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JiY W. S. JONES.
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kes in yayrj< ct va. oa. Nogroe* will be Uken *!•
tfcfc :nvt*UueniA, v>... Axhi *t to r busiest to c*U &t
*** 1 ’ JAMF,S M DAVISON.
STUBK JOL * *7/ i, ’ tlrreir spec -men tofia
grans-send and gel one
Cjjromcle &
From ths Courier.
‘laminoth i avf-Tolonaal CnTero—A
DNcovfry.
i. .It v• * Is inruie Courier :—ln the fall of 1808,
M: L J P.t” er, the prcprietcr of the Mammoth
AVt 4 u i w.‘l two as iptant.-, utdertook
ez'plora* not a cave, on” <*ntrane* to which i
i u'i' >‘C in Barren <• ui.ty. a mile and a half from
U Is■ j. i Hiid Nan.iviile li.vlroad, and ten
u.’ efr /in the Mvnmota Cttve. Up to the time of
ti. • txi ■a* on made by Mr Procter, nothing &s
kr. w.. an to t &*- cirec m, i>tance or d'meneione
.. ... rJ. e:~ i.*'*.’ j region, which 1 have
vet red to name Coioeaal Cavern, and which, in
•.v t, graijdvL'r ami eoblimity, tut much exceeds
V a ■. *h ( eve m ’>? latter exceeus any rave
;-r . re • vered. Sa.ce toe exploration? of
M . p . • r were made, the writer of this article
. ve;ii.ed *>:at ffTitleman’i observations, and, in
order'* • ‘;-*e *he description of the cave, has
:-?-rred ire namee mentioned below upon the
T “in- rr.i.eot the avenue lending from the
ei ‘.:e of CoLsaa! Cavern runs in a nertbeastern
c;r c* iv. varies from twyjty to sixty feet in
; ; • t cii ten to f.rty in height, h-aiactites
1 of almost every conceivable lortu
y . i\ ■ . variety of rolor are lound ir. this avenue.
Thi k ca!.‘ and htilio Avenue, from the etaiactitic
formatic .: which are found in it.
* avenue, an avenue is entered
> • iii'li ic length, and which gradu
>i ]’y a .•!• ’ f. r js entii- distance. The wails,
.ii r i tii ■.£ avenue, are lined with
.v . , r j! r iA cf a variety of forms and of
y ::r.;y of which are over
’ in diameter. /jike the llowers io
< . . - C’ai.net ir. :he Mammoth Cave, they
jr v. : • r On the Door of th)s avenue,
y.■ \ . •f: s!u-* •> fl ;wer may be observed
i. v ar.o •• r, v h ; i*h have detaclied
aid ceiling, from time to
u M i a'wty ‘ t >rm in avenues destitute
■ ‘>d wit'* exc eding siowners. The
“ <•. • rt*;u rea for the succees.ve growths of sub
. i. *A r are i;Ot to be rec koned by months,
’ i >m can be observed m the
M . ve, v/:.ere gypsum Diwers have been
• • . :jr a i♦ :■ ,;io! hi teen years, the crystals
perceptible, euMn
Mrt tur.e. This
.* i.• < with an Avenue
, r. . . l h ;;tu. vh.fi; brads to a cas
i •‘M.ii'-e in river. The rivdr.^ttbe
! . ; is v wed, is seventy five sept
w • an < io loucer than that of any
11 v. • Vn.nwi: -th Cave. There being no boat
u mi i*• river, it baa m t been explored, although
.. > ypearan* eof great length. This body
.
On!!.’ bank of the river Mysterium an
vm. :c ■ ri.‘-a wbu;b contains the most magnificent
. m. ol stain *,ver discovered. This
... . . .. . ex] i .rtd ?r a dietano* of three and a
!.a ‘ m.-?3 w:i, discovering a terminus. At tliis
u thi oil r . vs a stalagmite was discovet
• siaiue ol Gen. Washington
.!, ./ • r. -fume. The ?tone, of which the na
ai . bite as statuary
• finglj | . l
is the u&me coolerred upon th?s pojtion of
O. , r. g f-.Tii - Mviunr*, aa avenue i&iy
w . ru ;i;i etiy north tor a distance
rof a mil . terminatesia ad<ime,
appearance, reaem
the Mammoth Cave,
sJ) : . ip honor of its dia
c./vertr, Mr L J ProcTer.* f ‘
i- Pr • i !)• o totho cliffs, on U-e tiuk*
of (>< cu riv;>. , tne princip l avenue resembles in
6\y.b 11. :CeVec-t:; .n uomoth Cave. The
. • . ... i.C . . GV... :i : <n the cliDi of Green
fiver, is one hundred a.;J ii:ty fegt above the bed of
U.u : H c:-\i.i
rin Barrett county. The Green riyer
*• in l.otii-ini* m county. The avenuo
• ‘ °iowt .1) me to the Edmonson
; ‘**l liiver Avenue.
Aveuue, for
. IJ .. i.t gyp-vui, V'hioh resemble enow
• v . werdoccupn din the first eapior^UoD?
I Cavern by Mr. Proper, and tlie ee
, . and: v.\ f ion the fifth day, which
i . ...; .*• ihe light ot the suxi was
B iv< u< s bri seventy
... , which in . • them, have beo
t< < , ! . • *:,?* utof wt jeh is not known ; and the
; . . .(a which has already been explored
ii. ,at no distant period to give a more de
. Cob t;:ul Cay ci n, gb}ph presents
•in ‘h n vh'i’ field lor subterranean fo t#k )9e
who take an internet m trogloilytenn lore.
f W. WIIIOiJT,
l*rof. Chemistry in Ky. 8 *uool of Medicine.
Mammoth Cave, July 23, 180!).
* Thi- Turf.
Y !c .<lvy there was a large turnout of gentle-
Kienand ladies at thi Kciip'e Cou r se,to wiintss the
it uiiLo h ats b tween P.ora Temple aud Prin
oi ‘• she betting previous to
ito eoo Prkoi 1 ; and
after e first beat, although P!>ra won it in the tin
pr dented liuus i*t the backers of the Cali
-11 >r iiia mar coffered tiby against oue hundred on their
beaL when the judges
dic'M- and that P.or iTmple won the heat—time 2:22
i. ol Pi not raw ere silent, aDd satisfied
h to contend against to risk
.. tko result, ind k-pt their pockets dosed.
The ■ i.u ti .u-a!, however, tahrlitd every doubt that
lor tu>s day, at l.opst, Flora Temple was ‘ queen of
TI .. k was in tbs most rondition for
fA.ii. time, and bets were made that 2;2b would be
beaten , hut i o one supposed that 2:22 iu a fcecond
l.i . v . id ever be made. The driver of Flora
v m that in the ia;’ heat, had he
i way through,she would have
These two mares trot again
two mile heat s next Tuc-oc ay, over the name course,
have got room to-day
t.*r morn than the details of the race, which arc au
Firsf Heat. —The marcs bad a most beautiful
start, Flora on the inside. The little mare pood
urew away from. Princess, and led to the quarter
l.i t three lengths in thirty-five seconds. Going
< ’ . ilornia inare closed
bate enable to overtake Flora,
• 1 the half mile pole In Gutbe
i vk er tuiu their relative positions were unchanged,
gnd up the homestretch Flora trotted so fast that
1 made no effort at aU to win,
;i. to i his mare in hand after passing the draw
. • Flora led l.ouie half a dozen lengths ahead
m *. • unprecedented time of 2:2-1 i. ifotwitiistaud
ii,g i.i it wny evident, that had Flora been urged
i, ho:u tiv'eb, she could have reduced the ti^
uir.s a eeootid or more. She jogged nat the end.
—As the mares came up for the
oted Flora, aud as the word
f a length in front; but the
\ passed the Ups of the start
ii. .liau Print’;-as broke up, and before she
i >. at leas! eighty yards behind. Flora
and: plied around to the *iuarter pole in 36 seconds,
lu. ndi an e ahead of Princess; but ou ths back
irnlft : • gradually, qntil
at th • mile pole—timet was afiout
|y behind. The driver of Princess
iug .'lire he was safe from
li vei of Flora sent her
t a’ if possible, and Flora
forty yams ahead, making
,> seconds and a half qticker than
j , //. ./ —They had a most beautiful start,
b ■. ta .t. g t!Lad around the upper turn, and
t ;: . :i. ‘ quarter poleacouple ot open lengths
■■ ) i:v * -fronds. Going down the backstretch
l ii hailMk-.*d FI ’ra for the lead, and before
rev.i ,t'.ng the ! .’.t mile pole elie had taken sides with
alf mfie head and head to
},.: ; n I lo -but in going around the lower turn
rla -tm :< shook tne California mare off and
an open length ahead •,
og up f m speed, Prinoem being urged
ed, btoke m, and Flora went home
the beet and race in the wonderful
; . ot 2: .. every heat iuthera< ’ being made iu
aeeeond the time ever record
ed. The i ; wing is a summary:—
■ iu-r Coi use, L. I —Tuesday, August 3
beet tftuee in live, iuhar
,! McM u cit *red b. m. Flora Temple 1 l 1
[NemYork Herald, , 18th * tut.
The Atmosphere—lts Height, Weight and
:hv ue called itd own
, irs v: al, the earth is surrounded by a K&36-
.. tnve'.'D6or atmosphsre. This atmosphere or
ai peculiar to and inseparable from our globe;
it Toiates with the solid mass upon its axis, and does
no:. * m ; £bt be superficially supposed, occupy the
ej cvee in which the rest of the heavenly boaies re
v, Uke ail m ifortn and liquid masses whose
j prem on each other eqaaQy in every di
rertivu, the portions or strata next the earth are
u .* i reused upon than those io the higher regions;
■•j i . rtiuu’njf this conception, a height must be
m ;vtd at where the ai; becomes so attenuated as
to be iua:: ft ab!,*. Tu- heightoi the atmosphere
t\ qu< ? ni . i.. disputed. Bome conceive it to
. i : iis, others about twenty-two, seme
• iv, others to eighty, aud Dr. Dick to
:.. . : I'd : ... : 5 Most probably the atmosphere
of ab V sis y miles; at thirty
st\\ . m::cs r. ,? sufficiently ueute toietlect the so*
iar rays wiieu eighteen degrees below the horizon,
i. : : r .. a a meteor, whose diameter was half
w u occurred iu the year 17t<3, at a height
above b e eai*h s surtace of fifty miles, was heard
like sea’-: . , alt hough the air at the elevation is
? e t:.. stand times lighter ti.sui at the level of the
With regard to the weight and color ot the at
ere, maro interesting and carious foots might
Vt - we rg -.ee for the purpose. Kr. Pascal
, ows that ail the phenomena and effects hitherto
and- -bed to tie horror of a vacuum arise from the
: : ::i- ruass of air; and after explaining the
■ rt-ssareof ilie atmosphere indifferent
vn * f . RLd if? differen’ states, he calculates that
tde w. . e mass of air round our globe weighs
x n • 1 ; in.o’Jo,(iOO,OUO Frenchpounds. Thecolor
- v 5.;.,. sphere is onl* 7 apparent when we look
!.t tLv >iy <.r an’ distant mountain or lorest. and a
ver\ .... e e* r r.:;;eu! will explain the cause. If
* a v ia r ge glass vessel, which contains a
deen-co or-i liquid, and have several glasj tubes
ct Cut: at diameters, from an i p£h tc ate - ith or
;v.of an inch, ara ii:.U;ese tube* with liquid
out t:.t large vessel—though we have the same
. i ; al. it will be eeen that the tint will grad
u v y l-x'ome more faint in proportion as the diame
ter ot the .übe is less, until, in the smallest the liquid
is c car and co oriess Uke water. Hence, it wiU be
observed, the intensity of the color is in proportion
to t - ms*.
Pt\ : : > or t * St .retart or the Interior.
—I tigress, by an act of Septembers, 1859, grant
ed to v ar.on State? the swamp and overflowed
lands within then limit? The duty of setting apart
TANARUS: r? and? having been by law impoeed upon the
Secretary of the Interior, the Seciet&ry, guided by
i cu.-sels of governors of the states to whom the
- ,ir were granted, adopted the field notes of the
l iited States a? a bash for setting apart the granted
vui’ To tLi? decision the practice of the depart
meiii Las conformed. Gov. Handail, of Wisconsin.
