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Extraordinary Develops* ext* — Rev
oimosiiT Designs.—The Sew York
Herald Announces that ever since the 9th
d*v of March last, a book called “Coir pen
dium for the Impending Crisis of the South,’
has been seeretlv circulated in large num
bers in the Northern State*, endorsed by a
private circular, to which are appended the
names of the Governor of the State of New
York, of an ex-Judge of the New York
Supreme Court, of the Chairman of the New
York Republican State Committee, of a
large number of the most wealthy and re
spectable citizens of New York, and of
mitt-eight members or COJfORMB. Tbe
circular is published in full in the Herald,
with a series of extract* from the revolting
pages of the book itself, and the list of sub
scribers who hsve paid large sums for its
circulation We advise the merchants of the
South to examine this list, and see whether
they are not buying goods of some of these
very men.
The Herald says that in this book the
mask of moderation is completely thrown
aside, the Republican party is declared to be
completely abolitionized, and its intention is
to hurry on a remorseless and bloody revolu
tion is openly proclaimed. “Slavery must
be throttled. * * * Xo man can be a
true patriot without becoming an abolitiou
ist. * * * Every victim of the vile in
stitution, whether white or black, must be
reinvested with the sacred rights. * * *
“We believe the Northern people have been
too scrupulous. * * * They have ap-
S reached but half way to the line of their
uty.” The non-slaveholders of the South
are thus exhorted: “Do not reserve the
strength of your arms until you have been
rendered powerless to strike; and the slave
holders are told, “it is for you to decide
whether we are to have justice peaceably or
by violence; for, whatever consequences
may follow, we are determined to have it 0"e
way or another.
Ttae Helper Pamphlet.
In aid of the general fund for circulating
one hundred thousand copies of this work,
subscriptions, up to the loth of June, 1359,
amount to about three thousand se
ven hundred dollars, of which thefol
lowing, as will respectively apjear, have
been received in sums of from ten dollars to
to two hundred and fifty dollars :
Beers, Abner. New York city § 10
Bonney, B W, New York city 100
Brown, Nicholas, Warwick, R I ]loo
Burdick, Asher B, Brooklyn, N Y 100
Clarke,dames Freeman, Jamaica Plains,
Mas3 10
Clay, Cassius M. Whitehall, Ky!!!!!!!! 25
Clay, Cassius M, for a Kentucky clergy
man....
Clay, Cassius M, for several persons..... 10
Darrah, Robert L., Now York citv 10
Dudley, EG, Boston, Mass 50
Kndieott, William. Jr, Boston Ma5*....100
Farnutn. Jonathan, Milville, Mass.... 10
Fiske. Edwards W, Brooklyn. N Y.... 100
Fosdick, Samuel, Cincinnati, Ohio 10
French, Stiles, New Haven, Conn.... 10
Fruble, M J, New York city 100
Porthingham. • B, Jersey citv, N J.... 100
Goodloe, DE, a_‘J friend, AYashington
dc .7 mrrTTT 10
Greely, Horace, New York city 100
Grecnleaf, R C, Boston Ma55.*.....*..]! 50
Harris Edvard, Woonsocket. R I. ””.*IOO
Hedrick, BenjaininS. New York citv!! 50
Helper, Hinton R, New York city...!!loo
Hurl but, F, Brooklyn, N Y !!!!! 25
Jay John, New York city.... 100
Xctchain, Edgar, New York city ”25
McCaulley, William, Wilmington, Del.. 10
Marble, Nathan, Port Bvron, N. Y 10
May, Samuel, Boston. Mass 100
Morgan, Edwin, D, Albany, N Y .100
Nesmith, John, Lowell, Ma55..........100
Norton, John TANARUS, Farmington, Conn. ...100
Parsons, J C. N Y 10
Pinner, M. Kansas City, Mo 10
Plumly, Benjamin Philadelphia. .100
Randolph, Rvan, Philadelphia, Pa 20
Republicans of FutUville and N Coven
try, Pa, S4O; Crowu Point, N. Y.
sll 51
Republicans of Shawnee Mound, S2O,
south Bend, Indiana, $lO 30
Roberts, W S, New York city 10
Robinson, Hanson, New Castle countv,
Del 20
Ryerson, David. Newton, New Jersey.. 64
Sherman, SN, Ogdenburg, New York.. 32
Smith, Gerritt, Peterboro, New York.. 20
bpring, Marcus, Eagle wood. New Jersy.loo
Stubs*. John A, Smyrna, New York 10
Siranahan, J S TANARUS, Brooklyn, New York.loo
Tappan, Lewis, Brooklyn, New York.. 100
Thomas, Wm B, Philadelphia, Pa.... 100
Tweedy, Edmund, Newport, HI 10
“Wadsworth’ James S, New York city.. 100
Wakeinan, Abram, New York city 100
“Weed, Thurlow, Albany, New York...lUo
White, Arou, Thompson, Conn 10
Wright E N and James A, Philadelphia,
Pa 77. 30
“Wood, Bradford, R Albanv, N Y lUO
A A. SSO; B B, SSO : C and. $10; D D,
$10; E E, S2O; F F, $25; North
Carolina 165
S F M, Wilmington, Del 10
A Friend, bv S E Sewell, Boston, Mass,
$lO ; E B, Brooklyn, N Y, $25 35
Total $3513
From the N. Y. Police Gazette.
Free Love ill llliuola.
A sad case of elopement recently oc
curred in the city of Rockford, 111. The
parties are a Mrs. John Dunning, wife
of the sexton of the Second Methodist
Episcopal church, a highly respectable
man, and a Mr. Jenness, a blacksmith,
formerly in the employ of Mr. J. B. Skin
ner. Several weeks ago, Mrs. Dunning
expressed a desire to visit some friends
at Jamesville, and made her preparations
accordingly for that purpose. She is
said to be in the habit of spending mnch
more money than her husband's means
would variant, but on the occasion he
bought her a silk dress lor twenty-five
dollars, and otherwise supplied her with
ail h required, to the extreme limits of
his purse. Some suspicion had been en
tertained of an undue intimacy with Jen
nesa, but the husband not having seen !
or heard any thiug to awaken his fears
for some time, hoped that it really a
mounted to nothing, and felt willing to
do all in his power to make her content
ed at home. The infatuated woman has
two children, one a boy of eight, the oth
er a girl three years old. The boy ac
companied her to Jamesville; the girl
remained at home. The husband suspect
ed nothing until two weeks, the time of
her visit had expired, and she did not re
turn. He then searched, and found she
had taken every article of her own cloth
ing and personal property with her, and
also the child a. About the same time,
Mr. Jenness, who had left Mr. Skinner's
employ, appeared and demanded a bal
ance of wages due him, and so urged its
necessity that Mr. Skinner, at aome in
convenience felt compelled to procure it
for him. It was soon discovered that
they had left Jamesville together, and
are supposed to have gone either to Ver
mont or Ohio
. A .f^* I** 1 ** or the “Sympatht.”—A bet
ter lUuttration of ‘-free soil” svmpathv ha*
not lately teen than that described in
the following paragraph about a misguided ,
lady from North Carolina. *
“An old lady, Mr*. Frances Kindred, u
now an inmate of the Warren counts (Ohio)
Poor House. She formerly re.Uled in An- |
son county, N. C-, and was rich in land* i
and negroes, but ha* pent all her property
in liberating her slaves. In 1852 she went ’
to Hillsborough, Ohio, with her last slavt.
She has since become so reduced in circum
stances a* to be compelled to take refuge in
a poor boose, bhe and her friends now ap
peal to philantropist* to contribute enough
to get her out of the poor house and place
her in a more tolerable institution. Mrs.
Kindred is now eighty-three yean old.
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A New Sandal—A new scandal has
been unearthed in Brooklyn, N. Y., and
great is the tribulation in consequence, in
certain circles. A married lady, wife of Dr.
Adams, proprietor of a water cure establish
ment on the Height*, took passage for Eu
rope in the stesmer City of Baltimore, on
Saturday, with a person by the name of My
ers, who boarded at the same hotel with her.
