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VOL. XXXI.
MACON, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 18. 1857.
lor the Telegraph. *
jtrscofCoV* Walker iuKan-
r vn OF THE ADHINfST RATION' IX RE-
•Sv THERMO t'OXSIDEREa
l^tterersy now going on In t
• . v, rnion between the friends of the
( cf tne - * ■ ’
.jiecutite.
i various see*
i relation to the present state of
‘ K»n«S has given rise to feelings of re-
•j mortification on the part of those whose
has been that of lookers on “in
sD‘7 j h0 5 C who have felt it their duty^to as-
■ Walker, and through him Mr. Tbirhannn,
several allegations against both which
**' ", ,\,. m have attempted to substantiate in
I*' !, -« bitter ns unjustifiable. Bntt^t are
The first is that Mr. Walker has
* 0 f ofiicionsness and dictation. The
** J - ;- that he has violated the great and con-
* rt . i!iX , tr ine of non-intervention. And the
, Y is that he has wilfully and intention-
Y' nil the causa of the pro-slaTery men in
Fl. k. riving it ns his opinion that the climate
l^na'ftiat Territory are unsnlted to slave la-
C . \‘o<r these are grave charges, and, if true, it
' ^possible for the country to punish Mr.
r . ifi»tnen>urate with his crimes. It is
" v lice to Mr. Walker, as well ns the Ameri-
*' .i]e that these allegations should bo fairly
. '^(.innately analysed, thereby giving all the
I . of seeing to wbat extent the facts bearing
L. tic matter stibstantiate the charges,
ptthru take them ujVa^ seriatim,” and dis-
of them hr fair and nr.impassioned argumen-
Hu* first charge is that Mr. Walter has
Y,,^r dictated to the people of Kansas, by
, them with his displeasure and opposi-
. ■ to their admission within the pale of the
r. si. unless the Convention that is soon to as-
I" . > f-me a constitution for the people, shall
to Lit people the privilege to pronounce up-
I . dings of their servants. Xow, while
o ritling to admit that Mr. Walker manifested,
ti.< threatening the people, a puerile vreak-
*_a -pirit of dictation, if you please—I repeat,
|, t i im 'rilling to concede this—yet so far as
i i.x-trine contended for is concerned, I hold
r.< righ'. Who will gainsay this, when all the
a Touchi: g the imbroglio in Kansas are consider-
! Rcmetaber, if you please, there are between
«r . ad thirty thousand voters in that Tcrrito-
thlr ton (lo) thousand of this number regis-
>1 their names preparatory to voting for dele'
t» the Convention, and not a third of those
*no registered, participated in choosing
< to the Convention which is to give them
• -r.:v law. Let it be recollected, also, that
■ tfr.i dividing parties of Kansas are wrangling
[clh-pjting as to which party has the osccndcn-
| r. Tin a, .-hall a body of men chosen by a small
Intra of licr |>oop]e bo allowed to tic down the
It. hand auil foot, by denying them the ox-
|r..< i'i ilio.-o rights upon which our fabric of lib-
leges y This may suit the notions of some
I y- hut tloes not accord with my pre-concciv-
11. firas, and is also, I humbly submit, Tiolativo
II - >it of that liberty secured to us by the
I .treasure of our sires. Dut desiring, as
IlsAco, to be brief, I pass on to the second
l(c:i;:hc bill of indictment.'
I Tist i- it ? IVhy, that Mr. Walker by his offi-
Icw'atermcddling with the affairs of Kansasis guil
| rtf* eolation of the doctrine of non-interven-
I Tins is undeniably the most important and
I.• itiin in the nggregatift of charges, and
I uw .• the .-crious consideration of the sovereign
I > What, I pray you, Mr. Editor, is the true
I bcof this term, about whiclt there is at pre-
I ru such fuss and feathers, and what is its true
Ih::; I- u po-siblo the American people have
I ■ ri-c uuil^ogrcss of the doctrine of non-
It-ntaiioa? Whose bantling is it ? and whence
I v- it come t To the best of my recollection
I (A Ci«» is entitled to its paternity, and he, as
’til*.•the great, much lamented, and pure son of
I' Carolina, Mr. Caliioun, relied upon it to save
'will from the injustice and dishonor sought
pV u-.poicil upon her by the passage of the
7 --vt proviso. Those distinguished statesmen
itet contend that an official of the President had
: -Atto intervene with slavery in tho territo-
‘ ■ They never dreamed that this doctrine
’ -1 deprive any individual of the right of giving
1 - ' *ad open expression of opinion upou this,
a nil is oiher subjects. The true signification
the term is, that Congress has no constitutional
•x: to intervene against tho introduction of
iun into the territories—the common property
l r.ited States. I repeat, it was against Con-
“'■ ImuI intervention that these men and their
warred, and not against individual inter-
5V! ' To prove this, it is only necessary to ex-
their s|ieeches, ns well as the many resolu
| kiretofore passed by Democratic National
I L - «ate Conventions. The power was denied
Exe to the law making power of the Union, and
’■** rtest boon for which they had fought with so
— ability and ardor, was at last guaranteed to
* Nl by the proper tribunal, by the passage
* Euuaa Nebraska bill. Then we fearlessly
4 * m ^ r - Walker has not violated, by any act of
• ^ doctrine of non-intervention—having neith-
*** "~bt nor power to inhibit the introduction
* ir.to Kansas Territory, flo ha* only done
' *‘ ln J oSciais who have preceded him have
. °f. tliough not to the same extent, and
- ) vet* allowed to escape unpunished. If the
sd principle of the Kansas bill has not been vio-
follows as a cotollary, that Mr. V’alker,
■ ’ oSciousness, and Mr. Buchanon, by Ilia re-
10 ItcJ i him, have not, as has been asserted,
'nJ under foot the great conservative princi-
'■ Cincinnati Platform. But I go farther,
***rt, without the fear of successful contra-
that Mr. Walker is bending every cner-
- *o arty into t uccessful operation that portion
t-c pajtj. platform which pertains to long ox-
. 5 ratcutcs in Kansas, as well as the most prom-
* lu, “ rco f the Kansas act. That bill say*:
tb-2 # ” , ' T 'l |c settlers shall determine for
^ “ MM whether slavery shall or shall not con
| jj * * h* rt °f their social system.” This priuci-
i . ? in,l ' rlCl l *n our national platform and
j., '!** f art . v proudly atood and battled with
~ r *- overruling Providence was with
V: |" . tI,e ton *fvaiive men, tit every quar-
ri.- ^ ' nu ®ph over sectionalism, and now, after
^ ■ lus Parched upon our standard, shall it bo
**nj l0tUri1 to dust and ashes to gratify the
*".' 1U °f vertaiu extremists? IIow, lu the
coo " non sense, can this highly popular
Mcrt 'd principle bo carried out unless the
^ toT M>0n ,0 mtct ^Eall refer their labors
*' Ule People for their acquiescence or con-
Aj |||. |
v , t n oofovo remarked, it is asserted
only * small minority of the
^ ‘ ' 0,CN exercised their right in choosing
tin '°Eonrention; and it is still n moot-
is the stronger party, the Black
^ Bs or I’ro-Slavcry men. The South is too
j Ptool to throw herself in the wrong.—
Majority of the inliabi-
tiei\s—should decide till-
** d^sa
te, is i that
^ “toua fide”
j 11 * t i“e«tion for them-elves—which tiicj
Cotsl ««Mr. Walker's policy is carried out,
To say the effect will be to make free soil of Kan
sas, is, in my humble opinion, highly nonsensical.
