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VOLUME 10. THE GEORGIA CITIZEN SE riBUSIin VERT FRIDAY MORNING BV I L. F. W. ANDREWS. OFFICE —In Horne a Building, Cherry Street, T>ro Doors below Third Street. Tlill'l*:—#i,JO per annum, in mlianrr. VlurlU -mint* . tb- rffii ax cbarite will he Owe IS.'ir p*-r t.t hn .deed vnjrd* *.r <**, f,r the rlrat me=r ti i. a:nl K/ln #'<* for erh >uiw"oiu-nt in**rlin. All ad vertemi t* not ato UomlwH iniMi*be<l uteil f, H-id. n*l rharjre'l •ecordinelr. A litn-rai di*c mot allowed to those who advertise by the year. Lit’-ra! irun*tuiente mate oittu onr.ty tHßar-. DnijaclrtA, Anrtioneet*. Mefttaata. and others, who may wish to inake i*rfe'**l dial and Uu-ima. Cards iii be Inserted un it, r tfciv head, at the tbUowinjr raten, viz : For Fire Urns* per annum, 509 or'een lines, do g.o For Ten linom do ltHKt head fti—ment of this clmj will t< artrtsitted, unlew. jaid for in advance, nor for a less t-rm titan twelve m* slits. Ad- i iMMßrtttsol uver ten lute wUI be cttarired pr.irill. Atl vcrti*nietit not ;-aid tor in advance wil. be 1 ti.vryed at the UfclMorv \ulirrt jf m-er tern line*, will be charred at the Inuoimrv ment V ‘u riUlater for oAee to be paid for a the usual rates, adieu ht arttsl. sales of I.and and Newoeo. * f Ixecitors. ACrttiiirtr*- tr.rs and Guardian*, are nsimn-d i.y law hi be attverli.ed in a ptihile gaziste, forty day* yrevitme to the day of •etle I fcese tale* must l held on tbe Hist Taesdav :u the use'll, twtweea the hours of tea la the foreßo<>n and thr> e in the afterct-ia. • at te Couitjhausv tn the county in which the property isstlu wale* of Personal Property nmsS be advertised in like Aollce l ItelbtMf* and Creditors of an E-tate must It #JwE*2 f rty “ Ntttiee ‘hat apfeteaHofi will be made to the Ordinary for to sell ’ niatlotis for XtSZev. of Adtnlnistn lon, tiirtv da?#; for Jhseifcvdon r..m AdwiniMrutiou. amnthlr, -u month*; for iAsmlwi n foil OnaMi.mrt.lp, s-eekli. f - . ..... Kales for PoreeitMi of tlorl.a ~ ■ nthlv. f.ui f.srf daimsh i-*l rVrt*r- lorthefci ! spare ofthre Pumtlwt for C-'OipetUn* lliJm rfon. executor- or aduiiniMrs mb where a boad ba- been iimi ■*y tbe deswised, the full |i*tf of three pppiths, The Auroral Telegraph. The following conversation be tween the Boston an*! Portland op erator* on the American Telegraph Line Kill give our reader* an idea of the effect of the Aurora Borealis ou the working of telegraph wires : Boston Operator (to Portland Op ■erator.y —“Please cut otf your bat tery entirely from the Line for fif teen minutes.” Portland Operator.—‘‘Will do so. it ts now disconnected.” AAkmton. — •M in* is also disconnect ed, and we are working wit it the 1 Aim >ral current. How do you re ceive my writings ?” Portland.—“ Better than with our oaabalteries on. Current comes and goes gradually.” . Boston.—“My current is very strong at times, and wo ean work better without batteries, as the Auro ra seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our Belay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affect ed by this trouble.” Portland—“Very well. Shall Igo ahead with business ?” Boston.—“\es. Go ahead.” The wire was then worked for about two hours without the usual batteries, on the Auroral current, working better than with the batte-i ries connected. The current varied, increasing and decreasing alternate- j ly, but by graduating the adjustment to the current, a sufficiently steady effect was obtained to work the Line very well. Balloon Yoyaob to Elropk.—A J monster Balloon, for T. C. Lowe,has j just been completed in New York, at the -cost of $25,000. It is intend’ 1 ed for a voyage to Europe in Octo ber, and will carry six passengers, ‘ besides a letter and newspaper mail. A description of it says : Over six thousand )ards of the best material has been used, and sev enteen sewing machines have been ! employed on the work, and it is es timated, have done the work that would have required two hundred | girls to perforin in the same time. The aeronaut does not claim to have invented any new system of balloon ing, hut he lias been enabled, by the assistance of friends, to construct a i machine in which he is determined i to test the practicability of a trails-i Atlantic voyage. The entire height of the balloon, from the bottom of the loat to the top is 240 feet, and its diameter 123 feet. The boat isa life boat,4s feet in length, 8 feet beam, and 4 feet deep, and will contain a caloric engine for the purpose ofo working a propeller on the screw j principle. The* size of the car or bas ket is 30 feet in circumference. It is calculated that the propeller, which j is placed in the bow of the will enable the icronaut to raise or lower the balloon at pleasure, and to keep steerage way on it. The balloon will contain about 700,000 enbie feet 1 of gas. and will weigh, with the ear, ls>at, and their contents, about three J tons, and will possess a lifting power 1 0f221 tons. It is expected to make the voyage to Eunqc in two days.” The ordinary rate of speed per se cond is as follows : Os a man walking. 0 feet. Os a good horse in harness, 12 feet. Os a good sailing ship. 18 feet. Os a reindeer in a sleigh on the iee, 24 feet. Os a race horse, 72 feet. Os hare, locomotive, and hurricane, 84 feet. Os sound, 1892 feet. Os a caution hall, 1344 feet. Os the earth's rotation at the equa tor. 1521 feet. Os the earth’s velocity in its orbit, 69,132 feet, or nineteen miles. Ab<ht a Pn*.