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Th* Jewish People. The Jews are no longer a nation, but they have not lost their nationality. They still pre serve the distinctive characteristics of their race, and in whatever country, or in whatever station, exhibit the same deep, earnest love for their o a home. While all tnat remain of other nations area few lettered pages, or a few mouldered •atones; while their greatness and their £ lor > have been swallowed up, so that wolves howl where monarchs feasted, and wild flocks P as " tured where towered palaces arose,— the Jew preserves his old identity, and lives in the pres ent a thing of the past. Encounter one o Jewish people in one of the crowded thorough fares of London, meet him in a Parisian square, on the Venetian Rialto, or in one ot thequar ers of the Eternal City ; or on the sun-burnt coast of Africa, or amid the toil and traffic ot ; Yotk ; or in the busier scenes of Australian gold regions; and his peculiar countenance, his sharp piercing glance, tell unmistakably his origin, am you know him for a Jew as well as though you saw him mourning over the relics 01 his peop e s bygone glory, as well although you saw bun weep over the ruins ot Zion. In whatever light we view the Jewish peo ple we cannot fail to be penetrated with feel ings of intense interest on their iiehalt. 1 hey have ever stood forth conspicuously in the very centre of the world—a pharos, the light ot which was reflected on the gloom ot surrounding poly theism, superstition, and idolatry tV hile the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, the Romans, the Carthaginians, the Egyptians, the Groths, have each in turn played their i-art in the world's drama, and disappeared from the theatre of the world, the Jews stdl remain a people dwelling alone among the nations, tor eighteen hundred years they have been in a state ot op pression and exile, the objects, in many instances, of execration and scorn. A wondrous history is that of the Jews. Far away in the past you recognize the father ot the nation in old Abraham. I'he nomale con dition ofthe people at that period is briefly told. It is more the history ot a tamily than the histo ry of a nation Those men who are busy in rearing huge Egyptian structures, and are .hem selves cast down and held in brutal slavery, are the Jewish people. The wondrous doings ol that wondrous time, the marching host that quitted a land of bondage to found a nation on another shore, are iecorded with an eloquence almost as wondrous a» the theme.—wandering alter wandering, journey after journey, battle after battle, victory alter victory, till the land of Palestine became their home. Th-land was a holy land, the governrn»>TF a theoeraiw- But id,.. « eary oi -i..s government, and sought a King like the other nations. King means cun ning—cunning man. Their roll of kings be tray* no great sagacity,— “ dome good, some bad. Os bad the larger saro.l." Every false step brought fresh disasters in its tram; the people became weak before their ene mies, and in the Babylonian captivity they hung their haips upon the willows, for how ceuld they sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? A strange and melancholy record is the story of their captivity. Agra id thrilling romance of reality, in which we recognise an intense theism. Bibvion with its lofty walls and hundred gates, its broad streets, its public squares, its noble pal aces, its hanging gardens—all uniting to consti tute a wonder of the whole world —to the Jews was but a prison-house. Surrounded by con stant and unbounded magnificence, by the glo ries of art and ail that was calculated to impress them with the power and the riches of their conquerors—they sighed for the hills, and dales, and plains of their own well-loved Palestine ; for its vine-clad hills, its stately palms, its dear old memories. What was dearer to them than their own homes, their own happiness, their own lives, had been despoiled by their enemies. The House of God was laid low. The treasures of that house, the holy vessels, had been carried aW ay and they wept when they remembered Zion. Truly they had suffered before, and suf fered bitterly, but the old Egyptian bondage was in the infancy ot their nation. Since that peri od they had been led out in triumph, bad con quered every’oe. had established themselves in the promised land, and in Solomon it seemed as though their glory had culminated, and their star wa« now in the decline. The prophet of Heze kiah's time, Isaiah, had told of a coming deliv erer. in the person of Cvrus, and Jewish hopes were raised when the Persian army beleaguered the city, and the tremendous words of warning spoke of coming desolation to the impious Bels hazzer. The last days of Babylon were at hand. The coming act of impiety had been perpetra ted. The banquet at which the great men of the time had assembled, had witnessed the holy ve««els ofthe Temple polluted by the revel, had witnessed, too, the fingers of a hand write on the wall the sentence of condemnation, a sen tence which none but a Jewish seer could make plain. And then the end came on. We read of the wanderer's return; of the ru ined temple re-erected ; the story of the Macca bees, or Antiochus Epiphanes; of the marvels which stirred the hearts of the people when Christianity appeared among them : ofthe revolt against the Romans; the fierce siege;the strug gle without and the struggle within; the final over’hrow of Jerusalem, and the destruction of the temple; and then azain comes the dark, melancholy cloud, and Zion’s song is hushed, except that here and there a pla ntive strain arises from some Jewish home—homes of the wanderers scattered far and wide. A story of glory and shame, of joy and sorrow, of sunshine as well as darkness, is that of an cient Judaism, but all glory and joy and sun shine are taken away from their modern hieto ry. There is still at Rome a triumphal arch, erected when the captive Jews were brought thither by Titus.—anarch, on which is sculp tured the Roman soldiers, carrying the golden candlesticks, table of shew-bread. and other ves sels ot the Tabernacle. The Jews were the builders of the Colosseum, and the first victims slain within its walls. Held in detestation of all nations, persecuted on groundless charges, vic tims of popular fury, as well as of legal injus tice, hanged, burned, tortured to death, —the his tory ol the Jews is a martyrology, and their preservation a miracle. In England, but a few centuries ago, the most extraordinary notions were entertained respect ing the piaetices of the Jews. Old Chaucer ap pears to have believed that the Jews were ca pable of any cruelty, and we must remember tnat be only represented in this matter, the po pular opinion ; in bis time it was thought a good Christian thing to spit on a Jewish gaber dine. In the “ Canterbury Tales” he makes the prioress relate that in an Asiatic city, where there was a ‘■Jewerie,’’ a place where Jews dwei", that a child having to pau this place on his way to school, gave high offence by singing “ 0 Altai Mater red*mptoris for which they fell upon him and put him to dertb, but the words ofthe song were still con tinued from the pit where his mangled body was hid lent search was made, the murder was dis covered, and then— •• With torment and with shameful death, each one The provost these Jews did serve, Woich of the murder wist. Therefore wiih wild horse* he did them draw, Anl after that he bang’d them by the law.” At the close of the poem Chaueer refers to another ease; exclaiming— •‘ Ob, young Hew of Linooln I slain also By cursed Jews, as it is noptable. Tor it was but a little while a;o.” These accusations were not uncommon : the people entertain- d a horrible belief that the men of the gaberdine were willing to commit i any amount of treason against common humani- I ty; that they were in the haoitof stealing away I and murdering Christian children, in order to use their blood as leaven in preparing some of the substances to be eaten in the course of their rites. Marlow, the old dramatist, has given us a fearful autobiographical sketch in the character of Barabbas, the Jew. when he makes him say— “ A" for myself. I walk abroad a-nigbt*. And kill sick people groaning under walls; Sometime* I go about and poison wells; And now and then, to enerish Christian thieves, I am content to lose somo of my orowns, That I may, walking in my gallery Bee’m go pinion d along by my door. Being young. I studied physi". and began First to practise upon the Italian, There I enrich’d the priests with burials, And always kept the sexton’s arms in use. With digging graves, and ringing dead men’s knells i And after that I was an enginer. And in the wars ’twixt France and Germany, Under pretence of serving Charles V., Blew friend and enemy with my stratagems, Then after that I was an usurer, And w th extorting, cozening, forfeiting, Ar d tricks belonging unto brokery, I filled the gaol with bankrupts in ayear, And with young orphans planted hospitals, And erery moon made some or other mad— And one would sometime* hang himself for grief, Pinning upon hi* breast along great enroll, How I with interest had tormented him/’ These were ’he sentiments and these the do ings which men in Marlow’s day ascribed to Jews. Shakspeare in his Shylock panders to this prejudice; the story ol the pound of flesh was the sort of thing that men believed respect ing Jewish dealers. The character of bis Jew arouse in* our minds an instinctive aversion, al though we may have some pity for the man : but Shak’peare’s Jew was spotless innocence compared with Marlow’s. When the flower of European chivalry left their own land* and started forth to do battle with the Turk, the Crusaders’ swords’ grew red with Jewish blood. The knights commenced their labors for the Cross by massaCreing the Jew* in every city through which they passed. Conversion or death were the alternative pro posed. Cologne, Worm", Treves, saw the fear ful work begun. A band of Jewish women at Treves went to the banks of the blue Moselle, and having loaded their clothes with stones, threw themselves into the river and perished While the crusading mania lasted, many similar acene* occurred. At the coronation of Richard 1., of England, orders bad been given that none of the Jewish race should approach his palace. Ignorant ot the order, some of the leading men went to the spot ■with presents for the king. A riot ensued. A rumor spread that the king had sanctioned a mas sacre