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MACON, GEORGIA:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, I*SS.
Li*t of Act*.
We give below the captions of such Acta a* P fkSSCsi
the General Assembly, at its late-sesrion, of & gaoer-’
character. Local and private ones, we hare omit., t j
V* copy Ircm the MilledgeviG# papers :
lo appropriate money for repairing of the l rate
House, and for other purpose*- , . _
lo prevent the throwing of dead swck atiu o her
cead grouses into Cotticay and Chattahcocc.ee nvera,
would be likely to create drifts
To submit the quest-on of removal of the Court ,
House of Macon county to the people thereof and for
<jo Jeficisthe liabilities of the husband for the debts
. t the wife, and to deSne the liabilities of property re
ceived through the wife, for the debts of the husbami,
existing at toe time ot marriage.
To amend the rent laws
Authorizing the Ordinaries of this State to issue fi
fas in certain cases.
To authorize the Inferior Conrt of Laurens county to
i -vy an extra tax for pauper purposes.
To repeal a portion of zd section of an act changing
tha lines between Crawford and Monroe and other
counties, approved Feb 18, 1854.
To extend the provisions of the 4th section of an act
for the prevention of trauds and perjuries, enacted 2!*,
Chs.ll.Cbas. 111, to make the same applicable to
slaves.
Declaring who are qualified and liable to 9et ve as
•Jurors in criminal cases, and for other purposes.
To organize anew Judicial Circuit to be composed
of the counties of lleat and, Coweta, Campbell, Carroll,
Haralson, Polk and Floyd, to prescribe the times
of holding the Superior and Inferior Courts in the same
~ad to attach the same to the Sd Supreme Court Judi
cial Circuit.
To consolidate the office of Tax Receiver and Tax
Collector in the county of Worth.
To add a [ art of originally Union county to the
xronty of Gilmer, and to change the line between
Spalding and Pike counties and to add a part of Pike
county to the county of Spalding.
To appropriate money tor the benefit of the Georgia
Asylum lor the Deal and Dumb, aud for other pur
‘ poses.
To appropriate money to compensate the State Treas
urer for extraordinary services.
To amend the several acts of the General Assembly
of the State of Georgia relating to the Savannah, Alba
ny and Gulf Railroad Corbpany. approved rt- pectively
.n the 2'tb December, 1847, the 20th of November,
Ssl, and the 20th February, 1854, and to authorize
she Southern Branch of the Savannah, Albany and
Gulf Rail<nad Company to ctoss the line of the Bruns
wick and Florida Railroad Company.
To compel all incorporated Mining Companies of
this State to give in and pay taxes on their stock in
the counties where the mines are located.
To amend an act to authorize certain persons therein
named to clear out aud improve ihe navigation of the
Chattahoochee river above the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, and for other purposes thereto named, ap
proved January 21st, 1 -52.
To tncoiporate the Augusta Savings Bank.
To appropriate money to erect a necessary building
tor tbe accommodation of the pupils at the Institute
for the Blind, located in the city ot Macon.
To incorporate the Columbus Savings and Mutual
• Loan Association.
To incorporate the Macon Savings Bsnk.
To amend the several acts now of force in refer
ence to the Public Printer. _
To incorporate the South Western Electro Magnetic
lelegrapb Company.
• To add an additional section to the Penal Code of the
State of Georgia.
To authorize the Inferior Court of Houston county
to ievy an extra tax for the years 1856 and 1357, for
• rhe purposes therein named, upon tbe conditions speci
fied
T > incorporate Hopewell Academy in the county of
Fayette, and to appoint Trustees for the same.
To give endorsers control of fi fas in all casts in
which he mav nave paid them against the principal or
any prior endorser.
To authorize the admission in evidence of certified
copies from tha Executive Department and other offi
ces connected therewith. to be used as evidence in any
Court ot Law or Equity in this State, Ac.
Amendatory of an act incorporating the Muscogee
Ka.lioad Company, so far as regards the qualifications
and election ot Directors thereof.
To authorize and empower Unah Evans of the coun
ty of Twiggs, and others tbereiu named, to }eddle with
out license.
To fix the time of holding elections forjudges of tbe
Courts, Attorney Genera] and Solicitors Gen-
To axteud tbe provisions of the act so amend the sev
eral acts dow in loroe regulating the lees of Magistrates
and Constables in the State of Georgia, so far as relates
to <be counties of B bb. Richmond, Monroe and Lee,
r.d to provide for the mode of collecting the same, ap
proved January 22d, 1852, to the county of Fulton!
More efit dually to compel the pavment of the legal
tax heretofore impose ) on ag.-ncie? of foreign Banks
To iucorpota’e the Lookout Railroad Company, and
: >r other purposes therein-mentioned
To alter, change aud amend tbe secoud section of fin
act eutitled ea act to regulate the advertising of Clerks,
-Sheriffs and other State and Counrv officers, and to
provide for the preservation ot the newspapers contain
ing said advertisements, end for other purposes, ap
proved Jau. •'£, 1852.
To appropriate a sum of money to erect a mono
meet in honor of Hon. Andrew J. Miller, deceased.
To alter, amend and add to the Penal Code of this
State.
To incorporate the Warrenton and Macon Railroad
Company and to confer certain privileges and powers
upon the same.
To be entitled an act to incorporate the Atlanta Male
College and to appoint Trustees for the same.
To charter the Exchange Bank of the State of Geor
gia at Griffin.
To authorize the Bank of the State of Georgia to es
tablish a branch Bunk in the city of Rome, Oa!, and for
ether purposes.
To provide compensation for the commissioned offi
cers, non-com no stoned officers, musicians and privates
of certain companies, and tor other purposes.
To incorporate a Bank in tbe city of Rome, Floyd
county, Ga., to be called the Bank of the Empire State,
aud for other purposes.
To auifioiize the Governor and Comptroller General
to coriect mistakes of Receivers and Collectors of taxes
or any tax payer whereby mote money is paid into the
Treasury than is required by law, to return the same, I
and the Governor to draw his warrant on the treasury
Tor said amounts. The Comptroller to settle up the
busioeaaof his office of other years. The Interior
Courts or Grand Junes to allow insolvent lists before I
the 15th ot December in each year Comptroller to
settle up the oki and uufiuisbed’ business ot his office,
his duty therein, making out digests, to make indexes
to the books of his office, his compensation therefor,
and for collection of debts due pievious to 1855, and
enter Tax Collectors’ bonds in a book and file them.
To change certain county lines therein named.
To provide lor the selection of Grand end Petit Ju
rors in certain cases.
To allow any joint tenant, tenant its common, or oth
er person having a part inte.e.-t in lauds, tenements, to
maintain a separate action of ejectment or trespass, aud
for oi her purpose-!.
To alter and amend an act to alter Ihe law in rela
tion to inteiest on money, approved i7th December,
1845.
To alter and amend an act entitled an act to amend
an act passed the 17th day of December, 1847, to au
thorize p.trtie? to con,pel discoveries at common law,
approved 20th February, 1854.
To authorize the'Justices of the Inferior Court o! the
county of Bibb, or a majority of them at their discre
t on to levy and collect an extra tax for the purpose of
opening and keeping in good repair the public high
way in said county.
To change the name of the Talbot Female Academy
;n Talbot county, Ga., located at Talbotton. to that of
Levert College, to incorporate the same, and confer cer
fu-n powers on tbe Board of ’Trusiees therein named.
To be entitled an act to incorporate tbe village of
Chicasawhatchee in the county ol Lee, and to apjonnl
commissioners of the same, and to confer certain pow
ers upon said commissioner*; also to apjtoinf cornmis
sinners for the Houghton Institute, in thecitr of An- j
j*usta, and to appoint commissioners for the “town of !
Nparta, aud for other purposes.
To appoint commissioners, with power to remove all
obstructions for the free passage of fish in Kinchafoo
uee cieek, and to punish those who may attempt to de
feat the same.
To authorize Judges of the Superior Courts of this
State to appoint receivers during vacation, and to re
quire the complainant in all cases *>king for writs ol
r,*. treat quia t met. and a!! applications asking for the
appointing of a receive* or for an injunction to gtre
bond and security to the respondent for an? loss or
damage which he or they m v sustain bv sueini; out of
sasd writs, and for other purposes.
