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TIMES & SENTINEL
” tTOLUMBBSrgjQRGIA.
TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1858,
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Foreign Agencies.
It has Seen our intention for some time to direct the
mnds of our readers to this subject. It is one in which
a large majority of them have a deep interest, and as eome
action will,doubtless, be proposed to the next, as was to
the last Legislature, bearing upon it, a little timely reflec
tion may ni t he nnwiee.
We have noticed teveral.articles in onr Savannah ex
change-,of not very recent date, in relation to the For
eign Blink Currency,seeking to impress the policy of ex
clusion upon tile pit'lie mind, and demanding the aid ot
legislation to this end. As this is a question appertaining
more particularly to the interests of Western Georgia, and
with which the people of the Eastern part have little to do,
we think this section should have a hearing and a control
ling voice on the subject. To appreciate our position and
understand the whole matter more lull)’, it is necessary to
understand the geographical relations of the banking or
ganizations in this State. It will be seen that the organ
ized money power of the State rests mainly in the Bunks
of Savannah and Agusta—ail the Banks, with the excep
t in of a tow respectable institutions in the interior, being
1 .ected at those points. The busioeee of Western Geor
gia is carried on by means of the few interior banks, by
Agencies of the eastern Banks and by certain Agencies
from South Carolina.
These are the financial forces of the Slate, and the
question arses are even they sufficient! We cannot an
swer for the people of Savannah; but fur our own section
w- can say that they are not. Our merchants, frequently,
in a time ofurzeot need, find great difficulty io obtaining
m mey for the legitimate wants of trade. The sale of cot
ton is often impeded. Bills ol the first class cannot, ai
times, be discounted, and the operations of trade generally
are cramped and contracted. These are facts which can
not be gainsaid. Their frequent occurrence leaves us no
room to conjecture any other cause therefor ihaa the one
assigned. If, with our present facilities, we experience
th >se difficulties, it follows, of course, that our condition
would be much more unfortunate witli diminished means
Let it be remembered, moreover, that these movements do
not proceed from Western Georgia, (or this section ol
country has frequently protested aud petitioned agains
any limitation of their liberty in.'ihis respect. An effort
was made, during the last eeasiou of the Legislature, to
drive foreign currency from our circulation, aud it was
met by the people of this city with a prompt and effective
resistance. The truth is, tto use a very colloquial phrase.)
we want as many “strings to our bow ” as we can get.—
The supply of this want, io some measure, is apre-requi
eite add surety ol our independence. As long as we have
several bidders lor our trade we are safe. But suppose we
were dependent on Savannah and Savannah alone for our
currency; would we not be obliged to take it w-ith what
ever conditions the Banka of that city might tea proper to
annex to to it? And would they not be likely to annex to
to i'. conditions moEt favorable to themselves and to the
trade of Savannah without any very especial regard to
the interests of the interior towns? It might be demand
ed that all cotton on which the Banks advanced money
should be shipped to Savannah and sold there—that bill?
should be drawn on Savannah, and other regulations. As
a consequence from this, parties having orders for cotton
with authority to draw on other places, (and of these there
are many) would be forced to go where a different and
more liberal system prevailed, and thus our market would
be crippled aud our trade reduced We should be merely
tributary to Savannah. Our commerce would have but
One arm, and that could only work mechanically and in
one direction, We have to compete with the towns o *
Alabama on t’ e one side, and on the other to see that we
get our full share of trade as it passes to the eastward. In
Ibis position, our interests are no more identical wiih the
Stale, than with the foreign Agencies. The latter are an
element in our independence and prosperity, aud weEhould
not sutler ourselves to be deprived of it. It i: is smatl.it
is unworthy the extensive consideration it has received
from the press. If it id important, we sh-uld cling to it
wiih a proportionate tenacity. It is not our policy to drive
capital from this portion of the Slate. On the contrary,we
should invite it from all quarters—from Savannah as well
as from South Carolina. We should proclaim tree trade
to all, and let the result of our conduct 4 with respect to
thia.as to every thing else, illustrate the maxim that “com- |
petition is the lite of trade.”
Dougins mill Crittenden—Again.
The Er.quiier thinks we “evaded the point,” in a reply i
latt week to au article in that paper, headed “Douglas and ;
Crittenden contrasted.” Their conduct in respect to th j
Kansas que-tion, was the subject under consideration, in j
reference to which the “contrast” was affirmed. The ex- j
animation we gave it satisfied us that there was no material
point of antagonism, but several points of agreement. The
position of our neighbor, if we understood it, was exactly
what it is iu his reply to us, that Judge Douglas in addition
to his vote against the bouth violated former pledges, while
Mr. Crittenden merely voted the same leap without incur
ring the charge of inconsistency. He says, “He (Douglas)
could not set up the plea that he could “do right” in op
posing its legal effect, because he was the author and
champion of the bill, and had always affirmed that it was
founded on truth and justice. But Mr. Crittenden was not
eo committed, and could question the justice of that mea
sure without at ail involving either his consistency or his
political integrity.” According to the political ethics of
the Enquirer, it would seem that consistency is synony
mous with virtue ; for w hilst it is undeniable that Douglas
and Crittenden gave the same rote against the South, the
former is branded infamous and held in utter loathing,
while the course of the latter is merely regretted. Now
we differentirely with the Enquirer, as to the imporiance
to be attached to this puiat of asserted contrast. Wa de
ny that, of itself, there is any virtue in consistency. That
agreement of conduct which results from a discharge ol
duty and an unfaltering adherence to truth aud right, is
indeed, beautiful; out ihero is no virtue io it, per se. The
virtue consists in the motives which govern the conduct.
We deny then, the proposition in reference to Douglas,
contained in the first c'aure of the quotation we have made,
and we say that the fact that “he wast he author and cham
pion of the bill, and had always affirmed that it was right,’
should not have weighed a leather in determining his
course, if he honestly believed he was right in “opposing
its legal effect.” His antecedent pledges may assist us to
interpret the motive of his opposition,but they could never
justify him in doing what he believed to be wrong. We
do not and never expect to believe that he so thought; and
we are equally far from supposing that Mr. Crittenden
honestly ‘ questioned the justice” of that measure. Our
neighbor’s favorite of these gentlemen owes his exemp
tion from condemnation solely to the fact, that he was
not in Congress at the time of the passage of the Kansas’
Nebraska bill. Had he been, it is fair to assume that he
would have voted for or against it. Had he voted against
it, hi- name would have been inscribed on the “roll of in
famy ’ beside that of hie colleague, and he would have
been placed in iho category of “hostility to the South,’’
to which even his own party in Georgia, consigned all
thoie who stood in opposition to that measuie. Had he
voted for it, he would doubtless now share the damnation
which our cotemporary so lavishly, but justly, inetes out to
Mr. Douglas ; for he would now be inconsistent. W hicli
horn o! the dilemma will he accept for Mr. Crittenden ?
The Enquirer further says, “He (Douglas) base© his
opposition to the Lecompton Constitution upon the lac
that it was not submitted as a whole to the vote of the
people—assuming that the spirit ol the Ivansas-Nebraska
Act required it to be so submitted. Yet he announces that
he will vote lor the admission of Kansas with anew con
stitution, in direct violation of the letter of an act as bindin
as the Kausas-Nebraska law !” Not so last, neighbor,
you are forsaking your standard—consistency ! Would it
not be consistent for Mr. Douglas or Mr. Crittenden, who
supported a bill to refer the Lecompton Constitution direct
ly to a vote of the people ot Kansas, and which provided
. that, in the event ot its rejection on such reference, anew
Constitution should be framed and the State admitted un
der it by proclamation, would it not be coosisent we say,
for these gentlemen to vote for the admission of Kansas
coder any constitution she might adopt, in opposition to
the provisions of the conference bill 1 They are uot“com
miited” to carry out the provisions of that bill further than
Mr. Crittenden was “committed” to the Kaneas-Nebras
ka Aet! On the. contrary, they are committed against it.
