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panto, all things includes not only all nun j
Can animals, vegeubk-saudmiaerals. -
Strange to tell, (but for the fact tfaa it would
be -trtugc that an advocate of enoleas mise
ry to be consistent,) you almost immediate
ly assert that there appears then an invinci- i
ble necessity, in tne context itself, for the re
striction of tins’ Universal term ‘all things .’
Tins necessity exists not in the context, but
in the nature of thing*. The context does, as
you assert, embrace ‘all animal-*, vegetables
and minerals.’ Then the very nature of >
things requires us to limit the to pant>i, all
things, of the text, so as to exclude ‘all ani
mals, vegetables and minerals,’ for the rea
s-m that they incapable of rebelling against
G and. and hence cannot, in the very nature
of thing*, need reconciliation. You were su
anxious to teach me ‘the distinction between
the 39 articles of the English Church, and the
writings of Jeremy Taylor or Richard Hook
er,’ that yon overlooked the distinction be
tween the import of the language of the
context and the nature of the subject embraced
x i the context A critic, my dear sir, should
keep both eyes open.
As you seem anxious to disc-usss the sub
ject of the Trinity, I now propose to discuse
it with you after this discussion is through ;
but it is out of jdacc here, and hence I can
not follow you into a discussion of that point
now-. Here is a chance for you to regain,
on another Held, the laurels you are losing
in this one.
“It plessed the Father that in him should |
all fullness dwell,” you say “is a distinct af
firmation of the proper divinity of Christ.” j
1 cannot well help saying, tliat if this be ,
true, then Paul prayed, Eph. 3; 19, for the 1
Ephesians to be made very God, for he said,
“that ye might be filled with all the fulness of
God,” and here I find your same Greek term
plerotna, rendered fullne.-*. That argument •
of vours looks like it had been to the wars,
and lost a limb in the battle. But let all
you say of Christ be taken for granted, and
what have you gained ? J ust nothing at all. |
If he died as very God, he died, you say, i
for all, and your creed says that -‘the otfer- !
ing of Christ once made, is that perfect re- ‘
demption, propitiation and satisfaction for
alt the sin* of the whole world, both original
and actual.” What is any man to be damn
ed for t Because he will not believe, you
will doubtless say. Unbelief is an actual,
sin, and Christ has made perfect satis faction ‘
for it. Xow what is any man to be damned j
for ? You are greatly agitated in reference j
to the idea, that God is the author of siu, |
and for fear, I suppooe, that I might not say j
so, and thus give you au opportunity of vent
ing your indignation agaiust such a wicked
notion, you say that if I mean that he “has
created untold millions of men under the
necessity of sinning,” you “do not scruple
to denounce it as a foul and atrocious libel
upon the character of God.” Softly, my
dear sir, if you please, and let “patience
have her perfect work,” as James exhorts.
1 ou shall find out what I >nr an, fast enough
for the prosperity of your own system of
faith. If it be “a foul and atrocious libel
upon the character of God.” to say that he
created men under the necessity of sinning
for a brief space, in order that he might
work out a glorious end at last what lan
guage could properly characterize a system
that says, as yours d*oe, that he placed them
here with a perfect knowledge that they
would sin, ana for sinning, just as he knew
they would, for a few brie?years upon earth,
he will place them, after death, where they
will b forced to *xn, on and on, to all eterni
ty? Do yon catch my meaning ? An ad
mirable system of faith is yours !
What a convenient way you have ot'ans
wering an argument. It is “the merest
twaddle,” is the magic word with which you
sweep away a half a column of my argu
ment. That beats Blitz or Anderson to
death. Xeither of them could have done it
in double the time. But I suppose spiritual
magic ought to take precedence of natural
magic. Again: “Four of your live argu
ments have been refuted the thousandth
time,” is a second magic phrase, by which
you make short work of another batcJi of
®y arguments. Although it is rather un
pleasant for gentlemen ofa large capital to do
a retail business ; yet I am inclined to the
opinion that our readers would rather see
you retute my arguments once, than to hear
you say that other* had done so a thousand
time*. Be accommodating my dear sir, and
try your hand a little, just to let our readers
see how it can be done. You have time and
space to quote doggerel verses from John
Peck, and surely you can take time to ex
amine for a scriptural argument. You will
be, directly, trying to prove endless puni-li
ment. W ill you please* point us to the
place where the law is recorded that has
endless punishment for a penalty ? One
more request, and an easy one to comply
with. w ill you be kind enough to give me
true rendering of the phrase ton aiona kai
ep’ aiona kai eti. I mean no harm by mak
ing this request; but I find the phrase in the
course of my reading, and I would like to ,
know if we agree as to w liat ought to be its 1
true rendering. You shall know what I
mean in due time.
A few words about your poetry. All the
point it has about it is based upon the idea
that temporal calamities are a blessing, if
there is a state of happiness only which
men enter after being taken out of time by
.-uch calamities. 1 presume iny friend, Mr.
Scott, feels sure of heaven were he to die to
day. W hat a blessing lie must feel would
be conferred upon him, should some miscre
ant murder him and send him right off to
heaven. Have you children, sir? If so,
what a blessing would be conferred upon
both you and them, if an incendiary should
fire your dwelling, and wLile your babies
slumber in unconscious innocence, sweeping
them oft to heaven through the conflagra
tion. Believitg, as you do, that infants,
dying in infancy, are sure of heaven, while
there are many chances against them, if
they should pass the line of accountability,
you could but praise God for permitting the
incendiary to hurry your infants up to the
mansions of the blessed ; and your neighbors
would doubtless regard you, for so doing’ a
paragon of piety. But once more, what a
blessed thing it was for young Crockett that
he murdered poor old humdrum. But for
this act he might have gone on in his wick
edness till he landed in perdition; but the
murder brought him to his senses. In pri
son he was visited by your brethren ; there
he was hopefully converted ; your brother
baptised him: and from the gallows he
swung immediately into Heaven. His two
colleagues ir. crime will doubtleas travel the
same road; and there will be three murderers
safely housed in heaven. Tins glorious re
sult will he achieved only at the loss of poor
Landrum ssoul; for he, I believe, is repre
sented as having been given to intoxication,
and he was hurried into eternity without be
in allowed time to repent, and the aid of the
clergy to prepare him for the journey. Your
system saves nearly all the murderers, rr
gurdless of the fate of their rietims. What
an engine of salvation the gallows has be
come in these latter days.
The wicked murderers are too bad
To stay in this fair land ;
The hangs man therefore sends them up,
lo dwell at God’s right hand.
w- 1 these rascals are thus blessed,
n> ltn homes in heaven above;
Their i ictims down to hell are driven,
By God, whose nature’s love.
I am no poet, as your friend John Pock
is; but my poetry is equally as true as his.
and serves to show that this subject, like
many others, has two sides to it. I have
now attended to all which seems to be im
portant in your second article: and shall
proceed to introduce further aftirmativc tes
tlmonv.
