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SATURDAY, APRIL 9.
New Paper.
Dr. Lewis J. Applewhite, of Burke county,
propos -s publishing a newspaper in the town of
Thomsen, Columbia county, Georgia—commenc
ing about the Ist of October next—provided a
sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained.
The paper will be called the Columbia Weekly
Htrabi, and will be similar in general style, and
in size, to the Savannah Weekly Republican. It
will be inde{»endent in politics -, and will be pub
lished at the rate of two dollars per annum, in ad
vance.
Frost.
44 Winter lingering in the lap of spring,” is
niwa truth as well as a peotical quotation; for,
after a sj ell of warm weather, a cold snap set in
on Tuesday, with a sharp wind—winding up with
a touch of Jack Frost on yesterday morning.
Fears are entertained for the safety of fruit and
early vegetables, but we hope no serious damage
was done. Last night the cold had greatly moder
ated, and milder weather may now be anticipated.
The Sickles Trial.
The telegraph has already announced the com
mencement and progress of this trial, in which so
much interest is felt. The most ample arrange
ments, it is said by the Washington States, have
been made for telegraphing the proceedings to
different parts of the country; and we presume
that interesting and important points will be duly
communicated to the public.
The following gentlemen have been retained as
counsel for the prisoner: Messrs. Stanton, of
Pittsburgh; Phillips, of Alabama; Brady and
Graham, of New York; and Chilton, Radclipfe
and Maoritder, of Washington city.
In the prosecution, the District Attorney, Mr.
Opld, will be assisted by Mr. Carlisle, of Wash
ington city.
The Paraguay News.
The Company alluded to in our telegraphic ad
vices announcing the settlement of the Paraguay
difficulties, is the u United States aud Paraguay
Navigation Company,” represented in the latter
country by Mr. Edward A. Hopkins, at one time
United States Consul. Their adventure em
braced all manner of domestic improvements and
industry within the State of Paraguay; and con
sisted mainly of Rhode Island capitalists. The in
dividual killed was one of the crew of the U. S.
steamer Water Witch, which was fired into on the
Ist of February, 18. r >s, when attempting to make
a channel in the Parana river, in front of the
guns of Fort Itapara.
Cotton Destroyed by Fire.
The New Orleans Crescent, of the 2nd inst., in
its reference to the fit o at the Planters’ Cotton
Press, :n the day previous, says: “This disaster
makes the total loss of cotton from tire since Sep
tember lust, twenty-one thousand live hundred
bales. We may have accounts of more fires at
sea, which, with the cotton lost and wrecked, will
exceed fifty thousand bales.”
The fire at the Planters, Cotton Press was the
only desolating one which has occurred in New
Orleans since the burning of the Alabama Cotton
Press, in
Death o! Hopkins llolscy.
The Macon (Geo.) Journal <(* Messenger, of the
oth inst., says: The Hon. 11. Holhey, we regret to
learn, died very suddeuly at his residence, in But
ler, Ga., on Thursday last. He had been in bad
health for some time —supposed to be dropsy, or
disease of the heart. On Thursday night he eat
quite a hearty supper, and retired to his room, and
seated himself, us usual, in au arm chair, resting
his feet in another. Mrs. Holsky, on entering the
room soon after, addressed an inquiry to him, but
received no response. Her companion was dead l
The name of Col. Holsky is familiar to the pub
lic. In 18150, we believe, he was a representative
from this State, under the general ticket system,
and has also tilled other responsible posts. He
was a Democrat of the Jacksonian school. In 1852
he was editor of the Southern Banner, and was an
able leader in tho Union party. lie was a clear
nod forcible writer-decided in his opinions , but
courteous and respectful in their enunciation. As
m fxtliticisn, he teas too honest U\ bo InTgely suc
cessful. His uge was sixty-one. Peace to his
ashes.
The (•eorgm llnplist Convention.
This body assembles ut Columbus, on Friday,
the 22d of April. The introductory sermon will
be preached by Kov. C. P. Mallory— with Rev. S.
L\ximi m as alternate. The educational sermon
will be delivered by Rev. J. E. Ktkrsox, of this
city—with Rev. 11. A. Tuiu’Kß as alternate.
The VUrixtian Index says the following railroads
have consented to convey delegates to and from
the convention for one fare: Muscogee, Atlanta
and West Point, Rome, Georgia, Central, East
ern branch of the Central, Augusta and Savannah,
South-western, and Montgomery and West Poiut.
The delegates will pay full fare going, and return
free by presenting a ticket from the President of
the convention. The following gentlemen have
been appointed a committee to make suitable ar
rangements, in Columbus, for the accommodation
of the delegates : J. 11. Pkvotik, John Woolfolk,
M. J. Wellborn, N. Nuckals, Jambs K. Redd, J.
F. Rozkman, 11.8. Estks, C. E. Mims, J. E. Appleh,
R. W. Deaton, J. M. Russell, J. J. Slade, Jack
Smith, W. C. Gray.
The Southern Haptist Convention will assemble
iu the city of Richmond, Yu., ou Friday, M|y 6th-
Columbia (8* C«) Municipal Election.
At the municipal election held in Columbia S. C.,
on Monday, the 14th inst., the following geutle
meu were elected:
J/ay>r—Allen J. Green.
Aldermen— Ward No. I—R. 1). Senn, J. S.
Guignard, James Jones. Ward No. 2—R. Ander
son, W. 11. CaMOn, Dr. J. H. lloatwright. Ward
No. 3—J. M. Allen, W. S. Wood, W. T. Walter.
