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AUGUSTA, GA,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1557.
Gubernatorial Convention.
In reply to the statement which we tind in a
number of our Democratic exchanges, that a ma
jority of the Democratic press of the State have
declared their preference for the 10th day of June,
as the time for the meeting of the Democratic
State Convention, we subjoin a list of those jour
nals which have declared themselves in favor of
that day, and in opposition to it, a list of those
which are m favor of the 2d Wednesday in July,
For 10th ilay yf June. | For BJA day of July.
Mill’ville Federal Onion, Sav. Georgian <(• Jour.,
Atlanta InUUigencer, Atlanta Examiner,
Athens Banner, Macon Telegraph,
Rome SoiUhcrncr, Albany Patriot ,
Marietta Georgian, Cassvillc Standard,
Dalton Tinier, Thomasville Watchman,
Hetman Blade, Newnan Banner,
Griflin Empire Shite, Americas .Yews,
Calhoun Platform. Cuthbert Jieportrr,
llainbridge Argue,
Augusta GonrtitulionoUrt
We were among those who acquiesced in the
suggestion, when first mude, of the 10th of June,
but yielded at once to the recommendation of a
later day, when it was ascertained that the 10th of
June was not a favorable time to secure u full re
presentation from certain sections of the State.
We cannot understand the motive which influences
Some ol our contemporaries in pertinaciously in
sisting upon the meeting of the Convention in
June. We are, wvlh a majority of the Itemocratic
finer of Georgia, in favor of the 2d Wednesday in
July.
“Other Side.”
We would invite the attention of our readers to ;
the excellent communication upon the subject of i
the Macon and Warrenton railroad, signed “Oth
er Side,” which w ill he found in another column, i
We shall he glad to lieur from our corres- ‘
pondent again, particularly upon a point simply t
touched upon in his communication, i. c. the
speedy diversion of the through travel from all its 1
present routes in Georgia. 1
f'hange of Name. ,
The name of the post oflice at Cochran’s is!
Roads, Harris county, tia., has been changed to t
“Wisnow's Store,” und John W. Wisdom up- j
pointed postmaster. ,
Extensive Sale of Land and Negroes. ‘
Wc invite special uttentiou to the very extensive f
sale announced by J. A. lisAito, at New Orleans,
OD the sth of May next.
Connecticut Election.
The Bridgeport Fanner of tho 3d instant, states
that its corrected returns from the Congressional
election in the fourth district, give William D.
Uisnoe, Democrat, fourteen majority over Onuis >S. ,
Fenny, opposition.
If so, the Congressional delegation will consist
of two Democrats and two Republicans—* gain ol
two to the Democratic party.
The majority for the Republican State ticket,
upon which ull the elements of tho opposition,
vtl: Abolitionists, Republicans, and Americans,
united, is about one thousand. The difference be
tween the candidates for Governor is less than a
thousand votes.
Tho legislature is Republican by a majority of
about thirty-five on joint ballot. There is no
Senatorial election to bo made by it.
The Evening Port, commenting upon tbe result
of this election, says "Connecticut, therefore is notv
where she was last November,” and “the opposi
tion, to all appearance, is now as strong in (hat
State ns it tvas in the time of Pierce.” These state
ments uie flatly und unblusliingly mude by the Post,
although the Democratic party has gained two mem
bers of Congress (it had none in November) and
has diminished to one thousand, the popular ma
jority against it of eight thousand in November.
The land officers in Minnesota have been direct
ed to continue the withdrawal of the lands falling'
within the probable lino of the railroad routes es
tablished under the grants of Congress. Pre-emp
tion claims, bused upon actual settlement and not
for speculation, made up to the time when the lines
or routes were definitely fixed on any of the lauds
withdrawn, will be allowed, provided the testimony
is clear and explicit. The offices of the newly
created laud districts will be established at Browns
ville, and at Dacotah and Nebraska cities.
Trocblk in Kansas. —A threatening difficulty
has occurred in Kansas, at the town of Topeka.
An alleged bogus sheriff attempted to arrest a
freesoiler on a political charge, but was driven oil'
by a number of citizens. He wont away to some
other town, procured a posse aud returned to take
his prisoner. Again, however, the citizens of To
peka interfered aud prevented the arrest. There
upon the sheriff sent a message to acting Governor
Woodson, at Lecompton. The result had not
transpired at the lastet dates.
Elkctiox Dav in St. Lotus. —Mayor Howe, of
St. Louis, issued a proclamation ordering all mi
nors to stay within doors from dark on Monday
night till daylight Tuesday morning, and all grog
shops to be closed during Monday (election day)
and the night preceding.
BmTisn Fleet in the China Seas.—There are
fifteen British sailing ships and nineteen steamers
on the China station. Besides these, several first
class war steamers and a squadron of twenty gun
boats have recently left England for the seat of
the disturbances at Canton, aud have taken out
over five thousand troops.
Ex-President Ttlek has accepted an invitation
of the Jamestown Society, at Washington City, to
deliver the oration at the celebration at Jamestown,
Va., on the 13th day of May next.
The acts of Congress for the establishment of a
mail route fit San Francisco, from some point on tbe
Mississippi, and for the construction of wagon roads
to the Pacific, are now under the consideration of
the Secretary of the Interior, with a view to their
proper execution.
Declines.—John A. Calhoun, Esq., declines the
nomination made through the Abbeville Banner,
for a seat in Congress.
