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j>y Joseph Clibby. . (iEOBGrXA TELEGRAPH. rctuMiCD ivinr , ElhV ikterxoox, at 3, p. m. atogste**—* MACON, SATURDAY, 3 O CLOCK, P. M, FEBRUARY 11, 1860. Volume XXXIV.—No. 18. -^- nr Bow by th* Hap.** S^^Tfhc Savannah Republican, Speaker’s election, attempts of electing Pennington u,«>n Kl and thus states the argument: p». u,e last trial, Tuesday, when Gw. £ f ** the candidate of the northern F-'i 1 and People* men could ^sufficient rotes tor his election^ The deficiency was supplied * l * Domocrats. Ailrian, of N. J., , northern )' B |io cast their IvLningto". and thus brought fftSutan desired to make a full *, ,L conceal the fact tlut Henry iJfk a Southera, and Mr. Bnggs, a tJk JlBcrkan, who was said to bo “true some of the American party, voted Arnolds arc not Democrats. * ti;c nominees of the American party, "Vr hv Americans, Hepublicans and Democrats. The regular S\4‘ the Democratic party were de- and therefore they arc not our j sore the representatives of the Re- ",'ojiv than ours. ’ i jjwish to uiakc-issues at the. South ’J (lection—wo cast no blamo upon Jlas—hut when tho charge ts made Tiwiocratic party, of aiding in the „ a n point to the record and truth- no Democratic Representative ; ! liva Democratic Convention and j l( n.’ iMuocmtic party, North, Soutit, ;i Uii for. Wm. Pennington, the Ke- I *, ,i, ii.Ute for" Speaker. Can Die aa »v as much for its party ? We Em* Henry Winter Davis is a .4 bml American,nominated and elected (American (arty. Mr. Briggs is also an Hu, elected, however, by a coalition of 1 J.lican and American parties in his ih»t hut for the vote of Henry in avis, a Southern American, Pennington ,1 not have been elected. b statement is nlss home out by the JOiliinry. b»« rewired a pamphlet copy of the l ii£S 0 f (be .Military Convention which i„ Jlillclgevi 11 e, Nov. 29th, 1859. of the naumissioned officers of Gcor- iJuleirs, style of arms used, number i .> and Jate of commissions.” _mr filly Volunteer companies of the ■ai,d" in tho Convention, to wit: of Heavy Infantry; 19 of Light Rifles; 9 of Cavalry and 4 of Ar- ,’uawing rank and tile over 2,GOO. ^ 1 asaiissioncil officers of Georgia ,warned in tiio pamphlet, comprise Janse Companies only which were a the Convention. A large num- t aaMaks in tho State were-not repre- Ht call attention to this fact that no Bsctthcr a eomplcto list of tiie commis- 4ms. or the total number rank and wtii Volunteers. Tho Convention stiinei-t in Milledgcvillc on the second " vemher next, when we hope all Companies in the Stato will he At - * * bAxcuist Seat of Government.— sutnbtr of the Louisville Gazette, T £. Editor and Proprietor, is before us. hr several years, was tho scat of m! of (.Irorgia, and the old Georgia vu first printed there, Wc believe, but aotnal of tiio capitol to Millcdgeville, taper followed tho government, and f timo until now. the city was without Wc are rejoiced to sec tliis evidence ’ fortunes in the old town, "and with place vlee *\mght\y Gazette on our changes, la Democratic Convention. Richmond Enquirer of Jan'y 31st, says, •sings have been held in thirty-five and Delegates ap/mnteil to the State i. In twenty-one counties the delc- l«n instructed to favor Wise for tiro one in farnr of Hunter, and tliir- stmrtcd. swdeaee of I Uc Daily Tek-graph. Newark, N. J., Feb. 3, 1800. iter, Mr. Pennington, is a resident fei his election is a very largo con- ‘•kick Republican pretension ns at first 15 » choice of Ex-Gov. Pennington la it? the Democrats and oilier National For the. Telegraph. The Art aid of Yineville:- OR, 9 Romeo au<l Juliet. scrambled out, almost immediately. v-poso in reading the pamphlet, that ” as Twas -evening—and' upon the hanks of a la.-tutiful ditch in the suburbs of Vineville, the silver betas of Luna revealed a scene of tran scendent. beauty. Upon an ancient stump, which had braved the tempests of an hundred winters, sitting in an attitude of graceful re pose, was an angdlifcrous nuuden, just bloomed into sunny womanhood.- She was radiantly and peerlessly beautiful. Webster hides his in glorious head, in tho vain attempt to furnish words descriptive of her loveliness. Graceful as a duck, wild as a hawk, pensive as a setting hen, with her rich, tow-like hair streaming over her shoulders, like some bright swamp angel, she sat, while tho moon-beams played around lier. Jlcr eyes, which shamed the lightning- bugs, were deboozlcd with tears. Sho was lis tening, with an air of sorrowful distraction, to tho passionate pleadings of a noble youth who knelt at her feet His bands were clasped in an attitude of despair—he spoke, and his tones were deep, and mournful as tho funeral chant of * martyred bull-frog .in tho butcher pen. “ Oh I fairy queen jof heaven—puro dove of the ihoonshin ysky—translucent light of my benighted eyes—cherished and beloved of my heart’s care—how canst thou doubt my love? Dost thou doubt that tho cabbage loves the ge nial rain Y Dost thou doubt that tho chicken loves the dough-dish? Then doubt my love for thee ? Bo mine, or else I die.” Ho paused for a reply. *. . “Romeo,” she murmured, “it cannot be. Tho mandate of my. mother, and the stem de cree of fate, must bo obeyed.” And her Voice was as melodious as tho tinkle of a fractured cow-bell, “away up tho road,” abd.low and sad- as tho last notes of an expiring screech-owl. “Talk not of obedience^ thou beautiful but cruel one. Oh! canst thou sit.in thy cold ma jesty, like a frozen sausage, and sec my niching heart going to smash-before thy tearless eyes? See 1” said he, as his voice died away to a sad wail, liko tho howl of a broken back man lift— and her dashed from his check a tear, big as a bullet She spoke, and the frogs and" crickets were silent tb listen. * Romeo,-beloved of my soul,” she said, in a voice sweeter than New Orleans piolosses, “thou knowest that I lovo thee. My" heart clings-to thee art the bean to the pole—my ear knows no music .save tire voice—my lips-no victuals but thy kisses—without thee,'I die. . But the picket fence of duty surrounds me; it is full of sharp Spikes, and 1 cannot surmount it A last fare well—and now we part, forever J” “Bid me not depart!” he roared—“I will never leave thee. Forty-lcven savage locomo tives havo not power enough to-tcar us from each other. I tell thee, my angel love, "tiio thought of leaving thee rends my soul—it mad dens me—It makes me rip and rave like a stran gled Shanghai—it makes me as crazy as a bed bug—it makes me feel bad. In my despera tion, 1 would flog tho earthquake and Cat .red hot pokers I” Juliet burst into a flood of tears, and swooned away. Borneo, fearing that sho- was ill, hur ried after a physician; and, instead of being- clasped in his arms, she fell in.the ditch, and Notices of the Daily. Among numerous notices of our Daily, wo. copy the following from the press of a section of the country in which wc trust it is destined to prove a great convenience. the helpless .victim of a mother’s tyranny, and n«w imprisoned in a garret Her lace smutty—her tow-like hair disheveled—her eyes red as cranberries, from weeping, and her new calico splotched with mud—she sat silent and alone, moro beautiful than a Hebe, with a flagon of butter-milk and a platter of flapjacks by her side. Just'thcn, a low, "doleful sound was borne, to her car by tho fitful breeze. Sho started. “ Is it tKou, Romeo ?” sho cried. “Ah, no—I will not flatter myself with vSin hopes—’twas but the calf bleating to its mother," Again it was repeated. She sprang to her fcet, kicked over the butter-milk, and peeped out through a chink in tho house: It was indeed her lover, looking up with wistful eyes to her dungeon window, while scalding tears poured down his cheeks. ... “ Oh, save me, Romeo!” sho cried. * “ l would smash down those massive pipe -doors,”, he answered, “ with ono blow of my stalwart fist, and snatch thee from thy cruel captors, but am afraid of that darned old dog of yours—you know he’ll bite.” lie throw hinrsclf on the ground, and wept in despair. - “Weep not, dear Romeo,” she said—“I will come to thee." She made her escape through the floor .of her dungeon—and while sho was engaged in-the perilous undertaking,' Romeo was .standing- without, and chanting, by way of encourage^ ment, in a voice bold and manly as the.squcak of a dying pig, the following pathetic strain: “Come, love, come—you need, not fear ; Mr donkcj'a here bolide tic catu; Alt l want U my Juliet dear, And well be off at a rapid rate." . . ■ • * Hardly had. He uttered the last syllable .Of this soul-moving melody, when they. were clasped in each other’s arms. L* !