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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning, October Si*, 1856.
I. Alt. OK ST CITY CIKCUIiATION.
Land Warrants.
There is a more active movement in land
warrants in New York, and prices are better.
Thompson’s llank Note Reporter quotes:
Buying. Selling.
40-acre warrants at sl.lO $1.15
80-acre warrants at 03 06
120-acre warrants at 88 04
160-aere warrants at 03 06
We give placo to-day to a letter from Judge
Cone, a leuding American of Greene county, in
this Htate. The Judge wus a member of the
Philadelphia Convention in 1855, and a South-
Orn Rights man in 1850. It is singular that
the Ihreo parties to the 12th section of tho
Philadelphia Platform, are all now supporting
Buchanan. Burwcll, of Virginia was at the
time of the sitting of the Convention, editor of
the American Organ at Washington. Hop
kins, of Alabama, has been a Whig all his life,
and was never known to iliucli before.
The returns of the Pennsylvania election
which took place on Tuesday last, clearly in
dicates that Mr. Buchanan cannot carry a
Northern State, not even Pennsylvania. The
election of Pennsylvania hns gone against tho
Democratic party; where is the boasted
strength of Mr. Buchanan, North?
The above is from tho Lumpkin Plaindcalcr
of Tuesday, just one week after tho election.
Whero does the feller get his news ?
The Boys of the Town.
The attention of our readers is requested
for the philanthropic suggestions in a commu
nication headed “Tho Boys’ Friends’ Socie
ty,” which we copy from tire Mobile Tribune.
The article is equally applicable to Columbus.
The statements of the writer in relation to tho
precocious wickedness that wo are nurturing
are littorally true. Goodruen usually stay at
home at night, if they have no business call
ing thorn from it, and consequently have little
or no knowledge of the large number of inci
pient criminals who iufostthe city. A strang
er thrown among them might be pardoned for
supposing that there is no paruntai discipline
within Columbus. Broad Street is a great re
sort for them. For some reason, which is not
exactly plain to us, thero is a laxity of family
discipline that is ruinous to tho youthful pop
ulation—that is accumulating sorrow for many
an affectionate father and mother.
In evidence of this, we could cito several
instances that have occurred in this place, dur
ing our short residence here.
Consolation.
Tho LaGrangc Reporter says “as our demo
cratic friends have been rejoicing over the ac
cession of Dr. Bacon to their ranks, wo will
slate for their edification that he will not cast
his vote for Mr. Buchanan—ho having left on
a visit for Texas, and will not return till after
the election.”
Tho Doctor ought not to treat his Democrat
ic friends so. Possibly tho Doctor differs with
the Reporter as to the importance of tho vote
in Ueorgia.
South Carolina College.
Wo aro pleased to learn, snys the Carolina
Times, that this noble State institution opened
its session yesterday morning, with over
500 students, and that the accessions, when
closed, will present a larger number than the
previous year.
Wo learn from tho Mobile Tribune that the
passenger train on tho Mobile and Ohio Rail
road ran over a cow between Marion station
and Enterprise, on Saturday last, and was
thrown elf the track. Three brakemen were
killed, and the engine, tender, and several
cars much injured.
Tho Florida War.
Tho Government is, says tho Baltimore
American, making ample preparations to put
at end to the odious and costly war in Florida
during tho coming winter, which is tho most
favorable senson for operations in the ever
glades. The troops intondod for this service
comprise nearly two and a half regiments, or
about two thousaud men, drafted from various
posts on tho seaboard and at the Northwest.
Two companies will leave Fort Hamilton, Go
vernor’s Island, in a few days, also, two com
panies from Boston Harbor, and others from
Old Point Comfort. This will increase about
three-fourths to tho United States force at
present in tho peninsula. A number of large
flat-boats, both of wood and iron, aro in pro
cess of construction at New York, at the ship
yards and iron foundries, designed to aid the
troops in penetrating tho everglades. Gen.
Harney is to take command, and as ho is not
only a very resolute and untiring officer, hut
one who is thoroughly acquainted with tho
ground and tho enemy, we may anticipate the
speedy termination of this protracted and very
expensive war.
The Neil Mouse of Representatives.
