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2 l)c Itome courier
Rome, ga.
Tl t.SDA r MORNING, JUNE 12, 1855.
Good Old Blackwood, with his thoughtful
trow and shaggy face is cordially welcomed to
a place among the Literati of our table* In
bis monthly visits, he gladdens the hearts of
thousands of our intelligent countrymen, with
his pleasant sayings, sage instructions and in
teresting chronicles.—Those wishing to receive
visits from him, can do so, by dropping a ($3)
Note, with their address, to L. Scott A Co., 70,
at> N. York.
Tub Knickerbocker, for June, is another
"ship from the old block." In mechanical ex
ecution, this magaaineia inferior to none pub
lished In the United States, while in purity
and elegance of original Literature, essays and
judicious criticisms it excels any we hare
the pleasure of perusing.—Published by Sam
uel Rueeton, 343 Broadway, X. York at $3,00
per annum.
tiTSHtciiW.—V* would respectfully call
the attention of our readers to a series of ex
tracts found on the first page of this paper,
headed. "The Spirit of the Romish Press."—
Vaikt it is remembered that these Presses are
Wttdef the strict surveillance of the heads of tie
Church, their editors licensed and delegated to
defend the folth : and, as one of them says,
they **ne»er think of publishing any thing in
regard to the Church without submitting their
UrHfles to,the bishop fo: inspection, approval
aadrundocscwicnt." no one will d»nbt bnt
that their concessions and avowals Indicate
the real policy of Romanism in this country.
Tmmv Ctra.—We bad the pleasure, and
when we nr pleasure. we mean it. for it really
was a rich treat, t-> attend the exhibition of this
clwb. on last Tuesday night. The Dranafi*
jsecef irwt "acted well their parts." and gave not
only ntufarOM. but great pleasure to their ro
sy geo tael and large audience. In Knowle’s
celebrated tragedy of the Wife, difficult though
U he, and the players for most part inexperien
ced, a deep interest eras awakened and kept
ap throughout the entire play. The parts were
well memorised and the corps showed that they
had rcryjast conceptions of the characters they
were playing.
Such beariy langhter. as was provoked in all
by the "Jacobite." tends greatly to good health,
and to the establishment of a pleasant and gen
erous state of feeling. The proceeds of their
next exhibition, the time .of which is yet uncer
tain. will he devoted -to .eharitabU purposes.—
The plays, we understand, knll benew, and wc
bespeak for them a liheraLpatronage.
The t•Iambus Platform.
In oar last issue wo published a series of res
olutions adopted hr a large meeting recently
held in the eity of Columbus. A circular was
sent as expressive of the desire that we should
fiwitteoBcarrent with our views to sanction
these resolutions. A t thc time the circular came
to hand, we had so little time and apace allot
ted as as. to obviate the possibility of editorial
mssili upon the subject in tbs Courier of last
week.
Tbs most objectionable feature to the Colnm-
bas-Platform is eeetionality, and bow mueh so
ever there may be a necessity of organising a
pasty with sneh principles, still wc cannot hut
believe this movement is somewhat premature.
It her been oar hope. nay. our expectation, that
when the convention of the American party
should take place at Philadelphia, there would
be enough true and conservative men in that
convention, to set forth a national platform, np-
cn which the true men of the North would meet
the people p£ the South in the support ofcoa-
stitntioaa] principles, and in the defence of onr
mediations against the encroachments of fanat
ics sad Abolitionists. It was. in vain to look
to any other source for conramation of such an
and. The two old parries afford no grounds of
eactmrsgement. They have already become un
reliable on the slavery question. They afford
ao guaranty whatever that their cooperation
maybe expected in effecting the perpetuity of
our sectional rights. The American party is
the onlv one which is endeavoring to stay the
career of Abolition’*™, and even the question of
its triumph is one which is yet unsolved. There
will no d*oht be a strong effort made in the
Philadelphia convention, by Northern delegates,
to exclude from the platform ail provisions
against the aggression of Abolitionism. Should
snob an effort he crowned with success, the ccm-
s qiems wllfbe an inmrdiitie ri-oiganizatirn of
tbs American party in the South, and a re-or
ganization upon a sectional platform. In snch
on event, we should be prepared to adopt the
Colombo* Resolutions, and should consider it
die doty of every Southern man to uphold and
maintain them.
The proceedings of the Convention now in
session win reach us in a few days: We shall
bide tbe tim» with patience. Upon them hangs
the destiny of the American party in the South.
It will repudiate an alliance with abolitionists.
Would that the same could he said of Democra
cy-
Uttar-(fetation.
The following, which we elip from the Sou-
fliorner of Way 31. if not absolutely untrue, is
likely to lead to an erroneous conclusion.
" The right to vote is a State regulation alto
gether. with whieh Congress cannot interfere.
Therefore, to f -nod a ere at party nnon a modi
fication of the naturalization law, which onlv
throw* tb» protection of our Flag aronnd the
- adopted ritizen. and gives him no right to vote
at all. *»ems to u» to h« snpremelv ridienlons.
And-thoic who state that a modification of the
B*iorc!?z»t J ofi lew extend* or shortena. or in
ssvvb* epee's, th* e!<w»tive frae*Vso. which is
guarded and confr-’todt by the State—is a
Statp R?on-*— utr display their ignorance
of our fo-nts of government.”
Now to naturalize ?« ** to confer on an alien
th* right* and prigtlev-. of a native eohjuet or
citizen: to adopt for"5<m**» into a nation or
S'V* a*d r. : ae* them on tbe condition «.f nat-
nrel v. rn citlzr-ns.” Art. 1. See. S. of tbe eon
sittetion 'provides that Oongre** shell have
power "to establish an uniform rale «f natu
ralization, and. "although ltba*becn*» mootod
question, whether Cnngreio; possessesthe cxcltt-
•<«v power to.naturalize, yet Chancellor Kent
save, and we pre*umc nr, one will question the
tititlifu!fi<;*«of bis statement, "that the weight
of authority as »-!! as reason may be consid
ered a* clearly in f-.ror <*f the construction,
that the power in Congress to establish n uni
form role of naturalization is exclusive, on tbe
ground of their being a direct repugnance or
incompatibility in the exercise of it by the
6ta te's.* One object of. the Ameiean parly Is to
bring Congress to exercise thie power given it
by the constitution, and then the various States
may with soma consistency ebenge their laws in
relation to the bestow went of the elective firan
chiee.
