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THE STANDARD.
WOFFORD, BENNETT & SMITH,
EDITORS.
CASSVIT/RE. GEO.
THURSDAY MORNING:
DECEMBER G, 1855.
MESS'S. EDITORS:—
Toil will please announce
niv name as a candidate
for re-election to the office of Ordinary,
at (he election to be held on the first
Monday in Jnntian next.
THOMAS A. WORD.
Oct. 1, 185 3. 34 tde*
Messrs, editors*.-
Please announce ur name
as a candidate for ue-
E lection to the office of TaX-Receiver
for Cass countv, at the election in Janu
arv next. ’ WM. 11. DUCKETT.
Nov. *29—wtlmj.
n-pMESSRS. EDITORS: Please n
---nounce niy name as a candidate
for re-election for the office of Tax-
Collector for this county, at the election
in January next.
JOHN S. OWENS.
Dec. G—tlmj.
Democratic Anti-Know Noth
ing- Ticket.
For Sheriff,
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. H. TEAT.
For Tax Collector,
JOHN C. AYCOCK.
For Coroner,
RICHARD GAINES.
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*~lleVw James C. Patterson Inis been
appointed President ot the Gritliu Sy
nodical Female College.
Concert and Tableaux. I
The Young Ladies of Cassville will j
giveja Concert and series of tableaux, on ;
Friday evening next, the 7th inst., for
the benefit of the Presbyterian Church.
The object is a good one, and we trust
a large audience will greet the fair per-;
formers. Below we give a Programme j
of the Exercises:
PART I.
Music.— Convent Bells.
| Tableau. — Ruth and Naomi.
Music.— Kitty Terrel, (Sony.)
Tableau.— Popping the Question.
Music. —Few days Schottiscli.
Tableau. —Scene from ‘King Lear.’
t Music. — Battle of Resaoca de la Palma.
Tubha u. —Sum mer Scene.
Music. —When night comes o’er the ‘
Plain, (Duett.)
Tableau.— Taming the Shrew.
Music. —Love Not Quickstep.
Tableau. —The Post Mistress.
Music. —Through Meadows Green.
Tableau. —The Captive Circa sian.
Music. —Village Bell Polka.
”
PART If.
Music. — Uncle Sam’s Farm. (Chorus.)
Tableau. —The Village Schoolmaster.
Music. — Peisifcr Smith’s March.
Tableau. —Thc Exiled.
Music. — Forget me Not. (Sony.)
Tableau. —Pocahontas saving the life of j
Captain Smith.
Mi s c and Tubl.au.— Katy Darling.
Tableau. —The Proposal.
Music. —When the moon on the lake is j
beaming.
Tobleaa. —Oriental Scene.
Music. — Sontag’s Bouquet Schottiscli.
Tableau. Scene from 4 Hamlet.’
Music. —Murmuring Sea. (Duett.)
Tableau —Highland Lassi.
M sic. —The Old North State. (Chorus.)
Tableau*. —A series of Indian Scenes.
Music. —Good Night.
Thi.-> Programme is a verv excellent
. ‘
one, and the whole performance bids fair ‘
to be verv attractive. It will be given;
at the College Chapel, and Tickets of Ad- j
mission—price 50 cents —may be had at!
the Post Office. j
The weather, for several days,
i has been quite cold and pinching. We j
; had a little sprinkling of show,on Tues- j
dav last, the appearance of the clouds is !
” . . ’ . . i
promising tor more snow or ram. A
few persons, we understand, in this vi
cinity are killing hogs. From what we
can learn pork is demanding from 7 to 8
cent 8.
P& Wc solicit attention to the adver
tisement of the Woodland Female Col
lege in to-day’s paper; also to the ad*
vertisemeht of Messrs. J. W. Hooper <k
Cos., who are offering their goods at tost
for cash. Go and’ furnish yourselves
; while nil opportunity is offered.
