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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
The Veto. ,
Dear Telegraph.—What arc you growl
ing at Gov. Brown for ? Have the Banks
scared you too ? Is there one word in his ve
to Message that is not true J I challenge you
and all the Bank Mynnidons,to point out one
untruth in that Message. You know all his
charges are true. If you don’t, point out any
one that you disbelieve, and I will prove it,
when I have leisure. Oh, but he is too plain,
too severe! Too plain! too severe! Has it
come to this; that knavish speculators may
periodically cripple our commerce, take mil
lions from the riches of the wealthy, and the
bread from the poor,—control the Legislation
of the country-buy up the knaves, and fright
en the fools of two-thirds of a Legislature, to
betray their constituents, and honest patriots,
forsooth, must not rebuke them, nor use other
phrase than that befitting the epistles of love
sick dandies, when writing of their abomina
tions? Thank God, there arc yet a mighty
host in the land of Troup, unbought and un
terrified, who are not afraid of the plain truth,
and love those who speak it. Already, in a
Savannah paper, there is a threat, that Augus
ta and Savannah will remember Gov. Brown,
in a coming day of election! Gentlemen, we
accept the challenge;—but we ask, and ex
pect, that you will, like the Telegraph, and
like gentlemen, let the people see that Mes
sage—the ablest that ever emanated from a
Governor of Georgia.
But gentlemen, there will be no promised
fight; when the day comes, you will be miss
ing. When cotton goes down to 5 and 6 cents,
—when the children of the poor cry for bread,
and the ghost that stalked among us in 1840
comes back, you will take water, crying to an
outraged and betrayed people,
•‘Thou canst not say I did it."
But like Banquo’s Ghost, Gov. Brown’s Mes
sage will be there to prove it on you.
JOHN HAMPTON.
Tallahassee, Dec. 27, 1857.
My Dear Sir.—You have no doubt noticed
the vast number of failures to deliver the mail
on the route through Montgomery and Stock-
ton, as set forth in the report of the Post
Master General.
This can be easily corrected through the
South-Western Boad and Steamers to Apa-
lachacola and thence to New Orleans, thus:
From Macon to Albany, 5 hours,
Albany to Bainbridge, 10 “
Bainbridge to Apalachacola, 10 ••
Apnlachacola to N. Orleans, 13 “
48 hs.—2 days
The time now to Macon from New York is
24 or 3 days, two days added would make the
route from New York to New Orleans 44 or 5
days, and with very slight chance of failure.
You will easily see that a very liberal allow
ance is made, thus: Ten hours Staging to
Bainbridge when the trip should be made in 6
or 7 over the best natural Boad in the world;
ten hours for Steamers to Apalachacola, when
less would be required; 23 hours to New Or
leans, at 13 miles per hour, when it might be
made in much less time.
Might not the Post Master General be in
fluenced to advertize for proposals for the en
tire route on the point from Macon to New Or
leans, or could not contractors be influenced
to make offers ? Could we get aid from your
section of the country in this important move
ment as well of your people as of your Senators
and members of Congress ?
Yours, &c., B.
Blowing from Guns at Pcshawnr.
A letter from Peshawur, in Blackwood for
Nov. has the following:
It was an awfully imposing scene ? Allthe
troops, European and natives, armed and dis
armed, loyal and disaffected, were drawn up
on parade, forming three sides of a square;
and drawn up very carefully, you may be
sure, so that any attempt on the part of the
disaffected to rescue the doomed prisoners
would have been easily checked. Forming a
fourth side of the square were drawn up the
guns (9 pounders,) ten in number, which were
to be used for the execution. The prisoners,
under a strong European guard, were then
marched intojhe square—their crimes and sen
tences read aloud to them, and at the head of
each regiment; they were then marched a-
round the square, and up to the guns. The
first ten were picked out—their eyes were
bandaged, and they were bound to the guns,
their backs leaning against the muzzles, and
their arms fastened to the wheels. The port
fires were lighted, and at a signal from the
artillery-major, the guns were fired. It was a
horrid sight that then met the eye; a regular
shower of human fragments—of heads, of arms,
of legs, appeared in the air through the smoke,
and when that cleared away, these fragments
lying on the ground—fragments of Hindoos
and fragments of Mussulmans, all mixed to
gether, were all that remained of those ten
mutineers. Three times more was this scene
repeated; but so great is the disgust we all
feel for the atrocities committed by the rebels
that we had no room in our hearts for any
feeling or pity; perfect callousness was de
picted on every European’s face; a look of
grim satisfaction could cveh he seen in the
countenances of the gunners serving the guns.
But far different was the effect on the native
bom portion of the spectators; their black
faces, grew ghastly pale as they gazed breath
lessly at the awful spectacle. You must know
that this is nearly the only form -n which death
has any terror for a native. If he is hung, or
shot by musketry, he knows that his friends
or relatives will be allowed to claim his body,
and will give him the funeral rites required
by his religion; if a Hindoo, that his body
will be burned with all due ceremonies; and
if a Mussulman, that his remains will be de
cently interred, as directed in the Koran. But
if sentenced to death in this form, he knows
that his body will be blown into a thousand
pieces, and that it will be altogether impos
sible for his relatives, however devoted to him,
to be sure of picking up all the fragments of
bis own particular body; and the thought that
perhaps a limb of some one of a different re
ligion to himself might possibly be burned or
buried with the remainder of his body, is agony
to him. But notwithstanding this, it was im
possible for' the mutineers’ direst hater not to
feel some degree of admiration for the way in
which they met their deaths. Nothing in their
lives became them like the leaving of them.
Of the whole forty, only two showed any signs
of fear, and they were bitterly reproached by
the others for so disgracing their race. They
certainly died like men. After the first ten
had been diposed of, the next batch, who had
been looking on all the time, walked up to the
guns quite calmly, unfalteringly, and allowed
themselves to be blindfolded and tied up with
out moving a muscle, or showing the slightest
sign of fear, or even concern. Whence had
these men their strength? Their religion,
bad as it may be and is, in all other points, at
least befriends them well at the hour of death;
it teaches them well that great and useful les
son, how to die.
