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[ From the Savannah Georgian 2h linst.] Gov. H. V. John ton. On the arrival of the intelligence at Milledge ville that Judge Johnson was elected, a large number of the citizens of that place waited up on him in a procession to congratulate him on his triumph. His response is reported in the Federal Union. It is equally honorable to his head and heart. In one respect we think he concedes to much—at least by implication. It is when he speaks of the severity with which the merits of the two candidates were discussed during the canvassjby the press. As regards Judge Johnson, it is true that his cla'ins were discussed with severity, nad with more than se verity—with the vvost discreditable abusiveness and scurrility—by the whig paper. But not so as regards Mr. Jenkins. Towards him the tone of the Democratic press —assuredly that of ours own and most of the rest—was uniformly re o spectful. While leading Whig prints were rid iculing Judge Johnson as a “Swedenbourgin,” “Spirit Rapper and Table Turner,” we do not recollect a single offensive personality brught to bear by Democratic journals against Mr. Jenkins. We are confident that we are not claiming too much for ourselves and our co temporaries of the same faith, when we assert that the course of the Democratic papers to wards Mr. Jenkins, was in striking and admira ble contrast with that of the Whigs towards Johnson. But vve are keeping our readers to, long from the eloquent remarks to which we have i alluded: Gentlemen lam pleased to see so many of you to night. As my friends and neighbors, you are here to offer your congratulations on the result of the late election for Governor. This manifestion is the voluntary and spontaneous ; offering of those among whom I live and who | know me as a neighbor and fellow citizen. Ac- j cept, Gentlemen, my hearty thanks for the plea sure yon exhibit for m v election to the executive Chair of our beloved State. As intelligent freemen, your rejoicing implies something more than gratification for my mere personal elevation. With the masses ot the peo.’ pie, of whom you are a portion, the success or defeat of any one individual is a matter of small moment. It is insignificant, when weighed in the balance with the great principles which were involved in the canvass. Your visit speaks your joy for the ascendency of Democracy—its vin dication at the ballot box—the popular approval and support ot the Administration of Franklin Pierce. The real question was, whether the people of Georgia would “ rebuke ” our President; array themselves in a sectional organized Oppo sition to his policy, or whether they would stand witli the great National Democracy in its sup port until, it shall be fully developed and have a fair trial before the country. They have delib erately chosen the latter position and placed Georgia in company with twenty seven of the other States of the Confederacy, which favor the Administration of Franklin Pierce. It is a proud spectacle to see twenty eight of the thir ty one States of the Union, all standing on the Democratic platform, and maintaining triumph antly the principles of Jefferson, Jackson and Polk. I congratulate you gentlemen, on the brilliant future which it opens up to our happy country. It betokens the prosperity, and the perpetuity of the Union. But, gentlemen, while we rejoice at the tri umph of Democratic principles, let me beg you to discard from your bosoms, any feeling of vindictiveness towards our opponents. It is unworthy of you as freemen—it is unworthy of you as Democrats. They are our fellow citi zens, and the masses of them are as honest as we are, in their opinions ; while we indulge in the glories of victory, let us not forget to be magnanimous lo the vanquished. The contest which has just closed was one of unusual virulence. It has been conducted, on both sides, with ;i fierce determination to con quer. Ihe [iress lias discussed, with unparal lelled severity, the merits and demerits of both the Gubernatorial candidates. But amidst all, it is gratifying to me to know, that the kindly personal relations between me and my respect ed opponent have not suffered the slightest dis turbance* Charles J. Jenkins is an amiable and able man. \V e have traveled together through a large portion of upper Georgia. We have eaten and slept together. Vv e have met each other in political debate ; and I have al ways found him courteous and frank in his bear ing, and it is with unfeigned pleasure, that I state, that, in not a solitary instance, has he in dulged an unkind personal reflection* It was my purpose to reciprocate, at all times, his ele vated and gentlemanly bearing; and if 1 have