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A CASE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL
EVIDENCE.
M
The following case of circumstantial evU
dencc is given in the Gentleman's Mag t
sine for 1762:
41 In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, a per
son was arraigned before Sir James Dyer,
Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas, upon an indictment for the murder
of a man, who dwelt in the same parish
with the prisoner. The first wiiness against
him deposed, that on a certain day men'
tioned by the witness, in the morning, as he
was going through a close, which he par
ticularly described, at some distance from
the path, he saw a person lying in a condi
tion that denoted him to be either drad or
drunk ; lhat he went to the party and found
hi: i actually dead, two wounds appearing
on his breast, and his shirt and close much
stained with blood; that tho wounds ap
peared to tho witness to l ave been given by
the puncture of a fork or some such instru
ment, and looking about he discovered a
fork lying near the corpse, which he took
up, and observed it to be marked the with
initial letters of the prisoner’s name; the
winesat ihcsame time produced the fork in
which tho prisoner owned to be his, and
waived asking the witness any questions.
*> A second witness deposed, that, on the
morning of the day on which the deceased
was killed, the witness had risen early with
an intenlion to go to a neighboring market
town, which he named; lhat as he was
standing in the entry of his own dwelling
house, the street door being open, he saw
the prisoner come by, dressed in a suit of
clothes, the color and fashion of which the
witness described; that he (the witness) was
prevented from going to market and that
afterwards the first witness brought no
tice to the town ot the death f.nd wounds of
the deceased, and ofthe prisoner’s fork be
ing found near the corpse ; lhat upon this
report the prisoner was apprehended, and
carried before a justice of the peace, whom
ho named and pointed at, he being then
present in the court; that lie (the witness)
followed the prisoner to the justice’s house,
and attended his examination during which
he observed the exchange of raiment which
the prisoner had made since the time when
the witness had first seen him in the morn
ing ; that at the time of such examination
the prisoner was diessed in the same cloths
which ho had on at the time of the trial,
and that on the wiiness charging him with
having changed his clothes, he gave sever
al shuffling answers, and would have de
nied it: that upon the witness’ having men
tioned this circumstance of the change of
dress the justice granted a warrant to search
the prisoner’s house for the clothes describ
ed by the witness as having been put off
since the morning ; that the witness atten
ded and assisted at the search, and that
after nico inquiry for two hours and up
wards, the very clothes which the witness
had described were discovered concealed in
a straw bed. He then produced the bloody
clothes in court, which the prisoner owned
to be his clothes, and to have been
thrust into the straw bed with an intention
to conceal them, on account of their being
bloody.
‘‘ The prisoner also waived asking the
second witness any question.
“ A third witness desposed to his having
heard the prisoner deliver certain menaces
against the deceased, from whence the pros
ecutor intended to infer a proof of malice
prepence. In answer to which, the pris
oner proposed certain questions to the court
leading to a discovery of the occasion ofthe
menacing expressions deposed to, and from
the witness’ answer to those questions, it ap
peared that the deceased had first menaced
the prisoner.
“The prisoner being called upon to make
his defence, addressed the following narra
tion to the court as containing all he knew
cencerning the manner and circumstances
of the death of the deoessed viz: “ That
he rented a close in (he same parish with
the deceased, and lhat the deceased rented
another close adjoining to it. That tho on
ly way to his own close was through that
of the deceased, and that on the day of the
murder in the indictment was said to be
committed, he arose early in the morning,
in order to go to work in his close, with his
fork in his hand, and passing through the
deceased’s ground, he observed a man at
some distance from the path, lying down ns
it dead or drunk : that he thought himself
hound to see what condition the person was
in, and upon getting up to him he found him
at the last extremity, with two wounds in
his breast, from which a great deal of blood
had issued ; that in order .to relieve him he
twa^d him up, and with great difficulty set
him in his lop ; that he told the deceased he
Was greatly concerned at his unhappy fate
and the more so as there seemed to be too
much rcasoa to apprehend that ho had been
murdered ; that he intreated the deceased
to discover, if p-ssible the occasion of his
misfortune, assurring him he would use his
Utmost endeavors to do justice to his suff-
erings ; that the deceased seemed to be
sensible of what he said, and in the midst
of his agonies attempted, as he thought to
spenk to him, but being seized with a rat
tling in his throat, after a hard struggle, he
gave a dreadful groan, and voniiuing a
great deal of blood, some of which fell on
Ins uhe prisoner’s) clothes, he expired in
his arms : that the shock lie felt on account
o the accident was not to be expressed,
might possibly he suspected of the murder
that he therefore thought it advisable to
leave the deceased in the condition he was,
and to take no further notice of the matter
that in the confusion he was in when lie left
the place, he took away the deceased’s lork
and left his own in the room of it, by the
side of the corpse ; that being obliged to
go to his work, he thought it best to shift his
clothes, and that they might not be seen, be
confessed that he had hid them in the place
where they were found ; that it was true he
had denied before the justice that he had
changed his clothes, being conscious that
this was an ugly circumstance that might
be urged against him, and being unwilling
to be brought into trouble if he could help
it; and concluded his story with a solemn
declaration that he had related nothing but
the truth, without adding or diminishing one
title, as he should answer it to God Al
mighty. Being then called on to produce
his witnesses, the prisouer answered with a
steady composed countenance, and resolu
tion of voice, He had no wiiness but God and
his own conscience.
