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TIMES & SEKTIfrTEL,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1857
War Upon the Democracy at the South.
The opposition press, South, w filled with attacks
upon the Democratic party made by the disunion per
se press, 6uch as the Charleston Mercury , New Orleans
Delta , Richmond South, and the Cdumbui Corner
Stone.
We can bear with patience, the assaults of the dis
union press : they err, if they err at all, from excess of
devotion to the South, and whenever an opportunity of
fers they go heart and hand for the correction of the
abuses which they denounce ; they were with the De
mocracy in its war upon U. S. Banks, Protective Tariffs,
Internal Improvements by the Federal Government,
and only reprove us bevause we have not improved our
successes so wisely as to kill, instead of scotching, these
old Whig heresies. We regret with them, our want of
complete triumph ; we depiure the undoubted fact that
ail who profess to be Democrats cannot always be re
lied ou to maintain Democratic measures ; that the New
England D.mocrat bankers after protection • that the
Western Democrat looks with favor on Internal Im
provement schemes ; that Democratic members of Con
gress who own slock in Railroads will vote to appropri
ate public laods to their construction. These are griev-.
oils faults which deserve reprobation and reproof, and
God forbid that we should interpose between these high
criminals and the lash. “Lay on, McDoff,” say we,
“and d—d be he who first cries, hold, enough/’ But
to old Whig 9, Federalists and Know Nothings who re
iterate these charges of the disunion press, and are at
tempting to. make them the groundwork upon which
their miserable faction can rise above the Democracy
in the confidence of the Southern people, we hold a very
different language. Yoa, miserable hypocrites, you
and your former party associates were the friends of a
bankr of the United States ; you foisted upon the coun
try the onerous protective Tariff of 1842 ; you w ere the
advocates of luternal Improvements by the Federal
Government; you are the enemies of the Nebraska
Kansas Act ; we will listen to no reproaches from
you. If the U. S. Bank is dead, the Democracy kill
ed it without your aid j if the Tariff has been reduced
to a revenue standard, it was done by the Democracy
against your solemn protests and votes ; ii the Fede
ral Government has been restrained in the reckless-use
of the public money for Internal improvements, it has
been done by the vetoes of Democratic Presidents
whom you have denounced and viliified. If the South
now domineers in Kansas, it was done in the lace of
your doleful forebodings.
But again. It is a matter of small concern to the
disunion press of the South whether the Democrat
ic party is or is not competent to'protect the rights of
the South. They would glory in its failure, as it would
guarantee the dissolution of the UoiqD, and the vs- (
tablishment of a Southern confederacy. They know,
and you know, that hitherto the Democratic party lias
held the fanaticism of the North in che*k, and made a
continuance of our Federal Union tolerable to the
Southern people. They are consistent in their attacks
upon the Democracy. If they can break down that
party, the fruition of their dearest hopes will be realized
“in States dissevered, discordant, belligerent • on a land
rent with civil leuds, or drenched, it may be, in fra
ternal blood/’ But the American 1 party are the
especial devotees of the Union, and have proclaimed
in their Philadelphia platforms that its is
the paramount political good.” And are they so blind
as not to see that if the National Democracy are pros
trated that Black Republicans would reap the fruits of
victory ? What power has the .American party in the
Union ? In the late Presidential election they were
not able to carry a single Northern State. Their
boasted power melted in the hot breath of the Aboli
tionists like frost before'a summer sun ; their rank and
file were absorbed in the maelstrom of fanaticism, and
will never bo heard of again. At the South they car
ried the State of Maryland ! This is tho extent of
their power. If the Democracy are impotent, what
can the American party do? This is a question of
vast importance to Southern people, and they will re
quire a full and satisfactory answer to it, b fore they
will desert the triumphant banners of the Democracy,
to join the broken ranks of the Knights of the Dark
% Laulern,
The Democracy are not as sound as they ought to
he • there ara thou*and of skulking traitors in ©ur
rauks ; but, bad as it is—our enemies being judges—
there is no other party in the Union left to hone t
men. And this is the confession of the disunion lead
ers throughout the country. Like Keitt, of South
Carolina, they all “go with the Democratic party, though
they are not of it/’ They go with the Democracy,
because the opposition is still unsounder, less trust
worthy, more impotent than they. It’ their testimony
is worth any thing, it damns the Know Nothing party
to eternal infamy ; and yet the Know Nothing press
of Georgia vauntingly publish it to the world as some
thing of value. Like the worms in the cheese, we
can stand it, if they can.
The Democratic party is the last hope of the Uuioo.
Would to God it were sounder thin it is ; stronger
than it is j more faithful to its great mission than it is.
We labor in our lot to make it so, and call upon all
good citizens to join os in our holy work. It is easy
to fiud fault with a great organization like that of the
Democracy j bnt to supply its place! The Whig par
ty tried it, but its Northern wing was aboliiionized, and
where i9 it lo**day ? The Know Nothing party tried it,
but died in a day. It still lives, triumphant over all op
position, with President, Senate and House,'and a ma
jority of the American people true to its colors. When
it shall surrender the flag of the Constitution and the
Uuion, all will be lost ; the surging hosts of Biaek
Republicans will cover the earth as the waters cover the
sea, and no refuge will be left to Southern men but
tbe Ararats of State Sovereignty and a Southern Con*,
federacy. If this recourse is alone left us, we shall not
shrink from taking it ; bat woe be to that Southern
man in that hour who has aided in undermining the
bulwarks of our safety—the iron ribbed Democracy—
and is not prepared to resist a world in arms against us
and our institutions.
The Ticket in Macon County, Alabama.
Clopton, Kellum, Slaughter, Mealing.
The above named gentlemen are the Democratic nom
inees for the State Legislature, in Macon county, Ala
bama. Clopton who heads the ticket for tho Seuate
‘ is well known as a man of superior ability, and a tried
Democrat. He has weathered a heated contest in the
2d Congressional District, in which he bore the Demo
cratic flag bruvely and heroically, securing a majority in
his own count), which had always been against us;
thereby proving himself invincible at borne, the place
where he is best known. We feel no doubt of his eKot
ion to the State Senate. Messrs. Kelium and Slaugh
ter are not so well known to us, but we have assuran
ces that they are of the right grit, and deserving the
united and enthusiastic support of the party. Mealing
is from our own county. Brought up and educated
among us, we know him to be a yoong man of talent en
ergy and integrity. Like many who were educated in
the Whig creed, when the black cloud of Know No
thineism lowered over the political horizon, he gallantly
enrolled bimelf with the Democracy and has tho “proud
consciousness of feeling that he acted in common with
thousands of his party successfully to turn the tide of
fanaticism, and place the South and the entire country
upon the only true basis whereby our constitutional
rights are to be maintained.
We bespeak for them, one and all, the hearty sup
support of the party in Macon, confident if it bit does
its duty the entire ticket will triumphantly sucoaed.
