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Columbus, Apr ;K P’ ‘
B. Y. MARTIN. •* * MARTIN.
MARTIN & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
eeXxUMiixrs, g-a.
Office on Broad Street—Over Gunby &. Daniel.
Columbus, Jan. 9, 1857. w&twlv.
HAHIILTOA A PLANE,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law,
CO AIMBUS, GA.
f [IE above firm have renewed their Copartnership, and
I will devote the most assiduous attention to the pro
fession in the counties ot Muscogee, Harris, Talbot and
Chattahoochee, in this State, and in Russell county, Ala.
Office, front room over E Barnard’s Store
January 28,1857. waLtwti.
M. B. WELLBORN. JERE. N. WILLIAMS.
WEXjLBORN & WILLIAMS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Cloyton, Alabama
WILL give prompt attention to the collection of all claims
entrusted to their care in Barbour countv. ct 4 wtxvkm
MARION RETIIUNE,
A TT O R V E Y A T L A H ,
TALBOTTON, Talbot County, Ga
October 94th, 1856. wtwtf.
W. S. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
GUSSET A,
Chattahoochee County, Ga.
Gives his entire attentiouto the practice in iihattaboocbee
adjoining counties. ap c 2t> —wtwly
ROBERT M HOWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CRAWFORD. ALA.
S. A. M’LENDON,
ATTO RN E Y A T LA W,
Fort Gaines Ga
. {TILL promptly attend n> allbusiness entrusted to hie
care—parti cut rlv Collecting. novß#twly
PEYTON H. COLQUITT,
ATTORNK LAW,
COLUMBUS, GA.
Office,upstairs,over Col. Holt’s office, Randolph st.
may 211.1855 wk twtl
BAUGH & SLADE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
VXTILL practice law in Muscogee and theadjolninicountie*
VY of Georgia and Alabama.
Office over Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
ROBERT BA I*o H J • J *
Columbus. Ga. March 27 1857. wtwtf
A. B. SEALS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
If Vll ETON, GEORGI \,
December 3,1857.—wtw3m
THOMAS A. COLEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA.
Vv’ILL practice in the Pataula and Southwestern Circuits.
Refers to Hon. David Kiddoo, J. S C. P. C. Cuihbert.
February 24, 1857. wly
“E lTm! OLIVER,
ATT OR N EY S A T LA W,
BUENA VISTA,
MARION COUNTY,GA.
\ TlLLpracticeinthecountiesof Marion, Macoj, tewart
V fay lor, Chattahoochee, Kinchatoonee. and any of the
k iningco unties when their service* mav b required.
M. D. ELAM. THAPEI'S OI.IVtR.
November 10. wtf
JOHN V. HEARD,
ATTORN F v at LAW,
Colquitt, Miller Cos., Ga
■muary2o, 1857—wly.
REDDING .fc SMITH,
Attorneys at Law,
PRESTOS, WEBSTER COUNTY, GA.
[ vVill practice in Pataula Circuit and adjoining comities.
‘I. REDDING. A. J. SMITH.
i*'-don, February I. 1858—w8m,
T. GUNN,
ATTOH ne y at law,
HAMILTON , GA.
” attend promptly to all busineesa entrusted to him
ary 26, I*sß—wly.
S.S. STAFFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAV,
BLAKELY, EARLY COUNTY, GA.
O* wtf.
TIEMffAS W.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
P IESTON, W ebster Coanty, Ga.
\\J practice in the counties of Clay,Chattahoochee,
Carly, Randolph, Stewart and Sumter.
Particular attention given to collecting and remitting.
Jauua: y 27, 1857—wtf.
PARKER ITPARKER,
ATT OR N EY S A'T LA W ,
COLQUITT
Miller County, Georgia*
VITIM, ive their entire attention to the practice in 8 uth
m western a; will also ive r nipt attention l< the
• f *llection ot a<i rl-tima entrusted lo Lheii care in the ‘o|)i wing
counties Baker,• alnoan. l lay, Dejatur, Dougherty, Early,
De , MiDee, Alit hell. R indolpn, Teried and Worth.
February I, <BSB wtf
E. G. RAIFORL,
ATTORNEY AT J.AYT':
CU S S E T A,
* imttahooche County, Ga.
Will give prompt attention t” the collecting of all
aims entrusted to his care. jans—wly.
DUNCAN H. BURTS,
\TTO RN E Y A T LA W ,
C U S S£ T A,
ChattHhoochee County,Ga.
VVill promptly attend to all business entrusted to his care
September 1, 1857. wly.
W. A. BYRD.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CUTHIIERT—RandoIph County, Ga.
iITILL pract’ i the Patau la and 8 >uthweste r n Circuits.
VV All ijusiuess entrusted to his care will received prompt
ttention. ma.Cl9 wly.
GRICE & WALLACE,
ATT kiOTg
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
\TTILL give prompt attention alt business entrusted to
\V them.
W. DjGKIOK. WM.B* WALLACE.
December I —wii
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OPPOSITE THE PASSENGER DEPOT,
MACON, GEORGIA.
E. E. BROWN, PROPRIETOR,
B. F. DENSE, Superintendent
tlfT Meals ready on the arrival of every Train.
Macon,Ga., April 15,1856. wtf.
SAMUEL H. HAWKINS,
ATT T O RN E Y A T L AW,
AMERICU3, GA.
\\7ILL practice in the counties of Sumter, Webster,
VV Terrell, Lee, Baker, Worth, Randolph and Cal
houn.
Refkrence —Ingram,Crawford & Russell, Columbus.
Col. Henry G. Lamar, Macon Ga.
Mr. W. L Johnson, Americas.