Ward No. 4—J. A. Kennedy, J. 11. Wells, J. G.
Forbes.
From New Mexico.
Our Nashville exchanges contain the following
dispatch from St. Louis, dated the 2d inst. :
The Mexicau mail of the 18ih has reached Inde
pendence. The Hazette office at Santa Fe was
burned on the Pith by an incendiary. Almost a
total loss.
The Kiowa Indians have driven the men from
the mail station at Pawnee fork, and are otherwise
troublesome.
The people of Upper Mexico are desirous of an
nexation to Jefferson Territory.
A Leavenworth dispatch savs information is re
ceived from Washington that the government de
signs placing several companies of cavalry along
the route to Denver City to protect emigrants.
A dispatch from New Orleaus states that
‘several bad crevasses have occurred above” that
city, “which threaten great damage. The water
is higher than it was last year.”
of the Planters’ Cotton Press in New
Orleans, with five thousand bales of cotton, were
destroyed by fire on the morning of the Ist inst.
The entire loss is estimated to reach three hun
dred thousand dollars.
Texas Items. —The Gonzales Inquirer mentions
seasonable rains in that vicinity, and says that the
young crops are coming on finely; where good
stands of corn have been obtained, it is over kuee
high. Cotton also is doing well.
Ox Pit. —lt is reported in the news circles of
Washington, that the Hon. Dudley Manx, late
Assistant Secretary of State, is to be principal
editor of tb* "nion under its new proprietorship.
The Next Hoose of Representatives.
As the election of Mr. Bcchanah’s successor
may devolve upon the House of Representatives
of the next Congress, the political complexion of
that body becomes a subject of interest and im
portance.
The House of the last Congress consisted of one
hundred and thirty-one Democrats, ninety Black
Republicans, and fifteen Americans. The Demo
crats consequently had a majority of thirty-nine
over the Republicans, of one hundred and sixteen
over the Americans, and of twenty-six over both
wings of the opposition combined. Such was the
relative strength of parties in the last House.
For the next House, elections have been held in
nineteen States, and they have resulted m the re
turn of one hundred and ten Republicans, forty
five Democrats, and two Americans—Messrs.
Woodson and Anderson, of Missouri.
There are eighty members yet to be elected,
from Alabama, California, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, North
Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas,
and Virginia. The election will take place in
Rhode Island to-day—but others of these States
do not choose their representatives until No
vember.
These fourteen States in which elections are yet
to be held, were represented in the last House by
sixty-five Democrats, thirteen Americans, and two
Republicans, and if there is no change in the po
litical complexion of their delegations in the next
House, that body will consist of one hundred and
twelve Republicans, one hundred and ten Demo
crats, and fifteen Americans.
It is probable that the Democratic party, in the
thirteen districts represented in the last House by
Americans, in which elections are yet to be held,
will gain four or five members; but it is hardly
possible that it can gain a sufficient number to
give it a party majority in the next House. The
American members of the next House, however,
will, all of them, represent southern constituencies,
and as a party, will act with the Democracy upon
all questions, as that of the election of a President,
in which the rights and interests of the South are
involved, and give them a majority over the Black
Republicans.
John Mitchell and Mr. Stephens.
In the Southern Citizen, of the 2nd instant, Mr.
Mitchell, in a letter addressed to John Martin,
Esq., of Rosstrevor, Ireland, refers to our late Rep
resentative, Mr. Stephens, as, despite his own
wishes, a prominent candidate for the Presidency.
We subjoin an extract from the letter, premising
that those who know Mr. Stephens better than Mr.
Mitchell, do not believe thathe retired from public
life because he had despaired of the Republic, or
that he would be killed off as easily as the editor
of the Citizen apprehends that he would be, if
elected to the highest office in the gift of the peo
ple. Mr. Stephens has as much vitality and can
perform as much intellectual labor as uny man in
the Union ; and there would he small chance fora
Vice President to occupy his place, if he ever was
elected President of the United States:
In my capacity of “committee of the whole on
the State of the Union,” I have hitherto paraded
before you our more prominent Presidential can
didates; and now having arrived at Alexander H.
Stephens, (whose name is put forward by “friends,”
though not at all according to his own wish,) I
have been led into the foregoing somewhat ram
bling reflections suggested by his character and
positiou. Let me try, first, to bring the man visi
bly before you.
At Crawfordville, a village on one of the piny
ridges of Georgia, in an unpretending and some
what desolate-looking house (desolate-looking it
may well be, for no fair and kindly house-mother
ever made it shine and smile) dwells one of the
choicest and rarest spirits of our hemisphere.
Youthful and almost boyish-looking, yet stricken
by mortal malady—one who has made a “coven
ant with death,” yet whose veins are full of the
most genial life; with the cold hand clutching at
his vitals, yet with a laugh clear and ringing as the
marriage hell; his thin face is of deathly hue, yet
the dark eyes are blazing lamps. If you are his
friend, he is gentle and affectionate ns a girl—if
his enemy, he will have greut pleasure iu standing
opposite to you. at any distance that may be ar
ranged—in which case you had better look sharp,
for he is cool us an oyster—a student and true
philosopher, a laborious and conscientious legis
lator, a powerful lawyer, and « zealous cultirxutr {
of grapes (Catawba and Hon pperuong) for lie lias /
/ faith in the virtues of wine—a generous friend f
and patron of humble merit—for winch the many
prayers and blessings arise every evening on his
behalf-a noble imaginative orator —yet not of the
Cbu. Phillips school of “ Irish oratory ” by any
means, his taste being too highly educated for tluit
species of rigmarole—such is Alexander 11. Ste
phens. He is named amongst Presidential candi
dates; and, theiefore, I include him in my list;
but indeed I do not believe lie dreuuis that tie can
possibly be President, or imagines that lie could
perform and endure the mere official duties —to sav
nothing of the tremendous moral responsibilities.
