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dence indicating that these missionaries , were agents of the General Government. The extract runs thus; “Under all the foregoing views of the subject, I am of the opinion that the law is perfectly con stitutional. and that!. its provisions must be carried into effect. But there is one “■provision in it which two of the individ uals in custody seem, for reasons best known to themselves, to have overlooked and which will discharge them from their present arrest, if I have been correctly informed as to the facts. Both of them are missionaries, and one ot them a post master. In the first character they are there with the consent of the General Government, and, as its agents, are n. the nation for the purpose of civilizing and christianizing the Indians; and as evidence of their being'Government agents, they have the disbursement ot large sums of public money for the n tbresaid objects.” Subsequent to this, this same Worcester an 1 eleven others were couvicted and sent to the Penitentiary, Judge Clayton presiding; and yet Mr. Gilmer in bis book omits to mention the fact that the i judge of cne of the circuits which inclu ded the Cherokee Territory, the relative of Mr. Wirt presidod on the .occasion. It wiil thus bo observed, that if lie, the judge, had been correctly informed as to the facts, they were both of them agents of the General Government, and disbursed large sums of money in their public capacity; and yet Mr. Gilmer prints it in a Lot k that he discharged these men upon h:s own aseuinp tion that missiomries were agents of the IT.l T . States. If this were so, why is the fact re- ■ ferred to in the opinion that they d.sbursed public funds ? I have no means of coming at the testimony, except from the opinion of the court, and such is the vigilance of the legal fraternity that it is unreasonable to suppose that they would have permitted such a statement to go uncontradicted. It is, j therefore not to be expected that justice could or would be done either to the acts or 1 motives of Judge Clayton by one who :s so gratuitous in his assertions. Besides the positive assertion to the con trary in his charge to the grand jury of Clark county, extract from which I have quo- j ted above,) that no other court had or should j have the jurisdiction of the qu .‘Stioh as long as he bad the honor to preside, the whole ; previous life and writings of Judge Clay ton j stamp the allegation with impossibility. He bad contended, upon every occasion, as a j member of the legislature, as a judge on the bench, in his political essays, and in his pub j lie speeches, for the rights of Georgia m this , controversy. It is not saying too much to . assert as my firm belief, that be had written more than any other ten men in Georgia in . vindication of her rights in the controversy ! with tbe General Government in regard to | her Indian relations, and yet George It Gil mer, who was bis enemy when he was in life , endeavors to leave behind as history the as- , sumptiou that his leanings were agaiiisi bis native State, and in favor of the United j States The bare mention of the fact, with j out a comment, should be sufficient to brine j to any human face a blush, where there w s a heart which had the sensibili ; y to feet.— j And then, too, the insinuation that he was influenced by his relationship to the- distin guished Wirt, who was the attorney of the s Indians before the Supreme Court of the U. j States, betrays a low, base, degraded mean ness to which falsehood could be no addition. To tbe contemporaries of Judge Clayton, it would have been only"snffi.-iciit to 1 are an- j nonneed that George R Gilmer had printed j a book, and published as matters of history these things against him : but for the bene- , fit of the rising generation, who are not fa- i miliar with the history of Georgia at this time, I have felt it my duty to be more elab orate than 1 otherwise would. I have, I , think, s'mwu the utter improbability of the truth of either assumption by bis accuser, and proves from the records that upon every occasion where lie rises above an insinuation ■’ and attempts to assert a fact, be is not sus tained. Oue word as to the assertion that Judge'Clayton's associations with Mr. Wirt uud ft miiy were very intimate, and I am done. According to the best of my recollec tion, Judge Clay ton never saw Mr. Wirt, or any member cf his family, until- after he-■ took his seat in Congress in January, 188 ii, when his duties as judge had necessarily ceased. Ido uot now remember that Mr. Wirt was ever in Athens, Georgia in his life, and I am certain that his relative, the judge of the western circuit, was never at his house nnlese it was after January. 1882. I will go one step further. 1 do not now remember tliat Judge Clayton ever wrote a letter to, i or received oae from, Mr. Wirt in-his life an 1 my confidential relations with him wire such that I would have known .something fit it, if there bad existed anything like intimacy be tween them. What occurr and, after die was elected to Congress, here in Washington city, in receiving and returning the civilities- and courtesies of life, I know not: they may have been intimate but it was subsequent to the judicial action against which Mr. Gilmer has made his misrepresentations and direct* ed his insinuations. Ido not give importance to the assertion that he was intimate with Mr Wirt and his family, because I attach any impropriety to it if the fact existed, but to show the utter un worthiness of what is in tended ay history, when it is written to grat ify a personal revenge or la the offspring of disappointed ambition There are many other remarks in Mr. Oil met-*® book relative to Judge Clayton- which I deem it urmeeesary to notice: Suffice it, he