May 12,1857 twit
LIVERY & SALK STABL'X
jA&q THE undersigned having this day pur
gt, WAf [KUchased the Livery Stable now occupied by
■P®| JIC S. Hart A Cos., and formerly owned by
LJkatga3BafcUtcher & Pit's, will continue the business
unoer me name and style ol IVEY & WILKINS, and
by givingtheir personal attention to the same, hope to re
ceive trom the public a liberal share of its patronage.
J. R. IVEY,
July 16, 1857. F. G. WILKINS.
HAVINGsoId our Stable, as noticed above, we take
pleasure in recommending to our friends, all drovers,
and the public the new firm, and solicit for them a continu
ation of the very liberal patronage heretofore bestowed on
us; believing our successors will anticipate your wants
and attend to them personally.
iulvl7—wtwtf. C. S. HART &. CO.
J. FOGLE & SON,
DENTISTS,
OFFICE on Randolph Street near Broad, Columbus,Ga.
Columbus, May 9, 1857. w&twtf
WM. F. LEE, D. D. S.
■TffPmDENTAL SURGEON.
OFFICE comer of Broad and Randolph Streets,
Columbua, Georgia.
Decemoer 17.1856 w&twtf.
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PHOTOGRAPEIO
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undersigned has jusi returned tram New York with
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tyGallery over the Blue Store, No 8 Broad Street*
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Columbus. Oct. 15, 1857. fwtwtfj
GI4EAT ATTRACTION !
Bargains ! Bargrins ! Bargains !
UN- WISHES to inform her friends, and the public
generally of Columbus and the vicinity, that she
*y is now offering lor sale a complete assortment of
GOODS, consisting in part of—
NEAPOLITAN BONNETS, from 200 to $2.50.
MISSES GIPSIES SIOO
BLOOMERS, from 87ic to $1.25.
Handsome Gause R 1 B B O N S, 25c per Yard.
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Call and see Cheap for Cash.
July 23, 1857. w&twtf.
Black-Smithmg, Horse-Shoeing, Wagon and
Plow Work, &c.
liHE undesigned have started the above business on Bry-
I au Street, opposite the Perry House, and by strict at
rentioa to business hope to secure the patronage of the
public jao9twtf R. B. PIERCE CO.
COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT OF
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A reliable remedy in all diseases of the Urinary and Gen
ital Organs. Persons suffering from
Pain in the Back and I joins, Inftimation of the Kid
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Gonorrhata, Gleet, Gravel, Irregularities, Ob
structions or Discharges,
Indicating more or less disease of those organs, should use
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according to the directions which accompany it
There are probably no diseases so destructive to the
health and happiness, and everything appertaining so
•tally morally and physically to the human subject, as
jmne ol the diseases of these organs.
The attention of physicians is especially invited to th : s
nost convenient as well as effective and pleasant remedi
n the many delicate and often difficult casea for which
hey have to prescribe. Every physician will readily ap
preciate its value, and no one who has ever used it in his
jractiee will ever do without it
Sold in Columbus by Dr D Young, and country mer
ihants generally Price $1 per bottle. Sold at wholesale
, y HARREL, RISLEY& KITCHEN.
72 Barclay Street, New York,
decl7 —wtw3m Wholesale Druggists.
THE UNION O I THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGN T 1 OF THE STATES."’
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1858
Nason, of the Prairie Nws, (Miss.) does up the
following, and we think it bard to beat :
Marrikd —On Tuesday, the 10th inst., at the residence
ot Mr. J. D. Taylor, by Elder J. A. Butler, Miss Mary
Pickens Taylor and Mr. William N. Anderson —both
of Okalona.
Bill Anderson, my beau, Bill,
When printers undertake
To publish nuptial doings. Bill,
Their fee is paid in cak :
But such a cake as yours. Bill,
Deserves aver e or so,
Ol something up ’o concert pitch,
Bill Anderson, my beau
Bill Anderson, my beau. Bill,
When Naiure fixed this “trick”
Os marrying, she oida ned, Bill.
The boys should have the pick ;
But ’tisnot every noy. Bill.
Who, picking to and fro,
Finds “Pickens” such as you have found,
Bill Anderson,my beau.
Bill Anderson, my beau, Bill,
You have the printer’s prayer
That your bark may aye be wafted, Bill,
By brezes soft and fair;
And mav your bonny bride, Bill,
Find Heaven begun helow.
in her (plural, if you like it best,)
Bill, and her son, my beau.
Fault Finding.
What are another's faults to me?
I’ve not a vulture’s fill
To peck ai every flaw 1 see.
And make it wider still.
. It is enough for me to know.
I’ve follies of my own,
And on my heart the care bestow,
And let my friends alone- [Anon.
We find the following epigram going the rounds
of the press “loose.”
Saiil Anna’s preceptor “a kiss is a noun ;
But tell me il proper or common” he cried ;
J With cheeks of Vermillion and evlidseast down
“Tis both common and proper.” the pupil replied.
Inauguration of the Statue at Richmond.
We regret that our space precludes the possibili
ty of a lengthened account of the inauguration of
the Washington Monument with the accompany
ing groups at Richmond, Va., on the 22d ult. We
have already published a brief notice, and must
now add a word more regarding :he statue itself,
and the naiure of Senator Hunter:
| Crawford’s monument is considered his master
piece, and one of the greatest triumphs of Ameri
can art. The basement is. in the shape of a star,
with six points, upon each one of which will siand
a statue of one of those Virginians, who so effec
tively aided the Pater Patriot by their eloquence,
their genius, or their swords. Patrick Henry, with
his arms raised and extended, is energetically ad
vocating independence; while Jefferson, in an at
titude of earnest contemplation, holds in one hand
a pen and in the other the Declaration of Indepen
dence. When all of these figures are finished and
in their places the effect will be very striking.
