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SIMBG^'IELEGRAPE rciuantD evert AKTtRVOO.V, at s, p. m. 1 Mord to Itoys. hu „ w .-Boys, did you ever think 0 <*L5“ orld. with »ll it. wealth and woe, 0 iSl-T and mountains. It. oceans, leu. shipping. it. steamboat*. rail- • ... yoU< resembled in school ^^•-KX l J.7 aem . on both aides of the RtoKf“Sift •■>"-<» ?p«» y°“ r p ! * to»“ttr upou it* poasea- Cm«. » nd gureroorai statesmen. n** W **S.E«A"« ( 'h* r »,»*n of tb« future, U>h*w tmaWf'J’ Jik.yo.rt. cannot reach the »p nn which “>®y SSfffimuvr tU monosyllable. of. their «S*““RKid»I®«ctW»IIyourpart. Be- Kj”b‘,rt. Readonlywhat iaiiwtructing. .iih novel. Nudy .cjeace and gov- F .-Tho history “f th“ world- Study ««ri. r mechanism- Become as ne.rly *a Ros- P‘ ■, in the occupation you may chonae. 17 ‘ ,„d »ell control. Ilavoueeiaton of ItrTJ,Bible for your guide. Become Krtkit. teaching*. *nd obser.elhem geek rlieneie-rity from jour He.TenWh.ther. r*!T;i« n.Mire. in bodily strength, and in hiTi. piety. i» intelligence, in caution, in Loirmne*. and in Charily. Aspire to be character. Ke.olveto be saeftd, |*?o JOB will be happy. Cherish the feel- IT', iwtre born t» receive good and to do lliaudy in spirit undin act.—JW*’s Evan- (■ood .\rw* for Macon. »it* m below from the Newnen Benner. : more surprised then pleased to leifn it* which this all important enterprise For the Daily Telegraph. Do You Remember tho Tirst Timo You Kissed lUo ?’’ Yes, lore, I do remember well. When we were )a»t together: Fersuadcd by some magic spell. We, blushing, told each other: Told how, within our bosoms hid, . * Deep hid in native ore, ® Love lay so rich that Fear forbid To own the precious store. *Twas midnight, that last hour when Wo felt that we must part: And soon as all had left us—then The beating of my heart •Betrayed where someone lingered yet To whom tho last good-bye Was dne; and oh, tho sacred debt * * Was paid in many n sigh. I boldly kissed your blushing cheek; • Yofi said ’twas bold. Indeed—. ** But. then, true lovo will never seek To justify the deed.” The mischief done, the contract scaled— 'TwartlnnaiiOBtu M UOl, What every, beating pulse revealod. How much wc loved—how well I And now the time I. coming. Let’, talk it o'.r and o'er— When “ Few," Itsclf,-wi!I grant the boon To “own' 1 that “prccioua .tore." Bat, then, a anrer i WUl render Hope, ltn-ir, assured. And consecrate the flame. L raadi in cnatomplation none .can com Lurtiridin and Kortb Alabama Railroad, b-relit, and) increufl ol prosperity, - wapielion will secure to Macon. Open L uj lb. rich, populous and productive ' Mcrriwetlier, Troup, Coweta, Heard, L; ud Cut'll, «» Georg'®- and the equally C,—— „f Benton, fit. ckir, Chamber*, [ rb*r,Are. Coo*, and Tallpona. in Alaba- ' L m ,de ttibnt.rv to the enterprise and t,’ From this extensive region we ■ , to eomovrcial associations. Muntgom- RYad Usrange. Se.nan and Atlanta. in our KUviaf the taioepiy. I» ‘h® * US it pr.su aw that My «»• hundred thona- ». n „t Cotton ate msde an<l y®J Macon, (al Efia the direct line to the ocean.) by reuenof Ei itiea .Horded by outlet, to the Gulf on the | «4 iUUrot.4. trading to Chatlcaton. L shot V..m •» advantages to bo derived from thi* RySteSff-J *•'«>» Orlffin to fcJn thru el tend it to ^.liville. Ala., and we Sr prepared t< compete with all rivals on equal K \\V bone to see tbe road opened • the earlier T, Joe, and beJiere it will pay good cividends [jioct bidder.- If, aed .Vorti Alabama Railroad.—The pros- Iieaw for an aarly completion of the above L g„J from tlriflin in this point On last En > lumber of coutraeti were let out on thi. A It ties. Contractor, are preparing to com- L.twttionaat as early n day aa possible—anU r ; tmrrt we bave no doubt of being nble ►t that tbo entire line from Griffin to New- by laborer., and that the work aoea I Tie Board of Directors, seconded by ■nf"- labors of Col. Douglas, the Chief ulkuenergetio Corot, have aceomjtlish- b.ttwT ebort time. Confidence in the en- .Uid -rt and all the appointment* eon- mast unab.ted, and the time it not dis- harbeith. past movements of thane who t J :.:r.,»,wlii n tbe Griffin and North Ala- t>*Jwill be among the things that ana, »iron track will be conveyed the wealth uou of empires. So mote it bn. fltatt is a Fix.—The following aneedoto n Nnnds, and we have no- donbt i. true, tut however, are said to be generally {vataitM, learning other language, than letskfieat quickness and facility: hi- Kivm, of Virginia, our late Minister to > r n.Vd for the first time a levee at the .(•tit, be was accompanied by the English >», ud when he was about to be left by eu he felt embarrassed bvM* inability French language. The English Minia- tr, relieved him by informing him that : d,aiiter understood English, and then ! lim to that functionary. After the : introduction, tile Kusaian Minister ad ft- ]| with "Partes rout Prancqit, Mon l*r*prr," replied Mr M., and then said, »pe»k English, Sir f "A echmall," re- tie. woo a ,e t-satisfied air.. Mr. M stood a Mr Fnnlkui-r knows still leas of French kr Mason did. \l v« pn,Viable that when pH Kagrale \C Via speaks tbe language, he will t puis Utkorp, co lor maf gatec." torinccratic Bleeting in Decatur. Ifillowlngrrsolulions Hero, passed by the hsts of Decatur on Tuesday last: l;o/,Thst sre approve of. a:id hereby endorse, iu.tf the Convention of tbe Fth of Decern- :1st we send no delegates to the proposed ptavMtion. r HTbat tre believe tho undoing by'th. stratum, of what was done by tho Decern- '*>“» can only result in diauter to the par- ' ■>would be united, and that we do pot wish iriual in bringing about any aucb state The Pleasures of Knowledge. •‘How charming la divine philosophy! - Not harsh and crabbed, ns dull fouls suppose, 'But musical aa is Apollo’s lute, . And a perpetual feast of ncctarcd tweets. Where no crude surfeit reigns.” Sd sung Milton two centuries ago, and long before that dato Plato had announced that ‘.‘the world is God’s epistle to mankind.” It is the grand hook in which all may read, and whose pages aro so full of varied interest and genial knowledge that. tl\c being who, having the pow er, neglects to study it, surely may be written down an aSs, for ho deprives himself of an en joyment such ns no other pursuit can give. Wo-arc sometimes inclined to he vexed with our race when we find them all toiling after every vain fancy, some bent upon one ambition, some another, and hut a minority digging in Statistic!: of Population. ( The directors of the Statistical Bureau of Berlin furnish the following curious statement: Tito population of the whole earth is esti mated to be 1,2>^,000,000, viz.: Europe. 271,000,000. Asia, 755,000,000, Africa, 200,000,000. Anfcrica, 59,000,000. . • Australia, 2,000,000. The population of .Europe is thus distrib uted : Russia, 02,000,000. Austrian States, 30,398,020. • France, 35,039,354. . Great Brilnin and Ireland, 27,488,859. Prussia, 17,089,400. Turkey, 18,740,000. Spain, 15,518,000. The two Sicilies, 8,515,922. • Sweden and Norway, 5,072,820. . Sardinia, 4,970,034! Belgium, 4,007,000. • , Bavaria, 4,547,239. • The Netherlands. 3.487,017. Portugal, 3,741,199. The Papal States, 3,100,0C0. Switzerland, 2,494,500. - Denmark, 2,408,408. In Asia, the population is thus distributed: Chinese Empire, 400,000,000. Tho Ea'st Indies, 171,000,000. Tho Indian Archipelago^ 80,000,000. Japan, 35,000,000. Ilindpostan, 15,000,000.- Asiatic Turkey, 15,000,000. In America, the population is thus distrib uted: United States, 23,101,870. Brazil, 6,687,800. Mexico, 7,6G1,520. tho deep mine of nature for the grandest of all dren - " B ®t wnat next 1 The present scarcity will nAooiuii-iAitn Tmsfl* /ImsiIsuI sk.s :t> i J •_ torn tll6 wholn r*onFttrv in'nn the new tTtat we have eonfidenee in the abilii > of tboee delegates already electi t.ified with them, are willing to * 'aihtir hands. 5Z *t drrsts—Tho Hlchmond Dispatch [t «v Uotidsy Issf, Dr. IVtn. Croxtun, a fvpat citizen of Essex county, Va., had • v rarrect a servant woman for somo ! til s« ia a mild and gentle manner, vtrtd a negro man, who vowed to have f* »t the t me gave bis master no in- * •'.hi* intention. On Wednoaday last, tho servant* wa* engaged in grinding 1 uft. Or. Croxton walked to where he f *FiW looking on, without suspecting y.thtWr servant stepped behind him, gave !