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of Hon. I>;i\iit
PORTLAND, MAINE.
The Hon Jefferson Davis having been serenaded
by the citizens of Portland, .Maine, acknowledged
tho compliment in the following terms:
Filiowcountrymew : Accept my sincere thanks
forthU mimifesUtion of your kindness. Vanity does
not lead me *o far to misconstrue your »* **.
appropriate tho demonstration to myself; out it is
not less gratifying tome to be made tbemedium
through which Maine tenders n ® ! ex P re “*““‘Tft
Card to her aieter, Mississippi-
foiling of profound gratification that I wibiess this
indication of that national sentiment and fraternity
whioh made us. and which alone can keep us one
people. At a period but as yesterday when compar
ed with tho life of nations,these Sta'es were separate,
and in some respects opposing colonies; their only
relation to each other was that of*<common;allegi
ance to the government of Great Britain. So separ
ate. indod almost hostile, was their attitude, that
when General Stark, of Bennington wernory, was
captured by savages on the head waters of the Ken-
neoec, he was subsequently taken by them to Alba
ny, whoro they wcut to sell furs, and again lead
away a captive, without interference on the part o'
J*p'edge^im in that "perilous hour to stand by 7°“*
then leave to capitalists, with judgment fbarpenad j
by interest, the selection of the route* ftnd the 111 Piffiv
cuhie3 will diminish as did those which you over m _
MACON, GKA..
Senator Davis’ Portland Specclt— !
une when you connected your harbor" with £ | Tuesday Morning, Ang. 17, 1858.
C'\nA(lisn Drovinc6j It would be to tresspnss oil I ■ ■ 1 —. . .
your kindness,‘aud io “elate the proprieties of the To corrodent-The communication ot
occasion were I to detain the vns concetsour which Delegate,” being received only three or four work-
stands before rao by entering on the discussion of . ij 0U ra before we go to press, we regret that it
tSS^^lXSiS^SSSSS'iS I «“"»> W >“ «“■ “"I". rth
suggest. I came to your city in quest of health and 1 0 B, er engagements already in hand. It shall be
repose. From the moment I entered it yon b*^ 1 - i p U yi 3 | )c ^ naxt week. A few poetical and other
showered upon me kindness and hospitality. TJ“‘'i-, : 1 . ., . .
my experience lias tauglit me to anticipa<« K ood | conmbulions arc under consideration for our next,
rather than evil from my fellow-men, it h»“ »ot pre- Q orres p 0n( j en t s should send in their favors as ear-
rte?e 6 beei^bestowcd. fr in the publication ,veek as practicable, as news
asked in relation to my coming h»re. whether i naa mat t cri Editorial and advertisements press
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distrustingnor of which you have Sontii-Wcsteru Rail Road.
‘’f f «‘ iSfection°and t solicimde-my’ wife The Annual meeting- of the Stockholders of
and mvchUdrvo i they have ahared with me your this Road was held in Macon last Thursday
\ 0, om- l! ^tnre d rime al when e x^m SiSgled with' the From copies iu slips of the Reports of theOf-
and the arm of my infant, son has been nerved fj cers we gather the facts and figures snb-
au > .j r i ...-.A ,l... r\f w.i* -hniilil burst
1 when
ing colony to demand or obtain his release.
aswe now are. were a citizen of tho United «««**
an act or hostility to our country, impmimed °r warn
in any quarter of the world, whether *’r fAiion"
tho people of each and every »»<«««rtf» Wm
with one heart and with one hnm a broSS’s
redress; and wo be to bim »g*m st i th/. rrnit
blood cried to us from thegro^d! Suchi. theftxdt
,.f the wisdom and the with ^WchourfatbOT
bound contending colonies into confederation, and
blended different habits and rival interests into a
hamonlous whole, so that, shoulder to shoulder,
they entered on the trial of the revolution, and step
whh step tred its thorny path, until they reached
the height of national independence and founded the
constitutional representative liberty, which is our
birth right. When tho mother country entered up
on her career of oppression, in disregard of c.iartcr-
»>d and constitutional, rights, our forefathers did not
biop to measure the exact weight of the burden, or
to ask whether the pressure bore most upon this col
ony or upon that, but saw in it the infraction of a
great principle—the denial of a common right, in de
fend* of which they made common cause-Massa-
chusetts, Virginia aud South Carolina vieiug with
each other as to who should be foremost in the strug
gle, where the penalty of failure would be a dishon
orable grave. Tempered by the trials and saenn-
oea of the revolution, dignified by its noble purposes,
elevated by itsbrilliant triumphs, endeared to each
ether by its glorious memories, they abandoned tbe
eonlederacy.net to fly apart when llie outward pres
sure of hostile fleets and armies were removee, but
to draw closer their embrace in the formation of a
morn perfect union. By such men, tthua trained and
enabled, our constitution was tormed. It stands a
monument of principle, of forecast, aud, above all.of
that liberality which made each willing to sacrifice
local interest, individual prejudice or temporary
good to llie general welfare, and the perpetuity of
the republican institutions which they had passed
through lire and blood to secure. The grants were as
broad as were necessary for the functions of tho gen
eral agent and the mutual concessions were twice
plest—blessing both him who gave and hint who re
ceived.—Whatever was necessary for domestic gov
ernment. requisite in the social organization of each
community, was retained by the .-state and the peo
ple thereof; and these it was made the duty of all to
defend and maiutain. Such, in very general terms,
isths rich political legacy our fathers bequeathed to
us. Shull we preserve and transmit it to posterity!
