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BJl GiM'O.Y, MSBET & BARAES,
Publishers and Proprietors.
*. >. BOI GHTOSw
.U).v ii. j Editsn.
(Tfjr §outfjmi jftbcntl Sliuon
/ ii'ihsh-it II eekly, in MiUedgeoMe, Ga.,
C>rncr of Honcock and MVdkinson tit*.,
(oppor.de Court Home.)
At Si a year in Advance,
(L in Advance, §3 Per Annum.)
federal
VOLUME XXXI.]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAf FEBRUARY 12, 1861.
[NUMBER 38.
OF ADVKRTMIIVG.
«yitare of tirr/re hues.
KATES
Per,
?) 00, mid fifty cents for each subsequent
- ivith>ut the specification of the number of
S • rt..*ii'will br published till forbid and charged
•mrdmgljr.
I*iofey-ional Cards, per year, where they
, not exceed Six Lises - . . fjo 00
‘ 1 rt iril! be made with those who Irish to
‘ V feor, occupying a specified space '
LEG Vis ADVERTISEMENTS.
• * ol Lend and Negroes, by Administrators, El- |
ors *>r rt.o'.nnnn*. mer.-qinri-I bvlnw to be h.-M
first i'ucsduyin the month; between the hours of|
it • loit-ooon and three in the afternoon, at the I
- i..n :n the county m which tlie property is ait-1
1860. Full and Winter, I860.
TINSLEY AND NICHOLS
DEALERS IN
mm mi-
public ga-
WAYNE
31
IIA T
STREET, .MiLLERGEViLLE, GA.j
.i of flies,-sales must f,e jjiven in
. i-n prev ion. to the day of sale.
- forthe sale of personal property must be (fir- j
manner 10 days previous to sale day.
■- ' ‘> he ilebtors and creditors of an estate must I
he published 40 days.
v ,fee that application will be madetothe Court of
i cc tor ha veto sell Land or Negroes, must be;
-hod for two months.
■ ,e/is for letters of Admini-itration Guardianship,
I..* published 30 days—for dismission from '
- •••■■it inn. monthly sir months—for diamiaeion !
". turdianship, 40 days.
• e t ,reclosure of Heritage must be published j
■'■ tour mon/he—for establishing lost papers,
' ' space of three months—for compelling titles
h\ outers or administrators, where bond has been ■
■ on try the deceased, the full space of three)
tions will always be continued according to I
• e legal requirements, nnless otherwise ordered j
n 'he following
RATES:
( "mil on letters of administration, Arc. $2 751
“ dismissory from Jdinr’n. 4 50 i
“ Guardianship. 3 001
Leave to sell Land or Negroes 4 00 !
Notice to debtors and creditors. 3 00 j
Sales ot personal property, ten days, 1 sqr. 1 50 I
Sale of land or negroes by Executors, ire. pr sqr. 5 00 |
solicit, not only
Have received their SPRING AND SI'MMLR SUPPLIED and respectfully
their former customers, but the puulic generally, to call and examine their LARGE and VA
RIED STOCK.
, two weeks
an advertising hit
wife (in advance,)
1 50
5 on j
I i EX E It A L ADVERTISEMENTS.
J. A. <£ V». W. TURNER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
October, 18, 1859.
Eatonlon, Ga.
21 ly.
COATES & W00LF0LK
NTmliOMt nn'o Commission
m MERCHANTS,
UiE now open and prepared for the reception of
,t tln trNEW FIRE PROOF WAREHOUSE,
. ,t.-it.- Hardeman & Sparks. We will endeavor to
■ .ve i itirselves worthy of the patronage of those who
:: tvnr It- with their bnsinuss. Liberal advances
unde on cotton '.vhen desired,
duo .1 Ga., Sept. 21, 1859. 18 tf.
JOHN T. BOWDOIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
KiTOSTOSei.
F.a'onton, Ga., Feb. 14, I860. 38 tf.
E5E5. LITTIiU’S ^
VERMIFUGE.
!. LARGE Bullies and Vials.
?* j i* required to relievo children of
it' .'ini besides bemif one of the cheapest and
i to the public. It** fre-
• hi use in families vrill save much trouble and
•mss-. a«* well as the ijce« of inauy children—fvr
- out every ton generally ivqair® it.
A CARD.
.1 V> GORMAN having extensively used LfT-
- plt-.-.Mire in Raying it
’"*• nio-t ralnaole remedy to cure children of
" h«* ever kio-tv. A d**ib»r battle iv unite
1’ai.bion, Ga., Feb. 3, 1^60.
tlTTlE’S '
AN3SYNE COUGH DROPS.
A certain c f ire for t'shlx. Coughs, Bronchitis,
AttUmd, Pain la the Breast; also Croup,
Wh»*rjrinfj Otn</hs, Ac., Ac.,
amongst Children.
T ii.s a pleasant inedicin-* to take, producing im-
rne.ii.4D' relief, /tud in nine* oat of ten ca»*eH a prompt
nre !t exercis**s tho mo*t controlling infliience
• v • roughs xud irritation of tue Lungs of any re-
,i.-dy known, often stopping the mout vi«»leut in &
• day or two. Mauy ea
rn.to decidedly consumptive, have been
ij.t.y cui-d by using a few bottles. As anodyne
u :h sit thebowel*, : t stiud*
I'trauiouot to all cough mixtures.
LITTLE’S n
FRENCH MIXTURE.
'** i- prepared from h French Recipe Go tbe
'.rhi> of No. i and 2: the first for the acute, and
_ f. r tue chrouic stage, and from its unexampled
-« - . k#*ly to su;»ersede every other remedy
r t:o* i n:*- -I diseases of the Kidneys aud Bladder,
i i. ;.iiaeal. Blennorrhoeai, end Leuchorrhceal or
i . i A I ns afiictiuns. This extensive compound
11 ipert ea t- tally ditfereut in taste and
i .icter fr..m any thing to be fouud in the United
;**' I’l.aruiacopfeia ; aud in point of safety and effi-
■ .< v is not rivalled in America.
