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Tuesday August 30, 1859.
Anew post office has been established
and opened at Bellevue, FI rida, and
(’apt. diaries D. Fuy, appointed post
piaster.
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A telegraph line from Point Clear, to
Mobile, is completed, and in working
order. Dispatches can be sent through
from the former place to New Orleans.
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Among the missionaries who will sail
for Japan in November, we observe the
name of the Ilev. Mr. Allen, of the Geor
gia Conference.
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Tho large body of land, known as the
“Hollingsworth Survey” in Virginia,
and consisting of 80,000 acres, lias been
recently sold for SOO,OOO. Flighty cents
per acre
Wrn. Howe, Esq., for some time past
editor of the literary department of the
Tuskegee Democrat, has retired from that
position, which he announces in a grace
fully written valedictory in the last num
ber of that paper.
Wlilfc Frost in Dog Days.
It is stated by the Boston Transcript
that the very unusual visitation of a
white frost occurred Tuesday night, 10th
instant, at Ashland, Mass., Somerworth,
New Hampshire, aud the low grounds of
other localities.
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The Marianna Patriot learns that a
shooting affair occurred at Campbellton,
Jackson county, F’a., last Friday morning,
between Dr. J. P. Rawls and Safnuel T.
Shomaker, ia which the latter received
a severe wound in the hip, and had both
legs broken. It is thought he cannot re
cover. Dr. 11. is said to be unhurt and
to have fled.
Vote l'oi” Governor.
From the Confederation, of the 23d,
we learn that Moore’s majorityi n forty
six counties, in Alabama, amount to
29,303. There are six counties yet to hear
from which, in the opinion of the Confed
eration, will swell the majority to about
32,000. Stallworth’s official majority in
the Ist Congressional District, is 3,094.
Fire til Augusta.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says that
a tire broke out about half past 2 o’clock
Sunday morning last, in Augusta, in the
clothing store of Messrs. Ramsey & La
baw. Two lives came near being lost—
that of Mr. Warren, the book keeper, aud
Mr. Roberts, salesman, who were sleep
ing in the second story above. The cir
cumstance attending the fire leave no
doubt that it was the work of an incen
diary.
Crops on tUc Alabama.
The Southern Champion, of the 19th,
published at Claiborne, Ala., says: “F’or
the last week we have had a daily suc
cession of rains. Injury to the cotton
crop is supposed to be very great, from
the shedding of bolls, &c. The boll-worm
is also committing ravages on the cotton.
A large quantity of fodder will also be
lost from wet weather. The river has
risen several feet, but is now falling.”
“ Early Couiily News.”
Mr. E. 11. Grouby, formerly of the Ab
beville (Ala.) Advertiser, has issued a
prospectus for a weekly newspaper to be
published at Blakely, Ga. It will be neu
tral in politics and devoted to Agricul
ture, Commerce, Literature, and General
News. The proprietor intends to asso
ciate with him, a gentleman well qualifi
ed for the duties of an editor. The terms
will be $2 a year, payable on the recep
tion of the first number. We wish the
enterprising proprietor great success.
“Wliu Struck Hilly Patterson 1”
A correspondent of the Charleston Cour-.
ier, writing from New York, says :
A day or two ago, a gentleman named
William Patterson died at one of the towns
in the interior of this State, aged 8(3. The
obituary notice in the papers announced
the fact that lie was engiueer of the Rob
ert Fulton, on her first trip up the Hud
son river. Thesetwo circumstances com
bined—the name, and the celebrity of
having been Fulton’s first engineer—have
caused many persons to think that the
annourfeemeut is only a cruel hoax. Some
will insist that the person now represent
ed as having just died, is no other than
that celebrated character who was once
“struck.” But this is unfair, and it
makes one inclined to disagree with
Shakspeare, while ho wrote “What’s in a
name?” The great English dramatist,
had he lived to hear the absurd expres
sion of “Who struck Billy Patterson ?”
used, would doubtless have modified the
meaning of his much quoted saying.
Correspondence of (lie Sun.
Woodvillk, Ala., Aug. 21, 1859.
Eds. Sun: Last year Mr. David Col
lins, an energetic planter of Jackson
county, Florida, formerly of Baldwin
county, Ga., sold the first bale of new
cotton in this place on the 16th of August.
Thisyear, notwithstanding the extremely
unfavorableness of the season for the
opening and picking of cotton, finds him
only four days behind last year. He sold
in this place, on the 20th inst., one bale
of new cotton, weighing 587 lbs., at
121 cents per lb.
Respectfully, P. F. A.
Correspondence of (lie Sun.
Bellevue, Fla., Aug. 20, 1859.
Eds. Sun: 1 have received to-day two
bales of new Cotton for shipment to Apa
lachicola. They are from the plantation
of Hamilton G. Bryan, of this county.
Tho first new bale last year came from
the same plantation, and was received on
the Gth of August. Yours truly,
Tlie Weather, Crops, &c.
The Alabama Whig says: We hear
some of our planters, living on the black
lands, complaining smartly of the worm
in the cotton. Some say that the crop
is cut off about half—others report not so
much damage done.
The Quincy (Fla.) Republic says:
The weather has been quite pleasant
for the past week, the rainy season having
entirely ceased, we hope. W e have heard
complaints from several farmers of the
injury done to the cotton crpp, by the
heavy rains. The cotton has been shed
ding, and, in some parts of the country,
has been injured by rust.
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New Cotton.
We are informed that Messrs. E. C.
Wade & Cos. sold yesterday one bale of
new cotton, the first bale received from
South Carolina, at 14 cents. This was a
bale of very superior quality, and was
purchased by Messrs. Muller & Michels,
of this city, who have shipped it per
steamer Locust Point to New York. Its
weight was six hundred and thirty
pounds, and it was grown on the planta
tion of Edward S. Riley, Esq., Black
Swamp, Beaufort-District, S. C.—Savan
nah News, of 21th.
