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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.