Newspaper Page Text
C|e jltankriti.
Resu't of the Recent Congressional
Elections.
According to the latest information, the
next delegation from Tennessee, Kentucky,
North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, will
stand as follows:
TENNESSEE.
1st district, T. A. R. Nelson, Opp., gain.
OASSYlLLE^aEO.
THURSDAY MORNING,
AUGUST 25, 1859. _
r DEMOCRATIC ICOJUNATIOMS.
FOB GOVERNOR.
Hon. Joseph E. Brown,
OF CHEROKEE.
FOR CONGRESS,
J. w. H. Underwood,
OF FI.OVD.
FOR SENATOR,
COL. MARKJOHNSTON.
for representatives,
THOS J. WOFFORD,
DR. JNO. C- SIMS.
j^nSee Cass Sheriff’s Sales.
“Vindex" will appear next week.
Godey’s Lady’s Book.
The SeDtember number of this Maga
—a—been received ; it maintains its
characterful fy; mo- aor
lie promises, and is constantly making
improvements.
Ladies' Home Magazine.
The September number of this pcrioui
cal is before us. It is filled with the usual
reading matter, which is worth reading.—
It is edited by T. S. Arthur, whose name
is sufficient to give it notoriety.
Property for Sale.
By reference to our advertising columns
it will be seen that Mr. Adam Hill offers
his plantation and town property for sale.
Those wishing to purchase property in or
near Cassville have now an opportunity to
get a good bargain—as wc doubt not he
will sell on good terms.
Macon State Press.
Our thanks arc due to the Editors of
this paper for their kindness, in sending
the Daily State Press, in exchange for the
Standard. Our brethren may rest assur
ed that we appreciate their kindness ; if
we are ever able to repay it, wc shall
cbcerftffly do it.
Atlanta Intelligencer.
This paper has again commenced its
daily visits to our sanctum ; and we take
this occasion to tender our thanks to the
Editors of that journal for their kindness
in sending the Daily Intelligencer, in ex
change for our Weekly. As the Intelli
gencer is so well and favorably known,
we deem it unnecessary to say anything
concerning its merits.
Savannah Medical College.
We invite attention to the advertise
ment of this institution. It possesses
many advantages over other institutions
of like character. Students seeking a
sound medical education, such as will fit
them to encounter successfully the disea
ses of Southern latitudes, should consider
the claims of this College. The number
qf oases treated bv the Professor of Prac
tice at the Hospital clinic during the last
Collegiate session amounted to 140. The
surgical cases presented to the students
during the same session amounted to 82.
Candidates for Congress.
The Democratic nominations for Con
gress for this State arc now complete, and
are as follows:
1st District—PETER E. LOY E.
2d
Horace Maynard, “ “
3d
R. B. Drabson, “ “
; 4th “
W. B. Stokes, .“ “i
! 5th “
R. Hatton, “ “
! 6th “
James A. Thomas, Dem.
| 7th
John V: YVright, “
8th
Jas. M. Quarles, Opp. gain.
9th “
E. Etheridge, “ gain.
10th “
YY. T. Avery, Dem.
KENTUCKY.
1st district,
Henry C. Burnett, I)em.
2d ' “
S.’O. Peyton, “
3d
F. M. Bristow, Opp.
1th “
YV. C. Anderson, “ gain.
5th “
J. Y. Brown, Dem.
6th
Green Adams, Opp., gain.
7th “
Robert Mallory, “
8th “
To be contested.
9th
L. T. Moore, Opp., gain.
10th “
J. YY. Stephenson, Dem.
NORTH CAROLINA.
1st district,
YY. N. H. Smith, Opp., gain.
2d
Thos. Ruffin, Dem.
3d
Warren YYinslow, Dem.
4th “
L. O’B. Branch, “
5th “
J. A. Gilmer, Opp.
6th “
J. M. Leach, “ gain.
7th “
Burton Craigc, Dem.
8th “
Z. B. Y'ance, Opp.
ALABAMA.
1st district, J..A. Stallworth, Dem.
2d
J. L. Pugh,
3d
David Clopton, “
- Ath. .“
5th “
Sydenluvm Moore. “
U-’G. Houston, “
6th “
YY. R. YY. Cobb, “
7th “
J. L. M. Curry, “
In Texas, Reagan and Hamilton, Dcnr
ocrats, are elected.
Hon. A. Iverson’s Speech.