Mrs. Adam* has left three children behind
her “to mourn her loss.” She is said to
have been an exemplary member of Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's church. The hus
band is understood to have taken passage ia
the Asia, which leaves for Liverpool to-mor
row, with a view of pursuing the fugitives.
A Political Retrespeet.
•Occasional” write* to the Philadelphia
Press a sketch of the prominent men in the
struggle for the Speakership of Congress in
1855-5*5 ; most of the loading actors have
aln-ady retired from the Congressional
field.
Uoarell Cobb is Secretary of the Treasuro-
J.line* L. Orris at Anderson, South Cary.
lina.
Wm. L. Aiken is taking care of his im
mense estate near Charleston.
Wm. A. Richardson is now residing at
Quiacv, Illinois.
J. Glancy Jones is now doing the ele
gant. with hit family, a* American Minister
at tie vourtof Francis Joseph, of Austria.
John Cedwalader is reposing in the judg
ship of the eastern district of Pennsylvania.
Thomas J. D. Fuller, of Muine, is occu
pying auditorship under the present admit- i
miration.
John Wheeler, the indomitable “Ilarn’ of
New York, is helping on the fight for
Douglas, in the ‘Empire State.’
Thomas S. Baily and William O. Goode,
of Virginia, have passed from the sene of
human life.
John Letcher is Governor of Virginia.
Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina,
lives in the tomb.
Alexandia H. Stephen*, of Georgia, is de
voting himself to his profession.
John A. Quitman, of Mississippi, sleeps
on his plantation near > atchcz.
George W. Jones, of Tennessee, the Nes
tor of the House, is in private life.
George G. Dunn and Samuel Brc-nton, of
1 Indiana, have departed this life.
Thomas L. Harris, of Illinois, has also
gone to his long home.
Henry M. Rice, delegate from Minnesota
in 1856 is now a Senator from Minnesota,
and Joseph Lane is now a Senator from the
State of Oregon.
On the general Opposition side, Nathaniel
P. Banks, Jr., is the Governor of Massa
chusetts.
Solomon G. Haven, of New York, ia
practicing law.
Henry M. Fuller, of Pennsylvania, i* en
gag'd in the banking and coal business.
Jacob Broome, of the same State, is prac
-1 ticing law.
Jonathan Knight sleeps in the quiet
churchyard at Washington, Pa.
Joshua R. |Giddings, of Ohio, has been
edged from his stool by a successful rival.
Lewis D. Campbell of the same State, has
given way to the Democrat, Vallandigham.
Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, has
thrown up his place in disgust.
Felix X. Zolieoffi-r, of Tennessee, will not
: be present, and Charles Ready, of the same
! State—an American four years ago—was
defeated as a Democratic candidate for Con
gress at the State election.
Os those who took part in the great con
flict of 1855 and 1856 there willbe in the
com'ng conflict John Hickman, Thomas
B. Florence. Wm. Millard. James H. Camp
bell, John Covode and Galu-ha A. Grow, of
Pa., C. M. Pennington, N. J. Thomas, 8.
Bocock and Henry A. Edmondson, of Vir
ginia, John Sheruian and Eenjamin Stanton
of Ohio, Emerson Ethridge, of Tennessee,
W ni. H. English, of Indiana, John 8.
Phelps and Samuel Caruthers, of Missouri;
and Albert Rust, of Arkansas.
Native Africans. —Among the pre
miums not offered by the State Agricul
tural Soc.ety, but by Col. A. M. Hunt,
of the I'nited States Hotel, was a beau
tiful Silver Pitcher, of the value of S*JO,
for the best specimen of a native African
imported in lssß or ISotJ. The Pitch
er was ihhiy chased, and for a device,
had two Africans hoeing in a field—a
farm house in the distance. Two na
tive Africans were exhibited for the pre
mium, which was awa-ded to Isaac, the
youngest, a boy about ten years of age.
The other, Napoleon, was about fourteen
years old. Trey are both active,
sprightly and intelligent boys, and speak
English better now than the rice ne
groes of the low country. We convers
ed with both before they were put on
exhibition, and from ail we could see
and learn, we would as soon own them
as boys of the same age born in this
country.
Napoleon has his front teeth filed into
the shape of saw teeth; Isaac has not,
but he is slightly tattooed on the cheeks.
We saw these boys engaged in harness
ing horses, at w hich thr-y seemed per
fectly at home —several times speaking
to the horses, saying ‘ woe,” “stand
still,” just as other negroes would.—
They answered questions promptly, and
when asked if they did not want to go
back to Africa, tho no was very em
phatically as wall as promptly uttered,
it would be hard to distinguish these
boys from American born negroes in a
crowd. Indeed, we are confident that
not one in a hundred could do it.
[Che rate Gazette.
Muscle Looking up Amoco the
Girls. —Why shouldn’t we have
Schools for the physical develop
ment of young ladies as well as
young gentlemen ? That's the ques
tion now being agitated among the
strong minded. Mrs. Gage, writing
to the New York “Tribune,” says :
“Any one not fossilizied by con
ventionalisms, who will visit Eagle
wood School, near Perth Amboy,
i New Jersey, may see a Right that
will do their hearts good. *Think of
it. A boat club of young ladies
from upjier-tendoin, daughters of
learned professors, retired mer
chants, and first families of Fifth
Avenue dressed in grey flannel tu
nics, trimmed with scarlet, reaching
only below the knee ; pants of the
same, meeting high boots with scar
let tops taking parts with the young
gentlemen in hoisting their fine
boat, the “Halcyon,” uj>on their
shoulders, and walking off with it a
quarter of a mile to the shores of the
Raritan, there launching it u|on the
water, waving their thanks to the
gentlemen for their aid, manning it I
(the Captain was Miss Manning)
with as merry a crew as ever set
sail. Ah, it gave one high hopes
for the future to see those bright
eyed girls, a dozen of them, toss
ltack their curls under their boating
hats, put their ungloved hands to ,
their oars and ltear away with stea
dy sweep into the current, and then
stein a high wind “four miles out
anil three miles back,” as the Cap
tain said, with no complaint of |
weariness. These girls can swim, i
lift weights, play hail, ride and run,
ah ! and get lessons, too ; study
Greek and Latin, and read Slink- ;
spere, and advance equally with j
those who are fitting for Cambridge !
and Yale.”
Stop the Pascal.—On Thursday,
the 17th inst., a man well dressed,
and giving his naineas Roberts, pass
ed the night at this place. On Fri
day morning he left, making his way
to Georgia, via West Union and Jar
rats bridge. On last Monday, Mr.
Prinee, of Greenville, from whom he
had hired a horse and buggy, was
here in pursuit, but of his success
we have beard nothing. l‘olerts is
! represented of being of medium size,
I smooth tacel f with the air of a gen
j tieman. Hie public are requested
| to be on the look out for him.
[Pickens Courier.
—Daniel N. Drawdy, a respectable citizen
of Berrien county, says (be Southern Enter
prise. was murdered at his residence on Sun
day evening, the 12lh inst. He was sitting
in the door of bis bouse with bit family,
when after a sadden report of a gun be fell,
pierced by several shot. His wife, who wm
preparing supper, hastened to his assistance,
but he immediately expired.
-a ♦ m
Loafers, like docks, generally go on
tick.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
Is. F. w. ANDREWS:
CITY PRINTER.
BACON, GA.. DECEMBER 9, ’59.
Harou Cotton Market.
We quote 9 to 10$, and a good demand on
yesterday’* transaction*.
Error in Number.— A portion of
the outside of this weekly edition of the
Citizen was worked off with a mistake of
the No. of the Volume. It ia the 36th No.
instead of the 24th.
wew
Georgia Citizen—For Sale.