Yet th - Enquirer is forging the thunders of its wrath, in
advance, tor Mr Douglas’s antepated action, while it
seeks to blunt theedge ot condemnation of Mr. Crittenden
for like conduct, under similar ctrcumstauces, FiatJus
titia ! So tar, therefore from “evading the point,’ of the
controversy, we respectfully submit that we took the only
rational view which can be taken of it. Crittenden and
Douglas having acted together, and in opposition to the
whole South,npon this Kansas question, the only point to
be decided, under any system of ethics of which we have
at y knowledge, is in respect to the motive which actua
ted tiie.r conduct—whether it be virtuous or vicioua,
praiseworthy or blameworthy. In our former allusion to
this subject we adduced some considerations to show that
gicb wwaeolroikd by an nnworthy asnUmeeV—the last
of power and place. Both desire to be President. Iti res
pect to Mr. Crittenden, we believe that his course was adop
ted for the purpose of courting Black Republican faVot’ in
advancement of this object. The result is beginning to
prove the hypothesis, and commends in some degree, the
policy -of Iti— conduct, while it leaves his patriotism still
questionable. We received to day,from a friend in Illinois,
a Black Republican slice-, called the Malloon Gazette,
published in that Slate, and we find blazoned on its ban
ner the names of “Hort. J J. Crittenden, tor President, and
Hon A. Lincoln, for Congress.” This Lincoln is notori
ously and openly one ot the vilest Black Republicans in
the State. Verily, the times or Mr. Crittenden must be
“sadly out of joint.”
Democratic Gains
In the recent elections which have been held in many
Southern Stales, it will be seen that the democracy have
made large gains over previous elections. We are not
surprised that such is the case. The position of the six
South Americans in Congress, uniting with the enemies of
the South in opposition to the Lecompton Constitution
and the Administration policy, has weakened the preten
sions of their party to the support and confidence of an
honest people. They tore the prize of peace and victory
from the South and affiliated with iu enemies in an unholy
crusade against a correct principle. The popular verdict
has rebuked their arrogance aod treason by condemning
their arts, and writing the seal of approbation upon the
brow of the democracy. In Missouri, two American
Congressmen, elected by the Know-Nothing party two
years ago—have been returned to Congress by democratic
votes, for the valiant vindication of their section against
the assaults of Black Republicanism, and supporting the
Kan-as policy of the Administration. Herea f ter, they
will doubtless act with that party which commands their
sympathies and which generously gave them its support.
In North-Carohna, the gains of Judge Ellis, the demo
cratic nominee for Governor, exceeds those of the last
gubernatorial race by three to fire thousand votes. The
old North State is truly democratic and deserving ot praise.
Kentucky is not behind in her loyalty to the democratic
faith- The elections which have taken place there, show
that the American party must die under the weight of pop
ular odium and distrust We may safely say that the
democracy were never stronger than now, at tho South.
The consciousness of its integrity is impressed upon the
minds and hearts of the people. They rally to its stand
ard with an honest devotion—they fight for its principles
with all the zeal, that the ehristians of the Middle age
struggled for the Holy Sepulchre—they conquer by over
powering numbers and the moral force ot the justice ol
their cause—they combine in their opposition to the foes
of the democracy, the honest patriots ol all sections Let
us theu cease all bickerings upon minor issues and unite
ourstrength in a common cause—let no Trojan horse come
in our midst,tilled with armed inen—let the lew remain
ing strong-holds ot Americanism be taken—let us give
them and their Black Republican sympathisers a defeat,
more destiuctive and overwhelming, than tae-oue given
by Pyrrhus with his Elephants.
Judicial Circuits —Elections.
The nomination of a Judge and Sol icitor of the Pataula
Circuit,by the democratic party, takes place at. Cuthbert, in
a few weeks. Several names are mentioned in connection
with the Judgeship, every way worthy the consideration of
the Convention. Col. Jno. A. Tucker of Stewart, Judge
William C. Perkins of Randolph,and Hon. William C.
Cook of Early, we understand, are the most prominent.
We hear that Judge Kiddoo does not desire a re-uomina
tion. Col. David B. Harrell, the present worthy Solici
tor, will not again be a candidate for this office. The
name of William Porter, Esq. of Early, is announced in
our columne a candidate before the Convention.
The nomination of a candidate by the democratic party
for a Judge and Solicitor, will also take place in the South-
Western Circuit- The place is not yet selected for hold
ing the Convention. lion. Alexander. A. Allen, the pre
sent able Judge, is a candidate for re-nomination. He has
given, we understand, general satisfaction, and poised well
the sca'es ol justice in his hands. The names of Col. 11.
K. VI cCay of Sumter, and Richard Clarko, Esq , of Dough
erty, are mentioned in connection with the office. Col.
Jno. W. Evans, of Decatur, the w orthy Solicitor General,
is a candidate for re-nomination. He is a good officer
ami well skilled in the criminal practice The name of
Robert N. Ely, Esq. of Dougherty, is also mentioned.
He is a talented young lawyer, and worthy the position.
Mr. John W. Solomons, al-o, of luker, is announced. —
The nominees of these two Judicial Conventions, will
doubtless be elected. The people, like the Legislature,
will select a person of their political sentiments. Tho
qualificati :n of the officers should, however, be taken iuto
consideration, and worthy nten chosen. We will announce
the candidates, for the io formation of our readers, at the
proper time, Until then, let harmony be the watchword
in the Democratic ranks.
Atlantic Cable.
Since the messages between the Queen of England and
the Pro ident of this Republic, no more communications
have been transmitted across the Ocean. The first of
September is the time set for the reception of private dis
patches. Until that period, no messages are received, ex
cept those between the two Governments. The reason as
signed for this, is, that the lines between Valencia bay on
the Coast of Ireland, where the cable lands, to Dublin,
are in wretched condition and need reparing Between
Dabliu and London there is no difficulty. The rejoicings
over the success of the enterprise have ceased land all
await anxiously to see the effect it will have on Commerce
and the markets. We could only speculate as to the re
sult, which we conceive to be favorable to the people of
the United States, who sustain heavy losses in purchasing
and selling cotton See., between the perron© of the rise
and fall ofthe markets in Liverpool and Loudon. We
will have a more stable price hereafter,especially tor cot
ton, and the markets of the South will keep pace in a jus 1
proportion to the markets in ‘.ho east. This we conceive
will be a great advantage both to the purchaser and seller
of cotton. We will not enlarge upon this idea at this
time, but reserve our speculations for another occasion.
No Opposition Victory.
We learn from the Ashville News, that Col. Avery the
Democratic candidate from the Clingman District, owes
iiis defeat to reports which were circulated iu reference to
an unfortunate difficulty in which he was involved some
y ars 6ince, and which resulted ia bis shooting a man by
the name of Fleming. Ellis, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, beat Mcßae in tho same Congressional dis
trict several thousand votes. The News says that Mr.
Vance,the opposition candidate declared on many occa
sions that he would support the administration of Mr. Buc
hanan.
United States and Nicaragua.
