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Eloqnence and Oratory.
WEBSTER, CLAY AND CALHOUN.
Dr. Halsey, in a late treaties on ‘‘Elo
quence and Oratory, give3 a discriminating
analysis of Eloquence as made up of four
elements: 1. The element of superior knowl
edge and intellectual power in the orator—
the eloquence of pure reason and argument.
2. The element of power which springs from
a refined taste, a vivid imagination and great
command of language—it may be called the
eloquence of Taste and Imagination. The
third element is that of earnestness, enthu
siasm, and deep emotion in the Speaker—
this may be called the eloquence of sympa
thy and the passions. The fourth is the elo
quence of graceful delivery, including every
thing that pertains to the person, manner,
tone, look and gestuie of the speaker—this
may be called the eloquence of Action and
the Voice; of which Garrick may be taken
as the highest type. Clearly all the=e quali
ties met in Cicero and Demosthenes. The
author then proceeds to give illustrations of
the subject, in accordance with the above
analysis. We quote that portion referring to
our own great Orators — VS ebster, Clay and
Calhoun:
“ We have seen a striking illustration of
this diversity of gifts, in that reniarkalle
triumvirate, whose eloquence adorned our
national Senate lor a quarter of a century,
whose statesmanship filled the world with its
fame, and whose loss so recently and so
nearly together, our country has been called
to deplore. Webster, Clay and Calhoun are
beyond all comparison the greatest states
men our country has produced in the 19th
century, and they take their rightful place
also among3t the greatest forensic orators
and parliamentary debaters in the world.—
And so nearly balanced were their abilities,
that it is almost impossible to decide tire
point of superiority, and say who made the
deepest impression on the men of his gener
ation. There can be no question as to one
point—whose.influence will be the greater
on posterity—because that is determined by
their writings. Now, each of these eminent
men possessed in some degree, all these es
sential elements of eloquence. And yet
how different—how utterly dissimilar were
their powers of oratory —how peculiar to
each, how inimitable to any other, and how
characteristic of the man was his own mode
of speech! They did not differ fiom their
fellow men more widely than they differed
from each other. Perhaps of no three men
in America, could it be said more truly, than
of these, that as a man and orator, he was
“sui generis”—forming, an order by him
self
Mr. Calhoun’s eloquence was the eloquence
of intellect and argument—pure, clear orig
inal thought, flowing from one of theacutest
intellects, combined, at the same time, with
an energy of will, a depth and earnestness
of emotion, a high wrought enthusiasm, and
a conviction within, that always seemed
bent on carrying its purpose in despite of all
opposition. He was but little aided by the
imagination, and almost unindebted to the
outward graces of delivery, saving such as
necessarily arose from a commanding person,
an eye ever burning with the fires of genius,
and & voice indicative of the utmost decision
and energy. But it was a combination of
the first two characteristics—intellectual
power and enthusiastic passion—possessed
in a pre-eminent degree, that gav*; him his
influence as an orator, and hi 9 greatness as a
statesman. We may take him as the repre
sentative and the type of the eloquence of
Intellect and Enthusiasm.
3lr. Webster’s was also the eloquence of
Intellect and Argument, as massive and com
prehensive as that c 4 his great compeer, but
at the same time aided by a taste as classical
as Cicero’s, and an imagination almost as ex
uberant as Burke's; an eloquence, too, ut
tered with all the force that an imposing
person, a powerful voice, and an energetic
delivery could give; hot withal so stately,
so magnificent, so coldly brilliant, that it did
not always touch the heart and move the
passions, except on extraordinary occasions,
when the circumstances themselves aided
the speaker’s appeal. He possessed three of
the elements of a great orator in high per
fection, and the fourth to some extent. Hi*
great power lay in his extraordinary combi
nation of argument, taste and imagination.
His eloquence is eloquence to be read as well
as heard. His intellect was like the clear
sky of a winter’s night, when all the stars of
the firmament are out; and we fancy every
star is a gem of thought, a diamond of the
mind. We take him as the exponent of the
eloquence of Reason and Imagination.
Mr. Clay's eloquence was pre-eminently
that of the feelings and passions. Feeling
deeply himself, he was a perfect master of
all those naturd arts of delivery which en
abled him, at will to move and control the
sympathies of his hearers. With an inten
sity of earnestness, which gave him she as
pect of one born to command, and with en
thusiasm which filled and fired hi* soul, he
needed not the slow processes of argument,
nor the aids of the imagination and classic
diction, to effect his object, but taking the
most direct and effective way of reaching
the heart—that is, the short cut through the
door of its sympathies and passions—he car
ried the citadel first by stratagem and then
by storm. He was not wanting in powers
of reasoning nor in flights of the imagination,
but would not depend on these. He had
more effective artillery, nis great powers
a* an orator, lay not in the eloquence of in
tellect and argument, nor in that of taste
and imagination, but in the burning elo
quence of a soul on fire, giving utterance to
itself with those matchless graces of deliv
ery, that charm of a personal presence, that
magic of a look, that pointing of a fibger.
that clarion like or thunder tone of the.
voice, which it is impossible, for any one
who heard him, to believe could have been
surpassed by Demosthenes. In this last
characteristic he was unlike both his great
compeers, and much more, resembled Patrick
Henry. We take him. theD. as the repre
sentative of the eloquence of action and de
livery, combined with enthusiasm and the
passion?.
A Pretty Conceit.— We saw yesterday,
ia the parlor of a friend, a very beautiful
conceit It is, of course, the fancy of a lady,
and consists of she burr of a pine tree plac
ed in a wine glass halt full of water, and
from between the different layers of the
burr is shooting forth green blades, bright
beautiful and refreshing. For a link* thing,
we have seen nothing that so pleased us with
il9 beauty and novelty. And the secret is
this: the burr was found dried and opened;
the ditlerent circles weie sprinkled wdh
grass seed, *nd it was placed in a wineglass,
and water in as above. In a few days the
water and nourishment gave the burr life
and health, the different drc’ei closed and
| uned within themselves the grass seed, and
’ a _ ew more gave to the seed also life,
growth, and now a pyramid of
f omh relieved by the
■ ombre hue of lie butr, the result-*
pretty and novel a parlor ornament as we
have for a long while seen. We do not
know whether the idea was ordinal with
she lady, but we do know that its success is
bdtiifuL -Troy Tim*.
Gen. Joseph Laue.
The admission of Oregon into the Union
as a State remarks the Boston Courier, has
brought into the U. S. Senate a very remark
able man, in the person of Gen. Joseph Lane.
He was born in the State of Kentucky, and
is now about fifty-five years old. In his
early youth he moved to Indisna, and com
menced work a3 a wood-cutter on the Mis
sissippi. He sold his wood for a long time,
at the rate of seventy-five cents per eord, to
be used on the steamers. By industry end
persevreance, he became at length the
owner of a flat boat, and continued river
navigation with that species of water craft
until he had accumulated money enough to
b U y a farm in Indiana, which he cultivated
for twenty years, during which he was re
peatedly elected a member of the Legisla
ture of that State. Upon the breaking out
of the Mexican war he was appointed a
Brigadier General. He was in the thickest
of the fight at Buena Vista, where he was
severely wounded, and where he fought
with so much galantrv, not to say despera
tion, in that terrible conflict, as to earn and
receive the sobriquet of the ‘Marion’ of the
Mexican war.
