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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
MORNING, FEBRUARY 3.
Free Trade autl Low Unties.
There is an effort to convict the Democratic party of
inconsistency because they wiH not stultify themselves
by advocating free trade and direct taxation. This
never was Democratic doctrine. Even Mr. Calhouu.
the great and leading advocate of free trade, never ucg
ed the abandonment of the tariff system of raising reve
nue. In a speech ou the passage of the Tariff Bill,
delivered in the Sanate,. August 5.h, 1842, Mr. Cal
houn said . “The great popular party (Democratic,) is
already rallied almost en masse around the banner
which is leading the party to its final triumph. Tile
few that still lag, will soon be rallied under its ample
folds. On that banner is inscribed ; Free Trade ;
Low Duties ; No Debt ;* Separation from Banks :
Economv ; Retrenchment and strict adherence to
the constitution. Victory in such a case will be
great and glorious; and if its principles be faithfully
and firmly adhered to, after it is achieved, much will it
redound to the honor of those by whom it will have
been won ; and long will it perpetuate the liberty- and
prosperity of the country.” Calhoun s Works, voi. IV,
p. 201.
It will thus be seen, that as late as 1842, the most
ultra of the Southern Democrats only asked for Free
Trade and Low Duties; and considered victory in
such a ease as great and glorious, and destined long to
perpetuate the liberty and prosperiiy of the country.
It will thus be seen furthermore that Direct Taxation
never was a part of the platform either of the Democ
racy or of the Free Trade party of the South. It is a
new heresy, which must be defended on its ovtn merits.
None of the great names of the past can be used to
bolster it up.
There is also an effort being made to induce the be
lief that revenue tariffs, or low duties, are inconsistent
with free trade. We have heretofore asserted that
taxes of all kinds are a burthen upon trade—that du
ties on imports burthened trade by disabling the im
porter ; and that direct taxes burthened trade by dis
abling the importer’s customer ; and that trade could
be as free under an equal and just revenue tariff as
under a system of direct taxation. These plain pro
positions have been laughed at by the New Lights.
Perhaps they will hear one of the prophets. By refe
rence to page 175, vol. 4, Works of Calhouu, they will
find the folllowing striking words :
“No two things, Senators, are more different than
duties for revenue and protection. They are as oppo
site as light and darkness. The one is Jnendly , and
the other hostile, to the importation of the article on
which they may be imposed. Revenue seeks not to
exclude or diminish the amuuut imported ; on the con
trary, if that should be the result, it neither designed
nor desired it. While it takes it patronizes, and pat
ronizes that it may take more. ’
Backed by such high authority we dare to maintain
even against the leaders of the new Columbus Move
ment, that a revenue tariff is not hostile to tree trade.
In the very nature of things, a tariff for revenue can
never be so btgti as to protimn the importation or tnev
artioles upon which it is laid : and if importation is not
prohibited by a revenue tariff, trade is not and cannot
be impeded by it.
There is a great mistake among the New Lights as
to the position of parties on this question of taxation.
The Democratic party have always made war upon
protective and prohibitory tariffs, but never upon reve
nue tariffs. This is still their position, bod the Corner
Stone need have no unneasiness as to the result of the
agitation of Free Trade and direct taxation upon the
members of that party. They know what they are
about, and are iu no danger of being driven upon old
Whig ground by the attack of the Guerrilla bands, or
rather free companies which now fight under the ban
ner of Free Trade and Direct Taxation. We have
triumphed over the old Whig protective policy without
losing our self-possession, and will hardly bo jostled by
the pigmy efforts of the Columbus Movement —a move
ment by the way, whioh is likely to die when it found
life and called movement—lucus a non luccndo.
Kansas Atl ft Re—J l ‘sSKSSfi “
taken by the Know Nothing press of the South on
Kausas affairs sorely tempts us to do so. After ap
proving the principle of the Kansas bill anddenounoing all
who opposed it as enemies of the South, they turned
round and denounced that principle as worse for the
South than the Wilmot Proviso. But this we could
forgive; but what apology can be offered for their
oeaseltss efforts to convice the Southern people that
the soil, climate and productions of Kansas are unsuit
ed to slave labor; and that it never can be admitted
into the Union as a slave State? They must know
that there is no more congenial home for Southern
institutions in all the land, than is found in western
Missouri, and that a mere imaginary line is the boun
dary between this negro paradise and the territory of
Kansas ; and that nothing is required to secure Kansas
to the South but a steady tide of emigration thither
during the current year.
The Southern men in Kansas have by no means given
up that virgin Territory to the abolitiouists. A pro
slavery convention was to have been held at Lecomp
ton, K. TANARUS., on the second Mouday iu Jauuary, for the
purpose of taking preparatory steps towards the for
mation of a Slate constitution. The spirit which
animated that Convention will be gathered from the fol
lowing resolution unanimously adopted by the citizens
of Kickapoo, when assembled iu primary meeting to
appoint delegates to said convention :
3. Resolved, That our delegates to the convention be in
structed so to act as to secure to all parties their equal
rights, equal privileges and equal liberties, but at the same
time so to act as to secure by pacific and legal measures
the admission of Kansas into the American confederation
with a Constitution recognizingthe cherished institutions of
the South, and by these means securing the perpetuity of
the American Union.
Neither have the friends of Kansas in the Southern
States given up the contest, Capt. ClaytoD, of Clay- i
ton, Ala., who so successfully emigrated a prosperous
colony to Kansas last Fall and located them near Te
eumseh, K. TANARUS., will take out in the Spring a much
larger and more imposing colony. Other patriotic
citizens from other portions of the South will doubtless
follow his example, sad western Missouri will literally
empty her population upon the Territory.
We never can believe that Kausas will be tamely sur
rendered by the South until the deed is done. The
loss of Kansas is the almost certain loss of Missouri ;
ami wheu once the God Terminus begins to move his
altars into the heart of a country, its destiuy is prefigur-.
ed in the fate of Rome.
In connection with this subject, it may be as well to
correct a gross misrepresentation, now going the rounds
of the Know Nothing press, in referc-uce to Alex. H.
Stephens. It is charged by these untruthful publish
ers that Mr. Stephens admitted in his reoent speech in
Congress that “Kansas never could be a slave State;
that its soil, climate and productions were not adapted
to slavery.’’
Now we have read Mr. Stephens’ speech, which is
more than his slanderers can say, we [dare say, and
tnke it upon ourselves to affirm that Mr. Stephens
never made any such admission, Here is what Mr.
Stephens did say ;
“A people who would maintain their rights must look
to principles much more than to practical results. The
independence of the United States was declared and es
tablished in the vindication of an abstract principle. Mr.