A correspondent ofthe New York Times, at Granada,
write that the rumor that the United States Government
was about to blockade the ports of Nicaragua, had crea
ted quite a sensation there. Gen.- Lamar, our minister
had a protracted interview on the 22d ult. with the Nicar
aguan cabinet, and informed them that his Government
was about to take decisive measures in the pending ques
tions.
Lit'leton Walker Tazewell, of Norfolk, is believed to
be the only turviving member of the memorable Virginia,
Legislature of 1793,-’99, and 1T99 and 1800. Major Yan
cy of Buckingham, died last year, and Major Noland, of
London, a year or two previous.
The Norfolk Herald announces that only two miles of
track laying remains to be done on the Norfolk and Pe
tersburg railroad. The lapse of a lew more days will
bring the spiking of “the last rail” in the great iron chain
from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi.
Switzerland —M. Frei-Hercse was, on the 24th ult.,
elected by the federal council, President of the Swiss
Confederation. He received seventy votes against sixty
three for Staemfli.the present Vice-President. M. Knusel,
of Lucerne, was elected Vice-President on the third bal
lot by 6ixty-six votes, against fifty-four lor Fornerod.
This result is a triumph of the railroad interost.
Xew Advertisements.
We call the attention of land buyers to the advertisement
in this paper, of John H. Miller, offering for sale several
valuable plantations and town lots in Barbour county Ala
The well known fertility of the soil in that section, and
the liberal terms offered by Mr. Miller, are certainly in
ducements for you to give him a call.
John M. Cranberry, also, offers a very valuable tract of
land, situated ia Jackson county, Florida. Purchasers
desiring a residence in Florida, had better enter into a cor
respondence with Mr. G. or go and see the place.
A.J. Miller also offers two tracts situated in Chatta
toochee county. For particulars enquire of L. T. Down
ing of this city.
Persons having a superfluity of negro property, and
wishing to dispose of it advantageously, are requested to
read the advertisement of Messrs. Hairison & Pitts. These
gentleman having a valuable stock ot negroes already on
hand, are als i prepared to give bargains to those who
may wish to purchase.
Teachers looking for good openings, are referred to the
advertisement of Rev. T. C. Stanley, of Merriwether
county, Ga.
Mechanics and others wishing to subscribe to a valoble
newspaper, cannot do better, perhaps, than take the Scien
tific American, (excepting the Times, of course.)
Mr. 3. A. Howell, it will be seen from the announce
ment, is a candidate for re-election of Tax Receiver o
Early oouaty.
“Wliat are > oil going to rto with Dsoglast”
This is a question which every Know Nothing Journal
is now propounding to us with an sir ot taunt and self
gratiifetion. We do not hesitate to auswer and contrast
the integrity of the two parties—the American and the
Democratic. For Douglas* treason to the South—bis
abandonment ol The great principles upon which the South
could rest with security in the admission pf new States in
to the Union, and his affiliation with Black Republicans
in opposi ion to the Lecompton Constitution, framed
by the voice of the peopfoof Kansas, we (the democracy
of the whole country,) propose Io lake his political life;
dissecting the bod*’ and dividing the good from the evil. —
The good, embracing all his past services, patriotic deeds,
and glorious achievements, we will burp with great honor
and eclat, and hope the clods ofthe valley will rest sweet’
iy upon itThe Ctrl, including his present heresies and
low dentagoguiEin, we will bang on a gibbet, where the
vultures ofthe air and the wild beasts of the forest may
devour it. This is what we design to do.
Now with tqnal fairness and truth, we essay to answer
the question, “What will the South Americans do with
Crittenden?’’ For his desertion to the South—his oppo
sition th the Lecompton pro-slavery constitution—his al
liance with such Republicans as Seward, Corwin and
Lincoln, in .heir assiduous attacks upon our institutions,
they (South Americans) will join hands with the Black
Republicans—will chant with Sewatd ar.d Crittenden the
same litany—will “sound the loud trjmpet o’er Egypt's
dark sea” at the mention ofthe “incorruptible” Kentuck
ian’s name, a.id w-ill elevate him, if,possible,to the high
est position in the gift of the Americ in people!
Such in brief is the attitude of Messrs. Douglas ar.d
Critteuden towards the National Democracy and the
American party! Such the light in which two enemies
to a common cause are regarded, that one is consigned to
infamy, and the other is sought to be elevated and pro
moted. Crittenden, the “patriot,” eulogised by the Black
Republicansand South Americans. Douglas, the rene
gade, is denounced by the Democratic party, North and
South. Decide, reader, as to the integrity ot the two par
ties! Which the most spoils loving? Which the most
patriotic aud honest?
Supreme Court Becislon— Again.
We lay before our readers a communication from the
Savannah Georgian, in relation to the recent decision of
the Supreme Court at .Macon, in a Bank case, cartiedjup
from the Superior Court of this county. That decision
has been assailed bitterly by several presses ill lite State,
whose editors doubtless are more thoroughly acquainted
with the science of the law than politics, and who essay to
enlighten their readers on the abstruse questions recently
tried before that high tribunal. Indeed, they affect great
wonder at the ignorance of I Judges McDonald and Ben
ning on so simple a question as that brought before their
Honors, and intimate a want ol integrity on their part,and
an interest in the settlement of the cases, as an excuse tor
their unusual dullness and stupidity. Stripping the ques
tion ol all its flummery; with the cogency and power of
analysis of a Craig in Longs reet’s Debating Society, they
conclude with a gusto, that by ‘‘internal suggestions,”
and not the “bias of Jurisprudence,’’ the votes of faction
should predominate at public elections. Those who de
sire to ascertain the law in this case, we hope will take tho
trouble to look over Kent and Bfackstoue, and abuse them,
and not Judges Benning and McDonald, tor this decision
As to Judge Benning's presiding, the reason he gave four
years ago, vthea the point was made as to his sitting in
these cases, and which we published from the 16th Vol
ume ol Georgia Reports, we think aro satisfactory and
conclusive. A tewpartizan editors may seek to impugn
hi- reputation, but those acquainted with the man w ill not,
for a moment, suspect his uprightness and purity.
Primitive Baptists in Columbus.
The first meetiugof this denomination ot ehristims ever
held in Columbus, took place Friday night, (20th instant,)
at the Temperance Hall. The meeting w s announced
through the papers and quite a number of gentlemen and
ladies congregated to witness the exercise-. Rev.-rends
Mr. James Ellis, of Stewart county, William Mitchell, of
Opelika, Ala., and Willi* C. Morris of Ga., were
present, and officiated as clergy i eu. Rev. Mr. Ellis sta
ted, that he had received a letter from a citizen of Colum
bus, inviting his denomination to hold a series of meetings
in this city—that meetings would beheld at the Temper
ance Hall, three times a day, for several days—that he
desired a hearing for his denomination upon their religious
creed. He stated that he was aware that the Primitive
Baptists were much abused, and many things said against
them, which were not true, and which he would not notice.
He would not quarrel with those who differed with them
ia their religious belief, tie believed in every thing con
tained in the lids of the Bible. liis den. mination was
small, but still had an existence, and was entitled to res
pect. The minister then read an appropriate hymn and
delivered a most devout prayer. After which, he preached
a di-course, elucidating hi? predc-stinati in doctrine?, from
the following text, Acts, 24ih chap. 14, 15 verse?.
“But this i confess unto thee, that after the way which
they call heresy, so worship i the God of my fathers, be
lieving all things which are written in tho law aud in the
prophets ;”
“And I have hope towards God, which they themselves
Iso allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead,
both of the just and the unjust.”
