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News Summary.
4rritnl of ibc **rr*in.— tin- Persia si Nf*
'..a <.11 the lltli, brought Liverpool date* to the 1st
ioHtHiit Cotton on'hanged. Sail s of the week
o<o bales. AiilM from tin- Manufacturing
r, i" favorable. Nochange inthomoney market.
firuernl liiti-Uigr-nrc bjr llic I’rrain.—D'Is
re cUTs resolution, declaring it inexpedient to ve.-t tha
government of India in the British Crown, hail pas*
ej tha House ot Commons.
The Oovemment was in a very unsettled rondi
lion, and there waan probability of a dissolution of
the Derby Ministry,In caseof a defeat. The India
bill also acted unfavorably towards it.
The Herald, however, says: ‘’The opposition last
night to the Ministerial plan did not present appear
ancns favorable to its success
The Daily News says: “There is not the slightest
doubt that if the Derby Ministry is defeated on any
question of importance, it will dissolve the Cabinet. 1
The Continental news is unimportant.
A week’s later intelligence has been received from
India. The capture of Jhansi, a fortified town in
liundecuiid, was effected by tlie troops under Sir II
Koss. It was accompanied with great slaughter of
the natives. The town of Kotah had also been as
saulted and occupied.
The operation of taking on the Atlantic Submarine
Cable was progressing finely. Over 9,000 miles had
been coiled on board the Niagara and Agamemnon
The machinery for laying has been completed and
work* perfectly.
The Plenipotentiaries of the Powers interested had
held a conference to ratify the boundary lx>tween
Russia and Turkey.
Also, to consider the claims of Professor Morse on
Europe for indemnification for the use of his tele
graphic invention. The prospect!* favorable to the
auccetu of bis claim.
Admission omiinrusotn.—The Senate bill ad
mitting Minessota, passed fhejlouse on Wednesday,
with hot thirty-eight opposing votes. Messrs. Rice
and Shields were on the same day sworn In as Sena,
ton from the new State, the bill for admission ha
ving been signed by the President-
Nrnntor from Mouth Curolinn.—Gen. A. 1*.
llaynehas been appointed Senator by the Governor
of South Carolina, to fill the nnexpired term of the
lion. Mr. Evans,deceased.
Heavy Theft.—The Adams Express Company
have ofTered a reward of 92,500 for information that
will lead to the recovery of a package containing
•10,000 in bills, on the Planters’ * Mechanics’ Bank
of Charleston. It was stolen on the 20th April, be
tween Atlanta and Montgomery.
Fraud in Wall Street.—Henry Dwight, a Wall
street broker, has been arrested on a charge of de
frauding to the amount of a million of dollars. He
is connected with the Chicago, Alton and St. Lonis
Railway Co. Others are implicated.
General Conference ofiheIS'oriliern .Hclli-
oniai Church ou Mlnvcry,—The Methodist Gen
era] Conference have resolved that slavery is a sin,
for whose extirpation all proper measures should be
taken.
Apnlnctiiroln Bar.—The “Advertiser’’ of the
5th inst. says: “Our citisens generally were consid
erably excited on Friday and Saturday of last week,
on being informed by several gentlemen, who had
returned from a short trip on board the Coast Sur
vey steamer Vixen, to the eastward of Dog Island'
that the channel, as laid down in the old Spanish
maps, and often spoken of in the early history of
Florida, had actually been found.and that thirty-one
feet of water was found on the bar running into a
safe anchorage of twenty-four feet under Dog Is
land.”
Cation Plnutrr’a Association.—It should be
kept in recollection by oar Cotton Planters, that this
Convention is to re-aasemble in Macon on the 2d
Tuesday in Jnne. Houston county has already ap
pointed 30 Delegates. The Convention, when as
sembled, is I o be regularly organiz ed. Each county
in the State is entitled to three votes, bnt may be r«.
road, i- t" be under I nk.-.l Stat.-s protection, Mini
ntaneralee ,>1 hrr )jlo-i*;il siL.mt.ig'-s ■*'* attained,
whi, h.tnki-n toe.-iliei Amount nlin.'-t to a huh annex
ation. The South - tould take adv an take of the
immunitlea and tiiak . the mo»t of tln-m. Nothing
the kind in that directin'! lias ever been obtained lie-
fore.
Gruruil, It nitrone! himI Banking i
y.—The Heport of t; >• rn-idrmt to the Annual
Meeting,,| Stockholders) 1 :tli iu-Unt, make' tbe
wing exhibit of eaniitg-
From the Roai,... 9i,o:
Charge.! with ..rdin.-trj operating , \ .
peases 314,7.i» e
* . r .*l.
Charged also with new track,new build,
ings, Ac
X7S 43
193,814 20
Nett income from rend.deducting all
expenditures
From bank, interest.dUcountB,diyidends
on st'k, prem’ma, rents, Ac.e. v™
Charged with salaries, taxes, interest
pawT*e 6 ” 11J 01
v.,i nMitna frmtl linllk.. -
•.326,172 27
33,972 4
Nett income from alt sources 360,143 77
Front these profits two dividends have
been cleared of 83 per share each -.. 249,360 00
heaving applicable to reserved fnnd...
Add reserved fund, 31st March, 1857...
120,784 74
514,306 57
Reserved fund on 3lat March, 1859. 9635,000 31
Uniting,■* by tlie lUiniMiiqii Overflow.—
The New Orleaus Delta says, the damage by the Bell
crevasse, now and eventual, to the sugar crop alone,
is estimated by good judges at three million dollars,
at least! In addition to this disastrous item, the
destruction to corn, other produce, stock and fixtnres,
the floods from that crevasse have inundated the
the country some twenty-five miles down river, over
flowing between thirty and forty plantations, and is
crawling on down toward the Gulf. How much far
ther the flood may spread, who.can tell ? It may go
to meet the Gulf making a clean sweep to the
Balize.
The Money Plethora.—The proposed five mill
ion instalment of treasury notes, which bad been ad
vertiaed for, and which were opened on the 10th in
stant by the Secretary of the Treasury, disclosed a
very large offering. The biddings amounted to the
enormous sum of 924,131,000; of which 94,595,000
was offered at rates of interest below five per cent.,
916,471,000 at the rate of five per cent., and 94,265,-
000 at rates exceeding that percentage. The lowest
rate of interest proposed (or was 3j. A verysmalj
amonnt was proposed for at as high a rate a* aix per
cent.
MACON, GJ±.,
Tuesday Morning, May 18, 1858
Tlie Young.Christian Asso
ciation of this city, have made arrangements
to have Union Meetings, and a series of Ser
mons delivered, on the afternoon of each Sab
bath, for one mouth.
The first sermon of the series was delivered
on hist Sabbath, 1*. M., to a very large and
attentive congregation, in Ralston’s Hall, by
the Rev. R. L. Bieek. Subject-r Prov., v:n,
“ And thou mourn at the last.” The discourse
was instructive, solemn, and impressive. It
was estimated that there were five hundred
persons present on the occasion.
