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<l\mzs rmir SmtxncL gOLUMBPS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING. SEPT. 13, 1853. FOR GOVERNOR: JiERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, ’ OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS: Ist. DISTRICT JAMES 1.. SEWARD. lid. DISTRICT A. 11. COLQUITT. I lid. DISTRICT DAVID J. BAILEY. IVth. DISTRICT W. 15. W. DENT. Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN. Vllth DISTRICT THOS. P. SAFFOLD. Vlllth DISTRICT J. J v JONES. MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS. FOR SENATE, JOSEPH STURGIS. FOR REI-RESENTATIVES, ALEXANDER McDOUiiALD, MARTIN J. CRAWFORD. We to-day hoist the names of the standard bearers of the Democracy. They were chosen on the 6th inst., at a meeting of the delegates selected for that pur pose, which assembled at the Court House at 12 M. Joseph Sturgis was nominated by acclamation, and Messrs. McDougald and Crawford were chosen by a majority of two-thirds on the first ballot, and on motion the nomination was then made unanimous. The ticket represents fairly the varied phases of po litical sentiment whioh arc supposed to exist in the De mocratic party j and if the friends of each candidate will cordially support the others, the triumphant elec tion of the ticket is a positive certainty. The candi dates are all well known to the people of Muscogee ; they are men of talent and known popularity and pledged to the support of Pierce’s administration and the great cardinal principles of the Democratic party. A strong pull a long pull and a harmonious pull will he sure to put them through. Our Ticket Accepts. We take pleasure in announcing to the public that the candidates selected by the Democratic party of Muscogee county have accepted the nominations ten dered to them. They are now our standard bearers; and their victory will be the triumph of the Democra cy ; their defeat the overthrow of the Democracy. Let every true and genuine Democrat buckle on his armor and join in the battles The Democratic flag waves in front of the array. It is inscribed with the time hon ored principles for which we have so long contended. The Equality of the States ; the freedom of the people ; and a Constitutional Union. The Conservative Nominees* We understand that the Conservative party on Sat urday last met in Convention and nominated Col. Wales for the Senate 5 and 15. A. Thornton and Wil liam Wooldridge for the House. The nominees are clever gentlemen ; hut they are bound to he beaten. The Judgeship. By reference to his letter, it will be seen that Col. Ilolt declines to be a candidate for the Judgeship in this circuit. We think if he would allow his name to be used, he would be convinced in October next, that the people sought him for the office. An independent judiciary, free from party control, is indispensable to the liberties of the people. Will the people allow him to decline ? 11011. James Johnson’s Congressional Career. FIRST SESSION THIRTY SECOND CONGRESS. On page 7, vol. 24, his name is recorded as a Rep resentative of tins State of Georgia. He presented, page 120, the petitions of James M. Smith and A. 11. Shepherd, for indemnification for loss es by Creek Indians in 1836, and submitted a motion lo refer the petition of Moses Matthews for indemnifica tion for losses in the Revolutionary W ar, to the commit tee on Revolutionary Claims. He moved, page 354, to reconsider a vote of the House, calling for information in reference to our re lations with Mexico. He moved, page 491, to withdraw the memorial of James Pitman from the files of the House. He moved, page 685, that the House adjourn from Friday to Monday, and withdrew his own motion when the yeas and nays were called. He asked, page 753, a question of Mr. Phillips. lie answered, page 899, to his name on the call of the House, moved to excuse Mr, llailey for absence, and moved to lay on the table a motion to recommit the Deficiency Bill to the committee of Ways and Means. lie called for a separate vote, page 900, on an amendment to the Deficiency Bill, and voted twice against amendments of the same bill. He objected to any special order, page 1015, and called for the regular order of business. Ho called for the yeas and nays, page 1049, which were not ordered, and voted against an amendment of the Senate to the Capitol Extension Bill, allowing the architect to examine the claims of the workmen engag ed on the Capitol to indemnity for loss of time during the suspension of the work for want of an appropria tion by Congress to carry it on. He presented, page 1054, the memorial and petition of the Georgia Legislature for a depot at the Sand Hills. He called for the yeas and nays, page 1535, on a bill making appropriations for the construction of certain Roads in Minnesota. He moved, page 1536, to lay an appeal from the de cision of the Speaker upon the table. He demanded the yeas and nays, page 1599, on a mo tion to reconsider the vote of the House ou the Penn sylvania Contested Flection. Mr. Davis moved, page 1054, to postpone for two weeks, a Bill appropriating certain lands and giving the right of way to a Railroad in Indiana and Illinois, when Mr. Johnson objected, called for the yeas and nays, on amotion to lay said Bill on the table, and voted to lay it on the table. He objected, pnge 1743, to taking lip a Bill for deepening the Mississippi river. An amendment was before the H use, page 1754, providing that no extra pay should be given to Officers of the Government unless the amount to be paid and the Officer to whom it was to be paid were specifically mentioned, when Mr. Johnson moved to strike nut the amendment on the ground that this was already law. His motion was lost. He insisted, page 1764, on taking up the regular or der of business. lie asked, page 1830, a question of Mr. Johnson, of Arkansas, about some money due the Chickasaw In dians. He moved, page ISSO, for a call of the House. He asked tho Speaker, page IS$4, if an amendment was in order, and was told it was not. He again rose, page 1901, to a question of order, and was set right by the Speaker. He moved, page 2051, to lay on the table a resolu tion to engrave certain maps, which was carried, lie also objected to closing the debate on the Civil and Di plomatic Bill, as he wished to make an exposition of his views on the Presidential election, whereupon Mr. Stevens, of Fa,, moved to lay Mr. Johnson’s motion on the table, and Mr. Orr, ofS. C., called for the yeas and nays, that “the country might see who it was who wished to waste time and delay public business,” and Mr. Johnson, we are sorry to say, voted to “waste time.” lie objected, page 2240, to the previous question on the Bill declaring the Wheeling bridge a lawful struc ture, as he desired to speak on it; but he objected to hearing two other gentlemen on the same subject. On page 869, vol. 25, we again find the name of Mr. Johnson. He asked Mr. Stuart a question about Mr. Polk’s veto of the Rivet and Harbor Bill. This is his first and only apj>earance in voL 25, though it contains 1192 pages. He made, page 1679, a few remarks upon the Boun dary between the United States and Mexico, and moved, unsuccessfully, to amend an amendment in relation thereto. He moved, page 1730, to substitute Trieste for Liv erpool, as the Eastern terminus of the Collins Line of Steamships, made a very short speech in favor of his motion, and sat down amid the laughter of the House. The speaker could not see the pertinency of his remarks, and a member called him to order. lie moved to strike out the clause in the River and Harbor Bill, page 1904, appropriating money out of the Treasury to pay for the improvements, and moved to insert a clause to allow the States to impose tonnage du ties to pay for the same, and supported his motion in a sound sensible speech of five minutes, which