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BY E. C. A A. M. HOW LAW. I
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From tho Albany Patriot Extra. March I -th. J
Homicide of the late Col. Joseph Bond. s
testimony OF witnesses and judgment cl
OF THE COURT.
We give below the testimony of Messrs. Sei- 1
lorn and Bell—Ute former being the only wit- ‘
n ess "to the transaction when it occurred; the <■
litter being familiar with circumstantial evi- 1
dence conncc'cd with this melancholy affair. '
There was other corrobnting testimony, which 1
wo deem unnecessary to publish. The exami- <
nation occupied Wednesday, Thursday and 1
Friday. The parties on both sides were sup- '
po”ted by able Counsel, and the investigation, *
which was thorough and searching in the ex- *
treine was conducted with that courtesy and !
fairness which is seldom witnessed in a Court ’
of Justice. Here is the testimony:
First witness, Win. J. Sellers.
W itness wasin Walker's field and Brown
was in Bell’s field; saw a man coming, who
Brown slid was Col. Bond. Bond rode near
and piisoner said, “good morning Colonel.”
Bond -aid “good morning; you are the rascal
that whippvd my negro”—striking Brown with
a -tick; Bond struck the prisoner the second
time with a stick, when prisoner either jumped
or fell from his horse on the opposite side.—
Bond jumped from his horse and ran to priso
ner. caught Brown by the shoulder, jerlced him
down and struck Brown with his stick—Brown
endeavoring to rise. Whilst on one knee and j
one foot shot Bond. Brown, when Bond struck
him the third time, called to witness “to come '
over there;” Bond said “Stay where you are, I
this is our own difficulty; we will settle it.
Bond, after being shot, again struck Brown :
with his stick; Brown jerked loose and ran ]
off; Brown ran some ten steps down the fence, I
jumped the fence, ran some fifteen steps into ]
M alker's field. Bond follow ed to where Brown :
crossed the fence and shot at Brown. Bond !
then turned ami w alked nearly to w itness and
said. “I am a dead man,” and fell—rose and !
fell again. By that time Bell’s negroes ( plough
ing near) came to him ; witness then left Bond
in care of Bell’s negroes. Witness had never
heard of any previous difficulty between the
parties; witness has lived with Walker since
the beginning of last year ; witness and priso
ner had been togethersometive minutes. Bond I
w as some two hundred yards distant when seen ’
by w itness; witness and Brown were convers
ing about Walker’s now ground, when priso
ner said “it is Col. Bond.” Witness said, "he
saman that I know w hen I see, but have no
acquaintance with, and I suppose he has been
your master”—(alludingto Brown having over
seed for Bond and speakingjocnlnrly). Priso- ■
ner did not say anything to induce witness to
think that a difficulty was expected. Bond
rode w ithin a few yards—three or four cotton |
rows of Brown, on Brown's right; Brown '
turned his horse facing Bond; Bond got oft ]
between the horses; Bond and Brown both i
tell when Bond jerked Brown down; Brown
fell upon bis knees ami Bond upon his knees,
head to head; Bond rather over Brown. Bond
recovered first. Prisoner drew his pistol from I
behind him w ith his left hand. Bond’s stick
was a small hickory stick, some two feet long,
not such a stick as was likely to produce death.
If a man had been killed with such a stick,]
w itness would have regarded it as an accident. ;
When Bond said, “you are the rascal that '
whipped my neg-o,” Brown did not deny it—
lie made no reply : they were some two or i
three cotton rowsapai t, w hen salutations w ere i
passed. Bond did not stop ; und as he rode up j
by thesidoof Brown. Bond said, “you are the
rascal thui whipped my negro," mid then
struck him. The difficulty occurred in Dough- I
city county in Mr. Bell’s field, on the 12th inst., ]
about 8 o’clock in ti e morning.
W ilucss thinks the stick exhibited is the ,
stick which Bond had ;is not certain. When 1
Bond struck the third blow he had bold of
Blown with his left hand; thinks that in that
position, a hard blow could not be struck. As i
Brown jumped or fell from his horse, his hat '
was about half off. ,
CROSS EXAMINATION.
Bond made no enquiry of Brow n, why he
had whipped his negro; did not wait tor Brown
to reply, Brown had no time to reply; Brown
was very near where he fell or jumped oft,
w hen he shot Bond, lie had not had time to
getup when Bond got to him, Brown had no
stick in his hand ; they were rising when Brown
shot, Brown made no attempt to draw his pis
tol until he had been struck the third time. —
Witness was in full view w hen lhe first and
second blows were struck and could have seen
it had Brown attempted to draw a pistol;— '
Brown was in Bell's field superintending Bell’s
negroes, lhe difficulty occurred across a lot ]
of land distant from any public road; it was
ome three miles distant from Bond’s “ White
Bid place.” The stick produced is a stick Wry
short for a walking stick, the witness thinks
that the stick in a close contest could be used !
better than along one. ami thinks that it would '
require a very heavy blow to produce death.
V> itne.-s states, “that the reason that he did
not state on l.is examination at the inquest that
Brou n asked him to come there, was that he ,
was not asked the question, mid that lie did not
think it necessary, as lie supposed be w as only 1
to ,-tate how Bond came to his death.”
* I
Jes'K S. Bell’s Testimony.
Witness and Brown was speaking of Mr. '
Cheek. Brown said that Cheek liad told Bond I
lies upon him, and if ever be evidd get the law
"I M .’ ! ‘ his side, he would make a mighty flutter.
M itness Brown then referred to Check.
< th* night previous to the difficulty, wit
ness and Brown were together—a negro be-I
Longing to Hell w anted tn purchase some to- '
hf.tco from Brown—Brown acknowledged ow-1
n_- the negro a dollar and a haff, and said, yon I
k<*i exttet coWe here on Snnday and get it, as j
(mayinn away.
a conversation with Drown n few days
; ■ ■■ u- tv the homicide, Brown asked witness
n I s laid heerd Bond say anything about his
hinnii whipped Bond’s negro; witness said
1 nhe bad not. Brown ia another conversa- 1
ti“>i -aid f-.at he v. as certain tlint Bond was
mad with him for having w hipped his negro.
Alter Br>wn whipped the negro—witness
thinks it va- the night Ik-fore the homicide—
Blown sai<l tint | H . | in d taken more from Col.
■ fie than he ever would front any other man;
think-that the negro was whipped on Tues- 1
dry prev ions.
loown -aid tluit some of Bond's negroes
might Com, Bell's plantation, that others
should not t;,r permitted Bond's negroes to
tome tv hi- ; iiu.titiom The negroes which,
U 1 wii said should not come were father and
.other to a negro :.t Bell's plantation. They
were favorites wi.h Bond.
