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Volume XIII.
Til K TIMES & SENTINEL,
TENNENT LOMAX & RO3 WELL ELLIS,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
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TERMS:
TRI-WEEKLY, Five Dollars per annum, iu advance.
WEEKLY, Two Dollar* per annum, in advance:
Iy* Advertlsomcnts conspicuously inserted at Ok* Dollar*
per square, for the first insertion, and wty cents for v\ cry *ub
•oquent insertion.
Liberal deduction will bo made for yearly advertisement*.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors, or
fiuardians, are required bylaw to be L<li on the first Tuesday
in the month, between tho hours of ten in the forenoon aud
three in the afternoon, at the Court Hon-a in the county in which
tho property U situate. Notices of the-© *ale mud be given in
a public gazette forty day.? previous to the day of sale.
A'otices for th* sale of Personal Property must be given at
least ten days previous to tho day of sale*
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of sn Estate must bo publish
ed forty days.
Notice that application will be made to tho Court of Ordinary
for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must he published weekly for
tico m^nfh*.
Citations for letters of Administration must be published
thirty days— for Dismission from Administration, monthly six
month# —for Dismission from Guardianship forty days.
Rules for Foreclosure of Mortgage* must be published monthly
for four month*— for establishing lost papers, for the. full spare
of thru month*— for compelling titles from Executors or Admin
istrators, where a bond has been given by tho deceased, the full
spate of three months.
Publications will always be continued according to these, the
legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
LEG AL NOTICES
GEORGIA, Muscogee County-—Will be sold on
the first Tuesday iu September next, at tho Market House
In the City of Columbus, the following property, viz:
Cltv lot No. 1145, fronting on Troup street, formerly occupied
by ran. B. Robinson as n residence, levied on ns th© property
of said Robinson, to sat isfy u 11. fa. Irom -Vuscogeo .Superior
Court, iu favor of Valencourt H.Cady against Wra. 8., Bird V.
and Nathaniel Me, Robinson and Seaborn Jones, owners of tin
steamer Osceola.
One acre of land, more or less, in the northwest corner of lot
No. 184, in the Sixth District of Muscogee, levied on ns tho
property of John D. Landon. to satisfy a fi. fa. from the Magis
trate’s Court, in fnvur of rwilly At Davis. Levy made and re
turned to me by tho constable.
Also, the west half of lot of land No. P 2, in the Seventh Dis
trict of Muscogee, containing 101 >4 acres, more or less, levied on
ns the property of William and Augustus Moss, to satisfy two
U. fa/s from tho Magistrate’s Court, in favor of George F. Faison,
against said William and Augustus Moss. Levy made ami re
turned to me bv the constable.
Also, city lot So. 48k in the city of Columbus, containing n y
acre, more or less, levied on as the property of John Yanzant,
to satisfy a fl. fa. from the Magistrate’s Court, in favor of James
Lloyd, against John Yanzant &. Moss* Garrett, partners, ami
John Yanzant Individually. Levy made and returned to ine by
the constable.
Aug. 3, ids A. Si RUTHERFORD. Sheriff.
Randolph Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday In September next, before !
the Court House door, in the town of t uthbert, Randolph
county, within the usual hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
Lot of land No. 14S in the Sixth District of said county, levied
on as the property of Arthur .Vanning, to satisfy two rt. fas. is
sued from Stewart sounty, one In favor of duelling & Leary, and
one in favor of Benjamin B. Dikes, against Arthur Manning, is
sued from tho Inferior and Superior Court.
Two negroes, to-wlt, Matilda, a mulatto v Irl nbo it 20 years of
age, and Jack, n boy about 20 years of age, levied on as the prop
erty of Lemmon Dunn, to satisfy three fl. Ins, issued from the Su
perior Court of said County, one in favor of Archibald Bonnell,
one James Sc Hamilton, Bright, survivor fcc. Tnlmon vs. Dunn
and sundry other*, issued out of :i Justice’s Court of said county,
James Suggs vs. L. Dunn, levied by a bailiff on the same and ;
ret urned.
Lot of land No. 3, in tho Fourth District of said county, levied
on as tho property of William Matlock, to satisfy two li. fas. is
sued out of a Justice’s Court, in favor of If. Brake vs. William
Matlock. Levy made and returned to me by a constable.
Lot of laud JW>. 252, in the Fourth District of said county,
levied on as tho property of Daniel M. Suggs, to satisfy sundry fi.
las. issued out or a .luslice’s Court of said county, in favor of
Wra. It. Beal vs. D. -I/. Sugg*. Levy made and returned to me
by a constable.
Lot of land No. 222, in the Fifth District of said county, levied
on as the property of Louis Sanderlin, to satisfy two fi. fas. is
sued out of a Justice’s Court of said county, infavoi of Nathan li.
Christeo vs. Lewis .Sanderlin. Levy made and returned to me
by a constable.
The following lots of land: No. 49, and north half of lo! No. 48,
in Lho Eleventh District, and No. 35, and the north halt of No.
33, in the Tenth District, all of said county, levied on as tho prop
erty of William Matlock, to satisfy sundry fi. fa*. is*mod from Su
perior and Inferior Court of said county, in favor of Alexander .
Face vs. Wm. Matlock and John T. McLendon and others, and
sundry others from a Justice’s Court. _ i
One negro woman by the nemo of Kinsey, about 38 years of
ago, levied on as the property of Samuel Rigsby, to satisfy 11. fas.
issued out of a J ustice’s Court of said county, iu favor of Hendrick
so. Hungerford and others vs. Samuel Rigsoy. Levy made and
returned to mo by a constable.
WASHINGTON JO ICE, Sheriff,
Aug. 3, tds by RICH’D DAVIS, Dep’v Sheriff.
Early Sheriff Sales.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in September next, be
tween the lawful hours of sale, before the court house
door in Blakely, Early county, Ga., the following property, to -wlt:
Lot. of land No. (400) four hundred, in the 2olh District of
said county, to satisfy a mortgage fl. fa. issued out of the Superior
Court of Earlv Countv, in favor of Reuben .Simmons vs. John C.
Silvey. [Aug. 3, ids] JOHN BIR.VONS, Dcp’y Sheriff.
Early Sheriffs Bale.
•yiTILL be sold on the first Tuesday ui August next, in l<!ake-
VV ley. Early county, before the court house door within the
lawful hours, the following property, to wit:
Lot of Land number (257) two hundred and fifty-seven, in the
13tb district of said county, levied on as the property of William
A. Beck, surviving copartner of A. H. C irnngton &. Cos., tv sat
isfy afi fa in favor of Baker Johnson Sz Cos., property pointed out
by Plaintiff.
June2s—wtd _ _ JOHN WEST,
GEORGIA, ) Court ok Ordinary,
Nuscogfr county, \ April Term, 1833.
RULE XI SI.
WHEREAS, Wm.N. Nelson, administrator do bonis non on
the estate of John Liggin, deceased, having applied for
lettoraof dismission from said administration: It Is ordered that
all persons concerned shew cause, If any they have, wir. said
administrator should not be dismissed at the Court of Ordinary to
bo held in and for aaidcouuty on the first Monday in November
next.
A true transcript from the minutes of said court, April 4, 1353*
Col ambus, April 12—wCm JNO. JOHNSON, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, } Court of Ordinary,
Talbot county, \ February Teim, 1853.
RULE XI SI.