On Tuesday evening last tlie President of
the United States gave a special reception to the
members of the Diplomatic Corps and their fami
lies. _
A Monument to Luther.—The King of Bavaria,
who is a Roman Catholic, has authorised the Pro
testant pastors in his kingdom to raise subscrip
tions for a monument which is about to be erected
to the memory of Martin Lither, at Worms.
Alexander Campbell, the celebrated Divine,
will deliver a series of lectures iu Columbus, Miss.,
on the 17th April.
j Meetiug in Columbia County.
A meeting of the Democratic and anti-Know
Nothing party of Columbia county will be held at
Appling, on the first Tuesday in May next, to ap
point delegates to the State Convention at Mil
leageville, for the nomination of a candidate for
the office of Governor. d*c
Fires in Macon and Marietta.
The tire in Macon which we noticed in our eve
ning edition of yesterday, was not as extensive as
we were lead to believe, by the information which
wc then had. Our information now is very mea
gre and unsatisfactory. The fire occurred in a
large building on the North side of the Court House
square, formerly a hotel, but occupied by a number
of small dealers. The loss is probably four or five
thousand dollars, partly covered by insurance.
• The conductor of the yesterday evening train on
the Georgia railroad, brought the information that
i a destructive tire was raging in Marietta, yesterday
- morning, and that the fire Companies of Atlanta
i had left on the State road cars for that place. We
, could learn no particulars.
Mexican Affairs.
} Advices have been received by recent arrivals at
New Orleans, from the city of Mexico to the 24th
of March.
The government had been notified of the rejec
tion of the Forsyth treaties by the government of
the United States, and rumors to that ellect had
reached the people. They were not credited,
however, so confident were the people of Mexico
that the treaties would be ratified by the United
States.
The executive officer.? of the government, to
gether with the commander-in-cliief of the army,
took the oath of allegiance to the new Constitu
tion on the loth ultimo—President Comonfort ad
ministering it in person.
In several of the churches of the city of Mexico*
the new Constitution has been openly denounced*
and it is stated that the Catholic priests who were
thus exciting resistance to the laws, would be se"
verely dealt with by the government.
President Comonfort had issued a long address
to the people—principally occupied with a discus
sion of the Forsyth treaties and of the pending
difficulties with Spain.
Violent disturbances had occurred in the depart
ment of Tehuantepec, interrupting operations on
the Transit route, although not connected with it,
and a military force had been dispatched to the
scene of the difficulties.
Apprehensions were entertained of a tillibuster 1
incursion from California into the »States of Sonora 1
and Sinoloa, and preparations were being made to 1
resist it.
Public opinion was gradually settling down in '
fuvor of Comonfort as the President of the Re
public under the new Constitution. Next to him, '
Alvarez is tlie most prominent candidate for the
office.
Those are the principal points of interest in the
recent intelligence from Mexico. Among other
items is the following: “A pair of ‘ frisky young
mules/ attached to the carriage of the American
Minister, Mr. Forsytii, took fright on the 22d ult.,
while standing in the court-yard of Ins residence,
and ‘without waiting for the lady who was just
about to step into it/ dashed at full speed out of
the gateway, with which they came in collision,
leaving the carriage a perfect wreck. Fortunately
no one was in it.”
In the second volume,which has just appeared, of
Denton’s ‘‘Abridgement of the Debates in Congress
from 1789 to 1856,” it is stated that slaves were
recognised us property by a vote of the House of
Representatives—yeas nays 23—imposing a di
rect tax upon them. Most of the members from
the slave States supported the tax, assigning os a
reason, that “ taxation of lands and slaves went to
gether in the slave Stutes—the people were used to
the association—and to omit slaves iu the direct tux
would be unjust and unpopular, us sparing
und muking the tax fall heavier upon
less property.”
tzr Some trouble is apprehended in yot W fork J
city, resulting from the passage of acts by the leg
islature of that Slate, affecting the municipal gov
ermeut in that city.
£s?”Tho Legislature of New York, it is thought,
will abandon the policy of attempting to enforce a
prohibitory law aguiust the sale of spirituous li
quors, but will adopt the license system. The pro
hibitory law is in operation at this time, in New
York, The State Executive Committee of tho
Temperance Society have sent forward u decided
protest against the proposed change.
25?* Holly, the Republican canffldute for Cov
er in Connecticut, is elected by a majority of only
two hundred and twenty-live votes over Ingham his
Democratic opponent. Tffbre were but two can
didates in the field, and the vote polled was sixty
two thousand. This result when compared with
the result of the Presidential election, shows a
Democratic gain of more than nine thousand votes.
New Eugland is no longer a unit in opposition to
tho Democratic party and to the South.
Prof. DkGrath, the Electric Oil man, while
speaking in Macon on Saturday evening last, some
one in the crowd pushed over the box upon which
DkGrath was standing. The Professor fell, but
jumped up instantly and “pitched in” to the man
who caused his fall. In the fracas DkGrath re
ceived several stabs, but the wounds are not con
sidered dttugerous although severe. He was out
on Sunday, and we presume ready for another dis
course to the sovereigns, on Monday, upon the
merits of his oil.
[JjjF’The Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany have declared a semi-annual dividend of
four dollars per share, payable after the 21st iust.
A new post office has been established at
Houston Factory, Houston county, Ga., und Wm.