The first evening’s shaking of hands at a Presi
dential reception would suddenly put him to death,
and bring in the Vice President. Hut he is named
as a representative southern man, likelv to be avail
able as a candidate, bv reason of the universal re
spect entertained for him both North and South ;
and, therefore, I put him on my list.
And now 1 am going to show you the applica
tion of those pretatorv reflections with which 1
opened this loiter. Mr. Stephens is a southern
man ; well satisfied with the soundness and jus
tice of southern institutions—to-wit, slavery ; thor
oughly convinced of the wicked and rapacious do- .
signs of the North, under the guise of philanthro
py ; fully persuaded, as 1 hope, that the South
must recruit her labor-pow'er from Africa, Union
or no Union, piracy or no piracy; painfully per
suaded tluft the decisive moment is near when the
South must either yield to humiliation, or go oat;
yet still he glorifies ( ur Union ; still clings to the
noble tradition; and lest the fast crowding events
should rudely uwuke him from the dream in which
he wishes to die, he shuts his eves, “ retires from
public life,” resigns his seat in Congress, and de
votes himself to the pruning of Scuppernongs.
This will not do. 1 submit that a man who has
heretofore taken so leading a part in southern poli
tics, is bound to see the thing out, and to die iu
his harness.
If he abandon us now, he will never prune his
vines iu peace and contentment. For a week,
adieu, J. M.
•-*rf“The Savannah Morning Xetvs of the sth
inst contains the following. We dou’t know Mr.
Haas:
A man calling himself Bernard Haas, and hail
ing from Augusta, where he says he has resided
for years, was yesterday tried before the Mayor
for an act, the coolness of which has not lately
been equalled in our community. On Sunday
evening last, between the hours of eight and nine
o’clock, as Mrs. Cornwell, wife of Mr. George
Cornwell, was seated in her residence, corner of
Barnard and Liberty streets, quietly engaged in
reading a book, her attention was attracted by a
slight noise. Looking up, she saw standing be
fore her, a strange looking man, armed with a
brick-bat, with which he immediately threatened
to strike her if she cried out. She did cry out,
however, and alarmed the immediate neighbor
hood.
Two negro men, happening to be passing by,
rushed into the house. One of them carried a
large stick, with which he made a blow at the white
man’s head, which, it is said, would have saved
the civil authorities all further trouble in the mat
ter, had it not fallen short of its aim. The fellow
immediately took to his heels and ran up stairs,
followed by the other negro, who succeeded in
capturing him. Philip Russell, Esq., happening
to be in the neighborhood, and hearing the noise,
arrived opportunely, just as the negro came down
with his prisoner. He immediately took charge
of the fellow, and had him conveyed to the bar
racks, where he was confined during the night.
Yesterday morning, he was brought up before
His Honor, Mayor Turner, and gave the account of
himself which we have published at the head of
this article. He was fined ten dollars, in default
of the payment of which he was committed to
jail.
Personal.—Ex-Goveruor Means of Winnsboro’,
Gen. I). F. Jamison of Orangeburgb, Gen. J. Jones,
and Col. 1.1). Wilson of Barnwell, are stopping at
the Mills House.
Ex-Governor John A. King, of New York, Ex-
Mayor Kingsland of New York, and James Gordon
Benuett, Esq., are stopping at the Mills House.
Charleston Courier , April d.
The Clayton-Bnlwer Treaty.
Ad article appears in the Washington Union, of
the 3d inst., which may be regarded as an official
exposition of the Central American policy of the
President, and an official explanation of the reasons
which bare induced him to adhere to the Clattos-
Bulwer convention after he had advised its abro
gation, and England bad manifested her willing
ness to relieve us of its embarrassments. From
this article we take the following statement:
1. The dangerous controversy, which has so
long existed between the two governments in re
gard to the true construction of this treaty, is now
in the process of satisfactory adjustment. The
principles of this adjustment have been finally set
tled between the parties, aod Sir William Gore
Ouseley is now in Central America to imbody
these principles in the form of treaties with Nica
ragua and Honduras. The sovereignty over the
Mosquito Territory is to be surrendered by Great
Britain to Nicaragua, on terms which were satis
factory to the Senate of the United States, when
they had the Dallas-Clarendon treaty before them.
The sovereignty over the Bay Islands is also to be
surrendered to Honduras, to which they have ever
rightfully belonged. Thus, the American con
struction of the treaty has substantially prevailed.
The great object of this treaty, on the part of the
United States, was to remove Great Britain from
the coast of Central America, which was then al
most entirely in her possession. We thought this
had been accomplished by the treaty in plain and
intelligible language. This was stronly contested
by the British government. In this position of
affairs, it was the policy of General Pierce’s ad
ministration to hold fast to the treaty until the
object was accomplished; and it was to vindicate
the American construction of it that the present
President of the United States was sent as Minis
ter to England. It was to carry this policy into
effect that the Dallas-Clarendon treaty was conclud
ed. The same policy was fully endorsed by the
Senate of the United States when this treaty w;.s
before them ; and the amendment proposed by the
Senate more effectually to carry out this policy in
regard to the Bay Islands, caused the treaty to be
rejected by Great Britain. The present President
has steadily pursued this policy, now' crowned
with success, from the beginning. lie never
thought of abrogating the treaty, unless it should
be finally ascertained that the difference between
the parties in regard to its construction was irre
concilable. At one moment, there was cause to ap
prehend this result; and then the serious step,
amounting almost to a declaration of war, might
have been recommended of anuuhng the treaty
by act of Congress.