I.ITTLE ; S PC
RINGWORM & TETTER OINTMENT, g
FORTIN, So. 2. ^
l -.tulreds of cases of Chronic Tetters Scald Heads, ^
.. ... die ~;v.u generally, bfe he,*u cured
remedy ; aud siuce the introduction of the
^ preparation being stronger, scarcely a case ^
: *- :j foaut! that it wili n**t etfectually eradicate
. -i.• • rt tirno. For the cure of Cancerous Sores
> cers it is vppiied iu the form of planters, aid
.* m 't infallible.
i . * than two hundred places in Georgia, and
n •• Soothe 6 tkej an to be had ; and as
. r-- scamps about who are counterfeiting his
r by palming off their ow or something
• by ni*iug the same or similar names - for no par
t-f - \\ auted or secured amid the ab^nrd patents of
ty.i let .*11 be cautioned to look well Xvr tba
h e'uature of the Proprietor, thus:—
THIS DEPARTMENT is complete, embracing «U tin I,nti-.i »iy!« * of Nil.KN. 33r.KlNOf*. *»<•
LA11VEM, POPLI.TN, Frcm h, i:ngli«h mill Auin iiaa PRINTS. A r.. Ac.
I^ace CRO«ds and Embroideries
IN ENDLESS VARIETY,
II ositiry aod Gloves of every quality
FOR MEN, BOYS, LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN.
VELVET and CLOTH CLOAKS, of varices styles and prices.
IIOIISE-KEEPIAXJ
AAD
PLAJITATiaiV GOODS.
In this department they have everything nsnally kept in their line
at prices a little less than can be had elsewhere.
MTS AND CAPS, OF TRE LATEST STYLES, for Men and Boys.
j300; r ^-!S SSIOIOZEIS,
OF ALL QUALITIES, for Men, Ladies, Eojs. Misses and Children, at low prices.
CARPETINGS and JUGS, of all kinds.
CZiOTZXS, CASSiaSXSZtSIS and VESTIUGS, of all Colors and Qualities.
iwm mmb
WAB.Ej
A LARGE LOT. AND CHEAP,
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LITTLE & BR0., R*
MThulastJ* Dru&ruUA. XIacoi.
Solti by all Druggists in Milledgeville.
HERTY ^ HALL, Agents.
LIVER INVIGORATOf
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MANHOOD,
li O W L osr, H 0 W R E!» tubed,
Just l J u!i!islitd in " Sealed Envelope,
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CHEROKEE REAIEDY!
H -nanh
and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs,
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AN UNFAILING CURE FOR
lenhoea
iS RKMF.DY cures when all other preparalions fail. It i*
'Ik. ^v. rv other coiiijimud; cuitaining no MIN-
' i »\ or N U'SF.oT S DRUG; ai- it is prepared aolely
* - « > B AUKS ami LKA V ES. and be-been hondwl
• nor; tkm t*> another, bv lh«* CHF.ROKEL IN-
* I- i- ..rt red W the public, ..u iu «wu i«trin«c merit.
*v#| iirklv »n * thoroughly. 1 h«* l NFOiB’TL -
r - \ will be repaid by u-nug tin* REMLbi.in-
• t ')> 1 .M*iv«*i»attue merry of Dome Quack or rrofes-
: i d KU V strike* at the very R<)OT of the disuse; rt.
- • irmrlv to sinipeml tbe powtion, but to REMOV E
VLSI-. .11 iM.i.-h it depends,—Full direidiousiu plisinplilet
psi,> . bottle. 'Idle sp-.-dy and p-nnaKeot relief si
ll It. In .11 ruses / UONORR H *J;A OLEE'L
El. STKII TI RE. KI.roK ALULr- (W HITEs lN
I.K.S iii.I ulldis un of the L'rinarr Orrans. lias astou-
„tifi of ,be «e. fills Remedy not onlr
1'OISOX frouith,-SYSTEM bnt IN VIOORATES
W ..;RtitutiC- .
NUT VFPECT the BREATH (
U.tm BUSINESS, or reqiiir,- ar
INTERFERE
r deviation from
. - no assistance from other medielce.
' ENHANCES its VALUE, is the ENTIRE
\ WSKAUS TASTE, lain* a I’Li-ASANT
H.k lul S SYRLT. , „
4-per isj-tle ,.r three le»ttlesfor T'
l'( ITTEttlt MER\' XN, Sole Proprietor..
" 1,20 1861'. lulv’r' .. 8*. G.ui., Mo
M diode,-ville, by HERTY It HAUL, and all DtuhMi
1 !,.• SoOth. '
I T IS COMPOUNDED ENTIRELY from GUMs
anti lias become an eslabiidbeti i'att, n Stmidau.
Medicine,known and ap-1 tproved by all that liave
used it, and is now resor-| * led to with eoniiduiic.e in
all the diseases for which jK it is recommentied.
It has cured thousands q within the last two years
who had given up ail . hopes of relief, ns the
numerousunsalieiteaeer- s* titical,-s m uiy possess.,,n
show. |< i
The dose mast be „ adapted to the tempera
ment of the individual' taking it, and used in
sued quantities as to act O gently ontiie llow,-Is.
Lid the dictates ol jh your judgment guiile you
ill the use of the Liver j Invigorator, and it will
cure Liver Complaints, jj I Uiiliuus Atjacks. Dyspep-
sia, Chrouic Diarrheea, ^ J 8uaiinvr Complaint.-. Dy-
seotery, Dropsy, Sour g Stomach. 1 l.-.binmI Cos
tiveness, Cholic,'Cholera, Cholera Moilms Cholera
Iufanttnn, Flatul e nee. ' j Jaundice, Femali eak-
n esses, and may be used! sui-c-s.-ltilly as an Ordina
ry Family Medicine. It qs - will cure Sick Hea<ia-he,
(asthousandscau testify,) I in twenty miuntes, if two
or three teaspoonsful are H | taken at the commence
ment of attack. >
All who use it are giv- „ '”>!? their testimony m its
favor j
Mix icaler in the\ \mouili icith the In
vigorator, and steal!oto both together.
