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About The Georgia Jeffersonian. (Griffin, Ga.) 18??-18?? | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1854)
LA.T Xt FROM EUROPE \ arrival STEAMKR 1 ; AFRICA. Baltimore March 28. The steamer Africa has arrived with la ter intelligence from Europe. The report of tiie capture of Kalafat is falsie'. . The first division of Napoleon’s fleet have'Railed for the Baltic. There had been no fighting worth noti cing tm the Danube, or in Asia. The London Daily News says the Czar had sent another proposal to Vienna, which the representatives of the four powers found inadmissible aid rejected it. the French and En- HsOtffTmatum t<Ttlie Czar, left Vienna PI-the :7th for St.- Petersburg. Prussia ahd Austria have not signed the ultimatum. Their policy being defended as neutral for the present, and as mediators for the future. * • The first division of the fourteen Brit ish ships, under Admiral Sir Charles Na pier, sailed from Portsmouth on the 11th for the Baltic. It is reported that 3,000 British troops go to the Baltic for laud service. - The 77th regiment embarked at Liver pool on the 11th for Turkey. The allied fleets were at Beycos Bay. The bulk of tlte Russian fleet was at Sebastopol, with some ships at Secumeali, Both fleets had cfnisers in the Black Sea. The Russian Baltic fleet was pushing through the ice to the seaboard. ‘The latest despatch received at Faris fully confirm# the 1 attitude assumed by Aus tria and Prussia, on the Eastern question Austria had expressed perfect willingness to join the western powers. Prussia posi tively refaseid, on the ground that she was not a maritine power, and had, therefore, little interest in the matter. A dispatch was received at Paris on Thursday from tliA Austrian Minister, explaining affairs, but it is lamentably obscure and unsatisfac tory,’ and indicative of a change of policy the Ports by Austria. from Spain state that the in- chief Latoi re had been captured near the French frontier, and shot. The French-. Senate have unanimously voted a loan of 250,000,000. There has been some excitement pro duced in Commercial circles by Lord Clar . endow Vanriotmecmeut to the Riga mer chautsr, that:aH Russian produce, to who eter bclon** ng* ad even n n utral v sels, shall bo lawful prizes in war. A dispatch from the Greek insurrection was extending through Thessalonia, Gen Kayos'had'joined the insurgents. The ci ty of Asta:had’ been taken by assault. — The Turks had been beaten in several se vere encounters Prussia still held out. - Lord John Russell was quite ill FOLK DAYS LATER FROM EU ; TtOPE. Arrival of the Franklin. New York, March 80—The Franklin arrived at New. York on Wednesday, with Havre and’Southampton dates to the 15th. Cotton was unchanged. Daily sales 40,000 bales: -Flour declined 3 to 4s. during the week. Wheat has declined “9d ; Corn Unchanged. • Political The Eastern question is un changed The Czar has ordered troops immediately to cross the Danube. The first division of the British fleet, un der Admiral Napier, had sailed for Win goe Sound. ’ They are ordered not at pre *ent to enter Russian Waters. has sent a confidential mission to Napoleon. There has been a terrible earthquake in Calabria, Sicily, by which 2,000 persons were killed. The Pacific Rail Hoad. The fallowing items we find in our ex changes hr relation to this road: SoVthf.rx Pacific Railroad—The New Orleans papers state that C!. W. R. D. Ward, agent ot a New York Com pany t<> build a railroad across Texas by the Ei Paso route to Calafornia has com menced opera’ions at Shreveport, Lou isiana, with about one hundred men un der Ids orders, to be augmented at an early day to a much larger force. Paciffic Railroad Tmrocgh Texas.— It is slat rl that the New York Pacific Railroad Company have determined to bid for the road through Texas under the late law. They will deposit the $300,000 requireJ a%forfeit. They will give a bonus to the Stato of $2,000,000 of said stock, one- half of which is •to be a permanent land to establish a Pease University, $400,000 of which to estab lish n lunaric usyltim, nnd the remaining s6oj},ooo for educational purposes gen . frally, The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company, chartered in New York, are making a test of the ability, it is said, of the subscribers. Mr. Ex Secretary Wal ker is one if them, we believe, to the amount of ten millions of dollars. A .Call is made for one half us one per cent, on the stock, which will be $500,000 to wards the 100,000,000. The object of this call is io make the deposit of S3OO, 000 required by the recent act of the Legislature of Texas donating about c leven million acres of land in aid of the construction of a rniho.id to the Pacific ajid t > enable the Company to c immence the instruction of the road as soon as thecoMtittct with the Stale of Texas is . concluded. ’ ; Tuk Paciiuc R aii.ro au. ~\Ve have rpsson to believe that in another week the I louse select committee on the Pacific ■Railroad will he re.ijy to teport. They ‘have.hdd hall a-dozen long and earnest : ■ meeting, at wliich their respective views w era canvassed ia de'ail. We are in ’ blinetl! |o th<nk that they have, for the m ist [art, declined to consider specific project* or schemes: contending them selves, very properly, with discussing! general principles applicable to the busi- ! ness in lhand. There are hut two, orj at most three gentlemen, on the commit- 1 ee, who have expressed themselves tlin -1 |Kstuii.to recommend that the Govern-, merit shall have nothing whatever to duj with budding a railroad to the Pacific. Having discovered that they are power le;?