—‘-Patrick, widow Jlolony telU me that you have stolen one of her finest pigs. L- that so ? “Yes yer honor.” “What have you done with it ?” “Killed it and ate it, yer honor ?” “Oh, Patrick when you are brought face to face with the widow and her pig, on the judgment day, what account will you be able to give of yourself wuen the widow accuaes you of the theft” _ “Did you say the pig would be there, yer riverance !” “To bo sure I did.” “Well, thin, yer riverence, I’ll say, Mrs. Malony, there's your pig.” Antwerp. —This old city, whose fortification seems to create so much excitement in France, is the capital ot the province of the same name in Belgium. It is situated sixty miles from the sea, on the right hank of the river Scheldt, being twentv-sev-1 en miles from Brussels, and nearly two hundred and sixty miles from Paris. It is is still the centre of the j foreign trade of Belgium, and has a i population of ninety thousand; hut in the sixteenth century* it was the ; London of Europe, surpassing all other cities in wealth and commerce, and containing two hundred thous and inhabitants, it has always been fortified strongly, and regarded as a place of much military importance. It was taken by* the Spaniards in , L>7iaiid 1585, and by the French in j 1702 and 1704. Napoleon greatly improved its harbor by constructing j two large basins, in which ships can i anchor in the river opposite the city* I in from thirty-two to forty feet of water at ebb-tide. It has many flour- 1 isliing manufactures, and the archi- \ tectural beauty of its churches and public buildings make it very attrac-; tive to the tourist. By our hurt intelligence, Antwerp was being strengthened in its forti fications out of funds previously sup plied, and the Belgian Chamber was discussing the expediency of enlarg ing the plans, with the prospect in favor of that result. The Paris pa pers state that should this he done, an army of observation, really of menace, consisting of <>9,000 men, would soon le located upon the frontier of France. Jt has been con jectured that the root of the French feeling in this matter lies in the {Risi bility that Antwerp, in case of war with England, would form the base of British operations on the Conti- j neat. But it does not yet clearly ! appear that the government of France is so much interested in the j question as news writers would have | us suppose. A Xori.k Sentiment. —“Let us cling to the Constitution as the ma riner clings to the last plank when., the night and tempest- close around, him.” A noble thought and nobly expressed by a great statesman now deceased, but the sentiment should he deeply engraven non tbe heart of every patriot through nt the broad extent of the Republic. XU (Con stitution of our common county* is the mighty .Egis behind which ’we all take shelter, and to whose pvotee- 1 tion we are indebted. for the bless- I ings, civil, religious and political,J which we enjoy*. Let this shield be removed from us—let* it lie battered and broken by the missiles of taction and fanaticism —and where then would lie our glorious Union ? The Republic would he scattered to.the tour winds of heaven, and we u*mikA soon become a laughing stock al<j a derison among the nations of She earth. No! no! Let us cherish the Constitution as the of all our earthly hopes, and pur children to revere it. Let its frown down the first attempt to weaken its obligations, or to disregard ilia, in junctions it imposes. It was the work of our Revolutionary fathers — formed by their wisdom, under the guidance of Heaven—and should be kej t sacred as a cherished memento to their priceless toils and unsullied patriotism. Let us cling to it astlio hope of the world, the beacon light to guide all nations in the pathway of true freedom and rational libortv. Let us cling to il for the regard wo have for the memory of our mth||S ; let us cling to it for our Wn protec tion and the interests of our chil dren ; let us cling to it as a jjHcelCss boon from high heaven, and hand it down, unbroken and utirtffffida, from generation to generation, until the last day of earth shall have come, and time itself he swallowed up in a never-ending eutenuity. [Lancaster \P<ij TntrtThjcneer. YALL'S OF THE EARTH Worm—- The common earth-wonn, though apt to le despised and trodden on. is really a useful creature in its way. Air. Knapp describes it as the natur al maiiurer of the soil, consuming on the surface the softer parts of decay ed vegetable matter, and ©onveviug downwards the more woody fibres, which there molder and fertilize. They perforate the earth in all direc tions, thus rendering it permeable bv air and water, both indispensible to vegetable life. Aeeording to Air. Darwin s mode of expression, they give a kind of nuder-tilluge to the land, performing the same below ground that the spade does above for the garden, and the plow for arable soil. It is, in consequence, chiefly of the natural operations of worms that fields which have liken over spread with lime, burnt marl, or cinders, become, in process of time covered by a finely-divined soil, fit ted for the support of vegetation. This result, though usually attribut ed by farmers to the “working down” of these materials, ts really due to the action of earth worms, as mav be seen in the innumerable 1 casts of which the initial soil con sists. These are obviously produced bv the digestive proceedings of the worms, which take into their intes tinal canal a large quantity ot the soil in which they feed and burrow, and then reject in the form of the so callcd easts. “In this manner.” says Air. Darwin,” “a field manured with marl has been covered, in the course of 80 years, with