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GORDON. • f> r<t. ti •’ . • j • A Fliill to tlic \oi tli. .* . j Editors Telegraph: With your 1 ind alienee, I have some . specalations to ventilate concerning the prevaling sentiment North, toacLing the exist- j ing nnd prospective r lati ns of the j • St tes towards tly United.J Stat - ivernuicut ‘and people a.- far ! ent 1 ame !ovcloped to i U3 • ■ lerstanding or was patent to my I ‘ nervation, bi my return trip to* .New S rk I passed through Nashville, , Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg'and j l’lnl =•!• l;>h.a. spending several days m | e.idi j'laoe, uml’ mixed tom hi• ■ rub-1 v , with the people, espcciall-y tit-* hn.-in ss I was a silent hearer of the ; \v rd poketi atid ’an attentive “obsery t'i’ <1 tjie “.'igns of t!ie tinms,’’ a- in., 1 die; t- i by ttio political horoscope. In Tennessee, notwithstanding the .iron rule of ils.i resent Governor, the i lin • r_ •>! ri storation is j rogfcssiii” favorably. The people’ar ; sic"k of vio* . lcncc and b’ood,, end paiit f> r the cool 1 waters and pleasant uihs of'peace.- —; , In Nashville, however, owing"perhaps tn the long prevalence ’of Northern 1 military ruh , there was introduced i mu’cli of fanaticis n into that heref.i tj re patriotic community. Vankee , tifjiis and Ji/cas.kept pace with the ! ingress of extremists, aij trailers and speculators, and thousands pay dily | I homage to the “powers that lie” in a i i Way that seems disgusting to Southern ! •i t v.- : • ‘.I In Kentucky, at least in Louisville, j nmch less of that cringing spir. it which .“crooks thd pregnaut.hinges jof t lie knee, ’that Un i t may Follow I fawning.’ ii here is .and Ins been more ol that, boldness of port anJ : speech which is of South- ‘ I ern chivalry, in its pain cst days, doubt les owing to tl e fact t . t Kentucky has • ■ not been abolition zed, but maintains its.p'odtion, as the only slam State in., tire Union! The*people ot the State* ■have voted way to the ciLancipation . nd incuts passed by.congress, and lined not to give up the, iustituti n, until fully out'.; ( usaict} Ft j thc.j ropcit, they would thus lose by k'gislation believed to be unconstifm'j • aland. Void. As the-hind of Ro has not been in open rebellion against i!o lavs j. 1 : 1 constitution of the Unit-1 id States, her claim for cotirpesation I for- property In I I.under the <!> nstlfu- : o!i in l forcibly taken from her loyal citizens, seems to lie valid. And if j’valid in res- et to loyal K ft tuck inns, ! wky.n >t in role re nee to loyal’ Yirgi Il ians a-n t Georgians ? The.claim once Cpntehted, ••I nt-le. Sam ’ will have a ‘ heavy bill of damages to pay lor props • ~ ,_;v i'u Samb'o and-Cass a, which his ■ . nts .have kidnapped, from their owuers! Tbc merchants of ‘L uis-- vilie Are hence, more- Hbt rally dispos .’. .! - irds the Soutlj tan tho >of any other city, take them as ;i clars.— 4 The) will • but tlieir hands in welcome, m re than half way, to meet the coniing'.of Southi ru'i rs, oc; errand of *busin< ss or pleasure.’ . Os Citicinnati, so long considered I by our people as the hot h-d of. ab’oli •tionism, 1 have now a mure favorable •opinion than I ’had. before my late visit to that. city. There is a trank generosity* among these‘Western peo. j.le which is in striking contrast with the bearing of the genuine sn filing Puritau. This was observable in the •Union armies from, the W est. . They j [•could better appreciate and were j uiiicker to acknowledge the gallantry - ; thelv Southi rn foes than those from _ | New England—and they are. now ! more disposed to. iorget and forgive tlieir late enemies, llencc I find a number of the citizens of Cincinnati not only willing but. anxious for all the Southern States to be restored tin- . conditionally to tlieir former status in the Union. The Enquirer of Cincin nati is nobly laboring for this end, and 1 we have hopes, with eventual success, j The that-e of Ohio, however, may yet | be set down as ultra radical, so thor oughly infused is her population with I the spirit that rules New England. Passing into and through Penusyh ! vania, l eould discover but little sym | pathy for the rebel South. Much cua j riosity was however observable as to { the present condition of this section. ! Many inquiries were made after the 1 “health and happiness” of the Freed mgu of the South. Will they work in their new relation ? Uow are they going to fare this coining winter for food and elothing ? What chancis are there in your section, for Northern men to buy lands and raise cotton ? What is the price of plantations, Ac. To