VOLUME IILI
Speech of C. L. Vanlandigham,
The Hon. C. L. Vanlandigham, the
successor of the notorious Lewis D. Camp
bell in the last Congress, made a speech
recently at Middletown, on the Hamilton
and Dayton Rail Road, Ohio. We have
condensed a report the Cincin
nati Daily Commercial.
Mr. V. said be supposed the first thing
in order would be some account of lifs
; stewardship in Congress. In the last
Congress he did not take his seat (con
tested with Campbell) until near the
close of the session ; but during that and
the short term several questions of inter
est came up. He had been censured for
voting on Crow’s amendment to the
Homestead Bill; but, ho thought it mon
: strous that the representatives of the old
, States—of which Ohio was one —should
be required to vote away tlie common
property of all the States in the public
i lands, on terms that excluded the people
’ of Ohio, except upon conditions of ex
ile. He voted for the bill because that
i enabled any citizen of Ohio to take his ,
axe and rifle, and acquire 160 acres of
Western land by three year’s occupation j
and cultivation. Had he lived in lowa,
he wonld have voted for Grow’s amend
ment in deference to lowa constituents ;
but the effect of such a law as Grow
; would have framed would have been to
! offer a premium to citizens of Ohio to
| emigrate.
Another question that arose was the
admission of Oregon. She had adopted
a Constitution excluding slavery. The
Republicans opposed her admission be
cause negroes were excluded from citi
zenship ; but the people of Oregon, ns
popular sovereigns had the right to ex
clude negroes, andhe voted forher admis
sion.
One of the Republican charges against
the Administration was that of extrava
gance and corruption. He charged upon
the Opposition majority elected in 1854,
the greater part of the extravagance
with which the Administration is now
blamed. The same Congress which was
the only Republican one ever elected, ex
ceeded all others in gross corruption.—
The report of the Matteson investigating
committee fixed that odium upon the Re
| publicans, aud he denounced Seward for
l endorsing Matteson’s integrity. In the
Navy Department there was probably
some corruption, but Democrats had never
been convicted of it and Buchanan’s per
sonal integrity had never been assailed.
It had begun in this department some
time previonsly. Corruption is incident
to human nature, and necessarily exists
iin all large political bodies. When the
i Democrats detected rascals, they dropped
(them; but when the Republicans dis
! covered their own rascals they endeavor
ed to shield them.
Upon the Cass-LeClerc letter he said
j that whatever views may have been ex
| pressed by the Administration it was a
sufficient for him to know that upon
! that question now it was all right, and
j the rights of naturalized citizens firmly
! settled. In a State campaign he had
hoped to be spared the necessity of re
curring to that disgustiug topic, the “nig
ger question.” With tho slave nigger in
the States and Territories we had no bus
iness ; it was the status of the free nig
! ger that had to be considered. Ourfatli-
I er’s had settled that question, and it
i ought to be permitted to rest forever.—
Popular sovereignty in the Territories,
I and non-interveutiou for or against sla
! very was the doctrine of the Democratic
’ party. The free nigger (!) among them
; was their nigger, and the issue made by
; the Republicans was whether he should
f be promoted to equal social and political
privileges. He had seen Oiddings skulk
this question, because lie expected to be
; a candidate for Governor; yet he would
kill Federal officers engaged in executing
the laws. The status of the free negro
was fixed by the Constitution framed by
our forefathers. The forms of the Con
stitution also confined citizenship to the
white man, and the term white discrimi
nated between the negro and all other ra
ces. No race were enslaved but negroes ;
they were “Pariahs,” a downcast race,
and it was never designed they should en
joy citizenship, or decide questions of
i right and justice.
The negro population were not un
represented, as the three-fifths rule in
! the South, and the representation accord
to population in the North left no room
! for complaint. The repeal of the Fugi
| live Slave Law would be an abrogation
of the Constitution, and would absolve
the South from respecting it. The trial
by jury had not been conceded, and it
was not consistent with justice aud right
that it should. As to the revival of the
Slave Trade, the Democracy would no
more permit it. than would the South con
sent to the repeal of the Fugitive Slave
Law. The speech occupied about two
l hours and half.
Oliver Baldwin, Esq.
Oliver P. Baldwin, Esq., of the Rich
mond Dispatch, has determined to deliv
er a course of lectures through the South
| ern States, during the approaching sea- j
sou. We would be pleased if he shall 1
| include Columbus in his route, and very 1
cheerfully aid in extending the informa- :
tion above. We annex an extract from
the Charleston Courier:
Mr. Baldwin, both as writer and speak
er, has earned and maintained a high
place, and is one of tlie best and most
successful lecturers of the country.
We commend him in advance, to breth
: ren of the press, and confidently advise
all Associations and Committees, in any |
of our cities, towns or villages, who may |
desire a lecturer during the fall or win
ter, to make application in time.
Mrs. Betsey Danfortb, of Franklin,
New Hampshire, mysteriously disappear
ed on the 24th of July, and was found on
the 19th August, in a slough hole about
a mile from the house where she lived,
still alive, but reduced almost to a skele
ton. She says the only sustenance she
| had for the twenty-six days was water.
Mrs. D. is seventy-four years of age, and
partially deranged.
Health of Savannah.
The Commissioners of Health of Savan- i
nah Lave reported that the health of that
city was never better than it is at this
period. They express the opinion that j
the recent rains will be no exciting cause
of disease.
Venice (He Beautiful.
The sketch of Venice, by Madame Le-
Vert, of Mobile, which we copied recent- I
ly, was contributed by that lady origi
nally to the Mobile Mercury. By mis- i
take it was credited to the Tribune, when
i the credit should have been given to the
former paper.
Tlie Law in Louisiana on Free Ne
groes.
