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THE STANDARD.
WOLFORD, BENNETT & SMITH,
EDITORS.
OASSVILLE, GEO.
THURSDAY^MORNING:
NOVEMBER 1, 1855. *
Take Special Notice. —We request our
subscribers, living in the vicinity of Cass
ville, and who wish to pay their subscrip
tion in advance, to bring us bushels of
Com, for which the market price will be
paid, and placed to their credit on our
books. We want some 60 or 70 bushels,
and by doing this it will be an accommoda
tion to us, and an easy way for you to pay
your subscriptions. Bring us, say 1 barrel,
each, and we will give as above stated.—
Call at the Standard Office.
Now is the Time!
Those of our subscribers in this vicin
ity desiring to pay their subscriptions
for tbe ensuing year in Wood, will con
fer a favor on tbe “ Printers” by sending
a few loads forthwith. Remember!—
tlove wood is the kind we’re after.
On Wednesday evening the 24th of
October, we bad a smart sprinkling of
snow.
The Cherokee Baptist Convention
convened in this place on Friday last.
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Death of Z. G. Turner.
We regret to learn of tbe death of
Zachariali G. Turner, of this county. lie
died at bis residence on Saturday last, of
Typhoid Fever.
Mr. T. was one of the candidates of
the Democratic party for Representative
at the last election. He was in every
sense of the word an honest man, and a
good citizen, and was universally esteem
ed by all who knew him. His loss will
bo severely felt in his immediate neigh
borhood.
Democratic Anti-Know No
thing Convention.
The Democratic Anti Know Nothing
Convention, for the county of Cass, will
convene in this place on next Tuesday.
The object of the Convention is to select
and place before the people, the names
of suitable persons as candidates for coun
ty officers, for the coming January elec
tion. Let each militia district in Cass
county be ably represented by three del
egates, so that wise aud consistent se
lections may be made.
New Goods, for the Fall Trade.
Those of our friends visiting Cassvilie
intending to buy anything in the line of
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, &c..,
will please bear in mind that our friend
Upshaw has on hand “some of those
articles,” and thinks he can sell upon
as reasonable terms as any merchant
in this section of tho countiy. Call and
examine the fashions and prices,—be
s.des getting a peep at tbe “ pretties,”
you can get a “ squint” at Ben, who you
know, is “ punkins” in a “ bear-jig h t.”
cos
Don’t Neglect It!
If you liavn’t had your picture taken
yet, don’t fail to go at once to Mr. Priv
ett and have it fixed up. Somebody
wants it, we’ll warrant. If you havn’t
got a sweet heart, it to your mother
or sister : if youv’e none of them to give
it to, keep it yourself. The time may
come when your friends would give
worlds for your counterfeit presentiment.
“ Secure the shadow, ere the substance
fades.”
We refer our readers to the advertise
ment of Lamar, Lowe, & Cos., in another
column, aud bespeak for them a liberal
patronage, such as they are in evory re
spect worthy to receive. We are per
sonally acquainted with two of the firm
and know them to be gentlemen in the
strictest sense of the word—upright in
their dealings, and attentive to business.
Can you ask more ? If not, lot the peo
ple of Cherokee Georgia and elsewhere,
having produce to sell, consign it to
Messrs. Lamar, Lowe & Cos., Atlanta,
Ga., and try them and prove them and
you will find them to be just such men
as we ropresent them.
And, by-tbe-by, no doubt there are
some persons in Cass county wanting to
treat themselves to s* new suit of clothes.
Well just let us tell you where you can
find them, for we saw them there no
longer ago than last Saturday evening,
Mud they are right cheap, too, we tho’t,
—at Messrs. W. <fe J. N. Byers, Carters
> iPe, Ga. And they also have on hand
1 >ry Goods of all kinds and Groceries,
m iiich they will sell on the same terms.
<>ivo them a trial. See advertisement
in another column.
Interesting Correspondence-
Letter from New York.