rll such queries 1 have endeavor | ed to give truthful answers and to en | courage enquirers to come and judge 1 for themselves. I have told them that there is nothing wanting to nmke the South “bud and blossom as the ! rose” but the capital and energy of ! Northmen- Every branch of indus- I try has been paralyzed by the war, i >ud the people are auxious to inauuui THOM AS VILLE. GEORt JI A, WEDN ESI) AY, NOVEMBER 8, 186*5. rite anew system which will better develop* our resources and make of us a still gtouter nation than we have | ever oeen On this -subject I think our next'Legislature should take some | action that will in ace the right kind jof emigration into the State. The i rid', of humanity is flowing Westward • and Soutliwcstward and but little, t - . ward, . the Atlai uth, vWre the I , greatest inducements exist lor the -et • tlement of the min ralogist, tho ship builder, the-agriculturalist ami the ai.- - tizan of every grade. In New York f found much to. ex . , cite my bump of marvelous ness. The war has hud no depressig oehect unon ] the business of the metropolis. There I is more extravagance, poop and gay ety , than ever. There is .i..creased. ’activity in’every branch of a-rt and 1 commerce. Every thing seems to be done on the high pressure principle: •The country is inflated. New rfesour .ces sch as that of PHrttU am have . liee'ii discovered and are ‘being worked i to. the tune ot tens of thousands of barrels ©foil and millions-of dr 1 la; si Everywhere an epidemic, prevails, and r men, women and children;‘are arhic ted with t'bil an-the brain,", and so wide-spread is tho infection,- that-a new. proverb has ‘ I.ecu added to t ,e current literature of, the people—as •for:example,’when a person .has met with some sudden stroke of good . for tune, he is said, quaintly’ thoagh. ex. pressiycly cn’ough, to have “struck ile.” In truth, petroleum is- now in t’ e ascendent- in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and a flowing well of ‘ Seneca” is better than a (Jalifoinia gold ariuo, .so universal are the uses to which .this • substance'is applied, ami to profitable has it bccoiuo as aq article of com*, meree. • A.nd I would ell you leaders that.there are pet-oleum fields in the South as well as in the North In • < leofgiu, Tenucssc, Alabama, and o(licr States, the indications are numerous and the keen eyes of speculators are already prospecting this- country fur fttyoroblc sigter. to Commence boring for nature’s .gn an ! Whether the extruordiiutry impetus with which the car’ of commerce is driven, over the gr -at railways of the North will > ontinuc no one can tell. Many have forebodings of a fearful euliup-c when all will be buried in >no common disaster. Others again-, -ay that-there is no fear of disaster, so long’ as the Internal Revenue ’ Tas weekly foots up so many millions and the peup'e arc so eager to invest their .money ‘in governic.ent. V.-l Us., Tfue, i these are good indications of the sta bility of the government eir a S'..Ui-.d financial basis, but the question arises, aK> the people able -to stand the itu inenso ‘ taxation* now imposed • upon them ■ is n*- the burden too . riveous to be boruc for n Jong p riod ? -1 atft sure the pedplb of the touth are not able to have this burden superaded to that already sustained by them, in*> , cideHt to their late. struggle for rude*: petulance, and I tear the result wi i be fatal throughout th.e length and bredth of the land. . When* the Itub/c in burst , then look, out for calain. ties too dread lul to contemplate. • In political matters I have r o great consolation to offer to enquiring friends, .he late elections in Ohio and Penn sylvania iore-hadow the defeat ot the’ . conservative element in Congress, and .the complete • triumph *of the radical party. 1 fear that President John son's poßey.,of reconstruction will not 1 prevail against that of .unlimited negro suffrage and other extreme -ideas of the day * I hardly dare hope that our Representatives elected this fall to 1 Congress will be ad mi ted to - seats in that body. If not, what then l Yes, what then? may be asked em phatically, without any one being wise enough to give a solution of so pro found a problem. . The disposition on the parl of mer chants in New York to compromise with their old debtors ami give renew ed facilities to Southerners is worthy of special record. 