Tea, yes, the heart responds; and the judgmeut an
swer*. tho task is easily performed ' It but requires
that each should attend to that which most concerns
him, and on which alonehejhas rightful powerto de
cide and to act; that each should adhere to the
terms of a written compact, and that all should co
operate f-r that which interest, duty and honor do
maud. For the general affairs of our country, both
foreign aud domestic, we have a national Executive
and a national legislature. Representatives and sen
ators are chooser! by districts and by States, but
their acts affect the whole country, and their obliga
tions are' he whole people. He who, holding
either seat, would confine Ins investigations to the
mere interests of his immediate constituents, would
be derelict to his plain duty ; and he who would leg
islate iu hostility to any section would be morally
unfit for the station, aud surely an unsafe depository,
if net a treacherous guardian, of the inheritance with
which wo are blessed. No one, more than myself,
recognises the binding force of the allegiance which
the citizen owes to the State of his citizenship ; but
that State being a party to our compact, a member
of our Union, fealtv to the federal constitution is not
in opposition to, but flows from the allegiance due to
one of the United States. Washington was not less a
Virginian when bo commanded at Boston; nor did
Gates or Greeuu weakeu the bonds which bound
them to their several States by tbeir campaigns in
the South. In proportion as a citizen loves his own
State will he strive to honor by preserving her name
and her fame free from the tarnish of haviugfailed to
observe her obligations, and to fulfill her duties to
her sUter States. Each page of our history is illus
trated by tbe names and tbe deeds of those who have
well understood and discharged the obligation. Have
we so degenerated that We can no longer emulate
their virtues ? Have the purposes for which our
Union was formed lost their value 1 Has patriotism
ceased to be a virtue, and is narrow sectionalism no
longer to be counted a crime / Shall the North not
rejedee that the piogress of agriculture-in the South
has given to her great staple the controlling infiuence
of tbe commerce of the world, and put umnufactue-
ing nations under liqud to keen the jieac$ with the
United Ststes ? Shall the South not exult in the fact
that the industry and perservering intelligence of tho
North has placed her mechanical skill in the front
rank of tbe civilized world—that our mother coun
try, whose haughty minister, some eighty-odd years
ago. declared that’not a hob nail should be made in
the colonies, which are now the United States, was
brought some four years ago to recognize oar pre
eminence by sending a commission to examine our
workAr|>s, and ouf machinery, to perfect their own
manntsoTure of the arms requisite for their defence 1
Do not our whole people, interior and seaboard,
North.JSouth, East and West, alike feel proud of the
hardihood, the enterprise, the skill, and the courage
of the Yankee sailor, who has borne our flag as the
ocean bears Us foam, and caused the name and tbe
character of tbe United States to be known aud re
spected wherever there is wealth enough too woo
commerce, and intelligence enough to honor merit 1
So long ms we preserve aed appreciate the achieve
ments of Jefferson and Adams, of Franklin and Mad-
ison, of Uamilton, of Hancock and of Rutledge, men
who labored forlhe whole country and lived forman-
kind, we cannot sink to the petty strife which would
sap the foundations and destroy tbe political fabric
our fathers erected and bequeathed as an inheritance
to their posterity forever. Since the formation of tbe
constitution, a vast extension of territory, and the
varied relations arising therefrom, have presented
problems which could not have been foreseen.—It is
a just cause for admiration, oven wonder, that the
provisions of the fundamental law should have been
found so fully adequate to all the wants of govern
ment, new in its organization, and new in many of
the principles on which it was founded. Whatever
fears may nave onreexisted as to tbe consequence of
territorial expansion must give way before the evi
dence which tbe past affords. The general govera-
ment, strictly confined to its delegated functions,and
the Staten left in the undisturbed exercise of all else,
we have I theory and practice which fits onr gov
ernment fur immeasurable domain, aud might, under
a millennium of natious. embrace mankind.
From the slope of the Atlantic, oar population
with ceaseless tide, has poured into tho wide and
fertile valley of the Mississippi. Its eddying whirl
has passed to the coast of tho Pacific. From the
West and the East the tides are rushing towards
each other, and the mind it carried to the day when
all the cultivable land will be inhabited, and the
American people will sigh for more wilderness to
conquer. But there is here a politico-physical prob
lem presented fur onr solution. Were it purely
physics), your past triumphs would leave but little
doubt of your capacity to solve it. A community
which, when less than 2d thousand, conceived the
grand projeoi of crossing the White mountains, and
unaided save by thestimuius which jeers and proph
esies of fail are gave, successfully executed the her
culean woik, might well be impatient, if it were
suggested that a physical problem was before us too
difficult for their mastery. The history ol man teach
es that high mountains and wide deserts have resis
ted the permanent extension of empire, and havo
formed the immutable boundaries*of States. From
time to time under some able leader, have the hordes
of the upper plains ot Asia swept over the adjacent
country, and rolled their conquering columns over
Houlhorn Europe. Yet, after the lapse of a few gen-
orations, the physical law to which 1 have referred
has asserted its supremacy, aud the boundaries of
those States differ little now from those which ob
tained three thousand years ago. Koine flew her
conquering eagles over the tlieu known world, and
has now subsided Into tho little territory on which
her great city was originally built. The Alps aud
tlie Pyrenees have been unable to restrain imperi
al France; but her expansion was a feverish action;
her advance and her retreat were tracked with
blood, and ihose mountain ridges are the re-estab
lished limit,, of hor empire. trhall the Rocky Moun
tains prove a dividing barrier to us J Were ours a
central consolidated government, instead of a nn
side in the defence of your hearth stones, and in main
taining the honor of a flag whose constellation, though
torn and smoked in many a battle by sea and land,
has never been stained with dishonor, and will, I
trust, forever fly as free as the breezo which unfolds
it. A stranger to yon, tbe salubrity of vour loca
tion and the beauty of its scenery were not wholly
unknown to me, nor were there wanting associations
which busy memory connected witli your people.
You will pardon me for alluding to one whoso ge
nius shod a lustre upon all it touched, and whose
qualities gathered about him hosts of friends wher
ever he was known. Prentiss, a native of Portland,
lived from youth to middle age in the county of my
residence, and the inquiries which have been made
show me that the youth excited the iuterest which
the greatness of the man justified, and that his mem
ory thus remains a link to connect your home with
mine. A cursory view, when passing through your
town on former occasions, had impressed mo with
the great advantages of your harbor, its easy en
trance, its depth and its extensive accommodations
for shipping. But its advantages aud its facilities,
as they have been developed by closer inspection,
have grown upon me until I realixo that _ it is no
boast, but the language of sober truth, which in the
present state cif commerce pronounces them une
qualled in any harbor of our country. And surely
no place could be more inviting to an invalid who
sought a refuge from the heat of a Southern Summer.
Here waving elms offer bim shaded walks, and mag
nificent residences surrounded by flowers fill the
mind with ideas of comfort and of rest. If, weary
of constant contact with feJIow-men, he seeks a deep
er seclusion, there in the background of this grand
amphitheatre lie tbe eternal mountains, frowning
witli brow of rock and cap of snow upon tho smil
ing fields beneath, and there in its recesses may he
found as much of wilderness, and as much ot soli
tude as the pilgrim weary of the cares of life can
desire. If he tnrn to the front, your capacious har
bor, studded with green islands of ever-varying light
and shade, and enlivened by all the stirring eviden
ces of commercial activity, offer him the mingled
c-harms of busy life and nature's calm repose. A
few miles further, and he may sit upon the quiet
shore' to listen to the murmuring wave until the
troubled spirit sinks to rest; and in the little sail
that vanishes on the illimitable sea we may find the
type of the voyage which he is so soon totake, when
liis ephemeral existence closed, he embarks for that
better state which lies beyond the grave. Richly
endowed as you are by nature in all which contri
butes to pleasure and to usefulness, the stranger can
not pass without paying a tribute to tbe much which
your energy has achieved for yourselves. Where
else will one find a more happy union of magnifi
cence and comfort—where better arrangements to
facilitate commerce ? Where so much industry,
with so little noise and bustle T \V here, in a phrase
ao much effected in proportion to tho means em
ployed! We hear tue puff of tbe engine, llie roll
of tbe wheel, -tb* ring of the axe and the saw, but
llie stormy, passionate exclamations ■ w> often min
gled with the sounds are nowhere beard. Yet nei
ther those nor other things which I have mentioned,
attractive though they bo, have been to mo the
chief charm which i have found among you. For
above all these I place the gentle kiudtiess, the cor
dial welcome, the hearty grasp, which made me feel
truly and at once, though wandering far, that I was
still at home. My friends, I thank you for this ad
ditional manifestation ot your good will.
More Trouble for the Democracy—
MR. STEPHENS OUT FOR DOUGLAS!
