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i MAcON, GA. Thursday, January 7, 1858. KANSAS APOSTASY OF JUDGE DOUGLAS. The objections taken by Jcdoc Douglas to the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution, arc two; viz.: that Congress has passed no enabling act, authorizing the people of the territory to establish n Constitution, and that the whole Constitution has not been sub hiitbed to a popular vote, for ratification or re jection. Both of these objections are flimsy and tintenable, and we are forced to conclude that they are aho captions and insincere—for high ly as we have esteemed Judge Dovolas in the past, we find it impossible to believe that a statesman of his acknowledged ability and thorough acquaintance with the history of our territorial policy, can honestly entertain the opinions which he has lately professed, end un dertaken to propagate and defend. To say that an enabling act is essential, before the people vs a territory can form a Constitution, Is to as sert that no less than eight of the new States have been improperly admitted into the Union : while to contend that no Constitution is valid unless ratified by the people primarily and that ft refusal to submit it for such ratification is despotic and unfair, is to declare that the Fed eral Constitution and that of a majority of the States have been adopted in a mode w hich is illiberal and anti-republican. The idea that the people (primarily) meat pass' upon a Con •stitution, can only proceed from the false as ■snmption that our form of Government is pure ly Jlemorratic, and that no law can be enacted and rro election made except by a mob in an •oldTield, where every man must have a voice in the proceedings—whereas every school-boy knows that -Mirs is a representative republic, •in which the people aet by theirograf* to whom 'they have delegated authority. If the people of tilnsas had the right to establish a Consti tution. the proposition that they could not dele gate that duty to a Convention, is a bald falla cy, not worthy the name of a sophism, for it has noteven tlic poor merit of plausibility—and •the assertion that the Convention was bound 'to refer its work back to the people, when the •■people themselves had imposed no such obli gation upon it, is of a pace with the rest of the •argument ; if that may be called an lirgument, Xvhich has falsehood for its base and folly for the superstructure. A weak man might fall into these errors, and we might still respect his honesty, while we pitied his delusion —but even then we should -demand consistency in conduct before we could •concede sincerity of purpose and conviction. In the present instance, there is no such ex reuse, Judge Douglas Ims no superior, in point «of talents, ’among the statesmen of the country, aud besides a thorough knowledge of the gen reral theory of our government, is peculiarly well versed in the history of our Territorial system. When we hear such a man adopt the TUlgnr cant of demagogues about popular sov ereignty. and declare against the usage of the country —the usage, sanctioned Uy our best statesmen. Gen. Washington among the num her—we find it difficult to believe that he is the victim of his own sophistry. Hut w hen w e find him involving himself in gross incon sistencies, falsifying his own history and ig noring his own record, and. withnl. stooping to perversions which are patent and to so phisins which arc not even ingenious, we are compelled to give over the attempt in disgust, and to class him with those great, yet grovel ling natures, of whom the world's history is too full, and in the contemplation of whose characters we know not whether most to ad mire the might of their intellects, or most to despise the littleness of their souls. The inconsistencies into which Judge Dot g i.as has been betrayed by his avarice for place, nre too glaring to escape the notice of the dull est observers. He who now contends that the Constitution of a territory must be sub mitted to the people for ratification or rejec tion. Inows that in a majority of instances no ■such submission has been required, and has himself sanctioned the contrary principle by •his action in the Senate. He who now declares that an enabling aet is necessary. Xnoira that •in the cases of eight of the new States no such ■act was passed, and lie himself voted for the ; admission of two of them into the Union. He who now seeks to dictate to the people of Kan sas the mode which they must adopt in the formation of their Constitution, is himself the author of the Aet declaring that the people of Kansas shall be perfectly tree to regulate their institutions “in their eten way." He who now contends that Kansas <nn make no Consti tution w ithout the enabling act by Congress, is himselfllie father of the Bill, which removed the vexed questions of territorial rights from Congress, mid vested their solution solely in the people dflthe territories themselves. These arc someg'f the lamentable inconsis tencies ntto which he has fallen, ami equally lamentable are’Hie sophisms with which lie ut tetqpls to defend:tlivm. This, from the very natnze-tf.Un'case, wie, to have been expected. In the fiMtqdace. like Ji hue Douglas. hitbeige Tiir.sd and justly noted, for a manly vehemence df ohatMtar and straight-forward style of ri-aeoiii ig, corn’d not but feel ill at ease ou his first'appearanct »the role of the rene gade and Ike .trickster. The little weapons of the were all-suitaii to his hand —it was e part qif Hercules wifi the distaff —and. no d«/bt, he sighed wore tliai once for the knot u-tdU -club bcnotlfli whose Vrrible descent, those -viCke-lire now folk contedo.’ates have so otteii l imddJed together Tike tru htened sh'.ep. But . another, and stronger reison, is, that the eon tr.