IIJ’HEREAS, William F. Robertson applies by petition for
YY letters of dismission as the administrator of Barney Wilson,
late of Talbot county, deceased.
Be it ordered. That all persons concerned, be and appear at
the September term of this court next entmiug, then and there
to shew cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be
g raided.
A true extract from the minutes of said court, 24th Feb., 1553.
March I—9w6m _ MARION BETHTNE, Ordinary. _
GEORGIA, ) Court of Ordinary,
Muscogee county, \ April Term, 1853.
RULE XI Sf.
WHEREAS, VY’m. N. Nelson, administrator on the estate of
Augustus Peabody, deceased, having applied for letters of
dismission from said administration : It is omered that all per
sons concerned, shew cause,if auy they have, why said ndmin
istrator should no! be dismissed at tho Court of Ordinary to be
held in and for said county on tho first Monday in November
A true transcript from the minutes of said court, April 4,1653.
April 12—W6ra JNO. J OiINSON, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, ) COURT OF ORDINARY,
Ste wart count j*. \ April Term, 1853.
UPON the petition of William 11. House, Executor of the hist
Will and Testament of Thomas House, deceased, for letters
of dismission from his said executorship:
It is on motion, ordered by the court that all persons concern
ed, show cause, on or before the next terra of -aid court, why
said -letters should not then be granted.
A true extract from the minutes of said court, April 12,1853.
April 19 —w6m J. L. WIMBERLY, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, { COURT OF ORD.NARY,
Stewart county, s November Term, 1853.
UPON the petition of William 11. House, Executor ot tho last
Will and Testament of Thomas House, deceased, tor letters
of dismission from his said executorship.
It is on motion, ordored by the court that all persona concern
ed, shew cause, on or before tho next November term of said
court, why said letters should not then be granted.
A true extract from the minutes of said court, April 12,1803.
April ly-wfim J. L. WIMBERLY, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, l COURT OF ORDIXARY9
Randolph county, s June Term, 1853.
PHILIP CAUSEY, administrator on the estate of David llar
vell, late of said county, deceased, having petitioned this
court for letters of dismission.
It is ordered that all and singular the parties interested, show
cause, if any they have, on or before the next January Term of
this court, why the petition of said administrator should not he
granted, otherwise he will be thou and there dismissed.
Given under my hand at office the 25th June, 1853.
July s—wtkn o. p. BE ALL, Ordinary.
Georgia, Randolph county^—Whereas, Peter
Btewju-t apphe*:° me tor letters of admin isti Alton on the
estate of Daniel B. Norton, late of said county, deceased,
to cite and odnionish all and singular the
of said deceased to be and appear at my
f,re * crtbed fe y ,aw ai d shew cause, if any
they hav , why wild letters should not be granted.
dyorJu£r.
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A*. W ‘ UUM •
GEORGIA, ) COURT OP ORDINARY OF SAID COt’N”
R andolph c ounty, * Tv , April Term, 1853.
TAMES V\ .COLLINS, administrator of VV .Collins, late of said
county, deceased, petitions this court to grant him letter* of
dismission front his said administration, and it appearing that
iid estate has been fully administered: Ordered that all parsons
file their object ion-, if any they have, on or before the November
Term of this court next ensuing, otherwise said administrator
tvill be then and tin re dismissed.
! April 12—wfim O. P. BEALL Ordinary.
GEORGIA, ) COURT OF ORDINARY,
; Randolph county, j June Tern, 1853.
I1)HILIP CAT SEV. Administrator on the estate of David Har
-1 veil, late of sld county, deceas'd, having petitioned this
court for letters of dismission. It is ordered that all persons con
cerned, file their objections, (if any they have,) on or before the
January term of this court next ensuing, otherwise said Admis
- trator will be then and there dismissed. Given under my hand
1 at office the 10th day of June J 853.
June 21—w Om. O. p. BEALL, Odinary.
j Randolph county.-Wheicas, Sftmuel.A.
; VJ Grier, administrator do bonis aon on ‘he estate of John H.
■ Weaver, late of said county, deceased, has petitioned for letters
| of dismission from said administration.
These arc, therefore, to rite,admonish ur<ti require all persons
concern** to file their objections, if any they have, on or before
the September I'-rin of i!c Court of Ordinary •< said county, to
be hoMen on toe first Monday of September next, otherwise said
aduiinirtr-U. r r* :ilbe tlienand there disnr.->-ed.
Given under lay hand at office this 221 day of February,
_March 2—bwCin O. P. BFALL, Ordinary.
p EORfilA, Rnintolph connty.—Court o Op.-
dxkart,—VVUorojis, by the petition oi VViiham Have* l , ad
ministrator on the rotate of Enoch Rigsby, deceased, and the
estate of Kinehon Fairclolh, deceased, it appetiring to this court
that he has fully administered boi hos said estates, and dim tho
court to grant him letters of dismission: All persons concerned in
eithercfbaid ehtator,arc hereby notified to make known their
objections, if juiy they ’ huv*% on or btdore tho October term of
this court next ensuing, otherwise said administrator will then
j and there bo dismissed. Given under my hand at office the 29th
I march 1353. O. P. BEALL, Ordinary,
j April 5-wfltn
I peergln, Randolph county—Whereas, Jas. Ruth
’ vT erford, Guardian of Benjamin and Absalom Hutley, applies
j to me for dismission from his said Guardianship. All persons
! interested are, therefore, hereby required to file their objections,
i if any they have, on or before tho May term of this court next
ensuing, otherwise said applicant will be then and tnere disrms
-1 ed. Given under my baud dt office the 17th March, 1853.
| March22—wGm O.P. BEALL, Ordinary.
pevrgia, Randolph county Whereas, John Gil
! vJ bc*rt Guardiauof Head icy E. Hill, minor and orphan ol
William K. Hill, deceased, applies to me for dismission from
j said Guardianship. All persons interested are therefore hereby
j required to file their objections, Ifany the} have, on or before the
J May Term of this Court next ensuing, otherwise said applicant
will he then and there dismissed.
J Given under my hand at office, the 17th March, 1853.
March 22—w6m O. P. BEALL. Ordinary'.
COURT OF ORDfHAXtI > .
for Early comity. s Jl tv ThRW, 1803.
S. S. STAFFORD, Ordinary, Presiding:
IT appearing to the court by the Petition of Berrien Chambers,
that Nathaniel Bartlett, deceased, did In his life time execute
to “aid Berrien Chambers, his bond conditioned to execute titles
in fee simple to lot nt land number two hundred aud ninety-sev
en, In tho twenty-sixth district. of Early county, to said Berrien
Chambers ; and the said Nathaniel Bartlett having departed this
life without e xecuting titles to said lot of land, or providing in
( any way for the mm. Aud it further appearing that the said Ber
j rien Chambers has puid the full amount of the purchase price of
said lot. of land; and the said Berrien having petitioned this
! Court to direct and order Thomas B. Andrew-s, administrator of
| the estate of Nathaniel Bartlett, deceased, to execute to him ti-
I lies to said lot of land in conformity with said bond and the law : )
• It D, therefore, ordered by the court here, that notice be given
at three public places in said county, and in the Columbus Times
I and Sentinel, o; such application three months, that all persons
1 concerned may file their objections in the Clerk’s office, if any
( they have, why Thomas B. Andrews, administrator as aforesaid,
! should not execute titles to said lot of land to said Berrien
[ Chamber!, in conformity to said Bond tud the Statute In such
! case made and provided.
