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CASSVILLE, GEO.
THURSDAY MORNING,
AUG. 5, 1858.
Douglas and the Democracy. •
The canvass in Illinois has fairly com
menced—Douglas and Lincoln leading
off. These gentlemen are presenting
their claims to the people for a seat in
the United Slates Senate—Douglas en
deavoring to mate his constituents be
lieve he ought to be returned, in consid
eration of past services, and Lincoln try
ing to make the people-believe he is the
man for the times, and that Douglas
should be laid “on the shelf’ for the
present.
Lincoln is an abolition of the deepest
dye—denounces the Died Scott decision
in round terms, ai.d doubtless considers
the negro equal in every respect to the
white man. Douglas justifies his course
in Congress in voting against the admis-
s : on of Kansas. under the Lecompton
Constitution, on the old stereotyped cry
of faud—fraud ; that it would have been
forcing ou the people of Kansas a con
stitution they did not want—and sei
anxious to make the voters of Illinois
believe he has acted consistently all the
while.
The truth is, the cause of Mr. Doug
las’ opposition to the Lecompton bill a-
rose from the fact that it had become ne
cessary to pander to the abolition senti
ment in Lis State, and the Northern
states, and by that course he would
make “ assurance doubly sure” in retain
ing bis position as Senator, and also hop
ing thereby to advance his prospects for
Presidential honors in 1800.
It is a great pity the Democracy of
Illinois had net selected some other stan
dard-bearer—an Administration Demo
crat; for while Mr. Douglas occupies his
present position of opposition to the na
tional administration, coupled with his
inconsistent course on Kansas affairs, the
South cannot and will not overlook his
treachery.
The time has been—when he was one
of the acknowledged loaders of the
Democratic party—that, we would as
soon have seen him Chitf Executive of
the nation as any man in the Union—
but bis recent course in Congress and
present position admits of no justifica
tion—but deserves and should receive
the just condemnation of all true South
ern men.
Lincoln is an open and avowed ene
my, and should he be elected, the South
may expect nothing fromJbinj ; while
but for Douglas’-and a few' Soti'lierti
traitors’ opposition to the Lecompton
Constitution, in the last Congress, Kan
sas would have been admitted into the
Union as a slave State. He asks too
Got. Bterm uid tike Into.
In another column may fee found the
proclamation of the Governor, in rela
tion to those banks Which have not made
retains in the manner prescribed by the
late banking Act of the Legislature.
Whatever may have been thought
concerning the propriety of the veto of
of the bill passed by the Legislature, le
galizing the suspension of the banks, it
will doubtless lie admitted by all that
by pursuing this course the Governor
lias faithfully discharged his duty and
given another evidence that he is deter
mined to enforce the laws of the State.
The Banks should he taught that thev
can’t ride rough shod over the laws of
the country—in the manner they have
been attempting to do and are now do-
ing—especially so, when the hill which
they have refused to be governed by,
was psssed by the friends of the banks.
But this action on the part of Governor
Brown will occasion but little inconven
ience to the people—as the bills of those
banks which have accepted the provis
ions of the late banking act, are in gen
eral circulation.
We appends list of those Banks
whose hills will be received for taxes:
The Central Railroad and Banking
Company.
The Georgia Railroad and Banking
Com pan r.
The Bank of Savannah.
The Bank of Augusta.
The Bank of Fulton.
The Bank of Athens.
The Manufacturer’s Bank, at Macon.
The North-Western Bank, at Ring-
Id.
Looking Up.
I UMthqwake in the City of Mexico—
We are much gratified to notice the j Great Damage Done and lives Loot
spirit of improvement now manifesting I A correspondent of the New York
itself ameng a good portion of our citi- Herald, writing from the city of Mexico
ment from the Officers of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad.
We have received from the officers of
tli4 W. & A. R. Road, the following
statement, of the religious faith of the
officers and employees, including Engi-
iieermen, Conductors, Machinists, Ac., on
the road. Injustice to the appointing a!s a ‘ nd refi ° ned society-
power, we publish it, and trust those pa
pers in the State, which published the
article *>f the former Editor of this pa
per, upon the subject, will do justice to
publish this statement. We can but re
mark that a more just distribution of
the patronage of the road, could not
probably have been made or proportion
ed to the strength of each denomination
had the appointments been made with
reference to this very question.
zens. All our churches—the Methodist,
Presbyterian and Baptist—have recent
ly been considerably enlarged, repainted,
and otherwise improved, and would do
credit to a place of larger pretensions
than Cassville; while some of onr citi
zens, thinking perhaps they had delayed
“brushing up” sufficiently long, have
gone to work in earnest, and are embel
lishing, beautifying and adorning their
residences in a manner which proves
conclusively that our town is certaiuly
and unmistakably “ looking up.”
