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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH .
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
REGULAR MEETING.
Council Chamber, /
Macon, Oft., October ft'tli. f
Vrosent—A. U. Adams, Mayor, Flanders, Boatick,
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i reconsider the resolution
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\nd in,, mimitos m> alter, d wire continued.
i a ■ It; id...- Keeper reported tolls for the week,
, .late, silo
I i . , i Market reported fees for the w eek to
lard
50.
it bin two week;
1 side walk outside of
encroachment bo allowed
iusu Keeper reported fees for tbs
i; | n: t he Committee to whom was referred the
pitinnn of.l. L. Jones' to extend his front fence, re-
• oilmen 1 that the application be granted on the
payment, by Mr.Jones, into the Treasury, of the sum
of two hundred and fltty dollars.
\ i. i : d—Johns,,n. Ellis and Kife, Committee.
I 1 ■•Finance Com aittie reported in favor of tho
fo.low mg accounts, vix :
A. l'ewell, s -) 00 : Kich. Iirinn, f68 43.
i i Committee on Street Encroachment withdrew
tln-ir report of last week for amendment. Then of
ten 1 tie following:
W-- ,*< oniim-nd that Mr. I lms. A. Ilrewer lie al
ii . l toeneroach in front ol his lot on New Street,
i i t, provided the owners of lota on tho same side
ol the square interpose no objection
and | : ovided he inak. a \
tho apace enclosed, and n
him eii First Street.
Adopted.
tin motion ot Aid. Bloom,
Resolved, That .1. A. Ralston be allowed twenty
days 1. ivo iron stepo pnt up in tho place of wood-
en ei.e-, now 'ii Cotton Avenue.
Bussed.
On motion Aid. Bloom,
K. solred. That tin- nuisance so much complained
of In- llie citizens in that part o! the City lying North
Of--d Sir.-i ,11 a line ol Mulli. .TV Street to Spring
Sir, ■ i- not caused by tho Sewer ot which so much
complaint is made, bat from their own lots, caused by
S’, ,i p i\e - in accordance with the ordi
nances of the City.
Ki solved, farther, That tho City Marshal examine
tl. — privies, and report all that is not in aceordanco
with Ine City ordinances.
Passed.
On motion of Aid. Bloom,
Resolved, That the .Mayor he authorized to call
upon any lawyer lie may think best to defend tho
City ag mist tho suit now pending against it.
1‘aased.
On motion of Aid. Johnson,
I; solved, That J. .'I. B ardmnn, and others, bo
allowed to pro; e. ,1 with the sewer commenced by
them, under resolution passed by Council, in August
la»t—pr,,\ ide.l tin- parties use the same for no other
purpose than that stated and contemplated in the
resolution, and provided also, that no water b pass
ed into the Sewer, but that which already has its out
let at the poiut of its destination.
Passed.
Sir. J. A. Wilburn's petition to let his wagon pass
the SI aeon bridge for the balance of iho year at _a
pro rain charge, received, and referred to the Ki
lMuce Committee.
Council then adjourned.
R. CURD. C. C.
ilACON.GA.,
Tuesday Morning, Nov. 3, 1857.
Itleiingeric mid Circus.
Next Thursday, with Eastern potnp and pa
geantry, by the shrill blast of the trumpet and
the clash of cymbals, the Elephants, the Mena
gerie and the Circus, will be coming. AN hat a
time for the little folks and darkies !
lints and Cups.
Our friend Stone invites the liibb County
Cavalry to come and get their military caps
and while they arc at it, to examine his new
and beautiful stock of head gear in general.—
lie has a beautiful Store and completely new
assortment of goods.
lringrudvr’.s Patent Plough.
AVe advertise to-day one of the few patented
improvements from Georgia. To secure a patent
now-a-davs is itself pretty conclusive evidence of
an improvement, and here, we believe, is a very
important one, affecting most advantageously the
one great overshadowing interest of the State and
the South. T. C. Nksiut, Esq., is, we think, en
gaged in getting up these new ploughs.
<< O, lio I” Ac.
“ The Campbells are coming,” this time, we arc
assured, with large acquisitions to their attrnctivi
ability. They number twelve artistes, and a little
prodigy of wit and saltatory grace who carries all
before him. The Campbells pronounce him their
surest card, although they always hold a powerful
hand. See advertisement.
The Rochester Democrat publishes the fol
lowing singular statement. What new thing
under the sun is this ?
“The I’x.ower Growing from a Tumefac
tion.—Wc mentioned, n few days since, tho
case of tho lnd Northrop, at Ithaca, upon
whoso diseased limb there grew a singular
formation, like to the passion flower. Dr.
Hawley, formerly of Geneva College, has
written n more detailed nccount of this case
The lad is from thirteen to fourteen years old,I
and has been subject to tenderness and disease
of the liip-joint, which at two years of age re
sulted in extensive tumefaction; three years
later an abcess was formed, and finally the
disease caused tho dislocation of the hip-joint.
For four months tho patient has been unable
to movo anjuch in bed; abscesses have formed
in the abdomen, through which the foecal con
tent* of his intestines were discharged; and
his nervous sensitiveness lias been such that
hs would allow no one to touch him or make
an investigation, and careless walking across
the floor has caused him to cry out with pain.
The prolongation of his life was regarded as a
miracle. On the 4th iust. there was projected
from the right limb, which for a long time had
bceu greatly swollen, a stem, on the inner
aide, at the head of the gastronomies muscle,
rising at right angles with it, more than seven
laches in height, with a flower squarely set up
on it, resembling tho Passion Flower or the
China Aster. On Wednesday the boy felt an
ooziug from what had been expected to be an
abscess, and expressed great relief. lie did
not permit any examination until Saturday
afternoon, when a stein was seen arising at
right angles with the limb, at about the height
of three inches, crowned with pure white buds,
resembliug tho white buds of the orange.' On
being exposed to the light, the flower expan
ded, and assumed the color of a beautiful grey
ish purple.”
Fall of Sugar.
Do not be incredulous, reader, when wc in
form you that on .Monday last, at the foot of
Clear Lake, in this county, a shower of sugar
caudy fell, covering n large tract of country.
