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~ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, 1855.
The Democracy and the Know Nothings.
We have watched the Order from its commence
ment ; we have noted its sympathies and associations;
we have carefully studied the utterances of its repre
sentative men, and we declare to jou in ail sincerity,
that we have never seen the first sign that portended
success to Democratic principles, or safety to the South
in any of the sajings, doings or aiTdiations of the
Ordi r.
We have only room in tli’s article for the considera- 1
tion of but one branch of this subject—we will take up
the others at a convenient time.
1. As to their affiliations. Our readers are aware i
that the great Whig party was dissolved because the
Northern portion of it became hopelessly abolitionixed.
They also know that a large proportion of the Nor- j
them division of the Democratic {party jrema&s true
to the South. The recent repeal of that odious clause i
in the Missouri Compromise, by which slaveholders
were excluded by act of Congress from all the public
domain lying North of 30 deg. 30 min., is pregnant
proof of the truth of this position. Every man hailing
from North of the Potomac who voted with the South
was a member of the Democratic Party. Now in every
contest between these old parties in the Northern
Slates, where they did not run a separate ticket, the
Know Nothings have co-operated with the abolitionist and
Whigs, and in every instance where this fusion has tri
umphed, a man has been selected for national office who
is in favor of the repeal of the Nebraska-Kansas bill,
and of the fugitive slave law, and is against the adrnis
sion of any more slavel.olding States into the Union, i
We put it, thereforo, to every Democrat whether he !
is willing to join an Order which proscribes the Nor- ,
them Democracy and elevates to high national office |
only abolitionized Whigs—Whigs so odious that even
Southern Whigs have deemed it a disgrace and pollu
tion to touch them with the tips of their fingers.
Jlut this is not all. There is a fierce contest now
raging in Virginia—good old Virginia, the home and j
grave of the sages who founded our institutions, and
bequeathed us the rich legacy of free Governments—
Democratic Virginia which has never yet succumbed
to federal misrule, but always bore the flag of equal
rights and States Eights flying from her flag staff tri
umphant through every contest —in the Old Dominion
there is an approaching battle between the ever glori
ous and triumphant Democracy and who? The Know
Nothings Having triumphed over the Democracy
of New Hampshire and the North, the midnight Order
has crossed the Potomac and attacked the friends of the
and the advocates of States Rights under
the shadow of Monticeilo itself, and the first note of the
battle is the shout of triumph raised over a victory
gained in a municipal election in the old Federal city
of Richmond, the Gibraltar of Whiggery, from whose
walls the old Federal banner has waved in triumph
for twenty-five years. Will it cheer the hearts of the
Democracy of Georgia to learn that the Democracy of
Virginia have been defeated by Whigs under the new
name of Know Nothings? What have the Virginia
politicians of this generation, who wear the mantle of
Jefferson and have been schooled in the faith by Ritchie,
done, to forfeit the confidence of their brethren of Geor
gia, that they should abandon them in their sorest need
and join their olil enemies tu put them down i When
have the Virginia Democracy faltered in their advoca
cy of the true faith ? In what instance have they fled
from the fight when the constitution, or the South, or
the country was in peril ? Why then do the Know
Nothings marshal an opposing array and float opposing
banners? It is beoause their principles are inconsistent
with Democratic principles, and their men are not of
the Old Guard. Can the South spare the stalwart
arms of the Virginian Democracy in the coming fight
with the North ? Can she swap her Masons and Hun
ters and Wises, tried and true soldiers, for the Flour
noys, and Beales and Pattons, whom the Know’ Noth
ings propose to give her in exchange for them? May
he the Young Guard will prove as true as the Old
Guard. It was not so at Waterloo.
We have uot space in this artiole to point out the
affiliations of the Know Nothings in the other Southern
States. In North Carolina, Kenneth Rayner, a leading
Whig is the leader of the Order. la South Carolina
they say they have carried Columbia, but if this be true,
this will be the end of their triumphs. Every leading
politician and paper in tho State is committed against
the order. In Georgia the Democratic press is unani
mous in their condemnation. In Alabama, there is
similar unanimity. Such also is the case in Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, as far as we can ascer
tain. It is evident, therefore, that if the Know Noth
ings triumph, the Democracy will be routed, horse, foot
and dragoons.
Believing, as we do, that upon the success of Demo
erotic principles depends the perpetuity of the Union,
the security of ilto States, and the perpetuation of our
liberties, we cannot contemplate the destruction of the
party which alone advocates them, without the most
fearful forebodings. We are free to admit that in many
instances the practice of the Democracy has been diffe
rent from its professions. This has not resulted from
any defect in the party faith, but in the weakness of
the instrumentalities employed by them to administer
the Government. There has always cornea healthy re
action, and in the main the party lias adhered to the
ancient landmarks. Under Democratic rule, the
American people have enjoyed great and manifold bless
ings. Individual rights have been protected. The
Federal Government has not often abused its powers.
