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Cotton Planters’ Convention.
Macon, Oa., 1 itb. June 18-59.
Tlie Convention met pursuant to ad
journment, in the City Hail.
The meeting was called to order by the
President, and proceeded to organize by
reading the Constitution, and announcing
it there were any gentlemen present who
wished to become members of the conven
tion, they.now had an opportunity to do so.
A number of gentlemen came forward and
signed the Constitution.
The following resolutions were then of
fered by Col. Nathan liass, and adopted by
he Convention :
lie wived. That the Secretary be re quest-
ed to perfect the Record -of this Associa
tion, by regular and proper entry upon the
minutes, of an account of the origin and or
ganization thereof.
The President then proceed to read be
fore the Convention his annual report.—
The communication was an able one—set
ting ferth in encouraging light tire pro
gress already made, and demonstrating
that the objects proposed by the Conven
tion—that iarmers should manage their ovn
business hi their own way, without, in the
slightest degree, intending to injure, wrong,
or cause uetrimeut to the business of any
other class of men, but solely with the view
—in the use of the best means—of secur
ing their own best interests, was, without
doubt, a practical achievement. The re
port also incorporates many interesting ex
tracts of official correspondence with the
“Continental and Direct T;ade Associa
tion,” of Europe.
The leportconcluded, the President then
announced that the term of office having
expired, the Convention would proceed
immediately to tire election of-officers for
tlie ensuing year. Whereupon the follow
ing gentlemen were elected : Col. Howell
Cobb, unanimously elected President; Col.
Nathan Bass, 1st Vice President ; Dr. J.
V. Jones, 2d. Vice President; S. H. J.
Sistrank, Secretary, and Judge Thaddeus
G. Holt, Treasurer*.
The convention then adjourned to meet
at the Court House at 3 o’clock, P. M.
Afternoon Session.
Met pursuant to adjournment, Col. 71.
C-e'ib, presiding. •
After some appropriate and forcible re
marks. made by Rev.-J. J. Martin, upon
■the necessity of having our proceedings
published in pamphlet form for general
distribution, a collection was taken up for
that object, under the following resolution
•from John Rutherford.
Resolved, That tlve 'Secretary of this
body be requeued to prepare and put in
•proper shape, for publication in pamphlet
form, the entire proceedings of this Conven
tion—that .500 copies be published, each
member entitled to at least one copy ; and
that it be ordered by the. convention
that the committee on finance pass the or
der for publication,-so that the Treasurer
be thereby authorized to pay the expenses
which may accrue. And also, that the
Secretary furnish an abstract of our pro-
A Hundred Years A?o.
A great many events occur in a hundred
years. Within that time America has
leaped forth into the astonishing power it
is. One hundred years ago, says an ex
change, there was not a single white man
in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois
territories. Then what is now the most
flourishing part of America, was as little
known as the country around the mountains
of the moon. It was not until 1769 that
the “Hunter of Kentucky,” the gallant and
adventurous Boone, left his home in North
Carolina, to become the first settler in Ken
tucky. The first pioneer in Ohio did not
settle until twenty years after this time.
A hundred years ago Canada belonged to
1 ranee—the whole population of the Unit
ed Stales did not exceed a million and a
half of people. A hundred years ago the
great Frederick of Prussia was performing
those great exploits which have made him
immortal in military annals, and with liis
little*monarchy was sustaining a single-’
handed contest with Russia, Austria and {
France—the three great powers of Europe i
combined. A hundred years ago Napol
eon was not born, and Washington was a
young modest Virginia Colonel, and the
great events in the history of the two
worlds, in which these two great but dis
similar men took leading parts, were then
scarcely foreshadowed. A hundred years
ago the United States were the most loyal
part of the British Empire, and, on the po- j!
litical horizon, no speck indicated tho.f
struggle which, within a score of year’s,
thereafter, established the greatest repub- !
lie in the world. A hundred years ago 1
there were but four newspapers in America:!
steam engines bad not lieen imagined,
and railways and telegraphs had not enter. {
ed into the remotest conception of man.— !
When we come to look back at it throu gh
the vista of history, we find that to the cen
tury which has passed have beer, allotted
more important events in their bearing up
on the happiness of the world, than a.ny
other which ims elapsed since the creation.
A hundred years hence, what will be the
development? It is pastfinding out, ex
cept one thing, a thought which astonished
Xerxes when bo stood upon Mt. Atlms—
all, with but few exceptions, how livin
will be dead.
cecdiugs to the papers of this City.
The following resolutions were then of
fered-by-Ool. Jesse’Mavis, and adopted :
1. Resolved, That'so much of the i'’resi
dent’s Annual Communication as relates
to the necessity of the organisation of the
Cotton Planters’ Convention of the Stale
of Georgia, he referred to a committee of
three, to be appointed at his lea sure by the.
presiding officer.
2. Resolved, That so much of the Presi
dent's annual report as relates to the ap
pointment of an agent for selling and ship
ping cotton for planters in the city ef Sa-
vnunai together with ih-e report of the
agent n referred to a committee of three,
to c j;c ated by the President at leisure.
5. Ri sot rod, That so much oi his annual
report as relates to a hank* be referred to a
committee ol three, to be appointed by the
President, at his loisure.
4. Resolved, That s» much of the Presi
dent’s annual communication as relates to
Direct Trade, together with the correspon
dence on that subject, be referred to a com
mittee of three, t« be appointed by the
President, at his leisure.
5. Resolved, That so much of eaid an
nual communication as relates to an annu
al Fair, under the auspices of the ■conven
tion, be referred to a committee of seven, to
be appointed by the President, at his leis
ure.