>r m.the committee, we presume, from W/hnTwa learn, that these gentlemen are now; acting with such of their fellow committee men as aie opposed to aiding any such wuik further than by donations of alternate sections of the public lands, to any company which may undertake Hie job. lutieftf we conceive . n ...j probable that by this day week a plan will be agreed on to this end, which shall also expre sly avoid making any recom , mendalion as to the best route, or as to the proper parties with whom to contract. So far, only preliminary votes have been taken; yet the members of that commit tee have so expressed themselves in dis cussing points arising, as to satisfy us that such will be the upshot of their labors. — TVath. Star. Ixcekdiariss. —The Augusta Consti tutionalist of the 30 h ult. says, that an attempt was made th day before, to burn up the Globe Hotel. Just before the hoarders were seated at the dinner table, smoke was seen issuing from one ol the rooms. It was discovered that the bed ding was set sue to. Fortunately it was discovered in time, and soon exinguish led without doing further injury. While the landlord and one or two boarders were conversing about the occurence, j smoke was seen issuing from the adjoin ing room. The bedding in this ro in was also discovered to have been fired. On searching the adjoining room, it was found that the bedding in that also had been set (ire to, but forlunataly the match failed of its purpose, only charring tl.e pillows between which it was placed. Who the incendiary is has not been discovered, but that he is a white man there is hut little doubt, as the servants of the Hotel were at the time busily engaged. That we have in our midst a set of rogues admits hut little doubt. We have heard of several daring burglaries within a week past, and it behooves our City Police to he vigilant and on the look on*. On the next day another attempt was made to fire the same Hotel. The Con stitutionalists of the 31st ult. says “We understand another attempt was made yesterday to firo the Globe lloteL A bout twelve o’clock smoke was seen to issue f. om two rooms on the .-ecend floo r , and on entering the bedding in both rooms were discovered to be on fire. It was, however, soon put out without doing material damage. Tlic President for the Bill. Anticipating the defeat of the Nebras ka Bill, the Whig press of the persist in holding the President responsible for the result. They undertake to justify the imputation of had faith on the part of the President in support of the BiK, by ground less assertion and the authority of incre dible rumor, and not by any pos'tive and au hemic testimony. We might discre dit the shameless statements of the Whig press of the South, by the adverse tes timony ot Whig journals in the North, which denounce Mr. Pierce in the stron gest terms of denunciation as the active, faithful and efficient friend of the Bill.— We have, however, higher and better evidence of this fact than can be found in the columns of a Whig paper. We have ourselves heard the President avow himself the ardent friend oflhe Ne braska bill, with that warmth and em phasis of expression habitual with men of his impulsive and generous nature; a-cd w e have heard him justify hie position with a strength of argument which no impartial mind could resist. Nor does he communicate his views with any re se: ve or obligation of confidence. They are free to all who may seek t-> know them, and if there was any occasion for their official promulgation, they would he given to tho country in. a shape which none eouid mistake or misconstrue. It is perfectly well known in Washing ton, that the President is employin'? eve ry legitimate influence in behalf of the hill. The enemies of llie bill treat it as an Admuiistiatiou measure, and such, in truth, it is.—ls any Southern Whig hon estly dLtrusts the good faith of President Pierce or his Cabinet in respect to the bill, we suggest to him not to seek a sat isfactory solution of his doubts from the Whig press, hut to solicit the opinion of his representative on the subject. Or, if he prefer to draw his information from a higher source still, let him make inqui ry of Edward Everett, Truman Smith, Badger, or any other accredited leader of the W hig party. W r e venture to say he will get no doubtful cr adverse response. Richmond Enquirer. Tlie Gadsden Treaty Territory. Major Stein states that the tertito’y of Sonora, included in the Gadsden purchase is one of the most valuable ever obtained by the United Slates; that instead of twenty millions, it would be cheap at one hundred millions of dollars; that embra ces a region which is watered by the branches of the Gila, which is pleasantly diversified with mountain and valley, possesses