To aathoiize the Inferior Court of Gwiunelt count?
* to pay the Sheriffs of said county for summoning Ju
rors and wailing upon tbe Courts, and for other pur
poses.
To give further time for bolding the Superior Conus
of Sumter, Lee, Dougherty and Baker countie-.
To incorporate a Rank in the city of Columbus, to
be called the Bank of Coiumbns, and for other pur
pose® iheie ri uuaud.
To provide for the election of Trustee* of Effingham
county Academy, and for other purposes.
*T° change the January and October elections in the
rtate of Georg.* from the first Monday in January and
October to the first Wednesday in January and Octo
ber.
To authorize the Governor to call a convention upon
certain cotmgencies therein specified. v
To change the times of holding ihe Superior Court
in certain counties thereto mentioned, and for othei
purposes therein specified.
To incorporate the Savings Bank of Griffin.
To authorize parties complainant either inlaw or
equity, t° peifect service of writs against corporations
under certain circumstances therein named.
to nmke Executors and Administrators liable for
costa id certain cases.
against then! u * f,wi<ißntß damage* for frivolous suits
To tttriionze and provide for the union and ‘consoli
dation of the Muscogee ~
saarssss- .
the seme, prescribed by this act. - *
To alter and amend tbe 12th section of the fi.gt ar ,:.
cle ot the Constitution of this State.
county C ° rlJOriilfc * slanc * Creek Academy in Hancock
a the line between tbe cr unties of Taylor
At include ,ots of laDd number 24<t
To change the times of holding the Inferior Courts
in the counties of Sumter, Butt* and Bibb. .
To authorize the issuing of attachments and garnish
ments, and to regulate proceedings in telatiou to the
same, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
To require tbe State printer to cause to be reported
tbe proceedings of the Legislature
Giving the election of County Treasurer of tueeoun
tv of Taylor, and other counties therein named, to trie
iefya.i Totcrs of said counties.
To authorize bills of sale to be proven, recorded and
..dmitted in evidence in certain cases therein speci
fied
To alter and sc:, t.d the ninefo-entk section of the first
at tide of the Constitution ot the -’tate of Georgia
“TO at CONTINUED.}
Journal # Wlessengct.
,1. KSOWI.ES and S. ROSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
THE ORPHAN ASYLUM.
just as we go to pres®. we have received the very
gratifying communication which will be found in ano
ther column. YTe are glad to find that there are
some in this community who are disposed to imitate
the noble example of Amos Lawrence. * Let the good
work go on. Adopt a liberal, systematic programme,
and carry it out, and a home for the orphan will
soon grace our thriving city.
’ WRITING FLUID.
We are indebted to the Messrs. Richard* for anew,
and we think, a very superior article of writing ink,
called the American Fluid, and manufactured bv Con
ger <fc Fields. On sale at Richards’.
PRINTING OFFICE FOR SALE
3. A. Atkinson, Esq, Proprietor ol tbe Cherokee
Georgian, of Marietta, advertises his establishment tor
sale, on favorable terms. It is tbe only paper publish
ed in that place, and the business reaches $4,000 per
annum. Mr. A wishes to go to Kansas.
DIVISION OF THE BALTIMORE CONFERENCE
The Methodist Episcopal Conterence of Baltimore,
has adopted a resolution and viding itself into two parts,
to he called Baltimore Conference, and Baltimore East
Conference.
BANK OF MIDDLE GEORGIA.
It will he seen in our advertising columns that this
new Bauk has commenced operations under the aus
pices of Isaac Scott, Esq., favorably known in this
community, S3 President, and H. M. North Esq.,
Cashier.
Tbe Stockholders of this bank are 9trong men, pe
i cuniarily and otherwise, and we have no doubt it is
destined to take and hold a leading position in the
ritat.-*.
BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION.
We learn that the annual session of the Georgia
Baptist State Convention for the current year will
be held in Savannah Dear the eud of the mouth (April.)
The President and Directors of the Central road have
in a spirit of commendable liberality, in response to an
application in that behalf, determined to allow Dele
gates to pass over their read for one fair to Savannah,
aud free back.
ANOTHER INDIAN MURDER.
We leant from the Key of the Gulf that the house of
Col. H. Snell, at Sara Sola, was attacked by the Indi
ans on the 3d instant, and a man named Owen Cun
ningham killed. Col. Snell succeeded in making bis
escape, but his bouse tras fired by the savages aud
burnt to the ground. There was great alarm in the
neighborhood and tha inhabitants had taken pasuge
*m board tbe schooner S. S. Bradford.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION,
At the State election in New Hampshire, which came
off on the iltb inst., there was no choice of Governor
bv the people. Both branches of the Legislature are
auti-Auministratiou.
THE LATE MBS. HENTZ
We are informed by Mr. T B. Peterson, the publish
er, No. 102, Cheanut street, Philadelphia, that the new
work by thispopuiar and lamented authoress, entitled
“ Courtship and Marriage, or ihe Joys and Sorrows of
American Life,” will be ready for delivery on the 22d
inst. Price for the volume bound in cloth, $1 25; iu
two volumes in paper covers sl. Sent, on remitting
i the price, free of postage, to any part of tbe United
j States.
1-rK Does the Journal <£■ Messenger hope to com
mend Mr, Fillmore to the confidence of its party by
showing that his “ old law partner aud iutimate per
. soDal friend” is identified with the democrats? If that
jis not the object of publishing these growls we would
like to know” what is ? Columbus Times.
j Our object was to show that whilst the opposition
presses at the South, are trying to make the impress
ion that there are no sound men of the American party
at the North, according to a leading Seward paper,
Mr. Haven of X. V. votes with the sound Democrats
on all test or sectional questions, thus showing the
injustice of the imputation
SMALL BUSINESS.
The statement is going the rounds in a few of the
j leaser opposition organs, that Mr Fillmore, some thir
jty years ago was an anti-masonic candidate in New
Fork. And the New York News says that this is one
of the most formidable weapons which can now be used
against him. Tbe country know* how formidable it
was in 1348, and if they were satisfied with his “ shib
oleth” then, they will hardly find fault with it now.
Tbe pass is right and all is clear in the South, at least.
As this most formidable weapon is but a sickly bug
bear, we hope the News will be called from labor to re
freshment, and vex its righteous soul with something
more formidable.
AGREEABLE PASTIME
The Washington C'num is re-publishing tbe opinions
of Mr. Donelson, expressed against Mr. Fillmore and
tbe whig party during the last Presidential campaign.
That and other opposition prints, would render their
columns increasingly spicy if they would occasionally
give tbe opinions ot Messrs. Toombs and Stephens up
on Pierce aDd his administration, including his diplo
matic and Reeder appointments, and the deep affliction
of democracy generally wi'.h a disease worse i ban the
Jrv-rot. Tbe opinions of the Democratic papers in re
gard to these new leaders, expressed a few months ago,
might also be very edifying. L?t us have them by all
means.
In tbe mean time, it might be quite proper for tbe
oppos itiou papers to state the fact that Mr. Eatnes was
the principal writing editor of the Union, it is said, and
ptobably wrote most of the articles which are now
paraded a expressive of the opinions of Mr. Donelson.
PLATFORMS.
Tin* opposition presses are quite free in their stric
tures upon tbe platform adopted by tbe late informal
Council of the American Party at Philadelphia. It
may lie vulnerable to criticism, for ought wc know or
care; but will the Cincinnati Convention give us a
better oue? Nous vtrrons. For ourselves, we have no
very Unbounded confidence in Conventions and cau
cuses, and attach Lut little cousequence to their plat
forms. <
By ihe way, it will be remembered that Mr. 1 cco.smj
of this State, at the opening of the session ol Congress,
preseii ted a somewhat remarkable specimen of Georgia
manulucture in this line, to the inspection of a grave
Senatorial caucus. The unique production was viewed
ra'Lcr suspiciously and referred to a committee, and
he lust we heard from it, was, that it would be report
ed buck “in substance.” Since which time both sub
stauce and .--hadow have bc-ru non e.< inventus. So
much lor piatfoius.
