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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING-, MAY 9,
—JCICXIOTm
Death of Hon. Walter T. Colquitt.
It is with profound sorr-w that ’.ve announce the
death of thin eminent citizen. He died at Macon, Ga.,
nt 8 o’clock A. M , Till in at, in tlie possession of all
his intellectual faculties, and with bright hopes of a
blessed immortality.
The body of our deceased fellow citizen was brought
to Columbus on the morning Ira n from Macon, on the
Sth inst, and was met at the depot by a large concourse
of citizens who aecompanid the hearse to his now deso
late homo.
At three o’clock P. M., funeral services were had
at the Methodist Episcopal Church, conducted by the
venerable Dr. Loviok Pierce; after which a procession
consisting of the body of our people followed the dis
tinguished dead to his last resting place.
Waller T. Colquitt was born in Virginia. At a
very early age, however, he was brought by his parents
to Hancock county, Georgia. He was educated at
Princeton College, New Jersey, where he gave signal
proof of those remarkable endowments which have
placed him in the front rank of American statesmen
and advocate*. 110 settled in Waliou county, Georgia,
and very soon rose to eminence.
Jlo lias filled the offices of Judge of the Superior
Court, member of Congress, and United States Senator,
in all of which he exhibited extraordinary talents, and
incorruptible integrity. But his favorite ft Id of intel
lectual display was the stump and the Court room. As
a popular orator lie has never been excelled. He
played upon the popular heart with the facility of a
master upon a musical instrument. Smiles and tears
were equally at his control and they were often called
up at once by his sudden passage from the broadest hu
mor to the most touching pathos. The same qualities
placed him at the head of his profession as an advocate.
He almost always appeared for the defense. Ilis sym
pathies were so warm that it was a severe trial for him
to prosecute even the guilty. But in the defense, he
gavo his whole soul to his cause, aud wo very much
doubt if au innocent man was ever condemned who had
M alter T. Colquitt as his advocate.
Ad a politician, lie was a States Rights Republican,
art.l in all the changes of party politics never deserted
the faith of ’US, though lie sometimes found it nece-ssu
ry to break with his friends. This was signally main
fosted in IS4O. Up to that time he was the idol of the
old Iroup pat ty. lie had more friends and wanner
ones in that party than any other political leader and
had only to indicate his wishes and they were gratified,
if within the compasof his party associates. But at the
call of duty he left them to stand by his country. The
history of the last fifteen years hate vindicated the
soundness of his judgment and the purity of his mo.
lives, lie was devoted to the South and would have
died to save his section from degradation.
But he is gone. His eloquent lips are silent now.
His devoted and courageous heart is still in death.
We shall never look upon his like again. While the
Nation nud the State lose* one of its ablest and purest
patriots, wo lose in adJitiou the public spirited townsman,
the delightful companion, and the devoted frieud.—
Though dead, he jet lire* in out hearts and momories,
and will live as long as we cherish a regard for genius,
courage, patriotism, fidelity and charity, all of which
he possessed in a more remarkable degree thaa ariy
other man it has ever been our privilege to know.
We hope hereafter to publish a more fitting tribute
t the merits of this truly great and good man.
Slavery in the Councils.
Sundays mail brought startling developments of
Know No:ting sentiment in Georgia and Massachu
setts on the subject of slavery. In the Massachusetts
State Council “strong anti-slavery resolutions were
passed without a dissenting vote. Some who had been
hunkerish hitherto admitted that it was of no longer
use to continue so, as the Order must take antßslavery
grounds. Such, however, is not the opinion of the
Georgia Know Nothings. In their recent State con
vention the most ultra pro slavery resolutions were
adopted and published, says the Savannah Republican,
by authority. We admire the pluck of the Georgians,
and wish them all success in this contest with their
Massachusetts brethren ; hut we doubt their capacity to
bring the struggle to a favorable issue. Know Nothing
ism is t>t Northern birth and is much more popular in
Northern society than it is or can be at the South.
Every kind of ism flourishes better at the North-than
at the South. More especially is this true of religious
isms, as for instance, Miilerism, Mormanism, ami last of
all Know Nothingism. We take it for granted,therefore,
that the abo'ition element will have the preponderance
in the Grand Counoil and that that august body will
either ignore the subject of slavery, or commit the order
in favor of abolition.
