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Bounce the decree of : thclf eternal separa tion. And it came in the letter from which I have giveu the extract I shall not attempt to fathom the heart of Mary Pierson. I fear She had never done j so herself. But she rejected Philip Win* tuw. and it was because she thought she did not love him. She would not have believed f one who told her that she had looked on Lev love for him calmly and steadily, and weighed it in her secret soul against wild fancies and ambitious views ; and yet she did just so, and she could not, strive as Bhe would, she could not believe that she loved him well enough to be his humble wife. for to day. ftjr to morrow, for this little • while just before her. it wohld. be delicious She almost sprang-info his arms ns she thought of it. But after that and for a long life-just the calm, steadfast life, of his wife and nothing more— she could not be ’ iieve that was her destiny. But enough with motives, and let us pro ceed with cur story. A week after that letter whs written, Philip Winslow left the village. Here are extracts front two letters written a year la ter : Has a year produced any change ? It is vain to conceal the simple truth from you, Mary, that I am miserably -lonesome with out the hope of your love ; and I do not set* before me one spot so bright ns the light that shines through my grave. I have be lieved that you loved me. I have convinced myself that I cannot bo mistaken. I have hoped against all your calm assurances. And now, once more, and for the last time. I come and ask for love. Give ! give ! or Ii perish !*’ Her reply: * I said forever. Philip, and it must he so. You are right in believing that I love you. I was wrong in saying that I did not. But , Ido not love you as you wish We can nev- j er be more than friends. Forgive me, Phil- j ip, if 1 sadden you again. You would not j let it rest as it was. It must be v even so.— Seek no further to change for no change in mo. I have searched my heart through for you, carefully, faithfully. I have removed myself out of myself for the sake of looking at my soul, and Philip, it must be—it must be. Ido not even weep on this page while writing it, so cold am 1 in all this. And when I know that pain is wringing your heart, ny own beats steadily as before. God bless you, Philip Good bye !’’ CHAPTER 111. “ Oh! grief hath chang’d me, since vou saw me last; And careful hours, with time’s deformed hand, Have written strange defeatures in my face.” S hak future's Comedy of “Errors. Let us pass over a spnee of six years, that followed the date of the last letter. It is the afternoon of an August Sunday, in one of the most quiot and retired portions of county, among the —— mountains The day has been oppressively warm, and the air is sultry, giving indication# of the coming of a thunder storm. The little church of. stood at the very entrance of thtf mountain glen, where the brock, after dashing down rocks for half a mile, flows peacefully out iuto the meadow lands. The church stands among trees, which shade the peaceful groves around it, and which darken the windows even at mid-daj, so thick and heavy is their foliage. The building itself is old. The oak timbers, which were never covered nor painted, are somewhat worm-eaten, but very curious and ancient in appearance, and the eutire aspect of the interior of the church is that of old j times. In one of the large square pews, around which are curtains that exclude the vision of neighbors and even of the clergyman him self. are sitting two ladies, strangers ui the village, with bowed heads, waiting thecoin meucement of the afternoon service. The v.llnge had been not inlrequeatly, the re soi t of invalids from a distance, and one of ■ these ladies is of this class. The other, her ir ■, a young and very beautiful woman, ‘ h;;s accompanied her for the sake of com panionship. There was e strange fascination to the younger lady in the voice of the clergyman. It was singularly musical in the ears of any stranger, but to her there was something moie than she could describe in its power. At the first sound of his voice she sprang from her scat and looked toward him But the obscurity of a coming storm darkened the church, and she sought iu vain to recog iiise his features. It was a familiar