In the centre of this group, and towering above
it, is the colossal equestrian statue of Washington,
which, including the charger, is twenty-five feet
high. The great chiettain is represented in full j
Continenial uniform, at ihe critical moment in a
battle. His horse is reined up and partly thrown
upon the haunches, as il suddenly checked while
moving rapidly, while the rider “sits on the beast,
with majestic case, and, as if something had sud
denly caught his attention in the distance, he is
I pointing forward and rather upward with his hand,
! while his head and face are slightly turned to the
i left, and might indicate that he was either calling
the object that had just struck his own eyes to the
notice of his companions, or was giving a com
mand to be executed at the spot to which he points.
The figure is erect, the chest thrown forward, the
knees pressed to the saddle, the heel nearly be
neath the shoulder, and the sole of the foot almost
horizontal. The seat is ami itary and not a hunt
ing seat, and the whole impressts die m nd with
the idea of perfect ease, calmness, and command.”
j So says G. P. R. James, the novelist, who should
i be a judge.
I Tite oration of Senator Hunter seems to have
been eminently appropriate to the occasion, as well
as eloquent and able. We have not space to pub
lish half of it, even—as entire it occupies seven
columns of the Washington Utcion —and can give
only the concluding paragraphs. The orator be
gan by speaking in beautiful language of the spirit
which animated Virginia in the undertaking which
is now brought to so grand a close; of the vener
ation with which she cherished the memory of her
noblest son ; and of the appropriateness of her
choice of a tribute to his worth and evidence of
her affections. He then began to trace the history
of Washington—how as a simple country gentle
man, he fitted himself by the best discipline, moral
and physical, for the great work which Providence
j had allotted to him; how he received marks of
confidence, unusual at his age. from his State, with
a m ‘desty that won all hearts; and how at the
c ill of his country, he assumed the direction of her
armies in the struggle for Independence. His con
duct of the Revolution, as a soldier and a citizen,
are viewed in a patriotic and philosophical spirit,
and the charge, or rather insinuation, that he lack
ed military skill, is refuted with singular force.
The o ator next views him as he occupies the Pie
sident’s chair, and casts a rapid but comprehensive
glance at the perilous state of affairs amid which
Washington entered upon his duties as Chief Ma
gistrate of the nation This part of the oration, if
no other, is, doubtless, destined to constitute a val
ued portion of our national literaiure—as an ex
position of Washington’s career in the Presiden
tial office, of which weot the present day are none
too well informed. The peroration is a grand effort,
as our readers will learn from the following para
graphs :
This statue is not merely a monument to Wash
ington, but an altar erected to Heroic Virtue it
self, before which the human heart may purify its
own aspirations under the chastening influences of
the great example of the Father of his Country,
and upon w hich it may sacrifice every wild or mad
desire that may be adverse to the country’s good.
And yet this monument itself will pass away
when time, with slow corroding tooth, shall have
dissipated, atom by atom, its consocrated dust.—
But when all ns particles, fugitive on the winds,
shall have disappeared from human view, there
will still survive the monument w’hich Washing
ton’s own genius has erected for itself, for there is
a promise in which we all confide, that, the good
which men do shall live after them. How much
of ail that we admire in human achievement must
lose its influence in the end, because it is funded
in ill. The very process of its progress dissipates
it at least, for the circles of its impulse grow fain
ter as they grow broader, until they finally disap
pear altogether on the face of the great ocean of
life, But the good which men do in this life, and
especially such as Washington achieved, shall live
always as an efficient cause and a permanent in
fluence it) the progress of human affairs. The foot
of the spoiler may trample down for a while what
is best in the garden of life, but heaven, soon or
late will send its rains to wash out all traces of the
step. Its tempered airs will visit the germinating
seed, its genial light will guide the upward growth
until by a full development of leaf and flower, and
fruit and seed, it has not only completed the course
of one charming circle of existence, ut provided
for the re-appearance of another. The work of
him who planted the good seed shall live long after
all traces of the des royer shall have been lost and
forgotten. If, then, the good which men do oe the
charmed seed of life, which must increase and
multiply in the successive process of a continued
reproduction, who shall affix limits tot he growth
and existence of that which Washington planted
as deep as the foundations of human society itself!
Who does not believe that the seed which he sow
ed will continue to bear the rich fruits of human
happiness and social progress until man shall have
completed his destiny unon earth ? He who be
queatl.es a great moral influence to his rac", wheth
er it be the influence of precept or example, shall
continue to repeat his existence through each suc
ceeding generation of man, and its interest will
live and grow throughout the whole march of the
great story of humanity, until the book of man’s
life upon this earth is closed forever.
“ Immortals nihil mundi compage tenetur.
None orbis, non regna homiaum r,oa aurea Rom* ”
“ The cloud capped towers, the gei rgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, .he great globe itsell;
Yea, all widen it inherits shall dii-solve,
And like the insubstantial pageant faded.
