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“iAMiI.S?™ .. s*.-.
WILLIAM TAYLOR,
attorney at law,
Cnthbert, Randolph County, Georgia.
mrILL practice in tiie counties ot Randolph,
VV Calhoun, Terrell, Early, Clay, Baaer,
Dougherty, Miller and Stewart.
REFERS TO
Wellborn, Johnson & Sloan, Attorneys at Law,
Columbus, Georgia.
All business intrusted to his care will receive
immediate attention. June 6, 1858—wtw U
MARION BETHUNE,
A TT ORX E Y A T L. 4 W, \
TALBOTTOI f, Talbot County. Ga.
i letober ‘24th. 1856. w *
BAUGH & SLADE,
ATTOR ; ‘ AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WILL nracticc law In Moecogee and the adjoin-
Ine counties of Georgia and Alabama.
Office over Bauk of Columbus, Broad ht.
ROBERT BAUGH■ J * J ’ 6L * D^;.
Columbus,Ga March “7 1857. wtwtf
EL A,M & OLIVE R,
attorneys at law.
BUENA VISTA.
MARION COUNTY, GA.
WILL practice in the countlesof Marion Ma
con, ewart, Taylor, Chattahoochee.jmdany
of the adjoining counties when
be required. Also In the District Court ot the L mted
States lertbe District of Georgia.
WM.D. ELAS. THADBIOS OLIVER.
September Id—wtf
’ * “ • s@
HOWARD fc WEEMS,
ATTOBNEYSATI AW,
CRAWFORD. ALA,
ROBERT X. HOWARD. WALTER H- WEEMS.
Crawford, Ala., June B—wtwtfi
JAMES A. CLEK BENIN,
A T T O R N E Y AT LA W.
AND SOLICITOR IX CUAXCERY,
DfIEVILLE, H nry County, Ala.
July 20,1858.—w1v.
GRICE & WALLACE,
MTOIBiSSirS AT ILAWs,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
VYTILL give prompt attention to all business en
?’ trusted io them.
v- l. jrh;i-:. vvm.s. Wallace.
December IB —wti
T- J.GUNN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
HAMILTON, GA.
WILL attend promptly to all busineessentrusted
to him.
January 26,1853—w1y.
R. A. TURNIPSEED,
VTTOII NE Y A T LA W ,
C V TUBE II TANARUS,
Randolph County,Ga.
HAVING removed from Cusseta, to Cnthbert,
Randolph county, will give prompt atten
tion to all business entrusted to his care.
ap27—v^tl.
ra©£ElM Wo ©O3BI,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PRESTOS, \Vebstci 1 County, Ga.
\7TTILL practice in the counties of Clay, Chat*
j ? tahoochee, Webster, Early, Randolph,
Stewart and Sumter. Particular attention giv*
en to collecting and remitting.
January 27, 1857—wtf.
S. 5~ STAFFORD”
ATTORNEY AT LAN',
BLAKELY, EARLY COUNTY, GA.
A’2 - wtf.
W. S, JOHNSON,
AT T O RNT E Y A T LA W .
CUSS E T A,
Chattahoochee County, On.
‘7‘ves hibentire attention to the practice in Chat*
ttahoocheeami Ndjoining counties.
ai>26—wtwlj* |
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CANDY MANUFACTORY,
Ou Randolph Street, near the Post Office,
COLUMNS S, GA.
ESTABLISHED IN 1846 .
Where is kept constantly ton hand and for sale all
kioOsot <.'ONFL;.'THiNF.IIY, such asplain and fancy
Candles, Syrups, ( ordiats, Preserves Cakes, Wines,
Nuts, Fruits, Behais, Fire|Works, &c., he.
Avery liberal discount made for cash orders.
Septlii—wtilfirst jau
Timber Cutters* Bank.
ENCII AN G E A T SIG II T O N
SEW YORK,
LONDON,
PARIS,
Fniakfort-on the-3lnin
IfAMISURG,
BERLIN,
BRE:'iEX,&c &c
“ “ •L S *nUTTON,'Casti'er.
Pavanr.an. Sept, fi, 185S. wCm.
FOR SALE;
I WILL sell on the first Tuesday in November next
at the Court House in .Buena Vista,Marion conn
ly, Ga., Eight Hundred Acres; of Land lying six miles
west of Buena Vista, and eight miles from Poudtown.
On the place is afirst rate dwelling and negro houses
—also a first rate gin house and screw. The place is
well watered and lies between the Muekalee and YVat
:cy creeks I will sell the place to suit purchasers.
Terms —one half cash and the balance in twelve
months with approved notes.
sept!s—w3m ELIZABETH ADAMS.
FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE.
KqYsSxTh 8 subscribers will continue the Commis
——Hr-son Business at theoldstand of Greenwood
Hardaway & Cos. Particular attention will be
given to the sale of Cotton. Gash advances made.
Bagging and Rope supplied at market rates.—
Also, a heavy article of Cotton Osnaburgs, Cot
ton Rope and Mattrasses of the best quality.
We have on hand a tew lot Gtanger’s Magic
Corn and Fob Crushers, for which we are agents.
Auc.B. 1857-wlv GREEN >V OOP & CO.
$25 REWARD.
fit AN A WAY on August 27th, my negro boy
Albert, 35 years old, of yellow complexion,
large hazel eyes, thick bushy hair, weighs
180 lbs. limp* a littlo when walking, is rup
tured. He rode off a gray horse, with a long
tail, and paces, and was In good order. I will
give $25 reward for him in any jail so that 1 can get
him: and a reronable rew rd for tne horse.
Any information about them will be kindly recei
ved. JAMES 11. HILL.