" ilne-s Ims -.ml f,, Brown flint those ne
•- . ought to con,.. t , t| l( . plantation. Mrs.
ix .i i.>ld Brown that tin t nm-temne. Brown
. Inegro whipped was not one that
h>. idtmlml to . : # nej[r „ t| lUt (
Maki at the Towhow u ; lantalhm. Th* negro ' ,
whipped n „ Bls kmiitli Shop immediate- j
“•» m. t bh.su ji, „ f rutM ,
u t». iiiouii » 1m.4 Uu , | O c
oil he sppnttn led w Ullin tweuty step* ; wit- |
fete* *«id tv ilivun, dvbter juurnff t»|«, and I
cocked his gun. Brown said I thought you 1
were tny friend, Jesse; witness said, I have
been your friend; how’ can you expect me to
be yonr friend now ; Brown said, do you sup
pose that you could keep me here; witness '
said, Ido not know, but one of us will have to '
die before you can get away. Brown asked
several times for his horse; had sent for his
horse; told witness to go to Bond. Witness |
told him it was useless to attempt to get away,
that even if he got away from him he could
not escape ; Brown said, you do not know, (or
words equivalent). We went to the house; I
Brown went into the house; washed his head
and laid down. Witness loaded the other bar
rel of his £iin in presence of Brewu. Brown
went to his trunk and got out his money.—
Check was the first man who came; Brown
enquired who it was—ami on being informed,
Said, tell him not to say anything. Mr. Walk
er, Dr. Jeffreys, und Dr. Nelson then arrived,
to whom witness delivered Brown. Witness
was at the house, some three-quarters of a
mile from where Boqd was, when the negro
brought Bond’s horse to him.
Tried before Justices G. M. Duncan, M. Brin
son, W. W. Kendrick and A. J. Macarthy.
Warren <fc Warren—Clark & Lippitt—Lyon,
Irvin <t Butler, for the State. Vason & Davis
—Slaughter & Ely, for the defence.
Theprisoner was discharged. The judgment
of the Court was published in yesterday’s Dai
ly State Press.
Miscellany.
A Faithful Servant.—The burning of the
residence of Cupt. Henry C. Davis, of Ridge-!
way, in Fairfield District, on the Charlotte and
i South Carolina Rail Road, gave occasion for a I
i proof of fidelity and devotion of a servant. The
Winnsboro’ Register suys:
“Capt. Davis had in his possession papers,
I Ininds, 4c., of much value, w hich we are pleas-
I ed to add wore saved, and through the instru
] mentality of a faithful servant. The latter
' caused himself to be secured around the body
] by a rope, and suffered himself to be letdown,
during u temporary suspensio i of the fire, we
presume, through an opening in the roof
which had fallen in. Reaching the place of
deposit, he broke open the drawers containing
the papers, and rescuing them from the fury
| of the element, returned safely.”
Fatal Affray Between two Little Broth
ers.—The Spencer (Owen county Ind.) Jour
] mil learns that on Saturday week tw o little
boys, aged respectively two and four years,
sons of Mr. A. Goodwin, of Green county, got
to quarrelling as to which one should have
possession of an axe. After a short scuffle the
! elder one succeeded in getting the axe, und
immediately struck his little brother in the
head, killing him almost instantly.
Leavenworth, March 17.—An affray occur
red at Halton, Calhoun county. The pro-sla
very men tried to break up a Republican polit
ical meeting. The assailants were compelled
to retire, und ordered to leave the Territory
on pain of death. Judge Halton of the Pro
bate Court was severely wounded. There is
an immense emigration towards Pike's Peak.
Bowman vit.t.B, C. W., March 15.—Two men
] and a woman and child w ere drowned oft' Port
j Darlington last evening. They were in a
small boat, which capsized in a gale. Their
names are Mr. Crocker, Mr. Terry. Mr-. Terry
' and child.
I Extension of the South Western Rail
road.—A correspondent of tho Savannah He
puhliiaii says that on Wednesdav last the mail
train on the South Western Railroad made its
I first trip to Ward's Station, on the Cuthbert
extension. It is expected that the Rond will
i be completed to Cuthbert by the first of July,
and that the ciizous will make the Fourth the
occasion of.a celebration.
The -lot KNAL.S or the Legislature.—The
j Columbus Times says: The journals of the
last session of the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of this State have all been printed
and will lie despatched to the Executive De
partment at Milledgeville in a few days. The
laws, also, will soon be in readiness, and will
be delivered to the proper authorities within
the time prescril.ed by the Legislature.
To be Hi ng.—During the session of the Su
perior Court, in Chattanooga country, last
week, young Whlthwith, who murdered Hall,
some two years since, was found guilty and
sentenced by .nidge Cook, to suffer the extreme
penalty of the law, on Friday, the 22d day of
April next.
A Caning Alatcii in K insas.—Hx-Govern
or Robinson, of Kansas, was publ cly caned
in Lawreace, a few days since, by Martin F.
Conway, formerly of Baltimore, another prom,
inenl Free-State man. The cause of the diffi
i euity is not stated.
Black Eggs.—We were shown yesterday
I three eggs, one of them perfectly black, and
the other two very dark, from a duck owned
Iby a gentleman in this city. It is supposed
I that the bird woe imported by tho Blzaffercr,
from Africa, but h iw it reached this city, w e
■ cannot imagine, unless it was brought here by
i one of the negroes said to be located near Cie
i luinbia. “Juba" can tell.— Columbia Jl Metin.
Capt. Daniel Brown, believed to be the last
survivor of the Wyoming masssacre. died at
Wyalusing, Pa., on the 3d inst., at tho age of
88 years. Thus. Brown, his father, emigrated
• from Coune ticut to the \ alley of Wyoming.
1 and was the father of 21 children, two of
| whom fell in I lie massacre, and ;J1 of whom
I arc now- dead.
The Wheat Cror. —The Clevch-nd (Tenn.)
Hanner says:—The warm and pleasant weath
er for the past few weeks has ha 1 quite a sal
utary effect upon ti-.e cjuiiug wheat crop. Al
' though the winter » - as unfavorable for a good
I erop, the present indications are very promis
ing. Where it wa - put in early an 1 good it
looks very fine.
The Largest Land Suit in the Woin.n.—
Suits nre nl»mt to be commenced by the Cher
okees, wh i were driven from Texas many
years ago. for the lands granted to tlumi by
Mexico. These lands compo-c the richest and
the most fertile portion of Eiwtern Texas.—
The Fort Smith (Ark.) Tinies, of tho late t
date, says that the surviving ( herokee« have
employed able counsel to conduct the business
for them.
Armvai. or Africans.—Tim 11.-ntoL (Ain.)
Herald, of the l<»th inst.. learn* thnt two wag
on hinds of wild Africans hnd jus" nrrivoi' at a
pbintatiou in fho vicinity of thnt place.
The Rai.ii.lsNakj Cisr —The ease of .luhn
W. Brooke, a snake ium ier. who was bit by
a pet rnttl«*e>take mi 'J'ueaday, bus been ii'Hie
od. His I'ouditiiai Lad ion much improved
yesterday. The bitu was infheted u,K>tl lhe
forefinger ot the left hand. It was stated
that Mr. lir «A* has Iwen known to take a
vtpar and other kinds of sm»ke» aud lei them
crawl down his throat, and by coughing iu a
pecui ar manner bring them up eg«m
limees lex,
FROM OUR DAILY OF WEDNESDAY. MARCH 23
GUBERNATORIAL.
Several counties have already appointed i
delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention to [
assemble at Milledgeville on the 23d of June.’t
The popular voice in all parts of the State— f
with the exception of a few malcontents— is <■
decidedly in favor of Gov. Brown's re-nomi- .
natiou. ,
M ben arc the Bibb County dilegntes to be ,
appointed ?
