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mg in a northern direction. The col umns were higher than the tulles* man. and the numbers of those composing the avenue were equal to the number of communities who attended that particu lar temple. The columns composing the circle were equal in numV>cr to the twelve Apostles. Those in the wings'were three in each wing. The altar on which victims had been sacrificed was left stand ing, as a rostrum from which the peop:e were instructed in the new doctrine. Ail persons, who were akin to each other within the ninth degree, belonged to the fame community. These tempo's haie generally been destroyed by the lwo inans j but, as they have not penetra.ed into the northwestern isles—particularly the island of Seog, where Saul was re ceived with great favor —it is probable the people of those islands will be per mitted to enjoy their religion, undisturb ed by the rude tread of our polished bar barians. “When Saul returned from Britain he went to Corinth; and while there wrote to us an epistle, in which he informed us that the preaching of the Gospel of Je sus ( hrist was now made manifest to all nations—that the Scriptures and the prophets were also made known to all nations, according to the commandment. In that epistle he expressed a strong de sire to visit us again in Rome, on his journey to Spain, that he might be com forted with us by our mutual faith.— That pi ensure we enjoyed in good time, lie visited us again. My house and ail I had were at his command. He wrote many letters to the brethren while he made bis home with roe. Ihe second letter to your beloved son, Timotheus, after he took charge ot the church at Ephesus, was among the number This gave us an opportunity of sending our greeting to one who is beloved by us all, and to urge him to visit us before the winter commenced. While Saul was with us, the circle of brethren increased, \ and we had much comfort in lach other s society and instruction. Our happiness seemed as perfect as it could be in this world ; but it was of short duration.— The Roman outrages upon the Britons had increased under the reign of Nero. Arviragus, called by the Romans Pra suttagus, died, leaving immen-e wealth to his daughters and to the Roman Em peror. But the whole of it was taken by the Romans. Ilia daughters were violated, and his Queen, Boadieea, to whom he had become reconciled, was publiely scourged. This raised a (lame throughout many of the kingdoms, and Boadieea, at the head of a powerful ar my, took vengeance into her own hands. She slaughtered one hundred thousand of her enemies, and captured and de stroyed London, and other towns, in possession of the Romans. The legions of Rome were terror-stricken at first by the magnitude of her forces, and the rapidity of her movements; but they soon rallied, and at last, the Britons were routed and put to death in great num- bers. The Romans were determined to revenge the slaughter and destruction which Boadieea had caused. r ilie Chris tians and The Druids were regarded as the cause of all these injuries to Rome ; and they were destroyed wherever they could be found. Nero’s passions be came inflamed against the Christians from this and some other causes, and Saul and Peter were executed by order of that ty rant. Peter was cruelly crucified ; but Saul was beheaded, because it was un- j lawful to crucify a Roman citizen- The chief charge against Saul was that he ha*l taught rebellion in Britain ; but we all knew that Neither Saul nor the twelve laborers in the vineyard, who went on the same mission, taught any other po litical doctrine than that of rer.deiing to Csrsar the things that were Ctesar’s, as taught by his master when on earth •, and there was no more proof against Saul, on this last trial, than there was on the first; but his judges were differ ent in their passions and motives. God will reward him and them according to (heir works. Let us hope (or better things under the reign of the new Em peror. I have, it is true, many painful recollections of his prowess in more than thirty battles with my countrymen, and you may have many sighs foi your na tion when you look upon the fresh lau rels he has brought from Jerusalem.— , He may have done many things in these wars, which he would not, himself, de fend in calni'r moments. But we ail know that he is brave, noble, generous, and possessed of exalted abilities. lam willing to hazard my life in the success of his reign. I feel assured that God has raised him up to be a blessing to the whole world. 1 have not yet seen him since 1 was his physician and u.trse. — But he w rote from Jerusalem to say to Pudens, that he ‘ l*nged to see his pre server, the pride of the Britons, and the ornament of Rome.’ I confess to the weakness of desiring his good opinion, and I hope I do not sin w heu I feel a joy in such praise, from such a source. My heart flutters and my frame trembles as I anticipate the delight I shall feel when I see him again. What a change we shall see in each other ! “This closes the history I promised for the instruction of your children. 1 rejoice that the task is finished, because, in relating the distressing scenes of the past, a >adness comes over my heart.— But I trust that this will soon disappear in the realization of our bright hopes for the future. “ \Vritten by Claudia Rufina, at Rome, to Eunice, at Herculaneum.” Slxyf.Stf.auno in Missouri.—The Chica go duress and Tribune Announces with a shout of exultation, that 75 fugitive slaves, from Missouri, passed through Grinnell, lowa, on the 21st instant, on their way to Canada. — They were well provided with weapons to defend themselves against pursuers. The ne groes were on tied from Missouri by aboli tionists in Kansa, escorted through Nebras ka to the lowa line, and then shipped via the underground railroad to Chicago. The bu siness is constantly going on, many trains of slaves, accompanied by their abolitionist conductors, passing through lowa, without announcement of its arrival The farmers oi Western Missouri feel severely the eflect ot these depredations, and it is not to be wondered at that they should inflict the most frightful vengeance on their enemies when ever they catch them.— St. Isjui* Keirs. A Forgetful Minister.—A clergyman of the olden time, the Rev. Mr. Paiker, of Princeton, had been lor years in the habit of praving for the British government; but, at the*period of the eventful revolution, he, to gether with most other clergymen of that day, was opposed to the oppressive meas ures of England. However, by a strange absence of mind, he, one Sabbath, long after America had been declared independent, fell back upon his usual prayer : “We beseech thee to bless the King and Queen, and all the royal family.” Then pausing, with evident embarrassment ar.d vexation he added: “Pshaw! pshaw! it was the Continental Congress I meant” The Bank of Middletown, at Middle town, Pa., having missed certain sums of money, amounting to about $2,000, institu ted investigations, which led to the detection of the watchman of the bank, a German named George Fulger, astlie thief. Having secured the repayment of the sum abstract ed, the officers of the bank allowed him to wane. GEORGIA CITIZEN. MACON, APRIL 1,1859. Cotton Market. M acon, March 31. Nothing doing since steamer’s accounts. We omit quotations. Receipt- very light. Pro£ Britt&n's Lectures. Professor Brit tan will deliver two Lec tures at Concert Hall on Hunlay next, at 3 and at 7| o’clock, P. M. Subject for the afternoon Lecture—The Philosophy of Worship, or the Spiritual idea of True Worship. Subject for evening Lecture—The Nature and Sources of Inspiration. As this will probably close the Course of the Professor in this city, those feeling any interest in the important matters discussed will do well to attend. Seats Free. Private Instruction. —The members of Prof. Brittan’s Class for private instruction will meet this evening, Thursday, at half past 7 o’clock, at the Hall of the Spiritual Association, for the purpose of organization. Persons desirous of joining the Class will please attend at the hour. Mr. Fleming’s Benefit.