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sa y . ‘Hero, look up here; that’s your flag, and
1 hem’s our sentiments. Now, ail ot ye that
ain’t “ot tired of them things, and don’t want
to see ’em all upset and smashed to pieces, and
s ink to the bottom of the sea, jest come out
of vour twenty quarrelling parties, and get up
n this platform and fight for the Union and
Constitution.’
‘I tell you what ’tis, Uncle Joshua, there’s
always a majority in every ship that had rath
u-./t safe through the voyage than to be upset
ar:d go to bottom. And I ain’t a bit afraid but
whatthere would soon be a party of come outers;
on that platform that would be big enough to
take care of the ship. It might not be big enough
t go over to Europe uud whip all Russia, but
I'll wager my head it would be big enough to
k op Russia from coming over here and whip
pi: ;■ us. Now, what do you think ot my plan,
Unde Joshua ? Don’t you think it 11 work ?
’Well; I don’t doubt but that would be a
good way to get up one party,’ says Uncle
Joshua* ‘but I don’t see how that would get
tis out of the difficulty after all; for there
would still be as many parties left as there is
now. It would still have to be one agin nine
teen ; and I’m afraid your come-outer party
would have hard work to get a President it’
they had to fight agin the nineteen or twenty
quarrelling parties. I can’t see much chance
to do any thing unless we can come down to
two parties, as we used to.’
‘Well, that is jest what I’ve done,’ says I; ‘1
have come down to two parties.’
‘How do you make that out?’ says Uncle
Joshua, opening his eyes about half an inch
wider. ‘When you had got some out of all
the twenty parties to make up your Comeouter
part}*, wouldn’t there still be twenty parties
left!
‘No,’ says I, ‘Uncle Joshua, there wouldn't
be but one party left.’
‘llow do you make that out ?’ says he, ‘l've
syphered as fur as the rule ot three, but that
sum beats me. You say, substract one from
twenty, and one remains. Now the way I
alwavs used So do it was, one from twenty leaves
nineteen.' 1
‘No,’ says I,‘Uncle Joshua, that ain't right.
One from twenty leaves one. There wouldn’t
be but one party left.’
‘Well, what party would that be V says Un
cle Joshua, with his eyes and mouth both pret
ty well open.
‘Well,’ says I, ‘Uncle Joshua, it would be
the rcc/ular Filibuster party, for, when all that
are willing to stand up for the Union and the
Constitution had come out from the twenty par
ties, vou may depend, on’t that all that was left
would be Filibusters. Then it would be the
‘National Come-outers’ on one side, and the
‘Fillibustecs’ on t’other; and if oue or t'other
wouldn't get licked I’m mistaken.’
At that Uncle Joshua hopped up like a boy
and ketehed hold of my hand, and says he,
‘Major, you've hit it; that’s the road; go ahead.
1 see now there’s a good chance to have two
parties agin, and a fair scratch for President; and
old as I be, I’m in for another campaign.
Here Sargent Joel, who had been setting in
the room all the time, and hadn’t said a word,
straightened himself lip and smit his fists to
gether and says he, ‘lloorah for Gineral Jack
son F
‘Well, now,’ says Uncle Joshua, ‘set right
down, Major, and write to Mr. Gales & Seaton,
and to Mr. Ritchie tu, and ask them what they
think of it. If they’ll set it agoing down South
we’ll set it going down East, and have the plat
form right up.’
So hoping to hear from you soon, I remain
vour old friend. Major Jack Downing.
Cnrrfspntonrc.
LETTERS FROM COLUMBUS.
Columbus, Decembers, 1831.
Dear Doctor: —Business of all kinds is very dull
at present in this city, and the prospects for better times
are not very flattering. The entire want of foresight
or business capacity in those who continue to aspire to
be the fathers of our commercial facilities, in the way
of Rail Ways and Plank Roads, lias brought our
bjautiful city to the almost ruined condition she is now
in.
We have the misfortune of having too many vvould
be-big-men, wlio think and feel that if they give or
subscribe a dollar towards any measure that will ad
vance the interest of our city, that some body else will
make a ihrip by it, and therefore discourage every
public enterprize, Another class composed of one half
ape-money and the other half political poltroonery,
make a great blustering, but accomplish little. Meet
ings are called for the purpose of devising some plan by
which our city can compete with her sisters, when up
jumps a man of ‘‘buckram and whalebone,” requests
one of his own cast to lake the chair, and another to act
as Secretary. A long flatulent speech then follows, as
a matter of course, and the result of this wind-mill en
cienle is a string of resolutions calling on the city coun
cil to ‘"issue more bonds” to aid them in their great
and glorious undertaking to keep the ‘'Lowell of the
South” from dwindling into insignificance. We have
many meetings, and five times as many speeches, each
closing with a call for “ more bonds .’’ If long winded
speeches, and theory for bonds ! bonds l! MORE
CITY COUNCIL RONDS !!! would build Rail ways
and Plank roads, our streets would be crowded with
the cumbersome waggons of Peru, and our Iron Snor
ter on his winding way to the great golden city of the
2’aoiflc. Indeed these meetings remind me of the citi
zens of “the town in danger’’ in the fable—each is de
termined upon his own plan to save the city, but all
agree that the city Council shall “ issue more bonds /’’
This is certainly a bad state of things, and our citizens
can only blame themselves. Their fickleness has caused
the wealthiest and most practical man we have had for
several years (Mr. J. G. Winter) to stand aloof, and
witness our present struggles. If the plan first pro
posed, to build a road direct to Macon or Burnsville,
had been carried out, we would twelve months ago,*
have been in rail-way connection with the former place.
Four of our-then-citizens, with the aid of $150,000
oity bonds, would have built it, anJ partly offered to do
so, but the council, which is much to blame, issued city
bonds with the proviso that the road should be built to
Fort Valley. Over three years have passed, and yet,
there is not twenty miles of the road completed. We
now see where and when we'erred, and who bamboo
zeled us. It is too late to remedy the past; we must
unite to do the best we can for the present and the fu
ture, and that best is, to let “wbale-bone’’ flatulency
and company go to the , and every good citizen to
ACT well his part towards the completion of the
road now under contract. A few words more on “city
jonds,” and I wiihdrop the subject for the present.
