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Cue itr Nouib Arcepi Deoelas?
Tb question which beads this articl s, although a
few months since the moe: credulous would scat cely
have supposed that it oould ever demand the se
lions consideration of our section, begiua to assume
in Imporianoe woiob its singularity would seem to
merit It was hardly a eupposabie case that
Stephen A I’ JUg as, whose recent political worse
has woo (or him at the South universal condemn a
tion, in the abase of whom the vocabulary ot in
veoiivea have been exhausted, and wnose real
character has, eo lately, been exhibited in ail its
hideous deformities, would ever command the sup
port of any true .Southern man. It would seem,
however, tiiat there are those, even in our own
Mtate. who have not despaired of finding some
wtere, a species of logic which shall covmce the
peoo.e of tne neoeseity of supporting the “Little
Traitor” in the next Pretl iential election. We are
to have a repetition of the argument which, to our
■name be it eaid, has eo often prevailed when oar
rights were in dispute : “If you can't secure eractiy
wuat yon want, content yourself with the best you
*jr. get “ an argument which tlowe glioly from the
i.ps of t me-serv ng Gvinagogues, ana forms, every
time it prevails, another lick in the chain which our
enemies ere forg.ng for Gs,
Already, are we permitted to glance at the course
rrhioh the Doaglaaite* ot the South intend to pur
•at —the imprrtance of preserving intact the Nation
al Democrat!c par y, is to be the text upon which
polltroal preachers at the South are to base their
dteoou.-oex. Wears to be favored with “line upon
>me, and precept upon precept,” all going to con
vince ue that oar position in the Union la happy
and secure, that our continued prosperity depends
upon tne preservation of the Onion, that this can
oniy oe a compiiahed by keeping the Democratic
Party in power. Then, notwithstanding our happy
and secure position, we will ue told of the increas
ing strength of our enemies, and, for proof, be
pointed to the difference in the vote received by
Me B *ck Republican candidate for the Pres.den- y
tn 18 Id, a i ti.at received ny h'remont m iB-S,,
thus t 1 they prepare ue for the next argument, to
Wit i un eas we, ibe D -tnorrate. select our candidate
witn a view to unavailability as well as bis political
pi me plea, our detest is certain, and so tare as we
ere defeated, the Black Republicans will be suc
cess, ui. The f inndation having thus been lad, the
wire pn.lert wi i begin to look around tor a candi
ilats, Wuose na t life does not, it is true, designate
him as one fit for the office, but stamps him as pos
sessing that greatest of all modern political virtues
—avai.au. ity
Tne signs of the times seem to forewarn us that
a systematic attempt will be made within our limits,
to on,i ole our people into supporting Douglas for the
Presidency, upon the ground that he is the most
avattab.e man upon whom we can centre to deieat
tne biack Republicans. The question—Can we
accept Douglas 7 should be maturely oonsidei ed,
ana loose ot our oouaoellors and advisers who seem
determined to wed hemselves to to is great Nation
a! Parly, should be closely w&tcbed. We do not
turbid me bans, bat we do protect against our being
ioroed to witness the ceremonies and participate iu
the rejoicing attending it,
Gau we acopt Douglas 1 Who is he that is thus
presented to us I In our opinion the most dangerous
man iu the limits of the Confederacy. He poeeesses
the eloquence ol Demosthenes, the ambition of
o*iar and the general character o! Cataime. His
political creed is as changeable as the popular will t
oeligntmg in public app.ause, be uas never had the
oonrage or the honesty to maintain bis opinions
against public opposition. The boasted father of
the Kao -a®-Nebraska act, which was to make him
immortal, by reetonng peace to onr troubled coun
try, he no eoouer found it unpopular at home, than
he placed upon it such a construction as would serve
to render it impotent to aocotnplish the end for which
It was adopted.
The advocate of “ Squatter Sovereignty,” be
maintains a doctrine which, if it btoomes the
settled po, y of our government, would exclude
the r ave-tolder from every foot of territory now
owned < r hereafter to be acquired by us , and it
Is becuose he does avow these principles, in di
rect opposition to our interests, that he is at a 1
popniai wuh our Northern friends. In short, be
is a most accomplished demagogue as well as an
unprincipled politloal traitor.
Surely such a man, aa Stephen A. Douglas has
proved himself to be, tau not secure a rtapeeta
nie vote at tbe South. It ie time for us to de
maud that virtue, worth and political honesty
ahal characterise the men for whom we cast onr
euff ages and to throw availability to the dope,
or to thoee who .eem to esteem it eo highly.
Stephen A. Douglas is no more worthy of our
oomidenoe than Win. II Seward; in truth, had we
to choose between the two we would prefer the
latter. Give us, always, en open enemy, rather
than a deoeitful friend.—” Northern men with
ftuuthern principles'* won't do. Confidence re
posed in such Is certain to be betrayed —Dar
lington Flag.
Who Defeated the I.ecomptoo Constitution f
Ae divers efforts have been made to cast tho
olame of the lailure of the Lecompton Constitu
tion upon “six Southern Americans,'’ we have ex
amined tbe Cengressional Globe, and find on page
( 1486 the only direot vote that ever was taken in the
House of Representatives, upon tho naked question
of the Lecompton Constitution. The vote was
upon [the proposition of Mr. Gunman to adopt the
Benate Bill, civested of the Green amendment, iu
lieu of tho eubetitute of Mr. Montgomery. Had
Ibis proncsilion passed, Kansas would have been
admitted upon the Lecompton Constitution, with
out any reservation or equivocation Bat it was
rejected. The yeas were .s—til Democrats and 7
Americans, ae to.lows i
Democratt who voted yea. —Atkins, Avery, Barks
dale, Booock, Bonham, Bowie, lluyce Biani-n,
JJryan, Burnett, Caskle, Johu B. Clark, Clay, Cle
mens, Cliaguian, Cobb, Burton Craige, Crawloid,
Carry, Hueben Davis, Dowdell, Kdmunson, El
licit!, Faulk er, Oarcett, Gartreli Goode, llawkins,
tfnpki s Houston,Jackson,Jenkins,Jewett Keitt,
Jacob M Kunkel, Lamar, Letcher, M. Queen,
Mason, Milee, Milleon, Moore, Peyton, pnelps,
Bowel , Qui man, Reagan, Ruflin, Handidge, Sav
age, Scales, Seward, Henry M Shaw, Shorter,
Singleton, Win. Smith, Stallworth, Sevcneon,
James A Bto • art, Talbot, Miles Taylor, Watkinß,
Winslow, A. R Wright. J. V Wright-C5.
American i who voted yea. —Anderson. Eustis,
Jos., ■ Hill, Maynard, Robert P. Tripps, Woodson
and Z >1 io.tier— 7.
The nays were 160—S? Democrats, 8 Americans
and 03 Republicans.
Democrat < who voted nay —Adrian, Arnold,
Bishop, Bums, Chapman, Horace V Clark, John
Coehr.'ce, Cookerlll, Corning, Cox, Davidson,
Dnvia o.t Indiana, Dewart, Dlmmiok, English,
Florence, Foley, Gll'i-,Greenwood, Gregg, Grnes
bock, Hall of Colo, Harris of Indiana, Haskins,
Hatch, Hickman, Llugtes, Huyler, George W.
Jones, J. Glartoy Jones, Owen Jones, Kelly, L&ndy
Lawrence, MaoTa/, McKibbin, Samuel fl. Marshall,
Miller, Aoiitgouiery, Mortis, Pendleton, Russell,
Scott, Sealing, Aaron Shaw, Sickles, Robert Smith,
Samuel A Smith, Stephen). George Taylor, Ward,
Warreu, White, Whttely, Wilson, Wurtendyke—
American) who voted nny— James Craig, Davis
of illaiylaud, Gilmer, Harris of Maryland, 11.
Marshal, Ready,” Kioaud, Underwood —8
It is not necessary here to name the Republi
cans, as they all voted nay. If these 57 Demo
crats had voted lor tho proposition i’ would have
passed, but they by their votes defeated it, at.d
gave the preference to the Montgomery ainend
iu-nt i and now some of the leaders of that party
soiae upon vote which was taken afterwards,
m whiob ‘blx Southern Americans” voted agatuet
them, and accuse them ot detesting the measure.
But .hey In thie last vota, have not the honesty
to acknowledge that 28 Democrats voted preotso
ly ss the “six Americans” did.—Origin Unton.
-* Realty ha’ ainca been taken up by the Democrats
and raa as their oandid&l.i for Congress In Tenuessee.
He t.as heaitu,a. ho ought to have been, by Mr. Hat
ton, Op, otitlon,
Great Hare Belitcen Horn Temple nn>l
I’rincean. -
The race over the Eclipse Course, Long Island,
on Tuesday, between ti.e famous Baltimore nag,
Flora Temple, and the oelebrated California inaro,
Frlnoeae.was tor a piuseoisl,oUU—two mb’ heats in
harness, best two in three—and, as stated ytsterday,
was wou by Flora Temple in two straight heats,
the first of which she made in the unprecedentedly
short ilmeof four minutes and 501 seconds. Floia
Temple bis thus added another wreath to her well
earned laurels, and may claim the proud title of
Queen of the American Turf. From tbe report of
th* race in the New York Times we teke the tollow
rugs
There was a remarkable shyness about betting.
Bets on tiuie ranged from 4:53 to 4:54 for tbe two
inliee on Flora. 100 to 80 were efiered on her and
taken; then 100 to 70 ( aud the ardor of her admir
er* led them to offer 100 to 60 ; 100 to 60 ; and in
ore ease 100 to 40. Flora was the hereine—Fiora
was the girl.
(tn the first mile of the first heat, she made a false
start. Starting again. Princess won the inside and
kept it, keeping also a little ahead, until the turn of
the fourth quarter, whim Flora overtook and passed
her, coming In one length ahead. Dashing on for
(he second mile. Flora gained the inside, aud Prin
cess broke. Flora went round the course so lar
ahead that Princess had no chance of overtaking
her. ano came in eo triumphantly iu advance that
it was tbe opinion of the majority that Princess was
distanced. 8o much go, indeed, that the judges
had to leave their stand and goto take measure
ment. They decided that Princess had just saved
herself, and was not distanced. The time in this
>eat was—firs! quarter ou first mile, 35 seconds:
second aud third quarters, HI seconds; entire
mile, 2:23 Second mile, fiiet quarter, 36 seconds i
second and third quarters, 113) seconds; entire
■rule. 2:271 ; making the heat of two miles in 4:501,
actually tup shortest time ou record.
Tbcu Flore Temple was embraced, was followed
to her stable by an applauding multitude. Bets
were freely offered—loo to 50, 100 to 40—but no
takers. The parties who backed out said it was
• lockied, and refu'ed to risk their money.
The second heat commenced amid extra excite
ment Priucee* broke at the start, aud Flora held
up. They started again, Princess leading by a
length . on the second quarter Flora went nearly
ap to her; on the third quarter, went ahead of her ;
t>u the fourth, Just passed her, and came in one
length ahead. Then for the second mile. Flora
went off at a trot, dashed Immensely ahead, and
kept it up. Around tire track she kept it up, and
came in so far ahead that the driver of Pnnoess
elacktd his rein when he had cleared the distancing
poet, and coolly waked in. Flora Temple won the
tits':iey (nominally SI.OOO, best two out of three,)
and tbe race, making time, in this second heat, as
follows : first quarter, 36j seconds ; seooud and
third quariers, 111! seconds; entire mile, 2:24
Seooud mile—first quarter, 37} second and third
quarter*, 114} t entire mile, 2:4l—making these
cond heat ot two milee in 5 minutes and sseconds.
As Flora Oame in many of her friends were unable
To contain their enthusiasm, and gave loose to
oheer* and shouts.
Work or Amiric-an Missionaris*.— TheßthUm
Ars hia — This anguage Is spoken by not lees than
eighty miliiooe of people, scattered throughout
Syria, Northern Africa, Arabia, Hindustan aud
China. Through all these regions barriers to the
circulation ot tbe Scriptures have been broken
down so rapidly as to surprise the moet sanguiue.—
No kingly or prieetly power oan ever set up these
harries again, and iond is now the oall to give the
Arabic Bible to these accessible millions.
The lamented Dr. Eti Smith had carried anew
and tuperior tnuiaiaUon of the new Teet ament to
the last of Acts, when death took him away from
hte loved aud ali-important labors Tbe work will,
Vowever. be completed UDder the skill aud energy
of Dr. Van Dyke, of the Syrian Mission, who is
eminently qual.fi.-d to succeed Dr. Smith in the
work. Kacn proof is seat, tor criticisms ar.d sug
gestions, to all the members of the mission, and also
subjected to the most rigid eorutiuy ot the most
learned grammarian in Syria. This Arabic New
Te-tamekt wt'i take rank as a classic, wherever
pure Arabic ia (-pokn. and yet not be be vend tbe
leech of the comuiou people. —Boston Traveller,
Jugnti 16.
Pfxsxktin* Bi-tie* —Tte farmer* of Aberdeen,
gxdlana, are said to practice toe following method
es curing their butter, whioh gtvee It a great sape
nerity over tfcgt of their neighbors :
Take two quarts of the best of common salt, cue
ounce of sugar, and one ounce of common saltpe-
Sr* < t-ke one ounce of this composition for one
jHiund of butter, work it well into the mass, and
close it up tor use. The butter cured with this
mixture appear* of a rich UMirowy consistency, and
fine color, and never acquires a brittle hardness nor
tastes ealtv. Dr. Anderson say* : “I nave eaten
butter cared with the above compoti’ioa that bad
been kept for three years, aod it was as sweet as at
first.” It must be noted, however, that butter tote
eared is to stand three or four weeks before it i
treed If it is sooner opened the salts are not suffi
ciently blended with it, and sometimes the coolness
of the nitre will be perceived, which totally disap
pear* afterwards.