80 Maiden Lane, New York, )
Oct. 24, 1855. j
Mess. Bennett & Smith :
Dear Sirs —l shall feel much pleasure
in giving you a contract for twelve months
for the insertion of the advertisements of
my Pills and Ointment, (of the usual
length,) weekly, with cuts for headings,
to bo inserted on the second or third
page, the two forms to be alternated
weekly, and anew special notice to ap
pear every week, tog( thor with an edi
torial once a month in your weekly, of
fifty lines in length, leaded, and to be a
mong your readable matter, and not near
the columns containing the notices or
advertisements. These editorials will
bear the endorsement of some of the best
New York city papers, and be written
in a style tending to diffuse a general
spirit for advertising among most classes.
I have already expended very large
sums for advertising i: y medicines in
this country, and intend continuing to
do so on a scale far beyond what has
been attempted by other advertisers. I
think that under the circumstances, you
will not object to the editorials, but rather
feel disposed to give me this assistance ;
it is a favor I shall only require for the
next twelve months, to enable me to es
tablish my business here on a firm and
extensive footing: after that period they
will be dispensed with, the notices and
advertisements alone appearing.
For what I have above specified lean
only pay S2O for the twelve months. If
my offer be accepted, you will be paid
three months in advance on the receipt
of your first two papers ; a copy of everv
issue, containing my advertisements, <fcc.,
according to contract, must he sent here
(post-paid); to be re-mailed (when exam
ined,) to my news-room in London, and
filed there, where they will be perused,
free of charge, by a great portion of the
commercial community of that city, and
by strangers and visitors from all parts.
If my offer be accepted let me know, and
I will send on the new matter; the con
tract to date from the first insertion of
the same.
Trusting the above terms will meet
your approbation, and awaiting your
reply, I remain, dear sirs, yours, respect
fully, THOMAS HOLLOWAY.
Standard Office, Cassville, Ga., )
October 30tli, 1855. j
To Prof. Thomas Holloway:
Dear Sir, —We take this method to
answer your favor of the 24th inst., and
respectfully ask to be excused for not ac
cepting your ofi’er for advertising, for
several reasons. The ad vs. of your Pills
and Ointment are equal to a column,
which is worth $40.00; the “ special no
tices” alone amount to $52.00 a-year;
tho “editorial notices” which you ap
pear to have on hand, manufactured to
order, would amount to $48.00; a copy
of the paper, which you would expect, is
worth s2.oo—making on the whole the
respectable sum of $142.00 —and for
that vast amount of labor you propose
to pay the enormous sum of T-W-E-N
----T—Y D—O—L—L-A-R-S! Again, you
go so far ns to mention the page of the
paper upon which you would require
your advs. to appear —but we should
take the privilege to keep them just
where we pleased, and on some occasions,
when we were pressed for room, might
leave them out altogether. But here’s
an idea that “ removes the dilapidated
linen from the shrubbery”—not feeling
satisfied in wishing us to do your work
for considerably less than nothing, you
expect a copy of the paper furnished
free of postage! Guess on the whole,
Professor, we can’t, trade—your offer is
not accepted —and you need not send on
the “ new matter.”
Very respectfully, your ob’t. seiv’ts.,
BENNETT A SMITH,
Publishers A Proprietors Standard.
State Road.— The income for Sep
tember is, for Freights, $58,558 ; Pas
sengers, $17,114; Mail, $1,895. Total,
$77,5/8. Increase over September, 1854,
$36,242.
■—c or.
The Democracy of Georgia.
Tho victories of the Democratic party in
th* South nlmost lose their importance from
the fact that every well informed politicians
expected them Since Know Nothingism was
utterly routed in Virginia nobody looked
fur any otiier result in the other Southern
States, which have olmost always hitherto
been Democratic. The rout in Georgia has
been complete. The National Democracy
hns swept the Empire State of the South ”
The National Democracy of New York,
whose encounter with its Free Soil, dark
lantern enontios, ensues within one month
hence, send greeting their congratulations
to their brethren of Georgia upon this glo
rious victory. For it is not many months
siuce we of New York received from Georgia
the following frank and generous symbol of
recognition mid fellowship:
Resolved , That in the National Democratio
party of the North alone have been found
those patriotic men who have thus Btood by
the rights of the South, and judging thefu
ture by the past, that party is tho only or
ganization at the North that now exists or
can be formed with which tho South can con
•istently 00-operato.
Milton S. Latham has finally accepted tho
San Francisco Colleetorsbip.
Ho! for Kansas.
