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BY JAMES GARDNER.
VU ESn VY. NOY 20.
Texas —Go vernor Pease has issued the cer
tidcate of election’for Congress to Co». Matt j
V’ard, Democrat, who ha, been e’-ecl. J by a ma
jority of twelve votes. His seat will probably
be contested by bis competitor, Evans.
The 29th day of November has been set aside
by the Executive as n day of thanksgiving and
praise throughout the Stase.
The Democratic party will hold their State,
Convention at Austin on the Sth of January
next.
Kansas Items
From the Kansas Herald, of October 2.th,
we condense the following:
A mass meeting of the iriends of law and or- ■
der was called, to assemb'e on the 14th inst.. at
Leavenworth city.
A secret “military organization of Freesoilers I
and Abolitionists in the Territory of Kanses”
was exposed. They had all the 'signs, grips |
and passwords, ’ &c.
Troy has been selected as the permanent
aounty seat of Doniphan county.
The Herald contains the proceedings of several
meetings in Kansas, of the law and order par
ty. &e. We copy the following paragraphs:
Border Ruffian" is the name of apaperabout
to be published in the flourishing town ot Rich
field, Clay county, Mo.
A Rjdt i* being built to run in the Missouri
river next season, to be ca’ e I the B n itr Rui
fiao.
This apellation given by the Massachusetts
Tankeesto Missourians, i: seems, is becoming
very popular. We bear of several distinguished
Missourians who intend to name tnefr hist boy,
Border Rntfian. The name was first applied by
way of derision, but we rather gtress as how
its originators are becoming sick and tired of
the term.
Kansas. —The Kansas Herald, published at
Lawrence, of October 27, states that‘’seventy
nine wagons, loaded with pioneers from lowa
and other Western States, passed Kansas city
between Sunday and Wednesday of last week,
destined for the Neosho.”
Missouri.—Governor Price, of Missouri, has
submitted his message to the L.‘_islature ot that
State. The entire document is taken up with
a discussion of the policy of the State in regard
to railroads.
Nr.w Counterfeit—Count ifeit fives and
tens on the Western Bank of Virginia, are in
circulation in Zinesville, Ohio. The paper is
Slid to be m’serable, and the execution equal
ly so.
Tobe Hung—Pri»at- William J. Dunn, of
company G.,mounted reflemen United States
Army, was recently tried by court martial at
Fort Mclntosh, Texas, for the murder of Ser
geant John W. Siam , fi*t> 1 3 tilty, and is to be
hung
Lunatic Asylum Burned.—The Richmond
papers state that one of the buildings of the
Western Virginia Lunatic Asylum was destroyed
by fire on Saturday night last. The building
was occupied by the worst class of female pa
tients. all of whom were saved.
The Cost of Guano—The Fredericksburg
L(Va ) Jfivq/jfoijj a calculation as tothenenur;.;--
«mt iruano sold in th-t place, states
that the goano consumed in the district, fur
nishing wheat and corn to that city, cost $300,-
000. The wheat from that district sold in Fred
ericksburg is valued at $608,000; so that the
guano costs nearly one-half what the lar
mers receive for their wheat.
Theological Seminary.—Over fifty students
are now at the Episcopal Theological Seminary,
N near Alexandria, which is probably a greater
number than has ever been in attendance there.
Conference. —The annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Virginia,
will commence its session in Petersburg on the
28th inst.
The sa w and planing'mills of Epriam Clayton,
Asheville, North Carolina, were wholly des
troyed by file on Saturday last. The loss is
from $5,000 to «6,000. We have not heard
whether Mr. Clayton was insured.
Count On war tiff, a distinguished Russian
Philologist, and the author of several highly es
teemed works, htc just died. He was for some
time President of the Academy of Science at
St.: Petersburg.
Among the Americans returned home from
Europe, on the Arago, we observe the names of
Dr. LaVert and family, of Mobile.
Wik.x Producing ■;♦: the United States.—
Toe New York Mirror predicts teat within
twenty-five years the ‘United States will not
only supply the American people with the pure
juice of tie grape, but w ill become the largest
wine exporting nation in 'the world.
Tnz Ull'kv Laws.—The board of trade of
New York are making an effort to obtain a
thorough revision of the usury laws of that.