never speaks of him in respectful terms, of which Intake no complaint; he had the light to consult his own taste in writing his own book, and l am not disposed to deprive him of a solitary euj -yincut he derives there from. ill this communication I have not appear ed before the public to praise Judge Clayton I come to defend him ; and in this couuec tiun it will uot bj considered inappropriate to refer briefly to the cause which separated him aud Mr, Gilmer from those relations which existed prior to the controversy about which lam going to speak. Tbe cause of difference was not any of the cases I have re ferred to above; there was no eoutfer between the executive or the judiciu ! ry of Georgia, in either tho case ofTas sels, the Indian who was hung for mur- ! der, or tbe missionaries who were first discharged as corning under tho provision which exempted the United States agents from the Aperatiou of the law, or those who were afterwards gent to the penitentiary, 0# having no right to claim such exemption.— The collision was on account of tbe decision of the judge in the case of Canatoc, a Cher okee Indian charged with digging gold in his own nation, which the legislature of Georgia i had made a penitentiary offence. The ground upon which that decision was made and the Indian released, was that the law was un : constitutional and violated numerous trea 1 ties made with the Indians, and expressly ! guarantying the undisturbed possession and occupancy of all their lands not ceded to the whites lam not going tc argue the cor rectnes3 of that decision: at no very distant day l contemplate presenting tothe public the life aud writingsof its author, at which time I trust I shall be -able to do justice to tbe legal ability by which it was sustained. My present purpose is to appeal to the public, and in that public to include his worst, enemy, George R. Gilmer, to know if Judge Clayton did not deserve, in what was , intended as a history of the controversy at that time, to have had justice meted out to his motives. What are the facts? Mr. Gil mer an 1 he belonged tothe same political ! party; they had been personal friend; every inducement upon earth, save the conscien tious discharge of duty, existed why a con | trary decision should have been made His ! own political friends had passed the law; he j in common with every citizen of Georgia was , anxious to have the Indians removed tothe west of the Mississippi; hits decision he knew must have the effect to embarrass that hoped for object; the discovery of gold had phren zied the people, and all were solicitous for an occupancy of the Territory; his re-elec ; tion or defeat as judge was within sixty days ; of the time; there was not the possibility of , a personal benefit to him or bis friends by ! discharging the Indian, and yet, in the face of all thse difficulties, he did nothing more ! ■ than what lie conceived to be his duty. For j all which I do not claim for him any credit, j but I do think, that when the true history is written he should be exempt from censure. ; The sequel was as every one predicted— ! the legislature refused to re-elect him judge, j | though the people elected him to Congress j !in less than,sixty days thereafter. Mr. Gil mer was defeated for governor about the same time, h ivg rendered himself obnox ious to the people of the State It had the effect upon him of hydrophodia, from which : lie has never Recovered lie lias been -snap • ping and snarling at every successful states man and every political organ'aation in the State ever since ; life clear and pellucid streams of charity throws him into convul sions, au-i he will soon pass away unwept, ituhonorcd, and unsung, with the melan ohoTy remembrance that the only true ser vices lie has ever rendered his country or ! his klri-t are his omission*. In speaking of political parties subsequent : to-the time of which I have been writing, Mr. ! Gilmer at page 465-of his book, lias the fol low ng passage : s< A few days after my re turn home, (from the Anti Tariff Convention i. Miltedgevillei) I received a letter from J lines Liddell, a leading member of the leg islature, in which he stated that he had heard ! a portion of my remarks against the doctrine | of nullification ; thaG-be did not understand J ihe subject, wished to be informed, and ask ed me to give him my views fully saying i that my letter should be strictly confidential. L wrote to him what my opinions were about the resolutions'which had been adopted by the convention, particularly that which set forth the extreme opinions of Mr. Calhoun of the power of a State to control the legisla ! tion of Congress on the subject of tbe tariff, : stating to him that they were given to bim -=elf, and not for others or the public. I was 1 j thus cautious, because I wished to avoid wri- [ i ting against my party friends. I kept a copy cf my letter. When the Democratic i State Rights party were about selecting a can ;didate for governor in 1837. those who were ; opposed to my being a candidate, and desi- ! ! rotrs that Judge Clayton should be. obtained I a mutilated copy of my letter to Liddell, and used it to excite the ou I lifters into opposition i ! to my nomination. 1 was in Virginia whilst j this intrigue was going on-. Upon being in- j formed us it. I wrote to Liddell that I had heard of his having communicated to others j the contents of my letter, and naked him to ; send me a copy. The sorry fellow, haying; ’ no suspicion that I iiad kept a copy, answer el that fie thought the letter did me great honor, sent a copy of the part which he knew to be offensive to the nulhfiers, and omitted 1 that which qualified what made it so, aver ring that his eyes were so sore and he so un veil, that it was as much as lie could do to j • copy What lie sent. I afterwards saw Judge I 1 Clayton and General Harris, who had been very busy circulating Liddell's mutilated copy of my letter; showed them the entire copy,- ami convinced them that they had beeu misled.” - ! IV he re no records exist to substantiate j facts, we are dependent entirely upon rec'ol ! lection; and while I would not say that Mr. j Gilmer, in this narrative, has suggested an untruth. I have no idea that he has given > all the facts as they existed at the time. My r-.