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LIH8RTTS THE CONSTITUTION: CKION.
C( )I,UMHI'S. a A
Ttiofiday Morning. March 31,1857.
A Kctirlu^ Boh.
The labor* of tho undersigned a* Editor of the En-
yuirer (in which vocation we hove catered for tho
entertainment of ita reader* for about ten month*)
cloae with the preae* , t number, and wo toko edito-
rial leave of “all the world and thereat of mankind”
with the very beat feeling* and good wishea. Our
position having bean an uniformly pleasant one, and
free from tho irritating controveraiea and personal
excitements which too often ruffle editorial life, we
retire with a confidence that it would ha ns aupor-
fluou* in u* to n*k a* to proffer any forgetfulness of
the pant. On the contrary, oor editorial associa
tion with the patrona of the Enquirer and with our
brethren of tho press will long he remembered as
one ot pleasant reminijrenro only.
J. If. MARTIN.
fy* T%* Proprietor* of the paper wiM qoon an*
nounec new arrangements for ita editorial (nonage*
Pacific HoTTI—— We are assured thut this New
York house, udverliaed in another cttnmn, fa wor
thy of a trial by Southerner* visiting that city.—-
Beo advertisement.
i:xoi bl'anl i r i clggtit Charge*.
We copy from tho Savannah News an article on
thia subject, of much interest to our citizens. There
have J*)';g been complaint* of outrageously high
rate* of freight charged by tho Railroad line* con
necting thia city with the East, and it is full time
lital the attention of the public should be directed
to aome tnonna of correcting tho evil. Wo are told
that during a part of the present hosiers* season
Cotton could hove been shipped from this city, via
Montgomery, to New Orleana, cheaper than to Sa
vannah ! Tho distance to Savannah is leva than
thre* hundred miles, whifa it is much more thnn
twice that distance to Now Orleans. Uy tho for
mer route, too, no change of cars is uenrsaary;
while by tho latter, dray ago from railroad to steam-
boat bus to he paid. We also lonr/i thut ut least
one of our iwrrhants has l*een receiving hit goods
from the North by way of Mobile and Montgomery,
finding thut long and lode tie route a cheaper me
dium of transportation than thu short and quick
route via Savannah.
liy exorbitant freight tariffs, railroad companies
do much to deprive the community generally of tho
benefits which they have some right to look for
from their enterprises. Their privileges are not
conferred wholly with a view of putting money in
to (he pockets of the stockholder*; nor do most of
the stockholders themselves invust their money in
such works entirely with a view of drawing direct
dividends from the investment. Jtoth the authority
conferring tho rhsrtcr and tho planter or merchant
subscribing tho stock have also in view a ronaider-
ntioit of a rather higher character—they have ni(
ryo to the enhancement of the vulue of their prop
erty and tho great public convenience to be promo
ted by reasonable freight chargea. The cities, loo,
which liberally uid railroads connecting them, have
a deep interest in this matter which ought to be
coneilltcil- nn interest demanding gli:iI their pros
perity and tunic idinll be favored by roaaonabtn
efrergn* and other facilities.
In tho name of these interests, which suffer from
the evils complained of, wo offer theta HiggustionH,
ami trm«t that tho public nttentiou will be directed
towards some practicable remedy.
Fort GrJjicn, (Jr.
Wo nro plonsod to loarn that tho securing of tho
extension of the South-Western Railroad to Fort
tjuinrs Inis u!uady pcruplihly otdiii-mu-d it* pr*n-
pacta Mid the aroftue of town pntporty. Ah tho wes
tern limit of Georgia will have been reached when
thn Knud i* completed to Fort (laine*, it i* probable
that that place will for aome lime remain tho ter
minus of tho lino—moat likely-until smno Alabama
company takes In baud the extension towards I*en-
aacetn; and uu Use Chattahoochee a Abrils grind nav
igation neatly (he year round up to Fort Gaines,
this route will afford uu excellent medium for the
shipment of \.Orient). and West India merchandize
Into Georgia, It certainly does not appear ex trnyu
g.nit to ‘inliaipBte that when tho Hoad is completed
’«> that point, through boats may bo run between
Fort Gaines and New Orleans and H.ivnnu—just
a* they imw run between Montgomery mid Now
Oilcans. Tim directness nnd shortness of this
ratio, nu 1 tho vust extent of country to be supplied
by tho Huutli- Western Railroad and its eoniioctiona
ut Macon, scam fully to justify ua in making this
prediction. I.et any ouo r at dully examine tho
map, .and If ho call point out to ua nuy shorter,
more direct, or cheaper route far supplying South-
•western uni Middle Georgia and South-eastern
Alabama with the produce of Now Orleuiis sad
Gubn, we will confess lo tho dimnesn of vision
which tho Federal Union ascribes to un.
Fort Gaines, we learn, i* upon tho highest bluff'
ol the navigable CbnUahooe.liee, und is n beautiful
nituution for a thriving town. We rajojee tliat it
jiow has before it so Hollering a prospect of realizing 1
that prosperity mid growth which many have long
confidently predicted it would ultimate ly attain.
TUe ‘•NuUonal” F.plileuilc.
Tho natno ol tho hotel in Washington at whirl)
this disrate ws* gonerated appears to he descriptive
of its character—-for its victims aro scattered far
nnd undo throughout every section of the Union.-
It is now crttiunitod that on>- thousand pernons were
seriously nflWted fry thiaaubtlo nnd mysterious in
fection, In adilition to the distinguished men ul-
rraJy repotted as victim* of thfa «*o|ji.!mnic**, wo
nre informed that Hon. John Appleton, thn now
editor of the Washington Virion, is suffering so
severely from it that he bus had to give up for n
white the editorship of tho organ of the Adminis
tration ; that lion. Robert J. Walker is much on-
frcldod by the same sickness ; and that Go!. .Sliced,
tho Into Representative of the Knoxvilto (Toon.)
District, is prnatratod by an utficlion having it* in
ception from the same enure mid now Auvuipticated
by an attack of acute rheumatism.
The Imtol, it will be seen, has been dosed. The
Washington paper* inform us that the committee
appointed to investigate the enuse of the sickness
expressed the opinion that it was foul air generated
by dafvetive sewerage, mid reported tlmt lliefe could
he no truth m the rumor that poisoned rats had in
fected tho cistern. Rut this theory seems to he
somewhat at variance with developed facts and the
opinions of a numbor of physicians. Not only have
physicians in various part* of-the country expressed
the opinion that their patients were laboring under
the deleterious effects of miunraf |H>i*on, hut it i*
at ited th u persona about " orhingtou liar.' lesli-
fled that they were made sick by drinking „ single
glass of water at the National Hotel. As all the
case* ef sieknaaa ate traced to this hotel, ami per-
aons ill the neighborhood not visiting it were free
from the “-■pidutnic,” though aoooringly equally lia-
qlu to U affected by miasma generated fiom foul
*‘ wersge, the re ( ami of the committee does not give
general sutfafaettea.
The Motional Intelligencer gives expression to
an apprehension which, however painful, is cutitled
to consideration. It is, thut if the siokness be re
ally caused by mineral poison incorporated by slow
degrees into the system, it may assume increased
virulence during the warm weather of the coming
summer, tun! its effects become most deplorable.
The mutter is one of sufficient importance to de
mand its investigstiou by the most thorough medi
cal and reicnttfU mm of the country, and it is to
be hoped that the investigation will will not be
concluded until th* problem is fully solved.