State. They seem to think that the traffic in
money [should be free from its present restric
tions, and left«b» follow the same laws that regu
date the valued other commodities.
Tme Massachusetts Legislature.—Of the
lorty members of the Massachusetts Senate last
year, only eleven were re-elected, the only
a>ne foam Suffolk being Daniel Warren. Os
over four hundred members of the House last
year, only thirty-eight have been re-elected. In |
addition, Hiram Brown, the only Democratic
member of last year’s House,has been promo
ted to a eeat in the So nite from Hampden
county.
Dan. E. Bickels, late Secretary of Legation at
t St. James, has been elected to the State Senate
Is from the city ofNew York.
Plasters’ Meeting.— Cotton planters are
■- invited to attend a meeting at Memphis, Tenn..
If;;. Dec. Ist, “to inquire into the causes which are
D '.now depressing the price of their produce.”
■Jf [ A Change.—The Rev. Mr. Grover, of the
B| plethi'd- -t Episcopal Church, has resigned his
position a . a member of t'.e Ohio (.ont«-ren'<-,
B and joined the Protestant Epi- :opal Church
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOV FAIR B£R 21, 1855.
The saw and planing mills al Ephraim Clay- ■
ton. in Ashville, North Carolina, were destroyed
by fire on Saturday last. Loss, £3,000.
Mr Powers, the sculptor, is st present en
gaged on statues representative of America and |
California.
Returned.—Right Rev. Bishop Eady, of I
the Methodist Church, arrived in Richmond j
last Sunday from Kansas He has just returned •
from organizing the Kansas conference.
A Real Hindoo.—Thackery was born in ;
Calcutta.
Hon. Alexander B Boteler, of Virginia, is
named as a Candida's for the clerkship of the i
I next House ot Representatives
j I’he venerable Justice Clancy, of Michigan, -
idled on the Sth inst , at the advanced age of 81 ■
years.
• Madame Jenny Lind [Goldsmith, it is said ,
! has been stacked with same terrible disease in
j the face.
The Maryland Legislature stands as follows :
Senate — Know Nothings,B : Whigs, 6; Derno-
e r ate, 6 ; Union. 4
House— Know Nothings, 35: Union, 16;
Democrats 4.
O the Senators, six Whigs and save Demo
crats hold over.
Letters received by the last European steamer
give assurance that our Minister to France has
entirely recovered from the effects of his paraly"
tic attack, and is again blessed with his usual
health.
The percussion-cap powder factory of Dr
Goldsmark, in 65tb street, N.Y. was blown upon
Tuesday afternoon,—a keg of powder being per
forated by a random musket-bail, fired at a tar
get. Loss. 8300
The Democrats of Tennessee design holding
a State Convention at Nashville on the Sth ot
January next.
An Imperial Present. —La Giua. the hand
somest and youngest prima donna on the stage
has faker. Rio Janeiro by storm. The Emperor
of Brazil has presented her with a -pair ot dia
mond ear-ring, worth 25 000 francs—Bs 000.
Roman letters announce the death of the
Abb-' Matranga, Greek Secretary ot the Library
of the Vatican and a distinguished scholar and
archaeologist, of Father Lombardi, a writer of
‘ meiit and learning.
[ B. B. Chapman, Democrat, and Judge Ben
' nett. Whig, are the candidates for delegates -to
' Congress in Nebraska.
Bishop Meade ha 1 bis pocket picked of SSO
or S6O, and valuable papers, at Richmond, Va.,
last week.
Six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and
I forty-three cents have be-n received by the Sy
' nod of Georgia, for Foreign M issions, since 12th
| April last.
; Rev. Charles M. Irwin, Baptist Minister at
• Madison, intends to locate and preach in Atlanta.
Miss Josephine Bunkley’s new work against
I the Catholics “ is published by Harper & Broth
' ers, under the protection and auspicesot the Amer
i ’.can party.” Os course that party does not in-
I terfeie with -env p^rer»n J « rctiglOUS opinions!
I A head sold by the Sheriff.—At the re
cent sale of the effects ot Captain Henry Love
' by the Sheriff of San Francisco, the head of
i Joaquin, the celebrated robber, preserved in
I spiiits, and the hand of ‘ Threo-Fingered Jack,’
i one of his companions, were disposed of for $36
to Judge Lyons, formerly oi the California Su
: preme Court. Captain Love had killed both of
• the men, the last remains of whom went off
• under the hammer.
