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Newspaper Page TextBy Joseph Clisby. MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, P. M., JUNE 29, 1860. Volume XXXIV.—No. 38. I^x Receiver’s Notice. * „ tar Bibb count/ are now open at A- A T»« KSmMu*. wb«e the Tax Receiver wiU ft»»*i.w2?E*i!*»»*or tax payer* on Monday. and Thoraday of each week, nutii SsBfea|HHr r u.4i«.« »tWy , . >. \\ HU ' 1 1 • LAW, UACON. GA. , i to Concert Han. over Pa/ntf* Drug I.ar' 1 1" JUU b ■ TTORNEY at a* 1 ual'DM. GA. atto: i t fO U N L ^ *J/.vro.v. - »|{NE' AT LAW > MACON. GA. !■ the Macon Circuit, and in the .yllA j Mouro*. Holnatn, WSktaea and aalrt. . a Block.next to Uoaidman’s -... Wa*^ • (OCt S3) ‘■B .atK HABDEKIAN 1 AT LAW, j t:o no i a. llv ‘ r - , . enta. BOBimon ' qI &C. ROBINSON, attor»°y s Law, * ll'THBERT, GEORGIA. . i .i.« i,rcii.pl attention to all buaineaa on- V^io&rm.in KandoI|>h,Clay, Early. Uil- " . .. T. rri'll, Stewart and Quitman counties |S8m£ !L_ kitlUKOUGU A BASS, RN E Y S AT LA W i'. |. «a ^baaraon^Tanellco.,Oa. 'iSuTand Ihc era flatten which are wtlh him, : Zvt a^ainal any man, the Law la open and 1^011^: Id them ixraxan one «M [5 * ow— GEORGE W. NORMAN, iitornoy At Law, HwaUrif, Ashley County. Ark., - ..mmed to Hambnrc. Ark., will continue ‘r. a. ana lit. , •.-uiaaotit. „\?”seTs*atTaw, * 1 VnoXVIU-K. GEORGIA, JggrrtSwfcH mdUt^Uii \ r ;V u u« AllhMiiirw promptly attended to. a C. DUSCA'S, .rrowvEF at law, y.if _— : PARTNERS HIP' IliLi. A HILL, ,-wort to late firm ol Stubbs and llill, lit. r«, tire in Macon and a4joiniu(t Circuits, ® supreme and Federal Court.. ^np. -..,,.;d Street. M* 0 ™; °*, LU J'B.hilL at it . arOL OIKULU BVTUCR IRVIN & BUTIaTR, _ «0 \\ X P X& A T It A w - In Worth and Macon coon- ; .^5£^(?buit-in the United States Circuit * HimA-and by .pecUlcontract, in any coun- janlT ml^SKTh arris. a«drr u» ilSsbh ai adjoining countie* at a Ik I'ldted Slate. Court at Savannah and taw. la aur conuty of the State by special con- Cnaaixa J. IUnnu. THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH. PUBLISH KD EVERY FRIDAY, AT 3, P. M. PRICK —Two Dollara a year, ofiray. in AJra/.. <. DESTROYING PARTIES. Tlie Chronicle & Sentinel of Saturday, sing ing a song triumphant over the death of the Democratic party, says, by way of general re flection and improvement of the subject: All parties become corrupt in time, and it be comes necessary for a free people, ever gallant, to guard and secure their own liberties, to des troy them when their corruption becomes in sufferable. If that be the rationale of the death of par ties, the Chronicle might have added, by way of still further improvement: 1. The Democratic party lived a long time, and died hard at last lie calls it ati “old sin ner,” and speaks of its “hoary head"—ergo, the party was slow in “becoming corrupt,” and had a good deal of living virtue to resist the cau tious approaches of the grim monster. 2. AVnat “rotten concerns" must those par ty organizations be, which spring up, and arc killed off in the course of two or three sum mers. The Chronicle & Sentinel, wo think, has belonged to two or three of that kind, and should comprehend that rapid process of cor ruption, which made it necessary for “a free people to destroy them" before they were two years old. Surely they must have been con ceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity.— “Corruption” musthavcbcen their normal con dition, for they had little “time” to “become corrupt" “A free people” had but a few months to recognize their existence, before it discovered them to be “insufferable,” and des troyed them in all the comparative innocence of infancy, THE CONVENTIONS. We get no other important facts to-day in re lation to the Convention or its nominees, than the contemplated declinature of Ex-Gov. Fitz patrick, which is itself very significant If, as some suppose, Mr. Douglas himself may yet de cline in favor of Mr. Breckinridge, a personal friend, and as the only practicable means of res toring the integrity of the party, the country may vet be saved the disgraco and danger of an ignorant, vulgar and sectional jjlack Repub lican domination. '4s the pandjdajca of a iulitcd democracy we need ask no more available ticket. Both arc gallant, high-toned men, combining all the elements of popularity, and Breckin ridge’s “luck” alone is worth a hundred thou sand votes. As affairs stand, the ticket will undoubtedly sweep the South, and tMs {aft alone will oon. center on it Ohougli Northern support to leave the case hopeloss for Mr. Douglas In any North ern or Western State. Such aro our impres sions of fact, and we must deal with facts and act upon them as we find them. It is of no avail to rake up the embers of the past We deplored the Charleston secession »t)d thought it might hm boco honorably avoided-'' lVp were oppqsid to the introduction of a new paf : ty creed and thqugl)t a cleqr and distinct avowal of the nqn-inten'cntiOTl principle 1# Pfllte gress an<l tipi Iprrjtoria} governments hotter and safe/for all interests. Although never partial to Mr. Douglas as a man or a statesman, we would have supported him cordially as the nominee of the party, on the clear non-inter vention platform of the minority at MiJledge- villc. But all those oonsidwattons are Of M>e past, and nowthe'pari of sound sense and duty in our judgment is to sustain the ticket most likely to make head against the sectional de signs of hlack republicanism.—Daily of 20th. ji iU Cotta* Ar»#W- . .. Rime u*oci»tf|d M P»rt“« r * ,ha •IU* inthr .oqntle* of . <b £ sad1 xd- I, imiU.ti.4eljewbereInH|<»bWl» »7’P* vill*M«ild Hie Federal Court* at ^ KhK x. U. SPEER. axML’EL nUNTKR. I X.A-'W CARD. Cook B Montfort, iirvtlrr law Is tbt cuuatk. of Taylor, Macon. l,m, Rwli. Sumicr. Jfirioo, Schley, and In ..khim' in tin- SUte u Uiclr boxlncM will Ifomiut Otixiuoarr IImBlhobinbon, T. W. MONTFORT. ItOUEKT C. IIAKDIE, . to pMfrtiion.l Mfvtee* to the cititen. of .ad vl.lolijTn* may Vafqtmd »t nil honra Ml 4-la ,mwdata/.' Harvey’* .io«7on tAerry St. ■ »iy IB. R. TL N1SBET kir Hind. f-:ks on New York lillACTURERS’ RANK xving! Engraving! k,^t.„ver Campbell POAVN’S HOTEL. |»Mni tti axw nan. xus DiroT, BACON. GA. E. K. BROWN, Propnator blUadj oath* Arrival of every Train 1AS1TE HALL!! w. UXIEIt HOUSE, [icon, Georgia | »*’■ DliNSE, cetkFlerd l|yu-o,i PROPRIETOR. [Mlcriiouerics A: Groceries. ’■'**. Uklaold a land No. 1« Malberry t tw>> u mu] X Ml Meortatent of coed* » -of Candle*of hi* own mann- rmehCandlM. U*la tb*onlvoneln *>™*,and beet \rfltla, Kal.lna, lt s Ham*. PuUtoe*. Oxlon*. Cxb- C**.’ vaber article, in Umt Ha* tooaomeron. ' mwcliiow-ly 'Wareiiou-se | EMISSION MERCHANTS I MACON, GA. MTE8 « V00LF0LK toBBtber. and will occupy tb« i 11 Proof Warehouse bc*w boinjc erected "u Hinletw A Hnurka. . made on CcSon when wked for. a*. Hope. GrocerUa. Ac., dMll 1 Attention, yf K—pt Attention to biuioeftB,to raer* " ,4 ‘ ,r0 JSS: H. WOI.LFOLK, N. COATES H pARPETINGS, Ml. CLotiis \t CLOTHS, MATTINGS, RUGS, LSI) MATSU ■ «.,^^wk.and a great variety of jtylea ol jit received, which will be O'tSfaree, aadgive pnrebaatr. aao- ” .eil Hook ever offered in Macon.— nio, , OeLAlNE. DAMASK •ACE and MUSLIN, OW CURTAINS, SHADES, GlLTCOUNIt’ESand interest by ex t** 1 * More buying. B. V. It OHS. Tho close of tho Conventions—Posiliya of' ibo OnndldntFs- The seceding Convention. 