It* the Grand Council shall adopt tho latter policy,
we presume that the subordinate oounoils in the South
ern States will instantly dissolve. But if that body
shall refuse to commit itself on the subject, we are afraid
the subordinate oouocils in the South will be continued,
and that the fatal policy will be adv'ptc l of keeping np
a connection with the abol it ionized lodges of the North for
the purpose of securing federal power and patronage to
the members of the order. Such a policy will be fatal
to Southern interests, as it will render the South pow
erless in bar struggle with the North on the subject of
slavery, by dividing her people.
Not knowing what pmvet is vested in tho Grand
Council, by the constitution of the Order, we are not
prepared to say how far a subordinate comic 1 can ga in
nsistiue its decrees. Our understanding is that the
Grand Council is supreme and that a subordinate eoun
o:l has either to submit to its edicts or be dissolved. If
this is the case, very little weight ought to be attached
to what the State Couuuil of Georgia may resolve on
the subject <>} slavery. It is no more au indication of
what Know Nothing sentiment is than the resolve of
the State Council of Massachusetts. The two resolves
are light in the Keth of each other. The ouly difie
retice is that Massachusetts reflects the sentiments of
the stronger wing of the party.
After the above whs in type o have received ae
counts of the proceedings of other State Conventions
of the Order. The New Hampshire Convention adopt
ed resolutions protesting against the repeal of the Mis j
souri Compromise", and also against the Nebraska bill ‘
and the Fugitive S’ase law, and pledging the jmrtv to
resist at all hazards the further extension of slavery, i
Oa tils other hand the A. 1. Herald reports that- the ‘
New .Jersey Convention was ‘‘found to he sound and !
cohxrvative on the negro question.” This is very in- j
definite and probably means that the Convention Ignored !
Slavery. The New Fork State Convention wiSiassem j
u;einJune t and the position it takes will probably de j
c.do the question between tie Northern end Southern I
Councils,
Know Nothings in Court.
At a late term of the Court in Bucks county, Penn
sylvania, to try certain parties charged with riot at a
township election, the counsel for the defence challenged
the array of Grand Jurors on the ground that they
were Kuow Nothings.
Witnesses, supposed to be Know Nothings, were
called and examined. Some of the questions were
over-ruled by the court, and it was left discretionary
with the witness to answer them. The witnesses called
to the stand were, Sheriff Fellman, Joshua Stackhouse,
Dr. Samuel Bradshaw and William Baehe. During
the examination of these witnesses the court room was
densely crowded, and much curiosity was manifested to
find out the mysteries of Know Nothingism. Some of
the witnesses admitted they belonged to a secret order
commonly known as Know Nothings—that they were
bound by an oath not to support any Catholics or for
eigners for office.
The Grand Jury of Monroe county. New York,
under the charge of Judge Welles to enquire into all
violations of the election laws of the S ate, have pre
sented the Know Nothing Councils. The Jury says:
It appears from the testimony taken before us that there
are a number of societies, or orders of men, in this county,
who have formed themselves into secret combinations for
political action—that these societies meet only in secret—
that their members are admitted under oaths and obliga
tions, and pledged to inviolable secrecy—that they are in
duced to enter the society under a variety of pretences, and
to take upon themselves oaths and binding obligations that
they will not vote for certain particular classes of their fel
low- citizens, or individual citizens—that they will cast their
votes and use their elective franchise, according to the be
h-sis and requirements of their order, or the offii ers there
of, or ol a certain degree or circle thereof, under the rules
of their order—that by their oaths and obligations they are
hound to vote, under tiie penalty of perjury, or being con
; sidered as perjured, and as being unworthy to be employed,
| countenanced or supported in any business whatever, and
; as persons totally unworthy of the confidence of their fol
low citizens
Under these penalties they are bound to vote for the per
sons designated by the Order, without regard to their own
individual choice or preference of candidates. That mem
bers of this society or Order, having taken these oaths and
obligations .are informed by the Order, or the officers there
of, tfsat a lefusal to vote for the candidates of the Order
will subject them to the charge of perjury and render them
selves infamous and unworthy the confidence of all good
men. And thus they are directly influenced in giving their
vote o; ballot, or are deterred from giving the s-ame, and
are disturbed and hindered in the free exercise of the rights
of suffrage.