The Cincinnati Commercial, alluding to
the recent visit of Mr Stephens to that city,
says:
“Hon. Alexander II. Stephens, of Georgia,
did not hesitate to declare, when in this city the
other day, tn route to the Northwest, that he
was in favor of the re-election to the Senate of
Judge Douglas, and he regarded the war by the
President upon the anti-Lecompton men of Illi
nois as wickedly foolish."
Verily, there is to be no end to tho “suffer-
ins” of tbe southern Democracy. Douglas turn
ed traitor ,” Wise ditto, Jeff. Davis throwing
up his hat for the Union, were all terrible cal
amities, but now, sad to relatetheir great
ieaaer m tbe House. Mr. Stephens, has gone
over to Douglas !—Sav. Republican.
A New Plait of Drying Peaches.
Messrs Editors : As the furze which covers
the peach is very objectionable in diying them
with it on, and as pealing them for drying is a
tedious process, and causes the loss of much of
the sweetest and best of tbe fruit, a plan which
will obviate both of these objections and give
us the dried fruit as good as if peeled, and in
fact even better, is a desideratum, the supply
ing of which would be very acceptable to all
who are in the habit of drying this excellent
and desirable fruit for table use. A lady
friend of the writer has found it out and com
municated it to him and he will here describe
it.
Make a tolerable strong ley with wood ashes
by boiling them in water—letting it stand, af
ter being boiled sufficiently, until the ashes
settle to the bottom, when pour offlthe ley.
Then put the peaches to be dried in the, warm
but not hot enough to cook them any; and
ruh them in it a whila. Thon tnko them out
and wash them in clear cold water. This pro
cess will take all the furze entirely off, and
leaves them as slick and smooth os nectarines,
with nothing but a thin skin on them. Then
cut off and dry as usual.—Peaches dried in this
way will be found to be very sweet, and Lave
all the advantages of not losing nny by the us
ual process of peeling—as the sweetest part of
the fruit is generally that next the peeling.
We have eaten pastry made from such peach
es and can speak from experience.—J. R. //.,
of Henry County, Tenn., in Louisville Journal.
Freight Earnings of the Road fur the year en
ding 31st July, 1858, were ...223,735.00
Total Earnings from Passengers —152,783.45
do do Mails and Miscellaneous
sources - 15,021.71
Total Earnings 8391,540.16
Total Current Expenditures 182,762.85
Balance of Net Earnings - 8208,777 31
Permanent Expenditures on track, bridges,
motive power, rolling stock, tools, &c., have
been made during the year to the amount of
44,304.25. The gross earnings of the Road
per mile daring the year, were -63,235.24.—
Net do. 1,725.50. Current expenses per mile,
1,510.44.• Gross Earnings per mile run by
Engines, §1,91.4 mills; net earnings do. §1,-
02.1 mill. Cost of fuel per mile for the Loco
motives 2 3-10 cents—which is extraordinary.
The increase in freight from the previous year
was ouly §26,320.24—a result attributable to
short crops, as the falliug off in Cotton alone
amounted to 8,751 bales. The total number
of Passeugers carried on the Rond, was 00,547
an average of 248 per day—aud an excess
of eight per day over the passenger carriage
of last year.
Among the items of Freight, on the Road,
arc 15,161 Bales Cotton; 2,349.221 pounds
Flour; 38,516 bushels Corn; 2,446.379 pounds
Bacon; 131,692 pounds of Wool; 2,037.937
feet of Lumber; 3,313 cords of Wood. The
number of miles iu actual use on the Road,
including the Cuthborl-extension, now open to
Dawson, is 142. The location of the line to
Eufaula is already completed, and the Engin
eers ave now engaged upon the line to Fort
Gaines. The latter diverges from the Eufau
la line a little short of two miles West of Cutli-
bert. Contracts for the grading, clearing
and grubbing of the entire line to Eufaula
were made in May last, and for the entire Fort
Gaines line in June. The Extension will be
opchcd as far as Cuthbert about the 1st of July
uext. The force employed in the construc
tion under 'the vinous cbiitracts'iiiiinEcrs , 6G7
hands, ail black, except a few workmen em
ployed on the masonry. The finished portion
of the whole Road has been completed at a
cost (including every article of equipment for
operation,) of $2,269,323.20, or an average of,
§16,680.20 per mile. It will be seen, thcrc-
Frsiucls P. Blair Bcatent—The
TRAITOR’S DOOM—THE CATHOLIC IRISH
TIIE EXECUTIONERS.
It is with t-nccre pleasure that we announce to
POSSIBILITY 0!' DISUNION.
We publish this speech to-day, thinking it
will interest our r•• tilers in connection with
tbe recent gos-ip about and denunciation of j our readers, this week, the defeat of Francis P.
this gentleman. Tho speech itself, consider- j Btair » t,lc Republican candidate for Congress in
ed as a literary production, is elegant—class- j ^ Louis - , :'
ical-in tbe style, language and spirit of the I Mr ' B , lair “ a 0 lar f °! tU ^, “ f
refined gentleman ; and there is nothing in it | P? r£0nal ***&*'doubt the^ablest
which would probably have excited remark on
News Summary.
Arrival of the Niagara.
n ship XU(. ;t r.'i arrived at
with Liverpool accounts to
tho score of what might be styled ultra-union
ism, if it had not been preceded by a speech
delivered on ship-board, couched in stronger
language and applying censorious terms to
politicians iu the South, who, unlike Mr. Da
vis, as he then stood, supposed that there was
a possibility or probability of national disrup
tion. There is, perhaps, nothing in the Port
land Speech, which might not becomingly is
sue from the fullness of a Southern heart,
moved by an unexpected cordiality of recep
tion, or emanate from a glow of patriotic feel
ing in which tbe wish stood to some extent fath
er to the thought. In any event, the unrival
led hold of Senator Davis upon the affections
of the people of Mississippi, and his uncommon
popularity in that State, give the speech a re
markable degree of political significance, and
connected with the recent powerful bints from
South Carolina, in speeches of Senator Ham
mond, Mr. Keitt, Mr. Orr, and others, seem
to indicate a change in the programme of the
most distinguished leaders of the Southern
Rights party, in which, to borrow the intima
tions from Gov. Hammond, the watchword
shall be a conquest in the Union rather than
out of it.
We agree with a programme of operations
which shall exhaust every expedient and rem
edy suggested by r an expansive patriotism be
fore we resort to disunion. Dissolution is the
grave of self-government. It will demonstrate
the impracticability of popular self-govern
ment upon any scale commensurate with the
great monarchies and absoluteisms of the old
world and able to’ protect itself against them
and enforce their respect. After that catas
trophe, governments must exist “ by Divine
right,” as claimed by Kings, or by' their per
mission and under their protection. The Peo
ple, as the rightful source of political power,
may wield it under sufferance, over a few com
paratively insignificant States, but the grand
spectacle now be presented in the world of a
popular government successfully rivalling, and
imminently threatening to distance the giant
monarchies of Europe in all the attributes and
achievements of incntnl and moral power aud
material wealth, grandeur and magnificence,
will be lost forever; for it is nn impossible
supposition that the experiment of popular self-
government can ever be repeated upon more
favorable conditions than those which atten
ded the organization and establishment of the
United States .of NorUi America. No, tlic
grave of the Union is bound to he the grave
of all rational and intelligent hope for a popu
lar free government which shall contest the
palur of intellectual and material power with
monarchy aud autocracy; and when politi
cians propose to substitute to the dismembered
fore, that the nett earnings of the past year j fragments of the Confederacy, the patronage
Tlic North Carolina Election
The Wilmington Journal of the 13th has
the following:
It is now a week since the election took place
in this State, and we are yet without the full
returns, there being still all of twenty coun
ties—not exactly to hear from—but to get the
full vote of.
