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1030.
I lOH ‘rf* l y* 9rt *n'i#?r thin present organization,
/ thi*h >*-* UK Inutitutiou ba enjoyed tb increas
ing rout .if: nnd support of au public. Its
pat roan aru of that clafrf whose opinions on (‘duration
•itigUt to couiuiand the highest respect. This Institution
mii LIAIKAL DKPARTMENTSI
I A COLLKOK DBPAK'I MENT, which embraces
a four yi-an course of study, including all the branches
it .< i.'iico n< • iry to make Youu£ Ladies thorough
and accomplished ft’ holar*.
li AN AOADKIiKJ DEPARTMENT, in which pu
pilh are properly prepared for College, and a good basis
laid for thorough scholarship.
11l A MI Sl: DKPAR’J MKST, with tried teacherH,
n.iupet.'iittu j ive inntructton on the Piano Forte, Gui
tar, Harp, Harmonium, Violin, Flute, Ac. Advanced
pupil-4 an* laui'bt to • impose Music, if desired. Prof
IIMHFiR i.i an admirable composer
IV AN OUNAMtiNTAie DEPARTMENT, In which
pup,!, mi e taught Painting in Olland Water Color*, Gre
naii Falnliug Oriental Fainting, Penciling, Monoehro
u.at i< I ‘rawing, W** Fru land Flowers, Crape Work, j
Embroidery. Paper Flowers, Rosin Fruit, Ac
V A DOMESTIC DKPARTMKNT, in which pupila
air taught the elemental y and Practical Principles ol Do
• “ Affairß ‘I wo hours on every Tuesday, Tburw- !
I*, and : Mur.lay will lie devoted to this Department
I'jj, time thus employed will uot iu the least interfere
with the Literary Department.
ThU is the only College in Georgia giving attention to
this most essential part ot Female Education.
The Board ot Im-truc■■ ion are thorough scholars aud
experienced teachers, three of whom graduat and with
honor at Mercer University.
A BENEVOLENT institution
this is, where the daughters of Ministers of the Gospel of
m.-derate means, are educated WITHOUT CHARGE
FOR TUITION , moreover, worthy indigent orphans
and daughters of needy Ministers will he hoaided from
to ;.<) per cent less than the usual rates.
Pupils are here taugLt Kcouomy. Extravagance is
not allowed. Jewelry is not w rn, A pupil’s dressing
or a year, need uot cost more than from Jj.'JU to SSO.
BOA HI) OF TItUNTKKH.
Rev ADIKL SHERWOOD, I) D , Griffin, Prea'L
Rev. SVLVANUB LANDRUM, Macon.
Rev. F.LIJAU J. PANNAL, Louisville.
Ilev. WM. C- WILKES. Forsyth
ilon. CINCINNATI’S PKEPLKB, Forsyth.
Hon. JOHN T. CROWDER, Monroe county.
Cot. .IAS N FINCKARD. Forsyth.
EDEN TAYLOR, Esq., Coleparcheo.
DU LA IN F. PONDER. Esq., Forsyth.
JOSEPH J. CARSON, Esq., Macon county.
DANIEL SANFORD, Esq., Forsyth,Secretary.
Col. JOHN T. STEPHENS, Forsyth.
GEO A. CAHANISB, Esq.,Treasurer.
FACI LTV.
Rev WM C. WILKES, AM., President.
Piof II T. AS BURY, A. M.
Mr GEO T WILBURN, A M.
Prol WM. FISIIER, A M.
Mrs MARY A WILKES.
Mrs. KATE ASItI'KY.
Mrs. MARY A. LAND
Mil- JULIA A STANFORD.
MiaaßOXiK A. CHAPPELL.
Miss CARRIE E. LAND.
Tuition from slb to SSO per year ; Music, SSO; Board
S 10 per mouth, exclusive of lights and washiug.
The Spring Term will begin on the 17th JANUARY.
For further information, address any member of the
Faculty, or Trustees.
WILLIAM O. WILKES, Prea’t.
RICHARDT. ABBURY, Sec y.
Forsyth, Oa., Jau Ist, 1859. |ans
IMIS’S HI HOI sk,
.NO vll GREENE STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
Established in 1852
Come all you kind people of the old .State,
And listen a moment to what I relate ;
Have you heard of DODGE’S DYE HOUSE, the
place of renown,
Where the Ladies all say he eau dye hair brown 1
It is at this place where they are always dye mg but
arc uot yet dead,
From the lightest pink to the chetry red ;
And also front the lightest hue,
To tht dark, deep Prussian Blue;
Tdo Purple and the Lilac too.
Is nought within inn hand to do;
Aud all the colors you would wiih to find—
The Grange, on made famous by Jenny Lind ;
Gtuts, bring in your Coats and Pauts, he will Dye them
Black as *ut.
Aud clean ;e them deni a i Llnun, aud warrant them net
to smut
WRITING INK s manufactured at thin Establ sh
vneu?. ami Ink h r marking Bales or Hags, sold at
Wholesale and Retail.
j. 1., t> iy G. R. DODGE, Proprietor.
live mini: isiuiw the
IIIKIIA MIS’ BANK.
IN my utook of Ono<lß, b Might of (ho Executor of the
Ute Mr H. F. Chew, there are a great mauy articles
which are nit of the line f business which 1 carry on,
juwi which Ido not inteud to keep m future. Auiougthe
KiUeltM are the following :
LARGE RAILROAD. DEEP WELL AND FOROE
PUMPS PORN Ml 1.1.'. STRAW CUT THRU,*
M A MIRK FORKS, lAIUKNTBBS’ TOOLS,
CROSSLT r. SAWS HEADS, P S.
IIKIPK ami PI ANTKKINU TROW
ELS, DRAWING KNIVKS,
PILES, RAM’S, Ai
To all persons w t hing to buy Yiy of the above men*
tinned articles. I will *ell them cheaper than ANY
OTIIEK HOUSE in Augusta, and for less than was
paid for them in N. w-York.
I have now in store a very due aud full stockOl
Housekeeping Hard*are. Tin Ware . Cook, Parlor aud
Rot Stoves; Cistern aud Hydrant Pumps, with Block
Tin. Lead and Galvanize i Iron Pipes aud a general as
ortment of every article in the House Furnishing liue,
nnd shall Ih rsgularly receiving additions to it.
My triends ami the'public are respectfully invited to
nn* a all, and satisfy themselves that lam selling
hem at very moderate profits.
übitwi Awtf E J BUCKMASTKR.
Bitoesi ciiint
1 1 ’ IIK underMgu- and to euro Drops; of every
1 Uescripliou. He can he seen personally live miles
outh of Union Point,or addressed by letter to I'uioo
P. mt, Greeno iv.nnfy.Ga The medicine can lie sent
any when* by rai road, with directions for giving it; or 1
will attend personally, if requested, aud paid for my
rouble 1 will buy negroes afllirteii with Dropsy, oi
are them, as the owner may prefer. Kern t me Tet
Dollars aud 1 will send medicine enough forona month.
MILES G. BROOME.
*\ b. sto certify that my father had a negro tuan at
dieted with Dropsy iu ISS3; he had been treated by
several physicians w ithout any care, when he applied
to M il Hroouie for his remedy, which cured him. He
is still liviug aud in good health.
H. Champion,
Greeuesboro’, Ga, Jan,Cist, ktf&
This ii to eerttfy that I had > negro woman badly at
flu ted with Di . y t.v a considerable time. She i*
attended by se\ e: *1 phyi-ii'iaus ; they failed to make .
. lire 1 hear tof G J Broouie, and put ber under hta
treatment. aud a ler than a year she was “orouiiMy
cured oftheiny. Ja M> Da>an T.
tVulleld, Ga. lubb wtf
CHEROKEE LAND!
Great Bargain!!
ri'UR subscriber off* rs bis PLAN i'ATION for sale
1 lying iu W’-itheld couuty. Geo , containing 1,34 c
acrw of rich valley Land Lies within live or *ix Julies
ofDalt o. There are JSO acres in cultivation aud OO
acres cleared. The Land is fresh, aud not to be sur
passed an vw Lore. Plenty of excellent water—bpring
branch running through it, good Well. The Western
a Atlantic Railroad passes through it, aud a better tim
bered or irur health v location cannot easily be found
The building* axe new aud substantial. Dwelling
1 loum’ Bnck. i kew .se the Dairy ; B-m. Thresher, aud
all other necessary outbuildings, as Negro Houses, Ac.
This iv perhaps ;he cheapest place in Upper Georgia.
Price *.<0.000 A L. SUTHERLAND,
my3l wtf Dalton. Geo.
500 1)1111 ME WARD!
130 R the apprehension M. my Boy WASHINGTON.
wh ranaway about the rth ot March last. Said
Boy is about 40 years of age. and a mulatto ; is quite
gray headed; the small tingerand the one next to it,
has been cut off—-thought to he of the lett hand; is a
rtK>emaker by trade, end is very slow of speech when
spoken to it is thought that he has a fre** pass, and is
trying to make his way to the tree States. The above
reward will be given for the apprehension, w ith proof to
convict any white person of having furnished him with
free papers, or a reasonable compensation will be paid for
his delivery to the subscriber, or lodged in any jail go
that I get him ISAAC RAMSEY.
Columbia Couuty. Ga.. April 12,1561. apl6
ti VKRYBOD Y who likes good Horses, good Cattle
A or good Sheep, should take the AMERICAN
STOCK JOURNAL, pubushed monthly at M 0 Fulton
Street New York, at *1 per year. Specimen opie*
gratis—seed and get one. febb wti
Ml, BUNDS, DOORS, &C.
f|f II E undersigned keepa constantly on bind, mad ii
I ore., ared to make to order at short notice, SASH,
HI IN DP And DOORS, of All the regular a .zes , also,
uofTDINUS of more than fifty aiflereni patterns on
nd made to order at abort notice. Order* aohei
t*d HERBERT STALLINGS, A,eat.
No Id comer D Anugnac aud Carrie ta.
Augusta, Ga, Maxcbs, 16!*. mb-wly
Ik j/’ \y S^lltiltl.
£ Sentinel.
Additional by the Hungarian.
Farther Poist, Aug. 20 —The eteamFbip Hun
garian p&fieed this point at 7:IV) tbii* morning, with
Liverpool advicee to the 10th inet. She waa board
ed by the news Yacht of the New York Associated
Praad, and her newe brought asuore. S e left
Liverpool on the morning of the 10th The advices
brought by the Hungarian are not of any marked
importance, either politically or commercially.
The Zorich Conference met on the Bth, accord
ing to the announcement
The American frigate Cumber'and waa at Madei
ra August Ist.
Tne steamship Bremen left Southampton for New
York on the IRh.
The Conference ww fully constituted as follows :
Austria, Count Colloredo, and Baron Merpenberg:
France, Baron Bourgueuey and Marquis Bourne
ville .Sardinia, Chevalier DeSamboia and Cheva
lier Jocooan.
The Government of Zurich had welcomed the
ambassadors, and were to give them a public a inner
oa the 11th.
The tirst formal sitting of the Cocgreea took place
on the Sth, at which the .Sardinian representatives
agisted The second sitting was held on the 9th,
but nothing tranepired as to the proceeding*.
Great Britain— On the Bth. the affairs of Italy
were debated in both houses of Parliament
In the House of Lords the Marquis of Norman
dy inquired if there was any ot jection to produce
the papers relative to the projects of peace, trans
mitted lo Austria before the treaty of Villafraoca.
lie denounced the conduct of the Government as
one s'ded and evincing no desire to maintain neu
trality
WodeLouae, in reply, reiferated| the state
ment that England eent terms of peace to Austria
at the request of France, but without giving any
advice or expressing an opinion on the subject.
He said it would be most inconvenient to produce
the documents in the present state ol the uegotia
tio us.
L .rl Granville acknowledged the act of Lord
John Russell as the united act of the Cabinet.
In the House of Commons, Lord Etcho moved
au address to the declaring that it would be
inconsistent with tne honor and dignity of England,
after Laving preserved a strict neutrality, to take
part in ai.y conference for settling the details of
peer-;, preliminaries of which have already been
arranged between the Emperors of France and
Austiin. Lord Elcho praised the neutral course of
the late Government, aud censured the anti Aus
trian feeling evinced by the present Cabinet.
Mr. Kinglare moved the previous question,
feeling it would be unwise to bind the Government
to any hue of policy, regard.ess of changes whica
might take p ace at any hour.
Mr. Gladstone said the electors’ motion was not
relevant to the present position of affairs. The
Government had no intention of taking part in set
fling the details of peace on the basis ot the Vil'a
tianca treaty. The belligerents themselves would
settle those details, and what would remain to be
settled would be the great question of European
policy, in which he thought England should pian
her traditional part, lie defeuded the Govern
ment, and called ior a decioive vote against the re
solution.
Mr. 8. Fitzgerald said the object of the resolution
was to restrain the Government from dairying out
its personal sympathies, which were inconsistent
with the treaty obligations of the country. Parlia
ment ougut not to sanction tiie Government joining
in the Congress, without being informed of what
the great powers had agreed upon iu regard to the
subject.