°Y" R f b ? ® e T? rd /n fl ^ t0 /u ir donkey, with his beloved aboa'rd, ho put spurs kfi4lu^Ma?itaS|b^: *? his . B**" 1 .and sped, qs it were, upon r us Wen compelled to take a “ lower i ivaocuu at Chaiieaton shall, two Mat, pre-serve an unbroken front, and r and «l<W.y marksman, at '»«ket the Presidential gun tho wound- te killed outright, and the friends |tardufies »ill have a grand fea$t over iu “Fton, of this city, is an old line -.- "Vt aho waa taken up by tire Re- “ * a*t Congressional election to ac- V*u tf tie Americans, or Know-Notb- Jr^lWted Millard Fillmore, and who rJiWiliin provided I Ary got the ma- „By this combination lii.trict were beaten. . l 4 Ir“P 0,1 .8“tt""u more votes than any * c '’ oul cou,d 8 et - -".‘l‘-’ r pojmhr With all classes, 1/opinion, ias hut little sympathy with P" m any slia;*. He'acta kith the Re- 'Orr arc antagonists to tho Dcm- ■J opposers, and because he thinks the [ '* ader •• the longest and of t- u»o hi m the highest. [Wirrhcre is intensely cold and every -? from the wash basin to tho River, nun who poisoned his wife, ia, alter ' to be bung to-day in New Fork.— _ „ ' have been made to aave him. I»r-Knapp, Methodist, (the denomin- f the prisoner was connected,) oumians to aave tho life-of Stevens, i w ^ 1*1 letter to Gov. Morgan in J* ’“ l ' n it waa ascertained that the • : t»gcd In a plot to murder the keep- ' 1 .1‘H‘al (» revolver) being found Jh" iruuirdiately absolved all inter- ' ■'Strained to leave the desperado to fcraigu trade recently published . atsnat ln( j t bow astonishing results v I 'oluaion, tnd increasing demand. ' 14 da* country in 1869 weru in IP' »St>,ooo,OOU, and the exports r«d Ifty^Jx millions, leaving a bal- i. 0> vightecn million. We sold tjj** nhyoof million more than wo J^ftwer Uio antiquated oyster shell •*** thirty millions tho adran- rt»c cou ' , l annexed to the 11. .■ commercial re atrictiona could bo ■'ll refl'Dli'A* procured from thia mfc Hie aeoesaioai to our he immenee, ef Dartmoeth College, having (u *** w ieg the natural Inleriorily of tiw.y’ta’lar his disapprob ation of ptL u the Uelpcrites, the Kepubllsan t^Bwiptiilre assert that heT“ In- 1“ their oflbrta to Irear- NiTT. t>r, J* Hie aa.ium, these cr.uy of white and black »ill i £Tu D KQ sibk peopl*, that ouU be the occupants of the **daily paper” in Macon. H ,*> r " for that. I trnsi that at be natalued with a spirit of iJUm 00 **® H>»» shall render the Kii J’.f^.NWntutlra. Mr. Ed- ’SbL r* thwka of the Central City of public spirit I tru.-t v 1 ta*J Wanda monument of “'■‘•re for the public Intelligence. kJblt^'JV’VaptmtSont of tho Peteri- or twin es. joined on the ,arc ™ M tigbtli inch in length. the wings of the wind—worse than a greased streak of lightning. .: Conclusion.—As tho truant pair, havo not been heard from sinco tiie abovo transpired, it - ls'to bo inferred that they have departed for parts unknown—and, as they carried olT tho tiap-jacks, it is presumed that they intend tc make a pretty long -stay, subsisting on . love,' flap-jacks and molasses. -The most melancholy feature of tiio whole transaction has' not been related. On hearing of her departure; one of her old lovers, feeling “ that life no longer had a charm for him,” concluded to try the tur moil and strife of a military life, and may now- often be seen, in tiie still watches of the night, with wan features and dejected countenance, walking his solitary post, “with his ninsket on bis shoulder and bis bayonet by his side,” the very impersonation of despair—Iris thoughts by day and dreams by night being: Juliet, Flap-Jacks amp Bitteh-Milk. Two Views of tiie Case. Judge C , U.. S. Senator from Vermont, related to us a good anecdote tins other day, il lustrative of abolitionism. The jnorni tig he was leaving homo to enter upon hi? duties in tiie city, a straight-faced deacon, who looked upon tiie whole South as a great pandemonium, call ed upon him and said: “Now, Judge,” I want you to doall liryour power to abolish slavery I . , „ T • “Well,” said tho Judge, “how shall I pro- x»eod f - “ Oh," rdon’t know, but you must abolish it It is a damnable curso, and must be abolished. You know more about law than I da The church is my stronghold, but you understand national matters, Judge," and can devise sorne plan, and I know it” ., • * 41 The only way I'scc to abolish it, said uiq Judge, “is to.buy all tho slaves and set them free.” • • * - “Well, gain for that; have a law passed that the North shall buy them, and then this trouble will end. Vcs, go in strong for that, Judge. 1 * •* Just as you say, deacon. 1 will.agrcc to jt in k moment, and will stand mv share of tiio ex-, pense. Here is Woodstock, with throe hundred inhabitants, and tliis town would bo called on for about six hundred thousand dollars—and I will urge it before tho Senate.” The good deacon opened liis mouth, then ins eTCS allowed his tongue to escape from ono cor ner of bis face, scratched his head and tapped impatiently on the floor with his foot As the Judge was leaving the room the deacon’s pow- or of speech came to him, and lie i.died out. ••Oh say, Judge, I guess you d better let slavery .Mono; the poor black deeds; arc better off South than up here in this cold climate 1*^ There are several juft such dcacont in the e.iiii.lrv. I i a thin u ton Slate* Pin. >- "I V - — The Macon Daily Telegraph.—W© welcome to our sanctum the Macon Daily Teieffrapb, the first num ber of which was published on the first instant. That daily will live, btcanre it is £ot op in the richt way —the matter good and the printing neat. We com mend it to tho public, and wish it abundant enccezs. „ 4 Wire Qta»$ Reporter, Macon Daily Telegraph.—W© are in receipt of the first number ot the Daily Telegraph, and pronounce it worthy'at the highest encomium*. Tho editor has eustained bia general character for talent, tntr- gy and taste, heretofore displayed in the elegantly printed and well filled columns of the Weekly, and the Daily now before tu, shows that the same spirit has been infused into iu pages, £ Macon Daily was needed, and we are glad to find the editor of the Telegraph equal to the emergency. His new paper is highly creditable to that city, and we most cordially welcome it to our aanctum.—TkonuUvdle Enterprise. Macon Daily Telegraph.—Ur. Jim. Utiby, well known io tho citizens ot Florida, nomo time ago, aa editor of the Florida Sentinel, and at present, of the Macon Telegraph, was to have issned on the 1st in slant, the first copy of the Daily.Teljgraph. The en terprise has been unsuccessfully -ventured before in that city. Mr.OIisby's superior uaaaeeinent may make tee Daily a “taxed institution,” in Macon, if • u °h a thing is practicable, whicli can. hardly be doubled. Euergy. eoonomy, and ttient combined, seldom fail. To thisseetion of the oonntry, it will Itive'ihe very latest new*, at least as soon as that of any other papers now received. Terms $5,00 for one {ear.—Qaineif Republic. Macon Daely Telegraph.—Wejue in receipt of the first No. ot the Daily Teleprapli The paper pre sents a very handnoipe appearance. It contains the very latest Telegraphic news, and ’viU prove a val □able intufinm tnrnngb which our Insiness comma nity may receive late and reliable advices. We would he pleased to receive Ml daily visits. Terms 63 in advance.—CutMiert Reporter. The Daily Telegraph.—This paper" is now Burly undiy way, and presents a very next appearance.— Ttae •‘ttccalisg’- process has commenced, and we wUlaee.wliether at the eud of Anne Domini I860, there is erqu a “grease spot ” left of the, yellow- bird that now spreads itself so defiantly at tho top of tiiat establishment! We hope the proprietor will fcrew fat on ttaepatrouago afforded.—Macon Citizen. If that • •ytlloic Jiird ’ can't stand a litrle of the de pleting process, be might as Veil be a dunghill cock as an eagle. New Daily in Macon.