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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH. [Correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer.] From Washington City. Washington, Jnn. 4, ’858. Gen. Walker is still here lying upon his oars and wutching the turn of events. He feels confident that public opinion in the South will foice the 'Ad ministration to remunerate him and rc-instate him ■ again at Punta Arenas with all his men and supplies, llis statement of particulars shows that lie has been deprived of one hundred and forty thousand dol dars worth of property-cash valuation in Nicaragua, by Captain Davis and Commodore Paulding. This does not include consequential losses and expendi tures. He claims indemnity to this amount and also that he shall be returned with his men, and the Nicaraguan flag hoisted and saluted. This will be refused him by the Administration. The Cabinet have a special meeting on the subject to-morrow, and I venture to predict that an effort will be made to excuse the action of Com. Paulding. Congress will call for a report of the whole thing, and I guess it will be difficult for Mr. Buchanan to defend Commodore Paulding upon any grounds which will stand the close scrutiny and criticism of congres sional filibusters. It is rumored that a joint reso lution will be offered in the House to-day tendering to General Walker, as President of Nicaragua, the privilege of the floors of the two Houses. This, too, will be rejected as it would be a direct con demnation of the Administration. Every body, however, is looking out for something exciting to day in regard to the fillibusters. Despatches from Norfolk report that the one hundred and forty men, on board the Saratoga, refuse to be landed or discharged there. Many of them have no mon ey, no clothes, no credit, and hundreds of miles away from their homes. To discharge these men, under such circumstances, in a cold clime, in mid winter, would bo refined cruelty, and wholly inde fensible ou the part of the Administration. Gen eral Walker thinks to-day will develop something which may determine his action, but he declares the legal and physical inability of the Government to prevent his return to his own country. It seems to be understood among politicians here that the Kansas farce is about being brought to a close by a bill which will be introduced into the Senate to-morrow or next day, by Mr. Pugh of Ohio. This bill will provide for the immediate ad mission of Kansas ns a State into the Union, under the Lecompton Constitution. Thus far it satisfies the demand, of Mr. Buchanan and his friends.— Then it provides farther, that the first Legisla ture after the complete organization of the State, shall submit toa vote of the people of the State, whether the slavery clause as proposed by the Le compton Convention shall be added to the Consti tution, of which, nt present it forms no part. The bill provides also that the first or any subsequent Legislature may submit to a vote of the people whether they will call a Convention to alter or amend the whole Convention. This seems to meet fully the demands of Senator Douglas and his friends, and the impression is that this bill will meet general approval, and soon become a law; so that by the 1 st June next, the Senators and Rep resentatives from the State of Kansas, may be in their seats here. Of course the bill wipes out the elections held on the 21st December and to-day in Kansas, and fixes a day for the election of State officers. The objectionable parts of the Ordinance (which is not a part of the Constitution) will also be stricken out, and all the privih ges granted to other States on their admission will be awarded to Kansas Let us then hope that the end of this imbroglio is at hand. RArniAXsocK. of any violation of law, we would thus have prot claimed our intentions t Is it the habit of offen ders against public right, or of conspirators against public justice, to herald their acts on the corners of the streets and publish their wrong doings in the market place? IVLJLOOISr, Tuesday Morning, Jan. 12, 1858. Bibb County Flection.—This result ed in the success of the whole Democratic After long effort and much patient endurance, we j Ticket by an average majority of about 150. probably tbreo to four hundred short of the full vote of the coun- at length sailed from Mobile from San Ju« n d e The vote was a small one Nicaragua on the 1-ltli of November last. The vessel in which wc sailed was regularly cleared by the Collector of the Port, and a special Inspector )y— a result attributable, no doubt, to the in- was sent abroad to examine the cargo and the pas- I <>ig mency 0 f [be day. There will, however, be ffiedgedlfo"fl^Cofiector rcfSto 3 dear*the no difficulty in carrying Bibb county for the Fashion with Capt. Fayssoux commanding on the | Democracy, whenever they will it in good ear- ground that he was a citizen of the l nited States. Iles (. We append the figures—names of “A- With a regular register and clearance we sup- . candidates iu italics posed when once on the high seas we were beyond | mencan canaiaatcs in uaucs. the possible interference ol any United States au thority ; for even if we were admitted bcligerents against a power with which the United States was at peace, the owners of the neutral vessel had a clear right to carry warlike persons as well as con traband of war, subject only tq the risk of capture by the enemy’s cruisers. We did not for a moment imagine that naval office . restrictions on American commerce in the absence of Federal law and of Congressional authority. Satisfied of the entire legality of their voyage, they did not hesitate to enter the port of San Juan, althougl — harbor. The Gen. then speaks of the insults offered him and his men by the Commander of the Saratoga; of Commodore Paulding’s outrageous conduct; of | the capture of Castillo, by • Col. Anderson; and other events already familiar to our readers. He continues: It would be supererogatory, sir, for me to that the act of Copt. Paulding was without warrant of law. Much, too, as wc felt the wrong, it was not the act itself as much ns the manner in which s *< Warrior Rutland. Total. | • gc 0 Sr *< Sheriff. Brantley, 570 124 74 768 232 Hardy, 476 17 43 536 Tax Receiver. Curry, 415 113 53 581 40 Johnson, 462 OO 57 541 Tax Collector, Bone 471 96 68 634 94 Hafcr, 473 22 46 541 Cl’k. Sui-’r. Court. Koss, 605 81 70 756 287 Clayton, 406 19 44 469 Cl’k. Inf’u. Court. McManus, 531 115 70 716 148 Burnett, 501 20 47 568 Coroner. Wright, 546 115 76 737 250 Coombs, 435 £0 33 '487 Countt Surveyor. Wood, 803 122 107 1037 no op. Tli'e Christian: Index.