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Periodicals.
We have received the Knickerbocker Mag
azixe for this mouth, handsomely illustrated
and containing an unusually interesting table
of contents. Subscription $3 per annum. Ad
dress John A. Gray, Publisher, 16 and 18 Ja
cob Street, New York.
Wo have also received “ The Cotton Planter
and Soil of the South,” an invaluable work for
planters and horticulturalist, published by Dr.
N. B. Cloud, Montgomery, Ala. Price, one
dollar.
The Late Opposition Conven
t i o N.
■ ■ -J,
What the Georgia Press think of it.
Vie gather from a few of our Georgia ex
changes their opinions, as published below, of
the State Opposition Convention, which after
much dispute between Macon and Milledge
ville as the place of meeting, at length assem
bled in this city on Wednesday last, and after
wrangling the whole day and part of the night
without accomplishing anything, finally ad
journed to meet again at Atlanta on the 2nd
Wednesday in August next, to re-enact the
same taree.
The Atlanta Intelligencer pronounces the
Convention a “flash in the pan” and says:
“Thus has ended this great Know Nothing,
•alias Opposition, Pow-wow, which was to fix
up tricks to beat “Joe Brown” for Governor.
If this Convention meets in Atlanta in any
considerable numbers, we shall be deceived.
Own up, gentlemen, that your Convention is
a failure.”
The Augusta Dispatch, a neutral or indepen
dent journal, remarks:
“We think the Democracy need not give
themselves any trouble to combat the Oppo
sition ; if they will only leave that party to
bo controlled by its own pretended leaders and
counsellors it will go to oblivion as fast as the
Whig party which jvas ruined designedly, and
the American which was swamped by the in
competency of its leaders.”
The Augusta Constitutionalist observes :
“The experiment has failed! The double
barreled Convention flashed in one pan, and
went off half-cocked in the other! It is now
practically demonstrated that in political Con
ventions, ns well as in other matters of impor
tance, “union is strength.” ’
And the Columbus Times thinks :
“The Opposition do not know what to do.
Their leaders are indifferent, and disposed to
let the old ship rock along without a compass
in the boisterous sea, trusting to luck and for
tune.”
Baptists in Georgia.
The following Summary is taken from the
“ Minutes of the Baptist Convention of the
State of Georgia, 1859
“Number of Associations, 64; number of
Churches, ineluding 89 in adjacent States,
1406; number of members, including 3144 in
adjacent States, 93.447 ; number baptized last
year, 7759; number of ordained Ministers,
7G9; number of Licentiates, 211 ; gain in
membership compared with previous year,
7665 ; amount contributed for Missions, so far
as reported in Minutes of Associations and
Conventions, $19,487 <>2.”
Col. A. M. Speer.
In noticing the nomination of this gentle
man by the Democracy of the Third District,
as a candidate for Congress, the Atlanta Intel
ligencer says:
“We have known 001. Speer from his boy
hood, and from a long acquaintance with him
as a man and a politician, we cheerfully en
dorse the nomination. We have fought a
number of bloody battles, politically, side by
side with him in the Third District, and our
humble efforts shall all be directed to aid him,
as fur as we can, to bear the banner of Democ
racy triumphantly through the present can
vass. Speer is worthy to bear that banner,
and worthily will he wear the honors of vic
tory under it.”
Never Attempt to get out of Debt.—The
man who owes nobody is a poor, miserable be
ing: nobody manifests any interest m his wel
fare—no body eares a continental cent wheth
er he lives or dies. He is lean, hungry, and
generally as poor and wilted as were the pin
feathers on Job's turkey. Look at our great
men ; they are all debtors—owe everybody ;
our men of science, our authors, our senators
ministers—all the entire cahoot of them, are
deeper in debt than Pharaoh,s army were in
the Red Sea. Debt ennobles a man; gives
him a more expanded and liberal view -of hu
man nature ; keeps him moving- especially if
if he never pays rent. Nothing will cure the
consumption quicker than a strong does of
debt properly taken. To owe, is human ;to
pay is divine. Therefore, till man becomes
superhuman, he shouldn’t attempt to emulate
divinity. The science of payment, the true
modern science, is to get in debt to somebody
enough to pay somebody else whom you owe.
Bv this means, you would avoid getting out of
debt, and yet maintain a reputation ot pitying.
The greatness of a nation increases with its
national debt. Make a note of this at ninety
days.— Quiz. • •
Executed.
The Newberry Cousorvatist informs us that
Fanny, the woman that administered the poi
son to Mr. Stewarts family was executed on
Friday last. The woman made a confession
before she went to execution. Iler object was
to kill no one else but Mrs. Stewart for the rea
son that she intended to visit her summer resi
dence taking Fanny with her. The first dose of
arsenic furnished her wus accidentally destroy
ed by falling into the fire. *1 he second was fur
nished to poison her mistress the next me rning,
by putting in her schocolate, she lieivg theon
ly one of the family who drank tbe beverage.
Having mixed the poison with toe single dip
i i of water with which she '.utended making
tin- chistolate, she was eall'-d out of the kitch
'ii. Mrs. Wilkes the bousekeeper entered in
for absence and, as »'.*« supposed, put the dip
pi r into the bucket without throwing out tbe
• a'j-r in it, ap'j took a drink, thin acconntmg
■ greuitT virulence of tier case than the
Fanny < i. >i> her return to the kiicben
' » the dipper in the bucket, and vappoead
I > u Es<i la-cn thrown away, and pro
■J m her preparation* b<r brraktaet, lak
all the water eke used frute this bucket
I • ooh had int; ireguatod from tbe
: . <i CJ««*s>4 (rwardaM.
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PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING.
VOLUME 11.
General Foreign News.