' The New York Evening Post of Tuesday.
I contains under its usual postcript head in a con
spicuous type what purports to be a letter from
| B. B B McKinney, London, Banker, to John
| McClure, Esq , Banker, with the following in
■ troductory notice:
! “We are indebted to our friend Mr. McClure,
; No. 197 Wall street, fbi the following copy of a
' letter received by last steamer from his cones
j pondent, B. B B. McKinney, Banker in Lon-
I don.”
I On perusal, the letter proves to be a hoax con
sisting of an exaggeration of the late manifesto
of the London Times
We understand that Mr. Debruhl a gentleman
very well known in this city, by our mer
chants, was found dead on the road, near his
residence, in Abbeville District, a few days ago
It is presumed his death was caused from a fall
from his horse.
Wisconsin Election—Private and published
accounts all go to confirm the belief that the
Democracy of Wisconsin have achieved a most
brilliant victory at the recent election. The
re-action in public opinion throughout the State
is as remarkable as it is gratifying. A corres
pondent of the Washington Union, writes:
“ lowa county, which last year gave four hun
dred and ninety free-soil majority, now gives
four hundred democratic majority.”
The Wilkes Republican, of Nov. 16th, says:
‘ The Congressional delegation, elected in Louis
inia, consists of Ivo Americans and two Demo
crats.” The writer is mistaken, as his Know
Nothing friend, Hunt, who wss an anti-Kansaj
man, is swt elected. Therefore, the result is
j three Democrats and one Know Nothing.
I The Rej>uA/ira»i also says, that the American
party has a majority in the New York Legisla
ture. He is wofully wrong again, unless he
considers the Know Nothings and Seward’s Iree
soil party, the Republicans, al so . leutical in
sentiment, as to very readily coalaoce. That
may be io.
Tbe Pacific.brought heavy dispatches for the
State Department, and 893,000 of Asiuerican
sfocs s fm redemption.
The Washington Star suggests that the wa
flurry is only a ruse designed by the British Gov
ernment to check English capitalists fiorn invest
iog in Amen.': m securities, and to increase the
amount of bullk’n in the Bank of England by
the sale of such stC'ks as are now held in Eu
rope.
OurNewYotk Correspondence.
Cause of the Panic—Bright Prospects—Elections
—Presidcn I d Candidates— Live Oak s Letters—
Our Citij Officers— TFar— Canadian Bravery—
Terrible Battle. S/c , S>c.
New York, Nov. 15th, 1855
Lord Raglan in his dispatches from tbe Cri
mea, fully proved the influence of the weather
lon the minds, and bodies of men. In these memo-
■ rable State documents it is clearly shown that
the men are but animated barometers. With
the first day of sunshine the blood begins to cir-
: cult te, and an hour of lair weather is sufficient to
. make it as sparkling and brilliant as champagne.
■ Hope attends upon sunshine as materially as
I bees upon June flowers, while despondency
, appears to be the natural offspring of cloudsand
I fogs. Those who attribute the present tempera
; ry tightness in our money market, and the fall ot
stocks to the European war, mistake consequen-
I ces lor causes. The sun h s not been seen in
■ Wall street for the last fortnight. Our city has
; been deluged in 4 rain ; the weather has been cold,
I raw and uncomfortable—hence the depression
jin trade. How is it possible for men to “bid
j up” while their spirits are running down to zero>
j or that business should assume a cheerful aspect
| while Rheumatism has the joints of business
i men now upon tbe rack. Your correspondent
is not a propbet nor the son ot a | rophet, but be
is willing to stake bis repute.tion upon an in
crease of business, a rise in stocks, and a ‘ loose
ness” in money with the first appearance of sun
shine. Upon the first fine day therefore, be the
first to announce in your financial columns, that
Wail street has assumed a healthier tone, and
“Erie” is looking up
The continued rain of the past few days
• here made it impossible for people to meet out
i of doors, but a grand demonstration is expae'ed
ias soon as the weather will permit. Politicians
I are already speculating upon who shall be our
next-Piesident. The late results are very much
in favor pl Dickinson among the Hards. Buch
anan was tbe iavorife of the Softs a short time
since, but Marcy is now talked of in his Stead-
George Law is laying his pipe very deep for a
i nomination “by Youug America.” He does not
j now pay-so. much money as be did at firs ,
‘ perhaps for being kept before the people, but his
' life is being distributed secretly and gratuitously
i wherever an impression in his favor is most
needed. As this little volume endeavors tn show
■ how good a President “Live Oak” would make,
I it is evident that Law has one eye at least upon
i tbe White House. It is urged by bis friends that
; although :.e is not as handsome a man as Frank
, Pierce, he is sbarpat a bargain, and is more like
i ly to make a good speculation out of Cuba. One
I thing greatly in favor of Law is that he is not
i likely to damage bis cause by letter writing, as
i his experience in the chirographic ait has been
: confined to putting his mark upon the bil's o: a
Bank of which he was one time President.
