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B. F. BlWNETT,
S. H. SMITH,
’EDITORS.
HEW YORK ELECTION—THE
If EXT PRESIDENCY
The late election in New York for mem
I bers to Congress resulted in the elc<*ion
The Weather.
After nearly two months of dry weath
er we ha ve the pleasure of chronicling the
: fall of a good rain on Monday last my
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Speech of Senator Jones of Xewton. ter tgpjRfied to give a verdict in the case, end to prompt their circulation under ten
os A bill TO pardon w*. a. choice. th *^ e ? * nd * **7 « « «7
Mr. Jones efScwton said; I feel it is or evcn iramateri * 1 P* rtc ^ ®r ifj To rem.bn«e the county of Eeriy for
dbty, thd£h it may be an unpleasant there be an error in the charge of the moneyjgtended, ($1 193,26.) to prevent
CANDIDATES.
For Ordinary:
i bers 10 vongress r^.reu j -^ nTitTnrfltedncsdly) the' weather <* one, to give to this senate my views in.-re- Co, iP* xn
loCJAdm.n.stmtion l^m^SRougks^^MmS*-*** beft* then*
! Democrats and.26 Black ^Republicans.— [clear ana pleasant. ^ ^ m. Wiry-, L *sel had le
j and-dp predate the motives which prompt*
W Wa are authorized to announce the
the matter can ^ffctrriqd tff* high- the spnflid of the smallpox. jeemeof Mr. J. A. HOWARD as a candidate
•ibunaL^dtthe yjfidom of their coun- I Jo ameftd the Act of Dec. 22, 1858, re- for Ordinary, at tha election in January next.
^ the matter in pre- specting Banks suspending specie payment
ference to this tribunal; which, as we allowing damages of twenty-five per cent. I
Sept. 8, 1859—tde.
We are authorized io announce Mr.
CASSVIU.E, CEO.
Thursday Morning,
NOVEMBER 24, 1859.
Democratic Nomination.
Fob Solicitor Gsnbral—Cbebokee Circlit,
J. A. W. JOHNSON,
OF WHITFIELD.
Election 1st Monday in January, 1860.
| Senator Seward and his “ irrepressible j SILVERSMITH. i . tor from Tel « relK,r v’ “*«“ — e>— —y~ - ~£~r ” -nr.
| conflict” doctrine having been substan-; j t seen bv reference to our ad- ** *“* * w, ‘‘ rks 01 the ' . ' have said before, except in a solitary in- to the bill bolder, and.judgment at the NATHAN LAND as aM^fflidat* for Ordinary,
* , „ „ „ , fair. An arppeal of the kind he has urg- . . , , . at the election in JaiiuMWyxt.
it Mr. O. H. Wood- P , heart, and strongly stanc ®’ h#s never tnown to refuse a first term. i , = ATI
’ 8 3 pardon. This seems to evince that
punpl have not confiden
> tially ratified by the State of New York ; vertising columns that Mr. O. H. Wpod , .
i in this election, it is not a very difficulf ■ worth is prepared to repair watches, f * ' Va \, j" C ' *! * m ‘*
matter to see that he will be the leading j docks, and jewelry ; engrave initials, inchnes 1 ° he exe? '
j spirit of the Abolition party in the Pres- j names, &c. on rings or other articles; and
idential canvass next year.
The Southern States will be entitled to
promises to do his work well or make no
charge. Our citizens have long felt the
I only 120 votes in the Electoral College ; ' nee j 0 f a .silversmith, and now that they
have got one, it is to be hoped the}' will
give him proper encouragement. .
Nomination of Solicitor General.
The Convention to nominate a can
didate for Solicitor General of the Cher
okee Circuit assembled at Dalton on Mon
day last and nominated Col. J. A. IV.
Johnson, of Whitfield, present incumbent, ,
on the first ballot,
received a few votes,
was not before the Convention.