a bed of earth av eragiog 13 inches in thickness. [Encyclopedia Britannia. MACON, <4 A., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1859. Gov. Brown and Ills Railroad HaiiagHiiiriit. BY COL. DANIEL 8 PBINtCF. IVe have reliable information ihat the following communication, that appeared in the Home Southerner, of tlih of Jan. last, was w ritten by Col. Print up. Read it, aid show’ it to Brow n demo crats:— Confederacy. [communicated ] Much lias been said, and many strong and unmistakeable intimations have been given by the present parties in power, of the mismanagement, not to say cor rupt management, of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, under the administra tion of Governor Johnson. Coming from a source at the. head of the govern ment of the State of Georgia, however unworthy aiul untrue, gives them a right, with a seeming sanction of author ity, among ffie people, alike injurious to the reputation of the preceding Admin istration, as it is unjust a< and untrue upon an investigation of the facts. Even men bf distinction have made invidious comparison between the present “able management,” as they say, of the State arid its former “ruinous man agement;” and tiia't it was now a paying road, and unless any future Governor makes the road pay, he will be a “one term man.” Such statements, emanating as they do, (mm men of distinguished abilities, and in whom the people have confidence, would never have been ut tered iti public had the truth been known, and th# management of the State Rail road, under the Government of Governor Johnson and Spuiiock, been fully inves tigated, and the facts properly devel- oped*f Who has brought to light any mis management or corrupt managemet of ; the State Rulroad during the superin tendency <>t James M. Spuiiock? Where !is the evidence? Upon making h com parn* ive statement of th i nett earnings dining Mr. Spullock’s management of the road, aid that of l)r. Lewis, we find tnat it sums upin favor of Mr. Spuiiock. I w ill take the statement laid down in j an abb* article upon this subject which j appeared in the (constitutionalist of N'ov. ”4th j Paul by Spolloek, -.7 Paid by Lewis, ‘•">* For new Engine* and machinery §oi*,ftßG .S ! For new Car* ■'('>, i'.r.* 7,856 I P and debts prior Au miniiuralion, lS',i,ft7<> 172,1 Id j “ State Treasury 100,000 175,000 $142,801 $354,072 , A difference in favor of Spuiiock !uf $87,889. This statement is correct j as tar as it goes, but it does not give full ! jgs*ico to Mr. Spuiiock. I)r. Lewis acknowledges in his report, j page 4, that the supply of cross ties ! which he found on the road, was very large; the supply of wood was also ! very large and ample, so much so, in j deed that very little, if anything, was I pa and for these two very necessary arti ces by Dr. Lewis, duiing the first nine I months of his administration; a saving I to him at the expense of Spu Jock’s ad ministration, of over $50,000, as I am assured by parties who know the fact. We rau-t go further. Add to the f (re igning the difference of capital or means each had to work upon. Spull* ck -hows that h : paid during the y*ar 1857, the I sum of $152 885 for new engines and i cars. Dr. Lewis paid $7,850, a differ i once of $145,029 in favi.r .f Mr. Spul- I l„ck, and the mean* and equipment to > that extent furnished to Dr. Lewis’ h ind, over and above what he himself i ins furnished. But the $152,885 paid [ for new engines and cars, was an advan- J tiige of just that amount of equipment Dr. Lewis, over and above what he commenced on. The small amount paid by Dr. Lewis for cars, and the repairs of cars, show the high state ot perfec tion of the equipment of the road when Mr. Spulloek delivered its charge to Dr. Lewis. Thus, the very essentials nec essary to successful railaoad management were all furnished to Dr. Lewis by the firmer ad-iHiiistration. Is it not singu lar that, under this view of the facts, so much should have been said to the prej- j udice of the former administration of j the road. In any view we may take the report of Spulloek and Dr. Lewis, so j tar as thev make a correct exhibit of the j nett profits to the State, there is a decid ed showing in favor of Spulloek. The increase o’ the income during the year 1857, was $29,442,42 over 185<i. The income of the year 1858, compared with the income of 1857, shows a of $10U.807,97, Why this enormous de crease ? Is it not to be supposed that the manner of conducting Lite business of the road has something to do with it? Is it not probable that the withdrawing from the road of a regular daily pas>eu ger mail train would decrease the income from that source as well as decrease the expenses'? (Jan it bo expected that the income from freights would be as great as when no effort is made to keep up arrange ments with connecting roads, in order to divert the freights from other competing routes ? Other causes than the above may have been assigned for the large decrease in the income, but, up>n strict Inquiry, the above will be found the main causes of such an unusual deficit in the income of the load for 18;8. But we are told that it is important that Spulloek paid nothing into the treasury during the last three months of the year 1857. Will they be so kind a’ to tell us how much Dr. Le vis pa>d into the trea-ury the first two months of his administration of the road? Will they also inform us wh it became of the m ney raised from the sale of iton, sold by Dr Lewis for s*oroe $25,090 00 and up wards ? There have been efforts on the part of Gov. Brown and Dr. Lewis to conceal the true state of facts in regard to the management of the road under Governor Johnson’s administration. In evpry in stance when there was a possible chance to draw an invidious comparison to the prejudice of Spuiiock s management of , the road, it has been do-.e, and the .