Plank Road to Columbus.— The Georgia Plain
dealer (Lumpkin) advocates a Plank road from Lumpkin,
Stewart co., to Columbus. The editor says:
“A Railroad througii this county is without hope, but
we must have some other method of conveying our cotton
to maiket than hauling it through the heavy mud on tbe
Columbus road. The Northern, North-Western, and
part of the Western Cotton seeks Columbus for a mar
ket ; but there occurs, every spring, a serious obstacle in
the way of this trade, arising from the wretched roads
and swollen creeks on the route. We have known the
lime, often, when an empty buggy K eould not be drawn
through the mud, and when six mules were insufficient
to bau! one bale of Cotton to Columbus. Farmers were
compelled either to store their cotton at home or send it
lo Americu,at much greater cost than would have been
i h caffe and, had tha Coiumfcua foad be&r! ‘jJaseablei Free
trade between this couuty and that fcity waa completely
bioken up.
“Itis impossible to avoid the bad roads to that” city
without a plank road from the centre of this county. —
What says Columbus ? will she aid ? What says Chat
tahoochee? will she help? And what says Stewart ?
Speak out, gentlemen, let us hear from you all.
Robert J. Walker in Kansas.
We have reoeived and carefully read the Inaugural
Address of Robert J. Walker, Governor of Kansas,
by Executive appointment, which was delivered by him
in Lecompton, May 27, 1857 It abounds in patriotic
sentiments, and in many respects reminds u& of Fourth
of .July Orations of the bettor class. There is, howev
er, one feature in the Address which will, and deserves
to, meet universal reprobation and condemnation, at
the South. We allude, of course, to that portion of his
Addr. s, in which he uoequivucally declares that “in
no contingency wili Congress admit Kansas as a slave
or free State unless a majority of the people of Kansas
shall first have fairly and freely decided this question
(slavery) for themselves by a direct vote on the adop
tion of the Constitution, excluding ail fraud and vio
lence.” This is an unheard of dictatiou to the freemen
of a Territory by a Federal minion, which they ought
to, and, we hope, will spurn aud despise.
Gov. Walker admits, in the opening of his Address,
that the Convention about to assemble to frame a State
Constitution, under the call of the Territorial Legisla
ture, is authorized by the Organ c Act. “ The people
of Kansas/* he says, “are invited by the highest au
thority known to the Constitution, to participate frtely
and fairly in the election of delegates to frame a Con
stitution and State Government. The law has perform
ed its entire appropriate function when it extends to
the people the right of suffrage, but it canuot compt-l
the performance of that duty. Throughout our whole
Union, however, and wherever free government pre
vails, those who abstain from the exercise of the right
of suffrage, authorize those who do vote to act for them
in that contingency, and the absentees are as much
bound under the law and Constitution, where there is
no fraud or violence, by the act of tbe majority of those
who do vote, as although all had participated in tho
election/*
If this be true, then why the necessity of submitting
to the people the Constitution and form of Government
they adopt in Convention ? lie admits, in the “act
calling the Convention, these is no improper or un
constitutional restrictions upon the right of suffrage*,”
“no test oaths, or other similar provisions objected to
in relation to previous laws and he pledges himself
“to take care, as far as practicable, that this election of
delegates to the Convention shall be free from fraud
and violence.”
Why, then, this second appeal to the people ? It is
not tho usage in such cases. No earthly reason is
suggested tor a departure from the accustomed formu-
I la on such occasions by Governor Walker.
I There is. however, a reason for these recommenda*
! tions and threats by the Governor. By the act provi
: ding for the call of a Convention the right of suffrage
was restricted to residents of the Territory at a speci
fied lime, and a registry of votes was taken. Since
that time a large emigration from the North has taken
place under the aurpices of the New England Aid So
ciety, who, under the act, cannot vote lor delegates to
the Convention. And, doubtless, the proposition of the
Governor to submit the Constitution to a direct vote of
the people for ratification is made with the view of cur
rying favor with this class of residents
But take another view of the question. The peace
of Kansas was broken and her prosperity retarded by
the pro and anti-slavery parties in Kansas, for suprem
acy. Aid Societies in different parts of the country
were actively engaged in forwarding partisans to the
scene of strife. The contest was fierce and bloody, and
as long as the stimulant existed promised to be perpet
ual. To put an end to this struggle between rival sec
tions of the Union for supremacy in Kansas, the Leg
islature of the Territory very wisely determined to
pass from a Territorial into a State organization, and
appointed a time for the election of delegates to the
Convention to frame a Constitution, and restricted the
right of suffrage to actual residents of the Territory at
a specified date. This put an end to the strife for su
premacy by taking away the inducement to continue
it.
But these wise measures are rendered null and void
if the line of policy recornended by Gov. Walker in
adopted. ‘ The stiifH fur fuprtmiicy will te continued
indefinitely. Each section of tho Union w ill continue
to send cut its partisans to the Territory in order to
vote for or against the Constitution that may be adopted,
and the Territory will thus continue indefinitely to be
the scene of confusion and blood.
Gov. Walker says the President and his Cabinent
approve his views. We shall not believe that without
further proof.
The Democracy and Kansas—Alphetis Raker,
Jr., Esq,
The possibility that the South may eventually fail
to establish slavery in Kansas under the Nebraska
Kansas Aot is made the basis of fierce attacks upon
the-Democratic party by Know Nothiug politicians and
presses.
They forget that Kansas was closed to Southern set
tlement by the Missouri Compromise Act ; that the
Nebraska Kansas Act opened the door to Southern
emigration to the Territory ; and that the Democrat*;
party, a9 a party, passed that Act. If, therefore,
Kansas shall be lost to the South under the operation
of the Kansas Act, we are in no worse condition than
we were before that Act was passed. Under that Act
the Southern people were permitted and invited to em
igrate to Kansas. Before it was passed, they were
prohibted by positive law from settling in the Territory.
It is clear, therefore, that if Kansas is lust to the
South, that the Democracy are not responsible for \he
loss. The party had power to open the door to Kan
sas and invite the Southern people to go up and possess
the land. They had no power, nor was it their prov
ince, to force the Southern people to emigrate lo the
Territory. That was our business, and if we have fail
ed to discharge our duty in this regard, the fault is at
our own door. By the law, the South was placed upon
an equality with the North, with regard to Kansas, and
this is all that the law can or ought to do. It remain
ed with us to exercise our rights, after they were secu
red to us by the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas Act.
Our failure to do so is our own fault, and the fault espe
cially of the Knownotbing party,whose orators and press
ea discouraged emigration to the Territory by constant
predictions of our eventual failure to secure the Terri
tory against the Northern hordes who emigrated thith
er under the auspices of the New England Emigrant
Aid Societies. Even now, when it is reduced to a cer
tainty that the pro-shivery party iu Kansas will carry
tho Convention, and secure the adoption of a pro
slrvery Constitution, these same opposition presses and
orators are predicting our ultimate failure. The wish
is doubtless father to the thought. If Kansas is secu
red to the South, under tbe operations of the princi
ples of the Nebraska-Kansas Act, all their predictions
will be falsified, and the policy of the Democratic party
be vindicated from ther aspersions.
W e believe that Gov. Walker has betrayed the trust
reposed in him, and is lending his influence to the
Freesoil party in the Territory. But he has no power
to'control the Convention which will assemble in Sep
tember to frame a Constitution. The hardy Border
Ruffians have withstood the treason of Reeder, the
blandishment of Guerry, and the weakness of Shannon,
and will not be seduced from their allegiance by the
oily rhetoric of Welker.