• as. however, i.-captly claimed that the United
States surveys in the star* previous to lS5d had not
been very tworate in showing the land unfit for
, u i.vT ; w,;tout artificial drainage or embank
mt ut that consequently, Wisconsin is entitled to
t. in r amount of lands ; and therefore suggests
a re examination. The Secretary of the Interior
as decided adverse to the proposed change, as
iiLStttie the whole land records of the
government He remarks that Wisconsin concur
> ed ;n the policy adopted, and has received 1,600,-
0* ) acres of swamp lands under it that the field
nctee of the surveys previous to 1850 were the best
know:’ dge Congress possessed of the public swamp
ixnus, and may be regarded as indicating the spe
cial iandfc intended to be granted.
A New Sk>?ati > for the Ladies.—A new
thing in Paris is a bonne: made of fine black hair,
embro dered witt* buttercups in silken straw. The
ribbon u?ed for the trimming ha? a b ack, ground,
and the dower? at the sid e are entirely black with
jet cen f res. The effect of this combination is con
sideVed a? very original, and it has the advantage
of defying dust.
The Gorilla.
In Dickens’ All the Year Round, we find the fol
lowing description of this animal, which is eaid to
be moet closely allied, in structure, to the human
form, cf any of the brute creation:
“ The gorilla is of the average height of man, five
feet six inches ; Li-brain case is low ar-d n&irow,
and as the fore part of the skull s high, and there
is a very prominent ridge above the eyes, tie top
of the Lean is perfectly fiat and the brow, with its
thick integument, forme a ‘ scowling penthouse over
the eyes.’ Couple with this a deep lead-colored
skin, much wrinkled, a prominent jaw with ths
canine teeth (ft the rnaiea) of huge size, a receding
chin, and we have an exaggeration of the lowest
and m'r! forbidding type of human physiognomy.
The neck is short ; the Lead pckt> forward. The
relative proportions of the body and limbs are near
er those of man, yet they are of more ungainly
aspect than any other of the brute kind. Long,
shapeless arms, thick and muscular, with scarce auy
diminution of size deserving the name- of wrist (for
at the emalleet they are fourteen inches r uad, while
a etroDg man swtat is not above eight;) a wide,
‘Lick Land, the palm long, and the fingers ehort,
swollen and gouty looking; capacious cheat ; broad
shoulders ; legs also thick and shapeless, destitute
of calf, and very muscular, yet short; a nandle
l.ke foot, with a thumb to it, ‘of huge dimension
acu portentous power of grasp.’ No wonder the
lion skulks before this monster, and even the ele
phant is bfcfiled by his malicious cunning, activity
and strength. The teeth indicate a vegetable diet,
but the repast is sometimes varied with eggs, or a
brood of young birds. The chief reason of bis en
mity to the elephant, appears to be, not that it ever
intentionally injures him, but merely that it shares
his taste for certain favorite fruits. And when,
from his watch-tower in the upper branches of a
tree, he perceives the elephant helping himeeif to
these delicacies, he steals along the bough, and,
striking his sensitive proboscis a violent blew with
the c\ub with which he is almost invariably armed,
drives oIT the startled giant, trumpeting shrilly
with rage and pain,
‘‘Towards the negroes, the gorilla seems to cher
ish an implacable hatred: he attacks them quite
unp*-ovdked. If a party of blacks approach un
cor sciously within range oi a tree haunted by one
of these wood-demons —swinging rapidly down to
the lower branches, he clutches with his thumbed
foot, at the neareet of them; his green eyes flash
with rage, his hair stands ou end, and the skin above
the eyes, drawn rapidly up and down, gives him a
fieu4i*ih scowl. Sometimes, during their excursions
in quest of ivory ? in those gloomy forests, the na
tives will first discover the proximity of a gorilla by
the mysterious disappearance of oue of their com
panions. The brute, anglii g for him with its horri
ble foot, dropped from a tree while his gtrong arms
grarp it firmly, stretches dowa fcis huge hind-hand,
seizes the hapless wretch by the th cat, draws him
up int? the Roughs, and, as scon as his struggles
have ceased, drops him down e strangled corpse.
“A tree is the gorilla s Jeering by night,
his pleasant abode by day, and his castle o* defence.
From that coigne ot advantage he waits his foe,
should the latter be hardy, or foolhardy, enough to
pursue. No full grown gorilla has ever been taken
&liv*. A bold negro, the leader of an elephant
hunting expedition, was offered a hundred dollars
for a live gorilla. ‘lf you gave me the weight of
yonder hill in gold, 1 could not do it,’ he said.
“Nevertheless, he has his good qualities—in a do
mestic point of view he is an amiable and exem
pt.ry husband and father, watching over his young
family with affectionate solicitude, and everting in
their defence his utmost strength and ferocity. The
mothers show tha‘ devotion to their young in
tm.: oTdanger, which is the most universal of in
giiric**. ‘ 1
“The gontla eoubuutxs a snug hammock
out of the long tough, siundeV *i*i4s .of parasitic
plants, and lines it with the broad dried fronds of
palms, or with long graej—a sort of bed surely not
to be despised, swung ia the !eafy branches of a
t r e. By dey he aits on a bough leaning his back
figiahta owing to which habit, elderly
gcriilae bbcofiie Paths.* Jn t) ,n se regions.’’
N. V. correspondence, of the HicTimond Whiz.
Tlic Wise Letter.
Vpw JTob/?,
Gov YViae ? of /opr Ctatp. I might jqstly claim great
credit an oracle of political wisdom. 4morg the
first letters of “Catskill,’’ lie pointed out the coalition
that existed between Wise and Wood, and the game
of the District system, in order to get a few bogus
4Wateß to Charleston from this State, who would
be admitt-n— Wia * rfelviu l£ P on the strength ot his
upends in the Convention to reject
ega*eo accept the Wise Wood delegatee.
When I wroU tko’f letters I little dreamed that
all 1 averted weeks’ ago would bo ~oon confirmed
by the hand-writing of Mr .Wise. Vet Stma is tne
fact- Yesterday the State Central Committee met
at Albany, for the purpose of deciding liow the del
egfcW po Charleston should be appointed. Wood
was on to capital for his district idea.—
All at once, it was whispered that there was
a letter in Albany from Mr. fls ntpnts
were communicated from one loader tb snntrjer.—
Wood heard of it. He pronounced it a tas.*
Ala*t I# was Bt.-on to hang his head with shame
The Jetted genuine—could not be disputed
One mem bex of the broke out in a rage:
“Weil, l thouglif he had eoftia nrccioga scoundrels
among our Northern h aders, but they a ro fopjs
as well as political knaves, ana this letter of Wise
takes the shine off any cheating arrangements we
have ever concocted.
Gov. Wood eluDk away from Albany and came
down in the night boat, hiding himself away in the
clerks state-room. When that portion of Mr.
Wise’s letter relating to himself was read to him
(Wood) ho swore like a trooper, called Wise eve:y
sort of Viio name, added, ?I J/iibed and if I
do not publish all U r lptterp so ff.e and erpose
his duplicity.” If he does—aud he U very likely to
do it—the epistolary correspondence of Henry A.
Wise will be a rich political volume if his political
honesty is on a par with that of the letter to the
Albany man. i'nere is one feeling of univereal
sooru from all high-minded democrats. The vene
rable Dickinson cried when the letter of Mr. Wise
was exposed to him. lie observed, “Sir, it is high
time that we unite and send but one set of delegates
to Charleston, when so prominent a man as Wise
dare send sdch *n infamous letter, proposing to us
a chart of deliberate political v illany in order to
secure his nomination. lam aebamed that a ...an
calling himself a Southern democrat should exhibit
such a combination of ignorance, egotism, rascality
and self-conceit, and expect the New York hards to
co-operate with him. 1, for one, disown all further
oonuttflion with him.”
Poor \Vise ha 4 not onp friend in Albany after
that letter was read yesterday.
Our democratic leaders have some remnants of
political virtue left, and Douglas stock went up fifty
per cent yesterday. .Such a bold, barefaced declara
tion from a rival candidate—and so mean, treacher
ous and dishonest, in reference to Mr. Douglas, has
pjade him many friends among the hards arid the
softs.
The Slavery Split in the American Tract
Society.— The American Tract Society of jtfew
York has just issued a circular on the secession
w hich hes taken place from it of the sister society
at Boston. Nothing can be more temperate, logical
oy Chriatiaulike in tone thau this document. The
circular explains fully the giound which the parent
Society took iu the rec *nt unhappy divisions on the
slavery question, uid .’.>ws that it would have
abandoned the fundamental principle of Christian
union on which it was founded had it complied
with the desire to make its publications the medium
of sectional views. The managers state their de
termination not to issue auy publications which
evangelical pastors and churches, city missionaries
and tract distributors, Sabbath school? and Bible
classes, jn all parts of the counts y, cannot unite
;n using and circulating ; and for the convenience
of those persons in England who may wish to
co-operate in this plan of Christian effort, they an
nounce that they have established at Boston a New
England branch of the New Y’ork society, embra
cing an advisory committee and a corresponding
secretary. Thus the abolitionist seceders will have
gained but little by their move. When it is found
how much the mischievous principle which they
have introdduced in their operations will interfere
with the Christian objects ol their association, there
is no doubt that numbers of the good, but fanati
cally inclined persons, who have Deeu led away by
the arguments of the arch agitators in this unfor
tunate schism, will gladly return to their allegiance
to the original constitution of the society.—iV. Y.
Herald.
From the Kansas Golp Mines —Sometime
during the month of March, a journeyman printer
engaged in this office, accompanied by Messrs
Joseph L. Ware and Albert Haynes, left this place
for the gold mines at Pike’s Peak. However, they
did not go to Pike’? Peak, but to a place near the
Postoflice called Auraria. Letters have been re
ceived from the two latter gentlemen, and they
seem to be well pleased with tne country and their
prospects. They state that they arrived at the
mines about the first of June. They struck “good
digging as soon as they arrived, and state they
“wi.l average about five dollars a day.” Says one
of the letters:
“We would have bean very much humbugged
as far as the Pike’s Peak Gold Mines were concern
ed, as there were none there. The mines in the
li teky Mountains were discovered the week we
arrived At Denver City. * * * There is plenty
of gold here, but it is hard to get at. We were,
very lucky in finding a good mine. * * * I
would advise no oue to come out here as it is a hard
country to live in, aud everything is extremely
high and ecarce. It costs ns a good d6al to live,
but I think we can save four or five dollars a day.
We bad quite a hard time in getting here, as we
had some very cold W’eatfier—plenty of enow and
raiu.”
All thipfi of the young adventurers sent speci
mens of gold to their friends.— l.aGrangc Reporter.
A Curt Female Yankee. —Under the head of
“A Touching Scene in Court,” the Taunton Tele
gram narrates the following incident:
“At the last term of the Court of Common Pleas
in this county, and upon the day assigned for sen
tencing prisoners, there was plsced at the bar for
sentence a middle aged woman, from Attleborough,
who had been convicted as a common seller of ini
toxicating liquor, in violation of law. She held in
her arms an infant, apparently some nine months
old. Shortly after taking her seat at the bar, she
proceeded, with great apparent delicacy, to suitably
arrange her dress and administer to the child in her
arms that natural solace which is the unfailing pa
nacea for all infantile alarms. Upon the motion of
the District Attorney the case is called for sentence,
when the Court, having the interesting exhibition
of nursing maternity directly hefore him. inquires
if it is not a case where the party should be sen
tenced to the poor house of the town in which she
resided, instead of the bouse of correction, such
being the provision of the statute in regard to wo
men having nursing children convicted of violation
of the liquor iaw The District Attorney, upon
view ot the interesting exhibition above described
in the prisoner’s dock, concurs in the suggestion of
the Court, whereupon the nursing mother was sen
tenced to a term of quiet leisure in the poor house
in Attleborough, in this county, instead of the same
term of hard labor iu the House of Correction in
New Bedford, and left the Court room thanking His
Honor for his leniency. Itbas since transpired that
said unfortunate female is a widow of seme 3 years’
standing and Her youngest child is a stalwart boy
of about five years, and that the infant to whose
want, she :o materially administered in the pres
ence of the Court was .. oaby Sorrowed for the occa
sion ! The above case stands epou the record
of the Court as follows: ‘Commonwealth rs. Mar
garet Joyce. For deiendant, Joseph B. Sanford. ”
As Affectionate Parting.— The Albany Ex
prese hae some subscribers wno <ion t pay for their
papers. The Express bids them good bye in the
ioliowing tender terms:
This week we strike from our list only about fifty
subscribers who wiU not pay their due to the printer,
la doing so, we take them by the hand, and with
tears in our eves bid them an affectionate farewell
Good bye. old subs: Take care of yourselves. —
Sometimes think ol the Express, which you have
read so long tor nothing. Sponge upon some other
primer now for a while. A change of diet will
doubtless be geod for you. Poor old fellows ! we
are a little sotry to turn you out upon the dark night
without a lamp, but it must be so. Strike for the
neareet neighbor's light. He may let yon in and
feed you for a year or two, upon the strength of your
honorable promises to pay at the end of that time.