JLxNTrexT —lt i*now ascertained that tbers ii
bo ti„* in the vote lor Cocgreee in the 4.b District
of Krn.*ucky.ae at first reported, but that Mr Au_
derson, th* Opposition candidate, ha* a mslonty of
5 voles. This equally divides the delegation- fi re
Opposition and five Democrats. It is moreover
■aid that Mr Harlan, the Opposition candidate in
tbe Asniana duir.ct, will con teet the ejection of
Buns, the Democrat who has received the certifi
cate, and Win be ab.e to show that he (Harlan)
pvTied the District by at least SOO legal vote*.
[Cohmpus Enfutrgr.
Political Gossip, Ac.
Washington, August 17 —Governor Cobb was
expected to return here from Georgia this morn
ing. He wilt certainly be beck before the end
ot tbe week. He is in high glee at tbe etate of
things in his native State, and declares that there
will be no opposition there whatever to bis Pre
sidential aspirations. Neither Toombs nor Ste
phens will actively canvass against him, and the
revelations which have recently been made In re
lation to the rs-opening of the slave trade, have
materially aided in giving him strength among
planters and those who control popular feeling.
The opposition which he feared some weeks ago.
he thinks he will do longer have to encounter,
and that the Charleston Convention wilt find him
the moet available of Southern candidates.
Senator Douglas appears to be utterly disgust
ed at the progress of the developments which ore
gradually being made in relation to the Wiee-
Donnelly letter There is no donbt that, in com
mon with Dickinson, of New York, and Wise of
Virginia, he had considered FemaDdo Wood as
fully pledged to his own interest*. Mr. Wood had
been in the habit of viidting and consulting with
him in the most corfidenuai manner daring bis
h>qaent visits to the national capital, and, even
while visiting at the house of the late Postmaster
General Biowd, spent more lime at the mansion
of the “Little Giant” than with his ostensible
host. Mr Douglas’ friends cry out loudly that
be is one of a betrayed trio, and that thus another
imbroglio wholly unanticipated is produced by
tbe famous letter wb.ch Mr. Cassidy gave to the
public at Albany, while pretending to donbt its
genuineness.
Banks, of Virginia, formerly of the Sou’h Side
Democrat, but now editing the Cincinnati Enquirer,
ie here, rabidly electioneering for Douglas, and for
printing jobbery in general, under tbe nex’ admin
letra'.ion. He is on accomplished button L.e bi:
gainer for government pickings, a veteran nbbycr,
though bnt a boy in appearance, end derives setae
consideration from his ocs elation with Steadman to
oast Wendall deling the last session of Congress.
Mr Ashe, M C from North Carolina. ,s moving
the subterranean firmaments in yoar city in fcehaJ
of Hunter.
Gov. Willard, of Indiana, is also in New York,
wi rkmg for Governor Joe Lone, of Oregon, not of
Kansas. The ex Governor of Kanros is anxious
that this distinction should, at all times, be carefully
mode. Since Willard, by the way, has split with
Senator Bright, tbe Wright influence in Indiana,
which goes for Douglas, has been uppermost. —
Bright, however, has achieved a victory recently
in Indianapolis, where administration delegates
have been elected to the State Convention in op
position to the Douglas power.
Letters from many parte of Pennsylvania seem
to iudioate that Cameron wi 1 te presented, with
great strength, os the Presidential candidate of that
State.
Peter G. Washington is at Rockway, betting teat
old James Gutnne, of Kentu- ky, will be the next
President. The ex Secretary of the Treasury would
do wisely to choose a more discreet agent. The
babblings of his quondam subordinate injure him
materially.
Letters from Albany state that Governor Seymour
and Hon Erastus Corning have returned from their
Western tonr, and have both tteen called in to give
sargical assistance to the Albany Regency in gene
ral, Cassidy iu particular, and otheis who have been
wounded in tbe explosion caused by the Wise Don
nelly letter.
Senator Benjamin writes from London, that if the
relations between France and Euglond continue
fr.eudiy. lie entertains littie doubt ol negotiafing the
Tehuantepec loanof $1,500,000. The projeot is re
garded wuh favor by mreign capitalists.
It was currently reported here yesterday that
Thurlow Weed had parsed through Washington, in
company with Mr Fernando Wood, on the way to
Richmond. The motives of this visit to the resi
dence ot the Governor of Virginia were variously
attributed to tbe re-opening ol the slave trade, the
W ise letter, and the general management of New
York city and State politioe.— Special cor. of the
N. Y. Herald.
From the LoGrange Reporter.
A Sensible .etter from n Young Democrat—•
>1 r. Sstepliena u Hjpocrile, desiring lobe IT,
k. Sen.,ior~-Dlasmisfariioii In the Democrat
ic Gamp* i
By the courtesy of a young friend of ours, who is
a whoie-eoul Democrat, we have been permitted to
use the following extract from a letter reoeived by
him from the eon of a distinguished and leading
Democrat of Georgia. The writer, we have no
donbt, bnt gives utterance to tbe opinions of his
distinguished father, whose loyalty to Democratic
principles hae never been questioned, and who has
battled in the ranks of no other party but that of the
Dsmncratio party. Here is the extract:
“Have you read Mr. Stephens’ Augusta speech 7
If oot read it. It is au able prodnotion. He ex
presses my sentimenis exactly upi n every point to
whioh he alluded. The speech lias oca great fault.
There ie too much egotism in it. It speaks too
inuoh of Alex. Stephens, and what he has done for
bis country. Stephens is a very able man; but
oan't begiu to compare with Toombs and several
other distinguished Georgians. He is very much
overrated in Georgia, but more especially in the
Eighth District. The last Bpeecb he delivered in
Congress gained for him a great deal of unmerited
praise. It was a very ordinary effusion. The
whole argument was based upon a false premise—
upon a misoonstiued political act. The unsound
nesa of the position may be seen upon the most
superficial investigation. Examine ii for yourself.
The whole of it is based upon the application of the
Land Ordinance of 1787, in a manner in whioh it
was never intended to apply. Take the Ordinance
and take the speech, and compote them with each
other, and what I assert will be verified. Why and and
he gain so much praise lor It if it was unsound I
This is a proper question; it must be answered. I
answer by asking where was the Htepheiiß’ hymn
first raised. In Washington City, among Free boil
member- —in the Free S ,il and Douglas papers
throughout the Union. Tne chorus was then takeu
up and .'hunted by the papers of the Eighth Dis
trict. He was praised by the Free Sellers and Free
Soil papers because his eonstruction of the Land
Ordinance was Free Soil in its application. His
speech, the latter part of it, was an appeal to
Southern members to ebdorse with their votes his
inierpretation of that Ordmanoe. The papers of
the Bth District praised him beeause the Nothern
papers bad so. They did it out of oourtesy. It
was a skillful blow or the Vice Presidency— it
having been agreed betweeu him and Douglas that
the latter shou.d receive the nomination for the
Presidency.
“Mr. Stephens has lately given tip all hopes ot re
celving the nomination for Vice-Presidency; hence,
he has set his sails in another direction, and hence,
in bis Augusta speech, he is in lavorof re opening
the Slave Trade—a sentiment that certainly ex
cludes him from all Northern aid in tbe Charleston
Convention. Ii be had any idea that he oould re
oeive the nomination in 18611, ho never would have
given utterance to such an impolitic sentiment as
re opening the Slave i rs.de. The truth is, he wants
to be (Jutted Stales Senator. He expects the
squabble to be between Iverson, Johnson nd
McDonald. Seme man will get up and move ibu',
as they can't agree on one ol them, they nominate
the Hou A. H. Stephens by acclamation, ami e
will be elected.
“If such a thing happens 1 am ready to j tin any
parly to put down the I) mooratic party. They
will put Toombs and Stephens—new-fiedgod Do
inocratß—in office iu preierenoe to the old and tried
leaders of Democracy, who have spent ihei 1- : ives
in aobievmg her victories. A pretty state of things,
with Linton Stephens on the Supreme Bench, and
Toombs and Alexander Stephens iu the Senate,
and Johnson and Iverson, and McDonald and
Warreu, old and tried Democrats, excluded for the
sake of these new lighte. Stephens, Toombs and Joe
Brown have acted the hypocrites ’ai! round.’
Whenever you get a ehai.ee whisper it about
what S'epheus is put to—the hypocrite should be
exposed to the people.”
Tbe above is a fair sample of the dissatisfaction
whioh, no doubt, prevails throughout tlie eutire
ranks of the old line Derat craoy. Nor do we blame
them for entertaining feelings of hostility towards
the new lights. Such a thing is natural. Lock at the
list of candidates who have been nominated for
Congress by the Democracy of Georgia ! With a
single exception, they are all renegade-Whigs who
have joined tbe P niocrscy for no other purpose
thau to secure office ; and to secure all the poicer in
tbe Government, the Democracy, with open hearts,
have extended the very best offices to those neie
light) / It is time that the Old Finer) were oom
p ainieg at not receiving a little of the “public
plunder. ’
Tne extraot, quoted above, we have no doubt
reflects the sentiments of a large portion of the Old
Line Democrats of Georgia—as it is certainly writ
ten by a eon of one ot the most distinguished teen
in their ranks We present it to our readers as a
genuine letter —not gotten up for any effect; but
was written to a young gentleman of our town —
himseUan u;iflir,.hmgold uue Democrat—who gave
us the liberty we have taken with it. Read it.
How to Train a Prize Fighter—“ Austr
alian Kelly” is iu trainieg tor a prize fight, at Coney
Island A sporting paper show's how the man is
physically trained to make a brute of himself. It
is interesting as a sketch of tbe method of muscu
lar development:
Iu the morning Kelly rises exaotly at 4 o’clock,
proceeds to the sea ■ here, (not 50 yards from the
house) and takes a balh ; returns and goes to bed
for tnree quarters of an hour. Up again at 3 o'clock,
washes out the mouth with cold water, partakes of
a little water with peppermint, instead of the usual
sherry and egg, walks three quarters of a mile—re
turns home at 8 oVlcok, gets rubbed dry, and is
sponged from head to foot with spring water —an
entire change of clothes is put on and he descends
to breakfast at half past 8. which is composed of
either calves loot jelly, beafsteaka or mutton
chops, with water biscuit, instead of toast, as tbe
latter dries up the blood. Water gruel is substitu
ted for tea on account of its nervous tendency, and
sugar as pfomot .ug bile—tea and sugar also create
thirst, while gruei does not. An hour's rest is then
enjoyed, alter which he starts on a fourteen mils
walk—seven out and seven in.
In walking, he carries the newly-introduced lead
plugs, two i ounds weight, grasping them firmly, and
keeping ihe’arms welt up. The object ie to strength
en tbe muscles of the artre, and to enable him to
keep his arms in position wi’hout fatigue In a pro
tracted tight it is generally from weakness, or in
ability to nse the arms with any fores that the battle
is lost To avoid these things’ it is as necessary to
attend to the most minute points as it is to the more
important ones. At 12J o’clock, after being rubbed,
sponged, and re-dressed, dinner is ready it oonsists
of beef or mutton with water biscuit. Iu place of
the water gru“l, beef-tea (made from a shin of beef
without any mixture) is taken with the dinner It
serves either tor food or drink, some never taking
anything at all with it. Another hour’s rest, and
the afternoon is employed with the dumb-bells
(which weigh from 6 to 14 lbs) fighting the bag (this,
together with tbe bells consumes three hours every
day) and gymnastic exercises.
Changed, rubbed, and sponged again, when the
supper is ready. For this two eggs are allowed,
with water biscuit and gruel. Another resting spoil,
and an hour or two’s rowing or four mile walk, and
jumping the skipping rope generally suds the day e
work, in some days more work is performed than
others, according as the gentleman feels inclined :
but the averag-wdkmg is from 21 to 21 miles a
day. Tne meals are served to the minute, and a
certain quantity only|allowed at each. At precisely
8 o’clock he rst'.rse for the night, to rise at 4. His
sleeping apartments are kept pare and healthy by
the sea breexe continually passing through, and the
house itself, and surrounding country for 20 miles,
seem adapted by nature for training purposes.
When Mr. Kelly went into training bis ws’ght
was about 168 lbs. It is now reduced to 146. His
fighting weight wifi be about 148.
The Next CvnoiUsv.— ln the five Southern
S ate* that chose Representatives to Congress in
the early part ol'tius mouth, ibe Opposition party
gained 10 members, viz : in Tennessee 4, Keu.ucky
0, North Carolina 2, Texas 1 Iu Alabama there
was no political change. These elections deter
mine the fact that in no event can the regular De
mocracy count more than SO of the 237 members of
the next House of Kepteeeotauves. In the late
H use they commended with a clear majority of 27
voles over all opposition combmed. The majority
against them at the opening of the next session
wifi be at least 57. This is the New York Herald’s
estimate, wuiefc, ss oniy about a score ct members
are yet to be chosen, is very near the mars •
Republicans 107
Democrats - 88
Anti L comptonites 11
Southern Opposition
North Americans.- 5
Fuii House 237
Majority 119
We think there is one more Douglas Democrat
than the Herald reports ; bat we tase its table as
it stands. Oa some questions that will arise, some
of tb Drug las men may vote with the Administra
tion D jim cracy, but it may fairly bs presumed that
on tuch questions at least an equal number of
Southern Democrats will bolt: ana cu ail questions
of variance between the North and the South,
shotnd the Democracy pursue such a oourse as to
admit of united Southern action without regard to
party, not oniy the Douglas men but many other
Northern Democrats would act with ‘he Biack Be
pub.icansi eo that the above showing no doubt
faithfully represents the extreme strength of the
Ffty-„
It w;.. be seen that the Southern Opposition mem
ber* cie&riy bold the balance ot power. We trust
that, profiting by the lessons of tbe past, they wi„
hold it with a firm and fearless haDd. and in no in
stance yield a jot of principle or right to advance
the interests or appease the clamor of either of the
other parties.— Cotnmhus Mngnerm-.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BT THE ASIA.