Kansas is not yet lost to the Sooth. Recent advices
from the Territory leave no doubt upon our minds as
to the complete triumph of the pro-slivery party in the
election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
Alpheus Baker, jr., Esq., is actively engaged in can
vassing the Southern Atlantic States, in behalf cf Kan
sas. lie passed through this city on the 12th inst., on
his way to Savannah and Augusta, and from thence
to North Carolina and Virginia. We have known Mr.
Baker from childhood. He was born in Abbevile Dist
triet, S. C., and spent bis youth and earlier manhood in
Barbour County, Ala. Asa popular orator he has no
superior, in our judgment, in *.he South. He was ap
pointed lo his mission by the leading members of tht
Southern party in Kansas. lie is worthy of the con
fidence reposed in him. His tour through South Caro
lina was a brilliant triumph from the seaboard to th*
mountains, and inspired the friends of the cause in tha
State with wild enthusiasm. Let us stand up to him
and the cause he represents, aud all will be well. Kan
sas is still oars.
MrfiUtr? l.haiinpmtiiti
GoverCbf Johnson, In tho absence of authority to
di der, hafi Invited all the military corps of the Slate to
assemble and encamp, at the capital on the 3d, 4th,
sth end 6.h, da>s of July, provided with teu’.s and
camp equipments. Captains of companies art* re
quested to report to the Governor by the 2(Uli inst.,
the liumbt r cf their respective eorps that will respond
to the invitation, in order that arrangements may be
made for their comfortable entertainment as soldiers.
• The staff of the Governor will aiteud in uniform.
This is the inauguration of a new,’ and, we hope, bet
ter day for the military of Georgia. The mffiiia sys
tem has primn a failure, and the sooner it is abolished
the better. There are in all cur principal cities and
towns, however, admirably organized aud drilled com
panies of volunteers, which can be made the nucleus
of a military organization adequate to the wants of the
State. The plan of annual military encampments, is
the first great step towards the accomplish merit of this
good work. We hope to see every volunteer corps
in the Slate in camp at the capital, on the 3d July,
and above all, the discipline of the camp enforced to
the letur.
Governor Johnson has done well in originating this
movement.
Tite Columbus Guards, Capt. Semmes, and City
L’ght Guards, Copt. Colquitt, will, w presume, re
spond to the invitation of the Governor, as they are
old and well equipped companies. We suspect, how
ever, that the United llfles, C-.pt. Wilkies, will fiud
some difficulty in preparing for carnp life. It is anew
company, and has just laid out a large sum ol money
to purchase their splendid uniform, and will hardly find
it convenient to supply themselves, just now, with
camp equipments. Yet, it will be a pity if they are
not allowed a place in the picture. It is an admirable
corps, and would reflect much credit upon the city. We
suggest that the community prestnt the corps with
camp equipments.
Emory College.
The success of the Denominational colleges in this
State is owing to the inefficiency of the State Univer
sity, which has beep treated by the Government and
people of Georgia as an alien and foreigner. Emory,
Oglethorpe, and Mercer colleges have done and are do
ing well ; but they are drawiug the life blood from the
heart of Franklin College, and will continue to do so
as long as it competes with them for. the education of
boys, instead o! being a resort for the graduates of oth
er Colleges, as it ought to be.
We are ind bted to Porf. Smith for a copy of the
“Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Emory Col
lege” for 1850 aud 1857. The following is the Fac
ulty :
James R. Th mas, I). D., President and Professor
of B'-lles Lettres, Evidences of Christianity and Bible
Literature.
Gustavus J. Orr, A. M , Prof, of Mathematics and
Civil Engineering.
William J. Sasnett, A. M , Prof. Moral and
Menial Philosophy and Political Economy.
Luther M. Smith, A. M., Prof. Greek Language
and Literature.
| Geo. W, W. Stone, A. M., Prof. Physical Science.
| William D. William-*, A. M., Pi of. Latin Lan
guage and Literature, and French.
The first class was gtaduafed in 1841. There are, in
ail, 258 graduates, of whom 42 are ministers of the
1 Goepel, and 73 teachers in Colleges and Schools,
j During the current collegiate year there were 153
! under graduates in attendance upon the course f in
struelion in the College proper, and 45 pupils iu the
Prep.iratoay School attached to the College.
Col. James M. Chambers of tjiis place is President
of the Board of Trustees, ami amongst tho list of stu
dents from Columbus we find the names of Robert A.
Chambers, John T. Norris, E. Banks, H. R. Dawson,
T. D. Threewitts, and D. T. Dawson.
Bank of Columbus.
We have been informed, says the Columbus Enqui
rer of the 11th, that the stockholders of the Bank of
Columbus, at a meeting on Saturday Inst, the 6ih inst.,
determined to increase the Capital Stock 50 per cent.
The sucotss of the Bank, thus far, has exceeded the
most sanguine expectations of its prtjectors and friends.
The difficulties apprehended by many, as being peculiar
to its location, have been found to be imaginary; and in
stead of a constant drain of its coin, and the return of
ith itffiupe fast as made, its circulation has proved to
be equal, relatively, to any of the banks. Its or
dinary quantiy of coin has been found to exceed all de
mands for it, and but recently as much a9 $40,000 or
$50,000 have been sent to Savannah for tho purpose of
Exchange. A great deal of successful opposition was
ai.lioipated by some, from the Agencies established here,
and that their interests would be in constant antagon
ism; but facts have not established the danger. A
portion only, and that a small portion, of tho large field
of Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama can be oceu
pied by our local Banks, aud the balance of the field
cannot be better, or with more propriety supplied, than
with other Georgia Banks.
Railroad Through Hams and Merriwether Counties.
Columbus is the uatural commercial mart of Harris
and Merriwelher counties, and she still retains a large
portion of their trade, though some of it lias been lost by
the construction of the Atlanta and LaGrange Railroad,
and may lose it all if her attention is not given to the
Railroad movements now in progress in that section of
the State.
Columbus once enjoyed a monopoly of the trade
of Troop, Heard, and Coweta counties. This monop
oly was lost by the construction of the Atlanta and
LaGrange Railroad, and is now transferred to Atlantic
oities.
Meetings have been held, recently, in Merriwelher
and Harris counties, for the purpose of raising subscrip
tions to construct a Railroad from Hamilton, Harris
county, via White Sulphur Springs, and Greenville, to
some point cn the Atlanta and LaGrange Railroad.—
Tne citizens of Merriwelher have already subscribed
$225,000, and those of Harris $75,000 in a’d of the
enteprise, and the prospect is, that in both counties the
subscription will be largely increased.
It behooves the citizens of Columbus to look into this
matter, and see to it that the western terminus of the
Road shall be located on the banks of the Chattahoo
chee. The loss of the trade of Harris and Merriwether
would seriously affect the commercial prosperity of Co
lumbus.
La Grange Female College.— The Commence
ment sermon will be preached by Bishop Pieroe Sundav
15th July.
On Monday following the sophomore class will read
compositions ; juvenile concert at night.
Tuesday, the Literary Societies will celebrate the An
niversaries. Adddress by Rev. C. A. McDaniel.
Wednesday 15th. Conmniencement and Address by
Hon. A. 11. Colquitt.
Camp Chair.— We are indebied to E. C. Hubbell.of
the Troy Factory, for the present of an elegant camp ciiair,
for which he will please accept our thanks. This chair is
admirably adapted to camp life, and our volunteers would
do well to provide themselves with a supply iu anticipa
tion of their trip to Milledgeville.