The Democratic gains of Congressmen at the
elections held on Tuesday last, foot up thus:
Pennsylvania ID
Ohio 9
Indiana 9
Total 25
‘l'hc above, with the gains which will cer
tainly be made in New York, Illinois, New
Jersey, and Connecticut, will give the next
House of Representatives to the Democrats by
a very decided majority.— Union.
We Will Subdue You.
The Petersburg (lml.) Nows has tho follow
ing:
“Last Wednesday, Cassius M. Clay spoko
at Huntingdon, under a banner representing a
Southern planter in the background, while the
foreground was represented by slaves at work,
and a lusty negro, with his fingers pointed to
ward the planter, with these words inscribed
beneath them: Wo will subdue you.”
Fast Horse Bead.
The celebrated trotting horso “Pilot,” be
longingto Wm. Byrnes, of Baltimore, died Wed
nesday morning, lie was to have trotted a
match against time at Herring Run on Mon
h day, but was too sick to enter. From his
I symptoms he is supposod to have been poison
” and. lie was valued at $1,500.
Letter from Hon. F- H. Cone.
Greensboro’, Oct. 20, 1856.
To James S. Hook, Esq.; 1 have received
your letter, inquiring my position in the Pres
idential contest, and the reasons for that posi
tion, and requesting that my answer to these
inquiries might be laid before the public. I
have received several letters of like character,
but have hitherto declined writing anything for
the public eye. But for reasons stated in
your letter, 1 will comply with your request.
I shall vote for Buchanan, and will briefly
give you my reasons for doing so.
I consider the defeat of Fremont as the con
troling question in this campaign, and para
mount to all others. The question of his
election concerns not the policy of the govern
ment alone, but the continued existence of the
government. If he should be elected, and
the principles avowed by him and his party be
made practical, there is little hope that the
Union would survive his administration. It
uppears to me, therefore, that all other issues
and questions should, for the present, be pass
ed over, and that all men, of patriotic hearts
and right intentions, should, for the present,
forget past political differences, and unite iu
securing Fremont’s defeat.
At an early period in the campaign, I con
sulted all tho reliable means of information,
in my power, for the purpose of ascertaining
the relative strength of Mr. Buchanan and
Mr. Fillmore, and 1 came to the conclusion that
Mr. Buchanan had great strength and Mr.
Fillmore very little; and that if Fremont
could be defeated, Mr. Buchanan alone could
do it: and that Mr. Buchanan or Fremont
would be certainly elected. Subsequent events
have placed the correctness of this opinion be
yond doubt or question.
Since the nomination of the Presidential
candidates, general elections have been held
in the following non-slaveholding States: —
Vermont, Maine, lowa, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
and Ohio. -In all of these, except the last, the
Fillmore party presented no separate ticket,
but united on the same ticket with the Black
Republicans, and gave them all the aid they
possessed. In Ohio they run a ticket and
were defeated by a very large majority. The
fact of their running no ticket in these States
is a confession of their own weakness and ina
bility to elect candidates of their own party.
Since the same time, electio linsave been held
injtho followingslavehodling States: Missouri,
Kentucky, Arkansas, Delaware, N. Carolina,
Florida, Texas and South Carolina. In all
these States, except the last, the Fillmore par
ty presented and run a ticket of their own,
and were defeated in every State, and most of
them by large majorities. In South Carolina
they ran no ticket, which is a confession that
they had no strength in that State.
It is said that the election in Kentucky was
not a test vote. It may not have been strictly
so, but tho result of the election was strongly
indicative of the weakness and increasing weak
ness of the Fillmore party in that State, and
of its certain defeat in November.
It may bo safely asserted, therefore, that
in all these States where elections have been
Held, the Fillmore party is in a minority, and
in most of them a very small minority.
It appears to me, therefore, that since these
elections have taken place, the most sanguine
friend of Fillmoro must be convinced that his
chance for election is utterly hopeless—that
if Fremont is beaten, Mr. Buchanan is tho
man alone who can do it—and that he will do
it I have no doubt.
But 1 have other objections to the support
of Mr. Fillmoro and his party.