2. In regard to Sir William Gore Ouseley, we
shall say nothing more than repeat that he had no
connection whatever with the negotiation, and
took no part, in it. Indeed, it was not brought to
a conclusion until some time after he had left
Washington.
3. But reports have been in extensive circulation
that Lord Napier had offered during the pendency
of the negotiation, in behalf of the British govern
ment, to abrogate the Clayton and Bulwer treaty.
The fact, however, has been carefully suppressed
that, connected with this offer, or ruther sugges
tion, was a declaration that, if it were accepted,
Great Britain would hold on to the possesion of
the Bay Islands. This proposition, with the condi
tion annexed, was promptly rejected by the Presi
dent. And why? Uuutan, the principal of the
Bay Islands, is one of those commanding positions
which the British government have appropriated
to themselves all over the earth. Mr. Buchanan,
in his statement to Lord Clarendon of the Oth
of January, 1854, speaks of this island in
the folljwing terms : “Kuatan is known to
be an island of great value and importance,
on account of its excellent harbors, which are
rare along that coast. Indeed, it has been de
scribed by a Spanish author ‘as the key of the Bay
of Honduras, and the focus of the trude of the
neighboring countries.’ Such is its com
manding geographical position that Great
Britain, in possession of it. could completely ar
rest the trade of the United States in its passage
to and from the Isthmus. In vain may the con
vention have prohibited Great Britain from erect
ing or maintaining any fortifications commanding
the Nicaraguan canal, or in other portions of
Central America, if she shall continue to exercise
dominion over ‘the Bay Islands.”
Let the American people judge whether the ad
ministration ought to have received tavorubly any
proposition to übrogate the Clayton and Bulwer
tr eaty, subject to the condition of allowing Great
Britain to remain in possession of the Bay islands.
In this statement, it will be observed, the of.
ticial journal admits the fact, which has been so
freqently asserted of late, that the British Minister
did, during the last year, offer in behalf of his gov
| eminent to abrogate the Clayton-Bvlwer treaty ;
I hut justifies the rejection of the oiler by the Presi
! dent, upon the ground that it was coupled with a
I condition which could not be accepted without
conceding to England a clear title to the flay
Is funds, and acquiescing in all of its usurpations
in Ceutral America. This is'the statement of the
Union . The State*, on the other-hand, in its issue
of the 4th inst., positively denies that there was
any condition annexed to the proposition of the
British government to abrogate the Clayton-Bul
wkr treaty, and criticises the “adjustment” of our
differences with England in reference to Centra*
American affairs, which the Union pronounces
“satisfactory.” It says:
We deny plainly and positively that Lord Na- j
pier encumbered his proposal for the repeal of the
Clayton-Buhver treaty, with the condition that the
United States should acquiesce in Great Britain’s
Isthmian encroachments. The UnunC* affectation
of “reliable information” is assumed for the pur
pose of deceiving the country. We care not upon
whose authority the statement is made ; we deny
its truth, and challenge the production of any evi
dence m support of the allegation that Mr. Bu
chanan was ever approached by Lord Napier with
the “condition,” for the rejection of which the or
gan compliments the President. It is evident!?
an after thought—the awkward apology of a
courtier eager to atone for an involuntary dispar
agement of his patron.
But the Luton contends, in the face of notorious
facts, that the President’s C ntral American poli
cy has issued in a “satisfactory adjustment” ot the
controversy with Great Britain. Indeed! Is that
a “satisfactory adjustment” which invoh s a
formal recognition of British usurpation « • the
Isthmus, and admits England to an armed .ter
vention in its affairs; which violates the M nroe
doctrine in letter aud in spirit; which consummates
the expulsion of this country from Central Ameri
ca, and substitutes the influence and interests of a
European coalition; which exhibits, in short, no
result our diplomacy proposed to accomplish, but
realises every apprehension of French and English
aggrandisement in u quarter the most essential to
the development of our power and the integrity of
our dominions? Sir Gore Ouseley has concluded
his negotiations; with what advantage, pray, to
the interests of the United States? Has he aban
doned the Mosquito Protectorate? Has he re
duced the British possessions on the Isthmus to
the original and only rightful claim of a privilege
to cut logwood ? Does he pledge England to re
tire from Central America, in pursuance of the
policy supported by the people of this country ?
For answer, we have only to advert to the latest
and most authentic report of his operations.
Nor could the result have been otherwise, after
Mr. Buchannan recanted his opposition to the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and committed the interests
of this country to the good faith of a British en
voy.
3lr. Stephen 31 assett.
Col. Pipes is thus highly eulogised in the New
Orleans True Delta. We are delighted to hear
our friend Pipes is so highly appreciated in the
Crescent City.
The “Death of poor Joe,” created as great a
sensation there, as here.
Mr. Massett's Second Entertainment. —One of the
largest and most brilliant audiences ever assem
bled at Odd Fellow’s Hall greeted this gentleman
last evening.
A single glance satisfied us that there could be
no lack of appreciation of the efforts ot one
possessing such marked versatility and happv
combination of rare qualities as a singer, humorist
and reader. The audience was of a decidedly taste
ful and intellectual cast, and hence Mr. Massett
was appreciated and applauded, from the begin
ning to the conclusion of the programme.
