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HOUGHTON, NISBET&BARNES, Publishers and Proprietors. *. *. boi <;iito> Editor*. Ti: k n «. TSU rED2EAh UirtXOPT, /s publish'd JCrtUg, in the Darien Bank Building, At oo per Annum, payable in advance, y?. dO if not paid within three months, and Ip i 0 3 if not paid before the end of the year. KATES OF ADVERTISING, Per syttart of tin Ire liars. One insertion £1 00, and Fifty Cent.? for each sub sequent continuance. These sent without a ape,-: a tier, oi the number of insertions, will be published till lorb:d, and charged accordingly. B isine-s or Professional Cards, per year, where thev do not exceed one square - - - $10 00 A Itinriil contract trill be wadi with those who wish to Advertise hj the year, occupying a specified space. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Sales of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be licni on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of In in the forenoon and 3 in the after noon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. d r of these stales must be given in a public gazettc 40 days previous to tlm day of sale. Notices for the salo of personal property must be given in like manner i ' days previous to sale day. ,I* -uicos to the debtors and creditors ol'an estate mu t a;SO be published t days. Noth • that application will be made to the Court of < h di.iary for leave to sell Land or Negroes, must be published for two months. Citations fur letters of Administration, Guardian- hip, &c., must he published 3'i days—for disniis- s a from Administration, monthly sir months—for d:-mission from Guardianship, 43 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must he pub lished monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers, for the full space of three mouths—for com pelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where bond lias been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, at the following R A T E St Citations on letters of Administration, Arc. $2 75 “ “ dismissory from Admr on. 4 50 “ “ “ Guardianship 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes 4 00 Notice to debtors and creditors 3 00 Sales of persponal property, ten days, 1 eqr. 1 50 Sale of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks I 50 For a man advertising his wife (in advance) 5 < 0 Letters on business must be Post Paid to entitle them to attention. VOLUME XXVII.] Ill OH MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1856. [NUMBER 14. Splendid Chance to Make Money! IKE AMERICUS VARIETY WORKS PGR SjA-IjE. T HE undersigned are appointed a committee to dispose ot the SHOP and MACHINERY, belonging to the Ami-nnis VARIETY WORKS, lhe SHOP and MACHINERY, are new, and in tine order; well fitted for making SASH. BLINDS, DOORS. FI RNITITtE, Ac., in short, to do any kind ot work done in wood. There is also an ex cellent (>RIST MILL, running by the same En gine that propels the other Machinery in the Shop; consisting of Plaining, Surfacing, Mortising, and '1 urning Machines, as well as various others with Saws, Ac The Works will he for Sale, at pri vate sale until tire first Tuesday in November next, when if not disposed of, they will be expos ed to public Sale in the city of Americus. The attention ot Capitalists and Mechanics, is invi. ted to (his property, as it is situated in a most fa vorable locality, and already commands a large and increasing business. Term-, one-third Cash; April 1st, 1857, one- third; January 1st, 1858, one-third. ROBERT J HODGES, WILLIAM L. JOHNSON, HORACE THOMPSON. August 12,185(5. 11 tds. J. B. MURPHY, Surgeon Dentisi c Would respectfully inform his friends and patrons that he continues to practice in Baldwin and Put nam, and that he has not authorised any one to at tend to his unfinished business, but will attend to all his engagements in due time. 1 am now in serting Teeth upon Gutta I’ereha Plates, especially for temporary sets, and when the gums are so ten der and irritable that gold platea-cannot be worn Persons often object to having their teeth ex trncted on account of the time required for the ab sorption of the gums. This may be avoided by the use of Gutta Percha Plates The teeth way be extracted and a handsome life like set be put in the same week, and at a small expense, and can be worn with comfort. I have inserted a number of sets that are now in use and doing well I am now putting up a style of work superior to that of Dr. Alien’s Patent, so admitted by his agent, having purchased the right to use Dr. Al len’s in 1853, and tested it to my satisfaction. I have discontinued its use, and now use single gum teeth, which for beauty and strength cannot be excelled. Persons living at a distance who may need my services can receive them by addressing me at at this place. Milledgeville, Ga., July 4th, 1656 6 6m A RILE RAIk.GiAO let is reason together. HOLLOWAY’S PILLS! WHY ARE WE SICK? It has hern lhe !ut of ilit- human rncp to hr* weighed d*mn by *li-**a«? and suffering. Holloway’s Pills cn »{>f*rially adapted to the r< lief of the Weak, the Neavoirs, ih<* Delicate, end the Infirm, ofall climes, Lpi 6. fizzes, and ctinaiimtioris. Professor Holloway por- *>" idly EU{»erimends ih~ manufacture of his medicines in Um I'flirt'd $ta<e*, and offers them to a free and en lightened people, as lhe the best remedy the world ever haw for the removal of dint-at-e. THE 1 E PILLS PURIFY THE BLOOD. Th* -t* f’umMis Pills are expressly combined toefet* nt* on the stomach, the liver, the kidneys, the* lung:- the skin, arid the bowels, correcting any derangeroe. . In th ir functions, purifying the Mood, the very fountain ol l ie, ami thus curing disease in nil its forms. DYSPFPSIA AND LIVER COMPLAINTS. Nearly half the hummi raee have taken these Pills. It 1 as be* n proved in nil pari*oi the world, that noihir g lias lieen found equal to lb* in in cases of disorders of the li\er. dyspepsia, arid stomach complaints generally.! hey soon g:\e a healthy tone Jo these organs, howover much derang'd, and when all other means have failed. GENERAL DEBILITY, ILL HEALTH. Manr of the most despotic Government 4 * have opened th ir Custom House* to the introduction of these Pills, that th* . may hi corupthe medicine of the masses Learn cd (’idlecra admit that this medicine is the best remedy e\tr known for persons of delicate health, or where the system liH’* l»een impaired, as its invigorating properties never fail to afford relief. FEMALE COMPLAINTS. No I’^hnie, >oung «>r old. should he without this cele- bra.i ti medicine. It corrects and regulates the monthl\ c» o-si s a*, all periods acting in many eases like u charm It is also the b*»st and safest medicine that can he given to children of nil ages, arid for any complaint; conse quently no family should be without it. Holloway'8 Pills arc the host remedy known in the worldfor the following diseases: Asthma, Debility. Liver complaints. Bowel complaints, Fever and Ague, Lowness of spirits, Coughs, Female complaints. Piles. Collin, Headache, £tone and Gravel Chest diseases, Indigestion, Secondary symp- (’•ostiveness. Influenza, touts. Dyspepsia. Inflammation, Venereal affection Diarrhoea, Dropsy, Inward weakness Worms of nil kind Sold at Hie Manufactories of Professor Holllway 80, Maid n l^ane. New York, and 244 Aft rand, London, and hy all respiei table Druggists and Dealers of Medi cine* throughout lhe United States, and ^iie civilized world, in Boxes.at 25cts. 6'2f ets. and SI each. {tCr* There is considf raljle saving by inking the Inrirer siz**. %N. B.