—
great enterprise, the “ Cos
mopolitan Art Association,” is still offer
ing opportunities to any one wishing to
engage their leisure moments in read
ing interesting works of literature, at a
triiial expense, and gives them a chance
| at the great Art distribution—the distri
bution of choice works of art, such as
paintings and statuary. See advertise
ment.
I
jCSTThe Georgia Annual Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal Church will
be held this year in LaGrange, commenc
ing on Wednesday the 12th inst.
, 18th of December is the day
proposed for the assemblage of the Deni*
. oc.ratio Convention at Milledgeville, for
the appointment of delegates to the Cin
cinnati Convention.
We learn that one of the burglars
who was engaged in breaking open the
store house of Messrs. Gordon <fc Terrell,
of ibis county, and confiscating goods,
et'e.. on the night of the 21st ultimo, has
been released, he turning State’s evi
d’ nee against his brother. We learn
that he was only 9 years old, nud was
lured into it by bis brother, who is six
teen or seventeen years old.
•it cot
Our telegraphic dispatches last night
brought ihe unwelcome news of the re
ported death of the lion. Stephen A.
Douglas, the eminent and able Senator
from Illinois. Jle has been quite ill for
some weeks, and the report may even
i c true. — C oust, et Hep., Dec. Ist,
£4TCuI. .1, A. Cobb, father of the Hon.
Howell Cobb, died in the city of Athens,
on Thursday of last week.
‘• .< yy,
!SsSHoii. I\ C; Culdwoll, formerly a
representative in Congress from South
Carolina, died on the 22d ultimo.
; vjz
Post Master General Fas di.
reeled, that front and after the Ist Jan
uary next, all pro-paid letters must have
postage stamps placed upon them. •
* *
gtUT At the election in Savannah on last
Monday for Mayor and Aldermen, the Dem
ocrats and Anti-Kuow Nothings elected ten
| out of the twelve candidates for Aldermen
! the IC. Nb electing their candidate for May
or, and two Aldermen.
Milledgeville went for the K. Nothings,
ut the election on Mouday.
1
Georgia.
No State South of Mason <fc Dixon’s
Lino is as closely criticized as the State
of Georgia. She is looked to as the
head and front of the Southern States.—
Not a'lnovement is made by her sons in
the political arena, but that reverberates
throughout the length and breadth of
the Southern country, and responses
come from all directions approving and
endorsing the position she lias assumed
to protect the riglrts'of her citizens in the
fast approaching contest, contemplated
between the pro-slavery men and aboli
tionists. The last Message of Governor
Johnson, has met the approbation of all
gooit and true State Rights men wher
ever it has greeted their eyes; also the
platform and principles adapted by the
Democratic party in the late Convention
held at Milledgeville. None, we trust,
will doubt the efficiency of this posi
tion as being the best and most substan
tial, ever taken by Georgia before for
cheeking the aggressions of Northern
fanatics upon the Rights and institutions
of the South. Hear what the Baton
Rouge La. Advocate says ou the subject:
“ Georgia. —The position of this State
is in the highest degree interesting. —
By general consent, she is made the
standard bearer of the South. We
trusted in her strength, her position, and
our confidence in the fidelity of her peo
ple. The last elections have confirmed
our hopes. There were some who thought
that the popular manifestations of Gcor’
gia were not to be taken as the deliber
ate determinations of her opinion, and
they accordingly look for other i.viden
ces of public sentiment. It seems to us
that they now have them. The men
who have been sustained by the recent
election^have declared their understand
ing of the meaning of its results. The
message of the Governor, all of which
relating to Federal affairs, we copy, is
strong and clear on this subject, and the
proceedings of a meeting at the capitol,
iu which all of the first men of the State
took part, are equally significant. These
declarations are plain and undeniable.'’
the past few weeks about
20,000 barrels of flour have been pur
chased from a Ann iu Detroit, at an av
erage 0f 57.75. It is all destined for
the Crimea, and was bought for the
British Government.
