec.; The Grape
Culture; Fruit in Polk County, Texas; Wine ;
Prolific Cucumber Vine ; Wine at the South;
i Healthfulneas of Fruit; A Cheap Luxury; Cataw
ba Brandy in Alabama.
Illustrations. —A Good and Cheap Sugar Mill
Apiary, or Bee-House of Mr. LaTaste.
Col. Wright’* Letter.
The letter of Col. Wkight, of Newnan, which
we publish this morning, will attract, as it deserves,
very general attention. Like thousands of other
good and patriotic men in Georgia, he was deceived
by the false promises of the Democracy, and induced
to support Mr. Buchanan. And now, seeing the
error which ho committed, like a patriot who prefers
his country to party or success, he takes the earliest
opportunity to retrace his steps, and to announce
his opposition to an Administration which he aided
in elevating into place and power. We feel confi
dent there are thousands of other good and true
men in Georgia, who will follow the excellent exam
pie of Mr. W rioht. They too have been deceived
and betrayed, by the ti ickstera and demagogues,
who were, and are, willing to sacrifice the institu
tions and interests of the South in the territories;
aud it behooves them as good and patriotic South
ern men, to repudiate an alliance whioh is fraught
with so much evil. If they continue to support
Buchanan, now that he has developed his policy
for making Kansas a free State, they must necessa
rily stand shoulder to shoulder with the Black Re
publicans and Freesoiiers of the North, who approve
and endorse that polity, as developed through Gov.
Walkek, which Mr. Buchanan instructed to be
pursued, and now that it has been done, approves
and endorses. There is no escaping from an affilia
tion with Black Republicans and Freesoiiers, if you
sustain Buchanan’s Kansas policy; and whoever
votes for Brou n, or the Democratic candidates for
Congress, aids in sustaining that policy; because,
if they triumph it will be a triumph of Buchanan
and his Freesoil policy. This no candid man will
deny.
A Secret Democratic Council*
Yesterday’s mail, from the interior, brought us
the following communication, from a highly respec
table and reliable gentleman—who speaks by the
card , and what he knows:
“ Secret Counell.”
Mr. Editor :—On the Wednesday night of Com
mencement at Athena recently, the Democracy held
a secret meeting or con licit, at a private house, and
then and there was Judge Brou n. Now, I should
very much like to know if secret midnight councils
have become the feature of the Bogus Democracy?
At this meeting it was determined that Judge Brown
should keep mum on the important questions of the
day—that he should blow Dot and cold with the
same breath, as, he feelingly told them on that oc
casion—a free, open, bold course would defeat him,
no matter which side he took—whether for or against
the administration I!! Are the people of Georgia
so demented as to elect such a man to office ? Are
tliey so lost to reaeon as to blindly Bupport a tool,
who, (or office and for par///, has ueither the manli
ness or courage to avow unequivocally his fixed po
sition ? We hope not —we cannot think so ! We
charge this secret midnight council with having done
this, and we defy the whole party to disprove a
word!!
This certainly exposes a nice little game of the
Buchanan and Walker supporters in Georgia.
Will not these facts, (tor they are facts, which no
man who was present, not even Mr. Brown, will
pretend to deny) open the eyes of the people of the
South, to the character of the fraud which these
demagogues and tricksters are about to play upon
them ? We should think they ought to arousethem,
but we may be deceived in our impressions, and the
people may repose upon their unfaithful leaders,
until all their rights are swallowed up by the Bu
chanan policy for making Kansas a free State.
In addition to the statement of our own corres
pondent, we find the following notice of the same
“secret meeting” in the Atlanta American:
The Programme oy the Buchanan Partt.—
We have reliable information to the effect, that, at
the “ Secret Council," held at a private house in
Athens on the Wednesday night of commencement,
of the leaders of Democracy at that time in that
city. Judge Brown being present, it was determin
ed that Judge Brown should decline to take position
tither in favor of or condemnatoi y of the adminis
Italian in regard to the Kansas embroglio, until af
ter the election ! He is to go on as he has done—nos
committal—for tho purpose of hoodwinking the
people of Georgia, and thus secure, if possible, his
election—based, as it will be, upon deception, should
he pursue the course marked out for him. It is dis
graceful in any party that requires a candidate to
act so—audit is equally so to any man who will suf
fer himself to be thus shackled—thus emasculated!
We are well aware that a bold avowal on the part
of Joseph Brown would—as be very properly says
—“defeat him.'' Wdl not his present course effect
the same object ? We think so, and we hope so.
A Mum Candidate should stay at home and not go
around a State like Georgia with nothing new to
sa y—without a single ] rinciple to elucidate, and in
continued fear and dread, that he may be found out
as a candidate endeavci ing to be “all things to all
men.’’ In no one place that he has yet addressed
an audience have we been able to Bee, or learn, that
he is anything more than a partisan, whose only ob
ject is the aggrandizement of his party and himself
ignoring in toto, or, consuming with silly words the
important questions of the day, aud retailing the
slanders of hi® predecessors against the Know Noth
ings. This course may be an evidence of the pru
dence of "The Party,’' but there are times when the
exercise of that virtue is not only in bad taste, but
decidedly hurtful. Is not, or rather, should not this
be one of those occasions ? Will not the people of
Georgias o decide on the Ist Tuesday in October!
Inquests. —Ad Inquest was held on Tuesday, by
Lewis Levy, Esq., on the body of Dennis McCar
thy, a waiter, who died suddenly at the Augusta
Hotel The verdict of the Jury was “died of
Apoplexy.”
Another was held yesterday on the body of Peter
Mara, a laborer, who died the night previous. The
Jury rendered a verdict of “ died of Sun Stroke.
Accident to Hon. Liston Stephens. —The At
lanta Intelligencer, ofTuesday morning says : We
are pained to learn that this gentleman, while re
turning, last week, from the Funeral of his sister, in
Talbot county, to his home in Sparta, met with a
most serious accident. Our informant states that
he was traveling in the stage from Milledgeville,
when it was over turned, and that one of his legs
was broken, and the knee pan badly injured, and
several bruises indicted on his head. W e sincerely
hope that the accident may not prove as serious
as at first supposed, and that he may soon recover.
Dreadful Accident.— A young man named
George Parnell, while at work on the Court
House in Thomasville, Ga., fell from the third story
of the buildiDg, and was taken up dreadfully man
gled. His recovery is doubtful.
Sad Casualtt. —A son of Mr. Thomas Boyne.
of Columbia, S. C., was drowned on Tuesday last,
w*hile bathing with his companions in a hole filled
with water, near the Greenville Railroad depot.
New Paper in New Orleans.—A new weekly
paper, to be called Young’t Spirit of the South, is
about to be started in New Orleans. It will be
modeled after Porter’t SpirU of the Timet, both
typographically and otherwise, and will earnestly
advocate the cause of Gen. Walker and Nicaragua.
Sunday was the 80th anniversary of the battle of
Bennington—an occasion on which “Molly Stark’’
was not made a widow.
Vr Brown Wont f>i*<*o**#
Vt L find in the LaGrange “ Reporter, ’ tii£ follow*
ing Notice, which seems to indicate, that Mi. Brown’s
efforts upon the stamp, when face to faua with his
opponent, have not made so favorable hh impression
upon himself, as h ? s too partial reporters would
make the people believe. They made a most dee.
perate effort to trumpet his “triumphal” but it is ve
ry clear that they failed to convince Mr. Brown of
them. However they might laud his efforts, he
could not be persuaded that he had ever gained a
triumph. He has, therefore, concluded, “to give it
up so Mr. Brows,” and leave a contest in which
there are more cuffs thftn laurels to be gained, to
some more desperate knight. He bids farewell —
a long farewell to all the honors to be galnecnn such
a conflict
Mr. Brown will not Canvass the State with
Mr. Hill. —At the Carrollton and Franklin discus
sions between the Gubernatorial candidates, Mr. Hill
made a proposition for himself and Mr. Brown to
canvass the State together. At the time Mr. Browu
could not enter into such an agreement, and en
deavored to evade an answer. But Mr. Hill press
ing the proposition, Mr. Browu finally informed him
that he would have to consult his friends before he
could agree to do %t ; and that he would give Mr.