PuNNiRo Despatches.—Gen. Havelock is
a wit as well as a warrior. The following is
the despatch by which ue conveyed the intel
ligence of his lastBUccess in India to the Gov
ernor General:
Dear General.—Let all our past misfor
tunes be forgotten, for we arc in Luck-now.
Yours, Havelock.
This is nearly as good as Sir Sydney Smith’s
famous despatch announcing the capture of
Sdnde: “Peccavi”—“I have sinned.” They
both, doubtless, at some time serred in the
Pun-job.
IVE-A-OOISr, C3--A..,
Tuesday Morning, Jan. 5, 1858.
Lecture tliiisEvetilg at Concert Hall.
We are requested to say that Prof. H. H.
Tucker, of Mercer University, will deliver a
Lecture before the Young Men’s Christian
Association, at Concert Hall, this Evening at
at 74 o’clock. The Public arc cordially invit-
ted to attend, and we hope to see a fine audi
ence on the occasion. The Subject of the
Lecture will he
.. BEAUTY A DUTY.”
jLecturcs on Mormonism.
Mr. John Hyde, well known as late an Elder
amoDg the Mormons, and the author of a recent
work upon their history and condition, has arrived
in Macon, and will deliver two lectures upon the
subject next Thursday and Friday Evenings, at
some convenient place hereafter to bo designated.
Mr. Hyde has been lecturing lately in Savannah
and Augusta to crowded houses, and brings with
him strong testimonials to his ability and charac
ter. He is a gentleman of evident intelligence
and pleasing manners and address, and the papers
of all the Southern cities concur in representing
that there is nothing offensive in any of his delinea
tions of Mormon life and history. Tlio Augusta
prints speak highly of his talents and success as a
lecturer, and we copy the subjoined from the Nor
folk Herald:—
Mormohism.—Ez-elder Hyde, delivered a
lecture on Mormonism, at the Freemason
street Baptist Church, on Wednesday evening
to a crowded audience, who listened to his re
marks with earnest and wrapt attention. Mr.
Hyde is a young man of marked ability, has
a fine command of language and is at times
exceedingly eloquent, possessing a style of or
atory bearing a close resemblance to that of
the celebrated temperance lecturer, John B.
Gough.
His second lecture which will be on “ Mor
mon domestic aud political aspects, and their
remedy,” will be delivered at Mechanic’s Hall,
this evening, and we have no doubt he will
have a very full house.—Norfolk Herald.
Dcatiis.
The Eev. Mr. Hooker, late the much es
teemed Pastor of the Presbyterian Church, in
this city, died lately in New Haven, Connec
ticut. Few men had a stronger hold upon the
love and confidence of this community. His
demise was made the subject of a Pastoral
Discourse from the pulpit he once so ably and
worthily occupied.
Mrs. J. B. Boss, of this city, died last Fri
day, and was buried from the Methodist Epis
copal Church, of which she was a member, on
Sunday morning. Mrs. Boss was the daugh
ter of Col. Beddick, of Monroe county, and
leaves a numerous family of young children
to lament the loss of a most exemplary moth
er—so universally admired and esteemed
for her remarkable loveliness of character as
to impart a public quality to this sorely afflic
tive dispensation.
Dr. Win. R. Massey, of Baltimore.
We are requested to say that this distin
guished Physician, who has visited Georgia for
the especial purpose of treating the case of
Col. Z. E. Harman, of Forsyth, may mean
while be consulted iu Chronic cases, at the
Bedding House. Wc are glad to hear that
Col Harman is mending under Dr. Massey’s
treatment, and do not doubt that the oppor
tunity to consult a physician of extensive
practice and wide reputation, in this speciality,
may be welcome and beneficial to sufferers in
this vicinity. .
Signor Blitz
Paid us a visit last week and is now in Columbus.
If any one will have a recipe for the blues—a relief,
albeit momentary, from the depressing effects of
hard times, let him go and sec Blitz’s inimitable
feats of jugglery, and laugh over his pranks in
ventriloquism. The birds, too, arc wonderful illus
trations of the power of education and training.
Prof. Lc Conte’s Lecture.
This was delivered last Tuesday evening in
the Methodist Episcopal Church, according to
appointment. The speaker carried with him
the unmistakable impress of a thorough stu
dent—an accomplished man of science, from
whose abundant resources the only difficulty
lay in a selection. Ilis Lecture comprehend
ed only a very general view of Geology—its
character, importance, relative attitude among
the sciences, and to natural religion. It was
an elegant and forcible production—display
ing deep and comprehensive thought as well as
fine composition and thorough knowledge of
his subject.
Macon Cotton Market.
Macon January 4, 1857. The decline in this
Market upon the Niagara’s news is fully 1-2 cent,
and we quote 6 to 7 1-2 as the extremes—these
figures embracing all the few transactions which
have taken place to-day. Very little offering.
The following is a monthly statement of receipts
for December
Receipts in Dec., 1857 13723
•• “ “ 1856 11962
Increase 1761
Stock Jan. 1, 1857 25041
“ “ “ ’58 19477
Decrease 5564
Total Receipts to 1st Jan. 1857 45945
’• “ to 1st “ 1858 35501
Decrease 10444
Please Circulate.
The Telegraph brings the following:
Montgomery, Jan, 4th, 1858.
Foreman Telegrcph—Advertise Printers
struck for pay, please circulate. ,
W. D. BROWN, Scc’y Society,
There—that will give the news a wide cir
culation and, in the meantime, as wo cannot
doubt that our Montgomery contemporaries
are willing to pay their printers and pay them
liberally, we will throw in a bit of advice. Go
to work boys, again, as soon as possible, aud
quit strikes. Wc never saw a good striker out
of a Blacksmith’s shop.
New Power for the Propulsion of
Vessels.