Wetteter never uttered a great truth in simpler language—
for which he was so much distinguished—than when he
said, ‘’The American Revolution was fought on a pream
ble.” It was not the amonnt of the tax on tea, but theas
eertion (in the preamble of the bill taking oft the tax) of
the right in the British Parliament to tax the Colonies,
without representation, that out lathers resisted; and it was
the principle of unjust and uncons.national congressional
action against the institutions of alt the Southern States of
tins Union, that we, in 1830, resisted by our votes, and
would have resisted by our aims if the wrong bad been
perpetrated. Those from the South who supported the
Mete Mexico a.ni Utah bills, did so because this principle
o! congressional restriction was abandoned in them. It
was not frortiany confidence, in a practical point of view,
that lleae Territories fNew Mexico ana Utah] ever would
be slave States The great constitutional and essential
right to be so if they chose was secured to them. That
was the main point. This, at least, was the ease with mv
setf; lorwrhen I looked out upon our vast Territories of
the West and Northwest, 1 did not then, nor do 1 now,
consider that there was or is much prospect of many di
them, particularly the latter, becoming slave. States. Be
sides, the laws of climate,soil, and productions, there is
another law not unoliserved by mo, which seemed to be
Suite as efficient in its perspective operations in giving a
itTerent character to their institoiions, and that is the law
pi’ population. There were, at the last census, near twen-
ty millions of whites in the United States, and oely a frac
tion over three millions of blacks, or slaves. The stock
from which tiie population of the latter class must, spring,
is two small to keep pace- in diffusion, expansion, and
settlement with the former. The ratio is not much greater
than one to seven, to say nothing of foreign immigration,
and the known facts in relation to the tardiness with
which slave population is pushed into new countries and
frontier settlements Hence the greater importance to the
South of a rigid adherence to principles on this subjeet
.vital to them. If flic slightest encroachments ol power are
permitted or submitted P > in the terrworiep. they may reach
the States ultimately. And although I baked, and still
look, upon thejrrobabiiities of Kansas being a slave Stale,
as greater than I did New and Utah, vet l vo
ted for the hill pi IrtSf, with the view iij maintaining the.
principle much tun: e than / did to such practical results.
Asa Southern man, considering the relation which the
African bears to the white race in the. SroutHem States, as
the yery beet condition for the greatest good ol both; and
as a national man, looking to the best interests ol the conn
try.the peace and harmony of the whole by a preserva
tionof the balance of power, as fares can bo (for, after
all, the surest check to encroachments is. the inability to
make them,) 1 should prefer to see Kansas come into the
Union as a slave State; but it was not with the view or
propose of effecting that result that I voted for the Kansas
bill, any more than it was with the view or purpose ol
accomplishing similar results as to New Mexico and Utah
that 1 sapported the measures of 1850. It was -to secure
the right to come in as a slave State, if the people there
so wished, and to maintain a principle, which I then
thought, and still think, essential to the peace of the coun
try and the ultimate security ol the rights ol the South.”
Farr-Passuism.
This is a term applied by the New Orleans Della
to the proposition of the Richmond Enquirer to extend
Southern institutions pari passu with Northern insti
tutions; or in other words, to admit anew Southern
State whenever a dcw Northern State is added to the
Union. The Richmond Enquirer suggest pari-passu
ism as a remedy for the sectional agitation which now
disturbs the peace of the country. So far as the reme
dy is practicable, it will unquestionably be acted upon
in the future, as it has been acted upon in the past, in
the admission of new States into the Union. But sup
pose a time shall come when a State shall be ripe for
admission into the Union from one section of the Union,
when no corresponding State shall offer from the op
posite section—what then ? Shall the new State be
again wrapped in swadling clothes and bo made to suf
fer the deprivations of a uecond infancy ; or shall the
old States be cut up jnto as many new States as the
exigencies of the case may require ; or shall we go filli
bustering and take and make new States whenever
they are needed? Unless one or the other of these
expedients are resorted to, the new remedy of pari
passuism wilt not work, and had better be discarded.
It is an expedient at best, useful when convenient, but
wholy insufficient for a foundation principle which
is always founded on troth, if it proves efficient. We
would respectfully suggest to that class of Southern pa
triots who are perplexing to discover some
means of preserving tlio Federal Union, and, at the
same time, of protecting Southern Rights from Federal
aggression, that our system of governments affords every
guaranty that the wit of man can devise for the attain
ment of these great ends, and if it shall fail of its mis
sion, f'uTl proof will be thereby afforded that the Union
of the States is incompatible with the rights of the peo
ple ; aod the sooner it is dissolved the better for all par
ties concerned.
Equal representation and social and civil equality are
necessary ingredients in any system of government
for Americans. They would rebel against any other
‘ system as anarchical or tyranical. But these ingredients
cannot enter into a government, for a people devided
in interest, in morals and in affeotious. They necessa
rily lead to the oppression of the weaker section, under
such circumstances. lienee we utterly despair of the
Republic, if the sectional controversy on the subjeet of
slavery is not ended,and the old eoidiality is not restored to
the citizen, North and South. The Southern man has
no confidence iu the justice, moderation, or patriotism
of a large portion of his Northern brethren ; and doubt
less the Northern man reciprocates the compliment.—
This state of things cannot endure long in a govern
ment like ours, where the passions aod prejudices of
the majority dictate govermental policy.
Resources of Georgia.
We find in the Constitutionalist a letter from Peter
son Thweatt, Esq., under date of Jam 3d, 1557, which
throws some light upon the resources of Georgia. We
clip the following paragraph from the’ letter :
“The tax payers of Georgia, in 1856, ’-ore- required
to return to the various Receivers of Tax Returns, snob
Receivers have returDed to this office the following
amount of property, given iu and returned for ISSO,
viz. :
416,735 staves, valued at $210,538,634
32,034,413 acres of land, valued at 131,720,986
City or Towu propci ty, “ 26,179,614
Money and solvent debts “ , 78,075,766
Merchandise • 9,197,098
Foreign Bank Capital 1,270,109
Capital invested in Shipping or Tonnage 766,450
All other Capital invested in stocks of any
kinds, manufactories or otherwise 4,197,650
Value of household and kitcheu furniture,
above S3OO 1,978,044
Aggregate value of all other propel ty not
before enumerated, except plantation
anil mechanical tools, annual crops, pro
visions, &o 31,584,545
Aggregate value of whole property return
ed on Tax 800k5...(... 495,516,224
Then add Bank Capital. $11,500,000, Rail
road Capital $17,000,000! 28,500,000
And we have ,$524,016,224
Democratic State Convention.
