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COLUMBUS:
Thursday Morning, September ‘-45, 185 ft.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
Cool and Frosty.
The weather since Sunday has been rather
cool. Indeed, Tuesday night, Wednesday, and
last night were cold. Wednesday morning, frost
was perceptible on bridges and fences, and this
morning, from the indications of the atmosphere
last night, we expect to see vegetation somewhat
nipped. But for the dryuessof the earth (not
having had rain since the 31st ult.,) a perfect
stop in this locality, would be put to the
growth of the staple.
The lion. Charles D. Fontaine, the candid
date of the American party for Uovernor in
Mississippi, last year, in opposition to Gov.
Mcltae, has come out in favor of the election
of Buchanan.
To the very modest request of the Grand
Jury of Greene County, (on the occasion of
the appointment of the Hon. Robert Toombs,
to speak in the Court House in Greensboro’)
to the Judge not to permit the Court House to
be usod for political speaking, Judge Harde
man gave the following very appropriate and
killing reply :
“The gentlemen of the Grand Jury will
please attend to their own business, and 1 will
endeavor to attend to mine.”
Incendiary Fires at FranUfort, Ky.
The Now Orleans Picayune publishes the
following dispatch dated the Kith inst:
Fires occurred in Frankfort, Ky., on Sun
day and last night, occasioning losses to the
amount of eighteen thousand dollars. These
fires, it appeurs, wero the work of negro in
cendiaries.
There is great excitement and apprehension
in Frankfort. The negro population of that
city, it seems, are greatly incensed because of
Home new and stringent police regulations, and
they have resorted to incendiarism for ro
veuge.
Very Considerable Kgg.
On Saturday last, Mr. John J. Connolly ex
hibited to the editor of tho Wilmington (N. C.)
Journal, a Shanghai egg, that is rather ahead
of anything in the way of hen-fruit we have
before heard. It weighed five ounces—was four
inches and three-sixteenths long, and eight
inches in circumference. Tho hen that laid
it, is said to be a young Shanghai, between one
amd two years old, and resides at the Sound.
It is not marked with Chinese characters.
Difficulty In Putuuu County, Florida.
The Palntka Democrat says there is a com
pany of Regulators in Putnam county, Flori
da, banded together for the expulsion of an as
sociation of “thieves, counterfeiters and scoun
drels,” who infest that county. Thursday be
fore last they met, in the vicinity of Palatka,
James Ryals, traveling in company with Silas
Weeks. Ryals they attempted to arrest, when
he fired on them, wounded one of their num
ber slightly, and was himself probably fatally
wounded.
The organization of the Regulators has call
ed into being a counter organization known as
Moderados, of which Ryals was chief. The
Democrat says: “From present indication,
thoso who are most obnoxious to the Regula
tors will leave this part of the State, and quiet
and good order bo again restored. If they do
not, it is feared that more blood will be shed.’’
A Severe Rebuke.
Yesterday, on the occasion of the celebra
tion of tho surrender of Mexico, Gen. Quit
man, of Mississippi, wished to have an intro
duction to tho remnant of the New York Vol
unteers individually. Sergts. Feel and Farrel
declined an introduction, on the ground that
they did not wish an acquaintance with any
man that publicly extolled “bully” Brooks for
his cowardly assault on the Honorable Charles
Sumner.
The abovo is from an Abolition print in New
York. We suppose it will bo recollected that
tho “New York Volunteers ” skulked at the
battlo of Churubusco, and that the Palmetto
Regiment, in which Col. Brooks commanded a
company, had to take the position vacated by
their cowardioe. Sergts. Pool and Farrell,
tliorefove, aro very appropriate sympathisers
with the cowardly Senator.— Char. Mer.
Health of the City,
We referred in our paper of Sunday morn
ing (says the Augusta Constitutionalist) to tho
fact that there has been but one burial in the
city for the previous seven days, and that was
the body of a gentleman who died very sud
denly some miles off in the country—nor have
we heard of any burial since.
The gentleman who came here on Friday from
Charleston, and who had a slight attack of
fever, was comfortably attended to in the neigh
borhood of the city, and was well enough on
Sunday to take passage on the cars for some
destination in South Carolina.