FLOYD RIFLEMET. 1
This finely drilled company paraded yester- <
day in full uniform with well-filled ranks. f
GEORGIA SAPTISt'cONVENTION. '
The Columbus Ewpiirr of yesterday corrects <
the announcement made by several papers, ]
that the Baptist State Convention will meet t j
in Columbus on Friday before the Ihwl Sub- ,
bath in April. The announcement first ap
peared in the South Haptlst, which
was mistaken in the date. The Hrfuirr says
. the day fixed upon is Friday before the fourth
Sunday in April.
District Convention.
The papers in the'First and Second I list ricts nre
discussing the time for holding Conventions to
I nominate Congressmen. It is the business of
the Executive Committee in each District to
appoint lhe time and place for the Convou
i Uo "'
Bv-tlie-bye ’ compose the Executive
l Committee tor ’lie Third Congressional Dis
' trict? Will some friend furnish us with the
! names for publication ?
T-ic Sickles’ Case.
It is stated that Mr. Sickle's counsel intend
ed applying to the Criminal Court to com
mence his trial on Tuesday (yesterday.) lhe
Washington Star says:
“It is intimated that the trial will disclose
an amount of scandal far exceeding w hat has
already been spread before the public, and
bring, reluctantly, to the w itness’ stand per
sons who have not heretofore figured in the
newspapers in connec|ion with the affair."
Mike Walsh;
' The death of this notorious ex-Congress
man is involved in mystery. It was at first
supposed that he fell mid broke bis neck in a
fit of drunkness. His friends, however, sus
pect foul play, as a watch and diamond pin he
was accustomed to wear were missing w hen
his body was found. The verdiet of Coroner’s
inquest was that his death was caused by apo
plexy.
NO EXTR \ HESSION.
Washington. March 21.—The government
al dispatch, sent oil'this morning to meet the
California steamer which leaves New York to
day, states that I.<> extra session of Congress
’ will be called.
The course which w ill be pursued by the
administration in relation to postal service
will probably be to pass the accounts and is
sue treasury warrants as usual, in the place o
of certificates as heretofore announced.
GEN. WALKER.
New Yoi.k, March Hl The Tribune'*
j Washington correspondent says \\ alker’s de
uarture for California is connected with a new
filibustering attack on Nicaragua from the Pa
cific side. It is believed he will be joined by
Ilenningscn from Arizona.
FOR IVERSON
The New nan llaiuier in speaking ot Senator
Iverson's boh) defence ot Southern rights mid
interests in the late Congress, observe.-:
For his fearless vindication of our rights, wo
think it but ourdnty, anil just to him. that Georgia
■linnbl s 'lid hitn back to (lie Senate again.”
We are pleased to learn from the Columbus
' 7’iihm that the distinguished Senator has re-
• turned home “from the field of Congressional
strife, on w hich he bore so gallant a part, w ith
4 his physical health and his accustomed good
I Spirits unimpaired.'’
M SB
'q?“ “ Put out yonr tongue a little further,'
l said a physician to a female patient, ' a little
' ’ further still.” ‘Why, doctor, do you think
there is no end to a woman's tongue !" cried
I | the fair invalid.
i Discovery ofMysterious Sub.
TEKIIASEAN VAFLTB.
The following le ler, which has been forwarded
I us, if re lia I be, |-rescuts some iuterevting fa-tw that
nre well worthy of investigation. The parties men
-1 tiuned herein arc ?aid tu l>c well known in Jackson
• County :
L Jac kbox, 0., Feb, 18C9.
i Ti> the faUtoi' of the Enquirei':— Our village is full
j. of wonder and excitement. Martin Maker, J. W.
. Hugs and Washington Long, in digging a grave in
the Cemctary near this village, about ten o’clock this
morning, caiue to a large Hut st«»ne about tour feet
" below the surface, which stopped tbeir further pro
I gress until they procured iististance, aud removed
the stone from its resting place of ages, when it was
found to have closed the entrance to a subterranean
vault. Al) efforts thus far (three P. M.) to enter it
with a light have proved unsuccessful on account of
the foul air with which it was filled, By means of a
rake, human bones of gigantic si/e have been raisctl,
rid! a small chain of silver, with coins attached tu
I each eud. The coins, though much defaead by time,
I have th- appearance of those in use among the Ro
-1 i mans in the days of Cicero Africanus, though there
were evident traces ot Lit r<»gly pl.ic devices that cat)-
, ( not be dccypbercd.
The uren at the cemetery hare by means of burn
ing straw : made light to the vault, and though none
have the courage to venture further than the entrance
’ ■ it has been discovered that there is, immediately to
I the west of the opening, a chamber abuue ten feet
I square, with steps, quite dilapidated, down its cast
t eru side. Three other chambers branch out of this ;
f one to the north, one to the west, aud the others to
| the south.
We are all curious, of course, to know when and
P by whom these vaults wire made nml filled. Rev.
Mr. Hunter and Mr. Armstrong und Dr. Knotiff.
1 have examined them as well as they could without
going down into them, also the bones raked out aud
the chain and coins, and all give it as their opinion
j that these vaults were made by the same people who
built mounds in the south eastern part of the Slate.
The qu stivns present themselves to every one
Wno made these vaults and filled them ? Was our
country once the home of giants?
(lEORfIE DaVEXPorT.
P. P. —Four and a half. P. M. W. Long, nfter the
straw had bur; t in the first vault fur some time, ven
, tured down to make an examination, but the atmos
phere was sn impure thnt he could remain there but
a few minutes, though long enough to discover that
the wails of the were substantially built of
smooth, wrell sbajwd stones, and that there were a
large number ot bums in them. Persons will arrive
here from Sidney and <«to-m »rrow. and eve
ry exertion wi’l be made for a thorough examination
of this ••house of the dead" as soon as possible.—f'in
citnwffi G. D.
Another Missouri Speech.
