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m IDecliln Jimes & Sentinel.
By LOMAX & ELLIS j
Volume XVII.
Cimfs uni) Sentinel.
TfiNNENT LOMAX & ROSWELL ELLIS,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
PEYTON H. COLQUITT, Associate Editor.
THE TRI-WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL
Is published-every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and
SATURDAY RVjENI.SK.
THE WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL
Is published every TUESDAY .HORNINK.
Office on Randolph Street, opposite the P. O.
TERMS:
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A liberal deduction will be made for yearly advertise
ments.
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Adminisirators. Execu
tors and Guardians, are required hy law to beheld ou the
first Tuesday in the month, between the hours often in
forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in
the county in which the property is situate. Nostices of
these sales must be given in a public gazette forty days
previous totheday oi sale.
Notice for the sale of Personal property must be given at
least ten days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must he
published forty days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Or
dinary for leave to sell Lano or Negroes, must be published
weekly for two months.
Citations ror Letters of Administration must he published
thirty days—for Dismiesion from Administration, monthly
six months—for Dismission from Guardianship,forty days.
Rules tor Foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers lor
the lull space ot three months—lor compelling titles lrom
Eiecutors or Administrators, where a bond has been giv
en by the deceased, the full space of three months.
Publications will always be continued according to
these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
B U sTnESS CARDS. ’
PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING.
HAVING connected with our Printing Ollier a full
and complete assortment of Book Binder’s tools and
stock, aud also added to our Prii ting materials, we arenow
prepared to execute,in good style and with despatch,every
4inJ of work jn either branch ol the business, on the best
tarms.
BLANK .YORK, of every description, with or with
out printing, made to order, in the neatest manner.
WARE HOUSE i'RINTINK, Receipts, Drafts,
Notes, Bills of Lading, &.C., &c.. executed neatly and
promptly, and bound in any desired style.
RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT BLANKS,
slal! kinds got up,with accuracy and dispatch.
Bill Heads, cards, Kit istlars. Ham! Bills,
Posters, Programmes, .v.- , V c.,printed iu ineshor
est notice and inthe best styl-
Ylagazine ami Pamphlets pu* up tu every style ••
binding.
Bookso all kind.-rebound strongly aud neatly.
LOMAX At ELLIS.
Columbus, Apr lib Ibis
B. V. MARTIN. J. J. M ARTIN.
MARTIN &
Attorneys at Law,
eex-TTMaßtrs, ga.
Office on Broad Street— Over Gunby & Daniel.
Columbus, Jan. 9, 1857. .w&twly.
M. B. WELLBORN. JERE .N. WILLIAMS. ;
WELLBORN & WILLIAMS,
ATTO UN EYS AT LA W, ]
Cl iyton, Alabama.
l jrr ILL f?We prompt attention to the collection of all claim*
V f entrusted tot heir care in Barbour county. 'ct 4 wtwtim
MARION BETHUNE,
A r TOR N E Y AT LAW,
TALBOTTON, Talbot County, Ga.
October 24th. 1856. wtwtl.
W. S. JOHNSON,
A TTO KN K Y A T LAVV .
C 1J S S E T A,
Chattahoochee County, Ka.
<•>.a hl entire attentions the practice In Chattahoochee
adioluiua counties. sp26 wtwly*
ROBERT N. HOWARD,
attorney at law,
CRAWFOBD. ALA
qtdptaotber 8* 1855. -twAwii.
S. A. M’LENDON,
ATTORNEY’ AT I. A \V,
Fort Gaines. Ga
trILL, promptly attend to ailbuMiieso entrusted to hi.
V care—particul.rlv Collecting. novHrrtwty
PEYTON H. COLQUITT,
\ TT O R N F V T LAW.
6’olu.hbts, ka.
titfice,up stairs,over Col. Holt’s office, Randolph st.
may 26.1355 wh-twtt
BAUGH & SLADE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WILL practice law tu Muscogee and theadjoluimcounttoß
of Georgia and Alabama.
FJP* Office over Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
ROBERT BAUGH. J - 9L f DB *
Columbus, Ga. March 27,1857. wtwtl
W. A. BYRD,
attorney AT LAW,
CUTHHERT— Randolph Connly, Ka.
iITILI. practice in the Pataulaand Southwestern Cireuits.
VY All business entrusted to bis care will received prompt
ttention. mailb-uiy-
RAMSEY & KING,
Attorneys at Law,
COLUMBUS AND HAMILTON.
JaMatN. Rissir. Ms. *l. K ’ N “’
Hamilton,Ga. Columbus, Ga.
Octobers! —wly
THOMAS A. COLEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CUTHBERT, GEORGE*.
WILL practice in the Pataula and Southwestern Circuits.
Refers to Hon. David Ktddoo, J. S. C. P. C. Cutbbert.
February 24, 1857. w *y
GRICE & WALLACE,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
Vinci, gtve prompt attention all business entrusted to
W. L.mlcE. WM.B. WALLACE.
December
fiiiis w. ©d® j 3
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PRESTOS, Wthiter Cosnty, Ga.
WILL practice in the counties of Clay, Chattahoochee,
Webster, Early, Randolph, Stewart and Sumter.
Particnlar attention given to collecting and remitting.
January 27, 1857—wtl.
JOHN V. HEARD,
ATT OK > AT LAW,
Colquitt, Miller Cos., 6a-
January 20, 1857—wly. _
S.s. STAFFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAV',
BLAKELY, EARLY COUNTY, GA.
.pa wtf -
OLIVER & CLEMENTS,
attorneys at law,
BUENA VISTA,
MARION COUNTY,GA.
t ITlLLoractlcalntbacountlesof Marion. Macon, Mewart
VV raylor Chattahoochee, Kinebafoonee. and any of toe
adlolutngeountie* whan thalr services mav be required.
tbadios otivaa. . w. ccauasTS.
icptmbr 8.
grsa. J. FOGLE & SON,
DENTISTS,
o UohVmC. i M , ‘f‘ P ißs7. e ' ,i B,oad * Col^ttwU a -
WM ’ F LEE, D. D. S.
-uLtTfODENTAL SURGEON.
OFFICE corner of Broad and Randolph Streets,
Columbus. Georgia
Itecemoer 17,1356—w&1w1l
MSm CUSHMAN,
Winter Building, 48 Broad Street, (East Side,,
COLUMBUS. GA
October 25, 56. wA.triwiv.
DRS. SCHLEY & DAVIS.
OFFICE OVER ST. MARY’S BANK BVILOING
_ j<-l“7-twtt rPPTAIHH
US> <k DQ.a rn
A irOo
102 BROAD STREET,
■gaiiJM (■** T DOOR TO J. KYI.K ANOfO ,) fBKV
COLUMBUS, GA.