US* Some evil disposed person ripped up a bar ol
iron from the track, near the 9S mile poat. on the Cen
tral Road on Wednesday night last. The. cousequence
was, that the engine of the passenger ni {lit train was
throws off the track, and the mails anal passengers
delayed.
We ate happy to leant that the ruun ar anil fireewm
>n the train escafed without serious inijairy, aud that
fie passenger car did not leave the truck. But lit tie
I.image was done to the engine.
IHE AMERICANS OF MASSACHUSi STTS AND MR
FILLMORE.
On Friday last, say* the Boston C jutier, the Mass
achusetts ritate Organiattion of tne National Americana,
r tified, without a dissenting voioe, the nomination of
the American National Cnveutu,ti Thq following
resolution was also adopted:
Ssinlivd, That the controlling influent @ of Bladt
r l<pu?lwa, ,sm, as manifested at the recent session of
he Massachusetts Know-Nothing State Council, bang*
4*on the American party, like an incubus feasting
t|>on its vitality. And we trust the America ns of tbe
‘■ate will o improve the annual election of delegate
in April next as to cleanse the party of that, blighting*.
THE PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION-
Wc feel that it is yet too early to enter at large upon
the discussion of the Presidential question. Eight or j
nine months will elapse before the people make up ,
their final judgment, and express it at the ballot box. |
Some months will elapse before all the candidates me ,
in the field, ludeed, it is not yet known that Mr. I‘ll- -
more will accept the nomination so spontaneously ten
dered to him by the National American Party. D
our impression, however, that he will do so, and that
in his acceptance, be will declare to the country that he
still stand? upoD the great constitutional and patriotic
principles ond measure* which he so firmly maintained j
during the period of his eventful administration, and
which gave to him the well merited appellation of—
“ Tnx Model Pxtsujext.” There seem* to be some
doubt in regard to the final action of the Convention
w hich nominated him, upon the subject of platforms.
After the nomination was announced, however, it is
asserted that a vote was taken in the confusion which
attended the close of the Convention, that wipes out
all relation between its action and that ot the Council
which framed the platform. This circumstance is thus
reported by the Philadelphia journals:
Mr. McCune, es Virginia, said that the National
Council had adopted a platform which was satisfactory
neither to the North nor the South. They had now a
platform which was satisfactory to both, in the shape
ot Fillmore mid Donelson. He moved that this Con
vention repudiate all platforms. The motion was se
conded, and thereupon a great scene of confusion took
place, in the midst of w hich the vote was taken on the
motion, but it was impossible for any one to decide
whether it was adopted or iejected Toe President
was unable to tell, but thought it was lost. Un the
other band, the Virginians contended that it was adopt
ed. In the midst ot the confusion a motion was made
i to adjourn sine dfo, and prevailed.
But as we have heretofore remarked, the antecedents
—the public declarations, the official acts of Mr Fill
more, are wortu a cart-load of the forked-tongued, po
litical show-bills that are every lour years evolved from
the hoppers of National Nominating Conventions, by
political traders and wire-workers. In the language of
a northern contemporary, he has been known as a pub
lic man through conservative mediums, his histoiy
shows no bending to section but a continual worship
lot the whole country, his political action has never
. been indefinite but always practical, his political tastes
> have ever been for such honorable measures as enure
I to the prosperity and the durability of the nation.
With a platform or without a platform, no section of
the republic would fear Mr. Fillmore’s administration,
for every .section has observed his antecedents aud
knows that he would deal equal aud exact justice in
constitutional balances. Aud such a character among
pairiotict conservative men—men, some of whom hate
the fugitive slave law with perfect hatred and otters
of whom love the institution with more thau local aud
interested love, —has brought about the circumstances
of this new party’s nominating a leader of one of the
old parties for its candidate for the Presidency. The
Southern States gave Mr. Fillmore a large share of the
votes in convention, but the confidence that his name
would claim the support of hundreds of thousands out
side of party, was what occasioned that gift.
That Mr. Fillmore has Veen tbe favorite of the con
servative Union men of the South, is undeniable—that
he has still a strong hold upon their affections is equal
ly certain ; lor we are not eware that he has commit
ted anv act to weaken their confidence or forfeit their
esteem. Whatever partisan papers or partisan leaders
■ may say, tbe people still believe in Millard Fillmore,
the Model Trends'U ; and if they get a chance will be
very apt to show their laith by their votes.
1
MR DONELBON.
! In the absence of Mr. Fillmore, it is by no meaus un
fortunate that the American ticket has so able a man
as Mr. Donelson to represent the position of the party.
At the American Ratification meeting holdea in the
Tabernacle in the city ot New York. Mr. DonelsoD, in
the drift of his remarks upon the course before the
American organization, alluded to the domestic policy
ot the administration as follows:
Jackson said that the patronage of the Federal Gov
ernment ought not to be brought to bear against the
| freedom of elections, and that it was time we were more
Americanised. Mr. Pierce says directly to the contra
-1 ry. He proscribes from office large masses of his fel
-1 low citizens for daring to exercise the privilege of ut
tering their opinions. He has ostracised national men,
in order to build up the agitators; and no one cau be
surprised to see that under his fostering care the couu
■ try is threatened with geographical parties far more
dangerous to the integrity of the Union than thev have
ever been in any former period of our history. He has
introduced the doctrine ot “ Squatter Sovereignty” iu a
foitn which, as recent events liav.e shown, is butauoth
name tor civil war, and though disguised by the pro
fession of respect tor the sentiment which recognizes
the right of the people to govern themsetves, is in sub
stance nothing but an abandonment of the constitu
tional duty ot Congress to guatd the rights ot the ter
ritorial inhabitants till thev are competent to tot m State
’ Governments, and take their rank under the provisions
of the Constitu'ion iu the confederacy ol States as equal
and sovereign members. Against such abuses we have
protested, and as members of the American Party, we
feel that it is not only our right to protest, but to claim
the support of our countrymen in giving the power to
| correct them. *
!
THE SEVENTH SECTION.
Tbe following section was introduced into the plat
: form adopted by the informal Council of the American
party which met at Philadelphia on the llfth ult., as a
substitute for the 12th section of the original platform.
Whilst we regret that there should have been any at
tempt made to disturb the 12th section of the Philadel
phia Platform, we defy the most fastidious States’
Right mau to find fault with the principles embodied
in the substitute. Here it is:—
7th. The recognition of the right of the native-born
and naturalized citizens of the Lotted States, periua
neatly residing in any Territory thereof, to frame their
constitution and laws, and to regulate their domestic
and social affairs in their owu mode, subject only to
the provisions of the Federal Constitution, with tbe
right of admission into the Union whenever they have
the requisite populauion loroue Representative in Con
gress. Proved and always, That none but those who
are citizens of tbe United States, under the Constitu
tion and Jaws thereof, aud who have a fixed residence in
any such territory, ought to participate iu the forma
tion ot the constitution, or in the enactment ot laws for
said territory or State.
The Louisville Democrat, a warm opponent of the
American party, very justly observes, in allusion to
the above section, that—
“No form of words could be devised repudiating
more clearly tbe doctrine of the Wilmot Proviso; and
it just as distinctly repudiates the doctrine of tbe Mis
souri Compromise.”
Stick a pin there.
NOT VERY COMPLIMENTARY.
In transferring the following Irom the N. Y. Nation
al Democrat, we by no means approve the tone, nor en
dorse the sentiment. Nor do we desire to become a
party to*tbe multiplied family quarrels of re-organized
democracy. They have a hard road to travel, and of
course, will have a hard JLiof it. We need not say
that we sympathise with tbe Bards. But here is the
extract:
“ The Federal Union is a Pierce paper aud is one of
those few Southern presses base and mean enough to
approve of the showering of patronage upon the Soils
and Freesoilers in the State of New York by the pres
ent administration. The Federal Union is quite in
love with these gentry : it admires hugely the associa
tion of tnulatto-skinuea and wooly-headed politicians
in which it fiuds itself; aud is positively enraptured
with the idea of the Georgia delegates sitting in tbe
Cincinnati Convention next June along with Dcirais
McCarty of Syracuse, of Jerry Rescue memory, Wil
liam C. Dryer, the Wilmot Proviso stump speaker, C.