voice and yet she could not place it. She had ‘ heard it before, yet it seemced rather that j she had heard one like it The service pro- j ceeded, and she sat in the corner of the pew and buried her face in her bauds, and seem- : ed to be sleeping. But she was not sleeping, i There wrs a tempest in the mind of the proud and elegant lady, sitting in the little up-country church, with her face hidden j from her companion. The sermon was on the pomp nnd vnnity j of the world. It was strange to hear the young clergyrnau preaching on such a sub- ‘ ject to his little congregation in that retired village. What temptations hud the world to such villagers and livers among the hills ? ; If they ascended to the highest peak of the mountains, they could but dimly discern the smoke of a large town. But tew of their young people had ever seen it. And yet the j temptations of the world hud entered that ! hamlet, aud the clergyman was as eloquent to them iu simple, strong Language, n s was the great Augus:ine iu his denunciations of sin. After the service was over the ladies left ! their pjw and stood for a few moments, while the congregation passed out. And then tho minister came down the aisle and, as be passed the door where the ladies stood, he bowed politely. The elder lady, returned the bow. The younger looked him steadily in the face and he passed on. So Mary Pierson and Philip Winslow had met and they parted as strangers. None but he who has experienced it knows the tremendous powe.r of a memory. It takes entire possession of the soul like a storm, sweeping over all that Ims grown there, and taken deep root—all the flowers that bavs been cherished, all the great trees that have grown up in might and strength, all the webs of fancy that bang there und are cov ered with dew drops. i And to oppose and overcome such a power a a victory tb&t ft strong Buß tuay be proud of. Such he achieved, and there was then a ealm after the storm A year after Philip Winslow sat in his study, lie hajl beet* absent from home for I three days. : L .” J| l <* A letter for you, sir. It came the day j you left.” It was a servant entering the j room with a light step, who handed it to ’ him. He glanced at the direction, and a I Sharp pang shoo through his frame and a I visible palor whs on his face. He grasped it convulsively in his hand, and staggered rather than walked toward the window where the last rays of the sunshine sti earned in through the half closed shutters. 110 | looked at it again, and sat down feebly, as i if iu pain. Again the tempest was up. Again the wild floods were, uvrr Ids soul. | Stern and terrible whs the resistance he | offered, and he conquered. He sat down calmly and locked at it. He i | was in no haste to open it. and when he did ; so, at length, it was as a business matter, ■ coolly, deliberately, without (so he said to himself,) oue throb of heart quicker than : usu 1 1. >• Philip come to me. lam dying ! How i I have wasted all the blessedness God offer- i ; edto me ! How 1 lmve deceived you, cursed | ■ myself ! Ido ove you, Philip. I have lov : I |ed you < very hour since I,knew you. I have | loved you witli superhuman-!-why should I not say inhuman love. And now I, the widow of another man, lonesome miserable, dyiug, call you baqlf to me, Philip, to see uie die !” He went to her. He found her in the splendid house she had inherited from her | husband, oue whom men called great, the j | representative of a gfeat power. lie was a I man of no affections, who had married her for the sake of her''brilliant mind, and had died, leaving her wealth she did not want, j and disappointment 1o all her hopes—aud : uow she was dying. Philip Winslow would not. have gone to ’ her t ut for the feeling that he might te use ful to her in the.hour of her extremity. It was not love that carried him hack. It was bis duty ns a Christian minister—nothing else; at least so he said to his heart, and doubtless the thought it whs true. She lay on a splendid couch, surrounded by all tlie evidences of wealth and ease.