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Tuesday April 3, 1 BGO.
The Atlanta papers state that the men,
George and Caunant, who fell from the
scaffolding of the Masonic Hall, a few
days ago in that city, arc convalescing.
It is thought they will recover.
Nebraska.
A dispatch from Chicago the 21st stales
that at the late election in that territory,
on the question of the State Government,
the vote stands 1,877 for, and 1,087
against it.
Kxtciiilve ?i:slti of Negroes.
A correspondent of the Petersburg Ex
press, writing the Hist-, says at a sale
near Cartersville, Cumberland Cos., Va.,
a day or two previous, thirty-eight ne
groes, belonging to the estate of Peyton
II irrisou, deceased, were sold for $32,474.
The average was $854.G0.
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The Camden (S. C.) Journal remarks
that the increase in the transportation of
Naval Stores, in which is included Tur
pentine, Rosin, &c., over the South Caro
lina Railroad, is nearly oue hundred per
cent, for the year 1859, over that cf 1858,
showing how immensely this branch of
commerce has increased.
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Dcatli by Fire.
The Athens (Tenn.) Post of the 23d
says a daughter ol Rufus Green, three
miles South of Athens, was so severely
burned by her clothes taking fire on
Thursday of last week, that she died on
the following night. She was uged about
17 years.
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ExplosSou of a Locomotive.
v\e learn from the Nashville Union,
that about four o’clock Thursday morn
ing last, a locomotive exploded at the
depot of the Louisville Railroad, but, for
tunately, no one was injured. The ex
plosion occurred while the engineer was
oil attending to some business. The con
cussion broke a considerable amount of
glass in an adjoining building, but did no
damage to the train.
Virginia Politics.
The Convention for the seventh District
of Virginia adjourned the 22d inst.
Messrs, MiersW. Fisher of Northampton,
and Geo. \V. Booker, of Elizabeth City
county, were appointed delegates by ac
clamation. L. J. Bell, of Accomac, and
Gen. Taliaferro, of Gloucester, alternates,
also by acclamation. Unanimous pref
erence for Wise was expressed, and strong
resolutions were passed condemning
Squatter Sovereignty.
hiliciT.l Bequest.
Mr. Win. Eustoa, as we learn from our
Charleston exchanges, died suddenly in
that city the morning of the 23d instant.
He was a large furniture dealer and had
accumulated property worth about $2,-
“00,000. Being childless, he has left his
wife a life interest in the estate, and one i
or two annuities to relatives. Upon the
death of these parties, the entire estate,
excepting about $30,000, reverts to the
city of Charleston, in trust for charitable j
purposes.
Coinage at tile Dahlonega Mint, &c. ;
The recent report of the Directors cf
the United States Mint, shows that in
twenty-one years tho coinage at Dahlonc
ga, Ga., was $5,901,796, an average of j
000,000 per year; but since 1854 this j
has become less, and in 1857 was only
02,900; in 1858, $100,107, and in 1859
$05,582.
The total product of gold from Geor
gia, since the commencement of the coin
age, has bceu $0,800,879 33.
Hnili unit Communication.
Four freight cars arrived at the depot
of the South Carolina Railroad in Charles
ton, Friday last, from Atlanta, without
breaking bulk.
The Mercury of the 24th says, several
others for the same destination were sent
out the afternoon previous for a repeti
tion of the same experiment. One of them
was loaded with a steam lire engine for
the city of Memphis, and it has been
promised that the car shall be put through
the entire distance, 700 miles, before the
freight is removed.
Unfortunate Uencontre.
The Atlanta Intelligencer, 24th inst., is
informed by a friend from Henry county,
that on Monday evening last a difficulty
occurred between Ephram S. Fargason
and Win. Kenady, in which the latter was
killed in rather an unlooked for manner.
It seems that Kenady was intoxicated,
and was following Fargason home for the
purpose of having a difficulty with him.
He encountered Fargason at the yard of
the latter, and made at him for fight,
when Fargason gave him a blow with his
list which broke Kenedy’s neck, aud
caused his death instantly.
House Burnt.
The residence of Dr. Wynn, eight or
nine miles below Forsyth, was destroyed
by lire on the 10th inst., together with
several out houses. The family were at
breakfast at the time, and bad just time
to run up stairs to bis desk, gather his
business papers, and dash them out of
the window to save them. One large note
was blown several hundred yards from
the house and during the day found by a
neighbor. Nearly all the other papers
were consumed. The Educational Jour
ral furnishes the facts.
Stiiliing.
The New York Tribune of the 20th says
the Cabinet Makers held a meeting at
Columbian Ilall, Grand street, the even
ing previous, at which reports were re
ceived from a number of shops not for
merly heard from intimating a willing
ness among the employers to accede to
the request of the journeymen, if others
w aid take the lead.
Ti.e organization numbers 2.000 strong
. is daily increasing,
u the evening previous a meeting was
held and S4OO raised and ordered to be
forwarded to the Lynn strikers.
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Affair of Honor.
A dispatch from New York the 24tb,
■-ays it is rumored that Lieut. Bartlett
lu.s challenged Gen. Morris of the Home
Journal, in consequence of newspaper
remarks made by the latter, touching the
Diamond Wedding.
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Dr. Thornton, the venerable Divine
a;-1 President of Madison College, Mis
sissippi, died at his residence in Sharon,
the evening of the 20th inst.
VOLUME III.}
Douglas In California.
The proceedings of the Democratic
; State Convention of California, like those
of Georgia, may be considered as having
been conducted with reference to the pro
, bable nomination of Douglas at Charles
ton. True, Dickinson was declared the
first choice cf the California Democracy,
! but the resolution does not instruct its
; delegates to support him ; and as they
are uninstructed, and are not known to
| be particularly, if at all, hostile to Dou
glas, his friends may depend that all the
Southern States who have issued no pos
itive instructions will wheel into line,
should he receive the nomination at
j Charleston.