Alban' . t?A.—8* e advertisement of Mr. Win.
w. Chrever, offtriug tor sale valuable fats in the
thriving aiui go wing town of Albany, fin., whoso
prospective Railroad facilities will doubtless soon
mak« it on important inland (owe.
N. Orleans New;--—Commercial and Political.
Notwithstanding the alnrimng dimumtion of the
receipts of domestic Sugar and Molasses, busineaa
at New Orleana has been very brisk this season,
and the levees of the city have been piled with nn
amount of produce so extensive that a whole con
tinent would seem to have emptied its cornucopia
into her lap. Of a number of leading articles, the
import* have been unusually largo. We notice by
recent report* that 274,735 bags of Rio Coffee had
been receive.! for the season, against 244,188 to
same date of last year, though not a bag bad been
imported from any West India port; that 796,000
bid*, of Flour, against 066,000 laatycar, and 71.000
tiercel) and barrels «f hard, against 48,500 last year,
had been received. Of Wheat and other Western
productions the increase had also been large.
T<; m«kc up, to some extent for the deficiency of
the Louisian* crop, heavy receipts of Mbgar end
Molasses* from Cuba figure in the < uuniereial re
port*. Up to the 20tli inst., there had been receiv
ed from Culm 21,407 boxes and l,‘J‘‘l hhda.of 8u*
gar, against 8,048 boxes and i,17U iilids. to name
lime Inst year; also 19,101 hhde., tierces and bids,
of Mnlassefl, against only 281 last season.
The receipts of Cotton are now comparatively
light, nnd on aome days a comparison of receipts
with those of corresponding day* last year ahow* a
vary great contrast. For instance, on ti.e 10th lust,
only 1U24 bales were received, while on tho 19th
March, I860, 11,060 bales were reported. Hut
these comj irisons arc very fluctuating, and tho de
ficiency, though considerable, is not near so largo
an this isolated contrast would indicate. The
heaviest receipts of Cotton now Como from Red
river, and our New Orleans friends look to arrivals
from that stream principally to make up the balance
of their receipts.
The M'lHsiasippi is now quite high, and a Dum
ber of crevasses above thn city ha’/o been reported.
Hut thn water on tho bars ut tho moiUb of tho rivor
was unusually low ot lute advices, and a large num
ber of vessels of considerable draft were unable to
pass out.
There is at prrsoflt a good deni of political ex
citement in New Orleans, occasioned by the course
of fin.* I.egislnturi! towards thut city. The city is
overwhelmingly Aninriean in its politics, and the
Legislature is strongly Demovalii : hence repented
attempt* by the latter body to pxerci*# arbitrary
and despotic rule over the city. It will be remem
bered that last year the Legislature and Governor
deposed tho Amniic.au Hlierifl’, elected by a large
majority of th* voters of tho parfah of Orleans, and
appointed a Democrat iu hi* stead. This falter
functionary officiously attempted lo interfere with
the Mayor’s regulations far preserving order at tho
polls on tho day of the hint J'rosidentiicl election,
and thereby incrcosrd the feeling of indignation
which resulted in «n extraordinary majority for
Fillmore nnd Donchmn. A number of Democrat*,
either disgusted with the proceedings of their party,
or premeditating some kind of a squabble, rufrnined
from voting and rnised tho unfounded cry of vio
lence nnd intimidation at the (Mills, calling upon
the Legislature to throw out the vote of New Or
leans I If the Demy -racy had not obrained a small
majority in the State, even including tho vote of
thn city, they would no doubt have carried out this
iiifnmouM suggestion. Thn prcsnnt Legislature i*
going beyond its predecessor iu inousilrcs of retali
ation and vengeance against tho city. A lew
works ago the House pusacd a bill requiring the
several legal officers in the city tu give their official
advertisements to the Courier, ,tho leading Demo
cratic journal, and this arbitrary and extraordinary
I reposition was only defeated by ii tie vote in the
f'cunte! Ilotb liruuchos have now passed an “elec
tion law" far the city, which is little less despotic
thuu declaring it to bo under m utiul law. This
art take* the superintendence of the elections from
the usual ollirern chosen by tho city and vests it in
a superintendent to be appointed by the Governor,
and who is authorized to employ the military to en
force his order* and carry out hi* regulations !—
There In very general opposition to the odious
Bctmcut in the city j tho Courier V tho only paper
thM defends it; nnd some of tho presses go so
a* to hint at forcibly resistonoc -t<> this ntteiup
overawe the freedom of election*. There ia very
little reason lo douut, from tho temper at
uiatiifuHlvd, that the gallant Americans ol Now Or-
loans will signally rebuke this |ii ;b-liandad act,
and roll up such a majority agninxt tho party perpe
trating it us to make it tuo the day when it at
tempted thus rutlib-indy to make hIsm m ol American
freemen.
*U-Utinn in Office. 4tc.
Reports from Washington I 'ily still have it that
••the Jfamocratic pimriplenf rotation in office" is the
policy recognised bv the now Administration, soil
will he carried nut. Hut (lie action of (be Admin
istration in this respect, so far, proves that it is a pol
icy very frequently nnd very eaHily overruled by
local considerations. In New Orleans, most of the
appointment* am new; in Charleston, old officials
are retained ; in Kirlunoti l, Vn., Mobile and Ttis-
kutoosn, Ala., the old Postmasters have been re
tained (while the old Postmasters of \us(in, Texas,
and Huntsville, Ala., have been rriuoroJ ; and in
Hostel) some of the appointment* are .new, nnd
some old officials >m« retained. It is therefore up-
parent thut no general principle has ■ < on determin
ed, and that tho Administration is • ilndted in ili
action by local influence# iu e »Ji ■■ -t iiks. Tip)
cry of “rotation in office" fa prubabK but a pretense
to pacify removed officials and reconcile them to
their fate, while each locality fa really dealt with
according to ita own indepnmient>epres< ntations.
This fact proves how completely the Government
is in tlm hands of party clique*, and hwW ridicu
lous ia tl\o claim of any iudependi nee or tlrmnesH
on the part of the new Administration. Thia, in
deed, Was made umnilect by the Cabinet appoint
monte, which wore not decided upon in full until
the very eve of th« iuUugurntiou, and in the selec
tion of which tho intrigues of personal cliques and
sectional influence* are apparent. In two of the
States, tho Electors adopted tho intermciUing ex
pedient of nominating to thn Presi lent (it incin
herit of his <Cabinet. One of these recommenda
tion* (that of the Virgiu! i Electors designatingG-*v.
Floyd) waa acceded to; while the Alabama nomi
nation of Hon. Win. L. Yancey wa* disregarded.
Hut the most open und glaring attempt of these
self-constituted cliques to take possession of the
Government is from tho New York politicians.—
We learn from the Washington Star (Democratic
I paper) that on the 10\h itrel., tho “Democratic citt-
tenaof New Ymk now i.i Wnshii
Kanaaa—Tlic Finale Dratvln;' Near.
