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THE UPSOX PILOT. |
0. A. MfIjLER, ..... Editor.
TtaomaHton, Thursday, April 28, 1850.
The Constitution and Union n<l
Different Parties.
Borne man (we know not his age, color
or nation, but wo believe him to have been
a i( scholar and a gentleman”) once very
profoundly said that “ there teas much of
human nature in tpankind! The framers
of the ConstitW ,on an( l U nion must have
Bounded aB the depths and shallows of this
ever-edging* multiform tiling called “hu-
nature,” and anticipated its wants, its
vices and its follies. Guided by the Di
vinity, they have educed good out of appa
rent evil and a desired result from seeming
incongruous and opposing forces and ele
ments. No where is this wisdom of har
mony in discord, this universal good from
partial wrong, more clearly exhibited than
in our system of checks and balances. A
government may be beautiful in theory
and sound in its principles, but if unsuited
to the genius of the people, or if habitual
ly oppressive, it will at length be remodel
ed or overthrown. We must, however, dis
tinguish before we condemn, between the
government and the administration of the
government. The government may be
well adapted to promote and preserve life,
liberty and happiness—it may be pure and
sound in its theory, and suited to the peo
ple, and yet in practice its rulers may be
corrupt and tyrannical. In this case, is it
wise or patriotic to destroy the government
rather than overthrow its rulers ? Is it
just and generous for the government to be
answerable for the false promises and jnac
tices of party and sectional agitators and
demagogues, who flatter to betray, and
promise what they never intend to per
form ? Is it better to reform or abolish—
to scuttle and sink the ship, or heave into
the ocean a faithless commander and crew ?
These questions the good sense of our peo
ple have again and again answered in a
language not to be misunderstood.
The wisdom of our forefathers in the in
stitution of the checks and balances in our
Constitution, by bringing to pass a certain
good result from opposing forces, has, and
we hope ever will, preserve the harmony
of the Union. This wisdom is seen in ev
ery line of the Constitution, and its prac
tical effects upon popular opinion arc every
where demonstrable. Let us illustrate :
The party called Democratic at the North
is composed of protective tariff, internal
improvement men and others, crazy on the
nigger question—the Southern Democracy
are as motley as FalstafFs ragged compa
ny, made up of material of every color and
substance. Some are for Banks and some
against. Some for tariffs and internal im
provements, and some for free trade and
direct taxation. Some for more “niggers”
and disunion and some against. These di
verse opinions North and South, East and
West, however, like the tracks to the sick
lion’s den, always point in one direction—
to the sjioils. The political chameleons are
either *black, blue or white, just as the
spoils are near or distant. If the machine
ry of party grates on the ear of the Black
Republican, he immediately pours out his
soul for “ no more slave States,” while his
brother agitator, South, swears most lust
ily for the rights and honor of the South.
The Union is tossed from hand to hand
like a shuttle-cock—bitter words are spo
ken—the quarrel is kept up until each
champion rises in his stirrups, draws liis
trenchant blade and swears lie will cut the
Union in twain like an apple. Just at the
critical moment when every honest man
expects at night the dawning of a Northern
and Southern Confederacy, the combatants
are quieted, and they are found neck and
heels in the same trucklebed munching
whatever they could pick up from their
more gormandizing Democratic brethren.
The cry then goes up—“ The Union is
saved —the rights and honor of the South
arc preserved—Great is Democracy and
ice are its only prophets” ! !
It is in this way that the most variable
and worthless ores, when placed in the cru
cible of the Constitution and subjected to
an opposing element will produce fine gold.
The miserable worm upon which we tread
will at times spin a garment worthy of a
Goddess. The agitating political toad,
il ugly and venomous,” may still “ wear a
precious jewel in his head. “ The honest
people, North and South, when the work
of these dirty creatures is done, and they
are dead, will continue to wear the mantle
of the Constitution, and the jewel, Union,
(extracted from the heads of political
toads) will he hugged closer and closer to
their bosoms. The Constitution and Union
may he played with for awhile for party j
purposes, but it is another thing when the J
one is to be shivered on the empty heads
of demagogues and the other is to be
stripped from tlieir limbs, leaving them
naked —a prey to domestic or foreign
wolves.
Spain, her Royalty and Peasan
try.
To gratify some friends both near and
distant, and to give variety to our columns,
we publish a letter never before published,
received from a young friend and relative
some years ago from Spain. It will be seen
from the spirit of the letter that it was
written in a free and friendly intercourse —
but tliis, so far from subtracting, will, we
imagine, add point and interest to tlie
persons and scenes so graphically and we
have no doubt truthfully represented. The
writer had the best opportunities for obser
vation and from his known simplicity and
intelligence we have every assurance that
his impressions were honestly received and
faithfully communicated.
