Newspaper Page Text
Local Affairs.
A Leaf For Uncle Tom. —The fanatical ad
mirer* of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe and her
clique, wonld have been ranch astonished by the
facts elicited on an examination of a breach of
trust case, in Recorder Winter’s Court, yesterday.
The parlies implicated in the affair were the mem
bers of a negro Benevolent Society, as prosecutors
and a free man of color, named Raymond Masse*
na, jate treasurer of the body, as defendant. The
charge was that the latter had com milted a
breach of trust, by appropriating the subscriptions
of the members to the amount of $268,20, It ap
• peared that, in reality, the accused had no intention
of committing a fraud, but, feeling somewhat hurt
by the election of a rival in his place, determined
to give the association some trouble in the arrange
ment of their accounts, or, in his own words, “to
make them dance a little,” ( les faire danser ) for
the money.
We were rather struck by this novel proceeding,
and took the pains to read over the constriiution of
the society, which happened to be introduced Id
evidence by one of the counsel engaged in the case,
ft was written in French, simply,clharly, and with
a methodic correctness which would do credit to as
sociations of fni greater, pretensions and repute.
The title of the organ was—“ The Society of the
Friends of Order, under the protection of Saint
Eucher.” As we do not-profess to remember the
list of canonizations accurately, we willjriot be certain
that we have given the saintly appellation in its au
thentic shape; but that is of little consequence.—
The first rule was more intelligible. It provided
that all sittings of the body should commence and
close with prayer. The particulars of admission,
membership, and official power, were then stated,
and the amount of fines, subscriptions, and dues
specified. The sntn necessary to he paid before in
itiation was fixed, if we remember rightly at $6, and
the monthly dues of each person amount to $1. —
The society numbers at present some eighteen or
twents members, varying in appearance from twi
light to midnight blackness.
And this in New Orleans, where such hideous
cruelties are practiced in the noonday, and negroes
are prevented from distinguishing one letter of the
alphabet from another ! Occurring, too, without the
assistance of that supernatural genius and piety
which characterized our “friend and brother,” Un
cle Tom, and actually regarded without astonish
ment by a respectable Recorder in the most impor
tant District of the accursed city ! What a pity th
Duchess of Devonshire, and Mrs. C. Dickens can
not get a copy of the Constitution, as a model for
some such organization as a Starving Irish Peasants’
Benevolent Society, or a broken down Seamstress’
Relief Association, or the Miners’General Educa
tional Committee ! It would create a sensation, and
perhaps do some good.
We have been in Ireland, and positively assert
that such an effort of intellect and humanity, as
the formation of the society existing in this city, to
which we allude, having been attempted by the
peasantry of Connemara or Skibberecn, at the
present day, would make every landlord in the
country stare, and every patriot become hopeful for
the future. It is an evidence of education and
kindly government, which could not be found out
side of the Irish cities. You might look for it in
the country districts in vain. And yet Mrs. C. Dick
ens &. Cos. cannot understand the fact.
We have been in New York, where ladies of the
Mrs. Stowe class have sufficient opportunities lo
realize their sentiments in practice and do some
thing for the elevation of these nigriferous “friends
and brothers” who are wallowing in the back streets
and lanes of the city, but we have never heard that
an association of this kind exists, or has existed
in that quarter of the United States. On the con
trary, we have seen the negroes in New York uni
versally shunned—avoided like a pestilence—and
confined to the filthiest and most criminal portions
of the town. We have seen them reduced from
the attitude of reasoning animals to that of the
most currish brute—stunted in body and mind—
without religion, education, food, or hope—and ig
nored, as existences by the elegant authoresses
who contrive to turn twenty-five thousand dollars
by unscrupulous lies neatly bound in two volumes,
and for sale at all the hook-stores.
But it is useless to say more on the subject.—
Our object in writing these paragraphs was to com
mend the “Society of the Order,” which in despite
of temporary troubles, shows every symptom of a
long and vigorous existence.— N. O. Delta.