did him credit. Unfortunately his motion was lost. In this connection, ho delivered that famous speech heretofore commended in our columns. The following are the circumstances which gave rise to it; Mr. Johnson. In the parly to which I recently be longed (the Democratic) there is as much latitudinous construction as in any other. Mr. Stanley. The party to which you recently be longed I what party does the gentleman belong to now ? Mr. Johnson. I now belong to the independent or der of outsiders. (Laughter.) YY u understand Mr. Johnson has professed to be a Democrat since the opening of the canvass. We would like to know specifically, whether he has quit the “out siders,” and for what cause. Mr. Johnson, page 1930, moved to amend an Inter nal Improvement Bill, by inserting an appropriation of $25,000 for a survey of the Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers, and supported it in a speech of a few minutes, in which he very candidly told the House that if his amendment was adopted, lie would still vote against the Bill. It is hardly necessary to add that his amend ment was lost. He moved to strike out an appropriation of $50,000 to improve the navigation of the Hudson river, and sup ported his motion in a five minute speech against In ternal Improvements. lie called for tellers on his mo tion, which was nevertheless lost. lie made another five minute speech against an ap propriation, page 1971, to repair a dam on the Ohio river, and offered a motion to spend the amount appropriated in removing the dam, and contended that the removal of the cam would more surely facilitate navigation than its repair—a position which Mr. Gray clearly showed was wrong. His motion was not adopted. He made a short speech, page 2050, against en graving some maps. lie opposed, in a few remarks, a motion to appro priate $50,000 dollars to the relief of some Indians who were said to be in a starving condition. The appro priation was not made. The above is a full and faithful record of Mr. John son’s Congressional career in the First Session of the Thirty-second Congress, which lasted 274 days, and for which he received the handsome sum of about $2,192, besides mileage and other perquisites. Pretty high pay for the work done ! I: his name occurs another time on the record, \v-have not been able to find it with the aid of an all-embracing Index. And what now is tlie summing up? lie presented a few petitions, he had the roll called a few times, a motion was laid on tho table at his instance 5 he offered a few amendments to bills pending, all of which, of any worth, were lost ; lie made a few five minute speeches in favor of motions and amendments of his own, which couldn’t secure the passage of any one of them except to defeat the ap propriation of a small sum to relieve starving Indians; he pocketed his pay, came home, and is now held upas the great statesman of South-Western Georgia, before whose transcendent genius the brightest lights of the Democracy pale their ineffectual fires. There is an old adage about glass houses, which we commend to the Conservative party. Upon such a record crow ing is simply ridiculous. Now we give Mr. Johnson all proper praise for bis Undeviating’ opposition to Internal Improvements by the Federal Government. 11 is intentions in this respect were no doubt good. Our only objection is that his merit consists only in intentions. In bis own emphatic language, be did “nothing.” lie tried, it is true, but invariably failed to do any good. There is, li >wever, one serious omission in bis en deavors, which wc cannot pass unnoticed. It is well known that many of the highest offices in the gift of j Mr. Fillmore were in the hands of Freesoilers. Yet our Representative never so much as alluded to this fact during this whole Session. The rights of the South were certainly in “imminent peril” on account of such Freesoil appointments, jet the watchman whom we j placed on the wall kept silent. Indeed, he never so i much as alluded to the subject in a five minutes speech 1 | Isn’t this too bad ? We have not yet had the pleasure of seeing a copy j of the Congressional < Robe for the Second Session of j the Thirty-second Congress. If we get one before the ! election, we will take great pleasure in laying before j our readers the balance of Mr. James Johnson’s Con- ; gressibna! record, and have no doubt it will prove quite j as interesting as the portion we have gone over. We I now only remember that he made a speech in favor of ; the claims of M atson’s heirs, and voted for Bennett’s ; Land Distribution Bill. This last measure shall cer- i tainly claim our attention before tin* canvass is ended. | Tricks of the Harlequin—Another Summerset, j When the canvass now progressing in Georgia first’ opened, our readers will recollect that Robert Toombs j set the ball in motion by a set speech to the faithful in j this city, in which lie gave the plan of the eampaigu. j He said many strange tilings, but the strangest and ’ most emphatic of all his sayings, was that bold one heretofore noticed in our columns “The Compro- I wise saved the Union , hut did not .save the South’- \ W e ot course expected after this announcement from the Autocrat of the Conservative party, that we would ; hear no more of “disunion” —that spell-word of the last canvass; that that scene in the tragedy of Con- j servative politics was ended ; and that the dramatis j persona would go on to the next act in the play, and raise the curtain upon the terrible feene of “the South in danger.” For a lime they were true to their prom ise, and Dix, \ room and Brown were marched upon lie stage arrayed in the terrible trappings of Abolition ism 5 but alas ! no body was alarmed ; aud the au dience soon grew disgusted with the exhibition. The stage trick was understood, and for fear of being hiss ed oft* the stage, we suppose, these horned monsters were hustled behind the curtain, the drop let down, and the bell rang for another act. Again the great | stage manager, Toombs, appears before the audience j and announces a repe&ion of the last act of “The ! Union in danger.” Place, Oglethorpe— Wednesday, | September —. Hear him : “The Fire-eaters and Freesoilers, who hated the i Union so terribly, two years ago, were still in ambush, waiting for the opportunity to hare their revenge, by destroying the Union at all hazards and upon any pretext • the one set to throw off the impertinent i V ankee nation, as they call them in derision ; and the j other set of destructives proceed to wash their con- j sciences from all fraternization with slaveholders ! The ; danger exists, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Once allow the enemies of the compromise to obtain | control of the public cilices, they will gradually force | their way into the high places of the Government, and j then— farewell to the Union.' 