KKEPrf con%taulfy o*l baud, and offers ‘or Hale at prices as
I >was GOOD Cii’ > i’JllM J chu be toiind here, a large
and superior ansortm eitt of *
Gentlemen's ami Youth’s nothing!
aud Furnishing Goods, all of which have be* i. mum. lac r
ei under his immediate super vision
Every garmei.t warranted as represented
Purchasers are re>| nested to call and examine his extensive
stock. i ov29— wtwiy
NEW YORK CLOTHING.
Jennings, Wheeler dt Cos., 43 Chambers at. N. Y.
MANUFACTURERS and Wholesale dealers in CLOTHING
beg to call the attention of buyers, to their’very large
and well selected stock lor .the Fall Trade. They would par
ticutary recommend to the trade the many late improvements
introduced in side and finish, as well as some novelties which
they willoe prepared to exhibit Our stock will comprise
everythin* desirable In our business—Dress aid Frock Coats;
also, Vests, Pants, Shirts, Drawers. Collars, he. Ate., ol the
ajest Paris, London aud New York Fashions.
June I*, 1857. —w3m.
TO COTTON PLANTERS.
f jpHF. subscriber has thoroughly tried, at JVlacon andCoJuuj-
JL bus,Georgia, his wrought iron Cotton tMirew, where two
ol them are now standing and will remain until October tor iu -
speclioiu 1 believe it i* the cheap-, st, by half, ever offered for
the purpose of pressing cotton or hay, as the frame, screw pin,
and leavers are all of wrought iron, it should be attached to
the gin house, and have it pul up through the floor, sg the or
dinary press—the levers being only five leel in length—to have
the width of the house aud Id or 20 feel iu leugth, the lint
could then be placed all around ti e screw. Then a man can
lake live hands aud pack as many live hundred pound bales Iu
one day, with as little labor to tie band, as the same five and
two more, with a horse, can on the wood screw iu the same
time Three bands can put up one aud lake iidown, and it can
be carr.ed at one load with lour mules to anypoin*. As this is
for the pu lie eye 1 will give the amount oi timber necessary
tor completing one:
1 piece 17 feet long 4>tf by H.
6 “ 17 “ 2 by &
2 “ 17 “ 4 by 6.
18 ** u •- 2 by 12.
3 “ ift “ 2 by 4.
5 •* lu “ l by Iu
I “ 14 u ts by Id.) 1 tils to be of tottfjh timber
( pi lit* or oak.
2 ** 13 “ 2 by 12.
2 u 14 “ Ili by y.
2 “ 10 •• l by •>.
• “ 5% “ if by 23.
This makes a box near nine feet deep wlih bed and folio we',
and all other fixture*. I furnish the iron aud the work done on
it at Macon and put the above lumb. r to it at the place where
it is wanted, the purchaser furnishing the lumber and paying
the freight from Macon, can have one of the handiest aud
cheapest CoLou tfcrsws now known, it* durability considered,
as ii is given up by all who have seen it to be a iiie-tinae invest
ment. I can pack five hundred pounds w ith three hands-take
five and there is no hard work done. Price #l5O this jear.
! expect,ii life lasts, to have one at the uext State h air, and
would be glad tu see one of evei y other pattern of presses now
lu use there and let the woiUl Judge or itel‘. I theu expect
to sell the right in a y size territory that m y be desired, on
reasonable terms, with a working model, within the limits of
such county or counties, and aliihe inhumation necessary for
putting them ui> and working them. Address, Thomasville,
Georgia. JAME 4 MASSEY.
Aug. 18-w.Juut.
NOTICE TO THE COTTON PLANTERS.
WE the undersigned, inventors ot the Iron Screw Press
take pleasure in calling attention to this Press, for ,
whicti we have obtained Letters Patent. From experience
we are sat-stied that this Press is not only capable of press
ing cotton to the usual size, but with a small additional cost
ol compression at tne Gin to a size suitable for shipment by
sea going vessels. The cost now for compressing is from
70 to 90 cents per bale, which indirectly comes out ot the
planter. This Press is durable, as all of its bearing and
straining parts are of Iron, simple and suitable tor negro
management. We aie making arrangements to put up the
Preas at all suitable points lor inspection. For further in
formation. address us at Selma, Ala., or D. A. Hobbie.
Journal Office, Montgomery, Ala., or E. C. Corbett, Col
umbus,Ga. vv . F. & C. J. PROVOST.
Aug. 8-wtf _ _
PLANTATION FOR SALE’,
1 offer for sale the plantation owned by the late
jgSaP Mrs. Cook. It is 13 miles from Columbus, on the
Hamilton road and contains about 1,000 acres, of
which about 400 acres are woodland. The buildings con
sist of a substantial two story dwelling house, excellent
barn,Gin Houseand Negro houses.
I will take $6 50 per acre in two payments for it. Il not
sold tielore, I shall sell it in Hamilton on the first Tuesday
in October next, to the highest bidder.
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
Columbus, Aug. 18th—wit.
SALE OP VALUABLE LAND & NEGROES
IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, GA.
1 OFFER for sale my settlement of Land 61 miles north
east of Georgetown, and 8 trom Eufaula. Ala., con
taining 1,316 acres —between 5 and 600 acres ot open land,
well watered and well improved,ail joining—the land can
be divided or sold together—price s7i per acre, one-fourth
down, the balance in three annual instalments with interest
from the first of January ; also,
TWENTY LIKELY NEGROES,
14 young field hands, 2 good Cooks and 1 Wagoner among
the number, will be sold lor one halt cash, the balance on
12 months’ time; also my
CORN, F’ODDER, HORSES, MULES,
and every other article belonging to a farm—the last men.
tioned property to be sold on 12 months’ credit. 1 will sel
all together, or seperate. The land can tie divided in from
1 to s"setllements.
My cause of selling is had health.
For turther information calUnd
Aug. 8,57-wtf Georgetown, Ga.
A VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE.
the SUBSCRIBER having come to the con
'JVtj*cloaion to change his occupation, oilers lor sale his
-„binhle tract of land, containing 1240 acres more or
less lying iu Jackson county, West Florida, and situated
within one mile ol the Big Spring, and bordering upon the
public road leading from Marianna to Tallehassee, and upon
said lands there is a quantity ot lime and marl, these
lands may be gilded as follows : • 600 acres oak, hickory,
and pine hamoc, 640 acres good pine land interspersed with
oak and hickory, and 170 acres cleared, nearly all iresb and
in a fine state of cultivation. Upon the premises there is
good dwelling, a splendid gin house and screw, new and
in first rate repair, and all necessary buildings lor plantation
purposes, and by way ot accommodation to suit a purchas
er these lands would be divided so as to sell six or eight
hundred acres, or the whole, and in case of a division the
improvements and best lands will be included.