An important discovery has just been made in
reference to the propulsion of vessels. It is now
found that the immense amount of resistance en-
•countered at the head of ships aud steamers, which
'ncreascs at a ratio approaching to the square cf
the velocity, can be converted iuto useful power,
instead of being, os at present, all sustained os
dead loss. A method for achieving this has been
patented by Mr. Robert Griffiths, engineer, Lon
don, inventor of the screw-propellor, which bears
his name, and consists in forming the lower part
of the head of the vessel with a revolving cone,
around which are wound spiral flanges. Dy this
arrangemeet the resisting water, instead of falling
upon the ordinary bows, impinges, when the ship
is in motion, upon the screw flange, and this causes
the cone forcibly to revolve. The power thus ob
tained from the cone is transmitted by shafting and
multiplying gear to work a screw at the stern, if a
sailing vessel; or to go in aid of the engine, if a
steamer. We understand that a series of experi
ments have been made in connexion with this in
vention by a gentleman in Manchester, who has an
intimate knowledge of shipping, combined with a
competent tCcquaintancc with mechanics, and that
he finds the theory thus started to be fully borne
out in practice—that a very large proportion of
the resistance can be counteracted with a screw
turned with this costless power, while no difficulty
occurs in applying it. Confidence is entertained
that not only will the speed of steamers be greatly
increased by this inode of dealing with resistance,
but that the invention must lead to the creation of
a class of profitable self-acting screw clippers whose
speed will far exceed thojicst modem built ships.
English Paper.
A Metallic Currency and Its Oppo-
NENTS.
We find the following paragraph copied from
the California State Journal and invite atten
tion to it as very suggestive:
Isn’t it Singular.—lit strikes us as being
remarkably singular that the paper-money
advocates of the other side still cling to their
old dogmas, in tho very teeth of the experi
ence of the present age. California is the on
ly State in tho confederacy that has a purely
metallic currency, and is the only one that has
not been affected by the great financial revo
lution, and yet she is standing monthly drafts
that would in less than a halt' year bankrupt
any other State in the Union. Theso are
facts, and yet tho rag barons declare it would
be barbaric to fall back on a purely metallic
currency.
The advocates of a hard money currency
have ever been assailed as stupid, bigottea
and impracticable theorists, ignorant or care
less of the necessities of trade, and advocating
a measure which would fetter it almost as ef
fectually as the ponderous iron currency of the
Spartans. It is terrible to think that a man
should bo required to carry about a sack of
gold or silver for tho supply of his daily ne
cessities. The computation would be toilsome
—the loss by abrasion fearful—the exposure
to theft, dangerous—in short, the whole
scheme semi-barbarous, worthy of Turk or
Asiatic—but certainly unbecoming a civilized
and polished nation at this late day. It is a
barbarism—a retrogression—impracticable—
unworthy of thought.
Those whose memory of public events reach
es back a score of years, or somewhat less,
will call to mind almost precisely similar sug
gestions urged against the Independent Trea
sury scheme—urged honestly and urged with
great effect. When that scheme was first
brought forward, it was declared to be the
mere offspring of political tinkers—conceived
in utter desperation, and in entire indifference
to the necessities and the commercial conve
nience of the people. It was ridiculed in eve
ry shape and form as a device worthy only of
a Turk, Chinese or usurer in the dark ages—
as a plan which would inevitably involve enor
mous expense and risk in the mere safo keep
ing of the public treasure, while its disburse
ment must be impossible except by measures
and appliances as costly as they were absurd
and ridiculous. We presume few readers of
mature age cannot call to mind the particular
way in which this plan was assailed on the
stump. They must have heard minute calcu
lations of the number of wagons, mules, dri
vers, guards and sub-treasurers which would
be required to transport a given sum in hard
money from one point to another!—what pre
cautionary measures against obstruction and
plunder!—vrliat a clearing of tho highway of
all suspicious persons for the government spe
cie carts! What a running after the pack
mules! What a fuming of sub-treasurers!—
What a counting and recounting! What a
lugging about of the money bags!
Absurd as all this seems to be, the fact will
not be questioned that this was the popular
argument against tho Independent Treasury
scheme. It was seriously urged—it confound
ed many, and it disquieted some even of the
friends of the measure who thought tho alter
native a hard one, but it might, after all, be
better than to put the government upon the
local Banks of the country.
Well, all this has passed, and now we pre
sume their is scarcely a man in the country
who would have the government abandon tho
Independent Treasury system. It has worked
admirably, safely, conveniently, without na
reasonable expense. It bos saved the national
obligations from dishonor, and it has been able
to contribute most signally to the alleviation
of public distress during the suspension. Thus
it has been demonstrated that the vast finan
cial interests of this country can be properly
and .conveniently carried on with a metallic
currency and without tho aid of Banks of is.
sue.
And sc would actual experiment dissipate
all these rehashed and stereotyped objections
to an exclusive metallic currency among the
people. In practical operation there would be
no more lugging of bags and burdens of mon
ey than now. It is nonsense to say a man
cannot conveniently carry gold enough for
his current daily incidental expenses, and
further than theso no man needs to carry
money. His cheque upon his banker would as
fully obviate all necessity for huge money hags,
and carrying and counting then, as now; and
his bill of exchange, letter of crodit or certifi
cate of deposit will be just as available as if
the banks were permitted the privilege of issu
ing their bills to meet it. The people can as
well do without incorporated banks of issue as
the government. Let tho business of bank
ing be confined to deposite and exchange and
thrown open, under proper regulations of law,
to whoever has the character and capital to
undertake it. We devoutly believe that not
one apprehended inconvenienco or difficulty
would bo a permanent result of the change,
while the grand effect would bo the substitution
of a solid basis of private credits, for one
which is quite os uncertain as the credits them
selves.
With such astaplo product as Cotton, which
must bo bad every year—which will be bought,
if the world is forced to come after it, it is
not possible there should long be any serious
deficiency in the circulating medium, even if
every bank bill were thrown out of existence.
But the change should be gradual. Expiring
bank charters should never bo renewed—de
faulting banks should be thrown into liquida
tion, and thus a steady and cautious advance
niadc to a specie currency. This would bo
progress indeed towards a solid sectional inde
pendence, and would effect more for the South
than all tho commercial conventions which may
be planned between this and doomsday.