1 have not heard of a single instance where a rigid ex action of the full “poud if flesh” lias .been “claimed, but on the “contrary, I have been met with the remark “take your own time to settle up old scores’’? “glad to see you back i gain”; “never intended to force a settlement”? “know your situations and can make allow ances for your short-comeings”; What cau I now do to serve you.” Huch are some of the greetings re ceived by men from “rebcldom” in the great commercial metropolis, and we hail it as a good omen of the per petuity of the Union of our Fathers, no more to be disrupted by internal feuds and bidding “defiance to a word in arms” against us. Truly yours, &c., L. F. W. A. • —— * Why is a hungry man waiting for his breakfast willing to be a martyr ? . because he longc to goto the stcai. Proud, Ilravc ami Voble. Proud, brave, noble —without a tar nish upon her'banner, without a Llenß j-h upon tier fair fame, respected j home and honored abroad -fpr- nil I manly qualities that h&vs been devel oped in peace or war. says the New’ 1 York A’ th.e South rests from her ► trii.gle. With the j .Hu lie. >of lifry | fears, and the education of a * century moving- the hearts *oL the . people, she! dared the perils of a revolution; est- j countered a!! its sacrifices, suffered its I agony, and without stint gave men wlm lived great live -and in death are not f.irg'itten.-—Bhe’ failed, and her sorrow* will become as “old kings id'a grand an 1 peerless Jim-.”—She stands 1 before the world to day, not -humilia ted, but depressed ; not conqured, but cast down.. A new.life Opens to her view, brought by force back into the Union from .which . she bad dis severed herself as by the voice-of one , man, she finds presented to her new i c mditions of political existence. -The : old fabric ot’ society is undermined and in- ruins. Old -institutions that gave her wc’altli ami p Wer and cow- \ tributed to her prosperous, greatness ; of the common country, arc .gone for- | ever. -As a nation, tlie S-outli starts • afn sis. ‘ She commences another lease | of existence ;-and under a system with which she is-trtiacquainted, theaggre; - ‘ givt*, impatient spirit ot the North (Jc- . {hands that she shall at once.and with-., out*restraint succumb to the new rela tions. that'have been created by .the I war. We believe that she will bc> ! fore the South looms up tlfe forrest o\ • ,a mighty, future, that will give shade tor those who may. reap the. harvest. But.the seed must be planted now. by the voices of their living and dead, the people are called upon •to work now while the day lasts. Greatduties me to be-done ; tremendeiious re.spi n sibilitics are at stake. . The men who hereafter represent the thoughts and interests of the South, must be, and j hav.e been true to liev in head and • heart and hand, ’ Tliey will ’come to ! Congress, they will be called upon to ! mingle tlieir influences, social and .povj litreal, in the currant of the Union,, but those influences should illustrate the South or nothing at all. \Yc want earnestness, truth, reality ; and when a brave ..man why lias fought, be it movrally or phisicall,. through this war in behalf of his. cause, and conscientiously comes forward .ac knowledging his defeat, and pledging i himself to future support ot the Cou- | stitirtion and laws of the United States,. \v.> would rather see such an one stan ding upon tae floor of (Ungrcss to ex press the will of people, for occupying a.sfation of honor and trust than all tlic s called “loyal men of the South,” so pJiantly quick to their mast rs. word, in whom God has breathed the breath’of life. ’Wc say therefore to the people of the South 1 elect to your public offices your b ‘st citizcns-*-not th se who •; lay th.e hypocrite during the war and the traitor since, but men whowyou have tried in the fire and hot. found wanting — men who have sealed their devotion to your cause and shared your weal anil woe. Let no arbitrary power oi sword or baycnet, or threat of radical politicians deter you in this, a sovereign right. -Go into-the Union and vote. You -will come to the doors of Congress as a Union party, and you. will be ad mite i as such; or hy the grave of God there will be schism in the ranks of your erf etnies, that'will scatter them to- the four winds of heaven. M c want, like wise, new men as well as true. The issues destined to arise in the halls of national legislation, demand ’ young, Irish thoughts and vigorous brains.