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“” • ! Cintcs xxnt) Scnimd. \ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. W EDNE9DAT lOBBfWG, Alfe 17, 1853. FOR GOVERNOR: lIEIiSCHEL V. JOHNSON, OF HALO WIN. _____ FOR CONGRESS: set. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD. lid. DISTRICT A. 11. COLQUITT. nid. DISTRICT DAVID J. BAILEY. IVrh. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT. Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN. The Congressional Canvass. V. 11. Colquitt, the Democratic candidate for Con gress in tho second Congressional district, will address his fellow-citizens at the tiroes and places following: Baem Vista, Wednesday 24th September : Oglethorpe, Thursday 25th, Other distinguished Democrats will be present and participate in the discussion, among whom ar> Thomas C. Howaud, Esq., and Hon. Waiter T. Colquitt. The Cabinet-Foreign Ministers—How many Free Soilers are in the List t Mr. Toombs, tho leader of the Conservative party, bases his opposition to the administration upon the charge that the President has appointed free sellers to important offices. lie does not blame him for confer ring some local offices upon these heretics, because he admits, ns every liberal minded and just man must, that tho appointment of such persons is a matter of necessi ty in some localities at the North, from the fact that entire communities are infected with the heresy. The able Senator dot s not therefore stoop to this disingenu ous mode of attack—he is above it—but leaves this little patch to the exclusive occupancy of those men who are too small to engage in heavier work. He charges that the important officers in the gift of the President have been conferred upon free soilers. Here we join issue with him, and call him to the trial, and upon the result we are willing to stand or fall before tho Ameri can people. We desire that there shall be no dodging. Let tho truth and the whole truth be spread out before the public. The important offices in the gift of the President, are the cabinet appointments and the foreign missions. Who -ill these offices and what are their political affinities ? This is tire issue. The cabinet offices are— 1. Secretary of State.— This office was otibred to j 11. M. T. Hunter, of Va., otic of the ablest and most ul tra oi the State Right? school of Southern statesmen ; was by him declined, and was then offered to and ao i cepted by Wm. L. Marcy, of N. Y , who wrs Score* j tary of War during the whole of Poll:‘a administra tion, had his entire confidence, conducted his high of fico with eminent ability during a period of great enier gency, and did as much as any other man in America to bring the Mexican war to a happy issue. Ho never was charged with free soillsm ; he never gave a vote ot made a speech hi favor of the heresy in his long and eventful public life. “ 2. Secretary of War. —This office is filled by .Jef ferson Davis, of Mississippi—the brave soldier, the accomplished scholar, aud the fast friend of the South, Where he leads no true man need fear to follow. 3. Secretary of the Navy.— This high office is filled by Jas. C. Dobbin, of N. Carolina. The place of his birth is a guarantee of his soundness. No son of N. Carolina has ever betrayed the South, and Mr. Dobbin is one of her truest and ablest. 4. Secretary of the Treasury.—,] as. R. Gutiihie, of Ky., bears upon his broad shoulders the burthens of this high position. The Institutions of the South have no truer friend than he. He has spent his life in op posing the schemes of the Clays, by which they hoped to abolish slavery in Kentucky, and though a man of eminent ability, he has ail his* life lung been kept in a private station because of his devotion to the South. 5. Secretary of the Interior.— This office is filled by Rout, McClelland, of Michigan. He is u politician of the Cass school. He supported the compromise and endorses the Baltimore Platform, in which all free soil heresies are condemned, and thereby gives evidence of his recantation of them, if indeed he ever entertain ed them. He was appointed to his office, it is said, at the earn est solicitation of Mr, Cass. 6. Post Master General.