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planters’ focckhj.
IOHN C* BEID, Editor.
W M. JEI'FEKSO.\, Publisher.
Oreencsboro* Go. Bareli 21, 1860.
AGENTS FOB THE ILWTKK.
BENJ G. LlDDON,...Madison. Ga,
T. F: St R. TAPPAN.. .White Warns, Ga.
EAST NOTICE.
Thrs ; indebted t i this office fur Advertising,
Job Work, Ac., do nr in 1859, will please set
tle up t ieir acco :nU at n ce, M we need the
money, and are desirous of closing up the
Books (<>r that year. This is our last notice,
and those wKo do not pay us in a few weeks
from this date, will find their accounts in the
hauls of an officer for collection.
W. M JEFFERSON A BRO.
Afarch 14th, 1860.
Our Superior Court adjourned Sat
urday evening until the next regular Term
of sitting.
WEEKLY.”
Our paper comes out this week with the
above title, the reason it has not borne this
name before now, as ail of our subscribers
eippeted from our promise soon after the
change the firm, has been that, we were
not able to procure the heading .sooner.
We hope the citizens of Greene will me
their influence for tis in procuring the
names of their friends who are not now
s’tbscribers, to become such, because, with
out the aid of our countymen, we cannot
expect to accomplish a great deal, but with
their assistance we may do much.
Gome one! come all ! and help us.
ty Crabbc Weaver are receiving
their Stock of Gents’ Clothing and fur
nishing goods, which they say they will
sell clieap. Read their advertisement in
another column, and when you need any
thing in their line give them a call, before
buying elsewhere.
Sec also, advertisement of a Pearl Brace
let lost.
The Presentments of the Grand Jury
m,ay be found in this issue. - ‘
“COTTON IS KING.”
The above is the title of a Book, the third
edition of which will soon be ready tor t lie
press. Persons desiring to post themselves
upon the subject of Slavery, the imports
and exports of the United States ; and the
exports of the North and South separately,
should not fail to subscribe for this book
when called ujion by Mr. llarMax, the
travelling Agent; he is now in this city
and inteuds canvassing the county of
Greene*.
This book comes highly recommended
by Southern Senators and Representatives
in Congress, and in looking oyer the sub
scription list we find the names of some of
the most prominent men of Georgia.
The Constitutionalist publishel from
‘(Cotton is King.” tables which give a
smnmary statement of the value of ex
ports of the Growth, Produce and Manu
faciure of the United Stales, for the year
ending June 30, 1859 ; the Production of
-the North and of the South, respectively,
■ being placed in separate tahles—the arti
cles of a mixed origin being stated sepa
rately. From which tables we seejthat the
exports of the South exceeded that of the
North $148,093,077. The exports of Cot
ton alone, the great Southern staple,
reach $161,434,923, while Wheat and Flour
tjie leading exporting commodities of the
North, reach only $15,113,455.
The hook will contain nearly 1000 pa
ges of matter, gotten up by some of the
first intellects of the South. <
• We have no hesitation in saying that
the.hook will ho well worth the subscrip
tion price to all who wish to be posted on
the rubject of Slavery.
Mr. Harman is also authorized to re
ceive the names of subscribers to tiie
•‘Planters’ Weekly,” while canvassing this
and the adjoining counties.
The Weather.
; There was considerable wind and rain
•last Saturday, but now the prospects are
that we Are goiug to liavo pleasant weath
er. The fruit has not, as yet, been injured
by the cold, and from all appearances there
will be, unless some disaster befalls it, a
heavy yield tins year.
The Anderson (S. C.) Gazette says:
This section received a visit from Jack
‘Frost on last Friday night. Some declare
the fruit is all killed, w hile others hold to
the reverse opinion.
The Lancaster Ledger says:
- A heavy frost appeared on Sunday
.morning last, doing some little damage to
early vegetation and fruit.
Lesson Jar the Ladies. —Au exchange
ays:
A geutleman who had often been an
noyed by waiting a long time for the ma
kiug of the toilets of those Indies he bad es
corted to balls, was receutly invited, by
one of the ladies, .to attend a Le.ap Year.