And it further appears that members have been threaten
ed if they did not vote according to the requisitions of the
Order, they should be deemed as perjured under these oaths
and obligations and should be subject to disgrace and infa
my, and as false and perjured, be expelled with dishonor.
That such societies or Orders, after the last general elec
tion, called their members to account to them, or their of
ficers, as to the manner in which they discharged their
elective franchise, and required them to declare upon oatn
for whom they cast their votes at the said election.
We believe, from the testimony before us, that such pro
ceedings strike at the foundation of individual liberty of ac
tion, and tend directly to destroy the great and cardinal
principles of our institutions, as founded by our forefathers;
that our institutions can only continue to exist by the free
and uncontrolled action of the citizen, and that all such re
; straints and obligations are destructive to an elective and
free government.
Democratic Meetings in Georgia.
The Democracy are moving in solid column in every
county in the State. Our limited space alone prevents
us from giving the proceedings of these meetings In full.
There seems to be but one spirit animating the Demo
cratic masses in every part of the State—the spirit of
devotion to tho great principles which lie at the founda
tion of our free institutions—and a set purpose to de
fend them from attack from every quarter, whether the
enemy be a foreign foe bristling with bayonets, or our
old enemy the Federalists in the guise of skulking sava
ges.
GwiNEir County. —Convention hold on the Ist
ioat. Messrs, 11. P. Thomas, J. C. Whitworth, R. T.
Terral and J. M. Young, were appointed delegates to
the Gubernatorial Con vention. 11. V. Johnson unani
mously recommended as a suitable candidate for Gover
nor, and llotvell Cobb for Congress. The following
resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That lor the preservation of the Constitution—
the union of the States, and the rights ot the South, we rely
with unwavering confidence upon those great principles of
Liberty and Equality which form the foundation of our
glorious Republic, which the “Father of his Country”
fought to establish, and handed down to his illustrious suc
cessors, Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson, and which have
been so successfully maintained and administered by them.
S Resolved, That to the maintenance of these principles
in their original purity, we look with confidence and hope
to the Great National Democratic Party alone, and hereby
pledge ourselves to do battle in its ranks, as long as its foes
public or secret shall seek to make war upon those cher
ished principles.
Resolved, That we are opposed to all secret political
associations, especially when coupled with tho odious spirit
of religious persecution lor opinion’s sake, —that it is one of
the most sacred guaranties of the Constitution, that each
man may “sit under his own vine and fig-tree, and worship
God according to the dictates of his own conscience, ‘none
during to make, him afraid .”
Resolved, That tlie Democratic party will ever maintain
the principles contained in the Nebraska and Kansas Bill,
which are, in substance, “that the people in every organized
community, in every territory, when they come to form
their own institutions, shall do as they please in that respect,
and come into the Union with of without slavery, as they
choose.”
Walton County. —Convention held . Messrs.
Junius Uillyet’, W. Kilgore, S. G. Loehlin aud George
Hurst were appointed delegates to the Gubernatorial
Convention. H. V. Johnson was recommended us
the candidate of the party for Governor, and Howell
Cobb for Congress. Resolutions was also adopted ex
pressing high appreciation of the services of Junius
Hillyer in Congress and endorsing the administration of
Franklin Pierce. Tho following general resolutions
were aiso unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That in view o Lhe importance of harmoy
and unity ot action, in the approaching State Elections, the
democrats of Walton county, renew to each other a publie
and open pledge of fidelity to these principles of the party
which have brought our common country to its present
noble position, and made it the hope and pride of oppressed
republicans throughout the world.
• Resolved, 1 Hat we will give our cheerful and hearty
support to the nominee of the Democratic State Convention
at Milledgoville—the Democratic Congressional Conven
tion, it one should be held, or to the recognized candidate
ot the Democratic party, and will use all honorable means
to secure their election.
Resolved, That we oppose all secret political associa
tions us destructive to liberty and subversive of the interests
of our country.
R<solved, That wo stili cling with renewed hope and
confidence to the National Democratic party, believing
♦rotn past experience that it is the only National organiza
tion from which the South as well as every other section ol
our country will receive their Constitutional rights.
Resolved, That our “latitude and unmeasured confi
dence is due to the lion. Stephen A. DougLs, of Illinois,
and that noble band of Northern and Western Democrats,
who with the rights of the States, the Constitution and the
Union inscribed on their Banner, have removed an odious
restriction from our laws, and who are now, despite the
taunts and jeers of fanaticism, daily struggling for our con
stitutional rights.