In fact this happy state of affairs con’d
not be otherwise, when we take into con
sideration the recent final settlement of
the unfortunate local questions which
b3ve distracted the people of the county
for several years past.
Don’t let the good work stop, until
all have caught the contagion. All per
sons in search of a healthy location,
should consider the advantages possess
ed by Cassville; living is cheaper at this
point than at any town perhaps in the
whole country; there is not a more mor
al community anywhere than the people
of this place and vicinity; the educa
tional advantages afforded by the Male
and Female Colleges are equal to those
of any similar insiitutions in the State;
there are no gambling saloons or whis
key shops in the town—what town of
the same population can truthfully boast
of the same freedom from these dens of
vice, infamy, degradation and pollution f
The Trustees of the Cherokee Baptist
College have generously offered to give
away lots adjoining the College grounds,
to all who may desire to build—a fact
which should not be overlooked by those
wishing to build. Our healthy, pleas
ant and convenient location—education
al advaAages—our inexpensive habits,
cheap living and pure water—good mor-
an orderly and
quiet-loving community—all combine to
make Cassville one of the most desirable
places in the Cherokee country.
under date of June 20, gives a full ac
count of the recent earthquake there.
The bouses cracked and rolled about,
like empty bottles in water—leaving to
owdfrointbe most .alarming manner,
creating the most intense excitement
throughout the city, which admitted no
abatement for three or four days. The
circuit of this earthquake extended over
an area of 600 miles.
The Mexican Extraordinary, a news
paper published in the city of Mexico,
estimates the loss of property sustained
in that city., at from fire to six millions
of dollars; and says that twenty bodies
have been recovered from the ruins in
different quarters of the city, and fears
that all the dead have not yet been ex
cavated. m
Gold Discovery.
The Frazier River Gold Mines, about
whose richness so much is being said at
this time, lie North of Oregon, in Brit
ish America. The diggings are within
the dominions of her Britanic Majesty,
the Queen, and within the jurisdiction
of the Hndson Bay Company. It is
thought the discovery of these mines
will endanger British supremacy in that
locality. The California miners are flock
ing there in large numbers. These mines
are certainly the richest heard of lately,
if all accounts are true. Every person
has to pay the Hudson Bay Company
five dollars for the privilege of digging
in the mines.
STATEMENT:
Lutherans,
7
Missionary Baptists,
60
Primitive Baptists.
12
Campbelite Bapiists,
5
Presbyterians,
31
Methodists,
57
Episcopalians,
8
Catholics,
15
Sad Accident
A little boy, -about six years old, son of
Mr. McCrary, of this county, living near
Kingston, was thrown from the Rail Road
track, while asleep by the ««cow-catcher’
attached to the passenger train, on Sunday
night last. He was lying on the track a
sleep. His skull was fractured in a shock
ing manner—and though alive at last ac
counts, but little hope is entertained of his
recovery.
Keep it Before the People,
That The Cassville Standard—though
not as large as some of the neighboring
journals—has more reading matter in it
than any other paper in Cherokee Geor
gia, (with one exception)—a fact which
die reading public should not overlook.
L. Keep it before the peop'e, that The
Cussville Standard is the oldest paper in
Cherokee Georgia—being now in the
tenth year of its usefulness.
Keep it before the people, that The
Cassville Standard has battled failhfullv
much when he overlooks these things tor the principles of the Democratic pa^-
d
and asks the South to receive him into
fellowship Hgain. He could’nt swallow
tlie Lecompton pill because there was a
negro in it and it choked him. Perhaps
ty, from its establishment to the present
time—a fact which our Democratic
friertds should remember.
Keep it before the people, that The
he would not have enjoyed his once Cassvi | le Standard, it. point of mecltnn-
prond position as long as he did, if there
had been a few practical tests sooner.—
Should Douglas be elected, Seward may
look to his laurels.
Crittenden and the Presidency.
