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k I IIA Y By Joseph Clisby GaV . Wfoe on Kights and Remedies. G - ..r of Friday, gives Gov. Wises | . speech at Norfolk. It is very long. We | IT’" * ‘ t ,.jy f or p a rt, in which the Governor IdZcH-'s his views of policy, in event of Lin- I I C -.l ‘ £ . L-'i.-n: . i..« r has now grown so great as proba- j lent of the United States.— .• . ’ i / aoi>t its black flagover the dome ; -.1 Capitol. And. what then? Aye, F r’s w* ; 5 J <n C h a consutnnla f ‘ \--hute > declaration of war against “ i lt!X •idii.i'ion is inaccurate. It nU b an a ial war upon us which is already 4 .-’a: I I* will be a war pt easing us to the , . ■. .< ii"'»l>ition or submission, fraught u ■, u verbal demoralization; and will leave t _ . .. : ~,it a nust dissolution or demor- a i last "n.'>rt. the final appeal to V. dr.-ad purifiers of a diseased political at-, , t> , rc the blood Mid fire of revolution ! It ,1a air a rea.lv declared and encouraged, and , v uted by reason and force of the c » i\icin»n of our en niies that we will accept, 'a?er, the alternative of demoralizing '->n. leaving them the position of un q i—it »m-l domination. U .’b i_. -r circumstances around us, with , ... b. fore u-. 1 ask you what can be done? I'hcre is a present remedy, it we would a-i it. Are our people too pr<»sperous in ma teiial mi'.Tests —too strongly wedded to the love <.i in rami of peace, at any price, to invoke r. . .< Iti.m. latlur than to sink into degrading „ .Il the fanatics thought we were pt. :.u 1 : . ri-k life and treasure in revolution a• u: -ni>: elation —if the politicians, at least, aa. .« -iL who use fanaticism as the mere pj ,. ..-.mi . n.strume.'. t f>r their attainment of .-miuneed that we would choose t u -n rather than submission —they would I But the patriot, who now attempts to F . • them that our people will manfully re- . .ir_- dl the denunciation of disunion and ;rt i> md this ties many a tongue. il a, '. u .ue:*' ired the dark depths of this dir. r. i ..live of demoralization, incident to tin- ar.. .r.irv domination of one section ami the abp el siiO iiission of another ? I iiink of it An exultant, i.'atani, domineering majority at the | N »rih, driven to excess, sby tyranny by an p- ! petite for p. a er, whetted and increased by a siicc-.-ssiwH <>f arbitrary triumphs, and a poor, piufii'. -übdued minority in the South, submit- j icctunbing in ali the cron hing atti t\. fa people lost to a sense of honor and < ~..... . id >o wanting in sell-respect as to “ .va t for overt acts." U, i for overt acts'. Have not Southern m -n a.». s iv overt acts enough pressing upon I or < i l i-ancc ls the long succession ot hy which St.te.iter Stete at the \ :... ~si, . jfi 1 the fugitive slave law —is | tin c -t mt inroad on our border, which hur res oil > \ war property valued at hundreds ; of ihou-umis on underground railroads—is the i tons am Imx-ion of incendiary appeals —is the I ex’ ~ sion of fanaticism into our own bord rs— is thv mv i : in of Kansas with Sharpe’s rifles, pro <le I by emigr int aid societies, under the j.*.;. • >a_-- ami countenance of State authorities —,s the II per’s Ferry raid of John Brown— i< the rec m squatter sovereignty burning of towm. ;t: . i poisoning of cattle, and midnight co ispini- v t »depo -ulate North Texas—aie not ah tn - overt acts sufficiently imperative on <;.t.-iif«ilncss, Smthern self-preserva tion, S > ithern honor, to awake Southern resis t m-v tn fur ier aggression ? Ami will the de- ■hr e- nan < a tof war of a Northern majority’, r ■■•• rd i at the polls, furnish no sufficient ear i an 1 im* slice of further aggression ?If not, v . ; n, is this vague, this undefined “overt ’ r *d;e purpose of awaiting which we are I t . : <> vtimein temporising submission? Is ■>et anoliier Kansas invasion, or yet another -bn Br >wn raid? Ah! sirs, wait for another ■vn a, •, wait tor another raid, it you dare! 11 . mxt rai t which comes upon you will i . f, a.l bn Brown rai 1. It will not be led bv one p ><»r. >,Jd fanatic, assisted by a handful . : de-q er,'. <>r deluded followers, scantily equip ped a <: > indiy advised. It will be a raid of t hi.s iJ- :>» rh ips tens of thousands—oftrain ,l - A . \ wakes," It will have the executive -■ ji t iv “irrepressible" tendencies of \t>r< j i Lincoln, and the encouragement of l.se ; 1 . >.f non-intervention intervening to <- i no . Mate sovereignty itself to submission, • >'s . !t y Houglas. And while we wait for who shall guaranty us, what shall in wen while we wait, against all the dis >rr of anarchy, all the weakness ofthedis - 0’.,. ..a, or the aggression of the abuse of fed itL o ■ s throughout the Southern States? W . « ‘ fill the Federal offices ? Will South «ni ’mu. t ovv proud of their integrity, and f»-th: .. s i.timent to Southern interests and 5 s:-n rights, be seduced to accept the pat rou.ig, d.'.intuited, and do the work command ed By \ham Lincoln? What sons of the > • i, with any filial fondness left in their bo soius, vvdl be found, then, to fatten on the cus to-u-.hou<cs, or to distribute incendiary torches u ihe pst odices ? What then ? Will the third by the worst enemies of the > >mhcrn traitors living in our midst ami-tealing our strength ? Or must we send t « : \hohti mist hives of the North for a full : - Lee holders, to supply federal offices " . :i • If '<», will these Southern trait v»r- or Northern invaders, be permitted to hold “ffie« -j.., By ia the midst of Southern neigh l.w.»rh-s>ds and communities ? An the uhei-s to lie filled with the tools and < m-s<r;.--<>f fanaticism, and must individual • ’<’ -a i '>ver ign Mates alike become used to ’ a.lvvrsitiex of actual invasion? Are we t<« be m< n: dand compelled into absolute sub jection to th< “solid men of Boston?" A - ; i 'j- ' : of. ancc of Mr. Seward’s late apt- a. to >he “solid men of Boston.’’ What 40-s it mean? ’•* Boston had and I trust, yet has, solid men in a Merling sense, of public virtue and ! 'i : ’ g patriotism. She has had her Han -k> and Adamses in the Revolution and s - < the Revolution. But .Mr. Seward means : ~u has these. His object is to shake the ntouvy Lag' of Northern wealth at us. And tin- Weapons of war. as well as its sinews, timafens us. Already in public addresses to ‘A dt \wake Clubs," they are urged to stand pr.