For ourselves, we have enough of those curious
pledges to supply our cah.net for the present. We
have labelled them caretuiiy, and they are open to
general inspection. With many thanks for your
aelf-eacrihctng indulgence of us, and for your hon
est appreciation of the obligation existing toward
our omoe. we again, aud finally, say -farewell for
ever!”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1859.
! Additional Foreign News.
By the Norh American and Varderbilt. from
L verpcol on the 3d icst., we have the following
additional iteme cf foreign news :
Great Britain —ln the House of Lords on the
Is*, the Earl of Granville ?a:d it was a3 yet impossi
ble to fix the day, beyond which important mea
sures would not be re a ‘ a second time.
Lord Elgin said in reply to an inquiry that he had
impressed upon the Chinese government, while
negotiating the treaty of Shanghai, tho importance
o: .functioning the introduction of British ealt, bat
had failed, though he believed a different result
might be arrived at. if the Chinese authorities could
be convinced that their revenue would not suffer
for the change.
In the House of Commons the increased Income
Tax bill was ordered io a third reading.
Sir C. Wood made a financial statement in re
spect to the Government of India. He estimated
the expenditure of the war at £ -16.000,000. whilst
the estimated revenue was only j£?S,BUU,UOO, leav
i g a deficiency of £ 10,200,000 sterling.’ In addi
tion to this there are two millions to be raised by
England towards the expenditure of ludia, making
the total deficiency £12,200,000. This has
already been partially provided for, but there are
£5,000,000 still needed, and he proposed to raise
inis by a further loan. He thought there was no
likelihood of any improvement in the financial
affairs of India for two or three years to c .-me. 2so
great reduction could be made in the expenditure,
while the revenue cou'.d only be slightly increased
by an additional tax on salt, licensee, Sea.
Mr. Bright advocated a decent reduction of go
vernment, reduced army, and curtailment of the
civil service salaries as the most efficient way of
bringing about an improvement.
A resolution was adopted in favor of an additional
£5,U00,00U loan
On the 2d in the Commons Mr. Moakton Miines
moved an address to Her Majesty, praying her to
enter in negotiation with the United Slates, for the
purpose of preventing assaults and cruelties upon
seamen engaged in the tratlic be ween the two
countries, aud of bringing to justice the perpetra
tors of such offences.
The Attorney General eaid the Government had
directed its at'ention to the subject. He would
never assent to giving the jurisdiction to foreign
Colsuls. The only method would be either to faci
litate the extradition act, to have recourse to the
ordinary tribunals, or to deal with the matter in the
same manner as with eeainen'.i contracts.
The motion was egreed to. ‘
Ex-Pi eeident Pierce had passed thronght Liver
pool, en route for the lake district. He was cxpec
ted to sail for New York in about a fortnight.
Borne serious strikes were occurriug in London.
The carpenters were demanding a reduction iu their
hours of labor, aud the employees of the gas com
panies were demanding increased wages, and for
sometime London was in danger of being left in
total darkness.
France. —Tho Times’ correspondent says that
Count de Perßigny has left Paris on his return to
London.
The Minister of War hed addressed an older to
all Colonels of tiegimocts to Send hngre alj “oidiers
whose absence has been recalled after a dppfara
ticn of war with Austrsa, and likewise all entitled
by services to leave of absence for six months, so
that they may be at the disposal of farmers who re
quire them tor the harvest.
_ No change is to be noticed in the commercial
situation of France. The accounts from the agri
cultural districts are not unfavorable. The wheat
has not attained much itjuiy. The barley is uot
expectedto be productive, but the stock on hand is
immense. Qats would probably bo more produc
tive thau was expected, and the harvest altogether
will exceed that of a good ordinary year, and Lhere
will be an overplus for exportation.
Austria. —The Vienna correspondent of the
Tim< seays: Although Count Colloredo had an au
dience ot tile Emperor on the2B.h, and was long
closeted with rue foreign minister, it is not likely he
will leave for Zurich urilii the'beginning o* tb?
ensuing week.
For a time a very unfriendly feeling towards
England has prevailed here, but the wrath of the
*he Jim pi. i’r (~,!• p'reuch having pqt hig army
aud UttVy ori thef poaorf fottßpg, h B / made’ grekt
impression in the Austrian fin&ciaf wbilij. **
Count de Bonneville will return here ag the re
presentative pf France.
Ital*.— uaripaldj has issued the following, dated
Levere, July J9th;
•■However political affairs may go In the preoeut
circumstances, it is the duty of Italians uot only not
to lay down their arms ami manifest discouragement,
but to swell their ranks and show Europe that, guid
*™ the heroic Vidor Emanuel, they are'ready
again to confront the vicissituuea of war.
“lie declares that his army is ready at any mo
ment to contisgs flip war, 11
The Times. tforroSnerfileu);, writing from Home,
says that great dieaatisfactlon exists there, -and the
presence ot the French soldiers alone keep down a
general outbreak,
The Jesuits have been driven out of Faleuh*,
Ferii and Ferrara.
’ li* 9 ttplogna Gazettee published a declaration
that ihe provinces of rtomaginf guvo .hakoU off the
Papm “ A ke never to return to it agaio, and express
a wish to be annex* and to Sardinia.
The Tuscan army had taken up its position be
tween Modena and Keggio.
The Milan (jazs'.f.a'states that tho French troops
were constancy passing
back to France.
Turin, July 30.—The Dictator of Modena has
convoked popular assemblies. AI! persons compe
tent to lead and write, and above twenty-one years
of age, are entitled to vote. Perfect order prevails.
Turin, August I —The King to-day, received
Count Keiset, the Special Envoy of the Emperor
Napoleon, for the purpose of bringing about the res
toration of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany and Mo
dctftu
Inoia. —The disaffection among the late uompa
pany’s European troops is increasing at Bernhaw
pore, and they are in open mutiny. They have
entrenched themselves in their barracks, aud elect
ed officers to command them. The Madras Fusileers
have followed the example of the Bengal troops.
Central India is quiet.
The United States steamer Powhatan got on shore
near Woosang, but expected to get eff uninjured.
Latest.
Paris, Aug. 3.—The Moniteur announces the
dissolution of the army of the Rhine, though camps
Cinalents and jilfant remain established. F
The Times’ Paris correspondent eays the Em
peror is very anxious to satisfy the European pow
ers oi his pacific intentions, and before many days
the European powers will be invited to unite in a
Congress where the solution of the Italian difficulty
will be proposed, which will deserve support for its
liberal character.
Prince Napoleon is sait) to be indefatigable in his
efforts for the amicable settlement of all differences
among the European powers.
Orders have been given for disarming all the
ships at Brest and for the French Admiral to haul
down his flag. Indeed, what was called the Ocean
Squadron has ceased to exist.
Spain. —lt is said the Spanish Government has
resolved upon establishing a municipa 1 system in
Cuba.
Entonton nud Hindi.on Knflrond. —(’oirrspon-
dcnce.
Milltdgeville, August lltb, 1859.
Col. J. Wingfield, Chairman, &c.:
My I)9ir Sir—l have the pleasure to Bubmit to
you, as Chairman of our late Railroad Convention,
thp following correspondence between your Com
mittee and Mr. Cuyler, President of the Central
Railroad, whose favorable consideration of our pro
position, is liatteriug evidence ot the interest taken
by our noble old seaport, Savannah, in aiding and
advancing any efforts in railroading the inconve
nient gap between Eatonton and Madison. I sug
gest that you convene our Convention in the course
of three or four weeks, for the purpose of organ
izing a company for definite action.
Very respectfully, A. H. Kenan.
Mixi.eijgevii.le, July 20th, 1859.
To R. R. Cuyler, President Centra! Railroad :
Dear Sir—The undersigned were appointed by
a railroad meeting held in Eatonton in May, as a
Committee to correspond with the Georgia and
Central Railroads upon the propriety and growing
necessity of extending the railroad from Eatonton
to Madison, and to solicit their friendly aid and co
operation.
The last Legislature having granted to the Ga. R.
R. an amended Charter, authorizing an increase of
her Capital Stock to an amount uecessary for the
construction of this connection, we confidently ap
pealed to her for co-operation and aid in its con
etruction. She replied that the amended Charter
was not asked for by the Ga. I{. R , and declined
any action in the enterprise. In soliciting the
assistance of the C. R. R. to the efforts of a compa
ny which may be formed in the counties of Morgan,
Putuau and Baldwin, to railroad this inconvenient
gap, between your road at Eatonton and Madison—
it would be unnecessary waste of time, to reiterate
to you, the iutereste involved in thie question—and
in making the application do not understand us, as
urging any claims upon a Company whose liberal
and enlightened policy, has so much contributed to
the general prosperity of our State—aud no section,
more benefited, than our own. Nor do we rest
the merit of our application, upon the acknowledged
inconvenienoe aud disadvantage to Middle, South
ern and Northern Georgia, but upon the natural
rule—that having by your railroad developments
given us so many facilities, we feel with double
pressure , the inconvenience of this missing link, in
railroad symmetry. In asking your aid, we ot
course, have no terms to prescribe. Our people
will unite with you, as partners, in ths enterprise,
or they will eonstiuct the road upon the terms ex
tended by your Company to the Eatonton branch.
We feel that in submitting this application to you,
its favorable consideration will not only strengthen
present attachments, bpi in the renewed obligations,
Sav.tunah aud Eastern Georgia, will find tail remu
neration.
Very respectfully yours,
Kenan, Barrow Terrell, Com.
Kail Road Bank, )
Savannnh, Ga., August 9th, 1859. 5
Gentlemen : I have delayed placing your letter
of the 21st ult., formally before cur Board of Di
rectors, because I desired to converse with yon on
the subject. My individual opinion is in favor of a
road from Eatonton to Madison; provided the peo
ple subscribe enough to build it under the direction
of ti.e Central Company—the Central agreeing to
take it when finished, at 7 per cent, yearly rent.—
When a proper charter is obtained, and the sub
scription tendered, without asking for any State aid,
and the act giving the Georgia Road the right to
build, shall be repealed, I shall be ready to advo
cate before our Board the measure which you de
sire. lam of opinion that the Board will then give
a favorable reply. The season is so far advanced,
ana I am so confined here, that I propose a meetiDg
with the Committee at Milledgevilie, a: the open
ing of the session. Very Respectfully,
Your obedient serv’t,
R. R. Cutler, Pree dt.
Messrs. Kenan, Barrow and Terrell, Committee.
HeartreSdisg Scene. —Appalling Death from
Hydrophobia. —We are nearly every summer doom
ed to record one or more ot those most awful of
deaths in which the King of Terrors assumes the
appalling shape of hydrophobia. Some four weeks
ago, a Frenchman named Louis Laclere, a laborer,
was bitten on the arm and wrist by a dog. About
four days ago, the first symptoms of the horrible
malady', be feared, began to manifeet themselves.
His employer procured his admission to the city
hospital, where the best accredited remedial mea
sures were at once studiously adopted in his be
half. Despite these, he steadily grew worse. For
the most part entirely conscious of his condition, he
gradually became the helpless prey of a series of
terrible spasms, which hopeiessiy increased in in
tensity and frequency. His agonies were as if an
internal fire were consuming him. In calmer in
tervals, when water coaid be offered him he would
snatch the dipper and greedily gulp the draught,
upon which a spasmodic closure of the glottis and
a sense of mortal strangulation, as in lockjaw,
would attack him and bring on the fiercest features
of his madness. He would start violently and
snappingly at the bystanders, giving vent, with
horribly contorted features, to noises resembling
those es a furious dog. The spectacle is described
as heart-rending and shocking in the extreme, until
death released him trom his torturee on Sunday
night— St. Louis Democrat.