-collection of the fiicts are these; On ac ; aoimt of Mr Gilmer s position, which was a perfect willingness to receive favors from the fkal.e flights party, white at the same time i lie was denouncing their principles to their opponents in letters, around which he threw the sanctity of privacy, many State Rights men determined not to support him. While he and his friends were very anx- I ious to secure the nomination of the State- Rights party, or perhaps it was after he had been nominated, the letter to Liddell was produced, to which Ue gave a meaning and signification that removed some of the objec tions which had been urged against him.— ’ Judge Clayton or his-friends'hud nothing to do with any intrigue to defeat his uomiuatio* or jpruc ureiwci rout uto-any mutilated letter j (or any such purpose. My opinion is, that . a correspondence took place bet ween Mr. Gil mer and General Hands at tlie timo, which l have no doubt would have thrown more light on- the subject than Mr. Gilmer was willing should meet the public gaze. 1 have oue other extract to notice in his i book, aud I conclude At page 485 he says : I was opposed to reohartoring the Bank. ; ami yet did uot approve of the means used ! by General Jackson for putting it down. The I Georgia rneuxlioFS of Congress who had been : elected on the sumo ticket with myself were i favorable to the Bank, urnl partisan oppo ! neats of General Jackson,’ This refers to the Congress of 1883-’4, at which time, the lions, Roger L, Gamble, Seaborn Jones, Thomas F. Foster, Richard H. Wilde, Augustin. 8. Clayton, and*, if T mistake not, James M. Wayne, were elec j ted with Mr. Gilmer upon the same ticket i and by reference to pages 483 “4, of House j Journal for the first session of the 23d Con gress, it will be perceived with the excep tion of Mr. Wilde, who voted for the Bank, and Mr. Gamble, who was abjent—the rest voted with Mr. Gilmer against the Bank Why this misrepresentation in a book that purports to be history, I am at a loss to un derstand. I have said nothing of his book in re’ation either to the credit it will reflect upon the State, the information it gives, or the place | it will occupy in the world as a literary pro duction. I have not sought a controversy, > and therefore I have avoided every thing like attack. Besides, I should be justly chargeable with more than an ordinary ma lignity to subject his book and his taste to the rules of criticism ; as it is, I have no de | fence against the unkindness of directing ! public attention to it. The misrepresenta-’ t-ions which abound in his * Sketches,’ when ! and where he speaks of the acts and motives | of other men. are so commou and so frequent, i that I have the charity to grant him the benefit of the habit, to rescue his own char acter from the infamy into which his auto ; biography has plunged it. P CLAYTON, j Washington City, January 23d, 1855. Arrival of the Africa. Halifax. March 15. The Cunard steamship Africa arrived this morning. She sailed from Liverpool on Sat urday, the 3d -nstant, nnd therefore brings ! three days later advices than those received ( by the Pacific The news is of the most im portant character. Telegraphic despatches were received in ; London on Saturday announcing that the ; Emperor of Russia had died that morning at I St. Petersburgh of apoplexy. Other nc ! counts state that lie was poisoned or assas i sinated. No particulars in regard to his | death are given. I No official announcement of the Emperor | having been previously sick had been made. The news of the Czar’s death was an nouneed in the two houses of Parliament by Lords Clarendon and Palmerston There are various rumors in London in regard to the death of the Czar. The gener al impression is that he was assassinated Tbe most intense excitement prevails not on ly in France and England, but tWrpugh.mt Europe. St Petersburgh, it is said, is rob ed in mourning There are many who discredit the report of the Emperor's death. The whole requires conifirmation. Letters from Paris state that the Empe 1 ror Napoleon is preparing to leave for the ; Crimea No further fighting had taken place bo- I fore Sevastopol. The allied troops were suf fering severly from the cold The peace conference was to have been held at Vienna on the sth inst Letters from Madrid state that the Span ish government was disposed to settle their difficulties with the United States in an am icable manner. From Prussia, and the other Germanic powers, the news is >t impor tant. Ifers Postage Law. Below we present, from the Daily Globe, ‘ the main feature of the New Postage Law, passed among the closing acts of the present Congress : The bill provides that, in liea of the rates ! now established by law, there shall, after ; the commencement of the next fiscal quarter, be charged for every single letter j in which manuscript, or paper of any kind in which information shall be asked for, or communicated in writing, or by marks or signs, conveyed in the mail for any distance ! between places in the United Stales hot ex ceeding three thousand miles, three cents j for any distance exceeding three thousand ! miles, ten cents. For a double letter, the | charge is tube double, for a treble letter, treble, and lor a quadruple loiter quadruple ’ thesorates. Every letter or parcel not ex ■ ceeding half