Soon after his return from Mexico, he was
ordered to the command of a military force to
sobdne the Indians on the Pacific coast—
This he effected at great peril, having been,
at one time,dangerously and frightfully woun
ded in a bloody engagement with those hos
tile savages.
As soon as Oregon was organized as a Ter
ritory Gen. Lane was appointed her Govern
or, and he has the honor of having delivered
the first message to the first Legislative as
sembly ever convened west of the Rocky
Mountains. He resigned the office of Gov
ernor only to accept that of delegate to Con
gress, which latter place he has held ever
since. He will now go into the United
States Senate, having been elected by the
Legislature of the State of Oregon.
In the short speech of Seiator Douglas,
in response to the Oregonians, who called on
him after the passage of the Oregon bill, we
find the following:
“ We must repudiate and reject that fatal
heresy, lately proclaimed, that this govern
ment cannot endure as our forefathers made
it, divided into free and slave States. Let
the principle of popular sovereignty, States
Rights, and the Federal Constitution, be car
ried out in good faith, and this Confederacy
wiil extend over the whole continent, and
endure forever, each State having just such
institutions and local regulations as it desires,
even if no two of them are precisely alike.
Oregon is another exemplification of this
principle. The admission of anew State
under circumstances so au-picious, and with
a history of which our citizens are so proud,
is a just subject of congratulation, and I re
new my thanks to you for remembering me
of this interesting occasion, and giving me
the privilege cf mingling my felicitation with
yours.
-ffi*** I>lt—The Southern Recorder, of
the 22d, says, that Miss Dix, of world wide
note for her benevolence und practical phil
anthropy in the alleviation of suffering hu
manity, has lately been in our midst. She
spent about a week with Dr. Green, the able
Physician and efficient Superintendent of
our Lunatfc Asylum. She expressed her
self greatly pleased at the noble effort of the
State for the relief of this class of unfortu
nates. The building, with its internal ar
rangements, she considers a model—the very
best in the Southern States, and compares
favorably with any in the Union. She
agrees with the other friends of the institu
tion, that all it now lacks is suitable furni
turt?. outside enclosure and decoration.—
Sources of amusement are essential to the re
covery of the patient, and these must be fur
nished.
To Ceuviis Takers.
Idiot* and Epileptics. —Dr. Green, the
very efficient Superintendent of the State
Lunatic Asylum, has issued a card to the
census-takers of the various counties, the
object of wh : ch we cheerfully aid by giving
it the benefit of our circulation. He says:
“ A material omission cxisls in the law,
providing for and regulating the taking of
the Census. It is not required that a care
ful account should be taken of the number
of idiots and epileptics in the State ; two of
the clauses, who, under the law, are entitled
to admission to this institution, and the num
ber of whom, in the State, it is, for many
important reasons, very desirable, accurately
to ascertain. In the absence of any legal re
quirement on this point, (the result, doubt
less, of oversight alone.) we have supposed
that upon being solicited to do so, the cen
sus takers would also furnish this informa
tion. It is therefore most respectfully re
quested of those gentlemen, that they will
add to their forms a column for idiots and
another for epileptics, (lunatics being em
braced in the law) and take careful account
of the number of such persons. The idiot
is an individual who has been the subject of
mental imbecility, from birth, the epileptic,
one who has been the subject of spasms or
convulsions for some length of time; occur
ring sometimes at regular, and again at un
certain intervals, in which the person falls
suddenly and is temporarily deprived of all
sense 1 have had an interview with his
Excellency the Governor upon this subject,
who fully concurs in the necessity and pro
priety of the foregoing request A geneial
compliance with which, will materially oro
n.ole :he public interest”
Perils or Skating. —A young man in
Boston, desirous of the company of a young
lady, during the skating carnival, sent her a
note inviting her to accompany him. They
met at an appointed rendezvous, when the
young lady informed her gallant that she
had no skates. The remark—“pray select
a pair,” was ready as the utmost gallantry
could require, and the shopkeeper according
ly displayed a fine pair seven dollar and a
half article, and was awarded only by a high
bred stare cf astonishment on the part of
the lady, and the curt inquiry “have you
no better ones?” “Certainly, madam,”
said the obliging salesman, as he unrolled a
pair of twenty-live dollar runners and laid
them l>efore the counter. “Ah! those will
answer nicely ; I will keep these, wouldn't
you?’ said she, with a g'ance at her once
happy but now dumb-foun led friend. “By
—by all means,” came fluttering forth fiom
the young gent, as with an odd grimace the
money was planked, and the twain left for
their sport.
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A Rich Editor. —The Editor of the Pra
irie News, published at Okalona, Miss, feels
ri:h, and thus lets himse'f off on somebody
who called him [*oor :•
He Poor ? —A few days since someone
had the hai dihood to call us “ Poor Editors!”
We poor ? No sir e-e, sorrel tail; Dot by a
jug full, we aint Why. we have a good
hhrary (made up for the most part of patent
office reports and Kansas speeches,) a double
barreled pistol, (but ‘twont stand reared
back,) six suits of dothe*, fourteen shirts, a
cat, a bull pup, a game rooster, a gold watch,
seventy five cents in clean cash, and no poor
kin, and are going to have a pretty wife and
—soon as possible, own a town lot! Talk
about being poor!
Georgia Medical College. —This institu
t vr,s;tra edat Augu-ta,graduate and fifty-e ght
students at its commencement, Tuesday last.
1 he number of students in attendance upon
the course ol lecture* which have just closed,
wait ns hundred and fifty; of whom nine
ty-seven were from Georgia; twenty-one
fiom Alabama; twenty-six from South
Carolina; two from Florida : one from Ten
nessee; one Irom North Carolina; one from
Texas; and one from Mississippi.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Errors Corrected.
Mr. Editor, —In the publication of my
reply to “ Black Hawk,” a few mis-prints
were committed, which make me appear
rather ridiculous as a writer. I heartily ac
quit the printer of every blame; for he has
deciphered my wretched manuscript with
surprising success. The corrections which
I propose, will relieve the writer of much
ridicule; and this confession of my poor
penmanship exculpates the printer.
Please correct the mistakes as follows :
For “convicted j>edagogue,” read “ conceited
pedagogue.” Instead of “ challenge for the
proof,” read “demand the proof.” “Beau
tiful exponent,” should be “boastful expo
nent.” For “greater economy,” read “great
er accuracy “ Old systems, &c., teach,”
rather than “ teaches.” “ Nouns ending in
“/ and fi, ’’ not “fi and/.”.
There are a few other errors; but these
are too inconsiderable to deserve correction.
H. G. Tcrnkr.
For the Georgia Citizen.
Reply to 11. G. Turner.