No wonder famine and pestilence ra
ges over our once happy country. A
kind and merciful Providence has again
smiled upon us, in blessing our labors
with an abundant harvest this year, af
ter a lapse if several successive year* of
almost starvation and want. Now, at
this rate, what will be the condition of
many of our fellow-creatures ere anoth
er crop is made ? And we cannot tell
what will be the result of another crop.
It may be abundant —yet it may be al
most a total failure. Now that we are
blessed with plenty why not store away
for future necessity ?—why snatch the
bread from the mouths of our ow n coun
trymen and send it across the Atlantic
to encourage war and bloodshed, and
that, too, to a nation who has been our
bitterest so have once caused
our land to be drenched with the blood
of our patriotic predecessors, and the
tears of widowed mothers and fatherless
children? After*tlie American people
have passed through this ordeal, they
are encouraging the same causes for wo
and misery between other nations. If
; the groans of dying fathers and the frant
’ ic shrieks of bereft mothers and oiphans
* could reverberate in our ears from the
| opposite shores of the Atlantic, metbinks
j it would soon arouse the American peo
ple to a sense of the evil they are en
couraging. Let them cease their war
! fare and go home to their families and
| go to work, and earn their bread by the
! sweat of their brow. We know of no
j better method to bring this about than
to starve them out—withhold our arti
! cles of provisions from them and they
will soon be compelled to stop fighting,
i And then we will hear of less pestilence
i and starvation throughout our own
’ eountrv.
Alarming News from Kansas!
Matters are certainly “coming to a
crisis’’ over in Kansas Territory, as will i
be seen by the following items.
St. Lous, Nov. 30. J
The Abolitionists went to u Mr. Cole
mun's cluim, at Hickory Point, Kansas,
and ordered him to leave in ten minutes
or be shot. He left, but returned, arm- 1
cd to the teeth, when one of the three !
attempted to shoot him, but his title ‘
missed fire, when Coleman shot him j
dead, and gave himself up for trial. A >
mob of Abolitionists drove otF his wife j
and children, and burnt his and other
pro-slavery houses. The leader aud one ,
other was arrested. The Abolitionists
assembled at Lexington, and demanded
1 the release of their comrades, and the
I .... i
I surrender of Coleman. The militia is
ordered out to sustain the Marshal.—
! Great excitorr:ent prevails on the border.
1 Large uumbers from Missouri are going
I to Kansas.
| Sixtceu houses were burnt at Hickory
Point, and several citizens shot.
Westport, Nov. 30.
The outlaws in Douglass county have
burnt a number of houses, and driven
women and children to Missouri for ref
uge. The law and order people of the
Territory are lallying to assist the Sher
iff.
Independence, Nov. 30.
A rumor has arrived from the Shaw
nee mission, which says that Marshal
Jones had 50 men with him at Leoomp
ton. Lawrence is up in arms, and dril
ling constantly. They have five pieces
of artillery—our cannon left this morn
ing in the hands of the Kansas men.
JR#"Morris and Willis’s Home Journ
al for 1856.—The following literary at
tractions will induce thousands, we have
no doubt, to add their names, for the
coming year, to the already extensive
list of this best of weeklies, viz : anew
novel by N. p. willis, a series of outline
sketches, in prose and verse, bv gene
ral morris, and a novellette by j. m.
field, the popular and well-known
“Straws” of the New Orleans Picayune.
The terms of the Home Journal are but
two dollars a year, and the office of pub
lication is at 107 Fulton street, New
York.
Richard,” for 1850 —being
an Almanac for the whole United States
and containing 20 engravings illustrat
ing the maxims and sayings of Poor
Richard, (Dr. Franklin,) —is a very pret
ty and neatly printed little book of pic
tures just issued from the Brother Jona
than office, New York. Mr. B. 11. Day,
the publisher, offers to give it away to
any body who asks for a copy. Send a
| three cent stamp to Mr. Day to prepay
postage, and you will get a copy by re
turn mail. That’s cheap enough for you.
