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non. Jam* 1 * L. Seward on the
law Prohibitintf the African
Slave Trade.
In the course of the debate which sprung
up in the House of Representatives on the
proposition to strike from the consular and
diplomatic bill the clause appropriating $75,-
000 for the support of the captured Africans
■who were returned on board the A iagai a to
Liberia, Mr. Seward, of Georgia, said
I am opposed to the amendment as I am
opposed to the whole section; and pro
pose to give my reasons for it. I iooiC upon
the law for the suppression of the slave trade
as mischievous and wrong. TS hi!e Ido not
pretend to commit myself in reference to
the pohry of the slave trade a* effecting the
States whose interests would be touched by
it, I am opposed to the whole law, because
I think it wrong, and a violation of the Con
stitution.
The act suppressing the slave trade actu
ally subjects the property of citizens to for
feiture forever. If gentlemen look at the
Constitution, they will find that there is no
crime known to it, except treason, lor which
a man's property can bes rleited, and then
only for his hie. * And yet we are appropri
ating money here lo carry out a law which
forfeits the property of citizens forever, and
deprives them and their children of it; there
by visiting the sins oi the father (if it be a
sin) on the children.
The Constitution of the United States
never regarded the slave trade a8 piracy. A
limitation was pnt in the Constitution, up
to ISOS, against mterlerence with the slave
trade, and Congress actually made the trade
legal by permitting a capitation tax of t- n
dollars per head to be assessed on the im
portation of negroes into tins country. Re
sides that, Congress has made that a crime,
punishable by death, wmch was legalized by
this very capitation clause.
Now, let us reverse this. Suppose we
were to call on Congress to pa c s a law au
thorizing the President of the United States
to employ a thousand marshals, and to pay
them $500,000 to go and arrest people who
intertere with slaves in the South and run
them off to the North, what sort of a howl
would be got up here lor *hus taking money
out of the Treasury? Your Navy is apo
lice ou the sea to interfere with people, and
to arrest them in the absence of any affida
vit, by which alone, under the Constitution,
you can arrest a party for crime in this couu
trv.
Is it not true that a man cannot be arres
ted on land unless there be some specific
charge made against him under oath ? And
vet, when you get to the high seas, your
Navy is to be used as a police to interfere
with the business of citizen?, and to arrest
them for a enme which is said to be piracy.
I say that thaf does strike at the institution
of slavery at the South. 1 want to have
that law repealed. I want to leave this mat
ter to be settled by the States as a domestic
question. I doubt whether, so far ar my
State (Georgia) is coucerned, she would
be beDefitted by the foreign slave trade, be
cause I think she has at present a sufficient
supply of labor.
But there are other States th.it may differ
from us in that respect: lor instance, the
State of Texas; and I want all the States to
have the right, without the interference of
<Jongre?, to carry’ on the slave trade, if they
wish Is the slave trade any more piracy—
is it any more piracy to take a negro on the
coast ot Alrica and bring him to a southern
State, than it is to bake him away from
a southern State and him tff to the
north ? Why not put both ou an equality ?
Mr Barncm as a Lecturer.— The Loudon
Times says that Mr. first lecture on
‘•Money-making,” at Sb James Hall, Loudon,
was an “apotheosisof notori ty. ’audspeaksof it
as follows:
It Mr. Barnum has got nothing else by the
admiring throng who pushed, and listened, and
cheered yesterday evening, he has at least get
anew chapter for a second edition of autobio
graphy. Having already related how ha drew
together a mob of Yauk jes to see a lew tame
bulls, he can now describe the eagerness of John
Bull to see the most euierpreiog of Yankees.
Whether a huge multitude applauding an ora
tor fjr a deliberate panegyric o: “humbug” may
be considered as a sign of the high moral state
of a natiou. is a point that we will not here dis
cuss. But we aro bound to admit that Mr. B.
is one of the most entertainning lecturers that
ever addressed an audienceona theme universal
ly intelligible. Cicero sgreat work,2)e Ojjiciis, is
not more systematically drawn up than Mr.
Bamum'B discourse on the particularly profita
ble virtue to which he has given his attention,
and thus the fun attached to a series of success
ful impositions is heightened by their envelop
ment in a grave etbie.il essay. T.ie ••pj.earanc”
of Mr. Bsrnum, it should be add and, has nothing
of the “charlatan” ebotn it, but is that of the
thoroughly respectable mm of hi sines?; and he
has at command a fund of dry humor that con
vulses every body with laughter, while he him
self remains perfectly serious. A sonorous
voice and an admirably clear delivery complete
his qualifications as a lecturer, hi which rapac
ity he is no “humbug,” either in the higher or
the lower sense of the word.
£sf“ As we would not willingly have ourrea*
dors fall behind the march of the country, we
call their attention to the Lilowing proposed
new territories in tie Lr West:
“ DacoUih” is wliat was the western half of
Minnessota Territory. When the Stute was
lormed, a line was drawn through the middle of
the Territory from north rn sootii. Tho eastern
part t>ecame the State of Mine'saota — the west
ern is uuorjranized and Without a government.
“ Arizona” is a combination of tl.e south j>rt
of New Mexico with that Messilla Vrlley strip
of Imd which we purchased from Mexico in
1 S4. The latter is without a local govern
ment.
“Nevada’’ is the western half of Utah lying
between Salt I-ake and California.
“Laramie 1 means the western pirt cf Ne
braska, in which the Fort of that name is siiuu
ted.
“Superior,” or “Ontonagon’’ is the peninsula
between Lakes Superior end Michigan, part of
which now belongs to Michigan and part to
Wise >nsin.
“Coiona” embraces tiro recently discovered
gold regions of Tikij’s P -i.k, Cnerrv Creek, 4c.,
iccludiiig pirts of th.* Territories of X. msas, Ne
braska, Utah, and New nearly ail,
however, being taken from Kansas. It con
tains about 122,000 tquare nous,and nearly 2,-
C(P) inhabit.ms.
These are simply tracts now; in a few years
they wiil be territories; and thun States. Such
are the swift and mighty strides of our c mu-*
*7-
■ -* or *-
Pitre Spring Wate.u—Dr. 11. M. Breck
inridge, of Tarrentum, P?., sends to the
Washington Intefligmcer aft account cf a
spring on his pretirso?, the wa*er of which
he regards as being ehemict’ly pure. Chem
ists and Pharmaceutists have held that no
water was really pure—that is, entirely free
from gaseous and saline solutions, but that
which was artificially distuied. Even rain
water contains too .many impurities in sus
pension to answer on ail occasions th pur
pose of the physician and chemist. Dr.
Breckinridge finds, however, that t lie water
from his spring is preferah’e fur chemical
uses to the most carefully distilled water he
can produce.
