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Uthiij €oiispttttxmialist.
BY JAMES GARDNER.
Additional by the Niagara. j
mifnßjjX'uu'U sterling.
Spain hasgrantedan amnesty for, all political
- offences comraitted in her trans-Atlantic posses-
The meeting of the Spanish Cortes has been
postponed until the 10th of January.
The ship William, Chase, from- Queenstown,
Bngland, sailed for Charleston on the 121 b of De
gpraoer.
The news generally in the papers is mostly of a
| monetary character.
Commercial News.
Daring the week specnlators took 3,000 bales of
: aotton and exporters 1,200 bales.
The quotations are for—
Fair Orleans....« Md-1 Mid. Orleans.. .s^o.
"Mobile 6d. “ Mobile syjd.
" Uplands.. .6?*<i. 1 “ Uplands...s)tfd.
Rice had slightly declined, and quoted at ISs. a
18s. «d. per cwt. -
Rosin was dull for medium qualities, but fine
was quoted at 14s. 6d, per cwt.
In London Turpentine was dull at S2s. a 82s. Bd.
Sarre Market.— The stock of cotton is 75,0"0
hales. _
Interesting News From Kansas,
t* Sr. Louul Jaa. 4.—The Dsmocrat of this morn
ing aunoanoes, on the authority of a passenger
Who came dßwn the river last evening, that an
„ engagement had taken place between the free State
"•jbrccs under Lane, and the Dragoons; and that
Hafir W.‘ fetired with a loss of three men. Botfr
tide calling for re-iuforeemet.ts, and consid-
Congresstonal.
’VABmxotos, Jan. 4.—ln the Senate to-day, on
motion of the Hon. Best. Fitzpatrick, of AJe.,
all orders, correspondence and instructions issued
b» any department of the Government, relative to
die seiiure of Gen. ff». Wauur, were called for.
The Hon. Gnomic E. Proa, of Ohio, introduced
k Kansas compromise bill, proposing to admit
Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution—sub
mitting the slavery clause to the people; and au
thorising the right of the people to amend the
Constitution in a convention to be held on the
7tb of April next.
Kansas affairs were generally discussed.
In the HAuse, the Hon. Taos. L. Cungmab, of
North Csripna, introduced a resolution which was
amended ani passed, calling for all information,
instructions, and correspondence in regard to Gen.
Walkss’s arrest at Greytpwn.
m» discussion which resulted was calm.
The Hou Joan A, Quitmas, of Miss., asked the
consent (whieh was refused) to introduce a bill to
nrnguii Affaire in Virginia.
Wasbixmos, Jan. 4.—Private advices from
Richmond and Petersburg, announce that the
Walker aud Nicaragua excitement is intense in
those localities.
At Richmond, resolutions were introduced in
the legislature to-day, considering the arrest of
Gen. Walker, aid censuring Com. Pacldixg for
bis unwarranted interference.
Market Reports.
New York, Jan. 4.—Sales of cotton 2,000 bales;
Good Middling Uplands 9 cents —the market ex
hibits a declining tendency. Sales of flour 13,000
barrels, at an adranco of 5 to 10 cents. Wheat
dull, red $1 10 a*l 15; white #1 25. Corn firm,
sales of 38,000 bushels, and quoted ats7 a 61 cents.
Sugar heavy, at 3 a decline. Coffee heavy at a
*)£ cents. Molasses steady. New Orleans 35 cents.
Turpentine firm at 87c. Rosin steady. Rice
steady at 3 a 3% cents. Freights on cotton to
Liverpool 3-16 d.
Charleston, Jan. 4. —Sales of cotton to-day 2500
bales, at a % cent decline since the Niagara’s news.
Middling B>£, and Middling Fair 9 cents.
Savannah, Jan. 4.—Sales of cotton to-day 650
bales, at 7% a cents. The market has declined
}{to since the Niagara’s news was received.
We notice that some of the large grocers
in Columbus, Oa., have determined to udopt the
cash system.
JjgTHon. Jas. H. Hammond, United States Sen
ator from South Carolina, reached our city yester
day morning, and took the morning train for
Washington city.
In the telegraphic dispatch from New Or
leans on the 2d inst., published on Sunday morn
ing, exchange on New York should have read
“ eighth per cent, premium ” instead of eight per
cent."
The Registry List opens to-day. Persons
who desire to have their names recorded early can
be accommodated by calling on Mr. Akthont O.
Hill, the Registration Clerk, who can be found at
the Collector and Treasurer’s office.
pg- Tho Selma (Ala.) Reporter, in a modest
intimation to its patrons on the expectations cf
the Ist of January, says: "Let no man say to us
when we ask him for the very little amonnt he
owes, that he can’t settle until he selle hie cotton.
The idea of a man having to sell a cotton crop, be
fore paying a small printing bill, won’t begin to
do. If you have not sold, you ought to have done
so when cotton was at a high price.”
Specie in New York.—The New York papers
say that there is more gold and silver in circula
tion in that city at the present time than was ever
before known.
Bank Dividends— The Charleston Courier of
yesterday, says : 11 The Bank of Charleston,
People’s Bank, Planters’ and Mechanics’ *Bank,
Union Bank,South Carolina Bank, and State Bank,
have declared dividends amounting in the aggre
gate to ninety-eight thousand eight hundred and
thirty-one dollai s. The whole amount of the divi
dend of the People’s Bank—wbicb, as included in
the above amount, is twenty thousand four hun
dred dollars—is forty thousand dollars, or at the
rate of eight per cent, per annum.”