A. Zooke, appointed postmaster.
There are no new cases of small pox at
either Griffin or Covington.
After a fall of sleet at Atlanta on Sunday,
says the Anurican, it rained incessantly through
out the day.
Gov. Harnky has been transferred from
his command iu Florida to Fort Leavenw-orth.
The next officer in rank assumes command in
Florida.
L. DeSaussure, Esq., Cashier of
1 the Branch Bank of the State of South Carolina.
‘ died in Camden on the 12th inst.
f Father Mathew Monument. —Tlie members of
• the St. Peter’s Total Abstinence Society in Cam
bridge, Mass., have forwarded the sum of SIOO to
the editor of the Cork Examintr as a contribution
in aid of the erection of a monument to the mem
' ory of the lamented Father Mathew.
P [communicated.]
Mr. At liter: Os all the names that have been
presented as suitable for the Governorship of
Georgia, I do not tind an objectionable one, but I
wish to present one that would meet with univer
sal approbation. Southwestern Georgia has a
right to expect one of her own immediate citizens
and would be a unit in casting her vote for him.
We want one calculated to preside over over all
of our people—a people’s Governor—and not one
imbubed with sectional or local feelings. One we
know «v uld give universal satisfaction—and that
man is none’other but John A. Tucker, of Stewart
county. J. M. R, 1
Free Negroes at the North.
v By the existing Constitution of the State of New
,t York, no negro is permitted to vote unless he has
i. resided in the State three years and pays taxes
|- upon property to the amount of two hundred and
r fifty dollars. The Black Republican majority of
the Legislature of that State, has adopted an
amendment to the Constitution, repealing this
provision and placing negroes, as far as suffrage
■ is concerned, upon an equality with white men.
> Similar legislation will be attempted and accom
-1 plished, in other northern States where negroes
• labor under any disabilities, in reference to politi
cal privileges and the Black Republican party
have the controlling power. The necessity for such
legislation is an admission of the fact that negroes
are not citizensjof the State of New York, and conse
quently not citizens of the United States; whilst
the motive which prompts it is a blind and impo
tent rage against the Supreme Court and its deci
sion in the Drkd Scott case, by which it was de
clared that this class of persons are not citizens of
the United States.
This proposed amendment to the Constitution
of New York, must be approved by the next Leg
islature and then be submitted to the people and
approved by them before it can become a part of
the fundamental law of the Htate. The people will
repudiate it and trample it under their feet as they
did ten years ago when it was submitted to them.
But, the Black Republican party will not be re
sponsible for its failure. They ure in earnest, in
their desire to incorporate this amendment into
the Constitution of the State. They are seriously
and deliberately determined if they can accom
plish it to break down all the barriers of nature
and of Constitutions and outrage the laws of God
and of the country, by placing negroe3 upon a
footing of perfect equality with white men, and
they are to be judged by the attempt, whatever
the result may be.
The Black Republican party are not influenced
in this movement by any kindly feeling towards
the free negroes of New York, or even by a convic
tion of its justice and propriety, hut by resent
ment against the decision of the Supreme Court
and a disposition to show their contempt for it
and for those by whom it is sustained. They fool
ishly imagine, that the practical assertion, in the
State of New r York, of the equality of the negro
with the w hite man, is a triumph over the Supreme
Court and the South, and an excellent mode by
which to make their resentment of the doctrines of
the Deed Scott decision felt. The Supreme Court
and the South have no interest whatever in the
matter, and if designed, as a retaliation upon them,
this policy of the Black Bepublicau party is as
ridiculous as it is disorganizing. They may suc
ceed—they may incorporate a provision into the
Constitution of New York, declaring that negroes
are citizens and giving them w ithout qualification,
or limitation all the rights of citizenship, but they
cannot make them citizens of the United States—
they cannot extend the disastrous effects of ttiis
policy beyond the limits of that State. The de
cision of the Supreme Court, declaring that white
men only arc citizens of the Union, would still re
main in unimpaired force—the supreme law of the
land—in that State and out of it, whilst the South
would simply regret the madness of tho folly,
which would influence the people of New York to
dogrude themselves to the level of free negroes,
in a sensless and übortive effort to injure or to ir
ritate her.
Tliis attempt, to place negroes upon a footing of
equality with white men, in political privileges, if
successful, will have certain incidents and resulls
which, it is fair to presume, the Black Republican
party, in niuking it, approve and invite.
In New York, as in all other free States, negroes
are not only politically hut socially, a proscribed
and degraded class. This social ostracism is com
plete, and is practically more oppressive, as it is
more humiliating and degrading and irritating
than any of the legal disabilities under which they
labor, or all of them together. It is felt every
where—in the’qWtsiness, their amusements and
They ™« iu contact
iMUttaite ‘M " u l? to he re»io4*d of,,
the iljjniicnauiab'K gulT which separates them and
are flatty subjected to petty vexations and irrita
tions in social intercouse, of which the slaves of
the southern States have no experience.
All this must be changed, if they are placed
upon a footing of political equality with the whites.