Iron Railroad Bridge. — A splendid iron bridge
has been constructed across Green river, in Ken
tucky, on the Louisville and Nashville line, which,
with the exception of the Victoria bridge, at Mon
treal. is said to be the largest of the kind in Ameri
ca. It is 98J feet long trom abutment to abutment,
and 115 feet high above low watermark. It is
divided into fiveepans, the twospans at the extremes
being 180 feet long, and the three intervening 208
teet each from centre to centre of piers.
American Love el'Titles.
If there is a weaksc-.3 in American character
which may well excite the wonder and derision of
even those strangers who desire to think well of us
and our institutions, it is the inordinate fondress for
titles which exists among a nation whose pride it
ought to be that it did not descend from a titled class,
that it has prohibited by law orders and titles of
nobility, and that it has made its own great nets.
It can do ns no harm to look sometimes at onr faults
and foibles, as well as onr innumerable and superla
tive virtues, and he is no friend who fails to inuke
known to a friend his errors,or to prevent him from
making himaeif ridiculous.
We bold that no one has more just reason for
pride thau the man who originally poor, humble, a.id
unaided by powerful ffieuds,or iLfluence, has made
himeeif one otthe pillars of tue State, oue of the chiei
members of the learned professions or a leader in
any prominent department of human enterprise.—
Great Britaio, France, and even the despotic coun
tries of the Continent, can rhow such men, and they
are revei diced there amid kings audcourtieis ; thev
are olten “the power behiud the throne that is great
er than the throne;” sometimes they control cabi
nets. ead amries, and decide Ihe destinies of empires.
In this country, such cases are more numerous, for
here there is a lair field for each aud all, and a list of
ihe names who have risen in the United States,
from the humblest origin to the high places ofthe
land, would till a volume. Our country itself was
settled mainly by the middle classes, and agricultu
ral and mechanical laborers ol Gieat Britain. Thev
were men who valued pith, muscle and manhood
qualities which are moie highly appreciated in a
new country t an gentle blood and ancestral re
nown. I]y the exercise of these qualities, the He
pubiic has become, in the lifetime of a mac, one of
the great powers ot the earth, and i ’ would have a
mural grandeur equal to its physical, but for a uni
versal hankering ‘after the iieshpots of aristocracy
which consoles the most envjjus and sardonic of its
enemies.
If, in this title-forbiddiug nation, this people which
professes to despise the ancient nobility of Europe,
there could be published a book containing all the
titles applied to, or appropriated by, American citi
zens, a stranger would come to the conclusion that
the whole population is composed of Generals,
Colonels, Mejors, Captains, Honorables, Commo
dores, Doctors, Professors, and Eiquircs. The plaiu
title of “J lister’’ has become a mark of distinction.
Who ia willing to be only ‘-Mtfter ?” Who will
consent to serve as a private in this Republican
army? When these titles, so various and iugurne
.able, arg not mere ornamental handles to ordinary
names, when they in .icste superior Knowledge or
merit, it is right aud proper that they should be
bestowed. But, as a general thing, the very re
verse is the case, and handles ot silver and gold are
stuck on to earthen jugs with the evident conviction
that by this new kiudof alchemy the jug will be
come of the same precious metal as the handle
Jii.ilary titles, belonging to a profession of which
less is known in this country than any other, are
more common thau all the rest combined. Every
member of Congress, Sickles included, is Honorable,
and every private citizen an Esquire.
Hitherto, the Navy, being a vocation of the sea,
hug been qblp to kpep its Ijtlss from the jaad sttarks,
put we sec that even the hard earned honors ol our
gallant naval defenders, who get little else but
honor and hard knocks in the way of compensation,
are no longer eacre-d. Tho yacht club of New Y'ork
we perceive, has converted its vessels into a squad
ron, and invested one ot their Captains with the
title of “Commodore.” They intend to do things
quite man-of-war-fashion, and very likely will alto
gether eclipse the regular service in seamanship
and fighting qualities in a very short time. Iu other
departments, we find even more ridiculous exam
ples oi affectation and imposture. Nothing ia more
Commonth&n to see the honored name of “Profes
bor,; ’ a name which has a technical signification,
find belongs exclusively to a public teacher of the
sciences in a University or College, assumed by
every mountebank and humbug, by balloonists,
nlirenolugiste, rope dancers, and we have even
heard of a ‘proi'osspr of Ccpns.it
Tine colleges and universities of the country ju.ve
soffie reason to complain of Juch aa kpsropria(!on
and application of their peculiar properly • but we
think it can be shown that it is. after .!! ‘ poly re ;
triputiyejustice, ipad tbift they WtsoiSaya’ pgnthcrefi
ifOptrs jfth go JittTg disoriqjinjjtipn, pggfct jg
ifearmqr when they are dcspdjieij gs yioir
biases es distinction. How saw ’*■ own
Amiirioa ip which a . ~ ->• colleges in
merit, la the beet', tunters any evidence of
especially the title ofT? n °fh honol . 8 H P ODOUtsid r3,
try have done V, ’ the c ~le ff e9 o{ 00uu
...e ot Doctor in Divinity” meant
something, and It was rarely und discriminatingly
bestowed, ijow is jt now l ‘
Ma>> and decide if
this title is always ad evidence of extraordinary
theological learning; nay, if it is not often given to
the merest sciolists aud smatterers in theology
while (and here is the crying injustice of this reck
less distribution of clerical honors,) men really de
serving are passed by, and, thus lowered in the
estimation of the community, vyljo nattily regard
then) S3 iPfoflfft m ß t> ffi tliyir profession, ‘because
the tribunal whioii dispenses the rewards of merit
has not conferred upon them that badge of supe
rior desert ibhich it is its province to bestow, and
of which it is supposed to be the best judge. ‘lt
would be better to dispense with the title altogetb,
er than to lavish it sti indiscriminately, and with as
little juugineci and justice as it is novy often ar
plwff.l—Rich. Disp.
Loss of rlie Kars and Hilisirla.
Intelligence has been received from Constantino
ple of the wreck of the screw steamers Kara and
Silietria, two vessels built in the Clyde for the
Turkish Government, aud have been since let lo a
private company for the conveyance of goods and
passengers, ‘j’he precise fate of the Kars is doubt
(ul, but from the fact that she left Alexandria on
the 22d of May and has not since been heard of, no
doubt of her loss is now entertained. The Silistria
left Alexandria for Constantinople on the 25th of
June, with about 250 persons on board. The next
day, about noon, a loud crash was heard among
the timbers of the ship, and the engine stopped. It
was shortly set in motion again, by whose orders ja
not known, and the crash was again heard, the
screw was broken, ar.d the water was entering the
hold rapidly. The incompetence qf the Turkish
captain and crew mqst h&ve been extraordinary,
and for an hour nothing was done towards stopping
the leak, but at last a Russian engineer on board
made his way to the hole and attempted to stop it
with tarred hemp. The captain embraced him
when he came on deck, and relapsed into his
former bewilderment. The same engineer did
what he could, but the crew refusing to work,there
were too few to keep the water j.ruler, and it soon
begqn to outer at the stern porta. The danger be
came more arid more evident, and then the Turkish
passengers, iu a paroxysm of stupid fanaticism,
apparently, rose on the Europeans, aud threatened
them with their pistols and daggers if they attempt
ed ip speak to the captain. The night of the 25th
was employed in incessant labor as regards the
Europeans, while Ihe Turkish crew slept on (he
deck. Qn the morning of the 2jtb an Egyptian
Government brig, laden with wood, commanded by
Reis Ibrahim, hove in sight, bound for Alexandria.
The captain of the Silistria sent on board, offer
ing him an indemnity if he would abandon his cargo
and take the passengers of the steamer on board,
and endeavor to tow her into Alexandria. The
Egyptian would do nothing, except cast them a
tow-rope, having probably little faith in the premia-’
es of the respectable Mustafa Bey. Then came a
horrible scene cf pillage and violence, the Turks
plundering the baggage of the Europeans, in which
they were joined by Die crew, and a regular Satur
nalia ensued. They then seized the sole remaining
boat, throwing into the sea the Europeans who at
tempted to embark, and cutting off the head of a
young Austrian with an axe in the melee. On the
27th the water had reached the bulwarks, and the
workers were exhausted. Happily the Egyptian
brig re appeared, the boats came back, and a saute
qni peul commenced ; but the ferocious Turkish
passengers opposed every attempt on the part of
the Europeans to save those who were exhausted
by the labor at the pumas. Shortly alter Ihe Silis
tria went down, with 77 persons on board, the brig
carrying into Alexandria 273 passengei s aud sailors,
the Europeans being exposed during the passage to
the violence aud brutality of the Turks, A com
mission of inquiry has been opened at Alexandria
as to the causes which led to this disaster, which
will leave on the minds of allto whom the details
become known an impression which the Turks will
do wellto endeavor to remove by serious reforms.
[London News.
Planters’ Convention Fair.— We had the
pleasure of an interview, on Monday last, with
Col. J. V. Jones, of Burke county, one of the Com
mittee of the Planters’ Convention, charged with
the duty or providing lor an annual Fair in this
city, embracing an exhibition, as well of Foreign
fabrics, as of American Manufactures and Agricul
tural products, on an extensive scale. This pro
ject is already in flattering progress, two carrots
of foreign goods, one from Bremen and the other
from Antwerp, being already shipped, or soon to
be, direct for Alacon via Savannah. It is contem
plated to bold the first Fair in this city on the Ist
Monday of December, and to continue one week or
longer, according to circumstances. The second
Fair will come off in December, 1860, and continue
three weeks—the exhibition to consist of three
divisions—as follows i Ist week, devoted to the
display of Foreign goods—fid, to the exhibition of
Mechanical and Agricultural products of the South
—and 2d, to an exhibition of Stock, of every des
cription This is, we think, an excellent plan, and
cannot faii largely to benefit this section, generally,
as well as our city, particularly.
Wej are glad to hear that some three thousand
dollars have already been raised by subscription,
lu Maecn, for the purpose of the h’air, &nd that our
City Council wil} do-what they can to carry out, in
a liberal cpirit, this mo=t important enterprise.—
Macon Citizen.
A Venerable Bishop.— Some weeks ago the
Nashville papers mentioned that the venerable and
Rev. Joshua Soule, D. D., senior Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was very ill,
and it was feared would not be able to resume the
active duties of his office. We learn, however,
that the Bishop has recovered his usual health, and
is now on a visit to his relatives in Ohio. On
Saturday, July 30th, he was at Lebanon, near
Cincinnati, and preached a funeral sermon on the
death of an old friend. The next day, Sunday, the
31st, he again preached, his sermon occupying one
hour and twenty minutes. His subject was the
Prodigal Son. Some of his allusions to his early
ministerial life, the death of his former colleagues,
Wbatcoat, McKendree, George, and others, were
very touching. “Sixty years ago,” said the Bishop,
“on the sth of January last, I left my father ‘s home
to begin the work of a Methodist travelling preach
er, aud this day, July 31at, I close the 78th year of
my life,” He spoke with his usual distinctness and
compaea of voice sufficient to make himself heard
by a large congregation.
Cholera Infantum —The Boston Medical and
Surgical Journal states that this disease is unusually
severe the present season. At a meeting of physi
cians in that city last Monday, several cases were
reported ia which the suddenness of attack and the
rapidity of the course of disease were remarkable.
The disease is very prevalent and very fatal in
Providence. Great pains should be taken to pre
vent children from being exposed to cold and damp
without sufficient clothing, especially towards night.
The absurd custom of dressing little girls in hoops,
no doubt renders many children liable to the danger
of cholera infantum, by exposing the lower extremi
ties. Twenty-one children died m Boston last week
of this disease. This is about double the number at
this time of the year.
What Burning Fluid has Done.— Mr. E.