said or done aught to wound his feelings, I am not aware ot it. It I have, l take occasion, in this presence, and at my own bouse, to make the amende honorable. As it could be no dis grace to have been beaten by him, 1 esteem it the highest possible compliment, to be preferred to such a man as Charles J. Jenkins. The value of the compliment is increased, if possible, by the smallness ot the majority, which indicates the popular preference. It would seem to indi cate that the people paused to deliberate, and hesitated to choose between us. The occasion, gentlemen, is suggestive of many reflections touching the points and mode ot attack by which our opponents have indus triously sought to defeat my election. Os many ot them, I will not trust mvself to speak. Thev are so ialse in fact, and so ungenerous in spirit, that 1 will not yield to the temptation to speak ot them as they deserve. But their leading de sign stands out too promifiently revealed, not to anest the attention of the most careless obser ver ot the* progress of the canvass. That design was to seduce the L nion Democrats to abandon ! theii cherished principles. It was only in this 1 way, that they could indulge a shadow of hope | ot success. loi this purpose, two prominent ! ideas were constantly held upbefore their minds and pressed with an urgency worthy of a better cause. The first was, that the Conservative or ganization was indispensible to the maintenance : oi the Georgia Platform, and synonymous with that ot the Constitutional Union Party. Os this 1 shall not speak. The trick was too transpa rent to deceive, The second was, that I was a Secessionist, and advocated disunion as a reme dy for the evils of the “Compromise measure,” and that consequently, my Democratic Union brethren could not consistently vote for me.— Their prejudices were appealed to, and an un ceasing effort was made to keep alive and active the asperities of feeling which were unfortu nately engendered between the two wings of the Democratic party, by the exciting issues ot 1850 and ’sl. The Governor elect proceeds to notice some of the charges brought against him—particular ly such as were designed and calculated to re pell Union Democrats from bis support. Most or all of these charges have been fully opposed through our columns during the canvass. He adds “an intelligent constituency have proved themselves incapable of being seduced from their devotion to principles by such despicable appeals to their prejudices.’’ Still (says be) they have not failed to produce their effect. The result ot the election shows that hundreds were induced to withhold from me their suffrages, by reason of these false charges and misrepresentations. Notwithstanding the rapid increase of our population, fewer votes were polled by several thousand, than in the Gubernatorial canvass of 1851. And while this may be explained by the fact, of this having been a far less excited contest than that, yet a comparison of the vote in several strong Demo cratic counties with that cast in the election of 1849, between Towns and Hill, shows that the diminished vote in those counties resulted from the failure of Democrats to vote either for Jen i kins or myself. They exhibit, that while Mr. | Jenkins received oniy a slight increased vote over that of Hill, I received a much smaller vote than Towns. In other words, it is evident that hundreds of Union Democrats, impressed by the false charges preferred against me, felt that they could not vote for me. It is not strange that they should thus feel; for if these charges I were true, they could not be expected to feel ; otherwise. The opposition press represented ! me in a light which made me more of a monster j than a man ; and a monster too, with special j antipathies to Union Democrats. It requires more time to refute, than to concoct a slander I —more time to remove, than to awaken preju , dices. Hence, I have no word of complaint’ to urge against my Union Democratic brethren for with holding their suffrages. They were honest in their doubts and misgivings; and 1 confidently trust to time for my complete vindication and their sense of justice and magnanimity, when the great arbiter shall have shown them, how much they have been deceived and imposed upon by reckless politicians and a still more reckless press. There is another fact in this connection gen tlemen, which is not only gratifying hut hope ful. Although these Union Democrats did not vote for your candidate, yet it is evident that they did not vote for Mr. Jenkins. If they had, he would have been elected by a large majority. This proves that in withholding from me their votes, they did not intend to abandon their Democratic principles. They