-pan I to c'mpel Southern submission in the I ,-’ r ' rt. Listen to an example of this spe- •■ - f exhortation delivered at “Plymouth II d', a tew weeks since. “But 1 b lyon Wide Awakes, if they. • - attempt to play a game of this kind, i ' 7 ■ /. ' z’-.r ; 'L. we must • Litig< < ir lamp- f- r Sharpe’s rilles, and to u iut w, have already said, we must add the in> nt language of gunpowder, and the inex orable convincing argument of lead.” Truly, the ta>k of submission is as hard as • mien is heavy and degrading. But what an- we to do? If we submit, we are degraded and undone; and if we resist, are told we are to !•«.• hauii-nl as traitors by the great High Priv't <>f Non-intervention. H L-n Mr. Houglas came on Southern soil, only to elicit and expose, in the midst of a S. .uthern '■rate, expressions, from Southern men. of aid and encouragement to Black Re publicanism, at Norfolk, he went far enough 4 W3' cheered more than enough, for his as on State rights and State remedies ; but Junes’ Woods, in New \ ork. and at Balti re. he went further, and broke through all in the derision of State sovereignty. ■ : .in Norfolk, he went so far as to proclaim I -i he would assist Lincoln in suppressing "ion by force of arms. When further ' nh, he explains that he would not act on States, but would hang individual citizens who should be found assisting the enforcement of secession or any other mode of State resis tance. Now, this explanation is made by his organ, the “States and Union,” to wear the appear ance of hanging traitors, not of assailing State rights. What does he mean ? Why, nothing else but what the bluest Federalism alw-ays meant, wffien pushing consolidation to extremes. In 1798, ’99, Virginia and Kentucky, led by Jef ferson, Madison and Nichols, declared the rule, that in cases of gross oppression or palpable violations of the Constitution, “Each State, for herself, is the judge of the infraction and of the mode and measure of redress.” It w-as not left to the individual citizens to judge or to re dress any wrongs. Their private judgment, or merely individual action, would w ant the sanc tion of the sovereign power. It was for the State, in her sovereign capacity, to judge and to act. It was under this rule, and to redress the aggression of the alien and sedition laws, that Virginia adopted her resolves, and raised and organized her armed State guard, which she has maintained, paid, armed and uniformed ever since. “Very well,” said the John Adams school of Federalists, “your State may pro nounce her judgments, pass her resolutions, and raise her troops. We can't prevent that. We can’t catch the State. The State has no neck for the hangman's knot. But w-e will catch every individual citizen of hers, who dares to obey the mandates of his State, and we will hang him as a rebel, for treason. We act on pertfonss — not on States. It shall be treason for the individual citizen of a State to I obey State sovereignty against Federal dicta t on.” Now this position of the Federalism of 1798, ’9:l, is the exact position repeated in Mr. Doug glas’ speech at J ones’ Woods. He tells us, indeed, what even Federalists must admit to be true, that the best way to preserve the Union, is strictly to observe the Constitution. But what is constitutional, and what unconstitutional ? What is an infraction of the Constitution, and who is to judge of the infraction and what shall be the mode and measure of redress ? Mr. Douglas will not al j low* the Sovereign State, as party to the com pact, to judge for herself, that is for her own citizens; and he will not allow the citizen to plead his State’s judgment and action, in that | citizen’s defence on a charge of treason —but Mr. Douglas would hang him as a rebel. And precisely like the Federalists did former ly, Mr. Douglas refers to the revolutionary war, to cite British authority for his theory of trea son. He says that, in that war, our fathers were rebels to King and Parliament, and were liable to be hung lor treason. Such was, in deed the doctrine of Lord North and of George J the Third. But it was not the American doc trine asserted and maintained by our forefath ers. It was not the doctrine of George Wash ! ington, when the patriot Hayne was hung in South Carolina. The father of his country claini ' ed for his countrymen the protection aide facto Sovereignty m war. under public law. He and ali our fathers claimed that they were under a ficto governmental power, recognised as such, ami waging war under goverenmental au thority, and were entitled to be treated as ene mies in war. They were no marauders of the John Brown stamp engaged in a lawless raid, without the authority of Sovereign power. Ac cordingly, George Washington took hostages, and these were held by the rope as sureties for the safety of every prisoner of war taken by the enemy in war. If the British dared to hang, he would retaliate by hanging under the rules of war. So, I say to Mr. Douglas—if revolution I shall arise and rush us into a righteous war of ! resistance to aggression, we will not hang States, i but if our citizens are hung, we will hold hos tages by the rope, and Mr. Douglas' own neck is not too short for the cord. Mr. Douglas holds in fact the doctrine of pas sive obedience and non-resistance. He says ex pressly that under no circumstances, in no con tingency, will he countenance resistance to the authority of Black Republicanism, ii its President is elected, and acts only in the forms of the Con stitution. He requires the authority to have only thejbrz/w of the Constitution, to be sub mitted to; and does not permit a sovereign State to decide as to what is lawful authority under the Constitution. What will be the cause i of war is the issue for sovereign States to de j cide. And under our past history, and under present and pressing exigencies, if a Southern State shall decide that the election of a Black Republican President is a declaration or act of war in fact against her sovereignty, and shall resort to arms in defence against the State and Federal powers assailing her, and shall sum mon her citizens to the field, Mr. Douglas tells us that the citizens who shall obey the sum mons are traitors and must be hung as rebels. Mr. Douglas' doctrine is, that the Federal Government, the agent of the States, command ed by the Slates to enact and execute laws only in accordance with the written commands of the States embodied in the Federal Constitu tion, shall, as sole judge, dictate to the States the meaning and extent of each command, and coerce the States to implicit obedience to such dictation. \\ hat becomes then of State sover eignty, when this “Mahomet comes to vindicate the laws, "Nor sufler witli impunity their breach?’’ ) Here I join issue with .Mr. Douglas at once. I I maintain, to its full extent, the doctrine of State Rights and State sovereignty, against his theory of the absolute dictation of Federal offi cials. lam not, I never was a disciple of the South Carolina school of politics on this ques tion. I have no necessity to seek an altar of State Rights among the penates of South Caro lina. I prefer the household gods of Virginia. I hold to the doctrines of Mr. Madison, as ex pounded in his Everett and Ingersoll letters, and so ably elucidated in ~ie f ... ..o oi Mr. Cummings of Georgia. I hold that whenever a question as to the violation of the spirit or letter of the federal compact shall arise, “each State for herself is the judge of the infraction and of the mode and measures of redress.” — "Each State" is the judge—not the common municipal agent and creature of the States.— “Each State,” too, is the judge "for herself' — not for her sister States. When the State of \ ermont. for axample, judges “fur herself,’’ that the fugitive slave law is an infraction of the Con stitution, and that her mode and measure of redress is resistance to the execution of that law, I hold that V irginia has an equal right to decide i for herself, that the fugitive slave act is no in fraction; that it is a just and constitutional law ; that Vermont's resistance to the execution of a constitutional law is itself an infraction of the I federal compact; and that Virginia’s mode and j measure of redress is the enforcement and exe- | cution of the law. The right is a purely rela tive right—involving, necessarily, a reciprocity of responsibility among co-equal States; but no j responsibility of any State to the general gov- ! eminent, the common agent and creature of the States. In such a case, there arises a necessary ' and inevitable conflict between sovereign States, subject to no dictator and amenable to no um pire. One State, or both States, may forbear the extreme assertion of their respective judg ment and decision, and thus extreme conflict may be avoided. Otherwise, it must eventuate in that conflict of arms which constitutes the j ultiiha ratio of sovereigns. And there is no limit to the choice among the modes and meas ures of redress. In such case, a State is not tied down to the sole alternative of secession or nullification. She may select any modeormeas ure of redress not inconsistent with the laws of nations. Usually, in such cases of conflict, the appro- TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 16, 1860. priate duty ofthe Federal Government consists in deferring to and awaiting the issue of the decision of sovereign States. I believe, indeed, that there inay be peculiar cases in which it will be proper for federal officers in the midst of the conflict, to enforce laws involved in the conflict, not for the purpose of assailing, but for the purpose of maintaining State Sovereign ty. But even in such case, any federal officer, high or low, acts at his own peril; and he is at all times responsible and amendable to the sovereign States. And, whenever such a con flict arises, each individual citizen who obeys the mandate of his sovereign State, is fully pro tected by the aegis of her complete sovereignty, whether her judgment prove to be right or wrong in the abstract. And, whenever resort is had to the pitiful evasion of as sailing individual citizens for their obedience to State authority, such an act will constitute a violation of State sovereignty—a violation of international right—an inhuman violation of the humane laws prescribed by the consent of nations to mitigate the horrors of public war. And such an act must be, and will be, restrain ed and punished by the application of the very extreme of the lex talonis, the hanging of hos tages by the neck. This is the State Rights doctrine of the men who framed the Federal Constitution. And it is as comprehensive in its wisdom, as it is un avoidably deducible from the nature itself of the federal compact. It preserves the equality as well as the sovereignty of the States. It properly subordinates to the States, their com mon servant, the Federal Government. It pro tects the individual citizen in loyal obedience and allegiance to his State. Finally, it renounces the theoretical absurdi ty and practical impossibility of “ peacehle' ex treme remedies. In the midst of an extreme conflict of sovereignties, the idea of peace is preposterous. And we would have had less submission, and less aggression to originate submission, had the people never been deluded with the false hope of “ peaceable” extreme remedies. This unsubstantial bauble has been held before their eyes—has lulled them into false security—has kept them babbling and boasting about “ peaceful resistance,” and “ peaceful remedy”—kept them ignorant of the real nature and the real cost of extreme reme dy—until, time and again, when the necessity for remedy has come upon them, they have been driven back to submission, and the en couragement of renewed aggression, by the ac tual presence of those stern realities of extreme remedy, which they had not been prepared to encounter. Let the people know the truth.— Let them no longer be misled and weakened by delusions of unsound metaphysical distinctions. Let them be made to realize at once the simple, truthful statement of the matter. Tell them distinctly : “ You must make up your minds to submit to the invasion of your rights, or you must stand prepared to fight for their main tenance.” They can understand this. And when they know this and act upon this, then their warning of intended resistance will of it self be potent to repress aggression, instead of remaining a pretext to incite it. Then, when the final necessity for actual (not “peaceable”) resistance shall arise, they will be prepared to meet the issue. Where no conflict exists among the States, no necessity can exist for extreme remedies on the part of one State against another State.