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THE KANSAS QUESTION*
RfcPO&T r MR STEPH t- •*>, <F GPof GiA, FROM THE
BEI.ECT COMMITTER OF FIFTEEN.
On beh- 1 the majority .f the Select Com
mittee of Fifteen, of the Howe f
M’ Step present el on Wednesday the follow
ing rep r? :
The select committee of fifteen aopMnted under the
resolution of the House of the Bth of February,
♦o wbom *ft refi rred the me-i*ttu'e of the Presi
dent of the United S'litc* of the 2d of F -binary,
“concerning theconsti of ion traced Rt L**ccinp*
ton. in t,. Tt-rrHory of Kansas, by a Convention
of dtaitrga •:? t . -re< >!, end tbe papers ace *mpany-
Couv iUn. -n and t* e Uwetutder which the same
£Vd-u ; - ‘
toe • w ■ t-i ’ have b*‘fef *-•
K
\?i Z -nil. r wit*'lLer.*> thPresi
dent tii -so ■b * n t.e r:Lrr ; , ig priuci
&°J Ive of their deti Tex*'"* : ‘•! * qf* • v* in*o
si: fan *-r; a i g t< ih * leg* by end reg darity of
;he piocetdn^.-r. ■: - of th f t
there •, .h-/ v- wb,- >•rr no t be tbe einbodV
b>na fide FiUzi u- :K. Vs, * this miOrTFtad
ngof he ll ; e ‘belli, Die commute
eo*atetoWed, U n.!odedVu/tbe oUhJVrn j
’ . nd p > c ftdiiiira confute, in ;
braced in ih- i<*- • * < • of fee President, and i
peifii.*’ : f'. b.; h:<4 repot* to rt
°* 7lU ’ 1 D'-d-iHiureof Kan- j
nn * Ith of January ju; ■ j
Leconptori U<. • *''• ‘ ■ • iUmll t)l t,ie I
Com . i lvt on'leraWn -ni -
presented v. .th t-e res*.) nd snrU'.l f xbi )dH ill j
A
j’ . lt'.f iwi It- 1 • -uffiM* ft. TM*y Which
ti e tleeu’i mull niu: arc m •uin.-ntary, abrut I
from tlieir m mm .g to li-'-ii ‘••.•I: lir et, the law for j
taking the 11 •'* !•;•’ “M ,! ‘ propriety j
hb’ l .i i :V:'.v,
gate*.*’ N'• - <•! tH Convention, I
with their hi •••• -. • <•••• <-;n. f.ution o
’ •V-u'nr,'|‘'r nwbimD'JwV |
IWougM-ut i ‘ ‘ U “•* pr.-gr.i-* was taken
In P t rn i.lit 1.. I y t<> ;a- . But little appeal* mi! mb j
;*n,!e .7’ ’n: •:! It. <’.( t! • * tfmb'b', <m/I t'kauLb ;
“Dyte.’ —■ -of the United Stale, ‘W j
Htalb ... •. • all ..-led bi (;..n K rw lino this Uu- j
*ke rVall. il'D’ • .■e'V'torni'of gnvwiimnilt.” 1 Un- |
tlve'be.'m aiimi tb • the l?:.ion ■ f rmed;
appiinatiou oi ‘ ■ b. n
l,t In re a .-n o- th number < f the population. ,
■•••• *'■ . ~ rs i
3d. Whe. ■ r the conrt.tutmu r ?en!ed be re
pubi cau in t"rin |
j,,,, i i.l- nt.n e! the mmm tee nee i
.M ‘ “ bD” “, ! Va. ‘
o'i tiie nini “ !< nitty-ai dr - u arity uo qae tioii
yr.T , t-u .till/ ill h.. J.t •<< -bilge. Oa tbi* I
nohii there .■•.n t-t no doubt Ihe only other one,
1 , Ih • re,.lib . .... I . of j
and Wiii.i.th. u,ei theoi-j in to the reooxStion j
fifth- e . ;Ul on, a A Hie ,;i"". ; —. ot the Smte ,
ou B <le ■: 11..'... -..1.1. But the Ci.ir.liill.ce propoe j
ingly fo'uii'deibui the‘ o’ • otlhe rein, and Itself.
5-i!. fir t.;t,..u.H. relee lethal urged by Oov
ernor Winker. The in iiuground of hie op|iosiium
-ut.ii.ill‘‘.l 1 11 1 rutifluii uni lo * popular vote 1 hi” |
iVoft'veiy'i-'.iibituiio’. li.nueil lor the government I
ofa.iyp. pie iiepend- upou it* having received
mch a-,io- on Hi- aigum nt, in his own words,
X. lu-,v ‘|> in the p oploof each S at-, and that ii !
btat*hoveinin'e"l" t Kiid slat. ‘i..noiitnlo'n” Tins j
highest lie: o! (OVeieignty. 1.1 my judgment, can
only be pi i mimed by lhe 1 ’ ■} ■■ them-. Ive,and i
i a,mot be del. gated to convention* or o!her inter- j
That h v. ‘• >r.ty is exclusively in thepeo- i
of rHcli >Siat9, and tint it pet forms its first but j
J,.,,, tunc.finn in IbrutiuK a Stnte government
and Stal ctnißJiur.ion, umy be prauted. Put that ;
| his tii not ot Hovi-reinJtv in lnnkiuK s constitution
Mftnle.l Such a doitiine w not only tnivel, bntut- j
terly at war ."ith il l our past hiotorv. In support of j
it Gov. Walker < coauihoi.iy butt.- civil He ,
allnounci'” i as ;lu* convu ’ion ot hia individual ,
lodgment', and the <n y authority he referst> to nu- |
lain it .. that 11l v• US made by himself |
in which he loci exprease Itho same opinion. But i
the (..-Him, cam...! .... maintaiHed either on prmci
oit an v •fii.M lUitft c.y. Ikcnmni w atrami't
K . ,; n j vV f!4-i) it w admitted that
„ w ;,h ,I„ and tbet iti*
i, „ ot follow that the right to ex- I
mab. uftbl. ; r - cannot be dele
gated by th m t0.!...-. I’ 11. t were so there ;
■ “and i 53StS?2
our evstrni*. i 1 very of sov reiguty
that it my n< by i ‘ oi t y any other it may
j t ( Tiio eiiai •! id ot all laws anu |
the exm iCion of them t> quire ® excrene ot w>vc
!
is; r „ ••• . nut bv cnoHt-n rep-esenta j
tiv. s Fne ! * mh: o: ‘ ’ 1 * n ' h tnys’ino law j
nre^o-:| k O ‘ ‘ “"t e.‘.vVr. Doty U.sa.r j
the d.ehvii'u of war : for ti n may put in J-opar
■
StHtr C .ltd C.l. ‘ * mi* . 1. ion* c.r,,u ,
ty.” t decs not tulow th.v t. .a may not oe per- ;
formed by tn ivl” t urn nd clothe t with
f„uV.wert..et lorttie people in this manner as ,
well asm ail ulcer- l-c’ur.i.i, t'-.e excreted ot sore
eigu power.
> i
f
jorfnondmstauhi.g in <
bv’T’-ireumtS;',* cb'ien |
aotedjn,. i. in i.• S::. 1-,- h:c. -. mah the;
oM Stale-. wi:h .ue - ep..on. iheir brat nwttttt !
tfas* arera irm t lud [ at it to . p ntoo ■ though
the ‘ c v Hwa
chuse-t-a .u popular Jot*.— I
uabvestair oMV>v •; r Walker. Iliat’ under which j
Mud prosperous Commonwih !.-••- np ’-*
attained her pr#ct-? fc - • t inmeuce m wealut.
rr, and r i own.delved n ts .uictwu b> f.e peo I
T.e same W U.. 0‘ “ ‘M. - • ; ; ■ :
State; amt ti.e sauu* . !u’ ot r, aj rstv ot the
Mates o: Una l l G ‘ V 4 r s .a.- ytr
in ibis partivul ib t ,i. cu all t eom-utu
tioM a* c n * •• v - ai.u vui. and we
have neither eot-t. u* v ’ a i . iu wor- than
had ot the M<'O : and a jMs dntrine is as
F re t .s
la e)OUgt> t *< **“• utu “ uu
condenin ii tt l.c un * couim* m i*nr past bis
tory has tH.n. ‘ v ‘^ * ■’ ‘ s ‘• ? X* ‘ \
•ion, lose** tuat l “** er ;ik w , t
W Vfid i.r I . •. • ‘ . • ‘• v ; ®
I ’ ‘e” -ArofVan^:
as erel. a* 1 * . , . ,
in the act appr>r ‘ ‘ P • .
1, it 1 : ‘ t 1 ’V I \ r in.
npimthe
aroie **’ *’ ‘ . • ’* 1 f, 1 . w ‘ ,
to ceil aCV'*■ : ‘ y k *V’ * r?T r ’ fr m
he statement ot Mi. C•’ ouaa n ■* t-otn Pbltc
call a Conveul ton l uey cot. and uan rt juired them
to pubu.il tie r work lo ..y 14 - “.“
ma'tn f ru.t tvtru and ‘ <; • ,r ‘ \
not do T.n Concernuui ei - -t-% . o in Wn
•d and p ■ . ary powrt ■
CvUild >-- S . o:. lit- * 0 K-t J r*. TtirV.
qaantedw, kh- f ) , ft * . 2 ~i i,
#uooni in- or i ; ~ _> ‘
any pa’ or •o :-r • : ‘.JuM t ’ ‘
a
■a v y ‘■ • • U 1 :
say s
r! -I'bep-. . ar invi .and
n*gb-: • *’ • ‘ “*, K ’ ‘ *,* [
tics ()'>• “ ‘ ‘ y L ‘,l
to tram* a cvr.o .i ~ -i. emu Mat
l*w MW V * 1 ‘ •■’ 1'” • *’ ■ ! , u “
wbeoiteitci • .* ..•• ■ - ■ • 1 •
but it cana't ’“'•!’ i~U"ttnu>. • o. teal oy.
Throu---
•v lrer (TOTi-r. ■ t ‘ “ _
from tbr n<’ *” ’** ‘ 1 K , K ’ -*
UtoM who do Toje o • ■•'• ’ ‘ •>; ’ >;
mbct. and the a -■*>!■ *'■■* &> ■°r
y tar and o :•** •
do TOitf. a.* n a-1 t-nd l’* 1 , * “?
Otben. h- vv * u- **.'• or
oromtul w.’ttid o* .ti.pr&i ■ ■ t n,,tjre
dtspi-tiPm ou and rcUi : L hi* ff ou.} 1 * * „
-Vou b..ud ®y r*
““““ .’if. wVo ~’ and .. Os * o'ai-tita
nr,.,; -* u -• u-1- < •. to t •&•
Uiu. Ala. ... ■a. - * ..... 4 .. . L! . V..* be
lii-TUI tbit til* CoDVttit oil If tb. f*rVM H .
the n'lwter o’ tbe ,*„pir, t K*v no power to
dK-tate u.* pr.. -
Tui* lamfttaie c-e.i.;> <■ L-.ey* tue *-e& that tue
CoDveuttou uuU or uu* ft- u um toe cone .
tattoo to be -tuei by t -m to >. t ot tie peo
ple ; *utl eo tar t.oiu pe*p e uot bet g a *j* u
Seleea powd or to wituonae others U’ Oi&ke a
eoaeuiutivti for utern bouts uu*. as now couteuoeo
for by Governor Walker, it fo’lows moat clearly,
it • m what he eayt, i bat such authority could be giv- j
on even by their silence The authority conferred ;
w< uid be implied by t eir abstaining from the polk. !
Ou t:.e question of the powers of the delegates to j
m* elected to the Convention, 3ir. Stanton addressed |
tiie people as follows ;
“ The Gk)vemmeut especially recommends the |
Territonal act wbich provides for assembling a Con i
vention to form a constitution, wiih the view to l
man;: g application to Contrees for admission as a
State into the Union. That act is regarded as pre
* iting the only teat cf the qualification of voters
for delegates to the Convention, and all preceding
repugnant restrictioua are thereby repealed. In
i.. ijt the act inu--.t be allowed to have provided
* ! : a full ar:d fair expression of the will of the pec
pi- through the delegates who may be cboeen to
i present them in the Constitutional Convention. I
1 <Jo not doubt, however, that, in order to avoid all
; pr lext for to the peaceful operation of
s law, the Convention itself will in some form
pj Vide for submitting the great distracting ques
, lion regarding their social institutions, which ha* so
i-. g agitated ‘he people of Kansas, to a fair vote of
ad ual bona tide residents of the Territory, .
w. h ev- ry possible security against fraud and vio- !
! en e. It the constitution be thus framed, and the j
question of difference thus submitted to the decision
>t t - people, i beueve that Kansas wili be admit
ted by Congres - without delay as one of the sove
r-i/o Slates of the Amer can Union, and the Terri
; *•;; auth ritieswill be immediately withdrawn.”
H r-. Mr Stanton clearly admits the full power of
: delegates to be chosen to form a constitution
v .iid in itself, whether it be submitted or not for
j ratification. It is true he expresses great confidence
i t:o.t the * 4 die-racting question,” wbich was the
s a very question, would be “in some form sub
i: ttedto a fair voteof the bona fide residents of
the Territory, and the firm belief that if “ the ques
* on of difference’’ phould be submitted to the deci
, n ,>f the p - -pie, Kansas would be admitted witfc
..u - ~~y fbi- is exactly’ what was done by the
I Convention, as the testimony accompanying this
r , . , h-h. As to the powers of the Convention,
i ..\ . r . ip-c uimittee will cite but one other au
-1 •i- a speech made by Judge Douglas
h >f nr gfieid, I;iinois,c the 12th June, 1857, just
, tbe election ol the delegates took place.