Meriam, of Brooklyn, states that he has kept a
record of deaths, injuries, and conflagrations, re
sulting from the use of camphene and other burning
fluids used for the purpose of illumination, since
Ja y 22, 1850. Sinee that date he ha3 recorded the
deaths of three hundred and seventy persons, and
the injuries of lour hundred and seventy seven
person :, many of the latter of whom the accounts
stated were not expected to survive the in janes
they had received. The losses by fire from the
fluid he estimated at upwards of one million of dol
lars.
Don’t Like Freedom. —Fifteen slaves, manu
mitted by their owner at Bayou Sara, Louisiana,
about four months since, and sent to Ohio to reside,
reed down the river last evening on the Jessie
Bell, en route for their old home, preferring
slavery under their old master to the freedom
vouchsafed them in a Northern State.— Memphis
Bulletin, 7 th inst.
The Nail Hit.— A correspondent of the Provi
dence Journal, in alluding to the recent discussions
about the “Broad Cburch,” truly says “the world
needs common sense more than a common greed. ’
From the Sarannah Btpvh’icau.
. Warren A Kin.
Having been tU -ut from tie city for more than
a week past, the nomination of this gentleman as
ths leader of tue opposition in the approaching g U .
berustorial election, has tailed to receive that spe
cial attention to which it was entitled at the hands
of this journal. We avail ourselves ot the earliest
moment after cur return to make this explanation
and to supply the omission.
Siuce our connection with the Pre. s no noiniua
tiou has been announced, lor any office, that met
our more cordial approval and endorsement. It
was, in every respect, “fit to be made,” and, in our
tumble jcdiOient, the only one that could have
been made iu justice to the interests involved and
the emergency that has placed them iuperii. It is
a nominal ion worthy of the great ami patriotic party
■hat made it, .ar.d at which the pride of the Empire
State of the South need not be mortified or abash
ed. No better man can bs found es the champion
of her honor aud good name, and the restorer of
her dignity from its present fallen estate. Intellec
tually aud morally, he is ail that a man should be to
entitle him to preside over the destinies of Georgia.
From humble birth and a youth spent in ths toils
aod hardships of the mints 1’ r the minus oi'sub.-is
tenoe and mental culture, he lias risen, by Ids un
aided exertions, t) the first lark in his profession,
and to honor and use’nlness as a citizen. He is
emphatically a self-made man ; aud, what is better
s’ili, instead of prostituting his means and extensive
personal influence to schemes of party and selfish
aggrandisement, they have been devoted to woiks
cd patriotism aud private becevt lence. We be
liefs he was never hefore a candidate for office, and
hence, though a leading man of his section, his name
is comparatively uukn wn to the people if other
portions ol the Slate. This, however, though an
embarrassmeut, ia no disqualification or permanent
obstacle; they vill know him, and knowing, find
him as a star in the heavens compared with the
miserable specimen of political fox fire that skulks
in the bulrushes of party with no other light thau
that w hich he borrows irom the railroad deposits.
We shall say more of Mr. Akin, and his cliims
upon the people of Georgia, as we progress with
the canvass. We regard his nomination as a most
fortunate one, and shall cheeituiiy contribute cur
best energies to the cause of his election. Not a
Democratic paper in tto State has spoken dis
parivgi.ugly of him. for they know him to be beyond
the reach of Retraction. As liule us they regard his
prospect of an election now, they will change both
their tone and confidence before the Ides of Octo
ber. Ridiculous aa the prophecy may appear, we
tell them now that he will bs tr.e next” Governor of
Georgia. The people will weigh liimiu the balance
with the littleness, vanity and dtmagoguism that
now fill the Executive elixir, and their vtvdict will
be such as should be rendered by a patriotic aud
enlightened cutisiitueLcy.
We commend to the people of Georgia our can
didate, ami the principles upon which he proposes,
if elected, to diiVot his public career. We make
po mere party appeals; both the man and the
p altorm are such that ailgood antj true men pan
support thein with copsiste.Uj and i.anfldeuce. It.
is due to this great Stats that ilr. Akin should be
elected, and we challenge all-Whigs, Democrats
and Americans, without distinction—to examine
their claims, repudiate party dictation, and make up
their verdict in October from the promptings of
patriotism and duty.
Brown’s ltallrouil Policy ns Defended by the
Atlanta liiicttigencer.
The Intelligencer, in reviewing ‘speech made
by Dr. Mi.ler in Atlanta fin the lfith inst. does not
—(and no ; honest man will dare to do it,) deny the
assertion that tor the entire four years of Johnson’s
administration the net proceeds of the State road
were on an average, over $7,000 a month more than
for the sixteen months of Brown a administration.
We say lie admits this fact, and thu goes Off £?
apologize lor the s-rtsl! amount “msue by growg.—
By this coarse t:: prb Yes’Whitt hnS'Beeu repeattdlv
charged, iri z : that Brown’s Railroad'’ p.lUiw wgA
“pefmy witie and pound I'p-dish.” jtp M
the spigot an-jl loses $ jig
has sfcsfljfj, v < ii4y.ojJe l never
mufiLgypU'ut p( iiiia ••■•’ ~cc policy in the
lt*• ...-at hnate work. But by
auei.- ‘ ..weis of his lii tie mind in picking up
t’ iron and iu saving a lew shillings here and
there, has almost emireiy neglected the great inter
ests of the road, that would, if properly attended to,
ha vs made the road increase in its earnings at Icaat
SIOO,OOO a year, as it had been doing for the past
five years; whereas by hie folly its earnings have
actually fallen off SIOO,OOO a year.
The juteiligeiicer lays down, with allmrish, the
following propositions, which we have no disposition
tfi deny, except that ‘‘the read is kept in better
prder,” which we believe is untrue:
Isf. Gov. Brown's Administration, works the
road cheaper iu proportion to the amount of work
done , than auy administration which has preceded
him.
‘2d. Gov. Brown realizes more nett profit monthly
in proportion to the monthly earnings of the road,
than any Gov, who has preceded him, and keeps the
road in better order than it has ever been kept.
Dr. Lewis baa always had the reputation of be
ing a remarkably economical man ; has made a
fortune by saving dimes and half dimes, and we are
willing to admit that he fas taken good care oi what
the road has earned. What if ho has by his strin
gent economy saved to the State a few thorn and dol
lars, and we have no idea it exceeds ten thousand,
he has actually lost by the urismaangement of its
great interests at least two hundred thousand
dollars. We make this state nent with the mere
assurance because all the other roads have been
increasing their earnings as much in the last two
years as ever before, and there is no possible reason
why the State road should not do so too, if properly
managed.
Again the Intelligencer says : “A targe amount
of North Alabama freight, that ustd to pass over
the read, before the road Irom Uhattanooga to Mem
phis was completed, ia now cut off aud passes down
the Mississippi.” That is a good suggestion, but it
makes a very erroneous impression. The Charles
ton road was completed ia May, 1807, and Ihe crop
of North Alabama oi that year did pass on the State
Road to the amount of 38,n(l() bales, and would be
doing it now were it not for Gov. Brown’s “consci
entious stupiluy” in railroad management. Last
year only l(Uli) bales of cotton came over our road
trom Chatfanooga, and this great difference was oc
casioned because Brown refused to adopt the same
rates ou through freights that were established by
his predecessor. The cotton of North Alabama
does not go down the Mississippi river because the
Charleston road iB completed, but because Gov.
Brown has stubbornly refused to unite with the
other roads iu putting the rates of through freights
at such prices as to enable shippers to send it this
way. —Rome Courier.
Protection of Ttvo Kind*.
Now t hat. Senator Douglas is advancing so rapid
ly in favor witli Hie Democratic party in those
Southern States that have already held their elec
tions for this year, it is well enough to examine the
distinct issues which lie makes and upon which he
hopes to rally a successful party. His two leading
hobbies relate to Protection —for one class of citi
zens he demands the fullest and amplest protection
everywhere by the Federal l ivernment; to the
other he denies all protection ot property by Con
gress even on its own soil! The first of these class
es is tie foreign-born population, chiefly settled in
our Northern and North western States. For these
Senator Douglas demands protection wherever they
may go, against all claims of the authorities of those
countries from which they emigrated. He makes
haste to fake issue with G;n. Cass on this question,
and most emphatically announces the doctrine that
the rights of cur naturalized citizens must ba up
held by this Government at any cost. The other
cla-e, to whom he would refuse all protection of
their peculiar property even on our own soil, are
the slaveholders of the South. If they desire to
lake their property with them to the Territories,
says Judge Douglas, they may be forbidden by
“unfriendly legislation”—a numerical majority of
the squatters may exclude them, though the Terri
tory is the common property of all the States and
unde* 4 the supervision of Congress!
Why does Judge Douglas make this odious dis
crimination ? The answer is too plain to admit of
doubt. The class which he is willing to protect is
a large voting population, jealous of its rights and
claims aud heretofore petted and pampered by the
Democracy—a class that often decides important
elections, and whose aid js eminently essential to
Judge Douglas’ success The other class is con
fined to a section of the Union whose vote is count
ed on for the Democratic Presidential nominee as
a matter of coarse—a section which has always
shown an accommodating disposition to yield its
rights at the demandof the “National Democracy,”
and to submit to anything required to “save the
Democratic party of the North.” It is a matter of
no consequence that the property of this class —
which Judge Douglas w-ould leave to the mercy of
unfriendly local legislation in the Territories—is
assured of protection by the constitution of the
United States aud has vindicated its claim to such
protection before the highest judicial tribunal of the
country. Jts vote is safe anyhow for the Demo
cracy, and therefore a crusade against its constitu
tional rights must be waged to conciliate the Free
eoil Democracy of the North and make sure of their
oo operation ! That these are the actuating mo
tives of Judge Douglas cannot be honestly denied
—that his triumph will be a viptory over tlie South
is equally plain. Who, then, is going to Charleston
to nominate him 1 What Southern man will enter
the deadfall under wtich the rights oi his own sec
tion are to be crushed, and on which Douglas and
his triumphant supporters will stand as a platform
won by aggression and never to ba surrendered.
[Columbus Enquirer.
Gov* Brown’s Single flank Platform—A Base
Humbug.
Gov. Brown in accepting the renomination tor
Governor, stated that he stands on a platform of
••hard dollars.” That ‘ $36,000 a month,” was an
argument that the Opposition could not overcome
ana dared the Opposition to bring out their strong
est man againßt him.
Now let us look at this Platform aud compare
Brown's management of the State road with that
of Gov. Johnson's which, was notoriously bad. We
take the figures from Gov. Johnson’s last Meesage,
which may be found in every Court House in the
State (in the proceedings of the Legislature of J 837)
Gov. Johneon there states that the net earnings of
the State road during his administration were:
For the entire four years $1,722,949 31
That is per year 430,737 32
Or per month 35,981 77
According to Mr. Peterson Thweatt’s
rtceDt showing, Gov. BrowD has
paid into the Treasury for sixteen
months, ending June 39, 1859, $457,015 60
That is on an average per month 28,562 5(1
Now from what Johnson made per
month . $35,891 76
Deduct what Brown madejper month 28,562 50
And we have in Johnsons favor $7,332 27
Theee figures are taken from official documents,
and no man will dare to deny or dispute one single
item .—Rome Courier.
Tennessee Democracy. —Since the recent elec
tion in Tennessee, the Democracy, finding that
they have still a mej irity in the Legislature, ’hreat
en to re-district the State with a view of prevent
ing hereafter the election of more than two or three
Opposition Representatives to Congress. There
will be bnt one more election of Congressmen un
der the present Federal appointment, bnt they
cannot wait even two years when a re-appoint
ment must necessarily be made—they must accom
plish the outrage now ! That the .State is now
fairly districted, is proved by the fact that two
years ago, with the Districts arranged just as they
are at ptesent, the Democracy elected seven of the
Congressmen—a proportion fully equal to their re
lative strength in the State. They were then well
enough satisfied with the arrangement; but the
people have deserted their candidates since that
time, and now they must gerrymander the State so
as to defaet the popular wi.l! It is ever thus with
modern Democracy.— Columbus Enqr.
