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VOflUMH 6. ROME, GA.. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1851. NUMBER U. THE ROME CObilifciL 13 I'UBLltffgg EVERY THURSDAY HORNING llV 71. EDIILEJIAH, TERMS, Two Dollars per nuii'im, il pnid in advance i Two Dollars anil Fifty Cunts If paid wltliln «lx mouth's f dr l'llriio Dolfurs nt tho end of tin' year, llntti «t Adroriislmi. Lkoal Advkrtisxmexts will be inserted with strict ntlciition to tho requirements of tho tow, at ine following rules# ■ Ftiiir Mouths Notice, • • • 00 Notice to Debtors nml Creditors, • 3 ilS Solo ol -Personal Property, by Exeru- J , „ 5 tors, Administrators, &o. i ’Sales of Limit or Negroes, ftO days,) - yg per square, J letters bf Citation, - - • 3 75 Notleo for Letters of Dismission, - 4 50 Candidates announcing their names, will bo All other advertisements will be Inserted nt One Dollar pur square, of twelvo lines or loss, for tho first, aud fifty Cents, for each subsequent inter linn. Liberal deductions wlll'ba made In furor oflhoso who «dvertise by the year. BUSINESS GABES. B. IV. BOSS, OUITTMT. &A:r.:, Georgia Office over N. J. Ombtrg'i Clothing Store. January. 16,1851. "TR, A N 01 S STa LL BN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Dealer in Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS AND GROCDRIES. Receives now goods every week. >4$ 'Home, Ga., Jnnnnty 9, 1851. LIN & BltANTLY. WARE-HOUSE, COMMISSION ft PRODUCE MERCHANTS, Atlanta, Ga. jt^Libeual advances made on any article in.Store. • Nov. bH, P850. ly A. 1>. KI.1U dc CO. COTTO YGIN MANUFACTURE '.is . Rome, Georgia. May 0. 1S50. AuGXAMIEB A TRAMMELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ROME, GA. Nov. £8, 1850. ly. 11'iHAS IIAHUIUAN, > { CHARLES V. HAMILTON. HAMILTON It HARDEMAN, & (Jj.miUmi .Lrclunts, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Oct. 3i lb.'iO, 1 12m citsRi.Ee r rahilto*. J 1 tuomas n*aDMi,ii HARDEMAN A HAMILTON, Warehouse & Commission Merchants, MACON, GEORGIA. Oc| 3, 1550. 1 12m. 1‘ATTOIt A PATTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, • Rome, Geoigia. Will Preelieoln all tho Conmlosof tho Chero, kse Circuit 48 ,Sppt. 5, 1850. a. s. rATroit. J i. F. rxTTOit. W.P. WILKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 1 Rome, Georgia. IlqFitu ro Ron. a p. router,charleston, a, o,,or at e*VR spring, on. lion w. tit. underwood, Hosts, o.t. Hon. WILLIAM EZZARD, DROSTUR, OA. July IS', 1950 41 ly a . W .. U E A L L , DRAPER AND TAILOR, Broad Street .Rome, Ga. Ociohor 10, 1950. J. D. DICKERSON, Dr uggist—rome, Georgia. WlioMHAl.E AND RETAII. DEALER IN D1MJ03, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, DYE- . STHFFS, PERFUMEHY, &o. October 10, 18.70 Broad Street C0ULT1R ft C0IMB, . AT I’OlitNliYci AT LAW, Rome, Georgia. « Feb. 17,1851. • HOLLAND HOUSE, ' ATLAKTA, GEORGIA. and Now Brick Hotel, irnr the Rail JL Road.Depot,U now opened. . It will be kept in aucU fty\c that visitors will not forget to stop ag»in. PftdangcrB on tl»q cars will have moio than ample time t? Retake of the good rpeala always in rcadi- ticM iCt pie arrival of euch train. Persons visiting the .Cityv’rind stopping at the Holland House, can got in formation ami assistance in business j and pass off ' *heEr h*.Vin*'lu>*r« in amusements connected with the TV Port Office, Bank Agency, Brokers and other Important jfficas will be in ihe Holland Hoqm, Reference—Any Olio who has or may step one time. A, it. KELLAlVi, Proprietor. IYJI. H. UNDERWOOD 8s J, W.II. UNDERWOOD. WILL PRACi iCiE Law I N-nil the Counties of the Chorokcc Circuit, (ex cent Dade). They will both personally attend all the Courts. J. W, H. UNDERWOOD will attend the'Courts of Jackson and Hnbershnrti counties of the Western Circuit. Both will attend tho sessions of the SUPREME COURT at Casjvffie and Gainesville.— AllluiUnesS'nitwisted to them will he promptly and faithfully,attended to* OrFICE next door to Hooper & Mitchell, “Buena Vista liolfst;,” Rom'*, Ga.*, nt which pli.ee one or both vllj^yiruy^ be.fotjnd, except absent on professional usmtjM. Jai»A2Jl'>l8SL 1W COTTON GINS AT ROME, GA, rWITHSTANDINC our Shop ha, been dee. :.troyed twice within tho IraI two yea I a, onou by tr nuil once by fire, we'are again iiiomifacturlng lour superior Cot.