Political equality includes social equality. Social
distinctions, created by wealth, intelligence ami
virtue, always will exist, hut the social ostracism
of au entire race, equal in political privileges with
any and every other, is altogether anomalous. If
the negro race is fitted for an equality in political
privileges with the whites, it ts entitled to an
equality in social rights, and the whole poli
cy of the free States towards free negroes,
and the intercourse of their people w ith them,
must be radically changed. Instead of using
every effort to exclude them, their immigration
must he encouraged, and instead of degrading
and ostracising them socially, they must be ad
mitted to an equal, free and unrestrained inter
course with the whites. All the barriers which
divide the two races must be broken down. They
must live together upon a footing of perfect equality
—eat at the same table —driukfrom the same cup—
sit in the same pew ill church and in the same
dress circle in the theatre—their children must be
educated together, associate in business together
and intermarry. Amalgamation is the legitimate
result of the political equality of ihe races. For
this result a majority of the white men of New
York are not prepared and never will be.
The High Prick of Leather.— Orders from
England. —One of the largest leather dealers iu
Philadelphia alleges, in a published letter, that
the high price of leather is not caused by specula
tors, and adds:
In confirmation of this, I need only state that
at the present moment five thousand sides could
j furnished bv all the commission houses in
1 luladolphia and Baltimore put together if one
dollar a pound were offered for it. If it’were a
speculative movement, it is reasonable to suppose
that large shipments would soon be made from
| other countries to meet the demand, but so far is
this from being the case, large orders are now in
>ew York from England for leather. It is equally
certain that there is no accumulation of stock m
the tanneries ; indeed, the tanuers have beeu so
anxious to get their stock into the market early
that they would scarcely allow it to get dry For
several years past the quantity of leather sold in
rsew York, Philadelphia and Baltimore has varied
vovy little in quantity, amounting, in the a<Tgre
gate, to about four millions of sides per annum,
while the population of the country has been in
creasing very rapidly, and the consumption ot lea
• tlier with it.
The scarcity of hides and leather he attributes
to the constantly disturbed, revolutionary state of
r the Sonth American Republics, and further adds:
I will here remark that the advance on hides
■ has been much greater than on leather, for while
, the advance on the latter has been one hundred
! per cent., it has been three hundred on the former,
ft -0 ™ nine cents to thiity-seven cents since 1843.
In Lnglaud and on the continent of Europe hides
are higher than here, and there are buyers from
England now in New York shipping hides to that
country, and at New Orleans tliere are large or
, ders for heavy slaughter hides from France.
Fires at Nashville. — lt seems that incendiaries
are at woik in Nashville. Two or three fires have
, occured in that city in the last day or iwo. The
Christian Church valued at $25,000. It was a new
building, and one of thehaudsomest in the interior
in the city.
Air ix Bed Rooms. —lt issaid that a bird suspen
ded near the top of a curtained bedstead in which
people sleep, will generally be found dead in the
morning irom impure air. Small close rooms, in
the habitations of the poor, are as ill ventilated as
the curtained bedstead.
Installation of the 3layor and Members
r of Council.
j Yesterday at 12 M., the City Council met, to in
> stai the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, elected on
[ Monday. The members of the old Board were all
f in attendance, with the exception of Mr. Jno. C.
i Skead, who was engaged in the Superior Court,
5 now in session.
The names of the newly elected Aldermen were
announced by the Mayor, Gen. Evans. These
. gentlemen were all present, and presenting them
; selves, the following oath was administered to each
of them, by his Honor, beginning with the mem
bers from the first Ward:
“ Yeu do solemnly swear, that you will, to the
utmost of your power, support, advance, protect,
and defend the good order, peace and welfare of
the city of Augusta and .its inhabitants, and will
faithfully demean 3’ourself in the office of Members
of Council for the said city, according to the bye
laws and regulations thereof, to the best of your
skill and judgment—yon do further swear that you
will support the Constitution of this State, and the
Constitution of ihe United States.”
After the members were qualified, and had taken
their seats, a motion was made by Alderman
Burr, that a committee of one from each Ward be
appointed, by the Chair, to wait upon Mr. B. Cox
lev, the Mayor elect, and inform him that the
Council were ready to receive him. The Mayor
appointed Messrs. Butt, BlodgEt, Dye and Good
hich, the committee.
In a few minutes the committee returned, ac
companied by Mr. Conley, who took a seat in front
of the Clerk’s desk.
Gen. Evans then left his seat, approached Mr.
Conley, and made the following address:
“Mr. Conley:
“Your fellow-citizen?, by their suffrage, have
conferred upon you, sir, the office of Chief Execu
tive of the city for the ensuing rear, and it re
mains for me now only to administer the oath, and
surrender to you the trusts, which by the same
constituency have been confided to me.*
The office which you are now about to assume is
one of dignity and honor, yet full of duties and
responsibilities. In retiring from it, allow me to
?ay, sir, that I do so with increased satisfaction,
from the assurance which is warranted by official
intercourse, that it has fallen upon one worthy of
the honor, and eminently qualified to assume its re
sponsibilities an<l discharge its duties. Therefore,
sir, while I congratulate you, I may, with the
same propriety, congratulate the city.
“.Surrounded as you are at this board, by gentle
ineu whom I know, and with most of them have
been associated iu the same relation, I cannot
hesitate to believe that you will be ably sustained
in your administration, and your intercourse made
pleasant and agreeable.”
The oath of office w’us then administered, and
Mr. Conley conducted to the chair by ex-Mayor
Evans, who upon retiring, remarked: “ And
now, Mr. Mayor, having discharged my last offi
cial act, I bid you, sir, and you, gentlemen of the
Council, farewell.”