Our city is largely in debt. This year she has sub
scribed $150,000 in “ bonds ” towards building a Rail
road from Columbus to Chunanuggee, Ala. She is
aow called on to “issue more bonds'’ ($80,000) for
Plank roads, one to Lagrange, and one to- Lumpkin,
and some body suggests that “wore bonds'’ $40,000,
he issued, for the construction of Water works, making
in all $420,000, in bonds. Now the interest on these
bonds at seven per cent, per annum, amounts to $29,-
400, add to the $25,000, a part of her subscription to
the “Muscogee Road,” which will fall due next year
ou will find that the sum will be difficult to raise
bv taxation in a city, whose real estate at its assessed
value, amounts to $1,200,000 only, and a population
comprising 600 voters. It is therefore necessary that
we should bestir ourselves, and devise some means to
meet these payments. Your humble correspondent,
in behalf of the good citizens of Columbus, do request
and instruct the members of the Legislature from this
county to offer a bill, and to use enough effort to have
it become a law, giving it to our city the extension of
her corporate limits over an area of five miles square.
Necessity and justice demand the passage of such a
bill. The dictators and dwellers in princely palaces
should not complain; they receive the benefits and the
enjoyments of our city, and pay none of its taxes.—
They are the loudest in crying “ issue more bonds!”
but take no responsibility in redeeming them.
In conclusion, I beg you to contradict some flying
rumors in circulation here. It is reported that a cer
tain notable of this place, who some few years ago, ap
pointed himself a standing committee to examine a
Wool machine, then in Montgomery, was seen at the
Macon Fair, making love to a couple of buxom lasses
who did not seem to feel offended at his politeness.
Another, that a certain Editor whom you know, hates
cheese, onions and “sieh like,” was seen examining the
fine specimen sent from a Yankee dairy to your Fair,
and afterwards smacked his lips like a man who had
been eating something very nice. There were others
of our citizens there who, it is said, became cross-eyed
from looking through round glass ware. Please exa
mine into these reports, and oblige yours, Arc.
BEM.
P. S. 1 forgot to mention that we hud a Fair here, it
did not amount to much. The premiums were dis
tributed ninong the Lions as a matter of course.
You will hear from me next week. BEM.
Note by the Editor. —The rumors spoken of are
partly true and partly otherwise. There was a me
chanical genius here, in company with two Ladies from
Columbus, but it is believed he had the same right to
be here that any other gentleman had, who desired to
gratify his own family with a sight of the show.—
Things have come to a pretty pass if a gentleman can
not go a pleasuring with his wife and daughter, with
out evil minded persons setting scandalous stories afloat
about him. It is a burning shame! The “cheese”
story is probably true, as we beard of one customer who
lost a whole cheese by the tasting operation of some
of the officials! As to the “cross-eyed’’manufacture
we know but little, but if it occurred it was a barber
ous method of disfiguring the human countenance!
Columbus, Decembers, 1831.
Dear Doctor : —Since my last communication, no
thing of new interest lias taken place in the “Rip Van
Winkie” city of the Georgia State.
The subject of Plank roads appears to engross the
spare moments of all, and so great is the desire of our
citizens to obtain information upon that measure, that
at the request and solicitations of many of our worthy
citizens, Mr. John G. Winter was induced to make a
speech one evening last week, at Temperance Hall. —
He said “our city would be greatly benefitted by the
completion of three Plank roads, otic running South,
one North, and one West, to the town of Auburn,
Ala., which would place us in connection with the Gulf
by the Alabama River, very necessary at times when
the Chattahoochee is too low for steam-boating.” The
whole he thought “cwnld be built for $225,000, not a
very large sum to men who possessed enterprize and a
desire to save a beautiful city, like Columbus, from
ruin.”
The twenty miles of Muscogee Rail way, has cost
that ‘ energetic ” company that amount, but it must
be recollected that they had to import their workmen
and materials from the North, an expense which a
Plank Road Company would not be subject to incur,
as laborers and materials, with the exception of spikes,
could be obtained on reasonable terms at home.
Mr. Winter certainly knows what would be ‘.lie in
terest of our city, ar.d our citizens now place much con
fidence in his representations and advice. Indeed, I
think the best we can do at this juncture, would be to
offer him some inducement to take up his abode amongst
us, for without a man of his capacity to lead the way,
by his counsel or otherwise, the whole will go down for
want of enterprize to conduct it to completion. But I
must drop the subject at present.
When I sat down, I thought of writing a chapter on
“ Political Lying,’’ a spirit , or any other name you
may think proper to call it by. which has for a long
time had entire possession of certain Knights of the
quill.
A short time ago I read an article in the Columbus
Slop-Tub, alias, “Times,” copied from the “Constitu
tionalist it Republic,” of Augusta, which purported to
give a description of the person, and style of speaking,
of that patriotic defender of the peoples’ rights, our
fellow citizen, Col. A. McDougald. The writer faxed
his fruitful imagination to villify our Representa
tive, but its malice was too apparent to inflict a sting.
Your readers have often heard of certain animals
quarrelling over a bare bone. Quite an amusing farce
of like purport, came off last Thursday evening in the
Council Chamber, between the redoubtable President
of the Muscogee R. R. Cos. and Mr. M. a lawyer. The
latter gentleman was requested to be present at the
meeting of Council, for the purpose of asking that body
to subscribe SBO,OOO iu “ bonds ” towards the construc
tion of Plank roads. A motion to that effect was
barely made before the Major pounced upon it with all
the force of language he is so capable of uttering. He
endeavored to prove by argument, that, if the city
Council would subscribe $70,000 more stock to the
M. 11. R. the Company would be able to finish it, that
it would be of more advantage to the city, than all the
new fangled ideas put together, that could be started.
This language was too moving, it was impossible for Mr.
M. to keep his seat any longer. He got up, went in
to a detail of the system of Plank roads, and clearly
showed their many advantages to our city, over Rail
Roads. Says the Major, “The Muscogee Railroad will
pay twelve per cent.’’ Mr. M. responds, “Plank roads
will pay twenty.’’ Major (excited) “The Muscogee
Railroad will pay fifteen, when in full operation, if not
more!’’ M. (pretending to address some other per
son,) “Plank roads, wherever they have had a fair trial
have averaged twenty-five!’’ Major ( drawing up
his cloak and looking sort a scattered) “Railroads,
are far preferable to anything else.” M. (looking very
serious at the Major) “Our city needs something that
will bring her trade.’’
Thus it is, our tinkers cannot agree upon any one
remedy, whilst our eitv suffers more and more every
day. We need an Independent Journal as much as
any thing else. The PEOPLE regret very much your
leaving here. Yours, &c.
BEM.
For the Georgia Citizen.
History of “Inclc Sam.”
: Natio comcedia Est.’ Juvenal Sat. Ill; Chap. ]/.
Wiio Uncle Sam was and where he lived.