-ame parad ;d before the public in vaunting style us contemptible arrogance. Why does G (V. Brown leave the impression upon the public mind in his rec>nt spe cial message to the Legislature, that ihe •amount of Attorney’s tees then set f .rth, Were under Gov. Johnson's udmuii.ira. tion? Will Guv. Brown be so kind as to inform the public whether or not h him-elf allowed and ordered to be paid. $7,750 00 of the Attorney's fees, which he reported to have been paid since 1853, a Her the same had been rejected and refused to be paid by Mr. Spuiiock ? Why did he not state in Li-. message the fact that the fees then shown to have been paid since 1853, were paid in suits nearly all of which had commenced, or for causes arising, previous to 1853, and for the results of w hich. Gov. Juhiison s adrnmi-tration was in no way liable. WillGuv. Brown explain why he al lowed the ease vs. Hargrove At Etmon son to go by default, as he did, thereby loosing to the State several thousand dollars, and now permits the odium of the transaction to be palmed off on Gov. Johnson? Perhaps Gov. Brown and his agents conceive it to be necessary to divert the attention of the public from their own blunders. In doing this they should be careful not to make it too pal pable i hat they are circumventing the truth by indirect means. It was wholly unnecessary for their purposes, unless they intended to elevate themselves at the undue expense of others, who stood by Gov. Brown in the hour of need, and used every exertion, an<4all the means in their power to elevate him to the Gu bernatorial chair. The returns he has made them, never could have been ex pected from a man of elevated mind and nobleness of heart, nor of a true and Christian cbaiacter. VINDICATOR. From the Chronicle <V Sentine'. The Cincinnati Platform i* Sli<* Bill and file Kansas Stiff i* tt Cincinnati Plat form. Mr. Editor: —In my former arti cles. 1 showed beyond the question of a doubt, that the Kansas bill and Judge Douglas’ Territorial policy, wore one and the same in principle and tendency; and if adopted as the settled Territorial policy of the conn try, would crush out slavery in all Territory belonging to the United States. X now propose to go one step farther and show that the Cincinnati Platform is the Kansas bill, and the Kansas bill is the Cincinnati Plat form; and,that Judge Douglas, the Kansas bill, and the Cincinnati Plat form, all three agree, and most beau tifully* and harmoniously work to gether. How will Ido this ? Simply by* quoting the resolution touching the subject of Slavery as adopted by the Democratic Convention at Cin cinnati. In the published proceed ings of that Convention, t page 20, you will find the resolution spoken of to read tints :—“ The American Democracy recognize and adobt the principles contained in tlu; organic law establishing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as embodying the only sound and safe solution of the Slavery qaestion.” Judge Iverson in liis speech at Griffin, pronounced the Kansas bill, “a cursed and wretched thing of uncer tainties, and unmeaning generalities.” Judge Iverson again said, “the Squa tter Sovereignty elements of the Kan sas hill lost the South Kansas.” lie said he had advocated the heresy of Squatter Sovereignty in the Kansas bill. He said he did wrong; he ad mitted, and recanted the error. Afr. .1. J. Jones stands upon the t'incin- | nati Platform, and the Cincinnati j Platform reaffirmed and endorsed the Kansas bill, “with all of its cursed and wretched uncertainties and un meaning generalities. ‘ Could any man use stronger or more forcible lan- j i guage than Judge Iverson lias done, 1 to express his repudiation and de nunciation of the Kansas bill f Then I according to Judge Iverson, Mr. Jones stands upon a cursed and wretched platform of uncertainties ! and unmeaning generalities. For the Cincinnati Platform is an exact copy of the principle in the Kansas bill, on the subject of slavery in the Territories. Then the Cincin nati Platform and Kansas bill are one in principle; a> and being one in principle, both according to Judge Iverson are cursed , wretched things of uncertainties ana unmeaning general) tins. And this is the Platform Mr. Jones stepped upon. Does he feel j proud of his position ? Does he glory in standing on a platform and defending a principle and policy that Senator Iverson calls a cursed and wretched thing ? —a policy full of un certainties and unmeaning generali ties 1 But Judge Iverson says the Kansas bill lost the South Kansas. — True, it did. Kansas, before the Kansas bill was passed, was practi cally a slave Territory. Yes sir—l say African slavery was in Kansas, practically there, there to all intents and purposes: and that was the ; reason J udge Douglas was so anxi ous to give the Territory of Kansas ; a government. He wished to destroy slavery there ! He intended to do it. He did do it. Say to the Constitutionalist not to be astonished when I say, Kansas, to all intents and purposes, was a slave Territory, and that it was made free Territory by the Kansas bill. Per haps the Constitutionalist will deny it. If it does, it cannot front the records of the country prove that slavery* was not in Kansas \ ears he fore that cheat and swindle, the Kansas hill, was