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p|ju HMTimiOMIST OFFICE ON McISTOSH STREET, ,riR fROM THE NORTH-WEST CORNER OF BHOAD-fiTREET. TERMS: . in advance per annum $6 OO . ‘V m advance per annum 7 on \\ .jdv. in advance. ,|»er annum 4 n«i ■, id'vance ]>er annum ~t on ii: advance per annum.... 2 on \ i iIIsCOCNT KOU CD! BS. • ‘ J OB” OFFICE. •, •1 v added a variety of New ,i,r Job Department, we are prepared Pierv description of lZ TTEH PRESS PRINTING ■ r manner, and on reasonable terms. . assortment are some Mammoth Ty eg for FOSTERS. t'r 'in the X. y. Jlerall. . .stor Toombs’ Lectnre in Boston. tihiti’Hud statx-t audit 4 irt-iiaer.ee 1 and the African Race. OOXCLTOED.] n-your calm consideration of the st-e --c. i ini lei are, iam fully persuaded 1, if I should succeed in convincing vour .:id jo igment of its truth, I shall have n , . iur sympathies in'this work; yet if the upon which vour social system is finin'- vuind, the system itself is humane and •veil as n ■ iry. It™ permanence is • up in the idea of the superiority bv nature idte race over the African; that this au i- not transient and artificial, but pe - and natural; that the same power which skin unchangeable black, made hint in inTellectuallv, to the white race, and ine ■- : an equal struggle with him in the career •it ss and civilization; that it is accessary , pres 'rvation in this struggle, and for his ■rest, as well as that of the society for .; is a member, that he should he a sen ant, jY man, in the commonwealth. 1 have ; —(I that African slavery existed in the ! . „i the commencemen! of the American j T . paramount authority of the j w ; without the consent of the colonies, 1 , ,i, .„!iic ' l it, and it was inextricably intei - i 1, Hit. Iwr framework of society, especially j • . Soudiern Suite. The question was not j ; '. dfi»r mr decision whether it was just or dal to the African or advantageous to us t . j ; . i .wav by force or fraud from bondage in I . ,c- .iiiitry and place him in a like condition j : I and the ( Ihristian world had long vitlvi that question for us. iaal o.'et throw of British authority ia our ancestors found seven hundred . , i,l African* among them already in boud ,~j r,mi "iitrated, from our climate and pn -dy in the pr sent slaveholding States. . .1,,: ■ their duty to establish governments for ,7 They brought wisdom, experience, 1 ,md patri itism to the great work. Wha ; - ,_ii* was that system of government which ’ . 1..•.• lire the greatest and most enduring hap .. i!;•> whole.societv. They incorporated re j i: , ti,-i,ri s 111 their system. They did no 1 | h iM vrn themselves about what rights : .1 nnc.lit possibly have in a state of nature, as , ■ he ought to have in a state of society, i . . It with political rights as things of com- j net of birthright; in the contrete, and not in ] (byr.iet. They held, maintained and incor- j th ir systems as fundamental truths, ; i, is the right and duty of the State to de- j tad fix, as 'Villas to protect and defend, the I • tit.il rights of such members of the social 1 , j, and to treat all individual rights as sub ■he area' interests of the whole society .! -th". denied “natural equality,” con- • i is ■:••■ governments of men necessarily re _ t -i ./front, and established governments of ; ! i r live, sovereign and independent I \ verv slight examination of our State , dim : ,11-, will show how little they regarded ms of abstract liberty or natural equali .. ,11 . rights of the white race as well a fib-.-k The elective franchise, the cardinal : »>'«,: syste'it, I have already shown was j !. •.•.ithh-ld or limited, according to their ! - f eohlie policy and the interests of the , Sum tous restraints upon the supposed : i_lots of a more numerical majority to a- •ici ,in all eases, are to be found planted j • ir C institutions. State and f-deral ; thus I lima this subordination of individual rights 1- inter-, ms mid safety of the State. '•.•'..holding States, acting upon these prill liudia: die African race among them in j iiatit to be trusted with political power, t, .of-, as freemen, of securing their own liaptv- 1 - , r promoting th" public prosperity, recogniz | •.•undidhi as 'laves and subjected it 10 a j , inti Ti ,«r abundant means of as •Ui'uv.ug th effects of this policy on the slave 1 lou *•«> -tv i •••'»il»le to all who seek the truth c sav ns wisdom i- vindicated bv its results, and ! it 11 j.Jer it, tile Ainc.iiirn the slaveholding States : 'mind in a better positi m than he has ever at- i ,ed in any other age or < .aintry, either in bond 1 udVei loin, in npp on of this poiui, I propose • _!■ •• Jilin rapid!* from his earliest history to the si ni time. The monuments of the ancient carry hi .1 back to the morning of time than tin- pyramids they furnish the evidence, . ~f his national identity ami his social degra -1 I e.ire history began. We first behold him . ■in foreign lands. We then find the great • f hi' ru-.-e slave* in their own native land, i after tiii:; centurcs* illuminated by both an- . .rid modern civilization have passed over - ill find him a slave of savage masters, ijnihle as himself of even attempting a single in civilaiiou; we find him there still, without a neat laws or protection, without letters ..ns nr iinl -irv, without religion, or even the iiisiis which would raise him to the rank o! .: .l iter: mid, in his lowest type, his almost on ■:.,itk n! humanity is that he walks erect in the ae,. i,f die Creator. Annihilate his race to-day, . , : will find no trace of his existence written •' a ,'tni of years lie would not leave behind j a single monument, invention or thought, -es remembrance by the human family. dir Ease, ru hemisphere, he has been found in gr.'. scattered among the nations of every de -1 virilization, vet interior to them all—always 1 s rviie condition. Very soon after the (liscov • .ad s-itlcment of America, the policy of the is:: world bought large numbers of these a of their savage masters and countrymen, ipiVu-d them into the Western world. Hen mibh.d to view them under a different and ; ,fc fin ..raid'* condition. In liayti, by tin jdgemeut of the French government, after a , vnbatiou of slavery, thev became free; and • . bv die conduct and valor of the mixed races, i by overpowering numbers, Uft-'V massacred •null number of whites who iuliabitad the is- , i succeeded to the undisputed sway of tin :d best of to West India islands, imdei •st state of cnltivaihits. Their condition o, left nothing to be desituii for the most 1 . ' experiment of the race, for ecltgovcrii ad ci'ilation. This experiment has r,ow ’ sted for sivti years, and its results are be world. Fanaticism palliates, hut cannot 1 •A :he utter prostration of the race. A war s began on the very moment the fear of for . -'ibjsig.tfinn ceased, and resulted in i';;c rxter ; mi of the greater number of tlie had rosem d them from the dominion of the •1 •. Revolutions, tumults and disorder, • a ihe ordinary pursuits of emancipated halustrv has almost ceased, and their i'ilizatioii has been already exhausted; , now scarcely distinguishable from - from which they were torn iu their native entl v the same experiment has been tried under the auspices of England. This ' ; 'hi most beautiful, productive ami pros- Br'.'ish colonial possessions. In lsdS, . t to', towing the false theories of hei‘ own •lUcts, proclaimed the total emancipation of •• i. race in Jamaica. Her armt and her power ■ "aiche-.l ov-r and protected them , not Duly •■ '•.'. li.e In absolute necessities of the tropi ietors of the land compelled them to inducement ar,d stimitlai t to industry ; ''••• - viicr::...'n! stands before the world a cou '• i .tin. Ruin has overwhelmed »)ie propri ' -:i lth negro, true to the instincts of bis t- buries himself in tilth, and sloth, and crime, ve ear. compare the Africa;.. all himself i:i .tie .us -in freedom and i . bondage; and ■*’•• •' aip.uv him with his race, in the same c'i • ~ -'ie t il.'owiug the -ante pursuits—compare ’ ■ Inui'clf under the two different condi -* m Havti and Jamaica, and with his race in -. 