6. Resolved, That so much of the Presi
dent's report as relates to delayed pay
ments, in the Savannah markets, he referred
to a committee of three, to ba appointed
by the President, at his leisure.
Resolution by Col. James Grubbs:
Resolved, That a committee of four be
appointed by the 'President, at his leisure,
to solicit from the .Legislature an appro
priation to aid in carrying out the object
contemplated in bolding an annual State
Fair.
Resolution by Mr. Isaac West:
Resolved, That the presiding officer be
and is hereby requested to select some
competent gentleman to address the con
vention at itsirext annual meeting, on the
great agricultural interests of Georgia and
tlve South.
On motion adjourned to meet again, in
the city of Macon, «n -the 2d Tuesday in
June next, unless a called meeting should
be considered necessary—to be determined
by the President and ViccPresiJents of the
body.
HOWELL COBB. Pres.
>S. -H. J. Sistruek, Sec’y.
Bishop fierce oa Texas,
The Tit. Rev. Bishop Pieree, now jour
neying through Texas on his way,
overland, to the great Eldorado of the
W est, thus writes of oiu* new aud flourish
ing sister of tb-e south-west:
-“Texas is a curious country—a paradox.
Everything is in the superlative, or con
tradictory or-marvelous. It is the richest
and the poorest—has the best land, the
meanest water, is the. hardest country to
live in, and has the most to live on; the
days are the hottest, and the nights the
coolest; the best roads, and the slowest
travel; the finest building material, and
the least use made of it; there are move
clouds, and less rain; more plains, and loss
timber; more ropes .to iie horses, and yet
est rays; a poor country for farming, and
yet the most productive; the least work
and the largest yield; the horses are small
and the cattle big; the frogs have horns,
and the rabbits have ears like mules; the
people are intelligent without general edu
cation-—inventive wit lion t being tricky-
refined without mannerism—rich without
money—hospitable without houses—bold,
generous and brave. In fine, here is an
empire If. extent and resources, but in the
slowest process of evolution, and yet des
tined to population, wealth and power.—
There is much to .admire, but little to de
plore; many things 4« enchant, -hut few to
offend; and for the people and their institu
tions, there is a splendid future.”
How to Feed Sulphur to Cattle.—
Mix one pound of sulphur with six pounds
of salt, and place the mixture iu a box
where tlie cattle can have access to it.
The box should be under shelter, so as
*»to to be dissolved by rain and dew.
Is fCbiESA an Intellectual Game ?—
The Boston Courier dissents from the pop
ular encomiums of “tlie intellectual game of
chess,” and objects to tlie gloritication of
its champions. It says-
“We cannot assent to the disposition
manifested naturally enough, by distin
guished-chess-players to magnify their of
fice and function. We cannot admit that
there is any necessary and inevitable con
nection between eminence in chess-playing
and general intellectual superiority. "While
it is true that many distinguished men have
been excellent chess players, it is neverthe
less equally true that the greatest chess-
players have never given evidence of con
spicuous ability in anything else. There
were many men at the Boston banquet on
Tuesday evening whom we should rank in
intellectual statue far above Phillidor,
Macdonald. Dos Chnpelies, He la liom-
donnis, or any other great name, in the an
nals of chess, whether dead or living.
“The game of chess is certainly an in
tellectual game ; so is whist, with, to he
sure, an element of chance superadded.; so
is checkers. But it k hut a game aft' it all;
and the best you can say of it is that
it is a very excellent contrivance to enable
idle men to get through the lazy-pacing
hours without damage to tlie picket, tlie
conscience or the constitution. It is, for
an amusement, the nearest possible ap
proach to real intellectual work. But it is
a barren tree ; it bears the blossoms of en
tertainment, but not fruit of utility—‘the
rest of mankind’ are very little benefit ted,
mentally, morally, or materially, bv the
diligent study of the game of chess by a
limited circle. To our taste, too, the spec
tacle of two men, especially young men,
crooking t-heir spines tor hours and tying
knots in their brains, over a -parcel of fig
ures cut in white arid rod ivory is a little
dreary; but this is merely a matter of Iasi e.
and we are far from insisting that other.?,
shall square their conduct by the line off
our tastes.”
Origin of the Prairies.—Prof. Wilber, r
•State Geologist of Illinois, has recently
delivered a series of admirable lectures on jj
bis favorite science. We copy from thee
Genesee Republic the following abstract ni j;
bis theory on the origin and formation gf'l
the prairies.:
Prof. Wilber adopts the theory that at
one time—very far back in its history—
this vast country formed a portion of the
bottom of the ocean—that through the
eruptions caused by the -internal heat,
together with the labor and activity of
those master masons, the coral insects, our
continent was raised to its present position
above the-water. To prove this bold prop
osition be refers to the many indicia of .salt
water presence, tire frequent occurence of
shells -which legitimately only belong to
animals of the sea—the evidence furnished
the rocks of the labor of the zoophytes, an
mistakable in its developments; the fre
quent discovery of the remains of the mo-n-
sters of the sea deep, imbedded in our lini.e-
storne sj* stem,the existcncenpon our surface
of huge boulders, the former appendages of
polar shores, drifted far away to the south- r
west, imbedded in bilge frames of ice and ji
dropped down at length upon tlie ocean’s-jj
bed, wlier.ee they arose with our continent, j!
The arguments, if not quite conclusive, are
eminently-suggestive, and should open the
eyes of thinking men to the wondrous my
steries huried deep in the earth upon which
we so familiarly tread.