Leave not a wreck behind— ”
And .--till surviving all the good which men have
done on earth must live. It will live in the eter
nal consciousness of the soul from hich it ema
nated, the seed, it may be, of a new’ life, which is
to be constantly reproduced in the ascending scale
of a continued suecessio i of higher developments
from the old. But I must not obtrude with pto
fane gaze upon mysteries so infinitely beyond mv
ken. It is enough for me to have proclaimed that
the influence of what is good in the reputation ol
man is alone immortal, and so much I was bound
to say in justice lo the great memory which we
celebrate to-day. For upon this great truth I found
those of all the princes and every other rul-r ol
the earth. But Virginia here raises monuments
to more than one of her children, and as she bei d
over that group of her departed sons, she may well
shed the mingled tears of pride and grief Amongst
these she will place Lewis, her bold pioneer, who
wrestled with the red man from the w aters of the
Holston to those of the Great Kanawha, and final
ly made good the title of his State to the possess
ion of the Western wilderness on the bloody field
of Point Pleasant, from which he drove the Indian
beyond the Ohio. There will be found Nelson, the
patriotic Governor of Vttginia, whose generous sac
rifices and great public services called tor the thanks
of Washington at, the siege of York. Geo. Mason,
too, is to be placed there in the fondness of an oth
er’s pride, he whom history will proclaim as one of
the apostles of civil liberty, the author of the Bill
of Rights of Virginia, the orator and the sage,
whose vision was so nearly prophetic, and whose
i wisdom an patriot sm made him a great leader in
his day John Marshall is to constitute another
figure in that great grotipe, he whose qualifies of
head and heart were bestowed bv Nature as if she
were trying her most cunning hand to constitute a
perfect judicial character. Unequal in learning to
Coke, or Hale, or Hardwicke or, Mansfield, because
he had fewer opportunities to acquire it, he united
the character f Hale to the genius of Mansfield,
and found in his own resources those means of
mastery for which they were so largely dependent
on the assistance ol others. Patrick Henry al
ready s ands there, a commanding figure in the
group, the “llotner of orators,” whose mighty
voice comes ringing down with the ages to startle
the most listless of human ears with these watch
words of civil revolution and piogress, ‘Give me
liberty or give me death !” And yonder contem
plative figure, who needs to be told that it is Thos.
Jefferson, the most intrepid thinker and the great
est political genius of his day ; a man who was
capable of committing himself, like Columbus to
the winds and the waves in pursuit of his own
great idea, and of persevering until he and scovered
new provinces of thought, and found firm ground
for the human mind beyond Hie uncertain seas
who others had feared to pa.-s before.
Still the representation of the revolutionary fam
ily of Virginia is lar from complete. The statue of
| George Rogers Clnr- >e, Ike that- I Brutus, is miss
ing. The Lees and the Randolphs, Madison and
Monroe, “sapientum que ora pro rent.” might well
Constitute another group ol kmmed greatness to
these. May a long succession ol such chapters of
monumental history continue to tell the tale of Vir
ginia’s greatness and glory.
But I must not close this address without one
word ol affectionate adjuration to thee Virgil la. and
bidding you all hail, oh most glorious mother!—
Take us, thy children, with thee to the tombs of
your mighty sone, that we may learn Irom ynor
meditations something of the sect et of your own
great heart. Does it occur to you, as you bend in
sorrowing pride over the monument- ol your dead,
that perhaps the wiser part was taken by the
daughter of Scip;o and the mother of the Graced,
who refused to bear more children U-st she should
be ashamed by the comparison oi the younger with
the elder born ? Is it the secret question of your
bosom, “Quid facciv.nl Stemmati w hen you
contrast your present With your past ? I pray you,
by the love we bear you to harbor no such re
proachful suggestions in your bosom. The wealth
of your achievements may be in the past, but never
was a mother richer in the affections ot her chil
dren. Every drop of your waters and the very
dust of yoursoil are as de <r to them as if they bore
the charm ol life. Your great name and its asso
ciations constitute the fascination aud the spell
which call up the deepe-t emotions of filial love
and pride in the hearts of jour children. They
may not dd lo the lustre ot your name, but they
will preserve and defend it against reproach and
disgrace. They no longer bring curule dignities
to your home, nor do lictors and faces tnaik their
approach lo your door, but they bear you what al
ter all is the richest treasure and best defence ofa
state —the loyalty and the devotion of a uni'ed
family, which knows no higher reward than a
mother’s love, aid no prouder object of ambition
than a mother’s glory. Permit me then to say, i
the love which inspires it can excuse the presump
tion of ihe advice, that if you wish lo renew, in
some future generation, the glories of your mighty
line, you must be true to yourself, to the traditions
of your past, to the long established principles of
your public policy, and the peculiar genius of your
people. For how long did American civilization
follow (he line ol their camp fires as vour pioneers
passed through the wilderness ! Why may there
not spring up again within your h> usehold the
lights which may lead to a higher culture and to a
happier a more refined and a more powerful com
bination ‘ I the social and individual elements whose
proper organization constitutes the strength of hu
man government ? I believe, in my soul, that sucli
would be ihe results of the faithful and further ap
plication of the principles of our great school.—
Equally firm is my conviction that the lights which
should di ect that application are to be found in
the lessons which have been taught by our own
sons, wbose teachings have in them more of pro
phetic wisdom than all the leaves of the Sibyl.—
Such are the achievements which would place Vir
ginia amongst the States and nations of the earth,
where Washington, her own illustrious son, stands
amongst men—t lie world’s great paragon, the cy
nosure of his race.
Consequences of a Dissolution of the Onion
The most timid conservative we have in the
Southern States cannot deny, however much lie
may deplore, the fact, that a dissolution of the
Union is possible ;—let us suppose, for the mo
ment, that it is inevitable. What, then, may we
ratioually expect as the consequences of i-ucii an
event? Should we cease to raise cotton—as the
the New Y’ork Mirror insists ? Will our agriculture
suffer instant and universal blight and our com
merce fade into extinct on—to say nothing of the
difficulties and horrors to be experienced, in en
deavoring to keep in proper subjection a rebellious
race of bondsmen—as is constantly asserted by the
Abolitionists 1
If the Union were dissolved tn-morrow—without
anything being said about it—it is probable that
ninety nine one hundredths of the population of
the Southern Slates would never know the tact, ex
cept by a lessening of taxation and a general im
provement in trade. In so enlightened a country
as ours, the people really and truly require very
few laws, and very ht.le legislation; and what
they do require—a good system of judicatu e, for
instance, —is already supplied and more than sup
plied—by our State Governments.