Let bank sciolists scoff, if they will, at a
plain project to make money tho standard
of value. When they shall agree in any one
thing, we may suspect that they understand
the “Science of Banking,” and when they
can divide a dollar into six or twenty equal
parts and mako each of equal value with the
whole, wc shall begin to suspect there is a
science to understand. They cannot work
an impossibility; and so public safpty is im
possible upon tho multiplication of their paper
representatives of a dollar, when there is a
monthly danger of a forced return to the ori
ginal and the only legitimate and unquestion
ed standard of value. Their science and their
practice are but an alternation of stimulants and
sedatives—of repletion and depletion, fatal to
any normal and healthy condition, and noth
ing but tho boundless resources of the patient
enablest him to sustain it. The first step to a
steady career of financial safety aud prosperi
ty will be that which looks to getting rid of
Banks of issue. Let a inan but look at the
bank wisdom which has been developed in this
crash—from Nathan Appleton down to tho
humblest contributor to the columns of the vil
lage newspaper, and he will bo prepared to
estimate properly tho Tvhole of it.
Denunciations of Gov. Brown.
The most illjudged and impolitic develope-
ments we have seen lately are the scandalous
onslaughts of the opposition press upon the
Bank Veto message of Gov. Brown. One
creditable and wise exception is furnished by
the Milledgeville Recorder, who, better under
standing the state of the public mind and the
facts of the case, and under no extrinsic in
fluences, treats his Excellency decorously and
concedes ability to the message. Others, how
ever, are as unsparing as they are indiscreet,
and the Savannah Bepublican, particularly,
forgets every consideration of self-respect in
its eagerness to assail.
Having carried their point through tho over
wrought apprehensions of tho Legislative ma
jority, it was manifestly the part of the Banks,
as applicants for relief from the legal conse
quences of their own default, to keep silence.
They should have been satisfied and thankful.
They had escaped scot free—without a feather
lost or ruffled. Tho ‘I stringencies” of the act
talked about, they know to be mere bosh, while
but for the suspension of law in their behalf
they would have been capitally punished. We
feel no call for severity upon the legislators
who intervened to save tho banks from the
penalty fairly incurred by their own acts.—
These Legislators acted, as we would fain be
lieve, upon a patriotic and natural fear of ad
ding to the common financial calamities by
holding the banks to the penalty; but they
acted on their own responsibility and must
abide the consequences. Let the Bepublican
answer whether it was generous, just or politic
to add to their embarrassments with an anti
bank constituency by such fierce denuncia
tions of an Executive elected by the same
constituency. Let the Bepublican answer
what will be the consequence when the banks,
like Monsieur Tonson, shall come again before
the same legislators, next November, for still
further relief! We hear ominous mutterings.
Has the Bepublican forgotten, in the Bank fog
about him, that the masses of Georgia have
positively no other interest in these banks ex
cept the single one that they shall redeem their
bills upon presentation ? Can the banks re
fuse so plain a duty and successfully make is
sue before the people with a Governor, who
only holds them uncompromisingly to it ? It
is an unequal fight though backed by a stron
ger Legislative majority. Better not provoke
it.
Now, while thero were some positions in
Gov. Brown’s message in which we did not and
do not concur with him—and while, in the
bold and earnest utterance of his own convic
tions, he had been unconsciously led into a
style which we thought exceptionable, it re
quires but little reflection to see that this veto
message is a document which will give a pow
erful impetus to the anti-bank sentiment of
Georgia. It abounds in truth—plainly told—
divested of teclmicalties—truth which will be
readily comprehended and eagerly seized hold
upon by the people. It was the last document
which should have been attacked in the style
of triumphant scorn and gross personal indig
nity to the Governor. The banks ought to
pray for deliverance from such defenders.—
We do not wish to see them suffer inequity for
it. We would have them resume and dio out
quietly in course of law.
Democratic Meeting; in Philadei-
PHIA.
A grand political demonstration of the friends
of tho Administration and its Kansas policy
took place on the 28th ult., and is pronounced
to be one of the largest meetings, ever con
vened in that city. Ex. Chief Justice Lewis
presided and introduced proceedings with a
long and powerful speech. The papers are
filled with letters of invited guests, including
one from each member of the Cabinet. We
shall try to find room for that of Mr. Cobb, but
we are told it is a doubtful question of time
and space. The letter of Attorney General
Black is an admirable production. We copy
a paragraph or two. Speaking of the Kansas
free-soilers, he says :
“ But unfortunately the abolition party had
become so rancorous that the olive branch was
offered them in vain. They insulted and blas
phemed the laws which left the matter to their
own decision. The regular authorities could
do no more than give all a fair chance of vo
ting. The legislature first passed a law sub
mitting the question of “ convention” or “ no
convention” to a popular vote. The next leg
islature afterwards, in accordance with the
known wishes of the people, and by virtue of
their own rightful authority, enacted another
law for the election of delegates to a conven
tion. The delegates were chosen at a fair
and free election, after a full notice to all the
voters. Whether the vote was large or small,
it is not possible to deny the right of those who
were chosen. To say that a portion of the
electors by absenting themselves from the polls
could invalidate an election otherwise legal
and regular is simply absurd.
The members of the convention thus chosen
met at Lecompton, and then was raised the
new alarm that the delegates, or some of them,
intended to make a slave constitution in op
position to what they knew to be the will of the
people. While the President saw that he had
no right to interfere between the people of
Kansas and their own representatives, and
while he knew very well what was known to
every other lawyer and statesman in the coun
try, that it was for the convention to shape the
constitution and to decide upon the form of its
submission, ho ncverthless expressed his opin
ion freely that in the circumstances of the case,
and with reference to that question of slavery,
the constitution ought to be submitted. It
was submitted—so submitted that if there was
a majority opposed to slavery thay had noth
ing in the world to do but go to the polls and
say so.