The Legislature of Louisiana has enact
ed aver stringent law against the Intro
duction of free persons of color into that
State. It takes effect from the first day
of September, 1859, and provides that the
police authorities shall lodge in jail any
free person of color coming ir.to the State
on board any steamer plying out of the
limits of the State, and is to remain im
prisoned until she leaves. The Captain
of such vessel can release the negro by
executing a bond of five hundred dollars,
conditioned that the steamer will leave
the port in twenty-four hours, and when
discharged the master must pay forty
cents for every day the negro lias been
confined.
The Harbor-Masters are required to
exact from the masters of vessels coming
into port a written statement, on oath, of
the number, name and place of residence
of every free person of color brought by
him, on board his vessel. A similar state
ment 13 required to be furnished the Chief
of Police. Any master violating this
provision of the law is liable to a fine of
$250.
The act gives the informer of any vio
lation of it one-half the fines collected,
and makes him a competent witness.
What will become of the free negroes ?
Will their abolition friends do any better
for them than for the slaves they have
decoyed from comfortable homes in the
South ?
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Black Republican National Com
mittee.
This body, consisting of twenty-five
representatives, from nearly as many
State?, convened recently at Albany,
New York, and issued a circular to their
brother negrophilists throughout the
Union. Among the States represented
were Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and
Tennessee. The circular urges (that the
time for preliminary action in regard to
the approaching Presidential election has
arrived, and advises the thorough inter
change of sentiment between Republi
cans ; public addresses and the circula
lation of documents and Republican jour
nals throughout tho country, exposing
the position and principles of the party,
and an effective organization in each
State, county and town, so as to ascer
tain its strength and deficiencies before
engaging in the Presidential campaign.
To give practical effect to the foregoing
suggestions the members of this political
Sanhedrim pledged their undivided re
sponsibility for tlie faithful expenditure
of all pecuniary offerings contributed by
their friends. The Committee, in ccnclu
sion, express their belief that the times
arc auspicious for the success of the
Black Republicans.
This looks like the enemy had begun
to marshall their forces, which exist
now in twenty-five States of the Union.
The signs aro ominous of the “ irre
pressible conflict” foretold by Seward.
Let the South be prepared for the issue.
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VanlaiidigUam on the Negro Ques
tion.
Ia another place will be found the
viejvs of the successor of the abolitionist,
Lewis D. Campbell, in Congress, which
were enunciated by him in a speech re
cently delivered to his constituents in
Ohio. It will be remembered that Camp
bell contested his election, and as the
contest was prolonged, Vanlandigham
did not take his seat until near the close
of the session. Ilis view of the “nigger
question” and the true issue forced upon
the sound conservative men of the North
by the abolitionists, is, whether tlie free
negro shall be elevated to equal social
aud political rights with tlie white man.
Unhappily there are few men in tlie non
slaveholding States who espouse the ne
gative of this question, else slavery as it
exists in the States and Territories, would
be left in abeyance at least until that ques
tion was settled among themselves. We
believe Vaniandigham’s construction of
the Kansas Bill quadrates with the
Southern view of the question. He is
one of those sound men of the North who
recognize the equal rights of the South
in the Union.
Georgia Deaf anil Dumb Institute.
Mr. S. F. Dunlap, Principal of the
Deaf and Dumb Institute, Floyd county,
Ga., is canvassing the country for the
purpose of seeking out that afflicted
class entitled to the benefits of that Insti
tute. The Waynesboro News, says that Mr.
Dunlap has recently been on a visit to
that section of the State, and has been
presented by him with a report of the
school, from which it appears that forty
six pupils have been matriculated since
tlie date of the last report, and that the
action of the Legislature in endowing tlie
Institute, has already resulted in the hap
piest effects.
Bank Debtors.
The Tuskaloosa Monitor says; The
next legislature will make some disposi
tion of the remaining judgments of the
old State Bank. They will doubtless be
sold at public auction. Parties against
whom the Bank holds judgments would
find it greatly to their interest to compro
mise the same with the Bank Attorneys
before tlie meeting of the next legislature;
as they would thereby not only prevent a
public exposition of their former delin
quencies, but in many cases avoid subse
quent litigation, as companies are already
being formed throughout tlie State for
the purchase of such of judgements
as exist against parties who have recent
ly become solvent.
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Delegate from 17tali.
The Salt Lake mail, which arrived at
Atchison on the 18th, reports that Capt.
Hooper, formerly Secretary of the Terri
tory, had been nominated for Congress in
place of Dr. Bernhisel.
Prof. S. G. Hillyer has accepted the
Chaplaincy and Professorship of Theolo
gy of Mercer University.
The first bale ot new cotton was received
at Memphis on the 17th, from Bolivar
county, Mississippi.
Quick Passage.
The mail which left New York on the
16th arrived at New Orleans the 20th.
Health of New Orleans.
The Board of Health of New Orleans
report 116 deaths for the week ending
August 15th. There is no yellow fever.
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Rev. E. W. Warren.
This gentleman, formerly, we believe,
of Lumpkin, Geo., has arrived in Macon,
to take charge of the Index, as editor.
A negro being asked if his master was
a Christian replied, “No, sir—he’s mem
ber of Congress.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, AUGUST 30, 1859.
Tlie Black Republican Circular.
In our article of yesterday we noticed
the assembling of the National Committee
—the Executive Committee, we suppose—
of the Black Republicans, at Albany, New
York, aud their action in the premises.
Since then we have concluded to give, in
its entirety, the circular prepared and
addressed to their friends throughout the
country. The reader will be enabled to
ponder it well,’ and better to draw his
own inferences.