— And when extreme remedies are resorted to, the conflict which originates the remedy, must also become extreme—to the final conflict of armed collision. And whenever that conflict arises, I, for one, stand prepared to strike with all my might for the defence of my country’s rights, her safety and her honor. And I know, too, where my country is— “ My country, sir. is not a single spot Os such a fnould, or fixed to such a clime. No I ’tis the social circle of my friends, The lov’d community in which I'm link'd. And in whose welfare all my wishes centre.” So soon as the war already declared against my State and my section shall be actually com menced by the election of a Black Republican President, I stand ready to draw the sword of defence. I will wage no private war. I will take part in no unauthorized foray. I shall first await the action of my own sovereign State.— In torturing suspense, I shall wait upon her resolves, and pray God they may be worthy of the example of ’9B and ’99. And although I fully recognize the right of a sovereign State to select secession as her mode and measure of redress for the infraction of the Federal com pact, secession is not the mode which I would desire or recommend. lam unwilling to yield one right for the sake of the privilege of main taining another right. I would make no such bargain—no such compromise. I would not yield my right to the army and the navy, to the Federal treasury and territory. I would not yield my right to the Union any more than 1 would yield my right to my negro property. No ! 1 would keep both the Union and the ne gro, and fight to the last to preserve and main tain all my rights to both. As I have said, I will first appeal to Virginia for authority to fight under her banner. But if Virginia shall not meet the issue and come up to the mark of self-defence and self respect, I will look to North Carolina, I will look to South Carolina, to Georgia, to each Southern State in succession, and appeal to each for per mission to fight under the aegis of her sover eignty, And I will advise each State not to wait for the example or co-operation of other States. Such waiting will only produce falter ing, and all the delay and confusion of uncer tainty. No! Let each State leap at once, for herself and by herself, into the contest, and struggle for precedence and pre-eminence in the work of defence. Any one State, even the smallest, can make the battle and win the victory. And if the smallest State will make the battle alone and unaided ; if gallant little Florida alone will take up the gauntlet of war and levy an army, ! 1 will enlist in that army, wherever it shall be raised, and we will see then, whether the “Black Douglas" can execute his threat of coercion.— If ever the issue comes, I hope to meet him in the field where the ultima ratio of States is to be tried. And even fighting under the banner of one little State, I will remember that the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. I will remember, too, that Patrick Henry had every loyalist to cry out “treason” against him in the House ot Burgesses; but he [ seized the old powder magazine at Williams burg, and dragged even loyalists themselves into the tide of resistance and revolution along with him. I will remember, too when told that eighteen millions are pressing against our ' eight millions, that there was a time when five . millions of American patriots stood secure and | won the contest against more than fify—more 1 than a hundred millions ! And when the hour of battle comes, we shall 1 find that it will iwt cross swords over a sec i tional line. No. Our enemies at the North will find our friends there, too, the true friends of justice and right—Northern defenders of i Southern rights—and enough in numbers to keep both hands of Northern fanaticism busied with strife at home ; while we, at the South, will have active work to do in waging the war against Southern traitors in our midst and at ! our doors. It will be a neighborhood war, at I both ends, and in the centre of the continent. At the North and at the South, it will be a war which will array all the forces of conservatism, all the friends of equal rights, against the fa naticism and the fraud of Black Republicanism , at the North, and its tools and panders at the South. It will not be a war of sectionalism or ; of dissolution, and, once commenced, it must j result, sooner or later, in the re-establishment of the integrity of the Union, and the purity of the Constitution. In such a strife, and for such a holy pur pose, I will join the ranks of war, and fight alike against those who would oppress me and those who would coerce my submission to op pression. I will fight— “To combat violence, fraud and usurpation, To pluck ttie spoil from the oppressor’s jaws. And keep my country, as [found it— free I” When Governor Wise ceased speaking, it was past midnight. The building was still crowded to excess, and rang again with “Three cheers for Henry H. Wise !” I) A LI? Y “TE LEG 11A PIL TUESDAY MORNING OCTOBER JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE OF KENTUCKY, FOR PRESIDENT. JOSEPH LANE OP OREGON, FOR VICE-PRESIDENT. Electors for the State at Large. Hox. c. j. McDonald, ofCobb. Hon, 11. R. JACKSON, of Chatham. Electors for the Districts. Ist Dist.—PETER CONE, of Bulloch. 2nd “ M. M. SLAUGHTER, of Dough’ty. 3rd “ 0. C. GIBSON, of Spauldin<r. dth “ HUGH BUCHANAN, of Coweta. sth “ LEWIS TUMLIN, of Cass. 6th “ 11. STRICKLAND, of Forsyth. 7th “ W. A. LOFTON, of Jasper. Bth “ \\. M. McINTOSH, of Elbert. Douglas at Chicago.