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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH
Tuesday Morning, February 1.
licv. T. J. Bowen.
Public Lecture before the Young Men's Chris
tian Association.
Rev. T. J. Bowen, late a missionary to Cen
tral Africa, will deliver a public Lecture as
above on.the Ethnology of the Negro Races, in
the Methodist church, This Etqfing, at 74
o’clock.
jy Public respectfully invited.
Harper for February
Has been received at Boardman’s. The illus
trated articles for this number are Washington
at Morristown, in the gloomy winter of the Rev
olutionary struggle; the Follies of Fashion, a
timely sketch of Page’s exploration of the La
Plata and its tributaries, prefaced with a por
trait of Carlo Antonio Lopes, President of Par-
Supreme Court—Lawyers inntten-
DAXCE—JUDGE LUMPKIN’S DECISION
ON TIIE TERREL COUNTY TAX BILL
The Supreme Court commenced the second week
of its session Monday morning. Jndge McDonald,
we regret to learn, has been detained at home by
indisposition. Letters were received from him
on Saturday, and we are pleased to leam that he
is better, and will be at his post during th'e present
week.
Since our last, fifty cases have been docketed,
making in all eighty—seventeen have been brought
up from the South-Western, nineteen from the
Pa taula, twenty-five from the Chattahoochee, and
twenty from the Macon Circuit; eight or ten oth
ers will probably come in from the Chattahoochee
and Macon Circuit.
Up to the present writing, twenty-three cases
have been argued : judgments have been pro
nounced in eighteen; ten reversed and eight over
ruled.
We notice the following gentlemen in at ten
dance since our last issue : The Messrs. Douglass,
Judge Perkins, Mr. Hood, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Platt,
Judge Barry, of Cuthbert, Mr. Beall, and Mr. Wor-
originated in this exploration, and the anticipa
tion of stirring news from our military opera
tions there will impart a lively interest to this
sprited sketch. Some fifteen to twenty other
articles are also embraced in the present num
ber, fashion plates, and the usual comicalities.
Ladles’ Manual of Fancy Work.
We are indebted to the publishers, Dick A
Fitzgerald, 18 Ann street, New York, for a copy
of this excellent treatise on all manner of or
namental needle work, illustrated with many
diagrams and beautiful patterns. It is very co
pious in all its directions and embraces about
three hundred pages octavo The ladies say it
is just the thing. For sale by the Messrs. Rich
ards, Cotton Avenue, Macon. #
Townsend Harris’ Letter.
We have copied from the Washington Union
a private letter from Townsend Harris, late Con
sul General, now resident Minister of the U. S.,
in Japan, narrating the events of his first offi
cial visit to Yoddo, which the reader will find to
be a document of singular interest. Ho will
find it on the first page. This functionary has
gained great honor to himself and, we trust, ad
vantage to the country by the intelligence, sa
gacity, tact and patient application with which
he has pursued the objects of his mission; and
there is no small honor to him and to the gov
ernment in the fact that he was the first foreign
diplomat to obtain admlision to that exclusive
court, and an audience with the Emperor. The
reflecting man must regard, as among the most
extraordinary events of the age—events which
seem to indicate a Providential interposition—
that all those hitherto impregnable barriers of
oriental isolation, which from unknown ages
have, as it were, hermetically scaled nearly half
the human race against the other, seem sudden
ly disappearing like frost before the sun, to open
upon the world a future of almost unrestricted
commercial intercourse. What this is to effect
in the next half century with the aid of steam
and telegraph will leave apparently wild conjec
ture far behind the actual result We call this
a “fast age,” but the remainder of the 19th cen
tury will laugh at its beginning. Our sires
were slow, but our children will hold us to be
“slower."
Wright, of Albany, Mr. Bower, of Baker, Mr.
Poo, of Talbot, and Mr. Johnson andXnckoU, of
Muscogee.
The murder casevfrom Lee, which was before
the Court when we went to press on Monday last,
was concluded on Tuesday. The Court granted
Thomas, who was the defendant below, a new trial
Thomas is in Cuba, but we suppose he will now re
turn and stand a second trial.
On Monday morning, the Court, Judge Lump
kin pronouncing the opinion, reversed a decision
of Judge Kiddoo, by which a tax of two hundred
per cent, on State Tax, levied by the Inferior
Court of Terrell county, to raise funds to pay for
county buildings, was held to be valid and legal
The facts were as follows : The Inferior Court
of Terrell county, in August, 1888, ordered a coun
ty tax to be enforced of two hundred and sixty per
cent., fifty per cent, for county purposes, ten for
bridges, and two hundred for county buildings.
Jesse* Davis, et alios, resisted the payment of
the two hundred per cent, tax, and filed a bill
enjoining the Court and Tax Collector from col
lecting the same.
The complainants showed that the county, so
far firom being in debt for county buildings, had
paid for the Court House, and only owed thirteen
hundred dollars for the Jail, and had on hand in
the County Treasury, at the rime the two hundred
per cent was imposed over and above all other
debts, four thousand dollars in cash and notes, be-
TIic Melancholy Accident
By which one of the Marsh Children lost her
life in this place last week, is probably known
to all our readers. On Wednesday, as the cur
tain dropped in condusion of one of the Scenes
of the Naiad Queen, Miss Mary Marsh, in the
act of retreating backward from the audience,
came in contact with the flame ofa light—set fire
to a gossamer dress, and was so severely burn
ed before it could be extinguished that she died
the following evening. Onc.of her young com
panions and Mrs. Marsh were also burned in as
sisting her, but not dangerously. The alarm and
excitement among the audience was veiy great
for a little time, but was soon quieted and the
performance stopped.
Never too Late.
The New York Times Washington correspon
dent undertakes to say that the President is
love smitten at last by a young Georgia widow,
relict of a gallant army officer, who took her
rise some where not far from the classical city
of Athens—a lovely Athenian. The Times
talks about the “altar,” and complains that the
President is now actually the best dressed young
man in Washington.
Advertisements.
Messrs. Bearden ft Gaines wish attention to
their offer of two likely young servants for sale.
Messrs. Findlay ft Sons arc embarking largely
in the manufacture of ornamental railing, as
a new department of their extensive business.
See advertisement.
Bostick, Kean ft Cot, are again in the field
with an entire new stock of Goods.
N. Weed's stock of Agricultural Implements
comprehends every thing that can possibly be
required by planter or gardener. Nothing could
be more complete. We are pleased to sec they
have every variety of subsoil ploughs, which
have not yet been sufficiently introduced into
Georgia to establish a popularity. They will be
much used when our planters know how much
better their lands stand drought after subsoil
ing. There is hardly any implements so use
ful to planters as these will provo to be, on a
fair trial
B. A. Wise among his stock of House-keep
ing appliances in endless variety, has latterly in
troduced silver-ware of the best make, and very
beautiful patterns. Call and see him.
Jews:
\ / interft
/ taxes
aides several valuable town lots in Dawson,
was suggested, in the course of the argument, and
alluded to by Judge Lumpkin in his opinion, that
the real object of levying this extra two hundred
per cent, was not to pay for county buildings, but
to meet the interest, which would become due on
certain Rail Road Bonds upon which the county
wisliiblc.