The States have retained their sovereignty. The Sooth
has been protected, in the main, from abolition encroach
ments. Our fugitive slaves, when caught, have been
surrendered by tho interposition of iho Federal power.
Our Tetritori.il limits have been extended to the Pacific,
‘i he odious restrictions thrown around the extension
f Southern institutions by the Missouri Compromise
have been repealed. Kansas will probably be a slave
holding State. The Government, though timid in its
policy with respect to Spain, has assented a firm pur
pose never to allow Cuba to be Africanized. The
Democratic leaders, even at the North, entertain very
ju*t and conservative views iu respect to slavery. We
think we can safely trust Pierce, Buchanan, Dickinson, !
Douglas, and even Cass, together with most all our I
prominent Northern leaders •, at any rale, we should i
strive in vain to fill their places with Northern Know
Nothings. We do not like their representative men ; 1
we are afraid of Gardner, Wilson, Pollock, Turnbull. I
Harlan and Hale. We think it be_-t to s:i k by our
‘•d friends; we know them. They are now fighting j
for us with this new party. They have fought for us j
( fi re. Many of them voted against the rec plion of 1
abolition petitions when they were first presented.
M at of them voted and spoke against the Wilmot I
Pu\t*o. They helped 06 to kill tho Missouri restriy. J
tion. They were with us on the tariff issue. They
helped old Jackson strangle the United States Bank.
They vote with us against Internal Improvements by
the Federal Government, except when the work i? t
be done just at home. They were against the alun and
sedition law of old John Adams. They sanctioned the
purchase of Louisiana. They fought side by side with
us in the second war of independence, and crushed out
the Hartford Convention treason. They helped us
acquire Texas. They fought in council and in the field
in the war with Mexico by our sides. They have an
itching palm for Cuba. We like the Northern Democ
racy. We have done each other many good turns.
We have the sympathy of good neighborhood with
them. Our political faith is pretty much the same.
We treasure in common the memory of the same great
men. Jefferson, Jackson and Calhoun are alike dear
to us and them. Why should vve separate from such
old friends ? Those Know Nothings are strangers t<>
us. IVho are they? Where did they come from?
Who are their great leaders? What are their prin
ciples? They conceal alike themselves and their
principles from us. They meet in the dark. They
proscribe foreign born and catholic fellow citizens. In
this they follow the lead of old John Adams. Jefferson
taught no such doctrine. We cannot sympathize
with them in these antipathies. They are not Christian
feelings. We know a great many of both sorts whom
we love for their virtues, honor for their patriotism and
glory in their courage. It is’nt Republican to honor or
degrade a man because of the accident ol birth, nor to
make religious faith a qualification to office. We like
our old Democratic principles better than these new
revelations. Wo have more confidence in our old well
tried leaders than we have in Wilson, Turnbull and
Harlan. What say you friend ? Do you agree with
us in these views ? Then keep out of the councils of
the Know Nothings. What ever they may be they are
uot Democrats. If they triumph, the Democracy will
oertainly be defeated.
Medical State Convention.
Columbus, April 11, 1855.
This body assembled in this city on Wednesday, 11th
inst. At 11 o’clock the Convention was called to order
by the President, Dr. e R. (J. Dickinson, of Albany ; and
Dr. F. C. Ellison, of Columbus, was appointed Secreta
ry pro tem. Tho roil was called and tho following
members answered to their names: Dra. Dickinson,
i Dugas, of Augusta, Hammond, of Macon, Bell, of
; Houston county, and Stanford and Flewellen, of Co
s; lumbus.
i
On motion of Dr. Flewellen, the regular order of
j business was suspended and the following gentlemen,
| Drs. Boswell, Billing, Stewart, Bozeman, Grimes,
| Bacon, Urqnliart, Brooks, Carriger, Blackford, Tug-
I gle, Lockhart, Ellison, Bellamy, Taylor, all of Colum
j bus, and Dr. Wilson, of Lawrenceville, and Dr. Davis,
j of Albany, upon written application, were elected mem
bers of the Society.
The Convention then adjourned until 3 o’clock P. M,
AraiL 11, 3 o’clock P. M.
i The Convention re-assemblcd, Dr. Dickinson in the
I
chair. An Essay by Dr. Dugas upon Stricture of
j the Urethra , was read, which gave rise to some remarks
! from Drs. Boswell and Dugas.