Hill an answer at their discussion at Athens on the
Bth instant.
They met. and Mr. Hill renewed the proposition,
and he would not canvass Ike State tn company with
him ! Mr. B. said he expected to invite Mr. 11. to
some of his meetings, and unless he did do so, he de
sired Mr. H. to distinctly understand that he did not
want his presence. Mr. H. then invited Mr. B. to
all his meetings throughout the campaign , and said
he would alternate all the time.
Firet Dlfltrlct—A. 11. H. Daw*an*« With
drawal.
It will be seen by the following article from the
Savannah Republican , that A. H. H. Dawson,
Esq., has withdrawn his name as an independent
candidate for Congress, in the Ist Congressional
District. This leaves the field to the two Demo
cratic candidates, and whoever may be put forward
by the Americau party. We are rejoiced at this
result, and trust now, our friends in the first dis
trict will move on harmoniously. The indications
are that Mr. Bartow will be the candidate, if he
will consent to run :
Withdrawal of Mr. Dawson. —We are grati
fied to be able to state that Mr. Dawson, impelled
by a desire for the harmony and success of his par
ty in the coming election, has withdrawn his name
from the list of congressional candidates in this Dis
trict. His letter will appear in one of the city ga
zettes this morning. This decision, on his part, ife
alike creditable to himself and an act of becoming
respect and courtesy to the people. We trust that
whatever division or unpleasantness may have ex
isted between those who differed in their prefer
ences for men may now be buried with the past,
and that all our American friends will work harmo
niously together to redeem and elevate the District.
There is no one now spoken of by tho opposition
for Representative in Congress, but our own distin
guished citizen, the Hon. Francis S. Bartow. He
is the man for the place and for the times—one
whom all respect and admire; in whose talents and
patriotism all can confide. There has been a gen
eral up rising of the people all over the district, in
his behalf, —men of all parties uniting to do honor
to the man and the patriot. It but remans for
Chatham, who, with a becoming modesty, has re
mained silent hitherto, now to come forward and
affix the cap-stone to the public endorsement. Let
it be done speedily and enthusiastically. Let all
his friends, ot whatever name, meet, mingle togeth
er, and fling nis banner to the breeze. We hope
some action may be taken in the premises forthwith,
and that his friends will issue a call for a meeting
before the close of the week.
Wild Cnt Financiers in Limbo.
The private banking house of Messrs. Coateß,
Dyeenfurth & Co., or lately Coates &. Bros., of Chi
cago, 111., has closed its doors. The bank has been
extremely hard up for sometime back, being in fact
unable to pay the checks of its depositors upon it
on presentation.
These Wild Cat Financiers are, or were the prin
cipal stockholders in the Wild Cat “Bank of Greens
boro’,” in this State. It was, however, never able
to get any circulation in this State, and our people
will escape unharmed. How the people of Illinois
and the Northwest will fare, we cannot conjecture.
We should imagine, however, that they are, ere
this, getting rather sick of Georgia Wild Cat cur
rency.
It is a source of sincere gratification to us, that
thus far, we have almost entirely saved the people
of Georgia harmless against these swindling shops.
They have thus been protected against a robbery of
probably of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of
dollars. We are aware, that tho Wild Cat Financiers
curse us most cordia and heartily, because we
would not permit them to rob the people, but we care
nothing for that. Their curses we regard as the
highest praise that could be bestowed on our course,
and the best possible evidence that we have per
formed well our duty as a journalist.
A Slow Candidate.— The Sparta Georgian
says:—A sensible democrat, informed a friend of
ousr, that he was present at the Newnan debate,
between Messrs. Hill and Brown ; and in refering
to Judge Brown’s retort about his making a slow
Governor, he stated that Brown was entirely too
slow for Hill, and that it would be rnnch better for
his cause to go home and make no more speechs
than to attempt to meet Hill on the stump. We
believe this is getting to be the sentiment of the
people generally from the accounts we read of their
debates. What ever else Judge Brown may be,
and we would not detract from him, he has not yet
proved himself to be a stump orator.
Look Out for Him!—A correspondent of the
Dispatch , of this city, writing from Madison, under
date of August 20th, says :
A “confidence man” hailing from Augusta, call
ing himself A. Tant, took in a worthy mechanic of
onr town to day, to the amount of sl<, very coolly.
He represented that he was a Printer, and expected
to work in the place, had bargained for a house, &c.
In the course of the chat, lie wanted to get a S2O
bill changed. His victim had only sl7 about him
at the time, when he cooly asked the use of it for a
few hours, at which time he would return it. He
bought a ticket for Athens, I understand, and has
not written to any of his friends here sinoe. If you
see him, tell him that Mr. Gleason is waiting very
patiently for his return.
Fire at Clarkebville, Va. —Half the Town
Destroyed. —A fire broke out in Clarkesville, Meck
lenberg county, Va., about 2 o’clock Wednesday
morning, which destroyed a large portion of the
town.
New Line of Mexican Steamers. —The latest
Mexican papers contain authoritative statements
that the Government has contracted with Senor
Domingo Goicuria for the establishment of a line of
steamers between New Orleans and Vera Cruz,
touching at Tampico. Gen. Goicuria is now on his
way to New York for the puipose of perfecting his
arrangements’already in an advanced state of pro
gress, and we learn that the middle or latter part of
next menth has been fixed upon for tho commence
ment of the trip. The Mexican Government has
granted aid to the undertaking.
In connection with the above, the Heraldo a
Mexican paper, has the following equally authorita
tive announcement:
We are assured that the Supreme Government
has contracted with Senor Domingo Goicuria for the
introduction of colonist within the Republic (what
number is not stated, and land given them their pas
sage to the country to be paid for them upon which to
work. These colonists are only to stand pledged to re
turn the price of the passage, after a sufficient length
of time, as well as the rent or value of the laud, as
may seen to them best. In view of the activity and
character of Gen. Goicura, we entertain the hope
that we shall, ere long, receive from him a large
number of useful colonists.
Post Master Shot—Supposed Murderer Es
caped.—From Mr. Edward McElligatt, of Haro,
den’s Express, says the Savannah Morning News,
we learn that the poet master named Johnson, at
Howard 's station, Taylor county, on the Muscogee
railroad, was shot on Sunday night last by an over
seer on the railroad named Rock. The latter had
esoaped, and up to the time of our informant’s pas;
sing over the line had not been arrested.
It appears that on Sunday afternoon Johnson and
Rock had been drinking pretty freely together, and
had had some difficulty arising from dispute, Ac.—
In the night Johnson while going home was shot,
and his body was found next morning. Rock, in
whose company he had been seen carousing and
quarrelling, could not be found. Other circumstan
tial evidences lead to the belief that Rock had wil
fully shot him. The matter creates much excitement
ia and about the county.
Railroad Decision. —lt was recently decided
in Buffalo, before Justice Davis, that railroad com
panies are bound to keep ticket offices open at
places where they are established, one hour before
the departure of passenger trains ; and a passenger
who had paid five cents extra in the cars, not hav
ing a ticket, and the ticket office not haviDg been
open to enable him to purchase one, recovered the
five cents and fifty dollars in addition.
The island of F emando Po, which has recently
changed from Spanish to British rule, is situated on
the West African coast, a few miles off the mouth
of the river Niger. It has a surface of about one
thousand square miles, and an estimated population
of fifteen thousand souls. It is noted for its salu
brity for weites. The intention of the British go
vernment is to establish there a commercial depot
for its explorations of the Niger, and for the pur
poses of trade on that great natural highway of
Africa.
The St. Louis Republican chronicles the arrival at
Jefferson Barracks of two companies of the 10th
regiment of infantry, and adds that they are des
tined for Utah, but it is doubtful whether they
leave Fort Leavenworth before next spring.