great resources for agricuhual purposes, for grazing, for the production of sugar cane, cotton and all other pro ducts of those latitudes, that it is healther than any other part of the United States. Besides, it is the riches mining region in the wot Id, gold, silver and copper abound in every part of the country in such quan tities, that he believes, in two years after its settlement by Aiueiicans, fifty millions of metal would be sent to the states from its inexnaustible resuutces; that copper can he ex racted there at the rare of three cents u pound, and placed in New Orleans at cost of six cents per pound; that there are silver mines (many of which are kept secret from all strangers by the Indians,) from which silver could be made as rapidly and abundantly as lead is now at Galena; and that in cer* lain parts of the country, gold is picked up from the surface of the earth, and is used as the material to mould bullets by the Indians, who have been known fre quently to exchange gold for lead bullets- Hon. James Buchanan in A lncrican Costume. We have seen private letters by the last steamer, which state that our American Minister to England has been invited and attended the Queen’s levee, appearing in j a suit of black which was very gratifying ! to onr countrymen in Europe. A letter 1 from an American in London says, since 1 Air. Buchanan has been fairly installed in 1 office, business goes forward at the Lega tion with great regularity and despatch. The Minister is a decided favorite with his countrymen, to whom lie is endeared by his manly republican simplicity and dignified deportment. His private sccrc- 1 tary, W. H Welsh, ]sq , of York, Pa., 1 is a young man of refined manners and brilliant t dents. lie is now an attachec to’ the embassy. I The Arctic which departs from New York to-dny for Liverpool, will convey a special messenger from, this ‘government with instructions to our minister at Ma drid to demand', in emphatic terms, imme diate and ample reparation from Spain for the outrage committed by the authori ties at Cuba in the instance of the Black Warrior. We shall impatiently await, in common with every American citizen, the answer which will be given by the Span ish ministry to this demand. If it be fa vorable and prompt, and if Spain shall consent, within a reasonable time, to our opening diplomatic relations with the cap tain-general of Cuba, for the adjustment of any questions which may hereafter arise in our intercourse with .that island then there will be no disposition on the part of the United States to disturb the peace which exists between the two nations.— But if any hesitation is manifested by the Cabinet of Madrid to disavow the outra geous procedure against our flag and the property of our citizens, and if the contin gCDcies be not removed by which similar occurrences may be occasioned, wc shall advocate the employing of all the power which the government can command in support of our rights and interest in Cuba. The world could consider us as weak as wc would in reality be mean, if we were to sutler even the first power of the earth to offer us insult, added to injury, as re peatedly as they have been perpetrated upon us by Spain during the last five years. Tho time has arrived when for bearance to even an imbecile nation, whose obst :, acy or ignorance lias brought it to the verge ruin, ceased to be a vir the. We must not only receive redress for the past, but we muit have abundant security for the future. Its relations with us will have to be bettered, or they will have to be discontinued.— IVathingux U nion. T3ae Chinese Robcllion- The papers brought by the Arabia con tain an account of a visit of some French officials of Nankin, and their interview with the Minister of the Rebel Emperor. The account is taken from the North Caro lina Herald, which says, it will satisfy our community that all that has been publish ed by us on previous occasions is fully borne out, and that as for the Tatxing, or barter dynasty, it will, in all human pro bability, have soon to be recorded as Icha bod—for its glory is departed Os the aspect of things about Nariki >, we have the following strange description: The aspect of Nankin is most striking, it resembles more a visit camp than a city, and conveys an idea of t’ e power that rules, as much from the immense numbers congregated there, as from the order and discipiline which prevail among them. The houses within the walls have not been destroyed, but bear the trece, however, of having been violently broken open, and are now occupied in common; t lie same system of communion seems to be applied to both foood and clothing, though with a certain regard to official rank. The wo men decidedly live in a separate quarter, which was perceptible even in passing through the streets, and the whole drudge ry of manual labor seems to fall to their lot; they are formed, like the men, into brigades of 13,000, having officers of va rious ranks of their own sex, but each brigade under the superintendence of a chief, who alone corresponds with the high-r authorities. Apart of this organi zation, a body of 10,000 Kwangcs ‘womeir are said to garrisoned as soldiers in the Tartar