YVc regret to see the fierce attacks which
are being made by respectable Democratic
papers of this State, on the address of
Judge Iverson, recently delivered at Grif
fin. If all true Southern principles and
doctrines arc to be resolved in Georgia in
to a disgraceful squabble for men, let it be
so understood. If a manly exposition of
the encroachments of the North and a se
rious inquiry into the mode and manner
of redress are to he reprobated and repu
diated because they do not come from the
right man, the tile should be told in that
way. Let it be understood at once that
papers sustain principles just so far as
the}- may promote the interests of their
favorites for office, and no farther; that all
the great principles protective of the South
arc mere secondary considerations to the
promotion of Judge Iverson, Gov. John
son, or some one else to office. Let us say
at once that the great public interests of
the Southern section of the Union must
succumb to the personal aspirations of
leading politicians. The people will then
understand what the gentlemen of the quill
are at, and what they mean by their
strange repudiation of the principles of a
party to which they profess to belong and
adhere. YVe must say, however, for our
self, that wc shall he guided by different
motives, and shall not he decoyed into a
denunciation of our principles by the as
pirations of Iverson, Johnson, or any one
else; and if Satan himself comes and
preaches the true doctrine, father of lies
as he is said to be, wc shall do him the
justice to say he is preaching the truth,
and that the people ought to listen to and
follow it It requires no strong foresight
to see that these gentlemen are raising a
tornado by which both Iverson and John
son will be swept from the prominent po
sition to which they aspire. A third man
will be the certain result of this disgrace
ful and uncalled for attack upon the ad
dress of Judge Iverson. YVe speak thus
plainly because the particular friends of
Judge Johnson arc doing their favorite no
service, and the party and its principles
much injury.— Wire Grais Reporter.
The State Tax-Thfi Per Cent. Se
duced.
The Governor and Comptroller General
have reduced the per cent, on the taxable
property of the State, from seven and a
half to six and a half cents on the $100—
they deeming this per cent, sufficient to
raise the $375,000, the lowest amount re
quired by law. This reduction has been
made in consequence of the large increas
ed return of the taxable property this year
over last : year-^-the increase being about
$60,000,800. Previous to this year there
was no check upon persons who returned
their property lor taxation under its value
—every tax payer made liis- own estimate
of value, and the Receiver of Tax Returns
was bound to receive it; consequently,
whilst the larger portion of the tax payers
returned their property at a fair valuation,
others did not do so. Whilst the larger
portion retuhied their slaves, for insu
rance, at an average value of $500 and
$600, and others at -$650 and $700, -there
were others again who only returned their
slaves at an average value of200, 250, 300,
350 and $400, while we have heard of one
case where the average value was only
$175. The last Legislature however, pas
sed a law authorizing and requiring Re
ceivers of Tax Returns to be “ Assessors
in certain cases.” It required the Receiv
ers to examine all returns made to them,
and where property was under value, to
place a proper value upon the same—and
in case the owner or agent objected to the
assessment, it was then then to be made
by two or more tax pa ers—one to be se
lected by the Receiver, one by the person
making the return, and if necessary, the
third to be selected by the two Arbitra
tors. It appeal's that the Receivers in the
State have generally discharged their du
ties under mis ' fan ; in aauiCion io tills,
slaves and other property in Georgia have,
increased in value since April, 1858;—
hence, the large increased return this year,
and consequent reduction of the per cent
—Southern Recorder.
2d . “
M. J. CRAWFORD.
3d
A. M. SPEER.
4th “
L. J. GAKTRELL.
5th “
J. W. H. UNDERYYOOD.
6th “
J. R. JACKSON.
7th “
R. G. HARPER.
8th “
J. J. JONES.
Franklin College.
YY r c sec by the papers that this “old fo
gy” concern of a College, is to he trans
formed into a regular University, with a
Gymnasyum. Law and Medical School, Ac.,
at an expense to the State of perhaps sev-
I eral hundred thousand dollars, and all for j man stopped at Stewart's to buy a pair of
The United States Check Forgery.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Times,
writes from Camp Floyd, about the dis
covery of the forged quartermaster’s checks
on New York and St. Louis. He says:
Gen. Johnston had received an intima
tion of what was going on, and for more
than a week had been having the parties
watched. Yesterday a man named Brew
er, a Mormon, came down from the city
to effect the first sale; he sold one check
for $367 tq a man who had been instruct
ed to purchase them if offered for sale. A
warrant for an arrest was immediately is
sued, the man was taken while in bed,
and, on search being made, the {date for
striking checks on St, Louis, together with
a number of blank checks, was found; the
fellow also had in his possession several
checks with the Quartermaster’s name up
on them ; the signature had been so accu
rately. traced that the Quartermaster him
self could not detect the counterfeit It
was one of the boldest, as well as one of
the most dangerous, attempts at forgery
ever perpetrated. A man named McKen
zie, who keeps the Mormon tithing office
in the city, executed the engraving, and
probably struck the prints. A party has
been sent up to arrest them.