of the Jew* throughout his dominions The imaginary o der was put into operation. From city to city the blood-news went; the most deplorable scene of all took place at York There the Jews shut themselves up in a tower, and were beteiged by the populace. Finding no mean* of escape, they resolved to fall by their own hands. Each head of a family took a razor, with wh.ch he slew first his wife and children, then hi* domestics, and finally himself. Either in this Isarlul manner, or by the hands of the populace, ev»*ry, Jew irj York perished. Still la ter, teven hundred were# slain in London be *au*v a Jew had demanded exorbitant interest. In 1'274. every Jew who lent money on usury was compelled to wear a plate upon his breast signifying that he was a usurer, or to quit the realm; in 1277, two hundred and sixty-seven Jews were hanged and quartered on a charge ol clipping the coin; ’he same year, upon a pretence that a Christian child had been crucified at Nor wich. fifty Jews were hanged, and every syna gogue destroyed: in 1287. all the Jews in Eng land were apprehended in one day. their goods goods and chatties confiscated to the king, and they, to the number of 16,660, banished the realm. They rema: ted banished 374 yea *. England is in this matter, a fair sample of other countties. In 1394 they were driven out of France; in 149'2 were banished from Spain; aganist them the Inqnsition was first establish ed. Recent time* have seen the grossest cruel ties enacted against them in the face of all rea son and justice. The old prejudice still to some extent influences the public mind; though no fire or sword are employed, they are still under the ban ofthe law, until comparatively lately were tendered incapable of the privileges of citizen s'-ip. and even now are denied some of its ad van ages. . A bye-word among the nations, the Jewish people have been preserved amid all the agita tion and tumult ot the world. There is some thing very striking and impressive in the idea. The legend ot the wandering Jew seems but a type of the nation : " And eighteen centuries now have sped On the dark wrecks of Rome and Greece. They have soon th ashes scattered Os thousand shifting dynasties; Been good, unfruitful good, and ill Prolific, while the tempest roll’d; Icon two new worlds the oirolo fill. Which one world occupied of old. Ever, ever Earth revolves—they rest them never.** Jews have been compelled to turn their at tention to the accumulation of money. In every age 'hey have been celebrated tor their wealth. Rich as a Jew, has become a proverb. Their supposed wealth has brought noon them cruelty and persecution. Their real wealth is a known fact. But modern Jews can do some thing more than make money. The melting music o the “Midsummer Night’s Dream;” the melancholy strain of “Elijah ;” the solemn music of “Paul,” owe their origin to Felix Men delssohn—a Jew. Who has not been enchanted with the beautiful fictions of lyric poetry, and charmed with the graceful melodies of Heine 1 The pictures of Bendemann, the Jew, are de scribed by connoiseurs as worthy of all praise. Liberty lias found a free spoken apostle in the Jew. Boerne. Rossini was a Jew ; Memerbeer a Jew. There is an earnestness, a spirit ot po etry and melodv in the outcast people that will *,!.» am! tb’ l The world owes much to the Jews. They were the librarians of its revelation ; in their laws we recognise the grand outline of moral obligation ; in their poetry we find he highest excellence : and in their ethical aphorisms, a body of the soundest practical wisdom. There are deeper obligations which we owe to the Jews. Christianity was originally founded, pro fessed, and by them. There are glories yet instore for that people. Their his tory is yet to be eventful. There is a bright light resting on the future—a haven across the melancholy seas—a haven they must reachat last. All history is something more than a rec ord of facts The facts of histoiy are connect ed ; and to trace and expound the principles of this connexion, to exhibit the history as one or ganic whole, is the highest office of the histo rian. Nowhere is this connexion better seen than in the anna ! s of Judaism. According to the most recent and exact sta tistics, the Jews number at this moment very nearly the same as when they left Egypt under Moses—somewhere about three millions and a half. They have used every dialect, have wan dered on the banks of the Nile, by the waters of Babylon, the Jordan, the Tiber, the Thames the Mississippi; they have mingled, but never united with other nations ; arms, climate, ge nius and pol tics cannot explain it. We turn to our records to find out the cause—their history is prospective as well as retrospective, and leads us forward to a time when their wanderings shall be over, and they shall recognize in Him. whom they now reject, the brightness and glory of their race. There is evident purpose in the preservation of the Jews. We disregard the idle curl of the wave, but when every wave is moving in the same direction, when the tide is clearly seen at work—we find a law of nature, we seek a cause and find it in the skies. So is it with all his'ory—but more especially in Jewish records, old and new—there is design-in them all—every circumstance is connected—it is no chapter of accidents, but the development of a great and glorious plan. [From the Journal of Commerce, 10ZA inst.J Mississippi Repudiation. Some new phenomena have recently occurred in the history ot Mississippi repudiation, which it may be well to record. Let us premise, for the information of persons not lamiliar with the facts, that in 1830 and 1833, the State of Mis sissippi issued bonds to the amount of $2,000,000, and loaned them to the Planters’ Bank of that State, then recently established. Os this amount, $1,500,000 were issued with coupons attacl ed, and 5500.Q00 without. Not long after, say in 1835 or 1836. she issued her bonds to the amount of $5,000,000 more, tor the establishment ofthe Mississippi Union Bank. The bonds for the Planters’ Bank sold at a considerable premium, out of which a sinking fund was established, which was eventually Io redeem them. These Planters’ Bank bonds were never in torm repu diated, but the interest on them ceased to be paid in 1838. and not a farthing has since been received from them by the unfortunate holders, most of whom reside in England. I The bonds for the Union #ank were thrown upon the market at two latffa date to bring the highest prices. Money was not so plenty, and a portion of them at least, if not the whole, were sold for a trifle under par. The Act of the Legislature authorizing their issue, contained a proviso that they should not be sold under par : and as a pretext was now wanted to cover the odium of repudiation, it was found in the neg lect of this proviso; although at the date of the repudiation, most or all ot the bonds had pass ed into the hands of third parties, who knew nothing of the restriction, and had no agency in disregarding it. At bes ,it was little more than a technicality, on which no stress was laid when the issue of the bonds was authorised ; and the Goveror’s recommendation to repudiate on that ground, or on any ground, was at first resisted by the Legislature, who on the other hand pass ed a resolution declaring that Mississippi would “preserve her faith inviolate,” and that any in sinuation to the contrary would be “a calumny upon her justice, honor and dignity.” She how ever made no attempt to pay either principal or interest, and in 1842 the infamy ot a formal re pudiation was consummated. We uoa go back to the Planters’ Bank bonds. In 1848. there remained of the sinking fund set apart for their redemption, $94,000. The Leg islature of that year passed an Act requiring this 1 money to be applied to the payment of the first ;of the overdue coupons of these bonds. As : SSOO 000 of the bonds had no coupons, they i were excluded by the wording of the law, from the benefl’s of the appropriation ; although no . such discrimination was probably intended. As j yet, however, nothing has been gained or lost by I either class of bondholders, in consequence of the discrimination.—the State Auditor having evaded the law which required the payment to to be made. Under these circumstances, Mr. Weis*, an agent of rhe English bondholders, be- I ing then in Mississippi, obtained a Mandamus against the Auditor, commanding him to pay over the money, according to law. The latter ! thereupon appealed to the “ High Court of Er } rors,” the highest Tribunal in the State, which, towards the close of last year, confirmed the Mandamus of the lower Court. The sinking fund was by this time reduced to $45,000. —the Legislature of that year having appropriated it to defray the ordinary expenses of government; and we infer from a recent article in the Natchez Courier, that this $45,000 has since been expen ded in the same way; the Auditor probably re garding the authority of the Legislature as supe rior to that of the Court of Errors. However this may be. it is plain that there is a collision between the Courts and the Legislature, and that the latter body has trampled under foot the au thority of the former. Nor is this the only point of collision between the government of Mississippi and her Courts. For her Court of Chancery has recently decided that she is legally and constitutionally bound for the redemption and payment of the Union Bank bonds. This case will go up to the highest Court, which, there is reason to believe, will sustain the Chancellor’s decision. The New Orleans Bulletin, anticipating this result, says : *• This will place the people of Mississippi in a very awkward predicament— they voting that they will riot pay certain obligations, and the high tribunals, of their own creation, specially authorized to pronounce upon such subjects, de claring that they are legally and constitutional ly bound for their reilemp*ion and payment.” All honor to the Mississippi Courts. They have done what they could to vindicate outiaged justice, and blot out the infamy which must ever attend and follow the repudiation of just debts. That those under consideration are just debts, nobody doubts but the debtors. The country and the civilized world have pronounced U|>onthe case a unanimous verdict. Mississippi stands before mankind a fraudulent debtor; able, but re fusing to pay. Being an independent State, she has the power either to pay or not to pay ; but this tact makes her refusal still more discredita ble to her, if possible, than it otherwise would be. In thinking and speaking on this subject, we must be careful to discriminate between the nu merical majority which has hitherto refused to make any effort to pay the bonds In question, and that large and respectable minority who for years have been struggling to redeem the credit ofthe State by doing justice to her creditors. We said years ago, and we say now, that Mis sissippi will yet regard it a* a privilege, to pay her repudiated bond*, and all her bonds Recent demonstrations encourage us to hope that her regeneration is near. Not only the decisions of her Court* and the increasing zeal of the party in favor of bond-paving, encourage us, but also the fruits ot her dishonesty, which she is begin ning to reap. These are bitter, like the apples of Sodom ; and will become more so the longer they are kept. Read the following article : [ From the Natchez (Miss.) Courier of Jan. 26 ] The Financial Condition ofthe State.