It covered everything—leaves of trees, rocks,
and tho earth’s surface alike. When discov
ered by the inhabitants the next morning, a
part of it was of the consistency of syrup, and
tho rest as perfectly crystalized as the candy
ot‘the shop-. Its ta-te is precisely similar to
th.it of untlavored candy. Mr. J. Hale, the
.Clear Lake expressman, saw it while on the
ground, and collected a box as samples which
lie brought to us. There is no mistake about
the matter, as t he public may learn for them
selves by calling at our office. The specimens
before us are generally irregularly crystalized,
rounded at one end and irregular in form at
the other, aa if broken off from some surface
to which they adhered. They are from one-
fourth to five-eighths of an inch in length,
some pure white and others of a delicate, pink
hue. 1 la ir general appearance is that of
very small stalagmites, such as wc have often
seen in eaves. A similar shower occur
red at Suit Lake somo years since. Natural
ists pretend to explain such phenomena by
saying that such saccharine shower? arc of in
sect origin : but their explanations seem even
more improbable than the fact itself—the lat
ter being well attested, and the former a mero
tl.mry i.i excuse ignorance of Nature’s won-
derous workings.—-Yia/xi Republican.
TIiid' Hundred and Fifty Thou.
SAND DOLLARS GIVEN AWAY!
The Pastor’s & People’s Journal for No
vernber is out, and will be delivered to City
Subscribers somewhere about Thursday, we
presume. This number presents an interest
ing review of affairs in India—an article upon
Church Government—upon the Bible revi
sion question, and many others of interest.'
Apply to Messrs. Richards.
How long: will the Hard Times last!
See the very interesting article in answer to
this question upon tho first page, copied from
the Richmond Examiner. The reader will
come to his own conclusions, but we hope the
Examiner has set his pegs too far by a good
while. Asa Whitney, tho Pacific railway man
talks of cramps and convulsions for eight years
to come! That is worse yet. The N. Y.
Herald, which claims to be a Solomon in finan
cial matters is looking for a speedy abatement
of the pressure.
Fire.
About 5 o’clock, on Sunday morning, a new
frame dwelling, not qnite finished, in the western
part of the city, belonging to II. P. Redding, Esq.,
was fired and consumed. The incendiary remains
undiscovered. Insurance to the amount of $1200
bad been effected on the building.
Well done, Baldwin County.
Briscoe, Democrat, was elected Senator in
Baldwin county at the special election, last
Wednesday, to fill the vacancy occasioned by
tho resignation of Gen. Sanford, Mr. Bris
coe’s majority was eighteen.
New Post Oilice.
A new Post Office has recently been estab
lished in Worth county, Georgia, on the route
from Albany to Vienna, called ‘•Bloomfield,”
and Wm. H. Lippitt, appointed P. M.
Specie Paying Banks of Georgia.
All the newspapers of Columbus have agreed
to keep a standing list of the specie paying
Banks of Georgia, both as an act of justice to
Banks who thus continue to exhibit fidelity to
their obligations in a time of almost univer
sal defection, and for public information. This
list is unfortunately very brief. It is as fol
lows :
Bank of Middle Georgia, Macon, ?
paid in capital, ) $125,000
Bank of Colnmbus, “ “ 250,000
Commercial Bank of Brunswick, 75.000
Of the Bank of Middle Georgia, we have
ipokcn. In reference to the two others, the
Columbus papers point with pride to the fact
that both are owned and managed by citizens
of that place. The Commercial Bank has more
specie on hand than circulation out—the Bank
of Columbus within a mere trifle as much.
To Colton Planters.
The Steam Compressing Establishments in
Savannah require that each bale of Cotton
shall have six ropes around it, and when a bale
is found with less than six, the owner or Fac
tor who sells the Cotton, is required to pay
eight cents for each missing rope. Hence it be
comes necessary that Planters shonld sec that
each bale packed by them has six ropes on it,
even if they have to put two in the same place
on the bale. Planters lose nothing by adding
the extra rope, it being weighed and paid for
with the cotton.
Mr. Lt
Lafourche
xrifo havii
few <1
was f
posse
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wile,
acted
xvise
a wealthy sugar planter of
1 recently without issue—his
ceded him to the crave. His
vu- appraised at about $700,000. A
i\ s i-incc his will was opened, when it
und that he had left the whole of his
to be divided equally between two
men of this city, one a nephew to his
m l the other the broker who had trans-
his business in this city, a man in no
elated to him only in tho way of busi
ness. To the astonishment of his friends, this
hr k r, on finding that he had been made
legatee to ball the old man’s estate, ($350,-
(ibd) w.-ut before a Notary Public and rc-
liminced tlie whole legacy, making it over to
the relatives of the deceased in France, con
sisting of nephews and nieces to the number
of 2:1 or 33, and all humbly situated in life.
The old man had recently made a will in which
his French relatives were handsomely retnem-
jut on returning from a visit to them
ugt>, for some reason known otdy to
ho tore the will to pieces and wrote a
new one, leaving every tiling to his wife’s
nephew, and broker, as above stated.
J b came to this country when young, a poor
hatter; but prospering in his business and
finally marrying a lady of wealth, he went in
to the sugar business, and progressed so well
that a lew years more might have made him a
millionaire. The broker who so magnum
mously renounced his share of the estate gave
his reason for so doing, that he was already
as rich as he wished to be and felt so inde
pendent that he did not wish it to be in the
power of any one to say that any part of his
fortune Wii| not his own making.
ber
not
bin
A down-east editor advises ids readers, if
they wish to get teeth inserted gratis, to go
and steal fruit where his watch dog is on guard.
Two and a half million feet of pine lumber
were used in making clocks in Connecticut
last year
Ferment in Baltimore.
There is a reasonable prospect for a prodi
gious row in Baltimore at tde State election.
Tho Charter election three weeks ago amount
ed to a farce—the price of a vote to a Demo
crat being a broken bead. Gov. Ligon lias
undertaken arrangements to preserve order,
and for that purpose made a request for troops
from the Government, which have been refus
ed on reasons of law and general policy. He
has, however, procured 3000 muskets from
the Virginia State Arsenals and is organizing
a militia force for the occasion. These move
ments of tho Executive arc creating a great
excitement among the turbulent population of
the city.
Government Finances.
Nine millions eight hundred thousand dollars
was the amount in tho U. S. Treasury, subject to
draft, last Friday. Tho receipts of tho week were
only $411,000! A committee of merchants wait
ing on the Secretary of the Treasury, nssured him
that i.o order for foreign goods had left New York
within the last forty days, and that many goods
now under bond would certainly be reshipped to
Europe. In tbc face of such facts as these no cal
culation can be bused on the customs revenue.
