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J. KNOWLES and 8. ROSE,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
unr. BcH !• lakr the Mump.”
Under the above beading the Louisville
of Thur*d*j alla-lea to the oascUton ol the Louts
fillo Journal that “Mr.'Bell will not take the
Mump,” *- “ |>rein*lnre t ” and quotes th# following
in confirmation of in* |*>*tion Irom the Lexington
Statesman :
“The Louisville Journal w terr ninth excited
oyer the announcement that Mr. Breckinridge pro
poses to respond in person to the clmrges that the
Journal has aided to cireuUte, and says that il
any of its readers hear it intimated that John Bell
would take the stump, It will be safe to character
ize the statement as false and slanderous. The
Journal is a degree too rapid. We bare the best
reason to beliere that Join Bell is contemplating
that eery inurement He said to a friend a very
few days ago, that if Mr. Breckinridge makes
speeches, he will follow the example. Ttie Jour
nal ought to be better posted before it uses lan
suage so strong. It cannot well take bock all it
ha < said, bat will hare it to do.’’
M : *cry lores company, and the supporters of
Mr. Breckinridge, conscious of the humiliating at
titude in which that gentleman has placed himself
as a stump candidate for the Presidency, are rerr
anxious to reduce Mr. Ball to the same contempti
ble lerel. But they will mod signally fail in this.
We hare no idea that Mr. Bell erer uttered the
words so positirly attributed to -him by the State*-
man. The idea of John Bell following the exam
ple of Mr. Breckinridge is qnite amusing.
Whatever misrepresentations or speculations up
on this point may be circulated by the Breckin
ridge organs, let it be understood, once for aH,
that Mr. Bell Is not a *tnutj> enmiitlate for ihe Pres
idency, and all assertions “that he will follow Mr.
Breckinridge's example are untrue, and a reflec
tion upon his high character as a statesman. —
.Vm! rill*. Bonner.
ViOßi the Chronicle k Sentinel.
lion. Mines Holt in .Hurra) Cswniy,
Sewtsn Purr, On., Sept. 5, IMA.
Mr. Editor: —Yesterday the Bell and Everett
men of Murray county had the pleasure of listen
ing to one of the best speeches that has been
made in this county for many a long year. It was
knowu bj a few that the Hon. Hines Holt, one of
the Alternate Electors for the State at large, was
on a visit to one of his friends and relatives in this
county, and they forthwith gave notice that he
wowid address the people, without letting him
know anything about it But on being informed
of what Ida friends bail dime, he complied ; and a
speech it was, that will he as bread cast upon the
water —clear, argumentative and eloquent, he
showed plainly that neither Breckinridge nor Doug
las could possibly be elected. And if Breckinridge
could be, be could not restore the country to peace,
for he was s sectional candidate, and would be a
sectional President. He spoke one hour and three
quarters, and was listened to by many a democrat
who said, after he was done, that they should vote
for Bell; that their own parly was split and divi
ded, and they would tollow neither faction, but
vote for the only candidate that bad said that sla
very was right, and that justice to the owner and
humanity to the slave demanded its extension. —
Murray will give Bell a larger vote than either
Douglas or Breckinridge ; and Cherokee generally
will give Bell a good vote. Our friends every
where are doing their best, and in the best of spir
its. We feel and kuov that the contest is between
Bell and Lincoln, and it behooves every lover of
his country to be up and doing. Many men that
have taken no part in politics for years, sre now
warm and doing all they can for Bell.
The progress of Mr. Seward at the Northwest is
s continual ovation. On Thursday last, when on
his way from Detroit to Lansing, (ihe Utter the
capital of the State of Michigan,! he was warmly
greeted by crowds of people assembled at the dif
ferent railroad stations. When within eight ndles
of Lansing hs was met by a cavalcade of mounted
men and a large number of citizens, under whose
escort be was conducted to the city and formally
received by its Mayor. The next day delegations
in wagons and on horseback poured in by every
avenue from an early hour until the streets were
liter all j blocked, and the arrivals numbered not
lew than ten thousand people. The procession,
whi:h commenced forming at noon to proceed to
the speaking ground, was composed of Republican
dul, citizens on foot, several military companies,
and over two hundred wagons, covering a space of
about three miles m length. Prominent in it were
two triumphal cars filled with young ladies ; a
Urge platform-car, drawn by twenty oxen, with
men in the act of rail-splitting; innumerable
wagons, carrying rail fences ; a deputation of for
ty vonng men from the State Agricultural school,
preceded by an immense tUt-boat on wheels, bear
ing rakes, scythes, mauls, wedges, and other farm
ing utensils ; and Hags and banners bearing appro
priate sentiments and quaint devices. The whole
was plentifully interspersed with bands ofmusic.—
The concourse of people on the epcakiug-gtound,
which were estimated at from ten to fifteen thou
sand, were addressed by Gov. Seward, Gen. Xye,
Attorney General Howard, aud others.
Mr. Seward was to proceed front Lansing to
Jackson, and from thence to Kalamazoo, Milwau
kee, Ac.
KU Varkture a|iiikt l.iacoin.
The New York World, a semi-Bepobliemi sheet,
states that an arrangement has been defi irately clos
ed that but one electoral ticket will he run in that
btate against Lincoln—the friends of Breckinridge,
Douglas ami Bell, nutting in its support. After
summing the disadvantages of the Republicans, iu
the facts that: In IM the Republicans were in an
absolute minority of forty-fire thousand ; that they
had then tlie Kansas eieitement, fanned by lying
reiagraphs every day, of outrage* in that Territory,
which cannot be used at the pteaent ; that the
Americans, though running a separate candidate
at that time were carried to the support of the Re
publican ticket in large number* by the Geo. Law
movement, while at the present time some of the
ablest American leaders will do effective on the deui
ocratic aide ; in addition to which, the Republicans
must bear the dead weight of tbe prodigate legis
lation of last winter, which, the World says, “ will
be thrust borne with telling force, wherever any
one of the army of democratic speakers addresses
a public meeting.” Besides all this, tbe sacrifice
of Seward by the Chicago Convention has pro
duced a lukewarmness on tbe part of a large por
tion of the working men of tbe party, for which
tbs nomination of Abe Lincoln failed to corn pen
Kite—after showing up these facts in their true col
ore, the World concludes :
“ These are the principal disadvantages nnder
which the Republicans enter the contest in this
State. Whether their party strength is sufficient
to overbalance them is tbe queetfon, which, notil
• (her the election, wilt engage tbe attention of pol
hirism,
New York is the battle-ground, and the conser
vative men of the State have come up to the work
wkh spirit worthy of the best days c*f the Repub
lic. The fight will be a desperate one, but we are
confident that the hordes of abolitioni*rh wifi be
rooted.” *
Malar Kle (low.