Among other interesting things, he read Dick
ens’pathetic account of “The death of poor Joe,”
from Bleak house. His intimation of the peculiar
voice which issues from the victim of dtsease and
suffering, when contrasted with a healthful tone,
was one of the finest imitations we ever heard.
The reading of the death scene was so painfully
impressive as to superinduce that stillness which
it would be even painful to break. So silent was
the crowd that the faintest whisper of the reader
could be distinctly heard.
The song and humorous chit-chat which follow
ed, dissipated the illusion, and the audience de
parted, delighted with the entertainment.
Death of Mr. Abner Landrum.
The Charleston Courier , in noticing the death of
Mr. Abner Landrum, which recently occurred near
Columbia, says be was “ a veteran of the Carolina
press, who was widely known twenty-five years
since as the editor and proprietor of the Columbia
Hive, the organ of the Union party in South
Carolina; and, next to Faust, among the earliest
newspaper publishers in Columbia.”
Mr. Landrum, if our memory is nefat fault, did
not go to Columbia, as a publisher, until about
1328, and perhaps a year or so later. He was,
previous to that time, engaged in the publication
of a paper at or near Edgefield, which we believe
was called the “Edgefield Hice
Mr. Landrum was not, (as the Courier states,)
next to Faust, among the earliest newspaper pub.
lisbers in Columbia. The State Gazette , published at
Columbia, by Daniel Faust, and subsequently by D.
&. J. Faust, was the first new spaper published there
so far as we can remember. It was commenced
about 1300. Another paper was started about 1815,
which was merged into the “ Ttlescr/pe ” a very
few years afterwards, and published by Mr. Wm.
Cline, at this time one of the editors of the Wire.
Gras* Reporter , at Thomasville, Ga. The Tele
scope was subsequently owned and published by
James A. Black; then by Doyle E. Sweeny; and
then by Sweeny A Sims, and D. W. Sims A Co.;
and after passing through several hands as owners
and editors, we believe, closed its career, under
the control of Mr. A. S. Johnson. At one time
the Telescope was edited by David J. McCord, at
another by T. J. Wethers, and had such able con
tributors as Dr. Thomas Cooper, Wm. C. Preston,
Henry J. Nott, Chancellor Harper, Col. A.
Blanding, and many of the bright and controling
intellects at that time in Columbia.
The Southern Tones was commenced in Colum
bia about 1820, by McMorris A Wilson—(Spencer
J. McMorris, of Newberry or Laurens, and Mr.
Wilson, of Massachusetts). The 7\mes was
edited for a period by the present Senator James
11. Hammond, aud at another time by Col. Isaac W.
Hayne. It was an influential paper, and contri
buted much to the election of the Hon. Stephen
D. Miller to the United States Senate in 1820 or
IS3O, and to the defeat of Judge Wm. Smith, who
was a candidate at that time.
Dr. Landrum’s connection with the press of Co
lumbia, was coteinporaneous with that of Mr.
McMorris, and the publication of the Tone*.
A Runaway Negro Arrested.
We learn, from a letter received by the Post
master in this city, that a negro has been arrested,
and is now lodged in the jail at Louisville, Ky.,
who says he escaped from this neighborhood. The
boy says he belongs to Mr. Augustus Ri ff, who
lives near Augusta. The bov is five feet eleven
inches high; black; aged about thirty years;
weighs one hundred and eighty pounds; and is
heavy set. He wore, when arrested, blue jeans
pants ; a butternut colored coat, aud a black wool
hat, with a white crown sewed iu. He says he
left his master about “old Christmas time.”
The negro, when arrested, was in company with
another colored boy, said to have left this neigh
borhood, and to have belonged to the same master,
but we presume he escaped.
Recent Elections. •
Our exchanges contain the following dispatches
relative to recent elections:
Cincinnati, April s.—The whole opposition city
ticket is elected by an average of one thousand
majority.
St. Louis, April s.—The Republicans have elect
ed the whole city ticket.
Cleveland, April s.—The Republican Mayor and
Representatives are elected.
Detroit, April s.—The Republican candidate
forjudge of the Supreme Couit of Michigan is
elected by ten thousand majority.
lloi>e Taming.
Mr. Lam Kit is yet in our midst, teaching his
method of horse taming, for the benefit of the un
initiated. He has taught a large number of
Georgians, and a few Carolinians, as we judge by
the Edgefield Advertiser, which paper says : “Mr.
A. Atcinson is now in Edgefield, who is oue of ilm
professor* of the art; and who has purchased
from the celebrated Mr. Lanier the sole right to 1
practice his singular method in Edgefield and
Barnwell districts.” Mr. Atkinson is oue umoiig
the many that Mr. L. has taught for the sum of
ten dollars, who, probably, now makes ten times
that amount in a day. Now-a*days, you cannot
pick up a paper which does not contain an adver
tisement headed, “fifty dollars a month, and
traveling expenses paid; for particulars address
Van S ing A Co., No. 1401, New York, and enclose ‘
a post office stamp.” And we are sorry to hear
that a great many do enclose a postage stamp, and
got, what? nothing, in return; when, right here,
at your finger ends—and will be for a few days—
is an opportunity for you to make that amount
every day, which can be done by applying to Mr.
L., forking over an “X,” and learning his method
for breaking wild and refractory horses or mules.
Give him a call, and you will uot be disappointed.
The Huntsville (Ala.) Independent nomi
nates Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffku for the Presi
dency. The Americans of Davidson county, Ten
nessee, speak of nominating him for the legisla
ture, as we learn from the Nashville Union and
American,
The Philadelphia XortJi American recently bad
an article nominating lion. John Dell, of Tennes
see, for the Presidency.
