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BY JAMES GARDNE
TUESDAY MOKSI!tG,SEPT.!W. .
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Curreul News of (heJJay.
The week just passed was a week of interesting
anniversaries, vix: Pebrt’s victory on the 10th
inst., Battle of North Point, 12th;.Capture of Que-.
bee, 13th; Victorious entrance of the United ‘
Slates troops into the city of Mexico, 14th;
tlement of Boston, 17.
The Savannah Republican, of the 19th idst, J
says: It was rumored on the street, -Saturday, ;
that the department had concluded M renew- the
postal contract with the steamer Isabel,--i}nd that
she would resume her trips to Havana, the 4th
of the coming mouth.. The report comes djceetly -
from Charleston, tut tpe Relieve, the agjjjpM«tre
are uninformed in therpremises.
Dr. Farr, of London; paper issued - by* him
on the causes of mortality, says that intemperance
acts as a slow poison, auu tiie deaths from drunken
ness and Miriam tremtnc, together exceed the
deaths from all other prison. “But,” he adds,
"it is difficult (as in. Jisop’s fable,) to overrate the
immense injury to puhjic health arising in all
ways, directly and indirectly, from this obviously
avoidable cause, whereas privation kills compara
tively few.”
A paragraph in the London Chronicle, of the 31st,
(by the Ocean Qoeen,) says the Great Eastern, on
the previous day, was officially entered, “outwards"
at the Custom House, by Captain Harrison, “her
destination bemg named New York.
A dispatch from Chicago, Illinois, of Sept. 15th,
says: The General Grand Encampment of the
Knights Templars of tlie United States to-duy
elected the following officers for the ensuing three
years: B. B. French, of Washington, Grand Mas
ter ; David Goodnow, of Kentucky, Deputy Grand
Master; Winsiow Lewis, of Boston, Generalissimo;
J. V. B. Blank* of Chtuago, C*p l »' n General;
Chas. Marsh, Senior Warden ; A
J. Pibrson, of Minnesota, Jonior Warden; Edward
A. Ratnonh, of Boston, Treasurer fit. G- Risk, of
Louisiana, Recorder.,
A dispatch from Burlington, Vt., of the 14th
inst., says: The Vermont Slate fair attract •
large gathering. The show Os horses, cattle and
sheep is graod, but the mechanical and (loral dis
play is not large. A fine exhibition of Howe’s
scales attracts great attention. Gov. Banks, of
Massachusetts, delivers un address to-morrow.
A dispaten from Chicago, of Sept. 16th, says :
The entire block, in this city, bounded by Clinton
street on the North, Canal street on the West, and
Lake and Fulton streets, was burned this morning.
Blaych ford’s lead works, the hydraulic mills, and
the blocks bounded by North Jefferson, Clinton,
Fulton, and West Lake streets, were also destroy
ed; also a large amount of other property. The
total loss is not less than five hundred thousand
dollars. Insured for two hundred and fifty thous
and dollars in New York and New England com
panies.
Getters from Zante (lonian Islands) of 10th of
August, 1859, state that the currant crop this year
tain a verv prosperous condition. The blight,
which tor five or six seasons past has caused the
destruction of the vines, has entirely disappeared.
Zante would, perhaps, make twelve millions
pounds, of very excellent quality; Cephalonia
thirteen millions, and Morea fifty millions.
The Kentucky papers lmtice itw <*, Hock
Castle ’ ver, in that SlatC, of IT ri ah TfaasHAii, a
native of King William oounty, Virginia. He was
for many years a member of the Kentucky legis
lature, and fought under General Sr. Clair, in
1792, and was one of "Mad Anthony Watne’s ’’
soldiers in 1794.
In Chicago, Illinois, on the lTth inst , Ike Cook,
the Chicago horse, took the citizens’ purse of one
thousand dollars-time 2:2BJ<. . Flora Temple
and Princess were not entered; and the billiard
match between Phelan and Tieman, for five hun
dred points, resulted in favor of Phelan.
There is a Base Ball Club in Macon, Georgia.
The Columbia (S. C.) Carolinian of Wednesday,
says: The numerous friends of Hon. Ift. C. Pres-
TBN will be highly gratified to learn that his health
within these few months has been better than for
some years. He is expected the present week by
his friend Jrdge Rise, at Flat Kock, where he will
spend a few days on his way to his home in this
city.
Editorial Changes.
Sah’l G. Reid, Esq., late of the Marion (Ala.)
CommanmeaUh, has purchased the interest of Dr.
N. B. Clued, in the Montgomery (Ala.; Advertieer.
That paper will now be edited and published by
Messrs. Shorter A Rbid, and edited by Geo. If.
Shorter and J vmrs U. Macket, Esqs.
R. P. Eberhardt, Esq., has become sole pro
prietor of the Elberton (Ga.) Star of the Sooth.
He has, however, engaged the services of Jos. T.
Smith, Esq., who will hereafter take charge of the
editorial department of the paper.
military company Ima been recently or
ganised at Delhi, in Wilkes county, and called the
“Delhi Rangers.” On Saturday last, they were
presented witkc. flag by the lacies of that vicinity,
as we learn from the Elberton (Ga.) Star of the
South , of Sept. SSd.