In June, 1855, the American party met in
Convention iu Philadelphia; I was a member
of the Convention, and Chairman of the Com
mittee of, thirty-one wlioj were charged with
the duty of reporting resolutions declaratory
of the principles of the party. As Chairman
of tho Committee, I prepared and introduced
what is familiary kuown as the 12th section of
the Philadelphia Platform. Some additions
and amendments were subsequently made to
it by Mr. Burwell, of Virginia, Mr. Hopkins,
of Alabama, and myself, jointly. As amend
ed, it was adopted by the Committee, and af
terwards by the Convention. That section
guarantees for the rights of
the South—declaring substantially that there
should be no future legislation by Congress
upon the subject of slavery; that Congress
possessed no power over the institution in the
States; that it should not legislate upon the
subject in the Territories, and that any inter
ference with it in the District of Columbia would
boa violation of national faith. Upon the
adoption of these resolutions, they became the
principles of the American party. They were
doomed to a very short existence. The Con
vention of the American party that met in
Philadelphia iu February, 1856, repudiated
and struck out the 12tli section, and the prin
ciples contained in that section thenceforth
ceased to be tho principles of tho American
party; and from that day I was no longer a
member of that party. Why did this Conven
tion strike out the 12th section ? For no oth
er reason than that they did not hold to tho
principles set forth in that section. But this
Convention not only struck out the 12th sec
tion, and discarded its principles—they ignor
ed the whole subject of slavery, and*in enu
merating the crimes of Pierce’s administra
tion, the repeal of tho Misssouri Compromise
finds a prominent position. It may, therefore,
be safely asserted that tho American party,
North, holds to none of the principles of the
12th section—that they condemn the repeal of
the Missouri restriction, by which tho South
was restored to iier unquestionable rights ;
and therefore, I think it is not passsing an un
charitable judgment upon them to say, that
they will restore it when an opportunity offers.
Indeed, every member of that party from the
non-slaveholdiug States, except Mr. Vaulk,
who voted upon the subject at all, voted to re
store it.
But l have other objoctious to voting for
Mr. Fillmore or acting with his party, which
have strengthened nsjthe campaign progress
ed. It is a significant fact, and one which
should impress itself strongly and permanent
ly upon the mind of every patriot, that in all
the nou-slnveholding States, since tho nomin
ation of tho Presidential candidates, the Fill
more party have united witli the Black Repub
licans—voted and acted with them—and done
all in their power to give them strength, aud
the control of the government in their respec
tive States. Could they have done this unless
their principles were not very unliko? In no
case, whatever, have they given any aid to the
Democratic party—but they have uniformly
done all in their power to defeat them.
The conclusion, then, is irresistible, that in
nil the non-slaveholding States, the Fillmore
party are for tho election of Mr. Fremont,
rather than the election of Mr. Buchanan.
Witli such a party, I can never act. I nev
er will vote for any man who votes for the
Black Republican party. I never will net
with any party that gives aid and comfort to
the Black Republican party, and uses its pow
er to placo them in office.
Looking at tllese facts, it is hard for me to
understand why the entire South, and the pat
riotic men of the North, should not unite in
the support of Mr. Buchanan.
His long connection with tho government,
and its administration, is a sure guaranty,
that in his hands the Union will be safe; the
government wisely administered and tho peo
ple prosperous and happy.
Your friend,
F. 11. CONE.
Important from Philailelpliia.
Meeting of the Opposition Committees—The Penn
sylvania Electoral Ticket—Election Frauds in
Philadelphia, .etc.
Philadelphia, Oct. 17, p. m.
The meeting of the Fillmore Committee at
the Washington House, this morning, was
very stormy. Mr. Sanderson, the Chairman,
when called upon to define his position, with
reference to not being an American, dodged
the question by stating that he was as much
opposed to Mr. Buchanan as any of them. He
objected to fusion, because he believed that
Fillmore would carry Maryland, Delaware,
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, and the
election would then go to tho House, and he
would be elected there.
l’cter Martin, with seven others, argued
long in favor of fusion with the republicans ;
but the fourteen other members of the com
mitte carried it eventually ngainst them.—
Granger, of New York, Day, the India rubber
man, and Allen, of Boston, made themselves
very officious with the meeting.