As it Is* there has been, as it would seem, a
rivalry; especially between the new States in
the awth west, as to which would narrow down
its period of naturalization to tbe shortest
spacei hoping by this policy, suicidal though
it be, to induce the migration of foreigners to
buy ibcir public lands and otherwise enrich tbe 1
“The elocliVe franchise is not given to any
except native born or natnrnliized citizens, and
if Congress should make a uniform rule re
quiring a residence of twenty-one years in
this country before the naturalisation of aliens
or foreigners, then they could not enjoy tbe
ular liberty;—tho terror of usurpers, tyrants
and demagogues. He, who dares not utter, or
publish his free thoughts, through fear that
“ Offended MajtHy'' and its minions, may de
nounce him as corrupt, for denouncing corrup
tion. is unworthy of citizenship in this repnb-
eleetivo franchise before thattime hud expired, i lie. " He who ie not trusted with his own ae-
and it would stilt be optional with the States
whether they should receive It at all or not.
So it is very evident that the naturalization
law may defer and establish a uniform period
within which the elective cannot be bestowed by
the several States* And only by taking this
view, can the different parts of the constitution
be made to harmonise; lor art. 4, sec. 3, pro
vides, that "the citizens of each State shall ho
entitled to all the privileges and immunities of
cititen* in the several States." Now suppose
one Statenaturaliies and gives tho right to exer
cise the elective franchise on a residence of six
months, and an a^ioininv State requires a res
idence often years; an alien way reside in the
former six months, receive the elective fran
chise and move to the latter and she is con-
stitutionallyhound to receive him on the same
ground that she would a native born Ameri
can citizen, though it bo iu violation of the
statute: for, be it remembered, the constitution
is the supreme law of the land.
tiottr, his drift not being known to bo evil, and
standing to the hazard of law and penalty, has
no great argument to think himself reputed in
the commonwealth wherein he vu born for
other than a fool or a foreigner."
ONE OP THE PEOPLE.
[For the Coarior.]
Mr- Dwixkll:
Speaking of the series or principles
avowed by the American Party of this city, tbe
Editor of the Southerner, iu his paper of the
Slet alt, moved by that amiable spirit of Chris
tian charity and gentlemanly urbanity, for
which he is so desirous of being regarded as a
mode), said "it was framed /or the purport of
deceiving wen into the belief that it embodies
the principles of the Know Nothing organiza
tion in tot lento. It is also designed to mislead
■tea into the error that there is a party in this
country opposed to the resolves they have pub
lished touching Catholic and Foreign influence
in onr Government-*’
Having attempted to deter democrats from
joining that party by the cry of “whig trick,”
be has recourse to abnse when be finds nothing
in its avowed principles he dares controvert be
fore the people. But he can deny to his neigh
bors the ordinary right of proclaiming their
own principles, after taunting them with con
ctoling them. He can say they were designed
to mislead—framed for the purport of deceiving
men. This is a mean, unmanly subterfuge.—
Not a man. of those thus impudently charged
with intentional deception but may confidently
challenge a comparison with this immaculate
searcher of human heart*—this adept In finding
out hate motives—in any point of character
whatever. A majority of those who framed the
platform of tbe American party in this city are
democrats, as true to their, principles and the
rights of their section as this perfunctory edi
tor ; aod more to be relied upon than any par
ty led by men who have voted for the Wilmot
Proviso, refused to sign the Southern address,
and deserted their party and their country in
the hourfft trial, and defend Cass sinee the de
livery of his Chicago speech.
Let the public pote well and hear in mind,
that (his very editor has distinctly admitted
that be and his party, notwithstanding all the
fass they have been making, sonenr with the
American Party in’favor of native bom Protest•
ante ruling America:—that they two are oppos
ed to “Catholic n nd Foreign influence."
8neb is tbe strength of American principles
that they require only to he distinctly enunci
ated to challenge the assent of almost all can
did minds, and strike tenor into the hearts of
those who seek to ride into power by the aid of
Catholic and Foreign influence. There la no
other way of Recounting for the opposition to
tbe American party, if the Editor speaks the
truth when he declares that he and his party
are opposed to those inflnences. He stands be
fore the public in the unenviable attitude of a
calomnator of the motive* and detign* of his
neighbors, while he is forced to do homage to
tbe soundness and truth of their principles. Tt
is not true that we designed to deceive any man.
It is not true that we undertook to speak for
anybody bnt ourselves. To deny onr authority
to do so, and assert that onr action amounts to
nothing, proves nothing bnt this Editor’s exalt
ed ideas of the sovereignty of leaders—ideas
characteristic of the followers of tbe Regency.
The American party have rejected the slavish
doctrine with the con tempt it deserves. It hat
authority to tpeakfor ittelf. It has spoken. It
will stand by its principles, defying all dicta
tors upon the one hand, and all calmnnator* up
on tbe other. Nothing can prevent its success
bnt infidelity to the principles it has avowed,
and an imitation of the profligate practices of
the Regency. The day it stoops thus low, it
will contract a leprosy more fetal than the dry*
rot that has seized upon the once potent demo
cracy of thie district.
Is it not edifying to observe the Editor of
tbe Organ, after having uttered the wholesale
abase of tbe motive* and detign* of bis neigh
bors above alluded to:—in the very article in
which be tells the Know Nothings that they
know they have in tbeir order “corrupt politi
cal demagogues, trickster* and gambler*;”—nay
in the very next paragraph; declaring his dis-
gnstat this practice of abasing men for bolding
opinions adverse to onr own! Snch language,
from any body else would be pronounced, .Bil
lingsgate. It is most shocking and deplorable
when directed at these eminent and popular
gentlemen whose canse he has espoused. To
charge men “because prominent party leader*
with corruption;”—“the imputation to thnte
of the most hateful motives”—“theexciting
against thnte the contempt of unreflecting, ex-
citablepeople”—all teitd* to tap the foundation*
of society!" It is the .worst of crimes ! 8o
thought Caligula and other tyrants who spilt
rivers of the best blood of ancient Rome for
thi* very crime. It was known in that age and
country as the crime “ Lett* Majettati*—or of
offended mojeety. In Inter times, and other
despotisms, ft was called Scandal urn Magnatnm,
—scandalizing the great;—“exciting against
th'tn the contempt of “unreflecting excitable
people” It was severely punishable bylaw, ns
a crime of the first magnitude, tending “to
r.n tbe foundations of society.”