“ The Judge then proceeded to deliver
his charge, in which he pathetically enlarg
ed on the heinousness of the crime, and laid
great stress on the force of the evidence,
which, although circumstantial only, he de
clared he thought to be irresistable, and
little inferior to the most positive proof, that
the prisoner had indeed cooked up a very
plausible story, but if such, or the like alle -
gations, were to be admitted, in a case of
this kind, no murderer would ever be
brought to jnstice, such bloody deeds being
generally perpetrated in the dark, and with
the greatest secrecy : that the present case
was exempted, in his opinion, from all pos
sibility of doubt, and that they ought not
to hesitate one moment about finding the
prisoner guilty.
“The foreman begged of his lordship,
as this was a case oflife and death, that the
jury- might be at liberty to withdraw, and
upon this motion, an officer was sworn to
keep the jury.
“The trial came on the first in the morn
ing, and the judge having sat till 9 at night
expecting the return of the jsiry, at last
sent an officer to inquire if they were agreed
in their verdict, and to signify to them that
his lordship would wait no longer for them.
Some of them returned for answer that elev
en of their body had been of the same mind
from the first, hut it was their misfortune
to have a foreman that proofed to be a sin
gular instance of the most inveterate obsti
nacy, who having taken up a different opin
ion from them, was unalterably fixed in it.
The messenger was no sooner returned,but
the complaining members, alarmed at tiie
thought of being kept under confinment all
the night, and despairing of bringing their
dissenting brother over to their own way of
thinking, agreed to accede to his opinion,
and having acquainted him with their res*
olution, they sent an officer to detain his
worship a few minutes and by their foreman
brought in the prisoner not guilty. His
lordship could not help expressing the great
est surprise and indignation at this unexpec
ted verdict ; and after giving the jury a
severe admonition, he refused to record their
verdict, and sent them back again, with di
rections that they should he locked up all
night without fire or candle. The whole
blame was publicly laid on the foreman by
the rest ofthe members, and they spent the
night in loading him with reflections, and
bewailing their unhappy fate in being asso
ciated with so hardened a wretch.but he re
mained quite inflexible, constantly declar-
ing he would suffer death, rather than
change his opinion.
As soon as his lordship came into court
the next morning he sent again to the jury
on which all the eleven members joined in
requesting the foreman to go into Court,
assuring him they would adhere to their
former verdict, whatever was the conse
quencc, and on being reproached with their
former inconstancy, they promised never to
desert or recriminate upon their foreman
any more. Upon these assurences, they
proceeded into court, and again brought in
the prisoner not guilty, The judge unable
to conceal his rage at a verdict, which ap
peared to him in the most iniquitous light,
reproached them with the severest censures
and dismissed them with this cutting reflec
tion, that the biood of the deceased lay at
their door.
“ The prisoner, on his part, fell on his
knees, and with uplifted eyes and hands
thanked God for his deliverance, and ad<
dressing himself to the judge, cried out, You
see, my lord, that God and a good con-
science are the best of witnesses.
“ These circumstances made a deep im
pression on the mind of the judge, and, as
soon as he was retired from the court, he
entered into discourse with the high sheriff,
upon what had passed, and particularly ex
amined him as to his knolwedge of this leader
of the jury. The answer this gentleman
gave his lordship was that he had been ac
quainled with him many years ; that he
had an estate of his own of about £50 per
annum, and lhat lie rented a very Consider
able farm besides ; that he never knew him
charged with an ill action, and that he was
universally esteemed in his neighborhood
“ For further information his lordship
likewise sent for the minister of the parish
who gave the same favorable account of
his parishioner, with this addition, that he
was a constant churchman and a devout
communicant.
“ These accounts rather increased his
lordship’s perplexity from which he could
think of no expedient to deliver himself,
but by having a conference in private with
the only person who could give him satis
faction. This he desired the sheriff to pro
cure, who readily offered his services, and
wiihont delay brought about the desired in
terview.
done, which his lordship having promised
to do, the juryman then proceeded to give
his lordship thn following account : Thai
the deceased being tithemen of the parish
where he (the juryman) lived, he had, the
morning of his decease, been in this (the ju
ryman’s) grounds amongst his corn, and
had done him great injustice, by taking
more than his due, and acting otherwise in
most arbitrary manner.
