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TIMES & SEIsTTIISTEE
COLUMBUS, UfiUHGU.
TDESOAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1857
FOR GOVERNOR
JOSEPH E. BROWN,
of CHEROKEE COl/'KTT.
CoEgreoslonal Convention—second IBslnet.
We propose lo hold tlm Democratic Congressional
Convention for the Second at Americas, on
Wednesday lhih July, and hope all or ootemporark*
in the District will approve the suggestion.
Democratic Slate Convention. .
An extra from the Federal Union g.res os the pro
ceedings of the Convention ns late as Thursday eveuiog.
The Convention was organised at 11 o'clock W ednes
day morning by the election of l’ennent Lomax, of Mes
cosee Presideot, We. L. Miteheß, of Claike, and 11.
Cobb, Os Wo oaton, Vice Presidents, fl. D Sorrell and
j; B. deGroffewied, Secretaries
The Convention adopted as a basis of representation,
that those counti-s in the Slate entitled to a SeDalor
nod two Representatives in the General Assembly, be
authorized to can rive votes, and the remaining counties
three votes in this Convention, sod further,
A resolution was adopted declaring two thirds nec-
essary to an election.
On motion of Don. Thomas W. Thomas, of Wuerf,
the chair appointed three from each Congressional Dis
trict, to prepare resolutions and business for the action
ci the Contention, as follow* .
Thomas VV. Thomas, of Elbert, Chairman.
U\. District. Philips ofOlyun, Wyoo of Liftevty, Oor
don of Chatham.
2nd “ May of Stewart, Harrell of Webster,
Evans of Peoitur.
3rd <• Clarke of li.bb, Ramsay of Harris, Ward
of Butts.
4th *■ Duncan of Fobon, Ector of Merriwether, j
Barbour of Troup.
ej ( h <i Watters of Cherokee, Chastain, ot Gil
mer, W right e! Fioyd,
6th “ Smith of Union, Hail of Clarke, Duune
gan of Hail.
44 Grav of Jones, Gonder of Hancock, D*i-
ton of Jasper.
fe.h “ Walker of Richmond, Anthony of Burke.
The isolation* of the 3d Congressional District rep
robalipg Gov. Walkers course in Kansas, were present
ed to the Convention by R. L Rodney of M mroe,
which were referred to the committee on resolutions,
after which the Convention adjourned.
The Convention reassembled at 3 o’clock P. M., j
when the phairman <>f the committee ou resolutions |
presented the following report: , i
The Committee of 21. to whom was assigned ’he onty ot
preparing irfatter lor the action of this Convention, as* |
leave to report the following resolutions aaeaprewey* the j
opinions of this Convention oa all matters that it is essen ,
hal ior them to take action upon at this time.
1 Resolved. That we declare our continued adherence
and increase,l confidence in the platformi of principles ;
adopted by the Cincinnati Convention of 1830, and whicu |
were made triumphant in the election oi Juinee buenanan
to the Presidency of these United States.
a Resolved, That wa declara our continued confidence j
in the patriotism, fidelity and ability of Mr. Buchanan and
-a do,migration, that he will hold even th scale? of
justice between the different sections ot tin* Union. and
prove fiithhil to the great principles ot justice and equality |
w inch proetired sis election.
3 Resolved, That the inaugural adoress of Govern,),
Walker, in prescribing the terms on wnich Congress should ,
admit Kansas into the Union, and in attempting to dictate
the submission of their Constitution tor unification, and to
what class of persons constitutes a presumptuous niietlpf
ference in maitersover which he has no legitimate control,
and that the same address, in expressing Ins official opinion
that Kansas would become a free State, and in presenting
arguments to support that eide ol the question, is a gross
departure from the principles of non-inteirention and neu
trality which were established by the Kansas lull, ano this
Convention has full confidence that Mr Buchanan will
manliest his fidelity to the principles which carried linn
into office, by recalling Gov. Walker.
i Resolved. That we highly approve ol the course of
out Senator-, the Hon. Robert Toombs and the Hon. Al
(red Iverson ; they have faithfully nerved rhe State in the
public councils, and deserve and should receive the appro
barion and confidence of a free and intelligent pe^pU^
5 Re,aired, That we tender to his excellency Gov.
Johnson, ihe, expression of our approbation and esteem ;
his ad ninistraiion has been wise and just, and he has prov
ed himself a fit ruler to guide die destinies of our beloved
Alter considerable discussion and various amendments,
the original resolutions were adopted almost unuoi
moU9,y - , . > ,p e nominate-
The Convent-on then proceeded to *■
Sfifflfidato before the oonventlon. Samuel Hall E-q. of
Macon presemed the name of .lames Gardner K*q. of
Richmond, Thomas Morris, of Franklin, presented the
name of Hon,..fno. 11. Lumpkin of Floyd.
D, B. Ilarrell of Webster, presented the name of
Hon. Win If. Stiles, of Chatham, R. J. Willis, of
Green presented the name of liiram Warner of Merri
wether.
The following is the result, the first six bailout
basing been taken on Thursday evening, the others on
hi id j V morning.
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First Ballot 1W 97 100 53 33
Second “ 101 97 100 53 35
Third “ 113 83 110 50 32
Fourth “ 116 79 123 43 22
Fifth “ 121 67 131 47 20
Sixth “ 124 46 1(1 56 16
Seventh “ 126 51 ‘l3l 50 80
Eighth “ 122 35 152 49 17
Ninth “ 127 wth’n. 172 64 25
Tenth “ 120 173 56 30
Eleventh” 11l 151 62 31
Twoivth “ 124 151 60 41
Thirteenth “ 119 151 50 26
Fourteenth “ D9 137 wih’o. 56 4
Fifteenth “ • 143 140 61 with'n. j
Sixteenth “ . 169 146 53
Seventeenth” 165 160 46
Eighteenth” 162 171 41
Nineteenth” 170 174
On motion of Hope Hull, a committee of three from each
Congressional District was appointed by the delegations
from the several districts, for the purpose of conference and
harmony.
Ihe Convention then took a recess of half an hour to
allow the delegations to 9eieet their comtni teemen.
The Convention was called to order and received the re
port of the several delegations and then adjourned to 2
o’clock P. M.
At 2 P. M., the Convention met again and received the
report ol the committee of conference through Mr. Irwiu
or V'ilkes, which recommended the nomination of Joseph
E. Brown, of Cherokee county, by acclamation.
The report of the committee was received and adopted
with only one dissenting voice.
The Convention adjourned with great harmony and en
husiaim.
The Administration and Kansas.
The Washington Union of the 24th iust., contains
an article on the Kansas and ffivultiee, which .we regard
as significant of the views of Administration upon the
Dew issue raised by Walker's Inaugural Address.
“The position ol the Democratic party,” we quote from
the article before us. “and it is scarcely ueccssiry to ; dd,
the position of the Administration, in regard to existing
and fficulliea in Kansas, cannot be misunderstood. It is that
the people of the Territory have the right to settle the
character of their institutions. If a considerable or in
considerable portion of their number conceive that they
can impair and ultimately destroy that right bv creating
difficulties and disturbances, or by taking no part in tht
elections, they labor under sn error which Cannot be tot
soon disabused ; fur the Demoetatic conservative portmt
t of the country will regard as the people of Kansas only
; such as are now uniting to frame a form of govern,
meat in accordance with the provisions of law, and no’
those who are seeking to paralyze the popular will by if ‘
legal subterfuges and the quibbles of fanaticism.
’ “Whatever tbeConstitution may he—whether recog
nis ng or excluding slavery, or silent in regard to the in
stitution—it will be viewed as the expt. ssion of the wii!
of the people of Kansas , as those who frame it will act
under the Federal Constitution, and in a manner recog
nised by tbe organic law.
’ “Tbe administration, we are quite sure, stands on the
doctrine of non-intervention, in the strictest sense of the
term, aDii will insist, to the extent-of i:s constitutional
power, that the people of that Territory shall manage
their own affairs in their own wav.”
Nomination for Governor cf Mississippi.