Dr. Hammond, one of the committee appointed at
the last meeting of tho Convention to investigate the
quantity of Opium sold and used in the Slate of Georgia
for non-medical purposes, reported that he found it
impossible to arrive at the quantity uad, and the com
j mittee was discharged.
After the transaction of other unimportant business,
; tho Convention adjourned until it) o’clock to-morrow.
April 12, 10 o’clock A, M.
The Convention met according to adjournment. Dr.
Dickinson in the chair. On motion of Dr. Flewellen,
a committee of six, consisting of Drs. Dickinson, Bell,
Ilammond, Stewart, Lockhart and Flewellen, was ap
pointed to select the Essayists and subjects for tho next
annual meeting. After consultation they reported as
follows:
Ist. On tho relation between Remittent and Yellow
I Fever. Dr. Arnold, of Savannah.
2d. Diseases of the Cervix Uteri. Dr. J. A. Eve,
| of Augusta.
3d. On the connection of Pneumonia with Remittent
Fever at the South. Dr. L. D. Ford, of Milledgeville.
4th The Diseases of the Spinal Marrow. Dr. C. B.
Nottingham, of Macon.
sth Relation of Epidentio Dysentery to Remittent
and Typhoid Fever. Dr. D. C. O’Keife, of Penfield.
j fith On the use and the abuse of the Speculum. Dr.
G. Harrison, of Bibb county.
7th The value of Diet in the management of Diseases.
’ Dr. J. F. Cooper, of Amerieus.
Bth Tho Causes of Abortion. Dr. J. M. Green, of
I Macon.
9ih Epidemic Diseases. Dr. J. F. Bozeman, of
: Columbus.
| Ou motion of Dr. Ilammond it was resolved that the
Medical Society elect Honorary Members in or out of
the State at each annual meeting.
The Convention then proceeded to the election of
officers for the current year, which resulted as follows :
Dr. L. A. Dugas, of Augusta. President.
“ .1. J. Boswell, of Columbus, Ist Vice President,
D. \V. Ilammond, of Macon, 2d 3 ‘ “ I
*• F. C. Eilision, of Columbus, Cora. Secretary.
“ D. C. O’Keife, of Penfield, Rec. Secretary. ;
“ C. B. Nottingham, of Macon, Treasurer.
The following gentlemen were appointed delegates
to the National Medical Convention :
Messrs. Arnold, West, Flewellen, Dickinson, Ham
| mond,Bell, Smith, Coe, Mdler, Word, Long, LeCompte,
O’Kiefe, Green, Harris and Jones.
A committee on publication, consisting of Messrs
Boswell, Stewart and Ellison. was appointed.
Oa motion of Dr. Stewart, the Corresponding Seere
tary was instructed to open a correspondence with tho
Physicians of the different counties of the State for the
purpose of eliciting reports on the history ar.d treat
ment of the Epidemics of the preseut year, to be sub -
milted at the next regular meet ug of the Society.
| On motion of Dr. Bell, the committee on amendments
I to the constitution were allowed further time to report. ;
The Convention then proceeded to elect an Orator
i for the next regular meeting of the Society, which re ;
suited in the unanimous choice of Dr. Win, \V. FKw- ;
I elieu, of Columbus.
The next regular meeting of the Society will be held
’ at Macon ou the l*2:h April, ISofi.
The Convention then adjourned.
Professor Uache's Coast Survey. — We have received
from the Coast Survey Office, Washington City, a copy ;
of the ‘‘Report of the Superintendent of the Coast
Survey, showing the progress of the survey during
the year 1853. We are pleased to see this valuable
woik pointed with good type and on superior paper.
It is accompanied with numerous well executed maps
and charts of the surveys and soundings on the cost of j
the United States.
Politics in llusscll, Ala.
A large Whig or Union meeting was held at Craw
ford, on the 2J inst.
John A. L'*wis was chosen as the candidate of the
party for Judge of Probate.
A delegation was appointed to attend the Conven
tion of the Party to be held at Auburn on the 2d
Monday in May next for the purpose of nominating a
candidate for Congress iu the 3d District. The follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopted.
Resolved,, That tiie Hon. James Abercrombie, our dis
tinguished Conntyman, is our first choice. We know him,
and knowing him we are proud to honor him. But we
learn with regret that he probably does not desire to he
re-elected, in that event, our delegates are left to vote for
whom they please.
Later from California and the Isthmus.
The Steamship Illinois arrived at New York on Satur
day from Aspinw’all, with advices from San Francisco to
the 16th ultimo.
The steamer Eldorado, from Havana, with the New Or
leans Mails and Passengers, arrived at Aspinwall, March,
28, 3 P. M., and was to sail immediately after the Illinois
on her return trip.