•i\ >.n-as.’ BHid he, “is about to speak for herself,
r .••iigtiher delegates assembled in convention to
. i..-t ‘ii o preparatory to her admission
. ~j Union on an equal footing with the origi
r.a S-ates. Peace aud prosperity now prevail
i. ut her borders The law under which her
. are about to be elected is believed to be
*>i : fair in all its objects and provisions. There
. ry reason to hope and believe that the law
interpreted and impartially executed,
■ ii; ’-e t\r.r\ bona fide inhabitant the free
-i qoi* * j* eot the elective franchise. If any
• ~oi tii inhabitants, acting uuder the advice
it seal leaders in distant States, shall choose to
-.-1,1 toen .- Ives from the poils, and withhold
\ ir vu’-tv with a view of leaving the free State
• ocra-siu a minority, and thus securing a pro
-.v.-ry < .iirtitution in opposition to the wishes of a
:ii j rity of the people living under it, let the respon
, y upon those who, for partisan purposes,
wid ha. nhcAi the principles they profess to cherish
H.d promote. Upon them, and upon the political
party : r whose benefit and under the direction of
Wat ~; leaders they act, let the blame be visited of
eii.iig upon tbe people of anew State institu
- repugnant to their feelings and in violation of
f neir wishes The organic act secures to the people
Kauris the sole and exclusive right of forming
and regulating their domestic institutions to suit
tn in-• ■ vee. subject to no other limitation than that
wifi I. the Constitution of the United States imposes,
j 1, I) ruo .ratio party is determined to see the great
luii atneotal prii.cipie of tbe organic act carried
< t, good faith. The present election law in Kan
18 acknowledged to be fair and just. The rights
j oft 1 ...: voters are clearly defined, and the exercise of
’ i ights will b - efficiently and scrupulously pro
t ed. Hence, if the majority ot the people of
K ‘V 3 desire to have it a free State, (and we are
:o.d by the Republican party that nine-tenths of the
p p!e if that territory are tree-State men,) there is
ii tacie in the way of bringing Kansas iDto the
L iion a” a free State by the votes and voice of her
own pvi.pie. and in conformity to the great princi
pi-s of the Kansas Nebraska act; provided all the
‘n. State men will go the polls ana vote their prin
< ipl. ,-i ;u accordance w ith their profession. If such
l.iiiottue result, let the consequences be visited
upo , heads of those whose policy it is to pro*
C ■< u .strife, anarcy, and bloodshed in Kansae, that
i -ir party may profit by slavery agitation in the
Northern States ol this Union.”
lo i.ns speech there is not the slightest allusion
whatever to a subsequent ratification of the consti
tutifii to be termed before it would have validity ;
i the •‘-lightest reference to any such construction
ot * lie Kansas Nebraska act. The language is:—
K t xis about tit speak for herself through htr
delegates assembled in Convention to farm a con
-fit ato u lt was in the choice of these delegates
(•.at tn responsibility was to rest upon those who,
*• r parti/an purposes, under the contiol of leaders
distant States, should absent themselves from the
That was the time their voice was to be le
,V*.iy heard in the formation of a State constitution,
and if they chose to be silent, then they were to be
ii - emit rward-n They would liave nobody
to blame but themselves.
It me that <iov. Walker, while plainly telling
h jm- > that the Convention would have full
•.> in.ike a constitution without submitting it,
• to •! them that, in his judgment , the eutirecou
ut on to be framed by them ought to be submit
• : t-> the dco> on of the people, and that if it were
ii nin iudumeiit Congress would not and ought
: t<*[admit the Stale under it. In this he differed
n ibely Jr in Mr. Stanton, aud in making the decla
? ii he greatly transcended bis rightful power.—
HeU Kleitookto prescribe foi Congress the exer
’ 1 h right they do not possess under the Consti
■ i ot the Uuitod States. When anew State
, est'iiic a constitution for admission Congress
i. more power to inquire into the manner of its
i|t ion than the matter of its substance. The
in .:tci cannot be inquired into further than to see
- ;it ii republican in form; and the mode and
iii:*i ner of its adoption cannot, be inquired into only
.. ‘hi as lo hi e ihat it lias been formed in such way
> i h- people have legally established for themselves,
ri, doe! i l o* ot Governor Walker would be utterly
subA tive ot all State rights and State sovereignty;
r •of the unquestionable attributes of sov
: k nty is the abfoiute right to select its own mode
rs giving expression to its own wili.
If, tii-a up ;ii general principlep, as well as from
CHtabiished
ty* fi. const it u ion does not necessarily depend
upon iis having received a popular ratification, is
list re any thing in the Kansas bill that varies this
ia (* from firmer precedents ? On this point Gov
c! nor Walker eays “these rights” (that is, the right
ot having the cot*t titution as a whole submitted to a
popular vote) “ I have ever regarded as fully se
• u <--i to t.he people of ‘ all the Territories’ in adopt
ing th< ir Stare constitutions by the Kansas-Nebras
ka bill Such is the construction of this Kansas act
by it* distinguished author, not only in his late most,
at.lt* argument, but by addresses made and publish
id by him long antecedent to that date, showing
t: it this sovereign power of the people in acting
upon State constitution is not confined to the ques
tion M slavery but includes all other subjects in Buch
an ins rument. Indeed, I believe the Kausas-Ne—
h-aska bill would have violated the rights ot sover
eignly reserved to the people of each State by the
F* . nil Constitution if if had deprived them, or
Congr* i should now deprive them of the right of
voting for or against their State constitution.”
VV 1 1 at part or clause of the Kansas act gave Gov.
Walker the idea that it secured not only to the peo
ple .1 that Territory but “all other Territories” the
,gilts he mentions, this committee are utterly at a
loss to imagine. If there is a word or sentence in
it whi< i embodies any such security, they have
been unable to discover it; and if the distinguish
e | ‘ I toi from Utinoia, wbo is thus styled the au
thor of that bill, ever gave any such construction to
it antecedent to his “late” speech, this committee
me not aware of it. If any such construction was
iit upon anv part ot it during its discussion in
< i.njuss m 1854, or afterwards, or during the can
v .t 1856, by that Senator, or any person else,
this committee are equally unaware of it. Ou the
: rrary, they have good evidence that no such
i instruction was then or afterwards, or up to the
. Ml. June last, put upon it by the Senator who is
called its author In the speech made by him on
hat dav he certainly put no such construction on
the bill During the last Congress the same Sena
tor reported a bill, though he was not the author of
i . providing fur the call of a Convention in Kau
*i to form a State constitution lor admission in the
Union. That bill made no provision for the sub
n i*-.ion of tbe work of the Convention to a decision
of the people. That was known as the Toombs
b!! It passed the Senate, and received the vote
of tbe Senator from Illinois. In giving that vote,
(Jov Walker may believe that the Senator “viola
te! the ngkfs of sovereignty reserved to the people of
i ;> • by the Federal Constitution but he can
In v affirm tha* by it the Sei ator gave that con
Mrm-tinii tv> the Kansas bill which tiie Governor
- i*. • l e had so repeatedly given before his late
H... < . Indeed, the record of that Senator shows
at he lid rot deem it necessary, under the Kan
t- Nebraska bill, to submit even the slavery ques
. ad i on of the people. The language of
• * Kansas ‘ ill. as first reported by Senator Doug
ts t th:-- subject, was in these words :
“All the questions appertaining to slavery iu the
Territory and in the new Slates to be formed there
• :i . ’ to be left to the decision of the people re
ui ng therein, through their appropriate represen
-1 ids sh ‘Ws that he then thought that the act of
, -v. .. gtity in determining this question on the for
n*.s. i. u ot a o institution could be performed by the
. . ; ‘ through tl.e “intermediate body” of “repre
as fully aud completely as if done by
\ - The words fina ly adopted on this
• i ii; ; * bill, after declaring the restriction of
IK ‘ null and void, were as follows :
• 1 ben g the true iutent and meaning of this a^t
t iT ‘late slavery into any Territory or State,
• .ex i ic- i • herefrom, but to leave the people
• •< of perfectly free to form and regulate their ao
!.'< t\* institutions in their own way, subjeot only
t ■ :! * Con- tut oil of the United States.”
It ay mference is to be drawn from this change
of; hiH. so ogy, it is that the object aimed at by it
\\ is to leav t* even tbe slavery question to be settled,
* au • Miers had been before, by the people, iu their
own wtv, in conformity to law and the Constitution
United States. It* they chose to do if by rep
rt ’ ntativvs. the power was given them so to do it;
it t t y chose to do it by general popular vote, the
i-owt r wa s given them to do it in that way. Con
ress was t • abstain from all interference or inter
v- m with <‘r over their own way or manner of
: -;t it was legally done under the Con
MuMon of the United States
; . and rih-uity with Gov Walker seems to be that
avt- cKtsen a w ay of their own different from
*•i iat hi* would have had them to adopt. He
w it; m to decide that as we 1 as other ques
jin his way. they preferred their own way to
To correct this disobedient proceeding on their
iaif seems to be willing now’ to shed the ‘‘last
crop of his Life’s blood,”
A, i ...re stated, the Lecompton Convention did
- t the siavtry question to a popular vote. This
- • a matter entirely discretionary with them
- \ 1: _ a they were doubtless actuated
> mo*t patriotic ntotives. This was the origin
i ... etroe in the Territory. This was the sub
* • wh c.i Mr Stantou had stated with so much con
we‘u'id"in Si ute way’ be submitted to a di
••tv. ieoi the people. On the submission every
• citizeu m the Territory entitled to the
t e ... fiise had a full and perfect right to
’ ■ If any abs'aiued from voting the
u ■ ow-c TANARUS!.. \ have no just cause to
of <■ tress for admitting the State under
- cot s'::.. .on wuh a clause which they do not like
* ; en they had a fair opportunity to vote it down,
they real y have, as they pretend, a majority in
* ..e 1 erri:c’ v. The official a ote on the ratification.
U Ited, as will be seen by exhibit No.
I p, was as follows:
Constitution w th slavery -li.'Jfip
CooeututioQ without slavery- 569
Ma . Can aggregate of P,T9o voting on the ques
n. j a mammy of 5.6i? for the constitution as
.. i'/eo. I- sis certainly a very large ma
.>[ ;\ oft; -se joining in the election, if not a ma
t’. of a.l ihe"voters in the Territory in favor of
. ’.sTcutiou as it is now before Congress : and
: - :.g to the doctrine of Gov. Waiker, in his in
so ress. “those who abstain from the exer
- refit suffrage authorisedthoeewho did
e’o t :..r them, and the absentees are as much
. der the law as if all had participated in the
r . t. n.’ If tills view be correct, then noconstitu
* r came u. with a stronger endorsement by
, opular vote, and every objection to its validity on
. . ground ot its wanting even this sanction is ut
terly without foundation.
Another object in of the same class is that no en
ab. : g act waa passed by Congress, or, in other
rcie. Tlh* t -■ Leg'-s-atu-e oi Kansas did not have
. cal right to call the convention that formed
n. This objection is equally untena
>, - on principle and authority. The power to
a i . tivention to term a constitution is
-ar.\ mils in tue “ri<cbtful eebject*' '* of legi*ia::oii
t: u ;ed in iu? organic act But even without that
- , rei euelite are numerous where convention*
.‘.ve bt catied without such a ifrant. Out of the
- l>e w S’ate.- Lieretofore admitted nearly half
: . e navt* tv iu under t'OMtitutions formed
v ’ ut any dirt ft authority of Centre®- Amount
• ‘H-aihyVima i Tennessee, Michigan. lowa,
ithab. Ark a >ve. Kentucky, Florida, and Caiifor
. ln addition tv* thie. it may be addod that the
CKet pivlit.o; o: tboee who now urjfe thie objev
t a are es>t. pped by tntir own declaration* and ad
*u>- is;* Got. Walker, fc*r n*taoce, in hi* inau
gural addrree in relation to the ngkt of the Terrtlo
; Ls- ‘-‘iture to oaila convention, u*e* thi* ian
it ie eaid that the convention i* not
iv and fairly conducted. The Territorial Legisla
ture i* the power ordained tor this purpoee bj the
i of the United States, ana in oppoaing it
: you reeiet the authority of the General Govern
ment.” And again he says : “The Territorial Leg
ielature, then, in assembling this convention, we. e
fully sustained by the act of Congress.”
Mr. Stanton expresses similar sentiments in that
part of hie inaugural address before quoted. Judge
i Douglas, in his Springfield speech, also quoted,
does not intimate that he then thought there was
any necessity for an enabling act Moreover, his
position on the admission of California is well
known. In that case a constitution had been sent
up formed by a convention called together without
slightest pretext of legal authority, either from
Congress or any territorial organization. A, procla
mation of a military commander was the sole foun
dation so; iD and vet upon that occasion Judge
Douglas said : I hold that the people of California
had a right to do what they have done ; yea, they
had a moral, political, aud legal right to do all they
have done.” ...
How any person could maintain the legality of the
proceedings in the California case and deny them
in Kansas, or hold that an enabling act by Congress
was ne'-essary in tbe Kansas case when it was no:
neceseary in ‘California, is incomp: ehensible to this
! committee. They dismiss this point without further
remark.
But other objecticns of a different class and cha
racter have been started. These relate to the fair
ness of the election of delegates to the Constitu
tional Convention. On this head it is said that
quite a number of countiee, nineteen in all, making
more than half of the counties in the Territory,
were disfranchised by the law of the 19th February,
1857, and were wholiy unrepresented in the Con
vention. By the statutes of Kansas, as all can see
by reference, there are thirty-seven counties laid
out, and boundaries, in the Territory,
of these—to-wit: Washington, Clay and
Dickinson—were omitted in the act of the 19fh
February creating districts for the election of deie
gates. They lie in the extreme western frontier of
the Territory, as will be seen by the map, and ex
ist mainly in law and on paper. They seem to be
destitute of population, without officers or civil or
ganization. Tbe thirty-four organized counties
were all embraced in the act, aa will be seen in the
19th section. By that section they are arranged
into election districts, as follows :
Ist district, Doniphan county.
2d ‘ Brown and Nemeha counties.