During the recent California Conven
tion, after the electioft of delegates, Mr.
Geiger, a positive Gwin and Weller man,
offered a resolution that Stephen A. Dou
glas be declared the last choice of the
Convention. The ayes and ayes were
called, and it was laid on the table by 284
to G 5. Griffeth, a positive Douglas man,
spoke against the resolution, and Weller,
who was a member of the Convention,
voted to table it. Roth wings of the par
ty were indisposed to make an issue, it
seems, on the Douglas question, and the
disposition to evade that issue may be
regarded an indication as favorable as the
mo3t sanguine Douglas man could desire,
considering the violent opposition he ex
cited at the beginning of his apostasy on
the Territorial question.
Not only is it more than probable that
California and other Southern States will
support Douglas should he be the nomi
nee of the Charleston Convention ; but
we venture the assertion that Alabama,
Mississippi, and all that have officially
instructed their delegates to oppose him,
will mitigate their opposition and render
him a hearty support should that event
occur, their strong anti-Douglas platforms
to the contrary notwithstanding. The
history of platforms, particularly of
Southern State platforms, bears us out in
the assertion.
From Washington.
In the Senate on the 21st, Mr. Ilale of
fered a resolution which was adopted,
that the President of the United States
inform the Senate if any instructions have
been given to officers of the navy, by
which, in any event, the naval forces of
the United States were to take part in the
civil war in Mexico, and by what author
ity certain Mexican steamers were cap
tured and their officers and crews made
prisoners.
In the House, a bill passed providing
that persons endorsing their names on
letters can have them returned gratis
when undelivered.
The resolutions relative to the contest
ed election were adopted, requiring of
Amor J. Williamson, who contests the
seat of Daniel E. Sickles for the third
Congressional district of New York, to
serve on the said Sickles, within ten days
after the passage of the resolution, a
statement of the frauds of the contest;
and that Sickles serve au answer thereto
twenty days thereafter ; and that both
parties within sixty days proceed to take
testimony in support of their several alle
gations, according to the law of 1851.
Fire in Greensboro.
The Atlanta American, of the 28th,
learns from passengers by the Georgia
Train, that a lire Vas raging in Greens
boro the same morning when the Train
passed. The extent of the damage was
not known but it was supposed to be very
great as the fire originated in the business
portion of the city.
A paragraph in the Augusta Constitu
tionalist states that it originated on Mon
day night, between one and two o’clock,
in the store of Johnson & Porter, the con
tents of which were destroyed. Two or
three dwelling bouses were also des
troyed. The loss is covered mostly by
insurance.
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A Figlit—Editor vs. Actor.
Mr. Overall, an editor of the True
Delta, was knocked down in New Orleans,
on Thursday last, bv an actor named
Copland, as we learn from the Crescent.
Mr. Overall, in rising, fired a pistol
twice at Copland, one of the bullets hit
ting a person who was trying to seperate
the combatants, though not dangerously
wounding him, and the other shot struck
Mr. C., in the leg below the knee, inflic
ting a painful but not dangerous wound.
A third shot was fifed by Mr. 0., after he
had risen, which did no harm.
Itlutluy of Coolies.
A dispatch from Boston, the 24th, says
the ship Norway, of New York, whilst on
her passage from Macao to Havana, with
one thousand Coolies on board, was the
scene of a terrible mutiny, resulting in
the death of thirty Coolies and ninety of
them baing wounded. The fight lasted
the whole night, when the Coolies yield
ed. The Captain's wife and two daugh
ters, and a lady passenger and child,
were on board. Both the latter died of
fright.
House Burning.
The Thomaston Herald says that the
barn of a Mr. Langston, near that place,
was burned a few days since. The barn
contained a large quantity of corn and
fodder.
On investigation, a negro of Mr. L’s.
confessed having fired the bam, and fur
ther stated that he was instigated by a
strolling foot pedler. Such circumstances
are becoming common ; and the fact de
mands attention.
For Dissolution.
Gen. R. K. Call has addressed a series
of letters, through the Tallahassee Flori
dian, to a New York correspondent, in
one of which he takes a position in fa
vor of a dissolution of the Union in the
event of the election of a Black Republi
can President. Gen. Call is a prominent
lawyer and politician of Florida and has
always been a warm advocate of the Un
ion. Ilis present position is rather sig
nificant.
Deaili of Dr. Tinsley.
The Montgomery Mail of the 2Gth re
cords the death of Dr. James Tinsley, of
Line Creek, which occurred Saturday
last. Dr. T. was an intelligent planter of
this county, and, we believe, was former
ly the editorial conductor of a newspaper
iu Georgia. That he was a forcible wri
ter, we have had ample proofs, since his
residence in Montgomery county. Dr.
T. was probably sixty-five years of age.
Some sixty-eight to seventy-five bales
of cotton turned out of t’r.e Gunter Ware
house at Montgomery for shipment on
the steamer £>t. Charles to Mobile, were
destroyed by fire the night of the 26th.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
K. G. C.—Concert Hall.
In pursuance of a very brief notice, and
the request of several of our citizens,
Gen. Bickley, Commander in-Chief of the
Knightfi of the Golden Circle, and Maj.
Castellannos, of New Orleans, a member
of the organization, delivered addresses
at Concert Hall, Saturday night Gen.
Bickley discussed with much fluency the
encroachments which had been made by
the North upon the South ; the present
condition and past history of Mexico;
the policy for the South to pursue with
respect to slavery, and gave a brief ac
count and a general outline of the histo
ry, objects and plan of the military organ
ization of which he is chief commander.
