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SATURDAY, OCT. V._
T6e “Rich Legacy.”
Wo notic'd «]><• soMMccincut of tin- "rich lega
cy” beqoea bed to the Cmbolic Church as it sp
t> eared in the Griffin Amm can. Union of last Week
We knew that the Union was a Know Nothing
paper an.l considered its sta'cnient about on a
par with the generality of nonsense and humbug
we find in such papers on just such points. The
following is tile article which appeared in the Grif
fin Union:
A Kick Legacy—tor. Derrnot Dempsey, suppos
ed to be the must wealthy man in Macon, died on
Sunday last, leaving an estate of lire hundred
thousand dollars. We learn that he was a Homan
Catholic in religion, and haring bad a priest of
that faith wuh him duriog bis last illness, it was
found after Lis death that Ins will divided live
thousand dollars between Ins two children, and
Sure the remainder, four hundred and ninety-five
lousand dollars, to the Catholic Church.
Griffin American Union.
The Macon Telegraph, of the sth instant, pub
lished in the city where Mr. Demi-skv died, and
where this "rich legacy” was left, contradicts the
atateinent made by the American Union. Here
follows what the Telegraph says, while publishing
the paragraph from the GrilTiu Union :
" Mr. Dempsey's estate, we have been informed,
is rained at somewhere about two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, and all goes to hia chil
dren—not a cent ‘to the Catholic church,’ as wc
have been informed and believe.”
Judge Douglas and the Dred Scott De
cision.
We give below the answer of Judge Douglas to
one of the questions propounded to lorn by Ltx
coi-N, in tbeir joint discussion at Freeport, upon
which the Washington Union buses its charge
that be has repudiated lire doctrines of the Bred
Soil decision. The question and answer are as
follows:
Linoohe s Sem>n<l Question. —Can the people of
the United Hiulos Territory, in any lawful way,
against the wishes of auy citizen of the Untied
Slates, delude slavery from their limits prior to
the formation of a Suite Constitution ?
Jjaug/a*' Answer. —The neat question propound
ed to me by Sir. Lincoln is, * an the people of u
Territory lii aur lawful way, agaiost the wishes of
any citizen ol the United Stales, exclude slavery
from tlieir hunts prior to the formation of a State
Constitution? I answer empbutleally, as Mr. Lin
coln bus heard loe answer a hundred limes from
erery stump in Illinois, that in my" opinion the
people of a Territory can, by lawful means, exclude
slavery from their limits prior to the formation of
a Staic Constitution. I Kiithiisiaslic applause.]
Mr. Lincoln know that I had answered that ques
tion over sod over again, ilc heard me argue the
Nebraska 101 l un that principle all over the State
in 1858, in 18815, and hi 1888, and lie has no excuse
fur pretending to be in doubt us to my position on
thm question. It matters not whut way tlie Su
preme Court may liereulter decide us to the ab
stract question, whether slavery may or may iiiji
go into a Territory tinder the Constilution ; the
people have the lawful means to introduce it or
exclude it as they pleas.', Inr the reason that sla- ■
verv cannot exist a day or an hour uny where, un
less It is supported by local police regulations.
I Right, right | Those tMilice regulations can only
bu established by local legislation, uud if the pen- -
pie are opposed to slavery, they will elect repre
sentatives to that body who will by uutriendly
legislation, effectually prevent the ititt eduction of
it into their midst. If, on the contrary, they are
for it, their legislation will favor its extension.
Hence, no matter what the decision of the Su
preme Court may be on that abstract question,
still the right of the peoplo to make a slave Terri
tory or a Ires Territory, is perfect and complete
uuuer the Nebraska'bill. I hope Mr. Lincoln
deems toy answer satisfactory on lhat point.
This was Judge Douglas' answer to Lincoln’s
question, in hts Freeport speech. Subsequently,
in a speech delivered at Joliet, referitig to it, lie
said i
Lincoln, up at Freeport, asked me another ques
tion, which I answered there. I have answered
without having it formally asked, in every corner
and part of tins Slate. He wanted to know wheth
er, in mv Opinion, there was any lawful moans.hy
which stav cry could be excluded front a Territory
before its admission tuto the Umun as a State? I
answered lum then, as I answer loin now, that, in
aiy opinion, under the K invis- Vein ask a hill, it is
iu the power of the people of a Territory to intro
duce slavery or exclude it - just us they please.
(Cries of “good,” and cheer*,) That is the opin
ion that I have ulivuvs expressed of that hill, front
(lie day I introduced It into Congress down to tins
hour. (A vo.co “that's the right doctrine, too.”)
I care not how the Supreme Court , ltl . v decide iho
question us to the right of the owners of a slave
to take him there; when beget* him there the
question is whether lie can hold him us a slave.
If there is friendly legislation to protect Ins light,
then he can; if there U the absence of friendly
legislation protecting his right, it is as positive
and elfoetunl an exclusion as u positive prohibition.
You may have the right to bring a wild colt luto
this public square, but how are you going to hold
him, unless you have a halter or a bridle to bold
him by? You may find huu lest lug YOU if he is
wild, or staying with you if lie is gentle. If you
have the right even to take u slave into the Terri
tory, yet you cannot bold him a day, unless you
ksve friendly local and police legislation protect
ing vour rights and securing remedies to you; and
so the people have the power either to’ exclude
slavery or to establish it, as they please. That
was the intention and true meaiiing of the act.
Read the tourtrenth section otihe Ka isas-NebraH
ka hill. It gives all the power which the Consti
tution would etiablo you to confer; hence, I have
*o difficulty in answering this question.
We have reproduced these declarations of Judge
Dm GLAM—upon which lie lias been arraigned by
hie Washington Unit:, and a portion of the
southern press, nod charged w ith an abandonment
«f the principles of the Dred Scott decisiou, of
the Cincinnati platform, aud of his own Kansas-
Nebruska bill—to present to our readers, in con
nection with them, declaration* upon the same
subject, made in Congress many mouths ago, by
two distinguished Keproseutatires from the South,
who have never been accused of a want of fidelity
•to the principles of the party, upon the subject of
slavery m the Territories. We refer to the lion.