The points made by the Dsfts. in error, (the
county), were, that the Inferior Court under the
act of 1886-7, authorizing them to levy a tax for
county purposes, bad the right to levy for two
hundred per cent.; held by the Court that a tax
or county buildings did not come within the aeope,
and meaning of the words for county purposes.—
Dcfts. in Error also contended that the complain'
ant in the Bill had no remedy in law or Equity
against the payment of the tax, and relied upon
the twenty-first section of the Tax Act of 1804 to
sustain the point. The clause referred to is as fol*
“And no replevin shall lie, or any judicial
interference be bad, in any levy or distress for
taxes under this few.”
Held by the Court that the clause did not refer
to this case. The tax levied by the Court being a
special tax under a special law—and not authorized
to be levied under the act of 1804 or any amend
ments thereto.
The Court, therefore, reversed the judgment
holding the two hundred per cent, tax to be ille
gal, and the remedy pursued by the complainants
a legal one.
Judge Lumpkin embraced the opportunity to
amplify somewhat on the agragrian tendencies of
the times, the injustice of taking money out of the
pocket of one class to enrieh another, and in a
forcible ana cluqwiit manner urged the neoeeai
ty of great caution in the exercise of the taxing
power; the court was disposed to restrict, and not
enlarge, the power of municipal corporations in
the imposition of taxes, and alluded to the heavy
burdens which the people of New York and other
cities are compelled to pay for reckless and ex
travagant expenditures of corporate authorities,
We wish the'decision, as delivered, could have
been heard by every citizen of the State. It met
with the hearty assent of the Bar. We arc glad
to see the Court taking this position, and we
are very sure they will be cordially sustained
by the people of Georgia. The Court will be in
session for three weeks. All the cases on the
South Western docket have been argued and the
Pataula doeket is being called in its order. The
Chattahoochee will be reached during the present
and the Macon the last of next week.’
Senator Johnson’s Speech ami
SO ON.
Hon. Andy Johnson, Senator from Tennessee,
has lately on the Pacific Rail Road Bill, deliv
ered one of the most curious, unique, rambling,
speeches we lutve read in many a year.
This Senator, Andy as be is familiarly called,
is in many respects no ordinary person. He
sprung from the loins of the masses—workedat
the tailor’s trade until after his marriage, and it
is said is indebted to his wife for teaching him
to read and write—served in the legislature of
Tennessee—was a Representative in Congress
for two or three sessions—was Governor of Ten
nessee for two terms, and last year was elected
over all the ablest men in the State a U. S.
Senator. Without the advantage of early edu
cation he has, by assiduous application and pa
tient industry, stored his mind with much use
ful information. He is said to be the most ex
pert, adroit and successful stump orator in his
State, nc is gentle as a lamb ar.d fearless as a
lion. In politics he is a Jackson Democrat of
the old school lie is opposed to West Point—
favors the election o'f Judges of the Supreme
Court by the people—desires to bring the elec
tion of President directly before the people
without the intervention of the Electoral Col
lege. These are some of his jobies. He is
honest, inflexible, patriotic, and constant in his
attention to his public duties.
In the speech to which we allude, he starts
on the Pacific Road, touches the Cincinnati
Platform, pitches into the Conventions and cau-
cusses, denounces the extravagances and corrup.
tion of the Government—eulogises economy
and a reduction of expenses—descants upon
scrub candidates for the Presidency—eulogises
Jackson and Calhoun—asserts before the Sen
ate that ho was bom a plebeian and rejoices over
it—denounces what he calls the “pettifogger
flattering that runs around Senators,” and winds
up in the following style. There are many
good things in the speech—much sound doc.
trine—somo things that smack of Demagogism
—some in bad taste, but on the whole the good
largely outweighs the bad, and we would advise
our readers to get the speech and judge for
themselves.
The speech winds up after this fashion :
“We have got to making Presidents in mod
ern times, so that nobody knows who is safe.
I do assure the Senator that I prefer to discharge
my duty faithfully as an honest representative
of the States or the people. Occupying that
position—the Senate will par ion me for the ex
pression, and I do not use it in a profane sense
—when contrasted with being President of the
United States, I say damn the PrcsidencyJ; it
is not worthy of the aspirations of a man who
believes in doing good, and is in a position to
serve his country by popularizing her free in-
instiutions.
"i. lie Presidency 1 I would rather be an hon
est man—an honest representative, than be
President of the United States foi
Will Spain sell Cuba! A Trip to Eufaula, Ain.
Mr. Sc ward in hi- speech to which that of Mr. Editor: As it is now customary to
Mr. Toombs, published to-day is a reply, quotes . ‘ l dot” our travels, allow me to keep in the
*" * - ’ * ~ * ’ fashion.
forty times.
The Presidency is the absorbing idea, the great
Aaron’s rod that swallows up every other tiling;
and hence we see the best legislation for the
country impaired, ruined and biased.”
New Map of Georgia, by James It.
BUTTS.
Our friend Butts is g$od at every thing he un
dertakes. He was a first rate Steam Boat man
—he made one of the best Surveyor Generals tho
State hie ever had, and now, lo and behold, out
he conus with toe most beautiful accurate, and
comprehensive Map of our noble State, that has
ever been gotten up. Every body ought to buy
this Map. Every man who owns land in Geor
gia, who has Railroad or Bank Stock, who is
interested in gold, copper or ooal mines—every
Georgian who has any State pride, and who
wants to know the Geography of his State—
every head of a family should have it where he
and his household can refer to it at all times.
It contains all the new counties created by the
last Legislature—it has the numbers ofjhc lots
of land in the various counties of Southern and
Northern Georgia. In fact, it is just what every
professional and business man should have by
him. The State ought to take a large number
of copies, to supply every county in the State
with one, and for distribution among our sister
States from whom wo reeeivo similar compli
ments. The Map is sold at ten dollars, and is
well worth the money.
A mere glance at it will give a stranger a
better idea of Georgia—of her public works—
her lines of Rail Road—her noble charities—her
rivers and mountains, and the magnificent sca
nty of the Northern portion of the State, than
any twenty books he might read on the subject.
We cordially recommend the Map to the favor
of the public.
Arrival of the Arabia.
The Arabia arrived on Friday with Liverpool
dates to the 25th. She reports a Cotton de
cline of an eighth on all qualities, and holders
pressing their stocks on the market Sales 46,-
000. Fair .Uplands quoted at 0}; Middlingat
8 9-10. Stock in Liverpool 832,000, 255,000
American. Favorable news from manufactu
ring districts. Money more stringent—consols
95| a 95(. General news unimportant
Female Labor in London.—Some idea ofthc
state of the female labor market in the metrop-
oli- may be collected from the fact that an ad
vertisement in a London weekly paper for fifty
drt.ss makers brought seven hundredapnBeahta,
main of them from long distances, to iliecstub-
1 ishment of the advertiser. ,
“Negroes’ Crops,” Ac.
Speaking of “negroes’ crops," the sales of
which our contemporaries arc chronicling in
various amounts, the largest sale which has
come to our knowledge is one made in Macon
week before last, by Messrs. Jonathan Collins
ft Son, for tho negroes of Allen McWalker's es
tate, in Taylor county. The crop was of Nan
keen cotton and brought $1,969 05, a sum of
money which might never have readied the
darkies, if it had passed into the hands of many
a noisy abolition sympathiser in the North over
the “wrongs of the slave.”