'iCuba And every comparison deinon >'i' the folly of emancipation. ■ : a t.iiiei States, too, we have peculiar op ies oi studying the African race tinder dis : tit. ri' lief 1 we find him in slavery ; ' T e i .id him also, a freeman in both the slave - slid tien-'i i-reholding S'ates. Tiic best a -f th-. ft '■ black is to fit found in the '■ ■■■ s, in she cl<>st st contact with slas ery , ‘ ' !l '• 'to many of its restraints. L'p >n tb« d ' ' - aift-slaverv tiu n . Ihc most favorable ' tyiti which vou can vteC , * l,> African is in “luveholding States of this pfij-ni. There - ''v xpect to find hhn displacing a ]l the ••- u-°‘. hl * race for improvement and pro - 1 '' l ” ; a temperate climate, with the road of ‘.’T i' e . Q before him—among an active, indus v, ~: . r L ‘ yi ' and educated people—surrounded - ' oiygliizing frien !>, and mild, just and equal ' ; . j l '- If he fails here, surely it can be tm'hing but himself, lie has had ‘ • in which to cleanse himself and hi* 4 ••• th ■ tepr- -V of slavery Yet what is his • >n tere today • He is free—he is lord oi | himself; but he finds it truly a “ heritage of woe.” j After this seventy yoais of education and probation among themselves, his inferiority stands as fully a ; confessed fact in the non-slarenolding as in the slaveholding States. By them he is adjudged unfit t | to employ the l ights anil perform the duties of citi zenship. Denied social equality by an irreversable law ot nature, and political rights bv municipal law, incapable of maintaining the unequal struggle 1 w ith the superior race, the melancholy history of his career of freedom is here most usually found in j the records of criminal courts, jails, poorhouses and penitentiaries. i hese tacts have had themselves recognized in j the most conclusive manner throughout the Xorth ei 11 States. No town, or city, or State encourages i theii emigration; many of them discourage it hv I legislation. Some of the nou-slaveholding States I ! |rtve prohibited their entry into their borders, un -1 der any circumstances whatever. Thus it seems i this great fact of inferiority of the race is equally j admitted everywhere in our country. But we treat it differently. The Northern States admit it, and jI" r *d. themselves of the burthen, inflict the most ; j cruel injuries upon an unhappy race; they expel j them from their borders, and drive them out of . their boundaries, or into their poorhouses, as wan derers and outcasts. The result of this policy is everywhere apparent—the statistics of population supply the evidence of their condition. In the non slaveholding States, their actual increase during the ten rears preceding the last census, was but a j litth : over one per cent, per annum, even with the 1 addition of emancipated slaves and fugitives from ! labor from the South; clearly proving that in this, their most favored condition, when left to then:- . | selves, they are scarcely capable of maintaining their existence, and with the prospect of a denser population and a greater competition for employ , 1 ment consequent thereon, they are in danger of j extinction. The Southern! States, acting upon the same ad j mitted facts, treat them differently. Thev keep j them in the subordinate condition in which they found them, protect them against themselves, and compel them to contribute to their own and the j public interests and welfare; and under our sys i tein we appeal to facts open to all men, to prove that the African race has attained a higher degree i of comfort and happiness than his race has ever j before attained in any other age or country. Our j political system give the slave great and valuable | rights. His life is equally protected with that of his master—liis person is secure from assault j ! against all others, except his master; and hispow- ! j er in this respect is placed under salutary legal ro ! straint. He is entitled by law to a borne, to ample j food and clothing, and exempted from “excessive” | j labor; and when no longer capable of labor in old 1 age or disease, is a legal charge upon bis master. : Hi s family, old and young, whether capable of la ■ bor or not, from the cradle to the grave, have the same legal rights. And in these legal provisions they enjoy as large a proportion of the products ot j their labor as any hired labor in the world. We know that their rights are in the main faithfully ; secured to them ; but 1 rely not on our knowledge, j but submit our institutions to the same tests bv ! which we try those of all other countries. These ; are supplied by our public statistics. They show ! that our slaves are larger consumers of animal j food than any population in Europe, and larger | than any other laboring population in the United ! States : and that their natural increase is equal to j that of any other people. These are true and in disputable tests that their physical comforts an j simply secure. In 1700, there were less than seven | | hundred thousand slaves in the United States ; in | ! IS.To, (he number exceeded three and a quarter millions. The same authority shows that their in crease for the ten years preceding the last census was above twenty-eight per cent., or nearly three per cent, per annum an iavrca.se equal, allowing for the element ot foreign emigration, to the white j race, and nearly three limes the blacks of the - North. But these legal rights of the slave embrace but i a small portion of the privileges actually enjoyed ; by him. lie has, by universal custom, the control j of much of his own time, which is applied at his own choice and convenience to the mechanic arts, i to agriculture, or to some other profitable pursuit, which not only gives him the power of purchase over many of the additional necessaries ot life, but j over many of its luxuries ; and in numerous cases j enables him to purchase his freedom when lie de- | sires it. Resides, the nature of the relation of nias- ! ter and slave begets kindness, imposes duties and j secures their performance, which exist iu no other | relation of capital and labor. Interest and lm- i inanity co-operate in harmony for the well-being • of slave labor. Thus ihe monster objection to out i institution of slavery that it deprives labor of iis 1 wages- cannot stand the test of a truthful investi j gation. A slight examination of the true theory ot wages will further expose its fallacy. Under a ays tern of free labor, wages are usually paid in mo ! nev, th ‘ repres *ntative of products—under ours, in j products themselves. One of your own most ilis ; anguished statesmen and patriots President John Adams said that the difference to the slave was “imaginary.” “What matters it ('said he) whether a landlord employing ten laborers on his farm j gives them annually as much money as will buv them the necessaries of life, or gives them those necessaries at shorthand?” All experience has shown that, if that he the measure of lubor, it is safer for the laborer 10 take bis wages in products than in their supposed pecuniary value. There fore, if we pay in the necessaries and benefits of life more than any given amount of pecuniary wages will buy, then our laborer is paid higher than the l.tbiTei who receives that amount ot wages. The most authentic agricultural statistics of ,ngland, show that the wages of agriculture atul j nskilled luhor in that kingdom not onlv fails to irnish the laborer with the comforts of our slave, ut even with the necessaries of life; and no laveholder could escape a conviction for cruelty > his slaves, who gave them no more of the tieees ities of life for their labor than the wages paid to loir