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Volume XVIII.
times anii Sentinel.
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Columbus, Apr il 15 1854
B. Y. MARTIN. J. 1. M AP.TIN.
MARTIN & MARTIN^
Attorneys at Law,
eOJ,UM3BTrS, GA.
OHice on Broad Street—OverGunby & Daniel.
Columbus, Jan. ‘J, 1857. w&twlv.
MARION BETHUNE,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
TALBOTTON, Talbot County, Ga.
I Ictober 21th. 1856. wtwtf.
W. S. JOHNSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CUSSETA,
Chattahoochee County, Ga.
Hives tils entire attentionto the practice in Chattahoochee
adjoining counties. ap2fi—wtwly*
BATJGH & SLADE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COL UM B US, GEORG IA.
WILL practice law in Muscogee aud the adjoin!iiucounties
of Georgia and Alabama.
Office over Bank of Columbus, Broad Street.
ROBERT BAT’OII. J. BI.APK.
Columbus,(2a. March 27 1857. wtwtf
MOBLEY & EARLEY,
ATTORN EY S A T LA W,
II AM IL I ON, GEO KG IA.
Hamilton, Geo. Feb. 4. 1858. wlwy
WILLIAM TAYLOR,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cuthliert, Randolph County, Georgia.
W/ILL practice in the counties of Randolph, Calhoun,
’’ Terrell, Early, Clay, Baker, Dougherty, Miller and
Stewart.
REFERS TO
Wellborn, Johnson & Sloan, Attorneys at Law, Colum
bus, Georgia.
Alt business intrusted to his care will receive immedi
ate attention. June 6, 1858—wtw tl
HOWARD & WEEMS,
ATTOENEYSAT LAW,
CRAWFORD, ALA.
Robert, n. iioward. Walter b. weems.
Crawford, Ala., Juneß—wtwtf.
ELAM & OLIVER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
EUENA VISTA,
MARION COUNTY,GA.
Wn.Lpracticeinthecountlesof Marion, Macon, Stewart
t’aylor, Chattahoochee, Kinchafoonee, and any of the
£djoiningcouutieswhentheirservices mav berequired.
WM. D. ELAM. THADEUS OLIVER.
November 10. wtf
W. A. BYRD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CUTHUBRT-Randolph County, Ga.
WILL pract ? c- u the Patau la and Southwestern Cireuits
All business entrusted to his care will received proinp
ttention. mayl9—wly.
WM. M. CHAMBERS. WM.M. ROBBIXS. J . A . ROBBINS .
Chambers, Bobbins & Robbins,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ETJFATJLA, ALABAMA.
WILL practice in the counties of Barbour, Pike, Henry
Coffee, Pike, Dale and Russell. fob I—wly
THDIMS W. (BOB'S,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PRESTOS, Webster County, Ga.
WILL practice in'the counties of Clay,Chattahoochee,
Webster, Early, Randolph, Stewart and Sumter.
Particular attention given to collecting and remitting.
January 27,1857 —wtf.
GRICE & WALLACE,
ATOmBETT® ATT DaM'*
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
tTTILL give prompt attention all business culrusteilßto
W LGRICE. WM. 8. WALLACE.
December I —wtf
R. A. TURNIPSEED,
attorney at law,
c U TIIBERT ,
Randolph (County, Ga.
HAVING removed from Cusseta, lo Cuthbert Ran
dolph county, will give prompt attention to all busi
ness entrusted to bis care. ap2;—wtf.
PARKER & PARKER,
attorneys at law,
COLQUITT.
Miller County, Georgia.
WILL give their entire attention to the practice in South
western Leorgia; will also aive prompt attentton'to the
collection of ail claims entrusted to their care in the ‘ollowing
counties: Baker,Calhoun, Clay,jDesatur, Dougherty, Early,
Lee,Miller, Mitchell. Randolph, .Terrell aud Worth.
February 1, 1858 - wtf.
T J. GU NN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMILTON, GA.
WILL attend promptly to all busineesa entrusted to him
January 26,1858 —wly.
REDDING SMITH,
Attorneys at Law,
PRESTOS, WEBSTER COUNTY, GA.
igrwtd practice in PataulaCircuit and adjoining counties.
L. K. REDDING. A. J. SMITH.
Pres or, February I, 1858—wCm,
WILLIAM GORDON,
AT TORN E Y A T L A W
NEWTON, ALA.
vyILL attend promptly to all business confided to his
’ * care in the counties of Dale, Henry, Coffee and Pike.
February 27,1858 —w6m.
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COLUMBUS. GA.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
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Columbus, Sept. 29, 1857. w&twtf.
To our Customers!
and after the first January next, we shall adopt, as
nearly as possible, the CASH SYSTEM. Necessity
compels us to this FOURS*. From that day all articles will
be priced as cash. Where credits are given (which will only
be extended to those wiiehave promptly paid us) an addition
will be made to the price named according to the time requir
ed by the purchaser. J£.I3ARNAR]> Ac. CO.
Dec. 31, 1857 —w&lwGin .
MACKEREL.
t A A PACKGES, Halves, Quarters and Kits, all num-
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PLANTING POTATOES.
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LONG AND SHORT SWEETNING,
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FANCY ST. LOUIS FLOUR.
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the operation of most ‘Chathartics. It strengthens the system
at the same time that it purges it; and when taken daily in
moderate doses, will strengthen and build up with unusual
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The‘Liver is one of th< (Ts)) principal regulators ol the
human {body; and when performs Us functions well,
the powers of the system fully developed. The stomach
is almost entirely dependent on the healthy action ofthe
Liver for the proneripeform-li jtance ofitsfunctions.whenthe
stomach isat laulttheoowebj'/ Jare at fault, and the whole
system suffersin consequent of one organ—-the Liver—
having ceased |to doits duty For dhe disease of that or
gan,onojof the made it his study, in a
practice of more than twent; I . (vears, to find some remedy
wherewith to counteract th< J derangementsto which
it is liable.