1 according to tele graph dispatches, contained, at three o cloc{i on Saturday afternoon, 210 delegates, repre senting 21 States-Among thesp,v,^ Cfflhrac-. ed the ft|lk>wlfl5 States, which did not participate in the Charleston secession. All tho North Carolina delegation; nineteen out of twenty-four from Tt unesseo; twenty^ five of the Virginia delegation; the whole of Kentucky, ami a considerable portion of the Maryland and Missouri delegations. Of the Northern States, Massachusetts, and Oregon were represented in whole, and A ermont. New York Pennsylvania, Iowa and California, in nail’ TlS Majority Platform reported at Charleston was unanimously adopted. When nominations were jnonjer, t^e inridge, Hunter, Dickinsuu arKl Lanq, were presented, blit all except the first subsequent }’ withdrawn and Mr. Breckinridge unanimously nominated on the first ballot Gen Lane was the only candidate fqr Vtpp PlTSltlput VWl* the Convention. The Cqn}ej.t|fm .adjourned at 11 o’clock, on Saturday night, and a very largo and enthusiastic, ratification meeting spontaneously gathered at midnight ip Monu ment Square, . „ The last session of the Douglas Convention ..as held at 7 o’clock in the evening, at which Ex-Gov. Fitzpatrick was unanimously nomina ted for Vico President, and a resolution adopt ed endorsing the Dred Scott decision. The YOIO HI nils cumciikhni .A*~*r»» I* VI lmit van* ulned 194 delegates. It will be seen, therefore, that the seceding Convention out numbers tho original Conven tion in respect to delegates, and in respect to democratic States, left it out of sight. Ofthe originally elected delegates to Charleston from the Southern States, it must have comprised nineteen-twentieths. Wc are bound, there fore to consider it democratic authority, and in regard to their nominations, though, neither comes with the weight of usage, which is law, wc very much prefer Mr. Breckin ridge to Mr. Douglas. In respect to platforms, no southern man has objected, or can object Joctrinally to ihc demand for Congressional protection to slavery in the Tcrntoncs. The question dividing them was as to the expediency and policy of making that demand, and wlieth- c-we had not honorably precluded it, by in sisting upon Congressional non-intervention. But on the other hand, the Territorial sover eignty avowals of Mr. Douglas, arc st.1 more at war will, any just non-intervention theory; ami they are not modified at all by the adden dum of "the Dred Scott decision ; because Mr. Douglas bolds and avows they arc in pci fcct harmony with that decision. It is therefore, but a choice with the most strenuous non-in tervention men between the two platforms, ami wc hold that the dogma of Tern tonal sov ereignty, to-wit: that the few early inhabi tants of a Territory, under junsdiction or Lon- trre-s, can exercise a prohibitory power ’'amen wc deny to Congress itself, is objectionable in tlie extreme. The minonly of the late State Convention atMillcdgcvillc affirmed as their view of the matter, that “Slavo property stands upon the same foot ing as all Other descriptions of property, and that neither the General Government, nor any Territorial Gortrnuunt can destroy or impair the right to slave property in the common ter ritories, any more than the right to any oi' ,e u description of property; that property o! all kinds, slaves as well as any other spee.es o. property, in the territories, stand upon the same equal and broad Constitutional basis, and sub- A SLAVERY CHAMPION IN EUROPE. Ex-Governor Win. B. Lawrence, ofRhode Is land, being in Paris at the time of the Harper’s Ferry Raid, addressed a letter to the Journal ties Debats in reply to certain opinions express ed by that Journal on slavery in the United States. The Debats refusing "to publish the let ter, Mr. Beach procured its publication in pam phlet form. It is entitled “French Commerce and manufactures, and Negro Slavery in the United States.” The London Morning Chroni cle styles it **a verj- remarkable pamphlet,” and ingling out Mr. Beach’s economical view of the question, says: If American slavery be a great fact, so also is American cotton. Within a small fraction, the American slavo States furnish the raw ma terial of the cotton fabrics of the world. In this country alone nearly five millions of people have immediate relations with American pro duced cotton. Cotton is essentially a monopo ly of the slave States, the produce of negro - la bor. It is idle to talk about the cotton produce hereafter to be obtained from other quarters. Cotton, indeed, is plentiful enough; but the sorts valuable in manufacture arc not plentiful, and tho very best—the Sea Island long cotton— is as restricted in tho area of its production as the wines of Xercs or Johannkberg. Slavery or no slavery, it is yet a fact beyond dkpute that tlie cotton fields of America do not admit of cultivation by the Anglo Saxon, or perhaps any variety of the Caucasian race.— That experiment lias been tried very frequently, and with a very uniform result The results have been universally calamitous. Were this not so, if white labor had been possible, then, as Mr. Lawrence aptly observes, it would be far easier, and far more economical, to obtain white than black labor. To the negro race American cotton lands involve no climatic suffering. The white man’s Golgotha might, so far as climate has to dq vjitli the result, bq the fiegro’s {’ara- dke. Economically regarded,'then, the ques tion of negroes or no negroes in the Southern States is brought within a narrow compass.—| No blacks, no oottQn. Such is the finality. From the London Chronicle of May St. English viow of the Cotton and Slavery Quostion. The supply of cotton to our manufacturers involves considerations of the highest import ance to this country, and rejoice to find (hat so eminent a pej^pn as Lqpi Bropghapi'ts about to enforce that view of it which we have long taken. Our .American brethren accuse as of complicity in their slayery system, because, from the necessities of opr position, wc are the largest consumers qf its prqdupe. They might as well accuse us of- destroying the shoals of sprats consumed by the oodflsh wc cat Wc uso tiicir cotton because wc cannot do without it— Wo have no choice. We are innocent, because, if accomplices, we are involuntary ones. It is all very well to expatiate in the sublime alti tudes of abstract principles, but human neccs- tory of the United States. The Evacuation of Boston. Tlie Britkh army in Boston consisted of nearly 8,000 rank and file, beside officers and the complements of the ships-of-war. The young men who held commissions were full of ingenious devices to amuse the common sol diers and to relieve the wcarisomeness of their own hours. The Old South Meeting House was turned into a riding school for the light dra goons; Faneuil Hall became a play-house, where the officers appeared as actors on the stage; they even attempted balls and planned a masquerade. Tlie winter was mild, so that navigation was not interrupted, and provisions were imported in abundance from Ireland and England, from Barbadoes and Antigua. Thus they whiled away their time in their comfort able quarters,' without a thought of danger, awaiting early summer and large re-enforce- ments, preparatory to their removal to New Yurie. Tho possession of Dorchester nights would give Washington the command of Boston and of a large part of the harbor. Ill supplied as he was with powder, and having no resource for artillery but in the captures made from tho enemy by privateers and the cannon which had been dragged overland from Lake George, he still made the necessary arrangements to occupy the position, in the hope to bring the enemy out and force them to offer battle. To that end the council of Massachusetts, at his request, called in the militia of the nearest towns. The engineer employed to devise and superintend the works was Rufus Putnam; and the time chosen for their erection was the eve of the anniversary of “the Bostpn massa cre.” To liarrass the enemy and divert atten tion, a heavy pannomule ana bombardment of the town was kept up during the