The Collins steamship Baltic, which was to have
left New York for Liverpool at noon qn Saturday,
got aground in the North river and was detained
until Monday afternoon.
Fatal Affray.— We understand, says the Co
lumbus Sun, that an affray occurred at Howard's
Station, about 40 miles east of Columbus, on the
Muscogee Railroad, on Sunday last, between a man
named Robinson and D. P. Bates, in which the lat
ter was killed by a gun or pistol shot. It appears
that a previous difference existed between the par
ties, and that Robinson bad threatened the life of
Bates. They met on Sunday, and Bates fired at
Robinson without effect, wben Robinson returned
the fire, killing Bates, or so wounding him that he
died in a short time. Robinson made his escape.
Death from Hydrophobia. —On Tuesday eve
ning last, Mr. G. W. Stone, of West Dedham, Mass.,
died from the effects of hydrophobia. He was bit
ten on the thumb by a dog in Mill illage, on the
3d day of July last. The dog was not supposed to
be rabid at the time.
The boundary dispute between Costa Rica and
Nicaragua has been settled. The boundary is to
run from Castillo,on the San Juan River, to the Bay
of Saiinas, on the Pacific coast, giving to Costa Rica
all the south bank of the San Juan from Castillo to
San Jnan del Norte, including Punta Arenas, where
are all the buildings of the Transit Company. Forts
San Carlos and Castiile Viejo have been restored to
Nicaragua. Costa Rica, it is said, is desirous of
throwing open the transit through her territory to
the whole world, provided the United States or any
other great power guarantees the sovereignty of
the territory through which the transit runs.
Atlanta &' I.nlirnn*r Mnllrdni!.
From the Annual Report of the Directors of this
Road, we learn that its affairs are iu a most pros
perous condition. The capital stock of tho Compa
ny has been increased to $1,000,000, and is worth a
considerable premium in market. Tne receipts of
the Road during the year ending June 10th, have
been:
From Passengers $171,694 85
44 Freight - 125,531 70
“ Mails 20,543 76
. $317,770 31
The expenditures have been—
For Conducting Transportation. $36,941 54
“ Motive Power 40,972 56
“ Maintenance of Way 40,615 59
“ Maintenance of Cars 7,345 c 3
Leaving a net profit of $191,892 80
The gross profits have increased,over those of last
year, from the Road operations, $39,646.87, whilst
the net increase, including interest account, is
$24,828.99.
The road, engines and cats are all in excellent
condition. New brick depots have been built at
Palmetto and Grantville, and a new one will also be
built at Fairburn during the ensuing year. A large
passenger house at West Point is in rapid course of
erection. It is two hundred by seventy-five feet,
has four tracks passing through it, aud will be a
handsome and commodious building. But one seri
ous accident has occurred, caused by the breaking
of an axle in a freight train, the train hand, a negro’
was killed.
Mount Vernon.
Tu« President of Mount Vernon Committee, ac
knowledges the receipt of the following sums ; Mias
Martha E. Verdel, Elbert county, $2.00; Mrs.
Wm. P. Carmichael. $1.00; Master J. Elliott
Carmichael, 50c.; Miss Mary Eve Carmichael,
50c.; Mrs. Dr. Wm. Ellis, Oglethorpe, Macon coun
ty, $5.00. We feel encouraged by every new con
tributor, though sometimes we almost feel like de
spairing, it seems so difficult to awaken any interest
in the subject. We would again suggest that those
who have not paid their subscriptions will send them
in, as we feel anxious to transmit the money to the
Southern Matron.
Mr. Peabody’s Departure. —Mr. Peabody ex
pected to sail for Europe in the steamer Persia on
Wednesday, the 19th inst. The Salem Register gives
the following account of the labor accomplished by
-Mr. Peabody since he arrived in this country, about
a year since:
“He has travelled more than 13,000 miles, or more
than one-half the circumference of the globe ; visi
ted twenty-six States of the Union, and the Cana
das ; watched closely the business interests aud
material resources of the country ; conducted gigan
tic monetary operations, and founded benevolent and
literary institutions. He has made more new friends
aud met more old ones perhaps, than any other pri
vate individual iu tho same time ; conducted a cor
respondence almost fabulous in extent; been confin
ed for weeks by painful illness, and yet has found
time for the indulgence Oi all the b aud courteslies
of social life by which the hearts ot all have been
won. Arid inure than this, he has delighted in
the mil t and domestic virtues, and in manifestations
of endearing attachment to kindred and home.”
Stoppage of Cotton Mills. —Tho Providence
Journal says:—The number of cotton looms that
have stopped in New England, in consequence of
the high price of cotton and low price of goods, is
about 6000, and orders have been given to stop
many more as fast as the yarn runs out. We heard
lately of two large mills that will run only till the
cotton now in process of manufacture is exhausted.
This is the only remedy. We talk of the short sup
ply of cotton. The evil is not there; it is the over
supply of cotton machinery. Tho looms now in
operation are not only too many for the supply of
cotton; they are too many for the demand for cotton
goods at anything like the prices which alone, at
the present cost of the raw material, can return a
new dollar for an old one. In England, thirty thou
sand looms have been stopped, and prices have
quickly responded to this judicious curtailment of
production.
The Price of Teas. —Caution to Speculators —
The New York Journal of Commerce gives the
reason for the advance in tea, but cautions specula
tors against raising I their expectations too high.
Not only is there a chance of a cessation of hostili
ties, in which case there would be a grand collapse
in price, but the tendency of high rates is always to
diminish consumption. We quote:—
“Apart from the actual decrease in the use, the
falling off in demand from dealers if prices are exor
bitantly high, will soon tell upon the market. If
every distributor of tea throughout the country
were to purchase supplies at very short intervals,
leaving tne burden of carrying the stock upon
speculators who now control it, the effect would be
almost as severe upon the market as if the consump
tion were actually to decrease. While, therefore,
consumers must make up their minds to pay higher
prices this year than last, we cannot believe that
the holders will find it safe to crowd the advance
to the rates many oi them are confidently anticipat
ing. We may state, in conclusion, that regular im
porters are said to have cleared off their surplus, so
that the accumulation not yet passed into the chan
nels of distribution, is chiefly in tho hands sos specu
lators, many of whom would realize a handsome
profit at rates now current.”
Men MiLLfNERS.-They have men milliners in Ger
many. A correspondent of the New York Times’
in writing from Frankfort, says :—ln America we
have never seen men mantua-makers and milliners,
but in Germany they are as common as men tailors.
One clay, where we wero sitting, a man came in
with a dress, basted, ready to try on. Well, we
confess, we looked with all our eyes, what would be
done; but there was no hesitation—a lady took tho
robe to her room, and put it on, returning in full
dress, sans sleeves. The man examined it, to see
where it needed altering—took it in on the shoulders,
piuched up the biasses, and laid the plaits, evident
ly used to his business, and evidently, as the lady
said he was, an excellent dress maker, and also that
dresses made by men, kept their place better, and
laeted longer than those made by women.
Censorship of the India Press. —No one item
of intelligence shows the bad condition of things in
India so forcibly as the statement that the entire
press of the country has been put under the ban of cen
sorship. The telegraphio announcement was so
brief and strange that no comments were made up
on it in England. The latest India correspondence
of the Times, however, thus gives the information:
“The whole press of India has been placed by an
act that has recently passed the Legislative Coun
cil under a censorship—a step imperatively called
for by the indecent and disloyal manifestations of
joy at our difficultieswhich appeared in some of the
native prints at Calcutta. Here there lias been, to
my knowledge, only one instance of the kind, and
the writer, a scoundrel of a Parsee, received such a
rating from our superintendent of police—an iron
functionary equal to the occasion—that lie is not
likely to offend again.’’