— She drank from crystal goblets set in gold, and the coverings of her couch were of the finest and most costly fabrics The ceiling of her room was frescoed in most exquisite colors, and the walls bu g with tapestries of quaint and expensive beauty All that was around her was characteristic of her tastes; all was beautiful, superb, magnifi cent. It dazzled Hie eyes of the young cler gyman when they showed him into her cham ber, as she had directed. He had come very late. She had watched hour by hour for lrs coming, and wondered whether ber.nmso g r could have failed. And at length she had become restless, and she gave him up .oil l the fourth day, and fever took hold of her and delirium followed. All her ravings were of him and the secret of her proud heart was known to all the ser vants in her house. And when he catne they knew him, and Smiled as he passed up to her chamber, marshaled by the aunt who was with herviri theicoUntry/seillage. Site lay .there* the wreck of all hersplen did beauty, and he looked on her and the past came before him —again aud again the storm came, rind he bowid bis head and yielded tu it now Yes, she was gloriously beautiful. It was she—liis young love—the idol of all his years of agony—bhe. that fay there, steeping now, calm, quiet, like a statue. He gazed Jon her face, and his heart beat now wildly, | fiercely, with the passion of youth. lie bent I over her and his breath was on her forehead, and she smiled and opened her eyes. • Philip. Philip !” and she lifted her arms to his neck, nnd he knelt by her and buried his face out of her sight, while he sobbed aliAid And then he put his nuns around her nnd held her to bis breast, and strove to j lecul! the vauh-li.ug powers of her young, i great heart. But all in vain. . When did human love avail to hold back j those departing pn (119. last journey ? That night they were married, nnd the next day she died, and when tier dust lay in his arms —his at last, but worthless dust—he felt once more and for the last time, the great storm in his soul; and having yielded once, lie resisted now auJ conquered bravely aud forever. lie left a kiss on her forehead, but no tear fell in her grave He went back to his vil lage home. Nmie there know of his struggle, and no man appreciated his victory. Doubt ! less the angels did. Sne left him her immense wealth, but he never touched one farthing of it. lie had a small property of his own which afforded him the means of iucreas’ng his library and 1 living in ease He removed to a village where Ins history was not known, and where ; lie spends his life in earnest works of love. Great Excitement at Doniphan, K T—An Abolitionist Killed. We learn from Mr. Newtnrin, of Doniphan, | that Samuel Collins, of that [dace, was kill led this morning about sunrise, by Pat. Luughlin As tar ns we have been able to learn, the circumstances are ns follows : Mr. Luughlin recently made an exposi tion of the midnight organization existing ! among the Abolitionists in the Territory, I called the . Grand Encampment und Regi ment's of the Kansas Legion ’ Collins, it seems, is Colonel of one of the regimeuts in this Order, and determined to force Mr. Laughlin to a retraction, or kill him. In | accordance, he ami some twelve brother Ab | litionists proceeded this morning to seek out Mr Laughhu mid demanded and vtiqual- I tied retraction of his recent confession ; nnd upon Mr L's refusing to make any conces sion whatever. Collins Immediately snapped . his gun at him, but ft rtunately tho weapon was turned aside by a spectator. Mr. Luughlin then drew a revolver nnd fired up- j on his opponent, killing him instantly. We regret to learn that Mr. L. whs dan gercurly hurt in the conflict by a knife wound in the sido. We are also informed that his friend, Mr. Lynch, a member of the pro shivery party, was wounded in the head by the discharge of a gun. Thus it is, that the fight so long talked about has begun, and it is to be hoped that it will not be discontinued until Kansas Ter ritory is rid of this * higher law’ and blood thirsty set of negro thieves and outlaws.