*■* »s.v spun the back of the head, which r*htbaground.and then dispatched him. L'., 4l ‘K<' a him behind tbe,barn, and, P*"».(lived h s body on it and bnrned it. !«■«’. vho skirt*of tho saddle upon hit |"tu.ud then turned the hone loose, ex- ETimpression that bn had been L' : mad and murdered. When thu L . hi* trienda instituted .i sonre*- E», ***.?''• <*f ashe* near tbe hoik ■ Fdii<r ,U ** hi* finger* and a portion N«f.u Thamuidec ha* caused great E? nvlgUburhood in which it C «f*M* Duptltk, Wk intt. r d •' ew * Iroui Louisinun. P^fiwfislnwlig which we clip from tho 'f?-'ttcricau ■memben of both Ke t^vi^! U “^ hegiaiature. held at Baton Ck!v_° all -, tbe following resolution was l* Y^»»tor Salomon: E. * ! 1,19 Secretary oT thi* meeting bs K -: Tin the Demorratio members of *•; »“» in esneus ia tbe capitol, that _ vlvis to unite with them in iivatain- of live Charleston convention. K’' *«“Pt«d by ayes seventeen, noes seven, Irfe^ Laiclaw, Patterson, Saio- IJndtay, Kearney, Beggs, Bant, K^Ofagioel. Theird, De^is, An- Bartlett, Jacques*. Fi*b, Lane of he. Usatinel, Cage. fv IIxakT.—Tho diltinguiahsd ■; latrick lli-nry had five sister*. Jane I 'htitti.n, Lucy Wood. 8u-an Modi- • The last mentioned Udy Pta?“*hcrof the Hon. Wm. C. Preston, l^**- William Henry was hi* only * ««her was Sarah Winston. His b.- ^.'hnrj, of Aberdeen, Scotland ; was Jane Bobertson, sister of KT3*».tbe HUtorisn. lb aj 1 enr,9 ct. Lord Brougham (descend- Ita-.A?* 0 ®®- h nsarlv related to Patrick Two such orators, from the l 'l Xa he found In all history. —An eminent phy- ' or ^ got on board one of tho \/* w ^*7* ** nce - In jq ~_h*dics *nd gentlemen, there is a lx, * foment the car was stopped, ktZ^ trs .,5«l, all but one, and she a -I* 10 doctor asked her so > * n< I he beheld a most lb nu r 11 * foul and dangerous disor- [> g.-T' w ** on her way to the hos- I was on the outside. L lt ~-A Scotch statute of 122 28 read or d*tnt that during the bl «'t MagesUe, ilk forth a maiden ladyo of ii ! *n»nd, vf**' 1 * sb4 d hse liberty to b||k , c nltes; albyit, if he refuses N,* *!*1 he shall bo mulcted V (£1) cr less as bis es- awig if he can make it wl Weed to ans woman, tliat possessions—Truth. Granted that its gold is not yellow, nor its silver white, for its treasures have not the color of material wealth, but they aro as glorious and beauteous as the sparkle of the diamond and as enduring as the hills. Sci ence clothes not her votaries in purple and fine linen, but dresses them in lovely flowers or in iridescent shells, and gives as her reward a con tented mind and a pure souL The poetry of science sometimes flashes in tho oration of h pro fessor or in the pages of a book, but her truest epic is written upon all materiality, which pro claims that in all things there is a law which, when known and applied, shall mako roan hap pier, better and more truiy human. By the investigation of tho laws which gov ern the objects that arc all around us, the mo tions of tho planets, the relations of life and health, the destiny of man, and the glory of the Deity, are better understood; and the lighting of a cottage, the building of a palace, or the cooking of a dinner are better performed. . We can never be in any position in which knowl edge is not of value to ns, and wo can never prophecy tho moment at which wc may most require it Indeed many, of ns only know that there is more jo be known than occurs to us in. the daily round of business life, by.thc discove ry that something w e do not know is calculated to make us richer or give us more case. “But^ 1 exclaims many a petulant person, “how shall I study without an instructor, or how investigate without apparatus?" Foolish notions! the best workman always uses the simplest tools. Have you eyes, cars, nose and hands? Jhcn you arc provided with apparatus, and memory is the tab let on which to write down your impressions. Each one of us is better furnished than acollegc laboratory or a professor’s lecture room, and all that we have to do is to learn the use of our ap paratus ; and there is no -placo in the universe where man cannot find some object to interest, some study to pursue. Goldsmith found time to observe nature and record his thoughts, and in glowing fanguage he tells us that “the blush ing beauties of the rose, the modest blue of the violet,’’ are not in the flowers themselves, but in the light which adorns them. Odor, softness, and beauty of figures are their own, but it is light alone that dresses them up in their'robes, which shame the monarch's glory.” As a con cluding incentive to our readers to study for themselves, as well os to read book's and scien tific periodicals, wc will give a quotation from a lecture by Prince Albcrtof England. “Man,” observes this eminent savant, “is approaching a more complete fulfillment of that great and sa crcd mission which he has to perform in the world His reason being created after the image of God, he has to use it.to discover the laws by which the Almighty-govcms his creation, and, by making these laws his standard of action, to conquer nature to his use—himself being a di vine instrument Science discovers these laws of power, motion, and transformation; industry applies them to the raw material which the earth yields us in abundance, hut which becomes valuable only by knowledge.” Oh I that all would study nature more and think of themselves a little lcs3; then we should indeed boapeopleof kings, whose empire would bo the world and whose subjects would be all created things! A Great and Glarfou* Country. Read the following description of Mississippi and her people, given by some emigrant who has moved to that State, and writes to his friends. Hero it is: ••Thisis a glorious country! It lias longer riv ers, and more of them, and they are mudoier, and deeper, ami run faster, and make more noiae, rise higher, fall lower, and do more damage than nuy body else'a rivers. It has more lakes, and they are bigger, and deeper, and clearer, than those of any other country. Onr rail cars are bigger, and run .aster, and pilch off the track ottener, and kill more Dgl SP ■■■ ™ d the captains swear harder, than steamboat cap tains in any other country. Our men aro bigger, and longer, and thicker, can fight harder and faster, and drhtk more moan whisky, and chew more bad tobacco, and spit moro and spit further, and not be killed, than la any other country. Our ladies are richer.prettier, dressfiner.spendmore money.break more hearts, wear bigger hoops, shorter dresses, and kick np the devil generally, to a greater extont, than all other ladies in all other countries. Onr niggers are blacker, work harder, have thicker skulls, smell loader, and need thrashing oftener, than any nig gers in any other .State. Our children squall loud er, grow taster, get too extensive for tlu-ir pantn loons quicker, titan any other children in any other country. r _" „ Well, this is a great country. Hang a man that won’t praise his .own country. I have written you all tho nows that Is In this conntry. m ' Yours, till death, - Patents. 26,840.—Eugene Duchamp, of St. Martins ville, La., for an Improvement in Scaffolding: “I claim tho arrangement and combination with the cross-tics, F, and poles, A, of the ad justable brackets, B, and straps, C, sulstan- tinlly as and for tho purposes shown and de scribed.” [This invention is an improvement in hang ing and supporting scafTolds for builders, paint ers, carpenters, plasterers, and other work in which ladders cannot he practically employed ; so that the scaffold will he held or secured, in n m0 * a perfectly steady position, near the building which is to bo repaired, and at the same time so that the footboards can he readily adjusted to any height required, without using either ropes or nails for retaining the parts together.] 26,8-15.