Shall Pox at Washington. —The States says:
“ We are informed, from sourees entitled to belief,
that the small pox is raging with fatal virulence
in certain portions of Georgetown and the First
Ward of Washington. It is currently rumored
that in the former place twenty-five bodies, dying
of this disease, have been interred by a single un
dertaker.”
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I The MobttePress on the Nicaragna News, j
I We give the following extracts from the press |
jof Mobile as an index to the public feeling. The
I Advertiser says:
I The news from Nicaragua yesterday created in
j tense excitement in this community. The course
| of the Government was commented upon in terms
lof the utmost severity by all parties. “ What
I right had the naval force of the United States to
invade a foreign soil, capture its citizens, and hold
them prisoners?” was asked in tones of indignant
surprise, and no one could answer the question.
For ourselves, we forbear comment for the present,
and wait with no little curiosity the action of the
party organs of the Buchanan Democracy. Will
they stitTstand by the Administration in its per
sistent warfare uponfche South ?
The Register thus gives vent to its indignation:
The most intense excitement was crentedthrough
out this community, by the intelligence received
yesterday, that Gen. Walker, and his men, had
been arrested within the Territory of Nicaragua,
and abducted therefrom, by our naval forces under
the command of Commodore Paulding. There
was bat one sentiment felt and expressed, and that
was of unmeasured indignation at what all seem
to consider a most uuparalleled and unpardonable
outrage. We cannot see how our government
could undertake to justify such a proceeding,
which is manifestly in violation of the laws of na
tions, even admiting that Walker’s expedition
was an unlawful one. Was it not enough for our
government to employ all its means to prevent
Walker from embarkiug from our shores? Was it
not enough that it pursued him on the high seas,
and endeavored to intercept his landing at his des
tination? Was not this itself a stretching of the
right of our government to interfere to an extent
or most questionable propriety and lawfulness,
and far beyond the requirements or intention of
the neutrality Uws? But to invade the Territory
of a former jurisdiction, and forcibly abduct Walk
er and party therefrom—this seems to us to be the
climax of outrage, and a reckless defiance of the
rules and decencies of public law, whieh we can
not see how our Administration can possibly ex
cuse or palliate. We wait for some explanation of
this extraordinary proceeding.
We give the Tribune's article without abridg
ment :
Some important news from Nicaragua was re
ceived yesterday by telegraph. It will be found
in another column. In brief, it is as follows:
Walker and one hundred and fifty of his friends
have been arrested on Nicaraguan territory by
Commodore Paulding, U. S. N., and sent to this
country. This is the essential fact of the news.
• The question 19 first: By what authority did
Commodore Paulding invade Nicaragua aud make
war upon those Walker men ?—for the act is
equivalent to making war.
The authority was, perhaps, instructions from
the government of the United States.
Getting, then, to the principal, what right had
the government of the United States to give these
instructions?
The authority is not to be found in the neutral
ity laws, or in any reasonable construction of the
“Monroe Doctrine,” of whieh Mr. Buchanan is, or
was, greatly enamored.
Where then did it come from ?
That’s the pnzzle in this business.
Oar readers are aware that a man named Yrssa
ri, some two months since, after many futile at
tempts, concluded a treaty with our Government
in relation to the transit route through Nicaragua.
This treaty has not been made public. It may
give the united States full authority to invade
Nicaragua, and make such arrests as it pleases
within that country.
But the question is, by what right did Yrssari
proffer and make this treaty ? At the time it was
made, there was no government in Nicaragua.
•There was no head or. administration within it
Yrssari himself, if %e are not misinformed, is not
even a citizen of Nicaragua. It is a notabfce foe*,
too, that onr Government repulsed this pseudo
Minister of Nicaraugua. until it became almost
certain that Gen. Walker would return to his
country, and then the treaty was hastily patched
up. Under it, perhaps, our Government is made
the protector of Nicaragua, and is fully empowered
to arrest, imprison, or shoot any man, or men,
whom it may suspect of anything it pleased.
In brief, then, the following seems to be the
state of affairs, as far as our government relations
with Nicaragua are concerned; Gen. Walker was
elected President of that country by a large ma
jority of its voters. He sent a Minister to the
United States, who was recognised by our govern
ment—thus fully recognising bis authority and
position. Nicaragua was invaded by a foreign
power—Costa Rica—and when, as the leader of
the invaders has confessed, he was on the eve of
driviog them out, Capt. Davis, U. S. N., by a de
ception and show of U. S. authority, obliged him
to abandon his country. He was brought to the
United States under protest. He afterwards ap
pealed to the sympathies of our people—raised
men to return to Nicaragua—landed there safely,
put himself in a position to resume his authority,
which was not occupied, and against which there
had been no revolt on the part of the people. The
United States government again interposes and
very coolly invades Nicaragua, and, by force of
numbers and arms, captures Walker and his men
again, and brings them to this country !
And yet there is not a solitary syllable of au
thority for this extraordinary exercise of power
either from Nicaragua or in the laws of this coun
try.
That section of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty
which provide* that neither Great Britain nor the
United States l nail interpose in the afftirs of Cen
tral America, has been violated by this action.