Sometime since there lived somewhere in the wes
tern world a fine, generous, crotchety old gentleman,
familiarly known to his neighbors and the settlement
generally, as brother Jonathan, but more frequently
called by his relatives and dependents, Uncle Sam.
At the time of the commencement of this veracious
history the old fellow was in very comfortable circum
stances, living in pleasant but not very showy style,
entertaining his friends and acquaintances, hospitably,
and owing no man anything. Ills manners were, in
general, rough, and displayed, to some extent, the in
fluence of the backwoods, in which lie had passed his
youth, but occasionally, when visited by some of his
city cousins, he would lay aside the homely but honor
able stylo of his common address and ape the fantas
tic mode of the ‘beau monde,’ of which, honest soul,
he knew as much as a hog of Petticoats.
The farm upon which the old man dwelt was more
than ample for the easy maintenance of himself and
all of his relatives, and he frequently bestowed portions
of his unemployed estate upon the poorer dependents
of his less favored neighbors. Although his ten per
was rather sour and apt to be ruffled by slights, or the
least sign of a want of proper awe and respect, still
no one could ever accuse him of a low or mean ac
tion. And when any one took the proper means to
soothe his self importance and gratify his amor pro
pria he could be .as gentle as a sucking dove and
would s|>ai eno pains to reciprocate the favor. One
of tile greatest passions of this good gentleman was
an excessive love of hearing himself talk, and he espe
cially delighted to tell over, to any attentive auditor,
the tale of his own great deeds, and ‘hairbreadth
’scapes.’ Now, you must know, that Uncle Sam,
though lie was a bachelor of the strictest sect had
never known the want of filial care and attention, but
had always been tenderly nursed and taken care of by
liis nephew and nieces, of whom he had a goodly num
ber around him. Some of these had lived with him
long and faithfully, but others had recently claimed
the relationship and as the Uncle grew wealthier
and stronger new ties were constantly forming, and
finally, the family began to disagree and brother Jona
than, could, with great difficulty, prevent the high
spirited youngsters from coming to blows.
In his youth I ncle Sam had won great reputation
as a pugilist, and this is the way he began his career as
a fighter. His step father, John Bull, who had the
management of the estate, and did not care a copper
%
about Sam, charged him in the account between them,
with some tea Sam did not want, and for some pa
per Sam would not have. This produced a fuss in the
family which ended in Jonathan’s lathering his guar
dian and taking the management of his property into
his own hands, long before he had arrived nt years of
legal discretion. As soon as Sam set up for himself,
and the neighbors saw that he did not appoint any
overseer, to his estate, they began to laugh and make
fun, but one or two hard raps over the knuckles, made
them Itt him alone, and mind their own business.—
Time rolled on nnd Sam grew and waxed great. Acre
alter acre was added to his estate and his kite enemies
were anxious for his friendship. All the traders, of
the village, began to cajole him, and as even then he
was much subject to flattery,they plucked him on all
sides, especially his old foe John Bull, and Monseiur,
Parlevoas Frogeater, who had patted him on the
baek during his late fight with his step father—a dap
per little silk and wine merchant in the village —so, re
spected by all and feared by his enemies, the seeming
ly hardened old bachelor, came to the green old age
of three score years, without once feeling the tender
passion preying upon his heart. In fact his loving re
latives never once dreamed that the fire was only slum
bering and not extinguished, and none of them de
sired much, to have it awakened. But the strongest
fish are some times captured, and Uunele Sam grew
amorous at last, and desired annexation —an account
of which I must reserve for another time.
Y’ours, PLUTARCH.
From the New York German State Gazette of 29th Nov, 1851.
European Communications.
The Liverpool Journal saitli —
The powerful and practical intelligence of Kossuth
elevates or diverts the ideas of the British Nation from
their ojd opinions about continental anarchists and peace
foundations. Ilis new ideas are new blood lor us, and
before he goes he will have enkindled in the lieurts of
all the English conspicuous politicians a belief in, and
a sympathy with the strivings of the anti-monarchists
ol the continent of Europe.
The new Almanack for the people for 1852, which
appeared in London, contains the following prophecies:
“ If the people are true to themselves, we shall have
to notice in our Almanack for the next year the triumph
of a reform in our representative system, and this will
be the first step towards producing a reform in Church
and State. If once a free right ol election is secured,
all other reforms will follow, for it is the great basis of
all reforms.’’
The liberal press in England uses the following lan
guage :—“ As soon as the general right of election be
comes the law of the land, it will set aside the heredi
tary aristocracy, and destroy the Church Establishment,
and what the liberal press saitli, is the voice of the
people.’’
llow long the hereditary Monarchy of England will
exist, after the right of a free general election has been
gained, time alone can determine.
The London Quarterly saith—That, let her Majes
ty’s prime Minister be placed as a beginner of the fight
of anew revolution whereby the hereditary aristocracy
and the Church Establishment shall be destroyed and
then the hereditary monarchy will be brought into con
sideration ; yes, these considerations will be discussed
by a free people, and when the costs are higher than
the value received, it must also be dismissed.’’
THE GEORGIA CITIZEN,
L. F. W. ANDREWS, EDITOR.
MACON, GEO. DEC. 13, 1851.
For President,
JOHN J. CRITTENDEN,
OF KENTUCKY.
For Vice-President,
DANIEL S. DICKINSON, of New-York.-
SUBJECT TO THE DECISION OF A NATIONAL OR STATE UNION CON
VENTION.
To Correspondents.
‘Eolia,’ received and will command attention
next week.
The Letter from Milledgeville to a gentleman
in Columbus, on file for insertion. Too late for this
issue.
jFW The complaints of a subscriber at Lanier, as
to his failure to get the ‘Citizen’ in due season, are
heard, but we know not how to remedy the evil. The
Postmaster at Oglethorpe will do us a special favor by
sending our Lanier packet by the first mail from his
office, on Saturday. If so done, the difficulty will
probably be removed.
Absurdities’ by ‘D.’ will find a place, in all save
bis Latin quotations, which are unintelligible to most
of our readers.
Reflections upon the exercise of the Pardoning
Power by the Legislature are tolerably salty, but not
inadmissible, on that account, as freedom of speech and
of the press are cardinal virtues with us.
‘Quidnunc’ mistakes us entirely. We are not
an enemy of the Hon. 11. Toombs, and will sot per
mit our columns to be used for the purpose of mak
ing unjust assaults upon him. True, we are not one
of his ‘toadies’ who laugh when he smiles and ‘sneeze’
when he takes snuff! True, also, that we used ‘great
plainness of speeeh,’ in reference to his election as
Senator, but it was not because we respected his tal
ents and character less than some who claim to be
his especial friends and hugest admirers, hut on prin
ciple. It is sometimes the case that ‘open rebuke is
better than secret love,’ and Mr. T. may yet find that
his best friends are those who scorn to flatter and fear
not to rebuke when occasion demands.
