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Ihe foeehli} limes & Sentinel. By L 9 MAX & ELLISJ Volume XVISI. Lillies antr Sentinel* WEEKL SENTINEL Is published every THURSDAY and SATURDAY EX EMMi, THE WEEKLY TIMES & SENTINEL Is published every Tt.IKSU.VY MOKNING. Office on Randolph Street, opposite the P. O, TERMS: TRI-WEEKLY, Five Dollars per annum, in advance. WEEKLY, Two Dollars per annum,in advance. t3F“ Advertisements conspicuously inserted at One Dol lar per square, for the first insertion, and Filty Gents for every subsequent insertion A liberal deduction will be made tor yearly advertise ments. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Adtninisirators, Execu tors and Guardians, are required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours often in loreuoou and three in the afternoon, at the Court Hons# in the county in which the property is situate. Nostices nt these sales mu ibe give i in a public gazolte forty days previous to the day oi sale. 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HAVING connected with our Printing Other a full and compielcassortment ol Book Binder’s toolssinfl toca. and also added to our PriL ting materials, we areuow prepared to execute,in good style and with despatch.every itind of work in either branch of the business, on thebest terms. Ulj VNK ‘WORM!, o I every description, with or with out printing, made to order, in the neatest manner. WARE iIIMJSE PRINTING, Receipts, Drafts, Notes, Bills of Lading, &c., &e., executed neatly and promptly, and bound in any desired style. RAILROAD AND STEAMBOAT BLANKS, ofall kinds got up,with accuracy and dispatch. Hill Heads, Cards, Circulars, • Hand Bills. Posters, Programmes, &,c.,o£.<tJ[printedin theshoi est notice and inthe best style. Magazine and Pamphlets put up in every style o binding. Books o all kinds rebound strongly and neatly. LOMAX & ELLIS. Columbus, Apr ‘1 lb Ibb-i B. Y. MARTIN. J. j. MARTIN. MARTIN & MARTInT~ Attorneys at Law, eei/CTMBTTS, Cvl, Office on Broad Street—OverGunby & Daniel. Columbus, Jan. 9, 1857. w&twlv* HAMILTON A PLANE, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, CO .UHBUS, GA. THE above firm have renewed their Copartnership, and will devote the most assiduous attention to the pro fession in the counties of Muscogee, Harris, Talboi and Chattahoochee, in this State, and in Russell county, Ala. Office, front room over E. Barnard’s Store. January 28,1857. w&twtf. M. B. WELLBOR ss JERE . N. WILLIAMS. WELLBORN & WILLIAMS, ATTORN EYS AT LAW, Clayton, Alabama. WILL fifive prompt attention to the collection of all claims entrusted totheireare in Barbour county. * ct 4 wtw6m MARION BETIIUNE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, TALBOTTON, Talbot County, Ga. October 24th, 1856. wtwtf. W. S, JOHNSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW. C U S S E T A, Chattahoochee County, Ga. Gives his rntire atteutlomo the practice in Obattahoochet adjoining counties. ap26—wtwly* ROBERT N. HOWARD, ATTORNEYAT LAW, CRAWFORD, ALA. September 8, 1855. —twAwtt. S. A. M’LEN DON, ATTORNEY A T L A IV, Fort Gaines, Ga. \yiLL promptly attend to ail business entrusted to his )▼ care—particul rly Collecting. novß*rtwly PEYTON H. COLQUITT, ATT O R N E X T LAW, COLUMBUS, GA. Office, up stairs, over Col. Holt’s office, Randolph st. mar 26.1855 wdrtwtf BAUGH & SLADE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WlLLoractlcelawin Muscogee and theadjoinici-countlee <>f_ Jeorgia and Alabama. Office over Bank >f Columbus, Broad Street. ROBERT BAUGH. J. J. 3LADC. Columbus, Ga. Harch 27 1857. wtwtf REDDING Si SMITH, Attorneys at Law, PRESTOS, WEBSTER COUNTY, GA. U ’’•actice in Pataula Circuit and adjoining counties. L.t RE DING. A. J. SMITH. Pre. lon ‘ebruary I, 1858—wfim, T. J. GU NN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMILTON, GA. WILL attend promptly to ail basiaeess entrusted to him Jauuary 26, lssß—wly. S.S. STAFFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAN', BLAKELY, EARLY COUNTY, GA. ap2 wtf. ELAM & OLIVER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA. WILL practice in the counties of Marion, Macon, -lewart t’aylor, Chattahoochee, Kiuchatoonee and any ol tne xdjoiningcountieswheu theiraervices max be required. WM D.KI.iM. THADKCS OLIVKR. November 10. w ’t W. A. BYRD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CUTHHERT—RandoIph County, Ga. lILL pract*” n tho P&taulaand Boathweete-n Circuits. ’ V All business entrusted to bis care will received prompt attention. maAl9—wly. RAIFORD & BURTS, AT XA"W: CU S SE T A, • liatfahooche County, Ga. Will practice in Chattahoochee and adjoining counties dan give prompt attention to the collecting o’ all caims entrusted to their care. april3 —wly. E. G. KAIFORD. DUNCAN H. BURTS. SAMUEL H. HAWKINS, ATTTORNEY AT LAW, AMERICUS, GA. WILL practice in the counties of Sumter, Webster, Terrell, Lee, Baker, Worth, Randolph and Cal houn. Reference —Ingram,Crawford & Russell, Columbus. Col. Henry G Lamar, Macon Ga. Mr VV. L. Johnson, Americus. May 12.1857—..tl JOHN V. HEARD, ATTn RN E v ( \ T LAW, Colquitt, Miller Cos., Ga- January 20, 1857-wly. GRICE & WALLACE, ATT OLOT* BUTLER, GEORGIA. WlLLsive prompt Attention all business entrusted’ to them. W la <;RICFs. WM.B. WALLACE. December I —wt.r WILLIAM GORDON, A T T ORNEY A T L A W 'NEWTON, ALA. yyILL attend promptly to all business confided to his ” care in the counties of Dale, Henry, Coffee and Pike. February 27, 1858—w Gm. WM M. CHAMBERS. XVM M BOBBINS. J A BOBBINS. Chambers, Robbins & Robbins, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, EUFAULA, ALABAMA. WILL nractice in the counties of Barbour, Pike, Henry Coflee, Pike, Dale and Russell let) I—wlv THOMAS A. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CUTIIBERT, GEORGIA. WILL practice in the Pataula and Southwestern Circuits. Refers to Hon. David Kiddoo, J. S 0. P. C. Cuihbert. February 24, 1857. wlv TOBMM Wo © dm, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PitESTON) W ebster Coanty, Ga. WILL practice in the counties of Clay,Chattahoochee, Webster, Larly, Randolph, Stewart and Sumter. •- Particnlar attention given to collecting and remitting. - January 27. IHs7—wtf. PARKER & PARKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, COLQUITT. Miller County, Georein. WILL frive their entire attention to the practice in South western Georgia; will also uive prompt attention to the collection of ail claims entrusted to theii care in the ‘ollowing counties 1 Baker,'’alhoun.