The existence ot our prairies is account
ed for ro this wise. The result of the
“driftsystem” was to give tothis part of the
country a soil of unparalleled fertility, and.
arising from this, were the. very large grass
es, which are peculiar to this soil alone; lux
uriant. and undisturbed, they grew to a
great height, and fairly wove the surface of
the earth with athiek, almost impenetrable
covering. In the autumn, when the mass
of combustable matter was dry, how easy
for a shaft of lightning to send a conflagra
tion from one boundary of the. country to
the other. The sprouting twigs of sturdier
growth would perish by the frequent occui-
renee of those fires, and hcrvse the treeless
appearance of tlie West. To aid the idea,
it is claimed that the Indians, when they
did arrive, which is supposed to have been
long subsequent to the first pel oid mention
ed, regularly burned the prairie grasses, for
the purpose of driving the game into more
cifemuseribed qnarters, so that it might
fall an easy prey to their arrows, and to
lessen the difficulty of travelling.
f Life Illustrated.
Doties of a Lady in her Heoseiioid.
Without regularity, no house can he
managed with any degree of economy or
comfort. No mistress or head of a house
hold, therefore, should trust her domestic
with the care of the store rooms, closets
and kitchen, without keeping a careful su
pervision over each of them herself. The
best hour for inspection, iu regard to these
matters, is immediately after breakfast.—
All the materials cr stores, as well as the
necessary directions, may then be given
out. She should see also herself, that ev
erything is made the best use of by those
to whom she entrusts the culinary opera
tions, and that nothing is left to the chan
ces of disorder and waste.
No lady should ever regard herself above
this routine of skilfull house care; for,
however accomplished she may.be, her do
mestic duties are of the most importance.
Thus, in regard to the simple matter alone
of the dinner table—its appointments, and
tlie inode of conducting on such an occa
sion—the influence of a faithful attention
to duty, on the part of the female head of
household affairs, is at once evident. Ev
erything should not only be in its proper
place, hut have a place by itself. Clean
table linen should only he given out after
the soiled has been returned to its proper
place. Glass should be kept in a closet, in
the dinner room, and only that number of
glasses given out that may be wanted.
Everything being thus at hand, and the
utmost carefulness enforced, much trouble,
and in the course of the year considerable
loss will be avoided. Punctuality in the
management of all home affairs is also in
dispensable. The meals should always,
unless unavoidable casualities intervene,
be. ready at tlie accustomed and expected
hour. If the mistress is punctual, tlie do
mestics will also be so ; and thus the inind
of the husband will not he ruffled, and
there will Le no confusion and no bicker
ings, but harmony and a cheerful apprecia
tion of every meal, followed by genial re
laxation and plesant conversation.
These are not trifles, however, they may
appear to some. If the insolvency of
thousands could be traced to its source, it
would be found to have commenced with
the non performance of these household
duties by the wife—or other female head
of affairs—for“without order there is no
economy.”
The Charchrs in Texas.
Rev. Rnfns W. Baily. of Austin Col
lege, Texas, writes to the Central Pres
byterian, of Richmond, Va. :
With a population of G0(bgQ0. this great
State is still but sparsely settled—only a
fraction moie than two to a square mile.
This opposes an obsticle to ecclesiastical
organization. The Methodists, as in most
new countries, take the lead. The Bap
tists are next- in numerable force. Our,
old scliool Synod has four Presbyteries
45 ministers and 60 churches. We have a
labarous and faithful ministry and an in
creasing power in influence and numbers.
The Cumberland Presbyterians prevail in
some parts of the State, and are working
with commendable diligence. The other
denominations are fractional. The Epis-
copalins have several respectable churches
in the large towns, and some excellent
and influential members. They recently
elected Itcv. Alexander Gregg, of Chcraw,
S. C., for their Bishop. If lie accepts, and
tills the expectations of those who elected
him, lie will teach christ first and the church
afterwards. He will find twelve “other
clergy” in his diocese, and a wide field for
usefulness.
R aces a nd Relic ions.—The whole North
American Continent has only 36.000,000 of
inhabitants, hardly as much as France or
Austria. The whole of Central and South
America has only 23,000,000 ; less then,
than Italy. European Prussia, with its
60.000. 000, has as many inhabitants as
America, Australia and Polynesia togeth
er. More people live in London than in all
Australia and Polynesia. China proper has
more inhabitants than America, Australia
and Africa put together, and India lias
nearly three limes as many inhabitants as
the whole of the new world. The result is
that our planet boars 1.288,000,000 of man
kind. of* which sum total 522,000.000 be
long to the Mongolian, 369,000,000 to tbe
Caucasian, 200,000,000 to the Malayan,
196.000. 000 to the Ethiopian, and 1,000,-
000 to the American race. Divided ac
cording to their confessions, there are 335.-
000,000 of Christians, 5.000,000 of Jews,
600.000. 000 belonging to the Asiatic reli
gions, 160,000,000 of Mohammedanism,
Hyde Park.
From “Souvenirs of Travel” by Mrs. Le
Vert, recently published by Derby and
Jackson, New York.
After driving for hours through the
thronged portions ofthe city, and the aris
tocratic streets of the West End, we came
to Hyde Park, and entered it by the arch
way.
The park takes its name from “Hyde,”
the property once of the monks of West
minister. Near the grand entrance is Ap-
sley House, the residence of the “Iron
Duke.” In front of the mansion stands
the monument in memory of his glorious
achievements. The western windows, are
covered over with plates of iron. During
tlio agitation ofthe reform bill, tbe mob
assembled before the bouse and broke in
the windows. The Duke of Wellington
had the wooden shutters replaced by sheets
of iron, which lie would never remove.—
He was the Prime Minister then, but after
that day’s outrage gave up his power into
tlie hands of the Queen.