As we have elsewhere stated, the election
for Congress in the Mountain District, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Mr. Clingman, consequent upon his appoint
ment to the Senate, has resulted disastrously
to Mr. Avery, tbe Democratic candidate, who
has been badly beaten by Vance Know Noth
ing. This fact, first ascertained, led first as
certained, led to the belief that there was also
a large*Democratic loss on the Governor’s and
Legislative vote in the counties of the Moun
tain District.—This is only true in the coun
ties of Burke, Rutherford and Caldwell. Over
the Ridge the reverse is true. In Buncombe,
Ellis gains 116 votes over Bragg’s majority,
and the Democratic candidates for the Legisla
ture do oven better. Upon the whole, we
think it probable that the majority for Eliia iu
the Mountains will be about the same ns that
show a clear return upon tin? investment of
about 9j percent., and this,too, under the un
favorable conditions of a year of extraordinary
pecuniary embarrassment, of short crops and
of high waters, bringing the rivers in active
freight competition with the Road. What,
then, we ask is the fair and reasonable pros
pect for this Road and its stock, with heavy
crops—prosperous business and pecuniary
times—average facilities to freight competi
tors, and every additional year penetrating
twenty to thirty miles further into the heart
of one of the best Cotton growing sections of
the United States—every mile of extension
not only paying road in itself, but largely cu
mulative to the business and profits of the
whole line 1 We say if there is one Rail way
property in the United States to compare with
it in future promise and value, the number is
very few indeed. It need not be better—it is
good enough. The management of the Road,
as we have often said, cauuot be improved up-
All its affairs and concerns arc as snug
as possible. It has no iloating debt and its
bonded debt will be provided for with the
greatest ease, by an accumulating surplus over
its regular 8 per cent, dividends. R. R. Cuv-
ler, Esq., President; Directors: Messrs.
John W. Andersou, William A. Black, Wm.
S. Holt, T. M. Furlow, Robert A. Smith. Gko.
W. Adams, Esq., General Superintendent.—
John' T. 1Joivkl’ii,lkt, Esq., Secretary aud
Treasurer. ^-1
and protection bought by Commercial treaties.
champion of the Republican enu-e in tbe Missis
sippi valley, and it is well to note some of the
causes which have brought about his defeat,
Blair is a Southerner by birth, and not many
years since was recognised as an ultra pro-slavery
man, but tho divisions of the Democratic party in
Missouri between Mr. Benton and his opponents
forced Blair to take sides.
He became the main stay and support of Mr.
Benton in all the exciting controversies and issues
of the rival factions, but was over-powered. The
Benton party lost control of the State and <3win
died into an insignificant clique who were occa
sionally used by the Know Nothings to effect the
defeat and overthrow of the Democratic party,
Blair is not a man for minorities, and we find him
four years since, elected to the Missouri Legisla
ture from St. Louis, as a i/emocrat, but on taking
his seat he becomes the prominent exponent of
the views of the Wilmot proviso men and Eman
cipationist. From this point the descent was
short and easy into the dirty pool of modern Re
publicanism. The campaign of ’5ti finds him a
candidate for Cougress against the regular nomi
nee of the Democratic party, and by playing mum
on tlic great issues then before the people, he was
elected. During the last session of Congress he
was tho recognised leader of the opposition ; no
member of the nouse of Representatives was more
violent or hostile to the interests of the South
than Francis Preston Blair—but lie has met his
doom—a righteous retribution lias overtaken him,
The indignant vengeance cf a betrayed constitu
ency was thoroughly aroused, and lie has been de
feated.
Mr. Blair may console himself in his retirement
by the hope which the New York Tribune holds
out to him, that his “present defeat is but an inci
dent iu what promises to be a long and bright
career.” But fortunately for the Union, for the
South and for Mr. Blair’s constituency, Horace
Greeley is no prophet—nor the son of a prophet,
In chronicling the result of the election, we
should not omit to mention how Blair was beaten.
The Abolition correspondent of the New York
$ribune from Missouri, attempts to parry the force
and effect of this deadly blow to the prospects of
Republicanism in the Great West, by saying that
the Irish in a body voted against Blair and for Bar
ret, tlie pro-slavery candidate. We have no doubt
that the Tribune’s man is right and tiiat the Irish
did “execute” Blair. The Irish as a body are em
inently sound on the Slavery question, and in all
the severe coutcsls at the North and West, are
found fighting shoulder to shoulder witli the
friends of tiie Union, the Constitution and the
South. AH honor then, to the Irish of St. Louis,
for their gallant aud manly aid to the pro-slavery
candidate in his hour of trial. It may be well to
mention, jus.t here, a fact which seems to lmve es
caped tiie observation of our neighbor of the Jour
nal Sc Messenger. Mr. Breckenridge, the K. N.
candidate against Barret, was also Auti-Leeompton,
and the Tribune’s correspondent says, “the distinc
tive Free State or Emancipation vote may be ac
curately arrived at by adding to tiie total result of
Mr. Blair two-thirds of the Breckenridge or Amer
ican vote, and that it is admitted that two-thirds of
the American vote is in favor of a Free State.”—
What does our neighbor think of that Picture ?
for tlic respect conceded to known and ac- , The Irish vote, sound on the slavery question, and
knowledged force, they tacitly admit that as two-thirds of the American vote in favor of a Free
a Power of the world able to protect and vin- j State. This is the way our neighbor desires to
for Bragg. If so, Ellis’ majority in the State
kn of »ov«i tign States, our fate might be learned I will be something like fifteen thousand!
from the history of other nations. Thanks to the '
wisdom and independent spirit of our forefathers,
this is not onr o.i.-o.—Each Mate having sole charge
of iu local in:. r,~t* and domestic affairs, the prob
leu which to others has been insoluble, to ns is made
easy. Rapid, safe, and easy communication between
the Atlautic and the Pacific wilt giro co-intelligence,
unity ol interest, and co-operation among all parts
ofour continent wide republic. The net-work of
railroads wiiich. binds the North and the South, the
slope of the Atlautio and the valley of the Mississip
pi together, testily that our people have the power
to perform, in tbit regard, whatever it is their will
to do.—We require • railroad to the State of the Pa
cific for pr<«eut uses; the time no doubt will come
— when we staff have need of two or three, it may be
more. Because of tiie desert character of the inte
rior country, the work will be difficult and expen
sive. It wid requiro the efforts of an united people.
The bickerings of little politicians, the jealousy of
sections, must give way to dignity of purpose and
seal for the common good, lithe olject be obstruo-
by contention and division as to whether the
te to be selected shall bo northern, southern,
,1
Tim Lr-ginlntiirc.