But tho moment the abolitionists saw the
wholo disposition of tho slavery subject placed
in their own hands, they abandoned apparent
ly all their hostility to it. They will not con
descend—not they—to vote on a question so
trifling. The principle for which they were
willing to drench tho country in blood has all
at ouce become too insignificant to 5e worth a
ballot. Something else in the organic law nev
er thought of before, and not specified oven
now, has suddenly become so important in their
eyes that the slavery question may bo decided
against them for ought they care about it, un
less this new and undefined and unexpressed
grievance be redressed at the same time. To
me it seems perfectly clear that conduct like
this must be prompted cither by prejudice al
most iusauc, or else by hypocriey shameless
beyoud the reach of comparison.
If the convention has uo legal authority to
moke a constitution without submitting the
whole of it to a popular vote, then this consti
tution ought to be treated as a nullity. But
whosoever denies tho general power of the
people to clothe their representatives with full
authority to make a constitution binding on
themselves and their constituents knows not
whereof he allirms. All reason as well as pre
cedent is against him.
Biciies not Happiness.—The late Stephen
Girard, of Philadelphia, when surrounded with
immense wealth, and supposed to be taking
supreme delight in its accumulation, wrote
this to a frieud : “As to myself, 1. live like a
galley slave, constantly occupied, and often
passing the night without sleeping. I am
wrapped up in a labavinth of affairs, and worn
out with cares. I do not value fortune. The
love of labor is my highest emotion. When
I rise in the morning, my only effert is to la
bor so hard during tho day that when night
comes 3 may bo enabled to sleep soundly.”
News Summary.
Resignation of Mr. Mason.
On the authority of th« Washington correspon
dence of the New York Times, it is stated that the
resignation of Hon. John Y. Mason, Minister to
France, has been received at the State Department.
The letter of resignation is said to be long aad sharp
—the Secretary complaining bitterly of the non-
fulfilment of certain promises made by the adminis
tration.
The New Treasury Notes
Aro to be issued in'denominations of 8100, 8500 and
$1000. Contracts have already been made for the
plates and printing, and the notes will be out in a
week.
Death of Judge Potter.
Jndgo Henry Potter of the U. S. District Court of
North Carolina, died near Fayetteville, on the 20th
ult., at tho advanced age of 67, having received his
appointment from President Jefferson in 1601.
The Arlesian Well in Charleston.
According to the report of a committee this well
now discharges from a three inch pipe, twenty-eight
gallons per minute, or 30,320 gallons per day.
Summary Arrest o f Walker in Nicaragua.
The quid nuncs were all agog on Wednesday last
with news by the. Northern Light of tho summary
capture and arrest of Gen. Walker and his force by
Commodore Paulding of the U. S. Steam Frigate Wa
bash. Walker's men were placed on board the sloop
ol-war Saratoga, to be sent to Norfolk, Va., while tho
man of destiny” himself was set at liberty or* parole
of honor and promise to return to the United States
as soon as possible. He has already made his ap
pearance at Washington where he was warmly re
ceived by his admirers. Tho news at Mobile and
New Orleans called forth a storm of indignation and
the administration was hotly denounced. From
Washington it is claimed that Paaldiag altogether
exceeded his instructions in taking this step; but des
patches of the 29th state that 'Paulding’s official re
port was received and read in a Cabinet meeting
that day.
‘‘Commodore Paulding’s letter was read in a Cab
inet meeting to-day. He denounces Walker’s course
in Nicaragua as piratical, and 3aya that Walker seiz
ed property, killed men and made prisoners of peace
able inhabitants. The Cabinet consider Paulding’s
coarse justified ander the circumstances.
Walker will be tried for a violation of tho neutral
ity laws.
Later dates, however, assert that tho Administra
tion will recall Paulding at once.
Officers of the Main Trunk Rail Road.
The Board of Directors made the following elec
tion at Milledgeville, on the 28th ult.:
K. L. IIerriott, Chief Engineer,
Wallace W. Ward, Secretary.
Donald McDonald, Treasurer.
Twenty-five Vetoes.
Gov. Brown is stated to have vetoed twenty-five
bills passed during the last session of the Georgia
Legislature.
Senator Sumner Resigns,
The Boston Traveller says that Mr. Sumner will
shortly resign his seat in the Senate of the United
States, in consequence of physical inability to par
ticipate in the proceedings of that body at tho pre
sent exciting crisis.
Failures during the Crisis.
Tho New York Herald estimates them it nine
hundred and fifty with an aggregate indebtedness of
one hundred millions.
Judicial Candidates in the Cherokee Circuit.
Tho Hon. W. H. Dabney, Judge T. H. Trippe, and
Dawson A. Walker, are announced as candidates
for Judge of tho Cherokee Circuit.
Effect of the-BUI.
Tho resuit of that provision of the Georgia Bank
suspension bill limiting tho rate of exchange to one
per cent is seen in a circular of the Augusta Banks
dated the 24th, declining to furnish it.
Keeper of the Penitentiary.
The Governor has appointed Gen. Eli McConnel,
of Cherokee county, principal keeper of the Geor
gia Penitentiary.
The Gaines Case.
Tho New Orleans Picayune says that some new
and unexpected evidence has been educed by that
indomitable little woman, Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines,
in her famous case. She brings forward various wit
nesses, engravers, writing masters, and other ex
perts, to show that the signature of her father, Daniel
Clark, affixed to various documents, is a fogery. An
interesting point in this conuoclton is the testimony
to the effect that theso signatures were executed
with a steel pen, whereas it is well known that, at the
time of their date3,1794, steel pens were not then in
use.
Choice and Cholera.
Tho ravages of the Cholera have been frightful in
Honduras. In tho capital a singular affair took place
in connection with the scourge. A law had been
passed, diminishing the church tithes, which gave
great offence to the priests. The Bishop thereupon
published a terrible phillipic against the law makers,
which was replied to, through tho public press by
enator Medina. In allusionto the Bishop’s tirade, the
Senator headed his article “Explosion do la Colera :’
(explosion of anger,)—but the printer, by mistake,
made it read “Explosion del Cholera!” (explosion of
cholera). The very morning the paper appeared,
the Bishop, a priest and a woman of his household,
oil died from cholera, being the first victims ! The
incideut caused great commotion, nearly resulting
in revolution, as it was said the deaths were caused
by the smoke of a poisoned cigarj thrown into the
window of the Bishop’s palace by officers of tho gov
ernment.