When tested, he say?, by the usual re
agent?, it indicates absolute purity, so Ur as j
freedom from the usual shine solutions and i
mineral suspensions may reader aug water ■
pure. It has never produced auy changes 1
on these I'e-ageu*?, and when evap irated in j
considerable quantity, f cm a plate of polish
ed platina, it left no tain or residue of any I
kind. This is a angular and remarkable in- j
stance. The purification of the water is dno,
we suppose, to its thorough !trati<m. The
■spring, says Dr. Beeck.* lin ,lg e peculiarly
situated at the head of a l.otlow or small ra
vine. A stratum of from “Jo to lit) of
fine gravel and sand rests upon a stratdni Q f
slate rock of much greater thickne *. TU.-
water filters throngh the gravel and sand
till it reaches the rock, wh re it is forced to
take a horizontal direction, and gushes out
irom between the two strata in a never fad
ing stream, which, after resting a moment
ia a small basin, takes a leap cf about 2o
feet over the perpendiculir face of the slate
jijjp ißt o another basin at the foot of the
Fron the Tzfc> (Mias.) Democrat, Jan. 29th.
The African Slave Trade.
The law against the slave trade should be
repealed, because its existence is the record
of Soutfiern humility and submission. It is
a censure cf the South and a stab at her
greatest institution. The slave States are all,
by experience and study, converted to the
doctrine that the negro race is essentially
and naturally inferior to the white, and orig
inally intended to fall under its dominion.
They are converts to and advocates of the
doctrine that slavery is the normal condition
of the African, and that in no other is it pos
sible fur his weak reason to be educated from
its imbecility to humanity and usefulness
They agree that the Great Architect of
the world obviously designed his creatures
for mutual happiness and mutual assis
tance in. elevating the world from bar
barism and ignorance; and that He un
questionably intended each race to contri
bute its quota of exertion in proportion to
its capacity towards the moral and intellec
tual progress of mankind. If this be true,
they say that negroes only contribute to the
advantage and advancement of the world in
a state of servitude. This position is abun
dantly proved by their condition in Africa,
and the evident tendency of American free
negroes to the same barbaric level, by their
greater increase as slaves, and by their su
periority in morals, industry and usefulness,
in those portions of the globe where they
are held in perpetual bondage.
While experiments have proved their ut
ter incapacity lor seif government and vol
untary labor or seif support; by placing
them under the direction and control of task
masters, they readily support themselves and
two thirds of the commerce and manufacto
ries of the world, and at the 3ame time they
are by far more contented and happy than
those of their own race who are free. To
sustain this position the most overwhelming
testimony may be and has been adduced,
and testimony, too, which is not furnished
by speculative argument and abstract rea
oning, but by the palpable aspect es the
world.
If, then, slavery is right, “it follows as
the night the day ” that the slave trade is not
wrong But those who oppose the repeal of
the law may say that its being morally right
is no proof of its expediency. In a great
mtjorify of instances moral right, humanity
an l expediency go hand in hand. More es
pecially is this the case with the slave trade
than probably any other branch of com
merce. Philanthropy calls loudly for the re
opening of the trafiic, because the subjects of
importation from the Afiican coast are most
grnerally the prisoners of these barbaric
tribes from whom they are bought and whom
our gol •, not virtue or moral suasion, would
prevent from butchering iheir luckless cap
tives. They are brought from the field of
battle to the barracoon, where death, or a
speedy sale to the white awaits them—or
what is worse than either, a condition of ser
vitude under some brutal barbarian of their
own instincts and color.
With these facts patent to the world, how
can any sane man characterize the traffic as
inhuman ? It can only be so called by fa
naticism or by ignorant folly. It is not in
human but wise and philanthropic.
Now, as to the expediency of repealing the
liw against it. V hat is the present position
of the Southern States ? We see the price
of negroes continually advancing, and there
is little prospect of a depreciation of their
present exorbitant value. What will be the
consequence—the almost inevitable result?
We will eventually see this species of pro
perty confined to a comparatively small por
tion of our citizens—an aristocracy of slave
owners. We will see, in time, the wealthy
owning all the slaves and ail the land. The
few will wield all the influence, and dwell in
palatial mansions, while the great body of
our people will be driven to poverty and
huts. Enable to buy negroes or land, they
will be practically the slaves of capitalists.—
Here, then will b virtually a nobility and a
canaille. Discontents, mobs and revolutions
will ensue, and this la.r country experience
the very same troubles and same changes
that Rome suffered from exactly similar
causes. Put the price of negroes to a figure
beyond the ability of the majority to pur
chase, and it will quickly follow that they
cannot hold the slaves they have, and will
be forced to sell to wealthy neighbors, until
finally we will have an aristocracy as op
pressive as France or even Russia ever had
—and the last named country would have
lelt a cozen revolutions if the masses were
possessed of the same intelligence, and the
• one knowledge of freedom with ours.
All this is not speculation nor unwarran
table apprehension. It is a well founded
tear, and warranted by aralagous instances
in h s:ory, which might *be elaborated if
space allowed. A repeal of the law against
the slave trade would prevent the evil by
placing slave labor within the reach of all.
But there are men who say that a re-opon
mg of the traffic would overflow the South
with A:ricans—the cotton market would be
dotted and masters Cad it difficult to sup
port their own slaves. Such persons forget
that the same fears were expressed by many
at the invention of the cotton gin, and they
then thought planters vvoulJ starve when
cotton fell below 25 cents per pound. But
:t will oe found uearly impossible to produce
more cotton than will be consumed. Now
manufactories are constantly springing up in
countries which a few years ago bought not
a pound of the raw material. As the cotton
crop grows, the number of consumers will
increase, and England will find herself at
last with nnny rivals in the manufacturing
interest. Cotton will always bring remun
erative prices, ar,d the importation of slaves
can do us no harm so long as it will pay sla
vers to bring them. Cotton is destined to
be, if it is not now, the great interest of the
world, and no race except the black is adap
ted to its cultivation. The cotton field is the
true and only sphere of the negro; for this
he was intended, and in this alone can he
assist in revolving the wheel of progress.
Let us not be stinted in slave labor, but
again begin its importation. Let enough be
had to cultiv te our own field?, and those
of the new slave States we expect in time
to annex, and when all are sati-tied, let it be
applied to the wheels and spindles of the
manufactory until Yankee monopoly is dis
turbed.
Bit there is another very urgent rea
son for resuming the traffic in African ne
groes. Our border States are being drained
of slave labor to supply the necessities of the
South. They find it more remunerative to
sell us their negroes than to apply their la
bor to the cultivation of their own soil It
is greatly to be feared that this process .will
finally abol it ionize those States, and contract
the boundaries of the institution. It is ne
cessary to lower the value of labor sufficient
ly to keep \ irginia and Missouri slaves at
home. The interior State slave trade of this
character is much more threatening and dan
gerous than the Aliicau slave trade.