(un G|na, and hn vo pro pored onrselve * o (il tiny ntnpimt of ardent with wAich wo may be iivbrod. ’ We hrd not making Premium Gins,or Wa tt Jidqby sidu. vfilh nnyjnttde in the Uni- price, and compare qaol.ty and ’ ,-r day-day with them. From thoSouthorn Banner PAHDEMOHIUK. Rhett and his Nashville farces, thunder-stsuck at the result of the Georgia election In November. 1SS0, after a space, recover from Ibctr confusion —consult whether another buttle shall bo bnxard- ed in Georgia, 10 oommit her to scoedo with finatli Carolina, some advise—others dissuade) a temporising proposal la offered by MuDonaljt and aoeoptvd. What tho’ the Held be lost 7 All'll not lost) the unconquerable will, - And stmly or revenge, Immortal hate, And eourago never to submit nr yield To that government, ftrnmrd by Washington 7 That glory never shall the perpla's will Extort from me Since, through oxperlonoe of this great event This disastrous campaign In Georgia, In rftrns not wor«e, in foresight much advanced, We may with tnoro successful hope resolve To wage, by forco or guile, eternal war Upon the cursed Union ofthese States. Thus spake Rhett, exalted by merit To that bad emlnenee, of being chief Of all the Disunion forces South. He oensedt and next to him Colfuitt, Muscogee ohlef, Stood up, tho strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought at Nashville, now fierco by despair i My ientenee Is for open war, of wiles More unexpert, I boast not) then le' those Contrive who need, or when they need—not now. No I let us rather ohooso At the head of" the Coffin Regiment," Arm’d with open Secession's red bnnner, O.cr Georgia's people force resistless Sway. He ended Drowning,and ills look denounced i Desperate revenge, nnd battle dangerous To less than Gods Dinning next rose, n itm ol plonsnnt mien. And endor-ed ell ihe llWJfflllef had said. The ftuioiiA llir:rl did die s'line. Fartr/iht. n pqj-lor kr.iglit, i Iteil out Amen ! And Day an 1 Smi/lhe, (who erst was Mr. Smith,— Bill eliap'ged hit li ni'e, ami good opinions.too. Df Ju’oktwn's I’io.-I-in liion, -nil ForcoUill, Slneo he left the fail, ounty of Monroe,) I-i-J ' i ll . Lin k tin- wool) and Cline end Tift, And “ Pun'h and Judg"—minor singers, they Pm in their feeblo note., taswell the cry. Fotiil remain," of politisiar.s.lbng Sine" defunct, went there—qiieor old specimens, Exhumed and brought to momentary view, As trash is thrown upon tho surface, whon Tho waters of parly o’urflow their banks. (Fncticlous import elicit old things acquire On suoh oecsslonsi at home they're ciphers— “ Old Fogles’’—mnke-weights) hut abroad their nnmos Sound well enough, mid so they’re put to use | One time more to see ilmir mimes In prim, Is Good pay, for such "lie use ns lliey'ru put to.) Stilee, with diplomatic smirk, look',I amiable, And of Ihe stnr spangled bnnner spnke, Whereon athousnnd nngrv liiste. rose, As from the months of as ninny adders) Patdonnra snot' /” the sweet mouth'd Austrian If lor disunion you, then w ain I. [cried, Gerdncr look’d on with dubious squint, Still doubtful of what’s " Ms heel we can do," But, like all doubtful folks, went with the crowd. Daugherty too, alas, poor Tmy I was there— Suggestive quite ho was, of Jinn's boot In Donna Julia’s room “ the tiling wa. neither Rich nor rare, hut how the Devil came it there I” Tho supernumerary throng wns ilior", As.ln theatres, prompt any part to piny That Is assigned,—a lackey or n king— So there's not much to bo snlil or done, Daffy, Stell, and (•• O ! e'erieon !”) Jack,on, too, Model nfbcnnty, and fllinl piety I A speech Iront him, or letter, has one theme— But one, '• Jtfy venerable anreitor l" HeruheU Vulcan, with Its shnilnw nod Its shade, tOamphe'l and Torcn,) looms out ominojisly, A more sinister bee lost not Hoavcni He seemed For dignity composed, nnd high exploit. But nil was false and hollow, though his longue Dropp’d manna, and would make the worse appear Tho better reason. His opinion was— The Wilkinson platform) ditto Shadow— Ditto Shade. Wlint thought