Spain, the land of romance and chivalry
—of story and of song, is still beautiful,
even amid the ruins of her tyrmer magnifi
cence. Religious bigotry and political tyr
anny have left frightful scars upon lier
once fair features. Time, war, flood and
fire have at different ages wasted her sub
stance and crushed out her vitality, but
she still lives, it may be broken hearted —
the Niobe of modern nations. She lives
in the past —the future in all probability
will be to her a blank. She lives in the
records of dead Historians, Poets, Orators
and Statesmen —in her Painting and Arch
itecture —in her geographical discoveries,
and in her once naval supremacy which en
abled her to bear her flag in thunder over
every sea, and plant her religion on every
coast.
We all have preconceived ideas of per
sons, places and nations we have never
seen. These ideas may be true or false,
their truth or falsity being dependent on
the probity and intelligence of the witness
and the influences of interest, pride, re
venge, local and national affections and ha
treds of the narrator. From our knowledge
and association with the mongrel Mexicans
we are apt to imagine that the Spaniard is
fit only to assassinate or be assassinated,
or is the degraded victim of political tyr
anny and monkish superstition. To such
the sentiment of the writer, that social
equality in Spain is at least as much rc
| cognised as in the United States, may
seem novel, but let any intelligent stranger
note the airs of importance put on by some
of our purse-proud Democratic aristocra
! cy and then compare our national fondness
1 for power and titles with the Spaniards,
and lie will find that we have many of tlie
vices without some of the virtues of a nat
ural or artificial nobility. Let him, too,
acquaint himself with the observations and
r . . , .
: reflections ot our own and foreign travel
lers, and he will learn that Spain is not the
j only country where Genius sickens, where
Merit dies, where Benefactors are unre
’ warded, where domestic vices prevail, and
where Party Demagogues often snatch the
crowns, scarfs and garters which should
alone be worn by real heroes and patriots.
When politics become a lore and our es
teemed and intelligent correspondents get
(wliat is hardly to be anticipated) dull, we
mav draw again on some other letters of
“ the same sort,” to instruct our worthy
readers.
Deaf and Dumb.
We have received a copy of the By-
Laws of the Georgia Institution, for the
education of the Deaf and Dumb, adopted,
March 1859.
Should there be any in this county, who
wish to become applicants for admission
into this benevolent Institution, it will af
| ford us pleasure, to give their friends all
the information in our power.
An applicant 1 with a certificate properly
| certified will be entitled to all tlie benefits
of the Institution, free of charge, for six
years.
LE BON TON.
The April No. of the Le Bon Ton is on
onr table. We would be glad to exhibit
specimens of this par excellence monthly
fashionable Journal to our Lady friends. —
It is worth a cart load of Lady's Books for
they are ‘‘slow coaches” for this fast age
compared to Le Bon Ton. Terms s's a
year. Address S. T. Taylor 407, Broad
way, New York.
Hon. John M. Botts.
Hon. John M. Botts, will please receive
our thanks for a pamphlet copy of his
speech, delivered before tlie order of Uni
ted Americans, in the city of New York.
THE UPSON PILOT* THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL *2B, 1859.
Douglas and tlie Democracy,
We return our thanks to tlie Hon. 8. A.
Douglas for several valuable documents,
and among them for liis celebrated
plilet compiled since the adjournment of
Congress. Mr. Douglas makes extracts —
elucidated by expressive italics, showy cap
itals, and bold black type —from writings
and speeches of Democratic Presidents,
Cabinet officers, Senators and Representa
tives, all assuring the people of the North
that in accordance with the Democratic
idea of non-intervention the people of a Ter
ritory may exclude slavery from their lim
its. Among the leading Democrats whose
opinions are thus paraded, are President
Buchanan, Vice-President Breckinridge,
Secretaries Cass, Cobb and Toucey, and
Messrs. Toombs, Mason, Hunter, Brown of
Mississippi, Bigler, Clingman, Stephens
and Lumpkin of Georgia, Orr, English
and a host of others.