SiiiiK'liiHly has been (linking a s|>ee<'li in the
Missouri Legislature—probably Mr. Pitt, who
wanted tlie Bth of J’nuAry n lebmted :
What do "entletnen want! J« com so dear,
and hoe cake so sweet as to lie purchased only
at the price of baling the State garri«oned by
uiir enrinie*’ Forbid it, Jeremiah 1 Do yon
want the In*titntlon« of your State red'iced to
the condition ot affairs away dow n In Georgia,
where n plantation eonaiat* of two overaeer*
ami oi»a liigfwrt (lamghfi*.] A» tho poet
“I’«l rather be along, inungy, .trat.ge
t oiler d'W w ith a bob tail uu«l bei at llie mooti
than m>t to m>, lLn» w tn* ow«, nt* native I
State." [Great appktl**,] And 1 will defei d I
l,er iualitutiuna *<> long aa gran ruui aud waler I
|tv»L JUuirttl RppUuK. H
From the Few York Herald. jo
Memoir of Smith O’Brien. h '
Mr. O'Brien is the last of the transported w
Irish revolutionists of 1848 who have coine to
this country. He conies under rather different w
circinnstances. They escaped from the penal t(
colony of Van Dieman's Land; he has been o |
since pardoned, and after returning to his
native land now pays us a visit of his own free () |
w ill and accord. a
Il there be any virtue in royal blood, or in a | a
long line of ancestors, William Smith O'Brien I w
can trace bis pedigree not only to kings, but ■ N
further back than any crowned head of En- I v;
rope. He belongs to the most ancient aristo- 1 n
cratic family in that quarter of the globe. J I
He traces his ancestry very distinctly to ' 11
Brien Born (or Borlioime, as it is generally ‘‘
written,) King ot Ireland, who defeated the I
Danes in a pitched battle at Clontarf, and *'
I,
Brien traced his line to kings before the birth
of Christ. His brother, formerly Lucius O'-
Brien. Bart, is now Lord Incliiuqin. lie was 1
among the first Protestants of rank ami in
fluence who joined the famous Catholic Asso- ,
• 1
ciatioii, w hich, led by O'Connell, resulted in
the achievement of its object. Catholic eman- ‘
cipation, in 1829, was conceded by the Duke '
1 • t
of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, the minis
ters at the time, to avoid the alfernative of a j'
civil war; for it was found at the Clare elec
tion of the previous year, in which O'Connell *
was elected, that the Irish soldiers in the Brit- '
isli army could not be relied on, and that, in i '
the event of a struggle, they would join the , '
side of their religion ami native laud. Yet 1 (
Catholic emancipation was of no manner of
benefit to the people ; it only enabled the sons I
of Catholic gentry to rise to distinction at the ] 1
bar, w ear the envied ermine of the judge, and '
gain a seat in the British I’arliament, where, I
ever since 1829, the Irish Catholic members ' 1
have proved most untrue to the interests ot '
their constituents, and seemed to thank God ! 1
they had a country to sell. The principal et- ’
feet, indeed, of this measure w as, that it bene- '
fitted Mr. O'Connell himself, his family and
retainers, who were either sent to Parliament 1
or obluiued from the government some of the 1
best places in its gilt. It had another effect.
It made the Catholic priests loyal to the Brit
ish government; their chief object was ac
eomplisbed in the exaltation of their religion,
and the bishops were always able to get their
nephews and other relatives good berths,
through the influence of O'Connell und other
Irish members. The arch agitator bad found
ont the secret of his strength—intimidation of
the government w ithin the limits of the law.
lie helped the whigs to turn out of office the
tory administrations, and, in return, demanded
their patronage. Il tiny did not give him all
he wanted, he threatened to turn them out
also, by voting with the tories himself and his
parliamentary " tail,” or by abstaining from
voting at all on important ministerial meas
ures, which Was attended with the same effect
O k’onnell and the Irish members in his in- ,
terest, though they were only a (Mirtiou of the
one hundred and five who represented Ireland
in a House of Commons of six hundred and
fifty -eight members, heht the balance of power
the w big und tory parties being evenly divid
ed. In order to gather the masse* around
him. he was ever agitating for this reform and
that, and collecting large sums of money from
the people, who called him “ The Liberator."
His plan, he said, was to take whatever he
could get of the debt of justice due to Ireland.
He was glad to have it paid by instalments,
however small. Smith O’Brien did not like
O'Connell or his ways, nor did O'Connell like
him. The two men were cast in entirely
different moulds; besides, O'Connell did not
want to see any man prominent whom he
could not use as a tool.
In 1828, O'Brien, in bis twenty-fifth year,
was' elected tin mber of Parliament for the
borough of Ennis, chief tow n of the'county
of Clare, the great scene of O'Connell's ti iuuqdi.
Tn the influence of his brother. Sir Lucius O'-
Brien, the chief num of the place, and not to
O’Cunneli; w as he indebted for his election. —
Indeed, such was his independence, that in
1833, when he was solicited by the liberal
party to bi coined candidate uunin tor Parlia
ment, and this time for the county nt Lim
erick, he consented only on the express con
dition that O'Cnniiell's name should not be as
sociated with bis in the canvass. He wished
to be elected or rejected on his own merits, and
would give no pledge w bateveln spite of
this disadvantage he w as triumphantly return
ed. without expense to himself. In I’arlia- ■
nie.it he showed the same independenee. In
1835, on the qnesti m »f the dissolution of the
Legislatiie Chambers of Jamuiea. which was
a Cabinet measure, he voted contrary to O’-
Connell and his tail, and against the whigs.
By his single vote the question was decided—
the ministry was defeated by a majority of
one. The premier. Lord Melbourne, resigned,
and Sir Robert Peel was siinimoncd to take
. his place. He was much abused by O'Connell
and his friends for uniting with “Orange Peel
and the enemies of Ireland.” But O'Brien
promptly appealed to his constituents, who
completely endorsed his course.
M e should mention that at the time of his
first election, Le fought a duel w ith the re
now ued Tom Steele—a gentleman of the coun
ty Clare. whose mind was considerably de
ranged in after years—a sort of half made buf
foon. He became a "fidu-t ArhnteY' to O'Con
nell, who used to call him his Head Pacifica
tor; and lie. on the other hand, used to say
that if O'Connell told him to sit on a barrel ot
gunpowder and blow himself up. he would
obey him. At the election referred to, he said
something offensive about .Mr. O'Brien's fami
ly, which that gentleman pronounced “a lie.”
An immediate hostile meeting, was the conse
quence. Tw o shots wet*‘ exchanged w ithout
any bloody effect. Steele, however, had a
narrow escape; both skirts of l.is coat were
perforated. O'Brien demanded a third fire, to
which Steele's second, O'Gorumn Mahon, ob
jected, and said: “If you will have another
fire, it must be with me.” “Very well,” re
plied O'Brien. O'Gorman Mahon wns a “crack
shot,” and it was considered certain death to
fight him. The ground wns measured and
pistols loaded. O'Brien was perfectly coo] and
calm, and ut the word “ready,” a curl of con
tempt, peculiar to hun w us observed on his lip.
Shots were exchanged. O'Brien was not
touched, but a ring on the finger of his alver
sary's pistol han 1 was shattered. It required
more titan ordinary courage on O'Brien's part
to fight these duels, for there was an excited
election multitude present, and had O'Brien
killed cither Stu;le Mahon, who were then
the most popular men in the county, he would 1
have been torn to pieces, us d Esterre would (
have been, brnl he killed O'Connell, instead of
O'Connell killing him.