Stealing on the Cars. — Archibald Howell, of Ma
rietta, Ga., had his pocket book, containing about SSOO,
stolen from him on the cars between Marietta and Atlan
ta.
Clay County. —Messrs. Wm. Castleberry, Needham
McLendon, Peter Lee, Theophilns Pierce, F.-T. Ten
nelle, Danitl M Bruner, and Charles F. Bermishave
been appointed delegates to the Gubernatorial and Mes
srs, George B. Wardlaw, John West, Warren Sutton
jr., and B. F. Bronett delegates to the Congressional
Conventions of the Democratic party. A resolution was
adopted by thp Convention commendatory of Wm. H.
Stiles, but the delegates to! the Gubernatorial Conven
tion were not insirueted. The Congressional delegates
were in struoted to voto for lion. Martin J. Crawford.
A reolution was also adopted approving the official and
political course of Gov. Johnson.
New Ware House Firm —We call the attention ofthe
planting community to the advertisement of Messrs. Hughes,
Daniel & Cos , which they will find in our advertising
columns.
Small Pox in Mobile. —The President of the Board
of Health, Dr. J. C. Nott, reports some 6 or 7 cases
cf Small Pox in Mobile on the 9th inst.
la* law fik-sflea k JfcsW OftMfe*-
Democratic'party presumed no ticket ant? faiicu
lo go to the pou3 at the resent ejection in Net* Or
leans. This is a most singular spactacle iu this coun
try, and* in our opinion, reflects upon the courage of a
large partion of tho citizens of the Crescent city. It
the men of the Revdmiou were right in wagiDg a sev
en ytars war with the mightiest Empire on earth, for
the r.ght of Representation, their descendants iu New
Orleans are criminally negligent of their duty, in sur
rendering this right, so dearly purchased, because a
band of “Thugs” and “Plug Ugltes” bully them at
the polls. A brave and true man should lay down his
Ufa at the polls rather than submit to the degradation
.and wrong cf being denied the right of suffrage by the
tyranny and violence of a mob of assassins and despe
radoes. Ou all occasions of this sort, the lovers of
law and order should arm themselves and enforce their
rights by the strong arm. It is justified by the great
law of self defence.
We s> mphuthize with the disfranchised citizens of
Now Orleans—though we pity their pusa!infinity—and
give to cur readers their justification for their conduct,
as we find it in th? Louisiana Courier of the 2nd
inst. The Courier says :
It is, perhaps, due to our frierds out of the c’fiy to cx
plain, in part, the reasons why Democrats iu New Or
leans have made no noirinatious lor municipal officers,
reasous which they have, perhaps, anticipated.
That nothing like a lair electiou has been possible in
New Orleans for years past, is a fact that we have dwelt
upon so much that there is scarcely a necessity of re-stating
it with its proofs iu detail. We refer our readers to
contemporaneous accounts of the brutality, violence and
unscrupulC'Eisne&s of our opponents iu the conduct of elect
lions which have taken place during the past two years
—to the choice of commissioners ot election exekiHvcly
from members of their own p rty—to tbe extraordinary
means taken by thiwe commissioners to couceal theni
solves from pubiic view while taking votes, to the il egal
obstach-f thrown in the way of na'uraliz.d voters, to the
exclusion of she votes of hundreds of such, under false
pretences by nun who chose *0 obey the dictates ot the
“paid pettifoggers” of the Know Nothing party rather
than the plain requirement? of the law, to systematic as
saults mad upon natur l z.d Democratic voters before
each l otion, with the knowledge or connivance of a
pariizau police, whose places and pay depended upon the
success of tile party which appointed them, to attempts
to siifio the lib. rty of the press, and to mob a democratic
printing office : to the ransacking of private domicils and
public institution, under the pretence of searching for
arms; to the parading throufcfficut all portions of the city
on the morning of elections, by bands of disguised
Thugs ; to the diabolical assaults made upon voters at
the polls without the slightest j roteelioa from the police ;
to the assumption, by a vain, arrogafit, municipal
. officer through an insolent aud iiit>uUiog proclamation, of
‘he sole right cf conducting an election which our sheriff
was ordered to In Id, and which he endeavored to make
arrangements to hold -properly aud fairly; to the gross
and utter failure of tint municipal officer to fulfill his
boastful promises, and to tbe counihss and abotninubfo
acts of violence committed in consequence of tbit f'aMure.
When our r aders recall alj these things they will not
wonder that we made no nominations for the election of
| yesterday.
j To remedy the abuses, to some of which we hive allu
j ‘led, the late Legislature enacted the Flection Law, with
j the provisions of which our readers are familiar. Being
j nearly the laet of an ,unu?ual!y long series of laws which
! w*-re nect ssarily published in the order os enacted, its
! official promulgation was not reach* and until recently. It
’ was a matur of somedilfi u ty fr the Governor to make
j suitable selections for filling the offices as the law requites.
When this was at leug'h accomplished it was too late lo
can y tlie Election Law into opera'ion in the conduct of
vesteiday’s election. As it ys, nineteen out of every
twenty Democrats are glad that no nominations were
made.
American or Know Nothing Nominations and
Candidates*
The Know Nothing Party of Georgia finds some
difficulty in finding candidates for the Fall campaign.
The Congressional Convenion in the Ist District
having failed to make a nomination, the press of the
parly is pretty unanimous in its call upon A. 11. 11.
Dawson, Esq , of Savannah, to make the race.
A writer in the Georgia Journal , suggests Col
D. A. Vason, of Dougherty county, as a candidate for
Congress in the 2d District.
A writer in the same paper suggests that Anderson
W. Redding, of Chattahoochee county, would make
an excellent Governor, and recommends the party to
I nominate him, if they conclude to have a candidate in
the field.
A writer in the livening Dispatch recommends
Judge Worrill, of the Chattahoochee Circuit as a suit
able candidate for Governor.
Revival in tlie Methodist Church.
The religious meeting noticed in our paper some time
hgo, is still in progress and increasiug in interest. The al
tar i-- nightly crowded with penitents, and a large number
!. have professed to experience the forgiveness of sin, and
have connected themselves with the church. Rev. O. R.
Blue, of the Alabama Conference, is with us this week,
and doing effective service in the cause of his Divine Mas
ter. With men of such fervent piety, and eminent zeal,
aided by the efforts of our own infatigable and faithful
ministry, may we not hope that the good work may con
tinue to go on till a great moral revolution takes place in
the community.
Iron Screw Press — We invite the attention of our
readers to the advertfiemeut of W. F. and C. J. Pro
vost. A press has been erected ir? the city in the rear
of the Union Hotel. Planters would do well to exam
ine the same. We have seen the model and think it a
great improvement upon the screw and lever press in
common use.
Sue ‘Washington Beaten. —- Nicholas 1 won
four mil£ race over the Fashion Course. Long Island, in
two straight heats. Time 7. 40, His only competitor
was Sue Washington. Toler was distanced the first
heat.