passed and put upon the South, with its squatter sover eignty “elements.” I quote from a speech made by* Judge Douglas in the Senate of the United States on the 30th day* of January*, 1854. The authority I give ougot to he received by the Constitutionalist as good. Here is what Judge Douglas said in the Senate of the United States the 30th Jay ot January, 1854: “/ know of but one Territory of the United States where slavery does exist—and that one is where you have prohibited it by law, and it is this very Kansas Territory See Cong. Globe, vol. 28, part 1, page 279. I have given the book and page, and defy any Douglas—Kansas hill— Cincinnati Platform—man to dis prove it from the record of the coun try. T want no mans assertion that it is not so. It is very easy to deny, but it is another, and distinct thing to prove what I say* is not so! Think you, Mr. Editor, the Legis lature and the people of Georgia would have endorsed the Kansas bill, had they known they were endors ing a bill that would he the means of making slave Territory, free Terri tory ? Well, sir, it is a tact, and his tory stands as an evidence of the fact. It is written-in the past, and it is ir revocable. The State of Georgia believed she was endorsing the prin ciple of non-intervention as held by Calhoun, Berrien and Webster, and which was the principle of non-inter vention, and protection against Ter ritorial legislation on the subject of Slavery. Here is what Mr. Webster said in the Senate of the United States, 3rd of January, 1850. lie proposed to Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, the follow ing, as a substitute for his resolution touching that point: “Say that the Territorial Legislature shall have no authority to pass any law for establish ing, or excluding slavery in the Terri tory. That is very proper, because I take it, that the meaning of the whole is, that this question shall he left to the people of the State to decide after it becomes a Sovereignty by ad mission into the -Union on the same footing with the original States. It is our duty to see, that the protection of their persons and the security of their property are all regularly provi ded for—and to maintain them in that State until they grow into sufti cieut importance in point of popula tion, to be admitted into the Union, as a State, upon the same footing with the original States.” See Cong Globe, vol. 21, part 2nd, page 1118. Thus spoke Mr. Webster in 1850. The doctrine of non intervention in 1850 was a very different thing to the doctrine of non-intervention in the Kansas bill, put there in 1554. Mr. Webster not only insisted upon protection against Territorial Legis lature on the subject of slavery, but he went further and said it was the duty of Congress to secure persons and their property,in the Territories, against t e inference from all quar ters. That was what Webster called non-intervention. Is it not astonish ing that youtind men in Georgia op posed to Congress passing laws to protect slavery in the Territories ‘i Mr. Webster felt it was his duty to protect the Southern man in the Territories in the right to hold his property there. He was not like the Constitutionalist, opposed to protect ing property in the Territories. He did not call it a slave code for the Territories. It is a little remarkable that, the above sentiments were spoken in re ply to and in opposition to Judge Douglas and his Territorial doctrine, as set forth in Harper’s Monthly Magazine. What does the Constitu tionalist think of Judge Douglas now ? He plainly says to the people of Georgia, through Harper, for Sep tember, that the principles in Gen. ('ass’ Nicholson letter, is in the Kan sas bill and Cincinnati Platform.— See page of Harper 353. If Judge Iverson is to be believed, if Judge Douglas is to be believed, if all Die Southern Democratic Senators in Congress are to be believed, why Mr. John J. Jones stands on a Squat ter Sovereignty Platform. Madison. Douglas as an Independent Candidate. The indications that Douglas in ease of failing to coerce the Charles ton Convention into giving him a re gular nomination, will run as an in dependent democratic candidate, are confirmed by the following commu nication in the Cincinnati Commer cial. The letter of General Young referred to recommended Douglas to run on his own hook : “Cape Girarpeu, Sept. 3,1859. “Eds. Com. : Since enclosing you ; the letter of General Young, of this i place, to Senator Douglas, relevant | to the Charleston Convention, I have ; seen enough of his answer to said | letter to learn that the Judge has ! inti united to his eloquent friends in ! these parts, that if the Convention , select another than himself, he will bean Independent Candidate. This will not surprise you much, I pre- j sume. His recent letters and con- \ versations have exhibited strong premonitory systems of this devel opment. Such is the determined and j inexorable devotion of his friends that a stormy time may be antici pated in the Convention. You are at liberty to make whatever use of this you may see fit. Yours, respectfully, &c., “A. P, Johnson.*’ ‘ What are the Issues befoie ihe PCv pie of Geori;.a. Joseph E. Bioaii is thocandidate and representative of what is claimed to be the “National Democratic’ party of iht State ot Georgia. We have uni fbnnly acted with the National Demo cratic party when such a party had an existence : but when the dominant Northern or controlling Ming became denationalized and freesoil, to all intents and purposes, we joined the Southern Opposition party, whn h has for its re presentative head in Georgia, Warren Akin, a* candidate for Governor. We repeatedly expressed our dissent from the name -‘Opposition,” but as lar as the principles are concerned, we can not see anything that is objectionable or in opposition to that which Southern Democrats have advocated since the days of John C. Calhoun. Then, as a Calhoun Democrat, we are unat.