Gkt Married. —Y r oung man, if you have ar
rived at the light point- in life for it, let every
consideration give way to that of getting mar
ried. Don’t think of any thing else. Keep po
king about the rubbish of the world, till you have
stirred up a gem worth possessing, in the shape
of a wife. Never think of delaying the matter;
for you know delays are dangerous. A good
wife is the most faithful and constant compan
ion you can possibly have by your side, while
performing the journey of life—a dog isn’t a
touch to her. She can “smooth your linen and
your cares” for you—mend your trowsers and
perchance your manners—sweeten your sour
momen ts as well as your tea and coffee for you
—ruffle, perhaps, your shirit bosom, but not your
temper; and instead of sowing the seeds of sor
row in your path, she will sew the buttons on
your shirts, and plant happiness instead of sor
row in your bosom. Yes; and if you are con
foundedly lazy she will chop wood and dig po
tatoes for dinner; for her love for her husband
is such that she will do anything to please him
—except receive company in her every day
clothes-
When a woman loves, she loves with a double
distilled devotedness; and when she hates, it is
on the high pressue principle. Her love is as
deep as the ocean,as strong &as a hempen halter,
and as immutable as the rock of ages. She wont
change, except it is in a very strong fit of jeal
ousy; and even then it lingers as if loth to de
part, like evening twilight at the windows of the
west. Get married by all means. All the ex
cuses you can fish up against doing the deed,
ain’t worth a spoonful of pigeon’s milk. Get
married, I repeat, young men! Concentrate
your affections upon one object and do not distri
bute them crumb by crumb among a host of Su
sans, Mary’s, Lauras, Olives, Elizas, Augustas,
Betsies, and Dorothies.
Murder — An awful mnrder was committed
in Atlanta, on last Friday night,2linst b v John R,
Humphries. It seems, from what we have heard
of this case, that Humphries had heard that Eli
sha Tiller had threatend to kill him. They met
oil the above mentioned evening, at James Kile’s
grocery, when Humphries asked Tiller if he in
tended to kill him. He answered that he did not,
nor had he any thing against him. Humphries
then requested him to look towards him ; and
as he turned to look, he shot him with a double
barreled shot gun. Tiller was killed so dead as
not even to kick after he fell. Humphries burst
the cap of the other barrel at Kile, the grocer,
but the gun missed fire. —Christian Telegraph.
Solid Rock Slide, on the N. & C. R. R. —On
Wednesday last a mass of rock, in almost one
entire solid form slid into one of ihe cuts
on this road about seven miles out from this
place, breaking iron, cross ties, and every thing
found in its wav. On measurement by the Engiu
eers it was found to contain over 4,000 cubic yards.
At the time of the slide the report was heard in the
entire neighborhood around. This occurrence will
retard the tracklaying on this end of the road fully
six weeks if not two months.— Chartanooga Ad
vertiuer, 22 d inst.
QL\\z &itt its ant) %mimd
COLUMBUS, “GEORGIA”
SATURDAY EVENING, JAN. 29, 1852.
Wreckers at Key West.
We find in the Sav. Courier, a very graphic descrip
tion of the trade of Key West. It will be read with
interest by our merchants, whose rich cargoes are so
frequently exposed to the hazzards of the Florida Keys.
Key West, Jan, 22,1853.
Mr. Editor : —The wrecking season has set in and
ships, brigs and shooners with their rieh cargoes are being
brought down daily from the reef by the hardy wrecker,
and we are begining to reap the benefit of their arrival
by increased business and an unusual activity in every
line of pursuit.
The lawyer lias the salvage case to present to the
judge and a good round sum is his fee. He in all eases
receives the sum of sl7 for filing the libel, and then
three per cent on every dollar of salvage decreed by the
judge. In cases involving large amounts of property as
high as SBOO falls to his share of the wreck.
The Commission Merchant or Ships Consignee has
many competitors in the field. He has friends on the
wrecking vessels and the first boarder of the stranded
ship presents to the master the claims of his merchant,
and receives for his zeal a handsome reward if he se
cures the consignment. The rates of wharfage and
storage on a bale of Cotton are sl. The commission
allowed for receiving and disbursing money on account
of vessel and cargo is 5 per cent, and when the same is
re-shipped or forwarded in the same vessel 1-4 per
cent on the valuation of the cargo is always ruleable,—
So the strife for these fat pickings sometimes rages
high, even to a fighting pitch.
The consignment of a ship now ashore on the reef will
pay the Consignee over $9,000.
