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prove it in regard to the Utter, and tbe tes
timony of Josephus and the unqualified ad- ‘
missions of Univeraahst authors, establish
it with reference to the former. There was
thrn as now, Pmlosophical sceptics, who de
nounced the popular faith as a religion of i
fear, but the masses were devout and earn
est believers in the doctrine. Nor does it
matter whether this belief originated in a
Patriarchal tradition transmitted through
the bye-gone centuries, or whether derivi-d
from the Old Testament Scrip’ nr**-*, as we
believe, or whether, as U'M verbalists assert
it was the invention of Pries, era ft, or the
artful contrivance of statesmans up. It is
sufficient for our present argument that this
was the current belief amongst the nations
with whom Christ cimc in contact during
the term of his public ministry.
Now one great object of his m ssion was
to teach men absolu’e truth, especis. y was
it his business “to bring life and iuitnortaSi
tg to >ight” Is it to he credited that this j
Divine teacher would have faded to de- i
nounce this pcpular error if he had regard
ed i’ au error ? It the doctrine of endless
punishment, as its i.ppone"’# even now
ma main, is dishonoring to G >1 and ruinous
to true piety, wou’d Christ have held his
t>eaoe and tamely compiomis and the honors
of God and the nights’ interests of humani
ty, by his silence ? Bit we take anoth°r
step and say that not only did he fail to
condemn he popular belief in fat’ re punish
ment, out shit in the Parable or Hi-tory of
Dives and Lazarus, he expressly accommo
dated his teaching to that belief as at least
oae distinguishe 1 Universalist admits. We
go yet farther and affirm what we shall
presently prove that lie directly sanctioned
th® popular creed. Before then I can sub
scribe to Uni versaiism, I must believe that
the itn n-iema:* Jesus wilfully misled and
deceived the people as his enemies wickedly
chargt and.
Bat Universa!ists says that he did posi
tively condemn this popular notion. Let
the record of it be produced. To say that
the New Testament is that record invoiv-s
them in another serious difficulty. For if
Christ designed (as they sav) to teach in
the Gospd that all men would be finally
saved, then it follow* that he was an iurom
jtelenl teacher. There is no escaping this
conclusion in view of the History of the
Church. For EiGHtxm Hfsdred years an
immense majority of the Christian world,
comprising very much the larger portion of
the learning and piety of Christendom, have
firmly held to the belief that Christ and his
Apostles taught the doctrine of endless pun
ishment. They claim too to get it from the
pages of the New Testament Is it pr -ha
ole that they have been mistaken as to the
smse of the sacred writings, .and that a small
minority has b-en right? Credut, Judins
appela — Non ejo. But as we approach the
Apostolic times the voice of the Church is
unanimous. Justin M irtyr, Poly
carp, Clement, who is named in one of Paul’s
Epistles, Cyprian, Ignatius, Athanasius, the
master spirit of the Conned of Nice, Tertu
-1 an, Jerome, and a host of others who lived
in the first centuries, a.i taught the ortho
dox faith on this point. Tnat R-storarion
ism begin to develop* iisrli ia the writings
of Or:gen in the 31 century, proves nothing
to the purpose. There have always been
Heresies in the Church. Be-ides Oiig*n:s:n
with afi its imperfections was vastly better
than the Universdism of Richard Coppin,
Hosea Ballou, or Mr. Clay’m. We add now
th*’ opinion of Dr. Hartly, an opponent of
endless punish mm t who concedes that so
the last 1800 years, ail men, Pagan; and
Christia s, have believed the doctrine “a
vry few persons expected.” D >es it not
: <; .r. t designed to teach Uni
versalmn he has ?o expressed himself as to
be almost universally misunderstood, and
was therefore an incompetent teacher. We
therefore discard Universalism b-cause we
have confidence both in the honesty and
eotruKitency of the Son of God.
We object to Cniversaiism secondly, be
cause it contradicts the Holy Scriptures.—
Cniversalists have admitted that the Scrip
tural testimony against them is “formidably
strong” and this aloD* accounts for the fact
already noticed tuat all but a meagre sect of
the Cnristian world adhere to the orthodox
opinion. But we sha.il give specifications.
Universalism contradicts all that cloas of pas
i t?e that warn us against future punislnnenr.
For example, “Let us all labor therefore to
enter into that rest lest any mhi fall af r
thesuna exsnp'f of unbelief. ’* ll~b. 5, 11,
Wherefore seeing we look !'o r such tie’ g-.
be diligent that you mty le found of Li u
without spot and hi. me t ‘®. 2 Peter, 2, Id,
Workout your own salvation with fear and
trembling. Phil. 2, 12. Strive to enter in
at the strait gate for many I sny unto you
shall seek to enter, and shall not be a! .le.—
Luke 13, 24. There remai eth no more sa
criSce for sin, but a certain fearful locking
for of judgment and fiery indignation. llt*b.
10, 27. And if thy Land offend thee cut it
.ff, it is better to enter into life maimed than
having two hands to go into Hell. Mark 0,
33. Give all diligence to make 3' >ur call
ing and election sure. 2 Peter, 1, 10. Fear
not then which klled the body but are not
able to kill the soul, but rather fear him who
is able to destroy bothsdul and body in hell.
Mat. 10, 28. What is a man profited if he
shall train the whole world and lose Lis
own souk Mat 10 25.
We might multiply these pa-siges a hun
dred fold but this is unecessary. We ask
the reader if they do not conflict with the
theory that all men will be saver! ? If
there was no real danger of any ‘‘failing to
enter into that rest” or if not one of Ad
am’s posterity should ever “lose his soul,” or
if no one should fail “to work out lrs sal
vation” or finally, if there was “no Hell.” a*
some modern Theologians have discovered,
why the necessity of these stirring exhorta
tions to labor, and sacrifice and diligence?*
Will our opp onents pretend that the sacred
writers were gu lty of a p ous fra- d— hat in
th** words of Lord Lyttleton tley “went
about the woild lying for the mot on of
virtue. ’Tf the=e warn n 8 be true, according
to their 1 Utral import, then Christ’s conduct \
was consistent when to rescue men from this
awful doom he “endured the eio-s. despising
the shame” and Paul was sine ie when he
“war’-ed the Ephesians day and night with
tears.” Which is the more probable opin
ion. And yet one is Universalism, the other
Orthodoxy.
Before leaving this c’assof texts, I want to
remark particularly cn Matthew 10, 28.