Mr. WRittT, the Opposition candidate for
Congress in tbia District, was we tin discussion at
Spriog Hill, in Uuf county, on Friday, by Jllikk
Cvmming, Esq., the-Democratic candidate for State
Senator. We wepe not present, J?ut those Demo-
Scrats who were, express themselvec delighted with
the result. _ _
jsgT* News items*from the AtlaoLa (Ga.) Tem
perance Crusader, of -fcept. 22 :
T. W. Re Tier, Esc,, one of the mart prominent
citizens of Upson died on the ,14th inst.:
The -Temperance Mu* Meeting.—The.. demonstra
tion of last week was ifer the most giwmd of any
that the temperance man of the State -have expe
jienced in .many long years. We shall -speak of it
at great length in our next; remarks concerning
p It were crow ded out of the present issue.
v Items front the Savannah (Ga.) Republican
n»f JsJept. 22d..:
The steamboat Swan brought six hundred and
jg|L forty bales of .cotton yesterday—a large loud for
the season.
f'- v*': Large Vield.—'MV'e are informed that Mr. Ueury
ft, H. Floyd, whose plantation is ic Camden county,
hag a "field of corn of about oje hundred acres
whicti will yield un.average of one hundred and i»ix
bushels to the acre hj actual measurement. Who
Kpj|.' can beat ibis?
The Edgefield ,(S. C.) Advertiser, gets off
| the following culinary item :
('• To Cook the Egg Plant Fruit.— A most compe-
I ient judge of everything good sends us two of the
floes t specimens of this vegetable we have ever
*; *een, and accompanies it with this recip* for pre
-1 paring the dish :
fe • - '‘First, peal off the purple rind ; then slice cross
f ways as when you fry sweet potatoes; then soak i
4wo or three hours in salt and water; grate over it ]
several biscuits; add black pepper to taste; beat i
up an egg and dip each slice in it; then sprinkle <
W: jyith bread crumbs ; frv, and bring them in hot.” i
That amt te geod. Try it, ladies. l
Hi, %
3/Ve Chronicle & Sentinel Quibbling.
The following passage occurred'in an article
which appeared in the tkronicle dt Sentinel of the
20th inst:
“ Now, as to the endorsement of the Kansas-Xe
braska if any b**dy of men 40 Georgia ever
endorsed that , except the * Deroocraftc Convention
which met in-MiHedgevilte* in Jane, 1850, to nomi
nate Buchanah electors, we will thank our contem
porary, \rthinpg tO'ffte Constitutionalist,) for the
We remarked the italicised words in this
passage, aud the foundation fhiefi they fur
nished for a qijj-bbid the point made by
t Sentinel: But, as we were un-
Believe that our contemporary would
. cpiiVble upon such a point, we did not, in our
regard these italicised words, but gave
it the pi oof which we supposed it wanted, of a
substantial endorsement of the Kansas act, by
( showing that the legislature of Georgia in 1854,
and the American Council of the State in 1855, had
| endorsed the principles of that act in relation to
I slavery, and made their support a test of the hdeli
r ty of meu and of parties to the constitutional
rights of the South. We were, however, mistaken
when we supposed that the Chronicle <k Sentinel
did not design to quibble about an endorsement
J of the Kansas act by the people and parties of this
» State. That is exactly what it did design to do,
r as is shown by the following reply which it makes
in its issue of yesterday, in reference to the proof
of an endorsement of the Kansas act, which we
furnished it:
"The Gmstilulionaliet, in endeavoring to prove
this mere assettion, introduces the resolution
which passed the Georgian Legislature in Februa
ry, 1854, and the resolution which passed the
American Convention at Macon, in June, 1855.
This is ull thepreof it makes such a noise over
and that proves precisely what we have always
said, that the Legislature and the Council never
dtdapprove the bill as a whole, but only the prin
ciples of the bill in relation to slavery. The Con
etuutionaliet asserts that all parties approved the
bill; we deny it, and assert that no party approved
the b II (except the Buchanan Millodgeville Con
vention of 1850) but only certain specified princi
ples of the bill, and nothing else; and our neighbor
brings the proof to sustain every word we said.
The answer to this quibbling reply of the
Chronicle if- Sentinel which suggests itself to
every one who reads it, is that an endorsement
of the principles of the Kansas-Nebraska act in
relation to slavery, is an endorsement of the act
itself, as far as the people of Georgia or of the
South are interested in it. With this answer we
might leave it. Bat to oblige our quibbling con
temporary, and at the same time to disprove its
assertion that there has been but one endorsement
of the Nebruska-Kansas bill in this State, we refer
it to the resolutions adopted by the Democratic
State convention of 1855; one of which commences
as follows :
“Resolved , That we approve and endorse the ac
tion of our lasi Congress in the passage of the
Nehraska-Kansas act und the principles therein
established."
We construe this resolution as an endorsement
of the Nebraska-Kausas act, and of every principle
which it contains; and so will every plain man
who reads it. But onr astute contemporary may
possibly meet us with another quibble, and cou
tend that it is not an endorsement of the Nebruska-
Kansas bill —but of the NebmuUA-Kaosus act, and
therefore, in anticipation of such a reply, we refeh
it, for an explicit endorsement of the Nebraska-
Kansas bill, to the following article, wbuh appear
ed in Its „wn columns on the Bth of February,
*1854: .
The but of the Nebraska
Territory, introduced iu the Senate by Mr. Douo.
