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p|j|,j H(\STITI TiOMiJN'i uFFK'E ON’ McINTOSH-STBEET, - moil THE NORTH-WEST CORJtKB OF BROAD-STREET. TERMS: , ■ j a advance per annum $6 OH' V/V,., advance per annum 7 o<) AVr-klv, in advance, .per annum 4 Oo ~, advance per annum 5 00 . in advance per annum 2 oo . DisiM' vr for Corns. “JOB” OimOE ;!v added a variety of New Sidles --it J"b Department, we are prepare I ~ everv description of letter press printing ~-rwr manner, and on reasonable terras, ab utment are some Mammoth Tti*k for FOSTERS. From ike N. Y Herald.. xnatorToombs’ Lecture in Kostou. I "' titut '".al Ufa'ii* and its influent* . <„ i*ty and tin’ African Rate, j! ruide Robert Toombs, United States , ircru Georgia, recently delivered a lecture . . r■ in the Tremont Temple, Boston. Oui - 'porter si iii ns a telegraphic report of ii ; VR Toombs’ reception. Since then we iw.-ii a full report of the lecture, which .. ii .Tent importance to give in externa. vj- Teouibs said : P •• to s-ibnn to you this evening some ■ii ms and reflections upon two points: , „ constitutional powers and duties of the . vernment in relation to domestic sla 1: in tin once of slavery, as it exists in tils eat- upon the slave and society. : t the iirst head I shall endeavor to show i .....ress lias no power to limit, restrain, or manner to impair slavery; but, on the it is bound to protect and maintain it in where it exists, and wherever else ih* .1 its jurisdiction is paramount. ~ lid point, 1 maintain that -o long os . : Caucassian races exist in the same linaev of the African is the nor j ...„arv and proper condition, and that ’ ii is the condition best calcula . highest interests and the great , 1 .;,,j„,.5s es both races, and consequently ol , * - ice tv, and that the abolition of sla* , ...- conditions is no* a remedy of anv evils es the system. 1 admit the truth of . r :is stated under the second point ... - •id! v necessary to the existence and t the system. They rest on the truth :■ is the superior race, and the black and that subordination, with or with ... .viil la-the status of the African in this . .-.-tv : and, therefore, it is the interest ot ’ especially of the black race and of the • - : tv, that this status should be lixed, i anti ptotected by law. The perfect . ..f tin-superior race, and k-gal subordina : :. • inferior, are the foundations on which -•i-t.-d our republican system. Its aound , Ii t.-sted by its conformity to the sover ‘ . ialit. the law which ought to govern all , ii all eo.intries. This sovereignty- of right .. commonly called "national justice— not , uncertain imaginings of men. but na .< interpreted bv the written oracles, in- the light of the revelations of nature’s - -■ 1 recognize a “higher law,” and •if all men, by legal and proper means, to - -Very society in conformity with it. 1 tirn ■ - deration of the first point. The aSt * before the Revolution were de , i-ti-. denies of Great Britain. Each was a and distinct and political community, . liitl'-t ait laws, and each became an indepen ..nil s-iicreign State by the Declaration of In i-t At tii • lime of the Declaration, sla r .vasiif. 't, and a fact recognized by law in ■.f ii; 'a, and the slave trade was lawful com bi laws of nations and the practice ol .: i This Declaration was drafted by » ■hr i adopted by the representatives ot . ii id: s, and did not emancipate a single As -!•»•• hu* n the contrary, one of the charges d to tlie civilized world against ;i- ■: - iv.is, that he had attempted to excite -eiTeetion among us. At the time of !'•■ ir.-.tion we had no common government, •trti-.-l. s of confederation were submitted to : r -tifii'ivi-s of the States eight (lavs after .l were not adopted by all the States un- Tin-.- crude and imperfect articles of : Millie 1 to bring us successfully' through - ii--. dud- Common danger was a stronger . ; f union than these articles of confederation. tiiat censed, tliev wore the pur -' of peace. They did not emancipate a sin gle The Constitution u-.-.s framed by delegates eiect by the S it- l.e-isl-.uures. It was an emanation lent, separate nmunities. It ms ratified by conventions of sc separate States, each acting for itself. The •tubers of these conventions represented the j .t-reigntv of each State, but they wsre not elect •he whole people of either o's the States. Mi w.mien, slaves, Indians, Africans, bond and wore excluded from participating in this act > t uglily ; neither were all the white male in stils -v'-r twenty one years allowed to partici- . ■nil. Some of them were excluded because ' ail torfeited the right ; others because tliev ■ ! die reipiisite qtialilications; others, again, t ''ill more ohiecliouahle reasons. None exer • : il: - high privilege exeept those upon whom s i'"' itself, had adjudged it wise, safe -ad - to coni r it. Bv this Constitution •Si - grant.?.! to the federal government ■a " i ■ !>-fi:i 1 and clearly specified powers, in “mak a more perfect union, establish i i-niv domestic tranquility, provide for minion defence and general welfare, and to ■ :ii id ssings of liberty to ( themselves and posterity.’" And with great wisdom and -at, it lays down a plain, certain and sufli nilc for its own interpretation, by declaring he powers herein delegated to the United v the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to • ' are reserved to the States respectively, • therefore, a limited government, ltislim v"• ssly to the enumerated powers and such - nii, -which shall be necessary and proper ' iii’.o execution” the enumerated powers. " - -for which these powers werp granted t increase nor diminish them. If any >1! »f these powers were to fail by reason of Uicieiiey <>f the granted powers to secure ■ would be a good reason foranew grant, •• never enlarge the granted powers. That v n was itself a limitation, instead of an "ient of these powers, if a power expressly • .s used for any other purpose than those de fucli use would he a violation of the grant, - (al oti the Constitution. There is nothing • se tie of the powers or purposes of the itll>ii which tiVes the slightest sanction to ■ - turn of Congress. The historv ■cues. and the debates in the convention —allied the t • institution, show that the —abject wa» much considered bv them, and ' xed them in ihe extreme,” and that those - sous of the Constitution which related to it --: 1 v considered by the State conventions '-tul it. Incipient legislation providing citi .jiatj.in had already been adopted hv ' '.a- States; Massachusetts had declared a'vi ivasexlinguishedby her Hillof Rights. \ivi:.i:i slave trade had already Ih-cu legisla -• i-i many of the States, including Yir- Ma: v:and and North Carolina, the largest ■ _ States. Tiie public mind was un - n.■ ■■ 1 y tending towards emancipation. This . : <p. veil itself in the South as well as the v -ina . f the del- gates from the present c States thought that the power to ' - tilv the African slave trade, but slave jttu,-Stav-*; ought >be given to the Federal ■ntui'nt; and that tlja Constitution did not '’tape, was made one of the most promi . -■L:. ii' to it hv I.uther Martin, a distin ' ’• ir of the convention from Maryland; Mason, of Virginia, was not far behind - eaiamipation principles. Mr. Madison * Mzr i to a great extent, to a much greater s ;; au '-me of the representatives of Mas - '.u this anti-slavery feeling. Hence, we '•-slavery feelings were extensively in ■ y many members of the convention, both s'aveholding and tton-slaveholdiiig v. concerns us to knew what was the ! die whole as affirmed by the so s->tat?s. not what were the opinions of in c la a in the convention. We wish to A.ut was done by the whole, not what some ■ Jemi.