—This veteran [Washington Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.] Washington, Jan. 2, 1858. Senator Douglas Preparing for the Fight—Kansas and JIrr Admission—Commodore Pudding's Acts, tbe. Sidney Smith being once asked Low Lord Broug ham prepared himself for his Parliamentary cam paign, replied that he was “eating raw meat, drink ing oil of vitriol, and spending all bis spare time with the tigers in the Zoological Gardens.” These were terrible preparations; and it is hoped that Judge Douglas will not imitate the example sot him by Lord Brougham, and thus strike terror into the Senate on Ins return to Washington. As matters now stand, he has not yet a corporal’s guard in either house to do bis bidding, and he must cith er capitulate to the administration forces, or seek “aid and comfort ” from the opposition. The Lecompton constitution is expected here every day; and no otiier legal act being submitted to Congress, action will be bad on it without further delay. . As things stand there will be no difficulty in admitting Kansas, and no objection afterwards to let the people of Kansas do what they please, without troubling Congress or the Union. In six months from the admission of Kansas as a State, the free State men will have everything their own way, and the actors in the farce will slink from the stage when the audience shall have retired which applauded them. There will be no more play in the play, and no more tears for Hecuba and her dream of fire and destruction. There is a majority of six for admitting Kansas under the constitution, in the Senate, and a working majority in the House —that is certain. Commodore Paulding, it seems, has acted eon amort in bringing back Walkcr and his men. The gallant Commodore, however, has set the world a curious example in the way of treating “pirates and murderers,” by inviting their leader into Lis cabin and dismissing him afterwards on his parole of honor. The old tar must have seen some sa ving grace in his captive, or ho would not have thus treated him as a prisoner of war. We have now two great naval achievements to chronicle—the bombardment of Greytown, and the capture of a whole army—both accomplished without the loss of a single man! Commodore Paulding approves of the conduct of the officers and men under his com mand in general terms; but he failed to indicate ■ by name those who were most gallant in the de scent on shore, and consequently most entitled to promotion. It has been observed that the shore is the natural element of many of our naval officers; and some, no doubt, will be indulged in their pre dilection. The President will, no doubt, carry out his Cen tral American policy; and in pursuance of the new treaty with Nicaragua, protect the transit across tthc Isthmus by Uncle Sam’s troops, under the stripes arid stars. The whole civilized world is in terested in that policy of the President which will substitute a fait accompli for the obscure interpre tation of the Clayton Bulwcr treaty, and put an end to English fillibusterism as well as our own.— The two modern discouri—Walker and Walker instead of being feasted as Castor and Pollux were will thus revert to the normal condition of subluna ry humanity, and we shall be able once more to draw breath freely. Whatever storm there may be among excited men in Washington, the most perfect calm reigns in the White House. Experi ence, after all, has its weight in statesmanship. From the Augusta Dispatch. den. Walker’s Letter to llic Presi dent. The Richmond South contains t letter from Gen. Wm. Walker to President Buchanan, dated Wash ington, Jan. 4th, which is too long for publication entire in our columns. The General alludes to his letter of the 15th of June, relating to the manner in which he emigra ted from Calfornia to Nicaragua, the events which followed his presence in Central America, and the unjust and illegal acts by which he was forced for a time to abandon his adopted country. That let ter contained facts which be defied ins enemies to controvert, and he then hoped the administration would take steps for the punishment of the griev ous offences committed against him. In this he had been disappointed, and is now compelled to lodge a complaint against another nnd higher offi cer of U. S. Navy. He desires, in appealing as a supplicant for jus tice, to remove erroneous impressions which have been made, by corrupt and malignant persons. He charges officers of the Navy with misrepresenting and falsifying events, by irresponsible statements through the press, and in official communications, and thinks the President will bo induced by the truth to acquit him of the grave charges brought agaiust him in his Annual Message. He denies, most unequivocally, that he has ever been engaged at any time or in any manner with any unlawful expedition against Nicaragua. He repeats that be left San Francisco in May, 1855, with the sanction and approvt.1 of the Federal offi cers of the port, and the Captain of revenue cutter sent his sailors to bend the sails which carried them from California to Central America. The Govern ment of the U. S. recognized and legalized the immediate results of the emigration from Califor nia, in the reception of Padre Vigil as Minister from the Republic of Nicaragua. Not only was the first expedition to Nicaragua entirely lawful in its ori gin, but all its consequences were marked by a strict adherence to law and justice. He has be;n called a man “without faith and without money ,” but in all his career he challenges the world ic pro duce a single deviation from the great prin.-iple* of public right and public justice. Rut, says the General, an officer of the U. S. Navy forced us to become exiles from Nicaragua; and let me remind you of the fact that from the moment we touched our natal soil we protested against the illegality and injustice of the act, and declared our intention to return to the land whence we had been wrongfully brought. * * * • • * I‘-.i you suppose that if wo had been consdou it was done, that cut us to the quick. We knew I sheet commenced its thirty-seventh volume last that the act was in violation of the sacred charter I t , fVlB _• B -the Constitution of the United States. We knew ’ enlar S ed l0 the E f e of the Telegraph- that an authority higher than that of any Commo- I & new head and other now material ap- dore—higher even than the President of the United pointments. The same editor controls its des- S’SrSS.tSaSl.'SSViSSS rF «. w rit « 5 -u,.r r ghi J . Constitution. Wc felt, too, that the august and I nnbued m his distinctive denominational pnn- raost potent sovereign—the people of the United I cipJes and opinions, and warmly enlisted in States—would render justice for the injuries sus- their dc f C nce. His trumpet gives forth no un- tamed. But far more grievous than the surrender I . . , —far more galling than to sec our own flag lower-1 certain sound; and in his general management ed on our own soil—was it to be told that we were I of the paper he evinces a commendable tact there to the dishonor of the United States. There and en The Index more0 ver, is tbefor were men on that sandy beach, Mr. President, r , , who had carried your flag aloft amidst the thickest I tunatc possessor of a wide spread constituency of the foe, and one had been promoted by a pre- I warmly enlisted in its well being. Its circle of them had led your soldiers across the continent, ^S 11 countries. Its present circulation, we and always in the path of duty and of honor.