— A complimen tary benefit comes of}’ to-niglit, at Ralston’s Hall, in favor of Wm. M. Fleming, the gen tlemanly and accomplished Lessee and Man ager of the Savannah and Macon Theatres. The play selected is the Shaksperian Trage dy of the Merchant of Venice —Mr. Flem ing as Shylock. Personal. —The Hon. Kobt. P. Trippe did us the honor of a call, on Monday last. We were glad to find him looking the im personation of health, hut regret to learn that he will not allow his friends to use his name again for re-election to the post he has filled in Congress, so very satisfactorily, for four years past. The Hon, B. 11. Hill passed through the city on Tuesday morning, on his way to Twiggs Court. Napoleon’s Concert. Arthur Najioleon performs this even ing, at Concert Hall, and we bespeak for him and his Troupe a cordial reception.— We copy an article from the Charleston Mercury, in reference to this musical genius, which will inform our readers as to the na ture of the intellectual treat in store for us. Let all attend and encourage the cultivation of a pure taste for the science of harmony in our midst. City Election. —Dr. Gabriel Harrison was on Monday last duly elected an Aider man of the city, in room of Abram Adams, Esq., resigned. New Advertisements. Maj. Comer offers a fine Plantation for sale, with stock, farming utensils, Ac. A number of active young men, who are not afraid of work, can find some thing to do and get paid for it, by calling on James R. Butts, Esq. &JT E. E instein notifies the public, pspe cially the Ladies, that he has one of the largest, richest and best stocks of Dry Goods ever offered in the Southern market. ge-g* Our merchants will notice that the Central Railroad Cos. have relaxed one of their rules so far as to make the payment of the Freight bills the business of one day, Wednesday, of each week, after 3 days’ no tice, instead of being compiled to pay freight before delivery of goods. John A. Daniels, Esq., of Crawford Cos., has a 1500 acre Plantation for sale. ftirjf 0 Messrs. Greer A Freeman have a great variety of good things in the eating and drinking line. Families who desire something l.ice should not pass by these en terprising and industrious young gentlemen without giving them a call. Jfejy Our old friend Israel F Brown, for merly of this city and Columbus, has estab lished an agency, in connexion with his son, at New London, Conn., for the purchase of all kinds of Machinery, Steam Engines, Ac., for Southern customers. He is a practical machinist himself, and from a long residence in the South, in connexion with the manu facture of Cotton Gins, &e., is well posted as to the wants of the people. Those who have occasion to send North for any articles of Agricultural or other Machinery, will find it to their interest to give their orders that direction. W. W. Woodruff A Cos., Carriage Dealers in Griffin. Ga., of established and extensive reputation in their line of business, solicit the attention of our readers, general ly, to their stock of fine Carriages, Buggies, Ac. As our own Carriage men do not seem to value “ printers’ ink'’ very highly, judg ing by the little show made by them in the newspapers, we feel the* moil free to com mend the enterprize of W. W. W. A Cos. in venturing to occupy the* ground thus left so invitingly vacant. They will lie sure to put money in their purse by the operation. jgfcgr See Prospectus of the new pajter pro nosed to be published in Augusta, by Col. James Gardner. Printers South, will find a notice of Cortelyou’s New York Type Foundry and Printer’s Warehouse, which may be worth their notice. Lola Montkz on Love.— Messrs. Dick & Fitzgerald, of New York, have gent us, through Mosers. lSichai'ds, several volumes of light reading, among which is “Anec dotes of Love, by Lola Montez.” We have not had time to look into the work, but sup pose that it will bo found interesting. Books from Peterson. —T. B. Peterson & Brothers have sent us several new works — lranJtor, by Walter Scott; Sybil drey, * novel, and Ladye of A'hnrone, by Geo. Lip pard, constituting a sample of the uhiform editions of these Philadelphia publishers. Harper’s Monthly. —We are indebted to Mr. J. M. Board man, for an early copy of Harper for April. Maj. Cooper Declines.— The Hon. M. A. Cooper, in a letter to the Journal and Messenger, positively and unequivocally de clines permitting his name to be used in connexion with the office of Governor of Georgia. Eighth District.— Col. James Gardner, of the Augusta Constitutionalist, has been named as a suitable person to represent the Bth District in Congress, in room of the Hon. A. 11. Stephens, who declines a re election. Hon. A. Iverson. —We do hope that the intrigues of a portion of the Democracy to supersede this gentleman as Senator in Con gress will fail, utterly fail. His place can not be better filled from the ranks of the Democracy, and the opposition can have lit tle hope or desire to supplant him, in the position he has so honored by his eloquent devotion to Southern Bights. But if the decree has gone forth and its execution will not be stayed by the ruthless leaders of party, (for we do not think the people have anything to do with the matter,) we would respectfully suggest that Senator Iverson be placed in training for tha position of Chief Executive of the Commonwealth. In him, the opposition to Gov. Brown can find a leader that will hoist his Excellency “as high as a kite.” Our Semi-Weekly. In consequence of the great pressure upon our advertising columns, we have been, in a measure, compelled_to make same arrange ment, whereby we could the better accom modate our city customers, with the neces sary space for the display of their advertise ments consistently with our desire to furnish a well-filled family newspaper to those at a distance who are not particularly interested in the local news and business of Macon.