DeKalb County. —Convention met on the Ist iust.
Messrs. James W. Crocked. Daniel Johnson, and
Georgy C. Smith were appointed delegates to the Gub
ernatorial Convention. The following general resolu
tion was unanimously adopt* J :
Resolved, That we have the strongest faith in the prin
ciples of the great National Democratic party as expound
ed by Washington, Jeffisrsou, Jackson and Polk ; that we
believe them to be, arnoug all other ereeds, tho hes; adapted
to the wants of our people, the most republican in their
character, mo t consistent with the Constitution of our
Government, most objectionable to tyrants, most respected
and levered by all lovers of free ana equal privileges, and
that they embrace the political faith of a large majority o;
the people ct the United States, and we heresy reiierate
uud adopt them as the ba.-is of our political platform.
Judge -Shortridge hss declare?b* will not run for Gov
enter of Alabama.
Columbus Building and Loan Association.—At the
last meeting of this body $2,525 were sold for $5,500,
at the following particulars: S2OOO atsß ; SIO3O at 53 ;
I S2OOO at 31 3-4; SSOO at 50 per cent premium.
Muscogee Building and Loan Association.—At
j the last meeting of this body $2,109 were sold for $4,200,
| at the following particulars: S2OOO at 50 5 SI,BOO at
I 50 12; and S4OO at 46 per oeut premium.
o*
New Soda Fount.—Messrs. Brooks & Chapman
have opened anew Soda Fount at the Blue Drug Store,
where the sparkling beverage lhat makes the heart
; glad, without intoxicating the brain, may be had at all
i hours.
j Muscogee Superior Court.—The adjourned term
; of Muscogee Superior Court will be held on the
j first Monday in June next. Grand and Petit Jurors
of the second pannel will be required to attend by 10
; o'clock on the first day of the term.
Another Know Nothing Governor.— William T. Mi
nor was elected Governor of Connecticut by the Know-
Nothing Legislature of that State on the 3i inst. In his
| Inaugural Message he boasts that his election is another
; emphatic condemnation of the Nebraska-Kansas act.
j PajoxiAS and Straw berries.— Mr. Chares A. Peabody,
! of the Soil of the South, has overwhelmed us with good
things this week. We have before us a large basket brim
ming with great, luscious Strawberries, and three magnifi
cent. Paeonias, tw-ice as large and as doubled, and ono
variety of which emits as tine a perfume, as the finest rose
! that bloom*.
We are very happy to learn that Mr. Peabody has quite
recovered from his recent injuries, and that the Scarlet Fe
ver has nearly disappeared, from his premises. We may
thereloro hope that hereafter the market w-ill be constantly
supplied with his delicious fruit.
Insurance. —We call attention to the advertisements of
the Insuranco Companies, of which Greenwood &, Grimes
and Mr. E. S. Greenwood are agents. We learn that the
Ilomc Insurance Company, of New York, is one of the
most solvent companies in the country, as the abstact of the
last semi-annual statement will show.
The Democratic Party of Stejvart County,
Are requested to meet at the Court house on Tuesday
29t’a May. The friends of State Rights, and those oppos
ed to all dangerous isms, are earnestly invited to meet
aud take measures for our common safety.
Democratic Meeting in Harris.
On the Satuiday 19th May next a meeting of the
Democracy ofllarris will be held in the town of Hamil
ton, lor the purpose of appointing delegates to the Guber
natorial and Congressional Conventions. All persons are
invited to attend, and especially those who prefer, the prin
ciples upon which the government w-as organized by Wash
ington and his compeers, and administered by Jefferson and
his republican successors, to the northern “isms” which are
propagated by secret political conclaves. Come all; as a
full discussion will be had upon the merits of Know Noth
i agism.
Tho American Party in Georgia and the Slavery
Question.
It is generally understood, says the Savannah Re
publican, that the American party in Georgia assem
bled in State Council at Macon, Wednesday last. It
was ordared that the following resolution, adopted by
Council and handed us by the President, should be
published.