3d “ Atchison county.
4th “ Leavenworth county.
sth “ Jefferson county.
Gth “ Calhoun county.
7th “ Marshall county.
Bth “ Riley and Pottawatomie counties.
9th “ Johnson county.
1 Oth “ Douglas county.
11th “ Shawnee, Richardson and Davis cos.
12th “ Lykinga county.
13th “ Franklin county.
14th “ Weller, Breckinridge, Wise, and
Madison counties.
15th “ Butler and Coffee counties.
16th “ Lynn county.
17th “ Andereon county.
18th “ Bourbon, McGee, Dorn, and Allen
counties.
19th “ Woodson, Wilson, Godfrey, Green
wood, and Hunter counties.
The object of the law, as all its details plainly
show, was to have as fair an election as possible.
The registry of voters as required was made and
returned for these districts as follows, as will be
seen by Mr. Stanton’s proclamation, (exhibit No. 3:)
No. of Names of counties. No. of legal
district. voters.
Ist.. Doniphan 1,086
2d.. Brown 206
Nemeha 140
3d.-Atchison 804
Ith.. Lea v,n worth 1,837
sth.. Jefferson 555
7th.. Calhoun 291
Bth.. Marshall 209
9th. .Riley :... 353
Pottawatomie 205
9th.. Johnson 496
10th.. Douglas 1,318
11th.. Shawnee, Richardson, and Davis... 283
J2th..Lykings 413
13th.. Franklin no return
14th..4 counties no return
15th..2 do no return
16th.. Lynn 413
17th.. 1 (Anderson) no return
18th.. Bourbon, McGee, Allen, and Dorn. 645
19th..5 counties no return
Total 9,251
Upon this return of regisiration, showing 9,251
voters, (which, upon all reasonable probabilities,
must have been within one or two thousand of all
the legal voters at that time in the Territory,) the
acting Governor, as will be seen from the same ex
hibit, made an apportionment of representation,
according to the provisions of the act. This was
done by dividing the whole number of voters (9,251)
by sixty, the number of delegates constituting the
Convention, and apportioning the delegates to the
respective counties in districts, as above set forth,
from which a registry had been reported. The ap
portionment was as follows:
Ist district, Doniphan county 7 delegates
2d do Brown and Nemeha 2 do
3d do Atchison 5 do
4th do Leavenworth 12 do
sth do Jefferson 4 do
6th do Calhoun 2 do
7th do Marshall 1 do
Bth uo Riley and Pottawtomie 4 do
9th do Johuaon 3 do
10th do Douglas 8 do
11th do Shawnee, Richardson & Davi*2 do
12th do Lykiug 3 do
16th do Lynns 3 do
18th do Bourbon, McGee, Dorn, Alien! do
From this it will be seen that twenty-one out of
(Jmm thirty-four organized counties were embraced
m the apportionment ; and the journals of the Con
vention (exhibit No. 4) show that all these were
represented in that body. From the same procla
mation it will be seen that five election districts,
embracing thirteen counties, were left out of the
apportionment. These were, a3 will appear from
what has been stated, the 13tb district, being Frank
lin county, the 14th, including Weller, Breckinridge,
Wise, and Madison ; the 15th, Butler and Coffee;
the 17th, Anderson county ; and the 19th, Woodson,
Wilson, Greenwood, Godfrey, and Hunter.
Ot these thirteen counties nine had but a small
population in them. This (apart from the state
ment of Mr. Calhoun and other reliable information)
clearly appears from the returns of the election on
the 4th of January last, the official announcement
of which is tiled with the papers of this report. From
ti at it will be seen that not a vote was returned as
having been cast in that election in seven of these
thirteen counties about the disfranchisement of
which so much complaint has been made. These
seven counties are Weller, Wise, Butler, Wilson,
Godfrey, Greenwood, and Hunter. Nor was there
a vote at that election in either of the three unor
ganized counties of Washington, Clay, and Dickin
son.
In two of the thirteen counties stated above, to
wit, Madison and Woodson, there were but 90 votes
cast, 40 in the former and 50 in the latter ; and but
1,135 in the four remaining, to-wit, Franklin 304,
Breckinridge 191, Coffee 453, and Anderson 177.
So that if the election of the 4th January should be
received as evidence of any thing, it would prove
nothing more conclusively than that the clamor
about the disfranchisement of half the people, or
even a considerable portion of the people of the
Territory, is utterly groundless, ana resorted to
only as a pretext for the want of something more
solid. This pretext becomes the more glaring when
the cause of their being no registry in these tour
counties of Franklin, Breckinridge, Anderson, and
Coffee is understood. This is fully explained not
only by the statement of Mr. Calhoun alluded to,
but by the deposition of George Wilson, to be
found in Senate document No. 82, at this session.
From these and other notorious facts, the real and
true cause of a failure of registry of voters in these
counties, and a consequent failure of representation
being apportioned to them in the Convention, too
clearly appears to need much explanation. The
parties in whose behalf the cry of aisfranchisement
fa now raised prevented the registry themselves.—
Since the organization of that Territory there has
been in it a class of men whose avowed object was
to oppose and overthrow all legal authority. They
went there with this purpose. Their object was to
set up an imperium in imperio. In the language
of the President, they have been in a “state ot re
hellion” against the legally constituted authorities
from the beginning. This is fully established by
numerous reports of Governors Shannon, Geary,
aud W'alker, aud Secretary Stanton. They were,
to a great extent, the emissaries of those who de
nounced the Kansas bill when it passed as a great
“wrong” and an “outrage,” and who were resolved
to defeat its peaceful operation.
To show the grouniessness of the first clamor, as
well as the last, we might here inquire what was
the wrong or outrage of that bill 7 Was it a great
wrong or outrage to permit the people of New York,
Massachusetts, or other States of the North, as well
as the people of the South going into anew territo
ry, the common property of all, to be as free as they
were at their native homes ; and in forming new
States to enjoy the same lights which their fathers
did in the formation of all our present State consti
tutions and governments ? This is just what that
bill did ou the main question of controversy in Kan
sas—uothiug more, nothing less. But, rather than
see this great principle of right, justice, and equali
ty carried out, this class of men went to that territo
ry to defeat it at every hazard. Setting themselves
up in defiance of law from the beginning, they now
denounce a constitution made by those who con
formed to law as “a fraud,” “a cheat,” aud “a
swindle.” But the more ultra of the same party
elsewhere have long since said much worse things
of the Constitution of the United States. This class
of malcontents in Kansas are organized in a party
having the control of some of the counties. They
refused to recognise the validity of the law requir
ing the registry to be made. They opposed its exe
cution, both by withholding their own names in
some instances, and in others by driving the officers
whose duty it was to make it from .the country,
with threats to take the life of any w'fto should at
tempt it. This was particularly the case in Ander
son aud Franklin counties. It, then, these counties
were unrepresented in the convention, their dis
franchisement was the woik of their own people
Another significant fact to be noticed from the reg
istry and appointment, together with the official re
port of the 4th of January, is this, that the five
counties, to-wit: Leavenworth. Atchison, Douglas,
Doniphan and Jefferson —at that election cast an
aggregate vote of 5,118, which is a majority of the
whole vote reported to have been cast throughout
the entire territory agaiust the constitution. And
yet all these counties were registered and repre
sented in the convention. They had thirty-six of
the sixty delegates of which that body was compos
ei. Now, if it be true that the opponents of the
constitution are so largely in the majority in those
counties, and are so violent in their opposition, as
they are represented to be, why did they not elect
rneu to the convention who would have formea a
constitution more to their liking? lhese counties
alone, by the registry, had within four votes of two
thirds oi the convention, and could have made just
such a constitution as would have been most agree
able to their people If they refused to act at the
proper time, why do they complain now ? If others,
conforming to the law. went into the convention
and formed a constitution to suit themselves, was
it not their lair, just, and legal right to do it ? These
complaints come to3 late, even if they come from
orderly, law-abiding citizens. As well as might the
thousands who abstained from the polls, or threw
away their votes, at the last Presidential election,
now come forward and claim that the present Ad
ministration is illegal, and should be set aside, be
cause the inaugurated Chief Magistrate did not re
ceive a majority of all the legal voters of the Uni
ted States, as for these people now to complain of
the result of their own laches or illegal acts, or to
seek to remedy it by any such irregular proceed
ings as the vote taken on the 4th of January
against the constitution, after it had been legally
adopted. . .
But the inquiry is made whether the constitution
is acceptable and satisfactory to a majority of the
legal voter* of Kansas. This is a matter the commit
tee could not ascertain and report upon with certain
ty without polling every legal voter in the Territo
ry, and if they had gone there and taken the vore
themselve* for and against the constitution, perhaps
the majority might have varied from one side to the
other, by death, emigration, or change of opinion,
before their report could have been made. That
eoareeof investigation is wholly impracticable. The
only proper mode of pursuing the legitimate inquiry
before Congress in the judgement of the committee,
is to ascertain whether the constitution imbodied
the legality and fairly exj reseed will of those who
by their acts acknowledge themselves to be bona
citizen* and constituent elements of the society
or political oommunnity to be organized in a State
within its jurisdiction. * hose wno by their acts
show themeelve not to be Urna fide citizens, bu£
mala fid* residents and e ven eeli-acknowiedgea out -
laws by their open hostility to all civil authority,
should not be considered or taken in the count.—
The Convention that formed the constitution was as
fairly constituted as could be with_ the view of al
lowing every i>ona fide citizen in Kansas entitled to
vote to have a free opportunity to be heard in its
formation. This Mr Stanton said, his Gov.
said, thi* Judge Douglas said, this also abundantly
appears from the facts and evidence now submitted.
Tue only correct test of the will of a majority of the
bona fide voteni of Kansas upon the subject of their
constitution is that of the ballot-box, and sucu an
expression of their will a* has been there given at
the proper time and place in conformitv to law.
By this test a majority of them is certainly in favor
of it. The majority of those going to the polls when
the election of delegates, with full and plenary pow
er took place, was largely in favor of those who
made the constitution , and when the direct ques
tion on the slavery clause was submitted on the ‘2lst
of December, the like majority was overwhelming
ly in favor of it. On the 4th January in the elec
tion of Stkte officers under the constitution it is well
known that botfc|partiee joined in a rigorous con
teat for the orgenization of the State under it. Up
wards of 12,000 voters participated in that election.
That vote shows most clearly that the constitution
is not only acceptable , but has been accepted by at
least four fifths of the voters of the Territory, though
it may not be entirely satisfactory to all of them
As to the alleged frauds au the 4th of January’ for
State officers under the constitution, the committee
have not deemed it pertinent or proper for tnem to
enter into any investigation. They are matters to
be inquired into and tried by other tribunals, as all
frauds in other Stat3 elections are. This House can
have no jurisdiction ov*r them in any way. no j
more than they have over the frauds, if any. in the
State of New York, Indiana. Illinois, or any other
State in elections for State officers. Should Kansas
be admitted and the seat of the member returned to
this House be contested on the ground of alleged
frauds then this House would be the proper tribu
nal to decide that question. There will be other le
gitimate tribunals to decide a i others.
Upon a review, then, of all these facts, and a
survey of the whole field here presented as a ques- |
tion of public policy, looking not on’y to the pres
eat and future welfare of the people ot Kansas, but j
to the peace and harmony of the whole Union, the j
committee, in conclusion, express their entire agree
ment with the Pres dent in his recommendation of I
the immediate admission of the State.
That a large number of the States would look up
on her rejection under all the circumstances with |
extreme sensitiveness, if not alarm, itannot be de j
nied or doubted. This is natural When they see j
that no new State has ever presented herself for ad
mission with a constitution formed aud adopted \
with greater regularity and more strictly in confor- j
mity to law ; when they reme nbertbe irregularities 1
that were waived on the admission of California
whose constitution was formed without any legal !
authority ; when .hey see the irregularities in the j
case of Minnesota now applying, which will doubt- !
less be waived ; when they feel and know that no \
valid or well-founded objection can be made to the j
constitution of Kansas ei.her in its substance or
manner of adoption, except that it recognised slave
ry so long as the sovereign State may choose to al- J
low it; when they know ihafcthe fiat has gone forth ;
by that party which mainly urges these unusual oh- ]
jections that no State whose constitution recognises
slavery shall ever hereafter be admitted into the j
Union, and that the rejection of Kansas would in
crease and intiame that factious, sectional, and un
constitutional spirit—is it not natural that they
should come to the conclusion that the real secret
of its rejection is this bare recognition of an iustitu
tion which forms the basis of their civil society ?
Is it not natural that this act would strongly tend
to produce distrust towards the common govern
ment, by awakening a conviction that a determina
tion is fixed by the majority never to allow another
member of the Federal family to enter the Union
with institutions similar to theirs ? Wili not her re
jection tend to weaken the bonds which ho and the
States together ? These are grave questions, in
volving in their solution the destinies of the future j
The committee barely allude to them; they are sug !
gestive enough of themselves without comment or
enlargement. But the committee urge their calm
and dispassionate consideration, especially as it is :
believed by them the peace, quiet, welfare, and
prosperity of Kansas herself will be promoted by |
her admission, as well aa the general harmony of all j
the States. If it be true that a majority of the peo
ple of Kacsaa are opposed to the institution of
slavery, as now recognized by her constitution,
what easier mode could be adopted for them to rid
themselves o ! . it than to allow them to taae charge
of this with all other matters ot interna! polity,
clothed with the exercise ot all powers belonging to
them as a sovereign State of the Union? There is
nothing now in their constitution more objectiona
ble on this point than is to be found in their organic
act and the Constitution of the United States, un
der wbich they must continue so long as they re i
main in a Territorial condition. The argument that
Congress, by the admission, will be forcing any in
stitution whatever upon an unwilling people, is as
gratuitous as it is groundless, even if a majority
there be opposed to slavery. For by the Constitu
tion of the United States slavery is as much forced
upon them as by the constitution of Kansas. This
Congress cannot prevent, and this will continue to
be the caee until it is removed, if ever, by the sov
ereign power of the State.