are Democrats still, and they will yet rally upon our ancient platform, when time shall have swept away* the dust and the smoke ofthe contest, which have darkened temporarily, the path of duty,, so that they could not see their way clearly before them. Let us then, indulge towards them no unkind ness. They are our political brethren still ; and let us show our own fraternal feelings, by com ciliatory, generous and just action. Such a policy, universally adopted and steadily pursued by our people and the Legislature, soon to as semble, will consolidate the whole Democracy of Georgia, and place it upon a position as im pregnable as Gibralter. I should feel guilty of ingratitude, were I to permit, on this occasion, an acknowledgment ofthe heavy debt we owe to our Southern Rights and Unioj Whig brethren, for the effectual aid which they have given us, in the late canvass. Feeling that our policy is the soundest, that the National Democracy offers the safest security for the Rights of the South, and that General Pierce will prove true to the Constitution and the Union, they have not hesitated to cast their lots with us. Their patriotism is stronger than party ties, and rising superior to prejudices, they are not ashamed of our name. We bid them welcome with grateful hearts, into the unterri fied ranks of Democracy. I rejoice, gentlemen, at the re-union of the Democratic party. I rejoice in its recent tri umphs, May the spirit of discord no more in vade it. May the schisms and asperities of the past be all forgotten ; and the ocean of popular feeling having been calmed, may its surface, like a polished mirror, ever reflect the silvery beams of perpetual peace. A Portuguese paper gives some statistics which could only be obtained under one ofthose governments oi‘ the spy and secret police sys tem. They report in state of matrimony in ! that country. There are in Portugal 872,834 married couples, of which the present condition jis very nearly as follows: women who have i left their husbands for their lovers, 1262 ; hus i bands who have left their wives for other wo men, 2361 ; couples who have agreed to live ; seperately, 33,120. Couples who live in open warfare under the same roof, 13/263 ; couples who cordially hate , each other, but dissemble their aversion under | the appearance of love, 162,330 ; couples who I live in a state of tranquil indifference, 501,132; couples who are thought by their acquaintances to be happy, but are not themselves convinced of their own felicity, 1,102; couples that are happy as compared with those that are con fessedly unhappy, 331 ; couples indisputably happy in each other, 9. Total 872,834. Carpet for the President's House. —lt is sta ted that a gorgeous carpet has just been finish ed at Glasgow, Scotland for the White House at Washington. It measures 80 feet long by 40 broad ; the portion woven in the loom without a seam being 72 feet by 31 feet ; and the re mainder consists of a handsome border sewn on. Tne filling in of the carpet is ruby and crioison damask, with three tasteful medallions in the centre, and a rich corner piece to corres pond. The medallions are filled up with boquets ot flowers, designed and executed with magnifi cent taste. The entire piece weighs udwards of a ton and is valued at $2,500. Ciittyg mtt) Bmiind. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ~ FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 28. 1853. New York Politics. All parties in New York are in a stew. The De mocracy have “agreed to disagree.” The “hards” and the “softs” have “taken off their coats and 4 rolled up their sleeves.” The whigs have caved to Seward. The “wooly heads” have triumphed, and the “silver grays” sing wonderfully small—a faint growl now and then with a delicate show of their teeth being the only ex hibition of their pugnacity. The b’hoy spirit seems to be not altogether confined to the Bowery, Numerous editions of “Mose” turnup at almost all their political gatherings. They pitch in with an “if yer’ coming why don’t yer’ come along” swagger that gives a peculiar raciness to all their doings. The political vehicle, they turn into “der murchine” and run with it at a break-neck speed until kerslash they run into some other’s hose cart, and a general “muss” ensues. The big fire—the presidential election —is over and now for a characteristically grand time of of it. Well its a way they have of doing up things and why not let them “go it” ? its their way. If wl a i they collect in the “wigwam” they desire to amuse themselves by tearing shirts and cracking skulls, whose business is it ? If they choose to meet in the Park with banners, flambeau, drum and fife and break up by a break down of the