Resolved, That slavery and slave institutions are protec
ted by the Constitution of the United States, and the obli
gation to maintain them is not sectional but national; that
the right to establish them in the organization of State gov
ernments belongs to the native aud naturalized citizens;
and that Congress has no constitutional power to intervene,
by excluding anew State applying for admission into the
Union, upon the ground that the constitution of such State
recognises slavery.
Know Nothings in Boston and the Slavery Question.
Boston, May 3.
The Know Nothing State Council, held in the Temple
last evening, was largely attended, and the action de
cidedly anti-Blavery. Gov. Gardner and Henry Wilson
are among the delegates chosen to the National Council
in June next next, at Philadelphia. A. B. Ely, Esq ,
made an anti-slavery Know Nothing speech, and strong
anti-slavery resolutions were passed without a dissenting
vote. Some who have been hunkerish hitherto admit
ted it was no use. longer to continue so, as the order
must take anti-slavery grounds.
Ihe New Hampshire Know Nothings and the Slavery
Question.
Concord, N. IT., May 3, 1855.
The American party of this State have, in State
council, adopted resolutions protesting against the repeal
of tho Missouri compromise, and against the Nebraska
bill and Fugitive Slave law, and pledging the party to
resist the further extension of slavery.
Later from California.
New York, May 3.
The Star of the West arrived, with later California
news.
At Sacramento the Know Nothings have elected their
entire ticket.
Trade was dull, and corn scarce. Flour was selling
at sl4 50.
Tho Mint during the year has received upwards of
$7,300,000 in gold dust, and has issued $6,000,000 in
stamped basis.
From Washington.
Arrest of Mr. Fabens—Patent Extension—Lieut.
Beale —Speed of the ban Jacinto.
Mr. Augelis, deputy marshal of New York, arrested
Cobsul Fabens to-day, aod has started to New York
with him. Mr. Fabens has not resigned the consulship.
The Commissioner of Patents has issued to Messrs.
Keller & Brown, attorneys fur the inventors, an exten
sion tor seven years of the patent of Davenport &
Bridges’ swinging beam car for trucks.
It is rumored that Lieut. Beale, who attacked the
Commissioner on Indian AiT.drs, has been appointed
Mail Agent between New \ r ork and California.
The Union, of this morning, claims that the Sau
Jacinto’s run of six days to Havana is equal to twelve
days from Liverpool. In a smooth sea, the ban Jacinto
made from ten to cloven knots an hour.
•S. Yorke Atlee has been removed from the clerksh'p
m the Sxili Auditor's office, Treasury Department.
Ihe cause assigned his removal is Know Nothingisrn.
Srcretary McClelland has issued a circular to the
clerks of the Interior Department, prohibiting their
dealing in bounty land warrant. One of the clerks in
d'guantly says he don't see what right’the Secretary
fias To prohibit ibt-ir Utah; g m legitimate ankles out u*.
office houis
Jrouble among the Knew Kothings of Illinois
rpj. c T _ ‘ . Chicago, May 4, i 6os.
.® ™ 6 A.now Nothing Codven.iou adjouiaed last
evening, au.r a stormy sessioc. It is stated that the die
rup teii took piece on the slavery
Judge Lumpkin Peremptorily Declines.
Washington, May 5.
Judge Lumpkin, of Georgia, peremptorily declines the
appointment of Commissioner of the Court of Claims. Ills
successor is not yet known.
Know Nothing Governor’s Message.
Hartford, May 4,1555.
Governor InghimPs meaiagejias been, published. He
recommends the extension of suffrage to negroes, demands
that all voters he able to read and write, denounces the
Nebraska bill, aud thinks immigration should be prevent
ed, considers Catholicism hostile to a republic, and believes
the extension of the period of naturalization necessary.
Want of Water in Cherokee.—A gentleman recently
from the limestone region of Cherokee Georgia, reports
great distress for tho lack of water. In some places
they have to haul it fout or five miles for drinking and
cooking purposes.
Homicide in Cobb. —Samuel Watts, oi Cobb, recently
thol his own negro man, which resulted in death in a few
days. An investigation of the case had partially been
made before the court, when Mr. Watts concluded to ter
minate the trial by giving leg bail.
It is rumored that Hon. Willis A. Gorman, Governor of
Minnesota, has been removed for speculations in public i
lands, held to be incompatible with his official station. It j
is said J. C. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, has been appointed j
to succeed him.