Post Office Robbery in Clevzland. —The
publishing house of the German Evangelical Asso
ciation in Cleveland has long suffered from the loss
of money letters. At least ninety, containing vari
ous sums from three to thirty dollars each, have
failed to come to hand within a few months. By
the skill of Mr. N. A. Gray, assistant postmaster, the
thiet was at last found to be a lad of sixteen, named
Atkinson, the son of respectable parents. On his
arrest last Thursday he acknowledged his guilt aud
implicated a son of Rev. Mr. Hammer, agent of the
publishing association, who have divided the stolen
monies with him, and enabled him to obtain a du
plicate of the key of the drawer at the post office
from which the letteis were stolen.
The Population of Prussia. —The statistical
tablei of the population of the Prussian monarchy
down to the end of the year 1855, have been pub
lished. They give the amount of the civil inhabi
tants of all ages at 16,991,100, including the Hohen
zollern Principalities; and the military, including
wives, children, servants, invalids aDd persons of all
kinds and descriptions immediately connected with
the army, at 211,731; or a total of 17,203,831 souls.
Os the civilians, 4,760,728 inhabit towns, and 12,-
230,372 the rural hamlets and districts.
Everett on Mount Washington. —Edward
Everett thus describes a view of Mount Washing
ton, the loftiest peak of the White mountains, in
New Uampshire :
“I have been something of a traveller in our own
country—though far less than I could wish. And
in Europe have seen all that is most attractive,
from the Highlands of Scotland to the Golden Horn
of Constantinople—from the summit of the Gartz
Mountain to the Fountain of Vaucluse—but my eye
has yet to rest on a lovelier .scene than that which ia
discovered from Ml. Washington, when on some
clear, cool summer’s morning, at sunrise, the cloud
curtain is drawn up from nature’s grand proscenium
and all that chaos of wildness and beauty starts in
to life—the bare, the gigantic tops of the surround
ing heights—the precipitous gorges a thousand
fathoms deep, which foot of man or ray of light never
entered—the sombre matted forest—the moss clad
rocky wall, gushing with crystal springe—winding
streams, glittering lakes and peaceful villages below
—and in the dim, misty distance, beyond the lower
hills, faint glimpße of the sacred bosom of the eter
nel deep, ever heaving up with the consciousness of
its own immensity—all mingled in one indescribable
panorama by the hand of the Divine Artist.“
The first bale of new Cotton in Savannah, was
sold on Thursday, by Messrs. Tison St Gordon. It
was classed as middling, and was bought by Mr. J.
M. Eyre at 17 J cents.
The Mission to St. Petersburg.— Washington
letter writers state that the warm contest between
the Hon. Henry May and James M. Buchanan, of
Baltimore, has resulted in the triumph of the latte -,
who is tendered the mission to St. Petersburg.
A New Railroad. —We learn from the Thomas
ville Watchman that a new company has been orga
nized for the construction of the Georgia and Flori
da Railroad from Albany to Thomasville. It is
proposed to run the road direct from the east bank
of the Flint opposite Albany, to a point on Barrett's
Creek half way from Thomasville to Bainbridge
with a branch to each place. The subscription books
were opened and some stock subscribed.
Death of Prince Charles Bonaparte.—A-let
ter dated Paris, July 30tb, says:—“Prince Charles
Bonaparte, Prince of Canine, oldest son of Prince
Lncien, brother of the first Napoleon, died yeeter
day at his residence in the Rue de Lille, in Paris, at
the age of 53, having been born in 1803.”
Remedy for Snake Bites. —A correspondent of
the Prairie Farmer says, that while travelling in
lowa, a favorite dog was bitten by a rattlesnake.—
In the course of five minutes he could not travel.—
Some vinegar, mixed with gimpowder, was applied
to the wound, and the swelling was stopped, and in
a quarter of an hour he was able to proceed.
Another Transit Route. —The Mexican pa
pers announce that arrangements are in an advance
state of progress, and will be completed the present
month of August, for the establishment of regular
horse and mule trains between the city of Mexico
and Acapulco, on the Pacific, to run in connection
with the California steamers.
Railroad Convention. —A Railroad Convention
is to be holden in New York on the Ist of September
next, for the pui poee of discussing all matters rela
tive to reducing the expenses of Railroads, and if
advisable to arrange a national trial of railway ma
cbinary to occur about Nevember.
Godey’s Ladt’s Book for September has been
received, and laid on our table by Mr Oates. —
“Heel and Toe” is the engraving in this number. For
eale by Gio. A. Oates & Bro.
•Itw*t W. !!• rn<!mioo<l Oanrif*
A friend writing us from Ailania, informs Us that
Jno. W. H. Underwood, made # a speec h iu that.
city on the 19th inst., in which he (Underwood)
said:
‘‘The Editor of the Chronicle 4*. bad
said, he desired to see Kansas come into the Union
as a free State!” . "
Possibly, 6ome<of those who heard this assertion,
may be surprised to learn, that there is not a word
of truth in the statement, and that it is cuT out of
whole cloth by Mr. Underwood. We never utter
ed such a seutiinent, or anything like it. So far
from it, we denounced the Kansas bill the moment
we read it, because we believed, under the opera
tions of the squatter sovereignty and alien suffrage
features of that bill, Kansas would be a free State!
In fact, we never entertained a doubt on the sub
ject ; and we so proclaimed, while the demagogues
and leaders of the Southern Democracy, who were
always ready to sacrifice the South for the spoils,
were loud in their praises of that bill, and persua
ded the people it was “a measure of deliverance ” to
the South ! It has, aud will, if followed as a prece
dent, deliver the South of every foot of territory iu
the Uuion.
The Kansas Bill makers are Responsible.
The Hon. J. A. Woodward, of Ala., formerly a
member of Congress from South Carolina, was re
cently Informed by a friend, that it was reported,
that “ho (Woodward) had approved the course ot
Walker.’’ To which Mr. Woodward replied:
“All he had said on the subject was, the “ bill-ma
kers" bad no right to complain of Walker lhey
made Uu’ bill uuth a design to make a free. State of
Kansas, and Walker seas only carrying out thru
inh niton. He thought the South was swindled and
outraged, and had just ground of complaint, bat the
bill-makers had none.’’
Who are the “bill makers ?” Have the people of
Georgia any idea who they are ? Do they know
the men who falsely represented the principles of
the Kansas bill as identical with the Compromise
bill of 1850, and by this misrepresentation induced
them to approve it? If they do let them mark the
men as unworthy to be trusted again.
The “ Old Plowman ” Speak*.
The Griffin Union contains the following charac
teristic communication from tho Rev. William
Moseley, who, like thousands of good aud true
men iu Georgia, had been seduced into the support
of Buchanan :
Griffin, 14th August, 1857.
Fellow-Citizens .—ln 1850 and ’sl I discovered
that the old issues which distinguished the Whig and
Democratic parties wero at an end, and accepted
the Compromise measures as a final settlement of
the vexed question, and a virtual repeal of the Mis
souri restriction. And as the Kansas and Nebraska
Act was the actual repeal of the Missouri restriction,
a:nd promised equal rights to the South, and as 1 be
lieved the old line Whigs of the North had nearly
all forsaken the South, and refused them equal
rights iu the Territories, and were, almost to a man,
Abolitionized, or Freesoilers, while the most of the
Democrats stuck to us, and finding the party hold
ing the fundamental doctrines of the old State
Rights Party of 18133, of which I was a member,
I united with the Democratic party upon those
principles, and the Kansas Nebraska Act, and Mr.