44 Uncle Sum” 111 Kansas*
Wo find the following in the Leavenworth Journal ,
Kansas Territory, of 30th ult., winch will be read
with pleasure by the hosts of friends of “Uncle Sam*’
in Georgia :
“ Personal . —We had tho pleasure, yesterday, of
shakiog hands and welcoming to Kansas, that genuine
specimen of Georgia hospitality, ‘Uncle Sam Koocko
gey/ of Columbus Ga. He comes, we believe, to visit
his son, S. J.Kooekogey, one of the Democratic nom
inees to a seat in the Constitutional Convention from
this county. We hope his visit to the Territory may bo
as pleasant and profitable to him as it is agreeable to
his friends/*
Since Lis return we have had the pleasure of seeing
and shaking hands with “Uncle Sam.” i/e is delight
ed with the Border Ruffians, and has no doubt of their
capacity 10 hold Kansas against the Aid Societies of
New England.
Death of Dr. Simons. —The Charleston papers
announce the death f Dr. Thomas T. Simons, for
many years a distinguished citizen of Charleston,
S. C.
Southern Central Agricultural Society. —The
Executive committee of the society, as we learn from
the Atlanta Intelligencer, assembled in Atlanta on the
9th inst., and fixed upon Atlanta as the place for the
permanent location of the Annual fairs of the Associa
tion.
Periodicals. —Blackwood, for May has been prompt
ly supplied U 9 by Leonard Scott dp Cos. The contents
are : Scenes of Clerical Life No. 2 ; A Run to Nica
ragua ; Afoot, part 2d ; The.Atheliogs, No. 12; Ox
ford and Thos. Ilearne—a letter to Ireneas ; The Sculp
tured Stones of Scotland ; Life iu Central Asia ; Co
lumbus ; L-iys of the Elections ; Letters from Light
House, No. 4.
E. 11. Worrill for Governor. —The name of this
gentleman is mentioned in connection with the nomina
tion of the American party for Governor. We hope the
politicians will let him alone. He nows fills a respon
sible effiye to the satisfaction of all parties and is doing
the State some service.
Col. Alfred Camming, —This gentleman, late Indian
Agent, has gone to Washington City, in reference to
the Governorship of Utah tendered him by Mr Buchan
an. Col. Cummmg i9 we believe a native of Augusta,
where he now has relatives, and is said to possess those
points of character requisite to control the unruly ele
ments of which the social fabric in Utah is composed.
Augusta Dispatch , Bth.
vj New School. Presbyterian Clurch.— The vote in the
recent General Assembly at Cleveland, upon the slavery
question stood 167 to 26. The Southern members protes
ted against the action of the majority, as a virtual excis
ion, and a separation is deemed inevitable.
F’of the Tifitetf.
Criminal ‘Court oi city oi ColumfetiS.
The last Gram! .Itiry of this eutJrt, being that
eile.l fat the second quarter of tile year, have without
making any presentment, recommended the abolishment
of the court, assigning no other reason than the assertion
that such a tribunal is unnecessary. Having been a
juror, with some knowledge of tbe necessity of stteh a
court to reach offences which must otherwise be com
mitted with impunity, I must dissent entirely from the
recommendation, and purpose briefly to give my reas
ons a course which justice to the oflioers of the Court
demands, for the body of which I was a member, after
making about fifty presentments for infractions of the
law, were prevented from submitting a general present’
men'..
The organisation of the present court is defective.
No proper arrangement was made by the aet eooatitu
ting tite court, for the pay of witnesses and jurors, and
its jurisdiction may conflict with the Mayor's or the Su
perior Courts.
These and fficulties can be easily obviated if some of the
older lawyers of our city will examine tiie act and have
it properly amended, with which matter the officers of
the court should consider themselves charged. In the
working of the Court some errors in its organisation
have certainly been developed, but tile proper course
would be to correct the errors, not abolish the- Court.
No other tribunal meets the wants which were in
tended to be met, by tho City Court.
The Mayor’s Court in other cities is held bix days in
the week, occupying the Mayor’s time from one to ten
hours each.day. Ilis judicial duties are the most im -
j portant which he has to discharge, and he is selected
: with special reference to this work.
Os eoutse, tbe salary is apportioned to such an em
j ployment of bis time and services, and must be much
| greater than is paid in Columbus orelewheiss, where the
i office is regarded as a sinecure and does not interfere
with the prosecution of any regular business. The
Mayor’s Court never has done this work, never will do
it, and was never was expected to do it. It would be
necessary to make the proper changes in tbe salary of
the officers, and the jurisdiction, before the Mayor's
Court would supply the place of the City Court. And
even if that were done, no one would contend that just
ice would not be more speedily, effectually, aud econ
omically administered by proper judicial officers, than by
j these selected with only partial reference to suuh du
j ties.
Nor docs the Superior Court answer tite purpose.
| It is too tardy and too uncertain in its action because
j tho greud jury, the proper body to present such cases,
j cannot take cognisance of these infractions of the law,
| which militate none the less against good order, and tite
I well being of society, in tiiat they are committed privately
| and do not address themselts to the public gaze. And
; yet, the grand jury have discharged their duty, tvhete
| ever they have diligently enquired into such cases as
i have beeu brought to their notice. The difficulty is,
; and must remain, that by the present system they nev
jer get to their notice. The City Court answering the
| purposes of its creation, will bring such cases to tbe
1 light of day, and with proper amendment of the act of
j the legislature and with its present officers, it will fully
\ answer all these purposes, will be a terror to evil doers,
aud those who violate the law will discharge the expen
ses of the court.
We will take only one class of offenders to illustrate
eur position—other classes will occur to any one in
thinking on the subject—and if the Court could fnily
reach this eiass it would be economy to sustain i) by
private contribution.
We refer to trading with slares, which involves in
every case, the furnishing them with U'litor.
Service in the jury room and the records of the Court,
will show very conclusively, that the offenders of this
class are many of them, possessed of ample means to do
a fair retail business, meeting all their business engage
menus punctually, aud are men who are Dot driven by
want and penury to enage in illicit trade. Such men of
this class do not barter with the slave, they sell liquors
for money , leaving it to others lo be receivers of stolen
goods, they only take the price of the stolen goads.
Slave owners have tiieir properly stolen, their servants
debauched and rendered worthless, tho slaves themselves
led onof.cn to arson, rapine, and murder, and every citi
zen in the community injuriously affected by this trade,
whether be mwn slaves or not. One of the Chattahoo
chee planters who suffered greatly from this cause, con.
eluded that it would be an economical arrangement, if it
could be carried out iu good faith, for him lo give the
negroes on Irs plantation the proceeds oi that crop he
sold in maiket, if they would steal from hint the usual
quantity and deliier it to his agent without trafficking
with the illicit tradets.
j The Superior Court never reached this canker on tbe
| bosom of society, the Mayor’s Court does not reach it,
1 the City Court has struck at the very root of the dis*
I ease, and will effect a permament euro, if it be sustain
|ed by the citizens and by the grand juries. Correct
the errors of the act organising the Court, sustain offi
cers who have done and will do their duty without fear
favor or affection, and you will find no more efficient or
economical tribunal of justice than the Criminal Court
of Columbus,
J U RO li.
1 The American Tract Society Denorincer!.
j Tile following decided expression of the views of Basil
j Manly, D. D., of Charleston, S. C., relative to the late ac-
tion ol the American Tract .Society, was written in an
swer to a letter of enquiry addressed to him by a Life Di
rector who resides in the city of Columbus. The consent
of tho writer lias been obtained for its publication.