The above lands are teiiile, producing fine corn and cot
ton and situated in a beautitul and healthy region ot coun
try ‘.with fine water and a delightlul atmosphere, and can be
purchased at a moderate price. a D d upon accommodating
{erm“ For further particulars apply to the undersigned re-
A*tfg U 8-wtf 0 PremiW ’ ° r H POOSER
FOR SALE.
H A VIHG determined to remove west, 1 oi~ „.
Jer i of fca te my residence in .tne immediate vi- FjSfe
jUI cinityof Oolnmbus, and my Plantation uIM
*&*} Knanell COUDiV. Ala.
rhe former Ua handsome and commodious but ding eon.
tabling ten rooms, be*ides basement, store and ironing rooms.
The Outbuildings are weil arranged .or com ion ami conven
ience Atlachwi lo the residence are twenty acre ed laud, in
line cultivation; witha pm tion ou the mam road, sufficient lor
“!e or more building loU. The be.ltblnlne.sol the locality is
CreekuDdflvemile. front the Mobile *. Girard ra*l r oad and
contain. 2000 Acres. Myauccese iu maaing co ‘~onisthe
best criterion of its claims upon the purcbaßer . Bei g sits
ceptible of subdivision into three or lour larme, some of which
have improvements, 1 wilisell all together oi’ In wparateset
lementalo suit purchasers. If deairablo, will ell Uieg
< crop with the land, arrange* for the to raMin
with the ands to gather the crop under the direction of
I>U |n my absence, any one wishing to see H l /
ran apply to my neighbors, Mr. Win. A. Redd, A.C. Fie Me ,
or We E. Jones. *
i olumbus.Ga., June ti wt .
trarcolnmbus Rnqnlrer, Splrltof the South,Cotton Planter
& SMI of the South, Southern Cultivator, Constitutions at.
Charleston Mercury, and Journal fc Messenger, will publish
weekly till forbid.
“THE UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.’ ‘
COL DM BOS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1857.
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE.
MONTGOMERY & WEST POINT R. R- CO.,
MONTGOMERY, April 23, 1857.
ON and after this date the PASBISNUER TKAlbfi on thi
r>ad w.i. he governed rv tae. , .iiom . fit Hf! I’l I
DAY TEA IN.
Leave Montgomery a. 46 a ra.
Arrive at West Point 114 am
Arrive air ,lumbus 1160a.ni
.tr*iur. ng—!<eave West Point 2 00a. m
Leave olumbua 8.40 a iv.
\rrive at Montgomery *‘.M-p. m
NICiHT TRAIN.
Leave Montgomery.... 7.00 p. m.
Arrive at West Point 2.30a. ra.
“ Columbus 2.45 a. m.
Returning—Leave West Point fl.3hp.iki.
Leave Columbus 1 l.oOp. m
Arrive at Montgomery .5.45 a. m.
Through tickets can be obtained (lor Double Daily Connec
tions) to Atlanta Chattanooga and Nashville, and daily con
nections to Huntsville Memphis a .ii Knoxville.
B.ti.JONES LngT &. Bup.
FREIGHT ARRANGEMENT
BETYVEKN ATLANTA AND COLI MHIJS.
I> Van between the Railroad Companie:- com*
psiug the two routes from Atlanta to Columuu*, conclu
ded at their Convention at Savannah on the Kith instant, it
wa agreed that the following rates between Atlanta and Co
lumbu® nali govern, taking effect from tlie first dsyo< M ay
VIA WfBT 2POINT.
Corn per bushel, lie. Wheat 12. Oats 8. Bacon. Whisky,
Flour in sacks or barrels, per loolba.*3sc Hsggii.g, Rope,
i l aid li. can? or bbl*., per iM> lbs 46c. foal. Pig Iron, by
ear load, per ton of 20HU lbs. $3.75.
VIA MACON
Corn p r base) 14c. Wheat 16c. < %tB 10c. Baen, VV his
ky, Flour in Hacks or Bbls , per lOOIbs, 44c. Bagging, Rope,
Lard, iu cans or bhK. per 100 lbs 55c Coal, Pig Iron, hy
car load, per too of 2000 lbs. $4 fiß,
I. MUSTIAX.
Pr*ldprit and Sti^xr n endent Muscogee R. R
CKO. W. ADAMS,
rtuperinteiwleni Southwestern Railroad.
EvF.O H< : N Ff >< TE,
Hnperln'endent Macon and Western Railroad.
OE< H LULL,
.•Superintendent Atlanta and LaUrange R . R.
8 AMU El. G. JONES,
Engineer and Superintendent M.lt W P. Railroau
May 30. 1837-w&i wtt.
MOBILE AHD GIRARD RAIL ROAD.
gßMßreawEJfc.-.
THE Passeugei &. Freight Train will leave Cirard at 2 P
M.daily, connecting at Silver Run with a daily line ot
Stager U Villula, Ciennviile.Enfanla. FortCaines, and Mari*
anna,Fla. And at Gueryb-u daily, with the Stages for Ucbee,
Olivet. Enon, Chaunetiiiggee, Midway. Hardaway, Perote
and Union -Sprin
L vingCueryton at 4 A M., daily, the Cars will reach
Girard at 7 A M,, connecting withti * Opeliliano Mus
cogee Trains
C3TDuplicate Receipts must accompanv Freight shipped.
AII freight must be paid be tore goods will be discharg
ed.
Freight delivered at the *’epot before • o’clock P. M. will
be shipped the following dav.
F*eights for stations No. I (Fort Mitchell,) jßiid N0.5 (Per
sons’) must be prepaid.
Way freight must in all cases be paid in advance.
/< >HN HOWARD,
MUSCOGEE RAIL ROAD!
Change of Schedule
]7i ROM and after thi*date the Day or Exprsn Train will
leave the depot at I P. M. and arrive n N 1 ai t p if.
l.eave Macon at 2 A M. arrive at Columbus at 7 % A.M.
Mr*ri)ingor Accc*miiiodatioii Trair wDllii ** I*l 4% A M.,
and arrive at Macon 10.54 A. M.
Leave Macon at 3 P M. arrive at < oluinbv? 10.10 P. JU.
J L. MUBTIAN, Hupt
t;oiumbiiH.June 20—tw&- wt< July-
SAVANNAH & CHAKLESTON
STEAM PACKET L T NE
/* jy- rre superior Ble .m-ship GORDON, F. Barden
-t Commauder, leaves Bavanual. lro harieston
very Wednesday and saturd'iy afternoons at 6
Ri turning leaves Charleston every
Monday and Friday afternoons at 5 o’clock* i- reight between
Ohaileston and Columbus, Macon and all station* on the < en
tral, Macon St Western, South Western and Muscogee Rail
Roads will be forwarded at Savannah tree of all charge.