Albany, Ga., Sept. 3, 1858. sep7—lmw
Valuable Plantation For
BY authority of a decree of the Prohate Court
of Russell Cos., 1 will sell for distribution on
the eighth (8) day of Oct. next, to the highest bid
der, on a credit of 1 and 2 years, with interest from
the sale, at the Court House in the town of Craw
ford, Russell Cos., Ala.,sections 7 and 18 in town
ship 14, range 20, embracing about 1280 acres, ol
one of the best cotton and grain plantations in the
State
On this tract of land are about 600 acres of open
fresh land well enclosed, and in a high state of
cultiuation, a good framed house with 4 rooms, a
kitchen, smoke house, dairy, blacksmith
shop, a large new gin house, superior cotton screw,
houses for the accommodation ot 60 or 70 negroes,
‘arse cribs and stables and other out-houses all
new and substantial with a plenty of water and
timber.
This land was selected by Joel Hurt, Esq., ol
Russell county, when the county was fresh, and
he had the country to choose from. It lies on the
hear! waters of*Kiagee Creek, in about 33 [tides of
Hurt’s station on the Mottle Oc Girard Railroad,
and is formed mostly ot creek bottom and ham
mock lands, with sufficient pine iand attached tor
a beautiful and hoalthlul residence.
This plantation was selected by Col. Wellborn,
as the best tract of land he could buy, for the cash,
and is without doubt, one ot the most desirable
and valuable planting estates in East Alabama.
It Vi ill be shown to any person who shall wish
to examine it, by Mr. Wm. E. Haynte, who re
sides on the premises. Sufficient security required-
A. MARTIN, Adm’r.
of the estate of Alfred Wellborn, dec’d.
Columbus, Ga., Sep. 6,1858. wtds
Lands for Sale.
Andrew S.Garrand others, 1 State of Flori
V.,. | da, Middle Cir-
Lewis Curtis &Nath'l Thurs- J-cuit in Leon Cos.
ton, Trustees of the Apalachi- I In Chancery.
cola Land Company and others J
PURSUANT to a Decree rendered! n thisjeause
the subscriber will sell by auction at the pla
ces and times herein specified, all the lands be
longing to said Company embraced in the b orbes
Purchase,” and lying in the counties of Leon,
Wakulla, Gadsden and Liberty, viz: the lands
Kira in the first two named counties will be sold
at Tailabassee, on the seventh (,th) day.of De
cember, and those lying in the last two, will be
sold at Quincy, on the fourteenth (14tli) day ot
December next, f
These lands, comprising about a million ot
acres,extended from the St. Marks to the Apa
lachicola rivers—they exhibit every variety ot
timber indiginous to that latitude, including, ot
course, live oak,evpress, cedar and juniper; the
soil is adapted to the growth of grain, cotton—
long and short staple, tobacco, and sugar cane.
The waters abound in fish, and the forest with
materials for ship building and naval stores.
TERMS One third of the purchase money to
be paid- in cash, the balance in one and two years
in equal installments, with eight per cent inter
est Irom date oi purchase ; titles to he made by
the Receiver when all the purchase money is
IJa The sale will be positive and without reserve.
JOHN BEARD, Receiver. 4sc.
Tallalwssa, Aug. 38, 1858. sept3-w3m
THE UNION UF THE STATES, AMI THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES^
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1858.
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 21
General Items.
The most interesting topic of conversation with
a majority of our readers at this season ot the year
is the slate of the cotton market. Its rise or fall
afiects in a more or lesss degree the interest of
the whole community. It would be impossible to
speculate with any degree of certainty as to the
price of this staple if the future is to be a counter
part of the past. Never did a market open with
so much activity and briskness and with such
prospects of a ready sale on the part of the pro
ducer Every omen was favorable and every gale
that swept from the east brought ou its wings the
joyful tidings of a steady advance in the article
The cotton was readily shipped for sale and near
ly all the markets were in advance of cotton re
ceipts at this period last year- Alas, however,
for human hopes and prophecy ! Scarcely a week
has passed away and the cotton has declined near
ly one cent without any apparent good reason. —
The yellow fever may embarrass a little the trade
near our homo ports, but cannot affect it abroad—
N otwithetanding the treaty of peace with China
and the settlement of the India difficulties, the
Persia’s news—the latest up to this date, (Sept.
21st) —brings us a decline on all the grades-of cot,
ton. With such fluctuations in the opening of the
season, it is not probable that our buyers will fall
before the insatiate and insatiable Moloch of ex
travagant speculation, any hi'ire than our farmers
will refuse to sell but store their cotton, when it is
bringing so lair a price as ten to twelve cents.—
The prospect of a targe yield of cotton has long
since faded away, the rust having injured it to an
extent not yet fully ascertained. Then in view of
all these circumstances—the shortness of the crop
—the peace over the waters—the present market
price—it would be well for formers no longer to
hold back their crops for better and more favora
ble moments.
That dreadful scourge, the yellow fever, has vis
ited some of our Southern Cities and still contin
ues its ravages. New Orleans is the most infected.
The mortality in that city, since the commence
ment of the disease, has averaged about fifty or
sixty persona a day—Galveston lias not escaped,
but has also been visited by the fever—Mobile and
Savannah have also had a touch of the disease.
The former to the extent of an epidemic, the latter
confined to a few sporadic cases.
There, is little interest in the political world.—
The election in Illinois will soon take place and
we will hear no more of the polities of a State with
which we have intermeddled, as well as others,
more than was necessary. Judge Brecso has writ
ten a letter in which he demands ihe authority of
ihe Editor, who announced his declension from
the Senatorial race and professes allegiance to the
time-honored principles of the Democratic party
and not the political fortunes of one man.