— The State of Mississippi is, we regret to learn, at present in a very awkwaid position. Its treasury is empty ; a portion of its people appear willing to give up all idea of preserving its cred it ; and a part ol its press seem anxious to avoid the question of how that credit can be restored, lest any agitation of the public mind may inter rupt the quiet serenity that now promises i to mere spoilsmen so long a grasp of public honors and of office*. The sinking fund, «o improperly appropriated by the State last year to pay its ordinary expenses, has at length been exhausted; and the State Treasury has at last to guard only “ a beggarly array of empty boxes.” This sink ing fund was composed of a portion of the mon ies paid in by bondholders as a premium, at the time the latter bought the bonds to which the State had pledged her faith. So fair then stood the credit of Mississippi, that about $200,000 were paid in cash into her treasury, over and above the face of the bonds. It was directed to be reserved as a sinking fund for their redemp tion. Three or four years since, Mississippi had a large surplus in her treasury : considerably over half a million, if we recollect aright. The Le gislature, though always acknowledging the liability of the State—constitutional, legal and moral—to pay the Planters’ Bank Bonds, de clined to pay the interest thereon; as if to afford encouragement to the spirit of repudiation, and to take away the continually reclining incen tive to honesty, that a surplus in the treasury always presented, the Legislature ordered $300.- 000 of the surplus to be delivered back to the counties ot the State, and the taxes ofthe people to be liminished one-half. If the Legislature had desired to force the State into a repudiation of her bonds to drain her treasury and impoverish her cotfers. so that she could not pay her debts without onerous taxation, that body would have adopted no other means than it did. Even in this distribution ol the surplus, there was a method in the Legislative madness that almost provokes a smile. The counties had been taxed according to the real and personal proper ty contained therein ; the taxes were re-distribu ted back according to the population I From Adams county, the State had gathered some 815.000 a year; to her, it gave back $3,500. From Ti.hemingo and Tippah, it had gathered about $8,500, and it gave back $31,000 I These are strange facts, but they are facts, neverthe less. The State drew money from one set ol counties, and gave it away to another set; as if to give the last named set an excuse for voting not to pay the State obligations, on the ground of unwillingness to be taxed, (an excuse the}’ readijy availed themselves ot!) at the very pe riod when they were receiving back in one year more taxes than they had paid in dining three years, and when the counties, which were thus bearing the heaviest burthens of taxation, for the benefit ot their more populous sister counties, were still by large majorities in favor of further taxation to redeem the credit of the State I We doubt whether any other State can exhibit such a singular phase of public sentiment, or point to such an unjustand culpable course ot legislation. The surplus was distributed back in this un righteous ratio; the taxes were reduced in this imnrovident manner; and then the Legislature Uirecreti a vote ol lue people to be taken, as to whether they were willing to submit to taxa tion to pay bonds, which the Legislature itself, while it did not dare to repudiate, had not the firmness to propose liquidating I Where can be found the parallel to such conduct ? Nor was I this all. At the very period when this encour agement was given to the people to repudiate the State Bonds, by the fact of an empty treasu ry, ofa diminished revenue, and the bug-bear of heavy taxation in the future, the Legislature seized upon the very money paid in uy the bond holders. as a premium upon the bonds over anp above their par value, and authorized the treasu rer todisburse it for the daily expenses of the State. If the bonds were to remain unpaid, it was the height of dishonesty to spend the very money ofthe bond-holder, at the time the State was refusing to pay the bonds for which that : money was paid in. But the sinking fund was I seized upon—and it has now been spent. Not a dollar remains in the Treasury. The amount | which the High Court so lately decided, should be paid out of that fund towards the interest on I those bonds, has not been paid. The warrants i of the State are for the first time for six or se ven years, below par. Ninety per cent, or there abouts, is the offer made for them in the money 1 market; and there can be no amendment of her financial condition until after April or May. ■ Then the taxes will be coming in, and back war rants will be paid. But before the close of 1853, the demands up on the State Treasury will have again exhausted . it, and the Legislature must then be called upon I to invent some new panacea, wherewith to cure ' the evils that reckless, unwise and dishonorable legislation has induced. | Perhaps the contemplation of these melan choly facts may induce our fellow-citizens to re ' fleet, whether thay have not paid dearly for the I whistle. [Correspondence of the Macon Messenger.] Trial of the Robbers of John Jackson. Forsyth. March 14th, 1853. I Messrs. Editors .-—The Superior Court of Mon roe county has been in session for two weeks past, and as it has been occupied almost the whole of the time in the trial of some of the men who were concerned in the robbery of John I Jackson, near the line of Pike, last October, it mav not be uninteresting to your readers to have , the’details of the robbery, as developed by the testimony placed before them. It appears that about five weeks before the robbeiy, two men who then passed by the names i of Cooper and Williams, but who now answer to the names of Simpson and Copenhaver, stayed all night at Mr. Jackson’s, and on pay : ing for their fare the next morning, handed him a S2O bill to be changed. In changing it. Mrs. Jackson got some money out ot a trunk in the ! closet, and thus they ascertained where the mon :ey was kept. About midnight, on the 12th of 1 October last year, the door of his dwelling was suddenly burst open, and several men entered the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Jackson.— One, recogni-ed by them on the trial as Copen haver, a stout athletic man, went to their bed, and caught the old man by the throat I hand, and in a threatening \ i ly toucl/'iis heart vrilL a a premature grave upon Mrs. Jackson’s screaming,"He oTUeIBMAN I to hush, and drawing a pistol, told her he could I make her hush. Another, since recognised as Dr. Roberts, held a lighted candle in his band, ! while the others opened the closet door, and : took out the trunk—they immediately left the I bouse. They were pursued early next morning, and about a quarter of a mile from the house, j the trunk was found broken open, and rifled of : its contents, amounting, according to Mr. Jack son’s testimony, to about $6,500, all silver, ex : cept about SIOO in gold. Their trail was fol lowed into Meriwether county, where they I separated, three going a road in the direction ot Tennessee, and two towards Newnan, Coweta county. These two were arrested late in the evening in Newnan, and one called himself ! John B Simpson, and the other at first refused to give his name, but afterwards acknowledged j himself to be Dr. Roberts. In their saddle bags were found about $946 in silver—a large amount of bills, most of which were counter j feit; two forcepts, for unlocking doors on the I outside, when the key is within—a bunch of skeleton or false keys for unlocking trunks, bu reaus, desks &c., a brace, such as is used by carpenters for boring, two pistols and a slung shot, or a stout piece of leather, loaded at one end with lead. They were brought to Monroe, and one of them, Simpson, under promise of be ing released, made a disclosure, by which the other three were pursued to Tennessee, and two j of them, Copenhaver and Clark, were arrested and brought back. Clark, when arrested, made a full confession of the robbery, without any promise of being released, and upon the back, conducted the persons in charge of him to the place in Meriwether county, where more of the money was secreted ; it was concealed in three separate parcels, and amounted to $1,217 in sil ver. Two bills of indictment were preferred against them and found true—one for Burglary and the j other for Robbery ; and Dr. Roberts was indicted singly as a rogue and vagabond, carrying about ■ pick-locks, false keys, &c. He was found guilty 1 of the three offences, and sentenced to nineteen . years imprisonment in the Penitentiary. Co pen.iaver was found guilty ol burglary and rob i bery, and sentenced to the Penitentiary tor four- I teen years. He was also indicted lor perjury, I alleged to have been committed during the Court, and the case was continued until the next term. Clark plead guilty on one bill; and in consideration of his full and frank confession up on his arrest, and also of having been led by the influence of another man to join in the robbery, he was sentenced to only four years con finement in the Penitentiary, and the other bill was not proseeptied as to him. Price, another of the offenders, who escaped to Tennessee, upon his return there, was arrested and confined in jail for a murder previously committed. He has been recently rescued from prison by some of his friends, and is now at large. But. perhaps the most interesting pait of the trial was the examination of Simpson, as a wit ness, on the trial of Roberts, as a rogue and vaga bond. He was told by the Court, at the com mencement of his examination, that he was not bound to answer any question which would cri minate himself; and he frequently availed him self of that exemption. It seem* that Roberts has become displeased with him on account of his betraying his asso ciates, and appearing as a witness against them; and being pretty well posted up with his histo ry, from his intimacy with him, he was enabled to suggest many questions which Simpson re fused to answer; and as his refusal was based on the ground that he was not bound to criminate himself, the legitimate inference is, that the questions propounded to him, and which he de clined to answer, implied allegations of crime which are true. When asked his name, he said he answered to the name of John B. Simpson. He was ask ed if his true name is not Jonathan Chalfant, he refused to answer. Upon being asked where he was horn, he said in Ohio—that he lived thereuntil nineteen years of age, and then went to Kentucky. He admitted that he knew Chal fant.