To the Editor of the Constitutionalist:
Mayor’s Office, City Hall,
Augusta, Sept. 22, 1850. )
Learning from undoubted authority, that it
is currenty reported in Upper Georgia, that
the Yellow Fever prevailed in this city, we
deem it advisable to contradict it promptly,
and do now say that there is not iu the city a
single case of Yellow Fever, nor lias there
been, except one, which was brought from
Charleston, and which passed through with
out stopping in tho city. The Hoard of Health
have pledged themselves to notify tho public,
should it occur here, and they may rest assur
ed that it will bo done. The city was never
more healthy than at present, not a single
death haring occurred the past week.
Very respectfully,
Geo. W. Evans, Mayor, C. A.
James M. Dye,
Chairman Board of Health.
Discovery of a New Island.
Boston, Sept. 18.—Captain Dunn, of tho
bark Dragon, at Salem, from Peel an g, reports
that on the passage from the Feejeo Islands to
Shanghai, Sept. 12th, 1855, he saw nn island,
not laid down in his chart, to the northward,
distant firo miles. Got a good observation,
and made its position in latitude 8.20, longi
tude 167.16 E., by tho chronometer. It is a
■mull sand island, with low bushes, six miles
in circumference. It is inhabited, and sur
rounded by a coral reef a mile from tho shore,
and can be seen 15 miles from the mast-head.
The same afternoon saw the Miclinletf Group
to the northward as laid down on the chart.
ComHpondenc of the Daily Sun.
The Glennville Fire.
Glennville, Ala., Sept. -3, 1856.
Ed. Sur,: I have, happily, no further dam
ages to announce to you, resulting from the
fire on Monday night. The heroic exertions
of the citizens, together with fortunate circuui
staces, combined to confine the damages to tho
Hotel, (and outbuildings) where it originated.
This morning, the citizens, with characteris
tic public spirit and kindness, held a public
meeting, at which a subscription list was open
ed for the relief of Mr. Dinkins, the Proprie
tor of the Hotel, upon whom the blow falls
most heavily. A. C. Mitchell, Esq., was call
ed to the Chair, and H. G Screws, Esq., re
quested to act as Secrctur;'. A subscription
list was then opened and some $2,500 raised
in a very short time. Many substantial citi
zens of Glennville and vicinity, were necessa
rily absent. But I bavo no doubt that this
sum will be increased to an amount sufficient
to enable Mr. Dinkins to rebuild bis Hotel
and obtain another start in the world. I was
pleased to see, on tii ’.!glit of the fire, many
of bis neighbors and friends giving him that
sweetest of all “ aid and comfort,” cheering
words, and sympathetic assurances. The
morning proved them to be no hollow profes
sions.
The late fire affords me a text for a sermon,
had I time to preach it, which cannot be too of
ten preached, or too truly. The gist of the ser
mon would be, “ Insure your property.”
A general system of insurance operates to the
mutual benefit of Assurance Companies and of
individuals. If everybody insures, everybody
is safe; and the more insurances that are ef
fected, the better able will the Companies be
to meet losses when they come upon them.
While writing of fires, I will mention the loss
of a fine Flour, Grist and Haw Mill, which oc
curred on Saturday night last. It is situated
on Barbour Creek, about seven miles S. E. of
this, and belonged to Dr. Robert Williams.—
He bad recently put up some expensive and
fine machinery, and w T as on tho eve of getting
under weigh, when the lire occurred. It is
supposed to have been the work of an iuccn
dinry. The Doctor’s loss is variously estima
ted at from six to seven thousand dollars. The
mill cost $7,000. I havo not learned how
much was saved from the wreck. It was the
only Merchant Mill in the county.
Truly, yours, T. YV. L.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The editor of the Macon Telegraph, who is
on a visit to the North, in a letter from New
York, dated Sept. 17th, says:
I was in New Jersey yesterday, and in con
versation with several gentlemen who, from
the drift of their talk, I presume will vote for
Fremont, found that they were willing to con
cede that State to be very doubtful. Tlie Bu
chanan men count upon it with certainty. I
saw the other day, a gentleman from the inte
rior of Pennsylvania, who from his high posi
tion and character must be as well posted as
any man there. He says wo need feel no anx
iety about the old Keystone. She will go for
Buchanan by twenty thousand. From Illinois
I saw a gentleman to-day, and lie says we are
sure of that State beyond a doubt, and that
nearly all the Fillmore men of Illinois of whom,
by the way, he was one, will concentrate their
votes upon Mr. Buchanan.
llnnk of Fulton.