Our last Tri- Weekly contained a brief statement
of Gov. Geary’s reasons for his resignation. Wo
havto since found, in our Northern exchanges, tho
full report given by the Missouri Democrat, derived
from a conversation with Geary. Tl.a Democrat,
is as wc havesevcial times advised our readers, is a
vile Frecsoil slipet of 8t. Louis, and has not been
excelled oven by the Now York Tribune in its
daily abuse and misrepresentation of the Southern
party in Kansas; indeed it has been the prolific
source from which the Hlack Republicans derived
<f thoir horrible and false reports of pro-slavery
outrages in the Territory last year. This paper, on
his srrival in 8t. L mis, G iv. Geary m«de his organ
and confidant, and poured into the willing and ea
ger ears of its cd.tors his “statement” foully villi-
fying the Houthern men in Kansas and denouncing
them as “pro-<1.1 very rufiiins,’’ “assassins," and
'conspirators.'* After a good deal of tiffs kind of
abuse, he indignantly tenders his resignation, and
tells tku Democrat that
"In view ol all these tilings, arv,' under the nar
ration of the net of the Ruffian Leg fa I iiure, w lii< Ii
provides fur tli« election of delegates to the Cons'i-
tutional Convention, administered a* it will be by the
dominant faction who hold all the offices, lie thinks
it inevitable that a slavery constitution will be es
tablished in Kansas.”
We have also before us tho “act of the Kuffiui
Legislature” above alluded lo, and find that it pro
vide* for a very speedy settlement of tlm slavery
issue in Kansas. A registry of ail the voters of tho
Territory was to have been completed by the 1st of
April, and to remain open to inspection and c r*
ruction far one month, after which lime the lis* is
<o he published and copies arc to he furnished to
•II judge* and inspectors of elections. On the
third Monday in June next an election is to be
held for Defagates to a Convention to form a Htate
Constitution ; an I no person who has not at that
time been a resident of the Territory fur the apace
of three months preceding tho day of election ia to
be entitled to vote. Tho Convention thus elected
is to meet on the fimt Monday in September and
adopt a Htate Constitution. Th« act make* strin
gent regulations to prevent fraudulent voting, and
apportions delegate* among the several counties.—
This act Gov. deary vetoed, hut the Legislature
passed it over his veto by a unanimous vote.
Ho it will bo H t eo that the momentous quest ion is
to be aeltled quickly in K inaas, and that tho giles
hiivo already been ahut agninnt new voting emi
grants. We derive encouragement to hope far tho
lest from Geary’s despondency a* to tho successor
the Frcesoilers : but wc have not any great confi
dence in the result. Had “popular sovereignty"
been really allowed to the people of thn Territo-
tory, the pre-slavery party would surely have tri
umphed ; but with Freesoil Governors to »krn ito
them, the laws have not been executed, rebellion
has been harbored nnd protected, and tho Hlark
Republican party of the North lus at nil time, been
advised of a vary effort to be made by the pf>.slavery
parly to strengthen their position. If the Mouth
loses tho battle, sho will be betrayed mid defasti d
by the “aid ami succor” which the Federal Gov
ernment haB given to the Frooaoilers.
The 8t. Louis Intelligencer of the 17th inst.,
just received, advise* us of a new and passing
strange phase of this K lisas squabble. It c-pirs
from the Lexington (Mo.) lixpren in editorial se
verely criticising an address to the people of Kansas
signed by many of the pro-shivery politicians, ig
noring the qurn/ii,n of slavery, and avowing them
selves to bo Democrats only ! This address is
signed by D. R. Atchison, J. H. Htringfellow, Jiff'.
H it for I, H. G. Jones, nnd sevontcM) others. Hoth
the Express and the Intelligencer bitterly denounce
it as a betrayal of tho pro-slavery cause and a sur
render ol the Territory lo Frueaoilers, Not having
the whola address before us, and nut being fully
potted ns to the design had in view and the effut
likely to he prod need, we shall not yet go so far;
but in copying the following extract from tlm ad
dress (furnished by the Express) wo must say that
it sounds very *tnmgr.fi/, to say the least of it:
“In doing ao. ns a party, we forget •hivrry nnd nn-
ti rlaven/, in the high purpose ol serving our eoun-
try ; and whether we have ticrelolore boon Whig
The “ Dred Hrott” Decision.
As wc have heretofore intimated, there are indi
cations that the Hlack Republican* of the North
will make a desperate effort to rally a strong party
in opposition to the recent decision of the Supreme
Court of the United 8tatcs involving the question
of slavery. That decision ia su palpably against
them and their schemes of agitation, that on acqui
escence in it must totally destroy their occupation
j as sectional agitators and factionists. Hence the
Press, the Pulpit, and the Legislative Halls which
they control are joining in a general clamor against
the Court and its decision. Abuse without stint is
showered upon the tribunal—the reverend hypo
crite in the pulpit striving to excel iu Billingsgate
blackguardism and vulgarity even the coarse vitu
peration of the New York Tribune a- d Evening
Post; and the Legislatures now in se/wion wasting
the lime that ought to be devoted to the labors of
their proper sphere, in getting up incendiary re
ports and resolutions against the opinion ol the
highest judicial authority of the land. Reports, de-
xigrifcd to favor excitement and engender faction,
| ha vn already been n»..de from committees appainted
j by the Legislatures of New York and MsomcIiu-
j setts, and the latter l*ody Ins before it a proposition
[ intended to give some practienl direction to the »g-
j itation thu* iuduatri-waly stirred up. It U the pro-
j position of an anierdurenl to the Constitution of
j the United htate# so a* to provide for lite election
i of Judges of the Supreme Court lor slrert terms di
rectly by the people. The f reposition is manifestly
absurd, and its effect would be to make the Court a
tribunal csscntndly different from that contempla
ted by the Const.tu lion as a co-ordinate branch of
the Government—to bring the passions and tern
porary excitement# of the people to bear exactly
where the framers of the Constitution intended to
erect a barrier against the tiJe of popular error and Lodge Rm
prejudice. Ho, abstractly considered, it would be
regarded by reflecting wn everywhere ; but we arc
not aldn to foresee what will be the effect of the
proposition upon the Northern mind as at present
biassed and acted Upon. That it cannot succeed
in any contingency is evident, because the entire
questions of such unspeakable impoi
i , ir uDoreiiension not only the
ties and destinies of this great republic but-also
the onward march oi the entire human race in
the career oi moral and mental, as well as material
improvenicfit,—a noble march in which we have
hitherto boasted ouraelvea to be in the van, leaders
and exemplars, but in which we are now ordered to
retrace our steps and set our facca toward the dark
ness of the middle ages. “Chaos is come again.
But out of the chaos, light, order, beauty and last
ing peace may arise.^^^ ^
CTT “Tub Tikis” is the title of a very neat Lit
erary and Family Journal lately established ot
Greensboro*, X. C. It eschews party politics and
religious sectarianism, and the aim of the editor#
and proprietors is to make it a Southern Literary
Journal of high character and general circulation.
Most ol its matter is original, tho productions of its
editors anJ corps ol able regular contributors—-all
of whom are Southern writers. Mr. William It-
Hunter, who lectured in this city the other day in
behalf of Sunday Schools, ia one of the correspond
ing editor* and agent*; and we learn from him
that t! e valuable accession of Win. Gi'more Sims
to the already attractive list of regu ar contri*. utors
has been secured. The Times, we liuve no doubt,
will become a very popular and valuable family pa
per, nnd we cordially recommend it to the Southern
public generally, and especially to tho uuny North
Carol.niaus of Georgia and Alabama who desire an
excellent (wiper from the good old State of their na
tivity. Price, $2 per annum. AJJrcsa Ogburn,
Cede 4' Albright.