—We havo received the first two numbers of the’ “Macon Daily Telegraphby Joseph. Clisby,and congrattalate bim upon the Sue appearance ot faisattrat ti vo and interesting sheet. We see no reason why a doily papet should not succeed in Mason, particniajjy such a paper lurthe Telegraph promises lo be. Macon has population and business enough to support one, and If she consults her best interests, she will do it.’—Savannah.Boc.'Rxpnts. Macon Daily Telegraph;— Wa have received the initial nnmbur of tlns uew joarual, and congratulate brother Giisby on its exceedingly n rat appearance, and the ability evinced in tho ediun-igf department. We heartily .welcome the Daily to otu sanctum, and hope brother C'lisby may find it a most profitable investment, lie has entrgy We know; but he will find that editing a daily newspaper is dray-bdrse la |bor. Huccess'to the Mitupfiia-itllijila intcSi •goscer. of trade and commerce, and afterwards, if nocessa ry, wiib gunpowder, the rifle, the bayonet and can non. Old England, with her vast resources, did • Daily- Telegraph.—Mr. CUsby, of the Georgia Telegraph, will lasue a daily, beginning the first day of February next, at tbe price of five dollars. We are sure the enterprise wUi meet with merited en- couragementln-rjouth-Western Georgia. Mr. Ctia- by has all the energy, industry Mid ability as a writer, and basin cm habits, to sostain a daily, if it can be done- in :Ji» shy of Macon.—South- Western News, • Bareli Convention. ■A call appears in the Democratic Platform for a meeting to send Delegates to the -March Convention. This is the only meeting .wc have noticed, called in the Fifth District A Dougins Organ iu New Orleans “The State Rights Louisianian” is the name of.n new paper just issued in New Orlans. Tho following announcement is at tiio head of its cblumns. Candidate for Presidflnt of tho Uni ted Stated"- Stephen A Douglas of Illinois. It is publishpd by J. Bayou, for many years con nected with tho press of Louisiana, and will ho Issued weekly for tho next three months, and after that will be a Daily Journal. Macon ami Brins rich Rail Road.—A meeting of Io Stockholders of -the- Mscon and- Brunswick Railroad waa held in thia city.-yeaterday. Nathan litas. Esq., was appointed Chairman,'and Arthur Dickinson, Eaq, Secretary. The President'*. Ed gineer’a, and Secretary's Reports were read. Four teen thousand aoven hundred .and fifty-one shares were represented in the meeting. The following gentlemen were elected Directors for the year I860 —tho same Board as last year: DIItKCTOKJ. ’ A. E. COCHRAN, T. K. BLOOM, II. F. ROSS. - L. N. WHITTLE, GEORGE WALKER, HENRY BUNN, JAB, T. BLAIN. To nil lire world and the rest of MANKIND. Know ye that the Board of Health of A'mcri- cus, on tho 81st of January, by the casting vote of the Chairman, passed a resolution recom mending the City Council to abolish tho pro liibitory law recently enacted against visitors from Macon. On this issue of life- and death tiie vote stood, yeas, KendricU.-AVinn and Black, Astraddle of his 3 na jc Hawkcs, Rowland, Dorman, 8. The chair votcdjn-the tiio momentous question. W c breithc easy— wc can now go to Amcricus—tho world can go to Amcricus—all can go—lets go quick. Let tho Hotels be prepared for the nnglity rush or trade and travel that will now overwhelm Atncr- icus. ‘ WJ Wtfh un. They are lr, and in the . Mate, aa they We have seen JVIiss GoiiMcnltcixn* The intelligent critic of tim Montgomery Mail, in speaking of the' close of tiie Theatrical sea son there, pays tho following high compliment tp this brilliant actress: “Jt regrets us”—ns Byron onco wrote, in af fectation of an Italian idiom—that, wc are so soon-to lose Miss Gougcnheim. J)f all the ar tiste who have visited Montgomery in these later years, none havo exhibited so much brilliancy, elegance, piquancy and versatility. In her role of light comedy, she has no equal within our knowledge; and when wc say that she is as charming as n lady off the stage, as she -is ac complished as an actress on it, wo describe a combination of worth which must comun ml her to all good people. Rich Mo.in.G vi LANTHV. .-Tho Richmond cor respondent of the- Petersburg Press states the following; Tho young gentlemen of Richmond are go ing to give Miss Memminger, tiie beautiful and hiehly accomplished daughter of the Commis sioner of the Palmetto State, a grand-ball, to- niirht, Tuesday, the 31st inst*, at the Exchange Hotel It will bo the ball of the season, as tickets arc sold to none but those who arc of the first stamp. The ladies and gentlemen of Petersburg are respectfully requested to honor us with their presence. Southern Independence. The" New York Herald has recently sent out to tho South a number of duly accredited cor respondents for (be purposo of personally inves tigating the state of feeling and affairs in this sertion. Their letters are beginning to pour in and the subjoined paragraphs from an edi torial in that paper of the 2d instant, disclose ...me of the results of their inquiries: TV KfteLoflhc Anti-.Sl*t*rj Crusade on Property ,1 2 Commerce ot the Sorth. i . ql„. •fleet of the sntl slavery cruaa.Ie of the last ,‘ty five years, which is now reachio* Jta ctal- iiniYniM5oi.it will b.- to ruin the property and eom- oftbe North. Already the work of d.-.-trnc- '■ r i h 'un The correspondence at our bpcdal Vvnort. r in North Carolina. wWch we pobliahedon 1,.' fii-im.l.-tra!* s tin- la, I. 11M i ‘ris ab'ne .-..mis 31.000,000 worth of ahoea in r ! i- .t. ani.u...lv■. t'l.: that III- 1 r.'lu.l.i.iry is. t ' > ‘ :Vih..r..-h..uldbono secession and no blows, e Th„lf il. it:.it...lint will be taken next year, nn.l tbe ' I [j , ; b - ■>. . ■ nuini-h iu 11." .- in:.- ‘ .-" "i.a,.'.I,. r there be disunion or not. The truth ■'''.I "i the s.iutn, rn M..:-.- are m.w pul upen ih-- me lie. •»'< theirprid* PH England. not frighten the Colonies, nor can the fanatics ofthe North, with their boast of c-ightci n millions of inva ders, scaro tho South into submission to tyranny. “Nprth Carolina,” says ourcorraipondent, “itdeter- mined to strike a blow at New England which will be fell, and she is able to do it. Acts ol umni-tske- able hostility may be looked for at any moment.” Southern capitalists and manufacturers, taking ad vantage ofthe times; will fan tbe flames, and estab lish nativoVaetories in every State. Cotton, wool len, iron and leather will ho wrought in every shapo and form, and the South will soon establish its iu dependence ot the North as comptetly as if a wall of brass mere bui:t up to heavt-n ou Masons and Dixon's line. New England will feel the effects of hc-r folly most; but New York and Pennsylvania will also reap the bitter frnits of the injustice to the South which is uow being perpetrated by the cuizeue.of Northern State*. We wislr we could believe all this trucutothe letter; for did no sectional quarrel exist,.it would still be tho policy of the .South to diver sify her productive labor and supply all her own wants, so far as she could do it, with econ omy. Why she lias not done it heretofore is easy enough to see. The abolitionists and free soil economists tell us it is from want of enter prise,and that physical anil mental inactivity resulting from slavery. But wc see no evidence of this mental stupor or physical inaptitude wherever tiio South has directed. Her attention. In politics sho has ever given the law to tiio re public. In Science, literature—in law, physics and. divinity, she shows greater eminence in proportion to her numbers.- And now in the mechanic arts—in tho construction and man agement of her railways, she is ahead of the Why r then, do not our people make their otrti shoes, hats, fabrics-and wares? Simply be- caust: they think they can make more money in growing cotton.