Jamks L. Orh, of South Carolina, the successful
candidate of the Administration for the Speaker
ship of the present Congress, and 11 on. Samuel A.
Smith, of Tennessee, the talented Representative
of the Chattanooga district. Mr. Orr, in Decem
ber, 1858, in the course of a debate in the House,
upon the power of Congress over slavery in the
Territories, took occasion to say:
"I say, although 1 denr Hint squatter sovereign
tv exists in the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska
by virtue of this bill, it is a matter practically of
ltMle consequence whether it docs or not; snd I
think I shad be able to satisfy the geutleman
of that. The gentleman knows that, in every
slaveholding community of this Union, we have
local legislation snd local police regulations ap
tertaining to lhat institution, without which the
institution would not ouly he valueless, but'a curse
to the community. Without them the slaveholder
could not enforco his rights wheu. invaded by
others; and if you had no local legisli'inn for the
purpose of gmug protection, thelnStllutioo would
be of no value. I can appeal to every gentleman
upon this door who represent* a slaveholding con
stituency, to attest the truth or what 1 have
stated upon that poiut.
“Now, the legislative authority of a Territory
is invested witli a disc: cti-ifi ;o vote for or against
Jaws. Wc thiuk they ought to psss laws tu every
Territory, when the Territory is open to settle
meat, and slaveholders go there, to protect slave
property-. But if (key Airline to pats ruck lairs,
vrkal •» fly rimed# t sir. /ttks ttutiorilg of
the people are opposed to the intUluton, and if tiro
“I .’I 5 * ‘j upon dnir Territory,
attUssfjkamtv do u t*enp. 3 to Mine to pass Uut
'll l 'V>*<et»re/cr iU portion, 7nd
tkrnii WO, wet,, eduded* if tk, power S
sett -’ in Ue TsrrtUrytk legislature and '- ■'
*V - Vt '* r ’ 1 «» gentleman,
what is the practical importance to result from
the agitation and discussion of this question as to
whether squatter sovereignty does or dues not
exist • Practically, it is a matter of iiltie mo
ment,”
Mr. Smith in a speech deli Tried in the House,
raj June 1858, said
“1 have never regarded the difference of opinion
between northern and southern gentlement, upon
‘•qnatler sovereignty, ns of any importance. I
have held that in a Territorial capacity the settlers
had not the right to exclude slavery. Yet a
majority of ihe |«?«ple in a Territory will decide
the qu 811011 after all. In a Territory we must
have laws not to establish but to protect the in
stitution of slavery; and if a majority of the people
«l a Territory are opposed to the institution, they
will refuse to pass laws for its protection, and it
will not go there. If, on the contrary, they are in
farm- of it, they will pass laws tor its protection,
and it will go there. It will go there or not, ac
cording m the popular sentiment of the people of
the Territory.”
Wc find these declaraiions of Messrs. Orr and
Smith, in a recent issue of tiie Richmond Enquirer.
Our readers will remark the similarity between
them and those of Judge Douglas, which we hare
quoted. They contain no assertions of opinion or
of principle, hat present the same proposition
presented by Judge Douglas at Freeport, at Joliet,
and on many other occasions, in the Senate and
before the people, that the people of a Territory,
without interfering with the right of property in
slaves, may exclude the institution of slavery from
the Territory simply by doing nothing in reference
to it. Mr. Oku asserts this proposition, Mr. Smith
asserts it, many other honored and trusted repre
sentatives of the South have repeatedly asserted
it. Judge Docglas has asserted nothing more
than this simple and incontrovertible propo
sition in any speech which lie has made in ihe
pending canvass in Illinois. If it involves a re
pudiation of the Bred Scull decision, then Mr.
Ottu, Mr. Smith, arid many o: the most ultra pro
slavery men in Congress have repudiated that de
cisiou, and ought to share with Mr. Don, las the
denunciations of the organ of the Administration,
lint it does not involve a repudiation of any prin
ciple established by that decision or recognised in
the Kaumts-Xcbraska act or Cincinnati platform,
and the charge is one of the most unfounded to
which the Union has been forced to resort in its
“wickedly foolish” war upon the great champion
of the Democratic doctrine of popular sovereignty.
Election in Warren County.
The election in Wsrren county on Monday last,
to fill the two vacancies in the representative
braucli of the legislature, resulted us follows:
K. Lazkniiv, Democrat, elected, 82 majority.
A. M. Jackson, “ “ 37 "
The vacancies were caused by the death of Mr,
Jesse M. Jones, uud the new county of Glasscock,
including the residence of Mr. Wii-ev Kitchen.
Prolcssor Jones ol Ihe Medical College.
The Athens Banner, of Thursday, says: "The
departure, on Saturday last, of this gentleman
who In s, since January, tilled so ably uud s itis
factorily the chair ol natural science in Franklin
College, for iiis future home, Augusta, is heartily
regreted, not only by those to whom It* was at
once the courteous and patient instructor and sin
cere friend, but by all in our community who had
the pleusure of kuowing and appreciating him us
a scholar, a high toned gcutlemun, and an humble,
.consistent Christian.
“ A large number of Ihe students of the
College waited upon him at the Lanier House,
just before lie left, to bid bint farewell,
and express their regret at his departure;
and, if the good wishes of those he leaves behind
can avail might in influencing the future, we are
confident that he will enjoy as mujli happiness
hereafter us generally fulls to the lot of mortals.
We wish and predict fur hint a most successful
career in his new sphere. Having been elected
Professor of Chemistry in the Medical College, in
Augusta, he will at the commencement of the ses
sion deliver the introductory lecture in that insti
tution iu November next.