Having determined to retire from my pres
ent avocation, for reaaons of a private and
personal nature, I again offer for sale, my
whole Printing Establishment, including
the Subscription Lists of the Semi- Weekly
and Weekly Georgia Citizen , with advertis
ing patronage, good will, Printing Ma
terials, lease of building to Ist October
1861, Ac., dtc. The material* in the Office
are nearly worth the cash price I will take
for the whole interest The subscription is,
perhaps a* near the cash basis as any other
Southern Newspaper, so long and well estab
lished. The paper is in its tenth year, and
will only lack one quarter of that term when
I propose to give possession, on the Ist day
of January 1860.
If not disposed of, at private sale, before
that time, I will offer it at public sale, on the
I Ist Tuesday of January. My terms will be
half rank and half in six and twelve months,
bearing interest and well secured in small
nates.
This is a rare chaDce for an enterprising
man to step into a business which will pay
at once and continuously, a good per cent,
on the investment.
My Brethren of the press will do me a fa
vor by giving notice of my wish to sell.
L. F. W. ANDREWS.
Supreme Court.— Thera was a ru
j rnor in town yesterday, that the House of
Representatives, on Monday, passed a Reso
lution, by a considerable majority, abolish
ing the Supreme Court!
Declined.— John L. Jonks, Esq., de
clines the nomination for Allerman, con
ferred by the meeting of Monday night last.
Dentil'* Doings.—"We have to record
the sudden death of another good citizen—
Thor. H. Flint, Esq., proprietor of the
“Flint House,” Macon. He died yesterday
morning, in some kind of a fit, after a brief
illness of only a few hours.
Dr. L. B. Mercer, a well known citizen
of South Western Georgia, died at his resi
dence in Terrell, on Sunday, the 27th Nov.
Dr. Newton, a distinguished Minister of
the Presbyterian denomination, died in
Jackson, Miss., on the 28th ult.
The Meeting on Tui'sday Hight.
There was a very large and enthusiastic
i meeting held at the Court-house in this city,
on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose of
j taking some action, in reference totheaho-
I lition incendiaries, that are believed to be
prowling about the country, plotting mis
chief against the property and lives of our
people. On motion. Capt. Z. T. Conner was
called to the chair and Dr. Griffin requested
! to act as Secretary,
It was then moved that a committee of
five be appointed to draft resolutions for the
j consideration of tho meeting—also to report
the names of suitable persons to art as a Vig
ilance Committee for the county of Bibb.—
This was accordingly done, dnd after con
siderable discussion, jrro and con, it was fi
nally determined to (urn over the whole
matter to the City and State authorities, with
u recommendation to the Mayor and Coun
cil to double their present police force,
should it be deemed necessary. This is the
i substance of the proceedings, which is all
| we deem it expedient to put upon record,
for the information of our readers.
The Reform Ticket.— At a
meeting ofthe citizens on Monday night, an
other ticket was placed in nomination for
the municipal offices to be filled on the 10th.
That ticket is a very respectable one, but as
we do not appreciate the necessity of any
Reform in the administration of the city
government, we shall support the ticket,
headed by O. G. Sparks, Esq. He and bis as
sociates have faithfully performed their duty, ‘
and we are willing to try them again. The
name of D. T. Driggers was accidentally
omitted from this ticket, in Wednesday's
issue, but it has been replaced and now
stands correctly printed. W. P. Goodall
take* the place of Mr. Turpin ; John T.
Boiteuillet, Esq., a worthy Democrat, takes
the place of G. S. Obear, Esq., originally
nominated. Both tickets will be found in
this paper.
OrniHlgee Circuit.— —We are ex
ceedingly gratified to learn that the Hon.
I verse n L. Harris, of Baldwin, has been
appointed by the Governor, Judge of the
Ocmulgee Circuit, in room of the Hon. R.
\ . Hardeman, resigned, on account of ill
health. A better and more popular appoint
ment, we venture to say, could not have
been made. Judge Harris is one of the
most accomplished Jurist* in the State, and
a gentleman of fine ability. We congratu
late him upon hi* elevation to the Bench and
the people of his District, upon having so
worthy a successor to the worthy Hardeman,
to preside over the administration of justice
in that jurisdiction.
From Wednesday' Semi-Weekly Citizen.
The 71 (iat-ipul i:i> i tion.
On Inst Monday evening, a portion of
the citizens, without respect to party, met,
and placed in nomination the following
Ticket, to be supported as a compromise
Ticket, at the election on Saturdav neat:
For Mayor — Dß. NOTTINGHAM.
/hr Aldermen —
D. T. DRIGGERS,
JOHN L. JONES,
HENRYL. JEWETT,
EDWARD SALISBURY,
HARDING JOHNSTON,
OBADrAH ADAMS.
DANIEL F. CLARKE,
JOHN H. LONGLEY.
The Regular American Ticket is as fol
lows, with the exceptiou that the name of
JohnT. Boifeuillett has been substituted in
lieu of Geo. S. Obear, who has declined the
nomination:
For Mayor—O. G. SPARKS.
For Aldermen —.
D. T. DRIGGERS.
CHARLES H RODGERS,
THOMAS A. HARRIS,
WM. P. GOODALL.
THOMAS DOUGHERTY,
DR G. HARRISON,
J. V. GRIER.
J. T. BOIFEUILLET.
For Clerk and Treat. —RICHARD CURD.
Biahop Payne . —We are requested
to state, that the Right Reverend Bishop
Payne of the Protestant Episcopal Mission
in West Africa, will preach in Christ Church
in this city, on this, Friday, evening 7)
o’clock, on which occasion the Pews will be
Free. All persons interested in African
Missions, and the public generally, are res
pectfully invited to attend. After the ser
vice, a collection will be taken up in aid of
the Mission.
Overhauling Abolitionists.
We have already noticed several cases
where suspected individual* have been ar
rested as abolitionists, and made to “va
moose the ranch.” The South seems to bo
full of such gentry, and the people are be
coming alive to the necessity of the maxim
that the “price of liberty is eternal vigi
lance.” In Maacon, two or three persons
were held in durance, on suspicion, among
whom i* the Rev. Dr. Wise, alias, Rev. Dr.
Taylor, alternately a Baptist or Methodist
preacher, according to the company he hap
pens to fall into. We have not learned
what disposition has been made of his case.
Iu Savannah, two persons have recently
been scared up a* abolitionists. One, a man
of the name of Fi*k, has been “tarred and
cottoned” for collecting negroes and reading
to them the history of John Brown, the
Martyr ! In Yorkville, S. C., the Vigilance
Committee, last week, overhauled several
Irish pedlars, on one of whom was found a
letter implicating him in some abolition ras
cality. He was ordered to leave forthwith
and forever. In Williamsburg, S. C., two
teachers, of the names of Dodd and Hamil
ton, have been ordered off as soon as their
terms of tuition expire, the present month.
We see hand-bills posted up, yesterday, in
this city, calling a meeting of the citizens
last night, for the purpose of forming a Vig
ilance Committee, to look after the same
class of vagabonds that are said to infest
this community. This is well. ,The utmest
vigilauce should be used by all good citizens
to ferret out, and hand over to the authori
ties, all suspicious characters and thieving
scoundrels that may be found in our midst.
Care should be taken, however, that no
wrong or injustice be done to any person,
without the most positive evidence ol guilt.
Do not let private malice or sectional feel
ing influence the “Vigilance Committee” to
point the finger of condemnation where the
testimony is wanting to convict the obnoxi
ous individual. Especially, should we be
careful not to breathe suspicion of infidelity
to Southern Institutions, against men, sole
ly because of northern birth, when these men
have, for a quarter of a century, perhaps,
east their lot* with us, and become, to all in
tent* and purpose*, by choice and purchase,
interestod in the slavery institution. As
old Davy Crockett would say, “be sure you
are right—then go ahead.” We will do all
we can to aid the authorities in exposing
and punishing the treacherous scoundrel*
who plot against the property and lives of
our people— but prefer that the law, and not
| mob violence, be the order of the day.
The Cum* of Choice.
We have no words to express our abhor
, rence of tho cruel, blood-thirsty aud tyran
nical disposition of the Governor, as evinced
by bis veto of the bill pardoning Win. 11.