The following communication (says the Au
gusta Constitutionalist) is from a reliable citi
zen of Atlanta, and we take pleasure in pub
lishing it. We have no desire to foster bogus
movements, whether in banking or politics.—
Wo desire to see everything conducted fairly
and squarely. Therefore, if we had any sus
picion that the Bank of Fultou was of the Wild
Cat Order, wo should be slow to give it our aid
and comfort, even indirectly. Hut it is equal
ly contrary to our disposition to take sides
with old established monopolies, simply be
cause it is the strong side, and to countenance
the hostility of Augusta and Savannah Hunks
to up country Banks, arising from selfish mo
tives of interest. We are for free competition
and an honorable rivalry. We would be glad
to see the pcoplo of Atlanta enjoying a good
Bauk of their own. If the Bank of Fulton be
what our correspondent says it is, we wish it
an open field, a fair fight, and a successful
issue, in defiance of its enemies at home and
its rivals abroad.
To the Editor of the Constitutionalist:
I have just had my attention called to the
re-publication in the Chronicle & Sentinel of an
anonymous articlo against the credit of the
“ Bank of Fulton,” and the countenance appa
rently given to this attack by your cotempora
ry. You know me and my responsibility and
I believe you would say, that not for all the
Bank is worth, good as it is, would I willfully
mislead the public. 1 then make the follow
ing statements, every one of which I know to
be true, or have the best reason to believe, is
true. First as to the attack—l am deeply
grieved to be compelled to say, that from pri
vate pique and a disappointed self-interest, this
war of iuuendoes and surmises, was begun in
the city of Atlanta against its own and only
banking institution. I believe there is not a
doubt in this community, that this motive,
rather than uny protecting regard for the in
terests of the public, was the incentive to the
attacks upon the “Fulton Bank.” Let this
pass, however, for just what it is worth. As
credit the world over is predicated on what we
know of the characters of men, let me tell your
readers that the commissioners to organizo this
Bank were some thirteen of the best men in
this community.
That Judge Ezzard, E. W. Holland, Gen.
Austell, and others just ns reliable, now bo
long to its Board of Directors—that its Presi
dent and Cashier aro men living among us,
and are citizens fully identified in residence
and interests with Atlanta—l state further,
that as large accommodations have been ex
tended to the public, both in note, discount,
and the Bill business, ns the proper and safe
conduct of the Bank would admit, and that
this has been done so prudently that, connect
ed with the reserve strength of the Bank, were
every evidence of indebtedness held in favor of
the institution thrown into the fire, it could
yet redeem promptly every dollar of its issues.
When we add that the whole process of organ
ization aud the subsequent management of the
Bank has been conducted strictly iu accord
ance with law, and the surveillance of the un
impeachable direction mentioned, what more
noed wo say to prove that the Fulton Bank is
entitled to the fullest confidence of the public.
JUSTICE.
Expulsions—— Move of Tlicm.
Yesterday we gave an account oftlie expul
sion from this State and Mississippi if several
Northern incendiaries. Os two of these per
sons the Sumter county Democrat says:
*• We Lave just learned from a private source
that two men by the name of Pierce, Yankee
school teachers in Clark county, Miss., have
been detected in attempting to incite the ne
groes in that section, to insurrection, in the
following hold and fearless manner. One of
these gentlemen had identified himself with
the community in which he lived, by purchas
ing a Saw Mill, under which he had a room,
so constructed as to enable him to hold his
councils unperceived. It was discovered in a
neighboring swamp that they had also fitted
up a rendezvous, with seats, <fec., sufficient
to accommodate three hundred persons, where,
according to the testimony of the negroes, they
(the negroes) had assemblies from ten miles
square.”
Now if these men had been hanged—if the
above be true—there would have beenagreat
er amouut of justice meted out to them. As it
is they nrc set loose to endanger the peace of
other unsuspecting communities.
The Elba (Ala.) Democrat states that five or
more of these pernicious scoundrels were re
cently expelled from that place for crimes simi
lar to those above described. And tho Sumter
Democrat says that one or two suspicious char
acters in Livingston, apprehensive, perhaps, of
being summarily dealt with, had taken “French
leave.”