For all theae reasons, if is right and expe
dient to resume the traffic; but a far more
important reason is the point of honor, that
we should permit the existence of no law
upon our statute books which involves dis
grace to the South. Let us put down the
exorbitant price of negroes, and put down
the abolitionist'. The revival of the Afri
can slave trade will be the death knell of
Northern fauaticism, and the heraldic peal
of Southern progress and Southern gran
deur.
Ca;:ba(;e and Ditto. —We have just
now heard a cabbage story, which we
will cook up tor our laughter-loving
readers:
“Ob ! 1 love you like anything,” said
a yi ung countryman to his sweetheart,
war my pressing her hand.
“Ditto,” said she, gently returning
his pressure.
1 he ardent lover, not happening to be
over mid above learned, was sorely puz
zicu to understand the meaning of ditto,
but ashamed to expose his ignorance
iiy asking the girl. He went home, and
the next day being at work in a ctbbage
patch with his father, he spoke out
Daddy, what a the meaning ol’ and t
to"” - °
“ Why,” said the old man, “ this ’ere
is one cabbage head, ain’t it?”
“ es, daddy.”
u W H, that ’ore’s ditto.”
• Rot that good for nothing gal!” ejac
ulated the indignant son, “ she called me
a cabbage-head, and I’ll be darned if
ever I go to see her again.”
I'rol. Lee on the African Slave
Trade.
The following letter from Dr. Daniel Lee,
Agricultural Professor in the Georgia Uni
versity, to James Gardner, Esq., of the Au
gusta Constitutionalist, will be read with in
terest by the public, notwithstanding the
sneers of such presses as the Sav. Republican
and Macon Journal & Messenger:
Athens, Feb. 3, 1559.
James Gardner, Esq.— My dear Sir :—
Having answered the agricultural part of
your letter, on another sheet, I proceed to
reply to its closing sentence, which is as fol
lows : “ I have been strongly impressed by
the pamphlet of Robert G. Harper, Esq., on
the African slave trade, and I would like
much to see a reply from your pen.”
My professional duties at this time will
not allow me to review at length, were I so
disposed. Mr Harper's statements, facts and
logic, spread over seventy-eight pages of
printed matter, is an able “ argument against
the re-opening of the African slave trade.”
But, as I have children, some of whom have
been born in Georgia, and grand-children, to
share in the future of South, whether pros
perous or otherwise, it can hardly be amiss
in me, or any other man, to study closely
the future well being of his offspring, write
and act as become a good citizen, and never
forget the obligations of a father.
You need not be told that I am no lawyer.
Twelve years ago, when I became connect
ed with the Southern Cultivator , I brought
with me a delicate balance, adapted by con
struction and weights to the weighing of
substances down to the one hundreth pait
of a grain. The mere habit of analysing
compound, and often complex bodies, ex
tending back thirty years, has made my
thoughts somewhat analytical in their char
acter; and I have, from time to time, care
fully weighed the numerous and weighty
evils of negro slavery at the South; and I
have also weighed in the same balance, its
nura-erous and diversified benefits and advan
tages. Finding the latter to outweigh the
forner, I regard the institution, taken ns a
w’.iole, as it ever should be, a good thing
where it is, and as it is. Having its foun
dation in nature, and being at once a good
thing, a living thing, and a young thing in
young America, with more than half the
new world in which to grow, expand and
multiply its blessings, under the auspices of
free trade in slave labor, I do not see the
wisdom of assuming, after the experience of
the last fifty years, that this kind of labor is
unproductive, and of little value, and there
fore that it should not be increased by any
fresh importation from Africa. It strikes
me that there must be- something incurably
wrong in this species of industry which I do
not and cannot discover: or something
equally wrong in the facts and logic which
oppose its natural growth at the South, on
the common sense rule of allowing free trade
in this very productive, and very reproduc
tive money power. That slave labor is a
power, which differs from coined gold and
silver in being reproauctive by the active
force of vitality, such as no mere dead mat
ter can possess, will rot be denied. That
this living, industrial power is incidentally
political as a conservative element in the
confederacy, for the etpial benefit of all parts,
whether South, Nonh, or West does not
lessen its value in my estimation.
I have analysed the existing hostility to
slave labor as it exists in this country and in
Europe; and it has everywhere the same
basis, as a chemist would say, namely, that
it wrongs somebody. Therefore, as its opo
nents say, and doubtless believe, the system
is itself wrong and ought to be abolished.—
All the laws which prohibit the bringing of
persons who are slaves in Africa into the
Southern States, assume that slave holding,
slave trading, and slave labor, deserve the
execration of mankind. Bringing negroes
from Africa in the best state ro uns of a float
ing palace, and the objection and principle
would remain the same. The anti-slavery
law that took tllect in 1808, against the im
portation of negroes, was lounded on the
notion that slaveholding was a great curse to
the country. Concede that this idea has
truth and sound principle to rest upon, aud
the institution will soon tall before the ever
augmenting tore© of public opinion. Prin
ciples are no Itss eternal than the great and
good Being who created both the slave and
his master, Not to follow where principle
leads, proves one of two things: either that
a man is an unnappy coward, or that his
principles are wrong, and not to be trusted.
I ree trade in agricultural slave labor involves
the fundamental principles, and the hie of
the institution. It tote sort of productive in
dustry is, upon the whole, injurious to the
confederacy, and the slaveholding States, as
the logic ot Mr. Harper goes to show, then
we reach at once the end of the argument!
and a better kind of labor must be introduc
ed to take the place of that which is con
demned.
Believing, from association and education,
that slavcholdiug is right, there are at least
a million of non-slaveholders at tho South
who now claim the advantage of this right,
to purchase something like a male and fe
male servant for each citizen direct trom Af
rica on tho best terms they can. Clearly, if
anybody has a moral right to owa slaves in
the planting States, non-slaveholders possess
it as well as others ; and it is their duty to
their children to make this right available to
a good practical purpose. \ ery soon they
will be ready to fight tor their rights in this
matter just as earnestly as any slave holder
will fight to defend hit rights j u negroes al
ready here. It the practice and principle of
slaveholding are worth anything, they must
be as good for ail as for a tavored lew. Can
Mr. Harper prove this statement to bo un
true ? Can he prove that three and half
minion of slaves will fully inett the wants
of seven million white persons, occupying
over six hundred million acres of territory?
Does the price paid for negroes indicate a
lutl supply ? What is the doctrine worth
that assumes that it will not do to let nou
slaveholders have razors to shave, because
th*/ may cut their throats; nor will it do to
let them have African slaves to tiil their land
because they may ruin agriculture ? How
old ought an intelligent citizen to be before
it will be safe to allow him to buy as many
razors and as many slaves as he is willing to
work and pay lor ?