State affairs are moving on well with Governor
Brown at the head. The Western and Atlantic
Rail Road still continues to pay dividends beyond
the most sanguine expectations of the best finan
cier. The question of popular education is attrac
ting some attention throughout the State and it
is mote than probable, that the next Legislature
will give it that .attention which its importance
merits. Before it, the Railroad schemes, which
are proper in their place, sink into ins gnificance
The endowment of a University is also discussed
and is worth the highest consideration of the Leg
islature. Jefferson could not die until old Vir
ginia placed her name at tho head of the list for
a thorough university education. The school now
lives nf ,-t.tnh t,„ io t,„ f-fho. numbering over six
hundred students and is a monument to fits wis
dom and greatness—other matters of minor inter
est are being discussed in the State which will be
developed at tho meeting of tho Legislature. Un
til then, we wait with patience the settlement of
the Main Trunk Railroad difficulties, the Su
preme Court decision, and other questions to be
submitted to that body.
Colored Men’s State Convention.
Troy, N. Y., Sept. 14.—A Colored Men’s
State Convention is in session in this city. Wm.
Rich is President, and about forty delegates are
present. Resolutions were introduced to-day,
supporting the Republican State ticket, but have
not been acted upon.
The New York Evening I’osl.s ays:
A significant item in the annua! statistics of the
cotton trade is the large increase this year—33l,-
000 bales—in the exports of Great Britain, while
our own spinners have taken only 452,185 bales,
which is 213,533 bales less than the previous year.
A significant question is being forced on our
attention by the Quarantine charges at New York.
Is it necessary that cotton destined for the English
spinners should be exported via New York f
Charleston Courier.
There is not the slightest necessity for any such
tiling. There is an utility in it, however, to the
New York commission merchant and the Yankee
ship-owner, and, under a very reasonable idea,
that the charges which they manage to tack on
the raw material impart to it an additional value.
Wo do not look for any change in our practice.
The theory, that everything we export shall go
through New York, seems, indeed, to follow from
the proposition that every thing we import shall
come the same way. Thus we go, Hurrah for
New York!
TmT J. G. Baldwin, Esq., author of “Flush
Times of Alabama,’’ has been nominated by the
LeeomptoWites of California, for Judge of the Su
preme Court of that State.
[FOR TUE DAILY TIMES.]
To Memory.
Be still sad heart!
Why weep the past?
Can’st thou restore thy sunken treasure ?
’Tis Hope’s fond art,
When clouds o’ercast,
If youth’s fair stream
Flash golden beam,
On its course to the unknown river.
Weave not the dream
That its onward gleam
Mirrors morning skies forever.
The Russians and Americans in China.
One of Lt Habersham’s letters from China,
speaking of the fraternization of the Rus
sians anti Americans, says;
No sooner had the Allies thus established
themselves at Tein-sein, than our able rep
resentative, Mr. Win B Reed, left his large
cabin on board of the Minnesota ; pulled on
board of the Russian steamer of war Amer
ica, hoisted the American flag at her fore,
alongside of the Russian eagic, and was
steamed up toward Tein-Sein. Then was
seen a strange sight—an unnatural one al
most —despotism and freedom walking
hand in hand. On the quarter deck of the
Russian steamer of war America, walked
Count Poutaltme Mr Wmß. Reed, in earh
est conversation ; below, in the mess, Rus
sian and American officers drinking cham
pagne and fraternizing; and at the Ameri
ca’s foremost head waved the flags of Rus
sia and U. S. side by side. This is no new
tiling, this “ feeling” between Russia and
United Slates. It first became apparent
during the Crimean war, and has since de
monstrated itself in a thousand difierent
ways. Rumor save, indeed, that the Rus
sians have orders to/raternize with us; and
it certainly looks like it.
Health of. Augusta.—There were only
seven interments in Augusta during the
I week ending on the 16th inst. But one
I adult, who died in Aiken, S. C.
Yellow Fever—Galveston.
Thefollowing we believe lobe a correct
report ofall the deaths from yellow fever
up to this date :
[Sunday, the sth.—Alfonse Buschee, a
Frenchman ; Catherine Calhoun, in the
employ of Airs. Walker.
Monday, the 6th.—Leopoldina Foster, a
young woman in the employ of Mr. Hin
keldev, German.
Monday night.—Dr. C. Neuman, Ger
man.
Tuesday, the 7th.—C. Kirsaly, of Ger
many ; Wm. L, Hannay, American; Mrs.
Walker, dress-maker.
Wednesday, the Bth.—H. Hughes, Ame
rican; T. N. Blackmar, American; John
Keller, American ; Wm. Webber, German.
There was but one death last night—
that of Mrs. Wright—but this was not a
c ise of yellow fever. There have been no
deaths, that we can hear of to-day.
There were two or three deaths reported
in our Tuesday’s paper, as yellow fever,
but were not; therefore, the above is cor
rect.
Up to this time all the cases are report
ed doing well, except one.
We have consulted vvijh the Howard
Association committees for the several
Wards, and can hear of but two new cases
to-day, and these not considered bad. But
two cases have been known in the first
Ward, and no deaths. The above deaths
took place in the second and third Wards,
and most of them in Trornont street. Upon
inquiry we find that about half of those
who have died have recently come from
New Orleans.
The Howard Association have supplied
pursers and all necessaries to all who stand
in need of assistance; and we hear of two
or three families who were entirely desti
tute when first visited by the Howards.
We are glad to be able to report that all
our physicians have generously tendered
their services for all charity cases, without
chaige.
The present indications afford encourage
ment to hope that the disease will not
extend much further. The continued hea
vy rains, from time to time, attended with
thunder, and some pretty heavy winds, may
perhaps have-had the effect to remove the
infection.— Galveston News, Se.pt. 9 th.
The National Horse Exhibition at
Springfield.
Sj’kinnfied, Mass., Tuesday, Sept I t.
The third National Exhibition of horses
in this city opened to-day with the most
gratifying prospects of success. ‘The weath
er and all things are propitious to the occa
sion, and tlie attendance anti proceedings of
the day have most fully realized the antici
pations of those interested.
The display embraces a large number of
the most celebrated horses in the country,
the whole numbering about five hundred.
The general calvaeadeoi horses entered tor
the exhibition made the circuit of the
grounds this morning several times, pre
-1 ssentint one of the most magnificent eques
traiu spectacles ever witnessed here.