Union Meeting, To day.
The Union Party will have a meeting at the
Court House to-day, at 11 o’clock, to nominate a Ticket
for Mayor and Aldermen. All interested will please
take notice and govern themselves accordingly.
American Agriculturist.- This valuable Jour
nal has been superceded by the Plow , a fifty cent pub
lication to be issued under the direction and editorial
care of Solon Robinson , who is favorably known to
many of our readers personally and through his agri
cultural writings.
Editorial Items.
The “ Illustrated Family’ Friend,” No. 2.
by Col. Godman, of Columbia, S. C. has come to
hand, aud we have no hesitation in saying that it is de
cidedly the most beautiful paper received at this office.
In literary contents and typographical execution, it
may challenge composition with any other Newspaper
in the United States. Terms $2 per annum in ad
vance.
KW The Doctor’s Bill—to allow certain persons to
practice medicine without a License —elicited a spicy
debate in the House of Representatives last week. The
“ Regulars’’ were alarmed at this encroachment on their
tested rights and stoutly demurred to such a “ free
trade” in physic. Felton, Seward, Bussel and others
stood up for the equal rights of Root vs. Calomel, and
prevailed, but next morning, the vote was reconsidered.
To our notion, the existing restrictions upon the prac
tice of medicine are superlatively ridiculous. It is an
anti-republican monopoly, for the benefit of learned
dullness, at the expense of genius, enterprise and pro
gress. The Legislature might as well say that nobody
shall teach school without a license, or do any other
lawful thing without asking leave of others in the same
profession. Leave all such matters to the judgment
of the people, for, of the “two evils,” Root quackery
and regular-parchment quackery, we would take the
former as the least every time.
UW The Kinkle Propagandists of Cleveland, Ohio,
have published resolutions declaring that as soon as the
German people shall have obtained a republican gov
ernment f.>r “ Faderland,’’ they will “use all means to
abolish “Slavery, au institution whieh is so wholly re
pugnant to the principles of true Democracy.” Kin
kle is a German who is travelling through the United
States to raise two millions of dollars in aid of a Ger
man Liberty Scheme !
tr The people of Griffin had a grand jollification !
on reception of the news that they had obtained anew
county from the Legislature, of which that city is to be
t he capitol.
OO” The Soil of the South, for December, is on
our table. It is a good number, but we looked in vain
for that “Premium List” in that‘‘organ” of the South
ern Central Agricultural Association ! Well, never
mind, it will be good, when it comes! By the way,
we notice that the Executive Committee have sub
scribed for 300 copies of the “Soil” to be sent to Agri
cultural Societies. By what right has S3OO of the peo
ple’s money been so spent, when an older journal and
abi tter one, has been neglected ? Hush I its nono of
your business!
( )^T ” The Legislature have passed an act, providing
for the election of an Ordinary iu each county of
Georgia, who shall attend to all business heretofore be
longing to the Inferior Court, iu the matter of estates,
wills, lire.
£3F’ Mr. V. 11. Cady, for many years a citizen of
Columbus, has opened a Family Grocery, nearly oppo
site this office, where choice goods in his line can be
had at the cheapest rates. See his advertisement,
At a sale of City Lots, on the outskirts of town
about one mile from the Court House, half acre lots
brought an average price of about 250 dollars each—it
being the best sale of that description of property ever
made in Macon. Who says that Rail Road connexions
and Rail Road discriminations have ruined our beauti
ful village ?
A Bill lias been passed, in the Senate, to in
corporate the “ Georgia Mechanical and Manufactu
>al Institute,'’ located in this city. Also, the “Lanier
House Company” of Mifcon.
Governor Young of Utah lias 90 wives ! lie
drove through the streets of the “new Jerusalem” of
Mormonism, with 16 of them in a long carriage, 14
of them having each a youfig responsibility in her bo
som. Kimball another chief lias nearly as many wives
as the Governor, and among them a mother and her
two daughters !
Mr. Clay’s health is so very bad, that lie has
not been able to take his seat in the Senate. Ilis days,
in all probability, will soon be numbered.
£2f* Kossuth with bis suite arrived in New York on
Friday last, and was received on Saturday with more
honor than was ever conferred, before,on mortal man.
200,000 persons, it is said, were present on the occa
sion, and diJ the tiling up brown. Howard of the Ir
ving House lias the honor of entertaining the Magyar
in the Bame snug quarters occupied by Jenny Lind. It
is said lhatKossuth is displeased because Congress will
not join in the glorification in his behalf and talks of
returning to Europe forthwith ! Let him go.
jf +f” A correspondent of the Knoxville (Tenn.)
Register indulges in the following rhetorical flourish
concerning the existing connexions between this State
and Tennessee:
“Looking to the geographical position of East Ten
nessee and Georgia, and the connections between them;
together with the food produced by the one and that
needed by the other, we may not inaptly style East
Tennessee the dish, Chattanooga the mouth, the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad the alimentary canal, and
Atlanta the heart of Georgia.”
If he had placed Atlanta at the fork of the gullet
and clapper , and Macon at the heart , the writer would
have been nearer the mark. We think, however, he
is unfortunate in the use of a simile which cannot be
carried out.
Jgg” The “Herald of the Union” is the title of a
splendid double quarto weekly Journal just commenced
in New York, under the Editorial charge of C. Edwards
Lester. It is a Union compromise paper and deserves
extensive patronage.
E3T Mr. Corcoran, the eminent banker of Wash
ington, lias presented to the Rev. Stephen P. Hill, for
merly of Baltimore, but now pastor of the First Bap
tist Church of Washington, anew and eiegant dwel
ling, besides making several handsome donations to
the Church.
*5?” The President of the United States has appoin
ted Nathan Sargent, Register of the Treasury, iu the
place of Townsend Haines, resigned.
Delaware Peach Cii^r. —The poach crop of Dela
ware, the past season, nrV-d a very valuable one—over
SIOO,OOO having beei^W fixed from it. The Wilming
ton Republican statcgUEi Mr. John Reybold scuta
bout 27,000 baskets of this fruit to market.
A Liberal Donation. —The Ohio State Journal
learns from a reliable source, that Jenny Lind gave
fifteen hundred dollars as a donation to the Capital
University of Columbus, an Institution under the aus
pices of the Luthtran Church.