The Clerk of the Admirality Court also gets his fees,
which are large when salvage is great—he receiv
ing as much as the lawyer. The District Attorney gets
a fee. The United States Marshal, if cargo is sold, gets
his per centage, and the mechanic is paid well for his
work, and the laborers get $2 per day for storing the
cargo. All classes of our population are directly or in
directly benefitted by the wrecks; and when news ar
rives in town that a ship is ashore you will see more
happy faces than in Wall street when tho Fancies
have advanced.
A correspondent of the Sav . Neivs of the 23 and, states
that within the past 20 .days, 10 vessels have been
wrecked, or arrived in distress, which, with their cargo
es, were valued at over $500,000, and that the larger
portion of this amount will be saved through the instru
mentality of the wreckers. He then very gravely an
nounces that, “The new year has opened with an abun
dance of fine wrecks, and our only fear is, that after
those now’ in port are settled yve shall have no more.’’
Texian Items,
Charles Fenton Mercer.
The Galveston News urges upon the Legislature of
Texas the propriety of paying this distinguished Gentle
man for liis services to the State.
Gen. Mercer is especially known to Texas as a con
tractor with ist former government to colonize a portion
of the territory of the State in the region of the upper
Trinity, and who had faithfully complied with his con
tract up to the day of his estoppel by tho constitutional
authorities of the government for reasons of state with
which no defalcation of his had any connection. Up to
the period when he was prohibited from the further prose
cution of his enterprise of colonization, he had introduced
9orne six hundred families, for which he was entitled to
receive a certain compensation in lands, the titles to
which have hitherto been withheld from him.
General Mercer says the News, is now a poverty
stricken, neglected sexogenarian, confined by diseas e to
the garret of a third rate Hotel in Alexandria.
Mobile and Ohio Rail Road.
It has taken three years to extend this road thirty
tw’o miles ; and though the road has received a magnifi
cent donation of lands from tho Government of the
United States, we learn from the Mobile Evening Jour
nal that the company has determined to build the road
gradually, surely, safely, by subscriptions, and then sell
the land donated at a price equivalent to the whole cost
of the road. There seems to us, to be a great deal
more shrewdness than honesty in this determination of
the company. The lands were donated because the
early completion of the road was thought to be impor
tant to the public ; and the company is therefore bound
to hold and dispose of the public property for the ad
vancement of the public interest by making it available
in the speedy completion of the road ; and not in en
hancing the private fortunes of the stockholders. If
the work progresses in future, only at the rate of 11
miles a year as heretofore, the grand children of the
present generation will hardly live long enough to en
joy its benefits.
Hon. Merideth P. Gentry, of Tenn.
This gentleman has declined a re-election to Congress.
He is a whig, but refused to support General Scott for
the Presidency,and to his influence may attributed to part
the amazing defection from the whig ranks during that
election. A politicianean give na higher evidence of hon
esty and patriotism than to refuse to support the nomi
nees of his party for high offices. We therefore re
gret to see Mr. Gentry withdraw from Congress ; as it
is now evident that these are scarce qualities in the lati
tude of the Federal city.
Governor of Alabama.
A meeting of the citizens of Autauga, was held at
Autaugaville, at which resolutions were adopted, recom
mending Col. Albert J. Picket as a suitable person
to be run as a candidate for Governor of the State.
Colonel Picket is the well known author of the
“History of Alabama.” He is a sound and true South
ern man ; is a native of the state, a planter, and posses
ses every necessary qualification for the office. We
know of no man whom we would prefer to see succeed
the present incumbent.
The new liquor law of Rhode Island, to take the place
of the one declared unconstitutional by Judge Curtis, is
full as stringent as the former law.
Felo de se. —We learn from the Vade Mecum, that
the corenors inquest, composed principally of Editors,
which was held over the dead body of the South- W est
Georgian, returned a verdict that the decease ! came to
its death felo de se” by taking too a large dose of Cred
it System , which, in the opinion of said inquest, is more
poisonous to nevklpapers than arsenic and prussic acid
combined.
Another Rail Road. —The Virginia House of Dele
gates, has passed by a decided vote, the bill incorpo
rating the Board of Public Works for the construction
of a rail road from Covington to the Ohio River, at a
point not lower than the mouth of Big Sandy nor higher
than Point Pleasant. The bill apprpriates a million of
dollars for the purpose.
Sleet in Savannah.
The Evening News says, that there was a slight fall
of sleet at Savannah on the evening of the 23d inst. We
have enjoyed here a pure, bracing atmosphere, and
“glorious” sunshine for a week past, Ice is abundant,
but no Snow or Sleet.