agricultural laborers by the noblemen and '•nth-men of England would buy. Under their vstem, man has become less valuable and less ared for than domestic animals ; and noble dukes ill depopulate whole districts of men to supply heir places with sheep, and then, with intrepid ndaeitv, lecture and denounce American slave adders. The great conflict between labor and apital, under free competition, lias ever been how j he earnings of labor and capital shall be divided j iclwecn them. In new and sparsely settled coun ries. where land is cheap and food is easily pro be -il, and education and intelligence approximate quality, labor ear. successfully struggle in this warfare with capital. Hut this is an exceptional md temporary condition of society. In the Old iVorld, this state of things has long since passed uvav, and the conflict with the lower grades of nbo’r lias long since ceased. There the compen dium of unskilled labor, which first succumbs to : ■apital, is reduced to a point scarcely adequate to i continuance of the race. The rate of increase is .earcelv one per cent, per annum; and even at hat rate, population, until recently, was consider 'd a curse, in short, capital has become the mas er of labor, with all the benefits, without the natu ral burthens of the relation. hi this division of the earnings of labor between t and capital, the Southern slave has a marked idvnntage over the English laborer, and often equal o the free laborers of the North. Here, again, we ire furnished with authentic data from which to •cason. The census of I*so shows that on cotton ; •states of the South, which is the chief branch of . ,ur agricultural industry, one half of the arable apds'are annually put under food crop. This half s usually wholly consumed on the farm by the la borers and necessary animals. Out of the other naif must be paid all the necessary expense of pro duction, often including additional supplies of food ; bevond the produce of the land, which usually equals one-third of the residue, leaving but one third for nett rent. The average rent of land in the older uon-slaveholding States is equal to one third of the gross product, and it not unfrequently amour.ts to one-half of it, tin England it is some times even greater, ' the tenant from his portion paying all expenses of production, and the expen ses of himself and family. Then it is apparent that the laborer of the South receives always ns much, and frequently a greater portion of the produce of the land than the laborer in New or Old England. Besides, here the portion due the slave is a charge 4 p>in the whole product of capital, and upon the capital itself. It is neither dependent upon sea sons nor object t,o accidents, and survives his own capacity for labor, tu,d even the ruin of his master. But it is objected that religious instruction is denied t!:fi slave. While it is true that religious instruction and privilges are not enjoined bv law in all of the States, tin number of slaves who are in connection with the different churches abun tly prove the-universality of the enjoyment of these pi is ih-ges ; and a much larger number of the in * in slavery enjoys the consolations of religion than the efforts of the combined Oristain world have ever been able t" convert- to Christianity out of all tins millions of their countrymen who re main in their native land. Vet the slave, and of those connected with slavery, are constant themes of abolition denunciation. " They are lanmntably j.j.-at; but it remains to he shown that they are greater than with the laboring poor of England or anv of her countrv. And it is shown that our slaves are without the additional stimulant of want ! > drive them to crime—we have at’least removed from them the temptation and excuse of hunger. Poor human nature is here at least spared the .. retched fate of the utter prostration of its moral nature the first of its physical wants. Lord Ashley’s report to the British Parliament shows that in the capital o# that empire— perhaps within hading of Stafford House and Exeter Kali—hunger alon? datlv engulphs its thousands of men and jyofuen in the abyss of crime. 1 1 u ais--objected that our slaves are debarred tlie benefit oj A. fj education. This objection is well taken, and is not without force; and for this evil •he slaves are greatly indebted to n.t Abolitionists. Form -rlv, in some of the jdaveholding States, u was not forbidden to teach slaves to read and write; but the character of the literature sought to be furnished bv tfie .iboiitjoipsts caused these Btates » | to take counsel rather of their passions than their n | reason, and to lay the axe at the foot of the evil. a : Better counsels will in time prevail, and this will e j be remedied. It is true that the slave, from his t I protected position, has less need of education than j the free laborer, who has to struggle for himself e | in the career of society; yet it is both useful to j I him, his master and society. The want of legal 0 : protection to the marriage relation is also a fruit ,C j fill source of objection among the opponents of t) | slavery. The complaint is not without foundation N —this is an evil not yet remedied by law; butsuar i riage is not inconsistent with the institution of a j slavery as it exists among us, .mil the objection, therefore, lies rather to an incident than to the es i sence of the system. Rot, in truth and fact, inar r | riage does not exist to a very great extent among s | slaves, and is encouraged and protected by their { owners; and it will be found, upon careful investi j gation, that fewer children are born out of wed i lock among slaves than in the capitals of two of ‘ t j the most civilized countries of Europe Austria j j and France. In the former, one-lialf of the ehil t i dren are thus horn; in the latter, more than one- I j fourth. j-j Rut even in this we have deprived the slave of ino pre-existing right. We found the race without ; . i any knowledge of, or regard for, the institution of ! j marriage, and we are reproached with not having | as yet secured them that with all the other bles . : sings of civilization and religion. To protect that J I and other domestic ties hv laws forbidding, under , j proper regulations, the separation of families, , would be wise, proper and humane, and some of the shaveholding States have already adopted pai ’ tial legislation for the removal of these evils. Rut j the objection is far more formidable in theory than I | practice. The accidents and necessities of life ! produce infinitely a greater amount of separation I in families of the white than ever happens to the , colored race. This is true, even in the United States, • where the general condition of the people is pros- j perous. But it is stiil more marked in Europe. The injustice and despotism of England towards Ireland have produced more separation of Irish j families, sundered more domestic ties, within the last ten years, than African slavery has effected j i since its "introduction into the United States. The ! ! twenty millions of freemen in the United States j are witnesses of the dispersive injustice of the ! ! Old World. The general happiness, cheerfulness i and contentment of the slaves attest both the mijd i ness and human it \ of tin ir treatment, and their natural adaptation to their condition. They re- ! [ quire no standing armies ioenforee ihcirobedienec. : while the evidences of discontent and the appli i ances of force to repress ii, are everywhere visible j among the toiling millions of the earth. Even in ! • the Northern States of this Union, strikes, and j labor unions, aud combinations against employers, attest at once the history anil discontent of labor j among them. England keeps one hundred thou- j sand soldiers in time of peace, a large navy, and an innumerable police, to secure obedience t.i her social institutions ; and physical force is the sole j guaranty of her social order - the only cement of | her gigantic empire. I have briefly traced the condition of the African 1 race through all ages and all countries, and de- I scribed it fairly and truly under American slavery. I aud I submit the proposition is fully proven that ; his position in slavery among us is superior to anv which he has ever attained in any ag“ or country. • The picture is not without shade as well as light. 