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Northern Democracy.
Oar readers are aware that, says the
Charleston Mercury, at the late meeting ot
the Democratic party of Pennsylvania in
convention, to pat in nomination their can
didates for State officers,the anti-Lecomptoo
Democrats offered a resolution approving of ;
the conduct of Gov. Packer. Gov. Packer
was one of the first in Pennsylvania who
had denounced Mr. Buchanan for reeom
mending the admission of Kansas into the
Union with the Lecompton Constitution*
The majority of the Convention refused to
adopt the resolution. This was seized on a?
justifying a secession from the Democratic
party and the organization of a separate
party, absorbing the majority of the Demo
cratic party itself in Pennsylvania. Accord
ingly, a convention of anti-Lecompton Dem
ocrats has met at Harrisburg; aud that our
readers may understand their views towards
the South, and thereby be better enabled to
judge of the propriety of the people of the
South joining them as political associates in
the next Presidential election, we lay before
them the fallowing extract from the speech
of the Hon Daniel Hickman, a member o
the next Congress, and a distinguished lead
er of the party, deliveFcd before the con
vention :
By the action of the Thirty-fourth Con
gress, the complaints made by the residents
of Kansas were ascertained to be true. A
- the i outh, by the legislation oi 1854,
was pledged to maintain the domestic sover
eignty ot the territories, a portion of their
people from Miss >nri entered npon the soil
of Kansas, and, by force and fraud, seized
the law-making power, stilled the voice ot
the majority, and enacted statotes disgrace
ful to the age and nation. This fact, when
legally revea’ed. made a deep impression np
on the public mind, and Mr. Buchanan found
it necessary, in older to carry the election in
his own State, to pledge himself Ui-tinctly
to the maintenance of the doctrine ot popu
lar sovereignty, and to defend the rights of
those who had been thus ruthlessly despoiled.
I will not pretend to iudicate the particular
weakness in his nature that induced lmn to
turn the liand of the suicide against hia own
fame, as it matters little whether it arose
fr*m timidity, a fear of his enemies out
weighing a l.>ve of his friends, a careless dis
regard of lair dealing, or a weak and puerile
vanity. It is enough to know that he de
ceived all our hopes, turned with blackest
ingratitude upon that self-sacrificing friend
ship by which be reached the goal of his fe
Ven*-h ambition, aud • >ugh, by all the
means wiih'n the reach ut drunken and
Staggering authority, to disgrace every man
whom he could not debau h. Suddenly,
and ashy the touch of the wand of the
magician, he became transformed from the
sympathizer with down-trodden tretdom, to
the open and shameless defender of aggres
sive and law-delying slavery.
The hal sos the National Legi-latnre were
turned into marts for conscience. He pub
lished Ins interpretations of prty principles
and platforms with the arrogance ot a dicta
tor, and commanded his subord.nab s in office,
aijd his coward slaves, to reiterate and pro
claim his bulls of party exeommunii-ation
against a'l who were rash enough to follow
an independent judgment. These acts of
themselves are enough to sever allegiance.
It would lie an i!:-slnpen manhood which
could tolerate them in silence. But becanse
we denounce them, we are anathemat zed
as rebellious. Sir, we will see where the
rebellion will end. It will end in the supre
macy of the laws; in the integrity of the
constitution; in the purification of parties:
iu the sworn loyalty of executives; and *he
vigorous growth. material g> eat ness and eter
nal dominance of the N) th. That is where
it will end. Popular sovereignty, invoked
by the South, will be defended by us, and it
shall unfold the veiled, ypt dimly discovered,
destiny of this great Republic. Weare bat
tling for the right, for the spirit of the in
stitntions onr fathers established. Let us
feel iha’ we are doing this, and we will ac
com; list the victory of our country; not a
mere naked triumph at the polls, but the
great success afterw ar I— the untrammelled
self government oj i an; the dedication of a
•■ontinent to a consistent liberty.
Those who stop to talk of conciliation and
compromises between us and the self-con
stituted oracles of the Democratic party, car.
have but a feeble app'eciatian ol the real
condition of things. When you cun harmo
nize light and darkness. in*egii f y and corrup
tion. the patriotic devotion of the private citi
zen to the principles of our government with a
tyranny wotse than that ot the midd ! e ape-,
it will be time enough to cry “ peace.'’ Let
this truth be made prominent—that there is an
eternal antagonism hetioeen Freedom and
Slavery. The constitution of the human
mind and the human heart makes it inevita
ble ; and the one or the other must eventu
ally gain the ascendancy. The struggle be
tween them, but just begun, is now going
on in our midst, and he is but a snpeifieial
observer who does not discover if. We have
acted honorably—benevolently, For long,
long years we have defended the chartered
rights of our Southern brethren; we have
even conceded their exactions; we have
given them all the advantages springing trom
unequal legislation: we have changed policy
to suit their nofons of interest: until, hav
ing grown fat, they demand ns a prerogative
what we granted as a favor, and having
found a President without afUciion-*, a sworn
officer not afraid of perjury, willing to back
their pretentions, they would n>w treat us .
as a common enemy, and brand our names
with indellible infamy. They have done
more—they have gone further—they have
come amongst us, and bribed cupidity with
gold, ambition with promotion, and vanity
v uh t* mpor ry consequence, to do violence
to justiie. Longer forfearance uot only
ceases to be virtuous, but it becomes coward
ly and base. The North has rights, long in
abeyance, truly, yet not lost; we will save
them; by walls and fire aud blood, if need.*
be, we will save them.
A Cincinatti paper says that within a t’ >rt
nifrht thirty young Germans. sympathiz ng
with Austria, have left that city for Europe,
■ml that these are the representatives ol a
large class.
A B Oman Naturalized.— A German wo
man haring recently applied for na*ur*l;z
tionat Lancaster, Penn., a paper published in
that place refers to the lact as something
extraordinary, intimating that she must be
“strong-minded” and inclined to vote. The
truth is that women are often naturalized,
and there is nothing remarkable in the pro
ceeding at all \ oting is by no means the
only pit liege annexed to citizenship.
Death or Dr Safeold.—Another one of
our old citizens has gone. On the evening
of the 13th instaDt, Dr. S J. Saffold. for thir
ty-five years a successful practitioner of
medicine in this place, exchanged the scenes
of earth for another state of existence. Dr
SaffohJ was, we believe, a native ol Wash
ington county in this State, ami had nearly
reached his seventieth year. —Madison (Oa)
Visiter. v 1
■ ♦
A Veterian Ttpo.—The Panola (Mis.)
hUr mentions having b ail a visit from Ste
phen Singletary who is in his sixty-ninth
year and hjs woiked at thocase fitf/years.
Bobert Mcknight, Sr., now wo,kin. , :n
on the Umonviile (8. C.) Journal i, in h %
eighty-seventh year, and has work, and at the
case over seventy-one year?. ll*> bus nev
er been out of the State of South Carolina.