! A true extract from the minutes of said court. July 10th, 1853.
8. S. BT AFFORD,Ordinary E.c.
j July 2ft—w3rn
i’ rorgla, Early county.••Whereas,Joseph Grimsley,
vT administrator with Ihe Will annexed, upon the estate *>f
1 Harah Gritnsley, late of said county deceased, makes application
j to rae for letters of dismission from the further administration of
| said estate. All person•> concerned are hereby notified to be and
appear at my office, within tho time prescribed by law, and
shew cause, if any they have, why s<ud should not bo
g .-anted saii applicant.
Given under my hand at office, this February the 24th, 1&53.
March I—9w6m 8. 8. STAFFORD. Ordiuary. |
/ 1 eorgia, Rainlolph ccnnty— Whereas, Allen .lames
X.3T and Ninth Il.itta apply to me for letters of administration on
tho estate of Spyrus Butts, late of said couuty, docfvased.
Thus*- are, therefore, t) cite and admonish’all acd singular the
kindredand creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my
office, within the time prescribed by law . and show cause Is any
they have, why said letters should not. be granted.
Given under my hand at office, the 3rd dav'of.luly. 1853.
Jiil.s_wt-.t_ ‘ O. P. BEALt;Ordinary.
/ 1 iiaidlnn’s Sale—-{'nder an order of the Ordinary of
VT Muscogee rountv, will be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, alt he market houso in Columbus, in said county, h
negro child named Rosa, the property of Henry M. Jernigau,
(Idiot.) Terms rash. A. B. RAG AN, Guardian.
Columbus, July 12—wtds
( t eorgta, Talbot county.•• Office of Ordinary, 2tHh
I March, 1853.—Whereas, J. J. Jamison, Guardiauof Nathan
iel Wommock’s orphans, petitions for letters of Dismission from
said guatxlianshin:
Belt ordered, That all persons concerned, he and appear at.
the June Term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, next en
suing, then and there to shew cause, ilany they have, why said
letters should not be granted.
A true extract from the minutes of said c*urt, April 15th, 1853
April 2G—wttm MARION BETHUNE, Ordinary.
Vdminlstrator'H Sale—Will be sold in Cuthbort,
Randolph county on the fir*t Tuesday in October next, the
I settlement of lands on which Erasmus Gay, Eeq., resided ot the
I time of his death, to wit: lota numbers 140,141, ii'J, 148 aad l*^).
\ more or less of 147, all adjoining in the eighth district of said
county, on which are tolerably good log building, an excellent
j gin house and screw'. Three hundred acres of open land* princi
j pall vail fresh, well watered, and in short a very desirable place
| for a fann< . . Hold by order of the court of ordinary of said
j county. Terms, twelve mouths credit with small notes and se
cyritv.
Any person wishing to purchase such a place will do well to j
examine the above mentioned lands, as each lt will be rut up
separately. LEWIS GAY, AdtnV
July 5- -wtds
A dministrntorN Sale.—Land and Nfgrofs.
i\. Agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordinary f*r Early
county, will be sold before the court house and in Blakely, on
the first Tuesday in October next, fifteen hundred and fift acres
of fine cotton lands in two bodies, viz.: Lots numbers two hun
dred and eveutv-eight,three hundred and nine, three hundred
and nineteen in the fourth district of Farly, and numbers one
hundred and seventy, oue hundred and seventy-one, oik* hun
dred and fifty and lift} acres of another lot in thi* fifth district of
F.arly, near Fort Gaines.
These are valuable lands—persona wishing to see them Indore
sale, will please call on the undersigned at Fort Gaines.
Also, at the same time and place, icill be sold, the fol
lowing likely NEGROES , viz :
Bill, a boy about nineteen years of age.
Willis, a boy “ four * 4
Jennett, a girl w six 44 u
Seaborn, a boy 44 thirteen 44 44
Kinion, a man 44 fifty 41 44
J/arv, a woman 44 fifty 44 ’*
All sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of Robert
Thompson, deceased.
Titles good.—Terras en>*v. and made known on the day of
Hale, by JOHN THOMPSON, Adm'r.
With will annexed of Robert Thompson.
August 2—wtds
Administrator’* Sale—Agreeably to an order ofihe
Court of Ordinary of Early county, will be sold before the
court house door in Blakely, on the first Tuesday in October next,
lot ofland number two hundred and forty iu the fourth district 01
Early county, known as Mrs. Epsey Dyson's place. Sold for the
benefit of the heirs of said Epsey Dyson, deceased.
Terras on the day of sale. ABNER DYSON, Adm’r.
Aug 2—wtds.
John A. J. WeMUeruby ) Stewart SrPKr.ioß Court
v*. ‘ April Term, 1853.
Elizabeth Weatheriby. N Libel for Divorce,
IT appearing by the return of the Sheriff that the defendant is
not to be found in the County of Stewart, it is therefore or
dered by the Court that service of this libel be penected on the
said Elizabeth Weathersby. by publication of this order in the
Columbus Time.® and Sentinel once a month lor four months
next preceding the enpuingterm of this Court.
A true extract from the Jfmut sos this Court,
June 15 —lam4m I. M. COX. Clerk.
Su*an Grubbs ) Stewart Superior Court,
April Term, 1853.
.lotla It Grubb*. S Libel for Divorce.
If appearing by the return o the Sheriff that the defendant is
not to be found In this county, it is therefore ordered by the j
Court that service of this libel be perfected on the said Josiab
Urubbft,by publication o! this order in the Columbus Times and
Sentinel once a month lor four month? next preceding the ensu
ing term of this Court.
A true extract from the Minutes of Stewart Superior Court for
April Term, 1853. June 15—lam4m 1. M. COX, Clerk.
Caroline S. Catcnhead ) Stkwart Superior Court,
vi. April Term, 1853.
Thomas J. Catenbemd. S Libel for Divorce.
IT appearing by the return of the Sheriff that the defendant is
nor to bo found in Ihe county of Stewart, It Is therefore order
ed by the Court that service of this libel be perfected on the said
Thomas J. Catenhead by publication of this order in the Colum
bus Times and Sentinel, once a month for four months next pre
ceding the ensuing Term of this Court.
A truee-xtract lrom the Minutes of said Court.
June 15—iano4m I. M. COX, Clerk.
TWO months afterdate application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary of Muwogee countv, for leave to sell a city
lot with improvements, in the city of Columbus, in said county,
known os lot numbe r five hundred and twelve, containing one
half of an acre, belonging to the estate of James Baugh, late of
said county, deceased. WM. O. GRAY, Adm’r.
June 29—w2m
TWO months-after date, I will apply to the ordinary
of Randolph County for leave to sell the lands and negroes of
Francis C. Powell, deceased. SENEY J. POWELL, Adm’x.
July B— w2m
TWO months afterdate I shall make application to the
court of Ordinary of Early county for leuve to sell the lands
belonging to the estate of Joseph C. Gray, deceased.
July-
Two month, afterdatr, 1 phttll apply toth.
Court of Onlinarv of Randolph county for kuive to ee!l the
lend, belonging to Mery KnightoD, deceased.
May 31—w2m .TAB. I.ITTi. i-, Adra r.
TWO montfc. after date, 1 will apply to the court of O
dlnary of Randolph county for leave to sell the lands belong
log to I'rancee Whippic, a minor.