The Savannah Georgian suggests that the nominat
ing convention of the Democratic party be postpoued
to the middle or last of August; and gives the follow
ing reasons in support of the proposition :
“The custom of holding Conventions and nominating
candidates in the beginning of Summer, not to be voted
for until the second month in Autumn—thus necessitat
ing a political campaign during four long, hot, sickiy
months—is a had custom. It is an annoyance to the
public, a gtievance to candidates; but above all things,
it places an intolerable bnrthen upon the political press.
Why not shorten the campaign to a month or six
weeks ?” Sensible.
Joumal Ac Messenger on the Governorship.
lu commenting upon the poiiey of running B. 11.
Hill, Ksq.,for Governor, the Journal <{• Messenger says
“We do not know whether Col. Hili will accept,
though he is likely to receive the nomination from the
people by acclamation—we mean that portion of the
people who are opposed to caucus domination and dic
tation, and are in favor of reform (?) We know not wheth
er we can support him if he should accept.
subject of national politics we presume Georgia will be
a nnit in the approaching State contest. That is, if
Mr. Buehauan shall give to the country a sound, con
stitutional administration, he will be sustained by con
servative men of all parties. If, on the other hand, he
should fail to do so, ho will hardly receive the support
of any party at the South .”
The True Union—Change of editors.
AV e regret to learn that Win. F. Samford, Esq.,
has retired from the editorial management of the True
Union : —a paper started by him some seven months
back, and which was felt at cuce, as a power, iD the
State, by the power and brilliancy of its leaders. Eve
ry issue of the True Union sparkled with genius,
while Samford presided over its destiny. As an old
friend, we congratulate Mr. Samford on his release
from the routine of editorial life ; but as a citizen we
deplore the event of his retirement from the press, as a
public calamity.
“lie has illustrated, says the Montgomery Advertiser,
even dull political subjects with the accomplishments
and graces of scholarship. Wilh the clearest percep
tion, he unites great and unusual political inhumation,
and applieslprineiples to facts, or summons, from an in
exhaustible store, facts for the enforcement of principles.
We speak from our personal knowledge when we
describe him ns a gentleman of the largest and most
genial sympathies, of the greatest intellectual cultiva
tion and refinement, of a noble charity, and a love
‘■wide as the world for freedom and mankind.’’ We
wish him, in bis retirement, happiness, health and pros
ity.”
Messrs. W. W. MaßOn and Charles A. Price are
his successors. They ate worthy and well qualified
for the task they have undertaken.
The Organ. —Air. Pryor, of Ibe Richmond Enquirer,
says he does not desire and would not accept the ap
pointment of Editor of the Organ undet the inoomiug
administration.
Death of Dr, Wm. B. Bacon.
The numerous friends and acquaintances of this ex
ceUtut citizen, will r.-gret to learn that he is do more.
Tie expired at the Perry House, in this city, on Sunday
evening, 25th inst, after a short, but severe, attaek ol
Pneumonia.
Dr. Bacon leaves a name as pure as the morning,
as an inheritance to his relatives and friends. He was
a man of large benevolence,; to need was to have his
sympathy ; lo ask was to secure his qliarity. lie was
3 devoted friend, and never let ail opportunity slip
of doing'a kindness Vo those he loved. Amid all his
aifi etions, he was a cheerful and genial companion, and
oontnbqted his full share to the entertainment of the
social cirele in which he moved. H\s death is deeply
and universally regretted in this community. lie left
no euemy behind him.
Death of Hon. Walker Anderson.
This distinguished citizen died at Pensacola, Fla.,
on the 18th inst., in the 55th year of his age. Mr.
A, was born in Petersburg, Va. ; was educated in the
University of North Carolina, aud for some time after
wards, wasProfossor of Rhetoric* in that Institution. He
emigrated to Florida in early manhood and engaged
in the practice of the Law, and soon rose to distinc
tion. Ue was a member of the convention whioh fra
med the Constitution-of his adopted Slate ; represented
Escambia county in the Territorial aud State Legisla
ture ; was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the State ; and was twice appointed Navy ugent
at the Pensacola station. In his death, says the obit
uary notice from which we collect the foregoing, the
legal profession has lost a brilliant member, and liter
ature and science an ardent votary.
Mr. A. was brother-in-law of Rev, Mr. Hawkes,
of this city.
Death ol Amand I’. Plistcr.
A. P. Pfister died in Montgomery, Ala., 12 o’clock,
t might, 28th inst. Hu was for many years Grand
Secretary of the Grand Lodges ol’ Masons end Odd
Fellows of the State of Alabama. The Mail says of
him :
“A thoroughly accomplished gentleman, of the most
wior.ing address, Col. Pfister was equally the sagacious
man of business. Asa citizen, he was publ’e spirited,
end lost no opportunity of aiding whatever tended lo
the public good ; while his heat and his purse were
always wide opto (o the unfortunate. Emphatically,
he was a friend to the stranger.’’
Depth of Water at Savannah.
A writer in the Savannah .Veres, Jan. 24th, furnish
es the following information on this interesting sub
jeet :
“The ship Mary Ogden, from Cardiff, with Railroad
iron, arrived on Friday, and w*as anchored off Tybee
light, and on Saturday was brought up to Venus’ Point.
This ship draws seventeen and a half foot, and will
have to lighten at her present anchorage, nine miles
below the city. Now, if she could have been brought
to within six and half miles, why was she not brought
up ? About a year ago the ship Falcoa, from Cardiff,
with Railroad iron, passed over the ’‘wrecks,’’ drawing
seventeen feet and three inches, and was moored to
her wharf in this city. A sow weeks ago the ship
Chattahoochee, outward bound, drawing, l am inform
ed, seventeen feet, struck on the ‘wrecks,’ and remain
ed there for several days, and it required the aid of
several stearmes to extricate her from her perilous .sit
uation. During the past summer the dredging ma
chine has been most constantly employed on these same
‘wrecks,’ and the inference to be drawn from the above
facts, is, that the depth of water at that point has not
been increased during the year.”
Snow Storm in Virgiania.
Petersburg, Va., Jan. 20.—The storm of Saturday
night aud Sunday was the most severe ever experienced
iu this vicinity. The Streets are completely blocked
up with snow, and business is almost entirely sus
pended.
Several persons are dead from the effects of the cold.
Dr. Jos. E. Cox froze to death yesterday morning,
near the residence of his son-in-law, Dr. Grymes, in
Chesterfield county. He was canght in the storm
Sonday night. IXis nephew, Robert C. Taylor, who
We have had no mails since Saturday, from any
quarter.
Arrival of the Cusseta. —The steamer Cusseta,
Capt. Stubblefield, arrived at our wharf on the 29th
inst., from Apalachicola, whioh place she left Monday,
19th, laden with iron, marble aud hardware.
Another Richmond. —The Empire Slate says
Janies 11. Stark “is the favorite *fa very large majori
ty of the Domocratio party in (that) and other sections
of the State, for the Governorship,” and urges Iris nomi
nation. Judge Stark is an excellent citizen, and would
make a good Governor.