Dedication*
The dedicatory services of the new Masonic Hall,
which took place yesterday, was a grand affair. Tl.o
if all was opened lor the inspection ol the public on
Monday anff Tuesday evenings, and waa visited by
hundred# of our ladies, who ail seemed much de
lighted with the aight of the interior of a Masonic
the mysterious chart*, the strange
py, the altar with the open Bible and »quare
and compass, thn emblem* un the regulia and car
pet, all comb g in for a »haro of rem irk and female
wonderment. The Ha I, in all its appointments,
reflects much credit upon nil concerned; the carpet
which is covered with emblems, and everywhere
bears the three foundation words of the Order,
, . , , , “Faith, Hope, Charity,” is both elegant and up-
North tin- n.'l.i™n*lhh.c.,rjrai but lbo .g.l.- j . tbe upbol.u,,* i. n ,.t „„J tf o„,l
Tbc room i* intended to accommodate both
Party Dictation.
The scenes now daily enacting in Washington,
by Democratic office seekers and their respective | (a --" | " 0 ’” r ”’ r lback to its farmer condition o'f law”
friends, aro without a parallel in the history of the i j e98neBB aud violence. lie haa acted in such a u, y
government. Sundry cliques have there collected . ns to ( iave conciliated all the Abolitionists, arid
from the various 8tates, and meet in general coun- ; of course, to set tho whole Pro-Slavery party against'
determine in what manner the President ' him. He has refused to sanction laws passed by
• „ f, t cl ii si vc I v bin own We hear the Legislature of the Ierrttory, and the Leri*!,.
shall use a power exclusively Ins own. « e near b » ve nullified h ia veto bv unanimously n a „
of Itw delegation from Now York, the delegtiom H e IwaitltOTfetcdin o sheriff'-
from Boston, and the delegation from Ualimorc, I occasioned thereby contention and
Under the auspices of Gov. Geary, Kansas bid*
well aware of this, and do not hope for
success in this way. Their 'Ajeet is te give a seem
ing practical turn to their agitation, ami te pander
I to that intensely democratic (v-wlivity which de-
| :uamls the election of almost every officer directly j
I by the people. We shall watch the progress of
this agitation with some interest.
I We copy from til© .Mobile Advertiser the fnllow-
I ing opportune Ntatemcnt of the points involved,
slid just allusions tu the past and proscut course of
I the American party:
“Tho Supreme Court have decreed that negroes,
or tnen ui the African race, win.*titer bund or free,
j ore not citizens ol the United States by the federal
! Constitution; that the ordinance ol 17". was eupot-
‘ seded by tlie Constitution ; that the \L-*ouri Com
promise of 1820 was an unconstitutional ad ; that
( fclavehuldera htvt ih« right lo carcy thair slaves in*
! to the Territories; (list the legal condition ot u
«lavu in a slaw trial*: ia not affected by his tempo
rary sojourn in u IrC'i State ; nnd that Congress lias
no power over tho question ni slavery in a Territory,
j and cannot delegate any power over the subject to
itie Territorial Legislature*.
| “Every doctrine epitomizwd above may lie found
i enunciated in the “.Montgomery i’inilorin' <-t li.r
■ American Party in ’in'* .-hate, Ua* !»* • u urged nnd
i .lu-
suit t
it)
j tied by tin- National C*»nv« ntimi i
1 vision ot the l UiUUlph » Pi a
Democratic triciid* then t.> niJ g
I for aeknowledging the “paramo
the Supreme C »ur* Now, we i
with us. the benefit of a ich a dot
their cordial ndlr «.on thereto.
“We are happj
gin.
unite together undsr ill*- Democratic banner to
our Irtemis nil over the Union in waging n com
war upon tho enemies of thu Union and the ri
ol the people ol thu Slates and the Territory.
Kuiinuh A New FIium* 1
The news from Kansas fa of startling but grati
fying interest. The Freeaoilcrs, we ure t »bl, do
not mean to make any contest at thn June elei tnu ,,
hut will permit them to he carried by default by the
Southern men. Of course, their motives arc nono
of the host, and afford another proof of tho hvpoc-
proceedings in reference to ‘-Ideed-
W'y for
it fault with u
i’ authority i
in*, and give i
papers wc have yet
uii.t ron.ltly yield tl 1
derision under not
it conflicts directly a
previous opinions and prejudic.
publican papers, ho
their madnen* at ten
of honor ami r. spoc
the people tins eiri
tritMinal in ih-? conn
ity, that would ding
meanest city in th*
at all tho An
i« North.gro
Tin Black Re
■ciliated they may have
>#.*il sympa hies, cannot
’ribunt), or any paper or
ir«t tin- Constitution ol
irtiiunai ot itn appoint-
i, that to follow the sd-
the Columbian and Oglethorpe Lodges
The services of the day commenced by tbe es
corting of the Grand Lodge freru Odd Fellow#
Hall to Masonic Hall, where tho act of dedication
was performed, Col. Win. 8. Rockwell, (*. M. of the
State, presiding; after which a M .H.iriic procession
wu* formed, under H. II. IliM, a* Marshal, assisted
by Messrs. A. K. Ayer, F. O. Wilkins, E. Cruft,
and E. H. Musgrove. The precession was very
imposing, consisting of the Grand Lodge, the Ogle
thorpe and Columbian Lodges. Alter a‘ short
march, according te the programme, it passed into
Teinperanco Hail, where, alter a prayer by the
Rev. Mr. Hiiwks.and the singing of ail ode by tbe
brethren, an address was delivered by (’ol. Win. M.
Rockwell, G. to., (Mr. Clapton of Tu»kogee, Ala ,
not being able to attend.) which wus listened lo
with deep attention by an interested audience.--
The-speaker treated of Masonry in its social, char
itable, patriotic, scientific and religious character ;
and though brief, it was a masterly and highly vat*
islactory effort. Wc hope it will be published—
Tho services ut Temperance II ill w. re then closed
by nnother ode and tbe Benediction.
Aftei which the procession again took up its line
of march, and returned, by a circuitous route, to
the Masonic Hail, were the services oi the day were
closed.— lions d Sentinel, 27th.
Railroad Freights.
A few days since v\e published, under this head,
sn nr.icle from the Atlanta Examiner, stating tliat
freights from Charleston via Augusta arid West
Point, were delivered in Columbia* ut Irss rates
than were rherged from Savannah, while the differ
ence was 150 mile# in favor of the latter route.—
Tho Examiner still contends far tho correctness of
its previous statement, saying it received the facts
Irem u reliable source, and adds :
•• Now, wc beg leave here to utterly disclaim any
intention to injure or misrepresent the Central
Railroad, or lo u-flect upon our own sea port. Sa
vannah. Moat ardently do we wish tier all the sue-
ce«* and prosperity which tho seeriliees ol her mi-
zeiiM in the construction of the railroads that lead
to Savannah, ao richly merit. Hut tor all this, it is
surely vital to her interests dial freights tu this
point, os well ns Columbus, should be delivered at
a* low a figure, as they nre from Charleston through
the South Carolina, Georgia, and LnCrange Roads.
If they are not. thou the interests ol Savannah must
will ship their goods by
all of which means a chosen body of wire-pulling
politicians who have been sent from these various
cities, to meet in Washington and there dictate to
the President what disposition he shall make of the
public patronage. The whole system i« perfectly
infant- us, end Mr. Buchanan is said to have been
thoroughly disgusted ami outraged by the inso
lent interference of these emissaries from hia own
party.