The affairs of our city glide on smoothly.
Briggs has submitted to the common council his
famous report of the nativity of our chief of po
lice. On motion of Aiderman Harrick, it was
ordered to be printed. It will be one of tbe
most amusing books of the season: the copyright
will be a publisher’s fortune. The Alderman
against whom a t rue bill was found by the Gran I
Jury, has been discharged; not that iris ir.-
nocense was established, but because the jury
could not agree. The whole posse of our city
officials are so corrupt, that I verily believe they
would ostracise an honest man, if by an chance,
such a one should be discovered among them. It
I is, no doubt, very pleasing to our worthy Mayor,
I to have his life published in one of the Sunday
.] papers, under the title of " Records of Rascality.”
i Every crime, from pocket picking up to arson,
i is laid to bis charge, and, in many instances,
■ certified by the oaths, of what are considered
i J
I creditable witnesses.
; Since John Bull became allied to his ancient
enemies, “the frog ea'ers across the channel,”
he has had his bead slighly turned. He appears
to think this as proper time to have satisfaction
or all the injuries he ever received, and he ap
pears very anxiors to knoik a chip off Jom
f’han’s shoulder. By every mail we learn that
we are simply a combination of different tribes
banded for the purpose of plundering other na
tions. and held together by no higher motive,
that a fair divirsion of the spoils. By the last
English papers, we learn that we are no longer
able to govern ourselves properly, and that the
British Government consider it a duty to do
this for us. To effect this,a fleet is to be sent im
mediately into the Gulf of Mexico. If that has
not the desired effect, the militia ot Canada
will probably be enrolled and held in readiness
to march into this country, take possession of it,
and occupy it until they teach us to behave our
selves. As an example of Canadian bravery, I
instance the attack upon a mill near Toronto
in tbe rebellion of 1837. Word was sent to Sir
Francis Bond Head that tbe rebels had collected
in great numbers at Montgomery’s tavern, and ij
not routed, would in a lew hours, attack the
city. The drums beat to arms, and two regi
ments of militia were marched out immediate
ly to check the advance of the enemy. When
they arrived at the tavern, there was not a soul
to be seen, and the only proof they had, that
tbe place was inhabited, was a dinner table,
furnished as if for a family meal. The loyal
Canadian soldiers rushed upon the viands in or
der to make up for the fatigue of the campaign
by a good lunch, but Sir F. B. Head, rushing
forward, had the tables demolished, and in an
eLquent harrangue, in which the horors of dying
by poison were vividlv pictured, he urged them
to attack the adjacent mil! immediately, as no
doubt the enemy were there prepared to defend
themselves to the last. The soldiers rushed for
ward, and as the mill was in a hollow, they I
came upon it unperceived. A tremendous vol
ley wag poured into it, and one equally tremen
dous was noured out. Unable to bear tip against
such a warm reception they retreated precipitate
Iv. The reserves were brought iip-the retreating
forces rallied, volley after volley was poured into
the building, until it wan completely riddled. At
length an assault was otdeied—the place was
entered arid not a sir.’gle person, dead or alive
was fou'nd inside i f was then discovered that
this gallant army of Canadian militia, re
treated from the echo of its own fire
Lawrence.
From the New York Daily News.
One Week Later From Europe
The U- S. Mail steamer Pacific, Captain i
from Liverpool, about two o’clock Saturday
ternoon, November 3. a:.d one hundred a
twenty mtie passengers, arrived at this portabot
SJ o’clock Thursday morning.