Buchanan being the candidate, and pledged to car
ry them cut, I entered heartily into his support, lent
my humble aid, and was much gratified at his ele
vation, and while I say I still hold the same princi
ciples, I am deeply mortified to find that Mr. Buch
anan continues It. J. Walker as Governor of Kan
sas, who, I believe, has violated the letter and spirit
of the law. The President was pledged to c arry
out, in his letter of acceptance, his inaugural ad
dress, and oath of office, the Kansas Act. He lias
thus far failed to do it, aud now I ask, How can I,
as a consistent Southern man, blame Walker and
acquit the President, while he Buffers Walker to re
main as Governor of Kausas ? I cannot—l will not
—act so inconsistent. I consider Kansas forever
lost to the South, and if we wink at. this act, all the
rest of the Territories. As such I cannot, as a con
sistent man, support those who tolerate the course
of Walker and the President. If the President is
opposed to Walker’s course, as evidence of the fact
let him recall Walker, and although much injury
has been done, I will hope for the best; but if he
does not, I will denounce him forever, as I have,
and do, much of the doctrine of the Kuow-Nothiuga
I am twenty-one years of age, and as suoh apeak
plain and independent.
I turn from Federal to State politics. I will vote
foi no man in favor of taking money Irom the pock
ets of the people to build Railroads, or that is op
posed to selling, for a valuable consideration, the
State road, or that is opposed to capital punish
ment, and by pardoning or otherwise, turning loose
upon an unoffending community, the assassin and
the cut throa*. who has been legally condemned un
der the law of the land ; nor will I vote, if I know
it, for any man that, when a candidate, treats, or
causes it to be done, with the view of securing his
election; nor for any man brought out as a candi
date through the management of a clique , and not
the deliberate expression of the people.
And now, as I do not fall out with principles, in
consequence of the act of some of the party, and
feeling able to give good reasons for what I here
say, aud standing firmly upon the Georgia plat
form, and Democratic principles, the Kansas Ne
braska act included, and feeling a clear conscience,
having dene the best I could for Spalding and the
State, and being willing to work, whether able or
not, I bid defiance to lazy drones, demagogues,
44 croakers, factionists rnd malcontents.”
Yours respectfully,
William Mosei.by.
Wholesale Grocers.
The attention of dealers, is invited to the adver
tisement of Hand, Williams A Graves, Whole
sale Grocers, in this city. They have just opened
a new and very extensive stock of Groceries in this
city where they have been long and very favorably
known.
Burglary. —The Columbus Sun of Thursday
morning says On Tuesday night a most daring
burglary was committed in our city, by persons as
yet unknown. The Book store of Messrs. Chaflin
<k Johnson, on Broad street, was entered through
a back-door of the store, by first cutting off, with a
cold chisel, the head of a small bolt, which held the
bar that fastened the door, which let them into the
back-room, where their further progress was stop
ped by the door which separated the back from the
front room. This they speedily opened by prizing
off the facing, upon which the catch of the lock was
fastened. This opened,fthey found their way to the
iron safe, which they opened by means of intro
ducing powder into the key-hole, and blowing off
the lock. In the safe were about two hundred dol
lars in coin, mostly foreign, being a collection of
the ooin of all nations, which a gentleman had been
collecting for seme time, and which he had deposit
ed in the safe for safe keeping. One coin was a
five franc piece with the head of Napoleon 111 upon
it, and as such coin is rare in this part oi the coun
try, it may lead to the detection of the burglar.—
The safe also contained a box in which were a num
ber ot watches, about sixty, belonging to the cus
tomers of Mr. Hungerford, who has a shop in the
front, part of the store, for repairing watches and
jewelry, all of which they took, together with a lot
of jewelry from the show case of Messrs. Chaffin &
Johnson, among which were a number of fine gold
pens and pencils with extension cases.
Col. Gartrell on the Back Track! —We
learn, says the Atlanta American, from a gentleman
who heard his speech, on Monday last, at Stone
Mountain, that Col. Gartrell took strong and decid
ed grounds in favor of President Buchanan—declar
ing it to be his purpose to support the Administra
tion whether Walker is recalled or retained In his
position as Governor of Kansas. The Colonel, we
understand, also expressed great solicitude lest the
great National Walker-Buchanan- Democratic pnrty
would split before he reached the haven of his ambi
tion—a seat in Congress ; and lustily exhorted all
good Democrats of the Fourth District to stand by
“the party’’ this time, no matter what broke loose
elsewhere! From our previous knowledge of the
Colonel’s vain boast, that he would beat Tidwell at
least two thousand votes, we did not expect bo soon
to hear that hi 3 courage was on the wane.
Wheat. —The Marysville East Tennesseean, of
the 14th, says :—The price of wheat is on the de
cline, a«d we are not surprised. We never have
seen or heard tell of as much wheat being raised in
this part of the country. From twenty to thirty
wagon loads per day have been deposited at one
mill in this place during this week, and a large quan
tity going to Louisville. The depots on the Railroad
are crowded, the ears not being able to ship it as
fast as it is deposited.
The Cotton Ttade or the United States. —
The following facte and figures in relation to the
cotton trade of the United States, tell the whole
story in a brief and comprehensive form :
COTTON EXPORT—IN WEIGHT.
Treasury year. Treasury year.
1856. 1855.
Gulf and Up1and..1,325,837,251 995,366,011
Sea Island 12,727,225 13,058,590
Total pounds 1,338,634,476 1,008,424,601
Total bales 2,991,175 2,303,403
COTTON EXPORT—IN VALUE.
Total value. Average per lb.
1856 $128,382,351 9.49
1855 88,143,844 8.74
Increase $111,238,507 0.75
The total crop of the United States and the ex
port in bales were :
Crop in bales. Ex. inhales. Ex. in value.
1856 3,527,845 2,991,175 $128,382,351.00
1855 2,847,339 2,303,403 88,143,814.00
Value of whole crop this year $151,416,432.00
Value “ “ last year 110,476,703 01)
Average per bale in 1856 42 92
Average “ 1855 38.80
Wrought Iron Cars. —The Hudson River
Railroad Company have ordered four of these to be
made and used on their road byway of trial. The
frame work is to be a very strong, yet elastic bas
ket, each joint being protected by rivets, and the
whole further protected by making the entire plat
form at each end one strong spring of steel. Cars
thus made will be lighter it is said than woodon
ones, yet so safe that a fatal accident with, them is a
thing hardly possible, as they will spring, bend, or
twist, but remain whole as a shield to uheir occu
pants, no power being able to break them into frag
ments or splinters.
“Fillmore Floored Again.” —Under this cap
tion, a correspondent of a Northern exchange, in
giving an account of the crowd at the recent “meet
ing of ths American Association for the advance
ment of Science,” held at Montreal, and of which
Mr. Fillmore was a member, says:
“There, almost the same time as myself, Mr. Ex-
President Fillmore entered. He slept on the floor,
last night, at the Donegana, if popular rumor be
true —none of his countrymen being sufficiently
magnanimous to “turn out” for his accommodation.
What a difference between an American Ex-Presi
dent and a European Potentate!”
American Nominations. —The Americans of Tay
or county have nominated Andrew McCants for the
Senate and Wm. Greer for the House of Represen
tatives.
Robert J. Hill has been nominated for the Senate,
and Geo. R. Harper and Kobt. T. Hames for the
House, by the American party of Sumter.
Appointment. —Mr. YVilliam G. Woodlin, former
ly of Richmond, has been elected to the Sanders
Professorship in Mercer University. This chair is
devoted to Roman Literature and Modem Lan
guages.
Worthless Rags. —The Indianapolis Journal of
Thursday warns the public against the issue of a
new shinplaster banking concern at Gosport, hid.
called the “Citizens’ Bank.” The Journal says “it
ia a stranger to the Auditor of State, and the bill
holders have no protection in the redemption of its
notes.”
Tin* AltaMlc Tcirtcrnpfi*
Tlio four vessels comprising the Atlantia T«lc
graph Kxpeditinn letl Queenstown at six o'clock
Monday evening, of the 3d of August, and were ex
pected to reach Valentin Bay in season to commence
operations on the following morning. The Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland had arrived at the starting
point of the telegraph, in order to witness the pro
ceedings. A letter in the London Times, dated
Queenstown, July 30, says:
Tne entire squadron, consisting of five magnifi
cent ships cf war, now about to proceed to the con
summation of this great enterprise arc at, tins time
anchored in the harbor of Queenstown. They con
sist of the Niagara, Capt. Hudson; the Susquehan
na, Capt. Joshua Sands; the Agamemnon, Master
Commander Neddall; the Cyclogs, Capt. Dayman
and the Leopard, Capt. Wainright.