1 kueh is the language of Mr, Toombs at Oglethorpe, i as represented by one of his friends to the Journal £ Messenger. W ell, the Fire-eaiers and Freesoilers, ac- j cording to Mr. Toombs and his servile followers, have obtained control of ill • “public offices”—they have “forc ed their way into the high places of the Government -and what then ? Has the Union been dissolved ? Did any body hear its timbers give way ? Is any body hurt? It seems not. Then either Mr. Pierce has not conferred his offices on Fire-eaters and Freesoilers, or Mr. Toombs is a false prophet. We do not care which horn of the dilemma he gets on. In the first case, he makes an untrue statement of facts; and in the other, lie makes a false prediction. “The Union in danger!” how preposterous, when every year adds to its strength and extends its boun daries. “The South in imminent peril 1” when her fir mest and best friends are in the ascendant, and control the whole policy of the Administration. Wo wonder if Mr. Toombs will never tire of this pre posterous attempt to humbug tho people 5 if his con fidence in his own unparalleled assurance will never fail him. We are astonished alike at his .success and his effrontery. But his time has come; when the crafty fox doubles upon his track you may be sure his pur suers are hard upon his heels, and that the hour of his doom is nigh. This attempt to revive the shadowy ghost of 1859 at this stage of the canvass is a pregnant sign that he doubts the success of his last throw. The game is slipping from his hands, and by October he will be a broken and desperate political gamester. True, the South is in peril, but not now. As long as Franklin Pierce and Jefferson Davis wield the power and patronage of the Government, we are safe. But when the results of the policy forced upon the South by Mr. Toombs and his allies, whereby the immense domain on the Pacifio was dedicated to freeseil, shall have de veloped itself, and the reins of Government are in the hands of other men, then will the South be in danger—then will she enter upon the long, hopeless, and dreary minority, predicted by Mr, Hilliard, with no power to prevent oppression and no spirit to resist it. When that day and that hour shall eome, the South will point to Mr. Toombs and the reckless party he leads as the authors of her woe. rhe Lilian la Railroad again. We perceive that an attempt is being made to di rect tho attention of the citizens of Eufaula from the proposed Railroad connection with this city, to one with Montgomery, at Union Springs. We are surpri sed that any practical man should give countenance to this delusion for a moment. It is necessary to build only thirty miles of Railroad to secure a connec tion with Columbus ; and Eufaula will beassisted in this work by a subscription of at least fifty thousand dollars by the City Council ; and one of at least seven ty-live or eighty thousand dollars by the wealthy citi zens of Glennville. This road therefore is feasible, and Will be built if the people of Eufaula are true their own interests ; and will give them a connecton with Savan nah, only about seven miles longer than the most di rect road they can build, and also with Mobile, through the Girard road, and the rich valleys of upper Geor gia and Tennessee, by the Opelika Branch Road. On the other hand, Eufaula cannot connect with Montgomery without building a road at least one hun dred miles long. It is idle to suppose that Montgome ry can give her any effectual aid in this work. The entire resources of Montgomery are pledged to the Pensacola Road. Five hundred thousand dollars of her capital is .already pledged to this enterpsise ; and we presume this is as much money as a city of her re sources can bear. Besides she is compelled to aid in other works connecting her with the Railroad system which is surrounding her, or loose her importance by the superior advantages which ilia system will confer on the rival town Selma. We take it, therefore, that Montgomery cannot build the contemplated Road to Union Springs for many years to come. Neither can Eufaula look for aid from the people in the neighbor hood of Chunnenuggge Ridge. Their entire energies are directed to the completion of the Girard Road to their doors, by which they will be brought into connec tion with the splendid Railroad system of Georgia.— Can Eufaula then build the road to Union Springs unaid ed, except by the meagre subscriptions she can pick up on the line of the road ? The question is absurd. And if she bo able to build a road which cannot be short er than forty five miles, what will she gain when it is completed ? Simply a connection with Mobile and Co lumbus, through the Girard Road—an end she would equally obtain by a road to Colbert. For fear that someone may imagine that, we are blinded by our location, we gladly refer to the authori ty of Charles T. Pollard, the able President of the Montgomery and West Point Railroad, as to the fea sibility of building a road to Union Springs from Mont gomery. After admitting that the Girard Road will be completed, he says in a letter to Daniel Pratt, which may found in the Autauga Citizen , “But if the Gi i rard Road is continued'to Mobile, ! can see no benefit to be derived by Montgomery from building a road to Union Springs, which is an independent and isolated route, and would not. I believe, do business enough to ; pay the expenses of making it.” Mr. Pollard, is a citizen of Montgomery, better | posted in Railroad enterprises than any man perhaps in Alabama, and very largely interested in every work which will cncbanco the prosperity of that city. His authority upon this point is conclusive. If, therefore, tho people of Eufaula desire a Railroad, let them bend all their energies to the Columbus connection, and there can be no reasonable doubt but that their wishes will be ; realized in a very short time. Poems by Alexander Smith. Wc arc indebted to Jordan L. llowell, successor to A. C* Flkwf.llen, for tho privilege of perusing this j work, and, by the way, as wo have heretofore noglec- ! ted to call the attention of the public to the establish- i inent of this enterprising gentleman, we take this oc- j casion to recommend him to the favorable notice of I the public as a worthy man and an enterprising Book j ; Merchant. Ilis supply of books is large and on his ! i shelves the literary epicure will always find the choicest | j productions and the latest publications. But to the j | work before us. There has been much noise in English circles about tliis book. Tlie echo has reached our shores and been loudly returned. We cannot join in the clamor.— There are some fine passages in tho book which indi cate a real vein of poetic talent, and an occasional line which startles one with its sparkling brilliancy ; but the book as a whole is a cloudy, dreamy land through which shadows flit, with whom we have no sympathy, j and cannot even make out their forms and features. It a good deal resembles Festus in this and some other j ; respects ; but is very far below that work in power of j | expression, variety of imagery, and condensation of pas j sion. But they both alike apostrophise the sun, moon : and stars, the earth and ocean, and revel in the beauty i of creation, while the heart of tho hero is breaking vvitli | despair, and his mind beclouded with the thick dark i ness of doubt. Airy personifications come on the stage and rant about they know not what, and leave us in j doubt whether they be spirits blest or goblins damned, i [ Still we have read both books with interest and found jin both many single passages of great beauty and pow \ or. The work can be had at J. L. Howell’s Book Store. The Muscogee Railroad* By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that freight on cotton to Savannah has been redu ced to fifty cents a hundred pounds. This will secure a very large freight business this winter to tho Road.