PoiTUxP, Sept. 11.—Two hundred and thir
teen towns give Washburn, Republican, 43,147 ;
Smart, Fieoioerar, 50,026; Barnes, Whig, 1,240.
against in the same towns, last year, Murril, Re
publican, 29,5C0 ; Smith, Democrat, 50,&44. The
Republican majority is 11,881, against B,BIG last
vear. In an increased vote of 14, HW, there is a
Republican gain of SJI&S. The aggregate vote of
tbe 2tata ill ranch 12t>,UuO; about 20,< of> more than
last >e*r. The returns confirm, in every respect,
our Last night's estimate. All the Republican mem
bers of Congress arc elected. The Republicans
are celebrating their victory in this city by a torch
light procession, illuminations, Ac.
This looks rather squally we confess. Hamlin
seem* popular at home.
Tbe New York Exasaiuer says that Ht’f ry Ward
Beecher, in his sermon before Theodore Parker’*
congregation in Boston, took giound fiat feet
w ashing is a “ most a Reeling ordinane of the
Church,” which ** -tamh upon a “command justa
explietty and Is just ns literally enjoined as the
Lord's Sipper or l^ptlsm,” and” which “bear* an
Idea ns fundamental to humanity and manhood as
these other sacred ordinances do to Spirituality
nod faith, and futurity. The examiner isaurpriaeti
tfut If such is the belief of Mr. Breeder. “he doe
sot introduce the afl'ectiag ordinance into I*U
■sooth Chert.”
A friend Informs os that the voter* in Greene
boro, Ala., in the corporation, have been canvass
ed and ascertained to stand as follows :
,, 82
Douglas |0
Breckinridge ’ 05
Ajtd just so ILO vote eU be found over th.
whole booth in November. Uurrah for Bell an<!
Everett and the Union.—4/aWa Wlif.
Ifirsluv and Labor.
Alexander Hamilton once said to an intimate
friend : “ Meu give me some credit for genius.—
I All the genius 1 have lies just in this : ‘ When I
hare a subject ia hand I study it profoundly. Day
and night it is before uie. I explore it in all its
j bearings. M v mind become* pervaded with it.—
! Then we effort which 1 make the people are pleas
•ed to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of
! lalmr am) thought.’ ”
Mr. Webster once replied to a gentleman who
pressed him to speak on a subject of great import
ance : * •
“ The subject interests me deeply, but I have
not time. There, sir,” pointing to a huge pile ot
letters on the table, “ is a pile of unanswered let.”
ters to which I must reply before the close of the
session, (which was then three days off'.) I have
ho time to master the subject so as to do it justice.”
“But, Mr. Webster, a few words front you
would io much to awaken public attention to it.”
“ If there be *o much weight in my words as
you represent,'it is because Ido not allow myself
to speak on any subject until my mind is imbued
with it.”
Demosthenes was once wrged to speak on a
great and sudden emergency. “ 1 am not pre
pired,” said he, and obstinately refused.
The law of labor ia equally binding on genius
and mediocrity.
An Arab Vfnre.
The Arab mare cost me nine hundred and fifteen
company's rupees, that is about ninety-two pounds
in English money. She was the most expeusive
horse 1 have bunted, and was not purchased for
that pursuit. She was the most beautiful mare I
have ever seen, of the pure nejid blood, gray,
with flea-bitten spots, eyes too large for her head,
iio-tril thin and expanded, throat of a game-cock,
the hair of her mane and tail so fine and soft, that
the most lieautiful woman might have been proud
of such a texture, and her skin so thin and soft,
that the thoru bushes tlwough which I rode her
used .to tear it; and after many of my runs
tlirough jungle, I have had her, bleeding from the
thorns, looking as if she liad been practiced upon
with a light sabre. She was what you would con
sider in England a pony, fourteen hands one and a
half- inches high ; but she was as broad almost as
a dray horse, aud her tail was set up so high that,
as site moved about her loose box, you could,
stooping, walk between it aud the ground. Her
feet were black and hard, aud the tendons below
her hocks and knees were like harp strings. Add
to thin, that her head was so lean that you might
have boiled it without obtaining any flesh from it,
and you have a picture of what this desert-born
mare was. —SLal tpem't If ld Specie of India.
The Drought lu Kansas.
A letter from Wanbaunsee, (the New Haven
colony,) Kansas to one of the editors of the
Journal of Co/nuu ree, contains the following no
tice of the long continued drought in that part of
the country, and its results :
WxrHACNBKK, Aug. 2D, IStiO.
Not a dollar can be raised here, by sale or
mortgage of real or personal properly. All crops
are a failure except the sorghum. Our country is
truly In a deplorable state. The many recent emi
grants West of us, are leaviug as best they can.—
Our own settlement, before the winter is over,
will need “ material aid,” more than they will ri
fles, although we are in better condition than any
other small settlement West of Topeka. We are
economical, friendly, and can claim aid from East
ern friends if necessary ; whilst most other settlers
have no resources. The settlers West of Fort Ri
ley, on the “ SaHne,” “ Smoky Hill,” and their
tributaries, are truly to be pitied. The drought
commenced in January last, and destroyed the
winter wheat ; the loss ol Spring wheat followed,
and corn is nearly a total loss, with a poor pros
pect of any root crops. But little hay can be cut,
and only on the lower river bottoms and creek ra
vines. Hogs and cattle will find a hard winter.—
The former cannot be fattened.
The dry weather continues, except an occasion
al sprinkling. The springs have gradually dimin
ished siuce wiater. We have water for our cattle
as yet, hut lor oilier purposes we go 14 miles for
it. But in all this it is fully demonstrated that
our soil is eapable of sustaining great crops in or
dinary seasons ; otherwise no vegetable substance
could have life.
From the Southern Rural Gentleman.
Trite Cotton Planting Ecouomy.
J (r. Editor :—The time has fully come for sav
ing the Cottou crop of 1860. The signs in the
commercial circles show the necessity of saving it,
as there has never been one saved before —at least,
for many years, perhaps not since Cotton ha 9 be
come the leading article of commerce, or King, as
it is sometimes called.
I can better portray what is the real interest of
the Colton planter, by taking up the subject at
seed time, and going with him through the harvest,
and, indeed, until he has got his returns and hU
money.