- Set before am-people in the wide world a field of labor inexhaustible—cer tain, of bringing an ample reward, and.arc they going out. of it to venture upon trade ex pen uicnte and projects the results of which tire al- togethcruncertain and doubtful? Wc tell.you nay. New England would never have started a Factory, or built or manned a vessel, if. her people had before them one great certain money making pursuit like cotton growing. * Her ships—her seamen—her fisheries and her £vc- tories all sprang from her. sterile soil, and arc not tig; result of election, hut of noccssity I Now it is against a condition of things pre cisely the re verso of this that "great jfblitical and social reasons call upon tho South to diver sify-her labor and achieve, as far as possible, the great end of sectional independence? What wonder that the response should be slow ? It is a demand to take labor from where it is pay ing certainly and richly, andputltwheroitmay pay nothing. It is literally swapping a bird in hand for a bird in the busk But if the little tliat-has-been’done and the little that is doing in the South of this charac ter .is sufficient to awaken so much concern in the North, see what a powerful lever it pffords. to right ourselves politically in-tbc Union. /Stop trade with the North altogether, and what would it cost us? Inconvenience only—and a tempo rary inconvenience at that. • What would it cost the .North ? Her bread—her -life. The South is to the'North what the-country is to the town. Let the country trade stop, and the townspeople would soon eat out ono another. Let the South stop trade With Hie North a year, and the masses there wotfid become so incensed at the fanatical .leaders, who misguide them, that they would pitch them neck and heels ’in to the Ocean. Greeley and his types would find tho bottom of East River, before six months of non-intercourse were out. For the Daily Telegraph.' Letter, from, ths Country—Certain Questions- Burr and Hamilton—A Hew Hiew qIan Old Subject—A Limb of the Law in Limbo. J CotaciT, Jan, 31st, 1860. Mv Dear Sir Who wrote thcBook of Job? Have we a Bourbon .among us ? Will. Salt petre explode? -Who killed Dr. Burdell, an(l who was the. mother of Mrs. Cunningham's baby ? Is the Small Pox prevalent, or only ex istent in Macon ? . Was there a thousand cases? Is Amcricus, and Oglethorpe, and Butler, and Graball,.and the Devil’s Half Acre, and Big Sandy, in . a state of quarantine ? - I wish a categorigal reply to tho above inquiries, for tiie information of the numerous readers of your popular journal, and after a “full, complete and icrffcct” answer, then tell me^ who was Aaron hirr? Was he a bold bad .man or was he a groat and good man.' Was he a patriot or only ambitious. Was he honest, constant and truth ful, or was ho false, fickle and insincere You mity ask why all these questions as to the character of-bnc whose history and life is so well known,—whose record is open -to the examination of all tiie curious and whose name has bben a synonym for all things vile with the American people for forty, years past I will tell you why. Did you ever hear of Jcrc Clemens, of Ala? If you happetfed to be in a know nothing meet ing in the year fifty-sc v^u, you must surely loard him quoted, and be it is who while lie las failed as a .statesman,-mu succevu a» i» of letters. He has written two or three books within tho past five years, in winch he asserts his claim to a high place in tiie lists of Ameri can candidates for literary font. When last in Macon, I bpughtofBoardnian the “Rivals,” writ ten by Clemens, to beguile tho.tcdium ofmytrav- el homeward. .It is a novel founded upon events, in the lives of General Alexander Hamilton and Aaron. Burr. For a long time:—6ven be fore Parton gave us his life, I have looked upon ihc character of Aaron Burr more favorably the glowing and fervid phrase which befits so cases, a fearful picture is indeed presented, deep a passion and so sad a farewell. But this Small pox destroys its subjects in various is not all. He makes Hamilton the polluted ways: sometimes by directly poisonous influ- cliannei, through which ail the. false and slan- j cnce on the nervous system ; sometimes by dcrous reports in reference to Burr’s conduct to I convulsions, hemorrhages from tiie lungs, kid- to these young girls conveyed to the public neys or bowels; at others by the usual internal ear. lie writes him down as the spoiler of inflammations of fever. [to be omfinxn.] Fresh from the Rosy Orient. Dr. Rudolph, tho agent, with a cargo of rare, costly aucl elegant collections of Chinese, Indian, Persian, Turkish and Japanese Goods, has arrived in town, and has opened the stock at the new store Mulberry street, above Stroheckor’a Corner, and woman’s fair fame, as the wreteh wiio stoops to the lowest depths of infamy" to ruin a rival. He describes Burr as silently writhing under the painful consequences of these slanders but too proud, too haughty to vindicate liis charac ter from these shameful imputations. After the war is over, Buit and Hamilton met first as rivals at the Bar, and then on the political I nfclt door to Mrs. Dcssan" arena, and iu all the stirring incidents and stor- . We have seen these goftds as they came pat up my scenes of that eventful period, Burr is the ““' i c ' m recommend - thel ? t0 victim of Hamilton’s cunning, treachery and I and handicraft. envious venom. Stepping into the store yisterday, we felt as if we Tho book ends with a recital of tho causes were m ono of those Eastern bazaars so graphically which provoked the duel; and the wretched described by BayardTaj-lor. Scattered Ml around a-,-,1 .f nsn.titnn j, 1 V, - rf. , . | io toe ncuMt profusioft, wo saw articles for orna* of Hamilton brought forth, on a dying I men t and for use; rich tables; 'splendid scarfs; OCu, to uivulgo to 15urr, lor the. first time, the | tapestry, tabic and piano covers; magnificent long catalogue of acts of treachery and deceit, I shawls from the Pefsian looms; beautiful paintings of foul wrong and irreparable injury, by which paper, the work of the patient and ingenious Hamilton, from tho hour Burr joined the army £?,!£*“ : iTTh? c “£ ved / i l ns » “ m P h " r 1 ir 1 . , a At t J - V. trunks; and last, though not least, the toilet set, under \v ashington to the close of his military I with its mysterious charms, such as are used by the career, had followed him. The dying penitent dreamy, dark-eyed, voluptuous beauties of the relates to Burr how Hamilton, by the coinage seraglios and harems of tho Sultans of the East, of base slanders, first poisoned the ear of Wash-' n ,. To U P* tho Doctor ’ 8 8t ° re 1S . e T*. al » P 01 ?*. °, f - . . . .7. c t . . . , I attractions, to a museum of curiosities, to which ington against 111m how lie Circulated tho re-1 t^ e f oar quarters of the globe have contributed ports in regard to the reputation of the two j treasures, fair girls, which made a lunatic of one and a cyprian of the other. All -these things were , ^ *li*i t>„ w *l-a . .P - • J extensive collection of all sorts of thing#rich, rare told .to Buit, and from that moment the tem- ail(1 cur i 0 us. Talk of shopping! Tho Doctor’s ulc retribution which overtook Gen, Hamilton I sales-room is the place where you can spend a day was deliberately resolved upon. This is the pleasantly, and we have no doubt that crowds of theory ofthe book. Throughout every line, ladios will throng the store during tho week. The Burr is presented to the reader in the light of 15??,1 ' v0 “ en ' 0 X n ^ 0 i U ”^' r „ Lo r °)r mf' - J.11 a 1 1. • j* 0 am* I Doctor, for a full house! A word more. L>r. llu- a delicately sensitive, chivalrous, and punctili-1 h as licked tho Blarney Stone in his time, and ously honorable man ; while Hamilton is;rep- i s emphatically a talking man, and has been repre resented as the destroyer of female innocence sented to us as one of the liveliest and most spirited and virtue—as fin arch intriguer, who resorts | auctioneers now ifi that line of_ business. ^ He pro- We advise pur lady friends especially, not- to i neglect the oppoftnnity thus afforded to gee this as an arch intriguer, who resorts j auctioneers i .