platform with barked shins, peeled pates, broken limbs and cocked hats, why should icc be troubled ? its their way. If Prince John mounts the back of a chair, or broken bench and swear the hats off’ the heads of half the assembly, why should we repeat his oaths ? its only a way he has. But seriously, why should the whole democratic par ty of the country interest themselves in this local diffi culty ? Both wings claim to be in the right—both plant themselves upon the Baltimore platform, and both pro fess adherence to the administration of President Pierce. I While we may regret the existence of such dissensions, 1 and would be proud to see united the democracy of eve ry locality, still it is neither the duty nor policy of the party —viewing the causes of the present division in N. York as vve do, —to take sides in the controversy, there by strengthening the division and widening the breach. ■ Some have even gone so far as an endeavor to involve I ° the administration, and the attempt has in part suc ceeded through an aifxiety of the cabinet to keep the party a unit. The whole matter in its bearing upon the administration, turns upon the right and expedien cy of Mr. Guthrie to instruct Judge Bronson with ref erence to the appointees of the custom house- Mr. Guthrie in his letter was rather bluff and abrupt. Judge i Bronson quite sensitive and punctilious. The former neither adopted the style of the diplomiat, nor the latter that of the courtier. If the President attempts to heal all local dissensions that may arise, he will have his hands full. It not unfre quently happens that men in attempting to compromise a difficulty between parties are forced to take sides—good intentions should not always be an exclusive incentive to actica, nor by any means are they a sure guarantee of success. Upon the great principles of the party, and matters affecting the nation, the patriotic and decisive course of the President has the approbation of the entire democ racy. yea of the great body of the American people, and petty local squabbles in themselves erfn Have no bearing favorable or unfavorable upon his position. But the whigs seem to be in a state of glorification, and make awful predictions, —shaking their ominous heads like cattle in a rain storm—when in truth their side of the house is in a similar fix, only a great deal worse, and would make as much noise (perhaps) if sufficient vitality remained in the whig carcas to be gal vanized into a spasmodic kick. Northern whiggery is thoroughly abolitionized. Seward has that bull by the horns with Greely and Weed to poker him up in the rear. Southern whiggery is dead—dead as spent thun der. The life boat of Conservatism has been swamped, and the poor fellows are at sea, all afloat, and if we mis take net the most of them will be found aboard the democratic ship in ’s6—the remainder will go down, down, “down among the dead men.’’ Some have even the audacity to predict a final rup ture of the party by the spread of the New York dis afection, and already begin to lay their lays that Dickin son will be drawn into hostility to the administration, and thus become sufficiently metamorphosed to receive their votes ! This is indeed a long hope for a craving stomach. No one but a homeless, wandering, name less whig oould see light so far in the distance. We h ave achieved such a signal victory in Georgia, preceded by Tennessee and followed by Ohio, and Pennsylvania, that we feel the Democratic party to be a perfect “legion,” and shall give the administration a hearty, earnest support, nor trouble ourselves about distant local divisions, as long as a sound States Rights Democracy controls the conduct of the President and Cabinet* Jail Birds Escaped. We learn that Wm. Stains, or commonly called For ty Steins, and a Spaniard named Roman Diaz, escaped from the Jail cf this county, on Wednesday night last, by boring a hole through the wall. Stanes was in jail on a charge of murder, and is about 35 years old, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, stout built, with dark hair and dark eyes, inclined to be bow-legged and weighs about 160 pounds. Roman Diaz was confined on a charge of stealing, and is a Spaniard, with dark eyes, dark com plexion, about 25 years old, slim built, and weighs about 125 pounds. The prisoners selected a very favorable night, it being very dark and rainy, or they might have been caught with dogs yesterday morning. We trust, however, all good citizens will be on the look out for them, so that they may be arrested. O’ We take occasion to acknowledge from the es tablishment of P. A Clayton on Broad St., a package of “Hair invigorator and Dye,” a most efficacious pa naccea in restoring and