*liotions'are so glazing that the most prac . ticetl Mjyihist of the Aiii.enian Porticos could met •often, much lees reconcile them. The ■Kanous Act lefttSxeipiwple free to regulate their own ‘domestic :? net trillions “in their own tray," subject only Ae'tbe’Constitution of the United States. Accordingly they elected members for a territo-iid Legislature, uod in this elec ,tion all -were Tree to vote. This Legislature, ■the legiiltty-of’whose acts, was fully acknow lledgefi ibettli by the Executive and Congress, ordered the election of a Contention ; in this election, likewise, all were free to vote. This Convention met and performed the duty as signed to it—they formed a Constitution, and submitted the Slavery clause to the people for rejection or ratification —and here, again, all were free to vote. All have voted who chose to do so. the Slavery clause has been accepted, and the Constitution is complete. Al) has lieen done regularly—in pursuance of law, cus tom. aud tlie Constitution of the country. This Is “the ■'<"/ 'ihe people of Kansas have chosen ■ to proceed—a “ way" not prohibited by tli e Kansas Act—a “ way" adopted by u majority of the States of the Union. They now demand admission ns a State —and when Jvdoe Doug las opposes the application on the ground that the Constitution was not submitted to the peo ple, it is plain that he acts in defiance of the I principle of non-inferrention of which he claims to be the peculiar guardian, mid of the Kan sas Act of which he assumes the paternity— like the voracious Saturn, or a savage sow, ; (the reader may choose between the illustra ■ tions) devouring his children as fast as they | come before him. lienee his subterfttges in argument. Hence, his attempt to di vert the debate from any reference to his own I career. Hence, his demagogical rant about popular sovereignty. Hence, above all. his im patience under the charge of inconsistency, and his request that Senators would let his record alone and stick to the question before them. We are w ell aware that it is hazardous lor us, an “obscure critic,’’ to speak lightly of an argument proceeding from Judge Doioi.as. But it is precisely because we know his great powers and acknowledge them, that we are im patient under sophistry hardly worthy of a fifth rate attorney; and it is precisely lieeause we have hitherto ranked him among Democrats, the truest of the true, that we are indignant at the desertion. When a dunce talks nonsense, we forgive and forget it. But when a states man condescends to fustian, we depise him— | for that which is a blunder in the fool is a crime ,in the sage. So. also, when a known scoundrel deceives us, we harbor no malice—for “"tis in I the line of his vocation.” But when lie of whose prowess we were proud, of whose truth 1 we were confident, ami lor whose fealty we would have pledged our lives, blasts all our expectations by a sudden apostasy, the recol lection of his past services mid the knowledge of his great powers, only aggravate the treason ' and deepen the detestation of his guilt. No doubt, many an obscure soldier deserted the Army of Freedom in the Revolution, of whom history takes no note, and who soon faded even from the memory of his comrades, but Arnold, who stained the snows of Canada with his blood, and ranked as bravest of the brare at Saratoga, will godown to the latest posterity, loaded with execrations. Judge Douglas must be content to pay the penalty, common to all great renegades. In such cases, the eminence of the apostate always attracts cotemporary observation —comparisons nre in stituted between that period of his life when he was loyal, and that over which the treache ry throws its shadow—and history preserves the contrast. Even Burke lias come down to us with a dark shade resting on the latter pe riod of his life. And yet what an advantage Ihe had over Douglas ! No man doubted the ' honesty of the first—not even those whom he deserted. No man credits the sincerity of tin iest -not even those to whom he has “ratted I" AVe know very well that Judge Douglas still claims to be a Democrat. But we tire equally well aware that Judas went back into the company of the Apostles and claimed to be one of the chosen, even after he had arranged the conspiracy, and. perhaps. I.ad the price in his pocket. Let the Democracy be on their guard, nor sutler themselves to be betrayed by a kiss. GEN. WALKER AND COMMODORE PAULDING. An account of the inexcusable outrage, per : petrated by a Commodore in the United States Service, involving not only an act of brntul tyranny against the person of Gen. 11 m. 11 ai k- Hit, but, also, a high-handed invasion of an in- > i dependent sovereignty and a wanton violation j of the first principles of international hue, will be found elsewhere in our columns. That the Federal Authorities were in duty bound to exercise every precaution in order to prevent the fitting out. ami the departure from our shores, of the Walker Expedition, is an unquestionable truth, which, we suppose, no body is disposed to controvert. Nay, had they succeeded in capturing Walker outlie high seas and in bringing him back to the I nited States, though even ill that ease they would have been in the exercise <>f n doubtful power. it is possible ! that there might have been a species of acqui escence on the part of the people. But the facts of the ease are widely differ ent. Walker ha 1 succeeded in running the gauntlet of Federal Bailiffs id New Orleans, and had safely landed his little band at Pi nta Arenas in full view of Chatard, I’xt lihng. and other such sleepy guardians of the Central American waters. He was clearly beyond the jurisdiction of the United States. He was upon I the soil of an independent sovereignty, with , whom this country is at peace, lie had hoist ed the flag to which he professed allegiance, and stood on the land of which lie claims to lie the rightfully elected ruler. One thing is certain. He was neither in the territories nor iqain the waters of the I nited States. He was covered by the Sovereignty of Nicaiiagi a. no matter where that sovereignty