These negroes' crops arc a feature of the “pe
culiar institution," which seems entirely to have
escaped the notice ofjthejUrdc Toms and Aunt
Tabithas; and it is probably not saying too
much to affirm that in the vast majority of Cases
the Southern negro’s little peculium is not only
more secure, but larger, than it would be were
he a free laborer, subsisting himsdf on wages,
and disposed to perform the same amount of
toil which is now required of him. But the
truth is, Sambo will not work, if allowed to
have his own way, and tho negro’s crop in a
state of freedom would not feed him, much less
put a round sum of money in his purse. Now,
wo hold it to be the great wonder of human folly
and delusion, that a system which takes the
most unintelligent labor in the world and places
it in this comfortable and profitable condition,
should have concentrated Jon itself the almost
universal denunciations of tho civilized world.
Wo say tho fact constitutes in itself the stupen
dous achievement of human folly, and it can
be accounted for only on the hypothesis that
mankind are governed by prejudice and will
look at names a great deal more than things.
If human intelligence and ingenuity were put
on the stretch to devise a system by which the
African laborer could be best provided for as
things stand in this fallen world, they would
foil of finding a materially better ono than al
ready exists in these Southern States. But it
is a state of “slavery”—so nominated in the
bond—and Exeter Hall goes into spasms on the
rcord, but has not a sigh over a social system
in Europe which exacts twice as much from
white laborers and leaves them still the slaves
of want and destitution. Let all abolitiondom,
in and out of the United Kingdom, be challeng
ed for a parallel case, where a few laborers on
an estate, after feeding and clothing themselves
comfortably, are able to bring to market and
dispose of, on their own account a crop, worth
$20001 Docs any’one believe a single such
case could be found? And yet sudi, or approxi
mate, results arc common here. And these
“negroes crops’’ after all, constitute, ordinarily,
only a portion of tlicir little incomes. Like the
market woman in the song they “have eggs
for to sell” poultry, rude, but useful household
wares, ftc., Ac., and frequently swell up in this
way a revenue which would, no doubt, look al
most princely in the eyes of half the white farm
laborers of Europe.
Andy is not only thus plain in speech, but lie
is plain evciy way. An editorial confrere in a
neighboring State, who had conceived a great
partiality for him unseen, was on bis way, in
1856, to tho great and glorious Cincinnati Con.
vention, and having occasion to pass through
Nashville, determined to mako Gov. Johnson
the subject of particular and respectful atten
tion. Accordingly, after a good night’s rest
and a clean shirt, he sallied forth on a bright
Saturday morning to the Capitol of all the Ten
nessee's. It was early’, and he found the halls
deserted. His foot foil returned a noisy and
empty echo through the long passages, and not
a face or voice greeted him. Every Chamber
door was hard locked, save one, bearing the
label “Executive Chamber” and standing ajar.
He pushed this open, and saw, as he supposed,
a servitor, busy in “putting tilings to rights”—
arranging books and papers. lie entered, took
a scat unasked, and struck up a lively, banter
ing conversation with “John,” in which ho com
mented freely on the Governor—his virtues,
faults and foibles—inquired into his habits—and
expressed himself freely about his surroundings
—the meanness of the office furniture, ftc., ftc.
—all of which John responded and confessed to,
with the utmost good humor and complaisance:
At lost, it struck our friend to enquire when the
Governor might be expected in the office, and
wc need not say what was the effect, when the
aforesaid John, then and there, with a smack of
good humored malice playing around the cor.
ners of his mouth, made his best bow, and an
nounced himself as Governor Andrew Johnson,
of Tennessee. Our friend felt horribly for
while, but the good humor of the Governor re
stored his composure in the course of half an
hour, and he left with a still more exalted opin
ion of the virtues and talents of Andrew John
son, of Tennessee.
as follows from the proceedings of the Spanish
Chamber of Deputies:
.’’Ourmailof this morning brings us the an
swerof the Spanish government and Legisla
ture to our advances, even before we have taken
the first step. In the Spanish Chamber of Dep
uties, M. Ulloa asked the government:
“ ‘If it intends to reply to the message of Mr.
Buchanan, inasmuch as in that message is
paragraph on the subject of annexing Cuba to
the United States, which contains a new and
really grave insult to the Spanish nation.’
Marshal O’Donnell declared that the govern
ment was disposed to demand due satisfaction
for such an insult
“In its relations with the United States, as
in those with all other countries, it has always
endeavored to be circumspect, moderate, reserv
ed, but always dignified and firm, as the gov
emment of a great people ought to be.
“The period of discouragement caused by
war and disunion has ceased in Spain. Our
country is now positively in an era of develope-
ment and veritable restoration. If the power
of Spain be not great enough to menace, it is
strong enough to defend the integrity of the
monarchy, and to preserve the dignity of the
Spanish name without stain.
“In whatever circumstances the Spanish na
tion may find itself; it will > n Hie future, as in
the past, never be insensible to its honor; never
will it abandon the smallest portion of its terri
tory, and a proposition having that tendency
will always be considered by the government
as an insult to the Spanish people. (Applause.)
“The sentiment of nationality, which was
supposed to be weakened, and which, unhappi
ly was slightly weakened by our intestine dis
cords—this sentiment, the source of high deeds
and of generous and heroic aspirations, displays
now new vigor, and is increasing in such a way
that, whilst we will never be aggressive, and
never aspire to dominate, we will never allow
any encroachment to be made on the inheri
tance left us by our fathers. (Approbatioa)
Mr. Olazaga, in bis own name, and that of
several other eminent members representing the
the different political parties then proposed this
resolution:
‘The Congress declares that it has received
with satisfaction the declaration of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs; and that it is disposed to
give to toe government its constant support, in
order to maintain toe integrity of the Spanish
dominions.
“The resolution was unanimously adopted,
and ordered to be inscribed in the archives.”
And on the force of this declaration, Mr. Se
ward is actually facetious ! We did not think
it was in him to attempt anything of the sort;
hut toe fact is undisguised—stands out in bold
relied With much labor and many words of
thorough and learned elaboration, Mr. Seward il
lustrates and compares the thirty million ap
propriation to buy Cuba, with the well known
purchase by Mrs. Toodlcs of a brass door plate
with toe name “Thompson” thereon, to provide
against the rather remote contingencies of a
daughter—a daughter grown up—a daughter
married—married to a man named Thompson,
and he spelling it with a P. This unwonted
developement of. toe New York Senator should
not be lost to the world. It should be cherish
ed, preserved, hung up in toe Sun to dry.
On the other band, it was thrown out in de
bate, and in report too, that Spanish lawgivers
and diplomats are (unlike all others wc suppose)
not to be held to mean all or precisely what
they say, and that in point either of actual fact
or pregnant conjecture, the President had pri
vate information on thcsubjcct,not in possession
of mankind in general. So the New York Her
ald hints with violence. If France, England
and Spain fulminated over the President’s mes
sage on Cuba, they will find still more food for
fury in Senator Slidell’s report and the Senate
debate thereon, if the thirty million proposition
be in fact merely gratuitous. We shall see.
Tiic Conflict begun. TIic Cuban
DEBATE IN THE SENATE—SPEECH OF
MR. SEWARD OF NEW YORK, AND
MR. TOOMBS OF GEORGIA.
The all absorbing and paramount question of
the day is, shall Cuba be acquired and how
The newspapers are full of rumors and gossip
and statistics about Cuba—Correspondents write
about it—people talk about it, politicians speak
about it Cuba i&the topic on the exchange—in
the street—in toe taverns—in public assemblies
—everywhere the talk is Cuba. The Senate of
toe United States now have toe great question
before them. Mr. Slidell from toe Committee
on Foreign Relations having made a majority re
port in favor of placing at the disposal ofthc Pres
ident thirty millions of dollars to be used in bring
ing about thcacquision of that valuable Island,
introduces it formally into toe Senate. Mr. Sew
ard of New York, made a minority report and
followed in opposition to the Slidell programme.