—that he was born in Ohio and at about the same time that be was. Upon being shown the slung-shot, and asked whose propertyit was, he replied, he supposed he had as much right to it as Dr. Roberts. He was asked if he had never knocked any one down with it, and declined answering. He denied knowing Mr. Rambo, of Gwinnett county; but upon being asked it he had not knocked him down with his slung shot, or some other man, in that county, and robbed hirn ;he refused to answer. He was asked if he had not been confined in jail in Chillicothe, Ohio’ for murder, and declined answering ; but, upon being further interrogated, he admitted that he knew Henrv Thomas, who had been in jail in Chilicothe for murder, and was hung lor that crime—that he was in jail with him, but, refused to answer, if he was noli there under the name of Chalfant. In one of the cheap publications of the day, of a certain character, entitled “The Life and Ad ventures of Henry Thomas, the Western Bur glar and Murder,” it will be seen that Thomas was confined in jail in Chillicothe, for the rob bery and murder of a man by the name of Ed wards, and that an accomplice by the name of Chalfant wa* imprisoned at the same time with him. Simpson was finally asked if he knew*Jjov, Ousley, of Kentucky, and answered that he did. He was asked if be had not been paid SSOO to assassinate him, and refused to answer thd ques tion, in such a manner as to leave no ddnbt of his guilt. Various other questions were put to him. not now recollected, but enough has been detailed to show that he is covered all oger with infamy of the deepest and blackest dy* He is a keen, shrewd, artful scoundrel, and has doubt less, been engaged in the commission of crime almost the whole of his life. Ho wan remanded to jail to be disposed of at some fnturMqjie. It is fortunate for the country that the band has been broken up. Too much praise cannot be awarded to the gentlemen who have been active in bringing them to justice. Roberts and Co penhaver will carry their cases to the Supreme Court, but upon mere technical exceptions Messrs. Lamar & Lochrane and Hammond were appointed their counsel by the Court, and dis charged their duty ably and faithfully. . O. C. Gibson and H. Green, Esqs.. rendered able and efficient aid to the Solicitor General in the pro secution. Monroe. Horseback Riding.—Aided by a riding dress and a spirited horse, woman attracts attention, exerts influence and appears like a goddess. She then in eflect rises above herself, wears an air, and exhibits a style that commands ob servation and secures admiration. No where does a lady thoroughly equipped show so advan tageously as on horseback, and nowhere does she exert a more wholesome influence TaCty fe male equestrians, to a pleasure party, are a moral good equal at least to that of a clergyman. And as an adjuvant to the colpor teur for the virtue and gallantry of a people, schools for the practice of females in horseman ship should be instituted. Woman’s sphere of action at present is confined within doors, yet her health, beauty and happiness require a great variety of scenery, an active life, many amuse ments, and the pure country air. To her, inac tion, confinement and sameness are eminently injurious, and they will soon rob her of each charm and life. And we may add, the present poverty of health among American women is a startling prool of this truth! The government, and much of the labor at home falls upon her rightly enough too, and will so continue. But while she must continue the moving spirit of domestic life, something must be furbished by which, in a short time and in a pleaang man ner, she can obtain all the means egential to health, pleasure, and happiness. / In riding horseback, woman can tiki in these particulars much that she requires: She can instantly pass, by horse, from her.'kelve feefi’ 1 , kitchen or parlor, from her cares, iadt•and con finement to the country and i- • to many amusements, and w exercise which has no eqnal for its sect upon the trunk, neck and bead, and teats of life, and those parts of the organization which are most neglected and wickedly mutilateil by foolish habits and inaction. This exercise is estimated to her, it meets so many wants at the same time, and so happily combines amusements with substantial good. It arouses the bodily spirits, gives scope and ac tivity to the mind, and serenity ti. the feelings, and speedily dispels the gloom of the dyspeptic, paints the cheek of the consumptive, iweetens the breath of the cachactic, rounds the figure of the emaciated, and perpetuates the natural at tractions of the body and character. Human Bodies found in Guano.—From the ship Brandscompt, unloading Peruvian guano at Leith.there were exhumed the remainsof three persons.evidently Peruvians, buried in tie guano, and which had apparently not been disturbed in the process of loading the ship. The remains illustrate a curious property in the guano in pre serving bones, hair and clothes, while complete ly decomposing flesh. It is not known when the bodies were originalljNnterred, were all found as entire as if they hail been pre served in a museum ; the hair remained upon the skull, and the clothes were very little decayed. North British Mail. Stock of Goods in Macon.—The Macon Tel egraph says: “ Although the Cotton business of Macon is perhaps declining, it is certainly true, that our trade in other commodities is rapidly increasing. The Stock of Goods opened in Macon, gross more extensive and costly every year, and that which is now being delivered at our Depots is superior to any before brought to our city. Ma ny of our houses are already doing a good Jobbing business, and in a few years we confidently ex pect a large wholesale trade to be transacted in Macon. History Correcting Art. One-half of the barber-shops and country tav erns in Europe, Asia. Africa, America and Aus tralia contain a picture of “ Napoleon crossing the Alps.” The great soldier is mounted on an exceedingly large, fat charger, that is standing upon its hind legs, and pawing the air. Napo leon keeps his seat in defiance of the laws of gravitation. He wears a flowing and toluminous cloak, which sets off his uniform; with his right hand he is pointing to the summit ofthe moun tains; he appears to be cheering on the countless host by which he is preceded, followed and sur rounded and, in general, is comporting himself like a popular circus rider. Since M. Thiers narrated the exact mode in which Napoleon did cross the Alps, the French artists have been bu sy in representing it; and we see in our own shop-windows the true version of the story recorded in steel-plate engravings. Perhaps some of our readers may not remem ber the corrective passage, in Thier’s ‘‘Consu late and Empire “ The arts,” says M. Thiers “have represented Napoleon bounding across the snowy Alps on a fiery charger; but here 4s the , .truth. luivarni'AkE x, JI ilKyai pf Watwi t Jit , | those having demands mffpPSent a giitJe of the couSlfy ; display inJ’-IJN’JGe most difficult paths the abstraction of a mind occu pied elsewhere; discouising with the officeis whom he met here and there on the road; and then, at intervals, conversing .with the guide who accompanied him, making him talk of his life, his pleasures, and his troubles, like some traveller who had no better occupation.” The true picture is infinitely more pleasing and ro mantic than the fiction ; but it will be long ere it travels as far.— Home Journal. Fashionable Life in Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Atlas tells the following: A Modern Timon.—A little incident occur red in one ofthe circles of Upper-tendom of this city, a few evenings since, which served for the time to relieve the platitudes of fashionable life, and which is perhaps as worthy of record as many events of far higher apparent importance. A young gentleman, well known in the upper walks, determined, byway of return for the many invitations which he had received during the winter, to give an entertainment, and issued his invitations accordingly. By means of some mysterious givings-out, or rather perhaps through his well known character as a bon vivant, it came to be understood that the fashionable hotel to which he had bidden his friends was to be the scene of one of the most sumptuous and luxurious of festivals, and, as a matter of course, the high livers with one accord determined to assemble and do ample justice to his hospitality. The evening arrived, and with it came the party, who were received with that cordial suavity for which the hero of our story is so much distinguished, and many thanks were pourned upon the visitois for their kindness in coming to enliven the tedium of his bacheloi lodgings. When they were all assembled, he informed them, with some appearance of con cern, that he had not succeeded in procuring the attendance of a band of music for the dance but that he had been able to enlist the servifts of a violin player ; and knowing that it was rather for the pleasure of seeing him than of enjoying luxuries of any kind that they had assembled, he was sure that they would overlook the omis sion. This was taken in good part and the dance went on, apparently to the satisfaction of all. At 12 o’clock the party were conducted to the supper room, where was seen a table beautifully spiead with most elegant dishes, all of which were covered. Immoveable, behind each cbair, stood a servant, watching the eye of the master of the feast, and ready to act in concert at his signal. He arose, thanked his friends again for their attendance, which he was assured was in honor to himself and not merely on account of his entertainment, and hoped they had en joyed themselves so far, in spite of the de fects in his arrangements, expressed a wish that what remained would be equally to their taste, and ended by declaring his conviction that their friendship for himself was so gieat and so sincere that they would not eren notice any little shortcomings that might occur in what was to ensue. A signal to the servants followed—the dishes were table was found to be bountifnly crackers and cheese. The who had been saving their appetites for (he terrapins, scolloped oystersand other luxuries of an imaginary bill of fare which they had con strue! ed in their own minds, may be better imagined than described. Our hero was per fectly cool, and proceeded to do the honorsot the table with his usual grace and elegance, and a few of the company had the good sense to relish the joke, to appland the spirit with which it was undertaken and carried out, and to make a hearty meal of the somewhat simple provender with which the table was amply supplied. Extraordinary Outrage.