-rs thought was best to be done. The .. was, that not a single clause ... p l ’.i m the Constitution giving power to , u Government anywhere, either to abol -.. -'"I. <>r in any other manner to im . : sivenrla the United States; ""trary, every clause which was in ' institution on this subject, does in s 'intended, either to increase it, to I ' i" *l’ ! >roteet To support these .: ' to the Constitution itself, to the and all subsequent authorative -. tisi.i it. The Constitution provide' l 't sla very by prohibiting the sns ;- ' H!" »,ave trade fi-r twenty years aftet - »xvs in the first clause of the nintl j- 11 ' first article, “ that the migration ot i such persons as ray of the State - .:~iV i lU Proper to admit, shall no ’ ' botVt* • ’ c °ng*«M prior to the yea; > • sr “r outy maybe imposed on sue! i t exceeding ten dollars fer eacl person.” After that time it was left at the discre tion of Congress to prohibit or not to prohibit the African slave trade. The extension of this traffic in Africans from ISoO to ISOS was voted for bv the whole of the New England States, including’Mas sachusetts, and opposed by A'irgiuia and Delaware, and the clau-e was inserted by the votes of the New England States. It fostered an active and profitable trade for New England capita! and enterprise for twenty years, by which a ! large addition was made to the numbers of the original stock of Africans in the States—thereby it increased slavery in the United States. This clause of the Constitution, which special Iv favored it, was one of those clauses which was protected against amendments by article fifth. Slavery is strengthened by the third clause, se cond section, of first article,' which fixes the basis of representation according to the numbers, ure veling tiiat the members “ shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, in cluding those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-fifths of all other persons.” This provision strengthens slavery by giving the existing slaveholding -States many more representatives in Congress than they would have if slaves were counted only as pr-ipcrtv. This provision was much debated, but •finally adopted, with the full understanding of its import., by a great majority. The Constitution protects it impliedly by witholding all power to injure its duration; but it protects it expressly by the third clause of the second section of the fourth article, bv the fourth section of the fourth ’ article, and by the fifteenth clause of the eighth ; section of the first article. The third section pro vides that “no person held to service or labor in one State, by the laws thereof, escaping into anoth er, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor rnav be due.” ; The fourth section of the fourth article provides that Congress *hall protect each State “on appli cation of the Legislature, tr of the Execu tive, when the Legislature is not convened against domestic violence.” The fifteenth clause : of the eighth section of the first article makes it the duty of Congress to provide for calling forth of the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections and repel in i vasions. The i irst of these three clauses last re -1 (erred to protects slavery by following the escap- i ! ing slave into non-slaveholding States and return- i : >»« i lim to bondage; the other clauses place the whole military pswer of the republic in the hands of the federal government to repress "domestic violence” and “insurrection.’’ Under this Constitution, if he flies to other lands the supreme law follows, captures and returns him. It he resists the law by which he is held in bon- \ dage, the same Constitution brings its military power to his subjugation. There is no limit to 1 this protection ; it must be protected as long a.- anv of the States tolerate domestic slavery, and the Constitution unalitered endures. None of these clauses admit of misconception or doubtful consrnc- ; tiou. They were not incorporated into the charter of j our libiti- s by surprise or inattention—they were ! each and all of them introduced into that body, debated, referred to committees, reported upon unit adopted. Our construction of them is sup-| ported by otic unbroken and harmonious current of decisions and adjudications by the executive, j legislative and judicial departments of the gov- j erumenis. State and federal, from President Wash ington to President Pierce. Twenty representa- j tiv,-s in the Congress of the United’States hold 1 their seats to-dav by virtue of one of these clauses. ’ The African slave trade was earred on the whole appointed period under another. Thousands of i sl aves have been delivered up under another, and it is a just cause of congratulation to the whole; country that no occasion has occurred to call into i action the remaining clauses which have been I quoted. These constitutional provisions were generally acquiesced in, even by those who did not approve ! them, until a new and less obvious question sprung ; out of the acquisition of Territory. When the Constitution was adopted, the question had been settled in the Northwest Territory by the articles of cession of that Territory by the State of Vir ginia; and at that time the United States had not an acre of land for which to legislate except a dis- I pitted claim over the Southwestern boundary, • which will hereafter be considered in its appropri ate connection. The acquisition of Louisiana de- ‘ volved upon Congress the necessity of its Govern ment. 'lbis duty was assumed and performed for the general benefit of the whole country, without challenge or question, for nearly seventeen years. Equity and good faith shielded it. But in is]y— thirty years after the adoption of the Constitution : —upon the application of Missouri for admission ! into the Union, the extraordinary pretension was for the first time asserted by a majority of the non slaveholding States, that Congress had not otily the power to prohibit the extension of slavery into the new Territories of the republic, but that it had the power to compel new States seeking admission into the Union to prohibit it in their own Consti tutions, and mould their domestic policy in all re spects to suit the opinions, whims or caprices of the Federal Government. This novel ana extraor dinary pretension subjected the whole powers of Congress over the Territories to the severest criti cism. Abundant authority was found in the Con stitution to manage this common domain merely as property. The lid clause, 3d section of the 4th article, de clares “that Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations re specting the Territory or other property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Consti tution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States of any particular State but this clause restricted by its terms the action of Congress over it. It is here considered only ns property, and gave Congress no political power to govern it. This construction has the sanction of the highest judicial authority of the land. Congress was then driven to look for power to govern it in the necessity and propriety of it as a mode of executing the express power to make treaties. The right to acquire Territory under the treaty making power was itself an implication, and an implication whose rightfulness was denied by Mr. Jefferson, who exercised it. The right to govern being claimed as an incident of the righ to acquire, was then but an implication of an im plication ; and then the power to exclude slavery therefrom was still another implication from the fountain of all power (express grant i. But wheth er the pmvcr to prohibit slavery in the common Territories be claimed from the one source or the t other, i; cannot he sustained upon anv sound role of constitutional construction. The power