"We congratulate tlie citizens of Augusta, and
tlie College and its numerous frieuds throughout
the Shite and elsewhere, upon so valuable un ac
quisition as Professor Junes will prove himself to
be.”
Now York Post Office.
There has been much contention, for months
past, us to the location to be selected tor the new
post olDco in New York. The Bay /Souk, of Sat
urday afternoon last, says:
We are informed, on good authority, that the
Post Office site li»s been selected. It is Appleton’s
building, m llroudway. So this long contested
-i(fair IS settled at lust.'
iw There were‘sijtty-mglit deaths by yellow
fever at New OrlmH** on the 3d inst.
Late intelligence from HrownsriUe in Tex
as, and Matamoras in Mexico, repot is 'hat the yel
low fever was raging at both of those ; laces.
J-*f“ We have received the first number of the
tri-weekly Marietta Advocate. It is neatly priuted,
and we hope will be liberally patronised.
JIT* Rev. Hknrt Ma.niixvillk, Rector of the
First Presbyterian Church, in Mobile, died iu that
city early on Saturday morning last.
2 e[‘ The Neivnun Banner learns that the lion.
Hihih Uccuakan has resigned his seat as Senator
from Coweta county, and that fits friends intend to
run hiut for Judge of the Tallapoosa circuit.
25ET The Southern ( Miliedg vile) K,order, of
Sth inst., says: "A geutlcni a > died recently in
Mississippi, we understand, wa- left by will fifteen
thousand dolluis to Oglothorp' Unm rsfiy.”
Josiu'a R. Gipiukgs is urged by sever
al Republican papers in Ohio, as a candidate
lor the Republican Gubernatorial nomination.
Gov. Ciiass, at the end of his term, will seek to
be returnad to the Senate.
«r Itecvut intelligence from llavuuu states
that u number of tbe secret agents of Santa
Anxa had arrived there, m rout* for Vera Crni.
They had interviews with several Cuban officials,
and were well supplied with English gold.
tW~ Among the latest items of intelligence
from Mexico, it is announced that the Liberalism
were forming an army at Vera Crux—that Vi
ral'kt was near Potosi, on the 13th of September,
and that Mikauax declines fighting.
Among those admitted upon examination
as acting midshipmen at the uaral academy at
Anuapolia, Maryland, we observe tho names of
JauksA. MsKiwaTBRU and William Hkskv Har
rison, of this State.
iThe editor of the Charleston Jfereury has
been attacked with the yellow fever, and in the
issue of that paper on the sth inst., it is stated
that, although the editor is considered out of dan
ger, he will not be able to resume his duties for
some time to come.
t«r We invite the attention of our readers to
the card of J. I*. C. Whitehead, Esq., which ap
pears in our columns this uioruing. Mr. White
ns vn, after a very creditable examination at tbe
last term of tbe Superior Court of Columbia comi
ty, was admitted to the bar, and has opened an
office in this city for the practice of his profession.
O ant CATION. —The m>w Catholic church—St.
Mary's—in Norfolk, Va., was dedicated on Sunday
last, liishop Mcti ill, of Richuoud, and Kev.
Messrs. O'Kkefk aud Pn’NXSTT, officiated. There
wen- fifteen hundred persons present, itishop
Ltkcb, of Charleston. S. C., preached a sermon on
the occasion.
A drove of one hundred ams thirty-six stock
mile, from Tennessee, were purchased at Culpep
per C. U., Virginia, on the id inst.. by some of
the farmers, at two dollars aud Sfty cents per hun
dred, gross.
I ■
An editor out West, who served four days on a
jury, says that he is so full of law that it is bard
i 'lor hint to keep from cheating somebody.
Election in Glasscock Comity.
Attlie election on Monday last, in Glasscock
counjy, for members to the legislature, Jeremiah
Wilchbr, Hr., was elected to tbe Senate, and Cal
vin Loche to the Representative branch. They
are both Democrats.
Meetings in Coweta County.
On the sth inst., at a public meeting in Coweta
couuty, the following preamble and resolutions
were adopted:
The Supreme Court of Georgia, for
the Correction of Errors, both in its original and
present organization, has signally failed to answer
the purposes for which it was created, and that it
lias been the nrotitic source of protracted litiga
tion, and has failed to make uniform the operation
of law in the diß'erent Courts of Georgia. There
fore—
/i'Wiw/, That it is the opinion of ibis meeting,
the said Court ought to be abolished.
Resolved, That our Senator and Representatives
be, and they are hereby instructed, to, vote for and
use their influence in favor of a law abolishing
said court.
Resolved, Thai a committee be appointed to
draw up a memorial for each district in this coun
ty, to he presented to the citizens of the same for
their signature, calling on the legislature of Geor
gia to repeal the law creating said Court.
At a previous meeting, held on the Bth Septem
ber, tiie above resolutions were offered, and in
duced considerable discussion; but the final ac
tion on them was adjourned over until tbe sth in
stant, when they were unanimously adopted.
Elections in Florida.
The Jacksonville correspondent of the Savan
nah Republican says the election i i Duval county,
on the 4th instant, was one of the most closely
contested elections experienced for years. The
result is the certain election to tbe legislature of
Maj. F. C. llakkktt, American, and the probable
election of Dr. A. S. Baldwin, and Jno. G. Smith,
of the same party.
John Wkstcott, the Independent candidate for
Congress, has a majority of about fifty in the
county.
The Tallahassee Sentinel gives the following re
sult for Tadahass*e : Hawkins, two hundred and
seventeen; Wr-tcott, forty-seven; Walkkr, one
hundred and eighty-five ; Brevard, two hundred
and fifty-two; Williams, two hundred and lifteen;
Galbraith, two liftutiicd and two; CnitrsTiß, one
hundred and ninety-two; Maxwkll, ninety-two;
with a few scattering voles for Chaises, Blake,
and others.