He was followed by Maj. Castellannos
who confined himself principally to the
political feature of the K. G. C. He is an
impressive and forcible speaker, and like
his predecessor, Gen. Bickley, is a gentle
man of unquestionable talent and schol
arly attainments. . Owing to the very
brief notice given of the meeting, the
audience was not as large as would have
been otherwise, but both gentlemen were
listened to with the most respectful at
tention, and were frequently applauded,
and we are confident that they are the
men for the task to which they have ad
dressed themselves.
The K. G. C. is no Filibustering enter
prise ; its leaders and members propose
no violation of the Neutrality Laws, but
design to accomplish the expansion of
Southern institutions into Mexico, and to
restore peace, quiet, law and justice to
that distracted and unhappy country,
without over-riding the laws of the Uni
ted States.
Owing to the present relations of the
two contending parties in Mexico, and
the recognition of the Constitutional or j
Juarez Government by the United States j
with which the K. G, C. as we under
stand, propose to co-operate, its objects
can bo accomplished, at least without a
violation of the Neutrality Laws that
barrier interposed by Federal power to
the progress of Southern expansion. The
organization is extensive, well disciplined,
and unlike Filibustering expeditions, it
relies more upon moral than physical
force—in a word, the objects of the K. G.
C. ore to Americanize Mexico and prepare
the way for the introduction of Southern
institutions into that country. The ac
quisition of it, or any part of it, by the
United States, under the practical work
ings of our present Territorial policy
would result as it did in Kansas, to
the exclusion of slavery ; therefore the
design of the order to accomplish its ob
jects without the assistance of this gov
ernment.
The foregoing is a brief statement of
our understanding of the K. G. C. as
gathered from the addresses Saturday
night. Its origin and purpose commends
it to the favorable consideration of all
Southern men, and the only objection
that can be urged against it, is its im
practicability. Its representatives how
ever say it is perfectly feasible.
In another issue we have something
more to say of this organization, and in
the meantime wish it God’s speed !
The following curious bit of informa
tion is communicated to the Charleston
Courier, in the form of a special dispatch.
Who is to make the “demand” is not sta
ted ; but, be it Mexico or the Uuited
States, it is a singular proceeding:
The Mexican Quarrel. —Washington,
March 22.—1 tis stated at present, in
private sources, but with confidence and
authority, that a complaint will be imme
diately presented to tne Court of Madrid,
with a demaud for reparation, on account
of the fitting out from Havana, by
Spanish subjects, of the expedition in aid
of Miramon, to Mexico.
This complaint will be based on an old
Spanish law forbidding any citizen or
subject from trade or traffic in any mate
rial of war or military stores. The evi
dence here is strongly in favor of the
belief that the expedition referred to was
fitted out by permission and connivance,
and even by direct assistance of the Span
ish authorities in Cuba.
Tlie Southern Conference.
A dispatch from Washington the 23d,
says the Representatives and Senators
from Alabama, Mississippi and South
Carolina, had a final meeting ahd decided
that it was advisable to postpone the At
lanta conference until after the Presiden
tial election.
We rejoice that the idea of holding the
Conference has not been abandoned. As
it was deemed advisable to hold it in the
event of certain contingencies arising out
of the Presidential election, it may be the
part of wisdom to postpone it until then.
It is better to bold it late than never.
Direct Trade between Belgium and
the Southern States.
A Paris paper states that the Duke of
Braband gave a private audience on the
3d of March to a deputation from the
Belgico-American Company for the devel
opment of a direct trade with the South
ern States of the American Union. His
Royal Highness expressed great interest
in the object of the company, and hoped
that the institution which promised so
many advantages to Belgium industry,
would meet with success.
First of the Season.
The Savannah Republican of the 27th,
6ays Cucumbers made their appearance
in that market Saturday from the garden
of Dr. Oemler, on the White Bluff road.
They sold readily for 25 cents each.
Green Peas came in some ten days ago,
but they are still scarce and high—37
cents per quart, in the hull.
Frost.
From the Savannah News, we learn
that there was a considerable frost in that
city and vicinity Monday morning. It
learns from passengers that there was a
heavy white frost all along the line of the
Central Railroad, to within ten or fifteen
miles of Savannah. It is to be feared that
the fruit crop generally is injured, ifDOt
quite destroyed.
Tennessee Legislature.
This body closed its labors Saturday
last, after the extraordinary long session
of twenty-five weeks. The Nashville Un
ion says a very large amount of business
has been disposed of, including every
thing before the two houses.
One More Gone.
John Ford, a revolutionary soldier,
; died in Bibb county, Ga., on the 28th of
Feb., in the 105th year of his age. He
was married five times. His last wife
survived him, and his only child is eighty
years old.
Delegates to Chicago Convention.
Louisville, March 23.—The Republi
cans of the Seventh Congressional Dis
i trict of Kentucky, elected delegates to
i the Chicago Convention yesterday.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. APRIL 3. 1860.
Macon and Augusta Rail Road.
A telegraphic dispatch elsewhere, an
nounces that the city of Charleston has
subscribed $250,000 to assist in the con
-1 struction of the rail road from Macon to
Augusta. This enterprise is one iu which
Charleston is as vitally interested as Au
gusta, Macon, or any other city on the
1 line of the proposed connection. In fact
she would be the principal beneficiary,
and justice to her own interests demand
ed liberal subscription on her part, as
weil as additional ones by her citizens in
dividually.
This news is important to Columbus,
and promises anew era in her history;
that the Road will be eventually built is
attended with little, if any doubt, and
felicitations on our part cannot be con
sidered premature. Much yet remains to
be done, and we would urge upon our
citizens and others aloDg the line, to con
sider the the importance of the enterprise
and the necessity of doing every thing
practicable to consummate it.