JulA-yrtm ROBERT L. MITCHELL, Guardian
TWO month*~after Ante, I will apply lothe ordiuary of
Randolph County for leave to wll the ‘and. of Archibald
Peter™, diwwd. 7 IOH.N PETERSON. Adm'r.
Jtjir P—wSia
U T H E UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 18S3.
TWO month* after date application will be made to
the Court of Ordinary of Muscogee county, for leave to sell
lot ofland number on.- frandred and thirty seven in the seventh
di.-trict of said county ; said tend belonging to the estate of David
Graham, late of said countv, deceased.
FF.RiBA L. GRAHAM, Adm’r.
TWO muni tig after date application will be made to the
JL Court of Ordinary of Talbot County lor leme to sell all
the Real Estate of Oliver H. P. Daniel late of said countv de
ceased. JOSEPH BROWN, Adni’r.
Juiy 19, 1853—w2m.
Political.
Spirit of the Northern Democracy*
The following .Resolutions of the Democratic
Republican Stale committee of New York will
show the spirit which exists among the Democrats
in that great State in rcfcrcnco to the Compromise
measures ns a final settlement of the slavery ques
tion. They are determined to show the South their
wiliinguess nod desire to stand by aud faithfully
execute tho contract entered into by demo
crats of ilie Union at the meeiiog at Baltimore—
lhal when they signed that agreement they inten
ded Jo keep it, and should this vexed and mo
mentous questi. n again be thiown into the political
arena, to accomplish the ends of sectional politi
cians, it, should be done by the South. The North
ern Democrats will adhere to the terms of settle
ment, and have thus far shown good faith. Can the
leaders of the Conservative Republican citizens
Legion party of Georgia, which is the Whig party,
show anything connected with this grave question
confirmatory ui the Compromise settlement, ema
nating from any of their friends at the North, by
whatever name they may choose to call themselves ?
Don’t all speak at once.— Ex.
Democratic State Committee.—At a meeting j
of the Democratic Republican State Committee,
held pursuant lo regular notice, at the Astor House,
in the city of New Vo k, on Friday, the 15th day
of July, at four o’clock, P. M., Minor C. Story, of
Duchess, was elected Chairman, and James I. John
son, of Albany, elected Secretary,
On motion the following resolutions were adopted :
VUAerea**, It becomes this .'Mate Committee, as repre
senting the Democratic party of New York, upon this
occasion to declare to the Democracy of the Union its
adhesion, and t hat of its constituents, to the doctrines;
enunciated at the Baltimore Conventions of 1844,’48
and ’53, to declare its approval of the sentiments of the j
late Inaugural address, and to set forth the views and
principles of its Democratic constituency upon matters of i
State and national importance.
There fore Resolved , 1. That w<* reiterate our attach- i
meut to, and approval of the Baltimore platform, and j
heartily congratulate the Democracy of the Union on the j
doctrines avowed by President Pierce, iu his inaugural
address to his countrymen, believing that the doctrines
are sound expressions of our duty, as one of the powers
of the civilized world, and ol the duties of the several
States to each other under tho constitution of the United
States.
Resolved, if That we coincide with the President in
his opinion, that “it is not to be disguised that our Attitude
as nation, and our position on the globe, renders the ac
quisition of certain posssessions not within our jurisdiction,
eminently important for our protection, if not in the future j
essential for the preservation of the rights of commerce]
and the peace of the world’*—and also with the principle j
which we all regard as fundamental, that “the rights, so- J
curitv and repose of this confederacy reject the idea of j
interference or colonization on this side of the ocean by j
any foreign power beyond prevent jurisdiction, as utterly j
inadmissible.
Resolved, ft. That, the Democracy of the State of
New York reaffirm the doctrine ot tho inaugural, “that !
involuntary servitude, as it exists in different States of the j
confederacy, is recognised Constitution : that it stands \
like any other admitted right, and that the States where
it exist® are entitled to efficient remedies to enforce the j
constitutional provisions,’’—that “the laws of 1850, com- !
monly called the‘compromise measures/ are strictly consti- j
tutional, and to be unhesitatingly carried into effect”— j
that “the constituted authorities of this republic are bound !
to regard the rights of the South in this respect, as they j
would view any other legal and constitutional right—and j
that the laws to enforce diem should be respected and j
obeyed, not with a reluctance encouraged by abstract {
opinions as to their propriety in a different state of society, *
hut cheerfully, and according to the decisions of the tribu- ;
nal to which their exposition belongs,” and that the Demo- j
cratic party of this State stands pledged, so far as it dc- j
pends upon the political and persona! action of its mem
bers, that every law adopted by the constitutionHl auth
orities of the United States, including the Fugitive Slave
law, shall bo faithfully enforced within the limits of the
State.
Resolved , 4. That we congratulate our fclkw Demo
crats throughout the State, upon the adoption, by the pres
ent Legislature, of the amendment to the constitution, de
signed to provide for the enlargement and completion of
the cauals, in accordance with pledges given by the
Democratic party to the people of the State, a result
mainly due to the unyielding efforts of Democratic Sena
tors, upon whose course the people will stamp their ap
probation, and which gives hope of the speedy completion
of that great system of public works of which our .State
has just cause to be proud.
Resolved , 5. That a Democratic State Convention,
to be composed of uue delegate from each Assembly dis
trict in the State, be and is hereby appointed to lw held in
the city of Syracuse, on Tuesday, the thirteenth day of Sep
tember, 1853, at twelve o’clock, neon,for the purpose of
nominating candidates for such State officers as are to be
elected at the next election, and for the transaction of
such other business ns may come before it.
Resolved , That these resolutions be published in the
Democratic papers in this State.
Minor C. Storv, Chairman.
James J. Johnson, Secretary.
Emanuei, County. —We learn that Neil McLeod and
Abraham Kirkland are the opposing candidates for the
Seuate from Emanuel, and thatS. M. Fortner and Eleaz
er Durden are the opposing candidates for the House of
Representatives. The candidates for the Senate are.both
of the same political stripe, (conservatives,) and both the
candidates for House are democrats. They are running
upon the proposition to make anew county, by taking off
a large strip of Emanuel contiguous to Burke. Kirkland
and Fortner are in favor of the proposition, and
and Durden opposed to it, and upon it the race will be
run.
Firing Small Shot.— The editor of the Journal &
Messenger complains that we fire small shot : we fire shot
in proportion to the game we are hunting. He must not
expect us to fire cannon balls at Rumble Bf-es. — Federal
Union.
Mississippi Senator. —The following allusions
seem to indicate the general tendency’ of the De
mocracy of Mississippi to unite upon Col. Jeff. Da
vis for Senator.
The Houston Sunt hern Argus of tho 6th inst.
says :
4i \Vedo not wish it to be inferred that we are
occupying equivocal ground with regard to U. S.
Senator, and therefore hoist to our mast-head the
name of Hon. Jefferson Davis.” .
The Mississippian , the leading Democratic pa
per of the State, says :
“There can be no question but that one of the
tw r o illustrious men who led the Democracy in 1851,
and were sacrificed then, is the first choice of the
great mass of the Democratic parly of Mississippi
for the Senate, and will be supported by .them when
ever they shall indicate their consent.