LouiVILLE, Ky., June 23. — The Hon. W. H. .VcWiliie
bis been noaii. at id by the .Domeera sos Muslsrippi for
pov.-rnor of that State.
The Federal f'nicin on Kansas Affair**
We regret to eee oo the part ttf the Federal bnion ,
a disposition to screen Gov. WaMterf,t the censure
which he hn* merited at the hand* of the Southern
prefrS. on account ot‘ hi* course in Ktriiaa, lu i‘s issue
of the 23d iusi., we find the folio wing :
“It seems to cs that some of our Southern contem j
poraries have be*-n entirely too hasty.in condemning Gov. i
Walker, and through him the administration of Mr
Buchanan. What evidence have we that either of
them intend to betray the Sooth ? All of the antece
dents of both Gov. Walker and Mr. Buchanan are up- ;
posed tp Roeh a conclusion. Before we condemn those
who have been our friends, let us weigh weil the iesti
rrmoy against them. There are many among us who
have already shown, by their immoderate joy and exul
tation, that they would be well be pte. sand if they could
convict the administration of treason to the South, in
this they have been convicted of permitting their ha
tred of Democracy to overpower their lov* of country.
To these we have nothing to say \ reason would be
ost on them, Bui to those who are witling to be just
and reasonable, we would say, reflect upon the peculiar
situation of a Governor of Kansas at this time, when,
perhaps, it would be impossible lor any man on the
lace of the earth, in that position, lo gitre satisfaction to
b-.*h parties. L-t us letneitihef that the Governor was
s?nt to Kansas, o*t to make it either a tree or a slave
State, but to ms* tu-ii the c:tiz>ns of Kansas have a fair
chaoce of fornvng a-eonsfitution to sail themselves. In
diving this, it is thr duty of the Governor to observe a
strict neutrality between the con lending parties'.
precisely ; and it i* just because Gov. Walker has de- j
parted from that-strict oeutraHty which it wus his duty |
to tbserve f that we condemn him. V\ hat wdh his isolhrr- i
mal theory but an argument in favor of making Kansas a j
free State ? What wa* his tong rigmarole ab'Ut creating
a slave S*aie out of the Indigo Territory bol an appcsl
to Southern men to acquiesce m hi purpose l make
Kansas free soil ? VV hat did he mean by threatening ;
the Convention with the rejection of Congress upon the J
application of Kansas, unless the Constitution should b* 1 |
previously submitted to those who had costomtliously j
jrefuseti to comply wi?h the registry law ? How long >
were we toeit still w hile he was busy with his treasonable j
purpose to defraud the South of her lights in Kansas? j
Must we hold our peace while Walker is preparing the |
train that is to scatter our cabs* to the four winds, be- j
can*** h* received his appointment from a Democratic
j Administration? \Ve owed tto om selves ami to the
administration which we helped to place in p*vc
er, to denounce the very fust step which Mr, Walker
took in al*andonirig the faith o f the partv. V\ make
no charge of complicity whh this treason on theptut of
j the admiiHstration. We cannot t>ring <msst ives to be- j
i lievc, that Mr. Buchanan has so the plat- i
i form upon which he was elected, or the principles ;
I which he himself avowed in his inaugural address. j
| Non-intervention wacnnr watchword then, and it i.-i am 1
| watchword now. And arc we to be deluded with an
! empty name, while an executive appointee ts permitted !
| t . dictate to the people, the term> upon wh’ch they may
j apply for admission into the l ni<*n ? Such whs not
iur understanding of non-intervention, and vuch, w*
| venture to say, will i*.<t ’ue the on erstatidir.g r*f the ad
! minis!tstioti.
Tb<* Georgia Telegraph mid <uv, Walker’s
Inaugural*
We assure our Macon cotetnporary that it afftrds
u pleasure to be corrected iu our understanding of his
! p -eiiiou upon the new which has been rt td in
} Kgusi* i*y D A’. alkere maugura] addre-.-. The
j f 'dlowing extracts fn 111 its editoiial columns, will explain
tlio view* of the Telegraph upon this question :
“The telegraph endorses no soh’.ajy. position ot
Walker in Kansas—#.f one. In all, he has outraged
the jut functions of n i gent f the Federal Govern*
merit. lie had no business lo be throwing his ofticial
influence upon one side or the oilier. It was nothing
to him whether the Territory chose to organize a slave
or Don-elave State—to have schools or not—to have
iw.idroads or not—to subnet their Constitution for pub
lic ranfi.-a ion or not. Ail his business was to see fair
play in the prem ia and kt the legally qualified voters
decide for themselves. If the Constitutional Conven
tion, after perfecting their woik, had chosen by ordi
nance, to submit it to a direct vui of their constituency
—it was their business. And if they did not, it was
a matter for their constituency alone. it was plainly
none of Walker’s affair. Ho had no right, as a Fed
eral Agent, to dioiaie to them, or to hold up the proba-
‘•We again repeat. That dictation is one thing, and
the abstract property of the Convention submitting
their handiwork to their constituents is quite another.
In the one v.'o see no propriety ; ill the other, we
should discover ti conformity to precedent, general
usage, and the plainest suggestions of a sound Repub
lican theory. Our notion of this self-government—
popular sovereignty—principle is consistent only with
a fair, lull and free exercise of the popular will, under
rrguljilini 9 of jnst and equitable low. We have no
j idea of carrying a Constitution by tactics, first, because
j the thing would be unfair in itself, and second, because
nothing euuld be gained by it. If a considerable ma
jotity of the duly qualified voters of Kansas were in
favor of a non-si,ivebo!,ring State, and yet, by manage
ment, a slave holding oiganization were instituted, the
i acquisition would nut be worth a dime, because it w ould i
continue only until fits majorit y could speak through !
the ballot-box,and whin they spoke through Legiela- i
live amendments, it would he in the tones, feelings and j
purposes of a reactionary and revolutionary party. 1,,
i not this too manifest to need any further elucidation ?” j
It will be seen that the Telegraph unequivocally de- I
j pounces the conduct of Gov. Walker in his un warrant- j
j abfe attempt to dic’ate to the people of Kansas the |
, terms upon which they may- apply for admission into ;
i the [nun. So far, of course, we agree ; but we eun
i not endotse all that the Telegraph says in relation to
: >he propriety of referring the Constitution to the pt-o- !
, pie after it has been adopted by the Convention. We j
cannot admit that suoh a course is in conformity with j
“precedent, general usage or the plainest suggestions of I
a sound Republican theory.” So far os precedent goes, !
it is more against, than for such a course ; there has )
been nd general usage upon the question, or if there j
has, it bas been contrary to the policy urged by the i
Teiegraph ; for more than one half of all the State j
Constitutions have been adopted in Convention, without
any subsequent ratification by the people ; and the j
“plainest suggestions of a sound republican theory” j
are, in our judgment, opposed to a reference of the
Constitution to the people en masse, after it has been 1
adopted by the people in Convention. Ours is a rep- j
resentative government. Its soundest theory :s that ;
the people shall rule, but they shat', do so through le
gally ci nstituti and representations ; and it is precisely in
this way that we propose the people of Kansas shall
make their organic law. The Convection which was
elected last Monday, will represent the people ; it
is the people, embodied in their only legislative capac
ity. Representation is the esset.ee of Republicanism.
The people-of Kansas might eome together en masse
to make a Constitution, but in doing so they would not
be following “the plainest suggestions of a sound Re
publican theory.” Nor would they increase the pfob
abtlilies of securing the wisest or most Republican Con
stitution. The impracticability of such an assem
blage, either for making Constitutions or laws is appa
rent, and it strikes us that the impropriety of referring
a Constitution or a code of laws to the people after they
have been adopted by a legally constituted representa
tion, is equally apparent.
These considerations, however, are all outside of the
issue. .The people of Kansas are competent to decide
this question sot themselves, and we are willing that
they should do so. They had already decided it, and
it is now only before the country by the officious in
termeddling of Gov. Walker who has undertaken to
dictate to them bow they are to ndo|:t their constitu
tion. If they chose to r. fer the adoption of the Consli
lion finally and absolutely to a Convention which was
fairly and lawlully elected, it was none of Gov. Walk
et’s business ; and in seeking to interfere with the mat
ter he has overstepped his anthoriry, and should be
promptly recalled by the Administration.