an ounce in weight is to be deem ed a single letter; and every additional weight of half an ounce; or less than half j ad ounce, is to be charged with additional single postage. Upon all letters passing through or in the mail of the United States, excepting such as are to or from a foreign country, the post i age is to be pre-paid, except upon let ters and ! packages addressed to officers of the Govern j ment on official business, which shall be so marked on the envelope. And from and af ter January the Ist, 1850,’ the Postmaster J General may require postmasters to place I postage stamps upon all prepaid letters up toh which shcli stamps may not have been ! placed by the writers All drop letters, or j letters placed in any post office not for trails* I mission through the mail but for delivery on ly, are to he charged with postage at the rate of once cent each ; auil all letters which are hereafter advertised as remaining over, or uncalled fur, in any post office, are tocharg | ed with one cent each, in addition to the j regular postage, both to be accounted for as ! other, postages now are ’ No postmaster, or other person, is to be , allowed to sell any postage stamps envelopes for any larger sum than that indicated upon j their face, or for a larger sum than that ! charged therefor by the Post Office Depart ; ment; and all persons who violate this pro | vision are to be deemed guilty of a niisde ! ineanor, and, on conviction, be fined iu any i sum uot less than tcu uore more than five : hundred dollars. And further, that for the greater securi- I ty of valuable letters posted for transin.ssion j in mails ot the United States, the l’osimas j ter General be, and hereby is, authorized to establish a uniform plan for the registration , of such letters u-u application of the parties posting the same, to require the payment of the postage as well as a registration fee of : five cents on every letter or packet, to be lie - i counted for by the postmaster receiving the ; same in such manner as the Postmaster Gep j oral shall direct—provided, however, that such registration shall not bo compulsory, j add it shall not render tho Pest Office Do • partmeut, or its revenue, liable tor the loss 1 of such letters or packets of the contents thereof. “Capital” Punishment—To bo hung a round a girl's neck till you are dead, duttd, dead. Marshfield the chosen seat of Webster, is Ito be sold by auction on the TFth iust. t ‘ THE STANDARD. CASSYILLE, GEO. | THURSDAY MORNING : MARCH 22. 1855. Brooks’ Alabama Hone. We are under obligations to Mr. Rnoons tor one of these invaluable articles. Hundreds i i have been sold in this and adjoining counties, ! and purchasers, without exception, accord to them superior excellence. Mr. 15. wid remain ( j in town a day or two longer, and we ad vise all j who shave their faces to cull on him before he ; leaves. Still Crowded Out. Packages of books have been received from C. J Scribner, and Leonard, Scott & Cos., New York, ; ! and .G. Courtenay & Cos., Charleston. As soon as ire can possibly crowd in notices of them it shall be done. We also have on our table Putnam’s Magazine for March, the Mining Magazine for March, and Number four of liar- 1 per’s Story Books, all of which shall receive due ; attention. Correction. We beg our frieqds of the American Union 1 j (Griffin) to believe that we did not misrepresent ! them intentionally. We are sure that the late municipal election in their place was spokeu of. i by the papers as a Know Nothing victory, and we thought the Un , was among the number. i We feel sure that friend Burr knows ns too well ito suppose that we would be guilty of an un truth, even if ive could “make anything by it.” , Vindication of Judge Clayton. We rc-publish this week an article from the pen of Philip Clatton, Esq., in vindication of his father’s memory against the aspersions of j Governor Gilmer. Tlus we do as a simple actof , justice not only to the memory of the distin guished dead, but to his living relatives, who j j are among the best citizens of <ur State. We 1 shall not speak of the merits of Mr. Clayton’s j , pamphlet—it speaks for itself. We really think, ; however, and will say, that a more unfortunate publication than the cx-Govc-rrior’s book was j ■ never made, both as regards his own represeu | t..tiou and, the credit of the State. Ca3s Superior Court. ! This body has been in session in our town f- r ; the past two weeks—his honor, Judge Irwin presiding. A large amount of business has been transacted, though the criminal docket has ! | not been gone through with up to the lime we j ; go-to press. Young Foster, convicted of bur- ! ; glary, was sentenced, last week, to two years < in the penitentiary, while several minor offences have been punished with fine and imprison ment, ; Among the legil genttefften present during •his and last week, we noticed Ex-Governor McDonald, Mess. Underwood, Dabney, Francis, ! and others. We also saw and had tin* pleasure ; of forming the acquaintance of that Valiant and ; well tried Democrat, Gen. Win. ]J. Wofford, , who, we are pleased to notice, is in most excel i lent health. We are rojo eed to learn that it is i Gen. W.’s intention, shortly, to settle in this District, aud we congratulate the Democracy on : the accession of such a man to their midst. I Bail Eoai Accident. The down train, on the State road, was thrown ■ ! off the track near Calhoun, on Sunday last, un der circumstanees that evidence the grossest I neglect on tbe part of somebody connected with the train. Directly after leaving the Depot at Calhoun, the train encountered a cow on tbe track—she was taken up by the cow-catcher and tbe train allowed to proceed (flout four I hundred yards before any effort was made to decrease the speed. At the end of this distance I the cow met with some obstruction, and threw both engine and tender off'the truck, smashing ; thorn np considerably. Fortunately tire passen ger caps were not injured. These facts we had from a responsible gentleman win was a pas ( sengcr ou the train. We don’t pretend to at tach blame to any body in particular. From our knowledge of the passenger conductors on i the road, we cannot believe them guilty ot wil .