Rev. Mr. Mitchell made a short exhortation after the
discourse. So much for the first meeting of this branch of
Christians; ever held in Columbus. It is not straage that
many should be attracted by curiosity to attend them. The
utmost attention is shown by all and curiosity is on tip toe.
A Desperate Rencontre.—On Thursday night, at a
Bar-room in this city, a desperate fracas occurred between
Thomas H. Reynolds and Jo hr, YVorcbn. in which the lat
ter received thirteen wouncte.of a knife in the hands of the
former, Only oe of tho wounds was considered danger
ous, and it is thought that YVcrdin is in a fair way to re
cover. Reynolds received one or two slight wounds, and
several blows were inflicted upon him by those who were
desirous of stopping the row.
An investigation was had on Friday, (29th,) before Jus
tices Quinn and from which it appears that Rey
oolds had, during the day, a dispute with another party,
which was renewed on their meeting again, at,which time
YY’ordin interfered, and abused Reynolds lor his course of
conduct. Reynolds then turned upon YY'ordin, and com
menced cutting him with a knife. In default of $590 bail
he was committed to prison, to await his trial at theNo
vemberTeim ot the Superior Court.
Weal tlx of the Flatted States-
Thelast number of Deßow’s Review gives the follow
ingestimate ofthe national wealth of the United States
It will be seen that the value of farms, stock and imple
ments of agriculture amounts to nearly one third ot the
whole valuation, equalling the combined estimated value
of the public lands, navy yards and vessels, fortifications,
public buildings, commercial, marine, railroads, canals
factories, mills,gold and silver coin and bullion, and for
eign and domestic goods on hand-
Y'alue oflarnts and cultivated soil, $5,060,000,000
Y'alue of horses, cattle, sheep, &e 1,500.000 000
Value of agricultural implements 50u 000 000
Y’alue of mines 4,500,000,000
Value of dwelling houses 3,500,000.000
Value ot railways and canals 1,100.000.000
Y'alue of factories, mills and machine shops, 100,000,000
Y'alue of commercial marine 200,0 0,000
Value ot agricultural produce, domestic man
ufactures and foreign goods on hand 1,000.000.000
Valueof gold and silver coin and bullion,.. 300,000,000
Y'alue of public lands, ships of war, lortifica
tions.navy yards, public buildings, &c 4,000,000,000
Total $22,000,000,000
Gov. 11. V. -Johnson.
It will be seen from our correspondence from the YVarm
Springs, that Gov. Johnson is a visitor to this pleasant
summer resort, He resides now. we understand,in Burke
County, where he enjoys the swget seclusion of a Country
life. A Cincionatus, however, is sometimes taken from
the plough, and the Governor need not be too hasty in
congratulating himself upon his retirement. His charming
daughter is in company with him at the Springs.
Maj J. 11. Steele.
YVe give ia another column, the salutatory of our old
friend Maj. Steele in assuming the editorial chair of the
Griffin Empire State
. Cos!. A A. Franklin llill,
From our exchanges, we perceive that this worthy gen
tleman has been selected by the Alumni at Athens, to de
liver the next annual address. An appointment worthily
bestowed and w hich will be filled with credit and ability .
Col. Hill is the ex-editor of the Athens Banner, and a
noble fellow.
Solicitor General Nominal ion.
It will be seen in the proper place, that YV. M. Potter,
Esq. oi Blakely, is a candidate before the Cuthbert Con
vention for the nomination ot Solicitor General of the Fa
taula Circuit. His nomination in tho Pataula Circuit,
would be equivalent to an election.
Crossinq the Atlantic in Six Days.—Wesee it sta
ted in one of our exchanges, that Mr. YVjnans, a wealthy
locomotive builder of Baltimore, is now building an iron
steamer (not steamship) which he is confident will run
from New York to Liverpool in lees than six days. He
has been several years perfecting his plans which are now
accomplished,and has procured a patent. Such a trick
would eeem improbable, but in these days of wonders who
ean doubt but that It msy bo dons.
Cable Demonstrations in Sew York.
New YorU, Aug. 18.—There were great demonstra
tion? here yesterday over tho receipt ot the Queen’s and
President’s m?ssages.
Tito City Hall took (ire Irom a spark from the pyro
technics, and was partially destroyed. The dome aod
centre upper story were burnt; though the documents
were all saved. The damage to the building i? estimated
at $50,090.
The SteamshipaKiagara, ofthe Cable Fleet, has been
signalled below.
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia.
A dispatch Ironr. Philadelphia, published in the New
Y’ork papers, dated the 12th inst*, stales that five cases
were reported that day.
Y ellow Fever iu Sew Orleans.
New* Orleans, Au 2. 13.—There were fifty two deaths
from yellow fever in ih?s city on Thursday.
New Orleans,
yellow fever, for the week past is 285- Deaths on Mon
day 53.
Accident in LaGrange.
YVe learn that a little boy, the son ol Col. Augustus B.
Fannin, ot LaGrange, wbi’e handling a shot gun, a tew
days since, in that place, was severely wounded by its
accidental discharge. Three fingers, we und j rstand, were
blown off, and one eye perhaps entirely put out. ‘1 hi?
should be a warning to parents as well as hi boys.
Mrs. Catharine A. McYVillie, Regent for Mississippi ot
the Mount Vernon Fund, acknowledges in the Jackson
papers receipts from eighteen counlies, of about two thou
sand nine hundred and fiity dollars.
{ry The western papers are not so sanguine now of the
favorable prospects of the cotton crop, as they were a
few weeks ago. Dry weather, rust and worms are caus
ing much damage’
Gen. Pierce and lady are now in the South ofFracce, and
would arrive in a few days at Paris. The distinguished
traveller will be the guest of the American Minister, Mr
Mason- _ _
communicated.
YVarxi Strings, August 18,1858-
Messrs Editors: —Having now,for the first time since
myarrival, a moment at my command, I propose to in
dite you a few thoughts which have been suggested by my
visit to this place.
The natural advantages ofthe YVarm Springs render
it, in the opinion of many, the most desirable summer re
sort tn the world. I shall not be guilty of any such ex
travagance, but will confine tho comparison to the circle
of my own observation. It iscertainiy the most uttraetive
retreat I ever saw. Situated on a spur ol the Pine
Mountain, at an an altitude several hundred feet above the
surrounding country, and about eighteen hundred feet
above the level of the sea, it is far removed from miasmatic
influences, away up into the region of perpetual health.—
The atmosphere is soft and balmy, the night air too cool
to support musquito life, and the raysof the sun tempered
as though they came not down vertically from their tierv
source, but were reflected from polar ice—dazzling with
their light but not melting with their heat. ThfUehiefest
luxuies which here abound are ihe bath?. The water
with which they are furnished is heated by subterranean
fires to the temperature of 90 degrees and is discharged at
the base of the mountain, at the rate of 1400 gallons per
minute, into a covered reservoir, w-heti it is distributed in
to six separate baths. The rooms aro each sixteen feet
square and from its lowest point, the water can be raised
in them in a few minutes to the depth of five feet. The
known curative properties ot these waters render them in
valuable tocertain classes of invalids. A few ablutions will
knock rheumatism “into fits” and the cures which they
have achieved of dyspepsia, gout, scrofula. &e, areal
most without n umber.
About a mile from the Hotel is the “Cold Spring,”—
whither the“beaux and belles” resort on pleasure rides and
pic nick occasions. A large platform surrounds it, which
has often yielded to the lightsome touch of the “fantastic
toe.” The spring is remarakble for tile crystal
large volume and low temperature of tho water. One
cannot avoid the regret that the romantic seclusion of the
spot has been destroyed by the proximity of a negro quar
ter, and that the wild roving waters have been fettered
and condemned to the unromantie service ol grinding !
corn.
