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FOREIGN NEWS.
Three days later from Europe-
On our first page “'ill be found n synop
sis of the state of affairs in Europe, ns con
nected with the war between Russia and
Turkey, brought by the packet steamer
Africa’/with Liverpool advices to the 28th
nit. Since then the America has arrived,
with three days later intelligence, from
which we select’the. following items:
Liverpool Cotton Market, —Since the
departure of the Africa on the 28th, the
Liverpool cotton market was slightly
easier. The sales of cotton for the two
days, ending on the 31st, were 11,003
bales. Breadstuff's were quiet, and prices
Lad undergone no change since the depar
ture of the Africa.
Political I .vtkllig f.kck. —Despatches
from Paris state that a great battle has
lieen fought between the Russians and
‘Turks at Kalafat., on the 2Gth nit., in
which the Turks were completely victori
ous.
The Turks have also retaken two islands
in the lower Danube. The Turkish Con
voy reached Batoum safely.
Hostilities in Asia are to be immedi
ately resumed.
The London Times anticij ated nothing
favorable from the Orloff mission.
It is behoved that the Russian ministers,
failing to obtain a declaration of neutrali
ty, were withdrawn from London and
Paris.
The Times thinks that the four powers
cannot want for fresh propositions from
St. Petersburg.
Still Latf.r.—'l he packet steamer Can
ada has arrived at Halifax from Liver
pool, having dates to the 4th inst., three
days later than by the America.
‘The following items we draw from the
despatch of the Savannah Evening Journal
of the 18th inst:
‘The cotton Market at Liverpool remain
es uncharged.
Havre cotton murk it quiet.
Baltimore Flour was worth about $9
30. Wheat had declined two shillings.
The political news was very warlike.—
The British Queen, in her speed* in Par
iinient, on the 31st tilt., makes but slight
mention of Russian and Turkish affairs,
! ut congratulates the country on its al
liance with Franco. She recommends an
increase of the army and navy.
The departure of the Russian Minister?,
from London and Paris was hourly ex
pected.
It is rep rted that the French and En
glish Ministers had been recalled from St.
Petersburg.
France sends 80,030, England 10,000
men to Turkey.
It is rumored that Austria and Prussia
will cooperate with France and England
Count Buot, of Vienna, has drawn out
a declaration of neutrality, with a strong
leaning towards the views of the western
powers, giving the same to Count Orloff as
a final answer.
Count OrloiTs mission has, therefore,
failed.
The Czar’s proposals were to form a
defensive league with all the German
powers— and if the western powers attack
ed any one thereof, Russia would make
common cause with them, and would not
concede any peace without consulting
their interest.
The German powers through Austria
definitely refuse, and Russia is therefore
isolated.
The western powers are immediately to
demand the evacuation of the Principali
ties, and will comp* l it forthwith.
The Russian Min'iter in London has
paid his final formal visit to the foreign
departments.
It was reported, at the latest moment,
that Austria and Prussia had declared for
the western powers.
It is now clearly ascertained that a
great battle was fought at Kalafat on the
25th, in which the Turks are reported to
have been victorious, although the Rus
sians had 50,000 men engaged.
Gortschakoff has been dismissed and
orded to return to his estates,and General
Shilder has been appointed in bis place.
Fresh insurrections had occurred among
the Walbchian peasantry.
Austria has renewed her demand for
the extradition of foreigners in the Turk
ish service.
The Persians are friendly again with
Turkey.
The financial statement of the French
Ministry is favorable.
The latest adv.ces state that Count
Orloffhas arrived at Berlin, and that the
Cabinet has been summoned to meet him.
He goes to Vienna.
Advices from St. Petersburg to the 20th
ult. have decidedly a warlike tenor, and
state that the Czar is resolved on extreme
measures, unless the reply of France and
England be favorable. The London Times
says that the reply is couched in firm and
decided terms.
It is rumored that a collision has occur
red in the Black Sea.
Great excitement still exists in Scrvia.
The whole of the Russian fleet left Seb
astopol on the 11 th ult-, and sailed to
wards Batomn.
Prince Napoleon has been sent to Bel
gium by the Empcfrorof France, to impress
upon King Leopold the necessity of act
ing fir uly with the allies of Turkey, in as
much as Belgium cannot maintain a neu
tral position without incurring the dis
pleasure of France. The Prince will also
visit various German Courts on a similar
mission.
At a council of the French Cabinet,
held on the 33th ult., it was decided to
send 80,0 )0 troops into Turkey.
Count Orloff's mission to Vicuna was,
it is said, for the purpose of asking permis
sion for the Russian forces to pass through
Hungary, and it is also reported that if
the Count should tail to obtain the conseut,
the Czar will visit Vienna in person The
Count’s interview with the Emperor is
stated to have been brief and unsatisfacto
ry.
Count OrlofT is dissatisfied with his re
ception at Vienna, and it is farther report
ed that Austria will regard the crossing
the Danube by the Russians as equivalent
to a declaration of war.