Annual Fair of the (State Agricultural Society.
We are indebted to the Secretary for a copy of the pre
mium list prevented by the Southern Central Agricultural
Society for the next Annual Exhibition to be held in At
I ante, commencing on the 20th October next. The list is
an ample one, embracing everything pertaining to agricul
ture. The Society has determined, we understand, to
make the exhibition permanent at Atlanta.
TSie Administration mid Kansu**
We Irttvo satMactory information from Washington,
vways the Georgia Telegraph,) that the instruct ions to Gov.
Walker were simply to seethe principles asserted by the
Ku.-as hill and enunciated by the National Democracy at
Cincinnati,earried'out in their obvious import. The poli
■ cy of the Adniiuictration.iis indicated and. stated to Mr.
| Walker, was ihittbn Government would not interfeie
with the question of slavery—it beiug a domestic question,
to te settled by tlie people in the mrmation and adoption j
ol their constitution The Administration had seen noth* 1
ing of this Inaugural Address until published in the news- !
papers, and whatever in it conflicts with a position ol en- j
tire neutrality between parties in Kansas upon domestic j
questions, conflict*'with the vie we of Mr. Buchanan and \
hi? Cabinet.
It is bruited about in Wasliiogtoti that tito Kansas Con
stitution will probably be altogether silent upon slavery, i
leaving tho mailer to ba considered and settled by the I
State at its own leisure and discietion.
<;ov. Walker at Topeka
If any thing had b“eo wantin2 to opafirtn us in our
imprrasiou of tbv traitorous designs of Gov. Walker,
in Kansas, it is furnished in the speech which he de*
litered .at Topeka, on the fi’.h inst. Instead of going*
there with the ewnrd, as he should have done, to
disperse the rebels who were treating hie authority with
contempt, be met them with honeyed word* ot friend
ship and entreaty. Hi? plan for abolition zmg the 1 er*
ritory is more clearly uuf<.'lded than in his luangui:*!
Address. Again he deelar. e his onnvie'.i* n that unless
the Coostitmioo which the Conveption may adopt, is
submitted to the vote of alt the resident seuierv. Con*
oress will ani ought to reject it ; Rod to give emphasis
to his opinion, declares that unless the Constitution
should thus be submitted, be would unite with them in
their opposition to it. But let him speak tor himself;
My doctrine is thi*, that in the future, wh*n the Con
ptttutVm rhall te submitted to tiie vote of the ciiaeuo ot
KiUaas, that it be submitted to the role ol the whole
people. * I do not mean those who are now regie.ered un
der the territorial law. Ido not it can those who were
i residing here ou the I.sth of Mm h last, but 1 mean ihe
I whole-jeople ot Kansas, wot only those who re h<r. now,
I but those who will‘be here next fall us ucluai rtsideu;*—
! tfcal they—the jioop-e over whom these i*tituioos are
j to nporaV— lit-it they bv a m.njoiijy of their voles, shall
j decide Lr tbemfltlves w hat shall be their Constmuion
and what shall lie their social ins itatioOF. On this suo
jcci. I desire, l'r >’ at, to read m y.u an extract from my
I inaugural addriM to tho p<opb of (be Territory of lvm
• sas, tojpt.htr w;iH the views 0} tbs Preside*!’ o the ( wi
led S*ab.
1 repeat, then, as ivy cl wr conviction, that unless ihe j
Couvonji n submit the CoiistMuuim lo tbc vnic ; i the
actual resident net tiers oi Kscwf, and the ‘lection be j
fairly aod justly'iwndactrd, the CoiiAthafion v.i’l be, and j
ought to be rejected by Congress. [■ *rics of g*od.] ]
Gtutlemeu, on this subject, i w. h that inert -Imvnd be j
no mistake, do mCn pivheusicu? as r ! _>aijs my opi.iion* :
and the poliev which 1 shall deem it my da'y Jo pursue
in the sdminixirari. n ot lfi KxGiulix. Depaftmwtl ot ilse
Trmtory o! KmiM-is. It it involv.-.l in u ('•• i.iii)pl? i
w.inis : T hat th- iwjuriiy <■{ lfit- noqile ot K iuf.-is must ,
(jotu-rn —[ories ot r -iit.J ’Tfi.it ifit- majdity of ‘fie |>;o
nf (v iDsas must iul ‘pt thru-.•*& U.msiitmiun <.r rej.-et ‘
l—tl-at it* majiifity of p upfi ot Ivinsiu M tlie polls ;
; nMl> t ificij? whether tiny will he a stave Stale of free ;
State, j Aj>|lao*e.;
*■ * * *
Now. then, geoiDnu'it, to ‘fi • iiio.J” ill whioh thi-’
is to bexiMtoniiMished. I premni.- r.U sart-e— hi st.
I hope we •>; as to the fi.-nth-e that the majority ot ib
pen,>le of k <nsas sitaii eetnlilwU tlinr own Oonftuiion
anil iotroduw siii'h xoeiel iuMiiutfoua as tin- notjority pf
i,-r. I’m how w this be dune ? The Cc*;>rm of the
Uoitxil Si alt? Jiw ostihiisbtd <■ t Kansas hut one mode
ot action on this sutjeet, and th..t action is through tlr
Territorial UeeislattH v.
Now, none of .-u can retti tt more than I do, any
those .ifj.liwahle’ nud oht..i>-. ns eirouniKtaocex which
have tab- 11 place in the pt. For in>- lt i wist to vi•’
link the p-nt, and look toiuvani to u bolter and bri.l. er
lutute j hat T-rrit-ti-J i.eKtsb.tme. iws, iu respect -o
the afithoritv over this qudsuoii, te. n I’ eeuniz. and by tfi.e
j eels ..t i ‘■no! 1 , s’- of It .id and IfioT- Ih it Ijottsiuuire
j 1, , H called a Uoi.’ eufion to 3. semi, ein September next
! That On..button th-. 'il or they vvdl n *t snimiit to U'o
I maj iritj <d the actual, resident setfiew of Kansas, if
; t')c) do*bnl thus Mihiuil it. i w ill join von, fellow eitiz-iis.
t iu jav. iui opposition to their course. [Cries ol “Good,'’
1 and cheers J And 1 cannot douht. geutluneti, that one
much UinheV Ilian 1, the Chief Ma.ris'.rate of the Union,
will join von iu opposition. But, gentlemen, tor myself.
I cannot doubt that that Convention w-!i submit such mi
instrument a. th.y may h aute fur the adoption or re
jection of the whole ptop’e ..f Kansas ; !o ■ it who now
are or then may be, acu-ii. Loan fide, rqsiodH sttilers of
tbe Territory ot Kansas.
Gov. Walker claims ta speak for the Administra
tion. We do not not know whether fie does nr nut ;
we hope not. We wll not waver it) our confidence
in Mr. Buchanan ; we will not doubt hie de.vojipn It!
the PTcsTJency. Unshaken, however, as is our con
fidence iu the wisdom and palri.aism of the Ad minis
trat.ni), we do not hesitate to avow that onr convictions
upon this question w ill not be aifi cu and by the policy of
j the Administration. We owe no allegiance to party
; which shall be allowed to interfere with our devotion to
| right and the interests of our section. Onr only hope
! I.t the preservation of the Union is in the integrity of
the Democratic party. We cling to that as the only
power which can preserve the Constitution from the
vandals of the North, and we shall not ob-todon is as
long as it is true to its time honored principle*. Mr.
Walker may betray his party, as anfortunatly for the
party and the count)y, some of his predecessors have !
done, bat he has no power to commit the Admioistra- j
tion to his bad faith. Rced-r was false to the power j
which sent him to Kansas, and he wtts stripped of Iris |
authority, fto Walker may betray his master and fol
low the fate of his predecessor.
I The A dmiuittration iceugn : zes the legitimacy of the
] Legislature, the validity of the Registry law which it
has enacted, and the legality of the election which ha*
i taken pls-'e under that law, for de!eg..l<-s to the Can
! atitmional Convention. It cannot deny the right of the
j people, if they choose that couise, to submit the adop.