I rei,-r you now to the oath of Jehovah.
f^**** 1 in Isaiah **. 34: “ I have
m. the wor< l is gone out of
return th*t m ”S' lte °osness, and shall not
Ind eVrv to? 10 knee shall bow.
# ffS Kl.*,*, ■=£ —*.v **
strength,” You will tlmtT’w* 1
left out the word one which the r * J 1 * 1 ' 6
supplied. Here then is the record,-d‘oath of
him who says: “I am God and there i!
none else.” that every tongue ‘Shall say, i n
the Lord have I righteousness and strength.”
When every tongue takes this will
they swear truly or falsely. If falsely, then
God’s oath requires him to cause them to
swear falsely; for he has sworn by himself
that they shall bow their knees to Lim, and
take this oath. If they shall swear truly,
t en will their bo none finally unrighteous.
Youmav undertake to limit this language
by the phrase “seed of Israel,” in the next
verse , but if so, you come in conflict with
Pau!; for he quotes.in Philippi*™ 2; 9, 10,
11, as follows : “ W herefore God ha!* high
ly exalted him, and gl ven him a name which
is above every name; that at the name of
Jesus every knee should bow, of things in
heaven, and things in earth, and things un
der the earth ; and that every tongue Thould
confess that Jesus Cerist is Lord, to the glo
ry of God the Father.” Paul, you see, as
serts that every tongUe shall make the tame
c mfeesion, in tite tame way, to the same
vii: nuaioxT or Gop ibs Txjam.
When this language meets it* fulfillment,
there will surely be no sinners in the uni
verse.
I shall close this article with Paul’s declar
ation. 1 Tim. 4; 9, 11 : This is a faithful
saving, and worthy of til acceptation, for
therefore we both labor and suffer reproach,
because we trust in the living God, who is
the Saviour of all men, specially of those
that bel.eve. These things command and
tench.” Here is Paul’s explicit declaration
that “the living God i* the Saviour of all :
men.” How can this be true, and yet mil
lions remain unsaved ? Will you tell me
that faith is the condition of salvation. I
grant that this special ‘declaration is conse
quent upon, and enjoyed only through faith,
as the means by which it is realized. But
l the fact that believers enjoy a sjtecial salva
tion, through faith, does not nullify the’olh-
Cr great truth that God is the Saviour of all
t men. All are not saved in this life, and
hence, in order that Pant's declaration may
I be verified, the great salvation must be con
ferred in the immortal state. That “the
( living (iod is the Saviour of all men” is “a
faithful saying, and worthy of all accepta
tion:” hut it was acause of reproach, 18<>0
j years ago, to believe and preach this doctrine.
Xotwithstanding the reproach, though,
Paul says to Timothy : “ These things
COMMAND AND TKACH.”
Respectfully vours,
ii. B. CLAYTOX.
From the Jefferson (Texas* Herald.
The African Slave Trade
The constitutionality of this measure
having been fully discussed by ihe Press
since the appearance of Mr. Reagan's
circular 1 find it useless to recur to it
now. The grounds assumed by Mr. R.
and by which he has seen fit to agitate
and endeavor to distract the Democratic
party have been proven without founda
tion, aud dangerous, ceply dangerous to
the interests ofHhe South and her institu
tions.
The Jefferson Gazette of the 20th ult.,
thoroughly overthrows the ‘‘late adopt’
ed position” of Mr. lieagan by argu
ments and truths incontiovertable by
that gentleman or his friends.
1 would here take occasion to state
that the place allowed me will admit of
no lengthy arguments, but I am com
pelled to arrive at points by tin shortest
conclusion. Let us then look at the
present existing condition of the South,
see what it will lead to, and then consul
er the contrast to be r. ached by lhe re
opening of the African slave trade. We
now find negro property demanding such
high figures as to entirely exclude pur
chasers, save from ihe wealthy classes.
From this fact we plainly see that the
I institution will soon be in the hinds of a
few men; and we are equally aware of
. the fact that *‘.~e!f preservation and in
terest is the first and highest law.” Ihe
i cheaper is labor the mo-re valuable laud.
; Such is the reason why the lands of the
North and West, inferior in quality, de
mands so much greater price than the
lands of Texts. The great influx of pop
| ulation m ikes free labor cheap while the
high and exhorbitaut price of negroes I
make it unreasonable and hard to obtain ,
at the South.. A large portion >f the
; lands at the South (especially in Texas)
are owned by inr.-sUv*-h<dders. These j
; lands have long been held buck forreinu- j
, iterative prices, but instead of reaching
I the point, they are even reduced in val
lue by the high estimate of labor. With
* this class of men forbearance w ill event
ually cease to be a virtue, while necesai
’ ty and self preservation will torce them j
to fail into the system now being advo
cated by Cordova and others. Our large
slaveholders take a very unwise view
and unpatriotic course as regards their |
i own and the public good, and are using
themselves as the instruments of their J
; own destruction ! Such a conclusion ;
. can only be the result of a deliberate de
, sire and hope for self gain, without con
i sidering the direful effects likely to ac
company such a course. “A half loaf,
is better than no bread” is a trite saying, !
and one in its moral should demand se- j
rious attention at this time.
What then can be done to direct the j
tendency of things from such a course 1 ;
Simply by tho re-opening of the slave
trade which has so long been closed b)
an unconstitutional law of Congress so j
much’ to the detriment of the Southern
States and Southern people ! By that
means the pric*3 of negroes will be re
duced from twelve and fifteen hundred *
to six and seven hundred dollar.-.
When this is done every man can and
will be the owner of slave- - , and fir the
sustalnance of the institution the South
will be a unit. “In union there is strength.’
The landholder will be enabled to buy
because cheap labor has increased the
value of his lands and the heavy planter
will he no loser (as he now think-) be- j
! cause ihe increase in his real-estate will j
more than cover the deficit in the price
jof his slave property. What is the re
sult ia full ? We save the Union by
demanding our just rights and privileges; |
we help the National Treasury by in- i
creased taxable property, the mechanic ;
by giving him more to do, and the Fac- j
tories and starving million of our North
ern friends by furnishing more cotton to
be manufactured ; and more than all we !
regenerate and elevate (as we are taught
it is our duty by scripture) the brutish
j negro of Africa and bring him from a
state of degradation, to civilization and
plenty.
Lion. Cass’ Oi spalch to Foreign
Hi ulsters.
THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS.
Washington, July 7.
The important State paper as to the position
of the United States upon tiie question of neu
tral rights has been completed, and was .des
patched to all our Ministers in Europe by the
Persia on Wednesday. It will create a most
profound impression, and demonstrate that the
present administration will maintain the digni
ty, character and moral position of the United
Stales. As one of the first commercial nations
of the earth, we can no longer permit the grave
questions w hich may arise affecting commerce
| to be disposed of without our voice and iuflu
-1 ence being heard and felt in their adjustment.