The steamship Asia, with Liverpool dates to the
6th mat, arrived at New York on Thursday last.
The Conyerence at Zurich—The Turin cor
respondent of the London News, writing Aug-1,
says
** 1 have it from good authority that the Sardinian
Plenipotentiary, the Commendatore Pssambrois,
has received tbe*e two special instructions for the
Conferences at Zurich: to refer to a European
Congress the greater part of the points in dispute ;
to oppose any project of confederation, if the pre
sent corditione of Italy are not eubetantialiy modi
fied We here are especially grateful to Lord John
Russell for the reserve with which he contemplates
the possibility of England's taking pari in the Con
ference relative to the affairs of Italy. For the
real pacification of Italy Dotting less than these four
conditions will suffice : 1. An Austrian Archduke
in Venice with Italian troops alone: to which may
be proposed either the neutrality of Venetia. or tbe
dismantlement of Mantua and Peachiera. 2. Tue
cany and Modena to be given (subject to the will of
the Tuscans’ to the Ducheae ot Parma, and the
Duchy of Parma itself to Piedmont. 3. The eom
plete secularization of the Pontificial States. 4. The
privilege of intervention to be abolished. If Eng
land cannot obtain these or similar concession*,
then Italians wonld rether she should abstain from
the Congress and suspend her sanction. Thus the
thraldom and ruin of Italy will not form part of
European law. In the meintime the Peninsula,
neither living no/ yet dead, will continue by her
grievous agitation to disturb the repose and embit
ter the t atiefaction of prosperous, free and powerful
nations.”
Great Britaih— Parliamentary proceedings
| had been mainly confined to difeussioc upon the
. luppliee, all of which had been duly voted in ac
I cordance with the ministerial estimates. Included
’ in the votes are il loO.OOf! on aoceunt of a direct
telegraph to Gibraltar Jj 10,000 to aid in the con
ve.-B.on of the copper currency to one of bronze;
£3,000 compensation to Mr. Barber, who suffered
transportation for an offence of which he was
afterwards found to be innocent. &c., &c. _
A deputation from the Anti-Opium Society had
waited upon Sir Charles Wood to urge the prohibi
tion of the cultivation of opium, except for medici
nal purposes, in British India Sir Charles in reply
said that the present unsatisfactory etate of the
finances of India rendered it impossible to touch tbe
revenue derived from the opium trade. He was
not aure that the evil: of the trade were bo bad as
they had been represented, but he admitted the
des'rebuity of sepaiat.ng tbe government from it
wLen tha’ .night be poieihle.
A deputation from the Cotton Supply Association
had had en interview wilh the Duke of Newcastle
for the purpose of urging the encouragement of
cotton culture in the British colonial possessions.
France. —The Bank of France on the 4th instant
rednoed its rate of disoount to 3) per cent., and also
passed a resolution to make advances to the owners
of the new loan for the three next payments againEt
the deposits ot the securities.
It is stat ;d that the Emperor wonld not enter
Paris at the head of the troops, because the Cabi
net and Privy Council urge that he wonld incur
too much risk by exposing himself for so long a
time.
Bodies of French troops were continually arriving
at Marseilles from Italy.
The Moniteur de la Klotte announces that orders
had been given at the different oceanic ports to pro
ceed immediately with the disarmament of all
vessels armed or in course of arming. These
ordera were already partly executed, and vessels
which were in ‘he roads had put back to the differ
ent ports. The di:ar oament had also commenced
at Toulon. Orders bad been given to disband all
marines having served five years.
Other journals contain similar announcements.
Tha Paris Moniteur of the sth contains tbe fol
lowing : “The Emperor, who never leaves (service
unrewarded, has appointed Lieutenant Feuille De
baulian to the post of Director of the factories of
arms de precision , on account of the principal part
he has token in the formation of the new system of
rilled cannon since 1842.”
Prinoe Napoleoahad left Paris for Cherbourg.
The Disarming —The Pays contains some obser
vations on the interesting subject of the modus
operandi by whioh the F’rench army is to be upon a
peace instead of a war footing. It says i
“To uudeißtand the transition of the French army
from a war to a peace footing, two things must be
considered— cadres and the effective foroe. The
number of officers and non-commissioned effioers is
fixed by ordinances and decrees ; they are fixed in
number, and are, eo to speak, the soul of regiments,
battalions, squadrons, batteries and companies,
whilst the effective plaoed under them is variable.
“In the infantry, both in war and peace, the
number of officers and non commissioned officers
is the same; in the cavalry and tbe auxiliary and
special corps the necessities of a campaign slightly
modify it. But it may be eaid that apart from the
wants of war, which lead to the creation of provis
ional corps, the number of offioers and non-com
missioned officers is uniform. The effective, on the
contrary, can be easily reduced and easily extended.
The BOldiera composing it, bound to serve by the
law on recruiting, may, in fact, from one day to
another, be called out to serve, or when serving, be
sent home. The present system of recruiting can
furnish every year the maximum number of 140,000
men, but only 100,000 are ordinarily plaoed at the
disposal of tbe government.
“As the volunteers who have not what is called
satisfied tbe law on reoruit'.og are deduoted from
the contingent of their olass, bud, as the yonng sol
diers who pay exemption money must be replaced
by those who have satisfied the law, we set aside
the number of men serving voluutart'ly, and we set
down 70,000 as the total number of soldiers liable to
be serving at the same time, under the law on re
cruiting. Bat in reality the ordinary effective is
scarcely half that number. The other had cousists,
first, of young soldiers inscribed the last on tbe list
ot the contingent, and not called out; secondly, sol
diers allowed to remain at home to suppori their
families; thirdly, soldiers incorporated but sent
home with renewable furloughs; and fourthly sol
diers incorporated but sent borne by anticipation,
with provisional discharges. All these men are at
the disposal of tbe government, and we saw, three
months ago, with what marvelous promptitude and
what admirable zeal they responded to the Empe
ror's call.”
Itai.y.—The Paris correspondent of the London
Times reiterates the statement that Piedmont for
mally declines entering into tbe Italian Confedera
tion if Austria forms part of it.
In the letter of the Emperor of the French to the
Emperor of Austria, the former L said to strongly
urge a reforming policy in Italy.
The Paris correspondent of the Times apprehends
that the restoration of the former sovereigns of the
Duchies will be effected by means of the mission ot
Count Reisset, a'ded by the intrigues of France.—
The Baidinian government having reoalied its Com
missioners from the Duchies, declines to use its in
fluence with France to oppose the wish of the pop
ulation. It is by universal suffrage that the French
hope to reoover the restoration, and a French divis
ion is expected to co-operate by their presence at
F orenoe and Modena, and by thus affording pro
tection to the new chambers, the deputies would
feel themselves safe in voting for tbe return of the
expelled Prinoes.
Letters from France say that Garibaldi will pro
bably take the command of the Tuscan army.
The Papal States. —At the funeral service
celebrated at Rome in uonor of the victims of the
war, the following address was circulated among
the troops of tho French garrison who were present.
A copy was also plaoed in the catafalque, iu the
midst of a heap of fl iwere and bouquets :
To the French Soldiers—On this day, when you
arc doiDg honor to the memory of your valiant
comradis, fal'en on the plaius of Lombardy for the
holy cause of our independence, we unite our vows
to ours, and swear to you eternal gratitude. Here,
where we are not permitted to eiprees our free
thoughts, or to pray pub'ioiy for our fellow o'.tisens
who have died by the side of ycur comrades; it is
very sweet to be able to join our prayers to yours,
and"to shed a tear on the tomb of your brothers in
arms. We had scoped to celebrate fresh victories
wit h you, and to commemorate together the com
plete enfranchisement of Italy; but. though that
noble object which your magnanimous Emperor
proposed to himße'if has not been attained, the
generous blocd of France, which has mingled with
the blood of Italy, will not have been shed in vain.
Sooner or later the natural alliance of the Latin
nations, which has been recognized by the Empe
ror, and cemented by that noble blood, willcer
tainly bring out the complete independence of
Italy. The Romans.
Ua the 27th ult., a Capuchin monk, named Gio
vanni di Corso, was seixed in the Harberina Con
vent and conveyed to -prison. It was stated that
some correspondence with the partisans of the re
volutionary movement bad been found in his cell.
A note is being circulated in Rome enumerating
the concession desired by a vast majority of tbe
populations. The following a-e the concessions : A
Ministry in which the lay element shall preponder
ate. A Couueil o State of which a majority of the
members snail ba laymen. A Financial Council
formed ot the members to be named by the Brovin
cial Councils. The promulgation of a reformed
civil code. The taxes to be rated and collected
according to the plan followed in Franoe. The .ay
delegates in the provinces to be assisted by coun
oillors eleoted by the Provincial Councils. The
establishment of an urban guard and the proclama
tion of a general amnesty. These concessions had
formerly been granted, but, unfortunately, the
effect was paralyzed by various circumstanoes.
A genera! belief exists in Rome that the Pope
will change his Ministers, and a list was circulated
on which figured the names of Cardinal di Pietro,
the Duke Massimo, Prince Aldobeaudini, and Car
dinal Alneri. This last shows the desire which
exists to Bee Cardinal Antonelli dismissed, who in
his own person unites tbe offices of Secretary of
State, Minister of War, Prefect of the Apostolic
Palace, and Librarian of the Vatican. He is,
moreover. Minister of Finance, of the Interior, and
of Public Works. It appears there is a strong party
in Rome, composed of honorable men, but who are
so timid that they fear every attempt at reform. In
order to induce them to yield they are told, “If you
can govern with your system, so much the better.”
The Emperor of the French is about to withdraw
bis troops, and the Pontifical Government must do
something. It must causa the laws to be respect
ed, and put an end to arbitrary acts, for the laws
are better than the men who administer them. The
Government of the Grand Duke ot Tusoany had
sent a farther protest to Paris and Vienna against
the coDduot ot the Piedmontese agents in Tuscany.
It reminds the Emperor of the French that Victor
Etnanuel accepted the Diotatorsbip of Hungary
only during the war Ths Grand Duke adds that
the Piedmontese Commissioner, since the peace,
not only continues to govern Tuscany, but he has
convoked a Constituent Assembly, and is employ
ing all the means in b a power to accomplish the
fusion of Tufoany with the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Several volunteer., arked permission io return to
Rome, and the Papal Government not only granted
the petition, bnt advanced money to defray their
expenses The condition o those who have re
turned is said to be ceplorable.
The Presidency ce the Pope.—A letter from
Rome, in tbe Gazette du Midi, says:
The following, it ie pos-tively stated, is the reply
of the Pope to tbe propositions of the French gov
ernment relative to the Italian Confederation. As
regards the title of honorary president of the Italian
Confederation, the Holy Father, while admitting
it in principle, replies by asking the question,
What is the presidency 7 If it is administrative
or political 7 President of what 7 Where is the
Confe eration 7 If it is to be composed of the dif
ferent kingdoms of Italy, It cannot yet exist, since
most of the thrones are vacant. The sovereigns
ought first of all to be placed in possession of tneir
States. As to the Code Napoleon, his Holiness has
answered that Rome possesses a more perfect one ;
and that besides, taat code cannot be applied in the
States of the Church, because it ccntains enact
ments, such as those about civil marriages, A.0.,
which are oontrary to the principles of the Apostolic
See. As to the Consults, which ta already establish
ed, “no doubt,” says his Hoiioess, “this institution
is designed to do great good, btcause here ae else
where great reforms are necessary ; but I reserve to
myself the time and the o.caaon of accomplishing
them.’ Lastly, as regards the Legation, the Holy
Father thicks that before tbe ques.ion is discussed
be ought to be placed in possession of that part ot
his States.
The Pope's Venosakoe.—Seven inhabitants of
Perugia, accused by order of the Papal govern
ment, before a council of war, as instigators and
leader* of the resis'ance offered by the people to the
Pontificial troops, have been conaemned to death.
A document, issued in the Pope's came, and da
ted Perugia, July 20, the authenticity of whioh
taere is too Ut’le reap- n to donbt, sets lor'.h that an
extrai>rd nary special conceit of war, composed of
Msior Jeannerat, of ihe let Foreign Regiment, pre
sident . Captains Petereili, Lavailaz, B.seglia,
Leoci, Stecklin and Perpetii, Gerga, advocate,
and Gtare. military registtar, had sat to try the Pe
rugian case of high treason and public violence
--earns*. Fraeceeco Guardsbaasi, of Perugia, aged
67, landed propr.etor . the Baron Nicholas Danzet
ta of Perugia, aged 39, lanced proprietor ; Zsphrin
Fains Baidici, of Venanci’, aged 34, banker . Ti
bere Befardi. of Perug.a. advocate ; Carlo Brus
chi, aged 27, of Perugia, advocate; Count Anto
nio Cesarei, aged 35, of Perugia, advocate; and
Fiiippi Tar tint, aged 33, of Perugia, lauded proprie
tor and advocate. The aforesaid are there charged
with having provoked aud maintained a sedition
and insurrection aga na’ by their efforts, the first
four as ajunta. ana the rest as a committee of de
fence.) the Kovereigo Pontiff and his legitimate
government, on Jane 14 and the following day*, by
the publication of print* inciting to rebellion, by
overthrowing the Papal insignia, erecting tri color
ed Sags, enroJing soldiers, and collecting arms and
mnuiiione of war. (sentence a then declared to be
“ public death.” and the payment of all damages
and expenses inoorred either by the government,
er by tbe commune, ot by indlvtdtul*.