The intention was to send Brewer over
to California with half a million dollars in
checks, there to put them into circulation.
If the scheme had not been nipped in the
bud, the public would probably have been
swindled out of a million of dollars.
Brewer is in the hands of the United
States Marshal for the Territory, in heavy
irons, and with a double guard over him
all the time. There is no doubt about ob
taining proof to convict him.
Sickles or the Street.
The New York correspondent of the Bal
timore Patriot writes the following :
“ Sir. Sickles is shunned by his old po
litical associates. He walks Broadway and
fastens upon every leading man to walk
with him. They cannot shake him off.—
Mr Sickles joined a leading statesman on
Broadway, near Grace Church, one fine
morning last week, and walked by his side
for about two blocks, when the gentleman
apologized to Sickles for leaving him to
buy a book in a store. Sickles said he
would wait The gentleman went to the
New York Hotel. Sickles waited until he
came out It was of no use. The gentle-
The Opposition canidates for Congress
M«: Marcel 1 us Douglas, in the 2d; Thos.
Hardeman, in the 3d; Win. F. Wright, in
the 4th; Joshua llill, in the 7th, and A.
R. YVright, (of Jefferson) in the 8th.
Address Before the Literary Societies
of Griffin Female College.
We hare received the copy of an Ad
dress delivered before the Sigourney and
Nightingale Societies of Griffin Female
College, by Rev. Chas. YYallace Howard.
YVeThave nof read it, but from the distin
guished author's reputation as a scholar
and orator, we are satisfied it is no-ordi
nary production.
Kentucky Legislature.
The Democratic majority on joint ballot
in the Kentucky Legislature, just chosen,
will be about t.vcnty-eight It will choose
a Democratic United States Senator in
place of Hon. John J. Crittenden, whose
term will expire on the 4th of March,
1861. Kentucky will then have two De
mocratic United States Senators.
Seventh Congressional District
Mr. Robert G. Harper, of Newton, has
been nominated as the Democratic candi
date for Congress in the Seventh district
He runs against Hon. Joshua H01, late
* r. i Mr Harper is the gentleman
pamphlet entitled, “An
; Re-opening the African
Trade," which wa*
b during the past winter.
the benefit of the aristocratic and wealthy
classes of our people! YVe suppose the
matter is fully determined on ; therefore,
nothing is left for us but to enter our dis
sent and protest against the proposed mea
sure. YYere it in our power to influence
the Legislature we would not have the
State appropriate another dime to the sup
port of Franklin College, much less to en
large its benefits for that class of the peo
ple who are able to educate their sons,
without taxing those less able, to help
them do it. At least it will be the part of
wisdom first to establish some extensive
and practical plan for thetftacation of the
children of common peopR, in public
schools, before we enter upon the work of
giving enlarged facilities for the training
of young aristocrats and purse-proud gen
try at the public cost
In much the same light do we view the
project on the part of the Episcopalian
Church to establish a mammoth Universi
ty at Sewanee, Tennessee. It is stated that
one million of dollars is needed to found
this Institution, and that over one third of
tiie money has been subscribed by a few
wealthy individuals. To this we, of course,
can have no objection, as the means are
raised by voluntary subscription—only
tint we do not believe that any mammoth -
concern like that proposed
to the genius iff our Republican Govern
ment. Its tendency is to ornate castesand
ranks in society, somewhat after the order
ef England’s nobility*, imd are, therefore,
objectionable,-—Georgia (Other.
loves, and-stayed purposely half an hour.
It was with no success. Sickles waited,
and walked down with the other to YYall
street His political power is gone, and
his sole aim now is to be recognised as of
old. It won’t do. His old friends do not
wish to be seen with him, or to endorse
him in any way. Mr. Sickles will never
be heard of again. He will attempt to
claim his seat next December, but even
that will fail him. Facts are against him.