A better selection could not have been j
made; our people throughout the Circuit i
have hail opportunity to know that Col. |
Johnson is well qualified for the office
34 more will be needed to elect a Prcs-
j ident, and can anybody tell where they
are to come from ? The Northern States
will be entitled to 186 votes—32 more
than is necessary to elect. Taking the
recent elections in the Northern States as
a test, an abolitionist will certainly be
elected President next year, upon the
liappening of which event the Southern
: Whipping the South into Obedioaee. j principle* laid down by the gentleman
Hear how the North is going to whip from Richmond, that we occupy the place
the South into obedience. The New York ; ofjurors in this case. I take issue with
Courier and Enquirer says: j him on this point This Legislature stands
“ Let the slave States of the South and j under even higher obligations in the ren-
Southwest—let any one of them, or any diiion of its verdict The application for
excise of mercy ; but
I would inform Senators, ythat-ihere is e *?P e< *
another attribute which ought to govern
us at the same time—the attribute of jus
tice. We ought to remember that it is
said in Holy writ, V The voice of thy bro
ther’s blood crieth to me from the ground
, „ , ....... justice I am compelled, under the circum- conatttons.
for vengeance. ’ 1 am astonished at the J v ... ,.
stances, to vote to sustain the verdict of
the jury.
'o require Ordinaries, before granting
arriage licence, to require oath that the
Sept. 15, 1859.
j their jurfsjtion. They prefer to the cool parties to be married are not within cer-
' and dispassionate body which the Supreme ! tain degrees of kindred.
Court is, this Assembly, where appeals of To lend the bonds of the State ($150,-
sympathy may be listened to, and altho’ ; 000) to Mark A. Cooper, to developc the
they may drown the still small voice of mineral resources Of Georgia, on certain
States will doubtless seek safety by with- combination of them, raise the banner of » pardon is a call upon us to pronounce
drawing from the Union and forming a j rebellion against the American Union— upon the verdict of the jury, irrespective
Southern Confederacy; Let our Legisla-! we care not what their pretence for trea-j of the attributes of justice or of mercy,
tare, now in session, take these thingsl son—as certainly as there is a God above,
No, sir. what are the facts in connection
_ _ _ . - p, , ] iuii.% iiuw i;i avaaiujt, wuve uicav umigh , ^ ~ ^ 1 i . . i m
*" i a * n i °i • J ' ! into consideration, and prepare to meet 50 certain is it that the offending States , with the transaction, and what is the law? j
s. t.iongli his name , (i e .^ . ^ # ( manner. It is “bet-1 " ill be whipped into obedience, and the ; I admit that I speak with very little hope j *
prope
ter to die freemen than live slaves.”
: traitors who encouraged rebellion, ter-; that the verdict of the Court will be sus-
minate their career upon the gallows.”
THE LAW.
friend, Mr. J. C. Branson,
Whither are we Drifting ? I
We learn that an attempt was made, in Our
lie now holds, and that he has made and j Merriwcther count}-, in this State, by a j has been admitted to the bar, and propo-
will make a faithful officer. The nomina-1 party of white men, to set fire to the prem
ises of Wm. S. Lawson, of Greenville.—
Their head quarters are supposed to be ii
tion will doubtless give satisfaction to the :
party generally.
tained : for I have never known the ver
dict of any jury in a capital offence to be
sustained by any Legislature of Georgia.
I have never known an application for
pardon made here to be unsuccessful, ex
cept in one solitary instance; and in that
ses to attend promptly to any business
that may be entrusted to his care. John . , , ,. ,
, . . ; instance the pardon would probably have
is a deserving young man, and is worthy j ^ i.„j „„„„ K „„„
Resolutions were passed approving the j Macon.
man
: the confidence of the public.
course of President Buchanan and Gov.
Wise, in promptly quelling the outbreak
at Harper’s Ferry.
ANXIOUS FOR A PORTION OF
CASS. m The work of an incendiary.
Mr. Ware, of Polk, has introduced a ^ The Columbus Enquirer says
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into the Legislature to lay out and number of Gin houses destroyed by fire ! hies I reached the Depot, where I remain
hill
organize a new county from portions of
Cass, Floyd, Polk and Paulding.
Also, Mr. McDonald, of Murray, has
introduced a bill to form a new county
from portions of Cass, Cobb, Cherokee
and Paulding—Aeworth to he the county
site, and Alatoona to be the name of the
county.
We are confident that nineteen twentieths
of the people of Cass are bitterly opposed
to having their coiuity cut up into such
fragments as the above bills propose. We
do not wonder that the discontents in the
adjoining counties leant a portion of our
county —a county having the wealth, in
telligence and population that Cass lias,
may be justly eiieicd. Uur people arc-
satisfied with their coiiniv : v, c have got
a voting population of twenty-one or
twenty-two hundred, a total population
of nearly sixteen thousand, and taxable
property to the amount of nearly nine
millions of dollars. Is it surprising that
Cass is wanted ? we think not; and our
people will not permit their county to be
cut up into strips not larger than a good-
sized plantation.
PARDONING CRIMINALS.