Their plans and purposes arc clear and
unequivocal, and the issue well and clear
ly defined. It requires no prophetic vis
ion to perceive that their object is the
ultimate extinction of slavery, and to this
end the rc-construction of the Govern
ment. The possession of the numerical
strength sufficient is all that will be nec
essary to enable them to effect this un
hallowed purpose. What progress have
they made towards it? In 1840, with
James C. Birney as its candidate for
President, it made its first appearance
as a national organization, and polled the
insignificant number of 7,000 votes.
What is their strength to-day ? In 1856,
with Fremont as standard-bearer, they
polled 1,341,812 votes. These data best
illustrate the extraordinary increase of a
party which, like a cloud at first no big
ger than a man’s hand, has gradually ex
tended, and now numbers its friends in
twenty-five States of the Union.
How is the hydra-headed monster to
be checked ? Is it by divisions among
ourselves, and contests over unimportant
and indistinct issues ? Disguise it as we
may, the struggle in this Government is
reduced to the question whether slavery
and the Constitution or anti-slavery and
higher-lawism shall have the ascendancy.
There is no dodging the issue on the part
of the Black Republicans, and in this
this respect we trust their example will
be imitated by the South. If they tri
triumph let its consequences be due to
something else than our own suicidal pol
icy and criminal neglect.
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Two Hours with Brigham Young.
Elsewhere in this paper we have pub
lished at length the account furnished by
Horace Greeley to liis paper, of his two
hours’ interview with the President and
elders of the Mormon church, or as they
style themselves, by way of excellence,
the Latter-Day Saints. In his first letter
after his arrival at that refuge of the
faithful, he expressed liis determination
to remain several days, for the purpose
of studying the Mormons and Mormon
ism.
In his conversation with Brigham, it
seems that lie took especial occasion to
elicit the doctrines and polity of the
church respecting the institution of sla
very ; and was astonished—we suspect—
to learn that they regarded it as of Divine
origin. It is a little astonishing that the
Latter-Day Saints have divorced “ Free-
Love” and “ Free-Niggerism.”
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Politics in New Orleans.
The contest for the nomination in the
American Clubs was, says the Delta, a
very close and earnest one. There were
three contestants—Judge T. G. Hunt, J.
E. Bouligny, and C. D. Dfeux. The for
mer is Judge of the First District Court,
and formerly a representative in Congress
from the Second Congressional District.
Among tho representatives from the Cot
ton States in Congress, he stood alone in
opposition to the Nebraska-Kansas bill.
Ilis opponents for the nomination are
young Creoles of tlie American party.
Bouligny was finally nominated, by a ma
jority of two votes.
Mr. Charles Bienvenu, also a Creole,
has been nominated by the “State Rights
party.” The Delta says tlie whole aspect
of political parties in New Orleans is one
of perplexing confusion, owing to the ab
sence of distinct and clearly defined is
sues. In tliis respect, New Orleans is not
the only theatre of parties contending
without distinctly marked issues.
Cotton m Charleston from Columbus.
The Daily Mercury of the 23d, says :
“The first bale of new cottcn received in
this city, which was from the warehouse
of Hughes, Daniel & Cos., of Columbus,
Ga., was sold yesterday by Hopkins, Hud
son & Cos. to James Bancroft, Jr., at 12
cents, quality about Middling.
Tho same has been shipped by steamer
Columbia, Captain Berry, to New York,
and consigned to Messrs. James Bancroft
& Cos., of that city.
Hon. J. F. Claiborne, writing to the
Rural Gentleman, recommends in strong
terms, the Rescue Crass for winter and
summer pastures. He says it was origi
nally found on the plantation of Mr.
Iverson, Columbus, Ga., and has proved
a decided success, growing finely upon
compartively exhausted soil, and yielding
an abundant crop of hay as well as
pasturage.-
lion. H. \V. Hilliard.
A correspondent of the Daily Times
suggests the Hon. Ileury W. Hilliard, of
Alabama, as a suitable person to succeed
Dr. Cliureh iu the Presidency of the Uni
versity at Athens. He very truly says,
he “possesses in an eminent degree, those
qualifications which fit him for the posi
tion.”
Tlie Crops in Hancock.
The Central Georgian says : We regret
to learn from a number of planters, in
this county, that the cotton crop lias been
injured to some extent by the recent pro
tracted rains. Should the weather now
continue dry for any considerable length
of time, the crop will be cut short in this
country.
Crops in Houston.
The Nineteenth Century, published at
Fort Valley, speaking of the recent heavy
rains, says : Cotton is beginning to shed
its forms alarmingly, and the boll-worm
is making its appearance in the bottom
lands ; nevertheless, a vast cotton crop
is anticipated.
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Sewing Machine Factory Burned.
Geo. B. Sloats & Co's Sewing Machine
Factory in Philadelphia, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday last. Insured for
$30,000. It was the work of an incen
diary. Nearly 7000 bauds are thrown
out of employment.
More New Cotton at Selma.
The Selma Reporter says, that eight
bales of new cotton were received in that
city the 22d, from the plantation of Geo.
Tate, of Dallas county. It was sold at
12 cents.
Mr. William Skinner, Sr., an old and
respectable citizen, died at his residence
near Waynesboro, Ga., on the 16th inst.,
of typhoid fever.
Griffin mill Decatur llail lload.
A committee of delegates, from the
counties of Coweta and Spalding, assem
bled at Griffin, Ga., the 20th instant, to
consider the importance of the proposed
connection of Griffin, by rail road, with
Decatur, Alabama.
The meeting was organized by calling
Major Grace, of Coweta, to the chair and
requesting H. R. Harrison and 11. B.
Holliday to act as secretaries.
Judge Cochran of Brunswick, and Pres
ident of the Macon and Brunswick Bail
Hoad, was present and made a speech
advocating the State’s lending her aid to
lloads, when there is no chance of losing
thereby.
The following resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That a meeting of the cor
porators of the Griffin and Decatur Hail
Hoad be held at Newnan on Wednesday,
the 15th day of September next, for the
purpose of an immediate organization,
and a prompt movement towards the
making up of the stock for said road.