It would give us, as well as the fine
scope of country with which we trade,
the advantages of two independent routes
to the seaboard, and two competing mar
kets for our cotton and other products.
The benefits that Augusta and Charles
ton would derive from an uninterrupted
connection with Macon and Columbus
would more than compensate them if
they finished the connection without as
sistance even from either ; but as the ad
vantages would be reciprocal, the western
end of the route should be umviliiDg to
reap them all without something contrib
uted to secure them.
In a series of articles some time since,
we endeavored to elaborate the impor
tance of another route to the Atlantic
seaboard. We rejoice at the prospect of
realizing its accomplishment, and will en
deavor to keep our readers regularly in
formed of its progress from time to time.
From Washington.
A dispatch from Washington says the
prizes and prisoners taken off Vera Cruz
are likely to create some embarrassment.
The statute provides for the distribution
of prizes among the officers and men who
were the captors, but the question of
these being such, must first be settled in
a Court of Admiralty. The Navy Depart
ment treats Marin’s expedition as pirati
cal, but that fact has to be legally estab
lished. The whole ground of this as
sumption rests upon the allegation that
when the Indianola approached Marin’s
steamer, after a shot had been fired ahead
to bring her to, and hailing, it was an
swered by a volley of musketry. The In
dianola and Wave were small steamers,
belonging to Jaurez, and known to be
such to Marin. He could hardly suppose
that American officers and seamen were
participating in the civil war with Mexi
co, and doubtless intended to treat
them as a part of the armament of Jaurez.
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Fatal Shooting.
We learn from the Montgomery Adver
tiser that a little son of Mrs. Fierce of
that city, shot and killed Mr. Eason,
(overseer of Col. Thomas J. Judge,) who
resided at the plantation of the latter,
four miles west of Montgomery. The
circumstances of the case, are about as
follows: Mrs. Pierce’s son and another
young gentleman having lost a boat,
found it in the river in the rear of Mr.
Judge’s plantation. Finding it locked,
the boys proceeded to unfasten it the
best way they could, when Mr. Eason
rode up on horseback and indulged in
some abusive language, whereupon Mrs.
Pierce’s son raised a gun and fired, the
bird shot taking effect iu his side, and al
most instantly producing death.
The Mew Steamer.
On Wednesday last the new Savannah
and Baltimore steamer, B. Deford, made
a trial trip from Baltimore to Annapolis.
The Sun gives an interesting account of
the trip. The steamer encountered a
stiff breeze going and returning. Her
machinery performed admirably. The
Sun says, “the average speed of the
steamer was about twelve miles per hour
down, and ten up against one of the stiff
est sea breezes that has blown iu the bay,
for some time.”
The Deford was to have made her first
trip to Savannah, on Saturday afternoon
last.
Deatli of Rev. YY. H. Gillespie.
The Memphis Advocate announces the
the death of Rev. W. 11. Gillespie. The
Southern Christian Advocate says he was
a supernumerary member of this Confer
ence. Ilis health had been feeble for sev
eral years. Last year he spent most of
his time iu Florida, preaching with great
acceptability and usefulness. lie was a
deeply pious man, truly devoted to the
ministry. Had he enjoyed good health,
he would have doubtless been among our
most efficient men.
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Muss iu a Theatrical Company.
The Montgomery Confederation states
that Mr. and Mrs. Stetson, and Mr.
Ferris, theatrical performers, belonging
to Mr. Canning’s company, have left Mr.
C., and are now in that city. Canning
with the rest of the company, have gone
to Marion, where they are drawing good
houses.
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A Steamer for the Delegates to the
Charleston Convention.
The steamer S. R. Spalding has been
chartered to carry the delegates from
Masachusetts and the adjoining States to
the Democratic National Convention at
Charleston. Tickets for the round trip,
including board for the whole time absent
from Boston, will be sold for SIOO.
Col. S. 11. Mudge, the well known and
popular proprietor, for many years, of
the St. Charles and St. Louis Hotels, died
in New Orleans on Thursday morning.—
The Picayune pronounces a handsome
eulogium on the character of the deceas
ed.
The dwelling house, out houses, &c.,
of L. B. Moody, Esq., in Quitman, Miss.,
were consumed by fire on Mouday, the
19th inst. The fire was the work cf an
incendiary.
The Brandon (Miss.) Republican states
that Wiley P. Allston, Clerk of the Pro
bate Court of Rankin county, in that
State, died in New Orleans, the 17th inst.
He was a native of Wilkes county, Ga.
xY new Post Office has been established
at Homer, the county seat of Banks
county, Georgia.
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Departure of Troops for Texas.
New York, March 23. —A detachment
of U. S. troops, under the command of
Lieut. James W. Palmer, left this city
yesterday for Texas, by way of India
i nola, with orders to proceed to the Rio
i Grande.
Association of Tixieves.
The Greensboro (Ga.) Gazette says a
gentleman in Walker county, Ga., had his
coat stolen from him by some person or
persons entering his house forcibly by
night. There was ab iut SSOO in cash in
his coat pocket. A few days afterwards
he happened at a grocery in the lower
end of the county, where he discovered
that the grocer was wearing his stolen
coat. He arrested him, and carried him
to his own house, when the grocer prom
ised to pay the money, and he has had his
grocery disposed of and paid most of the
money. The grocer manifests much fear
lest bis associates should kill him when
he leaves theprotection of his victim. He
has revealed many names as being con
nected with a regular organized band,
among which are some heretofore re
spectable citizens.
Mew Maritime Treaty with France.
The Sunderland Times has “good
grounds for stating that influential par
ties are now engaged, and with good pros
pects of success, in endeavoring to ar
range a maritime treaty between England
and France, which will be in harmony
with the principles of the commercial
treaty lately concluded. Mr. Cobden is
heartily co-operating, and giving the ben
efit of his experienced counsel and valu
able influence. The success of these ef
forts will be the most important boon to
the shipping interest which has been se
cured in our day-”
Goods I>y tlie Main Trunk.