The Union wasorignally occasioned by the weak
ness and mutual dependence of the Colonies: and it
was formed to compass certain ends, the accom
plishment of which was then uncertain and pros
pective,bul which we have long since reached and
secured. The aid. therefore, which the South re
quired of the North aud Ihe North of the South in
1776 or 1789, is required no longer by either.—
The agricultural States of the South are now
abundantly able to lake care of themselves, and
there is no necessity of their continuing to pav
fifty millions a year for a Northern guardianship.
Commerce is the great civilizer of the world;
and the geographical position and agricultural pro
ducts ot the Southern States have enforced a law
—.stronger and more unchangeable than the enact
ments of the Modes and Persians—which will bind
over the whole world in ever lasting bonds ot peace
with the grave Southern Republic. Commercial
interest will not only make ail Europe our allies
and friends, but the Northern States also: and a
dissolution of the Union, therefore, need by no
meuis be a dissolution ol the bonds which connect
us to the North in legitimate, peaceful, friendly
trade —nor in anything else except an old, onerous
wornont, superannuated system of external Gov
ernment machinery.
Ii is now constantly asse-ted by both Northern
and Southern writers that we of the North and
South are two peoples. If we are, then, what
harm could there be in our peaceably dissolving
our present connection and forming others which
would more exactly conform to the present condi
tion ofeach?—which would relieve the North of
the burden of our sin of slavery and the South ol
the oppressive weight of protection which has been
tor so long a period thrust upon her by her Puri
tan confederates on the other side of the Potomac.
We love the Union because of the history ol the
past and the retnemberatice of our common fore
fatherr, and we have been willing on these acoun
ts to go so lar as even to pay tribute lor its preset
vatiori. If interest alone were concerned, we would
say dissolve to morrow, for we know not of one
single instance where the South derives any ad
vantage from its preservation it might not have
without.
One of file leading objects of the Union of the
States was, to have one common agent to manage
foreign affairs. It is seldom that treaties with lor
eign powers are made for any benefit to the South;
and we know of no internal policy wherein the
rights of the South are protected, or her interests
cherished and fostered by the Union to any extent
which the Sonth would not be able to supply her
self.
Much has of late been said by the Northern,
press in relation to what would be the condition of
the South in the event of dissolution, and they
have portrayed it as weak and feeble. We tell
them now, once for all,:hat they do not understand
us. No peop eon Ihe tace of the earth are better
prepared to take care of themselves than we are.
We desire nothing but wlmt the w hole world de
sires to | ur-base, ami we can afford the best mar
ket in the world tor the productions and manufac
tures ol other nations. In c.-ise of war, we can
raise more soldiers, in proportion to population,
than any power in the woild. Every man and boy
without exception in the South, understands the
use ol lire arms, and is a natural born horsemen
We have a population among us, which can be
employed in making provisions, while the whole
body of able-bodied white men can be employed as
soldiers. Tlipu the legitimate deductions are,
that we are able to take care of ourselves, and, so
far as interest alone is concerned, it would be far
bettor for us that wt begin to do so at once — Mo
bile Mercury.
Mr. Toombs nnd the Enquirer.
We give below the editorial remarks of our cotempora
ry, the “Sun” upon the article of the “Enquirer,” headed
“Mr. Toombs and the Union,” which we felt constrained
to characterize, in our last issue, as unworthy that patriot
ism which should animate a Soufiiern Journal. It seems
that the language of the “Enquirer” towards ,vir- Toombs
has been read with equal mortification and chagrin by oth
er Journals, who regard the Union second in importanc*
only to Southern honor and Southern integrity. We copy
theso remarks with a view of convincing the “Enquirer’’
that wo did not misconstrue either the spirit or the meauing
of its obnoxious article, much less did we misquote it. In
our next issue, we shall lay it before our readers, and the
parts, whicU we nave extracieu irom 11, aud suoimt u to
their intelligence and candor, whether we left out anything
materiil to the issue. We profess to be, if we are not,
honest in our advocacy of rneasur aud rnen, and we
should consider ourselves unworthy tne p • fa public
journalists, were we to act otherwise. Wear- 1 < n.—
But lor the remarks of the Sun, which are more e -u
but run in the same channel with our own comments—
A‘-Dark ear'ed Political Parricide.”
A friend hae called our aitenfion to an article in
the Enquirer of Saturday last, under the caption of
“The Union and Mr. Toombs,” which we would be
recreant to our du'y as a public journalist did we
let it pass unnoticed. We expect nothing else but
vil'ilying abuse and billingsgate heaped upon the
defenders of the rights and honors of the South,
from the horde of abolitionist and Black Republi
cans who are trying to degrade her to a Ipvel with
the serfs of the monarchies of the old world, but
* ich sentiments as the following, extracted from
tte article alluded to, are so unsuiled to this cli
mate, and so at war with every principle of politi
cal tolerance, that we are surprised that an indig
nant public Should not frown down the author,
and give him distinctly to understand that the
South knows who are her t ue friends, and that
she will uphold them while contending for *er
rights.—The following is the extract referred to :
“Sign a.” the Washington correspondent of the
New Orleans Picayune, writes as follows:
“Mr. Toornbs dots not hesitate to avow himself j
in favor of a dissolution of the Union, declaring il j
as his opinion that the interest of both sections |
would be promoted thereby.”
