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R. ELLIS & CQ., Proprietors. Volume XVIII. rou'MiTs. ti ksmv, maam 2e. The Late Election*— Democracy. It is a matter of congratulation with every pa triot of the country that the Democracy at the North have fallen in a struggle /or,prineiple. Ris ing above the‘horizon ofpresent passion ami local prejudice, they planted themselves upon those im mutable truths which have heretofore guided as a beacon light the Democratic party and preferred a temporary defeat to a sawrihoe of principle and an ill-gotten victory. The R. miMiean party stooped to every subtifngefor stiecoJs&nd had iro bond of union except the cohesive power wf spoils. They gathered to their embrace protective tariff and dis affected Douglas Democrats ami free-labor Am ere ieans and foiight with a desperation worthy a bet ter cause. The renegade Forney—whose vault ing ambition had overleaped itself, whose disap pointment andje-hagrro at not receiving a high of fice froth the President burned Its a brand in the quivering flesh—used all his great powers to tie feat his old friends and accomplish a victory for his former enemies. Notwithstanding this unholy alliance against the Democracy, we Cud men, like Hon. J. Giancey Jones of Pennsylvania, rejecting the olive branch tendered them of a. high impost on iron and clinging to the old time-honored demo cratic principles with all thu zoal and honest en thusiasm, that the Christians'of the Middle age hugged to their bosoms the Holy Cross. Is hot the prestige of such a defeat worth a thousand vic tories? In lowa and Indiana, however,- the Democracy have .triumphed; and the true inch of the party are encouraged to believe that iu those places where it-has met with defeat. it has been aeeom- an opposition whose elements are in congruous and whose uuin will prove tobc a “rope of gaud”—Then the democracy should not be dis heartened. The voiep of the South will sooif speak in'tones of-approbation to’ those true men at the North who recently tell in the hard-4bught. Lc eonrpton struggle— a tribute of just applause To those \ylfo died in such a eaiy-o. The Administration, too, ha stood by the South. Tlio tone of the Washington Un-ion to wards those democrats who hankered after the flesh pots of Federalism —who advocated an unjust dl? crimination against the agriculturists of the coun try in favor bfii few nianu fa otare?? of Iron—is in deed significant. It proves Conclusively that the Admin is Uat fen with principle for its guide will oppose all false doctrines with the same purity of purpose and patriotic motive, which actuated the iron-nerved Jackson to demolish a United States bank or veto iniquitous internal inijO*wvemwnL bills passed by Congress—All honor to me Administra tion and its faithful followers! Comptroller GcHfraP* Report. We resign a large portion -of our space, this morning, tr tire able report of Peterson Thweatt, Esq., Comptroller General for the State. The whole report displays a degree of energy and in dustry iu the collection of facta, and of just obser vation lqmn our system of taxation which may not be fotmd in other pa[vrs issued f I*9lll tlqit office, before the installation of the present incumbent. That portion of it which we publish, gives a suc cinct and lucid exhibition of the finances of the .'■Hate, their manner of distribution, and the prob able condition of the Treasury at the close of the fiscal year IS6U. It assumes, or rather demon strates, that after paving the ordinary expenses of the State Government, re due in j the public ifeht s4s,ftftft, and setting u part bn* extraordinary ap propriations the sum ofslw,o<Ml a surrplffc will re main in the,Treasury of $210,32$ lb to bo devoted to whatever purpose thw Legislature may direct. This js certainly a flattering representation of the financial condition anT! prospect? of Georgia. It is based, mainly, upon’ the* assumptUm (to the truth of which the experience of the last eight months imparts a high degree of fixedness.) that the Western *mi Atlantic Railroad will continue to yield a nett income of $25,000 per month. In compliance with an .Vet of the Legislature making it the duty of the Comptroller General to accom pany his Annual Report with such recommenda tions with respect to the revenue laws of this State as to him may seem Mr. Thweatt has in dulged his license at considerable, but not too great length. .We have.read his suggestions care billy, and heartily concur in every recommend at ion he has made. ’Our sbace will not allow us to consid er them here, but we Will advert to some ul them at au early day. -His views are so just arid bear upon subjects of such general interest that they deserve to be pressed upon public attention. It will appear from the tables annexed to the report, that the Comptroller General has not confined himself to the requirements of official dntjf, blit has carried his exertions beyond them, and collec ted much statistical informal ion bti via g an inti mate and important relation with subject? which, doubtless, will'claim the early and earnest atten tion of our Legislature. We allude to Jlie sub jects of Education. Free and Common IH-Ttpols Ac. We feel confident that the report will commdhd itself to all who will take the trouble to examine it*, and will win for Mr. Thweatt the meed of praise which it i> always the'pleasing duty of a people to accord to a public servant, wlio discharges fns otficial obligations with so much energy and faith fulness. Give its a Chance. The receipts of the Muscogee Railroad, although large beyond precedent, are greatly diminished by insufficient means of transportation. The cause of this lies not iu any deficiency of rolling stock owned by said Company, but in the fact that*the ears, freighted at this point with cotton, are not returned with sufficient promptness by Lie roads east of us. We are not acquainted with the diffi culty which may lie in the way of a remedy for this state of things and eamvof, therefore, charac terize the responsibility which they incur for- this negiecL; but, it is apparent that the result must be very prejudicial* to this market. TherUare now awaiting shipment 3.600 bags of cotton and only a dozen cars arehere to do the work! No wonder our marker has been and is depressed. We hope the Central and South-Western Roads will have a care for our situation aqd do whatever iu their power lies to relieve m • Tiik Ntxt El i.ecTio x s.—Ellect i mumpers to Congress will Ire held in Massachusett York. New Jersey, Delaware, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin, on Tuesday, the 2d uay of No vember. - Hanging in Greensboro ton. —The boy Thornton, convicted as accessory to the murder of Mr. Johes. in Greene county, on Mr. Hart’s plantation, was. hung on yesterday. A Targe concourse of people assembled to sec the awful spectacle. —AnyMsta Dispatch, 2‘.id. Fragrant Oil. —Collect a quantity of the leaves of any flowers that have an agreable fragrance: card thin layers of botfen, and dip into the finest sweet cil: sprinkle a suptH quantity ot-fine salt on the flowers, and lay first ahiyer of ridtongrid then a layer or flowers. until an earthenware vessel, or a wide-mouthed glass bottle, is full* Tie the top well over with a bladder, then place the vessel hi a southern aspect, so that k may have the beato-l the sun: and in fiftteen days. When uncovered, a fragrant oil in ay be squeezed away from the whole mass. , -The friends of the Hon-J. Glanecy Jones, at Reading, Pa., fired one hundred guns on hear ing of his appointment as Minister to Austria. 1. ‘ I . [7&f* Messrs. Newell A-Co., of London. have a contract with the Thrkish Government for laying down a telegraphic cable between Cape Hellas and Alexandria. By this cable England will be brought in immediate’ telegraphie eom mußieation the latter efty. from which a laud line is to bo laid to"A<lnc, and carried 1 through the-lied Sou and Persian Gulf to India, Gone toJEN rorh. —Among rhe passengers for HnVfe *by the Arago, oh Saturday, was Mrs. Crawford, widow.of the distinguisho*! sculptor.