The steamship Africa with Liverpool dates
to the 9th of July, brings the following items
of foreign intelligence.
The ship Sarah Minot was burnt at sea;
her crew escaped, and have arrived safe at
Liverpool.
The steamships Fulton, Europa and City of
Manchester, have arrived out.
The weather is favorable for crops.
Napoleou telegraphed to Paris that an Ar
mistice had been agreed upon on the Btb, to
continue until the 15th August; it was signed
at Villa Franca by Baron Hess, on the part of
Austria, and Marshall Vailliant on the part of
tbe Allies, and stipulates: that commercial
vessels without distinction of flag shall be al
lowed to navigate the Adiatic sea.
The Paris Monitesir cautions the public against
misunderstanding the Armistice, and says that
negotiations may recommence, but it does not
see how tbe war can be terminated.
The London Times believes the negotiations
will end in peace. It says: “ a proposal came
from France indicating a good deal of moder
ation or necessity,” but it don't believe it was
the latter.
The Sardinians have proceeded vigorously
with the Siege of Peschiera.
In the Federal Diet, on the 7th, Austria pro
posed the mobilization of the whole Federal
contingent, and will request the Prince Regent
of Prussia to assume the position of Comniand
er-in-Chief.
It is reported in England that their mail
steamers have been notified to prepare to car
ry armaments, according to contract.
The Navy estimates have been introduced
in which 10,000 more men are asked for,
fjT’ The following news items ane taken
from the Hawkinsville Pulaski Times, of the
21st inst.:
Hydrophobia.—A case of the above disease
occurred on Saturday last, in a dog belonging
to Mr. John A Young. The dog folio’wed him
to the Methodist Church, and was attacked
during service, from there he wen t to Mr.
Lowry’s, and as we learn, made effoi is to bite
everything that he came in contact with, for
tunately. however, he was killed b y Dr. Ry
an, without having done injury. As this is
the season in which this fearful dwease usual
ly makes its appearance, we wouM advise our
friends that they cannot be too watchful of
their canine tribe.
Meeting of thr Railroad Cbommcttek. —A
meeting of the General Committee having un
der charge the survey of the Fvort Valley and
Brunswick Railroad, is called to meet in Per.
ry on the 2d day of August. Members of this
committee are requested to take due notice,
and govern themselves accordingly; a full
meeting is desirable as matters of importance
will be before the committee.
Hog Cholera.—This dreadful scourge has
made its appearance among the Hogs in our
village and surrounding community, and so far
has been fatal in almost every instance, refusing
to yield to any treatment which has been resort
ed to. The most successful treatment, and this
we believe more as a preventive than a cure, is
to put the Stock, into a dry lot, and keep them
entirely away from water as long as it contin
ues among them. The destruction in many lo
calities has been very great, and in one in
stance, we learn that such was its fatality, that
many of the Hogs actually died two days be
fore they were affected with the disease.
Killed bt Lightning.—We regret to learn
that on Saturday .last, a negro man belonging to
Mr, Wm. Atkins, of Dooly county, while at
tending to the horses in the lot, was stricken
by lightning and instantly killed.
Mississippi Democratic Platfrrm. —Dou-
glas Elbowedo tv. — The democrats of Mis
sissippi held a State Convention a few days
since at Jackson, and without a dissenting
voice, agreed upon a platform, by the passage
of sundry resolutions. These resolutions re
affirm, as the basis of party action, the prin
ciples laid down by the Cincinnati Convention
of 1856, and claims that the doctrine of “non
intervention” with the institution! of slavery
in the States, Territories, or the District of
Columbia, does not, nor was it intended to
conflict with the assertion of the power of
Congress to protect the property us the citi
zens of the several States, wb.o may chose to
settle in the Territories.
They sustain the Dred Sciott deciaion, and
declare that Mississippi will stand by her sis
ter slaveholding States in insisting upon the
enforcement, by all the departments of the
Federal Government, of therr constitutional
rights as thus expounded by the Supreme
Court of th® United States.
They endorse the policy of the present Ad
ministration, and go for the acquisition of Cu
ba ; and then they
Resolved, That, in the event of the election
of a Black Republican candidate for the Pres
idency, by the suffrages of one portion of the
Union only, to rule over the whole United
States upon the avowed purpose of that organ
ization, Mississippi will regard it as a declara
tion of hostility, and ’will hold herself in read
iness, separately o’.- in concert, to co-operate
with her sister States of the South in whatever
measures they nr .ay deem necessary for the
maintenance of their rights as co-equal mem
bers of the Co nfederacy. — Exchange.
An F.og Cooked in the Sus.—The ther
mometer ranged as high as 90 degrees in tbe
*h» de during a part of yesterday. How high
, *t was in the sun we cannot say, but we eat an
egg which had been cooked “liard” in the sun.
Said egg was placed up on the roof us our of
fice, and remained exposed to the direct rays
of tbe sun about two hours. When we broke
it we found it cooked too “hard” —neverthe-
less we ate it for the novelty of the thing. —
We apprehend that if the egg had been taken
in after having been exposed only an hour it
would have been cooked just about right.—
Norfolk bay Rook.
A Great Balloon Tbii*.—Mr. La Mpntain
has challenged M>. John Wis® tai test their
“ relative capacity, seieiititiically considered,
in a trip from bau Fraoctoxi to tlie Atlantic
wsbonrd, with balloons " Mr. WiAi, in a card
imblisbad in Usa AL Loni® Democrat. toy® that
bi® “ thought* ar® now turiwd to tbe orto*iag
of tbe AtkuiUi , and with a piwetaion much
totter Uas aas trip from lit. lz>»u to N'•
ivra.”—AarAaafr
MISCELLANY.