— I presume, is exceeded by no newspaper in For such men to be told that they disgraced the Georgia) alld is weckly increasing. country they once had served so nobly and so I ° _ ° well was a pang sharper than that of death, and Thc Pastor > s * People’s Journal, might have wrung a tear from men harder and * . more callous than he who inflicted the irreparable I Thc January number of this periodical is injury. out to-day. Contents:—A Sermon; Other I need not tell you that I was unable to antici- B tist Sentiments ; Duties of a Church Mem pate thc act of Capt. Paulding. Military necessi-1 1 T ’ _ , ty required me to hold Punta Arenas, and thc idea »cr; Jesus Wept; Mrs. Freemap, the Mar- never entered my mind, that an American officer, tyred Missionary ; First Grief; Too much professing to execute the law, would so far forget Prca ching; Church Government—Presbyteri- his duty as to infringe, not only well established “ . . international law, but, also, the requirements of |&l? Com. of Domestic Missions of Hopc- that instrument with which are involved thc best wel Presbytery, to the Ministers, Elders and hopes of mankind—the Constitution of the United1 Churches; Rev. Richard Hooker. Editori- States. Even could I have foreseen the action of , .. * « ■ »• *• . . .. . Capt. Paulding, military reasons would have pre- a ^ 8, Notices of Publications; Ecclesiastical vented me from leaving thc Point. But it was Record—together with much selected matter, impossible to imagine that so violent a step— I jf the Presbyterian denomination in Georgia marked as it was in its details by conduct worthy of I , . >, . 0 . . soldiers in the sack of a town-would have lien and . th ? neighboring States would examine this taken by an officer of the U. S. Navy. periodical, they would see that it ought to be But permit me to conclude by adding that in all I liberally sustained. It is conducted with much events and under all circumstances there are dutic3 I and responsibilities from which I and the officers auult y and men I represent will not, dare not, shrink.— I f)r. Massey’s Advertisements. No extreme of illegal interference—no amount of I ... * . . . , hard words and unjust epithets, can deter us from J ” e are requested to invite particular atten- following the path which is before us. Thc func- nion of thc afflicted to Dr. Massey’s advertise- tionaries of the Government may exhaust upon ments to-dav. me the expletives of the language—they may in-1 * * suit the public conscience and degrade their own Lobbying—Congressional Corrup characters by applying to ns all the epithets their TION morbid imaginations suggest; but conscious of Th Boston paper8 8 ' that> in tLe course the right and justice of our cause, we shall not re- c B , V, - lax our efforts nor be driven into violation of the I of an examination of the Books of a recently law. As long as there is a Central American exil- I suspended firm in that city, an entry was found ed from Ins native land and deprived of bis pro- f ] $80,000 expended by the head of perty anu civil rights, for the services he rendered I J w ” * us, in evil as well as good report, so long shall our I the boose as the agent of certain inanufactur- time and our energies be devoted to work of their I ing corporations, in “ procuring the passage restoration. As long as the bones of our cornpan- f thenew tariff bill through the last Con- ions in arms, murdered under a barbarous decree ° of the Costa Rican Governmepfc- lwbleaching and gress.” Of this sum §8000 were expended ' unburied on thc hillsides of Nicaragua, so long I New York, probably among certain of the ho- sballour brains contrive and our v hands labor for , , „ P „„„„„ , r , the justice which one day we will surely obtain. l 7 brotherhood of the press there. The re- Permit your officers, if you can, he concludes, to mainder seems to have been disbursed in be hoped, directly Congress, but as lobby with scorn and contempt, if you choose, the de-1 fees—pay of regular agents, men and women mands for justice which we humbly and deferen-1 0 f more talents and audacity than honesty and tially place at your feet—we will not be cast down , - , , ordismayed. We fight for the rights of our race, S ood conscience, who find a regular and higli- wliieh have been denied us by an ungrateful and ly remunerative occupation in warping public degraded aristocracy. We strive to retain unsul-1 legislation to private advantage. The system lied the device some of our ancestors have borne I P . ,. • , ... .... „ «• on many a licld-“None shall wound us with ini- of lobbying has grown up within a few years punity.” And so long as our faith in right endures I to a permanent and profitable profession ; and good—our confidence in thc God of our fathers I this item of $80,000 fees from one client in a remains unshaken-so long shall we use all just ; , ia well calculated to open the eyes and proper means to regain what has been wrong- i . J fully wrested from us. I of the country to the magnitude or the cor rupting influences surrounding the Congress Important from Kansas. I of the United States. It is certain that shrewd Fight between the U. S. Troops and the Free Northern capitalists are not going to pay such State men.—Bloody Work expected.