This treaty has not yet been ratified; but our gov
ernment does not object to the clause which we
refer to. If the United States can invade Nicara
gua, so can Great Britain. A finer precedent for
an illegal act cannot be found than tne oue given
by this government. A treaty between the two
powers is not necessary now. It is only a question
of strength. Our government has made that the
test with Walker, who is weak.
We have no disposition to judge the Administra
tion unkindly; but it is impossible to suppose that
the news we are commenting on will not produce
amazement*and disappointment everywhere among
its friends, especially within the South.
The Mercury says:
The little “ grey-eyed man of destiny,” in the
midst of a brilliant career of success in Nicaragua,
has been suddenly arrested by a defeat from an
enemy he did not expect to meet, at least upon the
soil of Nicaragua. Our previous advices were
that the gallant little band of three hundred were
encamped upon Punta Arenas, within rauge of
threatening guns from United States men-of-war,
friends denied access in front and vague and unde
fined dangers in the rear. Long and anxiously
had we waited, with gloomy forebodings, for tid
ings, never dreaming that, under such discourag
ing and hopeless circumstances, he would dare to
set out upon a career of conquest. At length the
telegraph has spoken, and what do we hear ?
“Fort Castillo and four steamers had been cap
tured by Walker.”
Great and glorious Walker! He dares to do,
and does by daring. How we exult at the glorious
tidings! The impregnable Castillo fallen! But
how our joys are dashed to the earth at the an
nouncement that “Commodore Paulding landed a
force of three hundred and fifty men from the fri
gate Wabash, and captured General Walker and
his force of one hundred and fifty men I”
We are for the Monroe doctrine, for Nicaragua
and Walker, for the neutrality laws, for the honor
of the United States navy, for Col. Anderson hold
ing Castillo with his fifty men agaiust the Cosia
Ricans, for freedom of emigration to Nicaragua or
to the , for being permitted to depart hence
for any other place under the sun aud fighting the
next day after getiing there if it suits us, whether
it suits President Buchanan or not; and finding
ourself puzzled and mystified, we are for a meeting
of citizens, believing that in the midst of councu
there is wisdom.
New Crop Molasses.—We understand, says the ,
Wilmington Journal, that the cargo of new crop ■
Molasses, from Cardenas, now landing here by 1
Messrs. J. &J. L. Hathaway k Co., is believed to !
be first importation of the new crop this year, ]
made at any port in the United States.
JYTJGUBTA, GA.., WEDNEiDAY, JANUARY 6, 1856.
The Bank Veta Bill.
Mr. Editor: The charge of “ iluljsralilp," which
“Justice” makes on me, in the Constitutionalist of
Sunday, may pass for what it is worth. It does
not affect the Constitutional question, to which,
alone, 1 addressed myself. I trust, for bis own
sake, that “Justice” neTer read the whole case of
Sturgss vs. Crowning shield. If he did, he is ob
noxious to charge much more see ere than “ il
liberalrty.” That case did decide that a State In
solvent law, annnUng the debtor’s contrast, wna
unconstitutional. “Justice” states this much cor
rectly. But the Court also held that an insolyent
law, discharging the debtor's person, was not un
constitutional ; and on what principle was the dis
tinction drawn ? Why, what I stated in my for
mer article, and which has been, as I then said, set
tled doctrine ever since , that a legislature could
not annul a contract, but could take away a remedy.
The act of 1840 is but a remedy at any rate j but
it is a remedy in the hands of the State only—not
in the hands of a bill holder. The retoed act does
not affect any remedy of any bill holder, and if it
did, would still be constitutional, aa it does not
toaeh his contract Richmond.
Among iha many reports going the rounds of
the papers about Nicaraguan affairs, is one that
Hoc. Humphrey Marshall, of Keutucky, will in
troduce into Congress resolutions directing that
Gen. Walker be sent back to Nicaragua in a gov
ernment vessel. Another report says that Capt
Chatard, of the Saratoga, has been deprived of
his commission for failing to arrest Walker’s
steamer, the Fashion, before she landed her pas
sengers.
Among the decorations of the Episcopal Church,
at Greenfield, Mass., on Christmas eye, was a large
and beautiful “ Star in the East,” set some forty
feet above the pulpit, and lighted by a fluid lamp.
In the midst of Rev. Mr. Flint’s sermon, the star
took fire, the evergreens biqfing np in a very
startling manner. Suddenly, the burning mass
gave way and fell on the revered geutleman, the
lamp striking him on the back, and scattering the
blazing fluid in all directions. Fortunately, the
fire was extinguished before it had done any dam
age, and Mr. Fnint was unhurt.
The weekly statement of the Treasury shows the
amountsubjeettodrafttobefive million six hundred
and fifty-one thousand six hundred and seventy
seven dollars and three eenia; reduction from last
week, sixty-five thousand nine hundred and seven
ty-four dollars and eighty-two cents; receipts,
four hundred and sixty-three thousand forty-one
dollars and thirty-one ceDts; drafts drawn but not
paid, one million nine hundred and ninety-six
thousand six hundred and seventy-fire dollars and
thirty-*even cents; drafts paid, one million eighty
six thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars
and ninety-four cents; drafts issued, five hundred
and twenty-mne thousand sixteen dollars and thir
teen cents.
Apology Maxing.— Dr. Franklin, we are told,
once had a servant who was never in the wrong.