— Mr. J, Campbell, of Pm, and the political and personal friend of James Buch anan, has charge of the mails. He has never been charged with free soiiiem, we believe, and, like his illus trious friend, was in favor of running the Missouri line to the Pacific oeean, and thus making a fair aud equitable division of tho Mexican acquisitions between the North and the South. This was all the South asked, aud muoh more than Bhe got by the compromise. 7. Attorney General. —No truer friend of the South lives at the North, than Caleb Cushing, He too is a soldier and a scholar, and is politically a follow, er of John C. Calhoun. So far then as the cabinet is concerned, the South has all she couid reasonably demand. Thesi groat Ex ecutivv offices are in the hands of her friends, eix of them are in the bauds of men who have opposed abo lition iu all its forms, and oi?.c only is under the control of a man of doubifu! politics. Now compare this list with that of Mr. Fillmore’s cabinet : Daniel Webster, of Mass., Secretary of State. Thomas Corwin, oi Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury. Nathan K. Hall, of N. Y., Postmaster General. A. 11. 11. Stuart, of Va., Secretary of Interior. Jno. V. Kennedy, of Md., Secretary of the Navy. Charles M. Conrad, of La., Secretary of War. J. J. Crittenden, of Ky., Attorney General. The three first are known and recognised free suff ers, all of whom for surpassed Mr. McClelland in their zeal for free soil and in their hostility to the insti tutions of the South. Tho four last are Southern men who have always contented themselves with a very moderate assertion of Southern Rights and a remarka b!e facility in accepting compromises by which, in the strong lauguage of Mr. Webster, “the South gets what the North loses—nothing.” Yet Mr. Fillmore's administration is commended by the conservative party of Georgia, as a mode! administration cmisantly favora ble to the South, while Mr. Pierce's is eraancnttly dan gerous because he bas appointed free toilers to office ! Are we to blame if we denounce snob conduct *s iu mocore and hypocritical? And cal! upon Southern ireenuu iO rebuke the reckless profligacy >f a potty w .ch stultifies ilsest in a foolish attempt tio gull ibo people ? r 19 In our next cumber, w e will take up the* Foreign i Missions. The evci£>=i*jr. . A P°9ure of conservative !Bincenti r boas glanosr n thfe field it i . )*** ov * r . C hW ‘* SET We regret to state that Mr. A. IT. Colquitt has been temporarily called oat of the district, by tht serious indisposition of Mrs. Colquitt. It is, however, hoped that ibis affliction will be* temporary aud will not interfere with lfia appointments. In any event hit place will be filled with distinguished and able speakers, who will do ample justice to the cause and the occasion. Let our friends rally around our gallant champion. Hia prospects are flattering. All we need to ensure hit triumphant election is harmony, concert of action and a determination to succeed. Montgomery, Mobile and New Orleans Mails. The irregularity and delays iu the arrival es the Wes tern Mail is a subject of much just complaint in this com munity. Two days :r succession, yesterday and the da\ before,our New Orleans, Mobile nod Montgomery ex changes failed to reach us. let passengers from these points find no difficulty in getting through promptly. A considerable number arrived yesterday morning and went North by the Savannah and Philadelphia steamship.— Passengers come on—the mail is left behind. The ques tion which we would like to have answered is, to whose negligence are these constantly recurring mail failures to be attributed ? The Republican says the Montgomery and West Point Railroad. We “guess” the Opelika and Columbus Stage line. We ore informed that the j Stages on that line, though having seven hours in which ; to run twenty-nine miles, over good roads, not unfrequent- I!y fail to make the connection with the cars. At other ; times (as was. wo presume, the case as regards the p ss n geta who arrived here yesterday morning) the mail bags | are probably thrown overboard to make room for travellers. • Mobile and New Orleans papers ought to reach Savannah, and sometimes do. the former ia three and the latter in four days The Mo’ole Advert her of test Friday, and {lie New Orleans Delta and Picayune of Thursday, all arrived here the