— Spatter Sovereign , Extra, IIIL MAMUKTT WOFFOBD, BENNETT & SMITH, EDITORS. j CASSVILLE, GEO. j THURSDAY MORNING: i NOVEMBER 29, 1856. MESSES. EDITORS You will please announce my name as a candidate for re election to the office of Ordinary, at the election to lie held on the first | Monday in January next. THOMAS A. WORD. Oct. 1, 1,855. ”4 tdc* M ESSES. ED HORS Please announce nr name ! wi as a candidate for be* i election to the ofliefe (if Tax-Receiver: for Cass county, at the election in Janu- I arv next. \ WM. 11. PUCKETT. Nov. 29 — wtlmj. ; - Democratic Anti-Know Noth ing Ticket. For Slteriff, JOSEPH BOGLE. For Clerk of Superior Court, JAMES WOFFORD. For Clerk of Inferior Court, JOHN F. MILIIOLLEN. For Ordinary, J. W. WATTS, For Tax Receiver, D. IT. TEAT. For Tax Collector, JOHN 0. AYCOCK. For Coroner, RICHARD GAINES. of minute importance is going on in Milledgevillc, which will account for the nu?agrencss of news from that point in to-day’s paper. • t; . . ♦ Bird B. Chapman, the Democratic candi date for Delegate to Congress from Nebras ka Territory, has been elected. Tableaux and Concert. Our readers may see from an advertise ment in auother column, that the Young Ladies of Cassville contemplate giving a series of Tableaux and Concert, on Friday night the 7th of December, the proceeds of which are to be donated to the Presbyterian Church in this place. Let our citizens en courage these young ladies in their laudu ble enterprise, with their presence and, contribute to the church in her necessities Take Notice. The Post Master writes us that BENJ. BOWMAN, who has been taking the Standard , at Franklin, Fulton county, Arkansas, for the past three or four years, has left for parts unknown, anil that the paper is no longer taken from the office. The man who would intentionally de fraud the printer, as this fellow BOW MAN has done, would rob a hen-roost, or | steal the coppers off a dead nipper s eyes, and deserves to be held up to public scorn and infamy. In all such cases we intend to let tho world know it, that | they may keep a good watch upon their j pockets when such scamps are in their j neighborhood. More Rascallity. We understand that on the night of tho 21st inst., tho Store of Messrs. Gor don <fc Terrell, located some 14 miles North of this, on the Pine Log Load, was broken open arid ‘several hundreds dol lar’s worth of Ready-made clothing and various kinds of dry-goods extracted.— We further learn that a couple of men, by the name of Wilson, were taken up on suspicion and underwent a trial be foic a magistrate’s court, and were com mitted to jail in tins place to await their trial at the next term of the Superior Court; an<l whiln on their way to this place, acknowledged that they stole the goods, and also a smalt amount of mon- ! ey which the proprietors kept in their drawer to make change, and designated tho spot where the goods might be found, which proved to be tine. P.B. Since the above was in type, we are in possession of further informa tion. . Tito two convicts sent to this place for lodgement in jail, proved to be beard less boys, ono about ten or twelve, and the other about fifteen years old. They were traeked along tho public road, by the officer, and when about to arrive at ! their home, which was about 8 miles trom the store, they became alarmed at tho noise of their pursuers, threw away | tho pocket book, which contained about $lO in cash, aud hid some of the goods under a rook near tho house, which was found by research. What the Know Nothings say of the Democracy; Bejpw we give some extracts contain;; ed in the Federal Union , taken from the Southern Recorder urn] Journal <& j Messenger, two of t lie leading Know Nothing prints irtGettrgia, together with the comments of the Union} It will be seen that they make no opposition to the Resolutions of our party, and can see no reason wily the South should not u j nite in the next Presidenlial race, upon ! j the Democratic platform, laid down re- { Icentlyat Millcdgeville.. This is Know • | Nothing evidence that (he Democracy is j i right, and as a.reasonable inference, an i ■indirect admission that they -are wrono.! J. # 0 & i j Straws show which way the wind blows, j ; and we predict for the organizational I speedy dissolution in Georgia : “ We have watched, says the Union, with some anxiety, the opposition press, to sec their views in reference to the plat form adopted at the Democratic and ’ Anti-Know Nothing meeting in this city j on Thursday the 8:h insl. We are! I pleased to. find the ..leading press of the ; opposition, concurring ; n the most ini- 1 j port ant parts of it, particularly that por | lion which touches the Georgia platform, j and the future policy of our party in re lation to National politics. The South ern Recorder, of last Tuesday, referring to the