Dr. Andrews, —In reply to the scurril
ous article to be found in the “Citizen”
from one 11. G. Turner, I have this to say :
that I am not so fond of notoriety as he
seems to be, nor have I the least desire to
bid so liberally for the contempt and derision
of an intelligent public; but I have often
heard it said that the idol of a fool’s heart is
to see his name in print. The files of the
“ Citizen,” for the year ’55, will show that
“Liberty Hill” had an existence then; but
what has this to do w T ith the issue between
us ? though it is the common resort of little
minds and narrow souls to strive to discredit
an opponent, whom they are unable to an
swer. What I have said of Prof. Morris’
System of Grammar, has not been in a cor
ner; and when this understrapper Turner
stated that I “at first professed the most
profound admiration of the system,” he ut
tered a base slander. What! Ibow T at the
feet of the Prof., &c. ? I had “rather be a
dog, and bay the moon.” The charge is
wilfully false, come from what source it
may, and no one knows it better than the
Prof, himself; for I stated to him my ob
jections the first time I heard him lecture,
even before I had seen his hook. Further
notice of this man “ Turner” is out of the
question, because I consider that his lan
guage and style plainly mark the buffoon
and braggart, and with such I do not intend
to engage.
To the Grammar once more. I repeat
that every charge that I have alleged against
the Grammar, I have made in the presence
of Prof. Morris, and dared him to defend.
As before stated, it is replete with errors,
contradictions and absurdities, containing
exploded theories from obsolete authors.—
Let the reader examine, and he ’will find
that Cordell, Brightland, Dalton, and a host
of others have taken, years ago, the very
same positions to he found in the System of
Morris, and for which he claims so much
credit. In fact, take all the entire original
matter in his Grammar, and it is just what
no sensible man would or could write.
This last writer claims that Prof. Morris
“has relieved our Grammar of a great enor
mity” in regard to forming the plural of
nouns ending in “f,” or “fe.” How they
all boat of this great improvement! and at
the same time they know that it is almost
word for word from “G. Brown.” Won
derful discovery!
I have further stated that there is not a
single part of speech properly discussed in
the Grammar; for instance, Morris says,
that a “noun is the same of any person or
other animal.” I suppose, then, Prof. D
or any other long-eared animal may defend
this beautiful system. I have also stated
that Prof. Morris was not capable of using
language proper to convey the meaning in
tended by him ; for on page 15 he says,
speaking of how easy it was to learn his sys
tem, that “at least this task has been accom
plished time and again for eight years by
many others as well as the author.” Now,
docs the “author” have to learn it “time
and again”? And on page 69 he makes
himself say that he is “older than Murray’s
Grammar, and believed implicitly by all
the old grannies in the land.” This term
* grannies ” is quite a favorite with the
Prof.; how well it suits his noble mind! —
It is folly to blame the “ Printer,” for they
sometimes alter, but seldom coin words
which are not in the manuscript. I have yet
to learn that “damsel,” maiden, have no cor
responding masculine ; for damsel, youth—
for maiden, young-man. It is quite conven
ient to blame the “ Printer,” but the facts
are too plain. On page 15, “ Participles are
derived from Verbs, and partake also of the
nature of descriptives,” &c.; then on page
CO, he says, “ Written is not a verb, neither
is it any part of a verb ”; again, on page
34, “Words have three persons.” Pray
tell me, have all words three persons?—
“Foolishly” is a word; has it three per
sons ? Thus it is throughout the book. In
one place he says, “Participles are so called
because they partake of the nature of verbs
and descriptives”; then in another he con
tradicts this. On page 103 he says that he
“has instructed more Pupils of all sexes,
than any other Teacher in the world.”—
How many sexes are there?
When Prof. M. was in this section, he
was asked by a gentleman, and scholar too,
if he authorized the expression, “It is me.”
He said he did, because he considered all
verbs active, and govern objects. If it is
correct to say, “it is me,” we must say, “it
is him,” “who is him?” and “who is her?”
Morris knows that I charged these expres
sions upon him, and he tried to defend
them; hut enough. Now for the “knife
story.” Page 108, I find this sentence : “If
the knife did nothing, it would not remain
long on the table,” Ac. Now I ask, if it will
not remain on the table, where does it go ?
It must get off. And again, “If the knife
(i. e. on the table) did not do something, its
owner would have some trouble to find it.”—
Once more, page 9, the Prof, says, “ As th<x,
same word cannot stand before, and in the
place of another at the same time ”; on page
182, “What is first used as a definitive to
point out money, secondly, what is used as a
pronoun standing for money, and subject to
was.” The sentence is, “What money he 1
had was taken away.” Now for a man to
claim that he has corrected the errors to be
found in the old Grammars, and then say
that what is the subject of was, is simply
ridiculous. Ye fawning sycophants, tell me
how you dispose of the word “money.”
These “ Morrisitcs” harp a good deal up
on the fact that Prof. Morris is a Southern
man, and that this System is a “Southern
bantling.” Yes, the Prof, himself harped
upon this (as he considered) fortunate fact;
hut this is all gammon. Did he not go to
Fowler & Wells, “New York,” to have his
silly book puffed ? And oh! where did he
have his printing done? At the North—
paid his money to the Yankees. Yet he is
a Southern man, and speaks very contempt
ibly of the “ Yankees.” Such trickery needs
only to be exposed to be despised.
.In conclusion, I claim that I have made
good every charge which I have alleged
against “ Morris’s System of Grammar,”
and if I have only succeeded in directing
the attention of those who may be interest
ed, to the examination of the System, then
I shall be amply repaid.
’ BLACK HAWK.
Spurgeon and Ilia §IO,OOO Offer:
Wlio is the Speculator ?
New York, Feb. 1, 1859.—The news by
the last steamer tells us that the Rev. Mr.
Spurgeon has had an offer of ten thousand
dollars to preach a certain number of nights
in the Academy of Music in this city. The
true state of the case is probably this: Rev.
Mr. Corey, of the E ghtcenth-street Baptist
Church, is now in Europe. It was known
before he left that it was his intention to
induce Mr. Spurgeon to exchange pulpits
with him, or at least to visit New York and
preach in the Academy of Music, and allow
Mr. Corey to fill his place in the home-field
of the modern Whitfield. How many per
sons are concerned in this movement are
unknown. But rumor has it that Mr. Corey
is to fill the Academy of Music at so much
per head, and to make up the round sum of
ten thousand dollars to pay the star preach
e'. Mr. Corey has had 6ome experience as
a speculator, He built a church on twelfth
street which was sold to the Jews.
He built an elegant one after the order of
the Madeline at Paris, in the aristocratic
portion of that aristocratic street, the Fifth
Avenue. This was sold to the Episcopali
ans. His congregation, not large, now oc
cupy the Church built by the Episcopalians
on Eighteenth street. And no one has
learned that he has made much money, or
gained much influence by all these specula
tions. Now, following in the wake of
Messrs. Barnura and Ullman, he has gone
abroad in search of the great star of the old
world, and intends to show him up to the
good people of this new world. Should
Spurgeon visit America as a Minister of the
Gospel, be will tie received with open arms.