; tion ol a Constitution absolutely to a htw-Tully and fairly
j elected Convention, without the formality of referring
it to the people for ratification : for to do so, would
i be to deny the validity of the Constitutions of more
; than oue half the States now comprising the Union. —
Front these premises, it is preposterous to claim for the
Federal Government, as Mr, Walker does, the power
to demand that the Constitution should be submitted to
a popular vote before the inchoate Stale shall be en
titled to admission into th ■ Union The principle of
non-intervention, incorporated into the law organizing
the Territery of Kansas, requires that the people ediali
be left free to make their own State Constitution with
out any interference from the General Government.—
As to the particular mode in which the people shall
adopt a Constitution, the Territorial bill is silent, and
should be, of course. It only requires that the people
of the Territory shall act without foreign intervention.
They have chosen to act t r r;-gh Convention, and it is
their undeniable right to do so. It is Mr. Walker’s
attempt to dictate a diffi.eut policy which w e condemn,
and it is because that dictation is inconsistent with the
priueipies of the Democratic party, and Mr. Bucha
nan’s plighted faith to those principles, that we will
not hold the Administration responsible for Mr. Walk*
er’s treachery.
The Southern Pacific Railroad,
i Our New Orleans exchanges aucounce with great
j satisfaction the flattering prospects of this company..—
The Directors, it is stated, have completed a contract
i with responsible parties for finishing twenty-eight miles
| of the road between the western line of Louisiana and
the town of Marshall, in Texas; and also for the grad
ing and wooden superstructure of forty-two miles of
the road westwardly from Marshall. The road to
Marshall is to be completed by the first of April, ISSB,
and the grading of the other forty-two miles by the
first of January thereafter. The contractors are Messrs.
J- T. Grant <£ Cos,, of Georgia, a company of energy
and capital, who have just completed a large contract
on the Jackson road in Louisian to the entire satisfac
tion of that company. Surveys have also been order
ed, and are now in progress, to be completed by next
November, for three hundred miles from there to the
B-asos liver.
Alabama & Florida Railroad.
The Pensacola Democrat of the 18th inst., contains the
report of the Chief Enginer of the Alabama & Florida
Railroad, submitted to a meeting of the Board of Directors
held in that place ou the 15th, front which we condense
the following facts:
The grading has been completed for a distance of twenty
miles, and sinc the Ist of January, the contractors have
been engaged ou the part between tbe 20th and 30th miles
two thirds of which lias been completed. The Engineer
calculates that tbe road will be. put m running order to the
Slate line by this lime next year.it the iron is furnished iu
time to lay it down, and estimates that the entire rn a d
from Pensacola to Montgomery may be completed iu two
and a half years from this date.
The Canvass in Dowdell’s. District.
Messrs. Dowdell and Judge, tie candidate* for Con
gress in the Montgomery District,’ opened i he ball at
Auburn, Hwt wetk, very much to (he eati*faet!w>i ci
their respect v friends. The contest will be a spirited
one, hut from the known character and the Candida'***,
we have no doubt it will.be conducted fairly and with
perfect propriety. They are bo’.h geotlemen oi ability,
and the people inay expect to beer tho reeues
them discussed with ability on both t:ues. The
however, is not a doubtful one. Dowdell has carried hi*
| District r gainst greater odds than he w.Il have toen>*oun j
| ter in this campaign, and hie constituents arc altogether J
j too well satisfied with him, /-.s their Representative, to |
! dtsire a change. Let harmony prevail among our \
i friends across the Oh/utah■‘ochee, and the result in A:* :
| gust next will forever rilenve the guns oi the- op|>omfhwi. |
j T * is the dea-.h snuggle oi* Know Nothingisia iu that I
( Disirict, unlees tbe confidence of Dowdt-U s triends should j
| tender them inactive.
of Ifie Whig Fatly.
t i e New Orleans papers contain ;'i a :<lress signed ]
by between two and three hundred old line Whigs of
that city, who, being <: disi?tisfi and ahke with the reek*
less and partisan legNbrion of the DemncrAts, and with
the violent proceedings and protaiptiue tenets of the
American party, would gladly lead their ad and conn
’ <t-l to wiser and mo;e tttnptraie action.’ Ih-u
j r'i>nera proceed-to express their opposition to ‘‘mingling,
j spiriiup.l with temporal or political questions aud
th ** . : the natural and inherent right of man with
out interruption from his neighbor, to worship God
| after the dictates of his own ‘conscience,-* and conclude
j their address by “earnestly recommending to tbe M irgs
! throughout iha Sta:e to orgardze and assert (heir polit
j ir.al independence , and to sustaiu the Whig* of New
j Orleans in carrying out the objects herein set forth.’
| When the opposition have concluded lids K-tlkenny tvar
i between the old line Whigs and Americans, we opine
! there will be little left for the Democrats to whip.
Full aye ot the Trunk.”
From the action of the stockholders in Brunswick,
savh the Floridian 4- Journal, tho pnbhc had b tea •
Kd to regard the cv*n*trootion of tbe “Main Trunk’*
*i secured ; but \v have received reliable informatiuu
to tiie eiVaot that the D-rro'ors of the Brunswick (J *m
pau.y will not consent co the terms proposed, aud tur
t‘.er tfiat they v. ii <*tTar do teiuns to Savannah which ;
V latter wiil accept. But one genii mun of the Board
fivers a seuleimijjt ot the difficulty as proposed by the j
nout.iDg referred to—sll the others are utterly hostile,
to any lord fide compromise which lets in Savannah :
inn any thing !:ko fait* term*. This course ..n tlte part
!of the Brunswick Directors e.tKetflally defeats the j
I “Main Trunk” scheme Manifeatly it i wot the into- j
ir of Bruoswiek to hav- that ‘‘Trunk’’ hull; Her !
i true iuo-*e*!s as a cy lay in the direction of Macon j
and A:Daily—a fact which doubtless her owners sec.
Nom natioa lor Cou?ress in the 31 District.
Th* Democratic Codveotioti which met at hortyth
; oii Monday 22d inst M unanimously .ncminated Hon. ;
| David J. Bailey for (’••ngrw*. VV e ♦.•♦•DgraioUte our
| tr tends us the Thud D.strict upon tl.-o e lection which i
they have rnado. Bailey has represented the District !
heretofore in Congress, and ur.dr hislcsd, we have ik* ;
and ab? of a Democratic vieforv in October, ‘ihe t >!low
: ing r-6oiuViot!S ad>;ptrd:
lie solved, i* h.*t wc h.’.v-- viewed with seri its .m‘crn,
and widi m - idea di.-approva!, the course which bus hetu
i pursued >•> the Hob. llobt- .1. Walk- r. since hie upt>oiiil.
I ment as Governor oi the Territory of Kansas. That li;h
imiuttoinl ; ddrta to ilc* of Kansas, :iidicnt*s -h
a policy In union! U> S-uihej ti in J eve ft and we resent it
| an unauthorized iutcrventitm bet wo* n the- parties into
i which the people t the Ttvriiory arc divided, and an
! unw .rran!u!!o dictaiiou : and h departure iivm .that p *
, 8.1 ion of ! rict neutrality upon thy subject of slavery,
! which ought to b • occupied by Federal Officials in the
! Territories of the Union. •
, lies, deed. Tb it we content ourselves with this emphat*
ie condernuatioii of tin- laanguval ft Gov, V lker, and
j trusting .hat events will show it ‘.a dissipproved by the
| Administration, we refer the win*)-* subject t° the ap-
I preaching State Convention of the Democratic party,
with tiie confident expectution that U will take such nctii.-n
in tiie premis s, for the protection ot Southern Right* and
ihe vindication of the Democratic party o! the State, as
the anu demands.
i,etlei oi President YVntker io I'iesidpnt Bn
chanau.
YVe publish to-day, a letter • from the president ,pf
I er ;o Nioaiagua, and his expulsion from the Terri'.:iy
Iby Costa Rica and her allies, aided by Commander
Dari-, of the United States Navy. it sirikre us r.s a
, complete defence of Fies-deut IValker from nil attaeks.