After starting one ooeioty after another, and
collecting "rent” and “tribute" in all, O’Connell ’ (
set on foot the •jPreeuraor Association.” the ,
object of w hich he said was to give tlw British t
government and Parliament a last trial, and |
see whether they would "render justice to Ire- ,
land." by passing “eleven measures," which (
be enurucrated in his political programme.—> I ■
Having tatted in thia, as id'aourae he expected, i
be I'oumiettced, or rattier reviled, tii* repeal ' a
a git atiuu in lft4o, ai,<l be oompelled the Dublin i
liOeral paper* Ui uuiue out for the uo-aaure by i
ihreeteaißf t« <*vvu»e« theta, tad tv Hart rt»»l ,
oumala. The movement did not make much ai
leadway till 1842, when the Dublin Nation ci
vas started—a brilliant weekly newspaper, e<
rliich became the principal < rgan of the Ke- ! p
>eal Association, but breathed a warlike spirit, a
rhich O’Connell condemned in public, in order V
o guard himself from prosecution, though many 1<
>f the people thought he secretly liked its tone. | h
In 1843, were those tumultuous assemblages i c*
>f the people in various parts 6f the country fi
Milled “monster meetings,” held in the open 1
lir, which sometimes exceeded in numbers the j h
whole population, men, women and children, of I 1
New York. O'Brien kept aloof, but took ad- i v
vantage of the circumstances of the lime to v
make a strong appeal to Parliament for justice, n
He made a very able speech of live hours dura- 1
lion, in which he depicted the wrongs of Ire- j a
lam!, and asked for a committee to inquire hits | t
the condition of the country. After a protrac- ■ 1
ted debate of five days, the motion was refused, [ 1
by a vote of 243 to 104. I ’
O'Brien then retired to the continent of Eu- ] f
rope for travel and to recruit his health. Mean- j 1
time, tho monster meetings appeared so furmi- 1
dable and so dangerous to “the integrity of the *
British empire,” that tho government deter- 1
mined on prosecuting the leaders. The meet- 1
ings were generally held in places having his- i 1
toric associations which would call forth the 1
anti-English enthusiasm of the people. The
last of them was called for Sunday, at Cion- ■ 1
tars, near Dublin—thememorable battleground : ■
of Brian B >rohoime with the Danes.—which
was regarded as highly significant, especially I
when taken in connection withone of the songs
of the Nation against “the Saxons,” which had
these lines:
And we’ll give them a touch of Brian Boru,
Said the Shun Van Vocht.
Here the government made their stand. They
had a large number of troops in the garrison of
Dublin, and issued a proclamation on Saturday
evening against the meeting. < (’Connell was cow
ed. and from that moment his movement was
retrograde. He issued another proclamation,
warning the people not to moe., w hich, how
ever, was too late to meet many, and he sent
Tom Steele to disperse them. The troops were
also on the ground. O'Connell shrunk from a
collision. lie was at the same time arrested,
together with his son, John O’Connell, Thomas
Steele, T. M. Ray, C. G. Duffy, proprietor of
the Dublin Nation, now in Australia, a tree
man; Rev. Thomas Tierney, Rev. I’. J. Tyr
rell, John Gray, proprietor of the Dublin Free
man's Journal, and Richard Barrett, editor of
the Dublin Pilot. They were indicted, not for
high treason, which requires proof of “ overt
nets,” but tor a conspiracy to subvert the Brit
ish government in Ireland. By a jury of the
"true blue” sort, a verdictofguilty was return
ed. O'Connell, to the amazement and dismay
of his followers, submitted to the sentence, and
walked into prison on the 30th of May, 1844,
but promised to come out soon again, and cau
tioned the people ngainst arming. He appeal- I
ed against the sentence to the House of Lords,
the last Court of Appeal in Great Britain.
It was at this critical moment that O'Brien,
with his usual chivalry and scorning of person
al danger, joined the movement. He had just
returned from the Continent of Europe, and
said lie saw no country half so miserable or ill ,
governed as his own. He waited on O'Connell
in prison, gave him the hand of reconciliation, ;
and presided at the next meeting of the Repeal
Association. O'Connell hailed this as an
•• event,” praised him. of course, and said “he
did the best possible thing a’ the best possible
moment." Meantime tho “rent” poured in
and swelled to an enormous figure, but was all
devoured by O'Counell's harpies. By the de
cision of the H >use of Lords the sentence was
reversed, on the ground that tho trial was not
fair, and I. >rd Denman pronounced it “a mock
erv, a delusion and a snare." It was suspect
ed that this result was brought a'*mt by a col
lusion of O'Connell with the government, on
condition that we would gradually let down
the repeal agitation. Certain it is Ire cameout
of prison an altered man th >ugh l.e receive I a j
grand triumphal procession. Ilia course was
henceforward marked with great vacillation,
and lie supported the whig government in Par
liament, and got all the places heci uld for his
relatives, friendsand dependents, and proclaim
ed his agitation purely peaceful, and that
i “the liberties of a nation were no. worth one
drop of human blood.” This, and perhaps the
ambition of the young men whom he overshad
owed to play first instead of second fiddle led
to a private quarrel and then open rupture,
which ended at last in secession of tho "Young
Ireland" party from the “Old Ireland,” and
the establishment of a rival organization called
I the "Irish Confederation." Before this step,
however, at a great meeting in Dublin, attended
by delegates from all pnrtsof Ireland, and frum
the principal municipal corporations, O’Cmi
nell solemnly signed a pledge administered to
him by Smith O'Biien that he would never
abandon the repeal movement till it was suc
cessful. How he redeemed it, ail know.
Smith O'Brien, who at first kept neutral be
tween Young Ireland and Old, at length joined
the lighting or Young Ireland party. To Riis
lie was chiefly led by O'C Hindi's shameful
abandonment of a compact. It was agreed in
tne Repeal Association that no Irish member
of Parliament would take part in any British
matter, but only in questions relating to Ire
land. The speaker summoned O'Brien and
John O'Connell on an English railroad com
mittee. O'Brien refused to attend, and was
imprisoned in a cellar of the House of Com
mons, but laughed at by the O'Connells and
Co. On his release, however, ho made them
laugh the other side of their mouths, for he was
received by the pe >ple with a perfect ovation
throughout the country. Meantime the plot
thickened. O'Connell sickened and died in
Genoa, in May, 1847.
John Mitchel, who had been one of the edi
tors of the Nation, and not deeming that jour
nal oreven the Young Ireland party fast enough
for him. started the I’nited Irishman, and form
ed what he afterwards named a “party of one.”
He called on the people to arm for a struggle,
and told the farmers that they could have the
lands which they held at a rent from landlords
as free farms if they only fought for them.— '
He called on them and on all to strike for a
Republic. This was going rather far for tho
stomach of O'Brien, and he did not like it,
though he said little publicly. Meantime the
French revolution broke out. and all Europe
was in a blaze. The Iris i. too, caught fire,
and Young Ireland fanned the flame. A depu- |
tation was sent to Paris to congratulate the
successful revolutionists. Lamartine received
them coldly, and, from fear of England, held
out no hope of succor. This deputation inclu
ded W. S. O’Brien, who. on his return to Par
liament, was assailed as a traitor. He made n
fierce and haughty reply, hurling defiance, and .