Here are some dozen of these incendiaries
detected within two of our States within a few
days ! There is something significant in this
fact.
Look also at the news from Kentucky under
our telegraph bead. Then see that there have
been attempts—resulting in a riot—to make a
Fremont party in Maryland—that a Fremont
patty, with an electoral ticket, actually exists
iu Virginia. And then consider that the Fre
mont papers are publishing letters from the
South which imply that there is none of our
States w'hich isfrec from this taint ofFremont
ism.
For example, here is an extract from the
Cincinnati Commercial:
“An intelligent gentleman from Mississippi
has for some days past been in this city, who
is a warm Fremonter, manifesting an interest
iu the election that would warm the bosoms
and stiffen the upper lips of some of the faint
hearted of the North. He says that the men
of the South who favor Fremont are numerous,
but that they dare not make an organized
movement to give force to their sentiments, as
the dominant opinion is fiendishly intolerant.
He mentioned that lie knew, personally, one
gentleman in Mississippi, a very wealthy citi
zen, and the owner of 200 slaves, who is an
open and ardent advocate of the election of
Fremont; his wealth and social position pro
tecting him in the enjoyment of freedom of
speech—giving him the especial privilege of
talking as he pleases.”
The Philadelphia North American, iu copy
ing this, says: “Letters revealing the exis
tence of a Fremont party at the South are be
coming numerous in the Northern papers.—
Verbal intelligence to the same effect is fur
nished by Southern gentlemen who travel
North.”
Here also is an extract of a letter to the New
York Times, dated at Atlanta, Ga. The wri
ter says he was born within the South and is a
slaveholder:
“ And as to the forming of a Fremont party
in every slave State, I do not hesitate to say it
could be done tvith ease, if mobs were out of
the way. And it could be done, if necessary,
in spite of mobs. A few brave hearts could
do the work anywhere. But, misrepresented
as Fremont has been, I will not say that he
could get tho electoral vote of any slave State.
\et it is beyond all doubt that he could get
thousands of the people’s votes in every one of
these States. I will go farther. I will say
that in twelve months from now there will be
a Republican party in every Southern State.
Such a party will not be based upon hostility
to the vested rights of any man or any class
of men. It will have for its object the*intro
duction, among our people, of fraternal feel
ings towards their fellow citizens of every
section, and of a system of rational politics.”
It is likely that these letters were written iu
the offices of the papers which publish them.
It is, however, also likely that they were writ
ten by Northern men, who are here only tem
porarily—who come to make their little for
tunes expecting to go home to enjoy them ; or
it may be that they arc written by traveling
emissaries of the sectional party—the object
of them being to make it appear that the peo
ple of the South are not averse to the ends
which that base and unmanly part}’ is seeking
to accomplish. Once let the conservative men
of the North be taught that the majority of the
South, or any imposing part of its people, is
against slavery, and there will be no reason
lett for them to oppose the passions which now
seem to be sweeping irresistibly over the whole
North.
There is a policy for these bad men in the
inventing of these lies.
Our course—wliat is that ? The war seems
to have begun. Let us see that no enemies
shall now have shelter among us. Guard our
States from this sneaking treason, and the fu
ture is not to be feared by the South.— Mobile
Tribune.
The Products of Slave Lalior.
The total value of the exports of cotton, to
bacco, rice and naval stores, articles of slave la
bor, for the year ending June 30, 1855, amoun
ted to $106,480,077. At the same date of
present year, they amount to about $144,480,-
077, giving an increase in value of $38,000,000.
The New York Herald says that the result of
Southern labor for a year shows the value to
the Union of that section of the country. In
these results, the tree States of the North, it
is believed, participate to the full extent of
twenty per cent,, or to the amount of $28,896,
004, which, in ten years, would amount to $280,-
896,004,
If to the $44,480,077 slave products for
1856 we add the exports of bre.ulstuffs, timber,
staves, etc., from the same part of the Union,
and add the $31,000,000 worth of cotton
consumed iu the United Status, with a large
supply of sugar from tho same region, which,
in 1850, amounted to $12,878,850, we shall
have a grand total of slave products for a sin
gle year if not less, probably, than $250,000,-
000. By the census returns of 1850, it appears
there were, in the Southern St tes, 74,081 cot
ton plantations, 2,681 sugar plantations, 551
rice estates, 15,745 tobacco estates, and 837
hemp planters. There were 5,000,000 acres of
land devoted to the culture of cotton.