Ball down Eaat. {The lady called tor him
at the appointed hour, but he was “not
quite reaay.” Our lady friend was usher
ed into tlfa parlor, and had the pleasure of
waiting until nearly 10 o’clock for the gen-,
tlemyn to “drest.” The joke was kindly
taken, hut was so well done that the fame
thereof had extended to almost every per
son in the ball-room in tho course of the
•ext boar.
e* ‘*
An English butcher lately sent a haunch
of pure Southdown mnttontothe Emperor.
He has since received, through the medium
•f the French ambassador in J,ondoii. an
Mttograpl i letter from the Tuileries, ac- j
knowleofing thethanksof the Emperor,and
aocompauying it with a gold medal intrinei .
eelty Worth twenty guinea*.
The fultivaiion of fora.
The reports frotn the entire West, so
unfavorable to the prospects of the wheat
crop, should Be suggestive to our cotton and
sugar planters, if thefyll wheat should no*
produce more than a half crop, the deficien
cy will induce a greater consumption of
other grain, and may lead to the enhance
ment of prices the coining winter.
To be prepared for any contingency, it
is important that large breadths of land
should this year be planted in corn. In
i dependent of the possibility of au increase
of the price of this staple product, it can
not be denied that the true policy of the
Southern planter is to raise all that is de
manded for home consumption. Southern
land and climate ore peculiarly adapted to
the production of all articles necessary for
food. Corn is a mere bountiful crop in the’
warm latitudes, than further north; and it
is produced with an expenditure of labor
that is scarcely felt in its influence on the
other erdps. • . - - -
We 6( lieve that the idea of increasing
the staple grown on Southern plantations
is acquiring wide popularity. Agricultural
Societies, and the difference of the results
ofi’ca'eful experiments, begin to convince
our husbandmen that they are largely the
losers by devoting their entire attention to
‘the cultivation of sugar or cotton.
The true policy is to enlarge the extent,
of productive lands, instead of stretching
credit iiqorder -to increase tho amount of
labor. ~ . _ ‘
G-rass lunils on evvery plantation, shpuld.
hear a f'tri/ proportion to the cultivated
fields. There is no necessity of buying
Northern bay—no need of depending upon
Northern corn or stock if once that farm
ing economy can be introduced which lias
proved so profitable wherever it has been
tried.
But whether an effort be at once suc
cessfully made or not to enlarge the
sphere us knowledge, it cannot-but be the
dictate of prudence to put in, the present
season, a larger amount of corn than-us.ial.
Those who adopt this policy will find the
returns of a cotton or sugar crop net a
much larger sum than can otherwise be
realized.—.V. O. Picayune.
From tbe N. O Courier.
The K. Cl. C.
We observe A call for the K. G. U.'s to
meet at the ball over the Cnrrolton ‘rail
road depot oil this evening at 7
In conjunction with this call we observe
that many of the leading members ot this
organization are now in our city. Gen.
Biekley, the commander iu-chief, Col.
Temple, and Surgeon Semple are at tf/e
St. Louis Hotel; Gen. Greer* who is wdll
knovrti r.s one of our bravest volunteer
colonels from Mississippi during the recent
war, and who now commands a division of
the K. G. 0., together with Major Rich
ardson, one of his staff officers, and Col.
11. C. Young, of Memphis, who commands
the first Tennessee . regiment, are at the
City Hotel; while others, as Captain Scott
And Lieutenant Breese, are at the Mer
chants’; Captain Gay, the wagon-master,
is at the “Texas Home;” and still many
others of note ai’d character are at the St.
Charles, or quartered with private friends
in the city. Besides, thepf are hundreds
of our own citizens-in burly contact with
these gentlemen, so thafcone cannot but
inquire, “What’s in the wind?”
As our readers must feel some interest
in whatever is likely to create excitement,
we feel ourselves justified in making the
following statement respecting this power
ful organization, from sources of informa
tion which, from tiie character of the par
ties from whom we have derived it, we
deem wo-thy of respectful consideration.
The K. G. f ’., er “Knights vs the Golden
Circle,” was organized in 1854, more t.
cultivate the nvaitial spirit of our people
than anything else; sinee thcn.it has stead
ily grown, until now it numbers over 30.
000 mem hers, who are scattered over the;
Southern States, and holding within its
charmed circle many of our most influen
tial men and best, soldiers. No organiza
tion of 1 lie kind lias in this country ever
combined so much talent with such im
mense financial resources, and under, tiie
present aspect of political affairs we do not
(let mit too much to say that the whole
nation may soon become dee ply interested
in the ultimate labors of the. K. G. C.