As was to have been anticipated, and, indeed
as the Democratic papers predicted, tho main
effort of the opposition has been directed to
the Legislature, and, from various causes, all
being Hummed up iu Democratic divisions about
men, they have obtained a partial success, so
far ns being able to make some gains goes.
These gains may decrease the Democratic ma
jority in tho coming Legislature to more man
ageable proportions, they will fail to make any
impression, or to offer one ray of hope to the
auxious aspirants after senatorial honors. O,
Father Abraham, surname;! Vena'ble, but you
KctriDMlve Justice. \f
Among the acts and doings of the S. W. Rail
Road Company at its annual meeting, last Thurs
day, was a general vote of thanks to their efficient
corps of officers and a special raising of the sala
ries of John T. Boim-inurr, Esq., their able and
gentlemanly Secretary and Treasurer, and W. T.
Brantcy, Esq., their trusty and indefatigable Au
ditor of accounts, and Chief Clerk in the depart
ment of supplies and material. Let those gentle
men submit in all composure and resignation, for
they have not yet got all they deserve.
Sleeping Rooms.
We have been asked to invite attention of
Bachellor’s and others to the sleeping rooms
advertised by Mr. Weed, under the assurance
that they are very commodious and airy-
great deal of sleep in them.
The Right tEiing at lust
Mr. J. II. Banks, of Forsyth, has hit it. ex
actly, and we hope lie will live to see every Nor
thern carrriago in Georgia driven out of use,
by those of his own manufacture. See. his ad
vertisement, which by the way, was accident
ally omitted last week.
The Empire State and the Atlanta
INTELLIGENCER—CHANGE ALL ROUND.
Opening the Griffin Empire State of last
Thursday, wo find a great change announc-
nll round. Col. Gaulding goes to Atlanta as
one of the Editors and Proprietors of the In
telligenccr, and the Empire State has been
transferred to Messrs. J. If. Steele and V. P.
Sisson, Col. Steele taking charge of the Edi
torial Department. We welcome the veteran
back to his accustomed vocation, and wish all
the parties the best success in their undertak
ings. <
Rock Island Paper Mills.
'Hie President wants motes—Oin motes—and the
man who offers to drawl them nut of his neighbor's
eye or gin house a cent per pound is a public ben
efactor. Wo hope his desires will be gratified to
the fullest extent.
oentral. the handwriting bon the wall, and it re-1 r—i , ...
quire# liitleakiil to see that i :iiure L the interpre- KlI bad for you, nut it serves you right, you
tation of tin; i i-i ription. You an- a practical pto- °"glit to have had better luck and been better
i n ‘ " • " is that com. -tto be avoided! I Democrats. Woe is me, Albania ’
By taking the queslir
altogether. Let the
( From llie Sarannnh Republican.
Statistics of Monroe County.
Mr. EiUOrr: I take the following from the Tax
, , , . , , r . Receiver's Digest for the year 1858, of Mouroe ooun-
navc brought your pigs to a hail market, ty:
Father Abraham, you have sold yourself elicap, j ^
and have not got tiie money. And you, com- j “
panions in affliction,Messrs. Arrington, McRae ! <•
and Sanders—Linn B. .Sanders,—we sort of
but it serv
No. of Polls 952
Children, from 8tol5 825
** “ Professions 30
“ “ Free Negroes. 1*
“ “ Staves. 9,636, value 94,997.371
Land. No. of acres '.36,798 92,239,861
Money and aolvcut debts
ts pr.
prop (
DUt ofthu hands of politicians
"Vernini nt give such aid as it
i ■ ndi r tin- ■ • nn|i:iiiv which filial!
li-t t.-rifibl.- mid advantageous plan.
Cuffoe, i.s that tho second l>tdl ?”
i, dtit’s de second ringin’ ob do fuss bell,
ot no second bell in Ilis hotel.”
Wo bahn
Aggregate value of whole property. . ...99,739,218
1 Properly to each poll 10,230
j But one man returns over one hundred thousand
l dollars in the county. No county ill tho world where
j the Property i- more equally distributed.
Yours truly, . s. '
diente itself, popular government is gone.
But while thus, on the broadest principles
of philantbrophy, deprecating dissolution, it
seems to us mere folly to pronounce it impossi
ble. It is a political possibility, because the
National Government has, in point of fact, no
efficient self vindicatory power against a single
State. If one State chooses to go out of the
Union, whatever theories may be advanced to
the contrary, we hold that in practice the pow
er of the Federal Government can never res
train her. The government was created by
public opinion, must he upheld by it—and is
altogether inefficient against any such embod
iment of hostile opinion as woidd be represen
ted by a State of the Union. And to suppose
that it can he maintained against the settled
convictions of a whole section of the Confeder
acy, that it is a trespasser upon clear political
rights, is absurd.
Dissolution is also a possibility infact. Look
at events in the most favorable light we can,
and that very aspect of affairs upon which tho
highest danger to its permanence was predi
cated by all the sages among its founders, is
actually upon us. We have in the North a
distinct, sectional, geographical party, victoejg
ous over all others, and avowing a predeter
mined purpose, not only to administer the
government as it stands to the prejudice of the
other section, hut to shape, amend and alter
it for that purpose. That is the Black Repub
lican programme, which announces as a settled
purpose the abolition of the federal basis of
representation and the reorganization of the fed
eral judiciary. He refuses to be guided by tfie
lessons of all experience, who supposes that
encroachments of this character arc limited by
any tiling else than the want of power, or that
this kind of tyranny would at last leave sub
mission tolerable to the most patient and spir
itless.
These are pressing dangers to the perpetui
ty of the Republic, nud the most obvions policy
is to conciliate all the elements of conserva
tive opposition to meet and crush them. The
only existing point of concentration is evident
ly the Democratic party of the Union, because
outside of that party, in the whole non-slavc-
holding section, there exists not a single or
ganized opposition to the plans of t he section-
alist. It is a lamentable fact that iu all those
States, Black Republicanism, ncithcrfimls nor
recognizes any other organized or active op
ponent. The Democratic party, then, must
be the point of concentration ; and if this be
so, every conservative man ought to act with
it. Those most apprehensive of dangers, mi<l
who see dissolution most imminent, uuless
they desire the. consummation, ought to he
the most zealous in co-operating with it—
the most sedulous to avoid crippling it by dis
organization and schism. And what of the
Southern opposition to it ? What of those,
who deni in small trash about Douglas ? Who
edify their readers with profound discussions
whether Douglas or Crittenden be the worse ?
And who carp and pick flaws from year’s end
to years’ end, for no earthly purpose conceiv
able, except to cripple the power of the Dem
ocratic party for tho common good ? If they
cultivate an “intense American sentiment.” We
mnst confess in this instance we prefer^ the in
tense Irish sentiment.
The British mail stea
Halifax on Tuesday la ;t,
the 31st ult.
Liverpool Cotton Mcrktl.—The sales of Cotton for
the week were 38,000 bale3, of which speculators
took 2,000 and exporter 5,000 bales, leaving for the
trade 31,000 bales. The market declined during the
week 1-16d on tho better, and l-8d, on the lower
qualities.
London Money Market.—Consols had improved
and were quoted at 96 1-8.