We are not yet old, but we remember ihe time
when the sentiment attributed to Mr. Toombs,
would have been meet with the withering scorn
and contempt of every American patriot. It was
in the earlier and purer days of our Republic,
when official crime dared rot lift its snaky locks
and stony eyes amid a virtuous and intelligent peo
ple.
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But for a “grave and reverend” Senator like
Toombs, to talk flippantly about disrupting this
Government, —is either a foliy to be laughed at, or
a stupendous crime, to be punished by pointing t
him the “slow, unmoving finger of scorn.” Such
a man must he either the buffoon whose merriment
is despised, because misplaced, or the dark hearted
political parricide, who would plunge his sword into
the bowels of his best friend and benefactor.
We can tell Mr. Senator Toombs, that when he
and his friend Douglas fiist get the country into a
scrape, and the ambition of neither can be giattifiii
without a dissolution of the Union, the people of
Georgia and the United States would sooner see
ten thousand such Senators driven out of the coun
try in disgrace, than the existence of the Govern
ment threatened fora moment,
We would not have been at all surprised to
have seen these sentiments published in the New
York Tribune or any other ot the Abolition prints
of the North, but we must confess we were sur
prised, mortified and indignant, that a Southern
journal, published in the great Southern S ate ot
Georgia, and dependent on Southern patronage for
support, should be so lost to a sei se oi’ its dignified
position, and the honor of the section whose inter
es s it pretends to uphold, ns to promulgate such
sentiments as the above in a crisis fraught with so
much danger to the South as the present. Has it
come to this, that a Southern Senator shall be
branded by a Southern journal as a bujfotm, ora
■‘black hearted political parricide,” simply because
he believes, Irom the incongruity of the elements
which compose the present Union, it would be bet
ter for both sections that its bond's should be bro
ken ? What is there in such a sentiment, at such
a time as ihe present, to call forth such epithets
from a political opponent whose perceptions are so
obtuse that they cannot see or appreciate the dan
ger which threaten the rights of the South from the
combined attacks of Northern abolitionists and
Southern sympathisers.
In view of all the circumstances which surround
the matter, and the violent attacks that are from
time to time made upon the South, we think the
epithets of “buffoon” and “ black hearted political
parricide” comes with a bad grace from one who ‘
is willing to sacrifice Southern honor and Southern
rights upon the altar of a Union which is fast
becoming an engine of oppression against the 1
South.
But all patriots and patriotic measures have had
heir revilers aud opponents among the se who 1
hould be their friends, and il is unreasonable, I
■ therefore, to expect the champions of the rights ot
? tlie South, or the cause of the South itself, should be
- free from the attacks of their enemies. Washing
I ton was i-garded as a traitor by some, and th>
i American revolution was considered even by a por
! tion of the American people as nothing bm a rebel
i lion ag: inst the legal Government. Obedience to
i Ihe “powers that be” is one of the first duties oi a
i citizen of any Government, so long as that G ivern
ment affords that protection to the cit zen which it
is his right to expect and demand, hut when il
ceases to afford Ins protection, but on the ci utrar)
is a means of oppressing him, his obligations cease
to t hat Government, and it is his right to throw ii
off. and in doing so tie acts the part of the patriot,
while to lamely submit would he at..- c of poltroon
ery which would damn hint in the estimation of at
honorable men. Which, then, is the “black hearted
political parricide, Mr. Toombs, who is willing
even to tisk the dread expedient of dissolving the
Union to save his section from dishonor, or those
who, to save the Union, would sacrifice not only
the honor but the interest of their section?
Hon. W. L. Yancey at Richmond
This distinguished gentleman made a beautilul and elo
quent speech at Richmond upon the reception of Wash
ington’s spyglass At the conclusion, he thus eloquently
ailudes to the purchase of Mount Vernon
Sir.it cannot, will not fail! You, and I and oth
ers. may tail to link onr names and memories with
its success, but succeed it will; and Mount Vfrnon
will become that holy shrine, within whose hal
lowed precincts, even in the even: that this Union
shall be shattered and broken in the conflict of sec
tional aggression, its alienated citizens may still
meet, and, in the shadow of tne tomb of the migh
ty dead, learn to sorrow for its destruction.
But whatever faie awaits us, do thou, O Virginia!
thou the great mother of States and of statesmen
—thou, the famed mother of the glorious dead—
thou, the yet vigorous mother of the great and gif
ted living—thou, from beneath whose mighty heart
sprung that son, whose life so resplendently illus
trated thine own, and the annals of his whole coun
try, and into whose ample bosom his ashes have
j returned, guard well the sacred trust of that double
maternity, and while to the valor of thy sons shall
be committed its security, permit genti'e woman to
become the vestal priestess at the shrine !
Napoleon III.—A Southern gentleman, long a res
ident in Paris, and probably more familiar with the
political world of France than anv other American,
in writing to a friend in New York, makes some
very interesting remarks upon the character of the
present Emperor of the French, which the Times is
permitted to publish:
Constitutionally, Napoleon is as much ofa fata
list as a man can be, and events have c.< i,firmed
his natural tendency. He will leave a big rather
than a great name in history. Os genius, in the
true, however indefinite, sense of that word, he has
never yet given any proof. In civil matters, sup
posing his sinning point and data to he good and
sound, he has shown a rare judgement, perfect self
confidence; (completely amazing to Frenchmen in
these latter,years, and a strong, steady will.