There are rumors afloat—which, how
ever, require confirmation—that a naval
engagement had occurred in the Black
Sea, in which the Russian fleet was de
stroyed.
The Turkish fleet has gone to Egypt
forthepurpo.se of shipping 12,00) well
trained troons.
A!! th<* a!I:H -• luivr re'ttnrd to
Bcyoos Bay, causing much astonishment.
Tie temper of the Swedish people
against Russia fs increasing.
‘I he latest accounts front Persia state
that English influence predominates t here.
Correspondence of the Washington GloV,
Liverpool, January 25, 1554
I) rk clouds are gathering around the
Eastern question, and it is not itriproba
tile, before our next letter) we shall have
intelligence of the commencement of ac
tive hostilities between Russia and her
ally against ll.e combined forces of En
gland, France, and Turkey, to be suc
ceeded by a junction of the Austrian Pow
er with Russia. Ihe development of
this question is precisely what I have
previously suggested, and the result will
also he in conformity with mv foreshad
ow ing, namely, a long and difficult war,
in which fiesh assistance w 11 gradually
fall to the side of Russia; because every
day discloses some ne w f ict of the tioai.ci I
and commercial poverty of the. Fieich
Government; and therefore an alliance
with it is s tar dangerous that some vio
lent imminent might renew the same
disorders and the sen e sudden changes
which appear to occur regularly every
feur or five years. Our junction w ith
Fiance lias iliettfuro, doubtless, been
I m ire from necessity than choice with our
■> Ministry, who have beep compelled to
adopt ill's course from the puteid© prei
su'e.
In estimating the power of ot r cue: y
in the coming struggl ■, 1 must again re
peat iny conviction that Persia at this
moment has a treaty cih nsive and defen
sive with Russia, notwithstanding the
rcj cated assurance by the English press
that our consul is reinstated at the (Joint
of Telman, and that the previous inter
ruption to official intercourse is amicably
adjusteJ. From tfie knowledge of that
country, I have previously expressed a
complete disbelief of this peaceful settle
ment, although appear ing in the ministe
rial prints, and the Borsen ilallc, publish
ed in Hamburg, of the IS'.h inst. confirms
me in this disbelief. Tabs journal gives
t'.e su! stance, which I translate, of a let
ter dated Beyroo', 233 December, at.d by
t the reasons for certain latge military
preparations going f.r.var l there am in
consequence of important news from Per
ia, by way of Daii.a.-cus and Bagdad, to
the ttftcl that tire Shah was drawing to
gether three armies, one in Azerderda
chari, to or crate in Georgia, in combina
tion with a Russian corps under P.iuce
Wirar.zow; the second is to advance to
the western boundaries, opposite Bag tad,
m order to attack the Turkish iVshaiik,
and tire third would have a position on
the coast of the Persian Gulf, to oppose
the landing of Englishmen.
Reacted Pasha, the Governor of the
Tui kis!) province I: t.k-e'-Ai alia, whose
capital is Bigdad, has scctely mule the
most extensive preparations in order to
meet the expected attack from (he Sadi
of Persia, yet lie is deficient in regular
tr< Ops and arlitleiy, whilst the Nej.un ot
the Persian Government has been assisted
since 1850 by Austrian officers.
Persia w ill, no thiubt, j lay a most itn
poilant pait in the coming struggle.—
By lor remote posi ion she can suffer
little from the attacks of England and
France, t xcept in the Persian Gulf. She
cau dtaw from various tr lies ex sting
throughout her il irninions, though not
skirled, large, courageous, and active
army. Ti e san e feeling which makes
the Turk si gcod&oldier, teligious fanati
cism, operates equiliy upon .lie Persian;
and as there is quite as wide a schism
between these two in religious distinction
as between the Calln 1 c and Protestant,
the con lit cl will not lose a - y ofils fierce
hostility when it begins.
The last telegraphic despatch announ
ces the air.val ot a courier from S’. Pe
teisbu g with instiunions, so it is staled,
for the ambassador instantly to lea/e upon
the reply of our Minister announcing
support in die Black Bea of Turkish ves
sels.
Markets with prices calculated at the
present rate ot exchange, IjO
Cofn Market. — With an unexampled
: arrival into Liverpool of 150,b00 barrels
i of flour, and G6,i)<jo quarters of w heat,
during the past week, prices nrght have
suffered an important fall if the market
had not been firmly supported by
the various wants of this country. Ihe
principal feature in this market, as well as
i in other markets, is a great demand for
! wheat by millers from remote districts, in
j order to supply their immediate localities
with flour; so much is this the fact, that
wheat is much dearer in proportion than
flour; but as the farmers arc bringing u
much diminished quantity of wheat, to mar
ket, the millers are obliged to buy in the
various ports. lie deliveries from fann
ers for the past week are 00,000 quarters
against 111,000 quarters last year; and
as the returns are only from some
fifteen market towns, the deficiency
throughout the country must be much
greater. The stocks in this po: t, not
withstanding the recent arrivals, are con
siderably less than they were three months
ago; ancl with tnc probable stoppage of
our supplies from the northern ports of!