At last, the devices to which the servant resorted
to cover up his deficiencies became too mucth for
t.hc fihitpsopher. “My good friend,” wan his final
and T must ..pact, i treyw UEew' a.
' man wbo'was good at an excusetobe gooiTCit any
thing else.”
Nic. Longwortb, the great “ Catawba ” man of
Cincinnati, celebrated his golden wedding on
Christmas eve, just fifty years from the time of his
marriage with the daughter of Major Silas How.
ell, of New Jersey. The bridesmaid who parti
cipated in the ceremony was present, as were a
large company of friends and relatives.
The Presiobnt’s Levee on New Year’s Day.—
Among the notabilities at the levee was Dr.
Mackay, the editor of the London Illustrated yews,
and who lingered for some time in the ova! room,
a quiet, but apparently much interested, spectator
of the truly Republican spectacle presented.
The Galveston yews says that an express ar
rived in Galveston on the 18th Dec., from Houston,
bringing to his son the sad intelligence of the
death of Governor Hiram G. Runnels, in Houston,
on the 17th. It appears that Gov. Runnels died
of consumption, and that he had been confined to
his bed for several months.
The New York Journal of Commsrcs estimates
that there are eight hundred and fifty thousand
and nine barrels of flour in that city.
Affairs Improving in Europe.— Letters from
London, by the Arago, represented thutthe gener
al progress of improvement in financial affairs is
steudy. The position of the bank was rapidly
strengthening; it would soon he able to repay the
two millions of over-issue, and reduce the rate of
interest to nine or eight per cent. The N. Y. Jour,
nal of Commerce thus alludes to the subject:
“The financial intelligence from Europe is far
more favorable than was expected, and has given
quite a cheerful aspect to our money market. In
London money was easier and the apprehension of
increased trouble had subsided. At Paris there
was also a further improvement, but the greatest
change was at Hamburg and Frankfort.
“The large houses which had been distrusted and
seemed to be tottering on the brink of rain have
been sustained, and will now go on without fur
ther difficulty. This is a great relief, especially in re
gard to Hamburg, where important American con
nections were liable to be involved in a general
crash. In tbe South-east of Europe the pressure
has just culminated, tbe suspension of some Eng
lish wool and produce dealers having created an
excitement in that unusually quiet quarter. At
Smyrna the crisis was severely felt, but relief was
hoped for in a few days. In Sweden tbe effect of
tbe English failures was at its height. The com
mercial intelligence from Gteat Britain is less fa
vorable titan the financial. Trade aDd manufac
tures were much depressed, and not likely soon to
recover. This is especially noticeable at Liverpool
where a reaction was soonest expected.” ’
Senator Douglas and his Wivb.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer ,
says:
“ 1 called on Senator Douglas last evening for a
short time, and found him busy in his study
franking copies of his speech all over the Union.
Diligently engaged iu directing the speeches as ,
they were franked, was Mrs. Douglas, radiant and .
beautiful in her elegant evening attire. She wrote
rapidly a bold, firm hand, which evinced energy
and decision of character; while she earned on a
part in the conversation at the same time. She is 1
truly a very beautiful lady in form and figure, 1
with a countenance expressive not only of intellect \
and energv, but affection and pure womanly syro- ‘
p&thies. She has evidently tne mind to investi
gate aud comprehend questions of politics, for 1
some of her remarks exhibited considerable feel
ing concerning the position of Kansas affairs. A 1
gentleman had just brought in some three hun- *
dred names of citizens of Cincinnati, and she pro- *
eeeded at once to direct each a copy of her bus- .
band’s speech, while Mr. Douglas added his frank. 1
Those who receive the speeches will, therefore, 1
have a specimen oi the chirography of Mr. and c
Mrs. Douglas,” t
t , e t!ie Baltimore Sun.
Atrt-momical Phenomenon.
viwtiHMlives to see the evening before the full
moon«f thigmontb, if he sits op till midnight,
may sOe, if night be blear, an astronomical phe
nomenon w&bh will not again occur for nineteen
years, wffan’wo thirds of the people now upon the
earth will Jtare passed to their final rest. At
twelve oTgfockJhat night the moon, so near the full
as to *Pl>4gJk pet feet orb, will approach within
ten degrelpvtae meridian—five degrees nearer to
it than tbe Ttu comes on tbe 21st of June. Seen
from an eWe'cd position commanding tbe whole
horizon, it .V'i fie a splendid sight. The moon
will almost in the zenith, the ten de
grees b«JSjL.'u uch diminished in appearance at
that far kelspt. The sun is never vertical in any
part of tßfeJTnited States. On the 21st of June it
comes witfjpi one degree of the zenith and tbe ex
treme point of Florida. The moon, on
tbe otheflßnd, will, at tbj next lull, pass vertically
over theinftidii- of the Isthmus, and be vertical at
and neafeil* bay of Espiritu Santo. It will be
nearly vettSeal at the southern extremity of Louisi
anaf near Sic- mouth of the Mississippi. At the
cities of iMnle and New Orleans the moon, on that
night, will he so nearly overhead that the people
who are ogSat midnight will not be able to discern
the differed if they chance to look up. It will
there, of jlourse, be a more beautiful sight than
it will be iH Baltimore. The next morning, those
who enough to see the moon set, will see
it sink beneath tbe horizon so far to the North-east
that it wHJ seem to have wandered off from it*
path, and 4-) be drifting at large towards the North
pole.