-7- I-,-,"- stroy a rival, and who contemplated tpe basest I from the - information he proposes to impart on* treachery to the American arms. Whild I ant subjects connected w.ith the sale. He brings letters ;lad to think that Burr was a better man than of introduction from highly responsible parties, and books have made him, I cannot, for a moment, J™ no d<, . Q . b , t a “ wh “ cmjta Mryms.irin a *u e au * a 4 • e- be richly repaid for the trouble. The goods will be credit the truth of the statements in reference n fo r exhibition to-day, at 11 (('clock, and the to Alexander Hamilton. You may rest Assured 1 auction sale w'fil commence at half-past two in the that the friends of General Hamilton will not afternoon, and also in the evening. Sales positive, ■permit this new version of the old story to go | »nd . n » hy bidding. All are invited to attend, uucontradictcd—and we may lpok, in a fen- days, for a spicy review of tho “Rivals,’’"from some master hand. But I have spun out this, epistle-to an un- weliome length, and must close, with a prom ise to -writo you something about Michelpt’s work on Love. I fancy that I can talk as knowingly, if not as eloquently, on that abound ing topic, as the Frenchman—for there’s not a whether they buy or not: t3P Miss Charlotte Thompson, who ii a Rrcat ta- j vorite here and in Savannah is acting in New Or- leans at the Varieties Theatre in Dickens' Cricket on the Hearth. This Savannah News says the piece | has had a run of thirty-Jivc nights, Miss Charlotte ap pearing as the principal character—Dot. 1‘nrodi’a Opcra.Toinpany.. We notice from the Augusta papers that Signora •day, nor an h’out; of the day, nor a moment of Teresa Parodi, with her Italian opera company, will the houre, as they glide swiftly on into the bo- hast P M “day evenYug. The company sOmof tho hoary past, that my mind anti heart CO n>isA of thirty-live performers, comprising all do not wander to the spot— . I kinds of vocal music, accompanied by an eflicient “Where dwells" the Ladje Of my love:” orchestra. The ladies here who are such lovera of and I only wonder that, filter as my thoughts «^“^n“tab?«wfdo11?vy their are, constantly, w tih visions of eyes, neighbors "in the enjoyment of so rich a treat. We I could find time to .give- coherent thought, w ’ e ° cannot hesitate in saying she would have large for half an hour, to the • “ Rivals.” ‘Hereafter, houses here, provided" the dollar and a half admis- it shall bo my effort to banish from the realm sion- did not scare those, who, although they have of fancy, these airy castles, and practice the I jrteat fondness for music, have no ita of Tieing precept gfren by tho grcat'Sir William Jones Jj^^ktag girYwho repiifll all through the tO'Sir Edward Coke: . - I south, wherever ah© went, like it school boy with ’ “ Six houre in sleep—in Law’s great study, six; I his declamation, that-she “dreamt that she dwelt in Four, upend In prayer—the rest on Nature fix.’’ marble halls,” and pocketed their two dollars for the Yours, SOUTH. I dream and a soug trom * man looking like a bull P. S.—Do not forget the. symposium on the | frog—the whole performance lasting about an tour. 22d inst • “ Stall ” Against tho Field. We find the following announcement in the Charleston Mercury. We suppose that tho friends of Mr. Elliott intend to go through this heat, “hit or miss:” £5?” Mb. Editor: Please announce that the friends of CoL George P. Elliott, of Prince Wil liam’s Parish, will run him as a candidate for Congress in tho Third District, and will yield his claims to no other candidate whatever. Southern University. Wc arc in receipt of the address of tho Board of Trustees of tho -University of tho South to tiio Southern Dioceses in reference to tho choice of Scwanec as a site for tiie University. The address is signed by Bishops Eliott and Polk, Rev. Mr. Gregg, Geo. R. Fairbanks, Esq., and John A. Calhoun, Esq. The address contains a strong statement of the rchsons which induced tho selection of So wanec as the site, and calls upon" the Southern people to rally to its support It is not intended to be sectarian though under the management of the Episcopal Church. We hope to see the University a fixed fact. The Colored Pofclatiox is the South,—A writer in a Nashville paper has compiled theproba ble number of free colored persons now in the slave States, which is about CG5,000, distributed as fol. lows: Maryland, £0,000; Virginia, 00,000; North Caro 1 liua, 30,000; Delaware, go,000 ; Louisiana, 20,000 Kentucky, i:,000; District of Columbia, 11,000 South Carolina, 111,uuo ; Tennessee, r.l'OU ; Georgia 3,000; Mississippi, 3,000 - * -iono. Vi—to. 1,200; Missouri,-t,' boo. Alabama, 3,000; Florida, 1,200; Texas, 1,000 ; Arkansas, 1 G?” Many persons hero are aware that awhile Small Pox, Vaccination, Ac.—No. 1. I “»'■ Stopped here a short ti.no.ago.and beinmshort — . cm i . | of money, offered for sale a negro man at such alow Bailor 0/ Jclegiapn.. . I price that it aroused the suspicions'of Deputy Mar- Dear Bib:—As the public: mind seems tp be I .hall Lawreuce and policeman Hartley, who nabbed Be briefly reviewed, for popular use, tho prom- j i n g"her to know it she liad last a negro, she replied, fnent features of theso and some kindred mat- I giving a description of the negro lodged in jail in tors. „ I Macon. Ou Mouday. two" weeks since, au officer . SMALL POX—ITS HISTORY. I carried tho negro aud Blackwell the white man, both Although it is believed that small pox was- ohaineiftogether, back to Loaehapoka, where lSlaefc- known to°the Chinese and other Eas ern na- " ™ ^ ‘° ^ hUP °“° r tions, long before the Christian era, the first w^wish he had been guilty of this in SouthOero- positivc"notice of it that we have in history oc- l tins, where they hang aft sueh scoundrels for such curs in the Arabian writers of the sixth centu- uffeuces. Alabama, we iro sure, will not let him off ry, where we read, in their descriptions of the “ he w,u be t0 make the WI>erl " EAstcrn courts, of caliphs and caliphs' daugh- muU " S1U - - , ters whose faces were pitted by this discAse. fn i^u.srip. nsfsshis the same century, it was spread over the East We find the February number of Russell’s Maga- by the armies ofthe Saracenic conquerors, and nine, Cbarlestou, S.C.; on bur table this morning, and also appeared in Europe, where some of tho h » vu hardly time to notice the contentsCharity. French Kings died of it, and a Queen of Bur- who, feeling her dissolution near, from I tiuuert. Matters and Tilings in General, (a capital ar- this cause, accused her two physicians of Iiav- I tide) Tho Twins of tho Hotel t’prnc-ille, continued, ing poisoned her, and requested their cxecu- I Lines. A Woman’s No. Tho Editor’s Table furnish, tion, which, was carried into effect, over her 65 » Resume of_ the pamphlet La Pape et^hi eougra, vnc.iif i a I recently published in i J aris f and which has created tomb a ill. agreeable result Of Professional at- | such a sensation in political circles all over Europe. * ‘ ~ on the Bacon. than most Americans—I have thought tint full ^ ^ „„ an i -— L , 'Y". h: ,T:r: - «i>” s..,,,,...r..... N«r,», .1.,,,^,,, ';^,r.:,: h ti.r:^r: Iinnan tribes nave been totally* annihilated hv I - u >nnnn<«H to Hava nMm. tbrov at tin » hie** fi-Atfc ol e'Jl- ironld brt a of all the sift' i carer corn et. The ■ according to tho As the . ofthe R II d id m l’robaldy 7J*; id tin to the enormous sum aid. nluo at $‘00 aaent wowu of 9&tftC9fiOO.--&to Lmris Her- iif In them t „ 4I lt w for their itfrintife. It ia like the British taxed tea into Boston harbor of the first revolution; »od the umver-. riodinv which there was to drink none of , j-nthar than receive it from England. r '^itriolic m ntimci)t*> j»nmptcd our Kero- lutber, to rejcH-uin thephuuest gurhmade ratio r the tllic of English me in tin ii.ufa lithe! The uth rega ia New England, at this moment, •am© ji|»ht that New England re* vt . r y ® n S d “*EDgfaiid about thu year 1775". The gnrdeU y w ^ • 1(J ^ lts ©n—j and op- !l “ detoruiiued to fight it first in a wsr services as a soldier in the Revolution. - I liave thought that General Washington was poison ed against him by evil disposed or more proba bly jealous and envious minds I never believ ed that one who loved liis wife and daughter as Burr loved his wife and daughter, could be the grant lecher bo Iias been described. And as to his duel with "Hamilton—he was the aggriev ed party. Gen.' ■> Hamilton was insincere to Burr, was unjust to'him and if tho oodo was right—why Burr was not rightly "censured.— My reading taught 111c that Burr was feared at homcA-he was the rising Democrat of the North and -this fact brought upon him tiie fierce hatred and malice of a horde of Virginia politicians, the admirers and placemen of Air. Jefferson.