The Georgian apologizes for lack of editorial
and news matter on account of the pressure of ad
vertisements. This is a sad condition for a news
paper to be placed in, and wc have that spite
against the Georgian, which leads ua to hope it
may never get out of the “ fix.”
The Legislature
Organizes to-morrow. We hope all its de
liberations will be characterized by candor,
firmness, moderation and patriotism. To the
Democracy', who must bear the responsibility
of its sins and short comings, if any, we can
give no better counsel than forbearance and
conciliation. Large Legislative majorities are
generally disastrous to any party'. The dan
ger can be averted only by a determination on
the part of every member to pursue a straight
forward, open-handed, liberal and conciliatory
course.
A Fugitive froii) Justice.
We find the following despatch in the Savannah
Republican of yesterday :
Important from Kansas.
Nkw York, Oct. HI.—Private despatches from
Knn.-uis state that Gov. Walker and Secretary
Stanton have Hod to Benicia, in consequence of
the threats of the ultra pro-slavery men. The peo
ple of Lawrence have offered them u refuge and
protection. ,
The l . S. Senatorial Flection.
MESSRS. TOOMBS, McDONALD, Ac.
“ Justice” exercises a modicum of that quuli
when he leaves us a chance of escape from the n
ponsibility of pretensions set up in our behalf b
the Journal <1- Metsmycr / It will be time e
to api tv such tests when we advance them for our
selves. The Telegraph aspires to no “fiat.-
stilted political organry, whatever. Tho conclu
"ions of the democratic party we understand to 1
the appropriate work of primary meeting* and co
i•ention*, and are quite content to promulge and
defend these, ns such, so far as we are able. I pon
questions in abeyance—undecided, we aim to give
all opinions a fair chance, and to exercise only the
same discretionary latitude taken by all our con
temporaries in the State. Thus, pending the now
ination for Governor, wc did not hesitate to avow
a choice for Col. Lamar, nor did any other demo
cratic paper in the State fail to signify its ow
election between candidates, although all fell In at
once with the ‘‘fiat’’of the party in Convention as
sembled. During the whole of that long canvass of
personal claims preceding the nomination, no word
for any candidate was ever rejected by the'iele-
graph, and wc have steadily proposed and practised
an open, fair, full nnd free canvas of all men, mea
sures and positions—giving all who desired a fair
hearing, upon every matter arising for decision
and action. If there is a better way we fail to per
ceive it.
And how does our correspondent who impugns
the Telegraph for a mere independent expression
of opinion, propose to illustrate hi* fidelity to tho
party—hurtspect for its authority and decisions
lie not only claims to exercise and to oxpress
choice, but he does not intend to refer that choice
to the party—lie means to carry it into effect, if
necessary, against the will of a majority ef the
party. lie inferentially impeaches in advance the
integrity of the caucus to ascertain the will of that
majority, and flouts the charges of “ cunning,”
“juggling,” “wire-pulling,” Ac., in the face of the
Democratic majority of the Legislature with a tone
and spirit certainly far from complimentary to the
personal and political character of tho gentlemen
who compose it! Ilis choice, he says “ has been
the choice of the party for years!” And how
shown ? “ He ha* been nominated in caucus !'
Then, Mr. Justice, do not discredit your own evi
dence !
We profoundly regret to see propositions and
views of this character coming front one of the
most prominent and intelligent of Gov. McDonald’s
friends ! They bode no good to him or to any
body except the opposition. In respect to the
Governor himself the only objection we have to his
election os Senator at this time, is simply that
cannot be effected without the loss of the public
services of Mr. Toombs, whose large experience,
extraordinary abilities and elevated position in the
U. S. Senate, are, in our opinion, of great value to
Georgia; and looking impartially at every interest
of the party, the State and the United States, it is t
in our judgment, impolitic to withdraw him from
that body. If that opinion be treasonable, we
will abide the consequences. If tho party do not
concur in it, we defer to their better judgment.—
If they prefer Gov. McDonald, it will be no person
al disappointment to the Telegraph. Other Demo
crats of reputation might also well claim the atten
tion of a nominating body. Gov. IIersciiel Y.
Johnson would step at once into a commanding po
sition in the Senate. So would Absalom H. Chap
pell. Our own Lamar, Lumpkin, Ward, Stiles,
Gardner, and a score of others would do credit to
the station.
But with no personal interest whatever in the
premises, we earnestly protest against any such
factious course as that suggested by “Justice."—
Let the Democracy meet in caucus—fairly ascer
tain the will of the majority, and then manfully
and generously carry it into effect—yielding per"
sonal predilections to the general will and welfare.
If the party is worth anything, its organization is
practically scarcely inferior in value to its princi
ples. The latter must be sacrificed with the for
mer. Notwithstanding the position assumed by
Justice," we will not permit ourselves to believe
that Gov. McDonald will leave his elevated position
at the head of the State Judiciary to “ represent
the Democracy of Georgia,” except as the duly
constituted choice of that Democracy ! He will
be willing, like all the other public men of the par
ty, to submit his claims to the arbitrament of the
duly elected representatives of that Democracy,
acting in good faith and honorable purpose for the
united and harmonious discharge .of the high
trust imposed upon them by the party and the
State.
Rhode Island Banks—Specie Basis,
The Atlanta Intelligencer publishes the follow
ing. It is a strong illustration of the fact that iu
flush times” bank paper ceases to be in public
estimation only a representative of money and be
comes money itself:
On the 12th October in this year (1857) the
Banks of Rhode Island—55 in number, had a cir
culation of one million nine hundred and thirty-
nine thousand three hundred and forty-fire dollars
—to one hundred and twenty thousand three hun
dred and seventy dollars in specie—one of these
Banks, the “Citizens’ Cumberland,” had a circula
tion of $28,263, and to redeem it with, the sum of
$412 in specie. The circulation of the “People’s
Bank” was $46,889, and the nice little amount of
$914 in coin in its vaults. The “Niantic” had just
M- in specie for every $1,000 of its circulation ;
and the “R. 1. Central Bank" had scattered forth
among the people $386,702, and on inspection there
was found in its seven fold iron safe secured by
seven of Chubbs’ patent locks, the enormous sum
of $7 !