city. The number of women alone in Nankin is stated at the enormous sum of 480,000, whitest that of the men would be no less than five or six thousand, in credible as these numbers may appear, they are not in contradiction to what was observed by the French visitors in the parts of the city through which they pas sed, and may be, moreover accounted for, as far as regards the women at least, by the fact of their having been gathered to gether from all the towns taken possession of by the ins- rgeuts. The Gtuhden treaty. Notwithstanding the obligation of (- rresy by which the Senate undertakes to veil from the public eye its proceedings in the transaction of executive business) in quisitive letter writers have discovered that violent opposition is made to the rat ification of the Gadsden treaty. It is al so known from what quarter that opposi tion comes. We are induced to believe from the representations of Washington correspondents, that the question of the ratification of the Gadsden treaty, has assumed, to some extent, a sectional as pect, and then it encounters the opposi tion of tl * Senators from the North. W* presume their opposition springs from an apprehension least the acquisition of terri tory under the treaty may by possibility bring some advantage to the south. The pretext they aJlcdge, however, are of a character which betrays nothing of the real source of their opposition to the trea ty.—Richmond Enquirer. Our Minister to Spain.— The New York Mirror says: Mr. Soule, according to foreign new?, is gaining favor at the j Spanish Court. We said in the beginning,; that he would he either recalled, oi suc ceed in winning favor with is not improbable that he has aided in so- I menting the diffe it Mices between Spain! and England, and taking advantage of the ill state of feeling between these parties, found that favor with the Castilian Queen for which his gallant address and manners \ well fit him: and it may he he will con-! vince her tnat to sell Cuba to the Uoi'.cd j States will he the best method of temov-1 ing a bone of contention from the reach of j both fillibusterism and England. We can! afford to pay $ 100,000,000 for Cuba and can’t afford to hare the “Pearl of the An tilles” by any means leas honoTafele than! fair, open purchase. A Vehicle drivenhj Air. —A vehicle has been invented in France which is driven by compressed air. An Avignon paper chronicles the fact that one arrived there which had come from distance of fifty miles, in four hours. The car rage was divided like a house info various compartments for different uses, and con veyed upon this its first trip, one hundred persons. French high roads permit easi ly a speed of T 2 miles an hour. IJydroph >bia. — W e notice that tcii ca ses of death by hydrophobia have recent ly been reported to the Buffalo common council by the physicians of. that city.— The board has adopted a resolution to pay a.bounty of thontv five cts. for killing/ dogs. Till! JMliltSdlAN. GRIFFIN. APRIL|6,TBS4 CoTTitii.—Vi ry besf, 9 c nte. Olio IYlinstrela* It will be seen by reference to our ad vertising columns, that this inimitable corps of performers, will give two of their chaste and unique Concerts, at Concert Hall, on Friday and Saturday Evenings Their motto is “Fun without Vulgarity;” so none need fear on that score, but— Como low, eomo lull, Cm no jrreiil, < oir.o final’, Merry ones anil all. * Wore New Goods. We call the attentjy it} our renders to the advertisemfri^^ygjMf^iT^.?KF;r‘j wa ei. and of w jl be found on the opposite arc extensive, all new and of i u,v?st styles. Senator Benton’s Work. Wc call attention to our advertising columns in connection with this work.— Agents for the State are wanted. A prospectus has been left at the Post office- Heavy Frost. On Sunday and Monday nights last there was a keen north-west wind and hea. vy frost throughout middle and upper Georgia, doing much damage to the wheat crop and entirely destroying the young corn. Most of the planters arc replanting the hitter. Griffin Municipal Election. TI e result of the election in this city, on Monday last, for Mayor, Aldermen, Clerk, and Marshal, is as follows: For Mayor. W. R. PHILLIPS. For Aldermen, on W IT. HANCOCK, If. ir. BROWN , W. W. WOOD RVCF, J). B. CLOUD , LEE STRICKLAND. Fir Clerk, J. 11. LOO AN. For Marshal. W C. BUFFINGTON. The Black Warrior, abandoned to the 1 authorities at Havana, has been released, vessel and cargo, on paying a tine of s:x thousand dollars! She. sailed for Nfew York on the 24th ult., and arrived there on the 29th. It looks qnitc likely that this small matter of six thousand dol lars, may ultimately cost Spain the island of Cuba. We see by the Washington papers of | last week, that a stranger in that city lost between seven dollars, by having played un mrnTne “Patent Safe Trick.” We thought that every trick in use, was played off in Griffin within the last two weeks, but here is something new again. How little do some men know of their Bible or it c intents. We took up a pa per last we ik and read, “Facts for Me chanics,” and the first sentence under these “facts” was “St. Paul was a mechanic, a carpenter.” Yet we read, Acts the 18th. j Ist, 2d and 3d verses—“ After