—Great SU ms without an equivalent. They must be excitement in the lcmlory. I weB satisfied that the influence does actually St. Louis, Jan. 4. I ex j g j and j s worth the purchase, before they The Democrat (Black Republican) says that b it at theso rates; and lobby men must passengers from Kansas make the following A „ report 1 On Friday, the 25th ult., news reach- b c able to show results before they can have Leavenworth of an engagement between the I the face to make such demands, troops under Lane, at Sugar Mount, and thc I The general loss of confidence in the integ U. S. Dragoons. The officers ordered Lane rit of Congres8> aa a body-the current uni- to surrender, which he refused to do, when I J , . the dragoons charged, but were repulsed with versal doubt of . the 8mcent y aad carucst P a ' the loss of three men. The dragoons retired, | triotism of public men is undoubtedly one o K&nsas vote on the Lecompton CONSTITUTION. Up\ 'ards of 7000 votes are said to have been polled iu favor of the Lecompton Constitution ! And this must be .i clear majority of the vo ters in that Territory. The despatch also states that Mr. Calhoun, the President of the Lecompton Convention, to whom the votes were returnable, had determined not to “open the ballot boxes” until after the election on the 5th. It will be recollected that, in defiance of Stanton’s veto, the special session of the Kan sas Legislature lie had called, provided for another submission of the Lecompton with the Topeka Constitution ou the 5th instant, enact ing that whichever Constitution should receive a majority should he submitted to Congress. President Calhoun's determination to delay a canvass of the vote is doubtless a precaution ary measure against fraud in making up re turns of this free soil election, and we take it for granted his arrangements are ample for the verification of his own returns. Next week we hope to know what the freesoilers have done, or say they have done. This unexpected vote i3, as a matter of course, changed by the free soilers to the ac count of Missouri, but correspondents allege that it is due, in great part, to the general pop ular disgust with the high-handed and turbu lent course of the Topekaites, which has driven the better class of their own men from them, who see, what every patriotic and sensible man cannot fail to discern, that the course of peace and safety lies in the shortest road to State Government. So soon as this controversy be comes what it should be—?. mere question of a Constitution for Kansas, it will be settled at once and peaceably. But from the very be ginning of the quarrel the Topekaites have been mere tools and strikers of Seward, Gree ley & Co., and have carried on their machina tions solely with a view to effect upon the for tunes of black republicanism in this country. That Kansas should make a government of her own and bc quiet under it is the last thing they desire. Admit her as a State of the Union, and their game is at an end. There would then be no Federal tools of the Slave Power” to hold re sponsible. She would have to settle her own quarrels beyond the possibility of Federal in terference or responsibility, and might make unmake the “slavery clause” without thought or care from them. That moment by the admission of Kansas this question be comes divested of its sectional character, the whole of this controversy is hushed, and Kan sas will be allowed to mature and perfect her own political system just as she pleases. This is the design of the administration— this is’the desire of all patriotic men every where. No man can be found so simple as to believe a Constitution can be maintained in force for any material length of time, or to ef fect any valuable purposes, which outrages the popular will. Such a supposition is an absur dity, and for all important practical ends there' fore, this opposition to the Lecompton Consti tution is a mere strife of words. The country will see in the issue strangely made by Sena tor Douglas with the President, at best, but the sacrifice of substance to form. If his ex ceptions to the Lecompton Constitution be well taken, the quickest remedy would be to admit Kansas at once as a State and then her authority would be plenary over the whole subject matter, and she could right her own wrongs at her own option. This large vote in favor of the Lecompton Constitution is, however, auspicious of speedy deliverance, and we look forward with hope and confidence to a final settlement of the vexed question. Houston County. Every Democratic candidate is elected in this once stronghold of Americanism. We give below returns furnished early last week by an attentive friend in that county: Mr. Editor :—Below you have the result of yesterday’s election. Knownothiug stock is below par—suffering, you see, like other bo gus institutions from the financial pressure: Democratic Ticket. | K. N. Ticket. For Clerk Superior Court. W. H. Miller, 553 | Jno. T. Cooper, 386 Clerk Inferior Court. John H. King, 508 | E. M. Hulsey, 429 Sheriff. J. M. Halstead, 506 | Jno. S. Hose, 429 Tax Collector. Thos. J. Baskin, 491 | D. B. Bateman, 448 Receiver. • Jas. K. Shine, 503 | Edw’d. Penick, 424 Surveyor. Jno. Laidler, 507 | R. C. Bryan, 426 Coroner. A. T. Ingalls, 505 | David G. Jones, 420 and sent to Gov. Denver for rc-inforccments. The Governor ordered three more companies to the scat of war. It is expected that bloody work would result. As soon as news of the engagement was re- the worst signs of tho times. Preaching; in the Baptist Church Wo are requested to say that Rev. Dr, . , , , . . Teasdalk, of Washington City, who has been ceived, the pcop>e commenced organ.z.ng, and hi in thc B tist Churchin this Cit were preparing to assist Lane. It was thought I F fa * * . ^ Lane would receive 2500 additional men be- 8mcc Sunday with great ability, will to-night fore the arrival of the U. S. troops. Intense rxcitement prevailed, and the people of Law rence were preparing to take the field. Mr. Calhoun, President of thc late Conven tion, has fled from the Territory. Later accounts state the whole of the fore going to be a mere flight of Free Soil fancy.— There is no truth in it. deliver a Sermon particularly addressed to Young Ladies ; also, to-morrow night a Ser | mon addressed to Young Men. Thc 8th January Was observed in Macon by tho usuoi pa rade in thc morning of the military—Volun teers, Capt. Smith; Rifles, Capt. Hardeman A Murderer Escaped.—The Brunswick I Bibb Calvary, Capt. Bass—all in full nuin Herald of the 6th inst. says: bers and “high feather.” In thc afternoon “On the night of the 2d inst., C. C. Moore, I the Fire Companies paraded and made a fine charged with thc murder of J. R. Wood, in appearance. May last, and M. Hornsby who was engaged * | Bf •„ in the affray at Honeygall, escaped from thc . j 1 . J* ., J’ . jail in this city. The building has no enclo- published yarn of the identical 8th, which sure and the door was secured by a padlock wc heard from the lips of one who was present on the ontside. Such fastening was but a bur- and a participant, as Captain U. S. Infantry, lesque—an invitation to outside friends to pre- ; n tke Battle which has made the day memo- pare at leisure for the departure of the in- „ He stood at the right of hb comp mates. It would bc better to put the prison- , . , , ... ... J era on their parole of honor than hold out such * bc breastwork watching with equal interest irresistible temptation to depart as soon as —in front tho British column which was advan- tlicy become disgusted with their landlord.