Mobile Register.
All good thoughts, words, or action*. are the
productions of the celestial world.— Zoroaster.. ‘
Murder.—Mr. Wnt F. Luckie was brutally
murdered on Thursday evening of last week,
t is residence, a few miles from this place
. h u 9!avw negro man. It an
mm’ 1 10 D u^ ro B*d beeu in the woods
or some months previously, and had just
been caught and taken home. His m.ter
was attempting to take him into aToiue
and punish him for his misconduct when the
negro grasped him, and tak ng a kmSTrom
h Wt Mbbei h.tn, .-Sn.S.V™
htreen different places, killing him in a v * rv
tsT T he ZKZ’ * fter committing
ha, vZ ‘ ffto tbe woods, and
1 not yet been arrested.
Southern Convention.
This important body of Southern gentle
men adjourned on Friday evening, after a
sess on of five days, to meet at Atlanta,
Georgia, on the second Monday in Novem
ber, 1850. The True-Southron, of Vicks
barg. says that the Convention closed its de
liberations with the very best feeling. Its
action upon the most important question
before it is thus signalized by the same
paper:
“ After an elaborate, interesting and ex
citing debate, occupying the last three days
of the Convention, a vote was taken yester
day evening on the adoption of the resolu
tion previously ottered, directing the publi
cation bv the Convention, for the use of the j
bodv, of the able and states manlike address
of the Hon. L. W. Sprats, of South Caroli
na. in advocacy of the re-opeu ng of the
African slave trade. The result was a tri
umphant endorsement by the Convention of
the doctrines embraced in the address, in
view of the course taken by its opponents
in the debate on the resolution. The vote
was taken by States, each State casting the
number of votes to which it is entitled in
the electoral college, and stood as follows:
Ayes—Alabama. 0; Arkansas, 4; South
Carolina, 4; Louisiana, 6; Texes, 4; Geor
gia, 10; Mississippi, 7 —44.
The following negative votes were cast:
South Carolina. 4 : Tennessee, 12 ; Florida,
3—19. Majority fo;* the resolution, 25. It
should also be stated that the member who
cast the vote of Tennessee was only a dele
gate from Memphis by appointment of the
Mavor of that city, ands ated that he did
not feel authorize,! to cast ihe vote of the
State, nevertheless, as it w*as insisted on, he
east a negative vote, making the 19 instead
of 7. as it would have been, in opposition to
the resolution.”
On the fourth day, Mr. Johnson, from the
Committee on Resolutions, made the follow
ing rep >rt:
I have been instructed to report back to
the Convention, for its consideration, with
a slight an.er.l r.enl to the third, the three
first resolutions ottered by Mr. Culem&D, a
delegate from Louisiana :
Resolved , That in the opinion of thi3 Con
ven'ion, it is essential to the prosperity of
the Union, its continued existence, and it
future advancement, that at least one line of
Ti tiiroads should he constructed immediately
Trom the Mississippi river to the Pac.fic
Ocean.
Resolved, That ihe Southern Atlantic
States, the States on the Gulf of Mexi
co, ami the States on the Pacific O’ean, ar<*
epeeinllv interested in the completion of
the line of R til oads. on the 32 I parallel of
nort’i latitude, from Charleston and Savan
nah, by way >f Montgomery, Alabama, and
by the Southern Railroad to Tieksbnrg, on
the Mississippi river, thence bv the Vicks
burg, Shreveport and Texas R .ilroad, across
the Siate of Louisiana, to Marshall, in Texas,
and to the Pac-fic 0 :*** ; and that the same
‘S the shortest and most practicable route for
the transportation of freight and passengers
from the Southern Atlantic and Mississippi
and Gulf States, and toe mo*t convenient
and available at all times for the transporta
riot! of the soldiers and munitions of war of
the United States to the Pacific States.
Res Iced, That this great and important
line of Southern railway is most earnestly
recommended to the people of the several
States through which it passes, upon the
grounds that when completed it will consti
tute a m*st powerful instrument to combine
and strengthen the. South, establish its com
mercial independence, develop its vast agri
cultural r* sources and promote the general
prosperity of the wh >le Union.
I have a*so been instructed to report the
following resolution:
Resolved, That this Convention have re
ceived with much satisfaction a communi
eaticn from the muo’cipal authorities of
Memphis, npon the subject of direct trade
between the Southern ports and the conti
nent of Europe, or Ghent, or Antwerp, and
that the whole correspondence be recom
mended to the consideration of the Southern
public.
I have also been instructed to report back,
witt*oot amendment, for the consideration of
the Convention, the fallowing resolutions,
presented by the lion John J. Mcßae, dele
gated from Mississippi:
Rrsijlutions on the Ascendancy of the Uuited
States in the Oulj of Mexico.
Resolved, That the interests and necessi
ties of the Sonth. ns well as of the entire
country, requires the ne manent ascendancy
of the United States >n the Gulf of Mexico,
and to insure this end the Gulf must be
made an American sea, and the Isthmus
transits to the Pacific placed under Araeri
can control.
Resolved, That looking to the magnitude
of our interests on the subject, this Conven
tion recommend to the people of the South- ,
, cm States, as the nest means of aecomplbh- i
ing thr -’C objects: Ist. the encouragement by
all lawful means of the republican spirit on
th* 1 Uland of Cuba, and the devtlopement |
of the sentiment of freedom cherished by
the natives and liberals of the* is'and; 21,
the speedy Americanization, by every lawful
effort. < f the Isthmian States, by which they
‘hall be placed under American rule; 3d, that j
they demand of the Government of the Uni- :
ted States the abrogation of the Clayton-
BuKvcr treaty, and that the Government
shall bring the force o( its moral and nhysi
cal influence to the aid of its successful ex
ample, in encouraging the development and
spread of republican principles and free in
stitutions in the Islam] of Cuba, the Isthmian j
States, and among all the people and States
on this continent.
I have also been instructed to report back,
with a recommendation that it be adopted
by the Convention, the following resolution
by the same gentleman:
Resolved, That the success of the lUpnb
lican prty. in the election of a President ol
the United States, hy a sectional majority in
IS<lO, upon the principles above declared,
wilt be a virtual dissolution of the compact
of the existing union cl the Statrs, and in
that event ties Convention recommends to
the p ople of the slavcho'ding State's to meet
immediately in Convention to determine the
mode and measure of upholding the Consti
tutional Government as it at present exists,
by preventing the installation into cilice of
a Republican President, and the inauguration
of the Republican party in power, or, failing
iu that, to resolve the si iveholding States
into a separate, independent organization,
with such constitution* form of Government
as wtK best secure their safety, their honor,
their rights and institutions, and make them
a power of the earth. J. J. McRAE.