two previous nights. Soon after candle fight on the 4th of March the firing was renewed with greater ve hemence than before from Cobble Hill, now Somerville, from Lechraere’s Point, now East Cambridge, and from a battery in Roxbury. and was returned with such zeal by the Brit ish, that a continued roar of cannon apd mor tars was heard from seven o’clock till daylight. As soon as jt had begun. Washington proceed vj-hqso phjlsnjln'bny' ali(I hatred of slavery Cap dp.Ubt, ha§ qctcrmtppd tq bring the English view qf this sqbject prominently forward, anil claim attention tor it. The Foglkli aversion to slavery is well known; and wo believe even the American slaveholders themselves would be glad to get rid of it if they did but know how. But we cannot allow tha jjoor sable creature to erhaujt aU Qufsympa- hies; and whim WO hqar'fcttlish, well meaning -.aople, whose minds socm incapable of receiv- ng more than one idea, exult in the hope of a slave Insurrection—which would put an end to the production of cotton in America—we can but wonder at the strange infatuation that pre vents theirseeing bow it wouldafllvt ua. Stales men and traders, poer and mechanic.^" seem tq bo all'nliUe- ‘ it'-to V^’ Uiis Llimineks and de lusion e&sNL If is impossible to retlect seri ously upon tbe 'nature qf oyr cottqn'jgpply, without i-yqKing a pV-mwtW ina ‘ "u 'e*w>-u“. will Ifuiifh. It * ei*oq and transports us to some extenjiro town, whose tall chimneys are vis;- bfe in ever}’ dircqtiqn; no mill dpqr or shop la open. There are nq issuing clwds of smoke— not ope pulsation of the iron giants is heard— no whirling ofthe spindle—no throwing ortho shuttle—no clanking of the loom—no hum of human voice*—not ono sound ofhuman life,— This unearthly stillness chills our blood. Where, then, are those five hundred thousand busy, in- tclligcnt human beings that should people it?— We enter an open house; we penetrate room after room; and, impelled from street to street, we find everywhere Ijvipg - ’ rmuery anffiNtfywM- Wyirtg at the - w exi-Wnge; ’wb read—“The cotton sup ply from Aroerf(9i lias ceased. Bqt could it'be that qny of our great manu facturing towns shoujd eyer orient *yfh a spec tacle! Aye p c, theft *P.Mpcndc*t 0 n Ameri can cptton? At ppeebnt.it U hut too trae- Amcrteft. nij/phe* nearly, tkrte-joyrtkf gf wr eotton, upd’therefore tl<f gr(at*t MftfgCfc*. eon tkwtfnthtt country & a <udd f n relation of thf iopply of-cotte* front America. The french Emperor of the old la dies, with all his dreadful armies, » a net lamb in comparison with such an event.— An enormous amount of Britkh capital, am the were lives of millions or British people, depend on , rT -V L We have no desire to create an unnecessary alarm; but where the national safety is eon- cerncd. every possible danger for which a reme- dy may be found, ought to be treated as If it were a probable danger, in order to stimulate tho procuring ml V^ffled)'- To show that there is no exaggeration in our statement, we appeal to the following unimpeachable facts : Of 538,000 font of ration trqol tm>orted loot uear. 828,000 icere Ameritan. <jt th* total eo»t £30,000,000, about £24,(100,000 teat for America When manufactured, _lhk cotton produced—exports, £51,000,000; home con- sumpton, £24,000,000; total, £75,000.000.- Of this. £00,000,OOu for America. The wages and profit of manufacture were £45,000,000; of this, £30,000,000 on American. \\ e pay <"i I-- take | >!1 • >1' till- llei-llt-.nl Dnivlu - ter,' All the requisite dispositions, including the method of baffling an attack, had been de liberately considered, and prepared with con summate skjll; everything wiis ready; every inqn knew his place, his specific task, and the duty qf executing it with celerity and silence. A party qf eight hundred went in advance as a ruard;’ one-half of them taking post on the icight nearest Boston; the other at the east ernmost point, opposite the castle. They were followed by carts with intrenching tools, and by the working party of twelve hundred Uttdey the command of Thomas, arj p.flftqpf whose great merit w, ttys occasion is the more to bo remembered iron; the shortness of his career. The ground, for eighteen Inches deep, was fro zen too hard to yield earth for the defence; hut the foresight of the chief had amply pro vided substitutes; a train of more than three hundred carts, easily drawn by oxen over tho frozen marshes, brought bundles of sqyewod hay to form a edver for Dcrc^eatorNeck where it was e*pose;\ U a lakhig'nre, and an amazing quantity bf gabions and fascines and clianda- liers for the redoubts. The drivers, as they goaded on their cattle, suppressed their voices; the westerly wind carried all sound away from the town. " Washington perceived with Re light that his movement was imabsmed, and that the ceaseless noise q$ artijllery slope at tracted aneoiiou. The hours, a's they flew by, were up most eventful of his file; after WfiO months of intolerable waiting, q crisis was at liand, b,ut cvervtl\ir\g was prepared to insure hia aba.as he raised the intrencli- mentx of American independence on the heights then unknown liun TlqrVuS Ifio sTegc. ” ’. The mahh though cold, was not severely so; tfie temperature was the fittest that could be for outdoor work; the haze that denotes a softening ofthe air hung round the base of the ridge; above him, the inoon r which tliat morn ing liad become full, was shining in cloudless luster; at hk side, hundreds of men toiled in stillness at the frozen ground with an assiduity that knew nothing of fatigue; the tlircq hun dred t " ** **“ motion going and Percy showed no heart for an enterprise, which IIowo himself confessed to be hazardous. When they were seen to enter the boats, the Americans on the hights, who now expected an immediate attack, kindled with joy in their con fidence of repelling them victoriously. Wash ington said: “Remember,itisthc5thofMarch, a day never to be forgetten; avenge tlie death ofyourbrethren; and the words, as they flew from mouth to mouth, inflamed still more the courage of his soldiers. But they were doomed to disappointment; the Britkh sallying party and Percy, who did not intend to attempt scal ing the hights till after nightfall, were borne in the transports to the castle; in the afternoon a violent storm of wind came up from the South, and about midnight blew with sbeh fury that two or three vessels were driven on shore; rain fell in torrents on the morning of the sixth ; so that the movement against the American lines was still further delayed, till it became undenia bly evident, that the attempt must end in the utter ruin of the British army. “If we liad powder,” said Washington, “I Would give them a dose they would not well like.” Their hos tile appearances subsided ; Ilowecalledasecond council of war, and its members were obliged to advise the instant evacuation of Boston. When tlie orders for that evacuation were k- sued, the loyal inhabitants and royalists who had tied to tlie town for refuge, were struck with sudden horror and despair as though smit ten by a thunderbolt out of a clear sky. Their error had grown from their confidence in the overwhelming force of the Britkh power, which was to have been able to ravage the country in undisputed triumph, and restore them to the safe enjoyment of their possessions. Some of them were wretched time-seivers, whose loyalty was prompted by the passion for gain and ad vancement; others were among the wealthiest and most upright persons in the colony, who, from the principle of honor, had left their homes, their fortunes, and even their families, to rally- round the standard of their sovereign. Now the condition of the army was so desperate that there was nq time cyan tq propose a