— cing with tremendous shouts and as rapidly as \V hose wise forethought was it that devised s lj my 8od would permit—in thc rear, a motley that astening ? collection of volunteers loading and discharg The Area of UrAn'-Itmay be a matter I ia 5 tlieir wea P 0113 witb , a redd «f eagerness of some interest to our readers to know some-1 an( l enthusiasm which threatened the safety of thing of thc comparative extent of that Terri- his company quite as much as that of the com' tory of the United States, whose chief officer I ia() a foe. Among these, he espied a flatboat dred and sixty thousand, one hundred and sev-1 —coatless ai.d weaponless “is arms folded- enty square miles. To engineers, and a few the bread brim of his slouched rrat thrown back others, this will give n just idea of its vast ex- ia front, a perfect picture of defiant repose, tent, but the majority, of people will form a I gazing at the advancing column of the enemy. “Hr «-*■ -* *;«,7* New York, New Jersey- Delaware, Maryland, here unarmed ?” “Why, Captain, said he Kentucky and Tennessee. Or, to compare it of the flat-boat, “the fact is I’ve got no gun, with European countries, it is equal in extent and so I reckoned I’d jest come down and ef to Great Britain and Ireland, Switzerland, any body was killed, I’d get his gun and take Prussia, and Denmark, with the Islands of a hand ia the scrimmage!” “Talk of Minio Guernsey, Jersey, and Mon, end thc Ionian Islands added. Large Fortuse.-A lady in Rahway, N. J., it is stated, has recently succeeded, after sev eral fruitless attempts, m establishing her ti tle to a large amount of real estate iu Dny ton, Ohio. It is said to cover all the central part of that town, and it is rumored that the amount ie about two million dollars. rifles,” says the Captain, “after the action, I was detailed to assist in picking out the woun ded upon that field of blood, and I could de monstrate from the position of the dead and the character of their wounds, that in several cases, a single ounce rifle hall from oue of those heavy western rifles, must have killed four, and five men, discharged as it was directly in front and penetrating the close column of thc foe. Spaulding' County Election. For Sheriff.—Wiley Patrick, D. 381. }Y. G. Dewberry, A. 402. Clerk Superior Court.—J. H. Logan, T). 378. B. W. Ferrill, A. 405. Clerk Inferior Court.—Thos. E. Hicks, D. 398. James Vaughn, A. 382. Tax Collector.—Richard Lawrence, D. 360. P. Burdett, A. 405. Tax Receiver.—SamuerHammond, D. 427. County Treasurer.—J. S. Jones, D. 388. A. Merritt, A. 376. County Surveyor.—Joseph Buntyn, D. 383. Andrews, A. 370. Coroner.—John Statham, D. 365. Jona than Parish, A. 335. Gen. Walker and Com. Paulding. What Gen. Walker could accomplish or how accomplish it, in his second mission to Nicara gua, no man has yet undertaken to say. His plans were unfathomable by the ken of ordina ry mortals, and his summary departure from our shores with a feeble band, poorly armed and worse provided, was generally looked up on as so inexplicable upon any sound views connected with his supposed objects of con quest, that the newspapers ascribed it to jeal ousy of Ilenningsen who had been designated to a command of which Gen. Walker sought to deprive him by precipitating the expedition before it was half ready. Most ingenious speculations were set on foot to harmoiiiz this movement of Walker with any supposed plan of operations in which success might be possible, but no plausible hypothesis could be discovered. The American public was completely puzzled. Henuingsen and others supposed to be in the secret, it i3 said, were confident, but no man could imagine a ground of confidence. It looked to every body like mere desperation. While things are in this fix—Walker with his little band on a hostile shore—no effective movements for reinforcements going on here —afeeble chance to ship if raised, or to land them if shipped—destruction apparently inev itable, Com. Paulding stepped in and by positive breach of international law—an “ armed invasion of the territory of a neigh boring power with which our government held relations of peace and amity,” he has, to all human appearances, saved Walker, and, like enough insured his ultimate success. At all events, if the storm raised at homo about this unwarrantable interference has half as much depth as surface, he will resume operations with means and appliances he never could have been able to command but for this act. Should cur government, as is rumored, acquire juris diction over the Isthmus territory under an ticipated treaty, this natural result may possi bly be forestalled ; but otherwise we look up on it as a thing certain. And who should re gret it 7 What greater material blessing could be conferred upon those people and the world than an occupation of that country by a race able to make it of some service to the inhabi tants and humanity. Com. Paulding charges Walker with “ violence” and “ plunder,” while both, with perpetual strife and murder in boot less civil wars, have ever been and ever will b the lasting heritage of those people until th la conic under domination of a better race. So far as they are co-icerued it will be Heaven’: mercy to over-run their country and give them stable government—just laws—commerce— the mechanic arts—au improved agriculture and all the other thousand and oue appliances of civilization. Whai mawkish “pliilanthro phy”—what impracticable nonsense which would represent them iu any probable event as suffering victims of pira: ical American fUiibus ters. The only victimization, so far as they are concerned, is to leave them as they stand— a debased, ignorant, b’sottted, comfortless race, to be killed up at irregular and frequent intervals in the quarrels and strifes of their unworthy leaders. Now, on the other hand, we would have our government to maintain a respectable foreign policy squared upon the common law of civili zed nations, as it has ever ban practically re garded and enforced. What that has been is easy enough seen. No European Power has ever permitted itself to pile u s paper barriers against the natural progress of arts and arms in savage and semi-barbarous countries. They reserve such solemn affairs as n osquito treaties for the American continent and as a check against American progress. Let us look at matter as well as form—at substance more than sound. The time is coming when from Mexi co Southward, the whole territory must inevi tably fall into Anglo Saxon possession—inevi tably by the same natural laws which have shaped the destiny of nations since tho world began. Without sanctioning fillibusterism, therefore, we would not attempt to dam up the Mississippi with rushes, or stop the natural progress of the world by piling up Indian treaties or strained enforcement of neutrality laws. (From tbo Savannah Republican.) THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Steamship Africa. Lucknow Relieved. Muscogee County Election ■ Sheriff.