the Chief Engineer 7 He thought of—*' Greece, but living Greece no more.” Soltis wheols are greased its all right with him. Skulking about the outsklits of the crowd, Hesitating to join in or stay out, / Was a haggard boing called Judge Berrien I “ He Momed a stranger In this nether world, An erring spirit from another harried.” McDonald, ohrlstcned in honor of Fox, Chariee Jamee—tu shrewd pan of his good sire, Denoting a ounning rescmblnnce, of His fttturo Excellency, to Reynard) Thun whom Rhett excepted, nonchlgher sat, w Ith grave Aspect he rose, and In his rising seemed A pillar ol State; deep on his ftont engraven Deliberation snt, nnd public ears. And princely counsel In his face yet shone, Majestic tho’ in ruin. Georgians I ho snld, or Ihishistitlo now Must we renounce, nnd, changing stylo, bo called Citizens of the “ Rhett Republic t" Fire Eaten !" For soPandomouium’s voico Inclines. What can bo worse Than hero to dwell driven out from offico, In a hopeless minority to pine 1 I should bp much for open war, O, peers. As not behind in huts, but for the thought Ol our last year’s rashness We too soon disclosed Our purpose of seers,ion, and our wish To louud a Southern Confederacy, With Rhett ibr Its President and head— I, his Vice I’resldcnl and Ineecssor, Inwltue.s whcraoij he rajs’’ Bugle" gave. Hearken, 'vKiln I unfold my rtfits lo you For this inmpa'gn' A .w.i.Mii'it '.nil you at M.l'.-'ilpcvijii-, And there lor i-uve'iior, i.n.ninale me) For a platfoim of;, .in-q ics, he sure And deal alone mgt'.i. rul tn'i,, Bewat i! ahov- nil filings, adopt no name For on. iM'ii.gi l arty We'll bo democrats In countie, of that opinion) but where Whjgs prcvitij, Southern Rights will be oar name. [•’ is our watchword. Every county claim, l JO, them all! Of gains, ciroulato rumors evory wbero. In memonts ol deupeat despondence, brag t Twill keep your ipirits up, and (hear Ihe orowd, There's nqtblng like it, so I've uflon found. By suoh arts doubtful votes are oft confirmed,' ifo have, ” Fire Eaten," what I advise. He scarce had finished, when suoh murmurs fill’d The assembly as when hallow rooks retain The sound of blust'rlng winds, whloh all night long H ul roused the rea. Such applause was heard As McDonald ended. Hla words tiaiTpleas'd The ” Fire Eaten." For auoh another field They dreaded worse than death) so much the fear Of thepcople's voice, and the hnllotbox, Wrought still within them t and no less desire To found Ihe Rhett Republic, which might rise By policy and long process ol time. To rival H'.isAIngton's R public. Three loud eheera Ibr Rhett gr McDonald rose, Three for seecuton shook the vaultod roof. . . Tw&s like the sound of thunder heard remote. Then follow’d soolTs ol Cobb and the Union. Of their session ended, they then bid ery With “ BugleV’ legal sound tho groat result— The tree,,ion council thus dissolved) and lorth In order came die grand firo-eatlng peers. Then, more at case their minds, nnd somewhat raised By fulso, presumptuous hope, the motly orowd Disbond) and, wsndcriua, each.his several way, Pursues his Inclinatlon.orsad cholco. MILTON TRAVESTY. From Ihe Charleston Courier. The wrong, of the South, greater than thoic of Hungary or Poland—prophecies of ru in unless toe secede, worthy oj belief. Many persons in the northern Stales, as 1 have said, aie troubled with the demon ol mischievoua intermeddling with our concerns, nnd the question is what shall we do l By what means shall we be able to prevent Ihe possessed from raving in the streets and highways lo our great discomfort and annoy ance ? A number of very worthy gentlemen in our State think that we ahould secede irom the Union, throw the continent of North Ameri ca into a slate of anarchy, and the World perhups into n general war. They havefall- en into a passion with the monomaniacs, and, consulting their anger and not their judgment, have, strangoly enough, confound ed the insanity of these parties with the pro ceedings of tlie General Government. They impute the petitions, meetings and haran gues of Seward, Sumner, or Philips and the anti-slavery socities, lo :he Federal au thorities, and regard the Government