— With this object in view, we have com menced the issue of a large semi-weekly paper, to be chiefly devoted to the commer cial interests of our people, which will ena ble us to serve all our subscribers with just such a journal as they may rcsj>octivcly need, during the ensuing six months. We invite the co-operation of our friends in support of the enterprise, and to give them an opportunity of so doing, we will send this number of the new issue to all our city subscribers, in the hope that all will al low us to continue it to them in lieu of the Weekly Citizen. Terms $3 per annum— which is only 50 cents a year more than they have each been charged, heretofore, for the Weekly. If, however, any prefer to continue to take the Weekly, they have only to notify us of their wishes to have them respected. We also solicit subscrip tions to the Semi-Weekly, from our friends in adjacent towns and neighborhoods where the mail facilities are favorable. The Semi- Weekly Citizen will be publish ed on Monday and Thursday of each week, and the Weekly on Friday—thus affording a Tri-Weekly edition to those who desire it. Advertisers will please hand in their fa vors on Wednesdays and Saturdays, for the succeeding issues. Advertisements publish ed in the Semi-Weekly will also appear in the Weekly without extra charge. The terms of advertising in both editions will not exceed 50 per cent, advance on the usual rates in Macon for publication in a weekly paper. Both the Semi-Weekly and Weekly Citi zen can be had for ?4,50 per annum, in ad vance. Robbery and Arrest. On last evening two young men, by name Geo. Thomas and Bernard Liddy, tempora rily employed by Wm. Fish, London agent of Picolomini, to take charge of baggage, distribute programmes, Ac., robbed the portmanteau of Mr. Fish of over ?<>oo in money during the temporary absence of Mr. Fish at Ralston’s Hall. On the return of the latter to his room at Brown’s Hotel, af ter the concert, he found everything in con fusion—his portmanteau lock broken, and money gone. He sought the services of po lice officer Jeffries, who soon succeeded in recovering nearly all of the missing money, snugly stowed away bctw’een the linings of a mattr*ss. Suspicion was aroused against Thomas and Liddy, and they were arrested and lodged in jail to await legal examina tion. These tivo youths were formerly in the employ of the Ullman Troupe, and w ere only recently received by Mr. Fish, in char ity, to enable them to get North. On open ing one of the trunks of these fellows, there w’as found a case of razors, which was rec ognized as the p operty of the father of Pic olomini, who was robbed on the passage from Mobile to Montgomery last week, doubtless by these same fellows. They are now in a fair .wav to do some service to the State, in return for this exhibition of their precocious skill in villainy. Notice. All those who feel an interest in starting a Baptist paper in Cherokee Georgia, are requested to meet in Rome, Ga., on Tuesday, the 20th instant, at 4 o’clock, P. M., at the i store of J. H. McClung, Esq. March 21st, 1850. We clip the above from one of our Chero kee exchanges merely to show that the Bap tist people of Georgia are getting very sick of their denominational paper, the “Index,” under its present administration. Political Movements. w e notice that some of our American co temporaries are agitating the subject of call ing a Convention to organize, for the ensu ing campaign, in opposition to the Democ racy. In our opinion such a movement now would be unwise, impolitic and prema ture. There is, in truth, no American par ty, now in Georgia, and we doubt the expe diency of organizing under the obi issues, even if any organization is thought desira ble. What good can result from such a measure ? It will be some two months, yet, before the Democracy meet in Convention to nominate their candidate for Governor, and why should the opposition press antici pate their movement or consolidate the now discordant ranks of the enemy by attempt ing a show of fight, before they know what new principles and issues may arise to ex cite their antagonism. We dissent, in Mo, from the proposition, at present. We want to see “what will turn up.” Already, some of the Democratic politicians have got into a snarl about his Excellency, Joseph, and if the Americans will only keep their hands off, and let “the unterrified” fight it out, there may be some chance for the opposition to profit by the “scrimmage.” In defence of our principles we will go as far as the next man, but rash and ill-advised move ments are not always the most efficient.— “Festina lente,” or “make haste slowly,” is as good a umxitn in politics ns in anything else, and we commend it to the calm consid eration of those brethren who have an itch ing to pitch into the mere partizan politics of the day, merely for the fun of it, so long before the enemy lias taken the field. The Bane and the Antidote. Our neighbor of the Telegraph has partial ly made the “amende honorable’ to a class of his supporters, by copying into his issue of this week, the reply of Miss Amelia Jen ny Dodds, of New York, to the article of the New York Herald, abusive of Spiritualists and Spiritualism, which latter he published two weeks since. This act of justice would, perhaps, have been more acceptable had the Editor accompanied Miss Dodd’s response with the same explanation publicly, that he felt restrained to give privately to some of the parties who felt agrieved at the publica tion of the Herald article! As we have no dispositi jn, however, to urge the matter fur ther, ar.d will n< cept the amende as offered, onlv suggesting that prudence would dictate that it were better that the practice of mak ing such assaults upon the religious faith and customs of people is far “more honored in the breach than in the observance.’’ Wars of the Factions. The Atlanta Confederacy boldly charges that a gross “bargain and sale” of the peo ple of Georgia has been concocted by certain prominent Democratic leaders of the State, in the matter of political office and prefer ment. The Confederacy’s article is too long for our columns to-day, hut we cannot for bear giving the conclusion of the extraordi nary document: “This whole ‘■bargain and gale’ was con summated about six weeks ago in the classi cal village of Dalton, the Hartford of Geor gia, under the roof of Judge J£. R. Hardtß, Agent at this place. Present, Gov. Brown. John H. Lumpkin, John W. Lewis, Hon. L. Crook and £. R. Harden—probably some other lesser lights. “From that date the Lumpkin opposition is hushed, and Joseph The Immaculate be comes a marvelously proper man for the re nomination. “We have gathered these facts from a source that will not, cannot, and dare not lie contradicted. We charge w ithout equivoca tion, that Howell Cobb, John Henry Lump kin and Joseph E. Brown, have entered into a most corrupt ‘ bargain and sale’ of the peo ple of Georgia, without their wishes or con sent, for the purpose of furthering their own individual plans and unholy schemes—by w’hicli means they attempt to stifle the pop ular voice, and forever crush the principles of free Government. Will the people of Georgia submit to it? or will they in their majesty and power hurl this trio of corrupt intriguers from place and position? We know they should, and we believe they will. We have respectable witnesses to substan tiate what we have said, and when the par ties deny the charges and call for the proof, it can, will and shall be produced, or we will retract all we have said and make the amende honorable.” According to the Confederacy, the scheme of these politicians looks to placing Lump kin in the U. S. Senate in lieu of Iverson, to re-electing Brown Governor, and Howell Cobh President. We have no means of knowing whether there is any foundation for the charges thus made by our Atlanta cotemporary, but for the credit of the State, we hope he has been misinformed on the subject. ♦ a. Prof. Brittan’s Lectures. Prof. S. B. Brittan, of New York, com moncod a series of Philosophical and Moral Lectures, in this city, on Friday evening last, which for logical power, eloquent dic tion and beauty of illustration, have never been surpassed, if equaled in this place. We regret to say, however, that owing to sever al circumstances, the audiences that have favored him with their presence have been limited. Had the Professor boon a magician or sliglit-of-hand performer, or even an ex port organ-grinder, he would have received, doubtless, a more signal appreciation; but on the great themes of life and immortality —of the spiritual nature of man and the in effable glories of the celestial worlds, and kindred subjects, our people seem to have no ears to hear and no eyes to see. The fact is humiliating enough, and has long been a standing reproach to our citizens. Were an angel of light to announce a Lecture on the sublime philosophy of the future, we have no idea that he could enlist the attention of any respectable portion of the community, unless ho came accredited by some Pope or Bishop of a popular theology. Such is the lamentable state of ignorance, prejudice, and materialism which exists among us.