— He had killed tho deader of tiie Federalists,-lie had dared to oppose the apostle of liberty—the unfortunate result of tiie duel with Hamilton excited to its highest pitch the fury ofthe Fed eralists, and tiie Virginia clique of politicians then dominant in the dominant Democracy, took advantage of this popular outbreak of feel ing, and with the Federalists combined to ac complish his downfall. They frmnpcd up all sorts of reports, and circulated tiie most vil lainous lies about him. If Burr had lived in our day, his Western expedition would liave made him a hero instead of an outcast lie would havo been courted and foted, and crouds would have followed him—the loud huzzas of ■tiie fiery filibusters would have made jus march a triumph. However, with all this kindly and perhaps toorcharitable estimate of Burr’s fail ings. I was riot prepared to entirely change the picture fiction, and paint Burr the hero, Hamil ton the traitor, but so it is. In this curious book in which there'aro many fine passages, full of eloquent invective, rare antithesis and brilliant metaphor. The author portrays the character of Burr in a new light. 1 le makes him every fneh a soldier the Chevalier Bayard of the Revolution; he recounts liis exploits in Canada—his effective service in-tiic retreat from Long Island—liis unwavering fidelity and devotion to the Patriot cause in tiie darkest, dreariest and most hope less days of tiie contest All tliis was known' and acknowledged—hut more than tliis is done —the author denies, in the language of tiie se verest denunciation, the story of Burr’s amours with Mis> Clifton and Miss M-merit tie. He states that so far from making an impure suggestion or being guilty of dishonorable conduct to eith er, lie was the friend and protector of the first, and the pure, devoted and passionate lover of tbe last, and that but for the violent interven tion of her father, Major Moncrieffe, an officer in the British army, and his own conscientious rtiples as to the propriety of contracting mar- :ige with the daughter of a man who looked upon him as a traitor, she would have become liis wife. The author describes the parting interview between Burr and Miss Moncneffo in piraple. first occurs among tbe monkiso chton- l iclcrs of the ninth ccntuiy those old monks I of ourreUilers. Subscription 33.00 per annum. Ad- who, in their dark and silent cells, kept alive dress Russell's Magazine, Charleston, S. C. during tho middle ages the faint and flickering _ -. . " 7~~. ‘ taper of scientific knowledge and classical lite- rature. For this tho world ones them an eter- Tobesofka creek. Tho Express Messenger,finding nal obligation. After tins time, small pox be- I usu for a lamp, (ho lmd lost liis own on his way from temper occurred, m various parts of Hurope t I u^. Upon attempting to return to his car, he and, in one year—1727—two thousand persons I found [it so full of smoke that ho could not enter, died in Paris, from this cause alone. The Conductor .tried to signal with tho Engineer; The next S^tTb^fi^ol^X^^^ao small* pox’ is its introduction into Mexico by near No. 1 station, and were brought up against the tbe Spaniards, in 1527, fcom whence it spread, tank, which, unfortunately, held but little, water, with fearful virulence, over tho entire Amen- An nxb was obtained, tho car cut into, wherethe can continent, destroying unnumbered thou- I 8afe was, and B fdl upon the ground.red hot. Thus m e *1 a- -» ?--« ° Ti , was the only thing saved. All tho fruit and fish Rands of the abon 0 inal races. It may bo re- t j,e through baggage, numbering aboutis- marked, here, that the disease seems to bo far I trunks, and $360 in money, were'destroyed. The more fatal and malignant in the colored races safe contained over.$150,000, in notes aud specie, than in the white, but most destructive of all The former were crisped, though not so badly in Tho following is taken from tiie Alcntgomcry Mait - Death of . Nathaniel Barker Esq.—We learn by private letter from Knoxville, Tenn., that our late townsman, N. Barker, Esq, died at that place, the 22d ult, in the fifty-eighth year of lis age. Mr. Barker was a native of Massachusetts, but nearly the wliolc_ of his manhood was pas sed in Georgia and" AlbamA He resided in Ma- •con, Ga, many years, and removed to this city sotrie .eight years since, whence he removed to Knoxville -a few months ago. His surviving family and friends havo our sympathy. Georgia papers please copy. A girl out West having professed religion was so extremely happy that she was afterward heard singing at the top of her voice that old hymn, “The love of God is coming down,” &c. Nothing stops her from singing this song. One day old Jowler, the house dog, came in while she was singing and helped himself to a piece of meat that was on the table. Polly -observ ing the movement of Jowler, continuing her fa vorite song said,: “If you don’t go out I’ll knock you down, Halle, Hallelujah, -You nasty, sneaking, lup-eared hound, O, glory Hallelujah-” .The following Telegram was received too late for publication in our last: ' „ New Oreans, Feb. 6. Two thousand five hundred and fifty bales of'Cotton sold this day. We note an improv ed demand at unchanged quotations. Ex tremes 9 to 11 J. Cotton received fo-day 3,873 bales. Exported 5,248. On hand 76,187.— Freights by steamer to New York 7-16& ; by sail f. Adqusta, Feb. 7 ZCobilo & New Orleans Markets. Mobile, Feb. C.—7,000 ’bales Cotton sold to-day. Middling quoted at 10|c. New Orleans, Feb. G.—Cotton Cnnatl05_-8 to Me. for Middling. Saloe -of the day 7,C§0 bales. Corn buoyant , Terrible Affray in Burko County. Acgusta, Feb. 7. Yesterday in Wayncsborough John W. Walker shot John Owens dead. The Sheriff of the couniy in attempting to arrest Walker shot him dead," wounding Walker's wife and child. Washington City, Feb 7,1860. Dr. William Boyd.'convicted of stealing two slaves, was tin's day sentenced to fourteen years imprisonmant in tiie Penitentiary, Washington City, Feb. 7.—The Senate has been occupied nearly all the session in dis cussing the Franking clause in the Postal bill The bill will be brought up again to-morrow. Contractors are occupied this afternoon in circulating a petition asking for speedy action. * Capture of a Slarcr. - •* New York City, Feb. 7th, 1860. The slaver, bark Orion arrived here to-day. Sho was seized by the British and delivered to the American steamer Mystic. The captain was imprisoned at St Helena. She had up wards of a thousand negroes on board. COTTON MARKET, New York, Feb. 7th, 1860. Sales' of Cotton to-day amounted to 1000 bales. The markcLcloscd dull. Charleston, Feb. 7th, 1860. 1,500 bales were sold to-day. Market dc- Savannah, p'eo. v. Sales to-day reached 2,375 bales, and market firm. Augusta, Feb. 7. 2,000 bales sold to-day. The' prices were easier but tho quotations unchanged. Indian tribes havo been totally annihilated by- I sengcr left the car, and it is supposed to have otigi- .this pestilence. Smallpox is constantly-pres- nated from it. S2,500 will, perhaps, cover the whole ent in Boston, Philadelphia, and New" York, loss. No blame is attached to the Messenger. and from tho latter place was recently" intro- . • *»* : duccd into tho city of Macon. Tiie Weatiieb.—The streets, for the last two sr-TTs-p is sw IT T mvi days, have been drenched .with rain, and the mud WHAT IS SMALL rox 7 ii abominable. The ladies havo been caged like Tliis question may, perhaps, best be answered birds. Wp law nothing' yesterday but umbrellas in the language of l)r. James Copland, who, in floating along, and heard nothing but the rain pour- liis dictionary," says that "Small pox is the pro- ing from the gutters or pattering against the win- duel anil ts proa f . .? - poison, or J w hole creation the lines. From an. examination of miasm, tchich, ajler a period, develops Jeter, th© figures noted by tho thermometer, it followed by an eruption on the -surface of the I seen the weather has moderated. In M bodv, passing through the stages of pimple Craffirt drugstore on Cherry stseet, the Zah, ihc marked were: « degrees at 9 A. M, M d( miasm, which, after a period, develops fever, the figures noted by tiio thermometer, it will be i * ■*— ^" — 1 mmAh p--| — J —* J In Menard & e. numbers —■** / Y. 7e.es7,. the, Jim- *1 "* ''» l marked were: 01 degrees ai » jy. iu., a* degrees-at vesicle, pustule, and scab, the disease running 2 p # *j. f an j 53 degrees at G P. M. Blow ye winds a determinate course, leaving marks in <Ae and" drivo the clouds away! seats, of eruption, and removing from the con- * : dilution the susceptibility of another attack." I . MAGISTRATE'S COURT. Small pox, in its unmodified form, is ono of Ed. Bowe and Henry Crawford were brought the most dangerous aud malignant affections up for trial this morning, bcfore^tlie Magistrate’s