Senator Douglas proves beyond doubtjg
that the leading Democrats did assure the
Democracy of the North that they might
exclude slavery by acts of the Territorial
Legislature. Without such express assu
rance, the alien and squatter sovereignty
clause in the Bill itself, is proof of tliis ob
ject, without question. This seal cannot
be torn from tlie bond, and when Southern
Americans wished to extract the sting
from tlie tail, Democrats objected, and
now they wish to atone for their own guilt
and folly and exhibit tlieir devotion for
Southern rights and honor by abusing
Douglas for acts they approved. Is tliis a
specimen of Southern honor ? Hit Tim
again Stephen, “ mamma don't care!”
The Faults of tlie Press.
We despise cant. We have little respect
for that hypocrisy which affects a virtue
when we have it not. While on one side
we have little sympathy for that Spartan
heroism which would suffer concealed guilt
to tear and prey upon our social vitals, we
on the other side, cannot see the virtue in
seeking to blazon forth every case of mur
der, suicide, adultery, with all their hide
ous particulars to the public eye. Some
editors seem to scent out such carrion news
from afar. They gloat over and serve it
up as a rich intellectual and moral banquet
for their readers. Sucli a taste is corrupt
ed and corrupting. Better, far better that
tlie curtain be drawn and the guilty actors
and no less guilty victims of such scenes,
be hid forever from sight, be turned
over to the public executioner or be
left silently to endure the stings of
a wounded conscience rather than strut
the buskined heroes of the stage for
a single brief hour, or be laughed at and
hissed by the groundlings of the pit. The
community, by the too great fecundity of
the Press in such exhibitions of humanity,
often comes to realize the beautiful and
philosophical lines of Pope :
‘ Vice is a monster of such frightful mein,
As to he hated needs hut to be seen:
Yet, seen too oft. familiar with her face.
We first endure, then pity, then embrace7*
We commend the following remarks of
the Washington Union to some of our
brethren of the Press :
“ We are sometimes compelled to ask if
newspaper enterprise and* competition are
not productive of great moral evils. It is
terrible to tliink of the minute details of
murder, and other forms of evil, which the
press, stimulated by a laudable enterprise,
daily places in the hands of boys and girls,
innocent hitherto, hut after a few months
of such revelations, innocent no longer.—
We know how the conductors of the great
papers reason ; they say “the public will
have these details, and we are compelled
to furnish them.” But we think that is a
great mistake. If the newspapers refuse,
for instance, to record the details of any
matters offensive to public morality, how
can the public obtain such information ?
The truth is, the press is not only the ex
ponent of public sentiment—it is to mould
opinions. Il prurient matters are furnish
ed prurient appetites will be stimulated to
ask for more ; whereas if the supply is
withheld, the demand will die of starva
tion.
“We should be sorry to have these re
marks limited to any one case. We be
lieve them to be of general application.—
Journalism is fast becoming a science, and
it is time its disciples assumed their prop
er olfice as directors of the public taste,
and ceased to pander to its improper de
sires. Let us show the world what ought
to be done, rather than daguerreotype with
filthy minuteness every foul thing which
ought not to have been done.
It is true, if it be a truism, that no pow
er is in America so mighty as the press ;
more wonderful than electric telegraphing ;
more potent than steam; yet too often en
trusted to hands entirely untrained. An
editor is supposed to be specially qualified
for his office, by the possession of the nec
essary gifts, and the proper training and
experience. Now, what would be thought
of that engineer who, having a powerful
machine under his control, allowed some
subordinate to amuse himself with the le
vers, or to sit on the beam which closes
the safety-valve ? And yet that is what
is often done with the machinery of our
moral and social life. Too generally the
rule seems to be recognized that whatever
exTsts ought to he published, and pliono
giaphic reports must not be revised. The
severe laws for regulating the press in Eng
land have had this salutary eflect—that all
disgusting minutia? are summed up in one
expression, ‘‘the evidence was unlit for
publication.”
Washington “ States.”
We should be glad to know why this
able paper now never reaches our sanctum /
Is it because the Editors have cut us from
their list, or is it stolen, lost or mislaid by
some of Uncle Sams officials ? “'We:
pause for a reply !”
For the Upson Pilot.
TO CASTHLE !
“ Base envy withers at another’s joy,
And hates that excellence it cannot reach'”
Yes. now the-nation's heart is rent,
With grief sincere and true —
‘ The nation’s brow with care is bent,
Though not perceived by you.
What tho’ long years have since then flown,
What tho’ you cannot weep ;
Yet there are those who truly mourn
O’er graves where heroes sleep.
Perhaps there's not within your breast
A love of country pure—
A love for those who sleep at rest,
Whose names will e'er endure.
Oh! why not mourn those heroes great 1
Oh! why not ‘'Bend the Knee” 7
And yet I never can believe
That they’ll be mourned by thee.