Northern Sentiments.
The Boston *• Advertiser” ha* the follow
ing paragraph on the subject of re-opening
1 of the African S’ave Trade:
*‘la its political aspects there is some rea
son to suppose that the question of reviving
the slave trade will enter largely into the
next national canvass. Slavery furnishes the
leading subject of division for the great po
litical parties. The South hs, most unwise
ly, fallen hack upon the justification of s'ave
ty in principle, a position which logically
necessitates tlse support of the slave trade.
Ij si i very l\e right, the slave trade cannot he
wrong: it slavery be an interest which the
government i* bound to foster, there is no
wav ot doing this so simple, ayid none so es
sential to its welfare, as that of facilitating
svigjlttji from the coast of Africa. The revi
val ot the slave trade, then, may he t'tken
as the question representing all that is in
issue between the North and the South.”
A Duel at Mobile.— The Register learn*
that a duel was fought on the 17th inst., at
‘he Bascomb Race Course, between two
young gentleman from New Orleans, Messrs,
•■'ititti and \ icks—wearions rifles, distance
? rt J Brut fire Vicks received
‘em of his antagonist iu the head, killing
lum instantly. Mr. Stub escaped injury—
Mr. Ws was the challenging party. AH,
except the deceased, returned to New Or
'SST “ me #Us *™” that carried them to I
The Mercury states that the deceased was
rained M. G. Vick, a citizen of Vicksburg. —
His opponent was Janies H. Slith, a neph
ew ot the Mayor of New Orleans, Hon. Ge- !
rard Stiib.
Dead. —The South Carolina papers an
nounce the death of Geo. Wallace, of Union
District of that Stale.
From the state press.
The President 1o Hr. IVeLaiu.
Washington, September 7, 1858.
Sir: —After our conversations on the sub
ject, I understand you to propose that the
Colonization Society, for and in considera
tion of the sum of Forty-five Thousand Dol- j
lats, to be paid by the government of ijie
United States, shall receive in Liberia, from
the agent of U. States the three hundred
and odd African negroes now at Fort Sum
ter, near Charleston, and furnished them
comfortable shelter, clothing, provisions and
medical attendance for the period of one
year, from the time of their landing. The
Society shall also, during thisperiod, cause the
children to receive schooling ; and they engage
that all of these Aft icons, -whether, children
or adults, shall be instructed in the arts o
civilized life suitable to their condition.
*******
I hereby accept this proposition, so far as
my constitutional competency extends, and
shall recommend to Congress to make the
appropriation necessavy to carry it into ef
fect. In the meantime, I can advance no
money to the Society, as none has hai been
appropriated by law forthis purpose. When
you signify explicitly in writing, on behalf of
the Society, that they will in good faith car
ry all these engagements into effect, the
contract will then be completed, and held
valid and binding.
Yours, tery respectfully.
JAMES BUCHANAN.
( Rev. William McLain, Financial Agent
of Colonization Society.
Mr. McLain on the next day, the Bth Sep
tember, in writing, accepted this proposition
and agreed on behalf of the Society to carry
out all of its stipulations to the sati-faction
of the President and the welfare of the cap
tives.
It is proposed in the ensuing Democratic
C nvention to endorse the administration in
full. Let those who desire to be taxed for
the purpose of educating Ebo and Congo
Africans, call the attention of the Georgia
Convention to this benevolent act of our
venerable President. 8188.
—Any one who proclaims that Americans
are to rule America, can by no means be
made President of the United States.
[. Mitchell's Citizen.
The Constitution of the United States de
clares expressly that the President shall be
an Anierican. This being bo, who, we
should like to know, are lawfully to rule
America but 1 mericans ?
[Petersburg IntelL
Startling Occurrence in Green. —W e
learu that there was quite a sensation in the
neighboring city of Greensboro on last
Wednesday. It appears that Mr. Briscoe,
the incumbent of the Male Academy of that
plac<, had occasion to correct a boy by the
name of Adams, about fifteen years of age,
for incorrigib'e idlenesss, and that Adams on
returning to his seat drew a pistol, del ber
ately hoisted a window preparatory to es
cape, and fired at Mr. Briscoe. Fortunately
lor him, he missed his aim. He escaped from
the window, and has not since been heard
from up to Monday night.
Madison Visitor , May 18.
Brunswick ami Albany Rail
roads Survey.
The party charged with the survey of a
iine from the junction of the Brunswick and
Florida railroad with the Main Trunk rail
road to Albany, arrived at this place on the
I7th, having completed the survey of nearly
straight line between the two points. The
time occupied in the survey has been nine
teen woiking days. The distance is one
hundred and two miles; the distance from
I the junction to Brunswick is sixty-seven
’ mi'es, making the entire distance from
Brunswick to Albany one hundred and six
ty-nine miles.
The character of the line is—from the
junction to Allapaha, thirty-two miles—near
ly level—thence to the headwaters Withla
coochee, fifteen miles—favorable with light
grading—thence to the m ighboihoi.d of Isa
bells, thirty-six-miles—broken and heavy
graping—thence to Albany, nineteen miles
—favorable.
The highest point on the line is seventy
six md* s from junction and twenty-six toiler
from Albany. Elevation abovejunction, two
’ hundred and seventy five feet; above Al
bany, two hundred and ten feet; above tide
water at Savannah, lour hundred and twerny
1 feet. Flint river at its present stage is thirty
feet above the junction and ot e hundred and
seventy five feet above tide-water at Savan
nah.
The surveying party consists of Wm. W.
Billopp and John Postell. assistant engineers:
Geo. Pettigrew, ehainman ; Ut banns Dari
and Thomas W. Dunn, rodmen, and six ue
i
Examinations will be made by the party
on their return, with the purpose of making;
improvements in the line. The people along
the line are very friendly to the project.
A report with estimates for the cost of a
road upon this line, as we have remarked
in another article, will probably be made at
an early day. — Albany ( Go.) Patriot , May
18tA.
Democratic Sentiment.
The “Southern Confederacy ” a Democrat
ic paper of Atlanta, thus walks into his Ex
cellency, Joseph E. Brown:—
•\Ve venture the assertion, and in the face
of its consequents, that when the secret his
tory of Joseph E. Brown is exposed, fas it
soon will be,) his party will loath him, and
his Church disavow him. He never made a
profession that was not designed fora trap;
nor did he ever seriously and with hottest
purpose redeem a promise made to anybody
but himself.”
:
“Since the days of the Yazoo fraud, the ‘
treason of Arnold, there lias been no event
puldicorprivate, mo;e villanous, unprincipled
and corrupt than the famous Dalton Plot or
iginated by Joseph E. Brown, ace* pied by
Howell Cobb, and endorsed hy John H. 1
Lumpkin.”
The True Church.