The planter who has twenty hands, under the
present economy, plants twelve acres in Cotton
and four in corn to the hand ; or, in round num
bers, two hundred and forty acres in Cotton and
eighty in com, and makes two hundred and forty
bales of Cotton, and corn enough to feed his ne
gro* and mules throngh the next season, and is
pressed from the lflth of August to the Ist of Feb
ruary to gather his crop in a condition to secure
him eight cents per pound, or $6830 for his Crop,
and all his meat, mules and plantation implements
to Imy, (and many of them from the North.)
On a Cotton plantation working twenty hands
and waving two hundred and forty bales of Cotton,
you will find at least thirty negros, and they will
eat at least one barrel of mess pork each, making
thirty barrels at S2O etch, srtOO; fire new ploughs
at *8 each : five sweeps at srt each ; five scrapers
at $0 each, making one hundred dollars for the
leading articles of tools, such as should be made
on ihe place at lens than half this cost. Two mules
at one hundred and seventy-five dollars each, SSSO,
making SIOSO for the leadiug articles of |dantation
expenses, an.i deducting fi.'a) for the cost of the
iron that would make the ploughs at home, leaves
the snug tittle sum of $1000; out of this small sum
of S6OBO, leaving to the planter SSBBO, be may
thank his stars if he does so well.
We will now take the plantation working the
same number of hands and making all it consumes,
and sec tle result. Sixteen acres are cultivated,
eight in Cotton and eight in corn. Eight bales of
Cotton are gathered and in good style, and this
done between the 15th of Angnst and the Ist of
January. Now these twenty hands, at eight bales
to the hand, will rnnke one hundred and sixty bales,
and the weight is sixty-four thousand pounds,
which at 124 oents per pound, is SBOOO and nothing
to buy, against SO3BO and every thing to buy.—
For the difference in time and cultivation will make
all the meat, all the plows, and all the mules, be
side* ail kinds of vegetables which are vastly con
ducive to health and comfort on a plantation.
The difference in this plantation under the two
systems of economy ia in favor of the latter, or
make every thing system, s2l2'*, and I do not
doubt but that on a thorough trial it would be found
even to exceed that amount, and, particularly if
the whole country would adopt this policy, for then
the falling off in the amount of the crop would in
crease the demand, and thereby raise the price as
much as it would lie increased hy the difference in
handling, and it would not he unfair to calculate
that to diminish the crop one-third, and gather it as
it ought to be gathered, would double the price.—
Planters, try it! Plant your six or eight acres iu
Cotton and the remainder of your land in com,
and if need he, open more land to plant in coin,
oats, wheat, rye, gra.se, and to set out in fruit trees.
Get brood mares, cows, hogs, sheep, and raise
your horses, mules, beef, pork, mutton and wool In
abundanee, and, m fact, everything that you need
that the climate will produce, and mv word for it,
you will grow rich and be happy. BOLIVAR.
Tr.uksiiocs Flow op Oil—A Bakrkl oi 0i l
fkr Jlisi ik. —The most extraordinary of the many
extraordinary oil wells diacovered in Pcuusylvauia
lately we read of in the Erie Obcrv*r. The well
was opened at Tideout, Erie county, on the 10th
iot., by Rev. Mr. Ilfqnembourg- The ULurver
says: “At a depth of 17s feet oil waa struck, and
it has since been coming to the surface in a volun
tary flow of one barrel per minute ! Think of this,
ye men who are anxious to gel rich. At sl4 per
libl., a low ealimate, this well yields its owner
$20,160 per day. We are assuied by parties wh*
have \i-ited the well that there is no humbug in
the statement; that it positively yielded its barrel
por minute!”
Thk Loin 11 ikk.— This mine, situated in the
northeastern of the county, is now being
worked by Mr. Rufus R. Anbury with flattering
prospects. Mr. A. showed us a few days since
some specimens'recently obtained from this mine
of extraordinary jieauty, site and richness.— lt+k
/.•*•/ St pit a?.
JiMioc Ta*kv Koximw.—ln pursuance to
previous announcement, the Democrats of St.
Mary s county, Maryland, assembled iu large nuns
hers at Leonardtown, on >ke Ist iost., aud success
fully nominated Judge Taney and Samuel Nelson
of New York, for President and Vic* President 0,
the United Slates.
MACON, GEORGIA :
Wednesday, September 19, 1860.
was 1 mu wii I—llllllll jfp u ‘
Constitutional Union Ticket.
FOK **K KM DENT,
JO H N BK i. 1.,
OF Xj£NXKS3K£.
FOK VI<T>FHINIOENT*
FI)WA I! I) KVF It KTT,
m HASHAIin SKTTi
Pr.ATP < > U M :
“The < ousttlu(ton (■ ike feuMlr}. tle
I in.. 11 oi the Mates and the Fuium-iurut
ot the Lasts.*’
ELECTORAL TICKET.
FOR TIIK STATE AT LARUE t
WILLIA.FI LAW, ot ( hothum.
H. ts. HILL, of Troup.
* • alternates:
HIVES HOI.T, ol Muscogee.
GARNETT AN DREWS, ot W ilkes.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Samuel B. Spencer, of Thomas, Elector.
Edward B. Way, of Liberty, Ist. Alternate.
Dr. T. A. Parsons, of Johnson, 2nd. Alternate.
SECOND DISTRICT.
Marcellus Douglas, of Randolph, Elector.
W. 11. Robinson, of Macon, Ist. Alternate.
P. J. Stroaier, of Dougherty, 2nd. Alternate.
THIRD DISTRICT.
L. T. Doyal, of Spalding, Elector.
John T. Stephens, of Mouroe, Ist. Alternate.
Charles Goode, of Houston, 2nd. Alternate.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
W. F. Wright, of Coweta, Elector.
W. C. Mabry, of Heard, Ist. Alternate.
John M. Edge, of Campbell, 2nd Alternate.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Josiah R. Parrot, of Cass, Elector.
Ttios. G. McFarland, of Walker, Ist. Alternate.
Rieh’d. W. Jones, of Whitfield, 2nd. Alternate.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
H. P. 8011, of Forsyth, Elector.
McDaniel, of Walton, Ist. Alternate.
S. J. Winn, of Gwinnett, 2nd. Alternate.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Dr. I. E. Dupree, of Twiggs, Elector.
BT. Harris, of Hancock, Ist. Alternate.
M. W . Lewis, of Greene, 2nd. Alternate.
EIGHT DISTRICT.
I.aFayette Lamar, of Lincoln, Elector.
John K. Jackson, of Richmond, Ist. Alternate.
Daniel K. Roberts, ofEcriveu, 2nd. Alternate.
COTTON MARKET
The receipts of new Cotton are good for the
season. Ou Monday, 170 hales were received,
and sitlcs were made, ranging from cents.