then returned to Ireland and talked Isddly'—
O Brien, Mitchel and Meagher were now prose
cuted for seditious Speech< and held to bail
An entertainment was given to them by the *
Young Ireland party in L merick, where more
sedition and treason were talked, and a report
of the apeeche* having iqq eared in Mitchel’s
own |Mpcr, ba was arrested underuu act which >
luoi just passed making sediU Us language (el- I
ouy. But we should mentum that Un building •
where Hie lanquet was given to these pruaaru- t
ted gentlemen, was assailed by an < »'< ’ mnelbtr 1
mob at the instigation of a priest, and the w hole t
affair broken up in a riot, which rendered it '■ t
necessary for the troops of Um garrt»>n to in- t
t«rp>iee to sate ths lives ofthe guests. O'Brien |
whv Hi»d7 nwbed mts Uh Uudwit X |ht n <
is if desirous to die, was badly injured, and es- 1
•apeed death only by a miracle. This gave -
■ourage to the government to crush the inci
pient revolution. Mitchel was tried,convicted, <(
and sentenced to fourteen years transportation. ,
With all his boosting, and the vaunting of the ;l
leaders of tho Young Ireland party, they let ~,
him pass through the streets of Dublin to the a
convict ship without striking n blow. The con- p
federate clubs, which bo and other lenders in It
Dublin told the world were well armed, either I*
had no arms or were very loth to use them. g
This was in May, 1848. and it was said the fight
would take place after harvest. One step more
was wanting to crush the rebellion. Purlin- |,
merit suspended the habeas corpus tut in Ire- I „
land, which gave the government the power of i
arresting till persons on mere suspicion, and ’
throwing them into prison without trial. We
believe Sir Lucius O’Brien, bro. of Smith O'Bri
en, voted for the bill. This spread terror, and !
the leaders tied from Dublin into the country in '
all directions. Smith O'Brien proceeded to the '
mountains of Tipperary, and his object appears
to have been merely to avoid arrest till the (
country had time to rise. But the police and (
the troops were sent in pursuit of him, and a ,
collision took place between a large body of
armed police and O'Brien and his -followers, at
the house of widow McCormack, in Ballingary,
which was magnitiisl in a New York journal
into "The battle of Slievenamon (alias Slieve- 1
gammon), at which the British army were an
nihilated.” He there exposed his life in the :
most reckless manner, by going up alone to the J
windows where the police were and demanding
thgir surrender, which they refused. Sum
after tiring commenced on Isitli sides, and some
of O’Brien's nica were wounded. It is said
that one of the leaders wanted to shoot him.
because he would not allow him to set fire to the !
house, to which O'Brien objected on the score
of humanity to the widow and children. He
finally marched away with his few followers,
and was uit arrested. When they w anted him
to seize the fat oxen of the landlords and kill
them, he refused to do so. and said he was no
' robber. The priests drove away his followers
and prevented others from joining him. He
was reduced to the necessity of sleeping in the
fields, for he was unwilling to commit the peas- \
entry, who offered him shelter at the risk < f be
ing transported, for he was now a proclaimed
outlaw.
Wearied with this state of things, and see
ing no prospect of success, he was proceeding
home, where lie expected to be arrested, but
was arrested on his way at a railway station,
tried, and convicted of high treason, and sen-:
tence 1 to be "hanged, drawn and quartered.”
The sentence was commuted by the govern- ■
merit to transportation for lite. He made an
attempt toescape in a boat from Van Dieman’s
Land, but was betrayed. He would not ac
cept a oarole, as he thought it would interfere
, with his right to escape. He was kept a pris
oner on Maria Island, appropriated to the most
desperate convicts, lie was finally pardoned
in 1854. In this city, in December of that i
year an address was voted to him at a public 1
meeting, w Inch was presided over by the May
or. On his return to Ireland, he traveled on
the continent of Europe, and published an
‘ able book in 1855, at Biusscis, on “The I’lin
■ eiples of Government." His pardon was un
conditional; no ripentance, and no promise
| of amendment could be extorted from him.—
Since his return to Ireland, he has taken no
part in any political agitation in that conn'ry,
and recently expressed his strong condemna
tion of such secret organizations as tue l‘h<r-
i nix Society.
Mr O'Brien was educated in England—first,
I at the celebrated Rugby school, and afterwards I
at Cambridge. The consequence was that his '
accent is very British, nod whether it be from
the same cause, or from constitutional tem
i pcrament, or partly from both, l.is manners |
' have more of the coldness, mid gravity, and)
stiffness of the English character than the,
warmth mid sprightliness of the Irish, it is •
very hard to excite his mirth, mid rarely, in
deed, has he been seen to smile. liis bearing
has considerable hauteur in it. His figure is
tall and commanding, mid he is a well formed,
athletic man, but his features are by no means i
handsome nor cast in the nristocrntic mould
of the Briti-h stand', which is famed tor pro
ducing fine faces. His dress, though neat and
clean, is of a very plain desciptioh. He Ims
considerable powers for parliamentary debate,
but his ability lies more ill the matter than
the manner. He is no ilmimgogue. He has
great firmness—even .to stubbornness. His
character for personal honor and integrity
stands by far the highest of all those men who
have figured in the recent history of Ireland. —
He has ally.ays been e-tecmed the Irish Bayard
—Sanxet xan.i rejiroche. By the death ot
! his mother, a short time ago, Mr. O'Brien in
herited 4 property worth tour thousand dollars
per annum. He is altogether, perhaps, worth
twenty thousand dollars per annum in real
estate. He is titty-six years of age, and his
oldest son is just twenty-one.
Humorous.
“Bill, spell eat, cat, rat, lint, bat, with
only one letter for each word.”
" It can't be did.”
“ What! you read the report verbatim pho
netically. and can't do that?—Just look here ; 1
C 80 cat, r 80 rat, h 80 hat, b 80 I at."
£■l7“ One gentleman said to another, at a
' law iu-tbe-ueck-dressed party, ‘Did you ever
see such a glorious sight before?' ‘No, said he:
never, since 1 was weaned.”
“Is your bo se fast,” inquired a Ver
mont horse-dealer. " Beats all creation."—
“Good bottom ?” “lie's nil bottom. "Muy,
1 drove him so far one day, that it took me two
days to get him back again,
I J-f#"" ‘Come here sissy." said a young man to
a I.tile girl to whose si-ter he was paying his
addresses; ‘you are the sweetest thing on
earth.’
•No I ain't—sister says you are.’
The question was popped the next day.
“bseeby the papers," said Mrs. Par
tington, looking over her specs at Ike, “the
Judge says that Fugitive Slave bill is a statute.
1 know’d the Greek Slave was a statute, but I
thought the Slave Bill, who ran away to be a
purgative, wastleali and blood like other peo
ple.”
2-i?” A tntor lecturing a young man for his
irregular conduct, added with great pathos, '
“ The report of your vices will bring your laih
ers's grey hairs in sorrow to the grave." “1
beg your pardon sir,” replied the incorrigible,
“my father wears'a wig.”
*-t 7 " Rev. Thomas Whitmore tells n story of
his having attended church recently to hear an
eminent divine, and the subject of the morn- .
Ing’s discourse was—“ Ye are children of the
devil.” He^altended the same church in the '
afternoon, when the text was "Children ,
obey your parents.”
HiiMicinK at Fatsttevii.i t. — We have been 'j
informed, that ou Saturday last, .Martin Me
Kenrn was killed in the tow nos Fayetteville, •
tin.. Io a blow on the heiwl w ith a iiiti lier, said 1
Imiv bwti thrown h/ VV. G,
WrttluorehMid, I'ruiii wv t
tli« aUne nniiir<liait4*ly m.ht I
but arrlfad at after M« Kraru 1 ■
dr fed. Till* U about all kaihrd of th*
|«arUcuiar» <4 Uua tualaurl»<».y trauaactiou.*
FROMOUB DAILY ,0F THURSDAY, MARCH 24
Mr. Nath am Weed, Hardware Merchant of , *
hia city, has kindly sent us a specimen bag of the
• Honey Blade Hungarian Grass Seed,” which he has
for sale. Editors arc generally too poor to own land,
ind as we are no exception to the rule, we have giv- }
i*n the seed to a friend, the owner of many broad |
iKToa, who pTtniHes to give it a fair trial and report ,
progress. Meanwhile we would advise Planters to 1
get Home of the seed and try it for themselves. A
peck of seed, we are told, will plant an acre, and the '
grass will be a great saving of corn and fodder.