4. P. BROOKS, Agent Savannah.
F.. LAFITTE & CO, Ag’t*. Charleston.
Oct I —wXtlwi
NOTICK TO SHIITKIIS.
/ A ODDS hipped lrom Middle and Fast ifciu.essee find
VJT North Alabama and ('herok. •* Georgia, to ‘-olnmbu*,
must be distinctly marked ‘‘via Wmt Point aud
Opelika V W.T. WILriON, Agent,
Atlanta*, f.h Grange R. k. .-Rianm, Ga
Decembers, 1856 watw-v.
©©SKEW EOT*
THE IIALLOTYPE PICTURES!
A. J. RIDDLE,
HAB purchased of J. Gurney, of .New York, tl.e exclusive
right ffr taking Haliolype Picturos, which is a little ahead
of anything in Ihe way of Picture taking the world has ever
seen. 1 here is nothing to which they can be compared in the
art of Photography, but beer a strong resemblance to wax
figures, for sonnets* and beauty of light and shade. Ladie*
aud gentlemen are inviied to call aud examine specimens.
Aitist* who desire to learn this new and beaulilul art, and
secure rights for other counties will please call on A. J. RID
DLE, Jolumbus Ga. july^S—wtwtl
HAMILTON & PLANE,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
GO iIJUIBUS, GA.
r I v H E above firm have renewed their Copartnership, and
J will devote the most assiduous attention to the pro
fession in the counties of Muscogee, Harris, Talbot and
Chattahoochee, in this State, and in Reell county, Ala.
Office, front room over E Barnard’s Store.
January 28,1857. w&,twt(.
PLANTATION FOR SALE.
T'HE subscriber offers tor sale his Plantation in Russell
County, Alabama—distant lrom Columbus 16 miles,
and about lour lrom the Mob,ls & Girard Railroad. It
contains 1280 acres, a poriion of which is cleared and is
well adapted to the growth ol corn and cotton. It ad
joins the lands cf John Billups, Thomas Aoderson and
others. The improvements consist of a framed dwelling,
with two rooms, a very large framed barn, gin house and
screw, overseers house, &.c. l’h e neighborhood is as good
as any in Alabama. It will be sold low.
For terms apply to Col. James A. Turner, ol Oswichee,
Aia ,or to the subscriber,at Augusta, Ga.
Mr. Read, the overseer on the place, will show the land
to any one wishing to see it.
y WILLIAM J. HOLT.
August 29, 1857—wtf.
Lands for Sale.
THE dubscriber wishes to sell his Plantation in Webster
county—HSU acres where be lives, well improved; 18U
acres in a high state of cultivation, with a good merchant’s
mill iust finished, gin house and screw, all on the same
stream. AH necessary outtiuildiugs. I also have ont sepa
rate lot of land, with a small,improvement ou it. The whole
LHissession is on Hriar creek, four miles eas; of Weston, 33
miles west of Americas. Persons wishing to purchase such a
place will do veil to make application soon.
Sept.B—wtf JOHN BOYD,
j jp” I'lie Ilacou Telegraph will copy till forbid and forward
account,
GEORGIA Chatlahooceee County:
\X7HEREA3, Ezekiel Waters and George H. Kelley apply
W to me lo Probate the lan Will ami Testament of Jas.
Kelley, late of said county, deceased:
These are therefore to cite and admonish all and singular
the kindred and creditors ol said deceased, to be and appear
at rov office ou the first Monday iu November next and shew
cause, it any they have, why said will should not be ad
mitted to Probate,and letters testamentary issued to said ap-
Given under my hand, at office, this 7th day of Pept. !85<.
SepUSwttW E.. UAIFOKD.Ord.
A ctuitlltrator’ Sale!—Agreeably to an order of
the Court of Ordinary of Muscogee county, will be
sold outhe Ist Tuesday in November next, before the Court
House door iu Cusseia, Chattahoochee county, Oa. l ots of
land numbers seventy three and seventy four, tu the 6th
district ..I originally JKuscegee, now Chattahoochee county,
to be sold as the real estate ol James McNaugbton, deceased,
with the incumbrance Ol the widow’, dower; ahe purchaser
to have all the land upon the decease of the widow. The
said land comprises one of the best little settlements in the
county. The laud is rich.woll watered.well timbered, and heal
thy convenient to schools and chorches; and is wHnin three
miles of cusseta;andthe road from Talbotlon to Cnsseta,ruus
Ih'ougb theland. The subscriber resides on the land, and
will take pleasure in showing the premises to any one desir
ous ol purchasing. Sold for Ihe purpose of distribution.-
Termsmade known on the day of sale
Termsma e WILL|AM N . McN'AirGIITON, Adro’r.
September, 15, 1857 —wtds.
TWO months after date application will be made t©
the honorable the Court of Ordinary of Chattahoochee
countv for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of
Lemuel W.Cade, dec’d. . J Adm t ri
September 8, 185j .—wS,
MV EITHER.
BY HON. HEAR* K JACKSON, OF OEOR&lA.
i.
Aa die the embers on the hearth,
Aod o’er the floor the shadows tail,
Aud creeps the chirping cucket forth,
And ticks the death watch iu the wall—
-1 see a form in yonder chair,
That grows beneath the waning light—
There are the wan, sad features—there,
The pallid brow, ami locks ot white!
It.
My lather, when they laid the down,
And heaped the clay upon thy breast,
And left thee, sleeping aii alone,
Upon thy narrow couch of rest,
I know not why I could not weep-
The soothing drops refused to roll;
And oh ! that grief is wild and deep,
Which setters tearless on t. e soul!
m.
But when I saw thy vacant chair—
Thine idle hat upon the wall—
Thy book—ihe pencilled passage, whete,
_Thine eye had rested, last of all;
The tree beueath whose friendly shade,
Thy trembling feet had wandered forth—
The very prints those feet had made
When last they feebly trod the earth;
IV.
And thought, while countless ages, fled
Thy vacant seat would vacant stand—
Unworn thy hat, thy book unread.
Effaced thy lootateps Iron the saml—
And widowed, in this cheerless world.
The heart that gave its love to thee—
Torn, like a vine, whose tendrils curled
More closely round the falling tree!
v.
Oh! Father, then, lor her and thee,
Gushed madly forth the scorching tears,
And olt.and long, and bitterly.
’Those tears have gushed in luier years;
For as the world grows cold around.
And tilings take on their real hue,
’Tis sad to learn that love is found
Alone above the stars with you.
Savannah, Ga., 1842.
Enlogy on the Hon. W L Karcy
We take ihe following eulogy on the late Mr.
Marcy, from an oration of Hon. S. S. Cox, mem
ber of Congress from Ohio, recently delivered,
at “Brown University,” Providence, Rhode Island,
on the occasion of the commencement of that in
stitution.