If the right of voting upon the Constitution is giv-
•en to the whole of the inhabitants, and the negro
worshipers should prove to be the stronger party,
the pro-slavery men would do well to yield with
tho best possible grace to the necessity of the at
tending circumstances. For If they were to make
an effort to impose upon the majority, by denying
to them the right to vote on a constitution recog
nising the institution of slavery, it could not sur
vive the test of the popular will, and the result
would be highly disastrous to owners of slaves in
Kansas. It docs seem to mo that Mr. Walker is
acting in good faith to his party and country, and
had ho denied in his inaugural the right of the in
habitants to pronounce upon the acts of their pub
lic servants, he would have been obnoxious to tho
charges which many are now so anxious to affix
upon him. Then the word traitor which garnish
es a majority of the articles with which our press
now teems, would not have been misplaced—and
many epithets which ere now improperly used in
connection with his official Conduct would have
clung to his back like the shirt of Xessus.
But to pass on. Let me for a moment, and on
ly for a moment, advert to the third and last
charge. And what is it? Why, that Mr. Walker
has electioneered against the pro-slavery party in
Kansas, by giving expressions to the opinion that
the soil and climate of that territory are unfavora
ble to slave labor. This charge is not, in my opin
ion, deducible from the premises. Look through
the long catalogue of votes given by this patriotic
statesman, whilst in discharge df his legislative du
ties—look at bis able and much famed letter upon
the annexation of Texas, to which we are mainly
indebted for its acquisition—aye, sirs, criticise
every public act of his life, and then answer me,
is he justly abnoxious to this allegation? Why it
has been but a few short moons since the same
opinion was expressed by Mr. A. H. Stephens, one
of Georgia’s favorite sons. Indeed, many South
ern gentlemen have lately expressed the like opin
ion. Then if Mr. Walker is to be tabooed for this
jejune charge, let others be brought under the ban
of proscription.
Having disposed of the allegations in their or
der, it now becomes necessary to inquire whether
or not Mr. Walker ought to be recalled by Mr.
Buchanan. The late Gubernatorial Convention so
thought, and in their 3d resolution call upon the
President to show fidelity to the principles eleva
ting hint to his present exalted station, by depriv
ing Mr. Walker of his official trust. If there has
been no violation of the great principle of non-in-
tervation, of tho truth of which there can be but
little doubt, and as Mr. Walker has carried out the
instructions of the President and his cabinet, by
advising the members to the convention to allow
' the people to give an expression of opinion upon
the organic law under which they are to live, why
recall him? To do so, would bo treating Mr. Walk
er and his many warm friends, (for I know he has
friends, and Southern ones at that,) in bad faith,
and also bring abont a recurrence of those scenes
nf brutal murder and intwlim war, vlileb, a fom-
months ago, sorrowed the heart of the patriot and
disgraced the virgin soil of that beautiful and pro
lific territory. Let Mr. Buchanan stand firm—ad
ministering the affairs of the Government in strict
accordance with the platform of principles eleva
ting him to power, and be will, after the present
storm shnil have blown over, receive the plaudits
of every conservative man of the Union. Can it
be possible, Mr. Editor, that Mr. Buchanan, who
has ever been noted for his prudence and patri
otism, and his fidelity to the constitutional rights
of every section of the Union throughout his long
and eventful career—we repeat, can it be possible
he should so far forget himself, his solemn oath of
office, and the principles to which he has dedicated
his public life, as to trample the organic law of the
Union under bis feet, and do violence to Demo
cratic principles, which have ever been emblazoned
before his face ? If be has been guilty of these
things, then he richly deserves the epithets which
a writer over the signature of “Troup," and others,
have so lavishly heaped upon his head—else not.—
Troup asserts in round terms, and with much as
perity, that the President is forty times a perjured
man, because he has failed to have a law of Kansas
faithfully executed. Now let us apply the touch
stone of truth to the ipw dixit of tins writer, there
by determining how the matter really stands. The
organic law of Kansas requires, if I mistake not, that
all persons who desire to vote for delegates to the
Convention, soon to convene, to prepare a con
stitution for the territory, preparatory to its admis
sion into the Union, shall have their namefi regis
tered by a proper officer. But does the same or
ganic act deny to the Convention the right to re
fer the Constitution by them prepared, back to
the people for their acceptance or rejection ? I
candidly confess I have never read the act in
question, but I tako it for granted it contains no
such clause, because tho enactment of such a
statute would have been a stretch of power to
which the sovereign people never would have sub
mitted. The members of tbo Convention have
been chosen by certain voters acting under the
organic law. But the Convention clearly have the
right, aye, it is their duty, to place the Constitution,
their ^andl-work, and under which the inhabitants
arc to live, before the voters whose qualifications
are to be therein prescribed for their approval or
rejection. We arc advertised by the press through
out tile entire west, that the Convention will refer
to the people the Constitution tiiey arc soon to
prepare. The question then presents itself at once,
how can the President be held responsible for a
matter over which he has no control? And what
justice or propriety is their in Troup’s indulging in
such expletives and harsh epithets against Mr.