ensuing Monday morning. Since Mon day we have had nothing—but passengers—from either of those points. Will not our friends in Columbus and Montgomery make some inquiry into this matter ? Will not tho Co® iumbus Times inform us and tiu Postmaster-General whether the Stages running to Opelika are or are not to blame for these irregularities? Will the editors of the Advertiser and of tho Journal vindicate the agents of the Montgomery and West Point Company if they be indeed guiltless ? Savannah Georgian. We are unable to account satisfactorily for the fre quency of mail failures between this point and Mont gomery. Once we* were informed by a passenger that the stages were overloaded; twice the ears ran off the track between Montgomery and Opelika ; and not utifrequently the stages reach Columbus just as the signal of departure is given at the Rail-Road depot. On the*l6th inst., the mail was not turned over to the stages at Opelika. We fully concur with oar ex changes. in pronouncing these failures a horrible nui sance, and hope the proper authorities will take the matter in hand and abate it at once. It is p serious injury to our Rail-Road, and a cause of just complaint to passengers who pay their money upon an implied promise that all connections will be punctually made. The Crops. We are pleased to learn that the cotton crop is an unusually good one on the Chattahoochee. The late heavy and frequent rains, however, have caused a too rapid growth of the weed; and wo understand that the 801 l worm lias made its appearance on some plan tations, This crop can never b j counted on as certain before October, and notwithstanding the fair promise now shown, there may still be a short crop. djr’An Italian was arrested on the 15th inst., in this city, and committed to jail, charged with having robbed the store of Mr. Kivlin a few nights before. Health oi Columbus. The city never was healthier, and those of our citi zens who are absent at tho North, need have no fear of returning. The weather, tGo, is unusually cool and pleasant. The Pacific Rail (load. The last Albany Patriot contains a very able arti cle against the constitutionality of building this Road by the Government. 31aj, A. H. Colquitt. We find in the Albany Patriot , tho following high but just eulogium upon the character of the Democratic candidate for Congress in the 2d district *, The principles of Mr. Colquitt arc those embodied in the Baltimore Platform ; they are impregnable. His per sonal qualities are lofty and attractive. An eloquent speaker, an accomplished man. lie is not and hus never been disgraced by that immature and immodest desire to exhibit himself, so common to youth : but h distin guished by modesty, gravity, and mature thought. We Rt*e glad to say too that he possesses other merits, more estimable even than these, and still less often to be found in the young men of any day—a name unstained by li centiousness, a character free from taint of suspicion, and a life unblemished by vice. These are proud distinctions, and nobler than can be conferred by the possession of of fice, but will adorn and dignify any position. South-Western Rail-Road Extension, l ilt- Board of Directors of this road at a late meet ing resolved to extend it to a point in Baker county, about forty miles beyond Americus. Acknowledgments. \V are indebted to Hon. W. C. Da whom, fora copy j o’ Col. Graham’s Report, upon the Mexican Boundary. Washington City, Aug. 11. . A private dispatch received to-night from Nashville, Tennessee, states that Johnson Is elected Governor bv three thousand majority : and it seems quite certain Chuiehwell, Gardenhirc, Smith, Campbell, Pavatt, and JonCe, all Democrats, are elected. Stanton is defeated by seven votes. The Legislature is undoubtedly* Wliig. Private dispatches from St. Louis say it iis now sure “Oid Bullion” is the only Bentonite iu the next Congres sional delegation. The remaining* members elect are four Whigs to two Democrats. The Great Victory. —The Nashville Dally Union of tho 10th ins:, says: “ We have returns but from about two-thirds of tho vote of the State, yet enough to know that Andrew Johnson has been chosen Governor of Tennessee by a majority of more than three thousand! : the largest majority any candidate has reco ived for