—* The era is on: of*reform, the spirit of the a‘j;c is pr igressivc, anil to foster its cood or combat its evil, will require the brightest- and bravest intellects that illuminate the South. lor a while they may he surpassed. Obsta cles may be thrown in the way of tlieir election;’ of acceptance, but let the people persevere. —Change, it abso. lutely i.essary. the object of your eloice, but yield not one jot or title of the right which the law of the lan 1 confers, and before many months have elapsed it will be 1 iscovered that, if the South be true to herself, the ma jority of the people of the North, whether known by one political name or another, will be equally firm in the assertion and maintenance of a free government. A\ ith this cooperation I secured, the South will once more feel throbbing within her vein- some of her ancient glory, and rising from the dust, she will enter the race that is set , before her, and win, pevha-s, a nobler triumph than r.ny of wbicli she now dares to dream. “Jack, your wife is not so pensive as she used to be.” “No, she left that off, and has become confoundedly cx-pensive ” 1 51 r. Davis and the Ladles of . Virginia. To llis Excellency, Andrew John* son, President of the . l/nitc l States : ■ Sir : \Ye, the ladies of Lynch berg, Virginia, worthy daughters, we trust, of the Oh.l Dominion, present ’ oui.-elvi s as petitioners before you We come, Mr. President, with no ’ unmeaning words, nor to urge aught that has not already been said in be half of him for whom this petition has beeii presented, but with hearts burdened with a sense of the solcmnii ty of. our cause we ask fur mercy for the’ distinguished prisoner Jefferson Davis, the beloved and honored l’resi dent of the late Confederate States.— lie has only done what thousands in this Southern land have done. He was their chosen leader : -thc repre sentative of principles they deem sa c ed. WilJ y u not be as- magnani mous as you arc powerful, and accord to him a full, free pardon and return him to. the bosom of his wretched fam ily ? In all ages of the world the voice of woman has been heard above the storm of passion and’ of hate ; let i now prevail and bring with it mercy for him who, when power was-in his hands showed himself merciful. . is ;m attrilnitii of (Jod himself,. . (ml eartldy power doth then show likest God s Wheii Mercy seasons Justice. We do pray for-. Merry, . In (1 that same prayer doth teach ns all to render The deeds of Mercy. • ’ We, -tile women of. tbc.South, have been the. greatest sufferers by til's des> (dating war. o.ur beautiful, our brave have fallen, never t<> gladdeti oui; hearts again. Wc sent them forth with bles sings on them, and- bade them battle fur what, they honestly believed was ‘tlieir . inalienable right —that of self-government.. If wc have, in your judgment, erred. Mr. President, have wc not'suffered enough to expiate'any faith ? Ob, will you not pour the •balm of- mercy on pur crushed and bleeding hearts;, listen to tho wail .that finds an echo in every true .wo man’s hearts ; grant our prayer and set the captive (Vcc ? Sir, when the hour of death comes, arid it must come to.all, this deed of mercy will stand by you as an angel, and brighten your passage along the dark valley of death. Vou will have the approbation of During the war John Ross, the Cherokee chief, was on both sides. — lie went to Washington and tnade Mr. ’ Lincoln believe that lie was a fiicntl of the Union ; while at Rich mond he was believed to be a friend of the Confederacy. Now at last he is found out, deprived of his ehieftan cy, and every .way repudiated. Upon this fact the Chicago Republican re marks : “What a political and social disturbance there would be, if.all the chief of the whites, commercial and democratic, who were on both bides during the war, should likewise be found out, exposed and degraded to the ranks. the world, atwl the testimony of your own conscience, which will bring you joy and peace, and your petitioners will ever pray, etc. Mrs. JUDGE D. A. WILSON, Mrs. JOHN-M. SPEED, Mrs. GENERAL RODES', ’ Mrs. H. S. BOCOCK, Mrs. WM. R. MOSBY. and 320 others. Tire Scene ol'Hcssolallon In Norllicrn Georgia. •The Augusta Constitutionalist, of recent date in a graphic description of the present appearance of Atlanta and the surrounding country, so terrably devastated by Gen. Sherman’s army, says, that the town of Atlanta ii a be wildering chaos of tunibled-down ‘bric-k walls, newly set up frame sham tecs, white tents, piles.of lumber and stone, heaps of newly arrived merchan dize, hurrying, eager crowds of people, with here and there, more mournful by contrast, some imposing edifice and heaven ascending church spire. But “resurgam” is written upon the front of the gate city. Her people are en terprising, thrifty and indomitable. The same paper says that after leaving that city, going towards Tennessee, for more than a hundred miles thsre are rifle pits and earth works every fiff ty yards. Dessolation broods over the wliole scene. The country has not I yet put on the garniture of peace, but sits like Niobe. —“Yoicelesss and tearless In her childless woe.” No fences, no houses, no smiling crops.