Mr. Sidney Herbert argued that the neutrality ex
pired with ihe war, aud that he saw no reason
why England could not consistently join in the
Congress. Mr. J foreman and Mr. Whiteside spoke
in tavor ot the resolution, and denounced the for
eign policy of the Government. Lord John Russell
again proclaimed lha the Government bad not the
slightest intention to go into a European Congress
to settle the peace of Vil'.airanca. Nobody ever
invited them to do so. He admitted that there
were difficulties in the way of the Government en
tering the ('ongregs. and matters were iu that state
that no detenuiuatiou had been come to. lie ap
pealed to the House to leave the question in the
hands of the Ministers, who w*uld decide when the
whole facts of the case were before them
Mr. D’Jsraeli warned the government of dangers
to be incurred by eutering the Congress, but stated
his objection to the House coming to a decision alter
a hasty deliberation, and hoped Lord Elcho would
uot press his motion to a division.
After some remarks from Lord Palmerston iu
defence ot his course, and in denunciation of the
resolution. Lord Echo said he was satisfied with the
admissions made by the government, and tire result
of the debate, and would not press his motion.
Iu the House of Lord*, on the iffh, the subject of
the national defences were relerred to. Lords
Kingsdoun couteuued that the army and the navy
would never be on a satisfactory footing till the
government had the power of compulsory service.
The earl of Kipon thought it would be most
injudicious to resort to compulsory powers, and
pledged every effort of the government to make
defences secure.
111 the House of Commons, the East India loan
bill was dually passed.
The completion of the steamship Great Eastern
waa formally c-lebrated on the Bth, by a banquet,
given on board, which was attended by many
members of both Houses of Parliament, and a
number of most dietinguishedeugiueeis and scientific
men. The engines, both screw and paddle, were
set in motion tor the first time, aud the leeult * as
satisfactory iu the very highest degree, and. far
beyond expectation.
Lord Stanley proposed the toast of success to the
Great Eastern, and painted in glowing colors the
marvels her success will accomplish. Mr. Brunell,
the engineer, and Mr. Soott Russell, the builder,
w ere also toasted, but the former was absent from
ill health.
The ship presented a beautiful and finished as
pect, being almost ready for sea.
The city oitiole ot the London Times Bays, in
regard to the stipulation of the treaty alleged to
have been arranged between Minister McLane aud
Juarez at Vera Cruz, that Mexico will, from the
moment the treaty is ratified, virtually pass from
under American sway. L then adds, that the re
sult will be advantageous to Mexico and the world,
but thinks the extent to which private rights will
be respected or jeopardized are anxious ques
tions. The American Government is urgeu at
every step to protect the interests of ioreigu bond
holders.
The Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, travel
ing under the private title f Admiral Romanoff,
had arrived at Bpithead, iu the frigate Bwetland,
and took up his residence at Ryde, Isle of Wight.
The strike among the building trade had assumed
formidable dimensions. Estimates of the men un
employed range from 20,000 to 40,000. The master
builders had sought the intervention of the Govern
ment, but. the Home Secretary said he did not see
how he could interfere.
Latest. —London Money Market. —ln the
Loudon money market the demand for money had
sensibly abated, but was again active at the close.
The funds had been firm, and Consols closed at a
slight advance. Railway aud other securities had
participated in the upward tendency.
Messrs. Demetrio & Sous, Greek merchants,
mostly in the graiu trade, had suspended, with con
siderable liabilities.
An impression prevailed that the lfauk of Eng
land would advance its rates of discount on the 11th
inst.
Latest by Telegraph.
London, Wednesday, Kith.—Admiral Sir Michael
Seymour, liberal, was yesterday elected a member
ol l’arliament for Davenport.
The Daily City News article, dated Tuesday
evening, says : The funds to day were slightly
prejudiced by uews of a partial re action on the
Baiis Bourse, combined with dullness of business.
Consols finally closed about 1-C per cent, lower than
on Monday before operating with confidence
Speculators apparently wish to see the result of the
pending conferences ou the Italian question. Iu
mod ol the other departments of the Stock Exchange
prices were quoted rather lower.
Theie was a renewed demaud for money to day,
at the idea being entertained, in some quarters, that
au advance iu tiie miuimmu rate of discount to
three percent, will be made by the Bank on Thurs
day. There were no bullion operations at the Bank
today. Continental Exchanges, this afternoon,
experience a fresh improvement.
K. L Cole, East India merchant, Loudon, sus
pended to-day. but it is thought that his liabilities
are not over if 10,000.
The Daily News gives the provisions of Mr. Sid
ney Herbert s new bill, providing for a military
reserve force. It authorizes the enrollment and
maintenance of a reserve force of ‘JO.tMMI men con
sisting of soldiers who have previously served.—
This force is to be catted out twelve days each
year, aud permanently, iu case of invasion.
The Paris correspondent of the Loudon Post
telegraphs the result of tiie Tuscan elections. They
took place with gteat order, and give a majority to
the men of moderate liberalism, but quite opposed
to the restoration of the old dynasty.
The advices from Odessa report great activity
and improved prices in the grain-trade.
The Times’ city article of Tuesday evening save:
The English funds experienced fiuctuations to-day
to the extent of a half per cent., but were chtetiy
consequent upou the momentary supply or scarcity
of sticks, and uot upoa the foreign news or uew
features in the money market. There was renewed
activity in the uetuand for diecouut to day, aud the
general rate was fatty equal to the Bank's mini
mum
The Times aud several other journals this morn
ing publish au article on Italian afiairs. under the
title cf the European coup d’etat, from the pen of
Mazzini.
l’r.Dce Albert v isited the Graud Duke Constan
tine it Hyde yeeterday
The Government had decided on disbanding the
medical corps which was raised duriDg the Crimean
war, aud constituting au entirely new branch of
service, to be called the Army Hospital Corps.
France.—The Emperor Napoleon went on the
7th toCbalocs, to remain there several days.
I: “as asserted that Prince Bickard Metteruich
would remain at Paris as Austrian Minister.
The Pans correspondent of the London Star gives
a report that the Emperor had declared lor free
trade, but it lacks confirmation.
The Moniteur publishes a long official report by
Vice Admiral ltomaiu Des Fosses, regarding the
operations in the Adriatic. He shows that the fleet,
coneis ing of forty five vessels of ali classes,
anchored before Venice, in sight of the domes of
St. Mark, and were prepared to open fire when
peace was proclaimed.
The Moniteur also publishes a document clearing
Gen I’anrobert from any reflection which Gen
Kiel's report of the battle of Soiferino bad cast upon
him.
Tne advices from the cotton manufacturing dis
tricts are favorable. Goo it were in more active
demand, and pricee bad an advancing tendency.
The Faria dour market bad been dull, but closed
drmer. Wheat was quiet. The arc-cunts of the
approaching vintage were quite conflicting. Bran
dies were tinner
The number oftroope from Italy to march through
Parte on the 14th ie 70,000. The procession will
last seven hours.
The Times Paris correspondent says that the re
port was still current that measure* would shortly
be officially announced confirmatory of the hopes
entertained of the maintenance of peace, and calcu
lated at the same time to give a great impetus to
commercial afiairs.
One of them is said to be the reduction of the pre
sent excessive duties on articles of necessity, ahe
completion ®f the railroads are to be accelerated,
and industrial works in general are to be eneour-
tight is to be executed by 40,000 men at
the camp of Chalons under the Emperor s orders,
Illustrative of the episodes of Sotferino. The Lm
peror teturns to the camp in beptember to take
command of the maru uvres. .
It was reported that Gen. Fleury was to be rented
to a Gsnerai of Division.
The Paris Constitutional ascribes the proposed
fortification of Antwerp to the influence of England,
who, foreseeing war with Prance, wishes to pro
vide hereel; with an entrenched camp in Belgium.
The Paris Bourse had been very buoyant, and
rentes at one time were at 7l)f. 55c , but on the 9th
the market drooped and closed at 691'. 90c. There
was a better feeling at the cioee.
iTitv.— Early on Monday morning, the 7th, the
king of Sardinia entered Milan, accompanied by
his ministers, members of Parliament, and the
municipal bodies of Turin and Genoa. His majes
ty passed through Coreo on horseback, amidst
enthusiastic acclamations. ATe Deum was per
formed. at which the king was present He after
wards received Ike authorities of the city. In the
evening a genera! Uluminatieo took place. The
aspect of Milan daring the felt was very imposing
The Sardinian Government has recalled the
Sardinian Commissioners at Parma ard Piacenza
The elections for the National Assembly of Tus
cany passed of harmoniously. All the ministers
who were elected are friends of independent Tus
cany.
The Opinione, of Turin, says that fifty thousand
French troops will remain in Italy provisionally,
owing to the dangerous state of some provinces.
The Bardin ian Commissioner at Parma, in notify
ing the municipality of his departure, said he left
his Secretary charged with the sovereign powers of
the Government, in the name of the people. This
produced a very bad effect.
Germany —The relations between Austria and
Prussia almost assume the dimensions of a regular
rupture, and were regarded as dangerous to the
i-mailer German states, which were already looking
towards France for protection.
The King of Bavaria apologized for the passage
of troops through li fi territory.
Prussia —The news ot the dissolution of the
French Army of Observation on the Rhine had
produced a very tavorable effect.
Berlin and Prussia would a’ once countermand
the concentrating troops ou the Rhine.
Prussia is about to send two vessels of war to
Japan to open commercial communications
The Emperor of Russia wifi viut lierl n in
September.
Russia —The construction of a railway of the
loDgth of seven hundred versts, between Moecow
and Baratow, has been authorized. The capital of
the company will be forty-five millions roubles
with a government guarantee for eighty years, at
four and a half per cent.
Turkey. —The Bultan arrived at Saiowitz on the
29th July.
India and China.— Calcutta mail, July 2d, and
Hong Kong, June 28th, reached Trieste, ana will
arrive in London on the 11th inst.
A considerable reduction of native troops has
been ordered in India
The imports at Calcutta were dull, and exports
fiat. Freights were tirmar. Exchange Is. lljjiz
2s.
Ihe representatives of England, France and
American Govemmeuts go from Shanghai to Pe
kin.
Exchange at Hong Kong 4s. lid a-Is. Hid. —
Freights flat.
At Canton exports were quiet, but more in de
mand for imports at Shanghai. Tea quiet. Silk in
moderate demand. Exchange4s. 2£d a la. 3sd. At
Foo Chow Foo there were large tea settlements at
extreme rates.
Africa —African dates are from Coast Castle to
July 14th, and trom Sierra Leone to duly 15th.—
Cotton was being collected in the eastern districts
of the gold coast, and a considerable quantity was
expected to be shipped to England. The natives
wre being taught its value, and the exports were
expected to increase. Palm oil had largely ad
vai ced at Accra.
Execution of Col* Ilnyne.
Among the distinguished men who fell victims
during the war of the American Revolution, waa
Col Isaac Hayne, of South Carolina ; a man who,
by his amiability of character aud high sentiments
of honor and uprightness, had secured the good will
HLd affection of all who knew him. He had a wife
and six small children, the oldest a boy of thirteen
years of ege. His wife, to whom he was tenderly
attached, fell a victim lo disease ; an event hasten
ed not improbably by the inconveniences and suf
ferings incident to u state of w'ar, in which the
whole family largely participated. Col. liavne
trmself was taken prisoner by the British forces,
and in a short time waa executed on the gallows,
under circumstances calculated to excite the deepest
com mist* eration. A great number of persons, both
English and American, interceded for bis life. The
ladies of Chaih ston signed a petition in his behalf;
bis motherless children were presented on their
bended knees as humble suitors tor their beloved
lather; but all in vain.
During the imprisonment of the father, the eldest
sou was permitted to stay with him in prison. Be
holding his only surviving parent, for whom he felt
the deepest afiectiou, loaded with irons and con
demned to die, he was overwhelmed with conster
nation and sorrow. The wretched father endeavor
ed to coneo e him, by reminding him that the una
vailing grief of ihe son tended only to increase his
own misery; that we came to this world merely to
die, and he could even rejoice that his troubles were
so near an end. ‘ To-morrow,” said he, “I set out
for immortality. You will accompany me to the
place of execu’ion ; and when I am dead, take my
body and bury it by the aide of your mother.” The
youth here fell on his father’s neck, crying, “Ob,
my father! my father! I will die for you! I will
die with you !’’ Colonel Hayne, as he was loaded
with irons, was unable to return the embrace of his
eon, and merely said to him in reply—“ Live, my
son ; live to honor God by a good life ; live to serve
your country ; and live to take care of your brother
aud little sisters.” The next morning Col. Hayne
was conducted to the place of execution. Jlis son
accompanied him. Soon as they came in eight of
the gallows, the father strengthened himself and
said: “Now, my son, show yourself a man ! That
tree is the boundary of my life. *and all my life’s Bor
rows. Beyond that, the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at lest. Don’t lay too much at
heart our separation ; it will be but short To-day I
die; and you, my son, though but young, must shortly
follow me.” “Yes, my lather,” replied the broken
hearted youth, “I shall shortly follow you, for, in
deed, I feel that I cannot live long.” And his
melancholy anticipation was fulfilled in a manner
more dreadful than is implied in the mere extinction
of file. On seeing his lather in the iMnds of the
executioner, and then struggling in the halter, he
stood like one trausfixed and motionless with hor
ror. Till then he had wept incessantly ; but soon
as he saw that eight, the fountains of his tears were
staunched, aud he never wept more. Ha died in
saue ; and in his last moments often called upon bis
father, in terms that brough tears from the hardest
hearts.— Philadelphia Press.