— We are pleased to learn that the business of the Road is now very heavy, and that the stream of travel which flows over it is constantly increasing. It may be of interest to travellers to know that an j express train leaves Savannah every week on the arri val of the steamers, and that the connection is con tinuous to Montgomery, Ala. This is therefore the quickest and cheapest route of travel from New York to New Orleans. The Mashing ton Monument. We have received a circular from this association, i suggesting that boxes be opened at the polls in Octo j her for the reception of such contributions as our pa ■ triotie people may be willing to make for the completion I of this splendid monument in the Capital of the United ; States to the memory of Washington. We hope the | commissioners appointed to superintend the election will attend to the matter. Let every citizen give a j dime, and tlie work will soon be completed. The j Secretary well says; “It will be pitiful, wondrous I pitiful, if out of twenty-five millions of souls who inhabit ] this great country, rendered independent, prosperous and happy, mainly by his exertions and devotion to its cause, the sum necessary to erect a monument worthv of such a man, could not be completed for want of the small pecuniary aid which every American should feel it his pride, as well as his duty, to afford.” Surgical Infirmary in Savannah. We invite the particular attention of our readers to the advertisement of Drs. Wildman & Ganahl, of Sa vannah, Ga. Dr. Wildman is too well known in this community to require eulogy on our part. We think we do not exaggerate, when we designate him the first Surgeon in Georgia. Dr. Ganahl has spent seven years in Europe, at the schools and hospitals of France, England and Germany, and has occupied tlie post of Physician and Surgeon to the Savannah Hospital. Their Institution is established on the most approved basis of similar establishments in Europe. The afflicted who need Surgical aid, probably can not do better titan place themselves in the hands of these accomplished gentlemen. Jno. A. Dix. This Gentleman has written a letter to Garvin of Augusta in which he denies that he ever was an Abo litionist, sustains the Fugitive Slave law, and place? him self upon the Baltimore Platform. To the Public. The undersigned, having been recently called upon, whilst engaged in a public discussion, to define our po sitions relative to the temperance question, now excit ing some interest in the State of Georgia, and there being no material difference in the responses made by us severally, for tlie purpose of avoiding all misunder standing of what we s iid, as well as for the information of others, present the following statement of our answers on the occasion referred to: We are friends of the temperance reform, and bid all enlisted in it God-speed, in every legitimate effort to advance it. We think tlie cause is more likely to be injured than benefited by l>eiug connected with the political contests of the day. The State Temperance Convention having been in session siuce the Guber natorial nominations were made, and having adjourned without taking any steps to interrogate the Nominees, we infer that they have wisely determined to avoid that connection, and commend their example to the favor of their constituents and organs. The question of mere expediency, in any act of legis lation on this subject, is so manifestly one for the con sideration of the General Assembly, as to render any expression of opinion by us unnecessary. The constitu tionality of such a measure would demand Executive no less than Legislative scrutiny. But there having been several different schemes proposed, the details of which, yet unsettled, may very materially affect the constitu tional question, we cannot, wiih due regard to propriety, or with any assurance of avoiding misconstruction, pro nounce upon either. The constitutionality of all enact ments ought to be gravely and delibefately considered by the two departments, in the order prescribed in the Constitution—by the Legislature first , by the Execu tive afterwards. CHARLES J. JENKINS. JIERSCHEL V. JOHNSON. New Goods. Our enterprising) townsman, Mr. J. M. Raum, 64 Broad street, is ahead of all competition this Fall. Be sides an unusually large assortment of Ladies’ Fancy Dress Goods of the latest styles, he has on hand a good supply of Plantation goods. See his advertisement in another column, and give him a call when you come to town. Health of New Orleans. Sept. 2d.—Total number of deaths 133, from Yel low fever 103. The whole city turned out to join in the prayers which were offered in all the churches on this day for the health of the city. Alabama Senator. Jno. A. Elmore, Esq., has been recommended as a suitable person to represent the State of Alabama in the Senate of tlie United States, by a correspondent of the Advertiser c$- Gazette. He is a gentleman of su perior intellect, high character, and sound political principles. We would rejoice in his elevation to a posi tion which lie is so well calculated to adorn. William Iy, Northall, for some time connected with the New’ Orleans Delta, recently died at Holly wood, of Yellow Fever. Ilis racy pen gave zest to the columns of the Della, lie was the author of the sketches of character which have from time to time ap peared in that paper. The Savannah Republican, The Rochester Advertiser and Washington Union. Sometime since we were surprised to find in the columns of the Republican an extract from the Adver tiser, accompanied, if we mistake not, with approving comments, in which it was charged that the Union was following in the wake of tlie National Era , and was “fast assimilating with it as a genuine abolition paper.” We only wondered at the bold effrontery of the charge, and attributed it to the known want of respect which the Whig politicians of Georgia entertain for popular intelli gence. The Union treats it in a very different man ner, and says; “We denounce the author of the above extract as a wil ful calumniator—as a man unworthy of the trust or confi dence of the democratic party —as a man who either has not the sense to see the plainest facts or the honesty to prevent him from the grossest falsification of them, to the manifest injury of the administration and of the democrat ic cause. For this is a matter about which there is no possibility of honest mistake or misapprehension. Every i man who knows anything of the subject knows that the I position of the Union in regard to the whole question; of j abolitionism or aiiti-lavery agitation is as broadly and J clearly defined as that of the administration, or of thedem* ! ocratie party assembled in its late national convention.— ! The country well knows that not a word nor a line has ! been written or adopted by 11s in our editorial columns on ; that subject which is not strictly in harmony with tlie j Baltimore resolutions, the President’s Inaugural, and the 1 avowed policy of the administration. To charge upon us I ‘affinities with abolitionism’—to charge that we are‘turn- I ing free-soiiers’—to charge that we favor ‘the policy of j abolitionizing tho democratic party,’ is to charge that a well known, faithful, and unswerving adherence to the national principles of the democratic party, and to the policy of the administration which represents those prin ciples, is open to tlie same inculpation. Wo repeat, that the man who makes such a charge has, in making it, proved himself to be unworthy of the confidence of the democracy and of the administration, and to be acting in a spirit hos | tile to both.” Pretty strong language, Mr. Republican , but with j all proper respect, we cannot but think that the oeca- I sion justifies it. John Sken Smith. This is the name of the author of the native Ameri can Address which lately emanated from Philadelphia, I abounding alike in abuse of Foreigners and the | President. It seems that John Sken is a disappointed office seeker. The Pennsylvanian says ; j “ N ow, if General Smith had only got the office he want | ed from tlie President, all those whom he at present re gards as devils, would have been angels indeed. He pe titioned for office lustily ; and only a few weeks ago was in hot and earnest pursuit of it. Alas, he did not got it; and presto! what a change. Most unfortunate Genera! Pierce; you, who, by giving the redoubtable Smith a good fat. foreign appointment, would have been enshrined as a saint—would have been adored as a god—would have been applauded as an Admirable Crichton, of many virtues— ; you are now no more than a common mortal!” Many of the diatribes which daily issue from the Whig press originate in similar disappointments. Affray* We learn that an affray occurred in Ilenry County, near Abbeville, Ala.,last week, in which Mr. H. F. Bizzeil