A duel was fought near San Francisco on the morning
of the 15th March, by Col. Win. Walker and Mr. Carter
formerly of Sacramento. Tiny used pistols—distance
eight paces. At the hrst fire Mr. Walker received a slight
wound iu the loot, and heie the matter ended.
Mr. G. Hubert Saunders, an attorney of San Fracisco,
| had been arrested on a charge of forgery. Bail to the
amount ot $20,000 was required and furnished. The accu
sed immediately decamped, and all efforts to ascertain his
whereabouts had been unavailing.
Some astounding disclosures concerning the State Ma
: rine Hospital had been published. It was proved to have
| been a common custom at elections to take the patients
j from the hospital and make them vote at five or six differ
| cut polls. The peculation carried on by those in authority
’ wSs enoimous, and worse than that the patients did not re
i ceive proper treatment. The resolution to discontinue the
! hospital after the Ist of April was adopted unanimously in
both branches of the Legi lature.
A bill to fund the floating debt of San Fracisco had
passed tiie House. As the whole debt,’which now amounts
! to nearly $2,000,000, is entirely contrary to the charter,and
i consequently illegal, the policy ol funding it all is strongly
| objected to by a considerable body of tax payers,
A bill to prohibit public gambling would very likely pass
| the Legislature; and the friends of temperance were not
without hope of obtaining the passago ol a prohibitory li
quor law ai the present session.
A bill to prohibit raffles, lotteries and gift enterprises had
passed the House. ‘1 he bill suppressing houses ofiil-fame
had passed both Houses.
In the LegUataie, the most import a nt*subject ofdiscus
j sion had been the fee bill, reducing materially the fees of
| sheriffs, clerks of courts, <&c. It had passed the Assembly
| and would very probably pa-sthe Senate.
The Sunday bill, prohibiting barbarous and noisy amuse
! merits on the Lord’s day, had passed both branches of tho
i Legislature, and gone to the Governor for Ins signature.
Large amounts of gold dust were arriving from the inte
rior. The express of Wells, Fargo &. Cos. had brought
j down $227,000.
j Ernest Koble, under sentence ‘ f death in Marysville,
! broke jail on the Bth ult. and made good his escape,
j The Chinese were still coming. About two hundred and
| fifty arrived on the 13th ult. in the ship Allred, from Ilotig
I Kong.
A monster nugget |of gold, weighing 300 pounds, and
i valued atX‘oo,ooo, was reported to have bceu found at
i Ship’s Diggings, near Downieville,
; The mint in San Francisco commenced the coinage of
silver. The arrangements were only complete for the
! coinage of half dollars.
j The trial of Hamilton Bowie, late treasurer of San
j Francisco,indicted tor embezzling publie monies, has re
j suited in his acquittal.
From the. Panama Star and Herald, March 21.
ISTHMUS—CHILI.
j The P. S. N. Co’s, steamer Santiago, arrived at this
j port on Wednesday evening from the south coast, with the
| usual semi-monthly mail. She brought 45 passengers and
! $460,000 in specie lor Fnsffand. Her dates are Valparaiso
! February 27th, Callao March 10, Paita March 16th.
j On the 10th February the completion of the tunnel on
j the Santiago rail road was celebrated with all honors. It
1 is rumored that the United States Minister is about to return
home, leaving the Secretary of Legation to fill his place.
From the Argentine Republ.c and Uruguay, we have ac
counts of commercial difficulties, but iu politics all was
•quiet.
It is feared that the quarrel between Brazil and Paraguay
will lead to an. appeal to arms. A Brazilliau squadron of
twenty-one vessels being already in the La Plata, and an
army of 6,000 ordered to the frontiers. The only hope of
peace liesjn the result of a conference about to be held in
the Argentine capital between the plenipotentiaries of Bra
zil and Paraguay, and iu the mediation of the Argentine
government.
Death of Admiral Des Points,
; Commander of the French Sqadron in the Pacific.
i The French frigate La Forte, 60 guns arrived at Callao
| on the 6th March, having on board the body of Admiral
■ Des Pointe, the commander of the French squadron in the
! Pacific, who died on board about 30 hours beiore the vessel
’ reached port The funeral took place on the 10th with
great ceremony.
Shameful Doings in Cincinnati—Murderous Assault
upon Germans—The Recent Election—Riot Un
decided.
Cincinnati, April 6.