Just within tlie park is a statue of Ach
illes cast by Sir R. Westmacott, from tlie
cannon taken in Spain and at Waterloo.—
It was paid for by a subscription among
the ladies, and inscribed “to Arthur, Duke |
of Well ington, and his brave companions j
in arms, by the women of England.”
Tlie park contains four hundred, and |
has many noble trees, and grass as fresh !
and green as the famous “blue grass” of J
[From the N. Y. Examiner.]
The Great Cotinished Problems.
The last of Professor Mitchell’s “astro
nomical discourses” in New York city, was
upon the great unfinished Problems of
the Universe.” A grand theme for the
princely orator. Tbe introductory state
inent was as follows :—
“I am to speak of the unfinished prob
lems of the universe. This would seem
to imply that there are some which arc
finished ; but I know of none such, abso
lutely. I believe that we are now permit
ted to reign throughout our solar system
with absolute command and power. I be
lieve that we can, almost with certainty
announce that its dominion reaches to the
fixed stars ; and when this is uttered I
think I have told you all the problems,
that are finished in the astronomical world.
When we come to the examination of our
own system ; when we come to inquire
whether we have determined the actual
and positive movements of the sun ; wheth
er we have reached to the precise ami
critical knowledge of the movement of any
planet; whether we are able to predict,
with absolute precision, the place of any of
these revolving worlds; I answer, it has
not been told.”
From far before the advent of Christ,
men have been watching the stars in their
courses. Babylon has sprung up, waxed
great, flourished mightily, waned, sunk
out of sight and out of memory, and been
exhumed after its burial of centuries, since
this long succession of star gazers began.
From tlie days ofKepler and Newton, what
mighty minds have grappled with these
problems, hesitating at no toil and ex
pense ; and still—in the judgement of those
who admit nothing as of any worth but a
rounded, adjusted, comprehended fact—
how meager have been the results. A
settled confidence gained in the laws of
gravitation—no more. And yet, did Pro
lessor Mitchell, or any one of his five thou
sand auditors, feel that in this statement
was implied either umvorthiness in God, or
hepelessnessfor man ? Far from it. Plato
calls man “the hunter for truth,” and that
he is put in pursuit of such noble game as
these problems suggest, in such a magnifi
cent chase as tlie starry heavens, bespeaks
tlie dignity of his heritage. That these are
problems, and not illusory riddles—prob
lems, whose terms are all connected by
certain law, each solution to yield an ex
pression from some attribute of God—this,
while it is a fundamental article of the as
tronomer’s faith, is also a prophecy of his
reward-Tiigse are problems to exercise large
the energy, the skill, the patience of myr
iad generations to come—the discipline
insolving which, be it remembered, is not
of less value than will be the solutions tliem-
and 200,000,000 of heathen.
An Application.—At the close of the
examination of a medical man, who had
been called upon to establish the incom-
petcncy ofa deceased testator to make a
will, tiie witness said he believed “all per
sons were subject to tempdWry fits of insan
ity.” “And when they are in then*,” ask
ed Baron Alderson, “are they aware of
their state ?” Certainly not my lord :
they believe all that they do or say, even if
nonsensical, to be perfectly right and prop
er.” “Then,” exclaimed the judge, “here
have T taken no less than thirteen pages
of notes of yout* evidence, and after all,
you may Le in a fit of temporary insanity
talking nonsense, and believeing it to be
true.”
Ashland, near Lexington, Ky. There are
roads through it which are thronged at the i selves.
fashionable hours with gorgeous equipages I That is an interesting conceit of Lord
and horsemen. ! Bacon, in the preface to his Novum Organ-
Rotter Row (from the French “Route de j urn :—
Iloi”) is reserved for those on horseback.— “With regard to the sciences that con
'd he (jueen’s carriage is alone permitted in | template nature, the sacred philosopher
A letter frcniUohn Wise, the great aero
naut, states that he has just completed his
arrangements preparatory to trans contin
ental .voyage from St. Louis to tlve Atlan
tic seabord, in his monster balloon, tbe
“Nineteenth century,” which is sixty-eight
feet in diameter, and will -coutaiu from
sixty to eighty thousand feet of gas, Mr.
Wise expects to make the start from St.
Louis about the middle or latter part of
Juue, or, at farthest early in July,
From tlie Independent South.
Georgia Cloutl—Hick Scene.
After a well known Georgia Solicitor
General had administered the usual oath
to tlie grand and petit juries and bailiffs,
lie turned t’o-the presiding Judge, and re
marked :
Solicitor: May it please your Honor, I
do not remember any form of oath to be
administered to the lobby bailiffs, but by
your j- r -mission, I think I can frame one,
that will be satisfactory to the Court.
Judge: Proceed Mr. Solicitor.
Solicitor General : Put your hand on
the book. 'Whereupon a tall, lean, vine
gar-faced son of Auakes stepped up and
promptly grabbed the book.
Solicitor: You do solemnly swear, in
presence of this Court, and us lawyers, that
you will take your position in the lobby,
and there remain with your eyes skinned,
during tlie entire sessions of this Court.
That you will not suffer any one to speal-
above a low whisper, and if any one shall
dare do So in presence of your royal high
ness you will vociferously exclaim, “Si
lence in the lobby !” and if order is not im
mediately restored, you further swear that
you wiil, by one ponderous blow of your
fist, planted between the peepers of the
offender, knock Jiim down. All of this
you will do to tlie best of your skill and
knowledge, so help you God.