To prove that this'remedy it) at last found any persontrou
bled with Liver Coin- ‘plaint, in any of its forms,
has but to try a jbottle, amitf-H [conviction is certain.
These gums remove “al morbid or bad matter fiom
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invigorating the Stomach | rj{causing food to digest well,
purifying; tlie giving tone andhealth to the
whole machinery, removing rfiGhe cause ot the disease.—
effecting a radical cure.
Bilious attacks arts, poured, aud, xvliat Is
better, ’prevented, buMuhe occasional use ofthe
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One dose alter eating issufj (flcient to relieve the stomach
and prevent'the food from] JJrising and sc uring.
Only onedose taken before) < retiring, prevents Niglit
iu are. j, j)
Only one dose taken atjfjlj night, loosens the bowels
gently, and cures Cos-j L Jjtlveness.
One dose taken after will cure Dyspepsia
|j{F*One dose, of two tea-# g*v (spoonsful will always relieve
Sick Headache. # j
One dose taken for fe-1 male obstruction remove the
cause'of the disease, and). makes a per ect cure.
Only onedose immedia tel j yjr \ relieves cholic, while
One dose often repeated isf £-\ ja sure cure for Cliolera
Morbus, audapreveutaiiv<( j(ofCbolera.
Only one bottle is# to throw out ofthe
system the effects of medi-J, ’(cine after a long sickness.
t r* One bottle taken for) (Jaundice removes all sal
lowness or unnatural coloij/^.)from the skin.
One dose taken a shorn yj .time before eating {gives vi
gor to the appet iteandmakefj food digest well.
One dose often repeated? v) (cures Chronic Diar
rhoea, in its worst forms,# ,! while SUM J\l ER aud
Uowel complaints yield) W (almost to the first ’dose.
One or two doses cures at-) \ tacks caused b> “Worm sin
Children; there is no surer.) safer, or speedier remedy iu
the world, as Itfnever fails.)
tsr a few bottles Dropsy, by exciting the
abi?orbants. j ‘j •
We tske pleasure in recom smending this medicine as a
preventive for Feveriandj Chill, Fever,
and all Fevers of a Type, It operates
w ithcertainty,and thousand?# v ’ >are willing to testify to its
w'onderfui virtues. ); *
All who use it are giving their unanimous testimony in its
favor.
Mix water in the mouth with the Invigorator and swallow
both together.
THE LIVER INVIGORATOR,
Is a scientific Medical Discovery, and is daily working cures
almost too great for belief. It cures as if by magic, even the
firstdose giving benefit, and seldom more than one bottle is
required to cure any kind of Liver Complaint., from the worst
jaundice or dyspepsia to a’ common headache, allof which are
the result of a diseased liver.
Price On© Dollar per Bottle.
SANFORD &CO. Proprietors,34s Broadw r ay, New York.
WHOLESALE AGENTS.
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JohnD. Park, Cincinnati; 6ay lard & Hammond, Cleveland;
Fahnstock & ‘Davis Chicago; O.J. Wood Ac Cos. St. Louis
Ceo.Fl. Keyser, Pittsburg; S.S, Hance, Baltimore. Andre
tailed by nil Druggists.
Sold Wholesale and Retail by
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DANFORTH 6* NAGEL,
May2D—wrtwly and all Drugggists.
FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber has on hand a few STILLS formanuu Hu
ring Peach Brandy or Whisky, which hewil
ell very low. ALSO,
Tin, Sheet Iron and Japan Ware,
every description, w .icl can be bonghtat thelowesrates.
oneoneb i not'r aud i.i/liberalterms.
J. B. HICKS,Agent,
July 18 t Next i jorbelow “Sans Souci” Rroad-s
GREAT ATTRACTION !
Bargains ! Bargrins ! Bargains !
EKES. ®SBaat®,
WISHES to inform her friends, and the public
EEdr generally of Columbus and the vicinity, that she
ZEU** is now offering for sale a complete assortment of
GOODS, consisting in part of—
NEAPOLITAN BONNETS, from *2 00 to $2.50.
MISSES GIPSIES SI.OO
BLOOMERS, from 87ic to $1.25.
Handsome Gause R 1 BBONS, 25c per Yard.
And a large lot of Swiss Trimmings at 20c per yard.—
Call and see. Cheap for Cash.
July 23.1857, w&twtf.
“the union of the states and the sovereignty of the states.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 18 58.
SONG OF THE SOUTH.
We publish in our paper to-day, under the po
etical head, the “Song of the South,” by the poet,
novelist, and historian—Gilmore Simms. We
commend it to the perusal of all of our readers,
but especially to the young men of the South.—
Its noble strain of passion and patriotism cannot
but stir the bosom of any one having the least
emotion of love or devotion to the South. It is
worthy the pen of any poet, living or dead, and
should adorn the album of every lady in the
South. If Mr. Simms had written nothing else, he
for this should have a name that the South “will
not willingly let die ”
I.
Oh! the South, the sunny, sunny South—
Land of true feeling, land forever mine;
I drink the kissess of her rosy mouth,
And my heart swells as with a draught ol wine;
She brings me blessings of maternal love;
I fiave her smile, which hallows ail my toil;
Her voice persuades, h r generous smiles approve,
She sings me from the sky, and from the soil!
Old by her lonely pines, that wave and sigh—
Oh! l>y her myriad flowers, that bloom and lade—
By ail the thousand beauties of-her sky,
And the sweet solace of her forest shade,
She’s mine—she’sever mine;
Nor will I aught resign.
Ol what she gives me mortal or divine:
Will sooner part
With life, hope, heart—
Will die before 1 fly!
11.