We arc informed that the second sermon of
the series will be delivered by the Rev. S.
Landrum on nest Sabbath afternoon.
To the Dim Sighted.—We have been re
quested to say tint this is the last week which
Mr. Kahn will he able to spend in Macon. All
desiring his aid must therefore call at once.
Colkman’s Mill.—We tested some of the
Flour ground by Coleman’s new Patent Mill,
advertised a week ago, and found to our sur
prise, that it was of very superior quality. The
corn meal was also as good as could be desired.
Concert.
The Macon public were very successfully
entertained on Friday evening at Ralston’s
Hall, with a Vocal and Instrumental Concert,
in which the burden of performance was sus
tained by the Young Ladies composing the
Musical Classes of the Messrs. H. L. & S. A
Schreiner, assisted by Prol. A. Waldau, on
the Violin, and by a German Musical Club,
under the name of “ Macon Liedertafel.” We
arc sure we speak the unanimous voice of a
large and brilliant audience, when we say the
Young Ladies sustained themselves admirably
throughout, and did themselves and their mu
sical instructors great credit. The Programme
which we append, shows a selection of pieces
••The Kei'oustructlon of Parlies.”
This is the topic now with the opposition 'vise-
acres anil fuglemen—it greeis your eye under al
most every editorial head, and turnishes an inex
haustible theme of speculation and discourse. Hut
iliil we not have a ''reconxtrurtion only a fe"
years ago y Yes! a thorough one, (taking their
Tlie illiicon stud Western K. It.
RIIOI’S, At'.
Upon invitation of Thomas Dol’oiiert
Esq., the Master Machinist and Factotum ot
the Macon ‘and Western Railroad, as geni
aud pleasant a gentleman as he is a scientifi
mechanic, we passed an hour or two last week
no reader , , ,, c . .
supply—of finally manufactunn
requiring no little proficiency in execution and
Kn*« TcucnMnuil Virginia Railroad.— | accuracy in time. The lovely Vocalists, too were
The Bristol News has the following in regard to the
early completion of this road.- “ We are gratified in
being able to announce that this great work is almost
consumated, and if no accident happens, the last rail
will be laid this week. Then the great thorough
fare from New Orleans to New York will be open,
and the route being to direct and the time so short
from one point to the other, such a stream of travel
will be along tlie road this summer will astonish
oven the most sanguine.”
The I.nrgrat Raft ever Floated on the
Upper Mississippi.—Tlie largest raft oflumber
ever floated on the Upper Mississippi, passed La
Crosse, on its way from Black River Falls to St.
Lonis, on the 25tb nit. “It was the greatest sight,”
says the Democrat, “ever seen in these waters.”—
The raft was manned by twenty-four “red shirts”—
every man at hia oar and every oar doing its work.
The size of the raft was five hundred and sixty feet
long, by two hundred wide, and the amount of lum
> ber it contained full a million feet, together with two
hundred and.fifty thousand laths and two hundred
and fifty thousand shingles. There were two good
sized homes erected on board and the crew and offi
cers consisted of captain, twenty-four oarsmen, two
cooks, one clerk aud a bottle-washer, which, to
gether with a black bear aud a bull dog, made up
all the occupants.
Athnuy, Georgia.—According to the Patriot,
the City Tax Digest and Census for 1858, show a
white population of 911. Total population 1,458.—
presented by as many delegates as the county may Taxable property of all kinds 91,628,120 4fi. Gross
think Droner to send. Let earlv action be taken in amount of taxes, 94,525 20.
think proper to send. Let early action be taken in
tha matter.—[So. Recorder.
Urnth of Hon. C’ltnrlra Fenton Mercer.—
Gen. Charles F. Mercer, a gentleman widely known
throughout Virginia and the coontry, died at Howard
Fairfax county, Va, on 'Tuesday last, in the dOtlt
year of hia age.
The L’nirersltjr ot the Month.—Bishop Otey,
of Tennessee, has issued a call to the Trustees of the
new “ University of tlie South,” to meet at Beersho-
ba. Grand/ county, Tennessee, for tlie purpose of or
ganizing the institution.
Frout California—-The steamer Star of the
West, arrived at New York last Thursday, with Cal
Uotala mailt. She brings 91,600,000 in specie.
Forest City, a town in Navada county, California,
has been entirely destroyed by fire.
Whnt’a lu a IVnmr.—The United States Post-
office Directory of the present year contains many
oddities in the way of names of Pott offices. We
capy a few of the more whimsical: Bad Track, Bail
Ground, Ball Play. Basin Knob, Blue Black, Yellow
Red, Benevolence, Broken Road, Coffin Grove, Con
venience, Cowakin, Cut-off, Good Intent, Happy
Home, Horae Shoe, Long Tom, Lucky Hit, Marrow
bone, Pigeon Mouth, Wolf Mouth, Non-Interven
tion, Nomber One, Old Hickory, Onion Grove, Oys
ter, Romance, Sabbath Rest, Sorrel Horse. Three
Tuns, Veto. Wild Cat, and Dead Man’s Hollow.
Judge Dougina.—The Tribune’s Washington
correspondent of 9th lost., says:—The intimations in
tin- Democratio newspapers that Judge Douglasis
Keeking r.-oonciliation with the Administration were
pronounced false by Judge Douglas himself to-day.
He affirm! that be maintains his position upon Kan
sas to the fullest ezteut, but at the same time he
stands with his party in Illinois on a platform not os.
tenslbly opposed to the Administration, though
openly hostile to the Republican party.
From Washington.—Washington, May 14.—
In the Senate a communication was received frotr
the President relative to thereeent outrages on Am
erican commerce by foreign cruisers ; also one fron
the Naval Department recommending tbe establish
uient of a naval depot in tbe State of Georgia.
Official advices from Tampico were laid before tlie
Senate, from which it appears that Garza has des
troyed property of American citizens to the amoun;
of half million dollars. He has promised Captain
Almy to bebavo better in future. Gen. Robles saya
bis government in indignant at Garza's acts and
promises to pnnish him when the city is taken.
The House has been engaged on private bills, and
is still in session.
Unfortunate Affray nt llic Military Acade-
uiy.—Tlie Augusta Despatch learns that a difficulty
occurred a few days ago between Cadets Beall anil
Maiming, of the Georgia Military Institute, at Mari
etta, in which Mr. Manning was severely stabbed
with a knife, intlicting one or more wounds, from
which it is thought to be impossible for him to re
cover. Young Beall left the place immediately, but
some of his fellow students are said to bo in pursuit
of him, and will take him back to Marietta, if over
taken.
Young lleall is from Baldwin county, in this State,
and Manning from Mississipui.