The bailiff took the position assigned
him, and immediately after the Court was
organized, Tom Diggers who looked as
green as young gourds, walked into the
loom wearing brogans No. 11, and liis
hands thrust deep iu liis pockets, and en
quired,
“Hello fellows, where in the thunder
is Jim Snellins ?”
•“Silence in the lobby 1” roared the out
raged official.
Brogans : You must be an alfircd tarnal
fool, and ef ye jest open that bread trap of
your’n agin, your mamma won’t no yo.
Whereupon Jim Jarvis, the bailiff, let
fly tlie dogs of*war, and greeny fell flat
on bis back, with his pedestals at an angle
of forty degrees in the air. He grabbled
greeny by the seat of his trowsers, and
dragged him wrong end foremost into the
presence of his Honor, the presiding Judge,
and said:
“Mr. Judge, here’s that darned infernal
fool, John Diggers, whatwan’t never in a
court house afore, and he undertook to run
over this chicken, but ‘cordin to law, and
now say the word, and I’lrtnall the dog
wood juice outen him afore you kin wink
yer eyes twice.”
Judge : Turn him loose, Mr. Bailiff, and
accept the thanks of the Court for the
prompt discharge of your official duties.
Exit Greeny with eyes large as saucers.
Self-Search.—Read not books alone,
but men, and among them chiefly thyself;
if thoufindest anything questionable there,
use the conimoutary of a severe friend,
rather than the gloss of a sweet-lipped
flatterer ; there is more profit in a dis
tasteful truth than deceitful sweetness.
A Printer’s Toast.—W T oman,—the
fairest work of creation—the edition being
extensive, let no man he without a copy.
this exclusive place. From two o’clock
until six it is filled with fair cquestrienncsc.
A\ e left our carriage and walked along
Rotten Row. What a brilliant scene it
was ! There were multitudes of people
walking upon the smooth cut grass, as soft
and yielding as velvet, and hundreds and
hundreds riding.
Tlie English women look admirably well
on horseback. There is a style and grace
about them peculiarly adapted to this exer
cise. Their round hats and close-fittin
amazons are exceedingly becoming.—
Many were attended by their grooms on
1 y, while others were riding side by sid«
with some gallant cavalier, borne were
dashing along in a rapid gallop, and others
sauntering quietly and pleasantly in earn
est talk.
In the park is the Serpentine river.—
There were many boats upon it, skimming
over the waters like so many swallows.—
On the hank of the little river is a house
built by a society, where persons are sta
tioned constantly to save tlie lives of those
who may accidently fall in, or purposely
tumble or plunge therein, to rid themselves
or the burden of life by this inode of sui
cide. Boats and drags are in readiness, and
many are thus rescued from death. It was
an evening of unusual loveliness, an I the
Queen, Prince Albert, and their royal
guests; the King and Queen of Hanover,
the crown prince and Princess of Prussia
and their handsome young son, Prince
Frederick William, were driving in “Rot
ten Row,” amid a throng of fine horsemen,
and brilliant, dashing cqueslienncse
In the park were the gorgeous equipages
of tlie aristocracy, and under tbe old trees
groups of tlie people, with their children
and wives.
Oh ! what a blessing to life are these
parks of London ! They are indeed the
“lungs” of the great city. They are in
describably beautiful, and the most enjoy
able spots of earth.
American-Credit Abroad.—The Lon
don correspondent of the New York Ex
press pays a high tribute to American cred
it, and states a fact that does great honor to
American merchants dealing in Europe.
He asserts that he learned from the Gov
ernor of the Bank of England, that not a
single piece of American mercantile pa
per which laid over during the late panic
now remains unpaid.
Cure for Neuralgia.—The Daily Alta
Calafornian, gf the 20th May, says ;
Some time since wo published at the
request of a friend, a recipe to cure tiie
neuralgia. Half a drachm of sal ammo
niac in an ounce of camphor water, to be
taken, a teaspoonful at a dose, and the
dose repeated several times, at intevals of
five minutes, if the pain be not relieved at
once. Half a dozen persons have since
then tried the recipe on the recommenda
tion of the “Alta,” and in every case, an
immediate cure was effected". In one case,
the sufferer, a lady, had been subjected to
very acute pains for more than a week
and her physicians were unable to allevi
ate her suffering, when a teaspoonful of
the salution- of sal ammoniac in camphor
water relieved her within a couple of min
utes. Whether the recipe will cure all at
tacks of neuralgia is a question which wc
fcannot answer ; that it will cure many we
are well assured.
declares it to be ‘tiie glory of God to con
ceal a thing, hut of the King to searcli it
out ;’ just as if the Divine Spirit were
wont to be pleased with the innocent sport
of children, who hide themselves that they
may be found, and had chosen the human
soul as liis playmate, out of liis indulgence
and goodness towards man.”
God does, indeed, hide himself behind
the pebble and behind the planet, that j
man may, by searching, find him out. So j
the Christian astronomer, as he looks out
beyond Orion and the Pleiades for the
rim of the universe, holding fast to that
one great law which has, perhaps, passed
from theory into fact—the only finished
problem of the heavens—finds whom the
the previous and patient search but pre
pares him to enjoy.
But there are other “unfinished problems
of tbe universe” than those within the
sphere of the physical. The moral world
presents its questions—more immense,
Political Common-Places
A Georgia contemporary brings us a
report of the proceedings recently held in
a Democratic Convention, assembled in
one of the Congressional districts of that
State, for the nomination of a cadidale to
be supported by tbe party at the approach
ing election for Representatives in tbe
next Congress.