Sentee, the denouncer ot the Eugilive Slave Law and
advocate of the nullifying “ Personal Liberty bill,” and
their treason-plotting associaies of tbe New York Soft
dlegaliou. Ot Course, the Federal Utiiou don’t like
the New Yoik Daily News, and ol course it labors in
its vocation in attacking us and in giving fresh proofs
of that gratitude of which the Hard Democracy of New
Y ork have already experienced no small amount from
that quarter of the compass. It take# particular puius
to inlotni us that the recognition by the Federal Cabi
net of the Buffalo Platform leaders in this State, and
the denunciation of all the true men who iu times past
stood up (until they were.borne down) “for the Cou
stitutional rights of the South,” are simply “ private
political griets!”
It will be seen by the foregoing that Democracy is
likely to have a good time of it at Cincinnati —even bet
ter than they hud at Baltimore in 1852, when they
broke up “amid noise and confusion,” kicking over
their platform, which was afterwards converted into a
freesoil spittoon, at the North, and ignored at the Houth.
What a sweet and amiable thing is democracy.
METHODISM IN BALTIMORE.
Yesterday was a day which will long be remembered
by the Methodists of the monumental city, says the
Baltimore Sun of the 10th inst., it being the occasion
for the ordination of elders and the auni
veraory of the conference missionary society, aud, being
betel during conference time, brought info requisition
the efficient services of the itinerants stationed out of
the citv. The whole number of ministers euguged in
delivering suitable discourses was 123; of whom 81
preached in forty Methodist churches and charges iu
and near the city, and the remaining 32 occupied the
pulpits of the Presbyterian, Associate Reformed, Bap
tist, Methodist Protestant, German Reformed, Luther
an, Constitutional Presbyterian and Seamen's Bethel
churches.
MACON LIBERALITY.
On Sunday morning last.the Rev. J. B. Smith, the ef
ficient agent of the Tract Society of the Methodist Epis
copal Church, South, after an impressive appeal in be
ha'fof this important interest, took up a collection in
the Methodist Church in this city, amounting to be
tween four hundred and four hundred and fifty dollars.
This speaks well for Macon liberality.
The deleut ol the Administration party iu New Hamp
shire, it is thought, will effectually shelve Mr. Pierce.
OYSTERS AND TERRAPINS
In noticing tbe liberal and disinterested doings of
the late Georgia Legislature, our worthy friends of the
Savannah Republican, forgot to make grateful acknowl
edgments iu behalf of the Oysters, Terrapins, Crabbs,
and tbe Hard-shell, Half-shell and Soft-shed family
genetallv. We presume this beneficent legislative in
terposition in behalf of these interesting aquatics, al
though evidently without their knowledge, is qmte as
gratefully appreciated by them, as certain other acts of
the General Assembly are bv those who, in season and
out of season, have been in the habit of luxuriating up
on their misfortunes. It is an encouraging indication
of progress, that whilst the Legislature of Georgia has
for yearß refused to attend to the “rights of married
women,” they exhibit so kind a regard for the rights
of conjugal terrapins.
As the Telegraph has kindly quoted our re_
marks upon Conventions and Platforms, we arc- per
fectly willing to leave the intelligent reader® of that
Journal to draw their own inferences. Our position
in regard to these National Nominating Conventions
aud their Delphic platforms, is not anew one. It
may be right or it may be wrong. The nominations
of the democratic conventions under their two thirds
rule, have of late years been fatal to the great men of
their party. This our neighbor well knows.
As our paper goes to press but a few hours after
the reception of the Telegraph, we could not quote
his whole article, but we are not aware that we
placed hint in a false position by the omission. We
shall never, intentionally, do him or any one else in
justice in this “regard.
In our last we published a paragraph in which
Mr. Wise, was said to have affirmed in the late cam
paign, that the Administration of Fillmore was Wash
ington-like. Since then he has written a characters
tic letter denying the report.
ABSURD PRETENSIONS.
Whilst our Democratic contemporaries in Georgia
are so deeply grieved because the American press ex
press their di.stru.st of President Pierce, would it not
be well to look after some of their own organs. The
Washington Sentinel, in allusion to the late Virginia
Democratic State Convention after expressing its pre
ference for either Mr. Buchanan or Douglas, for the nom
inee of the party, and pledging itself to support the choice
of the Cincinnati Convention, makes the following very
tree but just strictures upon President Pierce aud his
administration. The editor says—
“ Candor, however, compels us to sav, that the vain
and absurd pretensions set up by Franklin Pierce will
meet no favor from us. His selection before, was one
of those incidents, against which not even the hum
blest of us are securely protected, and we think he
should feel quite content with the experiment we have
made with him, since the mischief and demoralization
with which he has afflicted our party withal, has well
nigh stripped it of its moral presiige and political pow
er. Fie has driven from our ranks not only thousands
and tens of thousands of the best Democrats in the
land, into the lines ol our enemies ; but the course he
has pursued towards the sound National Democrats in
New Y’ork, has contributed more than any other cause
to the merger of our old national enemy into that new
and dangerous organization, which we have had so
much occasion to deplore aud condemn.
He bus violated, or connived at the violation, by his
cabinet ministers, one of ihe dearest principles ot our
party creed—a principle for which we have contended
with vigorous and unabated zeal, tor more than a quar
tet of a century. YVe mean internal improvements by
the General Government, and that worst specimen,
too, of this heresy, the Pacific Railroad. See the opin
ion ot the late Democratic Convention on this subject,
in resolution, No. 2, which, with the series, we give be
low.
He has permitted his Secretary of the Treasury to
incorporate into his aunual report a recommendation
ter the te-establishment—or what is the same thing—
of the protective teatnre in our revenue svs'em, which
is justly characterized by the third resolution as iucon
s'sUnt with justice, sound policy, and Democratic prin
ciples.
The fourth resolution, though short, may be well
and lairly construed into a teusure of his course upon
our foreign relations, particularly with respect to the
acquisition ot Cuba and the difficulties with Spain, in
cident to them. We are frte to admit that the policy
of the administration has been oftentimes right upon
our foreign relations generally, but it has been marked
by such indecision and mcouMstency, that it may be
charged it has been as often wrong! We waive tor a
future number the history of the treachery of the ad
ministration, aud which is being prepared for us, to
wards thiee of our most distinguished representatives
abroad, in the Ostend atlkir; a treachery, w r e undertake
to say, which hus no parallel in the unnals of that most
repugnant ot all human qualities.
The eighth and ninth resolutions relate to the Kan
sas aud Nebraska act. and with every word of which
we give our cordial accord. But how has the present
administration not only weakened and imuiasculated
this act, but surrendered the only udvantuge it confer
red upou tbe Southern Stales of this confederacy ?
First, It wus commended to Northern Senators aud
members because it was a “ hill for freedom, and slave
ry never could go to Kansas .”
Second, Aud consistently iu accordance with this
view, it was organized so as effectually to deter south
ern emigrariou to the Southern territory by the ap
pointu.ent of a governor from a free State, who since
has proved himself recreant to every constitutional prin
ciple contaiued iu the bill itself
Third. That even the removal of this official was not
based upon any disapproval of his affi/oti ion with the
Freesoil party, the consequences oi winch we wait with
many and anxious fears; but upon aground entirely
foreign to it, and however wroug, involving no such
disaster to the Territory or the country as that which
now threatens both.
From the Southern Recorder.
Messrs. Foster and Trlppe. •
A friend has ki.cdly favored us with the following
extract of a letter from Washington from an influ
ential and well knowu Georgia Democrat. Asa
candid and honorable man, be feels, it would ap-
Eeur, indignant at the continued misrepresentation’s,
y certain Democratic papers at home of the course
of Messrs. Foster and Trippe in Congress, and ex
poses the injustice attempted to be done them. Let
the unprejudiced, read end judge for themselves.