The last week in September was the period
at which this majority of the Fillmore commit
tee was brought over. Daniel E. Sickles came
on here at the time, in company witli Miller, of
New York. Augustus Schell, and Taylor, (a
K. N.) arrived at the same time. The four
were immediately closeted with Forney. This
occurred on tho 26th ult. The next day the
Democratic leaders declared themselves certain
of carrying the State elections.
It is ascertained to-day that 6,000 American
votes were cast for the democratic ticket in
this city and county. The most unblushing
roguery has been shown in Philadelphia, and
the vote will be contested. William B. Mann,
republican candidate for District Attorney,
took the first step this morning in the Court of
Common Pleas. The republicans believo they
can strike off several thousands of the demo
cratic votes by contesting the returns. There
are loud cries of vengeance against Forney.
The Republican and North American Com
mittees are in session together at the former’s
rooms, in Walnut street. They have been
joined by seven mombers of the Fillmore Com
mittee, and the whole body is now discussing
the formation of an electoral ticket.
Eleven O’clock, r. m.
After being in session during five hours, the
Republican and North American State Com
mittees, with a portion of the Fillmore Com
mittee, have agreed upon a ticket which it is
believed will entirely take the wind out of the
sails of the pro-slavery Fillmore leaders. The
following is the Union electoral ticket, nomi
nated upon the basis proposed by the Union
State Committee, in the call for a Union State
Convention, to be held at Harrisburg on the
21st inst., to wit: twenty-six names in com
mon ; the twenty-seventh name to be different
on the tickets voted for by the Fillmore and
Fremont men respectively, the vote of the
electors, if chosen, to be cast pro rata accord
ing to the vote given for the twenty-seventh
name respectively. It was also agreed that
the electoral ticket to be voted for by the
Fremont men should be headed by the name
of John C. Fremont, and that to be voted for
by the Fillmore men by the name of Millard
Fillmoro. The following is the electoral tick
et :
ELECTORS AT LARGE.
JohnC. Fremont.
Gen. Jas. Irvin, of Centre co.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
DISTRICTS.
1. J. Edwards, of Philadelphia.
2. G. N. Eckert, “
3. G. Seidcnstrickcr, “
4. Wilson Jewell, “
5. A. G. Rowland, “
6. C. C. Taylor, of Bucks.
7. W. Darlington, of Chester.
8. W. M. Baird, of Berks.
9. M. 11. Shirk, of Lancaster.
10. 8. Cameron, of Dauphin.
11. J. McCormick, of Northumberland.
12. 8. B. Thompson, of Montour.
13. R. F. Lord, of Wayne.
14. F. E. Smith, of Tioga.
15. A. Updegraff, of Wyoming.
16. J. D. Simpson, of Perry.
17. E. Easton, of Franklin.
18. Edward Scull, of Somerset.
19. W. M. Stewart, of Indiana.
20. A. Patterson, of Fayette.
21. B. C. Sawer. of Alleghany.
22. J. Painter, of Alleghany.
23. L. L. McGuffin, of Lawrence.
24. G. W. Arnold, of Clarion.
25. James Skiuner, of Erie.
It is reported that the following resolutions
passed at the Fillmore and Donelson Executive
State Committee to-day by a majority of 20 in
the committee of 22 :
Resolved, That we deem it inexpedient to
nmko auy alteration in the Fillmore aud Don
elson ticket in this State, and wo are firmly
convinced that any interference witli it would
be the means of giving the State to Mr. Bu
chanan instead of defeating him.
Resolved, That we decline to accept either
of tho above propositions of the North Ameri
can State Central Committee, satisfied that the
electoral ticket already in the field is the only
one on which all opposed to Mr. Buchanan can
successfully unite, and pledge it to uncompro
mising opposition, aud to defeat under any and
all circumstances his election.— N. 1". Mirror.
More Proof of Fremont’s Apostacy.
The Washington Star at tho close of an arti
cle commenting on the letter of Mr. Yeadon, in
which that gentleman conclusively proves Fre
mont to boa double apostate in religion, adds
the following:
P S.—After preparing the above article, we
learned accidentally of a fact of no little in
terest in this connection. Viz: a Catholic la
dy of this city, of high standing in society,
on going into the house of the late venerable
aud beloved Father Matthews, on one occasion,
met Col. J. C. Fremont on the threshold, tho
latter being in the act of leaving the presence
of tho so generally revered clergyman. On
entering his sitting-room. Father Matthews
pointed to five dolhtrs laying on his table, and
remarked that the gentleman the lady lmd met
was no other than the celebrated Fremont,
who had left that money thero to pay for mas
ses to be said for him, as lie was going over
the Rocky Mountains ! We have the name of
the lady, who will substantiate the fact if Col.