A large party of rowdies armed with clubs, guns and
pistols, went to the Lafayette House, corner of Mill and
Front streets, last night, kept by a German named Jiu.
cob Kuick and demanded liquor. After being furnished
with beer they commenced breaking the glasses, knocked
the proprie.or senseless, insulted his wife, assaulted his
children and then left the premises. On the sidewalk the
gang knocked down three Germans and stabbed another
who is not expected to recover. Finally they drove the
family of Knight from the premises. Five arrests were
made, being the first nude by tiiejiuthorities during this
disgraceful proceeding. After this assault upon the
premises of Knight, the Germans living in that section of
the city, armed themselves and guarded the streets across
the canal the whole night, permitting no one to pass
The police and the mayor have almost done nothing in
the matter of preserving peace.
The City Clerk has refused to grant certificates of
election to the candidates of either party in the recent
election.
Kissing Package of Letters.
A package of letters,'mailed for fe Savannah on the 22J
a't., from this place, says the Hawk insville Herald of the
, fith inst., containing letters of value, have not been heard
of since the mailing. Freight lists, b.iis of laden, and let
j ters of money, u£c. A check drawn in favor rtf Joel
I Swearengett, on the Planters’ Bank at Savannah, and
| endorsed by Swearewrm, together with some SSOO iu the
wir “‘i package, are missing. We have heard of divets
others who mailed more or less m iney by tha same mail.
Some s. arch ands ane enquiry has been made to solve
| lhe mystery #f its disappear,in< . but as yel no due to the
lost package lias been discovered.
The Know Nothings Success in Louisville.
Loiusvillv., April 7, 1535.
ihe election here is progressing quietly. Barbee, the
Know No'hing canduin'e for Mayor, is without a doubt
elect -d. Speed, anti-Knmv Nothing and the present in
cumbent, rtfused to run on the ground that his term of
office hud ut expird. The Know Nothings will most
probably carry the city by a large majority.
Ship John Ohestcn.
Baltimore, April 7, 1933.
The intelligence by the B J ic in relation to the condi* ,
t'ou in which the ship John Citeston was found, has ere.it j
ed considers de feeling h'-re. L'tiers to her owners -late
there were indications that a struggle had occurred ori
b ard, and that traces of blood were discover* and Captain
V\ h tc, master of the •) C., arriv-d at Wilmington on the
31, but has not yet communicant! to his employers the
erreumstames which led to the abandonment of the
vessel. |
Grand Military Expedition Against the Indiana.
Don Fernandez de Taos, New Mexico, }
February 23d.
For the last five days there has been almost an luces ;
ea-it tailing of snow iu the mountains that nearly sur- |
round this beautiful ‘Laos valley, which has rendered the j
air very chilly, and the roads quite muddy ; but not with- ;
standing all this town presents an unusually lively !
appearance in c nscquence of the arrival of regular and j
volunteer tn ops, who are preparing for a long campaign
against the Utah and Jicarriila Apaehee Indians
Col. Fauntleroy, Ist Dragoons, and staff, consisting of
Lieut. McGruder, Ist Dragoons, Adjutant ; Major Ruck
er, Quartermaster, and Lieut. McCook, 3d Infantry,
Commissary of Subsistence, arrived here yesterday from
Fort Union, and immediately set to work organizing the
command for the expedition of at least three months,
against the Indians who recently have been committing
j so many depredations in the northern part of the terri
| lory.
Directions have been given to the Quartermaster and
; Commissary to throw in depot at Fort Massachusetts
‘ supplies for at least 550 men.
it is generally supposed the Indians will be found be
; tween the head waters of the Rio Grande and Arkansas
rivers ; aud as the command will have to operate in the
mountain, a large train of pack mules will b required for
transportation.
la consequence of ihe recent heavy f.II of Snow in the
mountains, the scarcity of grass, and the impracticability
ot carrying corn, there will necessarily bo great suffering
among so many animals as well as men.
Major Catleton’s company, Ist Dragoons, with Capt.
Pino’s company of New Mexican Mounted Volunteers, 1
am told, are to move to the White Mountains in the
; southern part of the Territory There meet a command
from Fort Fillmore, and make a campaign against the
Mexalero Apaches, who drove off Major Neighbors’ herd
ol oXeti, a large number of other eattle and not only kill
ed Capt. Stanton, Ist Dragoon*, immediately after Capt.
Ewell's fight with them l ist month, but also stripped him
of everything except his rins.
! This Utah and Apache war cannot cost the Govern
| ment less than $25,000 a month, taking into considcra
j ‘.ion only the volunteer free called out, and six times that
i —the time they are called out for—wdl make $150,000;
| and then add to this the cost of every volunteer horse
j that dies—say one half in each company, at S6O a head
j —will make at least, in round numbers, $17,000. But
• this is not all, the sacrifice of human life, the loss of ani
j null's in the Quartermaster’s department and in the l.)ra-
I goon companies, admitting that the war will terminate at
| the expiration of 0 months, will foot up an immense bill
! that will stare our national legislator* in the face and con
-1 vince them, though in the preseut instance too late, of the
| truth of the old saying, “in time of peace prepare for
j war.” J. S.