In taking the Chair Mr. Conley said:
Geutlemen of the City Council: In response to
the very complimentary remarks which have just
been addressed to me by mv honored predecessor,
I beg leave to return my heartfelt acknowledge
ments.
Being now’ about to assume the duties of the of
fice to which I have been ole :ted by a majority of
my fellow-citizens, I feel deeply impressed with
the imnortance of the duties I shall be called upon
to perform, and of the responsibility of the position
I shall occupy.
I sluul earnestly endeavor to meet that responsi
bility, and to discharge those duties faithfully and
honestly.
The various interests and wants of the city, gen
tlemen, are jointly committed to our cure; the duty
of legislating for those interests devolves upon you;
and having some experience as a member ofCoun
cil I can assure you that without your hearty aid
und co-operuUon, those interests must necessarily
suffer.
I have the most undoubttug confidence in your
wisdom aud patriotism, and T pledge you before
hand, my most earnest co-operation in the measures
you may devise for the maintenance of the public
peace and credit, and for the promotion of the hap
piness and prosperity of the city.
Allow me in conclusion to say, that for nearly
twenty-eight years I have been a resident of Au
gusta. I have grown with her growth, and have
become identified with her in all the associations
of life. God forbid that I should ever forget the
laud qfxnv birth, with all the associations which
iW tUTfif»W.L'l.toy childhood’s home, or the hallow
v.- th < sleeping dust of parents
pU in a hearty davoiumUttJu.
of mu cmi’pipjn,her ThW'ests, her institutions, her
peocle, and her prosperity, / yield to no man.
Ge n tie men, / /id called upon to say this much in
reference to the “ acculent of my birth” in cem%<-
tjuenee of th insinuations which wen thi'own out dur
ino the late canvass, with d view to my defeat } but
which, with the sensible portion of my fdloio-citiztns,
wen nut with the contempt and scorn which they
merited.
Gentlemen, 1 tender to you, ami through you to
my fellow-citizens, my heartfelt thanks for the
honor conferred upon me.
The italics in this address are our own. \Ye
employ them to emphasize the earnest protest of
our excellent American Mayor against the pro
scription of men on account of the place of their
birth! and to express our cordial assent to the
doctrine which he teaches, that love for fatherland
is not inconsistent with the truest devotion to the
land of our adoption!
Quite a number of citizens w’ere in attendance
to witness the ceremonies of the installation.
We append the list of the members of Council:
Mayor —B. Conley.
Ward No. I.—Messrs. F. Biodget, Jr., Jus. 0.
Clark, W. H. Tutt.
Ward So. 2.—Messrs. James M. Dye, John D.
Smith, aud John T. Miller.
Ward No 3.—Messrs. W. E. Bearing, John D.
Butt, and Robt. H. May.
Ward No. 4.—Messrs. B. F. Hall, W. H. Good
rich, and W. M. Beall.
The Atlanta Building und Loan Associa
tion are projecting amendments to their Constitu
tion, for the purpose of- bringing the affairs of the
Society to a close.
(communicated.)
Rev. James Hasson —
Rev. and Rear Sir: Informed of your arrival,
we cordially welcome your return. Understanding
that your visit to our city is with the view of taking
up a collection for church repairs in Macon, Geo.,
we would respectfully suggest that, if compatible
with your duties, you will do us the favor ofyielding
to the desire of your former friends and congrega
tion, and deliver a public lecture at such tune as
may be convenient to yourself, aud thus afford an
opportunity to not only your Catholic brethren, but
also our dissenting fellow-citizens, of hearing you,
and contributing in this manner to so charitable
an object.-
If vou can yield to our solicitation cousistenlv,
be pieased to mention what evening in course of
this week would be most suitable for its delivery.
With considerations of high regard, we are, dear
sir, your obedient servants,
C. E. Girardky,
A. C. DkCottes,
M. S. Boisclair,
Edw. Gallaher,
L. C. Dugas.
Augusta, April 14, 1557.
Messrs. C. E. Girardky, A. C. DsCorrEsJund
others:
Gentlemen : I am in receipt of your note of this
date, and feel highly complimented by your request,
to which I cheerfully accede.
As my object is to take up a collection for the
Catholic Church of Macon, you are permitted to
use mv name in connection with a public lecture.
I select as my subject, “The Harmonies of Nature,”
and appoint Friday evening, the 17th instant, for
its delivery.
Very respectfully your obed’t serVt,
James Hasson.
Augusta, April 14, 1557.
Canandaigua, April 7.—At the charter election
here to-day, the American candidates for Justice
of the Peace and Supervisor were elected.
» Department News.
, WAR DEPARTMENT.
Army Order.—The following general order, re
i centlv issued by the War Department, will be read
\ with interest:
. He ADyCARTERS OP THE ARMY, )
New York, April 4, 1357. f
General Order, No. s.—The General-in-Chief,
with the approbation of the War Department, di-
J rects the following movements, changes, and pre-
J parations.
. 1. Brevet Brig. General Harney, turning over
, the command in Florida to the next officer in rank,
will repair without delav to Fort Leavenworth,
■ and assume the command of that post. Special
instructions will be addressed to him, at that place
from the War Department.