In the Park grounds the remainder of the
day was mostly occupied with the exhibi
tion of various classes of horses, whose
trials of speed and display of the superior
quaiitie's attracted enthusiastic admiration.
This evening a public reception took
glace jin the CityJJall, at, which spirited ad-
Dr. Chaffee, of this city : Solon Robinson,
ot New Y'ork; Richard 11. Yeadon, of
Charleston, S. C.; Air. Ladd, tate President
of the Ohio Agricultural Society,and Alayor
Lewis, of Worcester. The floor of the hall
was occupied by citizens aud guests from
abroad, and thegalleriesby a brilliant assem
blage of ladies. The reception throughout
was a very pleasant and enthusiastic affair.
A large number of people are arriving
from vari us parts of the country, and the
attendance during the remaining days of
the exhibition will be very great.
Among those that have arrived this even
ing are Gov. Battles and staff and N. P.
Willis.
The exhibition opens to-morrow with a
very interesting trial of speed, with stallions
of 8 years and upward, and among the
competitors will appear the celebrated hor
ses Ethan Allen. Hiram Dreic, and other
notables of the Turf.— Y. Y. Times.
Kissing.— Hardly any two females kiss
alike. There is as much variety in the
manner of doing it, as in the faces of the
sex. Some delicate, little creatures merely
give a slight rub of the lip. This is a sad
aggravation. We seem about to “have a
good time,” but actually get nothing.—
Others go into us like a hungry man into a
beefsteak, and seem to chew up our coun
tenances. This, which is not a common
case, is too much like Cannibal Islands, and
soon drives away a delicate lover. Others
struggle like hens while burying themselves
in dry dirt. The kiss is won by great ex
ertions, and is not worth as much as the
trouble it costs. Now, we are in favor of
a certain shyness when a kiss is propoposed,
but it should not be continued too long; and
when the fair one gives in, let her adminis
ter the kiss with warmth and energy. Let
there be a soul in it. If she closes her
eyes, and sighs deeply immediately after it,
the effect is greater. She should be care
ful not to “spread” the kiss, but give it as
a humming bird runs his bill into a honey
suckle, deep but delicately. There is much
virtue in a kiss when well delivered. We
have had the memory of one we received
last .
New York Politics. —The different do
tlicir'ticTu’fSlCff'l’liti'Tvhvriiifeer election, as
follows:
DEMOCRATIC.
For Gov., —Amasa J. Parker of Albany.
Lieut. Gov.—John J. Taylor, ol Tioga.
Caual Commissioners, —Sherburne B. Pi
per, of Niagara.
State Prison Inspector,—Edward T. Don
nelly, of New York.
AMERICAN.
For Gov.—Loienzo Burrows.
Lieut. Gov.—N. S. Benton.
Canal Commissioner, —J. R. Thompson.
Stale Prison Inspector, —W. A. Russell.
REPUBLICAN.
For Gov E. D. Morgan.
Lieut. Gov.—Robert Campbell.
Canal Commissioner,—Hiram Garner.
State Prison Inspector Everest.
The Epidemic.— This fearful malady con
tinues on the increase, and we can for the
present entertain no well founded hope ot
any immediate abatement. Contrary to all
precedents since 1847, and including that
year, its progress up to this late date has
been continuous, sometimes fluctuating
from day to day, but the weekly reports
showing a gradual increase. The returns
for the week ending last Sunday morning
at'six o’clock summed up four hundred and
seventy two, an increase of twenty three
over the preceding week.
The yellow fever interments for the cor
responding week in 1853, were 290; in 1847
they were 243; in 1854 they were 284; in
1855 they were 255. It will thus be seen
that the mortality at this present time is far
greater than at any previous time since
and .including 1847.— New Orleans Bul
letin-
Judge Breese on the Illinois Eletcion.
Carlyle, Sept. 7, 1858.
Rev. W. F. Boyakin, Ed. Bdlvilte Hem.
Dear Sir : —1 demand, as a right, to
know who requested you to say, as you
have said in an editorial of your paper, on
the 4t h inst., that “Judge Breese is not, nor
will he be, a candidate for the United .States
Senate in opposition to Air. Douglas ; and
all that has been said ia reference to his
stumping the State against the Democratic
party, is without any foundation what
ever.”
The article is artfully prepared, but it
will not deceive, if such was its object.
It never has been said in any paper, or
elsewhere, by anybody, that I intended to
stump the State against the Democratic
party; hence your disclaimer was wholly
unnecessary. You might have sworn on
your friend Casper Th ell’s bible, that T
never would be found in opposition to the
great Democratic party of the nation,
whose hardest battles I have helped to
fight and win, for more than a quarter of
a century. Yon might take your oath ot
that without fear.
But I think, friend Boyakin, your ideas
ofDemocraey and mine differ most essen
tially. Y'ou will pardon me for saying that
yours seem to be concentrated in one man,
while mine embrace great principles.—
Y’ours scent to tend to the disruption aud
debauchery of that great party ; mine, to
its conservatism and purity. Yours, if
carried out, will annihilate it; mine will
restore it to its prestine vigor.
What position [ may consider it my duty
to assume in this contest, now so fiercely
waged against the Democracy ot the na
tion, its cherished and time-honored princi
ples, and fiercer still against him to whom
that portion of the nation has committed
the power, will depend on circumstances.
One thing you may be assured, and mv
past life is the guarantee, that I wiil not be
silent nor inactive when 1 see, or think I
see, that great party in danger from con
spirators within its own bosom, or from foes
without. The last are least to be dreaded,
as their attacks are open in sunlight, ar.d
manly. The conspirator deals his blows
secretly ; lie gefe up false issues for the oc
casion, under the cover of which he makes
his attack. The species of warfare is now
in progress, and 1 am surprised you do not
see it.