; There is, indeed, a striking parallel between his eonneo
i tion with Nicaraguan affairs, and that of La Kr. vet to
i w!-h these of the United States. Both Jiprors accept
jed the invitation of arr voluliuoai-y Government to
j hear arms against detpoti-m. It is impossible to oon
! demu one hero while we applaud the other. The issue
jin the two siroggies is widely different. The A Uteri
■ ran*, with the aid of LaFavette, were saecessfnl • the
; Ai-.-.ia;.:li-ue*-, with the aid of Walker, succumbed to!
| overwhelming combinations against them, after two
| j ears of as brilliant warfare as graces the annals of the \
j race.
J W hope the conduct of Commander Davis will be
investigated, and that ho will be de-ait with aeeordtog .
to his de.-.-rts.
The Encampment.
j For the information of the Volunteer Companies of our
| city, we ate requested by the Superintendent of the Mu
j cogue Railroad to state, that the train for Milledgeville wil
I leave at 45 A. M., on the morning of the 2d July. One!
j box car will he furnished lor each company. Fare to Mil- ■
j ledgeville and return $5 60.
Polyhymnia.
| Vi e had the pleasure on Wednesday evening last,ol at*
| tending on Exhibition of the Polyhymnian Society, at I
I Sladevilie Hall in this city. The entertainment confuted j
I of music and original lectures by the young lady members 1
I of the Society, and was a treat of its kind, etsch as it has j
Irately been our good fortune to enjoy. The Society is
! composed of young ladies who are members ol Mr. Slade’s :
I Female Seminary,and their proficiency in the ornamental i
j and literary deparlmenta, reflects the highest credit upon
I their instructor o .
Early Fruit.
i We had just dipped ftom the Mobile Advertiser,
I the Editor’s acknowledgement of a basket of ripe !
J peaches grown in the vicinity of that city, when our j
j friend IS. J. Moses brought into our office a similar j
| favor from hreEsquiine Orchard near this city. The I
haslet which he has presented os is s handsome codec- i
lion of tempting ripe peaches and pears, the like of i
which, we venture, are not to be found nnv whore ip !
this county outside of his grounds. Mr. Moses, we i
are informed, succeeded iu protecting his fruits from !
the April frosts, and we may expect trf have cor mar- I
ket supplied this summer with the luxuries which we j
j have been accustomed to receive front his orchards. !
; The K quiiine Nurseries are equal to the best in the j
I country, and its fruits surpass any thing we evet get in ‘
this market.
Personal Items.
Matthew Irvin Keitt, a captain in the war of 1812,
and long a prominent citizen of Charleston. S. C., died
iu that city on the !9th inst., aged 70 years.
Dr. Hawkes, late of N. C., but now of N. Y., is
suggested as a proper person to fill the Presidency cf
South Carolina College.
Mr. John Carrie, an old and much esteemed citizen
of Augusta, Ga., died in that city on the 19th inst. His
house caught fire during the night, and it is supposed
that the excitement caused thereby hastened his death.
He was affected with disease of the heart.
Eufat'l.a Rifles. —This iu the name of a Volunteer
Company which has just been organized in Eufaula, Ala.,
of which Maj. B. F. Treadwell has been elected Captain,
and Messrs. J. N. Copeland, H. R.JShorter, and W. 11.
Roberts, Lieutenants.
Nomination for Congress in the 7th, District.—
The Democratic Convention, which assembled at Mii
ledgeville on the 24th inst., unanimously nominated the
Hon. Linton Stephens, of Hancock, as the candidate of
the Democratic party of the Seventh District lor Con
gress.
The Superior Court eommenoed its session iD this
city, B.i>s the Mac m Messenger, on Monday, 22d ins!,
all the Judges preseut. We are gratified to sea that
Judge Lumpkin resumes his duties with health entirely
restored.
How. Martin J.
As will bi* seen from ihe tollowinj: letter, oilr represen
tative in Congress, the Hon. Marti.) J- Crawlo and, -icehne-
W,” a candidate for reflection. Tle ennounc w*l I
bq regretted by the Democracy of the Utetnet. “ho.are .
entirely satisfied with tlieir representative and had express- .
ed their dec ded—indeed, we may say, then unanimous de- ;
sire that he should serve them in die same cujaoty lor an
othe. term. We have seen Mr. Crawlord, -ad endeavor- .
ed to dissuade him from the purpose wivch iqs letter ex- j
presses, but he is unalterably, fixed in his devrimeattotUo ,
retire Iu doing so, it must be a matter ol great sal.-tar •
tion to Judge Crawford, tnat he has tjte entire confidence j
of his party.and that, had he chosen to accept the mum- .
nation, he would have been triumphantly returned to hi
geat in Congress, where he has given wuveual satb,action
to bis constituency.
Cot.r.'MßV, < lx-, Jane ~Jt !85ff. •
Mrs,,, Editor*.— l am this moment in receipt of a let- j
ter from a personal friend and U-r.dir.g Democrat to the ,
county vC Decatur, who informs me that wnilst :
many warm and Hue friends still, in that e> uuty, i wnl
meet with strenuous opposition, as local itlieresis mi
section rise above partv and men. Even, that opesmon,
he says, might be removed if 1 would pledge Tt-.y :a-st el
forts to secure certain specific mail lacihnus-
Difring ill) term of office. I have tendered whatsoever
ot eerv.ee 1 could to all rrt* of the IHshich a> well **
to every individual therein who sought inv at I. wb tht
fore Con>trer9 or the Departments. * t
In view, therefore, of my own pt*r-nhai
the subjsd, and the opposition allnjed-to, as well as Iw
1 prejudices which attach to my locality. 1 ur<muit.oaUv
S withdraw my name from the consideration of tho Uonvcus
| tion soot to assemble, and retire from a position wldeUiat
I she time it was tendered) I did not seek, and which I
; know can be filled far better by other- than mysell.
J cannot forego this occasion to tender the Democracy
; of the District my most profound acknowledgements lor
j the many assurances ot its regard and confidence winch-1
; have received. With utidimioished confidence in tile ; n
i ciptes of the party, and not doubting its adaptation to the
j fuccessltil administraticn of this great Government, i
’ hereby resign the post of honor assigned me two years ago.
j aiwt enter tlte service with the unqualified determination
I to remain a private in the ranks.
I am very respectfully,
.M VR'l'IN J. CRAWFORD.
For the Times k Sentinel
an interesting ekttnk.
Stkamvs “Polar Stas,” I
JsftcKon City, :Vlo., Juae 15th, lth.. S
A. a faithful chronicler oi the tirr.-s, i have thought that j
a few “jutting- down, by the way side” might nut be un
interesting to your numerous r-iiers. I left Columbus on
the morning of the slh inst., destined for the Vnert on a ■
t-.-ur -f observation. Staid over nigh; at the Trout House. ,
Atlauta. On the morning of the oth took the cars lor -
Chattanooga, Tenn. in passing through Upper Georgia.
1 was much struck with the numerous fields of wheat wa
ving in golden luxuriance through every valley and every
hill side, amid the mountainous regions oi this garden spot
of'cereals of our own beloved Georgia. Never were the
farmer's prospects brighter for an abundant harvest t han is
; now pound ill Georgia and West Teoueaec, and lam
! t,,ld that Feist Te.ilne--1-, ■’ Wll! produce a largo surplus over
any proceeding year. 25 and probably 33} per cent, is
: not au over estimate rri ihe extent ot the wheat crop raised
| -n these two States over any previous crop. Corn is hack
ward, but with c good season here-dter, will greatly ex
i ccd the crop ol last year.
Left Chattanooga on the morning of the 7th tor Nash-
I villc, which I reached same night. The road passes along
I th-- ba-e of Kookout mountain and which hero pres,-ms a
; most thrilling aspect- On one side the rock presents a
j perpendicular wall of several hundred feet, blasted to give
.yum fora road bed. while on lha other sue lue icnr.cv
. ~ t\ rivet laves the embankment seme sixty or eighty -net
I. -low to within a few- feet of a perpendicular of the track.
On one side is a frowning, hideous mountain, w-tiose j ‘ U
rocks, some hundreds of feet above, overhang the cars,
while on the other, a watery ‘chasm winds its slow and
tortuous course along, through it deep cu’- ol a spur of
the Blue Ridge that extends through upper Georriu and
; Alabama.