Bounty Land Act.
We learn from a letter of Hon. Junius Hillyer to the
Southern Banner, that the Commissioner of Pensions has
reversed the interpretation first given to the act of 1552,
so that the widows and minor children of officers and
soldiers who died before the passage of the act, can
now obtain bounty land upon making application there
for. The following is the reply of the Commissioner to
Mr. Ilillyer’s letter to him on the subject.
Pension Office, Jan. 13, 1553.
Sir : In answer to the inquiry in your letter of the 3d.
inst. I have to reply that the act of March 22, 1552.
has Jbeen construed by the Department to include th
widows and minor children of deceased officers and rol
diers, as under the act of September 28,1850.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your ob’t. servant,
J. E. HEATH. Comm.
Hon. Junius llillytu, 11. R.
From the N. Y’ Tribune.
The Electic Telegraph—Sounds vs Signs,
The great feature of Prof, Morse’s invention, and that
which distinguished it from the electro-magnetic tele
graphs in England and other parts of Europe, called the
“Needle Telegraph,” was this—the electro-magnetic bar
or needle had been used merely to point to letters or make
signs for telegraphic purposes. It occurred to Prof.
Morse that the motion thus obtained might be used to
make dots and straight lines of unequal lengths on paper,
moved by clock-work, and that these marks might stand
as representatives of the letters of the alphabet.
The Company owning the Telegraphjrunning from Buf
falo to Milwaukee, called “the Erie and Michigan Tele
graph Company,” working under Morse’s patent, have
for some times past discontinued the practice of record
ing the signs produced by the process above mentioned,
and have instead thereof received their messages by sound.
This they have done for the last two years, without in
terruption, having found that they could receive three
messages by sound in the same time which woull be oc
cupied in receiving two under the other system ;.and
moreover, that in receiving by sound they made fewer
mistakes than they were liable to in the use of the dots
and dashes, and also dispensed with half the number of
operators.
The mode of receiving messages by sound is very sim<=
pie, and one operator is sufficient instead of two, who are
required when the signs are recorded. The operator sits
by his table in any part of the room where the message is
received, and writes it down as the sounds are produced.-
The different sounds are made by the striking of the pen
lever upon piece of brass: thus, three raps in rapid sue*
cession are made for the letter A, two raps, an interval,
and then two raps more, arc made for B, and so forth.
[From the Chareston Papers.]
rrival of the Empire City at New Orleans
Later fsom Mexico, &c.
New Orleans, Jan. 24.
The U. S. mail steamship Empire City arrived at New
Orleans at seven o’clock on Monday morning, from New
York via Havana, with forty passengers. She left Havana
on the 20th inst., but brings no news from Cuba, with
the exception that the Secretary of the Captain General
has been removed, and that his successor was expected by
the next steamer.
The Empire City brings us advices from Vera Cruz to the
12 th inst., which [state that Arista finding Congress re
fused to grant him extraordinary power had resigned the
left the city of Mexico Carvallos, President of
the Supreme Court of Justice had been made President ad
interim , and had named the following as Ministers : Gen
eral Blanco, Minister of War ; Aterbide, Minister of the
Treasury ;\J. Guerara, Minister of Foreign Relations, and
laantey, Minister of Justice.
The Goverment troops under General Mirer; had been
entirely routed by Uraga, and the revolutionists were
everywhere triumphant. The new Ministry will probably
be of short duration
In noticing the return of the Commissioners who were
sent to Mexico to search for the mines of Dr. Gardiner and
Mr. Mears, the Alexandria Gazette says :
“We understand that “Lagunillias,” the township in
which the pretended mines were located, lias been thor
oughly explored ; and not only has no mine been discov
ered, butjio person could be found who had ever heard
of a mine of silver or queiksilver within the entire, De
partment of Rio Verde, to which department the township
of Lagunillias (less in extent than the District of Colum
ba) belongs. The result of this mission confirms in every
partielar the official'report of Mr. George W. Slocum,
United States Agent, to the Department of State, on the
1 Tthof May Irst and recently published by the select Com
mitteeof the House of Represetafives’”
Shocking. —The Cairo. Illinois, correspondent of the
Evansville Journal, relates the following :
“Not many months ago, a small boy, belonging to a
German family in this county, took sick and died. Ilis
step-father purchased at the nearest store a b.x>t box in
which to bury him. It proved too short by six inches,
so one of the two things had to be done to make it
answer—lenghten the box or shorten the corpse. The
inbumau step father choose the latter alternative, and dis
regarding the remonstrances of the mother, sawed off six i
inches of the child’s legs? We will let the reader comment j
Chamber of Commerce.