Substitute for Imprisonment.—A corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial writes
from Jefferson county, Texas:
“This is not a county scat, but it is neces
sary to have some place of confinemetit for
criminals; and as a substitute for a jail, the
people have provided a large stone, weighing
over three tons, placed in the public square,
with a large iron ring and a long iron chain
fastened to it, and when a poor follow commits
a crime, and the sentence is imprisonment, he
is fastened to this chain by the ankle, and there
remains night and day ; but if his crime be
light, and he had previously borne a good char
acter, the Judge in his mercy often allows him
to carry an umbrella to protect himself from
the rain and storm.”
Facts worth Knowing.— ; A strong solution
of isiuglass is an excellent cement for leather
shavings. A good black varnish for steam cy
linders is made with asphaltum dissolved in
warm turpentine. Cocoanut shells can be
partially softened by steaming, and in that
condition, while hot, you can mould by pres
sure in a die. Boiling in warm water also
softens them. Common mortar is employed
for building concrete walls above ground; hy
draulic cement is used for underground walls.
The cement sells at four dollars and fifty cents
and five dollars. It is usually mixed, for use,
with four or five times its bulk of sand. A
coat of oil on the outside of a lightning rod
will not affect its conducting power much,
whiie it will prevent it rusting.
Mammoth Newspaper.—The St. Louis Re
publican, the largest newspaper at the West,
employs oue hundred and seventy-six hands,
at a weekly salary of two thousand and forty
seven dollars. Add to this one thousand three
hundred and six dollars and forty-four cents
for paper, seven hundred dollars per week for
job office, two hundr.d and ten dollars for
bindery, and two hundred and twenty dollars
per week for sundry expenses, not included in
any of the above details, and the aggregate is
four thousand five hundred dollars and forty
four cents per week.
News Items.
Episcopal Convention.—The next General
Convention of the Episcopal Church will be
held at Richmond, in Va., in October next,
and will be of more than usual interest, as
four Bishops—Dr. Odenheimer, of
New Jersey, Dr. Gregg, Bishop of Texas, Dr.
Bedell, Assistant Bishop of Ohio, and Rev.
Mr. Whipple, Bishop of Minnesota, will then
and there be consecrated— Columbus Sun.
A Southerner in Tkoi ih.e at Boston. —
A dispatch from Boston, on the 18th, says
that Win. Holmes and wife, of New Orleans,
while stopping at Plymouth, were served with
a writ of habeas corpus to deliver up a slave,
Martha Goskins. Her chief complaint is that
she has less liberty here than at New Orleans.
A hearing of the case was to have been had
on last Tuesday.— lbid.
The Weather and the Crops in Tennes
see.—Some portions of Middle Tennessee have
recently been visited by refreshing rains, which
have been of immense advantage to their crops.
Other portions are still snft’ering from the
drouth, and serious apprehensions are enter
tained that the corn crop will be materially
injured. A farmer in this county, says the
Nashville Union, remarked to us the other day
that he would not sell a bushel of his wheat
until he became satisfied that he would raise
a sufficiency of corn for his purposes.— Et.
Coup de Soliel.—The 12 M. dovvn train
yesterday brought us intelligence that four
negroes belonging to the Montgomery and
Westpoint Railroad Company were sun-struck
yesterday morning, while engaged in re-laying
the track, near Coles’s station. When the
train left Coles’s none of them had died. An
evidence of the unusually powerful heat yes
terday, lies in the fact that sun strokes are
seldom heard of in this latitude.
Montgomery Advertiser.
Tornado in Alabama.- A tornado passed
over Decatur, Ala., recently, which destroyed
eight spans of the railroad bridge at that place.
The loss is estimated at $150,000.
Insured.—Mr. Choate’s life was insured for
$25,000, as follows: 810,000 in the New Eng
land Mutual Company, and SSOOO each in the
Massachusetts, Charter Oak, and the Con
necticut offices.
Accidental Death.—We learn that a dealer
in slaves, from South Carolina, named John
Charles, died yesterday, at Powell’s Mart,
from taking a dose of morphine by mistake,
thinking it was quinine.— Mont. Mail, 2f)th.
JtaT W e understand, say« the Constitution
alist, that the Augusta Cotton Factory turns
out every day twelve thousand yards of manu
factured cloth.
We find the following paragraphs in
the Columbus (Gaj Enquirer, of July 20th :
Hotter Still ! —the same thermometer,
which we yesterday reported as indicating
ninety-two degrees of heat at 1 o’clock on Mon
day, stood at ninety-four degrees about the
same time ot day yesterday. We understand
that other thermometers, located in places not
so cool, indicated a higher teuqieratureby sev
eral degrees.
We heard of several instances in which ne
groes, working on brick buildiiigs in this city,
were overcome by the heat on Monday, but
none of them were fatally sun-stricken. Two
mules were, however. Yesterday was an in
tolerable hot day.
Sudden Death.—Mr. Wiley Adams, on® of
onr oldest residents, died very suddenly early
yesterilay morning. He was found in the
street, in a dying condition, and lived only a
short time after being carrid liotne.
Nsaaoßs Killed ba Lightning.—We learn
that during a thunder storm on Saturday af
ternoon last, about a dozen negroes belonging
to Mr. F. M. Biggers- living seven miles north
of this city, took refug*- in a house in his field.
Mil that tbe house was struck by lightning,
i killing two of tbe negn*s instantly and se
verely injuring two others, lhere was a very
heavy fall >< rain in th»« neighborhood.
1 lie above i» fr nu the yssterday
A friend from Harris County write® u® that
l four togrues were killed end othesa woead-i
CW rimes, nd
OFFICE IN RALSTON’S BUILBIN(L THIKI) STBEET.
MAICOTST, GEORGIA. JULY 30. 185$ >.