But if he should come as a paid star, preach
ing as Grisi and Mario sing and play, as Pic
colomini attracts, for immense sums of mo
ney, the public gape and stare, and the gold
hung around his neck, the SIO,OOO blazing
on his forehead would sink the Minister and
soil his fair fame beyond redemption.—Bos
ton Journal.
If a soul thou wouldst redeem,
And lead a lost one back to God; —
Wouldst thou a guardian-angel seem
To one who long in guilt hath trod, —
Go kindly to him—take his hand
With gentlest words within thine own,
And by his side a brother stand,
Till all the demons thou dethrone.
31 rs. Sawj^er.
Miss Dix and flic State Lunatic
Asylum.
It having been made known that Miss
Dix, the distinguished Philanthropist, whose
life is most heroically devoted to ministering
to the suffering of the afflicted and destitute,
was in town, and would be glad of an op
portunity of presenting to the citizens of
Macon, as she has recently done those of
Augusta, Savannah, and other places in
Georgia, her views in regard to ameliorating
the condition, enhancing the comforts, and
improving the prospects of cure of the un
fortunate inmates of the State Lunatic Asy
lum, near Milledgeviflp, at 4 o’clock on Sat
urday evening, the 26th inst., a number of
ladies and gentlemen assembled in the par
lor of the Lanier House, and organized by
inviting Judge E. A. Nisbet to pieside, and
requesting Dr. Nottingham to act as Secre
tary.
In a quiet, lady like and conversational
manner, Miss Dix engaged the most pro
found attention of her auditors for an hour
and a half, or more, with her views of In
sanity, and the best modes—moral and phys
ical—of curing it. Having reviewed much
of what she had observed, and been instru
mental in accomplishing in her glorious
mission, in both this country and in
Europe, in the most handsomely endowed
and best appointed Insane Institutions, she
suggested in reference to the Georgia Asy
lum, that whilst our State Government had
been very generous in voting liberal appro
priations for the construction of suitable
building?, and supplying in the person of the
worthy Superintendent an efficient Medical
Officer, with a staff of reliable subordinates,
still that much might be done by individual
benevolence, in beautifying and adorn
ing the grounds; in furnishing healthy phys
ical recreation; in affording innocent games
of amusement, and in providing Books, Maps,
Charts, and other works of art and taste, as
well as objects of Natural History, that
would give an increased air of comfort to
the Establishment, serve to relieve the bare
walls of dormitories, halls and Corridors, of
their monotony, dreariness and gloom; grat
ify the tastes, promote the happiness, and
interest, amuse and iustruotthe unfortunates
who there have their habitation—all being
highly conducive to their ultimate recovery
most instructively illustrating her positions
by apposite illustrations, and enforcing her
opinions by deductions from politico-econom
cal considerations, as well as by the most
touching appeals to the sympathies of hu
manity. She was responded to by Dr. J.
Mercer Green, moving the appointment of
the following gentlemen, viz: Rev. J. Blake
ly Smi h, Rev. Samuel Boykin, Dr. J. Dick
son Smith, Mr. L. N. Whittle and Mr. Sam
uel Hunter, as a committee to canvass the
city and solicit subscriptions to be forward
ed to the Superintendent and Trustees of the
Asylum, to be used in connection with funds
raised by similar means at other points in
the State, for the purpose designated by Miss
Dix.
These gentlemen are now engaged in the
discharge of the duty assigned them, and it
is hoped that our citizens will respond free
and liberally to the object so worthy of their
benevolence.
C. B. Nottingham, Sec’y.
Slide Press ]
Sectarian Appeal. —The Christian Index
published at Macon, counsels the Baptists of
the South not to send their sons to the Uni
versity of Virginia to be educated. The
reason assigned is, that it has become a sec
tarian institution under the teachings of the
Professor of Moral Philosophy, Dr. McGuf
fey, who is a Presbyteiiau.
We bc'ieve this allegation is unjust, and
hope it will not be heeded by our Baptist
friends. We are familiar with the govern
ment of the University, and caunot see how
sectarianism can get a foothold in the insti
tution. It is conducted on the most catho
lic principles, and if there is aoy objection to
the school at all on this score, it is that too
few religious restraints are thrown around
the pupils.— Sav. Republican.
A Goon llit. —Senator Thompson, of Ken
tucky, concluded a most eloquent and wit
ty speech, in opposition to the Buchanan-
Slidell thirty million humbug, on Wednesday
last, with the following hit at the principles
and practices of the Democratic party:
“Cuba, however, might do for a platform.
Here Mr. Thompson, addressing himself di
rectly to Mr. Seward, said he would volun
teer him a piece of advice that would be
useful if he came to be President. As far as
the noise and laughter permitted our reporter
to hear, he understood Mr. Thompson, iron
ically, to advise Mr. Seward to follow the ex
ample of other Presidents—to throw down
the ladder when it had placed him in power.
There was always some alternative to cast it
aside. _JThe advice was, “Don’t stand on the
platform when the cars are in motion” (Roars
of laughter) Mr. Thomson finished by adopt
ing an inspiration of Daniel Webster, that
‘God would so shape our ends as to result
in good.’”
Catholicism in the United States. —The
Metropolitan Catholic Almanac, for 1859,
states that in 1808, there were in the United
States 2 bishops, G 4 priests, and 80 church
es, that is, church edifices. Ten years later
there were 10 bishops, 232 priests, find 230
churches. At the close of the next decade
there were 17 bishops, 432 priests, 907
churches. At the present time there are 45
bishops, 2,108 priests, and 2,324 churches.—
The compilers of the Almanac retrain from
estimating the Catholic population of the
United States, on account of the “ intrinsic
difficulties” which the subject presents; but
an estimate of 800 members to each church
would give 1,867,200 as the Catholic popu
lation of the United States.
Tiie Last of the Seminolhs. —The steamer
Magnolia arrived at New Orleans, Feb. 21
from Florida, with Major Rector, and seven
tyone Seminoles, bound to the Indian Terri
tory West, of the Arkansas These Indians
are the I*H of the tribe, and all appear in
good health and spirits.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, MARciT47IBS9.
To Correspondents.
J. H. J.—Fort Gaines. The money
sent paid to February 1,1869. Another re
mittance of $2 60 will carry you to March
25, 1860.
figy J. C. R.— Marshallville. Four dol
lars and seventy-five cents will pay to March
15,1860.
New Advertisements.
ty W. W. Parker & Cos., have “ high
ly important information for the Ladies.”
Let them take due notice.
Jgy Rev. J. W. Burke offers Stephens’
Imported Inks, in earthen bottles. We
have tried this fluid and find it good.
Dawson & Kibbee, Attorneys and
Counsellors ae Law, Hawkinsvilli and Yi
| enna, offer their services to the public, in
‘the line of their profession.
H. E. Hoyt & Cos., Baltimore, are
out with their catalogue of useful, ornamen
tal, and valuable Gifts, in connection wtth
their Great Southern Gift Book Store.