is not \ expressly granted. Then, unless it can be shown ! to be both “necessary and proper” in order to the jii't execution of a granted power, the constitution al argument against it is complete. This remains to be shown by the advocates of this power. Ad mit the power in Congress to govern the Territo ries until they shall be admitted as States into the Union -derive it either from the clause of the Constitution last referred to, or from the treat* making power- -still this power to prohibit slavery is not incident to it in either case, because it is neither necessary nor proper to its execution. That it is not necessary to execute the treaty making power, is shown from the fact that that power not only was never used for this purpose, but can he wisely and well executed without it, and has been repeatedly used to increase and protect slavery. The acquisition of Louisiana and Flori da are examples of its use without the exercise ot this pretended necessity and proper incident. Nu merous treaties and conventions with both savage and civilized nations, from the foundation of the government, demanding and receiving indemnities for injuries to this species of property, is conclu sive against this novel pretension. That it is not m-ce-s trv to the execution of the power to make • needful rules and regulations re-peeting the ter ritoty and other property of the United States ” is proven from the fact that seven territories have 1--en governed by Congress and trained into sovor etgn States without its exercise. It is not proper, because it seeks to us-- an implied power for other and different purposes from anv specified, express ed or intended by the grantors. The purpose is avowed to be to limit, restrain, weaken, and finally to crush out slat cry; whereas, the grant expressly provides for strengthening and protecting it. It is not proper, because it violates the fundamental conditions ot the equaliti of the States The States of the I uioh are all political equals— each State has the same right as every other State —no more, no less. The exercise of’this prohibi tion violates this equality and violates justice Bv the laws of nations, acquisitions, eitherbv purchase j or conquest, even in despotic governments, enure to the benefit of all the subjects of the States. The reason for this, given by the most approvedpublic- I ists, is that they are the fruits of the common blood and treasure. This prohibition destroys this equality, excludes a part of the joint owners from an equal participa tion and enjoyment of the common domain, and against justice and right, appropriates it to the greater number. Therefore, so far from being a necessary and proper means of executing granted powers, it is an arbitrary and despotic usurpation against the letter, the spirit, and declared purposes of the Constitution. The exercise neither “pro . motes a more perfect union, nor establishes justice, nor insures domestic tranquillity, nor provides for the common defence, nor promotes the general welfare. 11111- secures the blessings of liberty to our selves nr our posteritybut, on the contrary, it puis in jeopardy all these inestimable blessings, and does not even emancipate a single African slave. Penning them up and stowing them in the old States, may make them more wretched and miserable, hut it does not strike a chain from the limbs of one of them. It is not only a great wrong to the white race, but the refinement of cruelty to the black. Expansion is as necessary to the in creased comforts of the slave as to the prosperity of the master. The constitutional construction of the >outh does no wrong to any portion of the republic, o-no sound rules of construction, and promotes all the declared purposes of the Constitution. AVe sim i'ly propose that common territories be left open to the common enjoyment of all the people of the . Lnited States—that they shall be protected in their | i persons and property by the Federal, until its au ; thority is superseded by a .State Constitution, aud > then we propose that the character of the domestic . institutions of the new State be determined by the , freemen thereof. This is justice—this is Contitu - tional equalitv. [ But those who claim ihe power in Congress to I exclude slavery from the territories, rely rather on , authority than principle to support if They as . j firm, with singular ignorance of or want of fideli j ty to the facts, that Congress has, front the begin ningof the government, uniformly claimed, and I reputedly exercised, the power to discourage slave ry, and to exclude it from the territories. My in i’ vestigation of the subject has satisfied my own 1 ! mind that neither position is sustained by a’single . j precedent. I exclude, of course, legislation pro- j : hibiting the African slave trade, and I hold the or- ; j dinance of 1757 not to be within the principle as : serted. For the first thirty years of our history, j | this general duty to protect this great interest, I ■ j equally with every other, was universally admitted ; autl fairly performed by every department of the government. Ihe act of 171)3 was passed to se | cure the delivery up of fugitives from labor esca- i ping to the non-slaveholding States ; vour naviga j tion laws authorized their transportation on the j J high sous. The government demanded and re- I peatedly received compensation for the owners of slaves, for injuries sustained m these lawful voy i ages by the interference of foreign governments. . It not only protected us upon the high seas, but followed us to foreign lands, where we had been driven by the dangers of the sea, and protected j slave property when thus cast even within the ju- 1 1 risdiction of hostile municipal laws. The slax r e property of our people was protected against the incursions of Indians by our military power and ; public treaties. That clause of the treaty of Ghent I which provided compensation for property destroy- ; I ed or taken bv the British government, placed | : slavery precisely upon the same ground with other '■ property; and a New England man (Mr. Adams ably and faithfully maintained the rights of the slaveholder under it at the Court of St. James. The government was administered according to j the Constitution, and not according to what is now called the “spirit of the age.” Those legisht- j tors looked for political powers and public duties , in the organic law which political communities had laid down for their guidance and government, llu i inanity mongers, atheistical socialists, who would upturn the moral, social and political foundations i of society, who would substitute the folly of men ] tor the wisdom of God, were then justly eonsider , ed as the enemies of the human race, and us de j serving the contempt, if not the execration of all , j mankind. Until the year 182", our Territorial legislation t . was marked hv the same general spirit of fairness ; t and justice. Notwithstanding the constant asser- ! tions to the cnntrurv bv gentlemen from the North, ; i op to that period no act was ever passed by consti- j t Uitional power to prevent any citizen of the United j t States owning slaves from removing with them to i t our Territories, and there receiving legal i irotec- j 1 tion for this property. Until that time such per- i I sons did so remove into all the Territories owned or acquired by the United States, except the North- f west Territory, and were there adequately protect- | j ed. The action of Congress in reference to the or- • I dinance of 1787 does not contravene this principle. I ] That ordinance was passed on the 18th day of July, t j 1787, before the adoption of our present Constitu- t tion. It purported <>n its face to be a perpetual 5 j compact between the State of Virginia, the people