The “Slave” Trade in Boston.—We shall
be force<l to tell the anti-slavery crusaders who
come to New York to lecture the South because
some of its citizens get negroes from Africa,
that they had better look at home. The differ
ence between the North and the South on this
point seems to be just the difference between a
hypocrite ami an h nest man. The Yankee
holds up his hands in holy horror cf the negro
♦‘slave” trade, while he goes his full length fur
the Coolie, slave traffic. A case is reported in
the Boston Traveler which* sets forth the enor
mities of this traffic in its true light. From the
facts developed on the trial in the United States
Court, in Boston, it appears that in September,
1854, the ship Waverly, of Boston, was charter
ed to convey Coolies from China to any part of
the world that might be designated.
At Amoy she took 0n450 Coolies, out the cap
tain dying when the vessel was five days out,
and the mate having a great deal of trouble with
the Coolies who no doubt, by that time began
to understand how they had been swindled in
slavery, he put into Manilla. While there, a
fight occurring between the crew and the Cool
ies, the latter were driven below and the hatch
es closed upon them. Here they were kept in
to close confinement for twelve hours, and when
the hatches were removed it was found that not
less than two hundred had been suffocated to
death ! So much for the humanity of the Coo
lie trade and its abettors, the ship owners of
Boston. The present suit is brought by the
owners of the vessel against the contractors who
claim for the voyage the charter price, al
leging that the loss of the Coolies was owing to
the incapacity of the sailing officer.— Evening
Daybook.
The Outside Dog in the Fight.
We have had the under and upper dogs, and
now somebody gives us the outside dog in the
fight in the columns of the Boston Evening
Gazette. We think this last dog is the best
of the pack :
You may prate of your upper and bottom dog,
Aud blow an alarming sight,
But as I’ve found, the safest dog
Is the outside dog in the fight.
He never desires to be counted in,
Thus showing an instinct bright;
He saves his grinders for polishing bones,
Docs the outside dog in the fight.
Mr. Heenan may try as long as he likes
To damage his fieman’s sight.
But the pleasant position of looking on,
Has the outside dog in the fight.
Utterly hopclsss if in the strife
The might prevail or the right;
The appetite’s good, and tranquil the life
Os the outside dog in the fight.
When danger threatens, the rapid way
That be runs is refreshing quite;
And simply evinces the sound good sense
Os the outside dog in the fight.
Then here’s to his healthy and happy days,
Luck send him abundance of prog,
A Dd drink to the hero of private life,
X health to the outside dog!
Texas. —A writer in the Houston Telegraph
closes an elaborate article with these highly figu
rative sentences: from which we seem to gather
(if they have any meaning at all) that Texas al
so has “diso.’ganizers
Sound the ,‘oc.un, and remember ye Pascha
naleans, who arriving aid and comfort to the
Abolitionist by your acts ofdisorganization, you
cannot defeat Dick Runnels for Governor. So
Democrats listen to one of the humblest of your
co-laborers. “Put your houses in order,” gird
on your armor, and with such men as Runnels,
Isibben'k and ll r aul, we ask nothing ; so rally
and we will conquer.
—A Runnels, a Runnels,
To the combat, on ye brave,
Who rush to glory or the grave.—
Know Nothings, and kindred subjects put
your “coffee pot” to boiling, and “to your tents,
Oh ! Israel.”—“God and Liberty.”
Lopez.
—»
Another Palace Hotel.
We find in the Tournal of Commerce a full
description of the immense marble hotel now
nearly finished on Madison Square and Fifth
Avenue, New York, extending from 23d to
24th streets. It is to be opened on the Ist of
August.
The building covers sixteen full lots ot
ground, is seven stories high, and has an ele
vation from the cellar to the roof 10. feet. —
The front on Fifth Avenue and Broadway is
202 feet; on Twenty-third street 215 feet; and
on Twenty-fourth street 196.
The magnitude of the house appears from
the fact that it contains no less than eight large |
public parlors, 120 private do., four dining and
tea rooms, 420 chambers, and 60 other rooms I
for servants, &c. Nearly all the principal
chambers have baths and water arrange
ments complete, there being fully 100 baths in
all.
On the second floor, fronting sth Avenue
and Broadway, nre the public parlors and suits
of elegant private parlors; also on 23d and
24th streets, opening into a corridor 613 feet
long, running the entire distance along the
lines of the building. Opening from this cor
ridor is the great promenade, nearly 30 feet
wide, and uniting with the grand dining hall
at its western extremity, presenting with its
double rows of columns, a grand tout ensemble.
Opposite the promenade, in the dining hall, is
placed oue of the most magnificent mirrors ev
er imported to this country. The grand din
ing hall is 80 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 21
feethigh, lighted with eleven elegant chande
liers made from French designs, and hung from
a beautiful frescoed ceiling, supported by Co
rinthian columns. Between the latter are
placed magnificent mirrors; while, at inter
vals, between the columns on the one side,
are placed beautiful French buffets, in new de
signs.
The whole building will be supplied with an
independent gas apparatus, at a coat of aliout
fC ( O()O—by which the expense of illumination,
as already proved in I a ual service, is reduced
one-half in coinparison with city charges.—
Th® plan ot ventiiiation la equally nolicealile,
and very effectual iu its o|K*rutioii, the heat of
I the furnaces being conducted into flues, ex
; tending over the house, thereby creating n
1 strong draft and exhausting the atmospheric
impurities of the various apaitm®iit«. Die
healing of (be building is done by steaiu. for
which three bollara, oarh twenty-two feet in
i length and neurl' live laet in dismetor. are pro
1 vid.il. F’ton these, the steam Is conducted ail
I xver tbe buiid'ug. the «uudeused steam 10-ing
carried back to the isoih-re a return flue -
The boilers and gas-house occupied by a dis
tinct building, wholly exterior to the main
structure.