The present manifesto lays down orotid prin
ciples which will govern us in the maintenance
of our rights as neutral, and there is every rea
-1 i-on to fe'.ieve that the positions now assumed
will be adopted by all the great nations of Ku
-1 rope. The pnDCipial points are of course with
reference lo a limitation of articles which shall
ibe deemed contraband of war. The United
States holds that nothing should be embraced
in this hst hut the direct and immediate muni
tions cf warfare, such as powder, muskets, can
non, lead and saltpetre, etc. Coal, which is the
very foundation of manufacturing and com
mercial transactions, is declared by the U. S.
not to bo contraband of war, and any attempt
to construe U otherwise will be viewed as an
encroachment upon our commerce. So, also,
are breadstufts not contraband of war. The
bread doctrine is also reiterated that a tree flag
covers the cargo.
Whilst the despatch makes no allusion to
privateering, it is well understood, as a set
tled principle of the American “d.ictrine, that
under no circumstances wll we abandon that
right.— Cor. A’. Y. Herald,
Stamped Envelopes.— G. P. Nesbit, of:
isew A ork, the Government contractor for
stamped envelopes, has received an order ,
from the Post Master General to suply the
departnent with one-million such envelopes, 1
combining the new seil-ruling improvement, j
These will be furnished aa they may be re
quired, with those now in use, at the sim- i
pie cost of manufacture—about five cents
per hundred above the present prices.
It is just as easy, and don't cost five cents
a hundred, to have a piece of paper the size I
of an envelope ruled iu heavy black lines to j
slip within while directing your envelope.
It does not strik us hower,as beginning ave- ‘
ry difficult feat in cbirography to put the
addreea upon an envelope in a readable i
style, without the assistance of lines.
The Afrirau and luler-Stute
Slave! rnde.
Some days since, alluding to a sugges
tive and forcibly written paragraph go
ing the rounds of newspaperdoni, we oh
served that its reference to the two trat
fics was alike strong and logical—in fact,
indisputable —and that if the one was
wicked, no doubt could possibly exist as
to the wickedness of the other.
Referring to the article in qne-tion,
and quoting Imm it, the Jackson (Miss.)
Esyle of the 28th ult. says :
et there are a class of croaking poli
ticians throughout the South, who, wheth
er sincerely or not, hold to the opinion
that because Congress some forty years
ago pas-ed an act in defiance of all just
principles and truth, that to buy or ob
tain a negro from Africa was piracy, and !
the penalty for being engaged in such
piracy was death—it is, forsooth, not
i competent for this age to say that it is
not piracy—and if they do so, they are
traitors. Now, it needs only a little
common sense to perceive the gist of the
whole question. Is not a negro from
Virginia an African 1 Os course. Con-
gress makes it piracy for a man to bring
a negro from Africa. Where is the dif
ference between the negro bought in
\ irginia and the one bought in Africa—
that is what is the difference in fact and
in principle ? The difLrence does not
exist. If it is robbery to steal in one
place, it is robbery to steal in another.
Very strongly put. The great point
at issue—the morality or wickedness of
the tradesllieinselves—cannot he evaded
or misconstrued by the shrewdest casu-
Ps. If it be the wickedness and piracy
i to buy a slave from his owner in Af
rica, it is wickedness and piracy to
buy a slave from his owner in Vir
ginia. A negro is a negro—ownership
is ownership—slavery is slavery—and
the slave trade, no matter where carried
on, w hether between Africa and the Uni
ted States, Cuba and Mississippi, or Vir
ginia and Louisiana, is exactly the same
thing in every important particular. If
it is revolting to humanity in the one in
stance, it must necessarily be revolting
in the other. There is no line of demar
cation betw’cen the tw - o propositions.—
Laws at variance with truth—laws that
! countenance the slave trade under cer
’ tain circumstances—are but libels upon
law, decency, truth and honor,
j As to the expediency of re opening
the African slave trade, honest men may
differ widely. But on the scores of
right and wrong, so far as the two traf
fics are concerned, there can be no honest
and intelligent differences of opinion.—
The traffic, wherever practiced, is either
proper and right, or it is wrong and
wicked.— jV. O. Crescent.
Everday Enjoyment.
A great error of man is the common
one of intending to enjoy life by-and-by,
after the work of life is done. He is so
busy, now, that he ha no leisure for en
joyment !—as if the man of leisure <n
joved life. No, no; if we enjoy life at
all, it w ill be amidst the bustle and toil;
its working days must bring its pleas
ures ; its amusements must come, w hen
needed in the intervals of business.
Nobody has a right to give the whole
day to toil : it he does it, he is false to
himself and to his friends, as thus lie
gleets great wants of his nature and un
fit himself to do his work in the best
! manner. The sunshine is as bright, the
wind is as gay, as if pleasure was their
sole purpose. The trees and plants are
as beautiful—they blossom as sweetly
and play as gracefully with the cool
i breeze—as if they developed and nurtur
ed no fruit.
Work and enjoyment are compatible.
Portions of ever day should be given to
recreation ; the mind being refreshed
and the body relaxed by domestic or so
’ cial amusement. Then, the work w - ould
be enjoyed as much as the play, it is a
physical pleasure to exercsie the muscles
after re-t, especially if one has been
amused during rest. And how buoyant
is the mind returning to its labor after a
j frolic with the babies, or a cosy te tea te
te with nature ! O holy Nature ! from
| thy bosom one goes to his woik as a
child, at morning, aw akes to the wonders
of the world.
If one cannot enjoy life, all along, as
he passes through it he can never enjoy
it. If he toil unremittingly, till he finds
the leisure of life, he will find no enj< y
inent in that leisure—nothing will exist
to vitalize it. Life will be to him a fail
ure, as respects earth.
We shall not solve the problem of life
till we learn to enjoy it as it flies. Then,
it will solve itself.
\Yiiv Not? —“Ain’t you ashamed, Julia,
to climb over the ter.ee with the boys ? Oh,
shame on you ! ’ said a mother.
Ashamed of what? Why not breathe,
the pure air, and lift her eyes toward ilie
glorious sun ?
“But she will tear her dress and soil her
apron, and become so 3un-burnt that she
will be a perfect fright ”
Let h“r get over the fence, or crawl under
it; let her get over the cherry, peach, or
apple trees, and pelt her brother with ripe
apples or the juicy peach. If she tears her
dress, mend it. A torn dress is more easi
ly mended than a broken constitution. A
little soap and water will be far cheaper than
drugs and medicines.
“Ah, but she will be sun-burnt, and fat
and course.'’
Well that would be a pity, to have your
dear daughter conic bouncing into the room,
her joyous laugh ringing out the like the sil
ver tones of a beh, with her chubby, and
dimpled and embrowned cheek and flashit g
eye. with gleeful mirth gushing out of her
young heart in a thousand streams, spark
ling far moie brightly than Orient pearls,
and more potions than rubies. Observe
her elastic step and buoyant spirits. Health,
the very perfection of beauty in tbe human
form, mantles her check, ami throws its
charm around her whole being.