i lof the Territory, and the then government of the f i United States, and unalterable except by the con- i sent of all the parties. When Congress met for t ■ the first time, under the new government, on the 4th of March, 178'J, it found the government thus j , established by virtue of this ordinance in actual operation ; and on the 7th August, 1789, it passed I a law making the offices of Governor and Socreta- r ; rv of the Territory conform to the Constitution of I > ; the new government. It did nothing more. It l made no reference to the sixth and last section of , the ordinance which inhibited shivery. The <li- ; ! vision of that Territory was provided for in the or- t s dinance ; at each division, the whole of the ordi- i nance was assigned by Congress to each of its % parts. This is the whole sum and substance of the i freesoil claim to legislative precedents. Congress > \ did not assert the right to alter a solemn compact entered into with the former government, but gave j r its consent, by its legislation, to the governments a ! established and provided for in the compact. If the original compact was void for the want of pew- j er in the old government to make ii, as Mr. Modi- [ f ; son supposed, Congress may not hare been bound ;to accept it—it certainly had i-o power to alter it. ‘ s From these facts and principles, it is clear that j ! the legislation for the Northwest Territory does c i not conflict with the principles which I assert, n and does not afford precedents for hostile legisla tion of Congress against slavery in the Territories. That such was neither the principle nor the policy j upon which the act of the 7th of August, 1789, ( was based, is further shown by the subsequent ae- s , tion of the same Congress. On the 2d of April, t , Congress, bv a formal act, accepted the ces- |j sion made by North Carolina, of her western lands p (now the State of Tennessee,: with this clause in the deed of cession : “ That no regulation made, p or to be made, by Congress, shall tend to entanci- ( - pate slaves” in the ceiled Territory ; and on ihe a 2fith of May, 17‘Jo. passed a territorial bill for the government of all the Merritory claimed by the t ] United States south of the Ohio river. The do- l( scription of this Territory included all the lands v ceded by North Carolina, but it embraced a great ;. deal more. It-- boundaries w.-re h-ft indefinite, be- \ catt'.c there wore conflicting claim- to all the rest t , of the territory. But this act put the wholeccou- t : trv claimed by the United States south of the Ohio under the pro-slavery clause of the North Carolina deed. The whole action of the first Con- I q gress in relation to slavery in the Territories of p the United States seems to have been this: It ac- ; quiesced m a government for the Northwest Ter- s ritory based upon a pre-existing anti-slavery ordi- ;| aiicel created a government for the country ceded bv North Carolina in conformity with the pro-sla- p very clause to ail the rest of the Territory claimed -j hv the Tnited States south of the Ohio river. This legislation vindicates the first Congress from ail imputation of having established the precedent . claimed by the friends of legislative exclusion. The next Territorial act which tyas passed was that of the 7th of April, 1795. It was the first act of Territorial legislation which had to rest solely j upon original primary constitutional power over the subject. It established a government over the Territories included within the boundaries of a line drawn due east from the mouth of the Yazoo 1 river to the Chattahoochee river, then down that - i river to the thirty-first degree of North latitude. ' I then West, on that line to the Mississippi river then up the Mississippi river to the begin ning. This Territory was within the boundary ; of the United States as defined by the treaty J of Paris, and was not within the boundary of any of the States. The charter of Georgia limited her boundary on the South to the Altamaha river. In ( 1763, after the surrender of her charter, her limits were extended by the crown to the Si. Mary’s liver, i and West oil the 31st degree of North latitude to the Mississippi. In 1764, on the recommendation 1 of the Board of Trade, her boundary was again al- , ( tered, and that portion of the Territory within the ■ boundaries which I have described, was annexed to West Florida, and thus it stood at the Revolu- ; • tion and the treaty of peace. Therefore, the United States claimed it as common property, and in 179 s passed the act now under review for its g«vem inent. Trt that act she neither claimed nor exerted anv power to prohibit slavery in it. And the ques tion came directly before Congress; the ordinance . of 1797 in terms was applied 1-> this territory, ox- j j pressly “excepting and excluding the last article , of the ordinance,” which is the article excluding j slavery from Ihe Northwest Territory. This is a precedent directly in point, and is against the ex ercise of the power now claimed. In iso - .: Georgia ceded her western lands. She protected slavery in her grant, and the government complied with her stipulations. In too:; the United States acquired Louisiana from France by purchase. There is no special re- j sere nee to slavery in the treaty; it was protected only under the general term of property. This ac quisition was, soon after the treaty, divided into two territories the Orleans and Louisiana Territo ries—over both of which governments were estab lished. The law of slavery obtained in the whole country at the time we acquired it. Congress pro hibited the foreign and domestic slave trade in these Territories, but gave the protection of its laws to slave owners emigrating thither with their ; slaves. Upon the admission of Louisiana into the Union, a new government was established by Con- j j gross over the rest of the country, under the name of the Missouri Territory'. This act also attempted no exclusion. Slaveholders emigrated to ihe coun try with their slaves and were protected by their , government. In 1819, Florida was acquired by purchase; its laws recognised and protected slave ry at the time of the acquisition. The United States extended the same recognition and protec tion. Such was the history of territorial legislation until the year 1820. Missouri had applied for ad mission into the Union. An attempt was then made, for the first time, to impose restrictions upon I a soverign State, and admit it into the Union upon an equal footing with her sister States, and to com pel her to mould her institutions, not according to the will of her own people, but according to tin fancy of a majority- in Congress. The attempt j was strongly resisted, and resulted in an act pro viding tor her admission, hut containing a clause prohibiting slavery forever in all the territory ac quired from France outside of Missouri, and North of 36 degrees 80 minutes North latitude. The prin ciple of this law was a division of the common territory. The authority m prohibit, even to this extent, was denied by Mr. Madison, Mr. Jefferson and other leading and distinguished men of the dav. It was carried by most of the .Southern rep ' resentatives, combined with a small number of Northern votes. It was a departure from principle, ; but ir savored of justice. Subsequently, upon the settlement of our claim to Oregon, it lying North ; of that line, the prohibition was applied. Upon . ■ the acquisition of Texas, the same line of division - was adopted. But when we acquired Californi \ 1 and New Mexico, the South, still willing to abide bv the principle of division, again attempted to divide by the same line. It was almost unanimous ly resisted by the Northern States; their represen tatives, by a large majority, insisted