—F. M. Brooks,” A. 1033. H. B Watt, 225. Clerk Superior Court.—A. S. Rutherford,* A. 777. A. II. Cooper, D. 427. Clerk Inferior Court.—A. P. Jones.* No opposition. Tax Collector.—Thomas Chaffin,* A. 907 J. Cook, D. 338. Tax Receiver.—J. B. Hicks,* D. 573. I T. Brooks, A. 550. Noah Gordy, A. 127. Treasurer.—E. Birdsong,* A. 827. J. T, Walker, A. 377. Coroner.—J. B. Wright,* A. 649. Wm. Li on, D. 516. County Surveyor.—J. D. Lamar,* A. 755. A. Grant, 308. County Administrator.—J. G. Bcthunc, no opposition. Those marked thus * are elected. Decatur County Election. At the election on Monday, for County Offi cers for Decatur county, the following gentle men were elected: „ Clerk—Luke Mann. Sheriff—W. W. Harrell. Tax Receiver—M. H. Cloud. County Treasurer—John Daffin. Coroner—C. G. Hartisfield. County Surveyor—R. G- Chcsnut. Stewart. County Election. The entire Democratic ticket, except one, is elected by majorities ranging from 3 to 48 votes. Sheriff—Poindexter Cherry. Clerk Sup. Court—E. F. Kirksey, Clerk of Inf. Court—W.^H. Turner. Tax Receiver—Thomas Senn. Tax Collector—Henry Anderson. Treasurer—Esloy Sharpe. Surveyor—W- H. McCrary. Coroner—W. Pcrkius. U. S. Senator from Kentucky.—Louis ville, Ky., Jan 6.—Gov. Powell has been elec ted U. S. Senator from this State. New York, Jan. 10—The British Steam ship Africa arrived to-day, with dates from Liverpool to the 26th ult. Her news is inter esting. The stock on hand was 395,000 bales, of which 190,000 were American. Friday and Saturday were holidays and no business done. QUOTATIONS : Fair Orleans .6|d. Fair Mobile 6jd. Middling Mobile 5Jd. Fair Uplands 6jd. Middling Uplands. 5Jd. Consols were quoted at 93i to 93i for ac count. 9 Money was easier, and the Bank of Eng land had reduced its rate of discount to 8 per cent. Markets. The sales of Cotton in Liverpool, for the week, amounted to 40,000 bales, of which peculators took 10,000 and exporters 4,000. The market advanced jd. a 3d. early in the week, and closed at l improvement. Thc sales • of Thursday amounted to 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 were taken by speculators and 1000 by exporters. The market closed active, with an advancing tendency. Wheat was quiet. Corn, provisions, flour and rosin were dull. Turpentine steady. London.—Barings’ circular quotes Sugar buoyant, with [sixpence to a shilling advance. Coffee heavy. Breadstuffs dull. American securities generally unchanged. General Intelligence. There had been no more failures in Eng land of consequence. A better feeling pre vailed under the bank reduction, but the mar ket aud exchange were closed during the two days of holiday. It was reported that France aud England were trying to settle the difficulty between America and Spain, relative to the frigate Ferolina. The Bank of Prussia had reduced her rate of discount to 6i per cent., but no regular markets had been received since the depar ture cf the Atlantic. There was a great falling off of British ex ports in the month of November. Lucknow bad been relieved after very se vere fighting. The insurgents were defeated in various battles, in one of which Sir Colin Campbell was slightly wounded. All alarms at the outports aud garrison had ceased. Re inforcements were pouring into India. Twenty- four of the Royal family of Delhi had been executed. A reduction of the army of France had been decided on. The Washington Union on “ Thc ADMINISTRATION.' GEN. WALKER AND COMMODORE PAULDING.” Without entertaining the question whether the Washington Union is or is not, as affirmed and denied, an authoritative exponent of the administration, it will be a matter of interest to know its views in reference to the recent summary course of Com. Paulding in Central America. We copy, therefore, from that paper of the third, omitting a long quotation from the President’s late Annual Message with which the Union introduces his article as explanato ry of the opinions of the President upon Fili bustering Expeditions in general: From the Washington Union of Jan. 3d. The message represents the administration as seeking, successfully, by treaty stipulations and amicable, honorable, and legitimate means, to obtain aud secure rights of transit, com merce, and peaceful enterprise, for our peo ple, in several portions of tho isthmus. One treaty of tne sort is already in existence, with New Granada. If newspaper rumor is to be credited, another is in progress, if it has not been already consummated, with the government of ■Nicaraugua, in regard to the very transit route of which Walker was preparing to take possession. In all probability, still other ef forts in the same direction are in progress or contemplation; so that our citizens are not only likely to be protected from loss or vio lence in prosecuting their lawful commerce along the transit routes of Central America, but the routes themselves are likely to be con secrated and preserved to thc commerce of all nations and the benefit of the world. It is quite clear, we think,- that the breaking up of the Walker expedition was the very result contemplated by the previous instructions of the government, however much the mode and manner of the interruption may have been in conflict with either Capt. Paulding’s instruc tions or with the strict rules of international law. It is not probable that these instructions contemplated the landing of the forces of the United States upon the soil of Nicaragua; but it is not probable, either, that the government of Nicaragua will complain of the aggression. It is not our pupose now to inquire into this part of the transaction, or to consider what course the administration may think it right to pursue towards Captain Paulding, with reference to the security