The novel arrangements adopted for prepar
ing food for the numerous inmates of a hotel
of thisclass, are of the most curious features. —
Among other appparatus, are ten monstrous
steam kettles for boiling vegetables, &c., each
weighing nearly 1,000 pounds. The various ma
chinery for cooking, washing, ironing, and other
processes, will be of sufficient capacity for 1,-
000 guests.
Even a partial description of this establish
ment would be glaringly incomplete should we
omit all mention of the admirable contrivance
to facilinte communication between the differ
ent stories. A luxurious car, or ladies' car
riage, is provided, which will glide from the
ower floor to the uppermost story, easily con
veying eight or ten persons at a trip. This
car is propelled by steam, and passes up and
down upon a revolving spiral shaft nearly 100
feet long and about ten inches in diameter ;
and so perfect is this invention that under no
circumstances is there a possibility of accident.
There will be attached to the house a beauti
fully fitted up Parisian restaurant, not only for
the use of the guests, but as a place where
gentlemen and ladies may dine with their fam
ilies or friends, in the most genteel way, and
at the same time not be subjected to extrava
gant charges.
The hotel and grounds belong to Amos R.
Eno, Esq. walls, weremostly erect
ed by him, under the superintendence of Mr.
Thomas, architect. Before the roof was on
the building it was leased for a term of years
to Paran Stevens. Esq., proprietor of the Tre
mont and Revere Houses of Boston, (Mass.)
The entire cost of this establishment, which,
with one exception, stands foremost in point
of magnitude to any in this country, will con
siderably exceed oue million dollars.
• We find the following items in the
West Point (Ga.) American Citizen, of July
20th:
Man Drowned. —On Saturday evening last,
a man named Cary Gant, was drowned in the
river at this place. He was well known here,
haying lived in this vicinity for a number of
years. He was seen on the streets but a short
time before it was known he was drowned, in
a state of intoxication, and it is conjectured by
some that he committed suicide; but the gen
eral impression is that he merely iptended to
bathe and wash himself, and accidentally got
into deep water. He leaves a wife and large
family of children. His body was recovered
about two hours after he was drowned, and
buried on Sunday.
Negro Killed. —We regret to learn that
Mr. William Potts, living a few miles above
this place, had a valuable negro killed by light
ning on Saturday evening last. The negro
was sheltering himself from the rain by get
ting under a tree, and the lightning struck the
tree and killed him instantly.
Hail Storm.—We learn that a severe hail
storm passed over a portion of '.his < minty on
Saturday evening last, a few'miles north-east
of this place, causing great damage to the
growjng cotton. Our informant states that in
some fields where there was fine stands of cot
ton, it can hardly be discerned that there was
ever anything growing.
A Hungarian Legion in Italy.— Ki.ssutli
arrived at Genoa on the 22d and has since
gone to Turin and the camp of the Allies.—
The organization of the Hungarian Legion
rapidly alvances. It is in accordance with a
decree of the Sardinian Government, by which
so long as the legion remains in Italy, it is
subject to the orders of the Sardinian Minis
try, and must take the oath of fidelity to the
King. But as soon as it is upon Hungarian
soil, this obligation ceases, and the legion be
comes the nucleus of the Hungarian army. —
The first Hungarian brigade is already organ
ized. Its depot is at Acqui, under command
of Col. Thasz. The second brigade is in pro
cess of organization under Col. N. Kiss. Col.
Streter is organizing the cavalry.—L’.r.
Weather. Health, Chops.—The weather
for the past two weeks has been quite warm,
with almostdaily heavy rains. The corn crops
were never more promising. The cotton
crop, although at present remarkably good,
yet we fear the recent heavy rains may have
a tendency to cause the stalks to shed their
late forms, and bring on rust aud other diseas
es peculiar to that plant. The health ot tbe
town and country generally good.— Albany
Patriot.
to the National Convention.
For some tiipe past the Democratic papers of
the State have been discussing the mode ot
selecting delegates to the Democratic National
Convention to be held at Charleston next
Spring. A few have advocated the election
by Congressional Districts, while much the
larger number are in favor of the delegates
being appointed by the State Convention.
Delaware Gazette.
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Handsome Women to Travel With. —If it
is in contemplation to spend several days at a
time in hotels in cities or iu small towns, or to
be a good deal in steamboats, to do so with
the largest amount of comfort and compla
cence, iu consequence of having the best things
and the best places, the first and best and
promptest attention from landlords, clerks
and servants, travel with a handsome woman.
There is nothing like it. No fairy wand will
transmogrify things so. Beauty “ rules the
rood” everywhere. It commands everybody,
from hostler to host. You may yourself be
nobody; you may have a pug nose, a red
! head; you may be a peiftßt “duck ’of a man
—so short and fat that you can't make uvet; a
respectable waddle; your face may be poek
' marked; your bark may be humped; your
■ shank may be a perfect spindle, and your leg
a bow—only have a magnificent woman along,
and for her sake you will be treated all your
journey through us menials treat a master, as
courtiers treat their king. We have tried it.
render, iu our earlier years, and later, nnd
know its delight; not bothering ourselves
with uny over nice diseriinination’, comtort is
Comfort, whatever >’>«/ ’ ,e t' ll ’ n ,, »ti'e from
which it springs. A diiuu<>n<l is diamond,
although washed from the mud by a bhu'ka
■a a>r.
tew A uisn calling liimself Dr. J. Fer
rar, was arreMed at Tl«»ma»>ilie, Geo., on
Wwdffvsdsy last, for hois® steuflug. and was
afterwards shut aud wverely wouadul, while
atteiu|Hiug to make Lis esr®|«.