Mr. Marcy and Mr. Cox, both graduated at
Brown :
A boy of Massachusetts, he came to Brown Um
versity, where, with that industry that never Bug
ged to his latest hour, he obtained the best educa
tion the country could furnish. Like most men of
might, he grew best and noblest by transplanting
in anothersoii. He was emerged into active life as
a lawyer of Troy, New York, when the late war
with England summoned him to the field. Like
all true patriots, without too close a scrutiny into
the casus belli, he saw his country menaced, and
won by his gallantry, the first trophy on land which
was w*n by the American arms. But with him
“tile pen proved mightier far than is the sword.”—
By its power, backed by his force and integrity of
character, he became comptroller, judge, senator
and governor of his adopted State. He filled each
post so ably that higher and larger avenues of
power opened. His strong sense, firm will, and
ready sagacity, enabled him to shed conspicuous
lustre upon the federal offices to which lie was
called. As the War Minister, he organized the
victories which made Taylor President, and which
gave to Scott his greenest laurels. As tiie Peace
Minister, he conducted our diplomacy with a grace,
simplicity, vividness, and force of style and logic,
tar surpassing the best composite ns of diplomacy,
and with a moderation of tone, liberality of senti
ment, and comprehensiveness of view, which left
its impress on the counsels of the Old as well as
the New World. To-day it is oursio boast that, in
the Koszta correspondence, the dignity of Ameri
can citizenship was vindicated by yjne of the stu
dents in yonder halls. To-day it is our pride that
it is to the alumnus of Brown that the w orld is in
debti and for the novel but humane and practical
doctrine that private property on both land and
sea should be undisturbed in time of war—a doc
trine which, though temporarily* suspended by the
jealousy of England and caution oi America, must
in time command the respect and become a part of
the code of the nations.
Go with me to the Hotel of Foreign Affairs on
the banks of the Seine! In a splendid hall are
seated the plenipotentiaries of the great powers of
the earth. What brings them here ? The red
storm of the Euxine is yet raging, and the Danube
is held in tremulous hand by perfidious Austria ;
and there sit about a spacious round table, in gilt
arm chairs, under the full-length portra t of the
Emperor and Empress of France, and in the pres
ence of ihe marb’e form of the great Napoleon, the
sage and wary conferrers on whose decrees the
fate of empires hangs. An humble packet from
America isaririounced t It needs no further usher
or herald. It speaks tor itself. It is the tire, ener
gy, logic, sense, and humanity ot the Brown stu
dent. It lays down maritime rights as they ought
to be, in the light of a more exalted policy. The
conferrers dash against its logic in vain. That
written word must and will prevail. It is a part
of that international law whose voice is the con
science of the world.
By that plain papiir he does for this age and
country what Hugo Grotius did for his age and
Holland. Grotius, by his mare liberum, opened the
sea lo all, without distinction. The proof of such
a principle would now seem as superfluous as pro
ving the existence of the sun, but at that time,
when the Poitugese haa portioned out uli the In
dian seas and the coast of Africa, below a certain
parallel of latitude, and Spain had obtained from
the Pontiff Alexander the Sixth, the right to the
rest of the oceen lying in this western world, it was
a matter of some moment tu ihe Netherlands that
such exclusive pretensions should be broken down.
The principles on which Grotius gave to the ocean
its freedom were used by Great Britain for tier own
aggrandizement until the waves of the sea were
sung by her poets as tile vassals of Queenly Bri
tauia. But a greater than Carthage, or Venice, or
Holland, or Spain, or Britain, is arising iu the West
to give law to the unstable element. Speaking for
that new power which is seizing the trident from
Britain, William L. Marcy makes that marine high
way the path of peace! ’ He changes the maxim
and gives law to arms. As Grotius from his ocean
ic Holland, so Marcy from America—which holds
two oceans in its arms—rises above even the ambi
tions of patriotism, into liial higher sphere ol in- j
ternationa! jurisprudence, where he collects the I
world’s moral sense, distills ii in his own conscience,
searches the best authorities of ancient learning,
the treaties, customs and statutes common to civili
zed nations, and in the light of Christian comity
adds the noblest chapter to that universal code
which pervades the nations as gravity does the
universe.
Thus by a thought, pulsing from his clear mind,
does he bring the laggard conscience ol the world
into line, with that orurageous science which is at
this moment binding by a lightning spark through
the halls of the ocean, world with world,
“As electrical light from each star to each star;”
making harmony among the nations and speaking
peace to the argosies which float above its path
way !
In view of such world-wide results, our late for
eign minister, in the spirit of Antonius, might say;
’“Cicitas etpatriamihi est ut Antonino Roma ut
homini mundus /”
It is no exaggeration, then, to say that
to the scholarship which William L. Marcy here
cultivated—to the much abused college training, if
you please—do we owe such momentous results.
In daily intimacy with the sublime thoughts of Mil
ton, aud the weighty wisdom of Bacon, familiar
with Sir Thomas Brown, and ripe iu the studies of
the great master of the human passions, Shak
speare, he adorned the solid masonry of his logic
with the tasteful forms of our purest English au
thors. Austere in his outward life, the influence
of his liberal studies was seen in the cheerful home
which, was ever lighted by his humor and goodness
of heart.
To his room in the well named hotel Sans Souci,
at Eallston Springs, he retires somewhat weary,
with no premonition of the great coming change.
He lies upon his couch with a small red quarto ol
Bacon’s Essays in his hand, to ponder its wonderful
wisdom, when silently the silver cord is loosened !
He upon whose fiat so many ambassadors had de
pended, is himself called to the presence of the
Great Ambassador.
While the nation which lie had done so much
to glorify and adorn was thundering its last natal
jubilee with all the extravagance or our cliaracier,
this most distinguished alumnus of our university
sack to his last re-t—peacefully and serenely. The
manner of hsdeatli was worthy - I no lolly a life!
Like other great suns in our political system, Jet
fersou and Adams, he sank below the horizon on
Independence Day at the high noon ot h s coun
try’s ecstacy of patriotism ! By his death, as by
his life, he increased our respect and awe for those
whose biographies are the life of our independence,
and whose names have invested with added 9a
credness that Union of States which was banded
by their wisdom, nod is preserved by the blessed
fragrance of their memo; les !