— She now returns with her four children, to her residence in Italy, whence sfie was recalled by the fatal illne.ss of her husband. REPORT. Comptroller General’s Office. A!Hitdg< viUe, Oct. 2(yth , 1858. To His Excellency Joseph E Brow n. Governor : :—ln compliance with the provisions of an act of the'2Bth Deccniher, 1848, I have the hbnoi* to lay before your Excellency a statement of the receipts and'disbursement s at the Treasury during the fiscal year 1858, shotting a balance in. the Tfeasnrv at the end of Uic year, of $155,918 65. Os this balance $455,918 65, now in the Treas ury, there i, however, unavailable, the sum of 88>25,564, cqnsisting of the following items, viz : Bank stock. (Education Fund.) - - $290,906 00 .Stock in Milledgovilie aiid 0. Rail road, -’ - - - - 20.000 00 Darien Bank bills. - 2.237 75 W estern & Atlantic R. It. Sqyipt, - - 4,784 75 Uneutreui funds, .... 7,042 00 Total - - - $325,501 00 Leaving :ui available balance in the Treasury of sj;iOJ >4-05 to meet the balance unpaid on the appropriations foivlßsß, amounting to the sum of SI 10.180 4J. There was an available balance in the Treasury on the 20th October, 1857, of 112,- 202 10, to moot.appropriations unpaid, aiaownt ing to 88.4,11 I 30: lea ving the --urn of 828,151 80, a? a balance iu the Treasury.after paying all the a P!TopriaVioJis for 1857. An .ithfciraet from the b<oks of this- office, accompanies this report aAroquircd by an act of tin* 23d of Dec.. iS39, set tiug forth the amounts of the general apprekpriayons, both eointnon and special, under their respective heads: The dates and amounts of warrants approved: In whose fa v< r drawn : and, Thp halftucc undrawn or each appropriation. - And as re}Uired by the ;u*t of the 26th of Dee.. 1821, an exhilut is herewiilt submitted, showing the amount of taxes wiwi VUich the inhahitarns of each county in the Slate stands charged in the digests returned to this office by the several Re- j eeivers of Tax Return , for the year Josß, from which itnppears that the tax a>sesse<l amounts, in the aggregate, tor the sum of $441,965 06. Receipts anj> Disbursements of the Tkkas- i Os rhe Receipts iuto the Treasury during the 1 fiscal veer. 1858. there was received : On account of the General Tax, 1857, £390,897 20 | Net earnings, Western and Atlantic R. R. 500.00(1 00 1 Bank Tax. - - - - 21.120 11 From Bank dividend?; - 29,57*5 00 Railroad tnx, - - - - - 6,204 91 From miscellaneous item?, (a more full Recount of which will be found in another part of this report.) - - 5,575 88 8 ale of bonds to the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, - 100,000 00 Total receipts, - - - 763,573 13 Add to this balance available fund - in the Treasury. 21st Oct., 1857, 112:262 16 And we have a total fund of- $875,835 20 Os the disbursements of the Treasury duriug'the same time, there has been paid: On account of (Tvif establishmcßi, ’57, 16.996 00 Contingent fund, 1857: - 2,18*2 82 Printing fund. 1857; 1.715 57 Poor School fund. 1857. 30.6H4 00 appropriations ot 5)0, , ;o !, Civil - 40,205 56” Contingent fund. 18;7S, - - 8,18170 Printing fund. 185<8, , - - 18,449 85 Over-payments. 1858. - - 2,054 57 I-’or pnv of member? and officer? of the Legislature, - - 114.212 25 ‘• reduction'of the PaMie l>edt, - 40.722 22 •• interest, on ‘ do. do. 102,016 83 ** subserijyEf<)n to Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. - 100.000 00 “ Lunatic Asylum—for building, 57.000 00 , “ do. do. furniture. 5.000 00 | do. do. ‘ v stfpport of pau per patients. - 15,000 00 , o do. do. ‘ sal. Huper’t 1,800 00 , “ do. do. officers J serv’ts, 9.412 50 *• Deaf and DtVmb Asylum—for sup port of pufdls: - - - 8.000 00 Academy lor the Blind-for build’gv? 15,-600 00 ‘ do. ‘ do. support of pupils, 4,500 00 rt Georgia Military s 'lnstitute, for sup port of Cadets, - - - 2,000 00 Favannah Medical College, for build ings: Ac„ - *- - - 15,006 00 Atlanta do. do. do. IJ,OOO 00 “ Peniteutiajy, for pur. of provisions. 2,5000 00 i: other miscellaneous appropriations, which will le seen in au abstract accompanying triis report, amount ing in all to - - - 50,646.30 Total, - - - - $745,480 64 While the demands upon the Treasuryfor the fiscal year, 1858* ie $77.251> 78, more than wore the demands upon the Treasury during the fiscal year. 1857, stiii the receipts int the Treosury , (not including the proceeds from the sale of Btato Bmids) from all source? except the \i esteni and Atlantic RAilroafl irnve been $22,037 60 I*** than , they were in 1857. The reason for this is: Ist, more of the old tax chums that were worth any thing. were collected last year: and, 2dly, there • was received in IBsvß, 811,332 68, less from the general tax of 1857, than was received in 1857 from the general tax of 1856. The increased re ceipts from the Western and Atlantic Railroad be ing this year $91,500 ww than tluit of iast yoar. The payment inly the Treasury in 1857, from the road being $108,500, It will therefore be seen that, but for the follow ing monthly incomes into the Mate Treasury this year, from the urn earnings of the W estern and At lantic Railroad, the State could not have met the ordinary expenses of government, reduced the public debt and paid the interest on the same as it became due. and met the large appropriations of the last Legislature>t.> the Lunatic Asylum. Acn demy for the Blind, Medical Colleges, Ac. Ac., as they have been called for, without temporarily borrowing money for this purpose: As it is, all demands have been prompty met, and there is an abundaut'£urpkis—and w ith, tho taxes for 1858. now coming iu, and with further anticipated re ceij>ts from the railroad, this will eontmue to increase from day to day. There b stiU due to the Atlantic and Gulf Rail road Company the sum ot $400,000 : (and the Slate is bound fur a further subscription of ssffi.- 000, when the private stockholders raise an addi tioual $000,009:) but die Aqt making the State’s subscription to this work, provided also lor the is sue <4 State six per cent, bonds, payable at -the ex piration of twenty years, in the event of .there not being money in the Treasury, to meet the install ments as they are culled for: consequently, this subscription has been charged, to the Treasury only as the bonds have been issued and sold to the company, Having thus dwelt upon and exhibited the op erations of our State Government, Unancruiiy, lor the past twelve mouths, 1 will now turn with greater pleasure to the future, ensuing fiscal year, as k exhibits the financial affairs of Georgia in a still more flourishing and flattering condition. With an almost nominal State tax,* it being but three fourths of a mill on the dollar, or seventy-five cents on thivone thousand dollars,on all the prop erty in Georgia—except bank and railroad capital —we shall raisa/or the ensuing fiscal ‘ ‘ x ar,* at least $275,000. Judging from the past eight months,and if the Biq)erLrricudeirt ot the estern A Atlantic Railroad bo .not greatly mistaken, saiu road will “pay into the J? tale treasury, as net cani ings. at least $300,000 annually. Aild to this the bank tax of $61,120 Jl: the dividends from bank stock. $29,575 00: the tax on railroads $6,204 94 : and from miscellaneous items. $5,775 88, and wo will have an income of $747,675 88. \V hile on the othef haud r it is not at all probable that the ex traordinary appropriations for 1859. will be. as large as they werp this year by $150,000. The Luuatic Asylum, Academy for the Blind. Georgia Milkarv institute,- and Medical Colleges of Sav annah and Atlanta, having been provided for to a liberal extent, it is not supposed that much more if anv, will be asked for to complete