As a matter of information to those who
generally tarry in their beds until the breakfast
hour is announced, we state that at forty-four min
utes past five o’clock, the sun rose this morning.
And, as there is some speculation as to frost,
about the time the moon is full, we “avail our
selves of the present opportunity ” to state that the
17th of April, by aluianacic authority, is selected
or that occurrence.
J-iF“The following gentlemen have been ap
pointed delegates to the Democratic State Conven
tion, by a Democratic meeting in Cobb county:
Col. Wm. Phillips, Jno. O. Gartrkll and N. B.
Greene, Esqs.
Messrs. T. H. Moore, J. B. Blackwell, and D.
R. Turner, Esqs., were appointed, at the same
time, to the Congressional Convention ; and were
instructed to vote for the re-nomination of Hon.
L. J. Gartrell.
It was also resolved that the county convention
should assemble in Marietta, on the first Tuesday
in May next for the purpose of noyninating a Sena
tor and Representative to the next legislature.
Items of news from the Charleston (S. C.)
Mercury of April 6th :
Accident.— The day train, from Augusta to
Charleston, met with an accident soon atter pas
sing Branchville, yesterday afternoon. The ten
der to the locomotive broke down, and the further
passage of the train stopped until assistance could
be sent from this city.
The train reached the citv at eleven o’clock,
P. M.
Chess. — We are informed that the Charleston
Chess Club has received notification from the Au
gusta Chess Club, that the future progress of the
triendly match between the Clubs will be post
poned until further arrangements have been made.
The Circuit Court.— Twenty-one grand jury
meu were sworn yesterday before the Circuit
Court, Hon. James* M. Wayqe presiding. Four
jurymen were drawn and summoned to complete
the panel. The members of the petit juries were
sworn, and are in readiness for business.
The Court adjourned to Thursday.
An aged woman, Thebe Christian , colored, died
on the 20th ult., in Harrison, Ohio, said to t>e one
hundred and eighteen years old. She w one of
fourteen sia w LS who were taken to Ohio from "N ir
ginia abou . .ne year IS2O.
Current News of the Day*
An exchange says: Mr. Bullitt, of the New
Orleans Picayune , is about to get married—some
thing he ought to have done twenty-five years ago.
The Wilmington Journal, of the Ist inst., learns
that at Duplin Superior Court, (North Carolina,)
two negro men Darned Clem and Andrew, belong
ing to Wm. E. Hill, Esq., of Duplin, were con
victed of the murder of Mr. Alfred Boyst some
time last fall.
Bid, a negro belonging to Mr. Baker, has been
sentenced by the Superior Court of North Caroli
na to be hung on the 29th of April, for burglary.
In Baltimore, on the Ist inst., Henry Duvall,
convicted of the murder of Christian Fischer, in
the western section of that city, a few months
since, was sentenced to death. This makes five
persons under the death sentence now in the jail
of that city.
Col. W. W. Seaton, one of the esteemed editors
and proprietors of the Washington city National
Intelligencer, celebrated his golden wedding anni
versary, on Wednesday evening last, which was
also near the golden (fiftieth) anniversary of his
editorial career.
About twenty bales of cotton were burnt recent
ly, on a car at Winnsboro’, South Carolina.
A house belonging to the Messrs. Mackf.y, was
destroyed by fire, on Friend street, near Tradd, in
Charleston, S. C., on Sunday morning last. Two
adjoining houses were injured, but the loss is not
very serious.
In the Massachusetts House of Representatives,
on the afternoon of the 30th ult., at the close of a
long debate, the rote was taken upon the liberty
bill. Mr. Wells, of Greenfield, one of the Repub
lican leader , asked to be excused from voting,
but the House refused, when he voted against the
bill. The bill was defeated by a vote of—yeas one
hundred and six, nays one hundred and nine.
Hon. John M. Saxdidge, of Louisiana, has ad
dressed a letter to his constituents declining to
serve them again in Congress. Col. Okr and Mr.
Keitt, of South Carolina; Mr. Stephens and Mr.
Tripp, of Georgia; Mr. Dowdell and Mr. Shorter,
of Alabama ; and Mr. G. W. Jones, of Tennessee;
also declined a re-election.
Gov. Willard, of Indiana, has pardoned young
Thompson, who was convicted of manslaughter
for killing a fellow student by the name of Sill, of
Greencastle, some two years ago, and sentenced :•
one year’s confinement in jail.
Bishop Delanct, of the Diocese of New
York, officialed at the consecration of the Bishop
cf Columbia, at Westminister Abbey.
The loss in fruit trees in Illinois, within the last
three years, is estimated at about three million
dollars. The retentive nature of a clay subsoil is
•opposed to be the cause.
Ladies in Tolland county, ConD., have recently
contributed two hundred and sixty dollars and
ninety cents towards the Mount Vernon Fund.
It is said that Mr. Washington Irving lias com
pleted the fifth volume of his life of Washington.
There are said to be eight thousand railroad
stockholder in the State of Maine, who have in
vested nineteen and a half millions in this kind cf
property.
James H. Skinner, of Augusta, Virginia, is the
Democratic nominee to succeed Mr. Letcher in
Congress.
There are one thousand aix hundred and seventy
five drinking saloons in Cincinnati.
The citizens of Mobile are ugitating the project
of establishing a medical college at that place.