—Directions tor the guidance of patients in every disorder .' re affixed to each Box. !3eow1y riillE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS of the 1 Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, having: adjourned! to meet on the 20th instant, and it having been ; represented to me that the interest of that enter-1 prise requires farther time for the obtaiiiuient of i subscriptions to the stock and acquiscing in the j justness of the suggestion, tlit; meeting of tiie i Board on the 26th instant is hereby postponed j until the 22d day of October next, at Miiiedge- j ville. E. A. NISBET, Chairman, j Macon, Aug. 20, 1856. 2in. GREAT SUCCESS! H AVING met with extremely good success the past week, I have, by the request ol many of my fri-nds, consented to stay one more week. And this is the only opportunity /perhaps, that you may have for some time to pet a pood Amisko- TYPE. And now I would advise all of you w ho have not pot them to call soon, as this is positively my last week. These pictures w ill neve: lade, they will stand for apes—they will lie pood pictures when we are dead and pone. Call soon. Instruction given in the art. G. D. WEAKLEY. Milledpeville, Aug. 11,1856. 11 tf Bentons Thirty Years’ View!, COMTZiEEE Z37 2VOLS. f I THE WORK, or either volume of it, will he JL sent to any part of the State by mail, postage paid, and securely done up, on receipt of the price of subscription. $2 50 vol. JNO. JI. COOPER & CO., Geu’l. Ag’t. for Georgia, Savannah, Ga. HP The above work can bo found at the Rook j Store of E. J. WHITE & RRO. ! June 13, 1856. 3 FOR Philadelphia, X, York, &e, Charleston and Savannah ST E A 51M11P L4S ES. Cabin Passage 820—-Steerage 88. rnilE well known first class steam ships, KEY- JL STONE STATE, (Japt. S. Hurdle, STATE OF GEORGIA, l apt. J. J. Garvin, will hereaf ter form a Weekly Line to Philadelphia, sailing Leery Saturday, alternately, from Savannah and Charleston, as follows: The Keystone State will sail from Savannah the following Saturdays: July 19th, August 2nd and 16th, September 6th and 2(>tli, leaving Philadel phia the alternate Saturdays. The State of Georgia will sail from Charleston the following Saturdays: July 12th and 26th, Au gust 9th, 23rd and 30th, September 13th and 27th. leaving Philadelphia the alternate Saturdays. In strength, speed and accommodations, these ships are fully equal to any running on the coast. Inland navigation, 100 miles on Delaware River and Ray, two nights at sea. For Niagara Fails, the Lakes and Canada. Sharifst and Cheapest tConic. These lines both connect at Philadelphia with the Great Northwestern Railroad Route through to Niaraga Falls or Buffalo, in 1(5 hours from Phil adelphia. Through Tickets, with the privilege of stopping at Philadelphia and intermediate points, for sale by the agents in Savannah and Charleston. I W Fare to Niagara or Buffalo, $28 ; to Elmi ra, -$26; to Canandiagua, .$27. Agents at Philadelphia, Heron &. Martin. Agent at Savannah, O A. Greiner. Agents at Charleston, T. S. & T. G. Bt’DD. 6 3m F.THERIDGE 8c SON, Factors, Commission and Forwarding *27 SAYANNASI. CA. 7. D. ETHERIDGE. IV. D. ETHERIDGE, Jr July 15th, 1856. 8 tf ttk CONFECTIONARY Wv/ .ijvn fruit stoicr THE Subscriber would respectfully inform the citizens of Milledgeville and vicinity, that he has on hand, and is constantly receiving fresh sup plies of CONFECTIONARY, FRUITS, Ac.. Oranges, Lemons, 1‘inc Apples Bananas, Ac. Raisins. Figs, Dates, Primes, Ac. Preserves, Jellies. Pickles, Catsup and Sardines, Soda Biscuit and Butter Crackers. NUTS, ofall kinds, for sale in any quantity. Fine Havana Cigars, Tobacco and Snuff. Drl d Beef and Beef Tongues, Bolongna Sausages. All of which will be sold very low for Cash. JOHN CONN. Milledgeville, April 28, 1856. 49 Cm TO RENT OR SELL. THE Boarding Honse nt Oglethorpe University, now occupied by H. Gary. To a family wishing to educate child- ,ren, and one qualified to conduct such an establishment, the situation is a very desirable "lie, and every facility w ill be afforded to such an applicant. For a permanent arrangement, great ii 'uceiuents will be offered, both as to aceommo- dcions and terms, to a suitable tenant. Application should be made soon, as the next f ■ • g" Term begins the 1st of October, when will he as many hoarders as can be accom- R. H. RAMSAY Midway, July 18th, J656. 8 tf. Dr. McLANE’S CELEBRATED VERMIFUGE IJTER PILLS. T. C. NISBET, FOUNDER & MACHINIST, COTTON AVENUE, MACtEV, CA., (Successor to Nisbot A Levy.) FTTHE undersigned continues to furnish, at the 1. old stand, Steam Engines and Boilers, upright and circular Saw Mills, Bark and Sugar Mills, Gin and Mill Gear, Water Wheels, Plates and Balls, and Castings and Machinery in general. Particu lar attention is called to a Wrought Iron Cotton Screw, for pressing Cotton, w hich is believed to be a cheaper and better article than any in use; also to the Sugar Mills with Wrought Spindles, the only kind w hich can be insured against break ing. The price of ordinary Castings will be 4 per lb. wlici; paid on the delivery of lhe Castings at the Shop. T. C. NISBET. July 19, 1856. 8 24t CAPITAL PRIZE 50,000 ! ALABAMA LOTTERY- Southern AliUtanj Academy j. L O T T R RY. £ ^37 (Avthorised by the State of Alabama.) (/ft CLASS G—NEW SERIES, il To be drawn in the City of Montgomery, Alaba ma, in public, on FRIDAY’, September 12th. 185(5, on the IA7AM 3P3LAW2 ^politics SAMUEL SWAN, Manage R. PRIZES AMOl NTING TO $200,000! AVil be distributed according to the following MAGNIFICENT SCHEME!! 39,709 Sockets Only! 1 Prize of ..$5 ,900 is $50,000 1 . 25,000 is 25,000 1 “ .. 15,000 is 15,000 1 “ .. 10,009 is 10,000 1 ‘‘ .. 6,000 is 6,000 1 “ 5,000 is 5,000 1 “ .. 3,000 is 3,000 3 Prizes .. 1,000 is 3.000 10 44 .. 500 are 5,000 80 44 40(1 are 32,000 I ' 44 200 are 20,000 APPROXIMATIt >N PRIZES. 