Comment by us is needless, wc leave that to the
reader.
Gov. 'Walker nnd the Oxford Prc-
CINCT—THE ADMINISTRATION.
At length wc have in the St. Louis papers Walk
er and Stanton’s proclamation, throwing out the
Oxford precinct Like every thing emanating
from this busy functionary, it is exceedingly ver
bose, and os all the material alleged facts respect
ing the vote given tally with the freesoil account
elsewhere published, wc will not give space to the
document. Tho Proclamation also alleges infor
mality in the returns—first, in the omission of all
evidence that the oath was taken by tho Judges
of Election—second, that only one copy of the
poll books was kept. He found Oxford, he says,
to be only a “ village of six houses, including stores
and without a tavern,” and tho people thereof
were astounded at the magnitude of the return
and treated it witli derision nnd indignation.
Upon the receipt of news of this proclamation
the administration at Washington sceincd at once
to have taken ground against the legality of the
rejection of these returns by Walker. A despatch
in the Charleston and Savannah papers ruus asfol-
lows :
Gov. Walker and tlic Administra-
TION.
Washington, Oct. 30.—The Administration ut
terly condemns Gov. Walker’s course in purging
the polls in Oxford county, Kansas, contrary to
specific instructions to not act as judge in this
matter. There are the best reasons lor the belief
that both Walker and Stanton will be recalled, un
less they immediately resign.
Secretary Stanton reached Washington on the
29th, and the Administration were therefore in
possession of nil the facts.
Selling Specie.
. The New York Evening Post says :
Those who hoarded the gold in the hope of
speculating by a sale of it, find the premium
entirely insufficient to pay for the risk. One
or two per cent, appears to be the greatest
difference between specie and current bank
notes, and the difference promises to lessen
instead of increasing. The large amount of
silver change ill circulation not available in
legal payment for sums of over five dollars,
entirely does away with the necessity of pur
chasing specie for common use, and the only
use for gold is for tbc payment of duties at
the Custom House. In u few days the bul ion
operators will be glad to redeposite their gold
in bank to aave the interest.
Castus Yominations.
The Telegraph of the 20th inst. took occa
sion to make a few remarks upon party nom
inations by members of the Legislature, which
were so fortunate its to elicit the approbation
of the Times ,V Sentinel and lim partial sanc
tion of the Constitutionalist. The latter print,
however, to the extent in which it disagreecs
with tie Telegraph, has, we think, inadvert
ently' poshed our article beyonditsown proper
signification. That article did not assert “dis
trust iff the integrity and loyalty of any demo
crat” in the Legislature who might “refuse to
go into caucus and support the caucus nomi
nee," but of any democrat who might “join in
unseemly coalition with the American party”
and suffer “himself to be madeth: instrument
and menus of dividing and distracting” the
democracy.
Undoubtedly, as the Constitutionalist de
clares, a democratic member “may refuse
go into caucus” and thereupon may refuse
support a caucus nominee “without violating
his party obligations.” To go or not to go
“a question of expediency”—or better, a ques
tion ofpropriety. If ho goes, the net implies
a spirit of conciliation and compromise, upon
which alone the unity of any human organiza
tions can be maintained, lie goes desiring
secure the nomination of his own favorites, but
pledging himself tacitly to relinquish his ow
personal choice if it cannot be secured. He
goes willing to give as well as to take—sensi
ble that conflicts of views nnd interests arc the
rule and not the exception throughout the
world, nnd that the price ot harmony it*, to the
minority, concession. The integrity of his
party is, iu his judgment, too important to his
State and to his country to be endangered up
on questions of mere personal promotion
If he refuses to go, lie docs it in his own dis
cretion and upon his own responsibility against
the expressed judgment of both our able con
temporaries, sustained also by all experience
that there is no other way by which the will of
the party can be ascertained and carried out,
and united action secured! He does it at the
sacrifice of the very first object of party asso
ciation which is unity of action. He docs
in a spirit of unfratcrnal distrust and suspicion
—or in a disposition or willingness to see
things accomplished which lie knows or fears
would not be agreeable to the majority. He
does it ordinarily in a spirit fatal to the exist
ence and success of any party—or of concord
and harmony anywhere; for it miat be obvious
that, among numbers, every man’s will cannot
be law. IIo does not necessarily violate party
obligations in refusing to go, or to sustain
party nomination, because all such movements
and nominations arc subordinate to private
judgment and good conscience, of which no
man is at liberty to divest himself! But with
in this scope, it is certainly the duty of every
honest, patriotic, whole-souled member of
party to comply with all its ordinary and ac
cepted modes of action, and to contribute to
settle and consolidate its counsels in a forbear-
iug, fraternal and generous spirit.
We hope to see this done in Mjiledgeville,
The adversaries of the Democratic party, on
the other hand, are fondly anticipating scenes
of jealousy, discord, division and strife, dis
graceful to the party and calamitous to its fu
ture fortunes. The way to disappoint them is
for the party to meet in council—ascertain by
a fair poll the vote of the majority, (or of two-
thirds, if that be tho rule) and patriotically
carry it out.
Rlount Vernon Fund.
ADDRESS FROM A. H. H. DAWSON, Esq
We have a letter from A. II. H. Dawson,
Esq., Savannah, dated the 26th ult., iu which
he says that within three weeks he will visit
Macon, for the purpose of addressing our citi
zens and raising contributions to the great
Southern Fund for the patriotic purpose of
purchasing the Home of Washington. A great
movement is now in progress among the South
ern Ladies to effect this object, and it will
shortly be accomplished. They have enlisted
in their service some of the highest talcut in the
country. The genius and eloquence of Ed
ward Everett has been almost exclusively de
voted to it for some time past, and we see he
will soon make a tour of the South in this be
half. He is expected at Montgomery, Ala,
during the State Fair on the 17th, 18th and
19th instant.
Mr. Dawson, at the sacrifice of private in
terests, has commenced a canvass of this State
and so far with great success. He has been
put to no charge for travelling or Hotel ex
penses and all bis collections go to the fnnd
His plan is to issue tickets for gentlemen to
his lectures at 25 cts. each, and admit ladies
free. As this is a movement springing origi
nally from the Virginia Ladies and carried on
almost entirely by the Ladies of the Southern
States, he confidently hopes to enlist the La
dies of Macon in tho general management of
the matter and the procurement of subscrip
tions. Success to him. Let Mount Vernon
be bought and preserved as far as possible in
its original condition as a priceless legacy to
posterity through all corniug time.