“I regret to see that an effort has been made by
some of our democratic papers to represent two of
the members of the House of Repiesentatives from
Georgia, Messrs. Foster and Trippe, as having acted
politically with the Black Republicans in effecting
theorganizationoftheHou.se. 1 had hoped that the
time was past when this sort of wnrlare ni>ou southern
men of any party would bo attempted; for who can so
abuse his understanding as to believe that any sane
man, born and reared south ot Ma on and Dixon’s
line, can prove so utterly lost to all the obligations ot
duty and patriotism, as to strike down the of
his own section of the country.
“Surely 1 need not say to you, that no members
from any Stale, are more free from any sort of alfin
fy with the bigoted aectionalists who now control
the national House of Representatives. None can
be found more fuithlul to the rights and interests of
the South' —none can feel more wounded and wronged
ut an intimation to the contrary. Throughout the
long struggle for the speakership they acted with the
national uieu ot their party; and finally when the con
test, under the plurality voie, (the adoption ot which
they firmly opposed) was narrowed down to a choice
between Gov. Aiken and Mr. Hanks, they were found
where all the friends ol ihe South rallied, abandoning
for the time, their owu distinct party organization and
casting their votes for the South Carolina Democrat.
Thus, at the only time when there was even a chance
ot their votes being telt against tbe abolition caudi
date, they were cast in the balance freely. That this
abandon men tof their own peculiar organization was
not productive of a happier result, none can deplore
more deeply than they did, none can he less responsi
hie than they.
Cullom as Clerk, are puradad us worthy of special con
demnation, because uiso a number ot Black Kepubli
cans voted for him, wbeu it is known that the ap
poiutment is one involving no political principle and
important only because of tbe little patronage attach
ing to it. Mr'. Cullom, it is true, voted against the
Kansas-Xcbmska bill iu the last Congress—but so u so
did Gen. Milisott, Democrat, of Va., and Mr. Etheridge,
Whig, of Tennessee, both of whom have been re elect
ed b\ southern constituencies, and nguinst whom we
suppose no one wdi be hardy enough to raise a ques
tion as to their fidelity to the fcnuth. Besides, it is
well understood here, that Gen. Cnllotu opposes the
repeal of that bill, and would war ugamst it were fce
now a menber of the House.
“Tbe plain truth is, politics entered but. little into
the election of the officers of the House below the
Speaker. Thx nominee of the Democratic party for
Setgeant-at-ai ms wai elected by the aid ot these two
gentlemen, while every offieei elected, who had been
nominated bv the Black Republicans, was elected
against their votes. In other words, of all the officers
elected, none but two. Gen, Cullom, the Clerk, aud Mr.
Glossbrenner, the Sergeant at-arms, are sound on the
slavery question—and these are precisely the onlv two
for whom Foster and Tripp# voted successfully. iSureb
there cannot be gathered from tha lecuid so far made
up by these gentlemen, the slightest ground for que
tioning their fidelity to the South.”
supported by a portion ol tbe Republicai
party, Mr. Culloqj was not the nominee us that party
He is a southern map. with the warmest and most
loyal southern feelings, bis anti-Nebraska vote to the
eountrary notwithstanding-
DOUBTS. i
“The utility and beneficence of these Conventions
we have alwdys doubted. They were denounced by
Mr. Calhoun. —Journal <& Messenger. _
We submitin all respect whether with these doub.s
on his tniud, our neighbor ought to have indorsed the
late Philadelphia Convention, by sending it a plat
lorm two delegates and an invitation to meet again.
The rule of Scripture is, “He Unit doudeth is damned it
he eat.” — Macon- Telegraph.
Ifoiir neighbor will exhibit a particle of evideuce
that ae have eaten, his quotation maybe deemed ap
propriate. But with the Philadelphia Council which
adopted the new platform, the American party of Geor
gia had nothing to do, either directly or mdirectly-
Nor was it represented in the Convention which nomi
nated Mr. Fillmore. We opposed tn convention the
proposition to request Messrs. Foster and Trippe to at
tend that body aod urge a postponement of a nomina
tion, on the ground, that we. as a newly formed party,
composed of insiders and outsiders, were not entitled
to a seat, much less, voice iu that body.
Whilst, therefore, we are gratified that the Philadel
phia Convention has presented so acceptable a ticket to
the country, and presume it Mr. I illmore accepts, it
will be ratified by the American party of Georgia, nei
ther we or our party have endorsed the doiDgs of either
the Council or Convention.
A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
“Our neighbor, originally a Democrat —then a \N hig
—then (wide roaming) a Knownothiug—will cross his
own trail twice, and he will support upon his Presiden
tial ticket two political antipodes —Donalson, who lor
years, as editor of the Washington Union, exhausted
vituperation upon Fillmore, and Fillmore who an
svvered back with a very gentlemanly and very heaity
contempt.”
We copv the foregoing from the last Telegraph. It
preferring Gen. Harrison to Mr. Van Buren, if casting
our first vote for President for Henry Clay, if voting
for Taylor and Fillmore for the Presidency in 1543, aud
not voting, with our neighbor, for Scott in 1852, made
us a Democrat, then we plead guilty to the charge, but
not otherwise.
Since 1850, we have stood upon the Georgia Plat
form, and acted with those whigs and democrats who
maintained its principles. In the last Presidential elec
tion, Mr. Fillmore was our first and last choice. We
voted for no one. This is the extent of our roaming
and democracy, unless, indeed, a concurrence of opin
ion with General Jackson and Mr. Donalson upon the
tart ill', internal improvements, Americanism, Ac.,makis
us a democrat.
jrgfi” We would call attention to the Juvenile
Sin ging School.
THE ORPHAN ASYLUM.
Editors of the Journal & Messenger:
Gent's.—l noticed” in your last issue, a communi
cation iu reference to the proposed Orphan Asylum;
in which the writer expresses the apprehension, that
unless some prompt measures are taken to obtain thc
means to establish this necessary home for the deso
late Orphan, the project will be abandoned.
I trust this will not be permitted so to be. I had
not heard that a subscription had been attempted,
but to encourage an immediate effort, you are au
thorized to say to the Committee of Ladies, who may
be instituted to undertake this work of Christian
Chairty, that the writer will subscribe Five Hundred
Dollars, to be called for. when the work progreases.
Provided, the sum required in the arrangement made
with the City Couucil to secure their subscription, lx
obtained within one month from this date—otherwise
this subscription to bo considered as cancelled. You
will bo at liberty to communicate the name of the
writer to the Committee, at any time when it is neces
sary to aid them iu forwarding the purposes of their
undertaking. Respectfully.
* * *
March 19th, IBSG.
Speech of Mr. Ciittcuden.
The tollowing is part of the speech, delivered by the
Bon. John J. Crittenden, at the Fillmore aud Donelson
Ratification Meeting iu Washington City, on Friday
evening 7th mst. It will richly repay a careful peru
sal :
He had no antipathies against the foreigners; the
party has uoue. Let the oppressed and down-trodden
ol all nations come to us. Let them share the bent-fi
ceuce ami justice ot our laws. Let them share educa
tional lucihues Let them share our language and our
customs; but we tell them in all kindness, both tor
tiieir sake aud our own, that they must Gave us to
govern and manage the country, or, in their hands,
unaccustomed as lUey are to its delicate machinery, it
will be wrongly directed, and us power will be thrown
against liaeli, and all will be involved in one mass ot
splendid i runs.
The whole philosophy of our principles lies in one
memorable older giveu by the lather ol his Country
duiing the daikness ot the Revolution. “ Place none
but Amei icans on guard to night 1” There were brave
meu ol foreign birih in the army; but they were noi
sons ol the soil. The magic attiaction of patriotism
did not bind them to the laud. The tuggiug at their
heartstrings was not lor the country in whose service
they weie then engaged, but lor their country beyond
the Sea. They were not lo the manor born, and could
not say. “ ‘ibis is my own, my, native land !” Then
was it not policy, and was it not philosophical, to place
men who were bound by those magic ties iu the most
lesponsible situations? Audit it were best, theu, is
it not ihe policy of the nation still, to place none but
nauve-hoin patriots at the helm of State, the most
responsible ot all situations to us at this time? And
should our foreign-bom brothers object to this policy
when it is go constantly f. ilowed under every other
government ? [CUeets.J
Aud how did our party arise? That it was the
Work ol au over-ruling Providence is evident. It was
not the woik ot piopagandisin. It was from the germ
ot patriotism in the hearts of the people. On its fiist
mauilestatioß, the people gathered silently around it,
drawn b\ their best leehugs to enlist iu the cause. It
spread silently and surely, without noise, without
effort, being rolled onward by its own weight, wheu it
was once started. Like the wiud, it is said no one
know* ot our party, whence it comelh; and some even
at this day are so meu.a.ly bliud as t i say they know
not w hither it goeih ! [Laughter.] But, to his mind,
it was evident that “ it gouth toward the White House
a9 its home, and towards the Cupitol as its place of in
dustry!” [Great Applause.]