Mr. Mason of Virginia made a few remarks, the
purport of which was that ho was not commit
ted ; he wanted to waif the amount of which
was that he was opposed to toe movement Mr.
Seward's speech, which was carefully prepared,
opened the great debate on the great question
of too day.
Mr. Bayard of Delaware, and Mr. Toombs of
Georgia, replied in support of tho majority re
port Mr. Hale concluded in toe role of toe Sen
ate’s jester.
We regret that our want of space prevents us
from publishing toe speeches of Mr. Seward
and Mr. Toombs side by sicle.
The one is the speech of a partizan—toe oth
er of a patriot—the one is the effort of a political
Perduclor, toe other of a Statesman; toe first
is toe work of a man fighting for spoils—the
other that of a Senator laboring for toe good of
toe Republic. The first appeals to the fears, to
the cowardice and toe pocket nerve ofthc peo
ple, the other invokes their chivalry, their man
hood and their generosity. The one smells of
toe lamp, the other is fresh from the rich mine
of impulsive genius.
The Senator from New York is verbose, pe
dantic, subservient and insincere. The Sena
tor from Georgia is fervid, terse, logical inde
pendent and undissembling.
Wo have read Mr. Toombs’ speech with mark
ed pleasure. It was evidently delivered upon
the spur of the moment, but nevertheless it is
ono of those brilliant scintillations of a great
intellect, upon a great occasion, which makes
more lame and accomplishes more good than
toe studied efforts of years.
We publish the speech as reported in the
Congressional Globe, and advise all our readers
to peruse it
The doctrines are sound—the facts arc true
—the argument is irresistible. Mr. Toombs in
this speech reflects the opinions and the feel
ings of the people North, L ist, South and West
—and we are surprised that the Virginia States-
Virginia press give the programme
men and tl _
. *•* I a oolil .-boulder. 1 low stands Gov. YVicc on this
Troubles wills ibc Nevada Indians j.-m-> Why do Senators Hunter and Mason
St. Loris, Jan. 20.—The New Mexico mail hold back.?
Gov. Brown’s Appointment of CMU-
FYERS.
The Columbus Sun, after quoting toe act of
the Legislature, creating a commission to co
dify the laws, says: “In no port of the act is
there a word wliicli, by the most forced con
struction, can be coiistrued, to authorize the ap
pointment by toe Governor. Then we must
conclude, toe appointments recently made by
Gov. Brown arc illegal and the appointees no
more authorized to draw up a code of laws for
Georgia than any other citizen of the State.”
If our usually correct cotemporary had looked
into the constitution of toe State, Article 11,
section 9th, he would have seen that “when
any office shall become vacant by death, resig
nation or otherwise, tho Governor shall have
power to fill such vacancy.” That the place of
commissioner, under the art, is an office, we ap
prehend our neighbor will not deny, and there
fore the appointments made by the Governor
are not illegal. The appointments, however,
expire with the meeting of the Legislature, and
that august assemblage will under the act, elect
Commissioners. Wc have no doubt the gentle
men selected by the Governor will be elected
by tho Legislature.
The Savannah Journal of Mcdi-
CINE—EDITORS, J. S. SULLIVAN, M. D.,
J URIAH HARRISS, M. Q.—ASSOCIATE
EDITOR, R. D. ARNOLD, M. D.
We arc in receipt of too January number of
this interesting and valuable Journal, and take
great pleasure in recommending it to toe pat
ronage of the public.
The very able and practical article on “what
constitutes unsoundness in toe negro,” by Ju
riah Ilarriss, JL D., ought to be in toe library
of every lawyer in toe country.
An article on convulsions in children treated
with sulphate of quinine, by Dr. Hunter of
Jeflcrson county, one of the most promising
young physicians in toe State, will repay pe
rusal
Dr. II D. Arnold contributes a paper on the
Identity of Dengue, or Break Bone fever, and
Yellow fever. Dr. Arnold, who is known to
our readers as one of toe most eminent medical
men in the Union, adduces many facts to prove
toe truth of his theory, that “Dengue or Break
Bone, is identical with Yellow-Fever, and is its
milder type.” The article is written in a clear,
graceful and forcible style, and commends itself
to tho Faculty on account of the novelty as
well as importance of toe subject matter. The
learned Doctor, we notice, still feels the force
and sting of too gifted Poquelin, who never
missed an opportunity to satirize the profes
sion, but wc must say that Moluire would have
been less chary of his praise, and more tender
in his ridicule of toe doctors, if ho had ever
lived through one of tooss appalling yellow fe
ver epidemics in Savannah, and witnessed the
skill toe philanthropy and heroic devotion to
duty of toe medical profession of that beautiful
city.
On Thursday, 6th inst,.wc started to Eufou-
la, Ala., by private conveyance, behind a pair
of fine blacks, and beside our friend Dr. Bryan,
of Clopton, Ala. Enquiring the road to But
ler at toe Agency, from the foreman, a “gem
men of color, 1 ' we were wisely informed by our
“sable friend,” “dat his houSe and Corban’g
house made two houses, and his barn, dat is
anoder house, den you takes de lei” which we
did, and after three hours’ drive through, I
hope, the poorest country on God’s green earth,
a barren, sandy waste, too only growth being
dwarf pines, gliophers, and salamanders, we
came to Butler, a village of sand! Surely, if
the Scriptures were literally true, when toe
rains come that town would fall, “and great
would not be the fell thereof” At night wc
stopped at a house ten miles from Butler, on
toe road to Red Bone: Wc had intended to go
farther that night, but being informed by toe
lady that if we left there wc would have to go
all the way to “Pole Cat,” and not liking such
a skunlcish establishment, wc concluded to stop
there. Next day the country began to get bet
ter, but the land in Taylor county and the first
ten miles of Marion is as thin as the shadow of
“Job’s kitten.” On our route to Lumpkin, on
Friday, we passed “Fort Percy,” “Billy Wells,”
“Red Bone,” “Pineville,” “Moss Hill” and
“Ray Town!”
In Lumpkin we stopped with friend Mans
field, who keeps a large carriage establishment,
and if any one should want a good buggy, that's
toe place, unless they are nearer Cuthbert, then
friend Leman can fill the order. Lumpkin lias
improved very much since we were there in
1850. They have a beautiful college building
there, and ought to have a fine school for young
ladies, and doubtless soon will have. It is un
der toe control of the Masons who will soon be
'duly and truly prepared' to accommodate
three hundred students. There is no reason
why Lumpkin cannot have one of toe most
flourishing schools in south western Georgia.