Tune cau be no reasonable doubt that the
punishment there alluded to is a punishment
after death. The term 11-!1 is in the ordin
al GeJienna the name amongst the levs con
temporary with Christ for the place cf fu
ture punishment. We know that th>sopin
ion has been ably controverted, but the new
Testament usage of the word—the Targuni
of Jonathan Ben Vzziel the Jewish histor eq
and we might add. although oflater date, the ‘
Apology of Just 111 Martyr plscelt beyond a
doubt. I. niver-alists may talk learnedly
about Ge Ben ITinnom . which Josiah defiled j
but it all signifies nothing. We have at tbs ‘
stage of the argument, a question to a>-k Mr. j
Clayton. You admit that the Jews of Christ s
d*.v b’ievcd in the future punishment of the
wicked. “What term then did they employ
to ues.gnate the jdare of that punishment ? I
Or, if they did not designate it by a single
term by what circumlocution did they de
scribe it? Don’t dedge these questL-Ds as |
3'ou did my problem?.
But the punishment mentioned in Math
ew 10. 28, is evidently no? a temporal pun
ishment, for the‘additional reason that it is ‘o
follow the death of the body I a Luke 1° r >
where a similar warning is uttered it reads
“Be not afratd of them that kill the body,
and after that hate no mo>e that they car
do, but I will forewarn you whom ye sh a l
fear; Fear him who after he hath’ /.-7W/
hath power to cast into Hel .” If f,
punishment was taught no where else j n t j, e
Scriptures, these two passages would alone
establish its truth.
We object to Universalism, Thirdly , be
cause it contradicts those passages which
assert tha conditionality of the future life.—
For example—Who will render tq every m n
according to his deeds, so them who by pa
tient continuance in well-doing seek for glo
ry, and honor, and immortality— e'ernal
h fe. _ Rom. 2: G, 7. Bessed are they that
do his commandments, that they may have
a right to the trees of life and may enter
through the gates into the city. Rev 2° •
14. To present you holy and unblamable
in his sight, if ye continue in the Faith
grounded and settled, and be not moved
away from the hope of the G-?peL CoL 1 ;
28. Be thou faithful unto death, and I
will give thee a crown of liter. Rev. 20: 10.
Be that beheveth not shall not see life, bot
the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3: ;
3G. Firs, what must Idoto be saved ? find
they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. Acts 16 : 30, 31.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, I
without which no man shall see the Lofd j
Heb. 12 : 14. We have purposely oniii;ed
a few passages that probably have only a
secondary reference to the future life. But ,
1 we a-k how these plain declarations of the
Scriptures are to b* harmonized with the |
unconditional holiness and happiness of all
men. You admit that salvation is to a cer
tain extent conditional. If God has in the
present life made Faith the condition of ho- ,
liness and happin.ta, as you teach, why n:iy
nc t the life to come be made dependent on
tl.e stm a conti lion ? Paul indeed says ia
h s Epi tie to Timothy, “Godm.v: ss hath t ie
p omise of life that now is and of that winch |
is to come.” This declaration agrees with
our interpretation of the foregoing texts,but
Universalism promises, if not the present
! life, the life of joy at God’s right hand to
it ie disobedient and the ungodly. The mur
derer from the gallows, the libertine Iron,
the adulterous bed—the drunkard from his
I debauchery, without Repentance, Faith, or
the performance oi'any conditions, are a ike
sav and in II aver..
Universal.s s very often deny the fuiure
state reference of the above cited Scriptures.
Especially do they s .ear at the warning-ot
tbeSeripturts. 1 propose then, in conclu
sion, tocont ast b iefly the teachings of the
B ole and Universalism ou that point. I
have found this contrast in the course of
my reading and offer Mr. Clayton the bene
i fit of it:
Bible —Be d.iigent that you may be found
of hi.a iu peace without spot aud blame
less. .
Cniversaiism. —You riiaH all be found of
him m peace, and shall not be blamed if
you are as spotted as Leopards.
llible —Mark the perfect man, and behold ‘
the uprigdt for the end of that mania
peace.
Cniversaiism. —Marl: the imperfect man
and behold the downright ruffian, for the
end of that man is peace.
Jilblr. —To present you holy, unblamable
and unreprovable in his si-ht, ifye continue
in Faith.
Cniversaiism —You snail also be present
ed lioiy and unblamable in his sight it you
deny the faith aud turn out to be worse
diau infidels.
Bible —Many walk of whom I have told
you olien, and now tell you weeping, that
they are enemies of the cross ot Christ,
; whose end is destruction.
Cniversaiism. —Many walk of whom 1
have told you often,aud now tell you laugh
irig, that though they are enemies of the
cross of Christ, their end is salvation.
The parallel might ne continued ad infi
nitum, showing how exact the harmony be
tween Universalism and the Scriptures.
In regard to yo lr Greek phrase ton a lo
nia Lai ep’ aioriia Lai eii It occurs only in
the Sepluagint Ju Exodus, Daniel and
Mi h i the Hebrew is readered forever and
forever. I am satisfied with that render
ing. If you choose to perpetrate the hy
perbolical nonsense of “forever and forev
er and further,” you have my permission.
Respectfully, yours,
W. J. SCOTT.
Griffin and Decatur Rail Road.
The friends of this enterprise seem, for a
time to have, lost sight of the importance of
i the work. Iu our estimation, it >s one of
the most important R.I Road projects in the
while State. Its construction would pot us
in direct communication with the rich val
leys of North Alabama and Term :ssee, and
*erve to develope the hidden resources of
one of the best sections of Georgia, which
now lie inert and rdinost valuel-ss for the
want of a proper outlet. Although the
friends of the road iiave been dormant for a
season, we do dot look upon the enterprise
as being dead ; no, merely that it “sleepeth”
to be waked up before long to die away no
more uutil the iron-horse in put upon the
; track, vvl.es • neighing will make the people
! rejoice wherever the sound is heard. If
State-Aid is to be given to the building of
other road?, why not this one share in the
I benefits? If one portion ot the State is en
! titled to aid to help btrid up great public
woiks, certainly aujther may tie upon the
same prine.p'e, provided the people at large
are to be benefitied? YVhv tax the people
’ to build a road in South-Western Georgia,
; when the North-Western part of the Sinie
(are crying for help a'so? If aid is to be
given we want some of ir. The people in
this section pay as much tax, iu pioportion
t to wtiat they are worth as any part ot the
State,*and therefore in our humble opinion,
are entitled to equal privileges and cqualben
efits. But the time has come when the peo
ple are interested in the buildiug of this road
should arouse from their lethargy—when
! they should go to work to do something—
when they should begin to lay their plans
for its commencement and completion. Ev
j cry man has his influence, whether it be
I much or little; he should exert it now while
there is a chance of doing good.
Several years ago the Legislature granted
a charter lor this road, arid most, if not all
the route has been surveyed. It seems to
us, that with a little exertion, the company
might so’ n lie organized. With the lights
before ns. we are constrained to the opinion
i teat the M Sz W. Railroad, is sleeping over
j her interests and rights in this matter. Ev
i cry other road almost in the State except
’ her tributaries, which help to swell their re
•i-ipts. With this connection the M. AW.
would be the best paying road in the South.