It is generally understood that the K. G.i
C. are preparing to operate in the, broad
field which civil war has opened it. Mexico
to American enterprise and industry; and
the first thought of the great public is,
that it is to be a grand “filibuster'’ opera
tion, destined to meet tho same reverses
which have befallen till similar expeditions.
But. for our part, if our information in. the
main be correct, the gentlemen who stand
at the head es the movement are of an en
tirely different intellectual calibre from
those whom we have heretofore seen di
recting these military operations. If we
were allowed to guess, we should say tiiat
these gentlemen are acout embarking in a
scliwoQAiut unlike that in which Lafayette,
Kosciusko, DeKalb, and their compatriots
so generously engaged in when we were
striving to shake, off the shackels of-British;
despotism; assured that it is
their determination to place the “liberal”
or Juart z party in the full and peaceful oc
cupation of the City of Mexico, ar.d thus
prove to the world that Americans will
uevei —refuse to other struggling people
the aid so opportunely rendered us by the
Prenelr in 1777. This noble work is one
that wo.have frequently advocated, ai.d
the necessity of which is truly felt by the
masses in this country as well as of the re
public of Mexico. We say God speed to
theK.G. C-! Should they fail, they will
have fallen in a noble cause.
Sonora Mexico.— A letter from a gen
tleman at Guayinas, Mexico, of The 10th
of December last, says :
‘ It will he an easy matter to dig ont of
Sonora at least sixty million dollars of sil
ver yearly, and no one knows how much
gold and copper. On the Faqnia river
there aie gold washings from which a sin
gle hand with a pan can get from one bun
dled to five hundred dollais per day. The
Indians will not take the trouble to wash
for it, as they get enough to eat without it.
There are copper, gold, tin, bismuth, silver,
and gold mines all over the States of So
nora ; besides, the toil is fertile, ar.d the
port of Guayinas one o£ the finest in the
world. At the present time, in mid winter
the oranges are growing in the open air,
md T sleep pleasantly without covering “
From the Coariest >n Merritr/.
Mu. Editor ; —I send you a copy ot!
the resolutions passed by the students of
Mercer University on the 25th nit. You j
sec that they are full of the spirit of South- j
ern Independence, long considered a myth, j
but now an acknowledged reality, and are |
worthy of tlie youthful sons of the “Em
pire State.” A SußscctSKß.
Penfield, Ga , Feb:26.
Whereas, tbe present conflicting opinlous
of the North and South, on the subject of
slavery, have created such a total disregard
of Southern Rights by Northerners; and
whereas, the young men of every day and
tiineihave,tak(jii:au Active-part in tiie na
tional affairs, wljeji the great hazard of the
Government called for the expression of
every man’s sentiments: Be it there
fore, •
Resolvdd, That, as Southerners, we stilt
love the Union which was given to us by
our forefathers.* .
Resolved, ‘That, nevertheless, we regard
the perservation of our rights and our
equality paramount, and that we consider
tiiese things as having been disregarded
by our brethren of the North.
Resolved, That we esteem it a glorious
privilege as well as astern duty, of every
Southerner to express his disapprobation’
of the action of the North on all matters
pertaining to our rights ; and that we cs*
teem it our duty to encourage, in any way
we can, all things which will tend to bring
about a reconciliation between the oppioi
ing sections of this confederacy.
t Resolved, That in consideration of these
tilings, we doxcsolvo to buy no more o.ut ;
ward apparel of Northern manufacture,
during our connection with this University,
unless a reconciliation is effected between
tiie North and South; th.it we approve the
course of other similar institutions, with
reference to this thing.; that we will heart
ily join with theni, and that we do invite
oilier institutions, both male and female,
in every Southern State, to co-operete with
us m tliis work.
Resolved, That we hereby pledge our
selves to appear on the rostrum at our next
Anuual commencement iu Southern-made
clothing.
A Reminiscence.
Washington’s last hunt with his hounds
was in 1785. His time was too much
absorbed in his private affairs and in public
business to allow him to indulge iu field
sports, lits fondness for agricultural pur
suits, and the number of visitors at Mi.uut
VCruon, iutUnjed him to break up fits ken-;
neis. give away his hounds, and. to take a
final leave ot the pleasures of the chase.
Jlq then formed an extensive deer’ park
below the mansion house, at fi st stocked
only with the native deer, to which was
afterwards added the Engii-li fal’ovv tic-er,
from the park ot Gov. Ogle, of Maryland.