This is the town in which Dr. Blackburn, the
Editor of the Palladium, was attempted to be
assassinated J The black-hearted assassin is
said to bo a certain post in front of Mansfield's
gale ! If so, all toe Doctor’s hard names have
gone glimmering like an old man’s dream. But
I suppose the Doctor thinks there is a pleasure
in being mad, which none but mad men know;
so he intends to “strike till toe last armed foe
expires;” for though toe post was “reviled it re
viled not again.” By the way, the Palladium
has received a new head since the late dressing,
and is upon the whole one of the best papers
in toe State. Leaving Lumpkin wc crossed
at Florence, a very pretty village on the eastern
bank of toe Chattahoochee, sixteen miles above
Eufoula, and proceeded to Fort Browder, Ala.,
where wc intended to stop several days. We
reached there on Saturday evening, and stopped
with my friend Dr. Pickett, h clever gentleman,
a good physician, a Select Master Mason, an
ultra Southern rights democrat, and an iron-
ribbed Methodist! A pretty good combination
that, so we think. Sunday morning Dr. Bryan
proceeded on his way to Clopton. On Monday
evening we went in company with Dr. P. over
to —, but “further deponent saitii not,” on this
‘perticular pint” On Thursday afternoon, in
company with friend, P. wc went down to Eu-
faula and stopped at Maj. B's. Barbour is a
large county, voting, I believe, about three
thousand strong, being about sixty miles long.
It is contrary to the constitution of Alnbama
to form any new counties. 'Tis a great pity
but what wc had some check to county making
in Georgia. But as it is, some man living in
an obscure neighborhood, suddenly takes an
“aching void” that nothing but the Legislature
can fill; and as there is no chance for so distin
guished an honor as it is, he consults his friends
and they determine to have a new county.—
They push it through the Legislature, and as
matter of courtesy for his “disinterestedness”
and “self-sacrificing” zeal they fill his “aching
void,” and he goes to Milledgcville, receives six
dollars per day for eating ground peas and
ginger cakes, drinking mean whiskey, and kill
ing respectable bills.
I do not say that all new counties are. pro
gressed by impure motives, but I do say that
it is our honest conviction, that "office" sparkled
before the eyes of many of those who arc so
officious in forming them.
At Maj. B’s wc formed the acquaintance of
Col. Shorter, a brother of toe Representative,
who seems to be a high-toned and talented gen
tleman. Next morning we rode around town
to see the place. Eufoula is a city containing
about 8500 inhabitants, situated on toe western
bank of toe Cliattahochce on a bluff one hun
dred feet high. It has a fine male and female
school and two good hotels. On the hill there
are some beautiful private residences. On
standing by the bank of toe river, as “the sun’s
last rays were foiling from the west,” we could
but repeat the whole of that beautiful poem
written by that eminent scholar, statesman, sol
dicr, and poel Mirabcau B. Lamar, beginning:
“Oft, when toe sun along the wcsl
His farewell splendor throws.
Imparting to the wounded breast
The spirit of repose.”
It was written on the death of his wife on
the banks of the Cliattahoochcc, and I could
but fed that the sentiment was truly lyrical.
There arc some beautiful building lots now on
the bank of toe river, the citizens having left
them vacant to catch toe country trade. As
soon os the railroad is completed, however, the
town doubtless will return to tho bluff In
Eufoula there aro two staunch State Rights pa
pers published, “toe Eufoula Express,” and
“Spirit of the South.” We formed the acquain
tance of Col. Black, the publisher of toe latter,
a clever, intelligent gentleman. Wc are not
personally acquainted with Col. Bullock, toe
Editor, yet wc have long known him by char
acter as a man of profound attainments, a thor
ough scholar, a deep logician, and an honest pol-
itian. But we learned while in Eufoula that
he is a man of remarkable versatility of ge
nius; that he can “crack a joke” and write a
leader at the same time. Some years ago,
Ritchie paid a high compliment to an article or
his on the Tariff, in which he quoted those
beautiful lines from that well known elegy ;
“Full many a gem of purest raj- serene,
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
Anri ivnetn its Rwpotniste nn tho rlouort nir •’
j heaven, twinkled in toe clear, blue sky, and
threw their lovely rays in the ripling water be
neath. We viewed this lovely scene with all
the emotions of our soul, and felt as if wc were
really traveling through the “Land of Beulah.”
At length the moon, like a blushing damsel
drew a veil of cloud o’er her face and in a few
moments we were in Georgetown.
We took breakfast in Cuthbert with a very
accommodating old gentleman, but who did not
giveusaveiy good breakfast From Cuthbert
to Dan son, we had as traveling companions, a
Mr. C. of Macon and F. of Houston county,
both clever gentlemen, and wo were sorry to
hear them take God’s name in vain so often.
Our surly driver came very near letting the
cars leave us. Wc only had time to dash "at
toe tabic for dinner and into toe omnibus to
prevent being left. If toe same man will ever
go that rout twice he has more spunk than wc
have. Wp remained one hour, and a half at
Smithvillc and took the up train for Fort Val
ley. N Wc got a good supper from McAfee, but
wc thought then, and wc always intend to think,
that he ought to have hired us a horse and bug
gy that night A man who sets himself up
for public business ought to accommodate the
public for their money, when lie can do it and
not materially injure himself But we could
not get it there, and had to remain till morn
ing.
Sunday morning wc arrived safe and sound
at our domicil in Knoxville, Georgia.
Knoxville, Ga. W. J. S.
No Ganger from a Plethoric Cotton
CROP.
Mr. Clbby :—The disposition of many is to
depress toe price of cotton by crying out 3,700,.
000 bales of Cotton. Twenty-three hundred
thousand, up to Jan. 28, has been received in
toe ports. Eleven hundred and fifty thousand
of that amount has been sent to foreign coun
tries, and four hundred thousand to Northern
ports. Out of toe amount sent to foreign ports,
England has only had six hundred and fifty
thousand sent to her, up to the 28th January.
The stock in toe ports in the United States is
eight hundred and fifty thousand bales. Allow
England out of that eight hundred and fifty
thousand bales, six hundred thousand bales.—
Thai with toe amount sent England would make
twelve hundred and fifty thousand. Tliea say
1,700,000 bales more, will be received; of
that seventeen hundred thousand, England ac
cording to her own say so, must have one
million more bales of cotton at least That will
leave seven hundred thousand bales of the seven
teen hundred; add the two hundred thousand of
the stock in this country, that England does not
take to toe seven hundred thousand of the sev
enteen hundred thousand bales yet to be re
ceived, and it will leave nine hundred thousand
bales to be divided between France, other for
eign countries, and the United States. Say the
crop is thirty-seven hundred thousand bales—
nay four million. England mast have two mil
lion three hundred thousand l>ales; France
seven hundred thousand; the United States
seven hundred thousand, and other foreign
countries one to two hundred thousand bales,
and what is loft even of a four million crop ? So
j-ousee, Mr. Clisbj’, there is nothing to be feared
as to price, with a crop of four million bales.
The planters have the price thej’ will taka for
toe remainder of their crop, in their own hands.
They can get twelve to fourteen cents for it, if
they choose, bj’ holding it until April or May,
for the receipts will decrease from this week out,
for the receipts last j’ear, fi-ora this until July,
never was so heavy in anj’ former year.
COMMERCE.
For tha Telegraph.
Ah Ocean Picture.
Tis night; tempestuous, terrific night;
When Neptune and his Queen nymph Amphitrite,
With zeal engaged, in fierce connubial broil,
Have made the great deep from its fountains boil
Up billows raging like their royal ire;
Npw blackest ink, next inslint liquid fire.
Like Otus and Ephitltcs’ mountain pile,
They reared to form ’twixt heaven and earth a stile,
Surge mounted upon surge is thrust up high,
In seeming combat with the angry sky.
And see von ship; though stripped of mast and sail,
With lightning speed she drives before the gale.
But soon abruptly stopping the pressed race,
She turns, as il her enemy to face.