Is it asked, what is the cause of this phenome
non 7—why does the moon exhibit such irregular
appearances? The answer is, that she does not
revolve round the earth in the same plane in which
the earth revolves round the sun. The plane of
the mooajnt orbit cuts the plane of the earth’s
orbit at tangle of five degrees. If the planes
were th'ejame, there would he two eclipses every
month, -ipe of the sun and one of the moon. At
the eqnawsr both eclipses would be total. As it is,
thore oajfl.e an eclipse only when the sun and the
uioon pafi each other at the time when the moon
is in ih&fpart of her orbit which is near the points
of Here there can be Only four, five
or at Xhtfßost six eclipses in one year, instead ot
twentydPn- or live, as there otherwise might be.
For thejkme cause eclipses vary in magnitude
from a Were point of contact to a total obscuration
But whjf.does the moon obtain such a high north
ern iUuaoe only once in nineteen years ? The
answer re this is, that the points of intersection of
the mr.ya’s orbit and the sun’s apparent path
threngk ihe heavens are continually shifting and
mane a cycle once in nineteen years. Twice in
nineteen years these points of intersection coincide
with the poiuts of the equinoxes. But one half of
the tim* the five degrees of the moon’s deviation
from the ecliptic are subtracted from the twenty
three and a half degrees of tbe inclination of the
earth’* prbit, and then the moon never comes so
far North as the sun by fire degrees. This was
the e**o in 1848. Then the moon, at the full near
est to the 21st of December, did not approach
withief twenty degrees of the zenith; not as
near by j’ve degrees as the sun does on the 21st
At the completion of half the cycle the points
of infiysectiou coincide with the equinoxes, and
tbe fivi degrees are added to the sun's declination,
and vs have the moon as we do this month, mount
ing ujlwithin ten degrees of the zenith, and pre
sentii. [, at the full moon, nearest tho winter sol
stice, phenomena, both beautiful and sublime.
In co! oboration of this explanation every one may
refer > the almanacs of this year, and he wul find
that t i principal eclipses fall in March and Sep
tetn h*l, when the earth is in those parts of her
orbit where the plane of the equator cuts the
has been much discussed among
. naturalists aud astronomers if the moon has any
CJWgjing influence over the weather, thequamity
-v«wPw!ire |n the atmosphere, the measure of
. heat frit the fi-i.ioeucy and copiousness of
shon'er* and fains" Both sides of Uria qtto»!H«n
hare been ably and pwtio4K>»«o»ly mninraftTPcT'
• All persons who have made pretensions to skill in
predicting the changes of the weather, hare pro
fessed to be guided more or less in their prognos
tications by tbe positions of the moon. Nothing
is more common among our agricultural popula
tion than the confident assertion that there can be
no change from dry to wet, or from wet to dry, be
fore there is a change in tbe moon. It would
scarcely seem possible that an impression so uni
versal should be whopy without fcrtnduth a. (
It is certain that the moon sways with prodigious
force the immense mass of the ocean, causing the
tides to swell under attraction to a greut height
and pour themselves upon the shore. Why, then,
may she not cause similar surges in the atmos
phere, which is a fluid by no means imponderable
m itself, but bears upon the earth by a pressure of
fifteen pounds to the inch, besides being at times
loaded with all the might of moisture which de
scends in the shape of rain and saturates the eurth
and fills the rivers. Recent observation and his
torical investigation have been running against
this traditionary connection of the moon with the
weather and the course of the seasons. It the
moon has any considerable effect upon the sea
sons it ought to be visible in the correspondence
of successive cycles, and nineteen years to
bring about a recurrence of similar variations.
But no such uniformity has hitherto been discov
ered.
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Gov. Brown’s Veto.
We have laid before our readers the veto mes
sage of Gov. Brown on the bank bill, and while
1 we subscribe to its sentiments in regard to the ab
■ stract principle of banking, we are not prepared to
( say that the veto was a w ise and judicious act in
tho present crisis of financial atf'airs.
We are no apologists for extravagant specula
tion on the part of the banks, and deprecate the
r existence of a single one in the State, yet as the y
, have been chartered by the legislature, and sus
pended specie payment as a measure of protection
to the people as well as themselves, we were dis
posed to grant them the indulgence asked by the
bill which passed tho two branches of the legisla
, ture. That bill engrafted new provisions in the
existing chartors of the bauks, which we think
will secure a sound paper currency for the future,
proportioned in amount to the wants of the peo
ple. It merely asks that the Governor should
stay proceedings against the forfeiture of their
charters for the space of one year, without
interfering with the rights of the bill holder,
or parenting him from obtaining specie when
demanded. There was nothing unconstitutional
in the provisions of the bill, and a defeat of it at
this time irould have been felt by all classes of the
community. The people were in debt to the banks
more than the banks to the people. Indulgence
became a matter of interest to the creditor, as add"
ing to the chances of eventual payment; and of
favor to the debtors, as giving time to collect the
means of payment.
To whom, then, was the relief extended, to the
banks or their customers ? The banks could pay
if they could collect, and if compelled to pay,
they would be compelled to collect. Their power
to indulge depended upon the indulgence extended
to them, and a measure granting them one year to
resume specie payment surely was not a measure
confined to their protection without regard to the
relief of the people.