- Here is once beautiful Mari- I etta, all disfigured by the smiting hand of war. Yonder stands Kenne saw Mountain, its once blooming front all scared and scarred with earths works—and holding at her base heca tombs of slain. Wc turn in pain, and l vaiuly, from these sad pictures to find some relief. What a terable commentary upon the fierceness and protracteduess of the campaign of Johnston anil Sher man—is the face of the whole country. How bitter the contest —how terrific that inch by inch and step by step was.waged for more than a hundred mips through those once peacetul val leys and pleasant plains. Here and there you can observe oc casional evidences of the revival of trade, and notice an unfrequent plow ; but this is the .exception, 1 ot the rule. It seems impossible for those once thriving, hard working and prosperous North Georgian to recover from the stupifying blight and sad effects of the war. • There is a population in and on the subburbs of this city whose condition is such as to enlist the sympathies of all good people, and for whom some thing should be done. It consists of families who have been striped of cveryteiag, and whose male members went into the war and have never re turned. On the blackened ruin's, of their once happy homes, under tents and sheds that furnish but .little pro tection from the storm, they simply ex ist and such an existence ! li lpimis Ward c *Strik.es He.’’. Salt River Ro-rin*, —GS ‘My Deercst Betsey Jane —Here I am cum, as slick grease, out of the reecli of the’ “slings aqd arrers of out*, ragis forchune,’’ as the I‘oit sez. Es anybody enqwires to Baldwinsvil about Artciaus Ward,’that-.used to be some in the show biziness, say to them, with a tear in thy I, Artimeous (that’s the Greek spell of my name), the great showman, is dead—that is, to ignoble persoots. Tell them Artemys is no more Aftemus, but a “body corf ora ted tell them Betsy -Jane Ward is n.o more the wife of the captain of the Baldinsvil milishy but a- lady. — Betsy Jane I’ve struck ile 1 Fm as rich as Creasus. My Uq will spirt up in a stream too hundred feet hi, and as thick {is the mainmast oi‘ the IrorG sides. o liuisy, what a site of mean work I’ve dui in my past’ career! To think t'hct I used to handle the boar constructors and other reptile snaiks, in my show, and all for no use. I got poorer and porrer, while the snaiks and tigers got fat ; and at larst the pesky rebs konfiscated my show, and “Otlielly’s occupations was gone.” This is a kold world, Betsy—par* tickul *rly whar ther’s no ile. When I got poor (cauz how I was too good natured like Father. Abram, and let the boys into my show without payin) even my monkey made mouths at me, an I was a wax Agger meself—that is, I was patience on a monument. But nobody “saw it” but me. Now its different. Shakspeer, or. some other wise theologun, sed sum is grate, win grateness by a pack of cards cr a horse race, an the rest git big by axident. Now I didn’t win it, or git it thrust on (o me, but I bored it Qut the stuns of Salt River, with a government orgur. Borin is of two kind^—borin for the corporation (thats for the money) and afterwords for the ile. Wal, you see I bored myself out of A. Ward into a grate company, called the “Ole.’inus Saline Carboniferous Indication Man ufacturing Company.” I tell you pri vately that name took splendid. We —that’s me, and Artimus and Artime ous & Mr. Ward” opined an offis, and from Mondy morn till Sundy dawn we bookt the shares. Our company was organized to. wit —it had 10 milluns.of shares at 3 sents a share, and I sent foi “reserv ed for working capital.” We garran. teed everything. We told the noose boys and other contrabands that we had the “royilty’’ and “fee simple’’ ot the ile on Salt river. We told em we was oposed to aristockricy and big shears. We told em the shears were “limited” —so they was, to our treasu ry. Our shears went up to 17 dollar an 14 1-2 in fourteen days 1. We sole out and started another, an this was the way we went on, til the vale oi Salt River was board liko a pepper box. Betsy Jane I’ve guv you the modis operandy of striking ile. The man wot got rich on wot 9 talers guv him, and inscribed patriotickally on his buggy. “Nine talers made me man, was a foot long side the W ards. I m eomin to Baldinsvil soon to close up thine undistinguisht career, and open in Bosting a establishment worthy