The committee, therefore, report the following re
solution :
Resolved , That Kansas ought ’ obe admitted as a
State into the Union under the Leeompton consti
tutiou on an equal footing with the other States, as
recommended by the President.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BY THE CANADA AND KANGAROO.
The steamship Canada, with [Liverpool dates to
the 127th ult., arrived at Halifax on Wednesday, the
10th inst. The following summary of the news of
the week was transmitted by telegraph to the New
York press:
Great Britain. —A Ministerial crisis had oc
curred in England. On Monday, the 22d, Lord
Palmerston in the House of Commons, and Earl
Granville in the House of Lords, announced that in
consequence of the decision of the House of Com
mons in regard to the Refugee question and the
Conspiracy bill, Ministers on the 22d tendered their
resignations to the Queen, aud the same was ao
cepted. They also announced that Her Majesty had
summoned Lord Derby to her councils, aud that
that nobleman was engaged in tbe formation of a
Cabinet.
Both Houses adjourned till the 26th in order to
qjive time for the construction of anew Ministry.
Prior to the adjournment, the India Loan bill was
moved forward a stage in view of the fact that the
Company was urgently pressed for funds. The
amount of the loan was reduced from ten to eight
millions sterling.
The London Times of Wednesday publishes the
authentic list of the new Cabinet, as submitted to
the Queen on the 23d :
Premier, Lord Derby.
Lord Chancellor, Sir F. Thesiger.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. D'lsraeli.
Secretary or Foreign A airs, Lord Malmesbury.
Secretary of Home Affairs, Mr. W alpole.
President Board of Trade, Mr. Heuley.
President Board of Control, Lord Elleuborougb.
Lord Privy Seal, Lord Hardwicke.
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Earl of Eglinton.
Minister of W ar. General Peel.
President of the Council, Marquis of Salisbury.
Board of Works, Lord John Manners.
Secretary of the Colonies, Lord Stanley.
First Lord of Admiralty, Sir J. Packington.
Postmaster-General, Lord Colcnester.
Attorney General, Mr. Kelly.
Under-Secretary for War, Stuart Wortley.
Irish Chancellor, Justice Blackburn.
Chief Secretary, (Ireland) Lord Naas.
Thegreatoffio.es of Her Majesty’s Household will
be given to the Marquis of Exeter and Earls Dela
ware and Chesterfield.
The Advertiser says Lord St. Leonards is to have
a seat in the Cabinet, without office.
The members of the Government not in the Cabi
net, include the Duke of Montrose, as Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster ; Mr. Cairnes, as Solicitor-
General ; Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, as under Secre
tary for Foreign Affairs ; Earl of Caoarvou, as un
der Secretary of the Colonies ; Lord Hardinge as
under Secretary of War.
Mr. Loftus C. Ottwav, is appointed British Min
ister to Mexico, and A.'li. J. S. Lumley, Secretary
of Legation, at Madrid.
The appointments, aa far as known, were all mem
bers of tbe Derbyite party.
Great efforts had been made to induce Mr Glad
stone (Peelite) to take office, but without effect.—
Lord Stanley, eon of the Premier, is also said to
have declined an appointment.
It is stated that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe had
been importuned to accept tbe Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, but had refused.
The Daily News says that the Duke of New
castle, Earl Grey, Lord St. Leonards, and Mr. Pem
berton Leigh had all declined proffers of office.
The London Times ridicules the new Ministry,
and eulogizes Lord Palmerston’s Administration.
Parliament met on the 27th. In the House of
Commons new writs were ordered for the seat oc
cupied by members of the Cabinet. Both Houses
had adjourned until March Ist, when they would
farther adiourntill the 12th.
The trial of the Royal British Bank Directors was
still pending, but drawing to a close.
The trial of the Irish priest , Father Conway, for
resorting to religious intimidation at election, re
sulted in the disagreement and discharge of the
jury.
A prosecution had been commenced by the Bug
fish Government against a London bookseller,
named Truelove, for publishing a libellous pamphlet
concerning the Emperor of the French, with a
view to incite divers persons to assassinate his said
Majesty.
The returns of the Board of Trade for the mouth
of January show a continued falling off in tbe ex
ports. The reduction was £1,836,505 from the
figures of January, 1857. The imports were about
stationery.
Mazzini writes to the London Times, denying
that Orsini was guilty of any crime in Italy, and
concludes with the following paragraph: ‘ What
ever opinion of Orsini may be entertained by those
who frankly appeal to Heaven and Earth against
the attempted murder of a tyrant, and do quietly
witness, without a single word of indignation, the
lasting murder of a whole people in Rome, none has
a right of taxing Orsini with dishonesty, theft, and
collusion. The agents of Louis Napoleon ought to
be contented with beheading his enemies, without
calumniating them.”
A colliery explosion occurred at Mountain Ash,
killing nineteen men.
An action was brought in the British Admiralty
Court by the owners of ilte American ship Leander,
agaiust the steamer North American, to recover
damages for the loss of the Leander by the recent
collision off Holyhead. A verdict was given against
the steamer, whose owner gave notice of an appeal
to a higher court
The London Stock Market had assumed more
ouoyancy. Consols were gradually recovering
from the depression caused by the ministerial crisis,
but closed flatly. Mon y continued abundant and
the demand light. The Bank of England has made
no alteration in its rates.
Ministerial Addresses. —Mr. DTraell la-d
night issued his addrees to the electors of Bucks
offering himself for tbe fifth tme for re-election.
The following passage occurs in the address “The
circumstances of the country are in many respects
critical, and in none more so than in its external
relations. Painful misconceptions have arisen with
the government of that faithful aud powerfully,
who in so many instances has proved his good feel
ing and fidelity to this country. Believing that a
cordial alliance between England and France is
equally conductive to the interests of bothcoun
tries, I shall express my hope aud conviction that by
measures at once firm and conciliatory, these causes
of misunderstanding may be speedily and entirely
removed. If the country will Leartly support the
Queen's government at this conjuncture, the result
so desirable for the peace and progress ot Europe
will be greatly facilitated.' ’
Sir J Pakm'gtou addresses the electors of Droit
wich. No opposition is expected. After announc
ing that he hasjoined Lord Derby's Cabinet, he says
itis essential to the well working of our system of
Parliamentary Government that the Deop e -.hou'.d
not Buppoee there is only one man who could be en
trusted with the public interests.
The China mail of yesterday has brought correct
statistics of the Tea trade for the past year The
total exports were 35,500,000 pounds, against 42,-
400,000 pounds last year, and 54,800,000 pounds at
the same period of 1806.
It is remarked in the Daily News’ City Article
that with the present rates of exchange with tne
chief centres of European commerce, by far the
larger proportion of the gold imported here will be
sent to the Continent as fast as it comes in but this
doe* not imply that the slock of bullion in the Bank
has yet reached its highest point
Advices from Calcutta are in ail respects satis
factory. Government securities had risen four to
five per cent., and although the five per cents‘were
still quoted as low as ten per cent, discount, con
fidence among Native hold rs was evidently reviv
ing.
The Herald says, the Colonial Secretaryship was
offered to Sir Buiwer Lytton, but declined, because
the honorable gentleman was unwilling to expose
the county of Hertford to the excitement of a se-
vere contest. .
The Time* says of Mr. D Israel * Electoral Ad
dress that it eludes giving a just account of tue ac
tual crises. The allusion to the painful misconcep
tions with the Government of France which Mr.
D Israeli asks the electors to help to remove is ex
amined by the Times, which says that nobody has
vet charged the late government with misconcep
tion. They were charged with conniving rather
than misconceivicg. The only misconception is the j
affair was that which ascribed to Count Walewski
an intention to insult and traduce England, and it
was made by those who turned out the late govern
ment, and for the purpose of turning it out.
The Herald believes that Mr. Blackburn Las ac -
cepted the post of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in
which case Mr Napier will be the Judge of the
Court of Appeal; Mr. Whiteside, Attorney-General;
and Mr. Fitzgeral Solicitor-General.
The Herald also understand* that Lord Dalkeith
was offered the Scotch Lordship of the Treasury,
and that he declined it iu terms of cordial connaence
and support.
The Kxsigsatios of the Ministry. —From the
European Times of Saturday we extract the fol
lowing ;
e announced in our last the defeat of the Pal
me ret on Government in the House of Common* en
the “Conspiracy to Murder Bill,” by a majority of
nineteen. Such & result on such a subject lett the ‘
late Premier and Li* colleagues no option but to re
sign, and accordingly the next day L.rd Paimereton
waited on the Queen and placed in her hand* the
seal* of office, but it is added, contrary to the eti
quette on such occasions, he did not advise Her
Majesty whom nJfccd for, the inference being that
he expected to in a short time with addi
tional eclat. Pri K ably he thought that Lord Derby
was not in a po-ition to form a Ministry. Lore!
Derby lost no time in consulting the leaders of the
Conservative party; and has filled the leading of
fices of State with th#best aval-able talent at his
command. Lord Derby on the present as on former
o casions calculated on the adhesion of the Peeiites,
the Duke of Newcasie, Sir Graham, Mr. j
Gadstne, Sidney Herbert and Mr. Cad well, but his j
: ‘iffer was met by an immediate and pointed refusal, j
Ir is true that the name of *ilr. Gladstone figured in |
the first published programme of the Derby Minis
try as Chancellor ot the Exchequer, but the state
ment was wholly inaccurate. Lord Derby, in the
course of Saturday afternoon, after he had received
thej Queen's command to form a government, did
certainly write to Mr. Gladstone, but there was no
personal interview. In the course of the same af
ternoon that emir eni statesman forwarded to Lord
Derby a note courteously expressed, stating empha
| ticelly and on the instant, his refusal to join the
new government. Deprived of all assistance then
| from the quarter tc which he had looked for support
! bis lordship had no alternative but to fall back upon
the members of his former administration.
Francs— Tbe Paris correspondent of the Lon
don (ilobe understands that Lord Cowley wiil be
continued as English Ambassador to France.
Four Companies of marines and half a battery of
field huwitzenj were embarked at Brest on the 18th
for Canton.
Trade continued dull in Paris. The com market
was quiet, but flour was rather firmer. In the
Soutn of France the corn trade was paralyzed on
account of over speculation.
At Bordeaux wines and brandies were nearly un
saleable at tbe pric-s demanded.
Letters from Paris represent that a better feeling
existed with regard to relations with Englaud f >und
ed upon the appointment of Lord Malmesbury to the
Foreign Office, aud Lhe personal friendship existing
etween the Emperor and Mr. D’lsreali.
An immense number of arrests it is said: have
recently been made in Paris and the provinces
among them three members of the Paris bar belong
ing to the Itebublu an party.
The Times correspondent writes: “It is said
that the last instructions given to M. de Persigny,
were of a very conciliating character acd if rumor
speaks true, evince the greatest desire to maintain
the cordial relati >ns based on the alliance between
the two countries.”
It is said that several persons were arrested in
Paris on the night of the 22d ulto.
The trial of the conspirators commenced on the
25th ulto., before the Court of Assizes of the Seine.
The indictment is very lengthy and circumstantial.
The prisoners are all young men with the exception
of Pierri, who is middie aged. All seemed com
posed, and listened with attention. Gomez denied
any participation in the act, and said he only knew
; ofit at the last momi-nt. Rudio confessed every
! thing. He eaid he threw one bomb, aud incrimi
! Dated the rest of the prisoners. Orsini accepted
the full responsibility of the part he had taken in
i the affair. He confessed that he wanted to kill the
Emperor aud said he was ready to die. He added
that he has never confided his intention to Mr. All
sopp, aud that M. Bernard brought the bombs to
Brussels; that lie (Bernard) did not know tor what
purpose they were intended. He would not say
anything as to the other prisoners. Pierri denied
all participation in the conspiracy until the day the
attempt was made, and then repeated. Mr. Taylor,
of Birmingham, maker of the bombs, did not an
swer to his naue.
Latest — Paris , Friday. —The Jury has given a
verdict of guilty as regards four Os the accused.—
The Court pronounced sentence of death on Orsini,
Rudio, and Pierri. Gomez is sentenced to penal
servitude for life.
Belgium. —A discussion has been commenced iu
the Belgian Chambers on the bill relative to attempts
against the lives of foreign sovereigns. The Minis
ter of Justice emphatically declared that he had not
received from any foreign power any request to
change the law of the land.
Latest.— The bill was passed on the 25th ult., the
Minister of Justic- promising that no proseculion
should take piace without the consent of his De
partment, but admitting that he could not bind his
successors.
Spain.—A despatch from Madrid says that in the
Chamber of Deputies the outrages committed by
English vessels on those of Spain, both on the coast
of Africa and elsewhere, were claiming attention.
Austria.— lt ia said that France has called on
| the AustriiirGpvernment to curb the license of the
| Press ot.Vien®, andjn return France will not op
j pose Austria ‘mien the question of the reorganiza
j tion of the Principalities and the navigation of 41ie
Danube como before the Paris Conference. Count
Buol is stated to have declined the offer of the French
Ambassador.
Russia —The Invalids liusse calls for the expul
sion from Englaud of tbe refugees convicted or sus
pected or being mixed up iu h* late conspiracy.—
The article does not reproach England for main
taining the right of tiie Asylum in general, but for
giving refuge to individuals'who are notoriously
the authors of conspiracies and criminal agitation.
Hanover and Denmark.— The Berlin corres
pondent ot the London Tunes says it is confidently
expected that the United States government will
soon lake steps for securing the commutation on
stade toll on shipping going up the Elbe. The same
authority says that the United States and Denmark
have at length com 9 to an agreement ns to the
amount payable by the former to the latter on ac
count ot light and buoy dues in ihe Sound. This
amount has been fixed at $393,011, and it is to be
paid into the hands of a Danish agent iu London.—
When that ceremony has been performed, the for
iner treaty of amity and navigation, which has
been suspended by the United States, will return
into force.