We hope a general meeting will te called
here or somewhere else on the line soon,
to take into consideration the expediency oi
commencing the work at an early day. We
are all satisfied that is wanting, is to make our
citizens feel the necessity of immediate ac
tion. Keep the ball rolling friends—don’t
I;t it stand still.— Empire State.
African Proverbs. —He who dis
appoints another is not worthy to
be trusted.
A pig, which has wallowed jn the
I mire, seeks a clean person to rub
against.
An ungrateful guest is like the
lower jaw, which when the body
dies in the morning, lulls away from
the upper by night time.
He who strives to shake the trunk
of a tree only shakes himself.
It is easy to cut a dead elephant
to pieces ; hut none dares to attack t*
live one.
He who claps hands for a fool to
• lance, is no better than the fool him-
I self.
All men are related to one another.
The time may l*e very long, hut a
lie will he discovered at last.
. The dust of the buffalo is lost in
the dust of an elephant.
He who cannot take up an ant, yet j
tries to lake up an elepaant, will find
out his folly.
A matter dealt with gently, pros
pers ; hut a matter dealt with vio
lently, brings vexation to the author.
lie who sees another's fault, talks
about it. but covers his own with a
pot shred.
When you are warned, warn your-1
self
Trippe. Hill and Iverson. —The Aracr
■ icans of Terrell county adopted the foliow-
I ing resolution at their meeting on the sth
! inst.
I Resolved, 2d. That we highly approve
* n d approbate the course of those Senators
Rnt * Representatives from the South, who
so boldly and fearlessly stood up for the
constitutional rights of th> South, during
the last Congress, aid among whom, we
j are proud to mention those from our
own State, to-wit: the H„„. j{. |. Trippe.
j Hon - Joshua Hill, and Hon. Alfred
I\ erson, and would most earnestly commend
I them to our fellow-citizen? of the State, for
their support and re-election.
Brass Band.
The following perrons compow* the newly
organ z -d Brass Band of Atren'*us. On.:
ProL E. idman. W. If. Turpin. F. M. Coker,
W. C. P. Cleghoro, Lewis A. .'tiMlti. Henry R.
Johnson, John W. Wheatley, John Lemon, W.
H. C. Dudley. W. B. Coker, and Otto Wolsett
Opposition Platform, i
TRE AMBLE.
The Opposition Party of Georgia plants it- |
self upou tbe princip’cs of l?tale Righto; equal j
privileges In the Union, aud equal distribution I
ot its burthens, ar.d the exerc >9 by Congress
only of such powers as are specifically delega- 1
ted in the Constitution, and those dearly in- j
ferrablo from, ami incident to, the granted pow
ers, and necessary to carry out such granted
powers.
1. Resolved , That the Union, as establish
ed by the Federal Constitution, if the latter be
laiihfuliy carried out, is the surest guaranty of
the rights and iuteiests of all sections ol the
country, and should be preserved.
2. Ilesolved, That a3 the institution of \
Slavery existed iu the States ot the confed
eracy prior to the adoption of the Constitu
tion of the United States, and the right to j
hold slaves as property was conceded by the
fi-&mers of the Constitution and fully recog
nized therein, therefore, Slavery exist# inde- 1
pendently of the Constitution; and, as slave
ry is recognized and sanctioned by the
Constitution, Congress, which derives all
its powers from that instrument, cannot leg
i-late on the subject of slavery, except for its j
protection where it legally exists ; that the
Territories are the common property of all
tbe States, an l therefore, the people lnve I
I the right to ent< r upon and occupy any
Territory with their slaves, as well ns other
property, and are protected by the Con-ti
tutinn ami Flag of the country ; that Con
g ess has no right to legislate slavery into,
nor exclude it from a Territory, and that we
! hold that the doctrine of “nou intervention”
with the institution of slavery in the States,
Territories, or the District of Columbia, does
not, n >r was it intended to conflict with the
asse: lion of the power of Congress to pro
tect the properly of the citizens of the sev-
I eral States who may choose to settle in the
several Territories.
We believe also that the further agitation
of the subject of slavery will tend to no
practical good to any portion of the coun
try. and should therefore cease, regarding
the principle as settled, both by legislative :
enactment ami judicial interpretation, that
the people of the Territories, when they come
to form a State Constitution, and at no other
time , (by unfriendly legislation or otherwise)
1 shah deride the question for themselves.
We lurthermore repudiate the doctrine of
‘squatter sovereignty’’ in all its forms as an
invidious ar.d certain mode of excluding the j
South from the common territory of the
Union, and stand ready to oppose sternly
and uncompromisingly all who advocate
that doctrine.
3. Resolved , That the reckless extrava
i gance of the preceding and present Aduiin
! istration of the Federal Government, and
especially the unblushing corruption which
: has mar ked the latter, by which the public
expenditures hate been increased Ironi fitty
to near one hundred millions of dollars per
annum, is a deep wrong that should be re
buked and must be corrected. We hold
i Congress equally responsible with the Ad
m nistratiou for ibis extravagance.
4. Resolved, That th* recommendation of
the President that Congress should confer
upon him the war-making power, and sub
j ct the army and navy to his control,
’ coupled with the demand for enormous ap
propriations of the public mon-'y to carry
out his views, call for and deserve the most
unequivocal ar.d unqualified condemnation
of the whole country.
5. Resolved , The present representation in
the State Legislature we regard as cumbrous,
■ an unnecessary tax upon the people and m-
I finical to wise and prudent legislation. We
advocate a decided reduction and at theeuili
-1! es.t day practicable.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
~ L. F. W. Editor.
MAOOH, JULY 29, 1859.
FOR CONGRESS,
Thos. Hardeman, jr.,
OF* ]VEBOOIN'.
OPPOSITION
Min C6PEITIII
Will be held at
A. T L A \ T A
on
Wednesday, August 10,1859.
The following resolution was unani
mously adopted by the State Opposition Con
vention, at Macon, on the 20th of July:
“ Resolrod, That wo recommend a .Mass
Convention of our lriends be held in AT
LANTA. on the Second Wednesday in Au
gust, and that this Convention will adjourn
to said place and time, and the counties not
now represented are requested to send Dele
gates. And that we postpone the nomina
tion of a candidate for Governor until that
time.”
l*ti3>lic Tlectinii.
Wo have been requested to state that a
public meeting will be held in this city, at
the Council Chamber, on Saturday next, at
11 o’clock, A. M., the object of which is, to
appoint Delegates to the Convention soon to
b; held in Atlanta, where the contemplated
Railroads of the State, and the question of
i State Aid are to be considered.
To Correspondents.
J. 8., Trail Ridge, Fla. The pa
: per has been sent regularly, but we sup
i pose li¥> taken the inland route to Florida,
! and has got lost somewhere in the “hnm-
I mocks.” Wo will hereafter direct it, via
i Savannah, to sen whether it will reach you
j more promptly 7 .