Sunday in New Orleans.
The New Orleans correspondent of the Mo
bile Herald & Tribune gives tbc following
melancholy account of it:
There is one institution peculiar to New
Orleans, among American citizens, and that is
New Orleans Sunday. Mobilians should
thank their stars, that though their city is
somewhat burdened with a rigid exercise of
municipal authority, it is at the same time pre
served from the curso of New Orleans Sundays.
It is the chosen day of revel and amusement
and license. Reeling bacchants defile the
streets in every direction, nnd every base hnb-
’. and passion is indulged. Aside from its an-
-religious aspect, the New Orleans Sunday is
the stumbling block in tbc way of the city’s
progress to order and general morality. It is
the most immoral—not to say sinful, for that
of course it is, ns all immorality, and even what
not immorality, becomes sin when on Sun
day—day of the seven. Those who have be
come somewhat sobered down to notions of
propriety during tho previous six days arc now
wild anew by the general license of Sunday.—
All places of public amusement are open, as
ire all tho thousand drinking houses of the ci
ty. It is the special oecasiou for military dis
play, and all recreation, and is as utterly un-
Hindnyficd as Sunday could possibly be.—
Theatres run iu opposition to Churches,and it
needless to say which wins in the contest
here such claims come in conflict.”
Tennessee U. s. Senator.
Nashville, 0,-t. 28.—A. 0. P. Nicholson
lias been elected U. S. Senator. lie will take
the place of Mr.'Bell.
A woman’s life was curiously preserved by'
r husband in Staffordshire, lately, by’ the
process of transfusion. She lay at the point
of death, when, as a List resource, a vein was
opened in her arm, and one in the arm of her
husband, and as the Idood flowed from the
latter, it was transmitted, by suitable appa-
itus, to the Ytins of his wife. After seven-
en ounces had been thus injected, the pulse
became perceptible, and the colorless lips red
ed. the glassy eye brightened, and the
thankfully said, “1 am better.” The case has
progressed very favorably, and the woman is
recovering.
Senator Dougins’ alleged position
ON KANSAS.
The following Editorial from the Chicago
Times, the reputed home organ of Senator
Douglas, is charged by the Northern papers
to he the latest exposition of Senator Douglas’
position upon the Kansas Constitution. We
doubt it. If true, he is justly obnoxious to the
same charges which have lain against Walker.
Whatever inferences politicians may draw, or
affect to draw from the recent election, no
man can truly say that the people of Kansas
have decided the Slavery question one way or
the other. It is yet an open question, and if
this article is justly chargeable to Senator
Douglas, lie is only', like Governor Walker,
using his personal and official influence to pre
determine it against the South! We doubt
not Senator Douglas will relieve himself from
this imputation:—
“What that Convention will do, or what it
will not do, we have not the means of know
ing. But wc know that any attempt to force
a pro-slavery constitution upon the people
without the opportunity of voting it down at
the polls, will be regarded, after the recent
expression ofsentimeut, asso decidedly unjust,
oppressive and unworthy of a free people, that
the people of the United States will not sane-
Senator Hunter and the Adminis-
TRATION.
The position of Senator Hunter of Virginia,
in relation to the National administration, has
lately been made the subject of a good deal
of speculation and inquiry among the Virgi
nia prints. That gentleman now publicly de
fends himself in a letter to Shelton F. Leake,
Esq., first published in the Charlottesville Jef
fersonian. To Gov. Walker’s course in Kan
sas he takes the same exceptions that the Tel
egraph has taken—the same, moreover, which
we understand the administration to take.—
He disapproves of Walker’s attempt to influ
ence the people in their decision of the slavery
question, and of his dictum in regard to the
submission of the Constitution, about to be
framed, to the popular suffrage. Of the ab
stract propriety of such submission he docs not
feel called upon to speak—it is a matter, in his
judgment, for the Convention to decide. In
regard to the administration he says the im
putation of his hostility to it, is founded up
on nothing he has ever said or doue. lie wish
es it success and it has
principles of the Detnocri
stood in Virginia, to command his cordial sup
port. He will judge it in no unkind or cap-
Democratic party has remained .
principle of popular sovereb'ntv ,
has acted in good faith, abidin-, - i !i -
instituted. No plausible obi,,(.ff iet *!
to the admission of New M<-xi i<- "
Territory, as a slave State ' v°’ *
ist Will be restrained from the an 601 •
population on the Territories hd 1: ' ■ :
| tation of paid emigrants; and, T
| grants from each section of t|J 0 Utltar !' -
transport their own property i 0 ,’ ' 1 ' 1 '-
stations, each to S?Sf S'v^
adapted for the purpose of peacefni -
1 he whole subject, so far a ,•
the South are concerned, mav"
stated ss a qucsti.n of expediency r- :
| jonty of the people of Kama, at* 11 !t '
then it is certainly best for tl
interest, that a pro-slavery Con,,;/
pro-st-
slaveh t
s titnti 0
be ratified by a popular vote tl , i ;: '
every question as to the validity, ^
stitution ami the mode of its «T • 1
majority of the people arc anti •
Kansas must inevitably become
And whether is it best that this r in" •- .|
accomplished by means which
ground of complaint toanti-sl av , • ^'i
spite of an ineffectual resort to
only to carry out the I Potion, which would faraUfc^N'
atic party, as under- ^oundrf A
tiou it. It would add thousands to the vote of tious spirit. How far Walker’s conduct may
the republican party in every State of the
Union, and give to that organization what
it has nevci had yet—a show of justice and
truth. To the Democratic members of that
Convention the course is plain. The people
have decided in favor of a free State—though
affect his own course towards the administra
tion, must depend upon the developemcut of
the President’s views in the regular course.
Wc quote:
‘What are the precise views of the Presi-
ground of expediency, we can'eml, J H
verdict from the enlightened judi' ,^ '-
Southern people. J
Kansas Election
OXFORD PRECINCT.