Much interest is manifested by the
people of Middle and South- Y estern
Georgia, in getting up Societies to aid
in sending emmigrants from this State
to the Territory of Kansas. Notwith
standing the hard-fought battle which
existed during the last session of Con
gress, between the true and patriotic men
both North and South, who favored our
peculiar institution of slavery, and black
hearted Northern Abolitionists, for the
passage of the Nebraska-Kansas Bill,
their actions prove them to be intent
on using every device to admit Kan
sas into the Union as a free State, over
the heads of Southern people. And, if
we fold our arms and sit down upon the
stool of do-nothing, they will do it, at
the next session of Congress.
Now, there is but one alternative—
and that is for the people of Georgia to
awake from their slumber and go to
work—form Emigrant Aid Societiesj
throughout our State, and open your
hearts and purses to assist in defraying
the expenses of those of our Southern
people, friendly to our system of slavery,
who would go to that country provided
they had the means to carry them. Let
the people of the slave States and slave
holders look well to their interests in
time to check the evil. We are truly
proud to see that the enterprising citi
zens of Columbus, and of Middle Geor
gia are moving in this important mat
ter. We hope that their efforts will
prove successful, and that it will stimu
late the people of Cherokee Georgia to
imitate their example.
Below we give an extract from a let
ter written to the editors of the Atlanta
Examiner , by a subscriber at Waverly,
in the State of Missouri:
“ Again (says the writer) wake your
people up to the importance of sending
some permanent settlers to Kansas.—
Missouri calls upon every Southern State
to aid her. I have just returned from a
tour through that Territory, and have
taken considerable pains to ascertain the
state of affairs there. The result of my
observation is, a confident belief that the
Freesoilers have a majority in Kansas.
The pro-slavery vote will not stand the
test, for the South is not arousing itself
to that interest, while its enemies from
the North and East are organizing and
increasing their forces daily. Call upon
your wealthy planters and farmers, and
all who are able to do so, to organize
and settle in Kansas some of your poor,
but adventurous and enterprising young
and middle-aged men. Kansas, be as
sured, is a fat land. Leavenworth city,
just eight months old, has 1500 inhab
itants, with a majority of freesoilers.—
Will the South suffer this? Will not
vour noble State—will not Georgia, the
Empire State —aid to change that ma
jority ? Will she suffer her border sis
ter, Missouri, to fight the great battle
alone.”
To which the the Examiner replies
thus:
“ The foregoing appeal we trust will
not be resisted anywhere in the South,
but particularly in Georgia. In Colum
bus, we are proud to see that a meeting
was to be held there on the 25th ult.,
to organize a Kansas Emigrant Aid So
ciety for tbe county of Muscogee. Can
we not organize one for Fulton ? We
know several persons who design emi
grating to Kansas from this county, ear
ly in January. There are others who
would gladly go, but require aid. Let
us wake up to this matter, for in it is
involved a principle dear to every South
ern heart, and deeply affecting all our
interests! What say the people of Ful
ton ?”
We repeat, that in all probabilliy Kan
sas will apply to our next Congress for
admission into the Union. If such be
the case, we have two things to fear:
Ist, If the freesoilers have a majority in
the House of Representatives, we have
reasons for apprehending that laying a
sideall regard for law or order, they will
admit Ilceder as a delegate from Kansas,
to the exclusion of the legally elected
member. This, all will ccncede would
be an outrage upon the rights and inter
ests of Southern slaveholders; yet such
depredations the freesoilers and abolition
ists of tho North are continually seeking
to commit. And, 2ndly, we have cause
to apprehend that thero are already a
majority of freesoilers in that Territory.
Nevertheless they failed to exercise the
advantage of their majority in the for
mer election of Whitfied, (whioh was
afterward protested and another election
ordered,) this should not effect the claims
of the rival delegates before the House ;
yet if we are to judge from tho votes cast
in the election beforo the people, tho
pro-slavery party is certainly in tho mi
nority ; for Whitfield’s vote, in the for
mer election was 2,508, while Reeder’s,
in tho last election, from latest accounts,
will be over 3,000. But, bo this as it
may, the pro-slavery party is not so se
cure as wo could wish it to be, and now
is tho time for the South to put forth her
energies to secure that Territory.