A Remaatic Chapter es Hiaiery,
The Petersburg (Va.l Express recently discover
ed some incidents of local history which afforded
proof, as it was urged, that Garibaldi, tbe “Fran
cit Marion of Italy,” was of a Virginia stock, and
descended from ooe John Johnston Jones, whodied
in Bianford, Va., about 1767. The Dallas Gazette,
of Cahaba, Ala., “sees that story,” aud adds are
markable and interesting sketch. We copy from
the Dallas (Ala.) Gazette of the 12th of August,
1859:
Garibaldi is said in the Petersburg (Va.) Express,
to be a descendant of Mr. John Johnston Jones,
who died at his residence in Bianford, about the
year 1767. It is a fact that a beautiful young daugh
ter of this Mr. Jones, eloped from Petersburg about
the year 1753, with an It Ulan tight rope dancer,
named Garibaldi, who, having amassed an immense
fortune in this country, returned to his own dear
native Italy, where a large family and unalloyed
felicity blessed the union between himseit and his
beautiful young Blanfoid bride. Mrs. Garibaldi
correapon ed with her father until the day of the
latter's death; and le'ters subsequently sent over
by the child-en es Mrs. G. leave but little dcubt of
the fact that the warrior Garibaldi now in Italy, is
a direct descendant of tbe Jones family, so well
and favorably known in Bianford during the first
half of the past century.
We can tell a stranger story than the foregoing,
and just as true ! In fact, if truth is stranger thau
fiction, no one can donbt the little romance we are
abcut to record :
In tbe year of grace, 1732, there came over with
Gen. Oglethorpe, when he founded the colony of
Georgia, a bttle Corsican dancing master named
Carlo Bounaparte. As tie Wesleys and George
W’hitfield possessed considerable influence over tbe
settlers (they bad just laid the foundation of the
Methodist church,) and as most of said settlers were
discharged debtors from English prisons, and, con
sequently, not in a dancing condition, Carlo re
ceived ne “professional'’ encouragement. In ex
treme danger starving (for he bad no money.) he
was forced to labor with an axe and spade for a
living for several months, when a Scotch trader
named McGilvary came to Savannah, with a gang
of Muscogee Indiana, to trade with the settlers
McGilvary then lived on the banks of the Cha ta
hooebee, in the midst of the Muscogee nation, and
had been a trader among them, since 1714, in whioh
y ear he took part iu the rebellion—beaded by the
Earls of Mar and Derwentwater—for tbe restoration
of the royal house of Stewart to the British throne,
and was compelled, like a great many of his va
liant countrymen, to save his neck by emigration.
He found a heme, three wives, and a thriving trade
among the Muscogee Indians, and Lavig acquired
a snug competency, unbounded influence, and a
taste for Indian life, he had no desire to leave the
genial climate and generous soil of the Muscogee
country for the bleak and barren hills of hie native
land, or to exchange his position aa one of the head
men of the nation, for that of a tacksman to some
thieving Highland laird, whose chief employment
was to Bteal cattle, levy black mail, or to engage
in any civil broil that might be brewing. So he
remained.
McGilvary was the ancestor of Bill Weatherford
—Judge Meek a “Red Eagle.” 11a had three ca
bin’s lull of children, and becoming acquainted
with Carlo Bounaparte, and his accomplishments,
he succeeded in engaging him to teach hie half
breeds to dance aud fiddle; as for reading aud
writing, he didn’t care for such accomplishments,
being but an indifferent scholar himself.
McGilvary waa cot, of course, a Presbyterian,
but a Jacobite of the Claverhouee or Tom Daiziel
school, so fiddling, dancing and drinking were the
delights of his soul, when he could spare time from
bis trade or money making, which he loved equally
as well, if not a little more.
On a cold and gusty day in March, 1733, Mc-
Gi.vary and Carlo Bounaparte turned their banks
on Ogiethrope's town, and their faces to (he west.
Each one was mounted on an Indian pony, and
they were accompanied by about thirty Indian
a few on ponies, but most of them on foot—a-med
with the fowling pieces and muakets they had
bought from the skipper of a Bristol brig that was
lying iu the river. A train of 40 or 50 pack pontes
oarried McGilvary’s stock of merchandise, whioh
he had purchased from the aforesaid skipper, by
bartering tbe peltries he had collected during the
past season. In the couise of fifteen or twenty
days they reached McGilvary ' cabins, and Carlo
at once entered upon tbe discharge of his duties,
as dancing and mußic master. He was undoubted
ly the first “maitre de danta,” who taught the ex
hilarating and graceful art between the waters of
the Tombigbee and the Savannah.
Although Carlo made little or no progress with
his pupils, (for the boys prefeired hunting and fish
ing, and the girls the manufacture of wampun belts
and moccasins to dancing or music) yet he soon
became immensely popular with the rude sons of
the forest, not a3 a fiddler, not as a dancing -master,
but as a drummer aud performer on the bugle, for
on these two instruments be was as perfeot as he
was on the fiddle, and he had one of er.oh in his lug
gage.
With the bugle, he oould call the tribe to the
counoil house, assemble them for the hunt or the
war path, or animate and encourage them at the
ball play. With the drum he made music for the
green corn dance, and other fashionable Indian
danceß, for that is the kind of music Indians prefer
when they “trip tho light fantastic toe.” He was
the drummer and trumpeter of the tribe. His fiddle
had no charms for their ears, and be only played on
it to please himßeli and bis patron, McGilvaiy.—
There was scarcely an Indian within one hunared
miles but bad heard him perform cn tbe drum and
trumpet., and his lame extended to tbe distant
wigwams of the Cherokeee, Chickasaws and Choc
taws.
From nearly every Musoogee who heard him
blow or beat, he reoeived a Bkin of some descrip
tion —mostly beaver and otter skins—which were
very valuable. At the end of occ year he bad
quite as large a stock of peltries a3 McGilvary had
Eurcbased during the same period. By thie time
e had won the heart of McGilvary’s oldest daugh
ter, a strapping half-breed lass of eighteen tnta
mers, who had jet black hair and eyes, and the
prominent cheek bones of her aboriginal and Celtio
progenitors. They were married, not according to
indtan fashion, but by a Romish priest from the
Spanish trading settlement at the South of the
Cahaba River.* He lived happily with his wife for
three years—continuing to blow and beat, to the
admiralion of tbe Indians, and claiming, as a right
the contributions that were at first voluntarily made
to him—when she died, leaving him a disconsolate
widower ano two children—a boy and a girl—the
latter the ancestor of “Red Eagle,” which accounts
for his figbtiug propensities.
At the time of his wife’s death, in the Spring of
1737, Carlo Bounaparte waa as rich as McGilvary,
and his heart yearned for the little island in the
Mediterranean, where he first saw the light. With
a largo stock of peltries, worth at least $15,000, and
as mnoh more in Spanish ooin, he left for the settle
ments, after promising the Indians, however, that
he would return in a few months, and leaving his
children as hostages for the redemption of his
promise.
In a month afterwards he was in Charleston, 8.
C., aud there he sold his peltries, and received for
them and for his Spanish coin bills of exchange on
banks aud banking bouses in Genoa He concluded
he would then travel by land to Boston, and sail
to Europe from that port. He had gone as far as
the county of in Virginia, when he was at
tacked with “old fashioned” bilious fever, at the
bouse of a tobacco planter named Haynes, who
waa the grandfather of that illustrious person who
once said to Mr. Jefferson, “My name is Hayneß,
and lam off!” The writer of this truthful hiatory
aenies that he is related to that family.
Well, Carlo (or Charles) bad a long spell, and per
haps would have died, but for the tender and assid
uous nursing of the daughter of his host, whose
name was Betsey. He recovered at length, but in
recovering his health, he lost his heart; the fair
Betsey had “win it” (to use a favorite sporting ex
pression). Carlo exhibited hiß bills on Genoa to the
father, and he consented to the marriage. They
were married, and as a vessel bound for Marseilles
was then about to sail from Norfolk, the happy
couple secured a passage, and in a couple of months
were happily settled at Ajaccio, in Corsica, where
Carlo Boonaparte had purchased a handsome estate
with bis $30,00(1. He no longer fiddled or danced,
or blew the bugle or beat tbe drum, but set himself
up as a gentleman of Greek and Italian extraction,
and the representative ofanoblebut decayed family.
He diedi n the fiftieth year of hie age, universally
respected, leaving but one son, and no daughter.—
This eon bore his father's name, and was th* father
of Napoleon 1., and grand father of the present dis
tinguished Emperor of France. Mis. Betsey H.
Bounaparte survived her husband but a tew years,
title never visited America, but continued to corres
pond with her relatives in this country. Quite a
cumber of her letters are now extant.
This brief history proves that the great Napoleon
had an American lady for a grand mother, as well
as Gen. Garibaldi, and every other distinguished
man who has made any noise iu Europe, Asia,
Africa, South America or Hayti, for the last fifty
years
If the incredulous doubt the truth of the story, we
will be constrained to publish some of Mrs. B-.toey
H. Bounaparte's letters. We can get them.
’There iras a military post at Cahaba, during the last
cenlary, for Uaman bones and tiros) buttoi-.s were found
laahund.-ut.~e last year, near the llr.pt et Church, by the
railraau hands, when they were woiking tn tho great
excavation.
From the Daklonega Mountain Signal.
Letter lrem tho Kansas (told .Hint” .
Auraria City, June 21st, 1859.
Messrs. F.iitors :—ln compliance with a prom
ise made you some time since, I again favor you
with a short communication respecting tbe mines
and miners of this country.
I have just returned from the Georgia diggings,
some thirty five or forty miles from this place,
where the miners are operating in the quartz veins
and hill diggiogs, which are yielding to most all
employed, very handsome profits. New “leads”
are being developed almost every day, and what a
few weeks sicoe was supposed to be a mining dis
trict of narrow limits, is now fully proved to be
quite extensive.
Good veins have been opened at a considerable
distance from where the first dieooveriee were made,
and reports have oome in that good diggings have
been found on the western slope of the mountains,
but whether true or cot, 1 am unable to say ; large
prospecting parties are forming for the purpose of
exploring the 3now range and western slope and the
facts wi!! soon be ascertained. The ravines in the
vicinity of tbe Gregory Diggings are, as a general
thing, paying well, and a great many of them still
remain unprospected. The gold found in the veins
of decomposed quartz is remarkably fine, being al
most an impalpable powder; that obtained from
the ravines is genera ly ooarse, very much resemb
ling the gold found in the dry diggings of California.
Various opinions obtain amongst tbe miners ae to
ths cause of quartz “leads,” but the one which
seems to be moet prevalent, and the general favor
ite, and which, in my estimation, is not only false,
bnt really absurd, is the volcanic theory. They,
the volcanists, argue that the gold and quartz have
been thrown up in a molten condition by the ac'ion
or force of deep volcanoes through charms or open
ings in the earth which have closed upon the matter
and prevented it from failing back—a brilliant idea.
So prevalent is this opinion that t-ome men are
continually clambering over the mountains and
climbing the highest peaks looking for old craters,
expecting when they find them to gather tons of
gold hanging like pendant icicles around the brink.
Amongst the advocates ot this theory burned
quurtz is a thing much sought for, and when they
find on the surface, the least indications of a burn,
even if it be wherein times past an old pine stump
burned out, they commence operations at once,
regardless of every thing else; the burned quartz
is there, and that is sufficient evidence that a lead
is near by. Oooasion .Uy they find, by accident,
burned quartz on a ledge ot granite, and dig down
on the solid mass, blasting out the stone and incur
ring a heavy expense without the leas: prospect of
ever raising a coior. Such men soon become dis
couraged and leave for the Btates crying Lumbag.
cursing the oountry, the peop e, and every thing
else ; it is hoped that they will never Bet their faces
towards Pike's Peak again. A great many of our
Georgia friends have rtttrei. but they alt, with a
very sere exceptions belong to that unfortunate class
of individuals who have rooms to let in the upper
story, and whose motto is, ‘1 can’t.’ I moat sin
cerely hope that resting in the bosom of their fami
lies and the sweet seclusion of their quiet homes,
they may enjoy their ‘four bits’ per day and never
experience a second attack of that moet serious
d'sorder—gold fever.
But notwithstanding thousands have returned to
the States, there are su'd too many here for their
own good ; they have not the energy requisite to
prospect for themselves, and are continually hang
ing round those that will prospect awaiting a fa
vorable opportunity to ‘jump’ a good claim. Hun
dreds are daily arriving at this place, and a great
many get no farther. thoee coming in now are
better prepared than thoee who came early in the
spring.
