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the gauntlet of alt those questions triuro
pbantlj, as i thought, this new danger
stared roe in the face. How was I ever
to describe a baby, who have never
noticed one! My oourage sank below
sero, bat in the same proportion the
blood rose to my face, and I think my
teeth fairly chattered in my head.
** Don’t be afraid that 1 shall not sym
pathize in joar raptures,” continued my
• tormentor, ass almost considered,’’ lam
Suits prepared to believe anything after
enny's letter—you should see bow she
cares for him.” *
Him! Blessed goodness, then it
must be a boy !
“Os oourse,” said I, blushing and
stammering but feeling it imperative to
say something “we consider him the
finest fellow in the world ; but you might
not agree with us and in order to leave
your judgment unbiased I shal l not de
scribe him to you.”
Ah! but 1 know just how ne looks,
for Jenny had no such scruple—so you
may spare you “self the trouble or hap
piness which ever it is—but tell me what |
you mean to call him ?”
‘‘We have not decided upon a name,’’
I replied.
“Indeed! I thought she intended to
give him yours.”
The deuce she did ! thought I. “No,
one of a name is enough in a family,” 1
answered..
The demon of inquisitiveness, that, to
my way of thinking, had instigated my
companion heretofore, now ceased to
possess her, for we talked of various
indillereut things, and I had the relief of
not being compelled to draw on my im
agination at the expense of my con
science, when I gave the particulars of
my recent journey from Boston. Yet, 1
was far from feeling at ease, for every
sound of her voice startled me with a
dread of fresh questions, necessary, but
impossible to be answered, and 1 felt a
guilty flush steaming upon my temples,
every time I met the lock of those in
nocent eyes.
It was late when we stopped for sup
per and soon after fsaw the dark fringes
of my companion’s eyes droop long and
often, and began to realise that she ought
to be asleep. I knew perfectly well that
it was my duty to oiler her a resting
place on my shoulder, but I had hardly
courage enough to ask that iunocent
face to lie on my arm, which was not as
she thought it, that of a cousin and a
married man. Recollecting however,
that it was my duty to make her com
fortable, and that I could scarcely de
ceive her more than I had already done,
1 proffered the usual civility. She slieht
ly blushed but thanked roe, and accept
ed it by leaning her head lightly against
my shoulder, and looking up into my
eyes with a smile and said, “As you lire
my cousin. Soon after her eyes closed
an<Tshe slept sweetly and calmly, as if
resting in security and peace.
I looked down at the beautiful face,
slightly paled with fatigue, that rested
against mine, and felt like a villain. I
dared not touch her with my arm, al
though the rebounding of the cars jostled
her very much. 1 sat remorseless until
the ‘sleeper settled the matter by slipp
ing forward and awakening. She opened
her eyes instantly, and smiled.
“It s no use for me to try to sleep
with my bonnet on,” she said ; ‘f>r it is
’ er . v in the way for me ; I am sure
it troubles you.’ So she removed it,
giving me the pretty little toy, with its
graceful ribbons and flowers to put on
the rack above us. I preferred to hold
it, telling her it would be safer with me,
and after a few objections, she resigned
it. being in truth too sleepy to contest
the point; then tying the blue silk veil
“ver her glossy hair, she leaned against
my shoulder and slept again.
This time when the motion began to
shake and annoy her, I stifled the re
proaches of my conscience, and passing
iny arm lightly round her slender waist,
drew her head upon my breast, where it
lay all night. She slept the sleep cf in
nocence,serene and peaceful and it is need
les to say that 1 could not close my eyes
or ease my conscience. I could only
gaze down on the beautiful, still face,
and imagine how it would confront me,
if she knew what I was, and how I had
deceived her ; or dreaming more wildly
still, reproduced it in a hundred scenes,
Babich I had never before paused to im
agine, as the face of my wife. I had
never loved, unless the butterfly loves
of Saratoga and Newport might be so
dignified and still less had I ever dreamed
°r fought of marrying, even as a possi
bility and far contingency. Never be
fore, I solemnly aver, had 1 seen the wo
man whom 1 wished to make my wife
never before had i so longed to call any
thing my own, as I did that lovely fare
living on my heart. No, it was impos
sible for me to sleep.”
In the morning we reached Buffa
lo, and spent the day at Niagrn. If I
had thought her lovely while sleep
nip, what was she when the light of
feeling and expression played over
her face, as she eloquently admired
tfie scene before us, or was even
more eloquently still. I don’t think
I looked at the cataract as much as
I looked at her, or thought the one
creation more beautiful than the oth
er.
She was now quite famillinr with
me in her innocent way, calling me
“cousin Frank ” and seemed to take
a certain pleasure in my society aud
protection. It was delightful to be
greeted so gladly by her, when I en
tered the hotel parlor, to have her
come forward from the lonely* seat
where she had been waiting, not un
observed or unnoticed, to receive
me to have her hang on my* arm—
look up into my* face—tell me all her
little adventures alone (how long it
seemed to me,) while every* word,
look and smile, seemed doubly* dear
to me, because I knew the precari
ous tenure by which I held my
right to them. She busied herself,
too, while I was gone out, with our
joint baggage, and rumaging all over
her trunks to find a box which I had
expressed a wish to see. She mend
ed my travelling cap, and found mv
<*igar case whenever I had lost it,
which was about twenty* times a day
while she scolded me for the careless
ness which she declared almost equal
led her own.
Long ago she had given over into
my possession her elegant little port
monaie, with all the money in it,
which she was sure she would lose]
as she could never keep anything]
and as she had ordered me to take
out what she wanted for her travel
ling expenses. I opened it with
trembling hands when I was alone
and examined the contents. There
were, besides all the bank bills with
which she had probably* been furn
ished for her journey, and which
with pious care she had packet! into
the smallest possible compass, as
much gold as her pretty* toy could
carry, a pearl ring, too small to fit
my finger, not hers—which I am
air?id I kissed—a card with her
name on it, and a memorandum in
a pretty* hand— “No—Olive street,
St. Louis,” which I rightly conjec
tured wm the residence of her cous
in Jennie, w hose husband I was; a
very fortunate discovery* for me. In
deed thns far I had not found the
way of the transgressor hard, in ex
| tcrnal circumstances at least, and
when with her I forgot everything
hut her grace and beauty, and my
firm resolution to he no more to her
than her cousin should be; but out
of that charmed presence made me
miserable.