To increase the slaves of the South is the
only practical way to augment the white
population from abroad, unless we abolish
slaveholding altogether. The industrial force
and the reproductive power of a million
more of negroes, would naturally call for
one or two more millions white immigrants.
Every living thing must be permitted to
grow naturally and healthy, or it will become
diseased and die. By prohibiting the supply
of negroes from Africa for fifty years, Con
gress has brought the strong vitality of ne
gro slavery in this country into a state of fe
verish and paiflful excitement. Slavery has
only one more battle to fight —one purely
of principle—to vindicate forever its justice,
its humanity, and its rights.
It is not difficult to place the whole argu
ment, pro and con in a nut shell. Slavehold
ing is either wrong, or it is right. Adopt
that half of the proposition which says it is
wrong, and work your principle out to its
inrvitable results, and you will soon see the
last of the wrong. Maintain that slavehold
ing is right, and you will soon be compelled
to open up this right to all, by adopting a
system of free trade in slave property. An
argument that is practically in favor of slave
holding for a few, and against it for the
many, may be equally learned and ingenious,
but it can do nothing but harm to all parties
Very respectfully,
DANIEL LEE.
From the Atlanta American.
Benefits of Advertising*
The other day, a gentleman connected
with one of our best and largest business
establishments told us he had, within a few
days, had the great benefits of advertising
illustrated most satisfactorily. We asked
him how it was, when he informed us that,
a little time prior, they had advertised ns just
received, a lot of a certain article, and that a
merchant seeing it, with the date annexed,
called to purchase some of the article ; and,
finding other goods of quality and price to
suit, made a hill of over four hundred dollars.
Thus, in one transaction, at a low per cent,
profit, more was made than would pay for a
quarter of a column for a whole year ! This
gentleman remarked, at the same time, that
he did not know whether advertising was
the cause or not, of a great increase of trade,
• but that one thing was certain, the increase
was remarkable and highly flattering.
Another house, in a different line of busi
ness, liberal in the expenditure of money in
this way, told us a few weeks since, that
their business was nearly three times heavier
within a given time than for the correspond
ing time a year ago.
And yet another, also liberal advertisers,
in a still different business, has enjoyed an
unusually heavy trade, owing, very materi
ally, to keeping the public informed of what
they have to sell, and particularly what
they have received that is new and desira
ble.*
It may bo, and probably is, next to im
possible to trace results so directly to their
cause, in regard to advertising. Yet, we
feel persuaded, from the above instances
here, and innumerable others elsewhere,
that the most successful owe their success to
this cause. The more business a man does,
. the less are his current expenses in propor
tion to that business, and he can atford to
sell for a lower profit, and yet in the end,
make more money. As advertising is mainly
instrumental in building up a business, and
as an increased business enables a man to
live on a smaller profit, it very clearly fol
lows that THOSE WHO ADVERTISE
CAN GENERALLY SELL THE BEST
BARGAINS. We wish all our readers to
remember this, and that all who advertise
with us can bo relied upon, as to what they
say about what they offer for sale, whether
they go to buy in person, or order from
them by mail, or through a friend.
Another suggestion for all—more partic
ularly we intend it, however, for those who
do not advertise. If the paper contained
but one advertisement for each branch of
business, what would be the notion of the
distant reader, as to this place as a murket in
which to purchase his goods ? He would
say, “ I cannot go there—there is but one
store where groceries can be bought—but
one where dry goods can be bought”—and
so on, with the others; “if I go there,” he
will reason with himself, “ they will ask me
what they please for goods, and I must pay
it or lose my trip.” But if he sees a num
ber of different firms dealing in each of
these different branches, he very correctly
infers that there is competition, and he
knows he enters the market then, more on
an equality with the seller, and under such
circumstances lie does not hesitate to visit
such a market.
Advertising, then, liberally and exten
sively, makes known the house to the pub
lic, and aids in elevating the character of a
place as to its business facilities, and the
amount of its transactions. It attracts buy
ers, and as the customers multiply, the prof
its can be reduced, whereby goods are
cheapened, and this, then, brings in still in
creasing numbers of buyers. If any should
ask whether this article is dictated by sell
interest or not, we should unhesitatingly an
swer that it is — but we feel rejoiced that our
self-interest, in this particular, tends so di
rectly to promote that of others, more than
it does ours, and, also, to elevate the charac
ter of our city, os, a commercial mart, in the
estimation of persons and markets at a dis
tance. If our self-interest proves so imme
diately beneficial to all others, and more
beneficial to theirs than to our own, those
others can certainly afford to contribute lib
erally to the promotion of ours.
UOOl) JOKE ON TOOIIBS.
A correspondent of one of the New York
papers that Senator Tooml>3 made a speech
last summer to a luige crowd of his constitu
ents, which he wound off in the following
ridiculously boastful style:
“Now fellow-citizens, I have responded to
your call. I have fully and clearly explained
u> you my opinions on this subject, and if
there is a man in this vast assembly who
disputes my conclusions or denies my prem
ises, I should like to sae him. Let him rise
up and object to anything I have said if he
can ! I defy oposition ! I challenge debate!”
Having thus challenged the whole world
and the rest of mankind to a forensic encoun
ter, he took his seat with an air of triumph
that Napoleon never manifested, and proba
bly never felt. He was for a moment loud
ly applauded, but ns the applause died away,
a rough looking countryman full six feet
high, in his shirt sleeves, in the outskirts of
the crowd, stretched himself at full length
and said:
‘'Colonel Toombs—l am no orator, and I’m
riot gwine to try to make a speech agin a
great man like you. You remind kic of a I
young mule I was tryin’ to break yesterday
mornin.’
It was a long time before we could git hinui
out n the stable. Just like it was a long be
fore we could git you to speak. After wor
king with him an hour or two we slipped*
lope around Ins neck,and after a while anobV
er one, and I put two nigger fellows to h*fl
the ropes, and 1 opened the stable door, kml
out he cornea a runny and a pitching. He
lared and pitched, and squealed and tore a
round with the niggers a hold of him ffi>r a
while Presently be began to kick and to
squeal, and lie kicked and he squealed, and
tie squealed and he kicked, until everything
was blue ; and his eyes looked like they’d
pop out, and to save my life, Colonel, I
couldn t tell whether he was kicking at Aw
sgucnls, or tgumling at his kicks! Your
speech, Colonel, reminds me of that mule!”
}° r t!ie ot^ler l )f df of a courti n*
there is nothing like an interest ID g
widow. There sas much difference betv een
courting a damsel and an attractive wi dow,
as there is between ciphering i„ addition and
he double rule of three. Courting a girl is
like eating fruit, all very nice as far a s it ex
tends, but doing the amiable to a blue-eyed
bereaved one in black crape, comes under
the head of preserves-rich, pungent, syrupy
Un wraniofc ” *” <■ •
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, FEB. 18, 1859.