rejuvenating the caput, judg ing from the recent dark ambrosial locks which deck so gracefully the proprietor’s once youthful brow. Mr. Clayton has opened a store for the general family gro cery and commission business well filled with anew and extensive stock. Customers will do well to give him a call. While speaking of new establishments we take pleas ure in referring to DeWitt’s elegant jewelry store on Broad St., a more tasty elegant bazar of rich and re cherche articles of jewelry and things fancy ar.d not to be found this side of New York. Call and see him if but to feast your ideality and go home to dream of Aladdins Palace. The Sons of New Hampshire have invited the Presi dent of the United States, to be present at their festival on the 2d of November. The subscription of Columbus to the Eufaula Rail Road. At a meeting of our citizens at Temperance Hall on Tuesday night, the City Council were authorised to take fifty thousand dollars worth of stock in the Eufaula rail road. The assemblage was not large, but the best spirit pervaded the deliberations, and the greatest en thusiasm manifested. Delegates from Eufaula and Glennville were present, and doubtless went away sat isfied that Columbus is willing to aid in an enterprise sq well calculated to increase the trading and traveling t cilities so essential to her own prosperity, and that of Eufaula and the adjoining counties. Had there been a larger attendance, there is no doubt but that seventy five thousand dollars would have been the subscription sum, but the mover, Col. Holt, thought it best to limit the sum to fifty thousand dollars, as it was generally un derstood in the community that this amount was requir ed. Yet assuring the delegates that if necessary Col umbus may be relied on for the additional twenty-five thousand dollars, which opinion was responded to by enthusiastic acclamation. We publish the resolutions as reported by the Secretary. Kail Road Meeting. According’to appointment a very respectable number of our citisens met at Temperance Hall on the evening of the 25th iust., for the purpose of taking into considera tion the propriety of making a city subscridtion to the Eufaula Rail Road connecting with the Girard and Mo bile Road, at or near the city of Colbert. The meeting was organized by the appointment of Dr. A. J. Robison, Chairman, and J. P. Manly requested to act as Secretary The meeting was addressed by Col. E. S. Shorter, one of the Eufaula delgates, in a very able and forcible manner, requesting a liberal subscription from our city, his senti ments met with the warm and hearty support of Col. Holt, Maj. Williams, and Judge Thomas. Mr.’Foster, of Glen ville, also addressed the meeting assuring the liberal co operation of his Village. Col. Holt offered the following'resolution which was passed by u a large majority—only two dissenting voices. Resolved , That the City Council of Columbus be and are hereby authorized and requested to subscribe fity thou sand dollars in the Bonds of the City, to aid in the con struction of a Railroad from Eufaula, Alabama to inter sect the Girard Rail Road at the most practicable and con venient point at or near Colbert. Said subscription to be paid by said Rail Road Compa ny in its stock, and be made upon terms to be agreed up on by the Directors of said Road and said City Council. ALEX. 3. ROBISON, Ch’n. J. P. Manly, Sec’y. Columbus, Oct. 27, 1853. The Montgomery Advertiser & Gazette of Tuesday, says : “It is with sincere regret that we announce the death of Col. Martin Pond, which occurred at his resi dence in this city on yesterday, about 12 o’clock, M,, after a few days illness. Col. P. was an old, well-known citizen of Montgomery, and had a host of warm and devoted friends, over whom his untimely end casts a melancholy gloom. Col. Pond had but recently return ed from a visit to the North, in buoyant health, and was making preparations to commence a promising bu siness in this city, to which he looked forward with the liveliest hope and pleasure. He leaves a wife and four children of tender age. We defer to some friend, more capable of the task, the duty of preparing an obituary Yiotice worthy ofthe memory of the lamented deceased. The Mobile papers announce that Mr. H. B. Trainer, ail assistant engineer engaged in tile survey of the Ala bama and Florida Railroad, died of yellow fever at Pensacola on Tuesday night of last week. The rumor of the failure of Mr. George Law, the N. York Tribune says, it is authorized to state is entirely without foundation. The Prize Fight, —lt is said the Massachusetts au thorities will prosecute Sullivan and Morrissey, the late prize fight being within the bounds of that State. Morrissey has advertised