upon absolute prohibition and the total exclusion of the people of the Southern States from the whole of the com mon territories, unless they divested themselves of their slave property. The result of a long and un happy conflict evas the legislation of 1850. By it a large' body of the representatives of the uon-slavt holding States, sustained by the approbation of their constituents, acting upon sound principles of constitutional construction, duty and patriotism, aided in voting down this new and dangerous usurpation declared for the equality of the States, : and protected the people of the Territories from this unwarrantable interference with their rights. ; Here we wisely abandoned ‘‘the shifting sands of compromise,” and put the rights of the people . again upon the “rock of the Constitution.” The law of 1454 (commonly known as the Kan sas-Xebraska act ) tvas made to conform to this pol : icy, and hut carried out the principles established in 1-50. It righted an ancient wrong, and will re store harmony, because it restores justice, to the country. This legislation, I have endeavored to I show, is just, fair and equal; that it is sustained by principle, by authority, and by the practice of our fathers. 1 trust, 1 believe, that when the transient passions of the day shall have subsided and reason shall have resumed he dominion, it will be approved, even applauded, by the collective body of she people in every portion ©f our widely extended repulic. [COSCLUD K I) TO-MOKR(> W. j < OM M ERCIAI.. Augusta Market, Feb. 15, <1 I*. .'1 COTTON. The market has been quiet to-day All parties waiting for the steamer’s news. CHARLESTON, Feb. 14.— Cotton. -Our quota tions were carefully revised at the close of busi ness, and those we offer below, it will be seen, es tablish an advance for the week on most qualities of 1 jo. The receipts since our last comprise 13,348 bales, against the sale iu the same time of 12,900 bales. We quote ordinary to good ordinary s- : -j</CJ Vs; low to strict middling 9 Y'(tf:9V£; good middling 9 ’'A l ., ; middling fair ligglo'Y'; and fair l'Oj cents. like. —The subjoined quotations will show the state of the market: Ordinary to lair 3T£Cts4%; good 4}q(A4 : , : :( ; and prime anil choice 4 %(a, —. (brn.- —This article has been very much neglect ed since our last, and the transactions, limited ns they have been, show a languid and drooping mar ket. Some 3,500 bushels North Carolina, held over from the previous week, and 1,500 bushels receiv ed since our last, have beee sold within the range i of our quotations, viz: 70(it'75c. The receipts by railroad comprise 12,000 bushels, a portion of which i lias been sold at prices ranging from 75(if,75c., sacks included. Peas. —There was received from North Carolina j a small lot, 400 bushels, which were sold at 90c. j- 1 1 bushel. Wheat.— The market has been in a suite of com plete stagnation throughout the week just brought to a close, and price*- have a decided downward tendency. Good Red may be quoted nominally at $1.70@51.75. Jhy. —The receipts since our last comprise some Cso bales North River, which were sold at #1.40 100 lbs., which shows a heavydecline on previous ; transactions. Flour. —This article lias been very much neglect- I ed since our last. The sales have been confined j solely to small lots u> supply the home trade, prin cipally at $8 i ft barrel, for good brands. We quote in bands, extremes, s3.so(<i:#9, and in bags. 84.25e>.?4.57 1 -.;,i‘. The receipts this week by Railroad comprise 670 barrels. liuerm. —The transactions have been very limit ed for the want of a stock. As an evidence ot the scarcity of the article we may remark that the -ale have been limited to some 17 hhds. Shoulders, which were sold atlO' fc. laird. —We have no transactions to notice in Western, which may be quoted at ll}x'qf l2e. in kegs. Tennesse lias declined in price, and may now be quoted at in bbls. and kegs, *nd in cans nominally at 14c. J)onw ' c Li’juors.- We note small sales of Wo teru Whisky from first hands at prices ranging from 43 to 45c. jd gallon. Sugar*. The receipts since our last comprise j some Sou hhds. Louisiana, the bulk of which has been run off in small hits, at prices ranging prin cipally from s ( ti> le’ji.-. as in quality, and Clari fied from ]" to 10}.c. Gdf.y. —We have no transactions to report. Molasses. —The receipts since our last comprise ' 15" 1 bbls. New Orleans,-and 12S hhds. and ‘Jo i Cuba. About the half of the former has been sold at prices ranging from to 4-1 e. The tut- : ter had been sold to arrive on terms not made pub- j lie, but was subsequently re-sold at prices ranging from 39 Y to 41c. Krehanges. Sterling continues to show an im provement. The market, which opened at s((/,.s Y, closed yesterday at .S^iA'S- a e. Francs are quoted at 5.27 W. Freights. The rale, which in the early part of j the week was at 7-ltiths. for Cotton in square hags i to Liverpool, subsequently declined to i.3-'>2d. A vessel was engaged to load for Havre at >qe., which is also a decline on previous rates. We quote to ! New York, Cotton %c.\ Rice 41-25 $ tierce and ; tu Boston LjC. for the former and $1.50 jj tierce for i I he latter. SAVANNAH, Feb. s. -Hutton. Arrived since | the 7lh nil., 10,440 bales Upland. The exports j for tiie same period amount to 14,019 bales Upland j leaving on hand and on shipboard not cleared, a I -tuck of 50.1H4 bales, against 51,242 bales Upland it: the same time Inst year. The total sales of the neck 6,780 bales, at the ; following particulars: ;i at 7V.7, 17 at TV, 207 at 8, ; l-at.-L, 313 at 8’29 at By<, 425 at sq, 150 at ; s 1 ;, 11120 at 9, 257 at 9V. 4 , 1045 at S'Y, 480 at ily,. 524 at 9 7-I't, 901 at. 9} ~ 274 at 9936 at 9 : ' j, and 370 tit 10c. (0 tt>. QUOTATIONS : Low Middling - ! , «t 9 Middling 9Y(ie - > Strict Middling oW.ottF’,' Good Middling a""\c' 1 Middling Fair If) (cC Five.- The market continues dull; the only sales i since our last have been 504 tierces at 4Y l ''' .e. i \> lb., principally at 4 ' 4 e. ( urn 1- dull and depressed. The sales made were at 7oc. \> bushel, it is retailing by the single sack at !)oc., though a good article commands a ! higher figure. There i- n very heavy stock of mixed Corn on hand, and but very little while mi ni ixed. ifolasxes. -Several parcels have arrived from Cuba this week, the first of the season, i a portion of which was disposed of at. 43 cents "ft gallon, i It is selling from stores at 46 to 47c. We quote for New Orleans 45 to 50 cents \t gallon. Sugar. A few packages of Cuba, the first of I I if crop, arrived this week on private account. There is no stock on sale. Os New Orleans the stock i- too light to establish quotations. Clarified : is held at 1037(5 12 cts. '() B*. Heehange. Sterling is quoted at 8 a 8 1 ; et. pre mium. The Banks are selling sight checks on all ! Northern cities at ,'4 percent, prom., and purcha sing New York sight bills at Y dis.; 5 days at 5 7; ! 5o day- at ". (<( i per cent.; On aaysat 1 ;90 days ■jYvW. t 80-ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore, i.!O day bills at 1% ’jd cent, discount. ‘Freight*. —We quote to Liverpool 15-32d(d; .pi. in English, and } pi. in American vessels ; to Havre 1 cent for square, and ILj rent for round. The coastwise rates are, to Boston 9-ltic.; to New ; York by steamships Vo., and in sailing vessels i 7-16 c.; to Philadelphia 9-14, and Baltimore 1 ,'e. for ] Cotton. SAVANNAH EXPORTS-FEB. 15. Per bark Chieftain, for Liverpool—loß9 bales Upland Cotton, 40 do S I do, 104,052 ft timber. Per sclir Zuleka, for Baltimore—so7 bales cot ton, 60 do yarn, 5 boxes mdze, 103 boxes copper ore, and 48 kegs spikes. si I ! PPING NEWS. ARRIVALS TROM OHARLKSTOX, Brig Mary, Bacon, New York Sclir \V A Ellis, Nichols, New York Schr Ellen Bush, Thompson, Philadelphia Schr Maiy land, Thatcher, Baltimore CHARLESTON, Feb. 15. Arrived, Span brig Salvador, Rio de Janeiro. Vent to sea, ships Hero, Havre; William Pat ton, Cork. SAT ANNAH. Feb. 15.