Savannah.— On Monday, 402 bales were sold at
prices, ranging from 10@l0| cents.
RUMSEY k NEWCOMBS MINSTRELS,
We learn, are performing to good houses. See
advertisement.
tar A. G. Bostick opens an entire new stock
of goods, in anew store, opposite the Lanier
House, and expects all the Ladies to give him a
call.
HON- CLIFFORD ANDERSON,
We are requested to say, will address the peo
ple of Houston, at Perry, on next Monday night.
We hope there will be a general attendance.
RESIGNATION or wayou ®o*nvfi
Mayor Sparks tendered his resignation to the
Council on Tuesday nigiti lust, upon w hich occasion
the following resolution was offered by Aid.
Rogers, and adopted by the Council:
“Resolved, that this Council receive with regret,
the resignation of his Honor, Mayor Sparks, as his
official and personal relations with each member of
this body has ever hce:i of the most pleasant char
acter, and we feel that the city has lost the ser
vices of a faithful and efficient officer. In bis re
tirement, we wish him health prosperity and hap
piness.”
The official tribute conveyed in the foregoing,
will, we doubt not find a hearty response in our
community.
MAYORS ELECTION.
Dr. G. Harrison has been nominated by the
Constitutional Union party as a candidate for that
office, to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Kparks, re
signed. Election on Saturday next. Dr. J. D.
Smith has also been nominated for the office of
Alderman in plaoe of Dr. G. Harrison, resigned.
Time of Election not yet ordered.
Some statements made in the Telegraph of Sat
urday last, in disparagement of Dr. Harrison, with
regard to medical charges, made by him against
the city, deserve a brief notice from their perver
sion aud misrepresentation of the facts. In the
first place, there was no city Physician at that
time. He only charged about one hall for attend
ing cases of Small Pox, that had been removed
two miles and a half into the country, tint other
Physicians did for those attended to in the city.
CITY HOTEL, SAVANNAH.
By reference to our advertising columns it will
be seen that this old establishment lias been reju
venated, and is competing for public favor. Try
it.
F&UITS AND FLOWERS.
We have received Catalogues from Mr. W. R.
Prince, whose extensive and far-famed Nursery at
Flnshing appears still to abound iu every variety
of choice Flowers, Fruit trees, Shrubbery, Ac.—
See advertisement.
MACON BOY.
We learn that Mr. Le Roy Hammond Washing
ton, son of our friend and townsman, Col. J. 11. R.
Washington, has been appointed midshipman in
the U. S. Navy, and has repaired to Auapolis and
entered upon his duties.
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
From our religious and even secular ex
changes we gather the gratifying intelligence that
an unusual religious influence is abroad in the
South—not confined to one State or denomination.
A meeting of increasing interest is now in progress
at the Methodist Church in our city, which we
trust will result in much good.
THE 8188 CAMP MEETING,
Closed its exercises on Saturday morning last.
It was attended by an unusually large concourse of
serious aud respectful hearers. a number
joined the Church, and we cannot doubt great
good was accomplished. Several persons, we learn
who have not heretofore tented will do o next
year, and the Bibb Camp Ground may he consid
ered therefore a permanent institution.
JACK 11 OF ETC N;
Or the Adventures of a Georgian, by Wm. W.
Turner, of Putnam county, Georgia. New York.
Derby k Jackson, publishers.
c are iudebled to Mr. Burke for a copy of
this volume. It cau he had at the Methodist De
pository.
GEORGE ECKLEY,
An old and faithful servant of Mr. Damour, of
this city, died last week, and was followed to the
giave by a very large procession of colored friends
and several of our ciiiaeus. He was a leu ding
and consistent member of the Methodist Church—
usually ** raised the tunes,” and was much es
teemed by white and black. We saw George as
he was passing away from earth. His end was
peaceful and calm.
Mill They C ome.
We leara from good authority says the Bain
bridge Qmrffit M that five Democrats openly de
clared their inW-ntiou to vote for John Bell and
F.dward Everett, in our city 011 last Saturday.—
They, like true patriots, gave as their reason for
Uie course, •* That they were not prepared to
vote for a dissolution candidate, aud they could
001 awallo* Douglas,and his squatter sovereignty,*’
OUR OWN LITTLE CITY
We arc not given to boasting of its growth, in
crease of business, or progress otherwise—-or of
the accession of cverv new inhabitant, as ia done
in some other places. A few facta only, pertain
ing to its recent history, we would briefly notice.
Our receipts of Cotton last season (one hun
dred and two thousand bales) were the largest we
have had since our railroads were opened to the
seaboard. Our sales of merchandize also, were
far in advance of anv previous year. For the last
two or three years our store houses and dwellings
have had a rapid increase—also several buildings
of a public character have been erected. Ttie
number, we cannot sav is twy large, but they are
mostly of a substantial and expensive class—
both dwellings and stores* such as are not sur
passed by any in the State. At this time, there are
seventeen stores of the first class, now in progress,
or have beeu completed this year. Also, sixty
seven dwellings, with various other buildings.—
Os all our stores aud dwellings, we do not know,
or believe that there is one unteuetited. To our
Hotel accommodations, oue new one has been ad
ded which will be opened in two or three weeks.
A large addition to the Granite Hall will also be
opened in a few days. An extensive addition is
also being made to the Lauier House. When com
pleted, it will be equal to, if not larger than any
Hotel in the State.
As to the number of our inhabitants, we regret
to say, that it is not quite so large as was anticipa
ted, before taking the census. We also find our
neighbors iu Columbus complaining of the same
thing, and giving as the reason, its appendages of
Wynnton, Beallwood, Liu wood; Woinacktown,
Girard, Ac., the inhabitants of all of which live
mostly from their business in the city ; vet pay it
no taxes, or support any of its burthens. They
are giving strong indications of endeavoring to
bring these outsiders within the city jurisdiction.
All these facts apply with equal force to onr city.
What do our citizeus proper, say to a similar effort
to enlarge our corporate limits equal to those of
Atlanta, ami thereby secure an equal population
to bear our city honors and burdens.
A BRIEF SURVEY
Os the political battle field at the North, is bv
no means encouraging. If all the opponents 01
black republicanism could be combined iu some of
the larger northern and western States, Lincoln
would doubtless be defeated. An effort of this kind,
however, has been defeated —Mr. Douglas taking
the position that he would form no alliance with
the friends ot Breckinridge until they discarded
their disunion principles aud resistance programme
to the inauguration of Liucolu. Asa lorloru hope,
New York was looked to as the great Waterloo
battle ground, where sectionalism should receive
its overthrow from the allied forces. There, how
ever, no cordial fusion or union is likely to be
affected.