—Douglas’ speech at Chicago is stated to have been delivered before an audience of eighty thousand. He took up Seward’s speech delivered at that place a few days before, and we must say, gave him and his speech an elegant lambasting. NEW MUSIC AT BURKE’S. Garibaldi’s Quickstep and Columbian Waltz composed by Charles 11. Lochos, Professor of music in the Academy for the Blind, and also in Mr. 1. R. Branham’s School. Published by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington Street, Boston. • ♦- A PRESENT. Two of our acquaintances who keep Batchel lor’s Hall on Poplar street had a tine present yesterday morning. Their sable cook was roused about three o’clock by a couple of white men, unknown to her, who handed her a blank et containing a fine looking boy, who had ap parently just entered this world of sin and death. They gave the cook some money, and told her to take care of the infant, and in the course of a week she should know more about it. When day light came, she astonished the gentlemen of the house with the exhibition of her treasure. And one of them who is an in exorable Douglas man, has already named the infant after the little'giant. We trust if it ever comes to be a candidate for the Presidency, it will at least get one electoral vote. HI, BETTY MARTIN. Our friend Pritchard is death on figures.— Will any body return the compliment, and send him some “probable votes” with the Douglas column filled up with ciphers ? We know noth ing about the Bth district, but if all the others put together make Douglas 3040 more votes— probable or possible—actual or contingent, we shall be as much mistaken as we have often been before. Bostick’s Stoke.—One of our old mer chants resumes business in a new store, and with a new outfit to-day, and we hazard no thing in saying that he will present as attrac j tive an array of Dry Goods, as can be found in the State. Having been delayed in getting pos session of his store to a period beyond the usu al opening time of Fall Business, he will make a bold dash to clear off his Fall goods at very reduced prices. Note Mr. Bostick's advertise ment and give him a call. “APPEALING TO HIS COUNTRYMEN.” Mr. W. J. Wilcher, who is a candidate for the U. S. Senate from Georgia, sends us for publication a letter “appealing to his country men upon the political condition of parties, and their effect upon the country as to Union or disunion.” Mr. Wilcher goes for a fight to prevent the inauguration of Lincoln, and he says “this is my last appeal until a worse state of things are likely to take place.” If so, we shall have another appeal very soon, when per haps we may find room for it. - —— EXCITEMENT IN SUMTER. We understand a citizen of Sumter county, riding towards Americus Sunday nTorning last, discovered a negro man spring out of the bushes with a bundle. The negro dropped his bundle on observing that he was seen, but the gentleman required him to pick it up and get into the buggy. It was found to contain a jug of whiskey and some other contraband articles, and the gentleman determined to drive him to town, and turn him over to his owner. The negro, however, watching his opportunity, grappled the gentleman by the throat, and af ter strangling him into a state of insensibility, but as the negro supposed, of death, dragged him into the woods, covered him with brush and left. Subsequently the gentleman recovered sufficiently to extricate himself and give the alarm, and during the day, the negro was ap prehended in Americus. Great excitement prevailed in the town upon the discovery of the facts, and it was with difficulty the negro was saved from violence. During the same day we understand another negro stabbed a white man in Americus, which increased the excitement We did not learn the particulars. HOW TO “SAVE THE COUNTRY.” While we are loud to admit that nearly all our Southern exchanges have the entire body of starch taken out of them by the Pennsylva , nia election, and it they don’t give it up, words i do so tacitly by turning from the canvass in , disgust, yet some few hold out and are ready : with panaceas to “save the country,” even in this dire extremity. There are three modes of ' salvation proposed; Ist, by the Atlanta Con- I federacy— all vote for Douglas. 2nd, by the Chronicle & Sentinel— all vote for Bell. 3rd, I by’ the Xashrille Union and Wire-Grass Re porter— all vote for Breckinridge. The surest way will be, all vote for Breckinridge and vote i for him three times apiece. GOV. WISE’S SPEECH. The Governor has a “gift of continuance” which lie exercised largely when he made his Norfolk speech. He began a little after sun down and spoke till midnight, and the candles burnt dim. AS e have copied the last of his speech wherein he t eats mainly of remedies against a hostile administration of the Govern ment. He is for a fight at once, and with what ever State will make fight. The Governor don’t believe in allowing the abolitionists to chisel us out of our share of common public property and the means of defence, nor wait ing until they’ve got possession, or commit “overt acts.” There is one point at least, in which we agree with Governor Wise, and that is the delusive character of all expectations of “peaceable secession.” However much we may set up the right of secession, it will prac tically amount to nothing. The right will nev er be conceded by our northern foes, and though the very idea of a compulsory Union involves the wildest absurdity ; it is/iot worth while to delude ourselves with the hope of a peaceful division. All abolitiondom is fully possessed with the notion that they can whip the South into submission with a regiment of Wide-Awakes, and they are certain to try the experiment. We would as lief put our trust in the vaticinations of a Flathead Indian, as in those of any politician stuffed with the idea that we can divide as good children parcel out an estate. The Federal Government is an en tity—a something—a vast something, too : and if it must yield up the ghost, it will do it with the throes of a giant in his death struggle, £nd scatter things about in a promiscuous and strinking manner. We may call it secession if we please, and maintain that we are merely in a peaceable an polite manner, divesting an un faithful agent of the trust reposed in him, and resuming our original rights, in the exercise of a sound and legal discretion. That is all very well, and in strict with accordance our State Rights theory. But as