Oh! Love is hers; such love as ever glows
In souls where leaps affection's living tide;
Slielis all fondness to her friends—to foes
She glows a thing of passion,strength and pride;
She ieels no tremors when the clanger’s nigh,
But the fight over, and the victory won,
How, with strange fondness, turns the loving eye,
In tearful welcome, oneach gallant sou!
Oil! by her virtues of the cherished past—
By all her hopes oi what the future brings—
I glory that my iot with her is cast,
And my soul flushes, and exulting sings,
She’s mine—she’s ever mine;
For her will I resign
AH precious tilings— all placed upon her shrine;
Will freely part
With life, hope, heart—
Will die—do aught hui ily.
Charleston Mercury.
•Wanted
A young Man of Industry, Ability, Integrity,
This meets one’s eye daily in tiie column of
“Wants.” and it is ns true as the Pentateuch.—
Wanted? Os course they are—always wanted.
The market can never be overstocked ; they always
will be called for and never quoted “dull,” or “no
sale.”—Wanted lor thinkers ; wanted for workers;
in the mart, on the main, in the field, and in the
forest.
Tools are lying idle for want of a young man ;
a pen is waiting to be wielded; a tree to be felled;
a plow to he guided; a village to be founded; a
school to be instructed.
They talk about staples and great staples. Hon
est, industrious, able young men are the great sta
ple in tliis day of ours. Young man, you are wan
ted, but not lor a doctor. No, nor a lawyer. There
is enough of’ them for this generation, aDd, one or
two to spare. Don’t study a “profession,” unless
it be the profession of brick-laying or farming, nr
sonic other of the manual professions. Don’t use
tape if you can help it, It is honorable and honest
and all that, but then, perhaps, you can do better.
Of’all things, don’t rob the women. It is their
prerogative to handle silks and laces, tape and
thread. Put on your hat like a man, don an apron
and go out of doors. Get a good glow on your
cheek, the jewelry of toil on your brow, and a good
set of well-developed muscles. We would go if
we could, but then we were young, longer ago than
we like to think, and you know when one’s “old,
he can’t,”
Besides, ifyou become a doctor you’il have to
wait. “Because you haven’t experience,” says an
old practitioner; “because you are too young,,’ say
ail women. Ifyou are a lawyer, and likely to rise
they’ll put a weight on your,~ la Swiss, to keep
you under, or, ifyou make a good argument, some
old opponent, as gray as a rat, will kick it all over,
by some taunt or other, because you were not
born in the year “one.” And so it will go, until
you grow tired and soured, and wish you had been
a tinker, perhaps “an immortal” one, or anything
but what you are.
Bea fanner, and your troubles are over or rath
er they do not begin. Your own what you stand
on, “from the centre of the earth,” as they used
to say “up to the sky,”fjyou are as independent as
possible all day, and tired, not weary at night, for
there is a great difference between those two words
if one only stops to think of it. The more neigh
bors you have, and thebetter farmers they are, the
more and the better for you.
There is one thing more, young man. You are
wanted. A young woman wants you. Don’t
forget her. No matter if you are poor. Don’t wait
to be rich. You need a companion while you live,
and not after you have done living. Effort is life
and cessation therefrom, a grand and gloomy “has
been.” So, do not wait nntil your time is ail in
the yesterdays ;it you are fit to be married. Marry
while you are young, and struggle up together, jest
in the years to come, somebody shall advertise.,
“Young men wanted,” and none to be had.— l3. F
Taylor.
Literary Men and their Wives.
When the life of Lord Bryon, by Moore, first
made it appearance, the latter was furiously as
sailed by his brother bard Campbell, at that time
editing the New Monthly Magazine, forexpressing
a doubt as to the capacity oijliterary men to make
good hnsbands. The assailant endeavered to ans
wer the doubts of the biographer by referring to
the wedded life of Scott and even of Moore him
self, yet we cannot see that he exactly made out
his case. It is certain, at any rate, that some of
the most eminent among the literary men of Eng
land, have made very indifferent husbands.
First, there is Shakspeare, who married in his
IBth year a woman seven years older than himself.
We find him abandoning her and his three child
ren in a few years after the marriage, and going
to London to seek his fortune, whence, it (“appears,
he issued but once a year, for more than twenty
years, to visit his native place, where he had left
them. In his will he gives her nothing but “my
second best bed and furniture.” Secondly, there
was Milton, the great moralist and poet, il we were
disposed to forget his in respect to
his wife, Bryon would not allow us to do it.—
Everybody recollects those odd Sines, in that oddest
of ail poems, Don Juan:
“Milton’s the first of poets—so we say—,
A little heavy, but no less devine,
An independent being in his day,
Learned, pious, temperate in love and wine,
But his lite falling into Johnson’s way,
We’re mid this great high priest oi all the Nine
Was whipped at college-—a harsh sire—old spouse—
For the first Mrs. Milton left his house.
All these are certes entertaining facts,
Like Shakspeare’s stealing deer, Lord Bacon bribes,
Like Titus’ youth, and Ceasar’s earliest acts,
Like Burns (whom Dr. Curria well describes):
Like Cromwell,s pranks ; but although truth exacts
H hese amiable descriptions from the scribes,
As most essential to their hero’s story,
They do not much contribute to his glory.”
Next comes Byron himself, then Bulwer, and in
these latter days, Charles Dickens, the last man on
earth w 8 should ever have suspected of unkindness
in his family. We forgot to mention Shelly among
the number of those who seperated from their
wives. In spite of Campbell’s trade, this is a for
midable list, especially as it includes the three
greatest names in English poetry, for such we
hold those of Shakspeare, Miltonand Byron to
bo.