4 prizes of $490 ati’x ta $50,000 prizes $1,600 4 3<)0 25,000 “ 1,290 4 “ 250 “ 15,000 “ 1,000 4 “ 175 “ 10,000 “ 700 4 “ 150 “ 6,000 “ 600 4 “ 125 “ 4.000 “ 500 4 “ 100 “ 5,000 “ 400 4 “ 89 “ 1,000 “ 320 4 “ 79 “ 1,000 “ 280 4 “ 50 “ 1,000 “ 200 40 “ 49 “ 500 •* 1,600 32) “ 3i) “ 400 “ 9,600 4’0 “ 29 “ 200 “ 8,000 1,000 prizes amounting to { 200,000 nr\v idle tickets $10, Halves $5, Quarters $2 50. PLAN OF THE LOTTERY. Two of the best Pr rations of the Age. They are not recom mended as Universal Cure-alls, but simply for what their name pur ports. mg Vermifuge, for Worms from system, has PLATATIONS FOR SALE! 1 WILL sell the following Plantations:— l«t. 2200 acres in Lee county, 121(0 cleared, and ndid improvements, at !$9 cash, or .$10 ;; 'two payments, or.$li per acre, in three pay ments. 490 acres in L'*e county, 150 cleared, at $5 'bars per acre cash, or $(> in two payments. 1265 acres, 12 miles from Albany, in Dongh- '"'y. 36 • cleared, good Houses, for Ten Thousand Debars, half cash and half on time with interest, ? ■' 1 place. 4. 500 acres in Dougherty, 75 cleared, at $7 lars per acre. •' 1250 acres. 140 cleared, at $6, half cash, so l 12 months on the balance. 6 acres in the woods, at $4 per acre, in Baker. 7. Itto acres in Baker, small improvement, at ®4 per R'-re, in two payments. ■ “87 acres splendid land, 150 cleared, at seven 1 bars per acre, cash, or 8 in two payments. I plenty of lands in Early and Decatur in the "’•Is. I will sell low for cash. Corn and fodder " be had on all the improved places, all and see ami you .shall have a fair chance. HAMLIN J COOK. Albanv, Ga. August 25, 1856. 13 14t. WARRANTS! | 'LL Pay the highest market value for Land a w arrants. wW'y to A. W. CALLAWAY. Milledgeville, June 11th, 1855. 2 tf The expcll the human also been administered with the most satisfactory results to various animals subject to Worms. The Liver Pills, for the cure of Liver Com plaint, all Bilious De rangements, Sick Head ache, &x. Purchasers will please be particular to ask for Dr. C. McLane’s Cele brated Vermifuge and Liver Pills, prepared by UlYYOYVtt (SW-AiC sole proprietors, Pitts burgh, Pa., and take no other, as there are various other preparations now before the public, pur porting to be Vermifuge and Liver Pills. All others, in comparison with Dr. McLane’s, are worthless. The genuine McLane’s Vermifuge and Liver Pills can now be had at all respectable Drug Stores. FLEMING BRO’S, GO Wood St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Sole I*ropricit®rs. Snieil St Mead, No. Ill Charles st. New Orleans General Wholesale Agents fur the Southern States, to whom ail Orders must bo addressed. Of Sold by E. J. White; Jas. Hetty; Win. L White A: Co, Milledgeville; Geo. Payne, E. L. Stroheker, Macon; I Newell, Gordon; Beall & Chambers. Iwnton; W. H. Burnett, Sparta; Z. Gray, Sandersville; Long & Durham, Jefferson ville; N. S. Pruden, Eatouton; Hurd &. Hun- gerford, Monticello; and by one agent id every town in the State. [march 25, '56, ly Pdiliou aud Order of James Fills. GEORGIA, BALDWIN COUNTY. To the Honorable Court of Ordinary : The Petition of James Pitts respectfully shew- eth that heretofore, to-wit: on the ( th day of De cember, 1853, Thomas U. Husou of the county of Cobb, then in life, but now deceased, made and executed to vour Petitioner his bond, (a copy oi which is hereto annexed) binding himself, his heirs, A c., in the sum of two hundred dollars, con ditioned to be void, if the said Thomas Ii. Huson should make or cause to be made to your petition er titles in fee simple to lot of land No. four hun dred and four, (4< 4) in the 16th Diet, of the 2nd section of said county of Cobb, containing 46 acres, more or less. And your petitioner avers, that heretofore, to-wit: on the K'tli day of Nov 1854, said Thomas Ii. Huson departed this life without executing or causing to he made titles to your petitioner for said lot of land. And your pe titioner avers that he has fully paid to the repre sentative of the estate of Thornes li. Huson, dee d., the entire purchase money for said lot, which was due and payable the 25th December last. Wherefore, your petitioner prays that the ad ministrator of the said estate of Thomas R. Huson, dcc’d. be ordered and directed hv this Court to make titles to your petitioner, in conformity with said bond of said Thomas Ii. Huson, dee’d. For which your petitioner will ever prav, Ac. A. N. SIMPSON, Att'y for Petitioner. GEORGIA, Baldwin County. Ordinary's OJjice, July Term, 1856. It appearing to the Court by the above petition and Copy Bond, thereto attached, that the said petitioner is entitled to the relief for which he prays. It is therefore ordered that notice of such application and bond attached thereto, be publish ed according to law, and that if no obligation be filed within the time prescribed ! y Statute, the prayer of the petitioner will be g> anted, and an order allowed him, directing the sa J administra tor to make title as prayed for. JOHN HAMMOND, Ordinary. [Copy Bond.] STATE OF GEORGIA, Cobb County. Know all men by these presents, that I, T. R. Huson, of the county aforesaid, am held and firm ly bound unto James Pitts, of the same place, his heirs, executors, and administrators, in the just and full sum of two hundred dollars, for the true payment of which I bind myself, my heirs, execu tors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents, sealed with our seals, and dated thisOth December, 1853. The condition of this obligation is such that Whereas said James Pitts has this day made and delivered to me said T. R. Huson Ins certam im>- niissroy note, fur the sum of one hundred dollars to become due on the25th day of December, J854. Now should the said James Pitts well and truly pay the said promissory note, then I the said T. R. Huson bind myself to make or cause to be made to said James Pitts good and sufficient titles, in fee simple to and for said lot of land number four hundred and four, in the 16th District 2d section of Cobb County, containing forty acres, more or less, with all the rights members and appurten ances to said lot in any way appertaining and belonging, which, if the said T. R. Huson should do, then this bond to be null aud void, else to remaiu in full force and virtue. T. K. HUSON. [L. s.] Tested and approved by N. B. GREER, J. P. July 22, 1856. 8 3m The Numbers from 1 to 34,000, corresponding with those Numbers on the Tickets printed on sep arate slips of paper, are encircled with small tin tubes, and placed in one wheel. The first 200 Prizes, similarly printed and en circled, are placedi in another wheel The wheels are then revolved, and a number is drawn from the wheel of Numbers, and at the same time a Prize is drawn from the other wheel. The number and Prize drawn out are opened and ex hibited to the audience, and registered by the Commissioner, the Prize being placed against the number drawn. . his operation is repeated until all the Prizes are drawn out. Approximation Prizes.