Europe, the tendency must be a further
diminution in stocks.
Under these circumstances it is useless to
discuss the question of next harvest, as
there is a positive scarcity before us. To
day, flour, Philadelphia and Baltimore, is
quoted at $11; western canal $lO 9J;
wheat, 70 lbs. Genessee, $3 17; Ohio, and
other sorts, $3 12 Indian corn, 480 lbs.,
sl2 37. In France the breadstuff's, after
a temporary depression, arc tending up
wards, and sack Hour, first prime quality,
is now 107 r". per 15/kilogrammes,
(S2O 70 per 345 lbs.;J and although the
arrivals at Havre were very large, from
Ist to 15th January not less than 42,000
qrs. wheat, and 05,9 )8 bbls of flour,
prices had advanced 4f.
1 he cotton market is probably affected
by political events, and to day is very
heavy, with prices tending downwards,
anl sales not over 3,000 bales. The
Manchester market, is by no means satis
factory; and in some description of yarns
there is a fall lc. per lb., from the previ
ous week. No doubt unless political mat
ters assume a totally different aspect, there
will be a serious fall in cotton, as well as
in the manufactured article. This demin
ished demand for goods applies with great
er force to French mannfacturies. By
Parisian accounts, there appears a total
absence of orders, and the position of man
ufactories, as well as workpeople, is daily
getting worse. With an increased rate
of interest to five Jcr cent., just establish
ed by the Bank of France, we apprehend
verv bad resnlt? shortly.
The latest Foreign InteUi-i
gence. J
Ihe Baltic steamer arrived .it Now i
fork on the 20lk bringing dales from L.- i
varpool to the” Bth i\%\ ‘
Oott-ou market firm, but .no change. ‘
The political news was war, and no-j
thing but war. ff'he Savannah Courier j
says—l he < zur’s last proposition has j
been rejected. Negotiations are broken j
off. The Russian Ministers have hit Lon
don atul Paris. The English and French
.Ministers have been recalled from St.
, Petersburg. Count OrlotPs nTssion has
tailed England and France are openly 1
preparing for war. Several ( una <1 . {ea
rners have been taken By the British Gov
ernment, to carry troops to the -cat of
war. The Allied Flecks are at Beyoes
Bay. The Russian fleets is consent,rated
at Kaff'u. Omar Persha has crossed tiie
Danube with 53,030 irrtops.
GRIFFIN. FEBRUARY 23 IG3I
| PdOBKEi LS'GS OF COUR iL.
The metier of the last meet'ng of the
City Council occupies so much space, and
was received at so late an hour, we have
been obliged to postpone it till next week.
I
‘ We return our ti tanks to lion. W. B.
\V. Dent for valuable documents trans
mitted to us from Washington l ily.
Mo rey! Money !! Money I! 1
I We shall be at Meriwether Superior
j Court, Providence willing, on Monday
next, and at the Spring Courts of Coweta ,
: Fayette, Butty, Henry, Pike and Epson
, Our object will he to collect mo -ey due us,
I and obtain new subscriptions and other
1 business. None need font’ of interrupting
us, but as sooa as seen we trest they wifi
j walk up boldly, if they owe us, and de
mand their accounts for settlement. Our
patrons frequently know us when we do
not know them, and a self-introduction will
j not be considered an intrusion We have
, found, in attending Courts to ra ik i codec-
I lions, the greatest difficulty was to find
the persons indebted to us.
Wm. J Josskv, Esq. was elected Alder
man on Monday last, in place of Mr. John
J. Lovejoy, resigned.
Cotton.
The uncertainty of European affairs, and
the great, probability of a sanguinary if
not a long struggle, in which most of the
European powers will be engaged, has a
bad effect npo i the price of Cotton. It
requires a good article in this market to
command 8 1-2 cents notv. It is we'l known
that our market is governed by those at
the north, as these again by those in Europe.
A late New York Express says, —“Oar
conviction that a long, bloody war is inev
itable, an all along expressed to you after
the first gun was fired, grows stronger dai
ly, and is beginning to exercise a baneful
inftnencc o:r Cotton, which must continue
to decline, perhaps considerably. The
r ties on tiie {lags are smaller and smaller,
still much is going ex ship into the interi
or. The new crop is pressed for sale be
fore half landed, and is 1-81 to 3-lGth
down since Friday ” For a day or two
past the market Ims been looking up in
Griffin.
‘Flint Fista.