*’lay, Deiatur, Dougherty, Early, Lee, Miller, Mit hell. Randolph, Terrell and Worth. February I. >BSB wtf FUR -'ALE. THE Subscriber has on hand nfew STILLS for tnanun ‘tu ring Peach Brandy or which he wil f*°l very low. ALSO, Tin, Sheet Iron and Japan Ware, every leacription,which can be boughiat theloweerates. oneon-~a \ noticeandon liberal terms. * J. B. HICKS,Agent, julylß v rt Next doorbelew l, Sans -‘ouci’ 7 Rrnud-e CO-PARTNEBSIIIP. . THE undersigned have this day associated themselves together under the name aud style of AYER & GRAY, Auction &„Commission Merchants, and respectfully solid’ a share oi business— pledging them selves to a faithful discharge ol all business committed to their care. Liberal advances made on consignments. A. K. AYER, RICHARD M- GRAY. Columbus, Jan, 1,1857. jan6wtwly LIVERY & SALE STABLE. THE undersigned having this day pur* Iff ~ chase-d the Livery Stable now occu|iied by )RC S. Hart &Cos., and formerly owned by <Sr. Pills, will continue the business uuuer me name and style 01 IV KY & W 11. KI IMS, and by giving their personal attention to the same, hope to re ceive from the public a liberal share ol its patronage. J. R. IVEY, July 16, 1857. F. G. WILKINS. HAVINGsoId our Stable, as noticed above, we take pleasured recommending to our friends, all drovers, and the public the new firm, and solicit for them a enntinu ation of the very liberal patronage heretofore bestowed on us; believing our successors will anticipate your wants and attend to them personally. julvl7—wtwtf. C. S. HART & CO. Black-Smithing, Horse-Shoeing, Wagon and Plow Work, &c. HE undesigned have started the above business on Bry * an Street, opposite the Porfy House, and by strict at tention to business hope to secure the patronage of the’ public. jan9twtf R. B. PIERCE &- CO. ©©EimaKKß RIOT* HIE HALLOTYPE PICTURES! A. J. RIDDLE, HAS purchased of J. Gurney, of New York,the exclusive right for.aking HaPotype Pictures, which is a littleahead of anything in the way of Picture taking th world has ever seen. 1 here is nothing to which they can be c spared in the art of Photography, but bear a strong resemblance to wax figures, for sottuessand b*auty of light and shade. Ladies and gentlemen are invited to call and examine specimens. Aitists who desire to learn this new and beauti iul art, and secure rights (brother counties will please caii on A J RID DLB, Jolumbus Ga. Jn]\9s—• A Medicine that never Debilitates DR. SANDPORD’S INVIGORATOR, OR LIVER REMEDY, IS NAT! LE THAT EVERY BODY NEEDS WHO 13 nol in j pe eel state of health, for the Liver is second only lo the hea. our human economy, and when that is derail 4ed the whole vital machinery runs wrong. To find a medicine peculiarly adapted to this disease has beeu the study ol one of the iropnetors In a large and extended practice lor the past twentv years, and the result of his experiment lathe Invigorator, as a never-failing remedy where medicine has any power to help. Asa liver remedy it has no equal, as all testily who use it. A lady writing from Brooklyn, savs: “Wou’d that 1 could express in this short letter the value your Hivigorator has been to me fn raising a large family ol children, tor it has never failed to relieve all ail affections of the stomach, bowels or attacks of worms. If mothers had tb remedy p aced within their reach.and were taught how o use it, a tearful and untold amount ol agony might be saved. One of our prominent bankers says, “Five or six years ago 1 found inyseli running down with a liver difficulty; resorting to your invigorator, w’as greatly relieved, and continuing tor a season, was entirely restored.” , A clergyman called at our < fllee the other day and said be had given a ooor woman a bottle who was suffering very bad ly trom the Liver t otnplaint, and before she had taken the whole ot it she was at worn earning bread for ner family. A gentleman, recently from t e west.says, w hiieat Chicago, hew salt eked with a slow, lingering .ever, that baffled the g Hjn of physicians, but the Invigorator cured him in a few days. Oneof onr city merchants said, while on a visit ‘to Troy, a few days sinee, he was attacked with bowell and st much disorders, so as to confine him to his room, he sent to the drug store lor a bottle ol Invigorator, took one dose, which relieved him so that he was ableto attend his business An acquaintance, *noee business compeis him to write most of the time, says be became so weak as to be unable at times to hold his pen, while at others sleep would overpow**r him but the Invigorator cured him. A gentleman from Brooklyn called on us a week or tw > since, looking but the shadow ol a man, with his skin y e low, pale ana deathlike. He had een for a long time suffering from Jaundice and Dyspepsia, and unable to attend to his bu siness. We saw him again to-day a changed man, and to use l his expression; he has not seen the bottom ol the first bott'e, and further adds, “it saved my lile, lor I was fast going loa consumptive’s grave. Among the hundreds of Liver remedies now offered to the public, H ere ate none we can so fully tecommeno as Dr Ban lord’s 1 1 vigorator, or Liver Remedy,so generally known now throughout the Uuion. This preparation k is truiy a Liver Jn vigorator, producing t e most happv resuits on all who use it. Almost Innumerable certificates have been given of the great virtue of this medicine by those of the highest standing in society, and it is, without .doubt; the beslpnparatiou now 5 before the public. 3 aANFOBD At UO. Proprietors, 345 flßroadway, New York. 8 - J by Pemberton, Nuckolls fe 00. and by Danforth* H&gei wOlambus. mar3—wAttw3m* ‘‘the union of the states and the sovereignty of the states.” COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1858. For the Empire State. Childhood’s Memo. t. s. “All, all is peace within,we do not start, To read the pages of a child’s pure heart ” How oft in life’s bewildered track. When woes the sadden’d heart beguile, Some simple thought will bear us back, To days remembered with a smile* The rippling stream, so spaikling bright, And Where tiny fingers, pure and white, Their pebbles in the water fling* Our country school! 