At a meeting of the Apalachicola Chamber
of Commerce, °held lllh inst., the following gen
tlemen were elected officers for the ensuing
year :
THOMAS L. MITCH EL, President.
C. G. HOLMES, Vice President.
('HAS. PRATT, Sec'y and Treasurer.
Committee on Appeals. } Cos n't o f Arbitration.
R. Salter, R. G. Porter,
D. G. Raney, N. C. Robbins,
N. J. Deblois. J. R- Sims,
W. A. Kain, B. F. Noerse,
D. J. Day. J. N. Cummings,
I 11. B.Stoae,
j W. T. Wood.
Apalachicola, Jan, 13, 1853.
The Edgefield Advertiser of the 19th inst., announces
confidently to the citizens of the Fourth-Congressional
District S C that the name of the Hon. F. W. Pickens is
again before them for that branch of Congress in which he
formerly served for a period of nearly eleven years.
The widow of the late Wilbur Fisk, President ot the
Wesleyan University, is now living in poverty. A sub
scription has been proposed to raise two thousand dollars,
ot’vvhich Mrs. F shall receive the interest during her life,
and then the fuud to go the college.
It is denied, on behalf of the Belgian Gsvernment, that
absolute refusal was given to Kossuth to visit his dying
mother. The Government conceded permission to vis
it her, but on the condition that Kossuth should be under
the surveillance of the police during his stay in Belgium.
Kossuth refused compliance with the terms.
The following is supposed to be the number of news
papers in the world : “Ten in Austria, fourteen in Africa
twenty-four in Spain, twenty in Portugal,, thirty in Asia,
sixtyxfive in Belgium, eighty-five in Denmark, ninety, in
Russia, and Poland, three hundred in Prussia, three hun
dred and twenty in other Germanic States, five hundred
in Great Britaiu and Ireland,’and eighteen huudred in the
United States.”
The will of Amos Lawrence does not confirm the state
ment that he had left Mrs. Pierce $35,000.
JjrThe Rio Grande is said to be almost entirely ex
empt from Indian depredations, since the Texan Ran
gers have been stationed there.
o*Gen. Carvajal,has been sued by James II- Durst
and H. Clay Davis, for supplies furnished his filibuster
ing forces.
[CP lion, E. Allen, agent for the Houston Rail road
company, has succeeded in borrowing quito enough
money to construct the road.
Small-pox in Bastrop.—There are two cases of this
disease reported in Bastrop.
Correspondence of the Times & Sentinel.
Washington, Jan. 22d, 1853.
Although opposed, generally, to all projects of amal
gation or coalitions, I cannot but congratulate you and
your readers on the nuptials of the Times and Sentinel.
For many reasons the union was a sensible and
must be a happy one ; and though divided, both man
aged not to fall, yet united, they cannot fail to stand
strongly and in a healthy condition. The only regret
which the change excites in the minds of distant friends,
arises from the loss of one of the able Editors. To praise
John Forsyth, or dwell on Ids high title to the re
spect, confidence and admiration of every true hearted
Southron, would be indeed superfluous. Though nev
er filling so high a National position as his distinguish
ed father, of whom he has proved a worthy son, lie
yet has had the superior fortune of stamping his name
and fame more permanently on the records of his own
State and section, Ilis labors have filled even a wider
space, and hereafter, when the fruits of this compromise
quarrel more fully develope themselves, his labors, and
those of the “few, but faithful,” who co-operated in the
same cause will be properly appreciated. But though
Mr’ Forsyth is out of the ring just at present, his South
ern friends cannot permit him to remain so. Talents
and acquirements, such as his, and an experience so
thorough, would be wasted in the privacy of such a life
as that he has chosen. Ilis political friends a.s well as
the public, properly appreciate his services and his
claims upen them. The mantle be has dropped will
be worthily worn, we all know j but you will have a
hard fight yet, though, apparently, the heat of the bat
tle is over.
Indications of this grow more palpable each day.