The stoeii of deer increased very rapidly,
but though always herding tog- tiu-r, thole
never was perceptible tiie, slightest admix
ture of tiiq two raci s. On the decay oi
tho park palling, aid the dispersion of the
deer over the estate, as many as -fifteen or
twenty wore often to he seen in a herd.
Washington was very tenacious of*-lbs
game, and would suffer none to be killed
until being convinced that the larder ot an
extensive- hotel in a neighboring town was
abundantly supplied by poaehdis with
plump hnuncliiis fnun tin- Mount Vernon
stock, at length consented that a stag should
die. The order was given to young Custis
to fin* with hall, to use no hounds, and t o
kill.no one hut an old buck. After a lively
hunt,'a gallant veteran yielded tip iusnlite,
and was carried iu triumph to the mansion
house, to await the master's inspection.—
Punctual at .1 quarter to three, Washington
arrived from Ins morning ride. Upon the
announcement that a fine buck Lad been
shut, lie strode awnv t(j the spot where’ the
‘..ntlered monarch of the herd’ had been
placed. Exarniningthcdeer tiiat had been
triced up to a tree, lie saw that his o/'ders
had been obeyed to the letter, gave, a tiod
of approbation, and according to his custom
retired to his room to dress before the second
bell for iTniicr. The m-xt day several
guesls having assembled, the haunch was
served up in the family dining roou) at
Monut Vernon, and the tleer was long
remembered as the Washington stag, hav
ing been killed by his special order’ and
served at his table in the ve r y last year of
Tiis illustrious life.
New Process of Grinding Wheat — r We
have been shown by R. L. Allen, manufac
turer of agricultural implements, a hand
some specimen of Flour obtained by anew
process of unbranning tiie wheat “kernel,
by which, according to the statement of
the manufacturer, S. Bentz, Esq., of St.
Louis, “the? great fact lias been fully.dem
onstrated that in tiie manufacture -of. a
barrel of Flour, a practical saving is rfiade
of from twenty to thirty pounds of wheat,”
Reckoned in cash, a saving of at least
twenty cents per barrel is guaranteed over
and above any other mode of miffing,
though the absolute gam is clained to be
much more than those figures indicate.—
The berry is first, divested of its coat,
previous to grinding. Iu this state. a$ ap
pears-Iroin tiie specimens, the berry has a ,
hard, polished look, somewhat ’reseintiling ’
a minute sea-shell. Os course, with] the
exterior covering, is removed every trace
of impurity. An additional advantage
claimed, and one of nrt secondary conse
quence, is tiiat “the flour will not sour in
the tronpics.*’ The mills recently comple
ted in St. Louis are now producing from
130 to 150 barrels of flour per day, and se
movement is making tc organize foropert
ingon a much larger scale. — N. Y. Journal
of Commerce.
* - ■■ 7
• a
MILI.EDGEVU.LE CONVENTION. ,We
“take the following dispatch from the Ex
press of yesterday afternoon :
Mirledgeville, March 14, 2 P. M.—
Col Lawton, proxy for Bryan county, re
ceived 172 votes fur President, and Solo
mon Cohen 157. Mr. Hillier. of Wniton,
presented Mr. Lawton as-a test, which was
accepted by Mr. Styles, of Glynn, who
nominated Mr. Cohen.
Poets and Poetry of the South. —Messrs.
John R. Thompson and John Estes Cooke,
of Richmond, Vn.. have compiled a volume,
entitled “The Poets and Poetry of tho
South.’’ which will soon be issu/lfi in fine
style by Messrs.-Derby A Jackson', ofi
Nen York. From tire acquaintance of
these gentlemen with Southern authors and I
poets, and their trained critical taste, a tare I
and valuable volume may bw expected. j
I IHRILLI.\G TRiGEDY AT SYRACUSE, X. I.
■i ■ ■
‘A Husband Poisons Himself mid
Tu’o Daughters Excitement of
the Populace, Aec.
A tragedy of a most terrible nature has
just caused the greatest excitement at Sy
racuse, N. Y. On Wednesday last, Peter
► Pinker, whose wife bad abandoned biin
for a Dr. Searles. committed suicide by
-taking poison, after having first poisoned
his two little daughters with strychnine.