to the naked fact, when the resumption has been completed, we shall find we have travelled through all the phases of revolution, and wrested our section al independence out of the strong hands of ty ranny by repelling the invader with the sword. That, w’e undertake to say, will figure as histor ic fact, if the struggle comes at all. Whatever theories we may have imbibed on the subject. THE SPORTS OF ADOLESCENT ROYALTY. We are not quite sure whether or no the public were informed by telegram, that the youthful Prince of Wales, after a day spent in looking at lion’s material and personal in Wash ington, finished up with a sweet, innocent game of ten-pins with Miss Lane and the Young La dies, at Mrs. Eliza Smith’s Female Institute in Washington. If so much was not stated tele graphically, it is no harm to say it now, and to add, it was a happy thought in Miss Lane to countervail the evil influences of corrupt Wash ington politicians by the sweet odors of inno cence, lavender and west end redolent around that sanctuary of loveliness and virture, the Washington Female Institute. But this is not all; a note from the Principal informs us that some of our fair young neighbors of Vineville, the Misses P s, pupils at the Institute, were among the young ladies who were presented to the Prince, and mayhap, too, they took a hand in the games, but the note don’t say so. The presentation, we do not account as much. The Young Ladies are his peers, and as certain to be Queens in their peculiar realm, as he is to be a king. Another Brown Movement, Perhaps. A Cheraw correspondent of the Charleston Mercury announces the arrest, in Clio, Marl borough District, and the trial at Bennettsville before a vigilance committee, of two men, father and son, by the name of Hitchings, under very suspicious circumstances. Invoices were found upon them for upwards of 12,00,00 dollars worth of tire arms of all kinds, and powder, balls and cartridges, shipped to Floral College, N. C. and Cheraw, S. C. by the Adams Express Co. The arms are stated to be now in possession of the Express Company, a part at Wilmington, N. C., being the nighest Express point, and a part at Florence. The only account the Hitch ings give of them is that they were intended for a son and brother, whose occupation is to escorj emigrants across the plains from St. Louis—an improbable reason for sending arms so far out of the way. The correspondent of the Mercury says:— The two Hitchings are father and son—the former between fifty and sixty years of age— the latter, perhaps, about twenty. The elder Hitchings is an Englishman, was naturalized in 1838, and has lived mostly in the State of New York. He came to Pekin, in Montgomery county, in North Carolina, about 1856, where he has resided since. He was there at and be fore the date of some of the above letters ; and it is known that when he first came, and ever since, he has lived in great poverty. His con duct was so bad at Pekin, as a negro trader, that he was severely whipped by the citizens of that place some eighteen months or two years After that he left his family at that place ami put up a small wagon-maker’s shop at Flo ral College, and at the time of his arrest was about putting up another little shop of the same kind, at Clio, in Marlboro’ District, in this State. It is well known, both at Pekin and at Floral College, that he had no ostensible means to pay for any part of these invoices. Avgusta, Oct. 15,‘1860. Dear Sir :—Below I hand you a statement of the probable vote in this (Bth) District for President in November next. Will you favor me with a statement of the probable vote in your District, and any other District from which you have reliable news. Very respectfully, W. H. PRITCHARD. Eighth Congressional District. Probable Vote, Not. 6, 1860. . Counties. Douglas. Breck. Bell. Burke, 100 420 350 Columbia, 250 180 420 Elbert, 200 250 413 Glascock, 225 10 60 Jefferson, 275 100 450 Lincoln, 200 20 190 Oglethorpe, 225 225 380 Richmond, 900 150 900 i Scriven, 25 250 270 | Taliaferro, 150 25 220 Warren, 350 100 340 Wilkes, 80 320 330 j 3040 2050 4323 j ACCIDENT. A little boy came very near losing his life in this city a few days ago by a horse foiling while the boy was riding him. At the time of the ac cident it was thought that the injuries he re ceived would prove fatal but we are glad to learn that he is rapidly recovering. Mayor's Court.—There were several per sons arraigned before his Honor yesterday— two for fighting and one for running a horse through the streets on the Sabbath—and fined small sums. By Electric Telegraph Expressly for this Paper. ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA. Augusta, Oct 15.—The steamship Arabia has arrived. The sales of cotton in Liverpool the past week 111,000 bales. Market buoyant, and all qualities slightly advanced. Sales of Friday 10,000 bales to speculators and 2,000 to exporters. Market firm. Middling Orleans6|d. Middling Uplandss|d. Garibaldi is reported to have been victorious along the whole line of his march. MACON COTTON MARKET. Telegraph Office, 1 Macon, Oct. 18, 1860. f Monday— Receipts at the warehouses 261 bales.— Sales 352 bales at the following prices: Bat 1 at 8,4 at 8%, Bat 8%, 12 at 9,7 at 9%, 21 at 9%, 18 at 9%, 97 at 10, 38 at 10%, 112 at 10%, 5 at 10%. A C’ABD. DR. McDONALD would respectfully announce his re turn home, and that he will be pleased to serve his pat rons in any branch of the Dental Profession. oct 16d-3t A CARD. The undersigned tender their heartfelt thanks to all who participated at the funeral of Mrs. Strauss ; partic ularly to the members of the Hebrew congregation of this city, and most especially to their Chairman, Mr. Goodman. J. WALBACK, oct 16 d-lt* M. J. BAER. Dress Goods • A LARGE ASSORTMENT of the latest Styles, now opened at the Palace of Fashion. At . oct 16 d BOSTICKS. Carpetings and Rugs. OVER Five Thousand Dollars worth of the newest designs; embracing Velvets, Brussels, Three Ply and Ingrain. This day opened at oct 16 d BOSTICK’S. Everything Useful TN the DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT, can be found at J. low prices, at the Palace of Fashion. Call on oct. 16 d BOSTICK. J Messenger and Citizen copy. S. J. DAY