-le to see w herein the principles of the Opposition party of G.orgia dif f r in the smallest particle from the line of policy marked out for the South by Carolina’s greate*t statesman. Mr. Calhoun’s Democracy and loyalty to the South were never question* and, and ifhis views and policy for tbe government of the South were right, and fully accord with the Opposition party f Georgia in 1859, why should any democrat retu*e to cast his vote for Warren Akin, the representat.ve of this policy, and in op position to a policy of which Joseph E. Brown is the representative, and which if not arrested, will not only nr ire firm ly establish, but will hasten that servile and abject condition which Mr. Calhoun spent his great es s ence in trying to arrest, and which condition he fure-.aw and foretold. Wherein, or in what particular, then, we ask, does the Opposition party of Georgia differ from the Calhoun or Sou hern Rights Democracy ? It is well known that Air. Calhoun and his followers favored disunion under cer tain contingencies. So does the Oppo sition party of Georgia. Whal are those contingencies ? It is only neces sary to mention the denial to the South of protection to her property in *he Ter ritories, or the election of a Black Re publican President. Either of these contingencies are ample, justifiable and sufficient causes for dissolution. And by the election of Stephen A. Douglas to the Presidency, we can see no differ ence as to ihe proper course for the South to pursue between him and a Black Re publican. The Opposition party of Georgia de niand protection in the Territories, and deny the right or tue justness that their section shall be governed by the double meanings of the Cincinnati Platform. This as construed by Mr. Douglas and the Northern wing of the Democratic party,contains squatter sovereignty or the privilege of adventurers to a Terri tory exercising the right of suffrage in op position to constitutional precedent and to the detriment and exclusion of South ern interests. Gov. Brown endorses a party ano a platform which has for its object the maintenance of the doctrine of squatter sovereignty and other fea tures inimical to the rights of slavehold ers and Southern interests. Why then should he receive the support of Demo crats, when it is well known and has been fully demonstrated that he is, by nomination and alignment, the represen tative of a party organization that is claimed to be National, which, if effectu ally held together, must, have, and will legislate to the injury of the South ? Independent of Gov. Brown’s align ments, taken in a National sense, he, as a man and as the Executive of this Commonweal!h, is offensively objection able. lie is, by nature and instinct, incapable of representing an Executive. His S'ate policy is devoid in-tolo of the fir.-t smattering of statesmanship, high toned sentiment, or enlarged liberality. His policy has been so remarkable for •‘heroic stupidity and conscientious jwk assism” that the intelligent major ty of Georgians have lost that re>pct for him which is “due an Executive officer. lie has made himself a scapegoat, a laugh ing stock and a conspicuous jackass. lie has attacked every usage of the Democratic party, and used his best ef forts to build f>r himself, upon the ru ins of DenooCr vcy, a Brown party. IBs vanity, ignorance, bigotry, sectarian ap> pointments and studied purpose to de ceive is nature’s index of the man. We shall resume this subject in our next.. [Atlanta Confederacy. Randolph County. The Democracy, we umterstood, are in a bcautilui muss in Randolph county, and the harder they try to extricate theus> lvcs the deeper they pot their feet in it. They first nominated Mr. Brook3 tor the Senate, and Messrs. Coleman and Taylor for the House, acd these gentlemen accepted. Bet .it a subsequent meeting they requested these nominees to come down again, and Messrs. Brooks and Coleman obeyed the summons, but Mr. Taylor refused and holds on to the station assigned him. In the meantime there is an independent candidate up for the Senate, and he declares that he will run through. The party are in strait, and no way of deliverance appears to have been yet discovered. Let our friends down there be on the alert, and see to it that Mr. Di>ugl ts is not forgotten in the excitement of this local fijrht of the tactions. We learn that he wiil get a great many Democratic votes in Raudo'ph, but the Opposition should not rely on Democratic votes to elect him—let them put their own shoulders to the wheel,and Whigs and Democrats, make a strong pull all together. — Col. Eng. Death at Sea. —Mr. Benjamin Kendry, of New Orleans, died on hoard, the State of Georgia, Sunday last, of heart disease, and was bur ied at sea on Tuesday morning.