1 love to dwell, On scenes there parsed, in childish play, But sigh to think how soon the spell Os gathering flowers has spud away. Sweet childhuod’sjox 8 in after years, O t serve to call—tho’ fleet they be, The wandering spirit now iu tears. Back to its throne—the mother’s knee. In h< urs of mirih and revelry, The debaunchee has felt his bowl. When thoughts ol childhood, light and free, Came sadly beaming on his soul. Again his mother’s voice he hears, Again a si-ter’e kiss he feels, His vine-clad home once m >re appears, Aiidaweepmg—penitent he kneels. The poor doom’d wretch who hears his sentence. Meets it with determined’eye, No sad thinking of repentance, Learns him to prepare to die. Till sleeping in his lonely ceil, He dreams of childhood’s joys loqg past, A wild, yea, piercing taie they tell, And rnclt his icy heart at last. Life’s sea is stormy, fraught with woe, But Memory guides the bark with skill, For oft when clouds are bending low, She calmly whispers, “Peace, bestill.” The clouds retreat—the bark moves n, Cheered once again by sun-beam- bright, f i he threat’ning Morins and waves nr* gone, The magic spell is Memory’s Light, LEOLA. NAILER AT IIS. None can make the shortened cake, So good as could my mother, And I think 1 knew why it is so, As well as any other— Beciiu e, since then some wicked men, With a kind of apparatus, Have made a stuff the biead to puff, And called it Saleratus. Don’t ask us why so many die; That any live is j-urpru-'ing — Since now our food is made of wood, And salt is made for rising, I hope the cooks (with their good looks) Will not exterminate us With cake and pi-* made up with lie, Reduced to Saleratus. May every pot in which they’ve The stuff, be burst to atoms; May every tin in which in wnich it’s been, Be minus top ad bottom; May every store on sea or shore, (Whaitlse could more elate us?) I3y tiie or flood, or in the mud, Lose all its Saleiatus. And now, ye fair, I little care What else may be the diet; Though made ol lye and hard and dry, The big brown loaf. I’ll ny it; Wiih cabbage'biled* and turnips piled, You’r** welcome to come ai us; Yes. anything, but poisoning, Wilh noxious Saleratus. WOMAN* Woman’s soft hand my infant cradle spread, Her gentle love bedecked my bridle bed; By woman let my dying h -urs be nurst— Her love the ia-t fond solace as the first. From the Richmond South. Untimely End of the Coalition. If we may believe reports f orii Washington, t he proverbial frailty of coalitions is about t > he signal ly illustrated by the rupture ol the atili-Lecompieu confederacy. In the first instance the most subtle arts of po litical intrigue and persona! address were employ ed to petfert the combination. It was only by*an elaborate eff rt that the mutual repulsion of i's separate elements could be overcome. Giddmgs shrunk from association with Douglas, and the Catholic Republican was hardly yoked to the slave driving Kuo a -Nothing. Besides, there were things in the Crittenden— Montgomery Substitute which each parly to the arrangement was obliged to swallow under pro test. Such being the chaotic tendency of the Coalition, it was obvious tiiat a slight .hock would dissipate it into atoms. Tiiat shock lias been h Aided, and accordingly the Coalition is in process ol rapid de composition. The catastrophe occurred in tiie fol lowing manner: In Kansas a Convention is now sitting and fiom its labors the Douglasites and Black Republic ns were anticipating great resuits. No matter if it was called by an illegal Legislature. No matter though tiie act authorizing its session has been pro nounced null and void by the Attorney Geneial of ihe United Slates. It was enough lor the followers of Douglas if Kansas should present a competing Constitution'to Congress, be it ever so unnatural and ricketty an abortion. It sufficed for Seward that Kansas was not to be admitted as a slave State; and he was content if tiie Lecompton instru ment was rejected by Congress. Crittenden was only concerned to defeat the policy of ihe Admin istration and impair the prestige of the Democratic party. In the midst of these high iiopes, while the mem bers of the coalition are exulting over their recent victory, intelligence conies that the spurious Con veniion in Kansas lias besiowed Ihe right ot suf frage on foreigners and flee negroes! Guidii gs is in ecstacies, but the other parties to the compact are disgusted beyond measure. Douglas cannot endure an equality with Ethiopians, and Crittenden refuses the rights of citizenship to aliens. And so, the coalition is about to be dissolved into its origi nal elements. To that end nothing is necessary but firmness on the part of tiie Si tlate and the Ad ministration. Let neither hearken to a whisper of compromise. Black Republican Vote on the Crittenden Amendment. Letter from Hon. E. Wade of Ohio. Washington, April 3, 1858. Geo. A. Benedict, Esq. Dear Sir: 1 observed in the extracts from Washington Correspondence, published in tiie Evening Herald • f March 30, ihat the correspond ent of ihe New York Courier and E quirer places my name among those of the Re; uulicans who were against the proposed union of ail part.es on Crittenden’s amendment io Stephens’ Lecompton Constitution hill. I desire to say that the statement is without the shadow of foundation. It was the mere guess of the writer, when tiie reverse of the statement, as far as I am concerned, is true.