■ ful neglect of duty. But somebody is to blame, j and that somebody ought to “catch it.” Spring—Frost—Crops, &e. j Spring—br'ght, beautiful Spring wind winged emblem of hope, aud love, and youth, and gladness,” with thine eye of light and lip of song—thou season of birds, and flowers and | beautiful things—of love and joy and all things else pleasant to the heart and gladsome to j the eye, how were wc disappointed when we flattered ourselves, that thou had’st “ perma , nently located’’ in our midst. Wayward Spring! : despoiler of the gardens’ treasures, of the fruit ! trees flowering beauties, of the husbandman's i anxiously tended grain fields, better things were expected of thee!—than to take upon thee vriu | tor’s mantle, after having decked thyself iu i robes of verdure ! But to descend to plain prose, we were visit ed on Sunday night with a heavy ami ive fear destructive white frost. The peach, plum, and cherry trees, wore, many of them, in full bloom, nnd we fear that they are seriously endamaged. The “cold snap” was preceded bv two da vs of moot refreshing and greatly needed rain, but the sun is once more beaming upon us, and the weather is again pleasant, though colder than it ■ was before the rain. With proper seasons, wo learn tlmt plan-. | ters in this region anticipate large crops, the , coming season. Never were lauds in better ’ condition fbt- cultivation, owing to the frequent I and thorough freezes of the past winter, and : the entire absouco of heavy, beutiug rains. An , old resident and experienced fanner told ns, a few days since, that lie hud never known better prospects far largo and remunerative yields to ! the agriculturist. We sincerely trust, that they j will not bo disappointed in these “ reasonable ■ expectations, mid that abundant harvest* will i crown thcir.effbrts. The New Postage Bill. We publish iu another column the new pos ; logo bill, lately passed by Congress, it will be seen that all letters, except tlaiae to or from for eign countries, or to sumo government officer, on official business, are required to be pre-paid, after the first of next month. Our correspon ! dents will do well to bear this in ntiml, as uu l paid letters will be left in the post office where j they arc mailed, and finally returned to the ! post office department at- Washington, us dead I letters. A good many persons arc in the habit ■of taxing us with postage both ways—as wo al ways pre-pay our letters —and we are rejoiced | at the passogejof this bill, jffor n other reason, 1 because it will protect editors and publishers. In I future We hope that persons writing to Us fm their mm business, will also enclose a post,tge stamp, j to pre-pay the answer, if they expect to gel oho. ITt is hardly fair to expect a business man to | take the trouble to give information that floes j i not at all concern or interest him, and then to pav postage on the letter. Gen. Cass Nominated for President, j The following resolutions, among others, were ■ passed at a meeting of the Democracy of Mai | shall county, Virginifi, lately held : | “Resolved, That the varied services, Incor ruptible integrity and eminent ability of Gen’l ; Lewis Cass, distinguish him aB pre-eminently ! qualified to discharge tbe duties of Chief Mag s irate of this Union, and believing him to be the man fm- the times, above faction and above par ty, and devoted with all the energies of his gift ed mind to constitutional liberty, we, therefore, I under a solemn sense of orr duty to our com ’ man country, place him in nomination for the Presidency. “ Resolved, That the Washington Union and all the Democratic papers in the United States ’ be requested to publish the foregoing Resolu ■ tion, to the end that the people of every Con gressional District, town, hamlet and village, may respond, and place the nominee in the - ; White House.” Wc endorse every word and letter of the above Resolutions, and honestly believe them to he the sentiments of two thirds of the Democrats of the Union. Oen’l Cass’ national and repub-; licau views must make every American, let lorn ; be Whig or Democrat, feel proud of such a 1 statesman and patriot. Although he has seen ; his three-score aud ten years, he is yet in the possession of full intellectual vigor, and we sen- | siblv feel that his elevation to the Presidency ‘ would give more* strength and confidence to our government than that of any man now living.: ; No man would or could be deceived 1)V sup porting bim, because his views and principles upon every question effecting the rights of man and the American government are familiar to the whole nation. Let the South, particularly, and the whole country, prove that we are grate ful, by placing him at the bead cf our govern-, ment. Our Relations with Spain. The publication of the Ostcr.d documents ex ! plain the acts and views of President Pierce in relation to the purchase of Cuba. Although 1 wc believed tliat there was an effort on the part ! the Administration to negotiate with Spain, the j main object of which was the acquisition of tins I Island, yet there was considerable doubt in the > public mind as to the extent the President pro \ posed tti go, but now there can be none. We j now understand that the position of the Ad ministration is to exhaust all the means of di* j ! plomucv to effect an honorable treaty with Spain j . by which we may become the owners of Cuba during the present recess of Congress, and :f iu this timenothing satisfactory should be accom plished, then the President intends to lay the . subject before the national assembly, and call upon them fir such action as will result in an j acquisition of the Island. The action ot Con -1 gross must be an appeal to arms—the only ar ! biter between nations, and in such a course we j i believe our executive will be almost unammous -1 5y sustained at the South, and by tV.e Dcnaoerut iic party of the Uaion. Cuba must be attached :to our confederacy. Self-preservation, and a | proper regard tor the rights of man, demand it, and if it cannot be acquired in any ether wav’ than by a resort to arms, let the consequences ■be on the crowned heads of Europe. It w.ll be , ! a war of liberty on one sid.