Liverpool Cotton market advanced jd. Flou
unchanged Wheat 2d. lower. Corn 64. Sugar
excited, at 5 a 7s. advance. Consols 88 a 881.
WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES.
The news this week is, in one respect, impor
tant in the highest degree. Excited by a series
ot editorial articles in the London Times, the
public mind of Britain had been agitated by the
apprehension ot immediate war with the United
States! The Times stated that with reference
to the recruiting difficulty, ‘the British Govern
ment have displayed a most commendab.e spirit
of forbearance and moderation, while the pro
ceedings of the Government of tbe United States
disclosed adesire to force a quarrel * * * *
the language and conductot the American Gov
ernmeot are extraordinary * * * * and
recklessly urging matters to an extremity I To
the demands of the United States, the British
Government has returned a temperate but dig
nified reply, and has seconded its diplomacy by
strengthening its West India fleet wi’h the ships
that have arrived from the Baltic. In this posi
tion affairs now stand.’ These comments of
the Times were echoed by tbe provincial press,
with exaggerations, until they gained almost
universal credence, and, we must do the British
public the justice to add, tbe beljef excited gen
eral astonishment and regret, until on Friday
evening tbe 2d inst. the Liverpool Post issued
en extiacontaining these words :
RUPTURE WITH AMERICA.
“Private messages by telegraph state that the
American Minister in London has demanded
bis passport, or an equivalent to it, from cur
Government.
“News so astounding might be received with
incredulity, but we can only say that holders of
cotton are acting on the report, and there is a
sensation on ’Change.”
We have to thank His Excellency, Mr. Buch
an . for his courtesy, in favoring us by telegraph
j mg the following explicit contradiction to our
j Liverpool agent, in reply to and inquiry by that
i gentleman as to the truth of the rumor:
‘ London. Friday night, Nov. 2,1855.
i ‘ The .American Minister to the Jdgent of the Jlsso
j dated Press, Liverpool:
1 't is not true that the American Minister has
I demanded bis passports from the British Govern
! m.- :d. There is no foundation for such a report.’
: Our agent, not feeling at liberty to m.ke use
iof rns information, gave it no publicity in Eng
i land, where, as yet the rumor of a rupture re
; m sins ur.contradicted.
; There appeared, in The Times of Oct. 31, a
I letter from ‘A Citizen of the United States,’
j ’be style,tone, and presumptive origin of which
, | entitle it to attention. The writer conten.is
j teat Great Britain need be in no fear of a fili
-1 busteiing expedition from the United States;
I that the American Government is powerful
I enough to preserve its neutrality and arrest such
I lawless designs; and that if the British Govern-
I ment really anticipated a transatlantic invasion
lot Ireland, its proper course was to communi-
I cat- i s apprehensions to the American Govern
i n ot siirpri«i<:-> them suddenly with
j the presence of a large fleet in their vicinity,
j the (trfpose ot which they are at liberty to con-
I jectnrs, but cannot know. The writer, however,
i chiefly regrets the recent action of England, and
the excited articles which it has occasioned, be
cause they come at a most inauspicious period.
l int Times, he says, is mistaken in supposing
that there is no real ground of difference be
tween England and the United States. There
is one, at least, of a very serious character, in
volving nothing less thana question of treaty
obliSjatJW'.ind national good faith.
Bv WZ Clayton and Bulwer Convention of
tS-iiy. fiFfwo countries entered into stipulations
intended to prevent any occupation ot Central
America, not only by Great Britain or the Uni
ted States, but by any other foreign power what
ever; yet Great Britain not only continues to
I occunv in Central America, but she has abso
i lutely established a new colony there since the
! treaty was made. This conduct the Uni'ed
I States Government exclaims against, not chiefly
I as a violation of the Monroe doctrine, or as an
I injustice to Honduras, (against whom, indeed,
j it is said to ‘smack of buccaneering,’) but as a
| plain disregard of a solemn and self-imposed ob
ligation; and the writer, therefore, thinks that,
while some real causes of difficulty exists be
tween the two nations, it is doubly unwise to
dwell upon imaginary ones. He closes by re
marking:
A war with the United States, it seems to
me, cugbt not to be lightly spoken of. It is a
cootmg«ncy which no lover of his race can con
template without emotion. It would be almost
a fratriciial war. It would be long, bloody and
destructive. Each nation possesses a large
population and vast resources. Each is a mari
time nation. Each is capable of doing the oth
er immense injury; and their interests, indeed,
are so connected that neither can strike a blow
w.thout feeling, more or less, its reaction. If
your fleets would attack our towns, the descen
dants of Paul Jones might reciprocate such at
tacks; and if your people would illustrate their
courage anew in such a war, there is no deed ot
gallant daring or • separate enterprise to which
our people would not show themselves equal.