as ty rannical, corrupt, oppressive ond ruinous to the Southern States, because there is a Free soil faction in N, York, or a riotous breach of ihn peace in Boston or elsewhere. They represent it, nccordingly,' as a monster 6f corruption—the adoption of it as a blunder— and the Union itself as a curse. If we were in the condition of Hungary, or Poland, or Austrian Italy, or Sicily, with troops living on us at free quarters, and contributions le vied at the points of the bsoyneis,—if we were subjected to drsgoonades, like those of Louis XIV. on the Huguenots, or burning and massacres like those inflicted on the Highlanders by the Duke jf Cumberland, it would be impossible to use more extrava gant and uulimited phrases. The orators of the seceders assure us that we are a degraded people—that wo are no lunger free—that we are in chains—that so disgraceful a case of submission to oppres sion, has nevoi before been known since the beginning of the. world. Their sensibilities are harrowed at the very thought of living under the humiliation and contumely which acquiescence in the laws of the country would necessarily entail, and they break out into exclamations of indignation, rage and grief. If Mr. Van Buren makes a free soil speech, or a meeting at Syracuse expresses it* profound affection for the negro race, or Giddinos utters a declamation intended for the Connecticut reserve, or Arby Folsom escapes from her keepers and joins Theo dore Parker in some insane'rontings, forth with, we are told, the Federal Government is plotting Ihe distruclion of Southern rights ana the annihilation of the property and lives of the Southern people. If this imaginary conspiracy is not resisted, immediately, at the risk of "civil war, pestilence, and utter extermination," oracular toasts, like sybyl- line leaves, fly about the country, predicting ruin to the whole South absolute and unes capable. Now I have great misgivings whether all this may not be mere declamation, very frothy, quite as unsubstantial as whipt syl labub, without being at all as palatable. It seems to me that the oppression, corruption disgrace, and chains }f the secession orators are midsuinmernight dreams, and nothing more ; a sort of stereotyped form of expres sion, unaccompanied with definite ideas ; words merely, without any sort of meaning. In the ardour of haranguiug, on the stump or at a barbaeue, inflated phrases and mag niloquent sentences make the veiy staple of the argument. The higher the seasoning, tho greater the sucooss. The revolutionary declaimer never thinks to ask, like Phocoin, when applauded by the people, whether he has not said some very foolish things: quite the reverse; it is his purpose to win the hurrah of tho people, and he, naturally, se lects the figures of speech that produce that effect. 1 can understand, therefore, how, under such circumstances, he may use them himself with becoming gravity and earnest ness; but, that he should oe able to hear his colleagues use them without laughing in hi* sleeve, is past all comprehension. It has been said by the great Roman ora tor that it was impossible for two augurs to meet, after predicting future events from the Bight of birds or the entrails of beasts, with out laughing in each other’s faces. After a S reat secession meeting and the usual over- ow of fervid eloquence on the tyranny of the governmentAhat sanctions such licence of speech, it irt quite os impossible that the speakers can retain their gravity when once fairly out of sight of the people and met to compare notes over a glass of wine. The effect, howevmipf perpetually repeat ing thft*gme tlpngt.i.iH,. jaatti ' ' ’ * that may be, is not without its influence. If a man, aay an acute obeerver, will pertina ciously assert that he is superior to all the world, no mattor in what department of life, whether it be in compounding a quack medi cine or in the conduct of State affairs, one- half of the world will believe him and the other ha)f will become tired of contradicting lliin. . So is it with pur seceding friend*;they have iterated and reiterated the story of wrongs, and oppressions, degradation and