That when he complained of this treatment,
he had only been abused with scurrilous lan-
£U*Se, hut that the deceased had likewise struck
him several times with his fork, and had ac
tually wounded hint in two places, the scars of
which wounds he then showed to bis lordship;
that the deceased seeming bent on mischief, and
he (thejuryman) having no weapon to defend
himself, had no other way to preserve his own
life, but by closing with the deceased, and
wrenching the fork out of his hands, which hav
ing effected, the deceased attempted to recover
the fork, and in the scuffle received the two
wounds, which had occasioned his death; that
he was inexpressibly concerned at the accident,
and especially when the prisoner was taken up
on the suspicion of the murder; that the former
assizes being just over, he was willing to sur
render himself and to confess the matter, be
cause his farm affairs would have been ruined
by his lying in goal so long; that ho was sure
to have been acquitted on his trial, for that he
had consulted the ablest lawyers upon the case,
who had all agreed, that as the deceased had
been the aggressor, he would only have been
guilty of manslaughter at the most; that it was
true he had suffered greatly in his own mind on
the prisoner’s account, but being well assured
that imprisonment would be of less ill conse
quence to the prisoner than to himself, he had
suffered the law to take its course; that in or
der to render the prisoner’s confinement as easy
him as possible, he had given him every kind
of assistance, and had wholly supported his
family ever since; that in order to get him
cleared of the charge hid against him, he could
think of no other expedient than that of pro
curing himself to bo summoned on the jury,
and set at the head of them, which with great
labor and expense ho had accomplished, having
all along determined in his own breast, rather
to die himself than suffer any harm to be done
to the prisoner.
His lordship expressed great satisfaction at
this account, and after thanking him for It, and
making this further stipulation, that in case his
lordship should survive him, he might then be
at liberty to relate this story, that it might be
delivered down to posterity, the conference
broke up.
“This juryman lived 15 years afterward; C.
Dyer inquired after him every year, and hap-
>ening to survive him, delivered the above re
ation.’’
The quickest trip ever made between New
York and Albany has been performed by the
steamboat Daniel Drew. She did the distance,
which is one hundred and fifty-six miles, in
six hours and fifty minutes, one hour less than
any previous trip.
A new invention in telegraphing, by which
Speed of from eight to fifteen thousand words
per hour can be attained, has lately been at’
tained by Dr. Bradley of New York. It is ■
however, a partial infringement on the Morse
patent
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF GEOR
GIA.
This is the title of the first report to the Cot
ton Planter’s Convention of Georgia, by Prof
Joseph Jones, M. D., Chemist to the Cot tori
Planter’s Convention, and Professor of Medi
cal Chemistry in the Medical College of Geor
gia, at Augusta. It is a pamphlet of 320 octa
vo pages, from the Chronicle & Sentinel press.
A portion of its contents has already appeared
in two very valuable contributions to this pa
per, but we present in the headings of the
chapters a complete synopsis of the book
Introduction.—Necessity, objects and plan
of the labors of the Chemist of the Cotton
Planters’ Convention of Georgia.
Chap. I.—Geological position and extent of
Tertiary and Lime Formation of Georgia.
Chap. II.—Chemical examination of the
Marls of Burke county.
Chap. III.—Chemical examination of the
Shell Limestone of Washington county.
Chap. IV.—Comparison of the Shell Lime
stone and Marls of Georgia with the Lime
stones and Marls of Europe, and with the Lime
stones and Marls of Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas and
Kentucky.
Chap. V.—Comparison of the Shell Lime
stone and Maris of Georgia with various Com
mercial Manures.
Chap. VI.—Relations of the Marls and Shell
Limestone of Georgia to Soils.
Chap. VII.—Relations of the Shell Lime
stone and Marls of Georgia to Plants and Ani
mals.
Chap. VIII.—Ancient and Modern testimony
to the value of Lime in Agriculture.
Chap. IX.—Other sources of Lime in Geor
gia.
Chap. X.—Methods of applying Calcareous
Manures; cost of the application of Calcareous
Manures in different countries.
Chap. XI.—Other sources of Phosphate of
Lime in Georgia; Joint .Clay of the Eocene
Formation , Kaolin Clay of Georgia and South
Carolina.
Chap. XII.—Relations of Lime to Animal
and Vegetable Manures.
Chap. XIII.—Native sources of Fertility in
Georgia.”
It will be needless to say that the Conven
tion, in the production of such a work, has
forcibly illustrated the practical value of their
association.
The Marquis do Favicres, a great borrower,
and a notoriously bad pay-niaster, called on
Samuel Bernard, the great financier, one mom
ing, and said:
‘Sir, I am going to astonish j - ou; I am the
Marquis de Favieres; I do not know you, and *
come to borrow live hundred louis of you.’
Sir,’ replied Bernard, ‘I am going to astonish
you yet more; I know you, and yet I am goin
to lend them to you.’
[Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier]
HOW NEW YORK WILL GO.
Washington, Oct. 29.—Secretaries Cobb
and Thompson, who have returned to this city,
give it as their opinion that New York will go
against Lincoln. Even Mayor Wood, who was
heretofore desponding, now thinks New York is
safe.
“ Upon the juryman’s being introduced
to the judge, his lordship and he retired to
a closet, where his lordship opened his rea
sons for desiring that visit, mnking no scru
pie of acknowledging the uneasiness he was
under, and conjuring his visitor frankly to
discover his reasons for acquitting the pris
oner. The juryman returned for answer,
that lie had sufficient reasons to justify his
conduct, and that lie was neither afraid or
ashamed to reveal them, but that as he had
hitherto locked them up in his own breast
and was under no compulsion to disclose
and the rather, as it was well known that j them, he expected his lordship would en
i u re had been a difference between tliede I gage upon his honor, 10 keep what he was
ceafcid aod himself, on which account lie | about to unfold, as secret as he himself h ad
A Literary Cab Driver.—A prize of £20
for the best essay on the effects of Sunday cab
driving has been won by John Cochraun, a
ondon cab driver. At the meeting at which
the prize was awarded, Cochran told his au
dience that the essay consisted of 19,000 words,
and was all written in the open air, on the top
of his cab.