the office in ton years. Ho has achieved this unparalleled victory over the most splendid orator and most popular man of his opponents, against the combined! assaults of the Whig press and the Whig speakers, and with but a lukewarm support from many of his own political as . sociates. Never were the Whigs more confident of ! success, while tho Democracy, disheartened by a suc cession of defeats, looked upon the Coutuat as almost j hopeless.” <SJ“ Marysville (California) has carried off the prize for folly. A vocalist, Ella Bruce, went thither recent lv to sing. The tickets were put up at auction, aud the first one sold, brought the enormous price of SI7OO ! Emanuel Yitalis Sober j, late Professor in the Uni versity of Alabama, b:u> been elected to the Chair of Modern Languages and Literature, iu Franklin Col- j 3< ge, University of Georgia. The Tennessee Election.*— It is unnecessary for ue i to elaborate on the partial returns. Suffice it to say that i Johnson’s majority will be some 2500 or 3,000 votes. ! I W *bsil ftive the official,— Advertiser Mr. Toombs in Harris. On Saturday 13th, this perambulating politician ad dressed the people of Harris, at Hamilton. Wo learn from reliable authority that his audience did not exceed oue hundred and fifty persons, ail teld, and that bis speech inspired no enthusiasm. We presume he could command larger and more enthusiastic audiences nearer J home. lie was very successfully answered by Mr. I Ramsay, t>f Harris, the very spirited and brilliant candi- j date of the Democracy for the Legislature of Georgia. Noble Chanties. Matthew Morgan, of New Y ork, has contributed 1003 dollars to relieve the sufferings of the poor at New Orleans. Mobile has contributed 2000 for the same purpose. Hon. H. R. Jackson. —The Paris correspondent of tho National Intelligencer takes occasion to say : In the meantime the unlucky Ivosia affair at Smyrna has entered upon anew phase, and promises, from pres ent appearand's, to furnish, a prompt test of the diplo matic ability of our new Charge to Vienna, Mr. 11. R Jackson. The Savannah Georgian says: “The friends of Judge Jackson have not the slightest fear but that he will be found equal to the duties of h*s post. He has the ability, and he has the verve to meet any difficul ties which he may be called upon to encounter. There is no man in the Union into whose hands American rights and American honor can be more safely entrus ted. We look with entire confidence to tho future to justify this high compliment.” Our now Charges to Austria and the Netherlands, Messrs. Jackson, of Georgia, and Belmont, of New York, leave for their respective posts by tlio steamer of the 20th. The latter will be accompanied by his family. | Judge Todd, of Jefferson county, is a Scott Whig | candidate for Congress in the Sth District. What a Triumph ! —Never has the Democracy cast ! of the Mountains achieved so decided a victory as in the | late election. In face of the immense efforts of the Athens • Post , the influences ot its ft r:g, lank editorials seem rather to have retarded than helped the Whig cause. We feel orrv that such is the case, for we expected to see a grand majority rolled up for Henry and Van Dyke in the neigh borhood of its circulation. It must be deeply humiliating for it to learn the result, and no doubt it will make more commendable efforts on another trial. Sam'l A. Smith ia our Congressman elect by about 1500 majority. We never expected more than 500, aud i have been agreeably disappointed. 1 Wm. M. Churehweli, of the second district, is elected ! ; Vo, with 800 to 800 majority. Report also says that B. 1 Campbell, of the first district, has beaten both Taylor and ; Watkins. Tills is unexp* triced. iu the Memphis district, I h passenger stated that Stanton was defeated by 18 votes I—■ we know not how reliable this is; also that Andrew Johnson had gained over a thousand in Middle and West Tennessee. If this be true, the gain of between 2000 and 2500 in East Tennessee has elected him. This is certainly good news and will come unexpected to many. [Chattanooga (Term.) Advertiser. Bath*. —Every family in Matagorda can have a sail j water bath on their own premises if they will it. Under the city of Matagorda, at the depth of about 8 : feet, is a stratum or vein of saline water, quite coo! and clear as rock-crystal. Tits citizens this summer are just beginning to appre ciate and appropriate its benefits; almost every house holder has dug a well, inserted a chain pump and erected a small bath house in his own garden ; the expenditure is quite inconsiderable, and the advantages of a saline cold : water hath in these sultry months are incalculable. Thus can our citizens enjoy at home all the luxuries of sea side bathing without enduring the intolerable annoyance of musquitoes so prevalent at the watering places on tbs Gulf.