To Prevent Ti iikm s Straying from Home.—lt
is stated ill conversation that turkeys will uot
leave the yard in which they are put, if a strip of
red flannel is tied mound the wing, long enough
to trail on the ground. The receipt is simple and
easily tried, and, if effective, would prove of great
benefit in removing a source of much loss and an
noyance to the lui kev breeder. The vanity of the
low! is probably ulll.- ted by tins means, as lie
wouldn't wish to rnu the risk of seeing strangers
with such a drag upon his dignity.
Viuntri/ Gentleman.
The “Country Ginl/tman " is good authority
for most matters connected with the farm, but if
its recommendation about tying red flannel strips
to the wings of turkeys is adopted, it may possi
bly keep the fowls at borne, but we should regard
the plan as one calculated to domesticate poor
turkeys. When turkey* indulge in visits to the
neighboring fields, they go in search of food, and
not for the purpose of showing their feathers, and
will hardly In' deterred in their efforts in that way
by a line of red tape, or llanuel, tied to their wing,
uulcss a weight is attached to the suspending end
of it. _
er There were sixty deaths by yellow fever in
New Orleans, on the fttli inst.
The New York Timet states that the Hon.
Wit. Presto*, of Kentucky, has been appointed
Minister to Spain.
sis" The Vickabnrg True Southron of the Ist
inst., tays the yellow fever is steadily on the in
crease in that city.
OrifKn Empire State of the 7th inst., #
states that Francis I). Bailey, Esq., of the county
of Terrell, has beeu appointed by His Excellency,
the Governor, Solicitor General in and for the
I’ataula circuit, vice 1). 11. llarrkll, resigned.
iar Charles J. Harms, E. C. Morgan, Samvel
B. Spencer, V. E. McLendon, and the present iu
cumbent, E. T. Sheet .\ll, are candidates for the
office of Solicitor General of the Southern Circuit,
at the ensuing election in January uext.
InjT Lord and Lady Napier left New York on
the sth inst., for Auburn, where they will make a
short stay with Senator Skwa ho, and then proceed
in couipauy with him to Niagara Falls.
The Georgia Platform says that Col. L. .1
Gartrsll will deliver the eulogy of Gen. Nelson,
in Calhoun, on the 2nd of November next, at the
laying of the corner stone of the monument to be
erected to his memory in the Court house square.
We take the following statement from the
New Orleans True Pelta, of the 3rd iust:
The Epid*mic.~-T[\e following table shows the
weekly mortality since the date the epidemic hud
its origin :
Vv!. fever. Other dis. Total.
Week ending June V? .... 2 128 m
- " July 4 3 I*4 142
« “ July 11 9 UW 148
“ •• July IS fin 117 187
- “ July *25 25 162 IST
“ *• Au*S. 1 70 120 HO
“ “ A UR. 8 Mu 166 80S
•• “ Au*.l6 286 171 457
" “ Aug. M 818 165 48*
•• ** Au *.29 401 184 ftS6
** •* Sept. 6 449 197 646
" “ Sept. 12 472 164 6*6
" ** Sept. 19 474 16S 642
u “ Sept. -6 444 175 619
Total 5,119 2J90 s^*o9
The following are the returns obtained thus far
for the week, daily, of the deaths by yellow fever :
M hours, ending lfi o’clock Monday, 5ept.27...., 6S
24 “ Ti« sdav. Sept. 28 60
24 " ** ** ** WctiuesnUv, Svpt. 29 53
24 ** ** ** Thursday, Sept. 80 46
fit ** '* ** *• FrkUr, aVM 58
255
To eud of week -cstiaiated 85
Total—erttmateit 370
(Sold ih CALiroBXU.—The Moses Taylor, at New
York, brings the news that Mr. Henri Mails
Chief Clerk in the San Francisco (Cal.) Recorder's
office, held a ticket which drew one hundred thou
sand dollars iu the Roval Havana Lottery. The
ticket was number three thousand two hundred
and twenty-eight. Mr. Mails, only a day or two
before the arrival of the news disposed of tive
eighihs of his interest in the ticket, and therefore
he himself holds only three-eighths, or equal to
thirty-seven thousand Bve hundred dollars. The
holders of the remaining tlve-eighths are all poor
people and laborers either German or French.
A writer in the Geunessee larm, /' says that he
has tried the cultivation of wheat in hills like
corn, having the hills two feet apart each wav,
and two or three plants to the hill; ae.d he re!
ports obtaining from a small plat of ground “a
crop si' large as to be equal to two hundred
bushels to the acre.” The soil is kept stirred and
cultivated during the growth of the crop.
Th\>a.m.iv inr. Day,—The Governor of New
Hampshire has appointed Thursday, November
251 h. as a day of Thanksgivt ng.
A Tall (..uiwxky.—A chimney two hundred and
thirty-live feet in height is in proeess of construc
tion at the navy rant. Charlestown. It is of brick,
shout twenty-four feet square at the base and
eleven at the top.
Cincinnati, OoL 7.—D. P. Sidles, liquor dealer,
the Miami oil works, and Lav A Bro s. Printers
ink manufactory have been nearly destroved by
fire
Correspm de nee of the Constitutionalist.
Crop-—Supreme Court—Politics.
Greenville, Ga., Oct. 5,1 inti.
Mr. Editor: Having seen nothing about the
state of the crops, weather, Ac., of Meriwether
county, and thinking that it would be agreeable to
the citizens of this and the adjoining counties,
you must pardon me for this communication. The
wheat crop has been, in most pans of the county,
above the average. The corn is being gathered
and stored away. Tbe cotton is also being picked,
and l believe serious fears are entertained that
the rust has materially damaged it. Chinese r*u
gar cane has been extensively cultivated iu every
portion of the county; but the syrup, from what
I learn, is not liked much by eoiier whites or
blacks. Many complain also that it will not re
tain its original sweetness, but soon spoil. No
good reasons can be assigned for ibis. The potato
crop will be unusually heavy in some parts of the
county. The most of the substantial men of the
coußty are, I am rejoiced to state, anti-BusNiNG, and
pro-DocoLAS men. lam glad to see that you ad
vocate Judge Douglas* re-election to the Senate,
and will only state that your correspondent would
be rejoiced at it.