I was dangerously wounded and ail individual named Raleigh was killed. A considerable reward had been offered for the detection of tho parties who aided Lev ingston in making bis escape from jail and several per sons were engaged in tracking the supposed offendei with dogs. While thus engaged, Raleigh, who was one of the pursuers, interfered several times with the move ments of the dogs, either through accident or design, which led to sonic angry threats from another mem ber of the party, when Raleigh rode off aud quickly re turned with a gun. Mr. Bizzeil was acting as peace maker when Raleigh inflicted upon him a dangerous wound with a knife. Raleigh was then shot through the head by someone of the party and fell instantly dead. Bizzell’s condition is extremely critical. —Spirit of the South. The Mission to France—Governor Cobb. Tho telegraphic reports for a few weeks past have directed public attention to this gentleman, as the hon ored recipient of a tender of the French Mission. — We learn that the Mission to France was tendered to Gov. Cobb, and by him declined. How ridiculous was the charge of the enemies of the administration that Dix was to be Minister to France; and how false the speculations of the quid nuncs about Governor Cobb having been seeking this appointment and making repeated visits North in connection with that appointment. Governor Cobb it seems is unwilling to leave the State pending so important a political election, lie is preparing to take the field for Judge Johnson • and they will open the ballJat Kingston on the 9th inst. Whiggery will crack in the marrow bones when these big guns let loose in the Mountains.— Federal Union 6th inst. A Great Pacific Railroad Company, at the head of which, it is said, are Erastus Corning, Simeon Draper and other capitalists, is organizing in New York. The object .'s to provide a substantial six feet gauge road from New York to the Pacific Ocean, running through St. Louis, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Northern Mexico and California. The estimated cost is SIOO,- 000,000, which is to be the capita! of the Company.— It is said that thirteen of the most responsible contractors of the United States have offered to build one hundred miles each on the route above described, and to take in payment fifty per cent, cash, twenty-five percent, in the bonds of the Company, and twenty-five per cent, in its atook. Coeumbus, Sept. 6, 1853. Won. Joseph Sturgis, Col. Alex. McDougald , and Col. Martin J. Crawford. Gentlemen—At a meeting of delegates ot tho Democra tic party of Muscogee county, held in Columbus this day, lion. Joseph Sturgis was unanimously nominated a candi date for Senator, and Col. McDougald and Col. Crawford were unanimously nominated as tlie candidates for Repre sentatives in the next Legislature for this county ; and we were appointed acoyimiitec to notify you ol your nomina tions and ask your acceptance, With ours and the convention’s best wishes for your suc cess ; Gentlemen, we are your obedient serv’ts. 15. V. IVERSON, 1 n JOHN QUIN, I © R. C, PATTERSON. 1 | EZEKIEL WALTERS, f g. JAS. A. REDDING, S’ ■J II,MAN D. WEST, j ° Columbus, Sept. 9tb, 1853. Yours of the 6th inst. has been received, addressed to Messrs. Crawford and McDougald and myself, informing me that a convention of the Democratic party of Muscogee county held that day, had nominated me their candidate for the Seriate at the approaching election, and had constituted you a committee to communicate the same, and ask my acceptance. Although the nomination was wholly unsolicited on my part, I do not feel at liberty to decline it, and shall, there fore, accept tlie same. 1 am, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOSEPH STURGIS. To Messrs. 15. V. Iverson and others, committee. Columbus, Sept. 9, 1853. Gentlemen—Yours of the 6th inst. has been received, ad dressed to Judge Sturgis, M. J. Crawford and myself, in forming me that a convention of tho Democratic party of Muscogee county held that day, had nominated me as one of their candidates for Representative at the approaching election, and had appointed you a committee to communi cate the same, and ask my acceptance. 1 have also seen the resolutions adopted by that conven tion, laying down the basis upon which the party would act; the resolutions arc in accordance with my views and meet my hearty approval, and 1 therefore, accept the nomi nation. Respectfully your ob’t. serv’t. alex. McDougald. To Messrs. B. V. Iverson and others, committee. Columbus, Sept. 9, 1853. Gentlemen—l have received your note informing me that Judge Sturgis, Col. McDougald and myself had been nomi nated to represent Muscogee county iu the next Legislature. I did not desire this nomination, and had I known that it was intended, 1 should have positively refused tho use of my name, but it’s now made, and I cannot, injustice to the principle upon which it was made, decline. 1 see that the old line Democracy, the Union Democra cy and the Southern Rights Whigs who support the admin istration oi Geu. Pierce, are represented by your ticket; it is, therefore, presumed that thus uniting upon terms of equality and justice between all the elements composing tho party none need complain. Very respectfully, MARTIN J. CRAWFORD. To Messrs. 15. V. Iverson and others, committee. A Card. In conformity with a resolution of Council, I have appointed the following named persons a Committee in their respective Wards to collect money for the relief of the distressed citizens of New Orleans; Ist. Ward—E. Barnard, Esq., John A. Deblois 11. 11. Greene. 2d. YY aid—Dr. J. E. Bacon, John D. Carter, Esq., T. Lomax. 3d. Ward—ll. T. Hall; J. L. Howell, Chas. S. Har rison. 4th, YY ard Col. John Quin, R. R. Goetchius, Dr. Pond. sth. Ward—Dr. E. T. Taylor, Thos. Chaffin, P Adams. 6th. Ward—lsaac Mitchell, Calvin Stratton, T. Her. rendinc*. Wynn ton—Col. John Woolf.dk, Col. Chambers, Thos Ragland, Iv.j. The Committee are requested to meet at tho Book Store of JmJan I. Il.nwll on Wednesday morning at ton o’clock, h*r the pui pose of arranging some concert action. J. L. MORTON, Mayor. The Macon Telegraph has made its appearance in anew and handsome dress. We are pleased to notice this evidence of the wcll-dcserved prosperity of that ably conducted journal. ‘Hip Soil ol Hie South, September Number. Tins valuable Agricultural and Horticultural Journal is again upon our table. It is eminently practical in its teachings, and probably contains more original mat ter from pens of practical Southern farmers and gard eners, than any other work published in the United States. No man can follow its teachings and fail to make a good crop, and secure a supply of the best vegetables and the finest fruit the year around ; in this | respect the Soil of the South is unrivalled. The follow ing is tho table of contents for this month : Pane. CHUNNEKUGGEE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. An Address by Hon. G. E. Thomas, fill AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATION’S. God made the Earth, hut Man must make it Pro ductive. G 45 Carrots for Horses and Cattle, !>y W. C. Daniel 1 647 Parsnips and Carrots, by W. C. Daniell, 617 Breeding Poultry, 648 The Rescue Grass, by B. V. Iverson, 649 Plantation Festival {*,59 Sweet Potatoes—llowto keep them, by N. Clay ton, 65i A Banter, by C. A. Rose, 651 AGRICULTURAL EDITORIAL. Work for the Month, 652 Lots for Winter Grazing, 652 The Southern Planters’ Convention,.... \.. *. 652 Long Staple Cotton, 553 Pc s—How to Prevent the Moth, ............. 653 Tho State Fair at Augusta, Ga., 653 Grass and Field Seeds, 653 Grasses tor the South 653 Acknowledgments-—Wheat, &c., ...... 654 Tli - ’ ;>v on the Treatment of Slaves, 654 Min-i . Domestic Poultry Book 654 Dr. DauiciTs Letters, 654 IlOi. i i'd.TURAL COMMUNICATIONS. Peache-s and Peach Orchards, by Robt. Nelson, 665 Ormim.