Fremont denies it. It was related to us by
her son-in-law, a physician iu large practice
among us.
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Bribery aud Corruption.
As the N. Y. Herald and Tribune are pro
fessing to believe that the Democrats carried
the election in Pennsylvania by fraud, bribery,
iNc., wo have to say that on Saturday evening
Inst Moses 11. Grinned checked for SIO,OOO
payable to “my country or hearer,” which,
with SIO,OOO more, was duly carried to Phila
delphia by Mr. Thurlow Weed. It reached
there on ly on Monday night, and was used
in behalf < f tho fusion ticket in that city alone
wo uadi i stolid, — Washington Star.
TELEGRAPHIC.
TelOKraphed to the Daily Sun.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE.
New You a, Oct 22
The steamship City of Baltimore has arriv
ed with advices from Liverpool to the 7th in
stant.
The market opened with an advancing ten
dency on Monday, but was checked by the
tightness of money, occasioned by the Bank
of England’s advancing the rate of interest to
0 per cent. The sales of Monday and Tues
day were 16,000 bales.
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OP THE ARABIA.
New York, Oct. 23.
• The steamship Arabia has arrived at Hali
fax, with advices from Liverpool to the lltli
instant. Her advices arc four days later than
the City of Baltimore.
The market reacted after the sailing of the
City of Baltimore, and advanced 1-l Gd. and
the sales of the week reached G 3,000 bales,
market closing buoyant.
Money continued tight. Consols is quoted
at 92J.
From New Orleans
New Orleans, Oct. 23.
The sales of cotton to-day sum up forty
five hundred hales at the prices of yesterday.
Porlc is tending downwards. Flour, shill
ing higher. Liverpool coarse salt 83c. per
sack. Freights unchanged.
From New York.
New York, Oct 22.
Cotton is a quarter lower to-day and dull.
Sales of the day seven hundred bales.
Pennsylvania Election.
Columbia, Oct. 22.
Official returns put down the Democratic
majority in Pennsylvania at three thousand.
From Charleston.
Charleston, Oct. 22.
The cotton market to-day is much depress
ed, and sales reached only seven hundred bales.
Savannah Medical College.
We learn that the course of Lectures, pre
liminary to the regular course in November,
will be commenced to-day at 12 o’clock at the
College building, and be continued daily, (Sun
days of course excepted,) until the third day
of November. Dr. Joseph Jones, the newly
elected Professor of Chemistry, will deliver a
course of Lectures on Comparative Anatomy.
His Lectures will be daily at one o’clock. The
Smithsonian Institute have just issued from
the press a series of articles from his pen,
containing the results of his original research
es and experiments on Chronico-Physiological
subjects. Young as he is, he has, at one
bound, attained a high position in the world of
science. We have no doubt that his course
of Lectures will be interesting aud instructive,
not only to the Medical student, but to the
student of Nature. A member of the Faculty
desires us to say that the doors of the Lecture
Room will be open to all who tako any inter
est on the subject. We all recollect how en
chained the great Agassiz kept his audiences
in our city, at once a compliment to the distin
guished Savant, and to the taste ana intellect
of Savannah. Dr. Jones is a faithful follower
in the track of Natural History, and when time
shall have matured his experience, we trust
the South may point favorably to him as a
worthy son, vindicating her claim to have rep
resentatives in purely scientific walks. We
are informed that his first two or three lec
tures will be devoted to the consideration of
the boundary between the Mineral, Vegetable
and Animal Kingdoms. Just at this time,
when the dicta of the great German Microsco
pist, Elirenberg, have been called in question
by other observers, a discussion on such a
subject must be full of interest.— Savannah
News.
Troops for Florida.
Company 11, Ist Regiment of Artillery, 88
rank and tile, left Fourt Moultrie on Sunday
morning, in the steamer Gordon, for Fort Ca
prou, Indian River, Florida. The following
were the officers in attendance: Brevet Cap
tain T. Seymour; 2d Lieut. T. A. Shoup;
Surgeon, Asa Wall.