They may destroy tho citadel, but the
foundations will remain; they are ever
lasting ; “the eternal years of God are hers,”
and on them the national edifice will be
re-buih, attracting the masses by the beauty
of its design, the solidity of its structure,
and by the pure purposes to which it
will be again dedicated. It will afford us
shelter from selfish and intractibie ambition,
and around its altars will be found none but
true and faithful worshippers.
Lend a helping hand to save the present
from the assaults of the destroyer, to which
you c.nnot and ought not to bo insensible.
Thus shall you be honored of men. Thus
shall you become a bright light and a safe
guide for our people. Thus only can you
preserve the principles you claim to rev
erence.
I hope you will publish this letter and
send me the name of the persons who gave
the authority you have exercised in regard
to me and my name.
Very truly and respectfully,
v ""’
Os Interest to R. R. Passengers.
The following table shows the proportion
of deaths and wounding, in the principal
railroad countries of the world :
Prussia, one to every 3,294,075.
Belgium, one to every 1,611,137.
France, one to every 375,095.
England, one to every 311,345.
U. States, one to every 188,459.
Morse has been decorated by
the French. Emperor with the Legion of
Honor. The Diplomatic Convention, which
had under consideration the recompense
Hue by the governments ot Europe to the
Professor for the use of his invention, met
on the 23d ult. It is generally supposed
that the affair is terminated, and that the
sum of 400,000 francs was agreed to.
The Quickest Ocean Passage. —The
last passage of the Persia to England, out
strips every previous one by some hours,
as verified by the Asia’s news. On the
18th ult., at 1.05, P. M., Lord Napier left
the deck of the Persia, then lying in the
stream; at 1.15 she got under way and
gave her farewell salute ; steamed on to
St. John’s, N. F., against a strong head
wind; took on board the mails and passen
gers of the crippled steamer Europa—
thereby causing a deviation from her course
of 23 hours; sailed for Liverpool, which
port she reached by 6, A. M., of the 28th.
Deduct 23 hours deviation, and 4.45 differ
ence of time, and the Persia has made the
passage in eight days thirteen hours.
Dodging tiie Question, —Sixty-five
“young men of color” in Boston applied the
other day to the Governor’s Council for
authority to form a military company under
the laws of Massachusetts. They were
refused on the ground that the whole num
ber of malitia authorised by the State was
enrolled. The committee to whom the mat
ter was referred, refused to go into the mer
its of the case. A good way. to dodge an
issue.
The Rice Harvest.— Although the wea
the past uTcsh extremely unfavorable for
been steadily pursued and good piugfeso
made. The crop, if not overtaken by un
foreseen disaster, promises to be a heavy
one. The weather, however, at present
wears a heavy and stormy aspect, which
causes the planters many fearfulforebodings
of the future morrow’. —Georgetown Times.
Plutarch speaks ol the long white beard
of an old Laconian, who, being asked why
he let it grow to such a length, replied, ‘-It
“is that, having my white beard continually
before my eyes, I may do nothing unworthy
its whiteness.”
At a bar dinner Mr. Sam Ewing, a law
yer and a great punster, was calfed upon
for a song, and while hesitating Judge Hop
kins observed that at the best it would be
but Sam (psalm) singing. “Well,” replied
Ewing,” even that would do better than
him (hymn) singing.”
Logic.
A writer'in the Westminster Review
once took the position that alcohol is food,
and offered the following logic in proof
of it.
“Food is force,
Alcohol is force,
Therefore alcohol is food*’
Dr. Mussey gives a formula equally legit
imate and conclusive, namely :
“Horse feed is force,
Whipping a horse is force,
Therefore whipping a horse is horse feed.”
Good logic tolerably; equal to :
“A horse has legs,
So has a man,
Therefore a man is a horse.”
WEDNESDAY, SEFTEMBi- R 22.
R. J. Walker and the Administration. —The
i-ouisville Journal says that when Robert J.
Walker was in the United States Senate, he was
the leader of the Democracy ot that body. From
the Senate Mr. Walker went into .Mr. Polk’
Cabinet as Secretary of the Taeasury, and, in that
capacity, made himsell the idol of the Democracy
everywhere When the Buchanan Administra
tion appointed him Governor of Kansas, the whole
Democratic party hailed his selection as the best
that could possibly have been made from the en
tire Union, and he was greeted with ten thousand
enthusiastic expressions of Democratic gratitude
tor the devotion manifested by him to the inter
ests of the Democratic party in condescending to
accept an office that might not be deemed fully
worthy ol his transcendant ability.
And now the Washington “Union,” the mouth
piece of the Administration, denounces Robert J.
Walker as ''a traitor and swindler.'’ Well, asks
the “Journal” if traitors and swindlers are thus
henored and trusted and lauded and idolized by
the Democracy of the Union, what is Demoratie
honor or trust or laudation or idolatry worth ‘!
The editor of the Louisville Journal has the
reputation of a very shrewd and sagacious indi
vidual—a reputation which was never won and
can not be sustained by the perpetration of such
paragraphs as the foregoing. He employs the fact
of antagonism between the pastand present conduct
of the Democracy towards Mr. Walker as a mat
ter of reproach to that party, and assumes thereby
that the inconsistency is due to it. This position
involves a petitio principii, so manifestly that
any school boy may detect it. When Robt. J.
Walker was a member of the United States Sen
ate, and subsequently, of Mr. Polk's Cabinet, he
was considered a true friend to the Constitution
and trie South, iliseminent services in behalf of
tho annexation ot Texas, especially endeared him
to the Southern Democracy. The statement made
by the Journal, then, is true, that his appointment
as Governor of Kansas was hailed with satisfaction
by his whole party. But what has this to do with
his political “treason” or tho question of the pro
priety of the sentence pronounced against him.