In military concerns, the most fortunate feature
of his lucky career was that which saved him
from going to the Crimea. In matters of detail,
strange to say, he is miserably deficient, as I am
assured by M—, his leading minister during the
Prince Presidency. His fbrte lies in a few gran
diose conceptions—great principles, as he would
Call them: Concentrate all power in Paris, keep
the terminating knot or lie of concentration between
his thumb and finger—hold the army well in hand
—repay the first outbreak at compound interest,
without a chance of discount—castrate the press
and extinguish the natural spirit of man in all
Frenchmen, hich and low. by a “Huston ot me
artificial spirit of the trades.— Ex.
j Mysterious.—Since the adjournment of the na—
| val Courts of Inquiry, certain developments have
j been made which, we have every reason to believe
) will place in a very disagreeable position a naval
officer of high rank. The matter will be brought
before the attention of Congress, and demands will
be made from very responsible sources to dismiss
this offender from (he service which he has dis
graced.
Novel Lawsuit. —During a revival, in the Sec
ond Moth- dist Church ol Lancaster, Pa., last week
the Rev. Mr. Walters, pastor, peremptorily order
ed “tho e persons who did not wish to comply with
his request (to kneel during ptayer,) to leave.”—
Mr- Henry Miller, of that city, relused to do either,
whereupon Mr. Walters instituted a suit agamst
Mr. Miller, before a magistrate. A clergyman of
the same church appeared as a witness, testifying
that it was not compulsory with every one to kneel
but simply customary, when judgment was given
in favor of defendant.
An Assignment by the Bank of Pennsylvania. —
In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday mor
ning, the assignment as made by the Bank of Pen
nsylvania was approved, and Mess's, Patterson,
i Taylor and Thomps -n, having resigned us Direc
tors of the Bank, were appointed Assigne"H. It is
| to be hoped that this movement will ensure to the
I benefit of the creditors generally, but it isimpossi
! ble to say what will be the result-— Penn. Enquirer,
19th.
A first rate joke took place lately in our
court room. A woman was testifying in behalf of
her son, and swore “that he had worked on a farm
ever since he was born.” The lawyer who cross
examined her, said, “Y- u assert that vour son has
worked on a farm evei| since he war born ?” “I
do.” “What did he do the first year?” ‘He milk
ed.” The lawyer evaporated—[ Hartford Cour
ant.
Hoop, Hurrah.’ —Two thousand girls, or a force
equivalent to that number, are employed in one
establishment in the city of New York, in manufac
turing hoops for the ladies. We are an expansive
people—enlarging daily.
Jeremy Taylor, speaking ofthe widow of a black
smith, who was constantly laboring o procure the
necessaries of life, thus quaintly portrays her char
acter : ‘ Her ideas ot heaven were few and simple.
She rejected the doctrine that it was the place of
constant activity, and not of repose, and believed
that when she at length reached it, she would work
no more, but sit in a clean white apron and sing
psalms.”
An Unwelcome Recognition. —On the arrival of
a company of girls at Bloomington, lowa, last week,
under the care of an agent of the women’s emigra
tion society of New York, a gentleman of Bloom
ington came to select a girl to work in his family.
He was carefully scanning the faces before him,
when nil at once he started as if suddenly shot,
ttir-ed pale, and was about to made a sudden re
treat, when one of the young ladies walked up to
him and said, “111 go with this gentleman ; I’ve
lived with him before; he’s my husband! My dear
Thomas, what made you leave me five years ago
without saying‘good by?’ and why didn’t you let
me know you were living in such a beautiful place
as Bloomington ? Il l had only known you were
living here, I would have come.” The “dear
Thomas” got away and took to his heels, and Die
unwelcome wife followed close in pursuit. The
result of the race had not transpired when the
Bloomington paper went to press.
s2gp~“How did you like that clam song ?” asked
an old lady of her daughter, as they stepped with
the crowd out into the open air, after a popular
concert.
“Clam snng!” exclaimed the young lady, in
astonishment, “why, what du you refer to moth
er ?”
“Why, the first one he sung.”
“Oh, you mean Shells ot the Ocean, don’t you,
mother ?”
‘•Well, yea,” said the old I dy, “I do think that
was it; it was something ah-a clams, any way.
and you know I like clams so well! Didn’t you
like ill”
P. H. COLQUITT, Editor.
I A Troublesome Member in the Massachusetts
Legislature. —Gen. Caleb Cushing, so well and
widely known as a statesman, diplomatist, man of
letters and of arms, is now a member ofthe Mas
sachusetts Legislature f-r Newbury port. Whatr
• ever may be tl-e Gen-ral’s faults,he is bold, frank,
i and fearless in his avowal of his opinions, and
has lately been making quite a stir among the ra
bid “Republican*” of the old Puritan Common
wealth. It is well known that Judge Loring has
been for some years the object of continued as
sault on the par! ofthe abolitionists of that State
on account ot his honest and manly firmness msus
taming the laws ol the land in defiance ofthe pop
ular prejudices around him. A petition tor his re
moval received th- vole of the Legislature at a
previous session, bu: Gov. Gardner, to his great
1 credit refused to comply with the petition The
subject has been revived since the preseru Govern
or [Banks] has come into office, and it is on this
question that Mr. Cushing lias made a ga lant
and dashing charge upon the overwhelming anti
slaverj majority in the Legislature. “He told
them [says the Washington Slates, in describing
ihe scene] that they shrunk like whipped spaniels
under th lash oi'Lloyd Garrison, who drove over
them in the car of the Anti-Slavery Society;
the Legislature had been intimidated and bullied
into voting the Hall for negro agitation, though'.lie
Society had merely played the game of compul
“ion, and refused to accept the Hall when it was
roted. In a word, Mr. Cushing told his hearers
that it was a q t-stiou whether the members of
that body were freemen; acting without restraint
or whether they were cowering under the mena
ces ila society which openly advocated disunion
iuits w -rsi and most reprehensible aspect.”