—A few days ago as the Rev. C. H. Kelly, ot the M. E. Church’ in Clark county, Mo., was concluding the morn ing service, a man rushed up into the pulpit with a pistol in hand, and seized.him,charged him with stealing a horse, and notwitstauding the re monstrances of those present, his hands were tied and his legs chained. In this condition h 0 W as placed on a horse, and taken to the State of lowa, where a man named Chas. H. Kel V had escaped from the penitentiary. The keen er, however, immediately pro nouned hnn not h be the man, as he bore no resemblance to him whatever, when he was instantly discharged The man who seized him thus summarily nre tended to be the Marshal of Missouri. * The Health Insurance Companies are getting an overhauling in New York. A man, named Wirt Lombard, president of an alleged bogus health insurance company at Chicago, 111 arrested on a charge of swindling, connected with that company. The concern was called the Combination Company, and among its ref erenceare printed the names of Franklin Pierce" Gov. Boutwell, and Gov. Seymour who of course, knew nothing of this unjustifiable use of their names. We see by the New York papers of Thursday, that other parties, connected with the “ United States Health Insurance Associa tion,” are under arrest on a charge of having de frauded a large number of persons out of various sums of money under pretence ol insuring them funds in case ol sickness. Wood costs $65 a *ord in Rome, and S3S j n Naples. [From the Knoxville Register.] Remaikable Facts—East Tennessee and its Re sources—lnfluence of Railroads in Bringing to Lignt Hidden Wealth. The approach of railways from the south and the northeast to the borders of East Tennessee, has served to bring more fully to light the bound less resources of the country ; and is every day, as these lines draw nearer and nearer to its cen tre, demonstrating the remarkable fact, that there is not a section of the American continent, of the same extent of territory, so inviting to men of capital,or men without capita], who have stout sinews and muscles. These elements o* wealth have never been combined for want of proper outlets to the markets of the world ; but the day has already dawned, and is hourly bright ening, which will disclose wonderful things in this valley, hitherto so remote from the ocean marts. It is our purpose to note a few facts from which persons at a distance may form some idea of the vastness and value of those resources. The climate of a country is a feature winch pre-eminently fixes its destiny. That of East Tennessee is somewhat diversified, bacause of its valleys and lofty mountains ; and for salubri ty, whether upon the mountains or in the val leys, is unprecedented. No epidemics haveever prevailed within its borders, and it is at the same time free from any causes which can or do produce diseases local in their character. The water is another consideration with the emigrant in search of a new home. In East Tennessee the varieties of water are innumera ble almo-t. The limestone, ‘ freestone,” chaly beate, sulphur. &c., &c , gush from every hill side. Some of these mineral waters have at tained much celebrity, because of their sanatory properties. Thesoilofthe valleys and in many places upon the mountains, is as fertile as the alluvutn which lies on the watercourses of the southern countries, and is capable of affording subsistence to a population one hundred times greater than that now inhabiting the country. The timber, though now regarded in many in stances of but little value, is every day b«ing more highly appreciated. The boundless for est of hemlock, of white and yellow pine, of cedar and oak, which can now be purchased, immediately upon some of the principal water courses, at prices of from ten to twenty cents per acre for the ground upon which they grow is a fact which will strike the minds of the farmers who use the bark of the hemlock, and of build ers who use the other timbers, in other parts of the country, with much surprise. The iron of East Tennessee is sufficient in •quantities to supply the world for centuries.— This is of various qualities, some of such exyel- tha' it is preferred above every other ijron ■* 1 //■■--,has r a boiler made of this iron been known to ex plode. Here it mav he manufactured into pigs at ten dollars per ton. and that too, in estab lishments where but little capital is employed. It, is now shipped to markets on the Ohio river at a cost of fourteen dollars per ton. and yet, it ’ yields a handsome profit to the manufacturer.— Iran lands may be purchased in eligible locations for from ten to twenty cents per acre. Coal is almost as abundant as the iron, and in many instances is found upon one side of a wa ter course, which is hut a succession of rapids, while iron is upon the other. Both the anthra cite and bituminous are found in abundance ; the one in that ledge of highlands skirting the south western borders of East Tennessee, and the oth er in the northern and northwestern. Coal lands may be putchased at the same price for which the iron lands may be bought. Os marble, an endless variety and inexhausti ble quantity has been discovered, though but few and partial searches have been made. From the jet black, susceptible of the finest polish, there is every hue and shade variegation to the pure white. Much of the marble is now being used for ornamental purposes in private parlors, and is also being wrought into decorations for the interior of the costly capital in process of erec tion at Nifthville. These marble quarries are cheaper than dirt. The hydraulic limestone has recently been dis covered in the greatest abundance, in the imme diate vicinity of Knoxville, and only awaits to demonstrate its value, a capital that will prepare 500.000 barrels of the cement for the markets in which it may be sold, at a lower figure than can be borne when the article is furnished from any other point. Salt is abundant, and capital is now being employed in sinking wells, and preparing fur naces. &c.. for it manufacture. Copper has been discovered, and miners are now at work digging it out of the bowels ol the mountains, which were once thought to be worth not one cent per acre and yet the copper ore is yeilding silver enough to pay all the ex penses incident to the preparation of the copper for market. Lead is every where, we may say. and will be continued to be esteemed, as it now is. almost valueless, being in the way of the plow share, until some one more discerning and more enter prising than any one now among us’, shall show to us that in bars and pigs, it, like our iron, is worth silver and gold. Zinc, too, has been discovered.and a step made towards bringing its value to light; a northern company in connection with one of our own ci tizens. having obtained a lease of one mine and having it in contemplation to manufacture the metal. Plumbago is found in heaps as large as a mountain, but is esteemed as of no value, be cause no one choosfs to make it valuable. Besides all these elements of wealth there are others which might be mentioned. Even the sand which we have, as the experiment has de monstrated, makes an article ot gla«s superior to that manufactured in otner parts of the union; but we may stop here. So that with our cli pyi/o-s, soil, marble limestone -rment. iron. '*’T4, r .-enery, which has caused our section ofthe union to be styled “ The Switzerland of Ameri ca.” we may safely assert that a more attractive field nowhere presents to either the capitalist, the laborer, or the man of feeble health and shat tered constitution, who is in search of an invig orating and health-giving atmosphere, the same inducements. With our radroads so soon to be complete all these will come, and the change which will then be wrought in this inviting land of ours no man can now conceive. Prizes to Apprentices—A correspondent of the Scientific American gives some good sug gestions, which are equally applicable to other localities A present ot this kind is a continual remembrance, let o'hers try it: “It has often made me sad to see so many of our apprentice boys idle away their useful moments while out of shop. If a young man wishes to be master of his business, he must be attentive to store his mind with useful informa tion, derived from reading, good conversation, and experiment. But our young men, from eighteen to twenty one years, (I admit there are some noble excep tions—l speak of the mass), spend their spare momen s in enjoying themselves—as is called, among silly people—or in reading trifling books or nonsensical love stories This age in a mans’ life has a potent influence according to the way it is improved or misimproved, on his future welfare, his value to himself, his relatives and country. A young man who completes his ap prenticeship carrying with him a character of ex cellence for industry, honesty and skill, is worth his weight in gold to himself, friends and coun try. I say unto you—young men of our glorious land, make up your minds, take your stand with a firm determination to spend your spare mo ments in useful reading, good conversation, wri ting. draughting, &<•„ and to work faithfully and honestly during working hours, so as to become competent skilful, and intelligent workmen. Our manufactures are calling loud for master mechanics, but qualified men are not easily found. Young mechanics think of this, the in nocent amusements are yours, they do good, but do not neglect to improve the moments by wast ing them in trifling pleasures. I hereby send for five copiesofthe Scientific American, which I will present to apprentices in our coach factory, believing they will be to them of great benefit.” Singular Marriage of the Emperor’s Phy sician. —The marriage of the physician of Louis Napoleon, Dr Conneau. is announced. We learn from the Courier des Etafs Unis that he has, in imitation of his royal master, espoused a lady thirty years younger than himself. Dr. Con neau, who is said to be a most excellent man, had been the tutor of this young lady from her infancy, having bestowed upon ber all the tender care and solicitude of a father. Some time ago, finding his charge of an age and in a position to be married, he offered his services in making for her an advantageous selection. But I have al ready made my choice, replied the young lady, and I am ready to be married at any time. How ! rejoined the astonished doctor, have you indeed selected your husband ; and who is the happy man ? It is yourself, responded the damsel; I love you with all my heart, and I am now ready to become your wife. Too much surprised at this declaration to believe his pupil in earnest, the doctor turned it off as a pleasantry. She insist ing that she was serious, he at length made a formal and distinct refusal of the hand she had offered him. The young lady, however, as it seems, well consideied the subject, and her pur pose was not to be changed. She reproached her tutor with unk ndness, and with a willingness to make her miserable. The doctor yielded so far as to take the subject again into con sideration, and after consulting with his mas ter and friend the Emperor, at length decided to accept the lady’s offer and become the happy husband of his now happy pupil. Desperate Attempt to Murder.—Sarah Smith, a colored girl, has been arrested in Ches ter county. Pa., charged with attempting to mur der a little daughter of A. W. Pennock, aged 5 years. It appears she took the child to the bßrn, and notwithstanding its cries and en 1 reaties. put a rope around its neck, and drew it tight until she silenced it by strangulation, when, supposing it dead, she loosened the rope and threw the child on its face in the garden. Fortunately, it was, discovered by an Irish servant girl soon after but it was several hours before it could articulate a word. The negro girl was arrested, and made a confession, alleging she intended to murder the child for slapring her face. Another disgraceful scene occurred in Wash ington on Sunday, at Brown’s Hotel. An en counter took place at the dinner table between Ben McCulloch, the noted Texas Ranger, and a Mr. West, a lawyer from New Mexico. The latter insulted the former and finally threw a glass of water in his tace ; whereupon McCulloch knocked West,down with a tumbler, broke a quantity of plates over his head, and beat hirn with a chair un'il he was severely, though not dangerously injured.— Richmond Examiner. A man called upon an unfortunate tradesman to pay a demand. “ I can never pay it,” said he, *• I am not worth a farthing; but I will give you my note — I am not so poor yet but that 1 can sign n note/ Al (U S'l’A, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23. Terms of Subscription. Daily Paper, per annum, in advance. .. .$8 00 Tri-Weekly 5 00 Weekly, per annum in advance 2 00 If paid within the year 2 50 At the end of the year 3 00 B/z”Tho above terms will bo rigidly enforced. CLz - Subscribers writing to request their pa pers changed to another Post-office, will please be particular to state the office to which the paper is now sent. Bank of St. Mary’s. The bills ofthe Bank of St. Mary’s under five dollars, and the change bills of J. G. Winter, are still taken at par at this office. Postmasters are requested to notify us promptly in all cases when our papers are not taken from the office Tugaloism. Dfall the political issues which the popular excitements of the last three years have thrown to the surface of the body politic, the most fran tic, the most fantastic, the most blindly passion ate. and silly, is that which is well known and recognized as Tugaloism. The name has fitly sprung conjointly from the sanguinary freaks of a crazy woman, who hailed from the banks of that romantic stream, the Tugalo, and the scarce ly less crazy visions ofthe excitable editor, who, under the impulses of an exaggerated self-esteem, fancied himself a sufficiently important object to tempt his political opponents to the crime of as sassination. He deemed himself the marked yicho, ol political malignly, ».><! with a devo tion to bis convictions which would have been sublime had the occasion and the facts been op portune. wrapped around hisswelling heart the mantle of patriotism, and declared his willing ness to offer up his life upon the altar of his country. It might well be imagined, that in the brain of just such h visionary would be engendered some eccentric scheme of political organization which would have about it no feature of utility, of sound sense, or practicability to recommend it to practical and honest men—an organization that would appeal only to the sympathies of the vindictive, the vanity of the egotistical, and the cupidity of the selfish. We have now just such an organization un der just such a leader; or rather, we have before us just such a scheme for an organization, pro posed by one who seeks thereby to perpetuate the bad passions, the revengeful feelings and seething hatreds of a contest that all good men should wish allayed forever, and to make them permanent political elements. We have before us the broad proposition of the Southern Banner, to organize out of the Union democracy of Georgia, a party with the sole avowed object of uniting with the opponents of the democratic party, to put down Southern Rights democrats. Here is the proposition as we find it, in the Southern Banner of the 16th inst.: Re Organization of the Union Party.—lt is evident from the whole tenor of the Inaugural Address of Pierce, that he has left all men who approve of the administrative policy therein contained, to support his administration in their own way— the secessionists through their organi zation, ana the Union mon through theirs. He has left the kind of organization altogether for the de cision of the people of the respective States. The memories of the past, and the forebodings ofthefutue, warn al! Union men in Georgia, to cling to the Union Party, and not to become identified with the Secessionists, who have the un questionable control of the miss railed democratic organization. There is nothing new or impractica ble in the idea of two distifict domestic parties supporting the same administration of tho general government. | It would be suicidal in the Union men of Geor gia to oppose the administration of Gen. Pierce, barely because it may be sustained by tho Seces sionists. Our true policy is to cling to it in despite of their eff rts to drive us from it, but in a distinct organization of our own. If we cannot agree in sustaining the administration of Gen. Pierce, we may at least agree to keep down the Sece sionists in the State government, and in the Congressional representations, tipposition to them will then, be the bond of union between us. Should this plan not work well for Gen. Pierce’s administration, it will he his misfortune, and not our fault. It will be the result ofthe natural abhorrence of the Un ion-loving people of Georgia, to committing tho reins of government to a set of men who have just to °yt»rthi-ovT th« We could not, if we desired'to do so, find words strong enough to stigmatize, as it deserves the political profligacy that would surrender itself to such despicable motives, and toil on in its besotted malignity in hopes of such petty re venges. There was a time when much might be par doned to the provocations, real or fancied, of the Union Democracy, suffered at the hands of their brethren of the Southern Rights wing, and to the mutual recriminations which sprang from their antagonistic positions. Even Tugaloism, which arrayed itself last summer against both wings of the Democracy and intrigued for a chance to make a new bargain with the whigs had something of respectability about it; for some very honest and conscientious men voted the Tugalo ticket under a morbid sense of what was due to their own pride and their own con sistency. But the last vestige ofa patriotic rea son or of excusable pride, for desiring further strife with those who stand on the Balti more Democratic platform and support Gene ral Pierce’s administration, is now taken from them. To yield then to the propo sition to continue their warfare upon the Secessionists, and combine with the Whigs for that purpose, would be to acknowledge a sur render of their judgments as honest men, and their usefulness as good citizens to the demon of revenge, or to the still more despicable domi nation of lust for the offices of the State and the Congressional representations. The question of the feasibility of supporting the administration of Gen. Pierce, under any such profligate arrangement with tne Whigs who oppose the administration, is unworthy of argument. It is too absurd to require elucida tion. There can be no honesty in proposing such an absurdity. The proposition but thinly conceals a desire and a purpose to go over to the Whigs. That is the destination of the editor of the Southern Banner. Let him go. We wish the Whigs joy of their acquisition until they get tired of it, which we predict will not be long. How many democrats will be found fol lowing the Tugalo banner into the camp of the enemy, we are careless about conjecturing. At the last count the number of Tulago Demo crats was not formidable, and the motives prompting the present movement must reduce them down to a very inconsiderable squad.