that he has received from the referee two thousand dollars staked upon the prize fight. Sullivan has challenged him to fight again for five thousand dollars within six weeks. (fCr A printer is the most curious being liv ing. He may have a bank and coins, and not be worth a penny—have small caps, and have neither wife nor childred. Others may run fast, but he gets along swift, setting fast. He may be making impressions without eloquence, may use lye without offending, and be telling the truth; while others cannot stand when they sit, lie can set standing, and even do both at the same time—use furniture and yet have no dwel ling-may make and put away pi, and never I see a pie, much less eat during his life—be a hu | man being and a rat at the same time—may i press a great deal and not ask a favor—may handle a shootingiron , and know nothing about a cannon, gun or pistol; he may pull the lever that moves the world, and yet be as far from moving the globe as a hog with his nose under a mould hill—spreads sheets without being a housewife; he may lay his form upon a bed, \ and yet be obliged to sleep on the Moor; he may use the f without shedding blood, and from the i earth he may handle the *** —he may be of a rolling disposition and never desire to travel; ] he may have a sheep's foot, and not be deformed; never be without a case, and know nothing of I law or physic; be always correcting his errors and growing worse every day; have without ever having the arms of a lass around him ; have his form locked up, and at the same time be free from jail, watch-house, or any ot her confinement.— Ex. The happiest period of a man’s life, is when he has a pretty and good little wife, as many children as he can comfortable care for, more ready cash than he well knows what to do with, a good conscience, and not even in debt to a printer. tyCr’ In the days of patriarchs, a woman’s conduct was the index of her heart. When, for example, the father of Rebekah asked her if she would go with the servant of Isacc, she immedi ately replied, “I will go.” Had she been a daughter ot the 19th century, she would, 1 be lieve, have answered in this manner “Oh pshaw !go with him ? Why, Mr. Isacc must be sick. Go with him? Os course I won’t.”— And then—she would have gone with him. 03“ Du ring the imperial visit of the Emperor I and Empress of France—to the cathedral at Ameins, the bishop and clergy presented to them the head of St. John the Baptist, which has been in the custody of the cathredral for 1800 years. It was brought from Constantinople, at the time of the Crusaders, and is preserved in crystal and enshrined in gold. Ihe skull has been re duced to the frontal bone and upper jaw. A small hole in the bone over the left eye is be lieved to have been caused by the knife of the executioner. The relic is held in veneration in France. [ FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] Oak Bowery, Chambersco., Ala.) October 24, 1853. \ Mr. Editor: The city of Columbus has a deep interest i n this section of country. This populous and wealthy coun ty begins to pour her annual tribute ot trade into her van ous channels of business, and it is no insignificant a contn bstion. The projected Railroad from Columbus to Opeli ka is of immense importance as laying the basis oi a wild and permanent commercial relatiou to Chambers and the counties North and Northwest oi her. It ought to k speedily extended to LaFayette the county site of Cham bers via Oak Bowery. By the way, Oak Bowery is an ambitious little village o; , no mean pretensions. She is the centre of operations tor a numerous, highly intelligent and thrilty county popula- ‘ tion, scattered over the hills and through the valleys lor j surrounding miles. It you desire to visit Oak Boweiy you must come to see her on the Sabbath. Her laige j cent church is overflowing with as fine specimens oi sii j race as are to be found between the oceans. Or come on one of her school exhibition days—the only gala-days in her j chronicles. Here is situated the East Alabama Masonic Institutes r ; the trimming and training ot ILo young Lords, and ii well does its principal, Mr. Win. F. Slaton understand ai ply the mystery of his sublime art. Here too is located the I Oak Bowery Female College, lately under the supervise of your old College friend, the Rev. Wm. F. Samford.and conducted by Miss Emily Bailey, Miss Starr and the ac complished Misses Toomer of Portsmouth, Va. Another year the Rev. Alexander Spear, formerly of South Caro lina, and more recently of Georgia, succeeds Mr. Samlord in the Presidency. In this institution I find two very agree able things—a small but well selected literary and religious library, to which some of your liberal hearted citizens most essentially contributed. Among them Judge Wellborn, A. C. Flewellen, Hall & Moses are conspicuous. other a first rate Female Music Teacher. Your Mr. can tell whether I am mistaken. But my object was not to tell you about the people,trade, church or schools of Oak Boyvery. There has been dis covered within one mile ol the village in the midst of a delightful grove an excellent mineral water. I suppose Dr. Boswell or Dr. Stewart could tell more about il than 1 can, but 1 understand a bottle of the water was carried to New York and analyzed there by a distinguished chemist, Dr. Lespayre,and that the analysis disclosed of Sulphur 58. Vi in the hundred parts —of Iron 21. 