He was seen staggering in the streets that
evening from the effects of laudanum, and
was carried to the Paik Hotel by bis
friends, who supposed he was drunk. He
died next morning about 9 o’clock. The
Standard has the following particulars of
■this extraordinary affair: >
On taking off his boots several letters
were found in one of hjs stockings, one of
which was directed to his wife., and anoth
er one stated that his two children, girls
of six or eight years of age, would be
found asleep iu the Medical College build
ing. As the children were missing, con
si Jerable anxiety was felt for their fate,
and Dr, Green proceeded immediately to
the College building, where, in the north
east corner ,f the lower floor, a horrible
sight met the eye. ’ The tw > beautiful lit
tle children, named Flora and Lucinda,
lay on a matress, dead, with the froth gath
ered about the mouth, and bearing every
evidence of death f om the effects of poi
son —supposed to be stiychnine. The
_poison had probably been administered by
means of an orange, ana the children had
! been partially ‘aijl out after death as their
arms were folded across their breast with
some care, and the bodies laid in a straight
position. The children were beautiful
and intelligent little girls, six or eight
years of ago, and had attended school un
til quite recently.
The news of the finding of the holies
spread through the city like wildfire, ad
hundreds of persons crowded to see the
bodies. Among the numbers who attend
ed a feeling ol horrror and indignation was
expressed, and many threats were incLulgen
in against Dr. Searles, whom some persons
suppose to be responsible for the whole
tragedy. Some of the most excited ran to
the City Hall, and attempted to sound the
fire bell but the police interfered mid pre
vented any disturbance. The Chief of
Police proceeded to the office of Dr.
Searles.and took him into custody for the
purpose of protecting him from any assault.
He. was taken to the penitentiary by his
own consent, but we do not learn that’any
charge is preferred against him. . *
i his tragic affair lias created the most
intense feeling throughout the citv, and
much indignation is expressed against cer
iain persons; but we are iu some doubt as
to where the blame should rest. Peter
I’ liber was formerly a saloon keeper, and
afterwards kept the hotel now kept by Mr.
Cuddt back. For some time past lie has.
been in stt{lightened circumstances, and he
had probably become partially insane on
account of ins pecuniary troubles and do
mestic. difficulties. He was always regard
ed as an honest, sober, well-meaning itiari,
hut not over intelligent or well calculated’
to irhike a good living for his family.
Tinker never confessed that be destroy
ed bis chil li**n or poisoned D:. Searles’
horse, but yet there can he very little,
doubt th it he committed both offences y He
was seen with the children about 5 o'clock
on Wednesday morning, and must of course
have poisoned them after that time. He
persisted to the last saying they were alive
and well The room in which the little
innocents lay when they were found was
formerly occupied by Tinker and his fam
ily, but of lute had been unoccupied, ex
cept as a store-room tor a portion of Tink
er's furniture. A chair or two, an old desk
and the mattress ayd bea clothes on which
the children were lying, were nenily all
the articles it, the loom. It presented a
melancholy picture of death and desolation.
The gills were fully dressed and looked
very beautiful as they lay in death. They
had evidently been pretty and intelligent
children.
The baity of the father lias been n
moved to the room wiiere the children were
I found and thousands of persons have visite 1
the premises to look upon the sad spectacle.
The statement of the wife of the unhap
py suicide is that her husband became very
poor, and site went to live with Dr. Searles
and his wife iu order that her work there
might support herself. Some time since,
the second Baptist church, to which Mis
Tinker belonged, took the matter under
considepition, and she was discharged fr on
the church, on the charge that she did not
live with her husband and walk with the
church, and had attended lectures on spir
itualism. Itpnay be proper here to state
that Mrs. Tinker is not and never has
been a spiritualist, and that the absurd
stories that are iu about spir
itualism aid free-love are all false.
Mrs. Tinker is a lady apparently about
thirty-five years of age. no particular
pretensions to beauty, and appar
ently not Very gay. She. is much more
intelligent than her husband, and appears
to feel very much depressed by the horrible
circumstances that surround her at this
time. She evidently feels the loss of her
little girls very keenly, although she is not
as demonstrative as some females.
Mrs. Dr. Searles, who is a very intelli
gent. tippearing lady, indignantly spurns
the idea that any improper intimacy exis
ted between her husband and Mrs. Tinker.
She says she invited Mrs. Tinker to make
her house a home from pure motives of
benevolence, as she well understood their
depressed pecuniary circumstances.