these things j Paul departed from Athens, and came to 1 Corinth. And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pont us, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla, (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to de part from Rome,) and came unto them. — And because lie was of the same craft, lie abode with them, and wrought (for by occupation they were tent-makers,”) So, if tents were made then as they arc now, St. Paul come nearer being a tailor than a carpcrrter, and rm r in ihr than either. { The Southern Convention. Several have asked ns why we have not called a meeting to scud Delegatee to the Southern Convention, which will be held ;n Charleston next Monday. Perhaps, a sufficient reply by us would be, why do you not call it yourself -it is q iite suffi cient if we print when others write in such matters. But we have thought It of I little consequence for Griffin to send dele ■ gates. Macon, Augusta, Columbus and j Savannah have each appointed a goodly I number, which will bo quite sufficient to attend to the interests of Georgia, in the Convention. We arc not opposed to th e Convention or to sending delegates, hut j we are doubtful whether any could be got jto go from here at their own expenses or j whether Council would feel themselves authorized to pay for them ) The Cemmittec of Arrangements, report ) that the following concessions have been granted by the several lines, ho far ns I heard from, vuhr>— M aeon 6i Wextern Railroad, Macon, Ga. I free passage. Line of Florida Steamers, half lure. Line of Savannah Stsamers, half fare. Line of Beaufort Steamers, half fare. President Cuyler, of the Central Rail road of Georgia, has notified the chairman of the committee that delegates returning from the convention will be taken free of charge, over the Central Railroad at Sav annah- Central & Muscogee Railroad. Central & Eatonton Railroad. Central & Milledgcville Railroad. Waynesboro & Augusta Railroad,and all the branches of the Central Rail road All these lines requiring the delegates and others visiting the convention bit the certificates of the appointments, or th rs cards of invitation. —Ciujpc of liie Abulitiou Ulei'Kj to bully Congress. We hare long been of opinion, that the greatest danger tj her liberties .which this free country lies to apprehend, is occupant upon her soil, and .nurtured upon her bo sora. Jehu waxed fat and kicked, and so does every one surrounded by coinfort, plenty and prosperity. We care not how bumble, righteous or pious lie iuay profess to be, it is all the same thing; as soon as a man may cease to struggle for his daily bread, anew impulse possesses him, and ambition becomes his ruling passion. We do not say there are no exceptions to this picture, but we do say the exceptions are “few and far between.” Nor do wc say that every one aspires to lie an Alex ander, or a Caesar, or a Bonaparte—they do uot nil seek to conquer and rule nations their Tiews, and consequently their am bition, are often more circumscribed.— Some arc only ambitious to lie the head or ruler of a church, a school, a society, a neighborhood, or an association. One is only ambitious to be a constable, another must be squire, and another Judge. One will move heaven and earth to go to the Legislature, another more ambitious will struggle up to Congress, and another must go still higher into the United States Senate or become the Governor and ruler of a sovereign and independent State.— One is only ambitions to be corporal or sergeant of best company No. ; another determines he will be lieutenant; another, still more ambitious for military fame, extends his aspirations and deter mines he will be captain; and others of still larger appetite, go for Major, or Colo nel, or General. One is content to be an humble singing-school master, and fa sol la is the height of his ambition; but anoth. or is as badly chagrined as Hainan, if an other leads the hymn in church while lie | has to follow. One is content to be a j Sunday School teacher, but another must jbe a claps leader, an elder, or exhort; jflomc must be preachers, ministers, pas ■ tors, priests, bishops, cardinals, popes! i Thus the struggle of ambitions aspiration | goesjon from day to day, year to year I generation to generation, and lias been going on ever since mother Eve aspired to be a goddess and to know good from evil. One of the most dangerous and alarming outbreaks of this passion, has just been perpetrated by the religious functionaries at the North; nothing less than an at tempt, by an array of their numbers and their cloth, to brow-beat the boimte of the United States, and hurl the anathemas of their hate and resentment, in the name the Most High, upon the devoted heads of honorable Senators. It is a piece of impudence, folly and professional suicide, such as has never before been exhibited in this country; and we hope, for the honor and prosperity of the pure and unadultera ted doctrines of the gospel, never to see it again. It is trying enough to a man’s common sense to be told that these per> sonages are the vicegerents of a Holy and Supreme Being, called by him to declare his will; but when they attempt to pro nounce His judgments and direct His ren gcanco, the thing becomes too bad. Al ready proceeding from these questionable l pretensions, one half of that country have become freethinkers and infidels; and judg ing from their course of action, one would not suppose that half the preachers in that section believe wlmt they they teach. In connection with this subject we take the following remarks from the Savannah Republican: Thu Clrrut and Nebraska.