1 1 Evils and imperfections cling to man and all of hi [ institutions, and this is not exempt from them. I 1 j The condition of the slave offers great opportuni 1 i ties for abuse, and these opportunities are fre quently used to violate humanity and justice. But i the laws restrain these abuse' and punish tho.>f ! crimes in this, as well as iu all other relations of life. And they who assume i; as a fundamental ■ i principle iu the constitution of man that abuse i‘ j the unvarying concomitant of power and crime of 1 ’ I opportunity, subvert the foundations of all private t ; morals and of every social si stem. No where do i these assumptions find a nobler refutation than in , the general treatment of the African race by Southern slaveholders; and we mat with hop" ; and confidence safely' leave to them the removal of i j existing abuses, and such further ameliorations us j | may be demanded by justice, humanity and (’hri i tianitv. The condition of the African, whatever ! may be bis interests, may not be permanent among |us:' he may find his exodus in the unvarying law • t !of population. Under the conditions of labor in j i England and the Continent of Europe, domestic 1 j slavery is impossible there, aud could not exist ' ! here or anywhere else. The moment wages de t : crease to a point barely sufficient to support the la 1 borer and his family, capital , ,:nnot afford to own | labor, and it must cease. Slavery* in England j ceased in obedience to this law, and not from any - j regard to liberty and humanity. The increase of ( ■ population in this country may produce the same ; ( result, and American slavery, like that ■ f England, i may find i’s euthanasia in the general prostration • of all labor. The next aspect in which I propose to examine 1 this question, is its effects upon tl>* material into j 1 rests of the slaveholding States. Thirty years ago j , • slavery was assailed mainly on the ground that it was wasteful, unproductive and unprofitable labor. Some years ago we were urged to emancipate the blacks in order to make them more useful and pro ductive members of society. The result of the ex 1 periments in the West India Islands, to which I 1 have before referred, not only disproved, but utter- ; ly annihilated this theory. The theory was true , - as to the white race, and not true as to the black ; s and this single fact made thoughtful men pause and ponder before advancing further with this fol lv of abolitionism An inquiry into the wealth and production of the slaveholding States of this j Union, demonstrates that- lave labor can be eco t nomicall;. aud profitably employed, at least in agri culture, and leaves the question in great doubt ; , whether it cannot he thus employed in the South more advantageously than anv other description of , labor. The same truth will n made manifest by a comparison of the productions of Culm and Bra zil, not only with liayti and Jamai'-a, but with the free races in the similar latitudes engaged in the same or similar production* in anv part of tin ( world. The sla\. holding Stan well one half of ( the white population and between three anil four millions of staves, furnish alone three-fifths of the , i exports of the republic, containing twenty-three j millions of people; aud their entire products, in 1 eluding every branch of industry, greatly exceed , those jier capita of the most jiojmhms Northern . States. The difference in realized wealth in pro portion to population, is not I s- reinarkabl" and j equally favorable to tile slaveholding States. Bui this is not a fair comparison- outlie contrary, it is exceedingly unfair to the slaveholding Suite.-. The question of materia! advantage would he set- . tied 011 the side of slavery whenever it was shown that our mixed society was more productive and prosperous than any other mixed society with the j inferior race.free, instead of slave. The question |i* nut whether w- would not be more prosperou ' and happy with these three and a half millions of slaves in Africa, and their place- tilled with an 1 equal number of hardy, intelligent and enterpri iug citizens of a superior race, hut is simply v.heth- | er, while we have them among us, ive would he most prosjierous with them in freedom or bondage. With this bare statement of the true issue, 1 can safely leave the question to the facts aI: uly refer red to, and to those disclosed in tlie late census. But the truth itself needs some .‘Xplanetioii, as it seems tv lie a great mystery to the opponents of slavery how the system is capable a t the same time . of increasing the comforts and happiness of the slave, the profits of the master, and do no violence to humanity. Its solution rests upon verv obvious principles. In this relation, the labor of the coun try is united with and protected by its capital, di ! reeled by the educated and intelligent, secured against its own weakness, waste and folly i ciated in such form as to give the greatest efficien cy in protection, and the least cost of mainleiian c. Each individual free black laborer is the victim not only of his own folly and extravagance, but of his ignorance, misfortunes and necessities, ilis isolation enlarges his expenses without in 'Teasing his comforts; his want of capital increases the prices of everything he buys, disable* him from supplying his wants at favorable times or on ad i vantageous terms, and throws hint into the hands of retailers and extortioner*. Rut labor united with capital, directed by skill, forecast and .intelli gence, while it is capable of its production, is freed from all these evils, and leaves a margin both for increased comforts to the laborer and additional profits to capital. This is the explanation to the seeming paradox. The opponents of .slavery, passing by the ques tion of material interests, insist that its olivets ou the society where ii exist- is to demoralize and enervate it, and render it incapable of advance ment and a high civilization, and upon the citizen to debase him morally and intellectually. Such i. not the lesson taught by history, either sacred or ’ profane, nor the experience of our ■>" npa t or pn sent. To the Hebrew race was committed die oracles 1 of the Most High. Slaveholding priests admiuis : tered at his altar, and slaveholding prophets and ' patriarchs received his revelations and taught them ‘ to their own, and transmitted them to nil other gen ‘ erations of men. The highest form of ancient civ ilization and the noblest development of the indi vidual man are to be found in the ancient slave p holding commonwealth* of Greece and Rome. In r eloquence, in rhetoric, in poetry and painting, in p architecture and -eulpture, you must *tiU go and ‘ search amid the wreck and ruin* of their genius forthe “pride of every model and the perfection 1 of every master,” and the language and literature J j of both, stamped with immortality, pass on to > mingle with the thought and the speech of all s i lands and all centuries. But 1 will not multiply 0 , illustrations. That domestic slavery neither eu t' feebles nor deteriorates our race—that it is not in A , qons*-u.i.t yith the highest advancement of men and society, is the lesson taught by all ancient, and d confirmed by all modern history. Its effects in II strengthening the attachment of the dominant il race to liberty, was eloquently expressed by Mr. i. j Burke, the most accomplished and philosophical it statesman England ever produced. In his speech i on conciliation with America, he uses the follow e ing language: “Where this is the ease, those • \ who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom. * * I cannot alter the nature o; man. The fact is so, and these people of tht Southern States are much more strongly, and nit! a higher and more stubborn spirit, attached to lib : erty than those to the northward. Such were al the ancient commonwealths—such were our Gothit ancestors, and such, in our day, were the Poles and such will he till masters of’slaves, who are not . slaves themselves. In such a people the haughti ness of domination combines itself with the spirit of freedom, justifies it, and renders it invincible.’’ No stronger evidence of what progress s >ciety may make with domestic slavery could be desired than that which the present condition of the slave holding States presents. For near twenty years foreign and domestic enemies of their institutions have labored, by pen and speech, to excite a dis content among the white race, and insurrection among the black. These efforts have shaken the ; national government to its foundations, anil burst the bonds of Christian unity among the churches of the land, yet the object of their attack tlies ■ j States -have scarcely felt the shock. In survey ing the whole civilized world, the eve rests not on a single spot where all classes of society are .-o | well contented with their social system, or have ' greater reason to be so, than the .slaveholding States nf this Union. Stability, progress, order, peace, content, reign throughout our borders; not a single soldier is to be found in our widely extended domain to overawe or protect society. The desire for organic change nowhere manifests itself. Within less than seventy years, out of live feeble colonies, with less than tme and a half million of j inhabitants, have emerged fourteen republican •Slate-, containing nearly ten million of inhabi | cants —rich, powerful, educated, moral, refined, ■ prosperous and happy; each with republican gov ernments, adequate to the protection of public 1 liberty and private rights, which arc cheerfully obeyed, supported and upheld by all classes of so ciety. With a noble system of internal improve ments, penetrating almost every neighborhood, '■ stimulating and rewarding the industry of our ; people; with moral and intellectual, surpassing physical improvements; with churches, school j houses and colleges daily multiplying throughout ! the land, bringing education and religious instruc tion to the houses of all the people, they exhibit a spectacle which challenges the admiration of the world. None of this great improvement and pro gress has been aided by the federal government; we have neither sought from it protection for our private pursuits, nor appropriations for our public improvements. They have been effected by the unaided individual efforts of an enlightened, moral, energetic and religious people. Such is onr social' system, and such our condition under it. It- pr ; . litical wisdom is indicated in its effects on society ; , iis morality by the practices of the patriarchs ;.!-d the teachings of the Apostles. We submit to the judgment of the civilized world, with the firm co: f iction ih-.; the adoption id no other system undo! our circumstances would have exhibited the indi vidual man, bond or free, in a higher development, or society in a happier civilization. BY 1 1 ELEGEA PIT. From the Fejee Islands, New \ oitE, Feb. ItStb.— Intelligence has been received by the St. .amis that the Sloop-of-War ! John Adams had burnt five of the largest towns in the Fejee Islands, in. consequence of the inliabi- 1 turns having plundered several American ships. A treaty nf peace was afterwards signed. The Kansas Troubles. IV vsmxino.v, Feb. IGov. Shannon will leave fur Kansas to-day, and will immediately remove his office from the Shawnee Mission, to Leeompton, the centre of the difficulties Orders will be is sued by the War Department to Col. Sumner, au thorizing him to aid in suppressing disturbances by force, if necessary. If circumstances require it sno troops at. Fort Leavenworth, aud 400 at For* Riley, will be called out. Letter from Gen. Houston. New t ontc, Feb. -The Post contains a letter from Gen. Hoi srox, addressed to President Pieroi:. in which the writer declares that no consideration would induce him to remain, in official position, at Washington. Markets, New York, Feb. 15. Cotiou is buoyant, with sale of 7,000 bales. Prices stiffen Flour is dull ! Ohio : *-57; Southern §9 2" Wheat unchange** Corn quiet. Nr.yy Okj.ba.v3, Feb. Id.—-Sales to-day of 0,500 bales Cotton, at decline. Middling it 5$ cts. Receipts of the week 45,500 bales, against 82,00*> bales last year. Increased receipts at this port 300,000 bales. Stock 224,000 bales. Ngk! OTIt.'E is hereby given, to a!! parties in in iM teres*, residing out of the State of Georgia, i tin.: t shall make application to the Court of Ordi nary of Scriveu county, a: the next June Term of said Court, for an order to distribute the estate of ! Martha Herrington, late of said county, deceased, among the heirs and distributees of said deceased. SIMEON HERRINGTON, Adm’r. f- hi 2ani4m Vkf OTIt E i-i hereby given, to ail parties in iu- L « ten-s!, residing out of the State of Georgia. Fiat I shall make application to the Court of Ordi nary * I Serivi'ii county, at the next June Term of sai'i Court, for an order to distribute the estate of Joseph T. Herrington, hue of said county, deceas ed, among the heirs and distributees of* said de ceased. ' JEFFERSON HUBERTS, Adm’r. ft-bo 2am4ni COZZENS’ HOTEL, (hi net- of Uroadir n / and (Jatud-st., .V. York t it//. rifTH fc undersigned desire to inform their tVieiic H ami the public, iliat they have taken for a term of years the extensive establishment hereto- j fore known as the Rratidreth House. llav.ng made many alterations and improve ments ili the buildings, the house is now prepared to teceive company. They respectfully invite the attention of their friends and the public to their new establishment, jmW lath I sac J. 11. AS. T. COZZENS. ADMINISTRATRIX SALE. lini.l, he sold, at the Lower Market House, V to ’h.; city of Augusta, Richmond county, (in accordance yvitli an order obtained from the Ordinary of Richmond county,! on the first Tues day in APRIL next, between the usual hours of sale, nil that Lot and improvements ion which there is a Brick House;, in the eili of Augusta, on Ellis street, having a front on Ellis .street of 2:'; s feet, and running half way through back to the south. Hounded on the north by Ellis street, on the cast by Col. Turner Clanton's lot, on the south by Hr. Joseph A. Eve’s lot, and on the west by the Palace Stables lot. Sold subject to a mortgage to tlic Franklin L< an and Building Association. —AX.SO At the same time and place, Eleven Shares of j tin; Franklin Loan and Building Association Stock. The II nuse and Lot and Loan and Building Asso ciation Stock will lie sold together, as both are pledged for the mortgage. All sold as the property of Frederick Tischer, deceased, for the benefit of tin-heirs and creditors. Purchaser to pay for wi pers. Terms cash. FRANCES TIScHER, febl.o dlaw.vetd Administratrix. *• 77.1- InU/ii’ctmil FtVjw nf a People is indicated ty the Character of its Literature.’' MERCER UNIVERSITY. PF.SFIELD, G Y. r vet i.TV : KEV. N. M. < It YYVFORD, 1). I)., Presi - dent, S P. SANFORD, A. M., Prof, of Mathematics. J. E. WILLF.T, A. M., Professor of Chen*istiy and Natural Philosophy. Rev. S. G. HILLYER, A. M., Professor of Belles Entires. R. M. JOHNSTON, A. M„ Professor * elect) of Languages. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: Rev. .T. T.. DAGG, D. {)., Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology. Rev. N. M. CRAWFORD, D. D„ Professor of Ec clesiastical History and Biblical Literature. ACADEMY: Rev. T. D. MARTIN. \. M., Principal. Commencement is held on the last Wednesday , in July. The regular College Course requires four years for iho degree of A. B. Those wishing to do so, may omit the Languages, and pursue a scien tific course of three years. , Having he- n originally designed for the educa timi of young mm preparing for the Gospel Minis try, this Institution keeps that object steadily in view. The Seminary embraces a three years’ course of such studies its are pursued in the most celebra ted Theological Seminaries in our country. The Academy is kept under an experienced Teacher, and has been established with special ref erence to fitting pupils to enter College. The price of Board in the Village is §IO.OO per ; month; washing, room-rent, fuel, Ac., §3.oti. The next Term commences on the first day of February next, 1 's*s. With a full and able Faculty, students are with confidence invited to the usual benefits of our best Institutions, with the special advantages of a loca tion removed from the tempations and vices of towns. Bv order of the Board of Trustees. iieC-1 c2m S. LANDRUM, Sec’v. CITY LOTS FOR SALE. fOYIIREE small lots, running from Reynold to * Bay street, bounded on the East by Mr. Jones’ lot, on the West bv Mrs. Thos. Gardner’s There is a small tenement on each. For terms apply to JAS. T. GARDNER, febl? ,dlawiw ar JAS. P. GAIRDNER. General SADDLERY, HARNESS, TRUNKS, &c SPRING TRADE, 135*1. JESSUP & CO., No. 341, Broad street, two doors above the Bank of Augusta have now on hand, tlieir usual large and well selected assortment ot SADDEEb, BRIDLES, HARNESS, WHIPS, TRUNKS, VALISES, CAR PET BAGS, and every description of Goods adapt ed to the trade, manufactured by themselves, ex pressly for this market. ■ —A LSO — A heavy stock of Saddlerv HARDWARE, Coach materials, springs, axles, malleable CASTINGS and BANDS, including a very full as sortment of Goods in the line, which are offered to , manufacturers and dealers at low prices, febl 5 datim 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 provements thereon, situate in the City of Augus ta, and bounded on the north by a lot of Aimer P. j Robinson, south by a lot of Patrick Keniffe, east . by a lot of the City Council of Augusta, and west by Twiggs’ street, upon which it fronts. Levied on as the property of William Cofly, to satisfy a ~ Ji. fa. from the Court of Common Pleas, of said City, in favor of John Phinizv vs. William Coffy. febfi WM. V. KERR, Sheriff, C. A.' CITY SHERIFF’S SALE. ON the first Tuesday in APRIL next, will he 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 i thereon, situate in the city of Augusta, and known j as the Jacksi >n Street lee House and Lot—bounded north and cast by lots of Thomas S. Metcalf, south In a lot of Thomas Richards, anil west by Jackson ; street. Levied on as the property of the Jackson j Street Ice Company of Augusta, to satisfy 3 tax ti. : fits, for City Taxes for the years lssß, 1854 and 1855, in favor of the City Council of Augusta' vs. . the Jackson Street lee Company of Augusta; and , three ti. las. in favor of the City < Vmticil of Augusta j vs. the Jackson Street Ice Company of Augusta, for Canal Tax. for the years 1853, 1854 and 1555. feb2 'WM. V. KER, Sheriff C. A. mimv COMING INTO STORE, onr stock ' Iwl of WOOD WARE, for Spring Trade, consist- : iug of BUCKETS, all kinds, TtJBS, CHURNS, I'fGGINS, BREAD TRAYS, WASH BOARDS, j and mill wares generally, fobs S. S. JONES & CO., 210 Broad-st. HERRING’S PATENT CHAMPION ! FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES. riYUE great interest manifested by the public j -fi to procure more perfect security from Fire ; for valiuible papers, such as Bonds, Mortgages, j Deeds, Notes, and Books of Account, than the or- ' • diuarv SAFES heretofore in use had afforded, in- j i duced th.e subscribers to devote a large portion ot i time and attention during the past fourteen year* * : in making improvements and discoveries for this oh- ; jest, and they now beg leave to assure their numer- i j ous friends, and the public generally, that their j efforts have been crowned with complete success. ' : and now offer the “ Improved Herriug’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 j Fair, London, 1851, and in New York, 1,53, ns su perior to all others. It is now, undoubtedly, enti- j , tied to that appellation, and secured with HALL’S PATENT POWDER PROOF LOCKS, (which also ; was awarded Medals as above,) forms the most j perfect Fire and Burglar Proof SAFES ever before j offered to the public. The subscribers also manufacture all kinds of Boiler and Chilled iron Bank Chests and Vaults, Vault Doors, and Money Boxes or Chests, for Bro- I kers, Jewellers, and Private Families, for Plate, 1 Diamonds, and other Valuables. And arc also j Patentee.-- *bv purchase) and Manufacturers of .TONES’ PATENT PERMUTATION BANK LOCK SILAS C. HERRING & CO., Patentees, Green Block, Nos. 155, 157 and 13S Water Street Agent i in Georgia, BELL A PRENTICE, Sa vannali. 2m febl2 j ~EXECUTORS’ SALK WIUIj be sold, on the first Tuesday in I MARCH next, at the Lower Market House, ! n the city of Augusta, between the usual hours of ’ sale, the following property belonging to the estate ; ; of Isaac S, Tuttle, deceased, to pay the debts and i I legacies, to wit: Twelve Negro Slaves: Lewis, Nod, Doctor, Milo, Bill, little Bill, Bob, John, Laura, j Margaret, Elizabeth and Adeline. —also — §4,"50 7 percent. Bonds of the Georgia Railroad 1 and Banking Company. §17,000 ti per cent. Bonds of the State of Georgia. : 500 Shares Stock of Georgia Railroad and Bank- j ing Company. I**" Shares Siock of the Bank of the State of i Georgia. loti Shares Stock of the Bank of Augusta. 50 Shares Stock of the Augusta Manufacturing > Company. Terms cash. GEORGE M. NEWTON, ) r . JOHN 11 MANN, i ‘'- xr jaiil7 dietd NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND DEBT ORS OF F. V. IJURDELL, DECEASED. jjL'fij A\ IS(« had all uiv papers, connected with i MS. the estate of K. A . Burdell, deceased, burnt ; with my law office in the late tire in Waynesboro’, I must hew all those who have rendered demands ! against said estate, to render them to me again. All persons indebted to said estate, by note, will please do me the kindness to give me their notes I again. As this misfortune will retard the settle ment of the estate, 1 must also beg the indulgence of creditors until I can place matters in utatu quo. ieblt d«c2m JOHN .1. JONES, Adm’r. ALEXANDER’S KID GLOVES. WILLIAM SHEAR has received from New York, a full supply of Alexander's Ladies’ Kid GLOVES, of white, black, dark and j : medium colors, warranted the genuine article, and to which the attention of the Ladies is respect full v invited. dt.ee janS ' : WM. M. DAVIDSON, IMPORTERS and Dealers in BRANDIES ST GIN, ALBANY A LE, CHAMPAGNE and other W'ues and Liquors, TEAS, SEGAIIS, &c. .Ye. is fnmjre-v nut S7 Jit. Jtditn Street*, Savannah, Ga. djtc my‘23 WARRENTON MALE AND FEMALE ACADEMIES TO LEASE. npilE Village is healthy, and accessible by ■ A Railroad, and has a population of sixty or seventy boys and girls, of suitable school ages. One id the buildings is new, and both in good re pair, and situated on eligible sites. A first class Independent School can be readily built up here by a Teacher who will he in earnest in the matter. Anv person, wishing the situation, will please conic and make a personal examination, or address the Trustees. d&elm feb!» BLEACHED SHIRTINGS AND SHEETINGS. lirihfilAM SIIKYR has receii i'd, from %A? New Shirk Extra Water Twist 1-1 Bleached SHIRTINGS; New York Mills 4-1 Bleached SHIRTINGS: White Rock, Water Twist, 4-1 Bleached SHIRT INGS, (soft tinisli : Manchester 4.