The church is important only as it adminis
ters to purity of heart and life; every church
which so ministers is a good one: no matter
how, when, or where it grow up; no matter
whether it worship on its knees or on its feet,
or whether its ministers are ordained by pope,
bishop, pre-byter or people; these arc secondary
things, and ot no comparative moment. The
church which opens on heaven is that, and that
only, in which the spirit of heaven dwells. The
church wla-re worship rises to God’s ear, is
that, and that only where the soul ascend*.
No mutter whether it be gathered in cathedral
<r bam ; whether the minister speak from care
fully prcpirtd notes, or from immediate, fervent,
irrepressible suggestion.
Board of Examiners. —The Governor has
appointed the lolluwing named gentlemen a
Committee to attend the examination of the
Classes in the University of Georgia, com
mencing Tuesday, 21st June next
Hon. Henry R. Jackson, Chatham Cos.
Col. Solomon Cohen, “ “
“ Yelverton P. King, Greene “
“ Henry H. Cumining, Richmond”
“ Thomas L.-Cooper, Fulton 11
Rev. Willian Flinn: Baldwin u
Hon. M. J. Welborn, Muscogee “
Hon. A. A. Allen, Decatur “
Col. W. M. W. Paine, Telfair
“ Peter Alexander, Upson “
Hon. E. A. Nisbet, Bibb “
“ Wm. H. Hunt, Cobb “
Dr. H. V. M. Miller, Floyd “
Col. M. C. M. Him iiend, Clark “
Rev. Dr. Nathan Hoyt, “ “
Fed. Union ‘24th. ! .. . 8
From the Augusta Constitutionalist.
Reduction of the Legislature.
The composition of the two Houses of
the General Assembly of this State, is
determined by its Constitution, which
provides that each county shall be en
titled to one Senator and one r°presenta
ttvc, and that each of thirty-seven coun
ties, having the largest federal represen
tative population shall be entitled to two
representatives. It does not recognize
any element among all those which con
stitute the State as the basis of represen
tation in either House, but arbitrarily
fixes the number of their members. The
consequence is, that there are a great in
equalities in the representation ot the
different counties of the State in the Gen
eral Assembly, and a very unjust distri>
button of the benefits and burdens of
government among them—a majority of
the numbers of that body are elected by
a minority of the people of the State;
and the taxes which it levies are impo-ed
by those who do not pay them. In short,
he legislature of Georgia does not
present the people or the property, or
any other element of the State which it
is practicable or proper to use as a basis
of reoresentation.
We have prepared two tables, which
strikingly illustrate this fact.
The first shows in one column the re
presentative population of eight counties,
and in another parallel column, the re
presentative population of other e ght
counties which have the same number ot
Representatives iu the legislature, as fol
lows :
Appli-g 2.775 Franklin 10.537
; Clliicb 584, .lasper **.615
lode 2 vli*| Jeff raon 6,96 g
Montgomery 1 tM’7| J"Uea 7,694
Ktttmi 2404* Marion Br3t
Tatuall 2,887* Morgan 7.000
T hair 2 654 1 Thoiims 8 039
Mare 3,771| Up-on 7.540
The eight counties in the first column
have it w ill be seen, a population of nine
teen thousand five hundred and ninety
nine, and they are entitled, by the pro
visions of the ( on* titution, to sixteen re
presentatives in the legislature. The
e ght in the second column have a popu
lation of sixty-six thousand one hundred
*uid twenty-one, but they are entitled to
sixteen representatives only, in the legis
lature. The representation of the coun
ties in the two columns is the same w hilst
there is a difference in their population
ofnearly twenty-seven thousand. If we
had the statistics of population in many
of the ne*w counties which have been form
ed by the legislature, since the last cen
-uis, we might show even more clearly
that we have done by the above table,
i hat the people of Georgia are not repre
sented in the legislature.
The second table w hich we have pre
pared to illustrate the inequalities ol re
presentation in our General Assembly,
contains in one column the amount of tax
es, paid into the State Treasury, in 1858,
by twelve counties, and in a parallel
column, the amount paid by twelve other
counties, entitled to the same representa
, tion in the legislature, as follow’s:
Charlton *43'...'.*, ] tougher ty *5 4M.11
Coffee 664 !■’ £ hut 4 94” Is
Cos q'li’t 296 24 Kuit >u 5.125 13
Harralsou 602.09 j -laMier 5.439 63
Irwin 466 91 J off rsoii 4,654,57
Mill*-r. 572 53 liitim 4.727 6 *
I’irrce 2tis 73, Lowndes 4,588 47
Ration 550,25 Morgan 5 311,71
Towns 402 69, Pike 4.023.77
Wide 494,8-'! Thu ns 6 886,25
v\ ilc x 513 16j Twiggs 4.128 32
V\ yi.e 564,94, Upson 4,494.50
‘lhe twelve counties in the first column,
it w ill be observed, pay into the Treas
ury five ill uisand eight, hundred and
twenty-eight dollars and five cents (w h eh
is about one-half of the amount they draw
out of it every year), and they are entitled
to twenty-four representatives in the leg
iidature ; whilst the twelve in the second
column pay fifty-nine thousand seven
hundred seventy-seven dollars and fifteen
cents into the Treasury (which is about
six times as much as they draw out of it
every year,) and are only entitled to
twenty-four representatives in the legist
lature. The representation of ihe coun
ties in the two columns is the same,
whilst there is a difference in the amounts
which they contribute to the support of
the government —in their property esti
mated by the taxes they pay —of more
ihan fifty thousand dollars. It is very
clear, fiom this table, that the legislature
of Georgia does not represent the pro
perty ot the State.
We have thus shown that the legisla
ture of Georgia does not represent its
people or its property ; and we might
very easily show that it does not repre
sent any other of the many elements w hich
constitute the State. A reduction and
radical re-organization of the body is
necessary to equalize representation in it,
to establish it on some just basis, and to
secure a fair distribution of the benefits
and burdens of government among the
people of the State.
From the Constitutionalist.
The Legislature of Georgia—New
Counties.
Among the tables of statistic* appended
to the last annual report of the Comp
troller General of the .state, there is one
which show* the number of polls of poor
I children returned in each county in 1857;
tin* number of voters in each county in
1857 ; the amount of the poor school fund
paid to eacli county in 1857 ; the amount for
per diem and mileage of members of the
Legislature paid to each county in 1857 ;
the total amount drawn from the Treasury
hy each county in 1857; and the net tax
paid into the Treasury by each county in
the same year. Some interesting facts may
be learned hy an examination of the statis
tics contained in this table. One of these
, facts is that more than one fourth of the
counties of the State draws from the treasu
ry, in the pay of her Representatives, and
in their share of the poor school fund, more
than they pay into it. The following table
prepared from that appendix to the Comp
troller’s Report, to which we have referred,
exhibits the net tax paid into the Treasury
in 1857 by twenty-one counties, and the
amount drawn out by them during the same
year.