A sirnugr J uilicinl Functionary.—We have
before bad occasion to note some remarkable derie-
.-ion-1 by Chief Justice Shaw, of Massachusetts.—
Lately he decided that places for selling liquor in vi
olation of law are common nuisances, ami may be
abated by anybody. He therefore expressed theJJu.
ilteial opinion that a mob of men and women who
destroyed a liquor store at Salem were justified in
their ac Jon. Law in Massachusetts seems to be a
strangt contrivance for confusing the rights of pro
perty r ,ud imperilling the peace of society. It is
easy to see tbe consequences of such judicial Jfcia as
this. It will lead Inevitably to repeated riot, out
rage and bloodshed.
itruih by Fire.—Tho Amerirus News of last
Wednesday says:—Wo are extremely pained to learn
that .Mrs. Jno. W. Dupree, of this county, was burned
to death on Friday last. Her dross caught fire, and
before any assistance could be rendered she was to
severely burned as to survive but twenty-four hours.
This is another it stance of the fatal consequences
of \> earing hoops unit-" with great caution, and cir
cumspection. A* much as wo admire them, we pre
fer to see them abandoned rather than they should
cause such a sacrifice of human life.
The Yvsnrri Treaty.—It lots been alleged .hat
the ratification of the Cass-Yssarri treaty is received
with much satisfaction on all si dee. It is a capital
thing for us and will be promptly ratified by the Sen-
Me. It will inaugurate a new policy with Spanish
America, and aid us Immensely In extending our In
terests. Colonizers who buy land and settle In N’i-
c urn qua can be protected by tlie United States, if
tlie former neglects or fail* to do so. We can land
maintain naval stations, and can take them
. Our merchants are put upona par with
native merchants, the transit route is opened and nil-
p,. r our protection, San Juan del Norte and Sanjuau
del t>ur are to he free ports; the ship canal or mil.
Accident on the IVeiv York Central Itnil-
road.—Utica, May 11.—A dreadful accident bos oc
curred on the Central Railroad by the crushing of
the bridge over Sanquirt creek, seven or eight per
sons are dead, aud some five or six more dreadfully
hurt that are borelyalive. Over fifty are injured.
Convicted of Murder.—In the Supreme Court
of Muscogee last week, Samuel Hinch was convict
ed of the murder of Michael Tracy, and James
Thompson, of the murder of young Calhoun, last
December. Hinch and Thompson were both sen
tenced to be banged on the 2d July next.
The stolen Money.—We learn that tbe sum of
910,000 was paid this morning by the Adams Ex
press Company, to the party, Drake & Moses, of
this city, which was stolen while in transit from
Charleston to Columbus, Gs., for which payment we
have seen the receipt This prompt reimbursement
of a loss incurred under tlie circumstance* stated,
imparts additional confidence as regards the puuc
tuality and ability of tbe Company, iu regard to
tbeir obligations.—[Char. News, 14th inst.
Washington New*.—Washington, May 15,-Tlie
Senate was occupied to-day in transacting business
connected with the District of Columbia.
In tbe House, several private bills were passed
but the bill to refund the duties paid on goods de
stroyed by fire iu New York in 1845, was defeated,
Market Report*—New York, May 15.—Sales
of Cotton to-day, 500 bales, with a depressed mark
et. Middling Uplands 12}. . Flour firm, sales 11,000
barrels. Wheat steady, sales 30,000 bushels; Wes
tern White 91 03 a 91 05. Corn dull, sales 14,000
bushels. Spirits of Turpentine dull, at 47 a 47 j.—
Rosin steady. Rice quiet....New Orleans, May 14.
— Sates of Cotton to-day 4,500 bales, and sale of the
week 26,000 bales. Tbe stock is 287,000 bales, The
receipts for the last week are 20,000, and the increas
ed receipts at this port 68,300 bales, aud at all ports
25,000 bales Mobile, May 14.—Bales of Cotton for
tbe week 1,500 bales; Middling 11} cents. Sales of
tbe week 8,900 bales. The receipts are 7,000 bales
against 4,600 bales last year. The increased receipts
at this port 21,860 bales; and the stock 78,320 bales-
Freights unchanged.....New York, May 14—Sales
of cotton 800 bales. Wheat declining—sales 40,
000 bushels. Navals heavy and declining Rice
ateady at 3} a 4} cents. Freights ou cotton to Liv
erpool 7-32d Savannah, May 14.—Sales of cot
ton 529 bales. Middling fair 12} cents, with a qniet
market.... Charleston, May 14.—Sales of cotton 1,300
hales, at prices ranging from 12 to 12} cents. Tbe
market is firm and unchanged....Augusts May 15—
The sales of cotton to-dayreach 448 bales, which were
made in three lots—57 at 10}; 39 at 11} cents... .The
receipts are 629 bales....Savannah, May 15.—The
cotton market continues unchanged and tbe demand
ofa limited character. Thu transactions to day were
follows;—131 at 10}; 6 at 11; 160 at 12{, aud C
bales at 12} cents.
The Island or Cuba.— 1 There are sixty sea-ports
in Cub*, and last year there were 3680 coastwise ar
rivals and 3653 clearances. This will give an idea
ofthetrado of this beautiful Island, which is not
more than half cultivated under the present regime.
troojx* to i
Tlie Mississippi Bottom—Lessons
OF THE OVERFLOW.
The present is an important period to the
Valley of the Mississippi. A poiut lias been
reached nt which it may be safely claimed that
tlie practicability of reclaiming the whole of
the immense tract of this alluvial soil, and
subjecting it to tbe productiveness of cul
tivation, has been demonstrated beyoud cavil.
With this demonstration is connected the re-
vealment of future industrial resources of al
most fabulous magnitude. The wildest im
agination can scarcely extend tlie bounds to
winch production my be brought, when this
gigantic natural hot bed shall have all been
subjected to the plow, as it all may be by a
proper system of drainages. As if the hand
of Providence, had, with special designs traced
them out for the use of the engineer, there is
all over its surface, a net work of bayous, de
pressions and reservoirs, which have but to be
followed and perfected by the industry of
science to fit millions of acres for the theatre
of agricultural industry* richer in its rewards
to the husbandman than the mines of Peru.
But with the revelation of our possession of
this incalculable treasure, baa come also the
dcmou-lration of the inadequacy m the means
heretofore adopted for its protection and pie-
sen ation. Tbe high stage of water of the pres
ent season has shown, beyond a doubt, that the
plan of Levees now in use will not give securi
ty against the pressure of the floods that may
be expected at intervails. The Levee system
has not proven a failure; but the overflow has
taught us that we must reconstruct and improve
tbe system.—.Mernjdt>s Built i>n.
fortunate iu overcoming the embarrassment of
so large an audience, andsung with great taste
and effect. The “ Liedertafel” took the bouse
by storm. Encore! Prof. Waldau is a re
markably fine Violinist, and his performances
were received with marked applause. We con
gratulate the Messrs. Schreiner on a marked
success. The profits of the Concert were an
uouuced to be applied to a benevolent purpose
PROGRAMME :
part 1.
1. “ Overture—“La Muettedi Portici."—Four Pi
auos. eightper formersMrs. Boyken ; Misses Poe,
Nisbit, Gaines, Bass, Towns, Macarthy, Maxwell—
Ausxit.
-• “Drift my Bark,"—Duett—Misses Collins aud
Nisbet—Keukin.