2. Lieut. Colonel Johnson, Ist cavalry, will pro
ceed to St. Louis, Mo., to make preparation for the
survey of the southern boundary of Kansas, with
which he has been charged by*the War Depart
ment, and thence to Fort Leavenworth. On his
arrival, the commanding officer there will place at
the disposition of Lieut. Col. Johnson, a colamn
to be composed of two squadrons of the Ist caval
ry and two companies of the 6th infantry, now at
that post, the companies to be designated bv the
respective regimental commanders.
This column will be independently commanded
by Lieut. Col. Johnston, under special instructions
from the War Department.
3. A column of two squadrons of the Ist cavalrv
will be moved along the line of the Arkansas river,
so as soon as the season permits, equipped and sup
plied for distant service during the summer. The
companies to compose it will be designated bv the
regimental commander.
4. The remaining squadron of the Ist cavalry
will move, in like manner, along the line of the
Platte river, and will be joined bv the squadron of
2d dragoons now at Fort Kearnev, and by three of
the companies of the 6th infantry now at fort La
ramie, at such time and in such manner as inav be
directed by the officer commanding the whole
force described in this und the preceding para
graph.
A fourth company of the 6th infantry, to be de
signated by the commanding officer of Fort Lara
mie, will remain to garrison that post.
•>. Col. Sumner, Ist cavalry, will exercise the
feneral command of the two moving columns last
esignated above, and will march with either, as
he may elect. Special instructions for his guidance
will be addressed to him from the headquarters of
the army.
6. One or more prairie howitzers maybe taken
from Fort Leavenworth, with each of the three
columns.
7. The loth infantry will be moved by water
lrom tort Snelling to Fort Leavenworth, and there
take post as early as practicable, leaving two com
panies, (to be designated by the regimental com
mander,) one to remain in garrison atFort Ridgelv,
the other, for the present, at Fort Ripley.
Fort Ripley will be abondoned as soon as the ne
cessary measures can be taken for the disposition
of the public property, when the company occupy
ing it will take post at Fort Snelling.
The six companies of the 2d dragoons now* at
Fort Rile}’ will proceed to take post at Fort Leaven
worth.
f. A supply of forage, for some ton days or
more, will be thrown out from Fort Leavenworth
in advance of each of the tin ee marching columns
abeve designated; and their movements will be
commenced in anticipation of grazing.
10. Desiccated vegetables will be furnished to
the troops to a sufficient extent to secure them
against scurvy.
11. Provision will be made for wagons and
packs to accompany the troops; and mules, not to
exceed five hundred, will be purchased for the
march.
12. The proper departments of the staff will
promptly make all necessary preparations for the
equipment, supply, and maintenance of the move
ments above ordered.
By command of Brevet Lieutenant Gen. Scott:
L. Thomas,
Assistant Adjutant General.
From the Ibledo ( Ohi>>) Commercial.
Confession of Ward the Murderer of
his Wife.
On Tuesday evening, February 3d, Mr*. Ward
and myself had some words, during which Mrs.
\\ ard struck me on the head with a fluid lamp,
also on the right side of the nose, causiug the same
to bleed freely. I begged her not to strike me,
took the lamp away from her and went to bed. We
arose between six and seven o’clock on Wednes
day morning. I spoke to her about the blow she
had given me, showiug her where she had struck
me on the evening previous, also the blood on the
bolster and tick. She said she wished I had bled
to death, and, picking up a stick of hickory wood,
slu* attempted to strike me. I warded off the blow,
which fell upon ray right thumb, laming it severe
ly. Tli“ stick fell from bur hand. •*»«!. *** ~l*<*
B«fM7j»eti ro pick it up, I s iizcd a flat-iron, and in the
heat of passion struck her with it on the right side
of the head, upon and under the ear, driving the
ear-ring into the flesh. She fell to the floor, ex
claiming, “Oh! Ward, you have killed me!” I
dropped the flat-iron and went to her; she was
lying on her side; I furned her over on her back,
and placed a petticoat under her head, supposing
she was only stunned, i used all means to re
store her, but iu half an hour she died, having j
only spoken once, “O, my Nellie,” meaning, as I
suppose, her little girl.
Af:er she was dead, I wrapped her head in a
petticoat aud drew the body under the bed, to con
ceal it in case any one should come in. About half
past eight o’clock, Win. H. Nathan, a mulatto boy,
came to the door with some milk ; came into tlie
shop; told him I was going away. I then went to
Liba Allen’s grocery ; bought a pound of sugar;
told him I was going way. I then returned to the
house and after a short time commenced cutting up
the body. I tore the clothes open from the throat
down. I then took a small pocket-knife and open
ed the body, took out the bowels first, and then nut
them in the stove upon the wood; they being tilled
with air would make a noise in exploding; s<> 1 took
my knife and pricked holes through them to pre
vent the noise ; then took out the fiver and heart
and put them in the stove ; found it very difficult to
burn them; had to take the poker and frequently
*tir them before they could be destroyed; found the
lungs very much decayed. I then took out the
blood remaining in the cavity of the body by plac
ing a copper kettle close by the same, and scooping
it out with my hands. I then dipped portions of
her clothing in the same, and burnt it together,
fearing that if I put the blood in the stove alone
that it might be discovered. I then made an inci
sion through the flesh, along down each side, broke
off the ribs and took out the breast bone, and throw
ing it into a large boiler, unjoiuted the arms at the
shoulders, doubled them up aud placed them in the
boiler; then severed the remaining portions of the
body, by placing a stick of wood under the back
and breaking the backbone over the same, cutting
away the flesh and ligament with a knife. Then
triea to sever the head from the body; it proving
ineffectual, and put the whole upper portion of the
bodv in the boiler. Then took a large carving
kuife aud severed the lower portion of the bodv,
unjoiuted the legs at the knee, and again at the hip
joint; cut the tfiighs open and took out the bones
and burnt them up; they burned very rapidly.