A telegraph from Hamburg, says that the Dan
ish Cabinet resigned on account of the attitude
demanded of them in the dispute with the German
ic Diet.
India. —The Indian mail, with dates from Calcut
ta to the 25th, and Bombay to the 28th ot January,
arrived at Alexandria on tiie 18th of February.
Sir Colin Campbell was wailing at Cawnpore for
a. heavy Beige train from Agra, on the arrival of
which he would move with his whole force, in con
cert with Jung Bahadoor, on Oude.
The Rajah of Bulubghkh had been hanged at Del
hi. The Military Governor of Del'd had given over
charge of the city to the civil authorities.
A report w*u current that the great Oude Ze
mindars had offered to surrender ou condition of
immunity.
Tbe Calpee rebels were still in force, it is said, un
der the leadership of Nana Sahib, and were threat
ening in the direction ofNagotee.
The ex King of Delhi was suffering from fever,
and his tt ial had been postponed
The Legislative Council had extended to Bombay
an act which justifies the attention of the prisoners
sought to be released by habeas corpus.
One or two small engagements and a trifling
mutiny among the gunners at Sacepore are repor
ted. '■ *
The town and fort of Meglir had been taken from
the rebels * V
Jung Bahadoor captured Gorneckpore, killing
200 rebels, and capturing seven guns.
The relief of Sumbulpore had been accomplish
ed.
Sir Colin Campbell was gathering his strength for
his entry in Oude, when the final struggle, and a
determined resistance were anticipated.
China. —The dates are Canton, Jan. 11th and
Hong Kong the 15th.
Canton was taken on the 29th of December.
Commissioner Ych and the Tartar General were
taken prisoners on the sth of January. Yeh was
taken iu the dress of a coolie, and was senton board
the British Inflexible.
The Cantonese were returning to the city, but the
’blockade had not been raised.
The Governor of Canton was taken prisoner, as
well as Yeh aud the Tartar General. The Governor,
Piliquei, was subsequently installed as Vice Go
vernor of the city, with powers similar to those
wielded by Yeh. The allies were to continue their
protectorate until satisfactory terms were made
with the government of Pekin. A commission com
posed of two Englishmen and one Frenchman, had
been charged with the supervision of the govern
ment, and has issued a proclamation inviting the
people to return, and assuring them of their protec
tion.
At the departure of the mail everything was
quiet, and there was a fair prospect of the taking
off of the blockade, and of the resumption of trade
within a week.
In the assault upon Canton there were numerous
hand to band encounters The British lost one hue
dred, and the Frencli 30 in killed and wounded.
A large amount of treasure was captured, but
plunder was forbidden.
Latest by Telegraph.
London, Saturday Morning.—Times’ City Article.
—The funds opened on Friday morning at a decline
of 1-8, and subsequently experienced a further fall,
owing to speculative sales consequent upon the un
settled state of feelings in Paris likely to be occa
sioned by the trial of the conspirators.
Applications for discount at the Bankto-dsy have
slightly increased, but still are very moderate.
From the Daily News’ City Article.
The stock markets on Friday were weaker. The
funds after sustaining an extreme re-action of J per
cent., closed at i per cent lower than on Thursday.
The market is now to an unusual extent influenced
by the Paris Bourse, which exhibits a gradual de
cline.
Washington Items. —The contemplated move
ment to get the House to instruct the Select Com
mittee on Kansas to make specific investigations
was abandoned to-day, from a conviction that if it
was attempted it would give Mr. Stephens an op
portunity to make hi3 Lecomptonite report, and get
before the country to preoccupy the public mind
before the vital facte are out. The Anti-Lecomp
tonitea deem it important to stave off the report un
til they can get all the tacts without the investiga
tion which the majority refuse. Tbe minority re
ports will embody the statements officially made in
Kansas before the Legislative Commission appoint
ed to examine into the alleged frauds in the elec
tions of December 21, and January 4.
It is supposed that it will require a strong naval
force to bring Paraguay to terms, and if the Joint
Resolution • asses to give the President authority
to exert it, a large fleet is likely to besentto execute
that duty. The committee will report subs’antiaily
that there is no alternative between dishonorable
submission to gross outrages upon American rights
and honor committed by Paraguay, aud the exer
tion of compulsion.
The plan of the Executive with reference to Cu
ba is to send special Commissioners to Spain with
comprehensive powers to demand redress for al
leged injuries, but t<> offer t o compound for them by
the payment of a very liberal indemnity for the
cession of the island. The appointment ot the Com
mission will be made within thirty days. The State
Depar:ment is said to be now occupied in the pre
paration of instructions suitable to so grave a mis
sion. _
Heavy Day's Exports.— The following vessels
were cleared at the Custom House, in this city, yes
terday, for Liverpool, with the cargoes specified:
Ship John Duncan, (Am.) 2,315 bales Upland cot
ton, 156 do Bea Island; and 85,078 feet timber, val
ued at this port at $143,580.
j Ship Highland Chief, (Am.) 2,797 bales Upland
1 cotton, valued at $148,537.66.
Ship Admiral, (Br.) 1,990 bales Upland cotton,
408 bales Sea Island do., 65,602 feet timber, valued
; at $270,499.10.
Ship Monticello, (Am.) 2.866 bales Upland cotton,
122 bales Sea Island do , 99 casks rice. 1 bag cotton
! seed, and 2 barrels flour ; valued at $107,266.28.
This is the largest amounted exports cleared at
I the Custom House for any one day this season. The
i total amount of cotton being 11,168 bales Upland
and 686 bales Sea Island, together with 150,680 feet
timber, 99 casks rice, 1 bag cotton seed, and 2 bar
rels flour. The total value of the cargoes being
$729.&?3.04.
In addition to the above were the following coast
wise exports viz . to Baltimore, per steamship
Commerce —239 boxes copper ore, 157 bales cot
ton, 75 nee. 60 bag- C’ tTee, and 20 bales do
medics.—Hath. Rep , Saturday
Charleston and Savannah Rail Road. —We
learn from Mr. Hudson, the contractor on the
Charleston and Savannah Rad Road, from Salt
kehatchie to Savannah River, that he commenced
itis contract at Saltkehatchie Bridge early in
February; that be is working fifty negre-s, and
making good progreae with the work. He adheres
sTictiy to the letter and spirit of his contract, to wit :
“To do the work exclusively with elave labor.” and
feels confident he can inerea-e Mg force to one
hundred during the ensuing month. The planters
: and others, living in the vicinity of the road, have
hired hands to him and facilitated him in every way
in their power. Mr. Hudson a here for the pur
pose of removing Ms family, and locating per
manently on the line of road adjacent to his con
tract, which he says wiil enable him to meet his
engagements within the specified Um k.—Charleston
Courier.
Female Immigration to the West.—The
Decatur (111.) correspondent of the State Journal
says :
• Some fifty women and girls sent out from New
York city by the Women s Emigration and Aid So
ciety, arrived here on Friday last. They were all
immediately supplied with good homes, and I am
informe i places for fifty more cou.d readily have
been obtained. Some of them were girl* of lb to
18 years, and some a* old as 40 years of age. There
ia no doubt but a g<-od work has been commerced
in the West in offering homes, and the means oi
sustenance to the starving worthy poor of the over
crowded and pent up eastern cities.
Louisville, March 12.— The latest new* from
I Utah represent* that the Mormon* were preparing
j for fight.
Late and Interesting from Mexico*
The steamer Tennessee from Vera Cruz on the
7th inst., arrived at New Orleans on Thursday last
The Picayune of Thursday says :
By this arrival we have the following brief note
from our correspondent in the city of Mexico :
Mexico, March s.—By the mail yon will get files,
&c. Since it r sed, we hear here that 1800 Pintos
are in Cuernavaca, that Langberg has been beaten,
and that Eeheagary left Puebla fir Orizaba. The
| latest news from ‘.he interior, that I know of, will be
found in the encioeed slip from the Extraordinary
ot yesterday.
The Mexican Extraordinary, of the 4th, (referred
to by our correspondent,) says :
It is next thing to impossible, even for ns here in
the midst ot ail the alarms, to fully appreciate the
present state of this country; and how difficult must
it be for persons abroad to realize in the most im
perfect manner our disorganized condition of things!
h'rom motives of a 6trong sympathy for the political
throes or Mexico we have from rime to time burnish*
ed with gold the commendable acts of the Govern
tnent, and noticed witu moderation and apologetic
language acts of rapine, abuse aud maladministra
tion. Asa foreign journalist, subject to the jealousy
of a large body, we have deemed it foreign to our
mission to meddle with the Government, unless at
times when we cculd speak favorably of its acts
This resolution we do not as yet intend so chauge,
but shall now only comment upon the actual posi
tion of parties and the general decomposition which
is going on in the iand.
The commerce of the country—its life-blood, with
out which no goverumsnt can oe sustained— i 9 now
being suqjected to a pressure which it caunot long
resist. During a long period the risks of merchan
dise on the has been great, but the risk of all
former times are rapidly becoming insignificant
from the new calamities which are now befalling it.
For the past month the exceptions in the case are
those cargoes of merchandise which arrive here
from Vera Cruz without oeiug robbed. Within the
past week we have had robbery after robbery com
mitted within one day’s march of this place. The
condition of the roads is not a whit better in the in
terior, if we can believe the reports that occasional
ly leak through the sealed state of postal communi
cation. Os course, no matter how affluent may be
the commerce of this country, an end will soon be
put to both profits aud capitals, unless the condition
of things improves in the country or merchants
cease to import. For the former, we regret to say,
there is al present little hope, and per force the lat
ter will have to be resorted to by the commerce of
the country at once or irreparable ruin awaits their
future.
No matter which side gains, there is little chauce
for a final adjustment of difficulties. We fear that
peace is lost to the country lor a long time. With
the success of the governaieut we certainly shall
have a marauding opposition; an opposition strong
enough to defeat any measures the government
may wish to adopt to preserve security in the land.
With the success of the coalition we shall have dis
sensions amongst its chieftains, aud in the event of
these dissensions being < ompromised, we shall have
their political opponents doing what they were for
the time Comonfort was in power.
Our actual condition, we repeat, can not well be
appreciated or defined, aud, what is the most won
derful to be observed, many people of this capital
are so far led astray by their political prejudices
that they are laboring under the impression that the
country was never in a more promising position.—
All manner of absurd ideas are advanced, as if in
this day and generation this country can be con
formed to and governed by the ideas belonging to
a past age.
While writers are endeavoring, with well turned
peus, to prove that we Lave passed from a corrupt
rule to that of one of purity aud civilization, we find
public security on the decrease, and the evils that
afflict the body politic assuming more malignant
forme.
The government official prints, which alone are
allowed to discuss the political news of the day, are
filled with reports the moat satisfactory to ths ulti
mate success of the government. Six weeks have
now passed over our heads since the last govern
ment fell in this capital, and as yet the advantages
gained to the trade and industry of the country are
not apparent. How much longer this uncertain
condition of affairs is to last, or how much lower
we are to get, remaius to be told. The sageat
shake their heads when interrogated regarding our
immediate future.
From we have a letter dated the 27th
ult., g'ving the position of affairs at that date. As
our letter comes to us broken opeu, and apparently
has been read and re-read oy some parties, we con
clude it cannot be obnoxious, and therefore extract
the following :
“Before I pass out of the lines of the Government
forces I must write you a liue. I have got thus far
without any difficulty whatever, aud consider my
self particularly fortunate in finding a private car
riage here, ready to start to San Miguel Allende to
morrow morning. Os course I have embraced the
opportunity, and, with three other fellow passen
gers, 1 leave here to-morrow. The road is open, and
people who have come from Guanajuato to-day re
port no difficulty whatever.
“No fighting has taken place yet at Celaya. Dc
blado, Parrodi, Arteaga aud their forces are strong
ly fortified in the town of Celaya. They have about
G,OOO men, and some 27 pieces of artillery. They
expect the Government troops to attack them by the
‘Cainino real,’ and have thrown up very strong for
tifications on that side of the city. Apparently they
have no idea of acting except on the defensive, but
if they do that energetically they will give the Go
vernment troops much trouble. These latter are
scattered about the environs of Celaya, under their
respective commanders, Osollos, Miramon, Mejia,
Blancarte and Casanova. With the reinforcement
which is now on the road they will number about.
6,000 men, aud with about the same amount of ar
t illery as their enemies. It is supposed that an ac
tion will take place as soon as the reinforcement
comes up. i. e.: iD three or four days. The men and
materials are not wanting for a very serious affair,
and I should not be surprised it we heard soou of
of one of the severest battles which Mexico has ever
seen.”
The Extraordinary has also the following para
graphs :
The port of Tuxpan is reported to have adopted
the Plan of Taeubaya. Official notice ot this trans
action has not yet been received here.
The Huasteca Valley, beautiful in primeval splen
dor, is reported to have acknowledged the Plan of
Taeubaya.
“Comonfort and Liberty’’ is the cry of those who
now plunder on the highways.
The English packet. Solent, while on her late voy
age from Havana to Vera Cruz was overtaken in
toe Gulf by a v dent storm, which she sustained for
some twenty hours. Avery heavy sea which struck
her during its continuance, swept seven of the crew
from the deck. One of them by the return swell,
was thrown on board again, but the other six were
not so fortunate. Three of the officers and two sea
men, however lowered a boat, notwithstanding the
severity of the storm at the time, and endeavored
to save them. Three of them they were successful
in rescuing, but the otner three unhappily perished.
A forced levy for the Zuloaga forces is said to
have created such great consternation in the capi
tal that nobody will venture into the streets. Ser
vants utterly refuse to go out on their employers’
business; and these will not open the door them
selves. To such a pitch has this gone that a corres
gondent of the Progreso states that an order has
een issued pretending to countermand the order
for the levy, merely for the purpose of enticing the
people into the streets, and while in point of fact,
the levy stiil continues.