I am afraid I must sometime have
betrayed the conflicts of feeling I
had, by my manner; hut when I
was reserved and ceremonious with
her, she always resented it, and beg
ged me so bewitehingly not to treat
her so, and to call her by her sweet
name “Florence,,’ that had I dream
ed as much as I longed to do, 1 could
not have refused her. But the con
sciousness that I was not what she
thought me, hut an imposter, of
whom, after our connection had
ceased, and she had discovered tiie
deception practiced upon her, she
could think or remember nothing
that would cause unmarried self-re
proach and mortification,all innocent
and trusting as she was, this reflec
tion, more than any other, I confess,
and the knowledge of the estimation
to which she would forever hold me,
after my imposition was discovered,
aganized me and 1 would have giv
en all I possessed to own- it to her,
and I leave her sight at once, though
the thought of never seeing her any
more was dreadful, llut that could
not he.
At last we reached St. Louis. Do
I say* at last ? When tin; sight of
those spires and gables warned me
that my brief dream of happiness was
over, and that the remorseful reflec
tions I had been staving off so long
were now to commerce in earnest
the thought of the coming banish
ment from Florence was dreadful to
me, and the time seemed to fly on
lightning wings,as it drew near.
She was all gayety and was aston
ished at my sadness and absence of
mind when so near home and Jenny,
and when we entered the carriage
that was tfTeonvey us to our destin
ation, I had half a mind to take a
cowardly flight rather than cncoun
ter the scorn and disappointment of
those blue eyes; hut 1 mustered
courage and followed her in, giving
the address I found in the portmon
aie which fortunately was the right
one to the driver.
“Almost home ?” said she, turning
her bright face towards me—we
were rattling up the street and my
time was short—how can you he so
quiet ?”
“Because, Miss Florence,” I an
swered, “the time has come in which
I must confess to you that I have no
more right in the house to which we
are now hastening than to the name
by which you address me, and that
my only claim to either, is that of
an imposter and deceiver.”
She turned her lovely face, won
dering and puzzled towards me.
Thank heaven I did not read fear
ami aversion in it.
“No right! no claim !** she repeat
ed, “what can you mean ?”
I confess the whole truth, as
nearly as I have set it down here, de
nying nothing and concealing noth
ing, not even the useless secret of
my love for her. When the brief
recital was ended, we both remained
silent, but she had hidden her face;
I could sec she trembled violently
with shame and repulsion. The
sight of her distress was agony to
me, and tried to say a few words of
apology.
j “You cannot blame or hate me,
j Miss Dundard, more than I blame or
| hate myself,” I said, for the distress
I have unwillingly caused you.—
Heaven knows that if I accepted the
charge of so much innocence and
beauty too lightly, I have heavily
| atoned since, in having occasioned
this suffering to you, and my punish
; ment is more than l can hear.”
The coach stopped as I spoke;
I she turned towards me eagerly, her
i face hearing traces of tears, and said
in a low voice. Do not misunder
! stand me if I was so silent.”
The coachman threw ojum the
j door, and stood waiting. 1 was ob
liged to descend and a.->ist her out.
I hardly dared to touch that little
hand, though it was for the last time,
but 1 watched her graceful figure
with sad distress. She was already
recognized, tor the door was thrown
open, and a pretty woman followed
by a fine looking, black whiskered
gentleman, whom I supposed to he
my namesake, rushed down the steps.
Their loud exclamations of astonish
ment and pleasure, a cordial wel
come, and some rapid questions to
which Florence returned very low
and quiet answers, and quickly ex
tracting herself from the confusion,
presented me as Mr. Leßoy, your
husband’* namesake, and the gentle
man who kindly took charge of me.”
I glanced at her face to see if she
was mocking me, hut it was pale
and grave. M rs. Leßoy opened her
eyes widely, hut was not too well
bred to express surprise, and after
introducing me to her husband in
the same terms invited me into the
house. Hardly conscious what I
did, or of any thing except that I was
still in the presence of Florence, from
which I could not endure to banish
myself, I followed them into a hand
some parlor, where sat an old lady,
whom my conscience told me was the
rheumatic aunt, I had so cruelly le
---lied. Florence herself presented me
to this lady, who was a fixture and
unable to rise from her chair, and be
fore I could stammer out an apology*
and retire, related in her own way
(how different from mine,) the mis
take by which she had been placed
in my care and the history of our
journey, in which it appeared our
host Mr. Leßoy, had been a fellow
passenger. When she hail ended,
they all crowded aliout me warmly
expressing their thanks for my “kind
lies- and consideration,” to my ut
ter bewilderment and surprise, and
cordially inviting me to remain with
them,and make the acquaintance of |
my namesake and family.
I detached myself from all this un- ■
expected kindness as soon as I could,
for I fancied 1 read adversion in the 1
flushing and paling face, and droop- ;
ing eyes of Florence, and with one |
last look at her, left the room. A
moment after, and I felt the touch
of a light hand on my arm, and turn- t
ing saw with mute surprise, that
she had followed me into the vesti- j
bule.
Mr. Leßoy, she said hurriedly, “I J
cannot let you go away misundcr- 1
standingnie as 1 see you do. If I
was silent while you so humbly ap
ologized for the noble, generous and
honorable conduct, 1 was not anger
ed, believe me, hutl>ecause 1 was too
much astonished, afterwards too
much moved and grateful to speak.
X owe you more than I can say, and
should l>e miserable, indeed, if a false
shame, which you see has not pre
vented my telling you this, should
prevent you from continuing an ac
quaintance so strangely begun. Trust
me, sir, I speak the truth.”
I don't know what answer I made
for the revulsion of feeling was al
most too great for words and the
rapture of knowing as I looked down
into that lovely face, that it was Dot
for the last time, quite took away
the little sense I had remaining.
If you want to know how I felt,
ask a man who is going to be hung,
how he would feel to be reprieved.