3. Solo— Violin Fautasie—From “Somnambula’
Prof. A. Waldau—Artot.
4. “ Holy Mother."—Duett from Maritana—Mrs,
Boyken, Miss Collins—Wallace.
5. Grand Duett for two Piauot.—“ Belisario.”—
Miss Napier, M. Schreiner.—Gokia.
6. Sony—“ When Fortune o'er me Darkly Frorcnt.
—From tho Rose of Castile, Miss Rebecca Dessau—
Balfz.
7. “ ConcordatUia."—Two Pianos, four performers,
Mrs. Boyken, Misses Napier, Poe, M. Schreiner—
Asher.
8. The Chapel (Die Kaprlle.)—Macon Liedertafel
—Kreutzek.
The Heartn* are Telling."—Chorus from the
Presbyterian Choir, Pupils, 4e , Macon Liedertafel
Hatden.
part 2.
1. Font a tie Caprice,—Prof. A. Waldau—ViIUX-
TE.vrs.
2. “ Come U hello.”—Lucretia Borgia.—Miss Anna
L. Nisbet—Donnizktti.
3. Grand Duett,—FTom Norma-Ttvo Pianos.—Mrs.
Boyken, Mr. Schreiner—Rosellev.
4. Song—•' Hark the Clarion."—From Rose of Cas
tile, Miss Rebecca Dessau—Halve.
5. March.—From Lucia di Lammermore.—I Pianos,
9 performers, Misses Napier, .Monroe, Gaines, Max
well, Towns, Armstrong, Payne, Nottingham—Don
EIZXTTI.
Serenade Duett,—Mrs. Boyken. Miss Collins—
Schubert.
7. “ Home, Street Home,"—Composed aud dedi
cated as a slight tribute of regard to Mrs. Dr. Col
fins, Mrs. Nathan Monroe, Mrs. Washington Poe—
Bchreikgr.
8. Trio—“ Betuario,”—Mrs. Boyken, Miss Nisbet,
Mr. Schreiner—Doxnizetti.
9. Yankee Doodle,—Expressly composed for his
little pnpiis aud most respectfully dedicated to the
Ladies of Macon.—I Pianos, 9 performers. Misses
Payne, Macarthy, Parker, Holt. McMullin, Wyehe,
Harris, and Master Napier and Mr. Schreiner—
Schreiner.
10. Duett—’’ Gently tight the Orerze.”—Miss Nisbet
and Dessau—Glover.
Kimiscy’s and Afcncombs’s Camp.
bell Minstrels.
This troupe numbering eighteen performers,
whose reputation stands without a rival as
vocalists and negro delineators, will give three
of their laughter provoking entertainments at
Ralston’s Hall, Thursday, Friday and Satur
day Evenings of this week.
We clip from an exchange, the following:
The Campbell Minstrels—Rouse's Hall was fill
ed to overflowing on Saturday evening, with au in
telligent and appreciative audience, and we doubt
whether there was a lady or gentleman in that vast
crowd, bnt went to their homes delighted with the
entertainment. To-night there will be another ex
citing performance by this unrivalled troupe, with
an entire change of programme, giving another op
portnnity of enjoyment to all those, who have a taste
for exquisite melody, combined with fnn, humor and
novelty.
Master Bobby is certainly the most precocious lit
tie gonins we have over seeu in a concert room, and
“ You'd scarce expect one of bis age,
To appear to veil npon the stage,”
nor believe it either, unless yon had witnessed bis
ease, self-possession and grace, and listened to his
beautiful ballads, sang with so much skill and feel
ing. Unlike many bauds of professional singers iu
this r.ouutry, the members of the Campbell tronpe
are themselves gentlemen, skilful in their vocation,
and nothing is allowed in tlwir performances that
would injure the feelings of the most fastidious.
But we are exceeding our limits, and have only
to advise our-fnends to secure their tickets early.
Arrangements will bo made for sealing the ladies,
so that the crowd who will undoubtedly bo present
can all be comfortably accommodated.
Spiritual Bappings.
We notice some talk about “ Spiritual Rappings
among our contemporaries, and, content with the
glimmerings of thefuture to be obtained from other
sources, we will leave the matter with a single rc-
m.trk. Such things in times past have been heard
of, as deep wounds inflicted upon the feelings and
sensibilities, by gossip over these alleged revelations
from deceased friends. Doubtless they were not
conceived in wantonness or malice—surely no one
would willingly poison the rankling shafts front the
quiver of divine Providence; bnt suck results, as
faets and effects of these alleged revolutions from
the spirit land, will hardly be denied. Pray avoid
them; avoid any course of questioning or rapping
or gossip which can add a solitary grief to the bit
terness of bereavement.
Bibb Superior Court.
Judge Lamar organized the Coart on Monday the
10th, and commenced the call of the various dockets.
A large amount of business has been dispatched,
anil it is quite probable we may have au unusually
short session. The present Grand Jury, it kbits very
efficient Foreman, Saml. B. Hunter, Esq., is a 'cork
ing body.
On Thursday last, the case of the State vs. George
Knight, charged with tho murder of Willinm Holt,
was taken up and late at night the Jury found a ver
dict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Judge
Powers and Clifford Anderson, Esqrs., addressed the
jury for tlie State, and John Hill nud L. N. Whittle,
Esqrs., for the defense.
On Friday morning after a well timed and elo
quent exhortation from Judge Lamar, tbe prisoner
was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment in the
IYi.Herniary. At the same time, George Cole hav
ing plead guilty to Larceny, was sentenced to one
year’s service in the Penitentiary. During the last
w< < k the Dockets have been called as cases were
ripe ami ready, hut this week the Dockets are to be
ailed regularly and cases must be tried or continued
as called. Ou account of the Illness of Judge Cole,
many of the most important cases before tlie Court
will ho Continned.
It is thought that the Court will adjourn during
lie next week.
ord for it,) from the debris of “all oldcflcte political j n examining the workshops and arrangement
of the Matson and Western Rail Road. Tlie
Company is directing its views and move
nts to the ultimate point of perfect self-
ill their otv
motive power mid rolling stock, with the ex
ception of car wheels; aud that they will
able to attain this result at last, economically
to themselves aud with great benefit to the
public, few will doubt, after an inspection
of their shops and machinery and seeing what
they have done and are doing.
Their shops comprise three large brick
structures, planned with eminent taste and
judgment. The first of these is a car man
ufactory, pattern shop and upholstery,
which are all the power machines for planing,
boring, morticing nnd turning; the second is
forging shop, where a blast of any power
upplied to numerous forges of every shape, by
a steam fan driven 2,200 revolutions per minute
and the smoke is carried off through sub
tcranean fines until it finds outlet into a mon
umental chimney outside, standing majestical
ly alone, and rising over 100 feet in height.—
The third is the machine shop, with all the
lathes, planes, presses, screws aud ponderous
cranes for handling aud shaping the massive
pieces of iron which make up the locomotive
One of them is, as the children say, “a sure
enough press,” for forcing tho driving wheels
upon the axles with seventy thousand pounds
pressure. Tho machinery of these three shops is
driven by a noiseless engine of twenty-fiv,
horse power in beautiful order.