The Empire State has heard of one
man who will give §2,000 independent of
the stock he will take hereafter. Anoth
other has agreed to take the contract to
Newnan, and take Half the amount in
stock, provided the stockholders will se
cure the other half.
The Empire State proposes that the
corporation of Griffin endorse the bonds
of the company to the amount of $50,-
000 to §IOO,OOO upon the same principle
that aid is asked of the State. We pre
sume this subject will he fully discussed
before the next Legislature, as they rely
upon the aid of the State.
Tile Hog Crop.
The Cotton Planter and *Soil of the
South, has a correspondent from Green
county, Ala., who, we think, takes a sen
sible view of the prospect of our supply
of meat. He says thousands of hogs
have died this summer, and are still dy
ing in the South and West. Not less than
two thousand have died in this (Green)
county within the past month of the so
called hog cholera. We think also that
the European war,"just closed, has in
creased the foreign demand for food—to
feed thousands whom its vicissitudes have
thrown out of employment, as many of
them were agricultural producers, and
have been withdrawn from the cultivation
of the soil and the production of food.
As usual, when cotton commands a fair
price, as it did last winter, the planters
have this season planted largely for cot
ton, to the neglect of corn crops. The
West may meet our demands for pork,
but it is due to the planter’s own inter
est to supply himself, at least, with corn.
It seems strange, with the experience we
have, that the planting community should
so persist in the neglect of so important a
part of their economy, as to devote their
principal energies to the cultivation of
cotton, and trust to the uncertainties of
the market for buying pork. Many who
have pursued this policy have learned,
to their cost, that—“cotton may be cheap*
and corn and meat dear.” We fully co
incide in the opinion, that meat is dear
to the planter at any price when he has
it to buy.
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson. •
A New York correspondent of the
Charleston Couriei’, seems to think that the
Donelly letter of Gov. Wise and its conse
quences, has resulted in a compromise
between the “Hards” and “Softs.” The
following is an extract from his letter :
Mr. Dickinson is likely to be the New
York candidate in earnest. I think the
Softs will adopt him, and go to Charles
ton honestly, and endeavor to get him
nominated. It is positively asserted by
one of the Regency, that Mr. Dickinson
has given pledges and guarantees perfect
ly satisfactory to those Democrats who
control the State organization. It has
somewhat changed my views. I believed
that the Now York thirty-five delegates at
Charleston, would give a complimentary
vote to the ex-Senator, but I did not think
they would seriously endeavor to nomi
nate him. It looks like it now. The rea
son for this change in Albany feeling, is
that, witli the smashing up of the Wise
and Wood train, there was danger that
public opinion, would shape towards
Douglas, and that it could not becontroll
ed a few months hence. To prevent this
the Softs, who are always ready for a
bargain, when they can gain any thing by
it, have adopted the “Hard” leader, Mr.
Dickinson, and they will make this State
a unit for him at Charleston. If all are
honest, the chances are that Mr. Dickin
son will get the nomination at Charleston,
and decidedly better than any other Dem
ocrat yet named.
Soutlicm JXlnuufactcries.
It gives us infinite pleasure at all times
to notice any improvement in the South
ern manufacturing interest, as it tends
more than any one cause, to develop the
almost exhaustless resources of the
South, and at the same time renders us
less dependent upon our Northern neigh
bors for many of the necessaries of daily
consumption. The Gallatin (Tenn.) Ex
aminer, of the loth, has the following
cheering intelligence for the good people
of that town:
The Cotton Factory.—This establish
ment was sold under execution on the Gth
instant, and was purchased by Messrs.
Bernice Bender, Win. 11. Solomon, Win.
McMurry, J. Blackmore, and C. E. Bod
die We are glad that it has fallen into
such hands. The company possess am
ple capital, and design running it vigo
rously. In a few weeks, after certain
repairs are made, and everything put in
“ship-shape” order, operations will be
resumed, and we have eveiy confidence
that it will run steadily, and not spas
modically, as it has in late years. Con
ducted in this manner it will be a great
benefit to the community, as well as
profitable to the owners, and we believe
it a matter of congratulation, in all quar
ters, that it is under the control of a
company of so much ability in every re
spect.
Mr. P. 11. Clayton, formerly of Mont
gomery, Ala., has been nominated in
Sacramento county, Cal., as the Lecomp
ton Democratic candidate for the Legis
lature.
Col. C. M. Pennington, of Rome, Ga.,
Las been elected Chief Engineer of the
Nashville and Chattanooga Rail Road,
and has left his home for the scene of his
duties.
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Biorth Carolina State Boniis.
On the 19th instant, $3,000 worth of
North Carolina G per cent. State bonds
were disposed of in New York, at $94 50
per hundred.
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Judge Hogan, of the State Department,
has been appointed translator in place of
Professor Dimitry, who has lately accept
the mission to Nicaragua.
Tire Muscogee Hail Road.
The Selma Sentinel, commenting on the
recent favorable report of the Muscogee
Rail Road, seems io find iu its success an
earnest of the future of the projected Sel
ma and Gulf Road. The following is the
article from the Sentinel:
The above named road extends east
from Columbus 50 miles, to Butler, where
it connects with an arm of the South
western road from Macon. It crosses a
desert like country much of the way—a
stunted blackjack, sandy region, iucapa
ble of producing much buzzard or crow ‘s
food.
Now wc want to know if a line of road
across such a region of country can pay
as this Muscogee does, what will our Sel
ma and Gulf Road which passes through
a rich r. gicn of country —where it will
command between 30,000 and 40,000
bales of cotton on the line, besides nu
merous other large freights, and from
Selma will take from 75,000 to 100,000
bales of cotton besides vast quantities of
mineral freights, manufactures, &c. while
it will bring from the Gulf ports heavy
loads of goods and groceries, fish and fruits
productions of the Gulf and tropics, de
stined for the supply of several millions
of people in our State, and those North—
we say we want to know what will our
Selma and Gulf road, so much more fav
orably situated than this Muscogee, pay.