At the South, the prospects of Bell and Everett
are bright and brightening. They will doubtless
carry most of the Southern States.
THE WEEKLY STAR
Is the title of a paper which has just come to
hand—published at Columbus, Ga., by Mr. Thomas
DeWolfe. It is a Douglas organ, of very neat ap
pearance, and convenient dimensions—not a mam
moth show bill—and appears to be ably edited.—
Terms, 2,50 in advance.
MINING IN GEORGIA.
1 he Boston Poet says : We are assured from a
source that may be credited, that the Wood mines
of Lumpkin county, in the State of Georgia, have
ample water power for one hundred stamps. The
quartz rock, richly charged with gold, lies withi 11
three hundred yards of the mills now erecting,
and is inexhaustible, so far as it is possible to as
certain. These mines exhibit richness, at least
three times greater than that credited to the ilara
posa mines of Col. Fremont, while labor in Geor
gia will not average more than one-filth of that of
California. The whole interest of the Wood
mines is owned in Boston, and is now being suc
cessfully prosecuted. The Y'ahoola and Cane
Creek Hydraulic Hose Mining Company, also loca
ted in Lumpkin county, Georgia, a more extended
and vastly more important gold producing opera
tion, owned and managed by Boston capitalists,
the works of which are now nearly completed, will
prove to be the most valuable and most produc
tive mining property in the United States.
DIRECT IMPORTATIONS.
The Charleston Courier ol the 11th inst., says :
Consignees and importers interested in the cargo
of the (Jondar , from Liverpool, will lake notice
that discharging will begin this day.
In our issue of the sth instant we published the
list of consignees, to which we refer, as another
instance of the good faith and earnest determina
tion with which our leading merchants, in all
lines, have fulfilled the pledges they have made.
The stock now in Charleston is ample, fresh and
well selected, in many cases by experienced buy
ers, and by the personal attention of some of the
importers. Our friends in the interior cannot do
better titan giro Charleston a trial, and those who
still hesitate about coming in person—not w ith
standing the very favorable health report which
appears elsewhere officially authenticated—can
give orders with all confidence in finding good
terms and fair execution.
A MEMBER OF NO PARTY.
Leading Breckinridge meu in Savannah have so
licited F. S. Bartow, Esq., to give his views upon
the politics of the times. He has consented to do
so, but says he belongs to no party. We see he
is claimed by the Breckinridge men. Perhaps Mr.
B. looks upon the two wings of democracy as mere
factions. He is a very intelligent and worthy gen
tleman, but ,his opinions are not worth more now
than they were when an ardent supporter of Mr.
Filliuore—the sum# is true of other gentleman
over whose accession democracy is dangerously
jubilant. We are happy to know that the time
has come when the people are disposed In act upon
their own judgment, and will not follow blindly
the political meteors that shine fitfully for a mo
ment and then pass away. Th#j may well doubt
the wisdom, patriotism or sanity of any old con
servative whig who would prefer, in this crisis,
Breckinridge to Bell.
TERRIBLE STEAMBOAT CALAMITY.
On the Bth inst., the steamer Lady Elgin, was
run into by a schooner not far from Chicago.—
The Rieamer was supposed to have had ::85 passen
gers. Only I*o have been saved as far as known.
One bundled were drowned by the breakers in tbe
vain effort to reach the shore. Only twenty-one
bodies have thus far beeh recovered, and they
were mostly residents of Miiwaukie. The steam
er sunk iu twenty minutes after the collision.—
There were several military companies on board.
Among them were tbe Black Yagers, the Green
Yagers, and a rifle company. Also, several fire
companies of Miiwaukie, who bad been on a visit
liere and were returning.
Speaking on Tueedajr.
According to previous announcement Hon. T.
Hardeman made a telling and effective speech in
tiiis city, on Tuesday last, saya the Gridiu Union,
to a very respectable audience. He reviewed the
present position of parties, and proved, to the
satisfaction of every candid and honest man, that
a large majority of the Breckinridge and Lane
party are diaunionint*, intending nothing but
ntsrxios, and that John Bell is the only man, in
the field, who can save the Union, tiiere being not
the tUtfkit it — noleteu a hope—tor Breckinridge or
Douglas. He completely and easily refuted the
silly and unmanly charges made against John Bel!
by tire Brcckinridgers.
INJUDICIOUS.
We learn from the Telegraph, that Dr. M. S.
Thompson was nominated as candidate for Mayor
on Saturday night last. We regret that our
Breckiuridge friends should hare deemed it neces
sary, at this time, with dram and tile, to get up a
party contest upon a mere municipal election.—
They inay be very strong in this city and desire to
show them strength for the encouragement of
Breckinridge men in other parts of the State and
country—as Macon is considered one of the strong
holds of the seceders—hut we shall not be surpris
ed if they have counted without their hosts. We
hope every national union man will do his duty.—
The gauntlet, has been thrown down, it wtil he
gallantly taken up ; and we shall see whether Ma
con is for the Constitution and the Union, and
whether it was judicious to force upon us this test
at this particular juncture.
WHY DON'T YOU
Denounce Douglas ? Is a question often asked
os. For the simple reason that he and his friends
treat our party and candidates, with few excep
tions, w ith respect. There is still another reason
which might be adduced. The seceders have been
so very intimately associated with the “ little giant’’
for so many years, and have said so much in his
praise that it might be deemed presumptuous in us
to question such high democratic authority. We
are not aware that he is better or worse than he
was in 185fi, when he gat the Georgia vote in the
democratic national nominating Convention. —
We had just as litile u-e for him then as we have
now. No more, no les-t. He is a democratic pet‘
let them take caro of him.
Mr. Mili son. —Hon. John S. Millson, of the
Norfolk District in Virginia, has recently been
making Douglas speeches. Mr. Millson is person
ally one of the moat worthy of the Representatives
in Congress, and has always been regarded as a
firm supporter of the Administration of Mr. Buc
hanan. He has doubtless become disgusted by
the revelations of the Covode Committee last Win
ter, and also with the disunion threats of the sup
porters of Breckinridge. Being n true Union man,
and clinging to the Democratic party, Mr. Millson
could not do otherwise than support Douglas.—
The Administration is said to be exceedingly as
toaished at Mr. Million's unexpected course.