—The two preceding and the tw o succeeding Numbers to those drawing the first 240 Prizes will he entitled to the Approx imation Prizes, according to the Scheme. FirThe Managers, determined that their Lot tevies shall excel all others, offer to tire public the above Scheme, which, tor the brilliancy of its Cap- s, and the chances of obtaining Prizes, has never been equaled. IT?' Remember that every Prize is drawn, and payable in full without deduction. Us^All Prizes of$1,090 and underpaid imme diately after the drawing—other Prizes at the usu al time of thirty days. Or All Communications strictly confidential. The drawn numbers will be forwarded topurcha- sers immediately after the drawing. Orders for Tickets should be sent in early. Prize Tickets cached or renewed in other Tick ets at either office. Orders for Tickets can be addressed either to S. SWAN A Co., Atlanta, Ga. or S. SWAN, Montgomery, Ala. Jas. Hr.RTY, Ag’t., Milledgeville, Ga. ADMIMS T R A T O II ’ S S A LES. Admimxtrutor's Sale, P URSUANT to an order of the Court of Ordin ary of Twiggs county, will be sold before the Court House door in Marion on the first 'Tuesday in SEPTEMBER in st, the following real estate, to-writ : H acres of land belonging to the estate of Hillier Hasty, deceased, knman as the Dower In terest, in Lot 39 in 25th district of said county, and adjoining lands of James M. Ware and others. Sold for division filial of said estate. Terms on the day of sr e. HILLIARD S. NEWBY, Adm’r., July 7th, 1858. [L. s.] 7 tds. dc bonis non. w Pusljtoned Adimnistrator's Sale. ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Septem ber next, before the Court House door, in the town of Waresboro, Ware County, between the usual hours of sail the following property to-wit: One lot of land N’o. -1 6, in the 8th District of said count}’, containing 49 i acres, more or less. Also, 245 acres of lot No. 4o7, in lhe 8th Dist. of sail county. .Sold under an order of the Hon orable Court of Ordinary of Bulloch County as the property of John Wilkison late ot Bulloch county deceased. STEPHEN CARTER, A.lrn’r July 7th, 1856 . 7 tds W! Administrator’s Sale. ILL be sold by virtue of an order from the Ordinary Court of Jasper county, at Monti cello on the fiist Tuesday in October next, all the real estate and negroes belonging to tlie esta;e of James Jve, late of said couniy deceased. HARMAN W. PYE, Adm’r. August 4th, 1856. (P. P. L.) 11 tds. I iiited (Staten tlariibal'n Stale. "YS7TLL be sold on the first Tuesday in Septem- T T her next, before the Court House door, in the city of Milledgeville, between the lawful hours of sale the following property to-wit: Lot of Land No. 390, in the 13th District ol originally Irwin, now Colquitt county. Also, the west half of Lot No 2. in square C., in the town of Thomasviile, Thomas County, to gether with the improvements thereon, mid known as Ivey’s Livery stable lot, now in possession of James A. McLendon. Also, the Brick Store House and lot, containing 32 feet trout, and run ning back 79 feet, adjoining the Hotel Lot, occu pied by Lewis Davis, in the town of Thomasviile and now occupied by Dickson Carroll. Also Lots numbers one and two in square B.; iu the town ot Thomasviile (except so much as is occupied by the above mentioned Brick Store Lot) containing nearly two acres, on which the Hetci now occu pied by Lewis Davis stands; Levied on as the property of William A. Ivey, to satisfy a ti fa from the Sixth Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia, in favor of Wood- gate and Rooms vs: William A. Ivey and John J. Ivey. Property pointed out by John J. Ivey. THOMAS L. ROSS.U.S Dt p. Marshal. July 23d, 1856. 9 tds. Postponed Administrator's Sale. "XXTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in OCTO- li BER next, before the Court House door iu Butler, Taylor County, between the usual hours of sale Lot of Land No. 2 )1, in the 12th District of originally Muscogee, now Taylor county; Sold as the property of Nathan N. Lester, late of Pulaski couniy deceased, under an order of the Ordinary of said county of Pulaski, for the benefit of the heirs of said estate. Terms cash. C. M. BOZEMAN, Adm’r dc bonis non. August7th, 1856. il tds. W Executor's Sale. ILL be sold before the Court House in the county of Cherokee, on the first Tuesday in OCTOBER next, by virtue of the will of the late Joseph West, deceased, of Baldwin county, all that tract or parcel of Land being and lying in the. Ifct 1 liNitnct n-nril «K1 ejection OneUrkoC couuty known and distinguished in the Plat as Lot No 494. Sold as part of the property of the estate of Joseph West, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors. WINNEFRED WEST, Exr’x. W. B. WEST, . JOHN S. STEPHENS. ) c ’ x rs ’ July 26, 1856. 9 tds ' Guardian's Sale. Wf ILL lie sold before the Court House door in TT the town of Hawkinsville. between the usual hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in October next one Land Warrant for forty acres, number fifty five tliouiand nine hundred and one, issued to Win. J. Chi-rry, minor child of James J. < herry deceased; Sold as (he Hrojierty 6t Win. J. Cherry, for the benefit of said minor. ARTHUR NEWMAN, Gdn. S IXTY lays afterdate application will be made to the Honorable Court of Ordinary at Irwin- vlllc, Irwin County for leave to sell all the lands and negroes belonging to the estate of Win. Fletch er, late of Irwin county on the first Monday in September nexn JAMES PAULK, Adm’r. MARY FLETCHER, Adm’rx. July 12tb, 1856. 8 2m. NOTICE. A LL persons indebted to the estate of Joe Holt .(a free man of color) late of Baldwin county deceased, are requested to make payment, aud creditors of said estate will please present their de mands to the undersigned. JOSEPH SIMPSON. Adm’r. August 7th, 1856. Jl r,t. mwo months after date, application will be X made to the Court of Ordinary of Pulaski county, for leave to sell the real estate belonging to the estate of R. N. Tavlor deceased. P. F. D. SCARBOROUGH, Adm’r August 5th, 1856. (r. c. c.) Il 2m. From the Boston Courier, of Thursday. lion. Rufus Choate on the Presidential Question. The whigs of Maine held a grand mass meeting in the town of Waterville, yesterday. Hon. Ru fus Choate was invited to be present, but being unable to attend, he sent a letter, iu which he de fined his own position on the I’residential qustion; and avowed his intention to vote for Mr. Buchan an. We give it below: Boston, Saturday, Aug. 9, 1856. Gentlemen: Upon my return last evening, after a short absence from the city, I found your letter of the 3 th ult. inviting me to take part in the pro ceedings of the whigs of Maine, assembled in mass meeting. I appreciate most highly the honor and kind ness of this invitation, and should have had true pleasure in accepting it. The whigs of Maine composed at all times so important a division of the great national party; which under that name, with or without official power, as a responsible ad ministration or as only an organized opinion, has dune so