Cholera on the Mississippi River —The cholera has
appeared among the emigrant passengers on the Upper
Mississippi. On the 23J ult. the steamer Montfluk buried
seven ot her passengers, victims of cholera, between Keokuk
and Dubuque. There were seventh n cases on the Royal !
Arch, during her upward trip to St. Paul last week.
Tunnels Taken. —We understand that the two small
funnel-, on the Blue Ridge Railroad, situated between
Turnip-top and the Stump-house mountain, have beon
taken by responsible contractors, and that they have com
menced operations. It is like wise stated that the work on
the Stump-house tunnel will he resumed about the first of
June by the company’s contractors.
The Socialist Colony in Texas —The Dallas (Texas)
Herald,of the 21th ult., says;
The colonists intended to settle the colony of M. Con
siderant and as-ociates in this vicinity, are beginning to ar
rive. It is designed, we learn, to introduce during the
present year between one and two thousand. The num
ber will be added to by fresh arrivals each succeeding
year.
M. Consiflerant and family will be here in the course of
two or three weeks, for the purpose of their per
mauent residence in the country.
Judge Lynch's April Term in Illinois. —A man named
Billion, living neai Galena, Illinois, of considerable wealth
and very respectably connected, has been in the habit lor
years past ol maltreating his wile and family in the most
brutal manner. On Sunday, the 22d ult ,he made an at
tack upon an unoffending woman, in which he was inter
rupted, arrested, and thrown into jail, and on Monday
morning was brought out and fined twenty-five dollars—a
sum so inadequate to the offence that the citizens, to the
number of about seventy-five, comprising the most respec
table men in the place, determined to take the law into
their own hands. On Monday night the party proceeded
to Billion’s residence, took him prisoner, marched him out
side tiie corporation,tied and stripped him, and with a good
cowhide applied to his bare back, settled the score that had
been running up for years; then applying a thick coat of
tar and feathers to his person, they led him back to his own
house and left him, with an admonition to sin no more.
Further by the Atlantic.
New York, May 6.
The British Government estimates its expeuses at
eighty-six millions of pounds sterling, and the revenue
income at sis-y-six and a half millions.
The Russians are strengthening their Baltic ports.
The Allied fleet is detaiued by ice oiF Morund
belt.
2,000 Colliers are on a strike at Wigan.
The Roebuck Committee of Investigation is pre
gressing.
The floor of the Convent of St. Agnes, at Rome,
fell, precipitating the Pope and Cardinals to tho base
ment of the building. The Pope was slightly, and sev
eral Cardinals severely injured.
A Russian lady has been captured in the Allied
camp, while making drawings of the French trenches.
She confessed that she had acted as a spy since the bat
tle of the Alma.
The fire of the Allies on Sevastopol was to bo con
tinued in one week from the 17th.
All hopes of Austria taking the field against Russia
are at an end for the present.
GnrUchakofF has published an address to the garri
son of Sevastopol, in which ho states that matters look
most encouraging to the besUged.
From the scat of war we learn that during tho fust
two days of the bombardment, the fire of the besiegers
was superior to that of the city, and much damage was
done to the Russian works. During the night of the
13th, the loft attack df the allies obtained a considerable
advantage over the Russians, who were twice dislodged
from astrongly fortified position, which remained in the
hands of the French. The possession of tins position
enable the allies to fortify the summit of the hill, which
is of great importance. Since the siege began five of
the seven Admirals of the Russian fleet, in Sevastopol
have either died of wounds or been killed.
Serious trouble lias been created at Krajova by the
brutal conduct of an Austrian officer. The people at
tacked the Austrians and drove them from the city.
The Emperor Napoleon, accompanied by the Em
press Eugenie, bad been a week in England, and were
received everywhere with demonstrations of the highest
regard.
The Liverpool Circular of Messrs. Brown & Shipley
quotes cotton in fair demand throughout the week, with
more steadiness during the lasi two days. The sales for
the week ending on the 19th, amounted to 49,000 bales.
The sales on Friday and Saturday amounted to 20,000
bales; 13,000 of which weie taken by the trade.—
Saturday’s market dosed steadily.
There was more activity in provisions. Pork is in
belter demand, and prices maintained ; the stock is
heavy. Bacon ia hnpioving, and had advanced Is. a
Is. 6d. per ewt.
[From tiie Squatter (Kan .) Sovereign.]
Governor F-esder.