The Isthmus “Grave Diggings. “ — The Panama
Star tells of one man in the Chiriqui gold diggings
who tookont of one grave, in one day, $1,060 worth
of idols and ornaments, amongst which were three
gold plates of the size of dessert plates and the
thickness of a stout tin plate, an eagle of the size
of a span, and many other animals and insects
beautifully manufactured. This is the richest grave
that has been found as yet, but none have been
opened that have not produced something. The
old man who made the discovery kept hiH secret
for some time, and it is reported that he succeeded
in accumulating about $4,000.
Elsewhere we are informed that the whole of the
foot of the Cordilleras, in Chiriqui, is full of “huacas”
(graves) and that it will take many thousand people
during many years before the whole will be dug
up.—N, O. Picayune.
From the Columbus Enquirer.
Senator Ivrnou’s Speech—Again,
Sandy Hollow, Aug. 10, 1850.
lion. Alfred Iverson, U. S.Senator. Coiumbns. Ga.
Dear Nr;- . —Feeling, as I do, a very great inter
est m the position you have placed yourself, bv
your celebia'ed accession speech at Gritlin, ou the
ili uit.. you will excuse me for again addressing
you on a .subject evidently highly interesting to
yon as well as myself.
I believe, sir, toat >t is generally conceded that
you are a man of more than ordinary mental abil
uy. 1 oil have been highly esteemed by the people
ot Georgia; they have called you to fill many im
portant positions iu the councils of the country,
both State and Federal, and y-ur services have
tseeu appreciated even in the judieaii department
ct Georgia. It is very reasonable to suppose there
fore, that you were well informed upon the subject
at least of constitutional iaw, end could fully com
prehend and thoroughly understand the rights cf
your fellow citizens as guaranteed by the great
charter banded down to us by the framers of this
gionous Union. That at least you knew that the
agent couid not exercise greater power than the
principal—that the creature cculfi not be greater
iban Ihe creator. To doubt vour capacity to com
prehend this simple truth would surely be doing a
jurist aud statesmafl of your acknowledged aud de
servediy high reputation, great and manifest injustice,
iet, notwithstanding ali this, you say iu your Gris
fin speech that you at one timo sustained the doc
trine of squatter sovereignty, which you are pleased
now to say is a political heresy that you have utter
ly recanted. Bray, sir, will you be so good as to
inform the people who have so long reposed the
most implicit confidence iu your patriotism, ability
and integrity, how it was that you ever entertained,
avowed and advocated a doctrine so palpably re
pugnant to lira constitution aud the rigiits ot the
people. When the doctrine was first announced by
Gen. Cass, were its principles not thoroughly can
vassed iu Congress, by the people aud on the stump
throughout the length ar.d bieadth of the land, aud
altogether repudiated by the entire South, at least /
lias it uot always been the position of the South
that Congress had no power, under the Constitu
tion, to prohibit slavery in the territories of the
l: nited States, and tiiat as the Territories derived
■*ll their power from Congress—and being the mere
creatures of Congress, that they could exeicise any
other or greater power than their principal ? And
did not Mr. Calhoun, your great file leader, declare
that this doctrine was worse than the Wilmot Pro
viso itself, as it sought to do indirectly, what v'on
gress had no power to do directly t How then was
it., with the great pawars of your gigantic mind,
you could not at first fully understand the fallacy of
a political dogma so entirely at variance with the
Constitution of the United States aud the rights of
the South ? Was it indeed, sir, because you .(id
not know better, or did not have tpmff enough jo
appreciate the arguments to expose tire untenable
ness of_ the position assumed by Gen. Cass upon
this subject in i.us celebrated Nicholson letter, that
i you were led into the error which you have openly
acknowledged in your Griffin speech aud there pub
licly retracted ? or was it not rather from a desire
to sustain your party arid its Presidential nominee,
that you overcame the convictions of your better
judgment aud stood ready to sacrifice the rights of
your constituents and even the Constitution cf tue
JnitedStates in cider to securq u yacty triumph ?
1 fear, s;r, that the iatjer was” the motive which in
fluenced you—how else can your course be ac
eogutod'iir when your great ability as a statesman
aud jurist is taken into consideration 1
But you inform us now that this doctrine which
you ouce eutertained aud cherished, is a political
heresy which you have recanted!—and intimate I
your readiness to advocates fiiasolufio'uoij the
Union should it be ;£yogoized fey the Government
8 s c< )"3t;Ut(o(iffl prAjjer. Bjow gqjgeg it *•■*
dear Sir, Übat JpuU patriotism (jt-H fid V--’’ —y
rsctri’o aroused to Um lypeat lrf*-‘ -uuenly be
tionj (h ij HertgUeo ‘ . .*ance of this ques
tesj tjtpitsa h-‘ ‘ -e Supreme Court of the Uui
„i,jaw— ’ ..o declared it unconstitutional and
. *sive of tho rights of the people, and conse
quently reudered all further controversy upon the
subject altogether unnecessary—and therefore you
wisu to manifest the zeal of a uew convert, by
announcing your readiness to dissolve the Union
should it be sanctioned by the law making power
of the Government f Or was it from a desire to
make a display of your patriotism to the admiring
thousands gathered together at Griffin, on the 14th
ult., by the inducement of a public dinner prepared
in honor of your distinguished services in the coun
cils of the confederacy / I sympathize very much
with you, my dear sir, in the humiliating position
you placed yourself by the acknowledgment you
were understood to make on that occasion, that you
had been the advocate of such a political heresy,
but ycu will pardon me for saying that I have no
confidence iu the sincerity of your professions of a
change in your position, as lam satisfied it was
induced not by a eonviotion of judgment on your
part, but by a obange of circumstances by which
you were surrounded—for Ido not for one moment
doubt that had your party been engaged at that
time, as it waj in 1848, in a Presidential contest,
with a candidate avowing the same sentiments,
that you would have as zealously advocated his
election as you did that of Cass iu 1848, although he
entertained sentiments as repugnant to the Cousti
tution arid the rights of the people as arc contained
in the squatter sovereignty notions of Gen. Cass,
which you have but just now openly recanted.—
And can you charge me with uucharitablenees for
tbis 7 Look at your whole political life, and for
once be candid with yourself, aud answer if you are
not obnoxious to the charge—and if all the leaders
of your party may not be embraced in the same
category. What are your professions worth—and
what reliance would be placed iu them, were it not
for party prejudices 1 Look to the action of your
parly iu the election oi a speaker at the session of
’55-’s6—when Banks, a Black Republican, was
promoted to that high office. What did your party
on that memorable occasion 7
It first adopted a resolution refusing any oo ope
ration with the American party, and nominated
Richardson, of Illinois, as its candidate for Speaker,
who openly and without hesitation avowed on the
floor ol Congress while the election was progressing,
his belief in the doctrine of squatter sovereignty in
its fullest aud most odious sense. While the Ame
rican party presented a candidate in the pejson of
Hen. M. Fuller, of Pa., who as openly aud boldly
denounced the odious heresy as utterly unconstitu
tional—yet every member of your party supported
Richardson, the squatter sovereignty candidate, in
preference to Fuller, and by their obstinate course
brought about the election of a Black Republican
to the third office known to our Government. Did
you not approve the course of your party on that
occasion 7 i have no doubt you did—but perhaps
it is not to be wondered at, tor it is reasonable to
presume that at that time you entertained sentiments
in common with him, and believed, most earnestly,
in the principles which ho avowed on that occasion.
Permit me to say, before I close this letter, that
your conversion has come too late. The people
understand you fully aud feel themselves under no
obligations to you for zeal now in their behalf, —
since the whole question has been settled by the
Supreme Court of the United States, aud I tbiuk
forever put too rest. It is therefore to late now to
make it a hobby with which to ride into the United
States Senate again. You may have leached your
present high position by your zeal in favor of your
party—but you cannot retain your place by the
avowal oi a recantation of your faith in squatter
sovereignty, since the question has been adjudica
ted against you by by the highest tribunal known
to our Government.
But I must bring my letter to a close. I may
hereafter notice other positions, set forth in your
celebrated Griffin speech, and endeavor to show that
they are as repugnant to the best interests of the
country, as your once favorite doctrine of squatter
sovereignty.
I remain, dear sir, very resn’tfully,
Your ob t servant,
Georgia.
“ Democratic Extravagance.”
We were not a little amused while reading the
article in the Daily State Press of last Saturday on
the above subject. Such a jumbling and mixing up
of figures would do credit to a Wallstreetfinaiieier.
We had no idea of the proficiency of our cotempo
rary in that respect,
It is a little funny to set down the expenses of
Mr. Polk’s Administration, annually, at $36,000,000,
during the Mexican war—or $3,000,000 less than
Mr. Fillmore’s, which succeeded; and point to it aa
a matter of pride, and exultation for the democra
cy, when it ia notorious that Mr. Polk’s Administra
tion saddled a puolic debt upon the country of over
$60,000,000 which Mr. Fillmore had to pay;
making in good truth, his administration ost an
nually over $15,000,000 leas than Mr. Polk’s with
the public Cebl!
And, the at! erupting to make the readers of the
Daily State Press believe, in one breath, that the
“ opposition” (as it is pleased to term those who
have opposed “Democratic Extravagance” in
Congress,) are the cause of the reckless waste of the
public money, while iu the next, it boasts of the al
most universal triumph of Democracy, is in good
keeping with the humor of the whole burietta—for
the article is nothing else—upon Democratic finan
ciering.
We will whisper ip the aar of our neighbor over
the way, oae or two facts of Mr. Buchanan’s De
mocratic extravagance. It is well known that the
Post Office Department is insolvent. The Demo
cratic party made it so—the opposition had no hand
in it—the whole honor of the blundering belong? to
Democracy. What ia the result? Why, that al
most every small mail route through the country is
discontinued. These were very useful and conve
nient to the people who live away from the great
thoroughfares of trade and travel. One hundred
thousand dollars wouid probably have kept up the
greater portion of these small routes, if cpt the
whole of them.
But however much the people were inconve
nienced, the Democratic nabobs took good care to
provide for themselves. These fine promise making
gentlemen while they refused to make the necessa
ry appropriations for the mail service for the con
venience of their constituents,[very liberally appro
priated seven hundred thousand dollars to pay for
the carriage of free matter for Uicmselvcs—such
trash as Demociatic members of Congress send
about the country to enlighten the people upon De
mocratic economy.
At this very moment there are tbaiisapda of poor
men throughout the country, who have carried these
small mails for the Government, through sunshine
and storm, and are now told that there is no money
to pay them, and they must wait; while the Gov
ernment is squandering thousands upon favorites
about the Capitol. Some of these man carriers have
had to give up, while in many instances the people
becetitted by these routes, rather than do without
the mails, have continued them by individual sub
scriptions. Never did the Opposition do as bad as
that, when they spent only $15,1100,000. 4nd yet
Buchanan Democracy does it, with an estimated
expenditure of over $80,000,006. It coats the coun
try something to support Democ acy. We shall
take the trouble in a few da> s to show with exact
figures, the truth about “Democrat ic Extravgance.”
[Macon Citizen.
Explosion of a Meteor —The Troy Times, of
Thursday, has the following account of an explosion,
doubtless caused by a meteor :
At about 7 o'clock, while the sky was periectly
cloudless, while hardly a breath of air was Stirling,
while net a single indication prevailed of a natural
commotion of any sort whatever, there was a ter
rific, shocking, deafening report, accompanied
apparently by two sharp echoes. It was as if the
sound had come from the sky—but there were no
clouds, not a single indication of tbe prevalence of
electricity, aud that explanation could not be en
tertained.
Tbe force of the concussion was so great that
houses were shaken ; that persons walking in the
street felt the ground vibrate underneath them ,
that men who had just commenced work upon
buildings, instinctively dropped their tools, and
looked about to eee what was tbe matter ; that
little children were frightened, and aßked many
strange questions of their parents.
John F.Bali, Esq., County Clerk, assures us that
the noise heard was the result of an explosion of a
meteor in the sky. Mr. Bad resides in Pittstown,
in this county, and is a perfectly honorable aud
reliable gentleman. He informs us that he Lad
just finished his breakfast, and was standing on his
door-yard when he observed a bright light in a
Southerly direction from hishoQse over the town of
Grafton, aud descending very rapidly to the ground
in a Northwesterly course. This wai about 7:20
A. M. Mr. Ball last saw it when about a half a
mile above the earth, when it disappeared, aud in
a moment or mere he heard the explosion. It wa3
very loud and resembled thunder.