Without being either married or literary, and
therefore having no right to decide ex cathedra, rve
may yet be allowed to hazard a suspicion that
Moore was in the right. If we understand the
requirements ofthe married state, a great deal of
forbearance, and a large amount of amiability are
necessary to render it even tolerable. Now, ac
cording to the elder D’lsraeli, the most jealous,
most sensitive, most susceptible, and most irrita
ble of all human beings is lyour genuine man of
letters ; and as there are degrees in all vices, as in
everything else, of all literary men, the man who
deals most largely in the ideal world, is precisely
the man who partakes most largely of all the
charasteristic failings of his tribe. T here is
nothing like him on earth. A hornet, or a rattle
snake, perhaps, comes nearest to him in irrtabili
ty. Actors, and opera-singers are sentitive
enough but they fall far behind the imaginative au
thor.
Now, if to these infirrnaties, it be added, that the
successful author is sure to be petted and spoiled
by the public, and that his lite is one of continual
excitement, we think it may easily be seen that he
is not exactly tho person to make a pattern hus
band. Let it be recollected that we are speaking
of the general rule. We are all aware that there
are many briiiant exceptions. In addition to all
that we have said, we would remark that the
habits of a successful author are not in general
apt to be such as to render him an agreeable help
mate to the majority of women. If he would
keep up his replitatton he must labor, and the la
bor of an original author is to the last degree ex
hausting. It exhausts the nerves and the brain,
often leading to bad habits, and still oftener ren
dering the student morose and petulent. Women
are apt to be taken by an author’s reputation—
they marry him, hoping to realize the delightful
scene of matrimona! bliss which they find depicted
in his works. They pluck the fruit, and it turns to
ashes on their tongues. Those wives of authors
who come off worst, we suspect, are not always
those who separate from their fhusbands. We
would advise any lady, who would favor us so
highly as to ask our advice, not to marry an autiior
unless she is prepared to burn incense to bis vani
ty tor the rest of her life. The moment she gets
tired of that task, she may make up her mind to a
family row. —Richmond Whig.
John Forsyth.
His very looks accomplished a great deal. A
glance ofthe eye, a motion ofthe finger, a wave
of the hand, a curl ofthe lip, or a twitch of that
Roman nose, would kill or cripple at the will of
the speaker. All glowed with life. The person of
Air. Forsyth was the most handsome of his sex.—
Usually great men—men of great intellect, great
in action —are not the most beautiful in their fea
tures, the most admired by the ladies; but Mr.
Forsyth was an exception. His form was classi
cal, —nose, chin, mouth, forehead, and everything
that contributed to expression. He was neither
too light nor too heavy for grace of manner. As
to his voice, description is impossible. It was like
the trumpet, clear and piercing in its tones, and
yet soft as the organ. No orator in the United
States possessed such a fine command ofthe keys
and modulations whereby the heart is subdued at
the will of the orator. His supply of the best
words was inexhaustable. In this respect he very
much resembled Lord Erskine and was perhaps
even his superior,—though, unfortunately for the
world, Mr. Forsyth lacked the genuine all perva
ding sympathies which animated the bosom while
they consecrated the labors of Lord Erskine. Had
he “been less a man of the world less indoctrinated
in the etiquette and levity of courts, less inclined
to fashionable life and its heartless formalities, he
would have been more of a public benefactor, more
deeply entwined in the affections of men. Then
he would have risen to the sublime heights of pas
sion in debate, with the fearless, imperial heart of
humanity to bear him, with Patrick Henry, into
the upper world to chastise and humble the proud,
and exalt virtue in its meek and unobtrusive
garb.
But Air. Forsyth was not equal to this achieve
ment. His instincts were not with the masses of
men. He was faithful to his trust, because it was
impossible for him to do a base act. He was also
courteous and obliging in his personal relations:
still, he had a diplomatic element in which beloved
to revel, and which yielded his chief enjoyment.—
Beyond this, life was measurably insipid; nor is it
certain that the philosophy of Bolingbroke or the
morals of Chesterfield contributed to his happiness
as a man. But, if Air. Forsyth had defects, (and
he would be more than mortal to be exempt,) let
it be remembered that the.sun has spots which do
not mark his brilliance. It may be centuries before
such a man shall again exist, one so exuberant in
chivalry, machiess in debate, and fascinating in
society.” And here let the reflection be indulged
that the life of Air. Forsyth was in great, jeopardy
on one occasion at least, when, resorting to the code
of honor, he treasured small-swords with tiis an
tagonist, (Col. Williams.) who wounded him in
the neck. The escape permitted a bright name
afterwards to appear on the roll of fame. —Bench
(j- Bar of Ga.
Political.
Free Democracy is the name assumed by the
Free-State men ofAlissouri, and as such they have
nominated a full ticket in St, Louis.
The opposition to the Administration in Delaware
will rally under the name of the People’s Party,
and in Pennsylvania, where there will be a united
convention of all the opposition elements on the
14th, probably under the same name. In Rhode
Island the opposition are known as American Re
publicans, and in Massachusetts this is the name
taken by many of local organizations.
The Americans have nominated in Illinois, for
treasurer James Miller, of AlcLean, county, and for
school superintendent, Francis Springer of Sanga
mon. Air. Aliller is also the Republican nominee
for office of treasurer.
The Republicans in Illinois generally oppose
Douglas with more bitterness than the Administra
tion.
Who is the Author of “Home Sweet Home?”
—A Question for the Curious. —We think we have
something new for all who are curious about, or
interested in, literary and musical matters. John
Howard Payne has always been supposed to be
the author of that beautiful and world wide known
song, “Sweet Home,” and no little credit has been
awarded him for this admirable production. But
we are informed by a gentleman residing in Bos
ton, and one whose authority for any statement
would be considered unquestionable, that Air.
Payne was not the author of the words in ques
tion, but that they were composed by Washington
Irving !
He states lie has seen the original manuscript in
Irving’s handwriting, and that the fact of the au
thorship has long been known to Air. Irving’s inti
mate friends. This is a very extraordinary statement,
and we confess our surprise at it; we should as
soon doubted that Sir Henry Bishop composed the
charmingly appropriate music to which the words
of “Sweet Home” are adapted and have always
been sung, as questioned the right of Payne to the
authorship of the song. There should be no un
certainty about such a matter as tiiis, and we
should like to be assured of the truth in regard to
the authorship of “Sweet Home.” Who has any
information to impart on this subject ?—Boston
Atlas.