\Ye learn with regret, says the Opelousas
Courier, that the army worm or caterpillar
lias made its appearance in our parish and
may be seen in every planter’s field doing rapid
and irreparable damage. It was not enough
that a rigorous winter froze the plant— not
enough that tlie wind and rain should deal des
truction among the crops last month, but the
caterpillar had also to come and destroy the
last hope of a fraction of a small crop. It
is painful to relate, but it is certain thntnoarly
the entire cane and corn ami cotton crops of
our parili it ad throughout Attakapas are anni
hilated,
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
From Kausa*.
St. Louis, Sept. 21.—Gov. Geary has dis
banded the Border Ruffians, who were greatly
incensed thereby, and swear vengeance.
Lane, with 150 men, has moved towards Ne
braska.
St. Louis, Sept. 22.—Kansas dates of the
15th state that fifty Southern men, under
Robinson, had a fight at Grasshopper Falls on
the 13 th, with a Northern force, who were cap
turing borse3 and provisions. On the next
day the Southerners were attacked by 200
Northerners, under Harvey. After two hours’
hard fighting, in which twelve Northerners and
three Southerners were killed, an armistice of
thirty days was agreed upon.
Further from Kansas.
St. Louis, Sept. 22. —Advices from Kansas
state that 2,500 Missourians were at Frank
lin, with the design cf reducing that town. A
battle with tho Freesoilers was expected. The
Freesoilcrs under Harvey had been captured
by the dragoons.
Tlie Panama Massacre.
Washington, Sept. 22—Mr. Corwine, the
United States Comuiissionersent to investigate
the Panama riots, report that the government
of New Grenada is utterly unable to maintain
law and order on the Isthmus, and recom
mends that the United States immediately take
possession of it from ocean to ocean.
Gov. Geary’s Inaugural Address.
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 10.—Gov. Geary in
his inaugural address at Lecompton, K. TANARUS.,
on the 11th, deprecated the continuance of
strife,-caused by the interference of citizens
of the States, and promises justice, irrespec
tive of party. He expects obedience to the
laws of the legislature until repealed. He also
issued a proclamation discharging the volun
teers and militia, and commanding all armed
bauds to disperse or quit the territory.
From tho New York Price Current and Shipping List.
Statement of Cotton Crop of United States
FOR TITE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31, 1856.
j I TOTAL.
BALES. I ‘ ‘ ■
1856. ISoo-
NEW ORLEANS. j < ;
Exports —
To F'oreign P0rt5...1,572,923
Coastwise 222.100.
Burnt at X. Oilcans 1,200
Stock, Sept. 1,1856 6,995!
Deduct —
Received from Mobile, Mont
gomery, &c 73,573
Received from F'lorida..s,lSo
Received from Texa5..23,001
Stock Sept. 1,1855 39,125
1 H1,785|
: i1,661,133.1.232,611
MOBILE. j
Exports —
To Foreign Ports 185,035
Coastwise 190,286
Consumed in M0bi1e....1,936
Stock Sept. 1, 1856 5,605
Deduct —
Rece’d from X. Orleans 5
Stock Sept. 1,1855 28,519
j 28,521;
TEXAS.
Exports — : ,
To Foreign Ports 31.002
Coastwise 83,515
Stock Sept. 1, 1856 628
Deduct —Stock Sept. 1.1855 2,062
FLORIDA.
Exports —
To For. Ports—Up’ds.,.3s,Bsß
Coastwise—TJp’ds 07,738
Sea Isl’nds 10,900
Stock Sept. 1, 1556 71
Deduct —Stock Sept. 1. 18551 160
GEORGIA.
Exports —
To For. Ports—Up'ds.l77,lß2 l
Seal 8,138;
Coastwise—Up’ds 200.420
Seal 7,340
Stock in Savannah,
Sept. 1, 1856 1,550;
Stock in Augusta,
Sept. 1,1856 1,781 i—
-396,123:
Deduct —
Received fm Florida
Sea Island 2,755;
Upland 386!