their build ings,’ Ac.. Ac. This being the case, it will be seen that there will boa large surplus at the end of the year, to be applied to the reduction of the Public Debt, to Education, or to any other purpose the representatives of the people may think’ .proper. THJE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES. Assuming then, that the ordinary receipts irfto the Treasure f*.r the fiscal rear 1-859. will be as follows, vh: F rum, General Tax, .. - - $375,000 00 Nei Earnings. of W. A A. Railroad, 300,000 00 Bunk tax v - -’ ,31.126 TI Bank Dividend?. - - - 29.575 00 t ; Railroad Tax, - - - - 6.204 91 Miscella neon sit-ins - - v 5,775 88 * l|alang§.after paying Apprupiatiens for 1858. - - , - - 29.221 22 And we have total, - - $767,906 10 The demand upon the Treasury for the same ’ year will approximate as follows: To pay members of the Legislature $160,000 00 ** Civil Establishment, 1859, 70,009 00 •• Contingent Fund, 1859, 11,000 00 ■Printing Fund, 1859, 24,900 00 Poor School Fund, 1858, 29,575 00 ’ Reduction of Public Debt, 45.000 00 ‘‘ Interest on Public Debt 170,000 00 ** Support of pauper pat Leals .Lunatic Asylum, 15,000 00 ‘* Salary of Supt. do, 1,800 Oft ** olhor officers and-ervt? 10,000 00 ** Support of pupil?, Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 8,000 00 “ Support pi pupils, Academy for the Bund. 4,500 00 ’ “ Support of Cadets Georgia • Military Institute, 2,000 00 Purchase . of Provision? for Penitentiary 2,500 00 a Salary for Chaplain for do'. 150 00 State Library—for purchase of book?, 1,000 oft •• •* lor Salary of Librarian, 600 00 Military Store Keeper at Savannah, 300 00 “ ‘ *• at MilledgeviUe, 150 00 For extraordinary appropriations, ay 50,000 4TO j Total ----- $548,756 00 | It will thuff be seemthat after meeting the or- | binary demand? upon the tn usury, and reducing the public debt $45,000, and olio wing *550,000 for “ miscellancou.: or extraordinary appropriations, l there will still be a surplus of ply to a further reduction of the Public Debt, to j Education, or to any other purpose the next l-*eg- j ijfiature may direct. Except the bonds ix.-ued, (bearing 7 per cent.) to pay fbe liabilities, of rhe Central Bank, amount ing in all now to $241,060, find whidrarc aitmial- j i.y falling due iu conap*tr4ively stiinli sums, there ! will be u< Slate bopds (fur sooner than 1.862. ! There are. however, $289,500 of State bonds issu- I ed in 1815. fi,r the benefit ofthe railroad, and mil ! dfle until 1863 and 18{8, but the State in isstrfttg i Ihem having reserved to itself the right to redeem | these bonds can uvw bo i*ckmetk t ai anv time the j S rate-chooses to do so. There are per cent, bonds, issued in 1852, to ]>ay for rail- j road iron $190(000 are due in 1862. and the State ; also reserved to itself the light to redeem the $200,.- j OOU iu 186$, if it desired to do so. The J'nblic Dell. So far as I can discover from the Treasurer’s report and the various Acts of the Legislature, tho PdWfr IM>t, in iHin.ls, now nmounf-’ M I tiHl.Ottll. wbkh wilt h iiH-reaewt to s:t.fttm. ! (unless Ixjfore reduced, f.wjmn the remainder ( 900, r i 000) of the hm,u f.rthc subsrripliots.to the At- I lantic and Gitff Railroad are issued. The follow- j ing will show the character, and tho amounts of j the various bomte. and when due, viz : Due in 1859, 7 percent. Central Batik Bands, - - - - $15,000 j 1860, do. ‘ do, do. 10.000 1 “ 1861, do. do. Jo. 16,000 ! *• 1862, do. ’ do. do. *• 1363, do. doj. da. 48,500 V ISO!, do. do. do. 75.000 ; Other Sloie /iottdh/or Hailmad*. d'e. I “ 1862, 7 percent. - - 100.096 “ TBti2, 6 - - - ‘ 26.000 ! *• i so:;, .... .. f,27509 ! •* ISOS, “ - - 17,500 i “ 1.808, *• - - 216.500 : * k 1868. 5 - sterling band?, - 72.090 j “ 186)9, 6 “ - ‘ - . - 253.500 ! “ 1870, “ “ - - 153,500 “1871, 7 ‘* - - - 162,250 •• 1872, *• * - _ - . 104,750 w 1872, 6 625,500 - iwra •• *• -- . - - - ISU-UUO - 1874, 7 “ - - 131,500 *• IS7I, 6 * - - - - 80,000 “ 1877. •• “ fur A. .5 G. R K. 100,0i9 $2,630,500 Tube issued, payable 20 year? after date. - ‘ - - - 900,000 $3,530,500. j Notk—AVith the slight glance I have been j able to give the late Tax Acts,within my reach, j of several Southern States. Itimblhnt in South j Carolimr, iijmi* lands in cities, towns, villages, ; boroughs, cVe.,. I lie tax is cents on the : SIOO, and upon other lauds it is OOcentson the SIOO, and shaves pay 70 cents per head. In j Kentucky, real amt personal e>late is taxed ■ at 17 cents [m\ the SIOO. In Texas, 12£ cents | ou the SIOO. Tn Mississippi, 16 cents on the ‘ SIOO on land, *2O cents on money, &c., atid’ 40 , cents on each slave. In Arkansas, 16$ cents j on the SIOO. In Florida. lF*rt cents on the SIOO. In Tirginia,4o'cents on the SIOO on real and j personal estate, and $1 20 on each slave. In | Alabama, 20 cents on the SIOO on real estate j and other property, 50 cent on the SIOO on mo- [ ney at Interest, and an average tax of 6.0 j cents on each slave, (those between 1•> and ! 30years of age beintr 81. 10 each) —W hile iu j Georgia, the tax on land, and slaves, and other 4 property, (except Bunk and Rail Road capital) j is now but 7V cents on the SIOO. It will therefore be, seen, that while the per cent, tax in South Carolina andTexas is near j double of that of Georgia, the per cent, oi the i other States named are more tligu double tiiat ; of Georgia, and in Alabama, it is nearly three I times larger, while in Virginia, upon real and j personal estate. it is more than live times -larger than in Georgia. in Ohio, the per cent.. 31 cents on the SIOO, j is four times larger, and in Illinois, the per | cent, tax, 67 cents on the SIOO, is nearly nine ; times more than it is in Georgia. [From the Indianapolis Sentinel. Oct.. 19.] Democratic State Ticket. We figure up, this morning, 2,381 majority .for I the Democratic State ticket, and the full official j returns will increase it. This vote is evidence that ! the majority of the people of ludiaiwi ■ sympathize j with’ The election us the : State ticket i? a great triumph. Four Democratic j Judge? of the. Supreme Bench secured fur six years, j and the administration pf the State government i? j confided to Democratic officers for the next two j The Legislature.-—We publish this morning a complete list of the member? of the next- Legis- j iature. We classify them a? tallows : SENATE. • Democrat? holding over.. - ! •* ltegnlas, elected, - - 12 Independent,jelevted, - > r 3 | Total, - , - - - “ -- 3 j Republicans holding over, - l :’ J j *• Regular, elected, - - *H ; j Opposition - - - “ j Total, - - - ‘ - - - -25 | HOUSE. I Democrats, regular, elected. .- - - 45 1 •* Independent, elected, - - •> , Total, - - - ‘ “ 50 | Republicans, regular, elected, - - -44 , hi dependents, Whigs and Americans. - - 0. - - ‘ - - - . - * 50 There arc twenty-five Democratic Beiiatni’s and fifty Democratic lleprcitentativep. who in 1856 stood wpon the Cincinnati Platform, and who upon all party issues stand them now. The political character of tho Legislature wiU depend mainly upon the six Americans and Whigs who arc national in (heir Sentiments, and who have no sympathy With nlsolifhiiiisin. In the Sen ate ilie Lieutenant Governor has the easting vote. Ciiess Tocn.\AeT ax tip; Alaeasa State F, U b. —The Montgomery Chess Club propose to have a chess-tuunnunent in that city .at tho time of tho,State Fair, during the iirst week in Novem ber next. Three prizes are to he awarded to. the successful competitors: Any citizen of the State will-bo allowed to participate iu itte contest. columbus; Georgia. Monday, November i, 1858. ESDAT. HfT0!!KI! 27. Tax on Foreign Bank Agencies. We refer our reader# to an extract from the (\nnptrolfer Generals Report, oh the above sub ject, published L*i jmotber column. It therqjqjjap- I>qar? that-the Banking capital of thia tState pays directly into tho Treasury .