Directly in the rear of them is another
majestic structure whose imposing interior is
particularly interesting. This is the great
circular car shop, with twenty-four tracks, ra
diatiug to a huge turn table, as a common ccn
tre; aud here were almost as many iron steeds
in stable, as it were, some at rest with tenders
supplied, clean aud shining, watting for the
word and vital spark to start them into furious
life; others hissing out their fiery energies
and still others smoking and snapping and
warming up for the strife with time and dis
tance. Upon a pillar near the’ centre was
posted the last monthly record of each one’s
performances—the distance run and the pro
rata consumption of fuel and oil. This is to
stimulate a wholesome and economical rivalry
among the engineers.
Just outside of this car house is a i; rge oc
tagonal reservoir, from which a great main
describing the circle of the house, carries to
eaeh of the iron horses his draught if J600
gallons of water. This reservoir, receives its
constant supply from a running stream not
far distant, the water being thrown up by
force pumps driven by the stationary engine.
Near the reservoir are the gas works where
the Company manufacture their entire sup
ply of gas at a cost not exceeding two dollars
per one thousand feet. Pine-wood,chips, oily
cotton waste, which has been used in cleaning
machinery—in fact almost any trash, (for we
saw old hoots aud shoes in the pile,) serves to
make this gas. A charge of sixty pounds
weight produces between seven and eight hun
dred feet of gas. In the second story of the
Machine shop are the store rooms for all the
little supplies and appliances used in the man
ufacture, repair or running of the cars, and
the offices of the master machinist, whose re
sponsible care is not alone the management of
the operative details of this large establish
ment, but the furnishing of all plans and spec
ifications for work, and some active interest in
every mechanical concernment of tbe road.—
Here we saw a draft of a new locomotive which
is shortly to be undertaken, and called the
“Emerson Foote,” in compliment to the late
Superintendent, to whose skill and judgment
tbe Company arc iu a great part indebted for
the convenient arrangements of their shops.—
Mr. Foote, it will bo recollected, was more
than a year since prevailed upon to accept the
Superintendence of the Central Rail Road, and
his late position is now filled by A. L. Tyler,
Esq., a very active and energetic officer.—
Here, also, we examined models for a combina
tion Switch, invented by Mr. Dougherty,
which obviates all danger from misplacement,
aud a car lock, the perfection of simplicity and
secure as Hobbe’s. We hope lie may get a
patent and make a fortune on them both.—
With it good deal of observation among estab
lishments of this character, wc do not see how
this could bo improved upon cither in arrange
ment or in perfect order, neatness and efitcien
Lastly wc rau out into the country. “The
Messenger,” a car and engine combined—i
beautiful little steam carriage, constructed for
the accommodation of the officers of the road
from designs of Mr. Dougherty and under his
direction, was kindly fired up to give us a ride.
We flew along twenty miles, sometimes at the
rate of twice that number per hour, heating
the birds, and John Gilpin himself. It was
a beautiful, bright afternoon, breezcless, but
what a hurricane we raised 1 Tlie country
looks fine. The stand of cotton, though small
and backward, is good. So of the corn. Warm
weather and genial rains will give us tine
crops. The peach trees must be denuded of
half their fruit or they will he broken-down'.
organizations.” It rose, as we were gravely in.
formed, “like tha fabled Pin as* from the taken of
old defunct portits!” and that it rose suddenly and j
boldly, and soared loftily for a whil
needs assurance. Hut it is gone. The Phoenix is
dead. “Chaos Inis come again”—come, certainly,
so far as the “Phoenix” aforesaid is concerned; for
the very plea for reconstruction is an admission of
ruin and disorder. They are estopped henceforth
from further denial. Yes l the American organi
zation is at length confessedly dead. Its opponents
believed as much a long time ago, and earnestly
begged their friends of the other side to act with
them In a vital organization which might by possi
bility contribute something towards sustaining con
stitutional government in the United States. But
it wits denied, and a year or two of a flickering,
partial, galvanic vitality has been wasted and mis
applied in factious opposition to the only organiza
tion which could he of public service.
But they tell us the democratic party is dead,
too. Ah, they arc not competent witnesses on that
point. lYe see how widely mistaken they were up
on it, when they “reconstructed” some few years
ago. The democratic party was then just as tho
roughly dead in their judgment, as it is now or ev
er will be. It was more titan dead—it was effete
They even saw its ashes, and rose out of that oshe;
like the Phcenix. Every one of their Conventions
held in succession inquests on the old party and
declared it dead! dead!! dead!!! If the most
solemn assurances of their most distinguished pub
lic men—their highest Councils—their most intel
ligent orators, writers and newspaper organs could
establish any fact beyond controversy, then the
democratic party was dead five years ago,
But that Fremont is not now the President of the
U. States, or a part of them, and Seward aud Gree
ley, the master spirits of the Federal administra
tion, is wholly owing to the fact that the verdict of
our friends was erroneous. They were mistaken—
The democratic party was not dead. It lived to
encounter sectionalism in a mighty grapple—In an
almost even handed struggle—without their aid—
without their sympathy; aye, and so far do some
of them permit old time prejudices to carry them,
that they omit no means of factious annoyance,
where it would seem that their real interests and
oflinities could not possibly allow them an election.
Now another “reconstruction” is called for, and
the democratic party is “dead” again, and again
are our friends of the opposition just as wide of the
mark. The democratic party will live to see their
successive reconstructions arise from their suc
cessive ruins—take their successive fancy flights
and sink successively into night and chaos. It will
live to embody the great mass of conservative sen
timent in tills country and wield it for the preser
vation of Constitutional land marks and to curb
sectional intolerance or aggression, or will live to
see the Republic go to wreck in spite of its earnest
struggles to maintain it in its legitimate character
and functions. 'When the opposition answer this
and like declarations with sneers and carping at
this, that or the other fancied or real pccadillo of
this, that or the other public man or section of the
party, still tbe great fact stares them in the face,
and appeals with unanswerable force to the candid
mind of the country, that its nationalism is mainly
embodied in that party, and its sectionalism ar
rayed against it. Outside of it, there is no power
which can offer any hopeful antagonism to the
Black Republican organization.
What good can this proposed “restruction” ac
complish ? If there were demand for it, the peo
ple might well distrust a ,l recotutruction n under
such auspices; and surely experience should teach
our opponents some distrust of their skill in the
construction of partitfe. The machinery from their
establishment is not good—it don’t teear—it is ev
er coming to pieces—it is always needing “recon
struction.” Then again there is really no adequate
supply of material for the construction. There arc
only two great opposing forces in the country—one
is an aggressire, sectional, fanatic opinion, which
is seeking to pervert the power of the Federal Gov
ernment to its own ends; and the other is a con
stitutional, conservative party, striving to preserve
the rights of the States, and restrict the Federal
Government within its lawful purposes. The one
or the other must necessarily embody tho great
mass of the people of the United States, and the
one or tbe other must be final victor in the strug
gle. Whenever these two giant forces grapple in
conflict, a dust will be raised—offensive, perhaps, to
the nostrils of our quandant “American” oppo
nents, and they may change about from side to
side as the wind blows, and complain very much of
the annoyance aud strife ; but the strife is bound
to be and cannot be avoided. It is a conflict forced
upon the conservative mind of the country, and
the alternative is to fight or abandon the field and
the country to the enemy.