Buchanan, who certainly deserves better treatment
at his hands. If the charges preferred by Troup
against the President were true in substance and
spirit, his animadversions would even then be un
justifiably severe. To associate the name of tho
Chief Executive of the Union with Arnold and Jm
das Iscariot, is a strange perversion of taste, to say
the least of it, and I envy not the hand that moved
the pen iiiau indited the words. Troup seems to
have forglfvn, in a singlo hour, the forty years’
service which Mr. Buchanon lias devoted to ids
country. And unless I am greatly deceived, he
will, during his calmer moments—his reason hav
ing regained its lost throne—feel himself bound,
by his nobler instincts, to do pcty>ncc in sackcloth
and ashes, for the language used in that article.—
But for the hasty and inconsiderate inauguration
of this matter by the Gubernatorial Convention,
we should liavo been saved from this, as well as
other scenes of like import. Instead of attending
to their more legitimate duties, they suddenly
sprung a question, for the direction of which, they
hadno authority; and I know that many delegates
who voted for the third Devolution have .-ince ex
pressed their regret for having acted with so little
judgment and precaution. I will go further and
as the result of much reflection and investi-
trutli of this proposition, ncrc all sustain him
save the Know Nothings and those Democrats who
were noted for their ultra fire-eating propensities in
1850-’51. The first hope to make votes by divid
ing the democratic cohorts, and tho latter want—
want what ?—why, sir, they know not want they
want. Hence the task of gratifying their desires
will be found very difficult and perplexing by
whomsoever undertaken.
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, the President has
but to pursue the even tenor of his way, turning
neither to the right nor the- left, and the noble
ship of State, to which he acts as helmsman, will
be safely conducted to its moorings.
CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT.
stat
ition, that a large majority of the Democrats ol
re now willing to tender their humble
praise to Mr. Buchanan for rcfu.-iug to
itii tiie requisitions made upon him bv
eorgni i
eed of
amply witli t - ......
the Gubernatorial Convention. So far as Middle
Georgia is concerned there can be no doubl pi the
From the Philadelphia Press.
England and Ilindostan.
A few weeks ago, England was startled by
the intelligence that an extensive revolt in the
Indinn-army had occurred, and that the con
tinuance, the very existence of British sway in
Ilindostan was in imminent peril. Pithily, but
forcibly enough, did a London journal thus de
scribe the crisis:—“ Our house in India is on
fire. We are not insured. To lose that house
would be to lose power, prestige, nud character
—to descend in the rank of nations, and take a
position more in accordance with our size on
the map of Europe than with the greatness of
our past glory and present ambition. The fire
must be extinguished at any cost. Ail ordinary
considerations give way before the greatness
and suddenness of thedanger.” Another jour
nal, arguing that British troops should be sent
to India without delay—by the overland route,
if necessary—adds: “ It will be time to in
quire into the causes of tho mutiny by-aud-
bye; we do not specniate how a fire originat
ed, when the question is where to run for the
fire-engines; at all events we procure the fire-
engines first.” .
Let us state the facts, as far as they have
been communicated to the British nation;—for
it is the principle and practice of the British
Government to keep back information, wheu
its being known would inconvenience the Exe
cutive. So constantly and consistently is this
system of half confidence kept up, that official
dispatches, political or military, are usual two
fold—one story, with unpalatable and unpopu
lar fact%glozed over, to throw dust in the eves
of the people, and the other for the private in
struction of the Cabinet, stating the case in
more truthful terms. Sometimes, when sucli
a sly, double-dealing person as Palmerston is
at the head of affairs, there is a third and
“most private” despatch for his own particular
perusal.
Last May, two regiments of native infantry’
(Sepoys) were disbanded for insubordination.
Soon after, another regiment, quartered at
Lucknow, refused to use a new description of
cartridges served out to them—declaring that
pig-grease, the touch of which was prohibited
by their stringent rules of ctute. was used in
making the cartridge paper. This corps left
the parade ground in a body, carryibg their
muskets with them, but Sir Henry Lawrence,
the British officer commanding the district,
turned a battery of artillery against the mutin
eers, compelled them to lay down their arm?,
and confined them to their quarters, disarmed
and incapable of mischief. At Meerut, and
other places, the Sepoys also refused to receive
the cartridges. The first company who show
ed this insubordination were dismissed on the
spot, and handed their arrears of pay. This
was, in truth, rather an encouragement. The
authorities saw their error, and when another
company turned out, arrested and placed them
in durance vile. A few days after this a general
revolt took place. The barracks were set fire
to. The wives and children of European sol-
were massacred. The European officers were
shot down. Before any steps could be taken
by the authorities, n dozen native regiments—
artillery’, cavalry, infantry, sappers and miners
—were in rapid march for Delhi. Arriving
there the nest day, and encamping out of the
city, they induced threo regiments of native
infantry, and qpe of artillery, to turn out and
murder their officers. A few of these escaped,
bat the rest with their wives and daughters,
were slain. Tho insurgents then entered
Delhi, murdering every European within their
reach, seizing the bank and its treasure, and
would have occupied the arsenal and magazine,
if a British officer, loyal and self-sacrificing, hi d
not blown them up, perilling his own life by
the explosion.