capitula tion foq their safety, aqd the best that their sov ereign coqld offer them was a passage in crow ded transports from the cherished land of their nativity to the inhospitable shores of Nova-Sco- tia, where they must remain, cut off from all' that k dearest and pleasantest in life; oondeinn- od to hopeless inferiority in a dreary’ place of exile ( foregoing for tlie ftituro tbe pride and jov of healthful activity; exchanging thedolight ora love of country for a paralyzing, degrading sentiment of useles-; loyalty; beggared in their sympathies as well as in their fortunes; doom ed to depend on the scanty charities, grudging ly’ doled out, of a monarch for whom they had surrendered everything, and {o find haw hard are the steps cf tat watfs-hjwrsr st whiofi upafiy suppliants must ever renew their importunities, (From the Foreign Correspondence of the Herald.) Tho popularity ofthe Trench Emperor trod tho coming struggle botwoen Frey00 nn-.t England* Napoleon has rpfiutcd tho prayer of the Mu nicipal Uqunul of'Boesh to erect in his honor Mi equestrian statue, on the ground that it isa departure from that ancient usage which re served such honors only for deceased sover eigns. “It is proper,” he says, “that this pop ular homage should not have the appearance uf a transitory flattery,” and bp li'VW the equestrian status a\ ltaideauxq two years ago, was witbouthk knowledge oy authorisation.— It is qeiiaiub' a . n indisputable fact that never, at any period since bid elevation to the chairof chief magistrate has the popularity ofthe Em- peros been so freefrom alloy as at present. - As the termination draws nigh of the ten years of dictatorship originally demanded by him in December, 1851; for’tbo devclopeinent of the resources of France, men are generally dispos- Wl.!ttI, a ktJLmorc philosophical view of events recr. They, see how silently, but fixedly die has striven forono donoucnient—tbe moral and material grandeur of France. They see. that the resources the country lias manifested arc as astounding to foreigners as to themselves,.grid that its moral force may at thqs moment com pare with the proudest period of its annals; they see, iwqeyvqr, - a possible future in the distance 1 more than sufficient to dazzle the teadic.st vision, and spite of many things which do not exactly suit them, they cannot help ad mitting that France owes him an cnonndUs tour tJlies; benontb him, in roe town; ray “tl debt of gratitude- British general, indifferent, tq the^incessant 1^ soqner or lalcr a mighty struggle will depository! ward & co., «£!!1 LRERs ‘V DRALRRS. “ >&S R* the Floyd House,) ■' ;}•>• attcMiaum n„ i„,l,m-1- ..m IIItmI *l»t>ol"iai^ lllim^ 1 * No rill. . u *HU:BORO’ UUUOIEScou [dov 19 CQU&l L».«* 1 *— ... « a jeet to like principles of recognition ami protec- lion in the legislative, judicial and executive de partments of the government And Uiev also declared that they would not feel bound to support any nominee of a Nation al Convention who did not endorse that view of the matter. That it was not endorsed or aecep- led is clear from tbe uniform declarations of the newspaper letter writers, during the session ofthe Convention, that tbe Douglas majority would not accept a compromise upon tlie New York or Tennessee resolutions. They would take nothing modifying Hie extreme Territorial sovereignty position of Mr. Douglas. Honestly, therefore, questioning as we do. tlie policy and" propriety of an abandonment or the Southern non-intervention position we much prefer doctrina'dy tlw attitude of Mr. Brcckin ridge to that of Mr. Douglas. Ahhkst or Ki .iitivks- A white female and a colored boy, who arrived from .Savannah, by railroad, wen; arrested at a private boardin house nt I’barU-ston. It appears that llu- ho was the property of Mrs. Rahn of bavanna his white paramour-cadis herself Anne Latherme Moore, and has several other aliases. for much of this cottqn by products of our hai ware and other manufactories. Suppose we pay thus ujr, 000,00b. It results that out of our total export trade of £131,000,000, American cotton in a manufactured state figures to the extent of £40,000,000, which, with the £lo,- 000 000 abovo, makes £55,000,000 of and u>r American cotton— only £10,000,000 less than one-half of the total exports of Great Britain. At the same time manufactured American cot ton to the value of £20,000,000 a year is being sold in shops and warehouses, and consumed in the United Kingdom. Then there are tho mercantile transactions connected with this 028,000 tons of cotton— the shipping employed in its import and in the subsequent exports. It is not so easy to esti mate tbe lymuuht of capital engaged in this com- mcrce. manufacture and trade, amt involYWi in transactions with the United States, all mixed up more or less with this ootton supply ; but must amount to from two hundred to three hundred millions sterling. So much for goods and money’; and \\ hat as regards human life? A'early 400,000 people are engaged in manufaeiuriny American cotton only and from time to four million* of human heiml* depend upon it, and upon it* manutiic- lure, for their daily food. Ye*, four n.dlwn* of tnen, oomen and children—not uegroe*, not 'American*, but .rhite people*, English, Scotch and IrUt; now happy, contented, and even prosperous, and adding largely every year to the nation's wealth—would be plunged into the lowest abyss of misery by tlie failure of the American cotton supply, should this happen before some palliative or substitute is found- And we sty > l impossible adequately to es- timate tbe awful calamity of such a failure of si.ni.lv Whv. fifty Gladstones rolled into one , I . • I! r f tl. Fxch-; i’-i-t wcul I tin 1 it Id ticult to make both ends meet, lalk qf in come tax, we should want nothing coming m to assist realized property pay ing it. I In; view of it is bad enough ; but that of tlie inense mass of misery, suffering, frightful death and social confusion it would produce, is w still. Passions would become inflamed- maddened people would strike right and left 111 their fury ; imaginary grievances would be el- cvnted to the first rank of realities ; and w bat cverdse might he saved from the vortex, it is quite certain that all tt of society would rtijicuil distinctions anish as r dream. The tolal number of miles of railroad in inv iu operation at the close of It59, man. 7,949 miles’. Ger- was noise of cannon, never ’dreaming of an eject ment from his comfortable Wmtqf quarters; the army that ^‘‘ h martial show, reposed without special watch fulness cr fear; the crowd of ships tn the fleet rode proudly in the spacious hvhtoS motion less except as tW tim<cd on their moonngs a lh the tide unsuspicious of peril; the wretch- unarmed inliabitants of Boston, emaciated from want of wholesome fuoO, pitang after free dom, as yet little cheered By hope, trembled lest their own houses should be struck in the tumult, which raged as if heaven and earth were at variance; the common people that were left in the villages all around, chieflv wo men ami children, driven from their beds by the flight of every shell ttyt was thrown, and waited for niomtog"with wonder and anxiety. In England (He Jlinistry trusted implicitly tfiq assurances of Howe, that he “W^ nqt under die least apprehensions of any attack frqm the rebels ■ tlie King expected thatafter I\ intenng in Boston, and awaiting re-cnfarcofiWhta, he would, in-May, of in the first week of Juno, sail for New York; the courtiers were wishing Boston and aU New England sunk to the very- bottom of tlie sea. , - At about three in the morning the working party was relieved; but the toil was continued with unremitted energy, BQ that tu one night strong redoubts, amply secure against grapo- shot'and