“Civis” was received before the
: meeting of the late Convention, but not in
season for publication. We give it now.
j however, as the Convention is soon to meet
again, and the sugge-tions are worthy of
• consideration.
Circulate tti‘ Document*.
To give greater efficiency to the present
canvass, some extra pains should be taken to j
| circulate the papers, broad-cast over the !
State. We therefore desire our friends to
understand that we are a candidate for a
little more patronage, than we now have.— i
We will give an equivalent for every dollar j
sent us, and will take cash subscriptions for
three months, or longer, as may be prefer
red.
To CLUBS of TWENTY, that number
of weekly papers will be sent for SlO, to the j
Ist day of November. Orders respectfully
solicited.
Our City Post Office
From a note received from the Postmaster of
MacoD, we learn that the derangement of the
mail on the S. W. R. Road is occasioned by the
dismissalof one of the Route Agents on that line.
The vacancy has not yet been filled, and wes up
pose, therefore, there is no help for our Ogle
thorpe friend, till it suits the Department to
make anew appointment! The P. M. further
says that there is never any detention at his of
fice, of mail matter dropped into the P. 0. be
fore the hour of closing the mail. Asa general
thing, this is probably true, but we tlnnk the
P. M. cannot positively know that mistakes of
that character do not sometimes happen. It be
were to advertise the hour of closing every
mail and keep it before the public, conspicuous
ly, it would help, perhaps, to remedy some of
the inconveniencies complained of.
Louisville Medical College.
W e invite the attention of students of
medicine, who wish to take a course of lec
tures in r.oso Northern or Western Institu
tion ‘h? coming winter, to tho circular of I
the Medical Department of the University
of Louisville, Ky., to be found in our ad
vertising columns. Dr. J. “W. Benson, the
Accomplished gentleman and physician, who
formerly resided in Macon, is Dean of the
Facility and Professor of Anatomy and
General Physiology, in the College—a fact !
which ought to fill the class from this sec
tion, where Prof. Benson is so favorably
known and so highly appreciated. Dr. B.
is also co-editor of an able Medical Monthly
published at Louisville, Kv., a specimen
c >pv of which can be seen by any one who
desiris it, on calling at this office.
Alabama and Tennessee.
Prepare to hear good news, next week,
from our neighboring States, Alabama and
. Tennessee. Tom Judge will beat Clopton,
; we think and hope, and we have good rea
son to believe that we shall gain a Governor
and several Congressmen in Tennessee.
In a Bad Humor.
Our contemporary of the Southern Re
corder is badly afflicted with a splenetic par
oxysm, on account of not being able to get
up a bogus Convention at Milledgcville last
week, and seems to think that some people
have “ received a lesson that they will not
soon forget.” Will he please tell the pub
lic by what authority ho undertook to change
the place of meeting agreed upon two weeks
before the issue of his bogus handbill. He
misrepresents the facts when he says that
the late Executive Committee of the Amer
ican party called a Convention of any kind !
They simply recommended at the sugges
tion of the press, that an Opposition Con
vention be called, nothing more.
And the Athens Watchman also reads his
contemporaries considerable of a lesson,
(which we will call lesson No. 2,) on the
same subject. The Savannah Republican,
Atlanta American, Georgia Citizen, &c., I
I ° i
have been guilty of a “ten thousand times !
worse offence than imprudence,” that paper j
says, because they united in a call for a !
i Convention at Macon ! Well, perhaps, our
friends of tho Recorder and Watchman
i have a right thus to censure their brethren
i for the grievous “blunders,” and “evil coun
sels,” which have been committed and siiff
gested—but we really do not see how they
I are going to help themselves, unless they
will repair to Atlanta on or before the 10th
of August, and take the affairs of the party
into their own judicious hands, and endeavor
to repair the damage done by the offending
1 members of the fraternity! If they do not
{ then and there appear, for this purpose, they
should cease grumbling at the action of
’ others!
An Opposition Candidate for Governor.
In the abundance of material, out of
which to make an acceptable candidate for
Governor, in opposition to Joseph E. Brown,
it does seem strange that there should bo
any difficulty’, whatever, in making choice
of a man willing and patriotic enough to
allow the use of his name and services to his
party’ friends. The difficulty’ is not in mak
ing a choice, but in finding the proper man
trilling to take the field, as the standard
bearer of the Opposition of Georgia. Now,
how is this difficulty to be obviated V We
suggest that the next Convention proceed to
nominate all of the following named gen
tlemen, and then ballot, until the choice of
a majority is clearly indicated and then put
up the man— nolens rulens —and give him
the best vote we can, regardless of his wish
to run, and presuming upon hisdevotion to
our principles, that he will uecept the office,
if elected thereto. If the candidate thus
nominated positively refuses himself to his
friends, why then, let his party friends ig
n >rc him for all time to come—in otht r words,
let him lie anathema to all political prefer
ment in the future. In such a case, we
think Gen. Jackson’s motto the correct one
—to “ neither seek nor decline office.” We
therefore submit the following roll of hon
orable and worthy men, (and the list may
be increased indefinitely ) to either of whom
we will take pleasure in giving our support,
as the nominee of the Convention of the
10th of August:
Col. Wm. Dougherty, G. E. Thomas,
Janies Johnson, Hines Holt, of Muscogee.
Judge AVorrill of Talbot,
Judge Lott Warren, of Dougherty,
Gen. Eli Warren of Houston,
lion. R. P. Trippe of Monroe,
Col. L. T. Doyal, of Spalding,
Hon. I>. H. Hill, of Troup,
Hon. Turner 11 Trippe, of Cass,
Col. John Milledge, of Richmond,
Hon. Asbury Hull, of Clarke.
Col. A. R. Wright, of Jefferson,
Gen. A. J. Hansell, of Cobh,
Hon. Joshua. Hill, of Morgan,
Hon. John J. Floyd, of Newton,
Gen. John W. A. Sanford, of Baldwin,
Hon. W. B. Fleming, of Liberty,
Col. Anderson W. Redding, of Chatta
hoochee.
Hon. C. J. Jenkins, of Richmond.
Hon. Eli Baxter, of Hancock, ,
Dr. H. V. M. Miller, of Floyd,
Hon. Washington Poe, of Bibb,
Hon. F. S Bartow, of Chatham,
Hon. David A. Reese, of Jasper,
Warren Aiken, Esq., of Cass,
Col. David \V. Lewis, of Hancock,
Cincinnati!# Peeples, Esq., of Monroe.
Eighth District.