Correspondence of the Constitutional let.
IiUNDRIDOE, Ga., Oct. 5, 1858.
Mr. Editor: The crops of cotton are not flatter
ing. lam satisfied I have as good as there is iu
South-western Georgia, and I assure you that it
will not turn out as well as many suppose. * *
Nicaragua and the United States.
A letter, suid to have beeu written by Secretary
Cass to our Minister in Nicaragua, with instruc
tions to read it to the Nicurugtiau government, is
published by some of our exchanges. After re
viewing the past ditterences between the two gov
ernments, and admonishing Nicaragua, that its
feebleness was the reason of the extraordinary for
bearance, exhibited towards her by the United
States, the letter proceeds as follows:
“ But the establishment of a political protector
ate by any of the powers of Europe over any of
the independent States of this continent, or, in
other words, the introduction of a scheme ofpolicy
which would carry with it the right to interfere in
their concerns, is a measure to which the United
States have long since uvAived their opposition,
aud which, should the attempt he made, they will
resist with all the means iu their power. * * *
While the just righls of sovereignty of the States
occupying this region should always be respected,
we shall expect that these rights will be exercised
in a spirit befiting the occasion and the wants and
circumstance* that have arisen. Sovereignty has
its duties as well as its rights, aud none of "these
local governments, even ll adniinistercd with more
regard to the just demands of other nations than
they have been, would be permited in a spirits of
Eastern isolation to close these gates of intercourse
on the great highways ofthe world, and justify the
act by the pretensinu that these avenues of trade
and travel belong to them, and that they choose to
shut them, or, wbut is almost equivalent, to cu
cumber them with such unjust regulations as
would prevent their general use.”
President Dwight aud Southern Slavery.
We take the following extract from a communi
cation iu the Journal of Commerce, ofthe 4th inst.:
Among themimcrous works of President Dwight,
there is one of which copies are now rare, and
which was published unanimously, it is justly
attributed to Dr. Dwight, in Dr. Sprague’s Annals,
volume the secoud, page one hundred and fifty
eight. The title is as follows: ‘•Remarks on the
Review of luchiquin’s Letters, published in the
Quarterly Review ; addressed to the Right Honor
able George Canning, Esq., by an inhabitant of
New England. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong,
1815:" Bvo,. pp. 178. Like the work of Mr.
Walsh, which it preceded by a few years, it takes
up the defence ot America against lirittsli travel
ers and reviewers. Home idea mav be formed of
its keen and spirited character from the following
passage from the preface, wlygh was published
long before the arrival of Trollope. Dickens, or
Stanley: ‘‘lt is time,” says Dr. Dwight, “that the
people of this country should begin to estimate
the foreigners who visit it more justly. Nine out
of ten, so for ns their observations are published,
ure mere common slanderers; aud appear to cross
the ocean for little else than to belie us as goon as
they leave onr shores. If they dislike our coun
try and its inhabitants, let tlietn stay at home.
We shall not molest them. Her* they claim and
receive an attention due only to persons of worth,
and then repay our civilities with contempt and
abuse. It is sufficiently painful to be ill-treated
by men of respectability; but to be subjected to
the heels and braying of such creatures as Jansou,
Aslie, and Parkinsoc, and that in a sense volun
tarily, is to he humbled indeed.”
In nie course of this vindication, the subject of
slavery of course comes in lorn share. Id that
day of simple hearteda::d|republicau brotherhood,
if one member suffered, nil the other members
suffered with it; aud if ouo portion of the Com
monwealth was maligned, the other made common
eause and hastened to the rescue. The noble
hearted men of the New England States, remem
bering the agency of their own commercial ma
rine, aud the great gains of their capitalists at
Newport, Bristol and olher ports, in augmenting
the servile population, felt that it was not their
part to fling obloquy and abuse upon tbe southern
proprietor. The word- of Dwight deserve to be in
scribed on a banner aud exhibited at the next Kan
sas meeting in or near Vale College; they breathe
the generous justice of the great moralist and di
vine : “The southern planter, who receives slaves
from his parents by inheritance, certainly deserves
no censure for holding them. If he treats them
with humanity, and faithfully endeavors to Chris
tianise them, he fulfills his duly, so long as his
present situation continues.”—Pageßl, note.
T ie main discussion Vs the topic i.-. worthy of
being rescued from oblivion. “Voor next re
marks,” says he to the Reviewer, “are on the
slavery of the blacks in the southern stales; a
subject which you have touched upon before, aud
m the meution of which you must be confessed
to be unhappy. Ido not mean in ceusuring the
African slave trade, or the manner in which the
slaves are treated. To these subjects I make you
heartily welcome. They are the proper themes of
every moralist; and no severity wilh which they
are treated, will draw from me’ a single animad
version. It is the attribution of these iniquities to
the Americans, wi b an intention to make them a
characteristical disgrace peculiar to them, of
which I complain. Surely, when you wrote
this passage, you forgot how lately vou have
begun to wash yourselves clean from‘this smoke
of tbe bottomless pit. Please, sir, to take a
short trip to Liverpool, and survey the hulks,
which, probably in great numbers, are even now
rottiug|m tbs docks of that emporium of African
commerce. Then look around upon the numerous
splendid buildings, public and private. Next ex
claim, “ These ships were the prisons, in whicb
hundredsof thousands of miserable Africans, after
having been kidnapped by avarice and cruelty,
and taken captive in wars kindled by the same
insutiuble spirit, aud torn forever from their pa
rents, husbauds. wives und children, were trans
jiorted across the Atlantic, to bondage and misery
interminable but by death. In these floating dun
geons, one-fourth, oue-tbird, or one-half of the
unhappy victims to this ii.ferual avarice perished
under the pressure of chains, or rotted in the pes
tilential steams, embosoming as a vapor bath tbe
niches iu which they were manacled. This work
of death has been carried on near a century and a
half. What must have been the waste of mankind
whicb is thus accomplished * These houses, these
public edifices, nay, these temples devoted to the
woiship of the eternal God, with all their splen
dor, wore built of human bones, and cemented
with human blood. Rise, Sodom and Gomorrah,
and whileu bv the side of men baptised tn the
name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the
Holy Ghost!”