—Gcorgo G. Henry, of Mobile, Ala., for"ail Improvement in the Manufacture of Oil from Cotton Seed. “I claim my improvement in the treatment of cotton seed by which oil, oil cake and man ure are obtained therefrom, in the manner and bstantxally as described.” Corn—Bad Prospects Aliead. There was never a lime in cur knowlmlgo when .tho future was more Rloomyln rfgtrd to a suffi ciency of breadstuffs. Already* lrom Texas to North CrtJnlina. corn is tanging from 81 C5 to 82 00 per bushel The wheat crop of Tennessee,- the* Carolinas*.Georgia and Alabama* is absolutely de stroyed;,and the chance for oats U slim. - * What will be tho result of thi* omulitiaa of things 7 Why. by midsummer corn will be at an average of $2 00 per bushel, and in many parts there will be actual suffering from a scarcity of bread. At 82 00 her bushel even, a prosperous workman cannot feed and clothe a family of- chil- The New U. 8. Senator from California.— Gov. Latham, the new United States Senater from California, fai elected to fill the term of the Uie' Senator Broderick, which expires in 18G3, and will supersede Mr. Haun, who was appointed by the Governor of California, during a recess of the Legis lature. Mr. Latham was a member of the House of Representatives in 1853-4, and acquitted himself with much ability. He is a native of Ohio, but emigrated te Alabama in 1844 and from tbence to California.—Baltimore Sum, The Dutchman and the Rappers.—A Dutch widower, out West, whose better half departed on the long journey to the spirit land some twelve months ago* detertnined to consult the Tappers *ud endeavor to obtain a spiritual communication, feel ing anxious respecting the future state of his wife. After the usuid ceremonies* the spirit of Mrs. Haunts manifested by raps its willingness to converse with tbe disconsolate spouse. •* Is4 dat y^ou, Mrs. Hauntz ?’* asked the Dutch man. Yes, dearest, it is your own wife, who ” M You lie, you tivil of a, ghost!" interrupted Hauntz, starting from bis seat; “minofrou speak nothing but Deitch, and she never said tearestin her life. It was always • Hauntz, you thief/ •or 'Hauntz,you scamp!’" and the Dutchman hob bled from the room, well satisfied tb$t the rapping spirits were all humbug, and that Ire was safe from any further communication witlitho shre'wish frou on this earth. Robbery In^Fort Valley. * I and the whole valley a fresh-water arm of the large, and the Legislature which represented We understand that on Thursday night the sea- Were the geological character of the val. | the State. If there were democrats who have 9th insL, CapL J. T. Griffin, of Fort Yallev, on ley different, the construction of levees, confin-1 proved false to their principles, lie _could not r com crop in inrn me wnole couiitrj- Saptember, befdZe it hardens, and whatever it may be, it will he diminished one quarter by this early destruction. But that is not tbe worst yet; for the cotton mania iato prevalent that * short .crop of corn will be planted this year; and a short crop, early attacked, without aid from wheat or oats, wul speedily be so diminished as to make prices intoler- able. Then add'to this'the fact tiiat the overplant- ing of cotton (we shall make 4,600,000 bales this season, if weather prove favorable;) will reduce the price of the staple down to about 3 cents. Pat cotton at 8 cqnta and corn at 82 00 together—and what do they mean but the hardeat, the moat doleful times to all who labor for subsistence T Jlnt it is a troe pictnre. Let-any farmer ask himself if the facts are not true, and if " ... . are not inevitable f '. The scarcity bf corn and other grain will of coarse be accompanied ' Truly, the brains and _ be diverted from the making of jeotton, though it it now fatting, under tile iuflaence of over supply. Next year it will be far worse—no price for cotton, and corn Shafce and high. We predict now, that if our planters fail to plant largely of oorn this year, there will be more pecuniary embarrassment by January, 1861, than this country has known since 1837. There is only one course of safety, and that lies in small cotton fields and big cornfields! Will not some of onr intelligent planters who can see ' The results we anticipate nd other grain wili-of course anted by scarcity and high price of pork, contemplation is deplorable, but our i planters will not allow themselves to . For the Daily Telegraph. Small Pox, Vaccination, Ac.' NUMBER TWO. The liability, like the mortality to attacks of this disease, exists in all ages, being greatest in infancy and gradually diminishing with ad vancing years. It is also greater, (other things being equal) fn the dark races than in the white, but most of all in the negro. Having thus briefly noticed all in the nature and history of Smalf Pox likely to interest the non-professional public, I will as briefly allude to—— B THE MEANS OF LIMITATION. As from the rapid increase of population in our State, and the multiplication of means of transportation by steam from the ever-living fo ci of Small Pox in the large cities, and the gen eral neglect ol Vaccination, these outbreaks may be expected, not only in Macon, but in other towns, and even in the country, it may nut be improper to say a fqu- words in regard to the means of co'nfining them to as small a space as possible, and preventing the injury to public and private interests resulting- from repetition of tho wild flame recently created by the few cases of this pestilence occurring here. I would take the' liberty of suggesting the fol lowing, as among the measures likely to be use- Wednesday, at 8100!* The only other par stobks I of'this State, and has thereby forfeited the con- on the list, except the fancies-, were New Jersey It. lidencc of her people. It., at $158. 7 ... The rules were suspended to give the rosolu- PirteHtaliontr—We.congratnlate the Professom of . secon H readin- the Reform Medical College, on. the honors they 1 tl0 “ “ ^c«nu reautng have received lately, as liberality- is an evidence of ful in this way, and derived from an observa tion of the whole'Small Pox affair, as managed both by the City Council and by private indi viduals: 1st The City Couneil should have two build ings erected, or purchased in some isolated posi tion, about a hundred yards apart; one for those who already have the Small Pox, and the other, for those who have been exposed, but have os yet, no symptoms of the distemper. It is very susceptible of proof, that mixing togeth er the diseased and suspected, and forcing them to sleep in the same room, necessarily compels the Utter to have the di^emper, has cost the lives of several persons already, and will pro bably bo tho fruitful source of embarrassment and litigation .to the City. Besides - crowding together six and ^even persons in the same room must render the discash more malignant and fatal. These difficulties, though in this in stance, perhaps tho result of baste on.panic, should be obviated in future. 2d. In removing the .Small Pox patient to the pest house, nbbody should be allowed to through the next six mouths, endeavor to enlighten touch him or her or their bed clo hing, except ** f? cotton insanity l It ia of those who are thoroughly protected by a previ- tbe iast importance to the country that it should be k— n - forthwith. The month of March will deter- °us attack, of Small 1 ox, or by Vaccination.—■ * ' A violation of this .rule has been productive of an immense amount of evil, v . 3d. No attempt should bo made to’ preserve the personal or oed clothing of the Small Pox patient .About seventeen years ago, an indi vidual, whom it were slander to .call a man, from New Orleans, stopped at what was then the Central Hotel in Macon, and gave out his clothes to be washed (containing those worn by him during an attack of Small Pox). The result ofthis-was, that tho washer-woman took the disease in its most malignant form, and died of it,'and six other servants contracted the dis ease from her. As the unfbrtunate persons hav ing this disease have their effects destroyed for the public good, cojnmonjustico would seem to require (no matter what color) that they should be indemnified in full. 4 th. The guards, nurses, ic.] as a matter of course, should bo among those who are tho roughly protected in one of the before-mention ed ways. . Strange as it may seem, however, this has not been the case. In my next, I shall notice the important sub jects of Innoculation and Vaccination. Note.