From the Columbus Tunes.
A Relic of the Revolution—Col. TnrletonV* Let
ter —TerniM of Capitulation.
We have before us a letter, dated May 29th,
1780, in the hand tenting of Col Taileton of the
British Legion, an officer, at the meutiou of whose
name the whig? of Carolina trembled. It was hand
ed to us by Mr. Robert C. Forsyth, of Columbus, a
grar.d-son of Col. Meigs of the Revolution, ana a
sou of the late John Forsyth, Secretary of State
under Gen. Jackson. It contains the terms of
capitulation offered by Tarleton to Col Buford, we
presume , just before tho defeat of the latter near
the Waxhaw settlements, iu S uth Carolina. Col.
Buford had been sent with four hundred troops of
the Continental Army Irom Virginia, to assist the
whigs in their defence of Charleston. Reaching
Camden, he ascertaiue 1 that Charleston had fallen,
and beat a retreat. Tarleton was dispatched by
Eai 1 Cornwallis to meet Buford with seven hundred
men. Coming up with him, Col. Tarlelou address
ed Col. Buford the following letter, which, not be
ing responded to, the former gave batt e to the
latter, touting his whole force showing his men no
quarters, cuttiug down the American Hag with his
(Tarleton’B) own sword, and playing sad havoc
with the American soldier?. This letter is written
on a piece of foolsc ip twelve inch9B by eight, aud
in a long, bold hand. It reads thus :
May 29th, 1780.
Sir:—Resistance being in vain, to prevent the
Effusion of Blood, I make offers which never can
be repeated.
You are now almost encompassed by a Corps
consisting ot Artillery and Seven hundred Light
Troops ou horse back ; half of which number are
Cavalry, and Earl Cornwallis is within a short
march with some Battalions of British.
I warn you of the Temerity of further inimical
Proceedings, especially, when I hold out Ihe fol
lowing conditions, which are nearly the same adop
ted by Charles Town.
But if any Person of any Denomination attempts
to leave your Army after this Flag is waived, rest
assured, that be the fugitives of any Rank or Dig
nity, they shall experience hostile treatment.
Ist Art. All officers to be Prisoners of War, but
admitted to Parole aud allowed to return to their
habitations ‘till exchanged.
Ad Art. All Continental Soldiers to go to Lam
prier’s Point or any neighboring Post and Re
main there Prisoners of War ’till exchanged—To
be allowed Provisions as good as British Soldiers.
lid. All Militia Soldiers to be permitted to Return
to their Habitations upon Parols.
4th. All arms, Artillery, Ammunition, Stores,
Provisions, Waggons, Horses, &c., to be faithtuliy
delivered.
sth. All Oflicers to be allowed their Private Bag
gage and Horse, and to have their side arms Re
turned.
1 expect an answer to these propositions in half
an hour ; if they are Excepted, you will order every
Person under your command to Pile his Anns iu
one hour; if you do not receive these Terms, the
Blood be upon Your head.
I have the Honor
to be
Sir, With Proper Respect,
Your obt Servt,
BAN. TARLETON,
L Col l Comd't Brit. Leg'n.
This remarkable document has never, perhaps,
been published before.
A Sham Battle on the Plains of Abraham
Yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, the whole
strength of the garrison began to muster on the
plaius of Abraham. The 39th regiment, under
Lieut. Col. Munro, C. 8., andeommandan; of the
garrison, was accompanied by the Royal Canadian
R ties. There was also a lull quota of the Royal
Artillery now in garrison, about a battery and a
half, we believe, under Lieut. Col. Paynter, with
ten guns on the field. Col. iladden, R. E , was also
present. The tents were pitched on the spacious
grounds overlooking the river, aud presented a
most picturesque appearance. Among the tents
were conspicuous a marquee for the ladies, and an
other tor the officers and their friends, which latter
contained a copious supply of provisions. Prepa
rations were instantly made for commencing the
grand field day which had so long been looked for
ward to, and the mimic or sham fight in which the
training aud experience of the soldiers were to be
tried and demonstrated. The weather was most
propitious, though rather warm for violent exer
cise. and the sun was very powerful.
The groups and crows of spectators were very
numerous, and all seemed to take intense interest
in the proceedings. The grand object of mimic
warfare was directed against the old French forti
fications in the cove fields near the ground for tar
get practice. The military tactice and mana-uver
icg displayed in the progressive accomplishment
ot this daring feat in face of the guns of the citadel,
were conducted with great spirit both by the offi
cers aud men. The ariillery worked as if they
were in real earnest, and the skirmishers appeared
to their visionary opponents with destructive zeal.
The resistance made at the Marteilo Tower, (No.
fi.) and the spirited style in which it was at length
captured, quite electrified the spectators. The
skirmishers and artillery were then brought tor
ward ; and the intervening ground being eventual
ly cleared, the batteries were reached, and the ob
ject being attained, the troops were led back to the
encampment in goodly array, preceded by their
band.— Quebec Gazette.
“Haven’t Got any of Your Size. —Anyone
who has lived in Cincinnati (writes Brads) for ten
or fifteen years, will remember E., the tailor, one
of the oldest and best of his craft, as well as one of
the jolliest, always as ready to take a joke as to give
one. It used to be considered the “fair thing’’
among a “select party” to send persons to his store
for articles entirely at variance with what neuaily
constitutes the stock in trade of members of his
profession. It so he opened one day, as one of the
“parly above mentioned was descending the steps
of the Burnett House, he encountered a specimen
of Kentucky, who enquired of him where he could
purchase a iewsoarp. Os course he was directed
to E.s store, as the establishment where they kept
the largest assortment at the most reasonable pricee.
Our friend proceeded at once to the place indicated,
and found E , (who, by-the-way. was troubled with
an impediment of speech.) waiting on & customer,
and. after stating his wants, was politely requested
to “w-wait a few motno merits.” After dispatch
ing his business with the aforesaid customer, he
gravely approached Kentucky with a par of C-orr 1 -
stretcher* and observed in a very mild tone,
W-we-shai! h have to t t-take your mum-mum
measure ; ‘ whereupon he inserted the stretcher into
bis mouth, spreading open his countenance to full
extent of the “stretch, and with a face indicating
the utmost seriousness, remarked to the astonished
Kentuckian “1’ young man, re re haven’t zer-"er
got any of y-y orr *-* ttze. ‘—Boston Gazette.
Crinoline at Church.— A visitor was condol
ing with the old woman wto opens the pews for the
congregation of an English chnrch, on the great
amount of work she tad to do. “Yes,” she replied,
“we need to have only to open the doors, bnt now
we have to posh in the dreeeee ”
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1*59.
From the Savannah Rcpulicau
Col. Wrifbt in the Eighth O'Kiricf—The People
Rising to tai Mipport.
Messrs Editors : —lt will be gratifying to your
readers all ever the State, a? well as iu the * old
Eighth.”to hear of the bri”iaot succes?es, and cheer
ing proapecta of Col. A R. Wright, in his canvass
ing tour through the district It has been my
privilege to hear him, during the las: week, at
several appoint meets . and at each he was greeted
by large and enthusiastic audiences. In Glasscock,
the stronghold of Democracy, the impregnable and
unterrified “Dooly district,” of old Warren, the
-igLs indicate that he will get a large vote; at
Crawfordville—the home of Mr. Stephens—he was
met by a crowded audience, in the Court House,
and bis friends are sanguine thar he will carry the
county. At Woodstock, Col. YY’right was quite
sick, but was able 10 conclude his speech, which
waa well received. His abiest aud most successful
effort was at Lexington, which, from being the
field of encounter between Stephens, Hdl, Cobb,
Toombs and other great political speakers, might
weli be called the battle-ground of Ihe giant?
Everything conspired to inspirit the speaker. The
disaffection everywhere apparent among the sup
porters ol Mr. Bucl.anan—the universal admission
that he ha? failed to meet the expectations of his
lriends, and to fulfil the promise of his chamnions
in 1850—the barrenness of party issues, ana the
raemoiyof the triumphs of Mr. Stephens, who had
dared to rise above party—were all calculated to
give strength to the independent position of Col.
Wright, and to commend him to the favorable re
gard of the people. Hence the cordial greetings
that served to fill him with hopeful confidence, so in
spiring to the public speaker.
llie review of the Cincinnati Platform, its double
meaning slavery doctrines, and dangerous internal
improvement policy, waa successful and ovewhdlm
ing. Its hypocritical premises cf economy in the
administration of the Government, were illustrated
in the unparalleled extravagance of the piesent ad
ministration. Martin Van Buren had been hurled
from power for spending $30,000 000, and Mr. Polk
had carried on a foreign war with less thau SOO,-
000,000, whi.e Mr. Buchanan, in a period of pro
found peace, had spent sß3,ooo,ooo—and yet there
was a party in the country that had elevated him to
power, and presumed to perpetuate his corrupt dy
nasty by elevating bis partizans, who still endorse
the Cincinnati Plats. rm, in whose name these
outrages had been perpetrated. He reviewed the
Postal service, and showed how Email weekly mail
routes, which did not involve fat contracts to in
fluential favorites had been cut off, while on the
great lines of travel double daily service was con
tinued, and the overland mail from Si. Lotus to
California, had been established, at an estimated
average expense of $79 a ieiter. And we we e
told that these minor mails, of euch importance to
whole districts, have been cut eff because Congress
refused to pass the appropriation bi l. It is no
wonder that Congress l eiused to grant more money
to the reckless spendthrifts, who had squandered
$83,00U,000, and bankrupted the Treasury ; but it
is a little strange that they should have money to
keep their friends in fat jobs, while the poor one
horse mails are cut off'; and especially notable that
in the depleted state of the Treasury they should
find $700,0(10 to appropriate to free matter lor
Congressmen and Government officer
Mr. YY’right was very clear in his discussion of
the elavery question, aud dwelt at length upon the
position ot parties in 1856, whenthe American party
had denounced the duplicity of the Cincinnati plat
form, and the squatter sovereignty leature of the
Kansas-Nebraeka bill. Since that time the Dred
Scott decision had settled the principle on the
ground assumed by the American Party. Doug
las had been driven to the wall—but hed taken
refuge under the shuffling subterfuge of “unfriendly
legislation” which was but another device to keep
in Javor with the abolitionists, while he pretended
also to stand on the Southern doctrine of non-inter
veutioa. Mr. Wright did uot ask a slave code for
the territories, as has been charged upon him—but
he desired that the South should demand protection
agaiust a free code in the territories ; and claimed
that it waa the duty of Congress to all'jrcl protection
against unfriendly legislation, if it took the army
and navy to secure it. Any other position was one
of inequality, and placed us at the mercy of emi
grant aid societies and territorial squatters, who
could pass laws which would render slaves value
lets, and thus inflict upou us a degradation worse
than the Wilmot Proviso.
Mr. Wright reviewed many of the leoding mea
sures of Mr. Buchanan’? administration—his Cuban
policy—the appropriation to support and school the
Echo Africans, and every position wae sustained by
unanswerable face, and over powering argument.
Col. Wright indulges in no levity or bitter invec
tive, and his opponents are much annoyed at his
fairness and moderation. He does not abuse them
enough to get them from reasoning calmly for
themselves. The result is a growing conviction that
he is right. And in his able and manly speeches
he is displaying a degree of ability, a cower of
eloqueuce, and an integrity of purpose which mark
bleu as the man to succeed Mr. Stephens. Next
week be meets Mr. Jones, and will dlscues with
him through the canvass. It is given up, when
ever he has been, that Col. Wright will be elected.
Ilis opponents signify their alarm by calling every
where for help; uuder the guise of a “ Dinner” toey
called for Mr. Stephens at Augusta, and again at
Warrenton. In Jefferson they also called for him,
and he would uot go. In Screven they have called
for Toombs, aud in Oglethorpe they give him a
barbecue on Friday next, 2G:h. Col. Wright has
appointments on the 25tb and 27th at Elberton and
Lincoln ton ; but if nobody else goes to meet Mr.
Toombs, Wright will be there! Free discussion
has been offered, aud Ben Hill is expected.
At too much length I have given you au outline
ol’ the openiug canvass in the old eighth. I assure
you that our prospects are good, and if the boys do
not allow themselves to be outdoue by the small arts
of the enemy, we shall defeat Jones, the squatter
sovereignty, Douglas candidate, by a handsome
majority. B.
From the LaUrange Reporter.
Col. Akin at Atlanta.
We were present and heard the able, logical and
conscientious speech of Col. Akin on Tuesday night
last. The Athei arom was filled to a jam—all eager
to hear the speech of Col. Akin. At precisely eight
o’clock he was introduced to the audience by L)r.