We have thrown down the gauntlet—let them take
it up who will—we are ready lor the light. Our ranks
are lull, but we huve room still lor those who prefer to
struggle with us to fighting against us, lor it has come
to that point. And let those who see the truth of our
principles at this the eleventh hour, come to our
Danneis aud receive the welcoming hand Irom those of
us who have borne the heal and burden of the day.
To our naturalized brethren we say, we do not love
the foreigners less that) when we fjrgt extended au
iuvitatiou to them to find a home lrom oppression on
our shores; we do not love them less, but we love our
country more. Am we find it we dout proiect the aik
ol our liberties from the pi ottered support ot otiieious
hands, we s all all be involved iu one common des
truction.
When the emigration to our country did not exceed
1 n.ooo per yeai, we did not teel the effects ol it. Those
who thus came among us were übsorbed in our cus
toms, aud forgot their native country in a measure, aud
stiove to become Americans. Now ihe small stream
has become au overwhelming torrent, and threatens
to submerge ihe whole land. Instead of mixing with
its and becoming a part of us, whole counties are found
in which the English language cannot be uudeistood.
Tde foreigners rctaju ifieir clanish spirit ; their cus
toms, traditions, habits, yea, and language; they form
a foreign colony iu our midst as distinct in tact from
us as tuey ure in habit, though they are under out
government, it is this we deprecate. It is this we
would prevent.
He did not regard the foreign born citiz.en w ith feel
ings of distrust or hatred, nor did the party. He coum
Cordially welcome them, but he could not accord to
iheui the power to rule and ruin the common country
No man li-lt more charity tor the misfortunes ot the op
pressed of their Innas thau he.
Iu this very hall, not many years ago, he had spoken
at a meeting iu which the Citizens ot Washington wer,
raising money to send to lamine siricaen Ireland, and
be had intiodnced a bill in the Senate, which was
passed, appiopi luting $,,00,000 from the National Treas
urv tor the benefit of the starving Irish.
He implored ihe uaiuralised citizens to come to the
assistance of ihe country ol his choice. If the Ameri
can patty is successful, you are as iichly rewarded a.-
we in its increased pro-perity. Should it fail, you win
Oe involved in the common mm. He would give then
uis hand, then. Come and help us! We are mon
iu danger From the way in which ou- common enemies
use the ballot-box than their use of the cartridge-box.
The business ol the American party was to preservr
the Constitution aud the Union intact; to preservt
hum trout every hand that should be raised aguius
ibem, and they had everything to hope from the pai
i ioii-m of their course.
Ue closed by say iiig, “ we strive for our native-bon
sovereignty and our native-born supremacy in the laui.
which a beneficent God has given us. Who is he ilia
can resist the American people, when inajustcaus
they stand helore God and man to defend their rigbis V
If life party Will hut act worthy ot their noble caust
they will triumph thiough Its purity and patriotism.—
[Cheers long aud loud.]
The Cincinnati Commercial, a Republican or
gan, makes these candid admissions:
Party position and personal character are the twi
dement? of strength in acaudidute for office. To M
Fillmore, the foimer cannot be denied. He is rigr
with his party arid right in his party. The former i
proven, in his nomination; the latter is well autbenti
oated by creditable testimony.
Weste N Prodcck.—Cincinnati papers of the 3>
lust., report sales ol Hour at $5,40; wheat dull at sl.
,0 ; large sales of bulk shoulders aud sides at s)£ t.
i%c.; bacon sides at 7%c .; Shoulders 6>s to 7%c.; ami
cheese at 10 to 12 cents.
I it Home t
Dbar Colonel :—ln travelling over the Siate, hunt
ing up delinquent subscribers, have vnu ever Ruud a
house with a Dog pen iu front ot it, u sightly worm
fence round a door-yard covered fa chips, and ft
spout protruding through the side * the house, to
cany disU water to the road, form mg a pool lor the
refreshment of travellers? It you have Dt, you have
not seen the whole world by a “long shot, neither have
vuii seen the whole Slate ot Ohio ; for even in ’.his en
lightened day, with the full effulgence of the intellec
tual sun beaming on us, there aie data corners where
such things exist. If the hog pen is not directly in
front of the house, it is so near that its odors neutralize
all offensive smells from the dwelling, and its inmates
are the first to welcome every visitor, bv their hoggish
grunt. Not a gate, nor even a pair of bars; but the
tenants and visitois have to practice gymnastics by
leaping si rickety iciice at the risk of their clothes, say
ing nothing of their lives; a door-yard full of chips, if
nothing worte, ith a pool ot dishwater in close
proximity, tilled w ith potato* skins, cabbage leaves,
and other refuse of the kitchen, —these offer the only
charms that make ihe home* delightful.
Now what are the effects, the consequences of such
a home? Associations form the mind and the man.—
Children brought up in such a place have no taste for
the beautiful, but their minds] habituated to loath
someness, become themselves loathsome, their habits
filthy, and their manners disgusting.
liuw different lrom ti ose whose first breath draw 9 in
the fragrance of the rose and the honey suckle that
ciiuib around the windows of the paternal-home, and
w.iO.se first vision was cast on a tine lawn stretching
around the house! How every sense is regaled and
cultivated; the sight with lawn aud flowers, the smell
with the tiagrance, the bearing with ihe chirp of the
robin and the hum of the humming bird, as they revel
iu the tiowery paradise, and the feeling and taste with
the surroundings of the beautiful. Home has a charm
foi them tbund no where else. The harsh asperities of
nature are softened, and the heart is moulded by the
associations to love and melody.
I will deiy a lover of children, birds and flowers, to
be a bad man. The heart that can appreciate and love
them is of too fine and refined a texture to entertain a
bad motive, or to prompt a bad action. Low, gross
and sensual actions, are the result ot low, gross and
sensual associations in infancy aud youth.
If parents then wouid have their children, lovely
beautilul, respected aud intelligent, so let them make
home beautiful and lovely. L. Y. B.
Akron, Jan., 1856. [Ohio Cultivator.
Seward Beaten in his own Citt.—The Ameri
cans have again triumphed in the city Auburn, New
York, electing their Mayor and a large majority of
the Aldermen. The Republicans made unusual efforts
to carry the city, having nominated Christopher Mor
gan, formerly M., and Secretary of State, for Mayor.
Mr. Morgan is a devoted friend of Mr. Seward, and is
personally very popular. But his popularity availed
him not. The Seward cohorts were (completely pros
strated, and the American banner now waves triumph
antly over Auburn.
Ithaca, NVw York, one of the largest inland towns of
the State, has elected the American ticket.
has betn carried by the Americans. —Last
rear Democratic. This is the residence of General
Ward, an indomitable Hard.
How tiiey Loved Him.—The Philadelphia News
says: “When Gen. Scott was nominated in 1852
for the Presidency, oceans of tears the Loco Foco
leaders shed over Mr Fillmore! No language was
strong enough to convey an adequate idea ot the ad
miration and lovq which they entertained for him! He
was a pure and incorruptible patriot, and worthy of
the confidence of -iM. He was indeed “a model Presi
dent,” whose A.t.uitii? i-ffion had been “as conserva
tive as Washington’s!” Yet the very men, who thus
extolled Mr. Fillmore, will now, forpartizan purposes,
swallow their own words, belie thir own endorsements,
and traduce him as ardently as they praised him!”
.Hillard Fillmore.