St. Lons, Oct. 26.—Dates L.* I
ay that Gov. Walker has issued 1
say uiot uuv. v> amcr tias issued
tion rejecting the returns of
the}' have not voted on the naked issue of dent upon these questions, I know not; I await
free State or slave State,” they have voted
practically in favor of a free State. Two-thirds
of the Democratic party in Kansas have voted
with the free State party in Kansas at the re
cent election, in order to make the popular de
cision more emphatic. As Kansas must be a
einct, in Johnson county, andmw B . ^*-
of Election to the free State c£idid£% i:
their development in the regular course. But
should he differ with me upon these matters, I
do not see how any practical issue can arise
between hltn and those of his friends who en- ■ - , _ .ni I(
tertaiu other opinions in regard to Governor |' ot ° i ° 1C Oxford I reemet is given in the
Walker’s course. I M
pro-slavery meu are greatly excited.
We are curious to learn the facts ,
with this affair. The free soil s t ateai M 0 **
say, I do not see how any sas f’urrespondence ot tin- (.1;
free State, even those persons in the Territory I practical issuecould arise out of this matter be- furious Black Republican print, and I
who are known as pro-slavery men must re- tween the President and those who might dif- it for what it is worth : ' ° ^
cognize in the late election a decision which fer with him in regard to these things, because
must not be slighted nor put at defiance. To
that expression of the popular will there should
be a graceful, if not a* cheerful submission.—
Kansas is to be a free State! That fact being |
ascertained, let the Convention frame a Con
stitution to suit her best interests upon all oth
er questions, and let the prohibition of slavery J
be put into it, clearly and without quibble,
plainly without disguise, explicitly, broadly
and firmly. Let the Convention then submit |
that constitution to the people. If it be adopt
ed, Kansas will come into the Union at the |
next session, and the republican party will ex
pire for want of sustenance.’
Powers of the Kansas Constitution- |
AL CONVENTION.
The Times and Sentinel extracts tho follow- I
ing from a recent speech of Hon. J. Glancy
at Bloomsburg, Pa., with the remark that Jones,
these are undoubtedly the views of the Presi-1
dent, as Mr. Jones is t known to be the inti
mate and confidential friend of Mr. Buchanan.
The construction now given to the Nebraska bill
isbeing put to the test in Kansas, and I firmly be
lieve it will work itself out to tne entire satisfaction
of tho country. A convention composed of delegates
elected by the people for that express purpose, has
assembled to frame a constitution, preparatory to
the admission of the State iuto the Union. Either
this Convention is clothed with sovereign power or it
I do not believe, for a moment, that he would
aid iu an attempt to reject the State, if Kan
sas should apply for admission, merely be
cause its convention did not choose to submit
the Constitution to the people for ratification.
Upon such a question as this, in regard to the
right of Congress to limit the power of a peo
ple to form their State Constitution according i t ~ ** pg,i
to their own pleasure, provided it be republi- „ r . dayg • , . a . w ? rra ” t f °f Or.:: I
can in its character, Isftmld think there could |-^
be no division of opinion amongst the members
of the Democratic party in any section of the
Union. There conld not be, if they remain
true to what I understand as their profession
of faith.”
“The fads are these : Oxford isonthe,-. I
ern boundary of the Shawnee Kc^crp^ M
quently next door to Jackson countv V*'
n- You will not find it in any man V‘- H
lished, but I am assured by peraona^^
teodto have 4w«n there, that it is to K ^ 1
and not in Missouri. My opinion «, t g
ford is lying around loose. A «ni»Jlp^l
Now we believe in his views of Walker’s
course the Hon. Senator really differs in noth
ing from the position of the administration, as
we understand it, or as it is generally under
stood. Thus the Washington correspondent
of the Herald, writing on the 23d ult., says :
The President, although rejoicing in the
probable settlement of the Kansas agitation,
by no means cordially endorses all of Gover
nor Walker’s movements. On the contrary,
he considers that Governor Walker exceeded
his instructions in dictating to the Convention;
and even threatening them unless they sub
mitted the constitution to the people.
They returned with the indorsemew
esl. But the voting freaks of this D ’J-1
precinct are of the most astonishing Vnj „ 1
traordinary character. The election ^-t -■,
as you are aware, on Monday, the 5th bf
On Tuesday the returns were made
Oxford, exhibiting 88 majority for thek- J
very candidates all around. Countin/oZI
at 88, which was about 80 more than the'-j
ber of legal voters, the Republican mi ll
in the District (Douglas and Johnson)*-
certained to be 1,200. This was a loss tofi*|
pro-slavery side of 3 members of Coondl I
8 of the House. With a judicious m»|
ment of matters in the balance of the Ttn*|
ry this loss could have been sustained*-' I
throwing the Legislature out of the hands cl
the Ruffians. But, singularly, the in,--I
counties have almost unanimously returai I
Republican members. The case was
desperate. Presto• up coma an error!
is annuity; if the former, then it fails exclusively I is a question over which the federal govern- I S/.X'ir.EliJiV IIILSDIIEB and/o*rt< : ,1
I “ent has no control, and Mr. Walker’s inter- | “
—not one free State vote on the list! M
mark the effect of this return. It pro hi!
tion, but to send it back to the people for ratification
or not as they determine; and if they should submit
it to the people, it is equally exclusively their pro
ference in it is regarded as a grave mistake.
The President, therefore, sympathises much
vinco to say who are qualified to vote on it. Inter- more with the Georgia and Mississippi resolu-
ference of unv funct.onarv of the General Govern- 1 tioMi in this connect ion than is generally sup
posed.”
The position of the administration and the
essential doctrine of the Kansas bill we under-
ference of any functionary of the General Govern
ment within the lines of this jurisdiction would, in
iny opinion, bo a violation of the very letter of the
Nebraska bill. We may tako it for granted they
will submit it to the people, hut it is for them, and
them alone to decide.”
Mr. Hunter, then, agrees with Mr. Jones
and if Mr. Jones agrees with the President—
they arc all agreed—the Enquirer to the con
trary notwithstanding.
Suvanuali Weekly Cottou Report,
We copy so much from the Republican of
Friday:
Fridat, October 30, 1857.