resides; and I whether he was a patriot ora pirate, a hero or an outlaw, does not affect the question in the remotest degree. The vilest criminal who es ' capes into the dominions of an Independent State, can not be arrested nor delivered into the hand' of his own Government, except un der positiv • treaty stipulations —nay if the of fence was political, and none other is charged to Walker, he might come to the United States with the King's head in his hand, and bid de fiance to his piirstiers./brrrer. What is to become of the rights of nations and into what endless broils is our Govern ment tube involved, if every boastful eoxcomb like Ciiatakh. or every ignorant bully like Pavi.iiing. is to be allow ed to construe the hue of nations for himself, and to invade the soil of Independent States with whom we are at peace, upon any pretext which he, in his great wisdom, may deem sufficient? The act ad mits of no palliation, and the manner of its performance aggravate' the ofl'eiicc. Nothing could be more disgusting than the braggart air of these heroes, when telling of their exploit', which consisted in the capture of a few ill armed and undisciplined men. by a trained force four times their niiiiilier and backed by the batteries of men-of-war. Great men! Great achievement! IfECATri: must give place to Ciiatahk. and Vattei. and Gnonts “pale their lights" before the brighter glories of the sagacious Paulding. Y. M, C. A. —Prof. 11. H. Tt cKEit. of Mer cer University, delivered a Lecture la't Tuesday night, at Concert Hall, beforethc Young Men's Christian Assiiciatlon. Hissubject was “ Beau ty a We were prevented by other en- gagements from being present; but are inform ed that the audience were very favorably im pressed with the Professor, rind highly enter mined by his Lectun THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN AND JUDGE DOUG LAS. .. The “ Savannah Republican” is in high spir its over our denunciation of Judge Douglas, and will not even allow us the right to be sur prised at the tergiversation of that distinguish ed turn-coat. Very well. If we have no right to be “ surprised” at the course of Judge Doug las, we now claim the right to be "surprised” at the course’of the "Republican'’ itself-and for this simple reason : Judge Doi glam contends fur the broadest . interpretation of popular sovereignty— that is to say, he insists that the people of Kansas have the right to vote for or against the whole j roust it at ion, the slavery clause included; and that the failure to submit the instrument entire , invalidates the proceedings of the Convention. ■ He has never denied the right of slave-holders : to migrate into Kansas with their slaves, nor ■ the right of the people of that territory to es- | tablish the institution of slavery by law. Mu. Fillmoke, on the contrary, has denied both throughout his whole career. He has uniformly sustained the “ Missouri Compro mise,” and denounced the authors of its repeal ( and the repeal itself. Yet every body knows that the "Missouri Compromise,” prohibited slavery in Kansas, and every where else North of the imaginary line 36-30, Judge Douglas Ims uniformly contended that the “people” of Kan-as (primarily) have the right to establish slavery there, if they choose—though he denies the right of a "Con- 1 vention” to do so, except by ratification of | the people at the polls. But Mb. Fill more, has just as uniformly been in favor of withholding the right from the Convention and the people both. He is the fast friend of the measure which prohibited slavery in Kansas under all circumstances and. forever. Yet the “ Republican” denounces Douglas, while it lauds Fillmore to the skies and rec- I ommends him for the highest office in the gift of the people ! What is the explanation ? We think we can give it, Douglas has hitherto been a Democrat— hiue iliac lachrymar! THE "SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN" AND MR. TOOMBS. A letter-writer having intimated that M-. Toomiis is bitterly opposed to the course of Douglas, the prophet of the “Savannah Re publican'’ emitteth the following plaint: “We here record the prediction that time w ill prove this latter supposition to \w false.'' It is well that the “ Republican” should put on record its own predictions, for few others in this wicked world will be at that trouble. We indulge the hope, how ever, that “time I I will prove" that the "Republican" is mistaken. ’ I We base our opinions upon the following /.'<■- I solution, adopted at Milledgeville a few weeks | ago—introduced by Mr. Stcpiiens, sustained , by Mr. Toomiis, and voted for by other mem ■ la rs of the Georgia Delegation ; Hrsolrrd, That licnevcr a Territory applies for admission ns a State into the I'nion, with a i Con-titution republican in form, and adopted I in pursuance of the requirements of law, Con- i gress lias no power to inquire into the matter | of such Constitution, nor into the manner of! its adoption, farther than to see that it embo- i dies the legally and fairly expressed w ill of the majority ot the people, ascertained in such way i I ns they may have legally determined for them ; selves, mu) were gard any interference by Con | gress, with either the math r or the iiunuier as above stated, as equally unconstitutional ami i dangerous to the rights of the State-. The “Republican" may rest assured that Mr. I Toomiis has no idea of turning tail on this Re solution, simply toprove that paper to possess the gift of prophv y. He is not quite so oblig- I ing’- For the t*tate Press. BUCHANAN & WALKER A DISTINCTION WITH OUT A DIFFERENCE. Messrs. l:'ditors:—As one of your renders, your article on the President's Message afford ed me much pleasure, but allow me to give you some reflections induced by its perusal. On the issue between Buchanan and Walker, we should carefully consider whither an uncondi- I tional support of the former would lead ns.