Wo will now say something of tho
inducements offered to persons wishing
to emigrate to anew country. And
in this respect, perhaps no Territory of
fers greater. We have our information
from a gentleman, who formerly resided
near the Indian Springs, Butts county,
Georgia, and who emigrated to that
Territory, we think, some twelve or
eighteen months ago, and has lately re
turned to Georgia for the purpose of get
ting up companies to emmigrate to that i
delightful country.
Mr. Cargyle savs : “ When I say that
th e whole country is rich, I am aware j
many will not appreciate the meaning
of this common expression as applica-!
ble to the extent of its fertility. The soil 1
all over the limits I have mentioned, |
will average three and a half feet of the
most productive lime soil. It will pro- j
duce 58 bushels of corn, or 20 bushels
of wheat—and such of it as is adapted !
to the culture, one thousand pounds of!
hemp to the acre. * * It is worth $5 |
per hundred. One good hand can tend
ten acres, and as much corn, wheat, oats,
and hay, as if he had no hemp to take
care of, which, independent of the other
crops, will pay his time, besides all ex
penses, will make the profits on the la
bor of one hand five hundred dollars per
year. lam aware that this statement
will be doubted. I questioned it myself
when I first heard it, and before I had
an’opportunity of seeing it demonstrated-
A brief explanation will render it plain
and satisfactory. Hemp is sown in the
spring—it requires no attention till Au
gust, when it is cut and passes through
the subsequent process, not necassary
here to be named. Thus, it will be per
ceived, between the time of sowing and
cutting the hemp, full crops of corn, d’ e.,
may be cultivated and boused. An es
timate of the value of these rich lands,
and of labor upon them, may readily be
perceived, when it is shown that a good
strong negro man will hire on these
hemp farms for two hundred and fifty
dollars per year, and such a negro will
sell for from SI3OO to $1500.”
We will say further that land is very
cheap, and can be bought for a trifle.
Mr. Cargyle speaks of the climate as
being very delightful—as being free from
local cause for disease.- The water is
pure, cool and delightfully pleasant to
the taste, and abundant and easily pro
cured, both from springs and wells.
He further savs, in an agricultural
point of view, Kansas proposes advanta
ges and inducements greater than any
co intry West of the Mississippi. All that
can make life pleasant, and fortune abun
dant is there to he found, if beauty of
country, fertility of soil, excellence of
climate, and purity of water, aie pro
moters of wealth, comfort, health and
happiness.
Finally, the Augusta Constitutional
ist tells us the way to go, expense of the
trip, Ac., which, we think is quite rea
sonable, and any person desiring toem
migrate to anew country 7 , cannot go a
safer route at a cheaper rate.
“Go lo Nashville by railroad, thence
down Cumberland by steamboat to the
mouth of Ohio river, from thence up the
Mississippi to St. Louis, thence up the
Missouri to Kansas City, change of boats
probable, at the mouth of the Ohio, and
again at St. Louis. The trip is made in
about ten days—expenses, cabin pas
sage about S4O from Atlanta, ou deck
about $25.”
Now may we ask the question, what
say you, jeople of Cass?
The January Elections.
The Augusta Constitutionalist thus ex
presses our own views. Let tbe friends of
civil and religious liberty look to these things
in time .*
. From appearances, in different sections
of the State, wo are satisfied that the Know
Nothing party intend to mako a vigorous
effort to restore their lost power and influ
ence in the result of tho October elections,
by renewed efforts to elect their county of
ficers, all over the State in January. We
give warning to our Anti Know Nothing
friends in time, and urge them to renewed
diligeuce in the coining contest. Our tri
umph in October last is not enough, we must
complete the work in January. W’e must
stand firmly by those friends who stood by
us then. The sworn cohorts of Know Noth
ingism will go in solid phaluux for their
meu, let us imitate their example, and sup
port our men.”
The citizens of Cass county, opposed to
Know Nothiiigism, should, with one accord,
unite heart and hand in effecting another
and if possible sorer defeat ou the first Mon
day in January next, than the K. N’s met
with on the first Monday in October last.