musketry, crowned each of the two hills • an abattis, constructed of trees felled in the neighboring orchards, protected the foot of the ridge; the top was surmounted by barrels, fillod with earth and stones, which ns the hill sides were stoop knd hare of trees and bushes, were. In case of an attack, to be rolled down against the assailing columns. “ Perhaps there never was so much work done in so short a space of time.” Some time after daybreak, on the morning of the 5th, the British from Bos ton beheld with astonishment and dismay the forts which had sprung up in a night At the discovery the batteries op bofii sides ceased to play, and a fearful quiet prevailed. Howe, as he «av\ th® entrenchments loom in im posing strength, reported that “ they must have been tho employment of at least twelve thousand men;" and some of bis officers ;u-kao,, I edged that the sudden ajjpcarance recalled the wonderful stories in eastern romances of en chantment and tho invisible agency of fairy- hands. The Britkh general found himself sur passed in military* skill by-, officers whom he liad pretended to despise. One unexpected combination concerted with faultless ability, and suddenly executed, bad in a few hours made his position untenable. Ilk- army’ at that time was well supplied with provisions from vessels which were constantly coming in to port; the Americans, on the contrary, were poorly cared for and poorly paid: the British had abundance or artillery; the Americans had almost no large guns that were serviceable; the British bad 11 profusion of ainunition; the Americans scarce enough to supply their few cannons for six or eight days; and 'et the British had no choice but to di.-dodge the Now England farmers or retreat. Left very much to himself, Ilowe knew not what to propose; neither Burgoyne nor Clinton was with him to share bis responsibility. “If they retain possession of tlie bights,” said Admiral Shula* I,am, “ I cannot keep a ship in the harbor.”— A council of war was called, and it was deter mined to as-ault the Amerieans. Washington had provided for tbe contingency; and bad the British made a vigorous sally against the party at Dorchester, the Americans had float ing batteries and boats ready to carry four thousand men into Boston. t All day long the neighWing bills which com manded a view of tbe scene were crowded with spectators, who watched tlie bustle, burry and aluan in tho town. Twenty-four hundred men were detailed and put under Hie command ol Lord Percy to make the attack ; but the men were pale and dejected ; they shared tlie gene ral consternation and remembered Bunker Hill; take place betwixt Franco and England I be lieve no one denies, and It seems to be undcr- stQod that, agreeable to his general policy, the Emperor is simply leaving the period qf it to that fullness of timo which has hitherto Served him so well, and in which his faith is unboun ded. Then, as If by tbe natural swell of the ocean, the nation as one man will be borne on ward to its destiny—the subjection of that migh ty Power, which through so many centuries has exposed it to repeated humiliations, and which for nearly fifty years has dashefl from its head the precious fruits of its iqighty revolu tions. The two Po.vce«s qry. t\ow ip accord for die subjugation qf^hina—for fiiepnaticjparton of Italy. In tlie nieanwhifi} the dock yards of DOUl ring with tlie excrtiona **.1, ia nuking for the deadly strife which is to follow for the arbitrament qf the world. Dine in what com pany you wifi, dance wherever the pipe and viol invite you, walk abroad orsitathomc, you find that, whether you speak of China or Garibaldi, Japan or. the King of Naples, Victor Emanuel or Maxzlni, Hus k the question which lies at tho bottom of men’s hearts. Touch but the spring and every tongue is set agoing, and again and again are the chances, pro and con, dkeussed and settled. Thera was a time when grave men would interpose with “Beware how you engage in another combat with England > you forget the marvelous resources of that oountry; it k an egregious blunder 1., -lire them by any French stamlard-” It k very seldom indeed that you henr anything of this kind now. Times are changod. By some mysterious influence England is seen to be drifting on to a state of isolation, while France is gathering the whole world to'her back, and not to reap the advan tage proper to such a tact is simply to lack pa triotism. Personal Ai’pearasck or Qakioaldi. — In personal appearance, Garibaldi is about five ft. ten inches fit height, strongly, but not heavily- built, but with musoles and a hand like iron; fair complexion, somewhat sunburnt, and lias a full short beard, originally red, but now partly grey; a high, straight forehead, brown hair, with partial baldness, and dark eyes, set far back, give him, when uncovered, an air of qui et dignity which cannot fail to impress one with an undefined feeling of respect and admi ration, though his whole bearing is such as to make a stranger feel perfectly at his ease.— There is something remarkable about liia pro file which I have never seen before; the fore head and nose appear to be in the same straight line, without the usual indentation between them. THE BAY ISLANDS. Now that Gen. Walker has gone tq Ruatau (savs the Nashville Union and American) at tention is naturally directed to the Bay Islands and the condition of their inhabitants. It has been for some time apprehended that diflicul tics with the inliabitants would grow out of tlie recent treaty whereby Great Britain sur renders the sovereignty of .tlie lf-ay- Islands to the government of Honduras. The inhabitants, upon the promulgation of the Queen’s procla mation, made a formal demand for certain guarantees from the government of Honduras, importing a virtual declaration of independence, and allowing the Honduras government but a mere theoretical sovereignty over them, the demand has not Imjcii answered by the Hoiid ras government, and tbe excitement is rapidly increasing as the time approaches for the for mal cession. The inliabitants are preparing earnest to meet the issue and, if need be, forei bly resist any actual assertion of llondurean sovereignty over them. They have for some months extended encouragement to American emigration to the Islamk, and we learn by a late arrival, with dates to the 7th, that consiu- eral numbers of Americans were arriving by almost every vessel from New Orleans, meeting not only a friendly reception but profitable era ployment in the Islands. The British Govern ment liave offered tlie inhabitants land in the Britkh Islands free.of charge, but they indig nantly rejected the offer, and have resolved up on resistance. In this connection the testimony of Mr. E. G. Squier’s interesting work on Central Amer ica, in regard to the military as well as com mercial importance of the Bay Islands, will possess unusual interest. Mr. Sqoier devotes a chapter of about fifteen pages to their de scription. We will only quote hero a single paragraph: To the northward of the mainland of Hondu ras, in the bay of the same name, there k a cluster of islands lying nearly’ parallel to the coast, at adktance from it of thirty to fifty miles. Their names, in tho order of their size, are:— Roatan, (sometimes written Ruatan and Ruat- tan,) Guannjaha, (or Bonacca,) Utilla, Barba- retta, Helena and Morat. Dependent upon them are numerous klets, or “cays,” of small size.