— Mr. K. appeared to be in very good spirits and in the possession of his usual health till within a few mo ments of his death, when he com plained of shooting pains in his chest, ’ and suddenly fell a corpse. Gov. Brown and the Legisla ture. Let it be borne in mind that Gov. Brown was elected by- the Democrat ic party, that the Legislature was composed of fully two-thirds of mem bers of that party, still they* did not sustain him in a solitary* measure of any importance that he recommend ed to that body. First, they* overruled him in his desire to put down the Banks, and with them the commerce and prop erty* of the country*. Secondly, they* failed to carry* out his recommendations to make large donations to certain Colleges. Thirdly, they refused to establish Free Schools, as recommended by him. Fourthly, they* refused to give State Aid to Railroads, as recom mended by* him. Fifthly, they* refused to establish the Cobb Sub-Treasury, as recom mended by* him, and which was to prevent the circulation of any thing under $lO and S2O bills ! and, Sixthly, they refused to adopt his recommendation requiring the pay ment of Taxes and other dues to the State in Gold and Silver ! All this lie recommended, and all this his own party* refused to do. What a Gov ernor ! How influential ! How strong in the affections of his own party ! —Atlanta American. Discovery of an Island. —The New Bed ford Mercury learns by a private letter, that Capt. R (here D. E diidge, ol the bark Ama zon, ot Fairbaven, has discovered an island in the Pacific Ocean, several hundred miles from any laud laid down on the charts. The letter was dated at sea, January 16, 1850, and in it Capt. Eldrulge says of the island : It is iu I*L 0 deg 45 min. north, and long. 176 deg. 34 mm. west, very low aud dan gerous, and is, I expect, the last resting place ot the crew ot some of the ships which have been mi*sed in years gone by. 1 ran along the lee side within pistol-shot of the beach, but it was too rough to land; aud afeer con vincing myself that there were no living people upo the island, squared away again. Ou the highest part of the island is a house apparent y built Irom pieces ot a wreck,with a llag-statt’ at one end, from which still dan gled the halyard block. Near the house were several little hummocks, each with a tall up right stone upon it, evidently the graves of the poor fellows who had escaped lrom the wreck of their vessel, and died on tnis dreary spot, where perhaps they had spent months in vainly looking for a passing suii to relieve them from their weary prison. A Useful Crinoline. —A gentleman whose attention was attracted by the suspicious locomotion of a woman pass im* from the store of one of the Alex andrian merchants, yesterday, descried the end of a piece of bacon projecting below her dress. The merchant stated, on inquiry, that he had sold her none. The woman was thereupon brought back, and charged with the thtfft, and, although her proportions were undis turbed and indicated nothing wrong, ex cept the ridiculous fashion, yet the se quel proved that she had concealed be neath her crinoline a side of bacon, which weighed thirty-five pounds! The tharity ot ihe merchant, like the crino line of the culprit, covered her sin, and she wa* to’d to go and offend no more. Washington States. SoMNrniNG Worth Knowing. —Under this hrad the Cincinnati Commercial says : A day or two suice a wotkmxii, descending a well which had been excavated on Brr street, was overpowered by the noxious gas, and became insensible. A light was let down, and as immediately extinguished from the same cause, when one of his comrades proposed to descend to his assistance, but was prevented by the foreman, who wisely rt marked that one m*n could be rescued more easily than a eouple. As speedily as possible, he procured a quantity of ui slack en lime, which he cast into the pit, and then dashed down a pad of water. The good ef fect was evideut in a brief space of time, for a pull at the rope whs felt, and the man was drawn to the surface, having fortunate ly escaped any ill consequence from the remeily which had been used to dispel the carbonic acid gas. Capt. llardeman at Wmitesville.— We had intended to go to Whitesville last Wednesday to hear the speech of Capt. Thos. Hardeman, Opposition can didate for Congress in the Third Dis triit, but circumstances which we could not control prevented. From a friend who was there, however, we learn that Mr. llardeman made a telling speech, and gained friends. W e have assuran ces tro.ii friends in that county, that old Harris will do her duty nobly on r he first Monday in October, and roll up a rousing majority fir Akin and Harde man, arid the Opposition ticket through out. — West Point Citizen. Hardly any mention is made in the papers of this State about the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad in Mississippi. The design of this road is to build up the interests ot Mississip pi. It proposes to run from the coast of that State, somewhere near Mississippi Cily, up through the centre of the State. A route has al-eady been laid off to cross the South ern Road about fourteen miles east of Bran don. Some of the Mississippians feel a State pride in this matter, as it is believed that it will build up a State commercial me tropolis which can successfully compete with New Orleans and Mobile in the cotton trade, by virtue of the flue port near its proposed terminus on the coast — Livingston (Ala.) Democrat. Rather Severe. —A member of the Mis sissippi Legislature, at one of its late ses sions, introduced a bill to change the name of a certain county in that State to Cass county. One of the Opposition moved, as an amendmr.nt, that the letter C be stricken out of the proposed name. This motion created some laughter at the expense of the member offering. Nothing daunted, how ever, he arose in reply and said, ‘Mr. Speak er, this is the first instance that has come to my knowledge in which a member has had the assurance, upon the floor of any legisla ture to propose to name a county after him self’ 26* A Book lx. Martin Walton, when dying in the Stoi- Mans Skin.