Mrs. Jane C. Pickett, of Yazoo county, Miss.,
has made the handsome donation of one hundred
dollars to the Mount Vernon Fund.
Mr. McDowell, the United States Minister to
Turkey, was, at last advices, ill in Naples.
A meeting in favor es the slave trade was held
recently at Stallsboro, Geo.
We learn from the Rome (Geo.) Courier , that
Mr. C. T. Cunningham and others, have completed
arrangements for erecting a fine merchant and
custom mill in that city.
Rev. J. R. McFarland, Unitarian pastor, died *
in Charleston lately.
The St. Joseph’® (Mo.) Journal, of a Uie «*»♦«*. 1
teams that an extensive war is on foot betwten |
the various Indian tribes on the great plains. The I
movement is headed by the Minneogues. At the
latent accounts, negotiation® for peace were paid- (
ing between the combatants.
Hon. George W. Jones, of lowa, who recently j
declined the mission to Bogota, telegraphed to >
Washington, on the 3d inst., withdrawing his de
clension. He lias been notified to report himself (
at the State Depaitment. ]
, Dr. David R. Brown was convicted in Boston
on the sth inst., of causing the death of Susan
Cabdixk Webster, by illegal practice. The pun
ishment for this offense is imprisonment from
seven to twenty-one years.
A Leavenworth, K. T., dispatch, of the 2d inst.,
says: Information received from Washington
states that the government designs placing several
companies of cavalry along the route to Denver
city, for the protection of emigrants.
Fanny Washington won the two mile race on
Friday, April 1, over the Metairie course, New Or
leans, and Planet won the four mile post stake ou
Saturday, beating four horses easily.
Charles A. Appleton, of Maine, (a brother of
the United States Assistant Secretary of State,)
committed suicide in Washington city, on the 3rd
inst., by drown.ng himself, during an attack of
mental aberration, to which he was subject.
A dispatch from Harrisburg, Pa., of April 2nd,
says: “Au intense excitement was created here,
this morning, by Deputy United States Marshal
JENKiNS arresting a colored man, under the fugitive
slave law. The arrest was made in the market
place, and the fugitive was taken to Philadelphia,
to appear before United States Commissioner
Lokgstreth.”
A subsequent dispatch, dated Philadelphia,
April 2, says: “ The fugitive slave was brought
here this evening. His name is Daniel Webster,
and he is claimed by a gentleman from Virginia,
who says he escaped from slavery six years ago.
Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, has sent a gold
snuff box and a medal for Captain Hudson, of the
Niagara, for his services in laying the Atlantic
cable.
Dr. A. W. Smith, the late President of the Wes
leyan University, was “surprised ” a few days ago
by receiving a check lor five hundred dollars from
a few of the alumni of the University, as a testi
monial of their regard and esteem for him. The
Doctor had to abandon the office of President some
time ago in consequence of impaired health. That
is to say, his official career was checked in a sur
prising manner!
Prince Adrlbert, the brother of the King of
Bavaria, is not only a full believer in the facts o
spiritualism, bnt is himself a medium of a high
order, lie has been for some time informed that
an entirely new musical instrument is soon to be
given to the world through spiritual influence.
Leaders of brass ban ds should make a note of this,
and send on early orders.
A man arrived at Pittsford, 111., a few days since
from Elwood, Kansas, his sole errand being to
thrash his brother-in-law, who bad maltreated his
wife. Having finished the business to the satis
faction of all concerned, he returned home. The
thrashing of the brother-in-law was the most
striking feature in the affair.
The telegraph is extending in various directions.
A line will soon be erected from Kingsville to
Camden, S. C. ; another is in contemplation from
Mobile to Pensacola; and a third is to be erected
in the island of Bermuda. It will connect St.
Georges and Hamilton with the dockyard and
naval and military establishments at the eastern
and western extremities.
The New Y'ork Evening Post says that a few
mornings sinc°* during a storm, some thirty small
fish, of the minnoT species, about an inch in length,
fell upon the deck of ferry boat John B. Sleight,
plying between Esopos ai*.d Rondout. About half
of them were alive when examined. Strange and
unusual as this may seem, it is, nevertheless, true.
These fishes were of minm'-mum size.
One night recently, some burglars broke into the
office of Messrs. Shrom A Hoffer, at their board
yard, near the gas works, at Carlisle, Pa., and broke
the top off their iron safe, and got the enormous
sum of ninety-one cents and a bogus dollar for their
trouble. They must have been in -censed at the re
sult of their labors.
The St. Louis Christian Advocate alludes to P.
T. Barnum thus: This singular man is lecturing
in England, with a fair prospect of realising money
enough to pay, at least, a part of his debts, if he
should choose to use it in that way.
A circular has been issued by several prominent
Whigs of Louisiana, proposing a re-organization
of the party, and calling on their brethren through
out the State to send delegates to a convention
to be held in New Orleans on the second Wednes
day in June next, to nominate a ticket for the
approaching State elections.
The Republican State committee of Wisconsin
have issued an address protesting against the ac
tion of the Massachusetts legislature in the pas
sage of an act withholding the right of voting from
foreign-born citizens for two years after their
naturalization.
F. S. J. Trabus, Esq., has announced himself a
candidate for Congress in the eighth District of
Kentucky, regardless of conventions and parties.
The Hon. James B. Clay has positively declined
to allow himself to be a candidate for re-election
to Congress.
Cross Lodge, No. 12, of Free Masons, in Lump
kin, Georgia, has presented “a jewel ” to E. F.
P. M. The Palladium, of the Ist inst.,
contains the proceedings on the interesting occa
sion.