COTTON,—Arrived since the 2d inst., 2,682 bales
Upland, (2,331 per liailroad ; 301 from Augusta and
branches of the Legislature to the Ruffm, fell
majority of one in each. It orerthron a
republican vote of Douglas county, in j”
Lawrence, Palmyra, Big Springs,
situated, and subtracts three Coundlim af
stand to bo that the bona fide people of a Ter- eight Representatives from the free State e
ritory shall settle the slavery question for
themselves, uninfluenced by any external in
terference whatever. The isothermal theories
of Gov. Walker and his instructions and
threats to the Convention were, therefore, out
of place. But upon the contingency that the
Convention itself representing, as alleged, but
a small minority of bona fide citizens of Ivan-
L iniliugs ou the River.) and 43 do. Sea Islands. The I sas shall send a constitution to Congress with-
expmrts for the same period amount to 2,619 bales
Upland and 85 da. Sea Islands, viz : to Liverpool 2,-
COO bales Upland; to New York, 14 bales Upland
and SO do. Sea Island; to Charleston, 5 bales Upland
and 5 do Sea Island; leaving on hand and on ship
board not cleared, a stock of 7,147 bales Upland, and
913 do. Sea Island, against 34,214 bales Upland and
~ ,052 do Sea Island, at the same time last year.
Since the issue of the last circular the transactions
in cotton hare been very fair, when the small stocks
are taken into consideration, and also the disposition
of Factors to hold on. The receipts up to this time
are exceedingly light, but as our banks have been
supplying money to tho interior wo may expect that
it will arrive more freely. In the city they are not
expanding any. This does not arise from any inabil
ity on their part to do so, but a want of confidence in
northern houses upon whom bills would he drawn.
The sales thus far have been made entirely for lor-
eign account: nnd small as they seem to be, the
market is kept bare by these purchases. Iu the
irici-s there is no regularity, twelve cents being the
lighest extreme. Of the lower grades but little has
been offered. Planters generally have given their
Factors the most positive orders to hold on to their
crops as long as possible, and it is only when they
are compelled to raise money that they will submit
to the present prices. '
much trouble, as the;
customers as far as it is in their power, and it is only
at the last extremity that they will put their cottou
out the impress of the popular sanction, the
Enquirer takes a wide issue with Senator
Hunter upon Democratic doctrine aud the
duty of the President. That paper says :
There is but one inducement which can
cause the Convention in Kansas to withhold
the Constitution from popular ratification, and
that is a fear lest the Constitution may not be
approved by a popular vote. Thus such an
omission would indicate nothing less than an
intention to wrest the Constitution-making
power from a mojority of the people. And,
without reservation, wc boldly denounce any
such attempt as illegal and anti-republican.
We are well aware that the calculation has
been made by some, that although we might
not fail to discern this unavoidable conclusion,
we would still fear to assert it, under one
phase in which the question may be present
ed. Wc are opposed to the adoption even of things ;
umn. These, added to the pro-slwtij e
umn, exhibited:
Council—Republicans, 6; Pro-Staten7.1
House—IL-puMiVuns, 19; Pro-SlarajJll
There is no reason assigned as yet fori I
marvelous “error.” Some p- |
think the Shawnee tribe of In lions i
rand rush at the polls on the day sue: .1
the election, and all voted ti;,- X I
cratic Ticket in spite of the Judges oftheEre-I
tion, who knew they had no vote, lilt
unable to prevent it! Among oilier:;-I
ries connected with this Oxfordbusi:.-- ■' I
singular fact that the l.tij 1 n:u:;o I
list, aud all three cf the signatures tf -I
Judges ARE IN THE SAME HAXD1VK1TIS -
So gross a fraud, of course, finds fews:i-|
gists. Walker uud Stanton both decimal
it is too palpable—that the people shtual I
thus cheated. They will throw out theri |
Precinct first, the So and all. We hire 1
ed to place no reliance on the pre
these liars, bat will take care of our on*I
tion, that no such swindle arrives to frtiii|
in these parts, at this time.”
Button-holes oil Both Sides.
A gentleman in Charleston, who ec: I
ed a good deal of company at dinner, f
black as an attendant, who was a hi:.
Africa, and never could be taught to
u invariably to the left hand of theg^l
Tiiis'h.i.s giv**u tin* Factors I a pro-slavery Constitution, iu opposition to I at the table. At length his mast' r tl. - I
they desire to aeoommodate their | the wishes of a majority of the voters in Kan- an infallible expedient
* ' sas. When such an issue is presented, we do the coats
expedient to direct bun,
were then w.-rn 1 I
ni me nisi cjireuHijr iujt iiiuj win pur uiei* cuuuu i , • . . . 4 . ” I . A . • •
on tho market. The receipts at tho different ports I pot hesitate to meet it iearlessly, and submit single-breasted, in the present (Jaakorn -
are no indication or tho Crop, as it has been held it fairly to the honest judgment of the South- he told him always to hand the plate t- 1 :
m-V yth0finanCi ^ mffiCUltle3andaai “ diSP0SUi ° n Crn pCOple * Au opposite course would dis- button hole side. Unfortunately, ! '
tVlhonowa brought by the Persia of Id. to Id. de- P' a 7 » want of foresight as well as of candor, for the poor fellow, on the dav after:. -
_•* « a — al i a to. a.ii— I ivn poll flirt oftnnfinn At nni> ranrinm 4a .» «a I il... I - lcSSOTl t tDCrC W&5 I
cone had no influence on the market, as it was fully We call the attention of our readers to a coin- received this
5 ingenious
anticipated. The enquiry yesterday was good aud munication published in our issue of to-day, the guests at dinner a foreign gentleman
sales readily made at as full prices as on any previ- an( y prcv iously referred to in our editorial of a double-breasted roat. end he was for a*-
>fC •*><
The sales of the week foot up 1,697 bales at tho fol
lowing particulars, viz; 8 at 10], at 21 at 13), 53 at
11} and 1545 bales at 12 cents,
“Conlidciicc.”
The following incident Is related of the lato
run upon the Savings Bank of New York city:
r\.t a sixpenny Savings Bank, a little news
boy, without a jacket, and only one suspender,
and that a string, confronted the teller on
Monday, and demanded to know if "She was \
all right”—meaning the institution—because
if she was lie did’nt mean to be scared, if every
body else was. He had 42 cents salted down
there, and all he wanted was his (the teller’s)
word of honor that it would’nt spile. The
telli'i' assured him that his money was ready I m ain iu force until a new Constitutional Con-
Saturday last. Now, if it bo true, that the
“Lump vote” of the Territory is anti-slavery
and that the Convention has been elected by
little more than one sixth of the people of Kan
sas, (since it is asserted that less than one-
third voted in the election of the delegates,)
what possible benefit could result to the slave
holding interest from an attempt on the part of
the Convention, aided by Congress, to wrest
the Constitution from the hands of the people ?