Religious
Tie\. J. M. 11. Smith, of Newnan, Ga.,
will priaeh this evening, at the Hall of the
Spiritual Association, at half-pact 7 o’clock.
To Correspondents.
A “Country Blacksmith” on the
Slave Trade question, shall have a place, if
the manuscript is made ready for the press,
bv some other hand than ours. We have
not leisure to re-write the document, which
is necessary to make it pass muster.
Ihe “Mountain of Science,” by a
Lad}% is welcome, and shall have a place in
our next issue. May we not hope that our
fair correspondent will continue her favors
to our Miscellaneous Department ?
JBfc£“ “Mrs. Washington’s Lamentation,”
an old song, on file for examination. Thanks
to our old friend “ W. W.” for the contri
bution.
JfejT’ A series of original Stories by * Bil
ly Fields,’ accepted. The publication there
of \yill commence next week.
Cutlibert Reporter.— T. 11. Byrd,
Esq., Editor of this paper, will be in Macon,
in a few days, for the purpose of soliciting
the patronage of our business men, in the
way of subscription and advertising. As
Cutlibert will very soon be connected with
Macon, by Railway, the wide-awake mer
chant will at once understand the impor
tance of having his business card placed be
fore the people of Randolph and adjacent
counties, in which the Reporter has a large
circulation. See Prospectus in the adver
tising column.
Speech of Hon. J. F. Dowdell.
—We are indebted to the Hon. R. P. Trippe,
for a copy of the able speech of the Honora
ble gentleman from Alabama, delivered in
the House of Congress, on the 2d inst. It
has the ring of the true metal, and is a
sound argument in favor of exalting State
Sovereignty.
Soulli- Western Railroad Cos.
At the Annual election for President and
Directors of this Company for the ensuing
year, held jn this city on February 10th, the
following gentlemen were unanimously re
elected—6so3 shares of Stock being repre
sented :
President—RlCHAßD R. CUYLER.
Directors— John W. Anderson,
William A. Black,
William S. Holt,
T. 31. Furlow,
Rob’t A. Smith.
From the Annual Report of the Compa
ny, we gather the following statistics
Gross earnings for six mos. end'ng Jan. 81, 1359, $319 415 75
Jmuir* period last year, 201*,778 23
Increase*rors earnings, ♦117,657 59
Net earnings for six months, Januaiy, 1839 slß’ S* [ 44
I'let earning* for six months, January, 1858 7#,5 (j 72
Increase net earnings, $112,267 72
hales of c>tton, six months, January 1859, 140,288
bales of cotton, six months, January 1858, 59,409
lucri e ."sols:*
Jlctropolitan (jiimrds.
3Y e arc gratified at being able to announce
that anew 3lilitary corps has just been or
ganized in this city, under the above title,
and composed of the junior young men, not
members of cither of the other volunteer
emi panics. The number already enrolled
is about 60, and measures are in active pro
gress for an early turn-out, duly armed and
equipped, for service in the tented field. The
State will furnish arms, and we trust our
substantial citizens will lend what other aid
may be necessary to perfect an organization
which will add so materially to the militarv
department of our beautiful city.
The following are the Oiaeers elect of the
Metropolitan Guards :
Joel R Griffin, Captain.
“ 0H ? Stubhs, Ist Lieutenant.
Ihos M. Brantley, 2d <<
AV'. C. M. Dunson, 3d “
Tho’s W. Mangham, 4th,—Ensign.
Rob’t Findlay, Jr., Ist Sergeant.
Henry J. Menard, 2d “
Ed. J. Granxiss, 3d “
Joseph E. Wells, Jr., 4th “
Solomon Phillips, sth Col
Ge°; T Rogers, Jr., l st Corporal. ’
Rob t Lightfoot, 2d “
Horace M. Grannis, 3d “
Asa Sherwood, 4th “
Edward Taylor, s t h “
STAFF OFFICERS.
James Sims, Quartermaster.
J. !. Ross, Quartermaster Sergeant.
A\ . AY . Laney, Secretary and Treasurer.
AY o congratulate the Company on the
happy selection they have made for Captain.
The gentleman thus honored has had a mili
tary education at the State Institute at 31a
rietta, and is every way worthy and well
qualified to command the corps. We wish
him and his comrades of the “Guards”
every possible success in their laudable en
terprise. The “old soldiers” had better
look to their laurels !
Newspapers in Georgia. —The
list of Newspapers in Georgia, which we
published last week, from the Southern Re
corder, was incomplete. The following pa
pers were omitted:—
Baptist Messenger, Oxford, Ga,
College Miscellany, “ “
Christian Spiritualist, Macon, “
All of these are as much entitled to a place
in the catalogue of newspapers as the “In
dex. ’ In addition to those named, we have
in Georgia, a respectable number of Month
ly Periodical, chiefly medical—two in Sa
vannah, oivj each in Augusta, Macon and
Atlanta, bf sides two excellent Agricultural
Monthlies, and one Masonic.
Thf; Southern Confederacy.—
M e a* e in receipt of the first number of a
new weekly journal of this title, just com
rneD ced in Atlanta, by Dr. James P. Hamble
ton , late of Chattanooga, Tenn. The paper
is beautifully printed, and as far as we are
at le to judge from one number, promises to
b 3 ably conducted. The politics of the pa
'per are what may be called extreme South
ern Rights; its motto being “Equality with
in the Union or Independence ivithout it." —
M e wish it success.
Maiii Trunk Railroad.—At the
annual meetirg cf the stockholders of this
Company, at Milledgeville, on the 14th inst,
the following gentlemen were elected Di
rectors for the ensuing year:
J. P. Screven, W. B. Hodgson, Hiram
Roberts, John Stoddard, and W. H. Wilt
berger—of Savannah.
C. J. Munn ei lyn—of Decatur.
A. Mclntire and E. R. Young—of Thomas.
J. R. Staple"—of Lowndes.
The Board at Directors being thus elected,
they subsequently held & meeting, when Dr.
J&rnes P. Striven was unanimo. s'y re-elec
ted President.
Godey’M Book.—Thit nonpareil
monthly, for Msrjh, is already ot i our table.
It so abounds with useful and ei itertaining
matter, the last No. always a lii tie better
than its predecessor, that it has become a
house-hold necessity, and no longer subject to
taxation as a luxury , though it cc nstitutes
the latter quite as much as tea ;and cof
fee. For $4 cash, we will send Got ley tod
Uw Citizen for one year. J
South Countrymun.—Rev. c. W.