J Choice. In such a case, it is extremely
doubtful whether the Executive has any
; right to interpose his veto—and had he pos
’ ssssed a particle ol human compassion in
his bosom, he would not have exercised a
I doubtful power in order to gratify his thirst
for blood, or a thirst for the character of a
stern respecter of the law.
Tho Milledgeville correspondent of the
Chronicle and Sentinel thus speaks of the
feeling at Milledgeville, when thereto mes
sage was delivered :
“Jusl before the adjournment, the Governor sent
Uiek to the Senate the bill for the pardon of Wm. A.
Choice, ••with a eotniiuiuk'atiou in writing.”
The announcement, for every one knew what it
meant, caused an indignant thr’dl or horror to run
through the whole liody. Gov. Brown had actually
I n float the bill! and heaped up for him*elf: -wrath
! againM the day of wrath, covered himself with igno
my and shown a heartlessness at which all men stand
l aghast. The like w:i* never known in a oivilir-ed
! community, ami the execrations of mankind will
j follow him to his grave. May he never want the sym
pathy he know* not how to “feel, aud may God have
mercy on his soul! Strong men trembled, and the
heart stood still in its heating, at the horrible thought,
that that inan stood with sword uplifted, cruel as hell
—remorseless as the grave—unfeeling as death—to
usher a maniac. overwhosemoral vision had cornea
dark shadow of the Creator’s ow n sending, into the
vast eternity, whence there is no return.
An almost universal feeling of destation is manifest
ed throughout the whole multitude here assembled—
regardless of party feeling and party association.—
After dinner, when the Senate met. the veto message
was read. The Governor chooses to set up his judg
ment against the sworn evidence of those who had
known Choice and well, against the testimony of
physicians and others, and his judgment is. thut'the
poor man was sane beyond the possibility of a doutit.
For what purpose is the veto power given to the Exe
cutive ? To prevent the enactment of laws, which, in
his matured ludgincnt. are unconstitutional, or which
have been panned hastily and without due reflection.
Not a soul ha- ever held that the bill was unconstitu
tional. nor will any one pretend to say that it was pass
ed hastily. Then why. in God's name, take the aw
ful responsibility of sfieding innocent Mood ? It is
notktiow n what may !*• further done in the matter.
The feeling of indignation is so great that some
think the bill may Is passed over the veto, but I can
not think so. Some of the t>est legal men doubt the
right of the Governor to veto a pardon bill, under the
constitution, and held that it was unnecessary to
send it to him at all—that he is pardoned already, and
that the Court must order him discharged under a
writ ofhabeaa corpus. It is impossible to conjecture
what may be the termination. There is a strong talk,
among even his own partisans, to call an indignation
meeting and burn Brown in effigy. Imt that would
protmMy result in just what he seeks—popularity.—
That (popularity) was the ruling motive of his veto.
He knew as welf as any one that the popular feeling
was aaainst Legislative pardons—therefore he con
cluded a veto would Is- popular, creating the idea that
his stern respect for the majesty of the law overrode
every other feeling, especially too, as his friends
eonlil plead, that he was dooming one of his own par
tisans, and one whose family and friends were his
partisans. In adding, the malignity of his cruel heart
looked to Molding himself up. in certain localities,
as he supposed, iijs-n temporary alienation felt to
wards Ben Hill, and others of “our friends, most of
w hom were in favor of Choice's pardon.
But there is another view of this case
which renders it still more repugnant to the
public sense of decency and righteousness.
Our immaculate Governor assumes the of
fice of vice-gerent of the Alnvgbty, and
preaches up the penalties of the old Jewish
criminal code, in justification of hi* death
dealing veto! He says:
“I am also aw are that it is urged that the pardoning
powerls a God like power, and that it is nob le to ex
ercise it. But it should not Is* forgotten, w hen this
argument is urged, that God himself required no less
than the Mood of hi* own sons- an atonement for
sin. before be exercised the pardoning power. “And
without shedding of blood is no remission.” i* the
language of His eternal truth. God has said, in his
revealed law', that “the murderer shall surely lie put
to death. “Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction
for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death:
but he shall Is* surely put to death.” *So ye shall not
pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth
the land, and the land eannotM* cleansed of the Mood
that is shed therein, but by the Mood of him that
shed it.” If. then, we would respect the revelations
of God, and save our land from the stain ofinnoeeut
I.loiml. w>- mu-t execute tic law and punish the guil
ty. Some may say that the stern truths of the Bible
are not suited to the humanity and sympathy of the
present age. They are none the less truths, however,
on that account; and it is none the less certain that
the curse of God will rest upon that State or nation
w hich disregards them, and thst Ills blessings will
attend those who obey them.
J< >SF.I’H E. BROWN'.”
Woaro astounded at the blasphemous in
timation contained in the above, that God
himielf was so blood-thirsty as to require
the bio *dof his own Son, before he exercis- j
ud the pardoning power. Such an abomi- !
liable doctrine is not to be found in the Bi
ble ; but if it wore, it is the worst kind of
blasphemy for Joe Brown to compare him
self to the Deity, ns lie has virtually done
by bis garbled quotations from the Jewish
Bible. Out, ye say, upon all all such self
righteousness and miserable assumption*.
Our Hook Table.
•oTMr. Burke sends u* two vols. Brook’s
“Fool of Quality,” or the History of the
Earl of Moreland, a reprint of a work issu
ed about 100 years since—from the press of
Derby &. Cos., New York.
fay Mr* G. G. Evans of Philhdelphia,
sends us “Book ol Plays,” by S. S. Steele, J
the plays being adopted for private repre
sentation or borne umuaement. This is an
interesting addition to the large stock of
valuable book* issued by the Gift Book
Publisher.
faF* Godey’s Magazine for January 1860,
has been on band several days. It is a su
perior Book. Now is the time to send in
subscriptions. We will club the Citizen
with Gody for $4 25 per annum.
fa?* Ladies National Magazine for Jan
uary 1860 is also received. Thi* is an ele
gant Two Dollar Magazine for the Ladies.
We will club the Citizen and Peterson's La
dies National, for $3 50.
Important Dociiuicut.
We have received from our Representa
tive in Congress, the Hon. Thomas Harde
man jr., a copy of a circular recently issued
by a “Northern Democrat,” touching the
presenters* upon the Country,on the subject
of slavery. After calmly arguing the ques
tion of the Northern animus, to continue
the “irrepressible conflict” against Slavery.
The writer of this circular proceeds to point
out the only practicable remedy to meet the
emergency which is precipitated upon the
South. We have room, to-day, for only a
few extracts.
He says : —The only safe course left for
the Slave States, when their equality in the
Senate was lost, was to demand anew guar
anty in a place of that thus destroyed, and
i to present at once the alternative of such a
guaranty or separation. Nothing can be
plainer than that the North and South can
never live together in peace with this con
stant source of irritation left open between
them. Were that once removed, as it would
be by the guaranty proposed, from the pale
of national politics, quiet and harmony would
( be restored, and politicians and statesmen
! could once more devote themselves to those
great and pressing national interests, which
are now completely merged in this unprofit
j able contest about Slavery. * * * *
This mistake, in which the whole Anti
i Slavery party of the North participate, and
without which that party would dissolve, must
he corrected This once done,.there would be
no serious obstacle to obtaining a substantial
guaranty for Southern rights. This, then,
is the one thing for the South to do, if it
wishes to save the Union. Without this,
all other efforts are vain. But how is it to
be accomplished? The South has already
remonstrated, protested, assumed every at
| titude of resistance, given every possible in
! dication, in words, of its determination to
; destroy the Union rather than submit; and
Ij et the North persists. How, then, can the
eyes of Northern men be opened ?
There is still a way, notwithstanding.—
Let some Southern statesman offer a reso
lution, in Congress, recommending to the
! States the adoption of an amendment to the
. Constitution to this effect, or something like
I it: That no act or resolution of Congress,
, involving or affecting the institution ofSlave
ry, shall pass without the votes of a majority
of the Representatives of at least one-third
of the Slave States. The proposition would
j of course be indignantly rejected by the
House of Representatives ; if not, by the
Senate; and the South would be entirely
safe in assuming this rejection, as the voice
of the Northern people; as there is scarcely
a shadow of doubt that the proposition would
be rejected by a majority at the North, if
submitted now to the popular vote.