*, and tyranny on the ; other. The timid say that it will involve us in a war with England and France—this may be 1 true, but it should have no effect on our course, j If the monarclis of Europe are determined to j fight over again the battle us freedom, we are | its champions, and are prepared to meet them. I The Appointment of Judge Lumpkin. | The appointment, of the lion. Joseph Henry ‘ Lumpkin, as one of tbe Commissioners of tbe | j new Court of Claims, has given considerable ’ dissatisfaction to a portion of the press of Geor- ; gia. We confess, wc can sec in it nothing so i i very much out of the way. Judge Lumpkin is a Whig, but he has never been a violent parti- j I znn, while bus acknowledged reputation and ability admirably fit bim fir tbe position which ■ the President has assigned him. Both of the ! other gentlemen are Democrats, and the Court, i like our Supreme Court, will bo composed of; i two Democrats ami one Whig. This is as it I : should be. “In organizing a Court of this j j-character,” remarks the l imes <f- Sen-fine!, j ; “ care should be taken to commend it to the 1 confidence of the public, not only by tbe selec- j tion of able and impartial men, but by -giving j j each section of the country and every great par- ■ tv division a representative; otherwise the do i cisions of the Court will not command the re spect of Congress and the country, and thus! ! fail to accomplish the cud of its establishment. ! | As tlris Court is at present organized, the North, tlic South and the West, and tbe Whigs and the Democrats, will all have a voice in its dcCi.-r j ions.” Death of the Czar. The intelligence of this most- important amt i | unexpected event was brought to us hr the Af rica whose advices will be found in another eoL-j i uinn. We have barely room to notice it, even \ thus briefly. It seems to be the prevailing opin ion of the press of this country that the event ! will not probably bring about an early peace— | as it will be likely to induce the allies to dictate | new terms, which will not be accepted. We think differently. England, at least, is sick of the tight and will get out, if she cun, on almost • win* terms, and wo very much doubt if Louis Napoleon will reject any fair project for peace, !Wc shall see. It is not to the interest of this | country to have an curly peace declared, and wo trust that the allies may be made to sweat a while longer. The present Czar, Alexander, is fits years of age. j j-jpjr” Since writing the above, we notice that tho Russian Minister at Washington doubts the ! truth of the report. Our Exchanges. Georgia University Magazine for March, ed ited by E. K. Bozeman, D. Scott, U. U. Mc- Gough, J. A. Stunlev, nnd W. I). Washs.— Atlieus, Goo.: Hill niul Sledge. When our old friend, Gkoiuik Mooni;, oon j coived the idea, three or lour years ago,of com j mdicing the publication of a Magazine to bo ed ’ ifed by tlic Senior class of,Franklin College, we remember very well that lie was laughed at - the thing was absurd—it couldn’t be gotten up, and if started, would soon die out. So said the doubters. But they were wrong. George went i into it in his usual wnjr—with his sleeves rolled up, niul the Magazine commenced the world with a pretty fair subscription list, ami lias just completed its seventh volume, iu spite of them all. Wo are glad of it, and trust that the. day is not far distant when it will number its patrons by thousands, and become for our section what the Dublin University Magazine is for Ireland and Great Britain. The present number is well edited, ami the work deserves success. Terms, j $:? a year. j The People Always Honest. However occasionally misled, the Ameri- j can people never have entifely deserted an upright and faithful public servant. No Ex cretive, in a long series of years, has been more traduced than President Pierce. Com- ‘ ihg ihto the chair of State after a great break j up of the opposition to the democratic party, ; voted for by men who had no other course of actioh left and who radically differed from him, it was impossible for the President to please them all. He concealed none of his own views: and yet he was expected so to mould his policy ns to obliterate those organ ic differences upon principle which must al ways exist in this country between the friends and the foes of a loose construction of the constitution of the United States, many of theso men expected him to gratify their opin ions. and because they had grown weary of wbigjrerV anticipated that he had grown tired of democracy. It was natural for such infiuen c<\s to protest when the President vindicated his early convictions by his subsequent ac tions: nnd it was no less natural tlra’ an opposition thus re-aroused should assume evert* shape, and resort to every expedient, to gratify its recovered animosities. This state of things also invited the co operation of disappointed demagogues like Edmund Burke, wbo supposed tliat because certain whig leaders had become offended by tlift