Another Declenation, —William F. Samford,Esq.,
late of the True Union, has declined the honor of the
candidacy for Governor before the Democratic Conven
tion of Alabama. “Like the old man at Yorktown, he
only craves a place in the ranks, when the banner of
truth is on the breeze of battle.”
The Fraser. Gallery. —The friends and admirers
of the venerable Charles Fraser, propose to oolleot and
exhibit his paintings, in the Hal! of the South Caroli
na Society, Charleston, S. C., during the month of
February, proximo. A similar exhibition of the paint
ings of the late Washington Alston took place during
his life time, and was attended by the most gratifying
results to all parties ooneerned. No less than seventy
miniatures, and about fifty oil paintings, from Mr. Fra
ser’s pencil, have been deposited at the Hall. There
are still some hundreds inexistence.
Railroad to Eufaula Secured.— A friend, wri
ting from Cothbert, Ga., under date of Jan. 22d, inst.,
informs us that “the entire amount required for the
extension of the South-Western Railroad to Eufaula,
has been subscribed.” We congratulate onr friends
in Randolph upon this auspicious event.
Montgomery Advertiser.—G. B. Du Val, Esq.,
who conducted the Montgomery Advertiser, with signal
ability, during tho recent Presidential contest, has again
assumed the charge of its editorial columns.”
Right Rev. Thomas F. Scott. —The Bishop of Ore
gon arrived in this city on the 24th inst., and will re
main here a few days. We are glad to find him in good
health. We understand that he will address his former
parishioners and friends, at the Episcopal Church, this
evening, on the prospects of Oregon and his present
mission.
Arrival of the Obwiciiee —The steamer Oswiehee,
Capt. VanVeehten, arrived as onr wars on the 26th
inst., laden with assorted merchandize from Apalachi
cola, which port she left on the 24th. Three and a
half feet water on the bar, and river at a stand. The
Oswiehee leaves for Apalachicola and ilermediato land
ings this morning.
The New Coinage Bill. —The Congress, now in
session, has lately performed one most sensible act of
Legislation. Its purpose is to rid the country of de
preciated Spanish coin, especially qnarler, eighth nod
sixteenth of dollars. To do this, the bill provides that
henceforth these coins shall be taken by United States
officers, tbs first at 20 cents, the second at 10 cents,
aDd (he third at 5 cents. Thus received, they are to
be no more passed out, but sent to the Mint for re
coinsge.
Fatal Affray. — A fight took place on Saturday,
31st Jan., at the Coiambus Factory, two miles above
the city, between Thomas Oliver and Dr. Adam Floyd,
in which Floyd was shot through the right side and
will probably die. Oliver delivered himself up to the
officers of the law.
Fire in Talbotlon. —A fire occurred at Talbotton On
Monday night, 261 h inst., which destroyed the kitchen
and smoke house of Dr. John O'Conner. We are
grieved to learn that a black boy abunt eight years old
was burned to death in the kitchen. The fire was ac
cidental and the houses were nearly consumed, before
the flames were discovered.-— ’Daily Sun, 28r h,
Columbus, Jan. 25.
Messrs. Editors. — Dear Sirs.— My attention hx,
been called to an article in your last wtek’y issue, re
ferring to my connection with the Atlanta Examiner,
as editor, &c.
Permit me, briefly, to correct an impression that has
gone abroad, to the effect that I had moved to Atlan
ta, to edit that paper. Major Steele is its sole editor,
and my connection therewith is one of a legal profes
sional character. The practice of Law, in Macon, pre
cludes all idea of my becoming editor, ntthoogh I am
sensibly grateful for the kindness in many places, dic
tating the notice of my accession to editorial honors, in
flattering terms. Remaining thus disconnected with
the public position of political editor, I would not have
it inferred I bad ceased to feel iotereet in politics on
the contrary, l shall contribute by pen as well as voice,
to the extension, sustainment, triumphs and perpetua
tion of Democratic principles ; and shall, in days of
approaching political warfare, make that paper the or
gan of such voluntary contributions as I shall incline
to make.
Very truly yours,
OSBORNE A. LOCIIRANE.
Kansas.
Clayton, Ala., Jan. 21, 18:>7.
Col. T. Lomax,
Dear Sir :—You have inclo i ed a letter from Col- A- O
3oone, of VVestport, Mo., acknowledging the receipt oi
the money which you forwarded to me, but which old not
reach Kansas until after I h?.d lelt. So soon as I learned
from you on my return home that you had sent me the
money, and for what purpose, 1 wrote to Col. Boone re
questing him to advance whatever sum might be mcessary
to meet the immediate wants ot the persons you named,
until he should receive the draft sent by you. Yon see
from this letter that he promises to attend to the matter*
which 1 have no doubt he is doing, aud will do better thau
1 could, even if I were in Kansas at this time.
You have doubtless seen the announcement in the papers
that it is the intention of Mnj. Treadwell, Mr. Dairiorth and
myself, soon to organize another company of emigrants
actual sellers—to start for Kansas so soon as the cold wea
ther has somewhat passed. The expedition wl be con--
ducted by one or more of us in person- May I express
the hope that you, and particularly those Southern journals
who are reproaching the South for its indifference upon
this subject, will give us a helping hand.
By the way, much is being said by some Southern pa
pers against Governor Geary. me caution you agaitut
b.having any ot the thousand and one reports which have
latelyflooded theeoumry to his prejudice. 1 have the very
best reasons for believing that the confidence which Soutti
orn men in Kansas placed in Gov. Geary from the first, lias
not been misplaced. Doubtless some quasi Southern men
whose demands and expectations were unreasonable,have
not realised theta. Pardon the egotism when 1 say my
opinion of Gov. Geary is founded upon a personal acquain
tance with him, and an almost daily intercourse during
my stay in Lecompton, and upon inhumation contained
tn letters received almost weekly since my return home
horn as many as twenty men living in different parts ot
the Territory and western Missouri. Upon this subject
they all agree. I have this day received a letter from a
young gentleman of the highest respectability, who moved
trom this State, is now, and has been lor somertime living
in iVcuinseh, about twelve miles irom Lecompton, whose
soundness upon the question no one dare deny, and whose
means of information are as good as those ol any on in
the Territory. Writing from “Tecuinsch, K. TANARUS., Dec. 23,
1856.” lie says, ‘‘the complaints against Gov. Geary are all
stuff, and Southern papers do him great injustice in railing
out aainst him. He is, I think, emphatically the Gover
nor of the people; lie turns neither lo the right or to the
left to gain the affection and support of flattering friends or
fanatical foes. And this is the reason you hear the coin
plaints against him. I have yet seen nothing in him for
me to condemn, and wit n 1 do so, no one will let it be
known sooner than 1 will.” , . ,
1 might make extracts from other letters which 1 have
before ine equally as strong, but enough-
Yours, HENRY D. CLAYTON.