Will tho pecple tolerate such encroachments
u(*>n the constitutional rights and independence
ol their chief executive officer 1 Such conduct fa
hut the legitimate result of the manner of conduct
ing political campaigns far some years hack. I he
force* at the polls are subsidised by promises of re
war i, anJ the wo k accomplished, tbe laborer cornea
forward with what he considers a legitimate de
mand far his hire. He presents it, not in the farm
f a petition addressed loan independent an I self-
ontrolling dispensing power, but as a just and
bona fide detit far services rendered, the payment
of which he has a right to exact. The spoils of
the great arbiter of votes, and not
the Wfclfarc of the country, through the success of
sound principles of government at the elections.
At the North, politics, l-kc every thing else, has
become a trade, a matter purely of dollars and
cents, and the political complexion of men i# reg
ulated more by the prospect* of reward than the
cotivictious of judgment upon tho best mode of
administering the government The successful
party is the only patriotic party, nnd it remains
patriotic and successful only so long an it answers
the purpose of those who have supported it from
considerations of personal thrift. The result of
this suite of thing# is truly alarming. It brings
fraud and bribery, nnd violence to the ballot box
corrupts the public virtue, and makes slaves and
felons of freemen. Where it is to lend to, no one
can tell; but of this we feel assured, it is bound to
result in serious calamity to the coun’ry. Vice
strengthens with every success, and when money
is once installed at the ruling spirit of tlm ballot
box, but a few years will elapse crc its place will
lie supplied by bayonets and gunpowder. We
shudder at tbe thought of such a destiny far our
country ; but dread it as wo may, it will surely
come, and tliat soon, unless we have a change fur
the belter. Then never wus a time when the in
fluence of good men and virtuous principles was
less felt in the prevailing sentiment of the country,
and righteousness will have lo be rla-1 in steel ami
nerved with iron to resist the multitudinous hosts
of its foes I I<ct the patriots of the land, discour
aged though they may be. awake from their slum
bers and raise their voices in behalf of n suffering
and dishonored country ! Let tho Press do its du
ty, rut loose from the corrupt schemes of party,
throw off the shackles that political leaders have
fastened around it, and stand forth in its native
majesty, free and untranuneied, the foe to vice and
error in every form, and the friend to truth and
the constitution. Do this, und we may acquire a
new lease upon an inheritance, which, as a people,
wo have abused and dishonored, nnd well nigh ru
ined.—-Sac. Republican.
risy uf all th
ing Kansas,”—they want il
that question until tin* next
It wifi be remembered that
journal remarked, several mi ■
sum was made a slave Htate
keep up <
Presidential election i
a Northern Democratic
nth* since, thut if Kan-
pile of anybody, it
\\ illnrd's Hotel t.. “designate candidates in bo pre- j
d te the President far appointment to the p
eipal Federal offices in the city of Now York-” As
the public are aware, tho Democracy of New )fork
are cut up into antagonistic factions, and are more
clamorous fai office than tho-e of auy other State,
except perhaps Pennsylvania. At the meeting
thus called, 131 persons attended ami voted, and
the fallowing gentlemen were aygin steJ by them
as their candidates tor tbe * tfiers uauied .
Collector—Jacob A. Wcstorvclt.
Postmaster—Isaac V. Fowler.
Naval Officer—Win. II. Ludlow.
Surveyor—Anson Herrick.
Mnrshsl—Isaiah Kyndcrs, (unanimous.)
Navy Agent—Emanuel H. Jlart.
Naval Storekeeper W.J. Hrisley.
Superintendent of Assay Office— idem P. Pent*.
District Attorney—Josiah Sutherland.
It remains to bo soon how the President will act
in reference to this attempt
selection of Federal officer*.
would bn in spile of tile Black Republicans ilium-
•elves; and tins course of policy, viewed in connec
tion with the oh a me ter of the Executive adminis
tration of the Territory and late events that hnvn
transpired there, establishes tho said Democratic
editor's reputation as a pruphet.
They fail bark now u|Hiii their famous "Topeka
Constitution,” and will »trivo to maintain their
rebel organization against tho rightful Government
of tho Territory. Hut tho Legislature which has
recently adjourned p.t«scd an act declaring op-,
position te the Territorial authorities lo ho ircastiii
nnd instituting the punishment of dei.lh ns thu
penalty for organising u conspiracy against the
Government. Ho there ia some little risk to bo run
in re enacting the scenes of Lawrence und Topeka.
No duubt, if the Freesoiteis had felt certain of a
majority, they would have contented thu June elec
tions vigorously ; and their refusal to do so is proof
positive of the falsehood of their boasts thut they
have a large majority of the legal voters of the Ter
ritory—far the act providing for tho elections es
tablishes such strict regulations a» almost render it
impossible to poll un illegal vote.
While we do not feel altogether certain that there
is no “eat in the meal-tub,” we nre very well satis
fied with this new phase <»l tho Ktinsa* question.
It proiuisea tu secure the new State to (lie South'
nnd that is thu grot and important object after nil.
As to any alterchpa from Blin k Republicanism, wo
presume that the South will not be very badly
scared at the prospect. “Sufficient unto the day is
tho evil ilw'ieul;” mid with Kansas in an n Slave
State, ami the recent opinion of the Supreme Court
ol the Uuited States upholding Southern Rights to
'o will occupy a vantage ground
from which we'ean never be driven. If the Blacks
raise such an excitement ns to overthrow or even
imperil the Union, the fault and the responsibility
will Ur all their own, and il ia n groat consolation
to kuow that the loss will be all their own too!
In this strange aspect ol ullairs, it is more impor
tant than ever to have n Southern Governor of
Kansns—therecun otherwise be no efficient and har
monious administration of tho affairs of the Terri
tory ; and wo trust that the Hon. Robt. J. Walker
will accept the appointment tendered to him—tho’
we confess to misgivings as to the good faith of
this appointment, fearing that it was only tendered
been use it was supposed tliat it would not be ac>
copied, and that another Northern Freesoiler will
be appointed after ail. Wc shall see.
merit. Besides they will
vice oi the men who have
would in the "overt act;”*be treason, clear and weit-
dolinod—and few, very few, are yet prepared to en
roll themselves open traitors against their country.
Tite fangs ol the serpent of disunion have at last
been ••fleetiislly drawn—lot him hiss on now at his
pleasure, he can dnmnge nobody."