These proceedings, we need hardly say,
are conceived in lhe usual sty le deemed
appropriate to such conventicles. The
“resolutions” passed are of the inevitable
normal type. In token of the “unchang
ing faith” with which the Georgia Demo
crats adhere to the principles of the party
according to the latest edition of those
principles, they pledge their continued al
legiauce to the “Cincinnati platform
and, as auxiliary to that specimen of polit
ical achitecture, or rather as a buttress indis-
pensibie to give it stability and symmetry
the Georgia platform (which, whatever it
is, seems to be for the Georgia Democracy
much what the “resolutions of ’9S” are
for their confederates in Virginia) is reaf
firmed, and “an unalterable determination”
expressed in favor of standing firmly upon
the latter, while “insisting on a strict con
struction of'tlie Constitution, and demand
ing at all times and at every hazard the
full measure of the rights to which the
South is entitled, without further conces
sion or compromise.”
Having thus recurred to the “first prin-
cipIes”*oi the Democratic faith, the Con
vention proceed to consider the practical
measures necessary to give them force and
effect, and place foremost among the latter
the following declaration :
“Rcsolrctl. That tfie Democratic party/novr, as
ever, advocate rltkknchuk.nt and rkfi-.km. and,
in the language of the Cincinnati platform, hold
‘that it is tlie duty of every branch of the Govern
ment to enforce and practice the most rigid econo
my in conducting onr public affairs.’ ”
Wo have cited this resolution simply
for tbe purpose of estimating by its terms
the precise value which should be ordina
rily attached to such political common
places as are perpetually dinned in tb<^
public ear under tbe name of “retrench
ment” and “reform.” W e are curious to
know what definite meaning these words
convey to the understandings of the Geor
gia Democracy by whom they are- employ
ed. It is common for our 1 )emocratic friends
to point with pride and exaltation to tlie
long period during which their party has
been honored w ith tlie practical administra
tion of the Government, and one would
suppose that in tlie mean time they had
enjoyed Ample opportunities to give full
development to their retrenching and re
forming tendencies; yet it seems that,
with a diffidence wbice does great honor
to their modesty they are never satisfied
with their performances in this line, and,
with the best intentions to leave no room
I for further improvements, they find them
selves perpetually falling far short of tiie
political perfection to which they aspire.
Hence, we suppose, tlie painful and tedi
ous iteration with which they lament over
the little success that has attended their
efforts at “retrenchment” and “reform,”
insomuch that, on this theory, we know
not whether more to admire the severity of
their economical virtue or the persever
ance with which, under so many discour
agements, they press onward towards an
apparently unattainable excellence.
There is, however, another theory, less
honorable it is true to the loyalty of their
intentions, hut which may possibly deserve
to be designated among tlie hypothetical
explanations of this singular phenomenon
in our political history. It is that the
“retrenchment” and “reform,’ have lost
their primitive signification, and no longer
convoy any definite or distinctive idea to
those by whom they arc most frequently
employed. If taken literally they must
necessarily be construed to imply some
reproach on the very party *in whose vo-
yention, as well by its resolves as by i„
tions. tins shown itself mbserv i-ut t o *
dictation of foreignism. on tl.- ; one hV-“
arrogant demands of fanaticism on the ‘4*
ptauae,] thus assuming ground both ,
and sectional, a like distasteful and,**
Americans and National men of all r ■ ‘
plans?.]
The Democratic party has proved i„„
false to the great doctrine of ’
the unwarrantable interference of i* . *
ministration in the local aStm of our t ? " ^
the purpose of suppressing or porver;^/
n.ar will of the people. [Applau-e I t "
many rears fostered and still enco Brae . ' *
toreign influence m the poiiti-s of the r “ 81
mere party purposes, [app! anse i ai|l] .f**]
ns present Administration in » .ecki,,..
gate extravagance, which exceeds any,/ :
history of onr country, ai.J«,-; ves J ,
alarm. (Cheers. |
We therefore believe »t to be the duty •
American parry, disarming all sympathy :
evation with cither of those parties f^rolL °
ent husiastic cheering,] to assume i£ “•
legitimate position of independence i'"
cheering.] Therefore— * ’■
Resole,,l. That we recommend a mas,««-
oi all the conservative citizens of Ohio ■ ’
in Cmeinnatti on \\ ednesdav, the bth •,( i
to nominate a Siafe ticket,’ [inf.., ' '
which slmi! reflect the opinion ofall v ’ U '
v°r of setting an honest’ judiciary LrST 4
and tiumful application ofthe doctrine • *
vention by Congress in the local aflhirs 'j
nlones ; w ho oppose aa unwarrantable V '
flueneo in onr polities, and who are dev a? '
under all circumstances will maintain thi -‘
of onr Federal Union. [Prolonged cheeru!'
The Gubernatorial Elerlion.
the policy of the
OPPOSITION
1 ‘ r \v , 1 , ’• i i cabtilary they figure so largely; and thus
more difficult, more glorious. \\ e should ! , , J 5> , » r ’ ...
expect this. The “seen and the temporal,”
however grand, must he inferior to the
“unseen and eternal.” The soul and its
heritage must transcend the mortal body
and it’s home. The earnest Christian stu
dent is often perplexed and overwhelmed
by the difficulties which prevent his hrr
monizing the doctrines ofgrace,or following
out to their logical results the principles of
criticism. There is a system of theolgy
in tbe Bible, just as there is a system of
geology in the strata of the earth’s crust
There is a striking analogy here between
nature and revelation. Human free-will,
divine sovereignty, original sin, effectual
grace, trinity, providence, prayer—these
are facts to the Christian student; just as
tlufsun, and the planets, and the stars are
fads to the astronomer—hut by what cen
tral and mediating principle they are re
conciied and adjusted and harmoniously
combined into one perfectly balanced
whole, is a problem infinitely profoundcr
than that which inquires after the wonder
ful influence which unities and controls the
multitudinous system of worlds in their
intricate and stupendous endings through
immeasurable space. We may justly ex
pect that it will require severer study and
longer time to o ve it.