— We complain of the President that he permit ted his agent to intervene in Kansas against the letter slid spirit of the Kansas Nebraska act, and to intervene positively against the I South, throwing h ; s whole weight and authority | against us, with the palpable purpose of so slia- ■ pmg the affairs of the territory, as to make it a free State. He is blind who does not see that the submission of the Constitution for ratifica tion, was an invention to give the free State i men the adi antage ; because when first enun | cinted it was then already firmly fixed, that ! the Convention to frame the Constitution was i all proslavery. Walker did not desire a pro slavery Constitution—therefore, to avoid it he insisted that it should be submitted, that it might be rejected. This he might well rely on being done for, the influence of his position, and speaking for the administration, paralyzed the proshivery men and encouraged the free State men—checked the emigration of the former and promoted that of the latter, and in truth, gave I the whole pro-slavery interest on that ques i tion in Kansas, and all over the South, almost, if not quite, a deathblow. While this was progressing, not a word of reproach comes from the administration. It and Walker appear to agree perfectly, until their darling Irish is accomplished, in the sub mission of the Constitution. Now, no candid man will deny that the submission was enforc ed entirely as a means of settling the slavery is sue in the proposed new State, and that thus I far. the President admits that Walker's poli ce was his polii'y, ami so declared to him in the beginning. Neither the South nor the North regards the submission as bas ing any vitm.importance beyond its bearing on the sla very issue. But the object of the President is necomplislied. and the motive for M alkcr's in sisting on the submission has been successful, and yet we find them now dist ring, but differ ing, remember, only as to the umnnrr of the submission. And that manner relates only to the subject matter, because Walker. Buchanan, and no other free State man could have it more his own way. than it is in being referred to all in true squatter sover eignty style. Then so fur concerns the merits of our complaint, the President stands condemned.— The illegal interference is well established and it remains to be seen if its purpose is to be consummated, in making Knnaas a free State. If all the inhabitants of Kansas vote on the ratification, and reject the proslavery clause, then the President's expedient of submission will have lost us the State, and there will be a practical effect given to a palpable violation of the law. If only the prosjgvery men vote, Congress may <1 believe w ill) reject the appli cation for admission into the Union, and put it oti the ground Walker now take- that the whole constitution was not submitted—thus evading its rejection, “because of slavery there in,'’ but still doing the work of free soil. If perchance, Congress should admit Kansas, not withstanding the free State men declined to vote on the ratification, there will be no thanks due the President, for he has made us “run the gauntlet" in the submission, and getting it submitted as he desired upon the only materi al point, he could not sustain himself for a mo ment. if he continued to side with M alker.— It may be asked, why the present difference , between the two.' This I think easy of expla nation. Walker's course in Kansas, as soon as understood, made him the natural ally, and real loader of the free state forces. All his sympa thies went w itli them, and against the South, j and for their needful support, lie was compelled i to identify himself w ith that party. Portions of the constitution not submitted, contain principles the Black Republicans despise, and provisions w hich put to the death their most prominent and ambitious leaders. It is only necessary to refer to two. Slavery as it exists at the adoption of the Constitution, is to remain , at the will of the slaveholders, and the doctrines of the Dred Scott decision are incorporated in to it. The Black Republican party of Kansas, and of the whole Union would rather revolu tionize the country, than submit even to this. They want a elean victory for now and here after. Walker must go with them or be with out any support in Kansas, or among bis Black Republican associates in the North. Again, the qualifications for officers of the ‘ future State are peculiar. For example: the > Governor must be twenty years a citizen of the United Statesand five years of Kansas.-- Under this, Robinson, Lane, ik Company are consigned to the shades for some time to come, and a host of other Black Republican leaders, will have to bide their time before they reach : the places they are reaching after. Walker is himself excluded. His interest, as well as his svmpatliks are against the adoption of the Constitution. And considering he is brought I in direct antagonism with the bead ot the na- j tional Democracy and has made a martyr of | himself to the god of Black Republicanism,! his interest is of the most intense and magnifi- | cent kind. Then he and the President may i well differ to the extent they do now without • ' changing the nature of the issue we have made i with the former. Things are at present work- j ■ ingweil to eventuate in a free State —a result so necessary to the perfect harmony of the na : tional Democracy, and "hisExcellency'’ has no intere't confined to the locality of Kansas, and : ! not being a candidate for re-election, he will I | only look to the means of saving the Northern J I Democracy from absolute prostration. Audit' ' it should become a slave state, he has done all in his power to prevent it; hence such a result I may well be charged to the folly of the Free I State men in not voting down as they had been invited generously to do, the Pro-slavery I clause. We must all. then, very readily perceive, how we may be made to take a zealous part in an