The sales of Cotton in Liverpool ou Friday, July
30th, were 8.000 bales; of which speculators and ex
porters took 2,500 bales, and the market closed
steady.
The authorized quotation are—
Fair Orleans 7 ll-10d I Mid. Orleans 6{d
“ Mobile 65 1Cd •- Mobiles.. 6 13-lud
“ Uplands ..7jd) “ Uplands..6 U-lSd
The stock on hand was 667,000, of which 587,000
were American.
Manchester advices were favorable and prices
were quiet and steady.
At Havre Orleans Ties ftrdinairc was quoted at
105 fraoces.
The weather has been favorable for crops.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
10,000 boles, with a firm market.
The English Parliament was rapidly windiug up its
business.
The Goodwoood Cup was won by Sauaterer. The
only American starter was Charleston, who came in
last but one.
Dates fromBombay to July 3d had been received
The re-capture of Gwalor is confirmed. The fugitives
were hemmed in, and the British gained a brilliant
victory near Lucknow. Tiie rebels loct six hun
dred.
-Ur...*,, Eii,y. Curious C oi„ci„,„ rc ^;,
truijnnctm tn v.no is realized at Trinitv
Cabie that binds three continents, Eur—' “
and America, together. The i
Afri ct
name is singQi*.).
plicable to the fact. Soon Asia will be add f .s f lp '
trinity, and there will be an electrical" lilc '
the globe.—A T . Y. Herald. fe nle “"and
Laying tiie Corner Stone
We are authorized by Mr. R. to announce that
the ceremony of laying the Corner Stone in the
middle of the new ‘“Tilietudlem Block,” in Cherry
Street, will come off at 9 o’clock, precisely, on
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday, pro
vided it is neither dry, wet, bright or cloudy and
don’t rain. Seats will be prepared for the Ladies
under a beautiful canopy composed of the blue
ethereal expanse, and gentlemen nre expected to
stand outside.
ITIacon Merchants, Georgia Belles,
AND SO ON.
That charming feminine correspondent’ “ M. J.
W.”oCthe Washington Union, Charleston Courier,
&c., writes to the Union from the Rockbridge Al
um (Va.) on the 6th instant as follows:
Near the entrance door a young mother is hold
ing a chubby hand soothingly between her own,
and singing with a faint, soft voice a little lullaby
hymn, tiie child nestling in her bosom and sweet
ly sleeping. In another direction the handsome
member of a celebrated mercantile firm in Macon,
Ga., is surrounded by a circle of our belles, who
are listening to a searching criticism on the genu
ineness of a “ point-lace” handkerchief which has
been submitted to his critical eye. This gentle
man, of the firm of “Kein and Brother,” is wide
ly known as tbo “Stewart” of the South, his im
portations being confined entirely to ladies’ ward
robe. Right under our window (most provoking-
ly interrupting us every ten minutes) are the beaux
of the “Rockbridge Alum,” a refined and gentle
manly young lawyer from Montgomery, a hand
some young widower from Tallahassee, Fla., and a
stylish new-comer—a Mr. 1L—from Savannah, Gt.,
who is already a bright particular star with our
belles. Apropos of this State. It has certainly
sent most lovely women and most interesting mas
culines to the Rockbridge Alum this summer; and
children, too, sweet little Annie T., from Augusta,
with her silvery, care-free, heart laugh, which we
love so to hear from children, and whose exquisite
performances ou the piano made our idle belles
blush for very shame; and Mr. Cobb, with his in
teresting family. Ah! Mr. Secretary, you stand
high in the world as a wise politician and as a suc
cessful "publicman," but your brother 1ms looked
above even that, his beautiful life showing that
there is a higher need than mere worldly suecess.
Georgia may well bo proud of this to us very inte
resting laiyily.
Timitcl nuclei’ the Alps.
The mails, per steamer America, bring ac
counts of the commencement, some months ago
of the “Alpine Tunnel” connecting Modena
and Bardonichc on opposite sides of the Alps,
which their towerjto a height of 4,000 English
feet, nearly a mile high .' Its length will be
8 1-2 English miles. From the great height
of the mountains, it can only be worked from
the ends. By the ordinary means, hitherto
employed, 36 years would be required to com
plete it. By the use of drilling machines, op
erated by compressed air, the work, it is esti
mated, will be completed in six years. These
machines have been in use four months, and
were believed to be the original invention of
three Sardinian engineers, but it now turns up
that Brother Jonathan “leads the van” in
this as in many of the grand inventions brought
out as original in Europe within the hist ten
years.
Rkt.unino Lkttkus.—The people of New
Orleans have initiated an important movement
by circulating a memorial to Congress asking
for an act to punish people who deliberately
u _ retain letters taken from the post-office by
bad a plan to propose to the" country or a j mistake, or who get possession of those be
chance to execute it, one might conceive u I longing toothers through a similarity of name.
The memorial cites cases where great damtigc
has resulted by this abuse of privilege. There
is not a city in the country, perhaps, in which
we do not find duplicated names without num
ber, and those who ave so unfortunate as to
bear a name common to others are sometimes
greatly annoyed by the loss of letters or de
lay in returning them to the post-office after
they have been taken out by mistake. A peii-
practically available rallying point for the pat- ' alty is required to enforce the return of all
riotic conservatism of the country. It must ; such letters.
meet tiiesectionalists and battle for s;:!uv;n a 7, .
cy with them. Aud toe contest is not for a i r0 m China are to the 1st of June, and contain foil
day nor ayear. Querulous gentlemen com- i accounts of the capture of the forts in the 1M Ho.
plain that tbe promised peace is deferred, l.et v ' -
them ask it u. the illack Republicans if they
patriotic solution of their course. But while
they find fault, they have nothing to propose—
neither of doctrine nor measure, so that their
opposition in its best light is merely factious.
We care not a bean straw for any party, furth
er than in our best judgment it may subserve
a useful purpose to the couutry; but concede
all they allege and still it must be obvious that
the Democratic party must furnish the only
choose, for there can be 110 peace except upon
1 concession of mutual rights.
Negotiations having failed, tlin CTiiiiese w
tacked on tholpth of May by tin- English and French,
and the forts captured with much loss. Tho Chinese
fought well. Ninety-eight guns were captured. The
loss of the enemy is supposed to he very heavy.
The Sparta Times publishes the following marriage
notice: “Married iu Madison county, Ar., Joseph
Rogers, formerly of Sparta, aged ninety-tiro years, to
Miss Nancy Chandler, aged25 years—By this marri
age Mr. Rogers becomes brother in-law to his grand
son his grandson having married his wife’s sister
some 15 or 20 years since. A singular anlaogy of tbe
relationship can be traced from this marriage, as the
old man has great grand children. We head our
cotemporaries this timejon tho marriage question.
They may knock under and take down their sign un
til furthes dispatches from head quarters of the army
of occupation.”
Drowned.—We regret to announce the deatlp
by drowning, of Dr. Wm. Kay, of this county, which
sad event occurred on Friday evening last, tho 6th
inst. lie was, in company with other young men,
bathing in Sanborn’s miff pond, near Attapulgus
and, it is believed, ventured too far out into deep
water, and his companions being engaged in playing
with each other at the time, failed to iiear his cries
for help. When they found him he had been drown
ed perhaps three quarters of au hour.—[Bainbridge
Argus.