— It will be but a motley group of disappoint ed office-seekers and bad tempered politicians. The PEOPLE who are Democrats from principle and. honest convictions of what is right for their country, will stand fast where they are, in the ranks of the Democratic party. There they can effectually sustain the admin istration of their choice. There they will stand opposed alike to the Whig party arrayed against the administration, and against the Tugalo guerillas, who professing friendship to the ad ministration are fighting for plunder or revenge in alliance with its enemies. The Democratic party of Georgia should con - gratulate itself, and no doubt will, on getting rid of such a majplot as the editor of the Banner, and all such fishy democrats like him,who could be in duced by the same crepuscular views of duty, or, by such reckless indulgence in vindictive passions at the expense of political integrity, to desert to the Whig party. They cannot blind the eyes of the democracy ot this or of other States to the true nature of the desertion, by calling it the re-organization of the Union party. There is no threatened danger to the Union, calling for such a re-organization. It is but a shabby effort to raise a cloud of dust under which to veil the hypocrisy of the pretext. St. Patrick’* Day. Notwithstanding the inclemency ofthe weath er, that spirited Corps, the Irish Volunteers, took notice of the anniversary of the Patron Saint of Ireland, by a parade in the afternoon of Thursday and a handsome collation at night, at Masonic Hall, to which they sat down with a number of invited guests. The occasion was one of much hilarity, wit and good feeling—of speeches, songs and sentiment—and will long be pleasantly remembered by all whose good for tune it was to be present. Luther G. Fisher, of Baltimore, and Thos. Bait ley, of Pa., died on board the steamer Oregon, on her late trip from Panama to San Francisco. The Next Governor. An article in the last Federal Union, recom mending Col. Henry G. Lamar to the Demo crats of Georgia, as their next candidate for Governor, prompts us to say a few words on the general subject. We have, from time to time, in the last few weeks, received communications, some of them written for publication, in reference to the next Gubernatorial election. We have, however, declined opening our columns for the dis cussion of the question, thinking it prema ture, and desirous of allowing as much time to elapse as possible, in order that past acerbities and unfriendly sentiments among Democrats, divided on the Compromise question, might die away and be obliterated forever. Time is the great physician in all strifes like this, when no practical questions place men in antagonism, and when a thousand practical questions, and the political sympathies and convictions of a lifetime, counsel them to harmonious action. In these results we are not disappointed, so far as we have been enabled to ascertain the drift of sentiment among the Democrats. We are already apprized of many cases where Dem ocrats who were estranged from each other, no longer back than last summer, in reference to the electoral ticket difficulty .are now coming together cordially, as Democrats, in support of the gen eral principles of the party, and of Gen. Pierce’s administration. Differences of opinion as to the right of State secession, are not incompatible with co operation and union on well recognized and ad mitted principles of Democratic policy. Our country has prospered under it. Under it, and by reason of it, in great part, have been achieved our greatness and power as a nation. Yet, in that vast aggregate of Democrats, which has made up Democratic sentiment, and established Dem ocratic legislation over the country, there are all shades of speculative opinion as to the na ture and structure of our complex system of Government. Such is the constitution of the human mind that, in politics, as in religion, ab solute concordance in large masses, united for common objects, cannot be expected.' No two Haves in the forest are precisely alike. So in the world of intellect; no two minds receive impressions and present phases ideaiisutßy lar. It is a wise law of our nature. It is a leading cause of all progress and improvement. Nothing but the infirmities of human temper and the pride of opinion exists now, to keep Democrats apart in Georgia, who have been di vided ; and these causes are gradually declining. It is now getting to be time—perhaps, we should say the time has now arrived, when the Democrats of Georgia must take steps to consolidate their strength, and make their party here worthy of its principles and past history, and worthy of the sympathies and alliance of the Democratic parties as they exist in our sis ter Sta es of the Union. A State Convention of delegates will be a fitting commencement of the work; on which occasion the nomination for Governor can be made, and the measures in itiated for his cordial support and triumphant election. Os the suggestion of the name of Col. Hen ry G. Lamar, we have, at present, nothing to say, but that he is an intelligent and am able gentleman, a zealous democrat, and one who, if nominated, will receive from us a very cordial and earnest support. We take occasion also, now to state, that the name of Gen. Hugh A. Haralson, has been urged in one ofthe commu nications received by us in terms of warm ad miration. This gentleman also, whose talents and high character we fully appreciate, would in the like event, receive our very cheerful sup port. In another the narneof Judge Henry R. Jack son is suggested, and the considerations urged in behalf of this suggestion, struck us with great force, and coincided with views previously en tertained, and fully expressed by us in letters and conversation. We believe the nomination of this patriotic young Democrat who now wears the judicial ermine as gracefully as he did the soldier’s sword when our country called for vo lunteers for service against Mexico, would be a well bestowed tribute to merit, and at the same time a pledge of mutual amity and confidence and restored good feeling between Union and Southern Rights Democrats. The patriotic course pursued by Judge Jackson and Judge Johnson last summer, which did much towards bringing the two wings of the party together, first suggested to us the name of the former, in connection with this nomination. We have named Judge Johnson in this connection, as an act of strict historical justice, and to say that to him equally with Judge Jackson, is piaise to be accorded in this matter. We have not men tioned his name to bring; it into view for -the nomination, not that we consider him in any respect less entitled to it, but because we desire, in placing the name of a Union Democrat first before our readers, to affoid an earnest of the feelings with which we have advocated the re union of the Democracy and the spirit in which we think every Southern Rights Democrat should meet the Union Democrats in Convention. We should not omit the names of the Hon. Robert M. Charlton, and of the Hon. Thos. M. Foreman, in connection with the patriotic efforts made last summer to bring together the dissevered wings of our party. Judge Lump kin, Col. R. W. Flouknoy, Judge Warner, Col. Chastain and the Hon. Charles Mur phy, will be kindlyremembered in this matter. We could extend this list much further, but the names of those most conspicuous in the good work will readily occur to the mind of the reader. Both those that tendered and those that accepted the Olive branch under which South ern Rights and Union Democrats marched to. gether to victory last November, should be re membered with equal kindness by every well wisher of the party. We would be unfeignedly gratified to add to this list the name of his Excellency Governor Cobb : but we regret to say we have not the evidence that he gave his influence and good wishes to the Democratic ticket which cast the vote of Georgia for Gen. Pierce. His sympa thies, if not his secret exertions, were strongly suspected to be in favor of the Tugalo ticket.— The efforts and the votes of most of his person al and political friends whom it was generally presumed he could influence, were openly given to that ticket. We should be very happy to be mistaken in these impressions, as to the course of Gov. Cobb in this matter. If we have judged him wrongly, or misconstrued his course and his motives, we shall be most happy to make the amende, for we utterly disclaim personal hostility or unkind feeling towards that gentleman. It gave us no pleasure to see him in past days pursue a course by which he jeoparded that influence and popu larity that his talents legitimately entitled him to, and which he once unquestionably and de servedly possessed in the Democratic party of Georgia. Death of a Promising Youth. The Richmond papers announce the death, in the 17th year of his age, of P. Vivian Daniel, brother of the accomplished editor of the Rich mond Fa'aniinrr. He was a youth ot rare pro mise—one of whom a brother might well be proud, and we tender our respectful sympathies in a loss so peculiarly afflictive. His death is thus noticed in the Examiner: “ With no ordinary feelings of grief, we an nounce the death of P. Vivian Daniel, son of the late Dr. Daniel, of Stafford, and brother ofthe Editor ol the Richmond Examiner. He died of Pneumonia, afer a very brief illness, on Sun day evening last, at the residence of the Hon. P. V. Daniel, in this city, in the 17th year of his age. Among the numerous deaths which have re cently occurred in this city, no one has excited such general sympathy as that we have here an nounced. The deceased had acquired a reputa tion for talents and attainments of which even one of mature age might be proud. As Legisla tive Reporter for the Examiner, he had impress ed himself most favorably on the members ofthe present General and all others who felt an interest in a correct account of its pro ceedings. As a man, (for, young as he was, jus tice requires the application ot that term to him,) he was respected and loved for his deport ment and character by a very numerous acquain tance. Less than a week ago, an intelligent and discriminating friend expressed the opinion that no youth in Virginia had such brilliant prospects before him as young Vivian Daniel—in which opinion the writer of this notice fully and heartily concurred. But where now, alas I are the fond hopes and confident expectations in which we indulged in behalf of our cherished young friend? * * * 11 All thy promise fair, Hath sought tho grave to Bleep forever there.” B. M. D. New Post Offices.