We heartily agree with this expression of opinion, as
eminently w ise, and worthy ot the consideration of the
parties interested. Sell-respect, and a sense of duty, com
pel us to decline all Co-operation with the Amerieau Tract
Society, so long as the present suspicious attitude which it
has assumed is maintained.
The old policy was satisfactory. The latitude now for
tho first time taken, a change not warranted by tho consti
tution, or even dreamed ot by the founders of the Society,
is, in our estimation, the initiative ot iuture contemplated
aggressions, for wliicn neither our funds nor our influence
can be expected.
Nothing hut the old policy of hands off from this sub
ject, by the society, wili satisfy us, or our brethren in this
vicinity. J. H. DeVOTIE,
J. ,Vl. WATT,
J. K. REDD,
WM. C. GRAY.
THOS. B. SLADE.
A. M. WALKER.
Columbus, Ga., June 8,1857.
Charleston, June 3,1857.
Her. James H. De Votie, Columbus , Ga.:
My Dear Brother: —The late action of the American
Tract Society will invite attention at the South. It is pre
sumed that the course taken by the Society on the subjaet
of slavery, hitherto, when its thunders were alive aud ac
ting, was consistent with its constitution and design. This
course has been-satisfactory to the Southern reople. That
tbe society hasdonagood. nonecan deny. Why not con
tinue in this course? If the Society intend to pursue the
same policy as heretofore, why not say so? Instead of
preamble, statements, resolutions, why did not the com
mittee report, or the Society declare, in a couple of lines,
tiiat they are satisfied w-ith the course hitherto taken by the
society on that subject, and recommend that it he faithfully
and steadily adhered to? This would have still satisfied
the Southern people.
That they have not said this, plainly shows that they as
sume the right to use the facilities they have, which the
Southern people have helped to build up, in discussing the
subject of slavery— at the exclusive discretion of people
who claim that they have nothing to do with it.
I cannot speak for.my brethren, still less for the churches
of Christ; but, for myself, I say .that nothing will satisfy me
from that Society, hut an unequivocal declaration that they
intend to say and do nothing inconsistent with the policy
hitherto pursued by them on that subject.
The Southern people are not unwilling to consider their
duties before God, in the matter of slaveholding. They
have studied the subject as it is—a matter of everyday
practical concern to them, and momentous in all its bear
ings and issues. If they have not yet learned their duties,
they may still hope that the Creator will teach them, by
methods they already enjoy. |They have liis Bible, and
they have tlis promise,—“In all thy ways acknowledge
Him, and He shall direct thy path3.”
But God has not promised that He will teach a remote,
unsympatliizing people what are the separate and peculiar
duties of other people, not circumstanced as they are; nor
has He directed any to apply to such for instruction.
When .therefore, our Northern friends undertake to in
struct us iu a matter, on which .they have nothing in com
mon with us, we must reply—
“ Non tali auxilio, uec defensoribus ilMa.”
We are entirely inaccessible to instruction, upon that
subject, from that quarter; and it must not be attempted
in any form.
If we can have no part in the work of that Society,
henceforward, be it so. The Southern people will pursue.
apflrlj %if tffliel wtt 0i io.vc.aod crbctileflee-in tneif *>,-
vine Master, In accordance with hie own encouraging
word, Isa. ffC-s—“Your brethren that hated you, and that
cast you out for my name’s sake, sid, ‘let tire Laid be
glorified;’ but he shall appear to your joy, arid they shall
be ashamed.” Yours truly, y
For the Times and Sentinel.
Congressional* Convention—2d District.
Blakely, Ga., June 8, 1857.
Messrs. Editors-'— No time or place having been de
termined upon, when and w.here our Congressional Con
vention should tie held —upon conferring with several del
egates from other counties, I would suggest Cuthbert as
the place, and the first Tuesday in July as the time. 1
hope you will second my motion, as this the most central
point. early.
Volunteer Encampment.
We were prevented by our engagements fiotn being
present at the public meeting held in this place, on
Saturday last, for definite action upon this subject.—
We learn, however, the meeting entered into the mat
ter in a most brooming spirit of liberality—that am
pie funds were contriboted, aud that all needful ar
ruDgements are now being made to have the entire Vol
unteer force of the S ate rendezvous at this point on
the 3d proximo, and remain with 03 in encampment
until the 7th. We further Karn that the33overnor ap
proved the design ; and that he has, with the view of
carrying it into effect, written to the respective com*
mandets of the different corps, apprising them of our
purpose, and inviting their attendance. Under the cir
cumstances, it is expeeted that no company will be
found lagging behind, and that every man will come
prepared in a spirit ofsoidiery emulation to doliis duty.
We shall, no doubt, have n brilliant fete such an one
as has been seldom witness-.d any where, and Dever be
fore in Georgia. We therefore cordially invite our
friends abroad to come and partake of tha festivities
of the occasion, and unite with us in cel
ebrating our national birth day. We expect, and in
tend to have a great jubilation—and coins one—and
come all—tbe more the merrier.
Governor Johnson lias been invited, and-has consent
ed to deiiver the address upon the 4th, and no doubt he
will deliver r. patriotic and stirring oue.—Southern
Recorder, 9 th.
Time of the Third District Convention.
Harris having suggested tho ‘22d, which was con
curred in by Bibb aud Houston, and we are informed,
aiso by Crawford, last week, while Butts, Taylor, Up
son and Talbot acquiesce in any day named, vve have
| thought it better, after consultation with friends in this
j county, aud for tho sake of fixing attention on some day,
i to name at once, Monday, the 2?d day of June inst.,
I as tbe day ti>r holding the District Convention for the
j 3d Congressional District of Georgia at Forsyth—that
j day appearing to concentrate better than any other one
the views of the different counties iu the district. We
ask our friend Col. Guulding, of tile Empire State to
unite with us iu this nomination of the time.
The Two-Thirds Rule.
The Atlanta Examiner of the 10th innt. closes a t?e!l
j tempered article upon the approaching Gubernatorial
i convention with the following set,sib!- remarks;
As to the manner of nominating we are clearly of
j opinion that at no time in the series of years when a
| two thirds vote has been adopted as the rule of nomi
| nation., will it have a more just and fair application than
at tiie present. There are before the pe- plo more than
two prorniuent men, and we believe there will be in the
Convention by the friends of every candidate an nnmis
takeablu disposition to insist upon his having a fair and
impartial rae'e in that Convention. Adopt any other
j rule and you throw out temp a iou for combination; you
turn a Democratic Convention into four or five candi
date cliques, counting, bargaining, and intriguing, each
wilh the other, which is against a free, full, and fair con
sideration of every man's claim, by the people’s repre
sentatives. We are in favor of the two thirds rule.
Navy Department.
, Gen. Walker's Capitulation —As many contra
dictory accounts of tho prospects and military supplies
of General Walker, while he was operating in Nicara
gua, have been published, the following extracts from
an official document, recently transmitted to the Gov
ernment from Capt Davis, iu command of the sloop of
war St. Mary’s, will doubtless prove interesting. He
says :
“It was the opinion ol those who have better means
of judging than myself that one month ago he (Walk
er) could at any moment have passed the enemy's lines,
and maintained himself iu the open country. Since that
time the desertions have been so numerous and frequent, as
not only to demoralize his army in number but demoralize
it in character, that towards the end of April, the only re
sort left to him was to cut his wav down to the coast, and
take refuge, if possible, on board she schooner Granada
According to the best intelligence, such an attempt would
only have been the last effort of despair, and would have
terminated fatally in less than five miles of Rivas. The
lime, therefore, had arrived for determining on the course
lo lie pursued in the case anticipated in the first letter of in
structions ot January 19: tiiat is, ‘in ihe event of the cx
pulion of Walker and his forces from Nicaragua by ih“ al
lied army, and of Ins departure, to adjacent terrilory in Cen
tral America for the purpose ol hostile and aggressive nper*
ations.’”
