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(Lxvcm mu) Sentinel. ~ 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.