Taking this, then, as conclusive evidence
that a majority in the Northern States avail
ing themaelves of the breach already made
in the Constitutional defences of the South,
are determined to persist in the attacks up
on Southern institutions, let the whole
Southern delegation at once withdraw from
Congress to Richmond, and there take the
initiatory steps for the formation of a South
ern Confederacy; issuing at the same time
to the Northern people a declaration, not of
war, but of peace. Let them say to their
Northern friends: We are aware that the
j interests of the world are involved in our
present action, and that our responsibility is
i correspondingly great; but momentous as
are the evils of separation, we prefer to en
counter them all rather than those which
must result from continued strife. Much as
we love the Union, and desire to go hand
in hand with our Northern brethren in up
holding the banner of freedom, and promo
ting the growth, prosperity, and glory of our
common country, we must not, can not, sur
render our rights as sovereign and indepen
dent States. To be permitted to enjoy our
own institutions in our own way, without
the interference of those in no manner res
ponsible for them, is all we demand. Let
but this be guaranteed to us, and we wid
stand by the Union to the end of time.—
“ Northern Democrat” then proceeds to
answer the objections to this course, and to
urge its immediate adoption, before the con
test of 1860 places a Black Republican in
the Presidential Chair, and wound up, as
follows:
Let then the issue be presented. Let the
South with one accord demand a guaranty.
Let the course here pointed out be adopted.
It is the only Alexandrian blow that can
cut this Gordian Anti-Slavery knot; the
only roup and etat by means of which harmo
ny can be restored and the Union cement
ed. A NORTHERN DEMOCRAT.
C'onjf rt*s*>.~Thi.s National body met at
Washington City, on Monday last. From
the proceedings in another place, telegraph
ed to the Augusta Constitutionalist, we learn
that the House was not able, on that day,
to elect a Speaker. The Republicans did
not nominate a candidate. The Democrats
nominated Bocock, of Va. The American
and Opposition members had fuiled to agree
as to their action. This is wrong. We sin
cerely hope that the Southern Americans
have gone for Bocock, and have been able
to elect him. This is no time for partisan
animosity, when the result may be the elec
tion of a Black Republican to till the im
portant office of Speaker of the House.—
Let Southern men pay their first duty to
their section, and leave the consequences to
God.
Dontlt of Robert Findlay*
Our community lias been called to mourn
the death of an upright, enterprising, intel
ligent, useful and influential citizen. Ron
kkt Findlat, so widely known as the head
of that exteuaive establishment, “Findlay’s
Iron Works,” died last Wednesday, of a ma
lignant attack of pneumonia. His loss will
be deeply felt in almost every department of
business, by the wholo city—in the Baptist
Church of which he was a leading member—
and in every enterprise of public benevo
lence. He was buried last Friday at Rose
Hill, and the largest Funeral cortege we
have ever seen in Macon, preceded and fol
lowed his refnains to their last resting place.
It included the Masonic Fraternity, and the
whole Fire Department, of which deceased
had formerly been a Chief.— Georgia Tele
graph, bth ltint.
Jack Frost.—There is a mellow ring in
this elegant extract, which befits the mellow
days of autumn :
Mr. Jack Frost does but kiss the cbnsto
face of nature, and behold! how she blushes
in the maple, the woodbine and oak. and
turns all manner of colors in the beech, the
linden, the chestnut and elm. How beauti
ful she looks in her heightened color! But
her brilliant complexion is, alas! but a hec
tic —an evidence of frailty—a precursor of
speedy decay. Consumption imparts this
glorious and exquisite loveliness to her coun
tenance —but the expression is not of this
world, it is celestial, the ushering in of the
indescribable future.
The beauty of the world is most ravishing
when first touched by the magical finger of
the frost, which is at once the death-stroke
of the foliage, and a cause of its dying-dol
phin splendors. Thus the sun sheds a lustre
over creation at his setting, surpassing his
noonday glories, filling the universe with a
flood of light and beauty, as if to indemnify
mankind for the privations of both during
the approaching night. So nature dresses
herself in her wondortul beauty, as apartiug
pledge of her love, and as a memorial for us
to take and to cherish during the sombre
days of the coming winter, when no flowers
can blossom, no verdure quicken.
—There is in Bourbon County, Kentucky,
a family consisting of a man, his wife and
eight children, whose average hight is six
feet four and a half inches, and average
weight two hundred and fourteen pounds.—
One of the sons is the tallest in the family,
and measures six feet eleven inches, and he
also weighs nearly two hundred and ninety
six pounds. A daughter who died was six
feet three inches in hight, and weighed one
hundred and sixty pounds. A large family, 1
that i
The luereaNiiig Desire for Os
ten TATIOC3 DISPLAT.
One of the most alarming evils of the pres
ent generation, in this country—one which
forebodes no good for our instituctiona —one
which constrasts discreditably with the re
publican simplicity which distinguished our
sensible ancestors, is the eonstantly-increas
ing desire for ostentatious display.
It is an evil which is both politically and
socially demoralizing—overtly striking at
the very genius of our system of government.
In almost every condition of life it finds wil
ling coadjutors— weak-minded men and
“strong-minded women,” captivated by its
alluring attractions. “Lowliness is young
ambition’s ladder.” The fable of the milk
maid’s ambition is demonstrative of the pres
ent every-day life, in almost every city cir
cle. “The almighty dollar” is coveted not
for the rational enjoyments that it will pur.
chase, but for the ostentatious display that it
will afford, and the consequent position it
will secure in the esteem of a fashionable,
heartless world. There is scarcely a sacri
fict, except in inflexibly honest hearts, that
the rising genrntion is not disposed to make
to obtain it, in order to receive an introduc
tion into that which is familliarly designat
ed! “upj*er ten-dom.”
The principal and the employee, public
and private, are alike not unfrequently pre
pared to part with their integrity, in view of
its overshadowing virtues, in order to be
come its possessor. Thus it is making the
age an age of vice; it is making what is term
ed “the first society” in the United States,
vulgar society —the laughing-stock of en
lightened Christendom elsewhere. Nor is it
to the sterner sex alone that it is so seduc
tive of all that is strictly upright and honor
able. It operates to no inconsiderable extent
upon the refined consciences of tender-heart
ed mothers and self-sacrificing maidens.—
Natural matches are going out of use in the
same ratio that unnatural ones are coming
into use, particularly in aspiring upstart cir
cles. Congeniality neither in age or dispo
sition is regarded as a requisite for a matri
monial alliance. The formation of such a
union is becoming as much a business trans
action as the transfer of a landed property
for a fair equivalent. The moral sense of
observers, so far from being shocked by a
procedure of the kind, tacitly, if not admir
ingly, acquiesces. Why should not the
personification of superannuated wealth pay
as high as it chooses for youth and beauty?
Why should not youth and beauty make in
ordinate extortions upon supercilious age in
search of victims to its inflated vanity ? A
heartless world will answer, why not ?
If the press have a mission on earth, it is
to lasli with a steady, unsparing hand, vice
and folly. The exercise of its power, in
this respect, was never more emphatically
demanded than at the present period. The
most odious, contemptible aristocracy that
ever existed in a civilized country, is incess
antly manifesting itself in this republic—
the aristocracy of a vicious, demoralizing
upstartism—a debasing aristocracy. To
our shame, it must be confessed that it is no
exotic. It had its origin in this Union. It
exists in no other country, and it is stealth
ily laying hold of the pillars of our national
edifice. Its pretentious habits and manner*
arc already insufferable. Even at this me
tropolis it must be rebuked, and sjteedily.—
In the next Congress we expect to hear voices
raised that will hold it up to the unrestrain
ed scorn of every well-inclined citizen. It
was not until after the country lost the ser
vices of Randolph of Roanoke, that treasury
favorites and their stipendiaries and apes
dared, upon their ill-gotten gains, to com
mence ostentatious displays as a means of
obtaining consideration in quarters to which
their ignorance and vulgarity would other
wise have utterly precluded their entrance.