The mutineers then proceeded to proclaim
the son of the late Mogul Emperor, as King
and lord of India—it would 6ccni against his
will—for it was from a communication made
by him, that the British authorities at Agra
first heard of what had occurred. Immediate
steps were taken to crush the revolt. British
troops wero collected from all quarters within
reach. Several of the nntive princes promised
their aid to the British, and appear to have act
ed in good faith. Martial law was proclaimed
.in the Merut and Delhi districts. In order to
dispel the prevalent idea that tho Government
contemplated the conversion of the natives to
Christianity, notice was given disavowing any
such purpose. At the date of tho latest dis
patches, the British troops (on June 8th,) had
encountered the rebels outside the wjills of Del
hi, driven them back into the city, taken twen
ty-six guns from them, occupied all the beighU
outside Delhi, and were prepared or preparing
to besiege tho place. General Anson, comman
der in-chief, had died of the cholera, and was
succeeded pro tem by Sir Henry Somerset.—
As many as 30,000 native soldiers, had turned
against the English. The excitement was
sprendiug, but was chiefly confined to the mil
itary. At Lahore, onc-Imlf tlie native troops
had deserted tho British flag. In Oude and
tho Punjaub the Sepoys continued loyal: In
tho Bengal army, eight regiments had mutinied
in a month, and two had been disbanded. _ At
Calcutta, the seat of Government in British
India, every precaution had been taken against
an anticipated attack.
To put down this revolt, the troops, return
ing to Bombay and Madras from the Persian
war, were directed to proceed at once to Calcut
ta. Cavalry from Bombay had been ordered to
Agra. Every regiment that can bo spared
from Great Britain and the Colonies, has been
ordered to India. Bnt here arises the difficul
ty. It took five weeks even with telegraphic
aid, to obtain intelligence of this insurrection
from Calcutta; it would take, at tiie sjiortest.
a fortnight to prepare each regiment in England
for embarcation in the India service; and even
jkn all “the aids and appliances to boot,” of
^^POverland route (across Egypt and down the
Red Sea,) occupy six weeks more to convey the
troops to Calcutta. Here, then, is an interval
of thirteen weeks betwejir the massacre at Del
hi and the arrival of a strong British force at
India. But the shortest and quickest mode of
transporting 14.OUO.OOU men from England to
Bengal, was not adopted. The “Circumlocu
tion Office” would not send them overland, but
would take them by a long sea voyage round
the Cape of Good Hope, which would occupy
seventy days, while by the overland route it
would take only fortyJ This would make four
mouths from tho outbreak to the arrival of
troops to quell it. Within these four months
Hintioostau may be forever lost to England.
Such arc the circumstances of this insurrec
tion. What the consequences may be we can
only surmise, as yet. But believing that Prov
idence carries out the principles of retribution
with nations as with individuals, and knowing
with what pertinacity of misgovernment, what
ingenuity of misrule, what utter contempt for
even seeming humanity and justice, England
has crashed India to the dust, we come to only
one strong conviction—that the period has ar
rived, when British sway in Ilindoostan will be
met by bands with swords in them. It is al
lowed in the philosophy of politics, to judge of
disgracefully,
reach the summit of renown, dominion, riches
and pride. England seems to have reached
the culminating -point—from that, the path is
down bill.
Tiie New West Imlin Slave Trade.
The revival of the African slave trade, as
proposed bv the London Times, almost shakes
one’s faith in the progress of humanity and ci
vilization. We call it, plainly, a revival of the
African Slave trade, because, disguise it as you
may, it is substantially, this and nothing else.
A rapid teview of slavery, as it existed in Ja
maica before tho slave trade was, will show
that we do not* exaggerate wheu we make this
assertion.
It has been the fashion of British philanthro
pists, British statesmen, and even British his
torians, to describe slavery, as it prevails in
the Southern States of this Union, as the worst
form in which human bondage has ever existed.
In the British West India lslands.it was infinite
ly worse. One point of difference alone made
the bondage of Jamaica to the bondage of Vir
ginia as being pat into the stocks is to being
dislocated on the rack. In our Southern States,
even when they were British colonies, the con
dition of the African was sought to be alleviated
as much as was consistent with his servile condi
tion, and. among other things.hc was permitted
to have a family, to surround himself with the
solace of domestic life. Yet in the West’ Indies
the planter acted on the principle that as it was
cheaper, so it was better, to work the slave to
death, and replace the waste by fresh impor
tations from abroad, instead of depending on
the natural increase in the island.
For this purpose, the introduction of females
was not encouraged, and hence the great tnajor-
ty of tiie Jamaica slaves, in Jamaica’s palmy
days, were able-bodied males. The average
duration of life under this condition of things
did not exceed ten years after the slaves had
landed. The owner was often, if not general
ly, and absentee, who never had that person
al intercourse with his servants, which, by
awakening those human sympathies which tes
tify so loudly to the brotherhood of Man, does
so much to mitigate the lot of serfdom. His
absence made the proprietor practically regard
his African chattel as merely 60 much money
invested in labor, to be got back again, with
the proper cent per cent, as soon as possible.
Left to the care of unfeeling overseers, with no
domestic tics to solaco their crnel captivity, in
nearly every case themselves having tasted
the sweets of freedom before they were ravish
ed from Africa, the Jamaica slaves were a fierce
and sullen race, continually on the brink of in
surrection, and rapidly wasting away under
the spur of unaccustomed labor. In a valua
ble work by Henry C. Carey, on slavery and
the slave trade, the mortality among Jamaica
davaa in shown, by statistics, not.onlv tp have
been enormous, but to have originated in the
principal fact that the waste in the slave popu
lation was expected to be supplied by importa
tion. and not by ^natural increase.