Howard, the accomplished Editor of this
valuable monthly, was in the city, one day,
last week, and did us the honor of a short
visit. AVe find him to be an enthusiast on
the subject of Agricultural Reform, but not
so much so as to be impracticable. On the
contrary, lie is a thoroughly practical and
scientific Agriculturist, with much of that
sterling good sense and judgment which are
the results of culture and experience. The
“South Countryman,” which has reached
its 2d number, will contain the fruits and
flowers in this department of his life’s la
bors, and will, therefore, prove a valuable
addition to the Agricultural Literature of
the State. Price $1 per annum, payable in
advance. Mr. John K. Harman is the Ge
neral Agent for the publication, in 3lacon
and vicinity. Subscriptions will also be re
ceived at this office.
A Valentine as is a Valentine.
Professor Darby, or his Agent, has sent us
a very pretty A’alentine, setting forth the
merits of his Prophylactic Fluid, as a “cos
metic ” to beautify and sweeten, more sweet
ly, the fair sex. We give the “poetics” of
the document, to show how “some things
can be done as well as others ” :
“THIS DAY to LOA~E we dedicate!
Bright BEAUTY is sweet Cupid’s mate,
And Beauty’s most attractive wiles
Are teeth of pearls ’midst dimpled smiles,
With hands whose whiteness doth compare
With snow-drops, and with lilies fair;
And breath as fragrant as the breeze
O’er Hybla’s vale, a-swarm with bees!
Now DARBY'S FLUID thou shouldst
know,
These winning graces can bestow;
With this thy matchless charms refine,
And thou shalt be 3IY VALENTINE.”
Now, this is poetical, hut not, therefore,
fabulous or fanciful. AVe believe the “ Pro
phylactic Fluid” will do all that is claimed
for it. Try it.
Young men’s Christian Associa
tion.
At the Annual Election for Officers of
this Association for the ensuing year, held
on Alonday last, the following gentlemen
were elected:
Clifford Anderson, President.
Rob’t A. Smith, Vice President.
L. N. Whittle, “ “
S. Boykin, “ “
S. Hunter, “ “
U. Van Giesen, Secretary and Treas’r.
Geo. AV. Hardie,
R. A. Smith, Corresponding Secretary.
R. H. N esi it, A'ice “ “
A. J. Goodexouch, Librarian.
L. AV. Hunt, Assistant “
AVe are requested to a inounce that the
Reading Room of the Asf-ocia.ion is open to
the public every day from 9 o’clock, A. 31.
to 1 P. M: from 3 to 5 P. M., and from 7
to 10 P. M.
“ A Trick of Spiritism.
The female “ trance lecturer” in this city
pretends that she is ignorant of what she
says—that when a subject is given her for
the occasion, that some departed human
spirit takes possession of her, who is master
of the subject. She is careful, however, to
have this subject selected by a committee,
between whom and herself there is of course
a perfect understanding. On Sabbath be
fore last, the subject was the clergy. The
spirit which took possession of her was (as
she claimed) that of John Wesley. He con
fessed his former error in preaching as the
clergy now do; and candidly confessed his
desire to take back all his former preaching?
This was a trick to defeat the worthy effort
of the Rev. Air. Parks, of this city, to res
cue his congregation from the miserable im
posture and satanic delusion of Spiritism,
towards which a few of them seemed to
tend.”
In the “Christian Spiritualist,” of the
15th, we had occasion to remark upon the
malignant and false allegations of Joseph
Walker, Editor of the “Index,” concerning
the Spiritualists of Macon. In that paper
also, we gave place to a letter from 31 rs. Os
trander, replying to some of Walker’s gross
personalities against herself. These articles
are copied into to-day’s “Citizen,” in self
defence, and on the principle of common
justice to a much abused class of our com
munity. It seems, however, that Walker
is incorrigible. In his paper of Wednesday
last, he is out again in the foregoing more
wanton assault upon Mrs Ostrander, boldly
charging her and several respectable gentle
men of Macon and vicinity, with collusion
and trickery in the matter of selecting sub
jects for discussion by the Lecturer! These
gentlemen, moreover, in nearly every in
stance, were selected from the outsiders, or
those not known to he friendly to Spiritual
ism, in the audience! We therefore brand
the allegation of “ trick,” or “ perfect un
derstanding,” between said committee and
the Medium, as a deliberate and wilful lie,
of Joseph AA'alker’s own concocting! This
we know is harsh language, but we know of
none other sufficiently precise and definite to
express the truth of the case, and do not
wish to be misunderstood. And we call up
on those gentlemen to sustain us in putting
the brand of falsehood upon the brow of the
hardened old sinner who has thus abused his
accidental position as a conductor of a sec
tarian press, to vilify and abuse his neigh
bors. The gentlemen of the committees
will pardon us for naming them in this con
nextion, but we see no other way to rebuke
the consummate folly and wickedness of this
clerical Thcresites. Gen. B. 11. Rutherford,
John Hill, Esq., Rev. Thomas Dougherty,
I)r. G. McDonald, Prof. Bankston, Dr. G.
Harrison, and other gentlemen, of 3lacon,
have served on said committees. So have
several of the distinguished gentlemen of the
bar from adjoining counties, who have been
in Macon, for two or three weeks past, in
attendance upon the Supreme Court. Os
these we recollect the following: Judge Per
kins and Mr. Douglas, of Randolph; Capt.
Vason, of Dougherty; C. P. Crawford, of
Lee; Philip Cook, of 3laeon, and Gen. Eli
AY’arren, of Perry. None of these gentle
men profess to be Spiritualists, and of course,
are not biassed in favor of tho doctrines
taught by Mrs. Ostrander. They arc there
fore competent witnesses in the issue before
us—to-wit: the charge of deception or trick
between the Medium and the committees
who selected the subjects propounded, or of
“a perfect understanding, of course,” be
tween the parties beforehand, as to what
subjects should be selected !
Let us bear from you, gentlemen. You
owe it to yourselves to vindicate your charac
ters from the dishonor attempted, indirectly,
to be cast upon you, and you owe it to truth
i and justice to say, whether the lady Lectu
rer, could, by any possibility, have known
anything about the subjects selected, prior
to the announcement of the same the mo
ment before she rose to speak on each occa
sion. That is the single point of enquiry,
and does not involve any opinion as to the
Lectures themselves.
There are several other falsehoods in the
article above quoted, about what the spirit
of John Wesley said, but it is useless to cor
mistakes made with such an abandon of
recklessness and disregard of decency, by a
man convicted of the pious fraud of reju
venating the dilapidated appearance of his
old carcass, by hair dye expedients, in order
to win a young damsel to the embrace of
his antiquated “dry-bones.” We therefore
pass them without further remark.