— Washington correpondents, ac a general tiling, have mistaken th- ii vocation ; and. instead of wri ting about the living, should betake themselves to writing epitaphs, where their propensities to lying would not he out of place. From the beginning my own mind was con vinced that this union was not only expedient, but right; and that as practical working men, we could not do otherwise without deeply wounding the cause of liberty and justice, as well as our own characters, as practical statesmen! Others of our friends, equally honest with myself, doubled ihe expediency of the movement. It was feared that weshoulfl compromise our consistency in our op position to the doctrine of squatter sovereignty. — My hostility to tiiat doctrine is not in the least aba led, nor in the slightest degree compromised, so far as I can see. That doctrine binds Congress to sanction any rascality which the territorial squatters may en bi ’y in their laws; and that lib erty and slavery, horse stealing or polygamy, if embodied in a constitution, republican in form, is binding on Congress. Now, I n> ed not say that neither myselt nor my constituents believe in such infernal tionesenee, to say of it tiie softest possible thing- But, when tiie allied slave power and doughface power have, by their efforts to torce slavery upon the people of a Territory against I heir will, so fallen out among themselves that • .here is a moral certainty thai, by remittiug ihe question to the people of the Territory for their final action, the result would be a free State, l am not ilie man who will deny them that right, when he effect of a contrary course is the moral certainty that a slave State, ora civil war, and probably loth, n’ould be I lie result. Had there remained a reasonable doubt as to the wishes of the Free State men of Kansas, I should iace declined to vote for the amendment; but here was not. Their Delegate in Congress and Governor Robinson boih united in urging the passage of the amendment, assuring us that there was not the shadow of a doubt as to the result of be el, ciion provided for in the amendment. Now. it seems to me that under such circum-tanees, al b-giance 10 our own piiucipies required us to act is we did. We were powerless to extricate the people of Kansas from their oppressors by the direct action if Congress; aid hence, to enable them to <lo this for themselves, by the peaceful remedy of the bal lot b’ X, seemed to me to be not only right, but a duty. I was not departing from the spirit ol Re— publica i principles; but ou the contrary, maintain "g it- That this was so, our enemies themselves bort> witness by steadily and persistently opposing us at every step. It would be, therefore, as rational to charge the slave Democracy wild having receded from their squatter sovereignty humbug, by oppo sing the Crittenden amendment, as to charge the Republicans with apostacy fiotn their faith inthe freedom of the Territories, by voting for it. E. WADE. The S uth. We copy the following from the Memphis Ava ianche: “It is a singular fact that those who have here tofore been regarded as the m->st violent Union men, are now the most ultra upon the slavery ques tion. We notice that the most zealous supporters of the comprom se of 1850-51, are now the most hostile and iuventerate enemies of every descrip t.on of compromise. “In Mississippi, we are proud to see that many of i lie prominent members of the old Union com promise party aie now the staunch advocatpsof re sistance. The Jackson Flag, the Brandon Repub lican, and the Port Gibson H’ raid, tile leading sup per ers of the Union party in 1851, have planted themselveson their rights and are for resisting any further encroachments. Thpy see that the com promise of 1851, instead of being a ‘final adjust ment’ of the slavery question, has only increased the agitation, and served as an invitation for fur ther aggression. Certa n it is, that we find in Alabama all parlies opposed to further concessions. During a recent visit, we were no less surprised than gratified to find such a unanimity of publie sentiment. At Tuscumhia,.we found Col. L. B Thornton, a most zealous champion ofSnuthern rights. He seems to tliiriK ‘hat the crisis upon the slavery question, which has been so long pending before the country, has at length arrived, and that if behooves the peo ple of the South to decide which is w,.rih the most, the Constitution < r the Union. Col. Thornton was a friend of the compromise, in the Union struggle of 1851. In Lauderdale county, we d'd not find a single opponent to ttie admission ofKan-as. No South ern traitors were there to join the Abolitionists in shouting “fraud” and “s vindle” against the Le compton Constitution Hn. Wi liam B. Wood, the old wheel-horse of Wiggciy, the friend of the Union, the leafier ut Americanism two years ago, we found an uncompromising defender and fearless advocate of Southern institutions. It afforded us unspeakable pleasure’to find our old political ene my, hut esteemed personal friend, Major James 11. Witherspoon the ardent friend of the Souili in the present struggle. In 1851, we sung wiih Ma jor Witherspoon, the same doxoiogy to the Unytn tune, aud we again strike hai ds in the same cause —the cause ol Southern r ghts. Major Wither spoon sees that if Kansas is rejected, and the Uir ion survives such an outrage, the institution of slavery ill soon be numbeied among the things that were ; for, flushed wiih sucli a victoty, the Abolitionists will gain new.strength aud new cour age, and will not rest until they crush the last ves lige of slavery. He has made up his mind, and when lire time comes wifi be found a his post. In Nortli*Alabama, where Maj. Witherspoon is known, it is iisi less tiir us to speak of hi* high position, and to proclaim how much influence and support the South gains by his adhesion to her rights. With this array of strength, the South can well affoid to scorn thedisaff ction of small-fry dema gogues, and the treachery of editors who, in spleet mg Southern soil for their homes, seem anxious to pollute it wi It the corruptions of the land that still holds them and their principles in such blissful re membrance. Jubilation of the Victore. We find the following in the New York Tri bune, of the 7th inst., and in reproduc.rig it, take occasion to say that we regard it as more signifi i ant than otherwise. When Missouri becomes thoroughly aboiitionized aid the Abolitionists ex pect to accomplish that object in a few years, and K.in-as, Nebraska, Minnesota. Oregon and Onton agon, shall he admitted as independent, Freesoil commonwealths into our “glorious Union,” the chances are about fifty to one that the slaveholders of tiie South will have an excruciatingly del cious time of it. Now listen to the Tribune’s notes of triumph : —,\ T . O. Della. Three eminent Western cities —Cincinnati, the largest inland town of the United S ates; St. Louis, ihe emporium of the Far West; and Dubuque, the chief city of lowa and the bus'est place on the upper Mississippi—held their charter elections on Monday. Each of these is usually “Demo cratic 3 ” in politics, and usually gives a large ma jority on that side at each presidential election.