Negro Thief Convicted.
At the recent -ession of the Superior court in Macon
county, James Viekhoufc, alias James Vickhouse Poole,
was tried for stealing a negro belonging to James S. llol
linshead of that county, found gsilty and sentenced to the
Penitentiary for ten years.
Vickhouso was recognized while passing through Atlan
ta about six weeks ago, as a former inmate of the Alabama
Penitentiary, by a gentleman who at the time he was con
fined there, was an officer ot the Institution, and who, sus
pecting that Vickhouse could not have obtained the prop
erty which he had about him, honestly, had him arrested
and committed to jail. At the time of his arrest, he had 8
negroes in his position—two from Florida—two from
Baker, one from Macon county and two from Cherokee
Ga. These negroes were none of them stolen, but had
been obtained in exchange for others, whom he had stolen
at different times and places; his plan seeming to be to sell
every negro he stole as soon as possible, in order to steal
him back and sell him again, by information obtained
from the negroes who were with him, all of those he had
stolen and sold in different parts of the country, were reco
vered and restored to their owners Mr. Hollinshead’e ne
gro was found near .Nashvilie, Tennessee.— Journal and
Messenger, 1 lt*A.
Augusta Election.
The election for Mayor and twelve Members of Coun
cil on the ‘Jtli instant at Augusta, resulted in an over
whelming triumph of the Know Nothings,who elected their
Mayor by a majority of 845 votes, and eleven out of 12
Members of Council. The Anti-Know Nothing elected
iu the second ward, only succeeded by one majority.
lowa and Wisconsin Elections.
Columbia, April 10.
The returns from lowa show the election of Whig
i State officers by a majority gre iter than that of last
ywir.
in Wisconsin. Cole, Whig, has been elected to the
Supreme Cou t Gerieb.
Death of D. Me Nab. —We regreutto learn the death
of Mr. Duncau McNab, formerly of this place, hut more
recently of Texas, which occurred at New Orleans on the
2d inst, after a protracted illness. Mr. McNab, was for
many years one of our most enterptising and successful
j merchants, and enjoyed an enviable reputation for high
: integrity and scrupulous accuracy iu all his dealings.—
! Eufaula Spirit of the South.
\ Accidents on the Railroad. —The night train for
Columbia ran oft’ the track a few miles this side of that
place early on Friday morning. Some of the cars were
smashed, but though the passengers were terribly alarm
! e, none of them were injured.
The night train for Columbia, on Saturday evening,
about three miles above Georges Station was thrown off
the track, by which two freight cars were smashed, anil
a passenger ear, which was overturned caught fire from
a stove, and was entirely consumed, and another partly
destroyed. None of the passengers were injured.—
Charleston Mercury , 9/A.
The Soil of ihe South ; By Lomax and Ellis, Colum
bus, Ga., at $1 per year.
We have been readers of the Soil of the ‘South ever
since its publication commenced, and can say most con
scientiously, that its course has been one of unbroken pro
press, every number getting bet Ur. The present, is a
most excellent specimen of an Agricultural journal, emi.
nently practical and full of valuable instruction. In the j
Horticultural department, we think Mr. Peabody has i
managed to introduce more matter valuable to a South- j
truer, than we have ever met iu any Periodical whatever, j
[Montgomery Mail.
Metairie Course, April 5. Purse S4OO ; 2 mile heats.
•1 no. W . Price seh o Sam Letcher , by Wagner,
and im by Medoc 211
Capt. \\ . J. Minor’s ch c Vandyke , by imp.
BeLh zz ir, out of imp Brittania 1 2 die.
Col. T. B. Go’dsbv’s hr e Jirown Dick , by imp.
Margrave, out of F nny King ands.
Time— 3:58—4:04—3:58£,
Fourth District —A writer in the Atlanta Republi
j can recommends Col. R. J. Morgan of LaGrange as a
•suitable candidate for Congress from the fourth district.
The Third District. ~ A correspondent rs the Ma
■ con Telegraph suggests the name of L. Q. C. Lamar,
Leq., as a suitable representative of the ‘lh:rd District ;n
the next Cos: gross.
| More of the eu/nc Sort.—We received the other day
j eighty-one dollars from one subscriber in payment for
his subscription and accompanied with the remark, that
!it was about time to pay something to the Recorder.—
i We trust others largely in arrears to us will come to the
i same conclusion. In the mean time, our veteran sub
; briber has our thanks lor his remittance.— Southern
| Recorder.