Tho Journal and Messenger.
Our jwnliowi neighbor trios to be very witty in (
his paper of yesterday about the Democracy. Ilk puns '
are aimcious. but the D.-mocralH* party has stood
things just as bad, and wo shall not be surprised if it
survives the jokes of the Messenger.
The 3d Congressional Distrit.
In connection with the names publiahed in our last
issue, wj omited unintentionally, that of Col J. A.
Pringle of Houston county, who has been suggested
by bis many friends for the nomination.
Thus speaks the Empire Stub. W e believe that
Col. Pringle has no aspirations for a scat in Con
gress, he prefers to serve the public at home. We
think he would make a tine Secretary of the Senate.
What says our friend Steele to that proposition?—
Col. Pringle was an officer in the late State Senate
and afterwards compiler ot the Laws of the last Ses
sion. lu both positions he sustained himself hand
somely. We nominate him fur Secretary of the Sen
ate.
We find the above in the K'dercd Cnion.—
Thcie are few men in the Sta'e a* well quali
fied for the position of Secretary of the Senate
as Col. I’uixi.i.e, ami none that ive would rath
er see elected to the post in case the present
worthy ineumlient slum Id not desire a re-elec
tion. We understand that Col. Tf.riu nf.'s
friends in his District intend urging his claims
for Congressional honors.
[eOIIMrMC.ITED.]
Sons of Temperance.
Tomiehichi Division No. 1, Sons of Temper
ance, located in this city, having been reorgan
ized by some of its old members, they earnestly
request all old Sons of Temperance, n liether of
Tomiehichi Division, or of.-iny other, to come
forward and aid in sustaining a Temperance
organization in our city.
We cordially invite any and all, who may
i feel willing to join ns, and assist to dethrone
Old King Alcohol—(that is taking its thou
sands to the grave annually) to come forward
at once. We earnestly invite the Clergy, as
well as the members of the various Churches
: in the city, to give us their aid and support in
putting down this great vice in our midst.
, Ami we call upon the Fathers and Mothers
to help us to save the young ami promising
youths of the country, mid to do battle in this
great ami good cause.
Come one, come all.
We meet for the present at Odd Fellows’
Hall every Friday night. 7 1-2 o'clock.
Macon. Marell 21>t, 18511.
[foh the state press.]
The Streets.
Vr. Jiuicl'inil: I am surprised to find the
intelligent editor of the Citizen opposed to the
City Council's grunting to citizens the privi
lege of moving their front fences out eight or
ten feet. It the fences are all moved out on a
line, will not the appearance of the streets be
1 improved; or rather do you think the zigzag,
' or in-and-out appearance that the front fences
in many of the streets present, beavtifi t. ?
Besides the Citizen is, 1 know, in for econo
my. if the fences are all moved out on a line,
it will almost reduce the expense one-third of
i keeping the streets in order. How? Why, ten
l feet on each side of the streets wiii become the
side walks and that will make twenty feet less
for the city to work atffl keepnp. Good sense,
economy mid beauty, al! suggests the proprie
' ty of moving the front fences out on a line.
MACON.
• News Items.
The Fitii. Di e:, it Neu Orleans.— It has
been stated that lidwar.l 1. mquet. a cotton
broker of Neu Orleans, was killed in a duel
on Friday of last week' by Emile liir.art. epoj
i ratic criticomhe ZteMr. Mr. IL bad a few days
before fought a duel with L. Piaciile Canonge,
operatic critic of the C\iuri r. in which the lat
ter receive! three balls tin- ugh his clothing.—
After that meeting Mr. L icquet. friend < f Ca
•longe, challenged H. The :
• Ihe weapons were shot guns. 1 ade.il with
balls, and the distance was forty paces. At
, the first fire .l/r. L icquet was struck by the
bull of his antagonist in the left side, near the
region of the heart, which passed thorugh the
i opposite side, causing his death almost instant
ly. The ball of Mr. L icquet. striking the
ground several yards in front of Mr. Hiriart.
richotted in such a manner as to inflict a stnn
niug wound on his breast, causing him to fall,
but. on examination, it was found not to have
penetrated to anv dangerous extent.”
I
ll.gh Waters.—Some of the bridges on the
railroad between Dalton ami Chattanooga were
injured by the high water last ive k. so as to
temporarily delay the passage of the train.
The town of Troupi illc, Ga., has been com
pletely shut out from the iv..> 1 1 by high waters,
for nearly two weeks, and the 110/<7i«m«. of
Tuesday, says: "The ‘i.eauty and chivalry’ of
the village have been solacing the iedimn of
hopeless incarceration, in boat excursions over
the swollen ami occasionally imionlit waters
until recently encircling Troupville."
fitg" In noticing the statement that a num
ber of Africans had beeen anested in Telfair
county, the Columbus Sun, of the 18th inst.,
says :
We saw Mr. C. A. L. Lamar, of Savannah,
at Fort Valley, on Wednesday hist, on his way
to Hawkinsville, where the aforesaid Africans
had arrived, fir the purpose of claiming them
and taking them into possesion. lie reached
Hawkinsville Wednesday evening. We shall
learn the result in u few days.
jfaoz A public meeting was held in Appling
county on the 9th inst.. at which resolutions
were passed, condemning the existence ol laws
prohibiting the importation of negroes from
Africa.
gtajy The Savannah Ihjnihlinin. of the 21st
inst., wavs that ulmin eighty miles of the Cuba
telegraph line is completed.
Mr. 11. R. Pierce, a ran of Dr. L nick Pierce,
died at Fort \ alley, Georgia, on the lith lust.
Rules for Travelers,
The following rules are imjiortant 11 trail
ers, and are not as widely kmnrh as could be
desired .
It has been lately decided that applii iu>ts
fir tickets on railroads can bo ejected from the
cars if they do not offer the exact amount of
their fare. Conductors are not bound to make
change.
Alt railroad tickets arc g ww| nntil used, nnd
condition* “gnnd for this day only,” or other
wise limiting the time of genuineness, areof no
account.
Passengers who lose their tickets ean be o
joctcd from the ear* unless they purchase a
*oe<md on**.
Passenger* arc L< utid to observe decorum in
the car* ; and are oblige.! t > comply with nil
reasonable deinat*'!* to *h >w tickets.
ing u[>o»i th*-platform, or otherwiw ladatii.g (
a rule of the nanpany, readers a ja-rwm liable
to Is- put from the tram
N . has any right to III"* qwdise more i
M«uU than he has paid b>r, *•>* article left
on Uie M*ai, while the owner is teiuj»>rnrily
absent, eutiil** him to the place mi in* return.
The above rales are ba*ed up *u legal deci;
j
Official Report.