Let every VI an do ills Duty,
We would earnestly appeal to our friends every,
where, says the Richmond Whig, to be up ami
doing now, while it is day, for the night, speedily
cotuelb—the night perhaps of civil war, and bloody
revolution. Go into every nook and corner, and
serve vour country while yon can, in order that
you may still have a conn fry, to serve hereafter.—
Let every Bell man feel it to be hi* duty to make
one vote for our common country, and never feel
satisfied till he lias accomplished it. Barbecues,
speeches, and mass meetings, all Jo good, but at
last it rests upon individual exertion to secure
votes. Give the people light—reveal the plottings
of those who would unnecssarily plunge us into ills we
know not of, and let n* make one mighty, univer
sal effort to dethrone party, and set up patriotism
in its stead !
The Catastrophe on Lake Michigan.
It is not yet positively known how many persons
were on board of the Steamer Lady Fdgiu , which
was sunk in Lake Michigan by coming into colli
sion with a coasting schooner. The estimate is as
follows : The excursion party, of whom some 250
belonged to Milwaukee, consisted of 800 persons :
regular prsseugers, 50; officers and erew, 35;
making a total of 385. Os this number, as we
learn by the latest accounts, ninety-eight have
been saved—making the total loss of life by this
calamity 287. Captain Wilson, in command of the
steamer, was drowned within one hundred feet of
the shore; and many others, it is stated, were
swept by the billows and lost after they had got
within fifty yards of the shore. There appears to
be no reason to doubt that Mr. F. A. Lutusden,
for many years past one of the editors of the New
Orleans Picayune, is among the lost. He and his
wife, with their two children and servant, were
passengers on board, and all perished together.
U. S. Marshal Burns, of Milwaukee, is also among
the lost, and Mr. Ingraham, of the Loudon Daily
News.
Mr. Benan, second mate of the steamer, says :
“ At half-past two o'clock a squall struck us; five
minutes more saw the lights of the vessel one point
off port-bow. I sung out hard a port; the vessel
seemed to pay no addition, and struck us just
forward of the piuldlo-liox, larboard side, tearing
off the wheel, and culling through the guards in
the cabin and hull. We were steering northwest
by west, a point to windward. Our course at that
time was northwest. Alter striking us the vessel
hung for a|momeni, and then got clear. I went
below to see what damage was done, arid when I
got back the vessel was gone.”
Avery large proportion of those who were lost
were excursionists from Milwaukee. It may well
be conceived, therefore, that the intelligence of
the calamity excited the greatest anguish and
sympathy throughout that city. It is stated that
in one of the wards fhere is scarcely a home or
place of business which has not lost an inmate or
employee. The whole city was in morning and
business suspended.
Taken altogether this calamity, resulting doubt
leas from gross and unpardonable carelessness, is
the most startling and terrific that has yet marked
the annals of ste.amUiat disasters in our waters.
no i. .John S. Millson, in a letter assigning
his reasons tor supporting Mr. Douglas, says: “ Mr.
Breckinridge was set up to be beaten, not to be
elected, and to make sure also of the defeat of any
Democratic competitor.” Most |wrtics strive for
success, but, according to Mr. Mill.son, I.lm* Democ
racy of the present day are contending for defeat,
and, in their anxiety to compass this end, have so
contrived matters as to make‘‘assurance double
sure.”
Hon..li.hua Hill.
This gentleman is doing noble and manly service
for- Bell and Everett, lie made u speech in Au
gusta on Tuesday night, to wh'ch the Dispatch, a
Breckinridge paper, refers as follows:
Speech of the lion. .Joshua Hill.—We had the
pleasure of listening to the speech of the Hon.
Joshua Ilill last night, and must sav that during
the present campaign we have not heard one that
has been so distinguished by fair aud candid treat
ment of political opponent; or freer from the
usual wholesale denunciations and clap-trap argu
ments of stump speakers? so calmly dispassionate,
and at the same time so likely to convince and con*
vert those of opinions different from the speaker.
Many politicians are apt to forget the gentleman
in the orator, and use language towards their op
ponents that would be thought intolerable any
where but on the stump; but Col. Hill is not one
ol those—every word is characterized by a certain
high-bred courtesy, and dictated by a sound judg
ment and a generous heart. Much of the vindic
tiveness of politics, and many of the asperities of
a canvass would be avoided if all public men would
take Col. Hill's manner and language as models iu
political discussions. Men may differ as to the
merits of the cause he advocates, but no man,
however wroog he may think his opinions, can re
gard him except as a magnanimous and chivalrous
antagonist.
yr Ex-Governor Wise, of Virginia, in reply
ing, under date of the s*h instant, to a letter
from Texas, says :
“ There is not ooe word of truth in the report
that the Hon. John C. Breckinridge petitioned for
the reprieve or respite of John Brown whilst un
der sentence of death or before. I have bo doubt
he fully concurred with mein the justice of letting
the iaw take its course. Fight all invaders of your
State, aud hang all you can catch. It i time that
the slave States were ready for the revolution
which is coming iuetitaUv, with the purpose to
take from them not only their personal property
in negro slaves, hut. their political property in this
glad and glorious Union. Let neither class of rights
be invaded ; fightOrtf, and don’t let the invaders
seize the power to disarm you.”
THE SPEAKING ON THE FOURTH.
The speech delivered by J. R. Alexander, E?q.,
at the Courthouse on the 4th inst., was one of the
fairest, strongest and best Breeches we have heard
during the campaign. There was much an/.iety to
hear him make a political speech, and the ability
with which he handles his subjects before juries
had raised public expectation to the highest pitch.
They were not disappointed. His defense of Bell
and Everett was able, ffill and complete. Every
objection wat answered. The array of facts he had
collected were compactly and systematically ar
ranged into one incessantly exploding battery,
completely vanquishing the enemy as often as he
appeared. His audience was, perhaps, the largest
that has yet assembled in our Courthouse, and if
we are to judge by appearances, and by what men
say, it was the best pleased audience we have seen
during the campaign. One old gentleman, who
sat by ns, said It was a “ Ben. Hill speech,” and
many others coincided with him. Pome said we
had a “revival”—and one gentleman, (not the first
named,) said “ all be lacked of shouting was for
somebody to begin. Alt were pleased beyond even
expectation, and this oue speech has done more to
raise the speaker into favor with the people of this
section than all the jury speeches he ever made.
Even his political opponents were pleased with
him and had not a word of censure. —Thcmasvillt
Enterprise.
We have beau surprised that our friends in the
First District have not sooner waked up Col. Alex
ander. We have known him intimately for years,
and a truer or safer man—a more consistent or
reliable friend of the South and the Union cannot
be found in our State. Divested of all bitterness,
clap-trap and slang, which enter so largely into
the politics of the day. Mr. A. appeals to the judg
ment of his hearers, and if be fails to convince he
never offends. We hope he will canvass the First
District. We should be glad to see him in our
city.