Mimtahv.— That very tine corps, il e Bu m, p#sed
I our office on Saturday evening, on a target-sboeting ex
cursion. Thv ranks w>re very fall, and the eutir* ap
pearance of tlte Company soldierly and striking,
j *re not inarmed, of the details of the shooting
1 farther in;n, ih3t ‘.be first prxe, a gold medal, nr.d also •
sronil cannon made r.f go'd, added by the grace:nl kind
n® of Mrs. Edward Bdser, was won by Mr. Me
Whorter.
The second prix- was taken by Mr. Thomas Gnnter.
We farther learn, that of To shots fired, 64 were pat
into tlte target, which we think pretty fair practic*.
[Mffnf Mail.
Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.
Negro Government.
Port au Prince, (Hayti) March 1855.
There is not the least doubt, and we express tills with
real philanthropical regret, that the negro empire of II; y
ti, is going down rapidly with every year and will be fe.-t
with ut help. The rotten machinery of state and moiety
went on pretty well for ;i while, as long as the illusion
of the paper money lasud, and the ignorant negro, by
habit or want of reflection, received the bid shin-plasters
of this Government tor good current m nty. Durii g
the time of the Republic, the Rulers of Hayti were to
prudent as not to carry to an excess the manufacture of
this paper, which has n specie laife. Under Preside at
Boyer, the whole Island formed a single S ate, the a
ponses of the Government were model ate and living in
Hayti was cheaper than anywhere else in the West In
dies. Even under the last President, Riche, tie amount
id paper mouey in circulation was but $17,000. During
the reign of Emperor Solouque, the expenses of the State
have increassdmunensely, and in an equal proportion the
| property of the maac has augmented. The circulating
paper money has reached the inan t se sum of $50,000,-
; 000. Forged bank notes have been imported in great
quantities and arc not easily to be distinguished from the
good ones. The paper has almost entirely lost its value.
All kinds of goods have risen iu proportion and living is
actually s expensive in Port an Prince as in any luxuri
ous capital ol Europe. The at my the public officers, the
whole Government coals almost three times s much as
at the time of the Republic, which, it is true was like,
wise by no means a model .State yet, even in its worst
condition, did not attain such a high degree of rottenness
and corruption as the Empire.
Soulouque seizes, as is well known, a fifth part of the
whole annua eoffe crop for bis civil list or rather for him
self. The coffee cultivating negroes are obliged to sell
their erops to certain privileged sp eulators, from whom
alone foreign merchants are permitted to buy. It is from
the privileged speculators that the Empire receives the
fifth part. The coffee crop is decreasing rather than
augmenting with every year. According to a gentle
man well informed in these matters, the coffee product
now amounts to about 49,000,000 ot pounds annually,
while und-r the administration of President Boyer, it
reached more than 60,000.000 of pounds. On account
of the increasing depreciation of the paper money, and
i the great injury suffered from the usuiy of the licensed
speculators, the profit of the cultivators of coffee becomes
smaller and smaller : they disuse eeitain things which
they had formerly bought from foreign manufacturers.—
Their dress resembles more and more the simple, primi
tive fashion of their ancestors in Soudan or Guinea. They
hardly know shame, and the climate of Ilayti is so de
lightfully warm, that its inhabitants require hardly more
luxury in dross thin it was the fashion to wear in the old
Paradise. Some bacon and a few plantains are sufficient
to fill the negro’s stomach even without any labor. Tito
negroes are not so strong and robust as the ancient slave
j population of St Domingo, and we have the conviction
j that a small corps of a few thousand disciplined white
soldiers, would be perfectly able to put an end to Soulon
que’s imperial grandeur, and the whole negro empire.
Now, here is a full Negro government iu a siate ot
retrogradation —while the mixed White and Negro
Government of Jamaica is scarcely better oft', even un
der the protection ot Great Britain. All such facts goto
show—how utterly impossible ever to realize in the Uni
ted States, the dreams of the Utopians of the Tribune
I school of politicians.
| These inixt-d colored governments, exist more or less,
j too, in all part* o’” Spanish America—and there, as rvel
j as in llavti and Jamaica, they arc failures and but dam
• age the governed.
Porter and Greeley.
I ( Extract from Sketch of Wm. T. Porter, Em* , in
Swan's Gazette , written by Henry Wm. Herbert,
j Esq. ]
In those days Bill Lnew r a precious a'ght more about
types, and leads, and foot-sticks, aa:d etch, than he did
| about fast horses, or hound of high, and cur of low, de
i gree; and I’ve mv doubts whether he’d have known an
| Alderney from a Duiham, or a Merino from a Bakewell.