For the Times & Sentinel.
“The Freedom of the Press.”
Messrs. Editors: —The following remarks, extracted
from an editorial paragraph in a late issue of your paper,
strike on me as particularly appropriate and truthlul; appro
priate as a well deserved rebuke to a spirit ot most unbe
coming officiousness manifested bv several ol the metro
politan presses of the State ; ana tiuthlul to a degree en
titling them lo more consideration than will probably be
accorded by the casual reader. Let me beg you will re
print them:
“It will be tim6 enough for newspapers, w*e think, to im
peach private character when those most interested are pre
pared to make and sustain the charge. Until then, a do
•cut respect for the courtesies ol life should restrain the
press from a wanton aspersion of the character ol a mini
who for years has sustained an unblemished reputation for
every virtue which exalts human nature.”
Time enough! Yes.ir ;.well may you say “time enough!”
It is hard to say at what time it becomes the press to attack
private character—indeed it is a grave que lion, whether
. . -..nucu aj =oea uuacK.ariu muen narm
necessarily follow them. It seems to me you might have
very properly denied, in loto, the right of the pres3 “to
impeach piivate character;” certainly no such right was
contemplated by the wisdom that left the press of this
country untrammeled. When the press claims and exer
cises such a right, it may be well for reflecting men to dis
cuss how far the freedom ol the press should be restricted
to preserve its influence and power, all important as they
are lo one peculiar form of government. It is not my in
tention to define the privileges of the press, (although 1
might “speak by the card” in the premises, having exercis
ed them long enough for that purpose,) for I consider the
moral sense of the editor bis only true guide in bis tortuous
apd thorny path ; and it is only because the mandates ot
this guide are disregarded in the zealous pursuit of Eome
particular object that the necessity arises for such remarks
as those quoted, and the reflections they naturally suggest.
I only desire to give expression to a popular feeling, of
no insignificant depth, against the c ourse o! certain journals
of this Stale, with reference to interior Banks and the indi
viduals controling them. As to the case eliciting your re
marks, I know no more than what they disclose, and I de
site to be understood as having no immediate reference to
it or to any other case. It is the fact that individual char
acter has been, lime and again impeached, in these news
paper wars against interior Banks, which directly concerns
the public welfare, and is, therefoie, a legitimate subject
of discussion. Nor do I care to indicate the guilty presses—
though I should not hesitate to do so, did I consider it nec-
essary lor my purpose.
That newspapers should uphold, by every honorable
means in their power their'deserving local institutions, and
more parliculrly those so closely interwoven with the
commercial interests of their communities as Banks,’ will
readily be conceded not only as just and proper, but as a
positive duty ; but it remains to be proven that this duty in
volves the obligation to attack indiscriminately every civi |
institution, and to further and assail the private character
of the persons connected with and defending them. Such
an obligation may be increased for a consideration in dol
lars and cents; but I beg to submit to the profession ff it
attaches necessarily to the duties of ihe chair editorial 1 I
have no desire to impute motives or discuss them—the fact
is enough for my purpose that the privilege of personal
abuse has been and is still exercised by these presses for the
purpose of draging down adverse institutions— whether it
has been paid lor or not is no affair of mine. I charge that
the exercise ol such a privilege is subversion ol the purity,
dignity and high character of the press, is unprofessional, (1
might apply a harsher term,) and at variant e with the
weighty and honorable responsibilities of the editorial call
ing. When an editor descends to designate institutions ob
noxious to his favorites, as “one horse,” “wild cat” and
“shaving shops,” and their managers as “swindlers” and
“sharpers,” he steps out of the line of his duty ; perverts the
great object of the press, degrades its freedom, iorleits the
respect due his position, and is only protected tom merit
ed punishment by the contempt honorable men feel for
those who make the cant excuse of “the public good” a
cloak lor their unholy designs. Strong language this, say
you, and yet rot ill-applied, I conceive.
The damage to be apprehended from this unbridled li
scense to malign individdal character, exercised so fre
quently of late, is enough to arouse a very general public
interest in the subject, and the people are beginning to ere
the necessity for raising their voices against the assumption
of a privilege they never intended to bestow. And well
they may. If the press is, as is claimed for it, the palladi
um of our liberties, the preservation ofits dignity and mor
ality should be most scrupulously regarded; and when it
becomes subservient to improper influences, and descends
from its high position to hecome familiar with such black
guard slang, and such vindictive persecutions of institutions
and men obnoxious to its favorites, it is high time the pub
lic voice should be raised against the abuse of the liberties
with which it has invested it. Destroy the purity and dig
nity of the press, lower its standard of morals, and debase
it to the tool of personal interest and hate, and the conse
quences must be disastrous beyond contemplation. No pa
triot desires to live to see the press so debased 1 Then
every patriot-should be watchful to rebuke whatever indi
cates a tendency to such a debasement. If editors will not
guard against such tendencies themselves, it remains frq
the people to rebuke them when they stray from the path
of their duty. This much have I doue—no more.
VOX I’OPULI.
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, Jan. 26.
Washington City Ims, during the past eight days,
been completely isolated from the the four quarters ol
the Lluion. Our mails, North, South, East and West,
.have been lucked up in transitu from their several
gafmts of departure ; and it has been as much as a
urean's ears were worth to travel across Rock Creek, to
Georgetown. Huge snow banks, 12 to 15 feet deep,
), a 4 io be cut through between this city and Alexandria,
sight miles distant, to open a way for the mail matter
South -, but beyond the latter oity, it lias been impos
sible to proceed further, to this date.
The Investigating Committee are vainly endeavoring
to ferret out the facts, or some approximation to the
facts, connected with the corruption and bribery char
ges, but to no purpose. The contempt law, passed by
both Houses, last week, and now awaiting only the sig
nature of the President,imposes, it is true, heavy fines
and penalties upon witnesses who refuse to testify in
such oases ; but the law will only make martyrs—and
pseudo-martyrs, at that ;|it cannot force men to make
disclosures or extort from them confessions which would,
perhaps, disclose their own complicity in the frauds and
corruptions ot otherwise unknown accomplices. The
whole fun of the business is to be transferred to New
Y'ork. The Times, which originally published the
charge that members had offered their votes for SIOOO
a piece, reiterates the accusation, and although its editor
and correspondent obstinately refuse to disclose tacts
confidentially confided to them, both assure the public,
through the oolumos of the Times, that if the Com*
mittee push their inquiries in the right way, they will
get at all the facts requisite to sustain the eharges.