WOULD respectfully inform his friends and the pub lic that he is again in Macon with a fine stock of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated Ware, Fan cy Goods, Musical Instruments, &c., which will be sold at reasonable prices. Also, that he will give particular attention to Watch Rapairing. S. J. DA.I. Oct 16 d£w-3in WANTED TO BORROW 540.000 ! UPON such terms as may be agreed upon by the par ties. For which notes and good security will be given or bond and mortgage to suit the parties. oct 16 d E. C. GRANNISS, Agent. LIST OF LETTERS IJEMAINING in the Post Office, at Macon, Ga., on V the 15th ol October, 1860. ANDERSON, L T & W Jones, B Anderson, M S Jones, Mrs Elenor Anderson, W B KNIGHT, T Allen, M A Kilpatrick, Mrs Anna Adair, James W Keith, Membrence Adair, J W Kennon, Mrs M F Adams, F C Kent, Sholen James E T & VaR R Agent Kenaly, Martin Memphis & C “ LONG, W H BROWN, MRS. Lincoln, WW Brantley, M W Luberich, Valentine, care of Boswitz, M Henry King Bozeman, Jno Y Loomis, ProfTl Bates, Samuel Lockett, Robert Bonner, John Leonard, J T Bowling, Mrs Mary Litton, Burton R Bores, Samuel Leary, A 2 Bennette, Mrs, Hellen Lestargette, Mrs Me Begarley, Mrs. Nancy II Ledbetter, James C Barker, J R Levison, Henry Bain, James B Lieback, Valentine Bullard, Edmon Levi, Abrahfim Bagley, Sherard MORRIS, W H Ball, Miss VeronicaE Minhurdt & Co. Messrs Bates, J Moulton, Z J Balv, Robert Morris, O H Bathowskr, S Milner, G A 2 Bard, James Mygatts, Ingraham & Co Barnes, James Myres. H C Bar. T A Mulkey, L Bain, Mrs J E Monroe, B W Barr, Mrs Mary Moore, Mrs Mary A Bates, John F Moore, Wm J Barfield, John T Moore, Miss Fannie Barcul, Samuel L Moore & Co., C R Bruce, Horatio II C Millish, Wm Battinger, svt. care of Mrs Milton, Stephen Battinger, Miller, Frithrop CHERRY, W Merritt. S Campbell. D Melton, SII Cowles, L Matheney, James Cooper Douglass, care Sam-Magoou, Calrind uel Leland, Maynir Francis Charley, Rev Mr Magowin, Killinsworth Cross, L Martin. Edward Crav, Mrs Scott McKENNON, W Cushing, G W McKibbin. J Crane, Thomas McGuire. Chas. Culleman, M McLeod. Miss Katie Clark, Sallie, care ThomasMcQueen & Howard Clark, NOBLE, MRS M T Clark, J C Nixon, F T Clark, Dr. Thomas Nelson. J C Combs, Mrs M E Newland, Mrs A Cowles, H OGILON, Miss Archer 2 Coleman, J Ohara, Mrs Collins, Dennis PARE. HENRY Cox, Mrs Mary V Publisher The Directory, Cameron, Wm N Payton, J DANIEL, MRS Parker, J R Dunnenbaum & Fleischel Panbelsky, S Danling, Miss Mary A Powe) I, «L for Mrs Butler, Dinkier, C ROBERTS, MRS M A Doss, John D Roberts, James W Dishago, Miss Francis Rose, Mint Daniel, Miss L H Robbeids, Wm Daly, Michael Rosier. Adolphus Danwells, Robert Rainey, Miss S C EVANS, MISS FANNYReddihg, W P Evans, E E Reynolds, J M Eaton, Thomas Rai new, Isham T Eason, Stephen Ray, Joseph II FITZGERALD, JNO Ray. JH, for Mrs E Barks- Finch, Miss Delia dale. Fletcher, Hanibal SHONE J Ferrell, P A Salvister, M Foster, Lenora Shopley, R Fitzpatrick, Alex Sturling, Miss Martha A Fairchilds, W Stewart, Miss Margaret Fells, John Stephens, Mrs. E J Frankenstein, J Stanfield, P GREER, JOHN Stevens, Dianah Greer. P M Sterling, Miss Martha A Greer, Rooe H Stock & Co, A 8 Gordley, J J Stark, Alexander & Co Gentry, Pleasant Smith, B W Garaghon, Margaret Smith, E Gardner. Patrick Sikes, Jr 2 HULBERT, W W 2 Sikes, Jos Hopwood, T F 2 Sheppherd, Dr J J Howe, A Summerlin, Asa Hollohan, M C 2 Solomon, Henry Horn, L J, care Zeby Moot,Snow, L Holt, Miss Martha Sills. Wm Higgins, W L Summers. Sarah Hicks, Miss Eliza Skipper, Daniel Hinman, Howard M Sheppeard, C Hines, Nancy, J Shiver, Mrs Lucretia Hinley Cannon Snead, F Hepper, Wm Simon, N Henager, Charles Sigmore, Mrs Hancock, R H Sanderson, Chariot Hancock, W II TEAS, J G 2 Hannah. Thos H Thormon. Wm L Harris, Mrs H T Thompson. Miss Mary F 2 Hartley, Wilson Thomas, Luther J Harris, John Thompson. Lucretia Hamon, John Thomas, Jno R Hayfe. RD Thompson, Jno S Harrison, W G Taylor, Mary Ann Hardee. N A Taylor. Henry JOHNSON, SAML VINSON, T McD Johnson, Rolan WYNN -Tno D Johnson, T J Wood, Miss’ L Johnson, George F Wood, J Joyce, John Wilkes, T M Jussely. Miss Georgia Williams. JAB Jones, J R Wilson, Miss Jennie Jones, J M Wimberly, Mrs P Jacobs, Morris Wells, J B Jones, Thomae. Warren, Mrs Mary Jewell, D A Wimbert <fc Loh, Jackson. Rabe Warner. Thomas, Joyce, J C I'ATES, G W Jordan, BF Persons calling for any of the above letters, wil lease say they are advertised. 1 E. L. STROHECKER, P. M. DANCING SCHOOL. PROFESSOR J. CARNCROSS and daughter respect tully announce to the citizens of Macon, and its vi cinity, that they will open a Dancing School At Powell’s Hall, where all the most Fashionable Dances will be taught, such as the Polka, Waltz, Mazourka, Schottische, LalSi cilienne, La Vasouvienne, Les Lancier, QuadrillesTLes Caledonienne Quadrille, Hop and Due Lemp Valse and Parcetie. They commenced their School on Monday. 15th of Oc her, 1860. Days for instruction for Ladies, Misses, and Masters on Tuesdays 3% o'clock, P. M., on Satur days at 9%, A. M., and 3%, P. M. Gents’ class Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 7% o'clock at night. Tuition $lO for 16 lessons or 24 lessons tor sls; half payable in advance. Miss C. algo gives instruction on Guitar and vocal music. Apply at Floyd House. oct 16 d-lm Agency Office. HEMO Wa. Xj ! THE undersigned having opened an office in the city of Macon for the purpose of RENTING HOUSES, HIRING OUT NE GROES. SELLING STOCKS, and all other kinds of property, settling and collecting all claims, taking interrogatories and securing LOANS OF MONEY! And attend to ail business that may be entrusted to him; and he would especially invite all who may have any busi ness to entrust to an Agent, to give him a call. I am also Agent for the long established New York JLife Insurance Comp’y. This subject I invite every thinking man to consider before it is too late to make provisions for his family af ter death. I am also Justice of the Peace for the 716th district, G, M., city of Macon. " Office in the Granite Hall Building, entrance from the alley in the rear of V. W. Skiff & Co’s store. E. C. GRANNISS. References,—Judge E. A. Nisbet, Judgj H. G. La mar, Judge Clifford Anderson, Lewis