—The only error worth noticing in No. 1, resulted from my own negligence in correct ing the proof. It was in the reference to the mortality produced by Small Pox in Paris in mine whether or not next year Shall be one of pro*: perity, or one of universal agricultural depression and aiaaster. It is useless to think of.the present sir the past prices of cotton being sustained. By April next, good middlings will probably be down tcr9-cents. The.iocreased breadth of.land for the next crop, will insure CO per cent increase of production, with an ordinarily favorable season. How can prices range above 8 to 10 cent* with nearly a fire million crop? In conclusion, let ns say to the planters, there is nn questipn now ol so pressing an importance as the cons qncsTiox. Those who shall have to pur chase for ih-ir negroes and stock, next year, will liara to be very stout, or they will go nuder- There is barely time yet to adopt a Sub policy. In dis tributing the crops of the aeasoo: We devoutly trust that tbo planters of Montgomery county, at least, will protect themselves aaM this OMSWBadty from disasters which aro ahead.—Montgomery Hail. the Covvela Democracy. The Democrats of Coweta met at Newnan on the 7th, appointed delegates to the March Conven tion and adopted the following resolntion: Retched, That this meeting is in favor of the Hon. A. II. Stephens, of Georgia, first last and eveiy b*I lot, for the Presidency, mid the Hon, Daniel 8. Di inson, of New York, for the Vice-Presidency. Jick- Iaiinipkiii Democracy. Tbe Democracy of Lnmpkin Co., me at Dahlnne- a via «]*• Mdli J«n., •ppniaila.il tLlfrffAtdB to tho March Convention* and adopted the following reso lution. Resolved, That we express no approval* or disap proval, of tbe action of tho Convention of Demo> era?;.’ I»nrt v wl.irh iih t ;if .Mi! rd-'. % i!!-- <-n th«* m!i of December last, and we have tho ■qgBfK couh- dence ia tho gentlemen aeiected as delegates to rep resent thisSute in tho Charleston Convention ; but inasmuch ns a respectable portion of the party .ire dissatisfied with the manner in which said Conven tion was called, nnd propose that another Conven tion under tho call of tho Executive Committee of tho party, shall be held in the month of March next, that we will, to preserve the harmony of our. party organization nnd to remove so far as in us lies, ail causes of discord in our ranks in these times of threatened perile to our State and the Union, be rep resented in s.Tid proposed Convention. IS. I\ WVtkius of Baldwin, nnd Geo. Ilillyer of Walton, were requested to 6asl the vote of Lump kin, if none of tho County delegates attended. Southern MauufnctBarea. Some of the neatest cassimeres that we have seen made anywhere are now manufactured by Messrs. Orem, Hopkins & Co., of Maryland, specimens of which may be seen at tho clothing store of Mr. E. B. Spence, corner of Main and Governor streets.— These goods are all wool, and are manufactured within six miles of Baltimore, aud are so superior in their stylo and finish that they are purchased as fast as they come from the loom. It tbe factory could supply the demands if tbe South, or if there were others of the same kind in operation in Mary land and Virginia, our people might well refuse to patronize the Yankee looms that are kept in motion by the slave-labor dollars "upon which they fatten and grow rich. The people of the South, if they wish (oretaliate upon the abolitionists of|the North in a way to be felt, must give up tho use of all their manufactures, and relv upon their own -resources to supply their necessities. If. Virginia goods cannot be had, get 1 from a sister Southe rn State, ir possible; and, if hot, then rely upondirect importation, or go with out. It is all folly for the South to resolve and make ecches, and talk about independence, unless she is going to act as well as talk. Many of our citizens have shown their intentions by dressing in Southern made goods—and if thsir example is followed by both sexes, in less than two years, Virginia, .Mary : laud, and Georgia, will be manufacturing cloths of ry description, and supplying not only tbe peo- t their own State, but ail others Who patronize TO BE CONTINUED. for the purpt Discharge charged with oft7th iost yesterday, va stances—tho i the fact that he wh Dr. Grant.— Dr ofing K. W. Harrli 1 thi: ■ and May* gularly discharged i •nee elicited having UfitiCable G. Grant, u the night r s Courts, 1 both in- established lilting y Col. John W. , Felt. 10. The defence whs conduc!e< . Sanford.—Montgomery Adveiix The ladies of Concord. N. H., raised $215 at a Mount Vernon IctoOi on Tueed*/ evening. a _ ■ _ iht-m, wilh better goods than the Yankees are now turning oat lor Southern use.—Richmond Dispatch. We find tbo following card in tho Atlanta pa TU this city, on tho S3d inst., my son, Charles W Wells, a youth »buut fifteen years of age, and a nrl’nter by-trade. Any information in relation to my P m vdl be tlranklully received by a distreued fa . tlier. ^ : Jpiis D. Welto. Democratic Mocting in Glynn County- The Democrats of Glynn met on Tui-r-day lust, ailing Cd the call of the March Convention, passed the follow- resolution: ,,/ That wc will'f I ml five Delegates to Mllledge- 111c on the 14th of-Morel:, and that they be requested to „ lilt nV.mer mean, to prevent the committal of the ,,-irtv of Georgia to th: ,upport of any par- Democrutic appointed aa delc- Bourke, Col. C. VV ' ‘ licntar s? 1 [ !u.- Bourse, VW.V.W. D. II. B. Troup, Cat Wm, If. Dasher. Democratic Woeting in Clayton and Troop. Democratic meetings were held in Clayton ami Troup counties, on Tuesday last. The oil for the March Convention was affirmed, and delegates appointed, report of John of the old State shows that tbo to S3.. Of The Daily Telegraph- We are in recept of the JJailt/ Telegraph, the Sentinel in this city. His character as a publisher is too well known to doubt of the success of this undertaking for a moment. Ma con owes it to herself to give him a.cordial sup port, which she will doubtless do, while mer chants in this section who take daily papers for the sokcof the latest telegraphic despatches will find it to their advantage to subscribe for this also. If friend Clisby will help us a little in putting a stop to the outrageous detention of the mail at Macon'and Albany—some 27 hours or more at the two places—he can then furnish this entire region, by means of bus daily, with the very latest intelligence. Subscription price Five Dollars.—Tallahassee Floridian Jour nal. Wise anil Hunter In Virginia. Wc take tho following from the Richmond Enquirer: Wc have received, up to this time, tho pro ceedings of sixty-seven counties. Thirty-nine, polling 24,782 Democratic votes, have expressed a preference for Henry A. Wise. Two coun ties, Essex and Kockbridge, polling 1,422 Dem ocratic votes, expressed a preference for Hon. R. M T. Hunter; and twenty-six counties ex pressed no preference, polling 16,921 Demo cratic votes. There, remains eiglity-two coun ties to bo heard from. The Tote of U. Winter Dnvis. The intimato political and commercial relation of tho people of the State of Maryland and tho city of Baltimore to the rest of the Southern States, their people and interests, seem to demand some emphatic and positive expression of sentiment with respect to tho coarse of H. Winter Davis in tho Congress of the United States. This man, who now occupies n seat in Congress as the representative of the fourth district of Maryland, is there as the notorious nrs- trgeot “tho clubs of Baltimore! With a disfrsn- ' \ - l, ,i, H tuxes might bo reduced very blv • Tbe bonds bear 5 per cent, interest, and ore 80 la market except at par.