This would to all sensible people be vast
ly interesting; of more value than much fine
gold. But to the aristocratic, in their own
opinion only, how very vulyar\ How much
more interesting to them would be the little
darling who could come with a languid air
and weary step, with puny frame, pallid
cluck, and glaring eye; and simper a few
drawling words, and work off an apology
lor a laugh, apparently drawn from the
deepest Artisian well, as smooth and as
chilling as an icicle! But she is white or
sallow, lean, languid, heart and spirit bro
ken, constitution in ruins, trembling upon
the verge of the grave, and a most charm
ing, interesting little dear. Yes, she is in
teresting. gloomy prospects are before her,
and terrible realities pre‘s upon her.
Ob, mothers! which will you choose,
glowing health upon the sun burnt cheeks,
or tbe hectic Hush spreading over the lilly
neck, face and biow?
Lane for President.
Washington, July 7. —A number of gentle
men fiom different parts of the Union are ma
king arrangements for an early private meeting
at Washington to consult as to tbe best means
of bringing General Lane, of Oregon prominent
ly before tiio country as a candidate for the
Presidency.
Av Imposter. —A man calling himself
Dr. Jones is circulating about East Florida,
soliciting aid from the Masonic fraternity.—
His pretensions to a knowledge of the heal
ing art are but pretensions, and if he ever
was a Alason lie has evidently been expell
ed long since. Let the public in general,
and the Masons iu particular, be on the
look out for the scamp.— Jacksonville Repub
lican, 9 th.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
L. F. W. ANDREWS, Edik k.
MACON, JULY 15, 1859
FOR CONGRESS,
Thos. Hardeman, jr.,
OF iM^coisr.
STATE OFFSip
CONVENTION.
By almost unanimous concurrence of th
OPPOSITION PRESS of the State
ti e proposed Gubernatorial Convention
will be held in the
City of Macon,
oil Wednesday, the
20th JULY.
Press please copy til!
the day.
Estate Advertisng.
Our friends having the management of es
tates, as Administrators and Executors, are
entitled to have all advertisements.connect
ed with their duties as such, through the
Court of Ordinary, inserted in papers of their
own selection—and they will oblige us by
exercising this privilege in favor of the
Georgia Citizen.
Correct your Figures! —The Augusta
Constitutionalist announces the meeting of
the Opposition State Convention to be ou the
27tb, instead of the 20ih, and the Savannah
Republican lias it on the 24th, which will be
Sunday! Next Wednesday, the 20th, is the
day and Macon the place
Wesleyan Female College.
The annual Commencement Exercises oj
this Institution closed, Wednesday, with the
usual ceremonies. Commencement Sermon
by Rev. Joseph S. Key, of Augusta, on Sun
day—said to be a good discourse, but nol
pertineut to the occasion. On Monday, the
exhibition of the Junior class in Music, &c n
at the College. Tuesday and Wednesday,
Exercises at the church —Concert at Ralston’s
Hall on Tuesday night. We have not been
able to attend any of these exercises, and
cannot, therefore, enter into details. We
learn, however, that Rev. 0. L. Smith, Pres
ident, and Prof. Stanley vacate their places
in the Institution, and are to be succeeded
by Rev. John M. Bonnell as President, aud
Rev. Win. C. Bass, of Madison, as Prtlessor.
l>4‘iuo4‘i'ati‘ Nomination.
The Democratic Convention, for the 3rd
District, met in this city, on Tuesday last,
and placed in nomination Col. Alex. M.
Spear, of Bibb County, as their standard
bearer, for Congressional honors. He was
nominated on the otli ballot, being opposed
by McGehee of Houston and Mobley of
Harris. The nominee is a gentleman whom
we highly esteem, personally, and whom w e
would take pleasure in supporting for office,
were not his politics objectionable, and had
we not a candidate that we like a little bet
ter. Our opposition to him will, therefore,
be on the same principle that the Columbus
Times has avowed will govern that print in
opposition to Capt. Hardeman. We think,
however, that the Convention has, in this
nomination, spiked one of the guns aimed
by Captain Colquitt against Hardeman !
Wonder if Mobley lias not been treated as
bad as Pike 1111 l was by the Opposition Con
vention ! If there be any force in the ar
gument offered to prejudice the Western side
of the District against the nominee on ac
count of his locality, tho Democratic nom
inee is in the same fix with Hardeman.—
Wh at then, will you do about it, Captain ?
The I*lce ol Holding (lie Con
vention.
Iu answer to the Columbus Enquirer, which
paper suggests that the Chairman of the late
Executive Committee of the American Party,
designate the place for the assembling of the op
position Convention, iu order to prevent auv
confusion iu the matter, we have to say, thal
the chaDge of place from Milledgevillo to Ala
con has been made with the approbation and
consent of that gentleman, who fully concides
with the Opposition Press of the State in the
opinion, that Macon is altogether the most cen
tral and accessible place for the meeting of that
body.
We agree with tbe Recorder that the ques
tion is not open for consideration. It is settled
by the voice of the Chairman of tLo Executive
Committee, by all the leading Opposition Press
es of the State, and by the concurring sentiment
of all tho Delegates who can reach Alacon as
easily as they cau Milledgoville, as well as by
other considerations of economy of time and
expense to those who woul f have to come
through Macon to get to Af illedgeville. This
we conceive is not “slender authority,” but tbe
highest and best authority which the case wil*
admit of—the public convenience. It will cost
each delegate from the lines of the Central, Ma
con arid Western, Southwestern, and State
Roads, three or four dollars more to attend a
Convention at Milledgeville, while on the other
hand, there is not a solitary good reason why
the Convention should bo held at Alilledgeville,
save that slender one of State prestige•! In
stead of being “strengthened” by meeting there,
we think our parly is in danger of being tceak
sned thereby. Tue savory smell of the “flesh
pots” of Joseph have such a witchery about
them, with some weak stomachs, that we do
not think it advisable to expose such to the
temptations which cluster and flow around the
capital, even though such temptations are not
stronger than sour lemonade The Convention
will therefore be held iu Alacon and we cor
dially invite our friends to come up hither,
next week, to aid us in putting a Candidate in
the field, for Governor, and organize thoroughly
for the campaign of 1859 and 1860.
The Gubernatorial Convention.
The Southern Recorder, Journal A Mes
senger, and one or two other journals, seem
disposed to play into the hands of the Dem
ocracy, in reference to the matter of a Gu
bernatorial Convention. They have virtu
ally given in their adhesion to Gov. Brown,
in advance, and are now laboring to make
the impression thnt it will be bad policy to
nominate any candidate in opposition to him.
The Recorder says :
“ Some two weeks since, in article of ours
upon the policy of running an Opposition
candidate for Governor, we advised that the
Opposition party should make no nomina
tion ; we are of the same opinion still, and
from all the information we have from dif
ferent parts of the State, we are inclined to
the opinion that a majority of our party
does not desire a nomination. Now is the
time on our part for “masterly inactivity,”
for by watching and waiting a twelve month
longer, if we read the signs of the political
zodiac aright, good will result to our party;
the Democracy sees and feels it, and hence
their anxiety for an Opposition Candidate.