The man of God, who knew best his inner life,
testified before the people at Ins buriai that he
doubted not, w hile the martial music resounded in
the groves of the neauiiful cemetery where his re
mains were entombed, that the spirit of William
L. Murcy was even then listening to the more sub
lime music of tiie heavenly world. Emblems of
mourning are in and around the shrouded capitol
of his State; atfection strews her white flowers
over his bier ; but there is no type so fit and beau
tiful as that which places on the breast of the dead
statesman the constitution o! his country. He who
had given it such commanding life abroad, and for
whose execution he had dedicated so much of his
own life, might well wear it next to tiie heart i
had inspired with so pure a patriotism. He who
gave limits n> Austrian insolence in tiie Levant, and
who taught English presumption a more humble
walk and conversation on this continent ; he who
so heartily desiised those crudities which sought to
undermine constitutional obligations ; he who would
have raised beside our national ensign and above
the smoke of embattling nqvies the white pennon
of peace for the protection of commerce ; he could
have no nobler companion than that constitu
tion which Brougham has called “the greatest
refinement in civil polity which the world has ever
seen.”
In the review of such a life, so full of well spent
industry, anjj so prodigal of great benefit and gio
ry, may I not urge, with something of that emplia
sis which belonged to his character, more of that
moderation, more of that strong preference for the
true and right, which he ever illustrated even when
he encountered the opposition of his party and the
impulses of his immediate countrymen ? Iftheie
is one rnotto winch should be inscrined on his tomb,
for his own honor and for the honor and welfare of
his country, it is that of Cicero; “Liberatum quam
me in requiro non in pertinacia. sed quadam
doderatione positam putabo.”
Working after such a model, ever striving to re
strain within the bounds of moderation our Ameri
can life, the scholar at the end of his life can look
back upon the vista, not, with the painful feeling that
there is but a blank in the space which it encloses,
but with the reflection and hope that the evening
of a life influential for good here shall by-atid-by be
the sunrise of Heaven.
Justice to Senator Douglass.
We take pleasure in transferring to our columns
Ihe following letter, which appeared in the Chica
go Times on 30th ult :
Chicago, August 26, 1857.
Yesterday, on my return home from a short visit
to the Upper Mississippi, a friend called my atten
tion to articles in various newspapers, associating
my name with certain land speculations in our new
Territories, and plausibly connecting my recent
visit to Minnesota with the safe of ttie Fort Sneil
ing Military Reservaiion While lan in the hab
it of treating the daily assaults of the partisan press
with indifference, relying upon the people who
know me to do me justice I deem it proper lo say
that my recent visit lo Minnesota had no reference
to the sale of the Fort Snelling Reservation, nor
to the sale or purchase of any other land. When
so many of our public men visit our new Territo
ries and frontier settlement during the recess of
Congress, for the purpose of obtaining information
which may be useful to them and to the coiimry, in
the performance of their pubiic duties, it is hardly
just to assume that they are governed bv no higher
motive than to form combinations to defraud the
G vernment of its most valuable lands.
I had no knowledge, information, or intention
that ihe Fort Snelling Reservation was to be sold
until after the sale was made, and then only learn
ed tiie fact by public rumor and newspaper reports.
I am not interested directly or indirectly in any
land or property which the government of the Uni
ted States has sold either at private or public sale,
outside of the State of Illinois, and in this I have
no such interest except as to the tracts of lands in
this county which 1 entered a lew years ago aud
am now improving for a farm. When I became
chairman of the Territorial Committee of the Sen
ate, twelve years ago, I determined never to pur
chase, or own, or become interested in any town
lots, or other properly in any of the Territories of
the United Stales, whilst I held that position for
the reason that I would not allow an enemy even
a pretext for saying that my public action was in
fluenced or stimulated hy my own private interest.
I have never departed from the rule in any one in
stance; and hence I am free to say that 1 do noi
now and never owned any lands, town lots, or other
property in the Territory of Minnesota or in any
other Territory of Ihe United States, nor have I any
interest, directly or indirectly, in tiie sale, rents, or
profits of any lands, lots or property of any descrip
tion in any of the Territories oi the United States.
Should any question connected with the sale of
Fort Snelling come before the Senate for my b giti
mate action I snail then be ready lo do lull and
ample justice to ihe distinguished gentleman who
presides over ihe War Department, and at the
same time express my opinions ireelv in regard to
the propriety of the .-ale, and thesufficiency of the
compensation paid by the purchasers.
S. A. Douglas.
T ke Princess Hoyai’s Wedding Dress.
The Princess Royal of Engiand is now the “ob
served of aii observers.” The time roils on which
is to take her to tier new home and her new coun
try. While it is passing, she is looked upon with
that interest i! is so natural to leei in those we are
about lo lose. The wedding robe iu which she is
first to be saluted in the character of wile is pro
gressing, to be ready for the day on which is to be
enacted that most heart-stirring and engrossing
event.
The Princess Royal is to be married in a dress
ofliotiilon lace, as washer auqust mother before
her. Those who know tiie tedious nature of tiie
manufacture will not be surprised to hear that its
cost amounted to one hundred and fifty pou .tls.—
We are not able to sav what is to be the price of
the robe now in preparation, but are happy to be
able to speak of its artistic design, which has been
approved as well for taste as for patriotism. lis
pattern is composed of our national emblems, the
rose, the thistle and the shamrock, beautifully in
terspersed, and .producing effects equally ligh 1 ,
graceful aud elegant. When it is remebered that
ever, bud aud flower, spray aud sprig, are eacli
and all formed by the young lace-maker on the pil
low resting on her knee, the amount of female la
bor will appear stupendous. Not the most tiny
leaf, or the swelling of a single line of meandering
stern, but has cost so much of human time, which
is indeed, nothing less than human life.
At the same time that this exquisite and elabo
rate work is progressing, another robe is also en
gaging the time and thoughts of the Honiton lace
makers. The design for this second piece of gos
samer might also lead to the expectation that it
was intended to enwrap the youthful form of a
princess’ bridesmaid. It is adorned with lillies of
the valley, as emblematic in their purity as they
are graceful, the delicate hanging-bells nestling un
der the broad leaves; nature hersell being the art
ist, copied with so much skill by the delicaie threads
guided by the dexterous fingers.
The wedding handkerchief is also in progress.—
It is composed of a splendid border of most elabo
rate workmanship, while in- the centre the royal
arms of England are copied by the same process,
being a perfect marvel in the lace making art.
No Wonder that the sight of the princess in the
first blush of her youth, the daughter of a queen, a
quern herself in expectation, surrounded by all
that throws a dazzling and a blinding charm over
the mortal state, should from the very splendors
of her high position lead us to thoughts of the vil
lage girls, who, for so many hours, and days, and
weeks, anil months, are plying their busy labors,
industriously engaged in weaving her wedding
robe.
Letter from General Walker.
New Orleans, Sept. 2, 1857.
Sir : —ln the conversation we lately held at Au
gusta, concerning the re-introduction of slavery into
Central America, we agreed that much of the oppo
silion to my course in Nicaragua, was due to the
act annulling the decress of the Federal Constitu
ent Assembly. It may be a matter of interest to
you, as well as to others, for me to explain the mo
tives which led to that measure ; and in this con
nection it will not be irrelevant, and certainly not
unimportant to the people of these States, for me
to advert to certain combinations of the Spanish-
American Republics, with a view of limiting the in
crease of negro slavery on this continent.