shame, slavery and chains, with such assi duity, that many persons believe them and Ihe rest are weary with opposing them. They have but one lever for moving popular opinion—tho wrongs and dangers of the South—and they have toiled at it until the people think there must be some sufficient ciuso for the outcry. They have dwelt with oracular Irenxy on tho coming t.uin of the South, and converts and desciples bow down before their ahrine. It ia very natural that they should. When Miller predicted that the world was com ing lo an end many persons believed him; when the prediction was falsified one year, and he predicted again for the next, many believed him stilll. Why should not the seceders then have their followers when they foretell, not the end of the world, but that of the Southern States, if their advice is not implicitly adopted ? The one prediction is as credible as the other, and in either case the vehemence of the soothsayer is sufficient ly imposing. They have in an equal degree the contortions and the ot rabidum of the sybil, and may, with theBame justice, claim her inspiration. It is possible, however, that a doom the reverse of the ancient Prophetess may await the inspirations of BlutRon, Bull Swamp, and the Calamus Pond. The vaticinations of Cassandra, were disbelieved although they were true. Our fourth of July'oracles, in the form of speech or tout, are devoutly confided in, ana yet they may prove as unsubstantial as the dis turbed drooms that usually follow its celebra tion. CUKT1US. From the Charleston Courier A Plain Argument, by which every objection to Secession may be answered- An orderly and industrious citizen, who minds his own affairs nnd gives but little at tention tothoso of tho public, concludes, ve ry naturally, that there must be something in tne eternal clamour about wrongs and oppres sions, of which he is solemnly assured that he is Ihe victim. He is entirely at a loss, to be sure, lo understand how it is. No man interferes with him in hlg> business. He ploughs, and sows, and reaps, and sells his crops as usual. He is conscious of no di minution of his rights He feels no oppres sion ; no federal loll is taken from his mill; no tax gatherer, except (he State’s, calls at his door , no increase of taxes, unless it be the $300,000 of his own legislature, lessens his income, but he is told with pertinacious vehemence that he is a slave, oppressed, ruined, wronged beyond aJ example or bearing, and that to submit is the part of a fool and a das'ard. It is certain that all thia must have some effect—that he must be brought by this everlasting inflammatory stump rhetoric to believe himself a mon strously injured man. He becomes the vic tim of a perpetual political blister plaster, of endless doses of secession patent qunck stimu lative medicine. He is like the honest far mer in Pennsylvania upon whose potatoes some small trespass had beon committed by his neighbor’s geese, and who had been per suaded to bring an action against their own er, although still thinking the affair a very trifling matter. But wheu ho came into Court and heard Ihe speech of his Philadel’ lawyer, and listened to his detail of foul wrong, injustice and injury of which he was the vic tim—the ruin, the utter annihilation of his whole property and family to which he was represented as being exposed by the nefari ous doings and worse desigus of his atrocious neigubor—he bunt into tears, declaring that he had not before known or unde.*stood how injured a man he was. It is just so with many worthy men who form an opinion of the wrongs done to the South by the Feder al Government not lrom what they them selves see and know, but from the declama tion of some political debutant, in chase of public honors, or some veteran politicise whose imagination is no longer sound. This revolutionary declamation taken another step which is not without its influ ence. The seceders not only dogmatize on (be sufficiency of the causes for secession, but they denounce all who presume to op-> pose them. Having proved to their own sat isfaction the existence of oppressions never before known in the world, they assert