07, and ol l’otassii brom - dum 13. 11, etc. Many persons have visited this spring during the past summer and present fall, and some proles to have derived signal benefit from the use of its highly tonic and alterative water. The spring is on Mr. Samford’s land, and was discovered by him about two years ago. The desire seems to be uni versal that he should improve the place and open it for the | reception of visitors. To this he does seem to be inclined. | His bad health and different pursuits are insuperable obsta | eles. It is to be hoped some capitalist may take hold of it and have the spring accessible by next summer. It j be a delightful resort for the large numbers who seek such | places. It is but 5 miles from Rough and Ready station on j the -Montgomery Railroad. It is understood that Mr. Samtord would sell the springwith a large grove adjacent and open roads through his plantation to it. It is certainly it fine opening for investment and enterprise. The smell and taste of the Sulpher are greatly disguised by the Bromine, but il evidently exists in very proportion. The gallic acid in a common oak ball, the best substitute for the gall-nuts of Alleppo, I could find in this retreat quickly turned a glass of the water us black as ink, disclosing the presence oi Iron. But enough of this. I perceive you have elected John?on. Asa Democrat, 10l course rejoice that Georgia stands in line ready to sustain our excellent President and his highly j American and Republican administration ; but Jenkins is a high-toned, polished, honorable gentleman, and Georgia has no citizen worthier of her esteem. Your triumph ol principle is the greater. There is general satisfaction at the success of young Col quitt in your district. The name has a charm in it lot the old Georgians on ibis side of the river. He is of the right stock, and this day I doubt if there is a man in the world that expects him to do a mean thing. It is a cheering of the times when the people advance young, high-toned, moral and intellectual men to posts of distinction. This, 7th Congresional District of Alabama, had previously elec ted Major Jas. F. Dowdell to represent the State in the National Councils. He is originally from Georgia, and a man ol very excellent promise ; right in all his precedents and character. But enough for the present. VIATOR. Crazy People.— Miss Dix, the philanthropist, states that among the crazy people with whom her sacred missions have brought her into coni panionship, she has not found one individual, however fierce and turbulent, that could not he calmed by Scripture and prayer, uttered in lov.’ and gentle tones. The power of religious sen timents over those shattered souls seems mirac ulous. The worship of a quiet, loving heart, affects them like a voice from heaven. Tearing and rending, yelping and stamping, singing and groaning, gradually subside into silence, and they fall on their knees, or gaze upwards-with clasped hands, as if they saw through the open ing darkness a golden gleam from their Fathers throne of love. Misuse of Leisure.—The chief source of tin. many evils which corrupt the youth of our com munity, is the misuse of leisure time. It is in the hours of recreation, or when unemployed, that children indulge in vicous practices. The remedy, therefore, for the evils which flow from teis source, will only be found in furnishing the young with agreeable amusements, of an inno cent character. As things now exist, most of the amusements of the young are of a pernicious tendency, But the evil influences of these amusements are not always inherent but more frequently the result of associations.—Biz zarre. Be. gentle. —Violence ever defeats its own ends. When you cannot drive, you can always persuade. Few people will submit to coercion. A gentle word, a kind look, a good natured smile, can work wonders and accomplish mira cles. There is a secret pride in every human , heart that revolts at tyranny, and you cannot make him respect you. In the domestic circle