J. F. Alexander and wa3 received with long and
deafening shouts of applause. Mr. Akin arose aud
commenced by saying that he was no orator, and
that he had not been engaged iu politics since 1818,
when he waa on the electoral ticket of Taylor aud
Fillmore ; that he had read politics but very little.
Referring to his intention not to canvass the State
he said that he could not resist the demands made
upon him by his friends to address them.
He said he had no quarrel to make with any
man; but that when he referred to the Democracy,
he wished to be understood as not referring to the
honest and voting portion of them—but to their
leaders. lie said the leaders of the Democracy
were all —or nearly all -office-seekers. Here Col.
Akin went into the discussion of the principles of
Squatter Sovereign y as contained in the Kansas
Nebraska bill, and referred to his denunciation of
Squatter Sovereignty as contained in the famous
Nicholson Letter of Gen. Cass, for which its author
was rebuked by the election of Gen. Taylor to the
Presidency. He also referred to the renunciation
of Mr. Cass by the Democracy for saying that the
Whig party had given the correct construction to
that, letter.
He then referred to the Convention which gave
birth to the Georgia Platform, and that he was a
member of that Conviction and voted for it, and
that he stood upon it now, aud affirmed that one of
the contingencies mentioned in the 4th Resolution
had been violated in the refusal of Congress to ad
mit Kansas into the Union as a Slave State. Said
he was opposed to laying down fighting lines, but
that Georgia had laid down one, aud be was lire
pared to stand up to it. lie then went into the
discussion of the Kansas Bill and the subject of
protection to slave property in the Territories, in
which he showed up the unsoundness of Democra
cy with great skill—the double meaning of the
Cincinnati Platform, and the dangerous policy of
S. A. Douglas. He said that he preferred that the
North should come up as one man and demand the
rights of the South to the unfriendly legislation of
Stephen A. Douglas. lie took the B positions mjre
ference to Slavery in the Territories assumed by
Mr. Hill in his late letter.
Made a strong point in reference to the subject of
naturalization by reference to Cass’ Le Clare letter,
which we should like to give had we the space and
time. He drew a vivid and forcible picture of S
A. Douglas seated on oue end of the Cincinnati
Platform, Martin V’an Buren ou the other and
Joseph E. Brown in the middle.
He closed this part of his speech by saying that
he intended to fight for his rights according to the
Constitution and the Dred Scott decision —if neces
sary to die in defence of the same on these princi
ples.
In referring to Governor Brown, he said he
would hate himself if, for the want of argument, he
should deal in personalities. But, as a public act of
Gov. Brown, he referred to his vetoing a bill which
had passed the Legislature, giving protection to a
poor defenceless woman, with a house full of chil
dren, who was left by her husband, whose creditors
were taking from her every cent she could make
lor the su( poit of her family, to satisfy their de
mauds against her husband.
During Col. Akin’s speech he said if he weie to
get on the Cincinnati Platform he did not know
what he m ; ght do before day. [A voice in the
crowd : “ Likely you would steal.”]
In referring to the veto ol the Bank bill by Gov.
Brown, he set forth the inconveniences that would
have resulted to the public. He stated that the
Governor declared in his message previous to the
passage of that bill, that many evils would grew
out of it to the people, and that the country would
be ruined, lie said the Dill waa passed, and asked
the people if it had ruined the people. Col. Akin
said he was in favor of a well regulated paper cur
ie-cy properly secured.
He was opposed to endowing Colleges as was
proposed in the last legislature; but that he was
will mg to do all that could be dona for the educa
tion of the poor, and that he was willing to pay the
Colleges so much for educating each boy sent to
them, but not to paying Colleges for that which
they, perhaps, would net do, as we have no assu
rance that enough boys w’ould attend to take up
such appropriations, aud then the Colleges would
pocket profits they had not earned. He said if the
people were in favor of endowing Franklin College
and making it what our fathers intended it, he had
no objection.
On the subject of State aid he said he was op
posed to endorsing the bonds of every little Road
gotten up : but that when it waa necessary to de
velop the resources of the State and to give the
people cheap travel and communication, he waa in
favor, not of stipulating 2,3, or $500,000 for the
enterprise, but enough to put it through.
Tnus we have given the most imperfect synopsis
of Coi. Akin’s speech. We know that we have
done him nothing like justice. We could not do it
if we had a week to prepare this article. We have
endeavored to give his positions as near as we
could recollect them.
To our friends we would say that his speech in
Atlanta was a telling one; that he is a man of the
first ability in the State—he is no second-rate man.
We may weli feel proud of him ; and we confident
ly believe that if our friends will bestir themselves
energetically and perseveringly from now until the
day of election, that Warren Akin will be the next
Governor of Georgia.
An Indignant Douglasite. —The Charleston
News having made the suggestion that in the event
of Douglas being nominated for the Presidency by
the Democratic convention, the Southern delegates
sedede and make another nomination for them
selves, has received eeveral letters on the enbject
from irate Douglas men. The following is one of
them, which shows the spirit of the Northwestern
Democracy. — Col. Enq.
Milwaukie, July 27 th, 1859.
Ediior ! Evening Mews :
Then you do really think that if Douglas is in
danger of being ncminated at Charleston, the
“ Southern” delegates will secede and nominate for
themselves. lam sorry you think so, but still we
can t help it. Stepcen A. Douglas is bound to be
nominated ‘—your efforts to the contrary notwith
standing. You are a * and you don t
amount to a row ot pins. We like to see just such
journals as the News oppose Douglas. Nothing
helps him more. This ‘Wisconsin) I am
proud to tell you, will send at least 2000, and if ne
cessary 5000 Dougias men ; Providence permitting,
I *hAil be one of the number. And all I ask is to
get a sight of you, and I will make “ sow jam” of
your head in two minutes. Instead cf “10,000*’
the North will send 20,000.
Ycure, respectfully,
A Douglas Democrat.
Cincinnati, August 22d.—Messrs. Hewson R.
Holmes, Stock Brokers, on Third street, have eus
pended Their liabilities are not stated.
| From the Charles ton Mercury.
! The Edgefield Advertwcr, I)ougla, and Hie
I.ur Phase of N'quuiter Sovereignty*
W e argued, in a previous article ueder this head,
that principles ot government, even though ab
stract, are deeply important, and should be asserted.
We further pointed out that the great principle of
protection to slave property, equally with other
property in the common territory, by the General
Government the trustee of the several States, m
all its departments—executive, legislative and ja
dici&ry—is net au abstraction, but has already had
application in the cases of California and Kansas,
and will hereafter have application in the Indiau
territory, so soon as ihe Indians are moved west.
In Texas, when it is divided, and in Mexico, as it
is absorbed by our people, and possibly iu Arizo
na also. We drew the conclusion,that it is a right
of vital importance to the expansion, power and
security ol the South, looking to the luture, and
could not be yielded by silence, or the ignoring, on
her parr, its denial by Douglas. He denies the
right to Congress, where alone iu the government
the South has any certain representation or definite
power andean make au issue, since the executive
and judiciary vr i 1 soon be at the disposal of the
overmastering North.
Here we would add a word further iu reply to
ihe very hopeful aud agreeable intelligence that
••territorial legislation never fits and never wiil
exclude slavery from a territory truly adapted
to s:ave labor,” and consequently that without
congressional legislation to revise and annul uncon
stitutional action or non action cf its creature iu
the territory, or to repeal the act of territorial
organization thus abused, slavery will go wherever
it can be made profitable It is an argument tha f
justifies the abandonment of every right of the
people of the southern States connected with the
territories. It is an argument that if applied to the
States themselves, justifies acquiescence in every
aggression—submission to e\ery successful ad
vauce of the North towards the accomplishment of
the end heid up by Seward, when the footstep ot
the slave shall be unknown on this broad continent.
If slave institutions will prevail iu the territories
wherever they are appropriate and beneficial, and
if this is used as a reast-.u for yielding the right ot
the people of the South to have slave property
protected in the territories by her trustee, the Gen
eral Government, is there any reaeou why slave
institutions will not iu the States also prevail wherev
er appropriate and beneficial, and is there any better
reason why the States should not yield their rights in
slave property to the General Government, and sub
mit to emancipation whenever it shall deem proper ?
It is, then, absurd and ridiculous for our people
to worry on the subject at all. Slavery will exist
wherever it ought to exist. Therefore by no means
resist the hostile leg elation of the northern majority.
“It is 8S the idle wind, which we regard not!” In
reply we would suggest that predestination is a
doctrine we are taught to believe ; but it is not gen
©rally regarded as a full just iticatioa for laziness,
cowardice, drunkenness, or crime Some effort to
wauls virtue, sobriety, manliness and industry L
expected. Few besides the miserable exponents of
these vices are apt to use such a plea. Lying on
our backs aud hugging the delusive phau om of
hope, will never establish slavery in the territories
or preserve it in the States, however profitable or
advantageous. Hercuhs inu-t put his shoulder to
the wheel ifhe wants the gods to help hiiu. Any
other theory is senseless or designing.
It is easy for politicians to undervalue Congres
sional protection to slave property against the un
constitutional denial of its protection, aud hostile
legislation by territorial legislatures. It is easy to
call rights “abstractions,” and, by yielding then,
cut off’ all opportunity of their practical application,
and prove that they are abstract and valueless
But whether tlihs be a legitimate method of proof,
is another matter. Whether it does not argue on
the part of the reasouer a desire or williDguees to
abandon the practical application, however valua
ble, is a question thaf may well be asked. The
doctor who should discouragingly assert that poisons
and remedies are alise unavailing to kill or cure,
and therefore valueless—that if his patient's time
has come, he wiiifdie —it not, he will live; and who
should stand by aiding and abetting his consulting
brother to poison with malice aforethought, would
leave no proof behind of the value f remedies, but
he would be apt to illustrate his argument as to the
proper time, by swinging out of the world apropos
So those who deny Uie value ot tli9 principle of
congressional protection to slave property against
unequal, unjust and unconstitutional legislation oti
the part of the majority iu a territory, by yielding it
and preventing southern emigration into Ui ter
ritories, would cut off the proof of its value. But it.
would be a proof neither sound, fair nor reasonable.
It w>-uld entitle them to bitterest reprobation.
But the Advertiser inquiies, “Now does ties
mere withholding of legislation by a territorial
government clash with the Constitution of the
United States?” It again argues: “The words
k unfriendly legislation’ there, must imply the same
condition of things as is meant by ‘ the withholding
of protective legislation.’ And we repeat the ques
tion, is it dearly uncona Rational in a territo ial
legislature to neglect to pat-.s express laws for the
protection of slave property V’
We answer, “ unfriendly legislation” is not the
same as *• withholding protection,” although they
mean the same object., vs . the exclusion of slaves
and their southern mas’ers. By unfriendly or hos
tile legislation which is claimed for the chance ma
jority of eettleis, is meant the unequal and heavy
taxamg of slave propeity at discretion, for the pur
pose ot injuring and annoying their owners, and
rendering the slaves unprofitable. It means harat
sing and crippling the power and authority of the
owner, under the shallow and dishonest pretext of
the ‘■ public safety” or the “ public morals,” when
tire real object is the exclusion of the South. By
“ withholding protection” is meant protec!ing other
property by law, aud expressly excepting slave
property from the protection afforded to all else,
with the unconstitutional design of driving out, or
discouraging irom emigration the people of the
Southern States. .
But we are charged with “distorting ” and “ per
verting” Judge Douglas’ views. Let him speak
for himself. From his Freeport speech we extract
the following:
“In my opinion Ihe people of a territory can, by
lawful means, exclude slavery from their limits
prior to the formation of a State constitution .” “/Vo
matter u hat the decision of the Supreme Court may
be on the abstract ijiicstion, still the right of the pi opte
(i. e. thx majority of inhabitants at any time during
the territorial existence J to make a slave territory or
a free territory is perfect and complete under the
Nebraska bill.”
Jn the course ofthe debate,in March last, he used
the following language:
“In my opinion, under the taxing power a terri
tory may discriminate as well as a State. If there
is a power of diicrimination as to other property,
and I think there is, theu it applies toslave property.
In my opinion, if the taxing power is exere’sed
against any oue species of uroperty, it may hare a
tendency lo drive it out. If, beyond thill, there, is
an absence of legislation such as would fail lo give
efficient protection, that does effectually exclude it
Such a system of legislation may be devised as would
effectually exclude ”
And again he says: “You cannot protect any
property in the territories without laws furnishing
remedies for its violation and penalties for its
abuse; ’ and an answer to the question of Senator
Green: “The Supreme Court having decided that
slaves constitute property, if a territory authorized
by Congress lo legislate for itself should pass a
law punishing all larceny of all property except
slaves, would lira', make slaves equal to other pro
perty in the Territory ‘I or would n not be a viola
tion ot the constitution ? Would he say he w. olid
submit to that at the option of the Legislature ?"
Judge Douglas replied : “I will not exert the power
of Cougrets to interfere with the local law with
reference to slave property, or any other kind of
property ’
These are the views, the “intentions” and the
“policy” of Judge Douglas, in his own language.—
And how do they agree will) the views ot the coll
stitutiou taken by the Supreme Court / What, ac
cording to the Dred Scott decision, an authority
which our contemporary will not deny, ere the
rights of the people of the Southern Stales in the
common territory? What are the duties of terri
torial legislatures, invested with the powers of Con
gress at its own discretion ? and what is the duty
of Congress iu supervising and revising the conduct
of its creature, in case ot malfeasance or designing
omission to fulfil the sphere of its duties ?