— Colorado Tribune. Captain Ingraham. —The Buffalo Commercial Adver tiser says: “Captain Ingraham, whose spirited conduct at Smyrna has excited such a general feeling of satisfaction through out tho country, holds the rank of commander in the navy. We find, on reference t > the Navy Register, that he is a South Carolinian—that he entered the service as a mid shipman in 1812, and wan made a commander in 184 L I'he St. Louis, the vessel of which he so now in command, is a sloop-ofowar of the largest class, mounting twenty guns. She was built at the Washington yard in 1828, and was fitted out for her present cruise at Norfolk in 1851. She is a staunch, fine ship, capable of givings goad account of herself, in case the Austrians provoke a collision with her. We have no knowledge of the pro fessional accomplishments of Ingraham. Ile has only been some twelve years at sea, out of his forty-one of service; but ho is evidently a gallant and determined man, and knows how to fight hia ship as well as to sail her.” Appointment by the Governor. —We learn that Gov. Cobb has appointed Hon. Jos. W. .Jackson Judge of the Eastern District of Georgia, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Henry R Jackson. We un derstand that this appointment was unsolicited by Col. Jackson, who only accepts it for the unexpired term, ad hering to his resolution not to be u candidate for the judgeship at the coining election ia October. ; ‘ Solar Eclipse in 1954. —0n Friday, the 26th of May next, there will be an eclipse of the sun, which will be more or less visible in all parts of the United States and Canada, and in a portion of both will be annular. Its commencement in the city of Wash ington will be at 4b. 20m. in the afternoon, its greatest obscuration at bh. 18m., end its end a* 6h. 27m. As the apparent diameter of the moon will be q little less thHa the sun, the eclipse cannot be total any where. Physical Degeneracy in Hew England, The Editor of the Florida Sentinel, himself a New Englander, writing front Boston, gives u ®ad but doubtless true account of the physical deterio ration going on among the descendants of the Pil grims. It is to this that he traces, perhaps not un philosophicaliy, the mental and moral vagaries for which New England has of late become so no torious : **l was speaking the other day, of what 1 con sider the pecuniary extravagance of the people ! here ; but this is not the most unpromising aspect of matters with then;. If is hard to find any body well ; or it may be that those who happen to be well, s‘jy nothing about it. The robust, are cer tainly very few arid far between, while the delicate, pale, nervous and ever-complaining, especially auiong the ladies, meet you on ail sides. The cen sus of 1850 makes the average mortality in the New England Slates one in 04, while that of the central slave States is only one in 72. But while various theories are started in the prints to account for this disproportion consistently with salubrity of climate, it does not, in my view, give anything like ; a just idea of the comparative mortality. Toss i certain this, it would be necessary to take into ac count the thousands who yearly flv from the rigors of the winter, to the South,—to the West Indies— to Italy, and the other milder European lati tudes, so many of whom find graves in foreign soil, and are probably unreturned in the census, led* ed, whatever the newspapers may say, the physical de- I terioration of the race, from tome eaue or other, is : so generally acknowledged here, that I have heard some gravely maintain tha hypothesis that it would eventually ruo out altogether. Be this as it may, do one can witness the sad havoc in households ! made