LAS, Willi the amendment of Senator Dixon of
Kentucky, repealing the Uienouri GanvromUe of
1820, is very naturally exciting no inconsidera
ble degree of attention, throughout the Union ;
while in some sectlous, the Fretiuilert and Aboli-
LionitU i are endeavoring to produce an excitement
, in relation to the measure. Thus far, however,
- their efforts seem to have proved signal failures,
i and they appear doomed to disappointment. In*
r deed, our information from Washington induces
r the impression that the bill will pass both Houses
1 by very decided majorities. This is as it should
j be. The question then will 'be effectually settled, and
the agitation of slavery will not probably again dir
turb the country. Territories thereafter will be
organised without reference to the question of
' slavery, leaving it to be settled by the people them
' selves, when they form State governments, to
* whom it properly belongs. To this conclusion all
candid men must come who investigate the sulgect
calmly and dispassionately / and we are pleased to
see that some of the conservative press of the
North are taking this view of the question, while
others oppose the bill as inexpedient and calculate
’ ed to produce excitement and agitation on the
slavery question.”
This unqualified approval of the Nebrask Kan
sas bill was published by it, it will be remarked on
. the Bth of February, 1854, before alien suffrage had
» been stricken from it by the passage of the Clat
ton amendment, and whilst it contained as much
squatter sovereignty as it has ever had. The
Chronicle dt sentinel thought then that the Ne
braska-Kansas bill did repeal the Missouri Com
promise, and endorsing it fully, declared that its
passage would be a settlement of the slavery ques
tion, aud the probable ecd of slavery agitation !
! Now it denies that the Nebraska-Kansas bill did
repeal the Missouri Compromise—denounces that
bill as a cheat and a swindle, and attempts to
show that it never was approved by any party in
this Htate, except by that represented in the Demo
cratic convention of 1856!
There never was any open opposition to the
Kaneas bill in this State, until Mr. Fillmore de
nounced it for repealing the Missouri Compro
mise., which his party in Georgia are now laboring
to prove it did not dc.
We«lip the following iten s of news from
the Cassville (Ga.) Standard, of Sept. 22d.
Admitted. — During tie sitting of the last Court
the followingoamed gentlemen were admitted to
practice in the courts of Law and Equity of this
State. Dr. J. Henry Bond and Henry Jones.
Eire. —On Sunday night, last the stable of Mr.
J. D. Carpenter cf this place was consumed by
fire, together with a quantity of fodder, &e. The
fire is tsuppoeed to Lave been caused by careless
ness in some one smoking in die stable. This is
another warning to smokers. The alarm was giv
en so early, and our citizens so promptly on the
ground, the flames were confined to this building.
The loss was not very great. The night wae very
calm, which is another reason for the fire L'etAg so
easily arrested.
Mr. Ward, the United States Minister to Chinn, i
was presented to the Imperial Commissioners os J
the 2d. of June. He was attended by Messrs. W. r
W. Ward, Secretary of Legation ; 8. Wells Wil- a
liams, Interpreter to Legation; W. A. P. Martin I
and W. Atchison, Interpreters; and George W. h
Heard and James L. Lurman, attaches. The par- e
ty went into the city of Sbanghia in sedan chairs, c
carried by liveried Celestials, and escorted by the s
marines from the ‘‘Powhatan” and “Mississippi,” u
with a very good band of music;
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1859.
The Kansas Bill—The Missouri Ife3str?c
tion.
One of the many ridiculous positions Msuihed c
by Mr. Wright, the Opposition candidateijbrCou- I
gress in this District, is that the Kansas bill did ]
not repeal the Missouri Compromise. He is an- i
willing to admit that the Kansas bill accomplished t
anything of such practical value to the South, ft* «
the removal of the restriction imposed upon slate- .
ry by the Compromises of IS2*>, and so he denies
that it repealed that Compromise, although he de- !
noanced it three years ago because it did, and sus
tained Fillmore, whose only objection U> the r
Kansas act was that it did repeal the Missouri
Compromise.
The Chronicle dt Sentinel sustains Mr. Wright
in this position, declaring that the Kansas act did
not repeal the Missouri Compromise, but only de
clared it “ inoperative and void n ! The following
is an extract from one of its recent articles upon
this subject:
In regard to the Missouri restriction, the Consti *
tutionalivt and all well-informed peisons know,
that the original design of Douglas and the Senate
Territorial committee, in the introduction of the
Kansas Nebraska-bill, did not embrace or contem
plate any action at all .
It was simply to provide Territorial govern
ments—upon the understanding that the restric
tion had been practically repealed in the legisla
tion of 1850, and that non-intervention, as it was
called, had been established as a principle applica
ble to all the territory of the United States. But
Mr. Dixon, a Wlug Senator from Keqtucky, pro
posed to amend tne bill by repealing the restriction
in word*, aud declaring it unconstitutional. Dixon’s
amendment was referred to the Territorial cr.m-
mittee—it was not incorporated in the bill—it
never became a part of the law. The question be
ing once raised, u became necessary to dispose of
it m some way. So the North said to the South
‘you claim that the Missouri line has been practi
cally blotted out by the Dtah and New Mexico
bills—yon ought to be satisfied, but if you are not,
we will declare the restriction inoperative and
void, because inconsistent with the legislation of
1850; but we cannot and will not, for fear of the
storm likely to be raised about our own ears, re-*
peal the act in so many words.” And so the deeds
was dime—and that was all that was done,
fustian about tearing out the restriction even if it
had been sealed with the blood of one’s own father,l
is mere “sound and fury,” signifying nothing.