In the Progreso, of the 6th inst., we see a commu
nication from Sr. Degollado, announcing that the
Federal Government—that of Sr. Juarez, that is
—had been transferred from Guanajuato to Guada
lajara, since the 15th ult. This step had been adopt
ed in order that the Government might be inacces
sible to th * reactionary forces. The communication
speaks with confidence of the probable triumph of
the Federal forces.
The same paper, copying from the Boletin Co
mereial a notice that the Zuloaga government had
appointed some score or more of governors, politi
cal chiefs &c.,over districts, Slates, territories and
cities, ridicules the nominations as a farce, declaring
that the parties named, nor Zuloaga himself, could
not dare to approach more than one or two of the
places. Sr. D. Tomas Marin, it says, went to Cam
peachy, to try to get possession of his appointment,
but found it excessively convenient to beat a pre
cipitate retreat in a small boat for Laguna; ana, it
adds, that it is very doubtful whether he would es
cape from a sloop which had gone in pursuit of him.
The Progreso notices a report that Senor Echea
garay was about to invade the State of Vera Cruz,
in the interest of the Zuloaga government; aud in
vites him to do so, as the surest way of meting de
feat, and furthering the objects of the Federal Go
vernment.
The conditions of the abrogation of the law of
desamoitizacion are, that the government shall
keep the excise duties, and the clergy the estates
and properties with all additions and improvements
that had been made to them.
The forces of Cruz are reported to have been
routed, and himself captured, by those of Vidaurri.
Osollos was expected to attack the Federal forces
at Celaya, on the 6th or 7th inst.
The Federal accounts from Guanajuato are flat
tering. All was tranquil in the interior, and the
various States were strengthening themselves
against all efforts of the Zuloaga government.
Troops had been sent from Campeachy to the Isle
of Carmen, to protect it from reactionary attempt.
Gen. Garza is reported at last accounts to have
possession of Tampico, in the Federal interest.
A telegraphic despatch from Orizava received in
Vera Cruz on the sth inst., announces the defeat of
Cobos ; and adds that the forces of Oajaca would
consequently immediately march to Vera Cruz, to
operate with those of the State against the reaction
ists at Puebla.
A convoy, with some $15,000 and munitions, on
the way from Mexico, for the reactionists in Puebla,
had been taken by the Federal forces. They possess
ed themselves cf the money and provisions, but
burt th e wagons.
The Macon Telegraph pays quite a compliment
to the Agents of the State Bank at Macon. We
cut the following from its issue of the 9th inst:
Our banking capital is small, and wholly inade
quate to the wants of our trade. Bank Agencies
from Savannah and Augusta lurnish, and must con
tinue to furnish, the greater share of business facili
ties to the place, and we contemplate no such sui
cidal folly as a special antagonism to them. On the
contrary, we are ready to admit that our trade is
much their debtor, and particularly in the course of
this winter, the agency of the Bank of the State of
Georgia, under the charge of Col. Washington has
laid our businessmen and planters under obligations,
by straining a point to furnish advances at critical
times during the busine-s season. We have reason
to believe that a considerable portion of our Cotton
‘‘rop has been withheld from sacrifice during the
lowest stage of prices, by timely facilities furnished
through this agency—furnished, it is true, in the
way of a profitable business to the agency, but
none the lees important or acceptable because some
thing was made out of it
A Railroad Bridge Broken Down with a
Train on it.— The train from Union yesterday af
ternoon, consisting of Beven freight cars, a baggage
and a pas eDger car, met with a serious accident
Just before reaching the bridge over Greenville
Creek, the axle of one of the freight cars broke—
the train entered the bridge, aDd the locomotive and
one freight car had reached the other side of the
bridge, when it broke in the centre, and six of the
freight cars and the baggage car went down, some
. f them a distance of nearly fifty feet. The bridge is
about 100 feet long. The brakemen of the passen
ger car (the last one in the tram) seeing the and Dger.
pulled out the coupling pin and put on the brakes,
and checked up the car before it reached the bridge,
r>o that it remained upon the track entirely unm
j ured. There were about 30 passengers, including
I mree ladies, in the car. The name of the brakeman
! who showed so much presence of mind in the emer
j gency, is Thomas Maloney.
i The conductor of the train, P. Odiin, Jr , and
j ihree passengers, were in the baggage car—they
i were all elightiy bruised, and that was all. The
i stove fell upon the conductor, but he managed to
get it off without being burnt. A brakeman on top
i of the freight cars also went down but escaped with
! out injury.
Altogether, it is most remarkable that in such a
| breakdown there should have been no loss of life,
or serious injury to any one. The self-possession of
j the brakeman, Maloney, was a fortunate event for
i those in the passenger car. —Dayton (Ohio) Jour
i 7 ml, March 5.
Excitikg Incident. —The following item js from
a late English journal:
A few evenings ago, as the play of Jessie Vere
was being performed at Woolwich Theatre, and
when a scene in the third act bad been reached, in
which a ••terrific struggle” for the possession of a
child takes place between the fond mother and two
••hired ruffians,” a large Newfoundland dog, which
had by some means gained admittance with its
owner into the pit, leaped over the heads of the
musicians in the orchestra aDd flew to the rescue,
seizing one of the assassins, and almost dragging
1 him to the ground. It was with difficulty removed,
and dragged off the stage. TANARUS, e dog, which is the
i property of the chief engineer of her Majesty’s ship
Buffalo, has been habitually accustomed to the so
ciety of children, for whom he Las on many occa
sions evinced strong proof of affection.
Central Railroad —Yesterday the locomotive |
engine W. W. Gordon. built by Norris, of Philadel- I
pbia, brought into the depot of this city the largest i
; train ever transportedover the road. The train con
! si=ted of thirty-three box cars—thirty-two contain-
Img cotton and one containing mules. The weight
of cars 289 J tons; weight of cotton (825 bales! 200
tons; weight of mules 8 tons. Total weight of cars
and contents H 7 j tons.—.Sar. Rep., Wednetday.
BY TELEGRAPH.
LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER
NORTH AMERICA.
Portland, Me., March 16.—The Montreal Ocean
Steamship Company's steamer North America,
Capt. Wm. Grange, has arrived with Liverpool
dates to Wednesday, March 3d.
Commercial.
Liverpool, March 3d.—The sales of cotton for
three days reach 21,000 bales, of which exporters
took 2,500 and exporters 1000 bales. The market
advanced £d. on all qualities and closed firm, al
though dull in consequence of the want of stock.
Li\erpool General Market,—Flour very dull
and quotations nominal. Wheat dull, and quota
tions barely maintained. Corn quiet but firm.—
Sugar firm. Rice heavy and quiet. Rosin firm at
4:-. 6d. Turpentine firm at 435.
Manchester Trade —Business in the mauu.
factoring districts was favorable, and holders we re
demanding an advance ia prices.
London Money Market.—No change reported
in the condition of the money market. Consols
96 j ®96|.
General News.
The Earl of Derby, now the Premier of England,
has made his Inaugural speech before Parliament
iu the course of which he urged the necessity of
continuing friendly relations with the government
of France—expressed the opinion that a treaty of
peace would soon be concluded with China—and
promised that the bill relating to Indian affairs
would be modified.
The Directors of the North British Bank, have
been sentenced to imprisonment; some of them for
three, and some for twelve months.
A week later news had been received from In
dia, but it contains nothing of striking interest. Sir
Colin Campbell had not advanced on Luckuow,
where it is said the rebels now number 100,000.
The French Conspirators had appealed against
the sentence of death pronounced upon them.
Additional by the North America.
Liverpool, Wednesday noon, March 3d. —The
cotton market as bouyant to day, and closed with
an advancing tendency.
Breadstuff's dull and quiet.
London, Wednesday noon, March 3. —[By Tele
graph to Liverpool.] —The Times’ Paris correspon
dent says Lord Malinsburry, in reply to Walewaki's
dispatch expresses a desire to remain in alliance
with France, but declares that the right of pn asy
lum in England shall be maintained intact.
It was reported that 100,000 rebels are iu the
neighborhood of Lucknow, and are preparing to at
tack it. Sir Colin Campbell is preparing to raise
the seige.
Washington News.
Washington, March 15.—The Senate was en
gaged nearly all day in listening to speeches on the
Kansas question from Messrs. Mason, of Va., and
Wade, of Ohio.
In the House the Hon. Augustus R. Wright, of
Georgia, introduced a Homestead Bill, and the Hou.
Samuel A. Smith a Pacific Railway Bill.
Nine O’Clock, P. M.—The Senate has been in
session to-night, and the Kansas question the sub
ject of discussion.
Excitements in Congress.
Washington, March 16th.—The Senate was in
session all last night. During the session an alter
cation took place betweeu Senators Green, of Mis
souri, and Cameron, of Pennsylvania. The causes
which led to the altercation were satisfactorily ex
plained away to-day. The Kansas discussion was
again resumed in the Senate to-day; and it is now
reported that the debate will end early next week.
In the House to-day there were an immense
number of bills, resolutions, petitions, &c., inerc
duced; and some by States and Territories; among
the latter was one from Utah, in which it was sta
led that the Mormons will maintain their rights in
spite of earth and hell.
Seven Hundred Bales of (totton Burned.
Charleston, March 15.—A fire occurred early
this morning, by which seven hundred bales of cot
ton were destroyed. The loss, it ia understood, is
fully covered by insurance. About $30,000 is in
sured in the office of the Agent of the Augusta In
surance and Banking Company.
.Senators Douglas and Davit*.
Washington, March 14.—Senator Douglas has
been severely sick for several days, but is now
slightly improving.
Senator Davis is no better. It is feared that he
will lose one ot his eyes.
Arrival of the Star of the Went.
New York, March 15.—The steamship Star of the
eat has arrived, with late but rather uninteresting
news from California and Central America. She
brings $1,300,000 in specie.
The excitement prevailing at Sacramento, grow
ing out of the trial of a slave case has subsided.—
The slave was restored to his owner.
The war in Peru has not abat and.
Two American ships had been seized at Chinchas,
and a demand had been made for their restoration,
but the demand had not been complied with.
Latent from the Utah Army.
St. Louis, March 15.—Advices have been re
ceived here from Col. Johnson’s camp as late as
January 26th. The conditiou and health of the
troops were excellent; aud four deaths only had oc
curred siuoe their arrival. The StaUnt! mve given
full assurances of their friendship. No snow was
seen along the route.
Duel near Mobile.
Mobile, March 15.—A duel took place yesterday
between Captains Maury and De Reviere. Capt.
Maury was the late Marshal, and escaped unhurt.
Capt. De Reviere is of the French Zuavres, and
received two shots, which are not considered dan
gerous. They fought with Colt’s Navies, fifteen
paces, advancing.
Market Reports.
New York, March 15.—Sales of Cotton to-day
4000 bales. The market was somewhat easier, but
quotations were unchanged. Breadstuff's, Naval
Stores and Rice were reported firm.
New York, March 16.—Sales of cotton 3000 bales
with a firm market, at unchanged prices. Flour
firm, with sales of 8500 barrels. Wheat heavy,
sales 5000 bushels. Corn heavy, sales 53,000 bush
els, all unchanged. Turpentine and Rosin steady.
Rice firm, and Freights heavy.
Mobile, March 16.—Sales of cotton to-day 3000
bales. The steamer’s news caused greater firm
ness, although business was limited at previous
rates. Sales for the past three days 9500 bales, and
the receipts were 10,000 bales.
New Orleans, March 16.—Sales of cotton 12,-
000 bales. Middling lO|3o 11 cents. The decrease
in receipts at this point is 67,330 bales.
Mobile, March 15.—Sales of Cotton 1800 bales
The market is dull. Middling 11$-©lHc.
Charleston, March 15 —Sales of Cotton to-day
3000 bales, at full prices.
Charleston, March 16.—fiales of cotton 2600
bales at prices ranging from 10 to 12J cents. Prices
favor holders. Freights on cotton to Liverpooj
716d.
Trenton, N. J., March 11.—The lion. Edward
Everett delivered his address on Washington last
night to an audi&nce of over a thousand persons.
Mr. Everett was to-day introduced by a Joint
Committee to both Houses in session, aud was re
ceived by the President of the Senate and Speaker
of the House in speeches. Mr. Everett replied
briefly and eloquently, expressing his heartfelt
thanks for the high distinction conferred upon him
Washington, March 12.—The report which Mr.
Harris intended to present to-day iu the House, on
behalf of the minority of the Kansas Investigating
Committee, embraces a complete record of the pro
ceedings, and says it will indulge in no reflections
on the majority. With two exceptions, however,
it says the majority successfully resisted every ef
fort at enquiry by the minority, and that the com
mittee failed to execute the order of the House and
to accomplish any prupose for which the committee
was raised.
Pittsburg, March 12.—The track of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, across
Pennsylvania street, in this city, is laid down, and
trains now pass regularly to and from the Pennsyl
vania Central Railroad depot. This obviates the
necessity of omnibuses, as the trains from Balti
more connect with those of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Road under the roof of their
depot.
New York, March 12.—Advices from the river
Plate to the 10th January state that the war con
tinued at Montevideo, but without vigor. The city
was stiil besieged but communication with the coun
try was free except for soldiers.
Utica, March 13.—A destructive fire occurred in
this city this morning, consuming the row of wooden
buildings on Genesee street, opposite the Central
Hotel. They were occupied by Geo. W. Lewis &.
Cos., boot and shoe; 11. J. WoodhulL merchant
tailor; and Mrs. Browne, miliiner. Loss fifteen thou
sand dollars to twenty thousand dollars, partly in
sured.
MARRIED
At Newark, N. J , on the 4th instant, by Rev. Lot
Jones, D D., I N. ANDREWS, of this city, aud
ELLEN CONLEY, youngest daughter of the late Jas.
B. Robbins, of New-York
OBITUARY.
Died, at hia residence in Montice 10, Ga., March sth,
1 8:8, Capt. ELI GLOVER, in 72d year ot his age.