of our own govern ment against unauthorized acts on the part our officers abroad. These subjects will be appropriately dealt with, we have no doubt, in due time, and with a just regard to all the circumstances of the case. Our purpose now is more especially to point out to our readers that nothing whatever has occurred which ought to change the views of the President or the policy of tha administration, as they are explained and enforced in the preceding ex tract from the annual message. The country will still recognise and appreciate thc grievous injury which lawless expeditions, like that of Walker, must tend to inflict upon all our na tional interests, commercial and political, in Central America, and the popular judgment will, doubtless, also determine for itself what substantial advantage may iuure to our na tional character aud lawful objects in that quarter from Captain Paulding’s recent act. That officer acknowledges that he assumed a grave .responsibility iu taking the step he did; and throws himself upon the administration, Congress, and the country for his justification. It is a bold and frank appeal, and will be met, we have no doubt, in a proper spirit. In the mean time, we hope that those of our countrymen who direct their attention to the foreign policy of the United States, will not forget that this policy can neither be wise nor succssful unless it is in conformity with justice and right, and in harmony with the establish ed principles of international law. The same law of nations which exists for other countries exists also for our own, and, until we are pre pared to submit to aggressions ourselves, wc ought not to encourage aggressions upon others. We can well understand the regret which exists in many portions of the Union that the resources of Central America have not been more fully developed, and that the transit routes which connect the two oceans should be subject to so many difficulties and inter ruptions; but this development is uot to be secured by the continuance of illegal expedi tions against governments with whom we are at peace, aud the safety of the transit routes is not to accomplished by making them the scenes of violence and the prizes of successful war. The peaceful policy of the President, as defined in hi3 message to Congress, besides being the only policy ou this subject which is consistent with the just rights of our neigh bors, is the only policy, we verily believe, un der which any thing valuable can be accom plished on this continent for American inter csts. We may fairly appeal, therefore, to every good citizen to give it his cordial sup port ; and we may do so the more earnestly at this time when the condition of affairs in Kansas and Utah reminds us daily of the great value of legal restraints, and the great danger of weakening any of those bonds by which alone cither individuals or nations can live in peace and harmony together. We give no undue place in our esteem to these restraints but what nation or State or society can exist without them ? Neither do we under-estimate that spirit of progress which is so often invok ed by the apologists for Walker. . But we re member tha: the mission of our republic is to teaeh the great lesson of self-government, and that this lesson is hardly to be taught by those whose conduct is opposed to law and in con flict with justice. • *Our great, our high duty” (it has been'well said) “is to show, in our own example, that the spirit of free government is a spirit of power; that its benignity is as great as its strength; that its efficiency to secure individual rights, social relations, and moral order, is equal to the irresistible force with which it prostrates principalities and powers.” Does any man believe that this les son can bo taught by Walker and his follow year will average a hun<J-r-,i a rate of taxation which itl J” 1 a national S . ^"“ acrha s sign which is a pity, jf |, e !hn ,! Ca.-siu ina Tm 1 ,._ Th .. Thaokaray 82000 forfhe in this country his talc of'-ThJ- 0f 'W vance sheets furnished bv h;! r Rin ‘ v -i"'C made complaint that the Nc-wV u°" ed upon them by copyi„ sfllf ,„ °^ k ^ almost simultaneously. Xhe -r ‘““1* had made its own arrang->hents in r 5 2 proceed with them. The L ° a4o *»»i J canght him nicely. By mat;?^ alterations fromthe 1 ** were carefully copied byth»T,n " aay. they have proved that thc TriT ^ r don copy, but copies f rom their mits petty larceney, as well.. repril >t on the tru*h. • a ae rious Firo in Atlanta.—Five rtn sumed in Atlanta. Thefire 4th, at 10 o’clock. The baUdiL “° a V Decatur street, from Nos. l to 5; V* 1 W was about 85000 insurance ou the'a ^ New Counties.—The following arc tbe names of the new counties organized by the recent Legislature: Mitchell laid out from Baker. Dawson, “ “ “ Lumpkin and Gilmer. Milton, “ “ “ Cherokee, Forsyth, Cobb. Glascock, “ “ •* Warren. Schley, “ “ “ Marion and Sumter. Pierce, “ “ “ Appling and Ware. White, “ “ “ Habersham. Wilcox, “ •• “ Irwin, Pulaski, Dooiy. Cobb Comity Election. Only about 1300 votes were polled in this county at thc election on Monday last. There was no opposition to any on the regular Demo cratic ticket, except Sheriff. For this office the vote stood J. Anderson 827—B. S. John son 441; Anderson’s majority 386. For Judge of the Blue Ridge Circuit, Hon. George D. Rice received 935 votes, no oppo sition. Thomas County Election. The following is tho result of the election held in this county, on Monday last: Sheriff, W. F. Sanford, (Dom..)—Clerk S. and I. Courts, A. Dekle—Tax Collector, M. McRca—Receiver Tax Returns, E. L. Ander son,—Coroner, Wm. McClammy,—County Surveyor, P. Brown,—Public Administrator, J. C. Browning,—County Treasurer, J. G. Pittman. From Washington. Washington Jan. 10.—The Union of this morning lia3 a leader favoring the acquisition of Central America, but by honorable war fare or colonization. It is believed to have been authorized by the Administration. Every one, of course, remembers that Lord Raglan, according to The Times and its cor respondents, was “never to be seen.” We will give a little anecdote upon this point, vouching for its authenticity. An officer of rank was one day conversing near the hospital with a brother officer, with whom Mr. Russell had most intimate relations, and-from whom was generally believed in turn he received cer tain “inspirations.” Well, this officer, we will call B, complained to A that he (B) never saw Lord Raglan. “If he would only show his face here occasionally, and not stick in his hut. It’s really disgraceful; I’ve been here three months and have never seen him,” remarked B.