A* we have said before, and still pav, it is
issless to endeavor to manufacture euthusi
ism against Gov. Brown. We speak what
we know, when we say, (for we have travel
ed much in the State and conversed with the
thinking men of our party,) thut Governor
Brown’s Administration meets with the ap
proval of very many of our party ; and who
cannot and will not be controlled by any
action in oppotion to him. We are glad to
see that the Morgan county meeting takes
the same view of the question as ourselves,
thinking that it is inexpedient and unwise
to take action.
Our true policy is to look to the Congres
sional Districts, and make issue with the
Democracy upon national affairs. We have
all the arguments on our side, and if we do
not beat them, it will be because they will
repudiate the National Administration, and
the Cincinnati Platform, and run upon the
name of Democracy, with loud and earnest
declarations of “retrenchment” and “re
form” as the last resort to save themselves.
However, these declarations are now under
stood, and will go for what they are worth.”
it seems to us, that the Opposition
party of Georgia might with as much consis
tency and propriety inuke an issue now with
the Democracy, on national affairs, in aeon
test for the Gubernatorial chair, as well as
for Congressional honors. Gov. Brown is
the candidate of the Democracy. The Dem
ocracy has endorsed the national adminis
tration, and Brown has placed lumself upon
the platform, and we should force him to an
issue upon national affairs, at once, and to
the end. But let the advice of the llecor
der prevail, and the party is demoralized
and broken up. By waiting a twelvemonth
we shall forego all the advantages which the
present corrupt administration has given us.
The capital which it has furnished will be
misimproved, and its certain results lost.—
For one, we say, that we shall have no heart
to go into the canvass for our candidates for
Congress and Legislature, unless we have a
full ticket in the held. We want a stand
ard hearer for the State at large, and that,
we take it, is the object of the approaching
Convention.
If gentlemen are not disposed to enter in
to this measure, we do not sec what busi
ness they can have in the Convention, at
all, unless it be to distract our councils for
the benefit of the Democracy!
The course of the Recorder is specially in
consistent in this matter. It has arrayed
itself against the Opposition party of Bald
win County, and has failed to call the party
together, to send any Delegates to the State
Convention. AVhat right then has the lie
corder to object to the Convention being held
in Macon, or to its making a nomination for
Governor, if its own county is not represen
ted in that body ? It has placed itself out
side of the party, altogether, and with one
leg inside the Brown party, except in the
matter of the Congressional canvass for the
7th District, in which it seems to have great
interest, though in a position directly antag
onistic to the party of its own county. It
has even gone so far as to call another coun
ty meeting, to send Delegates to a Congres
sional Convention, in face of the; fact that
the county has already acted in that matter,
and brought out their man! We confess
that all this looks like the Ilecorder is not
only disposed to be factious at home, but is
also willing to aid the Journal & Messenger
in preventing a thorough organization of
the party throughout the State. We will
see whether such schemes will receive any
consideration at the hands of the represen
tatives of the people, who will assemble
hero on next Wednesday.
Till District.
A\ e have information of a reliable char
acter from several of the lower counties of
the 7th District, that incline us to believe
that the prospects of Col. Kenan for election
to Congress from that District are exceed
ingly flattering to that distinguished gen
tleman. Twiggs, Wilkinson, Hancock,
Putnam, and Jones, will doubtless support
the nominee which their sister Baldwin has,
with so great unanimity, presented for the
suffrages of the Opposition. We also learn
that Col. KenaD, having accepted the nom
ination on an independent platform, will
shortly take the field in an active canvass of
his District. His claims have hitherto been
put aside, by the machinery of packed con
ventions, and lie is determined for the future
to submit only to the voice of the people as
expressed at the ballot-box, whether heshall
he their llepresentative or not. Without
disparagement to the claims of any other
aspirant for the place, we think that Col.
Kenan, by a long devotion to correct prin
ciples and long service in the ranks of the
Whig and American parties, has earned a
right to the support of the people of his
District, while in point of eloquence and
ability, none can surpass him. The rights
of Georgia will have no abler advocate on
the floor of Congress, should Col. K. be
honored with a seat in that body.
Have we any Ojmjlatt men
amongst ns.
We are too much accustomed to witness the
strange twistings and turnings of politicians to
wonder at any somersault or feat of “ground
or lofty tumbling” whicli may be displayed be
fore our eyes. But wo confess that we were
not quite prepared to discover that Stephen Ar
nold Douglass has found so many aiders and
abetters, right here at home, in the Sunny
j South ! It is, nevertheless, a fact, reader, that
a portion of the Georgia Democracy have al
ready taken the field for Douglass, for the next
1 Presidency of the United States ! The proof
is at hand. AlexanJerC. Walker, Esq., recent
ly nominated by the Democratic Congressional
Convention of the Bth District, while he de
clines the nomination teudered him, thus bold
ly nanouuees himself in favor of Mr. Douglass :
“If he (Mr. Buchanan) sees proper to attempt
to castigate Senator Douglass for proving re
fractory, ai.d “settingup” for Linnelf, I would
do the same in his place, and yet in my judg
ment, policy and patriotism , demands that
Judge Douglass should be the next candidate
for the Presidency.”
And our fellow citizen, James A. Nisbet’
Esq., in his letter to the Committee of Invitation
to the Stephens’ Dinner, at Augusta, proposed
the following sentiment to “one of Mr. Stephens’
great co-laborers in Congressional measures,”
as, he was pleased to designate the “Little Gi
ant,” viz :
“Stephen A. Douglass — The only man who
can deteat the Black Republicans in 1860 as a
candidate of tbe friends ot tbe Constitution and
the Union.”
Now, we thiuk it more than probable tbat
Douglass will be tbe candidate of these very
“Black Republicans,” that Mr. Nisbet thinks
can only be beaten through his candidacy!—
The Southern Rights Democracy will not touch
him with a ten toot pole, and how Mr. Nisbet
or Mr. Walker can expect him to be elected as
the nominee of the Charleston Convention,
•
without their aid is a mystery to us. Even the
Buchanan Northern Democracy, as already giv
en out, would prefer Robt. J. Walker or some
other man, ratter than Douglass. Read, also,
what the “jAvalanche,” an able Democratic
Journal, ol Memphis, has to say of Douglass
Its article, in to-day’s paper, will show that the
Democratic Party, South, will be split to piece.-
on this rock of stumbling. Douglass has friends i
we believe, in every Southern State, and the
fact is one that we record with misgivings as to
the future. It is preposterous to suppose that
he can ever be the candidate of the “friends of
the Constitution and of the Union,” after th3 re
cent indications we have bad of bis views on
these subjects. Sure are we that tbe South can
have no greater enemy to her rights and inter
ests thaa Stephen A. Douglass.
Joseph E. Brown’s Claims.
The Thumasvillo “Enterprise” has the
following pithy and pungent exposition
of the peculiar claims of Governor Brown
to re election to the post he now occu
pies. We endorse every word our eo--
teinporary says of the one single qualifica
tion of Joe Brown to be re -elected—that
of pacing over $.‘6.000 per month, as
the earnings of the State lioad, which,
after all, is only about one fourth whai
the Central Hoad is now paying on its
investment. From reports we hear, we
think it quite likely that should Joe
Brown be reelected, even tint little a
mount will dwindle to nothing, as soon
as he is snugly seated for a second term.