much for our country—our whole country —and your responsibilities at this moment arc so vast and peculiar, that I acknowledge an anxiety to sin—not wait to hear—with what noble bear ing you meet the demands of the time. Tf the tri ed legions, to whom it is committed to guard the frontier of the Union, falter now, who, anywhere, can be trusted? My engagements, however, and the necessity or expediency of abstaining from all speech requir ing much effort, will prevent my being with you. And yet, invited to share in your counsels, and grateful for such distinction, I cannot wholly (de cline my own opinions on one of the duties of the whigs in what you well describe as “the present crisis in the political affairs of the country.” I cannot now, and need not, pause to elaborate or defend them. What 1 think, and what 1 have de cided to do, permit mein the briefest and plainest expression, to teil you. J"tle first duty, tfu n, of wliigs, not merely as pa triots and citizens—loving, with a large and equal love our whole native land—but as whigs, and because we are whigs,is to unite with some organ ization of our countrymen, to defeat and dissolve the new geographical party, calling itself Repub lican. This is our first duty. It would more ex actly express my .opinion to say, that at this mo ment. it is our duty. Certainly, at least, it com prehends or suspends all others; and iu my judg ment, the question for each and every one of us is, not whether this candidate or that candidate would be our first choice; not whether there is some good talk iu the worst platform, and some bad talk in the best platform;'not whether this man’s ambi tion, or that man’s servility, or boldness or fanati cism. or voilence is responsible for putting the wild waters in this uproar;—hut just this: by what vote can 1 do most to prevent the madness of the times from working its maddest act,'—the very ec- stacy of its madness,—the permanent formation and the actual present triumph of a party which knows one-half of America only to hate and dread it; from whose unconsecrated and revolutionary banner fifteen stars are erased or have fallen, in whose national anthem the old and endeared airs of the Eutaw Springs, and the King’s Mountain, and Yor town, and those, later, of New Orleans aud Buena Vista, and Chapu tepee, breathe no more. To this duty, to this question, all others seem to me to stand for the present postponed and secondary. Any why? Because, according to our creed, it is only the united America which can peacefully, gradually, safely, improve, lift up and bless with all social and personal and civil blessings, all the races and ah the conditions which compose our vast and various family,—it is such an America, only, whose arm can guard our flag, develop our resources, extend our trade;—and fill the measure of our glory; and because, according to our convic tions, tbejjtriumph of such a party puts tiiat Union in danger. This is my reason. And for you. and for me, and for all of us, iu whose regards the Un ion possesses such a value, and to whose fears it seems menaced by such a danger, it is reason enough. Believing the noble ship of state to be within a half cable's length of the lee shore of rock, in a gale of wind, our first business is to put her about, aud crowd her off into the deep, open sea. That done, we can regulate the stowage of her lower tier of powder, ami select her cruising ground, and bring her officers to court marshal at our leisure. If there are any in Maine—and among the whigs of Maine I hope there is not one—but if there are any, in whose hearts strong passions, vaulting am bition, jealousy of men or sections, unreasoning and impatient philanthropy, or whatever else have turned to hate or coldness, the fraternal blood and quenched the spirit of national life at its source; with whom the union of Slave States aud Free States under the actual Constitution is a curse, a hindrance, al reproach; with these, of course our view of our duty and the reason of it, are a stumb ling block and foolishness. To such you can have nothing to say, and from such you can have noth ing to hope. But if there are t hose again who love the Union as we love it, and prize it as we prize it: who regard it as we do, not merely as a vast instrumentality for the protection o. ourcommerce aud navigation; and for achieving power, eminence and name among the sovereigns of the earth—but as a means of improving the material lot, and elevating the moral and mental nature, and insur ing the personal happiness of the millions of many distant generations; if there arc those who think thus justly of it—and yet hug the fatal delusion that because it is good, it is necessarily immortal; that it will thrive without care; tiiat anything cre ated by man’s will is above or stronger than His will; that because the reason and virtue of our age of reason and virtue could btilhl it, the pas sions and stimulations of a day of phrenzy cannot pull it down; if such there are among you, to them address yourselves, with all the earnestness and all the eloquence of men who feel that some great er inteiest is at stake, and some mightier cause in hearing, than ever yet tongue has pleaded or trumpet, proclaimed. If such minds ana hearts are reached, all is safe. But how specious and how manifold are the sophisms by which they are court ed? They hear and they read much ridicule of those who fear that a geographical party does endanger the Union - But can they forget that our greatest, wisest, and most hopeful statesmen have always felt, and have all, in one form or another, left on record their own fear of such a party? The judg ments of Washington. Madison, Clay, Webster, on the dangers of the Union—are they worth nothing to a conscientious love of it? What they dreaded as a remote and improbable contingency—that against which they cautioned, as they thought, distant generations—that which they were so hap py as to die without seeiug—is upon us. And yet some men would have us go on laughing and singing, like the traveler in the satire, with bis jiuoLotu ompty, ut a prooont poril, the more appro- nension of which, as a distant and bare possibility, could sadden the heart of the Father ofhisCountry, and dictate the grave aud grand warning of the Farewell Address. They hear men say that such a party ought not to endanger the Union; that, although it happened to be formed within one geographical section, and confined exclusively to it; although its end and aim is to rally that section against lhe other, on a question of morals, policy and feeling, on which the two differ eternally and unappeasibTyjaTthough, from the nature of its origin ami objects no man in the section outside can possibly join it, or ac cept the office under it without infamy at home; although, therefore, it is a stupendous organiza tion, practically