Already have several bills for the par
don of murderers been introduced into
Legislature, and if we may judge of the
future by the past, the criminals will soon
he turned loose, to gratify their thirst for
crime in other localities, and upon other
innocent persons.
Our criminal laws should, and were in
tended to, protect the innocent, as well as
to punish the guilty; and it is an outrage
upon an orderly and law-abiding people
to turn loose a murderer amongst them ;
for all criminals have fair and impartial
trials, by juries of their own choosing.
“ Whosoever sheds man’s blood, by
man shall his blood be shed;” and it is an
outrage upon society, and unjust to the
murdered, that the murderer should go
unwhipped of justice—a free people
should not submit to it.
If our Legislatures arc determined to
pardon all gallows-deserving characters
who may apply to them, thus giving the
criminals a chanec to gratify their hellish
propensities elsewhere, it becomes the
duty of the people to put a stop to such
proceedings by hereafter sending men to
the Legislature who will not let. their feel
ings runaway with their judgement—in
other words select men who are not quite
so tender-hearted—who will leave the
criminal laws where they belong—to the
juries of the country.
THE NEW CONGRESS.
This body will assemble at Washington
City on Monday, 5th December next.—
Here is the political complexion of the
SENATE:
Democrats, 36
Black Republicans, .-.24
Americans, 2
Vacancies, 4
Total, 66
HOUSE:
Administration Democrats 93
Anti-Lecompton or Douglas Deui. 8
Black Republicans, 113
Americans, 23
On tile 18th instant, in Macon, an at- i
tempt was made to fire the new and splen
did edifice of Wm. B. Johnston's. A well |
and bath house, which stood in close prox- ,
Editorial Correspondence.
Pickens S. C., Nov. 11, 1859.
When I left Uassville I promised to write 1
imity to his dwelling, was consumed.— you from Columbia, but the mail closed
! before I could get the letter ready,
the Taking Banton’s line, after a few bob-
in the cotton planting States within the j e d an hour.
last few weeks, is so great as to attract
special attention. Hardly
without one or more, fires of
We heard a gentleman say, a few days
go, that six gin houses were burnt in Tal
bot county week before last. The Mobile
Murcury reports the burning of two in
Conecuh county, Ala. The Palladium re
ports one in Webster county, Ga.” We
also learn tint two were burnt in Newton
county, last week, and that Bowdon, a !
been obtained had not the case been ag
gravated by the fact that the condemned
had previously been a minister.
The question for the Senate to decide
is. whether Choice was rendered insane
by the injury which he sustained in 1850?
Up to that time it is not even pretended
that lie was insane. I defy gentlemen,
to produce any testimony to show any in
sanity when sober. We hear nothing,
then, of insanity up to 1850, and after
that no insanity manifested in anv of the
Nothing of interest occurred until I
day passes ; reached Atlanta, when I went to uncheck j ordinary transactions of business, excent
thi.> ci.it • j my baggage Gov. Bioan s agent ver} po . w j jen j s un( j er the influence of intoxi-
litc, 7 !nf01 ' med n;c lhat 1 l 0u]d haVe ‘° j eating drink. We find him
pay extra on my trunks. Protesting did 1
no good, and although informed that I
was (ravelling with my family yet he must
i have the extra, fifty cents. Preferring to
I pay it than to cavil I forked over the one
thing needful. I hope that this ex'ra will
find its wav into the Treasury and assist
village in Carroll county, was nearly burnt j in swelling the sum paid in for the month
up. A gentleman residing there says lie 0 f November. At Atlanta I had in the
saw two men run away from town just I hurry of shifting baggage two trunks mis-
before the fire was discovered. So says ! placed, from which I have not yet heard,
report. Wc‘learn from the Mobile papers I left on the night train for Augusta,
of Tuesday loth, that there were no less ! and as it was dark I can chronicle no items
than five fires in that city on the Sunday j to that point. Augusta appeared, as I
before. Many other reports of fires are j passed through, to he improving. I took
a hasty survey of the new bridge of the
S. C. Railroad, erected over the Savannah
River, It is an elegant structure, ami
looks like it would stand for years. I left
Augusta at 8 o'clock A. M., and reached
Columbia at 3 o’clock P. M., without any
thing occurring to break the dull monoto
ny of railroad travel. I walked out to the
new State building, which is in rapid pro-
circulating in our Georgia exchanges, the
truth of which reports time will reveal.—
Let the southern people be on their guard,
and when suspicious characters are seen
prowling about our cities and villages, and
through the country, they ought to be
taken up and made to tell their bnsincss.