We know it is not an indication of the
best breeding lo be boasting of your din
ner after it ias been demolished. But
some things ere so good you cannot help
talking about them. Mr. Joseph Sherrill,
opposite the Depot in Griffin, lias made
arrangements for a constant and rcgul r
supply of fresh fish from the Tennosssee
river, to be brought down by the cars,
air.l last week invited us to step up mid
partake. We found an excellent and de
licious fresh water Drum served up, as
sound as if it had just been taken from the
water. Wo need hardly say wo made a
hearty dinner ofi of it. Mr. .S. informs us
he will keep them constantly o:i hand du
ring the season.
Saddles and Harness.
We have heretofore made a boast of
the fine Saddle and Harness establishments
in this city. Wc call the attention of our
readers to the advertisement of Mr. Jas.
L Jouxson. We have looked over his
assortment, and find it very complete, and
of all qualities from the most elegant to
p’ain. Some of his Saddles are got up in,
the finest style, ai l are well workny of
examination.
The .Legislature.
This body adjourned on Friday last,
after disposing of all the business of any
consequence which had been brought be
fore them. We expected to receive a list
of the most prominent acts for to-days
paper, but have been disappointed. We
copy, from the Macon Telegraph, the close
of the proceedings, and will furnish a list
of the acts next week.
New Counties
Tie following new counties have been
made by the late legislature:
Catoosa, from Walker and Whitfield.
Calhoun, from Baker and Early.
Clay, from Randolph and Early.
Chattahoochee, lroin Muscogee and Ma
rion.
Coffee, from Telfair, Irwin, Clinch and
Ware.
Dougherty, from Baker.
Fannin, from Union and Gilmer.
Fulton, from Dekalb.
Hart, from Elbert anrl Franklin.
Charlton, from Camden.
Kiuchnfoonc, from Stewart.
Dickons, from Gilmer and Cherokee.
W’uMli. frontJ)oo!j: and Irwin.
Ft hit and Coweta Circuits-
The following arc the times of holding
the Spring Superior Courts of the Flint
and Coweta Circuits:
’ ‘ FLINT CIRCUIT.
lion. James 11. Stark, Judge.
Joskpiy A. Thrasher, Esq. Solicitor.
Monroe, 4th Monday in February.
Butts, 21 Mondiy in March.
Newton, 4th Monday do
Pike, Ist Monday in April.
Henry, 3 l Monday do.
Upson, Ist Monday in May.
Spalding, 31 Monday do.
‘.-sT’Tlie Courts in this Circuit are held
this year without change of time from last,
except Newton, which is changed from
the 31 to The 4th Monday in March.
* 4 :
COWETA CIiiCUIT.
Ho t. Obf.diah Warner, Judge.
L E. Bleckley, Esq. Solicitor.
Meriwether, 4th Monday in February.
Coweta, Ist Monday in March.
Fayette, 3d-Monday do.
Fuiton, Ist Monday in April.
Dclvalb, 4th Monday do.
Heard. Ist Monday in May.
Troup, 31 Monday do.
Carroll, 2d Monday in June.
j£6sf*Cnrrcll county lias been taken from
tiie Biuo Ridge Circuit and added to the
Coweta Circuit.
‘fi'he Plants. Road Case
The Supreme Court, now in suasion in
Macon, has, we uriders.ami, brought tins
long delayed ca-=e to a final close
The case was brought by the Justices
of the Inferior C uirt of Pike county v*.
I he Gnmu and \V est Pmiit Plank R itvl
Company, and had for is obi* ci a perpet
ual Injunction against tli<* Company’s oe
copying portions < f the Flat Sima! road
with their p! ink road. The right to
occupy'tl.fTpublic tool had been a war 1-
td to them by aibitrators appointed un
d- r It,c charter, sod ihe bit! sought to set
aside (hi. ’wards of the arbitrators for
fraud. At mC. April term of Pdso Su
perior Court the . ’se waa tried before
a jury, who sou id in v ‘->r of the rom
panv. T’ 1:e cose was fttveu up to ths
Supreme Court on thitny-six , “'inis of
error, as ve understand, aile-iged to ..'VO
been committed by his honor, Judge
Sauk, in th.i course of the trial and in his
charge to the j i: v.
Uie Supreme Court, aftet a pitie -t
and laborious invtS igntion of tiie whole
matter, oecu ‘ring t.vo days, delivered
their opinion on Friday morning lastj
holding that the C/rcu't hid ncUd
correctly on oil t'is jinn's before them. —
Perhaps a more striking decision lias
never before been nude in tills State.—
It has established for Judge Stark a high
character i'ur legal learning, and a just and
fearless administration of the law.
i he-e has been a great deal of censure
and personal abuse heaped upon the
friends of the PUnk Ilo;ul, as well as Judge
Stark, who with tie President of the Com
pany, Judge Reid, came in ffr their full
share. Every Court at which there has
been a hearing has sustained the Pia.nk
Road Company and declared there oppo
nents in the wrong; and we hope they
wall now be convinced that they were
wrong.