Price one dollar per bottle.
—ALSO—
SANFORD’S
FAMILY"
Cathartic Pills,
COMPOUNDED FROM
Pure Vegetable Extracts, and pvt vp in
Glass Cases, Air Tight, and wilt keep in
any climate•
The Faintly Cathartic
Cathartic, which tlie pro-
practice more than tweu-
The constantly increas-
iN THE NATURE, TREATMENT, AND RADICAL
h ill. OF SPERMATORRHOEA, nr Seminal WVakuefs,
'•-anal In l. l.iy. N, r-uinm-.i an.I luvolnalary Emissions,
Imluriug lmpotency.ami M, ntal nml I'ny-icu] Im-aparity.
By ROB. J. CCLVERVELL, M. D.,
Author of the “Greeu Book," kr.
Tin- worl,l-r, ni.wned anther, in this admiral.!** Leetnreelear-
v |,r,,v, * iron Ills ,,u u expert'live I hat tin- uwful const qnen-
:■ - ..1 H li-alms,. may la* . 8 ,-Malty n moved without Died) rin
rail
. 1)0112
Dtlllgt
Ut
oih*q certain
u-hat his con-
roly aud rad-
ltlci uud thou-
. post paid, on the
York; Port lio
WASHINGTON HALL.
This House is sliii open to the public.
S PECIAL arrangement will be made for
the aceDinmodhtioD «»f tin McjhIm ih to
tb<* nppronelnng S i ATE CONVENTION,
land tbe future Serious of the Legislature.
; Tlo* rafts and term* at this House, will
those of tbe oilier Public Houses in this citv.
N. C. BAKNETT.
Milled pe ville, Ga. Pec. loth, IS GO. 30 dvv.
LCiFKlN TkW WOOL.
| 'HE next t.
i first day o
January 18th
m of this Institution will'
MARCH, IStil.
181.1.
in on the
35 4t.
iPillis agentlebut active
Iprietor hus used iu hi
• ty years.
{ft ing demand from tlmst
j , Fills, aud the satisfactioi
jgnrd to their use, has in-
| within tbe reach of all.
** i know that different ( li
ft, portions of the bowels.
I Pill has, with due reiVr-
lished fact,been eotnpoun-
O purest Vegetable L-x-
m every part of thealinien-
e, land safe in ail cases
n i needed, such as Derain: —
(S .Sleepiness, l’ains in tl,
PLANTER S HOUSE.
C/trrrt/ Street, Macon Ga.
rf'IUS HOUSE is Two Mocks from
! tie Rail Road Depot. IN THE 151 S-
1NESS PART OF THE CITY, and
IVIIT«IiUDGBVXI«XiB
I HON AND 15UA>S FOUNERY!
I V IT.L.EY & FERROWS would respectfully m-
* * lorn, the public that they are now prepared to
■ any work iu their line with neatness and des I
> su. has SUGAR MILL ROLLS, turned or un
1 "l.of any i Z e, from 20 to 120 dollars per sett,
S »’«AK KETTLES from 30 to 120gallons ; Saw and
l; ’ Mill Machinery; Gin Gear of any size.
ba ing lor House, Garden, Balconies,
and Cemeteries, at Eastern Prices.
and Clock Weights, Window Sills and Caps,
11.and Fanning Mill Irons of all dcscrip-
wlio have long used the
which all express in re
dueed me to place them
The Profession well
thnrtics act on different
The Family Cathartic
once to this well estab-
dedfroma variety of the
tracts, which net nlikeon
tarv canal, ami are good
where a Cathartic is
meats of the Stomach
Baek and Loins, Costive- <« ness. Pain and sorem
over the whole body, 1
frequently, if neglected,
fever. Loss of Appetite,
Cold over the body, Rest-
weight in the Head, all
Worms in Children or
great Purifier of th>*
to whirl fesh is heir
to mention in this advertisement, D.se, I to 3.
Price Three Dimes.
The Liver Invigorator and Family Cathartic Pills
are retailed by Druggists generally, and sold wholesale
bv the Trade in all the large towns.
y S. T. W. SANFORD, MD.
50 Iy.
tin.* Ware Houses and Whole?
Stops. A Porter will be in nttcndnne*
«t the lK-pof. J. O. GOOD ALE, Proprietor.
January , IP61. ^ 310^.
BUARDIMt.
M y HOUSE will be rpen for transient and regt
lar b,,»r,ler«. JAMES E. HAYGOOD.
Milleilgeviiie, Jan. 18|h. 1861. 35 tf.
lilt
M V HOUSE will be upeu for the rr-
p i.,n .1 .MEMBERS TO 'HIE
CONVENTION ALL WHO CALL ON
from sudden cold, which j yjj; will he made eomfiwtable.
Blend in a long course ol j E. S. CANDLER.
!aCreeping Sensation ot j Milledgeville, January, 4th. 1861.
** ilessness, Headache, of. r~j : r~ - ; W.
<)Inflamatory Diseases, j Administrator s Sale.
o , Adults, Rheumatism, a , vr'ILL be .old on th.--nistTui-. .isyin MAItt'H next, heforethc
(blood, and many diseases i • c mu ll
’ , 1 tv. brttvewi
|to, too nvmcrou*
:« tf.
in thtt Town of Mouti^Uo Jasper
ual hours ot sale, the lultowmg property
i humlred aud forty (240) a
plact* wht rt*<*n W. C. IioYpjoy.
of laud mor** or less, the
.ives, ttdjniHsi!#! laud* of
Stutiiu i it. Su.iUi. Mary Bto.ks. aad ntbvrs, Ivu*^ tenuiile* north
oiM.unced.L ‘
Also, thf place known a« tbeWatturfi tract, lying six rmhwbc-
lo’.v Moiii c- ill/, oil the Macon road, oontr.ininj: over five hun
dred (otK 1 ) ttuica mure or le«*a, adjouiiug lnnua of Jcnas H. Ilol-
Jand. aifri others.