-ntu! Frees, by C. T. Deakc, 666 Pir-t liiipre-sioiis ot the Crystal Palace,by C. A. P. 6G6 I caches and insect Blight, 667 HORTICULTURAL EDITORIAL. Onion Culture at the South, 60S Garden Work for September 668 Gypsum for Garden Purposes, 668 Incredulity, 669 Mobile Horticultural Society, 669 The Fruit Orchard, 669 The Flower Garden, 669 ‘l’lie Strawberry Bed, 669 Georgia Home Gazette, 669 HORTICULTURAL AND AGRICULTURAL MISCELLANY. Guano on Turnips, 667 French National Garden, 669 i Trees from Seed, 670 Destroying Effluvia 670 Steam Engines on Farms, 651 Mineral Manure Theory, by Jno. P. Norton,... 654 Chemistry and Agriculture, with Liebig’s State ment,.. 654 Cotswold Sheep, 659 Milch Cows, 660 Guinea Grass, 661 Science Answering Simple Questions, 662 Laying Out Surfaces, 662 Condensed History of Steam, 663 The Great Cities of the World,. 663 Kindness to Animals, 664 Wagon Grease, 664 A Cordial Invitation, ... 661 Varnish for Iron Works, 664 Urine . 004 Generous and Kind. —Wo understand that His Hon or the Mayor has received advices from tho proper au thorities of the Howard xYssociation of New Orleans, enclosing a resolution that lias been passed, to refund to the citizens of this place the amount contributed by them for the relief of New Orleans, in consideration of the need that may exist for it among our own commu nity. The xYssociation at the same time offer to ren der any other assistance that may bo in their power. The promptness of this action gives evidence -of a fra ternal foeling on the part of onr brethren of New Orleans which is worthy of all praise. And as for our own citi zens, the bread which they cast upon the wators has been speedily returned to thorn. —Mobile Advertiser. Fire in Montgomery, Ala.— The -Metropolitan Fe male Institute was consumed on Friday 2d inst. The loss is estimated at $20,000 and falls principally on Rev. Mr. Lipscomb, The Railroad to Eufaula. At a meeting of the Town Council of tho city of Columbus held in the Council Chamber Sept. 7th, inst., the following resolution was offered by Alderman Robi son and unanimously adopted : Resolved, That tlie Mayor bo instructed to eall a meet ing of the citiz* ns of Columbus, for tho purpose of con sidering the propriety of making a subscription t**. tlie Eufaula Railroad, at such time in the month of October as h# may deem suitable ; and that he lake such steps as are necessary to secure a lull meeting. It is proper to state, for the information of tlie citizens of EufaUln, that a large number of our business men are now absent from the city and will not probably return until October ; on that account the meeting is called in October. There is a very general feeling in this city in favor of a railroad connection with Eufaula, and we have not a shadow of a doubt but that the Council will subscribe fifty thousand dollars if there is a reasonable probability that that amount will guarantee the Road. Wc will give notice of the time agreed on for the meet ing and we shall be pleased to see the friends of the Road at Eufaula and elsewhere at the meeting. Come up, gentlemen, and let us hear from you. [correspondence of ttie times and sentinel.J Mobile, August 29,1853. That scourge of tho Gulf of Mexico, the Yellow Fever, is among us, and is “walking by night and wasting by noon-day.” It made its first appearance about three weeks after it began to rage publicly in New Orleans. YVe first lieard ot two cases—tlie board ol health, unable to get full reports of eases, began to report the interments. Then commencing at four a day, have been steadily and rapidly increasing, until the last report gave us 35 deaths for the 24 hours ending last evening, of which 29 were from tho dreaded vornito. The number of deaths affords no just criterion of the number of eases, because a great many cases are cured. Differing from us usual custom, the fever has not come upon ns like a tornado, at the onset, striking down its first victims with incurable malady. On the con trary, the Physicians say, they have never known it so easi ly manageable when taken hold of at the first attack—but delay is fatal. Let the poison work a tew hours and you need not cull on any earthly doctor—the grave-digger and undertaker are sure of anew job. Anew practice has been adopted with remarkable suc cess by two or three of our most eminent physicians ; and it is so curious and simple that 1 cannot forbear to mention it. It is merely one large dose ot Quinine (20 grains) taken as soon as the unmistakable symptoms show themselves. It Believes the racking pains in the head and back, puts the pa tient to sleep, and he wakes up iu a perspiration, cured. I know a physician in New Orleans, who has pursued this practice and hus not lost a case, where the remedy was immediately given. It has proved highly successful here. llare you ever been in a city, during the prevalence of a deadly epidemic ? I saw this city in 1839, the most fatal season within the recollection ot the present generation of citizens. To add to the gloom of that season, Incendia rism walked hand in hand with death, and human depravity heightened the iiorrors of a community blighted by the breath of Pestilence. Whole blocks of the city wore burnt to the ground, and night after night the city lire bell rung out the alarm of danger to the stricken city. Things wear now wonderfully the aspect of that period. True, we are not visited by the fire fiend, invited by the worse than hu man fiends. The population of tlie city has greatly in creased since 1839. But when you turn your eyes upwards, and behold a sky of deepest blue, a sun shining with a per fect clearness of radiance, a cool North wind that ought to brace you ; and then walk down a street, and see women and children weeping at doors and windows—a funeral procession bearing another victim homo—hearses and dead - carts trotting in the haste of an active business ; and then as you pass among your acquaintances, learn the new re ports of the hour—A. died last night; 15. has black vomit; C. was seized this morning ; D. is past recovery. When you see the Doctors flying from place to place with wearied bones —faithful ministers of God worn down with visits to thii dying and performing the last rites to the dead —men walkifig with pale faces through the atmosphere of death — when you see a city, bathed in the effulgence of a sun of unclouded brightness, yet lugubrious with all the emblems and signs of disease, morta ity and death—you will see what yellow fever is in Mobile. At this moment of writing, while probably hundreds of the people of tlie city are on their backs with the fever, to the eye a brighter and more beautiful day has never smiled upon the earth. Dr. \Y r . k. Northall, one of the editors of the N. O. Del ta, died of tlie fever a lew days since at Hollywood, a wa- | teiiug place on tho Eastern side of Mobile Bay. He was lately from New Oilcans, whence he brought tlie seeds of death. While the visitations of Providence in the form of pesti lence produce so many harrowing pictures, it is a consola tion, that these scenes of woe often give us reason to thank God lor the redeeming traits of goodness and charity and heroism, which implanted in cur mixed natures,are brought to light by these touches of the rod of Divine wrath. YVe read in New Orleans of ministers of the Gospel re turning trom the North, where, they were seeking health and relaxation, to beard the King of Terrors in their ad ministrations to their flocks. YVe hear of physicians ex piring at their posts, with their harness on their hacks, like faithful soldiers. YVe read with admiration ot the heroic labors ot the Catholic Sisters of Charity, a number of whom have died in the performance of their holy offices of Chari ty to tho poor, sick and dying. And to-day, we have here another proof ol the glorious philanthropy of that