Northern Arguments. —There is more of ingenu
ity than of either consistency or honesty in the ef
forts of ihe enemies of the administration to revive
the agitation of the slavery question for party pur
poses. The New York Tribune appeals to the
anti-slavery feeling of ihe North, by declaring that
“whenever a barnburner of 1848 aspires to a place
under the federal administration he is required to
renounce his freesoil principles cr prove that he nev
er had any;” but, on the contrary, ne says‘that 44 in
no case does the fact that a politician has fought
the compromise on the side ot slavery appear to
bar his promotion.”
Mr. Diamond, the new Governor of Rhode 16-
land, was formerly commercial Agent at St. Do
mingo, afterwards U. S. Consul at Vera Cruz, and
finally made Collector of that port, during the war,
by Gen. Scon.
Hon. David R. Atchison, Senator from
Missouri, is stumping the State. The war between
him wid “Old Rnllion*’ rages with increased fury,
The Prospect in Georgia.
A friend, (says the Savannah Georgian, of the
29th inst.,) whose means of judging entitle his
opinion to the highest consideration, writes to
us from Macon, as follows. Wo may mention,
for the satisfaction of our Whig friends, that he
is a Union Democrat. His letter is dated July
26th:
I fool certain what the result will bo--Johnson
will be elected by a triumphant majority. The
nows is cheering from every quarter. Murphy
iis no longer a candidate in the fourth. John
son’s majority in Cobb’s district will be fully
three thousand, and although there are divisions
in the fifth district as to the Congressional can
didates, the Democratic vote is united upon
Johnson. It is true Patton is out for Jenkins,
t but tho people of Cherokee know Patton, and
consequently Johnson’s vote will be largely in
creased by Patton’s desertion. In the third dis
trict Johnson will get over a party vote, and in
the South west we hear of no defections, but a
universal spirit of enthusiasm pervades tho ranks
of our party. No talk about Southern Rights
or Union Democrats—all old issues buried—
all old animosities healed—and nothing but the
brotherly teeling of the old Democracy pervades
the people. The Whigs are down in the mouth,
doubting and disgusted. Tho skies are bright
and brightening everywhere.
I have just heard from tho meeting in Mc-
Donough, in Henry county, yesterday. There
were a thousand persons present, and great en
thusiasm prevailed, The Democrats made their
nominations for the Legislature, Luther J. Glenn
for Senate, a Union Democrat, and two South
ern Rights men for tho Houso. Johnson made
a great speech, and left a fine impression on
all who heard him. Our friends say that we ‘
shall carry the fourth district by a thousand
votes easy. Truly the glorious work goes brave
ly on.
Yours, Ac.,
Another Pi.um to Young America.— lt is
reported from Washington that Mr. John M.
Daniel, editor of the Richmond Examiner, has
been appointed Charge d’Afiairs to Sardinia, in
the place of Hon. R. K. Meade, declined. Mr
Meade is a Southern rights man; hut Daniel is the
very personification of State rights and Noting
America, fn their most intensified embodiment.
Had he been appointed minister to Turkey we
should count upon a war between the Porte and
the Czar in less than six months, whether the
uUimatissimum of .Nicholas were accepted or
rejected. Rut in Sardinia he must content him
self in helping the exiles of Austria to reach this
country, or in writing letters for tho newspapers.
It will be a great relief, however, to the old
fogies of Old Virginia to get this young dash
ing and mi tameable salamander out of the way.
Washington Gossip. —R. G. Rarnwell, of S.
C. has been appointed consul at Amsterdam.—•
The rumor of the establishment of a press at
Washington, to be called the National Demo
crat, is revived. .1. VV, Forney, it is said, will
bo tho editor, and it will advocate Southern
democratic Union interests.
Mr. Jenkins’ Algerine Law.
Section 9. An* be it further enacted, That no
peißoii shall be allowed to vote for Aldermen, who,
in addition to the qualifications now required of vo
ters, does not own real estate to the value of one
thousand dollars, according to the annual tax assess
ment next previously made by the authority of the
City Council, or has actually paid a tax to said city
of twenty-five dollars on (eal or personal estate, or
either, within the same year preceding such elec
tion, and no person shall be eligible as Alderman
who does not possess the qualifications herein pre
scribed for voters.
Mississippi Whig Convention. —The Mississip
pi Whig Convention assembled at Jackson. It was
the largest Convention assembled in the State for
many years. Hon. W. A. Lake, of Vicksburg, was
chosen President, and R. K. Arthur, of Vicksburg,
aud Thomas Palmer,of Jackson, appointed Secre
taries. A general committee of one from each
county was appointed. Francis M. Rogers was
nominated for governor. The Convention denoun
ced General Pierce for appointing tree soilers lo
office. Mr. Rogers has accepted the nomination.
Flint Judicial Circuit. —The Judicial Con
vention for the Flint District, which convened
at Griffin, on the 21st inst., unanimously nom
inated tho Hon. John J. Floyd, of Newton, as
a candidate for Judge of the Superior Court.—
His opponent is the Hon. James H. Starke, the
present incumbent.
Major Gwynn has been re-appointed Chief En
gineer of the North Carolina Railroad, at an an
nual salary of $5, 00, besides for superin
tending the surveys of the road.
QZj- John A. Cuthbert has been appointed live
oak agent of the Government for Alabama.
John M. Daniel, the ediiorof the Richmond
Examiner, tias been appointed Charge to Sardinia.
fjZr So Ist, 116 Democrats, 50 Whigs and 4
Abolitionists have been elected to i he next Congress-
Rather Hard. —ln the programme of the proees
sion in New York, on the day of the reception of
the President, a seat was assigned to him in a car
riage. But General Pierce rode horseback, and
was not so generally recognized as he would have
been had he appeared as advertised. The New
York Sunday Mercury, in alluding to the circum
stance, says : “It has been suggested that the veht- j
ole intended for the President contained some of i
the city Fathers, and net. wishing to he seen in their j
company, ho chose a horse in preference.”
It is said that the United States Minister is now
the only representative of the Diplomatic corps
near tho Bolivian Government, all the oilier minis
ters having b en compelled to leave from repeated
and aggravated insults, offered them by Belzu and
his minister, Bustillo.
Mr. Soule has nt last left for Spain. Mr. Bu
chanan sails this week for England. Itis now said
that Mr. Dix may not get the French mission after
all. Mr. Soule, it is understood, is bent upon tho
acquis,tion of Cuba, and hopes to accomplish it by
diplomacy.
Free Trade in England. —Free Trade appears
to work well in this country. The revenue returns
on the sth of July, show an increase of more than
£900,000 for the quarter. Wages are getting high
er, and the industrial classes were never so well off.
Since 1842, when Peel commenced his new sys*
tem, the cost of living in the British dominions has
diminished at least one-fourth. In the whole of
England and Wales, only 8,041 persons received
poor law relief, as boing “out of work,” on the
tenth week of the Christmas quarter, and the whole
amount paid was £698.
JSF” John Bull—humane, negro loving “Uncle
Tom” John Bull —can flog a colored man ! The
Cape Town Mail, May J 4, gives an account of the
public flogging of two black men. They “were
tied up to a post as the market teas proceeding, and
in the presence of men, women and children, un
derwont the torture of receiving on their exposed
bodies some twenty or thiriy lashes apiece.”—Bos
ton Post.
The number of exhibitors who display their
wares in the New York Crystal Palace, ’is six
thousand-
(General intelligences
More Trouble with the ltenver Island Mormons
—Six Men Wounded.