AW Tax. Am't Drawn
Appling, 8 701 8? 804
Berrien, 756 887
Charlton, 399 824
i Clinch, 786 963
; Coffee, 490 824
Colquitt, 225 8:38
Dade, 620 967
Fannin, 580 1,661
Gilmer, 757 1,368
Habersham, 1,424 1,469
Lumpkin, 1,230 1,828 !
Miller 384 803
Paulding, 890 1,025
Pickens, 453 1,278
Rabun, 411 1,009
Telfair, Cl 9 848
Towi.s, 31(5 1,034
Union 249 1,309 j
Ware, 683 913
Wayne, 456 976
Worth, 602 864 j
$12,337 $22,512
These twenty-one counties, it will be ob
served, draw from the Treasury” nearly twice !
as much as they pay into it. Some of them
draw three times the amount they pay in,
and some of them draw, in their share of
the poor school fund alone, a larger amount 1
than they pay in. ,
i
But, the table in the Comptroller's Re- 1
port, from which we have taken the above ’
1 statement, was prepared from the tax digests ‘
and Treasurer’s report, for 1857. Since that ]
time a number of new counties hav’e been 1 I
organized by the Legislature, and among
them, Banks, Brooks, Clayton, Dawson,
Echols, Glasscock, Milton, Mitchell, Pierce,
Quitman, Schley, White and Wilcox, which
pay as little into the Treasury as any equal
number of counties in the State. Adding
these to the twenty-one we havegivcn above,
we have a list of thirty-four counties, (more
than one fourth the number in the State,)
which draw from the Treasury every year
more than they pay into it. A large major
ity of the counties in this list, it will beseen,
are new counties, which have been created
by the Legislature in the last ten years.
Ist. This statement shows that the results
of the policy which the Legislature has pur
sued for several years past, in creating new
counties wherever they were demanded,
have been to increase the expenses of the
Governmeut, w'thout increasing its reve
nues ; to destroy all equality in representa
tion in the General Assembly, (for the thir
ty-four counties we have named, have as
much weight in that body, as thirty-four
! others that we might name, which have
twice as many voters, and pay five times as
much taxes as they do,) and to produce an
unjust distribution of the burdens and bene
fits of government among the counties of the
State. The Legislature must be reduced,
and radically reorganized.
“0 Fortune! Fortune! all men call
thee fickle."— Thu? wrote Shaksjieare ; and
probably in his day the sentiment was well
timed and appropriate; but in these times,
the “blind goddess” is more disposed to dis
pense her favors than in “days of yore.’’—
Those fortunate pet sons who have recently
received handsome prizes in the lotteries
managed by WOOD, EDDY & Cos., have no
reason to exclaim the f< rtune is fickle. By
addressing the above finn, at Augusta, Ga.,
or Wilmington, Del., (who are the succes
sors of the well known firm of Sam’l Swan
A C 0.,) and enclosing #lO, So or A-2 50, for a
whole, half or quarter ticket in any of their
grand schemes, purchasers will be surprised
to realize how poor an estimate Shakspeare
had of the character of the goddess.— Sun
day Mercury.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, MAY 28. 1859.
Tc Cerrespondents.
JferjT W e are crowded for space, and there
fore have no room for such communications
as the one recently sent us from Barnes
ville.
Gody’s Book.—The No. for June has been
on the table for several days, aod is, as usual,
replete with the beautiful and the agreeable.
Episropal Chart h. —W e are requested to
give notice that Bight Rev. Bishop Elliott
will officiate in the Episcopal Church of Ma
con on next Lord’s Day.
Temperance.—liev. S. Landrum will de
liver an address on Temperance next Sunday
evening, at the Baptist Church.
The War among the Pathies.
Our Allopathic friend, Dr. Smith, asks a
hearing to-day, through our columns, in re
ply to our other friend, Dr. M. S. Thomson,
to whom the like privilege was granted, last
week. This is a war in which we shall not
take sides, as we are rather, fortunately or
unfortunately, on both sides of the question!
We mean by that, that we are Ecclectic in
our Medical views, and take the good, when
we discover it, out of all pathies that present
themselves. In medicine as in theology we
are Reformers. Antiquated dogmas in either
science are an abomination. We therefore
go for progression in all things. We, also,
necessarily, go in for enlightened discussion,
(hat truth may be made manifest and man
kind benefitted. In this as in other things,
even “error may be tolerated, if truth and
reason are left free to combat it.
I. 0. 0. F.
Celebration in Honor of the R. W. G.
Lodge, Jane Ist, 1859.
The two Lodges, and all visiting Broth
ers that may he in the city, will assemble at
Odd Fellows Hall at 31 o’clock, P. M.
At 4J o’clock the procession will be form
ed by the Grand Marshal of the day, and
proceed through the principal streets to
Ralston’s Hull, when an address will be de
livered by Rev. Bro. W. A. Rogers, a mem
bet of Warren Lodge, No. 20, at Grffin.
The members of the Grand Lodge, and all
visiting members in the city, are cordially
invited to unite with us on this occasion.
The ladies particularly, and the public are
invited to attend.
At 8 o’clock, P. M., the Order will assem
ble again at the Lodge Room, for the pur
pose of forming a procession, and march to
the Hall over Joseph Waterman’s Store,
there to partake of a supper to be given by
the members of Franklin and United Broth
ers Lodges.
The officers and members of the Grand
Lodge, and all members of the Order in
good standing, are respectfully invited to,
join us on this occasion.
Committee Franklin Lodge, No. 2.—T. P.
Stubbs, I>. T. Driggers, and 11. B. Tread
well.
Committee United Brothers Lo<lge, No ft—
J. J. Forsyth, E. C. Grannis, and Geo. It.
Barker.
Th* Kiunler Republican.
Tho attempt of this journal to convict us
of inconsistency, for wishing a full organi
sation of the American party, or none, is so
excruciatingly witty, that we have not the
heart to respond fully, to its late article
touching political matters. Our position
: was simply this—that a full organization of
the party was necessary to call out the whole
strength of the opposition. Otherwise, the
tight would be irregular, spotted, and un
productive of good results. We are of the
same opinion still, and but for the lukewarm
ness of some journalists, and the disposition
of others to give in their adhesion, in ad
vance, to Joe Brown, there would be little
difficulty in saving all we now have, and
perhaps gaining something more in the ap
proaching canvass.
But let the election for Governor go by de
fault, and it will be ini]>ossible to rally the
full strength of the party upon the candi
dates for the minor stations. Such a poliey
will be very apt to lose us the 3rd and 7th
Districts, as the contest will be placed on
personal grounds, and victory will enure to
those who make the best impression upon the >
people, irrespective of party principles. In
such a case, every American will feel at per- ;
feet liberty to support his personal friend, in
I preference to his political, as would not be
the case if his party was fully organized on
principle.