A Novel Yacht.—A yacht of novel construe,
tion has been built at Exmouth, England. In
form, it resembles a swan. Its length is sev
enteen feet six inches, Height seven feet three
inches, with the head sixteen leet above the
water line. Tho sails project on each side, in
the shape of wings, and a novel mode of pro
pulsion is adopted by using a pair of feet at
the bottom of the vessel, which are construct
ed of steel and web, so contrived that in mov
ing backward it expands, thus imitating the
motion of a swan’s foot, and propclEng the
vessol. Motion is given to these feet by means
of a lever, worked like the handle of a fire en
gine. The yatcht is provided with a cookery
apparatus and a dining table. On remorin
the top of the table, ladies can fish throu
the opening in the bottom of the vessel with
entire privacy.
THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER L
Tns Cup of Miserr.—We read in the Ital
ian correspondence the following distressing
fact:
“There has been an insurrection in TodL”
We suppose such an insurrection was stir
red up with a spoon. We should recommend
that an Irishman or a Scotchman be sent over
to quel this insurrection, for they’re the boys
for putting down Todi {Toddy.)
An Extraordinary Relation by Marriage.
—Not long since, a man in Sauk county, Wis
consin, married for his second wife his own step
mother, who, singular enough, was a sister to
his first wife. The lady is, therefore, not only
step-mother and aunt to her husband’s chil
dren, but also their grandmother, while the hus
band is step father to his step-sisters. Her is
sue by this marriage will not only be own cous
ins to their step-brother, but uncles and aunts
also. And the lady herself, being grandmother
to her children and nephews, may be regarded
mother to herself and child to herself and,
therefore, her own grandmother.
QUEEN MARYS TIME.
Martial law was proclaimed through Corn
wall and Devonshire, and the gibbet did its bus
iness freely, although in tho latter county care
was taken to distinguish the really guilty. In
Cornwall, if we may believe the legends of the
next generation, Sir Anthony Kingston, who
went as provost marshal, was not so scrupulous.
story was told of a miller who had been out
with Arundel, and expecting inquiry, had per
suaded a servant to take his place and name.
“Are you the miller ?” said Kingston, on rid
ing one day to his door.
If you please, yes,” was tho unsuspecting
answer.
“Up with him,” said the provost-marshal, “he
a busy knave; hang him up.”
In vain then the poor man called out that he
was no miller, but an innocent servant
Thou art a false knave, then,” said Sit An
thony, to be in two tales, therefore hang him.”
And he was hanged incontinently.
The Mayor of Bodmin had been among the
first to move; his name was joined to Arundel's
the rebel’s articles; but bis friends had in
terceded for him, and he had hoped for pardon.
Kingston visited Bodmin in his progress, and
sent the Mayor notice that he would dine with
him. He had a man to hang, too, he said, and
stout gallows must beready. The dinner was
duly eaten, and the gallows prepared.
“Think you,” said Kingston, as they stood
looking at it, “think you it is strong enough ?
“Yes, sir,” quoth the Mayor, “it is."
“Well, then,” said Sir Anthony, “get you up,
for it is for you!”
The Mayor, greatly abashed, exclaimed and
protested.
“Sir,” said Kingston, “there is no remedy;
ye have been a busy rebel, and this is appointed
for your reward.”
And so, without respite or stay, the Mayor
was hanged. [J. A. Froude.
The following original “dismalisms” are from
the Cincinnati Press:
The first dead-head—Abel.
When persons are bent on Matrimony, they
are bent double.
A Buck-eye abroad—the President’s squint
ing optic.
An effective sue-ing machine—a wife begging
her husband for a new bonnet.
Important to boot and shoe dealers: how to
create an advance in leather—insult a lady in
the presence of a gentleman.
Pauline, in the “Lady of Lyons,” talks elo
quently of “the crown the Bourbon lost”—
That is nothing to the crowns Bourbon has
cracked.
Financial pharmacy. However great a drug
money may become, no one finds it hard to take,
Men who undertake to make a canoe should
scream aloud, because they can only accomplish
their work by hollowing out
Some persons say it is exceedingly easy to
get a wife. We never knew any to get one with
out trouble.
The wickedness of the “softer” sex is shown
by the fact that the first word the first woman
ever uttered was dam.
THE DOUGLAS OVATION
Yesterday, called a large crowd to Macon.—
The streets were thronged early in the morn
ing, and during the reception hour at the La
nier House, the press around the Hotel Was
great An impatient curiosity was manifested
to see Mr. Douglas, which the slow formalities
of introduction could not gratify, and at the re
quest of his friends, the Little Giant appeared
on the balcony and was introduced by Gen.