Wc learn a man named Charles Scott,
a drummer from the firm of Scott & Co.,
New York, was waited on by a Vigilance i gress of construction, and when finished
Committee, in Columbus, on the 17th
inst., and notified that he had better quit,
lie had been expressing Rcntinien.s in re
gard to slavery that was congenial with
it will be the finest building south of the
Potomac. In Columbia I stopped with
my old friend Hunt and while we do not
wish to be regarded as a drummer, I would
a more northern latitude. Another one i say to all who may visit Columbia,, try
of the same stamp, by the name of Ellneer,
from the same city, likewise a drummer.
Hunt’s Hotel.
Leaving Columbia on Monday morning
was discovered in Augusta, a few days a- j I arrived at Anderson, with some few :tc-
go, guilty of the same act. Now, it is I cidents, but no one hurt. Anderson has
just such scamps as these, who arc doing 1 very much improved within the last twelve
this devilment in the Southern States, and j months, and is doing a,thriving business-
if not checked- immediately, there is no ' Com is worth from one dollar to one and
telling where it will end. ; a quarter, flour eight dollars per barrel,
i bacon twenty cents per pound and all oth-
! er things in proportion. I remained at
I Anderson until to-day, when I left for my
I native District. Pickens is on the stand
still and will never improve much on ac
count of its location : the Court House be-
j ing set on a hill, and while the front steps
I are on the ground, the back steps arc from
1 fifteen to twenty feet high. I found all
well, and provisions cheaper than at An-
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN ATLAN
TA.
A destructive fire broke out in Atlanta j
on Wednesday night, 16th inst., destroy
ing a large amount. Three children of
Wm. Houghton, were burned to death,
and himself and wife were badly burned;
he saved one by throwing it from a win
dow to a fireman who caught it The fol- ■ ... , . , .
™ ... derson; corn bringing only eighty cents
the principal sutierei s by the j ’
lowin
fire:
J. R. & C. II. Wallace $20,000, i
for $10,000. (Corner Whitehall and Al- j
abama streets. j
A. A. Gaulding & Co., (Intelligencer
newspaper office) and J. I. Miller & Co., j
(Job printing office and book bindery)
loss of two firms $15,000—insured for
$4,000. Judge Whitaker $2,000. Build-:
ing owned by Wm. Markham—not in
sured. |
B. Brown, agent, clothing store ; loss j
$18,000, insured for $5,000.
owned bv Wm. Markham, no insurance.
per bushel. I will write you again on
,! Tuesday next. K-
msured J - .
Total,.
.237
MAGAZINES
The Ladies’ American Magazine, and
Arthur's Home Magazine, for December,
have been received. The former is pub
lished by Henry White, No. 7 Beekman
street, New York—terms $8 a year; the
latter by T. S. Arthur & Co., 823 Walnut
street, Philadelphia—terms $2 a year.
Cutting & Stone: stock $22,0Q0, insur- j
ance $10,000. Building owned l>y Wm.
Markham—no insurance.
II. Braumullcr, and Barth & Nicolai:
stocks $20,000, insured for $13,000.
Mrs. Boring: stock $5,000, not insured.
The whole amount of property dcstroy-
Commanicated.
The Cartersville Express and the election
of R. F. Lyon, Esq., Judge of the Su
preme Court over the Hon. Henry L.
Benning.
The Express says : “we consider the re
sult of this election, so far as Judge Ben
ning is concerned, as a triumph of wrong
and corruption over honesty and truth.”
This wc regard as quite a sweeping dec-
_ duration, on the part of our respected friend
U1 'i ami one too, without any foundation upon !”
which to base it
Whilst we have no charge lo make, in-
: volving the honesty and integrity of Judge
; Benning, wc think that the bench of the
Supreme Court is not at all worsted in the
change made, either in point of legal abil- . , . . „ .
. ° ., r - , farther from the testimony, that as soon
itv. or honesty and integrity; in other I ... . .
managing
and controlling his business; received in
to the community as a sane man ; filling
stations of honor and trust, and not a
word of insanity do we hear about him
until this trial. Well, Mr. President, if
this precedent he adopted, every man that
commits murder has only to prove, that
at some previous period of his life he re
ceived some injury, which for a time de
prived him of his reason, and then he must
be turned loose upon society. And here
is one thing that, is worthy of notice, go
ing to prove that the insanity, if it he such
was mainly the result of drunkenness.—
Just as soon as he is incarcerated, his in
sanity ceases. Did the defence produce
one solitary witness to prove that there
was any insanity after the fit of drunken
ness had ceased? Not one. And if we
are to turn loose criminals upon society
because they commit their crimes while
under the influence of liquor, you had as
well open the doors of your penitentiary
at once ; for the-great majority of the con
victs committed their crimes while, to a
greater or less extent under the influence
of intoxicating drink.