Every consideration, but of duty and of inter
est. requires both countries to keep peace. But
neither country is unmindful of its self respect.
Great Britain, I am sme, would not yield its
convictions to any threat; and tbe United States.
I am equallj' sure, will regard with indignation,
rather than fear, the menace in its seas of a hos
tile fleet.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR.
The intelligence from the seat of war con
tains little that is really news. Correspondence
is to hand detailing the capture of Kinburn and
the forced destruction of the fort of Otchakoff.
In the Crimea a belief prevailed that the Rus
sians would attack the allied positions, conse
quently the advance of the troops was counter
manded, and the British have returned to Eupa
toria, the French to Baidal, and the Turks and
Sardinians to the Tchnernaya. The Allies are
repairing and arming Sebastopol, and they keep
up a desti tory fire against the North side. The
London Times, apparently speaking from au
thority, says: ‘ We believe there can be no doubt
that the operations for the expulsion of the Rus
sians from the Crimea are abandoned for the
present season. The main body of both armies
will at once go into winter quarters. Five
months of inactivity are thus before the armies
of the East.’
Gert. Sir William Codrington is appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the British army in the
Crimea, in room of Gen. Simpson. His ap
pointment is regarded favorably by the army
and people.
I Acceding to Vienna letters, the Emperor of
It n .S' i was desirous of bolding a p"rsoual inter
view at some place on the frontier with the
Emperor ot Austria. King of Prussia, and pro
bably other potentates, with the view of com
ing to some understanding foi the conclusion of
peace.
VARIOUS ITEXtS.
Gen. Simpson states in one of his despatches
hat the fine weather has permitted great pro
gross so be made in the repair of the railway |
and construction of new roads, and he entertains I
no anxiety of there being a scarcity of anything ■
during the approaching Winter. Dr. Hal), Brit- ’
1
sai
tw
übe
low
five
and t
under
Trebisi
Crimea,
the Tel
thousand
ville, sixty
sand: at Kim.
way to reinforce ...
Deniper, twenty-five thoi
eight thousand ; reserve in
ten thousand.
GREAT BRITAIN —AFI’OINTM.
The political intelligence
tant. Lord Stanley, son of
will, it is said, become a mem
merit. The Daily News state
Secretaryship was offered t<
declined by him in favor of Lc
Lord Harrowby has been menti
tion with the vacant post. It is e
Hardingne is about to resign the c.
chief ot the British army, isnd will b
ed either by the Duke of Cambridge <
■ Seaton. Sir Hamilton Seymour will be ap;
ed Minister to Vienna.
Violent storms had been experienced along t.
eastern coasts of Britain, causing considerable
loss in shipping. ,
Among the passengers by the mail steamer,
La Plata, at Southampton, were Genera! Balia*,
of Bolivia, on a tour, and the negro Baron Jean
Baptiste Damler, appointed to represent the Em
pire of Hayti during the temporary absence of
the Haytien Minister at London.
Victor Hugo, with his son. and those who
signed the recent protest, have been expelled
from the Channel Islands
IRELAND.
An Irish Philipic—The Rev. Dr. Cahill
has addressed a long letter to Lord Palmerston,
tbe spirit of which may be gathered from the
opening paragraph, which runs in the following
gentle strain : “So. my lord, you have advised
your embassador, Mr. Crampton, to enlist the
Irish in America. You want them now in order
to recruit your wasted army in the Crimea, or
to garrison the growing weakness of your dis
tant colonies- Glory be to God; that tbe insatia
ble cruelty of English law, in exterminating
and banishing tile poor, faithful Irish, is now
forced to acknowledge the national crime by em
ploying your embassador to seek their retnrn.