— One of the clerical protests against the Nebraska Bill—that one iu which Bishop Wain | wright heads the list of complaining 1 churchmen, —contains five “remonstrant ) CCS,” of which the last and strongest, reads ) as follows: | “We remonstrate against such a proce dure, as tending to produce alienation be | tween different sections of our beloved j country, great agitation and perilous dis- Hseusion, and exposing us to the. righteous judgment of Almighty (,'od . ’’ 1 hiugs h ivc come to a pretty pass tru ly, when the Representatives of the peo ple, in the discharge of their duty, tire sought to be brought under the control and dictation of the Free Soil clergy at the North-when they are to be me naced with the Divine wrath, should they dare to pursue a different policy from that which the clergy arc pleased to prescribe for them. By what right do these com plainants assume such a prerogative? By what authority—what revelation old or new—are they empowered thus to hold in terrorm over the heads of Congress; the avenging sword of Almighty God?— Where do they derive their right thus to speak for the Deity, and impiously to de clare what is His opinion of the Nebraska bill? Charge us not with irreverence, reader. Shocked and startled as you may be, at the idea which w r e have embodied in words; but irreverent aud impious though it seem, it is nevertheless the idea of these Bishops, Doctors and. Pastors. In their indecent zeal to bring into market the res pect which men feel for their cloth, thereto exchange it for political preponderance, and sectional ascendency, they have virtu ally assumed that they know the opinions of the Deity upon this subject, and have not scrupled to invoke the Divine judg ment upon all who differ with themselves in opinion. Their remonstrance savors more of a Papal bull, or an Imperial ukase, than of a protest, as their edict is courteously called. The same impious presumption is to be seen iu other remonstrances besides that 1 quoted. The mammoth New England memorial, introduced by Mr. Everett— but which was so heavy that he summon ed one of (he senate’s nttendauts to eon vey it to the table begins in like man ner:— “The undersigned clergymen of differ ent religious denominations in New Eng land, hereby, in the name of the Almighty God, a >4 in Jf s presence , do solemnly protest against what is known as the Ne braska bill, or any repeal or modification of the existing legal prohibition against slavery in any part of our national domain which it is proposed to organize into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas. ” 1 But we need not pursue this train of our argument further. Let us see what the objections of the Clergy are to this terribly iniquitous bill. We shall find their arguments weak, as their presump tion is mighty. “ A'e protest,” say they, “against-’ such a procedure as tending to produce preat agitation, and perilous dissension.” Whose fault is it, we beg to ask, that the factions of the North refuse to acknowledge a principle as old as the’ Republic herself, and upon which their very foundations are laid —the principle of self government?— I Whose fault is it that the Freesoilers, the 1 malcontents, and disorganizes of the | North, have risen in arms against the re peal of a measu e which from its birth, the North has denounced, and cried out a gainst—-the Missouri Compromise? Whose I fault that these factions are clamorous a- j gainst a bill which favors neither North, j South, East, or West, bnt leaves the ter-j ritory in dispute to be organized upon true Republican principles? ‘1 he Clergy themselves must bear the i brunt of blame for much of the agitation’ they deplore. They have given Freesoil isin respectability, for it is the nature of mankind to respect the clerical gown even ! before they know whether it contains an agitator or a man of peace. They lave clothed it in pontifical silk, invited it to a seat in their pulpits, and infused in its al most pulseless heart, new life, health and vigor Agitation had well nigh ceased when the Nebraska question came up; and if there be anything connected with the introduction of that bill, which we regret, it is the new lease upon life which it gives to Frecsoilism, and the pretext it affords agitator, clerical and lay, for raising dis sensions anew. Nothing, but a pretext have they, for the principles of the bill are just and right, the clergy to the contrary notwithstand ing. Had they not joined in the line and cry against it, the thinned and ragged ranks,of Abolitionism, though reinforced from the little .army of strung minded Am azons, would have found themselves unable j to disturb the quiet of the country, and j might have yelped’ on to the disgust of! Northern conservatives, and without in j th? least