Well, how time dies. It certainly
does not seem five years since all
tit is happened, yet cousin Jerny (my
cousin Jenny now) so bitterly re
proaches us in our last letter, for
not visiting her in all that time, we
have again undertaken the journey,
hut under different auspices since she
is Florence Dundard no more, Aid
sleeps upon my arm in tho cars no
more blushingly, hut with the con
fidence of a wife of nearly five years
standing, and I registered our names
in the hotel hook, as Mr. and Mrs.
Leßoy, and bless 1113* lucky stars as
I read it over. Even while I write,
Florence, lovelier than ever, as I
think, makes a grand pretence of
arranging our baggage at the hotel
where we stop, (and which has re
minded me by past transactions, to
write down this story) or comes
leaning over me to call me “ dear
Chester,” instead of “dear cousin
Frank,” as five years before, and to
scold me for being so stupid as to sit
and write instead of talking with
her. Was ever man so happy* in a
slight mistake.
[From the Montgomery Advertiser.]
Protection Kesoliition* pasted
tin- Alabama Senate.
The joint resolutions on the sub
ject of Federal relations introduced
by Mr. Jemison, passed the State
Senate on yesterday, with only* one
dissenting voice. Strange to say,
that dissenting voice is Mr. Felder’s,
from the thorough-going Stateßights
county of Montgomery*. In justice
to the gentleman, however, we will
state that he left himself margin to
put himself right on the record, by*
asking time to read and considor the
resolutions. No one at all acquaint
ed with the politics of Alabama can
doubt for a moment that the resolu
tions truly* reflect the sentiments of
an “irrepressible” majority of the
people of this great and gallant State
These joint resolutions will now
doubtless pass the House with the
same unanimity that they* have pass
ed the Senate, and will serve as a
guide to the Democratic State Con
vention, which is to assemble in this
city to day*;
Be it enated by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the State
of Alabama, in General Assembly con .
vened, That in the opinion of this
General Assembly, the Territories
belonging to the United States, are
the common property* of the people
ofall the States, and that under the
Constitution of the United States,
the people of the slaveholding States,
have the right to hold and enjoy*
their property*, in slaves, in said ter
ritories, so long as the said territo
ries continue such—and that no law
enacted by territories can deprive
them of that right or impair the
same.
See. 2. Re it further enacted, That
with the right to hold slaves in the
common territories so conferred by
the Constitution, is also conferred
the means necessary to enjoy* that
right, without which, it would be nu
gatory and worthless, and practical
ly cease to exist; hence there is a
corellative solemn duty* imposed on
the Federal Government, to provide
alf the means necessary* for the pro
tection and enjoyment of that right.
Sec. 3. —Be it further enacted, That
the people of the Southern States
should, as one man, denounce any
Administration, and any* party* which
denies to them this vital right to
protection to their property in the
territories, and that no man, what
ever his antecedents may he, should
ho supported for President of the U ni
ted States who would leave this fun
damental right of property and of its
protection dependent on territorial
legislation.
Sec. 4. —Be it further enacted, That
the people of the Southern States
should Mot, either through political
Conventions, or otherwise, commit
themselves to the support of any*
man for President, who does not in
unequivocal terms, concede to tho
south the rights claimed in the forego
ing resolutions; and that it w*ould be
a dangerous, if not suicidal policy
for them to submit those vital rights
to the arbitrament of a Convention,
a majority* of whose members are
from tho non-slaveholding States,
without first demanding u distinct
admission of those constitutional
rights as a condition precedent to be
ing bound by the action of any* such
Convention.
The following is the vote in tse
Senate on their pannage.
Ave*—Mr. President, Austin, Brew
er, Bullock, Calhoun, Chilton, Cock,
Fleming, Hill, Horne, Jones, of Fay
ette, Jones, ot Green Jemison. Mitch
ell, McSpaden, Mclntyre, Stanton,
Stone, Toulinm, Walker and Wood
ward. —22
Noe*—Felder.—l.
Cougrew I'liorgniiixtMl Who
Suffers f
There is no prospect at this time
of an organization of the lower
branch of Congress. The Itcpuhii
cans, though in the majority, have
not enough votes to elect their Speak
er, unless the plurality rule is adopt
ed. No Southern man would lend
his vote to the accomplishment ofthis
purpose. The responsibility is too
great and the consequences too seri
ous for so much liberality. As it is,
there is no chance for the Itepuhlicans
to succeed, and is likely the 4th of
March will find Congress unorgani
zed. The result is not deplored by
the South. She has little to expect
and still less to gain by an organiza
tion. Though paying a heavy trib
ute in the way of taxes, she does not
suffer from the unorganized condition
of the government. This speaks
volumes in her praise. It lifts the
curtain, which has hitherto shut out
from view the independence of the
South, so far as her relation to the
General Government is concerned. —
While the North is begging at the
door of Congress for substance, while
she pleads bankruptcy from the de
lay in organizing the House, while
her name is suffering from a breach
of contracts on account of the Na
tional Treasury being closed, whilo,
in a word, her whole business opera
tions and financial prosperity are
struck a severe blow by the tardiness
of Congress to grant her permits to
draw money from the Treasury*, the
South, proud, noble and independent,
is arrogant, defiant and exacting. It
is a glorieus commentary upon her
capacity to take care of herself.
It rebukes in the severest language
the heartless demagogue, who coun
sels submission and peace at the sa
crifice of the South ; who pursue the
shadow atid not the substance of
Union, w ho worship it as it once was
and not as it exists. The South can
now realize at each successive devel
oment of her true relation to the gov
ernment, that she is independent of
it, is obvious to the most casual ob
server. That she may by* a course
consistent with true dignity and hon
or, always occupy* her proud posi
tion, is our earnest hope, and that
she may never lend her neck to the
yoke of compromises, in which her
honor is seldom saved, but persistent
ly insist upon the recognition of her
claims upon the basis of true equali
ty is the desire and pride of our life.
While Cotton is Kino, we can de
fy* the world! — Col. Times.
GEORGIA CITIZEN.
F. L. W. ANDREWS, Editor.
MACON, GA., JANUARY 20, ’6O
LECTURES ON SPIRITUALISM.