The Times is honest in one particular. It announ
ces that “members claiming to be Republicans, have
been parties to transactions which were lo make them
sharers in the pecuniary profits of bills they wero to aid
in passing.” Hereupon, Bennett, in the Herald of the
22d, charges that Tliurlow Weed, and James Watson
Webb, are “the lobby members inside and outside of
CoDgrees,” who are pointed at by Raymond, of the
Times.
The whole matter is coming to a point, and it is to
be hoped that the committee will push their investiga
tions to the utmost limit allowed by the law and the
Constitution. One fact has already been made clear.
The culprits are Black Republicans, and their accusers
are their former friends and present political associates.
These are the men who would stir up servile war in
the South—fit associates, to be sure, for Southern
Know Nothings,
Judge Warner is discharging his full duty on this
Committee, aod if the thievery and corruption of these
Abolirion, Know Nothing Congressional pirates are not
probed to the very cure, it will be through no fault of
his.
Public sentiment at the South, and even with equal
unanimity at the North, concur in assigning lo Hon.
Howell Cobh, the Department of State, under the in
coming administration. Few statesmen now on the
stage of public life, could more fitly preside over our
foreign affairs—and there is not one whose past record
and future destiny would equally combine to conciliate
and gratify every section. Such is the general opinion
among alt well informed politicians in Washington, and
especially among the old personal friends of Mr. Bu
chanan, who would hail the selection of Gov. Cobb as a
happy omen in the commencement of the new admin
istration. Be this, however, as it may, Howell Cobb
has a hold upon the affections and gratitude of the na
tion that can neither be increased nor lessened by any
honors he may receive during the next four years.
A telegraphic despatch from Trenton, under date Jan.
24th, stptrs that Hon. John U. Thompson will most
probably be re-elected Senator, though there is much
feeling on the subject. His opponent is John F. Stock
ton, of Princeton.
The distress ar.d suffering, especially of the
poor, throughout the country is said to be unprece
dented. At several places in Vermont, the mercury
congealtd on Saturday the 24tli inst. The temperature
was 50 deg. below z iro. [?]
BRUTUS.
Washington, Jan. 20.
The Consular and Diplomatic lilt passid the Senate
on Monday- flOth) with .-.rnpnni hs 1 H
compensation for Consular pupils was stricken out by a
vote of ! 1 ayes to 25 noes. This Galiican feature in
our Consular system, was objected to in the House,
chiefly because it was feared that it might hereafter le
perverted into a sort ol provision for younger sons—sim
ilar to the Army and Church accommodations for such
scions in Great Britain. The proposition, it is understood,
was not Mr. Marey’s.
Mr. Iverson succeeded in taking up the bill authorizing
1 ‘he establishment ol a Navy Depot on Blythe Island, at
Brunswick, Ga., and, as I have already informed your
readers, his motion encountered the opposition of Messrs.
Mallory and Mason. Pending the discussion on a mo
tion to reconsider it, the Senate adjourned.
| The prominent question before the House was in rela
tion to the mail facilities betwen the Atlantic and Pacific
■ oceans.
In my last, I informed your readers that Mr. Cramp
ton’s piaoe, as British Minister at Washington, would be
filled by Mr. Villiers, a brother of Lord Clarendon. The
position was tendered to this gentleman, and to induce
him to accept tho appointment, the salary was rais.
ed to £5,000, equal to $25,000, per annum, and his ac
ceptance strongly urged by all tho Cabinet, except ihs
brother, whose advice he has followed in declining the
honor. Lord Eigin, who negotiated the Reciprocity
Treaty with Mr. Marcy, it is generally believed, will be
tendered a D d will accept the post. I saw him when he
was in Washington, two years ago. Ha is a plain look
ing, business faced man, with a count, nance expressive
of firmness and decision of character. The expression
imputed to him by the London correspondent of the New
Fork Ilcraid, that he “done” the Yankees in the Reci
procity Treaty, can be easily pardoned by Mr. Maroy, as
our Secretary of State can boast in return, that he lias
“done” and “dole up brown” to boot—Lord Elgin’s
mistress and her cvusiitutionai advisers. When we reeur
to the Enlistment Controversy, and several other little
historical reminisences of that character, the “Yankees”
can well afford to allow Lord Elgin the privilege of in
du’giag in fiction to any desirable extent, particularly it”
a Scotch dinner, and under the inspiration of the genu
ine highland nsgtlebsugh. But, in truth, as respects
the Reciprocity Treaty, the boot is on the other leg—as
the almost fabulous increase in our geueral trade with
Canada since the Treaty came iuto operation, will testify.
Since our government commenced, the State Department
has not had abler head—one whose abilities and states
manship have been so thoroughly aDd so rigorously
tested, or whoso whole administration will reflect greater
lustre upon the national character, at home and abroad.
The Report on the Commercial Relations of the Uni
ted States with all foreign nations, prepared under the di
rection or Gov. Marcy, and now, as I learn, in the hands
of the Binder, will prove to be one of the most interest
ing and valuable public documents presented to the pres
ent session of Congress. The first part (of which I sin 11
in a few days, transmit you , a copy) presents a succinct
historical sketch of the Commerce of all the leading na
tions of the earth—embracing their staple prodm ti< ns
and principal imparts—the commerce of each respective y
wi;h ail other nations, and wilh the United Stales—the
past and present commerce of the United States end
each foreign country-the best means of promoting our
direct trade with tire different countries.in Europe wliith
now receive onr staples through the Entreports of Gnat
Britain or France, &c—all illustrated by numerons tables,
exhibiting our foreign trade from the very commence’
ment of the Government. This Jfirst pirt o r the vork
will be laid upon the Members’ tables in a day or two
and as Congress has ordered nearly 17,000 copies to be
printed, each member will have at his disposal a sufficient
number for distribution throughout bis District.
Mr. Marcy will receive the thanks of the country for
tins valuable contribution to the commercial history of the
United States. , 1
BRUTUS. |
Congressional.
Washington, Jan. 21— Senate.—Mr. Clay intro
duced a bill repealing t* law's allowing bounties to cod
fisheries. Referred to the committee on claims.
The Ilonsu passed a bill extending the land laws to
lands cast of the Cascade MuwijtSHw.
The House then took up the adverse report on the
petition from the inhabitants of Arzsma, praying for
the establish menLof 3 territorial government.
Chester was arrested 4o Philadelphia for refusing t<*
appear before the House cimmrtte of investigation, but
the storm detained both him and the Sergeant at Anns,
at Philadelphia.
The corruption investigating committee examined
Chase, ex member of Congress ; he would not answer
questions relative to any body except members of Con
gress.
House —Passed bills appropriating $30,000 for the
eomtroction of a Penitentiary in Nebraska, establishing
three additional land districts in Nebraska, and for
completing and opening roads in Oregon, Washington,
and Minnesota Territories. Adjourned.