Com looks welL Provisions of every descrip
tion are abundant and moderately cheap , flour is
selling at sl2 50 F sack, bacou 20 cents * lb., and
otber things in proportion. The oountry is very
healthy, few persons have died from sickness, but
a great many by accidents. The weather is fine
and the snow is fast disappearing in the mountains
Your*, respectfully, L. A. Russell.
Hon. W. C. Preston.— Mr. Preston ie now in
> lrginia. His health is very poor. The “ iiwpired
deciaimer,’ to whose burning words Senators have
listened, enraptured—the magnificent Orator—is as
feeble in body ae a little child. Leaning on the arm
of a friend, a few Sabbaths since, he slowly, pain
fully, advanoed to the chancel of the Episcopal
Church, and kneeling fervently, partook of the
Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. One after another
our great men pass away from this world of change
and death. Happy are they, who, like Preston,
trust in “the crucified,” and acknowledge their
faith For them, *fo die w gsttm ’—PmDm Tima,
duguit |.
WEEKLY
(%mude £ Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUG. 24, 1839.
BOOK BINDING.
Persons who wish Periodicals, Books or Music
bound, or Black Books made, at SHORT NO
TICE, can be accommodated by applying at tbe
Office of the Chronicle & Sentinel.
The Editor will be absent from the city for a
few weeks, during which a friend, than whom no
one is more competent to conduct the canvass, will
occupy the chair Editorial. He is thoroughly
versed in the political questions of the day, and
will be found equal to any emergency.
We are requested to etate that Hon. B. H. Hill
will be unable to attend the meeting at Lexington
on Friday next, 26th inst, having business in the
Supreme Court, at Atlanta, which it will be impee
eible for him to leave.
I 01. Akin’s Appointments.
The Atlanta American contains the following
letter from Col. Akin to some gentlemen in Atlanta,
together with the subjoined list of appointments, to
which we invite the attention cf our friends. They
shou'd, and mill, give him a cordial reception every
where, and the people, the whole people, without
distinction of party, should give him a patient
hearing:
Atlanta, August 18,1859.
Gentlemen : Yours of this date, requesting me,
in behalf of the citizens of this city, to addr-s?
them on the political questions now dividing the
people of Georgia, is before me.
The many and urgent solicitations I have receiv
ed to address the people, has induced me to change
a determination I had formed, and to comply with
the wishes of my friends, though I fear it will prove
injurious to my health. I therefore inform you ibat
I will address the people of Atlanta on Tuesday
evening the 23d inst.
Your obedient servant,
Warren Akin.
Hon. Wm. Ezzard, E. N. Calhoun and others,
oommittee.
Col. Akin’s Appointments.
The candidate of the Opposition party for the
offioe of Governor, will address the people as fol
lows, viz :
At Atlanta, Tuesday uight, August 23.
At Macon, Wednesday night, August 24.
At Columbus, Friday, 11 A. M , August 26.
At Albany, Saturday, 11 A. M , August 27.
At Amerious, Saturday Digbt, August 27.
At Cutbbert, Monday, 11 A. M., August 29.
At Savannah, Wednesday night, August 31.
At Augusta, Thursday night, Sept. 1.
At Warrenton, Saturday, 11 A. iff., Sept. 3.
At Elbertou, Tuesday, 11 A. M , Sept. 6.
Col. Akin will attend each of the above appoint,
meats, whether he is able to addreis the people or
not, unless anything should occur requiring a charge
in any of them; in which case due notice will be
given.
Sadden Death.
Our community was startled and pained Sa
turday afternoon by the announcement of the sud
den and unexpected death of Mr. John Hill,
ooe of our most universally respected aod beloved
citizens. The sad event took plaoe about four
o'olock, at the warehouse of Messrs. Walker &
Sons, on Molntosh street, from hemorhage of the
l u ngs. induced, it is supposed, by a tit of coughing
hich ruptured a blood vessel, causing his death in
very few minutes—before medical aid could reach
him. The deceased waa about sixty-six years of
age, was a native of South Carolina, but for many
years a resident of this city, aud had, for near fif
teen years, and up to the time of his death, occupied
the responsible position of City Collector and Trea
surer. He was esteemed cy all who knew him,
for the many noble qualities of his character—his
genial, friendly disposition—his strong and well
balanced mind—his uprightness and integrity in all
his business relations.
Alarm of Fire.— Between eight and nine
o’clock last night, a fire occurred in the second
story, front room of the Chronicle Sentinel es
tablishment, on Broad street, occupied by the Au
gusta Gas Company as an office. It was, however,
extinguished with little damage to the building.
The tire orignated in a trash box, and was probably
communicated by throwing a segar into it, which
was not extinguished, or it may have been sponta
neous combustion. The Gas Company may have
lost some papers. The building is insured.
Fire—lncendiaries About.
About half-past 2 o’clock Sunday morning a fire
was discovered in the clothing store of Messrs
Ramsay & Laßaw, No. 308 Broad-street. The
ciroumstancos attending this fire leave no doubt
that it was the act of an incendiary. One of the
rear windows, which was protected by strong iron
bars, was broken open, one of tbe bars wrenched
ofl', and various drawers of the writing deek which
stood near, drawn out, probably in the search for
money. There were fires undoubtedly set in seve
ral places; and what adds to the heinous nature of
the crime, is the fact, that two human lives came
near being sacrificed. Mr. Warren, the bookkeep
er, and Mr. Rorerts, salesman, slept injthe second
Btory direotly above ; and the fire had made such
headway before discovered, that it had eaten its
way through the floor, and they were nearly suffo
cated by tho smoke. They with great difficulty
groped their way to the windows and jumped to the
sidewalk, fortunately receiving no material injury
by the leap. Mr. Warren, however, was almost
smothered by the dense smoke, and was resuscitated
with some difficulty. The clothing of these gentle
men bears evidence of a pretty severe scorching.
A negro who aleepo in a store adjoining, avers
that about the time the tire wsb discovered, he eaw
a man, with a bundle under his arm, ruu through
the yard in the rear, and jumping over the fence,
make off’. There is not much doubt but he was the
guilty parly, and it is earnestly hoped that he may
be brought to justice.
It is impossible at present to estimate the loss.
There was a very heavy stock of clothing in the
store—much of it entirely destroyed, and a great
part of it seriously damaged by fire and water.—
There was an insurance, but not enough to cover
the loss.
The True Posilion for the Pwbh.
The editor of the Warrenton (Va.) Whig, writing
from the Springs, nays :
‘'The Eed Sweet Springs are delightful The
baths are really charming. At this place editors
are forced down on an equality with lawyers and
doctors and members of Congress, which I don't
like. In fact, dead heads are not recognized in ibis
section of the State.”
This is the true and proper position for editors,
and we rejoice to know, that one landlord at least,
so tuliy and justly appreciates his own interests, and
the interests and responsibilities of an honest, inde
pendent, high-toned press, as to make editors, and
all persons connected with the press, pay their bills
as other men. No press can be independent, high
toned or honest in the expression of its opinions,
the editors and agents of which are constantly beg
ging their way on Railroads, and Steamboats, and
Stages and at Hotels—and tnose who do it only con
tribute to lower the standard of the press. Indeed,
it is one great cause why the press is so wanting in
independence of character and tone, and the low
standard it has attained generally. An intelligent
man feels but little if any respect for another, or
his opinions, who be sees begging his way on a
Railroad, Steamboat, Stage, or at a Hotel, for he
knows that the compensation is in puffs, whether
merited or not. Hence, he soon learns to place as
little value on whatever else is said by the editor as
his puffs, of “fine and well managed roads,” “mag
nificent steamers, and oourteousofficers,” “superior
stages, splendid teams, and careful, sober drivers,”
and the excellence of the meals, rooms and lodging
of mine host of the Hotel.
We < nee heard of an Editor—a sort of travel,
ing mendicant, we suppose—who, on his return
from a trip of several weeks, boasted that the
“ entire trip had only cost him fifty ants,” and
abused the landlord in round terms for his meanness,
in making him pay for bis dinner, and with great
apparent earnestness, if not gusto, pronounced hie
hotel a miserable, mean establishment, and tbe
landlord unfit to ‘‘keep a hotel f” We sincerely
hope, for the character of the prers, that a better
day is dawning, and that the Prssa gang will be
required to pay their way everywhere as other
people. Then, Railroads, Steamboats, Stages and
Hotels, will only be commended where they merit
commendation and pay for it.
Dealers in Lightning Rons, and those whose
buildings are not protected, will be interested in the
advertisement of Cable Lightning Rods without
points, in this paper. They claim some new advan
tages which would seem to establish their stiperiori.
ty over all others.
Hancock County A correspondent, writing
from Sparta under date of August 20th, stmdg us
the following:
Mr. EniTOR : Will you do us tbe favor to an
nounce to the good people l ot old Hancock, and
your numerous triends and patrons, the old ticket
for the Legislature—we 1-tried and true men—as
candidates lor re-election in October next:
For the Senate —T. J. Smith, Esq.
For Representa/tres —Col. D. W. Lewis, W. H.
Brantley, Esq., And oblige
many Voters.
A New Orleans Printer Committed for
Manslaughter. —W.H. C. King, foreman in tbe
composition room of the New Orleans Crescent
office, was examined in that city on Saturday ast,
on a charge of murder, and indicted for mar\slaugb
ter. During a meeting of the New Orleans Typo
graphical Union, on the 3d of July, Arthur Mo
Gill, (who was assistant foreman in the same de
pertinent of tbe Crescent office,) End the accused
had an altercation, during whi ch McGill was
stabbed by Kins in the back, which resulted iu
the death of McG. on tbe Bth in it. The dying de
claration of McGill was not allowed to fce used in
evidence, but the testimony of several witnesses
went to fix the act upon the accused, and he was
fully committed to take bis trial lor manslaughter.
He was admitted to bail in the sum of $2,500.
Whig National Contention. — A correspondent
of the National Intelligencer recomi Rends that a
National Convention of the Whigs o f the United
States be held,on the 4th of Jnly next, atß'.obmond.
Baltimore or Philadelphia, for the pur pose of nomi
nating candidates for the office of President and
Vice-President of the United States, or, if separate
nominations be deemed inexpedient* for the purpose
of selecting among tbe candidates already in the
field, each as may be most eligible t- > a majority of
the whig party.
Large Tunnel.— The “big tnnnwl’’ on the Cov
ington Ohio Railroad, in Greenbrier county,
Va., is 4700 fest long, and 700 feet balow the sur
face of the earth. It is 300 feet longer than the Bios
Ridge Tunnel. The width is 27 feet, to aceommo
d&te a double truck, and the height feet
44 Wliiu became of the Money
Some weeka ago, we published the official state
ment of the Comptroller, showing, that during Gov.
Brows’* administration, from March, 1858, to June,
1859, both inclusive, a period of sixteen monthß>
the State Road bad paid into the Treasury four
hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars ! and we
asked “ what became of the money’’ ucdar Gov.
JoHsaos’a administration, when the business of the
road, during the two last yews of his administration
was as great as under Brows a administration 1
We called upon the Democracy to respond to this
enquiry, as it was a matter of particular interest to
the people, to know how their money had been
spent. To this call no response or attempt at a re.
spouse was made until within the last few days, the
Federal Un ion, writhing under the imputation against
its parly, has essayed the task. And how think
you, reader, has it answered the enquiry 7 Strange
as it may seem to the unsophisticated, it re publishes
an extract, a tabular statement, from Gov. John
son's last message, and asks us to re-pubiish it! —
We published the entire message, the statement
included, when it was delivered; it threw no light
on the subject of our enquiry then, and it sheds no
more now. We want to know, and the people aro
anxious to ascertain, what amount if money was
stolen by the officers and contractors, who are sup
posed to have been joint and equal partners in the
extensive swindles perpetrated on the State—to
avoid the exposura of which, Mr. LeHardy, the
Engineer, was said to have been removed. He
was too honest to stand by and see tbe State rob*
bed, and he was removed, that they might have a
tair and open fiaid. Gov. Johnson’s message shed
no light on these transactions, but like the reports
of the white-teashing committees, sent up by the
Legislature, it was perfectly silent in regard to
them.
The Message of Governor Johnson was equally
silent on another beautiful financiering operation
of nis Excellency—one which should entitle him to
a high place among the Democratic currency
tinkers and financiers of the State. We allude >o
bis giving the bonds of the State to the Georgia
Railroad tor about one hundred thousand dollars,
more or leas, upon which the State paid to that
road seven per cent, interest, when for political
purposes he was payiDg the earnings of the State
Road into the Treasury, where it couid draw no
interest. The State Road owed the Georgia Road, for
freights, which it bad collected, but instead of pay
ing tbe debt, Gov. Johnsj.n had the money of the
State Road paid into tbe Treasury to make politi
cal capital thereby, and gave tbe Georgia Road tbe
bonds of tbe State bearing interest!! This is a
specimen of Democratic financiering and railroad
management upon which Gov. Johnson’s messages
and all the reports of the white washing committees
of the Legislature are perfectly and profoundly silent.
Cannot tho Federal Union relieve the public anx
iety on tbe subject, by giving them the cates cf the
bonds given by the State to the Georgia road, and
tte exact amount, and then show by tbe message of
Governor Johnson what amount was paid into the
Treaeury during the period this debt was in exist
ence and being created ? These facts will be inter
esting, and will show that the Governor himself is
directly responsible for some of tbe money, the
interest on those bonds, out oI which the State has
beeu defrauded by these democratic currency tink
ers and railroad managers. We call upon the
Federal Union for the information, and We desire
a manly and frank response—no quibbling. Wo
know tbe bonds were given, and know about
tbe amount —and we know that at this same time
the Democracy made a great blow about the im*
manse amounts the road was paying into the Trea9‘
ury, under Gov. Johnson’s management. W r e wish
to know the exact amount, and the dateß of the
Bonds—and the people want to know also. Speak
out, Mr. Fedei al Union, and give us the truth for
once .