Miss E mma Hardinge will return from a
short visit to Columbus, on Saturday, and
will give two more Lectures at Concert Hall,
in this city, on uxt Sunday, the 22d at 3
o’clock P. M. and at P. M. Subject for
the afternoon,
Italic, Witchcraft and Sorcery.
In the evening, the subject will be select
ed by a committee. Seats Free!
Macon Cotton Market.
There is no change in our market since
our last quotations.
Theatrical.
We are requested to announce that Wm. M. Flem
ing, Esq., Manager of the Savarinah and Macon
Theatres, will open, for a two week's seasou, in this
city on the 30th inst.. with a good company, ami Miss
Uongcnheim as the Star feature of the Dramatical
representations. Some very tine Comedy Perfor
inanees will be presented to the audiences who may
honor Mr. F. with their presence, on the coining oc
casion.
Judicial Election. —Hon. A. If. Ilansell has
been elected Judge of the Southern Circuit. No oppo
sition. Mr. Sessions is elected Judge of the Bruns
wick Circuit by a majority of 374 over Coohrnno.
The following gentlemen have been elected Solic
itor Generals in their respective circuits:
C. C. Wilson, Esq., in the Eastern Circuit,
J. PtAUobr, Esq., in the Chattahooche Circuit.
Jas. W r . A. Johnson, Esq., in the Cherokee Circuit.
Fine Stuck.
Planters and others in want of fine mules
can now be accommodated, by calling at
the livery stable aud stock yard of Greer &
Mmterson, on third street. Oa Wednesday,
them were about 103 head of Kentucky
Mules m the yard, and there was Dot an
inferior mule in the lot. All are of good
size and some of them extra.
Corn Real.
This necessary article is very scarce, in
this market, and sells at $1,50 per bushel
Cannot some enterprizing man send us a
few car loads from Egypt or elsewhere ?
What the poor are to do, when the neces
saries of life are so exhorbitantly high, we
are unable to divine.
Christian *piritualist.
The 7th No. of this paper is out. Sub
scribers will please send to the office for their
copies.
AVe had intended, and so promised, to give
a syllepsis of th ; Lectures recently delivered
by Mi-s Hardinge in this city, in this No. of
the “Spiritualist,” and we now have to
muke our humble apology for our utter
failure to accomplish the object we had in
view. To report such lectures, faithfully,
would require an immortal stenographer,
with a pen of lightning and the inspiration
ofan angel! A poor mortal wrapped in ad
miration at the matchless power of the speak
er, and lifted into the third heaven by the
witchery of her eloquence, has enough to
do to drink in the inspiration without at
tempting to sketch the “thoughts that
breathe and the words Miut burn,” like a
“live coal upon tho altar” of her lips. It
cannot be done. Therefore our liastv prom
ise is unfulfilled.
Dally Locomotive.
We have received one No. of anew
Daily Taper of this title just commenced at
Atlanta, by John H. Seals, Esq., of the
Crusader , at $5 per annum. It is a very
handsome sheet and will doubtless be a
success. It makes the third Daily in Atlan
ta, besides several weeklies and one tri
weekly—the American. We thiuk the fact
is a reproach to our own people of Macon,
that they ought to take some pains to wipe
out.
Supreme Coiirt Decision.
On Monday last, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, in session at Savannah, gave ade
rision in the case of Swun & Cos., of Augusta,
Plaintiffs in Error, vs. the State of Georgia,
in favor of Plaintiffs. These gentleman were
indicted for drawing illegal Lotteries, a year
i or two since, and considerable noise was
raised on the account thereof, stimulated as
it was by letters of Gov. Brown, Judge
Cone and other distinguished gentlemen,
who thought the offence charged was an in
dictable one under the act of 18J18. Col. O.
C. Loehrane, one of the counsel for the ac
cused, wrote and published a letter, at the
time, taking ground against the veterans of
the bar, and contending that the act charged
j was not indictable. The Superior Court of
; Richmond, however, decided against Swan
& Cos., and the case was taken, by appeal,
jto the Supreme Court. Their decision
j shows that our tulcntcd townsman, Col Loch
| rane, was right in the position taken by him
, and he has reason to la; proud of the fact
i that his legal construction of the case has
; been sustained by the highest tribunal of
j the Commonwealth. The Hon. A. 11. Steph
| ens argued the case, us associate counsel, and
1 made un üble speech, hut Col. L. was the
first to lake the position sustained by the
Court. His closing effort is spoken of as a
I splendid display of legal and oratorical pow
er, and places him iu the very front rank of
his profession !
Prof. Hewlett.
This celebrated Temperance Lecturer is
announced to Lecture in Columbus this
week. The “Sun” of (hat £ity publishes
the following extract from a letter just re
ceived from a lady of Tennessee, by the
Editors:—
Winchester, Tk.v.v., Jan. 9, ’CO.
Eds. Sun — Dear Sirs : There is a man
who is styled Trot. Hewlett, a resident of
Watertown, Wis., and is advertised as a
distinguished temperance; lecturer. This gen
tleman is now making a tour of lecture
travel through the South. Asa Southern
lady, I feel it my duty to state that this
Hewlett has, for years, not only hobnobed
with the Abolitionists of the North, but I
have myself listened to his abolition senti
ments, in his lectures within a few months
past. I hope I am right in saying what I
know, and you can make whatever use of it
you please. * * *
Let the South Beware !
Perhaps one of the greatest evils incident
to, and resulting from, the raid of John
Brown at Harper’s Ferry, is the effort now
making to transfer business operations from
the North to the South. While all was calm
and quiet throughout the South, on the sub
ject of slavery, the generous confidence of
our peoplo was manifested by a liberal ex
penditure of means in the purchase of North
ern fabrics and “Yankee notions,” in gener
al, besides an immense yearly t outlny on the
part of Southerners, in travelling North and
summering it at Saratoga, Newport, &c-
But, now that commercial intercourse has
received a check, and many of the manufac
tories are compelled to turn off laborers and
reduce the quantity of fabrics designed for
Southern trade, we notice a disposition, on
the part ot those manufacturers and dealers,
to transfer their whole business to some
Southern locality, in order still to retain that
custom, which is their life-blood.