It is understood now-a-days that no upstart,
however low, who can keep a smart car
riage and deep liveried servants, is refused
admittance into diplomatic salons. This is
the passport for an endorsement of Wash
ington gentility, par excellence. When an
upstart can have the honor of dining a for
eign minister, his right to aristocratic dis
tinction is decidedly established.
We are resolved that no influence which
we can in any manner rightly exercise, shall
be withheld in improving the morals and
manners of the national metropolis. As it
is the centre of the political confederation,
there can be no health, practically, in our
system, unless the heart be sound. All that
conflicts with the purifying of that heart, we
shall expose with the utmost indifference as
concerns consequences to ourselves. We
shall constantly hold the truthful mirror up
in full view of artificial faces.— Richmond
Enquirer.
The Press.
Jons 11. Seals, Esq., of the Atlanta (Ga.)
Temperance Crusader, has associated Mr. A.
B. Seals with him in the editorial depart
ment of that excellent paper.
YVe have received the prospectus of anew
daily soon to be commenced in Atlanta Ga.,
by Mr. J. 11. Seals and Mrs. Mart E. Bry
an,and to be called the Locomotive. The price
I of subscription will be five dollars a year,
■ and the Locomotive will be strictly neutral
in politics and religion. From the character
j of its prospectus we may be authorised to
say that this new paper is bound to go ahead
! and be successful.
The Gazette has been reestablished in Chat
tanooga, Tennessee, by James P. Hood, Esq.,
formerly of East Tennessee.
Mr. F. F. YVarlev, formerly editor of the
Darlington, (S. C.) Flag, will commence ear
ly in January next, the publication of a
weekly journal, at Darlington Court House,
to be called the Southerner.
Beecher on Free Negroes.— How are
the free colored people treated at the NorthT
They are almost without education, with
but little sympathy for ignorance. They
are refused the common rights of citizen
ship v. hich the whites enjoy. They cannot
even ride in tliecars of our city railroads.
They arc snuffed at in the house of God, or
tolerated with ill-disguised disgust. Can a
black man be a mason in New York? Let
him be employed as a journeyman, and eve
ry Irish lover of liberty that carries the
hod or trowel would leave at once, or cum*
pel him to leave. Can the black man be a
carpenter ? There is scarcely a carpenter
shop in New York in which a journeyman
would continue to work if a black man was
employed in it. Can the black man engage
in the common industries of life ? There
is scarcely one in which he can engage. He
is crowded down, down, down, through the
most menial callings, to the bottom of so
ciety. We take them, and then refuse to
allow their children to go to our public
schools. YVe tax them, and then refuse to sit
by them in God’s house. YVe heap upon them
moral obloquy, more atrocious than that
which the master heaps upon the slave.—
And, notwithstanding all this, we lift our
selves up to talk to the Southern people
about the rights and liberties of the human
soul, and especially the African soul.
A Romance of the Plains.— The Fort
; Scott Democrat announces the arrival of a
Cheyenne chief, rejoicing in the startling
i soubriquet of “YV'ild Bill.” Though a white
man by birth, lie has always lived with the
i Indians. His visit to Fort Scott was on the
! s.ore of “love.” In a “ Pike’s Peak’’ train
I he happened to see a woman with whom he
| proceeded to fall in love after an expeditious
uiaiiuer. She reciprocated, (so runs the sto
ry,) and it was mutually agreed that the
chains of wedlock should le forged at Fort
Scott. “Bill” was true to his word; the te
male wasn’t. (“Atlovers’ vows Jove laughs.')
No Miss ‘-Pike's Peak” was to be found,
aud the naturalized red-skin was forced to
return to hia wonted haunts “disconsolate
and alone.” Quite pathetic, isn’t it ?
An Inscebictioiiist Arrested in Alex
andria. —A man named J. H. Thompson,
was arrested in Alexandria on Friday even
ing, charge! with obtaining money under
false pretenses. lie has since turned out to
be one of those concerned in toe Harper’s
Ferry affair, and is recognized by Mr. Mitch
ell, who is now engaged in business in this
.•ity, and was one of Brown’s prisoners at
Harper’s Ferry.
It appears from the evidence, that Thomp
son has shaved off his beard, and had his
hair cut close ; which rendered a pretty
close inspeeticn’necessary to identify him.
Thompson is now in jail, and Justice Sum
mers of Alexandria who had him arrested,
telegraphed on yesterday evening to Gov.
Wise, for authority to summon Mr. Wil
liams, the watchman at the Bridge at Har
per’s Ferry. It will be investigated.
N. 11. Hawkins was chosen Mayor of Mil
ledgeville, at the election Saturday last.—
The following gentlemen constitute the new
Board of Aldermen: Ist ward, a tie; 2d
E. D. Br own; 3d, P. Fair; 4th, Wm. Barnes;
sth, B. H. My rick ; Oth, C. Vaughn
*‘Tle State Owed Her Greatness
to Savannah.
Mr. Editor ; On the first of December.
Mr. Hill in his place in the Senate, is re
ported to have used this language. “It was
Savannah that had initiated this beautiful
system of improvement. Indeed he might
almost say that the State owed her greatness
to Savannah.” I am at a loss to see how
the State of Georgia can owe her greatness
in any degree to Savannah. Savannah is
indebted to Georgia for what she is and not
Georgia to Savannah for her greatness.—
The idea of building a railroad from Macon
to Savannah, originated with one of Ma
con’s gifted and deceased citizens. The
idea of building a railroad from Savannah
to any point up the country, never entered
the brain of any man in Savannah until it
was put there by a citizen of Macon. In
stead of Savannah originating the project
of building the Central railroad, she was
“ initiated ” and instructed into the idea by
Macon. Georgia “owed greatness to Savan
nah” in what particular? How? Why?
Mr. Editor when the thought was expressed
to the philosophical and venerated Berrien,
he looked on the thing as vissionary—en
tirely impossible and impracticable ; Savan
nah says, she made Macon ; tee know Macon
galvanised Savannah into life. The truth
of history, in this matter, should be vindi
cated. lam prepared with the facts to do
it, I never assert a fact without being able
to give the authority. 1 know what I do.
That which I have written here shall stand
backed up by the indisputed, undeniable and
incontrovertible facts of history.
GEORGIA.
Respecting the pardon of Cook, one of the
Harper's Ferry conspirators, which great es
fort has been made to procure, the Richmond
Enquirer says:
The pardon of Cook is out of the question
—he is the most guilty of all the Charles
town prisoners. So far from his being the
dupe of Old Brown, Ossawattomie is the
victim of Jno. E. Cook.
Cook misled Brown, deceived him, and
imposed upon all the prisoners; he gave de
scriptions of the persons of those who fled.
Had Cook, who lived two years in Virginia,
while engaged in planning this very crime,
made known to Old B own the actual state
of the negroes, had he informed Old Brown
that he had uot beeu able to induce one
slave to join, and that no aid was to be ex
nected from the non-slaveholders. John
Brown had too much shrewdness not to
have seen the folly upon which he was en
gaged, and he would have abandoned the
undertaking. Cook married in Virginia for
the purpose of better concealing his designs,
and not arousing suspicions; he is doubly
criminal; for he sought the destruction of
those near and dear to his wife. Cook had
visited and been hospitibly entertained by
the very gentlemen he afterwards robbed ;
he knew from actual experiment that no
slaves would join him; he knew that with
out large reinforcements from the North the
attempt must fail; and hence he was the
first to fly, and planned his flight beforehand,
leaving his deluded comrades to meet the
fate his deceptions had brought upon them.
The fact of his connection with Governor
Willard, while it will, doubtless, increase
the regret which an Executive always feels
in withholding pardon, will have no influ
ence in the present case.. When men have
connections in high position, it should be a
restraint upon their conduct.