In this eonntrv. we can. os yet, (God be
praised!) freely scan the conduct even of
“prominent party leaders” and the highest
official*. We can through the medium of a
press yet free* arraign the loftiest among them,
at the bar of public opinion, and bring them
to trio! before tbe people, “unreflecting” and
“excitable” a« they may be, in the opinion of
these admirers of the great. They are subject
to pnblic scrutiny, end the people may, and
ought to try, and pass sentence upon them at
tbe ballot box. None but tbe corrupt, or
meanly ambitions,' need fear the scrutiny, or
dread tho consequences of tbe popular judg
ment
“For this Is not tbe liberty which we can
hope,—that no grievance ever should arise in
tbe commonwealth j—that let no man in this
world expect;—but when complaints a re freely
heard, deeply considered, and speedily reform
ed, then i* : the utmost bound of civil liberty
obtained that wise men look for.” A free press,
freely uted, is tbe most formidable check upon
it expedient I should cortainly move my man-
ufeeturing business np the country.
And I do think that a cotton fectory would
not only pay well but add greatly to the com
merce of yonreity.
I would not attempt to disguise fact the
that there are Factories in the State that have
failed to give satisfaction to tbeir owners, but
all such are Factories propelled by itenm and
in every ease condueted badly, j could men
tion one or two oompaniea th..t have gone into
operation with a great deal more capital (I
mean money) than brains, and have either been
influenced by indifference or favoritism in tbe
selection of tbeir most important officers, and
all Factories whether propelled by steam or
Mr. Pwinell:
The thing is now utterly useless! Aleck’s
protector and defender under tho cognomen of
“Pillicnddy” has dealt out roost merciless flag- 1 wnt * r ' thl * t h “ vc b * < ‘ n wc11 n » ann * 0<, ‘ »•***
citations amongst the small fry of seribblera.- : * ,ven "“ ,f " ct,on ‘ 1 tb,nk U n ^ 8M nt
Emergingln Neptunian majesty Trom his “barna- I time to ,,M< ‘ ,be •**▼«"**«:•«*' wafer over steam
power, and will therefore close by a few re»
i marks upon tho eost of creoting such works as
olo and tea-weed" abode, he drives his aquatic
steeds over the troubled waves and bids them
Aeolus has bridled the winds and the i 1 think wouM M,it J^rplnee.
commotion has Ceased. No “knight of the birch
en rod” could have ensured a more passive obe
dience by bis unwhi pt urchins. I fear an at
tempt to attenuate the power and the greatness
of this most potent Pillieoddy. Like tho liver
of Prometheus, tho more he is consumed the
more will he grow. Pillieoddy has come to
Aleck’s defence, and ho is safe. Pillieoddy In
doing so, has perilled his own corporate and
physical existence. Pillieoddy is exalted to a
god. yndwill, of course, drink catnip with Jupi
ter. He has virtually and effectually said
“I am sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark.”
Pniox.
("For the Courier.l
STRIKING ILLUSTRATIONS.
OF MORAL SUBLIMITY.
Eulogy upon truth by a lawyer and politician
of more than twenty years practice in both
trader! When he dies let the constitution be his
winding sheet, and the world go into mourning
at the extinction of all the virtues !
OF MODESTY.
A renegade from the whig party, known to
he in a minority, who has spent much of his
life, and his patriotic breath in eloquent abuse
of democrats and democracy, and in sycophan
tic adulation of whigs and whigerv. sneaking
out of the Tugalo faction into the democratic
party, and immediately setting himself np for
a leader!
T am unablo to say what the dam or canal
would cost, as it would nil depend on *he length
and nature of their sites. A Factory of 6000
spindles and 100 looms with all the necessary
buildings will cost about eighty thousand Dol
lars. I do not deem it necessary to go Into
minutia at this time.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
B. J WILSON.
OF DISINTERESTED PATRIOTISM.
Desertion of friends in a minority to make
friends of a majority, without tbe least suspicion
of desiring to be mRde Judge or member of Con
gress before any vacancy occurs!
OF V A N I T T.
Presuming to speak or write any thing for the
.pnplic, when yon are neither an office holder,
'lawyer nor member of Congress. These illus
trious classes being the only mortals who are
presumed to be endowed with the faculty of
thought, or who may address tbe vnltrnr mass
of common men. without the imputation of ex
treme rnn tty. See new ideas of democracy by
philosopher Pillieoddy in the Journal of Jews-
harp melodies, edited bv tbe strawberry poet.—
There is much more philosophy and democracy
of the same sort to be learned by a diligent po-
rusal of the lucubrations of the Poet himself and
bis tquad of. scribbler*. Utah.
P. S.—Can not “Sam McCrackin” favor the
world with the biography of some of the illus
trious converts to democracy who flourish in
this vicinity ?
OF EXTRAORDINARY CONStSTENCY.
Voting with Daniel Webster while alive, and
denouncing him as r federalist as soon as he
died. Rnnningagainst Cobb, and adulating him
upon failing to supersede him. Denouncing tho
fire-eaters asdisnnionists& traitors, denouncing
the Tugalo faction from extreme hatred of them,
and then joining them, raying they were a no
ble band of patriots whose only fault was an ex
cess of patriotism! Failing to get a judgeship
and have Cobb sent to the Senate, denouncing
them again and ready to quit, if he only knew
where to go. Wanting to join the Know-Noth
ings to fight the Regency whose principles and
practices he professed to hate most cordially,
hat failing to get in, joining tho Regency to
fight the Know Nothings, whose principles he
approved. Denouncing the Regency and threat-
ning determined, eternal and implacable hos
tility.' to the whole concern, and yet laboring
diligently to master and turn to profit the “New
Science” said to be as inscrutable and imprac
ticable aa a tt po»*nm three day* dead !” “Prove
ail things bold fast that which is good.” This
being interpreted, means join all parties, try
all religions, and stick to that that pays best!
For the Courier.
“ Scriptor*Lilliputiu*,” “ Pseudonymous,”
“Nicrnmega* I” That so mnchwitand learn
ing as goes to the invention of these words of
learned length and thundering sound, may not
be lost npon tbe ignorant and unreflecting peo
ple, we beg that the Poet, get some word-
monger or philologist to give an explanation
of them. Common people can't understand
philosopher Pillieoddy without an interpreter.
^ VOX.
ROCK MILLS, Ga., Juno 8th. 1855.
Editors of the Courier,
Gentlemen :
My views upon cotton manufacturing have
been requested by some citizens of yonr county,
with a view, I presume, of establishing a Cot
ton Factory a - the city of Romo, and should
yon think proper you can give them a place in
yonr paper.