-[Columbna bun. chised people throughout the city, fraud and bloody violence'cast up his name among the filth of itsmis deeds, and he is now the formally accredited repre sentative of a Southern constituency, voting with the “black republican” party, and to that extent af filiating with the endorsers of the Helper infamy. The Stale of Maryland nnd the city of Baltimore may be officially relieved from so degrading a libel uponi their-politidal and commercial relations, it is duo to the people that both the Legislature of the State and the City Councils of Baltimore, repudiate all political affiliation with him. Ho has cast off his obligatiqns to this community. If is high limfl for this community to cast him off—Baltimore Snn. MekkivVetheiv Cocstt, appointed delegates to the March Convention and passed this reso lution.. • • - Resolved, That the Dcinocjatic party of Mcr- riwethcr county do not recognise the validity of the pretented convention, held at Milledge- ville in December last, to appoint delegates to tho Charleston convention; but, <fn the contra ry, recognise t he convention called by the Dem ocratic Executive Committee as tho only legiti mate call for a convention to speak and act for returning from his supper table to tho Parlor, tng the waters of the Mississippi to its channel, found his private Secretary broken open, and would cause the rise in the river to become so $500 extracted therefrom. After dilligent great at the South that sufficient levees could search for facts, suspicion rested upou a poor n°*t he built. Tho current would he stronger; wretch of a Canadian, Charles Cary, as the rob- a, 'd the accumulation of water greater, as the her. This ungrateful being, the Captain had levees were extended north of us. clothed and taken cart of in sickness, and had Such results were reasonably enough antici- first appeared in Fort Valley as a street beggar, paled; but the water, instead of breaking tho Instantly, the Capt repaired to the Depot, levees, permeates the porous soil, and the over whelm he ascertained that Cary had taken the A°w is really beneath thesurfaceof tbeswamps. cars for Macon. Next morning, Griffin reach-1 Such, it seems to ns, are the wise provisions of cd this place, and was passing across the street I natural laws for. th(^safety and ultimate recla- to tho Brown House, when who should he see niation of the rich country south of us. Wo but Cary, strutting towards him, dressed in a believe that-the levee system will'be successful, new suit mat and out Canada saw breakers and-that the object of its adoption will beat- ahead ; no'tiine was to be lost, so with tight a- tained. The porousness of the materials used bout face, off he went in a double qdick time, in making them has caused most, if not all the and Griffin in chase after him. Cary held his crevasses.' Men may deem it a superhuman own for about a square, when the Captain of task to wall in the Mississippi from Cairo to New the Governor’s Guards, bringing into actionliis Orleans, butour levees are tho work of pigmies practice of the Light Infantry double, double when contrasted with the dykes of Holland, quick, began to gain on Canada, and •finally, at | The flood-tide ofthoMississippi is but a ripple on the end of tho third square, overtook ltith. No J the surface of a glassy pool compared with the sooner did Cary find himself held than he turn-1 °9 can billows that dash against the artificial ed on his pursuer, holding in one band a pis- shores of Holland. Tho country to be reclaim- tol and in the other a bowie knife. First he I cd our levees—all of which will not for fifty tried his pistol, it snapped, then ntfaroptad the years cost the people as much as those of the ■use of the knife with no better success; for the I Dutch when originally built—would make a gallant Captain, though a diminutive man, fell- hundred of such kingdoms as that over which a ed him with a blow of his fist, and was.sur-1 Buonaparte once wielded the sceptre, prised to behold hat, boots, pistol and knife * *• m " were of his own household. Disarming him (-Henry “Winter Haris Denounced and bidding him rise, he seized him* by the col lar and placed him in the Guard House. Cary confessed the theft, implicating other parties who were to share in the spoils. On Friday i ■ , . - _ „ . t. night, Capt. Griffin returned to Fort Valle/, P asscd a votc of Censu . ro 011 ncnr ^ TClnter Da ' having it^ charge his protege, a precious one in- vis for voting for Pennington, deed. t . 'Wo publish the following extract from tho This case suggests a few facts which have Baltimore Sun as an indication of the feeling ‘ come So our knowledge within the last three Maryland against Winter Davis, weeks. Two merchants of our. city ln \Hcnrv .fVinter Davis—Resolutions of Censure time, have had their money drawers, rilled; J , , , oneof $100 lit Bank notes, apart of which had . ~aoplea. been, paid in by Capt. Griffin, who did not j Mr. Compton, chairman of the-committee know Cary’at the time, but the Police state he I federal relations, presented the following reso- was here then. The other was robbed of $17, (lution : • . . and would have lost more, bnt for a clerk, who Resolved, That Henry V inter Davis, acting walked in one-door as the thief escaped from > n Congress as one of the representatives of this the other State, by-hts votc for Wnl. Pennington, the can- . ‘ . | didate of the -black republican party for the Shch.inyew fork.-Fiv-Share. of *&- Speakership the House of^Representative THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE. The House of Representatives of Maryland Mr. Frcancr offered an amendment “that prosperity. - - is due to the people of Maryland that Henry A few days ago, a splendid gold headed cane was Winter Davis immediately resign his scat presented to (Jpfc O. A. Lochr&ne, by the Class, tea- Concress!” - - . Tluire^ay'iiight^hulb tlrenatafday^ofthe^’on^der of After some discussion, Mr. Frcaner smd that their system, a magnificent silver cup was present- I at tqp request of others he n oulti WlulurRW the edbr the Faculty of the College, to their Collwjur * i j : t ‘*“ * -J: Prof. M. &, Thomson, in testimony *of their apprec tZ -°p n I, Ml - Jacobs Offered ft substitute for the rose propriate speeches were made, and tne audience I lution of Mr. Compton, changing the phrase present, including the ladies anil citizens generaUy, ology and slightly modifying its terms, went off highly delighted. - j After discussion the substitute was voted C3- We have just been informed by*reliable au-1 down thority that the only case of Small Prnc at.the Pest) M * Den nj,. of Somerset, (Am.,) said that he House, some distance from town, has died and Was I . , V • 1 buried on Subday last. The others, who had it. are was the last man to desert a friend. He would rapidly convalescing. • ( not haveasked of Mr. Davis that he should vote • —:—»*— -- - „ ' ' , | for a' democrat or a member of a party against Transplanting; Evergreens. whom.he had warrod all his life, but ho would The London Gardener's Chronicle describes haye urged him to cast his vote for a conscrva- the following method as promising great effica- tivc man in the present crisis. Mr. Davis should cy in reviving plant-s-dried by having had their have adhered to his first choice,- which would roots too long ’out of ground, and in ins'uring have beep in accordance with the sentiment on their safe removal in late spring and summer, that subject -of every party in Maayland.- He and aff k being. especially fitted .for evergreens could' no longer sustain him, but at the same when transplanted:— . .