It seems indeed to us, comparing it with
several of the Georgia roads, that it can
hardly fail to pay some twenty odd per
cent.
We intend to follow up this matter of
investigation still more closely believing
our readers deeply interested therein.
The Work Progresses.
The Pulaski (Tenn.) Citizen says that
the connection of Nashville, in that State,
with Decatur, Ala., by rail road, will be
completed early next year. The track is
now laid from Nashville down to ten miles
south of Columbia; and from Decatur
twenty miles north.
The Montgomery Mail says Decatur
will then have a direct railway commu
nication with the great lakes by way of
Nashville and Louisville, as well as with
the Mississispi river at Memphis, &c.
Only imagine what a tide of produce and
passengers would then flow to and
through Montgomei'y, if we could build a
road up to Decatur !
Should the Central Rail Road, project
ed from Decatur, be built, the road from
Opelika by way of Dadeville, will inter
sect it probably at Elyton. Columbus
will then have a direct connection with
the great lakes, by way of Nashville and
Louisville, and the Mississippi at Mem
phis. “Only imagine what a tide of pro
duce and passengers would then How to
and through” this city ! In any event
the connection from Opelika with the
Tennessee road will be made.
Tire Mission to Central America..
Prof. Dimitry, who has recently been
appointed Minister to Central America in
place of Gen. M. B. Lamar, is repre
sented to be a man of fine attainments,
and of varied scholarship. Avery im
portant qualification in a Minister to a
country like that, is that he should be
conversant with the Spanish language,
and he is said to speak it with great case
and flueucj'. Owing to the difficulties
that have environed our diplomatic inter
course with Central America, the rep
resentation of this Government there
has‘arisen to the importance of a first
class mission —one evidence of .vhich
is evinced in the tendering of the
appointment to General Cushing, who
declined it. Diplomacy is successful
generally, with nations far advanced
in the arts of civilization, but still the
adherence of this countryto the Monroe
Doctrine, and the extreme jealousy with
which France, and particularly England,
have manifested toward our intercourse
and progress in that direction, renders
the appointment of a competent man, of
the greatest importance, not oixly to the
South but the whole country. Gen. La
mar found Diplomacy there of little avail,
but it is hoped Dimitry will be more suc
cessful.
Death of Albion.
The Gallatin (Tenn.) Examiner states
that this celebrated race horse died at
the stables of Col. George Elliott, near
that place, o nthe 18th inst. ne had been
owned for some j-ears by Col. Elliott,
who had been standing him. His oldest
colts here are four years old, and have
been making their mark upon the turf
from New York to Charleston, as amongst
the best, if not the best, racers in the
United States, for all distances. Amongst
his most distinguished colts are Bill
Cheatham and Bill Bearing, bred by
Col. Elliott; Socks, bred by Dr. Shelby;
and Hiawatha, bred by Col. Guild, and
the Ceene Richards colt. It is stated that
Col. E. had an offer of SBOOO for Albion
within a few weeks past. lie was about
22 years old at his death.
Senators Givln am! Broderick.
These gentlemen are at present can
vassing the State of California, and their
discussions are reported to be of a very
acrimonious nature. Broderick charges
Gwin as “dripping with corruption” and
unworthy of confidence, a3“no one believ
ed what lie said in the Senate.”
Gwin retorts by denouncing Broderick
as “ a traitor” and reflects upon his at
tempts to address public meetings Such
sparring between Senators occupying
high places, is certainly unparliamentary,
to say the least of it, and if persisted in,
will end with a meeting upon the “field
of honor,” —that is if Gwin will fight, and
Broderick recognizes him as occupying a
social position higher than the French
gentleman who lately challenged him in
New Orleans.
Free Negroes.
The N. O. Picayune, commenting on the
stringent law enacted by the Legislature
of Louisiana, says:
“It will be well for all masters of ves
sels and steamboats trading with this State
to bear in mind the provisions of thi3 law, •
as it will save them from much trouble,
and perhaps pecuniary loss. The evils
attending the increase of a free negro pop
ulation and more particularly the inter
course of free persons of color from abroad
with our slaves, caused the passage of
this stringent law.
New Cotton.
Two bales of new cotton, the receipt
of which was noticed in our last issue,
were sold yesterday and brought 13c.
They go forward to New York, to-day,
by steamer. One of them was from the
plantation of Samuel G. Davis, near Al
bany, forwarded by Sims & Rust, and
sold by Messrs. Bebn & Foster. As we
could not come up with our reporter, we
failed to obtain the particulars in rela
tion to the other bale.— Chronicle Sent.
A crop of 7,000 bushels of prime wheat
has been gathered from one plantation in
Davidson county, N. C. An offer of 90
cents per bushel was made for the entire
crop, at Lexington, N, C., but it was re
fused.—Charleston Mercury.
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Kail Road Barbacue at Dadeville.
The Tallapoosa papers report that the
Rail Road barbacue gotten up, to further
the projected conuectiou with Columbus,
at Opelika, came off at Dadeville on Fri
day, the 19th. The crowd iu attendance
was variously estimated, says the Times,
at from 1,500 to 2,500 persons. In the
forenoon speeches were made by Dr.
Griffin, of Talladega, and Esqs. McCraw,
Alford and Vaughan, of Tallapoosa, iu
which the practicability and importance
of the Road were most impressively set
I forth. Col. Rowe being called for, an
nounced a committee to receive subscrip-
I tious, alter making some remarks.
After dinner speeches were made by
Esqs. Garrett, Burns, Goss and Brooks.