— Wo seem to have little or no taste for the beautiful in nature and art, or for the de lights of a pure and elevated literature, hut run with eager footsteps after every foreign artiste or Ethiopian mountebank that may happen to advertise an exhibition. In the mean while, we are fast losing our character as a moral and religious people. Our repu tation, abroad, in these respects, is anything but favorable to our self-love, if any of this principle yet remains in our hearts. And no wonder Mitcon will not compare favora bly with other cities, when the sensual and the doubtful and worse than useless amuse ments of the hour are so extensively patron ized, to the neglect of the good and the use ful,'the refined and elevating entertainments occasionally offered for our acceptance. But we did not intend to read our people a Lecture on the subject of morals, but in our regret for their want of appreciation of the profound Philosophy which is now be ing illustrated in our midst, we have been betrayed into an expression of fact which we could wish were otherwise. The following synopsis of Prof. Brittan’s first Lecture, will serve to show the charac ter of these Lectures, and also how much our people generally have lost by not per mitting themselves to hear them. Ilis oth er Lectures have been equally interesting and instructive in their character, hut we have neither space nor time, even if we had willing eyes to read what we might write upon the subject: In his first Lecture, which was on the Natural Evidences of Immortality, Prof. Brittan reasoned from the laws of matter that there must he a wide realm of being, peopled with innumerable forms, rendered intangible to the outward organs of sensa tion on account of the extreme attenuation of the elements that enter into their organic structures. It was shown that matter or substance exists in a variety of states and combinations so ethereal as to be invisible; and likewise, that the most sublimated ele ments are subject to the late of organization. He contended that the Universe would be incomplete if with an invisible realm of un organiziid elements there were no corre sponding sphere of organized and living forms. In this connection the speaker re ferred to the discoveries made by the use of the microscope to show the foil}’of attempt ing to define the limits of the organized world by the unassisted capacity of the physical senses. This course of analogical reasoning appeared to warrant the speaker’s conclusion, that there must be an Invisible Creation —a world of ethereal forms, whose refined elements and organic perfection cor respond to our highest conceptions of the spiritual. The logic of the material philosophers was next subjected to a searching trial. The speaker admitted that they were right in as suming that Matter is indestructible, and it was shown by reference to the processes ol Nature and the ordeals of Science, that Mat ter only changes its forms, conditions and combinations, while not a single ultimate atom is ever lost. But if matter is inde structible, Life must be immortal. The in nate forces and essential laws that govern the material elements are the revelations of life and intelligence. Wherever matter ex ists all its laws exist also, and not a single ultimate particle can ever be removed be yond their influence and control. The laws of Matter are as universally displayed as the physical elements are diffused, and they can only cease to be operative when the elements themselves are annihilated. As, therefore, substance, form and life, must co-exist, it fol lows tliut if the first of these be absolutely indestructible, the last in the category must be essentially immortal. The speaker admitted that this argument did not establish the idea that the separate individualities among men would continue after death, anv more than it proved that their corporeal bodies would be preserved. Thus far lie had only aimed to show that the Life-principle it essentially imperishable. To prove that Man is immortal in his indi viduality he should depend on certain recog nized tacts and principles, the occurrence and existence of which could not be dis puted without rejecting the experience of mankind and disregarding the c laims of a scientific philosophy. The Lecturer observed that the elements that enter into the composition and struct ure of the human frame were, by natural processes, gradually disengaged and thrown off, and that other elements were taken up and assimilated. In this manner the whole body is changed in the course of each suc ceeding jieriod of seven years. But the in dividuality is not lost. On the contrary, the identity is preserved through all similar changes, so that the grev-haired sire who has undergone eight or ten such transmigra tions is conscious of having been the same individual through the entire period of his earthly existence. Memory still links the conscious soul to all the past. This demon strates that the individuality does not be long to the body, and hence that it cannot perish with the body. It wat also observed that the amputation of a limb neither circumscribes the sphere of consciousness nor sensation—that the in dividual who sustains such a loss still feels that he is in possession of all the members necessary to a complete manhood. Mr. Brittan insisted that if consciousness and the exercise of the faculties necessarily de pended on the body these powers would, in all cases, be limited by whatever serves to diminish the sphere of organic action. If the limbs could thus lie severed without im posing any such limitations, the speaker maintained that the boflv mv e eomnlete ly demolished, and yet all the powers of life, and sense, and thought may remain. The sj>eaker next referred to the illustra tions of eight, hearing; and the exercise of all the powers of sensation, under circum stances that preclude the use of the physical organs. The somnamhule and the magneto clairvoyant seer do not use the organ of vision ; but they often sense the presence, fornis and qualities of men and tnings far more perfectly than those who do employ ; the physical organs. They see more clearly, ( and discern many things that are invisible to ordinary observers. If the senses can thus be exercised independently of their cor poreal organs, it follows that the organic : instruments of the mind may all be laid aside or destroyed without disorganizing the mind itself. The speaker's concluding argument was founded on the experience of such persons as have fallen into trances, resembling the post-mortem