—He was not fairly elected, and Mr. Wil
liamson. his opponent, will claim and get
the seat”
23F" The accuracy of Mr. Cobb’s esti
mates, as shown by the receipts of the last
three quarters into the U. S. Treasury, oc
casions frequent remark. The Philadel
phia Ledger, for example, says :
Mr. Cobb has shown himself to be one
of the soundest and most reliable of offi
cers ever in charge of the Treasury. The
finances of the Government have been be
set with difficulties of almost every char
acter from .the first year of his administra
tion, and he has steadily met each as it
presented itself with the easy assurance of
a man who thoroughly understood him
self and the intricate business of his office.
As an instancemf his close and laborious
all suited Salculations,-In his last annual report to
Congress, he estimated the receipts for the
three-quarters at thirty-eight million five
hundred thousand; dollars. The-.result
shows him within about eighty thousand
dollars of the actual result
Col. Akin’s Acceptance.
Cassville., (Jjko-, Aug- 15, 1859.
Gentlemen—Yottrs of thfeY Ithinstant,
informing «Se that a Convention,of the
party represimtir.g the Opposition in Geor
gia, which assembled in Atlanta on the
10th instant, unanimously placed my name
in nomination for the office of Governor of
this State at the approaching election, has
been received.
This manifestation of confidence from so
large and intelligent a body of my fellow-
citizens, is a compliment not to be slightly
regarded, even if it had been sought by
hie. But when voluntarily tendered, and
that, too, riot Only without solicitation,
but against my known wishes—taking in
to consideration all the circumstances at
tending-it, as they have been detailed to
me—it imposes an obligation upon me to
yield to the demand of my friends, which
it is not in my heart to shrink from, how
ever, reluctantly I assume the position as
signed me. I therefore accept the nomi
nation, and fully approve, and cordially
endorse the. declaration of principles adop
ted by the Opposition Convention held at
Macon, on the 20th day of July last
As it is known to many of The members
of the Convention, that the condition of
my health rendered it physically impossi
ble for me to canvass the State, I suppose
it will not be expected of me.
For the very kind and flattering manner
in which you have communicated to me
the action of the Convention, and given
expression to your individual opinions,
allow me to tender you niy sincere ac
knowledgements, and to assure you of the
deep sensibility with which I receive this
evidence of your personal regard.
I am, gentlemen,
Yery respectfully.
. Your obedient servant,
WARREN AKIN.
To James Johnson, John Milleilge and
C. Peeples, Esquires.
How Greely Was Sold.
A good story is told in the papers of
Iloiacc Greely. He was anxious to know
all about the gold mines, and those East
ern Yankees now in that region, knowing
Ilorace’.s failing—a good subject to be
humbugged and used—played a nice trick
upon him. An old California miner who
lias been prospecting at Pike’s Peak, very
unsuccessfully, and having in his posses
sion about $400 worth of California gold
dust, conducted to sell Horace, and if he
succeeded, tiie speculators and land sharksi
in and around the mines, were to present
him with $100. Thereupon the sharper
took his $400 in gold dust, and planted it
upon a claim he had been working on for
a month—not averaging 10 cents per day.
Reported all.around that he had struck a
rich lead, and invited everybody to call
and pee it, particularly Horace Greely,—
who was to. be ‘sold’ for a consideration.
Horace among others went to see for him
self and be- convinced. The miner com
menced digging, and in about half a hour
he took out $150, when several, (those in
the speculation,) made him offers for his j
claim, but not. enough to justify him in |
disposing of it. One man offered him four j
thousand dollars, but no take. The sharp- j
cr then asked Horace Greely to dig for j
himself and be convinced of the richness
of his claim. Horace dug for about a hour j
and took out $175, which, satisfied the
philosopher that the diggings would pay. j
Greely told him he would give him $G,000, j
half cash, or equivalent, and the balance ;
as soon as the note was presented in New j
York. The sharper agreed to the propo- !
sition, with the understanding that he be i
allowed one or two d tys’ digging for means j
to carry hiiu home, Greely consented.— j
The sharper staid on the claim just long J
enough to find his dust, planted a day or j
two before, when he vamoused the rancho, |
started for New York and had his note
cashed. Greely then wrote his famous gold
letter—giving out to the world that gold
existed iu great abundance. Thus was
the Philosopher sold at Pike’s Peak.—Pe
tersburg -Express.