Although an occasional visitor of your coun
ty and city. I really am ignorant of what the
chances would be for a good wator power at
Rome, Jmt am informed by a gentleman in
whose word I have the utmost confidence,
though do not know much about his ability to
judge such matters, that a first rate Wator Pow
cr (I use his own words) can be had by cutting
a canal commencing somewhere about where
Mr. W. R. Smith’s Bridge stood on the Etownb
River, and running through lands that will pre
sent no obstructions in the way of hills or rocks,
furnishing a power of some 8 or 10 feet fall
within about one fouith of a mile of the city, j
Now should such be a fact, I would say that |
I know of no point in the 8tate, that offers j
For tbe Courier.
A Short Notice on the Georgia Locusts or
Cicada.
The insect which is at present attracting
somo attention in Georgia and known there by
the above name, is a very different animal from
the real locust of naturalists. This last is a
species of grasshopper and one of the most ter
rible scourges with which the incensed majesty
of heaven chastises a guilty world; it appears
in innumerable hands whose approach causes a
noise like the rushing of a torrent and dark
ens the horizon. So enormous is their multi
tude that they bide the light of tbe sun and
oast an awful gloom like that of an eclipse over
the earth. Major Moore when at Poonah had
the opportunity of seeing an immense army of
locusts “ the column they composed” says he
“extended five hundred miles and so compact
was it when on the wing that it completely hid
the sun so that no shadow was cast by any ob
ject and that lofty tombs distant not two hun
dred yards were rendered invisible! The noise
they made in browsing on the trees andherbage
might be heard at a great distance and resem
bled the rattling of hnil or the noise of an army
foraging in secret.”—What a difference between
the habits of this creature and those of the
harmless denizen of our woods and copses!
The true locust is a large species of the grass
hopper tribe having powerful jaws and the
hind legs fitted for leaping, the Georgia locust
belongs to quite a different Order, it is a kind
of hemipterous insect provided with a probo
scis or sucker and belongs to the genus cicada.
Many speces of cicada are known, most of
which are proper to tropical climates; all pos
sess a shrill or monotonous stridnlation. The
name of cicada is probably derived from ciccus
(acock or winged animal that sings) of which
cicada is a diminutive, or perhaps from cito
cadet (which falls soon) in allusion of its short
existence in a perfect state. One species of
cicada was well known to the ancients who ad
mired its sont/and made of the singer an em
blem of music, placingitupot, a musical instru
ment, the cithara.
It was said that two musician? Eunome and
Aristo were one day attempting to compete on
this instrument, when suddenly one of the
cords of Eunome’s cithara broke: at this mo
ment a cicada alighted on it and striking np a
harmonic note made him win the victory.
Modern ears have become so much accustom
ed to tbe melodies of Bethoven, Megerbeer,
Rossini and other great compositors that a re
cent traveller speaks irreverently of the “aw
ful squalling” of these insects instead of tell
ing ns of its “delightful” song.
Anacreon in a beautiful ode, speaks thus of
the cicada: “We call thee happy O'cicada, be
cause after havinesipped t e dew on the snm-
mit of trees, thou sinsrest as a queen. AH that
thon seest in the fields and all that the seasons
produce in succession are thine. Thou art the
friend of tbe labourer to whom thou doest no
barm. Thon art worthy of the homage of mor
tals, thou charming harbinger of summer.
The mu»ea iove thee; Phebus loves thee also,
he gave thee thy noisy song. Old age reaches
thee not. 0 sage. O daughter of the earth, 0
friend of mnsic, 0 thon who s-fferest not. thou
who hast neither flesh nor blood. Thou art
verily similar to the Gods!”
According to the ancient Greeks, the cicadas
were men who horn from dust, had tnught tho
Muses how to sine: they had such a passion
for singing that they forgot to eat or to drink
until they died of starvation: the muses out of
gratitude transformed them into animals who
could live without eating and who had no other
oecupation hut singing.
Among the Athcncnns tho cicada was a
symbol of nobility: those who boasted of the
antiquity of their race used to say that they
were native horn of the country of the cicadas
and they wore a golden one in tbeir hair. Tbe
Egyptians placed the cicada amid their hyero-
glyphics symbolic of musie.
Aristotle tells ns that his countrymen, not
content with keeping them caged np to enjoy
the harmony of their song, considered them
also as a delicate dainty and served them up on
tbeir tables.
The malo only of the cicada is musical, the
female being destitute of the organs for produ
cing sound. Tho hotter tho day the louder and
moro stunning is the noise these insects make.
Virgil makes allusion to this when be snys
(Ecloga II.V.10.) “Thestilis bruise? tho aro
matic thyme and gnrlic for the harvesters pan
ting under tho infiuenco of tho heat, whilo I
nm ronming in the rays of tho burningsun and
with the cicndns making the woods resound ns
I seek for thee.”
“ Sole sub ardenti resonant arbusta cicadit,”
The peculiar sound of these animals is pro
duced by a complicated nppnrntus which was
first carefully described by Reaumur; it con
sists in a cavity situnted on either side of the
anterior part of tho abdomen which communi
cates with several othors and with divrse mem
branes. A full description of this organ would
be incompehensihle to the general render
without the help of good ongr <vings. The fe-
wings folded up, but its integuments soon har
den in the sun and its wings expand. The
adult cicada feeds on tho sap of the plants it is
found oti, it drinks but does not eat having a
trunk or proboscis only and no real mouth.
We are at present studying the habits of the
Goorgia cicada, which are unknown to the
scientific world and hopo soon to have it in our
power to communicate some interesting Dicta
concerning its habits and the causes of its reg
ular periodicity. J. M. DEBY.
Rome, June, ’55.
Bcrselim, Columbia eo., June 9th 1855.
Editors or the Rome Courier,
Gentlemen:—At a meeting of tho members of
Council No 110, this day, by more accident, your
excellent paper issued on Mny 29th containing
a reply to tho letter of A. II. Stephexo to J. W.
Thomas, by Col. 8. FottcnB,' was received. On
motion, the reply was read by the secretary when
it was resolved by the Council, that the enclo
sed sum bo forwarded to yon for its valno in the
extras containing the reply.
Also it was resolved requesting you through
your paper to acknowledge the thanks of this
Council to Col. S. Fouchb' for his abloand
manly reply to Mr. Stephens' letter.
By the Committee.
Public Sleet Inf In Harris.
In pursuance of a short notice, a very large
and respectable portion of the citizens of Har
ris county assembled in tho Court-house, on
yesterday, (5th inst.) irrespective of old party
distinctions, to take into consideration tbe Re
solutions passed in Columbus, at Temperance
Hall on the evening of the 2Sth ult.