state, and on the observations of those who have witnessed such occur rences. Cases were cited in which vital motion and all outward signs of life were suspended—the body being cold, rigid and | motionless—while, at the same time, con sciousness and reason, sight, hearing, etc., ! all remained unimpaired, as was most clear ly proved by the subsequent disclosures of the persons themselves. In many cases the faculties of the mind are thus active when there is no cerebral action, and the exer cise of every corporeal organ is suspended by a total paralysis. It follows, therefore, that the human faculties may continue to be exercised lor an indefinite period, and hence that the mind does not necessarily depend for its existence on the preservation of the body. The material philosophy, said the speak er, represents the earth which we inhabit as the great tomb of the world, while the hea vens above us are but a star-lighted mauso leum overshadowing the ashes of the un numbered dead. Even here, on this mighty sepulchre, I stand to-day, and hear the in spiring voices of Nature and Nature’s God proclaiming “the Resurrection ani> the Life.” An “ Arctic ” Breeze. There was an exhibition here last week of a painting purporting to be an accurate de lineation of I)r. Kane’s Arctic Expedition, under the charge of a Mr. W. H. Paul & Cos. Either Paul or his Agent, one C. B. Butters, sent us an advertisement from At lanta marked for insertion as an advertise ment, with an order in pencil for us to pub lish. This we did in the first issue of our paper after receipt of the order. But lo! on sending our little bill,'on Saturday morning, for collection, it was repudiated. Subse quently either Paui or his Agent, for we do not personally know either, called at our of fice and in a very vulgar and insolent way refused to pay the account. He also grab bed the ‘advertisement copy and the “ evi dence of debt,” —viz., the order aforesaid— and was about to tear them in pieces, when he was forcibly prevented from doing so ! This attempt, however, showed the fellow's rascality , and if consummated would have written him down a felon in fact as well as in intent. Under these circumstances we were compelled to arrest Mr. Paul, the principal, and hold him to bail for the small debt of $2 50, for which he gave bail, and placing a deposit of $5 in the hands of his security, left for Columbus, where he now is. To dis tinguish this Panorama man from the pro prietor of another exhibition at Savannah, and still another, lately on exhibition at Louisville, Kv., each said to be the original and genuine Panorama of I)r. Kane’s Arc tic Expedition,- we will add that this compa ny have a dog with them called Myonk —said to be the best part of the exhibition, with a peacock flag, etc. j We give the parties this “ special notice” ! without fee or hope of reward except what arises from the conscientious discharge of I the duty imposed upon us of guarding the fraternity of the Press, west, against the ! meanness of a fellow, who would attempt to cheat the printer out of his bill of advertis ing, where said advertisement was accom panied with an editorial reference, and was in season for three different exhibitions of the Panorama; Pass him round, brethren! lie will bear watching! For the Georgia Citizen. Hon. B H. Hill aud the Past. Dr. Andrews, —Indulge me in a few re flections on the past. It is but right that 1 the past in polities be brought to our mem ory and pass in review before the present. — j Some four or five years ago the Congress of the United States passed a bill called the Kansas bill, and in that Territorial bill, for I the first time in the history of this govern \ ment, Congress delegated the special power to the people of the Territory the right to i regulate their domestic institutions in their ; men way. Why was that bill worded dif ferently from all other Territorial bills?— Why did Congress give to the peofde of that Territory the exercise of rights that no peo ple of any former Territory ever enjoyed? Why was it made the exception? Let the I leaders of the Democratic party answer.— i Let Toombs and Stephens, and their pet, .Ste phen A. Douglass, answer! That man that some of the speakers and writers lauded so high—that man who was defending the rights of the South in Illinois! Let popu lar sovereignty, or squatter sovereignty— that thing that abolished and excluded slave ry from Kansas—answer! Douglass framed the bill, and every Southern member to ! Congress who voted for that bill knew squatter sovereignty was in it; hilt, worst of all, they voted to delegate a power to the people of Kansas Territory that Congress did not possess; to wit, to abolish, establish or exclude slavery from Kansas. The Su preme Court of the United States, in the Dred Scott decision, says Congress cannot exclude, abolish or establish slavery in the Territories. Then if Congress has not the ! power, how can Congress delegate the pow , er? It is too late in the day for Southern ! Senators, who voted for the Kansas bill, to rise in the Senate now and denounce gqnat j ter sovereignty, for if they had not the sa gacity to detect it themselves, Gen. Cass told them it was there in the Kansas bill.— He intended they should not be mistaken, and Mr. Douglass told them that the prin ciple that heat Gen. Cass for the Presidency in 1848 in the South, and for which princi ple Gen. Cass was a martyr, namely, squat ter sovereignty, was in the Kansas bill.— My purpose in writing now, is to bring to your mind, and the minds of the people of Georgia, the facts stated and arguments made by the Hon. B. H. Hill, in 1850 and 1858. He told coming events with the sa gacity and wisdom of a statesman. He told the people of Georgia that squatter sove reignty was in the Kansas bill. Tooml>s, Stephens, and all the cross-road politicians, denied it was there. Mr. Stephens said, “Elect the Democratic candidate for Prcsi- dent, and the country is quieted and the rights of the South are secured.” Mr. Hill said, “ If you sustain the Democratic party, and elect its candidate for the Presidency, you will continue the same policy and un settled state of things.” Mr. Hill said, “ Elect the Democratic candidate for Presi dent, and, my word for it, it will neither bring quiet to the country nor secure the rights of the South in the Territories.” As Mr. Hill said it would be, so has it come.— Mr. Hill has a mind that can penetrate the future; that can tell future effects of present causes. He has a depth and breadth of thought but few men have. He is a clear, pure and original thinker. With a master hand Mr. Hill painted the future and un folded to view the corruptions of the pres ent. Let eighty millions, taken to support the government, (while Mr. Stephens said forty millions was sufficient,) say if Mr. Hill wa a not right in his charges of corrup tion. Let a government, bankrupt and dis graced, say if Mr. Hill was not right in his charges of corruption. Let'a once peaceful and happy, but now distracted and section alized country say if Mr. Hill was not right in his charges of corruption! Let truth, justice, purity, patriotism, and family altars say if Mr. Hill was not right in his charges of corruption upon the Democratic party.