Heaven be for ever praised I that tbe perfidy of
Lord John Russell’s administration (your former
chief in the persecution of Ireland) is now ex
posed before the willing scorn of all the nations
of the civilized world. So you now offer a boun
i ty, and pay, and the Queen’s uniform, to the
despised exiles, whom within the last seven
I years your administration starved, and jibed, and
j banished. 1 thank eternal retributive justice,
| in the present instance, in thus compelling the
I public executioner of my country to confess
I with his own mouth bis cruelty to Ireland I
am grateful to the unerring laws of the Supreme
Arbiter of nations that the conspirator against
the religion and the prosperity of Iteland stands
at this moment gibbetted by his own confes
sion on the pillar of public scorn.”
The New York Day Book.
There is certainly one truly national Demo
cratic paper in New York, and that one supports
fully, fairly, and with marked abdity, the ad
ministration of President Pierce. There is no
mistaking its principles or 'TJs --meaning of its
language. Whatever may bk .>aid of the un
; soundness of other New York napers on the
j great question of the day, Freesoilism and Abo
I litionism, in any of their forms, cannot be laid
I to the charge of tbe New York Day Book.
It is one of those papers in the North that
come squarely and boldly up to the line in their
advocacy of the principles ot the Kansas-Ne
braska bill; and the ability and earnestness with
which it enforces its arguments, as well as its
bold and manly defence of the national adminis
tration, cannot but have a beneficial effect on the
public mind.
Whilst we regret to hear—as we have heard—
that the Day Book is not supported and sustained
by the patty in New York as it deserves to be,
we are glad to learn that its circulation is rapid
ly increasing throughout the country, and that
it now claims a larger weekly circulation than
any other paper, except the Tribune, published
in New York.
The Day Book must ever be a favorite paper
with Southern and Western Democrats, as it now
is with the true friends of the administration
everywhere.— Washington Union.
Charleston and Savannah Kailroad.
From the Savannah Morning News, we copy
the followirg report of the proceedings of the
Ci'y Council of Savannah on the 15th inst , in
reference to the above road :
An Ordinance was read the first time, giving
the Charieston'and Savannah Raislroad Com
pany the privilege of crossing any streets neces
sary to reach their depot, when they shall
have purchased the land on the same terms,
and under the same restrictions are provi
d--d in the case of the track of the Sa
vannah. Albany and Gulf Railroad, running
fom their depot to the river. Provided, that
said depot be located west of West Broad street,
a id that the streets shall not be blocked up, and
the passage of the Canal impeded
Solomon Cohen, Esq , appeared, and was heard
in reference to this ordinance. He stated that
the C. & S. R. R. Co , had permission to use the
track of the Central Railroad for three years, but
that the business of the latter was increasing
so rapidly as to render it necessary for the C. &
S. toad to look out for a depot for itself. This
road will run for fifteen or twenty miles through
this State, where no other road probably ever
will run, developing the resources of that sec
tion, besides bringing trade to Savannah from a
large section of South Carolina. The President
of the road, Hon. Thos. D. Drayton, had writ
ten to urge the importance of this measure, as
one or two large subscribers in Charleston had
hesitated about paying in their subscriptions
until it was ascertained that the City Council
would grant them the privilege asked for. It
was important that this ordinance should pass
Council at this meeting, if possibe, in order that
Mr. Drayton might conclude contracts for about
nine miles of the grading before leaving Charles
ton to attend to his duties in Columbia, as Sena
tor, where be would be detained some five or six
weeks.
After one or two slight amendments, on mo. ,
tion ot Alderman Mallery, the Ordinance was
read the second timo and passed.
Chicago, Nov. 14—The Missouri Legislature
met on the 12th. but refused to go into an elec- |
tion lor U. S Senator. Two Democratic can- ,
cuses were held, and the prospects of an election i
were considered doubtful. t
. . ...e Georgut
m return home and unfurl the ban
. lebellion. Nay more,—they will nomi
<e a sectional candidate and organize a sec
tional party, and thus take the step towards
breaking the Union of these States. L<“t the
dispassionate men of the country think of this.
1 If the Convention, tin willing to encounter
• -Scylla on the one hand or Charybdis on the
other, should neither accept nor reject the pro
position, as it probably will not. then the wise
’ men of the body will come together and devise
a platform which will mean all things to ail men
> —a Delphic production, full of promise to the
Noith and encouragement to the jSouth. This
the delegates from Georgia will be prevailed
upon to accapt as an equivalent to their ultima
tum, and returning home, their work and their
patriotism will be held up to the admiration rs
the country. If, in the meantime, the Ameri
can party shall have consented to await the ac
tion ofthe Cincinnati Convention,or shall have
' committed itself in any way to its decision, it
will find itself completely circumvented; for it
will then be too late to call a Convention and
to bring forward a candidate.