action of our meeting savs: ‘•Let tire Democracy of the South as sume and sternly maintain this high and patriotic position, and treat with respect and justice their opponents, and we see no reason why the whole South may not present a unit in the great Presidential struggle of 1856.” The Journal & Messenger of Wednes day last, says: “These resolutions contain nothing upon the subject of slavery which is not the common feeling and the common o pinior. of the people of tliis State, and commit the Democratic party of Geor gia to a bold, independent and patriotic position towards the Northern Democ racy. We heartily approve them, and can only hope that the Cincinnati Con vention may meet their requirements.— If this is done —if the tests of party affil iation demanded by the Georgia Dem ocracy are recognized by that Conven tion, and a candidate nominated who can he trusted to regard them, in the whole conduct of an administration of the General Government, opposition to him at the South will be factious, and should not he attempted. The proba bilities are, that if the Cincinnati Con vention affirms the action of the Georgia Democracy, and does it fairly, squarely and honestly, it will split the Democratic party of the Union into fragment?.” “ Now, countinues the Union, to both these papers, we say, let the future take care of itself. If we are right Notv, and you think wo are, upou a platform wholly, unobjectionable, and which, if carried out, with a sound man nominated upon it, opposition to it would be “factious,” at the South ; if, we say, our position is a correct one now, why should any of j ouru.te opponents refuse to co-operate j with us in sustaining it ? It is true that these Resolutions, going forth bearing- j the sanction of the great party in Geor-. gia, which triinn died in the late elec tion, will do imii'li to encourage the true patriots at the North, who are fighting our battles there, and to sustain our high position before the country ; but would not these just and manlv resolves carry with them a greater moral force, if the people of Georgia stood upon them as a j unit ? Are our Know Nothing friends j determined to stand aside iu this doubt- j ful struggle for our rights, and, while ap- j proving our position, withhold from us j their aid and comfort. ? If wo arc right , i we ought to be sustained by every man and all parties in the State. If we are j j right, we ought, to be sustained by the j ! members of the defeated party iu Geor- . ! gia, because ice are right. Is it. not plain to our Know Nothing friends that the Democracy of Georgia will have a hard ! J . O , i fight, to sustain their position at Cincin nati next Spiing? Are they anxious for our success ? The Journal ct Mes senger frankly says it hopes that our re quirements may meet the approval of. the Cincinnati Convention. Will not the Journal it Messenger and its friends j not only “ ijorn,” but help us sustain our “independent and patriotic position?” We can dispense with the well-wishes of our late opponents, if they will give us material aid, to enforce our position ! at Cincinnati, lfthey persist in keep ing up a rival party in Georgia, can we j - unite in support of any man or measures I next year.? We, believe a good spirit; prevails with many of tho members of the Know Nothing party, and they are almost persuaded to come up to the pa t riotio position wo have taken, nnd stand there. We are fearful, however, that tho coming elections iu January will re- j new party strife amongst us, and sepa | rate us, ns a peOplo, wider than ever.— If this result follows, we can only do-; ploro tho consequences of such division I | upon the future destinies of our State 1 ! and people;—for it cannot prove other-1 wise than destructive of our dignity ns a State, and ruinous to the best interests ‘ |of her citizens. Our opponent* should ponder well the future, ere they take steps for perpetuating their political or ganization. Let them consider well this j question—“ if the Democratic and auti- Know Nothing party is right, should we impair its powers to do good, by array ing against it a political organization, in advance of of the action of the Cin i cinnati Convention ?” i OOC Know Nothings at the South. In every Southern State the Kftow j Nothings have attempted to carry the j victory