A D o et tio* eani** time and place; 8 : xtv acres of land, tli# name
h";Li a p«»rtiou of tbe laud whereon ^pjmiel Alij-n, deceased
v Manufacturer and Proprietor » 'ivctFtitfhe t.uic of Uia death, adjoiuing lands of W. H. Tkomp-
rornerof Fulton st , Broadway, N. Y. - Mi.-in N'^ud others. Ail the above described !«nus
^.UO, cumei ~ t ... he^.l-i axitue propertv of th^eatate of I\ P. Lovcjoy. late ol
• anning ;
• 1 R*** I"'** materials.
- v Work Witn anfeit
Milledgeville, Jan. 2t, 1859.
35 tf
iiutv, <!• V' s-ctf. Suld lor till K-m tit olthe heirs, mid
’ deceawii. Term, on the (lav ol sale.
JOHN D. LOVE JOY, Arfm’r.
S5td«.
rtisemeut of Sanford’s Liver Invigo
atluirtic Pills, in another column.
these eminent surveyors (Mason and Dix-1 horrors of civil war be upon us,'but civi
on) came over, and spent several years in j war attended with Slave insurrections it
•Southern Dependence upon North-We.ioru | respective boundaries was ever made until j exist.
C’rrral Regions.
We perceive tbe Cincinnatians are ex
ulting in their fancied power over the j ibe matter. The establishment of Mason
South in their control of our supplies ot j an j Dixon’s line terminated a border war,
bread and meat. They say that large j which, for ninety years, had kept the re
spective adherents of Lord Baltimore and
William Penn in a state of constant ho.-til-
Lty or litigation.
This line having thus become a noted
And then indeed, not only will tin
Southern orders are daily returned un
filled, and none are accepted bnt those ac
companied by the cash. It is boastfully
said that they have had the gratification
of refusing bread and meat to some ot
the most distinguished southern traitors
and rebels: even Governor Pickens’ or
ders for meat, have been returned to him
each and every of the seceding States
who will not be able to do more than keej
their slaves in subordination, instead ol
offering a respectable resistance to tin
Government.
U e aic obliged to accept the above ex
position as the doctrine not only of 3!r
States, it became popularly* a synonym for
the line dividing the northern States from
, the southern, although there is no propri-
because he did not send with it tiie gold. | e ty, aside from incorrect popular usa«-e.
They seem to flatter themselves that | ; n extending the line of Mason & Dix'on
they may have the power to starve the ; further through the western limits of Penn-
landmark between two of the original j Lincoln and his Administration, but als.
ot the party to which he is indebted fo
his position. Lnless something is don*
peedily in Congress, by passing the Crit
South into submission. We have no wish
to disturb this flattering self-delusion of
Porkopolis. We hope they will contin
ue persistently to pursue the same policy,
and we should be glad to see them pm-li
their .Republican exclusiveness and hatred
so far—if their avarice could endure tht-
snciifice of profits—as to refuse all or
ders from the South, with or without the
gold. It would at once throw the South
upon her own resources, and do more than
all the paper resolutions and secession or
dinances that we can ever pass, to secure
our real and lasting independence of the
North. A little compulsory fasting, and
pinching want for a few months, would
do more than all appeals and persuasions
of the press and stump orators, to arouse
the energies of our people, and stimulate
them to develope the resources of tlieii
own region, and to adopt a wiser and more
profitable home policy than we have yet
had. It is a reproach to us that we
know so little of what can be done, if we
were to try. The time has come for
southern planters to consider what can
he done to supply their own wants, and
emancipate themselves from their “go
easy” dependence upon the free States tin
“victuals and clothes.” The North lias
been too ready to foster the native indo
lence and improvidence of the South, by
furnishing all its wants, ready made for
use to its hand, upon simple orders, and
we have from habit looked to northern la
borers as our natural purveyors, and for
got that our wants could be supplied in
any* other way but by orders on the North.
The South has allowed a laige portion ol
her wealth to lie drawn from her to pay
for articles of consumption that she might
have produced at home, without redu
cing the amount of her export staples.
The finest wheat grown in the Union, is
raised South of Kentucky. Alabama and
Georgia can raise more and better wheat
than Ohio, Indiana or Illinois. The best
flour in the union is ground south of the
faintest trace of Black-Republicanism.
The only flour that can pass the tropies.
uninjured, to feed the West Indians and
South Americans, is the product of the
South. The flour that stands unrivaled
and sells higher in the New York Market
than any other in the Union, is from Ten
nessee aud North Carolina. Better wheat
and more of it to the acre, can be grown
here and all around us, than in Illinois or
Ohio, if one half the pains there bestow
ed in preparing the soil and cultivating it,
was given to it here. The neglected
prairies in Arkansas, that have been sup
posed to be worthless—last year, on tri
al. yielded 30 and 35 bushels of superior
wheat to the acre, with very rough and
negligent cultivation. Many intelligent
southern farmeis have been led to the
convic ion from their own experiments,
that the South can, not only supply her
self with bread, but could feed the North
cheaper than than the North is now sell
ing food to the South. Wheat is a crop
that requires careful preparation for its
cultivation. Our farmers, absorbed in cot
ton, give it little or no attention, and
don’t kuow how to plant and save it.
They have obtained none of the labor-
saving implements now used in its cul
ture. Few have ever seen a wheat drill,
and still fewer know anything of a reaper.
When these shall be generally introduced
at the South, and the adaption of our cli
mate and soil for wheat culture fully test
ed, our exports of bread-stuffs may not
he an insignificant item by the side of our
cotton shipments.
All the world know and confess that
we can beat all other regions in raising
corn, if we “but half try.”