Alas! 'tis only that she can-lot bravo
A foe more subtly armed than wind or wave;
A breaker ’neath the waters all unseen
Has cleft her hull; behold her how careen
For a few moments, then go whirling down
’Mid piercing shrieks the tempest’s din can’t drown.
Kow look again; the scene is reappeared;
With sea to quiet lulled and sky bright cleared.
Ton boat that seems on the broad main a speck
Bears four surviving sufferers from the wreck.
Their wasted forms half clad—their heads all bare,
They scorch beneath the noonday’s burning glare,
Ant? shiver with the chill of night dew damp.
Their hearts and faces bearing savage stamp,
Of many days of famine, they agree
That one be slain to save tho other three.
The fetal lot soon cast has doomed a lad;
Those that escaped, all men, though well nigh mad
With hunger’s painful gnawings, cannot hear
Unmoved, the startled cry of hopeless fear;
Nor arc they proof against the mute appeal
Of that sad look,—'twould touch a heart of steel.
And ere the horrid bloody deed is done,
Let’s try the chances o’er again cries one.
They try again by other means; twice more,
But each result is as it was before.
s;--CL« K or 'if: ■;^
In response to Mr. SeWmro on the e/f
port and Bill appropriating Thin J
for the purchase of Cuba In .V. '71
26th ult.:
.Mr. TOOMBS.
It shallnot be, another says—’tis wrong
To sacrifice the weak tc save the strong;
Let us still longer wait with heavenly trust,
Then try the fates for three if die one must;
It were unmanly not to spare this boy—
But lo 1 all now seem boys; they shout for joy,
They pray aloud, they laugh with streaming tears,
For rescue in yon white winged vessel nears.
The boy thus saved, long since become a man,
Not vainly pauses that event to scan,
When o’er life’s pathway troublous skies thick
lower;
But comfort finds—taught by that trying hour
That mercy granted may receive its meed,
And brightest days may darkest nights succeed.
EVA LIND.
Hayti.
Wc were about to chronicle too ruins of Em
pire in toe subversion of Hayti and Faustin I,
by a ruthless nigger, who rode into town on
horseback shouting treason, stirring up revolt
and heading an insurrection of five persons in
red flannel brooches. It was reported at first
that they had overthrown toe Empire, but later
accounts say Faustin has it all bis own way.
Wc hope he will give them a dozen apiece.when
he catches them.
P. S.—Geffanl is now said to have headed
Faustin. If so, we hope he will give Faustin a
dozen.
An editor of a down-east paper getting tired
of paying bis compositors, resolved to diminish
his help, and put his own shoulder to tiic wheel.
Hero is a specimen of his first effort at type set
ting—
“Wo tqinq is c sh Al] d® most or Ol r own
jtiNg tYFpa hogcaftei drinterg muy tA>-3 k
obou; iTs being dlfirlcUlt to t tipc, but don,t
eXpcrtcnac’S uch dlfrlculjy.”
The Douglas and Fitch Qnarrcl.'
The States throws cold water upon toe Her
ald’s account of this affair in the Senate, thus:
“One of toe scandals most notable at present,
is the manner in which toe secret session of the
Senate is invaded; and toe occurrences which
take place there, under the most solemn seal of
privacy, paraded into the public newspapers.—
A most conspicuous instance of this is furnished
in the telegraphic columns of toe N. Y. Herald,
of Saturday last, in which we have a partial ac
count of a grossly personal debate occurring
between two Senators. This communication
was evidently mado to the reporter for toe Her
ald by a Senator, and ns obviously made with a
view of biasing and discoloring the public mind
in reference to one of his comrades in that body.
While it is admitted that high words did pass in
the course of an angry discussion, wc are as
sured, on good authority, that no such scene as
the one described in the Herald took place in
toe Senate. What a miserable spectacle it is to
see a grave Senator using the anonymous agency
of a venal press, for the plain purpose of degra
ding, in the public esteem, one of his compeers.
Both of toe gentlemen indicated in the despatch,
we feel sure can, and will, take care of their
honor;.and neither needs, we trust, the instru
mentality of an anonymous telegraph to adver
tise his valor, or shelter his chivalry from popu
lar suspicion.
Equally garbled and mendacious is too ac
count in the same despatch of the way in which
a distinguished Senator is reported to have as
sumed the magister morum 1 of the body, and
chastized in appropriate words of denunciation
the two Senators involved. In the heat of the
occasion, and on toe impulse of toe moment,
such words may have been spoken, but with
characteristic frankness were immediately with
drawn and voluntarily atoned for. But it was
not convenient to too Herald’s informant to
couple with his account this fact.
The affair by last accounts was in tho hands
of diplomatic doctors with a good prospect of
curt! without phlebotomy.
P. S. A euro is effected.
Louisiana Senatorial Flection.
New Orleans, Jan. 22.—The Democratic
Legislative caucus, in session at Baton Rouge,
have had forty-two ballots for a candidate for
United States Senator without success. On
the last ballot Mr. Benjamin was two votes a-
head. There were four candidates voted for.—
The caucus then adjourned to meet again on
Monday.
Mr. Bcnnjamin lias been re-elected.
An End to the Kansas Troubles.
St. Loris, Jan. 22.—Leavenworth advices to
the 20th state that Capt Montgomery, of the
Jay-hawkers, has voluntarily given himself up
to the authorities to uwnjt a trial upon charges
or complaints in too recent troubles in South
ern Kansas.
From the Federal Union, Jan. 95.
Letter ol Resignation of Iverson L.
HARRIS, ESQ.
Milledgeville, Jan. 7, 1859.
To Hb Excellency, Joseph E. Brown :
Sib : Elected, as I have been informed only
through a paragraph in the newspapers, by toe
legislature at its last annual session, as one of a
commission to codify toe laws of toe State,
whilst absent on toe Circuit, without being a
candidate, indeed, even in ignorance that a meas
ure was in progress authorising an election, I
have been so deeply impressed by this mark of
their confidence, that I have struggled to make
my personal interests yield to their wishes, but I
am constrained by obligations of duty to decline
an acceptance of the high honor so handsomely
conferred.
I have sought with great anxiety to reconcile
existing engagements with the requirements of
toe legislature, but such Is their pressure, and
probable duration of some of them, before thej’
can be closed by trial that toe period of twenty
months prescribed, for the completion of the
code, would have to be trenched upon, possibly
so much, by fulfiling those engagements, as to
render it utterly impracticable for me to do my
full share of the labor of the commission, within
toe uncertain quantity of time which may beat
my command.
This consideration makes it imperative that I
should tender my resignation, for the legislature
doubtless expected all of toe time of the commis
sioners to be given in good faith to the perform
ance of this great intellectual labor.
I cannot consent for a moment to hold an
office for the performance of the duties of which
I am unable to bring the full measure of service
expected.
Whilst this resignation is placed upon toe
reasons already assigned, there are others of an
insuperable character, springing from a survev
of the task imposed, which might well deter a
bolder, more sanguine, and more industrious
man than myself; frotn attempting to compass it
within the prescribed time.
The task is no less than to present, in a con
densed form, “toe laws of Georgia, whether de
rived from toe common law—the Constitution
of toe State, and of toe United States—the stat
utes of the State—the English statues of force,
and tho decisions of toe Supreme Court of Geor
gia.”