Three mites from the Springs is “Hope View.” It is ;
accessible by a road along the mountain’s ridge, which for I
hrmness and evenness, rivals what my fancy has conceiv
ed of the lamed “Appian YVay.” At the point which has
received, and well deserves the name, the mountain makes
an abrupt deflection from its course,and a wide extent of
plain, relieved by “glimpses of distant mountain scenery,
presents to the eye ofthe beholder a scene as sweet as ev
er charmed the c ense or woed the song ol Grecian min
strel, along the elopes of his loved Parnassus. From the
base of the mountain stretch away in the dim distance un
numbered acres of fertile land, still reposing in the gloomy
shadows ofthe primeval forest. Occasionally a miniature
farm meets the eye, with its fields of ripening corn, waving
their yellow banners in Ihe breeze, and bespeaking a good
time coming to the patient husbandman.
But let us return to the Springs. Alter all, Messrs Ed
itors, the great present attraction here, is the pleasant
company one meets at every step and turn. I know you
would consider me the victim of infatuation, were Ito
give you my honest judgment of it; but surely 1
do not overstep the limits of extreme mods sty when I
say that a like number of more beautiful, intelligent and
agreeable ladies, matrons and maidens, could not be as
sembled, if the area for selection embraced the whole
country. The gentlemen too are orderly, agreeable and
refined, and, disclaiming any reflection by implication up
on those who are not included in the remark, are very
fond of the ladies, and display a commendable degree of
attention to them. There is, however, one capital objec
tion to the rougher sex, and that is the frugality of their
numbers. The case is suggestive of its remedy,and I hope
it will be applied.
I may not omit to mention, that our worthy ex-Govern
or, Herschel Y r . Johnson, is soioumiog with us. Time
seems to make no impression on his health or spirits. To
look at him you would compute that there were, at least,
twenty years of good Democratic service in him yet. Let
the word “democratic,’ ’ have the prefix “Southern Rights’
understood, if you please. He has always been and still is
(witness his recent letter to the committee at the Hammoud
dinner) a Democrat of that school, and the time is coming
when the State will again honor him for his service in the
cause.
But lest I weary you, I will close with one word about
our popular host, J. H. Davis, Esq., and his amiable and
and estimable lady. All that energy and honest disposi
tion to please can do, they accomplish. YVe have met per
sons who have been here several weeks, and who have
never had occasion to complain of a single instance, of
inattention to their wants or comfort, Ido think they set
the nicest table, have the best fare, the cleanest bedding!—
Come up and help me enjoy it. You have doubtless heard
there is a large crowd hers—all a mistake—only about 400
—plenty pf room—come up.
Yours, & . TERENCE.
Dr Chapm on the Ocean Telegraph.
Tho following is the very ‘eloquent pas.-wtge in
Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin’s discourse on Sunday, in
the Second Universalist Church, Boston, ia rela
tion to the great submarine Telegraph.
“Let us not fail tn recognize the greatness, the
grandeur, of this achievement. Let no supposed
honoring of religion—no intentioneof exaltimg the
moral or spiritual above the merely physical—hide
from us the full glory of that effort by which, for
the last three hundred years, man hats ob
tained this mastery over nature. For, ini sim
ple truth, it is not man’s glory, but God’s glory,
that is unfolded in the gradual development of hu
man knowledge and human power. Thus the
magnificent consummation of the past week,which
has simultaneously startled two hemispheren, has
awakened in tis those feelings that are deepest
and highest, making words inadequate, ami send
ing our thoughts upward not only m astonishment
but in reverence and thanksgiving. ‘ In such a
work we feel the thrill of God’s hand sweeping
through events, and translating into a prophetic
symbol the processes of ages and the significance
of history.
“Men wait upon it breathless, conscious that it
inaugurates an era, wondering to what new music
the earth’s round wheel will turn, and pondering
the incalculable consequences. Yes, first sen
timent awakened by such a triumph is a religious
sentiment. It demonstrates the fact that spirit is
the beginning and the end of all mechanism and
all matter. Through every physical barrier mind
rushes to the embrace of mind, and heart to heart
—sending, swift as lightning through the arches of
the tumultuous sea,tho viewless cour-e of thought
and tempering the thunder of the sky into the si
lent pulsations of a world-felt love and joy. In
this view, scientific achievement, expanding be
yond all mercenary uses, becomes the Shekinah of
the living God—at once His awful veil of myste
ry and the signal of His presence.
US'?” The Athens Watchman say 6 the degree
of D. D. was conferred on Prof P. H. Mall, at (he
late commsneetyient of Franklin College.
From the Savannah Georgian.
The Supreme Court Decision.
Mr. Editor: The Supreme Court at its last
session in Macon, in the case of Robison vs. Beall,
(Lumpkin J., dissenting) decided : That upon the
expiration of a Bank Charter by its own limitation,
the debts due to ami from it, arc extinguished.
Upon this the press, and to the extent of its in
fluence, the public has become remarkably exer
cised. Even covert hints at corruption in the Judg
es, who made the decision, have been indulged in,
while it is assumed as settled that it is not Ihe laic.
It is conceded that these editors who have in
dulged in these denunciations of the Court and
its decision, and thus essay to enlighten public
opinion, are wise and learned in all the law. Aud
it is perhaps less with the hope of showing that
they are or can be wrong—th in with the hazard
of exposing ttie ignorance ot Blackstone aud Kent,
and Story and Lumpkin, that the publication of
this brief communication is asked.
The debts due to, and from a Bank, are extin
guished by its dissolution or the expiration of its
charter. Tins is the naked decisipn and is it the
law ?
“A corporate grant is indeed oniy during the life
of the corporation, which may endure forever; but
when the life is determined by the dissolution ol
the body politic, the grantor takes it back by re
version, ns in every other grant for life.
‘•The debts cf a Corporation either to or from
it, are totaltu extinguished by its dissolution, so that
the members thereof cannot recover, or be charged
with them in their natural capacities. - ’
It is thus that Judge Blackstone answers (he
question. See 1 Black, Com. -184.
“According to the settled law of the land, who .
there is no special statute provision to the ontra
ry, upon the civil death ol a corpora!ion, all its
r? “i! .-sfa’e remaining unsold rev? r ? !.o k to the
originai grantor and his heirs. The debts due to
and from the corporation arc all extinguished.
Neither the sm, t. holders nor the directors, or trus
tees of tiie coi poration can recover these debts, or
be charged w ith them, in their natural capacities.”
And it is thu? that Chancellor Kent answers.
See 2 Kent. Coin. 307.
“A corporation by the very terms, and nature of
its political e- stereo,is subject to a dissolution by
a surrt-nde u s its corporate franchises, and by a
th f u.. of them for willul inis-nser, and non-use/.
Every creditor must be presumed to understand
the nature and incidents of such a body politic,
and to contract with reference to them. And it
would be a doctrine new in the law that the exis
tence of a private contract ofthe corporation should
force upon it a perpetuity of existence contrary to
public policy, and the nature and objects of its
charter.
And thus it is that C. J. Story, after having re
cognized, comments upon the rule as laid down by
Blackstone aud Kent.
See Mutrmia vs. the Pat. Com. S Peters 281.