Another Tempest in Mexico.
Dates to the 21st tell of another revolution in Mex
ican politics. Commonfort, in imitation of Napoleon,
planned and executed a ccup d’etat on the 17th—a
bolished tho new Constitution—dispersed the Con
gress-procured himself declared supreme dictator
and took possession of the capital and all the princi
pal cities apparently without effective opposition or
bloodshed.. On the contrary, tho change was attend
ed with marked demonstrations of popular joy. Don
Ignacio Commonfort appears, onthe whole, tobethe
most patriotic rnler this farce of a Repubiio has had
among Us many for the last ten years, and may Mex
ico rest under him from pronunciamenlos for six
months to come:
Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
The track of this road was finished to West Point
on tho 25th ult.
Destructive fire.
An entire block of buildings was consumed in Ma
rion, Ala., on tho night of tho 22d ult, involving a
loss of fifty thousand dollars. The office of tho Ma
rion Commonwealth is among the destroyed.
Purchase of Cuba.
Washington letter writers are gossipping bodies
and we must not therefore place entire reliance up
on the assertion of tho New York Courier be Enqui
rer that negotiations for the purchase of Cuba havo
been opened by the administration and a sum has
been named so enormous as to stagger even Castil-
lian pride, in view of tho necessities of Spain.
TheStateof Minnessota.
Messrs. Shields and Bice have been elocted to the
U. 6. Senate from Minnessota in anticipation of tho
admission of that Territory as a Stato during tho pre
sent session of Congress.
The Fifty remaining Filibusters.
The sudden arrest of Walker's proceedings in Ni
caragun by Commodore Paulding, left no timo for
arrangements for the safety of tho company of fifty
which had been sent up tho river under Col. Ander
son, to take Fort Castillo. They had accomplished
their mission—captured the Fort and four river
Steamers. Col. Anderson was also in posession of
three months’ provisions. It is stated that before
leaving, Walker sent orders to Col. Anderson direct
ing him to hold Fort Castillo to the last moment.
and if compelled to retreat to endeavor to retain po
session of the boats j hut if driven to extremities, to
burn all of thorn with the exception of tho Virgin,
and advise all the American vessels of tho Gulf of
tho condition of his affairs.—Theso instructions were
probably received by Col. Anderson.
The Administration aud Com. Paulding.
Telegraph dispatches say that Secretary Cass de
nounces the arrest of Walker and his men by Com.
Paulding os illegal, inexcusable and unauthorized.
Tho Commodore's instructions were only to prevent
Wnlker's landing.
Commodore Paulding will doubtless bo Court Mar
shaled immediately.
The Alabima and Florida Rail Road.
Tho trains on this road passed the big Swamp, in
Lowndes county, twenty-five miles distant from
Montgomery, on tho 27th ult.
New Paper.
Do Bow of tho Review is to start a weekly paper
in Washington city in a few days. It is to be called
“Do Bow’s weekly Press,” and will ho furnished at
8200 per annum.
To Examine the affairs of the Stale Road.
Messrs. Stubbs, Tucker, McConnel and Price have
been appointed “a committee (of the'Senate) to ex-
amino into tlio affairs of tho Western & Atlantic Rail
Road,” in pursuance of a resolution introduced into
the Senato of Goorgia by tho first named.
The Utah Expedition.
Latest accounts represent the invading army of
Utah as concentrated near Fort Bridger and in a
comfortable condition. The Mormons, mounted pn
Indian Ponies, were constantly hovering about the
camp, stampeding and stealing the cattle, hut so far
no avert act of hostility had been perpetrated. The
men and officers were in favor of entering the city
so soon as the weather would permit, hut we pre
sume no attempt of the kind will he made until rein
forcements are received. Brigham Young promis
es them a warm reception with lead and steel. Pis
official letter to C'ol. Alexander, dated the ICth day
of October, taunt3 the latter with “dallying on the
way”—defies him and declares if he persists in his
purpose to locate an army in Utah, ho “will meet a
mode of warfare against which your tactics furnish
you no information.” “Both we,” says Young, “and
the Kingdom of God will he free from all hellish op
pressors, the Lord being our helper.”
latest from Kansas.
The election on tho 21st resulted in the retention
of tho slavery clause in the Constitution by a largo
majority of the actual votes. The free soilers adher
ed to their original purpose and did not vote. At
Lawrence no polls wore held. At Shawnee the vote
was 765 for tho Constitution with the slavery clause.
At Olatho 200, and the same at Lexington. The vote
is said to have been pretty large—notwithstanding
tho absence of the Free soilers from the polls. Gen.
Denver as Secretary and acting Governor supersed
ed Stanton on tho 21st.
Six Weddings in one house.
The Columbus Snn says that six weddings took
place in one Factory Boardiug House in that city
on the 31st ult. . %
General Intelligence by the Niagara.
The bank of France had reduced its rates of dis
count to six pi?r cent, hut the financial pinch still con
tinues very severe in the North of Europe. Among
the English failures, the heavy houses of Powell &
Son, of London, and Cheeseborough be Sons, of War
wick, are reported. Tho English woolen Manufac
turers are said to be badly cramped, but in tho great
commercial centres money was easier. Tho great
Steamship Leviathan still stuck upon her ways af
ter further and ineffectual attempts to launch. The
American companies have given up their attempts
to raise the Russian ships of war sunk in the harbor
of Sebastopol.
Domestic Cotton Markets.
In New York on the 2d inst. Middling Upland was
quoted at 6) with sales of 1600 hales. New Orleans
same day, sales 1500, hut nothing done after receipt
of the Niagara’s nows. Mobile, Niagara’s news cau
sed a decline of a quarter, Middling quoted at 8jto
8J. Sales of the week 17,000, receipts 27,000, against
30,000 same time last year. Stock 129,500—decrease
at Mobile 79,890
A Blue Day.