As to the course of the “Citizen,” we do 1
not know that we are responsible to the Re
publican, in any event. Heretofore, our i
“private inclinations” have been waived, for
the good of the party with which we have j
acted for years past, without variableness or
the shadow of turning. But as we have not
made our “bread and butter” in that field
of labor, but rather the contrary, we might
possibly be excusable for consulting our per
sonal friendships, for this once, especially as
wo have the example of the “ Republican,” |
and others, in showing a disposition to let all , !
party organization “ slip ,” so far as the most i
important office is concerned. ‘ 1
Congressional nomination.
At a large moeting of the Whigs and
Americans of Baldwin County, on Saturday
last, the following preamble and resolutions
were adopted, with but two dissenting votes,
those of R. M. Orme, sen., and R. M.
Orme, jr.:
On motion, R. H. Ramsey, Ksq., was call
ed to the Chair, and Wm. H. Scott appoint
ed Secretary. The meeting being thus or
ganized, Gen. S. P. Myrick introduced the
following preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, this meeting does not desire or
design by its action to reflect upon the po
litical conduct, or depreciate the political
claims of any one in this District to Con
gressional preferment, but has been called to
express its convictions in the propriety of
adopting and following the old Republican
usage in leaving an open and fair field to
j aspiring friends, untrammelled and uncon
trolled by the influence of a District Con
vention ; and whereas, we have learned that
our distinguished fellow citizen, Col. Aug.
! 11. Kenan, has, at the pressing instance of
friends, consented to become a candidate,
Be it therefore Resolved, That we cordial
ly appro.e his course, and in thus endorsing
that course, we feel that we are endorsing a
1 gentleman recognized by all as possessing
eminent ability and patriotism—one who
has never failed in any situation that he has
hitherto occupied, to advance and uphold
the interests of the county and State.
On a motion to adopt the foregoing. Mr.
R. M. Orme, jr., offered a set of resolutions,
against the Democracy in general, and in
i favor of the re-nomination of the Hon.
Joshua Hill, for Congress. These resolu
tions were, however, voted down, and the
, original resolutions were then put and car
ried. Also the following, offered by Gen’l
Sandford:
On motion of Gen’l Sanford, a committee
of three were appointed to notify Col. Ken
an of the proceedings of the meeting. He
was accordingly introduced to the meeting,
and in a most feeling and graceful manner
returned his heartfelt acknowledgements for
the honor he had received at their hands.
On motion, it was resolved that the pro
ceedings of this meeting be published in the
papers of the city.
R. H. RAMSEY, Chm’n.
Wm. H. Scott, Sec’y.
The Southern “ Recorder” speaks’rather
contemptuously of the proceedings of this
meeting, but we do not see why the Editors
should not allow the people of Baldwin to
express their views fully and freely, on the
subject before them. They surely have as
much right to their first choice for Congress
as the Recorder had to express its choice
i some weeks since. This journal did not
wait for a Convention to nominate, but./br
stalleil a choice by the people of the District,
as far as its urgency of Mr. Hill’s claims,
before hand, could do it.
Under these circumstances, we think that
Mr. Hill should not be a candidate, provided,
as we understand is the fact, the lower coun
ties of the District prefer Col. Kenan.
Man Killed.—A man named Graves, a
carpenter, was shot and killed at Osmond’s
saw mill, on the Savannah, Albany A Gulf
road, on Wednesday evening. We were
promised the particular?, bat the party who
was to furnish them has not reached our of
fice up to the time we are compelled to go to
press.
We learn that the body of the dead man
reached the city on last night’s train.
Savannah Morning News, ID.
Accident on the Central Railroad.—A
freight train ran over a horse last night,
some eight miles above the city, by which
six or seven car? were thrown from the track
and badly broken up. The engine passed
over the body of the horse and went clear.
It subsequently came down to the city and
took up a car for the passengers and mails
that came down by the night train and were
unable to proceed on account of the wreck.
We are pleased to learn that no one on the
train was injured. On account of the acci
dent, the night passenger and mail train to
Macon and Augusta did not leave the de
pot. — Savannah Republican , 20 th inst.
Tried to Escape.—Dr. Roberts the con
vict of infamous notoriety in our State, at
tempted lately a bribe so as to make his es
cape from the Penitentiary. The person
communicating the intelligence was, we
learn, advised to humor it, and accordingly
; about one o’clock on the proposed night,
Roberts made his appearance at the wall
around the building with a bundle of clothes
a lot orskeleton keys, a good supply of nar
cotics, Ac, ripe for more rascality. But 10,
the Principal Keeper stood before him, when
he, with a blank countenance at once acknow
i ledge himself sold—that he was in for it.—
What followed is left to the imagination. —
AfilledgriUe Recorder , 24th.
Southern Field and Fireside.
We acknowledge the receipt of the first
; number of this new candidate for public fa
! vo”, the prospectus of which we published
I several weeks ago. Col. Janies Gardner is
the Publisher; Dr. Dan'l Lee, Agricultural
Editor; Wm. N. White, Horticultural Ed
itor, and W. VV. Mann, Literary Editor.—
With such a strong team, intellectually,
j backed by the ample means and energy of
Col. Gardner, and assisted by such contribu
tors as Judge Longstreet, the “Southern
Field and Fireside” cannot fail of success.
:In point of typographical appearance it
! cannot be excelled, while in intrinsic merit it
j is far superior to any Northern publication
that we have seen. Price £2 per annum, in
| advance.
The Supreme Court.
The Hon. C. J. McDonald having resign
ed his seat on the Supreme Court Bench,
Governor Brown has appointed Hon. Lin
ton Stephens, of Hancock, in his place. Mr.
S. has accepted, been sworn in, and taken
his seat. The chiefqualification, (we appre
hend,) of the appointee, is, that he in a
brother of “Aleck,” and a renegade Whig
Democrat! His judicial fame has never
spread far beyond the precincts of the vil
lage where he resides, but that may have
been for the want of opportunity. “ God
save the Commonwealth,” when small Gov
ernors have the appointing of small men to
large vacancies ! The Supreme Court will
certainly not be elevated much in dignity ,
and majesty by the late appointment, howev
er much it may be popularized !
Farm School.
We invite attention to the advertisement
of Rev. P. B. Martin, announcing the re
moval of his school from Henry county to
Montpelier Springs, Monroe county, ; bout
16 miles west of Maeon. This is an Agri
cultural as well as a Literary Institution, and
is peculiarly adapted to the education of pu
pils who wish to follow the pursuits of the
Planter, in a scientific manner. Prof. I. N.