Sanford, and remarked that he should take
pleasure at two o’clock in meeting them again,
and explaining and defending the principles
upon which the equal rights of all citizens
could be harmoniously maintained in the Un
ion ; and that they would also hear the most
brilliant intellect, and one of the purest pa
triots in the country—the Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens.
Before one o’clock in the afternoon, the crowd
began to gather at the Station House, ana by
two, the press was tremendous. A friend who
calculated carefully the area it covered, said
there were twelve thousand present TVe will
content ourself with saying it was a most im
posing assemblage in point of numbers, and in
appearance, order and decorum, taking into
consideration particularly, that but a very small
portion of it were Douglas men, it was a credit
to this section of Georgia.
Judge E. A. Nesbit introduced Hon. A. II.
Stephens, who spoke about an hour and a half.
Although comparatively near him, we heard
but little of his speech, only catching now and
then a sentence, when he happened to turn in
our direction, which was but seldom, as the
great body of the audience was in the opposite
direction.
Mr. Douglas followed, and spoke till after five
o’clock. He began by paying another high com
pliment to the distinguished ability and patriot
ism of Mr. Stephens, and endorsed all ho had
uttered. AVc noted no new point in Judge
Douglas’ speech. His explanation and defence
of his Popular Sovereignty theory, was the same
in substance and language as that in the Peters
burg speech. The attack upon the Brecks and
Secessionists can be found in the Jones’ Woods
speech. The Norfolk speech on Unionism was
reproduced, with the addendum of an argument
against secession as a “Constitutional right”
The distinction between “squatter” and “pop
ular” sovereignty was drawn as at Rochester;
and, in fact, from beginning to end, there was
nothing new (as there could not well have been)
unless we except some complimentary remarks
to Georgia, and something about his personal
feelings in regard to the sectional controversy,
which he stated were those of perfect impartial
ity. It was a plain, forcible speech—thorough
ly national in itsspirit—andreceived with agood
deal of enthusiasm by his ftiends and the Bell
men, and with entire courtesy by the friends of
Breckinridge. Wc are glad to say every thing
has passed off pleasant The most enthusiastic
Dougins man could not have hoped for a larger
crowd—a fairer hearing, or more perfect respect
to their favorite. On the other hand, we believe
no vote has been changed, nor do wc suppose
it to be the object of the Judge so much to
change votes as to combat prepossessions against
himself. He has had every opportunity in his
visit to Macon.
third don’t come in !
extent practicable ?
Why not agree to the j
TOOMBS’ TWO POINTS.
The two chief points of Senator Toombs'
Now the Breckinridge men did not go into ! speech, on Friday night, were as follows :
is movement, because (1.) It was manifestly , *• Du /";S first of the exis-
. , ' '. . tence ol the Government, (excepting only a
this
too late to accomplish anything by moral influ
ence on the North, where the only danger of
Lincoln’s election exists. (2.) At home it
could not effect the question a hair's breadth,
one way or the other. None of us will vote for
pting only
brief period,) the South held the reins of pow
er. In all the legislation of those sixty years,
not one enactment was made for the benefit of
Southern industry ; and the eleven volumes of
statutes which comprise the legislation of this
. .period might be burned, destroyed, annihilated,
Lincoln, and why, then, should the Breckin- an( j no branch of Southern Industry would suf-
ridge men waive an acceptable candidate in fa- for by the destruction. The South had, during
vor of those not acceptable. (3.) Tho Brcckin- these years of unlimited power, in the Federal
A Quaker, having sold a fine looking but
blind horse, asked the purchaser:
“Well, my friend, dost thou see any fault in
him ?”•
“No,” was the answer.
“Neither will he see any in thee,” said Broad
brim.
•Julius, why didn’t you oblong your stay at
de sea side?”
“Kase, Mr. Snow, dey charge too much.”
“How so, Julius ?”
“Why, do landlord charge dis individual wld
stcalin’ de spoons.”
Is your horse fast?” inquired a Vermont
horse dealer. “Beats all creation.” “Good
bottom ?” “He’s all bottom. Why, I drove
him so far one day that it took me two days to
get him back again.”
A lady said to her sister, “I wonder, m
dear, you have never made a match; I thin'
you want the brimstone 1” To which she re
plied—“No, not the brimstone—only the
spark!”
Tn» Difference.—A gentleman, having a
large six shooter in his hand was asked, “Pray,
sir, is that a horse-pistol ?” “No, sir,” he re
plied, “it’s only a Colt’s.”
Caught a Tartar.—Dr. Abcmcthy rarely
met his match, but on one occasion he fairly
owned that he had. He was sent for by an inn
keeper who had a quarrel with his wife, who
had scarred his face with her nails so that the
poor man was bleeding and much disfigured.—
Abcmcthy thought this an opportunity not to
be lost for admonishing the offender, and said:
‘Madame, are you not ashamed of yourself to
treat your husband thus—the husband who is
the head of all—-your head, madam, in fact?’-—
l Well, doctor,’ fiercely returned the virago, ‘may
I not scratch my own head? 1
Mr. Buchanan Alarmed.—A letter from
Washington, addressed to the editor of this pa
per, says:
‘The President has at length become thor
oughly alarmed. Secretary Cobb, lately return
ed from Georgia, lias brought to him heavy ti
dings, that from the indications of public senti
ment pervading your State, no doubt remains,
that she is piepared to join with South Carolina
and withdraw from the Union forthwith, upon
the election of Lincoln. Hitherto, the Presi
dent has reposed in the confidential belief, that
such a crisis was not to arise during his term ;
but the signs of the times are now disturbing
even this questionable consolation.”—Republi
can.