—Arrived, ship Marv Blancy, London; bark Albert, Malta ; bark Lelami, Boston ; brig Robert M. Charlton, Havana. Cleared, bark Chieftain, Liverpool; schr. Zuliea, Baltimore. C.I.EORGI L SCR!YEN COUNTY.—Where- N a-. George H. Mailer, Administrator de donis ; non, of the estate of John Mailer, Sr., deceased, ap plies for Letters Dismissorv from said estate: These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all and singular, the kindred and creditors and all other persons concerned, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, and show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be ' granted. Given under my hand, at office in Sylvania, this Ist dav of January, 1656. jail- ALEXANDER KEMP, Ordinary. SURVEYING. railllS is to inform my friends of Columbia, 1 Richmond and Burke counties, that I can be , employed as a Surveyor, at the customarv price?. Address ALEXANDER M. ALLEN, \ ianlj •** Saw Dust Post Office. ocucml wVimcrtiscmcnts. i- SADDLERY. HARNESS, TRUNKS, &c e SPRING TRADE, 1856. e CJIIERMAN, JESS IS* & CO., No. 841, f Broad street, two doors above the Bank of 1 Augusta, have now on hand, their usual lar°-e and ! will selected assortment ot SADDLES, BRIDLES, ! * HARNESS, WHIPS, TRUNKS, YAI.ISES, CAR ' j'ET BAGS, and every description of Goods adapt j. ed to the trade, manufactured by themselves, ex pressly for this market. —*Af.SO — A l.i av v stock of Saddlerv HARDW ARE, ( oach MATERIALS, SPRINGS, AXLES, MALLEABLE 1 CASTINGS and BANDS, including a very full as , sortment of Goods in the line, which are offered to manufacturers and dealers at low prices. ' j fe'ul 5 d.v+2m EXECUTORS’ SALE. « *nu he sold, on the first Tuesday 111 * w MARCH next, at the Lower Market House, 11 the city of Augusta, between the usual hours of : sale, the following property belonging to the estate j of Isaac S. Tuttle, deceased, to pay the debts and j :■ legacies, to wit: Twelve Negro Slaves: Lewis, : ' Ned, Doctor, Milo, Bill, little Bill, Bob, John, Laura, t 1 Margaret, Elizabeth and Adeline. —also— j : s4,ob(i 7 per cent. Bonds of the Georgia Railroad ! . and Banking Company. $17,000 6 per cent. Bonds of the State of Georgia, j i 500 Shares Stock of Georgia Railroad and Bank- : I ing Company. 1 100 Shares Stock of the Bank of the State of j , Georgia. 154 Shares Stock of the Bank of Augusta. 5o Share- Stock of the Augusta Manufacturing : Company. Terms cash. GEORGE M. NEWTON, ) .. , JOHN H. MANN, » rA r 3, j I jan!7 d&ctd CITY SHERIFF'S SALE. ON the first Tuesday in MARCH next, will be sold at the Lower Market House, in the City of Augusta, within the legal hours of sale— All that lot, or parcel of LAND, with the im- 1 prtivt nienis thereon, situate in the City of Augus ta, and bounded on the north by a lot of Abner P. Robinson, south by a lot of Patrick Keniffe, east i by a lot of the City Council of Augusta, and west ' by Twiggs’ street, upon which it fronts. Levied : oil as the property of William Coffv, to satisfy a j //. fa. from the Court of Common Pleas, of said ; Cifv, iu favor of John Phinizv vs. William Coffv. Kb:; WM. V. KEIIR, Sheriff, C. A.' CITY SHERIFF’S SALE. ON the first Tuesday in APRIL next, will be sold, at the Lower Market House, in the city of Augusta, within the legal hours of sale, all that ' Lot or parcel of Land, with the improvements ! thereon, situate in the city of Augusta, and known ; as the Jackson Street Ice House and Lot—bounded j north and east by lots of Thomas S. Metcalf, south f 1 by a lot of Thomas Richards, and west by Jackson ■ | street. Levied 011 as the property of the Jackson I Street lee Company of Augusta, to satisfy 3 tax fi. fas. for City Taxes for the years 1853, 1854 and : 1-55, in favor of the City Council of Augusta vs. i the Jackson Street Ice Company of Augusta; and I ; three ti. fas. in favor of the City Council of Augusta \ vs. the Jackson Street Ice Company of Augusta, for : Canal Tax, for the years 1853, 185-4 and 1-55. feb'2 WM. s'. KER, Sheriff C. A. HERRING'S PATENT CHAMPION FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES. rg3m: great interest manifested by the public j -■ to pr.viire mor. perfect security from Fire ! for valuable papers, such as Bunds, Mortgages, Deeds, Note-, and Book- of Account, than the or dinary SAFES heretofore in use had afforded, in- , dutvii the sub-, nbei's to devote a large portion 01 • time and attention during the pa-t.yaurjVyw y?ar< ■ ■ making improvements and discoveries for this ub- i 4,7, and they now beg leave to assure their numer ous friends, and the public generally, that their j 1 ; efforts luu e been crowned with complete success, j : and non otter the “ Improved Hon ing's Patent World's Fair Premium Fire-Proof Safe,” as the ! Champion Safe of the World, having been awarded medals at both the World's 1 t Fair, London, 1851, and in New York, 1855, assn- ( perior to all other-. It is now, undoubtedly, enti- j , tied tn that appellation, and secure d with HALL’S . PATENT POWDER PROOF LOCKS, (which also , was awarded Medals as above,' forms the most perfect Fire and Burglar Proof SAFES ever before offered to the public. I The subscribers also manufacture all kinds of Boiler and Chilled Iron Bank Chests and Vaults. ; Vault Doors, and .Money Boxes or Chests, for Bro kets. Jewellers, and Private Families, for Plate, Diamonds, and other Valuables. And are also j Patentees (bv purchase 1 and Manufacturers of JONES’ PATENT PERMUTATION BANK LOCK. 1 SILAS C. HERRING A CO., Patentees, ; Green Block, Nos. 185, 137 and 138 Water Street. j Agents in Georgia, BELL & PRENTICE, Sa- ! j vantuth. 2m febl2 j WOW COMING INTO STO It F, our stock lul of WOOD WARE. for Spring Trade, consist ing of BUCKETS, all kind-, TUBS, CHURNS PIGGINS, BREAD TRAYS, WASH BOARDS, i and small wares generally. S. S. JONES & CO id-st. WM. M. DAVIDSON, BUM PORT Kits and Dealers in BRANDIES 8.. GIN, ALBANY ALE, CUAMPAGNEand other \Y*nes and Liquors, TEAS, SEGARS, Ae. At l , i ‘ | 14 Congress and 47 St. ,/ulien Streets, Savannah, 1 1 I Ga. die mv23 I 1 - 1 ”ge tion, A". Pleasant and efficient’ TONK BITTERS is immediately prepared by pouring into tlte Quassia Cup, n portion of clear water, and let -1 ting it stand about a minute. A few of these cups just received, by jan9 D. B. PLUMB A CO. fjpHE HUNTER’S FEAST, or Convers^- SL lions around the Camp-fires; by Capt, Mayne : Reid, author of The Rifle Rangers. Kale Weston, or To Will and To Do; bv Jeannie ! DeWitt. Claude in hi- Dungeon, or Maggs, the Traitor. ; Just received, ami for sale bv M. G. McKTXNE, : ’ | dect?7 Bookseller and Stationer. ZINC PAINT. A very supe rior article. Also, Bleached Linseed Oil and : Damar Yurnish. in store and for sal* bv febs D. B. PLUMB & CO. ALEXANDER’S KID GLOVES. lI7ILMAJI SHEAR has received from vi w New York, a full supply of Alexander's j Ladies’ Kid GLOVES, of white’, black, dark and medium colors, warranted the genuine article, and to which the attention of the Ladies is respectfully ; invited. df*c janS A CARD LEA IN, JENNINGS Ar CO. -CKO . OK US AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS Augusta, Georgia. AXTOtNK I-Ori.t.AlX, | THOMAS S. JKNNIXC.S, ISAIAII PURSE. VjjJKE!) O VI'S. 5.10 Bushels Georgia Seed 4™ Oats, just received. Apply to JOHN CASHIN, feb!4 No. t, Warren Block. Rif!!. 25 Ti ", now landing - ply to JOHN CASH IN. febl4 No. 4, Warren Blo( k. DKAtlf BRANDY. -20 Barrels extra fine I JL Peach Brandi. Applvto JOHN CASH IN, febl l No. 4, Warren Block. 173 LOl li.- sno Sacks Superfine Flour, Atlanta Mills. 