Now, in what will the condition of tho so call
ed hired laborer differ, substantially, from that
of the original Jamaica slave ? Under the old
system, the average life of the African-born
slave, after he had landed, did not exceed ten
years ; and this, as if with a knowledge of so
pregnant a fact, is the term to which it is pro
posed to limit apprenticeship under the modern
plan. Ten years, the protectors know, is all
he will be likely to live ; and ten years con
trol over him, therefore, iq all they ask. If the
past is any guarantee for the future, not a tithe
of the hired laborers, as the Times daintily calls
them, will be living at the expiration of their
term. The remembrance of their native land,
the unaccustomed work, the difference of cli
mate, and the realization of the gn#t fraud
which has been practiced upon them, will send
the majority of them, long before to an untime
ly grave. As the manner in which they are
to he introduced will forbid, precisely as it did
under the old regime, much natural increase
among their number, the waste will have to be
supplied by new importations; and thus we
shall have the African slave trade revived, in
all its great essentials, and personal slavery
practically restored in the British West Indies.
For that, the imported African will bo sub
stantially a slave follows from the fact, which
even the advocates of tho scheme liavo not the
hardihood to deny, that, when tho laborer dis
covers his true conditiou, he will repudiate it,
if not compulsorily held to it; and if so held to
it, though but for a term of years, he will be a
slave, in every important point, especially as
the original contract, even if made voluntarily
on his side, of which there will always bo great
doubt, will have originated in fraudulent re
presentations practiced on him.
^ It is impossible to avoid these conclusions
No savage African, living, when at borne, even
if a slave there, a half idle life, will ever vol
untarily do tho work demanded of him on the
Jamaica plantations. The hereditary inclina
tion to iudolcuce will be too strong for him.
Either, therefore, the employer will bo com
pelled to drive tiie laborer to work, under the
lasb, or he will have to let his African work
when and how he pleases. Tho first will be
practically, slavery; tho last will be the aban
donment of the scheme. But it is the first
thnt will bn resorted to. In Jamaica, at least,
there are laborers enough, or nearly so, if they
could be induced to work. But the native
born colored man knows what laboring in a
cotton field or on a sugar plantation is; ho pre
fers lits yam, his chickens, and idleness; and
he sturdily refuses to enter into any contract,
with owners of estates, fora term of years. It
is necessary, therefore, to inveigle strangers
into such contracts, for the law will enforce the
contract when once formed. But as deceit, on
the part of the British employer, is of the very
essence of tho contract—as it is only tho ig
norant ho can hope to gain at nil—is not the
relation thus sought to be established between
white and black substantially slavery?—Phil
adelphia Ledger.
The Intending Bridegroom.
An ignorant fellow, who was about to get
married, resolved to make himself perfect in
the responses of the marriage ceremony; hut
by mistake he committed to memory tho office
of baptism for those of ripe years; so when the
asked him in church :
•Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wed
ded wife V
Tho Bridegroom answered solemnly:
•I renounce them all.’
The astonished minister said, T think you a
fool.’
To which ho replied ;
. ‘All this I steadfastly believe.’
The Teacher Posed—A teacher asked a
bright little gin. ‘What country is opposite to
us on the globe V
Don’t know, sir,’ was the answer.
•Well, now, pursued the teacher, ‘if I were
to bore a hole through (lie earth, and you were
to go in at this end, where would you come
out V
‘Out of the hole, sirreplied the pupil with
an air of triumph.
Eufaula, Ala., August 8, 1857.
To the Editors of the Charleston Mercury :
Gentlemen: I received this morning, from
Gen. Atchison, letters from which I make for
publication the following extracts, shedding
light upon the real position and hopes of South
ern men in Kansas, refuting the slander now
widely circuhited^hat our leaders there have
abandoned the struggle for the rights of the
South, and properly characterizing the base
suspicions which have been whispered in some
quarters, even against the Executive Commit
tee whom I had the honor lately to represent
before the people of the South and South Caro
lina especially, in their appeal for pecuniary
aid.
Very truly and respectfully,
ALPHEUS BAKER, Jr.
Clinton Co., July 12, 1857.
Col. A. Baker.
Dear Sir : A week or two since I received
a letter from you; also I have read letters
from yon to Colonels Buford and Boone. You
have nobly discharged the trust we have re
posed in you. You have laboriously, elo
quently and energetically done your duty to
the South ; all this you have done, and every
true and honest Southern man must, sooner
or later, acknowledge it and thank you in his
heart for it. Your mission was a difficult one,
and you have been misconstrued In’ some and
wantonly slandered by others. Yet, if it is
any consolation to you, you must know that
in this you stand not alone. Indeed, every
man who has taken an open and manly part
in defence of Southern rights, has encounter
ed abuse of the North, and, what is still worse,
the sneers and detraction of Southern men.
The most ready weapon which comes to the
hands of a mean man in the South, is, that the
end we have in view is not the rights and in
terest of the Slave States, but our own. They
insinuate that the money raised in the South
is not to be expended in her cause, but to be
appropriated to the use of Atchison, Buford,
Russell, Boone, Stringfellow, &c. Now, every
intelligent man who uses such weapons is a
liar, and is conscious of being so when ho cir
culates or publishes such a charge; and try
him in any emergency, when the South shall
be in need of all her sons, and lie will prove
himself a coward or a traitor or beth.
I see that not even thunder and lightning
will arouse the South. I doubt whether an
earthquake—a moral and political earthquake,
shaking the institution of slavery to the earth,
and bringing ruiu upcn.tho whole South, would
arouse her to action. In a word, my only
hopes now tor Kansas are in the border couu-
ties of Missouri; and, by the hy, any one of
ten counties I could mention have expended
more money than any one State of the whole
South in this cause. The Executive Commit
tee for Kansas Territory will have a meeting
on the 8th of this month, for consultation,
when you shall hear front us.
If the South would but do half her duty,
Kansas would be a Slave State; and I hope
we will be able to effect that object, notwith
standing the apathy of the Slave States and
the energy of the Free States, and all the open
or secret, efforts of thp. officers of the Federal
Government.