He was a native of Edgefield District, S. C.—moved
to Augusta, Ga , in I*o2, and from the latter place to
Monticello about the year 1810. At the age of 50 he
commanded a company of Mounted Volunteers in the
Greek War of 1836, and was the conmanding officer at
the battle with the Indians in Btewart county, lie was
elected to the State Senate in 1840, the only t ine he
could be persuaded to allow his name to be run for any
office. He was a devoted parent, a true friend, aod, in
every way, a commendable citizen. His character was
truly appreciated by the community in which he lived,
and his iosi is mourned by all as aca amity The firm
ness, for which he was remarkable through life, was
strikingly exemplified in his death. He do and like a phi
losopher.
ms Save your Hornet*.—“We take great plea- I
sure in recommending the Mexican MUSTANG LINI
MENT as a valuable and indispensable article for
Sprains, Sores, Scratches or Galls on Horses. Our men
Lave used it for severe Burns, Bruises, Sores, Stiff
Joints and Rheumatic Pains, and all say it acts like
magic. We use no other Liniment.
J. W. Hewitt,
Foreman for American, Hamden's and Wells,
Fargo 6c Co’s Expres.”
Gentlemen “I had a negro man worth $1,200 who
took cold from a bad hurt, and was useless for over one
year; I had used everything I could hear of withou
benefit, until I tried the Mustang Liniment. It has per
fectly cured him, and I can now take the above price for
him. Respectfully yours,
James Dorrance.”
Every Planter, Teamster and Family, should have
have this invaluable article. Sold by all respectable
dealers everywhere. BARNES 6c PARK,
mL4-dAwlm Proprietors, New-York.
I Clothing at New York Price#.— F. H
CO KE, Agent, next door to the Bank of Augusta, and
a little below the Globe and United States Hotels, on the
opposite side of Broad Btreet, offers the largest and best
selected stock of READY MADE CLOTHING in the
city, at the LOWEST NEW YORK PRICES. Also a
j arge Bupply of the coarser articles of Clothing usually
i kept, together with an elegant assortment of CAPS
; SHIRTS and FURNISHING GOODS.
I Those desirous to purchase are invited to call and ex
i amine. novll*w
tST Dental Notice.—T. H. BEVENS, has taken
rooms 2nd door above Messrs Miller 6c Warren, Broad
street, Augusta. feb2l-d4wtf
COMMERCIAL.
Beware of Wild Gam,
In the present monetary crisis, it behooves the
peoplo to watch carefully, and avoid all contact
with the Wild Cat Banks and their issues. Be espe
cially careful to give them neither countenance or
circulation; avoid them as you would a highway
man, and the contents of your purees will be much
more secure and valuable. To enable the people to
protect themselves, as much as possible, against
these institution, we subjoin a list of them; all of
which we regard totally unworthy of confidence or
credit:
Merchants’Bank, of Maoou.
Interior Bank, Griffin.
LaGkange Bank, LaGrange.
Southern Bank, Bainbridge.
Cherokee Insurance & Banking Com’y, Dalton.
Planters’ & Mechanics’ Bank, Dalton.
North western Bank, Ringold, Ga
Bank of Greensboro’, Greensboro*.
Exchange Bank, Griffin.
BROKE.
Manufacturers’ A Mechanics’Bank, Columbus
AUGUSTA MARKET.
V*kly Report, Tuesday, F. M.
COTTON.—The sales cf the week reach 10.000 bales.
Pr.ces have been steady and the demand active. The
enquiry has been mostly for the better qualities, and as
these grades have been less abundant, prices have shown
a stiffening tendency. Low grades of Cotton got more
oat of favor and have declined In value.
ordinar y sio
Middlil ’g 311 *
Good Middling 11J®11J
Middling Fair 118 3
Fair 11} 3
The North American's accounts to hand to day are
better than expected, and an advance is asked on the
a ‘ove rates. Market unsettled, but closes with an ad
vancing tendency.
RECEIPTS TO LATEST DATES.
New Orleans, Match 9 1,16fi3 1,256.138
Mobile, March o 390,732 442 245
Florida, March 1 68 546 99,761
Texas, Feb. 20 75 986 5S 493
savannah, March 12 191),i05 2co 374
Charleston, March 17 254,749 322’,605
N. Carolina, March 6 9 333 16 804
Virginia, March 1 $.979 10gili
Total Receipts 2. ll 5,313 296
Decrease 318 981
~ „ STOCKS IN SOUTHERN PORTS.
New Orleans, March 9 434,759 310 025
Mobile, March? * 157*455 127,219
Florida. March l 4 702 30 646
Texas, Feb. 20. 21,4.13 y 104
Savannah, March 12 59,256 40 604
Charleston, March 13 71*597 66 257
N. Carolina, March 6 650 700
Virginia, March 1 1,150 620
Total Stocks 771,002 578,175
New York, March 9 23 935 84,5<'0
FXP<>KTS T(TfUR T iiTq N P(>KTa
To Great Britain 815 392 851,821
“ France 253,000 297,050
‘ other Foreign Ports 187,017 252,127
Total Foreign Exports 1,256,009 1,400,998
To Northern U. 8. Porta 244 882 595,852
BACON—We hear of nothing new to report in this
article. The market is well supplied, and prices are
firm, without any recent change. We quote Hog round
1030104 c.; Hams 1030114 c.; Clear Tennessee Sides 10430
lHc.; Baltimore Sides 10} 30104 c.; Shoulders B|®94c.
LARD —There is no chauge in Lard. The demand
is supplied at loj to 11c.
GRAlN.—Tlitre is a good demand for Wheat, and a
limited amount iu the market. Prices are firm, without
any material chauge. We hear of sales within the week
at 95c for good Red; Ordinary aud Common 80 to 85c.
We quote common to prime White $1 to $1.15; com
mon to prime Red 80c. to sl. Cora is scarce aud some
what in demand, at 70 to 75c. Corn Meal 75 to bO ceu s
Other Grains nominal.
FLOUR.—There is a moderate demand for Flour, and
prices are firm without any material change. We quote
Tennessee Extra Family $5.50 to s(i; do. Extra $5.25 to
$5 50; do. Superfine $4.75 to $5,25. Paragon Mills Ex
tra 1 aiuily, in bags, $6.75 ; in bbls. $7 ; do. Superfine to
bags $5.25, in bbls. $5.75. Carmichael Mills Extra Fam.
ily in bags $6.75, in bbls. $7 ; do. Extra in bags $6 ; do.
Superfine $5.25. Granite Mills Extra Family $7; do.
Extra sii 50 ; do. Superfine $5.25
COFFEE.—There is no change in quotations. There
is a fair supply now in the market, which is betog rapid
ly carried oil’ by the demand. We quote Rio 12 a 13c.
SUGAR. There is no iftiotable change in Sugar. The
demand is good and prices are firm, with a tendency to
advance. See quotations.
MOLASSES We have nothing new to remark iu
this article The demand is good acd prices firm at pre
vious quotations—2s to 30c. lor Cuba, and 383040 c for
N. (>. Syrup.
CANDLES —We notice a slight advance iu Candles,
and quote Adamaut.ne at 24 0-270.
EXCHANGE.—The Banks are selling Sight Ex
change on New York at k per cent. prem.
FREIGHTS.—The River continues in fine navigable
condition. Kates for Cotton to Savannah, 25 cents per
bale ; Flour 15 cents per bbl. ; Salt 15c. per sack. By
Railroad to Savannah 60 cents, and to Charleston 80
cents per bale for Cotton.
Foreign JlurketH.
Extracts of Letters received by the Canada and Kangaroo.
LIVERPOOL COTTON Market.—The Brokers’ Circu
lar of the Liverpool Cotton market sta’es the sales of
the week at 51.000 bales, of which 10,€03 were on spec
nation, and 3000 for export. The same authority quotes
an advance of j 1. per pound in all qualities ; some other
ciicu'ars quote the advance at 3 I6d, end attribute it to
the light stock and limited arrivals The sales of Fri
day were 7000 bales, including 1000 on speculation aim
lor ex .ort, the market closing firm at the so lowing au
thorized quotations:—Fair Or cans Bd, middling Orleans
7 11 lfid, fair Mobiles 7frd, middling do. 7 9-1 id, fair Up-
m iddlings do. 74d. The stock iu port
tim. ted at 207,000 bales, of which 100,000 bales were
Arne ican.
LIVERPOOL BREAD-STUFFS Market.—Messrs. Rich
ardson, Spence & Cos., quote Fl.iur dull aud ui saleable.
Western Canal 20s 6d30235; Philadelphia and Baltimore
228 6d30235; Ohio, vi the North, 2430255, and via New
Orleans, firm au iin active demand at 275. Wheat dull
and quotations nominal. Rod Western 6b306* 3d; White
7*30756d. Corn dull; mixed and Yellow, 335Gd30345;
White, 345.
London Money Market —ln the London Money
market there was a very abundant supply and no change
in rates. The bullion in the Bank of England had in
creased £290,000. Consols closed at 96(3097 for money
and account. Messrs. Baring Bros, quote Silver 5s 1 |jd;
Dollars nominal at 5s 41 ; Eagles 76s 2jd.
American Stocks. —Messrs. Baring Bros, report
American Stocks slow of sale, and prices unsettled, ex
cept Pennsylvania’s which were slightly higher.
Havre Market, —For the week ending Peb 2-t, In
clusive.—Cotton closed buoyant ; sales of the week 11,
000 bales ; New Orleans tres ordinaire 103f; stock 97,000
bales. Breadstuff* quiet. Pot Ashes firm, Pearls quiet
Coffee firm. Provisions dull, but prices steady. Sugar
firm and all qualities slightly advanced. Lard steady.
SAVANNAH, March 15, 4 p m.— Cotton —The mar
ket has been quiet to day, sales footing only 902 bales.
Prices have settled down to about |c. lower. The fol
lowing are the particulars of the day’s transactions : 34
at 10i; 7 at 10j; 12 at 11; 64 at 111; 18 at IU; 225 at Uj|
85 at 111; 222 at 11|; 2 at 114, 42 at fc ll4; and 191 bales
at 12 cents. We quote as follows :
Low Middling 1053011
Middling 11130114
Strict Middling 11330111
Good Middling 11532/12
Middling Fair 1213012!
SHELBYVILLE, (TENN ) March 11.—We notice
many indications of re animation in business here. Our
farmers are selling otf their produce at fair prices, and
money is circuiting more freoly We are informed
that produce to the amouut of some $5 000 a day has
bear shipped at tho denot for the past 30 days.
Bacon- Market somewhat depressed—though prices
continue unaltered—7i'®7ic.
Wheat —The demand is increasing at former quota
tions—White 60/70; Red 50 to 60c.
Flour —s2.2s a $2.50.
Lard — H'a/S{ cents.
CINCINNATI, March 13 —Flour $3 65®3.70. Whis
key 164 c. Mess Pork $15.25. Lard 94c Bulk Shoul
ders 5Jc Bacon, no demand. Linseed 60c. Sugar
buoyant at 7ic.
COLUMBUS, March 15.— Cttoon —There was nothing
done o 1 Saturday. The receipts were 91 bales. The
market has a dow: ward tendency.
Exchange —Our Banks hive reduced their rates of ex
change as lollows :
New York i per cent.
Charleston i percent.
Savannah ! per cent.
AUGUSTA PRICES CURRENT
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BAGGING.—Gunny 4P yard 14 430 It!
Kentucky yard none
Dundee -p yard none
BACON.—Hams p Ih 10 ‘it 114
Shoulders tt> 84 30 94
Baltimore Sides pl 5 10! 30 10!
Clear Sides, Tennessee -p Ift 104 30 11!
Hog round tft 10 30 104
BUTTER.-Goshem P 1 !t> 22 r O> 30
Country p fft 13 3 1 16
BRICKS p 1000 00 30 850
CANDLES. —Adamantine It> 24 30 27
Chemical Sperm HP Ift 35 30 37
Puie do Vfo 45 30 50
CHEESE—Northern lft 12 ‘it 134
English Dairy ip tft 13 30 154
COFFEE.—Rio P tft 12 30 13
Laguira P Ift 134 30 15
Java . P Ift 30 20
DOMESTIC GOODS—Yarns ‘it 1 00
4 Shirting ■P yard 7 30 8
i Shirting P yard 8 30 10
1 Shirting P yard 84 30 104
5- Shirting P yard 12 ‘d> 14
6- Shirting yard 14 30 164
Osnaburga ip yard 104 30 11
FEATHERS ... 5 P tft 35 30 374
FlSH.—Mackerel, No. 1 P bbl 14 00 ®l7 00
No. 2 4P* bbl 12 50 ‘it 15 00
No. 3 P bbl 10 00 -ail 00
Large No. 1 f’ bbl 18 00 3020 00
“ No. 2 4P* bbl 14 00 3018 00
No. 3 V bbl 1100 ‘it 12 00
Herrings - P box
FLOUR. —Tennessee Extra •¥ bbl 5 50 30 6 00
Extra Superfine P bll 525 30 550
Tennessee Superfine tp bbl 475 30 525
Granite Mills, Ex. Family.P bbl 700
“ “ Ext a *> bbl 600
“ “ Superfine . ip bbl 525
Carmichael Mills,Ex.Fam’yp bbl 675 30 700
“ •’ Extra.... bbl 660
44 44 Superfine P bbl 525
Paragon Mills Extra Fam yP” bbl 675 it 700
*• 44 Superfinebbl 525 30 575
GRAIN. —Corn, with sacks P bush 70 30 75
Wheat, white, bush 1 00 30 1 15
Wheat, red, P hush 00 ‘it iOS
Oats ip bush 40 ‘it 50
Rye ¥ bush 50 3 1 60
Peas ip bush 85 it 100
Com Meal P bush 75 30 80
GUNPOWDER.—Dupont’s .. P keg 650 30 700
Hazard P keg 650 H 7 00
Blasting P keg 550 it 600
IRON. —Bwedes iP so 5! it 54
English ¥fo 34 it 4!