1 rave omitted to make a passing note >d our State toed,
which l will here supply. It is in a very good rendition,
ami well equipped for passengers ami freights, with careful
and accommodating officers to manage attd control the
same. In the location of the road, 1 can account lor but
one system that governed the Oh es Engineer, Mr. Long,
viz: that of surveying it off into sections of a i and i mile
each, making every section a final terminus, without any
definite intention or expectation of extending it beyond the
last fourth of a mile survey. 1 have- arrived at this con
clu-iun from the innumerable tortuosities utmost labyrin
thine) exhibited in its structure. I must not forget to men
)<•!), that it is only through liii-j system that there
-
This is the Chickamonga or “River of Death.”—
Such extraordinary railroad building as this ought io he a
death blow to State or Government Railread buildm.?, es
pecially where there are any bridge contracts to ie.’ or be
taken by the Chief Engineer, or any uncultivated lands
that can bo bought up, lo induce a detour of the road
1 m again on the Chattanooga and Nashville Railroad,
and about to enter a tunnel 2300 t'e.-t iu length, thtougli a
mountain of solid lime stone. Three shafts pierce this at
intervals from the summit, at a depth of 196 feet. In go
ing through this, the transition from a summer heat to a
chilling frigidity of the atmosphere, caa only be realized
without being described. There are several coal beds re
cently opened, contiguous to this road, that will eventually
be worked to profit.
On reaching Nashville I found the hotels full, therefore
was not fastidious about a room or bed. I was- much dis
appointed in the general appearance of thi- cim. With
the noble Cumberland flowing past it, there is no vvhaif or
levee to deposit? the vast amount of commerce that is at
tracted to and carried from its shores. K.v- r\ ’u,i ... . uuiu
landed on the steep river bluff, to roll or slide hack without
a keel or flat bottom to pick it. up or nr-,., t it? course in
i case of such a flight . I went through the noble eapitol
i that stands on a high eminence overlooking fire eitv. This
I was commenced about eleven years g>. audit will now
• probably take two more years to complete it. They have
1 already expended sbout one million on i*, and it is suppos
j ed when fully completed to cost about $1 200,000. Tire j
j building proper is nearly finished, requiring little more than ’
j running the iron railing round the balconies, colooadea, !
j &e, with the stucco work and fresco paintings nowin j
| course of completion. The other outlay will ba in grad* !
j jng, building steps, and putting up the tailing around the ;
yard, ‘i ire material ol tins noble edifice is procured entire’ I
i !v in Tennessee. The walls and the entire stone compos* !
I in* its masonry, was quarried only about a quarter of a !
. mile from its present site. This was efleeted through the j
j convict labor of the Penitentiary. The hand railing and J
: balistersis of most beautiful marble found in East Tenn. i
and much resembling the Grecian in appeaianee. The j
j architect was Wm. Strickland, who died in 1854, and j
I whose sarcophagus is the massive wall that composes thi g j
v ret structure—permission having been granted by the !
1 egislatare to make this his tomb. The dome or spire of
this building is sadly deficient in architectural des-gn to !
show well at a distance, it having too much she appear- !
Rtme of a church steeple or tower broken off by the wind, j
I saw quantities of'freight on the river hbifT destined lor
Columbus. For all merchandize shipped from St. Louis,:
Cincinnati or Nashville, it will come much more direct
and at cheaper rates than via New Orleans. This will al- i
so greatly huiii'ate its transportation.
Left Nashville cn the Quaker City (steamboat) for Cairo
111., on the evening of the Bth. Thus mudhole and muiqui- 1
to generator is situated at tbe confluence of the Ohio and I
Mississippi Rivers. Was glad ‘of an opportunity to ekfo |
from a slow Cumberland Rirr stern wheal boat, loaded to I
its guards with Pig Iron, (ail of which was taken on going j
down on our trip, causing a delay of 36-hours,; to a Raii- j
road car again.
i Lett Cairo on the evening of the 12th, and readied St.
j Louis the next morning before day. Passed through por
| lions of the beautiful Prairie lands©!’ Illinois, lying on the
: Illinois Central Railroad. These are mostly covered by
fields of wheat, and to enter with safety, a petson should
take the precaution to take an ‘observation at starting,and
a compass to guide him. St. Louis is the great metropolis
of the West, and destined at no distant day, with present
prospect before her of outstripping ad other cities in the
Union save New York. The present population is estima
ted at about 110 000, and it is calculated to reach @200,000
inhabitants by 1860. It is the policy of this fast growing
city to make all the Railroads in the State to diverge from
this point. Every hotel is filled to overflowing, and every
steamboat and railroad car crammed with human beings,
I left St. Louis yesterday, June 14th, on my way to Kan
sas, having taken the cars to this place, which 1 shall
leave this evening on the steamer Poiar Star, now bound
for Westport, Mo ,and the intermediate porta in Kansas.
Boston still keeps up her aid associations, and is shipping
by every railroad train scores of sbrickers. Provisions of
every description are enormously high from St. Louis up.
Transportation by rail or river is also extravagantly high
as manv have found to their cost, who hove started on a
trip to this western world I expect to visit Minnesota,
“’we, Wisconsin, and the Northern part ol Illinois, before
my return In the meantime, should anything transpire
worthy of your attention, I may hereafter advise voif there*
of , TOURIST.
Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, l as accepted an invitation from
the citizens of Mobile to deliver an address in that city on I
the epproaefong 4th of July, upon the claims of the “La- !
dies’ Mount Vernon Association” of the United States.
Washington Items.
We find the follow er items intelligence fit the ;
Washing’ll) telegraph : e correep-mdenceof the Baltim iy i
puntr-: j
A dispatch has b- < n received fnm- Eini-ry D. * j
ter. accepting the *>at Utah Jmig. sliq s. II .
ia an tx-memher of C.u greae trom Oh,-- .
Ti.c utfter has b’ cn offered to Mr.. KcUK*. !nui I
ana, who probably MI acp.pt. h 6 uncertaiu wl.cth- ]
er jodpe Stiles, win b now f or.-, wHI .etoru to .the j
territory, *
A well founded r- j. -rt assigns Thomas 11. Dunn. |
of Mi.-si-ippi, the Marsfial-htp of Utah.
Col. Cummings Wifi --am bo te .de el tlm Over- ;
norspip of I'ti.h, am! I.N tec-pGu. c is oooeidopd <er |
j tail!.
i Tho CaMuriiiw tci i-ud ma l question, after under- j
| going .. tlmfoagh v . a.-defaumi in Cabinet, baa been j
[■'referred to th.- I'.-ltn'is -r Gcaeral, who i* n"! yet I
j pipp,ued to profi utic.. I.t? decision. However, an >m- j
j pro,-ion ptevuiis that the S-mihern route R 'Uct- I
j cd,t:i -cn>rn tup ai ul mpl -s, and conttnu'.ng oy “ > of j
- Eon ri.mth, Donna Acna tmd Fort Yutpa. Tbe b- |
1 ject i- !<• have the route through,)) country auamptthle
j of ta-y aettlemctit, and which will not he ini. i rupud !
Ibv heavy snows. Some cf the bidders and sue to to
heard f.fore tbe Tostnia# er General, before be *bnß
i fiually dispose of the question.
Terrible IIa;l Sic in,
Washikotpx, Jqr c 22—A tariifio hail storm oc
! eurred here yesurday. Many oi the •}< ne* were :■
j large as ben’s eggs. rir,-i,t damage was done t<> vege
{ tation and windows, and the loss on the I cier will pro
i balvly amain! to fifteen or twenty thousand dollars.
Gaiusvltte ;G.) Couventioß—sth Glsiitci.
From a private enuree the Atlanta InteWgeacer
iuuics that this body consuintd the first day, (VN c.-l
nesday.) of its session, in settling the question of the
Hart county delegation. The delegates appointed at,
; ihe first regularly called meeting were admitted, the
■ ul her. rejected. Much .xcitenmnt prevailed, end up
to Thuradav mormug no ballot had been t-ikcn.