A portion of the American press are
considerably exercised over the recent
course and present position of Senator
Dougins, and in their President-making
schemes no name appeals moro promi
nent than that of John J. Crittenden—
the man from ^Southern State who vo
ted against the South, alongside with
Douglas and others—on the application
of Kansas for admission into the Uuion
with a slave constitution. For decency’s
sake gentlemen, sing low.
ical execution, is inferior to no paper in
the State.
Keep it before the people, that The
Cassville Standard has the largest circu
lation of any country paper in the State
—a fact which all advertisers should not
overlook.
The London Cotton Plant
Through the politeness of our accent- j roo,ns » unless you have business.
Free Reading Room.
Attached to The Standard office-is a
Reading Room, free to all. Here may
be found at all times, newspapers from
the principal cities of the Union, which
cannot fail to interest newspaper readers.
But be careful—don’t work your lips
while reading—it is positively forbidden
by one of the rules of the establishment.
Take especial notice again—make your
self scarce in the composing and press
Fine Corn.
A correspondent of the Sandersville
Georgian gives an account of a man hav
ing been lost in a field of corn in that
locality. A gentleman hearing much
talk of a fine field of corn in his neigh
borhood concluded he would satisfy
himself of its merits, and accordingly
made a survey of the field. Not doubt
ing but what lie could go-through the
field and leave it, at pleasure, to his
great surprise, when he had finished his
examination, he found that he could not
find the way out!—was positively lost
in the corn, and only got out by going
in the direction of a noise made by the
barking of dogs, at a neighboring plan
tation. The correspondent adds that this
was the first case this season, he had
heard of, of being lost in the corn.
Such things are of frequent occurrence
in Cass county—so common has it got .... « m .
. , , . , .. , . ruptible. This being a correct picture,
to be, that one farmer never thinks of whieh is the greater tra i, or _ lh e South
entering the field of a neighbor unless ern Crittenden, or the Northern Doug-
SST Hodge’s Journal of Finance and
Bank Reporter has under its list of
“precarious and doubtful Georgia banks”
the Fulton bank and bank of the Empire
State. These banks are considered sound
where they are better acquainted.
Douglas vs. Crittenden.—The dis
tinguished names above, says the
Columbus Times «fc Sentinel, are not
worthy that attention which is bestowed
upon them. Both gentlemen have been
recreant to those principles which guide
onr political course. Douglas is a Dem
ocrat; Crittenden an American. The
former is the representative of a free
State; the latter of a Slave State.—
Douglas voted against the Lecompton
Constitution ; Crittenden did the same.
Douglas denounces the Black Republi
cans; Crittenden courts their favor ; the
one is a bitter, enemy of the Abolition
ists; the other is welcomed by them as
a friend and ally. The Administration
repudiates Mr. Douglas ; the American
party glorify’ Mr. Crittenden. The Dem
ocrats call Douglas a renegade ; the A
mericans pronounce Crittenden “ incor-
modating Post master, we have been
furnished with a copy of the above nam
ed publication, published in London,
England, by C- Mitchell. It is general
ly understood that “The Cotton Plant”
js published by American capital, for the.
promotion of American interests, and Ur
undertake to prove the impossibility of
negroes ever making good citizens—that
the only natural condition of the Afri
can k that of slavery. The Cotton Plant
will doubtless get a good circulation in
the Southern JStates.
DeBow’s Review.
This valuable publication, has been re
ceived:—containing its D6ual quantity of
useful information, to he found no' where
else but iu “ DeBow’s Review.” Terms
$5 per annum.- J. D B. DeBow, Edit
or. Published at Washington eitv.
Eavmnah, July 31. Cotton, 12 a IS eta.
American Cotton Planter and Soil of
the South,
For August, has been received, and is
as usual filled with a large quantity of
original and selected matter, of great
importance to the farmer and planter.
Next week we shall give our agricul
tnral friends several articles to be found
in this No. of the Cotton Planter. Pub
lished monthly at Montgomery, Ala.—
N. B. Cloud and C. A. Peabody, Edi
tors.
Bills on none of the Banka of
Tennessee, or Dalton, Ga, Will be re
ceived in payment of debts at this office.