Stock in Savannah,
lit Sept., 1855 2,130
Stock in Augusta,
Ist Sept.. 1855 1,707
j 389,145 378.691
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Exports —Fr’m Charleston
To For- Ports—Up’ds.3s2,3l6]
S. 1 18,765
Coastwise—TJp’ds ....133,451 ‘
S. 1 '2Boi
Burnt at Charleston 751
Stock in Charleston,
Sept. 1,1856 3,111;
517.713
Exp'd fm Georgetown
to Northern ports 2,593.
—! ‘ 520,636’ I
Deduct —ltec’d from Florida
Sea Island 6,027
Upland 578.
Rec'd from Savannah
Sea Island 2,689
Upland 13,281
Stock in Charleston
Sept. 1. 1855 2.085
6 1 499,272
NORTH CAROLINA.
Exports —
To Foreign Ports ....96
Coastwise 20,002
VIRGINIA.
Exports—
To Foreign Ports 7o
Coastwise and manu
factured 20,748 !
Stock Sepl. 1,1866 isi2
Deduct —
Received from Mobile 652
Stock Sept. Ist. 1856 550
Received at New York, by New York
and Erie Canal, Ac 306 377
Received at New York, I>\ New York
and Erie Railroad, j 1,781 684
Received at Baltimore and Philadel
phia, from tlie West 12,129 6,600
Total Crop of the United States 3,527,845 2,847,339
! !
Increase over crop of 1855 8a1e5...680,506
Im-rease over crop of 1861 597,818
Increase over clop of 1853 264,963
Consumption.
Tttofcrop of the U. States as before j Bales. 3,5^7,845
Stock on hand at the commencement |
of the year. Sept. 1, 1855 :
In Southern jiorts I 70,641
In Northern pints ,1 00,092
1 113,386
Makes a supply of. ; 1:1,671.181
Deduct therefrom —■
The Exports to For. P0rt5..2,051,600
Less Foreign included,, 836
Stoek on hand Sept, 1.1856:
In Southern ports 20,011
In Northern ports 11,1571
Burnt at New York and Bostmi ; 500:3,018,412
Taken for homo use | Bales, j 652.739
Col. T. B. Bethea and Major J. Buford, of
Alabama, will address the citizens of Augusta
this evening, on the subject of tho soil, climate
and productiveness of Kansas, and the neces
sity of maintaining our foothold in that impor
tant outpost.
♦
It is stated that the train on the Great
Northern Railway on which the Queen of En
gland was a passenger on her late journey to
Scotland was driven at the rate of seventy miles
an hour.
Grand Lodge of I. O. O. F. of tli(^
This body assembled in Baltimore m V
15th inst. We published yesterday mornin , “
abstract of the report of the Grand Secret
showing the present condition of the ..
We have received from Geo. W. Adams V
one oftlie Representatives from this State 1
pies of the Reports of the Grand officer.-
of the Journal of proceedings, from
make the following summary of matters It*
terest to the fraternity in this vicinity;
The Report of the Grand Sire review,,,
condition and prospects of the order, amU 1
the points decided by him during the vaca^
He also pays a fitting tribute to the ineni..,! 1
P. G. Sire, Robert H. Griffin.
The first day the session was occupied i n
ceiving the reports of the Grand officer. **’
pointing Committees, &c. The Committee?
credentials reported that they had before th
the certificate of P. G. M. Geo. W. Adams u
Georgia, but from the annual report, they fir
that tho Grand Lodge of Georgia had but
members, anil consequently was not entitle,h
more than one representative. That
the report, after some remarks from p. J'.,
John D. Butt, of Georgia, was re-committed
the committee, who subsequently reported t
they had re-examined tlie returns from tie,,,
gia, and found an actual membership of 1
and offered a resolution which was udoptei
admitting Bro. Adams as a representative,
SECOND DAY.
After the transaction of some unimportaw
business, tlie following officers were elected■
G. W. Race, of Louisiana, Grand Sire,
G. Sentev, of New Hampshire, Denut
G. S. ;
J. L. llidgeiy, of Maryland, G. Sec.
Joshua Vansant, of Maryland, G. Treas.
The two latter gentlemen were unanimous!,
re-elected to the offices they have so ably flip
for several years past.
A resolution contemplating action on tb
merger of the two branches of the order w,
refused a reference by a vote of yeas 28
nays 41.