A man who had been West, and been c hased bv
an Indian, makes the following matter of fact ob
servations:
‘"Much has been said by poets and romantic
young ladies about the picturesque aspects and the
noble form of an untamed, untamable warrior ofthe
prairie, and far be it from me to gainsay them. An
Indian is a noble spectacle—in a picture, or at a
safe distance—but when this noble spectacle is
moving his moccasins in your direction, and vou
have to do some tall walking in order to keep "the
r* t P'U*ry substance on tbe summit of your crauimn.
ail his 'nobility vanishes, and you see in him only
a panned, greasy miscreant. Who will, if TO u give
him a chance, lift vour hair with the same Christian
spirit composed and most serene, with which he
would ask another ‘spectacle’ for a little more of
that baked dog.’ 1 used u> think like the poets;
now the sight of an Indian gives me a cramp in the
stomach. r
(COMMCNICATED.) ’
Education— A Vi)l versit y,
Mr. Editor: And what are the facilities so need
ed for an advanced edncaticn ? They arc the same
in kind which I haTe said were needed for com
mon school education. They are competent
teachers in every branch of human knowledge.
If a young man wishes to h- come a physician ; if
he wishes to become a lawyer; if a scientific ag
riculturist; if an author; if an engineer; if any
character which may help him to exalt his name
and he useful; there should be a teacher to whom
he can repair and receive ail the aids which wis
dom can lurnish for the prosecution of his purpose.
There is hut one word to express this want, and
that is i vtreUy. For what is a University hut
a place where ure congregated learned teachers,
who deliver to young men from time to time the
learning which themselves have gathered from
study, from observation, and from experience.
Wherever there is a wise man, there is one chief
constituent of a University. And whatever State
seeks such men in every department of human
inquiry, and renders them accessible to its youth,
confers upon the latter the next highest blessing
to that of liberty.
I have said before that a State ought not to call
itself independent which could not, within itself
furnish all the means necessary for the full devel
opment of the whole being, mental, and physical,
and spiritual of its people. And not with more,
hut with less propriety, ought a State so to call it
self which, while it has the ability, has not the
willingness to furnish the means. Is Georgia an
independent Slate? In the very greatest privi
lege of humanity, the privilegeof enlightening its
mind in its conceptions of what God and man have
done and can do for enhancing the good of the one
and the glory of the other, she is as dependent
upon foreign countries as she is in the matter of
those articles of commerce which her soil and
climate are naturally incapable to produce. And
such dependence is the more deplorable, because
it is unnecessary and voluntary. In a majority of
the most important spheres of human enterprise,
southern endeavor is as eilectually discouraged as
if it were forbidden by the laws. Nay, may not
that he said to he forbidden which irie only power
that can bring it withui ourt reach, persists in ve
lusing to do so? The a law yet unre
pealed, which punishes itsHkith who go abroad
to receive the instruction ffbieL they cannot obtain
at home. Is not this a pradfcibml illustration of the
fable of the old dog in th»/iuMger! r
It is impossible to doifft tfct it is this great
want of Universities which has'thus far exclud-d
the South from a participation in the glory of those
splendid discoveries and inventions in science,
and those sublime creations in literuture, which
are ennobling and enriching mankind. These
Tliscoveries. and inventions, and creations, are
produced only in those countries where Universi
ties have been established, aud, even as it were,
under the encouragement and supervision of those
benign institutions. They are the Universities'
which are the repositories of that wisdom which
has led mankind out of the darkness of the middle
ages, and lias opened that vast field of inquiry in
which modern genius has made so many splendid
careers. Narrow minded men may decry science
as they will, but science—l mean that general
term which is used for knowledge—is the power
which lias raised the civilised world out of barbar
ism ; and the higher will be the sources from
which that knowledge is derived, the greater
heights is civilization destined to attain.
When we remember what is the only object of
the institution of Colleges, it is easily understood i
what a triend to the College system the University !
must become. ' Such an institution being estab
lished for the purpose of imparting positive knowl- j
edge to young inen whose minds have been ren
dered by tlie College discipline ready to receive
such impartation, it would naturally seek to in
crease the facilities by which that discipline should
he afforded; and so to increase the member of
those who should pass through this preliminary
process. None are, therefore, more interested in
us establishment than the Colleges themselves ;
for it will be the great primum mobile which will
keep them in healthy and vigorous motion. As it
is now, there being no superior penod above them,
each strives—and a general strife it is—to come
the nearest to the supply ing of those higher and
ever increasing educational wants, which, it has
been shown, they arc incapable, and were never
designed to supply; and thus each, in this gener
ous but mistaken rivalry, is destined to inevitable
failure in this purpose, and will, at the same 'ttfce,
less effectually accomplish the only end of its in
stitution—thus lessening, instead of increasing,
the distance between itself and those high school
which individual enterprise is occasionally erect
inf
If the thongliis which have been suggested in
these articles are correct, hotv simple appear to be
the wants of education in Georgia I They ure
teachers; teacheis for the children of the poor;
teachers for the adult youth, poor and rich—
especially the former; for they cannoi, like the
latter can. go away to foreign countries—teachers
to supply to every young man of genius and ambi
tion, the learning which he may need to enable
him to pursue with success that destiny to which
God may have called him. The better the teacher
the better being the student, how benign would
be the influence which the superior period, the
University, would exert upon all the inferior pe
riods. For from it would go forth all the teachers
of the schools, whose whole economy it would su
pervise and direct, thus fulfilling the only true
theory of education, which requires that it should
begiu from the highest period. [ need not sav
that under this humane system, the occupation of
those unlettered schoolmasters who, in many of
the country districts, play such fantastic tricks
with education, would be “gone;” but not for
all. They would themselves first be educated by
the University, and afterwards returned to their
schools; where, with unclouded mimisand open
ed eves, they would understand and see how to
lead childhood along the blessed, but dillieult,
ways of instruction. •
And shail Georgia longer delay to supply this
great want? Shall she, the geuius of whose sons,
wherever it has had a field, fias made her so re
nowned, longer delay to open those wider fields
which lie so inviting to Georgian enterprise? If
Germany can establish and support twenty-six
Universities, to wlnch'thousands of youth are wont
to repair, cannot she establish and support one ?