Eternity.—Eternity is a depth which
no geometry can measure, no arithmetic
calculate, no imagination conceive, no
rhetoric describe. The oyc of a dying
Christian seems gifted to penetrate depths
hid from the wisdom of philosophy. It
looks athwart the dark valley without dis
may, cheered by tbe bright scene beyond
it. It looks with a kind of chastened im
patience, to that, land where happiness will
only be holiness pefected. There all the
gospel will be accomplished. There afflict
ed virtue will rejoice at its past trials, and
acknowledge their subservience to its pres
ent bliss. There the secret self denials
as the righteous shall he recognized and
rewarded. There all the hopes of the
Christian shall hare their complete con
summation.
Dickens says of a mother who died with
a babe on her bosom “Clasping that slight
spar within her arms, she drifted ont npon
the dark and unknown sea that rolls all
around the world.”
A Remarkable Couple.—We have
heard, says the Easton (Md.) Monitor, of
the death of Mrs. Mary Andrew, in Caro
line county, in her S6tli year, of mumps.
She was the mother of three children,
thirty six grand children, and sixty great
grandchildren—iu all ninety-four! She
retained her faculties until the last. The
year prior to her death she carded, spun, and
knit fifty pair of stocking, and her greatest
grief was that she could not accomplish
more. She married in her fifteenth
year, and was a devoted wife for 67 years.
Four years ago, her husband died
suddenly sitting in his chair; he never
used tobacco in any form, and liis teetli
were perfectly sound and white ; he never
drank a cup ot coffee or wore flannel during
his life.
Trials of Married Liff.—Married life
has its trials and its sorrows. Tempers
may prove incompatible, and call for for
bearance. Fortune may he chary of, its
favors, and*enforce seltdcnial. Children
may he ungrateful, and sting the pooi-
heart that has pillowed them. Sickness
may come, and haunt a household for
years. But ask the poor man, struggling
along with liis debts, and the weary wo
man, toiling early and late, accomplishing
the ruin of all her beauty and buoyancy,
if they would be placed apart, could com
petence he given them, and all their trials
be brought to an end. The answer would
* be, “There is something sweeter in this
companionship of suffering, than anything
the world can offer from its storehouse of
joys outside of it, and something which
would make even severer trials than our
only iron bands to draw us more firmly to
gether.”—Springfield Republican.
Modesty.—Moses put on a vaihto conceal
tbe brightness of his countenance, yet he
did it solely at the request of others. He
knew not that there was any nnfisual lus
tre on his face fciit by the testimony of oth
ers. Matthew tells that ha was a publican
and was engaged iu collecting customs
when Christ called him ; but he leaves it
to others to tell that he was rich and made
* great feast for Christ and his disciples,
they become but the echo of charges wind
in the mouth of the “Opposition,” are re
pelled as “calumnies” and “misrepiesenta
tions.” We can hardly suppose that the
Georgia Democracy intend to lend their
countenance to the “imputations of the
adversary,” and we therefore incline to
supposition that the terms “retrenchment”
ami “reform,” like so many words perpetu
ally employed in metaphysical parlanse,
have ceased to stand for any very appre
ciable entities.—Nat. Int.
We last week analyzed the reso'-,
adopted hv the Democratic State (
tion at Millcdgeville, to show tint "
was in them no snbstantiaf'fendor^rn^
the Federal Administration; tLat -*
they amounted to only a miserable evitl
of tiie question and expressed anprov !
not one of President Buchanan’s act;"
this view we are sustained by nrnrlr'.
the Opposition presses of the State,\
opinions have yet reached us, ami bv a
ol the Democratic papers. Gov j;
too, in Iris address accepting the nw
t,on, took care not to connect lffs f 0 ..
with those of the Federal AJminist3
baton the contrary, repudiated tie id
sity of a patty contest.
Lnder these circumstances, what is.
duty or policy ot the Opposition ConrJ
tion, to assemble next month in Miilec
ville ? We think that it is no longer -?
Jenged to m.-.ke a party contest of the 6
ernatorial election ; that the other
has in fact evaded each an issue, h i
er it was moved to this course bv f..jr
visions in its own ranks, or by fear of - j
an opposition as could be aroused nt :
ted on the basis of hostility tu l'ref
Buchanan s Administration, is rn i;v
rial question to ns. We find that no«
al issue has been tendered—cot a si
measure of Federal policy has been aj j
ed or disapproved—and we are tier
to consider whether ue will make a
upon such questions.