se- of secession submit to the laws, and do not aubmit to Ihe dictation of politicians, whoso schemes are leading to revolution and anar chy. This ia the most heinous ot all offences in South Carolinia, and is therefore branded with thia terrible poly-ay table, intended to express something worse than base, corupt, traitorous, foolish, ignorant, and degenerate. There is something so admirably concise, easy and conclusive in this mode of reasoning —this laying down an extravigant or absurd proposition, and damning all opposed to it— that it haa been a favorite kind of logic, in all times, with all persons troubled with an arrogant or cholonc temper. It reminds us irresistibly of the ‘ similar plain argument used by Lord Peter, in the “Tale of a Tub.” His Lordship is striving to impose upon his recusant brethren a certain brown loaf, whiah he insist* is mutton, of Ihe first quality, from Leadenhall market. Jack and Marlin are incredulous. They venture t6'suggest-, with great deference, that, to their eyes, nose and taste, it seems nothing more than anordinary loaf of brown bread. Or, this, Peter falls in to a terrible passion and swears horribly.— "Look you," he says ; “lo convince you whnt blind, ignorant, obstinate, conceited puppies you ere, I will use but one plain ar gument—by Jove it is excellent mutton, and may you be consigned to everlasting torments if you do not believe it.” It is just so with theseceders. - Yon must believe that secession will not produce civil war—that il will compelother States, against their will, to secede also—that we shall be able to support an independent nary and army without money or credit—that it is good morale end policy to rest our financial system on successful smuggling—that Sa vannah and Wilmington will To charmed with the project by which our free trade is to monopolize their trade,—you must believe all these things, end many more ae curious and monstrous, or the seceders resort to Lord Peters’s plain argument, and denounce and anathematize you as dastards, submis- sionists, idiots, knaves, or traitors, and de- vot you to confiscation and banishment, the yard-arm aod the lanthern-post. It is in vain that you reptesent to these very tolerant and liberal gentlemen, that their denunciations apply to the Sonlhern Slates as well as to their fellow-citizens of the State—that no one of these States is willing to secede—that they are as wise and ns brave as we are—that the coarse epithets bestowed by the South-Carolina patriots, on all opposed tn them, is producing afeeling of hostility to the State in the hearts of South ern men, at what they consider insolence and arrogance on our part. It is ail in vain. There is the brown loaf of ugly, sour, indi gestible secession bread, and you trust be lieve It to be the glorious dash that the sece- der affirms it to be —a divine food, like that of the Lotophogi, producing an oblivion of ail socail civil and political evils—or you are anathemamarentha, and the bull of condem nation, snorting and belching and hissing fire, is fulminated against you. CURT1US. "Cwfg|nils In Ike Field.” “We hail with pleasure the appearance of this able Champion of Southern Rights up on the field of discussion.”— Constitutional. ist, July 23rd. Hus he got his coffiin strapped to his rump with bullets in one end and prover.der in the other ? If so, send him along. Gov. Towns says he played h—1 with every thing last fall with his coffiin, and we guess it wont <bo much better this time ! If he comes this way, we shell eend for Murphy, and let him twist the “Captain of the Coffin Regiment” around that “Barbor’s Pole” again ! From the number of‘Richmonds In the field’ be low,we should guess that Mr. Cobb had thrown in some hot shot upon the enemy. Come, gentlemen, trot out your candidate —the people want to hear from him. But we forgot, he stilts himself upon his digni ty, ana says to the people, “behold a greater parate State action lo be the only remedy for these assumed evils. Secede, they say, and government will become what it hat never been before, an unmixed good—the disad vantages that may not attend our institutions will cease