The State Road’.
Will someone be kind enough to inform us where
in consists the difference between the present Law,
touching the management of the State Road, and that
proposed by Mr. Bartow, to be substituted in lieu and
stead thereof. It seems to us, that in all essential fea
tures, the bill of Mr. Bartow is nearly a sac simile of
the present law, and is liable to the same serious objec
tions urged against the present system. By it the
Governor is to appoint the Superintendent, Treasurer
and Auditor, and the Governor has to approve the
nominations or appointments of the Superintendent,
thus continuing, to all intents and purposes, the exist
ing connexion of the State Road with the political
Government of the State, and making the offices and
perquisites of the Road the boon to bo dispensed by
the Executive, every two years, as the reward of party
services and political opinions.
We care not who is Governor or what party is in
power, it is our firm conviction that the State Road
management ought to be confided to other hands than
those of the Governor. Mr. Cobb can conduct the
road as well, perhaps, as any other man, and we there
fore mean no disrespect, whatever, to his Excellency,
when we say that this management, to be effective,
should bo committed to other hands—to a Board of
Commissioners —practical and intelligent men, who
can devote their undivided attention to the work.—
The Governor has enough else as Chief Magistrate to
do, without having the State Road to look after, and
neither the present nor any future administration can
derive any credit from an official connexion with this
public work, so long as it is considered a legitimate
maxim that “to the victors belong the spoils,” in se
lecting agents and officers for the various positions on
the road.
Let the Legislature therefore reorganize the State
Road Department on a different l>ais. Let three Com
missioners be elected by the people for a term not less
than four years, to manage the road, and make them
responsible for the conduct and faithfulness of agents
and subordinate officers. Make a liberal appropriation
to pay off indebtedness and put the road in thorough
repair, and let the people seo whether or not, the road
can be made a source of revenue. If, after a fair trial
of the plan of disconnection from the Executive De
partment, the existing evils and burdens cannot be re
moved, why then it will bo full time to put up the Road
at auction to the highest bidder and let it slide !
But until anew plan is tried and the evils existing are
found to be irremediable, we shall deem it a bad policy
in the State to part with the exclusive ownership of the
road, which should, under proper management, be a
source of permanent revenue to the State and of pros
perity to the people.
On a Bender. —The ‘assembled wisdom of
Georgia’ have accepted the invitation to pay a visit to
Savannah, and are doubtless at this writing, relaxing
from their dignity of position and luxuriating in the
refined hospitalities of the ancient city of Oglethorpe.
Os course, all things will be done, ‘decently and in or.
der,’ and a very pleasant visit will it be, to the Mag
nates of the land, especially to those from the moun
tain region, many of whom perhaps never smelt Salt
water in their lives, save from the bung of a barrel of
pickled Pork in their own meat-houses. Wo certain
ly wish them a merry time of it—both the entertained
and the entertainers—and hope that now the Legisla
ture has become a locomotive machine it will keep mov
ing till all the interests of the commonwealth, from
tho ‘cow counties’ of the South to the golden regions
of the North, from the Chattahoochee to the Savan
nah, and from Okefonoke to Tallula, shall have been
personally inspected by the members, and the wants
and capabilities of each be minutely explored and de
monstrated. The old adage of ‘seeing is believing’
will thus be profitably improved and the people at largo
be benefited. ‘So mote it be.’
Not put down in the Programme— Our
city readers will recollect that last winter, one Signor
Novelli paid a visit to our town, in the character of a
Basso Opera Singer, in conjunction with Madame
Durang, to whom he professed to be lawfully wedded.
Well he probably was, as he showed us a marriage
certificate in Latin or Italian, setting forth that he was
conjugated to some feminine by a Priest of N. York.
So far so good! But the sequel shows that Signor
Novelli is not exactly what he cracked up himself to be.
lie left in debt, it is true, to his Landlord and Prin
ter, but that is a circumstance with such gentry too
common to make special note of. It is however stated
in a late cop) of the New York Day Book, that Max
Maretzek with the full strength of his Opera Company,
was about to give a Benefit to Signora Novelli, wife
of the Basso, who had recently come over from Italy,
with her children, to meet her husband, and found
that he had formed neiv ties and left the city w ithout
making any provision for his lawful family!
So it would seem that Signor Novelli has been
playing a part in the Opera of matrimony which
was not put down in the bills. We therefore give him
this gratuitous notice, to the intent that justice may
be done to the Turk, wherever he may happen to be
recognized as the Signor, who, ‘assisted by Mr.
Pease,’ (a dapper little fancy man, by occupation a
wood Engraver) once essayed totittilate the auditory
nerves of our elite with the dulcet notes of the true
Italian operatic and heavenly harmonies.
Music.
“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me it, that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.—
That strain again ; it had a dying fall \*
iSHAKSPK ARE.
Such music as that, we would say, was music l as
is music.’ ffm, Shakspeare was probably aconnoiseur
in the art or he would not have so correctly defined
what tlio experience of the people of Macon, for a
week past, lias demonstrated to be the truth of the
case, with only one exception—that of music being the
‘food of love.’ We have had the ‘excess,’ the ‘sur
feiting.’ the ‘sickening of the appetite’ and its death.
Also ‘'that strain again’ and its ‘ dying fall. But there
the parallel fails us!
To speak in more understandable language, our
good people have recently been marvelously excited,
as to the respective merits of a couple of stranger pro
fessors of the vocal art and their peculiar systems of
Church Psalmody ! One of those professors hails from
‘Busting’ and is a genuine specimen of a ‘live Yan
kee’ on his travels into the verdant regions of the
South. The other hails from ‘Old Virginity, ’ and is
probably a fair specimen of the wiry, stringy and elas
tic geniuses of that ‘never tire’ dominion! The
latter professes to teach Church Music on the old plan,
whereas the Boston Professor has brought out anew
‘notion,’ or to speak more technically, anew yuaver
>n the Divine Art, whereby he can. like a very Or
pheus, make even the heretofore anti-musical ears im
bibe the musical spirit and the hitherto dumb tongues
become vocal with the praises of Deity! For this
clever man a large class has been made up, and he is
now in the ‘full tide of successful experiment’ at the
Methodist Church.
The other Professor is teaching a class at the Bap
tist Church, and so far as we know, with entire suc
cess. It thus happens that though the notes of these
Professors inny not accord together, and though their
scales of harmony may not lie arranged to the same
pitch and key, yet the public may be able so to com
bine the two systems as to profit by the professional
rivalry of these Musieial Elocutionists.
Movements of Politicians.