Brother Jonathan”—the best,
cheapest, and most Entertaining Sheet,
published in New York, at one dollar a
year, or six copies one year for five dol
lars, invariably in advance. If you
want a good weekly newspaper, you can
not do any better than subscribe to the
“Brother Jonathan.” You will then be
entitled to the “ Mammoth Pictorial”
for Christmas, which is, apart, well
worth the subscription. Try it. at least
three months, it will only cost a quarter.
XjrThe Savannah Republican come
tu us this week in anew and elegant
dress. We are glad to see our contem
porary of the seaboard city ‘looking up.’
That is a true indication of prosperity.
X3T Ma rk A. Iluson, Esq., has been
appointed by the Department in Wash
ington, Route Mail Agent, to run be
tween Augusta and Atlanta, in the place
of J. U. Wright.
were only thiity-two mem
bers of the Senate absent from Milledge
ville when the vote was taken to par
don Jacob Mercer. So says the corres
pondent of the Columbus Sun.
Railroads.—This sub
ject, we are pleased to see, is engaging
| the attention of Railroad Companies in
! various sections of the country. The
! Georgia Railroad Company,some months
ago, adopted a resolution to fence the
entire line of their road from Augusta to
Atlanta, and the work has made consid
| erable.progress at the lowest end of the
line. ‘
P. n. Mo-11, of Petifield, Ga., 1
lias been elected President of Mississippi !
College, at Clinton, Miss. (
R. Bonner and Michael
N. Clarke, of Columbus, Ga., have been
appointed United States Commissioners j
in Georgia, to take testimony in relation j
to judicial matters in other States.
Charles Choate, who attempted j
to kill himi elf in Milledgeville since the ,
session of the Legislature, died on the i
‘2Bth ultimo.
J3T Washington , Nov. 26.—Advices f
from Hamburg of November 3d state t
that there was reason to believe’that
Russia bad agreed to mediate be
tween Denmark and the United Slates,;
and had proposed to Denmark to cede |
the Island of St. Thomas to the United
States for five millions, and exempt the ;
American ships from Sound dues.
jfyThfl late Free State Convention, j
of Kansas, among other matters, recog-,
nines the existence of Slavery in the !
Territory, and permits its continuance
till the 4th of July, 1857.
The Constitution adopted is to be ’
submitted to the popular vote outlie
15th December.
’4rsU A NOTHEK Cos NTESTED"Se AT. —Tl l e
new territories will give some work to
.Congress, at the opening of the session.
Kansas sends two claimants for a seat
in Congress, and Nebraska, it appears,
is in the same trouble. Mr. Bennett, the
Whig candidate, claims the election of j
delegate by 10 majority, but his com*
patitor says that persons voted who lived 1
on the Indian lands, and their votes wero
| illegal,
The Proprietors of the Southern 1
; Literarg Messenger have announced to |
the public that it is their intention to
! discontinue its publication with the Do
cembei number, unless the people of
Virginia and the Sooth shall come to
its rescue and increase its circulation. ;
£ 3T A correspondent of the Wheeling
Intelligencer states that the recent dis
turbance at Bethany College, Va., was
caused by an attempt on the part of the
several abolitionists who had enteied the
institution, to preach and debate mis*
chievious doctrines. Order was restored
by the prompt dismissal of the refractory
members.
commencement of the pro
tracted meeting in the Bapt’st Church
at Charlottesville, 1*25 persons have pro
fessed convertion, 85 of whom have
joined the Church.
This will be good news, probablv, for
some of our readers —to hear that the
Gospel is still doing its work in some
sections of the country.
a large amount of beef and
pork, says the Albany N. Y. Register,
said to be destined for the Allied Army
in the Crimea, is now in this city on
its way to New York.
Pork sellers are only demanding 8
cents a pound in this section. If things
go this way, we will soon have to be
come “Graliamites” from necessity.