*l9 cents on the free of cost, while foreign banking capital, estima - led in the manner adopted by tlic present tax law. pays tir the State only 29.25 on the indu sive Receivers’ and Colleetor?’ commission?.— We presume it was this difference in the State Ur.r paid by domestic and foreign capital, and the ig nnvantie of another fact, stated in the extract al luded to, which induced some of our cotemporaric?. or their correspondent?, some time ago, to declare that the latter was tho especial favorite of our Legislature. They forgot, or never knew that no other than a tax was levied upon the banking capital of the riiate, while foreign capital paid, in addi rion. a county tax. which is in many cases equal to that levied by the State. The contribution, there fore), of tlic latter, though less to the Treasury, is greater in the aggregate, and believing this dis crimination to be impolitic as well as unjust, we adopt the recommendation of the Comptroller General,and hope the Legislature will repeal the Act of ISSG, and substitute therefor it law w hich shall be more equal in its burdens-afleeting foreign and dbtncstic capital alike. The policy of exclu sion whicluwe regret to say, finds favor in certain (■uartcr?, by the spirit of the age und is unworthy the intelligence bTour noble State. Prize Fights and ihe Press. The news-papers are teeming •with’ account? of j a brutal fiel fight, which occurred recently on the i Canada shore between two natives of New York. ; Every round, in which the poor follows-pounded I each other almost to jelly, is describcfl with the ! minutest detail as though tho vitiated taste of the ! people craved it. .We have too high an apprecia i tiou of the morals of ihc American people to think j that they relish such deed? of heroism and daring, i It might excite the ]>rkluand stimulate the ambi tion of the black -guard, but it is revolting to the sense of every humane man. It is unworthy that • and, n a! .• : ia. .. which beat? in the hearts •,’ 1 ‘i’* Allli i b :ii 1 ! ivv iii'.u. It bcnealbtiieeivil kurion of the present day and the press of the country, the great lever of public opinion, should denounce it* rather than teach youth? such les sons of public moral?. An exchange, whose views we adopt, ?nys: “These fights are not intended simply as a means of w reaking tluJv (Llie pugilist?’) animosities upon one another, or of testing their physical strength, bud of furnishing the young, and the coarse, and the vicious, uit.lt the moan? of gambling. A prize fight derives nearly all its interest from the fact t-imt large sums of money may be staked on its re sult. AH gambling is a public evil, strikes public morals a deeper blow than almost any other form of vice: but gambling in..which the ciiuures and excitement are found - in the suf fering and disfigurement of two humuirbeings, trained for the purpose, is one of the most - atroc ious oflence? against society that can be conceived of. If there be any one thing more than another which has contributed to the happiness and pros perity of this nation, it is the inherent respect Jbr man aS man. in his simplest character, which lies at the base both of our social and political system. We have always proclaimed aloud yur respect for humanity, simply because it was human, and we have acted on this declaration, ootn in our mguuu- Hon and in all the relation? of life. But how is it possible to maintain th is feeling, if our young men are every few months presented with a spectacle which converts two male adults into machines for mutual destruction by pounding, gashing and mauling, for the gratification wf a few hundred gamblers U lion. Jeff Davis. The Union, in an articLe commending the ad dress <i .Senator Davis at the New fork ratilicH tiorr meeting regrets-- ‘•To see in a latenurfiberof the Charleston Jfer rury a severe assault upon .Senator Davis for the conservative and“cor.ciltatory course he has pur ?ued during his sojourn in New Luglaud during liie summer. It is true that the sir >• - censures 6f the M'-renry upon the Mksisssipj i . < nator have j a ground of justification to an extract which it publishes, and a- nines to be genuine, from a re puted speech of Mr. Davis at Bangor, in which the speaker seems to concede that an anti-slavery majority in a Territory has the right to exclude slavery by denying remedial legislation to slave holding immigrants. In view of the declarations of the same speaker at Faneuil Hall and New York, we are constrained to discredit the genuiuo lies? of ihe requited Bangor extract vouched by the Mercury.” Peterson TfeweaU, Fs*tr„ The Georgia (Macon) Teteyrapk after compli menting the able report of the Comptroller Gener j al, thus speaks: ! A zealous, able, indefatigable and obliging of j tieer in the position of Col. Thweatt, has rare op- I portdnities for rendering public service, which in j crease every year with his increasing knowledge i of the resources and condition of the State and ! people. We hope Col. T. will long illustrate and !.idurn his present position, and the value of a j model Comptroller, which we certainly hold him j to be. Balloon Race. The Balloon race between Mons. Godard and j Prof. Steiner took place on Tuesday of last- week. The two balloons came in collision, while at an el ; c\ ation of some five thousand feet from earth, but !no serious damage to either was done. The race j was won bv Prof. ‘Sfeiner, he having been in the j air ten minuteslonger than his competitor and traveled in the time (six hours and ten minutes) about two hundred and thirty mile?. Prof. Stein er re;u‘h. l an elevation of 12.000 feet, while the I greatest height attained by Mons. Godard was be j tween 8,000 and 9,000 feet. The “Nigger.” With all the philanthropy for the “nigger” in Ohio, it appears that he is excluded from the eleo7 j rive franchise, the jury box, the insane, blind, deaf, and dumb asylums, the militia and the poor house. The “nigger” is a valuable article in political I trade, but he is not wanted elsewhere: Cuffy, however, has got his “dander” up and—calls a j convention ! ! Ixqi hsts. —Coroner Eden held an inquest yes j terday -ou tho body of John Powers, drowned in * Back river, on last, by falling overboard | from a flat boat in tow of the steamer Ida. j An inquest was also held ou the body of the lad j Michael McHugh, drowned on Wednesday last, i while endeavoring to catch apples floating in the river.--N'uc. Acu^- Artksian Well.—The Louisville Journal says the stream of water now thrown out in a jet is a. most beaqtifuM’eature of this well, and is worth j going a long distance to see. It was bored I through solid limestone, Alternating at various j depths with seams of sandy and afgflaceous lime ! -stones. The well is now 2,056 feet deep, and ! throws 225 gallons of water per minute, or 324,- j 000 gallons in twenty-four hours. The force with j which the water passes through an inch nozzle i throws it 66 feet above the surface of tho ground • KOP Tim TiM-KS. To th e Ed ii to'vK Coin mb nx TI men. Dear Sms:—l learn that the stockholders in the Loan Associations of this city have been a little alarmed by tin article which appeared iu the Sun copied from the Georgia Citizen. The article refer red to comments on two decisions of the Supreme Court, one in regard to Dower, and The other in relation to the Widow's maintenance. Loan .Associations are not more- interested iu these de cisions thftd other fenders on bond and mortgage, and the effect of these decisions on the Associations should create no uneasiness, for they are affected by them in a very slight degree, for the following reasons: * Is*. Most of their loans are on Trust property, and this class of property stands unaffected by either of these decisions. 