'The south is sendittg her beef from
Texas, Arkansas and Missouri, over Illi
nois and eastern railroads to feed the North
and Last. And to our rich prairies, and
luxuriant canebrakes, where winter feed
ing is unnecessary, the North h.is been
for years looking for her chief future sup
plies of beef.
Heretofore we have thought our pork, in
ferior, apparently because it was so easily
and cheaply raised. Because it cost noth
ing, our people seem to have put no
great value on it. They take no pains
in feeding, and have never acquired the
art of curing it well. But the best bacon
in the Union is made in Fast Tennessee
and North Alabama; and there is no rea
son why i;n equally good product cannot
be made in the same latitudes in other
States. Hogs breed fa-ter at the South
than at the North, are easily kept upon
the range in good condition the year
round, and if every farmer or planter
would, at the second or last plowing of
his corn, sow or plant peas between the
rows, he would have a crop, after harvest
ing his corn, to fatten any number of
hogs, and make any quantity of the finest
pork and bacon that can be raised in the
country, almost without cost or labor.
The Southern Slates can produce the
cheapest food grown on the face of the
earth if they will devote their energies
properly to the supply of their own
wants. They can in one year render
themselves independent of northern sup-
lilies of bread and meats, and this con
summation so devoutly* to be desired will
be hastened bv the Cincinnatians’ refusal
j sylvania. If carried due west as a boun
dary* between free and slave States, this
imaginary line would give to tlie slave
States a large share of Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois, including the city of Cincinnati.
But the Ohio river, which is the natural
boundary between North and South for so
many hundreds of miles, renders the inter
vention of any modern Masons and Dixons
to settle boundary di-putes, wholly unnec
essary.— Cincinnati Commercial.
The Position of the Republicsu Pnrty.
If the comments of the Courier and En
quirer, of this city, on Senator Seward’s
speech, correctly* present the attitude .><
that gentleman at this time, very little,
we apprehend, can be expected from the
incoming Adm nistration, towards settling
the disunion question. The Courier thinks
Mr. Seward ought not to have spoken at
all; but, having spoken, it congratulates
him on his tact in making a speech and
saying so little. In fact, it says, his wis
dom “enabled him to escape much better
than we [the Courier] anticipated.” It
may not be amiss to quote a portion of the
comments of the Courier to show how Mr.
Seward’s friends interpret his position :—
But let us see how much of truth or jus
tice there is, in this cavilling at Mr. Sew
ard’s speech, on the ground that it is not
sufficiently explicit against disunion, and
in favor of Republican principles. He be
gins with the declaration that while “from
his iiiermost soul” he dreads civil war, it
is preferable to disunion! He declares
secession an absurdity ; and insists, that in
no conceivable contingency, can this
Union of States be dissolved ! And he
closes as he commenced ; treats with con
tempt the very idea of disunion ; declared
his faith in the perpetuity of the Union,
unshaken ; insists that it “has not yet ac
complished what good for mankind was
manifestly designed by God;” says that
“men in after times” will honor those who
now save the Union and gives notice that
"when the eccentric movements of secesion
and disunion SHALL have ENDED, in what
ever form that end may come, I IIFN, and
NUi’ TILL THEN—one, two, or three
years hence—I should cheerfully advise a
convention of the People! ! And he
speaks of the duty and necessity of enforc
ing all laws, while he inculcates brotherly
love and affection, and strives to inspire
admiral ion of the Union and its blessings,
by contrasting them with the inevitable
consequences of submitting to disunion,—
the very idea of which lie characterizes as
unnatural and blasphemous,—and forgive
ness of the man who even breathes such
a doctrine, requires, in bis judgment, the
exercise of a charity like that which could
forgive a brother seventy times seven
times; and he closes his speech with the
emphatic words :—•* (For / woe f m rfie man
who madly lifts his hands against the Union.’'
The Union, then, is to he preserved ;
but how ? Not by* Compromise, for he
does not suggest any, until some three
years hence—he does not believe in treat
ing with rebels, with arms in their hands.
But the Union is to preserved by the en-
frreement of the laws, and by “the coolness,
calmness and RESOLUTION of the
American people.” And while he speaks
thus cheerfully, and with “unshaken con
fidence” in the preservation of the Union,
and calculates upon, while lie deplores the
necessity of civil war, lie does not hesitate
to threaten the rebels with some of the con
sequences of the rebellion by pointing out
what would naturally be its fruits, even it
they* should accomplish an impossibility.
and convert treason and rebellion into a
successful revolution.
Now, we do not hesitate to say that if
the spirit which characterizes the above
exposition of Mr. Seward’s views, shall
enter into tiie policy <d the. incoming Ad
ministration, or shall control the piesent
Congress, composed of a majority friendly
to it, there is no h"j>e whatever of a peacea
ble adjustment of our difficulties ; no solution
of ou r troubles short of a devastating civil tear.
( lor only hope of any other result rests
upon the the frail chances of a settlement
during the next forty-five days. For a
little time we did indulge some slight con
fidence that the Republican party, by its
chosen expositors and representatives,
rm°dit rise above the partizanship which
has enabled it to achieve a political tri
umph, and put forth a strong arm to save
the Union from dissolution. That hope,
since the speech of Mr. Seward, and espe
chilly since the expressions which it lias
drawn from the press of that party, is
quite destroyed. 'This Union, with till its
blessings and benefits—with all its past
achievinents and anticipations of future
glory—is to be sacrificed to partisan am
bition and sectional ideas, unless saved by
measures of peace and conciliation before
the party which triumphed at the last
election enters upon the administration of
the government.
We know these are sad forebodings ; —
that we shall be deemed alarmists, and
' wanting confidence in tbe public men of
the country ; but we ask any man, Repub
lican or not, to point us to a single evi
dence of peace, a single indication of for
bearance, on tbe part of Mr. Lincoln and
his organs, which has a prospect ot being
effective or instrumental for good. Mr.
tenden amendments, by admitting the re
niaining territory* as States, or otherwise
the days of this Government may b<
counted without reaching one hundrei
from this date.