The Times was uninformed as to ’the
amount of stock subscribed on the occa
sion, but thinks it must have been con
siderable.
The Rev. John R. Slaughter was elect
ed President of the Road, and has ap
pointed Rail Road meetings for Septem
ber at Youngvillo, Pinckneyville, Gam
: ble’s Store and Socopatoy. Several
! speakers will be iu attendance on the oc
| casions.
Slieep Raising In Texas.
The Gonzales Enquirer says : “A Hock
of some fifteeu hundred head of Mexican
: sheep and goats crossed the river at that
place last Thursday, going East. In
order that the reader may form some
idea of the extent of this busiuess in our
State, we will here remark that from a
safe calculation of one of our sheep
raisers, it is estimated that not less than
j one-fourth of a million of sheep have
been brought into Texas from Mexico
since the Ist of January last, exclusive
of those imported from Tennessee, Illi
: nois, Missouri, and Arkansas. It is also
i estimated that by the Ist of next January
this number will have been doubled, thus
making something like a half a million of
sheep brought from Mexico into our
State during the year. Os the number
already brought in it is thought that
I about seventy or eighty thousand have
crossed the river at this place.”
The Observer says, that the United
: States District Court adjourned at Pen
sacola on the 19th, after a ldng session.
William Thomas who was convicted of be
| ing accessory to the murder of a Spaniard
i in command of the barque Rawlins, was
in consideration of the recommendation
of the jury, sentenced to three years im
prisonment in the penitentiary in the
District of Columbia, and to pay a fine of
one dollar. He, and four others sen
tenced to the penitentiary, left for Wash
ington City, in charge of the United
States’ Marshal.
Tire Southern Steamship Company.
We are glad to learn, says the Boston
Ti’aveller of Saturday, that this company,
incorporated to run a line of steamships
between this port and Savannah, have
j about completed the necessai'y arrange
| ments for a commencement of the enter
prise. They have concluded contracts
with Mr. Loring, the well known steam
j boat constructor, for two substantial sea
i going steamers, to be finished by the first
of June, 18G0. Next year, therefore,
will witness the establishment of a line
not only with Savannah, but also, it is
anticipated, with the important port of
New.Orleans, which will make four lines
running to the southern ports of the At
lantic.
Prize Medical Essay.
The South Carolina Medical Associa
tion, of Charleston, with the view of pro
moting the interest of its meetings and
increasing the value of essays presented,
\ have resolved to offer a prize of one hun-
I dred dollars for the best essay on a sub
ject in any one of the departments of
medical science. Those competing for
i the prize are to send in their productions
| to the corresponding secretary by the
first of January, 18G0.
I Dr. Cloud’s Southern Rural Magazine.
This excellent periodical for Septem
; ber has made its appearance early. The
contents of the Agricultural, Horticultu
ral, and other departments, are attractive
and interesting, as usual, to planters. This
magazine is very practical in its charac
ter, and disseminates a great deal of use
ful information to all engaged iu the cul
ture of the soil. It is published at the
Job Office of the Montgomery Advertiser,
at SI,OO in advance.
Surgical Operation.
lion. Sherard Clemens recently sub
mitted to a painful surgical operation, at
Easton, Pennsylvania. The operation
consisted in the removal of a portion of a
detached bone in his thigh, which has
been a source of irritation to the limb
since his duel with Wise. After the bone
was removed, a portion of the ball was
found embedded in it.
Crops iu Pike County.
By a private letter from Pike county,
Alabama, we learn that “ farmers com
plain a great deal of rust in cotton, and
the falling off of squares, &c. The dam
age has been caused by the wet weather,
and no doubt the crop is injured a great
deal.”
Parson Bronlow has announced his in
tention to visit the mountains of Vir
ginia, to recruit his exhausted health.
He says : While we desire to live for the
benefit of our family, we have no wish to
gratify a numerous class of human beings
by giving up to die.
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The members of the Order of the Sons
cf Malta, are making preparations at
Washington City for a grand tournament
near the city. It is intended to be one of
the most magnificent tournaments ever
gotten up in the country. —Knight3 from
every State in the Union will enter the
lists.
The official returns from 39 counties in
Tennessee, indicate that Head is ahead of
the numerous candidates for Attorney
General iu the State. The election has
elicited no interest among the people,, as
they had ground oft’ their head of excite
ment in the recent elections for Governor
and Congressmen.
Rev. Dr. Wadsworth has resigned the
pastorship of the Methodist church at
Selma, Alabama, with the tfiew of prepar
ing himself for entering upon the duties
of a Professorship in the Southern Uni
versity at Greensboro’, to which lie has
been elected.
Mr. James H. Mackey has appeared
as associate editor of the Montgomery
Advertiser. Having been for some time
connected with the editorial department
of that paper, his opinions are already
well known.
T* Pardoning P***r.
The recent execution of Georgy VV.
Jordan, who was convicted of the mur
der of Nieolovitcli in Mobile last Septem
ber, baa developed certain facts which, we
Lliiuk, places Ins execution in a totally
different light. The jury, it seems,
brought in a verdict of guilty as charged
in the indictment and annexed the penal
ty of death, as it was their province to
determine the method of punishment.
It seems that the jury recommended
the Governor to commute the punishment,
which recommendation was signed by
uine of them, and based upon the affida
vit of a material witness who was found
three or four weeks before tbc trial, sub
poenaed to attend it in behalf of Jordan;
but being Captain of a tlat boat, was pre
vented by head-winds from reaching Mo
bile in time for the trial. After he ar
rived his affidavit was taken and forward
ed to the Governor, with the statement of
the Jury, that had lie been present at the
trial they would not have affixed the
death penalty.
The Tribune commenting on these facts
says that the Governor ought to have
yielded. Wc fully agree iu this opinion.