100 Sacks Superfine and Extra Fam ily Flour. Apply to ' JOHN CASHIN, No. ■!. V\amn Block. CARPETS. nriLLIAM SHEAR has received, from Tr w New s'ork, Brussels, Three Ply, and In grain CARPETS, of new and beautiful styles which he will sell at very low prices. The publi are respectfully invited to examine the assortment. jans d+.tc INE VTIIERS—I2 bags FEATHERS, for sale by janl-8 HAND, WILCOX & CO. H ARPERS’ Magazine for February, leave# . cut, for sale by jati22 THOS. RICHARDS A SON. COZZENS’ HOTEL, : Corner of Broadway and Cunal-st., A. York Oita. rjlHfl undersigned de-ire to inform their friends S and the public, that they have taken for r term of years ihe extensil e establishment hereto fore known a- the Bmndreth House. ■ : liftv.tig made mam alterations and improve ment- in the building-, the house i- now prepared . to receive company. They respectfully invite the attention of their friends and the public t" their new establishment. [ jani’7 tuthi-aC J. B. AS. T. COZZENS. PRESERVEYOUR BOOTS* SHOES. —“One ounce of Prevention is worth two ’ pounds of cure.” 3 The Lbvtuur Pkjesekvative, is just the article j now needed, to preserve Boots, Shoes, and Ilar ? ness Leather, during the present inclement season. The price is only ! 5 cent -a Box, which, no doubt, will be worth dolho-, to all who use it according to directions furnished. For sale by WM. HAINES. janlS Druggist A Apothecary, Augusta, Ga, 1 LEATHERS.—2S bags Live Geesa FEATH ERS, fresh and prime, for sale by jan 3 C. A. WILLIAMS A SON, lotteries. GREENE AND PULASKI MONUMENT LOTTERIES. Managed, drawn,and Prizes paid bythe well known • ; and responsible firm of GREGORY At MAURY. : Drawn Numbers Class 88, at Savannah, Feb. 13th. 46 48 26 60 35 4225T37 13 27 20 77. EXTRA by Delaware 82, on Saturday, Feb, 16. -MAGNIFICENT SCHEME. 835,000! sls, 000 ; $l l i,rinO; $4,. -M) ; £4,000; S- > ~noo ; $0,5.m) ■ £2,C00; $2,000; $1,870; In of §I,OOO, Ac., Ac. ! Tickets slo--Shares in proportion. Risk on a j package of 28 quarters £33.12. CLASS 42, at Savannah, on Monday Feb'v 18th SPLENDID SCHEME. $10,000! ! $3,500; 51,250; 5i,072; SI,OOO, Ac. Tickets i $2.50 —Shares in proportion. Risk on a pack ! age of 25 quarters Sit.2s. JOHN A. MILLEN, Agent, On Jackson street, near the Globe Hotel. ; All orders from the city or country strictly eon ‘ fidential. feblG LOOK AT THIS! LOOK AT THIS!! 1200 PRIZES ! 00,000 DOLLARS ! HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY! \ JASPER COUNTY ACADEMY LOTTERY. i [by authority or the state of Georgia. | CLASS K, I TO BE DRAWN MARCH 15th, 1.856, at Cun- \ j cert Hall, Macon, (la., under the sworn superin- j tendence of Col. Geo. M. Logan and J. A. Nesbit, Esip The Manager having announced his determine- 1 : tion to make this the most popular Lottery in the | ■ world, offers for MARCH 15th, a Scheme that far | : surpasses any Scheme ever offered in the annals of j Lotteries. Look to your interest! Examine the \ j Capitals. ONE PRIZE TO EVERY EIGHT TICKETS.' ! CAPITAL 15,000 DOLLARS. 1 Prize of $15,000 1 “ 4,000 i 1 “ 3,000 1 “ 2,000 5 Prizes of SI,OOO are 5,(W0 10 “ 500 are 5,000 6o “ 50 are 8,000 i 120 “ 25 are 8,000 i 500 Approximation Prizes of 20 are 10,000 I 500 “ “ 10 arc 5,000 j 1200 Prizes, amounting to $60,00 Tickets $lO ; Halves $5; Quarters $2.5n. Prizes Payable without deduction! Persons send ing money by mail need not fear its being lost. Orders punctually attended to. Communications confidential. Bank Notes of sound Banks taken at par. Drawings sent to all ordering Tickets. Those ! wishing particular Numbers should order ilium- I (Lately. Address JAMES F. WINTER, t'ebis Manager, Macon, Ga. $30,000! IMPROVED HAVAS A PLAN LOTTERY! [by authority or the state of Alabama. Southern Military Academy Lottery! FOR MARCH -CLASS A—NEW SERIES. I To be drawn in the City of Montgoinerv MARCH 13tii, 1856. CAPITAL PRIZE *S,OOO ! price or tickets: Wholes*-”,; Halves $2.50; Quarters $1.25 • Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty days after the drawing, in hills of specie-paying Banks, with out deduction --only ».i pree-nfaikm of th* Ticket drawing the Prize. Bills of all solvent Bunks taken at par. All communications strictly confidential. SAM’L. SWAN, Agent and Manager, febl2 Montgomery, Alabama. HAVANA LOTTERY. GRAND ROYAL LOTTERY OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA , HAVANA. Grand Drawing of the Queen’s Lotion, 6th of " MARCH, 1856: 1 Prize of SIOO,OOO 1 “ 50,000 I “ 20,000 1 “ 10,000 1 '* 5,000 6 Prizes of.. $2,000; is 12,000 22 ‘‘ 1,000, is... . 22,000 40 “ . . 500, is.. . 20,000 120 “ ...... 400, i 5.... 48,000 322 “ 200, is 64,000 16 Approximations 4,800 581 Prizes, amounting to $360,200 Persons who desire to invest in this Grand Scheme, which is by far the best in the country, must apply earlv. Bills on all solvent Banks re ceived at par. Those who desire certain Numbers must write immediately. All orders will be confi dentially attended to. Address JOHN E. NELSON, Box 130, febl 0 Charleston, S. C. 30,000 DOLLARS! IMPROVED HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY! w ♦♦ THE FAVORITE ! FORT GAINES ACADEMY LOTTERY.! [By Authority of the State of Georgia.] CLASS 12, To be drawn in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday, the 25th of FEBRUARY , is. .4, when Prizes amounting to 830,000 Will be distributed according to the following Unsurpassable Scheme: SCHEME. CAPITAL PRIZE 810,000. 100 PRIZES—2O APPROXIMATIONS. Ai Small Prizes! Prizes Worth Having!! PRICE OF TICKETS : Wholes $5; Halves $2.50; Quarters $1.25. Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty dais after : tin* drawing, in bills of specie-paving Bank’s, with- ! out deduction, only on presentation ■/' the Ticket en titled to the Prize. Hills on all solvent Banks taken at par. All com munications strictly confidential. SAMUEL SWAN, Agent and Manager. jan24 Atlanta, Georgia. I feAl NDRIES, ON CONSIGNMENT. 300 sacks SALT ; 500 bbls. POTATOES ; 50 casks RICE; 2ou libls. sup’fme FLOUR - 100 boxes B. O. HERRINGS; 1" hbds. New Orleans SUGAR 20 bbls. “ 50 “ CREAM ALE; 50 “ Cliampagne CIDER ; 20 eighth casks COGNAC : 300 bbls. Rectified WHISKY 100 bags BUCKWHEAT . 50 M Spanish SEGARS; 100 gross MATCHES; 100 baskets CHAMPAGNE ; 50 bbls. LARD; 50 kegs LARD ; 20 kegs Goshen BUTTER , 20 “ Country “ 10 cases SCHNA PI’S ; 10 " Madeira WINE; 10 “ French MUSTARD: 300 bbls. LIME; In casks Peach BRANDY. For sale bv GIRARDEY. WHYTE A CO , leb 13 General Commission Merchants. ON CONSIGNMENT. • i bbK N. 6 SUGAR : 10 hhds. do. For sale by GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO., febl2 General Commission Merchants. - CY) 20,iXio Rio Honda Primena; 25,000 Hermosa Consular Primena ; 20,000 Augusta Fair. Just received and for i saleat GUST. VOLGER’S, : feb!2 Segar and Tobacco Store. raUIiJIAS, for Misses’, may lie found at T. DUNHAM’S, successor to j. K. Bancroft dedg American almanac for ' k,o. m„. canley’s England—Boston edition. Kate W eston, or to Will and to Do. The Great Iron Wheel; by .1, K. Graves. The Hunter s Feast, or Conversations around the ' Camp-Fires; by Copt. Mavne Reid. Phocnixiana. or Sketches and Burlesques ; and another supply of Memoirs of S. S. Prentiss. For sale by febs THOS. RICHARDS A SON. EW RAISINS.