ol the human frame: of lCGOjiersons admitted Court Henry Wood and-JohuTEUis, present— into the small pox hospital In London,-during I Upon examination, nothing was found against Ed- thc ten years from 1841 to 1850, there died ward Bpwe, so ho was discharged. _ Henry Craw- 604 being 36 per cent., or ovor one-third. A ford bound over to the Superior Court in a fearful mortality, but fully sustained by the I bontl “J 1 remanded to jail in case of fail- history of the few cases fliat liave recently * ht® 10 obtain bad. occurred in Macori. It is one of tiio most eontagiops diseases known to man, very few persons escaping it after a thorough exposure, unless protected by a previous 'attack, or by- vaccination. Much has been said and written about the distance to which the small pox contagion We*publish an introductory article to a scries on the Small Pox. It will be found unusually in teresting. Mibb Cc Sensation Hunter of Virgi iclcucr . . Tho New York Herald in a leader on‘the nominee extends, but there is every reason to believe I of the Charleston Convention expresses the opinion that the infectious influence does-not extend to that Mr. Hunter, of Virginia, will be the unfortunate a very great distance—perhaps not more than I “individual.' a few feet—and that to contract the distemper, tiio unprotected subject must come near enough to inhale the exhalations from the person, clothing, bedding or excretions of the sick. Instances of contagion are reported, and, no loubt, honestly, at a much greater distance than this—even several hundred feet, but an lenient of doubt enters into these eases, as the ndividoal may liave unconsciously come within inhaling distance of ono or other of the before- mentioned media of communication. All that s known of the cases that have recently ap- ty Democratic MTcetiug. At a meeting of tbe ^Democratic "party of Bibb County,held in this city, at tho Court House, on the 7th inst,, for the purposu of selecting delegates to tho State Convention to he held in Millt-dgevillo on tiie 1 -1th of March, to appoint delegates to the Char leston Conventiod. On motion,T. R. Bloom was called to the Chair and \V. C. M. Dunson wa's requested to act as Secre tary. The following resolutions were introduced by F. S. Bloom, and after much discussion were pdopt- d by a large majority : Re idocu. That, P, Tracy, O. A. Loehrane, Joel It. Grilliu, T. It. Bloom and L N. Whittle bo and are legates to represent the County mention to be held in Milledge- for the period w hen the pus- I v0to.ontli*Mlh ofMarehnext. 1 • . * - 1 Rewind, That <-ur delegates vote to ratify the pro ceedings of tile State Democratic Convention, held "Congressional. Washington* Feb. 8. In tiie Senate to-day, a Memorial was pre sented from the mail contractors, asking iin ■mediate relief of Congress. The Postal bill was discussed but no definite action had upon it In the House Defrces’ of Illinois was nomina ted for Printer by the Republicans. . Yesterday, the President sent a message to the Senate, giving his reasons for not signing the bill for improving tbe mouths of the Missis sippi River. New York, Feb. 8. Drayton, Agent ofthe Havre Line of packets is dead. Tho. Whigs of this City havo appoin ted live delegates to the- Opposition convention in.Richmond. A Significant Joke. Tho Philadelphia Ledger lias, in its regular advertising columns, the following notice, which illustrates, perhaps, even better than serious as severation, the aggravations of Northern" house keepers, and the daily growing difficulties at tending tho procurement of menial labor.- It is the state of facts illustrated in this joke which drew from Dr. Lord the hint that, event ually, the Nortn herself would bo clamoring for a compulsory labor essentially identical in char acter with the slave system of the South: Wanted. — A woman, in respectable circum stances, living in the West End, anil who can-give the best of references as to character, wishes tc en gage a lady to do washing and ironing for herself, husband, aud six children. If the family is found to be too numerous, some of the children will be scat out to board. In order to make tbe duties of the situation as essy as possible, a lady of inferior quality will be engaged to do the heavy part of tho washing, and a colored gentleman will bo in attend ance to do any work that may bo considered unbe coming in a lady—such as blacking boots, washing door steps, scrubbing floors, cleaning knives and dishes, making fires, carrying water, running er rands, and other duties of a like kind too numerous to mention. She will have the Thursday nights to herself, with full permission to use what flour, milk, butter, sugar and eggs, she may require to prepare cakes ana other dainties for tho usual 'Thursday evening jubilees. She may, also, without aslc- ing permission, supply her relatives and friends with everything from the family cupboard. A pres ent will be made her at Christmas of a silk dress and a set of jewelry, and she will have liberty at all times to go out to bails, evening parties, and cou- versationes. The advertiser never goes into her own kitchen, locks her presses, or exercises any im pertinent interference in her family affairs. Ad dress “ West End,” at the Ledger Office. From the Waynesboro’ News, Feb. 8. Lamentable Tragedy. On last Monday afternoon a most lamentable tra gedy was enacted in and near our town. Mr. John B. Owen, a respected citizen, w*s shot dead in front of his store—the ball passing through his heart—by a Mr. John Walker, a No uth Carolinian, who has ’ resided for the past year in our county. Mr. Wal ker, we hear, stood within four feet of Mr. Owen when he discharged his pistol, which was a Colt's repeater; he made two attempts—tho first time his pistol snapped, or missed fire—the second was more unfortunate. Mr. W. left for his home, about two miles distant, immediately after the occurrence, whither he was ursued by an armed posse, with the sheriff at their lead—we mentioned armed, for the reason he was first approached by an unarmed party, to whom he refused to deliver nimself, threatening death to all. . On the arrival of theposse at his house, Mr. Walker fled to the woods, and for the time eluded the pur suit; but having returned to his house just aa the posse were leaving, he was so imprudent as to show himself—in fact, (so wehearfromseveral oftkepar- ty.) did so openly, presenting himself with a gun in his hand, daring : them to arrest him; his manner so frightened his children that they fled to the negro quarter, not very far distant; his wife seeing his danger, for the party attempted to reason with him, though giving him plainly to understand That they intended to take him dead or alive, interposed her person, and attempted to recall him within the house; throwing her off, he advanced and levelled his gun; here, in self defence, one of the party fired, followed quickly, almost immediately, by two others; unfor tunately, Mrs. Walker, in attempting to regain her husband's side, threw herself iu the way, and re ceived a shot in the hand. Mr- Walker retreated into tho house and fell dead. We wish, wo coaid here end the recital ot the melancholy affair; bat the same deathly messenger that bad citlled an er ring parent to his Master’s throne, wounded the loving wife and mother, and likewise summoned one of their innocent babes. . ■ The little child had returned withont having been perceived, the shot that struck .down the unfortu nate innocent, had entered at the door, paasing quite through the house. We accompanied theatteuding physician ; but just here let us pay a deserving trib ute to that sex whom many of ours are too apt to speak of only in disparagement; here, with that de votion peculiar to it alone, when danger—death threatened the object of her love, and that object with hands but jnst imbrued in the blood of a fellow mortal; who, when she heard the stem voices ofthe armed officers of justice, iu accents not to be mis taken, warning her of the danger she was then in caring, in clinging to a man who was thus approach ing them with such desperate intent; who, yet-with a still fonder devotion, clang to guard him, whom, until then, she, herself had been accustomed to look up to for protection; but the child—we leant over its couch of suffering, and in very sympathy watch ed each painful gasp, until the innermost fountains of our heart were touched, and all unknowingly a tear fell upon its pale cheek; of necessity we turn ed away. Poor, tender babe, thy gentle spirit ia its purity, has ’ere this winged its flight to thy Crea tor’s throne, where e'en uow thou may st be plead ing with thy Heavenly Father, for him who cherish ed thee here below. May yon not plead in vain.