The First Dispatch at Last’—The following
despatches are said to have been exchanged to-day
by the Uueeu and President Buchanan, but we do
not well see how it was possible, as our Halifax cor
respondent informs us that no despatches can be
transmitted for several days:—
Windsor Castle, August 6, 1858.
Duesn>Knt Buchanan.—Dear Sir:—As you will-
not permit me to “visit” you, allow me to dropyou
a line. Faithfully yours
“Victoria Rehika.'
KELLY OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN TO THIS
QUEEN.
“Washington, August 6, 1838.
My Dear Madam:—It is iny impression that you
have dropped enough of your line already, ami that
you are running the thing into the ground.
Post. “Yours, faithfully.
“James Buchanan.”
To be Kohl.—William Bodie, f. m. c., belongin.
to New York, is advertised in the Brunswick (Ga.)
Herald, to be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep
tember next, by the Sheriff of McIntosh County,
Georgia, for cost, and au attempt to inveigle a
slave from that county. Bodie is a sailor on
board a New Yoik craft, loading with lumber at
Darien, Georgia. He was clearly convicted of his
crime, and sentenced by the Mayor of that city.—
Sayanhah Neics.
Unanimity by n New Method.—The Louisi
ana Baptist says: “In all matters pertaining to the
reception of members, there ^should be unanimity.
The minority ought to be heard, and, if found unrea
sonable and obstinate, cut them off, and then re
ceive the worthy applicant, if the church deem him
so, rather than bring strife and contention into the
church.
Central American Aflfairs.—A Washington
dispatch says, that some months ago, when the Pres
idents of Nicaragua and Costa Rica jointly met and
amicably arranged the question of the boundary
between the two countries, they also prepared an
address or appeal in the names of their respective
governments and dispatched it to those of France
and Great Britain, inviting their protection and as
sistance against the United States. Our govern
ment has, in consequence, proceeded to act, iu such
a manner as will plainly but firmly indicate to al 1
foreign powers that the United States will not con
sent to their interference in Central American affairs,
nor to any measures which may have the effect of
injuring our interests in that quarter and obstruct
the transit routes to and from tiie Pacific. The gov-
ment will act in accordance with the Monro'c doc
trine.
Bloody Murder in Cobb.—The editor of the
Augusta Dispatch writes from Marietta, August
8th.
“A horrible tragedy was perpetrated at Powder
Springs on Wednesday last. A Mr. Duncan was kill
ed by Mr. Lingo, his brother-in-law, in a most cold
blooded and fiendish manner.
“Duncan ran away with Lingo’s sister, about three
months ago, and married her, at which Lingo threat
ened to kill him ; and on tbe day the fatal deed was
committed, lie puplicly avowed bis purpose, and
started iu pursuit of it about the village. Duncan a.
voided him, and asked by-standers not to let Lingo
reach him, as he had threatened to take his fife. But
Lingo persisted in following him up, with a drawn
sword cane, when Duncan, finding that he could not
get away from him, fired a pistol at him. A scuffle
then ensued, in which Duncan was thrown down,
when Lingo stabbed him several times, causing his
death in a few seconds. Lingo is in jail in .Marietta,
chained, and the jail is guarded.”
Decatur nut! Iho Itluiu Trunk.—The people
of Decaturh eld a meeting in Bainbridge on tho 17th,
and nppoiuted a Committee to propose to the Di
rectors of the Main Trunk to put thirty miles of’the
Road under contract, s /ro»i Bainbridge Eastward, on
condition that tiie citizens of Decatur would raise
fifty thousand dollars additional subscription, in
the event of an unfavorable reply the Committee
were instructed to caff a meeting of the Stockholders
as soon as practicable.
California Nowhere.—A Dahlouegncorrespou
dent of the Savannah Republican asserts that the
gold ore now being gathered in the Fields mine is
worth a thousand dollars per bushel.
Yellow Fever Iu CItiirle»toii.—The Telegraph
on Saturday announced several deaths from yellow
fever in Charleston.
Ceorjjin gold Mines— 1 The Marietta Advoeateof
last Friday has seen a letter from tho Gold Diggings
in Lumpkin County, in his opinion entirely reliable
in which was stated that a vein had been discovered
worth $3,000 per square foot, and that tiie owners
were realizing from 9250 to 9300 per day, from it, by
beating up the rock, in which the gold is imbedded,
ii a common spice mortar, and washing it out. And
one of the proprietors said he “could stand off twenty
yards from tho diggings and see tho gold sticking in
the rocks.”
Marvels of ilic Cubic I.nyiug—The New
York Herald, in commenting on Mr. Field’s diary
3ays: “The progress of tho ships after their separa
tion in raid-ocean would seem to have been regulated
by some agency other than that of humau intelligence-
They ran nearly the sune distance and payed out
nearly the same leDgth of cable day. by day; and on
the 3d of August we find each vessel reporting the
same depth of water—two hundred fathoms. The
calculations with regard to tho length of cabi-l re
quired are found to have been wonderfully exac'., as
the following will show:—
Length of cable on eacli :
Ship :::::: :::::: 1,100 miles
Payed ou? by the Niagara: : : : : : 1,016 “
Payed out by the Aga
memnon :: 1.010
Distance run by the Nia
gara :::::::::::: 882 “
Distance run by tho Aga
memnon 813 “
I.rr Court House.—At an election held i» this
county last week, for the purpose of obtaining the
voice of the people in the location of their comity-
site, tiie town cfStarkvillereceived a majority ?f ’ •
over all other places. ,
From the Southern Planter
is Use Chinese Sugar u a „ e ...
TO HORSES AND OTHER ANIMALS ’
We have seen (says the Valley Farmed
erat statements going the rounds of tbi Sev '
pers, to the effect that horses and cattlo Pl '
number of instances, have been
eating the seed of the Chinese su^ b ?
But the most conclusive cases of tho°iF CaDe ’
detailed in the Ohio Farmer, by W T are
Veterinary surgeon, in Ravenna, Ohio
facts as related are suataniially these- llle
A farmer in Portage County, Ohio
a quantity of the Chinese Sugar can„ .
saved the seed and blades. In .? nC ’ ^
raised
and
the winter these were fed for two f,° U [ SC cf
two valuable horses. Having -—• to
a few miles, the farmer took one oTthe
to ride. At first the horse appeared s
playful, but when about a quarter of 1 an ,‘ !
from home, he became suddenly iil • i,; , Iai,e
fell, his legs and body were drawn
limbs became stiff and greatly bloated il;,iT
body and muscles. He was finally got (!! ' ‘ a
sweating profusely. He remained in tbi* “ e '
dition during the day. With careful r “'
ment, after twenty-four hours, the i n tZ ,
bloating began to subside, hut his muscle*,
mained bloated for about fi-.-e days an 8 a
suddenly subsided, leaving a large
high up on the back part of tlm fore
This continued to swell to the size of a ca ii ’
remaining for four weeks, then mattered
discharged and began to disappear. Abom-
hour after returning with the horse, the '
ner started for the same place with the °ih
er. After proceeding about three quarters nf
a mile he was taken almost precisely a9 it
first. The commencement, continuation nr "
gross and termination of both, were aim
identical. A neighbor of the adjoinin', f a “ £I
had a horse that eat the seed and leaves f
two or three days, while grinding the stall*
and was similarly affected, for about ;he
length of time, with swelling in the same malf
ner. Mr. Pierce examined this case on tl
fi fnll° f f ri ebrUary, i and d f SCribe 1 S the Edition
of all of them, and concludes by saying-,/
seed did not mature, was frosted and lean, "■
mould when fed.