Hfrgr Ross, Coleman & Ross present their
compliments to the Ladies, and solicit of
them an examination of their new stock of
elegant Spring Goods.
jjgy Messrs. Bostick & Kein are also on
hand, with a very rich assortment of fash
ionable and beautiful Merchandize, which
they will take great pleasure in displaying
to their numerous customers.
Si as“ Matt Peel’s Campbells appear again
to-night, at Ralston’s Hall. The bare an
nouncement is sufficient to fill the house,
though the weather is unfavorable.
J3F“ Let everybody go to spe Mr. Wil
liams’ Panorama of the Bible, now on exhi
bition at Concert Hall. It is a very superi
or painting, and every reader of the Bible
will be gratified at its graphic and gorgeous
delineations of the more prominent scenes
of the Old Testament History, which are re
presented on canvass.
Commencement Exercises
AT THK
Reform Medical College, Macon, Ga.,
March Ist, 1859.
On Tuesday last, the Annual Commence
ment of the Southern Botanico-Medical Col
lege took place in this city, in the following
order:—
Ist, Prayer by Rev. J. W. Burke.
2d, Music by the Band.
3d, Address to the Ist Course Students, by
W. S. Barton, of South'Carolina; elegantly
written and well delivered—frequently in
terrupted by applause.
4th, Music.
sth, Address to the Graduating Class, by
Win. A. Russell, of Alabama; a sound and
practical address.
6th, Music Conferring Degrees upon
forty, by Prof. L. Bankston.
7th, Music.
Bth, Valedictory Address on the part of
the Faculty to the Graduating Class, by
Prof. M. S. Thomas; sound sense and prac
tical wisdom.
9th, Music.
10th, Presentation of a splendid Portrait
of Prof. L. Bankston to the College, by W.
T. Sowell, of Tennessee; a nice affair.
11th, Presentation of the Ambrotypes of
the present Graduating Class to the College,
by W. C. Jones, of North Carolina. A
beautiful address, as he is one of the most
talented young men that ever attended this
College.
12th, Reply to the two above speeches, by
Prof. I. N. Loomis; chaste, elegant and
classical.
The entire services would have done
credit to any Institution.
The following are the Names, Residences,
and Subjects of Thesis, of the Graduates of
the Class of 1859:
J. Dawson Brown, Ga.—Dermatology.
Joseph ByNCH, Ky.
S. M. Carlton, Ala.—Formationofßlood.
G. N. Carter, Ga.—Digestion
J. P. R. Chambers, Ga—Typhoid Fever.
J. A. Chapman, Ala.—Abscess of the An
trum of Highmore.
W. R. Chapman, Ala.—Puerperal Fever.
B. R. Dostor, Ga.—Typhoid Fever.
S. W. Davis, Ala.—Pneumonia.
J. B. Dunwody, Ga.—Dropsy.
M. B. Dostor, Ga.—Typhoid Pneumonia.
D. C. Glenn, S. C.—Dropsy.
J. T. Glover, Ga.—Constitutional Symp
toms of Pulmonary Disease.
J. W. Granger, Fla.—Puerperal Fever.
F. J. Herron, Ga. —Enemas and their
uses.
S. F. F. Jackson, Ga.—Typhoid Fever.
W. C. Jones, S. C.—Health—its mainte
nance a duty we owe to ourselves and. to
God.
J. A. Jordan, Ga.—Dropsy.
J. P. D. Kelley, Ala.— Dysentery.
John G. Lee, Tenn. —Circulation of the
Blood.
W. D. Mitchell, Ga.—Phthisis Pulmo
nalis.
Milks Mountain, Ga.—Cause of Disease.
J. L. Matthews, La.—Pneumonia.
A. MußcnisoN, Ga.—Fever.
S. S. Meador, M. D., Tenn.
J. G. Nance, Ky.—Hydrophobia.
F. C. O’Kelley, Ga.—Constituents of the
Blood.
Abner Passmore, Ga.—Gonorrhea.
W. A. Russell, Ala.—Valedictorian.
T. M. Sowell, Tenn.—Progress of Med
ical Reform.
Wm. T. Snipes, Ga.—Yellow Fever.
B. A. Stanton, Ga.—lntermittent Fever.
G. W. Summerville, Ala.
C. H. Simmons, Ga. — Sex.
J. W. Suggs, Ga. —Principles of Medical
Reform.
11. A. J. Skillings, Ga.—lntermittent
Fever.
O. M. Teepi.e, La.
James A. Tignkr, Ga.—Pneumonitis.
Henry E. Unger, S. C.—Congestion.
F. M. Williams, Ga.—Typhoid Fever.
Gko, T. Watts, Ga.—Digestion.
A Word to tlic Merchants and
Business Men of Macon.
The Lumpkin Palladium has the largest
circulation of any country newspaper in
South-Western Georgia, and furnishes the
best medium for advertising. Its circula
tion is confined almost exclusively to the
cotton-growing region of this section of the
State, and would doubtless prove a line me
dium to the merchants and business men of
Macon for advertising their wares and busi
ness. Wc shall be in Macon next week, and
will endeavor to convince our friends there
that the Palladium will advertise upon as
liberal terms as anv other country paper in
this section of the State. — Lumpkin Palladi
um, 23 d ult.
We had the pleasure of ft call from our
clever friend, Dr. Blackburn, on Saturday
last, on his way to Augusta, and learned
from him that he will be in Macon to-day
and to-morrow,'for the purpose offcoliciting
patronage to his paper from our business
men. As an Advertising medium there is
no better, for Macon wholesale dealers, in all
the South-Western region of the State. The
doctor, too, is a gentleman, ever observant
of the courtesies of journalism and in other
respect# worthy and well qualified.
Oar Neighbors. —The Telegraph and I
Journal & Messenger have got to sparring
about the former political opinions of the
present editor of the Augusta Constitutibn
alist, Mr. J. T. Nisbet, during the period of
his management of the Messenger. The
question in dispute is in reference to Mr.
N. s Americanism. Was or was lie not a
disciple of “Sam” ? From the lights before
us, and we were in a position to know the
facts of the case, Mr. N. never was initiated
into the Councils of “Sam.” His name was
proposed and we think he was elected a
member, but from some cause not explained,
but easily understood, it was thought best
that the senior of the concern should go in,
while the Editor should stand non-commit
tal. When the party, however, came into
power in the region round about, the Jour
nal & Messenger managed to gather the
spoils which it had not earned by a bold and
open advocacy of American principles. This
is the truth of history !
Nineteenth Century.— A hand
somely printed paper, of this title, has just
reached us from Fort Valley, Houston Cos.,
Ga. It is edited by F. S. Cherry, Esq.,
who, we understand, commences his enter
prise with about 2,000 subscribers. We
congratulate him and the people of Houston
on such fair prospects for the permanent es
tablishment of a Press in their midst.
Another Richmond in the Field.
“ cracker Is this same, that (lea's our ears,
With this abundance of superfluous breath.”
Shakrpeake.