—• Yet Cinc itmaii has now gone anti-Lecompton by some 3,000 majority—a clean sweep ; St. Louis (in a slave S ate) has chosen the straight out Freesoil ticket by about 1,000; while Dubuque, usually two to one “Democratic,” has elected a “Peoples Ticket” over the icgular “Democratic” by 500. Dubuque never before failed to swallow anything labeled “Democrat,” and lick her chops sor 1 more of the same sort.” Jeff-rs’ n Cily, ihe capital of Missouri, also elpcts Freesoil municipal officers, aud the Michigan town elections as well as several in our State, have re sulted iu Republican triumphs. What will the South Dol We copy the following brief article from the Montgomery Mail (American.) Tiie Day has Come —The despatch which we publish to day, in r j gard to the action of the House ot Representatives, on the sit'ject of the admission of Kansas, meets we suppose the contingency pro video for in the Georgia Platform. We suppose it to mrati that the House “adheres” to its amend ments, after the action of the committee of confer ence. A State then, has been finally rejected, because its constitution recognizes slavery. So be it! Now 7 , will the South maintain its honor, its inde pendence, its existence? We confess we have fears and doubts, but we are glad to learn, since the news arrived, that many of those wiih whom we have been politically associated for years will yield no inch of ground, but exert their voice and infiu ence to sever the bonds which bind us to the op pressions of this Union. If the South means ever to protect itself, now is the “accepted time.” Our citizens will await tiie derision of our State Executive, touching a convention, with great anx iety. We believe that his Excellency is now in this city. Wjiat is the sext Step?— lt will be seen from our telegraphic news,that the House of Repre sentatives adheres to its amendment to the Kan sas bill. The coalition against tile administration and the South is agfin triumphant; aud we may well ask what next? The Legislature of this State marked out the course Alabama should pur sue if Congress should reject Kansas because ol the slavery feature of her Constitution. That event seems now most certain to transpire in the t next few days; andottr Executive will call a con i v. ntion of the penple, in pursuance of the reso lutions of Legislature, that they, in their sovereign capaci'y, may determine tiie right and the remedy lor this great outrage upon the Constitution of tit country. At present we shall make no comment content to await the issue of events. Mon'gomery Confederation. Topics for the Southern Commercial Convention. Mr. Deßow, President 0’ tile last Commercial Convention, at Knoxville, has suggested the loliow tng topics for discussion at the coming session, and invites the delegates to come prepared to deliber ate and report upon them, and to suggest appro priate action : 1. Tim question ol master and slave—involving tiie physic fi and relig ous improvement of the slave the subject of slave laws and police ; and reclama ‘ion of slave property taken away by fraud or three, and the modes of retalitory legislation. 2 The question of tiie supply if labor at the Sou h iu ns relation to the production and con sumption of Southern commodities; to the free blacks; to tiie African fleet, and tiie action of Eng land and France ; in the introduction ofCoolies aud Atrican apprentices’ 3. The effect nf the tariff, hanking, bounty and navigation system upon the South, and the recip rocal interest of the planter and the merchant. 4. The development of Southern agricultural industry a proper enlargement of tiie manufacturing and commercial and internal improvement sys tems, and the subject of ocean steamers and marts. 5. The resources and self-sustaiag capacities of the slaveholding States, and the establishment and independence of her literary and education system. ‘ * ( 6. The political relations of the South under the Fi deral Constitution, and the foreign policy to be supported ; tiie maintence and extension of her institutions within the limits of the Union and be yound them “and her means of defence and securi ty from aggressions, present and prospective. Kansas— Patriotic Sentiments. The prevailing opinion, however, is, that the II >use wll refuse the admission of Kansas. What then? Is Georgia prepared to stand upon the de claration of her convention of 1850? Will she re sist this stroke at her equality as a S ate, or will she submit ? If the freemen of our Slate choose submission, rather than a manly stand against tins palpable invasion of her chartered rights, she will draw upon herself, and justly, ton, the scorn of the civilized world. Freemen, reflect well and serious ly upon these facts. Do not wail for party leaders to give you the cue, wait for no intimation from anybody or from any source, but reflect and he prepared, of your own volition, to act, to dare all in defence of your constitutional rights.— Troup— ville Watchman. Foliucs in Kansas. [From the Leavenworth D.iily Ledger ] Rich Revelations — Whilst the constitutional convention was in session, a spirit of revelation, at one lime was manifest. If they had conti ued in session a short time longer, we feel satisfied tiia we would have learned where all the tin ds so “bleeding Kansas” cutne from, ai.d “whar” the went to. In course of debate Mr Fish, a member of the convention, and a member of the Topeka legisla ture, rigaled us with the following wiihin his own knowledge : First. That two thousand dollars had been subscribed in Burlington, lowa, for tiie good ot tiie cause, to he subject to Governor Robison’s order. Second. Two thousand dollars had been sub scribed in Quincy, Illinois, for tiie same purpose, and subject to the same gentleman’s order. Thi'd. That the Hon. Henry Wilson, a senator of the United States from tiie Commonwealth of Massachusetts, had furnished the funds to pay the expenses of tiie Topeka legi-lature. To it is third item of revelation we call particu lar attention, Wiia’ a pity for “suff ring humani ity” that Mr Fish was not allowed to make a clean breast of it! Woman’s Rights in Kansas.— At the late Wo man’s Rights Convention in Moneka, Kansas Ter ritory, a petition to tiie Legislature to enact such laws— 1. As will secure to a woman the property which she possesses before marriage. 2. A just pr portion of tiie joint property of the husband and wife acquired durii g marriage. 