to take power aud honor, and a full share of the Government, from our whole fam ily of States, and bestow them, substantially, all upon the antagonist family; although (lie doctrines of human rights, which it gathers out of the Declaim tiou of Independence—that passionate and elo quent manifesto ota revolutionary war-and adopts as its fundamental ideas, announce to any South ern apprehension a crusade of Government against slavery, far without and beyond Kansas, although the spirit and tendency of its electioneering ap peals, as a whole, in prose and verse, the leading articles of its papers, and the speeches of its ora tors, are to excite contempt and hate, or fear of our entire geographical section, and hate or dread or contempt is the natural impression it leaves on the Northern mind and heart; yet, that nobody anywhere ought to be angry; or ought to be fright- enedithat the majority must govern, and that the North is a majority; that it is ten to one nothing will happen; that if worst comes to worst, the South knows it is wholly to blame, and needs the Union more than we do, and will be quiet accord ingly. But they who hold this language forget that the question is not what ought to endanger the Union, but what will do it? Is it man as he ought to be, or man as he is, that we must live with or live alone? In appreciating the influences which may disturb a political system, and especially one like ours, do you make no allowance for passions, for pride, for infirmity, for the burning soul of even imaginary wrong? Do you assume that men, or all masses iu all actions, uniformly obey reason, and uniformly wisely see and calmly seek their true interests? Where on earth is such a fool’s Para- diseas that to be found? Conceding to the people of the fifteen States the ordinary and average hu man nature, its good and its evil, its weakness and its strength, I, for one, dare not say that the triumph of such a party ought not to be expect ed naturally and probably to disunite the States. Withmv uudoubting convictions, I know that it would be folly and immorality in men to wish it. Certainly there are in all sections and in all States those who love the Union, under the actual Con stitution, as Washington did. Jay Hamilton, and Madison did—as Jackson, as Clay, as W ebster loved it. Such even is the hereditary and the ha bitual sentiment of the general American heart. But he has read life and books to little purpose who has not learned that “bosom friendships” may be “to resentment soured,” and that no hatred is so keen, deep, and precious as that, “And to be wroth with one we love Will work like madness in the brain.” Fie has read the book of our history to still less purpose, who has not learned that the friendships of these States—sisters, but rivals—sovereigns each, with a public life and a body of interests, and sources of honor and shame of its own and within itseif, distributed into two great opposing groups, are of all human ties most exposed to such rupture and such transformation. I have not time in these hasty lines, aud there is no need, to speculate on the details of the modes, in which the triumphs of this party would do its work of evil. Its mere struggle to obtain the gov ernment, as that struggle is conducted, is mis chievous to an extent incalciulable.—That thous- sands of the good menfwho have joined it deplore this, is certain, but that does not mend the mat ter. 1 appeal to the conscience and honor of my country, that if it were the aim of a gn at, party, by every species of access to the popular mind—by eloquence, by argument, by taunt, by sarcasm, by 1 such places, without the‘nteans of regaining their recrimination, by appeals to pride, shame, and homes, and where few, if ar.y could obtain snbsist- President’g Message and Letter of the Secretary of War. The following is the President’s Message sent to both Houses on their assembling last Thursday: Washington, Aug. 21, 1856. Fellow citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: In consequence of the failure of Congress at its recent session, to make provision for the support of the army, it became imperatively incumbent on me to exercise the po wer which the Constitution confers on the Executive for extraordinary occa sions, and promptly to convene the two Houses in order to afford them an opportunity of reconsider ing a subject of such vital interest to the peace and welfare of the Union. With the exception of a partial authority vested by law in the Secretary of War, to contract for the supply of clothing and subsistence, the army is wholly dependent on the appropriations annually made by Congress. The omission of Congress to act, in this respect, before the termination of the fiscal year, had already caused embarrassments to the service, which were overcome only in expecta tion ot appropriations before the close of the pres ent month. If the requisite funds be not speedily provided, the Executive will no longer be able to furnish transportation, equipments, and munitions which are essential to the etfectiven»ss of a milita ry force iu the field. With no provision for the E ay of troops, the contracts of enlistment would e broken, and the army must in effect be disband ed, the consequence of which would be so disas trous as to demand all possible efforts to avert the calamity. It is not merely that the officers and enlisted men of the army are to be thus deprived of the pay and emoluments to which they are entitled by standing laws; that the construction of arms at tho public armories, the repair and construction of ordance at the arsenals, and the manufacture of military clothing and camp equipage must be dis continued, and the persons connected with this branch of the public service thus be deprived sud denly of the employment essential to their subsist ence; nor is it merely the waste consequent on the forced abandonment of the seaboard fortifications, and of the interior military posts and other estab lishments, and the enormous expense of recruiting and reorganizing the army, and again distributing it over the vast regions it now occupies—these are the evils which may, it is true, be repaired hereaf ter by taxes imposed on the country; but other evils are involved which no expenditures, however lavish, could remedy, in comparison with which local aud personal injuries or interests sink into in significance. A great part of the army is situated on the re mote frontier, or in the deserts and mountains of the interior. To discharge large bodies of men in natural right—to prepare the nation for a struggle with Spain or England, or Austria, it could not do its business more thoroughly. Many persons, many speakers—many, very many, set a higher and wiser example, but the work is doing. If it accomplishes it object, and gives the Gov ernment to the North, I turn my eyes