There are several important errors in this
i ment of our contemporary, in reference to the'
Dixon amendment. Mr. Dixon’s amendment was
a proposition to repeal the Missouri Compromise
i an 1 was the first proposition with that object which
* was made, during the discussion of the Kansas.
* Nebraska bill; but our contemporary does nfllt
state correctly the character of that amendmeqL
* It was offered on the 16th of January, 1854, and
t as follows:
“That so much of the Bth section of an act ap
proved March 6th, 1820, entitled an act to autho
rise the people of Missouri Territory, Ac., Ac.,
as declares that in all that Territory ceded by
France to the United States under tfie name of
Louisiana, which lies North of thirty-six degrees,
thirty minutes North latitude, slavery and in
voluntary servitude, otherwise than in the popish
ment of crimes, whereof the parties shall havjTbeen
duly convicted, shall be forever prohibited, 9 jritall
not be so construed as to apply to the Territory
contemplated by this act, or to any other Territory
of the United States ; but that the citizens Os the
several States or Territories shall be at libeljtv to
take and hold their slaves within any of
ritories of the United States, or of the Staiaa>todw
or formed ther- trom, a* if the said act, Wnfcff as
aforesaid, and approved as aforesaid, had-Borer
been passed.”
i It will be observed that this amendment, though
a proposition to repeal the Missouri restriction,
did not propose to repeal that restriction in utorat,
as the Chronicle tfr Sentinel asserts that it did, nor
did it declare that restriction unconetitutson'i, as
that paper declares that it did. In other words,
the Dixon amendment was not as explicit in its re
peal of the Missouri restriction as the Chronicle
<fj Sentinel states it was. Indeed, it was no
more explicit a repeal of that restriction than
the provision which was finally incorporated
in the Kansas bill, upon that subject. That
provision was substantially the Dixon amend
ment, and the Chronicle and Sentinel is there
fore again at fault when it states that this
amendment was not incorporated in the Kan
sas bill and never became a part of the law. Mr.
Dixon differs with the Chronicle c k Sentinel upon
this point. In a speech delivered in the Senate,
on the 4th ot February, he claimed that it had
been incorporated in Ihe amended bill of the Com
mittee on Territories of that body. The followiug
are some of the remarks made by him in that
speech:
Mr. Dixon said that the first bill reported by the
committee, while it allowed the people of the Ter
ritory to adopt slavery or not when they formed
their State Constitutions, did not put the people of
the States on an equal footing as to their going to
those Territories and carrying their property there.
It allowed the Missouri prohibition to continue and
under it slavery would be excluded from the Ter
ritories until the time when the people were as
sembled to form a State Government. This being
the effect of the bill, he had offered an amendment
which proposed, directly, the repeal of the Missouri
prohibition; subsequently the committee reported a
new bill, in which teas incorporated substantially his
amendment. With that amendment incorporated
in it, ihe bill would receive his hearty support.
The Missouri Compromise made an unjust discrimi
nation against the slaveholder, as to his right to
carry his property into the Territory. This pro
hibition tfie committee had proposed to repeal , Ac.
In these remarks, it will be seen, Mr. Dixon
declared that his amendment, which was a di
rect repeal of the Missouri Compromise, was in
corporated substantially in the Kansas bill. We
leave our readers to determine for themselves
whether Mr. Dixon or A. R. Wrigbt and the
Chroniclejk Sentinel is the 'best authority upon
this point.
The Missouri restriction was repealed by the
Kansas bill, and it is simply ridiculous to assert
that it was not.
The Cotton Prospect.—Edward Shegog, Esq.,
who has been traveling for the past three months
in the cotton growing regions-of West Tennes
see, North Mississippi and North Alabama, has
just returned to the city, and we have been favored
by him with thj results of his observations dining
his irip. Lie reports the crop as having been
materially injured by the recent heavy rains, and
thinks that there will be fully one-third less raised
than was est'cnated a few weeks ago. In many
sections, the rot, boll worm and rust is playing
sad havoc with the crop; and, in numerous in
stances, one or all of these causes will cut the
crop short from thirty to fifty per cent below
former estimates. The top cotton also promises
badly—the bolls and squares which formed in
August falling off without maturing.
It is Mr. Shegog’s opinion, however, that, not
withstanding the injury to the crop in all the sec
tions tributary to Memphis, the receipts at this
port during tne present season will be largely in
jxcess of those of any previous year, owing to the
r act that a larger district of country will be opened
ip to our trade by the extension of our different
a; I roads. A large number of planters in Alabama,
nd in the river counties of Mississippi, who have
eretc’fore sent all their cotton to New Orleans,
ave dfc termmed to patronise the Memphis market
xclusively for the future; and the increase in re
eipts from' these sources alone wiil be very con
iderable—sufficient, in all probability, to make
p for any deficiency of crop.
Memphis Avalanche.
s< OulFor Akin”—Wm. Hope Hull.
The Atlanta American , a few days ago, published |
quite a long list of distinguished and influential
Democrats, who it announced had abandoned
Brown* and declared for Akin. We took occasion
in our issue of the 20th to deny that some of
the gentleman mentioned in this list, had aban
doned Brows; and among others that the Hon.