— town made a confession o> M „i lvvaV[ngn dictated a minute account ot career, which was recorded by the of the institution, The work was pun*, ed in this city in 1837, under the title ot ‘•Narrative of the Lite of James Allen, alias George Walton, alias Jonas Pierce, alias James H. York, alias Burley Grove, the highwayman. Being his confession to the warden of the Massachusetts State Prison.*’ There is now in the library of the Atbaeue nm a copy of this work, bound in a piece of the skin of the deceased highwayman. — The cover is in one piece, about tea by six inches in size. It is as solt as washleatber, but much whiter. —Boston Jour. Death Caused by Vanity. —A French pa px- relates the case of a young lady in Ly ons, who was engaged to be married, and was predisposed to corpulency. Some of her young friends ridiculen her stout figure, &c., which at the time only excited her laughter. Her health subsequently declined, ard she died rather suddenly. As there was no apparent cause for such a quick death, the account states, “with grief, the parents resigned themselves to have a post mortem examination. They then found what they had never before suspected ; she was burned up by acid, which she had taken unknown to them, to stop the growing fatness, which reduced her to despair. The young girl died the victim of ridiculous vanity.” The old mansion situated within the gar rison enclosure at Baton Rouge, known as the residence ol Gen. Taylor, whilst resid ing in that city previous to his filling the Presidential (hair, has, we perceive, been torn down. That was wrong. The old house should have been permitted to stand as long as it could hold together, from the interest attached to it. When the fort of Baton Rouge was taken by the Spaniards under Don Bernardo De Galvex, in 1 76, this house was occupied by Col. Dixon, the English commander ; it afterwards became the residence of Don Bernardo, and long alter the American flag waved over Baton Rouge, wa3 occupied by Gen. Taylor. B’or years it has been familharly known as the house of the old hero of Buena Vista, and we dare say but few were aware that it was connected with other associations inter esting in the history of Louisiana. [ West Baton Rouge Advocate, 3 d inst. The Philadelphia Rowdy is a ter rible nuisance Hear how the poor Dutch lanlord described his suffering at the hands of one of these amiable beings : “Ter rowdy corned in and axed me to sell him some peer. I tells him he had more as well do him goot. He call me von ole Dutch liar, and pegun, to broke two tumblers. My vite she call for dc vateh ’ouse. ’Fore de vateh ’ouso got dare, de rowdy he kick Hans Seruggle be liint his pack kissed my taughter Petsy before her face, proke all her tumblers cep ter olt stono pitcher, and spilt my vise and tedder peer parrels down inter ter cellar.” A Cure For Hycropiiobia. — A Saxou forester Earned Gastell, now of the venerable age of 82 years, unwilling to take to the grave with him a secret of so much importance, has made public in the Leipsic Jour nal the means which he has used for fifty years, and wherewith, he af firms he has rescued many human being and cattle from the dreadful death of hydrophobia. Take immediately warm vinegar or trepid water ; wash the wound clean therewith, a few drops of muriatic acid, because mineral acids destroy the poison of the saliva, by which means the evil effects of the latter are neutralized. Reply to Douglas. —We are indebt ed to the Hon. Howell Gibb for an an swer, in pamphlet form, to Senator Douglas’s views of Popular Sovereign ty, as expressed in Harper’s Magazine for September. It is understood to be from the pen of Attorney General Black, and is a triumphant overthrow of the Douglas heresy. In addition to the arguments, it contains a scathing rebuke of the Senator for bringing forward th subject and agitating the public mind on a question already settled, for the sole purpose of forwarding his ambitious de signs.—Sa v. Rep Our Minister to Spain.— The death <>f Robert Wickliffe, the richest man in Kentucky, will, it is said, render neces sary the return of o*l. Preston, now at the Court of Madrid. The estate of Mr. Wickliffe is enormons, and Mrs. Preston, the wife of our Minister, is one of the three heirs who inherit the whole. The share of Mrs. Preston, added to the present fortune of her husband, will make Col. Preston one of the richest men of the age. Eagle Shot. —Mr. John L. Akins, of this county, showed us a few days ago, the claw of an eagle, which he shot on Little River, a few miles from this place. It measured from tip to tip, with the wings extended, six feet, and four inches, and weigh ed seveu and a half pounds. The shooting of an eagle, is quite rare in sporting achievements of this part of the country. The claw may seen in our office.— Madison Visitor . An American essel I ired on from the Spanish !■ ort at Farifa. —Boston, Sept. 10.—The bai que Ar menia, trom Constantinople, which arrived here this morning, reports that, while passing the Straits of Gibraltar, she was fired on twice, from the Spanish fort at Tarifa.— The first fire was a blank cartridge and the second round shot, which passed through her main-topsail. Phelan, the Billiard Player, Defeated. —Tho billiard match be tween the celebrated players Phelan and Joseph “VV hi to, which was play ed on Monday evening last, resulted in favor of White by eight points. [. N. Y. News .