from the consequences. To the fifteen States of the South, that Government will appear an alien Govern ment. It will appear worse. It will appear a hos tile Government. It will represent to their eye a vast region of States, organized upon Anti-Sla very, flushed byttriumph, cheered onward by the voice of the pulpit, tribune and press; its mission to inaugurate Freedom, and put down the oligar chy; its constitution the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence. And then and thus is the beginning of the end. If a necessity could be made out for such a par ty we might submit to it as to other unavoidable evil and other certain danger. But where do thry find that? Where do they pretend to find it? Is ! it to keep Slavery out of the Territories? There j is not one but Kansas in which Slavery is possible. No man fears, no man hopes for Slavery in Utah, New Mexico Washington or Minnesota. A nation al party to give them to Freedom is about as need ful and almost as feasible as a national party to keep Maine for Freedom. And Kansas! Let that abused and profaned soil have calm within its bor ders; deliver it over to the natural law of peaceful and spontaneous immigration, take off the ruffian hands; strike down the rifle and the bowie knife; guard its strenuous infancy and youth till it comes of age to choose for itself—and it will choose Freedom for itself, and it will have forever what it chooses. When this policy, so easy, simple and just, is tried and tails, it will be time enough to resort to revolution. It is in part because the duty of pro tection to the local settler was not performed that the Democratic party has already by the action of its great representative Convention resolved to put out of office its own administration. That les son will not and must not be lost on anybody. The country demands that Congress, before it ad journs, give that Territory peace. If it do, time, will inevitably give it Freedom. 1 have hastily aud imperfectly expressed my opinion through the unsatisfactory forms of a letter, as to the immediate duty of the Whigs. We ate to do what we can to defeat and to disband this geo graphical party. But by what specific action we can most efiectually contribute to such a result is a question of more difficulty. It seems now to be settled that we present no candidate of our own.— If we vote at all,then,we vote for the nominees of the American or the nominees of Democratic Party.— As between them I shall not venture to counsel the Whigs of Maine, but I deem it due to frankness and honor to say, that while I entertain a high ap preciation of the character and ability of Mr. Fill more, I do not sympathise in any degree with the objects and creed of the particular party that nom inated him, and do not approve of their organiza tion aud their tactics. Practically, too, the contest in my judgment, is between Mr. Buchanan and Col. Fremont. In those circumstances I vote for Mr. Buchanan. He has large experience in public affairs; his com manding capacity is universally acknowledged; his life is without a stain. I am constrained to add , that beseems at this moment, by the occurence of j circumstances more completely than any other, to ence by honest industry, would be to subject them to suffering aud temptation, with disregard of jus tice and right most derogatory to the Government. In the Territories of Washington and Oregon, numerous bands of Indians are iu arms, and are waging a war of extermination against the white inhabitants; and, although our troops are actively carrying on the compaigu, we have no intelligence yet of a successful result. On (he Western plains, notwithstanding the imposing display of military force recently made there, and the chastisement in flicted on the rebellious tribes, others, far from be ing dismayed, have manifested hostile intentions, and been guilty of outrages which, if not designed to provoke a conflict, serve to show that the appre hension of it is not sufficient to restrain their vi cious propensities. A strong force in the State of Texas has produced the temporary suspension of hostilities there; but in New Mexico, incessant activity on the part of the trooDS is required to keep in check the marauding tribes which infect that Territory. The hostile Indians have not been removed from the State of Florida; aud the with drawal of the troops, leaving the object unaccom plished, would be most injurious to the inhabitants, and a breach of the positive engagement of the General Government. To refuse supplies to the army, therefore, is to compel the complete cessation of all its operations, and its practical disbandonment, and thus to invite hordes of predatory savages from the Western plains and the Rocky m< untains to spread devasta tion along a frontier of more than four thousand miles in extent, and to deliver up the sparse popu lation of a vast tract of country to rapine and murder. Such, in substance, would be the direct imme diate effects of the refusal of Congress, for the first time in the history of the Government, to grant supplies for the maintenance of the army; the in fliction of extreme wrong upon all persons connect ed with the military establishment by service, em ployment, or contracts; the recall of our forces from the field; the fearful sacrifice of life and in calculable destruction of property on the remote frontiers; the striking of our national flag on the battlements of the fortresses which defend our maritime cities against foreign invasion; the viola tion of the public honor and good faith; and the discredit of the United States in the eyes of the civilized world. I confidently trust that these considerations, and others appertaining to the domestic peace of the country, which cannot fail to suggest themselves to every patriotic mind, will on reflection, be duly appreciated by both Houses of Congress, and in duce the enactment of the requisite provisions of law for the support of the army of the United States. FRANKLIN PIERCE. The President also sent in the following letter from the Secretary of War: War Department, ? Washington, Aug. 21, 1856. ) Sir: In answer to yonr inquirv as to the balan ces remaining in the Treasury from the last appro- E riation tor the support of the army, I have the onor to state that the obligations already incur red by the Government exceed the sum of those balances by about $460,00(1. It may be proper to add that a portion of the balances in the Treasu ry, having been appropriated for specific objects, are not available for the support of the army. The present strength of the army in regiments is over thirteen thousand officers and men, more than represent that sentiment of nationality,—tolerant,! twelve thousand ot whom are engaged in active warm and comprehensive—without which, without increase of which, America is no longer America; i