We have no censure, however, for Gov. Brown,
in vetoing the bill, entertaining, as he did, contrary
views from us with regard to its constitutionality. I
We believe him to be a firm, consistent advocate
of the truib, and what he regards the interest of a
great and growing State.
Oolunthus Times dt Sentinel, Jan. 2. ]
New Orleans, Dec. 3o.—The filibuster excite
ment is still going on, one hundred and thirty-two
men having offered their services to-day. Over
fourteen hundred men are now in this city and
Mobile, awaiting shipment.
Th?- men from the lower part of Texas, eight
hundred in number, sailed on the 26th inst.
It is impossible to imagine the feeling here, as
well as throughout the entire South, so for as heard
from, upon this question. The people are “in arms
and eager for the fray.”
30me persons express themselves in favor of re
inforcing Col. Anderson in spite of the Govern
ment. Over a thousand stand of arms have been
collected, and a thousand men are willing to tender
their services.
Items.
Hon. H. S. Foote, late of Mississippi, and later
of California, intends to settle m Memphis, Tenn.
The rich “Sat Lovengood Sketches” are written
by Captain George W. Harris, the qniet, sedate,
and universally popular postmaster at Knoxville,
in Tennessee.
The Cleveland Plaindsaler states that the emi
nent tragedian, Edwin Forrest, who has been quite
ill at the American House, for tile post few cays,
is rapidly recovering.
The Austrain Consul at New York has sued the
N. Y. Express, laying his damages at fifty thousand
dollars, for copying from a Philadelphia paper an
erroneous statement concerning him.
The venerable Josiah Quincy is writing a life of
John Quincy Adams, and all the volumnious pa
pers left by the latter have been placed in his hands
for that purpose. The first part is to be ready in
February.
The plates for the treasury notes will be in readi
ness in about ten days.
Gen. Walker’s present intention is said to be to s
proceed to New Orleans and challenge a trial. i
The Texas legislature has passed a bill which
allows free colored persons who may desire it to
select masters and become slaves.
Nine new route agents for the through mail be
tween New York and Cincinnati have been appoint
ed, at a salary of one thousand dollars a piece per
annum.
The child's idea of ice—“water gone to sleep.”
The Kentucky State Agricultural Society offer
four premiums, of one hundred dollars each, for
four kinds of the best leaf tobacco of this year's
crop.
A little while ago the Providence, R. 1., market
was almost bare of corn, but for the last week the
importations exceed one hundred and twenty-six
thousand bushels.
Measures are being taken in Stockton, California,
to test the cultivation of rice, on swamp and over
flowed lands, through the employment of China
men.
Tbe artesian well now in progress at Louisville,
Kentucky, has been bored to tbe depth of one thou
sand five hundred and forty-six foet. The drill is
through grey lime-stone of alternate hard aud soft
strata.
Editorial Injustice.
The New York Post has repeatedly published
the following sentence as an extract from the Pre
sident's instructions to Gov. Walker:
“I repeat, then, as my clear conviction, that un
less the Convention submit tbe Constitution to the
vote of all the actual settlers of Kansas, and the
election be fairly and justly conducted, the Con
stitution tritt be, and ought to be, rejected by Con
gress /”
Upon this alleged extract from the instructions,
the Post has charged the President with “official
disingenuousnessj”because in his message he uses
the following language:
“I merely said that when a Constitution shall be
submitted to the people of the Territory, they
must be protected in the exercise o( their right of
voting for or against that instrument, and the fair
expression of the popular will must not be inter
rupted by fraud or violence.”
A similar charge upon the same basis has been
made in the New York Tribune , and has been re
peated in other Republican journals. We took oc
casion some days ago to call the attention of these
journals to the Injustice which they had thus done
the President, by attributing to him language
which be had never used, but which had only been
employed by Gov. Walker, and we took it for
granted that they would correct their error with
out delay. We have not observed the correction,
. however, either in the Post , or elsewhere, and we
again call attention to the subject, in the hope that
• it will still be made. No respectable journal can
’ desire to persist in a gross error, especially when
r u|K>n that error it has built up a false charge of
f “disingenuousness” against the Chief Magistrate
f of thelf»:tsd Btates.-r- Wash . Union.
;fWealhef North and West.
. thick and fast.
Rutland, Vt., 9:30, A. M.—Blustering, but not
very cold—about an inch of snow fell.
Burlington, Yt., 10, A. M.—Mild, scarcely any
wind—about three inches of snow fell during the
night.
Toronto, C. W., 11, A. M.—Raining and snow
ing.
j L nocKviLLE, C. W., 10:10, A. M.—\'ery wet—
.mow foiling.
Kingston, C. W., 10:35, A. M.—Snowing and
raining.
Portland, Me., 10:20, A. M.—Snowed all right
—some sleighs commenced running this A. 31.
Ottawat City, C. W., 10:50, X. M.—Some puow
—looks like rain.
Boston, 10, A. 31.—Raining hard.
Bellows Falls, Vt., 10:30, A. M.—Mild—snow
ing ; nearly a foot fell since last eve.
Quebec, 11, A. 31.—Snowstorm; drifting hard,
and has been so all night.
Mfudlebury, Vt., 10:30, A. 31.—Snowing hard.
3lontreal, 10:39, A. 31.—Thermometer above
zero. Very heavy snow storm—commenced yes
terday noon, and still continues; about two feet of
snow fell.