in the late elections, but out of twelve where elections have taken place, they have carried hut two, Kentucky I and Maryland, both of ihem adjoining 1 j the Free States. What is the cause of! | their failure at the South, when their ! victories have been everwhelmning in ‘ j nearly all the free Stales ? Let us em | | quire info the cause of this difference in j ! their strength at the North and South, i Is.it because the’ Democracy -are trove vigilant at the South, or is it because there is a principle or a position advoca ted by the order that gives them st rength at the North, and weakens them at the South f-—this must be the cause of their .success in the former section, and of; their defeat in the fatter. Can South ern men longer.doubt that the great and true cause of thejpumphs of the Know Nothings at the iUiforth is the abolition views held and advocated by them.'as a j party ; and even in the two Southern ! Stater, in which they hold the majority, j that sentiment is boldly advocated by a j portion of their citizens. Ilen.ce they j lost nothing in Kentucky, and Maryland. And as a further proof that three-fourths of the Know Nothings are abolitions, we ask our .readers to watch the pro ceedings of the next Congress, a ndhev will then have proof strong as holv writ, that this hidden and oath bound con- ; cern is au abolition movement. Col. Pickett’s Common School Bill. In looking over the Proceedings of the Legislature our attention has been drawn to a bill introduced by Cel. Pickett, of Gilmer, appropriating the profits of the Western Ar Atlantic Railroad to a com mon school fund. The Road has been constructed by taxation of tlie people of the State, and now that this great work has been completed, and yields an in come, there can be no disposition made of the same that will benefit the large class of our citizens more than to set it aside as a school fund. Thus appropri ated it will soon enable every child in the State* to acquire an education if he desire it. It will enable us to carry out a common school system which will give all classes, — both the rich aud the poor, an opportunity to gain a good ed ucation. The bill, we believe proposes to appropriate the whole of the proceeds to a school, fund, when, in our opinion, j a portion of th same should go to de-1 fray the expenses of the Slate, and there- j by lessen the taxes. If one half or a j third of the profit* of the Road should j be set aside as a permanent school fund, ; it would be but a short time before the 1 piesent rapidly increasing income would raise an amount sufficient to support a general system of common school*. We hope that our law-makers wiU see the great importance of this bill, and not adjourn without providing for a general system of education ! Col. Wood’s, (of Fannin.) Infe rior Court Bill. j Avery important hill has been intro- j : dueed by Col. Wood, Representative ; from Fannin, proposing to abolish the 1 present Inferior Court, and have tli* du ties of tlie same performed bv the Ordi naries, giving them a stated salary of j two hundred dollars with certain cost fees. Wy hope this hill nay become a law, for we all feel the great necessity of a change,of the present Inferior Court. The duties of this Court are now per- j formed bv men, voluntarily, and in this republican country where men of capac ity are always engaged in business, it is too much to require of them so much voluntary labor. Col. Wood, though a young member,is a man of capacity, a ltd his county will have reason to be proud j of her representative. T” ■: ■ I jar Wo learn from the Macon Tde graph of last week, at wliieh time the j Superior Court for Bibb county was in ! session, that Malinda Winn, through her guardian Cicero A Tlmrpe, recovered a verdiujt of $7,000 for damages done, i a few miles above Macon, in 1853, by the engine coining in contact with the i carriage in the act of crossing the track,, j killing two of her children and the dri- | i vor, besides other injuries done Mis. W. and third child. Some of our readers! doubtless remember the circumstances. ‘ Jf.lT We learn from the Oa Telegraph that between Columbus and Macon, oil i i * j the cars, a poor woman lost her babe * I the little child expired in the mother's | arms. She had been in pursuit of an ‘unfaithful husband. Mr. L : adsay, the