! Now, hia mind’s a perfect compendium of the stud-book,
| racing-calendar, and stock register, complete poultry fan
| cier, Arc., Are.; and, from a Morgan, a Black hawk, a
i Priam or a Glencoe, dowu to a sea. bright Bertram or a
j Bolton, from Lady Suffolk's time to Dionied, or Sir
! Archey’s year and pedigre, you’d betUr not bet against
: getting any information that you may desire of him, unless
; yon’ve a laney fur losing—and it you have—then, go
j ahead!
i Well! to resume ihe notables! thing that Bill did about
1 those times, while he was foreman os afeitsaid, was in
! trodueing into the office that imfthble genius Horace
1 Greeley, on his first arrival in the city, on the look out
for a start in fife, just as uncouth—more uncouth tho
! devil himself could not have made him, i! he’d tried—r.s
jhe is now, and a little greener looking. Well 1 that start
j he got, through Bill, on the strength of being aVeimon
! ter, and ou the strength of the start, and the Vermontship,
I they two are friends and crouitt, in a certain sense, to this
day. Nor do I know many funnier things, thau to see
| them sitting cheek by jowl in a corner, discussing matter#
and things ; Greeley’s shocking bad bat, lank, disordired,
tow-colored locks, and ignoble countenance, half crazy,
half-cunning, and redeemed only by its singular earnest
ness, hia ragged white over-coat, hands ill cared for, and
finger-nails so deeply margined with soil that you might
suppose that they had been performing the office of
ploughshares, contrasting wonderfully with the classic
features, tine expression, soigne hair, elaborate costume,
and perfectly gentlemanly air and finish of bis brother
Editor and brother Vermonter.
Nor, indeed, arc the ininds of the two not more com
pletely variant than their aspects —for if in B.ii’s mental
composition there be any one point especially prominent, it
is h's deep sense and sentiment of chivalry, his love and
veneration lor everything that is old and great, and time
honored and noble, h r high blood aud gentle blood, and
the grand old mingled arfetoeraty of birth and bravery,
from the day# of Roneesvailes to those of Balaklava, his
delicate respect for tender and gentle woman, and, at the
same time, his line moral perception of the abomination of
woman’s rights, and socialism and agrarianism and athe
ism, and all the other leveling radicalisms of the da\
while in the pseudo-philosopher’s iuttllect, the salient point
is the hatred of everything chivalric, gentle, noble, or
graceful—the desire to drag down every temple and tow
er and build shanties of the materials—to reduce every
thing to the narrowest base of utilitarian practice, and to
extinguish every spark of veneration f<m the heart of
ir. an.
hew notabler things, an I hive said, has Bid done than
giving the vegetarian humanitarian his first start in lift—
many, 1 am afraid, nsefuler, and few more detrimental to
the improvement of the American mind generally, and to
the success of the whig j>arty particularly : for. individu
ally, I btlievu that singular, earnest minded honest imen
tioned, and mural madman, to be precisely the roost dan
gerous and destructive disorganiz'. r. now existing on the
f*ce of the globe.
I never look at him, or hear toll of him. bu: J flunk of
Sidney Smith’s saying—* Go*d intentions! my dears ir—
good intentions ! Relieve me, my dear sir, a Bengal ti
ger, with h's uni up, is not halt s > dangeious as a genuine
trol with good intentions /” Net that 1 mean to in
sinuate that our Iribunitian frb nd is a genuine Hki!, by
a long allot!—it is much to he des red that he were—it s
the good intensions only on which 1 insist; and those
it is, which make lus confounded false philosophy
so dangerous. If lie were only a rascal, as well as a so
phist and a false teacher, a bhnd leader of the blind, half
his misrcliiet would be done awtv with !
\ (indtihilt s Havre Steamers. — ilie price r.f passage
by the North Star, which leaves here on the 2Lt instant,
has been fixed at sllO for the first cab n, and S6O for the
second cabin, the same as Ihe rates li\>ni Bos'on.
XLord Prlmetfton, it is lated, Lis officially di.ler-d
that there was to foundation for the opinion that the
British Parliament wouid be ciiolvtd, or for t! e report
shat tie Fret efc Covert n.em lud n; de a t V it|nfeDtn*
lions u o i the subject of ti>e R.x-btn-k ir.quiiv.
Brror Pinto, lately “parroted” a*. Havana, had a private
fortune of $200,000.
The Cincinnati Election. — The City Clerk has : ssued
certificates of election to ail the Democratic candidates, tins
.Judges of the l]ih and 12th wardshaving made reti ms
uDder o-ath. It :s not likely the election will be e*w-
Mted.