The Agamemnon arrived this morning only, hav
ing been engaged during the trip from Greenwich
in the very valuable service of testing practically
the form and suitability of the machinery to be used
for paying out the cable.
Mr. C. T. Bright, engineer in-chief to the Atlantic
Telegraph Co., having joined her at that place she
bore away for the Irish coast, at 3 \ o’clock, on Mon
day morning.
To Mr. Bright is committed the entire control and
responsibility of depositing safely in its ocean bed
th’s wondrous example of the united power of sci
ence and industry.
During the progress of the Agamemnon to the
Downs, the mechanical appliances for regulating
the delivery of the cable into the sea were kept con
tinually iu motion by the small engine on board
which is connected with them; the sheaves and
gearing worked with great facility and decision and
so quietly that at a short distance from them their
motion could scarcely be heard.
The strength of the gii dens which carry the bear
ing of the entire apparatus and which to the eye of
a person unskilled in the practical working of this
description of machinery may seem at first to be
unduly ponderous was found to contribute greatly
to the easy motion and satisfactory steadiness of
this most important agent iu the success of the
undei taking.
So soon as the Agamemnon lmd passed the track
oft he Submarine Compauy’s cable between Dover
and Calais, in order to avoid the possibility of its
being injured by the laying or hauling up of an
other lino at right angles to it, the experiments
commenced. A 13-inch shell was attached to the
end of a spare coil of the Atlantic cable, for the pur
pose of sinking it rapidly with a strain upon it to
the bottom, and was then cast into the sea, draw
ing after it a sufficient quantity of slack to enable
it to take hold of the slack, and so set the machinery
iu motion.
The paying out then commenced at‘the rate of
two, three and four knots an hour respectively.
The ship was stopped, and the cable was hauled up
from the bottom of the sea with great facility by
connecting the small engine to the driving pinion
geared to the sheaves.
When the end was brought up to the suface,it
was found that the shell had broken away from the
loop by which it had been fastened for the purpose
of lowering it.
The cable, when recovered, was found to have
been cleaned as bright as the specimens which have
been so freely distributed among tin* friends of the
enterprise, and which are so generally known.
The exterior coating of tai had been completely
rubbed off by being drawn through the sandy bot
tom of the sea, and attached to the iron coating of
the cable were some weeds and several small crabs
which came up w ith it. to the surface.
On tho following day a length of cable was run
out and hauled in with perfect success, opposite the
Isle of Wight, attached to an anchor.
The speed was increased, iu this case, to five
knots.
During the afternoon of the same day, a length
was run out, having fastened to the end of it a log
of timber, and after having been towed with a mile
and a half of cable, was coiled in again with suc
cess.
On Wednesday, about half way between the
Land’s End and the Coast of Ireland, another length
was run out, at the rate of six and a half knots per
hour, and subsequently hauled in. The Agamem
non then steered for Cork, and reached Queenstown
Harbor at 4 o’clock on Thursday moling, all on
board being more than ever satisfied at the success
of the enterprise.
Capt. Hudson, of the Niagara, writestoWasliing
that it was expected the paying out of the cable
would commence on the 3d met., and adds :
‘‘lt will be a most singular coincidence, asColum
bus left port on his voyage of discovery to our
Western world, ou the .‘ld day of August, just 31i5
years ago.”
Extraordinary Freaks of a Lunatic. —A
young man in Mercer county, Pa., named Davis
has for some time manifested symptoms of insanity
The Pittsburg Despatch says:
He imagines himself to be a second Dan It ice,
engaged in getting up a circus. On the Bth inst.,
he caught a snake, which lib took to Hell’s school
house, in the neighborhood, where he says he had a
grand performance ; after getting through which lie
swept the house, and broke all the windows with
the broomstick. He then proceeded to the resi
dence of Mr. William Curry, a mile or two from
town, in the absence of the family, and destroyed
nearly everything in the house. Ho says he went
there “to have some funbroke a gun, with the
barrel of which he smashed the crockery, dishes,
glassware and windows ; took to pieces a clock and
two watches, grinding up the works in a cider press.
It then struck him that the ground where the house
stood would be an admirable location for a oircus,
whereupon he built a lire on the floor, and it was
soon in tlame3, from which he narrowly escaped by
jumping from a window, cutting his arms ami hand's
in getting out, and leaving a broadcloth coat, which
the heat induced him to throw off, a prey to the
dames. Considering the been appropriate perform
ers in his new circus, he upset several hives, and
undertook to nut sleigh-bells on the insects, in which
“performance'’ he was very badly stung. When
the neighbors came running to the fire, they found
him under a shade tree, congratulating himaelf that
this was the “best performance he had had yet—it
brought the largest audience The house was en •
tirely destroyed, and the poor lunatic secured and
taken to Mercer jail.
Speculations in Sugars. —Letters from Batavia
a* late ae the 10th of June have just been received
in New York, and it is said they show that the fever
of speculation in sugars is raging there. From the
10th May to the 10th June 175,000 fiscals had been
sold at prices equivalent to 7\ / d) 8 cents per pound
free on board, and some important sales from the
crop of 1858 and of the crop of 1859, at very high
prices, had been made. In New York, says the
Post, the reaction in prices continues, and there
seems no disposition to speculate. A cargo of be
tween 300 and 400 lihds. sold a day or two since at
8£ cents, which had been purchased on speculation
early in May at 10 cents. The news from England
by the Columbia offers, less inducement for the ex
porters to operate.
llowto Make Water Cold Without Ice.—
"The following description of a method of rendering
water almost as cold as ico, has beeu going the
rounds of the press for many years. J ust now it is
again “in season,” and wo copy it for the benefit of
those of our readers who either have not the oppor*
port unity or the inclination to purchase Ice :
Let the jar, pitcher, or vessel used for was er, be
surrounded with one or more folds of coarse cotton,
to be constantly wet. The evaporation of water
will carry o.*t me heat from the inside and reduce it
to a freezing point. In India and other tropical
climes, where ice cannot be procured, this la com
mon. Let every mechanic and laborer have at hia
place of employment two pitchers thun provided,
and with lids and covers, one to contain fresh wa
ter for drinking, the other‘for evaporation, and he
can always have a.supply of cold water in warm
weather.
A Dress Reform Convention. —Miss Hancock,
the Secretary of the Cayuga Dress Reform Society,
publishes the proceedings of a convention of llio re
formers, held at Auburn on Thursday. The follow
ing resolutions were adopted :
Reiolved y That as health is closely allied to dress,
we, as reformers, adopt and lend our aid to carry
into common use short skirts, loose waists, minus
the whalebone, and any style which we deem com
fortable and healthful.
Resolved, That we regard Paris fashions as a
nuisance ? and that we, as American free-born wo
men, do discard them as such.
The convention ac|journed to meet at Skaneatelee,
N. Y., November 13th, when a “dress-reform ball’’
is to be given.
Death of Eugenk Sue. —It was stated in the
late foreign news, that Eugene Sue, the celebrated
French novelist was dead. The following is a brief
sketch of his life .
He was born in Paris in 1808, and inherited aeon
siderable estate from his father, who was a profes
sor of anatomy. He studied surgery, and served
for several years as a surgeon in the French navy.
After having squandered his patrimony in extrava
gant living, he was driven to writing romances. Jlis
first literary success was “ Mathilde, or the Memoirs
of a Young Woman,” wherein, contrary to the usual
custom of French novelists of time, vice was pun
ished and virtue rewarded. The popularity of this
book, however, was far exceeded by that of “ The
Mysteries of Paris.” “The Wandering Jew” was
no less popular, and, like “ The Mysteries of Paris,”
was translated into many languages. “ The History
of the French Marine in the time of Louis XIV,” a
work in which truth and fiction are ingeniously min
gled, was very successful. His “Mysteries of the
People,” written after he had become identified
with the socialists, did not meet the anticipations < f
his admirers. In 1850 he was elected to the Na
tional Assembly, where he exerted no great influ
ence. His extreme socialistic views made him ob
noxious to the party of the order, and after the coup
d'etat he became a refugee. More recently, how
ever, he returned to Paris, where he died ou the 3d
iiiet., aged 49.