The New York Mirror, (neutral,) in some remarks
in reference to the Fillmore Clubs forming in New
York, Pennsylvania, &c , pays the following just and
eloquent tribute to that noble man:
As an honest observer and faithful chronicler of the
signs ol the times, the Mirror can no longer delay pub
lishing the fact that a deep and spreading sentiment
existsamongthe more intelligent, prudent, and patriotic
class of cilizeus in all parts of the United States, in
favor of electing to the Presidential office the man who
has already been tried in the duties es that high trust,
and discharged thaiu with so much personal dignity,
national honor and popular approbation.
Millard Fillmore has been tried in many responsi
ble positions, from legislator in State and Federal
Councils to the chief Executive of the nation, and found
wanting in none. There is a settled conviction in the
minds of the thinking masses, independent of any po
litical or party considerations, that Mr. Fillmore is a
thoroughly honest man; that partisan feeling never
sways his judgment; that personal ambition never
controls his conduct; that sectional considerations
never influence his decisions. As incorruptible a pa
triot as ashington ; a calmer statesman thau Clay, a
less ambitious man than Webster; and with an ex
perience in legislative aud administration of affairs al
most equal to either, Mr. Fillmoie possesses in person
al character and political qualifications all the require
ments that an honest people can require in a Chief
Magistrate.
Mr. Everett in Baltimore.
The reception of this gentleman in Baltimore on Tues
day- night was one ofthemostenthusiasticevergiven to
a civiliati engaged in mere literary exercises. It was en
the occasion of his delivery of a euogy upon the Life and
Character of Washington. The Piesideutof the United
States, Dr. Kane, the celebrated Arctic navigator, and
other invited guests were upon the platform. The Amer
icans describes it as the largest audience ever assembled
at the hall of Maryland Institute. Full live thousand
interested auditors were present, and many thousands
could not obtain entrance The production is spoken ot
as at once a proud triumph ot literary and oratorical ex
cellence, and a reverential tribute to the memory and
fame of Washington.
The distinguished orator elosed bis address with a pas
sage which touched a chord in every heart—impressing
it as peculiarly incumbent on the citizens of America, as
depositories of the tame and memory of Washington, to
tollow|his advice and obey|his counsels. The preserva
tion of the Union was the thought and care which lay
nearest to his heart. If ever his parting counsels on
this head should be forgotten, it might be truly said
that Washington had lived in vain.
At the dose of the address, after a vote of thanks
had beeD passed to the orator, President Pierce and
Dr. Kane were presented to the audience and heartily
received.
Mr. Everett has accepted an invitation to deliver an
oration on Washington at Richmond oq tfieeveuing ot
Wednesday next, tne 19ipstant, the proceeds to be con
tributed to the fund of the Ladies’ Association for ‘he
purchase of Mount Yernon. The eloquence of such a
speaker, and in so good a cause, will attract an im
mense audience.
Mr. Clay’s Opinion ol Mr. Fillmore.
The following letter from that gieat American
statesman and patriot, Henry Olay, tethe Hon. Daniel
Ullman, of New York, will not fail to impress itself
upon the minds of the true men of the country.
Washington, March, 1852.
My Dear Sir: You rightly understand me in ex
pressing a perference for Mr. Fillmore as the Whig
candidate for the Presidency, This I did before 1
left home, and have fquently here in private inter
course, since my arrival at Washington. I care not
how generally the tact may be known, but I should
not deem it right to publish any formal avowal of that
preference under my own signature in the newspapers.
Such a course would subject me lo the imputation of
supposing that my ODinions possessed more weight
with the public than i apprehend they do. The foun
dation of my preference is that Mr. Fillmore has ad
ministered the Executive Government with signal suc
cess and ability. He has been tried, and found true,
faithful, hone.-t and conscientious. I wish to say noth
ing in derogation from his eminent competitors; they
have both rendered great service to their country, the
one in the fMd, the other in the Cabinet.—They might
possibly administer the Government as well as Mr.
Fillmore has done. But then neither of them has been
tried in the elevated position he now holds, aud 1
think that prudence and wisdom bad better restrain us
from making any change without necessity for it, the
existence of which I do not perceive.
llkxuy Clay.
[Chrrespo/ufence of the Baltimore 6'u/i.]
Washington, March 13.
The republicans of the House have been able to
figure up a majority of one for the report of the com
mittee on elections. But the practical test of the yeas
and nays has not yet been applied.
The Kausasfree State government hare changed their
quarters from Topeka to Lawrence, for the reason, as
is supposed, that at the latter place thev have more
friends than at the former, and are more secure there
from disturbance.
The House will not, probably, reach the previous
question on the resolution from the committee on
elections to-day.
The Senators to be elected by the Kansas legislature
will come on here forthwith, f’he representative to
Congress elected by the free Stale party (Mr. De
LaHav) is already here.
The Congressional anti-Nebraska caucus, held on
Tuesday night in the House ot Representatives, is the
prelude to a very important political movement—the
formation of a distinct sectional party, bused upon
opposition to the extension of slavery. A number ot
ihe straigh-out whigs have joiued in this movement.—
Gov. Fish, ot New York, an old line whig, signed the
call for the meeting. The number of members of the
House present at the meeting represented the ’ full
strength of the republican party in the House. Thus
eaily and decidedly, hostility is manifested to Mr. Fill
more by a large portion of the Northern opponents of
the present administration.
The new organization will be spread from Washing
‘on as a centre, to every northern congressional dis
trict, and it will soon be united upon a platform ofprin
‘•'ples. To agree upon a candidate for the presidency
will be the task of the convention which the party will
mid next July, or at whatever time the party may fix
Some suppose that Justice McLean will be the randi
late of this party, for the reason that he enjoys in a
tigh degree the public confidence, and that his popu
.rity in Ohio is such as will secure to him the vote ot
that very important State.
Honor Where Honor is Due.—Joseph J. Gales,
-enior editor ot the National Intelligencer, having
occasion to visit the House of Representatives a few
tays ago, was received with a degree es enthusiasm
esembiing an imprmal oration, it was a spontaneous
ribute to honesty of purpose, high intelligence, and
uubleinished character.— Sav. Journal.
Considering the great utility of the ocean, arf
not poets wrong to call it 11 waste es water ?”
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, March 12,-Senate—Mr. Done'*, <
the Committee ou Territories, made a rei.nrt .- c ®
affairs. 1 “
Mr. Douglas’ report reviews all of the afl
the Territory, recognizing the legality of the K**
legislature, and recommends carrying out the p** l
dent’s Tiew, as set loith in bis special tne---., .•*
report at so gives notice that the commute wij; * . *•**
au appropriation tor maintaining peace in the r ‘* f
rv and executing the laws. err 'it>.
Mr. Collamer, from tuc same commit: s
a minority report, attributing all the troubles
Territory, to the ropeal of ihe Missouri (: OI1 ’ lL
The report asks the repeat ot the Kausxs
—the re-organization ofibe Territory on free nniT-Z*,**
and declares the spurious acts ol the pro slavery i
lature to be inoperative. -
Messrs. Burner and Seward sharply attacks
majority report.
Mr. Douglas ;earnestiy defended it in his resn
The report was ordered to be printed and the
adjourned. -siate
Affairs ill Kansas.
The correspondent of the St. Louis Rr,„n
telegraphs that the Free Slate Legislature ,L,, C *s
at Topeka on the 4th. Governor Robinson? 2J
sage was mostly devoted to a review of th e ir *
history. He says he understood that the i. 011543
Marshal was privately iustrncted to arrest ? l] ul - T
ot the Legislature and State officers for treason e<
let no resistance be ofleied aud not a finger r-‘ ’
agaiust the Federal authority till no hope be left x
revolution. He calls for military organization
the scalping-kuife on the west aud the revolver on T
east. n
The Independence correspondence states that it.
Free Bute Legislature adjourned to Lawrence
was in session there on Saturday last <; ,!
Bhannon had gone there to ascertain” what was k? W
done. Vioieuce was apprehended, though there
but little excitement ou the border. W4S
LATER FROM El ROPe “
Halifax, N. S., March 19
The British and North American Koval Mail St ‘
ship Arabia has arrived at this port with advices
Liverpool to the Ist inst: Iroa!