— His country will respect him for the hones ty and nobleness of his nature! His coun try will honor him for the simplicity and grandeur of his intellect. Lowndes. Arthur Napoleon. M. Napoleon is one of the most remarka ble musical geniuses of the age. He was born in Oporto in 1844, and in 1850, when only six years of age, he played with suc cess before the Court of Portugal. In 1853 he first appeared in Paris, where he played at the mo3t fashionable parties, and received the utmost praise from the first musical crit ics of the French capital. On his visit to LondoD, immediately following his Paris tri umphs he was not so successful; bat in the provincial towns, Leeds, Liverpool, Manches ter, Ac., he won great reputation. In Dub in he achieved the first great triumph of his history, where he was made the recipient ct a piece of plate, presented in behalt of the public by the Lord Mayor. In 1854 he re turned to London, which then revoked her former decision and received the wonderful child with enthusiasm. He has since visited the chief continental cities of Europe, and is now making a tour in the United States. — He is still a mere youth, but possesses a pow er at once surprising and gratifying. He not ODly executes the most difficult pieces of Thalberg and Listz, but will improve re markably. A competent critic in character izing young Napoleon, thus alludes to his delicate and refined taste, as evidenced by the most exquisitely soft, elastic, and liquid touch we have ever heard , the marvellous precision with which the exact degree of pressure that is required, is given to every individual note, so that, mors especially in sustained cantabile passages, and in those where a melody is heard contemporaneous ly with arpeggios and other ilorid devices of the modern pianoforte school, the effect is more truly vocal than can easily be conceiv ed possible, as coming from an instrument of short percussion, like the pianoforte ; the consummate judgment W’ith which he intro duces alterations in the time, exactly at the proper points, and up to the proper degree; and lastly, the unity and continuousness of sentiment which he contrives to impress on , whatever he performs, so that, more than any other performer, he gives you the idea of listening to a definite discourse full of the richest poetry and symmetrical in all its parts. Charleston Mercury. The African S ave Trade. It is said to be a foul bird that defiles its own nest. We have been painfully aston ished to find Southern men and journals raising a hue and cry against Southern men for attempting to force an issue upon the law restricting the African slave trade.— That there can be found anywhere in the federal Constitution express authority for the passage of such a law, no one will pre tend to say : and, as we have before said, it is dangerous for the South, being the minor ity section of the government, to permit any doubtful construction of that instrument. It matters not who did or who did not vote for the law prohibiting the African slave trade. Southern men might have done so, under circumstances vastly different from these that now exist. The wisest of men (and we conceed the framers of the federal Constitution to have been as wise men as ever existed) could not have anticipated th • necessities of a country like ours. With the number of slaves that were in the colonies at the time of the formation of this Govern ment, and the unremunerativeness of their labor, our ancestors may be pardoned the belief that the institution would become bur densome from its natural increase. But could they be restored to life to-day, they would not be more astonished at the neces sity for mote slaves, than they would be at the vast demand tor every species of labor and the enormous increase of popu'at on, territory, commerce, manufactures, internal improvement, Ac. Not realizing the neces sity for more slaves, they omitted, in the Constitution, to provide expressly for their future importation ; but are we to inter from this that they repn bated the slave trade arid esteemed it piratical and a moral wrong? Certainly not; because if they had so is teemed the traffic in slaves, they would have been derelict in duty not to have at once provided for ils extinction by positive and unequivocal legal enactment. The truth is, they considered slaves property, s iVjoct to the general laws and circumstances govern ing property ; they had thrown all the self guards that their wisdom and foreright could conceive, mound the rights of persons and property, and they had, therefore, reason to believe that no attempt would be made >o Congress in after time, to transcend the strict letter of its delegated poweis, and pass laws discriminating between the rights of prop, r ty North and South. They did not give Con gress the right to prohibit the African slave trade and we defy any one to show us the clause in the Constitution that does. Wheth er they designed to give that iight or not, is a matter of no momeat. The right never has existed, and circumstane s now demand that it should not exist. The increasing demand for slaves and the product of slave labor is sufficient argument against the right to prohibit the importation of slaves. We have no patience with those sickly sentimentalists Smith, whoprate about the immorality of the traffic, or the resistance to a law which is predicated in error. Their sophisms are of a piece with the cant of these Northern hypocrites who prob-s® to believe that the curse of Heaven will rest upon all who, in the remotest degree, toler ate the institution of slavery. We have no ticed, of late, editors and correspondents at the South, who have abundance of ciocko- Jile tears to shed over an infraction of the African slave trade law, that scarcely ever no ice the practical nullification, North,of tie fugitive slave law. They allow no latitude of opinion to a Southern man ; they will not permit him to test at his own risk the con stitutionality of what he deems an unconsti tutional federal enactment; but they join in the hue and cry of those who have for years robbed us of our slaves with impunity, and deplore the degradation of the Southern Afri can slave-trader! More than this, they have the art to commend their sentiments North, and the press of that section, delighted with the novelty of arraying the South against it self, take up their productions, give them prominence, and seDd them forth to their own people as evidences of Southern admis sion ot the moral and political evils of slave ry ! We do not care one jot or tittle wheth er the projectors of the expeditions of the Haidee, the Echo and the Wanderer, were right or not. Acting upon their own respon sibility, and impelled by a consciousness of right, we are willing to leave them to a fair test of the power of this Government to prohibit the slave holder from purchasing slaves where “they can be most advantage ously obtained. If we believed them wrong, we would not prejudge their cause by say ing so; but believing them right, we will never cry on their federal persecutors, nor join in denouncing that as piracy and mor ally wrong, because done in Africa, which is legally and morally right when done in Qeor gia f But there is another view which the op ponents of the African slave trade South take of this question. They assume that those who encourage it are countenancing rebellion to law, and giving our Northern anti-slavery enemies just cause for renewed acts of aggression upon the South. They say that, having heretofore planted ourselves upon the constitution and the laws, we were panopled in the strong aimor of right and justice; but