Correspondence of toe Atlontn Examiner, fed.
1 have just Uu Gaihaville, the sent cf the Congers
j ai-ma! C-nvemion. The wlu-b of the Sixth District is
; i„ jxrow. Nu orgauinlion at l.ri o clock ou the IS b
i in-t. The Hurt delegati.-. for McMillan was excluded.
-lurks'll was prominent befure the Convention. The
i yres es: i xritemetit pr, vaihd. 1 think that no nomi
j n liicn will be made. Lumpkin stork ded-Dinc. while
L.vinur and ti :rdner v.-t-ro rising :ri the huxih. F-
Nomination* iu the St.-th District—Hon. Jams*
\ JacUoo-Vie ham from a private • source that the
| Democratic Convene ,u of the Sixth Congressional
District n- u,muted the ilon Jam- - .lacksv't), of Clarke,
a- tile eaudidote of the party. V\ e have not tern hb
I it? ftwiu all the pmtjeulat, op to the time of our
! goiog to ptesa ; thtiflgh wo L-irn that several delugo*
t tiet.s wtibciuo iniu the C,'Uvolitif'i,. — Atlanta Intel.
; iigencer.
Kansas News.
St. Loy is, June 17. —The Topeka (Kansas) Con j
v, ntjot), i) llu 13 H in-t.. dr dared the admission ■!’ j
Kansas under the Topeka Omnituiion to be tbe only j
method df adjoxting the exts’in? difiivulti -.
The Fiee State Legislalure met iti eeeret uess’on ou j
the ltrih in-’, and the mxt day elected W A.l'bdip* ;
Ito fc) United tea Sum!, r m the p : sce ol General I
j Lane.
1 Chicago, June 18. —The K.-msia Free S'.ape Ligia- j
! Future met at Topeka oa tile 1J th mat.. Governor R.rb
! jas, n rent in S-U mestage. it retwmmc-nda immediate
; and thorough organrax-'mn of th.r State Gove ttmeM
| and oodiiicatio!) of the lav.-s'; exumihee tho inaugural of
. Governor Walker ; contends that the Topeka Con at it a
, tion is ihe unfy clear expression of the [‘oj-e'or will i-f
; Kansas,
j 1, thinks it incompetent for the neighboring States
i longer to (.xe:■ --■ aovereiguty iu Kansas, attd declares
1 it impossible f..r irte State rn -a t.u vote ot the bogus
| election. He concludes by saving- he will maintain the
j position of reeisttuice to usurped authority c* all haxurds
j and a! all times.
Governor of Utah.
The Washing l on Evening Star, of the I6lh inst.,
“Thi s nwtnipg £x- fd
j fiTni us tlTe G ~.'.-rnoiship us Utah, made -oiue lime
j since as the pnbfiu informed. Hi. private afiaiis
j made it for iiim to do ro, wa team,*’
Fire at Memphis.
| Memphis, June 18.— ySn extensive lire h.-olts but
I here last night, desiroying the whole block oi'.buiidieirs
1 occupied by the Bank of West TVnn-.-, ;he uu
j mereial Bank, J. JV. McCracken &. Cos., fj,
| Nabus & Cos., Sam-art, King & Cos,, S. MeManns ana
j Greesman J- Huffman ; aio a number of til ? 0.-CH
| pKd by cotton factors, viimmut of loss not v.-t ascer-
I tained.
The Military Encampment —We are informed that
> the Oglethqrpe fright Infantry, Gapt. Bartow, the Irish
Jasper Greens, Gap;. McMahon, and the Republican
! Blues, G ii.i. Anderson, have resolved to accept tbe in
; vital!, aol lire Excellency, the Governor, and appear in
j the military parade of the Fourth. Other companies
| may also attend, but we ore nnndvised of their move
i tnents.—Sun Republican , 19 th.
j Military Encampment. —The following Vqjpnteur j
. Companies have accepted the invitation ti. attend the |
| Military Encampment in Milledgeville on tbe -ith of I
j Jury—numbering about one thousand r
! Coiambus Guards, Cap;, jR-mmes,
j united Rifles, Capt. Wilkins,
j Liberty Independent Troop, Capt. Fleming.
| City Light Guards, Capt Colquitt,
j Putnam Rifles, Cap!. Branham,
j Floyd R iles, Capt. Hardeman.
i Marietta Cadets, Major Brumby,
Irish Jasper Greenes. Cipt. McMahon.
I Washington Artillery, Capt. Kirkpatrick,
j Oglethorpe Light Infantry, Capt. Bartow.
| Macon Volunteers, Capt. Smith.
Ogle-horpe Infantry, G*pt. Starnes,
j Dish Volun'eera, Cap!. Walker.
I Savannah Volunteer Guards, Capt. Seriveo.
’ Republican Blues, Capt. Aodeteoo.
Clinch Uitlcs, Capt. Platt.
Baldwin Blues, Capt. Rockwell.
By the Km a—Messrs. Harris tind Hatton, the op- {
posmg candidates for Governor in Tennessee had a per- ’
sods! ooiiisiott at Fayetteville, Tenn., last Saturday.— I
Mr. Hatton the American candidate was speaking, and !
Mr. Harris, taking offence at Ills speech, pushed him i
ftom the stand. After Wallowing in the dirt awhile,}
they were separated, and Mr. Hatton went on with his
j Movement of Troops. —Companies A and li. Fifth
I U. S. Infantry, under c-mmand of Gapt. Whitall,
j Lieutenants- Webb sad Tofbert, cumbering c-ne han
j dred and twenty men, arrived here yesterday on the
| steamship Calhoun. They embarked at Fort Movers,
j Florida, and are en route for Jefferson Barracks.— Lou’.
j isville Courier, i Os A.
Brunswick Railroad —The Herald of (1,-,; oily of
; the 12th, s tys that there is now 25 miles graded -vest
j of the Satilla, and that if the work goes on without the
i connection, (or is made on the line of the Brunswick
road,) it will be finished to Big Creek this fall. The
Herald says no definite propositioas have yet transpired
between tho two U ulrnad Companies and that the reso
lutions ol the Stockholders in the Brunswick Company
wore only recommendatory
Hon. E. VV'. Pickens and the Russian Mission.
Use statement has appeared in various papers that Hon.
F. VV. Pickens has been tendered by President Buch
anan tbe mission to Russia, whi-h is entirely correct.
Bnt the Carolinian and others seem to be uncertain
whether Col. Pickens will accept it or not. We ure
enabled to say positively, that the kind mid complimen
tary proffer of the President tvas promptly but tespeot
fully declined nearly two weeks ago. We also happen
to know with certainty that the friends of the Hon.
I’. VV. Pickens will place his name before the people
of South Carolina for tho post of United States Scua
tor. It needs not here, that we speak of his eminent
qualifications for that position. —Edgefield Advertiser,
. The iXeir Frofewr* —The Spartanburg Express,
iu referriug to the la: changes and elections for the
S nth Ctioiinu Callege,says of L-.slio McCiiodle# I'-Uj.,
ProK-v.ur elect t-l Latin :
“lie had charge hr * -metime of the Orphan H<-c\-
!a Chariest,-n, and was f.-l! w.d by B/i-f. Rivets, n•
es i'hf C- bg---’’ .
I'.olmsor M'-Caiidlesa was an alumnus of the Orphan
I f,.use, r.r.d eilds h tieW iiis’.aiicc to the iiui of alumni
who have bet, .red and approved the tuition and ins:rue
,i„o us that well conducted ech-01. He -hits iw--n
known nut only au A proficient linguist, but as a teacher
o! tern’ll liable tqititdde and success. IU- was an ap
pointment graduate cf 18bS, and made cr.a <q the but
ol ihm day.