Your heart’s too cold to weep for those
Who long have slept at rest—
There’s not one spark of pity sweet
Within your cruel breast.
You cannot mourn your country’s friends ;
You cannot bend your knot,
To weep lor those whose lives were lost
To gain this land for thee.
“ We should not weep,” you say, for those
Long sleeping in their graves” ;
Yet he who’d fail to shed a tear,
Should dwell- mid base born slaves.
And you hare tried, but all in vain,
To make my verses lie ;
There are some who think, and justly too,
That it’s you instead of I.
Then cease your attempts to criticise,
For you can ne'er succeed ;
They’re all as vain and fragile as
The broken, trembling reed.
Your harp is old, and cracked and broken,
With neither time nor tune —
You’ve tried to string its creaking chords,
And alas! you've tried too soon.
LEON.
Emory College.
For the Upson Pilot.
A DREAM.
It was a pleasant day, in sweet sunny
May, the sun was sinking behind the state
ly oaks, which surrounded and partially
concealed from the view of travelers, a
large and splendid building as they ap
proached it from the west. From this, beau
tiful domicil, two fair nymphs had strayed :
their direction was down a shady lawn, to
the rear of the mansion, which led to a sil
very lake a few paces off. It was a spot,
where nature had been most lovisli in her
beauties ; it surpassed, in lovliness the no
ted spring of the ‘-land of flowers” where
Ponce de Leon imagined he had realized
his wildest dream. The long green bran
ches of the trees surrounding it were lov
ing in its cool waters covered with spray ;
the green leaves of the trees and shrubery,
formed a striking contrast with the vari
ous and highly colored flowers blooming
near the water’s edge. On a ledge of rock
over looking this romantic spot, sat the
twin sisters Adelaide and Adellah : they
were of rare beauty and highly accomplish
ed. And being an ardent lover of Nature,
1 too, had strayed near the margin of the
lake, and listened to the melodious notes of
the evening songsters, perched in the green
boughs above. I remained in the position
I had chosen before their arrival, nor did
I make my presence known to them ; hut
sat a quiet listener. Adellah was the first
to break the silence. Sister Adelaide said
she, “have you not declined going away ?
O, Dellah, do not ask me to abandon
the dearest of my life. You know that
from early childhood, I have had a great
desire to visit the East. There are won
ders there, that my eyes are eager to look
on, soil, that my feet are anxious to tread,
; made sacred by the tread of our Saviour
; and the angels of his Father’s kingdom.—
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, once the glory of
i the world, how gladly would I look on it,
true its splendor has departed, but what—-
holy memories crowd upon the mind of the
traveler as he -gazes on its ruins. One
glance at it I feel would repay me for all
risks run. and sacrifices made. The sweet
flowing Bosphoras, ancient Smyrna, the
river Jordan, “that great mantle of God’s
wealth,” the Dead sea, and the mountains
of Moab, are objects of unceasing interest
to me. Dissuade me not my dear sister,
but accompany me, for I assure you, that
it is a severe struggle to leave behind one
so dear as yourself. Hush! Ada, I con
fess I have already concluded, that you
love me little, otherwise you would remain
in our own blest land. Our home is a hap- !
py one, and want we have never known.—
Then why will you exchange it, for a course
which will probably bring misery, and pov
erty? “Yes Dellah. you speak truly when
you say, that our’s is ablest land,” that
‘ our homo is a happy one/ but, then I
wish to follow the path that levels to the
object of my desire ; to visit foreign shores.
But if you retuse to go with mo s give me
your blessing and prayers, before T leave
you : I may meet with trials and discour
agements, yet l am resolved to go ; and
love to indulge the hope that I shall return
both wiser and better. Let us kneel on
this rock, for the last time and dedicate
ourselves once more to God, for to-morrow
l embark on a steamer bound for the Fast.
With arms wound around each other’s
waist they bowed to heaven’s shiine, and
poured forth their hearts in eloquent strains
to the Great Mediator. And just then
the morning lay of the early minstrel, re
called me from dream-land. ALMA.
Upson county. April 13ih.
v From tho Baltimore Clij-por.
The Canvass in Virginia.