A®“The receipts of the English Wes
leyan Methodist Missionary Society for
the last year were $555,540. The debt
was reduced to $78,015.
;£®~The emmigrants, says the Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, Advocate , arrived at
this country this year, during the ten
months ending with October, numbered
119,420, being a decrease of 154,151
from the arrivals during the same period
last year.
r ‘The Troy Whig estimates the
number of “sincere behevers of spiritual
ism” in that city, at 1,200. They are
among the first citizens.
New York Board of Canal
i Commissioners have decided to close the
State canals on the sth of December,
XSTGen. Cass has been invited by
Kansas Free State Committee to present
their State Constitution to the U. S.
Senate.
‘isS-The term of naturalization has
been reduced in Canada from seven to
three year’s residence.
Alexandria 11. Rice, is the Anti-
Know Nothing nominee for Mayor of
Boston.
the year 1854, one hun
dred and sixty five men were hung in
the United States for murder. Os this
I number only seven could read and write,
j What a lesson !
j® Br 'Ari extraordinary elopement case
has recently occurred in Louisiana, rc
! suiting in one elopement, one cow-hiding,
two separations, two trials and one trans
portation.
w —: —‘
£3T~ The following affecting article,
originally copied from the Home Journ
al, we copy from the New York Daily
News with the introductory remarks, is
worthy of a perusal, and hut few will
read it but what will be affected by it :
The Night Funeral of a Slave.
To the Editor of the Charleston .Mercury:
Dear Sir : The following simple and
beautiful story was written for, and origin
ally published in, Morris and Willis’s Home
Journal, one of the best and most attractive
Family Newspapers issued in the city of N.
I'ork, or any where eiae. Ido not envy the
feelings of that person, male or femnle, who
can read this authentic and touching narra
tive without emotion. I have seen nothing
from the .Northern press, more congenial
to my own taste, and think it ought to find
its way into the columns of every journal,
printed on this side of Mason and Dixon's
line, with due credit to the excellent Week
ly m which it was first given to the public.
Its publication in The Mercury will con
fer a favor on yours, very respectfully,
A SOUTHERN WOMAN.
From Morris and Willis's Home Jourual.
To the Editors of The Hume Journal:
Messrs. Morris & Wiljlis : Traveling
recently, on business, in the interior of
Georgia, I reached just at sunset the man
sion of (lie proprietor, through whose estate
for the last half hour of my journey, I had
pursued my way. My tired companion
pricked his ears, and with a low whinny in
dicated his pleasure, as 1 turned up the
broad avenue leading to the bouse Call
ing to a black boy in view. I bade him in
quire of his owner if I could be accommo
dated with lodgings for the night.
My request brought the proprietor him
self to the door, and from thence to the gate,
when, after a scrutinizing glance at my per
son and equipments, he inquired my name,
business and destination. I promptly res
ponded to his questions, and be invited me
to alight and enter the house, in the true
spirit of Southern hospitality.
lie was apparently thirty years of age,
and evidently a man of education and re
fiuemeut. 1 soon observed an air of gloomy
abstraction about him ; he said hut littlo,
and even that little seemed the result of an
effort to obviate the seeming want of civility
to a stranger. At snppor the mistress of the
mansion appeared, did the honors of the ta
ble, iH her particular department; she was
exceedingly lady like and beautiful, only
as Southern women are , that is boyoud
comparison with those of any other por
tion of this republio I have ever seen. She
retired immediately after supper, and a ser
vant hnuding some splendid Habannas on
small silver tray, we bad just seated our
selves comfortably before the enormous tiro
of oak wood, when a servant appeared at the
end door near my host, hat in hand, and ut
tered in subdned but distinct tones, the, to
me, startling words—
. Master, do coffin hab oome.”
•• Very well,” was the only reply, and
the servant disappeared.