glorious Institution, tho ‘"Howard Association,’’ of New Orleans. Sometime ago, tho citizens of Mobile raised by subscrip tion a suniot money and sent it to this society for tlie use of the indigent sick ot that city. To-day it is announced that the May 01 of Mobile has received a note from its Secreta ry, returning the money, to be used for the relief of the Mo bile sick ; and offering, moreover, tin services of the Asso ciation in any way in which they can be made av ailable for the relief ot this sister city. How glorious arc these traits oi goodness in human nature! How God-like is Charity! And how is the gloom <>t jiestilence and death relieved and lighted up by these flashes of immortality even from this side the tomb ! But, bless me, 1 have written you a most pestilential let ter. it savors of tlie atmosphere which surrounds me. Al low me to hope that you are breathing a purer political atmosphere in Georgia, and that c,ur people will stand by the old Democratic flag, & tlie best of Republican & South ern administrations on the first Monday of next October, il possible, I shall be at home to give one vote to swell the 1 poll in favor of the good and true cause of Democracy. [FOR TIIK TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Letter from Mr. Kllis, of Stewart County. Messrs. Editors: Having been requested by many of my id low citizens of Stewart county, to set forth tho reasons lor my political position, and request their publication in ] your paper, yet it has been with reluctance, arid not until I 1 have been charged with political inconsistency as a Union Democrat for taking mv place in the ranks of tile great National Democratic Party of the United States, that I have been able to obtain mv consent to comply. When the late Whig administration of the general government was drawing to a close tile two contending national parties (Whig and Democratic) owing to the several questions aris ing out of the slavery agitation at tho North and the newly acquired territories were found temporarily divided into several distinct parties. Thenecessityof national organiza tions arose out of tho fact that anew President was to be elected. xYecordingly a call was made upon all the wings of the Democratic party to assemble at Baltimore m June, 1852, to agree upon a common platform and re-unite tiie party. The convention met, the Democratic party was re-united by re-affirming the time-honored resolutions of the party as had been repeatedly published before, with the single addition of acquiescence in the compromise measures ol 1850, and a pledge to carry them out in all their bear ings. Franklin Pierce was nominated and placed upon it as the democratic candidate for the Presidency, who in his letter of acceptance asserted that they met the approbation of his judgment. It seemed to me that there was now no longer any cause for local divisions in the party. xYecord ingly 1 voted for the regular Picrco and King ticket, and thereby brought myself under obligation to support the ad ministration so long as it carried out the principles upon which it was brought into existence, and to regard all as democrats who did the same, no matter from what party they camo, North or South, so long as they continued to support the same principles. Here I might, as a Union democrat, close this letter hut for the fact, that anew organization lias arisen in Georgia I claiming my support as a union man. I therefore be- your indulgence while I examine some of its component ele ments. Ist. It is not the union party of 1850, because that party was virtually dissolved in 1852. For authority I re fer to a letter written by Mr. Jenkins, the present candidate for Governor,and published about June, 1852, in which hc stated that the Union party had accomplished all the ob jects ol its creation, and that the members might then con sistently fail back into the whig and democratic parties 2d. Because the recently organized party repudiated the name ol Constitutional Union party, and substituted some thing or nothing else in its stead. 3d. Because they have adopted resolutions in relation to the administrative policy ol the General Government, which was unknown to the Union party and which every individual has theri-htto approve or disapprove. 4th. Because the leaders of that party array themselves against the present administration and its head; who is pledged tojsarry out all the provirions ot the compromise ol 1850, and which challenges anv proof ol having m one instance departed from or foiled to carry out the said pledge ; and it is well known that acqui escence in the compromise was the sole issue made bv the Unton party agam.-t any other party whatever From the c and other reasons, I cannot see how any man who i- a democrat in principle and in fact, can give his support to a party organized in opposition to his principles. But still they claim the support ol the Union democrats, because they say that the former Southern Rights win- of the par ty being in the ascendency in Georgia, have not given them an equal share ol offices and nominations. This if true (which 1 do not admit,) is an appeal to our passions rat her than our pnnciples, and whenever a man tails but will, a ’ and gives his support to its enemies, merely because sin.. one else has been preferred-before him, for’ some office to which be may have asfnred, he is a demagogue and unfit to trust any where. But they further assert that “the righte oithe Southern States are m great and imminent danger and the principles ol the Georgia Convention are -r"ariv jeoparded by any pq itical party which recognises the emolnmente” ° erS <W “T 1 *? of t>ab 4 WZ In a subsequent resolution they declare that “both the old parties (meaning the wing and democratic) havebcen faithless to their olt repeated pledges,” &e Tims Vi ill intents and purposes, they are‘a sSrionnl and Sou e Rights party, not known out ot the Statu ofGeor-ia su fee to all the objections; yea, more, that they tblSv “ ure die Southern Rights party ol 18511, because there \nuc then issues Injure thccountry upon which such t nir President Pierce has appointed some men who had been ■ ■ tllls t ' il!ir E e in made With as much emphasis s it these men were not pledged to the demo cratic platform ol 1852. I confess that this charge would have come with much bettor grace from some other quarter than the Fillmore and Webster wings of Georgia!’for it will not be seriously denied any where, that these men were free sotlere ol the.deepest dye : for Webster declared and never recalled it, that he never would give his sanc tion to the extension of slavery one inch beyond the limits of the old thirteen fetates.” And Fillmore retained in his cabinet to the.last, the notorious Tom Corwin, au aboli tionist of the deepest dye, yet these men were safe to trust as Presidents, and the rights of the South wouldhave been safe in the opinion of these politicians in their hands, wh>:.. it is in great and imminent danger in the hands of the pre sent Executive, because he has appointed a few men who one© belonged to the free soil wing of the democratic party to office. O consistency, where art thou? Bat our pas sions are further appealed to, beeause a Union democrat was not nominated upon the present democratic ticket this county. I therefore feel it my duty to state, that thi? was not the fault of Southern Rights men, for I know it was the desire of all that I conversed with, both before and on the day of nomination, that a Union democrat be placed on tho ticket. Tlie nomination was tendered to me, |> u t it was impossible for me to accept; Olliers were narn< and with similar success, until at Lowe was placed on the ticket at my suggestion, as the man most acceptable to tlie Union democrats, that I knew of. Thus I have briefly noticed some of the most prominent positions taken by the opponents of General Pierce’s ad ministration, from all of which I cannot see how any man who is a democrat in principle and in fact, can give io tit,* present Conservative party of Georgia his support; for sure ly any man would subject himself to the charge of ih. most flagrant inconsistency, to vote to bung an adminis tration into existence and then affiliate himself with its ene mies, in an effort to break it down. Respectfully, JAMES P. ELLIS. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] To Hines Hol! t Esq. Sir : I take tlie liberty of addressing yon llirougli the pub lic prints, because 1 think tho period has arrived when the citizens ol this Circuit may claim th** fulfilment of your promise, to allow your name to be used as an independent candidate for Judge of this Judicial Circuit. Il l understand your position from your letter, it is iu substance, that you would not accept a party nomi nntion for the office of Judgo, hut that if it was the wish of the citizens of the Circuit to invest you with the ermine, you would not fee! at liberty to withhold your name. 1 have made it my business to learn the views oi the citizens of the Circuit, and lain free to say. that the desire is very general, to hold the Judicial office above the intrigues of a political nomination. The peo ple, without reference to party, wish to confer this office, involving as it dots, the life and property of the sub jects, upon an incumbent, in whose integrity and capaci ty they have unlimited confidence, and they feel that however unexceptionable tbc present candidate may be, that they owe it to themselves, to set the seal of their disapprobation upon this, the first effort in the State, of giving a partisan character to the election of a Judicial officer. I am aware that it i6 asking you to sacrifice some thing in allowing your name to be used against that of “a regular nominee,” for, independent of tho strength that this position gives the candidate, you must expect that violent partisans will owe you no good will for al lowing your name to be used against their decrees ; but the man that will not sacrifice something of self, to ad-., vance a principle, would be unworthy the office whioh we feel you would fill with so much honor. Confident that you will adorn the one, wo have no doubt of your readiness to yield to the general wish and notify your many friends publicly of your willingness to serve them. Should you comply with this request at an early day you will oblige many citizens, and among others, ‘/our Obd’t Servant, A MEMBER OF THE BAR. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Columbus, Sept. 9, 1853. Messrs. Editors : I reached this city yesterday after an absence ol more titan two mouths, and find the question of my candidacy for Judge ot the Chattahoochee Circuit still, to some extent, agitated. As I have been directly approached on this subject through your columns of the 7th inst., by “A member of the Bar,” will you allow me their use, so far as to say, in reply to that communication and to all other enquiries, that 1 am not a candidate. In a lonner letter addressed to a gentleman of the Circuit, anil which met the eye oi tlie public, through tne Columbus Hnquirer oftire Mth of June, I said, and in so saying, was entirely sincere, that 1 did not desire the office, fat the same time intimated that 1 should not feel at liberty to de cline a call to it by the people of the Circuit, (not by a par ty) it made under such circumstances as indicated that the office sought me as its incumbent, rather than I the office. Near three mouths have elapsed since the letter alluded to, and I do not led that any such call has been made upon rue. VY Jiilo I have received the personal and flattering solici tations of “A member of the Bar” and many valued friends to bccqme a candidate, the evidence has not been by any means afforded that such is tho desire of the people of the Circuit. On tho contrary,so far as any indication has been made it has been in lavor of another; and whatever may be my individual opinion of tho policy and propriety of party nominations in this particular connection, it constitutes the most marked expression of the popular will to which pub licity has been given. Duly sensible of the individual pteferencc of “A member olthe Ur and others, 1 feel that no violence is done to their friendship or to any duty which I owe the public— Willie 1 indulge my own preference in announcing that I am not a candidate. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant. HINES HOLT. Tl,c Trial of a Railroad Conductor. —'The ease of Comstock, the conductor of the New Haven road, whose trial has been going on at Danbury, ou the charge of manslaughter, growing out of the Norwalk disaster was concluded at New Haven on the 29th ult., without convicting the conductor. Tile-jury stood 9 for and 3 against conviction. The Judge, however, sent them out to reconsider the case. ITT Mrs. Marble’s School commences Monday, 26th inst. For particulars, see advertisement. The Lanier House, Macon. — We understand that this popular Establishment has passed into the hands of George M. 1-ogan, Esq., to whom the travelling pub lic must hereafter look for a large proportion of those ‘•creature comforts,” which are to be found in that goodly city. Mr. Logan is well known through all of Middle and Upper Georgia as a man of enlarged and liberal feelings, and as every way calculated to pleaso the public, and make a fortune. In his position wo sincerely hope he may succeed in both.— Sao. Courier. The Late Robt. Rantoul, Jr.— lt is stated by tho Nashua Gazette that tile administrator of the estate of the Into lion. Robert Rantoul, jr., of Massachusetts, has received $3;j0,000, or certificates that sum, as fits share in the Illinois Central Railroad, the bill granting public lands for the construction of which road was strenuously advocated by Mr. R. while in Con gross. The Soil of the South.- The September number is promptly issued, presenting unusually high claims upon the consideration of the filler of the’ soil. No far tner can afford to be without a good agricultural jour nal, and “The Soil of the South' ’ is among tho most ably conducted of its class. Terms only $1 per au num. xYddress Messrs. Lomax <fc Kiiis, Columbus. [Savannah Georgian. Wron S- —Tl>O telegraphic announcement of the death of Professor Bathe, the other day, was wrong. It should have said Pietro Bad i, who’for twenty years was instructor in Harvard University. Francis Edymion, of whom I wrote you as having procured his pardon by means of forged papers, has been set at liberty ; the Court deciding that the Gover nor cannot go behind his pardon. Shipwreck. —We learn with regret that the Ship Asia, Capt. Robinson, which cleared hero for Europe on the 27th ult, was driven ashore ..n Sand rslund <>„ |.. st Wednesday night. The Ship will boa total | <VK “ , understand, and probably but little other cargo which consisted of spars, handspikes, hewn timber and J.. 0 k plank, cap be saved. — Mobile Register , Col. Thomas F. Saffold. The D^T ev of the ,th Congressional D,strict made choice „f this tie.,.an as their standard bearer, at the Convention at Hamilton on the 31st nit. We have ,i. , , . ll 1” pleasure of laying (i acceptance before our readers t u .,fo y Co s, Saffold is well known in this District as a of high character for integrity and intelligence. He belonged to tlia Union Democracy under the late di visions, but is now united heart and hand with bisiw eratic brethren and Republican Whig., j a support of our popular President. If the people of the 7th Con gressional District wish to be represented at Washrii ton they wig send Col. Saffold to Congress. His on ponent w,II be a cypher if elected. Col. Saffold will address the people of this district at such times and places os will be hereafter designated.— Fed. Union.