Now the basis of tills proposed “reconstruction,”
if we understand it, is that of “ignoring slavery ag
itation.” When the reconstructionists can per
suade the ffec-soilers and black republicans to “ig
nore,” pretermit or abandon their attempts to dis
franchise the slaveholder and prostitute the Feder
al Government itselrinto an Instrument of destruc
tion to his rights, they will remove all cause of “sla
very agitation but they will not purchase peace
by any endurable concession. If a race of “ig
nore rs”.had “reconstructed” ‘ a new party in revo
lutionary times to restore peace to the colonics, by
refusing to entertain tlie questions raised or the
demands made by Great Britain, they would have
found themselves powerless except to aggravate
tbe demands, and increase tin: cause of grievance.
So in the South, a party against “slavery agitation”
can have no other weight than to encourage the
very aggressions which are the cause of strife, and
so increase the strife unless peace he purchased by
unconditional surrender.
The fair minded, conservative men of the coun
try must conquer a peace, by putting down section
alism, and it is to be done by the strong bands and
loyal hearts of men not afraid to strike for the
right, and careless of tlie dust of controversy in the
effort to maintain it Tlie party of “ignorers” may,
ostrich-like, hide their own heads in sand, and fancy
they are quieting controversy, because they do not
see it, but peace is not to be restored iu that way.
If done at all, it must be done by the democratic
party, in a manly, open, unflinching, defiant strug
gle for sound Constitutional, doctriue, with the
hordes of sectionalism, and by thoroughly vanquish
ing them upon every issue they may successively
set up.
Tlie Northern and Southern views
OF PARTY RECONSTRUCTION.
An important circular has recently emana
ted from Buffalo, signed, among others, by
leading Fillmore men in that section of New
York—among them by Hon. S. G. Havf.ns,
a prominent member ot Congress during Mr.
Fillmore’s administration, and at one time, we
think, his partner in law practice, urging a
new organization, “without regard to former
political associations,” to oppose the “princi
ples and policy of the administration.” Wo
copy a passage of the circular for the purpose
of showing the ground of that opposition :
“Tho absolute and unconditional surrender of the
national government into tlie hands of tho aggres
sive and intolerant slave jiov,-or of the country by
tho national administration, as exemplified in its at
tempt to impose a repulsive constitution upon the
people of Kansas in defiance of their expressed wish
es, makes it the imperative duty of all good citizens
who desire to preserve the institutions inherited from
tlioir fathers to ignore all considerations of a selfish
character, and to unite at the polls for tho purpose
of deposing an administration at once so faithless
and despotic.”
Now, note that the call for reorganization
to prostrate Mr. Buchanan’s administration,
is based in the South upon precisely opposite
reasons. We will take for illustration aud
example, thefirst “Southern American” paper
we can find in a promiscuous pile before us,
and it happens to be the Richmond Whig of
the Gth instant. In this number we find, un
der the editorial head, an article styled “ The.
Poptdar Conviction," in which the Whig copies
and endorses the opinions of the Louisville
Journal, and we presume no two papers could
be selected from the whole South American
list, having a greater hold upon the confidence
of the late party. The Whig in this article
starts oat with the declaration :—
That Fremont’s election would have resulted in
better things for the South than Buchanan's has
done, or is likely to do, we have not the Siiadow of
a doubt.”
Aud then winds up its bill of indictment
against Mr. Buchanan, as follows :
“The South has beeu swiudied out of Kansas by
the present Administration, iu the open face of day.
and tbe Southern supporters of it have been its most
active aiders and abettors iu the unholy work.”
Here, then, we have these busy reorganizers
and recoustructors, North and South, and
men, too, who have heretofore acted together
for years, first in the Whig, and then in the
Know-nothing Administration, directly at log
gerheads in the complaints they prefer and the
grievances to be remedied by the proposed re
construction. The one part charge that Mr.
Buchanan has surrendered Kansas and the
National Government, absolutely and uncon
ditionally into the hands of the slave power,
and the other allege that he has cheated Ihe
South out of Kansas and acted so falsely to the
slave power that an abolitionist would have
done better! The “reconstruction” is there
fore felo de se in its very first enunciation of
fact and purpose. That “Phoenix” flying at
such cross purposes, will never “rise” above
the barn-yard enclosure.
How can the candid reader—bow can any
man willing to leave his mind open to the sun
light of a just idea, fail to see in this and all
the contradictory clamor against the adminis
tration, the strongest evidence that it is doing
right—acting fairly, patriotically, judiciously!
The Southern Con V c WI
This body adjourned on Friday j ‘
n session of live days, in w*iii-h •„ j ”!* f ’ ’ :t '“
thj meagre report's we s, !c , alriJo'f'T U
topic of debate was certain mola,* ".
vor of re-opening the slave trad* J- , n ! ‘-
finally laid on the table and ordern"'
printed. In this discussion thep r j.. t,J
s q-, of
eve were; L. W. Sprat!, E
ami Hon. Win. L. Yai
■ and Roger A d
Wni. B. Preston and Robert ft o'* r J°r,
■ 1 ancey, of Alaba- rl ? to, >
vor of the resolutions, and Rogers'
Robert G q ",
ginia: George E. Hunter, Esc,! ‘
and Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of A1 i, ^
opposition to the resolutions. \YhT ^^ **
gratified to see that this project met*
great support, wc are disappointed “ 3
Convention did not rather devote it th(
friendly, free and informal inteichJL, to *
timent upon the matter c f South a * •
duty and policy in vindication ot ?
against its Northern enemies. j t • 5*^
to discover how the question of n ' 3 . Eo! ‘
slave trade came properly before^T-o'’ 6
tion in any capacity. As a
whom did it represent in theb Usin
a solitary meeting of the people-,,,,?' Xo!
any Legislature can be claimed in
the matter. No body has proposed tf
certain newspaper editors. If j t -v e,ce ? t
right, as a primary body, to dbcua?,* 11 '
orate the measure, on all hands it Wls 77 ■
to be impracticable except uiMn!, ,v
cf the Union. The first thing i non £jj«
mission, then, was the preliminary,
olution. ^Pofdu.
The pertinacity with which this < i
pressed in the absence of the first eyi/' 11 ^
popular sympathy with it in the Souil T**
deed a marvel, unless it finds an etni^
in a willingness on the part of some t!!?