Execution of Old Brou n.
Charlestown-, Va., Dec. 2 — 4 o’clock.
Ossawattomic Brown was hung this mor
ning at 11 j o’clock. Everything was quiet.
| His remains were given over to his wife, at
Harper’s Ferry. He made no speech.
Charlestown’, Dec., 2.
The Military assembled at 9 o’clock, A. M.
1000 soldiers took their places on the field ;
and, also, at various places as laid down in
the general order. Everything wai con
ducted with the strictest military discipline,
as if the town was in a state of seige.
The mounted service were stationed in the
woods to the left of the Scaffold, and Pick
ets were stationed over towards Shenandoah
Mountains, in readiness.
The Military on the field formed two hol
low squares, within the inner one was the
scaffold, and between the inner and outer
lines the citizens were admitted. No one
was allowed outside the lines, except the
mounted guards.
At 11 o’clock Brown was brought out of
jail, accompanied by Sheriff Campbell and
hi.-- assistants, and Cupt. Avis, and Jailor
Small. A wagon containing a white pine
coffin was driven up, on which Brown was
seated. Six companies, Infantry, Rifle Com-
Enny and Horse, General and Staff, num
ering twenty-five officers, headed the pro
cession, and moved towards the place of ex
ecution.
No minister of the Gospel accompanied
Brown, as he desired no religious ceremo
nies either in the jail or on the scaffold. He
looked calmly on the people. Mounted the
scaffold with a firm tread. His arms were
pinioned by the Sheriff. He bid farewell to
the jailor. Sheriff Campbell and Capt. Avis.
At 11 30 the trap of the Scaffold was pulled
away, and, after a few slight struggles Brown
yielded up the ghost. His body was placed
in the coffin, and, subsequently, carried to
Harper’s Ferry, under a strong military es
cort, there to be delivered to his wife.
Congressional.
Washington*, Dec. 5.
In the Senate to-day, Mr. Mason, ot Vir
ginia, offered a resolution providing for the
appointment of a select committee to en
quire into the nature and consequences to
the General Government of the recent cap
ture of the United States Armory, at Har
per's Ferry. Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, gave
notice of an amendment, by providing, also,
for an inquisition into the nature of the re
cent capture of the Frankfort Arsenal.
After the usual resolution, notifying the
House of its readiness to proceed to business,
the Senate adjourned.
In the House, nearly all the members
were present, and the voting for Sj>caker
was commenced. The vote on first ballot
was as follows : Sherman, of Ohio, 06;
Glow, of Pennsylvania, 43; Bocock, of
Virginia, 80 ; and Boteler, of Virginia, 14.
Twelve wtbar members were voted for, and
received, each, from one 1 to 6 votes. —
Grow then withdraw, not wishing to embar
rass the Republicans who had divided theii
votes between him and Sherman.
Mr. Clark, of Missouri, offered the follow
ing : Whereas certain members of th>
House, now in nomination for Speaker, have
endorsed and recommended Helper's “Im
pending Crisis,” be it
Re sol red, That the doctrines and senti
ments therein contained are insurrectionary
and hostile to the domestic peace and trail
| quility of the country, and, therefore, thai
no member of this House, who has endorsed
or recommended it, is lit to be Speaker ol
this House.
Several Republicans then arose to points
of order, but were not successful in stop
ping Mr Clark, who poured a few hot shot
into their ranks. Several then disclaimed
for their party insurrectionary and dissolu
tion of the Union sentiments.
There were lively times, but good bu
inor prevailed, and the House adjourned.—
The probability is that the slavery question
will oe discussed in both Houses to-morrow.
Con (creational.
Washington, Dec. 6th. — Both Houser
convened to-day at 12 o’clock. In the Sen
ate Mr. Ma>n, of Virginia, offered a reso
lution providing for the appointment of a
•elect committee to enquire iuto the nature
and consequences to the general government
of the recent outbreak in the U. S. Armory
at Harper’s Ferry.
Mr. Trumbull gave notice that he would
offer an amendment providing alo for an in
quisition to ascertain the nature of the re
cent capture of the Frankfort Arsenal (?)
The usual resolution was passed notifying
the House that the Senate was in readiness
to proceed to business. The Senute then ad
journed.
Hovsk. —Nearly all the members were
present at the call. The House proceeded
to vote for Speaker. On the first ballot the
vote stood :
For Sherman, (Republican,) 66
For Grow. “ 43
For Bocock, (Democrat,) 86
For Botelar, (American,) 14
Twelve others received each from one to
five votes.
Tar and Feathers in Savannah.
Savannah, Dec. 2.—A man named Fisk,
a shoe dealer, born in Massa husets, b t
resident in this city for sever il years, ws
tarred and feathered last night for express
ing Abolition sentiments.
Additional by the Europa,
NEW York, Dec. 2.—The steamship Eu
ropa’s mails left here this evening for the
South.
He well's Circular says that there was on
ly a moderate demand during the week -
-pinners being pretty well stocked for th
present, and inclined to wait for the liber*]
supplies that are now at sea. In the mean
time, holders are anxious sellers, and in or
der to make sales have been compelled to
make slight concessions, but they were not
of sufficient importance to warrant a reduc.
tion in the previous quotations.
The imports during the week were 22,000
bales ; at sea 113,000, against 70,000 com*,
ponding time last year.
The Manchester market strong.
COUNCIL PROCEEDING*
REGULAR MEETING.
Council Chamber, i
IfoT.Jkh., ISM. /
Present.— The Mayor, Aldeman, Bolfeuil
let, Driggers Harrison, Greer, Longlev,
Ross and Collins. *
A.Vsent.—Aid. Anderson.
The minutes of the last meeting wera read
and confirmed.
The Bridge Keejer reported tolls for the
week no- jg
Tin- Clerk of Market reported fees for the °
week.. 18,00
The Guard House keeper reported fee* f or
the week g
The Finance Committee reported in favor
of the following accounts :—S. W. Ri].
road, 0 30, D. Dempsey, 2015, T C Vishif
4060, . J. Cherry, 20 00, W. A.‘Huff
13 80, B. F. Ross, 3000, and A. Brvdia,6oo’
•T. L. Jones, Trus., statement of Receipt!
and Expenditures for Rose Hill and Oak
Ridge Cemeteries for the years 1860, 57, >&}
and ’69 was received and referred to’ the
committee on Rose Hill.
A memorial from the Superintendent and
Committee of Rose Hiil Cemetery, request
ing the appointment of Washington Poe to
till the vacancy in the permanent Commute
occasioned by the death of Dr. M. A. Frauk
iin, was read and approved.
The Committee on Rose Hill made the
following Report:
ACh ilrn of the Committee on R*s- IHi:i CL>r
-n Ibe I>AT’ ol the City < ‘ouncil, 1 he* lenveto report T ’
1 mc w! h ,reat pleasure notion] that maj --il'nn.m
Mid judlc.ou* improvements have been m.de in w *
gr-.uui a luiiti* the past ytur. and that its aitnvu m3
*!ki> ,r* in a gr*>d condition, For ttig w. are 1 ve’fed to
tk. p o cior and ever watchful superintendent of the
Siam Kook, Kwj -wort
M .tty ie v tki expensive monument* hsve t.a sd4d
d.ir.ii* l he part vear, of cbnste and Iwantlful dealvna and
iculptu-e. some few of watch I be* leave to n u7e mo •
particularly, vU : Mrs. V. Tracy’s, Doctor* Franklin', *„d
i hemp ot.'s, ail (-apt. Holmes', which Is the work of our
ftllo* --.lt as uthe Mes-ra. A-t. pe.
F r most of the laiproveiuciits in this dernrtment of the
work. w c .re lunch indebted to Mr. Joann, the Secretary
Si and I rea nrer. tor bis ueestions a.d nniitauce to appij.
caul- for MIC i work.