ac tion of the President, therefore the, would he enabled to wreak their venger nee, nnd to j avenge their personal griefs. There is a striking similarity between this retrospect and the expectations formed in regard to General Jackson after his election in 1828. A powerful pntdic opinion carried bim into tbe presidential chair. Old ha treds were transiently forgotten, old divis- , ions transiently obliterated. Then, as in the election of President Pierce, the demo cratic party was regarded by eome of those “new time friends of Jackson as an obsolete idea, and men expected that the Hero of New Orleans would accept their op'n : ons ns a re- • ward for their votes But. with intui*ive sagacity, the moment lie got into power, he turned to the democratic creed for protection nnd for counsel. He found there the eng endering barrier against extravagance and fraud. lie resisted loose nnd licentious leg islation lie corrected the errors of tbe past He removed the obstacles-to unrestricted trade. He did not hesitate to drive from the temple the money-changers, and finally to attack a monster monopoly as the enemy of the rights of the people. The youngest pol itician? will rememderthe result. The tim id deserted—the craven sold out —the disap pointed threatened—and for a brief period the whole notion sepmed to V o r-n ti p eve of n ..revolution.” But the President stood firm, nnd tlie ominous tempest passed away with the errors and the falsehoods of those ; who had looked to that tempest as a hurri cane that vrns to sweep Jackson out of the presidency. Many had been for a brief pc- ; rvad carried away by this tempest : hut as the hero in the presidential chair perservered in his efforts in favor of the rights nnd the interests of the people, the masses responded to hie proud example, and thousands who had clamored against him yielded before his fear less nnd inuring action President Pierce may rely upon the same high and honest Judgment The assaults that have been made Upon him may have af fected pnhlie opinion for a brief period ’ Until great issues demanded popular refUc -1 tion. it was natural that these assaults should excite unfriendly apprehension nnd criticism But. when the voters of Our country see that i on the one band, the only alternative that a reckless opposition has attempted to offer Tins been that of an appeal to narrow and con tracted prejudices, while on the ‘other, a fearless and patriotic Executive exhibits the | most sincere solicitude and the most self sac rificing devotion to the interests of all class ! es nnd sections, who can doubt where the ’ popular verdict will fall, or up<n what side the American people will throw their en'igh ! tened suffrages?— TVash Union. Georgia and t&o Administration. | Several Democratic papers in Georgia have | complained, recently, very bitterly at the I conduct of the Administration in the distri j tuition of the spoils in Georgia. We think j the complaints unfounded. Georgia lias re ceived her share. A Georgian, Henry R I .Jackson, is Minister resident at the Court of Austria. A Georgian. Edward P. Harden, j lias heen appointed to a Judgeship in Ne j brnskn. A Georgian. William .J Hardee. I has been appointed Major of Calvary. A I Georgian, Wm, II T Walker, has heen ap i pointed Major of lufantry. A Georgian, Philip Clayton, is Second Auditor of the : Treasury, and a goodly list of Georgians fill j subordinate officers in the Departments at j Washington City. A Georgian, Matthew , Hall MeA’ister, has recently received the ! appointment of,Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States in California And j last of all, a,Georgian has been appointed j Judgenf the Court of Claims recenUy estab lished. But this last appointment is regard* : ed as an insult rather than a favor by our j Democratic cotemporaries. Why, pray . | Judge Lumpkin voted for Pierce, and ac j cording to the canon so strenuously insist i ed upon that *to the victors belong the ! spoils,” he is as much entitled to office from the present administration as those Demo ■ crats who are so ravenous for ti e prey. This array of names will show that the President has not slighted the State ofOeor gin in the distribution of the officers in his gd't. j Wo have said this much in reply to this objection to the administration as it has been made with some violence; but wo look upon it ns utterly contemptible even if it could be sustained. A patriot- does not tight for spoils hut principles. He can ni* s thor be bought by the gift of office; nor will he desert his colors because be is not per mitted to share the spoils of victory. The j only question worthy of being considered is the fidelity ®f the administration to the con 1 stitntiou, ami its efforts to promote the,best , ; interests of the country. In these regards we challenge enquiry ns to the course ol Bros j ! ident Pierce, except m the appointment of Reeder ns Governor of Kansas. lie has aid ed in the repeat of the Missouri Compromise; lie has curbed the violence of abolition fa naticism ; ho has driven the harpies from the Treasury, lie is the friend of the South ami her rights under the constitution.— Tbeso ure his claims to the support of Geor gians.— Columbus Times. A fire at Detroit has burned a large livery stable atid til'teeu to twenty horaes. Loss 1 *20,000. 