Northern fanaticism to even shar ^
and more relentless endeaver for thf
of precipitating the result of dia^atk??,
this be not the object, we see no other tu '
pears comprehensible. W ^
There was some able sifting 0 fth- lct
in all its attitudes. The Editor of the W
Mr. Pryor, made a pithy speech upon it 2
took the right view of it as an «onomJ
ject, the practical results of which would £
alize the institution as it now
o , “Sts in d,
bouth—cheapen cotton and sugar to the has
of our enemies—with no f MM|
Banks In flic olden time.
Anti-Bank feeling has lmrdly made much pro
gress in the last half century, to judge from the
lollotviug
“John Adams, In a letter dated Quincy, 10th
February, 1809, says;
‘Our medium is depreciated by the multitude of
swindling banks, which have emitod bank bills to
The American Tract Society
Contrary to all our expectations Cheever,
Beecher & Co., were floored last week in tlieir
effort to abolitionizc the American Tract So
ciety by a largo majorty. After a rousing
debate in which no little sarcasm and temper
found vent, the old Executive Committee were
sustained, and the Horublowers, Beechers,
Tyngs, Bacons, Clicevers, Tappans aud all
the other apostles of negrophily big and little,
driven from the field. This is astonishing.—
Dr. Bethuue was the Ajax of the conserva
tives, aud acewered all the abolitionists on the
piercing, sharp and glittering shaft of his rid
icule.
Terrible Tornados in Hie West.
St. Louis, May 15.—A violent tornado 0C‘
- , ,| currcd on Wednesday last. It blew the train
an immense amount beyond the deposits of gold off the Chicago & Alton road, seriously inju-
mill RllVPr in tlioir vnnltc hv whWMi tliftnna tnn I ° * - / »
and silver in their vaults, by which mean* the
price of labor and land and merchandize and pro
duce is doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in many
red many persons in the town of Lexington,
Ill., and prostrated half the houses in several
instances. Every (Mar ofa bank bill that bis- neighboring towns, killing a number of per-
sued beyond the quantity of gold and silver in the J
vaults represents nothing, and is therefore a cheat j
upon somebody.’
In another letter to Dr. Rush, dated ”Sth A.ug.
1811, Mr. Adams says:
‘My opinion is that a circulating medium of gold
and silver only ought to be introduced and estab
lished ; that a national bank of deposit only, with
a branch in each State, should be allowed; that
every bank in the Union ought to be annihilated,
and every bank of discount pioliibited to all eter
nity. Not one farthing of profit should ever be al
lowed on any money deposited in the banks.”’
Tm: editor of the Salem, Ala., Daily Re
porter lias been favored with one half of an
oyster shell, twenty-seven inches in length,
seventeen inches broad and weighing seventy-
six pounds. Rather fishy !
Another tornado occurred on Friday, be
tween Bloomington and Springfield, by which
many houses were demolished.
Latest from the Utah Army——The
MORMONS DESERTING SALT LAKE.
St. Louis, May 15.—Intelligence from Camp
Scott to the 10th of April ha^ reached Leaven
worth. The Mormons were leaving Salt Lake
City, and Gov. Gumming bad gone there, by
instructions from the Government.
Result of Gen. Twiggs’ Trial.—
Dispatches from Newport state that tlie court
martial found Gen. Twiggs guilty, but the
sentence had been remitted, aud tha General
has been restored to his command in Tcixas.
Dreadful Conditou of the Whites in
SAN DOMINGO.
Dispatches have been received from our com-
mericial agent at San Domingo, which will,
undoubtedly, confirm all that we have stated
hertofore of the critical condition of Americans
and of the whites as a race iu that doomed
islaud.
The negro leader. Baez, is shut up in the
walled city of San Domingo, where he vents
his ferocity on the white citizens, whom he
retains amid the horrors of siege and famine,
some sort, as hostages for his own final es
cape.
Mr. Elliott, the American consul, and his
lady, Dona Merced de la Roche, (daughter
one the noblest old white families of the is
land,) are daily subjected to base and studied
insults.
The United States flag has been repeatedly
dragged through the streets and trampled up-
by negro mobs ; the Consul’s lady hissed
in the streets, and followed home from
church with language too vile to be repeated;
American seamen and vessels have been ille
gally sacrificed; and, in brief, every form of
outrage that negro spile could invent has been
heaped upon our citizens, for the single crime
of being white men and Americans, and not a
ship of war shows itself for their relief.
The deplorable confession of weakness made
by our Government in 1854, when it suffered tlie
French and British to cancel a made treaty,
and prohibit diplomatic relations by tlie white
party in Domingo, is now bearing its fruits.
The inaction of this Government has sealed,
to a bloody end, the only while spot in the
West Indies which is covered by a free and
American flag. This Government has been
notified that the negroes of Hayti are levying
en masse for the invasion of the Dominican Re
public, and that they proclaim, in every vil
lage, “Death to the whites” and “Down with
Americans."
If the Government would send down one of
our ornamental frigates to demand satisfaction
of Soloucjuc for the American merchantmen
the Haytien cruisers have robbed on the Mona
passage, it would give him something better to
think of than exterminating the whites. These
negro savages have plundered our ships and
citizens to the tunc of three hundred thousand
dollars, for which they have not been brought
to account in any shape; and now they threat
en to invade the Domican Republic, aud mur
der or drive out all the whites except those
who are the subject of the European powers
friendly to Hayti—[Slates.
The Mt. Vernon Sale.—TiieCharlottesviila Ad
vocate expresses its regret for a paragraph imputing
extortion to Mr. Washington, owner of AIL Vernon,
in his sale to the ladios, and says:
We arc glad to learn, and now make the state
ment as the only reparation we have in oar power to
make to Col. Washington, that he is a gentleman of
unblemished diameter, whose high-toned feelings
would scorn to toko advantage of his position to im
pose extortionate charges upon any man, much less
upon such a society as that comprising the Alt. Ver
non Association. We are told upon undoubted au
thority, that he was some time ago offered 8300,000
for his estate, aud that, iu his pecuniary embarrass
ments, and with a large and dependent family, he
could not, injustice to himself and family, have ta
ken less tliau he did from the Mt. Vernon Associa
tion, which was less, by 9100,000 than his offer from
a northern company. In justice to ourselves and to
Co). Washington, we make the above statement, ho
ping that it may reach each reader of tho Advocate
who has perused our urticle in the last week’s pa
per.”
y A Kentucky preacher, named Ividwell
was about to discourse to a large audience in
a wild part of Illinois, and announced for his
text, “In my Father’s are many mansions.”
He had read the words, when an old man look
ed up ami said: “I tell j’ou folks that is a lie!
I know his father well. lie lives about fifteen
miles from Lexington, in Kentucky, in an old
cabin, aud thar ain’t but one room iu the house."
That sermon was lost to the audience and its
heirs forever.—A burst of laughter broke loose
on that prairie so startling and vehement, that
the people in the adjoining State of Missouri
supposed they were visited by au earthquake,
and the papers published it accordingly. They
had no idea of the power of the human voice
to make the earth tremble. The meeting ad
journed incontincutly.