The ThomasvilleEnterprisesays: “Our
merchants are now receiving their large
supplies of dry goods, &c., &c., for tlie
spring and summer, over the Main Trunk
Rail Road. All freights hereafter, to or
from this section, will pass over that road.
Quite anew impetus has been given to
business of all kinds throughout all this
country, by the near approach of the
Main Trunk Rail Road. Merchants have
enlarged their stocks, new stores are go
ing up, new men coming in from all quar
ters, the town rapidly improving and
spreading out, while thecouutry is swarm
ing with strangers, in quest of lands, of
which there are plenty.”
Buy in Charleston.
We are permitted to see a letter, says
the Charleston Courier of the 24th—a
specimen of many—received by a Hasel
street bouse in this city, from a Georgia
merchant, acknowledging receipt of an
invoice of goods purchased here for the
Spring trade. The writer is one of those
who have now tried Charleston for the
first time, and this is his unsolicited tes
timony.
“I must say that I have never bought a
bill that opened more to my satisfaction.
1 also appreciate highly the manner in
which I was waited on, and polite atten
tions shown.”
Murder at Chapel Hill.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Press of the 22d,
learns from a private source that a fight
occurred at Chapel Hill last Saturday even
ing between a young man named Ford of
that State, and ayoung man named Watson
of Chapel Hill, son of Jones Watson, both
students, which terminated in tlie death
of Watson. It is said that Ford struck
Watson with a loaded whip and then stab
bed him ; from which wounds he died
Tuesday evening last. Ford has made
his escape.
One of the Baghy Negroes.
The Early County News says a negro
in the jail of that county represents him
self as one of those sold by Bagby in the
Montgomery market a short time since,
lie says that Bagby took him back from
the Alabama purchaser, carried him to
Macon, thence to Atlanta, thence to Ma
con, and then sold him in Southwestern
Georgia.
Death of Senior Marshal of France.
Marshal Reilie, the senior Marshal of
France, has died at the age of 85. He
commanded a corps d’ armce at Waterloo.
He married a daughter of Massena, and
leaves three sous, one of whom is a Colo
nel in the army, the second a Lieuten
ant, and a third a member of the Corps
Leyislalif.
Fast Youths.
The Ganebrake (Aia.) Gazette says a
squad of half grown boys armed with
tin pans, &c., went to a Female Academy
a few nights since and by their noise and
use cf obscene language, alarmed the
Principal and young ladies under her
charge. She was forced to have a gun
fired at them, which wounded one of them
iu the arm.
Tobe Murphy, says tlie Daily Tele
graph of the 26th, who was advertised on
Friday, by George W. Bright, of Wilkin
son county, for swapping off a horse
borrowed from a widow lady of Twiggs
county, was arrested Saturday night in
Macon, and lodged iu the Guard House
for safe keeping.
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Mew Southern State.
The old project of forming anew State
out of Northern Mississippi, Western
Tennessee and the extreme Western point
of Kentucky has been received and sanc
tioned by the Legislature of Tennessee.—
The proposed new State would contain a
population of about 700,000.
Maryland Politics.
The second Congressional District—
Democratic Convention elected on the
20th, W. S. Gittings and T. Moffit, dele
ted to Charleston. Resolutions were pass
ed strongly against “ Squatter Sover
eignty.”
Cotton.
Ten thousand bales of cotton have been
taken by the Memphis packets, this sea
son, to Cincinnati. It is but the begin
ning of the diversion, says a Western pa
per.
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En Route.
The Chattanooga Advertiser says that
a company of Georgians, numbering one
hundred strong, remained over at the
Crutchfield House on Tuesday night, 20th
inst., en route to Pike’s Peak.
The Tampa Peninsular.
Mr. De Launay Laving retired from the
editorial chair of the Tampa Peninsular,
he is succeeded by Mr. Simon Turman,
formerly connected with the paper in
that capacity.
Obituary.
A dispatch from Cincinnati, the 20th,
says Col. x\. C. Pepper, one of the most
prominent citizens of the West, died on
that morning at Rising Sun, Indiana,
after a lingering illness.
Dadies and Gentlemen—ls yon wish to
have your watches nicety fixed and put in good
running order, you must go to the SWINGING
CLOCK, No.Bl Broadstreet. Sept.2B-6m.
The Issues.
xYccording to the Committee appointed
by the Republican Convention, which con
vened in St. Louis the 10th inst., the fol
lowing interrogatories propounded to
i Judge Bates, requesting his answer to
each, involve the issues involved between
the pro-slavery and anti slavery parties.
; A synopsis of Judge Bates’ letter, al
| ready published by us, shows that hisaa
; swers quadrate with the Republican views
I of these issues:
Ist. xYre you opposed to the extension
of slavery ?
2d. Does the Constitution of the Uui
ted States carry slavery into the Territo
ries, and, as subsidiary to this, what is
the legal effect of the decision of the Su
preme Court in the Dred Scott case ?
3d. Are you in favor of the coloniza
tion of the free colored population iu
Central America?
4th. Do you recognize any inequality
of rights among citizens of the United
States, and do you hold that it is the du
ty of the Federal Government to protect
American citizens at home and abroad, in
the enjoyment of all their constitutional
and legal rights, privileges, and immuni
ties?
sth. xYre you in favor of the construc
tion of a rail road from the valley of the
Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, under
the auspices of the General Government ?
Gth. Are you in favor of the measure,
known as the Homestead bill?
7th. Are you in favor of t the immedi
ate admission of Kansas, under the Con
stitution adopted at. Wyandot ?
Post Office Statistics in Georgia.