and to possess the power, and I trust, the disposi tion to restore and keep that peace, within our bor-1 ders aud without, for which our hearts all yearn, j which all our interests demand, through and by. which alone we may to grow to the true greatness , of nations. Verv respectful}', vour fellow-citizen, RUFUS CHOATE. j To E. W. Farley, and other gentlemen of the ! Maine Whig State Central Committee. field operations, and in protecting the frontiers against the depredations of hostile Indians. The small force not thus employed hold the fortifier- tious which cover the commercial cities and sailert points most exposed to a sudden descent by a for eign foe. To disband the troops would subject our frontier settlements to the attack of a formida ble savage enemy, and render our fortifications, which have required years of labor and millions of expenditures to construct, useless for national de fence in any sudden emergency. Very respectfully, your obediet A Perilous Advcntnre. The Rochester Union, of the 4th inst’, says: A thrilling incident occurred at the Lower Falls ; Supension Bridge yesterday, the particulars of i which have been related to us by an eye I witness. As usual on Sunday, a large number of j persons were congregated at the Bridge—men, ! women and children, some engaged in walking I across the Bridge, others viewing the structure j from the banks, &c. On the west bank of the the river a number of boys were amusing themsel ves by pulling upon two guys, giving them an os cillatory motion. The guys were some ninety feet in length and attached to the bridge directly over the chasm and several feet from each other. They were fastened together in an iron staple inserted in the rock at the very brink of the precipice.— One of the boys, a lad about twelve or fourteen years of age, whose name we have not been able to ascertalu, lu order to show his danng, seated himself astradle the guys, when suddenly the staple was wrenched from the rock, and the guys swung out over the river with the boy seat- ad in the crotch, holding on with a hand grasped upon each guy. The distance from the bridge to the water is two hundred and forty feet, and the position of the young man was about midway between. The ac cident was witnessed by a large numberof persons, and so thunder-struck were they that many of them, both upon the bridge and the banks, threw themselves upon their faces, and it was some time before any one could regain sufficient presence of mind to set about rescuing the lad from his per ilous position. The youngster, however, exhibited a nerve w orthy an older head, and seemed to greatly enjoy his swing. After the vibration of the guys ceased, he commenced giving directions to those above him as to the best method of affording him relief. A search of the neighborhood show ed that no rope suitable to draw him up was to be had. The youngster then suggested the plan of mak ing a rope sufficiently long to let him down, by peieing. This was done. The rope was letdown to him. and after he had fastened it to his waist, those above lowered him to the water’s edge! He gained the bank, and scampered off for the lower landing as fast as his legs could carry him, and our informant says lias not been seen since in the vicinity of the Suspension Bridge. Altogether, this is one of the most perilous ad ventures it has been our lot to relate for some time, and although the recklessness of the bov in seating himself as described, richly entitles him to a wholesome cowhiding yet his conduct and pres ence of mind, while suspended at such a height above a rapid current, is certainly worthy of ad miration. We trust this adventure will prove a warning to the many thoughtless persons—men and boys— who visit the bridge, and who are in the habit of performing feats of the most reckless char acter. Bad words, like bad shill ngs, are often brought home to the person who has uttered them. client serv’t, JEFFERSON DAVIS. Secretary of War. To the President. Interesting Scene in the Canvass> In Salem, Ala., at a recent political disenssion between Col. Yancey, for the Democracy, and Col. Baker, for the Know Nothings, Col. Yancey made a most impressive and triumphant effect. At the close of Col. Yancey’s speech, six beauti ful young ladies stept upon the platform where Col. Yancey was standing, utterly unconscious of their design, and gracefully threw over him a magnificent wreath of flowers and evergreen. The audience arose with enthusastic cheers. Colonel Yancey, after a moment’s pause, said in trembling tones and with moistened eyes : “Young ladies, I am not able to command lan guage to express to you how deeply 1 am affected by this unexpected, though high honor, so grace fully cuuferrea upon me. But this 1 do feel, that it was given to me as a representative of great Constitutional truths, and as such I accepted it, and return you my sincere though feeble ac knowledgements.” Col. Yancey here turned and asked for the Stars and Stripes which had been planted near the platform. It was handed to him, and with it, he walked to the edge of the platform. Lowering it, be took the wreath from his bosom, and encircled with it the spear head of the flag staff, saying—“The honors and advantages that may accrue to me in this canvass do not belong to me—cannot adorn me as a partisan, but shall be appropriated as I appropriate this wreath, to the honor and advantage of a great constitutional par- ty.” As Col. Yancy closed, and the very welkin rang with the plaudits of the people, he waved the enwreathed banner over the young ladies and re placed it on the stand. Fall of the “Charter Oak ”—Hanford, Aug. 21. —The Charter Oak fell this morning at a quarter to one o’clock, with a tremendous crash, and but six feet of the stump now remains. This famous tree was far past its prime when the charter was concealed in it, on the 9th of May. 1689, and was probably an old tree when Columbus discovered the new world. It stood npor. the old Wylis estate now owned by Hon. J. W. Stuart. Crowds of citizens are visiting the ruins, and each one bears away a portion of the venerable tree. The Connecticut river has risen here 10 feet since 6 o’clock last night, and is still rising rapidly. It is now raining hard. The Retinue or an Austrian Prince.—Some idea of the splendor with which Prince Pan Ester- hazy, the Russian Envoy Extraordinary, is to ap pear at Moscow, may be derived from the feet that each of the six horses reserved exclusively for his personal use, is valued at from 8000 to 10,000 -flor, ms, [the florin is worth about forty cents.] The cloth of. his favorite horse is a tiger’s skin, the edges of which are ornamented with brilliants, and on which his family arms are worked in diamonds. The Diamonds of the Esterhezy tamilyre present a greater value than all the rest of his property com bined.