— “Well, that’s very often. By the way. who is that old fellow coming up there V pointing to a man, shabbily dressed, coining up the hill. “I don’t know,” said B, “ he is always here poking iu about thc hospitals. I have a good mind to ask him who lie is.” My dear fellow,” said A, “don’t, for that is—Lord Rag lan !” Gen tamar.-Gen. Mirab leave New lork last Wedaesdav Costa Rica and Nicaragua, bytLA^J wall. He has special instruction the late proceeding of Gcu. Vaikf! ing in that quarter. OtauM Georgia Kail Boad 8tocll . 1] ninety-one, in Augusta on the sth Homicide in Wilkinson -Th A*‘‘4 SSgscJS'sstiSia viHe, Wilkinson county, ia ulr .'h r- ta ' twickwasshotby M, Alien, Savannah Rcpuhi; can __ w T publican, of the 7th, that Mr J p S C b J 6sJ sed of his interest in that paper toA?^ ner, Mr. Sims. Mr. Sneed still, ho A editorial supervison of tho Republic. ’ Arrival of the Atlantic.-.^”; ' Lawt.—The Collins Steamer Atlami. J pool dries to tbe 22d ul t „ reached W 4 4 •Hh. Cotton has advancedindJSN to a halt penny “a large speculative N mg,” the market closing finn and , c J^ 1 nrdson & Jpencer’s circular, with A"’ 1 ^ tendency." The Liverpool sales of .Jf® 5 days were 23,000 bales. The account/?' Chester were favorable, llonev quoted at 93) to 13) ' r - f-a No general news of any import^ v from India. The East India , notified of the intention of the Govern-,,A minate theirjurisdictio.n in that qu W( , quake in Naples has destroyed a A property in that city, hut no lives. ~ c Gen. Nicaragua Wnllxrr h,h ,AL- rJ ter to tha President iu vindication of ^ : his late expedition—demanding reparation'^' daring thathe will not relax his efforts rail? regain what has been wrested from him. ' * ! Central Rail Rond.-The following,-*], were elected 011 the 5th inst President aalbi,. of the Central Rail Road and Banking " the ensuing year: R. R. Cuyler, President; J. W. drew Low, Thomas Purse, W.CrsbtreaJ.ty J. B. GaUie. W. R. Fleming, P, G. Dsn,i)j.r 1 Importation*.—The Journal of Ota—. lishes a statement by which it appeaathit iki imports of dry goods at New York for the tos^ are 890,534,429—being 82,328,764 less tin ’ year 1856, bat 825,560,067 mere than for ia 89,691,193 more than the total for 1854. T.cconspton Constitution iu Con; Herald correspondence of tho 2d ssjs therrk- taiuly a majority ol six in the Senate tnd»» s majority in the House in favor of admitdngin at once, under the Lecompton Constitution, Defence of Filibailerism.—Sen Eg sen has addressed a long commnniatioitoia Toombs I:: defence of Filibnstorism-vhia, gards as right or wrong according to the da stances and character of the people co: enduring it. He charges the progress of hi in civilization and refinement, fromthetimei in Canaan down to reclamation of Amdahl vage domination, to the credit of FElibnsta-ij Senator Pagh’s Rill—In accords previous notice Senator Pugh of Jhioiitrudi to tha Senate, on the 4th, his widelyuuk for the “Pacification of Kansas." It provides for the admission oflumLuij Lecompton Constitution ; and, at tie aarj nuls two of the principal points of tint ic These points are tho Slavery clsuse andtiei prohibiting auy changes iu tho Conaixii til 1864. The Slavery clause Jfr. Pugh p-jf* submit to a popular vote of the new State mi of April next; aud ho would also Jure C ,j guarantee to the peoplo the light locked this Lecompton Constitution wheneverthe;* notwithstanding its own express protissil contrary. The bill, it will ho seen, looks to s«np between the posi f ion of the AdminisSiwm of Mr. Douglas, built is said that itwElMiku able to the latter. It is certainly Ebsai a with the Kansas Free Soilers, which laajn to add yet another opportunity tovnicsjik, ry, to the number which they have h:rK.'." tumeliously neglected. A Dead Pine.—The editor of theIV" Reporter (Judge Love) in a recent ItUerh*-' des, says: We were riding in a buggy with J frie:- of this county, some three miles tbissa*-’' ville, when he suddenly stopped. 'Do you see that tree i” he asked. Yes.” “Well that is the tree agdas McDaniel was killed some time ago, - '• happen,” we inquired. “He wasdriyi-t^- here, and there was a blind ox on this side >e- : . He pulled heavily on the reins to keep <-- and the reins broke—110 fell against that. - was caught by the wheel aud crushed deed that was truly horrible."Yes, b- the poor man’s beard is sticking to the ry- - tree now,” “Is it possible!” the strangest part of it—you see . dead?” “Yes.” “Do yon see anyb-"-' it?” “No.” Well sir, that pme. dentoccured, was as green aud .1 in fka fminst llnf immoflllfpIV lUCf 1 in the forest. But immediately after died.”—What caused this treo to die • Walker’* JL«»*c».—Gen. pecuniary loss in the two seizures bj Paulding at one hundred and forty thons* The Filibusters arrived at Norfolk iu u* refused to go ashore unless put off by that they were penniless and had no w ^ They demanded to he returned to correspondent of the Enquirer who board the ship, pronounces them, un {r * ^ spection, “a hard looking set. They wc-c.^, turned loose and wandered aSoat No-- 1 “ of great destitution. Amending the Ui»cipliac.— * Conference at Brandon, by T0 * e “ ven, concurred in the resolution of * ferei.es, striking out the rule selling men, women aud children, ^ The French lu the Slave Tra* ■ that the British Government have rev despatches from the South cosstt' ^j, that the French have gone intotie w , ly and without qualification, tbe n. is forbidden to verify the colors 0 whether legal trader or not. ,fi* Fulling Off.—The deficit cf rei ^ at all the shipping ports, as comp stated to amount to forty milUoni ’ g, J Dry Time*.—In the wholo of' ^4 from Brazos to El Paso, theVea ^ ly failed for the last two years, » drought. The people, in consequc a severe pecuniary pinch. ^ Inquiry into the— |iW In the House, on tho 4th, resolutions* by Mr. CUngman, from the tom.® . iaf > and passed with amenJaien ‘ s ’. h . s( ,ijai2'’ ;f from the President in relation to tn ^ or and his followers and tho ti aia " dition In the United States. into 4“ Utah.—Bills have been intro . 0 fU:4 abolishing the Tarritori*!yintM®^ to punish the practice of 1 ol) g DBr pjsei- of the United States and for otbe P * Death of Alia* tinguished Authoress, died in ^ sey, on the 2d inst., at tho age 0 - - Why (he Knnlu Ucta ‘ a ’ d ‘Z c ai vV 1 cret and subterranean reason 3 . .yii* , York Banks resumed specif : ": ry. The last brough t to lig*^ ^ ^^ New York Courier and Enqtnttf-’^2? combination, which would nav 1, ble to get any measure through tho rn from forfeiting theft - a million and t hal ‘ of qiCOIll savo them bribe of Fnvhiounblc rails tj