The Opposition Convention burin*l-|
called to take into consideration tiiepr
ety of making a nomination for GoverrJ
and for the purpose of general organ//;]
we think that it,coul,l now consisu/tlvi]
honorably forbear tP make the noaina;!
hut that it ought by all means take .
steps requisite to an organization cf|
party. It should at least uttcrlv re- iff,
and condemn the present Federal Alin;;
tiation. If a Convention ofthe pariy'
elected it could not afford to stand bv
surely we cannot reasonably be expe' j
to cover it with “tlie charity of silence. •
Let ns organize a party on the basi-
opposition to it, and offer battle to the t:
Politics in Ohio. *
The Native Americans of Ohio held a
meeting at Cincinnati on the 9th instant to
express their opinions of the proceedings
ofthe late Republican State Convention.—
H on. K. I). Campbell, who had been a
member of that Convention, was allowed
to make explanations as to tlie manner in
which was adopted the fourth plank in the
Republican platform, repudiating the late
amendment to the constitution of Massa
chusetts requiring foreigners to reside in
tlie State two years after naturalization be
fore being permitted to vote. In regard
to another point lie stated that “he be
lieves slavery to be an evil ; he is opposed
to the present fugitive slave law, in conse
quence of its odious features ; but he be
lieves that under the Constitution the'South
has a right to reclaim runaway slaves.—
Ha thought then and does now that there
were other questions of more moment to
the people of the State, and so did others
of the committee, but they were overruled.”
lion. J. Scott Harrison was also called
upon, and expressed his pleasure at stand
ing before so large a number of the con
servative people of Cincinnati. It gave
him, he said, the cheering assurance that
the pceple were awakening to a sense of
the true condition of the country, and were
at last disposed to check the tide of'sec
tionalism and fanaticism. He fully ap
proved of the course proposed to Le pur
sued, and urged cool and calm delibera
tion. The condition of the country was
alarming; the two dominant parties were
rushingit to destruction, and it was high
time that the conservatism and patriotism
of the people should be concentrated in a
beneficial movement.
The resolutions ofthe meeting, which
we append, dissent in strong terms from the
positions taken by tbe Republican Conven
tion. One of their newspapers (the Cin
cinnati Times) says that “the character of
the late Republican State Convention, as
exhibited by their action in repudiating
Judge Swan, on account of his honest and
sound opinions a« one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court.of Ohio in the rescue case,
and as forther exhibited by their platform,
through which a direct thrust is made at
thepriuciples of the American party, which
was invited to unite in the Convention,
calls upon all true Americans to consider
their duty to tlie public and their party,’
and the Times declares that “the Republi
can platform does not represent the major
ity of the Opposition party of Ohio ; that
the masses of the people are not prepared
to rush into the embrace of anti-slavery ag
itation ; that there are questions higher
and uohler than received the endorsement
of the Republican Convention at Colum
bus.”
Tbe following are the Preamble and Res
olutions adopted by the Convention of tiie
American Party :
The Republican party of Ohio, in its recent (foa
my upon this issue wherever they da |
accept, it. But they decline to meet tui
this ground in the Governor’s election,i
we see no necessity for trying to force tii
fiom their hiding places, especiallrastlii
Gubernatorial candidate declares’that I
will not % canvass the State, and there i|
consequently be no chance to make
commit himself further than the CnniJ
tion has committed him. Thai there
many thousands ol onr party whowiila
er vote ior frown is well known, and
would not advise them to do so; bet
are not compelled to toe an imaginary ■
when no challenger stands on the
side to oppose them.
In making this suggestion, we wis!i!:|
be understood that in a matter of port
pcdicncy, whether our councels prevai. j
not, we co-operate with our friends.
And in this connection, we refer
readers to an article which we copy te-’l
from the Atlanta Confederacy, lien
“IV hat Can Be Done?” V, ithootsppr
ing tbe harshness of some of its terms,
thiuk that it makes suggestions worthyJ
serious consideration by our party ur
ates.—Columbus Enquirer.
Hon. Howell Cobb.—We ex‘rae!
following paragraph from the Wa»liin?l
correspondence of the Philadelphia P 4
under date of June 13:
Mr. Secretary Cobb is preparingak]
shortly to be published, which will it-
his position on the slavery quest/" !
await this document with some interest ]
anxiety. Mr. Cobb has a good many t
to explain, and as he is an ambition-'
ingenious man, will, no doubt, do liishj
By way of refreshing his memory, I
advise him to re read his speech deiivcj
at West Chester, Pa., in September, kl
and also the letters he is reported to LI
written to Georgia and to Kansas, caiJ
upon his friends and the officials otj
Government to sustain Governor V';
in the course which he took agaia-Bl
houn and the friends of the minon; j
Kansas.
How to Gain Unanimity in Jus**
Let the jury consist exclusively of w J ,
As it is proverbial that women wf 1
disagree, there would not be the s- 4
difficulty in securing always an ! -
verdict. The whole twelve wouJ
one woman—more especially, if n> ?
their own sex was bring tried. r >-
the mere prospective horror of a -1
women being all locked up together ^
out a enp of tea, or a stocking to me'-
a baby to play with, or a novel to Fq
would force them to agree long btfor*-
had 1 oofced at the prisoner, even, ■"
whether he was good looking nr
Politics.—The citizens of
held a mass meeting on tbe 21st n.n
express the public sense regardu*-?,
course of the late veution in t- “'
in reference to the opening of the q
trade. lion. Henry S. Foote
meeting to order, and Hon. 'V • B- #
was President. Strong resolutions
passed. The Whig says : “th e
of Judge Sharkey, William b-
Esq.. Col. T. S. Martin, the Ri‘ v -
shall, an t others, were rarptoroosij ,
ed, which plainly showed that tue 1‘ tJ
heart was with the conservative c * u ,
favor of maintaining the iaws 'J • “ .
and respecting the rights of hiunae
well as against tbe introduction o , #
niggers to reduce the price of /
°° [ Baltimore A***
Expectation.—“Lookhopeff'^-^j
seems to be most
clouds, and do not expect
brilliant with r
darkly n> au V
too S‘ aC -
whatever is most brilliant ‘
for the one will turn oat bet.e ;
other worso than you apprehend*