It is very true that it has been and is a
settled practice with tbc Courts, not to
disturb the verdicts of juries. This, as a
general rule, is necessary for the proper
administration of the law, but when means
are established by the law itself to
correct its errors and mollify the effects
of its stern, hard rules, then it is simple
justice that the Governor should correct
the error by the exercise of his preroga
tive. Justice should be tempered with
mercy, and this should always be done in
a ease like Jordan’s. Whatever may bo
the grade of the offense, the penalty at
tached should of course be proportioned
to the crime. Had the Governor yielded
to-the recommendation of the jury ho
would have countervailed the effects of
the absence of the material witness and
rendered adequate justice to Jordan and
the country. “To err is human” and sad
experience has demonstrated that. Ju
ries, Courts and those invested with the
pardoning power, form no exceptions to
the rule.
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Suicide.
We find the following in the Union
Springs Gazette :
Our community was shocked on the
morning of Monday last, by the an
nouncement that Mrs. Bird Fitzpatrick
was dead—that she had died by her own
hand ! She had retired the evening be
; fore at about 10 o’clock, and the next
morning soon after daylight, was found in
| the back yard of the house, suspended by
J the neck to a small tree, quite dead,
i The usual restoratives were vigorously
applied, but without effect; the vital
spark had tied forever. Mrs. F. was au
j intelligent, accomplished, unostentatious
I and most amiable lady, and since her
; marriage with Mr. Fitzpatrick, has been
most exemplary and happy iu her domes
tic and marital relations.
Although considered a religiously con
scientious woman, yet for several weeks
her mind had been unusually excited on
the subject of religion, and she was fre
| quently in great distress of mind. The day
and evening before her death (Sabbath)
had been spent in devotional exercises
with her friends, and she retired at about
10 o’clock, expressing some relief from
I her anxiety.
The servants and other members of the*
family discovered her soon after daylight
on Monday morning, standing erect in
her night dress near a tree, apparently at
prayer; some little time after they had
occasion to go near the spot and found
that she was suspended to the tree by a
cord. The alarm was immediately given,
and Mr. F., just aroused from his sleep,
beheld his beloved, his loving, his devo
ted wife a lifeless corpse !
Her remains, accompanied by a nume
rous concourse of friends, were deposited
j in the graveyard near Town Creek Meth
odist church.
From the La Grange Reporter.
Hail Hoad Meeting.
Monday, Aug. 22, 1859.
Pursuant to a call by the President of
Ihe Columbus and Hamilton Rail Road
| Company, a number of the friends of the
Road met in the Court House to-day.—
On motion of Thos. Leslie, Maj. John E.
Morgan was called to the Chair and N.
M. Harris was requested to act as Secre
tary.
Col A. B. Fannin, in a short and im
pressive speech, explained the object of
the meeting—showing conclusively the
importance of building the Road ; that it
should and would be built. His argu
ments were logical, powerful and search
ing—convincing all present that the en
terprise was worthy of the highest con
sideration and most liberal patronage of
the people of Troup county and especial
ly of La Grange—and that money inves
ted in this Rail Road would pay hand
some dividends.
Maj. J. E. Morgan also addressed the
meeting—showing most clearly that the
City of Columbus, Mobile and the Girard
& Mobile Rail Road Company weic inter
ested in the enterprise, aud that we might
confidently expect aid from them.
On motion of Col Fannin, a call was
made for volunteers to assist in advan
cing th(; interests of the Road, and also
to get stock subscribed and report at the
next meeting. The following gentlemen
came forward and enrolled their names :
Maj. John E. Morgan, Samuel Curtright,
Thos. Leslie, Jno. Wilkers, George C.
Heard and Gen. J. W. B. Edwards.
On motion, a standing Committee of
seven was appointed by the Chair to so
licit the taking of stock; the following
named gentlemen were appointed that
Committee : Dr. R. A. T. Ridley, Lucius
B. Lovelace, B. P. Cameron, Col. Henry
Long, C. B. Ferrell, B. 11. Hill and Adam
Ragland.
On motion of Col. Fannin the proceed
ings of the meeting were ordered to be
published in the La Grange Reporter.
The meeting then adjourned to meet on
the first Tuesday in September next.
J. E. MORGAN, President.
N. M. Harris, Secretary.
The following itemsof news we extract
from the Bainbridge Argus, of the 24th
instant :
The Chops.—From all we can learn,
the crop% in this section have not been so
seriously injured by the rains as wa3 ap
prehended. The cotton is shedding its
forms in some places, and in others has
taken the rust, yet there is still a pros
pect of a tolerably fair crop. The rains
continuing, however, the extent of the
damage cannot dow be fully determined.
The corn crop may be considered good.
Two bales of new cotton were sold in
this place yesterday, to B. F. Bruton &
Cos., at 12 cents. It was raised on the
plantation of Win. Smallwood, Esq., of
this county.
The boy Ilill, one of the murderers of
Mrs. Saddler, whose case was carried up
to the Supreme Court, is to be hung at
this place on Friday, the 9th day of Sep
tember next.
Rockford, Ala. Aug. 18, 1859.
Ed. Selma Sentinel. —We have just been
shown by Mr. James Van Sandt, speci
mens taken from his Mine about seven
miles N. W. of thisjilace which we think
entitled to notice.
The specimens shown us, seem to be
the black oxide of copper, intermingled
with indications of iron ore and gold
quartz. Not being minerolagist, or chem
ist, we have not tested thoroughly, but
we are satisfied said specimens contain
valuable minerab.
There are other mining interests in the
same vicinity, which, from the specimens
shown us by Col. James George and
others, are equally important.
We have not the least doubt of the fact
that untold wealth exists in the hills of
Coosa county. Money and energy will
soon develop it. There are men at work
—they have money invested—we would
be glad to see them succeed.
ResDectfully, &c. f
SETTLE & VERNON, *