to molest us—slaves will no lon ger run away—Pennsylvania will be a re treat for those that do no more than Canada, where it is known they never go—the peo ple of Fanueii Hall will be' os 'silent as Exe ter Hall, which is so acquiescent on the subject of our institutions—the Federal Government will receive our departure with a bow of deferential politeness—England and France will permit us to modify the law of nations by our police regulations—South- Carolinia will become a glorious empire, to which all surrounding States will send in their adhesion, and will enjoy the blessings of order and law, and peace and security, without danger from abrotd or disturbance at home. If you do not believe all this with a faith as implicit as that'- claimed by the vile prophet, you are denounced as traitors, cowards, corrupted slaves of the Federal Government, idiots, unable to understand your rights, or dastards unfit to defend them. These denunciations are so continued that the English language is unahle to furnish epithets, and the secedera are obliged to coin new words to express their contempt. One of these, the term submissionist, is in con- itf '-***' r,,r4 '' D1SUNI NASHVILLE, and its beneath my dignity to discuss the political questions of the day, “face to face,’’ with Howell Cobb before tne' people.” Be it so ! The People of Georgia will cou aider it beneath their dignity • to elect him Governor.—Griffin Union. Beur to get Ikein. Whenever you hear a politician prating about Southern rights and southern Interests, just tell him that a man who has not soul enoui' ‘ |Bm| people inevety part of the country, whether north or south, is too narrow contracted and soulless a politician for you to follow, and never you get him. If he still persists in bis cry of Southern Rights, just tell him that the only sure way to successfully defend Southern rights is to sustain and defend the rights and interest of all parts of the Union, and by all means to defend the constitution and laws of the lrind and preserve the Union, and you get him again. Bevalntlen Im Cuba. It seems from what we can gather, that a portion "of the inhabitants of Cuba, have struck for Independence. They commenced the rcolution in the interior, and h->ve whip ped out the Government Troops. and taken possession of two small towns, Puerto Prin cipe and San Juan. They doubtless com menced where they did, that they might take shelter in the mountains, in case they found the Government Soldiers toA hard for them. If the people generally join the Re volutionists, there can be no doubt but that, in a short time, Cuba will be rid oithe Span ish yoke 1 An attempt to hold a meeting to organize in Havana waa antcipated and prevented by tbe government authoritiee. The Cubans will have a bard struggle of it, but no people Can be kept in boundsge who are determined to be free ; when their op' essors live as far off as Spain is fir® Deep Soil ano Hoots.—A. J. Downing says, “I have seen Ihe root* of strawberries extend five feet down into a rich deep eoil i and lliosn plnnls bore a crop of fruit five time* and twicn as handsome and goods* the rom- j 101 * ,j lr0 ^ uc ^ °f the soil only one foot ’I hei average vertical depth lo which roots acreuil into disintegrated soil, is thirty-four inches, and their length, as. above staled fas much greater; but Ihe horizontal travel ia oc casionally very great and gradually deepen ing to thirty-tour inches. If a hill of com be raised upon an artificial knoll, formed of well disintegrated soil, and, when ripe, the top of the stnlk be fastened to a gallows frame and Ihe earth be washed from its roots, “ nut ‘o abrade them, they will be found measure five and a half feet in length, and many of them so fine as lo lie singly invisible to the naked eye ; but like the ultimate fi bres of silk when several are conjoined; am easily observed. With these facts before us who can doubt the necessity of deep plounghing.— Work ing Farmer. MuRDEn.—We hnvo been inforinaff, through a private letter from a friend of ours, residing in Gordon county, that most at- trocious murder was committed in that cosw- ‘y°» Saturday evening, the 36th instant, hoc Boucher > U P°" »h» person of Sig nal Wilkinson, by shooting him in tha head* with a rifle, killing him instantly. Douehtr lias left.