After repeated responses from Southern
sister States of the overthrow and downfall
of poor Samuel’s’ bulwarks or fortifica
tions, and putting their troops to flight, in a
confused and distracted condition, and ex
posing their aims and objocts, the Democra
cy of Goorgia, and particularly of Cass coun
ty , feeling pretty safe, to some extent cens
ed their wurfaro—or rather slackened their
exertions, while Sam’s friends wero on tho
alert. At the midnight hour they were ea
gerly communing together, in secret, and
devising ways and means to accomplish
their designs, and come out victors over their
opponents in the end ; and this they did do to
some extent in several counties. And
numbered among them was unfortunately
Cass county, Let this not bo tho case with
respect to county officers in the coming Jan
uary elections. But lot th* Democracy of
Casa send up their delegates from oaoh mil
itia district, to the Convention to bo held in
this place, on our, next sheriff’s sale day
(next Tuesday) and nominate for county of
ficers suh men as will faithfully execute
the laws of our country. Come in the spir
it and with the determination to renew your
efforts for tiie furtheranco of the Democratic
cause in this county.
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Democratic Meeting.
According to previous notice a portion of
the Democratic party assembled in the Court
House in d'assville, on Saturday last, to ap
point three delegates to represent this dis
trict in the Convention to be held in this
place on the first Tuesday in November, (next
Tuesday) to nominate candidates for county
officers, for the coming January elections.
On motion of T. A. Burke, Esq., Col. Wm.
S. Thomas was called to the Chair, and
Samuel 11. Smith requested to act as Secre
tary.
On motion, a committee of three, consist
ing of M. McMurray, E M. Price, and B.
F. Bennett, was appointed to suggest the
uames of three suitable persons to represent
this militia district as delegates in the Con
vention to be held in this place as aforesaid.
The committee retired and after a short
absence returned and reported the names of
M. A. Crawford, Wm. S Thomas, and Lem
uel Dillard. The report was received and
unanimously adopted.
On motion, it was Resolved , That the pro
ceedings of this meeting be published in the
Standard, and that the meeting adjourn.
WM. S. THOMAS, Chairman.
Samuel 11. Smith, Sec'ry.
Democratic Meeting in Adairsville.
Oct. 26th, 1855.
A portion of the Democratic and Anti-
Know Nothing party of the 15th District
met in Adairsville, for the purpose of ap
pointing delegates to the Convention to be
1 held in C'assville on the first Tuesday
in November next, to nominate suitable
candidates for county officers.
On motion, G. C. Goldson was called to
the chair, and It. J. Bartholomew requested
to act as Secretary,
On motion of 0. D Anderson, a committee
of five were appointed to select delegates,
viz: W. C. Johnson, D. 11. Farmer, Pi. W.
Slawter, John Biddey, and O. D. Anderson.
The committee retired for a few moments
and returned and reported the following
names as delegates : John C. Aycock, Wm.
Johnson, and It. J. Bartholomew.
On motion of O. D. Anderson, power was
it vested to fill vacancies, if any of the above
should fail to attend
Onmotion.it was ordered that the pro
ceedings of this meeting be published in the
Standard. On motion, the meeting ad
journed. G. C. GOLDSON, Chairman.
It. J. Bartholomew, Sec’ry.
Condition of the Churches in the Uni
ted States-
At a recent conference of the Evangelical
Alliance in Paris, Dr. Baird, author of
Religion in America,” submitted a report
upon the state and progress of Religion in
America, of which we avail ourselve to col
lect statistics of the present condition of the
diferent churches in this country. Accord
ing to the report,
The Protestant Episcopal Church
numbers at this time 33 dioceses, 38 bishops,
1,714 clergy, and 105,350 communicants.
2. Congregational Denomination—
-2,449 churches, 1,848 pastors, 479 ministers
| without charge, and 207 608 members.’
3. The Baptist Church. Regular or
associated Baptists, 500 associations, 10.131
churches, 6,175 ministers, and 808.754 mem
bers. If we include all other kinds of Bap
tists, the entire number known under that
name will be 15,131 churches, 8,525 minis
ters, and 1,075,754 members.
4. Presbyterian Churches. —Of the
Church proper there are 2 general assemblies,
52 synods, 254 Presbyteries, 3,770 ministers,
4.035 churches, and 368,433 members. In
cluding all other branches, 4 general assem
blies, 79 Bynoils, 417 presbyteries, 5,889 min
isters, and 680.021 members.