A certain French-Dutchman, or Dutch-
I renchman, who has lately arrived in this
village, has obtained permission of the
“Telegraph” to inflict two columns and a
half of twaddle upon the readers of that
sheet, which all the lawyers of Philadelphia
could not unravel, celebrated as they are for
critical acumen and metaphysical turn of
mind. Though intended, probably, for us,
we cannot undertake to dissect tins fanfar
onade of sublimated nonsense. “The game
is not worth the candle.” Besides, we have
something else to do than to advertise every
strolling mendicant who may come along,
and who is willing to become the tool of
others in order to bring himself into notice,
professionally or otherwise. Were we, how
ever, to be provoked to the task of analyz
ing the mass of rubbish before us, we fear it
would require something more pungent than
a “spiced bath” or “an ounce of civet to
sweeten our imagination,” after we had
used the scalpel! May it please your hydro
pathic reverence, you “can’t quite come it.”
Tile Augusta Dispatch.— We ac
knowledge the receipt of a note from an in
dividual acknowledging himself the author
of the late slanderous article in the “ Dis
patch” in reference to'ourself, over the sig
nature of “Wide Awake.” As we expect
ed, however, he is an irresponsible person,
who has been employed by Atkinson about
the “ Dispatch ” office, to do the dirty work
which his employer had some squeamish ness
about doing himself. The latter is there
fore held responsible for the offence and
discourtesy committed.
Next Presidency. —The Savannah
Republican nominates Gov. Hammond, of
S. C., for President, and Rufus Choate, of
Mass., for Vice President. We would not
touch such a ticket with a ten foot pole.—
We would prefer Gen. Lane and “Little
Aleck,” by all odds.
State Debts and Individual Liabili
ties.—The following table of the indebted
ness of each State, the population, and the
proportion which each person would have
to pay, if the sum total were assessed pro
rata, is made up from the official report of
the financial officers of the respective States:
Proportion
Stites. Total debt. Population, to 1 person.
Maine #1,013,268 600,000 #1.57
New Hampshire,.... None.
Vermont, None
Massachusetts, 7,183,555 1,150,000 6.25
Rhode Island, 382,336 175,0.0 2.20
Connecticut, None
New York, 29,978,044 3,503,000 8.56
New Jersey, 25,000 625.000 20
Pennsylvania, 40,701,835 2,600, C0) 15.66
Delaware None
Maryland, 15,159,6*3 600,0)0 25.33
Virginia, 28,899,512 1,400,000 21.50
North Carolina, 5,209,1’!3 900,00 ) 5,80
South Carolina, 5.693,277 700.000 8.12
Georgia. 2,632,722 1,000.000 2.63
Florida, 160,000 110,00) 1,50
Alabama, 5,888.134 900.000 6 55
Mississippi, 7,271.707 7 0,000 Repudiated
Louisiana. 10,703,142 600,0C0 17.33
Texas, None
Arkansas, 2.524,345 800,00 In default
Tennessee, 12,756,857 1.300,000 9.80
Kentucky, 5,674,244 1,300,100 4.25
Ohio, 16.278,427 2,300.000 7.04
Michigan 2,457.470 600,000 8 82
Indiana, 5,969,017 1.200,000 5.75
Illinois, (187) 12 834.000 1.500,000 8.52
Missouri 19,602.000 1,(„)0,’ W) 19.60
lowa 128,010 55, ,000 33
Minn., < on. d’t, 5,000,000 210.000 21.83
California 4,128,927 600,000 6.90
Wisconsin, 100,(10 650,000 16
Do. (State as't 1859.) 6,100,000 700,000 8.71
Murdering an old Negro to get rim out
of the way.—An infirm old negro named
Boyd, was found at Cleveland, Ohio, roasting
over a blazing lime-kiln. Circumstances in
dicate that a party of negroes among whom
he lived murdered him to get him out of
the way. The Plaindealer says these peo
ple had become sick of him, as he had no
money, and was too infirm to steal, and so
they took him while he was helplessly
drunk, gave him a few knocks over the head)
and threw him on the kiln.
lagF* A man living on the line of the
Central Railroad, as we are informed, says
the Sandersville Georgian , not long since
concluded that he would send a lot of bees
wax to Savannah for sale. Not being ac
quainted with the manner of shipping ar
ticles for market, he stationed himself by the
side of the track, and waited the approach
of the cars. As they passed him, one of the
side doors being open, he threw his sack of
beeswax into the car. The last we heard of
him, he said that he had not received the
scratch of a pen from Savannah, and would
not send any more beeswax to those fellows
down there.”
Advantage of Advertising. —A man may
sit in an obscure alley, offering pearls at two
cents each, and yet find no purchaser; but if
the same man were known to have pearls
or sale at reasonable prices, under a rock in
the desert, caravans would be formed, and
companies would go to buy his wares. So
is it with the manufacturer. His wares may
be ever so good, his prices ever so reasona
ble ; but unless he employs proper means of
making them konwn to the public, he can
not expect appreciation. A liberal system
of advertising is the grand secret of success
in all branches of business.
A Southern Sight. —Last Sabbath after
noon we went to the basement room of the
Presbyterian Church, where we found about
twenty ladies and gentlemen engaged teach
ing about two hundred and fifty negroes
(mostly youth and children) the catechism,
reading and expounding the Bible, and learn
ing them sacred songs. As we looked upon
the interesting spectacle, we wondered if
Greely, Giddings or Garrison had ever con
descended to meet with the Africans they
profess to love so much, and point them to
the “ Lamb of God which taketh away the
sins of the world.” —Athens (Qa.) Banner.
Interesting to Slaveholders. —A bill has
passed the Milligan House of Representa
tives, amending section 25 of chapter 154 of
the revised Statutes, so as to punish any per
son bringing a colored person into the State,
claiming him as a slave, by imprisonment
not exceeding 10 years, or by a fine not ex
ceeding SI,OOO.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
City of Baltimore.
c^ E n 0RK ’ March I.—The steamship City
ol Baltimore arrived this morning with Liverpool
dates to Wednesday, Feb. 16th
Commercial News.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The sales of cotton
nnn^i 1 * 10 ? as !^reebusinessdavsreached 23,-
000 bales of which speculators took 7,000 and
exporters 2,000 bales. The Market opened
buoyant at an advance of l-16d to l-BtL but
closed quiet and quotations were barelv main
tained under the influence of the Europa’s news.
The sales on Tuesday were 5 000 bales Mid
dling Orleans 7d and Middling Uplands 6 3-4d-
Lorulon Money Market— Consols closed at 95
3-8 a 95 1-2.
State of Trade. —Manchester advices were un
favorable, business active, and all qualities of
goods had slightly advanced in consequence of
the demand for the India markets.
Liverpool General Markets. — Flour in barrels
was reported dull, though nominally unchanged;
sacks, however, had declined 2d. Wheat was
very dull, at easier prices, but the quotations
remained unchanged. Com was quiet but
steady. Lara firm at 60 shillings. Rosin dull
at 4s. lOd. Sugar quiet and steady. Rice and
coffee reported dull. Spirits of Turpentine was
firm at 395. 6d. to arrive
London General Markets. — Sugar buoyant at
Gd. advance in some cases. Coffee and tea re
ported firm. Rice was heavy and all qualities
had slightly declined.