The New York Tribune has compiled
from official records, a table of post office
statistics, among which is a list of those
paying SI,OOO to Postmasters. The fol
lowing is in relation to Georgia :
Annual compensation Net pro
to Tost Masters. coeds.
Albany $1,287 $1,213
Americas 917 1,028
Athens 1,270 I.GGI
Atlanta 2,000 2,301
Augusta 2,000 7,118
Columbus 2,000 1,918
Griffin 1,076 1.171
Macon 1,500 4,272
Marietta 1,301 1,420
Milledgeville 1,314 1,010
Rome 1,555 1,418
Savannah 2,000 16,208
In a statement of amounts paid to mail
contractors and carriers, we find the fol
lowing.
Atlanta and West Point Rail Road $20,513
Central Rail Road & Banking Company.... 29,100
John Cunningham 11.000
Georgia Rail Road & BankingUompany.... 41,818
Macon and Western Rail Road Bompany. 22,200
South Western & Muscogee R. R. Com... 15,300
Western & Atlantic Rail Road Company... 22,750
“ Advice to tlie Victims.”
The police reports of Mobile constant
ly presenting such judgments as these,
to wit: “ SSO or thirty days”—“ S2O
or twenty days,” intimating thereby that
the defendants must pay the judgment or
go to prison. Ben Lane Posey, Esq., in
consideration thereof, has advised those
who have been “ fleeced” in this manner
to submit to it uo longer, as we perceive
by a card of his in a Mobile paper. He
says, “they need not pay the SSO nor go
to prison either, and if it is attempted, I
can and will deliver them out as fast
as they are put in. And further, no
man can be arrested or put in prison for
violating any city ordinance. Any per
son who has been imprisoned in these
cases can recover ample damages against
the Mayor, and all others concerned iu
the imprisonment. lam fully prepared,
at a moment’s notice, to maintain these
positions as law in all of the Courts of
the State.”
Fire in Lincolutnii,
The xYugusta Chronicle learns from a
friend that quite a disastrous fire occur
red at the village of Lincolnton, on Fri
day morning last. The fire broke out
about 2 o’clock a. m., in a store house oc
cupied by Maj. Gibson, adjoining Mrs.
Lunsdell’s hotel. The hotel was saved
with great difficulty, but one of Major
Gibson’s stores was destroyed; also the
Post Office and the Confectionery of W.
K. Turner, the law office of C. R. Stroth
er, the law office of Lamar & Moore, the
Ordinary’s office, and another house late
ly occupied as a grocery. There was
powder stored in Maj. Gibson’s store,
where the fire originated, and the explo
sion broke every window glass in the vil
lage.
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Accident front Cemphiue.
A Baltimore correspondent of the Ma
con Daily Telegraph, the 20th, records
a shocking case cf burning on the Sun
day night previous, a young woman’s
clothing having taken fire from the ex
plosion of a cainphine lamp, which she
was attempting to fill whilst burning.—
She ran into the street with her clothes
enveloped in flames. Some gentlemen ran
to her aid, and pulling off their over
coats, wrapped (hem about her person
and smothered the flames; her life was
thus saved, yet she was horribly burned.
National Constitutional Union Con
vention.
The National Executive Central Com
mittee of the Constitutional Union party,
resolved at a late meeting, to hold the
convention at Baltimore, the 9th of May
next, to nominate candidates for Presi
dent and Vice President.
They invite the friends of the movement
in each State to send delegates, equal in
number to their electoral vote, to said
convention.
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Fatal Disease.
The Central Georgian learns that iu
the upper part of that county there is
now prevailing a disease of a very singu
lar character, which is quite fatal in its
results, and bears a close resemblaance
to pneumonia. xYs many as four deaths
have occurred from it in one family. It
is characterized by a croupy cough, and
is no doubt analogous to the disease
called “Diphtherea,” which has scourged
the cities of the North, and created a
considerable degree of excitement among
the people.
Rail Road Meeting.
The citizens of Milledgeville he’d a
meeting, the 23d, to consider the pro
priety of subscribing to the contemplated
Augusta, Milledgeville and Macon Rail
Road.
The business committee appointed, re
ported in favor of the city’s subscribing
50,000, which was adopted by a vote of
41 to 10. The Chairman appointed dele
.gates to Augusta.
Value of Property In Pensacola.
The Pensacola Observer has been fur
nished with a statement of the taxable
property of that city. It appears that
the value of real estate amounts to $2,-
070,100; of slave property $415,950.
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The steamships Alabama and R. S.
Cuyler, from New York, and the State of
Georgia, from Philadelphia, arrived at
Savannah on the 27th.
(NUMBER 51.
Further from Wreck of the Manning.
A correspondent of the Savannah Re
publican writing from Jacksonville, Ga.,
the 23i, says, we have recovered the
bodies of Messrs. John Ilarrall, T. W.
Baker, Jacob Parker, and Hughes,
and four negroes —eight in all—leaving
in the river five more, Mr. J. B. Williams,
Jefferson Taylor, and three negroes. Mr.
Harrall had on his person S6BO in gold,
and $545 in bank bills Mr. Parker had
some sl,llOO in gold and bank bills.
The blowing up of the Manning is the
I first occurrence of the kind which has
over happened on cur river. Many years
ago the Pioneer blew up, above Parian,
killing some five persons; but this is the
first on the Ocmulgec, and fatal and aw
ful, indeed, has it been. The destruction
of human life is great, considering the
number on board; ouly six were saved,
and one of them, it is thought, will die.
Most of the bodies are horribly mangled
—so much so, that their friends could
scarcely identify them. One, a negro,
was cut in two —the head and chest ouly
found.
she most who were lost were within a
few hours’ run of “home, sweet home!”
where family and friends were ready to
greet them with warm hearts, when the
awful summons came.