Os the rroceetlinys oj the Fort Valley and
Brututoick Bail Jioad Meeting, held at Fort
Valley March If,th, 185‘J.
Pursuant to the adjournment of the meeting
held in Perry, February IGth, a large assem
blage of citizens from Houston and adjoining
counties met to-day, in Armory Hall, music
from the Perry Brass Band being the signal
for order, which was called by placing Dr. E.
J. Metidiec in the chair, and requesting Dr.
W. I. Greene to act ns Secretary.
Tho object of the meeting was gracefullv
explained by tho chairman, in a few pointed
remarks, after which. Reports from Commit
tees were called.
J. J. L iwry, Esq., reported that the Pulas
ki subscription had reached SBB,OOO : he thought
that Wile >x had subscribed 831.000, cr S‘?2.-
i 000.
Col. Cobb, reported that tl.c Iloustc n sub
scription had reached $140,000.
Dr. McGuhte reports that he* had correspon
ded with a prominent citizen of the citv of
Columbus, and that he in answer to the same,
had endeavored hi throw a damper upon the
enterprise. Dr. McGehee stated that he had
in his possession an answer to Major Howard's
letter, ami on motion it was ordered that said
manuscripts be read.
On motii nit was resolved that the commu
nication between Dr. McGehee and Major
Howard, of Columbus, be puliahed in the “Nine
teenth Century. Columbns Sun. Empire State,
Pulaski Time-and all the papers friendlv to
the enterprise.
The foil owing Resolutions were then offered
by C* 1. Cobb.
1. Ue.wlred, That Dempsey Brown, Esq.,
Sam'l Felder. Esq., Rev. Benjamin F. Tharpe
Col. Wm. J. Anderson. P. F. D.
Esq., J. J. Lowry. Esq., Seaborn M. Manning.
Simon Merrit Esq., Hon. Norman McDuffie.
James AVilcox, Col. Cobb, and Dr. McGehee,
lie. and they arc hereby appointed a General
Committee, ami are authorized to exercise the
following powers:
1. That six of their number shall form a quo
rum to do business.
2d, To CH all vacancies which may occur
in their own body, and in either, or all of the
Committees heretofore organized.
3d. To meet and sit at such times and pla
ces as the interest they represent may require.
4th. To make such collections of fund*, and
raise such subscriptions, as the interests of the
proposed Road require.
sth. To have surveyed as early as practica
ble, the line of the proposed Road, from the
town of Fort Valley to the initial point on the
Atlantic aud Gulf Road.
Gth. To cull mass meetings of the people,
at such times and places, as they mav deem
! best.
7tli. To cam e such publications of proceed
ings in the “Nineteenth Certury.” the Pulas
ki Times, and the Brunswick Herald, and oth
er newspapers as they may deem useful and •
proper.
Bth. To receive the Reports of Committee*,
and to publish from time to time, such portions
or all of said Reports, as tfiey may deem pro
per.
!'th. Ami generally, to do and perform all
needful and necec-ary acts and things connect
ed with the proposed Road, and the object of
their appointment.
2. llixolred, That the respective Committees
heretofore appointed, be and they are l.ertbv
requested, to report (from time to time as they
may deem proper, anything connected with
their app .intment. which they may deem use
ful) to the General Committee.
’ , 3. Josolrcd, That the inviilual members of
, ti e Committee app >inted to receive subecrip
tions for the erection of the proposed Road, lie
and they are hereby earnestly requested to
urge their subscriptions to the utmost of their
power ami ability, and tn report their progie s
ami sni ccss to the Genera! Committee, as early
as practii able.
J. 4. ilc.vJial, That a mas meeting of the | <hs
pie be called in the ton n of Hawkinsville, on
the Secund Wednesday in May next, and when
, this meeting adjourns, it adjourn to meet at
that time and place.
On motion of Dr. W. A. Mathews.
Bix'dceil, That subscription lie paid in twen
ty per cent instalments U>r the first two year-, x
On motion of Rev. T. B. Russel.
It.Milrnl. That the thanks of thia meeting
are hereby te iderel to the P.irry Brass Band
for their generous attendance, for the tasteful
ami most agreeable music which tbev have to
day afforded this meeting ajul that a copv of
this re- Jution be forwarded to them by tin*
beeretarv.
< *ii mo .ion :
Hexolred. That tho proceedings of this meet
ing be published in tin* "N inetecuth Century. ’
Pulaski Turn's, ami other papers friendly to the
enterprise.
After which the meeting adjourned to meet
nt Hawkinsville on the hecoiid Wednesday in
May next.
E. J. McGEIIEE, Chairman.
W. I. Gheesk. Secretary.
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From th' Federal Vuiun.
Macon---aad what I saw there.
Mr Dear N: To fill my promise to let you
bear from me from time to time, 1 will give
you a short description ot my sojourn in Ma
con. I reached here a u eek since. 1 have
had leisure to see the place ami suburb*. The
first place 1 visited was the Rose Hill Cemete
ry, *if which I had often heard; it derives it
name from Mr. Simri Rose, senior Editor ot
the Journal & Messenger, a gentleman of great
public spirit, one of Macon's oldest citizens,
aud who I learn was seventeen years endea
voring to secure the place for its present pur
pose, ami w hich on es not a few of its very
many attractions to his gratu tons care and at
tention. The natural beauty of this spot, and
its locution, overhanging the Ocmulgee at the
fulls, whose waters sing a continual lullaby to
its sleepers, would almost indicate that nature
had originally intended it f< r the resting place
of those whose slumbers shall only be disturb
ed by the final summons. *lt is impossible to
do justice to the wild romantic beauty of the
I lace. It suggested to me Hugh Miller’s idea
“ that as the dynasty of tlieyft-«4 was predeter
mined to !e sucicedvd ly the higher dum-ty
of the reptile, by the still higher order of the
■mainni'tl. so that of responsible innn is to be
succeeded by tliat of glorijbd imtuortal man.'
Contemplated in this connection, us a filin’
resting piace, death would be deprived ot all
its terrors.
From, the Cemetery. I proceeded to the Fe
male Colleg*, a large eoinmanding building
upon a very elevated site, overlooking tlieelty
•- an institution the very first ot its kind in the
country, reflecting honor upon the State of
Gi oi gia. mid highly creditable tv the* enterprise
of Mneon. From College Hill 1 was templed
by the iieiHitifnl prosjiect t*> vi»il the adjoining
viilag * ofA’iiieville, and was more than repaid
bv n nearer view of it» beuiililul private resi
dence*, surrounded by pretty garden*audtaste
fully shaded by ciergreeii*. *Jt is here th**
uiuuy of the uetdlfiy bu*ineM Ulen of Marat’
reeule, who are entirely liee from the nummer
attacks of iiiusquitms, besides breatiuiig ap'if
ei aud coofi r ntino*phere. I ret'iri'**! hi •
different str.. t, to the right of the College, ui '*
siu Bltracied tiy a larg • Mi l baud* i In*
mg iu prwvas of cm lion, lite Asylum for tl*<
Blind, s*l is* 1.-101100*1, tv *liicii lliv bW*
Muie, aiU* vMMlHlMJabl* libstality aiq'H pr l