The charge against the locofoco candi
date for Governor in Virginia of having
! endorsed the abolitionism of the Bu finer
I pamphlet, seems to lie uneasily upon the
j stomachs of the Virginia democracy. They
; dread it as the devil is said to dread holy
j water. They cannot answer the charge
and they cannot stand it. They are the
men avlio came before the people year after
year and raised the cry of abolitionism
against any Whig or American candidate
who was presented for the suffrages of the
people. They are the men who hurled
this anathma of abolitionism against Clay,
and Harrison, and Scott, and Flournoy,
and Fillmore, while they were themselves
I supporting Van Buren, the father of the
I Buffalo abolition platform, and Cass, the
1 author of Squatter -Sovereignty abolition
i ism, and Fierce and Buchanan, the candi
j dates of the abolition wing of the democ
racy. These Virginia locofocos are now
giving their support to Letcher, as avow
ed abolitionist as the arch agitator of abo
litionism, Wm. H. Seward himself, and
the man whom the central organ of aboli
tionism calls an “erring brother” The
cups they have so often commended to the
Whigs and Americans of the Old Dorain
ion is now presented to their own lips, and
bitter as it may be they must swallow it
to tho very dregs.
A few weeks ago a prominent Southern
democratic leader, while passing through
Virginia, advised that Letcher should make
any allusion to the Buffiier pamphlet “a
personal matter.” Honest John has not
the courage to do so, but it seems that
some of his insignificant strikers have un
dertaken to do so for him. During are
cent discussion in Wythe, .a county here
tofore overwhelmingly democratic, while
Goggin was pinning poor Letcher to the
wall on the abominations of the Buffiier
pamphlet, a scene was enacted, by a few
Locofoco leaders, without parallel in the
history of the Commonwealth, and fur
which there can be no palliation and no
excuse. It appears that, previous to the
arrival of Goggin and Letcher in the coun
ty, threats had been made by tho locofoco
leaders alluded to, to tho effect that ij
j Goggin should allude to the Huff tier pam
phlet in the course of the discussion, they
| (the leaders referred to) would male it a
persona! mailin’ with him! Mr. Goggin
I opened the debate and did allude °to
| the Buffiier pamphlet and Letcher’s con
nection with it, in the same courteous
| and pointed manner in which he alluded to
j them in all previous discussions. Themo
: merit he did so, the ringleader of the con
! spiracy to insult and intimidate Mr. Gog
i gin sprang to his feet and declared that, if
Mr. Letcher would not make a personal
, matter of Goggin’s allusion to the Buffiier
pamphlet, he would. And thereupon arose
| a scene, gotten up by these desperate little
locofoco leaders of Wythe, such as never
before disgraced the venerated soil of proud
and Free Virginia. For many minutes—
fifteen or twenty, perhaps—there was a
general and unprecedented confusion and
disorder, during which the discussion of
j course was entirely suspended. Thus for
the first time has the gag been attempted
! to be applied to a public speaker m the
Commonwealth ot Virginia, and that spea
ker himself a native to the manor born and
as courteous as honorable, and as high
minded a gentleman as walks the face of
the earth. The Whig thus comments up
on the outrage :
“ The effect of this unprecedented out
rage upon Mr. Goggin was exactly what
I might have been expected. He proceeded
with his speech in his usual gentlemanlv
style, pouring hot shot in the riddled car
cass of poor Letcher on every point and at
every turn, and completely satisfying and
rejoicing his own friends, and winning hun
dreds of just and liberal-minded Demo
crats to his support. The “Imposition”
leaders alluded to were confounded, for the
people—the honest yeomanry of Wythe of
all parties—rallied to the defence of Gog
gin, and will nobly rally to his aid at the
polls on the 4th Thursday in May.
Thus it appears, from the disgraceful
and outrageous scene enacted at Wythe,
that the supporters of Letcher can’t stand
Goggin’s fire, and that poor Letcher him
self is flat on his back, and unable to make
the slightest favorable impression upon the
honest masses of the people among whom
he is wandering disconsolate, and uttering
all the while agonizing cries of distress.—
Thus it appears, also, that the enthusiasm
of the people in behalf of Goggin is so far
unprecedented in a political canvass, and,
what is better and more cheering still, is
gloriously on the increase.
We have narrated as faithfully as we
could the circumstances of the scene en
acted at Wythe. In conclusion, we appeal
to the p&q.ie of Virginia, East and West,
and of all parties, to visit with her sternest 1
disapprobation and indignation the effort
made by the Letcherites to stifle discussion
by a disgraceful attempt to insult, brow
beat and intimidate Mr. Goggin. And
why is the attempt thus made to gag Mr.