2d. As to the mortgages that are not in trust, they are divided in amounts varying, originally, from si,ooo to $4,000, (now much reduced by payments.) and, unless we were visited with an epidemic that should select for its subjects mem bers of tho Association, if would take a very astute urithmetiriau to calculate the fractional risk to which these Associations are subjected by the de cision. A STOCKHOLDER* ; /. The -Washington .correspondent of , the Associated Press reiterates his assertion that two of the Society Islands .have made au application for annexation to the United States, on addition al, and what he conceives to be reliable authori ty. The action of Count Sartiges in the matter was not in bis official capacity. Tax on Foreign Canjv Agencies. The Legislature of 1856 altered the law in rela tion to tho return of foreign Bank Agencies, and thecollcGio* of Taxes from the same. The pre \ ions law required a foreign bank agent to “make u return on nth to the Treasurer of the highest amount of lo&tt? on paper discounted, and ex change purchased by him, anil running to maturi ty at any one lime during the twelve mouths im mediately preceding such returns.” and it further required “such agent to pay into the treasury, fret’ of all gost or charge whatsoever, the same rate of tax upon one-third of such highest amount re turned by him aforesaid, a? is .now imposed or may hereafter l>o imposed by law, upon the char tered banks of this Sta te.’ - The Act of the Leg islaf uve of 1856 till foreign bank agents !o give ill on oath to the liee>i rer of Taxable*, for the county wherein said agent and employee may reside or sojourn, whenever called upon so to do, just and trues hi te input or exhibit of the amount in com. bills, notes, drafts and checks, used and employed by hinidiiring the last preeeiHng quar ter, which amount so given in shall he* handed ov er by the Receiver f< the Tax Collector of said county, whose duty it shall be to collect as other taxes arc collected, nine and throe fourth cent? on each hundred dollars so given in and returned, estimating bills, notes, drafts and checks as mo ney.” As the previous law Only placed foreign bank agencies upon a footing with other banks of the State, in the way of taxation, i presume that it was the intention of the Legislature of 1856 to increase the State tax on foreign bank agencit . Instead of its doing this, it actually d,crroHid the State tax on foreign bank capital 25 per cent., besides the State having to pay all costs of collection, or the receiver’s ami collector’s commissions. Which it did not do before. It is true, that this Act of 1856 did increase the tax on foreign bank capital, by requiring if? agents to give into ihe Tax Receiver, thereby laying it lia ble to a ctfPnh) fax. and in this way, in Muscogee county, foreign banks have been required to pay 75 to 100 percent, on the tax of former years— <fili it ace lire clear to my mind that they do not pay the Stale .by 25 per cent, as much as the State banks—rating three months business of a foreign bank agency equal to the capital stock paid in of the Slate.banks —the latter paying iu to the treasury, free of cost to the State 39 cents on tin SIOO, while tlic former pay? hul 29.25 on Collectors’ commissions. If. therefore it be the desire of the. representative? of the people to raise a revenue from the operations of foreign bank agencies in (his State, and not drive them from the State, I would suggest the repeal of the Act of 1856, and the re-enactment of the former, or ihe enactment of a similar law, with a heavy pen alty annexed for a failure on the part of said agent? to make a return to the State treasury— one half to the informer. —Comptroller (ieneraUx /{"flint, a • the (ondition oftlie English Laborer. According to some of the British journral, the condition of a portion of the English laborers is truly deplorable. They can, with great difficulty, earn the means of subsistence, while their social comforts are few and far be tween. Various cffort-slnive been made to pro duce a change, but thus far with little success.— The Northern “Times,” published at Liverpool, hikes up the subject in detail, and in the course of a sympathetic article, says : “We boast of our abhorrance of negro slavery : we romance, we moralise, and wc actually weep over the tale? of African suffering, but wc cannot afford a passing thought for the millions of white slaves who constitute the masses of our laboring population. What are these in reality but mere aniimited machines employed only because it ha? not been possible, as yet, to discover others*to supersede them. As their employment has been i lit* result of necessity, and not of choice, the great object of-the employer has keen to tax the physical endurance of the employed to its utmost limits, and reduce the rate of remuneration to the lowest minimum. Unfortunately, the‘fierce com petition of trade, and the unusually overcrowded state of the labor market, combined to vender this state of things apparently inevitable. This is. indeed, a lamentable picture. But the case is similar, we fear, to a very considerable ex tent, in other portions of the world, and evert in this country. There are few among the laboring classes, however economical and industrious, Who even secure more* than a living for themselves and families. Their lot is one of excessive toil.— Those who are skilled in some particular art or craft, can of course do better. But the mere la borer* even in his best condition, has a hard task bdfore him. There is, moreover, too little sympa thy felt lor this particular class. Their wants, their en joyments, their recreations, are rarely con sidered. They are regarded as mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, .and are treated accor dingly. How rarely, indeed, do we hear of any movement intended to elevate the social condition or extend the social enjoyments of the merely working classes ? Even philathropy seems to lookNipon them with indifference or contempt. — But this should not be. There is a reason for all things, and due consideration should be felt for every member of the human family.’’ The State Fair. The Atlanta Intetliyenccr of Friday says: “The crowd in attendance upon the Agricul tural Fair on yesterday was larger than ou any previous day. The orator selected to deliver the annual address, having failed to attend,Mr. Chas. Wallace Howard, of Cass, consented to make a few remarks. He offered a resolution to the effect, ••that a Committee be appointed to memorialise ihe Legislature, to establish an Agricultural Col lege with an experimental Farm attached.” The speaker presented, in a very forcible light, the de fects in our system of education, as regards that sort. of.lnstruction which qualities a young man for the practical duties.of the agricultural profes sion, Gen. Harrison, of Chatham, remarked that this was.a subject in which every man, woman and child, in the State, had an interest, andpro pounded that the whole audience should vote on the question. The vote was taken, and the reso lution was unanimously adopted. We omitted to notice that at the organization of the Society., preparatory to the transaction of business, on mo tion of Col. AVm. T. Wilson, of Atlanta, Hon. D. W. Lewis, ot Hancock, was chosen President of the Society: General Harrison, of Chatham, Ist Vice-President, and Gov. Joseph E. Brown, 2d Vice-President. Quick Movement op Thoops.