Progress of the Religious Revolution. —The re
ligions revival in this city and elsew here is gain
ing ground every day. A similar movement com
menced at about the same time in Europe and on
the shores of the Pacific, so that we may reasona
bly conclude that all Cristendom is awakening to
grace. In this city there are twelve daily public
prayer meetings of all the evangelical denomina
tions. There are also daily serv.ces in all the Epis
copal and Roman Catholic Churches. These ser
vices are attended by not less than ten or twelve
thousand persons every day ; the piayer meetings
are crowded, and Ihe attendance at the Lenten
Church services is greatly in excess over any pre
vious year. We road that in all the meetings
“there seems to boa iles-re to avoid denomination
al bias, and to make all the women who come per
fectly easy in their minds on the score of possible
offence at their preconceived ideas.” The same
zeal prevail* throughout thecouritry, and the sin
ners are flocking in great armies to taste the sweet
waters of eternal life — N. Y. Herald.
Sucking up Water from Sand. —Livingstone,
the African travtller, ([escribes an ingenious me
thod by which Ihe Africans obtain water in the de
sert :
“The women tie a bunch of grass to one end of
a reed about two feet long, and insert it in a hole
dug as deep as ihe arm will reach, then ram down
the wet Jsand firmly around it. Applying the
mouth to the free end of ihe reed, they form a
vacuum in the grass beneath, in which the water
collects, and in a short time rises to the mouth.”—
It will be perceived that this simple, but truly phi
losophical and effectual method, might have been
applied in many cases, in different countries, where
water was greatly needed, lo the saving of life. It
seems wonderful that it should have been now
first made known to the world, and that it should
have been habitually practised in Alrica, probably
for centuries. It seems worthy of being particu
lar! y;fioliced, that it may no longer be neglected
(Vo,,- iminra„w he.liieblv important to
travellers on cur Western deserts and pararies,
in some parts of which water is known to exist
below the surface.
Agricultural Truth.— The following state
ment will be lound correct as to the soils under
cultivation:
1. All lands on which clover or the grasses are
grown, must either have lime in Ibem natuially, or
that mineral must be artificially applied in the
form of stone, lime or marl.
2. All permanent improvement of lands must
look to time as its batis.
3. Lands which have been long in culture will
be benefitt and by the application of phosphate of
lime, and it is unimportant whether deficiency be
supplied in tite form of butte dust, guano, native
ph spliate of lime, compost of flesh, ashes or oys
ter shell lime or marl, if the land need lime alone.
4. N land can be p eserved in a high state of
fertility, unless clover and the grasses are culti
vated in the course of rotation.
Jagf”An Irishman called on a lady and a gen le
nten, in whose employ he was; for the | ttrpose of
getting some tea and tobacco.
“I had a dftrame last night, yer honor.”
‘•What was it, Pat ? ’
“Why, I dhramed that your honor made me a
present of a plug of tobaccv. and her ladyship there
—Heaven bless her! —gave tne some tay for the
good wife.”
“Ah ! Pat, dreams go hy contraries; as you well
know ?”
“Faith and they do that,” said Pat, without the
least hesitation, “so yer ladyship is to give me the
tobaccy, and bis honor the tay.
The New England Courant—Benjamin Frattk
'in’s newspaper—in 1726, contained the following
advertisement:
“Just published, and sold by the Printer hereof.”
***Hooped Petticoats Arraigned and Condemn
ed by the Light of Nature and the Law of God.—
Price 3d.
“A Good Newspaper Law. —A new law on the
press has come into force in Denmark, prohibi
ting newspapers from copying the articles of other
journals without quoting them.”— Charleston Cou
rier.
That shows lhat the Danes are considerably
ahead of us in civilization. It is a good law, we
think, and if it could be applied here would wofk”
beautifully. We shouldn’t be surprised if some
outlandish nation passes a law that editors shall
be paid for their work. Who knows?
f Wedowee (A?a.) Alercury.
jggT” “Here’s your money, di It Now tell me
why your master wrote eighteen letters about that
paltry sum ? ’said an exasperated debtor. “I’m
sure, sir, 1 can’t tell; but if you’ll excuse me, sir,
I think it was because seventeen letters did not
fetch it,”
Self Destruction —We learn lhat on Saturday
morning last, Mr. Edward L. Davts. a ciiiz*n of
Russell county, Ala., residing near Dover, com
mitted sui ride by taking some poisonous drug.—
The cause ofthe rash act is unknown.
Boy's Don’t Give Up. —A Chinamen will con
tend at the annual literary examination fill he is
seventy or e ghty years old. although with the
bare possibility of ultimate success. Mr. Cabansis,
a missionary at Shanghai, says that his teacher
saw a man at the last examination who is eighty—
four years old. and who has not despaired of
gradttaiing.
J3F"A young naval officer, when asked what
period of the battle was ih- most appalling, replied,
“The tew hushed moments when tiny •■ prink te
the deck with sand to drink the human blood as
yet unshed.”
A German Almanac remarks that a young
girl is a fishing rod—the eyes are the hook, the
smile is the bait, the lover is the gudgeon, audmar
riage is the butts r in which he is fried.
Tne President, it is stated, lias nominated
Col. Johnson, of the Utah expedilion, to be a Brig
adier General.
Some genius has conceived the brilliant idea tb
press all the lawyers in o military : ervice, in case
of war—because their ct urges are to great lhat tt
one could stand them.
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