5. Methodist Churches.—
Risk- E/d- Min- Mem
ops. crs. isters. bers
Metli. Epis. Church, 7 235 4,579 783,358
Meth Epis Ch South, 7 131 1,672 579,525
Unit Breth in Christ, 4 1 250 67.000
Evangel. Association, 2 195 21,076
African Met Epis Ch, 3 300 21,237
African M E Zion Ch, 2 155 6,203
Metli Protestant Ch., 916 70,015
Wesley Met Conu’x'n, 310 23,000
Prim Methodist Chur. 12 1,100
25 464 8,389 1,662,517
G. Lutheran Church.—l general syn
od, 23 district synods, 980 ministers, 2,000
congregations, and 190,000 communicants.
7. Moravians. — 1 Bishop, 23 churches,
2S ministers, and about 5,000 communicants.
8. Menonists.
isters, and 30,000 members.
9. WINEBRENNERIANS.
preachers, 168 churches, and 17.500 mem
bers.
10. Orthodox Friends.—The census of
1850 states that their places of worship were
valued at $1,713,707, church accommodation
287,073.
11. Unitarians —26ocongregations, 260
ministers, and 35 000 member?/
12. Swedenborgians. -45 Churcheß, 33
ministers, and 3,000 members.
13. Christians. —600 preachers, and
25,000 mombers.
14. Uni verbalists. —828 churches, 640
ministers, and 50,000 members.
15. Homan Catholics. —7 archbishops,
33 bishops, 1,704 priests, 1524 churches. —
Archbishop Hughes says there arc 3,500,000
Roman Catholics in the Unitod States. Dr.
Baird thinks the number of communicants
can hardly exceed 12 to 14 hundrod thou
sand.
16. Jews.—Tho Jewish synagogues wero
estimated in 1850 to hold 19,588 persons,
nud valued at $415,000.
The Albany Argus aftor alluding to tho
domooratio party as tho only true oonserva
tivo constitutional party of the oouutry adds
with much force:
nit is evident that tho great struggle of
next year will bo botwcon nationality and
sectionalism—patriotism and treason—
our country and its enemies. Honest and
discerning men oan sec tho ooming issue must
choose tho side upon whioh they will enlist.
The Post Office at Bailey’s Mills, Gordon
county, Ga., has been discontinued.
Thore are now 069 students in the
different departments of Harvard Uni
versity,
Later from Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE
C
Columbia, Oct 24.
The steamer Africa has arrived, with la
ter European dates.
Cotton Market.
Cotton. —The market is irregular, and
has declined l-4d. to 3 Bd. for fair Up
lands and lower grades. Sales for the week
| thirty-one thousand bales, including five
thousand bales to speculators and for ex
port. Fair Orleans is quoted at 6 l-2d ;
Middling, 5 5-Bd.; Fair Mobile 0 1-4.; Mid
dling 5 7-l Gd.; Fair Uplands 6d.; Middling
6 3-Bd.
Flour.—Prices have advanced Is. Can
al Flour is quoted at 41s ; Baltimore 43s Gd;
| Ohio 44s Gd.
WHEAT and CORN Wheat lias advanc
ed 3d. White is now quoted at 12s 8d ; red
12s. White corn is quoted at 40s ; yellow
■ 40s Gd. The market is active and unchang
ed. The Provision market is firm
In Manchester, advances are unfavorable.
Money Market-
The Money market is tighter. Consols are
now quoted at 87 1-2.
News from the Seat of War-
The Allies are active on the Danube—
Kars still holds out against the efforts of
the besiegers.
All is quiet in and around Sevastopol, ex
cept a few stray shots from the Russian bat
teries.
A slight engagement took place near Ker- !
tsch in which the allies gained a slight ad- j
vantage.
The allies are threatening Perekop.
The bombardment of Odessa by the fleet
of the allies, is expected soon.
Later per Africa-
Columbia, Oct. 24, p m.
The papers by the Africa say the Rus
sians have withdrawn from the North side of
Sevastopol towards Belbec —only a few be
ings left in the forts.
The Czar is at Nicolaeff, attending a
council of war.
The French General is concentrating his
troops and munitions of war at Sillistria
An Austrian circular says, though Prus
sia is at liberty to act as mediator, the pre
sent is not a proper time—that the Western
powers must follow up tho advantages gain
ed, and not treat with Russians until she
is expelled from tbe Crimea.