Those making remittances will please
take notice.
fW Msj. Wm. Cline, formerly Edit
or of the Griffin Jeffersonian, has become
one of dm Editors of the Wire Grass
Reporter, published at Thomasville, Ga.
accompanied by a guide! Cass county
can produce the tallest corn, and the
biggest and mostest of it, than any coun
ty in the State, pet baps. Why, sir, so
tall is the corn that our farmers can on
ly gather it by climbing the stalks by
means of ladders, and then with hatch
ets cut loose the ears !—at least we un
derstand such has been the habit of
some of them in past years—and to
judge from present appearances ladders
and hatchets will be in demand again
at gathering time. Talk about tall corn
again, will you!
Atlantic Submarine Telegraph.
The attempt to unite the two conti
nents by means of a Submarine Tele
graph, is indeed a monster undertaking.
Another attempt will be made this sea
son to lay the cable—the telegraph fleet
having left England on the 17th ult.,
for that purpose. Nearly three hundred
miies of the cable were lost in the late
attempt to lay it—the cable having par
ted three different times—the last time
when nearly two hundred and fifty
miles had been laid—but it is supposed
that enough remains to reach from shore
to shore. The cable is said to be about
the size of a five cent piece. In order to
test its strength, after it parted the last
time, the Niagara was allowed to swing
to the cable, for more than an boar,
which held the ship as firm as though
she had been at anchor.
£jT Next week we shall commence
tho publication of the address delivered
by Rev. C. W. Howard, before the Mne-
mosynean Society of the Cassville Female
College, Commencement Day, July 21st.
Those wanting extra copies of this fine
Literary production, will please send in
their names, and the No. of copies they
want. Terms—$4 per hundred copies.
A®” An election takes place in North
Carolina to-day for Governor and mem
bers to the Legislature. Both the can
didates for Governor ate Democrats,
though McRae, the independent candi
date, will be supported by the American
pnrty.fflimgiBy.
Hew York, July 28. Cotton. to 18&
las ? Which party is actuated by the
purest motives, the Democratic or Amer
ican party ?
Troops for the Relief of Colonel
Steptoe.—Lieut. General Scott has sent
a dispatch to the Quartermaster at New
York directing him to make immediate
arrangements to send six companies of
recruits to Vancouver, Oregon, via As-
pin wall, for the reinforcement of Colonel
Steptoe. The detachment required will
number four hundred men and fifteen
officers. Governor’s Island being now
comparatively deserted, in consequence
of recent drafts upon it, the recruits will
be drawn from Carlisle barracks, Penn
sylvania, Monroe barracks, Virginia, and
other stations not very remote from New
York. For the conveyance of these troops
to the Pacific the Quartermaster, in obe
dience to his instructions, has chartered
the steamei St. Louis, to sail on the 20th
instant. From Panama the reinforce
ment will proceed in the steamer Sono
ra to Vancouver, which is the nearest
port to the scene of operations. The
exact position of Colonel Steptoe is not
known, bnt is presumed to be several
hundred miles from the Pacific coast.—
The passage from New York to Vancou
ver will occupy about thirty-five days.
The name of the commanding officer of
this detachment has not yet been an
nounced.—National Intelligencer.
Amalgamation Marriages in Bos
ton.—The Boston matrimonial register
shows that during the year there were
60 amalgamation marriages; and singu
lar to say, they were of white women
with black or colored men ; in no in-
staace has a white man been registered
as having taken a wife a colored woman.
The white ladies of Boston and therea
bouts have singular tastes; certainly
they seem to relish black kisses, from all
accounts, with peculiar gusto, and black
or colored husbands are becoming a
highly popular institution among them.
Can any thing prove more conclusively
the growing degeneracy in point of mor
ality and decency, of pious, proper New
England,-as this horrible fanaticism,
wliich strikes at the root of everything
like purity and tends to undermine the
divine laws of nature f When woman,
the safeguard of virtue and purity, stoops
thus to degrade herself, perverting the
womanhood within her, the degradation
A man, as a necessary consequence, must
follow.—N. Y. Hispateh.
A PROCLAMATION,
BY JOS. E. BROWN,
GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA.