The following quota 1 ions from the opinions of the
Court sustain the views ot Southern statesmen and
put the matter beyond dispute :
“The powers of the government and the l'ghst
and privileges of the citizens are regulated and
plainly defined by the Canstitution itself.” “The
territory being a part of the United States, the
Government and the citizen both enter it under Ihe
authotily of the Constitution, with toeir respective
rights defined and marked out; and the Federal
Government can exercise no power over his person
or property beyond irliot. that instrument confers,
nor lawfully deny any righl which it has reserved:’
“The Constitution provides that ‘no person shall
be deprived of life, liberty and property without
due process of law,’ aud if Congress itself cannot
o this, and it it io beyond the powers conferred on
the Federal Government, it will be admitted, we
preeume, that it could not authorize a territorial
government lo exercise them. It could coufer no
power on any local government established by its
authority, to violate the provisions of the Constitu
tion.
“Aud if the Constitution recognizes the ri K ht of
property of the master in a slave, aud makes do
distinction between that description ot properly
and otLer property owned by acilizen. no tribunal,
acting under the authority o/ the United bt.ates,
whether it be legislative, executive, or judicial, h as a
right to draw suck a distinction, or to deny to it the
benefit of the provisions and guarantees which have
been provided for the protection of private property
against the encroachment of the Government.
“And the Government, ini rpress terms, is pledged
to protect it (property in a stave) in ail future Lime,
if the slave escapes from his owner. This is done in
plain words—loo plain to be misunderstood. Aud
no word can be found in the Constitution wtnek
gives Congress a greater power over slave property,
or which entitles property of that hind to less pro
tection than property of any other description. —
The only power conferred is the power coupled with
the dut y oj guarding aud protecting the owner jn
his rights.”
“It was not only within the ssope of its (the Gen
eral Government's) powers, but it was its DUTY to
pass SUCH taws ’and establish such a (territorialj
Government as mould enable those by whose author
ity they acted (the people of the several Stales) to
reap the advantages anticipated from its acquisi
tion.”
It is here shown beyond question or cavil that
the full, adequate aud equal protection of slave
property is the bouudeu duty of the Territorial
Legislatures. It is also the duty of Congress,
whether retaining or delegating its limited powers.
To the extent of revising and annulling unconstitu
tional enactments of a contrary purport passed by
the territorial majority, or of repealing the act of
organizatiou and resuming itself the functions abus
ed by its sub-agent, the Legislature, it ie the busi
ness of Congress iacontrovertibly to afford com
plete protection whenever needed. These are the
requirements of the Constitution as claimed by the
Siate3 R ghts men, aud affirmed by the Supreme
Court. Yet Douglas denies and repudiates these
duties as we have shown. He holds that the terri
torial majority may lawfully deny protection, enact
hostile, in jurious and unequal taws, and exclude
slavery .ap'd oust the .South. He flatly refuses to
use ifyjj power qf JUocgresa. Our assertion that
Judge Douglas openly declares his intention to de
feat and overthrow the Constitution of the United
States in its operation in our territories is, therelore,
strictly correct jVe have neither “distorted'’ nor
“exaggerated” either his “intentions” or his “poli
cy.” We hold him now as we held him a year
ago, to be a trickster and a deceiver.
He meant mischief from the first, and cajoled the
honest southern supporters of the Nebraska bid.—
He intended it to be practically a great ffeesoil
measure, beneficial to the North, yet capable of
bearing a southern aspect in an abstract point of
view. Construed by southern men as a concession
to their rights, the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise gave him popularity at the bouth. He ex
posed squatter sovereignty to win the day At the
time bis artful macuiuvring was uot ondeietood by
his constituents. He was hissed at Chicago, and
had to"declare the truth, after the passage of the
act. In its effects be pronounced it from every
stump in Illinois “the best freeaoil measure ever
”=4opted.” He carries it out by repudiating the
decision of the tribunal to which these questions of
territorial rights and duties were referred, because
it interferes with his darling scheme and his predic
tipns We regard him as a Dolitica! cheat and a
traitor—a man as ambitions and designing as Sew
ard hiinrtlf. The same policy in the territories is
to be carried out by a different method. How any
who oro:e to value the constitution or the rights
and interest* of the South can, for the sake of a
pfcrty success destitute of principle, talk of support
ing Dotwlkti is more than we are able to compre
hend. To us it seems an unblushing abafcdonment
of ail.
From Ihe A ! i xnta American.
Col. Akin’s Speech Tuesday Nisht,
The opening speech ol the campaign was made
by Col. Akin, on Tuesday night last. At an earlier
hour than usual, tiie Athena- an was densely crowd
ed—including a large number of Democrats—anx
ious to hear Considering the muddiues* of the
streets, the large couoourse was somewhat unex
pected.
Ou his entrance into the hail, the speaker was
greeted with enthusiasm, which was repeated most
i-heeriugly when he waa intiodoced to the audience
by I)r. James F. Alexander, President of the State
Bights Club. The demonstration was ol the most
encouraging character.
Col. Akin commenced by stating that he was be
fore tiie people iu his present capacity, as was welt
know n to bis friends, quite unexpectedly and much
against his wishes. But, in obedience to auemand
made upon him by a large and respectable portion
of his fellow citizens, he appeared before the pub
tic as a oanoidate for the office of Governor. He
said he made no claim to oratory, and that he did
uot come before the audience to attract and com
mand t heir applause by any rhetorical display, but
to ask their attention to the plain facta he should
submit, and to such common sense views as he
should present. He did not present himself as &
politician in a partizan sense, for he had had no
thing to do with politics, had hardly read anythii g
political for the past nine years. That the last
political speech he made was about eleven years
ago near a spring iu another part of the city, and
that, since sitting in the Georgia Convention and
assisting iu erecting the Georgia Platform, lie had
been without a party—haxiug. since tiie dissolu
tion of the old W hig party, kept aloof Irom.the
Know Nothing and American organizations. He
said he wished it understood at the cutset, and
cnee tor all, that in speaking of Democrats and of
tils Democratic party, lie referred to the leaders
aud office huldeis ana ctiioe hunters, and not to the
masses. I hat the masses were honest and wished
to do right, and, in his opinion, believed they were
doing tight, but misled by d-niagogues aud design
ing men. WT.eu, therefore, he used the term De
mocrat or Democracy, lie meant the leaders, and
not the masses composing the parly.
He then relerred to his position as an Elector on
the Taylor and Fillmore ticket for Georgia, lie
said that, during the canvass, lie denor.uced the
letter of Gen. Cass to Mr. Nicholson, of Tennessee,
as containing the doctrine of Squatter (takingly
called Popular) Sovereignty, and that that doctrine
was deadly to the interests of the South. That the
Democracy denied it; but that, after the election
etas over, Gen. Case himself, iu his place iu the
Senate of the United States, declared that his op
ponents ill the South had correctly construed his
letter So much for tho sagacity of Warren Akin
inrcference to that matter.
In 1850, tiie memorable compromise measures
passed Congress. In December of that year a
Convention, composed of the best meu in the State,
assembled at Milledgeville, under the proclamation
of Gov. Towns, to consult about Northern aggres
sions and the mode of rediess. In this Convention,
Col. Akin said lie was honored with a seat by his
lellow citizens of Cass county. The occasion Waa a
grave one, ami to the result of its deliberations alt
tliei people of the State anxiously looked. And not
only the people of Georgia, but the people of the
whole South—ay-, of the whole eouu'ry—and, he
believed lie might add, the people of the world.
The document known as the Georgia Platform was
the result of the deliberations of this body and was
made a rallying point for the whole South. The
line of policy defermiued upon embraced iu the
celebrated Fourth Resolution, which namod six
causes for extreme action on the part of Georgia—
either one of which occurring, would compel her
“!o resist, even (as a last resort) to a disruption of
every tio which bines her to the Union.” The com
promise measures of Congress aud this action of
the “Empire State of the South,” it was thought,
put a quietus on the slavery agitation. Since that
time, now nearly nine years, he had been a silent,
but not uninterested observer of passing political
events.
In 1851, the Kansas Nebraska bill passed Con
gress. This bill, at the time, was denounced by
many as containing Squatter or Popuiar Sovereign
ty, which it was asserted would be dangerous to
Southern interests in the Territories and in all
others to which its principles applied. But the bill
passed aud became, and is now, the law of the
land. In 185 c, the Democratic Convention which
met at Cincinnati and nominated Mr Buchanan,
adopted a p‘atl'orni which incorporated tiro princi
ples of the Kansas Nebraska Act as follows :
“The American Dt-in icraoy recognise and adopt
the principles contained in iho organic laws estab
lishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as
embodying the only s iuud and Bute solution of the
Slavery question, upon which the great national
idea of the people ot this count! y can repose in its
determined conservatism ot Ihe Union.”
Coi. Akin then referred to the resolution of the
Democratic Convention which re-nominated Gov.
Brown, in which the Cincinnati Platform is reaf
firmed. lie then proceeded to state that Martin
Van Bureu—the Northern man with Southern prin
ciples—was on one eud, because, in his opinion, it
was the beet Freesoil document ever framed ; that
Douglas waa on the other ena, and Joseph E.
Brown in the centre. lie then aigued that Boug
ies held that the Territorial Legislature could con
stitutionally keep slavery out of the Territories, by
uufriend'y legislation ; that lie held that under the
Kurinas Nebraska Act they could so legislate , and
that Douglas was on the Cincinnati Platform be
cause it endorsed the Kansas Nebraeka Act. That
J isepli E. Brown was on it, because the Demo
cratic party was.
He then took up the doctrine of Congressional
Protection to Slavery in the Territories, asserting
that it was first announced aud advocated and de
fended by one of the noblest of the sons of Georgia
—one whom, by honoring, she hud honored herself.
Thai no lees a personage thau John McPherson
Bsrrieu—to who.-e memory he gave utterance to a
most glowing and eloquent apostrophe—first pro
mulgated the doctrine iu Georgia. Col. Akin show
ed tbe constitutionality of this poeiLion and trium
phantly answered objections to it. Having done
this, and showed bow it coillio'ed with the Kan
sas Nebraska Act and tl e Cincinnati Platform, he
commented somewhat, at length, and with some
severity, upon the rule laid down by the “Constitu
tion” newspaper, Mr. Buchanan’s organ, i übliehad
in Washington City, from which he read; aud which
denounces all Democrats who occupy any ether
poßdion—or who would make any alteration or any
amendations of that document— asf‘schismatics and
renegades.” Remembering his reasoning, and
Douglas’ construction of the Kansas Nebraska Act
and the Cincinnati Platform, the force of this de
nunciation will be dear. The organ of Mr. Bu
chanan placea these two measures—one sectional
and the other purely partizan—above the Constitu
tion and the Law. While treating this branch of
Ihe subject, he remarked that it was the duty of the
Government to extend protection over all kinds of
property, and to every citizen, native born or na
turalized, everywhere on the face of the globe.
lie theu attacked some of Gov. Brown’s acts.
And first in order was his veto of a bill to relieve a
poor woman in Augusta, struggling to get a start
for her own subsistence and the education of her
children; but which Bhe was unable to do, because
the creditors of her husband kept taking her earn
ings for his debts. Gov. Brown vetoed this bill,
and thus refused to afford her relief. Next came
his veto of the bill for the relief of the suspended
Banks. To Ibis he objected on the ground that a
forced liqu dation of the outstanding obligations ot
these Institutions would have beeu disastrous to
the people of the whclc State, but in the general
pauic and depression would have operated more
ruinously upon the poor than the rich. This and
tiie veto of the bill already referred to, he consider
ed as betiaying a want ot sympathy with the poor
laborer and the dislressed orphan and widow.
Col. Akin expressed himself as in favor of a sound
paper currency convertible at all times into specie,
issued by banks doing a legitimate aud safe busi
ness, under proper legislative safeguards, but op
posed to unsound aud reckless banks and banking.
Next, he said that while lie wch a friend of Colle
ges, and of educating poor young men—while, in
these respects, he turned his back upon none—he
was opposed !o Gov. Brown's scheme of distribu
ting #400,000 among lour Colleges ostensibly to
aid in the education of poor young meu, because
it was partially distributed, ar.d because it was
given—or the interest on it—whether they educated
any young meu or not 1 lie was in favor of making
Franklin College all that its noble and generous
founders intended it should be; but he wished to
do it openly and above board, and not by indirec
tion. When the time came to benefit the poor by
making free education universal in the State, he
wou'd be found among tiie foremost. But he op
posed such a project as that proposed by Gov.
Brown, especially if there was no guaranty that the
poor young men should attend, and actually re
ceive the benefit of the State’s liberality.
He said ho opposed Gov. Brown in his claim to
all the credit for making the Slate Read pay, when
former reports and Gov. Johnson’s Messages so
fully aeiLoustrate that Gov. Johiißon averaged
greater net earnings, annually, than Gov. Brown.