AsntßY Hull and his' son, Wm. Hope Hull of
AAens, had abandoned the Democratic candidate
for Governor. The American, noticing oar denial
of its statement in reference to these two gentle
tnen, replied:
“Our respected cotemporary is entirely mistak
en in this matter- We have the authority of a
gentleman who knows, for stating that both the
above named gentleman will not only not sup
port Gov. Brown for re-election, but will give the
weight of their entire influence in favor of the elec
tion o( Col. Warren Akin.’*
Per contra, we give the following paragraph
which appeared in the last issue of the Athens
; /fanner:
“Out For Akis.”— Under the above heading, the
r Atlanta American gives a list of “distinguished
and influential Democrats who have abandondened
Brown and declared for Akin.” In the list we
fiud the names of Hon. Asbury Hull and Wm.
\ Hope Hull, hsq., of this place.’ If the American
is as much mistaken in regard to the other gentle
men mentioned as it is in regard to the Messrs.
1 Huli, it will be as hard for the editors to substau
• tiatv their assertion, as it is for them to prove their
bank charge against Gov. Brown from his letter.
■ There is not a word of truth in the assertion that
* either of these gentlemen have “abandoned Brown
» and declared for Akin.” The reputation of the
- American for veracity would not suffer if it was
I a little more cautious iu its assertions.
And the following letter from Wm. Hope Hull.
Esq., which we find in the Atlanta Intelligencer of
the 24th inst:
Gainesville, Sent. 19.1859.
Messrs. Editors: On yesterday I observed a list
of names, of Democrats who intend to vote for
Col. Akin, copied from the Atlanta American,
in vfhich my name appears. As I have many ac
quaintances in the State, who will be surprised by
such an announcement, I beg to say that the
American has been mi-informed. I have a high n -
Bpei*for Col. Akiu.but I am content with the ad
ministration of our present Governor, and shall
certainly vote for his re election. Respectively,
Wm. Hope Hull.
[communicated. J
A Card.
W* were present aui heard the speech, lately
by Mr. Toombs in Lexington. Our re
collet tiou is distinct, as to the nature of his re
marks concerning the press. He denounced that
class alone who are iguorant of the duties of an
e<|Uor, and seek to mislead the people by misrep
resentations; but he spoke in very complimentary
terms of Ihe intelligent and honorable gentlemen
ftponeQted with the press, who devote their time
fifea talents to the enlightenment of the public
mind. W. M. Arnold,
Wm. M. Mclntosh,
of Elbert county.
[communicated.]
Mr. Toombs and the Press.
Lexington, Ga., Sep. 22d 1859.
irntnc Editor of the Constitutionalist :
Aar Sir: Without a disposition to obtrude
pyjm'■ <•* tfmacASHsnly before th'*dmblic, ot t i in-
ldL> ,n th * m other
people" we think it is due Mr. Toombs under exist
ing circumstances, that our recollections of his
position toward the Press in hia recent speech at
Lexington, should be reported. It has been
charged that his remarks on this subject were un
qualifiedly denunciatory. This is so-gross a mis
representation that we are surprised that it should
ever have be- n made by any one. The severity cf
his remarks were confined exclusively to a class of
incompetent editors, who, under the authoritative
title of the royal pronoun we, assume to become
leaders of public opinion. His general remarks
about the press (excepting this class of editors)
were highly complimentary.
We think it a matter of some importance that
the position of so distinguished an individual as
Mr. Toombs, on a subject in which the public have
so much interest, should not be perverted in such
way as to curtail bis influence.
Very truly yours, Z. P. Landrum,
S. W. Harris,
E. R. Pace,
Wm. M. Smith.
Willis Willingham.
E. W. Johnson,
I. W. Johnson.
[communicated.]
To my friend, Col. Rttnce Right.
Fkibdpancaker, Sept. 19ih, 1859.
I writ you a letter not long ago, and as you have
been kind enuflf to answer it immediately, I have
jest concluded, on this bright and joyous morning,
when all nater is a smiling, and the birds am a
singin’ their most butifuliest song; when the winds
is a si-hing softly and gently through the trees,
and the murmurin, of zephyrs is a fanning my
’ brow, to respond as shortly as the surcumstances
of the case will purmit.
What a great and glorious privilege letter n
ting is. To think of coinmuu'cating with a distant
friend, as intelligibly as if face to face—to pore in
to his ears words of consolation amid difficulties
avA trials , and to brace him up for al future con
flict. What a privilege, uhl la! it is impossible for
one so ’ ambit as me, to do justice to this gigantic
subject; but your owu imminent ability will no
doubt inablc you to grasp it in all its fulness, ami
comprehend it in all its higtit and depth, as I
beermt said, you have lately writ a monstrous long
UitHr to some gintlemen a living way up in Gusty
Town, and which wasnor&ied about' in a little pa
per away up thar, yfipr.l the Chronicle & Sentinel ,
which I am in hopes I shall see in afew days and
have the pleasure of perusing that most able docu
ment.
Speaking of shad, my dear Col.,don’t you like to
see your name in prims? don’t it do you good ?
don’t it sometimes give you palpatatum of the
hearts f don’t it cause you to shed tears of joy,
when you think, that posterity may perhaps men
tion your name with some degree of houor and
respect? Say now, jest don’t it? Don’t be afraid
to say yes, because us we mderstand one another,
our communications will be strictly confidential.