- | time ho considercd.tliat.it w5ff not for the Leg- “Makc a hole in the ground to contain about islature to sit ip judgment upon him. Ho jvas 20 gallops of water, and pour’ aboqt T 6 gallons j resppnsiblo alono to liia constituency in the city into it, add to this about 20 pounds of barnyard J of Baltimore. manure, mixed with about the same quantity of Mr. Denison, of Baltimore city, stated that fine rich soil, By working the mixture- for a the vote of Mr. Davis forthc Speakership ought- long time, and carefully, you reduce it to tho tp be approved. lie deserved credit from the consistence of whitewash. In this mixture steep people of the United States fQif voting as lie the roots of your plants, just before putting them did, under the circumstances, and putting an into tbo ground; the earth thrown after them end to tliqdisorganization of the House of Rep iilto the hole sticks, to the roots, which iutmedi- rcscntatircs by securing the election of ■ ately begin to swell. At the very first move- Speaker. . _ . . rnent of sap, rootlets appear through this coat- Mr. Frcaner expressed his -regret that ally ing, which gives them immediate manure, and | one should be found on the floor of that House not only brings on,, hut secures, the further I to express such sentiments as fell .front tho formation.of roots, Once fairly started, there lips Of the gentleman from Baltimore city. He is nothing more to fear.” hung his head in shame and humiliation at This reminds us of the plan for incrusting I the fact. He appealed ' to every member of seeds with manure in order to give the seedings the House if such sentiments could pass unre- a good start, recommended by an ingenious buked ? m . - gentleman at New Orleans. - v At the present time, when it was the solemn 1 duty of every representative of Maryland to Kleen nf Plants . | stand up against the tide of aggression which anil* ot Mrtutii*. developed at Harper’s Ferry, was It- Plants sleep as well as-animals; tho attitude 0 f a representative of a SbuthcmState that some of th«»jassume on the approach of { ^ and t tho fanatics of night is extremely interestmg to those who de J , Do mc mbers know that.whcn tho light to study the beaufful phenomena of veg- between the North and South .table life. Some plants exlnb.ts.gns of sleep Maryland is to be the battle ground, and marked than other*. The leaves of clo- - u t0 be drcnchcd with blood ? The ver, lucerne, and other planta close as the sun , ^ belieTC that Maryland is untrue approaches the horizon; .and m the honey lo- to - hero „4 institutions, when her represehta- cust this charactenst.c is particularly striking ^ fals!fy her scnti ^ ents inthe hal i s of Con- and beautiful. I he delicately formed leaves j He would state, in support of that view, close in pairs at nightfall, and remain-so until ?, , . u. . o-t-i- -ri— L ■ — -—-b -.- — TT? Charlestown for his participation in. the if gradually expand to their fu.Icst extent. It is I Entry raid,- poSBed through the scene of in common garden duckweed (slellana mcdica). \ j . m0UD tain home in Washington county as- that the most perfect exemplification of the con- 1 - - -- - - delicate plant, which are in pairs, begin to close b t Maryiand was not sound on th 9 alavety in their upper surfaces the rudiments of the’ young shoot?; and the uppermost pair (but one) at the end. of the stalk arc furnished with long- \ ,, 1 1 lk*A AlIiAKa aa slant tkntf I wont f Mr. Denison, of Baltimore city, (interrupting,) I would like to have somo proof of it” Mr. Frcancr.—“Does the gentleman doubt niy er leaved stalks than the others, so that they can close upon the terminating pair and protect | the end of the shoot Mr. Denison.—“I have .nothing further to say- Tho Speaker.—The gentleman from Wash , r r ,. i ington county has tho floor. • Single vs. Married Life.—Tho growing diapo- ° u _ -p r „. n p r ui> ef - orc j nrocec d. I demand sition to celibacy among our young men, though in Mr. Jtreaner. i oc p ’ some measure attributable to a selfish and luxurious I of the gentleman from Baltimore cit} if he cynicism, is chiefly duo to tho irrational expenditure doubts tho correctness of my statements, consequent on marriage, and the unaUractiveneja of I (which I received from a gentleman of high From tiurAr'Sdri liabitT/lo yTrid domestic hap^-' I character,) omitting thq source of my infor- ness. If this-celibacy frequently defeats the econo- mation r _ * mica! considerations deciding to it (as it should), and Mr. Denison.—“I do not question the gentle- ends in much immorality and unhappiness, among man’s veracity'.” men, how immeasurably evil must be its influence j , Mr. Denison, of Baltimore city, moved to on the other sex; and what a 'violation of natural TT , . r - .• r'La mki.aLw law must that social organization bo wliichso harsh- strike out of the resolution the word blqpk ly represses tho affections and bereaves so largo a I before the word “republican which was lost, classof tho support and sympathy they aro entitled I Mr. Jacobs, of Worcester, had hoped that to from man!, Is the ltajpoqt pride that slays a fe- tb d j 0 wou j d baya presented an unaui- psrcntageby jfplebeian marriage!rnoro^cruo!'thin -us votc on tho subjec/without discussion, the selfish social system that devotes it to a solitary and that Baltimore city" would -have joined the a nd weary life of penury and regret T—Once a Week, phalanx. me- • Mr. Denison.—I wish the House to kno w that Jttnrvcls of the Mississippi* | -I have spoken only for myself I have had no Wo extract the following interesting informa- consultation with my colleagues from Baltimore tiort fron the Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche, re- city. garding the “Father of Waters” and‘the'vallcy Mr.'Jacobs.—Baltimore had better look to through which it rolls its mighty flood— tho day of retribution, ifthey do notreject and .“The difference of level between high outflow discard the traitor, water-mark ot Cairo is 5(1 feet. The width and Mi\ Dennis, of Somerset, said that while the depth of the river from Cairo and Memphis to r i| ouse wa s passing-resolutions of censure, they New Orleans is not materially increased, yet I ba( i better include the three democrats who de- immense additions arc made to the quantity of I feated the nomination of Mr. Smith'. Let all water in the channel by large streams from both sbarc ab ^ e the eastern and western sides of the Mississippi , Mr . Compton said the persons alludedtO were Thc qu^tion naturally anscs, what becomes of fc ‘ scntativcs ‘ 0 f Maryland. Thev thu; vast volume of water? It certainly never cou , da)nl ,‘ ook l0 , the action of their own rep- reachcs New Orleans, and as certainly does not vescnlat J cs ' to sce that Maryland was not mil evaporate; and, of course, it is not confined to • . . • J • tho channel of the river, for it would rise far r P ’ ., , . f above the entire region south of us. Hr. Long said that the action of the House If a well is sunk anywhere Tin the Arkansas tended to give too much importance to the rep- Bottom, water is found as soon as the water-level resentative nauiefl. Stillj if ho was the expo^ of the Missippi reached. When- the Missippi ™nt of the public sentiment of Baltimore t>r any eocs down, the water sinks accordingly in the otllcr , portion of Maryland, let it be so. U any welL Tlic owner of a saw-mill, some 20 miles member herc’sustams Ins action Jet him step from the Mississippi, in Arkansas, dug a well to | forth. Mr*. Long spoke at length on the sub* supply tho boilers of his engine durihg the late and u it!i his usual ability, flood. 'When the waters recededhis well went | Mr. Gordon agreed with the gentleman from down, until his hose would no longer reach the Somerset, that too much prominence had been water, and finally his well was dry. Ho dug given to the acts and position of Henry Winter a ditch to an adjacent lake to let water into his Davis. It w:i3 the weakness of some minds to well; the Jake was drained, and the well was I seek even a base eminence, by the most disrepu- dry again, bavin” literally drank lOacres of wa- table means. The like motive actuated the , ... , .... - ter in less than a"week. Tho inference is, that man who fired the Ephenian temple. The view the party in the present perilous condition of the whole valley ofthe Mississippi, from its banks put forth that it was not the right and duty of the country, so that the potentToice of the peo- to tbe highland.- on cither side, rests on a po- the Legislature to hold the representatives of pie can be.heard an . represented, irrespective j fOUS gubetratnm which absorbs the redundant their State to account, and that each represen- of the pretended claims of individuals, cliques . watcrS) and tbus ’ prevents that degree of accu- tative was responsible only to his own immedi- or factions. ^ i mulation which would long since have swept ate constituents, was absurd. Representatives CF* Patrick Quinn, whom we mentioned aa liav- ! New Orleans into the Gulf hut for this provis- were formerly elected by general ticket, each ing been stabbed te-erely in the back, outhe night j ion of nature, to which alone her safety is attrib- member being voted for by the whole State.