He referred to those Reports and Messages to prove
the truth of his statements, and how Gov. Brown
was peeking to make a reputation at the expense of
his predecessor. He aliueded to the impression,
generally prevailing through the instrumentality of
Gov. Brown, and Lis organs and intimate friends,
that Gov. Brown was the only one w’ho had made
the Road pay, and theu asked whether or not, in
the view of the facts, great wrong aud injustice was
not done Gov. Johnson ?
On the question of State Aid to Railroads, he
said, that while he was unwilling to extend it to
every scheme which might be presented, he was
willing it should be liberally given, where a Road
was necessary to facilitate the commerce, or de
velop the resources of the State. If the endorse
ment of two, three, or five millions of Railroad
Bonds would answer, let that only be given—but
if it required leu, then be would say give ten, so
that tiie State was secured.
In conclusion, be referred lo the rejection of
Kansas, and to the letter of B. U. Hill, Esq., re
questing Gov. Brown toignore h g nomination by
a mere parly, accept the votes of the Opposition,
aud so enable us to have, what all wanted, an
united South. He said that from what he had said
about the Georgia Platform, and the circumstances
attending the rejection of Kansas as a slave State,
it was clear that one of the issues or which Georgia
had declared she would disrupt this Union bad oc
curred, and yet what had Gov. Brown done 7 Was
it not known and well understood that Kansas was
refused admission because her constitution recog
nized slavery ! It was true a land clause was made
the ostensible cause ; but did not everybody who
knew anything about tbe question, know tbe slave
ry clause in her constitution was the real and true
cause ? If so, then what was the duty of the
Governor of Georgia 7 Was it uot clear / Bat did
Gov. Brown discharge that duty ?
A case had arisen by the rejection of Kansas by
Congress, requiring the Governor of Georgia to
act. Had he acted ? Did not every b idy know
he had not ? No, the Fourth Resolution of that
platform had been ruthlessly violated, and a Gov
ernor of Georgia—a Democratic Governor at that—
quietly seated on the Cincinnati Platform with
Martin Van Buren and Stephen A. Douglas, had
permitted it te be done and not raised a hand or
opened hie mouth ! Was that vindicating the honor
of Georgia 7 Was that sustaining the dignity of
the great “Empire State of the South,’’ as express
ed in tbe memorable Fourth Resolution of the
Georgia Platform of 1850 ? Is a man who can thus
permit her honor and dignity to be trampled nnder
foot, worthy to occupy her Executive chair 7 Is
one who will allow her sacred pledge to pass thus
unobserved —unredeemed— violated —worthy of fur
ther confidence 7 Thanking the audience for the
attention which they had given him, while speak
ing under extreme physical pain, he cloeed amid
prolonged applause.
Discovery of an Island.—Tha New Bedford
Mercury learno by a private letter that Capt. Rob
ert D. Eidridge, of tbe bark Amazon of Fairhaven,
has discovered an island in tbe Pacific Ocean, eev
eral hundred miles from any land laid down on the
charts. The letter was dated at sea, Jan. 16,1859
and in it Capt. Eidridge says of the island : ’
“It is in latitude 0 45 N., and longitude 176 35 W.;
very low and dangerous, and is, 1 expect, the last
resting place of the crew of some of the ships which
have been missed in years gone by. I ran along
the lee side within pistol shot of the beach, but it
waa too rough t ) land , and after convincing myself
that there were no living people upon the island,
equared away again. On the highest part of the
island is a house, apparently built from pieces of a
wreck, with a flagstaff at one end, from which still
dangled the halyard block. Near the house were
several little hummucks. each with a tall, upright
stone upon it, evidently the graves of the poor rel
lows who had escaped from the wreck of their vessel,
and died on this dreary epot, where perhaps they
had spent months in vainly looking for a passing
sail to relieve them from their weary prison. ’
(’nil Col. Alilo be Elected.
We fully endorse the sentiments and opinions of
the Atlanta Confederacy as expressed below :
Can our candidate. Warren Akin bs elected? —
We answer emphatically, he can, and will. Col.
Akin is placed before the people of the Empire
State of the South, with an esouteheon untarnished
a name end a reputation tor all that constitutes a
man, and a gentleman in the highest and noblest
acceptation of that term—a man whose antecedents
challenge investigation. If to be a Christian gen •
tieinan, is the highest order of a man—if an Ameri
can gentleman is the highest order of nobility, then
our candidate comes fully up to the perfect stature
of a man. In his business capacities tie stands
unsurnassed by any man who has ever occupied
tbe I dice of Governor. In his moral manhood he
exhibits a pattern to which tiie sires and the
mothers of the land, may point exultingly to their
noble eons, and say—“go and do likewise. We
venture the remark, without fear of contradiction,
that if the people of Georgia elect Warren Akin
that they will not regret their choice, and that the
affairs of our great State Road will be eonduoted
in a manner so successful and satisfactory that, at
the expiration of his term, (lie people clamor for his
re nomination and consequent re-election. We
say he can be elected triumphantly, if every voter
in tbe State favorable to his election will, from this
time out, just determine that Warren Akin shall
be our next Governor, and will put their shoulaers
to the wiieel, and every man will persuade one
other man to vole for him, we say lie can and will
be elected. Does any man doubt Ihe practicability
of the thing jU9t let him make the attempt and
succsas will crown with glorious results our efforts.
Gome friends and come patriots wliat say you; shall
*A'e tio it 7 We think we hear but one response
from seaboard to mountain : We will! We will 1!
We can elect Warren Akin for Governor ! ! !
The Administration and the Slave Trade.
—A dispatch dated Washington, August —d, says :
The Administratiou lias bestowed upon the subject
of the African slave trade its earnest attention,
and, with a view of suppressing as far as possible
this traffic, has initiated measuies more edioiunt
anti extensive than ever before for that purpose.
The squadron for the coast of Africa, as ari anged
by the Secretary of tie Navy, wilt consist of the
following named vessels: The steamers Mystio,
Sumpter, San Jaoiuto and Mohican , the sloops-of
war, Constellation, (the flag ship,) Portsmouth,
Marion and Vincennes. The most efficient officers
are assigned to their command. Those of Ihe
Mystic and Sumpter are, respectively, Lieutenant
W. E. Deßoy and Lieutenant J. F. Armstrong.—
These gentlemen were, at their own request, or
dered to this service. Their vessels being of light
draft, can penetrate waters too shallow for those
which have heretofore been on that coast, besides
having the advantage of steam, lienee slavers
will be more closely pursued.
The joint treaty with England requires that the
United States shall keep there a force of eighty
guns i but by tbe recent arrangement on the part
of the Administration, the number of guns will be
one hundred and sixteen.
Mr. Birney, who succeeded Mr. Morse as Naval
Storekeeper, went out iu the Constellation, with
instructions to remove the naval depot for the
African squadron from Porto Praya to San Paul de
Leando, which is 336 miles south of the Congo river,
or about 2,500 distant Irom Porto Praya. This uew
depot will, subsequently, be much neater than tim
former to the principal poiuts of traffic on the coast,
and will, iu a measure, obviate the necessity of long
cruises.
On our own coast, too, there is to be an efficient
naval toroe, composed of the steamers Crusader,
Lieut. Maffit; the Mohawk, Lieut. Craven; the
Wyandotte, Lieut. Stanley ; and the Fulton, Com
mander G. G. Williamson. They are to cruise in
the neighborhood of Cuba, for the purpose of cap
turing any slavers which may, by their expertnesa,
escape the vigilance of our naval police on tiie
African coast.
These arrangements will soon go into full opera-,
tion, and the Secretary of the Navy is now lull ry
ing the preparation of suoti of ttie vessels as are
yeijinport, for this important service.
We particularly commend the following, from
that able and sterling press, the Savannah Repub
lican, to the attention of all our readers, au a com
plete vindication of itself, and of the conservative
mass of our people, from the beginning, with regard
to the Kansas Bill:
The Repuulican and the Kansas Nebraska
Bill.—The Augusta Constitutionalist has made a
discovery. It labors through a column and a half
of citations and arguments to provo that the Re
publican is inconsistent on the subject of tho Kan
uas-Nebraßka bill—that it at one time held up that
measure as the only legitimate, constitutional set
tlement of the slavery question, and at another
denounced it as a cheat and a swindle. Tosupport
the charge of iuconsistenoy, it quotes from editorials
written years ago, and compares them with our re
cent positions on the same subject.
We conless to the quotations, and to the sound
ness of our cotemporary’s premises; but we deny
in loto the correctness of its conclusion. Every
position we lisve taken in relation to the Kansas-
Nebraaka bill is consistent aud harmonious, and it
will take but a word to show that the Constitution
alist has greatly exercised itself to establish what
its sagacity ought to have taught it was a wholly
groundless accusation. But we know the Douglas
men—of whom our cotemporary is understood to
be one—have peculiar notions on the subject, and
perhaps, a disposition to present others to the pub
lic in as objectionable light as they themselves
appear.
But to the explanation, which we feel sure will
be satisfactory to every one, except, perhaps, our
hypercritical triend of the Constitutionalist.
When the Kansas bill was introduced in Con
gress, the South was taught to believe that it con
tained a repeal of the Missouri restriction—that it
denied to Congress, and to all other powerß, tiie
right to exclude slavery from the Territories while
they were Territories—that the convention which
changed the form of government from Territorial
to State, has exclusive discretion in the matter of
domestic institutions, and hence was the only power
competent to fix the eondilion of the new govern
ment as regards slavery—and finally, that such was
the bona fide inteution of the authors of the mea
sure, who would continue to uphold this interpre
tation as inviolable and the only just and true one.
This being the meaning of the law, we supported it
then, and support it now. It is the only just basis
for a settlement of the question, and as such it met,
and still meets, our cordial approval.
How has this interpretation been sustained,andy b
the very men who originated and helped to paes the
law 7 It is the present interpretation of the Nation
al party, and can that party he depended on to en
force the law as it was understood by the South
wheu she gave it her approval 7 No man will dare
answer this question in the affirmative. The very
measure reputed to have been passed for our
security, has been construed to our inevitable dis
grace and ruin. Douglas aud bis entire body of
northern Democratic lriends profess to-day to be
upholding tho law, and yet they give it au opera
tion in the Territories which we are free to say the
South should resits, if need be, at the point of the
sword. These men have deceived us in the law ;
they have been guilty of bad faith to the South;
and we are now called upon to sustain it wit h their
interpretation. At sea as regards its meaning—one
section construing it oue way, and another section
exactly the opposite—as a settlement the act be
comes not only valueless, but a cheat and a swin
dle, as we have taken occasion to denounce it.
Where is our inconsistency in all this 7
It is a matter to be regretted that there are
southern men who still uphold the law in ali ils un
certainty, and the men who would administer it to
our overthrow.
From the Atlanta American.
A I'nti-iotip Letter from n Patriotic ISemoernr.
We have pleasure in laying before our readers
the following patriotic letter from Dr. E. N. Cal
houn, one of the oldeet aud most influential Demo
crats in this section of the State. It will be seen
that lie comes out openly and boldly in favor of the
election of Col. Akin as Governor of Georgia. Dr.
Calhoun has, until recently, acted as Chairman of
the Democratic Executive Committee, and, for
several years, presided over nearly all the Demo
cratic meetings held in thieoounty:
Atlanta, August 25, 1859.
Dear Sirl have received yours of the 24th in
stant, aud hasten to reply. You say, that in con
versation this morning with afiiendfrom abroad,
on the probable chances to elect Col. Akin, Gover
nor, you had occasion to refer to me as one of Col.
Akin’s warm supporters ; that he expressed surprise
aud great satisfaction at learning my present posi
tion, and said that he felt confident, if the fact waa
generally known, it would be greatly to the advan
tage ot Col. Akm in the State; and also that you
are aware that I can have no desire to appear
conspicuous in the canvass, but ask, in view of the
great influence it may exert in behalf of Col. Akin,
permission to use my name, publicly, in connection
with his candidacy.
Iu reply, I can assure you it is far from my wish
to appear conspicuous iu this, or any other canvass,
as I aspire to nothing more than to conscientiously
aid my fellow-citizens in elevating to high and
responsible offices, truly worthy and honorable men;
and I can say to you and my Democratic friends,
with whom I have acted for the last thirty-tour
years in this county, that 1 am confident in my
own mind, that I am in the discharge of a high and
responsible duty, to myself and country, when I aid
in elevating to the Gubernatorial Chair of Georgia
a gentleman of such eminent qualifications as Col.
Warren Akin. There ie nothing of the demagogue
about this truly worthy man. I have known him
from his boyhood, aud favorably all the time, and
to-day I feel still more attached to him, after his
able and truthful defence (in his speed) of Tuesday
night) ot the Hon. Herscbel V. Johnson’s manage
ment of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. His
traducers all over Georgia will be astonished wheD
Akin tells them, (which all may see for themselves,
by examining Col. Spullock’s fKepurt,) thar under
Gov. Johnson’s administration, the net earnings of
the State Road oveipayed seven thousand dollars
per month more thau ander Gcv. Brown's.