It is stated that the young lady who died in
Troy, last week, from the effect of having her ears
pierced, instead of placing silk in the wounds, as
is customary, used colored worsted, which was
probably the cause of her death.
The Charleston Mercury says: “An item of local
interest calls attention to the centennial anniver
sary of the organization of St. Michael's Parish ;
the first service was held in the present Church,
February 1,1761. S\ Michael’s is now fifty-five
years the seuior of every other Episcopal Church
in Charleston, though St. Pnilip's Parish was or
ganised seventy-eight years earlier, the eld Church
of which Parish, burned in 1835, was thirty-two
years older.”
St. Peter’s College, Troy, N. Y., partially de
stroyed by the recent great land slide, is to be re
built, but not on the same spot.
Ex-Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, Minister to
R i>sia, has been very ill at the Isle of Rhodes.
A photographer in Pittsburg advertises to take
first class portraits for one dime. Cheap enough,
at half the price!
The captain and tire men of the ship Agamem
non, ashore at Currituck Inlet, who were reported
drowned, were picked up by a passing vessel.
The Fayetteville (Ga.) Literary Casket, of the
25th, contains the proceedings of a meeting of citi
zens held at that place, at which an agreement was
entered into, between the property holders of
Fayetteville and Messrs. W. W. Bosworth and
Jonx L. Blalock— the only liquor retailers in the
place—by which agreement the traffic in ardent
spirits has been abandoned—the dealers having
been indemnified for the sacrifice which they bave
thus made in relinquishing a lucrative business
for the good of the community. The property
holders at the same time signed an agreement,
binding themselves not to rent or sell any of their
property within the incorporate limits for the pur
pose of retailing spirituaus liquors.
Items of news clipped from the Marietta
(Ga.) Patriot, of April 7 :
We learn a most shocking murder was commlt
ed near Alatoona, ou Saturday aveniug-Uat. <»n«
Mr. Tinsley Kilted a Mr. 1 earwood with an axe,
first splitting his skull and then sticking it in his
body. The murderer fled to parts unknown.
We do not know the particulars, but learn it is
another “Sickles affair, ’’ bu*. in quite a different
circle of society.
Sentenced to he Hung. —Albert J. Lingo, found
guilty of the murder of Robert Duncan, at Cobb
Superior Court last week, on Monday morning last
was brought before his Honor, George D. Rice,
and received the sentence of the law. The 27th
of Mav next is the day appointed by the Court for
his execution.
In reference to the approaching Methodist
Sunday School Convention, in South Carolina, a
correspondent of the Charleston Southern, Chris
tian Advocate, of April 6th says :
“The convention will convene, Thursday, May
sth, at the Washington street church (in Colum
bia, S. C.,) at four o’clock in the afternoon. It will
then organise and be ready for business by Fri
day morning. The anniversary of the Parents. S.
Society will be celebrated, during the sitting of the
convention, on Sunday the Bth. Jt is hoped that
Bishop Kavanaugh will favor the convention by
presiding over its deliberations. Several distin
guished brethren from the West are expected to be
present. The itinerant ministers, and especially
the Presiding Elders, who have not been appoint
ed delegates, are cordially invited to attend, and
will be entitled, as pastors, to all the privileges of
the convention.”
Items of news from the Savannah Republic
can, of April 7th :
Escape of Prisoners. —T wo prisoners—Janies W.
Morgan, charged with murder, and Henry Sneers,
charged with larceny—made their escape from the
jail of Chatham'county, between six and nine
o’clock, Tuesday evening last.
Admitted to the Ear. —At the late term of the
Superior Court of Effingham county, Mr. Augustus
14. Khan, after a highly creditable examination,
was admitted to all the rights and immunities of
an attorney and counsellor at law, in the courts of
this State.
Emm the Apalachicola Advertiser, 3 i)th ult.
The Itark Baulins— Commitment of Three
Mates—Confession of Murder.
The Court for the examination of the persons
found on board of the bark E. A. Rawlins, alias
Rosa Lea, commenced last Saturday, and was con
tinued over until Monday of the present week.
The result of the examination was, that three
mates (whose names we suppress for the present at
their own request) were committed to prison to
await their trial at the next term of the U. S. Dis
trict Court, to be held in this place on the second
Monday in May, undercharge of having murdered
an unknown person, who was designated through
out the trial as the “Spanish Captain.”
Letters were found on board of the vessel from
a Spanish firm to certain parties on the coast of
Africa, where she was about to proceed. She was
to be met on the coast of Cuba by a schooner, with
men and arms and regular outfit, when it was de
cided by the American officers to put said “Span
ish Captain” in irons.
The whole case has an air of mystery, for we
never have known men before, after being repeat
edly warned by the Court that they were not called
upon to criminate themselves, tell stories which
must bear against them. Confessions were made
by the parties charged with this murder, in open
Court, to the effect that they had committed the
deed. The prisoners were without counsel.
A correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune ,
writing from Panama, under date of the ISth ult.,
says:
Gen. William Walker came passenger in the
New Orleans steamer to Aspinwall. He took pas
* sage under the name of Mr. William Wilson, on
the ]6»h, in the California steamship Golden Gate,
from Panama. The idea seems to be that ke is
connected with the new scheme of Americanising
Sonora and Chihuahua. General Bruno Yon Natz
mer accompanied Walker.
James W. Simonton, Esq., the well known Wash
-1 ington correspondent of the New York Times, was
i also a passenger on the Golden Gats. He goes to
San Francisco to take the editorial charge and half
: proprietorship of the Bulletin ,