“Where are you going ?” said a young gen
tleman to an elderly one in a white cravat, whom
he overtook a few miles from Chicago.
“I axb going to heaven, my son; I have been
on my way there for eighteen years.”
“Well, good bye, old fellow; if you have been
travelling towards heaven eighteen years and
got noHearer to it than Chicago, I’ll take an
other route.”
“WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?”
FUSION CONFERENCE.
Wc have only time, before going to press to
remark that the Executive Committees of the
Bell and Everett and Douglas and Johnson
parties met in this city this morning, to con
sider the proposition for a fusion of “ail parties
in the State for the good of the country.” But,
as they were not illet by the Committee of the
Breckinridge and Lane party, they deemed it
impolitic to make any alteration in the Tickets
now before the people of Georgia.
The following is the address adopted by
the Committee of the Constitutional Union
Party.—Atlanta American.
Here follow two doleful address from the Bell
and Douglas Executives, in which they throw
the onus of Fusion-killing entirely upon tho
Breckinridge Democrats. The Bell men rend
their garments in holy horror and indignation!
They demand of the people—
Will you sustain a party which has deliber
ately preferred strife to harmony, and division
to unite? Will you endorse and perpetuate
the reign of party discord ?
Will you select for your leaders distractors
of a common country—disturbers of the public
peace—devotees at the shrine of animosity and
sectional hatred, and persistent agitators of
questions which, they themselves admit, are as
Law, Constitutional Law t
Shall politicians still gamble for spoils on
the sinking body of a bleeding Union, whose
wounds their own hands have made, and which
their own continued folly would widen and
deepen unto death? And shall such men find
the people their defenders, and at the Ballot-
box their justification?
The Douglas men being democrats and ac
customed to plow a straight furrow in politics,
can’t play holy indignation, and content them
selves with a simple apology for the failure, and
say:
“But we met no such response from the Ex
ecutive Committee and from the leaders of the
Breckinridge party. To appeal to them for
union of hearts, and a union of hands, for
united ranks and harmonious action, is repudia
ted and rejected. We found no one in Atlanta
authorized to speak for their party and ready
to plight to us the hand of fellowship and fra
ternity.”
Now there is a curious secret history to this
coalition movement in Georgia—what is it
Will any one furnish it ? We know a little—
not worth telling, and might rationally conjec
ture a good deal more. Was it intended to end
just as it has done, in order, if possible, to en
list against the Breckinridge men the feeling of
uneasiness, excitement and apprehension which
is believed to exist in some degree among the
people? We think so. For, first, we do not
imagine a single sensible man of either party
could have discovered merit in tho proposition
itself. It could effect nothihg. Second, the
proposition has long before been agitated, con
sidered, and rejected by the Bell men. Third,
they knew well enough, before they went to At
lanta, that the Breckinridge party would have
nothing to do with it. Fourth, if they really
wanted to fuse, why did they not do it to the
extent practicable ? Here is a family of three
brothers.summoned to waive their differences
under plea of the pressure of some common cal
amity. Two of them meet, but finally resolve
to keep their own quarrels open, because the
ridge electors, without any pledge at Atlanta
or elsewhere, will cast their vote for any man
who can beat Lincoln, if their own cannot do it
(4.) As for the proposed union as likely to in
crease unanimity of opinion in the State upon
any rcJrcssive course in event of Lincoln’s elec
tion, ihey have no faith in it. New proposi
tions will then be before the people, upon which
new issues will be raised, and new positions
taken. The idea that a fusion upon three can
didates is to result in a fusion upon tho meas
ures to be adopted in event of the election of a
fourth, is neither logical nor sound. We must
agree, if agree we can, upon measures to be pro
posed, when the condition of things calling for
them shall have happened.
The Breckinridge men will accept the respon
sibility of killing a fusion proposed to be accom
plished seven days before the election.
ELECTION TICKETS.
We urge our triends, in all portions of the
State to provide themselves with an ample sup
ply of tickets in time for the election.
We are prepared to supply all orders at three
dollars per thousand. The order must be ac
companied with the cash.
All orders for less than one thousand will be
supplied at fifty cents per hundred.
COL. JACKSON IN MACON.
Col. Henry R, Jackson addressed the Brcck-
nridge Democracy in overwhelming numbers
last evening in Mulberry Street It is too late
to say more, but the well known eloquence of
Judge Jackson received no ordinary stimulus in
the events of the day.
From the Mail of the 29th.
SENATOR TOOMBS AT MONTGOMERY.