The following resolutions, supported by Mes
srs. Mobley, Hill, Bedell Gibbs and Hudson,
were nnanimonsly adopted.
Whereas, wo believe that the citizens of each
county should regard the request made them by
their friends of Muscogee, and duly consider
the said Resolutions,
Therefore be it resolved by the citizens of
Harris, irrespective of Old Party Lines, that
we hold a meeting at tbe Court-house in Ham
ilton, on Saturday the 16th of June, to consider
moro definitely upon said Resolutions, and es
pecially upon the propriety of sendingdeiegates
to a Convention to meet in Millcdgeville on tbe
4th day of July next, to nominate a candidate
for Governor, who shall not be tbe candidate of
any of the old political parties, but the people’*
candidate.
Resolved, also, That we request all the Coun
ties in the State to take action upon tbe said
Resolutions of our friends in Muscogee, as ear
ly as possible.—Organ.
We clip the followiug, in relation to the con
vention held in Millcdgeville last Tuesday, from
the Chronicle & Sentinel. Johnson was nomi
nated for re-election with great unanimity.—
Not having room this week, the publication of
tbe Platform and comments upon it, is deferred
until another issue.
Demaeiatle Convention.
Our readers have been already apprised of the
nomination made by this body, and os a part, of
the history of the times, doubtless desire to see
a report of the proceedings, which we subjoin.
Tho platform (the Democrats are great at plat
forms) will attract attention and elicit comment
every where. It is a very unique structure, and
like all democratic platforms, is designed to be
“all things to all men,” and to catch all sorts of
voters. Hence tbe party readily introduce a
pbink which they rejected four years ago, and
mount the Georgia platform with as much non
chalance ns the original constructors and build
ers could possible do. Nor is tbatall, while they
affect to be willing, and resolve to cut loose from
all parties that will not stand upon this, to them
new platform, tbeir hankering for the spoils pre-
v iis, and they profess a willingness to strike
hands with the National Democracy, (which in
cludes tbe Van Burens, Kings, Dixes, and t eir
Freesoil associates,) as “the only organization
at the North that now exist* or can he formed,
with which the South can consistently co-operate!”
Wonderful!!
What think you of that, original Georgia
platform men ? Are you willing, after having
refused all fellowship with Seward and his
freesoil associates, to embrace the Van Burens
and their followers? . Are you ready to step
upon this rickety platform, to be transferred to
the National Democracy, with all its freesoil
associations and affinities, that you muy hug
to your bosoms such good national Democrats
as Martin and John Van Buren and Prston
King? We presume not. Wc imagine you
are quite too circumspect in your political asso
ciations to be caught in any such snare, how
ever veiled. The intrigue is too patent, tbe
veil too thin, the trick too apparent to deceive
any intelligent, patriotic mind at the South.
Nor is the quasi endorsement of the Pierce
Administration less amusing. The Convention
had not the cool hardihood to go before the
Southern people with a full and broad endorse
ment of the Administration, with all its freesoil
enormities standing out in bold characters be
fore the American people; but they must say
something. The spoils were suspended hefore
their eager gaze anti longing eyes, and it would
not do to be wht lly silent. Hence the resolu
tion.
Tb<.re are other points to which we might re
fer. but as we shall doubtless have frequent oc
casion to refer to this remarkable piece of patch
work, we will not now trespass longer upon the
reader with our comments: and submit for his
careful study and consideration the proceedings.
There were seventy three counties (about
two-thirds <>f the State) represented by one hun
dred and seventy-four delegates. The Con
vention was permanently organized by the ap
pointment of the following officers.
James Gardner. Jr., of Richmond, Presi
dent.
Geo. D. Philips, of Tlahershnin: M. J. Cam
den. of Cherokee; W. L.-Mitchell, of Clarke;
K. Jordan, of Jasper? and Geo. Wilcox, of Ir
win, Vice Presidents.
L. H. Briscoe, of Walton, and E. D. Tracy,
of Bibb, Secretaries
THE AMERICAN QUESTION.
Letter from Rev. Dr. Breckinridge.
some at the stake, and drove tbe rest out of all
lands into this wilderness. Now it is priests
and mobs and demagogues, who have followed
us into onr place of rsfuge—nay, our last place
of refuge—to renew here tbe combat of centu
ries, in a form at once degrading and detesta*
My Dear Sir : You are aware that I have j h|o, and more likoly to be fetal to us than in
received two communications, both of them i ®*ther of its preceding forms. Shall we sne-
signedbya number of the most respectable 1 cumb? Or shall we turn npon our relentless
citizons of your town, amongst whom I recog- I poixoovs ? They have followed the lion to his
si friends, urging me to i * a8t den, and brought him to bay ! Did they
From the Franklin Commonwealth.
Danville, Kt., April 28, 1855.
nize many old personal friends, urging me
address the people nt the capital of the State
upon that great American ‘question which so
deeply engage the attention of the whole com
munity. I may add, that many similar invita
tions have been sent to me, and still continue
to be sent, from various and widely-separated
portion* of tbe Commonwealth, signed in tbe
aggregate by a very large number of persons.
And it is, no doubt, known to you that within
this month, I have been prevailed on, under
particularcircumstances, in both instances, to
speak on this subject in Cyntbinna and in Lex
ington. Tbe object of this communication is,
in tho first place, to say in this public manner,
that it does not appear to me to be my duty to
accept these invitations; and. in the second
expect him to die like a stag in his lair ?
The revolt of the country w«s wholly unex.
pected by those who supposed they had already
secured its final subjugation, and like every
other great retribution, it takes those it fells
on by surprise It is not, Therefore, to be won
dered at that they execrate with peculiar hor
ror tbe special means of success against them
which tbeir own perfidy and ferocity had ren
dered absolutely indispensable. The country
organises itself for tbe great conflict, which, to
those who first embarked in it, seemed well
nigh desperate, in silence and without observa
tion. That is the way in which alj grand move
ments occur; even the Kingdom of Heaveit
does not come with observation. Bnt tbedem-
place. to perform the duty which they, and ! agogues, the priests, the mobs, the foreign
many other considerations, do seem to me to! p*p>*ts and infidels, are shocked beyond en
require, in the distinct expression of my prin
cipies on the subject itself. In doing this, it
may save the necessity of future explanation
to say, that I avail myself of the proof-sheets of
an article written by me for a periodical, pub
lished in unother State, which has not yet been
issued ; and to add. that if I supposed there
was the smallest doubt of tbe issue of the con
test in Kentucky, or that my services were
comparable in value to tbe estimate put on them
by partial friends, I should pnrsue a very dif
ferent course from the one I have now adop
ted.