Thus ends, we trust forever, this profit
less and unpleasant course of litigation.—
The Circuit Court ot the United S fttes and
the Supreme Court of Georgia have both
sustained the decisions of Judge Static,
arid we look to the termination of these
suits as the harbinger of a letter state
of feeling amongst those who ought al
ways to have been friends.
The hest tliinjj yet.
j Gen. Jackson, it was said by the Whigs
of his day, did not know how to spell hi s
! own name, but spelt it Jockson; and wc
; can bear them testimony that we have
seen it a number of times so written; but
< then we tl;might it was just a way the old
gentleman had, and we knew that the
Whigs loved to tell stories on him. Some
desperate splurges too have been made by
these same old coons at Mr. Pierce and
his Cabinet, but none, as far as we recol
lect, which can beat the following. Mr.
Pierce, wc have always understood, had re
ceived a collegiate education; certain it if,
at least, that the Whigs have again ,nd a
gain stated that he ins father how
to spell “but,” he (the President)
was a lad, To say nothing of the Pressi
there is Mr. Attorney General Cush
ing, one of the best linguists of the coun
try, a walking polyglot, whether of the
living or dead tongues; and we have never
heard any thing else than that all the oth
er members of the Cabinet were proficient
scholars - not until now. In the face of
all this, we read the following in a late
Whig paper:
It is said that Bedini’s difficulty in this
country all arose from the fact that his
credentials and letters from the Pope and
Cardinal Antenelli were in Latin, and no
one in the. Cabinet could read them.
Now ii its quite probable that no one in
the Cabinet put himself to much trouble
to understand them, but as to not being
able to read them, that is all fudge.
Cheap Daguerreotypes. —When in
Philadelphia, lust summer, we saw a iium
lur of Daguerreotype likenesses which
were lakcn for thirty-seven and a half and
fifty cents, and one set of five children
which were taken an 1 framed all for one
dollar end fifty cents, or thirty cents a
piece. We thought that was cheap e
nough for the most thrifty, but we see pri
ces are still declining, and in Boston the
may now lie had at twelve au'J a hal t
uerdi.
Complimentary.
At the close of the late sess'oa of the
Legislature, the Clerks of the Engrossing
Department of the House of Representa
tives presented one of their associates,
Thomas W. J. Hum, Esq. of Decatur, De-
Kalb county, with a handsome Walking
Cane, in testimony of their appreciation of
his attentive and gentlemanly deportment
towards them during the session.
In making this presentment, so honora
ble to both donora aal receiver, 11. J.
Merrill, Esq. of Carrollton, was called to
the Chair, and on presenting the donation
made the following remarks:
Brother Hill —
I have the honor, in the name of a por
tion of your fellow-clerks of the Engross
ing Department, of presenting you with
this cane, in testimony of our regard for
your polite, courteous, and gentlemanly
deportment towards us during the present
session of the Legislature, and while en
gaged as a co laborer with us ‘1 here is
nothing, sir, which could have afforded me
more pleasure than to be the instrument
of presenting the same to one so deserving.
By your kindness of heart, honesty of pur
pose, and polite and social intercourse
with those by whom yon have been sur
rounded during the present session, you
have made many warm and devoted friends.
And may those iucstiiniblc qualities of
which you are so eminently characteristic,
be the means of securing you the goodwill
of all your acquaintances. And with my
best wishes for your prosperity and happi
ness through life, let me ask you to ac
cept the same.
To which Mr. Hill made the following
reply:
Gentlemen of the Engrossing flep'irhnnit —
During our short acquaintance, the ap
probation of my conduct which you this
evening manifest towards me, is to me a
source of consolation better felt than I can
express. It is always a pleasing reflec
tioa to have the esteem of friends, but
more particularly of those with whom we
have immediate intercourse. Although
we have fora short period been thrown
together from different parts of the Stale,
the most of us strangers to each other;
yet 1 trust that the cord of friendship which
now binds oar hearts together, may never
be severed.
The valuable present as a token of your
regard, which you have thought proper
this evening to present to me, is with plea
sure accepted; and though wc may never
meet together again, 1 trust that the same
gentlemanly and upright conduct which
has characterized you here during our in
tercourse, may attend you through life.
YTiti: my best wishes, both individually
and for your future prosperity
and happiness r kid yon farewell.
Cassville Stanclu ‘"l and Atlanta Inlelli
g*:.ar, pleaso copy.
Nebraska.
The extent and importance of the terri
tory proposed to be embraced in this new
territorial organization, is described in the
abolition address, lately published by
Chase, Sunnier, Wade and others, as fol
lows The proposed territory of Kansas,
we pre-ume, is embraced in the same lines.