IVilhiioliliiig Corn.
Between eighty and ninety years ajr«
there lived in the Connecticut River Val
iev. two tanners, one <>f whom was name,
Hunt, and the other Clark. The former ii
early life, had been a man of strong will am
somewhat hasty and violent temper, some
times lie had been seen beating his oxei
over their heads with the handle of liie
whip in a way to excite the bystanders,
and when expostulated with, he excusei
himself by saying that lie had the most frac
tions trnai iti town. llv-Atul tv an ultorutiai:
took place in tin* temper of farmer Hunt
He became mild, forbearing, and wha'
was most remarkable, his oxen seemed to
improve in disposition at an equal pace will
hitnself.
Farmer Hunt joined the church and
! \ as an exemplary man. His neighbor
j saw the change both in himself and his
j team. It was a marvel to the whole town.
: One of his townsmen asked him for an ex-
| planation. Farmer Hunt said, ”1 have
| found out a secret about my cattle. For
merly they were unmanageable. The
more I whipped and clubbed them the
worse they acted.—But now, when they
are contrary, I go behind my* load, sit down
and sing Old Hundred, and strange as it
may appear, no sooner have 1 ended than
the oxen go along as quietly as I coulu
wish. I don’t know how it is, but really
they seem to like singing.”
In the course of a few years the two
farmers were chosen deacons of the church,
and they both adorned their profession.
About the time of their election a grievous
famine prevailed iu the valley*, and the
farmers generally were laying up their corn
to plant the ensuing season. A poor man,
living in the town, went to Deacon Hunt
and said, ”1 have come to buy a bushel of
corn. Here is the money. It is about all
l can gather. The deacon told him he
could not spare a bushel for love or money.
He was keeping double the usual quantity
for seed corn the next year, and had to
stint his own family. The man urged his
suit in vain. At last he said, ’’Deacon, it
you do not let me have the corn, I shall
curse you.”—’’Curse me!” replied the
deacon, ”how da-e you do so?” “Because,”
said the man, ’’the Bible says so.” “ Non
sense, ” exclaimed Deacon Hunt; “there
is no such thing in the Bible.” “Yes
there is,” replied the poor man* “Well,”
said the deacon, “If you can find any such
text, 1,11 give you a bushel of corn. ,,They
went into the house, when the poor man
went to the old family Bible, turned to
Prov. 11 ; 26, and read, “He that with-
holdeth corn, the people shall curse him;
hut blessings shall be upon the head ot
him that selletli it.”
The deacon was fairly caught. “Come
along,” said he, “ and l will be as good as
my* word.” He took him tothe corn-house,
measured out a full bu-hel of corn, helped
ilie man put it in his bag. assisted him to
put it on iiis shoulder, and just before his
departure, being soinwhat of a wag, he
said with a twinkle of the eye, “I say*,
neighbor, after you have carried this corn
home, go up to Deacon Clark, and curse
him out of another bushel.”
IIafpy Woman.—A happy woman! Is
not she the very* sparke of life? A woman
who is happy because she can’t help it—
whose smile, even the coldest sprinkle of
misfortune cannot dampen. Men make a
terrible mistake when they marry for beau
ty*, or for style; the sweetest wives arc
thus • who possess the magic secret of being
contented under any circumstances.
Ilicli or poor, high or low, it makes no dif
ference, the bright little fountain of joy
bubbles up just as musically in their hearts.
Do they live in a log cabin ? the fire that
leaps on it s humble hearth becomes bright
as the gilded chandeliers in an Aladden
palace. Was ever the stream of life so
dark and nnpropicious that the sunshine
as a happy face falling across its tiirpid
tide, would not awaken an answering
gleam? Why, these joyous tempered peo
ple don’t know half the good they do.
Klraii^c Snilou the JIiii»i«Nippi,
The Memphis Avalanche of the 23d
tilt, says: “'The old frequenters of the
levee yesterday were somewhat astonished
at witnessing a brig, whose measurement
would be about 250 tons, passing by the
city. It hailed from Columbus, Ky*., and
is on its way south with a cargo of pro
visions.
Alabama Declares against the Slave
Trade.—Among the last tilings done by
the Alabama Convention, previous to its
adjournment, was the passage of a resolu
tion instructing their deputies in the
Southern Convention to insist the adop
tion of measures foievei to prohibit ihe
African Slave Trade. Here is another
nut fur Black Republicanism to crack.
We would suggest to Mr. Raymond to
revise his letters to Mr. Yancey on this
subject, and add, by* way of an appendix,
tbe proceedings of the Georgia and Ala
bama Conventions. Taken together, they
will illustrate the forecast of the political
philosopher.— Rep.
of credits; and be perfected by a general l Seward, the premier of the new Adminis
act of secession and a tariff for the pro
tection of home industry.—Memphis Ap
peal.
What i« Jln^oii nn«l Dixon's Tine?
Editors Commercial: There is scarcely
a day passes but allusion is made by some
speaker or paper to Mason and Dixon’s
line. The subscriber has asked, and
heard the question asked many times,
where is said line, when run, and for what
purpose ? Will you please give the in
formation, and oblige
One that Wants to Know.
Mason and Dixon’s line is the parallel
of latitude 3f) deg. 43 min. North, which
separates the State of Pennsylvania from
Maryland. It was drawn by Charles .Ma
son and Jeremiah Dixon, two distinguish
ed Erglish mathematicians and astrono
mers, in the year 1764.
The history of its establishment is, in
brief, that there had been, for near a cen
tury, discussions and conflicts between tbe
rival proprietors of Pennsylvania and Ma
ryland, ou the subject of their common
To the People of the Norlh-we»l.