—-Private ad vices have been received at the War Department of the arrival at Fort Vancouver, Washington Territory of the detachment of troops sent out in July last. This detachment, consisting of four hundred and fifty recruits, left New York city on the 21st of July, and arrived at Fort Vane over oil the 20th of August, without any casualty ex cept the loss of one man. This very rapid irans missiQii of troops between points on our vast ter ritory so remote from each other is no less eom dable in those having charge of their transporta tion than it is gratifying to the government. COLUMBUS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER as. T-^rxaggr—g-: — ; Pttlaulit Circuit—Judgeship. We published few days since a letter from Judge Francis If. Cone, of Greene County, to Col. John A. Tucker of Stewart, the Democratic candi date for the Judgeship in the Patnula Circuit, in relation to his elegibility. After clearly proving Col. Tucker's elegibility for the position, Judge Cone proceeds to show that the present incumbent, Judge Kiddoo, of the Patnula Circuit, is entitled to the office until April 186 t) and that an election cannot be legally held until the Ist Monday in January of that year, lie says : “But there is another question connected with The matter, which in tuv opinion renders it wholly unnecessary to decide the question whether you trceligible or not. In lookiug at the actorgani/.mg the Patau la Circuit (Laws of 1855 and ’(><>, page 21 ii) it is provided by the 2nd section of the Act that an election fora Judge of the Superior Court for said District, shall be held on the first Monday in April uext. (185 B) and tiiat he shall hold his of fice from his qualification, mid for three years after the first Monday in October next, (1856) —this makes the term of service about three years and ix months. Now the first section of the third article of the Constitution declares as follows “The Judges of the Superior Court shall be elected for the term of four years, and shall continue in office until their successors shall lie elected and qualified. The Legislature possessed no power whatever to alter this term of service, the Constitution has placed it entirely beyond their control. If they can prescribe the term of service of a Judge to be three years and six months, they can prescribe one year, or any number of years. lam therefore of opinion that the present incumbent is entitled to bold Ills scat for the period of four years, which 1 suppose will expire in the month of April 1 860. and that no election can be legally held for his suc cessor until the first Monday in January I860.”. Nothingbe more clear titan the acts of the Legislature should not he repugnant to the Con stitution. This instrument having fixed the period for which the Judge shall be elected to be four years, the act which limits it to a less period is certainly unconstitutional atid as a consequence null and void. Hut under the Constitution the Legislature had the power to order the election and the time when it should take place. Now let us see if the time iirfbc the January preceding the period at which the encumbents term of office ex pires. The act providing for the election of Judges by the people (acts of Georgia 1851—52, page 85) ••That in each Judicial Circuit or district in this State, an election shall be had and held for one Judge of the Superior Courts of said District or Circuit in the order following, on the day and time hereinafter specified, that is to say, for the Eastern, Middle. Northern. Western, Ocmulgce, Southern, Chattahoochee, and Cherokee Circuits or Districts, which said elec tiou for a Judge of the Superior Courts, iu and for the aforesaid Circuits or Dis tricts. shall be had and held on the first Monday in October 1853 mid on the first Monday in Octo ber in every fourth year thereafter.” The act which changes the time to January at which the election is to take place reads as fol lows : See. 1. Hr it fiiacte/l That from and after the passage of this act the regular elections of Judges of thu Superior Courts. Attorney General ami Solicitors General shall be held on the first Monday in January— Sec. 11. Repeals conflicting laws—(acts 1855 and 56, page 140.) This last quoted Act fixes the election in January for Judges, but does not designate what January \ subsequent Act, found on the .-auie page with the one Inst cueo, i.„„, ~. , however, that the election of the Attorney General and Solicitors General shall take place on the “first Mondays in January, immediately preceding the expiration of the term of office of the present, in cumbent Ac.” llow can wc determine tin January meant by the Legislature that the election of Judges should tran spire ? It is simply by construction thatwe ascer tain the Legislative mind. The January preceding the tcrmiimtiou of the office is supposed to he tho January intended by the Legislature—because it avoids a vacancy which would occur if the elec tion took place the January after the term of office expired. Apply these rules to the Pataula Circuit. The Legislature fixed the time of expiration of Judge of the Pataula Circuit in October 1859, and direct ed that the election for his successor should come off in January. What January did the Legisla ture have in view ? Evidently the January prece ding the Ist of October 1859. If it meant the first of January 1860, tve would have to conclude that the Legislature intended that there should be no election until three months after the they supposed t he term of office expired. it matters not in this view, that the Legislature was mistaken in the time the office expired. Our only object is to ascertain with certainty what Jan uary was in the Legislative mind in reference to he Pataula Circuit. The Weekly News.—Miss. Wc welcome into the Editorial fraternity our old friend and former townsman, Orlando S. Holland, who assumes the management of the Enterprise Weekly AYtra, Mississippi. As to the political complexion of the News, the Editor says, “We shall preserve an independent course, believing that the parties of the present day exist only in name and that the people of the South occupy one and the same position.” We wish the A tarn great success, and trust it will ever be a true sentinel of our rights and liberties. Hotels open for the Session. Four Hotels in this city will be opened during the Session, for the accommodation of members of the Legislature and visitors to the Capital. The Millcdgeville Hotel by E. D. Brown; the MeComb House, by Messrs. S. A R. A. Me Comb; rhe Lafayette Hall, E. S. Caudler ; and the Wash ington Hall, by N. C. Barnett. Besides these, there will be six or eight private boarding houses open: enough to give comfortable quarters to all who may visit Millerlgeville during the approach ing session of the legislature. —Federal Union, (MiUedyeviUe.) Mortuauy.—The number of deaths from yel low fever throughout the city during the twenty four hours ended at noon yesterday, according to the returns of the Boad of Health, amounted to 42. This is more than that reported yesterday.— The average of the week thus far is at the rate of about 35 for each twenty-four hours, which would give a total of 245. Should this not be exceeded the week will show a decrease of 63; and allowing, at the rate of 40 in twenty-four hours, for the re maining thirty working hours of the week, the de crease will be 50.— N. O. Picayune,Oct. 24. The Florida R. R.—The grading of this road says the Fernandina News, was finished on the 20th inst., and the whole route is in readiness for the rails, except the tressel work at Cedar Keys, which is rapidly progressing’to,completion. The track laying will soon be resumed at Cedar Keys, and the point to which the iron has already been laid: and the speedy completion of the road may be confidently anticipated. Judge Hardeman. —We are gratified to learn that t his gen tie moil is convalescent, and hopes are entertained for his speedy restoration to wonted health. ■ Pataula Circuit.—Francis D. Bailey, Esq., having resigned as Solicitor of this Circuit, the Governor has appointed W. S. Johnson, Esq,, of Chattahooche eCo., to fill the vacancy. The latest eruption of the municipal morality of New York was greeted against the fortune tellers, of whom eleven Wwjre arrested, oil Friday. The rich among them will give had, and receive adver tising #Olll this arrest —tlic poorer ones will, per haps, be driven from the field. Terrible Mortality.