General Intelligence.—A despatch received h
Messrs Brow n aud Bhipiey, the Liverpool Agents Y
the Collins Line of Steamships, dated Glas* o , h M
27th ult., says that the Steamship Edinburgh fr
New York passed on the 7th ult. when five dais °?
in Lat 4y'36’ and Lon. 4y - 4o’ large quantitiesofbrok U ’
ice, and I ssw on it a quantity of broken cabin tu ™
ture consisting of five ornamental doors with while' 11
glass handles, a lady’s work box and other arti C °a
common in the cabins of first class steam-hips-itl!
we fear, too probable that tbeseariicles were fragment!
from the wreck ot the Pacific, as the Arabia brines no
iutilligeme of that vessel. 5
in Paris ttnee peace conferences have been heid
but none of their proceedings have been allowed ij
transpire. The geuerul impression is that mai'e-T
so far, have progressed favorably. It is believed that
immediately after peace has been signed the European
Congress will meet to adjust the balauce ot power] a
rumor, to which, however, not much credence is given
is afloat, to the effect that Russia concedes the required
limitations, but will not abandon her protectorate
over the Greek Christians. Another minor, somewhat
alarming, but believed to be a speculating ruse, says
that Russia bus started objections w hich will bieuk ti
the conferences.
An armistice has been announced to last until the
end of March, but not to affect the existing blockade,
and has been made known to theaimiesm the Crimea
Omar Pacha’sgresignation has been accepted.
the Allies, and Sweden, continue to make active ore.
parations for war. *
The excitement in relation tb the difficulty with
the United States had entirety subsided in England
Mi. Buchanan had dined w ith the Queen.
The Liverpool Cotton Market opened active,
but closed quiet. The sales duiing the week ending
the 2Sth ult. comprised 66,0uu bales, of which spect.
tutors took 13,000 aud exporters B,uoo bales; teavinj
50,000 bales ot all descriptions lo the trade. The stock
in port consisted ot 4 00,000 bales, mciudiDg 27o,i>m
American. Prices were uncUanged, Fair Orleans b*.
ing quoted at Middling Orlerns at 5%d, Fmr
Uplands at and Middling Uplands at 5 Rj-ittf.
Earthquake at Jkddo—Another Account —On the
11th of November, at to o'clock P. M., a violent earth
quake occmred at Jcddo, which destroyed one huucieil
thousand dwellings, fifty tour tern pies,and thirty thoue
and inhapitants. Fire broke out at the same time it
thirty different parts ot the city. The earth opened
aud closed over thousands of buildings, with tlnir m
habitants. The shock was severe at airnoda.
Treatment or Infants. —Upon the subject of bath
ing, I differ from some who have written upon it. Mr
own experience, and your aunt agrees with me, is that
cold water is not suitable for a young infant. B<mie
who inherit hardy constitutions fom their pi BS
may endure it, ana even thrive; but in gener ,I m
inclined to the opinion that it does more harm thu
good. J prefer the usj of tepid water; and once a tlaj
is enough for the little one whose strength is smaiUnd
who feds Beusibly the fatigue of dressing. 1 hare
met lately a passage iu Southey's life which may inter
est you us much as it did myself. Speaking of a young
sister, he Says: “She was a beuutilul creature tte
admiration of all who beheld her. My Aunt Mary was
one day walkiug with h.-r down Un on str.et, when
Wesley happened to be coming up; and the old maa
was so struck with the child’s beauty, tout he stopped
and exclaimed, ‘Oh, sweet creature l’ took her bv the
hand, aud guve her a blessing; and that which on
sober reflection may beju9tly thought to be a blessing
befell her soon afterwards; an early removal to a
better orld. She died by hydrocephalus, a disease to
which the most promising children are liable. Hap
pily, neither her paremanor he grandmother suspected
that which is exceedingly probable, that, in her case,
the disease may have been induced by tbeir dipping
her every morning iu a tub of the coldest well water.
This was done from an old notion ol strengthening
her: but the poer child’s horror of it every morning,
when taken out of bed, was intense. 1 cannot remem
ber having seen it without honor; nor do I believe
that, amougall the preposterous practices which false
theories have produced, there was a more cruel aud
preposterous oae than this.’’ We have tried the prac
tice in our own family, and have become convinced,
some wise men to the contrary notwithstanding, that
tepid water is preferable for infants und very young
children.—[Uncle Jerry’s Letters.
The American Nominating Convention.—lt vat
stated in the report of the concluding pioceedingsof tbe
American Nominating Convention that a portion of the
Illinois Convetjnn withdrew w tb the bolters, to whom
the National position of the Convention and the nomina
tion ot Mr. Fillmqre was distasteful. Weare auihoriicd
to state, on the authority es a member ol the Illinois del
egation, that no such withdrawal look place. All tbedel
egatiou remained, and all but one voteuloi Mr. Fillmore,
several of the delegates were elected expressly astbc
friends of Mr. Fillmore’s nomination, aud he is believed
to have been the choice of a large majority of the party
tn that State.
A similar statement that the Michigan delegation bad
protested against the nomination ol Mr. Fillmore isan
thoritatively denied by Col. Wood, Chairman of tbe
Delegation. He says that though Mr. killmore w
not their first choice, yet they feel bound to stand
by and suppport the nominations made by the Conven
tion.—Ball. American,
The Welsh have a saying that if a woman fas
as quick with her feet as with her tongue, she would
catch lighting enough to kindle the fires in the morn
mg.
k3*T ‘ What is the meaning of tbe word persev**
ranee?’ said one negro to another, while conversing
about a sermon they had just heard. ‘lt meaßS tak
hold, hold fast, and never let go.’
IV ” It is a Goed Thing to Laugh, at any rate, says
Dryden ; and it a straw can tickle a maa, it is an in
strument of happiuess.
A Michigan paper, commenting on tbe rematk
of a contemporary, that “ the snow in this vicinity :*
two feet deep,” says, “ it is two knees deep here!
Tribute of Respect.
Colaparchek, Ga., March 8, 1356.
At a regular meeting of Wells Lodge, No. 197, held
at the Lodge Room on the B*h of March, A. L., 5856,
the following Preamble and Resolutions were unani
mously adopted:
Whereas, It has pleased the Supreme Grand Master
ot the Universe to remove by Death, on the 6tb tn
March, onr esteemed brother, John llowakd, sen ;
And Whereas, By this dispensatidfa tbe Masonic fr?’
ternity has lost a worthy member—bis children an
indulgent, kind and affectionate father—tbe flaph* l
Church a cousistent member, aud the community
useful citizen; Therefore be it
Revolved, That whilst we bow in humble submission
to the mandate of Heaven, we mourn the death of our
brother, not as those without hope, for we teel that our
loss is his gain.
Revolve /, That we tender our sympathy to ” r
rihans of the deceased, and would point ibem in
hour of distress, to Him who has promised to be a- a
ther to the fatherless. ..
Resolved, That we clothe tbe Lodge in, aud wear
usual badee of mourning for thirty da's. .
Revolved, That a copy of the foregoing preamb*
Resolutions be furnished tbe family of the “ ec *Va,]
and that they b snreiul upon the minutes, and puLo.“
ed iu the Journal A Messenger and Georgia Ctfizeo-
WM. D. POWELL, W.M.)
J. M. BIIARPE,
A. M. LOCKETT, 1 Com-
JOEL R.
DIFl),
In Madison, on the 14th of February, 1856,
prepared, in the eighteenth year ot her ag ß >
M artha J. REEgE, only daughter of Col. Augusts
Mrs. A mat in ilia Reese, ot Madison.
In Sumter county, on the sth inst. of
Thos. G. Jackson,” aged about 27 years. He wa
son in-law ot our worthy friend aud fellow
land Bivins, Esq., aud leaves a wife and two cu
and many friends to mourn his early
Colton Ylarkel.
Macon, March[
Very little doing in Cotton. Few sates. Quo,e - *
9% extremes. Receipts very light.
The river is in good boating order, and tbe
Scott, left here on the first of the week, laden wit
cotton.
Savannah, March 16-
The market so-day was dull, only 87 bales baviitf
been sold at the following prices; 7an
and 1$ baits IQ cents.