Betsy Jane. Tell Zeke Bigelow to make me a coach 4, &n put on a panel an orgur as big as the mainmast of a ship. I intend to make the codfish riggins pale their ineffectooal fires, as the apostle says. The Artemus corpo ration sends thee a oleagenius farewell kiss. No more at present. From thy dearest luv, Artemus Ward. TERMS $4,00 A Year, in Advance. Mike's Failings. The following was lelated to me hy my brother, at whose place of business the subjoined happened ? Mike Brewer had but two serious failing* viz : his inordinate love of i drink and tobacco, and to obtain thoso he wovhl sometimes almost go through fire and water. f. As we were continually annoyed hy bis coming in and asking for* ci *gar ora glass of brandy, I determined to rid us of such a pest. He general ly came in at or about twelve o’clock, so a little before that timo I took a ci gar, and unrolling the outside cover*, ing, placed therein a fuse, and rolling it up carefully, placed it by in one of the drawers. We soon heard his uncertain, shuf fling step, and saw him in the doorway: bowing and scraping: “Good morning your honor.” Then there was a pause, but ÜBv daunted he continued •. “Hev you a. cigir for me,” he said; “Don’t bother me now, Mike. If you can find one, take it and clear.” “Bedad an I will,” he replied. Mike soon found the cigar, and with • out a word ran off to- show it to his friends. I watched him arffl saw him. in the midst of a party of Irishui.-R explaining to them how he beeamo • possessed of such a “rate fine cigar.’* lie soOn sat down and lit his che root, and then I watched him with ■ some curiosity. 11c puffed away with evident satisfaction for some time, and then suddenly there was a flash and a “fiz,” and Mike held nothing but a stump in his mouth. The flash and the smoke blinded him for a minute, and when he recov ered liis sight he found himself de serted, as his • comrade* evidently thought that he intended to blow them up. ‘ After this affair, wd naturally tho’t that we would see him no more, but judge of our astonishment when ho Walked in the next day, and with un blushing effrontery, asked me for * “dhrink.” I fold liim to come in the next day v hen I was in, and that he should have what he desired. As I entered the office • the next day 1 found that James, our porter,, was helping Mike to “a glass of Bran dy, and awaiting until he had drained the glass, 1 said : “James I hope nobody ha* loach-, ed that bottle of poisoned brandy in the cellar I—” • “Oh! holy Mcses,” cried Mike, “I am dead ! I’m poisoned ! Ob I your honor if you love me, save fiie !’* “Hold your tongue, Mike,” I said, winking nt James, “I will save you.”. And I sent James for a box of Seidlitz powders, felling him to make .haste. When the box .came I dissol ved three blue papers in one glass, and three white papers in another, . and handing them to Mike told binj to drink them one after the other. As soon as he bad done so they pro duced the desired effect, for- he fell to the floor in a great state of terror, the froth issuing from his mouth nd nose. As soon as he had partially r&-• Covered, and to make the denoue ment more perfect, 1 drank a go©4 stout bumper of the said brandy,, and ho ion seeing me, and guessing the tficji that had been played off on him, jumped on hiss feet and started from the store, roaring like a uiad bull, It was effectual, £gr he ba? not been to see me sinc^.- Tlc Camber of Battles. The number of battles during the war is given by an exchange as two hundred and fifty-two —and o.f these the soil of Virginia drank the blood of ei< r bty~mne, Tennessee witnessed thirty-seven, Missouri twenty five, Georgia twelve, South Carolina ten,. North Carolina eleven, Alabama seven, Florida five, Kentucky fourteen, the Indian Territory and New Mexico one each. Once the wave of war rolled into a Northern State and broke in the great billow of Gettysburg. Os the battles enumerated sixteen wefe achievements. - Singular Naval Fund* — A fund of a singular caracter has accumulated in the Fourth Auditor’s office of the Treasury which has reached ?2,000, 000, -ince 1798. It is made up of unclaimed balances due persons who havbeen employed in the naval sen* vice, and from fines for desertion, &c. It is proposed to fund this accumu lated sum, and recommend the passage of an act establishing a home for those who have been injured for life whilst engaged in the naval service, the iff stitution to he supported upon the iu terest of the naval fund. A correspondent of the New Era, nominates lion. B 11. Bighan. of ‘Troup county, as a candidate sot G*?Y<‘ cnor, • NO. 22.