There are some subjects so grave and terrible in
their import, that every effort to embellish them seems
but a mockery. The people ot this country nre in the
very jaws ot a disaster, the horrors of which beggar
all description. The Xati"U whirls giddily round the
ration, speaks smooth words and "glitter
ing generalities,” but he suggests no prac
tical mode of relief. 1 he Republican
press, with scarcely an exception, favors
coercion,—a policy which every man in
his sense knows must bring upon the
country the horrors of a devastating and
destructive war. The Courier, after quot
ing from Mr. Seward’s speech, further
says :—
This language cannot he misunderstood.
He does not shut his eyes to the fact that
States arc in rebellion, traitors in the Na
tional Capital, and civil war absolutely in
augurated, through the palpable treason
of the Government. lie knows therefore,
what is to be tiie state of affairs “in the
Spring on this side Ot the Atlantic;” be- j TlVDeu.ocracytl.us disastrously defeated, Ken to
to. . . ,, -1 bo imeimaciuus of tbe cuonnou power they still pos-
cause lie knows that the Ooveinment Ol nnd stand appalled in the presence of the coming
dges of a yawning maelstrom, nearing tbe tremendous
abvss beuoatli. wii h au evenness and certainty of mo
tion that pbill the heart of Ihe beholder. Civil war
stares ns in the face : a war, the horrors of which no
peu can describe, and the end or results of which no
man can foresee. We have been so long happv under
our glorious Union, that it is almost impossible for
us to even remotely coneieve the miseries that await
us.
IIow this yawning gulf is to be closed up, no man
can tell. A National Convention, fresh from the peo
ple, would, as we henrtiiy believe, save the country:
imt how to get a national convention we know no).
The Northern Democrats and conservatives, who have
so long and nobly breasted the storm of fanaticism aud
borne aloft the rights of tbe whole Union, have at last
been overborne, uud the Abolition co horts have seized
the government over the ruins of the Constitution
which he will be the Premier, is to be un
der a chief of indomitable will, who hav
ing sworn to execute the laws, will assur
edly, redeem his oath. His first duty
will be, to re-capture all the Forts and
Arsenals of which traitors and rebels have
robbed the General Government; and of
boundary. Maryland was granted to Lord ; course, if resistance be made, Charleston
Baltimore, and Pennsylvania to William ' and Savannah in which two of the Arsen-
Penn, but no definite settlement of their. als are situated, will, if need be, cease to
. atastmphe.
Tin* Republicans—half gratified at tbe terrible mis
eries and butcheries they would be enabled to inflict
on the Southern people, half unconscious of the terri
ble future they are creating, and wholly and stubborn-
ly bent on maintaining their political ascendancy are
every day widening tne gulf that yawi** before us.
Bv the most superhuman efforts, they blind the people
to coming events. They inock and gibe about tbe fm-
They _
potence of Sooth Carolina, when thev must know that
iu this struggle South Carolina will be but one of uf-
teeD Stutes who will unite their destinies for weal or
woe forever. They prate about the execution of
laws, in the fact* of a terrific revolution, that is to
teutl tue com.neiii sui.uer. In a word, they fiddle,
and dance, and suival, and make mouths when the
Republic is in flames.
People of tbe northwest, we again tell you that these
men are more deadly enemies of you, and more dead-
W enemies of themselves, than was ever Drnse to
Christian or Samaritan to Jew. They have resolved
to see this Union perish, freighted with all its hopes,
rather than yield to the southern people those rights
which have been their birthright, and which are ab
solutely necessary to their gaiety and peace. They
have resolved to plunge the country into a,i inhuman
and hopeless civil war, for Die sole' s,.ke of revenge.
Every word that reaches us contiims the belief that
the Republican party are deliberately closing their
ears to every voice raised by Northern Democrats
Southern conservative* to save the country.
J he crisis has ai ea2y brought the great men of fha
R? 81 ***“• fien as Millard Fillmore. Chief Justice
«’L* “'"•achmwtts. and Martin Van Barer—into
° council. Their appeals are met bv a speech
TVr 1 ° W hoar ? h**ded sinner. William ft. S. ward;
halt humorous and half serious ” and by the pleasant
bar-room stones of Old Abe! J r
Democracy of the North, you must act! The voice
«‘f n million and a half of freemen may yet be potent
for good. Let us, by .State conventions, csll the De
mocracy together, and demand to lie heard. Let ua
u«jt be plunged into a hopeless and inhuman civil war,
where we shall be compelled to imbrue our band* in
our brothers’blood, without at least making an effort
to stay the disaster, or entering our protest upou the
records of time.—S’totee J* Union.
Chinese I.nbor for the Algerine Csttes
Fields.
A letter from Paris, datec tbe 31st of Decem
ber. purports to describe the views ot the French
'government as to tbe results lobe obtained from
tiie clause ol the treaty with China, legalizing the
exportation of labor “This has been done no
doubt, says the w riter, “in reference to obtaining
a supply ol labor for the cotton labor in Algeria.
I he great immorality of the Chinese adults here,
tofore imported has caused the subject to receive
a carelul and earnest attention, and a plan has
been proposed to iinpott boys aud girls,
brought out under the care of the priests and sis
ters ot charity, who. on receiving them in China,
will cleanse and clothe them, and begin immedi
ately aicligious and secular education On ar
rival in Algeria, and being distributed among the
planters, they will retain their teachers and be
te.'ttly to pick the cotton bolls as they ripen. Tbe
cultivation of tbe land is tube effected by steam
olows aud horse hoes, as in this w ay an enormous
area can be kept under culture ar a small expense.