-1 Bleached SHIRTINGS ; Boot Mills 4-1 Bleached SHIRTINGS ; Superior L 2-1 Hamilton Bleached SHEETINGS; Superior 12-1 Allendale Bleached SHEETINGS ; Wani.-etta Mills Bleached Pillow Case COTTONS; Lac*■■tiia Mills Bleached Sat’a JEANS ; A. C. A. Amcskexg and Pearl River TICKINGS. Tin above comprises the best make of Goods, in this country, and w ill be sold at very low prices j for cash. The public are respectfully invited to : cal! and examine the assortment. fehl d hi c NOTICE. & PHYSICIAN wishing a location in r. AML wealthy community, where an extensive and profitable practice can be secured, can obtain one , bv paring about £BSO for Medicine, Instruments, Ac. An early application to l>. B. PLUMB, Au , gusta, Ga., will likely please one feeling interested. . ; ' jan22 tectf 1 &%■. BULK, superiordouble distilled Peacock & Co.’s celebrated WHISKY, just receiv ed, and for sale by GiRARDEY, WHYTE a GO. The above brand is superior to anv Rectified 1 Whisky ever offered in this market, put up in hand ■ some packages. feb:! ts G., W, k CO. COMMISSION BUSINESS. undersigned, having located himself just 1 below Phinizy & Clayton’s Ware-house, and immediately' above Dr. J. 'l. Hill’s, will receive oil Commission, all kinds of Produce and floods, and receive orders for the purchase and sale of hands in anv part of the State. Wills Deed«, Mhiftgages. Ac., executed on fair terms. ’ LEON P. DUGAS. jauVt dlawiw3t rinilE UI -MVEK’S FEAST, or Conversa § lions around the Camp-tires; by Capt. Mavne Reid, author of The Rifle Rangers. Kate Weston, or To Will and To Do; bv Jeauuie DeWitt. Claude in his Dungeon, or Maggs, the Traitor. Just received, and for sale by M. G. McKINNE, decuT Bookseller and Stationer. IA E ATHERS. —12 bags FEATHERS, fir sale <by jaalS HAND, WILCOX 4 CO. lotteries. r. GREENEAND"PULASKI MONUMENT i LOTTERIES. I Managed, drawn,and Prizes paid bythe well knowi j- and responsible firm of 1 GREGORY A MAURY. - CLASS 42, at Savannah, on Monday, Feb'v 18th SPLENDID SCHEME. 810,000! §2,sih»; 51,250; 5i,"72; Ac. Ticket: , §2.5n —Shares in proportion. Risk on a pack ] age of -2.7 quarters §7.2.1. JOHN A MILLEN, Agent, 1 On Jackson street, near the Globe Hotel. All orders from the city or country strictlv con fidentia). l'eblti LOOK AT THIS ! LOOK AT THIS ! 1200 PRIZES ! 00,000 DOLLARS ! HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY! jasper county academy LOTTERY. fur at thobitv or the state of oeoroia. CLASS K, ! TO BE DRAWN MARCH I.lth, 1856, at Con cert Hall, Macon, Ga., under the sworn superin tendence of Col. Geo. M. Logan and J. A. Nesbit, i Esq. r fbe Manager having announced his determina- I 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 Lotteries. Look to your interest! Examine the Capitals. ■ ONE PRIZE TO EVERY EIGHT TICKETS: CAPITAL 15.000 DOLLARS. j 1 Prize of 115,000 j 1 “ 5,000 1 “ 4,000 1 “ 8,000 1 “ 2,000 5 Prizes of SI,OOO are 5,000 !' lo “ 500 are 5,000 00 “ 50 are 5,000 120 “ 25 are 8,000 | 500 Approximation Prizes of 20 are 15,000 | 500 “ “ 10 are 5,000 ! 1200 Prizes, amounting to *OO,OO Tickets §10; Halves $5; Quarters §2.50. Prizes Payable without deduction Persons send ing money by mail need not fear its being lost. Orders punctually attended to. Communications i confidential. Bank Notes of sound Banks taken a( par. Drawings sent to all ordering Ticket.-. Those ! wishing particular Numbers should order imme ; dintelv. Address JAMES F. WINTER, ; 0-1)15 Manager. Macon, Ga. $30,000! IMPROVED HA YANA PLAN LOTTERY! - [by AUTHORITY* OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA.] Southern Military Academy Lottery ! FOR MARCH—CLASS A—NEW SERIES, j To be drawn in the City of Montgomery, MARCH 13th, 1855. I CAPITAL PRIZE. SB,OOO ! PRICE OF TICKETS I Wholes §5 ; Halves §2.50; Quarters SI 85, *+*— Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty days after : the drawing, in bills of specie-paving Banks, with out deduction —only on presentation of the Ticket drawing the Prize. S-3F” Bills of all solvent Banks taken at par All communications strictly confidential. SAM’L. SWAN, Agent and Manager, t'ebl‘2 Montgomery, Alabama. j HAVANA LOTTERY, GRAND ROYAL LOTTERY OF THE ISLAND OF CUBA, ILA VAX A. Grand Drawing of the Queen’s Lottery, 6th of MARCH, 1856 • 1 Prize 0f... SIOO,OOC i 1 “ - 50,001- 1 “ 20,00 i i 1 “ 10,001 : 1 “ 5,000 G Prizes of $2,000, is 12,001 | 22 “ 1,000, is 22,001 40 “ 500, is.. . 20,001 i 120 “ .. 400, is.. 48,000 1 322 “ ... 200, is... . 64,001- j 16 Approximations.......... 4 800 ; | 581 Prizes, amounting to. . ..$360,201 Persons who desire to invest in tins Grand | Scheme, which is by far the best in the country, : must apply early Bills on all solvent Banks re | ceived at par. Those who desire certain Numbers i must write immediately. All orders will be confi dentially attended to. Address JOHN E. NELSON, Box l>m, feblo Charleston, 8. C.- 30,000 DOLLARS! IMPRO YED HA I I NA PI.A E LOTIER V! THE FAVORITE! FORT GAINES ACADEMY LOTTERY. By Authority of the State if 0 ' t’ijASS 12, To be drawn in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, on Monday, the 25th (if FEBRUARY, 15 .6, when Prizes amounting to $30,000 Will he distributed according- to the following 1 7? s u -rpattable Si 'h e :» e : SCHEME. CAPITAL PRIZE §IO,OOO. 100 PRIZES—2O APPROXIMATIONS. No Small Prize*! Prize* Worth Ilariny !! PRICK OP TICKETS : Wholes $5; Halves $2.50; Quarters $1.25. Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty days after ; the draw ing, in bills of specie-paying Banks, with- j out deduction, only an prt*t>nMirin of the Ticket en- I tilled to the Prize. Bills on all solvent Banks taken at par. All com- j munieations strictly confidential. SAMUEL SWAN, Agent and Manager, j jan2l Atlanta, Georgia. teJ I N DRIES, ON CONSIGNMENT. Y* 8"0 sacks SALT ; 500 Mils. POTATOES : 5o casks RICE; 200 bids, sup’fine FLOUR • 100 boxes B. C. HERRINGS; lo hhds. New Orleans SUGAR • 20 bbls. - 5o “ CREAM ALE; 50 “ Champagne CIDER; fit) eighth casks COGNAC : Soil bbls. Rectified WHISKY • 100 bags BUCKWHEAT; 50 M Spanish SEGARS; 100 gross MATCHES; 100 baskets CHAMPAGNE ; 50 bbls. LARD ; 50 kegs LARI'); 20 kegs Goshen BUTTER ; 25 *• Country “ 10 cases SCHNAPPS; 10 “ Madeira WINE; lo " French MUSTARD; 300 bbls. LIME; 10 casks Peach BRANDY. For sale by I GIRARDEY, WHYTE A CO.. leblS General Commission Merchants. ON €ONSTGNMENT.-20 bblsT - N~O. SCO AR ; lo hints, do. For sale hv GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO . i febl 2 General Commission Merchants. SEGARS 20,000 Rio Honda I’rimcna; 25.000 Hcrmosa Consular Prinitna ; 80,1 Augusta Fair. Ju. t received and for saleat GUST. VOLGER’S, febl 2 Segar and Tobacco Store. rjIALVIAS. for Misses’, may be found at T. 8 DUNHAM’S, successor to J. K. Bancroft. decl6 A MERICAN ALMANAC FOR 1856.- Ma aMt canley’s England Boston edition. Kate Weston, or to "Will and to D o The Great Iron Wheel; bv J. K. Graves. The Hunter’s Feast, or Conversations around the Camp-Fires ; by ( apt. Mavne Reid. Phcenixiann, or Sketches and Burlesques; and ! another supply of Memoirs of S. S. Prentiss.’ For ■ a -Be by lehr. TIIQS. RICHARDS A SON. I%TEW RAISINS.— SO boxes Bunch RAISINS L w 2“ boxes Sugar RAISINS, for sale bv jams HAND, WILCOX £ CO. K BUSHELS Prime White Corn~ . OyMr"? 500 bushels mixed Corn. 500 bushels Cow Peas. 1 1 do Prime Red Wheat 100 do Seed Oat --. 