The Russians and Turks have had an en
gagement, in Asia, and the latter lost four
hundred killed. Alii Pascha was tuken
prisoner.
The garrison at Kars was reduced to
great extremity, for want of provisions. O
mar Pasha is advancing to raise the siege.
In the Baltic, nineteen merchantmen were
captured by the fleet of the allies.
Denmark has invited all maritime pow
ers, including the United States, to a Con
gress, to be held at Copenhaven, to settle
the question concerning the sound dues.
The Ministry of Greece resigned, and a
new Ministry lias been formed.
Additional Foreign News.
The steamer Africa brings a few ad
ditional items, tu what has already been
published.
Odessa was expected to be immediate
! ly bombarded by the Allied lleet, which
was before its walls.
Nine thousand five hundred of the al
lies were employed daily in making a
road from Balaklava to the camp.
It is said that the sunken Russian
ships can be raised without difficulty, as
the Russians closed them in every part
but one, and attached hose to the hulls,
so that the water can be pumped out
when required.
The fleet before Odessa consists of
eight ships of the line, twenty-seven
steamers and one other vessel.
For the last three weeks of the siege
of Sebastopol, the Russians lost thirty
two thousand men, irrespective of dis
ease.
Her Majesty’s ships London, Rodney,
j Albion, Leander and Wasp, have re
i ceived orders to proceed, under the com
mand of Admiral Stafford, to the coast
of Italy.
Georgia News Items.
Rev. C. M. Irwin, of Madison, lias been
called to the pastorate of tho 2nd Baptist
Church, Atlanta, Ga.
The Cherokee Geergian runs to its head
the name of Daniel S. Dickinson, ns its can
didate for the Pnesidencv. and Charles J.
Jeukins of Georgia for Vice Presidency,
The exercises of Franklin College, the
institution of the State, commenced on Mon
day the Bth ult., with the most flattering
prospects.
The Fall Term of tho Wesleyan Female
College, at Macon, commenced on the Ist
ult. The vacancy occasioned by the resig
nation of Professor Bonnell has been filled
by Professor Stanley, of Alabama.
Tbe Albany Standard has changed hands.
F. A. Duval, Esq , having sold his interest
to E. T. Jones, Esq.
The Republican Union. C'edar Town, Polk
county, has passed into the bands of its for
mer proprietor, Mr Cothrun.
At tho late mooting in Macon, no action
was taken in reference to consolidating the
Musoogoc and South western Rail Road.
Tho recent rains as wo notice from Colum
bus Atlanta, Millodgeville, aud other papers,
must have been general.
In Atlanta, preparations aro going on to
havo a lively time at tho approaching Races,
on the 6th of November.
Titos. Telfair Long, Senator elect from
Glynn gives tho report, that he is a Know
Nothing,a flat and unequivocal contradiction
through tho Maoou Telegraph
At tho fall term of the Superior Court of
Fulton county, which adjourned on tho 19th
inst., the sentence of death was passed by
judgo Bull, upon Can Costly—day of exe
cution, Friday, 16th December.
Splendid Premiums for Wheat.
The undersigned will gi T e premiums for
wheat shipped to Etowah mills and weighed
and Judged by his miller at the mills, for
the crop of 1856, as follows, to wits
Ist. For the best and largest crop grown
by one farmer, of Cooper Wheat, a Silver
Pitcher worth S6O.
2d. For the best and largest crop, grown
by one farmer of Walker Wheat, a silver
pitcher worth SSO
3rd. For 500 bushels of white wheat other
than Cooper wheat adjudged to be better for
the mill and farmer, in this country than
the Cooper wheat, a silver pitcher worth S6O.
4th, For any variety of Red Wheat, ad
judged better than it’is for the farmer and
mill a silver pitcher worth SSO.
6th. For tbe best SCO bus., Cooper Wheat,
by a farmer whose crop does not exceed COO
bush., a silver pitcher worth $25.
7th. For the best 200 bus,, Cooper Wheat
by a farmer whose crop does not exceed 250
bus., a silver goblet worth sls.
Bth. For the best 200 bus., Walker Wheat,
by a fanner whose crop does not exceed 250
bus., a silver goblet worth sls.
9th. For the best 2 bus., Cooper Wheat, a
silver cup worth $lO.
10th. For the best 2 bus., Walker Wheat
a silver cup worth $lO.