I must confess the first time (and 1 reck in may
be it will be the last,) that 1 ever was a Kandidate
for Kong reus, (you remember the time l got beat
so bad? ) just such thoughts as these floated through
my brain; but since that time the vision has tad
ed away; its aurora tints have been hid beneath
the clouds of disaster and defeat, and all is now
rts silent as the grave. No monument makes my
political sepulchre; but, “unwept, unbonored.
an d unsung’,-my career has closed, and the goal
of uiy ambition, • Kongress,) is still unattained. 1
feel assured in this little episode ot my life, I have
your most sincere sympathy and condolence, for
a man, who like you has read so much, (away in
to Ez«.'ekiel,) must have read Mr. Pope’s paraphrase
of the Lord’s Prayer, and more particularly that
portion of it which says, “Teach me to feel
another’s' wo, Ac., Ac. Now, nuy dear friend, it is
time Ish ould begin to notice the pints in your
letter, in ri'Sponce to the questions io mine. You 8 «y
in reply to itoy questions, as to you being a no party
man that this* was the original plan adopted by my
friends in the convention which nominated (no, I
forgot, recoinn*:ended) me, and at first approved
by myself, subject, as a matter of course, to the con
trol of subsequent developements. We all thought
the adoption of sucii * plan good policy, from the I
fact, that by such means, supposed that we might
be enabled to throw a sufficient quantity of sand 1
’ u “ eves of a good many Democrats, (enough
to control tile election,) to induce them to vote for
me, and that having taken the Sebastopol of
Whiggery in days ugone, the Riorums result r
would warrant the means used. The prize to be t
won was worthy of this stroke. My friends thought s
so, I thought so, and indeed we all thought so. t n <
the meantime, however, our friends were to be let I'
into this one secret, (I mean such as were not) 1
privy to the move,) that tins was only done to fool
the Democrats ; that we were as good K. N.’s now
as ever, aod indeed a little better, time having
added much to convince us of the truth of the
position assumed by said parly. But if on the
other baud, we saw the movement didn’t take
well with the Democrats, and our own men be
came restive under it, why the programme was to
be entirely changed, the no-party platform to
be thrown to the winds, and the Shuffle Ji'jards
again mounted, with all the expedition imaginable
Many are the schemes, my dear friend, that are
worked behind the curtains; and if only the half
were told, the dear people would be utterly
astonished. One scheme upon another is proposed
by the leaders, in order to insure the success of
party ; hut this one of no parly is the latest, and,
1 presume, will be patented, if we find out it has
never been made use of before. I think, howev
er, I shall abandon the scheme, since having look
ed at it, I find it is a most too transparent, and
however weak the people may be, as a general
rule, still, when a thing is too plain, they possess
(for candidates), a most unpleasant faculty of see
ing through it. Thus, my dear friend, I am in
hopes my position on this question is fully under
stood by you, and my motives properly appreciated.
Tliia, my most dear friend, Wright is perfectly ex
plicit, and I most assuredly do understand your
position. Your position is, I'm hound for Kongress
and certainly appreciate your motive—your
motive to git there some way; and that you
would as soon git t/iar without a party as with one,
caring for nothing but lo git thar. Now, as a
matter of course, it wouldn’t do for this piece of
information to be communicated to everybody, but
as I well unilerstand the art of keeping secrets, you
needn’t be at alloneasy, for I shant blow on you.
1 reckin the idee of gwioe to Kongress must be
very sweet to you, as 1 onderstand you’ve bin run
nin round right smart here of late—giving the
B’hoys some golly whapping talks about matters
and things in gineral, and specially as to how
things is managed away up ttiar in Kongress,
wharyou want to go, so ast' have some fiugerin
the pie yourself. Some people are gitting mon
strous steered, aud are beginning to think that the
only way to save things from destruction is to elect
you, and then everything will be Bight indeed. 1
remember, once in my life, to have read in the
writings of an author of some repute, the follow
. ing passage, viz.: ....
“ 1 was some days ago in company with a poli
tician who very pathetically declaimed upon the
- miserable condition of his country; he assured
me that the whole political machine was moving
in a wrong track, and that scarcely even abilities
1 like his owu could ever set it right again.” Now,
• my dear Colonel, some people are ill natured enuff
r to sav, that, in your talks, a strain something like
, the one jest quoted seems to pervade the whole
subject matter. You cau’t imagine what an amount
' of wind it has cost me to defend you (a most out
: rageous vanity, if true,) from this charge. But
the mists of prejudice are fast clearing away, and
the glorious sun of truth, like the mteral sun in
eastern climes, is a rising, grnud, glorious, aod
beautiful, in "one unclouded bluze of living light;”
and l sorter guess that in the course of ofew u-etks
will have reached the meridian of its splendor,
when, even the most hardened unbeliever will be
convinced of the truth. There is a great consola
tion to me in ihe present, to thiuk there is a dav
coming iu th e future, when things nou> kid shall
e be made ktaowo; ««ctr as, for instance, that the
. aeon fry can’t do without your services. Now, I
r don’t say this out of any ill will to you, as a mat
t. ter of curse, but only desire the end spoken of
iu order to convince those who are afraid you think
8 so how absurd it would be for a man of your sense
d to enteriain any such idea, however much your
n words might lead one to conclude you did.
Now, my dear friend Right, I must conclude
this epistle, hoping (as in the former, ) you will ex.