kind-hearted and gentlemanly Couduct*J or, took up a subscription for her on the cars. When the traiu arrived at Macon, the poor woman, with her dead babe in her, arms, and streaming tears, took her departure for home, which was about 15 miles from Macon. From the Constitutionalist . Later from Europe. C ANA l) A . The steamer Canada was telegraph from | Halifax this evening. She brings one weeks* later news from Liverpool. Owing to the scarcity, the lower Middling grades of Cotton have advanced one fourth ; pence, and Fair one eighth. The sales reach 177,000 bales. > ■****>*•• Flour has advanced one shilling. Corn I ■ 2s. 6d. Wheat 3d, Consols 89. | The excitement about tbe war between i j Englnnd and tlie United Slates has entirely j j subsided. Nothing inportant from the Crimea. ! There are doubtful reports of battles ! fought at I’erekop and Sympheropol, and re- j ports about a bombardment of Nicoiaeff. It is believed that Sweden has joined the , Western alliance. Various rumors are afloat about the re-! newal of peace negotiations among the be- ! ligerent powers in the East. Russia accepts the office of mediator be • tween the United States and Denmark.— Canrobert is in Stockholm, negotiating an al liance with Sweden. It is reported that the Convention Diplo matists will meet the Czar at Warsaw to make arrangements for a renewal of the pence negotiations i The Russia’ s keep up a fire from the for j tifications on the North side of Sebastopol. { J Todelben is placing Nicolatff in a state of j ; defense; and it is also reported that Odessa ! I is to be abandoned, and the guns, &c , taken . to Nicolatff - , , Omar Pasha has opened communication ] with Schainyg, and c©.i uienced his marsh 1 on Kutais. . Despatches from the Turkish Embassy says that the bombardment of Nscolueffcom menced on the 29th ult., and was continued j the next day. The result is unknown. The English papers are ashamed of the recent excitement about a war between England and tbe United Stntes. The mouthiy statement of the Bank of Frauce shows a decrease of £ 1,090,000. Vessels or War for the West Indies The Journal[ of Commerce says . The United States sloop-of-war, Saratoga, is lyiug at Sandy Hook, provisioned for a cruise, • and bound on a special mission to the West India islands. Her precise destina tion is kept secret, but rumor says she is bouud for St. Dom ngo. The Uuited States Frigate Potomac, flag ship of the Home Spuadron, Commodore Paulding and the sloop-of war Cyane, are fitting out with all possible dispatch, aud will soon leave the Nuvy Yard for the West In dies All three of these vessels are very effec tive. The two sloops have 180 men each, and the frigate 500 men. The officers and I crews are aboard, and the ships are over hauling and taking in provisions and water. News Items. Ex President Fillmore recently dined with ! the King of Prussia. I A letter from Washington says that Mr. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, is about to j resign. ; The Quicksilver exported lrom California thijyeav, it is estimated will be worth over j #1 000,000. The returns from Indinna indicate n Dctn j ocrntic majority of from 10,000 to 15.000. They have carried every county heard Irani with three exceptions. It is stated by the Constitutionalists that the Rev. Dr. Jesse Boring nnd the Hon B. H Overby, of Atlanta, are to lake the Edi torial charge of the Southern Times, pub lished nt Montgomery, Ala. Meeting of Congress. —The first session of the 34tli Congress will commence in Wash ington ou the 3d of December—a little less than two weeks from this. Already a num ber of members have readied the National ; Capital. An interesting and exciting session I is anticipated. Small Pox in IVilkcs County. — I The Republican of Friday last, states that several cases of Small Piix have occurred in the lower part of W’ilkcs county, about fif teen miles from Washington. Members of Congress en route.