Reflection at a Ducl\ —ln Vienna there
has been fought a duel across a table,
with one pistol bulleted, the other blank
cartridge. -Somehow the bullet did not
speed to its inten led home, but slightly
skimming the shoulder of the intended
victim, rose and shattered a splendid
mirror to pieces—and this was the only
damage done.
The Douglas Operations. —A Wash
ington letter to the Charleston Meriury
says: ‘The Douglas Club now occupy
two rooms in the city to flood the South
with plausible trash. The North is pre
sumed |to he able to take cireof itself.
The South, is the grand fieldof opera
tion.’
The aggregate toinge of the steam ma
rine of the United States amounts to 153,-
366 tons, of which 94,111 is owned in New
York, and cost !6,231.0**. 13
You.no America — Elopement of two
Children. —The New York police on Friday
received telegraphic requests from Albany
to arrest James Beyliss, aged 12, and El
lea Shtirrcr, aged 13 years, who had eloped
from that city’ together. The Express
says: ? \
By diligent exertion they succeeded in
discovering that the very last young lady
had an acquaintance living on the Eighth
avenue, and supposing that the couple
would proceed there, watched the house
and caught them entering at abont sis
o’clock in the evening. James and Ellen
exptc9sed much surprise at tbe sudden
turn of affairs, and did not at all relish - the
idea of going to the police headquarters,
where they were taken by the officers. —
The girl said she had not yet become a
wife, though waiting to be rue. “and sup
posed that for the present she would have
to give up all hope, owing to the ‘great
fuss’ the folks had created. Neither'she or
•Jimmey’ had been treated well at home,
and they hardly knew a better course to
pursue than to come on to New York and
seek their fortunes together. Obtaining
three dollars, they.staitetftn the boat for
New York, hiring a state-room for Si. and
having another 81 left. After spending
all theii money, the ambitious pair sought
out the Eighth avenue acquaintance, where
as above stated, they’ were arrested. The
girl is a bright, intelligent little thing,
quite pretty, but rather forward iu her man
ners. She speaks with great confidence,
and does not seem, to be alarmed, appa
rently fearing more fin ‘Jiniiney ’ t han her
self. 0,1 Friday she went all over the city
looking for work. The boy is a fine look
ing child, and seetns to bo more alarmed
then the girl ; did not at all relish the idea
of being locked up,*and perfectly willing
to return. Both are poorly dressed, and
the probability is, that not having been
well treated at home, they t ok this means
of redressing the.ir grievances. Truly, we
i<re a fast people.
Fearful Ascension.—Professor Wells
attempted lo ascend in his balloon on
■Saturday, which came near proving dis
annuls to him. The balloon having been
iufi ited, he stepped into the basket, and
gave the word to‘let go ’and was int obey
ed ; but immediately after, when he was
not ready, they did ‘let go,’ and the wind
blowing from the west, tiie lightning speed,
was borne upwards, he swaying forward
and hack, with but one foot in the basket.
It first struck a wood-pile then a fence,
then t tie side of Coosa Hall kitchen, then
the eaves of the kitchen, knocking off the
shingles, and af in wards the eaves of the
Coosa Hall, when it threw him some 5 bet
from the basket, and lie dangled in the
air, holding maiply by’ bis hands to the
r ipes. With great presence of mint!.* on
arrivi ig just over Coesa Hall, which was
some 8 feet from the roof, he swung loose,
from ‘lie ballon, and dropped on the roof.
Had lie not done tuis, lie would have been
home into the air, aid a honib e death
would In.vo awaited him, as he was holding
by li s haiid-i, whose strength rn ist soon
have given out. A large crowd was pres
ent anxious to see the ascension, and all
were greatly relieved when lie alighted
safely.— 1 \ eturnpha [Ala.) Spectator.
Great Bridge Contract Let.—The Sort!h
rs. the North —A friend of ours and of
railroads, just from Mobile, tells us that lie
was present last Monday, at the letting,
there, of the Mobile and Northern Road
“{connecting with our li re to Pensacola,) in
cluding the ten or twelve miles bridging
and trestle work ’ across the river, a few
tidies above the. city. Contractors were
there from every corner of tlie continent,
and the Northern ones wcie very free to
say that the w rk (the long bridging. See..)
could not be done by Bout hern men. But
sure enough, Mr. Edward Dcnmead, an
old and successful Georgia contractor, got
the wood-work of the bridges and trestle
work, and an English company obtained
the contract (involving more than 1000
toils) for the iron. Titus, tor one time,
our people have managed to get along
without Free Stale help, in an important
matter. And we’ll venture to predict,
that Mr. Dcnmead and the. foreign company
will leave us no cause to regret the ab
sence of any John Brown element in the
construction, The whole, line was let, and
will bo ” built forthwith.— Montgomery
Mail.