i issue upon the result of which, we are to gain i nothing, either in |>rim iple"or pru tice. In- ; deed worse than nothing, for then we become absoluti- ] artizatis of the ndmini-t ratimi. become I co-workers in the work of our ow n destrue- ' tion. mid demoralize ourselves by a com mitt. .1 I to a policy utterly antagonistic to the positions taken by the Georgia Democracy. Mr. Bu chanan, since liis message, can uevi r relieve himself from th? stern truth ot violating his plighted faith to the Southern Democracy. whether Kansas is a fre ■or sir■■ ■ e-'at. . In the fight r.boiit to take place between him and Doti'das we are compelled to : ide with him as long as there is any thing practical in such a course, but nevertheless upon the oft-repeat i ed and degrading situation in v. hii h Southern men have been placed of "taking the very best they could get. - ’ And if not with the al solute certainty, with the strongest probability, that [ the crime of which we complained will be consummated, and we become partieepscrimi uis, or any way, “ accessories after the fact.” The triu policy then of true Southerners is to take no active part for the administration, beyond the emergency which will soon pass away, and then no more than is actually ne cessary to advance the rights of the South, and ' to keep all the time steadily in view, a deter mination to resent, whenever opportune, the bartering our dearest rights for the base spoils of partv, present and prospective. CALHOUN. Griffin, Jan. 2nd 1858. Messrs. Editors : —Since writing on the sub ject of Mr. Buchanan’s course in reference to Kansas, we have heard from the President, and it appears that he and Mr. Douglas, the two ! great Democratic Doctors, differ about the ad mission of Kansas into the Union. Mr. Buch anan seems to think that as the conven tion framing the Kansas Constitution submit ted the slavery question to the people that i Congress ought to admit the State —that being the only portion upon which Congress had taken the precaution to divest it-s-ls of all pow er and to vest such power irrevocably in the people of the Territory—it follows, as a matter of course, that this is the only matter about which Congress will now enter into an enqui re, to see whether or not they have regu ! lated the subject of slavery “in their own way." Congress having “left the people of the Territory perfectly free to regulate their do mestic institutions in their own way," it de ! voices upon the Bresident and Congress, to see to it that they shall "regulate them in their own way"— that “their own way" a certain particular way dictated by Gov. M alker to the people of the Territory as the only way by which they could come into the Union, and as the people have done the thing that way. they have therefore "regulated their domes tic institutions in their own way." and Congress being bound not to interfere with that matter Congress ought not to interfere with “anything else!" That Congress ought not to look intoany thing but the slavery question as that is the on ly subject Congress wastaledged to let alone. For some purpose, best known to himself, Mr. Buchanan determined to control the action of the people of Kansas on the slavery question; thedesign was unlawful but he accomplished it, , and is therefore ready to receive the State, w hile Mr. Douglas having forgotten that Cali fornia was admitted w ithout any territorial or ganization, and without any legal author- I ity, the whole proceeding being an un precedented usurpation and an nnparelleled fraud, thinks Kansas ought to be remanded to her territorial condition until Congress gives her the privilege of becoming a State. The organic act provides that Kansas may lie admitted as a State with or without slavery -that the territorial Legislature 'hall have power to legislate on all rightful subjects of leg islation—and that the time, place and manner of holding and conducting all elections by the people shall be prescribed by law —ami that the Legislature shall prescribe the qualification of voters after the first election. Then why should their action be annulled and the State remanded to a territorial condition ? They have in their own way had one election on the slaverv question, and in Mr. Buchanan s and Walker's way bad another, it is now proposed to send them back ami in Mr. Douglas's way | let them have two more elections on the same subject —perhaps by that time, if not sooner, the abolitionists with the help of the aid-soci- I eties may be enabled to have a complete tri- I umph. Whether the new State ought to desire to get into the Union when so much injustice ! is dune to slave owners, is quite another ques tion. It is the duty of every independent State to protect the private property of her citizens, and this is a duty of higher obligation than the adherence to leagues or confedera tions, and it is not to be presumed that any in dependent State would quietly submit to the wrongs ami robberies upon the property of her citizens which most of thcSonthern States have endured. Such a State would demand and re ceive satisfaction for such violations ot the rights of private property. It would then be come the interest of the neighboring States to i discourage negro stealing and it would conse- I quentlv become in all probability, a criminal ■ offence even in such States as now encourage I it by passing laws in open defiance of the Con stitution and laws of the I nited States. In stead of being engaged in making it a penal offence for any of their citizens to assist in carrying out tl.e fugitive slave law and refusing the use of their jails for the safe keeping ot , such fugitives, they would be passing laws mak ing it a high crime to give any assistance to a fugitive slave and y ielding the use of their jails both tor the fugitive and his abettor. j If ourmembersof Congress felt that they rep i resent States that were fully independent, could thev with honor to themselves and their Con | stituency sit and vote with members from States which have passed laws in open hostility to ■ the Constitution and laws of the Union and to i the rights of the private property of the people ! they represent ? Such States have no right to I the privileges of the I nion or a place in Con gress. When one nation violatesa treaty made with another the world considers the latter dis graced if she does not compel reparation—our Constitution being a contract of higher nutlior- I ity and more solemn obligation than a treaty it follows that we are under greater obligations to compel a compliance with its stipulations.