" cuse, Ac., Ac. When you see Mr. Jones, please
1 remember me most affectionately to him, and jest
1 sav to him we are all Bight, with the Kance left
I off. Please further say to him, that if I should go
to Washington City any time during the next win
-8 let, I shall most assuredly do myself the pleasure
e of calling on him, at which time I shall desire to
s be showed round to all the ” Big Bugs.” May be
\ you would like to take a trip ou tbar, and il so be,
we might go on together, provided you will wait
until about the middle of Jinuary. Going on thar
t might improve your manners somewhat —polish
s you up, Ac., as 1 understand that is all you now
e lacs of being perfectly irresistible, sence the “Gus
. ty Boys'* have made you don the black suit, as a
1 token "f respect to the memory and present grief
for Ihe death of old man Sam. Give my love to
all who may inquire alter me. Rite soon.
sentiments of the highest regard, I subscribe my
self truly your friend, Ralpho.
Death of “Madqb Wildfire.” —The Border
• (Scotland) Adreiliser notices the death of Eliza
beth Gbahvm. the “Madge Wildfire” of the
“Heart of Mid Lothian.” She was a pauper, aud
was fouud in a dying state in the public road. It
Fi'ty years ago Elizabeth Graham was the rus
tic beauty, belle and toast of Melrose and its neigb
■ borhood, respectaoly brought up, with health man
tling ou her cheek and guileless innocence in her
heart. Returning home one evening, she was set
upon in the gloomy solitude of the Bogle Burn
and there ruined. She returned home, or rather
she immediately forsook the ordinary naunts of
man, having become a raving maniac, and hence
forth she dwelt apart, living alone among, but not
a responsible portion of hum inity. The outward
form of what had once been a gay and happy girl
took up its dwelling place in a rude cave in the
old Quarry Hill of Melrose. Here she slept at
night, in summer and winter, wrapped up in a
blanket, save when for some wild ana woeful weeks
atter the birth of her dear child, when she fol
lowed it to the churchyard, and would not be driv
en away, but slept among the tombstones to watch
its grave. It was from the unfortunate waif that
Sir Walter Scott drew the character of Madge
Wildfire, in the “Heart of Mid-Lothian.” The par
ticulars of the sad case were quite well known to
him, residing in the neighborhood, and the reader
will observe that there is a striking coincidence
between the real faers as we have briefly detailed
them, and the incidents in the novel as depicted
by the pen of the author of Waverly.
The Balloon Ascension.—About twelve o’clock
on Saturday, a promiscuous crowd commenced as
sembling at the post office corner and in the vicin
ity of the Oglethorpe lot, to witness the ascension
of the balloon, which took place at live o’clock in
the afternoon. There were old Fogy and Yonng
America; old and young Africa of both sexes,
awaiting the event with eager expectancy.
After ihe preparations were all completed, the
balloon released from the guvs which fastened it,
ascended, and rose beautifully and higher—its ad
venturous voyager, Mr. Wells, was almost lost to
view. We think it went up about four thousand
feet, but owing to a rent iu the top, its course was
suddenly reversed, and it descended gradually to
the earth. We learn that Mr. Wells intends to
make another ascension after his return from Sa
vannah, when we hope he will be more fortunate.
_ Columbus ( Ga.) Sun
The Editor of the Appeal Caned.—-Saturday
afiernoon. Col. Leyn Trousdale, one of the editors
of the Appeal , was inveigled into the real estate of
fice of Monsorrat, Dupree A Co., and handsomely
caned by Oliver Lucas, a whole souled attache of
the same paoer, and Frank M. Paul, the cl' ver lo
cal of the Avalanche. The application was not
made to the shoulders of Col. Trousdale, but to
his right hand, and was so handsomely done by
Hon. Jere. Clements, of the Enquirer , that no re
sistance, whatever, was made by the recipient of
the favor, who expressed himself highly gratified
with the assault. The act was premeditated by the
doQors, but to the gentlemanly recipient it was a
pleasant surprise.
Memphis ( Tenn .) Evening Argus. Sept. 19.
VOL. 38—!N r O. 40.
From the Baltimore Sun , Sept. 22.
United States Grand Lodge of Odd Fel
lows.
The United States Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
re assembled yesterday morning at the usual hour,
G. S. Craighead presiding. The Grand Treasurer
submitted bis annual reports of the receipts and
disbursements for the past year. The receipts
were seventeen thousand three hundred and sev
enty-three dollars and seventy cents, and the dis
bursements seventeen thousand five hundred and
thirty-*\x dollars and nineteen cents—showing an
excess of one hundred and one dollars and ten cents
of expenses over receipts. The report also showed
a balance in the treasury of ten thousand three
hundred and dollars and ninety-six
cents, which sum, it is presumed, will be nearly
sufficient to pay the mileage an d per diem ex
penses of the representatives at the present ses
sion. During the first half of the past year the
G.T. was compelled to borrow three thousand
one hundred dollars to meet liabilities, and it will
again doubtless be necessary to authorise the
Grand Sire to issue the notes of the Grand Lodge
tor about the same amount.
The Grand Secretary made a supplementary re
port, showing the receipt of three thousand six hun
dred and ninety-two dollars and nine cents,since his
last report was submitted, from Grand Lodges;
one thousand six hundred and ninety-seven dollars
and twenty-five cents from Grand Encampments;
and eighty-four dollars and fourteen cents from
other sources. The amount of supplies during the
past year was eight thousand five hundred and fif
ty-eight dollars, of which amount seven thousand
five hundred and one dollars and thirty-two cents
was profit, and the amount of supplies on band
seven thousand two hundred and twenty-three
dollars. The report also states that one hundred
and twenty dollars was received for the Wildey
annuity.