2, At the death ot the husband or wife, tha! the same laws shall govern the widow or widower in tiie possession and dispi sal of tiie estate and chil dren belonging to them join l ly. 4. That no oond and security given for another by a husband shall be valid without the signaiure of the wife, Hon. Sydenham Moore, of Ala. —This gentle man has sent us his speech, which we have read with delight. We like its strong Southern tone. The following summary of his remarks we find in th>* National Intelligencer. “Mr. Moore of Alabama, then addressed the committee in favor of Lecompt"n , denouncing the Republicans for warring upon the rights of the South. They were treacherously aiming to over throw the Constitution and th° Union. The South had borne the aggressions, threats derision and insults of the North as long as they could be borne. Alabama would not act alone in asserting her rights; her sister States would stand with her; and the North would regret that their folly a id fa tiaticism had driven their brethren of the South from them. The South had greater cause for dis union than the American colonies ever had for separating from Great Britain. He hoped the North had reason enough yet to make her pause. It was an empty pretence that the South was ma king war upon iree labor; all the Souih wanted was equal ly in the Territories. If tiie Northern Democracy remained firm in this crisis treason and mad ambition might yet be thwarted, but it ihey oeserted their colors, as sorat of their lead ers had done, the days of the Union would be numbered. ’ A Pointed Rf.buke—Garnet B. Adrain In structed. —The following from a worthy New Jer sey errespondent gives a lilt e piece of infoim ition which may prove useful to our friend Ad an, of Tie Third Congressional District of New Jersey.— (N. Y. Times.) Belvidere, N. J.. April 13, 1858. We have jus! elected an out and out Democrat ic ticket at our “town meetii g” What makes the mat'er stiil more glorious, is tiie fact that the Black •‘Republicans’’ headed their ticket Anti-Lecornpton Belvidere is the county town of Warren County, and is now misrepresented, together with the whole of tiie Tliird District by the Hon. Garnei B. Adrain wtio not long since remarked on the floors of Con gress that, “he would not dare face his constitu enis if he voted for the Lecompton Constitution.” Mr Adrain has missed his mark. Y urs trulv, DEMOCRAT. A Political Change. —lion. H. W. Miller, ol North Carolina, who was on ihe Fillmore electors ticket at the late Presidential election, and one ol the able.-t men in tiiat State, has written a letter announcing his determination hereafter to support the administration of Mr. Buchanan. He says: On all national questions Mr. Buchanan has, si far, acted as the friends of Mr. Fillmore at tin South, or a great majority of them would have de sired him to act, had lie been elected, and Mr. Buchanan having avowed his determination to maintain the constitutional rights of the South, and having given an earnest of his sincerity by acts tearless and unequivocal in their character, I think it would be unwise, if not ungrateful, in the peoplt of the South not to sustain him. following is a copy of a barber’s s n in Alnany: “Capillary Auridger and TonsorialUp erator.” Progress of the Revival Movement. From all tiiat we can learn, we are disposed to think that the inleiesi in religious things,which has for some weeks prevailed in an unusual degree in Mobile, is gradually deepening and extending the circle of its influence. Meeiings are being held nightly in several of our churches, with quite en couraging results, and in all the congregations there appears to be more than common interest But we are disposed to think the Union Prayer Meeting the best barometor of religious feeling in the city, and that indicates a healthy and encour aging condition. Tiie meeting last evening was probably tiie most interesting of the series. The e was more freedom and less lormaliiy noticeable— quite a number of gentlemen making brief and per tinent remarks, exhortations,etc., without being called on particularly to do so. The attendance this week lias been better t]ius far than thatof last week, and since hunday has been daily increasing. Wo understand that seve ral hopeful conversions are Counted a6 tiie result, directly or indirectly, of these meetings for prayer. Last evening quite a number of persons signified a desire lor the prayers of Cnristians. The meeting wa conducted by Mr. T. W. Mc- Coy, of the Episcopal Church, who, in the course of the evening made some interesting and perti nent remarks. The present remarkable exhibitions of the pow er of religion were, he thought, in many respects similar to what was experienced in the days of St. Augustine, concerning whose conversion he read an interesting sialenient. He spoke also of the powerful work which sprung up in liis ow n community, and is progressing in England, where ministers and laymen join in bringing the subject to the attention of the multitude, and where as in several Episcopal churches in New York and Philadelphia, short and pointed exhortations and extemporaneous prayer are among the means employed—and wi h most wonderful and grat.fy itig results. Remark- were also made bv Rev, Drs. Manderviile and Andrews, and Dr. Parody, C'fi. R. A. Baker and others. —AloMtg Advertiser, 15 th instant. The Confederation of the Young Men’s C hrisllan Association —C harleston. We see fr m our Charleston exchanges, that the Con vention of delegates Irom the Young Men’s Christian As sociations throughout the Union, is uow- in session in tl at city and much good is expected to be the result of its la bors. .M any interesting topics have been discussed bearing upon the merits of so great a co-worker with the Church as these Associations ano the necessity of an orgat izafi >n of them among the Christian young men throughout the country. Not only as a Benevolent, Literarv, and Social Institution does it commend itself to the enlightened judge ment ofall Christian communities, but it has a still higher office—it aims al nobler purposes, it plumes its wings for the spiritual as well as for the earthly. We gather the following from the Charleston Mercury, as a part of the proceedings of an afternoon session. The 9lh topic, viz; ‘The true sphere of Young Men’s