It gives ut sincere pleasure to record the fact, that
neither of the Constitutional Union menbers of Con
gress, from Georgia, gave any support to the un
pledged nominee of the Democratic Congressional
Caucus, for the Speakership of the House—the Hon.
Linn Boyd. Johnson, Ilillyer, Chastain, and Murphy,
voted, we believe, for Baily of Virginia, and Toombs
and Stephens voted for Ilillyer of Georgia. Ibis does
not look much like Toombs going over to the ranks ol
the Free Soilers and unpledged Northern Democrats,
as was industriously reported of him, at Milledgeville.
He probably became aware that the extra confidence]
lie had in the soundness of the Northern Democracy
over that of the Northern Whigs, was ‘all in my eye
Betty Mai tin/'and therefore he would have nothing
to do with either wing, for the present. We hope he
will continue in this mind, and use his great influence
to give us a sound Union Ticket for the next Presiden
cy If the signs of the times, indicated in the follow
ing article, be a true foreshadowing of coming events,
it will require the utmost exertions of every patriot
tosave the country from the hands of tho Democrat
ic Free Soil Coalition w hich it’ seems certain will be
formed, with reference to the next Presidency, hor
ourselves, we now belong to Major Downing’s new
‘ Citme-outer ’ party, (see his letter-on first page,) with
‘the Union and the Constitution now und forever’
emblazoned on its flag ! Let others do as they tnay,
we will fight, to the last gasp, all such disorganizing
and factious movements that may be started, and hope
that our delegation in Congress will do tho same. We
believe they will, and that the voice of Toombs, Ste
phens, Johnson and the others, vviil soon be heard in
denunciation of the scheme of Frank Blair, Dull
Green and Van Buren, &Cos. to foist an unsound poli
tician into the 1 White House.’
From the Louisville, (Ky.)Courier of the 17th u It.
“ We learn from unquestionable authority that
Francis P. Blair is now on an electioneering tour for
Gen. Butler, of this State, for the Presidency, and
that only a few days ago he was anxiously looked
for in this city. The Hon. Linn Boyd is also
taking an active part for Gen. Butler, and the fact that
the Loeofooo party in the Legislature have united their
votes upon him as their party preference for United
States Senator, shows that they will go for the Gener
al, although the choioe of the Freosoilers under the
lead of Vail Buren, Blair fc Cos. General Butler
will, beyond any doubt, be one of, if not the most
formidable candidate before the Baltimore Convention.
The union of the whole Freesoil wing of the Democ
racy upon him will not be overlooked by that Conven
tion. It gives him an advantage that none of the rest
of the candidates named possess.’’
South Carolina Institute.
Among the articles exhibited at the late Annual Fair
of South Carolina Institute in Charleston, we noliee
the following front our own State :
Brown's Eccentric Progressive Power Press,
patented 1850, by A. D. Brown, Clinton, Ga. conven
ient and simple in structure, packs downward, and can
be placed as near the lint room as desired, easily cover
ed in and made very durable. The power applied is
multiplied 240 times by the lever and eccentric pullv,
100 pounds applied to the lever will exert a power of
24,000 pounds on the Cotton. It is three times as
powerful as the sorew that is 18 inches in diameter,
or nine inohes pitch of thread, with the same length
of lever, and the lever requiring but one-third as long
to do the work, the horse has to walk but one-third as
far. It can be made very compact and equally power
ful, by using the wheel and axle, and may he so modi
fied as to answer any purpose where a Press is necessa
ry for m&nufao'uring or domestic purposes.
Brown's Expeditious Prize Straw Cutter.—
The machine from Columbus, Ga. which took the first
premium at the late Macon Fair, and received substan
tial testimonials of approval from upwards of a hun
dred planters on the Fair Ground, in the shape of or
ders to supply them with it. It was in operation dur
ing a large portion of yesterday, in the presence of
numerous delighted spectators. The rapidity with
which it prepares food for cattle renders it a valuable
appendage to every farmer.
The latter took a premium of a Silver Medal.
Marshal’s Election.- —We notice in the leg
islative proceedings that a bill has been introduced to
“amend an act giving the election of Marshal and Dep
uty Marshal of the city of Macon to the people.’’ W hat
is the precise object of this amendment, we have not
been able to learn, but if it is, as reported, to take the
election of Marshal and Deputy from the people and
give it to the Council, we decidedly object, for various
reasons, but especially because, firstly, the chang; has
not not been called for by the people who are interest
ed in the question, and secondly, if the change is made
the candidates for Marshal and Deputies, will, to all in
tents and purposes, select and elect the whole board,
wi theut regard to any other object than the advance
menr, of their personal interests. If, however the
proposed amendment only aims to make the Marshals
amenable to the City Council, as the High Sheriff is
to the Courts, there can be no objection offered thereto.
Kossnth Debate. —Senator Foote’s resolution 1
to receive Kossuth as the Guest of the nation, alter a
spicy debate in the Senate, was finally withdrawn by
the mover. Messrs. Foote, Dawson, Hale, Cass, and
Underwood, took part in the discussion, ail in favor of
the proposition except Dawson and Underwood.
‘Mr. Dawson, of Georgia, said it would be as well,
perhaps, to meet this resolution on this amendment, as
at any other time. He, as Senator from Georgia, was
not prepared to vote for it. There was no precedent
for conferring these high honors on a foreigner. Ex
cept in the case of La Fayette, no such honors had
ever been enforced—not even ou an American citizen.
He saw nothing in the character or conduct of Kos
suth that made it proper for our government, as a gov
ernment, to show him these extraordinary niarksof re
spect. Kossutli had not, like La Fayette, been identi
fied with the history of this government. He had
nothing against Kossuth personally, but he objected to
the manner in which it was proposed to receive him.’
Mr. Hale proposed an amendment expressing the
sympathy of Congress for Kossuth and the ‘vic
tims of oppression every where.’ This was a fling at
the South and was promptly met and rebuked by Foote
and Cass.
‘‘Mr. Cass, of Mich, would have been glad if the
resolutions hud met with no opposition. It will lose,
both at home and abroad, half its merit, if not passed
unanimously. There was going on now an upheav
ing of the old governments of Europe. Nation after
nation was ribing to throw off the yoke of the tyrant,
and nation after nation was put down by the union of
despotic powers. Every lover of liberty, particularly
in this* country, must sympathize with these people.—
Kossuth needed no eulogy from him. lie had gone
through the fiery ordeal of a revolution and had come
out unscathed, lie had been unfortunate, but his love
ol liberty had not been diminished, fl u have iuvited
him here and shall wo not now extend to him that re
gard and sympathy which we feel? Governor Kos
suth comes here, not as the representative of his own
country alone, but as the representative of human
liberty every where. The case of Hungary was not
an ordinary one. Hungary had risen against her own
oppressor, and had conquered Austria, and would liave
maintained the victory hud not Russia marched in an
army and crushed her. He believed that, in the Pro
vidence of God, Hungary would yet be successful.—
He thought it wrong, in these days of progress, to be
governed altogether by what had been done fa fore,
and because Congress had never before adopted a re
solution like this, therefore reject this!