Os these transfers, we have one or two, in
our own goodly city. Abolitionist concerns
of the North have been removed hither, in
one instance, in the totality of “lock, stock
aud barrel,” and, in others, by extensive
branches, the principals of which remain
snugly at home, while the bus iness is done
by Agents, of whose antecedents we know
nothing, but which a reasonable presump.
tion would pronounce unsafe for the South.
We have no objection to urge against the
removal hither of business and capital from
the North or Europe, provided it is a bona
Jide and legitimate matter. But when the
opportunity is thus embraced by our North
ern enemies to delude and deceive our peo
ple into the fallacy of supposingthey aresup
porting Southern men and Southern indus
try, merely because thes e enemies have loca
ted on Southern soil, (as it were by compul
sion) we think it right and proper to warn
the public against the possibility of being
humbugged by impostors.
For instance, suppose a company of men,
should start a newspaper, & for months print
edit and publish the same, in New York (
under the date of a Southern city, and for
Southern circulation. And suppose, furth
er, that all went swimmingly for a time, and
the great ‘Spread Eagle Republic’ was forced
by systematized putting and extra induce
ments, into a tolerably general diffusion,
when its founder, agent and principal trum
peter is discovered to bo an abolitionist and
has been compelled to leave. And suppose,
further, that the firm name of the company
changes about every new moon, and finally,
the paper, type, editor and all, are brought
from the North and fixed up in a Southern
city—whence the editor launches forth his
exelusivoclainis to publish the only true Na
tional and Southern paper in the country.—
Supposing all this, cannot the reader per
ceive that the encouragement and patronage
of such a concern might be a more fatal ca
lamity to the South, than ever the introduc
tion of the Trojan Horse was to the Greeks ?
Let the abolitionists come South, and take
control of that mighty engine, the press, can
they not, in this way, more readily poison
the fountains of the public safety, and un
dermine the very foundations of our civil
liberties ? Wo repeat, then, the caution !
Beware of Bogus concerns, of every stripe,
especially beware of Newspapers whose man
agers, agents, editors nnd publishers are not
even citizens of the State or the South, but
who impudently claim to be better Southern
ers and better friends to our institutions than
the Native-born !
Converted to Democracy.
The Democratic papers are jubilant over
an alledged Spiritual communication from
old Ossawatomie Brown, in which his abolD
tionism and Black Republicanism have both
been rcuounced and his conversion to De
mocracy acknowledged! Well, he had’nt
far to go to reach thut sphere. “Faeilis de
scensus A verm /”
Tlie Marsh Troupe.
This popular company is uow in Augusta
Ga., and will probably be here in the course
of a month. They will be welcomed by
many of our people, whose sympathies were
so painlully excited in their behalf, at their
previous visit to our city.
Touiocliielii Division S. of T.
The following are the Ulhcers ol Toinooh
ichi Division for the ensuing quarter:
J. W. ELLIS, W. r.
W. C. BEASLEY, W. A.
a. McQueen, r. s.
J. 0. GO<)DALE, A. R. S.
B. M. POLIiILL, F. S.
E. C. GRANISS, T.
C. A. WALLACE, C.
W. 11. PAINE, A. C.
G. M. FORSYTH, I. S.
J. J. FORSYTH, O. S.
Past, Worthy, Patriarch:
J. C. C. BURNETT.
A. McQUEEN, K. S.
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Plar ter*’ Convention Correspondence.
Wa to-day give a second portion ot the
Foreign Correspondence of the Cotton Plan
ters’ Convention of Ga., with an association
of cc mmercial men at Brussels, Europe, and
will give another letter in our next. Paper*
friendly to the cause of Direct Trade and
the cotton planting interests of the South,
will do well to lay this correspondence be
fore their readeis, and call public attention
to the important objects proposed to be ac
complished by means of the two associa
tion.
CoiigrcMional.
Tashinotox, Jan. 17.—1 u the Senate to
day Mr. Bowman was elected printer.
1t the House the business was unimpor
tant.
Indian Troubles on the Plains.
Sr. Lons. Jan. 17.—The Santa Fe mail,
of t )e 12th of December, has been received.
A 1; >rge body of the Kiowas and Camanche
Ind nns threaten to destroy Bent's Fort.—
The mail party were compelled to travel a
circuitous route to evade danger.
Slavery in Nebraska.
Ciiicaoo, Jan. 17.—The Governor Mr. W.
A. . iichardsou, lias vetoed the bill abolish
j mg slavery in Nebraska.
Il< publican Triumph in lowa.
C UK AGo, Jan. 17.—James Marian Black
Ref üblicati, has been re-elected U. States
Sen ttor from lowa, by a majority of twenty
over his Democratic competitor, Mr. Dodge.
Inauguration of Ciovornor.
T bexto*, Jan. 17.—Olden was inugurat
e<J (covernor of this State to-day. Ilis ad
dms was strongly conservative, and in fa
vor of the fugitive slave law. He also op
post and the agiution of the slavery question,
and denounces the agitators.
Arrival of the Overland Mall*
St. Louis, Jan. 17.-The overland mail, with
dates from San Francisco to the 26th ult,
arrived here to-day.
At San Francisco, business was unchang
ed.
The Governor of Washington Xe™ l0 *
ry, ii i his message, expresses surprise at the
non- >ayment of the war debt by Congress;
and i le also censures Gen. Scott for concess
ions regarding San Juan.
Congressional.
W ashisgton, Jan. 18. —In the Senate to
day, Hr. Brown, of Mississippi, offered a res
olution giving protecton to slave property in
the T erritories.
Mr.. Clay, of Alabama, introduced a bill,
assen ting to the collection of tonnage duties
on vessels entering the harbor of Mobile.
Th< > question was discussed, whether the
Senate has the power to pass bills before the
House is organized.
In the House, M*. Clofton, of Alabama,
delivered a speech against the Black Repub
licans.
Nothing of importance was done, and no
ballot was taken for Speaker.
South Carolina Embassy to Virginia.
Richmond, Va., Jan. 18, —Col. C. G. Mem
minger, the Commissioner from South Car
olina to Virginia, will address the Legisla
ture of Virginia to-morrow.