Augusta, Jan. 27.—The Senate has passed the bill
establishing a Naval Depot at Brunswick, Ga., and ap
propriated for the purpose the sum of $200,000. The
same bill passed the House last session.
The House has passed the bill to increase the pay of
the officers of the army.
Washington, Jan. 27.—1n the House to day, the
Post Office Committee agreed to report bills for the
establishment of a line of steamers from New York to
Brazil and the West Indies touching at Savannah ; also
a line from New Y’ork to Rotterdam, aud from Panama
to Valparaiso.
Washington, Jan. 28. —Nothing was done in either
House, except the announcement of the death of Mr.
Brooks. 11 is funeral will lake place to-morrow.
Washington, Jan. 29.—Eulogies were delivered in
both Houses on the late Preston S. Brooks. The fune
ral was largely attended, and the honored remains
were deposited in a vault iu the Congressional Cemetry,
whence they are soon to be removed to Carolina.
Movements of Mr. Buchanan.
Washington, Jan. 27.—The President elect, Mr.
Buchanan, is now in this city, on a temporary visit.
Mo*'e Marino Disasters.
New York, Jan. 27.—The brigs Z >ara from Da
rien, and Philura from Savannah, were lost at sea on
the 20th inst. The loss of the latter vessel was occa
sioned by coming in collision with a schooner, name not
given. The crews of both vessels were saved.
A large steamship, supposed to he European, is
ashorq at Nantucket.
Death of Preston S. Brooks.
Wo received intelligence on yesterday by telegraph of
the death of the Hon. Jl’reston S. Brooks. lie died in
Washinton on Tuesday night with a disease ‘of the throat
—Sun, I'ith inst.
The American Colonization Society.
Baltimore, Jan. 22.—The Board of Directors of the
American Colonization Society held their annual moat
ing at Washington yesterday. Ten members were in
attendance. The meeting of the Society was postponed
until the resumption of travelling facilities.
The receipts of the Society during the year were
$81,388.40; expenditures $71,394.79; present indeb
tedness $24,126.74.
The Society asks Government to protect trade ou the
African coast, which is increasing in value.
In 1854 it was $3,146,522, while with Great Britain
it was about eight times that amount, because the latter
power bad for years encouraged and protected its com
merce there.
Disasters and the Weather at the North.
Boston, Jan. 20.—The barque New Empire, from
Mobile to Boston, went ashore during the gale at Go
basset and bilged ; her crew were all saved.
Bcston harbor is closed in by ice down to the Castle.
There have been no railroad arrivals or departures
since Suuday night. All the roads aro blocked in
every direction here; also at Baltimore,New Y’ork and
elsewhere.
*■ BXIIKS m ITOUDIe.
Chicago, Jan. 17.—Several of our city banks yes
terday threw out the notes of the People’s Bank of
Carmel, Rushville Bank, Prairie State Bauk, Washing,
ton Stock Security and Danville Bank, all in Illinois.
The latter is partially secured by California bonds
The total circulation of these banks is $825,000, and
their securities $900,000, in bonds of the States of
Missouri, Virginia, Louisiana, Califoruia, and Ten
nessee.
The Railroad Trains.
Baltimore, Jan. 21.—The trains between here and
Wheeling are reported getting through without diffi
culty.
The Washington trains are running regularly.
The Baltimore, New Yoik and Philadelphia rail
roads have resumed regular tripe.
Heavy Failure and Marine Disaster.
Boston, Jan. 22.—Charles B. Fessenden, East India
trader, has failed Liabilities half a million.
The ship Jane 11. Gltd len, from this port, was aban
doned at sea, the crew being rescued.
Hampton Roads Frozen Over.
Norfolk, Va,Jan.2o. —You will, no doubt, be
surprised to learn that Hampton Roads are nearly, if
not quite frozen over, and that persons have walked up
from Old Point to this place (about twelve miles) on
the ice. No such weather here since 1789—90. Ch.
Courier,
Destructive Fire in Darien.
Darien, Jan. 26—This morning at 2 o’oloek, a
fire broke out in the Mansion House, of this place,
whioh consumed the building and premises, causing a
loss in money and property of three or four thousand
dollais—no insurance. But the loss of properly is to
be regretted hut little more than the loss of court pa
pers in the hands of the Sheriff, VVm. T. Thorpe, Esq.,
who was, lor the time being, proprietor of the house,
and using one of its rooms as his office, as Sheriff.
The Mansion House had been used a long time for
the village inn, and was the property of Messrs. Park
huet & A^flams.— Sav. News.
hater from Nicaragua—Gen. Walker Reported to bo
Surrounded, and about to Capitulate.
New York, Jan. 28.—The steamer Illinois from
Aspinwall, arrived hero to-day with SIIO,OOO in
specie.
The British steamer Thames, at Aspinwall from
Greytown, reports that General Walker with only five
hundred men, was surrounded by his enemies, who had
offered the former terms of capitulation which he would
probably accept. It is rumored in New York that the
Filibusters who propose sailing in the Tennessee to
join Walker, will be arrested by the Government.
Absconding Clerk.
Kw Orleans, Jan. 27. —A young man, named
Stranger, runner for the Bank of New Orleans, left in
the Cahawba to day with $50,000.
Marine Intelligence.
Boston, Jan. 27.—The steamer ashore at Nantucket
is believed to be the City of Manchester. Tho brig 11.
F. Ryder, from Jacksonville for New York was abandon
ed at sea on the Ist inst. The crew have arrived at
Portsmouth.
Terrible Gold and Suffering.
Charleston, Jan. 24 —\Va have advices from Peters
burg to-day up to 1 hurt-day. The cold there was so in
tensothat upon that day 18 persons were frozen to death.
No mailshave yet been received from the north.
Charleston Maiket.
at unc'te/ams. 24 -'’ ° f 800 bal<
Horrible Outrage.
We are informed that on Friday night, 23d inst., a most
JiSSrerK"*'' - ” "• '■> 11-1.
*&satts£ant&* “ara
escaped arrest. This degraded. <1 epraved swemret of
mainly, is about twenty eight or thirty veam old M? l
Fair and eyes, tal i an y d 4 nder rather Joed
2w n iM tureB ’ and is a wagon n,ak3t b * &452!
Deplorable ‘Accident.
We learn that on Monday evening Blast, a chilrf 3
two years old,'rind son bi John Summergill, tvi-.'®* ■
dentiy run over by the wheels of a buggy, and | r * ‘' ttl ’
injuries received lhd‘child died. A negro fioy, |
toiullv unfit for the careful maosgement and comoisia I '. ■’
the horse, was driving alone at the time.—,Nun, 2SO, ;
j ■in _ ni t |
The Florida Indians —We learn that the 1
States officers do not despair of the peaceable 8
of the Semitioles to the West. The Government i(
we Earn from the Tampa Peninsular, hon contlMr>
mated arrangements for a party of Western Sealing
headed by Jumper, to visit Florida, and exert
selves to prevail npoß lfowlegs am! tribe to remote
peaceably.