Ihe last >eat's addition, in number ard expense, the
Improvements of Lots and enclosure, probable, ne rly iantk
those of ail the previous jrea.t. Avery proper and judkieus
improvement has been made, hy addin* to tht Cemetery
that porti- not the Common so as to extend It to the upper
Urint ot the city, ou the river.
a> tula a permanent b- tinda-y Is establish and and a prar.ee
10-a’lo-.isecond for the fu ura t-uilai of slrmxera. Abo,
sn addition tofak Kitlgei'em-tery aid ground, near tha
nv.r, fti new and varied ornamental putpo-es
Our f'eniitery b-otntaf jurtly Ixc-mea rfecUloMect of
ineteat ad pride to o.rcitirutia, and of attraction ta many
who reside fat In yono our limits. n any of whom ar. mcu
rin* family buiisi-p ac in it,and tuany during tht tut
y oar have been rrought from great and , arras to be deposited
in its Poe. m -stheir last mortal reat.ng place. Vt hsie our
cty is receiving it credit a-sroad ror ibis most cherl.Ltd
w .rk, ureas A'dinnen and aa citizen*. should not forget
the m-aus Py wnich it ha non acromniirhcU. That tka
city lias been rahevwl rfoin all respz.nai'-illty. expense or
tr.uule ot ruperihletidajiCf, mainly by tao citizen*, (Has*
a-.d Jokes.) who have projected and superintended ita af
f.ira tor the last nineteen y, arm. without other reward tham
th-iiX, ad gratitude of whieo they may feel assured they
receive from all of this com m inky. The ni-sns by which
the work tr,ts been a .mod -i (ex ept a entail amount t have
been only troni the mic o- lots, which, aa are shown by
revious rapoitr, have--ft* n been deficient, by several hun
dred and 1 ar* to n.ee’ the yearly ext enses. This hat s’ -my,
been advanced h the T reasurer. Mu. Junk*, w ith-ut iclt
in*other aid. It wil'now appear by hi, report that Row
ii 11 Cetnctcy is *ndi bted to him tt.e sum of six hundred
and seventy-one and liar-, and ninety-one cents. t*7l *t.)
Her-a ter the reeu ar axperses will probably b. somewhat
leMWoed. a, but litt'e new or expensive work remain, ta b*
doue and retnuner.lion fur past over pay menu may b* de
rived Ironi future rec-iprs.
I would also direct at entioo lo that portion es the Cun*.
tery known as “tl-k Ridge,” tLe huiiul around of aur color
ed popu ation. Within tne past year this has been laid ont
with avenues an I lots lor laiui.les, and a geacral aystem
at rattled for ita man £ meat.
tis sra'ityir* to t-te that many lot* are handsomely
mproveu and on amented. and much lntereot ta tatea la ft
hy that c ars of ou popula lan. A neat Hearae Houae has
Ireeu ere.till, and an id eh (ale-way. of brick, aimllar t*
that of Rout Hill, with Iron gates. at the expense nr >e-*a
hundred and sixty-six dollars and twi n-.yfbnr eenU. (*7*a it)
of which, tl,- re remain* due to the ‘1 re-surer, Mb. .uxaa.
the sum of six hundred and forty five dollan and twenty,
fonr cents, < *643 54.)
I cun rot clo* this report without again placing this Ova
ell, Hul tlir city of Macon, and our w>iolec-fuaiußHy, uii4r
tiit lasting • •blu’.aion- o those two pubsic-eptrlttd t i
tJemn. wh -ae greatest pride ha* been to beautify au4 adorn
the elove y and interesting grounds. Then the living au4
d> iag may l e assured tbat no vile Intruder will re panurted.
aI. mole-vied, to roam ever and disturb their remain# la tjfctfr
last joug res in* place, while Rosa ami Junes rtinidu at citi
zens among us.
i Bill* referred to the Finance Committee,
Macon Gas Cos., Rich. Brinn. A. Richards,
j J. A. Ralston, “Georgia Citizen,” J. N.
Grier, W. K. de Grnft'eKried, Freemas A
; Roberts, Grier & Masteron, and Hardeman
j & Griffin.
The Sexton reported the interments at
Rose Hill and Oak Ridge Cemeteries, during
tile month of November—White*, adults 8,
children 4. Colored 5. Total 17, 3 of which
wore none-residents.
.Mrs. Joyner’s bill order to be laid on the
table.
Council then adjourned until next Friday
Evening, 7 o’clock
RICH. CURD, Cl'k.
SPECIAL NOTICES* _
A CARD.
THE ur lersicned, surviving partners of the late Finn R
KIND LA V A sON S, beg leave to infirm their old cu
b*incr and ‘he publicgeuvially.that they will conUnue oper
ations as terviotore at the “FINDLAY IRON WuRXS,”
and solicit a share of Patronage.
dec 7 4t J. S.tC.D FIHDLAT.
NOTICE.
THE Regular Meetings of the MACON
BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIA
; TION, for Payment of Dues and Loaning,
j are on the Ist Monday in each Month.
A. R. FREEMAN,
; febll—ly Sec’y & Treas.
NOTICE.
I r DHE Regular Meetings of the 8188
JL COUNTY LOAN ASSOCIATION,
i or Payment of Dues and Loaning, are on
! ihe 3d Thursday in each Month.
’ A. R. FREEMAN,
feb 11—ly Sec’y & Treas.
’-#* We are authorized to announce R.
! C. Wilder as a suitable candidate for Tax
’ Collector at the ensuing election in January
next.
Messenger copy. nov 26
er We are authorized to announce
Solomon R. Johnson as a candidate for the of
fi* of Receiver of Tax Returns of Bibb ca,
tt the ensuing January election, nov 26
JriiCWe are authorized to announce Wm.
T. Masskv, as a Candidate for re-election aa
fudge of Ordinary, for the County of Bibb,
•t the ensuing election. nov 26
Clerk Inferior Court.
are authorized to announce
tut E. D. Williams, as an indepen
dent candidate for the Clerkship of the In
ferior Court, of Bibb County, at the ensuing
r-leelion in Jauuary DexU nov 16 tde
Tax Receiver.
WE an* authorized to announce
the name of Stehung Tcckkr,
is a candidate for receiver of Tax Returns
f Bibb County at the ensuing election ia
January 1860. jan 4, ‘s9— tda
Tax Collector.
WE are authorized to announce
Capt. Wv. Bonk as a candidate
or Tax Collector of Bibb County at the en
uing election in January next.
oct 29—evrAwtde
Coroner.
are authorized toannoance Hix
ry S. Simmons, as a Candidate for Coroner
>t BibbCcumy, at ihe ensuing election i#
January next. dec 9 tde
A British officer writing from Teheran, Perm a, to
he London Time.-, remarks“A Cathartic PiU man
ufactured hr an American ChemisL Dr. J. C. Ay or of
Lowell. Mass., has cured the Shah of a Liver Com
plaint that threatened hi* iife. This simple fact, aa
night be expected, renders the American, immense
'y popular here, while we English are overlooked.—
Doubtless our own scholars made the discoveries
which he employs, and thus it is in everything; we
lo the latx>r, then the mousing Americans put their
mark on it and take the reward. Dr. Ayer is idolit
-d by the court and its retainers here, which will
loubtlos* be reflected to him on a gold snuff box. or
liamond hilted sword, while not the name of Davy,
Chrialosn or Brodie—the great lights by which ha
shines, is known.”— X. Y. Santlay Paper.
Dr. Hostetter’s Bitters have received the
warmest encomiums from the Press and people
hroughout the In ion. Asa valuable tonic for the
•ure of Dyspepsia, Flatulence. Constipation and gen
-ral nervous debility, it cannot be approached. Every
lay new cases of its great effect are chronicled
(trough our public Journals. There is nothing equal
.*o the enjoyment, to that which the afflicted experi
ence when using this valuable specific. Its mild tone,
its sure and vigorous action upon a disordered stom
ach, and the cleansing of the entire human body,
should recommend it to all classes of our communi
ty. ah that will be necessary to convince the skepti
cal of its healthy effects, ia to purchase a bottle and
be convinced.
-sold bv druttUUt aad dealtteaentf ly even