Several reports were then made by committees,
of interest only to the working order.
Rep. Vietel, of the finance committee, reported
resolutions directing the Grand Secretary to settle
with the Grand Encampment on the payment of
one hundred dollars of its indebtedness in cash,
and a note or notes of the Grand Encampment for
the remainder, (one hundred and seventy-six dol
lars); which was laid on the table. Also, a report with
resolutions, to reduce the price of diplomas to sev
entv-five cents, and a discount of thirty-three and a
third per cent, when purchased in numbers of
twenty five or more copies; laid on the table.
Rep. Caldwell, of Ohio, submitted a report, with
resolutions, that when a subordinate lodge or en
campment becomes extinct, any member thereof
shall, upon the payment of his dues, receive from
the proper authority a card of withdrawal, to have
the same effect as if it had been granted by an ex
isting subordinate in good standing.
Rep. Veitch, of the finance committee, submit
ted the estimated receipts and expenditures of the
next year—the receipts twenty thousand five hun
dred dollars, and the expenditures seventeen thou
sand and twenty dollars. Accompanying the esti
mates was a resolution to negotiate a temporary
loan for such sum as the immediate wants #f the
• treasury may require, and appropriating seventeen
thousand and twenty dollars for the expenses of
the current year.
The greater part of the day was spent in the sub
mission and discussion of amendments to the Con
stitution of the grand body, none of which possess
any special interest.
Visitiruj Odd-Fellows—Call on the Sons of Malta.
The Chosen Friends Lodge of Odd-Fellows, of Pbil
- adelplua, reached this city yesterday morning, ac
, companied by Beck’s band. The procession of that
Order having been postponed, the visitoflk nr»aae a
visit to the nail of the Sons of Malta, at
Hall. They were received on the part of
* S. M. by CoL J. R. Johnson, Col. S. T. Houston,
j Robert Pendleton, and Wm. E.. Bartlett, jr., Esqs.,
a and a cordial welcome was extended to them. A
[ fine collation was soon prepared, and for some
time a spirit of good feeling prevailed. Before
f the separation the band played several fine airs.
The visit was wholly unexpected, but the hospital
' iiy of the Sons of Malta was not taken by surprise,
as the entertainment fully indicated. After the
visit the Chosen Friends walked through the city
to examine the principal objects of interest, and
left by the afternoon tram for Pbiladel phia.
From the Griffin ( Ga .) American Union , 23.
Census of Henry County.
McDonough, Sept. 15th, 1859.
Mr. Murray: The following is the census of
Henry county :
Heads of Families 1,201
Males between six and sixteen 933
Males under six 648
Males over sixteen 1,656
Females between six and fifteen 785
Females under six 634
Females over fifteen.... 1,739
Deaf and Dumb 2
Lunatics 1
Idiots
. Total of Free Whites 6,414
Whole No. of Staves 4,305
Free Persons of Color 15
Total 10,732
Henry Stokes.
From the ClarkesviUe {Ga.) Journal, Sept. 17.
Census Returns for Habersham County
tor 1859.
We are indented to the clerk of the Superior
Court, for the following abstract of the Census re
turns of Habersham county for 1859.
Total No. of heads of Families 941
Males between 6 and 16 770
Males under 6 521
Males over 16 1,237
Females between 6 and 15 648
Females under 6 671
• Females over 15 1,344
Deaf and Dumb 1
Lunatics 0
Idiots 5
Total of free Whites 5,092
Whole No. of Slaves 825
Free persons of color 35
Total 5,947
From Rome ( Ga) Svutherner cf* Advertiser , Sept. 23
Roue, Ga., Sept. 22d. 1859.
Dr. J. W. Wofford— Dear Sir: Below you will
find the census return as made by me for Floyd
county, for this year:
Heads o fFamilies 1,642
Males between 6 and 16 years of age.... 1,292
Males under 6 years 1,039
Males over 16 years 2,343
Females between 6 and 15 years 1,146
Females under 6 years 953
Females over 15 years 2,357
Deaf and Dumb 41
Lunatics
Idiots 5
Total Free Whites 9,157
Whole No. of Slaves % 5,518
Free Persons of Color 26
Total 14,711
Yours Respectfully, J- R- Towers.
The Builders’ Strike in London.—The conse
quences of the strike in London is begining to be
severely felt. The London Morning Star referring
to the subject says :
It is lamentable to see the evidences of the
builders’ strike which meet the eye all over the
metropolis. Great works are suspended—groups
of operators are going about with nothing to ao
—and masters have no outlet for their capital, and
no means of fulfilling their contracts. Here and
there a contractor appears to give way, or at all
events to effect an accommodation with workmen,
but on both sides the strike may be described as
general, with litile hope of any side yielding in
the struggle. Supplies continue to be sent from
the country to the operatives ; but these funds are
not much among so many, and wives may be seen
visiting the pawn shops while their husbands are
walking the streets.
John Durkin, Jr.—His Death. —We regret to
hear of the death of this promising young man,
which sad event occurred in Columbus a few days
since. He was scarcely twenty-one years of age;
but gave evidence of much usefulness as a man and
citizen. —Columbus {Ga.) Times, Sej>t. 22.