Politics have assumed a new, and to the old
managers of parties and elections, ti most un
expected phase. Many tnings have conspired
to produce this result; and men will, no doubt,
give this or that explanation of tbe movement
we are witnessing, according to the point of
view from which they consider it. Many ef
fects may he produced by the movement itself,
and men will appreciate those effects, and en
deavor to promote or prevent them, according
to their views of general politics, of the inter
ests of society, and of the proper destiny of onr
great country.
Tho intense andpervadingpower of the move
ment itself can no longer be a matter of doubt.
And to the calm observer various elements are
manitest which render its future progress alto
gether inevitable. Amongst these decisive
elements may be stated tbe augmented force of
tbe movement itself, acquired by its own previ
ous tritimpDB ; and the greater homogeneous
ness of the spirit of it, to the portions of that
country remaining to be subdued, than to tbe
portions already conquered. It will encounter
no difficulty equal to tkpn intense Democracy of
New Hampshire, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and
Michigan ; the wide-spread political immorali
ty of New York, the Democracy of Virginia,
and the settled anti-slavery sentiment of Mas
sachusetts ; the hereditary VThigism of Ken
tucky. Yet all of these are mastered by the
grander spirit of the new movement. Wbat
harrier remains to arrest its irresistible career ?
It is infinitely absurd for the opponents of
this vast movement of the human mind, to at
tribute it to unworthy or insignificant causes.
It is utterly ridiculons for its friends to ima
gine that it caD exhaust itself npon rabjects
that are feeble and distinct. It may aim at
what is wrong, or what is unattainable : but it
cannot avoid aiming at what is great and per
manent any more than it could hare been pro
duced by anything that was feeble, indirect,
or base. A great people does not receive each
shocks from such causes : nor when received
do they terminate without immense results.
What we behold is a vast and apparently
spontaneous uprising of the spirit of American
nationality. Beneath that we behold tbe re
storation of that primeval spirit of Protestant
cirilizntion. in which the eonntrv itself was
originally created. And still beneath that we
behold the renewal of that profound sense of
the overwhelming necessity of onr National
Union—whieh was the grandest onthirth of oiir
National Revolution. These are the life and
heart and sottl df this ?isrnnfic movement.—
American Nationality. Protestant Civilization.
National Union. The eonntrv believes all three
of these are in dansrpr. Men mav say the
country is deluded But that does not alter
thf case so Ions as the eonntrv thinks other
wise. The eonntrv is resolved that aft danger
to al-of them «hnll he thoroughly removed.—
Men mav say the eonntrv i* misled but what of
that, so long as the eonntrv is Tesolved to he
National. Protestant and United?
The country is thoronrhlv ennvmee<1 that it
cannot trust the perpetuation of its nationality,
its protestnnt eiviliration. and its Union ns one
people anv lone n r. to th" keeping of existing
parMes.i their ordinary -prion: and so the
country has. for the time at least, set aside all
parties. Men may say thisi« mere fanaticism ;
hot what does the eonntrv eare for the savings
of men whom it r'>ieets as unworthy of being
trusted with’ts destiny In so groat a crisis?—
The eonntrv resolves-fn pornetnate the union of
these States. Th'-v who :»r» faithful f,> the Un
durance, because tbe handful of devpted men
who first combined to save tbe country if that
were any longer possible did not call tho whole
of them into council! For what ? In order
to be murdered ; or, if not murdered, traduced
and tbe very end for which they were willing
to be traduced and if necessary, murdered—
utterly defeated ? Were they called into coun
cil when their enemies bongbt and sold them.
Were they notified, when corrupt bargains were
■truck, in which tbe liberties of tne people
were pat up at an infamous price? Were they
consulted when the atrocious schemes to break
np the Union of these States were concocted ?
Were they advertised when the overthrow of
our nationality? of our institutions, and of onr
religion together, was deliberately undertaken
by the Popish despots and prelates of Europe ?
Was counsel asked of them by foreign Papists
and iudfidels, when throughout the whole land
they conspired with the Dill assent of dema
gogues to overthrow tbe Protestant civilization
of tbe country? Were the secrets of the con
fessional made known to them? Were the se
cret oaths binding every Papal ecclesiastic with
unlimited allegianceto a foreign temporal prince
submitted to their scrutiny ? The safety of tho
State is the supreme law. And surely it is the
first necessity of a State that is endugered, and
they who wonld save it must consult, must com
bine. If the perfidy and ferosity of their ene
mies compel them to observe unusual, caution
it only proves the greatness of tbeir danger.—
Iu point of morality, it stands precisely on the
same footing as voting by ballot The object of
it determines Its lawlessness; and it is its
success, not its future, which makes it so hate
ful.
If the nationality of America is to he sustain
ed. if her protestant civilizatong is to be per
petuated, if the Federal Union is to be preserv
ed, there is but one possible method of dealing
with tbe subject The organized power of so
ciety must be taken ont of tbe hands of those
who have betrayed these vast interests, and
must be pat into tbe hands of those who wfll
cherish them. Pnblic opinion is the only in
strument by whieh this great change can be ef
fected. That enlightened, the first step of tile
revolution is political; the second is legal,—
The first step involves the organization, and
tbe triumph of a party commensurate with the
country, the American party; and thatinvolves
the overthrow of every party that resists its ul
timate objects, or resists the necessary means
of obtaining those objects. Indeed, if this step
were folly achieved, it wonld be of less conse
quence to take a second one, since the laws,
though bad. are endurable, and society is safe,
ns soon as it has finally put out of power all men
and parties hostile to our nationality, to onr
Protestant civilization, and to onr Federal Un-.
ion: ont of power, with an overthrow incapable
of being repair d.
And this is the reason why this great move
ment excites snch excruciation'bitterness of
hnte, in its political aspectftp* the part-of all
against whom it is direanq,. ^ Its success is seen
to he a finality and a fararny to them. For na
tions do not immediately incur the same peril
twice, nor do profound national movements, /
speedily exhaust the force. Tbe American par
ty. strong enough to swallow tip not only Dem-
oercy itself, but every other feeble excitement,
will lire forever. The legal revolntion, there
fore, which will consumate the political, will he
only but necessarily tbe out-birth of Its spirit.—
Assaults upon the Union of these States, whe
ther from the North or the South, must cease.