It Won't Take —Tho Edgefield (S. C ) Adver
tiser, an influential democratic (?) journal, is seeking
to impose Senator Douglas upon the people of that
State, as a not very improper man ior their support
for the Presidency. The Advertieer will find it an
uphill business to indoctrinate tiie democraov of
South Carolina, or of any other southern State, into
the support of the revolutionary, squatter sover
eignty and anti southern bertsits cf .nr. Douglas.
The Demccraoy of the South is not yet prepared
to trample the Constitution, their birthrights, and
the honor of the country under their feet, that
Senator Douglas, a traitor to their cause ar.d their
section, and the Union, ad the worst of abolition
ists, may be lifted to the height of his vanity and
ambition It won’t take .—Jacksonville (Fla.)
Standard.
The Florida Standard is quite at fault, we think,
in its estimate of tbe Southern Democracy, if we
may judge of the future by the past. They have
boxed the political compass on all questions con
nected with Southern rights; having advocated
Gen. Cass and non intervention, with all his Squat
ter Sovereignty heresies, they suddenly denounced
both whan they had lost power and hoped to gain
position and office by the ohauge. And, to-day, the
leaders are arrangirg for the nomination of Doua
eas, and tho rank and file will pat on the party
collar, and wear it with a meekness and humility
that will astonish the uninitiated ; while it will dis.
gust all fiee-thinking and independent Southern
minds, who are tamiliar with the professions and
practices of tbe Democratic party. We expect to
see all those organs and members of tbe party, who
now ao fiercely and jounce Douglas for his Freesoil
ism and Squatter Sovereignty doctrines, not only
supporting him most earnestly in 1860, but vocifer
ously asserting that he is a sounder, safer and
more reliable man, on all questions pertaining to
Southern rights, than any citizen of the South
who may belong to the opposition ranks. Such
things have been, and will be again, if Doug
las be nominated—of which we have no doubt.
Tbe very men who are now so boisterous about
Southern rights, will sacrifice the South for party,
by voting for Douglas, which is virtually sustain’
ing Freesoiiism and Squatter Sovereignly—as much
so as by voting for Wm. H. Seward, or any other
Black Republican—for the only difference between
Seward and Douglas on this question is, that they
seek lo accomplish the same objeot by different
means. Seward openly avows his objeot like a
frank and honest man, while Douglas seeks to do
the same thing by indirection and intrigue, and has
thus far succeeded in cheating, as they admit, the
Southern Democracy in the Kansas swindle. What
a confession for men to make, to whose care and
guardianship tbe people of the South had confided
the maintenance of their rights and interests. They
were, cheated, deceived, misled, overreached, and
consequently ihe South has been swindled by the
combined efforts of Douglas and his Freesoil as
sociates of the Democratic and Black Republican
parties.
Col. Akin’* Acceptance.
We find in the Atlanta American, the following
letter of acceptance:
Cassville, August 15th, 1859.
Gentlemen— Yours of the 11th instant informing
me that a Convention of the party representing the
Opposition in Georgia, which assembled in Atlanta
on the 10th instant, unanimously placed my name
in nomination tor the office of Governor of this
State at the approaching eleotion, has been receiv
ed.
This manifestation of confidence from so large
and intelligent a body of my fellow-citizens, is a
compliment not to be slightly regarded, even if it
had been eought by me. JBut when voluntarily
tendered, and that, too, not only without solicitation,
but against my known wishes—taking into consid
eration all the circumstances attending it, as they
have been detailed to me—it imposes an obligation
upon me to yield to the demand of my friends,
which it is not in my heart to shrink from, however
reluctantly I assume the position assigned me. I,
therefore, accept the nomination; and fully approve
and cordially endorse the declaration of principles
adopted by the Opposition Convention, held at
Macon on the 20tb day of July last.
As it was known to many of the members of the
Convention, that the condition of health rendered
it physically impossible for me to canvass the State,
I suppose it will not be expected of me.
For the very kind and tlattering manner in which
you have communicated to me the action of the
Cenventiou, and given expressionto your individual
opinions, allow me to tender you my sincere ac
knowledgment, and to assure you of the deep eensi.
bility with which X receive this evidence of your
personal regard.
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Tour obedient servant,
Warren Aikn.
To James Johnson, John Mi'.ledge aud C. Peeples,
Eeqs.
Col. Akin—A Democrat's Opinion.
The Ringgold Express, a Democratic journal,
published near Col. Akin’s home, thus epeaks of
him :
Col. Akin. —The Opposition Convention which
assembled at Atlanta on the 10th inst. put in ncmi
natien Col. Warren Akin, of Cass, for Governor.
We speak only what every one in this section
knows to be true, when we say that no man of the
Opposition could have been found, who could car
ry more votes in this section ot the State, than
Col. Akin. He is a man of undeniable ability, and
irreproachable moral character. He has no politi
cal record, having never taken an active part in
political affairs. He was an old line whig, but
never belonged to tbe Know Nothing organization,
or to the American party, but was generally known
to be among its sympathizers. Since the death of
the old Whig pariy, he has always been found fol
lowing in the wake of those opposed to the Demo
cracy, be they whom they might No party name,
therefore, would better suit him than that of the
parly of which be is now the acknowledged leader.
We are one among Col. Akin’s many personal
friends and admirers, and we are exceedingly sorry
that so good a man as be should be sacrificed to
keep the party organization up —for we apprehend
no candid person will pretend to deny, that he who
runs against Gov. Brown is doomed to defeat.
Monument Commemorative oe Independence
—The committee of the thirteen original States, on
p ans for the erection of a monument in Indepen
dence Square, Philadelphia, to commemorate the
Dec’aration of Indeperdence, will convene in the
city of New York the last of this month, for the
purpose of advertising for plans and estimates.
A Dangerous Cat. —The New Bedford (Mass.)
Mercury says that t day or two since a child asleep
in its cradle in that city, in the absence of its moth
er, was almost deprived of its life by a cat which
was found with her claws fastened to the dress of
tbe child, drawing its breath, and it was with great
difficulty that the stealthy creature was withdrawn.
Death from the Bite of a Tcrtle. —The Mid
dieboro’ (Mass ) Gazette gives tbe particulars of a
painful death of a boy in Plymouth, in consequence
of a bite on the finger from a turtle. The eymptoms
were the same as hydrophobia. Not long after the
bite, the iad became feverish, and after the finger
had been lanced black spots appeared on the other
hand, and paroxysms followed, in which the sufferer
would snap and bite at whatever came in his way,
after the manner of a turtle.
Revolution at Purto Cabello. —The bark
Dallet, with Porto Cabello dates to tbe Ist of Aug.,
has arrived at Philadelphia. Gen. Falcon at the
head of 500 Revolutionists, bad landed a lew miles
below Porto Cabello, where he was joined by Geo.
Gueraea, and was preparing to attack the city.—
He had prepared a plan to enter the city, but was
foiled by the arrest of his accomplices in the city.—
Gee. Falcon was enabled to land through complici
ty with seme of tbe chiefs at Cabello, none of the
Government vessels interfering until his landing
was effected. Porto Cabello was barricaded and
defended by 900 Government troops and six pieces
of srtihery.
The Constituiionalißt--Kansn.
The Constitutionalist of yesterday amused its
readers with various extracts from the Chronicle .)■
Sentinel, to show that we did not tell the peop'e
“ four years ego, that Kansas would be a free
State,” and that in tbe early progress of the Kansas
bill, we advocated its passage, &.C. We advoca
ted it because we had been told by Southern mem
bers of Congress, as they told the whole Southern
people, the very men who now admit they were
cheated, by Douglas &. Cos., that the Kansas bil‘
was the same as the Compromise bills of 1850-
When, however, long alter its passage, we read
the bill, and the speech of Mr. Harris, of Miss.,
(neither of which we had ever before seen,) made
during the passage of the bill in the House, in
which he pointed out the Squatter Sovereignty fea
tures of the bill, and the consequences to the South,
we saw we had been deceived, and did not hesitate
to denounce the measure.
The Constitutionalist, however, makos a point on
the time four years. We have not searched our
files for any previous notice, but when we penned
the language ‘ four years,” without examining
them, we supposed the subjoined article appeared
in Febtuary, 1855 instead of 1856. It is, therefore,
only tinee years and a half, wanting a few days.
The following article appeared in the Chronicle
4- Sentinel of -6th February, 1856.
Kansas Einigrnnts.
We received yesterday the following note from
the writer, which we publish as requested. We
wid not, however, forego the opportunity to say, we
are opposed to tho whole soberne of sending emi
grants to Kansas to agitate the slavery question.
We have never entertained the idea that Kansas
would become a slave Slate, and we do not think
that any well informed man in the Union entertains
any such opinion. Our motto is, to let tbe people of
the territories who are citizens of the United States,
determine the question tor themselves, in the forma
tion of their State Constitutions, and we are in favor
of admitting them, with or without slavery, as they
may choose. We care nothing about preserving the
equilibrium between the free and slave States, be
cause we know that is impossible, from the very
character ot the ttnitory belonging to tbo U States,
and when that alone is our hope of preserving the
rights of the S uth, the Constitution is not worth a
cupper. This, every intelligent man knows; and
the whole secret of ail the agitation at the South, so
far as the lead trs are concerned, will be found to be
a mere trick t the corrupt political tricksters and
demagogue:, ivi o seek! heir own aggrandisement
at whatever saer fire of the public tranquility.
“Gka.nitevit.le, Feb.2stb, 1856
Mr. Editor: —Huviug received numerous appli
cations Irom Georgia to join my company of Kan
sas Emigrants, I beg leave to make known through
yonr columns, that I have aeoepted ten men from
Augusta You would confer a favor by opening a
iist in your < ffiee for subscriptions to aid me in car
lying the said ten men.
Very respectfully, E. B. Bell.”
It was to the above article we referred wheu we
said we bad told the people “ four years ago,” and
for that article we were denounced by the political
tricksters and knaves of the Democratic party all
over the State, as wanting in fidelity to the South-
By the way, this article may serve to remind the
people of toe desperate efforts made at that time to
deceive and delude the people about Kansas, by
the organs and leaders of the Democratic party at
the South. The people were everywhere through
out the South, urged by these demagogues aud
political ‘rickstere, to subscribe money to send men
to Kansas, and they assured tbe people that “the
Territory would be made a slave Slate /” Now,
however, they tell you, acknowledged in the Sen
ate, that they were cheated and deceived by
Douglas & Cos., and in the language of Mr. Iver
son, at Griffin, proclaim that:
“ The lore of Kansas to the South was the legiti
mate and inevitable fruit of the ‘squatter sove
reignty’ elements of the ‘Kansas-Nubraska act,’
as construed and enforced by its Northern friends.”
Nor is this all—but with tbe coolest possible
effrontery they now tell the people, that no well in
formed man ever believed that Kansas would be a
Slave State! We trust the people have uot forgot
ten these things—and perchance some of them may
refresh their memories from old files of the Consti
tutionalist, which has boxed all sides of tbe politi
cal compass on tbe subjeot of non-intervention and
protection in tbe Territories, which we could easily
establish if we deemed the game worth the candle.
Hon. Joshun Hill Nominated.
We are indbeted to the Recorder Extra, for a re
poit of the proceedings of the Opposition Conven
tion, which nominated the Hon. Joshua Hill f r
re-election from the Seventh Congressional District.
The nomination is a good one —one “fit to be
made,” and one that ought to have been made, and
we trust the party will now go to work and elect
him, by a handsome majority. This is no time and
no occasion for wrangling among our friends, and
every man who really desires the defeat of a pro
fligate and corrupt administration, should and will
rally around the nomination. If there be any who
do not support Hill, they are really aud truly
seeking the triumph of the Democracy, whatever
may be their professions. Mr. Hill is an able
man, and has made a most faithful Representative
—he is altogether superior to his competitor, and
the people of the Dia.rict should esteem it are
proach if he is not elected.
We subjoin the proceedings of the Convention :
7lh Congressional District Convention.
Milledgeville, Aug. 17,1859.
The American and Opposition Convention of
the 7th Congreßsioaai District met in this oily this
day.
On motion of T. G. Lawson, Esq , of the county
of Putnam, Col. J. A. Billups of Morgan was un
animously elected President by acclamation, who
upon taking the chair made a few stirring and spir
ited reinarhs.
On motion of S. W. Glass, Esq., of Newton, E.
Cain, K q., of Hancock, was chosen Secretary.
The Moil of the counties was then called, when
tho following Delegates appeared :
Newton—B. Shell, A. Woodson aud S. W. Glass.
Jasper—Lewis W. Pou, and W. C. Leverett.
Viikinsou—A. J. Miller, (proxy) for J. W. Shin
holser.
Moigan—J. A. Biilups, B. M. Peeples, Thomas
Gibfc3and D. E. Butler.
Greene—V. D. Gresham, R. 11. Ward, 11. L.
McWhorter and fit. W. Lewis.
Putnam—J. M. Builard, J. R. Waller, jr., W. H.
Scarabrooks, T. G. Lawson and J. W. Mappiu.
Baldwin—James Dickson, J. C. Whitaker, J. C.
Robertson, R.H. Harper, R. M. Orme, jr., W. A.
Batson and J. M. Hail.