“From the southwestern corner of Mis
souri pursue the parallel of 30 deg 30’
North latitude, westward }’ across the Ar
kansas, acro-s the North fork of Canadian,
to northeastern angle of Texas; then fol
low the northeastern boundary of 1 ex.is
to the western limit of New Mexico; then
proceed along that western line to its
northern termination; the i again turn
westwardly, and follow the northern line
of New Mexico to the Rocky Mountains;
then ascend northwardly along the crest
of that mountain range to the line which
separates the United States from the Bri
tish Possessions in North America, on the
49th parallel of North latitude; then pur
sue your course eastwurdly along tint
line to the White Earth river, widen falls
into the Missouri from the north; descend
that river to its confluence with the Mis
souri; descend the Missouri, along the
western boundary of Minesoia, of lowa,
of Missouri, to tiie point where it ceases
to be a boundary line, and enters the Mate
to which it gives its name; then continue
your southward course along the western
limit of the fc>t tie to the po at from which
you set out. Tou have now made the cir
cuit of the proposed Territory of Nebras
ka. You have traversed the vast distance
of more than three thousand miles. You
have traced the outline of an area of four
hundred and eighty-five thousand square
miles; more than twelve times as large as
that of Ohio.
This immense region, occupying the
very heart of the North American'Conti
nent, and larger, by thirty ; nr ec thousand
miles, than all the Existing Free States,
excluding Cb’domic—this immeuse region,
’"ell y;titered and fertile, through which
the middle and northern routes from the
Atlantic to the Pacific must pass—this
immense region, embracing all the unor
ganized territory of the nation, except the
campavativcly insignificant district of In
dian territory north of Kcd River and be
tween Arkansas and Texas, is the subject
matter of the bill now pending before Con
gress.
Captain Gunnison. —It will be recol
lected that the celebrated explorer of the
North Western Wilds, Capt Gunnison,
was lately murdered iu the Utah territory,
near bait Lake, vviih all but two of the
entire party who accompanied him. In a
postscript lo the Salt Lake News of the
12th of November, it is stated that Ihe
note books of the party, and all the in
struments used by them, except the odom
eter, had been recovered from the Indians.
They were given up voluntarily. Every
Indian concerned in the massacre was
known After the murder Walker and
his baud fought one another, and split up
and Walker lias go .e to the Navajocs.
Steam collision. On the night of the
13th inst. a3 the steamboat Magnolia was
passing down the Alabama river and the
Weiumka up, they ran afoul of each o*>
ther about 10 o’clock, by which the latter
was so seriously damaged that she su..k
immediately, with all on hoard. Two or
three lives were lost, the others escaped
loshoie. Tne boat and loading is n total
loss. The accident happened neai C mis’
Bluffi
Santa Anna is said to be fitting out a
command of 1,500 Then to march against/
the fillihuitejs iu. S itiora. ;
pur tii J. th rsoman.
SABBATH READING
“At the annual session of our Grand
Lodge in May last, a committee was ap
pointed by that body to petition to the Le
gislature to have our Grand Lodge incor
porated. ‘That petition was presented to
the Legislature by Mr. Collier, Senator
from DeKalb, and after being opposed by
the Reverend (?) Mr. Moseley, of Spalding
county, in two or three speeches, the peti
tion was granted, and our Grand Lodge
and Subordinate Lodges arc now incorpo
rated bodies.
“We hope all Knights of Jericho will re
member the Rev. gentlemen, and never
permit him to go unscathed when an op
portunity may present itself. We would
like to know what were the Reverend gen
tleman’s objections to incorporating our
Grand Lodge. We can see no reason, ex
cept that he is opposed to every thing
good that may emanate from Temperance
institutions; or, if not, his innate desire to
render himself popular (?) by making
himself as odious as possible to friends of
temperance and virtue. Just think of
such a man preaching repentance and for
giveness to sinners! lie might as well
try to teach mathematics to monkeys, as
to make people who are disposed or incli
i ned to better feelings and better manners,
listen to him with any sort of complai
'fiance.
“We shall, hereafter, call him Old Bill
Moseley, instead of the Rev. Mr. Moseley
-because we think it a desecration of the
ho'v title!”
Cairns’, Sabbath morning. )
19th February, 13.34. \
3Lij r Clive ,
Du.vn Si a: —The above extract is taken
from the “ Knights of Jericho ” printed
and published in Atlanta. Is this- a true
specimen of their temperance? Does this
verify, to those they wish to reform, the
truth of their motto, “’Faith, Jhpe, Chiri
tyV’ This is the language used, of Rev.