Nothing is more evident than the fact that if a
majority of the people of Kansas are unwilling
to adopt a pro-slavery Constitution, it will be
impossible for Congress to render Kansas a
slave State. If admitted under a pro-slavery
Constitution; that Constitution would onlv re-
d oat, an-! '■■■' • _
completely at a stand. lie looked !.m • I
side of the gentleman’s coat, tlu-n at it-:■■■■; I
and finally quite contbimdi-.l at ti: I
make of the stranger's garment. I
paring look at his master, and exclainimgi* I
loud voice, “Button-holes on i> n-' ■ I
handed the plate right over tho -e-
man’s head.
for him at any moment. “ Nuff said, ’tween
gen’l’men, hut I don’t want it,” rejoined the
youth, and with a self-complacent, well satis
fied air, walked out of the Bank. “Is she
good ?” cried two or three more newsboys who
ero awaiting the result at tho door steps.
Ycssiree!” he replied, “us good as wheat
—Ketch our Bauk to stop! Yous ought to
see the gold I seed in der safe.” “How much
as there ?” inquired a companion. “Morc’n
house full!” was his prompt response.—
An’ you don’t ketch dis ’ere child a rankin’
an old woman of hisself and drawin’ out his
money, I ain’t so green—I ain’t!”
Half Year of the American Tract
SOCIETY.
Statements at the meeting of the Executive
Committee just held in New York show that
the receipts for six months had been $151,536,
or less by $11,0UU that in the same months
,t year. The sales by colporteurs, though
some localities diminished, have ou the whole
increased about $5,900, and the grants of
iblications have increased nearly 1,000,000
pages. The Society’s operations have so far
xceeded its receipts that notes given for print-
paper will fall duo in November to the
unount of $6,9.14,17, and in December $1,-
16,34 ; total due within six months $49,451,-
Tiie Society is endeavoring by all proper
ms to curtail expenses so far as consistent
ith the efficient prosecution of its work, and
speaks the early assistance of friends and
itrons, especially such as have escaped linan-
ll embarrassments.
Reconciliation.—We perceive, from the
Tallahassee Floridian, that a disturbance of
iendly relations that has for some time sub
sisted between Ex-Governor Brootne and D.
8. Walker, Esq., arising out of the late can
vass, has been amicably adjusted by the friend
ly intervention of the Hon. Mr. Vulee.
vention could be convened in the State, its la
bors completed, aud a new anti-slavery Con
stitution adopted. This would not be the on
ly result. A fierce Congressional struggle
would be the means of imposing, for a few
months only, a pro-slavery Constitution on an
anti-slavery people, in which struggle it would
be urged that the Democratic party and the
whole South had united to disregard tho letter
and spirit of the Kansas act, and the Black
Republican party would wield the moral force
attaching to the advocacy of the principle of
popular sovereignty.—Agitation would rage
ten fold fiercer than ever before. New menus
for the transportation of emigrants would over
flow the Territory of New Mexico, which now
promise, fair to become a slave State, with
Black Republican emissaries. It would be
heralded far aud near that the great principle
of the right of the people to decide the question
of slavery for themselves, had been ignored by
the Democratic party—that fraud bad been re
sorted to, to shulile in a pro-slavery Constitution
for Kansas. Counter efforts of force and fraud
would prevail in each of our Territories, until it
would become folly for a slaveholder, in a
a Southern State, to remove Ins property from
secure protection at home to a theatre of angry
contention. Thus Southern interest, and all
the prestige of Southern power would be sac
rificed to make political capital for a few des
truction ists, and abolitionism would receive a
bountiful supply of that agitation upon which
alone it subsists.
Now look at the other picture. The ques
tion of slavery is decided by a fairly taken
vote of the people of Kansas. Is there a pro-
slavery majority ! then a pro-slavery Consti
tution will be adopted. If not, then an anti
slavery Constitution will indeed be adopted
—but adopted without a pretext of complaiut
Tobacco for Wound'- .
In the case of a snake biten nod - *
quently applied as tobacco leaf or ; \
remember the circumstance of a tmb *
been to the “timber” for a load of ■
in returning home stopped to driak
spring, a few rods off the m t>u I
rising was bitten in the leg hv an ( . ■
snake. The man’s leg soon swr-“' •
and tin- pain mere i-'-l • : : - ' j
application of some oil, which be pr
a cabin a mile or two on the roa -- - 1 - 1 .
lot of 1
co), well dumped
danger pas
cut and dry ” (the mest trashy
and bound round fi
led and his J eg
ed to its natural size by the time ■-
home late in tho night. Indeed, the
medicine chest of the American ‘ ‘^
man may be said to contain but t .
calomel for the stomach, aud tobaev--
skin.
<n buSPBNSlOSS.-
-A
he failures and suspensions ■
e the 1st of August makes ti: '
Failures
of the
since..— ^
ber, according to the Baldnno lc _ p^,-
:l,usc»s. J". " !
which 448 were in
vania. J20 in Ma
Kentucky, 3 in Indiana. 2 in
5 in Minnesota, 45 in Illinois, b 111 ..
21 in Iowa, 23 in Michigan, > ->|X "
in New Jersey. 5 in Rlmde Li- 1 -’ 1 • j
cousin, and 53 other Sta.t-'- R e
liabilities of all these arc cstmu
millions of dollars.
Keep tlie Sabbat* 1 - j
Be jealous on this point. M ■“ 1
iu town or country resolve no. to 1 1 ^ .
Sabbath, or in the end you will rjV^ ; t ,j, ,
ing for your soul. Tho stops !,ond : '|
this are regular. Begin "" 1 1 *
God’s house; cease to honor G 00 ,: >■
by-and-by you will give ( ’ p . ’ ; t hn-’ ■'?’
Let any man lay tho foundation
bath, and I am never surprised , g
- — God. R - d
with the top stone ot
markable saying of Judg-
Hale
that;
„ v -—r . | persons conv . - y
without a Congressional contest, without re- was upon the bench, he fouui L ^
d agitation throughout the Union. Fanat- confess that they began
, itself, will be obliged to admit that the I ed- ness by neglect of the bijoo'
r-ieted of capital e ’ j
newed
icism