Whereas, the Legislature of this State,
on the 24th day of December, 1832, psssed
an act entitled « An act more effectually to
secure the solvency of all banking institu
tions in this State,” the preamble of which
act is in these words, .. Whereas, the enor
mous amount of banking capital chartered
by the laws of this State, and her circula
ting currency being composed almost entire
ly of the bills of her own banks; and, where
as, the safety and best interest of our citi-
sees require that the true condition and
solvency ot each bank or incorporate compa
ny, exercising banking privileges, should be
known to the community, so as to guard the
great body of the people from receiving a
depreciated or doubtful paper, and for rem
edy whereof ” The first and second sections
then direct bow the returns of each incor
porate bank in this State are to be made,
and the penalty for a failure to make such
returns is prescribed in the third section,
which is in these words, ..Should the Presi
dent and Directors of any one or more of
the aforesaid tanks, fail to comply with the
spirit and true meaning of this act, it shall
be the duty of His Excellency the Governor,
for the time being, to notify the Treasurer
of this State, and the President and Direct
ors of the Central Bank, of said delinquent
bank or banks, whereupon it shall not be
lawful to receive the bills of any such de
linquent banks, in payment of any debt due
the State ef Goolgiu, or the Central Bank,
until the President and Directers of such
delinquent bank or banks, shall have made
such returns as are reqired by this act ”
And the fourth section declares that', ..Tt
shall be the duty of IDs Excellency the Gov
ernor, for the time being, to publish the
name or names of any bank or banks, which
may fail to comply with all the requisitions
of this act, in ail the newspapers printed in
Milledgeville, as often as they think expedi
ent for the public good.” '
And whereas, the second section of an act,
assented to the 22d day of December, 1843,
entitled ..An act amendatory of the act pro
viding for the publication of the bank re
ports,” is in these words: ..The bills of any
bank failing to publish its return as afore
said, within thirty days after making the
same, shall not be received in payment of
taxes, or at the Treasury of the State ”
And whereas, the act approved 21st Feb
ruary, 1850, entitled ..An act to change,
point out and regu.ate the manner in which
the returns of the several banking institu
tions of this State shall hereafter be made
enacts as follows:
Sec. 1. ..Be it enacted, That after the pas
sage of this act, his Excellency the Govern
or of the State shall twice in each and eve
ry year require, by public advertisement
for at least two weeks, in a gazette printed
at the seat of gevernment, each and every
bank and bauking institution in this State
to make a just and true return under the
oaths and affirmation of its President and
Cashier, of the state and condition of such
bank or banking institutiop, with the names
of its Pres dent and Directors, and a list of
its stockholders, on the day of the regular
weekly meeting of the President and Direct
ors thereof, next preceding the date of such
requisition by the Governor; and it shall
be tbe duty of such bank of banking insti
tution, within thirty days after the date o!
such cal! by the Governor, and under the
penalty now prescribed by iaw for a failu-e
to make returns, to make and transmit to
the Governor such return so required in lieu
and instead of the return heretofore re
quired."
Sec. 2. .-In the respective returns required
by the preceding action, the good, bad and
doubtful debts of said bank or banking in
stitution, respectively, shall be set forth as
now required by law.”
Sec. 3. ..When any bank or banking in
stitution shall make the return required by
this act, the same shall be published by said
corporation within the time, under the pen
alties, and in the manner prescribed by ex
isting laws, publishing tbe list of stockhol
ders once a year only.”
And whereas, in October last, most of
the banks of this State, in violation of their
purchased in violation of this Act, shall,
from tbe time of each purchase, become ut
terly null and void and irrecoverable in
law.”
Sec. 10. ..That no bank or bank agency,
by itself, its officers, or agents, shall either
directly or indirectly sell any kind of ex
change, except sight checks, nor exact, de-[ experience as follows:
mand, ask or recei*e for exchange in or out j A faithful old servant gave information that a
of this State, of any citizen of this State, a ! * ne con ' belonging to us- was affected, and gave
greater premium than one per centum, on i ** as ^' s °P‘ n * on that it was murrain, and not
the amount of exchange sold, when the bills I hlack tongue, although her mouth seemed
of the bank from which the exchange is!‘°^ a httIe aore ’ He asked " sto g»down
, , . . , . , . ! ana examine the beast, which we accnrrim„i-
sought to be obtained, are presented at its
An Editor’s Experience with the Cat
tle Disease.