Mr. Redpath gives a simple and beautiful stanza
which he found in a book of poems by a Haytian
author, written in French, wbicb he thus translates:
LAST WISH OF A MOTHER.
Oh ! God I she faintly said, upon her dying bed,
If i have followed'Thy Divine bebeat,
Ah my entire reward grant this request:
Make me the guardian angel of my babes when dead.
VOL. LXXIII.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXIII. NO. 34
Warren Akin—A Sketch.
The following sketch of Col. Akin, which we
find in the Atlanta Confederacy will be read with
interest:
Col. Warren Akin, of Cass, the Ocposition
Candidate for Governor —lt is fashionable, and
supposed to be popular, at this day and time, to
underrate the early advantages of those who are
candidates for positions of high trust and public
confidence. We have numberless iußtaucea of over
wrought pietuits designed, more popular effect
than a strict regard for truth.
It is due to the public, aud to candor, that a
simple, unvßrniehed-Bkelch of Col. Akin should be
published.
The information we shall give of the history of
this gentleman, we gathered from a couple of die
tiuguiehed jurists, who have kno*n him from his
infancy. Both of these gentlemen are his warm
personal friends, one of whom will support him for
Governor, the other will not.
Then torilie narrative :
Warren Ahm is of humble and highly respectable
parentage, turn on B-averdam Creek, Elbert coun
ty, Ga., in the year 1814. The circumstances of his
family deprived him of the blessiugs and advanta
ges of education. He was a common field laborer,
assisting his parents in rearing their family, until
arriving at the age of eighteen, when he left Elbert
with his broad axe upon his shoulder to hew his
way through a world of competition and rivalry.
There being much excitement in the country at
that time about the gold regions of Lumpkin coun
ty, the stout hearted, youthful, but determined boy
soon found himself raining for gold iu the vicinity
of Dahloirega. He toiled for ten months in the
capacity of a day laborer, aud with his hard earn
ings purchased a few books and learned to spell
and read.
I he society of ths place was of the most reckless
and dissipated character, yet it failed to ensnare
the determined youth. He spent his few leisure
moments in the improvement of his neglected rniud
and by the sweat of his brow, labored in the bowels
of the earth to make himself independent, respecta
ble and useful.
Alter the expiration of ten months, ho hai( not
only improved uimself in education, but L.J saved
a small amount of money, with wkish he purchased
oußettit’s creek, near the present village of Cass
a poor tract of lancj. With his own hands, he cut
loge and built a saw mill, and from (his mill timber
was Uruiahed out of which the village of Cassville
was built.
Bursuing the business of a saw mill keeper for
some lime, he determined to turn his attention to
the study of law. He very soon entered the iaw
office of Hon. (iayid Irwin, of Casevilln, and was
admitted to the bar in rB3B. His comprehension
and vapid advances in his profession was remarka
ule, and he soon formed a copartnership in tire law,
with A. R. Wright, under the style of Akin &
Wright. This copartnership was uninterrupted
uutil the election of A. It Wright as Judge of the
Cnerokee Circuit in the fall of 1843.
Col. Akin continued a lucrative practice hud
always resided at Cassville. eijijc, ifirst settle
ment at that place.
Cass count*;, „k 0 arty settlement of the Che
rofrao g0!44, tis yet, a coutroliiug county.
And being in the centre of the Cherokee purchase
there arose many difficult problems in the law’
Suits were innumerable, and abtruse, based upon
land purchases, land titles, mortgages, Sr.o. *
Altnough comparatively a wiidei-A*-Ai’ eouutrv
flcedin the'eff^r 1 16K, “
\VLiit. V bee . n , a c ' oneifl ’
WT*** J
► - 411 „ kiiow Nothing organization. In 1848,
o was placed upon the electorial ticket of Taylor
and Fillmore. In 1853 ho was a member ol’ the
Georgia convention, look an active part iu the de
liberations, and was prominent in the establishment
of the Fourth resolution of what is commonly known
as the Georgia Blatform.
He was appointed attorney of the W. & A. R.
R. by Governors Crawford and Cobb, and assisted
Col. Claylon iu winding up the busineeß of Gov.
Cobb’s Administration, in the beginning cf Gov.
Johnson’s first term.
We presume there is no man in the State who
has had more to do with the affairs of tho W. th A.
R. R. thau Warren Akin. lie has been the consult
ing attorney lor tire Road tor quite a number of
years, under ali administrations, until the installa
tion of the present dynasty.
Col. Akm is a chrisiiau gentleman of the Metho
dist fait.r, aud is noted for his piety aud liberality of
sentiment.
At the last commencement of the College cere
monies at Cassville, in a public address, he proposed
to bo one of ten to raise ten thousand dollars for the
education of poor young ladies at the Methodist
College at that place. And at the Commencement
of the Baptist College at Cassville, in & public ad
dress, he proposed to be one ol twenty to raise
twenty thousand dollars for the education of poor
young men.
Many other instances of his benevolence and un
ostentatious charity might be mentioned.
His leading characteristics are energy, determi
nation, integrity, and economy. Having as warm
aud benevolent hear: as ever beat in the bosom of
man.
For intellectual endowments bo is surpassed by
few men in the State, aud whenever the people
meet him face Io face and toe to toe, they will be
satisfiedwith his abilities.
In his manners, he is a quiet, unobstruaive
gentleman, even unmindful ot those clap trap arts
with whichjemall men seek to reoeive the favor of
the thoughtless and thb idle.
His devotion to lamily and friends have never
been surpassed by auy man. And no man ever
questioned his truth or doubted his honor.
Col. Akin for a number of years has been wholly
restricted from the turmoil ot polities, and it is only
through the persuasion of friends of till parties, that
he enters once more the arena.
Such a man must succeed!
Letter from Hon. Joshua Hill*
The Southern Recorder contains the following
letter from the Hon. Joshua Hill, explaining his
position on the English Bill:
Madison, August 12,1859.
Messrs. Orme & Son —Gentlemen : In your de
fense of my course on the English Colnerence Bill,
you do not exactly state my poeition. I know you
desire to be set right, and I also desire the correc
tion in your paper At the time the bill was brought
into the House, I was preparing to leave Washing
ton, to attend Jasper Superior Court—which sat the
following Monday. It wus Friday when 1 first heard
the bill read. Its friends desired to pass it—l wish
ed time to consider of it and io discuss it. I was
compelled by duty to myself as wel as my clients,
to be at the Court. I had litigation of my own in it.
I moved to postpone the consideration of the bill
so as to allow me time to return before it was acted
on. I made the timo as short as I could. At the
request of Generals Quitman and Bonham, I exten
ded the time, as I now remember, to the second
Monday in May. My motion, after muoh opposi
tion, prevailed. But on the further motion to re
consider, and to lay tlie motion to reooDsider on the
table, so as to p event ths re opening of the ques
tion of postponement, the friends of the bill resorted
to motions of adjournment and calls of the ayes and
nays, and so continued doing up to the time I was
compelled to leave. I did not like this treatment
and was strongly tempted to resent it, by leaving
the city and giving the bill no further attention.—
Upon reflection, however, I conclv.dod, as it was
the last hope of disposing of a, worthless and irrita
ting question—that I would leave my motion as it
stood, and in the. event of the House coming to a
vote on the passage of the bill in my absence, npfi
any anti Lscompton man desir'mg to pair off’ with
me, 1 would consent to it. This was dona with Mr.
Horton, an anti-slavery man from Ohio, as I learn
onmy return to Washington,
No lit occasion occurred for me to give the rea
sons for my course, until the bill for the admission
of Oregon came up last winter, when I took occa
sion to state my opinion ol the English bill,anfi ihe
considerations that induced me to pair of, on it.—
The speech was made under a resolution limiting
speakers to thirty minutes. Amongst other things
I stated, “at the last session ot Congress, it ia well
known by some or my colleagues, and by noons Qf
them better than by the Chairman of the Committee
on Territories (Mr. Step liens) thatlwaa by no means
in love with the bill known as the English Confer
ence. The best I could mßke pi jt, after explanation,
was that it was a sort of e.ithanaey, an easy death,
provided fqr the Democratic party, in the debilitat
ed cc*nditiun to which they had already been previ
ously reduced. I not was disposed to thwart that
party in that manner, but was willtog to give them
the means of transit they desired, to cut loose from
the Kansas question, a question which, left to me,
would never have arisen, nor assumed the perilous
shape it did. I did consent, with some reluctance,
upon assurances by gentlemen who had the means
of knowing, that go.od would come of it; at all
events, that peace would come to the nation, to
overcome eome scruples iu relation to voting for
the bill. Being neoessarily absent at the iiime, I
agreed to be paired off upon the final vote, because
of the great feature which was incorporated in it,
lor,the first time in the history of our legislation, of
requiring a population equal to th ratio of repre
sentation lor a member upon this floor.”
I nevgr had this speech printed—but think yon
did me the honor to publish it from (iongres
eionaljGlobe.
We hern a great dea\ of th* surrender of the
rights of the South bjf the English Bill. I would
like to be informed what it was, the booth bad in
Kansas at the xiie 7 So far as securing slavery in
Eatiaas was concerned, no bill could have effected
that, except one giving protection to it by tbe
General Government while it remained a territory
—and there has been no t(r)e lately, when such a
measure as that, just though it is, could have been
procured. A s tor the idea of the Lecompton bill
permanently establishing slavery in Kansas, noth
ingle more absurd. The Eoglisb bill killed the
question, tbe Lecompton would have done no more.
Mr. Gilmer ol North Carolina, a devoted friend of
slavery, voted against the Lecompton bill, because
he believed the Cpnstitutioa it was based oo was
adopted by fraud aud violence—and yet voted for
the English bill because that provided for taking
the popular sense on its provisions. But I have
marie this communication too long and written too
hurriedly.
Very respectfully, your friend,
Joshua Hill.
Hon.B. 11. Illlf—Tbe C'bßstltutloiinllNt.
Tbe Constitutionalist, in noticing a portion of
B. H. Hill’* letter to Col. Dudley, says :
“In other words, tbe Democratic party is its next
national platform will not insiet upon the passage
of a slave code for Territories.”
This very clearly shows that the editor of the
Constitutionalist u opposed to Congress passing
laws to protect the Southern man with bis property
in slaves in the Territories. Horace Greeley, too, is
opposed to Congress making laws to protect the
rights of the slaveholder in the Territories. Why
is it—how is it—you find an editor in Georgia op
posing the declaration and judgment of the Supreme
Court of the United States 7 Is it that Douglas
may be made to appear lovely to the South and
terrible to the North 7 The Supreme Court of the
United States aays : “And no word can be found in
the Constitution which gives Congress a greater
power over slave property, or which entitle*proper
ty of that kind to leu protection than propertty of
any other description. “ The only power conferred
is the /rower coupled with the duty of guarding
and protecting the owner in his rights.” Mr. Url*
only insists upon the exercise ofthe right that the Su
preme Court of tbo United States declares aud argues
the slaveholder is entitled to protection in the Ter
ritories. The Court says, the only power confer
red on Congress by the Constitution is the duty to
guard and protect the citizen in his _ property.—
Mind you, the Court not only says it uthe duly U>
protect the slaveholder in his rights in the Territo
ries, but that it is the duty of Congress to guard
as well as protect the owner in his rights in the
Territories. They guarded against your Douglas
proviso of unfriendly Territorial legislation.— Macon
Citizen. Georgia.
Kentucky. —For the first time in thirty years,
Kentucky will have an entire board of Democratic
estate c fficers, a Legislature Democratic in both
branches, and two Democrats to represent her in
tbe .Senate of tbe United States. She is completely
and thoroughly redeemed! — Exchange.
Thirty years ago there was no suoh organization
as the Democratic party. There was the Adams or
Administration party in 1828, and the Opposition.
Afterwards, for a number of years, there were the
Jackson and Clay or Opposition parties : but not
until Webb christened the Opposition as the
“Whig” party did the Administration party assume
the name “Democrat.” Instead of Kentucky be
ing “redeemed” by the Democracy, she shows
strong signs of returning to the Whig faith—the
Opposition gains this year being large Columbus
Enquirer,
The American Isihmut—New* fVom l!*e 4ld
eu liiraves.