The Triple Dturder on Board tire
Sloop P. A. Johnson—Discovery of
tise Murderer.
Capt. Weed, of the Second Precinct,
yesterday obtained information which po
sitively points out the perpetrator of the
crime committed on board the sloop E.
A. Johnson. This man, who was one of
the crew, went ashore on Staten Island,
and sent the yawl boat in which he left
the sloop adrift. The boat was afterwards
seen floating near Staten Island. The
murderer left the Island, and coming up
to this city took the evening boat for
Stonington, Conn.
Several persons who knew him, but
were unaware of what bad occurred,
spoke to him, and to them he said that
the sloop E. A. Johnson had been in col
lision with another vessel during the
night, that the captain had been killed
by the breaking of the jibbootn, and that
the sloop had sunk. The fellow exhib
ited a considerable sum of money, but
did not say where he obtained it. It is
said that a portion of his family were on
board the Stonington boat with him, and
that he is a native of Rhode Island. A
couple of officers were at ouce despatch
ed to Stonington, and the telegraph set
at work, so that in all probability the
murderer will be arrested and returned
to this city by this afternoon.—AT. York
Courier <j’ Enquirer.
A dispatch from New York states that
Johnson has been arrested in Providence.
His real name is Alfred W. Hicks, and be
longs to Foster, Rhode Island.
Hacoa and Augusta Rail Road
A dispatch from Augusta the 28th says
the Railroad Convention which assembled
to-day, resolved that when the uncondi
tional subscription of One Million Dol
lars shall have been made, the sharehol
ders shall be called upon to organize.—
The Company advise the organization to
be made by the Bth of May next, and
recommend in the mean time, that engi
neers make the necessary surveys.
A provisional Board of Directors was
appointed to represent the interests of
the Company in the Georgia Railroad
Convention. The route connecting with
Wavrenton was mostly favored. A num
ber of earnest and practical speeches
were made before the Convention ad
journed.
The Dispatch says the committee appoin
ted for the purpose, report the amount of
subscriptions $1,370,000, which, with
$250,000 pledged by the President of the
S. C. Rail Road, and $200,000 pledged
by parties in Bibb, if taken in work,
make the total subscriptions $1,840,400.
Cliarleston’s Subscription.
The Charleston Courier of the 28th,
speaking of the city subscription to the
Macon and Augusta Rail Road, says:—
A resolution was adopted expressive of
the intention of Council to subscribe two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the
proposed rail road connection between
the cities of Augusta and Macon, Ga., on
condition that a free passage across the
Savannah river, and through the city of
Augusta, is guaranteed, under the cor
porate seal of that city, to the South
Carolina Rail Road Company, and all
other roads proceeding from this city,
and the Mayor be authorised to call a
meeting of citizens to consider the pro
priety of submitting said subscription to
a direct vote of our citizens, as required
by the act of Assembly, passed De
cember, 1850.
Dentil of a Mobile Merchant.
The Mobile Evening News records the
death at Bowdon, Eugland, of John B.
Toulmiu, Esq., one of tho oldest and
most esteemed merchants of Mobile, at
the advanced age of 72 years. For
the last ten years of his life he was re
tired from active business, and has been
in failing health for a considerable peri
od. He was a man of fine business ca
pacity, strict integrity, and great moral
worth.
He was the father of Mr. Morton Toul
min of the firm of Toulmin, Voorhees &
Cos. of that city.
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The large and spacious three story
hotel in Mt. Pleasant, S. C., was destroyed
by tire, the morning of the 26th. It is
supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
Five thousand dollars of the insurance on
the house was effected in the Southern
Mutual Insurance Company of Georgia.
So says the Charleston Mercury.
Acquitted.
A dispatch from Lynchburg, Va., the
25th, says Capt. Vincent ‘Witcher, Addi
son V itcher, J. A. Smith and Samuel
Swanson, tried for killing the Messrs.
Clements, in Franklin county, Virginia,
were acquitted on Friday evening pre
vious.
State Aid.
A prominent feature of the last week
of the Tennessee Legislature was the re
vival and granting of new State aid to va
rious Railroad companies amounting in
the aggregate to about $2,000,000.
Tlie Virginia Tax Bill.
The objectionable one per cent, tax
bill, we learn from a correspondent of the
Petersburg Express, was defeated in the
Legislature of Virginia on the 24th inst.,
by a very decisive vote.
Two negroes belonging to A. G. Mc-
Cants, Esq., were very seriously injured
a few days since in attempting to re-drill
a hole to fire a blast at the Chorokee Lime
Works.
Sew .Jersey Political News.
Washington, March 28. —Private dis
patches from Trenton, N. J., state that
eight out of fourteen delegates to the
Charleston convention, are in favor of
Judge Douglas.
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TELKQHAVHKD TO TIIK DAILY SUN.
AiIUIVAh
OF TTIB £*•.’ - STBAMF.It
bo:e:km:i a.is .
New Yoi’.u, March 20.
i The steamship Robviuian has arrived
j a f Portland with Liverpoolndvhcs to the
| 15th.
Mccrfiool Cotton Market. —Sales of three
; days IffiOOO bales Market closed with
a partial decline of l-10d. to Id.
Latest—Ey Telegraph to Quecnstoicn —
Liverpool, Thursday. —Sales of yesterday
and tc-day were 22,000 bales. The mar
ket closing steady.
London Money Market. —Consols closed
at 04;;. Money market slightly easier.
Additional by tiie Bohemian.
Portland, Me., March 27. —The Sa
voy question was being discussed in the
English Parliament. Lord John Russell
said that England had always been hostile
to the annexation.
Advices from Turin state that the whole
army ot Sardinia Ives been ordered to bo
placed on a war footing by the first of
April.