Wm. Moseley, a man, however he may
err in judgment, is known by all acquaint
ed with him, to act and speak, both in his
private and public character, from the
most pure and conscientious motives. He
is too independent and fearless to do oth
erwise. In the last Legislature, he has
proved himself to be one of the most intelli
gent., active, vigilant and us ful members,
always in his seat, never failing to attend
to the duties of a Representative of hi-■
county and his State. Yet this man is to
be “scathed on every opportunity by the
Knig >ts of Jericho!” Is it in this way
they expect men to be induced to enter
their honorable order of knighthood?—
Pursue such a course, and their walls will
meet with the same fate of their ancient
prototype, which fell under the curse of
Heaven as a heathen place, by the blasts
of rams’ horns. All efforts to reform and
! ring-back wanderers to the paths of wis
dom aivl virtue, arc laudable; but abuse
will never be followed by such happy re
sults, nor will acrimony produce them.-
Thcrc arc more souls damned, by the scorn
and haughtiness and orer-righteonsiiess of
professing Christians, than directly by s;n
Sinners stand afar off and look at
thud* behavior, in resentment at their
pride, •"•-' q ecution and vituperation. A
sinner never v.v'* converted, nor a backsli
der brought bad',. > insult, evil speaking
or neglect. .Volomoi,, m his w Join, tells
us, the righteous man fulitd.b times,
yet he shall be lifted up again; and LA v, d
was forever praying that his feet night be
out of fcbe mire ah<l planted; on a
rock. ‘1 his is done by grace, charity and
mercy—not by execration, or personal
vilification If you wish to keep a man,
especially if he is known to be endued
with generous feelings, forever a drunkard,
forever abuse him. If you wish to keep a
sinner old or young out of the church, for
ever abuse and pass him by, with an eye
askance, a countenance averse and a look
contemptuous. Jesus of Nazareth did not
do so. He reproved the Pharisee, but
sat with, pitied, and called to repentance,
the poor sinner. He invited all to come
to him, for he would turn none away. He
did not “scathe every opportunity” only
the haughty, the proud, ami the hypocritic.
He condemned sin, but did not abuse
the sinner, the workmanship of his
own hands, before his incarnation. He
honored men’s persons, by assuming that
form while on earth, because man was
made in the image of God; when lie
might h ive assumed any other, angelic or
spiritual, iu his Messiahship.
To-day, in his morning discourse on Ist
Cor. Bth chap. 13th vcr. the Pastur of the
Presbyterian church of this place, deliver
cd the ablest, best and mest eloquent and
demonstrative temperance lecture I ever
listened to. lie clearly oxhiVued the true
principle, lie 50 thoroughly convinced
me, that \ ruaoived never to use ardent
spirits “while the world stands.” lie
, “scathed” nobody, told no drunken an
ecdotes, but planted the principle on the
highest grounds of moral and Christian
duty Yet it is to be feared it can never
be carried out in our country, until the
. National and State governments, with the
consent of the people, prohibit by penal
statute, the importation and manufacture
of the article as one of commerce and traf
fic, within their respective bounds and ju
risdictions. Secret societies have but
little influence; at least, only for a few
years. They spring up, die out and pass
away, as experience proves. None have
endmed the “experimentum cruciC of time
and persecution, except that of the Ma
sonic fraternity. Temperance is a matter
of public morals, not of secret combina
tions, and must show itself in open day as
Christianity docs, to the whole world.
F. 1). C.
For the Jeff.-Muiiian.
! Job Slocum, Esq again-
Well now, look at that darned printer!
Did you ever; only think of it now! He
has gone again, and put .lob's name i.i
print again! Not only Job’s, but me and
all the family, every skin and hoof of ns,
and made fools of ns all. Idoin my very
soul, wish there was nary printer in these
diggens. Boforc he came, wo all got a
long quietly—none was better nor anoth
er. Now every one wants to be thought
better nor his neighbor. Every one blows
his own horn, and makes that printer his
trumpet. Well, darn blast me, if I don't
blow too, if I should crack, split and burst
for it, at both eends of me. I’m detai
min’d to have company euough in our
printed greatness. I horeforc, by virtue
of my authority, as Job says in his sum
monses, 1 now nominate for Mayor and
Aldermen, every man in town, and be
done with any more nominations. So ma
ny nominations by this and that one, this
and that meeting, are all in my eye, Bet
t.y Martin: Mis rcolioklous; makes Grifiin
** * ‘ I
look foolish’ 1 hu>*£ hoarn of nnnin’ ft
thing into the ground, but this is worser
it is runnin’ it into a 51 £7,1 c. If the candi
dates now nominated will come down, my
univarsal ticket will embrace the whole of
’em, and give all an equal chance. Some
of my ticket will be ’bleeged to be ’lected,
if they don’t all vote every man for hisself,
and perhaps my Job will be one on ’em. I
have beam say, there is luck for a lousy
calf, and Job’s lousy enough goodness
knows. That was an honest person, a
very scarce article, who signed himself,
Pro Bono Publico. 1 like him and what
he said. One in a hundred would not
have the independence to make the honest
confession lie did. *ll’ i understand Ha sig
nature and there is any certainty in Latin,
pro bona publico, it means his ticket goes
for picking the public’s bones. But my
univarsal ticket is better nor lus. ll goes
for crushing and swallowing the flesh,
blood and bones, in’ards and all, cf the
public, without any marcy at all. Mem:
That old lady in Besting enquires why
they don’t elect horses as well as marcs
for the government oi the towns and c.ties?
Well, here goes. Hurra for Job .Slocum,
Esq for Mayor of Griffin! Now I v,ilL
give you a song on the success of Job.