- -
Southern Whiskey.— A gentleman
of Alabama has placed upon our table a bot
tle of pure, unadulterated Whiskey , warrant
ed to be free from all noxious ingredients,—
It has a pleasant taste, but as we are not a
competent judge of such matters, we would
refer all interested to call on John Massett,
Esq., Mulberry Street, for further particu
lar*. !
From the Christian Syiritualist 15 th inst.
Spiritism.
This is the more appropriate term for the
wild theory of diabolism which for several
weeks past has been invading the morals of
Macon, and outraging Christianity. We
suspect that if tho citizens of 3racon knew
that all the spiritists at the North— we never
knew an exception—arc abolitionists of
the strictest sect, some of them at least would
not so obsequiously be captivated by “traucc
mutterings.”
However, Satan’s race in this direction
will soon he checked. Out of 1,000 spirit
ists the number claimed for our city—only
two hundred can be drummed up or allured
to the meetings by printed cards, perhaps
not one halt of these are spiritists! And
t ten the hot weather is coming on, and as
the quarters cease to jingle, there will he a
ealm-in one month from this date the bub
ble will have burs ted.
The above precious morceau appeared in
the “Index of the 9th inst., and shows the
character of the opposition to Spiritualism
which is now prevalent amongst us. Sorry
are we to say it, but Bro. AY'alker has over
and over again been proven to be a slanderer
and falsifier. He bringeth a railing and
false accusation against his neighbors, and
when convicted of the same he is not the
man to correct his errors, but persists in a
course of defamation which would disgrace
a Hottentot, much less one who professes
the Christian name! Diabolism, Abolition
ism, Infidelity, are the charges deliberately
made against Spiritualism and Spiritualists,
without a particle of evidence to sustain the
miserable libel! Well, we do not know
that it is worth while to take any further
notice of the “Index” or its stupid malig
nancy. If Spiritualism is a “bubble” that
will burst in the course of another lunation,
there is no help for it, but we rather opine
that the Editor will be found among the
false prophets, judging from the deep inter
est which now begins to be taken in the
wonderful manifestations of spirit power, in
all parts of this section. True, the Spiritu
alists of Alacon are comparatively few, and
they are yet too poor in this world’s goods
to build a Church and pay a large salary to
a priestly soul-saver, but we do not see why
they are to blame for doing the best they
can under the circumstances—to hire “an
upper room,” as did the early disciples, and
take up collections as do all the churches, to
defray current expenses! When the infant
Hercules has grown to the stature of a man,
perhaps the “jingle of quarters ” which now
so much disturbs the sensibilities of the
“Index” man, (because, we suppose, they
do not fall into his till,) may he converted
into the rumple of aVoran X! That time
we think is not far off.
But, seriously, we would ask our reverend
defamer, what would become of his system
of religion, if we were to take away from it
its Diabolism ? Is not a belief in a personal
Devil and endless Hell one of the chief pil
lars of its structure ? 3lost assuredly !
AVhy, some of your people even object to
our proposition for a pn yer-meeting to con
vert the Devil as being the worst kind of
profanity —inasmuch as we have thereby
“taken the name of their G<xl, in vain!”—
Are you not crazy in wishing to palm off
your God upon us ? You cannot possibly
do without him; therefore, we say, as the
old clergyman once said to a company of
young men, who asked him, in sport, “how
old was the Devil,” “ Keep your own family
records, gentlemen ”! A\ T e do not desire to
take from you all of the life and power which
your system contains, just yet. Its day of
doom will he soon enough, without any help
from the despised people called Spiritual
ists.
P. S. Since the above was placed in type,
we have received the following conimunioa
tion from 3lrs. Ostrander, in reference to
the assaults of Mr. Walker upon her, to
which we invite the attention of the pub
lic:—
Macon, Feb. 12tli, 1859.
3lr. Editor, —Being one of the few who
insist upon a woman's right to use her “gib
berish,” especially in self-defence, I address
you in order to gain another means of al
lowing the community to judge me, and
whether “male” or female, express “ their
satisfaction,” or otherwise, as they may feel
disposed. In three issues of the “Christian
(?) Index,” that have come under my ob
servation, I have found vituperative notice
of Spiritualism, and some very modest home
tlirusts at myself, which, until now, I have
not regarded save in actual pleasantry, and
now I notice them only that the author may
rest assured I have drunk from the offered
cup. To-day the dregs were reached when
looking over the sheet of Feb. 2d. I casu
ally took up the paper, and with mingled
feelings of astonishment and grief read the
following announcement: —
“ The Spiritism of Macon denies tho in
spiration of the Scriptures, the divinity of
Christ, the existence of Satan, future pun
ishment, is controlled by a female, with a
committee of males to judge of the truthful
ness of her sayings, and announce tiieir
satisfaction to the audiences!! Does not
decency imperatively demand that the name
Christian should never again be used in
connexion with Spiritism ? ”
This followed directly after notices with a
paragraph heading, intended it would seem,
to call direct attention.
“Spiritism” is amply significant for an
appellative, but the friends of “Spiritism”
will at once discover, that the honor of ori
ginality is due to the worthy writer, for
much wore than a name. “The Spiritism
of Macon denies the inspiration of the Scrip
tures,” &c. This assertion is % holly gratu
itous, and original in the Walker Drama,
having nowhere else a birthright, and un
heard of everywhere save with the disciples
and admirers of that classical style of pre
varication. As I am the “female” to whom
allusion is made, and controlling the “Spir
itism of Macon,” (according to the brother's
announcement,) I mily be allowed to know
something of the matter, at least quite as
much as any who affirm from hearsay, and
when I, in my normal character, declare
that every word in the Bible / believe to be
inspired, and when abnormally or under the
controlling influence of spirits, I am made
to utter the same, invariably, of course those
who are clear-sighted enough to discern the
very opposite of what is uttered, either draw
largely, very largely upon their imagina
tion, or it is one of the originalities of ge
nius, and therefore like all of the eccentrici
ties of genius—pardonable!
The mooted question of the “divinity of
Christ,” I freely declare I have faith in,
and I aver that the spirits controlling me
have a like faith in his divinity, although it
is a question replete with misconception,
and ever has been to all Christendom, as
different denominations illustrate. 7am
willing to accept and reverence the divinity ,
and leave the humanity of the manifestation
to immersion —forsooth—as it needs some
method of purification to wash awav the
long-accumulating cobwebs of ignorance
and rank superstition, begotten in igno
rance, which have so long concealed the
actual divinity of the Christ principle, in
tended by God and angels to show “the
way, and the truth, and the life”; and all
true souls will rejoicingly express “ their
satisfaction,” not only “to the audience” j
about them when called upon, but to the
wide world, when God, and Christ, and the
Holy Ghost are consistently and understand
ingly blended in a Trinity, compatible with
the character of Him who is “the Alpha
and Omega.”