Conspiracies against the Protestant civilization
of the'conntry, between demagogues on one side -
and papal andTnfidel foreigners on the other,
must terminate. Attacks npon onr nationality,
by treaties made between foreign dispots and
prelates, under tbe sanction of the conrtofRome,
and executed by millions of foreign papists
and infidels cast into onr bosom must ^
to an end. Foreigners mustbe content to
joy here the blessings of freedom denied to
them everywhere else f the benefits of a civili
zation more exalted than any they can en-
j joy elsewhere; the same civil and religions
, ,, , ,, rights which we onrselves enjoy. They must
ion had bett»r take „ P the great pspbte : , eea , e f „ Americans mutt rule Ameri
ca•”
I cannot be insearibly that many virtuous,
enlightened, and patriotic men, view this sub
ject in a light widely different from that in
which it strikes me. I bareno allusion to them
in anything I have uttered. I do not forget the
blindin influence of party ties. I admit also
that not a few of those who are personally near
to me are found arrayed against what-1 believe
to be the very highest interests of the eonntry,
That makes my duty painful, bnt not nneer-
th‘‘V who arc not. on<zbt*?n the ftidge-nenf of the
eonntry be irdis-iiminately crushed. The
eonntrv determines tbnt ?'* Protestant civili
zation is its most precious, ard its most vital
inheritance: and. believing it to have been be
trnyed. it purposes to surround it with ndeqnate
safe guards. Tbev who participate in these
opinions will onntnud this profound purpose ;
they wlm conspire to destroy that Protestnnt
civilization, or who abet, or sell themselves to
tho.se who do. must abide the noli*ieal over
throw which so justly and nermauentlr awaits ; fcjn. Nor conld I help being folly aware of
them. The country cherishes it? glonons na- .1 :* ;.i I• --rti v,s-
tionnlitv. and hollering it to he endangered, it
New InVeNTIoN.—‘An exhibition of new in
ventions was recently opened in London, un
der the patronage of n scientific society. Among
tbe most curious diseoverios may be named a
leather cement, so strong nnd adhesive that
boots and shoes ore made with it, in which not
a single stitch is seen or required, and the pro
cess of mending so simple, that every man may
bo if not his own boot maker, at all events bis
own boot-mender.
Washington, June 5, 1855.
Tbe municipal election in this city hns resul
ted in tho success of the entiro Know Nothing was constantly threatened?
has risen np in its maie*tv—to assert, to vindi
cate, nnd to derelope still more powerfully the
nationality without whieh the country itselfhas
no destiny—no mission on the face of the earth.
They who are ?•> lost to every exalted instinct,
a» to he inse- sihie to the grandeur of sneh
hopes as God has set hefore ns. may also des
pise all the efforts by which those hopes ore to
be realized. Nevertheless, the country will
guard and asanre its nationality in spite of its
recreant children n‘s well ns its open foes. This
is mv version of this grand movement ; one
point of view from whieh its rise, its progress,
and its aims are distinctly manifest. Let the
country execute a work in such a spirit, and
she will be launched ffneyr upoq her high ca
reer.
It may he of less importance to determine
by what means this great spirit hns been arous
ed and concentrated. Yet this is not difficult.
Manifestly*whatever those means were, they
mnst have worked long nnd worked deeply.—
Was it, nothing that in all parts of the eonntry,
and for years together, and npon the most op
posite pretexts, the dissolution of the Union
the a rncity with which the pnblic press
• times assail those from whom, it is su|
no personal peril is to be apprehended. But I
have felt long ago the whole force of Papal and
Infidel bitterness, and have survived all that
I th eir co-laborers could personally attempt.^* For
anything more, it would be strange indeed, if I
should look with indifference upon a struggle',
> at the moment of its independing triumph, af
ter having watched its progress longer and more
eagerly, and vindicated tbe most detested
principles on which it proceeds more tenacious
ly than one in ten thousand of my countrymen.
All I ask is, that when the triumph comes, it
may be used as wisely and as generonsly as it
was heroically won.
Your friend and“servant,
RO. J. BRECKENRIDGE.
Col. A. G. Hodges, Frankfort.
»•»»*►«.
Ticket, by 550 majority. Majority in Council
fifteen. Three cheets for the noble Americans
of Washington city! “Sam” u not “dead”
Where the Foreigners are.—Giddings of
Ohio, the notorious abolitionist, in his letter de
claring war against Sam, declares that there
are 30,fiP0 naturalised foreigners in the Aboli
tion party of Ohio. Giddings is violent in op*
position to the American movement—he con
demns it for exhibiting pro-slavery proclivities.
Was it nothing j But. Southern anti Americans
Philadelphia. June 5, P. M.—There was
nothing of a definite character leaked out of tho
proceedings of tho convention to-day. Outside
rumors state that the Massachusetts delegation
were not ndmitted on account of their refusal
to adopt the third degree, to standby the Union
at all hazards.
that political corruption, grown gigantic in the j to believe Mr. Giddings, their NorUiern
land, bad shocked all honest men? Was it ; Oh, no I—it wonld injure their cause. And
A Symptom.—Three hundred of Sharpe’s ri
fles have been sent out from Massachusetts to
Kansas, at tbe request ef the New England em
igrants, to enable them to defend themselves
against aggression.
such facilities ns your city.
lour place is healthy, nnd surrounded by a male hns an ovo-positor formed of a sharp sti-
country well adapted to tbe raising of Brend- i ] etfo 6 „ c i 0) ,ed between two valves; with this
stuffs, as a general thing provi sions are from 20 imminent she bores a hole in tho branches of
to 50 per cent, lower in Rome, than with us of
Eastern nnd Middle Georgia. Then yon are con
nected by water with a large portion of cotton
growing Alabama where cotton can be procured
two or three cents per lb. lower than we can
get it here, as it will take nearly that amount to
satisfy Agents and pay freight, then that very
useful class Speculator* have to ronko a little,
this Item of Itself would furnish a very hand
some profit, tbe manufactured article also com
mands a higher price in those sections of coun
try I bare alluded to, yarns from me to one and
a half cents per lb. and cloths in proportion,
this is also owing to tbo freight on tl\pse arti
cles. I make those statements from experience,
for I have bought cotton and sold goods in both
trees and deposits therein her eggs, which she
carefully covers up.