Saturday, wo aro told, was the bluest day known in
Savannah for years. Cotton went down a cent—
every body “short”—trade flat and every body press
ing the banks for accommodations.
Decline in Cotton.
Speaking on this point after tho reception of the
Niagara's news, the Constitutionalist says:
It is time, we repeat, for the people of the South to
stand up. We have daily evidences that the crop
that will bo brought to market will not exceed two
million five hundred thousand bales. Why push
cotton on the market now ?
Accident to Hon. Wm. E. Griffin.
The Albany Patriot says that the Senator from
Calhoun, while passing through that place, on his
way home from the Legislature, was thrown from his
carriage, his horses taking fright, and one of his legs
was fractured. He was able, however, soon after, to
continue his journey.
The Rhode Island Banks.
These hanks it is stated will resume specio pay
ments about the lltb inst.
Stirring Times at Isavenworlh.
At Leavenworth, Kansas, on Election day, the vote
stood—for the Constitution with Slavery, 238—with
out, 9. Many Missourians were said to havo“ been
present and were put ander arrest, but released up
on writs of habeas Corpus by Jndgo Lecompton.
President Calhoun was burned in effigy—Ely Moore
shot iu the leg.
Carrier’s Address.
The De’ils, inspired by the aim sacra fames,
or, in other words, shilling hungry, perpetra
ted the following as a New Year’s address and
ask us to print it. Let ’em rip!
Twas night!—the death-like silence of tho tomb
Pervaded our fair city; the gloom
Of darkness, round her lofty mountain spread,
Hung like a mantle o’er her glorious dead.
The moon had left her beauteous throne on high,
And not a star begemmed the winter sky,
While cloud on cloud traversing Heaven rolled
In all the splendor of their shadowy fold ;
Like blackened banners sweeping through the air,
Waved in magnificence and beauty there.
Hushed was the scene—the eiho of no sound,
Profound the loneliness that reigned around.
Naught save the peal of the sentry clock arose,
To break the stillness of the world’s repose.
Void of equipage, glory, pomp or pride,
Thus without ostentation the Old Year died ;
But while its tones still linger on the ear,
The midnight bell whispers a Happv New Year.
Time past, and t.ime to come, are not—
Time present is our lonely lot;
I may not prate of battles and of blood,
Where war destructive, rushes like a flood,
O’er fertile fields, lair hills and valleys green,
And leaves but Ruin’s footprints to be seen 1—
Of steel clad warriors beaming on the sight,
With burnished arms and banners gleaming bright.
Of acts chivalric—glorious victories won—
And deeds of noble daring done.
No, if my’ pen was to its purpose true,
’Twould be confined to writing something new.
Alas! ’twere hard to find that something new,
Unless ’tis of Walker and his gallant crew,
Or else denounce with accent vile,
The moneyed powers—the golden pile,
Or launch my bark on tho river Styx
And sail an unwilling captive into roily Ticks.
But this is net my ferte, the 0. lympian dews
Find the Carrier Boy distributing the weekly news.
The news! our morning, noon, and evening cry,
Day after day repeats it till wc die.
For this the cit, the critic and the fop,
Dally the hour away in Tonsor’s shop.
For this the gossip takes her daily route,
And wears your threshold and your patience out;
For this we leave the parson in the lurch,
And pause to prattle on our way to church;
E’en when some coffin’d friend we gather aroupd,
We ask—“what news?” then lay him in the ground.
Rut now, forbear I must and no tear-drop start
To trickle down tho soul of one kind Patron’s heart,
Nor lengthen out my lays—but banish every fear
In this auspicious Happy New Year.
But list! I pray you, shun each and every evil,
Except tho smiling Carrier—the Printer's Devil.
Arrest of the Negro Thieves iti Con-
EIIUP COUNTY.
The Spartan of the 10th ult. says:
“Wc would, last week, have given our rea
ders some account of the arrest of a couple of
negro thieves in this county and Monroe, but
refrained at the solicitations of many of our
citizens, who feared that its publication might
prevent the arrest of others. As the Pensa
cola papers, however, have made it public, we
see any reason for keepiu longer silent. Wiley
Franklin, long a citizen of this county, was
arrested at the house of Mr. Stephen Richard
son, in Monroe. The sheriff of Escambia
county, with several gentleman from Pensa
cola, and a party of our own citizens were in
pursuit of him. They consulted upon a plan
of action, and finally Messrs. John Snowden,
of Conecuh and Bird Willis, of Pensacola,
went forward to the house. They entered in
to conversation with Mr. R., aud Frankliu,
knowing! Snowden, suspected nothing. The
party, with Franklin in custody, then return
ing to Bcllville, in quest of Grover. He had
been, for several days, concealed in the woods
by some young men who.persuaded him that
they were members of his gang. With Mr.
John Grice, of Bcllville, he entered the gro
cery. A match'was lighted, and as Grover
was in the act of drawing a bottle of whiskey,
he was arrested. They were both lodged
safely in Pensacola jail, and have, wc learn,
made full confessions. The father of Frank
lin is an old and respectable citizen of this
county, and we sincerely sympathize with his
misfortune. Grover, also, is said to be well
connected in Georgia.