MASS MEETINGS-
A National Mass Meeting of the friends of
Bell and Everktt will convene at Memphis on
Monday, the Bth of October next, and continue
during the week. Every State in the Union, ex
cept California, is expected to send delegates.—
Ample .preparation will be made for all.
A mass meeting will also be held at Knoxville,
Tenn., on the 27th inst., to which Messrs. Critten
den, of Kentucky, Goggin of Virginia, Hill of
Georgia, and other distinguished speakers are in
vited and expected.
Z3§“ Mr. W. McKinley, Chairman of the State
F.xecutive Democratic Committee, has addressed
a letter to the Chairman of the Douglas Committee
in Bibb county, soliciting a discussion with Mr.
Douglas, when the latter visits Georgit, which, it is
supposed, will be in a short time.
We learn that Macon will probably be selected
as the battle-ground.
Arkansas. —We learn from the Camden (Ark.)
Herald, that great excitement prevails in that
iieightiorhond, in consequences of the discovery ol
abolition designs upon the people of that State.—
Letters had been intercepted from which it was
evident that the State was infested by abolitionists,
who were endeavoring to excite the slaves to deeds
of rebellion and blood, and seenes siimlar to those
enacted in Texas were feared. The citizens are
thoroughly aroused, and will use every exertion to
route the vile incendiaries from the country.
No Fusion in Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphia Press of the 7th inst. announ
ces the completion of the Douglas electoral ticket
in Pennsylvania. It says : “We are enabled to
aunounce to-day that the Douglas State Executive
Committee of Pennsylvania have completed their
electoral ticket. A telegram from Harrisburg says
that the names of pure Douglas Electors from the
Congressional Districts have now been all returned
by the District Committee to Gen. A. L. Roam fort,
chairman of the Democratic State Executive Com
mittee. The names will be published forthwith.”
The Breckinridge party had previously named
their electors ; so the split is “ irrepressible.”
This gives Pennsylvania to Lincoln.
Texas in ttie Field.
We are in receipt of most encouraging news
from Texas, says the N. O. True Delta. The
Nullifiers are not to be allowed to take that noble
State to the camp of disunion, and that they may
not do so a ticket for Presidential electors, com
posed of two Democrats and two Bell and Everett
supporters, has been put in nomination. On the
part of the friends of Bell and Everett, the Hon,
B. n. Epperson, as elector for the State at large,
and the Hon. Win. Stedman, as elector for the
Eastern District have been proposed ; and, on the
Democratic side, Messrs. G. W. Paschal and John
H. Robson have been solicited to allow themselves
to be nominated, and have cheerfully assented.
Contemplated Railroad. —The Sandersville
Georgian is ** reliably informed that Mr. R. R.
Cnyler, the energetic President of the Central
Railroad, contemplates building a road front some
eligible point on the Central road through Sparta
to Union Point on the Georgia road.”
p3l~ The Washington correspondent of the Mis
souri Republican tells us what are John Tyler’s
wishes and opinions as to the Presidential election.
The ex-President is a Breckinridge man, but he
fears that Breckinridge will get no State except
South Carolina. He would like to have Breekin
ridge get Virginia ; he would be w illing to see
Douglas get it to defeat Lincoln, but he ia of opin
ion that Bell will get it.
Annual Cotton Statement.
New To A, Sept. 15.—The New York Shippiug
List reports that the last cotton crop readied
4,574,400 hales. Exports of the year, 3,764,170
bales. Stock on hand at all ports, on September
Ist, was 231,710 bales.
Changed Its Tunk.—Not many days ago the
New York Tribune gave the particulars of the
fusion between the Douglas and the Breckinridge
Democracy in that State, announcing it as a fact
already accomplished. Now it says they have not
fused, cannot fuse, and do not mean to fuse ; aud
it taunts them with the failure, and boasts over
the improved prospects of Lincoln.
Mr. Yancey is announced to arrive at An*
napolis on the 20th instant. He will probably
visit Washington on the 2<>tb, where he will be re
ceived by a committee appointed by the Breckin
ridge City Association. After leaving Washing
ton he will visit New York and Philadelphia.
There seems to be no longer a doubt that Win.
Hope Hull, Esq., of Athens, the law partner of
lion. Howell Cobb, is a Bell man. A recent letter
from Athens, written by a Breckinridge man to a
Breckinridge organ, the Augusta JJDftuUh, says
Mr. Hull will perhaps not vote at all, but if he
does, be will vote for Bell. Mr. Hull, we believe,
has always been a Democrat.
DxtTu oe Rev. I)r. McEwkn. —The Rev. Abel
McEweD, D. D., died at his residence in New Lon
don, Coon., on Friday morning last, at the ad
vanced age of HO years. He had been the pastor
of the First Congregational Chnrcb of that city
for more than half a century, but during the lost
few years had been awaited by a colleague. The
New London Star aays that he was a classmate at
Yale College of John C. Calhoun, and his success
ful competitor for the Valedictory.”
ITon. Wm. L. Yasckt North. —The Montgomery
.1 /ail of Saturday, says :
“ Hon. W. L. Yancey leaves to-night for the
North. He will go the Georgia, Tennessee and
Virginia route to Richmond; and will speak at
Kingston, Ga., and Abingdon, Va., on the wuy.T-
He will stop a day or two at Annapolis, Md., and
theneo, perhapa, go to New York.
In the first speech which Mr. Y. will deliver at
the North, we predict that he will astonish several
of the natives, with the strength of his historical
arguments. He has recently been engaged in re
searches which yielded richly.”
GREAT GATHERING.
The Barbecue in Jones’s Wood, New York, got
up on Wednesday last by the friends of Messrs.
Douglas and Johnson, drew together an immense
concourse of people, not less probably than from
thirty to forty thousand. There were four or fi Ve
stands on the ground for the accommodation of the
speakers. Mr. Douglas and Mr. Johnson were both
determined to stand by the Union, the Constitution
the enforcement of the Law s, and Non-intervention’
Mr. Dougins said, in the course of Ids remarli
that he was in favor of a cordial union with every
i Union man ; every man who was true to the Cos i
stitmion ; every man who was in favor of cnforc-ini;
the laws in nil contingencies. If Mr. Breckinridge
was In favor of enforcing the laws against seces
sionists, Jdi>uuionists and abolitionists, in all 00 ,
tingenciee, then lie (Mr. D.) was with him’ j> “
lieving that the Union w.s in (Dinger, the speaker
would make any personal sacrifices to save it. I.
the withdrawal of his name a wonld defeat Mr Liu
coin he would at this moment withdraw it n,m .
especially if Lis withdrawal would iu-ure the elec
tiou of some man who was true to the Constitution
and the Union and would enforce the law* u
believed that the only organization that can save
tl*e country is the Democratic organisation He
was in favor of maintaining that organization H e
proceeded to eulogize its history.’ He appealed
to the l mou-lovtug men in favor of the enforce
ment of the laws, in every contingency, to rally
with one common elettonal ticket and beat the
Abolitionists, but he conjured Lis hearers to make
no fusion, no bargain, no compromise with t h e
friends of any candidate who will not pledge him
self to sustain the Constitution and the Union, and
to enforce the laws under all circumstances.