“Upon the threshhold of this discussion we are
met with the common law principle, that upon the
dissolution of a corporation the debts due to and
from it are extinguished. A doctrine which re
sults necessarily from the fact that the corporation
having expired, whether, by its own limitation, by
surrender, abandonment of its members, or judg
ment of dissolution, there is no one in law to sue
and be sued.”
And thus Judge Lumpkin, Warner and Nesfft
concurring answers, in Hightower, vs. Thornton, 8
Ga. Rep. 492.
And again he answer with the same concur
rence ;
“YY'hy so much time and talent, and labor, and
learning have been employed to establish a pro
position which nobody denies, viz : That the debts
of it corporation, either to or front it, are extin
guished by its dissolution, I am at a loss to com
prehend. Certain it is that it was recognized by
this court, at this place two years ago, as it had
been in more than one occasion previously.”
See Thornton vs. Lane, 11 Gn. Rep. -192.
The Hon Judge’s assumption that “nobody de
nies” this doctrine may have been made, for the
only reason that the sapient editors of the present
day had not enlightened the legal world by their
opinions.
But again :
“Morever I agree that the elementary writers,
both in England and the United States, do every
where assert distinctly that the debts due to, and
from a corporation, are extinguished by its disso
lution, unless prevented by the terms of the char
ter itself, or hy aliunde legislation. And that in the
Courts of both countries this doctrine may now he
considered too well settled to be overthrown or
shaken. And so totally extinguished that the
members of the corporation cannot recover or be
charged with them in their natural capacities.”
Judge Lumpkin, Starns concurring in Moultrie
vs. Smiley, et. al. 16 Ga. Rep. 294
Indeed Mr. Editor, Judge Lumpkin might well
have added that this principle, as the law, has been
asserted, maintained, upheld, and administered by
every Judge who has sat upon the English and
American bench, since the origin of corporations.
And what more than this have Judges McDonald
and Benning done ?
Instructed by the light of ages, and by the re
peated and emphatic recognition of their predeces
sors upon our own Supreme Bench, they have de
cided ‘that upon the expiration of a Bank Charter
by its own limitation, the debts due to, and Irom
it, are extinguished,” thus, but giving effect to what
had been so repeatedly and emphatically admitted
to be the law, even by our own Supreme Bench.
And yet the effort is to hold them up to public
censure and reproach, because they have overrul
ed a decision of their predecessors.
Now as to the application of the law, because of
certain charter provisions, and certain attempts at
•aliunde“legislation, differences of opinion do exist
between the members of the present and the for
mer Supreme Bench.
It is no part of the purpose of this communica
tion to discuss these differences. That the Judges
who made the decisions complained of are fully
able to vindicate its correctness, and will do it, 1
have not a doubt.
It remains to be seen whether those editors who
have ventured to assail and denounce, as not law,
the great principle upon which it rests, will give
this brief communication a place in their columns,
and adhere to the maxim,
“Fiat Ji.stitia.”
Alabama Railroad Grants.
A despatch dated the 12th inst., at Washington,
says that ihe Commissioner of the General Land
Office has replied to an inquiry respecting the right
and extent of the indemnity selections allowed to
Alabama, by the Railroad grant to that State, by
the act ot June 3, 1856, to aid in the construction
of the Girard and Mobile Railroad, etc,, where the
sections within the six miles limits had previously
been disposed of by the United States. The prin
ciple hereinafter declared is of general application :
the Commissioner states that the indemnity sec
tions must be taken between the six and fifteen
mile limits, in alternate sections, “nearest to the
tiers of sections” granted “iu place.” No selection”
granted “in place.” No selectiou can be made by
skipping any vacant tract, if nearest the section in
place ; but if it should so happen that there are no
vacant lands for the indemnity, near at hand, the
selection may advance on until it reaches the ter
minus, and from the portion nearest; aud it should
be necessary to take the whole of the alternates
between the six and fifteen mile limits, to satisfy
the deficiency on account of the 9ale of the sec
tions in place, it may be done on the terms herein
before indicated. Referring to the fourth section of
the said act of June 3, 1856, making the Railroad
grant, which prescribes the terms upon which the
State may sell one hundred and twenty sections
from time to time, the Commissioner states that
Land Office takes no heed of what the State may
do in that respect, so far as the action of the office
is concerned in making out lists of selections and
certifying the same ; that being a condition ot which
the State must take cognizance itself, so as to avoid
making sales not warranted by law. AU that the
Land Office has to do is to certify the selections
lawfully made, leaving the Slate itself to fulfil all
conditions the grant has imposed upon it, saving
the vendees from being recipients of invalid titles.
Charleston Courier.
New Y'ork Corporation Dinners.—The Trib
une stoutly objects to a dinner in celebration of
the success of the Atlantic Telegraph, and adds, by
wav of reason:
“There was a public dinner “not long since, at
which a number of members of the Common Coun
cil were so drunk as to he entirely helpless ; and
there has not for years been such an entertainment
at the city’s expense at which scenes of debauch
ery have not been common, on the part of city
officers, or the miserable gang, of vagabonds who
follow at their heels. Is it too much to hope
that better councils will prevail, and that the gen
eral joy at the success ofthe greatest undertaking
ever attempted I by man, will not be marred by
the scandal which will most certainly follow
upon the tide of liquor let loose at a Corporation
dinner
Health of New Orleans.
The follow iiig from the* New Orleans Delta of
Thursday-will serve to put to rest many unfounded
and exaggerated reports regard to the yellow
fever in the Crescent City :
Exaggerated reports ol . the mortality in our
midst from yellow lever wifi soot! reach, il they have
not already reached, every part of tile country. —
This is to hr expected. Rumors gathcr'slrengih
and importance as they fly.* initjl* what is 1 oked
upon as moonshine to-day will Be regarded, by
thousands of credulous people, a tangible lacw
to-morrow. For example,: A gentleman from Pats.
Christian yesterday informed us, that ail sorts o’
frightful statements were made by passengers,
fresh from the city, of the onward march <>! epi
demical yellow lever. To the question, “Hotv is
the fever in New Orleans ?”, it was answered, “In
creasing, fearfully increasing!” If such reports
are carried to places almost within hail of ns, how
is it to beexpected that people more remote can
think otherwise than that we are scourged by a
pestilence ?
Even in the city queer reports prevail. People,
frightened out ol their boots, shrug their shoulders
and look as seriousas men doomed to the gun -
tine, while speaking of the disease. But ask most
of them it they know of any cases ol yellow le
ver in their neighborhood, and the reply general
ly is that they do not, bat hear of many m other
localities.
The best wav to tret at the truth is tn wait lbr
and examine ti.i p loriai columns oi our daily
journals. Io order that all- may examine them nn
derstandingly. we place the key of that which
wms to numbers as a mystery, in the hands of our
readers. Last Friday the number ot deaths re
ported in this paper from fever was sixty-lbur.—
That report had reference only to the deaths n the
Charity II >spit al for the we k. running fro: Fri
day .morning to Friday morning. On our first
page there are reported tiiree bundled and sx
deaths, one hundred and forty ot which nr trim
yellow lever. This report is for the week running
Sunday morning to Sunday morning last, and
comprises the mortality in the whole city for that
time, and includes of course the deaths iu tire
Charity Hospital for that week. This is the re
pot t made to the Board of Health from all the
cemeteries.
It will be seen that ihe deaths-from yellow fi
ver for the week ending Sunday morning inst, is
just double that ofthe previous week. But then,
it must be remembered that out of the otic hun
dred and forty, only ten Americans died : and it is
fair to infer that most of the one hundred and
thirty persons of foreign birth, who were victims
to the disease, were unacclimated. We are, there
fore, safe in saying that the fever is confined child
ly to persons who are!not aceostotned to our cii
mate, or if accustomed to it, not only imprudently
expose themselves to the hot sun, hut live it. .- itch
an unfortunate style, and in such unhealthy spots,
as make them peculiarly liable to summer di-ei-ses.