—The deaths in New Orleans, from yellow fever, from Jnne 27th jto Oc tober Iftth, inclusive, were three thousand eight hundred aud eighty-nine. The total number of deaths for that period is #?.r thousand three hundred and Unjhty six. Business of the Central Railhead. —The freight business on the Central Railroad, (says the Savannah Newn) this season has exceeded that of any other since the construction of the road, both in down and up freights. As an indication of down freight business, we give the following statement of receipt* of leading articles of produce from the Ist to the 22d October, inclusive: Bales of Cotton, - 56,597 Barrels of Flour, - 6.822 Sacks of Flour, - - - 10,153 Sacks of Corn, - - - - 1,648 Sacks of Wheat, 12,337 Important Decision. —The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decided the long contested case, in volving the question of the legality of the sub scription of Blatant country to the capital stock of the Knoxville and Charleston Railroad Com pany. The decision of the chancellor, Van Dyke declaring tho subscription legal and obligatory on the county, was affirmed. Hon. W. F. Sam ford.—The last Montgomery Advertiser contains tin; 13th,communication from the above gentleman to the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard. They are written in a style seldom surpasod and with great ability. The Eastern Bank.—Wc learn from the Eu faula Spirit of the South, that the Directors of this institution have completed its organization by the election of Mr. Colin Gardner, as Cashier, and of Mr. John Hardy, as book keeper. The long familiarity of these gentlemen with bank ing affairs and their established character for energy and in tegrity, eminently qualify them for the positions to which they have been chosen. Wc learn that the Bank will commence operations after the Ist of November. The President and Cashier are al ready engaged in signing bills. Charleston and Savannah Railroad.— There is now every assurance that this road will lie opened for passengers as far as the Edisto River —a distance of thirty miles—on or before the Iftth of November. Wc learn from competent authori ty that arrangements are contemplated for a. con nection at a temporary terminus by Blount and Simpson’s line of stages, which will take passen gers to Grahamville, or perhaps to Savannah. An official announcement will inform our readers in good time. —CharUnton Courier. Win. M. Russell, Esq., editor and proprietorof the Bainbridge Argus, offers a part or the whole of that journal for sale. He estimates its patron age, exclusive of job work, at $6,000 per annum —any one desiring such a situation, will do well tu make him an offer. FOR THE TIMES. Yellow Fever—Galveston. The following letter to a gentleman of this city from J udge Thompson—formerly J udge of the Su preme Court of Florida and now a resilient of Gal veston. Texas—giving an account of the progress of the yellow fever in Galveston, we are permitted to publish : Galveston, Oct., 22, 1858. Dear Sir:—l do not think the epidemic has at all abated, nor do I think it can or will, while the weather is so favorable to its continuance. We have had for a week past, frequent showers with cool Eastern and North-eastern winds. Although the number of cases may not be so large, or the deaths so frequent as they were two weeks ago, yet considering the reduction of the number of subjects for disea. e by recoveries and deaths, el vomito prieto, as the Spaniards eall it, may be deemed as active aud as virulent as ever. Our physicians are well broken down with fatigue, and the principal one, Dr. Hurlbut, is now confined to his bed, sick. There is scarcely a house in our neighborhood that has not one or more cases of yellow fever in it, except our own : and God grant that we may continue exempt. Very truly, L. A. Thompson. Affairs at Washington. Washington, Oct. 23.—1 tis understood here that the President of San Salvadore has written a letter to the effect that neither that republic nor Honduras and Gautemala have any connection with the stupid manifesto of Mora and Martinez, asking European aid against the United States. It is believed in certain circles here that five hundred to a thousand emigrants, armed ala Kansas, will he in Nicaragua before the Ist of December. We have already one exiled Nicaraguan Minister iu this country, Don Fennin Ferrer. In two months there will be another, General Maximo Jerez. The Secretary of the Navy seems resolved to make the Paraguay expedition efficient. Agree ment has been made with Captain Templeton, of New’ Orleans, for the steamer Me taco met, of 395 tons, for six month is service, the owner to bear the risk ofloss from Pensacola to Buenos Ayres, ami from the latter to New Orleans; Besides it is un derstood other parties are here for the purpose of contracting for several other steamers. George N. Sanders is here, it is said, to have a finger in that pie. It is said that Sir William Gore Ouseley will leave for Central America to-day. The treaties he is instructed to negotiate, drafts of which have already been prepared, will be entirely satisfactory to our Government. It was desired that our trea ty should be first concluded and ratified, in order that the English treaty might be made to harmo nize with it, but as delay with us was inevitable, it was thought best for Sir William to proceed with his mission, and secure by negotiation that stereo typed article in recent treaties—“ All other privi leges granted to the most favored nations.” This would secure perfect equality, and any want, of harmony can be afterwards corrected. Lord Napier, who has returned in fme health from his Northern tour, will leave again to-mor row, to attend the Richmond Fair. Collector Schell has seized a large lot of French China, iu consequence of its including a number of little China images, pronounced indecent by the* Collector. An appeal was taken to Secretary Cobb who sustains the decision of Mr. Schell. The dispatch announcing that Vice President Breckinridge had written a letter urging Douglas’ re-election, has created great excitement here. The President has respited for a fortnight Bar rett, who w as to have been executed to-day. Mr. Buchanan and Cuba. The Washington correspondent of the New’ York Times says that Mr. Buchanan’s policy in endea voring to purchase Cuba aims at five things, viz : Ist. To satisfy the bishop and clergy of Spain that the Catholic Church would not wane, and be forced to a secondary position on the island in the event of its transfer to the United States. 2d. To satisfy Christiana that her thirty mil lions of private property on the island would not be subject to the principle of agrarianism, but would be doubled in value by the transfer. 3d. To satisfy the agriculturist that his market would not be injured, but unproved, by having nut only the ports of Cuba, but the whole country free to his produce. 