Loomis has chnrge of the Scientific Depart
ment, and he is too well known as a skillful
Chemist and Botanist, to need any eulogy
: from our pen. In the departments of Geol
ogy, Analytical Chemistry, Botany, &c.,
Professor Loomis has few equals, and he
wid also bring to the aid of Mr. Martin an
ardent enthusiasm in these branches, which
is the best guarantee of his success.
The Examination and Commencement ex
ercises of this Institution will take place on
the Bth and 9th of June next, and the at
tendance ol ail interested in the progress of
agricultural and practical education is re
spectfully invited. We wish every success
to this enterprize of Mr. Martin, being as
sured that he is qualified by experience and
mental qualifications for the particular task
he has imposed upon himself and being also 1
fully convinced that a practical school like I
his, is a desideratum in our system of educa
tion, which should be appreciated and sus
tained in a liberal spirit
State Aid Convention.—We no
tice and heartily approve the proposition to
hold a convention of the people of Georgia,
interested in developing the resources of the
State, at Atlanta, during the ensuing sum
mer. Such a convention would do much to
elicit proper information on the subject, and
to show the necessity, as well as the expedi
ency of “ State Aid ” to the more important
Railroad projects now initiated within the
limits of the Commonwealth.
“If this be Treason—make the most
of it.”
In the early days of the Republic, it was
deemed Treason to speak disparagingly of
the Government, or of its high functiona
ries. The ultra Federalists of the time of
elder Adams were in favor of a sedition law,
which severely punisLed not only overt net?
against the “powers that be,” but mere opin
ion, publicly uttered. But those days have
passed, and the people of the United States
have now the constitutional right, peaceably
to assemble for the discussion of public af
fairs, and to devise ways and moans for a
redress of political grievances.
It is, therefore, with no little amazement,
that we see a respectable press like the Sa
vannah Republican, indulging in the most
violent denunciations of the late Southern
Convention, at Vicksburgh, and endorsing
the foolish charge of that broken down po
litical hack, ex-Senator Foote, of treason
against a majority of said Convention. Has
it come to this, that some of the best citizens
of the South cannot peaceably and publicly
assemble in council, to deliberate on the
interests of their section, without being
thus branded by a Southern press !
What did the Convention do to cause all
this ujtroar, on the part of the anti-slavery
sentiment of the South?—why, they de
nounced the existing prohibitory laws against
the African Slave Trade, and demanded
their repeal. This i? the sum and substance
of what was done on this point. The Con
vention believed, as do nine-tenths of the
people of the South, that all such prohibito
ry laws are unconstitutional, because of their
discrimination against the slave-laborsystem
of the South in favor of the foreign labor
system of the North—and so believing they
demand a repeal of the said prohibitory en
actments. But, says the Republican, “Itis
absurd to supj>ose that Congress will repeal
the slave trade prohibition ” — therefore the
only rational conclusion is, that the Conven
tion plotted a “treasonable rebellion against
the Government.”
It is, then, treasonable to denounce any
unconstitutional measure! It is treasonable
to speak of Mr. Buchanan’s administration,
though corrupt as rotteness itself! It is
treasonable to denounce a majority of Con
gress—the Black Republicans—for their
machinations and schemes against the South
and her interests! And to reduce the prin
ciple to the argutnentum absurdum, the Re
publican itself has been guilty of treason, in
speaking against Joe Brown, the immacu
late ! The Lord preserve us, if such an idea
of treason is to prevail and become common!
o may all then bid adieu to our liberties,
and prepare our necks for the halter! We
must muzzle the press, and put a bit in our
mouths, for fear that, in discussing the
measures of Government, we mav be guilty
of sedition and treason.
But the Republican goes still further, and
calls upon the Legislature to prohibit the
meeting of the next Convention at Atlanta,
as proposed in the vote of adjournment. He
says:—
“ The next session of the Convention, we
perceive, is to be held at Atlanta, in this
State, on the second Monday in November,
1860—one week after the next Presidential
election, we presume to adopt the mode and
measures of redress for the prospective de
feat of the Democratic party. After thp
clear and unmistakable manifestations of her
disapproval of those conventions so often
given by Georgia, we consider this appoint
ment as nothing short of a positive insult to
the State, to be resented by every citizen
who feels an interest in her dignity and
good name. In view of the treasonable ob
jects developed at their late meeting, we
nope the next Legislature will take the mat
ter in hand, and positively forbid the assem
bling of such a body within our borders. —
The State of Georgia has distinctly repudia
ted the Convention and its objects, while her
own constitution and laws place upon them
the seal of condemnation. This is no soil for
the feet of disunionis's and traitors, and if
Dcßow, Stuikrath A Cos., will continue to
plot treason, and make war upon the harmo
ny of the Union, let them do it at home,
and not intrude themselves upon States who
have no sympathy for their schemes of mis
chief and folly.”
\\ e regret to set* such silly hectoring upon
the part of our seaboard contenqiorarv, hut
have not the most distant idea that the Leg
isiature of Georgia, or the people, will ever
sanction the doctrines advanced by the Re
publican. Nor do we belive that such a
prohibition as that suggested could ever he
. carried out, if it were enacted. A large ma
jority of the jieople of Georgia are essential
y Southern Rights in their feelings, und,
, in our opinion, were the question put to the
people, to-day, on the issues presented by
the Southern Convention, they would em
phatically endorse them in their totality.—
We are no disunionist, secessionist, nor filli
buster, as our record in 1850 and 1851 and
I since, will show conclusively, but we have
ever been the friend of the freedom ot speech
and of conscience, and the loe of all intol
erance and tyranny. We therefore say, to
the Southern Convention is ts, come and hold
your next meeting in Atlanta. You will he
welcome to our midst, and we think we can
guarantee you entire immunity from all the
pains and penalties of treason, invoked ujton
you by the Footes and Sneeds of the land.
Free discussion is the inalienable privilege
of American freemen —of Southern free
men—and woe he to that man who would
attempt to deprive any portion of our peo
ple of the privilege.
In fine, we would suggest to those intense
ly conservative prints amongst us, whose
proclivities so obviously point to the North
pole, that perhaps the next Legislature will
see fit to pass a law defining what is treason
to a State or one's section. If giving aid,
encouragement, and sympathy to Northern
sentiment on the subject of slavery, and de
nouncing Southern men for pro-slavery
views is not within the meaning of the term,
j we know not what ought to be.
Bibb Superior Court. —Judge Cochran
presides over this Court, this week, in room
of Judge Lamar, who is down with inilara
matory rheumatism.
Death ofJudge Cone.
Augusta, May, 19.
The Hon Francis H. Cone, died, at his
residence in Greensboro, yesterday, after a
long illness.
Death of Dr. Girard ey.
Augusta, May 19. f
Dr. Girardey, who was recently shot by
the accidental discharge of a pistol, died
about 12 o’clock last night
Fifth Congregressional District. Cos!.
James R. Gamble, of Chattooga county, is
announced as an American candidate to re
present the Fifth Congressional District in
the next Congress.