Professor W. J. Rivers, who now fills by re-elsoticn
the chair r.f Orf-.1. I.itetnturc, is also an alumnus of
j it, fc o.phan House, and dates t-:s b.iocah.ui p ,le—w ha-h
j was necompsnied 4ty the fiist lu-nur—ftc-m ihe c m-
I We thus have the twu cha'rs of clsssical literature
; fill.d in the Cv-a-U Carolin.-. C-JUse by pp from ‘-he
I “vLph.m lluti-e,” which d.'sdy - sigm.il} tip.a
----| S ent<d In all ileparfmcots of >e, vice. — Chat lesion Cour
f cr.
Stuiae oi Wothstglon. —Gov. Brace, -t North
Carolina, pm -mmt tv a resolution pars'd by the I-egis
h.uire of that State, it is u-i t tiited will, W . J. ilub
b-.rd, of Rifchmond, V.<„ h r-the casting i>f 8 brows
,i.attic of VVi-sl.ittgi: i;, after the mod* I cl the cr.c i m
in the Capitol of Virginia. The stam.e is to cost *lO.-
000, and when oompfeted is to be plated in tnt U the
Canfroi it. Rale gh.
| Don’t Like It.—The Mas?achose.U Knew Nothing
! State Convention met at Boston <n ‘he 17th, and re
jected the LauirVille Platform, and ad’tp’ed that of
Springfield. N. P. Banks t nominated for Gover
nor on first ittilut. W e might add to ti.-is that, .uas
much as Mr. Banks will probably get the n, mioatioo of
the Illaok’Repufci em,fl. and as the two parties united
Will probably have no difficult? >n carrying the election,
he will probably he the next Governor.
Southern Pacific Railroad —We understand that
at a meeting of the D rectors of the Southern R Trued
Company, held yesterday/a contract for gtad.ng and
tying of*forty-three miles more of this road was enter
ed juto, and that orders wue given fur the purchase of
the iron. Tbe means fur these purposes ere already
folly at command, so tl.-.i cu-biug ,-u obstruct the
prog roe* of like work-. TIP* will make seventy miles of
I ,j. u r und, for til.’ immediate nuus.’rection of which pro-
I vision, has beta made Louisville Courier, 19/A.
Receipts of Huron. —She amount oi bacon received
at the r.u al De.’bt of the S-mib Carolina Railroad since
M,v i-f, 1,8.77, is fid:) hogsheads, or about 620,000
pound-.— Avgusta Despatch. Vfth.
Cleveland, .lone 17. — Bv ■* vt.amer *, tn Canada,
! inttiiiqeuve has been receiv.d 11 ...; 17 yt a-r.d, the tnor-
I Jyrer. lately sent over the fine under a letter of ext.a
----| diiioe, has been set at liberty -py a tr.-jh of his old ac
j complices, while on his way from Toionto to Onyaga
j for ti Fd.
Days of Grace —The ptnnsyivsnia iag.alsture
| have adopt, and tho policy of N. vv York in abolishing days
of grace on sight bills.’ Other States have adopted s
! similar rule by statute in’ doing sway with grace ca
j ,;„h; Wits, th- ; Georg’s. Missouri and Tennessee. Uu
I the contrary, grace s alio.wed, by statute; on sight biiis,
i hi North Caro m. South Carolina, Massachusetts t-nd
Wisconsin, la other States litis subject has not bt-ti
acted upon.
• =tiOCge
Female Physician*. 4tnng the young ladies •'•tidy
ing medicine at th- FeinrJo Medical College, in j h:.u
delpfiia, are th*- follow.ng from the .Sou. It: Jmogene
Aubrey, K. Burk-, Miriam fif.mf.'-rt, Orie R. Moon,
Susan V> . Shav, from Virginia ; Lucy M. Peters'dia,
j from Nu.-lh Caruiir.a ;dig K. M-.-reand C.-iltie Met re,
| from South Carolina.
j Change in hie Weatueh Last night there wan quite
j a change of weather in this latitude—equal, perhaps, to
; 20 degrees, indicating heavy rains and hail storms, at no
j remote distance.
j Citizen, 23d.
Crops in Georgia. — Tire Cuthhert Reporter of the
ituih instant say*: * I<rom. nil the secoents thHt we can
j gather, we learn that the crops io this sictien are suf
. luring very rant-h for want ‘f ruin. Some of our old
; farmers say they never * ,v ;hu prospect for enra
j and c-utr-n. Cotton, :i. many juices is- withering up,
: and nothing short o. a g.-.d !:o! of rain can save it.
Ihe wtieat crop.* very good,-and a large yield is nn
: ucipated.”
j Georgia in the Flour Market —The New Yotk
j Journal of Commerce announces the arrival of the ten
j barrt is of flour ground hum tu:w wheat and recently
j shipped f,om Augusta, and say- “it is oce of the finest
j samp! s ever sent forward.”
The Augusta Constitutional:,i of 20th inst., says
| that two hundred and thirty-five barrels cf new flour,
| from fine whits wheat, from the Carmichael mills,
1 were*forwarded to-day to New Y -rk.
| I aecirtalion a Cure for Whooping Cough——Dr,
[ .1. C. Alexander, es Atlanta, during the late Small Pox
| panic, vaccinated over two hundred children, and in-
I forms the Intelligencer that 1... hr.s found vaccination
a cert*io and speedy cute for Whttoping Crugh.
j The new tarifl’ will go into operation on the Ist of
i July next, and as it reduces the imposts on neatly eve
j ry article of import, it is expected that many of these
i articles will be reduced in price. The duties on im
i ported liquors will h reduced from 109 to 39 per cent,
I and ill.’ bonded warehouses at New Yolk are arid to’
Ire so fM that- 1 o more cargoes can be admitted until
after the Jet.
Lucky District fur (Governors. This Congressional
’ District has furnished Alabama with her Governors for
i tt-n years out of the i ret twelve. And the present
Democratic nominee being rriso a resident of the same
District, renders it quite likely that for the next four
years, the ‘ Old Fourth” will continue to enjoy that dis
tinguished privilege.— Tuscaloosa Observer.
A. writer in flam s Magazine suggests anew plat, of
extinguishing fires, worthy certainly of trial. It is
8 ply saturating the water of the fire engine with com
mon salt and potash, both very rh-rep articles, and both
acting Together to impregnate the wood so that t!.<-
flame cannot spread any further; i. e. tiro muriatic acid
flies off and the soda remain, us up, n a glazed surface.
siiggester of this idea ev< n goes on to say that
many afire, which is within reach, might be stepped
without any engine, bv discharging, finely powdered
clay, lime or chalk, through a tube on tin blaze.
| t*’ l * Louisville (Ky.) Courier says that the loss of
j the Know Nothings at the elect!m in that city cm the
j tslh instant, for Judge of the Court of Appeals, com
j pared with their vote in November list, is one thousand
one hundred and fart v seven
Tho Daily Intelligencer, at Atlanta, of 22d inst.
says: “J. 1). Frierson, special ngent of the Post Office
Department, caused the art eat of Lewis Lane, assistant
Postmaster at A;at kc-villc, Ga., for secreting a valuable
letter. Lane was h.,und over in. a bond of two thou
sand dollars for bis appearance in November next at
the United States Court, in Savannah.
A Pleasant Surprise. Charies Gou’d. Esq .of the
r “i” - t!-”- --topi Railroad, gave his uiends a supper
at the Burnett House, last , vein... when, no, n the re
moval of tbe cloth, a surprising indent took the com
pany by storm. A Railroad track had been laid along
tne table concealed by the cloth, upon -the removal of
which, the guests w, ro statthd. bv hearing the shrill
shriek of a steam wiualtc. and the tinging of a hell in th
house, and it appear; and that there was the Ft. Louis and
Cincinnati Railroad . epots, :-pi. ndid'v designed in con
fectionary, and a tuttti.itnre loco ive wiih train of cats
ran the length of the tm. • in the quickest titre, rntid
en'.l iisiasiiij appi iiiu.. t- well pire.s, and were the ci mpn*
ny with the trip ot the (ittie locomotive and train, that
they caused it to do the same thing over again rep.’aod
ly, and it was found to be an excellent piece of machine
ry. Rdlroads just now are in the asevudant, even in the
Hue of table ornaments and coofeqtionarv.— Cincinnati
Commercial, June lid.