On Thursday night I commenced burning the
body, by placing the upper and back portions of
the same, together with the head, in the stove.
On Friday morning, finding it had not been con
sumed, I built a large fire by placing wood around
and under it, and in a short time it was wholly
consumed, except some small portions of the lar
ger bones and ot the skull. The remaining por
tions of the body were kept in the boiler and in
tubs, under the bed, coverea up with a corded pet
ticoat, and were there at the time the first search
was made on Saturday, by Constable Curtis.
Hearing on Saturday evening that the citizens
were not satisfied with the search made by Mr.
Curtis, I proceeded on Sunday morning to destroy
the remainder of the body by burning the same
in the stove, cutting the fleshy parts of the thighs
in small strips, the more readily to dispose of
them. On Monday morning I took up the ashes
in a small bag, sifting out the larger pieces of
bone with my hands, placing the same in my over
coat pockets, which I scattered in various places
in the fields, at various times. Also took the ma
jor portion of the trunk nails, together with the
hinges, aud scattered them in different places. I
then burned her trunk and every vestige of her
1 clothing, disposing of small portions at a time, to
prevent their creating too much smoke.
[The Toledo Blade doubts the truthfulness of
1 this “confession,” holding that the murder was
1 not an act done in the heat of passion, but delib
erated upon and calculated in the same spirit that
her remains were horribly consumed, i
Boston, April 9.—The second trial of Janies
Magee for killing Mr. Walker, the deputy warden
of the State prison, has resulted in a verdict of
I guilty.
Chicago, April B.—A band of Sioux Indians made
axi attack on the white settlement at Spirit Lake,
Ind.,on the 17th, and massacred a number. Fif
teen of the settlers are reported to be missing.
from the St. Louis Sews, April g.
The Original Bred Scott a resident ot St.
Louis—Sketch oi his History.
The distinguished colored individual who has
made such a noise in the world in the case of Scott
against Sanford, and who has become so tangled
up with the Missouri Compromise and other great
subjects—Dred Scott, is a resident, not a citizen, of
St. Louis. He is well known to many of our citi
zens and mav frequently be seen passing along
Tuird street. Hajs an old inhabitant, having come
to this city thirty years ago.
Dred Scott was born in Virginia, where he be
longed to Cant. Peter Blow, the father of Henry C
Blow, and Taylor Blow, of this city. He was
brought by his master to St. Louis ‘about thirty
years ago, and in the course of time became the
property of Dr Emerson, a surgeon in the arm”
whom he accompanied on that trip to Rock Island*
and Fort Snelling, on the ground of which he
his claim to freedom. The wife of Dr. Emersun
was formerly Miss Sanford, and is now Mrs. Chaf
fee, wife of Hon. Mr. Chaffee, of Massachusetts
He has been married twice, his first wife, bvwhosi
he had no children, having been sold from him.
He has had four children bv his present wife—two
boys, both dead, and two girls, both living. Dred
was at Corpus Christi at the breaking out of the
Mexican war, as the servant of Captain Bumbridge,
whom he speaks of as a “ good man.”
On his return from Mexico he applied to his
mistress, Mrs. Emerson, then living near St. Louis,
for the purchase of himself and family, offering
to pay part of the money down, and give an emi
nent citizen of St. Louis, an officer in the armv,
as security for the payment of the remainder. His
mistress refused his proposition, and Dred being
informed that he was entitled to his freedom bv
the laws regulating the North-west Territory,
forthwith brought suit for it. The suit was com
menced about ten years ago, and has cost Died
*■>'*o in cash, besides labor to a nearly equal
I amount. It has given him a “heap o’ trouble,”
he says, and if lie had known that “it was gwiue
to last so long,” he would not have brought it
The suit was defended by Mr. John Sanford, as
executor of Dr. Emerson’s will.
Died does uot appear at all discouraged bv the
issue of the celebrated case, although it dooms
him to slavery. He talks about the affair with the
ease of a veteran litigant, though not exactly in
technical language, and is hugely tickled at the
idea of finding himself a personage of such im
portance. He does not take on airs, however, but
laughs heartily when talking of ‘de fuss made
’dar in Washington ’bout de ole nigger.”
He is about fifty-five years old, we should think,
though he does not know his own age. lie is of
uumixed African blood, and as black us a piece of
charcoal. For two or three-years past he has been
running at large, no one exercising ownership
over him, or putting any restraint upon his move
ments. If he were disposed to make the attempt,
he could gain his freedom at a much less cost than
even one-tenth of the expense of the famous suit.
He will not do so. however, insisting on abiding
by the principles involved in the decision of the
suit, lie declares that he will stick to his mis
tress as long as he lives. His daughters, Eliza
and Lucy, less conscientious about the matter, took
advantage of the absence of restraint on their
movements, a year or two since, to disappear, and
their whereabouts remain a mystery.