The scene within was not only beautiful but
to a citizen of Montgomery, most gratifying.—
There was the splendid auditorium of our large
and elegant Theatre, completely packed from
parquette to dome, with gentlemen and ladies
—packed as was never public building before,
in this lively, bustling little city. From the
stage the view was superb; the dress circle
particularly “made profert” of our ladies in
their brightest, most numerous and goodly ar
ray. Wo are not surprised that the coup (Tail
inspired CoL Toombs with some of his most
flashingly eloquent sentences. It might have
stirred a much smaller and colder heart than
the great Georgian carries in his bosom.
It was not two minutes after Col. Toombs
commenced, before he was completely en rap
port with his audience. He felt it, as his easy
“swing”—in his narrative of “the first sixty
years” of tho government, testified. It was
most graphically done—that narrative of South
ern power and Southern moderation contrasted
with Northern rapacity. And it had conclu
sive effect, with many minds in that audience.
It furnished the speaker with the armory and
arsenal from which he subsequently drew all
the weapons and ammunition he so successful
ly used against the enemies of the South.—
This portion of the speech was received with
an earnest silence, slightly broken at times by
applause which showed the irrepressible feel
ing beneath.
Col. Toombs said nothing, when he came to
speak of the Bell and Douglas parties—or per
haps, party is the more proper designation—
which could wound any gentleman connected
with it A few slashes showed the insufficien
cy of the Bell platform ; and he gave Douglas’
territorial notions a rapid dissection, which was
so satisfactory to the audience, that they for
got entirely the President’s admonition against
appplause. From this time forth, audience
and speaker seemed alike enthused; and until
the last word of the speech, the cheering was
frequent and deafening. Especially was every
thing most cordially received, in relation to the
duty of Southern men to resist in case of Lin
coln’s election. On this point, there seemed
to be a most wonderful unanimity—which
must have been highly gratifying to the speak
er.
The peroration of Col. Toombs lasted about
fifteen minutes; and gentlemen of high criti
cal powers, tell us that they never listened to
any thing more powerful, effective or brilliant
Tho .speaker was himself carried away, and pa
cing the stage from one side to the other, he
threw shell and rocket and ball into the camp
of Submission, until it was utterly obliterated
Those fifteen minutes contained the utterances
of genius; they will long he remembered by
the two thousand persons who heard what was
spoken in them—how the flashing sentences fol
lowed each other, like the sharp fire from the
mouths of a battery—how triumphantly he
wound u;s his appeal to the true hearts of the
South, in words borrowed from the poet:
“Nail her old colors to the mast,
Set every tatttered sail,
And give her to tho God of battlo and of storms
The lightning and the gale j”
The Toombs Ovation was a grand one. Above
we havo only slightly touched some of the in
cidents. Wc shall not try to convey an idea
of the unprecedented enthusiasm which, to us,
was its most memorable feature.
Government, taken no legislative benefit or atj
vantage from that power. On the contrary, to
the North, ceaselessly present with its “pauper
cry of protection,” she had accorded almost ev
erything. She had passed laws which compelled
the ample products of the South to be trans
ported in Yankee ships, coastwise, at enormous
rates, while foreign bottoms would liavo lu.on
'glad to compete foi the traffic, on terms greatly
to our advantage. Besides this, our laws had
protected her industry in every form—herman-
ufactures of e w description. And for all this
tho South had only asked to be let alone. And
the North would not, and would necer, let her
alone'; but. insists on excluding her from the
territories with her slaves; sends incendiaries to
take towns in Virginia and to burn towns and
poison citizens in Texas; protects the associates
of John Brown ; and makes the constitutional
rights ofthe South, as to the recovery of fugitive
slaves, a nullity—winding up with imposing on
the South, for the highest offices of the country
men pledged to destroy her four thousand mil
lion of dollars of slave property, and to mako
her fields desolate arid her homes and altars
ruins.
2. And now shall the South emulate the ex
ample of our ancestors and fight to the bayonet
point, for the rights so justly ours, with a people
whom we have given our substance to sustain;
or shall wo cravenly submit to a domination
which shall destroy her civilization and leave
no vestige of her greatness for the historical re
cord? For sixty years we had had the govern
ment, giving all to our neighbors, hiking noth
ing for ourselves. Now, when they demand all,
shall wc submit? Will the men of tho South
submit? Will the women of the South submit?
[Montgomery Mail.
Hon. Wit. L. Yancey in Onio—A Scene.—
Hon. Wm. L. Yancey delivered his first Ohio
speech in the Opera House, in Cincinnati, on
the night of the 20th inst. The building was
packed in ten minutes after the doers were open.
Tho papers ralate the foilowig incidents, which
occurred during the evening:
Mentioning hemp as one of the products of
the South, he said they intended to keep a good
stock of it on hand-
What for ?” asked a Republican.
^|To hang you gentlemen who come down
South to steal our slaves!”