I have been astounded, as well as indignaut (as
the friend of Gov. Johnson) at the deception prac
ticed on the people of Georgia, in relation to the
money paid into tne Tieasury trom the State Road,
by Gov. Brown, when I know, and every one who
examines lor himself must see, that all tiie credit
that Brown ie now receiving is justly due to the
Hon. Herscbel V. Johnson, and if Gov. Brown
had bad the manliness to have said to the people ot
Georgia, 1 am only enabled to nay this money into
the treasury trom the perfect paying condition the
Road waa put in by my predecrsior, and cot from
any great generalship of my own, he would have
told a truth, and done Gov. Jebnson and his friends
justice, and made himself a little more popular with
the Democracy.
Very respectfully,
E. N. Calhoun.
C. R. Ha.nlf.iter, Esq.
Col. Akin at .Macon.
Macon, Ga., Ang. 21th, 1859.
Mr. Sneed ; —Col. Warren Akin, the Opposition
Candidate for Governor, has just closed one of the
moat powerful and thrilling speeches at this place to
which I ever listened. His audience was very large
and very enthusiastic. His arguments werecogent
and clear. The sentiment that characterize!! his
discourse was high-toned, manly and nohle. The
principles lie espoused were sotted and patriotic.—
He assailed the Kansas Nebraska iraud and demol
ished it He assailed the Cincinnati Rlatforin and
demolished it. He assailed Cass's LeClerc letter
and demolished that. He assailed Brown's system
of public schools and demolish! and it. He assailed
the claims of Brown to credit for the management
of the State Road, and demolished them. lie then
opened a broadside or two on Joseph E. and literal
ly demolished bis Excellency. I would give you
details of Lis speech, but he speaks soon in .Savari
nah and you will hear him loryouiself. ills friends
here are in high spirits. Coi. Akin is a “plain, blunt
man,’’ who “speaks right on” and tells you what
be does know. When he arraigned Brown for his
veto of tbe bill pa.-sed by the Legislature to enable
a poor woman, who had a vagabond for a husband,
to enjoy tbe fruits of her own industry, wherewith
to support her starving children, the effect waa
electric. He made Joseph look even as small as
he is, ( we doubt it, Ed. Rep ) Urge your people to
go aud hear him. He is a statesman, and wiil
make a Governor of which the people of any State
ought to feel proud. Ycure,
Macon.
Savannah Republican, 2Cth inst.
One of our citizens of “credit aud renown,” says
the Belfast (Me.) Journal, while ruralizing a few
days since, unconsciously sat down on a bumble
bee's nest. He bad for a morneut a realizing sense
of what tbe “seat of war” means, about which so
much talk U made.
VOL. LXXIII.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXIII. NO. JL.
Aniericiin It it I! run and Iron -• Home Supply of
the Hume iMurlu l.
The United States Railroad and Mining Rsgla’er
has an interesting article upon Uie durability i’
American railroad iiou.and its superiority over the
foreign article, in which it shows th-at uotwiihstand
ing the much abused “low tariff” cur iron manufac
tures are steadily increasing, and that too. on a
sure and foliil foundation.
Tho article in the Register is based ou a letter
from the Superintendent of Ihe Central Railroad of
Georgia, to a l'euneylvania iron company, iu which
he says:
Very recently I examined the rails mails by your
company, and laid on this road in spring of 18.57,
on one side, and Eng ish rails on the other, and have
no In sitation in sayiug that yours ate wearing inuoh
better thau the latter. We also have some pre
mium English rails laid same spring, but not on
opposite side to youts, that are uot wearing as wed
as yours, though $5 per ton above current price
was paid for them, to seenre an extra good rail.
On this tbe Register thus comments :
It will be observed that Mr Adams makes no
reservation whatever iu his expressed preference
for the American over the English rail used in the
same track ou this read , that Ihe superiority of the
American over the English rails is so marked aud
distinguishable as to surmount all doubt, and put the
tact above disputation. This, however, is merely
the last, not the sole testimony whereon rests the
claim of superiority possessed by the American
over English rails, for as our readers know, we
have from time to time, and from sonroes in dis
lerent States wide apart, given the most indubita
ble and conclusive testimonials touohing and aid
ing to establish this significant and material point,
which is now an accredited and received truth
among thy “posted up” railroad men throughout
the country.
The pouoy of obtaining American rails is,
consequently tending to universality among railroad
companies governed by intelligent minds; tbe
exceptions now existing comprising only such
companies as are indifferently managed, or make
tiie purchase of English rails a condition m a
financial negotiation, generally of mortgage bonds.
The American rail, at the end of a long competition
between it arid the English rail, having thus and
now the higher character for durability—even
beyond and above the range of hesitating unbelief
or uuoertain doubt—the question remains—What
make of American rails shall be preferred f for, as
in every other branch of manufactures, there is
certainly a difference in the quality of tails manu
factured by and ffereut American iron masters. Tho
decisions of this matter, however, rests with the
railroad companies themselves, where we intend
to leave it—the fact beiug as patent to them as to
us, that character is the consequence of quality
imparted lo a rail by ils manufacturer, and that
character differs according to quality. The good
uame and high character achieved lor American
rails is the result of untiring efforts on the part of
leading irou masters in different localities. * *
The iron trade of the United States has grown
into an interest of vast magnitude aud countless
ramifications. The domestic article is gradually
working uppernust in the American markets, aud
ultimately foreign iron masters and workers iu iron
will cease to send iron, in the pig, rail, bar, rod,
hoop, or sheet, or aoy other shape, to the United
States as a customer market. Even under the dis
advantages of a fluctuating currency and ttie ad
valorem system of duties, imports of iron are dimin
ishing, while the home supply increases The
quantity ot railroad iron imported into the Uoited
States lias decreased from 298 995 tons for the year
ending June 30,1853, to 7.5,745 tons for the year
ending June 30, 1858.
The subjoined statement, copied from Lesley's
lion Manufacturer's Guide, shows that whiL the
American rails marie in the United States in 1856
exceeded the quantity made in 1853 by 37,556 tons,
the quantity ot foreign rails imported iu 1866 wsb
143,499 tons less than the tons imported in 1853
Thus, in four years the imported rails decreased
near'y one half, and the domestic rails Increased
more Ilian oue third.
Made. imported. Total Consumption.
IBM 115,000 tons. i.08.995 tons. 40:1,905 tons
1854 121,000 ‘• 282,867 “ 403,867
1857 134,000 “ 125.616 “ 261,516 ••
1856 14-2,552 “ 155,496 •, 295,151 “
in 18:21, as before stated, there were imported
only 75,745 tons of rails! But the iron interests in
tho United States will not rest content with the ex
pulsion of foreign iron trom the United states, by
tho quiet, geographical and commercial process
which is in operation; American iron and manu
faciurers of American iron now have a place in Ihe
tables of domostin exports from the United States
to foreign countries; and as existing establishments
are enlarged end new works are built to supply the
growing Home demand and home consumption,
our iron masters machinists, and all workers in the
metals, will push their enterprise etill farther into
foreign countries.
A Mysterious Marriaiie.— A coi respondent o
the Newark Daily Advertiser gives the following
ekelch of a mysterious marriage :
“The article about a singular dream recently pub
lished attracted some attention, and was the means
of reviving my remembrance of another case of a
similar character, the parties ill witicli were well
known tu me.
“In 1854, Mr. W. was rather a reckless ynung
man of twenty five, of a nervous, bilious tempera
ment, and not at all romantic, having run the gaunt
let of an army experience, lie had beeu early
orphaned, and some hard experience had uot added
polish or improved his views of the gentler sex ;
however, from early youth be had entertained cer
tain well defined ideas of proper conjugal lelatious,
and was ever hoping for au ideal partner to fill
the void caused by the loeu of a loved and loving
mother.
“In one of our New England States resided Miss
L., passing twenty-five, mild and amiable. For a
period of years she had resisted the persecution of
a selfish parent, who, lor pecuniary reosons, would
have coerced her to marry a man tLrioe her own
age. Twice had she been induced to consent to a
marriage, aud twice evadod it; tbe last time wed
ding clothes and every other preparation for a trip
to Europe were made, but, as the time for its con
summation approached her excessive grief again
postponed the affair. Shortly after, tu 1852, in
New York State, oue morning, while half sleeping
and ha'f waking, she liscame conscious of a human
form bending down close over her head, the face
alonu being clearly visible. She looked steadily
until all her faculties were aroused, anil then bur
riedly covered her head. lln arising, the room was
tliorougbly examined, yet not the slightest iudioa
tion of outside intrusion could be discovered.
“In speaking of it, Mits L. expressed her firm
couviction that she should meet the counterpart of
the person presented at her bedside, and would
marry bint. Two years passed; meanwhile Mr. W.,
then residing at I’hiladelphia, heard, through au
intimate friend, of Miss L , and tier waking dream,
and was assured by tiiis friend that he answered lo
the description given. When an oppoitunity oc
curred he visited the East, quite unexpectedly, aud
arranged to lie introduced to the lady under another
name thau his own—choosing that of a younger
man, whose mother lUiBS L. knew, but uot Ihe son.
On meeting for the first time, and being introduced,
Miss L. waa observed to look searchingly at the
gentleman, and after some commonplace remarks
inquired where his mother was. The peculiarity of
the question caused him for a moment to inoline his
head, when Miss L , recognized Ihe position, In
stantly flushed up, and railed him by his proper
name. Three days subsequently, at a intimate
friend’s, house Mr. W. arose from the dinner table,
and acting trom an unaccountable and irresistible
impulse, not at all premeditated, followed the lady
into another room, and in less than three mouths
from that time they were married, notwithstanding
MLs L.’s often and emphatically-repeated assertion
that she never would marry a man youuger than
herself.
“A few years have passed since then, and the
domestic relations and parentage of these parties
are to this day fully in keeping with the harmony
that brought them together. When facts of this
kind are well vouched for, we can hut wonder at
the unknown powers of the human mind, aud at the
climax of thought, we mentally repeat ‘Man know
thyself.’ ”
A Snake Story. —A correspondent of the Balti
more American, writing from Oakland, Md., Aug
13th, gives the following :
“Having heard and read many (make stories—
some imaginary, doubtless, and othere perhaps true
—I am induced to (five you an account of a scene
witnessed yesterday on Snaggy Mountain. Our
guide killed (as he supposed) a very large rattle
snake in (he morning, on our route across the moun
tain. lie cut oil’his head and ripped him open, in
this stale we met with the body, from four to five
hours after losing his head, and being completely
embowelled. Kin,ting considerable vitality yet in
the body, 1 pressed on it near the tail with a stick,
when the body instantly ooiled, aud struck the
stick with as rnuok apparent venoin aud vigor with
the headless trunk as it he had eyes to see and fangs
to strike w ith. This experiment was repeated half
a dozen times, and with similar results. One of
our company (being the guide who killed the snake)
undertook to test the matter ; and although he saw
and knew the serpent was headless, his nerves
were not strong enough to stand the shock, aud he
would recoil from each stroke. I secured and en
close the rattles, contaiuing nine, though several
were broken off in detaching it troin the body. This
story may appear incredible to many , but tbe
facts were also witnessed by our friend Judge M.,
of Baltimore, and Capt. L., V. 8. Navy, both of
our party. It was the largest rattlesnake ] have
ever seeu, much as 1 have tramped over the iuouu
tains; ands watched the whole afUi; wUU great
interest. I leave it for you and otkw philosophers
and naturalists to account mi this singular phenome
non in the natural history aud instinct of the ser
peut. I vouch for the facts, and which old hunters
assure me are not uncommon.”
Wine Making in California.— A correspon
dent of the M.obile Advertiser, writing from Caiilor
uia, August ltd, ISO 1 1, says :
“Preparations are making tor the manufacture of
wine this season in many porlions of the State,
where it has not before been atl tempted, as Ibe
grape crop will be very large. Tbe grape crop
was never betler in this looa'ity than the present
season, but this branch of business is small here
compared with other portions of the State lurther
South. Near Isis Angeles the Vineyards ot Sans
vaiue Brothers, of II acres, yielded last year, 60,-
(HMlgallons wine. They are entering the business
on a large scale. They now have five wine cel
lars, each 135 feet wide, in which are now stored
over 51), (Mill gallons wine and .‘>,<MMI ot brandy. Kor
the brandy they get $3 per gallon readily. They
now pack a large quaulity ot what they term their
“Sparkling California,” which is acquiring con
siderable celebrity at the East, and some of your
readers will probably smack their lips over it at
the Bt. Nicholas this summer, as they have stand
ing orders for that establishment. They have one
order from New York of 3011 dozen per month at
$ I’J per dozen, in San Krancisoo. They have other
orders from other eastern cities beyond their ability
to supply. This concern bus also a fine peacb or
chard of choice fruit. ail contracted for on the spot
at 51 per lb. Added to this they have also an
< b-ange grove of 250 trees in bearing.'’
Ihf. Overland Routes.— a dispatch dated
Washington, August 23d, says As there is a
strong public opinion for abolishing the overland
routes, costing a million dollars annually, with little
cr no return, it is proper ta state that the Postmas
ter General would have applied the principle of
retrenchment to them, but was prevented by e
decision of the Attorney General. This was, that
as the contracts for that particular object were for
four years, and had not tbe usual clause empower
ing the Poetmaster General to change the service,
the routes in question could not be interfered with.