Cause of Geo. Houston’s Election.
In the recent elections for Governor and
Congressmen, in the “ lone star” State,
the question of re-opening the African
Slave Trade was made an issue by the
State Rights democracy. YYithout distinc
tion of party, the agitation of the question
was opposed by the people, either from
principle or expediency, or both. The re
markable change in the political complex
ion of the State cannot be accounted for
upon any .other hypothesis.
In a former contest, Runnels, the defea
ted candidate for Gov’nor, distanced Hous
ton by an overwhelming majority of votes.
He (Houston) had also failed to secure his
re-election to the United States Senate.—
YYith philosophic resignation be prepared
himself for the cerements of political death.
But the introduction of an impractical is
sue in the canvass gave him an advantage
in which his political acumen detected a
disastrous defeat to his adversary.
He opposed it from principle and expe
diency, and the result was the triumph of
one whose career has been characterized
by the basest treachery to his home and
section.—Columbus Sun.
Texas Elections.
A dispatch, dated at New Orleans, Au
gust 13th, states that returns had been
received in that city from eighty-two coun
ties in Texas, which show a majority for
General Sam Houston, independent Dem
ocrat, for Governor, of eight thousand over
Hardin R. Runnels, the regular Democrat-
doubtless elected. For Land Commission
er, Francis M. YYhite, regular Democrat,
was two thousand ahead at last accounts.
Howell Cobb and the Presidency.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Herald, seems to know more
about Mr. Cobb and Georgia, than Geor
gians themselves know! We do not re
member to have seen lately a more splen
did specimen of “ bosh” than the follow
ing :—Dispatch.
Washington, Aug. 17, 1859.
Governor Cobb was expected to return
here from Georgia this morning. He will
certainly be back before the end of the
week. He is in high glee at the state of
things in his native State, and declares
that there will be no opposition there
whatever to his Presidential aspirations.—
Neither Toombs nor Stephens will active
ly canvass against him, and the relations
which have recently been made in relation
to the re-opening of the slave trade, have
materially added in giving him strength
among planters and those who control
popular feeling. The opposition which lie
feared some weeks ago, he thinks he will
no longer have to encounter, and that the
Charleston Convention will find him the
most available of Southern candidates.
Burke, of the Savannah Morning
News, writing to that paper from Augusta,
tells the following “ good one” on the Op
position candidate for Congress in the 8th
district:
I have heard an anecdote of one of the
candidates—the last named—which I have
never seen in print, and which is too good
to be lost. It seems that during Mr. Ste
phen’s last canvass in this district, he was
met at some point by Col. YVright. The
Colonel, as most of our readers know, is
considered a first rate stump speaker, and
almost unequalled as a raconteur of anec
dotes. lie told a great number of the lat
ter, and the mirth and laughter of the
crowd were furious. Among other things,
he stated to the highly delighted audience
that he understood that Mr. Stephens had
said that “he could eat ltanse Wright for
breakfast, Bob Trippc for dinner, and top
off with Ben Hill for supper.” Mr. Steph
ens being a small man for liis a ire, and .
. I their support. The names are also given
possessed ot limited “stowage room, this! 11 a
P • i ii i of sixty-four new church edifices erected
story ol course raised a yell. j . J
. i in 1858, of two hundred and thirty-cigln
Shortly after “ little Aleck rose to re- ! ’ Jo
ply. He declared that he had never made
such a remark as had been attributed to
him by his opponent. “But,” said he, “fel
low-citizens, if I had contemplated any
such meal, I should certainly have revers
ed the order. I should have taken Ben
llill for break Cist, Bob Trippc for dinner,
and, remembering the advice of my moth-1 The Voice of the Edgefield District,
er, always to take a light supper, 1 should j The Hon. M. L. Bonham, the popular
have closed up with my friend. Colonel and we!1 slistf ,i n ed Representative of the
Wright.” It is said that from this time j Edgefield District, S. C., puts forth the
forward the iaugli vras on the other side. ^ following sentiment, w hich will be respon-
Prize Fight Near St. Louis. ’ ded to all over the State:
The St. Louis papers give the details of ‘^ s 0111 bo P e ’ n the next Presiden
a prize fight which took place on an is- j rieclion, we have none. Y\ c will have
land seven miles above Alton, on Tuesday, j neither Douglas nor Seward, nor any ol
between Shanghai Connor, of St. Louis, j their stamp, so we may expect that the
and James Byrnes, of New Orleans. Two | Democrats at the North will break off from
steamers transported the crowd from St.! us - ? Let them go. Me feel able to pro-
Louis to the battlefield. Near fifteen * ec *‘ ourselves, and will sacrifice them for
hundred persons assembled about the ring. our interests and honor. Should the next
Fourteen rounds were fought. On the last; Presidential election leave us only the
round Conner was struck when down, and c i>°i ec °* die tw o, our hope lies in a South-
the cry of “foul play” was raised, and j crn Confederacy; for the South,-South
Connor awarded victor. A terrible row i Carolina will not allow herself to be insul-
e lsued. The Democrat say-: j tjJ - hcr interests sacrificed, her rights dis-
Stripped, bloody and ragged, Byrnes j regarded, nor her honor stained in a Na-
dared Connor to come out and finish the ' tional l. nion.