N. Whittle, Esqr, E. L. Stronecker, Esqr., Elijah Bond, Esqr. Oct 16,1860-d Open riies<lay 5 OcLl6, IM6O BOSTICK’S PALACE OF FASHION. J UST opened at Bostick’s new Store, opposite the La nier House a tremendous stock of FALL and WIN TER DRY GOODS, which the ladies and gentlemen of this city and surrounding country are respectfully invit ed to call and examine. The prices will be made to suit the stringency of the times. Call at oct 16 d A. G. BOSTICK’S. Presbyterian Book rpHE undersigned, having been appointed by the Gen- JL eral Supenntent Local Colporteur of Macon, respect fully informs those interested that he has just received and offers for sale at his Store, on Cotton Avenue, a com plete assortment of Books, &c„ published by the Pres byterian Board. In addition to these he will always keep on hand a well selected stock of other religious Books for geeerl circulation. oct 16 d HIRAM L. SCREINER. THE CRUTCHFIELD HOUSE AT CHATTANOOGA, TENN., —0:0 IN consequence of the death of my brother-in-law, and partner, the late John H. Lumpkin, of Georgia, all the real and personal estate owned by us jointly, in the State of Tennessee, will be sold to the highest bidder, on WEDNESDAY, 28th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1860, The propertv consists of the well known “ CRUTCHFIELD HOUSE," At Chattanooga, Tenn., with all of its rights and privi leges, including the Fll i*ii i tur<“, And the three lots upon which the Hotel stands, Nos. 60, 62 and 6-1, Chestnut-st. Also, the. three lots opposite said Hotel, Nos. 59, 61 and 63, Chestnut-st., giving a front of over 600 feet 011 Chestnut-st., and runningback 233 feet to other streets. Also, lots Nos. 2 and 3, on Carter-st., each fronting 100 feet on said street, running back same width 230 feet to other streets. Also, lots Nos. 5 and 7, on Market-st., fronting 210 feet on Market-st.. and running back same width 200 feet to Rail Road street. The Hotel property is too well known throughout the Union, to require an elaborate description. It is the best paying property in the Southern States, situated, as it is, immediately at the large joint Passenger Depot of the four Rail Roads now running and terminating here. The Nashville & Chattanooga, Memphis & Charleston, East Tennessee & Georgia, and Western & Atlantic R. Roads are now complete; and the Wills Valley & North East and South West Alabama Rail Road will be com pleted and terminate here in a year or two more. A great portion of the grading being now complete, and a portion ot the iron having been purchased, over twenty miles ot it will be laid and running this winter, and oth er contemplated Roads, among them the Road connect ing Chattanooga with Cincinnati (Chattanooga & Ken tucky Central). The House has been doing a steady, heavy and increasioq business without opposition, since Octobei, 1850, aud its prospectsfor a continued increase, are very great. Lots No’s. 59, 61 and 63, Chestnut street, and Lots No’s. 2 and 3 Carter streets, are very valuable, being situated so near the Depot. Lots No’s. 5 and 7, Market street, are fine business Lois, being si nated equal distant between the business portion of town and river, and have now erected upon them iw’o large and commodious brick Store Rooms, ad mirably adapted to a heavy Produce and Grocery Trade. There will also be sold at same lime the joint NEGHOES, Among whom, are Cooks, House Servants, Ironers, Washers, &c., &c.,a1l of whom are valuable. Terms of Sale, (except as to the Negroes, which will be sold for cash,) one third Cash. The balance in six semi-annual payments, with 6 per cent added, the pur chaser giving notes with approved security. oct 15 d-lw w-2t TOM CRUTCHFIELD. FALL & WINTER FASHIONS WM. BELDEN RESPECTFULLY informs his customers and the pub lic to call and examine his extensive assortment of HATS AWD CAPS! Embracing every style and quality found in any other Hat Store. Among the many new styles on hand will be found 25 Dozen Fashionable Silk Hats, 18 “ Black and Pearl Cassimere Hats, 40 “ “ Soft all qualities “ 21 “ Pearl “ “ “ 12 “ Dark Olive Prince of Wales, 12 “ Black and Mouse “ 50 “ “ and Pearl Planters’Broad Brims Youths’and Boys’ late style Hats and Caps of every pattern. Wool Hats* 250 Dozen Black Wool Hats, 16 “ Southern Planters’extra, 16 “ Country made, heavy. Received thi« day a few cases extra fine Silk Hats, French fashion; also, nine cases superfine Soft Hats.— Country merchants and planters will do well to call and examine, I will sell low for Cash or approved paper. oct 9 d-ts New Jewelry Establishment. LOUIS R. MENARD, (Late of the Firm of Menard Burghard.) IS now opening at his new Store, next door below Ross it Coleman’s, Cotton Avenue, a large stock of the latest styles of Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver aud Plated Ware, Musical Instruments, Fanot Goods, &c., <fcc. These goods were selected by himself, and he flatters himself that several years experience in the business has qualified him to please his patrons. Give him a call. REPAIRING.—This department is under the superin tendence of competent workmen, and all work done by him is warranted to give satisfaction.oct 9d PKI VATE BOAKD. BOARD for six or eight persons may be obtained by application to Mrs. SHARPE, on 4th Street, near the Primitive Baptist Church. oct 7 d-lw l?all Trade 1860. N. S. PRUDDEN & CO. ANNOUNCE themselves prepared to exhibit the most choice, beautiful and newest styles in fashionable FANCY DRY GOODS. We’ have spared neither time or trouble in makii. selections for the department in DRESS GOODS! Special attention is invited to a great variety or; hand, some SHAWLS AND CLOAKS. Also Misses’ an<j CHILDREN S CLOAKS, Dress Trimmings, Plain Ribbons, Embroideries, Gloves, Hosiery, White and Staple Goods, and the numerous articles required for a complete Stock of Dry Goods. Macon, Oct. 5, iB6O. N. S. PRUDDEN & CO. Douglas Electoral Tickets. PERSONS desiring printed Electoral Tickets to be A used on the day of election, are notified that the Ex ecutive Committee have made arrangements so that they may be procured free of cost to the applicant, at the Georgia Telegraph office. „ „ JAS. W. ARMSTRONG, Chairman. Macon, Oct. 15, iß6o.—d-tf No. 221.