If Congress should abolish them a claim for dam
ages would arise.
Struck kv Lightning. --The San Antonio (Texas)
Herald says About two weeks ago, three gentle
men, living on the Hondo, went out hunting horses
Their names were Jos. McMaoter and two brothers
by tbe name of McCombs. When about fifteen
miles from home, and all of them squatted down
watching mustangs, a flash of I ghtning struck
them, setting fire to the clothing of two of them
shooting one of their guns. The lightning stunned
the whole of them severely, so that it is not known
how long they remained insensible. When tbe
two McCombs came to their senses, McMaster was
so badly burned that they left hint for dead and
went home for relief. The neighbors went for Mo-
Master next morning, and found bim still alive but
horribly burnt. He was taken home and lived
some twelve days, wbeu be expired.
A Good Move. The Philadelphia Ledger states
that tbs authorities of that city are making progress
in the work ot supplying public drinking fountains.
The Phlsa is Japan —A ccireepo dent cl the
Boston Traveler, writing frim Hong Ki ng, gives
aii interesting account of a vi-it to n native printing
establishment in the city of Japan He
nays :
Urotaiog tlie little stone a'l-hed biilge, which
uuitta Dr huh a and Nagasaki. 1 .. mm m cue 1 1
the principal st eels, and opening cloaeu
gate ini lia high and massive wail on ike streo ,
stood iu the specious oorrt, before tie punting e
tabiisbmeut How muck in contrast t‘ie ta<ie o:
the Pagan Japauese with that of the Du'ch Chris
tiana ! Elegant shrubs and flowers adorned this
court in front, while in the real of the buildings rose
tall pinea arid other evergreen trees, which stretched
their long veidant arms over as it to
adorn, protect, and bleea if. The structure itself h
spacious, neat, and even handsome, the roof being
in the Cbiueae style of architecture in their temples,
and covered with tilts, interlacing, aiul bidding
defiance to water, while the floors of two rooms in
the cflioe proper weie covered with neat mats anti
surrounded by sliding paper walls, while the ceiling
is of wood, handsomely painted. The establishment
belongs to the government, and is managed by the
government, whose cfficiials w ere seated as usual,
on the floor, and doing little or nothing, since thirty
days were to be spent, according to usage, in si
lently mourning lor the Emperor, wh* had iust
deceased, during which time all public offices are
closed anil all public business suspended. Indee I,
it was quite uncertain whether, m these ciroutn
stances, 1 couln gain admittance. With the usual
Japanese courtesy, however, the doors weie open
ed, and 1 was freely aIU pol.tely shown all the
apartments and materials of the establishment.
On one side of the oflioa was a hand proas of re
spectable size and in good condition, w hile on (he
other side was a ‘‘pewer press/’ moved by a wheel
of large diameter, iu perfect order, and of snfticieur
size to print the largest sheets usually struck rtf m
the United States. The press was not in motion,
for the reason before given, and the rollers were
suspended over the wall, aud reams of paper were
piled up uear the press, aud the workmen banging
about idle, as if they were impatiently waiting
the expiration of the days of mourning, to it ,uni
their labors. Besides these, there was another
press, of the smallest dimensions, on which, when I
made a second visit, some time after, two men were
sinking ell’ two octavo paces of anew Japaiu-s*
work in natural history, tire edition oousieting ot
thirty copies! It was the enterprise ol a young
Japanese doctor, whuj hail li.en instructed by a
Dutch physician residing in the city. Stands aid
cases were arranged as with us, one side of the
ollioe having the Komau typo used in printing
books and pamphlets in Dutch, and the oilier Hi-
Japanese; tor types in the Japanese character are
now cast in Holland, and huve displaced the wood
en blocks lonnerly used. The boxes ter the ,1a
panese letters were arranged on the same prinoi
pie as with us, but in different order. I tried in;,
hand in picking up some of these strange characters,
but probably a good deal to the adivertisemenl
of the Japanese compositors. The types, both
ltomair anil Japaueso, were almost new, and every
thing indicated the Japanese v. eie tar ahead ot tiie
Dutch in the typographical art, us well as in every
thing else.
Home of the paper used in printing is thick, white
and close, ami receives a line impression. It is
made neither of rags nor ootlon, lint of a bark ot
a tree, called the “paper mulberry,’ and i.j cheap
as well as good. The printed sin cts were hung up
over head to dry, .just us with us. A dor.an or
twenty hands are employed at the case and the
press, who appeared to tie expert workmen, ami
were quite courteous. Theeslablishment is managed
entirely by the Japanese, not a single Dutchman
being admitted either as superintendent or work
man. The Japanese are almost universally readers,
having their Bchools established by law, and books
for ttie ÜBe of Hie scholars anil Iho people. Most ol
these books aresiuatl, and 111, 1 of the moat ludiorou,.
illustrations, from which I’unohniust have borrowed
many of his ideas, though inferior. Most id the
books are, of oourse, of lillle value In the ipoials
ot science, while not a lew am licentious and
obscene. The Japanese havo now got the idea
that the English is a universal language, and-the
Dutch of little value, from which impression, and
a very just one, the young people wh . are destined
to business, or are ainbilious of political distinction
and honor, are seized with a passion to learn our
language.
Utile as the Dutob have done for christianizing
and oivilizing Japan—and rallier they have been
the saddest nurse ever indicted on Huy nation since
the earth was inhabited—they were willing for ihe
nuke of money to procure llio printing materials
trom Holland which Hie Japanese now use The
Japanese will not need to send abroad for them
again, sinoe their own wonderful ingenuity h, able
to provide them hereafter as they shall be needed.
I ought to have stated that I found a bonk bindery
close to the press.
The Catholics were a failure; the Proteetanls
were even a worse failure. Anew era opens, full
of delioaoy, full of perils , but with the press ai
ready in motion, and a universal passion for the
English language, and the most astonishing pow
ers for acquiring language and science, ami rat e
tering the arts, who can but expect, as well as
hope, for a glorious future to llio now opened em
pire of Japan.
Arkansas Ukolooicai. Survey.—The Geologi
cal survey of the State of Arkansas is producing
noble results. A mineral wealth i* already devel
oped which will prove a source of immense wealth
to the Commonwealth.
in the hills south of the Korolie, in Pulaski county,
iiedH of the tiuest i.on ore have been discovered —•
Freestone of the best quality for building purposes
lies in vast quarries.
Beds of coal have been developed running
through Perry country. Near Ihe confines ol Perry
and Yell counties, on file Magazine mountain, n
line chalybeale spring exists al (lie height, ot I ill ill
feet above the plain. A line saline chalybeate
spring has been found near Fourohe Rouge, three
miles from Danville. It possesses grealei deoxy
dating power'than any other spring known on this
continent.
Coal outcrops in a great many planes in the South •
ern part, both of Johnson ami Franklin counties
The same material is also found in abundance in
Sebastian county.
Slate and quartz formation abound in Montgome
ry and Polk counties, and lenders has also been dc
veloped in the same district of country. There is
also a good prospect of bodies of good iron ore both
in Polk and Montgomery oouniies, juafaouth ol the
formation of rock crystal. It is probably (he linen
locality for studying Ihe origin of rock eryidnl in
Ihe world, ami for extent, surpasses probably any
thing at present known, in the immense quantity n,
line crystallizations ofquarta. The analysis made
of the waters of this region will doubtless explain
satisfactorily its source and origin.
Suoh are some of the more valuable resells of the
geological survey of the State of Arkansas now in
progress. The capabilities oftlie soil for the pro •
duotioo of all the agricultural products of the tem
perate region and the neighborhood oi (he tropics is
also settled.— N. (). Picayune.
Tiif. Kdijcation Most Needed,— Learn U la
bor.—The question is often asked, why is it that to
few people ere successful in business, ar.d why
property linds sucli an unequal distribution 7 This
man, they say, received Ilia advantages of a good
English education, and that mau was educated at
one of our best colleges. Both have been induslii
ous, honest and economical, and yet neither of them
has been successful in business. Why is it 7 asks
the New York Express , and that journal proceeds
to point out the cause, aud in Ilia course of its re
marks observes:
The idea too commonly prevails that a more
knowledge of books in tbe beginning and ending .t
education. The sons ami daughters, especially
the rich, grow up with this notion in their beads
ln idlenesa as lt were, with little idea of the respon
sibilities winch await them. Their natures revolt
at the mention ot “labor,” not dreaming tha* tbeir
parents before them obtained the wealth they are
so proud of by industry and economy J|, )W many
young men, college bred though they may lie
prepared to manage the estates winch their Isi’lmrs
possess, and which it may have required a lifetime
to acquire How many young women, though
having acaujred ai) the knowledge and graces of
the beat schools, know how to do what their moth
era have done before them, and which the daugii
tera may yet be compelled to do at Home period oi
their lives 7 The children of the poor have to labo*
or starve, and as far as that goes they are educated
to be practical.
1 he eduoatlou that scoffs a* labor and encourages
idleness in the worst enemy for a girl, man or wo
man. Instead ol ennobling, it degrades , it opens
Up tbe road to ruin. The education which direct*
uto do what we are lifted to do, that respects 1*
bor, that inculcates industry, honesty, and tan
dealing, aud that stiips us of selliohnesa, is the edit
cation we do need, and that which must become
the prevailing system of the country before w e can
be as people either happy or prosperous.
Personnl lie him.
The amiably tempered “lady” of Boston—Mrs
h ranees Train-ha* had lo pay *25 for her pram toe
m oowhiding her brother-in W. She was amazed
at this result of her pluck. The Boston papers give
it as tbe opinion of th*tfticera that she was put up
to the act by some V*lrd party.
One of the Department librarians at Washington
has reqtdvsd a letter irom Moos. Vatteruare tl.s
originator of international book exchanges V c
concerning Though he is apprehensive
that its complete success at the preasnt tune may
be prevented by the many obstacles which aie
likely to preseat themselves, still he trusts that
there is a better day in the future lor his plans.
The Narragansett Weekly records the death of
Susanna Harvey,aged IWI years, i, months, and
i *. y*’ , ? r * J , u “bAnH was in the war of the Itevo
lutiop, and she had long been in the rt< nipt ol *
pension from the Government. Her luneral sermon
wa* preached by the Rev. Klilm Cheeeeborougb ol
Stonmgtou. who is in the Hist year ol hjs nee |
was not oue of the modern brief discourses, bui a
regular old laebumed sermon, a lull hour in leogih
Kour or live years since, Jacob Terry of flinch,
uati, commenced suit against the Cinoinnati, Hamil
ton Sr Dayton Railroad Company, for iri|uries lo
his wile, which has since been pending in the
Delaware County Circuit Court. On Saturday
last the suit was compromised, on the payment ot
*I(MM) and the costa ol the plaintilf.
William Htettar, proprietor of a billiard roo-.n at
the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets, Cincinnati
in a game with Mr. Wilson, irade the asto j|„„ ru|1 ’
of two thousand and eight points, and obliged
to slop trrough sneer fatigue, leaviug Vhe balls it, a
condition to continue the game indefinitely Ti.e
game, which was played in the presence of eight
wltuessee, will be continued.
Mrs Harrison, tLe vene.aj.le widow of ex f’reii
dent Harrison, is very bi 8 t her residence at North
Bend.
KMKEZznr'iENT.-Tbe arrest of Edmund French,
engineer and pay clerk (under Major Bowman) u
the Bureau of Construction of the Treasury l>,
partment iu Washington, for embezzlement nL
been mentioned by telegraph. The amount of tie
frauds is said to be *IS,(KM). The Star says •’ 1
The fraud was discovered by Maj. Bowman who
was called upon to draw a check for payment7 f
some $1,200 to a concern in PhiladelphiaK™
he had no knowledge, and tor matenal of “,.mS Le
knew nothing. This led suspicion at once to French
who was immediately confronted with his superio,-’
m the Solicitor s office, anil called upon to explain
which be could uot do, and appeared a great deal
confused, lie was shown his book • and requested
to explain why entries had not been made of tie
articles charged, aud bis manner at once betrayed
him. 1 here were no entries, and a little examinain n
discovered tbe fact that many vouchers had been
altered so as to call for erroneous sums of money,
which money could not bo accounted for by the
accused. An examination into the charges against
him showed false entries and vouchers to tho extern
ot $5,0011. French was required to give bad in tbe
sum of 10,00 for his anDearat ’ ‘3 at the Gri minal Court
B. Ogle Taylor, Etq., became his surely. Mr!
French is a mao ot good family; he is a orother oi
Rev. Dr. French, formerly pastor ol Epiphany
Church, in this city, and a graduate at West Point
and we nnderstand a classmate of Major Bowman
at that institution, who has treated him with great
kindness uniformity, and with the above stated re
turn. He was st one time engineer of Croton.
Water Works, in New York, and up to yesterday
had always borne an excellent character for probity
He resided in quite rural style near the cy, olv
Kook Creek, aud his ample salary of s3oUto seemed
quite sufficient for the wants of himseir aud i&unly
Punch calls a trip across the Atlantic a tteik)
transit, 1 1