The Negro Not a Man at the North.
—These remarks from the Express, are
worthy of perusal : “The Post is glorifying
Mr. Seward's speech. The argument is,
that a man is a man North, but not South,
if a negro man. Church street, M nicer
street the Hook, tlie Five Points, all un
der the Editois’ own eyes, belie this. A
negro is not half <f a man in New York
City ! He don’t vote. He. don’t serve on
juries. He don’t “train.” •He don’t work
in the work shops. He, don’t drive the
licensed cart. He don’t “run the engine.”
Lie don’t tend behind the counter. He
don’t print among the printers in the Post’s
printing office. Living, he don’t worship
God in the Post’s churcif; and, dead, he is
u oped into Potter’s Field, or sold to the
D ctors iu Fourth Avenue, Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets, for a skeleton ; or, it
m>t thus sold, kicked off into the “Black
Grave Yard,” on top of a dozen black bod
ies, there before him. We, “doughfaces”
as we are—“pro-slavery,” “sold to the
South,” &e.—from the very bottom of our
hearts, pity the poor, miserable, Now York
social slave “nigger.”— N. Y. News.
late LegisLtu-e of Kentucky
appropriated $2,000 for'the erection of a
monument over the grave of Daniel Boone
hi the Frankfort cemetery. This is a
work that shou.d long siifbe have been
done, and the Legislature will receive the
thanks of all true-hearted Kentuckians for
this timely appropriation to commemorate
the name and fame of this, distinguished
pion ecr.—E lemingshurg News.
A youngaml pretty lady recently made
her husband a present, but it only cost
threepence, and yet was the source of a
wonderful amount of happiness, and drew,
perhaps, the domestic bond n little tighter.
“Threepence!’” wj hear it said; ami of
course, ladies’ minds turn to solve the
enigma iu something of the baby-useful
kind—■••socks.” This won’t do, because,
according to our ideas, it would only buy
•me sok. and babies nre not born with
wooden legs. The threepenny article was
a choice Havana segnr; and, of course,
meant, “Henceforth, my love, you may
smoke at homo, and nerd not go to the
club ”
For Sale.
4 LOT of L ni lyina in llie City of Greenmbnro
<>n Hie tVnfleM msd, a.tjoiniinr I.tnd* ot Dr. T.
5. P.iiilMo, c in laming one and \ bilftem mure or
leu F.>r further particular apply m this office
If not sold before i> will be pul up In the highist
bkldi r on ihe lirat Tueadav in April nrxt.
iMarrh 21 t. 186.
The State tax of Tennessee has been re
duced to fifty cents on the one hundred
dollars.
The Harper Ferry Investigation Com--
niittee, it is statecT, have decided to call Gov.
‘Wise before them.
Harrard Professorship. —Rev.'*Df.
Peabody, of Portsmouth. N. H., lias been
nominated as Plummer Professor in place
of the Rev. Dr. Huntingdon, resigned.
Texas. —The Austin Intelligencer says
there are now nine companies of Texas
troops in the field.
Theevil of sellingliquor to slavesismuch
complained of in Galveston.
The seventh annual Convention of the
Young Men’s Christian As-ociations of the
United States and the British Provinces
will be held at New Orleans in April be
ginning on Wednesday, 11th, and continu
ing one week.
Mad Dogs. —We learn that the strange
disease that recently made its appc*rauco
in the third district continues unabated.
In certain neighborhoods there exists a
perfect terror, for scarcely a day passes
without the cry of‘mad dog !’ being heard.
— N. 0.. picayune.
Daniel C. Kenyon, cashier of the Rhode
Island Bank, at East Greenwich, has made
a clean sweep of that institution. He is in
default (has stolen) §72,000, which is just.
812,000 more, than its whole capital. The
money was used in stock speculation, corn* -’
meucing last June. That must have been
a splendidly managed hank !