With such rabid fanatical journals ns the Black
Republican press of New York and Huston, no
other justification of their course is desired than
the simple fact that the decision i* favorable to the
Houth ; but there nre more moderate and rcaaona-
(>!• papers of that parly which think it duo to
consistency aud their own character to justify their
p isilion by nrguuirnt, however specious. Of this
class ia ttie Philadelphia Sorth American, a Fre
mont paper of high rtanding and consurvative rep
utation. This p iper argues at length to show that
the opinion of tho Gourt on any other point than
the question of jurisdiction in the case waa a mere
ilhorily as a precedent
This
but (
i (lie
dictum and without any
Il quotes tho language of Juilices McLean
Curtis, to show tint they so regarded it, and
tends that nil that portion of the opinion of
Court denying the constitutionality ot the Mis*
Compromise, maintaining the right uf the mi
to hold still iu slavery a negro carried by him
free Stale, ficc., is mere verbiage and imperline
because, utter the Court had decided that Dred
not a cilton corap-tont to «uo li.lbro it, .ml ImJTC^HpJsW
thus disclaimed jurisdietiun, no such questions j u , ( .|
could arise. No doubt the “I'hiladciplra lawyer” j or i
thus arguing could find many authorities in cases
of less magniluio to sustain this position. Hut tl> u '
tho highest judicial tribunal of the land, in thia I ' ’
case, deemed it due to the country to investigate j bt , *
and make up an opinion upon nil the important I time
public, the consumers of goods, nre
cliciarit-a of such a policy, the pre
its duty to them, when they make:
Wc have no bias on our mind, in Ii
nr at least n portion of that roiiimui
vorable eye to Hnvsnnnh. and we .in!]
under the existing management of In
road interests,"Wenre forced into* posit
ing tor the Georgia and LaGrange r*t
advantage* and liberality in the tra
freight to this point and Columbus.”
This is certainly a matter of vita! :::
and we surely cannot blaiu* the Exam
ing public attention te it, even though
nut a rase against us. If tins u th<
freight for Columbus, the difference it
Charleston route must lie far more
freight, which is 135 nulen nearer Chn
Colombo*. It is certainly a mortifying reflection
tu us thut after all the sacrifices we have made to
obtain a railroad connection with the interior, we
should be crowded aside by Charleston, which can
afford to ship freight by a long and circuitous route,
over four different railroads, with a charge for dray-
age at Augusta, nnd possibly a transhipment at
West I’oiiit or Opelika, for a less price than our
railroads ran forward it direct, without any dray age
or breaking bulk. We think it due to the commu
nity, as well as to the stockholders, that tbe Direc
tors of tho Central nrnl Southwestern Railroads
should look into this mutter and adopt such changes
in their rates of freight, as will put Havannuli at
leust on an equal footing with Charleston.—Sa
vannah IS'rufs.
i jatiMhe bcii•
!y regret that
it may make
case with
favor uf the
on Atlanta
, hu
, Fr.
i ntil their
a red heat; they arc
I subsequently clean
icre to them. Tho c
med by shaking then
box, contain
points argued before it, and their magnitude is cer- sand. By this simple process, it ia
tainly sufficient Id take them out of the category of lnl l M '"" which have hithrrt.
legal quibbles and mere formal regulations. Their j
decision was imp. rtant to the peace of the country
and the vindication of the constitution, and it is .
n-ally a “matter of very liltie practical importance” I
whether tho court could or could not have evaded
it by a simple denial of jurisdiction. It hus deri- j
ded the questions embraced in (tie opinion, and j
a* the precedent is one far the guidance of Con-
gnss more than judicial tribunals, the principle i
and not the form is what every patriotic legislator i
should regard.
We extract from this same more moderate Free
soil paper the following statement of the modus
operand! by which its party hopes to gjve a prac- j
tieal direction to its agitation. We have no room
for comment, but simplv italicise tome expression* I
to which wc wish lo direct the attention of our
npietely spoiled, t
may be restored to their original state
Mkki'mis and Ghakleetox Raimma
is now o|ien to Burris's station, 107
Memphis, leaving but twelve miles ■
are thus, says the Bulletin, Iwoommg
fairs of our Atlantic sea-board friend
assured by the officers of the road, th
inst., or April i*t, (at furthest) wc
pleasure ot receiving with s cordis! iron
congratulations of our eastern arquain
link indissolubly, for ever after, our interests
destinies.
— 1 Tin.
by the 26th
iff have the
grasp, the
"But how i* this matter lo be tested ! The pres
it Congress or the next Congress may try the va
lily ol thia decision. The different departmenti
r,-lu lling aggressions its own prrrc*ga/i:
bounds. Congress has always exercised the
which ia now tor the first tig
j Court. And certainly if th
the pleasant things connected with the incoming of
Mr. Buchanan's administration has been the resto
ration of amicable relations between Gen. Scott
and the present head of the War Department.—
Gov. Floyd, it is said, will not unuecossarily inter
fere with the General in the dfap- sitmn of matter*
belonging to his position as Gouamxnder-in-Cho'f,
■ Presided
the
de by ti
the
of this is ai-
Balliu:
03T Mr. J. W. Phillips of the Chambers Tribune
publishes a card, in which he denies the truth of
Mr. Foaey’a statement tlipt Mr. Kecd offered to ap
pear as principal instead of Mr. Poeey in the event
ot the failure oi the latter to be on the ground the
next duy. lie end hie triends say, on the contrary,
j that Mr. Reed expressed to them his resolution not
Dbetkcctive Fine at 8t. Mauve.—The Savan
nah Georgian, ot the 2Gth, contains a letter from
I 8t. Marys, stating that a fire broke out in that town
dictate to him the Sunday last, and consumed three of their principal
store*, before it eould he arrested. T. 1‘. Pens, J.
Prindfa, and Mr. Mitchell were the chief sufferers.
There was but little insurance un the property de
lete connected further w
ing briefly noticed Mr. l’os
it proper also to mention t!
facte which wc gleam a fro
on by Mr. I'hillipe,
:fi the difficulty. Hnv-
y’i statement, we think
ia variance between the
x it and the account giv-
the limits > . _ . iPfl
of its decision, the Congress
1 a method to set their dlegitin
do not say tiie present, but «
I which the people will elect i
which the court a*turned to
urt lias trausceiided
e manner and form
the nation will find
e future Congress
■JKX3
Mo
Ikpuutast
-We
t7* Chief Justice Taney has administered th •
oath of office to Presidents Van Uuren, Harrison,
Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce and Uuchunau.
Fine Mills Be ret.—The fine flouring mill* of
Mr. J. B. Haralson, say a the LaGninge Reporter,
Kicated on the Chattahoochee River, about 7 mile*
west of this place, were entirely consumed by fire,
t n Saturday night the flat inst.
the same
• Perhaps wo might answei
; fa the evil thereof. Congi _ . ,
charge its own duties when the emergency comes | they have demanded the appointment of
I Hut the /Kuja* ore the fountain oi power. They can two schedules of federal officers, both headed h,
<»• character aj th, iaJiaal Jr,nrta,rat — Urigh.ra Young for Gov«rnor. wilh Iho t.uwul
1 K,y can Wend Iho onormou. mequlu, ol ...ml,. | j rlY ; 0|h „ , „ f th „ T „„,
I ern representation in it. 1 hey can choose a nation- ' \ B ,
J al administration and a national legislature of a po- l lor ^ / forcoof arm*. The truth
j litieal complexion wholly different from that winch > * rc already practically
, ia now in the ascendancy. They can thus ultimate-, ; *
| ly chango the judiciary itself. We may be well as- jhn'f Several prune lots of bacon were sold
j aured that the inass of the people will not alutnbar Athens, Tennessee, lost week at 10c. per pound.
and occasioned —
and the shedding of blood. Under the pretext nj
impartiality, and the promotion of lair and p t a ,..
fill settlement, he got the Pro-Slavery party tod;.,
bund, and now with the United States troops at hi
command, be piotects himself, and pushes on tH*
policy of Aboltlionixiog Kansas.