— But we have permitted some of the Northern States to choose what part of the Constitution thev will abide mid wliat part they will disre gard. and our members to Congress still sit and act with them asifno wrong had been done.— Under such circumstances it is exceedingly questionable whether a pro-slavery State or ' territorv now out of the I nion would be ad vancing its own interests by seeking an en- I trance into the Union. Were our own good State out and truly independent, could we with our own eX|H-i'ieiicC‘ again seek a place in such a I’nion; or rather would we not seek a more ei>n"u:ii;il. a more hospitable and a more just and horn ral.-le Union a I nion of Southern Stat. s and Southern iiiten-'ts—a I'n'mn which v. uuldgive ii'indcp, nikliiv of ya a kit dom and the world! We have the power but are not <-mi 'i i,'!~ <•!'it. ami will not be perhaps till driven ' to t!:i • courage of despuir.'’ A DEMOCRAT. For the Stun 1 Press. ] Me."i:s. Editors: —Allow me to express through your columns my gratification upon seeing the name of our worthy representative, Judge Henry Faulk, recorded with the gal lant 33 members of the House who stool firm I tothe principles of tlieir constituents by voting to sn-tain the Executive veto of the abomina ble Bank Bill. The Judge w ill receive the plaudits of nine-tenths of the honest citizens of old Twiggs (the county of his nativity) for his vote on this measure. He lias proved himself a Jacksonian Democrat, and a faithful guardian of public interests. Our Senator (Mr. Griffin) was absent from Providential causes at the time the vote on tin* veto was taken ; but I do not doubt that lie would have been found shoulder to shoulder with the Governor in his efforts to protect the interests of the people. Yours, &c., TWIGGS. [< OMMI mi atei>.] THREE DEER KILLED AT ONE SHOT. About the 10th of last month. W. T. Guice, of Butler, Ga., while on a hunt in Clinch comi ty. killed, at one shot, three deer, w hich were all that ran by him. It was his first deer-hunt. APPOINTMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR. The following are the appointments of Gov. Brown, as far as made : Gen. Eli McConnell, Principal Keeper Pen itentiary. Capt. John Jones. Assist. Keeper Peniten’y. W. A. Williams, Book Keeper. Dr. Geo. D. Case, Physician. Rev. R. C. Smith, Chaplain. Mr. Wellborn, State Librarian. Benj. Cook. ('apt. State House Guard. Drs. T. Fort and E. L. Stroheckcr and B. j P. Stubbs. Esqr.. Trustees of the Lunatic Asyl : urn. The follow ing gentlemen have been appoint ed Trustees of the Georgia Military Institute: Hon. David Irwin, of Cobb. Hon. C. -I. McDonald “ Davis Ardis, Hon. John Milledge, of Richmond. Capt. W. T. Woflbrd, of Cass. BOARD OF VISITORS. Gen. G. P. Harrison, of Chatham. R. L. Mott, of Muscogee. Capt. Tims. Hardeman, of Bibb. Gen. A. J. Hansell, of Cobh. Hon. E. W. Chastain, of Fannin. Col. A. A. F. Hill, of Clarke. Col. W. S, Rockwell, of Baldwin. Maj. Goode Bryan, of Richmond. Col. 11. Strickland, of Forsyth. Hon. D. J. Bailey, of Butts. 11. 11. Watters. Esq., of Canton, Ga., Secre . tary of the Executive Department in the place of J. 11. Steele, resigned. The Governor has also appointed the follow ing Commissioners of the Georgia Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb. lion. J. 11. Lumpkin, of Floyd. Hon. J. W. 11. Underwood, of Floyd. Geo. W. Thomas. F. C. Shropshire. Alfred J. King. W. R. Webster. Samuel Moblev. P. W. Me Daniel. I 11. Fielder. Cheap Corn.—( orn throughout the interior j of Indiana mid Illinois, is said to be offereil freely at 10 and 15 cents |wr bushel. M ain Trunk. —At the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroacl company, on the 28th ult., the following offi cers were elected : E. L. Ileriot. Chief Engineer. W. W. Ward, Secretary. I loiiald McDonald, Treasurer. The following gentlemen were elected, yesterday, President and Direc tors ot the Cen tral Railroad and Banking Company, for the ensuing year. It is the old Board without change: R. R. Ct ti er, President J. W. Anderson, J. R. Wilder, Andrew Low, J. B. Gallic. Thomas Purse, W. R. Fleming, i W. Crabtree, F. G. Dana. NEWS ITEMS. Foreign Intelligence.—The Steamship Ni- 1 i ngara arrived in New York on the 2d inst., ; with Liverpool dates to 19th ult. She reports the sale of 28,000 bales of cotton during the week, at a decline of l-2d. Breadstutls quiet; Money slightly easier; political intelligence uninteresting; no later news from India; the commercial crisis still continues in the North of Europe; several heavy failures have occur red in London; the Bank of I ranee has reduced its rates of discount to six per cent, and it was 1 expected that the Bank of England would re duce her rate during the week ; the American Companies have abandoned the attempt to raise the Russian ships at Sebastopol. Washington, Jan. 4.—ln the Senate to-day a motion was made by Fitzpatrick, that the in structions and correspondence relative to the seizure of W alker be called for. Pugh intro duced a Kansas compromise bill, proposing to admit her under the Lecompton Constitution, i submitting the slavery clause to the people, and authorising the right to amend the consti ! tution in convention, to meet on the 7th April. In the House. Kansas affairs were discussed. Mr. Clingman introduced a resolution, which , was amended and passed, calling tor informa- , ! tion concerning the instructions and corres- ! pondence relative to the seizure of Walker.