Ail Uiiuhlhi-
The new Senator from Hw souri
denly vaulted into eminence bv ’ Wbo •“‘Jm
markable ability and force in « t,
Douglas, thus clearly shows the fn? * *
an “Enabling Act” of Congress ^.'**<
in the formation of a new State r "
Mr. President, there seems to L aT<:, *W
understanding of the relation »!•*,**«of,/
government sustaina to the Terri."- ^
an “enabling act?” Is it to i^ *£?
people of a Territory? f or P°»tre
that a Territory, organized, constS
Individuals may live on the uhi , Uea a dom ■
™«*r*«*
individuals scattered over the ? P , *
nical and appropriate and ^ *5
whenever they arc organizedinm a*? 31
munity, they constitute a people V* olit *»C
htical community and a people
act” was required to impart to'themth “ e <
propose a change in their lom of
What enabling act can trivo 0 CrD ®eru’
and inalienable rights
It would be a solecism—a ccnti-fv • • r r '
the inalienable rights are W
pursuit of happiness, to secure
are instituted, deriving their ins*
consent of the governed." m" po * ei *fctia-'‘
e l nedr - , , T n Ke pcopl ° " Kansas *»'*V
then, will the government of thT<b., * »*.
derive its just powers? From th e “ of ^
not from you- “enabling act.” V
inherent, and all the action of po,,e '«
ment can give them no additional SW
That inherent power is incapable
unchangeable; it is indefc&bfe •
Wnat then ? Docs it follow that th, r ■5^
organized or unorganized shape iiv!„
tory, can set up an independent’™^ ®'fes
they plcrse? No; I am^£****±
no. They may propose their f orm of
they may shape its features; therm,
its powers; they may guard the'Zv *
ests of the people under the nry-hf. a£di *
eminent; hut they cannot become>
ereignty; they cannot become an , lc *
pendent State; Why? Because the b
longs to the federal government foMi! °‘ r
the States. Nothing but the assent of ,w of<
government in some manner, shaw Li “* ft U
er impart to them independence
The only purpose of an
ized Territory ought simply to be „ hfT °*
If it >s but an unorganized Territorv Li 11 " '
pie,” Congress then ought to thrw
organic shape, as well as give its tsJff3 •
be found to be the true princinle anf -
the rule to regulate the steps'of’t^? 11 ® 1
in its dealings with the Territories, w ^
into the Union by their own will
sent of the United States. ^
All the po wer of the federal governor
create an independent, sovereign Staten® 1
cr of this tederal government is not to■
to admit. To “admit” a State implies
enee prior to admission. Thus, what i, „
narily called an “enabling act” h to T*
and purposes, nothing but« law if a ZLH
great federal government, in whiehi^T^
sovereignty of the Territory, mav avetk,
before or after such organization with
difference: when that assent is in the iW
what is now callrd an “enabling act,”
the people of the Territory hare moceeJn
cording to the principles of thatflnstfcJj
created a government, the assent beh4im
whole sovereignty becomes rested, thVkiJ
dent State exists, and then if Congress do ti
mit it, it is a foreign State in spite of alloc,
era. The danger, therefore, is in pasi.-/”
bling act not in withholding one. :
Who is it .that does not remember the oi
nate Missouri controversy of 1820! JU ■ (4
act,” as latterly called, had been passed f t .
State of .Missouri, in pursuance ol which iLii
formed its constitution and asked for aOcs;-.
Some quibbles were raised, and some aowsej
points we re alleged against its admission aril
souri was well-nigh rejected. All the rep;
senator^ tnd members of the House oiltr'4
fives at that day—I use the term ia its olds-
cation, not the new—said, “the assent of tii i
oral government has been given to the act i\
souri. Missouri had crcatedits governneEitj
suance o ' an enabling act, and was, therefore!
ereign and independent; and if CongTessha::
admitted Missouri, that State would larek
legally-recognized foreign government on tin
bank of the Mississippi river.”
It is true that the physical power of the
government might have sent armies and u
Missouri into submission, but that would h*
verted it into a subjugated State; Masonic
not have been in that case a free and indese.
State; it would have made it an inferior,it
dent vassal, subservient, and a suberdhaz:
her of the confederacy. According to 4t
principles of the theory of onr goremaenu
ever congressional assent to sovereignty eiu
pendence is conceded, the people of a Ik
may act as they please, and it is u> ind«-
State thereafter. Now, when assent in no:
prior to the time of admission, there is mi
of that kind of difficulty.
For tho Telegraph.
Pleasant Evening Amuscmeii
YOUNG PEOPLE.
The following new game when phyed
uninitiated into the mysteries, is calen!»tedt»M
much merriment.
Let a lady request a gentleman to win
random suitable words or answers to tin i
list, that is
Set down a lady’s name.
Set down sometime past
Write the name of a place.
Write either yes or no.
Yes or no again.
A lady’s name.
Something to come.
Yes or no.
Yes or no again.
Some color.
Some number.
Some color.
Yes or no.
Some number.
Name of a place.
A lady’s name.
A gentleman's name.
Name of a clergyman.
A Sum of Money.
Name cf a place.
Any number. ...*i<l'
After this is done, let tho gentleman ri»“
lie has written down in answer to the m
tions: ,
W ho did you first offer to msttj
When?
In whst place ?
Does she love yen ?
Did yon love her ?
Whom will you marry ■
IIow soon ?
Does she love you ’
Do yon lovo her ?
The color of her hair?
What is her height?
What color is her eyes-
Is she pretty f
What is her age? ...
Who is to be bridesmaid
Who’ll be groomsman ?
Who’ll marry yon?
How muchisshewoith-
Where will yon re*dc?
How many servants keep
Additional Contmcic* 8 *
BY THE NIAGAB-V
Liverpool, Dec. 19.—'I ^ ® jj-
closed with a declining ten en , ^
ties had considerably dcclin *
cottons were fully £<!• ' ovrcr '
Richardson & Spencer quote |
25s*. a 26s. and Ohio 27s. t- 8 *’
Wheat firm and advancing cu
better grades. Com firm- ,|J
declined 6d. to Is. Rice q u >« .J
Rosin dull at 3s. I0d. a 4s. I
at 30s. a 31s. Friday 5, L
Colton Market.—' r , jr s f* 1
of which speculators , ana , e ^ et ,but*H
bales. The market closed qn ,et *
cr a better demand. , oftM
The stock of cotton, at the ^jj| f
ww 987(000 bales, of which 1
merican. rp,-dcintl<
Manchester Trade. I r
turing districts is
ted at 95 francs. ' .
Ex-1 ’resident 1'-^' {L - |
F. 8. Senator from I
cord Patriot anuonueo^ l
ccpt the office, even J* • , I
rote of every member ot