It is stated that the immense supply of
wood which Gov Johnson’s administra
tion had accumulated all along the road
has been nearly exhausted, and that this
will make some difference in the nett
profits. The people then shonld wait to
see the end of the matter, before they
imagine that the Governor has really
done anything worthy of praise, in the
management of the Hoad. For aught we
know, he may, monthly, put $36,000 in
to the State Treasury and as often take
it out to pay some indebtedness of the
road, merely to make a show of doing
something, till alter the election! So
little confidence have we in the ability
and fidelity of his Excellency, that we
should not be surprised if his successor
will be able to develop quite as much
corruption and favoritism in the manage
ment of the State property as his friends
profess to believe that he has found in
that of his predecessor. At all events,
we think with the “Enterprise” that the
principal reason assigned by the Democ
racy for the re-election of Mr. Brown
ought not to weigh a feather with the op
position. The “Enterprize”. says:
“ In his speech accepting the nomina
tion of the late Democratic Convention,
Gov. Brown said : “I do not know who
my opponent is to be. 1 hope he may he
the strongest and best man of the party,
for there is some credit in beating their
best man thirty thousand votes, which 1
expect to do, if 1 live. Ido not feel that
I could he very well satisfied with less.”
If this is not a sickening and imperti
nent boa't, then we have no longer any
defence for modesty: Suppose this
mighty giant, this valiant Quixotic Gov
ernor of Georgia, should be elected by a
meager majority, would his crest fall, his
heart break and his dissatisfaction drive
him, like the spirit of Belschazzar, into
the fields upon his hands and knees to eat
grass like the beasts of the field ? Doubt
less, it would grieve him sorely. In the
conclusion of his speech he speaks as foK
lows :
“And by necessary co-operation with
the able, efficient and trustworthy officers
of the State Hoad, I can assist them to
pour into your State Treasury from thir’
ty-five to forty thousand dollars in cash
per month, 1 shall feel that 1 am doing
the State more service than I or any one
who may be my opponent could by trav
eling over the territory and making
stump speeches. This monthly argu
ment I expect to continue to repeat.—
Thirty-five or forty thousand dollars per
month is an argument in favor of Democ
racy that will be felt in the election.”
The closing words of this speech are
true, aud it is confessedly all the argu
ment Democracy can produce as area
son why Gov. Brown should be re-elec
ted. But for the State Iload, which
Brown says he has made pay, the party
in Georgia w’ould be flat, completely
prostrated before the power of the oppo
sition. Brown is determined, like the
inn keeper, who staked his money against
the two thieves, that he could follow the
pendulum of a clock, repeating with each
vibration, “ Here she goes, there she
goes,” for the space of one hour. Like
him, we say, he is determined to win , no
matter who thinks he is crazy. To the
screams and gesticulations oi all who feel
concerned about his sanity, he only an
swers “ forty thousand dollars!” Tell
him the Democratic party has no plat
form, he “exclaims forty thousand dol
lars !” That his party is sectional, “for
ty thousand dollars!” That the Union is
about to he dissolved, “forty thousand
dollars!” That his Bank policy has run
off his followers, *• forty thousand dol
lais!” That the Opposition are over
whelming him, and still he exclaims at
the top of his voice, “forty thousand dol
lars !” Forty thousand dollars is his
only argument, his watch word and his
batiie cry. He does claim to possess
1 any other merit — asks to be elected on
; no other plea —it is sufficient if he can
make the State Hoad pay ; all other in
terests of the State, Legislative, Judicial
wild political, may go by the board if he
can only get to be Governor once more
upon the merits of his “ forty thousand
dollars ! ’ No one, we believe, pretends
to give him credit f>r anything but hon
\ esty and making the State Head pay into
I the Treasury thirty or forty thousand
dollars p>er month, and his honesty is
acknowledged upon the presumption that
he makes the State lioad pay all it is
capable of paying. Now let us see what
this presumption is worth. The Presi
dent of the Central Rail Road, Mr. Cuy
ler, makes that lioad pay, if we mistake
not, about I<> per cent., whila Governor
Brown makes the State Itoad pay a frac
tion over 4 per cent. This enormous
discrepancy appears between these two
roads, although the State lioad is one of
the very best [laying roads in Georgia.—
Now if Mr. Cuyler can make the Central
lioad pay 16 per cent., why cannot Gov.
Brown make the State Road, in every
respect equal to the Central Road, pay
that amount? And yet the State Road
pays only about onefourth of that amount.
Grant that the State lioad cost even
twice as much as the Central lioad, tr
should then p>ay eight per cent, and
would almost entirely relieve the State
of taxation, it may well be questioned
then whether Gov. Brown, with his
boasted ‘•'•thirty or forty thousand dollars
has yet done his duty to the State arid
deserved the reputation of honesty. —
According to these figures, ifMr. Cuyler
makes the Central lioad pay 16 per
Gent., as Governor of Georgia, he would
make the State Road pay at least one
million of dollars into the Treasury, and
sink our swelled head Joe Brown. and
his ‘•forty thousand” into utter and per
petual insignificance.”
Stewart Couul y. —The opposition par.
ty of Stewart county at a late meeting in Lump
kin, “Resolved that it is the desire of the oppo
sition in Stewart that our Gubernatorial Con
vention do nominate a candidate for Governor.’
The same meeting appointed the following
delegates to said Convention:—John T. B. Tur
ner, L. R. Redding, George Y. Banks, L. R.
Parker, and Chas. H. Warren. To the Con
gressional Convention—John M. Scott, E. R.
Moore, William Watt, John D. Snelling, and
E. H. Beall.
Handsome Compliment. Hon. Foster
Blodget, Jr., Mayor of Augusta, was on
Monday last presented with a handsome
service of plate, consisting of a massive sil
ver pitcher, salver and two gobleti The
plate is suitably inscribed, and was present
ed to Mr. Blodget by a number of his friends
and fellow-citizens, in token as well of their
personal esteem as of their approbation of
his official conduct as Mayor of Augusta.
Execution.
The Atlanta press seem to be of one opin
ion as to the moral effects of public execu
tions, and that is adverse to such exhibitions.
Ou Friday last, John Cobb, jr., one of the
murderers of Landrum, was executed at At
lanta, in the presence of a large crowd of
men, women, children and negroes, amount- i
ing to several thousands of persons, most of
whom apparently enjoyed the spectacle as
much as au enthusiastic play-goer would en
joy tbe representation of one of Shakspearc-’s
tragedies! Well, we cannot say that we are
dissatisfied with tLis result. It will proba
bly work out better and more humane views
in reference to capital punishment, one prin
cipal argument in favor of which, is based
upon the good example which hanging is
supposed to have upon evil doers. This ad
vantage is now seen to be worse than no ex
ample at all—so the advocates of legal killing
now ask that it be done in private, within
the jail walls! But we shall insist upon hav
ing all the publicity possible given to such
demoralizing spectacles, till the public voice
requires the abolition of the gallows, alto
gether, as unwise, unchristian and unneces
sary.