Goggin ? Because, forsooth, he chooses
to allude, as he has the unquestionable
right to do, to Letcher’s connection with
the odious and incendiary lluffner pam
phlet! Freemen of Virginia, of all sec
tions and all parties, we again invoke you
to rally to the defence and support of the
gifted and gallant Goggin in the present
canvass, and while lie is so nobly and glo
riously battling with poor Letcher, push
forward and advance his interests in all
other portions of the Commonwealth, with
a zeal, an energy, and a determination that
nothing can conquer. Do but this, and
you will administer a withering rebuke to
Locofoco Plugnglvism. and triumphantly
elect the conservative Opposition ticket on
the 4ili Thursday in May. Wo shall cor
dially and energetically work with you to
this end—for, thank God, the people and
the press of Virginia are still free, and the
latter, at least so far as we are concerned,
can never he gagged. We may he assas
sinated by some ruffianly Locofoco “Impo
sitionist,” but the Richmond Whig, under
our control, can never, wo repeat, bo
gagged.”
If any allusion to the Euffncr pamphlet
is to bo made a personal matter, Letcher
has the right to notice it in such manner.
The interposition of other parties to in
timidate Letcher’s opponent from alluding
to it is a direct imputation upon the per
sonal courage and high sense of honor of
Mr. Letcher himself. The Locofoco can
didate will forfeit the name of a Virginia
gentleman, if he permits another to assume
for him a responsibility that devolves upon
himself alone. But if we are not utterly
mistaken in the man, if Goggin’s antece
dents do not belie his character, he will not
be intimidated from speaking the truth of
his neighbor in courteous terms even if
Letcher and the whole pack of locofoco
bullies in Virginia should attempt to check
his utterance of them. He may be de
feated but he will not be brow-beaten. He
and his party may be overwhelmed by De
mocratic frauds and corruption in the elec
tion, but they cannot be scared or intimi
dated.
I’ll Buy it for You. —How admirably
is the egotism of purse-proud vanity taken
off by the following anecdote:
In the interior ot South Carolina there
lived, some years ago, an old man, very
rich and very ignorant. His only son was
educated at the South Carolina College,
and after graduating, was sent to Europe
by his indulgent parent. On his return
his father asked him what he saw in Eu
rope. The son replied that he had Seen a
great many rare and wonderful things and
many fine cities.
“ Did you sec any place that you liked
Letter than home?” asked the old man.
“Oh yes,” was the reply: “I saw Lon
don and Paris, both very line cities.”
“Which did you like the best ?” queried
the father.
“ Paris,” replied the son
“You liked Paris a great deal, did you? ’
continued the old man.
“Oh yes, very much.”
“Then I’ll buy it for you !” triumphant
ly replied the old gentleman.
Tiie Sukers Trial.— Washington,
April 22.—The counsel in the Sickles casu
have agreed to submit the case to the ju
ry ; arguing only the points for .instruc
tions by the Court.
The three remaining rebutting witnes
ses were absent to-day, and the Court has
issued attachments against them.
There is a strong feeling prevalent here j
that a verdict of not. guilty will be found I
to-morrow.
Washington, April 23.—Mr. Sickles’ 1
counsel occupied tlie Court with an argu-1
merit upon the instructions to be given to I
the Jury. The case will probably go to I
the Jury Monday.
Post Office Department. —During I
the quarter ending March 31, there were ■
sold by the Department postage stamps
and stamped envelops, giving an increase
of .$311,093 over the receipts for the quar
ter ending December 31. This does not.
however, prove any increase in correspond
ence, but merely that postmasters through
out the country have ordered more stamp s
and envelopes. The c-nly available data
for arriving at the state of the correspond
ence of the country shows that there has
actually been a diminution, and hence a I
falling oft in the postal revenue.* —JfW"■
ington Steer.
Death of Hon. James IT. Bryce..—l
V e were sorry to learn from a letter of a I
private correspondent, that Hon. James H i
Bryce, late Senator from Crawford county I
died at Ins residence in that county, onH
Monday, the 18th instant. We hear fro® I
private information, that there has U/B
lately an unusual amount <_f sickness
mortality in Crawford, principally tf° c ß
erysipelas. —Macon Telegraph.
Killed.— W r e learn that the storm;/ ■
yesterday morning, blew ddwn a dwelt™
house a few miles below this, near tul
Chattahooclie river, and killed a wonUB
and child.— Marietta Patriot, 23 d inst- 1
The Cotton Planters’ Convention!’ I
assemble in Macon, Georgia, on the
Tuesday in June next. The cotton p i; ‘; I
ters of Houston county have held a
ing, and appointed delegates ; and
the several counties of the State to ■
’ wise.