It has beeu incorrectly asserted that I and my
comrades emigrated to Nicaragua for the express
purpose of establishing negro slavery in its territo
ry. For myself, I can only say that I had no such
intention. Although born and bred amidst South
ern influences, I trust that I am not sufficiently in
sane to attempt the propagation of slavery, inde
dependent of its adaptation to climate, soil and
productions. The expetience of Locke in the
formation of bis Carolina constitutions is sufficient
to deter any man ordinarily modest, from the at
tempt to frame laws and institutions fora country
he has never seen ; and facts nearer our own time
might satisfy any one of the evils “higher lav.’’po
litical philosophers would entail on society if all
their theories were reduced to practice. Certainly
lam not so partial to such modes of legislation as to
be tempted to follow them myself.
No; ihe decree re-establishing slavery in Nicara
gua was the result of observation, not of a priori
speculation. It was only after a residence of fifteen
months in the State—after attentively observing
the soil, the climate and the products of the coun
try—after narrowly watching the character of its
inhabitants, together with their social and political
organization, that I determined to revoke the act of
the Federal Constituent Assembly, whereby slavery
was abolished. A review of the history of trop
ical America—insular as well as continental—will,
I am satisfied, manifest the wisdom of the meas
ure, so severely criticised in the Northern States
and Europe.
Negro slavery on this continent had its origin,
as you are aware, in a spirit of benevo
lence and philanthropy. In tiie annals of hu
manity, there are few brighter names than those of
Father Las Casas, the originator of the system ;
and certainly few wiser monarchs have ever reign
ed in Europe than the Spanish sov. reign who put
in practice the suggestions of the holy father. It
is true that Lord Brougham has lately characteri
zed the measure of Las Casas as “a union of the
most lar sighted interest with the most short sight
ed benevolencebut when did his Lordship for
sake his Benthamnian principles and cease to ac
knowledge that in political affairs the most en
lightened interest is the purest and most genuine
benevolence ? The admission of ihe noble
l> rd at on e destroys tiie economical argu
ment for tiie abolition of slavery in tropical
America, and reduces it to a pure question of
philanthropy.
It was not until towards the close of the last cen
tury that people began to doubt tiie wisdom and
benevolence ot the policy inaugurated by Las Casas.
Then the ideas of Buxton, and Clarkson, and Wil
beKorce became fashionable in America os well as
iu Europe. At first these ideas were confined to a
small portion of the English public ; but caught up
as they were, by a religious party which controlled
to a great extent the parliamentary elections, they
soon became powerful in the British Legislature.
The fashion spread to France, and the free think
ing legislators of that country were as eager to
adopt the theories of VVilberforce as to follow the
example of the Puritans of the Long Parliament.
The horrors of Haytian history for the last 65
years atiest how dangerous it is to transplant
political sentimentalism from England into France ;
and the condition of Jamaica, in comparison with
that of Cuba, proves how little good British
colonists have derived from humanitarian legisla
tion.
The reports which have followed the aboltion of
slavery in tropical America strikingly illustrate the
fact that government is a science and not a fine
art, and that its laws are to be sought for induc
tively—not through the sentiments or emotions. —
The Pharisaical philanthropists of Exeter Hall have
made Hayti and all Spanish America the seat of
dire and almost endless civil war ; it is fast convert
ing Jamaica into a wilderness. Further than this,
it is making the whole coast af Africa, one vast
slave ship before which tiie horrors of middle pas
sagesink into insignificance. The slavery of the
negro to his follow savage—productive as it neces
sarily is of cannibalism and human sacrifice—has
beeu an hundred fold increased by efforts to sup
press ihe slave trade ; and the vices of the smug
gler have been added to those properly belonging
to the slaver by forcing him to carry on his trade
wirii the halter around his neck.
A comparison of the negro m Africa with what
he is in the Unileu States or even in Cuba and Bra
zil, shows the advantage of Western slavery to the
inferior race. The condition of tropical America,
where slavery does not exist, indicates its necessity
for Ihe development of the natural wealth of that
poriion ol the world.
And of all the countries of trnphical America,
Nicaragua has most need for a thorough reorgani
zation of labor. The revolutions of forty years
have nnde idlers of a large majority of the popu
lation, and but for the exceeding fertility of the
soil, would long since have converted it into a de
sert. The reintroduction of slavery constitutes the
speediest and most efficient means for enabling the
white race to establish itself permanently in Cen
tral America, and it is the consciousness of this fact
which is leading to a combination of the mixed
races of Spanish America for the purpose of ex
cluding slavery from the territories now occupied
by them. The tendency of this combination is, of
eouise, to confine slavery on the American conti
nent within its present limits ; and it appears to me
of some imporiance that the evidences of the com
bination should be placed before the people of the
southern States.
Nor are written and palpable evidences of this
combination lacking. You may find them in the
archives of Costa Rica at San Jose, and in those
of New Granada at Bogota. Still nearer home,
you may find the evidences not only of the Span
ish American combination, but also of British com
plicity with it among the archives of Washington
and of Westminster. It is strange that these facts
have attracted so little attention on the part ol the
southern people; but they may feel the Importance
of them long after they have lost the power to con
trol the consequences of the combination.
To tiie facts: lu the month of May, 1856, a trea
ty was entered into between the States of New
Granada and Costa Rica. Ostensibly the main
object of this treaiy was the settlement of a boun
dary question long pending between the two Re
publics; and the treaty was signed soon after the
English government had agreed to furnish arms to
Costa Rica for the purpose of fighting the Ameri
cans in Nicaragua. But in this treaiy the strange
and singular clause is inserted whereby the con
tracting parlies agree that s.avery shall never be
introduced into the territories of either. No inti
mate relations exist between those Republics ; for,
although co-terminous, a vast uninhabited region
extends between the cultivated districts of tiie two
countries. And yet these two sovereignties yield
to each powers owr the other, which one State of
your confederacy will not yield either to a sister
State or to the Federal Government. It must have
een a powerful influence which secured the inaer-
[TERMS, $2 00 IN ADVANCE
tion of such a clause into a treaty concerning boun
daries. Nor are we left to conjecture the source of
this influence.
Not many weeks after the treaty between Costa
Rica and New Granada was signed, Great Britain
entered into a treaty by which the Bay Islands were
given up to Honduras, with the proviso that slave
ry should be forever excluded from them. And
this treaty signed by the Honduras Commissioner
and the British Secretary of State, is afterwards
embodied in what is known as the Dallas-Claren
don treaty. It receives the signature ot the Ameri
can Minister in London, is approved bp an Ameri
can Secretary of State, and an Americau Presi
dent sends it for ratification to the American Sen
ate. One is almost tempted to believe that the
United Stales itself is not unwilling to become a
party to a treaty which is an insult, as well as an
injury, to the whole southern people.