It is very evident from this enumeration, that
toe principles of the common law, usually in
force in this State prior to the 14th .May, 1776,
declared operative by toe art of 1784, are to be
extracted from toe old common law reports, and
elementary books, treating of the various sub
jects comprehended within its vast scope, and
toe rules thus collected from hundreds of vol
umes are to be compressed into a volume, and
when adopted, are “to supercede all other laws
and decisions.” The various subjects of “agen-
cj’,” “conveyances,” “corporations,” “deeds,”
“estates,” “partnerships,” “legacies,” “plead
ings,” “promissory notes,” “wills,’’ Ac.; Ac.,
Ac., are to be examined bj r toe commission, and
all the principles belonging to each of these sub
jects, and which enter hourly into toe business,
or affect tho relations of our people, are carefully
to be selected, omitting none of force—and to be
stated with precision.
Can it be possible that any three gentlemen,
however profoundly acquainted with the com
mon law—thus required to be codified—could
within toe time prescribed, perform such a work,
either creditably to themselves, or beneficially
to the State?
The act of the legislature is very far from
being indefinite; toe code being designed to su
percede “all other laws and decisions, and to
establish fixed and uniform law”—it is manifest
that a code omiting toe inclusion of the subjects
I have mentioned, would not conform to legisla
tive will, or if it did, it would leave the people
in many cases unprovided with any rule for the
protection of their rights—if such an imperfect
code should be made to supercede all other laws,
&c.
It would not bo difficult to moke a compilation
but a thorough digest of principles compress
ed into the fewest words, consistent with per
spicuity, is in my estimation a work of great
labor, physical gnd mental, apd requiring, for
its proper completion, ample time.
Mr. President tin.
toe honorable Senator from New
markable, certainly, for two thine,/?
is personal to himself; and I am virvd
congratulate him and the country tl J
he lias concluded that economy is anlii
national policy, which heretofore i le J
orally to have ignored. The import,,
question itself, and its incidents, SC iT
aroused his mind to that point which t
an improvement in a legislator. Tl lc „ 1
tant and remarkable feature in th c
toe Senator is, that he comes to r ,, '
upon toe main question. He thijl
number of objections to toe pro;xx,;
action; but he declines, or lie fails t,
any opinion upon thc merits of this J
tion of national policy, now about to D
rated. lie takes ground neither J
against il as a question of nations! J]
confines himself simply to objerty
mode now proposed for the acqaisltj®]
On that point I have only this to .41
not be the best mode; and my purpll
now is not so much to argue the ouej
as .to answer some objections to thej
mode which is proposed bj- the (vj
Foreign Relations, in conformitv to^l
medation of the President of the CnjjjL
and to express my hearty coneuntmS
a measure of great and endurin’' r ,,:J
icy.
The Senator intimates, in the first
if it is not a violation of thc ConstixmJ
surrendering the constitutional riV-1
body. In what respect? The qnjZl
Government of toe United States toj
ritory by purchase, or bj- war, or ir*J
mode it may see proper, according tojj
nations, is, I presume, no longer cJ
madversion. It lias been settled hr'3
rent judgment of all parties, and |,yj|
tion of the Constitution-now nolosl
dispute. Then if the right to acquijte
by purchase is a conceded point it,.I
policy, it is not in derogation of J
rights of thc Senate of the United sj
should appropriate money bj’ law J
done frequently before. I know tjJ
stititutional inhibition against the bra
anybody else, using money, unless *■
priated by law; but, inasmuch ssfijj
stitutional objccl we propose to da ■
thing. Conceding that the policy
Cuba by purchase is a wise policy, J
tion is submitted to the Congress oi’ jj
States, both the Senate and
sentatives, whether, if it be a wi* J
objert, deserving of appropriations <itt
lie money, we shall enable the IV ; 1
United States to inaugurate it by -B
priation.
I see no objection in the ConstitcB
toe gentleman has failed to point - 9
vision of the Constitution which c-:- J
our appropriating money in adva: J
min, for the purpose of making ;]
So snch point was raised in the ear.-l
our country ; none in our war witj.1
I recollect that on two occasions a I
troduced, and voted for generally, J
incumbered by an internal domesti]
authorizing the President of the lJ
to use, iu one case two, and in uol
millions of the public money, for_
of securing a peace with Mexico, cs
the proposition undoubtedly was. i
understood by all parties, with the X
of territory; hut it was encumben ■
cd up in the first instance, and pn- : B
second, by uniting it to a conditio
should be toe position of that terrii
was purchased by the United States
sidering that question as having p
consideration, and Iteing conceded
ticc of toe Government, in eonflictl
of the provisions of the Constitution,
ceed to advert to the incidential al
the gentleman seems to suppose it
rights of this body as a portion t
making power.
It is a mistake in the Senator fro
to suppose that an appropriation ol
the purpose of purchasing a fore
commit.- the Government to the eoa
anj r treaty which may be made to
toe puipose. 1 know not how i
viewed. I do not consider that
cd for granting toe two or three mil*
r the ■
has arrived, which annoanocs that the Nevada
Indians have recently liue-sacred seven whites
and wounded others. A bloody bonier war is
apprehended.
AVhut says the time honored exponent of Vir
ginia Democracy, the Enquirer ? The “States" i
also is not as anient in the cause as we expec-
ted to see the “Godophin Arabian” of the Press. [
“Julias can you tell me how Adam got out..
of Eden?"
‘Well ’spose he climbed do fence.”
“No, dat ain’t it”
“Well K‘ borrowed a wheelbarrow and wal
ked out” ’
“No.”
“I gubs it up, den.”
“lie got snaked out Yah!”
And waste its sweetness on the desert airy
But too venerable Ritcluc was in part mis
taken; for any one who will read the profound
leader in toe “Spirit of the South” will soon
find that CoL Bulloch Is far from losing all his
“sweetness on toe desert air.” I know com
paratively nothing of toe Editor of toe “Ex
press,” but judging fropi ai) editorial which wc
read at thc Chewalla Hotel bo is not a jrhit be
hind his cotemporary. As there were a goodly
number of persons in town on Friday from
toe country—being the day of the “show"—
we would think Barbour was not behind anj’
county in Alabama in intelligence; for upon toe
whole they were a fine looking set of men.
At 11 o’clock Saturday morning we left on | people. Few men would feel the same amid
the stage for Dawson. We started from the * 8 ^1°. m °°. r8 roun<1 Haworth, and amid '
_. . , r r. i i .,. <he soft English scencrj- that you see from
Chewalln H'/tcJ, kep. bj’a Mr. Cook, who, l Richinonrt hill. Some individuals, indeed,
not a high-toned and polite gentleman, deceives - whose mind is not merely torpid, may carry
hia looks. AYc were alone in the stage, and! the same animus with them wherever tney go;
though wc flatter ourself that we have seen hut their animus must be a very bad one. Mr.
manv places of natural beauty—places where Scrooge, before his change of nature, was, no
,, ,, . ’ . , „ ,i„ t doubt, quite independent of external circum-
the soul bursts forth in poetry-jet wc do not wc , lll 1 di nodoubt> faave thought it
think we have ever had more pleasant emotions proo f 0 f g re . lt weakness (tad he not been so.
in viewing the Beautiful than wc had that night Nor was it a being of an amiable character in
in out- ride flf- fir Georgetown. The road up whose mouth Milton has put thc words, »• No
to that place lavs ju<t along the high bluff on matter where, so I be still thc same!" And
tho Eastern bank of the Chattahoochee Th eve . n ,n l ‘‘ a ,Il0Utl1 sentiment was rather ya-
xiden. poured forth l' 0 ™" * ,mn trUe ’ But a dul1 ’ hca 'T’. P rosalc -
was no excitement at Leavenworth.