— These island have good soil, fme.climate, advan tageous position, and some of them excellent harbors, rendering them both valuable and im portant to that portion of tlie continent upon which they arc geographically dependent Roa tan, largest of these islands, is about thirty miles long by nine broad at its widest part. “It may be considered,” says Alcedo, “as the key of the Bay of Honduras, and the focus of the trado of tlie neighboring countries.” “Thk beautiful island,” echoes Macgregor, “has an excellent harbor, easily defended, and is well adapted to tbe culture of cotton, coffee, and other tropical products, And Captain Mitchell ofthe British navy, whoso account was written in 1850, adds that “the local position of the island seems one ol importance in a commercial, and perhaps in a political point of view. It is the only place 'where good harbors are found on an extensive and dangerous coast” And also, “that its prox imity to Central America and Spanish Hondu ras seem to point it out as a good depot for English goods and manufactures, where they would find a ready market, oven in opporition tonny d" lia placed on them.’' “Roatan and Itonaoca," writes another English author, “in consequence of their fine harbors, good soil, pure air, and great quantities of. animals, fish and fruits, and commanding ground, aro pro verbially known in that part of tho world as the ‘Garden of the West indies,’ tho ‘Key to Span ish America,’ and a *new Gribraltcr.’ From their natural strength they might be made im- prognable, being tenable with a very small force. POSTMASTER FOWLER IN KANSAS. The defaulting Postmaster o( New York is said by Denver City date* Vo the 14th instant, to have been revognraed in that place. The story U a* follows; Ail individual, whose dress and general ap pearance of city bred style, and his evident anxiety to shun-particular notice, and avoid all questions in regard to his business intention had a tendency to attract more iuiercst than is shown usually to strangers arriving there, had made his aniwatanoe at Pike’s Peak. Ho reg istered his name at the hotel as Achilte Drance. Under this name he passed unidentified, until jono day when ho was ou his way to see some quartz claims he liad purchased. lie came to a smalt village in the mountains, and stepped into tlie Recorder’s office, where ho was at once recognized by an old resident of New York City, whose name is not given, as Mr. Fowler, whuexclaimed: ■“ Why good God Fowler . 1 where ftid you come from ?” Drance Staggered hack with a flushed face, and then turning pale, he replied.with a calmness:— u Sir, you are mistaken, my iiame is not Fowl er:” To which his aoeostantreplied: “Well, if you are riot him with his whiskers off, you are his twin brother or the devil!” / Drance was much, embarrassed. Endeavor ing to evade his disclosure, he asked if tlie Recorder ofthe District was present, tiunking fo close the conversation; hut his tormenter was npt willing to give him up, hut approach ing -him and drawing him to another part of tiwv.re/H! 1 , ii&.MvWn J*?5 on liave had your hair cut, vonr whiskers shaved off, and are disguised fry y° ur spectacles; hut I should know you anywhere.” At first Drance assumed a firm and indifferent appear ance, but he soon gave way to his feelings, and then exclaimed, “ For God Almighty’s sake don’t expose me,” > ' “ A private interview was had with Mr. Fowler, which the eorrespondcnt'declincs giv ing tho result of. 'Mr. Fowler was deeply afHict- ■ud at first, hut gradually resumed his compo sure, and cheerfulness. Being by no means be yond the reach of the Government, he thonght it best to leave the country immediately for Salt Lake and California, mentioning Australia as his probable destination, lie fled at once. Fowler, on the first night of his arrival at Denver. City, is said to have entered a gambling saloon anil won $2,000, and bet. the whole amount on one game, but (he dealer refused to risk it. Fowler, without a comment, gathered up his winnings, went to the bar gracefully; took a gin cooktafi, and left the room. This cretdod a,n inquiry as to who lie was, but Ins fictitious name arrested this. He is reported to have speculated largely in claims. M.&W.P.R.R C mos. ... .07,070 lbs. 12 mos. 14,140 lbs. M. R. R .1,321,110 “ 401,G80 “ 439,700 “ S. W. R. R.... .3,149,420 “ Macon .1,849,880 “ 175,930 “ C. R. R .2,040,270 “ 1,514,120 “ 0G9.78O “ M. & E. R. R... ...517,880 “ A.&S.R. R.... .4,297,070 “ 207,350 “ G. R. R ...276,070 “ 289,320 “ M. & AY. R. R.. .1,198,750 “ 147,770 “ Total 15,353,020 3,854,850 [Surat! nah Republican. Agriccltcre in Georgia—Increase in the use op Fertilizers.—Last year, when wc made the announcement that the Central Railroad had transported four millions of pounds of the various kinds of fertilizers over its line for fhe twelve months ending on the 30th November, we were somewhat apprehensive that the ex periment would suffer from a reaction, and the present year would show a falling off, possibly, or at best, hut a small increase. Our surprise and gratification cannot easily he imagined when Mr. Superintendent Adams informed us that the quantity transported over the C. R. R. from Dec. 1st 1859, to June 1st, I860, was in round numbers fifteen and, a half million of pound*. The company has contributed very largely to the extensive application of these agents by a low rate of freight, the charges for transportation barely covering the cost The profit to it, however, is secured as the increased amount of cotton raised gives them an increas ed quantity of a more profitable article to transport. So that while the low rate of freight is liberal to the producer it is also profitable to the company. Tho inferences to be drawn from this change in our system of agriculture, indicate a dispo sition on the part of our planters to discard the prejudices which have heretofore commonly ex isted against the aid of science in promoting agriculture. It is becoming apparent that it is cheaper and easier to renew old lands than to emigrate to new and unsettled countries, break ing tics of friendship and relationship, and ex posing wife, children and negroes to strange diseases. The result will be to stop the tide which has been flowing westward, and people cultivate the red hills which have so long been left to waste. We have instituted a comparison between the quantity of fertilizers transported*by the C. R. R. during six months of this year, and the twelve months of last year, in the following ta ble; the six months beginning with 1st Dec., 1859, and ending 1st June, 18G0, the twelve months being the year immediately preceding: THE MYSTERIES OF CRINOLINE. Wo clip the following from the Philadelphia Press: “A laughable inpident occurred id- the court house in Belvidcre, N. J.. during tlie Harden trial. A beautiful young lady made her appear ance after the entire gallery seemed to be filled. There was a singlo scat vacant, and that at the extremity of the benches. Her crinoline pre vented her passage. As quick as thought, her hoops were dislodged, and an entrance to tho coveted seat easily effected. And remarks by way of comment; An Incident quite as amusing happened in Chicago during tlie Convention. Two fashion able young ladies from New York, witli a pro fusion of skirt and an immensity of hoops, de sired to enjoy a-hird’s-cye view of the City, and were for that purpose conducted by some gal lant gentlemen to the roof of a higli building. When they reached the ladder leading to the small scuttle holo, it became desirable, of course, for the gcntlomcn to ascend first. This they did, and taking the hands of the young ladies :is they made their appearance through the scuttle, handed, or rather dragged them up on to the roof. As they rose through the small opening, their hoops, from the waist down, be came m6rc and more compressed, requiring no little effort to pull them through; but sudden ly the feat was accomplished, and the hoops, bursting forth from the scuttle hole, once more expanded into their original rotundity. After enjoying the scene for some time, the party started for tho downward voyage; but then came tlie- rub, II bile it had been com paratively easy for the ladies to squeeze thro’ tho souttle hole, commencing from tlie waist and rising upwards, it was adilficult task when tho bottom of the hoops had to he compressed into tlic same space for the descent When one side was squeezed in, the other sido still re mained out. When tlie front was gathered to- o- c thcr and passed through the hole, the hack was found to he stickingup at an awkward ele vation. No fitting together of the joints of a stove pipo ever caused so much labor and vex ation ns did tlie attempt to compress those large hoops into that little opening. After several iuelfectual efforts hut one way out of the di lemma appeared. The gentlemen were requir ed to descend while some my sterious operation was performed, and were particularly caution ed not to come up again until called. When the signal was given, and they once more mount ed on\o tlie roof, their fair companions were discovered .