Yours, truly,
(Signed) D. R. ATCHISON
In a letter to me of the 20 July, dishearten
ed by the indifference of the South to their ap
peals for assistance, and more deeply wound
ed by unjust charges against some of the best
and truest of her friends in Kansas, who have
ruined themselves in her service, he says de-
spondingly:
At tunes I have almost come to the conclu
sion to curse Kansas and quit the cause of the
South. It is hard for a uiau to devote all his
time and energies and money to a cause, and
receive nothing but abuse and slander in re
turn, from those who should sustain and co
operate with him; and to be the object of suspi
cion even to good men, is worse than all.—
Yet, in defiance of all this, I will not abandon
our cause so long as there is the shadow of a
chance for success, and this is the determina
tion of most of our friends in Kansas aud Mis
souri. Our cause is not a hopeless one. We
always have bad, up to the 1st of March last,
a majority of friends in Kansas, and I believe
we still have. I will give you my reasons for
still thinking so: The registered voters a-
mouut to near ten thousand, and this registry
was made last winter and spring, and at least
nine-tenths of those voters are pro-slavery men,
for tho Abolitionists refused,. as a general
thing, to register their names, and the reason
for their refusal was, in my opinion, that they
knew they were in a small minority. It was
not to preserve their consistencyAor Abolitionists
are consistent in nothing except in villainy.
Now, if our Delegates to the Convention shall
refer the Constitution lo the registered voters
for ratification or rejection, they will ratify
the Constitution. If it is to be referred, as
Gov. Walker says, to all tho people who shall
be in the Territory on the day of voting, then
wo must and will have a majority at the polls
on that day. If the South would hut make
one speedy and united effort, all would bo
safe. If SValkcr’s plau, however, prevails, it
will give us infinite trouble, but it will also g«e
tho Abolitiouists more. Walker has done us
and our cauiie more injury than Hale, Chase,
or any other Abolitionist could have done;
yet, I repeat, I do not despair. One more ef
fort ! It is the last we can make, aud we will
succeed.
I am happy to find that Walker is fully un
derstood at tlic South. A great many South
ern tnen hare gone to Kansas tiiis summer,
and many more will go from this region. We
do not give it up. 1 regret that I cannot de
vote my whole time to our Kausas affairs in
this crisis. Now is the time for the South to
act. Yours truly,
(Signed) D. R. ATCHISON.
JXO. E. HOSS.
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J. 33. cJtf YY.. ItOSSS,
WHOIiEMLE A BET-tl /
DRY GOODS '
AND
GROCERY MERGELNI3,
MACON, GA„
TTAVE on hand. ""'I are rereivin:?, in their
X± 1URUE SB IV S10ltt
On the Caruer of Secoad A t'iv . ry Mrcct,,
One of the most EXTENSIVE STOCKS of now
amt seasonable goods ever offered in the State.
Our Stock, besides a large and central assort-
turui of CKOCERIE», embrac« - an extensivo
variety of SHOES, HATS, HARD AND WOODEN
Ware, CARTSTINGS. and
FA1SCY & STAPLE DUT GOODS.
Our extended abonaintanoc, and long experience
intrude, afford us the most ample facilities for pro
curing onr goods on the most reasonable tonus, and
adapting our Stock to the wants of the public, and
purchasing as we .do, IN LARGE QUANTITIES,
and nsnally for the CASH, wo ran afford them to
our customers at corresponding LOW PRICES.
While we cordially invite the public generally, to
avail themselves of onr AMPLE STOCK, troin
which to make their purchases .for their personal
wants, we would also specialty invite
■Wholesale Purchasers
to inspect our goods, and hear our prices, betore
purchasing, nr sending their orders elsewhere, for
we lcel confident we can offer as
GREATINDUCEHENT3
as any Ilncso iu CAROLINA cr GEORGIA, and
we are determined to do it.
TRY VS AND SEE.
jnly 14 J. II. & W. A. BOSS.
DEESS GOODS.
LOW PRICES.
yX order to closo out onr stock of Summer T>r
j L Goods, embracing every variety, we propose aeU
! ling tic 111 at COST lor CASH until 23th day- Mfi
Parsons In search of handsome Dress Goods will
find the best assortment in the City by calling on vj,
and at
Sirictiy Sew York Cost.
Our object is to sell entirely out in that line, soil
to be prepared for nn
ENTIES NEW SUPPLY,
which will be ready for inspection early it* Septem
ber. BOSTICK A KEEN.
Juno 53rd, 183'.
City papers copy.
The Pacific Overland Itoad Party.
On Wednesday last wo had the pleasure of
a few minutes, conversation with Col. James
13. Leech, who is in charge of the above coin
pany, which is engaged in surveying a route
tor the purpose of carrying the overland mail
from the Mississippi river to the Pacific.
The party consists of 48 wagons and 100
men, and will strike an air line from here to
Preston, Texas; from which point it will travel
nearly in a westerly direction, passing a little
north of Fort Belknap, 25 miles north of Fort
Chadbourne, cross the Pecos River at Emi
grant crossing, cross the Lauo west of Cardo
on the route, and strike the Rio Grande 15
miles north of El Paso. Thence the survey
will continue to Fort Yuma and San Francisco
by the best and most practicable route.
We have no idea of -the time it will take to
survey this route, and make the road passable
for mail stages ; but with the force of the gov
ernment and contractors to press it forward,
we hope to see the work consummated at the
earliest practicable day.—Ark. Gaz. and Hem.
The Remedy worse than the Dis-
DISEASE.
A man who had recently joined the Sou? of Tem
perance went on business to Mobile, where he was
taken sick. The physician finding him iu a danger
ous situation prescribed brandy, which the sick man
refused to take. The doctor told him th.it lie must,
or he would have spasms. “Well,” said the tem
perance man, “I " ill try a couple of spasms first.”
He kopt bis pledge aud bad no spasm.
COTTON PLANTERS.