Bhip Hews-
Savannah, Jan. 18—The steamships Flor
ida from New York, and the State of Geor
gia from Philadelphia, and also the bark
Globe from Providence, arrived here to-day.
Xarkets.
Savannah, Jan. 18.—Sales of cotton 2,700
bales, at unchanged rates. For the lower
grades, there is an improved demand at ir
regular prices.
Charleston, Jan 18—Sales of cotton to
day 2,500 bales at full and firm prices, for
the better grades. The lower qualities are
depressed.
Mobile, Jan. 18.—The sales of cotton on
yesterday were 10,000 bales. Middling 10$
cents. The sales for three days were 23,000
and the Receipts 19,575 bales.
The sales to-day were 6,000 bales at firm
and steady prices.
. New Orleans Jan. 18. —The sales of cot
ton today, were 14,000 bales, at stiffer prices
without change in quotations.
New York, Jan. 18.—Sales of cotton to
day, 2,700 bales, at an advance of Ic ; Mid
dling Uplands 111 @ll 3-Bc. Flour ad
vanced 5 cents per barrel, with sales of 14,-
500 barrels, Southern $5.60 @ 5.80. Wheat
advanced 1 a 2c. per bushel, with sales of
14,000 bushels. Corn quiet with sales of
14,000 bushels at 83 aB4-Jc. Spirits of Tur
pentine dull at 44c. Rosin dull. Rice firm
but quiet.
Foreign Correspondence.
Through Benj. H. Rutherford,
Chairman of the Southern
Planter’* Convention, Stale of
Georgia.
Carr Vandermaerer, President of the
International Free Trade Associa
tion established by the Congress held
at Brussels, ( Belgium,) in September,
1856, to the Cotton Planter's Meeting
in Convention at Macon, Georgia :
Gentlemen :—One of your talent
ed and persevering countrymen hav
ing, through great exertion, created
amongst us a movement in favor of a
direct trade between the continent
of Europe and the Southern States of
America, a provisional committee
was formed at Brussels to inquire
into this important subject. As Pre
sident to that committee I have ad
dressed a circular, dated 20th of Jan
uary, 1859, to several bodies of the
South. I herewith enclose a copy
of that document.
Since that time a definitive com.
mittee has been formed. It is com
posed of forty or titty of the most in
fluential men amongst our merchants
and manufacturers. Their names I
also enclose.
The Belgian Government is official
ly represented in this committee by
a special delegate. After a laborious
and earnest examination of all the
bearings of the subject, which was
gone through with thr aid of the
Government, the coinmitttee come to
the following resolutions:
Ist. That there was no doubt left
in the minds of the committee as
to the ultimate importance which it
would he to the cotton growers on
your side, and the manufacturers of
the continent of Europe, on the oth
er sido, to establish a direct and per
manent exchange of products.
2. That the present progressing
state of commercial relations be
tween the continent and the United
States, shews a sufficient data to jus
tify the adoption of more energetic
measures than that of a mere essay
trip as was first contemplated.
3. That a Commercial Company,
with a capital fund of two million
dollars (ten million Francs,) should
he forthwith created, in order to car
ry out, in a practical manner, and
upon solid and permanent basis, the
great object in view.
In execution of these resolutions
the Brussels committee is now form
ing a Commercial Company under
the denomination of the “Belgian
American Company for the Southern
and continental Direct Trade.”
This Company, based upon the
principles of limited liability, (societe
anonyme) is now in course of being
legally decreed.
I enclose some extracts of the
stntutcs which will give you an idea
of the stipulations which form the
basis of this new Institution, of which
I honor myself of being one of the
promotive. It is proposed that the
Belgian Amerian Company should
commence its operations by form
ing four branch establishments in the
most eligiblo towns in the South.—
Each of these establishments to offer
a permanent assortment of paterns
and samples of European products,
and a series of exhibitions being or
ganized in different localities. Those
exhibitions or fairs should he follow,
ed by a trade sale of all the goods
composing it.
Upon the other hand the Planter’s
Association should ship their produce
through the agents of the Belgian
American Company.
An extensive depot ofcotton would
he held at Antwerp, a port situated
in the most central position of any,
aud is in communication, by railway,
with all the manufacturing districts
of central Europe. Periodical sales
of cotton would take place at Cologne,
the principal commercial place upon
the Rhine. By sail, at a few hours
distance from Antwerp, those points
with Switzerland and the north of
France, would form an immense field
for the consumption of cotton.
In short all the arrangements
should be combined so as to bring the
American produce direct, and at the
cheapest rate possible, to the door of
the consumers in all the immense
industrial districts of central Europe.
And again, as I said in my circular,
to introduce a knowledge of the
wants, tastes and habits of the South
ern people to our manufacturers, and
on the othor hand to exhibit before
the Southern people, at their doors
and homes, the industry, art, tastes,
mechanical skill and manufacturing
resources of the continent of Europe 1
These are great objects to be ob
tained, and although it may appear
to us to be of vital interest to human
ity to bring together, with a view to
satisfy each others wants, people so
far distant from each other, yet we
already find that very active opposi
tion shall he met with upon our road.
Also much hostility* from those who
have hitherto thought it their in
terest to keep us apart, therefore
must we unite our forces, in order to
he strong, and for that reason we call
upon you to assist us in this great
task.
As you will observe, by the ex
tracts of the statutes, the first emis
sion of shares of the Company is to
be of one million francs (two hundred
thousand dollars) in shares of one
hundred francs each (twenty dollars.)
The Brussels committee could, no
doubt, easily obtain immediate sub
scribers for such a beginning, hut the
promoters are of opinion that to give
a moral force to the work, the plant
ers should bo admitted to take one
half or one hundred thousand dollars
of this stock. This would help to
show earnestness on your part, and
a bona-fide intention to join hand in
hand with us in this great undertak
ing. If you consider the subject
worthy of your serious attention,
you will no doubt collect, at once,
the necessary subscribers to some
portion of our stock.
These subscribers would not, of
course, he called upon t:> pay any
money to the Company until things
are put upon such a footing as would
give satisfaction to all parties. The
sums subscribed might be deposited
at a Bank or applied by the Ameri
can Branches of the Company to the
purchase of cotton, or in fact in any
manner that may be suggested by
the subscribers themselves.