The Next Congress. —Within a month the se
ries of elections will commence which are to deter
mine the political character of the next Congress.
The choice of delegations to tlie House of Repre
sentatives will take place in the following order,
according to the Tribune Almanac:
1858— August, Ist Alonday—Alabama. Arkansas
Kentucky, Alissuri and Texas.
August, Ist Thursday—Tennessee and North
Carolina.
September, Ist Tuesday—Vermont.
September. Ist Thursday—California.
September, 2d Alonday—Alaitie.
October, Ist Alonday—Florida aud Georgia.
October, 2cl Alonday—South Carolina.
October, 2d Tuesday—lndiana, lowa, Alinnesoto,
Ohio and Pennsylvania.
November, Ist Tuesday—Deleware, Illinois,
Alassachusetts, Aliehigan, New Jersy, New York
and Wisconsin.
November; Ist Wednesday—Alaryland.
1859 Atarch, 2d Tuesday—New Hampshire.
April, Ist Monday—Connecticut.
April, Ist Wednesday—Rhode Island.
Alay, 4th Thursday—Virginia.
October, Ist Alonday—Alississippi.
November, Ist Alonday—Louisiana,
Speech of Senator Douglas,
We have published a brief telegraphic account
of the arrival and enthusiastic reception of the
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, at Chicago. On being
to the Fremont House, Air. D. make an
address to the crowd, which is thus telegraphed,
to the New York Herald :
Air. Douglas, after returning his thanks for the
magnificent reception, reviewed the action of the
la-t Congress on the Kansas bill. He extolled the
Crittenden bill as honest, and as the very bestpro
position for the practical illustration of popular
sovereignty. He claimed that the struggle with
Lecomptonism was for the integrity of principle
That struggle was triumphant, and Lecomptonism
was virtually abandoned by its friends, and had
been defeated forever. He had opposed tiie Eng
lish bill, although practically it sent back the con
stitution to be accepted or rejected by the people,
because the manner as well as the form of that
submission was at variance with every just princi
ple of popular government. It was a submission
of the constitution to the people, with a threat that
if they did not accept a slave constitution, its 35-
000 inhabitants! should not come in as a free Siate
until it had 93,000. He could never countenance
such a discrimination between free and slave
States. The best energies of his mind had been
several years devoted to the great principle of the
rights ofthe people of the Territories to frame
their own fundamental laws, and he intended to
devote all his future life to the same doctrine.—
He contended that the compromise measures of
1850 were founded on that principle, and were
carried out in the Kansas Nebraska bill. He af
firmed the Cincinnatti platform and re-affirmed
President Buchanan’s inaugural. He regretted to
see, however, a political party of this country de
termined not to acquiesce in this line of policy.—
The Republican Convention recently assembled at
Springlieldjnominated Air. Lincoln as his (Douglas’)
successor to the Senate, to repudiate the doctrine
of popular sovereignty. He (Lincoln) proclaim
ed that Congress, and not the people of the Terri
tories, had the right to establish the domestic insti
tutions of tlie Territories. Lincoln endorsed not
only this doctrine, but proclaimed aline of policy
which was incompatible with the existence of the
Union, for he declared that the Union, divided
intu an equal number of free and slave States,
cannot endure. Mr. Douglas showed the dan
gerous tendency of this doctrine, and said that it
invited and proclaimed a war of extermination—
one section against tiie other. He regarded it as
subversive of the fundamental principles upon
which our complex system ofgovernment rested.
He denied that a uniformity of local policy and of
domestic institutions in the different States was
r desirable or ‘Jj it possible ;on tiie contrary,
he neld that our political system rested upon the
theory and the practice of a dissimilarity of local
policy and ofthe domestic institutions in the dif
ferent States. Our forefathers clearly perceived
that the kind of domestic institutions which would
suit New Hampshire would be totally unfit for
the rice plantations of Carolina. Hence they
adopted a constitution which provides that each
State should be sovereign and supreme within its
own limits, on the supposition that they would be
as diversified as States as they are numerous.—
Thus, it would seem, the diversity and dissimilari
ty of the domestic institutions of the sovereign
States are the fundamental principles underlying
the whole system of our government. Its strength
harmony and adaptation to all the wants and in
terests of the people, all depended upon tlie rights
of each State to form and regulate its own internal
policy without reference to its similarity or dis
similarity to other States. Repeated uniformity
is neither desirable nor possible. If possible how
can it be obtained ? There is but one process
through which it can possibly be accomplished,
and that would be to abolish the State Legislatures,
convert the government in to one great consolida
ted empire, investing Congress with full power to
adopt police regulations, regulate internal policy,
and also to adopt domestic institutions for all the
States. Let this b done and there would be uni
formity, Then tiie States would be either all free
or ail slave States. Then the negroes could vote
everywhere or nowhere. Then our glorious con
federation of thirty-two sovereign States would be
merged into one consolidated empire, and the uni
formity- of despotism would reign triumphant
throughout the land. Air. Douglas proceeded to
answer Air. Lincoln’s crusade against the Supreme
Court, on account ofthe Dred Scott decision. lie
could sanction no crusade, he said, against the
highest judicial tribunal in the land, nor yet was he
prepared to yield obedience to the law as expoun
ded by that Court. He did not agree with Air.