A resolution was presented for the appoint
ment and compensation of a committee to re
vise the work of the order, so ns to merge tfe
Encampment with the subordinate degrees.
After much discussion, so much of the reso
lution as provides for the appointment cf a
committee of revision, was adopted, yeas 4s
nays 37.
The portion relating to the merging of the
two branches of tlie order was rejected, yea,
37: nays 48.
The portion relating to compensation of th
committee was rejected, yeas 21, nays 02.
In tho shape that the resolution was adopted,
it provides merely for a committee to rev:,-
the work, many of those voting for it being in
favor of returning to the old work. The prin
ciple of merger was decidedly negatived.
Resolutions of condolence relative to the de
cease of Past Grand Sire Griffin were unanim
ously adopted.
THIRD DAY.
The resolution adopted yesterday for the ap
pointment of a committee to revise the work
was reconsidered, and the resolution laid on
the table, with a view to subsequent action.
Rep. Curtis, of Pa., offered a resolution to
increase the pay of Representatives from two
to three dollars.
An amendment was offered to increase tlie
mileage from four to five cents per mile.
The yeas and nays were called on the amend
ment, and it was adopted on a division, by -i2
to 25 against.
The resolution as amended was then adopted,
yeas 50, nays 38.
A resolution to give the control of the re
admission, within their own territory, to the
State Grand Bodies, of suspended members,
was advocated at great length by the represen
tative from California. At the close of his re
marks the Grand Sire declared the subject out
of order, and in accordance with the resolu
tions of yesterday the Grand Lodge went into
secret session on the work of the order, and so
continued until the close of the meeting.
The Grand Lodge was not in session on
Thursday, as many of tlie members had gone
to Norfolk, to take part in the dedication of an
Odd Fellow’s Hall, recently erected in thai
city.— Savannah News.
Tile Kansas Sliriekers.
We copy the following seusibie remaiks
from that sound national paper, the New York
Daily News, the Organ of the Hard Democra
cy of New York :
The only way in which order can be restored
in Kansas is by the occupation of that Terri
tory by a powerful body of United States
troops, to keep peace and prevent Lane ami
his forces from robbing, plundering and mak
ing war in that devoted Territory. For a tew
months previous to the appearance of this
person and his followers on the scene, there
was comparative quiet, and the incendiary
letter writers had but little to do for those who
had disturbed the Territory. Almost at the
same moment when the Biack “ Republican ”
faction in the House were urging their insane
and treasonous project of disbanding the army,
Lane and his gang appeared in Kansas and
levied war. The citizens were compelled to
take up arms in self-defense, and the letter
writers and the shriekors were again in full
blast.
A recent dispatch, which comes, indeed,
through a very questionable channel, speaks
ot the arrival of Gov. Geary, and that he has
resolved to call in a large force of the United
States troops and militia. All this is well,
even if the fifty thousand volunteers are taken
from the North. We hope, indeed, that Gov.
Geary made no such sectional designation,
but that the regiments will be drawn in such
a way as to give no opportunity for complaint
on the score of whence they came. To keep
the peace in Kansas is a duty of the local au
thorities as well as of the General Government,
and it can only be accomplished by the over
awing presence of a large force.
It seems too that the prisoners of the tree
Soil party have been released; traitors as these
men have been and mischievous as has been
their work, we think it is as well that they
should not gain the semblance of the crown of
martyrdom. It is expedient that theso crimin
als should escape unwhipped of justice rathe!’
than that an unjust suspicion should attach
to the administration of the laws.
Severity and strictness are what the conspi
rators of the sectional party desire. Clemen
cy will disarm their shrieks of the influence
they so hope for.
The conspiracy on the nart of the Emig™" l
Aid Societies ami the aiders and abettors ot
Lane was unquestionably’ to secure Kansas fo [
themselves and drive out the settlers from the
South, or on this issue erect a sectional P al ' 1 )’
in the Northern States. They have worked
already incalculable injury in sowing dissen
sions among what should boa common coun
try. They can only be thwarted by such a de
monstration of military force as will compel
the armed followers of Lane and his cons- de
rates to disband. Theu, and not till theiti
will there be peace in Kansas, and the shriek
el's be silenced. This is the only solution tA
the difliculty, and so far as the recent ‘h=
patches indicate such is the policy ot G"’
Geary. We commend his course, and hop’
that what is done will be done quickly-