dirturbing the equanimity of the? -South. ‘1 he intelligent, and the.patriotic ! among the people north of the Patomae. j had become heartily sick of agitation in its j every phase. North and South a kindlier i feeling prevailed than had been known; for years, aud if this harmony is now to be broken; if discord is to rise anew; and dissension reign as in yore; it will be at- 1 uributable in no small degree to the inter s rmce of churchmen in matters that do not concern them; to their abandonment of their pulpits for the floors of Congress; to the example they have set the flocks and ; folds of which they are shepherds. The violence which the clergy seek to ! do the Const - tut ion of their country, by! making this question oue of conscience, and by giving it a religious hue, we do not comment upon, being satisfied that it is of! no use to argue against a policy which j need only be.tried to call forth an indig | nation which will be considerably stronger i than argument. THE FUTURE 4>F GEORGIA. The following are the concluding ’para graphs of an excellent article upon Cotton and its Cultivation, in the March number of Harper’s Magazine. They are fraught with instruction to the people of the South ern States: “Georgia has set an example of wisdom, and very soon she will possess within her self so completely all the elements of em pire, that she might be forever separated from the surrounding world and yet (1 >ur ish with unexampled prosperity. Upon her hilltops begin to smoke the wealth-a chieving furnace; the buzz of the cotton spindle mingles with the whisperings of her clear blue streams; the “iron horse” is far and wide circulating her products; her hertoforo isolated population is beginning to feel that a market is created for “home industry,” and that Georgia could, if the demand was mad*, make her shipment of uuginned cotton as obsolete as is now the shipment of cotton in the seed. What cares such a State whetner a foreign coun try enriches itself by spinning her cotton? The staple is produced by the wearing la bor ot tiie muscles of ineu, defiant of mala-. ria, and regardless of fever-breeding heat —the easier, an 1 quadruply more profitu- j ble work of manufacturing, by the never-j tiring engine, and the sinews of the spin- 1 and e and loom is at her command. Geor gia lias but to grasp the sceptre, aud she is commercially free. “Will her sister States, so rich in agri cultural products, and which are equally interested with her in the cultivation of the “great staple,” imitate her example? If they do so, “the South” will become, in the natural course of tilings, the most in dependent portion of our extending empire, and thus forever hold the benefits of a great cotton monopoly in her hands.” In connection with the above remarks, we will say a few words. Griffin has been i found one of the best locations for a seat l of learning in the State. As soon as Col 1. . , leges arc- established, either male or female, i of a high order, with scientific and accoin ! pfished faculties, the people, at home and J abroad, at once cry out, the very idea, and rush to the place, or send their children, and the Colleges arc promptly filled. This .has been the case, even before the Colleges were built. .Both the Female Colleges are well fitted, although neither are fully fin* \ ished yet, and the Male College has near a hundred studonts, although the edifice is i hardly yet commenced. Well, here is the question we wish to ask: J Would it not be the same thing in a man- j ufactliving''point of view, and might not education and manufactures very well go together? We can see no reason why they should not. The scholars and the operatives would hardly see each other. They would be wholly distinct, the one studying in College, and the other at work iu the Factory. We have long since been of opinion that Griffin was a capital loca tion for ono or more Cotton Factories. We arc induced to make these remarks, because there is a gentleman here ai this time from New Jersey, Mr. Wjldet, extensively engaged in manufacturing ma chinery at home, whonas selected Griffin as a most eligible site for a Cotton Facto ry, and is so confident in the success of such an undertaking and worth of stock, that he proposes to take one-feurth of it, pro vided the citizens will take the other three fourths. This is an opportunity that should not, be neglected. Such a Factory would bring many ad vantages to the city. It would give cm* ploy to many who need it. It would put many to work who now depend on public bounty, under the pretence that they can find nothing to do. It would increase the value of town property, and the sales of merchandise. It would increase the population, and the revenue of the city and country. GRIFFIN SYNODICAL FEMALE COL LEGE, The following resolutions were passed by the Presbytery of Flint River; which has just closed its session in this place. 