that now we have deserted our strong position and taken one fatally vul nerable, and which will be sure to invite at tack. To this we reply, first, that resistance i to an unconstitutional law is not rebellion. For a long number of years it was held by many that the Missouri Compromise was a constitutional law, while others denied it. — The test was made, and it has been pro nounced by coupe teat authority, unconsti- I tutional. Would resistance to that law have i been rebellion ? Certainly not, ibr being un authorized by the Constitution, it was no ! law. Such we hold to be the condition of the law restricting the African slave trade. ! Second, while we would give to Northern fanaticism no just provocation for renewed aggressions upon the South, neither would we have Southern men abate one jot or tit tle of their honestly conceived rights, from fear of their enemies. So far, no resistance 1 has been made to the law, by those said to have been engaged in the recent importation of Africans. It lacks demonstration that any law has been violated, and but for the very i tender susceptibilities of certain editors aud their correspondents South, who, with more | zeal than discretion, deferred to Northern anti-slavery prejudice by a hasty denuncia j tion of the men of their section, who, ifguil ! ty of wrong, were amenable to and about ; to undergo the scrutiny of law—there would j probably have been no excitement upon the subject of the African slave-traders. Most of the feeling upon this subject, we are sor ry to say, has been stimulated by a Soutb j ern press—a press that scouts the idea of a separation from the nullifying States of Mas ; sacliusetts and Vermont; a press that lauds ! to the skies a Union in which slave-holders j are murdered for attempting to get their j property under the law; a pres3 that coun • sels Southern submission to unconstitutional federal legislation, and can realize no evil— not even the complete subjugation of its sec tion —of equal magnitude w'th that of a dis solution of an unjust and discriminating gov ernment. By such a press, have the North -1 ern hounds been cryed on to their malicious sport of hunting down slave-holders and slave traffickers! And for what has all this hue and cry been raised ? Because men of the j conscious in their belief that the Constitution does not sanction the law restricting the foreign trade in slaves, were willing, at their own risk, to test the right of Government to say that the South should not procure from whence she pleased laborers for her rice fields, her cotton and sugar plantations, her mines and her factories, while the North is unrestricted in her right to import laborers for any purpose she may deem proper. Be cause, it may be, these men actually believe that more slaves are needed at the South, and that a direct judicial issue will determine the question of a right to import them in their favor, are they to be denounced as “pi rates,” rebels, disorganizers, Ac. ? There may be honest differences of opinion upon the policy of introducing more slaves into the country, but must men be viilified, and that too b} their own home press, because they favor su‘h introduction? Why, there is hardly a Southern State that has not, in some way or other, advocated the policy of more intimately identifying every class of her citizens with the institution of slavery. It has been proposed in Georgia Legislatures to exempt one or more negroes from leyy and sale, in order to induce poor men to pur chase them, and thereby become pecuniari ly intonated in a spreies c f property for the protection of wh’ch, at a future day, their services may bo needi and! Can they ever hope to become the of such pro perty at its present enormously high prices? And if there are men at the Somh who think that the best way to subserve the end which Southern legislatures would secure by exemptions of negroes from levy and sale, is to introduce more slaves, and thus bring their price down to a point within the reach of the poor man, are they to be bitterly as saulted for their opinions? We are astonish ed at the war which has been made by a Southern press upon Southern men, for fa voring the importation of slaves. There is neither patriotism nor justice in it. It is a subject upon which we nay agree to disa gree, but certainly we should tolerate free dom of opinion, and not assail with bitter ness those who conscientiously differ from us. If slaves ate imported, ami the people will purchase them, it is an evidence that they arc needed ; but if they cannot find purchasers, they will not be imported These are sell- vident propositions, and why contest them ? If public sentiment at the South is again-1 tlie African slave trade, it will manifest itself by refusing to accept slaves procured through its agency. This, we esteem, the proper view for the South to take of the subject. As we have said in a previous article, if there'should prove to be an imperative demand for more slaves to subserve the great and growing interests of the South, no law of Governme .t will be permitted to obstruct their imports! iun. It will have to be repealed, if a constitutional law, or it will be disregarded, if unconstitu tional. lex abolition Ism rant and rail as much us it pleases.— Griffin Jnd. South.. More Federal Corruptions. The Washington Correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer (Gov. Wise’s organ) writes as follows to that paper : “In my last I eave a furtive glance at the state of the General Post Office Department. This branch of the Government is absolutely bankrupt, not so much from the want of a self-paying revenue as from the corruption which is said to exist in the matter of con tracts for carrying mails to the Western States. If Congress, or anybody else, doubts what is the opinion of those who ought to know the modus operandi by which the ‘fat hogs’ are greased for Presidential purposes by Presidential aspirants connected with that department, let them call for the } tapers on file belonging to the different divisions represented from the figure 1 upwards.— Seven million of dollars, at the end of the present fiscal year, will hardly supply the deficit in the ways and means to meet i*s wants. I would like to see the comparison made between the condition in which this Department was when Judge Campbell left it on the 4tli of March, 1857, and what it will be on the 4th of March, 1861. Campbell was io aspirant for the Presidential chair, and, consequently, contractors and corrupt Congressmen, who had their fiugers in the contract pies, had to respect and abide the laws made to protect the Post office reveuue. It is how 3aid, however, that-things there are greatly changed for the worse.” The Alleged Abominations of Spirit ualism—Eeply to Dr. Hatch. Tt the Editor of the New York Uerald. — In your Sunday morning Herald, March G I perceive that B. F. Hatch has taken the liberty to usi my name in a connection with his abuse of spiritualists which places me in a false position before the numerous readers of your wide spread and useful journal. This I beg leave to correct, and have no doubt that you will grant me the favor. Your ed itorial notice of Mr. Hatch’s letter renders it important that I should do so. I have, Mr. Editor, delivered no lecture in defence of libertinism, as Mr. EL insinuates by placing my name in the category with such vile characters. My lecture was against that, odious