My host remarked my gare o€ inquisitive
wotder, and replied te it:
•* 1 have been very sad,” said be ♦. to-doy. ’
I have had a greater misfortune than I have
experienced since my lather’s death. 1 lost
this morning the truest and most reliable
friend 1 had in the world--one wlmm I have
been accustomed to honor and respect since
my earliest recollection ; he was the play
mate of my father's youth, and the Mentor
of mine; a faithful servant, an honest man,
and a sincere Christian. I stood >y his bed
side to-duy, and, with his hands clasped in
mine I heard the words he uttered. They
were, * Master, ruett me in heaven ’ ”
His voice fnltered a moment, and he con
tinued after a pause with increused excite
ment :
>• Ilis loss is a melancholy one to me. If
,1 left my home, I said to him, <John, sec
that all things are taken care of,’ and I
knew that my wife and child, property and
all, were safe as though they were guarded
by a hundred soldiers. 1 never spoke a harsh
word to lii<n in all my life, lor he never
merited it. 1 have a hundred others, many
of them faithful and true, but his hss is ir
reparable.”
1 come from a section to the Union where
slavery does not exist, and 1 brought with
me all the prejudices which so geuerully
prevail in the tree States in regard to this
• ■ institution.” I had already s:en much to
soften these, but the observation of years
would buve failed to give me so clear an in
sight into the relation between muster and
servant as this simple incident. It was not
the haughty planter, the lordly tyrant, talk
ing of his dead slave as of his dead horse,
but the kiud-liearted gentleman lamenting
the loss and eulogizing the virtues of his
good old friend.
After an interval of silence my host re
sumed :
*4 Thera are,” said he, .many of the old
mui s rclativts and frieuda who would wish
to attend hi* funeral. To afford them an
opportunity, severul plantations have been
notified that he will te buried to-night;
some, I presume, huve already arrived ;
and desiring to see that all things are pro
perly prepared for his interment, I trust
you will excuse my absence lor a few mo-,
ments.”
4 Most certainly, Sir ; but,” I added,” if
there is uo impropriety, 1 Wsuld be pleased
! te accompany you.”
44 There is none,” he replied; and I fol-
lowed him to one of a long row ol cubius,
situated at the distance of some three hun
dred yards lrom the mansion The house
was crowded with negros, who ali arose on
our entrance, and many of them exchanged
greeting with my bos', in tones that convinc
ed rn. that they felt that he was an obj-ot
of sympathy from them } The corpse was
deposited in the cotfiu, attired iu a shroud ol
the finest cotton materials, and the coffin it
self painted black.
The master stopped at its head, and lay
ing his hand upon the cold brow of his faith
ful boudsman, gazed loug and intently upon
! leatures with which he hud been so long ta
| miliar, and which he now looked upon lor
i the last time on earth ; raising his ey es at
i length, and glancing at the serious coun
tenances now bent upon bis, he said solemn
ly and with much feeling:
■ .4 He was a faithful servant and a true
| Christain ; if you follow his example, and
live as he lived, uone of you need fear, when j
the time comes for y ou to lay hers.”
| A patriarch, with the snow of eighty
| Winters on his head, auswered :
j 44 Master, it is true, and we will try to
: live like him.”
There was a ninrmur of general assent,
and after giving some instructions relative
; to the burial, wo returned tr# the dwe.ling.
About 9 o'clok a servant appeared with
1 the notice that they were ready to move. Dd
’ to know if further instructions were necis
Uary. My host remarked to me, that by
! stepping into the piazza 1 would probably
i witness, to me. a novel scene. The proces-
I sion had moved, and its route led within a
! few yards of the mansion. There were at;
! least one hundred and fifty negro, i, riming- ,
!ed four deep, and following a wagon in i
’ which was placed the coffin : down the en I
’ tire length of the line, at intervals fa few
i feet, on each side, were carried torches of a
] resinous pine, and here called lightwood. \
1 About the center was stationed the black
| preacher, a man of gigantic frame nnd
* Stentorian lungs, who gave out from memo
ry the words of a hymn suitable to the oc
i casion The Southern negroes are prover
! bial for the melody and compass of their
voices, and I thought that hymn, mellowed ;
by distance, the most solemn and yet Ih (
sweetest music that had ever fallen upon,
my ear. The stillness of the night and j
strength of their voices enabled me to die- j
tinguisli the air at the distance of half a,
! mile.