Our sympathies have been appealed to;
our feelings have been sought to be rous
ed. 1 know, Mr. President, that there is
no one more ready than myself to be
swayed by the feeling of sympathy, where
a sense of justice, and the solemn obliga
tion under which, as Senators, we are call
ed upon to act. I understand that the
young man has highly respectable con
nections, hut I also remember that the
unfortunate person is convicted of the
highest offence known in the catalogue of
crimes. Talk about sympathy, Mr. Pres
ident! Where is Webb? Where is
Webb’s children ? Where is Webb’s wid
ow ? What had Webb done, that he
should have been brought to so untimely
an end ? And what makes the matter
worse, he had been stricken down while
engaged in the discharge of his official du
ty. He was only acting at the time in o-
bedience to the oath which he had taken.
Again, sir, I ask, where is the evidence
that the insanity which it is said was
bronght on by a fall from a buggy, in
1850, continued to exist—continued to
grow ? for that is the nature of insanity;
that is its history; and medical jurispru
dence has always regarded this fact. If
it was occasioned by the blow in 1850,
why has -it ceased from that time ? Why
do we never hear of his insanity except
when he is inebriated ? It is true that
some witness speaks of him in certain ca
ses as being a petulant man. But where
is the habitual drunkard that has not lost
his temper ? And one witness adds that
his petulancy of late years seemed to in
crease; but where, I ask again, is the roan
habituated to drunkenness, of whom the
same might not be said ? You will notice
words we think Judge. Lyon the equal of
worth 150 or $200,000.
as he is taken to prison, to preserve him
from an infuriated populace, who cry out
for vengeance he does what every other
drunken man would—he goes to sleep.—
, J But what is the history of insane persons?
msr in anv respect, from the character ot i , , ,
7 - t. . „ » ; Ther arc sleepless. Theyneversleepun-
,r,,hn Judge Bennmg. But really, we are at a ; - . F
t ° c ik. i til ntnint i^ nvn*n;tnn nr
dd by this fire is estimated to have been jujgcHemnng^anowing'to Judge Benning
! all that our friend claims for him, nor j
! would we be at all understood as detract-
FERE IN GRIFFIN.
A destructive fire occurred m-G
on Wednesday night, 16th inst., destroy- ! i, 1ss to comprehend how it is, #at'
fire. The Empire State
was entirely destroyed.
UNFORTUNATE AFFAIR.
We regiet to learn that Rev. William
Cunyus, Principal of the Stiles boro’ In-
M1LLEDGEYILLE D AILIES. stitute, in this county, was bndly.cut last
Our thanks are due to the Editors of; week, by young Dodd, (son of Christo-
i til nature is exhausted, and overcome.—
i He conducts himself in every particular,
And the next
passed
off, and he is visited in his cell by the Rev.
.... , T. U. Wlikes, whose testimony is given,
the verv reverse of the proiiosition is true. , , , , ,
_ * , „ . 'and reason has returned, he gives a ration-
! But we think the figure over-wrought ■
ing property to the value of fifty or sev- the j efeat 0 f judge Benning, by Richard . . ,.
enty five thousand dollars. The insurance j p Lvon, is to be regarded as a triumph of j U!< 1C * ’T" 011 1”*"' ^ ,
companies sustain a heavy loss by this 1 ,.- TOn g an j corruption over honesty and : W ‘ en 1 . °. r “? f” 16 '?,. ^
corruption
printing office | truth. Indeed, in the opinion oftbme,
the Federal Union and Southern Recorder
for copies their daily papers in ex
change for The Standard. They contain
full reports of the proceedings of tha Leg
islature. Terms on* dollar each.
pher Dodd.) while attempting to punish
him for some offence. Though the wounds
are quite serious, his life is not considered
in danger. The school has been dismiss
ed for the balance of the session.
wrought
f either way, and that the legislature of the
State, in the exercise of the prerogative
vested in that body by the Constitution,
in making the change referred to, so far
from having acted corruptly, nude the
change-for good and sufficient reasons,
perhaps better known to the electors than
the partisan friends of either cuffidate,
and for one I am satisfied with the change.