LARD so 104 H> 11
LEAD.—Bar tft 8 30 9
LlME.—Country P box 125 ®1 50
Northern <P bbl 1 50 it l 75
LUMBER.. ip 1000 10 00 4 00
MOLASSES—Cuba <p gai 26 30 30
Golden Syrup tp gal 45 30 55
New Orleans Syrup 1p gal 38 it 40
NAILS 4p Ift i it 4!
OILS. —Sperm, prime ip gal 200 30 225
Lamp ip gal 110 it 125
Train f gal 75 it 1 00
Linseed P gal 1 10 it 1 15
Castor - ip gal 200 30 225
RICE Pfo 4! ‘it 5
ROPE— Handspun p Ift 9 30 10
Machine fID 94 it 10!
RAISINS P box 300 d3 50
SPlßlTS.—Northern Gm f gal 45 it 50
Hum P gal 50 30 55
N. O. Whiskey P gal 30 it 35
Peach Brandy ip gal ® 2 50
Pare Cider Brandy ip gal It l To
Holland Gin P gal 150 ‘ft 175
Cognac Brandy P gal 300 it 600
SUGARS.—New Orleans Vfo <4 ® w
Porto Rico * so „ DOr * e
Powdered ¥ ® * J ~,
salt??. ??. 100 ® llO
BHOT.T^ e^ ow .""--- 2 I*4 ® 2 *
TWINE —Hemp Begging ¥ 2a ® 25
Cotton Wrapping ▼ a ® 37
rzt- It is proper to remark that these are the current
- r. at Wholesale, from store—of course, at retail, prices
srtfa shade higher, and from the Wharf or Depots, in
arge quantity a shade lower.
LAW CARD.
THOB. M. BERRIEN. | MALCOLM D. JONES.
BEKKIEN 6c JONES practice Law in the Courts
of the Middle Circuit of Ge rgia, and in he Su
preme and Federal Courts. Office in Waynesboro’,
Burke county, Ga
Waynesboro’,
DR. SANFORD’S INVIGORATOR.
A SUPPLY of Dr Sanford s INVIGORATOR and
LIVER MEDICINE, just received by
mb 13 HAVILAND, CHICHEBIER A CO.
DI KE WINTER SPEK.U OIL—A supply jut
X landed. Idec9] WM. H. TUTT
1858.
NEW SPRING GOODS.
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; ROBBS DK QUILLB, ODALISQUE and FLOUNCED
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Blk and Col’d, Plain and Fancy SILKS, in great variety •
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TABLE LOTUS, DAMASKS, NAPKINS, DIA
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STELLA. MERINO and BERAGE SHAWLS,
SCARFS.
Lace and MourniDg MANTILL \S, a great variety
Plain and Dotted Swiss, Jaconet, Mull, Nainsook, Tari
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HOSIERY aud GLOVES for Ladies, Gentlemen and
Children, in great variety.
EMBROIDERIES aud HANDKERCHIEFS, in every
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LINEN and COTTOn GOODS.” for Men and Boys’
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Bleached and Unbleached SHEETINGS and SHIRT
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OSNA BURGS. MARLBORO’, and GEO. PLAIDS and
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mh9-dl&w3
TO MR. H A. JONES
MiDV llk, Burke county Ga.
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involved, which is $35v,00J, if you are entitled at all,
aod if found not to be i.r auih information as I may
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that are in you-possession, or power to procure. All
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nightmare f-rj
Only ore dose taken at PH night loosens the bowels
gently, and cures c 1 stive l uess.
One dose tan en after each meal will cure Dyspepsia.
J-iyOne dose of two tea spoonsfuls will always re
lieve Sick Headache.
One bottle taken for fe - male obstruction removes
the cause of the disease. aud makes a perfeot cure.
Ouly one dos- innuedi r ‘ ately relieves Cholic, while
One dose often repeated is a sure euro for Chol
era Morbus, and a pre rT', ventive of Cholera.
One dose taken often J* will prevent the recurrence
of Bilious Attacks while* - it relieves all painful feel
feelings. n
• R?’ Ouly one bottle Is f—| needed to throw out of the
system the effects of medi cine after a long sickness
One bottle taken for Mj Jaundice removes all
yellowness or unnatural 1 ‘ color from the s^in.
One dose taken a short time, be’ore eating gives
vigor to the appetite and W makes lood digest well.
One dose often repeated r cures Chronic Diarrhea
in its worst forms while Summer and bowel com
plaints yie l d almost to the first dose.
On. or two doses cures \y attacks caused by worms,
while for worms in chll-i i en. there is no t urer, sal
er or speedier remedy in the world, as it never tails
There is no exaggeration in these statements ; they
are plain, sober facts, that we can give evidence
to prove, while all who use w- it aro giving their unan
imous testimony in its favor.
Wo take infinite pleasure in recommending this medi
cine as a preventive for Fever and Ague, Chill Fever,
and all Fevers of a Bilious typo. It operates with cer
tainty, and thousands are willing to testify to its won
derful virtues.
Among the hundreds of Liver Remedies now offered
to tho public, there are none we can so highly recom
mend as I)R. SANFORD’S IN VIGOR AT *R, so gene
rally known now throughout the Union. This pre >ara
tion's truly a Liver Invigorator, producing tho most
happy results on all who uso it. Almost muume able
i ertiflestes have been given to tho great virtue of this
medicine by those of the highest standing in society,
and we know it to be the best ureparation now before
the publie. —Hudson County Democrat.
PRICE ONE DOLLA R PE i BOTTLE
SANFORD A CO.,
Proprietors, 345 Broadway, ‘ ew-York.
•PLUMB & LEITNEK and W H. TUTT, Agents in
Augusta. Sr Id ly Druggists generally.
mhlo’sß dtwiewly
STATEMENT
Os the Condition of the Hartford Fire Insurance
Company, Ist January, 1858.
Bank and other Stocks, par value $403,750 00
—market value... $398,986 00
Bills receivable, bearing interest, including
special deposits in Bank 122 883 72
Balances on B oks due the Company 30,485 71
Cash in bands of Agent-, or incourseof trans
mission 38 ) 27 00
Cash on hand 46,573 57
$637,050 00
LIABILITIES.
No losses adjusted and due.
Amount losses, either uuadjust- / a.,. nro aa
effor artjuKtetl and not mU . J* 49 ' 068 66
All oilier claims against the Com
pany 7,801 12
Incorporated in 1810. Capital $500,000.
Charter Perpetual.
DIRECTORS.
H. Huntington, Charles Boswell, Job Allyn,
Albert Day Henry Keney, John P Bruce.
James Goodwin, Calvin Day, Charles J. Rush.
C B. Bowers Sec’y, H. Huntington, Pres’t,
C. C. Lyman Ass t Sec’y. WN. Bowers. Actuary.
Agency Entahli*hc<l In iliih City, 1823.
The subset iher will taku risks in the above Company,
at reasonable rates. AUG. ROBERT, Agent,
mb 14 No ■* Warren Block.
SOUTHERN SEED STORE.
T WI Ijlj open in a few days, a fresh supply of GAR
-1 DEN SEc DS, from the reputable houses of Landreth
aud Thornburn With the patronage of the public, I
intend to make this one of the principal Seed S ores of
the Sooth ; to merit which, my Seeds are put up in good
envelope paper, and warranted to give sat's fact lon In
all respects. V. LA TASTE,
Broad street, two doors below tho Postoffice.
mb9 d&wst
AT TENT Iu N*!
NOW openiDg at V. LaTaSTE’B Drug and Reed
Store, a fresh assortment of DRUGS, MEDI
CINES, PUTTY, GLASS, Ac. Pla lets, and others,
visiting Augusta, will and > well to examine the stock, it
they wish to get cheap bargains.
V. LaTARTE,
Broad street, two do <rs below the Poatoffice.
mh9 d&wst
NEW DRUG STORE !
UNDER THE PLANTERS’ HOTEL,
AUGUSTA , GA.
HP. PALMER respectfully invites attention to &
• New an-i Fresh Slock of
PURE DRUGS, MEDICINES AND CHEMICALS.
Also, a choice assortment cf
PERFUMERY AND FANCY ARTICLES,
For the Toilet
FINE IIAIR AND TOO ! II BRUSHES, COMBS, Ac
DENTAL AND SURGICAL INBTRMENTS,
Pure WINES and LIQUORS, for medicinal use ; and,
lo addition to the above, I shall always keep on hand a
full assortment of
BOTANIC MEDICINES,
which T will w rrant pure
GARDEN, GRASS AND FIELD fffcEDS, Ac.
A share of public patronage is respectfully solicited
B. F. PALMER, M D.,
und r Planters’ Hotel, Augusta, Ga.
mhl4 dlrwlru
FRENCH BURR MILL STONE MANUfAOTO
RY, AUGUSTA, GA.
W11.1.1A .1 HItENNiK, Proprietor.—Thouu
dersigned would respectf.diy iufjim his frionda
and Millers in general, that he ha i now on hand, and is
constantly receiving, the beat French BURK Si ONES,
from the most cel brated quarries of France, and is pre
pared to fill all orders in ho; line, at short notice, and rea
sonable prices.
From his long experience in the business, as a practi
cal workman, in ge lit g up mill s oces, lie can safely
warrant bis work equal lo t.e best uianufac.ured in the
Union.
Having supplied some of the largest milU in this and
the adjoining States, he will take pleasure in producing
cert ticates from the propri* t rs of the .-arm-, as to the
satisfaction bis mill stones have given. Below please
find one among many certidcates.
He lias also BBOPUS AND COLOGNE MILL
STONES, constantly on hand
Orders solicited and punctually attended to.
WM. BRENNER,
Broad street, above the Upper Market, Augusta, Ga.
CERTIFICATE.
PARAGON Mills, Augusta, Ga , Jan. 21, IB’B.
We, the undersigned, proprietors of tho Paragon Mills,
take pleasure in recommending Mr. Wm. Brenner’s
French Bu r Mill Slones to the favorable consideration
of the pubic. Having purchased of biin four pairs for
our Mill, we can safely say they cannot bebiirptssed by
any in the country. Being a practical workman, and
giving his whole attention to his business, we feel as
hured he will give entire satisfaction to all who favor
him with their patronage. Baker Sc Ushkk.
mbl7-wlt
FHILIP B. ROBINSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Greensboro’, Ga. will
practice in the counties of Greene, Morgan, New
ton, Putnam Ogle'horpe, Taliaferro, Hancof-k w likes
and i re mhl4 3m*
TO GRAIN GROWERS.
WE shall be enabled th;s season to supply Grain
Growers with
Five varieties of liORBE POWERS .
Five varieties of THRESHERS ,
Seven sizes of FAN MILLS;
Ten dozen GRAIN CRADLES;
THE KENTUCKY HARVESTER, which, on account
of its strength and simplicity of construction, is decided
ly the best REAPER for the Southern States ;
BELTING, and all necessary art; ie for getting grain
ready for market. CARMICHAEL A. BEAN,
mblt-'A 3m Augu-ta, Georpla.
TWIGGS ACADEMY^
RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA.
fI'IHS institution has been lately reopened under the
i. superintendence of W J BURNSIDE. A M.
Every effort isbemg made on the part of the patrons
and principal, to establish a permanent seminary of learn
ing : the liberal patronage already received, warrants the
a isurance of success. The maiu des'gn of the School, is
to impart a thorough, practical bus.ness education; as
a.lso to prepare young men f>r entering upo the study
of the “ learned professions. ’’ The situation is pleasant,
healthful and secluded : it is on the Savannah road, 84
miles from Augusta, ard near Allen’s (R. R.) Station.
The course of study embraces Reading aud Elocution,
Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar. Geography,
His ory, Composition and Declamation, Book Keeping,
Mensuration Surveying, Algebra, Geometry, chemis
try. Natural Philosophy, Latin, Frrek, and French.
TERMS:—For Tuition, per quarter, of H weeks, $8
to $lO
iio&rding may be obtained at very low rates among
th* ft lends and patrons of the School.
TheScb ol will continue open through the year, ex
cept a few weeks in the heat of summer. Pupils will be
received at any time, and charged ily from the time of
entering, dire and further information, may be
obtained by addressing W J. BURNSIDE,
Allen's Station, Richmond county Ga.
References : George W. L. Twiggs, Dr. E.. Eve
Middleton Seago.
ntolO wtf
NOTICE ~
18 hereby given to the creditors of JOIIN A. VIGAL,
of Warrentoa, Georgia, Vnat au assignment has been
made to me for their benefit. All persons holding olaims
against said JOHN A. VIGAL, aud wishing to take part
in the distribution, will present their claims to me on or
before the first of Juue next
JAMES CODY, Assignee.
Warrenton, Ga., March 8. 858. mhlO w2m
UiXTY I)AVH after date, application will be mad
to the Court of Ordinary of Burke county for leave
to sell three hundred and Beventy-eight(37B) acres of Pine
I.and in saidcouuty, adjoining-ands of 8. J Cox, R. S
Scruggs and James M. Rowland, belonging to tbenstate
of Floyd Crocket, decease*!; JOHN T. PALrfER,
Jauuarv 7. l-5 E r- of Floyd Cio ket.
SI XT tl* a alter dat , application wm be made
to the Court of Ordinary of Jefferson county, for
leave to sell the Land belonging to the estate of John
Hadden, deceased, late of said coon y
January 9 1858 A K WRH HT Adm’r.
GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GA.
M’ RS- £. C.BTAUU begs re pectfudy to announce
to h r friends and the travel ng public, that sh*
continues to keep th ab vo establishment, and
her entire attention to its management as heretofore.
Thankful to her frieuds and the traveling pulp e f or
the very liberal patronage beietoiore extended t o this
House, she respectfully solicits a continuantassuring
tnexn that no pains or expense on her pa' fc will be spared
to rei derthe house worthy the extended patronage.
I mhi MRS. E. 0. STARR.