by pulmonary aud nun crous chronic disor -1 ders •without foellnff® of commb'ijcratinii acd roorct ” C 7 “Now, it strikes me as not unreasonable to ascribe those odd and insane moral, intellectual, religious and political demonstrations in which New Eng* ‘land abounds, as much to this wantof physic ah as to a want of mental health, or badness ot he:ii ‘Sana mens in sar.o corpore,’ was the old latm pro verb, and the hitter ia essential to the former. An j i active mind working through diseased bodily organs i —a brain flighty with vapors from a disordered sto* | mach, and a body tormented with pan, cannot wed act healthily ; and if we cannot on this theory ae- . count in part for some of those ridiculous, hlaspno ruous and revolting tangents in which New Eng* land ‘philanthropy* eo frequently flies off the han dle, then there’s no accounting for them on any ! other, short of Satanic depravity. A knot of sons | and daughters of the pilgrims— religiously educa | ted—intelligent to the point of speaking with many i tongues —have dwelt in their distempered fancies | upon the horrors of Southern servitude, until they 1 meet and hurl their anathemas against Sabbath, i church, Constitution, Un on, Wedlock, and every j phase of religious or social organization, which they fancy are either mixed with, sustain, eounte i nance, or are built upon that‘horrid’ institution, and j solemnly declare they would dethrone the Almigh | ty himself, if they thought he sanctioned the Bible j declarations concerning human slavery. But look | at their lantern-jaws —-their spindling limbs, ghastly j faces—hear their coughing and wheezing ! They | are sick, bodily as well as mentally. They are vent* | ing their vapors as well as their blasphemy.” Derivation oi Words. Curious Examples. —News cornea from the La ; tin no cut, sew ; but some say, fancifully, from the first letters of the words North, East, West, South ; that is from all quarters. Sarcasm —from the Greek sarcadzo , to pick the flesh off —a frightful idea. Gas - from ghaist or ghost, also spelled gas!, ekais — I Teutomc—meaning spirit , or airy. C<z lamity —from calamus, a stalk of corn, or reed —a storm destroying the grain crop, being regarded :is one of the worst misfortunes or calamities* Emolument —from mote, Latin for mill, and first denoted the miller’s profit or toll. | C onspiral&r —from spiro, to breathe, or whisper, l and con , together ; that is, to whisper together. Suffrage- —from suffrage , Latin, the joint of a beast’s leg, or knee joint. The Camel bends its knee or suffrage, to enable the rider to mount—the voter, by his suffrage, (mental knee,) enables the i candidate which ho thus allows to ride him, to mount | into office. ! Salary comes from salt, the Roman soldiers at one time receiving part of their pay in salt. Immolate— from mola, a mill—the heads of vie tints being sprinkled with barley flour befor slaughtering. | Caprice- —from Caper, the goat, a freakish, frisky animal on it3 native mountains. Funeral —from funis, a rope—burials being an ciently solemnised with torches, made of tarred rope . —[Country Gentleman, Too Good to be Lost. — A number of years : ago a brace of very virtuous and somewhat el* i derly ladies formed themselves into a committee to remonstrate with a prominent publisher re specting the character of the books which he is sued. Bulwer’s novels, if l remember rightly, were the special objects of their indignation.-- The worthy bibliopole, who was at first taken aback bv the vivacity of their assault, put in as a plea in mitigation that the greater portion of his publications were unexceptionable to even fine severest criticism on the score of moral character. The ladies looked dubiously over their spec- j i tacles. “Have you read this, or this, or this?” he asked, pointing out the titles of works on theology, and history, and biography, and poe try, and every department of literature which graced his extensive catalogue. Not one of them had the committee perused. “Then, per ; haps/’ hinted the publisher, “you are not certain !of the character oi the works you object to ; j perhaps you have not read them.” “Yes, we ; have,’’ answered the spokeswoman; “we have I read every word of them. Why will you pub | lish such objectionable