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4' Cite j&fanfcirfc I. M. 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 _ t ** * ~ ■ - a Ma* — A — n 11 ^ — — — a a. _ . aiba 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 ... \ j — i 3 — 7 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.