The North Star, at New’ York, bring# us with
the California new* that wmi anticipated by the
iiabana at New Orle&ue, later account* from South
America and the Isthmus, with Pauauia dates of
the £ti iuat.
The Cbiriqui gold discoveries form the topio of
dMcuauon iu the Panama papeia. The soboouer
Carolina had sailed for the region with fifty passed
get a ou boat and, and another vessel was shortly to
leave.
The Panama Star and llerald says:
Letters received in this city from David, dated
Julyl4, 9tate that the people from all directions
continued to llock to the gold diggings, and that the
yielu ot gold obtained from the ‘huacas’’ continues
uudiuii mshed. The Prefect of the department iu*
torirm the Governor that the elections (or Procure
do, etc ) did not take place on the day appointed,
as no electors appeared at the poll, all being too
busily engaged iu the grave diggings.
A letter received from Sr. Darios Wegener, dated
June *4, though rather out of date, contains a few
items worth transcribing:
‘*An old hall cast Indian who lives in Do leg a,
Koberto Delsi, whom you probably kuow, and who
has been in the habit of digging up ludian graves,
tor the sake of the earthenwares and piedras do
moler generally found therein, took it into his head
to dig a little deeper, wlreb brought bim to the real
* hare the bcxly is deposited iu a oeflin of
rudely fixed stoues, aud he found the skeleton of
the deceased, together with a beautifully worked
bat in scold. kinoe then it has beeu ascertained
that every ‘buaca’ contains gold images in more or
ess number, the eartheuware and other artioleu
having been buried only half way down, aud this
explains why up to the present time so lew of the
remains of the bodies had been found on the grave .
One man took out of one grave in one day ftlobo
worth ot things, among which were three, void
plates, of the eixa ot dessert plates aud the thltknuse
ot a stout tin elate, an eagle of the size of a horp
and many other animals end insects Wutiln'iJ
mamifoetwed.
‘iTis is the richest grave that ha* heenfownta*
yet, but none have been opened that have not pro
duced something. The old mag who made the die
covery kept bis secret Sor some time, and it is re
pmted that he steaded in accumulating about
tour thousand dollars. The place where the first
discovery was made is called Bugaba, situated <,
t hi? other side ot the river Pifdra, on the road to -
VSJV4 the Costs ltloa frontier, but a* the w'fc!e o’
tue toot ot the Cordilleras, In Cbiriqui, ie full ot
oil eras, it wid take many thousand people during
many j ears before the whole will be due up The
lin<lin K of so much worked up s oU iu the ‘huacas’
is a positive prout that ike country must be vert,-
rich in gold, and I i.sye no doubt that as soon aalht>
above tacts hecywe known to the real miuiug euf.
lio, Itch autl svlvtwlve deposits of the ore will ka
dwcoverad.
;A I ‘ kinds of Rhcst stories are afloai among tlie
natives, who report hearing unearthly noises ana
tambores (drums) iu the Cordilleras, which they
attribute to his Sable bis.Jwsty, who does not wist
the graves to be moiftfej,-’
A correspondww ot the same paper, evidently
linniliar wtfft the locality in which th u discoveries
have wade, writes as iollowb ;
; tee discovery is a very iuteiosiing one in manv
JiomU of view. The possession ot suoh a quautii v
Ot the precious metal tnuU inevitably tend to ini
prove the industrial prosperity of that province,
populate the cquatry, and eventually lead to the
dtsoovery c? the mines from which the gold has
been ov’etmally obtained, ar.fi which oau be only in
lire adjacent Cordilleras.
. * urL her show the universality of that
belief m immortality, whioh, like geological slrata.
w’e fiud in the new world as well as !u the old.’
£rom the tumulus W'hich coutaiutd ihe warrior,
his hot** aud his driakiug-cup, to ba used again
W the halls of Odin of our Sandiravian aucastors.
to the playthings of the Indian children, now
brought to light iu the ‘huacas of Cbiriqui, tho
earth then borrows of ancient Troy, Greece and
Scythia in the steppes ot Tartary, (where two
oorpses w found wrapped in shoe is of gold
weighing forty pounds) the mounds of the valley
of the MissUsippi aud the table lauds of Mexico
—all speak tbe same sentiment, aud it is to be
regretted that no intelligent artist and ‘corree
pondent is present at Cbiriqui to depict and re
cord the nature aud form of these interesting
relics of the lost tribes, as modern avarice shall have
destroyed the only hieroglypbioa that remain to
us of their industry, their hopes aud fears about
future existence.
“The ancient burying grounds are indicated in
various ways—some have aheap o: stones piled up
rudely over the grave ; others are shown by a piece
Os the oolumn of basaltic rock, placed in the oentre ;
some have a circle of stones enclosing the grave.—
They are found everywhere throughout the province,
from the shores of the Lagoon of Cbiriqui to the
islands of the Pacific. They exist in the deepest
valleys and along the highest recesses of the Cordil
leras. Such as have been opened hiterto in the un
derwooded plains produced but little gold. They
were probably an agricultural race, end tbe utensiia
of the dead were in relation thereto. The present dis
covery has taken place near two villages called
Punta Uurica and Golfo Duloe. The plains thence
become heavily wooded. Trees of largo girth are
found over the ‘huacas.’ Tbe data as to their age
is by no means precise. That they were there be
fore the conquest, is plain enough, seeing that Ihe
oonquerorß respected neither the temples of God,
nor, the repose of the dead, if gold was to begained!
“These tribes, then, were well acquainted with the
precious metals, and show a great deal of ingenuity
and taste in the working of it into favorite images
and figures of reptiles and tigers. I have myself
traced these gravee in happy ignorance some years
ago to the ahores of Gnlto Duloe, and if the gold
mines aro found they will probably be about the
head waters of the Cbiriqui Viejo, or the abandoned
gold mines of Tieingal, whioh used to give the King
of Spain an annual bith ol 1250,000 castetlanos of gold.
These mines wore located somewhere between lie
cas del Torro and Golfo Duloe. The enmity of the
buoaneers, combined with the Mosquito Indians, la
said to have caused their abandonment.
“Cbiriqui, judgiog from its dead, must have been
an exceedingly populous country, and while the.
present few inhabitants are rejoicing over the epoils
ot aboriginal industry and superstition, it ie to be
hoped that the discovery may lead to a better know
ledge of the resources of the country aud the de
velopment thereof.”
Electricity Applied to War.— Mr. join Cal
vert has written to Baris the following letter : “For
many years I have been perfecting a principle
(casually alluded to by myHelf at the meeting of
tile British Association at Liverpool) for the appll
oatlon of eloctrioity to wai like purposes. The ex
Elosive properties are as yet only partial'y known,
ut I have discovered that metals ill their electric
fluid state may be applied to a more offensive and
destructive engine ot warfare than man has ever
yet contemplated. Much a discovery in the hands
of an ambitious man would go far to give him pow
er over the whole world, while for an iudustrioua
nation whose object was only the protection of it*
own commerce, the possession of such a means ot
restraint would go far to dispel any attempts at ag
gression. Discovered to the world it might end alt
warfare, for who would be paid to encounter the
mortal offsets of such a weapon, even should they
be pvovided with like instruments themselves ’
My engine will command a range of seven milee
and on the return to the earth of the missiles throw:.”
the point of contact will be subjeot to vibrat on,
and tor many yards around all liie would be com
pletely annihilated. In writing this letter 1 am not
actuated by any desire of disposing of my discove
ry, but I want to erect in England one of my mi at
powerful engines at the expeuee of those who may
voluntarily subscribe to Ue erection. With this
object I will covenant to. show to all subscribers the
terrific effects of electricity under anew mode of
application, but 1 may wish to reset va to myaeli
the detail* oi manipulation.”
American Railroad Iron. —Tneassertion that
American railroad iron is cheaper than that derived
from England, in consequence of its superior dura
bility, has often been made, but there have been
doubts on the subject in some minds, the majority
of meu thinking that low priced articles are neoes
Barily cheaper than those of a higher original cost.
A proof has recently been afforded of the truth of
tbe declaration with reared to the railroad irou of
Pennsylvania, by an experiment that has been
made on the Central Railroad of Georgia. In 1856
the track was supplied with iron, one side being
furr,i*hed with American and the olher with Eng
lish rails. They were both identical in size and ap
pear&nce, and care was taken to procure from the
English market tbe best kind of iron. After an
experience of two years, the General Superinteu
dent has made a report on the subjecr, and it is iu
favor of the American iron. Tbit ic good news,
and the important fact ebould be known to all those
persons who are concerned in railroads.— Balt
Amt.
Puzzled Pig.— One of our Western (armors be
ing very much anuoyed by his sow breaking into
the oorurield, search was instituted in vain for the
hole in the rail fence. Failing to find one, an at
tempt wan next made to drive out the animal by
the way she entered, but of course without success.
The owner resolved to watch her proceedings, and
posted at night to a fence comer, he saw her enter
at one end of a hollow log, outside the field, and
emerge at the other end within the enclosure. “I
have yon now, old lady,” cried he. Accordingly
he proceeded, after turning her out once more, to
so place the log (it being crooked) that both ends
opened outside the field. Tbe next day the animal
entered her acoustomed place, and shortly after
emerged again. Her astonishment, says our infor
mant, at finding herself in the same position whence
she started, is too ludicrons to be described. Site
looked this way and then that, grunted her dissatis
faction, and finally returned to the original starting
place, and after a deliberate survey of things to
satisfy herself that all was right, again entered tie
log. On emerging once more on the wrong sidaehe
evinced even more surprise than before, and. turn
ing about retraced the log in an opposite direction.
Finding this effort alike in vain, after looking long
and attentively at the position of things, with ashort,
angry grunt of disappointment, and perhaps fear, she
turned around and started off on a brisk run, nor
could either coaxing or driving ever induce a visit
to that part of the field. Mhs seemed to have a “su
perstition concerning the oot.”
k ROM Mexico. —Letteis received at Washington
City from the Juarez government in Mexico speak
of the great satisfaction with which his late decree,
respecting the church property, was everywhere
received throughout the country. Capt. Aldham,
a British naval commander, announced to Juarez
that he, by order of tbe British government, would
not enforce the measures heretofore contemplated
for redress of grievances or otherwise embarrass the
administration. Dsgollado was at San Louis, ami
is supposed to have about 900 troops. Ue is pre
paring to march on tbe capital. Arms and ammu
nition flow in freely. The Mata ministry has jus!
concluded a contract for a considerable amount ol
approved arms in New York for the Liberals.—
Otway, the British minister, was still in Mexico at
last accounts, hut information exists here which
justifies the assertion that be will be superseded by
a person friendly to Juarez.
The True System of Advertising.— One of onr
exchanges discusses a question of interest to bush
□ess men, as to the method of advertising. The
merits of circulars, bills, &.0., are connected, but it
is held that “tbe handbill, to be oonveyed about by
men, or to be sent into the country, is not the best
vehicle for advertising for merohanta. The news
paper is circulated without any expense whatever
to the advertiser, which is by no means an oiiim -
portant item, as every one will testily who has had
any experience in distributing his own advertise
ments. Not only is the advertisement circulated
by the newspaper free of all expense, but it is done
speedily and thoroughly than it can he doDe by the
advertiser. The newspaper is already an estab
lished system, a thousand doors are opened to
welcome it; a thousand messengers are daily ami
weekly seeking the postollioe to receive it; a
thousand families look for its coming, and a thous
and read it when it does come. Agam, those who
read the newspapers are the very persons the ad
vertiser wishes to reach ; they are the intelligent
and well-to-do, fie enterprising citizens of a
country, aud are, therefore, the most likely to buy
that which is worth buying “—Pjttshuig Post.
Railboad Decision. —Du me sth inst. an im
portant decision, says the Buffalo Commercial, was
made by the Supreme Court at Madison, Wis., in
the case of Henry Stucken vs. the Milwaukee and
Mississippi Railroad Company, for killing oattle
The Court sent baok the case for anew trial, but
decided that Railroad Companies are not bound to
fenoeagainst cattle, aud that they are liable for
gross negligence only in cases of injury to cattle
wrongfully upon the track. Railroad Companies are
bound to use ordinary care merely. Thia decision
is in aoeordanoe wilh recent decisions of other
State* and it behooves those living upon the line*
of Railroads to take care of their cattle