Wc believe that Gov. Geary, in carrying out ti
policy, is only fulfilling what ho suppose* to i, t . ,'jj*
end of hia appointment. When, simultaneous .
with the ejection of Gov. Shannon from the Gov./,
nnrship of Kansas Territory, and the appointment
of Gov. Geary in his ate id. we saw Mr. Campbi/,
of Ohio, one of the lending Abolitionists in Con.'
gross, declare that he had good reason not todou' t
that the Administration was about to interim m i
put an end to the prosecutions against the crimi:
wito had resisted, by arms, the uuthoritie* in !,.
Territory; when we saw Mr. Orr of South Car .
na, support Mr. Campbell’s assertions, and open .
advocate the right and policy of the I’residci ; .f
United Slulcs ordering noth prosequi" to U ,...
tered on the indictm nis lor treuson pending ,i.
them—anexecu ive usurpation no sovereign in };, .
land would dare to assume, nnd contrary to th.it
dependence of the Judit inry which has evert..
considered one ol the essential bulwarks of lib - ;v
—when we saw these things come to pass wi t,
Kansas was gone. It appeared to us that tin r
of theSoutli, in the minds oi even many South. : n
politicians, were held to be quite subordinate io
success of party ; and tlrat under the gui-<
to suv. seem to justify our nppreheneiona.
‘Well,’says n Southern National Democrat‘w!
il they are realized—is it not right f How nu
Democratic party of the North sustain itself. .
less this Kansas question be taken from the (
itics of the country t The Abolitionists wo kr.. n
will not yield. They nearly carried the late l'r
l denlial election ; aud, if slavery is not exclude,
from Kansas in I860, will they not carry tin- ■ •
Presidential election! Now, which la the !.■■»■-
that the Houth should lose Kansas, or the Dtinu
crane party should lose the Government ? W
for the Democratic party. The South will sui
te be ejected from Kansas, as she always ha* -
mined, ami we, the party in 18G0, will have ;> ..
nnd peace.’
The argument is before our readers. 1: i-
old argument by which the South has again u
again been insulted, her rights outraged, her bl
eats downtrodden. Unless we mistake the *1 rit:
tilings, it look* very much like tho old stur)
Northern aggression and Southern lethargy--S',
ern treachery working the discomfiture ut uu s„»-
We shall rejoice to see the mist clear away,
our apprehension prove fallacious.
Note* front the National Capital,
Correipondiinco of the Now York Dully New*.
WA8HINUT0E, Sunday, March 22.
The editorial department of the Union is to ua
dergo a chunge in a very few day*. Mr. Applrt i:
ha* become so debilitated by reason of a disc i-
contracted, it is said, at the National Hotel th.it ..
does not feeJ that he will he aide for a long tunc t,
discharge actively the duties of the editor of the.
gun lie has therefore been constrained to *151.11
a wish thut he be relieved from hi* connection with r
There fa a great fuss going on hero about th
consulship to Beroil. A Black “Republican" uatu
ed Johnt on, a clerk in the Pension Office, nppu.n
ed by the lu*t Administration, and who ought 1
have been removed from that place long *jnr<
smuggled himself under tlm wing of three I) ;
cratio Senators into the position ot that ConsuLti
Mr. Buchanan, not uppoaing tliat the Herulu.
would *0 persistently urge the appointment of 1 :u <
who was not genuine, gave him the place, nmi h
was confirmed by the Senate; The pooiM. *- b.i
all hi* matters arranged to appoint one Ir., 1. ! \
Consul at JeruN-ilctn, and another Vice Coii»ul
another place, and so on, wlirn In* identity w
covered, and the facta made known to tho A Iimiu
{ration. The appointment ha* been suspemlei!
__ ’I’he talk now isth.il this n not tho man who w
itcJ tho uj,t„ri,l fapjoimcl. _ So if tVero « any oth
nomination, we presume!
Gubernatorial.
Although it is perfectly well understood among
the leaders and “knowing ones” that John il. Lump
kin ia lo he the Democratic candidate for Governor
—that mutter having been arranged at Washing
ton City sometime ago !—the Democratic pre** of
Georgia play* it* role admirably—none of the pa
pers expressing any preference far anybody, but nit
admitting < oimnumcations in favor of everybody 1
A person unacquainted with their peculiar mode I
uf doing business would think that they are really I
“casting about" to see who is thn best man tor tho
station. 80 adroitly have they managed this game,
they have deceived Col. Gardner himself-—“old sta- j
gcr" as lie is—and f. 1 ' ''
chair in readiness for 1
when, in fact, the wire pullers have no more inten
tion of nominating him than the man in thu moon !
They daru not do it. The decree has gone forth
that Lumpkin ia the man, and Lumpkin it will le!
All the talk ufanil Gov. McDonald, Col. Gardner,
Col Lamar, Mr. Stile*, or any other Southern
Right* man, ia mere gammon. The Southern
Rights men are virtually ostracised. They had ns
well
“ Lvy down de shovel and de hoe,
up d« fiddle and de
»g 1.
Ificca and honor*
they arc not W anted. They
ful at voting
to be distributed,
nly deemed use-
-Athens Watchman.
Johnson of Rhode Island who will <
and naaert that ho i* the Democratic Augu-t
Johnson, nnd that he, und not the oilier Augudu
waa appointed, there ia 11 chance far hi* getting t!
position.
Home of the ofliec-aeokcr* here aro looking
the happening of what the lawyer* call *‘a coni
grticy with a double aspect.” That ia, they t
■il>out one place to-day which they arc to have
To-morrow you meet them aud they apeak of •»■
ther 1 ne they are after. If you then say w!o
thought yesterday you were looking after a dill
en' place, the reply will be, so I nu; but if 1 ca
get that I will get tbe other. These conlingri.
with a double aspect never succeed in office-art kn.
Tire in in who comes te Washington looking ■
office, must pick out tho plai
Tbc Prospective Mu“;ar Crop iu Illinois.
Mr. E. S. Baker, of Rochester Mills, Wabash ! stick for, and then work nil hia wires to that |
County, write# to the Belleville Advocate that he | If he finds that about nn hour before the npp.
shall plant twenty-live acre* with the Chinese su
gar cane the present season. “1 am convinced,” lie
says, “that the Slate of Illinois will in five years
make her own sugar, and if I have luck I shall make
this senior) enough sugar, and certainly with tno-
lasses, to supply my little town. At-all event* I
de that he ia not to be the lucky
let him bolt right up to the White House ai
te the President that he does not wish to <
rase him, and thut he cheerfully withdraws I
plication for the position, nnd hope* that Ii
confer it upon Mr. (naming, the man who i-<
to get it.) Him mugnunimi’y then givi
Mr. Kroh, of Wabash County, who *01110 mouth stronger claims than he hud before to sunn
ago made a statement of the result of hi* experi- cr place.
men! with the sugar, offers to let the akeptic.nl edi- I have dccmc-d a little advice to office ►
tor of the Charleston Courier $500 that he will man j necessary, as there are some of them hero *
ufacUire from one acre, “planted with the Chinese j <lant as to excite the sympathy of the knowm.
weed, five hundred gallons of tiudnsscs, u *U| < ri >r | They ure really ao green thut is a wonder the
article te any manufactured iy the South, and sold j have not eaten them long since,
by the merchants in Cole# County, in I860, far 75 The difficulties at Panama attracted the
cents per gallon; and further, that he will mnuufur- I lion of the Cabinet in council on yesterday,
ture it at thn cost of ten cents per gallon.’*
The Supreme Court of Florida.