Ex-Governor Morehead, of North Carolina, and
others, also addressed the meeting.
‘‘THE SOUTH ALONE SHOULD GOVERN THE
SOUTH,” Ac.
We are indebted to the author for a copy of this
pamphlet, the greater part of which is a speech
delivered in St. John’s Colleton, by Hon. John
Townsend. It is an argument for the secession
of the South and the formation of anew govern
ment for herself, when Lincoln is elected. So
soon as the election is know n, the author is in
favor of aJConvention of the States, and an election
of a Southern President and Congress; and his
argument Is, that we must take that or be driven
to a worse alternative. He maintains that the
North has become essentially a hostile section—is
bent on abolitionizing the South, and whether she
can accomplish it or not, so sensitive an institution
as African slavery cannot lie safely entrusted in
any of its interests, to nalrion.llv hands.
STRANGE INFATUATION.
Our able and esteemed friend, Dr. 11. V. M.
Miller, we are sorry to see, has taken the stump
for the fizzle candidates. The reason he assigns for
it we learn, is, that the secession democracy have
“ for once told the truth.” llow much more con
sistent and sale would it have been for the Doctor
to have remained in a party that never told a
falsehood. There is .one consolation for our old
and gifted co-laborer ; the party he has espoused
will fizzle out before he becomes democratised,
aud he may escape with a slight singeing among the
fire-eaters, like Sampson’s foxes.
Green Corn is abundant in our market, and
our citizens enjoy that luxury daily. Can any
other Southern market furnish roasting ears at
this season ?—>SViw Antonia Herald of the l.s’t.
We hare gathered them from our garden within
the last few days, and also see them in our mar
ket.—Mess.
San Antonio Female College.
We learn with pleasure, says the San Antonio
Herald, that the Trustees of this School have pre
vailed upon Dr. Boring and his lady to take charge
ol this institution, and that the exercises thereof
will be resumed on Monday morning next. Those
having this school iu charge are determined that
it shall be sustained, and we know that they have
the means of doing it.
The Dr. and his lady will hare ample assistance
in conducting the School, and we can confidently
recommend it as an institution worthy of patro
nage.
Tltoae Prophets of Old.
How rich the following paragraph appears, which
was originally printed in the English Quarterly Re
view, in March, 1825 :
W e are not advocates for visionary projects
that interfere with useful establishments. We
scout the idea of a rail road as impracticable * *
* What can be more palpably absurd and
ridiculous than the prospect held of locomotives
traveling twice as fast as stage coaches? We
should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to
suffer themselves to be fired off upon oue of Con
grieve’s richochet rockets, as to put themselves at
the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate.
Tench the Women to Save.
There's the secret. A saving w omen at the head
of a family is the best saving bank yet established
—one that receives deposits daily and hourly,
no costly machinery to manage it. The idea of
saving is a pleasant one, and if “the Women”
would imbibe it at once, they would cultivate and
adhere to it aud thus, not aware of it, would be
laying the foundation for a competent security in
a stormy time, and a shelter iu a rainy day. The
woman who sees to her own house has a large
livid to save in, and the best way to make her
comprehend it is (or her to keep an account of cur
rent expenses. Probably not one wifeintenhas
an idea how much are the expenditures of herself
or family. Where from one to two thousand dol
lars are expended annually, there is a chance to
save something, if the attempt is only made. Let
the house-wife take the idea—act upon it—and
strive over it—aud she will save many dollars—par
haps hundreds—where before she thought it im
possible. This is a duty—not a prompting of av
arice—a moral obligation that rests upon “ the
womeu” as weH as the men, but it is a duty, we
are sorry to say, that it is cultivated very little, even
among those who preach the most, and regard
themselves as examples in most matters. Teach
the women to save, is & good enough maxim to be
inserted iu the next edition of “Poor Richard’s
Almanac.”
Neither Lane, Toombs, nor Iverson, in favor
of Protection. —When slavery had been abolish
ed iu Kansas by a territorial legislature, Senator
Brown of Mississippi, introduced a bill having this
resolution :
“ That experience having already shown that
the Constitution and the common law, unaided by
statutory provision, do not afford adequate anil
sufficient protection to slave property, some of the
Teriitories having failed, and others having re
fused, to pass such enactments, it lias become the
duty of Congress to interpose and pass such laws
as will afford to slave property in the Territories
that protection which is given to other kinds of
property.”
Ppon taking the vote, Joseph Lane, Robert
Toombs and Alfred Iverson, voted against this re
solution.’
Fmm tke Meiephie (Term.) Bulletin.
W hat Revoutton womn AcqpMTusn.—The
New Orleans Commercial Bulletin says in reference
to the effects likely to be produced by a revolution
in this country :
“ A revolution would not,onlyJcausc our ships to
rot at the levee and bankruptcy and ruin to follow
iu the train of disasters, but the real estate of New
Orleans would not be worth twenty-five cents on
the dollar to what it now is. Cotton would go
down to such a figure that it would not pay to cul
tivate it, and the pall of general stagnation, the
wings of a dreary desolation would rest upon the
land torn by internal dissensions, and drenched in
civil and fraternal blood. Mexico is but a faint
picture of what our condition would be upon a gi
gantic scale.”
Louisiana and New Orleans would not be the only
sufferers. Tennessee would share largely in the
disaster. Cutoff from the sea, hemmed in at every
point of the compass by firebrand, sword and far
iim| furious strife, what would she do? Where
would she find a market for her rich products ?
But thanks to a patriotic people, they are resolved
against permitting the occurrence of contigencies
upon which the bloody and ruinous drama of civil
war might turn. So far as her own people are con
cerned, she is safe. If the fires of civil strife shall
reach her borders, they must be communicated
from conflagrations without. So far as she ia con
cerned, no effort will be spared to defeat all the
disorgauizers, North and South.
The Rev. H. C. Hornadv, late of Araeri
cus, has removed to Atlanta, and become associate
editor of the Banner d.’ Baptist, which by-the-bj4
is quite a handsome paper.