Does the Journal intend to say, that having once
approved, weean never condemn. Such.indeed,
would not’be a far-fetched inference from the ar
ticle we have quoted. Under the administralion
of that rule, by what penance can history ever
atone for the injustice she has done to Arnold and
his compeers in evety age, whose names have been
inscribed upon the roll of infamy ? We will not
infill the intelligence of our readers with an at
tempt to prove Walker’s desertion of the South
during his administration in Kansas. That is one
point on which all parties here are united. The
motive ofhis defection, also, is too plain to re
quire comment Our cotemporary is doubtles.
impelled to his oblique commendation of this
quondam Kansas functionary by the considera
tion that his partv has gained what the Democracy
has discarded. It is quite natural thus to magnify
the importance of our own acquisitions ; but it is
not, under a'l circumstance, praise-worthy. The
virtuous sentiment of the world has applauded the
peoplo ot Great Britain for the contempt and ab
horrence with'which they regarded Arnold—the
traitor.
Judicial Convention,—Chattahoochee.
We have received the Cuthbert Reporter con
taining an account of the Democratic Judicial
Convention, which assembled at Cuthbert. We
have given our readers the proceedings of the Con
vention, and it is unnecessary to re-print them.
Col. David B. Harrell of Webster, was the per
manent Chairman, and Messrs. T. L. Guerry and
L. B. Standifer, Secretaries.
In addition to what we have given i(l a previ
ous issue, wo find the followin'? resolution .Ann-
Eesolved, That the members of the Legislature
from the counties composing the l’ataula Circuit
be requested to oppose the annexation of Chatta
hoochee county to the Chattahoochee Circuit.
We promise oar friend. Col. Raiford ot Chatta
chee, the mover of this resolution, that we will not
force Chattahoochoe county (old Muscogee) into
this Circuit against the will of the citizens. We
have great respect for our old friends and would
be pleased to form an alliance with them were it
not so unpleasant Truth compels ns to say, how
ever, as one of tho Representatives of this Cireuitt
in the Legislature, that we have never heard of the
proposition.
Interestino to Newspaper Proprietors.—
One of the courts of the State of Indiana recently
made a decision which is of interest to all news
paper proprietors throughout the Union. A con
troversy existed relative to a charge for advertis
ing between the Commissioners of Hamilton coun
ty and the Patriot newspaper. It was held by the
Judge that “the published terms of newspapers
constitute a eonti act. If work is given tq news
paper publishers, without a special contract con
travening the published terms, the publisher can
charge and receive according to the terms so pub
lished It is not necessary to prove what the
work cost or was worth ; the publishers have a
right to fix the estimate value ol their columns,
and if so fixed, no other question need be asked,
but the price thus charged can be recovered.”
Cable Signals Ceased!
As will be seen from our telegraphic dispatch
es, the signals through the great Atlantic Cable
have ceased The ominous silence of the opera
tors as to the cause of the interception of mes
sagas have prepared the public mind for this rev
elation. The men of science may now exhaust
the resources of their prolific minds to solve the
mystery, if it is not soon ascertained that tho foil
ure arises from a parting oi the cable. The exper
iment, however, is tried sufficiently to test the
practicability of so great an enterprise and the cel
ebration in New York and the bonfires and illu
minations in honor of the achievement will only
serve as a stimulus to nobler exertions in the fu
ture. The end will yet he attained and another
cable will yet be laid, which will unite together
these two mighty nations of the eayh.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
of the above institution, Mr. O. I'. ranniD, i*t>
been removed by the Board of Commissioners. A
meeting was held by a portion of the citizens of
Cave-bpring. Floyd County,—where the Institu
tion is situated—expressive of the high apprecia
tion in’which Mr. Fannin is held and regretting
the summary manner of his removal and the secta
rian spirit which prompted it We know nothing
of the merits of the controversy, but learn from
the resolutions passed at the meeting, that the
Legislature will be memorialized to retain Mr Fan
nin,
The Yellow Fever.
For the twenty four hours ending Friday noon,
(Sept. 17) there were sixty three deaths reported
by the Board of Health of New Orleans. In Mo
bile, there were four deaths on Saturday (the 18th
inst. The disease lias abated in Savannah and the
quarantine laws are no longer enforced.
The First Overland California Mail.
The first overland California mail via. Jefler
son City and Springfield, Mo.,Fort Smith, Ark.,
and Preston, Texas, took its departure from the
St. Louis Post Office this morning. It goes by
the Pacific Railway to Tipton, Mo., thence by
coaches and spring wagons to San f rancisco.
Fare from St. Louts to San Francisco, S2OO.
Bishop Geo. F. Pierce —This gifted son of
Georgia preached last night at St. Johns’ Metho
dist Church, to a large congregation. iNotwith
standim’ be was laboring under much indisposition,
he preached an interesting and eloquent sermon
from 2d chap. 4th verse Romans. “Or depisest
thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance
and long-suffering ; not knowing that the good
ness ot God leadeth thee to repentance V'—Ang,
Dispatch.
Washington Items.
Commander Charles Steedman has been
appointed Light-house Inspector of Phila
delphia district, vice Commander Yard, de
tached.
Lieutenat Alercomh lias been transferred
from the Navy-Yard, New York, to the re
ceiving ship North Carolina.
Lieut, James AI. Duncan lias been order
ed to the New York Navy-Yard.
The revenue is so much improving that
the Treasury Department does not antici
pate the necessity of asking any more
loans.
The President is personally paying at
tention to the military expedition to be sent
under Gen. Harney against the Indians in
Washington and Oregon Territories, and
to the expedition preparing against Para
guay. Several of the Secretaries were sent
for to the White House, Saturday.
Gen. Harney will sail for the Pacific on
the 20th inst, He will have a force of
about three thousand men when all the
contingents arrive. He expects to make
short work of this new Indian war.
Air. Westervelt, of New York, was at the
Navy Department to-day, and says he will
have the Brooklyn sloop-of-war finished
and ready for her trial trip within two
months.