External Inlliieuccs.
Every one knows people who are quite dif
ferent people according as they are in town or
country. I know a man—an exceedingly Clev
er and learned'man—who in fowp u sharp, se
vere, hasty, a very little ‘bitter; and just a
shade ill-tempered, who on going to thc coun
try becomes instantly genial, frank, playful,
kind and jolly ; you would not know him for
the same man if his face and form changed on
ly half as much as his intellectual and moral
nature. Manymcn, whfn they go to the coun
try, just as they put off frock coats and stiff
stocks and pnt on loose shooting suits, big
thick shoes, a loose Eoft handkerchief round
their necks—just as thej’ pitch away the vile,
hard hat of city propriety, that pinches,
cramps, and cuts the hapless head, and re
place it by the light, yielding wideawake—do
mentally pass through a like process of relief;
their whole spiritual being is looser, freer, less
tied up. Such changes as that from town to
countrj’ must, I should think, be felt by all ed
ucated people, and make an appreciable dif
ference in tnc moral condition of all educated
lars that Mr. Polk asked, for the
making a treaty with Mexico, flu-re]
ted themselves, even as Senators, til
of Guacalupe Hidalgo, it was
ed here. It was regarded that tier iwci
tional right as Senators could n. t i* toe
cd; tort it was incapable of sumnx^^P
a legislative art proposed to be pas
toe executive and legislative tiep
lieve that it is a proper policy ted
this money for the purpose of iff
treaty, in order to purchase CtU
wards t treaty is made, the terms i'
obnoxi )us in reference to its xc.d
tains a:iy provision which is di-a.-r tL
honorable Senator from New Yer hi
and an pie constitutional power, a.- hr
this body, unimpaired in any way.
or accept it, as in his judgment 1
mote Ihe public interests. It is
thc Senator says, that if thc $30,i
pendec. by the Executive, who il
Constitution, can inaugurate treat*
lose tl.e money unless toe trcatrfc
That s to be taken into considntr
fair consideration for Congrcss-nte
mount is too great, considering it
view, to run the risk of a treaty br
reject* d. It is liable to no elk
whatever. We hx.vc simply fo cot
cr the amount is so great in vietrdl
sough; to be attained, that we tmi
run tl.e risk of the loss of $80,00..
than enable toe President, intbew
stitutional power, (for he alone ast)
cign nations,) to inaugurate a rfou
tiation by which he hones to aceur
do not; but as that is a question
connected with toe value of the
will advert to it in another forth
marks.
The Senator from XeV York hat
histo -y of our present and prospect
ness, and too deficiencies of our rev
I shall not undertake to discuss
betwocn us upon either of those r
our revenue system, I consider it
wants of toe country. Thc questi-/
this Republic now, where arc we u
from ? but our financial system f»
teen Or twenty years has bcenm«
to ra se it. Even when you have
biffs with (he express view of purti:
pluses, of reducing too revenue, of
of it than an ordinary system wot
have failed in thc effort Most oft
toe world have been driven to
shifts, certainly in war and often
knot.' how to raise the wind—in *
to ra isc money enough to eanT bn tl
menis. Xhe mail who could invert!
It is reported that Capt. Brown, as chief of “ ‘3^° °f the State statutes, and those qf
thc opposition desperadoes, has left the territory. | England, of force—digested, by breaking theni
No further difficulties are apprehended. There up and placing each subject treated of in its . , , ,,
■ * - legal or logical connection under its appropriate ! c 7 orl 10 England, lias been aware:’:
title, carefully preserving the very language of '*l®nt
these statutes, so often interpreted, and to which But in this country, tiic whole ltd
all are accustomed, unless an ambiguous or in-1 talent of all sides, especially of geoj
definite word should require it to be changed, I >ng die political opinions of that S4
so as to enlarge or restrict its meaning, and then beci. devoted to thc problem hovj
in conformity to the decisions of the Supreme money enough. .Suc.ii is thc wcaftH
Court—and containing in foil nptes, points do-; try, such an- its vast producti.ir.N
cided by tha t Court, touching the statutes thus j tion is not one of raising enough **
arranged, or having relation to the subject of) ic*l wants of the Government. cA
the title—could not fail to answer a great want extravagant wants of the Governed
—and would have met thc expectations, as I! question with that Senator ar.d --'I
am assured, of many gentlemen' who participa- ] how to raise revenue so as tel
ted in procuring the enactment Such a Digest
would leave toe principles of cbmmqn law to be
collected and applied as they npw are in our
courts—controlled only by conflicting statuforj'
provisions.
A digest, such os I linvc indicated, would
seem to embrace what is practicable—anti
would have this commanding superiority over a
condensed code, tliat it would not, like too
latter, engender new derisions, and be like il a
fruitful source of constant interpretation.
The legislature, however, lias not authorised
such a digest The commission has been al
lowed no discretion—and in this particular toe
art of Georgja differs widely frQin tho acts of
Alabama, under which her' codp was prepared
I —and on too model pf which, as nearly as pos
sible, it was required toe code of Georgia to be
formed.
In declining, I bog to say, sir, that my deter
mination to do so, is uninfluenced by toe very
inadequate compensation named in the act.
Ilad 1 entered on toe task and performed my
share of lappr, 1 should have (rusted with con
fidence to a generous, intelligent and just appre
ciation of valuable
cnligh(eped reprc-schtativ
Georgia,
With great r» -qrd, 1 ha ve toe honor to be,
Your Excellency’s ol.’t servant.
brandies of industry at the eip
branches of industry. We *
trouble at all about raising revu '-J
too object; we should have no a-
knowing what rate of taxation vo
sufficient amount for us, or i
greater amount or a lessen
necessary; but wc have
schemes to lay taxatim in such :
berefit particular into rests sothi:?
to Congress and seek by legist
benefits iu their own private pun*
toe difficulty we fcave.
1 take it for granted thatroanv®
of expenditure to which the 8e rJl / j
may be dispensed with. Be
000,000, or $150,000,000 for a I
This is a fart not yet accompl^fj
no ; suppose it ever will l®-,
every argument of public policy, 1
a material element, and it ought'jre
by toe legislative department c
nu lit, and more especially woe
th nk, has satisfied toe Senates^ 1 ,
th iso who were npt satisfied
-1 o ’ v * j i- t tt jq‘t t* v».- * - v • — -
i professional service, by the utjWy worthless for ail |W^“r .
sentatives of the people of j co nmercial transactions. 1
(h irefore, I propose not to s l'f/.; : >i
| a "*fy easy way of getting
I 000 : If it v.vro a wise exp/';-;/ |
pale lnoop, like a modest nut
her silvery rays in mellow showers; tho hug
oak like the fabled ghost, stood decked in
miserly, cantankerous, $ynicp!, suspicions, bit
ter old rascal, would probably Be much ‘the
IVERSON L. HARRIS.
same everywhere.
Nobody overused.
dark, mossy gown; the stars, those flowers of J December.
- Cr,tier's Magazine for Coughs and Co
I tors),
an expenditure which wouW !*„
to the nation, I should not <
are cartaia remedy for Colds, present circumstances, tn at ■ I
'mnption, than Ayer's Cherry Pec-. hi t as 1 -- e no tdvantage
,m (psorate to the espen n.uiA ‘