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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, 2ft tf. 9. c o o Tf. K ^ o r5 ft r*Q v OO 'Zs fi. a S3 s _ W® ft V tf k Se o ii J r 6«a r fca -- =• 4 ciej ■'id = w a a r M I^ m gp Hf W « © i.U “ o c ^ c !§ ci- O — X E r: L ^ g iff = — — c* ft fes Ik 'J. H ft a 5 f o OO “ r ~ a 12 ~ 3 5 ft 8 ffi & Ea F & sas & Bi ESS K m Pi W ¥9 g* ssa Ra W ‘ ol W s - 5 O t. & o teas < e ! H £ § L. -a ® ‘ rz ^—i O NN ram L o SAN FOB VS P3 : a ... hit. nmno blown intg the flimr of each bottle. & *ry All orders aDd letters to be addressed to LITTLE & BR0., R* MThulastJ* Dru&ruUA. XIacoi. Solti by all Druggists in Milledgeville. HERTY ^ HALL, Agents. LIVER INVIGORATOf c MANHOOD, li O W L osr, H 0 W R E!» tubed, Just l J u!i!islitd in " Sealed Envelope, l CHEROKEE REAIEDY! H -nanh and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, T 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.