The retort called for great cheering. At an
other time he said:
“Some of your papers remarked to-day that
the farce of disunion would be enacted upon
this stage to night I love this Union. Tho
heroism of our common ancestry, the blood they
shed in the cause of freedom, our mutual pros
perity demands it. But if the Union is to be
sustained by trampling upon the Constitution
and oppressing my section because it is the
weaker, then (folding his arms and stamping
his foot, while his eyes flashed fire,) I am a
traitor, and you can make the most of it /”
This was received with immense and prolong
ed cheering, many rising up and whirling their
hats, and many of the Udies waving their hand
kerchiefs. This was accompanied by a volley
of hisses coming from all parts of the house.—
The orator stood immovable, with his arms fold
ed, as the shooters attempted* time and again,
to drown the hisses. Finally, order being res
tored, he, his arms still folded, in a soft tone,
said:
^'Eighty years ago, when young freedom was
compelled to hide in the caves and secret resorts
of the country, a r.obie spirit in the Virginia
House of Burgeses, bravely lifted his silvery
voice in behalf of his beloved mistress, liberty.
As the patriotic words gushed from his musical
lips, the minions of power were there and dared,
like minions of power here to-night, hiss at tho
language of truth and justice.”
This produced another outburst of applause,
which was prolonged for several minutes. No
more hissing was heard during f a delivery of
the speech.
A Child’s Logic.—A little girl, says the
Knickerbocker, had seen her brother playing
with his burning glass, and had heard liimtalk
about the “focus.” Not knowing what the
word “focus” meant, she consulted the diction
ary, and found out that the focus was a place
where the rays meet. At dinner, when the
family assembled, she announced, “as grand as
could be,” that she knew the meaning of one
hard word. Her father asked her what it wa3
she said it was the word “focus.”
“Well,” said he, “Mary, what does it mean ?”
“Why,” she replied, “it means a place where
they raise calves.’’
This, of course, raised a great laugh; but
she stuck to her point, and produced her dic
tionary to prove that she was right
“There," she said triumphantly, “Focus, a
place where the rays meet Calves are meat,
and if they raise meat, they raise calves, and so
I am right, ain’t I, father ?”
A School Committeeman Disposed of.—A
sub-committce of a school baard were examin
ing a class in a primary school. One of the
committee undertook to sharpen up their wits
by propounding the following question: ‘If I
should have a mince pic, and should give two-
twelfths to John, two-twelfths to Isaac, two-
twelfths to Harry, and keep half of the pie my
self, what would be left ?’ There was a pro
found study among the scholars, but finally
one lad held up his hand as a signal that he
was read} - to answer. ‘Well, sir, what would
be left? Speak up loud, so that all can hear,’
said the committee man. ‘The plate!’ shout
ed the hopeful fellow. The committee man
turned red in the face, while the other members
roared aloud.
The Mistakes of tiie Press.—The most
laughable case of “mistakes by tiie printer,” is
that where there had been two articles set for
the paper, (one concerning a sermon preached
by an eminent divine, and the other about the
freaks of a dog,) but unfortunately, the fore
man, in placing in the form, “mixed” them,
making the following con tretemps : “The Rev.
James Thompson, rector of St. Andrews church,
preached to a large concourse of people on Sun
day last. This was his last sermon. In a few
weeks he will bid farewell to his congregation,
as his physician advised him to cross the At
lantic. He exhorted his brethren and sisters,
and after the expiration of a devout prayer,
took a whim to cut up some frantic freaks.—
He ran up Timothy street to Johnson, and
down Benefit to College. At this stage of pro
ceedings, a couple of boys seized him and tied
a tin kettle to his tail, and lie again started.
A great crowd collected, and for a time there
was a grand scene of confusion. After some
trouble he was shot by a Jersey policeman.’
SOUTHERN TRADE.
In commenting upon an article of that vilo
Black Republican sheet, the New York Trib
une, on Southern Trade, the Now York Day
Book says:
The South, and her alone, has made the
commercial glory of this Union. Her cotton,
sugar, rice, tobacco, and other crops keep
Northern ships, Northern manufactories, North
ern agents and Northern insurance companies
busy. She pays four-fifths of our foreign pur
chases. Her cotton in 1S59 paid §27,000,900
freight money to the ships of the North, and
the latter only contributed $3,500,000. Her
banks hold the largest amount of specie, year
after year. Northern bill brokers sell bills
based upon her shipments to the amount of
hundreds of millions. She puts the bread into
the mouths of New England operatives ; they
owe her for the means to earn three-quarters
of each day’s dinner. Her entire domestic re
sources furnish an interchange of dollars among
our own people, yearly, of no less than $800,-
000,000. The very readers of the Tribune get
their living out of this ebb and flow of com
merce and money, which is created, and has
its fountain head so ‘h of Mason and Dixon’s
line. The Tribune itself reaps the direct ben-
"efit of it, and could not exist if the South and
her institutions were wiped out, and yet “ her
system of trading is a curse,” says this immac
ulate journa'.
GREAT EXCITEMENT!
Enthusiastic Reception of
EEoii. S- -A-. JDou2f 1 as
At Barmtsville, Ca.
The special train which conveyed this distin
guished personage to Macon on last evening was
saluted by the Brass Band of this village.—
About two hundred persons gathered around
to get a peep at the “little giant,” consisting of
men, women and children. There was only
one Douglas man in the crowd, but the “Bcli-
Everetts” made the welkin ring with their en
thusiastic cheers for the little Squatter Sover
eign. “Behold how pleasant it is for brethren
to dwell together in unity.” XENO.
Oct. 31st, I860,
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