> eus.
The only item of general news of interest we
have yet received, is the announcement that war
questions are unchanged.
Although it may be stated that the war ru
mors arc unchanged, the fears which recently
prevailed are apparently subsided.
The steamer India, outward bound, was very
recently run into by a Dublin steamer. The
India returned to port and had to be placed in
the dock for repairs. Her cargo was uninjured
Lord Malmesbury has announced that a code
of instructions for the suppression of the slave
trade had been agreed to by England and
France and had been submitted to the approba
tion of the government of the United States.
The last English financial statement shows that
the expenses of the India war had reached£2l.-
000,000 and another £7,000,000 loan was still
required to continue operations in India.
The Paris Bourse has been comparitively steady,
but on the 16th of February the three per cant
funds had declined 5 8.
An official article in a Vienna paper says that
Austria is quite willing to take as a basis for
diplomacy, whatever may be agreed upon by
the western powers.
News Items.
Washington, February 26.—1n the Senate,
to-day, Mr. Slidell stated that, rather than
hazard the passage of the appropriation bill,
and thus render the call of an extra session
of Congress necessary, he would withdraw
his Cuban bill, and bring it forward at the
next session. He did this the more readily
from the fact of the body having, by a test
vote of twelve majority, expressed an opin
ion in favor of the acquisition of Cuba. At
the same time he alluded to a defective rule
ol the Senate, which allowed the minority
to prevent a final vote when so disposed.
The army appropriation bill was passed,
with an amendment appropriating nearly a
million of dollars for fortifications.
In the House,the Postoffice Appropriation
Bill was passed in the same form in which it
was rejected the day previous. The Presi
dent communicated to the Senate his veto
of the Agricultural College Bill. An unsuc
cessful effort was made to suspend the rules
in order to take up the Tariff Bill. The Na
val Appropriation Bill was debated, and va
rious amendments to appropriations were
acted on.
February 27.—Philip Barton Key, U. S.
District Attorney for the District of Colum
bia, was fired at and killed to-day in the
street, by Daniel E. Sickles, member of Con
gress from the third district in New York.
The deed was committed nearly in front of
the Executive mansion, and has created
great excitement here on account of the
standing of both parties. The cause assign
ed is the alledged criminality of Mr. Key
with the wife of Mr. Sickles.
New York, February 27.—The steamship
Illinois, Capt McGowan, has arrived, with
$1,200,000 in specie, from California. The
Panama Star confirms the signing of the
Ousley treaty, and states that the Cass-Yris
sari remained in statu quo. The revolution
was approaching Chili, and all ports except
Valparaiso were blockaded.
The steamship Empire City, with dates
from Havana to February 22d, has arrived.
Sugars were dull, and buyers refused to ac
cede to the demands of holders. For Mo
lasses there was agood demand. Exchange
on New York was 1£ P er cent discount,
and on London 10J per cent premium.
Boston, March I.—An immense warehouse
at No. 245 Broad street, was burnt in this city
last night, together with 7,000 bales of cotton,
and 7,000 bags ofLisseed, Ac. The loss is es
timated at $500,000.
New Orleans, (via N. Y.) Feb. 28—The steam
boat Princes, from Vicksburg for Xew Orleans,
exploded on Sunday morniDgnear Baton Rouge.
There were 400 persons on board, and 200 are
either lost or missing. They are mostly inhab
itants of Louisiana and Mississippi A large
number of ladies were killed.
The vessel was burnt to the water's edge.
The Post Master at Cheraw, S. C., says the
Herald of 26th inst, received yesterday a note
from Bennettsville, containing the following:
“Three men killed here yesterday by poison,
supposed to have been in whiskey. John W.
Graham, Annanias Graham and John B. Mc-
Callum, were the victims. John C. Terrel has
been arrested and lodged in jail—rircumstantial
evidence very strong against him.”
The Freshet.— The heavy rains of the
last few days have swollen our water cour
ses to unusual heights. The Western & At
lantic Railroad has suffered considerably.—
The trestle work, some hundred feet in
length, over Two-run Creek, at Crawford’s
Mill, near Kingston, was swept away last
Wednesday, and the waters covered the
track to a considerable depth on each side
of the stream. The trains were delayed 48
hours, but the connection is now made by
meeting at the break, and passengers, bag
gag£, &c., are ferried across. Petit’s Creek
bridge, from the same cause, gave way, sink
ing some two feet. This bridge, by the
prompt attention of the officers of the Road,
was made sufficiently safe to allow the trains
to pass. We also understand that there is a
break in the Road above Kingston, near
Ilately’s station. The Etowah river is very
much swollen, rendering crossing impossi
ble.— Cariersville Express, 1 8th.
Emigration to Liberia. —The packet Mary
Caroline Stevens will sail on the Ist of May
from Baltimore, with a large company of emi
grants for Liberia. About thirty-five in Penn
. aylvania arc anxious to obtain a passage. In
addition to other persons,’both free born and e
mancipated,the colonization society, it is stated,
has received application for settlement in the
young republic, of one hundred and seventeen
slaves, generously destined by their proprietors
for freedom in Africa. Os this number, L. B.
Burgess, of Burgesses’ Store, Ya., osiers to send
thirty-nine; John F. Sale, of Libert}’, Ya, thir
ty-one; Robert Hutchens, of Brownsburg, Ya.,
nineteen; W. J. Owens, of Augusta, Ya, nine
teen ; and Miss Sarah B. Jones, of Charleston,
3. C., nine. The colonization society is endeav
oring to collect funds to enable it to comply
with the application to convey these slaves to
Africa Baltimore Sun Feb. 18,
Startling Defalcation of a Brooklyn
Bank Teller. —The latest sensation in
New York, has been produced by Oscar A.
Field, Paying Teller of the Atlantic Bank,
who, after abstracting about sixty
thousand dollars from its vaults, suddenly
vamoosed. He is about 33 years of age, and
has a wife and two children. The N. Y.
Commercial gives the following particulars:
“ It is stated that since January last, Mr.
Fields has taken various sums of money
from the Bank for the purpose of gambling,
and has lost heavily at play. On Monday
afternoon, about half-past 3 o’clock, he cross
ed to New York, at the Fulton Ferry, and
has not since been seen. It is also intima
ted that a broker or brokers in New York
have been aiding him in these peculations,
and assisting him in disposing of the money
taken away. It is also stated that a slight
discrepancy was discovered in his ac
count with the bank, and that he had been
cited to appear before the board of directors
to-day, in order to explain it. This rumor
is denied by the President, who states that
the last examination of his books took place
last December, when all was found perfectly
correct. Within a week past there has pro
bably not been a day when there was less
Sew ?o,d
and even certain tliat’the”’’ 8 ’* U pr “'" bl
_ Ra Uread meeting.