3rd. District.—We held out an
in onr last week’s paper, a? to the
of persuading the Hon. R. P. Trippeto m r
again for Congress in this District. f>..
“ wish was father to the thought,” perhi
but we are assured that the
tlenian will by no mean* consent to all, v
his name to be used in this connection 1„
fore the nominating convention. We mid
this correction in time, so that the Amcr
cans of the District luav be on the look ,--
for bis successor.
FAITH.
There is a flower, a holy one,
That blossoms on my path.
No need of dew or daily sun.
Or falling showers it hath;
It blossoms as brightly in the storm
As on the cloudless dav.
And rears unharmed its‘ample form
When others fade away.
That plant is Faith ; its holy leave.
Reviving odors shed,
Upon the lowly place of grief,
Or mansions’of the dead.
God is the sun ; his living light.
In happy hours he lends.
And silently, in sorrow’s night,
Religion’s dews descends.
i Plant of my soul, be fading thing.
By other hands caressed.
But through life's weary wandering..
I’ll l>ear thee in my breast:
And when the icy power shall chill
The fountain of mv breath,
Thy loveliness shall cheer me still,
E'en in the hour of death.
Republic Monthly—Oaksraith’s X. Y
Monthly, of this title, improves vastly as it
progresses. It is now one of the very best
Monthlies published in the United States.
Hints Toward Physical Perfection: or the
Philosophy of Human Beauty; showing
how to Acquire and Retain Bod ly Symme
try, Health, and Vigor; secure Long Life;
and avoid the Infirmities and Deformities 0 j
Age. By D. H Jacques. New York: Fow
ler and Wells, publishers, 308 Broadway
Price sl.
This is a work which, if we mistake not, i
destined to command almost universal attention,
and awaken everywhere a deeper interest in the
physical improvement of the race than has yet
been manifested: as it shows how certain and
easy this improvement may be made bv the use
i of the perfectly legitimate means therein poin
i ted out. Its revelations of the laws of human
configuration, on which symmetry and beauty
depend, are net less interesting and important
than they are novel and surprising; showing
as they do, that the form and features of even
the mature man or woman (and much more
; those of the child) may be modified at will, and
to an almost unlimited extent—that we have
the power to change, gradually but surely, the
shape aDd arangement of bone, fibre, and fluid,
thus growing, day by day, more beaulilul or
more ugly, according to the direction given to
the vital forces.
It will lie found deeply interesting to both
sexes (but especially to women) and to all ages
and we earnestly commeud to all for whom
health,strength,and beauty have any attractions
to parents, as a guide to the right performance
of their all-important functions and duties; to
teachers, who may learn from it how to develop
the miDds and bodies of their pupils harmoni
ously together; to young women, who will not
look in vain in its pages for the secrets of that
womanly beauty and personal attractiveness
which they very properly desire to possess: and
to young men, wno will find it a manual of
rules for the development of these high quali
ties of physical vigor and manliness which will
command the admiration of their own sex no
less than the love of the other. Illustrated with
twenty plates and a large number of cuts, exe
cuted in the highest style of art.
Four D*ys Later From Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP.
CITY Os BMTIMORE.
Cotton Advanced 3-lttth to l-4d
BREAD3TUFF3 DEBLINED.
St. Johns, N. F., May 20.—The steam
ship City of Baltimore was boarded oft’Caps
Rice to d.y by the yatch of the Associated
Press. The steamer brings dates to the,l]th
test., being four days later than previous ar
rivals.
The sales of Cotton for three days were
29,000 bales, with an advance of 3-16ths
to }d. The market closed quiet ami steady,
There was a considerable decline in bread
stuff?.
Provisions quiet and quotations nominal.
Consols were quoted at 91f to 91$.
No battle had been fought on the Continent,
when the steamer left.
Additional Canada.
Halifax, May 19. —The Archbishop oi
Vienna has issued a pastoral letter, attacking
those who permit the existence of crime? in
Piedmont, acid in which he censures the
ambitious designs of the Emperor Napoleon'.
A counter revolution had occurred in the
duchy of Ibo-ma, and the Duchess had re
■Brned to attempt to quell it.
The latest intelligence from the Austrian
aimy was retrograding. The mac nearer,
however, was not undet stood.
Rome continued tranquil
The mission of sir Moses Moxtefioiu to
the Holy Sc< at Rome, had failed. Sit Mo
ses, with his American colleague, has been
at Rime for some weeks making effirts to
either obtain possession of the Jewish hoy
Mortara, or to obtain some kind guarantee
against future repetitions of such cases.
A letter fivm Vienna, to the editor < f the
London Tinas, says . “Turkey is on the
eve of raising one hundred and twenty thou
sand men, to he concentrated at Schumla.
This is a fortified city of European Tuikej:
located in a gorge, protected on three side?
by uiounUios; and is on the the great route
from Wallachia to Constantinople. The Rus
sians attempted in vain to take Schmnla in
17 74, and 1810, and 1828 it is probable
Turkey apprehends another attack by the
Russians in 1859.
A battle was hourly expected to take place
between the lielbgerents in Sardinia, bir up
to the sailing of the Canad#, no action had
been reported.
A troop train had come in collision near
Verona, with the powder wagons. Some
of the kegs bad exploded, killing twenty
three and wounding one hundred and twen
tour Austrians
The celebrated Dr. Dionvsius Laroner.
eminent writer and lecturer on scientific
subj<-cts, died recently in Paris.
The Emperor Napoi.f.os has officially an
nounced that Austrian subjects, residing i n
France, can remain, but their conduct must
he such as not to render their expulsion
necessary.
Ti e London Daily A eics says that France
is about to mobilise, or call into active ser
vice, seven or eight hundred thousand men,
anl that the French army of obseivation on
the Rhine will be increased to five hundred
thousand.
Austrian vessels arriving at French porlf,
arid arriving ignorant of the existence ol war,
are allowed six weeks to remain ia French
wa'ers.
It is stated that Queen Victoria had sent
an autograph letter to the Emperor Napo*
leon, expressing her confidence in his strict
honor, and tha: he will not go one step fur*
ther than he assured her some months ago.
he would go.
It was resorted that France was endeav
oring to secure neutrality of Prussia, promis
ing not to form an army of observation on
the Rhine, and to circumscribe the war to
Italy.
Later from California and Mexico
New Orleans, May 20.—The steamship
Coatz.*coalcos has arrived below, with dates
from San Francisco to the fiih of May.
The Golden Gate and Orizaba brougr.’
down two millions of which was for New
York. Business was dull. Markets un
changed , and raining reports favorable.
The Reindeei from China, for Boston, was
wrecked recen Jy about 100 miles north oj
Manilla; the ship and cargo were a total
loss.
By this arrival dates from Minatitlan w
the 17th are received.