T HE subscriber has thoroughly tried, at Macon
and Columbus, Georgia, Lis wrought iron Cot
ton Screw, where two of them *re now standing and
will remain until October for inspection. I beiieve
it is cheapest, bv half, over offered for the purpose of
pressing cotton or bay, ss tho frame, screw, pin, and
levers are all of wrought iron. It should be attach
ed to the gin house, and have it put up through the
floor, as the ordinary press—the levers being only
five feet in length—to nave the width of the house
and 18 and so feet in length, tho lint conld then bo
placed all around the screw. - Then a man cun take
five hands and pack as many five-lmndred-pound-
bales in one day, with as little labor to tho hand, as
the same five and two more, with a horse, can on
the wood screw in the same time. Three hands can
put no one and take it down, and it can be carried at
one four mules to any point.—Asthis is for
the pumTe eye I will give the amount of timber ne
cessary for completing one:
1 piece 17 met long 4J by 9.
6 -17 “ 2 •• 9.
a •• 1? “ ♦ “ fi.
18 “ 9 “ 2* “ 12.
3 •• 1G “ 2 “ 4.
5 •• 10 “ 1 “ 10.
• f This to be of
1 “14 “ 6 “ 10. ? tough timber—
- (, pine or oak.
2 •• 13 •• 2 “ 12.
2 •• 14 “ li “ 6.
2 “ 10 “ 1 “ 5.
\ •• 51 “ 9 “ 23.
This makes a box nearnine feet deep with bed and
follower, and all other fixtures. I furnish the iron
and tho work done ou it at Macon, and put the a-
nove lumber to it at the place where it is wanted, the
purchaser furnishing tho lumber nud paying the
freight from Macon, can have one of the handiest
and cheapest cotton screws now kuown, its durabil
ity considercd.'as it is given up by all who have seen
it to bo a lifetime investment. I can pack five hun
dred pounds with three hands—take five and there is
uo hard work done. Price $130 this year.
I expect, if life lasts, to have one at the next state
Fair, and would be glad to see one of every other
pattern of pressesnow in use there and let the world
judge for itself. I then expect to sell the right in
any size territory that may be desired on reasonable
terms, with a working model, within the limits of
such county or counties, and all the information ne
cessary for putting them up and working them. Ad
dress, Thomasvillc, Georgia. JAMES .MASSE V.
juiy 28
Eow Spring Goods.
T> OSS, COLEMAN & ttOS&h&vejott Opened Uie
JL^ second new Stock of
SPRING GOODS
This season, embracing
BERAGE ROBES from $3 to $23.
ORGANDIE ROBES from $G to 813.
MANTILLAS, LACE aud GIMPUIRE from S3 to
$4,000
Worth of Embroideries, in Collars, Sleeves and
Cambric Trimmings.
On all the above goods we promise you a deduc.
tioe ol 20 per cent on previous prices ss our Stock is
largo and must be sold. Call e_rly. No charge for
showing goods. njd 21
PARKER’S
jSTEYY goods,
FOB xm:
SDPE-ITSTC3- TBAIOB.
•\'V7"E are now receiving a splendid assortment of
VV mo<t desirable FRENCH, ENGLISH, GER
MAN, SWISS and AMERICAN GOODS, oj the very
latest Importation.
SILK KOKKS,
BAREGE BORES,
GREXADI3E ROBES,
OBGJdlDT BUTSUXar KOBE ft.
.IAC4S.NKT ltID«U!V SIOBES,
El'GEME SII.lt B«!tE8,
UOKNknre nKEs-MEs,
TOlhE »>AS1E ROBE3,
ENTOKlEf.f MEW*
A full assortment of Bishorfs best BLACK SlEKfi^
MANTILLAS.
Chantilly Lace Points and Mantillas.
The Ladies will, we think, derive great pleasura
from an examination of our entirely NEW STOCK
01 FRENCH EMBROIDERIES,
which is unusually attractive. We have a great
many NOVELTlFS, both BRILLIAN 1’ and BEAU
TIFUL, unnecessary to mention. Call and we will
repay you for the time spent, by showing the targets
and most beautiful Stock o^
Staple &. Fancy Dry Goods
which we have ever had the pleasure of exhibiting
to the Ladies of Macon and surrounding country,
apl 14 W. W. PARKER & CO.
WESE1I3
AGENT, FOR SALE OF
EJIERT BKOTIIEKS’ PATENT
HOUSE POWERS & THRESHER
_ julyjil
SAYAMH MEDICAL
COLLEGE.
T HE annual Course of Lectures will commence
on the first Monday in November next.
The preliminary lectures on the 18th October.
FACUL T Y.
R. D. Arnold, M. D Practice Medicine
P. M. Kollock, 51. D Obstcteries,
W. G. Bullock, M. D Surgery,
J. G. Howard, 51. D Anatomy,
.1. Harris, M. I) Physiology,
J. B. Read, 51. D Materia Medica.
Joseph Jones, M. D .....Chemistry,
J. J. West, M. D Demonstrator.
Clinical Lectures will be regularly delivered at
the city hospital. This institution will accommo
date over one hundred patients.
For particulars address J. O. HOWARD,
july 21 Dean.
3.0,000 Siiares
Southern Paeinlc R. Read.
S T O CiK.
T HE President and Directors of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad Company, have set apart Ten
Thousand shares of this Stock to bo offered, for a
limited period, to the citizens of Georgia, and those
who desire to subscribe, will do so promptly.
Five per cent, is all that will ever be called for up
on this Stock, as the grants from the State of Texas,
are held to be sufficient to pay tbo other ninety-five
per cent. Seventy miles of tho road have been put
under contract, with Mcssrs.John T. Grant A Co.,
of this State, whose experience, ubility and resources
ive ample assurance of tho most vigorous and spee
dy construction of the road. The Rights, Franchis
es and Property ot this Company, arc secured bo
yond all contingencies.
Tho iron for 27 pules of the road, has already been
delivered In Texas, and theRoad bed is now nearly
ready to receive it. As the Company havo no imme
diate use for lands, lam authorized to take good
paper maturing at Savannah, Charleston, Mobile,
New Orleans or New York, on tho first of March,
J 858, with interest and exchange added. The Stock
may be secured on application to me at the office of
Williams, Rhea A Co., Atlanta, Gn., where printed
Charters, Reports and Statistics can be had.
BOLLING BAKKR, Agent
for sale of Southern Pacific R. R.
Stockiu the State of Georgia.