As a writer, Eugene Sue possessed great, powers
of vivid description and lively narrative. Hi
works abound in horrible and mysteries incidents,
and won favor with the lower classes by the vigor
with which their wrongs and sufferings were cun
trailed with the vices and luxury of tne rich. Not
withstanding his socialism, he has always lived very
extravagantly, as the great, popularity of some 'of
his writ ings enabled him to uo.
\ Copper in the Sea. —Experiments are now in
i progress to show that the sea is constantly charged
| with a solution of copper. Mr. Septimus Please
i caused a bag of iron nails to be hung from the aide
i of steamers passing between Marseilles and .Nice,
and obtaining a precipitation of copper upon the iron,
lie finds the eame metal in the substance of animals
inhabiting the sea, and recommends the popular ex
perirnent of putting an oyster—a bad one , if possi
ble—on the blade of a knife, and leaving it there for
twenty-four hours, when on the removal of the oys
ter, the copper will be found on the knife. In Mr.
Piesse’s opinion, the beautiful blue color of some
portion of the Mediterranean is due to an ammonia
cal salt of copper, while the greenness of other seas
is owing to the chloride of copper.
Strychnine. —The source from whence the poi
son, which has gained so world wide a celebrity is
obtained, is thus noticed in Dickens’s Household
Words :
In Ceylon, and several districts’s of India, grows
a moderate sized tree, with thick, shining .eaves,
and a short crooked stem. In the fruit season i
readily rexjognized by its rich orange -colored her
ries, about ad large as golden PW“ '
id hard and smooth, and oovera a white.. P J ■
the favorite food for many kind* ofbmhb
which are the flat, roundseed- not an ■ no,h i in d,
arneter ash-irray in color, and covered will. r\
eTy haiT Ve Germans fancy they
a resemblance to gray eyes, and <ah tl em c o s
eves but the likeness is purely liuagir.ar.. ine
free is the strychnine nux vomica, and the seed is
tht dcadly poison nut. The latter was early used
as a medicine by the Hindoos and lid nature and
properties understood by oriental doc tors long be-
Fore it was known to foreign nations. “Dog killer,’
and “fish-scale,” are two of its Arabic names It is
stated that at present the natives ol Hmdostan
often take it for many months continuously, in much
the same way as opium-eaters eat opium. They
commence with taring the eighth of a nut a day,
and gradually increasing the allowance t o an entire
nut which would be about twenty grain?. If they
eat directly before or aitei food, no unpleasant
effect* ure produced; but il they neglect this pre
caution, spasms result,
“The Healthiest Country in Creation.”—
Deßow*B mortality statistics show that the people
of the United States are the healthiest on theglc.be.
The deaths are three hundred and twenty thousand
per year, or one and one-third per cent, of the pop
ulation. In England the ratio is over two per cent,
and in France nearly three per cent. Virginia aud
North Carolina are the healthieet of the States, and
have six hundred and thirty-eight inhabitants over
©ae hundred years years of age.
/■■ ri,
,ip . Sii-i.lu-iiV Address.
Mu. Knrroit : Hassthe egotism and vanity of
the Honorable gentleman escaped tho attention of
yom. elf and your readers ? Tho personal pronoun,
ml ho first person Singular, oeours jus twenty nine
times in the first three paragraphs of his address
As a specimen of this trait of character, you have
the following part ol a sentence :
“If it is the will and pleasure of tho people that l
shall rerve them again in the national tn-jincUs, /
have no sufficient'reason, consistent v, ■,
°l duty I . ibe ...entry, and m y
to justify me iu refusing.”
Tins weakness is not exltihitdd nl n- Iml
he Hatters himself that “not a single vo { nr act ’ of
his, as the representative of the Btli District, “was
ever subject of complaint at the time,” an far
l.e.i/M aware, “by n single man of any party inlhe
Di.iriet.” The obscurity of his vision is as forlu
■into ill its bestowal of fame as was that of “M.e
blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle.”
J lie American parly do condemn as !■ t(,,
and ilnnagogms, ail those who aid. .] and abetted
in getting up the Kansas bill with its double mean
ing, with a construction for the North, and a cor,
struction for the South. Tho gentleman is too good
a lawyer not to know that tho doctrine of estoppel
lias no application where fraud is char-ed and
proven. The American parly charge that it wav e
fraud upon tlieWfcghta and the rights of the South
ern people. Wo were told that it contained the
doctrine of non intervention, pure urd undefiled, as
it appeared in the l" lan Bid. We have found it
contaminated with “Alien Suffrage, ’’ and “ Squat h r
Sovereignty.” We have found that even the email
remnant of non-intmarention, left fromthe j, wi n -
of these worms, isacoutto be consumed by the
Northern view of tho hill, “l! / nck&te r wev the
authors of it,” the American party have not been
“tiiokaters’ backers,” as the Honorable gentleman
com lndes, but they were “tricksters - victim ” the
victims of their fraud and treachery, it nmy fan
cy that it is”a sufficient reply to tho accusation,
that the authors of the bill were /m ir ier* d
demagogni*, “that, those, who bring this charge, ;u.
is stopped from making any suc-i ai-eusntiou, for they
gave it professedly (he says) as hearty an approval
at the time it passed as anybody else.”
Now, in making this accusation, tho American
party aim at higher game tiiau the rcpreecntiitivi
of the Btu District. Hot lie appear.i to have been in
range of their fire, and some south ring shot may
have taken effect upon him. If the egiy c*:p tie
him and he places it upon ids own head, lie must
wear it.
But it it can be shown that those who condemn
the authors of the Kansas bill del not give it
fessedlv or otherwise their approval, limy nr., not
estopped from making the accusation, nor is his
fancitul reply sufficient. We join issue with the
honorable gentleman, and deny the truth ol hi p ,
mise. It, is flatly denied that tho people of til i
gie or tho American patty of the tilute ever on
doreod the Kansas bill with wit h its Alien « a Hi-age
and Squatter sovereignty. Ar> s 'ini ion of too tie r
gia Legislature is cited to support, tie; gentleman s
assertion. He says it endorsed nil tho ” Alien Sus
frage” the bill ever contained. Wei), first, where
did that resolution come from? Was it not intro
duced by Linton Stephens, Ksq, and did no! tho
Him. A. H Stephens write it, or see mid approve i!
before it was introduced ! Was not its passage
urged upon the ground, that the bill only carried
out tile principle of non-intervention, and thill its
adoption by the Georgia Legislature. would aid the
cause of the South in Congress ? Did the Kansas
bill become a law in the precise form iu which it
was when this resolution was penned, sc-ut from
Washington City, introduced and passed ? How
inany members of that Legislature hud seen the
bill, when they voted for the resolution ? We von
tore not a half floaea of them, hut that they con
tided in what they heard from their representative.
But, for the argument, admit that the resolution
is all that is claimed for it by the idolatrous worship
pers of the Kansas act,--was it within tho count,
tutional power of tiie General Assembly ot Georgia
thus to bind tho whole people of the State to aim >
pressiou of opinion f Suppose the same Legisla
turn Lad passeda resolution of condemnation of the
course pursued by the Hon. A. 11. Stephens upon
the bill, would that action have expressed the views
of all the citizens of Georgia, and weird it: have
met the gentleman’s own approval ! It lie be free
to dissent fromthe latter, why may not every voter
in the .State be equally free to dissent from the form*-
er? In fact, dees every resolution passed by tho
same General Assembly meet his approval and o.\
press his sentiments ! Fish cannot thus be made ol
the distinguished gentleman, and flesh of the unlion
ored citizen. We are all freemen, with perfect lift,
i rty at least, ol thought, and this inestimabl • privi
lege we mean to exercise, regardless cf the dicta -
tion of inflated politicians, and contemning the pow
erof party domination—looking only to our noun
try and our country’s good. More anon.