Lincoln, that it was a great wrong to deprive a
negro of tiie rights of citizenship. He did not be
lieve they were ever intended te be citizens. Our
government was founded ori a white basis, and
was created by white men. True humanity re
quired that negroes and other inferior races should
be permitted to enjoy only such rights and privi
leges as they were capable of exercising, consistent
with the good of society. Air. Douglas adverted
to the necessity of maintaining tlie organization of
the Democratic party. While there might be dit
ferences of opinion with respect to the true con
struction of particular articles of the creed, party
toleration, he said, must be indulged. There
should be no proscription of sound Democrats
because of such differences. Government office
holders and Republicans working in unison for the
purpose of defeating the regular Democratic nomi
nations, would be like the Russians at Sebastopol,
who kept on firing, without caring which they hit,
French or English.
Mr. Wecm’s Address.
Walter 11. Weems, Esq. of Crawford at tlie
conclusion of the exercises of the pupils of the
Salem Affile Insiitute, at their recent examination,
favored the school and audience with an able and
appropriate address upon the importance and util
ity of mental education. Iri the course of his dis
sertation, the speaker took occasion to recur to
Southern slavery. With an unsurpassed degree
of success, he carried the anti-slavery crusade in
to Africa, and held up in a conspicuous light, the
frauds and iniquities, as well as the lollies and fa
naticism of free society. Air. W. also urged upon
his hearers the importance ami necessity of con
servatism and prudence in their own section. He
showed that it became necessary for the Southern
people to have regard to the creating of a proper
sentiment in the minds of their children, touching
the subject of Southern Institutions. He forcibly
maintained that if Southern youth were tnnocula
ted with wholesome opinions concerning Ameri
can slavery; if they were made to know how
much they owe to it, and if, especially, the pa
rents and teachers of the Southern country were
all sound on this great question, there would be
less occasion for combined effort on the part of the
South,for resisting Northern aggression. Let our
Southern Schools and Colleges be kept pure from
the anti-slavery infection—let Southern school and
text books be uniformly introduced among the ris
ing generation; let Southern parents “know and do
their duty, and the loathsome infection of aboli
tionism will be kept down—Abolitionist teachers
will be sent back to their native element, and the
very books which are of Abolitionist production
will become a scorn and a scoff in every section
of the Southern country.— Southern Era, July XT.
An Item for Cotton Planters —The Belton
(Texas) Independent says; “In the Patent Office
Report of 1855, we find that Townsend Glover,
Esq., who is a scientific man, and who was employ
ed by tiie Department for that purpose, has made
a report of his investigations regarding insects.—
He reports that spiders, Carolina tiger beetle, the
predatory beetle, devil’s coach horse. Ichneumon
fly, Syrphus, lady bird and the lacewing fly are
very beneficial to the cotton plant, being constantly
engaged in destroying those insects which eat off the
cotton stalk and its product.
Rain! Rain /! Rain !!! —Throughout this sec
tion we are having a ruinous amount of rain.—
For the last three weeks it has been pouring down
nearly every day. Nearly all the wheat crop is
yet “shocked” in the fields, and, between mould
ing and growing is rapidly going to destruction.—
The weather is also unfavorable for growing cfops
the cotton goes too much to iceeds and the weed
grows too much among the corn and cotton.—
Rome (Ga.) Courier 14 th inst.
Advertising.
The largest fortunes that have been realized in
any regular business in this country have been de
rived, sys ihe Louisville Journal, “through the
means of a judicious and liberal system of adver
tising. Numberless instances can be pointed out
where merchants and manufacturers have been
enabled to outstrip their competitors, from the sim
ple facl that, by advertising extensively, they kept
the public constantly reminded that they were
ready to accommodate their wants. We have
known men spend all of their profits in business
for one year in advertising, confident that this ex
penditure would be returned to them many times
over during the next year, from the increase of
iheir business occasioned by their advertisements.
If you find a thriving business concern you will find
that its great success is attributable to having made
itself known to the public by advertising liberally.
We copy from the New York Tribune the follow
ing sensible remarks upon this subject, which we
commend to the attention of all who desire to make
their fortunes by advertising;
“There are some thousands of peisons, of whom
eacli has a fortune within his easy reach, which he
would inevitably secure if h“ only comprehended
the use and importance of advertising. They are
owners ofpatents for cheap and ready production
of articles of general utility, manufacturers under
favorable circumstances of unpatented articles of
like nature, owners of large tracts of cheap and
fertile lands, and hundreds of others. Alany a
man who fancies himself shrewd, and appears to
be thrifty, saves ten thousand dollars a year by re
fusing to advertise, and thereby deprives himself of
fifty thousand he would otherwise make. The
blindness of many to this truth is amazing. Here
is the publisher of a weekly newspaper, selling for
four cents a copy, who has paid at least SIOO,OOO
for advertising in other papers during the last year,
and has made at least an equal amount by so do
ing. We think he might have advertised more ju
diciously; bbut hardly any advertising can be
so injudicious as none at all. The publisher of
a young rival, —the New York Weekly—in the
same line, pays us over 1.500 for an advertisement
in one issue of the Weekly Tribune—and we be
lieve he will make money by the experiment. The
present publisher of the American Agriculturist
bought that paper, when several years old, with
less than three thousand subscribers; he soon com
menced advertising it extensively, and within two
or three years past, he has run up its circulation to
tlie vicinity of thirty thousand. He has cer
tainly improved his periodical intrinsically, but this
without advertising, would not have railed his sub
scription by this time to ten thousand. And he
has made by his work the money which he had
thus expended, so that tlie large increased value
of the establishment is so much clear gain.
We might multiply such instances indefinitely.
Air. P. T. Barnum made a large fortune in good •
part through judicious and extensive ad erasing
and lost it by something else. If he ever regains
it, it will come as it did before. Mr. S. P. Towns
end is another instance of success achieved thro’
an adequate comprehension ofthe value of news
paper publicity. Hundreds have doubtless suc
ceeded tor a time through mere quackery and im
posture —but these do not invalidate the rule that
he who has anything to dispose of which it is the
interest of others to buy, ought to provide liberally
for making his wares fknown. If it be advisable
to pay for a sign over a merchants door, it is equal
ly advisable to take measures to inform those who
might pass that way if they only knew the store
was there.