The Democratic parly of the Bth District met
a second time, in Augusta on Tuesday last, to
place a candidate in nomination, lor Congress,
in the room of the Hon. A. H. Stephens, who
declines further houors, in that line. And who,
dear reader,do you suppose wasselected as the
Standard Bearer oi the uuterrified ? Why John
J. Jones, Esq., of Burke—our “Jeuks” who
formerly stayed nbout Macon, and the same
handsome individ utl who took such an active
part in the mob proceedings in Macon, August
1850 ! Yerily, the Democracy was scarce of
timber, when they could find no one but
“Jenk?,” to be the successor cf the talented
Stephens ! If he cannot be boat by the oppo
sition of the Bth, we move for an immediate
dissolution ol the new co partnership of antago
nistic elemeuts. As we are, personally, under
some uncancelled obligations to “Jenks, 1 ’ we
think it will now be convenient season, to pay
what we owe, even to the last farthing.
Second District.
The Opposition and American party of
■ this District, met in Convention yesterdft}’,
Wednesday, at Americas, to nominate a
| candidate for Congress in opposition to the
Hon. M. J. Crawford. At the time of go
ing to press, last evening, we had not heard
the result, but presume that Marcellus
! Douglas, Esq., of Randolph, has been cho
| sen a? the standard-bearer of our friends in
i that District. He is said to be a young
; man of fine talents, and every way the
equal, except in political legerdemain and \
low 7 anecdotes, of his opponent.
P. S. A note-from a friend in Atnericus
confirms our anticipation. The Convention
nominated Marcellus Douglass, Esq., ns the
Opposition candidate for Congress in the 2d
District.
Douglas in Kentucky.— The Louisville \
Journal says that the Democracy of Ken
tuck}- is completely DouGLAS-ized, and will
go for him without a dissenting voice if he
is nominated at Charleston. There can be
no doubt of this. So they will in Florida.
The African Slave Trade.
The “ State Pres?,” of Wednesday, leads
oft’in an article on this subject which de
serves notice and correction. The attempt
is made t<> create the impression, that the Op
position Convention, was, to a man, opposed
to the removal of the odious restrictions up
on the United States Statute Book, against
the African Slave trade. This was not the
the reason, why Col. JoneJ resolution was
tabled, along with Johnston’s, of the oppo
site character. The fact was, that this issue
was not presented by the Democracy, and
the Opposition had no reason to give any
expression of opinion upon it. It is a pure
ly Southern question, and there is perhaps
little difference of opinion among us as to
the right of the Northern majority to de
clare the foreign slave trade murder and pi
racy, whatever there may be as to the expe
diency of re-opening the traffic. Hence, it
was not required to introduce that subject
| into the Convention, although we should
have been pleased if the Convention had
passed Mr. Jones’ resolution, declaring for
| a repeal of the existing law upon the sul>-
, jeet. The object of tabling the resolution
was to ignore the question, for the present,
and proceed to other business. The “State
Press,” therefore, is a little too smart when
it attempts to make a little capital for his
party, out of the refusal of the Opposition
to pass the resolution in question. The De
mocracy are not a unit on this point, and
have offered no issue to their opponents but
that of Buchanan’s “patriotism and ability,”
and Joe Brown’s $30,000, monthly instal
ment, which last, by the way, ns will be
seen by the Comptroller’s letter to the Citi
zen, he has no more to do with than the
man in the moon !
With the “State Press” we agree,
substantially, as to the Foreign Slave
Trade question. Tim Citizen was, we be
lieve, the first paper in Georgia that opened
its columns, for the discussion of the topic,
and we have no notion that the Democracy
shall use our thunder sgainst ourself and
| friends, when it has not been made an issue
!by either party. Come, Major, “tote fair,”
or we shall be after you “ with a sharp
1 stick,” semi-occasionally.
The* Squabble about Hie Aegro
Oirl.
The most reliable account we have of the :
squabble about the negro girl Adeline, about j
which Col. Peter McLaren, of Columbus, j
Ga., was arrested the other evening, is that
Col. McLaren, who is quite wealthy, had at
the instance of his wife let her mother, wife
of Gen. Elias Hull, have the use of the girl,
her mother and two sons, without charge ;
that the family of negroes proving too ex
pensive, were all returned but Adeline ; that
after several years Col. McLaren wanted
her back, telling Gen. Hull that he had her
long enough for nothing, and coming
very near having a difficulty with the Gen
eral because she was not restored to him;
that determined out of humanity that she
should not be separated from her mother
and brothers, he set out to find her, and on
ly succeeded, after six weeks’ search, in hear
ing of her being in this city for sale in a
slave yard; that he came here, identified
her as his slave, and showing his title to
the girl was temporarily given her in
; charge; that he erred in taking the girl to
■ hotel where he was stopping, instead of put
ting her in jail for safe keeping, and in oon
j sequence he was arrested at the instance of
! Mr. Morton, of this city, on the charge of
taking and detaining the girl contrary to
law, the affidavit being made by Mr. Mor
ton, as agent in the matter for Gen. Hull.
Col. McLaren promptly furnished bail for
j examination before the llecorder.—A. O.
| Crescent.
Dr. Andrews: —You will oblige me by
giving place in the Citizen to the foregoing
true statement of facts connected with my
recent arrest in New Orleans, when in pur
suit of my property. An exaggerated and
false account having appeared in one of the
New Orleans papers, I take this method of
saying to my friends in Georgia, that Gen’l
Hull never had any legal claim to the girl
Adeline. She belongs to me, and was only
loaned to Mrs. Hull, a- a matter of accom
modation to her, and at the instance of my
wife. Hence, when 1 found she was smug
gled off to a New Orleans slave pen, in or
der to swindle me out of my property, I
went in search of her, and found her as sta
ted in the proceeding article. She is still
there, subject to the epidemic of the place;
but if she survives the season, I have no
doubt but I shall he able to prove my right
to the property, and restore her to the so
eietv of her family and kindred, who are
still in my possession, and on my planta
tion in Dougherty county, Ga. Motives of
humanity, say nothing of my legal rights in
the case have prompted me to the steps al
ready taken, and 1 am sure that those who
know me will acquit moot'any desire to vi
olate the laws of the country, or to exercise
any doubtful claim upon the property of
others. P. McLAREN.
Dougherty Cos., July -7th, 1859.
From the Southern Fiehl at il Fireside.
Going it li!iil-A true Statement
of Facts.
A year or two alter the settlement of Mer
riwether county, Georgia, a few persons who
did not love the restraints of religious disci
pline, formed n small society of Universalists.
They had a monthly meeting at a large school
house. Dr. Adams, a talented man, and an
excellent physsciau, would hold forth with a
lecture in Li.-* place.
Amongst the society, was an old Baptist who
had distilled liquor, and drank more than he
ought to have done and his church had turned
him out. Age, infirmities, and too much
dram, had laid him on his death-bed. He sent
for Dr. Adams to prescribe for him, being sore
ly troubled in body and mind. “1 don’t know,
Doctor,” saitHie, “about our doctrine of uni
versal salvation. I think 1 shall die, and I
don’t feel quite as safe as I have heard people
say they do in like cases. Do try and dosome
tliing lor me, ff you can, I'm mighty bad off
every way. Things look dark in the grave. 1
aint prepared to die.”