works?” “Madame,” I replied the sly bibliopole, with a smile, “we pub | iish them for ladies like yourself, who will nev i or read anything else.” A rejoinder equal to that of Dr. Johnson to ; the lady who said to him, “Oh, Doctor, l am so glad that you have left all tho naughty words j out of your dictionary.” “Madame,” replied I the gruff lexicographer, “you have, 1 see, been | | looking for them.” j Ad Extraordinary Man. — David Wilson, an ; old revolutionary soldier, and a native of New Jersey, died after a short illness, in Dearborn ; county, Indiana, in August, 1833, aged one huu i dred and seven years, iwo months, and ten days. j He had at different periods of his Yde, five wives, j and at the time of his death, was the father of \ forty-seven children! While residing in Penn* i sylvania, near the old Redstone Fort, his wile | gave birth to jive children in eleven months ! j ‘Fills extraordinary man, when in his one hun dred and fourth year, mowed one week for: I Esq. Pendleton, of Hamilton county, Ohio, I about two miles from Cincinnati, during which j he mowed one acre per day of heavy timothy j | grass. He was about five feet six inches in ; ! height. His frame was not supported by ribs, \ j as the frames of ordinary men are, but an ap- j parenliy solid sheet of bone supplied their place. | He could hold up his hands in a vertical posi- j {ion, and receive a blow from the fist of a pow ; erful man, on the lateral portion of his body, without inconvenience. He served throughout the entire revolution, under Gen. Washington, was engaged in most of the Indian wars since, I and was the companion oi Marion and Rodgers, and Oi many other distinguished early pioneers i of our Western and Southern wilds. ” Our rea- I tiers may rest assured that this statement is cor* j reet, as we received it from Mr. Alexander Wil son, of North Madison, who is the forty-fifth child oi the subject of this paragraph.— Madison <*•) Banner. Army Movements. —Two of the four com pa i nies of the fourth regiment U. S. artillery sta | boned in N. Y. harbor are ordered to the Rio ; Grande. Two companies of the third artillery, | terming part of the garrison at Newport, Rhode | Island, are also under orders to the same point. ! The company of the fourth artillery stationed at Oswego is to be withdrawn, to replace in part the force taken from the posts at New Fork. These changes are consequent upon the advance of Santa Anna upon Carm&rgo, who, it is said, has concentrated an army of six thou sand men in that quarter—and of whose move ments tbo government have ben advised Truth Spoken by Accident.— Colonel - writes “R. J.was appointed by General Hank son minister to Russia. The colonel spokr abominable French, with a w orse Kentucky ac cent. Believing French to be his forte, he l would answer in that language, with all the air of a diplomat, every question asked him in Eire, lish. One day, at a grand levee at the winter palace, one of the empress’s ladies-in-wailing asked him in English how long ho had been in Europe? He replied in English: “I was an ass in Paris, part an ass in London, almost an ass in Germany, and lam two asses here!’’ “\ n( | ; you will be an ass wherever you go,” said the j maid of honor in French. The words year and | ass, in French, are pronounced almost the I same. The above I heard from a Russian who j was present, and who assured me that it vrm | “founded.” Baker Democratic Nominations.- The Demo cratic party of Baker, we are pleased to notice, has nominated Col. Richard H. Clarke for the Senate, and Lawrence G* Rowell for the Ron resentative Branch, for the next Legislature,- The nomination of Col. Clarke was unanimous —a tribute of respect which is every way due to his eminent abilities, and self-sacrificing de j votion to the interests of the democratic party, ; of which he is not only a firm and zealous member. but an able and efficient leader. The democ racy of Baker have done themselves honor in their nominations, which is but the passage of what they* will do for the cause of democracy, in October next.