Hancock—W. W. Devereaux, B. Amos, J. W.
Simmons, J.C. Boyer, and E. Cain.
Washington—Ja3. H. Gilmore.
Mr. P. arrived just as tbe Convention adjourned;
but autnorizes us to say that be endorses the pro
ceedings and the Nominee of the Convention.
Mr. YV. Lewis, Esq., of Green, after a few re
marks by way of premise, offered the following
Preamble and Resolution, which were unanimously
adopted:
Tho confidence reposed in the ability, patriotism
and political tenets of the Hon. Joshua llill, by a
majority of the voters of the 7th Congressional
District during the canvass of i 857, secured his
selection to Congress—that confidence has been
trengthened by his subsequent career. Therefore.
Resolved, That we bail with pleasure this oppor
tunity for attesting our appreciation of his eminent
social worth, his superior intellectual endowments,
and bis faithful political Eervicee, in nominating
him, by acclamation, for re-election.
On motion of Col. D. E. Butler, the following
gentlemen were appointed a committee to notify
Col. Hill of his nomination, viz : Lewis of Greene,
Pou of Jasper, Amos of Hancock.
On mot ion of Maj. R. L. McWhorter the proceed
ings of the Convention were ordered to be pub
lished in tbe Southern Recorder and other papers
friendly to the cause be requested to copy.
On motion of Col. D. E. Butler, the Convention
then adjourned sine die.
J. A. Billups, President.
E. Cain, Secretary.
Island of St. Thomas. —This island, which report
says has been purchased by the United States irom
Denmark, contains an area of thirty-seven square
miles, and a population of some seven or eight
thousand inhabitants, only somesix or eight hundred
of whioh are whites, and the remainder blacks.—
Its principal products are sugar and cotton ; its
chief town is St. Thoma 4, on the south side of the
island. The New York correspondent of the Rich
mond Enquirer says it has long been a warehousing
entre-pot for the West India Islands, owing to its
moderate duties of 1 to 1 j per cent, ad valorem
It is a distributing point for goods intended for the
West India Islands, and even for other places on
the Spanish mi in. The chief supply of goods for
its warehouses consist of manufactured articles
from Eogland and other parts of Europe, with
provisions, lumber, &e., from the United States
It is a sort of key to the trade of the West Indies,
and if we obtain it, it should be continued as such
Id 1840, 308 vessels entered St. Thomas, of 58,132
tonnage, aud with cargoes valued at $1,997,000.
The colonial trade with the island during the tame
year embraced 1,568 vessels, of an aggregate ton
nage of 48,024. The tonnage duty on vetssls only
amounts to 19 cents per ton.
Blondins Last—Fatal Row. —A dispatch da
ted Niagara, August 18th, says: “Blondin, to-day,
crossed the rope over the river with a man on bis
back. During the performance, a row occurred,
when a man named Colwell, 60 years of age, was
thrown over the river bank and killed.
Health of Charleston.— The Mercury of
Wednesday says : —Oar city has never enjoyed
better health, at any season of the year, than at the
present time, as the Bill of Mortality, for the week
ending Saturday, tbe 13th, pnblished in another
column, will bear testimony. From this it will be
seen the number of deaths for the week is ten, of
which only one was white.
A special dispatch Informs the Charleston Courier
that the mission to Central America, which has
been declined by Caleb Cushing, has been tendered
to Alexander Dimitry.
The recent hot term, it appears, was not confined
to our continent. The heat, in Paris,.during the
last week of June and tbe first three weeks of July
has not, according to the meteorological registers
of the Observatory in that city, been equalled since
1793.
The Englieh papers report that the maximum
temperature in tbe shade has been the highest for
the last sixty nine years.
The Papal Government has awarded to Mr. Ed
ward N. Perkins, of Boston, the sum of $3,400 as
damages for the robbery of his party during the
Perugia massacre. A telegram, published recent
ly, stated the amount erroneously at S2OO.
M istakes in Per Centage.— Mistakes are often
made by persons not business men in calculating
per centage. If a merchant marks his goods for
sale at retail at 50 per cent, advance, and 33J per
cent be afterwards deducted from the marked
price, he sells at cost (because 33j per centr of $1 50
is exactly 50 cents, the profit marked on $1). If
he sells goods at 25 per cent, above cost, and de
ducts 5 per cent, from the bill for cash, his profits
are 18J per cent, and not 20 per cent., as some per
sons at first eight would suppose. Goods have been
sometimee sold at a loss through mistake in per
centage.
The Croup. —The Journal of Health says:—
“When a child is taken with croup instantly apply
cold water-ice water, if possible—suddenly and
freely to the neck and chest with a sponge. The
breathing will almost instantly be relieved. Soon
as possible let tbe sufferer drink as much as it can ;
then wipe it dry, cover it warm, and soon a quiet
slumber will relieve ail anxiety.” A friend of ours
who has repeatedly tried this remedy informs us
that It never failed to afford almost instant relief.
The Wise Letter Again—Statement of Mr.
Casnldy*
Mr. Donnelly, of New Ycrk, to whom Governor
Wise addressed the letter which has caused so much
stir in the political world, insinuated a few days ago
that Mr. Cassidy, the editor of the Albany Atlas
and Argus, to whom the letter was shown, was, in
some way, instrumental in giving publicity to it
Mr. Cassidy meets this accusation by a statement
in the columns of his paper, which is certainly bod
and to the point. Unless his statemen tis proved
to be false, he must stand acquitted of any breach
of confidence. He says:
That Mr. Donnelly, to whom the letter was ad
dressed, alter showing it to several others, confided
it to Mr. Cassidy, with permission to send it to Mr.
Richmond at Buffalo, who was bringing it to Alba
ny, on the meeting of the State committee, the sub
sequent week, is true. But Mr. Cassidy did not
avail himself of this permission. He was more
chary of the reputation of Governor Wise than his
own correspondent. Neither Mr. Richmond, nor
any member of the State committee, was made
aware of the contents of the letter until a copy ot
it was ascertained to be in circulation in this city
on the day the Stats committee met.
Mr. Cassidy’s feelings, tuoseof his friends, and his
friends’ friends, were sues as to preclude the idea
of hostility to Governor Wise ; and the only emo
tion the letter cxeitcd in him was one of regret that
it was written, and of apprehension lest it should be
made public. Mr. Cassidy denies that by any act
of hi-, or by any connivance or consent, director
indirect, remote or near, was the U tter made public.
After giving this fiat denial to the accusations
against him, Mr. Caesidy says:
Mr Wise had assooißted himself with a political
confidence man in this State, to whom not only
every social circle was barred, but every political
convention was closed ; who had held office only to
show bis unfitness for public as for private trusts,
aud of whom the prees talked only mockingly n
connection with his chances of real penitentiary, or
of the hypothetical cabinet ot President Wise. It
would have been eupeiliuous cruelty to have sought
to injure such a candidacy, stained with such an
association.
We demand that Governor Wise (unless he is to
be judged by his companions, in wbi. h care we de
sire to have nothing lurthcr to do with him,) shall
l>ush this inquiry in regard to his correspondence, to
its source. This latter appeared first in the New
York Herald, with the editor of which Governor
Wise is in confidential correspondence. Let him
demand how this letter was communicated to it.
By its agent 7 Then, from whom did the agent get
it ? Who was the third party ? Who stood behind
him 7 Who was the last and original souroe of this
communication 7
If Governor Wise has anything left of honor and
maminess, if he is not cowed down or shamed into
impotence by his own conscience, let him do this.
Wo challenge the investigation because we kuow
its results will acquit us, abroad, of a charge which
no man in this State, friend or foe, would bring
against us ol Ueicg false to private confidence.—
But tbe resentment wo feci at the disgraceful sub
terfuge, which, under quibbles and falsehood, seeks
to divert the responsibility of this disclosure from
its true source, ar-d the contempt we feel for the
author of such a letter, are lost in a sense of pity
for the Statu which has had tho misfortune to have
such a man for its head. It is Virginia of which
Mr. Wise is Governor ! It is to the Mother of
Sates that we are forced to trace this shameful
harlotry.
New Book.
Knitting-Work : a Web of Many Textures,
Wrought by Ruth Paitington, (B. P. Shilla
bek.) Boston: Brown,Taggard 5 Cbaec. 1859
“Mrs. Partington” and “Ike” have become so
familiar lo us in these brief, pithy sayings of Mr.
Shillabek, that they eeern to be creatures of flesh
aud blood like ourselves, instead of mere abstrac
tions. Tho old lady has got cff many a good thing
in her day—many a sly joke veiled in a cloud of
words, having I lie proper sound if not the sense—
many a quiet bit of philosophy ur sage reflection,
which are none the less appreciable because the
garb in which they appear is outre aud ridiculouß.
“Ike” is the attendant spirit, who usually winds
up e ich scene by one of his boyish prauks—bis
devil-may-care ways acting as a set-off to the old
lady’s extreme simplicity aud good nature. Many
of the pieces in this volume are familiar to the
public, l aving “gone the rounds” of the newspa
per; while others, of a graver and more thought
ful cast, will be now to most readers. Tbe illustra
tions are by Hopptn, who seems to have caught tbe
true inspiration, bis designs are so grapbio and
grotesque.
For sale by Geo. A. Oates.
The Southern Medical & Surgical Journal.
—The August number of this deservedly popular
Medical monthly is on our table, filled with its usual
variety of original, seleoted and editorial matter.
We take great pleasure in commending it to the
Profession as worthy of their patronage. The in
dustry, zeal and talents of the Editors is a sure war
rant of a good work. It should be in tho hands of
every Southern Physician. It is edited by Profes
sor H. F. Sc R. Campbell, M. D., and published in
this city by J. Morris, at $3 per annum in advance-
Each number contains 72 pages. Letters on business
or containing subset iplions should be addressed to
the Publishers.
New Orleans Medical News and Hospital
Gazette. —This valuable Medical monthly has
beeu on cur table some days, and after an exami
nation of it, we take great pleasure in calling the
attention of the Profession to it. It is a work of
merit, and its locality should give it an extended
circulation, particularly with Southern practitioners.
It has a large and able list of contributors and is
edited by Professors D. Warren Brickei.l AE. D.
Fenner, of the New Orleans School of Medicine.
All communications should be addressed to D.
Warren Brickei.l. Terms $5 per annum in ad
vance.
Eclectic Magaeine. —The August number of
this best of monthlies has beeu laid on our table by
Mr. Geo. A. Oates Tho engraving, which is in
Sartain’s happiest manner, is the “Trial of Queen
Catharine.” It is e. etriking and expressive pic
ture. The reading matter is made up of an agreea.
bio melange from the foreign reviews and periodicals,
forming an attractive bill of fare for the literary
epicure.
Legislative Tickets. —We are gratified and
encouraged, says the Savannah Refrublican, to see
that the Opposition are bringing out their strongest
men for the Legislature, throughout the State.
This is a favorable ornen, and we hope to see the
next General Aesembly the ablest and best that
has assembled at the capital for many a year. Our
recent legislative bodies have been a srd commen
tary upon popular government.
There is much to be gained or lost by (he Op
position at the next session. Modern Democracy
is evidently on its last legs, and has deceived the
people about the last time ; iet us then give up
those long cherished notions of its invincibility, aud
go into the fight with a fixed resolve to triumph.
This is all that is necessary in order to carry the
Legislature and settle all disputed points in regard to
C. S. Senators, that are sorely afflicting the Demo
cracy.
’r Kura i. Register. —Wo are in receipt of anew
paper with this tiile, bailing from Baltimore. It is
devoted to “Agriculture, Horticulture, Rural Life,
General News,” &.0., and published semi-montly,
by Meesrs. Sands &. Mills, at one dollar per year.
It is a handsomely printed paper, and well filled
with choice reading matter. It ought to have a
wide circulation.
Missionaries for Jai-an.— The North Carolina
Christian Advocate states that five missionaries
from the Sonlhern Methodist Church will sail for
Japan in Novell her, including Rev. M. L. Wood,
of the North Carolina Conference; Rev. Mr. Allen,
of the Georgia Conference; Rev. Mr. Stewart, of
the Tenn-ssee Conference, and two ministers from
tbe Memphis Conference.
The • R R. Cutler.” —We learn from a private
despatch, says the Savannah Republican of Mon
day, that this new steamer, intended for the New
York and Savannah line, was launched at New
York, Saturday last. She is said to look well on
the water. The work on her will be pushed for
ward, and she may be expected out at an early day-
General Jackson’s Gold Snuff-Box. —The
gold snuffbox left in the last will and testament of
Gen. Andrew Jackson, to be given to the bravest
soldier in the city of New York, and whioh was
some time eince awarded to Gen. W. B. Burnett,
was presented to him on Thursday last, at the City
Hall, Nashville, Tenn. In the absence of Colonel
Andrew Jackson, the Box was presented by Dr.
JohnM. Lawrence and received by Gen. Gideon J.
Pillow for Gen. Burnett, who is at this time offi
cially employed in the territory of K an3as.
Clover and Timothy Seed. — The Cincinnati
Gazette of the 16th says: “ A speculative demand,
based upon reported injury to the crop, has sprung
np for clover seed, and all to be had was taken at
$5.60 per bushel. There was also a speculative
demand for timothy seed at |2.15@250. The de
mand for both articles was from the interior, where
parties are presumed to be beßt informed as to tbe
probable supply for the next sowing season.”