We have no idea that this grain, when ma
tured and sound, is poison, or iu any wav : n ".
jurious to domestic animals, any moreth-m In
dian corn or oats. That, aud kindred varie
ties of the millet family, have been cultivated
aud eaten by man and beast for ages. I) at
any of the cereals that have been wet and be
come mouldy aud in a partial state of decom
position, when dried and fed to horses or cat
tie, have frequently been known to produce
disease and death. We have known a num
ber of instances of the kind, hut the precise
symptoms we do not now remember. Onefof
our neighbors, some years ago, lost a valua
ble cow from being fed on oats that had hem
wet and become mouldy and partially rotten.
And so we have heard of other instances where
cattle had been fed on corn in the same condi
tion ; aud we have no doubt it was this chains
that the sugar cane seed had undergone, that
caused the mischief in each of tbe cases refer
red to.
Died Poor.
“ It was a sad funeral to me,” said the speaker
“the saddest I have attended tor many years.'
“ That of Edmonson !” “Yes.”
“ How did he die!”
“Poor—poor as poverty—his life was one ion-
strugglo with the world, and at every disadvantage.
Fortune mocked him all the while with gold promises
that were destined never to know fulfillment."
“Yet be was patient and enduring,” rerasrked on-
of the company'.
‘iPatient as a Christian—enduring as a msrtjr,"
was answered. “Poor man! He was worthy of a
better fate. He ought to have succeeded, for he de
served success.”
“Did he not succeed?” questioned the one who
had spoken of his perseverance and endurance.
“No, sir. He died poor, as I have just said. Noth
ing that he put his hand to ever succeeded. A strange
fatality seemed to attend every enterprise.”
“I was with him in his last moments," said the
other, “and I thought he died rich.”
“No; he has left nothing behind,” ms applied.—
The heirs will have no concern as to the adminis-
tration of his estate.”
“He left a good name,” said one, “and that is some
thing.”
“And alegacy of nobledeeds that were donein the
name of humanity,” remarked another.
“And precious examples,” said a third.
“ Lessons of patience in suffering; of hope in id-
versity; of heavenly confidence when no sunbeam;
fell upon his bewildering path,” was the testimony
of another.
“And high trust, manly courage, heroic fortitude "
“Then he died rich!” was the emphatic decisrs-
lion. “Richer than the millionaire who went to bis
long home the same day, a miserable pauper in ad
but gold. A sad funeral, did you say ? No, my friend,
it was ratlier a triumphal procession! Not the buri
al of a human clod, but the ceremonials attendnut
on the translation of ao angel. Did not succeed !—
Why his whole life was a series of successw. In
every conflict he came off the victor, and now the
victor's crown is on his brow. Any grasping, soul
less, selfish man with a share of brains, may gather
in money, and learn the art of keeping it; but no:
one iu a hundred can bravely conquer in the battle •
of life as Edmonson has conquered, and step forth
from the ranks of men, a Christian hero. No, no:
he did not die poor, but rich—rich in neighborly love,
and rich in celestial affections. And his heirs have «n
interest in the administration of his estate. A Isrge
property has been left, and let them see to it that
hey do not lose precious things through false
mates and ignorant depreciations.”
“ You have a new way of estimating the weslth ot
a man,” said the one who had at first expressed sym
pathy for the deceased.
“Is it not the right way!” was answered.—'"inere
are higher things to gain in this world thzn wesM
that perishes. Riches of priceless value ever re
ward the true merchant, who trades for wisdom,
buying it with the silver of truth and the gold 01
love. He dies rich who can take his treasure with
him to the new laud wiiere he is to abide forever,
and he who has to leave all behind on which l- e '
placed affection, dies poor indeed. Our Irieuu Ed
monson died richer than a Girard or an Aster;
monument is built of good deeds and noble t rain
pies, it will abide forever.— T. N. Arthur.
The Niagara and the Agamemnon.—A reerti
letter in the Washington Union, from on board
steam frigate Niagara, says: . .
Captain Trendy, of the Agamemnon, entertain
but little hopes of his ship; at one time he . _
up for lost, and made preparations tor
her. On our way to the rendezvous we fell in
awful gale ; it blew fearfully: the old .NoV
„...od it manfully, site behaved to tha ? n,ircs *' ’'
turn of all. Capt. Pready says that, without a y
ception, she is tho finest ship he eversuw. au
edly the best seaboat. The English people »r< .
jealous of her. They said she was noth 81 .j
than ginger-bread work from beginnmgto e . ^
will prove to them thoir mistake. The Ag»m “»
is their erack ship-tbe finest in the English 1 ^
1 forgot to sav she shifted her mam coil oft •<» “ ,
were sailing in company togefficr until itocew,^
she then squared away, and steered a different c (| ^
going off before the wind. He knew d A 0 ; s i
something was the matter, but, as she di ulI( j er
any signal of distress, we kept our own rovat/ ^ h
closed-reef lUHintopsailar.dforetopinastst.. ■■ ■ /
very little steam. ;
A Couple Sold*
A few days since, we chanced
auction sale of damaged dry goodi, W" j fc.
were spirited, aud the large crowds of mute
males were vielng with each otht -Jj doic-’i
when a pair of bed blankets were P ut "1 ■ '.; , ot .-r,
bids were raised for them. The mhMi
however caught tho highest bid, «ha
thiuk, one dollar, from a female, » ho » ^jj
mined to liavetbein.atany price: whoii. e - ?iJlJ
say ’going,’ a male voice, from thn opi H -
tho room, cried out,
“Dollar fifty.” . , ■ ,.H, n wing her
“Two dollars,” echoed the woman, t wt . r ,-
way through the dense massoflemsie u m>n
separated from tho males by.along covert
which, the glib-tougued*uuetionsry ' ^ | 1B
fro with the goods._ 1 urmng to the ofoiioin*
commenced anew his sterotyped vocuou the
and amusing figures ot speech, till <*
finale.
“Two fifty,” nodded the man, „
“Thank ye, sir. Going at two fifty-
“Three,” screamed the woman.
“Four,” replied the man. ,„, n :n"to th e
Go the fifty!" said tho auctioneer, turanw^
roman, with a half-suppressed sm.de on hi»s
her visage.
A nod from the woman.
Wouldn’tRunTheRisk -A!
purchased a gallon of mountain dew. 1for w com .
mere business-like label, wrote his name up™ vt .„ .
mon playing card, which happenedl to be A
of clubs, and tied ft to the hand e of the , s
Two preoocious boys jumped from ■
new bridge piers at Nashviiilc. a fe" “- 1 .
0 of ninety feet, into
hurt.
the water and