St. James, Bf.aver Islakk, July 14.
i The Detroit Free Press has toe following :
| A most bloody and murderous assault was made
i upon Joshua'L. Miller, Sheriff of this (Emmet)
j County, at Pine River, yesterday afternoon. Mr.
j Miller went to Pine River yesterday morning, to
j summon three Jurors, residing there, who had been
j drawn for Ihe July Circuit at this place. As many ;
j threats had been sent out from Pine River against
j the serving any process there, he went with two
j boats, and seven men in each, allitnarmed, thinking
i the presence of that number of witnesses would
| prevent any sudden outbreak until his business was
I understood, when, ho thought there could be no op
posite,n.
He was onshore but twenty-five minutes, finish
ed his business, and got into the boats to return,
when a body of forty men, who had hastily gathered
on the bluff’s, commenced a most murderous fire
upon them. More than one hundred guns were
fired before ihe boats got ort’the shore, and all with
in the distance of five rods. Six men were wound- !
od, but, surprising as it maybe, none mortally. I
The firing continued until the boats were beyond
gun-shot range, when they tilled three boats, and
pursued. At a distance of ten miles out, the first
boat in pursuit, with thirty-five men in her, commen
ced firing again, and continued the fire for five j
miles, when tho Sheriff and his party made the bark
Morgan, Captain Stone, and were taken aboard.
They arrived home last right, and by this time
their wounds are dressed.
Theirescape, under the circumstances, seems im- j
possible. More than two hundred shots were fired !
all in short range, at men well exposed to view,
without the slightest means of resistance, am* w hose i
only means of escape was to sit in plain view anti j
; row the boats, with a vastly stronger force in pur- I
suit.
The intention was both apparent and avowed, to j
leave none to return here alive ; and no pretence ’
was made for the deed but the determination to
have no law there.
No arrest had been made or attempted, and, what- I
ever wicked men may please say, there can he no j
pretence that any improper act was intended on the
part ofthe Sheriff or his party ; for the transaction j
was in the most public position, at 3 o’clock in the j
afternoon, and the Pine River men were five to one I
to the Sheriff's party.
By giving publicity to this transaction, I think !
you will only do what the public eXuect of you as j
a journalist. lam truly and sincerely,
JAS.J.’STRANG. j
From Texas.
By the arrival ot the steamship Perseverance at j
NewOrieans, from Galveston, we have intelligence I
tothe22d ult. The news is not of general interest. ;
The San Antonia Ledger ofthe 19ih says :
Since our last issue, copious showers have fal- i
len for several days successively. Our planters now i
rejoice in most complete abundance. No mure is
needed lo insure the best crops ever produced in ’
this region of country. On the Guadalupe, Cibolo,
Salado, San \ntonio, Medina and many smaller
streams, the yield of corn will probably avsrage !
fifty bushels or more to the acre. It is estimated
that the comity of Medina, which was first settled j
some six years ago. will have about 90,000 bushels j
for the inatket.
The Victoria Advocate is informed that cotton is j
opening in that vicinity, and that the cotton crops
are looking remarkably well.
At a recent sale of Sail Antonio city lands at auc
tion, the prices were belter by 75 to 100 per coni, i
than at similar sales last November.
The corn crops in Gonzalez and De Witt counties j
are reported as in excellent condition.
The 175 U. S. troops recently arrived at Indianola I
have left there for the frontier.
Judge Watrous has arrived at Galveston from !
Brazos Santiago to open the United States District j
Court.
The holes for the telegraph posts are all bored j
from Houston to Virginia Point, on Galveston bay ; j
the poles are being delivered and put up, and about i
the Ist proximo the wires will be up.
Later from El Passo.
The El Passo mail arrived at Ban Antonio on the j
9th inst., having made the trip in thirteen days. The I
San Antonio Ledger say* :
The news from El Passo is highly interesting, j
Gen. Trias designed leaving El Passo on the 27th j
ult., two days afier his departure of the mail, to- j
gether with all lire troops, it was rumored that he, J
had been ordered lo Sonora with his command, by j
tiie Mexican government : however true this may
prove, he takes the line of march for Chihuahua.— I
He le't the citizens on this and the other side of the
river on the most friendly and social terms. The
denizens of McGoffinsville feted the General on
several occasions, which eomplimem he received
with most amiable grace, and reciprocated, by as
many eollaiions on the other side, at which were
present our people. The utmost harmony
and good feeling prevailed. The temporary excite
ment produced by ihe arrival and proclamation of
Gen. Trias was lulled, and the accustomed chilities
and intercommunication prevailed. This is the pre- j
sent stale of affairs at I he “seat of war.”
British Ship Panama.
C'apt. Fisher, and the crew of the British ship Pa- i
nama, of Glasgow, arrived in ‘his city on Saturday,
and reported that the Panama had been bu nod 1
to the water’s edge when about fifteen miles from j
Charleston Bur. Ir appears that the Panama was
bound from New Orleans for Liverpool, having o'n !
board 1,334 bales of cotton. After having been j
some days at sea several of her crew were laid up j
with fever, contracted at New Orleans, and Thom- j
as Jervis, of Liverpool, chief mate, Maleom Me- |
Millan, of Prince Edward’s Island, second male, I
and John Ross, boy, of Glasgow, died. Being j
thus disabled, the Captain determined to make lor
j Charleston, and had nearly reached this port, when
j unfortunately, on Monday evening the 25th ult.,at
I about, half past ten o'clock, in consequence of the
j set of the current, he ran ashore on Kiawah Break
ers, and the ship soon commenced to leak so badly, j
that it was found impossible, unaided, to get her off i
The captain then went ashore to procure assistance, j
if possible, but on Wednesday evening, ioformntion j
reached him that his snip was on fire, and in thirty- |
six hours, notwithstanding every effort was made j
to extinguish the flames, she was burned to the wa
ter’s edge.— Charleston Courier.
Brutal Alurder of a Female. —A murder was
committed in North Haven, Connecticut, on the
24th instant, on the wife of Mr. Braxilla Bradley,
a highly respectable citizen of that place. The
family had gone to church, letving her at home,
and when Mr. B. returned ho found her dead upon
the floor and the house robbed. She was stabbed
and cut in a savage manner. A young Irishman
named Michael Jennings, formerly in Mr. Bradley’s
employ, has been arrested on suspicion of being
the murderer. He exhibits a good deal of agita
tion. A S2O bill with marks of blood upon it has
just been taken from the man with whom he lodged
on the night of the murder.
Terrible Explosion in New York. —On Tues
day afternoon n large steam boiler in the extensive
foundery of John Pratt, in Attorney street, sudden
ly collapsed, blowing the rear wall and roof of the
building into Ridge street, besides frightfully scald
ing four of the employees in the establishment,
and fracturing tho skull of a grocer who was sit
ting upon his front stoop in Ridge Street. The
names of the injured men, are Thomas Service,
David Barry, Wra. Cronnard, G. Barry and Thom
as Riley, all of whom are in a dangerous condition,
large fragments of the boiler fell upon the roofs
of several houses in the vicinity, and also shattered
a number of doors and windows. The cause of
the accident was a want of water.