- — Southern Democrat, A fellow who had been hooked by an unrulv cow, limped in bis gait. A woman remarked that ho appeared to bo intoxicated. “Yes/ said her beau, “he has been taking a couple of horns.” Liner Disease. — Cartede Spanish Mixture, as a remedy for liver disease, and the number of formidable evils cos* nee ted with a disorganized state of that organ, is unrival led. Hundreds of certificates, from the highest sources, oi per sona now living in flie city of Richmond, Va., migi i be giv en of cures effected by Carter’s Spanish, Mixture. We have only room to refer to the extraordinary cure ofSsmi, M. Drinker, Esq., of the firm of Drinker & Morris, Book sellers, Richmond, Va., who was cured by two bottles ct Carter’s Spanish Mixture, after three years’ suffering from diseased liver. He says its action on the blood is wonder ful, better than all the medicine ho had ever taken, and cheerfully recommends it to all. See Advertisement. August 12—lm. A Remarkable case of Scrofula cured bp HuUo'vay'i Ointment and Fills.—’The eon oi Mr. Allidsy, 209 High street, Cheltenham, when three years oid, was aiflicted with Scrofula in the neck, and the disease increased so fearfully, that in four years he had ten ulcers on his body, besides a tumor between the eyes. The best medical treatment afforded him no relief, the blood being so corrup that it was considered impossible to subdue the disc a#. At this crisis Holloway’s Pills and Ointment were resorted to, and with great success, for in two months the bey was* soundly cured by their use, and he has continued well for the last three years. August 12—Irn R. R. R. In ten minutes cured the Gout. —Mr. M. Edgecomb,: | English gentleman, residing in Waverly Place, New York I had been troubled with the gout for six weeks. By advice and consent of Dr. Wheeler he applied R. R. £• lief. In ten minutes after the first application, he was fc. from pain, and has not suffered any further inconveme. So, reader, it ia with all acute pains. R. R. Relie! ‘ like a charm ; the moment it is applied, tho most sever* paroxysm of Neuralgia, Chill, Fevers, Rheumatism, S*A Headache, Toothache, Cramps, Spasms, Swelled Je-n>. Weakness, and Pain in the Side are instantly roliev J, and the cause quickly removed. Tho first symptoms of pa apply the Relief, eidier internally or externally, and will bo free from ail further annoyance. In purchasing R. R. Relief, see that the signature of RAD WAY & CD is upon each bottle, and the letters R. R. R. blown in fa-, glass. The genuine will instantly stop the pain. Price. 22 cents, 50 cents, and $). CO per box. August 12— lm. Good Medicines ! ! A celebrated Physician of Baffi more says i; gives him “great pleasure to add his testimony to that of others, in favor of the extraordinar y ejflcacv oi Siablcr’s Diarrhcta Cordial, and the tama eminent Ft sic-an writes with regaid to their Anodyne Cherry Expt ■ torant, that he “has no hesitation ia recommending i tho confidence and patronage of the public, as a most can able medicine.” Sec advertisement in another coluro- August 12—!m. ili?’'’ Rvad the Advertisement of Ayer’s Cherry Fcx'. >° ral. There are statements of no ordinary interest to - J unfortunate as to bo afflicted with the difficulties it cur - August 12—lm. died. In Tuskegeo, Aia. on the morning of the 15th inst., Ai** ! Carolina Gtillsspis, consort of Rev. C. C. Gillespie, olthr | Alabama Conference. On the 14th inst., of Measles and W hooping Coca h, am j kak Virginia, youngest daughter if It. H. and Miry 5. ! Harris, aged tour years, four months and twenty-two day?.. How lovely and bright Was that face of thine, Born only to be loved And taken to a purer clime. W. H. G. SPECIAL NOTICES. j W E are authorised to announce Mr. JOHIS D* i ARNOLD, as a candidate for the office of City Marshal, I at the election in January next. ! August 17, 1853. roc I X&* WE are authorised to announce DAVID J. BAR* BEK as a candidate for Clerk of the Superior Cox j Muscogee County, at the election in January next, j June 2b, 1853—weetwte. j XgT GEORGE GULLEN is a candidate for Mai***’ I ; at the ensuing January election, and will She supjauiec* | Aug. 16, w&twte MANY VO r i BRB. ; Take Notice! ALL persons indebted to the Soothers: J JOB WORK AND ADVERTISING, during the years 1850 auJ 1551, arc requested to j mediate payment to mo, or their accounts will be ■ the hands of an Attorney tor collection. | Remittances may bo made to Fran it M. Jet-H, !bns,Ga. WILLIAM H. CHAMPS Columbus, July -‘C