1 Know Nothlngism and I ; When then the N. Y. Hen rah], 80l)nd 11 J alarm to the South, by admittiuo- t j, rj tion proclivities of the Know Nothing 6 \ those who are familiar with the toce f 1 j journal for the last three months, 8h 0ull ; longer hesitate as to their (ourse. if are in the least attach to Southern i nß , * tions Read the following article wh e 1 take from the Herald of a late date w** we commend to the serious attention ofjiv holders; .. Read the proceedings, in another j. att , i this paper of a late anti slavery nieetin* Boston —the speech of Anson Burlng atet its full endorsnient by General Henry \v son —nnd it will be manifested to every n,;, that the first tnnb elected ly the Ktn Nothings to the L” 8 Senate is the n.ost raticnl and implacable abolitionist ev e sent that body Heelidorses all that fi sr rison or At by Kelly Foster cculd urge ft opposition to Southern sir very oxeeptitiji the inimt-dia e dissolution of the Union .. What doe? this mean ! It leohs tile at alliance bctU'cen the Know jYot/ntigs O nJ abolitionists Is it So? What says the State Cotincil of Massachusetts ? Let them speak or forever hereafter keep to the hor h of Mason & Dixon’s line. This mailifeStci cf Wilson, as Senator of “ he Massachvsetti Knvie-JVothiugs, malts t'mm a sections: party at once. The south eon have nothin, to do with them. They must he repudiated : The existence of the Kuow Nothings as a na tional party hangs uj>on this question of sla very. Their first fleeted Senator is a boast ful abolitionist of the Guiding* stripe b lie a good and accepted Know-Nothi*g or : has he deceived them? The Presidency ig i closed to the order if they permit this Wih ; son to stand rs their exponent in the Jv-nate !at Washington His nianif’sio will be a bombshell ii Hitgiuia Let Henry A. \\;? read it the people as the f rcclnniatii nos the Know-Nothing Senator elect fr> in MassutLu i setts to the South What say the Massachusetts State Coun cil, and other Northern Ct i.iicds? If thty j at t in Uague with the artU-slazery facUu „* their rare is run.” The Washington Monument A.sock tiGn. On Thursday last, : and elec ton w s held at the City Hall for the officers and Board <J : Managers of the Washington Monuiuen* Association. No one dreamed oi opjosit in to the old officers and board Many of them had served Lorn the first organ.zat.on of ‘i.e association, and all of them were gem in , of the highest character, and enjoyed to tr- fullest extent the j uMie confidence 1! y had devoted their time nnd attention m :i.e erection of the Monument with m compen sation, from a pnre and,Losy >pu i of { at riot* | ituit. ?io charge had ever b.en tu-ught a ; gainst them, of a misnpplie*tern of the fumls. Jor a want of assiduity in the discharge of their duties. Indeed nucli was ‘he t-i i.fi h i.ee of.hu community in them, l! t I tis !<w <•; 1 nor citizens eared to inform t tn-lnselvo cf 1 the day of electb ®. or, if tb y hr j> cm > ; observe in the pnptu a ut the ot it. th* y *hd not deem it worth while to vote, taking it for granted that the old ifli eis ah . I- .!•} would t-e re elected. It is t curved, tit at no eltctkn j r-oi to that wh.th las jest taken place, wore than ftvtS’J D-u t xtrf ever east. The Know Jm >L n g saw. fun* the entire and well deserved :fi! h e re> * ■ ed by our fellow citizens, in the n>r n.-i-c ----naect of the Monument, that it would I* tn easy miter to r*st it Iw m such c> r. j< r; and fith!sl hands, and transit*’, it it* o.li ; ers when* they control, nnd can o> *ict‘ te | subserve their views and inteiust. ‘1 .< vm ; eordifiglj 1* and their plans in their mat ; undt* gl*t meeting, tnsnvjfifee the Con n unity I by an entil e change of theifiiceis and i- .nd j of managers ns lvr as they had the | < wet to !do so. nnd Low fatly they *ee-n | l-s*i:*dU* t ! puijose, the fedhwing result. i f the elect <*> , will show ; Ohi (JRar.*. A’itt Cff.eirs. Ist Vice Frf ‘.dt M. Gen A HUndersofe, Ves-r-nn Eh -’ 3d Vice President Thomas Carl-ery, G. Plant Treasurer. John Carroll Bieut, C C. Tucker 31 AM At; t Rs Chi Hoard Aitr Board, Major Gen. Scot, French L Evans. { Gen. Walter Jones, J. 11. BrudUy. i Peter Force, S t- Bi }-gs : Win. A. Bradley, C R. Belt, Waltei I.euox, * J N. Craig. ; W. W. fteuton. T D SSnr.dy, Elisha Whittlesey, J. 0 Busey. W. W. Corcoran, Henry Addison,Mayor j Georgetown j P. R. Fendall, R. T. Knight. Lieut M i*. Maury. J. A. Gcrdou, j T. llartly Crawford, Sam. lh-ugias, , Thomas Blagden, .1 Libby, j Beu. t). Taylor. J. A. Brooks In the old list there is not a name that is j not well known to this community, ami most lof them to the country at large Jn the new list, with the exception of Mr Bradley and Mayor Addison amt perhaps the Rev F rends | Evans, of unenviable notoriety, there is not a name generally known to our citizens • It will he seen that the brave General Scott,- the first warrior of our country, who has W ( recently received the stamp of the highes* approbation of his tellow-clizens. by the pa? 1 ’ ; -age of an act of Congress creating a Lieu 1 truant General's appointment lev his cxchr ; >ive bent fit, has been removed from a po*3 I so gru.eful to his patriotic heart. The veto 1 evatee and learned counsel or Walter Jones. , and also four Ex-Mayors of the city, the be uevelent ami public spn ited citizen. W W. i Corcoran the highly d.stiuguished Lieutenant Maury of the Navy. honest Flisha Whittle sey, ami other leading and greatly j citizens have shaved the same fate. It d ,,eS ! seem to us tlutt if the Know Nothings had t!” signed the destruction of the Mmument they i could not have given a severer blow. And ought not the wanton au Inexcusabletetnot i ; al of such men from so sacred a trust to : startle the community, and cause every good citzeuto reflect upon the dangers of tliebigoLd< tion. who, iu their secret miuuigJit orgies, resolved to trample upon all that is ennob ling in character, to defeat the ends and ob jects of the constitution nud laws, to elevate ignorance, and close their eyes to every diS’ unction between virtue anl vice ? [t is stated that the Rev. L. L. Hamliue, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has donated $23,000 towards the establish ment of a university at lied Wing. Minne Bota, to be called the *ll amline University ‘