- The discussion was calm. Mr.- Quitman asked i consent —which was refused—to introduce a I bill for the repeal of the neutrality laws. Nn AiiAGt a.—The Washington Star coltains a letter from Gen. Heiiningsen. addressed to j the Hon. A. 11. stephens, in which he gives a minute account of the population of Nicaragua, I their incapacity for self government, and the plans of Walker for instituting a new rule over the country. He rejects the idea of paeiliecol onization.advanced by the President, ns illusory, an.l says the country can only be redeemed by force." To this end he urges a modification of our neutrality law s so as to permit free egress to military expeditions that may be -et on foct : by our citizens. Kansas.—At Leavenworth. Kansas, on Elec : tion dav, the vote stood—for the Constitution ( with Slavery, 238 —without 9. Many Missou rians were said to have been present and were pat under arrest, but released upon writs es ' habeas Corpus by Judge Lecompt. I’rc-i- ‘ dent Calhoun wii' burned in effigy—Ely Moore shot in the leg. The St. Louis Denus rat says : that passengers report an engagemuiit between Lane and the Dragoon*, in which the latter were worsted, retiring with the loss of three I men. Both sides are expecting reinforcements. The excitement is iiiteli.se. Nk aragt a Meeting in M< mi ss.—Jan. 2. A meeting of the citizens W ils held to-night, aud resolutions pa"' / censuring the Adminis tration for the arrest Vs Gen. Walk', r d.-mai d ing his restoration to Nicaragua, i.nd urging ,:..• I . I I the repeal oi tie n. ir.lit;. 11 . iromi.uiit Democrats denounce the inU-rv.:.t'mn of our Government in invading Niii.rn;. na, a., out rageous. Sai.i;.' at tiiu Coui.'T llo:»t. We notice . among tl.e sales :;t th? Court Htoise i n yesler terdav a gang ot m grocs, comprising *»4 in number, which brought at the average Soii‘l a piece. Also the sales of 13 shares Marine Bank stock at $4'J 12. and t n shar<s at 50. — There were some 75 iliares ot South \\e-tcr:i Rail Road stock sold, but prices were not made known. —.Sir. Ten Brolck Course, llie Race at the leu 1 Broeck Course opened yesterday. Notwjth- ■ standing the inclemency of the weather, the concourse was large.— lb. The Month >mf.i:y Adveiitisei:.- Mr. George 11. Shorter has purchased an interest in this journal, and will hereafter devote his time and ■ talents to the interests of the establishment. We wish him success and prosperity in his new vocation. Exciting Tonies.- Nicaragua, Kansas and Utah, bid fair to furnish plenty of exciting material for some time to c line. The old year passes away amid fillibustering, civil war, re bellion and polygamy. So wego! The number of emigrants arrived at the port of New York during 1857 wius 183.228 — an increase of 4(1.886 as compared with 1856. CLIPPINGS. Walker Excitement in Virginia.—Private despatches from Richmond say there is great excitement and indignation there and in Peters burg, on the seizure of Walker. Resolutions censuring and 'ondemning the act. were* intro ■ duced to-day in the Virginia legislature. The Gaines Case. —The New Orleans Pica : yune says that some new and unexpected evi dence bus been educed by that indomitable lit tle woman, Mrs, Myra Clark Gaines, in her la mous case. She brings forward various wit nesses, engravers, writing musters, and other experts, to show that the signature of her fa ther, Daniel Clark, affixed to various doeu uments, is a fogery. Au interesting point in the testimony to the effect that these signatures were executed with a steel pen, whereas it is well known that, at the time of their dates, 1794, steel pens were not then in use.— Tele- ■ graqh. Tennessee Banks.—-The Knoxville (Tenn.) Citizen says that the Bank.'of Tuzewell and j Claiborne in that State, will probably soon be reinstated in public confidence. At present : their bills are selling at 75e. on the dollar, and the notes of the Bank of East Tennessee at on ly 20 cents. Exchange is selling there at 5 to 6 per cent. ' premium, and very little to lie had at those I rates. Election in Brunswick.—The election which came off in Brunswick on Saturday last result ed in the triumph of w bat was called the Con servative Ticket. The following gentlemen compose the ticket: Mayor— Carey W. Styles. Aldermen— H.MeConn, John McDonough, S. L. Guest, John Pratt; A. S. Osgood, W. Har ris, J. B. Miller, E. H. Gatchell. Texas. —The Lamar Enquirer of recent date savs, “ Immigration still continues. Wagons are continually rolling past our office to the tar west. All sorts of provisions are in good demand, and no one is doing so well as our farmers ami planters. We think the immigra tion will equal, if not surpass that of last fall. Accident to Hon. M m. Griffin.—The Al bany Patriot says that the Senator from Cal houn. while pa-s’mg through that place, on his way home from the Legislature, was thrown from his carriage, his horsestaking fright, and one of his legs was fractured. He was able, how ever, soon after, to continue his journey. 1 Melancholy Rencontre.—Me understand that a difficulty took place at die 'tore of N. B. Allen ut Stevensville, Wilkinson bounty, in w hich Gen. Jas. B. Bostwick was shot by Mr. Allen, and died in a few minutes. Broke Jail.—Young Witcher, who killed his father in Atlanta, last spring, and two or three other persona confined in the jail at At lanta, escaped a few days since, by burning through the floor, and arc still at large. Recruits for Nicaragua.—Dispatches to the New York papers say that eight hundred men sailed from Texas for Nicaragua on the 16th ultimo. Discontinued.