The Doctor was taken aback; but rallying,
in ilia jovial way, he Baid : 1 Oh, no danger—no
danger; die like a man, and just go it blind /”
He went it blind ; the Doctor tollowed him
blind, too, in a yoamlter: the society dissolv
ed; aud now in the neighborhood there is no
distillery —no drunkenness —but a flourishing
church, with nearly two hundred members,who
we trust, are not taught with a blind faiih.
U.
It is with sincere regret, that we notice the
above article in the last No. of the “Field A
| preside.” In our judgment, such slanderous
1 communications are entirely out of place in
that beautiful and well conducted paper, and
contrary to its general taste and character, as
a family paper —that should bo free from par
tizan or sectarian bias. Wo denounce the
story as false and slanderous, in every particu
lar, and call for the proof. Being somewhat
i acquainted with the history of Uuiversalism in
Georgia for 20 years past, and never before
having heard of the Merriwether Society, or of
any other Universalist Society formed on the
principle of freedom from the “restraints of re
ligious discipline,” as stated by “If. ’ we must
i have better evidence of the truth of the insinu
ations made, than the mere word of any anon
! yraous scribbler, who may smuggle himself into
the columns of a respectable journal, before we
can give credit to his statements. We would
also submit it to the good sense of the propri
etor of the “Field & Fireside” whether it is con
| sistent with the design of that sheet, to make
it the vehicle of sectarian malignity, against
any class of the people. If “going it blind ’
were a true anecdote, it has no business we ap
prehend in his columns—if false, it has much j
less. Nor shall the proprietor take refuge
from censure, for the wrong done, behind the
skirts of his hireling corps of Editors. He is
the responsible person of the concern, and
should not deem it unkind or discourteous if a
repetition of the offence induced a critical ex
amination of his rights as a moral and religious
man, to pass public judgment upon a large
class of professing Christians! j
Three days Later from Europe. 1
ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA-
New York, July 27.
The steamship Europa, Capt Leiich, lia;
arrived off Cape Race. She brings Liver- :
l>ool dates to the ICth in<t.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —The ales of the ;
week were 107,000 bales. Prices had ad- ;
vanced j a £d.
Havre. Coiton Market.— Orleans ties ordi
naire was quoted 112f.
Consols 951 a 05$.
The Bank rates had been advanced 24 per
cent,
Breadstuff's were declining, and there was
but little enquiry. Provisions were very
dull, and Pork heavy and declining.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Saxonia, the Kangaroo, the Ocean j
Queen and the Persia had all arrived out.
Peace was fully confirmed, but no further
particulars had transpired, beyond the fact
that the Princess of Tuscany and Modena
had retired to their States.
The result of the treaty is generally dis
trusted in England,
The Emperor Napoleon was, at last ac- j
counts, on his way home.
The Sardinian Ministry lias resigned, and
Count Avez had been appointed to form a
new Cabinet.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —During the
week Speculators took 19-000 bales and ex
porters 12,000 bales. The sales on Friday
were ten thousand hales, speculators and ex
porters each taking 3,000 bales. The mar
ket closed quiet, at the following quota
tions :
Fair Orleans, Bjd.
Middling Orleans, 7 6-1 Od.
Fair Mobiles, <"fd.
Middling Mobiles, 7Jd.
Fair Uplands 74d.
Middling Uplands, “jbb
The stock at Liverpool is 688,400 bales in
-1 eluding 608 000 American.
1 State of Trade. —Manchester advices were
favorable. Yams had advanced a half penny,
but the high prices had checked business,
i Havre Cotton Market. —The sales of the
1 week were 19,000 bales—market buoyant.—
Stock 96.000 bales.
It was reported that Count Favour had re
signed his position in the Sardinian Cabinet,
i because the terms of peace were unsatisfactory.
The Paris Bourse closed at 68 a 60.
The weather was considered favorable to the
crops. At Liverpool, Flour was very dull
For the French trade Is. to 2s. decline, per
sack, had been offered. Wheat dnll and un
j changed, holders pressing sales. Southern quo
ted 10>. a 11s. Corn dull aud nominal. Beef
heavy—holders pressing sales, particularly of
inferior qualities—3tcck very heavy. Bacon
I steady, and there was more enquiry. Sugar
j buoyant and advancing. Coffee steady. Rice
heavy. Turpentine 36a.
In London Wheat was very dull at 3d. a 4d.
decline on the sales of the week. Sugar and
Coffee firm. Tea steady. Turpentine heavy at
40 s.
American stocks were active and advancing.
The Bullion in the Bank of England had de
creased .£147,000.
GENERAL NEWS.
The Emperor Napoleon was expected to
reach Paris on the 18th, when further details
vvou'd be afforded. In his address to his sol
diers, the Emperor said that peace had beeu
concluded because the contest was about to as
sume proportions no longer in keeping with the
interests which France had in tho war.
The Emperor of Austria was on his way to
Vienna. lie says in the order of the day lie
yielded to his unfavorable political situation be
cause his natural allies did not, as he expected,
cotne to lus assistance.
Peifectly Satisfied-
Our Third Street neighbor is delighted
because the late Convention- sustained the
views of that journal, in not nominating a
candidate for Governor in opposition to
Gov. Brown, contrary to the wishes of
“some less stable politicians than them
selves.” Jewhilikins! but that is a refined
touch of self-complacency 1 Perhaps the
Convention did decline to nominate purely
in deference to the views of the Journal &
Messenger, and because that paper had com
mitted itself previously to Joe Brown, but
we were not before aware of the fact. Nor
do we see, if that be a fact, why the Con
vention adjourned over to meet in Atlanta
on the 10th of August, if it were not for the
purpose of making a nomination. We have
already got a platform, and there is no pos
sible use for an adjourned meeting of the
Convention, if it he not for the purpose of
selecting a standard-bearer.
CYsimis of Sumter County.
We publish below an abstract of the cen
sus of Sumter county, for 1859—taken by
Mr. 11. J. Williams, exhibiting the following
result:—
Whole number of Whiles, G, 141
“ “ Slaves, 6,021
“ “ Free Negroes, 6
Total population, 12,168
SPECIFICATIONS.
Number of families, 1,114
“ Males between G and 16, 901
“ Females “ 6 and 15, 823
“ Males under G, 666
“ Females under 6, 627
“ Males over 16 1,602
“ Females over 15, 1,522
Included in this number are
Deaf and Dumb, 3
Idiots (2 whites and 2 slaves,) 5
Lunatic, 1
Military.
Anew Military Company has been formed in
Americus, under the most favorable auspices.
The following is the roll of the officers elect, of
the Company, which is yet without a name :
W. L. Johnson. Captain,
i I) ER Winn’ Ist Lieut.
R J Hill, 2d “
S Dawson, 3d “
Wm. Sirrine, Ensign,
A S Cults, Ist Sergeant,
A N Bruce, 2d “
W C Godwin, 3d “
Robt L Byrd, 4ih “
Rich’d Gwinn sth “
T M E len, Ist Cor.