A shrewd operation to evade the liquor law has
been carried on for some time past a few miles from
West Killingley, on the border of Connecticut and
Rhode Island. There has been built a shop, one
side resting on Connecticut soil and tbe other part
in Rhode Island. When the e fficerß of Connecticut
approach the contraband article is moved across
the shop, which makes it rest on Rhode Island, and
mce versa.
A Zouave lost one of his fingers at the battle of
Soiferino. “Bon!” he exclaimed, “just my luck to
lose the finger upon which I wore my wedding ring.
Now my wife will insist upon it that I gave it to
another woman.”
The Bite of a Rattlesnake.—An unusually
large number of persons in different sections of the
country have been bit by rattlesnakes this season
The following is the latest case, and the mode of
treatment:
A Bon of Cassius M.C’lay, of Kentucky, while
gunning recently, was hi’ten on the foot by some
poisonous repti e, supposed to be a rattlesnake, and
hie bod y immediately exhibited all the eymptoms of
the most virulent poisoning ; but he was dosed until
stupefied with apple brandy, and the n9xt morning
was as well as ever. So confident was Mr Clay of
the efficacy of alcoholic spirits in all cases cf poison
by the bites of snakes and insects, that he did not
send for a physician. Saleratns was bound upon
the bitten spot, until ammonia could be produced,
when the former was moistened with it. This was
upon the theory that poison is an acid and any alkali
will answer, though ammonia is thought to be the
beat.
Potato Eating Bugs.— The Marion (Ky.) Re
corder eays that the potatoes are aimoet a failure in
that region. So they are in Gibson county, where
the bugs have eaten whole fields. So they are in
Fountain, partly from bugs, and partly from the
“second growth,” brought on by heavy rains sines
the drouth. And so they are in nearly every conn- ,
ty we hear from in Kentucky, where the corn is
damaged either by bugs or drouth.
The New United States Steamers.— The fol
lowing are the general size and dimensions of eight
of the new steamers lately added to oar navy .
Length. Width. Guns. Ton.
Sloop Brooklyn 2 ; 3(i0
F rl (? ,tß Lancaster “j? 44 14 1,990
Sloop Hartford 33 6 1 016
£ ro< J° 01£ 47 4 1,000
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GEORGI A ITEM!*.
Rev. E W. Steer, the pastor ofthe Mr thorns-
Church at Athens, Gn., received tho degree.! Doc”
tor of Divinity at tbe late commencement „■ f Frank
‘in College.
The lion. Edward Everett has been invited to
atteDd the State Fair, at Atlanta, in October, the
American says, with a good prospect of his accept -
ing the invitation.
Marietta h emale College. —This Institution
under the management of the Rev. Wm. H. Ro
bert, President, opened on tho 10th in3t. with flat
tering prospects.
The Dahlonega Signal learns that, all the prison.
ers in the jail at Cumming, Forsyth county, made
their esospe on Tuesday night, 9th inst.
Seventh Congressional District.— The De
mocratic Convention of the Seventh Congreseiona
District met in Milledgeville cn Tuesday, 16th iuet,
and nominated Robert G. Harter, of Newton
county, as their candidate for Congress.
James 11. B. Shackefgkd, of Gordon county,
has announced himself as an independent candidate
for Congress in the sth District, against Under
wood the Democratic nominee.
Houston County.— Tee Opposition party of
Houston county, have nominated Col. Dektsey
Brown for the Senate, and John H. Hose and Wm
R. Brown for the House of Representatives.
Macon County— The Opposition party of Ma
con county have placed in nomination Philip R
Cook, Esq., for the Senate, and Dr. A. M. Pitts
for the House of Representatives.
Spalding County.— The Opposition party of
Spalding county has nominated Dr. L. H. Saun
ders for the Senate and Clake M. Dickinson for
tbe House.
Trout County.— We aro indebted to a friend
LaGrange, for a letter containing the following
gratifying intelligence : “The Opposition party of
Troup this day, (Saturday, Ang. 20ib,) nominated
B. U. Hill for the Senate, and A B. Fannin and
A. P. Norwood tor the House. A glorious t cket !’
Meriwether.—The Opposition of this good old
Whig county liaxe nominated Wm. A. Hurts,
Esq ~ for the Senate, and Dr. Anthony forthe House.
Mr. Harris represented the county in the last Sen
ate, and was among the ablest and most dignified
members of that body. The people of Meriwether
honor themselves in the election cf such a repre
eentative.
Brocks County.— The Opposition of Brooks
have uomina ted John McMullen for Ihe Senate,
and Henry Briggs lor the House.
The Georgia Weekly Herald.—A new paper
with this title has Just been started at Thomson,
Ga,the first number of which is before us. L.J.
Appi.ewbite, M. D , is editor and proprietor, and
Jas. C. Kenney and IV. W. Reilly, are publishers.
It is to be neutral in politics. It is got up witb good
taste, has a seieotion of readable articles in tbe
miscellaneous and local departments, and in all re
Bpects promises well. We wish it success.
Fair of the Cotton Planters’ Association.—
The Macon Journal 4- Messenger says:—Arrange
ments are now making to hold a Fair in this city
on the first week in December. We learn that, tl-e
necessary funds for Premiums, fixtures, &0., aro
mostly raised. We have not seen the genera 1
programme aud therefore cannot tow give the par
tioulars. Macon will, no doubt, do her best to sus
tain her former reputation in such matters.
Reduction of the State Tax.— The Miledge
ville Federal Union learns, that in oontequenoe ot
tbe large increase in the return of iaxntfle property
to the Comptroller General, the Governor aud that
officer have felt authorized to reduce the per cent
tax to six and a half centa on the one hundred col
lars, this per cent, being considered sufficient to
raise tbe annual tax of $375,600 required by law.
The per cent, lest year was seven aud a half cents
on the hundred dollars. The return of taxable
property this year over last, is about Sixty Millions-
Bishop Pierce.— This eloquent Georgian is win •
ning both souls to Heaven aud golden opinions lor
himself in tho great ElDorado of the West. Cali
foruiana are flocking to hear him by thousands, and
seem enraptured by the power and beauty of his
public ministrations. The only complaint they
make against him, is that hissermouK are 100 short.
The Pacific Methodist says:
“ If ever man needed to be temporarily endowed
with übiquity, our worthy Bishop does. Calls <o
visit every quarter of tho State are multiplying upt a
him daily. Though both a good traveller and talk
er, it is impos3ible for him to accept ail tbe invita
tions given. He will endeavor to distribute his
time, however, to tbe beßt. advantage, and hopes to
visit all the districts. His ministrations will edify
the people of God, and strengthen the cause of
Christianity. In San Francisco his pulpit labors
have made a sound and salutary impression. He
has sown Beed that wiil bring trait.”
Strange and Fatal Accident.—A Mr.MoffetC,
on his return homeward from this city ou yesler
day eveniug while his waggon was going down hill,
fell from it and broke bis neck.
He leaves, we understand, a large family to
mourn his sudden demise.— Marietta Fat. 7/A.j
An Old Citizen Gone.— Cornelius Dunihoo,
originally of Lawrence District, 8. C , but for sixty’
five years a citizen of Georgia, and for many years
of Cobb county, who was born May ltitb, 1757,
departed this life on the night of the 15th instant,
having lived to the ripe age of one hundred and
two years, one month and twenty-nine days. Thus,
one by one our Revolutionary sires are called from
among us. Peace to bisashes.— MariettaPatriot
Ylth.
Shooting Affair.— We regret to learn that on
Saturday, 13th inst., a serious affruy occurred be
tween Col. Wm. F. Brown, ot Dooly county, and
Mr. Jas. Mims, of the seme place, which resulted in
the shooting of Col. Brown by Mr. Mims. We
have not learned the particulars. Col. Brown’s
wounds are thought to be very serious, and it is
feared may prove fatal. Mims has left tie ooun
try.—Hawkinsvil e (Pulaski co.) Times.
Coroner’s Inquest.— A man named McElroy
a stone-cutter by trade and an Irishman by bath—
was discovered dead in the cellar of the Planter’s
Hotel, this morning. From the position ot he
body and other circumstances, it is believed that
the deceased fell from a bed room window, imme
diately over the cellar door, while in a state of in
toxication, and thus lost his lite. Coroner White
held an inquest on tho body, and, we learn, a v< r
dlot in consonance with this statement was returned.
McElroy was a stranger in this city, and we uuder
stand came hither from Carrollton.— Atlanta Amer
18/A.
Fatal Accident —We are pained to learn that.
Mr. J. L T. Doyal, son of Col. Leonard T. Doyal,
of this city, while out hunting m Thursday last)
slipned from a fence, and striking the hammer of
his gun, it exploded, putting tho entire charge in
his side, and killing him within five minutes. Mr
Doyal was an estimable young man, universally
respected by all who knew him. He leaves a young
wife, (the daughter of Mr. Charles Dupree, of thi >
county,) a father, and numerous relatives an t
friends, to mourn his untimely decease. May Ha
who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, console
them under this sore affliction.— Griffin South.
“Fuss and Feathers.”— We see by our Ala
bama exchanges, that there is a company of swin
dlers traveling through that State imposing upon
credulous females, by offering to trade them new
feathers for old. They get all tbe old feathers they
can, weigh them with false scales, and to make the
transaction more plausible, pay down half price
for tbe feathers, promising to return in ten days
and pay pound for pound of new for the old feahere
so purchased. Os course they are never heard of
afterwards. We learn that these scamps have
been operating in this section, and that they have
succeeded in imposing upon a number of ladies in
Pike county. The pnblic ehould be on the look-out.
for them ; they are probab'y engaged in a still rn.ore
nefarious business —perhaps abolitionists in dis
guise.—Griffin South.
New Mail Arrangements.— J. L. Muetian,
Esq., President, ot tbe Mußcogee Railro .and, has oeen
informed by Mr. Geo. W. Adams, Superintendent
of the Central Railroad, that the bid ot Mr. Cuyler
for cairying the mails over tho Southwestern and
Muscogee Rai'roads from Savannah and Augusta
once daily lo Coiambus, has beeu aeoepted Uy the
Department at Washington.
The mail will leave Augusta 15 minutes after 12
P. M.; Savannah at 11 P. M.; arriving at Macon
about 30 minutes past 9 A. M. Returning, they
will ran as now with the Muscogee evening train.
The other train without a mail will run according
to the present s .hedule.
As the Georgia Railroad haß two daily mails, it
is the intention of Mr. Cuyler that the Southwes
tern and Muscogee Roads shall have the same num
her. As scon as the schedules are fixed to Macon,
Mr. Mustian wiil receive due notice.— Columbus
Sum.
A Correction.—“We learn that an individual,
calling himself J. S. Hammond, was arrested on
Wednesday, at Due West, Abbeville District, on
the charge of forgery. He was lodged in the jail
of Abbeville District to await, we presume, a re
quisition from the Governor of Georgia."—Colum
bia Guardian , 12 LA nisi.
injustice to the said Hammond, we will make
tbe following statement: He was arrested at Dae
West, and brought to this place on Wednesday, by
a CoDst&ble from Ruckersville, Ga , charged with
having received money from different persons living
at tbe above named place, for the purpose of buy
ing goods in Augusta; tbat he bad neither bought
the goods nor leturned the money. Hammond
acknowledged that the charge was correct, and ei
pressed his willingness to refund said money. A
reference was had in presence of some of our citi
zens, the money claimed paid over, ($231.17,) and
Hammond was discharged.
We will state, also, that Hammond was not le
gally under arrest, nor as the Guardian was in
turmed. lodged in jail at this place. He left hera
on Thursday morning last, lor his home in Ruok
ersville Ga. —Abbeville Banner , 181A.
Troup County.—Lewis Hines, Receiver of Tax
Returns for Troup county, sends the Lagranga
Reporter the following tax statistics for the present
year :
No. of Polls 1,145
“ “ Professions 54
Dentists 3
Free persons of color 14
Chiloren between 8 and 18 1272
No. Acres Land 298 257
No. of Slaves 9,744
Aggregate value of Land.... $2,282,427
Average value per acre $7 65
Aggregate value of slaves. 6,724,2%
Average value $690
Aggregate value of city property 592 788
Amount of money and solvent debts 2,479 874
“ merchandize •’•"’I,”
“ manufacturing capital, fire.-- *6,007
“ house and kitchen furniture
over S3OO
Aggregate value of all other property. - - r 30,487
$13,339,150
Amount of State Tax on Polls and Pro
fession, ,*.,„ fijf
Amount in default •••—■: ....$10,266 <)<>
11 .1 Polls, Professions, &.C.. 24 stl
Tax Returns of Coweta County.—We ara
indebted to the kindnes lof Mr Jno A. Beaver.*, lax
Collector of this county, lor tbe following:
Num her of Polls
*< <* professions 51
n “ Free persons of color 6
*< “ Children between 8 and 18
years of age 1,5110
“ Acres of Land 337 557
“ “ Slaves 6 652
Aggregate value of Land $2,358 8911
“ “ “ City or town prop’ty. 364315
“ “ “ 51ave5........ ...4,206,351*
Amount of money and solvent debt* of all
kinds 1,439,405
Merchandise 165,728
Capital invested in stocks of all kinds,
manufactures, &.0 21,605
Value of household and kitchen furniture
over S3OO 22,82i
Aggregate value of all other property not
before enumerated, except
plantation and uiechanioal
tools, provisions, &o 597,80 k
Aggregate value of whole property $9,249,117
“ “ after deducting S2OO from
eaoh return 8,913 24t>
“ value last year 8,022,33 k
Increase $920,91$
Ntmnan (Ga.) Independent Blade, August 13iA,