50 bags No. 1 Flour, for sale bv deck? E. F. K1 NTH LEY, 7 Warren Bloc k. HORSE SHOER AKD FAR'RIERT fBHIE undersigned would inform the B public that he is prepared to do all > * —. —», kinds of BLACKSMITH WORK, at bis /tfj\ shop on Centre street, between Broad and El lis He is prepared to SHOE horses in the best style, and he flatters himself that there is no Smith in Augusta that can surpass him in this branch of i the trade. Those having lame or rutting horses would do well to give him a call. j»n24 thisuiw P. SHARKEY. Auction Sales, BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & 00 i TUE>DA\, the llith inst., in front of Store, we will sell our usual assortment of Groceries, con j listing, in part of- N. O. Sugar. N O Syrup, Rice, Mercer and Planting Potatoes, tobacco, Sair. Brandy Gin Whiskey, Cordials, Soap, Ciprs, Buckwheat Her' I rings, Cheese, Onions, we., Ac. 1 Also, a splendid lot of Second Hand Furniture . . New and Second lhmd Buggies. Also, a splendid lot of Dry Goods and Ready j Made Clothing. Terms Cash. febl.7 BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CCT • Watch*s, Jewelry and Sihec Wu '- at A ueMen *♦* —- ; -lust received, a large consignment ts Gold and | Silver Watches, in Open and Hunting Cases, ! from the most celebrated makers; comprising I Chronometers, Duplex, Magic, English, Anchor Lever, Lepine Watches; s me extra fine Swiss j Watches, in Enamelled Cases, suitable for Ladies. | Also, a large assortment of Jewelry of every description, Silver Ware, Dressing l as- Work I tones, Card Cases, Opera Gins-, s, Gold Guard, ' est and Fob Chains, Keys and Sod-) Pencil Cases. Also, a large assortment of Fancy Goods, too numerous to mention. The goods arc all of the best qualify being the | stock of a dealer declining business. Every article : warranted as represented. They will be open for J examination, and for private sale during tha day—• at auction every evc-ninsr, at 7 o’clock, till the em ! tire stock is sold. Dealers and others would d;> i well to attend the sale, as tin y will bo sold without I reserve. Lots to suit purchasers. Tern -cash, j febl7 ts BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. Clinch Loan Aesociation St- at Pricati Sale. Ten Shares Clinch Loan Association STOCK for sale. The instalments arc all paid in, and a good investment made in Real E.-oate, in a central part of the city, and in a respectable neighborhood- They will be sold at a bargain, a- the owner u about leaving the Stale. fobls BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO~ •<*♦ Adntin ietraton: Sale. Will be sold on the first Tuesday in MARCH next, at the Lower Mark*.-: House, in the city of Augusta, between the usual hours of sale, in ac cordance with an order obtained from the Ordina | rv of Richmond county, all the right and interest of David Calvin, deceased, in that lot or parce l of Land 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 hundred feet, more or less on said street, and run ning back towards Broad -st., to the dividing fence, s 0 feet, more or less, adjoining on the ea-'t lot cf Mrs. Cary ;on the south by a portion of tSie same lot, owned by the said David Calvin’s estate and Henry Calvin's lot, and on the west bv the lot of the estate of W. W. Montgomery, deceased, and bounded on the north by the said Jones street. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of the said David Calvin, de< r.-ed. Terras cash. Purchaser to pav for papers. jan£7 ' * HENRY CALVIN, Adm’r. PLANTERS’ HOTEL. ran his new, though well known and pop- JS ular HOTEL, is now being cnhmrecl, . elf and will be ready, bv the fir:; t ofOcu 1 «• nest. to accommodate twice as many as heretofore. Pre viously, it could only in part, in the bu dness season, accommodate day and transi. n br-er-lcrs. From the above date, families, as well as single persons, can be well suited with desirable qur.r e : ■>. The undersigned is now ready to engage rot ms as above. Second story Hall will hare"suites of rooms j with a parlor and bed li- uis attach, i. Every room in the addition will have a fire-place, rid as to ventillution, cannot be surpassed. jy2± JOHN BRIDGES. (T 111LIIL AIN S—E XCE LSIOR~ME DI CATE D J .SOAP.—This article has been known to cure the worst cases of Chilblains, in a few applications. It is also a cure for Ring and Tetter Worm, iialt Rheum, &c. For sale bv D B. PLUMB & CO., feblO . Sole Agents for Augusta WELDINGS TO RENT—If appii • i for immediately. A PIC'QUET feblO ’ "" It SHIRTS, made to order, in all 'ha newest stvles, at short notice. febl3 WM. O. PRICE ACO , 2-33 Broad-st. rpiN PLATE, SHEET=IIION 5 &C.- ■ “ 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 and well a* ~>rted slock r-i Tinner’s Trimmings—-uch a Keltic Ears, Riveu Periorated Tin, Pressed Cover... Ac., Ac., to which thev invite the attention of ihe Trade. S. S. JONES A CO.. febT siuccessf rs to L. Hancock A Co C'IOKN II ROOMS. V large -■> superior Corn Sweeping, Hearth' 'ah : Whisk i BROOMS, for sale cheap. t decSO D. B. PLUMB ACO . i| EREVOS, LACES, Arc.- We l-.ntTjSkt received a beautiful assort;.: tit r.| Frets'- 1 and English MERINOS, to which we invito t’ tention of the Ladies; Narrow Black I.Ai’FS, Blend LACES, Ac. The above Hoods sue full-, S', t>-r cent, less than their usual prices. dec23 _ PICKET A PHILIPS. I' IVERPOOL SALT. 1,1 sacks ~u . .1 landing, for sale low from v. ianll LEWIS A ALLEN C'tOl'T' lOE. Hot) begs fair t.> prim .■> T J FEE, just n-ceive.i, f< r s:-t.- bv jaur._ ' SCRANTON, KOLB ACO ENCH ’ WINDOW' i. LASS." . - boxes, assorted, from 2-ix3G ;■> -\ ’o, \n tine order j just landed, and for sale low. bv ; WM. IT TUTT. j fehl o _ Wholesale and Retail Druggist. TT»RESI Rll TMINS, Anal* --es anti Family G. orders, executed with tlm utr.:- an del' | the purest materials, bv an experienced ChenrM | at feblS WM.'H. TUTT’S Prop Store ’ TOOTH BRUSHIA- t'l , .nufu, ■Ji article, of our own iuipamlL ti. Thoie it i want of an extra Tooth Brush, should call on | fob 1-3 __ AVM. H, TUTT, Druggist. ! ft. UININE. -150 ounces received by febld WM. IE TUTT CAERE Til \T I Ml tIH.-'-l v.emv J of TUTT'S PECTORAL ELIXIR, It is sure and pleasant. feb!s WM, H. TUTT, Druggist CAHEEKE —100 boxes Env. D A- CHEESE. J just received, and for sale low, b\ feb!s ’ >, A 11/ OX A CO. PLANTING POTATOES.—W ■ M>! TxtH Ml Planting POTATOES, for sale i,.- i febls HAND, WILCOX A <JO j %’ O. SUGAR AND MOI.ASSI .s ... ,v l-e • -i« » prime New Orleans SUGAR; I--, bbls. > I 0. MOLASSES, just received. febld HAND, WILCOX A CO VC it Eli EL. " i.bK vandard andlarg •. ifH. No. MACKEREL, for rale 1. w. bv j febir. HAND, WILCOX & CO. C GEORGIA, AVARREN COIALiW Jf Whereas, William Johnson applies to me for | Letters of Dismission as Administrator on ti estate of John C. Reese, late of said ccnntv, <]»• ! ceased : These are, therefore, to cite and admonish ril | concerned, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, and show cause, if any | they nave, why said letters should net be .ranted Given under mv hand, at office in W;.rrcn cc, . this 27th dav of November lS5d iiot23 ” ARDEN R MERSIION, Ordinary CAEO RGIA, HI ,’RK I.J ’O#—Where a % eon Brinson, Administer: *r of t.h ■ Esix- : of Nancy Brinson, deceased, appii, 3 for Letters Dis ■ missory : I These are, therefor.- to cite and admonish, all , ! and singular, the kindred, and other persons inter -1 ested, to he and appear before the Court cf Ordfna* ' . ry, to be held in and for said county, on the Erst Monday in June next, and show cause, if any thc-v have, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand, at office in. Waynesboro’ this Ist day of December, 1555. 1 dect EDWARD CLVRLICK. 0. B. C. jf i I out; IA, AY A uitlx AY ” John 11. Beall applies tor Letters Dist.us • from the Administration of the estate ci Mart bat T. Beall, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite and summon, all con cerned, to be and appear at rnv office v> ilhin the - : time prescribed by law, and show cause, if any they have, why said letters should not he granted Given under my hand, rv: office in Warren tort, this 4th dav of December, !>SG JOHN J. PILCHER. I I dec? Deputy Ordinary t (CjfdMjßtiiiXG NEW-F.-r Debility,‘ lk?~ i gestion, Ac.—Pleasant and efficient ’ TONE f BITTERS is immediately prepared by pnuiii gu-■ > s ; the Quassia Cup, a portion ot clear water, cr ’ . 1 ting it stand about a minute, a few of these n o «t received, by jan'J D. IE PLUMB iCO