sentiment, and in defence of the sanctity of the marriage institution. I la bored to sustain the majesty of the law and the right of the community to interfere in this matter, and bring the violators of the law to justice so long as the law continued in force. True, I recommended an amend ment of this law, or the enactment of anew one, so as to enable the poor as well as the rich to obtain a divorce before some legally appointed officer of the government, without incurring the great expense and publici’y that the parties are now compelled to encounter, and which deter many an abused and suffer ing wife from the attempt. Still, I decided ly maintained that it should be done accord ing to law, on the proof being presented to that appointed officer of the truth of the suf ferings of the complaining party; and that on the strength of this the divorce be de manded as a legal right. I profess, sir, to be a Christian spiritualist, and contend that Iroth marriage aud divorce should stand on Bible grounds, sustained by law. But Mr. Hitch’s object is to impress the public mind that I am an advocate of lib ertine principles, have delivered a lecture in defence of that od.ous sentiment of which,it would s- ere, lie confesses himself to have been a professed and practical advocate, and “ for his timely escape from amoDg those who cherish such principles he thanks his God far more than for any other event of his life.’ If his professed reformation shall prove to be sinceie, I certainly congratulate him on his ibrtunate escape, believiug that, in his case at least, there will be 14 more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety-nine Just persons who went not astray.” I feel myself by no means disposed to un- I dertake the humiliating task of answering the article of Mr. Hatch in detail. I shall only defend myself against his foul insinua tions. He has jroured out the vials of his wrath upon certain spiritualists, whom he denounces as destitute of all moral principle, and with whom he once fondly associated ; then calls me by name, and by an intention al misrepresentation of my sentiments, places ine in the ranks of his former bosom friends, whom he now denounces as the most un principled of our race, so as to fasten upon me the odium of the community as a public lecturer. This I feel it my duty to correct, even in a man who makes it a part of his business to abuse females. I feel no dispo sition, Mr. Editor, to show the inconsisten cy of a man who, in his first article, admits I spiritualism to be true, and then arguing that truth is infernal and can be made a damage and curse to the community, and renders its sincere advocates a set of unprincipled be i ings. The admission that Christianity is true would, on this ground, prove it to be a curse to the community, and all sincere Christians unprincipled beings tor believing and advo cating its truth. Among the disciples of Christ there was a Judas, who sacrificed him for money. But did this prove Christianity to be demoraliz.ng, or that the other eleven disciples were unprincipled scoundrels? In all ages there have been in the Christian Church Judases, base hypocrites and false pretenders, who remained there for the sake of popularity and the hope of gain in their business puisuits, so long as it would sub serve their selfish interests. But when these failed to answer their unprincipled ends, they could turn, and, like Jupiter swagger ing on the top of Olympus, hurl at the devo ted heads of true Christians a thunderbolt, and half believe they had done God service and rendered the unbelieving community a favor. ArnoDg all Christian denomi; ations now on earth there have been and still are Judases - false pretenders, oppressors of the widow and the fatherless, thieves, robbers and swindlers, and murderers, and even lib ertines of the most degrading character, who perhaps can descend so low as to introduce their own wives to women of ill fame ns companions, and who practically set the sanctity of t e marriage covenant and ail hu man and divine laws that sustain it at defi ance. And many of these have been con victed, and not only filled our State prisons, but others have been executed upon the gallows, and even among these clergymen have been numbered. But, dear sir, does this prove that the doctrine of Christ is de moralizing, or that all pure minded clergy men and all other sincere Christians are also destitute ol all moral principle ? By no means; and those who argue in this manner judge others bv themselves. That the same miserable characters, Ju dases and hypocritical pretenders, are pro fessed spiritualists is freely admitted. For the hope of gain they enter their ranks, reap perhaps a rich harvest, deny even their lec turing wives the common comforts of life, so as to embezzle their hard earnings, ami when cut short of the golden harvest, turn upon them in holy wrath—curse the causa of spiritualism, hold on to the ill gotten gain, and endeavor to ruin the reputation of their bosom companions, who brought money into their hands which they were unable to earn for themselves. Ah, there is nothing like [Ki’iey. But that all this proves spiritualism false, or its truth demoralizing, or that its sincere advocates are unprincipled scoun drels, I have yet to learn. All this has no power to change the purity of an Edinonds, a DaVis, a Warner, a Talrnadge, and thou sands of others, or prove them to be unprin cipled rnen because they are true spiritual ists. They stand on a mental and moral ele vation far beyond the reach of Mr. Hatch. Spiritualists have no written creed, no or ganization as a body, and have no right to deal with un:u!y and unprincipled professors of spir.tualism. Each stands or falls on his or her own responsibility, leaving them to the keen and searching glance and scrutiny of public opinion. That is the grand tribu nal to which ail the spiritualists appeal, be fore which .they stand, and at wh;ch Mr. Hatch as well as they must be tried. AMELIA JENNY DODS. Brooklyn, March 10, 1859. An Extraordinary Case. A Clergyman Arrested for Forgery whi' f P> caching a Funeral Sermon. —The Cleve land Phindealer of the 11th relates the fol lowing extraordinary case; We had an interview with Mr. I s * 4o Reynolds, of Trumbull county, last eveninf’ who had just returned from Glen wood, Mills county, lowa, where he owns soffi e land. He gave us an item of interest 1,1 last Monday afternoon, as the Rev. William Watson, the pastor of the Methodist Church in Glcnwocd, was preaching a fucer&l ser mon, he was arrested by officers from an * ■’ joining county for passing counterfeit money The people in attendance at the funeral we* 9 so incensed at the officers that they thrust them from the house, and they concluded to retire until the obsequies were concluded.” The clergyman did not accompany the p rL cession to t.he grave, and the officers arres. ed him. They previously searched his house, in the cellar of which they found inks, presses, p 8 pers, rolling machines, and the entire api ‘ ratus for the manufacture of counterfeit * D bills. They also found about SI,OOO incoui terfeit bills, S3OO of which were 10 3 on |,J * Forest City Bank of this city, and ** S2OO in s’s on the State Bank of Ohio. e clergyman made a clean breast of the 1113 ter. He became connected with somecoun terfeiters al>out two years ago, and as be * been in early life an engraver, he had bei D a very useful and hard-working member j