Sleep.
There is no fact more clearly establish
ed in the physiology of man than this,
that the brain expends its energies and it
self during the hours of wakefulness, and
that these are recuperated during sleep;
if the recuperation does not equal the ex
penditures, the brain withers; this is in
sanity. Thus it is that in early English
history persons who were condemned to
death, by being prevented from sleeping,
always died raving maniacs; thus it is, al
so, that those who are starved to death be
come insane ; the brain is not nourished,
and they cannot sleep. The practical in
ferences are three :
1. Those who think most, who do most
brain work, require most sleep.
2. That time “saved” from necessary
sleep is infallibly destructive to mind,
body and estate.
3. Give yourself, your children, your
servant, give all who are under you the
fullest amount of sleep they will take, by
compelling them to go to bed at some reg
ular hour, and to arise in the morning the
moment they awake of themselves, and
within a fortnight, nature, with almost
the regularity of the rising sun, will un
loose the bonds of sleep, the moment
enough repose has been secured for the
wants of the system. This is the only
safb and sufficient rule; and as to the
question, how much sleep any one re
quires, each must be a rule for himself;
great Nature will never fail to write it to
the observer under the regulations just
given. —Journal of Health.
We regret to state that Gen. Gadsden’s
pounding and thrashing mill on Cooper River
was consumed by tire on the night of the 15th
instant, witli between two aud three thousand
bushels of rough rice. —Charleston Courier.
On® Saturday last, some jyoung men in
Munch Chunk, l’a., stretched a wire from
mountain to mountain, at an elevation of 400
feet above the town, from which was suspen
ded a very large and handsome ting, bearing
the names of “Buchanan and Breckinridge.”
“ The Boys’ Prlends’SoetetF’ ~~
From tho Mobile Tribune.
It is a well known fact that all cities are nio
or less infested by had and unruly boys j
acquire most of the viler elements of cbaract I
by the facilities of association, and of obtainin
a livelihood, which compact populations J 1
ford. “
The “gamins” of the city of Paris are son
torious as a class, as to have earned aw,
wide celebrity. The vagrant boys of Lon-j
are numbered by thousands, who rise fr ‘
their lairs of filth and wretchedness i n t
morning, without knowing whence they m#* 3
derive sustenance for the day, but re i v - # ’
mainly on chance, contrivance or theft fur y
supply. So in our own great cities, the bov.
who are thrown upon their own resources fro
the poverty of parents, from inefficient p areil !
tal control, and from other causes have an
so numerous as to attract serious public att tMl
tion, with a view to a remedy for the inevitii
ble evils of such a state of things.
Mobile is not only not free from this vice 0 (
vagrant boys,—she is indeed fully suppli t !.'j j
with her proportion of that undesirable clns
population. Thocauses which create thatch,
are the same hero as elsowhere, and may ,
briefly stated thus: The want of parents
friends; the poverty of parents ; the inefficity
control of parents.
Nor is Mobile free from the effects of such a
population. Boys may be seen roaming tL e
streets daily, during tho ordinary school hour
whose sole employment would appear to l,j
amusement or mischief. On occasion of the *
least excitement, night or day, they fill
streets, —a turbulent mass. Every'place o!
amusement is thronged with them. The
wharves, the ship yards, are their ordinary
places of resort, and they are sure to malic a
considerable part of the auditory at all politi
cal meetings.
The habits thus engendered are productive
of groat and serious evils. Wild and reckless
habits, inconsistent with domestic control; a
sort of wayward, piratical feeling, independent
of all government. An abhorrence of all con
straint, of all regular application or industry,
of all studiousness—unceasing restlessness. -
Habits of smoking, chewing, drinking—using ,
profane language. These evils are common in
a great or less degree to all boys who are al
lowed much license in Mobile. But there are
other evils consequent upon such a life as the
vagrant boys lead, that induce necessarily the
most dreadful results. With so much of lib
erty and license, urged on by real or fancied
necessities, these vagrant boys commit depre
dations on the property of others, that often
arnouut to theft. They become gradually har
dened in this vicious school and promising can
didates for the criminal courts in higher grades
of crime.