And other Spanish-American States have shown
their desire to join in this league. Not only was
the proposition for a general combination of these
Republics discussed in the Chilian Congress, but
a Chilian Commissioner was sent lo San Jose for
the purpose of negotiating a treaty with Costa Ri
ca. A Chilian brig of war, too, having commis
sioned and warrant officers furnished by England
and France, came to the coast of Central America
with a view of aiding in the combination against
the Americans of Nicaragua.
Nor is Mexico indifferent in the matter. Her
border territories furnish a place of refuge for run
aways of the southern and south-western States;
and the new Mexican constitution, just adopted,
lias, I am told, a clause by which the central gov
ernment is precluded from making a treaty w ith
the United States for the extradition of fugitive
slaves. In fact, you have but to read the journals
of the Spanish-American Republics from Mexico
to Chili to be satisfied of the enmity—active as
well as passive—to the’people and institutions of
the southern States.
Independent, then, of the importance to the
whole United States and to civilization generally,
of Americanism in Nicaragua, 1 cannot but regard
our success as of more immediate and vital con
sequence to the people of the southern States. It
involves the question whether you will permit your
selves to be hemmed in on the south, as you are
already on the north and on the west—whether you
will remain quiet and idle while impassable barriers
are being built on the only side left open for your
superabundant energy and enterprise. If the South
is desirous of imitating the gloomy grandeur of
the Eschylian Prometheus, she has but lo lay su
pineffor a little while longer and Force and Power
will bind her to the rock, and the vulture will des
cend lo tear the liver from her body. In agony and
grief she may console herself with the idea that
she suffers a willing sacrifice.
It is not often that men are permitted to expend
their energies in behalf of a cause which embra
ces the welfare of other nations and of civilization
generally, as well as the interests of their native
country.” But the Americans who engage with
their means and their energies in the reclamation
of Nicaragua can, 1 verily believe, cdnsole them
selves with the idea that they are benefiting the
people of that land as well as of their own. More
than this : they may have the gratifying assurance
that they are redeeming from barbarism one of the
fairest countries of the earth and conferring on
commerce a great highway for the trade of the
world.
It is only such considerations and reflections as
these which can console us for much of the cen
sure passed on us by the people of a portion of the
United States and of Europe. But satisfied of
the justice and grandeur of the cause iu which we
are engaged, we can weil afford to work on in
spite of the falsehood and abuse heaped on us by
a corrupt and venal press. Living ever in the
“Great Taskmaster’s Eye,” our motives and con
duct are to be judged by one less fallible than rnan;
and with all humility we abide the judgment of
Him who cannot err.
Hoping you will do what you can to spread cor
rect ideas concerning matters in Central America,
I remain
Your obedient servant,
WILLIAM WALKER.
Charles J. Jenliks, Esq., Augusta, Georgia.
Gov: Walker- Pro-Slavery Party in Kansas.
Notwithstanding the industrious attempts which
were made, says the Mississippian, by the apolo
gists of Walker to tix upon the public mind the be
lief that he had received the endorsement of the
Pro-Slavery men of Kansas, it has come to be gen
erally understood that so far from approving his
course, they have never given to him one particle
of their confidence, and that he is despised as a
presumptuous and unprincipled dictator, and inter
meddler with affairs that do not concern him. To
show what estimate is placed upon him by the real
people of Kansas, we have extracted the follow
ing statement from the letter of a leading and in
fluential pro-slavery Democrat in the Territory—
a member of the Constitutional Convention. He
writes :
“A member of the Grand Jury of this county
has shown me the vote of the jury upon a testimo
nial, framed and presented by Stanton, endorsing
Gov. Walker. The testimonial w'as voted down,
with but one dissenting voice. We see how un
fairly he treated ou T promise to aid him in execu
ting the laws on the rebels, and he can get no word
of support from us in anything.”
In addition to the foregoing, we copy from the
last Kansas Constitutionalist the following :
“We observe a sentence coppied from the Con
stitutionalist it.to the Montgomery Advertiser, Flo
rence (Ala.) Gazette and Louisville Democrat,
which conveys the idee *hat Gov. Walker’s inau
gural was approved by i..e pro-slavery men of Kan
sas. We are not correctly understood by the South
ern press. We do not mean that all the measures
set forth in that inaugo' < ‘l are sanctioned, but that
as a whole it has many good suggestions, and it
also contains doctrines that pro-slavery men reject,
but they received the whole as the best they could
get, and believed that Gov. Walker’s intentions
were good toward the rights of the South.
“As to his ‘isothermal’ doctrine, which was un
called for, the pro-slavery men considered it mere
nonsense, and did not pay attention to it. Gov,
Walker can indulge in theoretical notions, but the
practical effects of slavery teach different and more
truthful lessons than the Governor’s‘isothermal.’—
Slavery is more profitable in Missouri, directly east
of Kansas, than it is in North Alabama, the section
from whten we came. Gov. Walker’s dictatorial
course toward the Constitutional Convention was
indignantly received by the pro-slavery men, but
our party has made no great noise over it, because
the Convention is composed of men-who will not
heed the dictation of Gov. Walker, but will act
in accordance with the will of their constitu
ent.-.” _
Prophecy Fulfilled.— Andrew L Miller, late of
Augusta, was a clear headed far-seeing man in his
day” We were told a few days since, by a reverend
friend, that, in 1849, while Mr. Miller and Judge
Brown were both members of the Georgia Senate.
Mr. M. remarked to another Senator, that “that
young man Brown was destined to become a man
of eminence and distinction.” Little, we suppose,
did Mr. Miller think his prediction would so soon
be fulfilled. Asa Judge of the Superior Court',
Judge Brown has already established n reputation ,
as a jurist and presiding officer, excelled by few,
if any, who are his predecessors or cotemporaries.
Unexpectedly and unsolicited by himself, lie has
been called to another and higher position, to which
no sensible, candid man doubts he will be most tri
umphantly elected. Nothing but death can pre
vent it, and his rapid career to distinction and hon
or, is a convincing proof the sagacity and foresight
of the lamented Andrew J. Miller.— Griffin Em
pire State, Sept. ‘2.
Sober Second Thought. —The free State men
of Kansas have resolved, at their convention at
Grasshopper Falls, “to participate” iu the October
election, an abandon the Topeka tactics. It is
probable that the President’s letter to the New Ha
ven professor will confirm them iu this sensible res
olution, and convince them of the folly of further
rebellion.— Journal of Commerce,
Number 93.