fight, which lie declined. Then many of'
Connor’s men rushed on shore and joined i
their comrades, and a scene of riot and ;
murderous attack followed which baffles ;
description. Knives were freely used.
The Tree System of Adverting.
•One of our exchanges discusses a ques
tion of interest in. business men, as to the
method of advertising. The merits of cir-
ctdars, bills Ac., are conceded, but it is
held that “the handbill, to be conveyed
about by men, orto be sent into the coun
try, is not the best vehicle for advertising
ic candidate. For Lieutenant Governor, j for merchants. Let them use the news-
the returns to hand seem to favor Francis j paper. The newspaper is circulated with-
it. Lubbock, regular Democrat, who is out any expense whatever to the adverti
ser, which is by no means an unimportant
item, as. every one will testify who has
had any experience in distributing l,i s own
—In the Western Congressional District, ] advertisements. Not only i s the advertise -
J. Hamilton, independent Democrat, was j ment circulated by the newspaper free of
ahead of T. A. YY'aul, the regular Demo- j all expense, but it is done more specdily
cratic candidate. From the Legislative dis-[ and thoroughly than it can be done by
tricts we have the returns of fifty-four the advertiser. The newspaper is alrcady
members, twenty nine of whom arc in fa- j -
vor of the re-election of Gen. Sam Houston
to the United States Senate.
Baotist Statistics of 1858.
The “ grand total of regular Baptists in
North America,” shows that there are in
the United States five hundred and ninety
Associations, twelve thousand one hun
dred and sixty-three churches, seven thou
sand five hundred and ninety ordained
ministers, one thousand and thirty-five li
centiates, nine hundred and ninety-two
thousand eight hundred and fifty-one com
municants, and that the number baptised
in 1858 was ninety-eight thousand five
hundred and eight, nearly one hundred
thousand baptisms, and a little less than j
a million of members! The largest num
ber of Baptists reported from any State is
Virginia—one hundred and fifteen thou
sand one hundred and forty-six. The lar
gest number baptised in any one State is
New York—ten thousand eight hundred
and two, and the next largest Georgia—
seven thousand nine hundred and forty-
four. The Baptist Almanac gives the
names of thirty-three colleges, fourteen the
ological seminaries, twenty-nine weekly
newspapers, sixteen monthlies, and two
quarterlies, that depend on Baptists for
an established system; a thousand doors
are opened to welcome it; a thousand
messengers are daily and weekly seeking
the post office to receive it; a thousand
families look for its coming, and a thous
and read it when it does come. Again
those who read the newspapers'are the
very persons the advertiser wishes to reach
they are the intelligent and well-to-do
the enterprising citizens of a country, and
are, therefore, the most likely to buy’that
which is worth buying.”—Pittsburg P a
Pott. ’ ’
new churches constituted, and sixty-five
j ministers deceased, and three hundred and
four ministers ordained—a number six or
] seven times larger than the whole number
! graduated in the same year, 1858, from
j all our theological institutions.—Exami-
! ner.
Tomato YVine.—Now, that tomatoes arc
more abundant than they have ever been
known to be in former years, the fob
lowing receipe for making from them a
wine, said to be equal to Heidsick, will be
read by everybody :
lake small ripe tomatoes, pick off the
stems, put them into a tub, wash them
clean, and then strain them through a lin
en bag. One bushel will make 5 gallons
of pure wine. Add two and a half to three
pounds loaf sugar to each gallon, then put
into a cask and ferment, and fix as you do
raspbeny wine. If two gallons of water
be added to the five gallons of juice, it
will still make a very nice wine. Brown
sugar may be used instead of loaf, but the
wine is much more sparkling when loaf
sugar is used. The United States might
export this wine by the ship load. It is
Slid to be a delightful beverage, equal to
Heidsick.