Cincinnati, Dec. 80.—A heavy storm of rain
has prevailed all this afternoon. The river is not
stationary, with sixteen feet of water in the canal
at Louisville, Ky.
Executive Appointments. —We find the follow
i ing appointments by Gov. Brown, in the Georgian ,
• of Sunday:
1 Dr. John W. Lewis, of Cherokee, Superintendent
1 of the State Road.
Geo. Kellogg, of Forsyth, Treasurer.
Eli McConnell, of Cherokee, Keeper of thePeni
-1 tentiary.
Lemuel Aland, of Cherokee, Messenger.
John C. Waters, Esq., of Cherokee, Secretary of
1 the Executive Department, in place of Maj. John
H. Steel, resigned.
Mr. Nellbourne, of Union, Librarian.
3lr. Broibs, of Carroll, Compiler of the Laws.
3lr. Camden, of Cherokee, agent of the Western
<& Atlantic road at Chattanooga.
. The Lifetime of a Kansas Governor. —The
Governors of Kansas are a short-lived race—real
political ephemera. Governor No. 1, A. H. Reeder,
“ reached Kansas October 6, 1854; removed July
31, 1855—terra of service ten months. Governor
| No. 2, Wilson Shannon, reached Kansas Septem
; ber 1, 1855; removed August 21, 1856—term of
' service eleven months. Governor No. 3, John
! W. Geary, reached Kansas September 11, 1856;
| returned in March, 1857 —term of service about
; seven months. Governor No. 4, Robert J. Walker,
■. reached Kansas 3lay 24, 1857; resigned December
7, 1857—term of service a little over seven months.
! Exchange.
Head Work.— Literarjv labor is undervalued,
chiefly because the tools wherewith it is done are
invisible. If the brain made as mnch noise as a
mill, or if thongbt-sowing followed hard after a
breaking-up plough, the produce of the mind
would at once assert a place in the prices current.
If a wi iter could be so equipped with wheels and
pinions as to entirely conceal the man within, like
the automaton chess-player, and sentences were
recorded by a wooden, instead of a living hand,
the expression of thought would be at a premium,
because the clock-work would seem to show that 1
It cost something to make it.— Exchange. j
Boston, Dec. 29.—Thus for less than half a mil- ’
lion of specie is engaged for tbe Canada to-morrow. ]
It is reported that the Rhode Island banks will I
resume the redemption of their bills at the Suffolk
bank by the middle of January.
j
International Copyright. —The British Minis I
ter has in course of preparation an internationa 1
copyright treaty, which he designs submiting to
our Government at an early day.
President or the South Carolina College.— !
The Columbia Times, of Ist inst, says: “We are :
pleased to announce that the Hon. A. B. Long- j
street has formally accepted. Presidency oi
the College, and will be id this cky on or about ,
the 15th inst.”
VOL. 37-3STO. 2.
Trials of a Fat Mao.
The Buffalo Republic has a fat correspondent
which writes that paper frankly thus;
As I intimated to yoo, haring come to the con
clusion that there was nothing at to eat in Buffalo,
I stalled for New York on Friday last, on the
Central Rrilroad. I had no idea that a man
with a respectable quantity of flesh, was looked
upon with any degree of surprise outside of your
city limits. I ooiy weigh two hundred orU 'birtf;
one pound*, and if I am said to he as broad as lam
long, it certainly was no reason for the ticket agent
at the Buffalo depot inquiring " do mo u.yA to so
asfreight, or as a passenger s ” I t»l.d hfm with
considerable asperity “ ss a passenger of course,”
when he charged me for tickets for two, and upon
my expostulating with him, he very impudently
inquired if I supposed that anv one else could sit
in the same seat I occupied, feeing aware that it
was a matter of some doubt, I said no more, but
heard him mutter something to himself about hogs
alwayß going as freight, as I walked off, which re
mark was made, I presume, to an omnibus driver,
standing near. It certainly could bare had no
reference to me. Do you think it could?
I got on the cars somewhat ruffled tn temper
and after crushing two or three women from*
diameter of ten feet into about six inches, and flat*
tening out an apple boy and pop-corn vender, m
that their identity become a matter of consider*
ble research, I finally obtained a seat opposite am
old scraggy lady and her unmarried daughter.
They screamed as I sat down, and I was temptda
to expand my lungs in the same manner, for the
whole seat gare way with me and deposited me
with my wig in a pool of tobacco juice, and mjr
feet in tbe bonr, unmarried girl’s lap. Upon ex
tricating myself from the wreck, I discovered to
my horror that I had split the back of my coot,
had utterly crushed out of existence three band
boxes, and obtained tho eternal hate of the scraggy
woman and her bony daughter forerer. f tried to
make my apologies, but think I failed. My failure
is easlv explained, for whoever heard of any man
making a decent apology in a fractured coat, and
a head saturated with tobacco juice ?
I then went into another car, in consequence of
the indignation of the passengers haring been
aroused by tbe two women alluded to, and espe
cially as I heard a gentleman with short hair and
not rent placid face, inquiring if he hadn’t bstter
punch Aim. Having no doubtthat the Aim referr
ed to meant me, I made myself ss teliom as possi
ble, and got into the next car. The seats in the
car were all weak, frail things, as four of them
fell to pieces as 1 sat down on them. Upon mak
ing my cpmplaint to the conductor—who asked if
there woe more than one of me —he suggested that
I had better go into Hie baggage car, and sit on
one of the express trunks. They being iron-bound
he thought thty’d stand it, if nothing else would.