This tribunal ha* just terminated its session
ie trial of the important case of Smith und Aru:
! a matter of grave concern to the Adminfat
I to what course should be pursued. The r<
our Minister, which is expected by the next
may open the eyes of the Isthmus author
I frighten then into terms, or on the 01 hu
.’ v*. Bryan Cr Kirn et al. The complainants I may excite them to practice annoyance upon
d far all the peraunnl | roperty of Hardy B. I California travelers nnd the transmission of the
>o:n, deceased, and one-third of his real estate ifornia mails, which may greatly embarra** us-
orida. The grounds on which they remedy is to aid Walker in retaining his auth
claim, a* stated in the bill, are, that j ever the Isthmus of Nicaragua, and turn the
hip Home, in 1837, by | of travel uml mails to tliat course ot transit.
•This is the nan
I founded the
in the wreck of the
j which the lives uf Mr. Croorn and all his ftimil
I consisting of hia wife and three children, were lo*t,
j the children survived their lather nnd thus became
j tbe heirs to all his property. Tire Court below
decided in favor of thu defendant*. An appeal was
taken to the Supreme Court, composed of JusLccs
| DuPont, Pearson and Judge Finley, of the Wen-
I tern Circuit. The I itter occupied the sent vacated
I iu this particular case by Chief Justice B.vltzell,
t HR UARROTB t- OTH.LION
a new cotillion which is being practiced in thi
The ludies swing corners. Having done tin-
gentlemen place their nrhi# around their neck
kfa* them on the left check. Young ladies iw
and fall into young gentlemen’s arm*. (•
men seize young women around the waiei
waltz to their *cats. II we nre not much mist
who had be
I dei
f the 1
reel far
irt belo
The
otiilio
•ting:
1, the Hu
1, That H. U. ('room sui
child, but that his otht-
atitution. The world moves.--Albany 'Ii 1
vived his wife and
children, lienrie
j viveil him, William Henry surviving la*
the domicil tor thu succession o* the p
tile of H. B. CVh m wire North Candm
j Florida. The decision of the Court on
vion ot survivorahip called lor a construe
j act of 182!) regulating the descent
ty. The construction given te Iht
■ on th>- death of lire father, his real
in equal moieties to Henrietta M
I Henry; that the latter, on the ilea
became her heir, bi.t that her shure of
so inherited came to him bv muliatr a
I merit ate descent from the father. This
j ant* an equal share of the real property
The decision on all the points m «*ui
eilly in favor of the complainant*, an !
j recover, in addition to ono half of the
In Florid., .11 111, properly of Iho j uVo'Lrai'ii.niul'ionl
intestate.
I The case ws* argued with exciting in teres* and
marked ability by James 1'. Archer and Judge Law,
of Savannah, far the complainant*, and W. C. M.
) Davis, Long, Galbraith and Pettigru, of Charles-
( ton, for the defendants.—Talluh:is*ct Floridian.
Alarama Railroad Grant—The fallowing
copy of the section appended to the Minnesota
in CongresM, which passed both Houhcn, arid
approved hy the President:
Sec. 7. And bo it further enacted. That ’her*
and is hereby, granted to the State ol Alabama,
the purpose of ai ling iu the eonstrurliun of * ■
road “from the line of Georgia on the Chattal
chen river, to the city of Mobile,” “through
counties of Henry. Dale, Coffee, Covington, C-
euh, Baldwin and Mobile," und a “branch milt
from Eufnula to Montgomery/’ “through the c»
’ j tie# of Barbour, Pike, Macon arid Montgmn<
p t chartered by the Htate uf Alabama, by an act c
* tied "An act to authorize the Savannah and A
ny Railroad Company to extend their railroad ti
* the line of Georgia on the Chuttuhoochee river
the city of Mobile, and to extend a branch r
wasidtriii- f ro|n Eufnula to Montgomery," a, proved Dec.
by^ it they j (g&j, alternate sections of the public land# to
same extent, and in the same manner, and u
frictions in every i
ate descended
r and U'llliatn
of hia sister,
peel as was granted to aid in tho construction
other railroads under an act n| Congress entitb
“an act grafting public lands in alternate sectioi
to the State of Alabama, to aid iu tbc construct"
of certain railroads in suid State,” ipprutixi J UI
3, 1856. Approved March 3, 1857.
j —Halt. .in.
The Next Speaker.—-“Ion
Hun, makes tbe following prediction :
The candidates Jor the Speakership of the next
House will be Huni| hrey Marshall, uf Kentucky,
(who will probably be re-elected) on the aide of the
Americans; und Janie* L. Orr, of 8. C., on the
part of the Democrat*. Mr. Banks will, no doubt,
be run by the Rtpublicans.
Nevada Territory—We find in a late Califor- (’kevasnes.—We learn from Mr. fiojlin'ki. I -
nia paper mention made of information having Deputy .Surveyor, just returned from tbe Lif“U fr
been received from Washington. D. C., to the el- country, that the inhabitant* of that region are «
feet that a bill was in preparation by Senator i fering immense from crcvnsaes on the lavoq fal'
Douglas for the formation of a new territory on the ! nnd above Lockport. The same consequence* t
California to consist of all experienced hy thn inhabitants on Bayou Ter
feared that irreparable damage ”
I Dm* "T *? ave rr; ,n,n \ I doubt (say# the Washington Star) that there fa po*-
! I* c«Y »l*.t *Bn<th»n» Young
i.m un.oih.. d.y • nJ h ‘‘
r have burned the United States arch-
of the Tc
the Mormons
of rebellion.
I VN ratarn Utah and Norteustern New Mexico, fr,
the Oregon line to the Colorado river. Tbe name
J intended for it is Nevada, taken from the great
Sierra which lies on its we»tern boundary. This
hill was to have linen shown to tbs California
members of Congress when perfected, and if ap
proved by them to lie submitted to Congress. It
diJ not, however, ace the light, a* the pressure of
business in Congress prevented action on the for
mation or new territories. The next Congress
• will probably pass bills for the organization of this
j as well as several other new territories at the West.
—Philo. North American.
| The National Hotel and the Epidemic.—Over
one thousand people arc estimated already to have
haJ tlieir health seriously injured at this pest-house
since the firat of March inst., and we understand
that the symptoms in every iuaUnre betray to the
eye of an experienced physicisu the presence of n
mineral poison.— .V. Y. Past.
1 ensue if the watci
given to the leveea that have to stand the J”
pressure of the current* tl at overrun them. Hut®
of our swamp land engineers should repair L»
j crevasses and s-.’e what can lie done te chcok t" e
ruinous consequence*.— Hulun Rouge Advocate.
Indian Battle in Florida.—Lite inteHigr' 1
from Fort Dalis* confirm* tbe report of a«t sm?*- 1
' ment with the Indiana.
I Cnpt. Stephenson, with a part of a romp*■ 5 ‘
the 5th infantry, while near the Big Cypre#s8w* m
were fired upon by a party supposed to be hi tv*
eighty and a hundred Indian*; they returned
fire, and after some close fighting the Indian* *'
treated, leaving eight bodies on the field ; fi ve *°
diers were killed,) and Lieut. Freeman suppose-
be mortally wounded. Gen. Harney, vn his « r
speaisf very highly of the conduct of Cspt.
phenaoo.
»er*.