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable.
The cause of the failure of this cable has
at length been discovered. It has been as
certained that the gulta percha used to
bottles,'s'ticks and rocks were hurled, and j insu,ate thc intcrior " ires is on, y calcula *
at last a shot was fired That was the tcJ to bcar a hcat of 00 f1e S rccs ' Whcn
signal for a general drawing of pistols, and ‘he first cable was made, it coiled in a
, i , , • ii . i 3‘ord having a southern exposure, and sub-
some one nundrod shots were rapidly hr- J a 1 ’
, „„ . , . . • . i , j tected for several days to an extraordinary
ed. Those who had not pistols rushed > • . J
p ... , , ■ , ... j heat, the thermometer ranging at 94 de
fer their boats, which at the same time | ’ ° b
, , ... „ .ii riit j grees in thc shade—the hcat on thc cable,
began backing off from the shore. There ° ’
. , . . , „ , from the sun’s rays, being at least 130
was then a heavy rush to get on board. ! J ’ &
and some forty persons were instantly in
degrees. The consequence was, that the
gutta percha was softened, and the inter
file river. Certain skiffmen pulled away
in terror, leaving the victims to swiin or
, . c , , in contact with the external iron wire,
drown, as they might. One or two fights I . _ _ ’
actually occurred in the water!
swimmers at length scrambled on board,
The an< ^ " ' len ^ ie water penetrated to the in
ternal core, communications ceased.—Ex-
not knowing how many had sunk and j c ^ l(in H e P"pei. ^
been drowned. Probably three or four j Vll . (:IMA Comlng to the Scratch.—I
perished at least. ^ j am informed, upon very good authority,
Deaf and Dumb Institution. j that John Letcher has openly avowed his
Mr. S. F. Dunlap, principal of the above! purpose to hoist the flag of disunion in
Institution, honored us with a call on j ^ irginia, should a Republican be elected
YVednesday morning last. Mr. Dunlap in- j t° the Presidency in 1860. This report
formed us that he is now canvassing the i derives a strong feasibility from Mr. L. s
State, gathering up all the deafand dumb! avowals on the hustings. His reported
children in the State, for thc purpose of j sayings at different points during the late
educating them, and that there are alrca-j canvass, represent him as having avowed
dy fifty pupils in the Institution. He also ; a similar intent in the contingency mcn-
informed us that the Institution is large j tioned. He even speaks, as I am told, of
enough to accommodate about one hun- j taking possession of Fort Monroe, and
dred and twenty-five. So, it will be seen j holding it for purposes of defence connect-
that there is room for a great many more, | U< 1 w >th the formation of a Southern Con-
and we hope that parents who have such | federacy. That he has expressed the sen-
^£f“Thc Augusta Constitutionalist con
demns Senator Iverson, and defends Sena
tor Douglas; one is a whole-souled, true
hearted Southerner, and the other is a
squatter sovereignty Northerner, and a
candidate for the Presidency. Remember
ing the antecedents of this sterling Demo
cratic and Southern Rights Press, wc de
plore such indications.—Albany Patriot.
J3F" , Monsieur Blondin crossed thc river
on his rope at Niagara on Wednesday,
withamanon his back. During the per
formance a row occurred, and a man 60
years-of age .was thrown over the river
bank and Itilledi The: deceased’s name was
ColwriL
children will not be backward in securing
places for them. The next term commen
ces on the 7th of September next The
Institution is located at Cave Spring, in
Floyd county, one of the healthiest places
in Georgia, there being plenty of pure
lime stone water.
All persons between the ages of seven
and twenty-four years will be received.—
American Union.
Slaveus Fitting out at Salem, Mass.—
There are at this time two vessels fitting
out at Salem in this State, for the slave
trade on the coast of Africa. The princi
pals in the affair are a Spanish firm in N.
Y., and the pecuniary equipment of the
vessels has jus- been forwarded in the form
of nearly twenty thousand dollars in hard
specie. If the Government really wishes
to stop this infamous trade, it must look
North as well as South, and to these small
New England points as well as New York
■and New Orleans. There will be no diffi
culty in identifying the craft at Salem, and
'this is not the first instance in the last
three months.—Special Dispatch to the
X T. Timet.
timents herein imputed to him, there is
no reason to doubt—Correspondence of
the X. Y. Times.