—The following new Post Offices have been established in Georgia: Sandy Point, Crawford county, Jason Castle berry, P. M.; Mountain Hill, Harris county, John F. Brown, P. M.; Farmersville, Chattooga coun ty, Won. A. Mercer, P. M. Pumpkintown, in Randolph county, has been discontinued, Railroad from Dahlonega. The citizens of Lumpkin, Forsyth and Cobb counties, are earnestly discussing the project ot a Railroad to extend from Dahlonega, via Cum ming, to some point on the Western & Atlantic, or the Georgia Railroad. An appeal signed by many respectable citizens, dated Cumming, Geo., March 9th, has been put forth, from which we make the following extract: Three points of connection have been named, to wit: Stone Mountain, Atlanta, and Ma rietta. The people of the upper counties have a preference, but are wedded to no par ticular route or point of union. Their choice must and will be controlled by circumstances. We state to you that we are in earnest in what we have undertaken. We see and feel that something must be done, and speedily done, or we must ere long sink down into ■ condi tion of hopeless mediocrity, if not absolute insignificance. We intend to prevent this dire consummation. We are resolved, as one man, that a Railroad from Dahlonega via Cumming to some point on the Roads shall be built. We have the disposition—we have the nerve—we have a large and available portion of the material to commence with , and, once begun, the work shall not droop and die away, but be pushed on to a speedy and successful completion. Ihe people ot Roswell have, it seems to us, a very deep inter est at stake in this enterprise ; nor are the people of Marietta and the inter nediate por tions of Cobb and Cherokee counties less in terested in it. We have appointed, and will hold, a Rail road meeting at Warsaw, in Forsyth county, on Tuesday, the I7th of May next, at which a free dinner will be provided for all. We cordially invite you, one and all, to attend this meeting, and give u« the benefit of your counsels. We want you to Jet us known by acts what your feeling* on this subject are ; how you regard it; whether favorably or un favorably ; and lastly, what aid, and how much, you are willing to extend to us in the construction of the work. The Groat Hall Storm at Girard and Columbus. The East Alabamian gives the following graphic description ot the heavy storm of hail and wind that recently visited that section: Great Hail Storm at Girard, Alabama.— Destructionof Life aud Property!— We are com pelled to chronicle one of the most destructive hail storms, that has ever pasted over this sec tion of country. On Thursday evening, the 10th instant, about 2 o’clock, a heavy, dark and very low cloud, teemed to overcast the skv. and look ing portentiofls of foul weather. phere wee werrn and uncomfortable, but iga few minutes, the clouds commenced movingrH'"i the North-west, then changed, the wind blow ing severely from that direction, accompanied with hail and rain, severe lightning and thunder. There appeared a rumbling noise near the ground, perhaps under it, we are not certain.— The lightning hopped and dancedjn mock mer riment, while the thunder shook every house. We thought it was hailing hard, and looking be low into the street, saw a man tangled up among his horses, who were trying to run, and him self yelling for heip. We started down, intend ing to aid him, but the hail was hailing, and rat tled like peas on a cow-hide, so we retreated to the Exchange. The hail was so thick about this time, that it was impossible to see hah across the street, which was about two inches deep with it. The wagon, so said by a dozen witnesses, was blown 30 yards, and it was load ed with lime. About this time, our next door neighbor, living in the same building with our office, came running in the Exchange, the smut tiest white man ever seen, who cried for ‘help 1’ In a moment the crowd followed him through a front room, where we found his wife and three children covered with the fallen roof of t,he room, and the chimney. A moment’s action cleared them from the wreck, badly, though not dangerously injured. Scarce had we issued from the house, before we were called to the Creek Bridge, which had blown down into the water, fifty feet below,car rying with it, a white man and boy, and a negro man, together with their wagons and mules. The men were badly hurt, and it is a wonder that they were not instantly killed—all the mules were drowned but two, and they were badly mashed. The hail then ceased to fall, but the rain continued. After a survey of everything, we ascertained that scarcely a house escaped—many having their roofs blown a hundred yards; nearly all the trees were torn from their roots, and large limbs blown a quarter ofa mile; our neat village church which was on a hill, was blown to the ground, and scattered in every direction. The cattle and poultry suffered very much, many of whom were killed. When dark came, gloom mantled the visages of all, and many sought shelter ot their neighbors, who rendered every aid necessary, under the circumstances, for in fact, no citizen escaped having their windows broken, chimneys blown through roofs and ceiling, into parlorsand bed-rooms, and their light furniture blown into their yards. The gardens are entirely lost — every plant was beaten to the ground, and fruit trees skinned. We have walked over a portion of Columbus, and it presents a distressing aspect. On Batt)' e Row alias Crawford street, the parapet front*, o f three stores were blown into the street, together with the goods. On Broad street 10 or stores met the same fate, and the goods a wo’.seone.— Chimneys, roofs, signs and awnings, were scat tered windward, and every merchant’s loss was more or less Nearly every house sustained a damage, which it is impossible to arrive at.— Down on the river, the hurricane made sad havoc —the Factoi-iea were little damaged—H. S. Smitn s warehousenamaged about $3,000 Ruse’s warehouse about s3oo—Greenwood’s about s2oo—Gunby & Daniel’s warehouse a bad smash, loss about $5,000, together with damaged goods in stoie—Rankin’s brick storage house, worth $4,000. is a complete ruin, and con tained 4 or $5,000 worth of groceries, all dama ged. The wind was so severe on this line, that pieces of tin were blown from the Warehouses over the houses of one square, and lodged on trees in Broad street, weighing about 300 lbs A piece of tin from the roof of Gunby & Daniel’s warehouse, struck one tnd of Mr. J B Hill’s dwelling, and knocked it off f rotn the ceiling of the second story to the com. q- 0 describe everything is beyond our power, , r to make a correct estimate at this time. Here, in Columbus, and from every quarter we hear of deaths and accidents. So many, re rumors on this point, that we cannot for,., au idea of the misery caused by the storm. M understand that Mr. Chapman had a ne’. r j scared to death, and that Col. B. D. Harris h a( t one killed by the falling of a gin-house on his plantation, near Crawford. We have see’.i many of the injured persons, and have heard c,f others in Columbus and the adjoining country. Below this place, some 15 or 20 miles the damage done to plantations was very great, bet as we have no mails, we cannot speau definitely. South-east of Columbus, the damage is great. Three miles above here there was no hail. We desire our friends in the different sections, to post us up. that we may inform others. We saw the hail a foot deep on level ground and in drifts four leet deep, did not melt in thir ty-six hours. Taking of Truxillo by the British. We extract from the New Orleans True jDef ta a patt of the letter of one ol its correspondents in reference to'the British acts in Central Ameri- Balize, Honduras, Feb. 21,1853. Editors True Delta : In my last, I informed you that the authorities of the State ot Honduras had taken possession of Limas. I have now to in form you that H. M. war-steamer devastation came down here, and after having taken on Superintendent and his Secretary, she proceeded, to the town of.Truxillo, where they finally offer ed to the Government of that town, for the State of Honduras, as an ultimatum that they mnst decide in two hours, either to give up. the territory to the parties from whom they had ta ken it, or to stand the consequences; which was supposed by the Honduranoes to be hot shells and cannon balls. So, they decided to give up to superior force: at the same time, they solemn ly protested against the conduct of H. M. Supe rintendent, the officers of Devastation, and the government of England, asserting thei> inalien able rights to the country, and declaring that, they only gave up to superior force, under com puls'on; that they only promised not to interfere with British subjects, because they were no/ able to drive them «way; and finally appeal* j to Almighty God to witness the outrage. ' an( | punish the nation which thus, at the mouf o f her cannon, despoiled them of their territc r y I will also further inform you, that th' , origin, al right to cut mahogany in that P a ’.t of the country was granted by the State o f Honduras to Archibald Montgomery, and duri n g tip, y me which he used the privilege, he al* va y S as knowl edged that right, and paid th»' t s tate forth " trees; entered and cleared his vessel at Truxillo and in every way complied *. v ith the laws and' requirements of the Stat*. o f Honduras In 1846, Mr. Montgomery so’id his entire interest in Honduras to John Car michael & Co., who es tablished a house here v.nderthe name and firm ol Ante, Mather & Co. For a time that house also complied with the laws of Honduras ■ but finally, they made a much better bargain with the “ Kingofthe Mosquetoes.” and hoisted his flag, refused to pay Honduras for the mahogany trees ; to enter or clear their vessels at Truxillo and, in a word, entirely repudiated Honduras’ These are the true facts of the case As Honduras is a part ot Central America, you wil easily see that England means to treat the Bulwer and Clayton Tieaty as so much useless parchment. Nor is this all; the entire country will assuredly fall into the hands of Great Britain, unless the United States interfere, and demand and insist on a faithful observation of that treaty. The Blue Ridge Railroad. The City Council of Charleston, at n special meeting last week, passed unanimously the fol lowing resolution : conditrons to bo hereafter determined on • and that tho Mayor i. hereby instructed to make arrange X^o^XchXV. th ” flrßt Commenting on this action, the Charleston Courier says: it °Y r ™ adorß win recollect that otTer tn iha M y Mr ' Go “i' d >n. in his able letter to the Hon. T. L. Hutchinson. Chairman of On R " ilroada ' published by us yes ro a«i y ’ a BUm ,han #1.000,000 would great-