It is rare to hear of persons living in well _ventt K.i
ted houses, and blessed with the comforts of life,
being attacked.
According to the standard of many physicians, a
disease can uot be considered epidemic unless tire
deaths from it exceed those of all other diseases
combined. If this be so, the yelfow fever can by
no means yet be considered an epidemic; nor cart
it be considered,by another criterion we know of,
as epidemical.
Some of our coteniporarie- in the interior charge
that the newspaper press of this city is not to be
relied upon when speaking of tiie public !u a.':i.
As for ourselves, we have no desire to smother the
truth: and when the yellow fever really becomes
epidemical, our friends may rely upon it that
they will bo apprised of the fact. YVe hope,
however, that we shall not be crtileii upon to do so.
The New Orleans papers ot Tuesday states that
the whole number of deaths tor the week ending
Sunday last were 306, of which 140 were front yel
low fever; about 60 being from the Charily Hospi
tal, and 40 from the Third District : leavin 40
death- by yellow fever in all the city outside the
hospital end the di-triet named. And of the 140,
only 8 were natives ofthe United Stales.
Indignation Railroad Meeting m Berrien-
A meeting, composed,as stated in the official
proceedings, of “a number of -the Stockholders of
the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad Company, amt a
large portion ofthe citizens of Berrien andLowndes
counties,” assembled at the Court House of the
latter county, ett the 23d ultimo, Randal Fuisonto
of Lowndes, presided, anti a committee composed
ol Messrs. Levi J. Knight, Woodford J. Mabry,
Owen Smith, Mitchell S. Griffin, William Lastin
ger, R. P. Hutcherson, and 11. Hutcherson, and H.
T. Peeples, reported, accompanied by a long pre
amble, the following resolutions, which were unan
imously adopted:
Resolved, That we the citizens of k ßerrien and
Lowndes counties declare that we view the ac’.i-n
of the Board of Directors ol the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad company, in locating said road, skirling
the Florida line, as violating the act of incorpora
tion: Ist. Because it is so located as to develop and
benefit a large portion of Florida to the great in
justice of the citizens of Georgia, 2d Because it
is intended to answer the purposes of a branch
road to that section instead of a Main Trunk
through Southern Georgia. 3d. Because it is not
located with a view to a speedy connection with
Pensacola and Mobile, but with a view to a sp~e
dy connection with Florida.
Resolved, That we enter our soif mtt protest, and
pledge ourselves to use our best efforts to induce
the stockholders to withhold their stock until the
act authorizing the Charter is complied with. And
we also respectfully ask his excellency the Gov
ernor, to suspend the payment of the Stock sub
scribed by the State until he shall be able to ascer
tain that the act of incorporation has not been vi
olated.
Resolved, That we recommend to each county
who leel aggrieved at the act of the Directors, in
locating the road, to hold meetings at as many
public places as possible, ia order to give a gene
ral expression of opinion; and Should it be thought
necessary, for the counties to assemble (through
delegates) in a convention, they wiil find us heart
and hand engaged in the maintenance of our rights.
All of which your committee respectfully submit,
and move its adoption as the feeling of this meet
tmg.
Mails on tho Xabbath
“A petition to the Postmaster General has been
gotten up at Knoxville, Tenn., requesting him to
discontinue the Suday mail through East Tennes
see. Similar petitions are said to he on foot be
tween Richmond and New Orleans. A general
stirring up of the question of Sunday observance
seems to be determined on. - ’ — Sheibyville Exposi
tor.
This is as it should be. We have never yet
been able to perceive the reasonableness of allowing
Railroad service on the Sabbath, when all other
work had to cease. If it is criminal lor a single
individual to labor on the Sabbath, it is certainly
not less so for a company of individuals to do so.
The argument in favor of a continuance of the
custom, drawn from i*s interruption to business,
will not bear examination.
Let the petitions go round, and let the abomina
tion ot Sabbath Railroading be discountenanced
and discontinued. No business obligations art- so
high as the claims ot the Christian Sabbath.—.-If
taut a American.
The Oregon Senators Elect.—Gen. J ? -ph
Lane, one of tiie new Oregon Senators, is 100 well
known to require any notice. He is an able, sound
and suitahla man for the place. Os the other Sen
ator the Rochester (N. Y.) Union has the follow
ing:
“Delazon Smith. —lt will be seen by reports
from Oregon, that Delazon Smith has been elected
U. S. Senator from the new State. Mr. Smith
was once, and for some time, a resident of this city.
YY’e think he left here sirtco 1840, about which
time he conducted a daily paper called the YY i-s
----tern Herald. Previously, he published for a year
or two, an infidel paper called the New York
Watchman, aid ht> used to lecture to the “Free
Inquirers” on Sundays. Soon alt* r leaving this*
city ho was converted to Christianity, and was at
one time a preacher of the Gospel at the west.
He is a gentleman of considerable ability, and we
were assured by citizens of Oregon a long time
since, that he was popular in that Territory, and
likely to be sent to the Senate when the State should
be organized”
Fatal Affray.—The Cuthbert (Randolph c 0.,)
Reporter, says : —A terrible affair occurred in our
streets last Wednesday, between William Milliron
and C. C. YVatson, brothers-in-law, both Jiving in
this county. It seems that a family difficulty ex
isted between the parties, and being in town on
the day mentioned above, a rencontre took place
in which Watson received to wounds from a
double-barreiied shot gun in the hands of MiUirons,
from which he died in about fifteen minutes. The
Coroner’s jury returned as r verdict that Millircns
killed Watson in *elf-df#nee.
From the Savenn h Ri puhTTr-nn.
Capt. Deßiviere iu N,w Yctk
T 1 Express of Saturday “contain- a long , j
circi’.'fi.-.fiinria] account of the B ount-D Riviere
affair, ii otn its culmination in New Ymk to it© ( ! 0 . h
in Savannah, the material? for which Were evident,
iy furnished by the gallant Z nave himsel!! .
cord.tig to bts.owri account, he came off with fly
ing colors, and made a complete conquest of jy
ins enemies iu this city. YY’e shall simply refer to
this latter branch ofhisstatemen:, for the? purpose of
correcting the Zouave’s facts, Wuieh’he st ems Bf . n .
erallv to adapt to. the emergencies of his case. Tiie’
account says:
“On reaching Savannah, however, the Colonel,
I (so says our informant) broke his agreement am!
| caused the arrest of the gallant Zouave on ti,.-
i- ante charges as those preferred against Kirn in
| New York. This so maddened De Riviere that |-..
! determined o enter into no more arr ingenuous, |, u t
to |iut the whole matter before the public ami fi
them be toe judges, and he therefore concluded to
go into Court*for that purpose. But a great excite.
meat prevailed against him: some five or six thou
sand persons turned out and determined to take
hint out of the hands <>f tiie officers and I,
him at once. Wish much difficulty in--
•uio court, and on producing the dovuu.c.it prit.:
above, as welt :i other letters signed by Co'. Bfout,-
at and authorizing, him to go to Savannah, the nj.i .
{ ion of the public was entirely changed, and the
j Captain was not again ruoleeied. ’
i There is someth tig diverting about the Captain's
(it seems he has grown into the’ lull tbgnhyofa
“ Colonel ” since his return to New Y'ork; “conclu
ding to go iuto court,when lie was ir, the Sheriff?
hands atrdcould not nave kept out of it if he won;,:.