We conclude, then, that if the Convention ac
cepts the proposition of the Democratic party of
Georgia, it will lead to wide-spread agitation at
the North ; that if it rejects it, it will call into
being a sectional party in the South : and that
1 if it does neither, it will at least adopt a set of
high sounding but meaningless resolutions, by
which both sections, and especially the South,
will be cheated.
If, however, we are mistaken, and 'he Cin
cinnati Convention shall do what is right, both
in regard to the platform it adopts ar.d the can
-1 didate it nominates, no Democrat in Georgia
, will be more rejoiced than our-elves. We shall
‘ in th-t event, not only not offer any factious op
! position, but if the American party shall not
come fully up to its duty, we will go further and
’ counsel a union of hearts and hands throughout
all the borders of the South.
Mr. Win.?. Wright in bis late cotton circu
lar, sent forward to Liverpool, by the last stea
mer, communicates to his European friends, in
relation to the cotton crop, as follows :
Crops, &c—lt seems pretty generally ad
mitted in the South that the frost ofthe 24th and
25th October did but partial injury to the crop
in some localities. The weather subsequent to
the frost has been dry and warm, and picking
has been carried on under highly favorable cir
cumstances; under these influences, the letters
from the South received bere during the last
week have very generally spoken of increased es
timates of crop. There is still, however, a wide
range in opinion on this subject; in the course
of another week or two I hope to be in posses
sion of data v hereon to form an opinion ot its
probable extent.
Savannah Valley Railroad.
The Columbia Times of 16th inst., says :
A Convention of the stockholders in tbe Sa
vannah Valley Railroad Company was held at
Anderson Court House, on Wednesday, to con
sider the present condition and future prespects ot
their road, and to determine the course proper to
be pursued so as to secure its construction. Af
ter the meeting was organized for business, a
commtetee was apppointed to report upon the
various matters for the consideration of which
the Convention was called. This committee
reported in substance that the road could only be
built by abandoning the scheme of connecting
w.tb Hamburg, and by crossing the Savannah
river at Bnllsluice and connecting with tbe South
Carolina Rsilroad at Augusta. This report was
adopted.
To enable the company to make this crossing
and connection, it was- resdve! to memorialize
the Legislature of this State to amend the
charter.
Upon the adoption of the iep.,it and resolu
tions accompanying it, those representing the
stock taken by citizens of Hamburg and of a
portion of Edgefield District, protested against
the action of the convention and withdrew from
ail participation in its proceedings.
The following gentlemen constitute the Boaid
of Direction for the ensuing year:
President: John A. Calhoun.
Directors : Robert Jennings, James Tompkins.
J W. Hearst, John Brownlee, D. W. Rodgers.
Daniel Brown, J. W Harrison, W. B. Dorn,
Charles Hammond, Josiah Sibley, N. Merriwe
ther, John Speer.
Voters in Territories.—The total vote in
New Mexico at the late election for a delegate
in Congress foots up thirteen thousand seven hun
dred and twenty-nine. This is larger than the
vote polled in any of the organized Territories
of the United States. At the recent contest in
Minnesota, about nine thousand were polled,
and in Oregon over ten thousand. A census
just taken in Minnesota shows that Territory to
nave fifty-five thousand inhabitants.
Found Dead —We learn that Mrs. Finnagan.
wife of Mr. Dan. Finnagan,residingjust beyond
the North Common, on the Talbotton road, was
found dead in the house she occupied, on Tues
day night. She was at the time, living alone,
her husband being in Savannah. An inquest
was held over her remains yesterday, and the
body examined by a physician, and no marks of
violence being discovered, we understand the
conclusion ot the Jury was, that she came to
her death by the too free use of ardent spirits.
Columbus Daily Sun, Nov. 15.
Two MEN killed by a LvNATrc.—At the lu
natic asvlttm in St. John, N. Bj on the 30th
ultimo JohnE Clark, a patient, killed William
Carroll and Barry Mills withan axe with which
he was chopping wood.