But there is another feature in this case of
Cobb, which requires notice. He, it seems,
unlike his brother murderer, Crockett, died
impenitent. He was not converted by the
Clergy, and has, therefore, gone to “reap his
reward ” in an endless hell, according to
“Orthodoxy.” Would it not have bten bet
ter to have allowed him to live on —in pris
on, and in chains, a few weeks, months or
years longer, if perchance, he might have
been prepared for a different fate beyond
the grave! If be was, in the judgment of
the Christian people, unfit to live, was he
not, also, unfit to die! Verily, it is time, we
think, that Christian governments should
learn that retaliation and revenge are incom
patible with the teachings and principles of
the Gospel they profess to believe, and by
which they profess to be governed !
The Fly Leaf. —This beautiful quar
terly for May has just reached us, a little be
hind the time, but full of interesting matter
from tbe pens of tbe gifted young ladies of Col
lege Temple, Newnau, Ga. Some o r the contri
butions of this number would do honor to tbe
most'practised writers of the day and oviuce a
high state of intellectual culture on the part of
the alumnae and pupils of tbe college. We se
lect a short article to show the general style of
tbe publication, and would be glad to have it
in our power to send on a large list of subscri
bers thereto. For terms see Prospectus in tbe
advertising column. The “Leaf” is published
at the Banner Office of Newnan, and reflects
much credit upon Mr. Welch for the skill dis
played in its execution.
Will not be a Candidate.
The Savannah Republican of yester
day, distinctly states, that under no cir
cumstances, will R. R. Cuyler, Esq.,
consent to the use of his name, as a candi
date for Governor. His existing obliga
tions to the heavy interests of the Cen
tral Road are. assigned as the cause.
Mobile and Girard Rail Road.
At an annual meeting of the Stockhol
ders of the Mobile & Girard Rail Road
Company, at Girard, Ala., on the 6th
inst., Maj. John 11. Howard was unani
mously re-elected President. Homer
sth District.
The Democratic Congressional Convention
of this District, met at CalhouD, last week,
and after 22 unsuccessful ballotings, nomina
ted John W. H. Underwood, of Rome, as
their candidate for Congress. Tumlin, Chas
tain, Wright and Dabney all had warm
supporters, Tumlin leading considerably on
the first seven balfttings, but the friends of
the other aspirants not yielding, Underwood
was taken up as a Compromise man and run
in. So the Hon. A. R. Wright has received
his quietus !
All Apology. —We owe a public apol
ogy to R. L. Oliver, Americus, for so pub
licly reminding him, a week or two since,
of his indebtedness to this office. We
thought, at the time, that it was a different
inan, altogether, and not our young friend
Robert, or else we never would have “ put
him in tbe papers.” We hope this will be
eonsidered an ample “amende honorable ”
for the error inadvertently committed, and
make it all right with bin). He has made it
all right with us.
Opposition Convention.
Bibb—J II R Washington, W R Phillip.®
Seth Cason, L F W Andrews, John T
Bartlett, Washington Poe, James Myrick,
0 G Sparks, James B Baily, Thomas Dough
erty.
Chattahoochee—J U Snapp, D H Burts,
Benjamin Evans, D F Scarborough, Wm
Parkman, W B Willis and D C Cody.
Dougherty—Edwin T Jones, Lott Warren,
D A Yason and P J Strozier.
Decatur—M P Glass, John P Dickerson
and Thomas Hines.
Elbert—Robert Eberbarf, Thomas R
Alexander, U A Tate, John W .llattox, and
James M Willis.
Floyd—John R Freeman, Geo. S Black,
Dr James D McNair, Edward W Hell, J S
McCarver, D E Booten, J H Gill, Thomas J
Davis, Dr. N B Hall, Joseph Ford, W P
Ware, Sanford Williamson, H Allen Smith,
j Dr. II V M Md'er, John M Blount, Thomas
W Alexander, Jno. F Mann, M Dsvinnell,
! Jno. H Walker, J B McCiong, John A Johns
*ou, John Skinner, W F Ay re, Thoma-
Lumpkin, Y 11 Moore and R H Zuber.
Harris—D P Hill, D H Zachery, Henry
Kimbrough, John McCurry, Wm M Griggs,
Jeff. McCurry, James B'ggers. E C Dmrn
ruond, Ilirem Williams, A G Jones, J I Da
vid, Milton Roberts and P S W eds.
Houston— Eli Warren, B T Ru-se!l and
Edward L Felder.
Polk—Abner Darden, W T Witcher, I
N Jones, Reese McGregor, Micajah Wil
son and John T Fulwood.
Pike—Dr. G M McDowell, James B Staff
ord and S R Reaves.
Quitman —David L Rice, GB Pinkerston,
Colson Guilford, James Tugg®, and L P Do
zier.
Taylor—W J F Michel, LQC McCrary.
Elijah M Hicks, Jeremiah Wdchar, C F
Ficklirg, D O Smith, James Griffith, Y H
Caldwell, Andrew McCants, Willis Jenks
ar.d W W Coibitt
Talbot —J II Walton, Dr C B Leitner,
James Z Dismukes, Cyras Robinson, R M
Willis.
Upson—Col. A G Fambro, Col.P W Alex
ander, Thomas S Sharman, Jesse Stephens,
and G A Miller.
Sumpter—Dr. R C Black,Dr. Wm J Reese,
Thomas P Redding, Rob’t. J Hodges, Dr.
George M Mattox, Wm H C Dudley, David
H Hill, George R Harper, Thomas D Spear,
Wm A Bartlett, Wm J Patterson, S C
Elam.
Lee—Col. Wm A Maxwell, Chas. Y Craw
ford, G M Stokes, Jno. C Floyd, and Fran
cis W Forth.
Terrel—Eli G Hill, C M Rolls, Mark
Glass, Mathew Williams.
Oglethorpe—Z H Clark, Thomas S Gres
ham, Thomas H Hawkins, J M Brawner, C
G Hargrove, T H Dozier, F J Robinson, W
P Smith, (of Bowling Green), Parmenas
Haynes, A J Hall, D H Johnson, J S Gres
tiam, Woodson Daniel, J M Brightwell, H
M Horton, William M Lane,Robert H Lump
kin.
Green —Col. R H Ward, R J Dawson, Col.
M W Lewis, R L McWhorter and V D
Gresham, Esqrs.
Stewart—John T B Turner, L R Redding,
George Y Banks, L R Parker, and Chas. H
Warren. 1
Coweta —W F Wright, Green K Dennis
J R Tolbort, John M Hill, and Charles Talil
afero.
Spalding—L R Brewer, John Q A Alford
James Lavender, David H Johnson and B
W Ferril.
Henry—Geo. M Nolan, Daniel Ponder
Henry C Merrit, Jno. Bryans, Jno. H Low
Wesley C Welch, Jno. Austin, E B Arnold’
A J Cloud, Archibald Brown, Samuel Cook’
Beni. L Harper, A G Harris, S Mattox and
J Bivens.