—The Post Office at Whiting, we learn, has been discontinued. MISCELLANY. "Ixioii, the Washington correspondent erf the South, ilescribes the notorious Sumner, of Massachusetts, us “a large, tall Senator, who I sits mar the main entrance, (of the Senate Chamber. I His posture is one of the most in imitable conceit, with his bend raised, his eves elevated and resting on a pleasant vacancy, his body turned superciliously away from the neigh boring Senators, and without even the least sign of attention to betray his consideration for anything that is passing around him. This huge coxcomb, with his hair so tenderly part ed and his big, white hands so constantly en ; gaged in strokinghimself, still smiling and talk ing to the lickspittles that surround him, isthat pampered, cane-marked hound, A lairles Sum ner.'’ Di:. Bi:i:niii.'EU—The Mormon delegate in Congress. Dr. Bernliisel, the question of whose excommimieiitioii is agitating that pure and patriotic conclave, is described as a little old man. with a bald head, spectacles, and so near sighted that when he writes, he is obliged to bend very low npbn his desk, and almost touch his paper with his nose. It is not known of how many wives Dr. Bernliisel is proprietor, but the members of Congress seem very en vious of the old fellow. Com. Paiiiuxg. Hiram Paulding comes , honestly by his.skill in arresting unlawful ex peditions. His father was that celebrated John Paulding, the Peekskill farmer, who was one of the three captors of Major Andre. Hiriu.i was born in Westeliester county, and early in life entered the Navy, where lie inis gradually I worked bis way up through the grades of Mid | shipmaii, Lieutenant,Commander aud Captain. . —Albany Journal. The Greased Pm.—lt is said that at least five hundred people witnessed the catching of a greased pig, on Christnuw day, in Dorches ter. Ma.". Twenty-light persons competed for the prize, each one paying an entrance fee ot twenty-five cents, making $7 in all. War ren Haley was successful. There was a foot race immediately after the pig race, in w hich Jonathan Baker, one of the six youngmen who I engaged, outstripped h:s competitors, A Bov Eaten i v a Bear.—M e learn from the Lexington (Mi".) Advertiser, that a young negro l«>y of John ."Stew art, Esq., living about tin miles from that place, while out a short .I stance trom t e house after cows, was seize I upon and eaten up by a bear. Ihe Si.avi: 1 8.-,t>E in Texas.—A series of resolutions, rermnmeudiug the re-opening of the Alrican Slave Trade, has been introduced in the lower House of the Texas Legislature, by John Henry Brown. Fki>ei:atw:. Movement in Alstraua.—A n .tion il party has been formed in Aiv-tmlia, the object being to bring about a union of all tie Au'traliau provinces in one great Feilcrnl State. Chat op Arms. It was recpntly stu t''i| at iui anti Mormon meeting that the arms of Utah consist of it l ee-hive, protected l>» n lion rampa: t. at whose feet is the Ameritan e.iuic. '■oueiiimt. and Inidly plucked. VZxT AND KUMOK. Pt nmng Dtsr.vrities.—Gen. Havelock is a wit a- well as a warrior. The following is tho di'p:it' li b. wlihli he conveyed the intelli gence of ills la't success in India tothe Govern or General: Din: General.—Let all our past misfor tunes be forgotten, fir we are in Luck-now. Yours, Havei.ih K. This is nearly a- good as Sir Sydney Smith's famous dispateli anno.inciiig the capture of Si inde : "Peceavi"—"l have sinned.” They both, doubtless, at some time servedill the Punjob. An lione-t Dutchman, in ti.'lining up his son in the way he should go, frequently exercised him in Bible lessons. On one of these occa j sions lie asked him : “Who vas dat would no sleep mit Botiplier's I life?’’ j “Slioscph." “Dat s a good poy . W il. vat vas de reason he voiild not sldeep mit her ?"’ "Don't know— slipose lie vasn't sleepy.” A wag says of a certain congregation that they pray on their knees Sundays, and prey mi their neighbor's the rest of the week. 2-t?’ A boy in a Latin school, gave the pas sage, " I’ouipi iusc.laiiat iiorte Casar pa la in set • iuhrdiu." the following rendering: “Pompey ate clams by night, Caesar by the pailful and , i in the day time." Fa< t. —On one of the grave stones ill a buri al ground in Gloucester is the following epi taph : This little boy wl.o lieth hero Was conquered by a diarrhea. Jej?* Tho following is on a tombstone in Ire r land : “Here lies th ■ body of Joh n Mound, 1.0-t ut sea, and never found."’ II ' Wh it the Kansas Lehiseature did. —The - late special session of the Kansas Legislature ■ resulted in the eiiactment of only two laws— one submitting the, whole Lecompton constitu tution to a vote of the people, on the 4th of Janmiry. Mid the other making the perpetra- 1 tion of election frauds felony. Several other i bill-, among them the mtritia bill, for orgaui -1 zing the territorial militia, under the command t of Jim Lane, were passed over the Governor’s I veto. but. ns they were not signed by the prc-ideirt of the Council and the speaker of the House, they are not laws. So says the St. Louis Intelligencer. Sales Yesterday.—Not many buyers scem i ed to be about yesterday mid consequently 1 sales were dull and things laid low around our " Citv Court House. Mr. T. J. Walsh sold 64 negroes at an aver age of $556. Those were purchased by <>ue of our Georgia planters. Messrs. Wylly & Collins sold 13 shares Mar ’ ine Bank stock at $49 50, and 10 do. at SSO. Messr-. Minis & Johnson sold 75 shares South Western Railroad stock, as follows: 25 at 81 and 50 at 80. at which the sale stopped.—N»r. Georgian. I Ni:w-capei: ii('.ii,iEiMTiiE —W« li.ne re r ceived the prospectus of “The Express," a new _ Ilemoeratic paper about to be established attho I flourishing village of Cartersville, in Cass Co, Satu'l 11. Smith (late editor of the Cassville . ‘ Standard) is the editor and publisher.—- . Terms; $2 per annum, in advance. — Nar. Re s publican. n 1 Treasury Notes. —Secretary Cobb has dc '■ eided to adopt 3 per cent., as the rates of in terest for the Treasury Notes, six millions of which are abont to be issued, in sums of one 1 hundred, five hundred, and one thousand dol '• lars.