The Black Reppblican papers have been,
circulating tie following: “Who settled
Virginia? John Smith. Who unsettled
Virginia? John Blown.’—The author of
this wonderful witty production doubtless
imagined that he had “got off a good
thing,” but a Southern editor asks, in ro
plv, “Who settled John Brown 1 Vir
ginia !”
‘ Lady ’ Shoemakers. — In some of the
newspaper accounts of the strike of the
female operatives -in the Lynn shoe
trade, the operatives are conspicuously de
signated as ‘ladies.’ Are the snobs who
write these dainty phrases afraid that thm
female shoemakers will be offended if they
are called women ?
GPt >oin statistics lately prepared, rela
ting to the event of lunacy among tliene-
I g.oes of the various States of the. Union,
wo find that hi Louisiana, there is one lun
atic out of 2.477 negroes ; m South Ohio
lina quo in 2,999; in Massachusetts, one iu
43; in Maine, one in 14. Positive evidence
we imagine, that fiecdom is not the normal
condition < 1 the negro race.
Methodists. —The minutes of the Meth
odists, which are annually reported with
gioat precision show that all the divisions
ot that cliutch in America, have ydeveu
thousand four hundred and fifty-eight tinv
oliing preachers, and one million .eight
hundred and eighty thousand two hundred
am’ sixty—nine communicants?’
New Gun. —The Richmond ‘Dispatch*
speaks of anew gun, invented by Mr. Lor
pi:zo Sihert. of Augusta county, which is a
mm vel in its way. One of i:s marvellous
qualities is thus described :
‘After the magazine has been charged,
the gun, when put in motion, will dischnig.i
one hundred or five hundred halls consent
tiv.lv, giving the. soldier the opportunity”
to shelter himself behind any convenient
w. I. or tree that may be nci'u by.’
The-Social Evil in Lond-fn.— As a re
sult of the. rein.ukab/e meeting in London
fort! e benfit of fallen women, which wo
la.ely noticed, it is stated that some of tl.o
persons present who gave their names and
>a idresses are now under visitation, and
tnat on the night of the meeting no less
than seventeen were taken care of, who
expressed a willingness to reform, and
have smec been directec. to permanent re
formatories.
. New State.—On Saturday last,
Mr. 1 ortcr offered the following picnm
ble and resolutions in the House ot Rep
resentatives of the Tennessee Leeishi
ture: b
Whereas, The people of West Ten
nessee. Southern Kentucky, and North
Mississippi, are anxious to form tlunr
selves into an independent State, to be
.formed from the territory above named.
Therefore, Be it Rksohed, That tho
General Assembly of tho State of Ten
nessee hereby consents to the formation
fa New State, whenever the assent of
the Legislatures of Kentucky and Missis
sippi, and of the Congress of the United
States can be obtained.
Resolved, 1 hat the Governor of tha
State is he.eby directed to forward a copy
oi the above resolution to the Governor*
of the States above named and our Sena
tors and representatives in Cot,gross.
A Hit Between the Eves.— \ Ger
man citizen of Massachusetts makes the
receipt of a Republican speech, under the
frank of the lion. B. F. Junkin, of Penn
sylvania, the occasion for a few oertineut
remarks in a letter to that gentfeinan on
the hypocrisy of the Republican leaders,
and the deleterious effects of the doctrines’
and teachings of the Republican party on
the business interests of the State, and tk c
peace of the country. Ho concludes in
this wise.— Washington States.
“A reaction has already set in ; the mas
ses of the people begin to consider their
own affairs a little. In Natick, tho homo
of Senator Wilson, five, or six hundred
men are marching through tbe streets, car
rying banners with inscriptions— of what?
“Free Kansas.” * No more Slave States, ’*•
“Free Soil tor Free Men ?” No, mi.-
‘ Bread for our Wives and Children 1” is •
the motto paraded before Mr. Wilson's
windows. I he-qieech which he has tei.tt ‘
on hero iu thousands did not supply hie
constituents with “luead fortlieir wivesaud:
children.” They asked for “breed.’’ am) >
bo sends his speech. These anti-slavery
speeches don’t fill the stomach,, though',
they confound the mind and. drive away,
the customers who buy our matmhiaturo*.
If is an avenging spirit, these agita
tors will have to answer for’ the of
fenee in depriving their Jgllhw.-inßiUifjucjr
daily brcij,