— 5" boxes Bunch RAISINS 1M 20 boxes Sugar RAISINS, for sale by jams HAND, WILCOX A CO. 1 BUSHELS Prime White C«rn. B s*Hi bushels mixed Corn. 500 bushels Cow Peas. I'm> do Prime Red Wheat 100 do Seed Oats. 55 bags Xo. 1 Flour, for sale by d*estJ L I KINCHLEY, ” Warren block. Auction Sales, BY GIRARDEY, WHYtIT&COT i Clinch Loan Association stock of Private Sale - Ten Shares Clinch Loan Association STOCK for sale. The instalments are all paid i n , and a good investment made in Real Estate, in a’ central par* of the city, and in a respectable neighborhood They will he sold at ~ bargain, tie the owner is about leaving the State. febl', BY ’ I Administrators Sate. 1 W ill he sold on the first Tuesday in MARCH next, at the Lower Market House, in the city of Augusta, between the usual hours of sale, in ac j cordance with an order obtained from the Ordina ; n of Richmond county, all the right and interest j of David Calvin, deceased, in that lot or parcel of 1 \ Laud and improvements, on which there is a brick Blacksmith shop and Work Shop), in the city of Augusta, on Jones street, having a front of one i hundred feet, more or less on said street, and run ( ning back towards Broad-st., to the dividing fence, I So leer, more or less, adjoining on the east lot of j Mrs. Carv ; on the south’ hi a portion of the same i B'b owned by the said David Calvin’s estate and Henry Calvin’s lot, and on tiie west by the lot of i tue estate of \\. W Montgomery, deceased, and bounued on the north by the said Jones street. Isold tor tlie benefit of the heirs and creditors of the said David Calvin, deceased, 'terms cash, i Purchaser to pay for paper.-., j j an 27 ’ HENRY CALVIN, Adm'r j PLANTERS’ HOTEL f spins new, though well known and pop- ..... JL it far HOTEL, i- now being enlarged, Ijjtisl j and will be ready, by flu* first ofOctob: -n. : *vi s'b{; j to accommodate twice as many as heretofore. Pre j viously, it could only in part, in the business season, , accommodate day and transient boarders. From the above date, families, as well as single persons ! can be well suited with desirable quarters. The j undersigned is now ready to engage rooms as above. Second atory Hall will have suites of rooms ■ with a parlor and bed rooms attached. Every i room in the addition will have a fire-place, and as to ! ventillation, cannot bo surpassed jy24 JOHN BRIDGES CHI I LULA INS EXCELSIOR MEDICATED A SOAP. This article has been known to cure the worsi cases of Chilblains, in a few applications. It is also a cure for Ring and Tetter Worm, Salt Rheum, Ac. For sale bv 0./B. PLUMB & CO., feblO Sole Agents for Augusta. I DWELLINGS TO RENT—if applied thr Jr immediately. A, PICQUET. j feblO ' lr DIRTS. SHIRTS, made to order, in all the newest styles, at short notice, febl3 WM. O. PRICE A CO., 258 Broad-»t. UgMN PLATE, SIIEET-lllOnT'aTcl B The subscribers have now in store Tin plates, all kinds. Leaded plates for Roofing. Iron Wire and Block Tin. Pig Lead and Bar Lead. Russia and English Sheet Iron. Sheet Zinc, Ac., Ac. Together with a large anil well assorted stock of Tinner’s Trimmings—such us Kettle Ears, Rivets, Pertorated Tin, Pressed Covers, Ac., Ac , io which they invite the attention of ihe Trade. S. S. JONES & CO., febT Successors to L. Hancock A Co ran IN ware. \\ e are still, as usual, mantl es facturingany quantity of TIN WARE, which we offer at wholesale or retail, on the most favora ble terms. S. S. JONES A C’O., feb7 Successors to L. Hancock A <’■». |NORN BROOMS. large supply of very superior Corn Sweeping, Hearth a i Whisk BROOM S, for sale cheap. dee.3o D. B. PLUMB A CO. jWMERINOS, LACES, dkc. Vi have just if a received u beautiful assortment of French and English MERINOS, to which we invite the at tention of the Ladies; Narrow Black LACES, Blond LACES. Ac. The above Goods are fullv 5 per cent, less than their usual prices dec23 _ DICKEY A PHIBBS. f IVERPOOL SALT.—IpXii) sacks now J landing, for sale low from wharf. Jam I ” _ LEWIS A ALLEN. (10FFFE 35. r bags fair to prime Rio COF- A FEE, just received, and for sale bv jm • J SCRANTON. KOLB &CO I? KENC11 WINDOW GLASS. -2Dt "boxes, . assorted, from 24x 4 to Bxlo, in fine order, just landed, and for sale low, hv VVM. 11. TUTT, febls Wholesale and Retail Druggist. PRESCRIPTIONS, Analyses and Family orders, executed with the utmost care, and of the purest materials, by an exnerienced Chemist, at febls WM. H. TLTT'S Drugstore. IN NG LISH TOOTH BUI SI 1ES ~ C!„.**,mifu \ J article, of our own importation. 1 hose in want of an extra T > *th liru-’i *„s.*! .*.,11 on febl-5 WM. H. TUTT, Druggist. A3k * I NINE. 150 oiui( os r'i veil by feb 15 WM. ii: TUTT, CTI RE TH VF COI fill. Procure a bottle Aof TUTT’S PECTORAI ELIXIR It is sure and pleasant. febl 5 WM H. 1 CIIIE ES E.—loo J just received, and for sale low, by feble HAND, WILCOX A CO. |I»L\NTING POTATOES - - bbbJeWra M Planting POTATOES, f. - **.ile bv febls HAND, WILCOX A CO. ■%’ O.SUG A R AND MOL At-’SES. -50 lihds J“ ® prime New Orleans SUGAR ; . • ■ bbls. N O. MOLASSES just recciv **d. febl3 HAND, WILCOX A: CO. I||| VCKEREL. 2i".> bbls. standard and large i.»il No. 3 MACKEREL, for sale low, bv feb!s HAND, WILCOX*A CO. EORGIA, ELBERT COUNTY.- AViJrea.. wJs John Gordon, the Executor on the estate of Neal McDougal, deceased, late ■ t said . ■ untv , hav ing petitioned the Court of < trclinarv of said c unt), to be discharged from all further'linbiiity on said esuite, slating that be had fully administered and paid out the same : These are, therefore, to cite, summon and ad monish all persons concerned, to be and appear at my office, on or before the first Monday in August next, to show cause, if any they have, why said Executor should not ha disno-scii and disoharga d, and have Letters of Dismission granted him Given under my hand, o! office lit Fiber.mi, this 28(1 of January, lx.'k. W M. B. NELMS, Ordinary jatiSO lamGm CNEORGI A, tOU >llll.' CO! Vi 15 A Mrs. IMiebe Griffin, Executrix on the estate of Jeremiah Griffin, deceased, applies for Letters of i Dismission from said estate : . These are. therefore, to cite and admonish, a!! I and singular, the kindred unrt creditors of said de J ceased, to be and appear at m\ office within the j time prescribed by law, ami show cause, if any ! they have, why sai’d letters should not ! granted j Given under nn hand, it office in Applimr [ an 1 4 A. M. GUAM LORD, Do’U Ordinary CTEQRGIA, WARREN *id M’i J! \\ hereas, Sterling \V . .1 1 ■..■ • . Esecui.-r of tho : last will and testament of Martha Jones, deceased , applies to me for Letters of Dismission from said j Executorship : These are. therefore, to cite audsummon all con i cerned, to be and appear at my office within the time j prescribed bylaw, and show cause, if anythev hav. | win said letters should not be granted. ; Given under my bund at office in VYarrenton, th. 4 j 14th day of November, 187.5. ! nov 17 ARDEN R. MEIfiSHON, Ordinary jf tiIOKLIA. WARREN COUNTY “ " hereas, William .John.- applies to me fa * Letters of Dismiss ion as Administrator on the ‘ estate of John C It.*. 1r.;, : of said county, dc ’ ceased ; These are, therefore, to rite and admonish all , concerned, to be and appear at my office within the : time prescribed by law, and show cause, if any : they have, why said letters should not be granted Given under my hand, at office in Wart -nton, this 27th day of November, 15, novgO ARDEN R. MERSHON, Ordina, r. liEORCi RFRK E Ft). Wc - vaj STm x eon Brinson, Adiumi-:r..'..r of the Estate ox Nancy Brinson, deceased, applies for Letters Dis ’ missorv; These are, therefore, to cite and admonish, all ami singular, the kimLed, and other persons inier osted, to be and appear before the Court of Ordina ry, to be held in and for said county, on me firs' Monday in June next, and show cause, if an, thev haie, why said letters should not he grar-ted. Given under my band, at office in lYgvnesboro’, this Ist day of Decembei 1- 75 deed ’ EDWARD 0 A RUCK, O. B. C. (4 EORGI A, \\ VRR EN CO.-Whereas, A John 11. Beall applies for Letters Dismiss irv from the Administration of the estate of Martha T. Beall, deceased : These are, therefore, to vile and summon, all con i cerned, to be and appear at my office within tho 1 time prescribed h- law, and show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand, at office in Warren ton, ! this 4th dav of December, 1855. JOHN J. PILCHER, Deputy Ordinary