It may be interesting to our readers further to learn
that the schooner Granada was seized by Captain Davis
for the r eisou that it had lost its nationality and was bel
ligerent, and therefore could not he permitted to pass to
the high seas.— Wash. Union, 2t l.
Col. Thomas H. Holt.
The Democratic Convention of the Bouisville district
met on Saturday last and unanimously nominated Col.
Thomas H. Holt for Congress—a compliment alike due
to his eminent talents, his unblemished character, and
distinguised services as an advocate of demoera’.io prin
ciples. Dm ng the late presidential campaign Col.
Holt was known to the whole country as one of the
most gifted speakers of our party, and thousands and
thousands of Democrats ia Kentucky, Ohio, and Penn
sylvania will bear testimony to.the fidelity of his exer
tions aud tbe eloquence of his words. In Kentucky in
particular, his services were conspicuously effective.
Wash’ Union , s th.
The Presidency of South Carolina College.
The Charleston Cornier, premisin'; that it is tho impera
tive duty ot the Trustee’of the South Carolina College to
accept the resignation of President McKay, as the dilii
eully between him and the students and Faculty whatev
er its merits may he, is irreconcilable, presents the name
ot i->r. Samuel 11. Dickson, a distinguished citizen of
Charleston, as one eminently fitted to till the post of Pres
ident oi the Institution.
A correspondent of the same paper, suggests lor the Press
ideney of the College the name ul Garland, late of It -n“
dolph Macon College, Va., and now President of the Uni
versity ot Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
Movements of Sen. Wm. Walker.
The New Orleans Picayune of 2d met., says:
“At about live o’clock last evening, (Jen. Walker, acorn
pattied by Capt. Fayssoux, of the Nicaraguan army, and
others, took his departure from New Orleans, on the steam
er Woodlord, for Louisville, en route lor Washington. It
is rumored that ha has important tState business on hand,
the nature of which, though suspected, is not generally
known. There was quite a crowd on the Levee to so- the
hero of Nicaragua off, and cheers when the steamer de
parted
A telegraphic dispatch from Vicksburg, Mississippi dated
the 3d inst. says Gen. Wm. Walker and staff passed that
city on that date, in the Woodford.
The Memphis Bulletin of the 4th inst, says- “Gen
Wm. Walker whose daring deeds and brilliant achieve
ments have created such a sensation throughout the civil
ized world , will arrive in this city to-morrow morning on
the Woodford en route for Nashville, where his parents
reside.”
Georgia. Military Institute.—-We notioed tho diffi
culty in the Georgia Military Institute, resulting from
the rashness of thirty-one Cadets, in signing an agree
ment to go to the Circus, after permission had beeu re
fused then). The Board of Trustees have sustained the
Superintendent in ordering them all dismissed.
Though the loss of so largo a number of students is
tcebe re-grelted, still we are sure that the enursr of the
Snperinteodaot and the Board, will command universal
approbation. It will not do to parley with the refractory
in a school under military regulations.
The number of Cadets has been as high as 159 in the
present session, and we are pleased to learn that a num
ber of the boys lately expelled are seeking to be rein
stated, and that new applicants for admission are num
erous.—Augusta Dispatch , Bth.
Burned Up. —We learn from the Tuscaloosa Moni
tor that Messrs. Whitfield and Fits recently appointed
Dank Attorneys at that place, in examining tile vault of
the old Tuscaloosa Bank, discovered a package contain
ing 1000 dollars, which appears to have been a special
deposit made by Win. Hawn, Cashier, in 1840, as an
overplus in the Bank which could not be accounted for,
and here it has lain ip the old vault ever since. The
money has been depoeited in the State Treasury.
fwua&tsa fiehfis itsllrs^
The following vessels have arrived a; Fir,
thi- time with iron for the Florida Railroa-t “ Ull “ K
Schooners.— John Furryth, Echo, Fr.oi-u c m . „ . B-f
Hill. ‘ El I
Brig. —L. Berry.
Ships.— Chattahoochee, -Kate Suanton, Mary . I
‘ line,La Pie:, John Howe, Medallion, Am,,., - 1 I
exandrine, Nordzermen. “■ • I
The Ships J. G. Batten and Mary Adelina aro ■
pp.etod soon with iron. The company have ui? u j ft
of Iron irrSavannah. ‘ ‘ 1
Track laying is progressing rapidly on this R o a.i : I
engine is ruij.ingr daily over thirty i/o rnil.-s or tj„.f
and over seventy mileage completely graded, a J;,',,. /. J
eighteen tpn Engine, (the Governor llrooti.e . * I
passenger and freight Cars aro expected at Ferric-,
some four or five weeks, al which time* the imh i
to he laid op to the junction oi tiie road leading Jg m (•, ! f
sonville to Alligator, when the road will he opci a i - h !
sinoss that far.
The “Governor Broome” is the second Locomoi,-. -f
this Company will have on the road, the fir.-t L-i; ; ; Vl
appropriately named “The Fiongpr,” and the m'.condVouV
Iy appropriately after our pre-eat worthy ■ -overnnr V
has manifested such a deep interest in tho Raihoad u,* vt .. !
prises of our State.
Whilst we gladly chronicle the rapid progress of \ l
work on the Florida Railroad; vve mu t not forget v
have a Road of our own. The grading upon the Ceu'tr•
Railroad, we understand, is progressing finely, about .! \
thirds of the work towards Alligator being hnished. V i
hope ere long to announce the receipt ot iio:i lor ;!,> ► j
also, as vve understand the Company are making a
rnents for its purchase. We hope by the coming r.-i
----season to be able to take’ a trip to Feriaandina, ail •, v .
by the aid'd’ the iron hone.—Florida News, Mum 3a.
A Convenient National Party.
The Know Nothing Council which met at Lotsi-v IK- h
the 2d instant, adopted the toil wing resolution, which w- f!
find published in the New Yoik iieraKi of the I:!i
and telegraphed to that paper from L* uisvilie. Other; ij
olutians were pasted, but the following is regarded, v- t
presume* as the must suitable, and certainly the ino?i c, . I
venient plan that could be adopted lux the iuture operati
of the party:
liesoiccd,fT\\iVAhQ American party in each Sta e, T .
ritory and District of Columbia, be authorized to ai! •. j
‘such plan of organization as respectively they may ih ,
best suited to the views of the members of the pary
their several localities.
From Kcx co-
New Orleans, June 4.—Later advices from 3fr ]
conhnn the execution ot Crabb, the filibuster.
Death cf Es Governor Hubbard.
Boston, June sih.—Ex Governor Ilenry llubbarc
of Newßampehire, died at Chaii stowu this luorti i
From Utah.
Washington, June 9ih.—Mr. Burr, Surveyor cf
Utah, confirms the atrocities committed by the M r.
mone. lie eays that 1000 United States troops would
over-awe them, and that tffiy would offer uo resistance
The Steamship Canadian.