Mr. Underwood thought Congress ought to pause
before they passed this or any similar resolution ; does
any one here profess to know the merits of all the at
tempts at revolution and reform in Europe ? Are we
sufficiently informed upon the question how far these
resolutions were republican or not? Are we to pass
resolutions of this kind in the ease ol every foreigner
who has endeavored to benefit his country ? It we
pass tills resolution, why not pass others for all the dif
ferent persons who have figured in European revolu
tions ? lie was opposed to any interference with the
affairs of other nations. We can give aid by sympa
thy. When we use words, how long will it b ■ before
we are called upon to act? Idle sympathy, consisting
in abstract expressions, amounts to nothing. Kossuth
understands this himself; for in one of bis recent
speeches in England, he says : ‘I do not ask you to
go to war for us, but I ask you to intervene against in
tervention, and to say totho.se who do interfere ‘bauds
off.’ ’ And when you say that, how long will it be
before you are culled up in to act? lie con Adored
that this kind of business was never contemplated by
the framers of out form of government. Will au ab
stract declaration that we rejoice that Hungary lias at
tempted certain reforms, that France has thrown down
her tyrant, that efforts have been made to make a
Republic in England, strengthen the principles on
which our institutions rest, namely, the right of self
government ? That principle is as well understood in
Europe its any where. He was as much in favor of
| progress as the Senator from .Michigan.
But he was opposed to that Senator’s means. The
Senator favors war and conquest, and declares that he
could swallow all of Mexico, and would not hurt him.
His progress was different.. It was to inculcate in
the minds of every one that, our government was
one of justice uud right 5 and they must never lose
sight of those principles in their intercourse with other
nations. lie disapproved of forcing democratic gov
ernments upon people who were not prepared for them.
The South American States were evidence of the fol
ly of this ; for, there, one military des|ot was succeed
ed by another.. lie asked for the evidence that Kos
suth was in favor of republicanism such as is known in
the United States. W here is the declaration by Kos
suth of that nature 1 Where was the Hungarian de
claration of independence or the declaration of Kos
suth declaring that all government was derived f.-om
the people, who had the right to change, alter and
abolish that form of government when they pleased.
Mr. Foote had said that Kossuth, in three speeches
delivered in England, had declared himself to be a
republican of the American order, and had repeated
ly declared his admiration of Washington. That
was a declaration alter tlie fact. Where was the re
cord of any such declaration before or during tho re
volution ? Kossuth would he exceedingly green, if, in
tending to make this country hi;, home, he would fail
to express his admiration of her great men and insti
tutions.
Mr. U. examined the subject for some time in this
manner, declaring his hostility to all interference in any
way with the affairs of other nations. llow can the
Hungarians or the Irish be complimented fortbeir ef
forts against their governments without censuring the
governments they resisted ? And if we could go be
yond the United Slates and express our sympathies or
our condemnation in regard to |>ersons and govern
ments in Europe, why could we not do tile same with
regard to persons and governments in the several
Stales of the American Union?’’
Tins is a rapid sketch of the debate, which ended,
as before stated, by Mr. Foote withdrawing his resolu
tion. With Mr. Underwood and Mr. Dawson we
agree upon this subject. Congress oid enough when
she caused the Steamer Mississippi to be placed at the
service of Kossuth and his companions for the purpose
of conveying them from Austrian bondage. But the
government of this nation should leave the rest to
the people, Let them idolize Kossuth, if they will,
to their heart's conteut. That will do no harm, per
haps, but the President and Congress should not rash
ly commit the nation to the illustrious Magyar s for
tunes or liis principles. There never was a case like
it before. There is no parallel, whatever, between the
ease of Kossuth and that of La Fayette, as some af
fect to believe, because the Patriot Frenchman had
personally devoted his life, fortunes and honor in
the cause of American freedom, and was thereby
entitled to the honors conferred upon him by the na
tion. We therefore, say that we are glau, that the
government, as a government t will not receive Kos
suili as the guest of the nation. We would as a peo
ple pay him all honor that he deserves as a patriot and a
man—but would, having nothing whatever to do with
any schemes he may entertain, to embroil us in a war
with European powers, to sustain him and his cause.
The sympathy of freemen every where is freely giv
en to bleeding and prostrate Hungary and her no
ble defenders, but when we are asked or expected to
carry out that sympathy by getting up and carrying on a
crusade against the despotisms of the world, we should
turn a deaf ear to so fatal, so ruinous a policy. For if
we begin such a crusade, we know not its end. As Mr.
Underwood well remarked, ‘lf we go beyond the Unit
ed States and express our sympathies or our condem
nation of persons apd governments in Europe, why
could we not do the same with regard to persons and
governments, in the several States of the American
Union.’ Southern people, especially, should beware
bow they aid in establishing a precedent of this char
acter, which such Northern fanatics as Hale may here
after use aS a pretext for their unhallowed interfer
ence in the affairs of the Southern States of the Con
federacy. We have some faith in ‘ progressive de
mocracy,’ it is true, but for such a system of unbridled
propagandism as Foote, Cass, and others seem to have
shadowed forth, and which we fear is becoming too
much ‘the spirit of the age’ in this republic, we have
neither respect nor sympathy.
The Caise *f the Bill*
From a memorial to the Legislature, i„ behalf of
education of the Blind, which a gentleman has
our tab e we gather the fact that there are now about
300 of this unfortunate class of person, in the State
Georg*, the mass of whom have not received even
the rudiments of mental education, and consequent
have been, and are still, growing up in the darkness ,
dependent ignorance.” 01
The memorialists, who are seven of our own
respectable citizens and Trustees of an “Academ*
I. , hi .
of July last, represent that many of this class of n
sons are capable of being transformed “from indiZi
and expensive non-producers and consumers to o’
and happy industrial Agents” Some of the bZ
musicians, musical teachers, pianists and organist,
from the class of educated blind. They also r . ‘ ***
that Georgia has hitherto done nothing for the sr T”*
the State, though lavish of her means for theedu
lion of other classes. They therefore pray so r *
sage of a bill to incorporate and endow t!r w i n f ant PaS
stitution so as to place it on a permanent and a<l !u , *
sis. \\ hat has already been done by a few <• *
spirited individuals is thus stated in the meniuriT *
“ \ our memorialists respectfully represent that
the 4th of July, 1831, they and their associates
ized an “Academy for the education of blind perXn,
in intellectual knowledge, and for their instruction i n
the mechanical arts,” in the city of Macon. .\f v
adopting a constitution for its government, they ra lse d
a fund for its support. To take charge of’ the Acade
my, they secured the services of a blind teacher, emi
nently qualified for his vocation, and of a matron
equally competent to discharge the duties of her de*
pari ment. They purchased the necessary school appa
ratus, such as books in raised characters, slates and by
the blind, musical instruments, &c., rented a commo
dious suite of rooms, and supplied the same with ne
cessary furniture. They also obtained from the An*.