Thonvenal has notified Cavour that if
Sardinia accepts the annexation of Tus
can}’, she must not depend upon the sup
port of France.
Tho latest intelligence (via Queens
town) states that Sardinia has agreed, by
special treaty, to cede Savoy and Nice to
France.
Commercial JYeics. —The sales of cotton
at Liverpool for the three business days,
reached 19,000 bales, of which specula
tors and exporters took 5,500 bales. The
decline was principally on the inferior
grades. Flour was dull, but unchanged.
Wheat quiet, but firm. Sugar was steady.
Corn, Coffee and Rice were dull.
Manchester advices were unfavorable.
There was little enquiry, and prices were
weak.
Latest from Liverpool — Thursday, March
15. —( by ieleyravh to Queenstown.) —Sales
of cotton the past two days 22.000 bales,
of which speculators and exporters took
9,000 bales, and the market closed steady.
Breadstuff's quiet and steady, and provis
ions dull.
SECOND DISI'ATCII.
New York, March 27.—The Paris cor
respondent of the London Post, asserts
that Austrian influences are in the ascen
dant in France.
It is reported that Austria has been as
sured by Prussia that she will unite to
repel any menaces from the Rhine fron
tier.
The German Diet are taking measures
to form contingents of the federal army.
The Paris Moniteur announces a pro
ject to modify the duties on wood, cotton
aud raw material generally, and aid man
ufacturers by loans.
The cotton mills of Messrs, llaslan, at
Preston, have been burnt. The loss was
twenty thousand pounds sterling.
Fire.
Fort Wayne, Ind., March 24.—A fire
occurred at 6 o’clock this morning, which
entirely destroyed the Times building,
containing the office and stock of Daw
son’s Daily Times and Indiana Freema
son, clothing store of J. G. Thiem & Bro ,
and other occupants. Loss $15,000. —
Thiem was insured for $6,000.
A burglar at Logan sport last night, en
tered the drug store of W. 11. Briughurst
and robbed the safe containing SI,OOO.
No clue to tho robbers.
River Sews.
Memphis, March 26.—The steamer
Arkansas Traveler, from No w Orleansfor
Fort Smith, sunk near Van Buren, Ar
kansas, Wednesday last. The boat and
cargo are a total loss. One unknown
passenger was lost.
A barge from Cairo, in tow of the steam
er Philadelphia, sunk above here. Loss
$25,000; insured.
Expense oi'Clinrleston Delegates.
Albany, N. Y., March 23.—The Dem
ocratic Central Committee have found
that the best arrangement they could
make at Charleston for eighty persons is
five dollars a day, to commence on the
15th of April, which is one week before
the convention. That is raising the exac
tion to nearly ten dollars a day each.
Collision—Lives Lost.
New Orleans, March 24.—The ship
Fo:est King came in collision, on the
11th, With the bfirk River Belie. Cieufue
goes, bound to New York, near Cape St.
Antonio. The latter sunk. Capt. Haynes
and two children and Wn>. Studly, Mas
sachusetts, were drowned. The remain
der of the passengers and crew were
brought here.
Wood’s I7orwaik Speech Endorsed in
the South.
Mobile, March 27.—The Mobile Mer
cury, an ultra Southern Rights news
paper, publishes the speech delivered by
Hon. Fernando Wood, Mayflr of New
York, to a recent Democratic meeting at
Norwalk, Conn.; says it is a Southern
speech, and accompanies it with very
complimentary remarks.
Bobbery.
Logansport, la., March 24.—Some
burglars entered the drug store of W. A.
Buenghurst, at this place last night, and
robbed the safe of 1,000. No ciuc to the
thieves.
Sentence of E. XV. Beed<
Boston, March 24. Edwin W. Reed,
a music teacher, of West Springfield, con
victed of adultery, was to-day, sentenced
to the House of Correction for two years
and a half.
Congressional.
Washington, March 28.—1n the Senate
a joint resolution, making the city of
Macon, Georgia, a Port of Delivery, was
passed. The bill to increase the pay of
naval officers was also passed. In the
House, the Utah polygamy bill was dis
cussed.
Another Diamond Wedding Duel in
Prospect.
It i3 rumored, apparently on good au
thority, that Lieutenant Bartlett, the
father in law of Senor Oviedo, who was
for some time prominently before the
public in connection with the wedding of
his daughter and the affair of honor with
Mr. Stedman, has been so highly incensed
by a recent article in the Home Journal,
that he has demanded satisfaction.
It seems that the article in question
was with reference to the reported en
gagement and approaching nuptials of a
distinguished foreigner, in which the
hope was expressed that tho approaching
wedding would not bo such an affair as
the famous diamond weeding, and an ad
jective was applied to the latter by no
means complimentary.
It i3 said that Mr. Bartlett, cn reading
the article in question, went to the office
of tho offending journal ia a high state of
excitement, and encountering the editor,
asked an explanation; butorotreceiving
an apology, declared that lie would de
mand immediate satisfaction; and went
off in high dudgeon.
When our information last heard of the
Lieutenant he was in search of a friend,
and it is probable that a hostile message
has already been sent to the quiet sanc
tum of the Journal. — Post.
Albany, March 21.—The Governor has
vetoed the bill to prohibit Sunday amuse
ments in New York.
Considerable excitement was created
about the Capitol by a fracas in the hall.
A Brooklyn Representative was met by a
young man as he was leaving the House
and knocked down by a severe blow.
The cause is stated to be the discovery of
an intrigue between the member and the
wife of the assailant.
An explosion occurred in a coal mine
near Hyde Park, Philadelphia, on the
26th, killing fifteen or twenty persons,
and wounding many others. The pump
broke while the engine was hoisting the
men up the shaft. The explosion of the
fire damp followed. The engines-in the
boiler house were blown to pieces.