QZj- Hay is selling in California at sixty dollars
per too,
The Greek Church in Turkey.
j The dispute in agitation between Turkey and
; Russia is reduced, by the late manifestos of the
! Czar, to a question as to the amount of freedom ac
corded to the Greek churches in Turkey, by the Sul
tan. A statement of the rights and privileges of
these chur. hes, therefore, will show the arrogance
and absurdity of the Russian claims in the nroper
light.
Russia asks fora diplomatic convention overrul
ing all prior agreements, and binding all future
ministries to give her, as the head of the Greek
Church, control over all the subjects of the Sultan
professing and believing that creed.
! The Greek clergy unite spiritual and temporal
authority, and the following, says the New-
York Evening Po.-t, are some of their privileges :
Tire Patriarch of Constantinople is the present head
of the Greek nation in Turkey. He presides over
the Synod, decrees all civil and religious cases re
ferred to him, and he, as well asthe twelve metro
politans of his church, is exempt from the tax known
as Haradj, or capitation tax.
By virtue of their position, the archbishops and
bishops are members of the Municipal Council.—
The Patriarch, the Archbishops, and Bishops,
preside overjthe Conncil, which fixes the amount
; of taxes, to be paid by tho Greek nation to the
| Porte.
The Cadis, and other governmental officials, are
constrained to carry out the judicial sentences pro
nounced by the Patriarch with regard to the Greek
Christians, and also those of the Artfhbishops with
; in their dioceses, and to assist the clergy in the
maintenance of their rights, and in collecting their
revenues.
Bv law, the Patriarch and metropolitans lava
j tax of 10 per cent, upon the amount involved in
j every cause brought before them. They also have
! absolute power lo fix all indemnifications, to award
: imprisonment, corporal punishment, or exile, and
j they caa, and not unfrequently do, exeommuni
j cate.
I Add to the above “right aad privilege” that all
the sacerdotal functions are bought and sold, and
doubtless it will be generally admitted that the
Greek Church in Turkey has but little room for
j complaint on the score of religious intolerance, and
i certainly is not so persecuted as to need the prof
• sered protection of Russia. IVith such freedom,
j it is not surprising that, the Greeks in Turkey, one
j and all, protest against being brought within the
j scope of Russian interference.
It necessarily followsi from this statement, that!
i if the Emperor of Russia could only so far work
upon the fears of the Sultan as to cause him toac
quiesce in what he terms a necessary measure of
j “recaurion, to insure the statu quo of the Greek
| Church, he would virtually rule over one ofthe most
i energetic and important sections of the Sultan’s
subjects—would establish an imperium in imperio
—and, whilst the |substance of the present Sultan’s
■ power would be visibly diminished, his successor
; might be left without even the shadow of authority
i over a dismembered realm.
This is the present purpose of the Czar *f the
i Russias,and it is no marvel that not only the Sultan
! but all Europe are arming for the contest. If this |
most monstrous demand is granted, and the keys j
i of the Turkish Empire thereby placed in his hands, j
Ihe next step will be the dismemberment of some j
portion of the territory now in the possession of
the Sultan, to he followed by planting the flig of
j Russia above the domes and palaces of Consianti
j nople. That this is the ultimate object of this
Russian movement no one can doubt, who is at all
! acquainted with all the circumstances surrounding
I this alleged interference in behalf of the Greek
I Church in Turkey.— Phil, En.
“lh Russians have entered Jassy,”
Say the lasi advices Irom Europe. Well, where
i and vvhai is Jassy I
The New York Express says :—Take up the map
iof Europe, and snugly ensconsed among a range of
, mountains, a little to the westward ofthe river I’rulh,
I iu the northernmost province of Turkey, the city in
question may he found. Jassy is the capital of the
Turkish Province of Moldavia, It contains from
! 30,000 to 40,000 inhabitants, but is not a place of
1 much trade.
The inhabitants of this city wero never very in
timately connected with the Turkish Empire, and
! owing to the Sultao a merely nominal subjection, it
is probable they would be little disposed to oppose
j the Russians. Indeed, as the Czar has made ihe
I protection of the Greek Church the ostensible cause
i of the dominions of the Porte, the inhabitants of
! Moldavia and Walachia, all disciples of that particu
! !ar faith, may be ready to join rat her than oppose
! him.
These two provinces, Moldavia and Walachia,
I are all that remain to Turkey of its conquests north
jof the Danube. Bessarabia, between ihe Pruth
i and the Black Sea, north of the Danube, was ce
ded to Russia some lime ago. Moldavia lies be
j tween Transylvania and the Pruth, and is bounded
j south by Walachia, and touches the Danube on
ly between the mouths of the Sereth and Pruth.
It contains about half a million of inhabitants < n ;
about 15,000 square miles. Walachia lies south
of Moldavia and south east of Transylvania, in the
great bond of the Danube. It contains 28,800
square miles and nearly a million of inhabitants.—
Moldavia is situated on the southern upper verge of
this extended plain. Both these provinces raise an
immense amount of wheat. The inhabitants give
no attention to manufactures, but receive their nec
essary articles in exchange tor their wheat, which
is carried down the Black Sea, and ihenee scattered
over tho west of Europe. To England the trade of
these provinces is very valuable. The clo hes of
Manchester, the hardware of Birmingham and the
cutlery of Sheffield, are found in all tlie cottages of
Moldavia and Walachia, while more of their wheat
reaches England than comes from America.
Horrors Perpetrated at Nankin —A letter from
Canton, China, speaking of the capture ol Nankin
by the rebel, says :
“Os the Tartar garrison, more than 20,000, inclu
ding the families of the s<ddiers, women and cbii
dren, were either put trrthe sword or committed
suicide, it being a point of honor with that singu
lar people to perish rather than to yield. Every one
of the priests, whether of the Budhist or Taouist
religion, nnd who were very numerous there, were
massacred. Their numbers could not have been
less than 1,500 or 2 000 ; while those killed in the
j assault, the mining of the walls and the entry
jof the rebels, are said to amount to over
| 20,000 men. Very many families were completely
; annihilated by suicide. The streets veers so block
’ ed up with dead bodies, that in passing from point
: to point, the conqtierers hurst open tiie doors of
i houses, private as well as public, and threw them
inside, as the Chinese expressed it, as if they had
been logs of wood.”
Kidnapping Indians. —We have the latest dis
covery—that Don Francisco Marty y Torreas has
been occupied for some time past, in kidnapping In
dians from the coast of Yucatan, and making forci
ble disposition of them for his own use, service, and
benefit here, as property. He has grounds allow
ed him at the island of Maggerres, tor fishing pur
poses, by the Yucatan authorities, and for deposit
of necessary material, residence and anchorage, in
aa honest pursuit- which he has perverted to pur
poses of slavery, or forced apprenticeship— convert
ing his buildings into bavacoons for his Indian sub
jects, and, as op|*>rtunity serves, shipping them in
his smacks to Havana. The game has been dis
covered by the arrest of h s agent, and will be
blocked in a way most disagreeable to himself.
Escape of a Slave. —On the 22d ult., tho brig
Florence sailed from Wilmington, N. C. for Bos
ton, and on the 10th inst, while off Nantucket,
a slavo was found secreted on board. The cap
tain, on reaching Boston, anchored in the har
bor, and proceeded to the telegraph office to
telegraph to Wilmington, and during his ab
sence a mob of whites and blacks boarded his
vessel, and, in defiance of the mate, took the
slave away. How they ascertained so soon that
he was on board is not stated.
JSjT” A letter from Houston, Texas, slates that
Ex-Governor Paine died at Waco on the 6th ult
[TERMS, $2 00 IN ADVANCE.