—Dal limes. The Jacksonville ("Florida,' Republican of the 13th instant records the death ot Dolly, a negress, aged one hundred and aixtean years. She was the slave of H. D. HohneaA of that place. She was remarkable for bar tenacious memory of events connected with, the American Revolution, having acted in’ the capacity of cook and servant with several officers of the Southern army during tha war. She retained her skill as cook almost to har end, was venerablo and rather stately in ap pearance, with a bright eye, fine teeth, ereeb figure, and Imir perfectly white. U. S. Mint,—The total coinage from Janu ary to June inclusive, amounts lo twenty- four million two hundred and sixty-nine thou sand four hundred and sixty-five dollars, and the precious metals deposited to twenty-four millions four hundred nnd ninutv-three thou- snnd three hundred dollars, of which Califor- nia contributed nineteen millions nine hun- dred and ninety-five thousand five hundred dollars. South Carolina Secession Flag.—A mammouth flag was suspended from one of the windows of the offiice of the Charleston' Mercury, on the 4th instant, on which was a bne stnr und n rattlesnake with its head erect at the foot of a palmetto tree, as if about to strike. A portion of the military drew up- before the office, presented arms, and gave nine cheers for the flag of South Garolina. The difficulties between the Northern and' Southern sections of the Methodist Episcopal church, it seems, are not to be settled by ar- ■ bitration, a* was earnestly recommended by the Court. The Christian Advocate and Journal states that the South demands as a prerequisite lo any adjustment, a full ac knowledgement of the justice nf her claim— which ol course the North cannot do, and to the negotiation falls through. It will than therefore, ab'de the decison of the Court,, which is promised to be rendered in the Fall.. GOING UP. We have never heard of so easy and yet so laughable a method as that contained hi a sketch from the Spirit of the Times which gives an account of Joe Merriwether’s ascent,as told in the following extract by his brother. Now lace tight if you want to save your sides. ‘You recollect Mis. Morrison,’ says he, ‘brother Joe oilers was a dressy kind of a chap ; fnnd of brass button* on his coat and Ihe flann’est kind of neckercher ; and this time he had on a pair of buckskin breech es with straps under his boots. Well when, 1 was talking to him of the prospect fur next day, all of a sudden 1 thought the feller was a gvowin’ uncommon tall ; til) 1 discovered that the buckskins breeches that wur as wet as a young rooster in a spring rain wur be ginning to smoke and draw up kinder and wur a tiften brother Joe off the ground.’ ‘Brother Joe,’ sez I, ‘you’re going up.’ ‘Brother Tom,’ sez he, ‘I aint doing any thing else.’ And lie scrunched down mighty hard but it warn’t ov no use fur afore long ho were a matter of some fifteen feel in the air. ‘Merciful powers !’ interrupted the wid ow. ‘Brother Joe,’sez I. ‘I’m here I’sez lie. ‘Catch hold ov the tup of that black jack, sez I’.’ ‘Tiilk I’ sez brother Joe and he sorter leaned over and grappled the Baplin, like as may be you’ve seen a squi’el in an elm switch of a June inornin.’ Bui it wau’t of no use fur old’oman ef you’ll believe me, it gradually begun to give way at the root*, and afore he had got five foot higher, it just slipt oui’n the ground as easy as you’d pull up a spring readish. ‘Brother Joe!’ sez I again. ‘I’m a list’nin’ sez he. ‘Cut your straps I’ sez I, fur I seed it was 1 ' his list chance. ‘Talk I’ sez brother Joe, though he look ed sorter a reproachful at me, lur proachio such a subject, but after appsarantly consid erin’ awhile, he outs with his jack knife sod leaning over sideways, made a rip at thasolr of his left boot. There wns a considerab deal of crackin for a second or two, th“ / ' crash sorter like a wagon load of had brugdown and tha fust thing 11 tother leg shot up like, and steP^ the last thin^ I seed ov my