FROMO’ja DAILY OF MONDAY. JULY :
Tlio Platform of the Opposition.
Notwithstanding party platforms have been ‘
repudiated by the gentleman who bears the ;
“ Opposition" standard in this Congressional I
District; notwithstanding they are proclaimed
as good for nothing, ami intended to deceive
the people; the “ Oppositionists" at their Con- !
vention in this city, l ist Wednesday, thought
proper to put forth one which we confidently 1
believe w ill deceive no intelligent man in ,
Georgia, whatever may have been, (according :
to Mr. Hardemnn’s idea of party platforms.)
the intention of the Convention that put it
forth. The renowned “ Sam" was far more |
skillful in the erection of platforms than his
children, the “ Oppoxilionists" in Georgia, ap
pear t<> be. In the first platform creeled iu
1855, at Philadelphia, under the magical influ
ence us his name, there was something to ral
ly a party and make a light upon. The exis
tence of a Supreme Being was most solemnly
declared, and with a daring that alarmed the
patriotic spirit of the people from one end of
the Union to the other, the constitutional
rights of the naturalized citizen were most vin- ■
dictively and wantonly assailed. That plat-|
form not only revived and renewed the war j
upon citizens of foreign birth, initiated by the )
elder Adams in the “ Alien and Sedition |
Acts,” but it waged war upon his religion, and i
upon the rights of all native born citizens w ho '
held to the tenets of the Catholic Church. To |
its support it rallied the intolerant and the fa- I
untie of the North, the prejudiced and igno- 1
rant of the South. Ambitious and and design
ing men in every State of the Union became its 1
advocates, and w ith “ offices seeking them, and {
not they the offices" (?) a struggle ensued that
will long he remembered for its fury, and the
fate which overtook the followers of “ Sam."
With a modified platform, the "American l‘ar
tg” soon again took the field. Oaths, and
signs, and passwords, ami grips, and bloody
signals, and the dark lanterns of Know Noth- !
ingisin,' ..-redispensed with ; and at the North,
with oue platform, and in the South with !
another, the war was again waged, again with |
the same results. In these contests, platforms j
were no unmeaning things, but were boastingly |
referred to, as indicative of the position which ,
the candidate before the people occupied. As
opposite in principles and sentiment, as is !
darkness from light, were the Know Nothing |
and American platform, from that of the invin- !
cible Democracy. That of the latter etnbrac- I
ed the true principles of our Government; 1
those of tbe former were in opposition to wise, i
patriotic, constitutional provisions, under which j
this confederacy had prospered, and the wil
derness of its several States, had been convert- i
ed into rich fields, whose produce gave to Com- :
merce an impetus that has built up flourishing ‘
towns and cities, and, ns a people, lias made I
us rich and powerful. But bad as were the i
platform of the Know Nothings, and the sub- |
sequent American Party, there was’ some- I
thing in them positire in character, daringly i
put forth, contended for with zeal, under the ■
weight however ot which, in despite of desper- !
ate exertions, both organizations suftered hi- |
glorious defeat— inglorious, for if their prinei- .
pies were sound ami motives patriotic, why ■
did not the Know Nothing party rally for I
another conflict? why has the American par-|
ty been disbanded, and a new party organized |
in its stead ?
And this new, this “ Opposition" party,
what does it declare? Like the declaration
embraced in the first Know Nothing platform
at Philadelphia, which affirmed the existence
of a Supreme Being, its first resolution affirms
what no sane man will pretend to controvert,
to-wit: "That the Union, as established by
the Federal Constitution, if the latter be faith- i
fully carried out, is the surest guaranty of the
rights and interests of all sections of the conn- '
try, and should be preserved.” No Southern
Democrat ever did deny this proposition ! The ■
principles embraced in the compact which
formed thia Confederacy of States, "faithful
ly" carried out, and the Union should be pre- 1
served, is a Democratic averment, one which I
the Democratic party has ever, and does now I
maintain. Can the “ Opposition and Ameri
can Party” say the same? If so, why their
recent war upon the rights of foreign born cit
izens and Catholics ? Why strike at the pro
tection w hich the Constitution gave to the for
mer, nnd at the sacred principle in that instru
ment which recognized the right of any citizen
to worship God according to the dictates of his
own conscience; and, in the exercise of this right
guaranteed to him equality as a citizen ’among
his fellows’? But, it may be said, “we have
formed a new party, and have nothing now to j
do with old issues.” Not so, gentlemen!—l
You are an “ Opposition” and an “ \merican" !
Party. We have high authority for holding ■
you as such, and until you repudiate your
late creed, which was at war w ith the Consti
tution, and the rights of the citizen embraced
in that instrument, we must hold your resolu
tion. as Mr. Hardeman does political platforms
only as a bait to catch votes and deceive the
people ; to lull the apprehensions of those who
doubt, and to inspire coufidciVce in those who I
are ever glorifying the “ Union." But we
must >n to tbe < • I resolution pf t|iw opj
tiuii platform,
This may be termed the slavery resolution of i
the platform. The first paragraph affirms that .
slavery existed in the States prior totheadop- |
tion ot the Federal Constitution ; that the right '
to hold slaves as property was concede ! by the i
framers ot that instrument, and fully recognis- i
ed therein; that slavery exists independently '
of the Constitution ; that Congress cannot leg- ,
islate on the subject of slavery except for its ' ,
protection where it legally exists; that the
Territories being the common property of th® ,
States, the people have the right to enter and
eccupy any portion of it with their slaves and i
are (ought I” be) there protected by the Con- j .
stitution nnd Fla* of til® country; that Con-j
gress has no right to legislate slavery into, nor j
exclude it from a Territory ; and that the doc- |
ot ’• nmi intervention” doe» not, nor w ns J
alavehuldcr who limy < boose to settle in the
►cviral TerriloiitJ». 1 bia I* liiv Mib»uui<*e <>l •
the lir»l ot the mmmhml, <><* •httrry .
ri * ‘uliuii. uh»l »• g«»‘4 b ibri-trHH-, j
Th** psKllortu, b<*wov i'T, uum i»«»t (MHHplrle tor
iltltiuti hi*4 <’h* Mb Ibr e**ei<h»H oi i
t rigbta vl liw •Isvwbuhlellb
TERMS—TWO DOHARB IN ADVANCE.