The overland mail routes to the Pacific
side of the Continent, which Postmaster
General Brown lias been so indefatigable in
maturing, are all arranged, and will com
mence service next month.
Dr. Thomas Rainey, of New Y ork, has
been appointed by the President special
Agent to accompany the re-captured Afri
cans and deliver them to the authorities of j
Liberia. He is well known in connection !
with the enterprise for establishing a line ;
of steamers between the United States and
Brazil, which he will continue to press at
the next session of Congress.
Louisiana Intelligence.
The Mount Lebanon Baptist ol the 9th
inst., has the following :
ft is still very dry, and has been warm j
for a week past, but windy, and conse- j
quently not so oppressive, it has been fav- !
orable to health.
The cotton crop, it is now clear, will be j
short in North Louisiana. The bottom may
yield well, but the drought lias cutoff the
hill crops. Everybody now concedes that
the average crop form North to Middle ■
Louisiana will boa short one, and if so, it j
must he thtough the entire State, and also !
from Arkansas and Texas, as the drought j
has prevailed throughout the Southwest, j
This country is wonderfully infested with j
caterprillars at this time. The hickory and
gum trees are almost covered with their
white webs. Many trees have not a leaf!
left. YVe never saw the like before. They I
scarcely touch any tree but a hickory or j
sweet gum.
The Caddo Gazette of the 11th says:
The weather has been warns and sultry I
during the week. \\ r e hate been visited !
with occasional showers which laid the dust \
and cooled the atmosphere. Nothing pan j
save the cotton crop on the hills; only a
half crop will bo made and fully half of that j
is now open.
From the Chicago Times, Sept. 13.
The Grain Trade of Chicago
-33,852 bushels oats, making 813,480 bush- |
els of grain. The Iota! teceipts of the season |
are now 313,058 barrels Hour, 7,372,859 j
bushei wheat, 6,784,977 bushels corn, and j
1,820,763 bpshels oats, making a total of j
over seventeen millions of bushels of grain j
—namely, 17,543,889 bushels.
The ship ments during the last .
week have been 10,475 barrels flour, 170,- \
868 bushels of grain. The total shipments
of the season are now 249,167 barrels flour,
6,702,916 bushels wheat, 6,138,318 bushels
corn, and 1,192, 090 bushels oats, making a
total of over fifteen millioubushels of grain j
namely, 15,279,152 bushels.
The price of wheat has been declining all j
the week, and, although it recovered yester- j
day morning under the influence of the
news hy the steamer Vanderbuilt, yet it fell J
again in the afternoon, and closing prices ;
are: for white winter, §1 15; No. 1 red j
winter, $1 07 a $1 08, and No. 2 spring, j
70 a 72 cents—all in store.
Corn holds its own well, and the best sells
at 62 a 63 cents on hoard.
Live hogs sold yesterday at $3 a $4 per
100 pounds, live weight, equal to $3 75 a
$5 nett ; the average selling price being
$3 50 a @3 75.
From Utah and Kansas.
St. Louis, Sept. 16.—The Salt I.3ke
mail, with advices to the 21st, has arrived at
St. Joseph’s.
Brigham Y’oung keeps concealed, fearing
the vengeance of the Alormon*, on account
of numerous frauds which ate charged
against hint.
Independence, AIo., Sept. 15-—Captain
AfcLean, of the U. S. Army, reached Santa
Fe on the 29th ult., with the report that a
battle had, without doubt, taken place be
tween Major Brooks’ command and the
Navajos. The lattler had offered Major
Brooks several thousand sheep and a thou
sand poneys as indemnification for the loss
of his negro.
Leavenworth, Sept. 15. —The Pike’s
Peak gold excitement has increased to a
perfect mania, and large numbers are con
stantly setting out for the new El Do
rado.
A stage line is being organized thence
llon. L. Q. C. Lamar. —T he gallant Rep
resentative from the first district addressed
an immense concourse of the citizens of
Tippah at theG’ourt House on Monday last.
His speech replete with wisdom and sound
logic, gave great satisfaction to his audi
ence as was manifested from the repeated
rounds of applause which often interrupted
his most eloquent passages.
We have reason to be proud of our Rep
resentative —Tippah is satisfied with him
and his services. He has no superior in
Congress from Mississippi.— Ripley Adver
tiser.
Boston Post and Prentice. —Vve only
have to say to a writer in the Boston Post,
that whenever he undertakes to perpetrate
a joke upon us, either in prose or verse, he
has no business to steal our wit to do it
with; it has generally been supposed that
the eagle wasn’t very well pleased at being
shot with an arrow fitted with a feather
from his own wing.—Prentice.
OLD HU.NCKS VS. PRENTICE.
The jackdaw, with many a flutter and flop,
Showedihatthe arrow had stuck in his crop !
And said lie-“Frieud, how shabby a thing
To feather your shaft trom the eagle’s own wing!
1 see my own plume, and it doubles the sting!”
“A fig”—grinned Old liuncks—“for your plume
and your peck !
Now don’t come the eagle—you’re shot in the
ck!”
Someone speaking of a celebrated bass
singersaid, “Heled a very abandoned life.”
“ Oh,yes,” replied Sealey, “ the whole
tenor of ais life has been base.”
PEYTON H. COLQUITT, ( Ed - t
JAMES W. WARREN, l ’
Number 38
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.
The Musccgee Railroad.
The Stockholders of this company, apd ourcit
’ izens generally will be pleased to learn that the
l present season has opened under circumstances
highly encouraging to the business of the Road.