Judge Love, tbe humorous editor of the Wire
Grass Reporter, attempted to investigate the
cause, nature and effect of the cattle disease
wl icb is at present making such fearful rava’
ges among the deer and cows. He relates his
counter in payment of said exchange; and
for the violation of this section of this act,
proceeded to do. We went into the pen, and pas-
sed along by the side of the cow, giving a casu
al scrutiny as we passed, intending to make a
the person paying the premium, his agent or stand in front ot her for a few moments. Just
attorney may, and he is hereby authorized ' as we got before her she threw up her head
looking wildly at us for a few seconds, and then
with a snort, a lowered head and elevated tail
made at us. We bout-faced instantly, and marl
ched through the pen at the rate of about a
mile a minute, and cleared an eight rail fence
without laying bands thereon. W e then look
ed back and the cow was standing where we
left the earth and committed ourself to the air
looking more astonished than angry. The old
servant was at the other side of the pen with
one hand on the fence and the other on his
bowels, bent almost to the p round in a fit of
laughter. Straightening himself up and gath
ering breath, he exclaimed:
"My Lord, master, you aint gittin’ old yit,”
and he bowed himself again in accliinatory
paroxism. Not seeing anything particularly
funny in the transaction ourself, and ieeling
indisposed to pursue our investigations in re
gard to the cattle epidemic we left tbe place.
If it should be our misfortune to lose any
more of our stock, we would as soon lose that
cow as any other.
to recover three times tbe amount of tbe ex
cess by a summary proceeding before a Jus
tice of the Peace, the Inferior or Superior
Court, as tbe one or the other Coart may
have jurisdiction, and on which judgment
shall be rendered at the first term of tbe
Court, unless the principles of justice shall
requirp a postponement for one term, and
no longer;and in which case the officer cr a-
gent who received the premium shall appear
the affidavit or evidence of tbe plaintiff shall
be received in proof of the amount demand
ed, and the suit shall be against either the
bank wh-ose agent loaned the money, or a-
gainst the agent, and in either event, the
property of the bank shall be subject to the
payment of tbe judgment: Provided' That
nothing herein contained shall have any re
ference to foreign exchange: And provided
farther, The person applying for tbe ex
change shall, if required, make oath that it
is not to re-sell as exchange.”
“Sec. 11. The affidavit of bank officers to
their annual and semi-annual reports shall in
all case3 state that the bank of which they are
officers has r.ot by itself, its officers, or agents
in any particular, violated the provisions of
this act. 1 ’
Which said last mentioned section of said
act engrafts another section upon the law of
bank returns, as it existed when this act was
passed; and as the said eleventh section relates
to the same subject matter—that of bank re
turns—it is to be construed with, and in refer
ence to nU previous legislation then in force on
that subject, by a well known rule of construc
tion, that statutes in pari materia, are to be
construed together'aS but ope law. Wherefore,
a bank failing to.'compljSwith “the spirit and
true meaning_pf said act,” incurs the penalties
prescribed in case of delinquent bank.
And whereas, on the first day of June last,
I issued my proclamation, which was publish
ed as directed by the statute, requiring the sev
eral banks in this state to make their returns
as required by law, and to comply with tbe
provisions of the said eleventh section of the
said act of 1857 ; and whereas, more than thir
ty days have elapsed since said call was made,
as required by law, upon said banks; and
whereas,
The Bank of the State of Georgia,
The Planters’Bank Of the State of Georgia,
at Savannah,
The Commercial Bank of Brunswick,
The Cherokee Insurance and Banking Com
pany, at Dalton,
The LaG range Bank,
The Bank of Commerce, at Savannah,
The Merchants’ and Planters’ Bank, at Sav
annah,
The Mechanics’ Savings Bank, at Savannah,
The Augusta Insurance and Banking Com-
pany,
Tbe Marine Bank of Georgia, at Savannah,
The Bank ef Columbus,
The Bank of Middle Georgia, at Macon,
The Bank of the Empire State, at Rome,
The Union Bunk, at Augusta,
City Bank, at Augusta,
Tbe Planters ’and Mechanics’ Bank of Dalton,
The Bank of Greensborough,
Tbe Timber Cutter’s Bank, at Savannah,
The Exchange Bank of the State of Georgia,
at Griffin, and
The Mechanic’s Bank, at Augusta,
have wholly neglected and refused to make
their returns as required by tbe positive man
date of the statute of 1857, fthe benfitsof which
in the protection of their charters from forfeit
ure have been realized by such of the above
mentioned Banks as were lately in a state of
suspension,) and have utterly disregarded the
will of the legislature, set themselves above
the authority of the law, and stand in open vi
olation of its commands:
I do, therefore, issne this my proclamation,
pnblisbing, as directed by the statute, the names
contracts with tbe people, and in violation oft *>e before-mentioned delinquent banks. Ami
of their charters, suspended specie payment
and refused to comply with the solemn en
gagements to redeem their bills in specie on
demand or presentation, thereby subjecting
themselves, under existing laws, to judicial
proceedings to be instituted by order of the
Governor, on due proof thereof, to the end
that their charters might be declared as
forfeited and annulled.