“ The existence of Satan” is a mirth-pro
yoking foftture in this logical exposition of >
“ S P ,riti sm of Macon,” introduced
seem to advertise the true banner
which some “ fight the good fi sh *
Either there are two principle* of-
- or there is one absolute Soverei’ “ ‘ S ' ’
ven and earth. Spiritualism
“Spiritism,” advocates the latter *
its professors, (or the
at least,) is bold enough to m,- ■'° nr ’
God has dominion orer Satrni %
7 * it *£2"*=
dragon of theology j,
sand years,” and might, were i‘ „ ll ’
evidences from pulpit and preße
roams at large, (in Macon,)
“ deceive the very elect ”! ? 8,1,1 6
that the errors and
are indelibly affixing their si
eternity, leaving their foot-print “',
is sufficient to inspire laborers u i.t
to work for the good of hu m&nitv
the day lasts! God help me to ia* ” ‘
duty, faithfully. P t ° P^ !:
The last sally from one “ gpCfll , n „
having authority,” congratulates 2*
cally, those within the fold,
assures them “the bubble will ‘
for hot weather a PP roaches- ai „, ‘
are growing scarce,” but I have a* 1
in the potency of Truth than to
human oracle on this wise Rai
regard, alike with him, for
ol the church, I will su ww ,
theology has devised an instant*,,
clflc for sin or a y violation of V
being, whether it he moral or spirit, ?
in reposing upon that assurance 1’
will, when “this mortal shall have ”
immortality,” discover a bubble truif ’
bursting will reveal an extent of ‘•futur 7*
ishment” beyond calculation; and
ters” will he scarce enough by divjr 1
date, until is “ paid the uttermost w**
What though in confident zeal the
name is spoken; it will avail noting
“faith without works is dead/’ *
though in prayerful earnestness U
, “ in % na mc we have done many 2
works”; the answer will sink deor
their inmost consciousness, “ I never t
ye”!—and when is essayed yet another,
tion, then “imperatively will bedenj
the Spiritism of the Christian name, *
worshiped in name only.
I have no desire to remark espeti^, ,
the strictly personal attacks of i>,
appearing from time to time, cloak.,;
sectarian slang. My “ feminine giU,
prefer reserving intact for the bettr
those who employ it in presenting
those who can relish such as the - ;
glory of religion. Should a ra:i . .
gion be given to enquirers by a ■InK. SJ
preacher,” some, who refuse vie.,,
preaching, (very “sensibly,” I thinks
times,) will appreciate it perhaps,
spect the motive that urges meb. ‘|
public,—the sincerity too that plead.-;r
“abolition” of ignorance and inn J
and the speedy establishment of th
tian “Spiritism” which proclaim
tidings of great joy, which shall iJ
people.” Jam not prepared to J
angel-hreathed communication, of iJ
past, and the present, savors of “dial j
and I will still look heavenward f:|
loving assurances of “ peace on ear::
good will to man.”
Mrs. E. A. OSTRAXDeJ
Os Castleton, Yen,!
“ Everett writes for it.”...
following is a tolerably fair spec-inn
style and grammatical construction!
articles published in the pajter forwh;d|
Everett writes :
“ The sight that so disturbed t: J
was that of another troop, of- j
eighty horsemen, each carrying -1
aloose before him on the erujipr, a
ready for instant service, who werei-J
down the cross roads at a swift, v, J
trot.”
“ It was the Free Rangers!”
Later from Europfl
ARRIA'AL OF THE STEAMER AiJ
Halifax, Feb. 25.—The steam# 1
ca arrived last night with Liverpool J
Saturday, January 29th.
Commercial Yew*. I
Liverpool Cotton Alauket.—TiniJ
Cotton for the week reached 40,0’• 1
which speculators took 1000 nJ enl
3500 bales. All qualities had decliaß
and particularly Uplands. Tt# dechl
caused in consequence of the mJ
receipts in the United States and thiJ
arrita > of cotton vessels during tf’fl
Ttie s Jes on Friday were 6,000 bales o
exporters and speculators took 1 ■
and the market closed dull.
Fair Orleans 7 j-d Mid. Orleans, j
Fair 3lobileg 7 Mid. Mobiles I
Fair Uplands. Gll-16 Mill Uplands. I
The stock of Cotton in Liverpool |
000, of which 365,000 bales were Tfl
Liverpool General M.irkcts-w
stuffs were dull. Wheat had deciiMM
2d. Provisions were steady.
State of Trade.— Manchester im
were unfavorable, and the trade c'osH
It was believed that for India good ‘fl
would accept easier rates.
Havre Cotton Alaeket.— The
week were 10,000 bales. Orleans
dinarie opened firm at 98 franc; ■
market closed with a declining ttW
The stock is 155,000 bales.
London Money Market.—ln
circulars money is reported decide:!®
stringent, and by others reported i-®
and unchanged. Consols 95#.
Latest.— Liverpool, Saturday ■
Jan. 29.—Sales of Cotton to-dsy > ■ 1
Holders were offering freely, butK ; ®
ing sales.
General News-
War rumors continue to circuia’
Paris letters speak of great
warlike preparations, and there
general impression that a momec
had approached. The stocks r- ;
curities on the Bourse were still ff?
tive and fluctuating.
England was exerting berseii “
peace, and it is believed that
wili determine the question of p- f
France had forbidden immigrate ,
ing oil the Eastern coast of Africa 30 -
agascar.
A Daguerreotype-—R e 1
“pen and ink sketch ” of a dif'r'’
presents so complete a veri-simil ,ta!f
of our cotemporaries, not a thou;s>
from Macon, that we could not for
ing the picture a place in our ff&l
Dignity. —The editor of the 1
dealer is not fond of dignified pe •
the term is generally accepted. ‘ .
gest pudding-head be ever kne*p i
bowed spectacles, and was dign -
laughed, and said “jokes was (
dignity,” quoth, said ~
thing. It swells in one-horse -a
uncooked dried applies wd b
them ia the shape of frizzled upP
cockish struts and inked finger
sometimes have it They de-‘*
test of truisms in the gravest *•;
sit as though they were *P', ■!
benches. They print ex , lT r
church’—they walk soberly
in the same old beaten path.
same old threadbare expressing
to day, from year to year. ‘ * „ t
nified and starch-stiffed
murder is ‘an unfortunateoec
details being too revolting for.V' m*
If a m m lies they say he is
a wrong impression. They & . o pja<
a wrong impression. They
state anything posit
The glorious sunshine o. < u
into their souls. They ® eel1 ’
newspaper as they would , “ |fl
grave matter —and so move “ ?n tlr
gubriously forward, treading y f •
decayed eggs of humbug an
chewing the musical side ol M I
I pn&tipg ! P a P e ?*