Christian Associations,” was then discussed, during which many interesting statements were made by various members,showing tiie happy re sults in C.mipli-lied in their respective cities bv sys tematic efforts in behalf of young men. Mr. Ctias. Desmond of Boston, Mass., stated tiiat the Asso ciation there owned a lent which they pitched upon the Common on Sundays, for the pm pose ofat tordiog religious services to those who resorted thither on tiiat day. Rev. B. H. Overby, of At lanta, Georgia, related some highly interesting facts in the history of ihe labors for young men inthe new city of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. W. H. Campbell, of Washington, D. C., a venerable member ot the Convention, narrated an incident in his ow n early 1 fe, showing how nearly twenty young men, with whom lie had boarded, had, for the want of such restraining influence, fallen into irretnediab e vi ces. Mr. J. R. W. Johnston, of Augusta, Ga., urged upon the A-sociations the necessity of in viting to their meeting the habitual frequenters ot vicious amusements. Mr. George S. Thomas, of Columbus, Ga., advocated the lite ary, moral ?nd religious improvemeii of young men. The session was closed with prayer by the Rev. B. M. Ov* rby. of A lanta, Ga. There will tea public meeting, this evening, at the Wentworth street Baptist Church, at which addresses may be expected from various gentlemen of the Confederation. 3urial of Col Benton at Louis. Imposing Funeral Ceremonies, and Civic and Military Procession. St. Louis, April 16. 1858. Yesterday morning tne remain-of Hon. Thomas H Benton were conducted by a military escort from the residence of Col. Brant to the Mercantile Li brary Hall, which had been appropriately draped witli ihe usual badges ol mourning, and where they lay instate till ten o’clock last night. Business i suspended generally to day, ihe stores and houses are draped hi mourning, and the streets are already densely crowded with eager spectators. It is es timated tiiat 25,000 perso s visited the hall yes terday to gaze upon tiie fealures of the illustrious dead. • At ten o’clock this morning ihe remains of Mr. Benton were taken from the hall of the Mercan tile Library to tne Second Presbyterian church, where the funeral ceremonies were performed by Rev. Mr Cowan, assisted by R-v. Dr. Anderson and Rev Mr Brooks. When ihe services were concluded tlie body was placed in tiie hearse and was followed to the Bellefotitaine Cemetry by the most imposing procession ever formed m St. Louis, Ii consisted of the relations and friends of the fam ily, ail the military companies of the city, the Sev enth Regiment of ihe United States Infantry under the command of Col. Morrison, the judges of ihe courts, tiie members of the bar, ilie members of tiie city government, a large majority oftlie benevolent societies of the. city, the Turiter’s Association, and an immense concourse of citizens in carriages and on toot. The cortege was torty-five minutes pass, ing a given point. The body of McDowell Jones, a grandchild of Mr. Beuton’s was conveyed to thp tomb at the same time, Columbus Enquirer. Mr. Miller the late ediior ot the Columbus En quirer has retried and is succeeded by Join 11. Martin, Esq. Both are writers of approv ed ability, bill if the new editor preservi s the high southern posi ion wi h which iit. sets out, its readers will have equal reason to rejoice at the change. The paper hid about touched bottom iu tiie way of Unionism and submission, and we are glad to see so healthy a reaction. Mr. Mai tin may go ahead lor some time, without brining it up to more titan a decent average.— Spirit of the South, A G od Editor in Harness Again. —The fol 'owing c mplimeiitarv nolice of tiie accession of J. H. Marlin to the Editorial chair of the Colum bus Enquirer, we find in the Montgomery Confed eration: “.Mr. Miller, for a long time past, editor of the Columbus Enquirer, has rpti-ed, and is succeeded by Mr. John H. Martin, well known as being cou nseled witn tiie press of tins cily at various times. He was also ediior of the Enquirer at a former pe riod, and we have no doub the readers of tiiat paper are rej iced to find him again in the edito rial chair. We must heartily welcome him- back o the frat rn tv. Knowing his ability and tact, we shall look to his with much interest.” Hon. Hiram Warner lias been elected by the Pin Delta Society, and will deliver the annual ■ration, before tile two Liberty Societies, of Ogle •horp Univer-i'y, at their next commencement on the 21st of July. A Duel. —Two New York gentlemen of color, Queen Decker and William Robi-on, rivals in the ass etions of a lady, met Tuesday morning, to settle tie difficulty as prescribed by the code duello. — ‘‘lvery rule was strin'iy observed throughout.— Deck- r’s stiot took effect iu his adversary’s leg and amputation will probably be neceeeary. P. H. COLQUITT, Editor. SBO,OOO Worth of Books Destroyed by Fire. About one o’clock this morning, fire was discov ered issuing from ihe second story of a two story double dwelling house situated near the printing establishment of H. O. Houghb n & Cos., at River side, Cambridgeport, owned bv Messrs. Little, Brown & Cos., and occupied by them as a ware house for the storage of printed sheet stock, books, and stereotype plates. The building contained property to the value of about SIOO,OOO, and of such character that the damage by salt watpr and smoke was very gieat —much greater than by the fire ji self The loss is estimated at from $70,000 to $90,000. Most of the sheets de-troyed were those of law books. The property was insured in Boston, English and country offices by policies a mounling to $75,000. —Boston Jounal. Dedication of tha spring-street M- E Church. The elegant and commodious church recently erected at the northwest corner of Spring and Com ing street, was dedicated to Divine worship on Sunday rooming, in the presence of a very large and attentive cong egation. R>'V W. A. Hem mingway conducted tiie introdm-ted services, and was followed by tiie Kev. E. H. Myers in a very able and impressive sermon from tiie text in the second book of Chronicles, chap, vtr, v. 12-15, Rev B. H,Overby 7 , of Atlanta, Ga., offered a fervent prayer of dedication, and then an appeal was made for assietance to defray the dept incurred in the erection of the Church. This was responded to most senprousiy—between six amt seven thousand ollars having b een collected during the day.