MEMBER OF THE BAR.
al account of the whole matter—speaks of
; the evil influences to which he had given
way, and warns others from the like influ
ences. Herein he is also different from
the insane, for they do not remember the
acts which they commit under their fits of
insanity—they are not able afterwards to
give any rational account of them.
Another thing in relation to this mat
ter. The jury of the county is much bet-
LEGISLATIYE.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
A resolution requesting the President
to cause a strict investigation to be made
of the Harper’s Ferry outbreak, and to
bring to justice all who were concerned
in it
To reduce the number of members of
Legislature.
The Inferior Court to decide whether
criminals shall be hung publicly or pri
vately. Passed the House.
To authorize the guardians of insane
persons to be parties in suit Passed the
Senate.
To appoint two commissioners to fill
the vacancies caused by the resignation
of Mess. Johnson and Harris, to codify
the laws. Passed both Houses. Messrs.
T. R. R. Cobb and R. II. Clarke were
chosen oil the first ballot, without oppo
sition.
To impose a fine of $500 for every Lot
tery ticket sold in Atlanta. Passed the
Senate.
To make all property of defendants lia
ble for the payment of executions against
them.
To pardon W. A. Choice for the mur
der of Calvin Webb. Passed the Senate:
yeas 54, nays 53.
To incorporate the Rail Road City
Bank, in Atlanta.
To increase the salary of the superin
tendent of the State road.
To appropriate money for the purchase
of arms for the use of volunteer compa
nies of this State.
To authorize tax collectors to make
titles to lands.
. To require the names of secret prose
cutors to he endorsed on bills of indict
ment.
To change the day of holding the elec
tion for county officers from 1st Monday
to 1st Wednesday in January. Passed
the House.
To elect tax collectors and receivers
biennially. Passed the House.
To panlon Francis J Smith of Campbell
county, for murder. Passed the Senate.
To arrest and return criminals commit
ting offences in other States and fleeing
for refuge into this State.
To authorize the Thomaston & Bames-
ville Railroad Company to extend their
road.
To prevent delay in suits on account of
the dcatli of parties.
To abolish the laws of this State in re
lation to the rates of interest.
To authorize the Governor to subscribe
for copies of Waters’ pamphlet of the laws
of the present session. Passed the House.
This bill provides for three pamphlets for
each county—for clerks of Superior and
Inferior courts, and sheriff. The pam
phlets to be delivered within ten days af
ter the adjournment of the Legislature.
To provide for the biennial election of a
principal teacher for the Asylum for the
Deaf and Dumb. Passed the House.
To prescribe the time for electing U. S.
Senator, making the election come off at
the session of the Legislature immediately
preceding the time the new Senator is to
take his seat. Passed the House.
To authorize the appointment of a spe
cial agent to repair to Florida to settle a
difficulty in regard to the jurisdiction of
Georgia and Florida.
To permit clerks of the Superior courts
who have served 15 consecutive years, to
practice law.
To print 500 copies of the minority re
port on State aid. The report is in favor
of aid. Passed the Senate.
To prevent the sale of spirituous liquors
by itinerant traders. Passed the Senate.
To repeal the act abolishing imprison
ment for debt
That the body of criminals, when exe
cuted, shall be examined by a committee
of physicians, to see that life has super
vened. Passed the House.
To pardon John Fundy, of Gwinnett,
for murder.
To organize a new judicial circuit out
of the counties of Washiugton, Laurens,
Pulaski, Wilcox, Telfair, Johnson and
Montgomery.
To exempt from levy and sale articles
necessary for the subsistence of the debt
or.
To alter the tax laws of thi* State.
To re-organize the militia laws of this
State, and to provide for the call of a con
vention of all commanding officers for the
consideration of that matter at Atlanta on
the 2d Monday in June nest <
To authorize executors and administra
tors to buy property at their own sales.
Passed the House.
To appropriate $5,000 for removing ob
stacles in the Oconee river, and $5,000
for the same object in the Ocmulgee.—
Passed the House.
To appropriate $5,000 for the Medical
College of Georgia. Passed the House.
To compensate the heirs of David Mc
Culloch for property taken for public use
in the Revolutionary war—$6,169.75.—
Passed the House.
To regulate the insurance of bunk paper.
To raise the salaries of the Secretary of
State, Treasurer, Comptroller and Survey
or General.
To exempt from levy and sale, one ne-1
gro slave, for the benefit of each family,
on debts hereafter contracted.