Tho Be Riviere Scandal,
In the matter of John Huncke’s return lo the
writ of habeas corpus for the Blount ladies, after
our report closed yesterday afternoon, Judge Ogden
decided that the traverse was sufficient and valid,
and issue was joined upon proofs.
Before any witnesses were called, however, Air.
Deming rose and stated that, by an agreement or
stipulation between counsel, the case was to be
continued until Alonday, and in the meantime they
hoped to enter into such arrangements as would
be satisfactory to both parties, and render further
proceedings unnecessary. If not, the case would
then proceed.
Air. Ransom said by this arrangement they thought
they would be able to get ai the information tiiey
desired without troubling the court to examine a
large number of witnesses. There was a prospect
of succeeding without tlie further interposition of
the court, and they desired to avail themselves of
every means to get the custody of the daughter.
Judge Ogden acquiesced in the arrangement, and
Col. Blount and his wife (between whom the en
tente cordiale had now been re-established) rode to
gether to the Hotel Napoleon, accompanied by Mrs.
Hunck.
The influences which have been at work to in*
duce this action on the part of the lady are, of
course, left entirely to surmise. The current state
ment is this: Airs. Blount, finding her faith in De
Riviere considerably shaken by the developments
of the affair, sent word to her husband, through
Air. Hunck, yesterday morning, to the effect that
she would consent to return to the South with her
daughter, on condition that he would cease his
persecution of her friends here, (meaning Deßi
viere and his Hoboken assistants) and pay the
debts she had contracted.
This opened the negotiations. w'-H] were con
ducted in the Judge’s private root.. Cos!. Blount
accepted the proposition, on the further condition
that De Riviere should return to Europe by the
next steamer. Airs. Blount could make no condi
tion which would bind thejZouave, but would agree
to have no more to do with him if it could be proved
that he was already a lawfully married man. This
the Colonel undertook to show at once, and upon
this basis tlie proceedings in court were postponed.
It is said there was also a stipulation that the cap
tain should be allowed to return to Europe unmo
lested, but upon this point there is some doubt.
It was expected that the Captain’s wife a Frencli
woman, who is said to be now in the city, would
have been presented to Aire. Blount for an inter
view last evening, but up to the present time that
personage has not been produced, and it is even
alleged that the marriage certificate, which has
once been published, cannot now be shown. The
young lady, Aliss Blount, is reported to be now
at the Hotel Napoleon with her mother, (both la
dies, however, keeping closely secluded,) and an
embassy has been dispatched iu search of the
Zouave’s hiding place, which is believed to be not
far distant.
At the latest accounts the prospect was, that all
the negotiations would fail, neither the Zouave nor
his wife having turned up.
We have it from the best authority that Colonel
Blount has no present intention of returning to the
South, and that the proceedings on the habeas
corpus in Bergen will probably proceed on Wed
nesday.
Miss Blount is at present at the house of Dr. De
Wees, a friend ot the family, residing in Broad
way. She was stopping at Philadelphia, and re
turned last night in obedience to a telegraphic
dispatch from her mother.
Air. Huncke has presented Air. Blount with a
bill of upwards of one hundred dollars, for the
board of his family the past ten days. Air. H.
tlnnksthe Colonel ought also to be responsi b e for
the Zouave.
The True Mine. Riviere. —The Courier des Eta*
Unis of Saturday morning, says that Aliss Emily
Blount has returned to New York from Philadel
phia. We translate from it also the following:
“Alme. Arnoux Riviere, ihe person married last
year by Riviere, has also been in New Y’ork for
two or three days. Having withdrawn to a con
vent in Philadelphia,she lias left it temporally to
vindicate her position, on which the assertions of
Riviere might create some doubt. The papers she
has produced, aud the honorable testimonials that
sustain her, place her identity, and’ the validity of
her marriage beyond all suspicion. She is a fine
looking and intelligent shows traces
of tho sufferings through which she has passed.”
PEYTON H. COLQUITT, ) P(sitor „
JAMES W. WARREN, ( Editors,
Number 29
The Supreme’'Conn—A Scene.
The Supreme Court commenced the fourth
week ofiis labors on yesterday morning, and up
to the present writing, have oelivered forty-five
opinions.
From the Alacon Circuit, sixteen cases have
been decided—nine reversed and seven affirmed.
I lie South—^Western, fifteen decided—nine re
versed and six affirmed. The Pataula Circuit,
twelve decided—six reversed and six affirmed.—
Chattahoochee, two decided—bo*h affirmed.
Quite a large number of cases have been argued,
in which opinions have not been pronounced.—
The case of Matilda Winn, vs. the Alacon & West
ern Railroad, is yet undecided.
On Saturday morning last, upon calling No. 17,
on ,he Chattahoochee Docket, being a case between
a Bill bolder of the Planters’ and Afechanies’ Bank
of Columbus, and Alexander J. Roberson, a Stock
holder in that Bank; and where the effort was
made to make the Stockholder liable lo pay the
u npaid bills of that Institution, William Dougherty,
Esq., ot Counsel for the Bill Holder, objected to
Judges McDonald and Benning presiding in (hat
case, on the ground ihat Judge AIcD. naid had
been consulted, and Had given a written opinion in
a case involving the liability ofthe Stockholders of
the Planter’s and Mechanics’ Bank and similar to
the one then before tile Cour., and embracing very
much the same points. Air. Dougheity objected
to Judge Benning’s presiding, on the ground that
he was Counsel for Daniel McDougald, before he
was elected to the Supreme Court Bench, in a case
still pending in Aluscogee Superior Court, and
which involved the same questions as were pres
ented in the record of the cause against Roberson,
and on the further ground that Judge Betininghad
made pledges in Alilledgeville, while his election
was pending, that he would not preside in these
Bank cases. Ihis Judge Benning indignantly de
nied and characterized the charg'd as false and un.