I did go in there. The baggage-man who waa
not rery polite, asked me what I wanted. I told
him I wanted to stay in there. He said It couldn’t
be did; as, if I came in, he would hare to go out;
there wasn’t room “ for them two trunks and both
of us in that there baggage ear.” I accommoda
ted matters with him by giving him a dollar, (on*
of twenty I had borrowed,! and he agreed torida
on the outside of the car, while I occupied the in
side. I got upon two express trunks, and waa
rery comfortable. Indeed, I should hare been
perfectly so, if the baggage-man hadn’t kept an
noying me. He kept airing his head into the car,
and asking if I was going to New York, and upon
my replying that I was, he would conrey my reply
to the brakeman, who eridently had been talking
of me all the way from Rochester. Finally, tha
baggage-man drore his head in again, as if to end
some argument, and asked if I Intended to go to
Barminas I got to New York. I
told him I information he recon
vt-yed 11> the ejaculated, “Thought
meant. They
'“Seen him
sblllin’s in New
1 York”—when I end to their con
! vernation, by putting my head out of the car door,
and enquiring who waa “him” what “ would cost
two shillings in New York,” and what they had
1 T Wtiaki' l 111i : ' I bc was some
"l >r Bur." This saswv aßsni’i^’mt
uiaiinn w hatever, I backed into the car again,
much puzzled as to what they meant Dreaming
that I was being broiled on an immense gridiron,
for the purpose of “frying” me ont, and that the
fat was running from me in inumerable rim
lets, which was being caught in little tin cups;
and sold by tradesmen of all descriptions, I arrir
ed in .Syracuse, and there awoke, delighted to find
that 1 retained my accustomed flesh, and that
gongs were sounding ecstatic announcements of
“dinner.” I will write to you again soon. Till
then belieye me yoor much annoyed.
Fat CoKTßiatrroß.
Caught the Panic.
A tall, lank, Jerusalem sort of a fellow, pretty
well under the intiuence of Mr. Alcohol, was ob
served swinging to a lamp post on Fifth street last
night. He was talking quite loudly to the afore
said post, when a guardian es the night approach
ed him.
“ Come, sir, you are making too much noise 1"
said the watchman.
“ Noise? who's that said noise?” asked the
postholder, as he skewed his head and endeavored
in vain to give the intruder a sober look.
“It was me,” replied the watchman, as he ex
posed his silver numbers to full view.
“ Yon ? and who are you? It taint me that’s a
making of the noise. No, sir. It’s the banks that’g
making all the noise. They are a breakin’, a
crushin’, and a smasbin’ of things to an incredible
amount. Noise ? It’s the bankers that are mak
ing of the noise. They are a cnssin’, a ripin’, and
a starvin’ all ’round. It’s the brokers that are
makin' of the noise. They are a hollerin’, an’
yelpin’, and a scretchin’, like wild injons’ over the
times, that worscrs everybody but themselves.
No, sir, it aint me that’s a’ makin’ of the noise,”
" You are tight as a brick in a well wall,” said
the officer, amused at the good nature of the indi
vidual.
“Me tight? Who said I am tight ? No, sir,
you are mistaken. It’s not me that’s tight. It’s
money that’s tight. 60 down on Third street,
an’ they’ll tell you there that money is tight. Go
into the workshops, an’you’ll find money is tight.
Read the newspapers, an’ you’ll find out that it’s
money that’s tight. Me tight ? I’ve got nary a
red, but Kanahwa, and nobody could gel tight on
that. No, sir, I’m not tight.”
“ Then you are drunk.
“Drank? Stranger, ye’r out of it agin. The
world’s drunk. The hull community is a stagger
in’ round, buttin’ their heads agin stone walls and
a skinnin’ of their noses on the curbstone of ad
versity. Yes sir, we’re all drunk—that is, every
body’s drunk but me. I’m sober, sober as a po
lice judge on a rainy day. 1 ain’t drunk; no, sir,
stranger, I ain’t drunk.”
“ What are you maxing such a fool of yourself
for, then?”
‘ Fool ? Sir, I’m no fool. I’m distressed. Iv’e
catched the contagion. I’m afflicted.”
“ Aro you sick ?”
“Exactly.”
“ Whatsis the matter with yon?”
“ Tve got the panics."
•! The what?”
'■ The panics, sir; its’s going’ to carry off this
town. I tried to escape by hard drink, but it’s no
use. The panics have got me sure.”
The watchman, more amused than ever, tend
ered his sympathy, and, what was better, his
aid, to the panic stricken individual. In the
course of half an hour he had the pleasure of put
ting him into the door of his boarding house and *
pointing out to him the remedy—a Boft bed and *
long slumber. —Cincinnati Timet.
The first bonnet worn in England was brought
from Italy in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and its
form was a compromise between the peasant hat
and the French hood.
Wm. Ferguson, postmaster of Mattville, Mich.,
has been arrested, charged with embezzling letters.
It is said that Senator Douglas will take ground
in favor of Gen. Walker.
Jessie Meriton White, the girl imprisoned at
Genoa for her enthusiasm in the cause of Mazzini
and Italian liberty, has been released.
It is an extraordinary fact that when people
come to what is commonly called high words they
generally use low language.