-.landing “ill all the slimness of un- crinoiincd grace,” w hile near by lay two huge, mysterious looking circles of skeleton hones and sinews. The descent was then easily ac eomplished, a rush was made by the young la dies to their chamber, and “Mary Ann ’. was dispatched on a salvage expedition to the roof, fo bring in the remaining portion ofthe wreck Would not Live there eok Nothing.—Rev. Dr. Sasnett, President of the East Alabama Male College, has just returned to Auburn from New York, where he delivered an address before the American Bible Society. He carried with Win a negro man just 21 years of age, which had been given to Kev. R to be set free when he reached his present age. saw enough of the free negroes of the >ortn to disgust him. He has given hiniself back to his guardian, and says “lie would not live there for nothing.”—Montgomery (Ala.) Pott. From the Athens (Ga.) Watchman, Jane 21. University of Georgia—^Commencement; 1860. The following arc the gentlemen who gradu ated on the 8 th of June: W. D. Anderson, Marietta, Ga.; R. B. Bax ter, Athens, Ga.; M. A. Brown, jr., Burke county, Ga; J. T. Burns, Chattanooga, Ga.; J. II. Cline, LaGrange, Ga; W. F. Crane, Athens, Ga.; R. E. Earle, Ely ton, Ala.; J. E. Harper, Augusta, Ga.; H. N. Harris, Athens, Ga.; J. J. Head, Pike county, Ga.; N. C. ICimbal, Tallapoosa county, Ala.; IV. H. Lee, Edisto Island, S. C.; F. Lumpkin, Athens, Ga.; B. C. Lumpkin, Athens, Ga.; W. D. Mitchell, Thomas county, Ga.; T. A. Murray, Watkinsvillc, Ga.; C. J. Beese, Madison, Ga.; J. C. Rutherford, Athens, Ga; W. A. Tennille, Fort Gaines, Ga.; E. J. Thomas, McIntosh county, Ga.; J. H. Thomas, Walthourville, Ga.; R. L. Thomas, Athens, Ga; S. S. Tum- lin, Cartersville, Ga.; John Weatherly, Ath ens, Ga.; A. J. Whitehead, jr., Burke county, Ga.; Thomas Wray, Athens, Ga. July 29th—Commencement sermon, Sunday morning. July 30th—Sophomore exhibition, Monday afternoon. July 31st—Junior exhibition, Tuesday mor- August 1st—Commencement. GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE. The annual commencement of this Institu tion will be held on the 18th of July. The Annual Address before the Literary So cieties will be delivered on Tuesday, the 17th Of July.' ~ . c The Address to the Graduating Class will be delivered on Commencement day, by Col. O. A. Locbrane, of Macon, Georgia. The Commencement Sermon will he deliver ed on Sunday, the 15th of July, by the Rev. J. W. Baker. The Examination of Classes will begin on Tuesday, the 10th of July. Tho "following young gentlemen will com pose the Graduating Class: J. M. Johnson, Marietta, Ga., R. II. Atkin son, Macon, Ga., A. A. Freeman, Macon, Ga., R. L. Wade, Savannah, Ga. * Marietta Statesman. Tranquility.—The world has been enter, tained for many months with the scandalous scenes enactedataLondon Church, (St Georgc’s- iri-the-East) in the course of a violent and pro tracted struggle between tho parishioners and a Puseyite ministry. The last of these scenes is thus described : On tho third instant, the services were thought ir. jvic« off more tranuuilly than for manv months before. That American readers may learn the English idea of religious tranquility, tlie following anecdote is extracted from many others: “The sermon was preached by the Rev. R. A. Bradley, B.'A. He selected for his text the 10th chapter of St. John’s Gospel, verse 5: “Whither goest thou?’ This was responded to by a large number of the congregation, who shouted at tlie top of their voices, ‘To Rome 1’ and this was repeated as often as tho reverend gentlemen read the words of his text in the coarse of his sermon, the remark being accom panied each time by a peal of laughter.” (From Bell’s Life.) The following noblemen and gentlemen have put down their names for subscriptions for a testimonial for John C. Ileenan: Marquis of Anglesey, £10; Lord Ports mouth, £10; Lord Coventry, £10; Lord A. Paget, £10; Lord Glasgow, £5; Lord Courte nay, £10; Sir L. Newman, £10; Mr. .Merry, £25; Mr. Ten Brocck, £10; Col. Higgins, £5.” (From the Newcastle Chronicle.) A CHAMPION FOR BEEN AN. An old woman, at Seaton Carew, received the other day from her son, in California, a let ter, in which ho says—“I soo you have got Jack Hecnan over in England—the same Jack Ileenan that I once gave a good leathering to, myself, out here; and I hope he’ll get well leathered in Old England before he comes hack.” The recipient of the letter says—“She has leathered her son often, and he leathered IIcc- nan.” The inference is obvious. Taking it Literally and Coolly.—There is a bit of gossip going about in the English pa pers to this effect: "The Duko of Brabant re ccntly made a visit to. the Sultan of Turkey. His majesty, desiring to show much honor to his illustrious guest, dispatched a royal colla tion of chibouques and marghiles to Kmirghan for the Duke’s use during his stay. These, i is said, amounted to no fewer than seventeen pipe-sticks, with the costliest amber mouth pieces, all diamond mounted. .Several of them were the very ne plu* ultra of Turkish art, and tlio Duke, it" is said, gave utterance to his ad miration in terms loiul and explicit. Tho Tur kish monarch at once said in the Oriental style, “They arc yours." The Duke took the phrase literally, and packed up the whole array, val ued at about $35,000. The Richmond Defalcation.—The defalca tion of Mr. Edwin Robinson, President of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac (Va.) Railroad Company, is about $172,000, and his assets conveyed to the Company are estimated at $150,000 to $200,000. Mr. Robinson has resigned his Presidency of the Company, and Mr. Peter V. Daniel, Jr., elected in his stead. The Japanese Preparing for Home.—The Japanese are preparing to leave for home. Part of their luggage has already been placed on hour.! the Niagara, which will be ready to sail about the 1st of July, ami by the last of Sep tember set the embassy down safely at Jeddo. Her cabins have been fitted up with Oriental splendor for the accommodation of the ambas sadors and their retinue. Incidents or the Great Tornado in Iowa.