true in every particular. After some angry conver
sation between Judge Benning and Mr. Dougher
ty, the latter gentleman closed his statement and
Col. Hines llolt replied, stating that he had con
sulted Judge AlcDonald as to the question cf the
Statute of Limitations and some other points in
volved in this class of cases, and that Judge Mc-
Donald had, as an act of courtesy, reviewed tlie
Brief which he had submitted to him and then
gave him a written opinion, but lie contended
that this ought not to disqualify him from presiding
—that his client had a constitutional right to he
heard before a full Court, and therefore he de
manded that Judge McDonald should preside. As
to the points made against Judge Benning, he con
tended that he was not disqualified, as he had no
interest in the case before the Court either as coun
sel or as party, and that his being employed as
Counsel m a cause iu which the same points might
arise, should not and ought not to prevent him from
presiding. Col. Holt stated that in a practice of
thirty years he had always held ihat in ihe Supe
rior Courts Judges should preside, and had no right
to refuse even incases where they were of Coun
sel. Col. Holt made a very able argument, in which
fie gave many and very strong reasons why Judge
Benning was not disqaalified. Air. Hill, of Coun
sel for Roberson, contended that this was a ques
tion which should bo settled by a solemn judgment
ol the Court, and should not be left as a question of
conscience for the Judges interested to determine;
he tlierefore asked for a judgment of the Court.
When Mr. Hill rose, Judge Lumpkin proposed to
stop the discussion, but AH. Dougherty contended
for the right to reply to Col. Holt’s argument, and
Judge Benning expressed the wish that he might
proceed, as he desired to hear all that Air. Dough
erty had to say. During tlie discussion, Col. Sea
born Jones rose and made a point of order as to
tlie regularity of the proceedings which was sus
tained by Judge Lumpkin, but at the request of
Judge Benning, Mr. Dougherty was allowed to
proceed and close his argument. He made a very
strong argument against tlie propriety of tlie Judges
objected to sitting in the cause. Judge Benning
gave his reasons why he should preside, fiesta—
ted that he had thought of the matter often and
seriously—that lie had stated his position without
reserve before he went upon the Bench, and that
position was not to preside in any case where he
bad beeu of Counsel or was interested —that the
fear oi'improper insinuations should not deter a
Judge from doing his duty, and that therefore as
he was not Counsel or interested in the cause, he
felt it was the Constitutional right of the party to
be heard before a full Court, and as it was his duty
under the law to do so, he should preside in the
cause. Judge AlcDonald stated that as he had
been consulted and given a written opinion as sta
ted by Air. Dougherty iu a class of cases of which
this was one, he felt that he came under the rule
as laid down by his predecessors on the Bench,
and he should not preside in the cause. After
this discussion Air. Dougherty stated that he had
no objection, but was perfectly willing for Judge
AlcDonald to hear and determine any other ques
tion in the cause except the Statute of Limitations.
Col. Holt is at this time, Alonday morning, engag
ed in tlie argument.— Macon Telegraph July
20 th.
Baltic Case.
We make tho following extract from a letter written by
a gentleman in Alacon to the Savannah Republican who
was present when the circumstances which he details oc
curedin the Supreme Court:
AIACON.JuIy 17th, iBSB.
Editor Savannah Republican :
A scene transpired at the sitting of the Supreme
Court 10-day, that is worthy of record, and which
fora time produced in the court room much ex
citement. The circumstances, as I learned them,
are briefly as follows : A bank located at Colum
bus called the “Flamers’ tp Alechanics’ ”, which
was in operation a long time ago, failed, and at
various times suits were brought by the bill hold
ers against the stockholders, until the suits reach
ed in number somewhere near two hundred. A
judgement had been given in tlie lower courts in
favor ofthe bill holders and an appeal taken to the
Supreme Court.
[r Hines Holt, Seaborn Jones, and Barny Hill, Esqs.
appeared for FlaiutifEj iu error, or stockholders,
and William Dougherty, Esq., for Defendants in,
error, or bill-holders. The case beign called, ob
jection was raised by counsel for Defendants, to
the presiding Judges AlcDonald and Benning
on the ground that tlie former had given a written
opinion in one of the suits brought against tlie
stockholders upon one of the questions on which
the appeal was taken, viz: the statute of limitations
to prove which, he produced a copy ot a letter,
written"by Judge AlcDonald to Hines Holt, Esq.
in answertoone from tlie latter gentleman ask
ing his opinion upon the question involved. The
fact that he had ever written such a letter had
passed entirely out of Judge AlcDonald’s mind, as
it was written at the begining of the suits, which
have now been in progress for several years. Up
on this showing by Defendants’ counsel, Judge
McDonald’s declined to preside in the cause upon
this point, but presided on the other points involv
ed, by consent of counsel.
The objection to Judge Benning was, that he
had been counsel in one of the cases brought
against the bank, (though not in the one now pend
ing,) and that he had made promises, when in
Alilledgeville during his election, that lie would
not sit in any case lie had been counsel in the low
er courts. These statements justly aroused Judge
Benning, and he indignantly denied having ever
made any promise, of any tkind or to any body,
whereby his couduct as a Judge might be influenc
ed. He further stated that where he had retired
from'the Bench on previous occasions, when cases
had come up in which he Had been counsel in the
courts below, he had done so simply through de
ference to a precedent, and not because it was
his duty to do so, and that he would keep his seat
in this cause.
In this matter Judge Benning has displayed a
rare quality among men, the consciousness of his
own integrity. I lave heard a number of members
of the bar speak about it, and all unite in given to
Judge Benning ihe highest praise for his conduct.
’ I have no personal acquaintance with him, but if he
is not an upright conscientious gentleman and an
honest Judge, there is no truth in physiognomy.
> * * * * Yours, S,