Quebec, June B.—The steam -hip. Cadadian, which re
cently went aground below this city, will be a l_*tai!
The crew and passengers are saved.
Appointments by the President.
Nahum Capen, Postmaster at Boston,
vice Edwin C. Bailey, resigned, to lake effect Irbm j, r
October next.
Benjamin F. Ti!!ot?on, Minnesota Territory, r* civ.
of public moneys at Firibauit, Minnesota, vice Lortnzoi
Smith, resigned.
Vulney HascalJ, of Michigan, legist* r of the land offi.-e
at Kalamazoo, Michigan, vice George F. Kidder, v\lio de
clines the office.
Jo-eph Williams, of lowa, assodfefe justice of the iu
preme court, of Kansas,in the place ot Thomas Cum,. ,
ham resigned.
Calvin F. Burns, United State? attorney for the ea*:~:a
districLol Missouri, vicp Thomas C. Reynolds, lesigutd.
Masonic Female College.
We observe tiiat the Commencement Exercises of th-
Institution, located at Lumpkin, Ga., take place on ii -
24th inst. The serrapn will be delivered by Rev. J. \
Duncan, on the Sabbath preceding, aud the iiteary add re
by Hon. Clifford Anderson.
Supreme Court.
Upon the opening of the Court yesterday, judgment w
rendered m the following cases, argued the day pieviom
Win. Adams vs. The Governor, isc. Forfeiture
cognizance. From Columbia!’
A. entered into recognizance with surety, condition* *
to appear at the next Superior Court of Columbia cob. y,
to answer to a charge lor an assault and battery, con?
ted by him. on R. F , ar.d not to depart thence; w
leave of the Court. Before flic met ting of the Court, I:. i.
died of the wound inflicted by the battery, and an i;.c ■
nient for murder was handed out and found, against A.,:
which he failed to appear and answer. The usual
nisi, for forfeiting the bond was eptered, which recite ‘, i: :
A. had been called to answer the charge of a-.-aolt ami
battery, and made default upon service of scire facia*.
Held, That judgment for the amount of the'penally ‘
the bond was properly rendered agaitit-t the surety. La
ment affirmed.
James A Lyon vs The. State. Assault with into ;o
minder. From Washington.
1. The decLrati ns and acknowledgement of an accom
plice or co defendant, but who is not on trial, are not ad
missible in evidence for the prisoner.
2. A refusal by the presiding Judge io give a charge cor
rect in ihe abstract, unless accompanied by such remark
and qualification? as he thought the facts and cireumsfar -
of the care caded lor, but which conn-ei objected to, ins
mg upon the chjtrge as requested, is no ground of error.
Judgment affirmed, — Sav. Republican. 10 ih inst.
Tobacco Chewing among the Ctrig-j —At the openin’
ol the session of the New School Goue.al Assembly, : -
sitting at Cleveland, Ohio, a comm mication w.- n-a:
from the trustees ot the church and some ol the eit.zen-.
requesting ihe members of the Assembly to abstain !: in
the use of Tobacco during the session, so that the pens
might not be defiled ! The trustees had previously remov
ed all ihe carpets in the house. But this was not a —
The “communication further stated that some ol the feu.i
lies by whom the members would be entertained had bee a
niade very sensitive on the same point by their experience
in former years, and many had retueed to receive nv*m
hers, for fear that they would prove to be tobacco chew*
ers!
Convicts Caught.—Thomas Sorrells, who wasre -t-nt
ly convicted in this county, of the murder of Sam. We-;, :i
negro wagoner, and sentenced to the Penitentiary for Lie,
managed to escape a tew days since. He went to Hous
ton county, where, with another escaped convict, by i
name of John Heath, he broke into the store of Mr. J
Sperry, where they took two ‘double-barrelled guns, ; i
sundry other articles. They were making their wayti*
Florida, but were overtaken and arrested by Gen. A. C
Boat wick, of W ffkinson county, and have beeu r-r J
to their old quarters in the Penitentiary.— Journal and
Messenger 1 Qt/i.
1 rank tin College. —The Athens Banner of Thurs
day morning, 4th inst., says ;
“There are two vacancies in the Professors!;’ s in
franklin College, to wit; Belles Lettres and Oratory,
and < f Natural Sciences. These vacancies, we feel au
thorized to say, will be filled by the Board of Truster
at their ensuing meeting the first week iu August next/
fL*” Judge John \\ hitehead, an old and highly re
spected citizen of Burke county, and for ninny years
its Representative in the General Assembly of the
State, died at his residence at Richmond Bath, on the
20th ult., in the 75th year of his age.
Calhoun Superior Court. —At tho recent Mfly Term,
Judge Allon presiding, the negro boys, Alj red aud >/•*,
* belonging to Wm Holt, were tried for the muder oft - r
overseer, Mr. Walker, formerly of Houston county Alfred
was found guilty of murder, and sentenced to be hung mi
the 3d day of July next. The case against Sam, for me
same offence, was continued till next term.
Delegates to the National, Council. —The Jackson
(Miss.) Flag of the Union, states that the iollowing gen
th men have been appointed by the Slate Executive Com
mil tee of the American party delegates to the National
Council, to be held in Louisville, Ivy., on Monday, the l>t
day ol June next :
Hon. Wm. L. Starkey, Hon J. H R. TavWr, Hon. W.
A. Lake, Hon. Jos. 13. Cobb, C. C. Shackleford, Esq , l •
M. Moffit, Esq., (t. M. llillver, E-q., J. C. Carpenter, Esq.,
L. K. Barbour, E*q., J. A. Ven tress. Esq.
Ihs Flag adds: “1 ho evidence of tfieir appointments
wifi be forwarded to the Secretary of the Convention at
Lomsville, Kv. It is extremely desirable that Mississippi
oe fully represented.”
Cotton Receipts. —'l he receipts at this port since Ist Sep
tember, (exclusive of the arrivals from Mobile, Florida and
Texas) areH,432,655 bales, against 1,664,*265 bales to same
date last year; and tbe decrease in the receipts at all the
ports, up to the latest dates as compared with last year, fe
537,546 bales. In the exports from the United States to
foreign countries, as compared with the same dates last
year, there is a decrease of 428,575 bales to Great Britain
30 to b ranee,and 87,124 to other foreign ports.— N. O.
Prices Current , June 6.
Bank of Athens. —At a meeting ol the Stockholders
or this hank on the Ist inst., the following gentlemen were
‘elected Directors: Stevens Thomas, Jno. T. Grant, J.
England, Y. L. G. Harris and John 11. Newton.
Praying and Pumping.—The ship Senator, recently
arrived at New York from Liverpool, met with a se
vere gale aud sprung a leak, when some days out. —
Tho captain, in despair, assembled all hands, took out
his watch, looked at it, then at the men, aud said oocl
ly :
It is now just 12 o’clock ;at the rate the ship is now
leaking, 1 calculate wo shall all be iu the other world at
about half past two. lam going below to say my pray
ers.
The men otherwise inclined held a consultation. One
old fellow declared he had rather pump than pray, as he
understood it better, and it agreed better with his con--tifu
tion. In a few minutes the captain heard the pumps going
again as lively a9 ever, and they did not cease going, ex
cept at short intervals, until the ship arrived at NewYoik.