For 8heriff:
W« are authorized to announce the
name of Mr. A. M. FRANKLIN as a candidate
for Sheriff, at the election in January next
Sept. 8, 1859—tde.
For Clerk Superior Court:
SF" We are authorized to announce Mr.
THOS. A. WORD as a candidate for Clerk of
tho Superior Court, at the election in January
Sept. 15,1859.
For Clerk Inferior Court:
_ , ....... . — "e are authorized to announce the
To levy a tax on goods sold by itinerant uamel)f j 0U s F . MILHOLLIN as a candi-
traders in this State.
Memorial of Dr. Eugene F. Colzey, ask
ing compensation for services rendered in
1853 to pauper families in the town of O-
glethorpe in the cure of small pox, and in
preventing the spread of that disease.
That no matter be introduced in the
House after 23 inst., and that botli branch
es of the General Assembly will adjourn
date for re-election for Clerk of the Inferior
Court, at the election in January next.
Oct. 6—tde.
J3y We are authorized to announce tha
name of W. C. GAINES us a candidate for
Clerk of the Inferior Court, at the election in
January next. Oct. 6—tde.
For Tax Collector:
... -TX , . 75^“ We are authorized to announce Mr.
sine the on the 1st day of December next. RIl EY MILAM as a candidate for the office
To prescribe the time (3 months) with- ot Tax Collector at toe ensuing election.
Aug. 25, 1859—tde.
We are authorized to announce Mr.
candidate for Tax
January next.
Sept. 15, lS.id.
5^ We are authorized to announce the
name of DEMPSEY F. BISHOP as a candi
date for Tax Collector, at the election in Jan-
Oct. 6—tde-
We are authorized to announce the
in which the public printers shall deliver
the laws and journals after adjournment.
To require the Financial Committee to JAS. R. LOVELESS as
inquire into and report upon a plan for Collector, at the election
changing the present mode of seltctin
State Printer.
Who are They ?
Georgia has been the theatre for the past u:l T ,,ext -
few years of the movements and operations
of a migratory crowd, generally known as name of JOHN LO0DEU.MILK as a candidate
Thev travel generally in farni- f,,r Tiix Coll '-' ctur election in January
next. Oct. 6-tde.
Gipsey’s.
lies, have wagons and camping furniture;
appear to be very humble and harmless ; i
and yet create an air of mystery about
their movements, doubt as their objects,
and frequently fear as to their purposes, j
which are not agreeable to the sparse pop-:
illations in many portions of our State. '
Their occasional returns to points before .
visited, indicate that they have no settled
or permanent interests among us—their
neglect of legitimate pursuits show that !
they are migratory vagrants. As their:
wagons contain no southern raised commo
dities for sale, they cannot be regarded as
peddlers or traders—but,
of goods or wares to sell or trade, they
(~ We are authorized to announce the
name of N. GILREATH as a candidate for
j Tax Collector, at the ensuing election—first
Monday in January next. Oct. 15,1S59.
For Tax Receiver:
We are authorized to announce the
name of F. A. MOKUhSON as a candidate for
Tax Receiver, at the approach in g January
election. Nov. 1—tde.
Gov. Wise as a Penman.
A letter writer from Richmond, gives
the following imforination in regard to
in the absence; <; 0 v. Wise's raj idity of penmanship:
Governor Wise, in the character of a
nevertheless travel from point to noint ) ! .scribe, surpasses, perhaps, any man In
frequently staying as long as a month at
one place, and yet they appear to manage
to realize enough money to pay their ex
penses arid support themselves.
If these- people have no commodities to | ting of his, and I did so page after page
trade on, the question arises, how do they as lie produced them. I started when he
mg. In point of rapidity he can only ho
paralleled in short-haml, while his wri
ting is almost as legible as print. 1 had
occasion some time ago, to copy some wn-
manage to support themselves ? It is cer- j was about
tainly not reasonable to believe that lie \
can pay their heavy expenses by “fortuin
telling.” We are free to admit that w<
:o pages ahead, and, though
lie had to compose when I had merely to
copy, at the close of the tenth page he was
still two in advance. At this stage he
have, in Georgia, as all other States have,' w.js called oil’ to dinner, and I availed iny-
quite a number of “weak brothers and sis- i self of the opportunity to procure a pccu-
ters” who believe in palmistry and all the
hocus poems tricks, deceptions, and prank;
liar style of pen which I thought would
! facilitate the operation. \\ o both set to
of the professional fortune tellers, but we ! work again simultaneously, and though
do not believe that these gipseys can bleed
enough of this class to support their fam
ilies and their teams.—They must, then,
if this recourse fails them, either beg or
steal. We have not heard of their having
solicited alms, nor have we heard of their
being convicted at any place for stealing.