And whereas, the legislature of this State,
for tbe purpose of relieving those suspended
bonks which had snbjected themselves to the
penalties of the act of 1840, from the heavy
I do hereby notify the Treasurer of this State
of said delinquent banks; and I do moreover
proclaim and make known that the bills of said
delinquent banks will not be received at the
Treasury of tbis State in payment of any debt
due the State of Georgia, or the Central bank,
until tbe President and Cashier of each of said
delinquent banks, respectively, shall have com
plied with the law, and shall have, made
such return as the statutes require.
Given under my hand, and Great Seal of the
State, at the Capitol in Milledgeville, this
twentieth day of July, in tbe year of onr Lord
eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and of the In-
Power of the United States.
A Berlin correspondent of the New York
Herald, referring to the late difficulties be
tween Great Britain and the United States,
says :
No little alarm has been excited in the
commercial world by tbe threatened difficul
ty between America and England, which,
however, is allayed by the conviction that
John Bull will knock under and not suffer
the quarrei to proceed to extremities. What
a curious spectacle it is to see on the one
side the United States, tvithont fleets, with
out armies, without fortresses or arsenals,
and on the other the raonarebial nations of
Europe, armed to the teeth, their shores
bristl'iig with cannon, and their resources
lavished on enormous military and naval es
tablishments, and yet whenever a dispute
arises with tbe young giant of the West,
they all turn pale, back out of the fray as
quick as possible, and leave Johnathan mas
ter of the field. lie seems perfectly defence
less, open on every side to attack, and with
out a single friend to take bis part, and yet
they stand in such awe of him that even
English diplomatists, usually so imperious
and overhearing iu their transactions with
foreign nations, are as gentle and fot hear
ing towards him as any member of the Peace
society, and submit to insult with the most
lamb like patience. Is it because John Bull,
who crows so loud on his own dunghill, finds
that Johnathan can crow still loader than
lie?—or is it the secret power of republican
institutions that inspire their possessors with
a confidence and intrepidity which strikes
terror to the hearts of their enemies, and
make them hesitate to arouse tbe spirit of a
people whose bold attitude appears the more
formidable and mysterious from the paucity
of the means employed to support their pre
tensions ? I believe the explanation lias
been given by the English historian Alison,
who says that, although the superior mili
tary and naval strength of Great Britain
would enable her to inflict the most serious
blow upon America at the commencement of
tbe war, .*the extraordinary vigor of the
American people and their native courage”
would be sure to render them successful in
tbe end.
The chief reason of the reluctance of for
eign nations to go lo war with tbe United
States, is their dependence upon this coun
try for Cotton, Tobacco, Bread, Rice, Sugar,
Coffee, Itsoine of which luxuries, habit bas
made almost necessities Moreover, a wide
Ocean rolls between and supplies the place
of expensive fortifications. No power bat
our own can ever make enormons military
establishments necessary, and deprive ns of
tbe ability to remain in continual peace be
neath our own vine and fig tree.—Richmond
Dispatch.
Charming Snakes.
We have had a Mr. Wierson, from
California, with us this week, exhibiting
a lot of most poisonous and vicious
snakes. We had seen notices of his
power over snakes, and hence we called
to see him perform. He took a lot of
rattle-snakes, water moccasins, spread'
ing-adders, garters, and hanging them
penalties they bad incurred, and’from tee 1 de P endence of the United States of America the I around hi? neck, and over his head and
-ghty-tbird. shoulders, he turned them all into bis
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
By the Governor:
E. P. Watkins, Secretary of State.
forfeiture of their charters, and for the pur
pose of prohibiting thereafter tbe usurious
practices of all or any of the banks of tbis
State—as well the specie paying as tbe sus-
_pended—and for the purpose of amending
tbe law of bank returns so as to require of
Abolitionism Rampant.— The New
York Herald publishes a lengthy ac-
bank officers the guaranty of an oath that { eoun t 0 f t j, e celebration of Independence
«M lo day, at 11 i 4 to IS 1-2.