I J E Sullivan, 2d “
A C Hornaday, 3d “
.T D Lester, 4th “
K P Black, sth “
R C Black, Surgoor.
R M Biased, Sec. and Treas.
Death of Judge Gayle-
It is with unfeigned sadness that we are
called upon to announce the death of the Hon.
John Gayle, late Judge of the United States
District Court of Alabama, who expired at his
residence near this city yesterday morning.—
Although this mournful intelligence lists been ‘
long expected, in consequence of the steadily
declining health of the decoyed, it will be re- j
ceived with a pang of universal grief through
out the State. Judge Gayle was among tl •
most illustrious citizens of Alabama, having
spent the greater part of his life in tho public
service and filled nearly every post of distinc
tion in the State. He was twice Governor of
the State, and represented this district one term
in the Congress of the United States. He was
appointed in 1849, by President Taylor, Judge
of the United States District Court of the Dis
trict of Alabama, which position he continued j
to occupy up to the time of his death. He j
was universally respected and beloved for his
exalted worth and generous nature.— Mobil
Register, Tid.
Just Published.
Italy, and the War of 1859.
Giving a history of the causes of the W nr,
with Biographical sketches and finely en
graved Portraits of its heroes, together with
the official accounts of the battles of Monte
bello, Palestro, Magenta : Ac., &.C., and
Maps of Italy, Austria, and all the adjacent
countries, by
Madame Julie de ALarguerrittes ,
With an introduction by Dr. R. Shelton
McKenzie, handsomely bound in one vol
ume, 12mo. cloth—Price $1.25; and pub
lished bv G. G. Evans, 439 Chestnut Street,
Phila. ‘
“ Italy and the War of 1859, —This hand
some volume, written by Madame Julie de
Margucrittos, and suitably illustrated with
Maps and Portraits has just been published
hyG. G. Evans (the original Gift Book
Publisher,) of Philadelphia, at the low price
of $1.25, and is ns well timed as it is well
executed. The design is to show Italy in
her Past and Present, so that the reader
may understand upon what grounds she ba
ses her expectancy of a glorious Future,
with this view, the author, who has travel
led largely through Europe, and resided for
a considerable period at Milan, with vists to
j other great cities of Italy, describes places
! with which she is acquainted, and persons
i she intimately knew. The statistics of the
various States now engaged in hostilities,
with biographical sketches of the Sovereigns
generally, and Statesmen, whom the war
has thrown into prominency. A great deal
of personal anecdote is introduced, which
very much adds to the spirit aud aeceptabil
i ity of the work. The causes of the war arc
fully and fairly developed, and there is ap
pended an authentic account of the war it
self up to the present time, including the
official reports of the various battles and the
j chivalrous exploits of Gen. Garribaldi, the
j gallant Guerrilla leader.
We notice that in an introduction to the
, work, Dr. R. Shelton McKenzie, Literary
and Foreign Editor of “ The Press,” (Phil
adelphia) very warmly eulogizes its designs
| and execution.
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“We have read Mr. 11. S. Brown’s ‘Lec
tures’ with much satisfaction. Mr. Brown
knows how to speak to ‘the people.’ He has
almost every qualification for it, if we may
judge from his printed addresses. There is
no maudlin sentimentality about him : but
all is healthy as the breeze on the hil. There
is no clap-trap; he is both too honest and
too earnest for that. There is neither a
Pharisaic scorn of vice, nor any effeminate
apolgizing'for it, but a wise Christian man’s
righteous hatred of it, who knows how to
look on those who are sin degraded as his
brethren. lie speaks to the people as al
most one of themselves, only from a higher
level; and, though he uses their daily phra
ses, yet he does not thereby pander to vul
garity. * lie has a happy acquaintance with
our homely common sense proverbs, and
employs them tellingly. There is no affec
tation of extraordinary ‘concern for the
poor,’ or their ‘souls;’ but there is that real
manly concern which can afford to dispense
with profession, and to express itself chiefly
in calm hut brave and sensibly earnest en
deavours. The proverb, ‘Much cry and lit
tle wool,’ you may reverse in his case. His
true desire to benefit the people is partly
shown by the pains with which he collects
and prepares the statistics of vice, poverty,
and disease, Ac., in order that his well-mar
shalled facts may preach to the understand
ing. The genuiness of his earnestness is
j evinced by the cheerfulness with which it
I toils along the highway of common sense.
He has no recourse to reckless, undiscrimin
ating charges, and is too strong for exag
geration. Truth is enough for him : would
that this were no distinction! “While he
j I’aithtully tonches the worst vices, yet you
I never feel that the censor himself must have
a coarse taste or prurient imagination.—
These Sunday afternoon lectures are not
j ‘sermons,’ nor intended to be. In them he
, grapples with acknowledged evils ; but still,
while opening the eyes of the to the
nature of what much of their daily life
too often is, and showing what it might be,
| he is never arhamed of the Gospel of Christ,
| or chargeable with even seeming to let them
j go away with the impression that anything
else, and not the kingdom of heaven, is the
first thing to be sought. In Air. Brown we
have a man who, we should judge, can af
ford to go where any classes of God’s crea
tures are domesticated, l’or he is strong, and
his strength is holy.”— Monthly Christian
Spectator.
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LctferM from Te*a.
NUMBER SEVEN”.
Dear Dr. Andrews:— lt has been nearly
twelve months since I last wrote you ; during
all of which time the sun has risen each day,
and every night the little twinkling stars have
bestuddied the skie \ it has clouded auon, and
bright, beautiful, vivid lightning has played
fantastically athwart the clouds, and refreshing
showers have made nature smile and don her
I richest robes ; northers have blown and com
pelled the weary traveller and the merry cow-
I driver to draw his mantle —a Mexican blanket
close about his person ; frogs have screamed
many a merry note from turbid pools, and owls
have “hooted,” and beautiful, gaily plumed
birds have again caroled their dulcet notes
from the thick foliage of the live oak ; while
the’Vcaly, uncouth have reveled in
1 their muddy holes, and chuckled over the dy
ing agonies of furtive pigs. In short nature
has wagged on just as she always did, and in
the time / have grown one year older, ar.d the
additional experience of that I have gained, has
convinced me that men are still fond of pretty
teamen, that nearly ever mother thinks her ba
by pretty, that maidens still are f>nd of dress
and are coy; that dandies still admire their
own strafe lives, and that some wives continue
to deliver curtain lectures, and some husbands
are still bnttish : that the earth ttill produces
street Hovers as well as noisome weeds, and as
everything else remains so similar, you must
expect my present letters to be similar to my
former ; insipid,‘stupid, nonsensical.