— Gen. J. W Whitfield, delagate from Kansas ! and lion’s. >G. W. Jones and Samuel Smith, irom Tennessee, passed through our city yes terday morning, en route to Washington. The Uou A. 11. Stephens who has been in | our city a few days, leaves this morning for Washington. Hon. A. B Greenwood, Representative in . Congress from Arkansns, is very favorably j mentioned as the Democratic candidate for; Speaker. Mr. G. is a native Georgian, al though nt predent an able rep rest ntative of l one of the Western State. The ceremony of breaking ground upon the j sito of the future capitol of Kansas Territory j was performed with great splendor at Leoom- , j ton on the 24th instant, Gov. Shauuon j delivering an address on the occasion. I A a source of consolation to all who are disposed to more to Texas, we inform them that bacon is very soaroe there, even at twenty-eight cents per pound. Abbe, of Kufield, Conn., has in* 1 vented a patent pig peu. Welt, Ibis is nu age of iuTcutions. Vouug America is progressive. |- • I The Russian language is said to be otio of the richest and most beautiful in the world. Why is a young lady just from a boarding-school like a building commit tee ? Because she is ready to receive pro posals. ‘What’s whiskey bringing V inquired a dealer in that article ‘Bringing men ; to tlio gallows,** was the reply. Dpunnv Blkssbd—“ A babe in a j house is a well spring of pleasure, it is said ; and if this bo true, Governor j Wright may bo considered one of the happiest of men. We learn that his la- j dy has recently presented him with two j of such well-springs, one a boy, the other! a girl. They have been named, we learn ! the boy Kentucky and the girl, India na. All (W)right !—lndianapolis Sen- j tind. OUR PICTORIAL}* 1 RomoO - ifae-;Goiri)elr fyjioHej* Vol I. But Box, Cassville, Nov, 29,’55 £1 daw?. Portrait of His Royal Highness p rino Albert. Prince Albert is the SOll 0 f * gentleman named Coburg, is the huj! band of Queen Victoria of England, and | the fathefr of many of her children. ’ jj j is the inventor of the celebrated ‘Alb/ j hat,’ which has been lately introduced | with great effect into the U. S. Amy | The Prince is of German extraction, / | father being n Dutchman and his hioth I era Duchess. I • ® j Residence of our Milleilgcrille Corrw pondent, in Dade county. it House in which Shakspeare was horn ! in Stratford-on-Avon. Abbotsford, the residence of Genera! Scott, author of Byron’s ‘ Pilgrim*# Pro gress,’ <fee. j 4ho Capitol at MilledgeviJle M - Residence of‘the Gentleman from Ar kansas,’ front view. Rattle of Lake Erie, (see remarks r 90) [cage 90. J Die Battle of Lake Erie, of which cur ArtUt presents a spirited engraving, cop. ied from the original paint : ng, l.v Han nibal C'urracci, in the possession of I'. Haven, Esq., was fought in 1830, on th Chesapeake Bay, between the U. S. fri gates Constitution and Gtierrerre, a*J the British troops under Gen’l Putnanv Our glorious flag, there as everywhere, was victorious, and ‘ Long may it wave, o*er the land of the free and the home of the slave. Fearful'accident oh the Ellijiv'and Duektown Rail-Road ! Terrible loss of Life ! !.. No blame attached to nnybody ® # * \ iew of the City of Chattanooga, by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Balance Sheet of the Cherokee Insu rance and Banking Company, after that terriffj run on it for ! \ iew of the Atlanta Gas Works. Correct portrait oft he Elephant which frightened ‘ Old Sorrel,’ and caused the sad accident to Stephen, berries, eggs j butter, Ac. (See poetry on first page.) | The Elephant is a very curious anmtul. : He is supposed to be it great traveller, from the fact that he always carries his trunk with him. lie is also thought to lie a facetious quadruped, as he is con stantly shewing his ivories. No young . man is considered smart iu this country | unless he has ‘seen the Elephant.’ The Last run of Shad. ‘‘Life is n shad—oh ! how flics mm —•JumSL ■ flcSsslllU View of a Middle Georgia by T. Addison Muggins, N. A, Tho Bohe of Contention beta* en the j Russians and the Allies. - • Shell of an Oyster once eaten by Oen. Washington, showing the General’s i* n ner of opening oysters. There! that’s about up to John I*b®* nix, and ia a specimen of w hat we c * n ‘ do, if liberally sustained. We writ anxiety to hear the verdict of tlio pub l,c before making arrangements for out our Christmas and New Year’s, F |tJ torial. 1 Subscription, $5 a-year, payable i nf * riably in advance. f Twenty copies furnished one year, 1 fifty oents. Address Bab Box, c ° Casaville Standard, v- At the late oounty court in Lti*J** G*Tt®n negroee were sold at P rioe * r *”L. from SI,OOO to SI3OO Tall prices for P ■ ration bands.