The past year has been one ol disaster to all
j branches of industry and trade- To this general
fact railroad operations have not formed an ex
j eeption. The last crop being a short one, especial
ly in the region contiguous to Columbus, there
j wasa largediminujiou of eastward freights; and our
merchants, exercising a wise caution were less ex
travagant in their purchases and, hence, there was
a marked decrease in westward freight. The same
! cause operating upon the travelling public induced
a general curtailment of expenditure, and a falling
j ofi in passenger receipts was the consequepce.—
VV ith the assured prospect of better times every
thing leaps forward. Men are bustling to and
tro in the greedy race for profit. Depots are crowd
| cd with boxes ot merchandise “just received.”—
Cotton goods find a good demand at remunera-
I ting prices, and the Staple, caught up by eager
purchasers at satisfactory figures, moves on to
the manufacturer. The common carrier trans
ports the cotton, the merchandise, the traveller
and thus is beneiitted by the great business revival.
The Muscogee Railroad has been in operation six
j years, and during that time, has foiled to declare
| only two rferni-annual dividends. For tiie past
six months, embracing the period of disaster to
, which we have alluded, the earnings of the road
fell short only a few thousand dollars of the
amount necessary to make a dividend this fall.
The President aud Board of Directors wisely, we
l think, determined not to embarrass the road, un
der any contingency, and kept this amount still to
. the credit of the company.
YVe have obtained from the President, Mr. Jno.
L. Mustiau, the following comparative statement
of receipts since the Ist of August to the 20th Sep
tember 1858 and the coirespouding period ot last
year.
Receipts for Aug. 1858. 1857.
$10,340 14 7,927 01,
First 20 days Sept. 10,163 51 6,841 65,
Total, 20,503 65 14,768 66,
11,768 66 •
Balance for 50 days. 5,731 99 In favor of 1858
from this exhibit it is hardly probable that an-,
other dividend will be passed over soon, aud we
sec no reason why tits Stock should not rapidly
appreciate.
Geii l William Walker’s Return.
This gentlemao of Nicaraguan fame, as was
published in yesterday’s dispatches, has left New
Y ork lor tho home ol his adoption. He sails via
Aspinwall and takes troops on board with him at
Panama. Never in the political history of any
Country have we seen such an exhibition of in
domitable energy and iuvariablenoss of purpose as
displayed by this man. The Americanization of
Nicaragua is the aim of iiis life—the soul ofhisex
istence No matter what may he said of Ins per
sonal ambition—no,matter liowgreat hfspropen
sity to title—no matter how treated by his own
government, the great enterprise commands the
sympathy ot tho Southern people, and moves on
ward in spite of hinderances and obstacles. It is
no adulation of one man that causes the heart ot
the South to vibrate in unison with every throb of
leelinir f„r n: ...
happy people—planting the standard of republi
— restitutions upon Nicaraguan shores—breath
ing into her vitals the life-restoring principles of
freedom that swells with joyous emotions the
bosom of American freeman. And the day may
not be far distant, when William Walker—abused,
ill-treated and hunted down as he is—will be Presi
dent of the Nicaraguan Republic--the Costa
Ricans r.o longer groaning under the yoke of a
foreign tyranny, the fields yielding the rich fruits
of negro labor, her soil inviting repose for the
oppressed of every nation.
II the American people from Gen. Cass down
to the humblest peasant could glory in the suc
cess of Walker w hen the star of his destiny shone
with almost meredian brightness, now that it is
rising from the dark clouds of adversity and mis
fottune which lias overshadowed it for the last six
or eight months,it should he hailed with the same
joy and delight. May itneverset in eternal dark
ness or gloom!
Fort Gaines,—Daily Mail.
We are gratified to lay before our readers in
Clay county the following letter from the Post
Office Department, which gives them mail facili
ties and privileges never before en joyed. It will
be seen by the contraSt proposed, that the citizens
ot Fort Gaines will have a daily four-horse coach
mail, instead of a little hack as heretofore. This
places Columbus and Fort Gaines in close conti
guity and gives the enterprising ponple of the latter
place an opportunity of receiving the latest tele
graphic intelligence the morning after its publica
tion in Columbus. Too much credit cannot be
given to our immediate Repreeentative, Mr. Craw
ford, for this change, lie has been untiring in his
exertions to give his constituents every mail facility
within his power. May we not expect from this
arrangement a large list of subscribers so our Daily,
which will give the people of Fort Gaines the
latest news twelve hours in advance of the mails
from other points? Here is the letter:
Post Office Department, Contrrct Office/
September, 17th, 1858. J
Sir: In answer to yours of the 13ih inst., I have
the honor to state that the Postmaster General
has issued an order to the contractors on Route
7208, from Seal’s Station, Ala., to Cuthbert, Ga.,
to carry a branch mail from Georgetown, by
Pomaria, to Fort Gaines, and back daily, in four*
horse coaches, at prorata pay, amounting to
$1,908 additional per annum if they decline, the
postmaster at r"ort names win do instructed to
a —Ay— a.iitftKle oerson to perform the
Very respectfully,
WM. H. DUNDAS,
Second Assistant Post Master General.
Hon. M. J. Crawford, Columbus, Ga-
Cotton Receipts. —Seldom has the history of
the Cotton market of this city exhibited so large
receipts for the month of September as now. The
cotton is flowing in from all directions, running
up the daily receipts frequently to a thousand bales.
This may be owing to the fine prices paid by the
buyers, the rust ripening the cotton, the fine
weather for pickiug or the large quantity made
this year. From our exchanges, however, we
gather that the crop is a short one, and the largo
receipts are owing to the other causes above men
tioned. We cannot tell how long the market will
continuo to present inducements for the farmer to
sell. Certain it is there is no good reason for
storing his cotton, when it is commanding the pre
3entprices.
‘he ‘23rd inst., has been selected
by the City Council of Charleston as a day for
supplication and prayer to Almighty God for an
alleviation of the afflictions caused by the pesti
lence.
Albany, ~ept. 16. — Four hundred guns were
fired in different sections of the city this noon by
the Democracy on the reception ol the nomina
tions. _ _
An Indiana paper refuses to publish eu
logies gratis, but adds: VVe will publish
the simple announcement of the death ol
any of Qttr friends with pleasure.