NUMBER 40
thi; ranks of the “ Opposition" which is to em
brace every class of men opposed to the De
mocracy, there arc thousands who deny these
rights ot the South, and who look upon the
doctrine of protection to slavery in the Terri
tories as heresy. Others, too, are timid in the
assertion ot those rights, and are willing to
forego them, for the sake of the Union.—
Hence, in the second paragraph of the second
| resolution, the further agitation of the sub
ject of slave ry is deplored; it will tend to
"no political good;'’ and “should therefore cease."
M hat a falling off is here ! The agitation of
the slavery question should cease, when Black
Republicanism at the North is daily, nay hour
ly, making rapid strides for the suppression of
its extension, and for its final overthrow !
Ibis agitation should cease, at a time when the
South is threatened with the election of an ab
olition candidate to the Presidency; an ab
olition Congress; and a Supreme Court organ
ized to reverse those judicial interpretations
of the Constitution, by and through which, the
Southern slaveholder still, though at heavy
c st, may recover his fugitive, or stolen negro i
Agitation should eease at the South—in Geor
gia—when the Free States of this confederacy
are loud in the cry— “down with slavery!’’—
Our people must fold their arms—light must
be extinguished—the sentinels upon the watch
tower must sleep—until, overwhelmed, all is
lost to the South ! What a platform for South
ern men to put forth! Hatred to the democra
cy can go no further !
The third resolution of the platform repudi
ates the ‘‘extravagance” of the preceding and
present Federal Government, and especially
the unblushing corruption which has marked
the latter 11 Congress, too, is held “equally
responsible with the Administration for this
extravagance" ! This last clause was put in.
we have no doubt, by some opposition delegate
who knew that most of the “extravagance”
complained of, is justly chargeable to the Con
gress which preceiled the last, one branch of
which claimed a majority of Black Republi
cans and Americans, and, in which all appro
priations of money originated. But to this
subject, we shall often refer during the can
vass, and if we do not exhibit a record that
will astound the “Opposition Party" of* Geor
gia, we are much mistaken.
The fourth resolution condemns Mr. Bu
chanan’s recommendation “that Congress
' should confer upi n him the war making pow
er, and subject the Army and Navy to his
control, coupled with the demand for enormous
appropriations of the public money to carry
! out his views.” The like judgment upon Mr.
Buchanan's views in reference to the acquisi
tion of Cuba, Ims been passed by every free
soil and opposition press at the North. We
. presume the hifalntin language employed in
i this resolution may be construed to refer to the
same policy. If not, we are at a loss to know
to what it does refer, and shall wait to be bet
ter advised as to its purport. The saying, that
“words were intended to conceal ideas,” was
never more forcibly exemplified than in this
resolution.
The. fifth and last resolution of ihe platform
regards the representation in the State Legis
lature as cumbrous, and proposes reduction at
I the earliest day practicable.
Such is the platform of the “Opposition
and American Party "of Georgia I With that
6f s .me of their Congressional District Con
ventions, we shall hereafter compare it. At
Atlanta, the same Convention will again short
ly convene, w here it will doubtless give us an
other edition, amending and improving the
first.
Thus far the “Opposition," with their plat
form, have made no favorable impression upon
the stern and unflinching Democracy of Geor
gia; nor will they, though they were to hold
, a convention in every city in our State, from
now till the day of election.
The Third Congressional Dis
trict.
In 1855, and 1857, the Democratic party suf
fered defeat in this Congressional District.—
Gallantly as was the democratic standard borne
in those memorable contests, the seductive in
fluences of Know Nothiugism and American
ism, controlled a majority of voters, and with
their faces to the foe, undaunted and undis
mayed, our gallant leaders fell. Nor was their
defeat an event altogether unexpected. Care
had been taken through legislative enactments
to make the third an anti-democratic district
previous to the Know Nothing contest, but
ei en with the advantage thus obtained, under
old party iasues, the democracy proved invin
cible. and the gallant Bai lev was returned to
Congress. In the ensuing contest, Know Noth
ingisin seduced many a democrat to depart
from the true faith, and embrace its revolting
erued. Had the democracy in that contest pre
vailed, as they did in othetCongressional Dis
tricts of our State, we doubt not that the de
faulting democrats would ere this have return
ed to their “ first love,” and that instead of
again returning Mr. Trippe to Congress, a
democrat would have been elected. Now. how
ever, we go into a new concest. The American
Party has been formally disbanded, and the
“ Opposition Party” takes its place. This act
of disbandonment has been effected in opposi- 1
tion to the wishes of many Amerieans, and in
spite of their remonstrances. In the creed of
the “ oppositionists" we see no reference to the 1
issues made by the Know Nothing and Amer
ican Parties, uader which Mr. Trippe was
elected to Congress. True, this new party is
somewhere styled the American and “ tfiyio- ' I
sitioii Do b/,"but this tacking on the former to |
the hitter appellation, is so evident a trick to I'
delude and secure tho votes of those Amrrii I
. ms. who refused to, and do not favor the O/i- I i
position organization, that but little, if any i
capital, can bo derived from it. We go then . i
into the Congressional contest this year, under 1
new- and (tattering auspices. The old line i i
democracy of tli« third district, stand firm, and :
will spare no effort to ensure the success of ■
their candidate. The American Party divided ;
many <d' its most influential men in every eoun- ; i
tv of the d.strict objecting to the promotion of I
an organization factious only in its ovary ft-a- 1 |
ture | wu if i iglu ths contest more than hope
ful of *>. in our standard bearer. A ill
vsoru M *ei iu, w e present to the voter* id
the district, an able, el<w]U*-ut, fearless chain i
p<u of ilemouratie principle*—a hiss ft .as, I
at.d of ti ep ■ i . .sulf maila, *«lt reliant, and '
alm luo already fur hiinelf an founorabie i
balm. into the contest he enter- determined 11
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upon victory! We cnll upon the democracy
in every county of the district to stand by him
' j and second with zeal with efforts. He is ready
for a bold, an open, a fair fight with the “ Op
positionists.” He seeks no advantage and will
tike none. Before the honest independent vo
ters of the district, upon fair and equal terms,
he proposes to discuss the political issues of
the day with his adversary. We have no doubt
that this proposition will be agreeable to his
gallant opponent, than whom MY. Speer could
desire no more honorable competitor. As such
only, in the performance of a duty which wo owe
to the principles and cause we espouse, we shall
treat the candidate of the “ Opposition.”