The wheat shipped, will be paid for at the
highest price of the market, ana shipper
allowed to choose his time of price payment
to Ist day of October 1856. A bill and R. R.
receipt must accompany each shipment. The
weight per bushel, good order and purity of
the grain, will be the criterion as well as its
adaptation to milling and farming purposes.
A statment of tbe mode of cultivation and
time of seeding and barvesing will accompany
the loss of wheat.
The premiums will be awarded and deliver
ed at Etowah Geo ,on the first Tuesday in
October 1856. M A COOPER,
octoter; 11, 1855-
Georgia School Masters. —lt is a
somewhat singular fact, that two of the
prominent Free Soil Members of the United
States Senate in early life taught school in
this State, viz ; Lyman Trumbull, of Illi
nois, and William 11. Seward, of New York.
They did not remain loßg in our midst, oth
erwise the epuntry might have escaped the
curse of two such arch agitators, and the
South the annoyance of their denunciations.
Both of them belong now to the Third Class
of Senators, whose terms expire in 1861, and
one of them (Wm. 11. Seward) is the most
prominent candidate for the Presidential
nomination of the Fusion Party of the North.
Trumbull taught school in Meriwether, and
Seward in Putnam county in this State
Journal Sf Messenger.
Miscellaneous Nows ’ Items.
Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of Alabama, is
going to lecture to the Abolitionists in Bos
ton.
There are one thousand cases awaiting
triai before the Criminal court at New Or
j leans.
An extra session of the Alabama Lcgisla
; ture, is to comm uce on the 12th of this
month.
| Speculations on tbe Presidency are becom
i ing rife at Washington. The result of the
recent election is regarded us gre-tiy ad
vancing Mr. Buchanan's chances for the
Democratic nomination.
The Madison (Indiana) Banner says every
body in that region is engaged in building
corn cribs. The like of the crops in Indiana
and Kentucky was never seen before. Tbe
farmers have their hands full.
The returns from Indiana indicat* a Dem
ocratic majority of from 10,000 to 15,000.
5 They have carried every county beard from
with three exceptions.
A wedding recently came oft’ in Mem
phis Tenn., which was the ninth occasion
i on which the bride had been made happy
by matrimony.
For Liberia.— Thirty-one negroes in
charge of Mr. Joseph McCulley, passed
through this city yesterday evening en route
for Liberia. They left on the 6 o,clock train
for Augusta, with a view to reaching Balti
moro in time to embark on the Ist November
We learn they are from Tennessee and were
emancipated by a Widow lady.— Atlanta
Rep. !f Bis. Oct. 26.
The next Denftcratic National Convention
will be held at Cincinnati, Ohio in, 1856,
Louisville Democratic.
The Democratic National Convention meet
at Cincinnati as stated but the time of its
meeting is to bo determined by the Central
National Committee. The time is not yet fix*
j ed.
The Kingston (Tenn.) Eagle hoisted the
name of Stephen A. Douglas for President,
! and A. O. P Nicholson for Vice President.
We give below the official vote of Alabama,
at th* election in August last for Governor :
Winston 43,658
Shortridgo 32,162
Wiston’s majority 11,496
Mr. Solomons, the Mayor elect of London
is of the Hebrew faith.
A violent Know-Nothing of Athens, in
speaking of the Southern elections svid —
•t There aro two things I am and have ever
been opposed to —the Democracy and the
Devil ‘ and went on to say that nthe Demo
cracy had rather go: h n down this timo.”
A democrat friend stauding by said *if
you continue on with Sam, your other ene
|my the Devil will soon have you in the same
fix.”— Southern Banner.
A Mistake.— The American party evi
dently made one mistake in selecting their
candidate for Governor. Instead of selec
ting a inoral and honest man, they should
have taken the most corrupt villain to b*
found.— Atlanta Republican.
Adackly ! The author of the above par
agraph, for instance. We think he comes
nearer coming up to tho requisitions specifi
ed, tha\ any man we wot of .--Buena Vista
Advocate.
The Governor of Virginia, the view of tho
fact that the hand of death has been nearly
stayed in two stricken cities of Norfolk
and Portsmouth, has issued his proclama
tion recommending that the 15th of Novem
ber next, be observed in that state as a day
of thanksgiving, humiliation and pray
er.