Not alone do the abolitionists keep up their warfare
witli a stubborn pertinacity in a political way, but that
fell fanaticism gathers strength every day. Mrs.
Stowe's book lias sapped and ruined some of our strong
est supports. The Northern mind, as well as foreign
sjfi]pstliicSj have been saturated with that poison ad
ministered in all the honey of a seductive slyle. The
re-action and recoil are already coming back upon us
in the shape of appeals from the Ladies of Great Britain,
of inumerable protests against slavery in foreign domes
tic papers in the shape of critiques of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin—-of public meetings in Ireland—of stampedes of
slaves from the border States—and the denial of recog
nition of the rights of slave-holders even during a passage in
transitu through the “infected districts” of the entire
North. This social danger is the deepest and it taints
the actions of otherwise conscientious individuals in
their private relations, while powerfully exhibiting it
self in legislation.
A proof of this is given in the recent attempts to in
troduce some mitigation in the rule which was so strin-’
gently enforced in the Lemmon case. A Hunker
Democrat in the New York Legislature, a Mr. Tay
lor, as much for the purpose of embarrassing his Barn
burner foes as for any other, introduced a proposition
re-enacting the law abrogated during the Governor
ship of Seward, allowing the right of pnssage in transi
tu. But even he added a proviso that the limit of
time during which the slave should be retained in cus
tody if his master should be thirty days. If longer re
tained within the limits of the State, he should be free.
Thus denying the vital principle which alone was
worth anything to us. But the Barnburners declaring
it to be a mere political trick, played back in similar
style. They introduced the resolutions of the Balti
more Convention, denunciatory of a re-opening
of any questions connected with slavery, and
brought the Hunkers to a check-mate. And so things
stand there. Even were such a resolution pa>sed, how
ever, as proposed by Mr. Taylor, every sensible man
in the South knows it would practically be worth just
about as much as the Fugitive Slave law—the net val
ue of which may be estimated at 0. Laws, in this
country are not worth the paper they are written up
on, if antagonistic to the settled convictions and senti
ments of the communities which are to put them iu ex
ecution. And so with all these slave-catching and
slave-holding enactments of the North. Mrs. Stowe and
Uncle Tom are “higher laws” than those of Congress,
from Ohio, East, and from New* York down to Mason
& Dixon’s line. One distinct indication of the condi
tion of public sentiment at the North is afforded bv the
palmy condition of the central Abolition press here—
the National Era —which is now bolder and more in
fluential than ever, while the Southern Press has been
permitted to burn out for lack of fuel, and not even a
glimmering spark can be raked up from its cold ashes—
much less a Phenix—The lival press, the organ of Abo
lition, has doubled its subscription list in the last
year, and now numbers 28.000 paying subscribers, with
daily increments and increasing popularity. One signifi
cant fact may also be stated which may startle the more
reflecting persons at the North. It is the fact, that its
Southern circulation is steadily and rapidly increasing
—and the last number contains not only correspondence
from the South, but contributions also. Further than
this, a native North Carolinian, now a resident of that
State, answers a South Carolinian’s comments on Mrs.
Stowe’s incendiary publication, and boldly preaches
doctrines which would once have been dangerous for
any Southern man to avow. This is progress with a
vengeance. Yet we are daily called upon by the offi
ciating High Priests, who sold us to our enemies, to
offer up thanksgiving to them for the peace and safety
their patriotic efforts hare given to the South—a id
called on to denounce and proscribe the men who warned
the South of the danger, and resisted the surrender to
the last. Seed-time is well over, but harvesting has
not come. When it does, we shall see and can judge
of the actual character of the orop.
The National Era , which now represents what calls
itself the “Free Democracy,” made up of the Ilale and
Chase coalition, backed by all the Abolitionists of all
sects and colors, goes in for the indefinite extension of
free territory. Its first grab is at Canada, Senator Ilale
led off in a speech on the subject the other day, and
said w’e must and would have it. The N. Y. Tribune
waiving the question of extension, to which it is oppos
ed. goes in for the choking process at home, and thus
defines the Abolition faith, in an article part of which
will suffice to show its spirits.