Whoever will seriously consider this great sub
ject, must inevitably conclude that the State owes
this duty to her people, as solemnly as she owes
the duty of protecting them in the enjoyment of
liberty ; for what is liberty worth to a people who
cannot realise what is its'greatest value, the op
portunities it can afford for the pursuit of every
end of man ?—creation !
I close these articles with the expression of the
hope and the belief that the policy I have advoca
ted, or a similar one, will soon be adopted. When
ever it shall be, how beautiful and sure will be the
advance of a yet higher civilization ; how pure
and plentiful will he the streams of learning, be
cause they will be fed from a pure and exhaustless
fountain ! Whenever it shall be, we shall have
yet more abundant reasons to thank God that he
has made Georgia our native country.
JOHN tVcOLBRIGBT.
Daniel and Noah Webstkr United. —At a meet
ing of the friends and believers in spiritualism,
held in Northampton, Massachusetts, not long
since, among the “ relics ” of the departed, the
spirit of Daniel Webster rapped itself into notice.
The great statesman, through the medium—a gray
headed believer—acknowledged that be had been
a great man and that he had committed many er
rors in the flesh. He had made many mistakes in
his social life, in his diplomatic career, in his po
litical course, and there were some, be was soitv
to say, in his dictionary.
A 1 oritG Ladt’s Description of a Storm at Sea.
The son went down lifke a ball of doll fire, in the
midst of smearing clouds of red currant jam. The
wind began to whistle worse than mv of the low
est orders of society in a shilling gallery. Every
wave was suddenly as big and high as Primrose
Hill. The cords of the ship snapped like bad stay
laces. No best Genoa velret was ever blacker than
the firmament, and not even the voices of the la
dies calling for the stewardess were heard above
the orchestral crashing of the elements.
Jerrold.
Thk Oregon Senators. —Hon. Delazon Smith,
one of the United States Senators from Oregon,
was to have left that Territory on the 20th nit. for
Washington. Oregon.it will be recollected, has
not yet been admitted into the Union.
Fast. —The ladies of lowa are decidedly “fast.”
On the 18th ult., a race between ladies,'on foot,
came off at lowa city, for the priie of a silver
cake basket. The prize was won by a Miss Handy.
WRITTEN VUE THE CONWnvrnONALIST.
• To .
That ristn small voice” which soothevse well. 1
Which flrs in the darkness of eadeeas we hear.
Which cornea. like the love light of dawn, to aispel A
The last murmur of grief, the last trace of a tear.
That stilt small voice—'tie the wiisper of love!
Oh. hear it sad heart, and be still;
For know it Is sent thee, in trust, from above.
To teach thee that “such is His will.”
It ateth. it Is well for the sufferer’s weal. - .
That friendship so sweet, should be **nc*ar
To unveil in the darknese of night, and reveal
Hope brightest when dimmed by a tear.
It saitit. and so kindly, that “serrew shall cease,"
And Hope shall yet blossom once more:
In the soul of the mourner, when faith shall release.
From the grief which enthralled it before.
Then fear not—then err goes with the might,"
And “joy will yet conte with the mom
Will come, and to blew, ti ee, in beauty more bright,
When clouds which obscured it are gone.
Then let not thy heart, over-burdened with pain,
When fond hopes are blasted to blossom no more—
Oh, let it, not fearing and erring complain.
Since love ail its losses will surely restore.
But bow thee in silence, and secretly pray—
" Let not the sun set on my sorrow,”
Since clouds can but cover the same sun to-day.
Which shines on my pathway to morrow.
The love that is “near to the broken in heart."
'Tis purest, and truest, and will not forsake:
0! grant me that love, and let it Impart
A faith in such blessings as death cannot take. * -
The Payment of Debts
Among the compensating blessings nfjuwd
times, is that it compels tnen who otherwise
would never slop, to cease running in debt. The
recklessness with which the mass of men in this
country plunge into debt, is unequalled by ths de
plorable laxity of morals which exists in the com
munity regarding the obligations imposed by it.
Os all the miner evils which curse society, there is
none more productive of mischief than the pro
crastination and inveterate reluctance to pay o£
those who design to be moderately just— tyimist '
only when it advances their selfish' aims.*' Thou-;
sands ot men who roll in luxury and deny the®?
selves hardly a pleasure which money can bny, n*
sort to the meanest and most pitlul shift to evade
tlie discharge of their petty debts; and only, pay
at tlie last extremity, when their property is about
to be wrested by tlie strong grasp of the law, and
pretext can no longer avail.
Hundreds of others, who acknowledge that a
debt is a moral lien on all their goods and estate
yet concealing their knavery under cover of shal
low sophistry touching the duty which every man
owes to iiis family, place their property beyond
their creditors’reach, aud practically assert that
a debt is an obligation to pay when it is most
venient, oris absolutely inevitable.
But he who pleads tlie wants of his family as
an excuse for withholding the payment
honest dues, is just as truly and irretrievably a
knave as he who forcibly seizes possession of urj
eligible house, and lives rent free for years.