1 lean Bible Society, a copy of the sacred volume i a
raised letters for the use of the pupils. With the*,
limited but expensive preparations, the school *.
opened, and has been in progress for several momb
with two indigent and two other blind pupil* Ull j
the course of tuition. Jim progress of the student* in
mental and moral improvement, during this brief period
is as creditable to their teacher as to themselves
It is enough to sav of them that they have advanced
farther in their studies than is comu on for children w| lu
have tlu-ir sight, during the same length of time.”
We have only to add that Mr. Forteseue has just re
turned from Milledgeville with two of his pupils, a „d
that he gave one or two exhibitions before the Legisla
ture and the public, of their proficiency in the acquisi
tion of knowledge, which called forth unbounded ad
miration from the audience. That the Legislature vv j||
grant the prayer of the memorialists we will not per
mit ourselves to doubt. It isa noble cause—the T
of benevolence and patriotism, and should be met in a
spirit of liberality corresponding with its paramount im
portance.
The East Alabamian.— \Ve are ghjfoseo
that our cotemporary of Crawford, Ala. lias lasted the
Crittenden Flag and is determined to do buttle for the
gallant Kentuckian in the next Presidential campaign,
if the opportunity is offered. For his flattering notice
of our Journal we are profoundly grateful and trust
that with his effective aid we shall be able to do the
Slate some service in the coining strife. Our principles
are the same now—though widely separate in days
past. Wc are Constitutional Union men and treats*
nought former party distinctions and prejudice*. The
Alabamian thus speaks :
“ After we had written an article for last week’s
paper bringing to the notice of the Union party the
name of the lion. John J. Crittenden as a suitable
candidate fur the Presidency, we are gratified to see
that that sterling Union paper, the Georgia Citizen,
had suggested the name of the same gentleman for the
office. We admire the candor and sincerity of the
Citizen and had its action as one of the West evidence*
of the Union party to “dissolve the ties that bound ‘d”
to old (kilitieal parties and to continue their efforts to
defend that Union which has been the source of
much political happiness to us. We are sorry to see
that other Union journals have net done likewise, but
liave manifested a desire to creep back info the Demo
cratic or W liig parties. The Citizen in time* [sl
lias been unflinchingly democratic in its polities and
this move is altogether sufficient to prove that it does
net consider the cause of the Union a mere “ whig
trick.” W e know that its editor would never support a
W hig for this or any other office for any other consi
deration than his love for the Union.
*****
H e think that it is time that the Union parly or
ganize for the contest. While the notes of prepiratiua
for the war are being sounded by other parties, we
should not be idle. Prud -nce requires tliat w c should
go into the contest with well marshalled forces and if
we are true to ourselves and our cause we will be vic
torious. We think that some action should be taken
by the Union members of the Legislature to place the
l ttion jiarty in a position to act iu concert with the
L nbm parly in the other States. We make 110 sug
gestions of the course they should take for they are bet
ter able to devise plans than we. The legislature of
Georgia is now in session, and contains the best uien of
the Union party in the State. Joint action by th*
L nion parties in Georgia and Alabama would almost
insure success to the cause. It nxs iu these State* that
the most desperate efforts were made to undermine the
pillars of the Union, and here was the most hotly con
tested bait e fought. A demonstration from this quar
ter would meet with much consideration from the
Southern State*, and from the conservative portion* of
the Northern people. Whatever course the Union
party may pursue, we do uut llfink it w ill act with ei-_
titer of the old political parties, North or South, bat,
still preserve, at till times, that dignified and patriotic,
p<>sition, in support of a constitutional Uwon, that ha&
characterized it from its inception.’*
Georgia Legislature.
Nothing of great importance done since our last re
port. The 14 Womans Bill’’ has been discussed, voted
on, lost and reconsidered in the Senate. It was mode,
the order of the day for Thursday last, but in conse
quence of the absence of the honorable body, on tliVtf
way to Savannah, the rights of women have been,
placed for a season, in abeyance. On Wednesday,
Mi. MeDougald's bill oil the Slave Traffic was passed?
by a handsome majority in the House, but was finally,
reconsidered. So it stands as it did before tlie discos-,
sion. The substitute of the committee had been previ-.
ously voted down.
BILLS PASSED in THE SENATE.
To extend the Charter of the Augusta /nsuraucfe
and Banking Company to 1878.
To disjtose of personal propeity levied upon and
claimed.
To incorporate the Coosa and Chattooga l.iver
Railroad Company.
To wind up the afairs of the Central Bank, and
transfer its asset* to the Treasury.
To secure to the Rock Island Factory certain prin
leget.
To alter the time of holding the Superior CouriS
Marion county, to the 4th Mondays in Icbiuarv
August, and give the Court twg weeks.
To incorporate a Saving’s Bank in the city of A ugus
The House bill to ratify the contracts (hr the par
cliase of iron for the Western & Atlantic Ran” ’
made by Governor Towns and the Chief Engineer,
to provide means for the payment af the same.
The bill to incorporate the Columbus and Greeny
Plank Road and Turnpike Company, and the Cos a •
bus and Lannahassee Plank and Turnpike Read Com
pany, and the Sweet Water Plank and Turnpike
Company. . gs
To amend the Penal Code, so as to fix the tii
punishment for ‘Manslaughter’ at from three to
years in the Penitentiary.
To revive the charter of the Brunswick l ana
Railroad Company. 3 „d
To regulate the practice of the Supreme C
of the Superior Courts of this State,
other things, this bill puts the Eastern and * :
cuits into the same Supreme Court Judicia
with Sessions alternately at Savannah an
on the 2d Monday in January and June of **
and the Southern Circuit is put in the ot 0 .
District—Sessions at Milledgeville Ist M
vember.