— ofthe 3th lost., by Henry Crawford in a fight, died j u table. _ In fact, if the alluvial bottoms of the Was there anything in the act of Congress, dis- on yesterday morning of tbo wounds inflicted. Craw- j Mississippi were like the shores of the Ohio, the trie ting tho States that changed the previous re- ford ia in jail to await hi* trial at tb.. next term of | vafit plain from Cairo to New Orleans would to- lation of representative and constituency ? They tb* Superior Court. | day ha part and parcel of the Gulf of Mexico, I were all equally accountable to the State at help it He would like to know from the gen tleman from Somerset to whom he alluded. Mr.- Dennis.—They were the nest eggs of de mocracy from Indiana. Mr. Gorgon.—I thought they were not from the South. There are those who assume a pop ular name to accomplish , nefarious purposes.— The gentleman from Somerset yields reluctant ly to the crisis. It only shows that there are those'who wdFcling to their idol to the last Mr. Worthington offered an amendment to the effect that as the resolution stated Davis misrepresented “all parts of the State,” and that inasmuch as it appeared that Baltimore city sustained him, that the words “a greater part of the State ”'b'a substituted. Lost The debate on the resolutions having closed, Mr. Coudy said he wished every member to show his hand, and he therefore moved a call of tho Houso. Mr. Kraft, of Baltimore. city, said that he should vote in the affirmative; under other cir cumstances he wauld not have censured Mr. Davis for voting for a conservative man, but at the present time, since tho aggressions attemp ted at Harper’s.Fcrry, he could not sanction his support of any person afflicted with black re publicanism. Mr. McAllister explained his vote. The time had arrived when they had to he Northerners or Southerners. He should vote for the reso lution. The resolutions were passed by a vote of 01 to 1, Mr. Denison, of Baltimore city, voting alone in tho negative, Messrs. Parran, Jluntcr, Burgess, Stanford, Routzan, Stake, Seth, Smith, Winsong, Turner, of Baltimore city, and Brown being absent, making 12 absentees, mostly, from, illness. Messrs. Seth and Smith, of Baltimore city, were the only absentees present in Anna polis. Correspondence of the Newark Mercury. Interesting iron China—Prison •TORTURES—A CHINESE COURT. From a letter received by Mr. L M. Andruss, of this city, from his nephew in Hong Kong, Chino, .we are permitted to make tho following interesting extracts. The letter bears dato of November 13 th, 1859:— - I have recently returned from atrip to Can ton, where I gathered many items of intelli gence which will be. interesting. We were so fortunate, shortly after our arrival, as to secure the services of Rev. Mr. Gray, stationed there as chaplain, who, being well versed in China affairs,.played thffcicerone greatly to our ad vantage. We commenced our explorations by visiting the prisons, happening to be the first person? ever taken by our guide into a Chinese court Wo were introduced and invited to take seats, which, after a great deal of bowing and salaaming, \fts did. • “ Tho Mandarin and ourselves were the only persons seated in the court—the magistrate's assistants always standing during hours. There were several interpreters . present to question the prisoners on trial, and to answer the Man darin. That functionary never demeans him self by speaking any other dialect than that striqty ‘Mandarin dialect.’ There was quite a number of prisoners, all with manacles upon their limbs and necks, awaiting their turn for trial. One of them was fastened, upon an in strument of.torture called ‘the rack,’ used to extort confessions, true or false, from their vic tims. This rack resembles a carpenter’s saw bench. The victim is made to kneel, the rack is then placed upon Us end, against his back. His cue or tail,is j passed-through a hole in the ‘ end of the rack, and tied fast to the upper feet, which strains the chorda of his neck horribly. “ A bandage is then placed across his fore head and fastened to the cn'd of the rack. A slip-noose is put uporf each thumb, by which his arms are drawn behind him and- upwards, and also matte fast to tho upper feet A slip-noose is also put upon each big toe, which is drawn upwards and made fast at the same point, and are drawn so that the victim's knees arc abont one inch clear of the floor—thus leaving the whole weight of the body suspended by the thumbs and toes'. The victim was kept upon the rack about half an hour, and when cast loose fell upon the floor—having for the time being lost all control of his limbs. He was left lying as he fell until his blood resumed its cir culation, when a chain was put about his neck, and he was led away to the dungeon. He was no doubt convicted of the crime with which he was charged, as he was desirous of kneeling be fore the Mandarin and pleading for mercy, but was not permitted so to do. “Wo followed the'prisoner and saw him thrust into a room with some thirty others, all of whom were condemned to death. The cell was very small, excessively warm, and the stench front it was, to us, unendurable. The cell-had not a single article of furniture in it, andall the occupants were entirely nude. They greeted us with .‘Chin Chin Taipan,’ and ‘Cun- shaw.Taipan,’ which was ‘How do you do?’ Give us a present’ * » . “We_saw also,-on our.visit, several convicted que,’ which consists of a square' Board'’ wifit "ft hole in the centre, and goes together with hin- ;es. It is put upon the victim’s shoulders, with iis head through the hole. Tho ‘Canquers’ are of different sizes and weights, according to the ago and the degree of crime. Ofiendcrs are fre quently compelled to wear them from four to six months, during which time it is impossible for them to lie down, and they are compelled to sit and sleep upon their haunches. Several of them had eaten and slept so long in one posture that their skin was chafed through, and they were almost covered with raw sores. ‘Among others whom we saw confined was the mother of Tai Ping Wan, the great rebel chief, of whom ihe Mandarins, or Imperialists, stand-in great fear. They have never been a- ble to defeat him, and have offered large re wards for his capture, without success. The Imperialists have arrested his mother and all his relatives, as far as they have been able to trace them. His mother is a woman of small stature and nearly seventy years of age, with hair as white as snow. She had heavy chains upon her ankles, and a chain also, around her neck, with a stone fastened to tho end, which trailed upon tho ground. The other relatives nf the rebel chief were also in chains. The fe males were embroidering, and the males were knitting undershirts, using small linen twine. We likewise saw many rebels in chains with their cars cut off, and others who had been hamstrung, who were unable to rise upon their feet, but dragged themselves along with their hands. “We next visited tho Mahommcdan Mosque, where wo saw charts of the pictorial language. The Mahommcdan pagoda is an immense brick structure, supposed to have been built 70 years B. C. Its immense weight had sunk it info the ground, so that we could just see the arch of tho door. A tree of quite large dimensions was growing Upon the top, the roots of which en crusted it on tho outside. We also visited temple where they worship Confucius. Itcon- tams an imago of the object worshipped, and is the only one of the kind in the empire. It was erected a few years since at the suggestion of Gov. Yell. The base of the image was shatter ed by a ball lrom an English frigate while slid ing tho dty in 1S5C. We visited also the ‘Flow- try Pagoda,’ which is said to be 1900 years old. There is a tradition connected with this gagoda the effect that its founder stated, upon its completion, that if tho top should ever fall, there would be trouble in Canton. It so hap pened that tho top of it fell in September, 1850, and the English shelled the city in October of the same year. The portion which fell, struck the roof of a joss-house, passed entirely through, struck a priest who was worshipping, and killed him.” B?" The panorama of Dr. Kane’s Arctic Expedition, and his Esquimaux dog, Etnh, have it sold. The panorama, which cost $0,600, was sold for $200, and the dog was sold for $85. x| le Legislature of Pennsylvania, in 1704, passed the following: “Resolved, That no member of the Legislature