Job Slo'mu Cos Jt'cd Di'iy Hrovve,
fo!-ro!- tr;-rlil'ilt: Ic-I'jL
The prcuiesl sc in a l our town,
!o!-i'jI- >t-!erol.
And tie fates preserved onr lev'* thread,
tot rol— ic id Klie-01-ilo-rol.
U ili! -.ve did got nwr-n-ed,
tu’-r.jl-du-n 1 lle-ai-.l - >! i-i
Very goal song and very well sung.
Your sarvant, Sir,
DOLLY SLOCUM.
The Gatßica Treaty l*r ivishi n
Washington, Feb. 13. The following
are the principal provisions of the Gads
den treaty, now before the Senate:
Ist. the new boundary commences
two marine league i north of the mouth of
the Colorado, giving us no access to the
Gulf of California, and goes between laid
tude thirty one and thirty two to the one
hundred an l derenth degree :>f longitude
west of Greenwich.
2d. 11 abrogates the If tit article < f the
treaty of Gandalupc Hidalgo and cancels
ail claims of Mexican citizens under that
article to date of ratification. | 1 Iris is
the section which guarantees the protec
tion of the frontier of Mexico from Indian
hostilities, under which it is said the Mexi
cans have already set inn claims against
this government to the amount of twenty
millions of dollars ]
3d. The United States pay fifteen mis
sions of dollars in monthly instalments of
three millions each—the first pay able on
ratifying the treaty.
4th. Reserves live millions for claims of
American citizens in Mexico, including
the Gary Grant.
sth. Both governments agree to put
. down Filibustering, and pursue the Fili
busters with army and navy into the
other’s territory.
6th. Agrees to refund goods and chat
tels stolen by Indians from, the cl i/or. >f
other’s country,
The President amends No i> by >.r khtg
out the pursuit by land and sea into the
, other’s territory, and he amends No 4 by
not mentioning any particular claim.
‘The amendments are very import mi.
The treaty wili be ratified in its new
form.
i .. _
Storms r.t Sea.
By aecou its received recently from the
European eoist of the Atlantic, we infer
that the storms about the 2lt it of Decem
ber last, an 1 from that oi till the mid lie
of January, were as severe there ason this
side or on the ocean. A letter ad Ire-set
to the Charleston Mercury, bearing date
at London, Jau. 10th, states as follows:
List week we had the heaviest snow
storm that we have experienced for many
years. Several railroids hid to stop run
ning the trains in consequence, and m the
coast the damage done to shipping has
been terrible, owing to the snow having,
been attended by a violent gab. Upwards
of fifty vesse’s have been driven ashore on
the eastern coast, and most cf the crews
have perished. A large foreign vesse was
wrecked in the British Channel, and ail
on board sunk with her. Not even the
name of the ship is yet asccrt fined though
from portions of the wreck washed ashore,
she is supposed to have been of Dutch
build-
A f>r*a<2ful Occureacc
About a week since the dwelling of MY.
James Harvey, of Bulloch county, was
consumed by fire, together with his wife
and infant, only three years old. Mr li.
had gore out to work in one of his fields
after breakfast, leaving h s wife and child
in bed, and after he had been gone for
some time, looking in the direction of ins
house he saw it enveloped in flames. Hur
rying to the rescue of his little family, lie
discovered neither sign nor sound of them.
A few charred bones of the wife were the
only sad evidence of the melancholy fate
of herself and child. It is supposed that,
after Mr 11. left the house, a log or stick
rolled from the fire to the floor, thus set
ting fire to the house, and that Mrs 11.
being asleep became suffocated with the
smoke and was thus unable to escape her
dreadful death. —-Savannah Heirs.
Ex-President Fillmore, we see it sv
ted, is about to be married to an only
daughter of a gallant U. S. Officer deceas
ed, and a lady of rare talents, superior
accomplishments and large fortune. The
lady is said to be Miss Elizabeth Porter,
of Niagara Falls, only daughter of the
late Genera! Peter B. Porter, a hero of
the war of 1812, and secretary of war un
der John Q. Adams.
Arrest of tie supposed .Hurds?revs
of Jidui S Blount
Two men calling themselves John Mo
ran and John Ford, alias Divine,
with the murder of John S. Blount, an
account of which was published in the
News of the 7th inst, were arrested on
board the Stale of Georgia, on her late
arrival at Philadelphia, bv officers Wood
and Morrell of that city; < apt-. E M
Pendcrgast.,’ of this city, having instruct; and
them by telegraph to make the crest
Through the indefatigable cxi rtious of oik
fleers Prouder gust and Wiring ihi-.Ji,
‘the latter of whom bids fair to rival the
character of the celebrated Jack li-*ys in
his profession) to ferret out the perpetra
tors of this terrible deed, sufficient evi
dence was produced before the Grand Ju
ry to warrant that body in- finding a true
bill against the accused.and. justify their
arrest.— Sav. Xnrs,