A Stupendous claim., —A Western Pennsylvania
company have set Up a claim lo ihe whole of the
western reserve of Ohio, under a grant from Con
necticut. alleged to have been made after the year
1762, when Charles 2d granted to that colony a pa*
tent for the Reserve. In 1795, it will be remem
bered, she sold the Reserve to another company,
relinquishing all claim to jurisdieiionover the lerri
tory to tiie United States, in 1800. These Pennsyl
vania parties to-day applied to the General Land
Office to make to them patents for all the Reserve!
The officer replied, we learn from parties interes
ted in the “speculation,” that the Government,nev
er having had a claim to or proprietorship over that
terrilory, they cannot entertain the application ;
and that the State of Connecticut is the party to
whom the Pennsylvania company must look for
redress, if they really have rights involved in the
case.— Washington Star.
Smuggling of Opium in San Francisco. —The
smuggling of opium has become quite a business
amongst the Chinese passengers who arrive at San
Francisco, and large quantities of the article have
been seized by the officers of the customs, who have
been on the look out for the smugglers for some
lime past. Amongst other contrivances for carry
ing it ashore they- have adopted that of sewing it
in belts similar to those worn as money belts.—
Others have it stitched in the lining of their shoes,
and in all imaginable places. A lot of it was found
in the bottom of a pork barrel.
Last proposition. —A gentleman in lowa propo
ses to keep Cities free from thunder storms “for so
much per year.” To most people, this offer will be
looked upon as preposterous, and yet it is not. We
have no doubt whatever that an outlay of SIO,OOO
would keep New York as insulated as a glass table
with sealing-wax legs. What a gentleman in lowa
proposes to do for us, has already been done for
the vine growers of the South of France. By
means ot a well arranged system of ifghtning rods,
a whole district has been rendered inaccessible to
those destructive hail storms which so frequently
follow in the train of thunder showers. What has
been done in France, can be done elsewhere. If
we can teach lightning to write, we can teach it to
behave itself.,— Lowell Cour.
The weather. —We are getting more rain than is
necessary, either for laying the dust or nourishing
vegetation. For a couple of days we have had
cloudy warm weather, with occasional showers,
leaving tho streetsso sloppy and muddy that a stran
ger would never dream that we could be annoyed
by dust. News begins to come iu from the interi
or, that 100 much rain has already fallen for the well
being of cotton. Should it continue, with the pres
ent high range of the thermometer, fears are en
tertained that the staple will suffer greatly.—Mo
bile Tribune.
£2?” Major F. Searle, of the United States Ar
my, died on the 19th instant, at the Blue Sulphur
Springs, in Monroe county, Va., whither he had
gone for the benefit of his health. The immedi
ate cause of death was a shot wound m the lower
! region of the spine, which he received in the Flori
;da war. His frame was sn emaciated that his body
j collapsed instantly on the suspension of life,
| leaving but a few pounds of flesh and bones where
was once a vigorous man,
The Amazon Steamship and Trading com
pany of New York have in progress of building at
the latter place a large sea steamer and several
smaller ones for river service. Large grants of
land have been made lo this company by the Bra
zilian and Bolivian Governments ; and an agent is
i to be sent out without delay lo take charge of them,
to form stations along the” river, and ro penfccixbc
enterprise.
Suicide. —We learn irom a ieiter from Social Cir
cle, dated the 31st ult., that a highly respectable cit
izen of Walton county, Mr. C. W. Buchanan, com
nutted suicide on the 30th, by shooting himself with
a shot gun. He died instantly. From what we
can learn, he had been partially insane for some time,
and attempted to cut his throat in March last. We
regret to learn that he leaves behind him a wife and
four children— Con. <Sp Republic.
The Newman fund. —The London Tablet states
that no less than 1*50,000 have been collected in
England, Ireland and France, for the purpose of
the defence fund of Dr. Newman. The taxed costs
of Dr. Achilli amount to not more than $5,000
The whole expense of the proceedings against
I)r. Newman are staled to be $15,000.
Spanish Navy. —The New Orleans Picayune
states that Spam has baeu making efforts for years
to have her Navy equal ours. She has been
constantly counting our ships, steamers and
guns, and has kept pace with them in number. She
has, therefore,a formidable and well equipped navy,
and as large and effectually armed as ours.
£2T The Lewisburg Chronicle states that the
Hon. R. M. ’l'. Hunter recently purchased some
14,000 acres of mountain land lying in Greenbrier
and Nicholas counties for himself and a friend.—
The Chronicle give* a flattering account of the ri
sing prospects of that important section of the
State.
Increase of New York. —The aggregate value of
real and personal estate in the city of New York,
according to the valuation by the assessors for the
present year, is $113,622,942,94. Compared with
the valuat on last year, there is an increase of $41,-
4;V2,041.8) in the value of real estate, and $20,-
474 095,41 in the value of persona) estate.
The Chinese in New York. —lt is seriously pro
posed in New York that the Chinese Dramatic com
pany (Tong Ho iks-Toogs) be sent to the Alms
house, there being not the slightest probability that
individual charity will feed and clothe them any
longer. The late benefit given them yielded less
than than £7OO, lo be divided among the whole of
them, forty in number.
Shipments of Cotton from Memphis. —The Mem
phis Whig states that since the Ist of September,
1852, up to July 18th, 1853, over two hundred
thousand bales of cotton have been shipped at lhat
point. This is about one-sixteenth of the whole
cotton crop of the United States.
Shooting and Stabbing. —A correspondent from
Scriven, informs us of a difficulty which occurred at Syl
vania, on Friday the 21 stub., between Dr. P. L. L.
Ogelove and lieu ben Blackburn, the latter striking the
former with a stick, putting out one eye, when the Dr.
drew a pistol and fired at him, the ball taking effect in
the arm.
Bartley Blackburn, a brother of Reuben, here interfered
and knocked the Dr. down, who arose, obtained a bowie
knife and stabbed Bartley three times. The wounds
were considered serious. AH the parlies were arrested
and taken before a magistrate and committed to jail, they
being unable to procure bail. Our informant states that
they were all intoxicated at the time.
[Central Georgian.
A Show er of Cobwebs. —Yesterday morning, ays
the Sacramento Union of the 18th, the air in the neigh*
borhood of that city seemed to be full of a species of cob
web, which covered trees, houses, fences, and hats, much
to the surprise of the lookers-on. They seemed to come
from the south-east, and were floating through the air at
various distances, from the ground to as high as one could
see. When caught and rolled up, the rolls resembled fine
cotton.
How to Pass Through Smoke.—ln the course of an
inquest lately, Mr. Wakley, the coroner, ob
served that it would be well to acquaint the public with
the fact, that if persons in a house on fire had the presence
of mind to apply a damp cloth or handkerchief to their
mouth and nostrils, they could effect a passage through
the densest smoke; but the surest way would be to envelope
the head and face completely in the damp cloth.
The Pacific Railroad. —Thirty-nine miles of the Pa
cific Railroad from St. Louis weeLvardly, wero opened
for business on the 19th inst. The failure to negotiate
the $4,000,000 in this market will not retard the progress
of the work, as resources have been otherwise provided.
KT*’ It is said the smail pox prevails to an alarm*
ing extent in Moyamensing, Philadelphia, among
tho blacks of that district.
Number 32.