1 he yield of cotton, as in the United .States, being
limited only by the number of pickers, cotton may
be ttins grown at half tiie cost of the Amcricnn,
•Kvitig to ntF tnucieucr tiro,c —i-.. „f_ i, n ,i n|lf t
slaves. In the year I -55, five bales of cottcu were
brought to Paris from Algeria, of the best quality
out the want of an organized system of labor,
similar to the slave system of the States, causnd
the culture to be abandoned for a time
1 lie great improvements in agricultural machi
nery have now removed this difficulty iu part, and
the importation of coolie children will supply all
that is required to insure success at the present
time. The children are to be apprenticed for
twenty years, arid to bo always under supervi
sion. W ben tbe picking season is finished, they
are to be employed in tai.-iiig their own food, and
in weaving and making their clothing At the
end of their apprenticeship they can marry and
become ciliz-ns, with an allotment of land, or re
turn to China as they please. Such, briefly is th©
scheme which will no doubt be adopted by Eng
land, and carried out in British Guiana, and th*
other cotton lands in her extended colonies. That
there is not a scarcity of cotton lands in the world
tiie application of the steam plough with the coo
lie emigration will soon prove. Within five years
France and England will raise at least half th©
cotton they use: prompted not only by the inde
pendence that this supply will give them, they
will be urged on to work by the great missionary
enterprise which it will insugurat.e. The organ
ized labor of the railroad system has rendered fa
miliar the carrying out of great land operations
with facility and rapidity, and 4i)0 children to a
single ship, will soon people the plantations when
ready to receive them.
To the People of Virginin.
We deem it our duty, as your Representatives
at Washington, to lay before you such information
as we may possess in regard to the probable action
of Congress iu the present alarming condition of
the country.
At the begining of this session, now more than
half over, committees were appointed, in both
Houses of Congress, to consider the state of
the Union. Neither Committee has been able to
agree nn any mode of settlement of the pending is
sues between tbe North and the South.
The Republican members in both Committees
rejected propositions acknowledging the right of
property in slaves, or recommending tbe division
of the Territories between the slaveholding and
non-slaveho'ding States by a geographical line.
In the Senate, the propositions comnjonly known
as Mr. Crittenden's were voted against, by err.ry Re
publican Senator, and the House, on a vote by yens
and nays, refused to consider certain propositions
moved by Mr, Etbr'dge, which were even less fa
vorable to the South than Mr. Crittenden's.
A resolution giving a pledge to sustain the
President in the use of force again.-t seceding
States was adopted in the House of Representa
tives bv a large majority; and in tho Senate every
Republican voted to substitute for Mr Cri'ten-
den'8 propositions, resolutions offered by Mr.
You. Humpslilro declaring no new con
cessions, guarantees or amendments to tbe Con
stitution were necessary: that the demands of the
South were unreasonable, and ?ha* the remedy for
the present danger was simply to enforce the laws,
in other words, coercion and war.
In this state of facts, onr duty is to warn you
that it is vain to hope for any measures of concili
ation or adjustment (from Congress) which you
could accept. We are also satisfied, that the Re
publican party designs, by civil war alone, to co
erce the Southern States, under the pretext of en
forcing the laws, nnless it shall become speedily
apparent :ha- the seceding States are so numerous
determined and united, as to make such an at
tempt hopeless.
We are confirmed in these conclusions by onr
general in'ercourse here: bv the speeches of the
Republican leaders, here ami elsewhere; by the re
cent refusals of the Legislatures of Vermont, Ohio
and Pennsylvania to repeal their obnoxious Per
sonal Liberty Laws: by the action of the Illinois
Legislature on resolutions disapproving the Ctit eti.
deli propositions, and by the adoption of resolu
tions in ihe New York and Mnssaehusetts Legisla
tures idoubtless to be followed by others) offering
men money forthe war of coercion.
We have thus placed before you the facts and
conclusions which have become manifest to us
from this post of observation where yon have
placed us There is nothing to be Imped from
Congress—the remedy is with you alone, when
you assemble in sovereign Convention.
We conclude, by expressing our solemn con
viction, that prompt and decided action, by the
people of Virginia in Convention, will affor 1 the
surest means, under the Providence of God. of
averting an impending civil war, aud presr.yng
the hope ol re-constructing a Union already dis
solved.
J. M. MAPON,
R M. T. HUNTER.
D. C. De (AI-NETTE.
M. R. H. GARNETT.
SHELTON F LEAK.
E S. MARTIN.
H A. EDMUN’DSON,
ROGER A. PRYOR,
'I HOS S. BOCOGK.
A.G. JENKINS.
Washington City, Jan 26, 18(51.
[Owing to the detention of Ex-Governor Smith,
at his home in Virginia, by sickness, this address
enuld not be pro^entej to Lie.* tor Lio
There is no doubt be would have joined in it, if
present.}
Munchausen Redt virus.—An Illinois
paper—the Lake County Democ rat—has a
South Carolina correspondent w ho fur
nishes it, among other things, with the fol
lowing : “They have recently invented
some refined cruelties for testing how
strongly suspected strangers may be tinc
tured with abolitionism. It is true that
they barrel up men and throw them into
tbe streams, but this is only done after they
are proved to he abolitionists; prior to this
they undergo the following formula of tests,
in which I have beeu an eye-witness:
They take the unfortunate and tie him by
the feet to the tail of a cart, and let the
horse run away; they then fasten him down
to the sidewalk, pin back his eye lids, and
compel the passers-by (men and women)
to spit t thacco juice in his eyes; they then
stand him up, bore holes into him with
small augers, fill the holes with Chinese
crackers and touch them off; finally they
take off the top of bis head, scoop out his
brains, and fill the cavity with republican
ideas and principles. If he survive these
tests, they conclude he is ‘sonnd on tbe
goose,’ and after nnjointing his legs aliow
him to travel !„
—
Wisconsin Spoiling for a f ght.—By a
singular disloyal to the Constitution are
now the most eager for a fight- Wiscon
sin not only nnlified the fugitive-slave law
bnt set up her own State court in defiance
of the United States Supreme Court. Now
a unanimous vote of her legislature has
pledged the State “to be loyal t» the
Union and the Constitution!” And she is
going to fight for them, sure. Yet her
army consist of only a thousand men; so
says tho Milwaukie Sentinal, a black-
republican paper. We imagine, however,
that there are not a few true democrats
yet in the “badger State” who do not
endorse fighting for the Chicago platform.
f New York Day Book.