j It was to me a strauge and solemn scene
’ and no incident of my life has impressed me
with more powerful emotions than the night
funeral of the poor uegro. For this reason j
I I have hastily and most imperfectly sketch- |
l ed its leading features. Previous to retir
i ing to my room, 1 saw, in the hands of j
j a daughter Os the lady at whose house I,
1 stopt for the night, a number of The Home ,
J Journal, nnd it occurred to me to seud this i
l to your p>per, perfectly indifferent whether
it be published or not. lam hut a brief t
1 sojourner here. I hail from a colder clime, j
where it is our jroud boost that all men are
free and equal. I shall return to my North- j
ern home, deeply impressed with the belief,
that, dispensing with the name of freedom,,
! the negioes of the South are the happiest j
nnd most contented people on the face of the
eftr ih. Voura, Viator.
One Hundred Thousand Dollars tor .
Kansas !! A Montgomery paper learns j
that an application will be made to the Leg- j
islature of Alabama for nil appropriation ofj
onehuudred thousand dollars, to boused’
under sufficient auspices and securities for j
the promotion of an emigration of tha proper |
soH of men to aid the Southern pioneers of;
Kansas and Western Missouri.
’ Til ■ /, .0’ T * ‘ < • • v ‘
The Legislature.— Wo publish the j
i proceedings of the Senate up to Friday night j
j last, and of the House to Wednesday.-- j
1 Neither House sat on Thursday. The House
on Friday did nothing of a general eharao- j
ter and adjourned at 1 o'clock l*. M. to Mon- J
] Jay morning. The Senate r “msuined a great
; part of Saturday in the consideration ol Mr.
! People*’ bill to charter the Bank of Athens
report that Stephen A. Douglas
‘is dead, is contradicted Latest advicas
( report him as fast recovering.
Later from Europe.
ATLANTIC.
r l lie latest despatches from the scat of
war report officially, that a victory was
gained on the sth ult., by Omer Pasha,
over 10,000 Russians, mostly Georgian
I militia, at the Ingour, which Omar, with
his lurkish forces, 20,000 strong, cross
• ed at, four different points, in the battle,
11 tlie ‘lurks taking sixty prisoners and five
Generals.
The Russians had 400 killed and
wounded : the Turkish loss was 300. A
private dispatch, evidently referring to
I the same encounter, says that the Turks
crossed the river Anokava, and stormed
the Russian redoubts, after which they
pushed forward towards Kutais. Kars
was still besieged. Appearances indi
-1 cate that the Russians will retire toLef
’ j li. Nothing Stirling from the Crimea.
A few ships only remain in the Dneiper.
i The bulk of the Allied fleets are return
i ing to Constantinople.
From the Federal Union.-
j
Georgia Legislature.
Senate— Nov 24.
i Took up the unfinished business of yestef*
! day, which was the bill to pardon Jacob
Mercer, and spent some time thereon On fh*
passage of the bill the yeas were 29, nays
1 61.
I The Senate took up the House bili te au
thorize the Treasurer to make certain ad
vances, and passed the same. Also, the
House bill, to change the time of holding the
Inferior Court of DeKalb county.
Adjourned to Monday morning 10 o'clock.
November 26.
The bill for the pardon of Mercer was re
-1 considered by a vote of ayes 67, nays 30, on
the motion of Buchanan, of Coweta, second
’ ed by McMillan, of Haberslinm.
| By Calhoun, ol Fulton, a bill to repeal
the act of 1850, regulating the testimony of
Attorneys at Law.