I have no doubt, gentlemen, hut
that the success of a direct trade be-
tween the South and central Europe
would have the effect to stimulate
your zeal, to obtain a reduction of
your economical protective duties
upon at least some of our articles,
and we might, perhaps, hope to see
your tariff lose some of its unwise
characters of protection. AY hen peo
ple will admit, as all who reflect up
on the subject must do, that unjust
privileges, and tibove till others, pro
tection to special manufacturers?
must be detrimental to those manu
facturers themselves, as well as to
the country at large, protection will
soon give way, and your tariff may
continue to exist for fiscal purposes
only. But then it will soon bC found
out that low duties alone give high re
venue. Let us hope for these improve
ments. Let each of us, on both sides
of the Atlantic, exercise all our abil
ities to further the progress of a di
rect trade, and of a free trade between
us, and we shall thus encourage the
growth in our minds of those feelings
of brotherly attachment which never
fail to bring with them peace and
plenty.
1 remain faithfully yours,
Cork Yakdermaerf.r.
Messenger and Telegraph, and
other papers friendly, please copy.
[FOR THE GEORGIA CITIZEN. ]
“Wolves iii Sheep’s Clothing.”
Mr. Editor :—I observe iu your “answer
to correspondents” in the last issue of your
journal, a query propounded by “Quiz,” in
relation to tha bogus vankee lottery newspa
per firm of Beruey, Russell & Co—Hodges,
Davis & Cos. —J. Frank Lakin & Cos. and
Manning & Cos.
This communication is actuated by no spirit
of animosity but exclusively for the purpose
of unmasking the hypocrisy of a conglomer
ated mass of Northern men. who are attempt-
I ‘mr, bv false pretences, u> deceive Soutliern
! ers, and “put money in their (own) purses.”
j Presuming thus much, 1 beg the use of your
columns. “The American Republic,” styl
ing itself a “Southern Literary Journal,” is
or has been published in the city of N. York
and forwarded to this city for delivery—
loudest in its d> nunciations of abolitionism—
strongest in its appeals for Southern patron
age, and weeping briny tears at the very
suggestion of disunion, is edited, conducted
and controlled by Northern men, upon whose
head a Southern summer’s sun has never yet
shed iis genial rays ; and yet we are inform
ed by a gentleman of undoubted veracity,
the agent for this sensation flash paper, re
presents the entire firm as Southerners to the
manor born. This representation we brand
as an infamous falsehood. Russeli A Go.- !
like Hodges, Davis A Cos. —J. Frank Lakin
& Cos and Manning A Cos., may, for aught
we know to the contrary, be myths, but we
do know Sergeant Beruey, ami we also know
that he was medically advised to seek some
less tor-rid clime than this, which counsel ■
be availed himself of by wending his way
j hack to abolitiondom, rather than submit to
| the disagreeable prescription of hem and
[ pine tree. So much for the editor of the
j “American [Black] Republic.”
A word now as to the Lotteries, for which
I purposes the above mentioned paper was es
tablished, with Yankee ingenuity, as an 1
j economical advertising medium. “Hodges.
I Davis A Co’s, con-diduled lotteries, author- 1
ized by special acts of the legislatures of
| North and South Carolina, Florida and Ken- i
tucky, for the benefit of Academies and <>th
er purposes ! ! Gentlemen, be more explicit.
! What are we to understand by “Academies
and otlier*purposes !” We pause for a reply.
Now, on the other hand, we would like to
’ be enlightened ns to what time a lottery ever
a obtained charter in South Carolina? I
must certainly have been prior to the arrival
| on our shores of one Christopher Coiufhbus,
1 for certain it is that the Palmetto State nev
! er did grant a lottery charter, since the ad- j
vent of the illustrious personage already al
luded to. Every State in the l nion, legal
izing lotteries, have provided Commission
ers to supervise tha drawings of said lotter
ies. In this respect the founders of this as-
j tounding wheel of (mis) fortune, have com
plied with the law, by bringing their own
Commissioners (E. AN . Chamberlain and E.
C. Perkins,) with them from Yankeedom—
so of course, every subscriber to the “Repub- 1
lie” may flatter himself that the drawings
are O. K. The prizes in H., D. A Co’s, lot
tery, vary in amounts, from sixteen to one
hundred thousand dollars. NY'e are not a
betting man, but will wager our tile (and en
ter into a contract to go bare-headed during
the remainder of our natural life) that the
above mentioned firms cannot produce, with
in thirty days from date, one thousand dol
lars in cash, apart from what they have ob- 1
fined bremiittg . f ,„ sS-TZ?*’
Our challenge remain o pe n r pe ”
wo putirallj await J our :ic.e I ,| ai ,”" 1 ‘"**
,
General New s ~
“T- Louis, Jan. 17.— The i
with datei to the 2Gih fit has m >l,
Business in San ’
The nv *ge of the Governor
ingtun le ntory expresses surL*
non-payment of the war debt b n at th e
and censures Gen. Sc c , u f J
made at S*n Juan. °-cestions h
Trenton, Jan. 17.-Olden ~ •
ed Governor to-day. E l3 add,4
conservative, and in favor of the
slave law. He is opposed to thl U? "' Ve
of slavery, and denounces the
‘talon
LITLi FiOl ElKopk
arrival
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NEW YOR K
Halifax, N. 8., JanVuT—tL T
New York, from Bremen, nut in t toa,a shin
afternoon short of eoal. She l, n „ ~l !l;s
pool dates to the 29th ult, n S®
Commercial.
Liverpool Cdton Market —At„„,
observed as* holiday. The .afeSV
day and Wednesday were 8 0()ti \ Tue> ’
which speculators and exporter . , ’ of
bales. Quotations were easier hm
ed. The maiket was dull. ‘ Un<? hang.
Lontlon money Market.— P
quoted at 951 a 95j. n *°* s Were
Liverpool General Market's
steady; wheat advancing;
London General Markets <s u ,''.° Dß dull.
,firin at Cd. advance. The generfi c 01 ” 1
produced quietness in trade gener*]|° - s
General News. **’
The steamships Citv of Manet, .