No matter how great sacrifices may be required
by a compliance with the letter of his obligations;
not only would nine-tenths of the losses that now
occur from commercial revulsions, bankruptcy
and extravagance, be avoided if every man woulii
make it a part of his acknowledged code of honct;
to pay every debt at the precise time agreed, but
he would be doubly rewarded in the increased
consideration, respect and credit to which siltitT”
'Conscientiousness and integrity would entitle him.
The poorest punctual man whose word may be re
lied on, is with justice held in better credit tbama
long-winded, procrastinating Croesus. In fact, a
vouug man who enters into business with a de-'
termination, trom which he never swerves, to dis
charge every liability at the exact day and hole',
will, m ninety-nine eases out ot a hundred, have”
acquired an independence at thirty, even if he has
amassed nothing but a reputation for promptness
and integrity. —Chicago Commercial Express.
A Bachelor Worthily Employer.—We per
ceive that Peterson Thweatt, Esq., the present
Comptroller, is engaged upon a new plan for edqw
eating the children of our State. This is all right,
and we have no doubt something valuable will
come of his labors. Our friend. Peterson lias al-.
wavs evinced an incorrigible aversion to
children of his own to care for, and it is but righti
and patriotic that he should apply hiqjself to thef
ph'lanthromc task of looking after the welfare of
other people’s. The mothers of the State
vote him a blessing, in spite of his shortcoimnJSW"
towards the daughters!— Sav. Rep., Sept. 8.
Official Report of Interments.
Savannah, Oet. 7, 1858. I
7 o’clock, P. M. j
The following is a list of interments in the cifyv’
cemeteries for the last twenty-four hours :
Lautel Groce Cemetery. —Adelheit Hirsh, three
yearsstwo months, spasms, Savannah ; "Patrick
Redmond, fifty-live years, chronic iuflamation of
the stomach, Ireland.
Cilhedral Cemetery. —Annie Walsh, twenty-six
years, yellow fever, Ireland.
•Died at the Tcor House suit Hospital.
W. T. Thompson, Ch’n B. H.
Savannah Mews, Oct. 8.
New L ork, Oct. s.—The name of the girl
from the steamer Austria by the Norwegian ship
is Sophy Fourer.
Washington, Oct. 6.—Postmaster General Brown
starts to-morrow on a visit to Tennessee for a few
(lavs.
JAMES A. JONES, ~
(y* p the LATE FIRM OF BARNES A JONES,) "
W SLE vvnittiiue the WAREHOUSE and COMMISSION
JT BUSINESS. Office and Stiles Room on the comer of
Mclntosh and Reyaolds street, Augusta, Georgia, (formerly
occunfc-t by Slmp.son A Gardner). I would gratefully return
my t hanks to :ny numerous friends who so liUeraM y patron
-ed me rA iay old stand, and would most respectfully
a continuance of‘i>e same at the new, hoping, by giving my
strict persona! at edition to busioes?. to promote the interest of
u:i those who may favor me with their patronage.
A'i rtrd'v- f- ' Bagging. Rope, and Farafly Supplies prompt-
LiLt.ai h made on Produce in store.
*■«■-£* JJ, 14. IBS. J vfr S A ' T'
JOHN DAVISON,
(SUCUES.SOR TO HEARD A DAVISON,)
WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION MERCHANT.
Mclutof’a brrot'f, Augusta.(ie-oruia,
HAVING purchased the entire interest of Isaac T. Heard
in the late firm or Heard * Davison, the undersigned
AND COMMIT
bION BUMALbS onbiaown account, at the old srand
Mclntosi: street His strict personal attention will be given to
all business e or.ti led to him.
The usual liberal cash facilities will be extended, and orders
for supplies promptly and careiully esecut* d.
Iy7 tfawAfdm JOHN DAVISON
M. P. STOVALL,
Warehouse and Commission
Merchant,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
tIO\TI\X K 8 the business, in all its branches, in his large.
t and comnitHiious Fire Proof Warehouse, en Jackson
stfett, near the Glone Hotel.
Orders lor Goods, fcc.. promptly and carefully filled.
The usual Cash facilities afforded customers.
Augusta, Georgia, August 24,1858.
auBB c4m
J. J. PEARCE,
Warehouse and Commission
Merchant,
IAUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
THE undersigned, thankful for the libeial patronage at
tended to him for a series of years, would inform bis
friends and the public that he will continue at his came well
known Brick WAREHOUSE. on Camprell street, n-ar
Bones, Brown A Co.’s Hardware House, where, by strict per
sonal attention to all business enti usted to his care, he hope®
he will receive a share of the public patronage.
Cash Advances, Bagging, Rope, aud Family Supplies, will
be forwarded to customers as heretofore, when desired.
J. J. PEARCE.
Augusta, Georgia, Jul v 20,1858. c6m jv27
P. & J. L. FLEMING,
WAREHOUSE A COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Til WRFI'L for the liberal support of Planter? in this
and the adjoining States, South Carolina and Alabama,
would inform them and the public that they will continue the
above business in all It* branches, and that theyhave Lakes
that convenient and commodious Fire-Proof WAREHOUSE,
occupied, for several years, by Messrs. Whitlock, Coekery A
Co., on Campbell street, opposite that of L. Hopkins, where
they hope, by strict attention to business they will share the
confidence and patronage of their friends, as heretofore. Our
charges will be the same as heretofore :
Commissions. 25 cents per bale.
Storage first month 25 “ *• “
All succeeding month* 12)$ ** M **
Liberal advances will be made on all produce consigned to
them, and orders filled at the lowest market prices.
P. FLEMING.
J. L. FLEMING.
Augusta, July 1,1558. cly jy2
WOODSTOCK FOR SALE.
THK subscriber offer* for sale his PLANTATION, (the
residence of the late Chas. Cunningham), lying in Jeffer
soa county, five miles above Louisville, oh the W arrenton road
oontaipfrigabout (1400) fourteen hundred acres.
Also, a HOT SE and LOT on that most beautiful and healthr
ommer retreat. Pine Hill. *
| apis ctf L. CARLETON BELT.