Dred, though illiterate, is not ignorant. He has
travelled considerably, and has improved his stock
of strong common sense by much information
picked up in his journeyings. He is anxious to
know who owns him, being ignoran t whether he
is the property of Mrs. Chaffee, or Mr. Sanford,
though we presume, there is no doubt that the for
mer is his real legal owner. He seems tired of
running about, with no one to look after him,
while at the same time he is a slave. He say
grinninglv, that he could make thousands of dol
lars, if allowed, by travelling over the country and
telling who he is.
The Rival Houses.
It is well known here that Mr. Henry C. Bowen
of the firm of Bowen & McNames, has been the
leading supporter and snstainer of Henry Ward
Beecher, his church and his paper. ft is also pret
ty well known that Theodore McNames, of the
same firm, has been one of the pillars in Dr.
C'heeveis’ church. The late sudden zeal m the
anti-slavery cause of the last mentioned divine, if
is supposed, lias been instigated and stimulated
by a desire of one portion of the house to outstrip
the other, and Cheevers’ unties, it is said, have
been more for the purpose of attracting attention
from Beecher than any thing else.
Now, every body who* knows Henry C. Bowen,
knows that when he gets his “back up,” he is harn
to beat, and it he gets the impression, ns we hear
he has, that his partner is trying to get ahead of
him in the anti-slavery cause, we fancy that Beech
er will be put in a couise of training at once, and
come out m less tnan two weeks with a challenge
and a roar that will make Clieever tremble. There
fdigbtgrowl hoard last Sunday evening, and
an inkling that somebody wtub getting excited.
Let Ctwever go on a week or two longer, and then
see what we shall see. Both nags are in good
condition and well trained and backed; Cheever
has the most spirit, that is, he is the highest strung,
hut Beecher has more wind and bottom, and we
doubt if he will be beak*n by anything yet known
in the sporting circles. By about the first of May
the public may look for some rare fun. The “uii
j niversary week,” this year, will he without doubt
the most exciting one of tlie season. The Forrest
and McCreadv strife will be nothing to this.
X. l. Day B '.
Tue Comkt. —The alleged prediction of some Ger
man astronomer, that the Earth will be destroyed
by a Comet on the 13th of June next, has caused
great excitement in Europe. The most distinguish
ed astronomers have published dissertations to
prove the absurdity of the German’s fears, and
their opiuions accord with those of Professor Pierce,
of Cambridge. Professor Magrini of Milan, and
Bressor Babinet of Paris, assert that even were a
comet to come into collision with the earth, the
shock would not be felt, from the fact that the mat
ter of comets is so light that it could offer no resist
ance. It is so thin that stars of inferior magnitude
are easily seen through it. Babinet says:
“A star of the eleventh magnitude was seen,
without any sensible loss of light, through a com •*
of five hundred thousand kilometres in breadth.
Like observations have been made by Uerschel,
Bessel, Struve. Ac. According to photometry,
therefore, the comet was at least sixty times less
brilliant than the star. To render invisible a star
of the sth magnitude, which is two hundred and
fifty times brighter than a star of the eleventh
magnitude, it would be necessary to render the
comet nine hundred thousand times brighter; and
as the atmosphere, illuminated by the full moon,
extinguishes, by its brightness, stars of the fifth
and inferior magnitude, the necessary conclusion
is, that the comet, illuminated in the heavens by
the sun, is, nevertheless, nine hundred thousand
times less brilliant than our atmosphere illumina
ted by the moon. But the light of the moon in its
full is eight hundred thousand times less brilliant
than the full light of the sun : therefore if the air,
as well as the comet, be illuminated by the sun, i.
will be seven hundred and twenty billions of times
brighter than the comet.”
Mr. Fay, after whom one of the four periodical
comets is named, says that comets are not even
gases, and that the merest cobweb would offer
more resistance to a cannon ball tliau a comet to
to the earth; the weight of the latter being esti
mated at six thousand milliards of milliards of
tons, while that of the former, according to Sir
John Herschel, does not exceed a few ounces. The
probability of our coming in collision, even with
this “visible nothing,” is calculated by Olberto be
in the ratio of Ito 231,000,000; so that even were
the comet’s “ten billion leagues of tail,” less harm
less than they are described, the chances are large
ly against the fulfilment of the mythical German’s
predict! vn. Professor Babinet concludes his argu
ment by saying that “those who are killed by
comets,* die* of terror, stupidity and ignorance.'*
We are strongly of his opinion.
Xt w York Journal of Commerce.
Any one who desires to see an interesting sigh*
can be gratified by taking a walk to the railroad
shops. In their circular building, there were, yes
terday, thirty locomotives, each bright and clean,
and ready for any amount of work. We would
hardly be out of the way in saying that one-fourth
of our citizens have never looked through these
shops, and yet it is said, by men who are compe
tent judges, that they, with the surrounding de
pot arrangements, surpass any in the world, and
that is making a large boast for Georgia. The
depot and workshops of the Central railroad were
visited by a large number of delegates from
abroad, to* the late Commercial Convention—gen
tlemen who had travelled extensively m this and
other countries, and they confessed themselves
amazed at their wonderful extent and complete
ness. They had no idea, as some of them re
marked, that there was anything like it on this
side of the Atlantic.
The fact of so many engines being idle at this
time, is caused by the short crop of cottoix, from
which the largest business is derived. If any one
has to sufter from so unfortunate a causa, there &-”o
none better able to stand it than this company.
Savannah R*pvbl\raw t April 11.