Marion.
For the Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
A Reminiscence ui ISIS.
Mr. Editor In the year of grace above written,
I became an inhabitant (a jubilant word this with the
freesoil Democracy,) of that once proud old county
of Elbert, whose banner once brightly waved to
the breeze, inscribed with letters of light, and glory,
“ A Thousand Votes for Henry Clay,” there 1 nu t
with Col. T. W. Thomas, with whom t had formerly
associated on terms of friendship and intimacy,
though differing widely with him at that iime in
political sentiment. —he being an impetuous and
fiery Democrat, whilst 1 was equally ardent and
combustible as a Whig. Shortly after my arrival in
tue county, Mr. Stephens delivered in Cougrtas bis
famous speech on the admission„of Texas into the
Union, in which he appeals imploringly to the Free
Boileis, even at that early day, by saying, “ I am not
UkC defender of slavery in the abstract—liberty a/
v'ays had charms for me” By tome means, Cols.
Thomas and McMillan received copie3 of the speech,
or lmd the above sentence by newspaper paragraph,
before any of the Whigs had seen or hoard of it, and
were startled and dismayed on hearing it thus
quoted and assorted to be true; all efforts to evade
or deny its authenticity, would not do, for the mail
soon brought the speech to hand containing this
obnoxious sentence, which appalled* many a stout
Whig’s heart. Col. Thomas would gloat over it at
the street comers, in public harangues, and in lus
daily conversations, to the utter confusion of the
Whig party. Here, says he, is the proof positive of
the freek-oiliam of your Federal Whig party—here it
is in black and white, over the sign nmuual ot A. 11.
Stephens ; and he would read and repeat, “ I am
not tho defender of slavery iu the abstract,” with
an unmistakable gusto.
Well do .I remember the destruction it caused,
and the counselling together of Christian, Nelms,
Johnson and Smith, the old brindlcs of the party, as
to what should bo done. Dr. Robert Toombs at
that time, now known as HaiTiilcar, must be sent,
for at once to prescribe for the party, or it would be
dismembered and die; the disaffection was be
coming »o deep and wide spread, a messenger wae
dispatehed at. onoe. Dr. Toombs came and pre
scribed, and saved many of the sick and disheart
ened, by an impassioned appeal in his usual chaste
and elegant style, by asking the party if it intended
to be deluded and misled by Thomas, McMillan, and
“their damned Locofoco nonsense !" No one cun
doubt Alex.’sjfealty to the South, so long as he owm:
slaves here in our midst, and is willing now to suit
martyrdom for his property and the j ightsof liisown
native State. Go to ye, of little fait ;; ; Alex, i- all
right, and do you stand by him in this hi ; ■ xtromitv
of Locofoco persecution. The Doctor’s prescription
proved \ ery potential and eflicatb its in Alex <*a »
at that time, and run.. > of the sick old Whigs uon
vales cod and elood by their guns. I would remark,,
however, that, old Elbert lias been doctored > much
from that day to this, that she has never been sane
or well biuce. Yoong Tugai.o.
Costing of l he A incrieon Party of Lincoln.
Pursuant to previous notice, the American party
and those opposed to the Administration of llu
chanan, Walker & Co., assembled this lay at liin
cointon for the purpo.-e of nominating candidates
to represent the county of Lincoln in the next Leg
islature, when,on motion, Aaron Hardy sva.- called
to the chir, and J. M. Dill appointed Secretary.
On motion of V. M. Barnes—
Resolved, That a Committee of seven be appoint
ed by the chair to report business for the action of
this meeting.
In accordance with which resolution the following
named gent’ email were appointed : V. M. Barnes,
L. Lamar, Dennis Pasca l ,l*. W Sale:, Robert Hen
derson, W. Davie and B. P. O'Neal; who, after re
tiring for a short time, reported through their chair
man, V. M. Barnes, the following :
The American party of Lincoln, true to its prin
ciples, and determined to maintain them, presents
to the people the following :
Resolved. That we heartily endorse the noinina
lion of B. il. Hill for Governor and The. W. Milh i
for Congress, and the platform of principles on
which they are nominated.
Resolved , That thq American party of Georgia
never had two opinions or positions on the Kansas
bill; it never sanctioned the alien suffrage and
squatter sovereignty features of the bill as pt inn
pies, and that as the Georgia Legislature, it has a!
ways declared, and does now declare, that all oppo
sition to th & principles d the Kaunas hill, in relation
to slavery, that ia, the principle of non-intervention,
as supposed to be secured simply by the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, is hostility to the rights
of the South.
Resolved That still declaring hostility to those
who oppose this principle of non-intervention, our
party is compelled by consistency and a sense of
justice and honor, to denounce the "perjury and
Ircaclury'’ of James Buchanan, the Northern man
with frceeoil principles, and all _t l > who palliate
his conduct, or support him in his<>; «-ii violation ol
our principles and the laws of the 1.-.nd.
Resolved , That the party hereby invite Messrs.
Hill and Miller to meet with us and address us at.
an early day as will suit their convenience.
Resolved, That we heartily invite all who agree
with us on the principle of non-intervention, and
who oppose all violation and violators of this prin
ciple, to unite with us in the canvass.
Resolved, That this meeting now proceed to
nominate a candidate for Senate and House of Rep
resentatives by ballot, and that a majority ot the
whole number of votes cast be necessary to a choice.
The meeting then proceeded to nominate candi.
’ date 3 for the ofiices indicated above, when upon
counting the ballots, H. B. Moore and Jno. 11. 'I a
' turn,our former ableand respected Senator and Kep
reeenlalive, was declared to be the unanimous
choice of the party for re-election.
Mr. Moore and accepted the nomination
and, with arguments pointed and convincing, that
must have carried conviction to the minds of all
present, even the most, stupid Democrat, defended
himself against the charge of inconsistency on tin*
Kansas bill. Messrs. Bafries and Lamar being call
ed upon, adreased the meeting with a good deal ol
fervor and eloquence upon the great questions of
the canvass.
On motion of V. M. Barnes, the chair appointed a
Committee, consisting of V. M. Barneß, Dr. IS. F.
Bentley and Col. 1,. Lamar, to confer with Mfflßra.
Hill and Miller, and invito them to address us at
this place, at such time as will suit their conve
nience ; and, also, to tender our Democratic friends
a cordial invitation to participate in the dheussinn.
On motion of li. F. Tatum—
Ibuohrd, That the proceedings of this meeting t,
signed by the Chairman and Secretary and cent to
the Chronicle At Sentinel for publication.
On motion, adjourned, line die.
* Aaron Hakdi, Chairman
J. M. Dili., Secretary.
August 1 Stb, 1557.
From the Albany Patriot
Totlic Planters Trading lo Savannah.
Two new commission houses having announced
that they will sell cotton in Savannah at the old
price of fifty cents a bag, 1 have no doubt but that
your interests will prompt you to patronize them till
the strikers shall have receded from their high
charges. But, that is not enough. Gratitude requites
that w e continue to do so, even after those on a
strike shall have given in. For, to them we ore
indebted for at least, a dollar on every bag of cot
ton we may make. Not only gratituile, but justice
to those gentlemen who have undertaken the ex
pense of new estaldishments, and have manifested
tin firmness to withstand the buffeting ol'the strikes
—too powerful for one firm that rebelled against
the strike—demand that we coutiune steadfast to
thorn. Not only gratitude and justice make their
appeals, but it is to our interest to give such a lesson
to the combination, that we Bhail have no more
strikes for a'! time iq come. ’
1 understand that the new houses are responsible
firms. One I know to be so. We can, and must,
make the fortunes of these independent men.