Democrats of the third district, prepare for
this contest! Be ye not idle 1 Rally every
man of you to save it from “ Opposition” rule !
Now is the time to commence the work of re
form—and if you but work on till the’day of
election, your reward will be, not only the
election of your candidate, but the advance
ment of principles dear to every true, Southern,
democratic heart !
A Strange Omission.*
The Opposition Convention failed to de
nounce the Kansas Lecompton Bill, with the
English amendment, at its session in this city,
hist week. No notice is taken’of this “fraud
upon the South,” in the platform of this new
party, nor in any resolution acted upon by tho
committee. Why ? Because, reader, the
lion. Robert P. Hrippe was a delegate from
Monroe county, to that Convention, and ap
peared in it as such; and the Hon. Robert P
Trippe, representing this district in Congress,
voted for the passage of that bill, with the
English amendment. Hence the strange and
studied omission on the part of the Conven
tion to refer to it. More anon .’
Telegraphic.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
NORTH BRITON.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT NEWS.
PEACE DECLARED!
Cotton Advanced.
Farther Point, N. S., July 24.—The steam
ship North Briton touched off thin point to-day,
with European dates to the 13th instant. She
brings the following report ot the
Markets.
Sales of cotton at Liverpool for three days
32,000 bales ; market closing firm at the fol
lowing
Quotations:
Middling Orleans.7 1-l Cd.
“ Uplandso 13-16 d.
Breadstuff's dull. Provisions dull and de
clining.
Consols 96 for money.
Money market unchanged.
Liverpool, 11th.—Speculators took 4,000,
and exporters 3,000 bales. The Africa's ad
vance is fully maintained.
The advices from Manchester are favorable,
‘The market is buoyant, and all qualities of
goods have slightly advanced.
The weather is favorable for crops.
Flour very dull, 10s. a 13s. Wheat and
corn very dull, but unchanged. Pork. Bacon
and Lard dull and heavy. Rosin steady.—
Sugar firm. Coffee firm. Rice quiet. Tur
pentine dull at 38s.
From the Seat of War.
The news from Italy is most important.—
Peace has been concluded between the bellig
erents. There is to be an Italian Confedera
tion under the Honorary Presidency of the
Pope. Austria concedes Lombardy to France,
and Napoleon presents it to Sardinia. It is
stipulated that Austria is to retain Venice.
The steamer left Wore the effects of this
news had time to be developed.
The Paris Jfoniteur explains the circum
stances attending the armistice. It says the
great neutral powers exchanged communica
tions w ith the belligerents offering to mediate
between them, but were unsuccessful until the
French fleet were about ti commence hostili
ties against A eniee, and conflicts before Verona
became imminent, when Napoleon, anxious to
prevent further bloodshed, ascertained the dis
position of the Emperor of Austria, and find
ing him willing to an armistice, the same was
concluded between the two Emperors in an in
terview at the town of Villa France.
Cyrus W. Field came passenger in the steam
er. having accomplished his object in reference
to a submarine telegraph.
The Anglo Siixon had arrived out.
Later from Mexico and Cali-
FORNIA.
New Orleans. July 23. (via ’Washington).
The steamship Gen. Webb has arrived from
Minatitlan.
She brings intelligence that Marqueza bad
robbed the condueta, which was going from
Guanajuata to San Blas, of six hundred thou,
sand dollars.
Miramon ha« made a complete change in his
cabinet. He has, also, changed his policy in
regard to the liberty of the press, and has
granted political amnesty.
A partial confiseatim of the church proper
ty had taken place.
The Church has declared in favor of Mar
quesa.
The steamships Golden Gate and Cortez had
arrived at the Isthmus, from California, bring
ing two million two hundred thousand dollars
in treasure.
The California grain harvest was represented
as being abundant.
Minister to Ihe Argentine Republic-
W v'liixi.ToN. July 22.—John F. CmJinmn.
of M i»-i.»ippi. hs" Keen np|s>int<-d Minister
from the I nited States to the Argentine Hl
pelitic.
additional Kona by the Alrirn.
Naw Yo«K, Joly 21—l»rd John ltu--.1l
stated >t> Parliament, that it was desirable
that Otway, the British Minister to Mntieo,
slnaild lie r*i-alli*l. to answer eertnin ehurges
wMab ioni Iwwm Made sr«<>rt his oflh ial «ua
dtMt.