To make an honest, earnest attempt to snatch
these boys from the ruin that is impending
over them, is tho object which we have in
view. It is time to begin. We do not propose
this a moment too soon, nor indeed until we
have all been convinced of the necessity of ef
fort of some kind to stay the evil. Othercities
have not begun perhaps so early, that is with
so small a population as we have. But have
not other cities begun after they have furnish
ed many such candidates to the states prison,
and the gallows?
Wc hope to arrest this evilby judiciousman
agement, based upon kindly and humane prin
ciples ; by the extension, as far as possible, of
a sort of parental government.
And if we can lay the arm of compassion on
such boys and divert their youthful energies
from the downward path of vice and infamy;
if we can imbue them with virtuous sentiments,
and put them in the way of usefulness, may
we not cheer the hearts of many a widowed
mother, and convert many idle, wandering
boys into good and honorable citizens ? That
an association for such a purpose would con
fer on Mobile great public benefit, none will
doubt.
The writer of this invites the attention of the
citizens of Mobile to an institution speedily to
be formed with especial reference to the object
above shadowed forth, to which we most earn
estly entreat their sympathies and their per
sonal aid. W. C. E.
Lady Granville’s Loss at the Coronntiou.
The Moscow correspondent of Le Nord
gives the following curious story: “On
the day of the coronation, and at the mo
ment when the cortege was entering the
Kremlin, a magnificent pearl necklace
worn by Lady Granville broke, and the
pearls, each of which was of great value,
were scattered at her feet. Her ladyship
did not evince the slightest emotion at
the circumstance, but proceeded on her
way, leaving the remnants of an ornament
which would be a fortune to any one less
wealthy than the lady of the English am
bassador.
Tile Slavery Agitation.
The Presbytery in Hanover met in Liberty,
Bedford county, Va. on the Ist. inst. Rev. J.
IV. Handy, of Portsmouth, Va., was chosen
moderator, and Revs. L. P. Ledoux and W.
H. MattheMS, clerks. Among the resolutions
adopted was one expressing decided disappro
bation of the continued agitation of the sub
ject of slavery in the General Assembly, and
declaring in favor of the Presbytery sepnrat
ing from the Assembly in case the agitation
is continued, and, with others, joining in the
establishment of a southern Presbyterian
church.
There are two Fremonts. You can't tell
them apart. Don’t vote for cither; for you
dan’t know which may swear in !
Dli. W. F. LEE,
DENTIST, WS
HAS returned and will be prepared to see tii 1 111,1011
on Monday the 27th inst.
Office corner Broad and Randolph streets.
Oct. 21,1856—ts
EGGS, CABBAGE, ONION SETS,
FRUIT, &c.
A GOOD supply on hand, and will endeavor to keep .u
all times, at No. lllu Broad street.
Out 24 1856. tw3t WM. LIGOV
BACON.
Hale 30 or 40 ensks of Bacon to cloae
’ STEWART, GRAY A CD.
Pet 24—ts
SWEET IIA VANA ORANGES
I 7OR sale by J. B. THOM AS * CO.
. Oct. 24—ts No. 42 Broad
30,000 GENUINE HAVANA SEGABS*
WARRANTED, and lor snle by , „
*J. B. THOMAS & CO-
Oct. 24—ts No. 4'-’ B ril '“ N
~ TO PLANTERS.
A Goad Chance For a Fortune ‘•
I HAVE 871 acres of uncleared land at tin- jumli'”>’
the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers. The laii'i ■
uated ou the west hank of the river. It consist* ‘
2nd and 3rd both.ms. the growth of the latter belli*
aud Hickory with white osk runners, and said hyjii’ -
to be capable of producing 30 bushels of corn pet - 1
The Ist bottoms will produce 20UO llis. cotton 1000 ms
bucco or 00 bushels corn j-r acre.
1 pro]lose as follows : . ..
Ist. I will sell the land for Twenty Dollars per a • ,
2nd. I will take tho first crop, acre per acre,
planting in that section. „ f,
3rd. I will I (else it from one to nincty-mne .'’ ,
one-sixth of the yearly crops, provided that 11
than COO acres are cultivated. JNO. G. B
Columbus, Oct. 24-i week