In the Enropean specios the egg only hatch
es In the ensuing year and produces a six-
leggod larva (grub) without wings this larva
when grown buries itself in the ground and
during the ensning winter changes into tbe
pupa state. Tho pupa has tho two anterior logs
fitted for digging in tbo soil in whieh it remains
i for a period of time which has not yet been de
termined. At last it creeps out of tho ground
nnd climbs slowly up the stem of plants or
the branches of trees where it soon loses its
outer skin. Thoso empty skins of the pupa
of cicada are to bo mot with on every fence
rail nnd stump in tbe vicinity.
The cicada has now attained tbe perfeet or
The Negro suffrngo amendment to tho consti
tution of Connecticut was defeated in the lower
house of the Legislature yesterday.
^50"Ninety-four thousand dollars havo been
subscibed for erection of n College in Greensbo
ro, Ala., and it is confidently oxpected that tbo
sutn will boinereased to a hundred thousand.
^S-Bleckwoll, who choked the lady in the
cars nnd robbed her of a servant girl, has been
married to Lucy Stone. Justico is sometimes
slow but nlwnys sure!
Yesterday tho Jury in the-case of Thomas
Hatcher, indicted for shooting Stephen Saucer,
in this.city, on tho first of January last, rend
ered a verdiot of guilty. Tho extreme ponalty,
for tbe offence is, we believe, 10 years in the
Penitentiary. Hatcher will probably receive
his sentince next Suurday.—Albany Courier
June 7th.
nothin?, that a stream of foreign paupers nnd
felons flowed eenselesslv into the bosom of the
Republic ? Was it nothing, that millions of
foreign Papists and Infidels, inundating the
country like a flood of locusts, were openly or
ganized into political power* directed against
the lihcriy, the religion, nnd the nationality of
the people ? Was it nothing, that political par
ties openly bought and sold the support of these
fearful powers, contracting always for such
payments, in return, as were the most humilia
ting nnd the most fatnl? Wns it nothing, that
the voice of patriots, the power of the press, the
importunities of the pulpit were directed, each
in its own sphere and for years together,
against this frightful and enormous wicked
ness? Was it nothing, that at length, men
could neither vote, nor speak, nor preach, nor
pray, nor tench, without being liable to insult
and" violence—unless they wonld do all in such
a manner ns suited the tastes of foreign mobs,
composed of foreign Infidels and Papists ? Yea,
verity, they were deep causes, and they worked
long, which wrought, the American people to
that earnest and fervid, but yet calm and set
tled enthusiasm, which porvades the nation. j
No donht religion is an element of this wide
spread excitement. Bnt it is not the only ele
ment nor. with all men. the chief one. Either
of the other elements, by itsolf— or this one by
itself—ought to have been sufficient to have
snvod the country from the peril which now
demands tho power of all three to avert it.
Beosnse* it is an element at all, they over
whom long-delayed retribution is impending
scream nt the bare mention of it, as the demo
niacs did when they saw Christ approach them,
will tell you, too, with the greatest cool
Gen. Pierce did not know he was appointing an
Abolitionist, when he appointed Reeder,—Al
bany Courier. , ' '
Michael L. Sullivan, an Illinois former, it is
said, has planted 10,000 acres of land in corn.
He was formerly one of the largest formers in
the State of Ohio for many years. He could ride
in a direct conrs fifteen miles through his own
corn fields.
ROME FRIGES CURRENT.
Corrected Weekly by J. L» LOG AY
ArPLEs— Molasses— . 40o-45o
Dried, bu.. . . $2 2J5Naiis—per !b. 6J-7Ao
•250-300.’Nail Rod ao. «_>?-.
Green,
Bacon—
Hams pr lb
Hog round,
Bagging—
Hemp, lb, .
Gunny, . .
Bale Rope— 12|-15i
Beef— .... 4i- 5
Beeswax—20c-25
Blue Sfonb— 20c!
Butter—
6ic-7o
$1 85
llo-12c
Oil—Linseed
OJ-ll^OSNABUBGS—
9c-llj£ Train,....
Pork—per lb. 6-6$
Potatoes—
Sweet, ... 75c-00o
Irish country • -
“ northern, 300
Powder—Gun 35c-40c
Blasting, . . 25-35c
Rice—per lb. 6$o-7o
ISc
Fish Propagation Upwards of 50,000
young trout, (salmon trout from the Swiss lakes,
nnd ordinary trout,) have, within the last few
days, been placed in the basin in the Bois de
Boulogno. They were hatchod in the College
do France, by the new system of artificial pro
duction, and though only about three months
eonntry, . . 20-25c/Salt—pr sack 260-75
Candles— ? per bu. 120
Tallow, . . 20c-25cCShot—prlb. . 11-12Jo
Adamantine, 33c-40c\Solb Leather—
Sperm, . . . 50ci Country, lb. 25c-2S«
Coffee—Rio, 14c) Northern, . -2Se
Java, .... 16J-18c/Steel— -■
H ^ „.„ r , Ccpi*eras— . 5c? Blistered,lb. 10c-15o
It is a persecution for conscience sake, in theTr C° RIf PI ^ u * German, . . 15c-18o
- Cotton Yarn— 90cs Spring,. . . -10 c
Eggs—prdez. 10-12$c> Cast, . . . 33c-23c
old are perfoctly formed, nearly three quarters
. „. - . . . r of an inch long on an average, and arc capable
progress of corruption. It is the mgia of pop- J North Alabama and Cberokso Georgia, and was | mature state; it was at first soft and had its [ of providing for themselves.
vlow. that wo hesitate to surrender onr country,
our liberty nnd onr religion to the guidance of j
corrupt mon banded with foreigners; and what
makes it a persecution is. that these foreigners
happen to ho Papists nhd infidels. If they had
happened to be Chinese, or Mnhomedans, the
nntion “would have revolted much ponnei.—
And yet without reason ; for wo and our fath
ers have an unsettled aceonnt with Popery
many centuries old. At first it was the Empe
ror and tho Popo who trod ns into the dust—
Thon it* was kings and bishops, who burned
Cast,
Feathers—lb. 40c)Scgar—
Flour—pr lb. 4-4£? Crashed, .
Glass—8x10, $2$-$3? N. Orleans,
Indigo—pr lb, $I$-160£Syrup—-
Iron—Sweed, 6Ic-7cn N.O.pr,
Georgia, . . STallow—I
Lard— .... 12-14c)Tea—per lb,
Mackerel—1>1$17-$18?Wheat— *
7c-l
$
Madder—lb. . 20c-25<
Meal—per ha. 135-151
l per bushel, . $150
aVooL—lb, 25c-50