will be allowed to come into the House barefooted.” Hon. T. Butleb Kino wa* in town yesterday aud called upon u*. Democratic meetings. The Democratic party of Columbia at a meet ing on.Tuesday last, says; In accordance with the call ofthe Executivo committee—but more especially to give concert and harmony to the party—and meaning no disrcpcct to tho convention of the 8th of De cember—a portion of, the Dcmocrtic party of Columbia has convened, for tho purpose of ap pointing delegates to represent this county in tho March convention. They also adopted among; others these resolu tions. Resolved, That while wo pledge our support to any good southern man whom the Charles ton Convention in her wisdom may select, yet we cannot forbear the expression of our unqual ified preference for our own gifted statesman, the Hon. A. H. Stephens, Georgia’s best and brightest jewel. Resolved, That in the person of Hon. Howell Cobb, we see the great legistor, the gifted Rep resentative, able and accomplished Speaker of the House of Representatives, the wise and effi-. ctent Govenor, and now the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury. His honors have been many and great, and well hits ho won them; and should he be the nominee of the Charleston convention, wc pledge him our hearty support Walton County, passed the following reso lutions. Resolved, That we look with feelings ofthe deepest regret upon the division of sentiment in the Democratic party of tips State, growing out of a call-by the Executive Committee, for anoth er State convention, to bo held on the 14th of March next; and that we arc willing to do any thing, within tho bounds of honor and right, to produce harmony and concert of action in the party. For the seats of our delegates to tho Charleston convention to be contested, we would regard as extremely unfortunate, and wel! cal culated to create distraction in our ranks at home. And we regard it as peculiarly unfor tunate, just at this particular time, when a fa vorite son of our own state is so prominent be fore the country for the Charleston nomination, that the prestige of our voice, that of his own State, in his favor, should be weakened bt this ill-advised and unnecessary call for another con vention. Resolved, Boldly avowing that the present able and distinguished Secretary of the Treasu ry, Hon. Howell Cobb is the man of onr choico for the Presidency, and most earnestly protes ting that the convention of the 8th of December last was in accordance with Democratic usage for the last fifteen years—that it was regular in every respect—and that it spoke the sentiments of the Democracy of the State; yet in a spirit of forbearance, and for the sake harmony, wo will send delegates to the March convention, and we recommend the masses ofthe party through out the Stato to speak out in their primary meetings, and to send down delegates to the March convention, in order that the action of the December convention may be vindicated and sustained. Delegates were appointed to the March Con vention in accordance with those resolutions. Morgan County.—The Democracy of this county affirm the action of the Decamber Con vention, and appoint Mr. Saffold one of the Ex- ecutive’Committec, uniting in the call of the ■ March Convention as a delegate. Here are the resolutions and a list of delegates. Witereas, Unity of action, as well as unity of sentiment, is desired at the South, to combat successfully, in the coming political campaign, northern sectional parties, be it Resolved, That the delegates appointed from this meeting to the Stato convention, tube held in Milledgevillo on the 14 th of March, to t$point delegates to the National Democratic conven tion, to be held at Charleston, S. C., on tho 22d of April, advocate the claims of the dele gates to the Charleston convention, appointed at the convention held in Milledgevillo, Doc. 8th, last—believing them true and honorable men, exponents of the true principles of the Demo cratic party, trne to the South and her inter ests. Resolved, That we also most heartily approve ofthe recommendation made by tho conven tion of Dec. Sth, last, at Millcdgeville; of the Hon. Howell Cobb, as the first choico of the Democracy of Georgia, for the office of Presi dent of the United States. The resolutions were each taken up separate ly and adopted. It was moved that tho chair appoint five del egates from the meeting to the convention of March 14th. Tho motion passed, and the chair appointed Thos. P. Saffold, D. B. Lane, J. G. MeHcnry, Wm. Wood, and C. H. Andrews. Sporting- Incident—A Noble Pack’ Some weeks ago, a friend in Glynn favored us with a feat of his fine pack of dogs, which pursued a wounded buck some eight or ten miles, across wide rivers and through marshes, and were found, some thirty hours after tho chase commenced, quietly lying around their game, one venerable old follow Handing guard, starving condition—lrom touclYingi]!dSWriil-iP teeth. On a subsequent hunt, during the excessive ly cold snap in January, these faithful creatures disappeared from the hunters in a similar man ner, and, after days of search, were given up for lost. A letter, received a day or two since, gives -the sad sequel, which had come to light It is contained in the following extract: “Wo have at last heard of our noblo pack of hounds, which were found all frozen on the marsh, near tho dead buck. Wo suppose they had run down and caught it, in the extensive marsh they got into after swimming several creeks. I believe it is the only instance on re cord, of seven hounds—two the property of Dr. Troup, one belonging lo Dr. Wilson, and four were ours—running down a buck in an ex tensive marsh, swimming several creeks, and catching it without a gun being fired at it, and lying by it until all perished in the cold. It rivals the famous chase related by Colonel Hawker, the celebrated English sportsman, where one of his stag hounds was found dead on the wall, two with broken limbs on the in side, and the rest disabled on the outer wall of the park. The buck had been let out, ran off, and was found inside with both fore legs broken. The Spirit of the Times should record this chase on one of our Sea Islands in Glynn coun ty, Georgia.’’—Savannah Republican. I’m Very HI.” We are sorry for you, and you have our sym pathy, no matter when or where any of you may hare occasion to use the above expression; and to prove that wo Jo pity all who may be laid on a bed of sickness, we will give a few common-sense hints how to hasten recovery. The first grand requisit is patience, a quiet and calm endurance of suffering, and a resignation to the temporary loss of health. Then comes cheerfulness—not of the sick alone, hut of all around; a cheerful countenance uniting over tho siek-bed can do more good than gallons-1 phys ic. The mind of the invalid should be kept di verted from the ailment, and funny, interesting matter should ho read aloud for some time every day. Tho sick room she dd e'kept a pattern of cleanliness ; it should be well ventilated, cool and light; and, lastly, the doctor should be chos en for his jollity and good humor as much as for his scientific attainments, and—wc had near ly forgotton to mention it—never put a sick man in a curtained bed. Let him, no matter what the ailment be, have plenty of the free life-giving air, and if the light be too strong, a white shade can be hung before the window, but put none around the bed. A person who is sick should always, if possible, sleep alone, and as light a covering as is consistent with warmth is the best. By following these rules, and taking your potions at the proper times, as ordered by tho doctor, should any of you still continue ill, hut able to be about, we recommend that you set out on a canvassing tonr in your neighborhood to procure subscribers for the SciESTinc Ameri can. The exercise, with the satisfaction that you are doing good, will restore you to perfect health. Try it. BF*198 bales of cotton were made at General Myrick’s plantation in T-rifflt® county last year with only 28 hands. Thomas Hushes, the oversee. , was here a few days aro and sold the cotton wntcu the negroes cultivated for themselves, and it brought tfa* snug stun of $615 40.