these practices are not indulged in, passed
an act on the 22d day of December, 1857,
entitled <>an act to provide against tbe for
feiture of the several bank charters in this
State on account of non-specie payment for
a given time, and for other purposes therein
named;” tbe eighth, ninth, tenth and elev
enth sections of which are covered by tbe
latter clause of its caption, beiDg subject in j
their binding force to no limitation as to !
time, and are in tbe words following, to wit: !
Sec. 8. Be it farther enacted, That no
bank nor bank agency, by itself (its) offi-
rrfs or agents, shall either directly cr indi- j
rectly loan money on any note, bill, draft
or contract of any sort, verbal or written,'
at a greater rate of interest than at the rate
of seven per cent, per annum, and only at i
that rate tor a longer or a shorter time;
day by Loyd Garrison and bis Massa
chusetts Radical Fanatics. They de-
j nounced the 4th of July, 1776, as “ a
iday of transparent hypocrisy,” and
‘ vowed that they would have “ no furth-
! er Union wiih slaveholders.” The infa-
! mous Garrison concluded his harangue
i with the following quotation :
j “ United States ! your banner wears
Two emblems—one of fame;
Alas ! the other that it bears,
Reminds us of your shame.
. The white man’s liberty in types
Stands blazoned by your stars ;
But what’s the meaning of your
stripes ?
They mean your negroes scars.”
and all notes, bills, drafts and contracts of 1 TIlC Old Log Cabin Burned to the
bosom ; and they crawled around him,
thrusting their beads out, and occasion
ally their forked tongues! Their eyes
looked both brilliant and vicious, We
marched close up—asked him to exhib
it their fangs, which he did. He then
piled them up on tbe platform, and
“ mesmerized” them—then removed tbe
“ magnetic” influence, and set them
creeping, rattling and hissing again !
Tbe second night we were not in at
tendance, but learn from others, that be
turned his regiment of snakes loose up- '
on some live cats, dogs, Ac., and that
they laid them to the land ! He exer
cised a strange influence over snakes.—
We can only say, “ we believe the snake
story now.”—Brown low's Whig.
every sort whatever, on which a greater rate
of interests is reserved or exacted and re-
The 1
Ground.
' Old Log Cabin,” so famous in politi-
Retali ATioN.-The Legislature of Tex
as, at its last session, passed the follow
ing act:
“Section 1. Be it enacted by tbe Leg
islature of the State of Texas, that the
fcllowing sum be, and they are hereby
appiopriated for the use and support of
the State penitentiary, for the years 18-
58 and 1859. [After naming tbe vari-
J ous items, the law makes this further
ceived or bargained for, are hereby declar. cal history, has gone at last! It was the resi- , _
ed to be utterly void and of no effect, and ! dence of Gen. Harrison, at North Bend, about f’. ro ' ,slon J •" ror purchasing and put-
irrecoverabie in law.” : fifteen miles below Cincinnati, when he was Hug up additional machinery, $18,000,
- ii . , n , nominated for President, and was made famous i P rov ’ded that no part of tbe same shall
Sec. 9. And be it farther enacted, That . \«.„.,.h.,-
no bank or bank ageuey shall, by itself, its
ner of the land, and praises of
Tbe rough log cabin,
officers or agents, diseoant or purchase notes,
papers or evidences of debt, made for a val
uable consideration, or a good consideration,
between tbe parties thereto, at a greater
discount than sf the rate of seven per cent
Charleston, July 30. Cotton, AM bales wm par annum, and that all such notes, ps-
by a thousand songs in tbe campaign of 1840,; be expended in the State of Massachu-
Hiniatare imitations were erected in every cor-i setts, nor for machinery manufactured
* | in said State,”
That tells of olden time,” Mr. Allen Butler, author of the
were upon every tongue, and probably had popular pcem of “Nothing to
quite as much influence in tbe election as any ! * e,r i has a new poem in press to he
other subject that was canvassed. But its published on the first day of August
pan sad evidences of debt, discounted or • **i a teb s tring” has disappeared at last. - next. It consists of about 1600 line*.