Lincoln—B P O’Neal, John L Paschal]
and R W Davie.
Macon—James D. Frederick, A. W. Hicks
J. E Bartlett, B. F. Fleming, Daniel Kleck’
ley. J. L. Parker, and 11. E. A. Candler.
Butts—James M. Ne w ton, James S. Boyn
ton, C. Lummus, Henry Fletcher, Dr P
Williams, and Wm. M'Clellaod.
DeKalb—B. F. Chamberlain, 0. Winning,
ham, S. Alexander.
Cass—A. M. Penn, B. 11. Conyers J. p
Parrott, A. F. Wcoley, R. H. Jones.
Ciaytou—Dr. J. B. Key, Branch Tanner
J. CL Smith. ’
Meriwether—Jas. C. Freeman, Carver W
Williams, F. M. Brandy, Green B Rollins, J
Fuller, B K Gates, George L. Pervy.
Monroe—Hiram Phinazee, R P Trir.pe J
T Crowder, C Peeples, W. M. Clark, James
H. Evans, Lewis A. Ponder, Wm. Harden
Tboa. Battle, Thus. B Settle, W C Wooten
B II Zeilner, W 11 Bankston, Ambrose Mur
phey, Eden Taylor, John G. Willis J. B
Ogletree, W L. Flint, C II Smith.
Fulton— A W Stone, N. J Hammond. W
A Wilson, Wm. Gilbert, E N Calhoun, L. C.
Simpson, James M Calhoun, Jesse Cook, t!
J Perkerson, O H Jones, Wm Eesard, C. B.
Uauleiter, J. M Dorsey, W F Herring, Felix
Hardeman.
Troup—B H Bigham, Wm P. BeasLy J.
S Hill, F A Frost, Seth Tatum, R. G Ilum
ber.
One Day Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF TIIE -ETNA.
New York, July 13th.
The -E na arrived to-day, with Livetpool
dates to the 2d inst. We have the following
items of
General Intelligence.
It is believed in some quarters of Par's,
that tbe loss of the French fore's in the
battle of Solferino will reach 15,500 tnen,
besides tbe death from casualties in the Ai
tillery and other corps. The loss is estima
ted as follows: In General Neil’s corps, 0,000
to 7.000, Baraguay de Hil.ier’s corps, 5.000;
Marshal McMahon’s corps, 2,500, and Mar
shal Canroberts corps, 1,000.
The French people are dissatisfied at the
meagre details of the engagements which
have been furnished.
The Paris “Patrie” says tht Napolecn
had an epaulette shot away.
Some French regiments were nearly cut
to pieces.
The Piedmontese troops suffered so se
verely as to be unable to form a line of
battle.
A despatch from from Vienna, dated the
28th, says that some days must elapse be
fore complete returns can be received from
the Austrian army.
The Italian regiments in the Austrian
army have become very unmanageable and
were deserting by scores and files.
At Trieste a whole battallion declared in
favor of Victor Emanuel.
A vessel sailing under the American flag
was detected taking deserters On board.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER.
BREEMEN AND CANADA.
New York, July 12. —The steamship
Bremen was boarded off Caj>e Race on Sun
day, and the steamship Canada reached
Halifax this forenoon, with European dates
as late as July 2nd.
Commercial.
Liverpool, July 2.—Sales of Cotton for
the week, 57,000 bales. The lower grades
declined 11.
Breadstuff's had slightly declined.
Provisions weredu'l and quotations nom
inal.
Consols, at London were quoted at 93|.
Additional bv the Canada.
Halifax, July 12.—The sales of Cotton
at Live! pool for the week weres7,ooO bales,
of winch speculators took 1000 and expor
ters 11,500 bales. Holders offered their
stocks freely, but showed no disposition to
press sales. The sales on friday were 8000
bales and tbe market closed steady at the
subjoined quotations:
FOr Orleans. .. I Mid. Orleans 6*
Fair Mobil- s 75 Mid. Mobiles f>s
Fair Uplands. ...7J | Mid. Uplands.. ..6f
The stock of Cotton on hand at Liverpool
was 747,000 bah s, of which 054,000 bales
were American.
State of Trade.— Advices from the man
ufacturing districts are favorahl". Tbe de
mand was quiet, but prices were steady and
firm.
Havre Cotton Market. —Orleans ires
Ordinaire was quoted at 107f., and all grades
had slightly improved.
London Money Market.— Consols closed
at 93 1-8. The money market was slightly
more stringent, and the bullion in the Bank
of England had increased £211,000.
GENERAL NEWS.
No other battles are reported to have
been fought by tbe Austrians and tbe allies.
The allied army had continued to move
unmolested across the Mincio.
Louis Napoleon had moved his head
quarter? from Volta to Volteggio, and had
invested Pcschiem from Lago, aud the Sar
dinians from Garda to the Mincio.
The Emperor of Austria expected to re
main in Austrian Italy.
The new English Ministry had pronounc
ed iu fvor of a strict neutrality.
Mr. Cobden has declined accepting a seat
in the recently organized Eng'ish Cabinet.
From “ The Fly Leaf.”
The Spirits of the Departed.
How pleasant it is to know that the spirits
of the “loved and lost” hover around u?,
keeping us from committing wicked deeds,
and protecting us from “danger seen and un
seen.” Many a time when we are ready to
do or say something we know to be wrong,
the instructions of a dear departed friend,
recur to our minds,and we banish all thoughts
of the wicked purpose, as if one had spoken
to us Dorn the dead.
See that young inan who is about to.com
mit a crime which will bring disgrace upon
bis aged father and innocent sister. But
while he awaits the approach of the person
whose life he wishes to take, thoughis come
into his mind which he cannot account for,
and which be strives in vain to banish. He
is again a boy, standing at bis mothers knee
and listening to the words of admonition
that fall from her lips. He hears her repeat
the command, “Thou shaltnot kill,’ 'andre-
members how she warned him never to let
the fate of the murderer be his. Immediately
all wicked thoughts and purposes are ban
ished from his mind, and his name and honor
are still unUimiehed.
Who would deny that the spirit of his de
parted mother was there, and was the instni
ment of preventing him from committing
that dreadful deed.
And it is ever thus—the spirits of the de
parted are constantly around us shielding us
from evil aDd comforting us when in trouble.
And though many doubt this piiociple, 1
uxruld not disbelieve it, for from it I derive
much comfort
Secretary Floyd.
A W T aahington correspondent of the
Louis Republican says:
“ I regret to report the continued ill health
of Secretary Floyd, who is now sojourning
at the Military Asylum, near this city- H‘S
late trip to Virginia seems to have had but
little effect upon bis disease, and his frienos
are seriously apprehensive he will not soon
recover. A member of the Cabinet, who
visited Gov. Floyd yesterday, in the country,
expresses the opinion that his disease wd
probably terminate fatally. His family are
anxious for him to retire from the Cabinet,
and be may do so at an early day should his
residence in tbecountry not produce a change
lot tbe better.”