That paper does not despair of tbe success of tl lc ; t
mission. A late letter from Tallahassee also expr- ~.
the hope, though no! very confidently, that the l u j, S|
war is at an end.
Florida. —From a statement published in the Tal,
lahassee papers, Irom T. )V. Brevaid, Coaiptrolief
General, the gross revenue of Florida for 1850,
$97,946 97.
Engineer Appointed. —At air- feting of the Diiee
tors of the Charleston and Savannah Railroad C m
pany, field on Wednesday, 21st inst, Major i.: aa j
Manigault was appointed Chief Engineer of the com
pany, in place of T. F. Drayton, resigned.
New Encyclopaedia. —TbeAppietons have issued pro.
petals for publishing a “New American Eoeln; q;
The present AtAerjcanKneydfopccdia is twenty years uid,
and since its publication human knowledge has been
materially txtended.
The Cape Fear Hirer Frozen Over. —News from
Wilmington, N. C., says that on 20ih inst., rh e river
was actually frozen over ftom bank to batik. The oc
currence is unprecedented, at least those who have re
sided there over thirty years, say that they recollect
nothing of the kind. The ice was a half inch thick.
House of Representatives. 17/A.—The biil for the
relief of the heirs bf Major General Arthur St. Chiir,
was taken from the Committee of the Whole, read a
third time, and passed.
Receipts , Exports and Stocks of Cotton —Accord-
ing to the comparative tabie in the Charleston Courier
of 224 inst., the increase in receipts, compared with
same time last year, is 20,589 —decrease in exports to
Great Britain, 215,628 —decrease .to France, 43,077:
and to other foreign ports, 39,703 —and the total de
crease in foreign exports, 298,41)8 bales. There is an
increase in the shipments to northern ports of 108.926,
and an increase in the stocks, at all the ports, inciuti.
ing New York, of 170,616 bales.
A New County. —A pubi'C meeting of citizens fri rn
Thomas and Lowndes counties, was held at Groovtr
vi lie, on the 17tit inst., fur the put pose of petitioning
the next Legislature for anew county, to be formed of
portions of the above named counties.
Miss Logan's Voice. —No one has heard Miss Lo
gan on the stage without being struck with the extra
ordinary melody and riehuessof her enunciation. The
New Orleans Crescent of a repent date says; We
spoke yesterday of the exquisite modulation and distinct
ness of Miss Logan’s voice. Perhaps the prettiest
thing we have heard said, of it was by a gentleman of
reßued taste, who remarked, -hat bn one occasion ha
heard her pronounce the word diamond, aud each fet
ter came from her lips so clear and sparkling that the
jewel Hashed before her eyes I
Free Negroes. —in the North Carolina Honse of
Commons on Tuesday, 20th iusl., a bill to remove the
free negroes from that State, was. after discussion, laid
on the table by sixty-one ayes, to thirty-five naps.
Destructive Fire in Gloucester , N. J. —A fire in
Gloucester, N. J., on Thursday, 224 Jan., destroyed
twenty-four houses belonging to the Gloucester Bleach
ing Print Works. Nearly thirty families are reader. 4
Burning of the Officers’ Quartets at Carlisle Bar
racks, Fa. —The officers’ quarters at Carlisle Barracks
were destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. 21st iust.
Professor P. M. Mull, says the Christian Index, has
accepted the chair of Ancient Languages iu the Uni
versity of Georgia.
The Rev. Sylvanus Landrum, Baptist Minister of
Macon, has received a call to tbe pastorate of the first
Baptist Church in Memphis, Tenn.
Negroes cl the North —A bill has passed the
W iscoustn
aud Indians from being witnesses in that State.
North Carolina Railroads. —A proposition is now
before the North Carolina Legislature, to tax through
passengers and through freight up. n the railroads tun
ning through that State.
Sugar DuqggfcAt a recent meeting of the Sugar
planters at West Baton Rouge, La, resolutions were
passed deprecating the repeal of tbe tariff on imported
sugar.
Old Muskets Sold, —The Savannah Republican
says Gov. H. V. Johnson has sold all the old muskets
and cannon which the State owned, and the payment
is to be made iu arms of anew pattern and with the
modern improvements.
Sudden Death of a Venerable Citizen.— On Satnr-
Gay night last, the servants bearing an unusual noise
in the bed-roem of Mr. William IliHinrd. went in and
discovered that venerable gentleman in the article of
death. He had retin and in apparently good health, a
few hears before, and, we believe, was attacked with
congestion of the brain, of whioh he thus speedily
The deceased was neatly eighty years of age. He
was the father of our distinguished fellow citizen, Ho n.
11. W. Hilliaid. Those who knew him, regarded him
as a man of line mind., varied information, and mist
agreeable manners. He lias departed in the ripeness
of his age.— Mont. Mail, 26 1 b.
Rise in Whisky. —The closing up of the Cumber
land river by ice has advanced tbe price of whisky iu
Nashville, Tenn., five cents per gallon. So says the
Gazette.
Reporter of the House.— The Louisiana House of
Representatives on Tuesday, 90th inst., elected VY. M.
Levy, of Natchitt.ci.ee, Official Reporter for the Session,
in place of the lamented David Martin.
Escape from Jail. —We learn from the Dallas
Gazette, that Afred Hishop. who was convicted of for
gery at the last term of the Circuit of Dallas county,
and sentcnctd to the Penitentiary, made his escape from
the jail in Cahaba on the night of the 21st inst.
Narrow Escape of aM. C.—Mr. Cadwallader,
Democratic representative from Pennsylvania, was shot
at on Saturday night, 24th Jan., -while walking in tke
street with a friend, in Washington guy, T| le ba ][
passed dose to his head.
General Harney. —The Tampa Peninsular of Jan
1 1 th says ;
Gen. Harney left this p| BCO yesterday morning with
Capt. Spaiknian’s company as au escort, t 0 VH>t , ~) 9
Istapago country; he is sanguine that Indians are ia
that section. Gen. H. goes out for the threefold pur
pose of endeavoring to catch “Billy,’’ Os inspec.ing the
troops at the different stations, and ~f stationing others
at points that he may deem advantageous. He will pro
bably visit Ft. Caproo and Ft. Dallas before he returns.
Tuscaloosa Monitor.— M. D. J. Slade, in a
neat and well written valedictory, retires from the
Monitor.
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Jan. 43d w#s one hundred and yUty nine bales.