— Strong men havo fallen in their prid May the A1 - mighty console and protect the bereaved mourner. We draw the veiL Sinco going to press we learn tho following far ther aud more iniuute particulars of the occurrence at the house, from the officer and posse: On approaching the dwelling of Mr. Walker, he (Walker,) came oat from the yard and defied them, and after reasoning with him on Ike propriety of surrendering to the law peaceably, and he still refu sing defiantly, it was proposed to surround him and ho lied to the woods, pursued by the posse, where they could not follow him. They had returned to his dwelling, and wave dis cussing the means to his secure his arrest, when he having returned to the house, came out with his gun in-hand, again defying th ::u; and being again im- portnnedto give up,he still defied them; aud pre senting his gun, with the d- claration: “D—n you, • if you will not fire, I will.” At this juncture, three barrels were fired from the pour, which resulted in his death. Never but once before, did any human being ever meet a violent death within our incorporate!! limits. Cotton Markets, > New York, Feb. 8. Prices, to-day, were easier, but quotations arc unchanged. • * - ■ "... Charleston, Feb. 8. Three thousand six hundred bales of cotton sold to-day, and tho market firmer than yes terday. Mobile, Feb. 7,1S60. 3,000 bales sold. Middlings 10 J. Sales of last three days 17,000. Receipts do. 17,810. New Orleans, Feb. 7. ',000 hales sold. Cotton firm at an advance of an eighth. Middlings quoted at 10} to 11}. Sales of three days 41,000 bales. Receipts 42,- 500 bales. Augusta, Feb. 8. Twelve hundred bales sold, and the market steady. peared in tliis city goes to prove that being in the same room, Or in immediate personal viein- hereby appointed ity, is necessary to'infcction. A patient in the | of Bibb, in tii maturative stage (or tiie peri tules are mattering,) presents a singular and repulsive appearance—the whole body sprinkled I ; n jiilltdgeville on theStli of Dc over with yellow blots, more thickly crowded Several speeches were mads pending tho ab together over the swollen nose ami lips, the I resolutions by Col. N. Bass, T. C Nesbit J A Nes- tumid cheeks, and the closed and enlarged eve- L^J-kr*ne?J.J. Gresham,Colt JohnB.Lamar,Wi lids, constitute a tout ensemble very well ealeu- Wilson and Capt. 7.. T. Conner, lated to disturb the nerres of a Justice of the On motion of 1. A. Nesbit, E=q-. the proceedings uprenie Court. If you add to these the livid of the meeting bu published iu the Georgia Tele features, purple blotches, and hemorrhagic I graph- T.-lt. BLOOM, Chairman, discharges, from the nostrils, mouth and other c _ M puNSON, Secretary, outlets of tho body, occurring in tho worst! Macon,Feb.7,i860. From the Angmta ConstitntionalisL Macon Kail Road Matters. Wc have been allowed to copy the annexed extract from a letter from a gentleman now in Charleston, and who has made inquiries as to the probable extent of the co-operation which can be obtained there to aid in building a rail road to Macon: “The attention of the citizens generally of Charleston has not been sufficiently directed to tiie subject The cotton men understand all the points, but capitalists do not seem to be fully informed of tiie efforts now being made in Macon, Milleugeville, Sparta and Augusta, and tho intermediate points, to press the work im mediately. The opinion is expressed, how ever, that a subscription of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars from the city, and two hundred and fifty thousand dollars or more from other interests, can he secured. The mat ter, however, should be brought directly to the consideration of the people." J’©*"* It is announced in the fashionable world that the handsome Madamo Bodisco, widow of the late Russian Ambassador, will shortly wed Capt. Scott, of the British navy. Sho attended the President’s levee Tuesday even ing, in her Court dress, valued at $C>0,000. The masses stared. Tho Jury of inquest in the Pemberton Mill catas trophe say in their verdict •‘That the direct cause of tho fall of thia !aill was the weakness and insufficiency of the-cast-iron shor ing; that tho thinness of the brick walls, and their manner of construction, the length of (pan from ono support to another beneath the lloor timber, were additional causes^ and added in ihe general demo lition of tho buildings; that, so far as actual defects in the cast-iron pillars existed, tho responsibility rests upon Albert Fnller, the former contracting agent, and foreman of tho Eagle Iron Foundry then at West Boston ; that upon Ch&s. L. Bigelow, being the architect as well as superintendent of this structure, rests all the responsibility arising from an insufficient test of said pillars, and from any and ev ery delect, weakness and insecurity apparent in and about the general construction of sahl building. The Bible in tiie Public Schools.—The ques tion of tho Bible in the Public Schools, which has for so long a time agitated the public mind, in New York, has at last been settled by the Courts against tho compulsory reading party. On tho 8d inst tho Supreme Court of that State decided that no Board of Education, School Trustee, Commissioner, Teacher, or any person holding a position under tho school law, has power, under any circumstances, to compel tho reading of the Bible, by teacher or pu pils, in the public schools of tho State. >The question was decided in a suit brought by Mr. M. J. McDon ald, against the Board of Trustees of Ward No. 5, of which he was principal, for four months salary, $500—the said Trustees having refused to pay him, on the ground that ho would not obey that by-law of the Board requiring him to make the reading of the Scriptures the opening exercise of the school. The Court decided that tho matter was plain enough, the compulsory reading of the Bible was unconsti tutional ; denied the right of any school officers"to pass such laws, ordered the return writ to ho quash ed, and the relator to be paid, and hero rests tho proceeding, as the Board of Education has resolved that the opinion of the Supreme Coart shall be Anal, without appeah This decision puts to rest a long-standing con troversy. New York and Massachusetts art-, we be lieve, tho only States in the Union, that have passed laws compelling the reading of the Bible, and they only sinco Black Republicans have been in power those States.—Atlanta Intdligt neer, 7th inst. IIoue Demand.—We are pleased to see the agent of tho Georgia Central Rail Road, ia our city on Friday last, seeking suplies of cotton fabrics to clothe tho large negro force in tho employment of that oompany. This company purchased their win ter supples in our cityla>t fall, and were so well pleased with prices and quality of good*, that they continue tho patronage. The purchase this timo was made of the Columbus Factory Mills; the appli cation to the Eagle Mills revealed the gratifying fact that orders lor their styles of goods are flowing in rapidly upon them, and demanding their utmost capacity to keep up with them. The same state of prosperity, we are happy to say, exists with tho Howard aud Grant Mills. We are certain that parties in want of good do mestic goods, can find no better article, or more rea sonable prices, than our manufacturers are ready and willing U) offer.—Columbus Sun. Imports of Dry Goods. The imports of dry goods at Xew York, for the last four weeks, were larger by upwards of one million dollars than the aggregate for uny previous January in the history of the trade-— The largest previous total was in January, I*->0. The total for the four weeks amounts to $11,- 770,003, against $10,370,007. The Journal of Commerce says there is no overstock of goods, as might be inferred from this statement, inas much, as the withdrawals from warehouse du ring the month have exceeded the entries, prov ing that the imports are needed for immediate consumption.