This has been an eventful year in Texas.—
The first part of the spring was noted for the
frequency of its northers —generally one and
j often more every week—till the 23d of April,
j when old Boreas did his best : roared, howled,
: bellowed all day long as if to show what he
■ could do—a grand frolic.
Our corn was about two feet high, and a
great deal of the cotton chopped out and all on :
: the low lands killed out, while the crop on the
I pararies was badly damaged. IV e had no rain
for weeks and consequently replant would only 1
come up on low land that had been well culti
vated. On the sth of May we had a fine rain, )
which brought up the young crop, and then
no more till the last days of June ; since, we
have had showers pretty regularly. With all
these difficulties, we have as fine cotton crops
as I ever saw, and com bids fair to yield a full j
plenty for home consumption.
Black tongue has made itsappearance among
the cattle, but so far I have not heard of „
dyinir. ‘ “ 7
The Indians have been doiog mischief on o
frontier nearly all tLisyear, bu‘. have killed t*.
few of the settlers. Their chief ol jeet seems to
*>e horse stealing.
We made splendid crops in this valley l ar
year, but, Dr. if I tell you how much corn p
acre we did make, you must not tell the fir!
listed old curmudgeons of Georgia, lor we
our rich lands to fall into the hands of clever ei|!
izens. Our valley made a full aggregate of so
bushels per acre, and the praries about 4 ,
while the bottoms made much more. I hearff
of one man making 111 per acre over a whr -
field. You perhaps saw a staternmt of this
ease in your exchanges, for it was
abroad in the land through newspapers, as ratlin
smart, even for this laud of wonders.
The sheep fever has broken out, here and E |i
men seem perfectly frantic to hear the hoar*
bah on their premises. Anything looking hy
a sheep will sell readily for $3 here, while I
hear ol Merino bucks, raised by Peters, of At
lanta, Georgia, selling readily at SIOO a head
You recollect the terrible epidemic that
scourged Georgia in common with other South,
ern States — Hen Fever ? —it would hardly
match the Sheep Fever now prevailing among
us.
Did you ever see a Mexican sheep ? If not
; I fear I can give you a faint idea of how thev
look. If you take one long-legged houud, lean
and lank, just nine months old, one setter slight
, ly crossed with the pug kind, one terrier of the
j order of rat catchers, and one ten months old
| bull pup (to get the head) and fiat mistura
and strike the aggregate ; and when you have
obtained the Dew compound, grease it all over
with Preston’s patent Omnibus grease and let
wallow in the streets of a dry dusty day, and
you may very well call it a Mexican Sheep.
A full grown buck of the Mexican kind, -
with horns aud hair (they have no wool) will
probably weigh 40 pounds, and yet they are
selling here for $3 per head. They are prefe
red to raise from by crossing with Merino bucks
as they are said to be very hardy and to live
always. If you were to see one you wanted
wouder that they ever died, if the old story i„
true, that death is an entity and slays all with
; a spear, for it would certainly try the metal of
, the old man’s instrument to slay a few of these
animals. A man buys a thousand Mexican
1 ewes and a few of Peiers’ bucks, and sets out,
feeling that he has possessed himself of a wish
iog-cap.
Our Raiiroads are everywhere progressing
finely, and in a few years the wonders of this
glorious country may be seen without the ne
cessity of buying a Mustang pony aud a Span
ish saddle.
Texas flour is selling at $2 a $2.25 at the
mills, and is fully equal to your Hiram Smith,
or any other brand in your market.
Corn is worth 50 cts. per bushel, and bacon
so abundant that it will not sell at any price.
In my next I propose to give you an inkling
of the moral aud political state o r western Tex
as at the present time. Faithfully yours,
W. A. BROWN.
Verbena Yale, July 13th, 1859.
P. S.—Very particular notice.
All young ladies whose Pa’s are not able, or
willing, to buy a plenty of Hoops, aro invited
and most earnestly solicited, to emigrate to Tex
as. Here the rattan grows ex sproute, and
you can help yourselves. W. A. B.
For tub Citizen.
The Public money and the
Echo’s Africans.
Dr. Andrews :
In this morning’s Telegraph I see pub
lished a correspondence between Col.
Geo. R. Hunter, of Knoxville, Crawford
County, and the lion. Howell Cobb, on
the subject of educating the negroes tak
en by the Government from the Echo,
and sent back to Africa. If Col. Hun
ter had examined the records of the coun
try, he could, without sending a letter
to Washington, have been correctly in
formed about the captured negroes of
the Echo. Here he could have learned
all about the disposition made of them,
and have known whether they were to
be educated or not, and of the $45,000
to be paid the Colonization Society to
receive them in Liberia. Mr. Cobb is
right when he says, Mr. Buchanan never
expressed a regret that he could not ap
propriate the public money to the edu
cation of captured negroes. There was
no necessity for such a declaration of
regret , when he. in his Annual Message,
to Congress, said, “An agreement was
entered into with the Colonization Socie
ty, under wh'ch the Society engaged, for
the consideration of $45,000, to receive
these Africans in Liberia from the agent
of the United States, and furnish them
during the period of one year thereafter,
with comfortable shelter, clothing, pro
visions and medical attendance, causing
THE CHILDREN TO RECEIVE SCHOOLING,
and all, whether children or adults, to he
be instructed in the arts of civilized life
suitable to their condition.” Mr. Bucli
anan made the ‘ agreement ’ with the Soci
ety, that the negroes afte r being landed in
Liberia, should be schooled and educa
ted. Now, they were to be schooled,
by whom and at whose expense ? Os
the Colonization Society ? Why, the
Society agreed to receive them in Libe
ria, clothe, provision, shelter, and cause
the children (negro children,) to be
schooled. The educating of the Echo
negroes was one of the terms and con
ditions of the “ agreement or contract,
between Mr. Buchanan aud the Coloniza
tion Society. No wonder Mr. Buchan
an’s Secretary denies his ever having
said he regretted that he could not ap
’ propriate the public money to educate
the Echo’s negre-es, for he had already
in his agreement with the Society had it
named and expressed in the bond, that
the Society should school them out i t
Lho $45 000. As Col. Hunter seems to
be hunting for truth, and as he seems to
be anxious to enlighten the public mind,
ask him to request the Telegraph to pub
lish ho much of Air. Buchanan s Annual
Message to Congress as relates to the
Echo negroes, and then publish right
under, or perhaps above, Mr. Cobb s de
nial and vindication of the acl of ‘caus
ing THE CHILDREN TO BE SCHOOLED OUt
of the $45,000. lam not at all aston
ished that Col. Hunter sen=i
tive concerning Africans. I ask the p eo
pie to go to the records of the country,
and not be misled by what Mr. Cob ,
or Mr. anybody else may say.
July 26. BERRIEN.
! Create not imaginary difficulty;
sufficient are the real ones which
have each to encounter in the course
our lives.
Industry is an excellent guard for vir
tue ; the more active your life,
opportunity have the passions to corrup
you.