As to tho Savannah mob of .some five or six tho
sand who determined to lynch him, there is t.
word of truth in the Zouave’s siatenivnt. YYV
lievo everybody believed he deserved lynching, hut
we have no idea that three men in the city had th-
I first thought of administering the punishment,
j Tim fact that no demonstration wa? made while
j they bad every opportunity, is proof conclusive on
j point.
There is another statement of the Captain which
we desire to repudiate as a reflection upon the in
telligence and moral sense of our community. IL
says that when be left here “the whole popular, :
{ was on his side ; he had not a friend when be w- •
i to Savannah, ho had hundreds when lie went
j away.” This is, if possible, a greater untruth •
| that w-e have already contradicted. There is no
! man so base that will not find congenial spirit? ab
most in every place of large population', but tl at
; any respectable portion of our community to- k the
i -‘side” of a notorious adventurer aid bigamist,
j whose offense towards Miss Biount, whatever may
1 have been her wishes, subjected him to the penalty
| of imprisonment 39 a felon in the penitentiary, ami
j wno intamousiy abused the hospitulity of an un
j suspecting man who had befriended him in adv.-r
----i sity, by stealing away bis wife and daughter— t.o
I matt who knows anything ol’ the people of S
uah will credit it for one moment
(More arolt Blount and De Riniere.—Mr.
Henry Maury, pf Mobile, denies that he ha?
proposed to take up the cudgels in favor of Yir
j Biount, or that he ever wrote the editor of th
i Cleveland Herald i- reference to the sea-ulai u?
* Story of that lady’s early life. It will In- rem- ;-
j bered that Mr. Maury is the gentleman who ;o ? “
j the Zouve at Mobile. He conclude.? with the
i lowing complimentary paragraph in refereu
j hi? courtship:
It is well known here- that 1 have been in
j city nil the summer. I 1 ev- r wrote 3 fine t
paper in Ohi-> >:i my ’ 3-. and I profibu e the
jti e article Jn which inv name is ritetitim e ! to ■
| a deliberate lie —1 may be wiling ‘O rist quit! urn
i <lcr the mor ification of having met 011 cq al cm
•ne. who though be imp- set! i.n tne at th-- Hue
a gentleman, lias since turned out to ve a chuti i.r
; d'lndustrie. I may be willing to pass over
j baseness of an adventurer who fought me in ; •
j muir ; but to be presented to ‘he world in the
j ridiculous attitude of tlip champion of the Bioant
i de-Rtviere family,is a little too strong, and it may
i be fortunate for the author that lie maintains hi*
1 incognito
The Blocst-Df-Riviere Affair.—. 4 Sic
Mistake. —Some of our cotsmpurnriee, in writi; :
| of this curious romance, seemed to think tt
I object of the Zouave is to marry the subject 0
’ bis adoration, Aiiss Blount. This is a in:?-
i take. The young lady asserts unqualifiedly th.-
j they wore lawfully married before they made the
i tour to New York, aud I,ad lived as man and wi -
i for weeks before the separation. The secret of h;s
j pertinacity, tln-n, is simptv to hold on to the p -
already won. The fact of his having another wit -
I now living in the State of Pennsylvania, seems to
-be, in the present status oi the case,-the only fauti
j iy obstacle to his success.
i By the way. we learn that Ihe romantic Captai:.
I grew quite chivalrous on ihe evt* of hi? departure
j from Savannah. He remarked on board the steam
! er that fighting was simply a pastime with Is::;
and if auv gentleman desired to be amused in that
way, be was always ready to accommodate him
j after breakfast hours, as he was generally at feisur
, the remainder of the day. He would lie over:.
I the next steamer to oblige a belligerent—meet h tu
half way. or, rather than be nice about it, go the
j whole distance himself ? Verily, the Zouav is -
i trump.— Savannah Republican.
1 Danger of Gas Exi-losions.—ln speaking
j the late serious accident which happened at D
- trait, Michigan, by which Senator Chandler, b:s
daughter, and two other persons were severely
| burned by an explosion of gas, Quantico. tie
j Washington correspondent of the Alexandria Set.-
| tine!, says:
i “I had a narrow escape myself last tall. The
j placing of large station metres in the new tv-:;:?
I of the Capitol rendered a change necessary in tin
! position of the pipes and the metres that supp . v
i tho old building. One of the meters as large as 3
hogshead, was placed back of the furnace iii-w:
the oh! hall of Representatives, tho connect;. ; -
made about six o'clock, p. rn , and the gas turned
on. Upon visiting the Capitol at night, I found
the building filled with gas. Afraid to cariy a
light. I traced tho leak in the dark, by the. sntfh
! until I found it in a pipe near the metre, to which
. connection bad l-r-en made, and afterwards discosi
j nected, and which had been overlooked by the gn*
fitters. The gas rushed from the hole like steam
’ from a boiler, and 1 was thus enabled to find tin
i leak, and temporarily plug it until morning. Ti.e
> danger Irom- the explosion arose from the tact that
tiie furnaces were it; full blast within thirty test ot
the leak, and an explosion was liable to take place
any moment.”
Cotton Prospects Changed—For some time
past we had indulged the belief that the cotton
crop of this year would be large. Tiie prosp- e:?
as generally reported in the cotton legion, jus tint
the belief, notwithstanding tiie damage caused -
I the overflow ol Mississippi. But within lie re-t
| week, wo bear of a most unfavorable change in n-
I prospect'for a cotton crop. For example, o- - <
j our best, planters some ten miles wes- ot ti e c \
j puts the damage to his crop uiririn the last m- k.
iat twenty-five per cent. Aravin r, m a dff u
! direction, some si* miles sou-fi-i a?t ot the c y.
| mum s a similar estimate of and mage to hi? c.-o,
j Rust and worms are doing the grr.io s i art ot ti:
1 mischief. From L nvndcs, Bare >ur, and othet
counties, we it- ar of like injury to the crop. A?
August an.! Ecptmitx-r are regarded as the most
critical period of tiie cotton season, and as the dam
age has began so ear.y 111 August, and as the dis
aster? to cotton seem to increase as the country
grows older, ue fear that ail our calculations of a
good crop will b? disappointed. Some few will
doubtless make good crops—for that is always
j the Cast—but sj akin® generally, things’ begin to
look badly for a good crop. And the planters may
a?; weii begin to make their calculations to make
up in price, what they lack in quantity.—Montgo
mery Mail.
t'icr. President Breckinridge.— A Kentucky
cot respondent of the Herald makes the following
. remarks upon Vico President Breckinridge, who
is now at his home in Kentucky
Tiie Vice President since his return home has
been attending to the arduous duties of Ills pro
fession save the small portion of time spent in
stump speaking. He and his partner, James B-
Beck, a Scotchman by birtb, get*orie of thu largest
and most lucrative practice? in the State. Beck ?
comparatively young, a self-made man and lor
legal acumen and learning has but few superiors
! in the State. . The Vice President is now as much
j a leader ofthe democracy as ever Mr. Clay was
iof the whig party. They know that his oratorical
j powers are not excelled by those of any man in
I the Union ; that he is not a politician in the com
! mon acceptation of the term ; that he is neither
| selfish nor a trickster; in fact, that lie is a states-
I man, worthy to have been a p,er of Clay, Cal-
I houu, and YY'tbster. They will follow his iead>
I Mcause they kniw ii* will lead the:* right.