Youn house is on fire,” said u stranger, rushing
into the parlor of a sober citizen.“Well, sir,'
was the answer of tlie latter,“to what cause am
I indebted for the extraordinary interest which
you take in the affairs of my boose!"
Doubling thb Cape ?—“Jim did you ever
double the Cape of Good Hope ?” “i expect 1
have.'“When !" “Last night, when l put my
arm around the cape that belongs to the dress
of the young lady that I have good hopes ot
making Mrs. Dusenbury.”
more speedy exhaustion of Southern \uh
without any ratable increase in the profits d
their culture. We find in the limes & Set
tinel of Saturday a note from one of the Gw-
gia delegates, which, to our mind, eipresji!
correct view of the matter:
MoNTGOMiRy. Ala., Mai li m,
Mr. Editor—Dear Sir: By common —1-. .
tho request of Mr. Spratt of South Csrolku, whk.
traduced the Slave lYsde project in the
Commercial Convention, the reports of the Cor,--
tee were to-day laid upon the table, andor-krrtu
to be printed. Thu motion, it is undent 4 "
poses of thesubject during the present Conv M i 3 7
aud it is to be hoped that before any simiUr -
vention be again held, the people of the S, - ,
so express themselves, that this unprc£t»hl e f
mischievous subject, will not hereafter find b- i
ers among men who desire either the velfire'etej
South, or the quietand value of the Union. Soai
believes for a moment that a repeal of the*
trade laws will ever be made, and its sdvocicr
nothing more nor less than an advoctry for
un ion per te,’ ’—or at least no sane maacxa 'ts '.j
to accomplish such a thing without dhauoa. it
tho other hand, it is hardly to be supposed r
evenif those laws could be repealed, thatSoaks
men and Southern slave holders can desire tin:
be repealed, that Yankee slave traders mijhl lr-
untntored savages and barbarians into the So ohm
States to compete with, and bring down tt orx-t7
price of our own slaves to one-fourth or ow-in
their present value—to make the products c! it
South valueless by over production, and finllri,
make slavery a burthen rather than a bitasogba
as its present condition really is. No compnisk
of political influence can, or ever would, ;tp>r u,
South for snch a stroke on her prosperity ud id
beiug. Apart then, from its Disunion tended
and l look upon it as only to add fuel to the doort
ant and disunion spirit of the day—u t
in, i), and having no care for the Union, urtiii
affects the South and her interests, I think if i.
South could accomplish what the inlhmofL-
resolutions desire, it would not be long before a
people of the South wonld curse the d»y that anj s
her sons ever thought of such an evil for her.
A Georgia Dtutia
Southern Commercial Convention.
Montgomery, May loth, lit-.
The Southern Commercial Convention «ssaW
to-day. Hon. W. L- Yancey, on the put of I*-
gomery, welcomed the delegates in a short but.
quent speech. He was made temporary ciuimn
until a permanent organization could be effnV-
The following States were represented in the l-:•
vention; to wit: Virginia, North Carofim, N-d
Carolina, Georgia, Alaoama, Tennessee, IL.-iaiif 1
Louisiana, Florida, Texas and Delaware. A te
mittee of two from each State were appointed!-’ se
lect permanent officers; I’resident AndrewP*
hounof S. C„ (son of J. C. Calhoun, |—Vke-fc-
deuts:
Hon. Alark A. Cooper of Gs.
“ Geo. P. Elliott of S. C.
“ Geo. W. Sanitle of Va.
“ Jesse H. Lindsay of N.C.
“ C.T. Pollard of Ala.
“ Thomas Coopwcn of Miss.
“ Maunsel White of La.
“ Paul McCormick of Fla , I
D. C. Page of Ala., chief Secretary—Dr- Iff I
Blackburn of Geo., Assistant Secretiry, witn j
from each of the other States. . I
The President was escorted to the chsir hr Si^ I
Jackson of Ala., P. H. Colquitt, of Ga., ' I
Pryor, of Va. Upon taking his seat, J
acknowledged the honor in a few eloquent R* 1 -
After which the Convention adjourned ttatu • * ‘
P ’ ■ to
Montgomery, Ala., May 11.—'The
Tlie convention met this morning al 9 o
after a prayer, the minutes of yesterday were -
sidered. The Delegates this morning are
and amonw them are someot re
in number, and among them are
eloqueut men in the South. . ,r'.
A report and resolutions for the revivals •
ri -an Slave trade, were submitted by L- ’ • - r
Esq., of Charleston.
The Hon. Edmnnd Ruffin, of ''‘•’“•"jr™!,-.
tions recommending the South to Woptj
ing discriminations .agaimst the Noun
taxes and licences. The resolutions ,rer ? r fj r
Gen. Wm. Walker, of Nicaragua and »'■
Mitchell, editor of the Southern b*tta<a. p
ville, Tennessee, were tendered sealsmt
Mr. Roger A. Pryor, of Va., (editor of tie ,
mond South) spoke very lengthily
Spratt’s resolution for re-opening tuesre ^
CoL Yancey, ot Montgomery will foUo h ,’
topic is one expected to bring out some a®> e i ^ ]
Ir. Pryor’s speech lasted fully » W
s received withmnchattention, to*-
replying to it very eloquently, thecon
journed to tho afternoon, when Cot- HP® 1 jjr.l&M
and spoke for two hours on slavery top
fin, of Va., and Mr. Gaskin made sh ^L.-Sfluttf I
Mr. Gaskiu declared it to be his cf 0 "”Xl'ii#
re-opening of the slave trade w' 0 . .
M r. It. D. Scott made a resolution 1^7 ,,
steamer* to Europe with a disenmma ^ ^ ^ I
Europe from the South. KesoluLda* yi-rU
Col. Nelson Tift, of Albany, Ga, ^
South Carolina, and from others, which are
to various committees • miaine*'* 1 *
The Convention then adjourned till
to-morrow. .
Montgomery, May 12 —The Conven
o’clock, aud opened with prayer.
Several resolutions introduced and re
Business Committee. , n .daT
The principal nutter of interest to jittlsF
speech ot it. G. Scott, ot Alabaais,
Hey of agitating the subject of re- P
trade. — er « in att* 0 "*"
Nearly three thousand persons
to-day, some hundreds of whom w a
Montgomery, May
session lust night until1* cjo ' _
delivered by Messrs. Hilliard.
of Alabama, and Hunter, r
licj of re-opening the Afric*? s l‘ . f 0 Uowed t*'
This morning Preston, of '
position to tho slave trade, and ■ . j4 0 odtf-‘
in favor of tlie measure.
spratt, of South Carolina, »m l davatrt^^&i
in favor of reopening thoAfncan ^pjJ^
Thera appears to be a <* i
the Convention in favor ot a on ,
Union. —
] lint:" the Rest.”—A 1' : ''.
n^e was asked who made him. : :
fend leveled afoot above the floor
replied—“God made me a htttc . |
and I grew the rest.''
“My German friend, how lout. j C , s
married?” “Vel.disating I W™,,,-:
to talk abouts, hut ven I dus,n -
about so long as it never vas.