This brings up the questions—who are
they ? What are their objects ? What do
he stopped occasionally to mend his pen
(he writes with a quill pen,) and now
and then walked rapidly round the room,
while I meanwhile wrote with all the ra
pidity of which I was capable he wound
up at the end of the twenty-ninth page,
with the two pages in advance which he
had at the start. I understand he thinks
nothing of answering twenty-five or tliir-
they do? Wc do not pretend to answer j ty letters a day, or rather within the three
these questions, further than to say, that i or four hours he spends in his office, bc-
these people are strangers, their objects ; sides attending to other duties and receiv-
may not be so apparent now as future de_ j ing visitors, who occupy much of Ins
velopeuients may show—they may be the j time,
hired and paid agents of parties in the
North and East—and are such migratory
people as can be of no possible good to the
general interests, personal comforts, or fu
ture prosperity of this State.
If these gipseys continue to alternate
from point to point, in our State, without
legitimate productive employment, it is a
matter for the consideration of the people
how long silch a course of policy will be
permitted. The present is not a favora
ble time to expect many indulgencies; and
all such people must be closely watched,
and their movements closely* scrutinized.
The above extract wc clip from the Au
gusta Constitutionalist 4 and, we think,
our cotemporaries’ ideas of this suspicions
class of people who are infesting the coun
try, are true. It stands southern people
in hand, especially under existing circum
stances, to inquire into the matter and as- j
certain where they hail from, what is their
business and means of support There
are a number of men, travelling to and fro
through the Southern States who do not
claim to be gipseys, nor can they be iden
tified by the southern people, who dress
fine and have plenty of money, that will
bear watching. Their mission into this
country is not to enrich our citizens, or
strengthen our peculiar institution, but
doubtless, to survey the route sleeted for
their hellish designs, and the procuring of
funds to defray expenses. The loss of
property by fires and theft here recently
evidences the fact that the times are por-
tentious of no good to the slaveholder.—
The application of lynch’s law would,
doubtless, bring to light many thiDgs that
are hid in the shambles, and rid the coun
trf of all such characters as are above de
scribed.—Ed. Standard.
Too Cold to Write.
The Nashville Patriot gets off the fol
lowing jeu d'esprit, superinduced by the
cold weather of last Sunday :
The Gazette hasn’t any editorial. Wc
don't blame it. The paper that would
have any editorials this miserably cold
weather is too enterprising by half, and
ought to have a hole knocked through it
with a brickbat. The pen is mightier than
the sword; but when the mercury in the
system of our old friend Fahrenheit is as
low down as it is now, the scissors are
mightier than either. No editor can do
justice to a subject with frozen fingers,
j and nothing better can be hoped for while
coal stands at 18 a 25c. a bushel and New
som’s Double Distilled at 50 a 7oc. per
gallon. Seated by a large fire, with hands
cotnforably gloved and pocketed, we dic
tate these paragraphs through fifty feet of
tin trumpet to the compositor, a native of
Nova Zembla. who puts them in type,
standing in the back yard up to his chin
in a bank of snow. Thus situated, he
does not complain as much of the heat of
the climate as one would naturally ex
pect
Gekkit Smith’s Insanity.—The Albany
American has the following paragraph .
“ vVe learn that for some time past Mr
Smith had his house surrounded by arm
ed men to prevent his being taken to A ir-
-ginia. He keeps his room and presents a
verv haggard appearance—evidently, the
effect of fear. He has sown the wind, and
is reaping the whirlwind.”
The Utica Herald of the 7th’, says that
Smith is an inmate of the New York State
Lunatic Asylun.n, on account of marked _
insanity. He is very violent and has ex
hibited a disposition to commit suicide,
and thatan attendant keeps constant watch
over him to prevent him from laying vw-
An Editor Killed.—A fatal affray oc
curred on Friday last at Nashville, Tenn.,
between Allen A- Hall, editor of the Nash-
News, and Mr. J. G. Poindexter, principal j lent hands on himself
of the Union and American, in which the
latter was instantly killed, receiving a load
Death or Ex-Gov. Gilmer.—Ex-Gover-
of buckshot in his breast from a gun in j norGe ° r ^ R ' f j
The difficulty | in Lexington, Ga., on Wednesoay
the hands of the former,
originated in an editorial quarrel
1 ing. the 16th.