Atlanta, July 23,1837 aug 4 tf
Form of Stock Certificate.
Be it known that is entitled, to
Shares, of 6100, each, in tho Capital
Stock of tiio Southern Pacific Railroad Company, re
presenting all the rights, interests, privileges, lauds,
and other property of the company, transferable on
ly on the books of the Company, by said —
or his attorney, on the surrender of this certificate.
On each of these shares, $5 have been paid, aud xo
FUUTUKRCAI.L OR ASSSSSMBST, can, or shall be made
on the Stock represented Ivv this certificate.—In
Testimony whereof, the said Company havo caused
this Certificate to he signed, Ac.nng 4 tf
PAPER HANGINGS.
ofur a® u ^ls wall paper, the gkkat-
OUUU est variety to bo found in Macon, also
PA1’Bit SIIA DBS, Pint: 7. A A’.\ >v - Ac.
T. &.G. WOOD,
mar 31—tf Next door to tli • L ’.nn " il-ni-c.
A Small Farm For Salo.
HE A LTU Ylocation, about t wo miles front the
C.mrt House, For particulars apply to the un
designed at this office. J. JOcEPil HODGES,
Agent.
A 1
LARGE SALES AT TIIE
NEW YORK STORE.
15 PER CENT SAVED BY BUYING GOODS
FOR CASK
XTOW18 THE TIME TO BUY - . Wo havo ora
1\ of the largest aud most complete stocks ot
GOODS iu Macon. Consisting in part of
1,500 yards of those beautiful Muslins, at 12J cents
worth 20 cts.
100 patterns Jaconet, at 20 and 25 cents.
Large lot Organdies now selling very low,
300 yards more of that Irish Linen at 25 cent\
worth 40.
—also—
Orarnmlic R«l»es, Baregre Roltc-Sf
SPLENDID SILKS & SILK KOBES,
Mantillas, Collars, Sleeves, Embroider
ies, Handk’fs, Hosiery, Gloves,
Mitts, Shirtings and Sheetings,
Table Linen.-, Towels. Nap
kins, Y'ankee Notions,
and in fact every
thing usually
kept in a
Fancy Dry Gooris Store.
All of which will be sold very low foi CASH. We
invito the J.AD1KS particular/y to come and see for
themselves. DENMAN Jt WATERMAN.
Macon, April 7,1857.
NEW SPRING GOODS.
T HE subscriber havingrctnrned from the North,
is now prepared to exhibit to tho citizens ot
Macon, and the surrounding country.
Tho largest, cheapest, and best stock of DRY
GOODS ever offered in tbis market. Having pur
chased a great portion of my stock at tho large auc
tion sales in New York, and iu many instances, less
than the Goods coat to import, 1 am confident that
l can offer indif^ients to purchasers, hcretofoic
unprecedented.
My stock, in part, consists of the following goods
Organdie, Baragc and Tissue Robes,
Printed Organdy Muslin,
Printed Jaconets nnd Cambrics,
Plain Colored Cambrics and Brilliantics,
Light colored fancy Silks of the very latest importa
tions and newest styles.
A largo lot of French and Swiss EMBROIDE
RIES. Fine setts of Collars and Sleeves, in Thread
aud Valencies, Laces, with a general assortment ot
other SPRING GOODS, received by latest Steamers.
Call and examine my stock at tho Triangular
Block, Corner Cotton Avenue & 2d Street,
march 17 ELIAS EINSTEIN.
WHEAT FANS,
GRAIN CRADLES,
REAP HOOKS,
SCYTHE BLADES & SHAFTS,
THRESIQNG MACHINES,
STI&W CUTTERS,
BOLTING CLOTHS,
WIRE CLOTHS,
For Sale by NATHAN "WEED.
A RARE CHANCE TO
MAKE MONEY ! ! !
T O persons wishing to enter into a pleasant and
profitable business, tho subscriber is prepare d
to offer extraordinary inducements. Owing to ill-
health, ami»«. desire to wind up his outstanding busi
ness ho offers for s ilo, at a great bargain, his remain,
ing stock of STAPLE and FANCY DRV GOODd.
which is iu lino order, well suited to this market, and
as desirable as any stock of DRY GOODS iu tl.a
Southern Country.
The purchaser will havo the advantage of a stora
room, well adapted to tno Dry Goods business, the
In -t locatiovTin the city, a line run of trade, both in
the city and country. The Store House, oftwo stori'-s
commodious and splendidly constructed, will be lea s-
ed or rented at a liberal rate for any length of time
:iv.- ve il--. II - wiiial-.i 11 at a r.-asnii-
abffi discount, his n*ttl and open avounts, nnd lei d
;. -n, i a—'.-t ,nc.- in tie- <! ■■ d- ai <1
collection of debts. To nn industrious and thorough
going person, this is a rare opportunity to make a
profitable investment, and such apers-u will do well
to call s ion at bis store in Triangular Block, Second
Street, generally known as the store of Bostick -t
Jolms.
Macon, March 18th, 1857. I. D. N. JOHNS.
Jour. Mess, please copy. marl7
Q KKM5v—The subscriber is constantly r->-
1 )' ceiving line, and fashionable 11 B R L I Y
COACHES some plain and others most beauti
fully finished. They are buiit by the host makers at
the North under the direction ot Mr. II 0. McKee,
for this establishment; and adapted to our roads,
rith i> roii, rig:.: tra, k, Ac.—Can b>- recommended
•el w rraiit • i with confidence. Being on throe
lit tie springs the motion is pleasant, and they are
a light strong, comfortable and convenant tamily
carri.ii, are fast superseding the old style or C
lg coach. They sell at from St5u to S?00, and
n fset are offered at a small advance from the man
ufacturer'.- prices, for cash or good not. s.
Jijno 1 . U. I LA> 1.
CASH STORE.
I ARtiF St- k of Fancy and Staple Drv Goods,
\. Carpeting. Paper Hangings, Window Shades,
c., always ou bftuu* W.
jaq 6-ly
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