The Hawkinsville and Fort Valiev papers
contain the proceedings of a meetbVofT
friends of the Columbus, Fort Valfev anj
Brunswick Railroad, recently held at Pern
Delegates were in attendance* from the conn ’
ties of Houston, Pulaski, Wilcox „ n d In
wm. Dr. W. J. Greene was appointed
1 resident, and Col. J. H. Ragin Secretary
of the Convention.
The objects of the meeting wore set forth
bv Col. Howell Cobb, who stated “ the gen
eral plan of the Road at present is f row
Fort \ alley through Perry to Hawk
insville, and then from the latter place to
the initial point of the Main Trunk P ia il
road at the junction of the Savannah &
Gulf and Brunswick & Florida Railroads
Above Fort Valiev it may finally pa ,’
through Knoxville, in Crawford eountv.
Cullodenville, in Monroe, thence to Barnes
’ iHe, on the Macon & Western Road and
thusa connection will be established’ with
Griffin and Atlanta.”
The following resolutions were also ndon.
ted:— 1
1. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves to
make every honorable exertion to have con
structed, on the W estern side of the Oemul
geenver a Railroad from the village of
ln Houston county, connecting
with Brunswick at the junction of the At-
Raßroadg. GU f Brunswick & Florida
2. Resolved, That the people along the
line of the contemplated Road are hereby
urged to subscribe for stock to the extent of
their ability, not only as a profitable pres
ent investment, but as an investment
sate, profitable and permanent for tlieir ehil
dren.
3. Resolved, That we submit, in the ut
most confidence, to all who have monev to
invest, that a better chance for large *and
certain dividends in perpetuity, has not
been, and perhaps will never hereafter be
(in the State of Georgia,) offered to the
public.
4. Resolved, That in view of the large
commercial advantages to accrue to the cities
of Montgomery and Columbus on the west
and Griffin and Atlanta on the north, that
said cities should afford liberal assistance in
the construction of the contemplated Road.
o. Resolved, That our Senators and Rep
resentatives in the next Legislature be, and
they are hereby instructed and required to
use every honorable means to procure the
aid of the State in the construction of the
contemplated Road, and to present and have
passed every legislative enactment which
the interest of the contemplated Road mav
require. J
The Veto — Agricultural Bill.— The
telegraph brings us the gratifying intelli
gence that Mr. Buchanan has vetoed the
Agricultural College bill. We rejoice that
he has not affixed his signature to this mon
strous measure. It is not the end and aim
of Government to appropriate the common
domain of the States for any purpose. Espe
cially is it impolitic, granting that it is con
stitutional, to donate six millions of acres of
land, amounting to ten million of dollars,
for any specific object in the present finan
cial condition of the country. We should
let the revenue arising from them flow into
the Treiisury—should husband her resources
—live within our means and curtail all ex
penses not actually necessary foj> the wants
of our government.— Col. Times, Ist inst.
On Monday, 21st ult., a fire occur
cd on the premises of Mr. E. D. Brown,
keeper of the Milledgevillc Hotel, hut was
suppressed with the loss of S3OO. On the
following r.lght the stables of Messrs. Gans
& Edwards were burnt, destroying property
to the amount of about SBOO to SIOOO. All
(says the Federal Lhiion,) supposed to be the
work of an incendiary.
Printers’ Association. —At a meeting
of the Printers of Savannah, on Saturday
evening last, an association was formed, to
be known as the “Savannah Typographical
Society.” The following officers were elec
ted :
C. A. Hall, President ; Wm. G. Flvnn,
Vice President; S. B. Manuce, Treas.W.
R. Evans, Corresponding Secretary ; J. 11.
Harrison, Recording Secretary.
Col. Luther J. Glenn, an eminent
lawyer of Fulton county, and the present
Mayor of Atlanta, is suggested by the last
Southern Confederacy, as a suitable man to
be nominated by the approaching Demo
cratic Covention, for Governor of Georgia.
William Smith O'Brien. —By the tele
graph we learn that Mr. O Brien is on his
way to this port in the steamship Prince Al
bert, from Galway, which touched at St.
John’s on Thursday, ne is the last of the
Irish agitators- and revolutionists who have
come to this country, and if he follow the
course of those who preceeded him, that
will be the last of Smith O’Brien. We trust
that his good sense will prevent his accept
ing ovations, addresses, public dinners, or
permitting himself to be made a tool of eith
er by Irish or American politicians.— N. Y.
Herald.
Judgment Against Col. Benton.— The
Treasury Department has notified the Exec
utors of the late Col. Benton of a judgment
against the deceased rendered in 1826, in
favor of the United States for $7,000. The
Government claims priority in payment. —
The Executors will appeal to Congress for
relief on the ground of the insolvency of the
estate, the assets being hardly sufficient to
pay bills owing for necessaries furnished to
the family of the deceased.
Miss Judson goes to Indiana and Gets
a Divorce. —Miss Judson, the heroine of the
Anglo-African elopement, which caused so
much commotion about six weeks since, ar
rived in town yesterday, on her way home
ward, having been to Indiana, in company
with her brother, and advertised Joe for a
divorce. Joe hadn’t any money to take
him there to plead his own cause, and, time
being up, he was repudiated, and his bride
made a free woman. She was just in time,
as the statutes were immediately after
wards amended so as to cut off all such op
erations in future. Indiana is no longer the
haven of domestic difficulties. —Detroit Fret
Press.
Telegraph Lines in Florida.— The Jack
sonville Standard says:—“ We are gratified
to state that a company has been formed
here, and the necessary stock taken, for the
purpose of constructing a telegraph line from
this place to Baldwin, where it will connect
with wires by which communication may be
had with Fernandina, Savannah, and north
wardly, and also with Cedar Keys, from
whence the Cuban Sub-marine Telegraph
will give communication with Havana and
the West Indies. “Mr. Kennedy, the En
gineer and contractor of the Cuban line,
will be at Baldwin about the Ist of April,
with hi3 line completed from Savannah to
that point, when he will put his force to
work and construct our line immediately, so
we may expect by the 2Gth of April to be
in Telegraphic attachment with the North.
“ Samuel Fairbanks, Esq., has been selec
ted as Presidentor Superintendent of the en
terprise, and under his supervision the work
will be done.”
Legal and Illegal Lotteries.— The Eas
ton (Md.) Star , in a notice of the celebra
ted lottery firm of Swan A" Co., now W ood,
Eddy & Cos., of Augusta, Georgia, speaks o:
these great lottery operators in term3 of jo- st
commendation- No complaints have ever
been made against these gentlemen by any
of the public having dealings with them.-*
They have occasionally been the object of
hostility of interested parties, who, unable to
compete with them honorably, have resort
ed to dishonorable means to injure their bus
iness. The public, happening to have more
confidence in their integrity than they re
pose in their opponents, continue to send
their weekly instalments of ten, five, anu
two and a half dollars, and receive, in re_
turn, a share in their magnificent lotteries,
which pays them sometimes a fortune, an
hardly ever fails to re-imburse them for their
ouvlay. Address Wood, Eddy A Cos., *v
mington, Delaware, or Augusts, Ga.