The Tribune says :
We have probably a hundred times disclaimed all right
of Legislative intermeddling, whether by Congress or
the Free States, with the domestic institutions of the Slave
States. We have again and again explained that each
State makes and changes its own Constitution and laws
at pleasure, and that other States, having no control over
its actions in the premises, are nowise responsible for the
character of that action. We have as often remonstrated
against the mischief and wrong, in view of the nature
and spirit of our Federal Compact, of voting against a
candidate for President because he resides in a Slave
State, or even is personally a slaveholder. We have wor
ried out the patience of some of our readers in explaining
that we seek to exert no other than a moral influence up
on Slavery in the States that cherish it, and that we only
invoke Political opposition to the establishment of Slavery
in Territories where it had previously no legal existence
or the increase of its power in onr Union by the annexa
tion of territory in which it is already planted.
And thus concludes its confession of Faith :
We never proposed to build up a national party on Sla
very or Anti-Slavery. What we did and do insist on is,
liberty for every Whig to hold such opinions respecting
Slavery, as to him shall seem just, and to act on those
opinions without being therefore, put under the ban of the
p irty. Perhaps this in'av be refused, but we do not hope
to live long enough to see the Whig party triumph on
any narrower platform. Keep cool and see !
All that the burglar asks is the largest liberty of ac
tion. We don’t want you to legalize house-breaking,
but don’t “put us under the ban” of your laws—that’s
all ! While our Northern “friends” are >novmg one
way, taking steps forwards, our Southern friends are
moving too—taking steps backwards, as usual, Virgin
ia leads the van. She is showing symptoms of sliirki
ness to the audacious and advancing enemy, by ignor
ing the Lemmon case, and legislating against her own
free negroes—poor devils that they are.
The Union , of this morning, contains a pargraph to
this effect :
It is stated that the house of delegates of Virgiuia has
before it a bill providing for the appointment of overseers,
who are to be required to hire out, at public auction, all
free persons of color, to the highest bidder, and to pay
into the State treasury the sums accruing from such hire.
These sums are to be devoted in future to sending free
persons of color beyond the limits of the State. At the
expiration of five years, all free persons of color remain
ing in the State are to be sold into slavery to the h ighest
bidder, at public auction, the proceeds of such sales to be
paid into the public treasury, provided that said free per
sons of color snail be allowed the privilege of becoming
the slaves of any free white persons whom they may
lect, on the payment by such persons of i fair price.
“I can’t lick you,” said the aggressive urchid to his
aggressor, “but I will make mouths at your sister! see
if don’t ?”
The State Road—The Chattanooga Ga
zette, of the 25th inst., after noticing the resigna
tion of Mr. Wadley, Superintendent of the
State Road, says he will be succeded by Mr.
Young, of Atlanta, a gentleman of some experi
ence in the responsible duty that he will under
take.
Death of a student. —Died, suddenly, at
this place on Sunday night 23. inst., Mr T. B. J.
Lamar, of Bibb, a member of the Senior class
of Franklin College. We learn that the de
ceased attended prayers at the College Chapel
on Sunday morning and died, at 1 o’clock of the
night of the same day, from hemorrhage of the
lunges. His remains were escorted on Tues
day morning last by the Demosthenean Society
to the Rail Road depot, to be conveyed to his
relatives in Bibb.— Suu. Banner. •
TELEGRAPHIC.
[Telegraphed Expressly for the Times & Sentinel.]
New Orleans and Mobile Markets—soo Texans
Marching on Tamaulipas.
New Orleans. Jan. 29.
The demand for Cotton is good 5 sales, to 2 o’clock,
amounted to 5,000 bales.
Mobile, Jan. 29.
The Cotton Marnet is dull at yesterday’s prices.
There is great excitement in New Orleans in conse
quence of a credited report, that five hundred Texas
were marching upon Tamaulipas.
Col. Ruffin, Rodrigeus and twenty-three National
Guards have been shot at Tampico.
Governor Reyes has been assaseinated at San Louis
Potosi.
—W—■BHB—BOIIHIIIII 111
WILLIAMS, OLIVER AND BROWN,
Attorneys at Law,
BUENA VISTA, MARION CO. GA.
Will practice in the counties of Marion, Macon, Houston.
Stewart, Randolph, A/uscopee, Lee, Taylor, and any adjoining
counties where their services may be required.
WM. F. WILLIAMS, THiDDEUS OLIVER, JAIL.. BROWN.
January 28—5wly
■ cel®
B ACCOM’S Sermons, for sale by
A. e. FLEWELLEN, & CO.