— hai laston Marcu ry . The New Orleans mid Mississippi Beilroad. New Okleans, April 20.—Some considerable excitement lias prevailed here among those Direc tors in tiie New Orleans, Jackson and Great Nor thern Railroad Company, who are opposed to any exfen&Ou of the road beyond Canton, aud those who are in favor of extending tiie road to Aber deen, Miss. The question was determined yester day by the election of a Board of Directors, a ma jmitv of whom are in favor of ihe extension. Gov. McWillie, of Miss., Major Waterman, of Augusta, Ga., and others, were warmly in favor of the_oxten sion. Colquitt, Miller County. We had the pleasure, in the former part of this week, of passing a few days in the town of Col quitt. Several neat and comfortable residences have been erteted, and Olliers are also in process of erection. The public square contains aiiout two and a half acies, in the middle nf which is a large and commodious wo-story Couri House, which is nearly completed. Its dimensions are forty by fitly leet. The entire ground or fir-t fio r lies teen very neatly ar anged for the Court Room, w hile tiie upper slory is divided into five apart ments—two of which are lor tiie use of the grand nndpetty jurors—lbe other three are designed for the officers of ho county, a list of whom can be found m another column. Tno location of Colquitt is no doubt a healthy one, and surrounded as it is by a large aid feitile section of country, will insure for it a rapid im— pm\emt-nt. Vilti good, energetic and intelligent citizens, we bespeak for Colquitt a speedy growth. Considering that tlie ci iz- ns have only had two years to make Colquitt what it is, we say that their taste and e nergy is mam est. —Southern Georgian ( Bainbridge .) Hoops! Hoops this Spring, in this marke*, nay be quo ted, lfquot dat all, . s buoyant and expanding. With no apprehension of a depression soon. The insti tution is generally patrouizsd, and many who at first were reluctant io take hold, have been drawn into specula i<ui, and may now be considered as deeply involved as any of their “illustrious prede cessors,” who from thefi st manifested the utmost confidence in the enterpr se. Every windy day and especially on windy Sundays, there is a con siderable fluttering and a want of confidence mani fested nil the part of holders. Such panics are, however, momentary, and hoops continue to ex pand at afe rial rate. H ipe the deacons of our Churches will not be under the necessity of re moving every other seat for the aecornmofiation of “speculators” on Sahbaihs' —Newnan Banner. Hooper H ioped —Tiie gallant Hooper of the Montgomery Mail, while in Washington lately, got into a tight place, according to tiis own account. He says. ‘I he first tiling we observed at Washington on ihe 15 h of lasi month, was a large number of la dies loose on the streets without escorts. We got laughed at for remarking on tins fact, and h relore did noi press our enquiries. However, when on one occasion, having forced our way into the gallery of the Senate, we got jammed be tween two tiee -o I ladies, who talked politics over our shoulders, and highly approved the speech old Wade was making, we touiid that bleeding Kan sas etiuoline was quite able to get along without masculine assistance —we never were more thor oughly hunched in ™r li e. The Power of the Press —Lord Stanley the new British secretary lor tiie Colonies, in his speech to the electors c*’ Kings Lynn, on his re-clec— tion to Parliament, thus spoke of the power of the press : Ffi'iy years ago Parliament had an almost exclu sive power of forming public opinion upon all ques tions ot tiie time. That state of tilings lias chang ed. The vast development of the power of the press during the last quarter of a century has in troduced into m’ dern politics an entirely new ele irieni (hear, heat) It is impossible to sit in Parlia ment without seeing how firr and io how greal an •-xteut modern journalism effects even ourPailia mentary debaters. That power of the press is in itself a representation (hear), as I believe, of tho pour and the humble against the powerful. It is a proteetion which no legisla'ion can takeawav ; and it is not one ot the 1-ast subjects of satistaciion io me, looking back at ihe p*w years vvhi. ii 1 iirve passed in public life, to iliink that I was ne of those who took part in a measure—l mean the re moval ol tiie stamp duty—which has given an in creased development to journalism, and of which we have seen as yet only a small portion of the ef fects (hear, hear). An Interesting Slave Case.— Atrial came off at Vicksb rg Mississippi, some days ago fiiai is of interest throughout the sUveholding s etions. A man mined Davenport,cha'ged with killing a slave was convicted of mansiaughter and sentence fto seven years tiard labor in the penitentiary. The Vicksburg Whig says : This was a case of some importance to the slave holders. The accu-ed was an overseer, aid plea ded in ‘ is defense lhat the slave was resisting his authority when he gave the olow C msing death.— We learn tiiat his Honor Judge Yer_er, at the in stance of tiie State, charged tiie jury to the fleet: That the slave, when Ins lile was threatened or endangeied by ihe infliction of cruel and unusual punishment, had the right to resist, even tiie mas ter. and tiiat ins resistenre under such cireum-tan ces would be no justification to the accused for killing him. The Oil Trade. —The New Bu-dt'ord Mercury, in an article on the prices of oil remarks : “Ot the cargoes to be received at th : s port tiie present season, we are within bounds in slating lhat fully one hall of them will at present present prices be attended with loss to the importers, while the aggregate, on an average, will scarcely renq merate the actual expense of importation.” A Good Witness. —-Did the defendant kn the plaintiff dovn with malice prepense?’ ‘No sir, he knocked him down with a flat iron.’ ‘Yon misunderstand ire.my friend; I want to find ou! whether he attack him with any evil intent.” ‘Oh, no, sir, it was outside the lent.’ ‘No, no—l wish you to tell me whether the attack was it all a preconcerted affair.’ ‘No, air, it was not at a Iree concert affair, it was at a circus.’ Number 17