Euro pa had arrived out. “ester and
Funds on the Paris Bourse yi ..
The Chinese Government had •
the mediation of the United St- 1 - f ’ ,r
of existing and apprehended troifi.il view
J he ship Flora Temple, with eight h
dred Coolies lor Havana, ha* be*. h " n ’
in the China seas. wrecktd
A Spanish Princes* lias been born
1 he 1 ope of Lome refuses to her..!,
cd in the European Congress J T
rumored authorsuip of a recent! v tkc
pamphlet is formally denied. ‘ f ' UtlsLe(i
Later from Havana.
Charleston, Jan. 13.—The ste-im 1• .
abel, Capt, William Rollins, with MV ”
dams to the 10th, arrived here to-day *
Ihe new crop of sugar was arriving f r ,
The anvais of new Molasses were S’’
b ter ling Exhange 15 a 15} premium. 3 £
change on New \ ork, sixty days 1} a 4 ~r „
miimi. Freights were dull. “ * *”
The New York mail steamer had notar
nved at Havana, when the Label sailed
Ihe lsaoel brings the New York mail
and government dispatches. ’
Ihe ship A. M. Lawrence from Boston
bound to New Orleans, went ashore on t S
nist„ but was got off and arrived at K ey
S ‘ pt p amCT Magnolia arrived at
Key \\ est on the Bth, from New Orleans
1 110 brig 1. W. Rowland from New Or
leans bound to Marseilles, put inn, c
| West on the 7th leaking. P ‘ U °
v The .F n * tcd Stat s ? L ,in,er Corwin, from
New 1 ork, arrived iitkey \\ ~s t on t>e
Latest from Europe. ~~
I arrival of the .steamship,
EUR OPA.
Halifax, N. S. Jan. IG.—The steamship
Europa lias arrived at this port with L;ur
pool advices to 31st December.
Commercial Mew*.
_ Liverpool Cotton Market —The Brokers’
circular reports the sales for five days at
46.000 bales, (this was Christmas week) of
which speculators took 5,000 aud exporters
1 4 ’ oou baK*- Owing to the holidays the
maiket was somewhat irregular. Prices
were ea-ier but quotations unchanged, and
the market closed with firmness. On Fri
day the sa'es were 8,000 bales. Holders
offered freely, but evinced no disposition to
press sales. The authorised quotations
were :
Fair Orleans, 7f | Middling Orleans .G}
Fair Mobiles, | “ Mobiles,’. J}
t air L pl&nd*,.. . jNo c notations received
The stock of cotton on hand was 442,000
bai< s. (•! which 301.400 wer— American.
Liverpool General JArA-cf.-Bread3tl.ffs
generally were dull. Fl air was inactive.—
I V\ heat firm, and Corn dull. Provisions
were also quiet.
State of Trade.— The news from (Le man
ufacturing districts was favorable.
London Money Market— Consols closed
at a 951-
General News,
It was rumored that the withdrawal of
the 1 ope s Nuncio from Paris, has been
official y denied.
Lord M-mauley, the historian, died recent
ly, after a fortnight’s illness, of a disease of
the heart
1 he Paris Bourse fill the previous week
one per centum, but partially recovered the
de<-l r>“, and dosed at 09:29.
The date of tlm meeting of the European
Congress is still doubtful. °
! at was vaguely reported that Austria,
Spain and Naples will not send Plempoten-i
tiarit-s, unless the Pope is represented.
Russia rejects the programme advertised
in the pamphlet “on the Romish question.’
It is rumored that then; are diilereißts
of opinions on important questions in the
French Cabinet.
At Liverpool, sugarjwas reported buoyant,
at an advance of Gd. to Is. CoffVe was
buoyant. Rce was stead}-. Rosin firm at
3s. 31. to 4s. 4J. Spirits of turpentine was
steady at 345.
At London the money mr.iket w? 1 fliehtly
more stringent, and the Bullion inth*- Bank
; ol England bail decreased nearly £200.000.
j By ‘Airgraph to Queev.doien— Liverpool
Dee. 31, P. J f. —Sales of cotton today
| (Saturday) 8,000 bales, and the market
| c!o-ed firm.
The steamship Persia bar arrived.
Purls. Dee. 31, — P. M. — Rentes done after
I hours at G9:I0.
Turin. Dec. 31— P. M. —The Sardinian
J government has been informed of a further
: postponement of the time fur the European
i Congress t< assemble.
Ship Ntus. —The Liverpool ship Bnttania
from Savannah, is ashore near laimoutb.
The crew a?e saved.
Additional General Xeics. —A system for
the free emigration of Cookes has been or
ganised between tire Britisl agent and tie
Chinese authorities at Canton.
“The National Union Central Com
mittee,” of which Mr. Crittenden is Chair*
man, has issued a Circular recommending
the formation of Union State organizations,
and of Union Clubs in wards of cities and
towns and election districts throughout the
country. The alleged purpos** is to loon a
National Union party that snail staud be
tween the two extremes.
Congressional-
Washington, Jan. 16 —ln the Senate to
day. Mr. Bigler introduced a bill to prevent
, the tuvasion of one State by the citizens of
another. The bill was referred to the
Harper’s Ferry committee.
Mr. Ciirigman made an able defence of
the rights of the South.
In the House, Mr. Underwood made a
: lengthly speech in support of southern righ’S
! in the course of w hich he condemned the
Americans and anti-Lecomptonites for not
j co-orerating with the Democratic party,
and electing a Speaker of the House.
Jlarriod,
j On the evening of Jan. 18th. at the residence of
! the hride'B father by Rev. M. VVvnn. Mr. Jt'y*
Bradford ami Miss Mauy A. McAusttx
| daughter of Capt. W.J. McAlister, all of Goluiuw**
j Ga.
i May their share of happiness through life be
I bountiful as the slices the wedding cake sent us •-
th^qmnteto^ _ e==a
DIED,’
Irf this city, on Wednesday morning, Mr.
Joiix Castlen, aged 87 years.
On Wednesday evening, of Pneumonia,
Mr. James B. Avers, one of our meat en
terpriz:ug aud valuable citizen:, aged about
fifty.