Returned Pike’s Peakers.—The Nash
ville Gazette, of the 11th inst, says:
“ A party of gentlemen from Georgia,
who left for Pike’s Peak in March last,
passed through this city several days since
on their way home. They are so much
satisfied with the gold regions that they
will never return ‘again. One of the par
ty, whom we are well acquainted with,
had two negroes frozen to death in May
last, and thc gentleman himself is much
worsted by his trip, being scarcely able
to keep up. He was entirely destitute of
means when he reached this city, and had
to borrow money to get home.”
The Detroit Advertiser says:—This
Pike’s Peak humbug has been one of the
most deliberately wicked and ruinous
frauds ever perpetrated upon the Amen
can people.
J4|f“Major F. W. Capers, of South Car
olina, has aceepted ihe superintendency of
( the Georgia Military Institute.
A Rope-walking Mania.—The bold feat
of Mr. Blondin, who turns Niagara into a
mere circus ring, and walks over the foam
and spray of the cataract with as much
apparent case as he has hitherto done over
the orchestra and pit of the theatre, is
finding imi tators in several places. A sim
ilar feat was performed a few days ago by
another rope-walker, one Mr. De Lave,
who has crossed the Genesee river, pass
ing directly over the gorge of the cataract,
and on a rope smaller than that used by
Blondin, while the danger of thc perform
ance was still further enhanced by the fact
that thc rope was imperfectly fastened and
swung fearfully. Yet thc bold De Lava
crossed in safety, and on bis return trip
lay down on his back, and did other deeds
of daring, to thc vast delectation of the
twenty thousand spectators.
Fortress Monroe.—This fortress, in Ya.,
mounts 285 guns, which throw at one dis
charge 32,417 pounds of iron. It has also
10 mortars and 5 siege howitzers. The
new fort commonly known as the Rip
Rapes, will, when completed, mount 108
8-inch cohmibiads and 44 42-lb. guns, all
casinated, and 8 10-inch columhiads and
46 9-incli do., all embarbette. These guns
are of thc heaviest class, and capable of
throwing an enormous weight of shot.
Jefferson, the negro man of whom
we spoke in our last as having committed
an assault, with a knife, upon the person
of Mr. Henry Ilartzog and his daughter,
on the morning of thc 6th inst., was tried
on Saturday last, and found guilty, and
sentenced to be hung on the first Friday
id October next, at the Cross Roads, near
Bodiford s old store.—lhxrnwell Sentinel.
A young man while undergoing an
examination for the purpose of being ad
mitted to the bar, was asked: “ What
were the constitutional requiremenfs which
render a man eligible to the office of Presi
dent of the United States ?” He answer
ed: “He must be thirty-five years old, and
a mighty good Democrat.”
A merchant of Russia announces
the sale, in his warehouse at Odessa, Nic-
olaicff and Sebastopol, of 7,351 tons of
iron and cast iron, coming from projectiles
picked up in the Crimea after the war,
which gives some idea of the prodigious
consumption of shot and shells in the siege
of Sebastopol.
’IS? “There are five hundred and eleven
Lodges of Odd Fellows in Pennsylvania,
with forty-two thousand five hundred and
forty-two contributing members. Thc re
ceipts of the Order for the year ending
June 30th, were $225,966, and the amount
paid for relief; $110,076.
J^TThe Atlanta Intelligencer says, we
learn from a gentleman from Campbell Co.,
that on last Monday, Jacob Tiel was kill
ed by John and Thomas Y'ancey. This
calamity is the result of liquor.
Professor Wise made an ascension
at 2 o’clock on YYedncsday afternoon, from
Lafayette, Indiana, in his monster balloon.
He was destined for the East
About the only person we ever
heard of that was not spoiled by being li
onized, was a Jew, named Daniel.
ggp We are authorized to announce Mr.
BILEY MILAM as an independent candidate
for the office ot Tax Collector at toe ensuing
election. Ang 25-tde^
Messrs. Eojtozs: The friends of M. A.
Harden would respectfully present him to the
citizens of Czsa county as an independent can
didate for the Legislature at the next election.
Aug. 1st, 1859. SEVENTEENTH.
Jot Work neatly executed at this Office-