By Cone, ol'Groe-ne, a bill to provide for
the proof aud au hentication of deeds and
other instruments in writing wliieh havw
been destroyed by fire. Also a resolution
raising a committee to ascertain the weight
iof various kinds of grain. A Iso a resolution
i lor printing the last census of the State,
i By Gibsou of l*ike, a bill to lay out and
! orgauiie anew county, to be ctilivtl
i 4. Towns, ’ from {>•■ rts of Monroe, Craw ford
j aud Fpsou counties.
By Patterson, of Jefferson, a bill to re
quire applicants for Land Warrant* to give
the occupant; of the land intended to be *r
veyed three months’ notice of such intended
application before the same is made
, By Faulk, of Irwin, a bill to lay out a
, new county from Pulaski, Irwin and Dooly
counties.
By Peeples, of Clarke, a bill to compel
Shetiffs to enforce fi. fas.
By Spaulding, of Mclntosh, a bill to ap-
I point commissioners of .Pilotage frr the port
! of Darien
Scr.ven, of Chatham, chairman of the
j committee on Banks, reported the bill char
r, teriug the Athens Banking company, which
hr and been referred to their consideration,
with veveral amendment*.
; i
By Strickland, of Fjrsyth, a bill to com
i pel owners of laud out of the county of their
| residence, to give in the number nnd dis
trict of their iots to the Tax Receivers,
i The resolution raising a committee to take
j testimony in the cas-a of Jacob Mercer was
taken up, amended and pa.-sed.
The bill placing endorsers of bankable pa
per on a level with securit es, nnd the bill
j increasing the salary of the Judges of the
Supreme Court, were laid on the table for
j the present.
1 Ti e Senate took up the bill to charter the
Bank of Athens, and spent n ost of the day
in its consideration, but without coming to
a decision upon the same.
November 27.
Mr. Allred, a bill to compensate Grand
and Petit Jurors of Pickens county.
1 Mr. Crowder : a bill to repeal an act t-o>
require the Rteeiver of Tnx ltetnrns to re
turn the number of children between the
ag*s of 8 and 10 in their respective counties,
an! to prescribe the mode in which such re
turn* shall be made.
Mr. Sims, a bill to amend the claim laws.
Mr Studstill, a bill to compel person*
ovning six humired or more acres of land in
Tilfuir county to give in and pay tax on the
seme.
Mr. Swinney: a bi?' to self into servitude
a’l free persons of color who shall remain
i* the State after 25th of December, 1856.
The bill passed at the last session to *-
neml the Ist section, 3d article of th*
Constitution was read th* first time.
The resolutions in reference to weights
and measures and printing the Census, were
taken up and agreed to.
The Senate took up the bill to incorporate
a Bank in the town of Athens, and after
some time spent thereon, it was postponed t
Friday.
Passed the following bill*:
A bill to repeal an act entitled an set to
alter, amend and explain the 4th seetMHt *f
au act for the prevention of fraud and per
juries, approved Feb. 20, 1854.
The bill in relatiou to the limitation of
suits was taken up, aud on motion, mad* the
unfinished business.
November 2ft
The resolution from the House to respit*
John T. Boyd was taken up and agreed te.
Mr. Adams, a bill to continue in force the
10th sectiou of an act to lay out anew coun
ty from parts of Early and Uandolpfc-
Cone, of Greene: a bill t authorise p* r ”
sons to submit controversies to arbitration,
declaring how arbitrations shall be ches* o ’
&o.
Cone, of Greene : a resolution in relt |oß
I to tho Bank of Atlanta.
Mr Murray •. a bill in reference tosgen *
on the State Bond conveying their gram
the injury of other peroeno, *d in l ,re
ence to other persons. * . .
Mr. Situs: a bill to amend the
1 two of the ISth ‘
! of this Statft
1 jioKan PiuxTJNO Orrice-