4th. To satisfy the commercial interests that free trade would be accorded them here, while they could discriminate at home according to their own pleasure. And, lastly, to satisfy the government that a transfer of the island is actually necessary to se cure lasting peace between the two countries. PEYTON H. COLaUITT, ) JAMES W. WARREN, S J! ' aitor8 > Number 43 a* , ‘ >J r - i f Trouble for Nothing. Our fricml of the Wefcgraph makes a detailed . statement of the various offices. State and federal held bv persons in the respective Congressional Districts in this State, lie Closes his article with Hus paragraph, which, like a lady's Postscript, contains the gigt of the whole article: ‘'°“ r Raders will perceive that the “Times” and led. Lmon’haveno righttocomplain,as Laras the distribution “f offices is concerned, their districts having more than their proportionate share. The third District is “ihe poor dog at the frolic ” The above list may be inacurate bat in the main is cor rect. If we have r ad the “Times” and the “Federal rnion” under, rmidingly. we have seen no eoin plaint in either ae to the distribution of offices in the second or seventh Congressional District. It is true our friends of the Times did copy an arti cle from the “Patriot” which complained of the neglect of South Western Georgia in the distribu tion of the offices, but the “Times” promptly dis couraged and disavowed the complaint. The “Times,” however, said nothing about the second District being overlooked; and we are very sure the_ “Federal Union” has said nothing about the claims of the Seventh heing disregarded. Wc think the writer of the Telegraph’s article wanted to coAplaiu for the Third District, and lugged us in, to give Some i xcuse for and plausibility to, its dolorous cry of distress. —Federal e„iou. (and ueral Laud Ofllec for Sept. IXSS. Letters received and registered, - _ 34^0 “ w riten and transmitted, - - 2,984 Patents engrossed. “ recorded, - - _ . - 9.t(12 ’ transmitted. . . 3™ examined. - **. 7 665 Entries posted in ! rack book, - - 17.54;! Acres of scrip issred, - Lsteil The General La.ol (tflice is pressing forward the posting of surveys in tract books for the new land district created in New Mexico by act pass ed at the lust session of Congress. It will require upwards of 200 volumes of those books for this new district. . All necessary 1 ank forms, Ac., will he trans mitted by mail at an early dnv to Santa Fc, the seat of the new office. From 1110 Austin Gazette, Oct. 9. Texan Movement Against Indians, Reliable and authentic information from Cook and the adjoinin counties of Indian depredations already eommilt-.d, aud of the hostile attitude of the Caiounchcs, renegade Kickapoos and Keechis, has md'-ced the Governor to forward a commis sion of < aptain to Colonel Jim Bourland, with au thority to raise one hundred men. and to make a campaign against the enemy. The forays reeent iy inml . leave 110 doubt of the complicity of tlic Kickap os in the war, and authorize the belief that tlx ‘.Vicbita Indians are not altogether right. Col. iJourlaod has received orders and instruc tions, which allow him much discretion in his op orations, and will insure his eventual success.— He is t nipowered to reclaim stolen property where\ei tound—by force, it* necessary. He is also direeled to pursue and chastise unfriendly India).? without regard to nationality or lines. Execution of a Woman. Mrs. Twiggs was executed at Danville, Pa. yes terday, 1 r ha ving taken part in the murder of her husband and .Mrs. Clarke, Tht- condemned woman passed the night previ ous to her execution rather comfortably, sleeping with her children in her arms. She hade farewell to her ! r#tlier and children ou the following morn ing* and. after devotional exercises in her room, was token to the scaffold at a quarter past Ift o’clock, leaning on the arm of one of her spiritual advisers. A chapter having been read, and an impressive prayer offered up on the scaflold, Airs. Twiggs spoke ! r six or eight minutes, protesting her in nocence. declaring her readiness to die and her trust in ,i just Judge, only regretting to leave be hind In r two orphan children. She was much af ieeti and ihroughout. The solemnity of the scene was made more impressive by her groans and sobs. Even after the cap was drawn over her fece, she appealed t> God in the most earnest manner, and she asserted her innocence. A ten o’clock and thirty minutes the drop fell, m!M^i?rthess a * ew lu 4i ,l ents the wretch- Gov. Brown ami the State Boad. A l a Covention of the Democratic Party of the Oherofcec Circuit, held at Dalton on the 12th inst for the purpose of nominating a candidate for So licitor General of that Circuit, the following Reso lutions were uanimously adopted. Resolved, l#f. That we, delegates to this con vention, unanimously declare our firm attachment ami adherence to the greatest principles of the De mocracy enunciated and declared in the Cincinna ti Platform. Resolved, 2nd. That wc fully endorse and ap prove tlic policy and administration of Joseph E. Brown, Governor, in his management of the State Rojul, and commend it to the earnest considera tion of those who have favored its sale as a full answer to their complaints; a complete refutation of their arguments, and an indication of the wis dom of the Democratic policy in opposing its sale. Florida.—W e have some further returns from the Florida elections, and they will leave the ro result of the contest for tho Legislature in doubt. We arc inclined at present to think that the Dem ocrat.? have a majority in the House, and the op position in the Senate.— Columbus Enquirer Oc tober 19. To relieve our Georgia cotemporary, we will state that the Senate will be composed of 15 Dem ocrats to 6 opposition—the House of about 31 Democrats to 14 opposition. The opposition Sen ators elected in Escambie and Washington are cho sen to fii! vacancies. Both Districts are demo cratic ami can be carried by the Democracy when united. In another part of the Enquirer it is stated that Eppes, Senator, and Mann, Representative, from Franklin, arc “wbigs.” These gentlemen were the democratic candidates and were elected us such. —Floridian d’ Journal. Cotton Cultivation in Turkey.—A parcel of American seed, forwarded by the Manchester Cotton Supply Association to Turkey, has been turned to good account. The seed was sown, and the product looks very fur superior to any cotton previously grown in the Levant. It is estimated that 50.000 bales of the superior article will be ex ported during the present year, and it will be ex tensively planted next year. The area of cotton soil is very extensive. The writer says the dis- I nets of the Dardanelles, Salomon, Yolo, Cavalbo, the Isles of the Archipelago, the coasts of Asia Minor, and especially along the Syrian coast, will yield large and excellent supplies of cotton for the future, if proper means arc taken to promote its culture. Some of the best districts for cotton are also very favorably situated, of comparatively easy access, and well supplied with labor. Even in the vicinity of Constantinople there is abun dance of land suited to the growth of this precious commodity. The writer who supplies the infor mation, adds that from personal observation and the information he haa^received, he is confident that we may look forward to having, at no dis tant day, a supply of cotton from the Ottoman em pire second only to that of the United States.— European Times. JZ-fr’ Miners from the South Platte mines fully authenticate the existence of gold all along that river. Gaylord Church has been appointed Supreme Judge of Penn., in the place of Judge Porter, re signed. * *, * -♦ The official majority received by ,Mr; English in the Second Congressional ilijftrict of Indiana is 1,918. The alleged slave barque Islan de Cuba remains in possessed of the United States officials at Bos ton, while the crew have been held as witnesses in bail of $1 .ftftft each, in default of which they are placed in jail. Our City, says the Macon Journal* Mes senger, is now thronged with strangers; some in at tendance upon the Grand Lodge, and others en route for Millcdgeville, where the Legislature con venes next week. Thanksgiving in Mississippi.—Gov. Me- WilHe, of Mississippi) has appointed Thursday, the 25th of November, as a day of thanksgiving throughout the State. Tiik Law of Irritation.—Contemplating the grand and universal law of irritation, the poet whispers, in tones silver-sweet and solemn—like echoes from the eternal symphony of the stars— that “Big fleas have little fleas, And these have less to bite’em— While these fleas have lesser fleas— An so, ad infinitum!” fegr Never borrow a cotton umbrella; a silk one can be obtained with the same degree of effort, and last quite as long.