— Near Cedar Rapids, a man observed the torna do approaching, and instantly threw himself a- mong some hazel bushes, with his lace to the ground, and clung to their branches for protec tion. They passed over him, hurling him a dis tance of some rods, and stripping every vestige of clothing from his body. Another man was surprised in a similar manner, and threw his arms around a young beech tree, holdingon with all his strength, which was considerable, as ho was an unusually powerful man. The whirl wind, however, as quick as thought, unwrench ed his grasp as one would snap a pipe stem, hurled him into the air, and dashed him to the ground, and twice and thrice repeated it, of course leaving him a corpse. Another man, as established by affidavits of respectable citizens of Bertram, the first station cast of Cedar Rap ids, was caught up from tho town plat, hurled into the air, and carried high above tlie timber, until he was out of sight "Cattle, horses, and sheep were also drawn up in the airy mmlstrom, whirled terrifically about, and dashed to the earth again with a force which reduced them to a mere pulpy inass. The prairies between Ce dar Rapids and De Witt were literally strewn with the carcasses of cattle, and the loss of stock alone must be immense. There is scarcely a fanner between the two stations, a distance of forty miles, but has suffered the loss of either a part or the whole of his stock. Gauabaldi—His Sorrows—Sis Unhappy Marriage.—The Turin correspondent of the New York Times, writing of Garabaldi’s daring expedition to Sicily, says: It’is my belief that the Sardinian Government has winked at this expedition of Garibaldi, in order to get rid of him. The desperate under taking, which it is anticipated will dcstrov him, is doubtless applauded by the Emperor Napo leon and Count Cavour, to the executing of whose notable projects he presented an honor able obstacle. What better could happen for them, and worse for Savoy and Nice, than to get rid of him ? A man like Garibaldi is no match for such characters as these. With regard to his late unfortunate marriage, but little is generally known, save that it was unfortunate; that on the day succeeding the marriage, the General parted from his beautiful bride forever, and that he makes one of the il lustrious hand of genius and greatness who have been unhappy in their married lot No one whispered a breath of the truth before the ill-starred union, which was one of infatuation and passion on tho General’s side. It is rarely that the Italian girl commits herself before mar riage. Her mother prevents this;' but there are instances where maidens have been known to pledge themselves to a guilty intercourse with their lovers, as soon as tho nuptial knot shall have been tied. In this case a bold, mas culine spirit, united with the warmest passions, . struggling for mastery over a form of exquisite mold, to betray the unhappy owner of charms that seemed Iis if expressly nurtured by tho Genius of Italian Liberty to reward the best and bravest of her champions. She, too, to make the tale more piteous, loved her husband to distraction, and bitterly repented her youth ful error. It might have been better had that error never been known. A life cf devotion might have softened the pangs of conscience, and the hero would have been happy in blissful ignorance of the wrong. But the indiscretion of the lover liad revealed all, and when it was too late, on officious hand doomed all to misery. The bride is said to be a in convent So is the beloved mistress of Mazzini now grown aged in purity and grace. What a different story— what’different unhappiness? Garibaldi might have pardoned the offence committed before lie met the object of his affections, had the wrong been kept strictly private. If anything were wanting to make such a patriot careless of his life, would it not bo supplied by this heart-breaking disappointment coupled witli the weakness ol of h : s country to sell his birthplace tc Napole onic treachery and ambition ? Alas 1 that so illustrious a mind should descend linked with m grief and misery to the grave. A. Blinkhn.—The Washington correspon dent of tho South Carolinian writes: I met a respectable old gentleman from the Northwest Ho said that ho had known old Abe Lincoln for many years, and considered him bona-fide fanatic, and had heard him when a practicing lawyer in his room at the hotel, talk of slavery as a crime of horrible dyo; that in talking on the subject he would become very excited, so much so that ho could not keep his seat, but would walk up and down with great agitation. This is tho key to Lin coln’s nomination; ho is an earnest man, and thought to have some pluck, with the addi tion al advantage of having not a salient public re cord. The great question which will soon he placed before the South, is whether they will submit to the election of Abe Lincoln. That is the important decision. If .we of the South are determined not to submit, then comes up how will you best prepare for rasistcnce? This is the point to which public attention should lie directed. ANECDOTE BY PRESIDENT MADISON. I believe the only time I laughed, except at the jokes of a greater man than mysell. during the period I remained an object of envy to mil lions, was on an occasion I shall never forget. I was called out of my bed, early one winter morning, by a person coming on business of the utmost consequence, and dressed myself in great haste, supposing it might be a summons to a cabinet council. When I came into my private office, I found a queer, long-sided ir.au, at least six feet high, witli a little apple-head, a long queue, and a face, critically round, as. rosy as a ripe cherry. He handed me a letter from his excellency, the Honorable. Peleg Pe- slicll, recommending him particularly to my. patronage. I was a little inclined to he rude, but checked myself, remembering that 1 was tlie servant of such men as my visitor, ana that I might get the reputation of an aristocrat, if I made any distinction between man andninn. ‘Well, my friend, what situation do you wish?’ ‘Wh-y-y, I’m not very particular;' but sume how or other, I think I should like to he a min ister. I don’t mean of the gospel, but one of them ministers to foreign parts.’ ‘I’m very sorry, very sorry, indeed; the.e is no vacancy just now. Would not something else suit you ?’ ‘Wh-y-y,’ answered the apple-headed man, I wouldn’t much care if I took a situation in^ one of the departments. I wouldn' t much mind being a comptroller, or an auditor, or some such thing.’ ‘Mv dear sir, I’m sorry, very sorry, very sor ry, indeed, but it happens, unfortunately,.that all these situations arc at present filled. \\ oulil not you take something else?’ My friend stroked his chin, and seemed struggling to keep down the soarings of his high ambition to the present crisis. At last he answered— • , ‘Wh-y-y, ye-c-s; I don’t care if I get a good collectorship", or inspectorship., or surveyor- ship, or navy agency, or anythingof that sort. . ‘Really, my good Mr. Phippcnhy, said I, 1 regret exceedingly that not only all these p pr ces, but every other place of consequence in the government, is at present occupied. 1 ray think of something else.’ Ho then, after some hesitation, asked lor a clerkship, and finally the place ofmes. engerto one of the public offices. Finding no vacancy here, he seemed in vast perplexity, and looked all around the room, fixing his eye at length on me, and measuring my height from head to foot. Then putting on one ol tne Urol Lost looks that ever adorned the face ol man, ho said— , , . ' •Mister, vou and I seem to ho hunt p 0 much alike—haven’t you some old domes y on La 0h!‘what a falling off was there; from a for- eign minister to a suit ol olil clothes n o n j te reader may be assured I gave lorn 1 , j pleasure, in reward for the only honest - enjoyed for years after. “ An old citizen of Savannah. Ga., " >th his’sistcr has just fallen heir to a fortune of 3,000,000 francs in France. " ouder n Ins sister” is a young woman- ’ We clip the above from the New York /or press, and would inform the editor that with the half of 3 000,000 francs, it would make hut very little difference as to the age of the lady

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, June 29, 1860, Image 1