1 The Presbytery, upon the invitation of j the President Rev. G. P. B. Marti k, hav i ing visited the Griffin Synodical Female College—desire to make an expression of I the pleasure derived from their visit. Therefore, Resolved, That the members of the Presbytery having been favored with a personal visit to the Female College, are greatly strengthened iu their conviction, that the wants of the church and true in terest of our Zion, imperiously demand the creation of such a school in our midst and that the present prosperity of the Col lege, afford reason f-.r gratitude and en- couragement to persevere in well doing. Resolved, Further, I hat in the opinion of this body, the Trustees and Synod have ! been signally fortunate in securing an able, devoted and efficient Faculty, worthy of the confidence so generously extended bv the public; and that we commend to the special patronage and affection of our Church, this fountain of a pure and Chris tian education, in which, as we confidently believe, the moral and intellectual charac | ters of our daughters are alike faithfully ! cultivated. For the Jeff roiua-. BATTLE OF THE LAKE. Major Clink, — Dear Sir: Great are the powers of mental association. Mem ory is its agent This, it wakes up, after ong dormancy, into life an 1 energy, puts a pencil of plastic efficacy into its grasp and causes it to recall to the mind’s vision scenes that eventuated long, long time ago. Have you not noticed, how the motion of a feather, the trembling of a leaf in the air, I the soft and passing note from a music : chord, will bring back to us some dear one. some friend, we parted with in sorrow, whom we loved more than ourselves; or joys par ticipated with others in days past, and which can still make our hearts gush w ; tli glad ness or grief known only to our owl bo soms? To exemplify the truth of these opera tions of the mind, let me say to you. I never wake to see the bright sun of a Sabbath morning, but there is called to my mind a scene, in terror indescribable, and which sent many to their long homes in the deep and dark chambers of death. 1 cannot forget them. Friends and foes fall.in battle, and sleep together noiselessly in the field where down they sunk, forget ting and forgot, by country, friends and kindred, unwept, unhonored, unsung, un paid, unrewarded, ancared for, by their country, tho’ willing sacrifices to its hon or, independence and renown. Neither wife nor offspring can tell where they lie stretched out in their last repose.— I “Ala* nor’wife nor child cn mnri*, Snail they bcliolu, nor sacred homo.” On Sabbath morning, Jane 6th, 1313, 41 years since, was fought the battle of the Lake. Then Time, with his scythe, j mowed down a rich harvest of human life, : ami there the war god, with h s truncheon, j slaughtered and fed, on noble carcases, : Death the King of terrors. I give you the narrative in few and aim ■ pie words. The facts are true anti solemn enough without the po.np of language. After the battle of Messasauga at the mouth of the far-sounding Niagara, where j many fell and America was crowned with the never fading laurel, Generals Winder I and Chandler marched a force of 3500 j men to Mile Creek, where had re i treated the British army This was a i very strong position in natural defences, being a very narrow detile between a inoun ; tain ou the left and Lake Ontario on the I right, and could have been held by a few I against thousands,- like Thermopylnt But on the approach of our army, the Bri tish, with their savage allies, retired to , Burlington heights, a strong position s tu j ated on the head of the Lake Ontario, 1 where they entrenched and prepared for ! the final struggle in Upper Canada Our i Generals pursued them on the sth June, ! and after severe skirmishing for two hours between the American advance and Bri- I tish rear-guards, bivouacked about sun-set, for the Alight, in a grain and grazing farm j through which the Lake road passed.— ; Their intention was to storm the enemy i in their works and capture them on the ! next dav. ‘1 he arrangement for the night was in ! this manner: The right wing lay on the right of the r ad, the left on a brow jof a high hill overlooking the farm, j a s nail park of light and field artillery iu J the centre, and a squadron of cavalry some hundred yards in the rear and on the ; road, ready to charge on any part of the j open field; the rifle regiment around the ! farm house obliquely m advance of tho main line to the left, two battalions oblique ly iu advance of the right on the lake shore. Out and inlaying piekett guards and sen (tinels were posted iu advance and around our position. I he march on the days previous was o ver a heavy road made so by heavy rains. The troops were much fatigued and slept with their arms by them on the bare ground. Iu a short time after night-fall, all the field was as silent as death, except the light foot-fall of the patrol going their rounds. 1 could not rest. With a young friend, an ensign of the 16th, I walked o ver the field about the witching hour, low 13. My reflections were inexpressible.— Men are solemn before, but fearless iu bat tle, being transported and carried out of their natural feelings by the death strug gle, the noise, shouts, yells, roar of arms, and thunder of battle ’ 1 is a tornado, ’tis hell in full blast, as it really was on that dark and dreary Sabbath morning. It was drizzling rain and very dark. I had just returned from my stroll over the field’ to the head of my regiment, half past