We do not hesitate to say, tb it, in the history of our
countiy, no instance can be found in which rn officer so
unfit for any of tiie duties of his office, so universally ob
jectionable to the peopD interested, s j publicly and noto
riously guilty of prostituting his official position to person
al pecuniary gain, to such infamous purposes, us A. 11.
Reeder, Governor of Kansas, has been permitted to re
tain his position, or even to escape impeachment.
From the day * f his appointment to the present mo
ment, he has ci her wholly tailed to discharge the most
pressing duties, or lus abused his jjositiun for the most cor
rupt purposes.
For munthsafter his appoinUn- ut he absented] himself
from his post, though his imm-d ate pu hence was de
manded by the necessities of the l Territory. His time vv\*
devoted to electioneering in Pennsylvania, or ■* the study
ol Indian treaties, with a view tu spueuli turn in their
lands.
lie came to our Territory not to be Governor of its p* >•
pie, but to speculate in lands, to make rnou-y by his offi
cial position, and as ;g lit ol the Aboiua nitislo last; n the
cu;Vi of abolition wj u us. lively act ut h : * from thwday
o his arrival will establ.sb bey ni controvefsty that these
were the Sole ends sod aims of h;s corning.
rife has declared that tne office of Governor eouU cot
have induced him to give up a lucrative practice aod the
-y.mfcrts efa home in Pennsylvania—that bis iootivowaa
? • in: r.<? iiuoaMj by tl* eppotttiuiv.ira which would be af
forded him for speculation. lie had not time, after v
arrival, to secure a room, before he.became a huge
holder in the town of Leavenworth, in consideration"*’■ *
it should be made the temporary seat of governmer
In this he was guilty of multiplied abuses of ofli ial
The Delaware Indians complained that their treaty v
violated by the location of the town upon lhtir lai .ls’ •
Governor .of the Territory he should not have thrown ’
weight of his official position against them.
By the act organizing the Territoiy, he was empow.
ed to locate a permanent seat of government, and ....
$20,000 were placed in his hands to be expended in
lie buildings at the place selected. It was his duty t0,,-
fairly, and with a pure and disinterested consideration o*
the interest of the Territory in making such selectiou.—.
On the contrary, for gain, he sells himself, and, for a spr-t
----illation, promises to select a town in which he was
shareholder. That he was not complied with his agr-t
----ment, adu3 but to his infamy.
After having soid his right to locate the seat of gov
ernment, we next hear of him on a professed tour of oh,
servation, made under pretence of obtaining the necessary
information to enable him to organize the govern mem .-1
This tour is hardly commenced before it it, found to be
tour of speculation. W hile absenting hiinsdt from the
Territory he has rumage and tho files of old treaties
Washington, and bUievts he has discovered the founda
tion of a fortune. As Governor, claiming to be second
only to the “Great Father,” fie imposes upon the credulity
of the poor half-bleeds, and purchases their laud lor a
song. This speculation is not sufficient. lie continues
his tour, and again, for a song, becomes a latge proprietor
in the tow nos Pawuee. At oneee it is pri claimed that this
is to be the seat of government. So lorg as his official
position cau be abused for the profitable sale of stock, he is
found “buying in.”
His “tour” completed, to give time to realise on his in
vestments, he defeis the call of a Legislature as that
hodv would possess the power to locate the seat of govern
ment, and might defeat his speculations. In this, too he
acted ns agent of the abolition.sts. Had the legislature
assembled last fall it was clear that the pro-slavery party
would succeed. To defeat them. it was necessary togivt*
further time to Thayer & Cos., to ship their hirelings;
and not until the last moment —until, indeed, as wo art*
informed, he was ordered by the President—did lie tako
steps to call a Legislature. Even then the time was
extended, to enable the abolitionists to leeward their L>t
man.
During all tills time he was the head of a secret organ
•/ation for the purpose of making Kansas a den of aboli
tionists —actively corresponding with all parts of the
country, urging the shipment of abolitionists—advising
them loug in advance of the hour at which they would
he needed—studiously, to the last moment, concealing
from others the day ot the election. lie appointed men
to take the census, notoriously unfit, who would not sens,
pie, aud did not hesitate, to omit the names of those opr
post'd to abolition, with a view to deprive pro-slavery dis
tricts of their proper representation, lie shamefully ger
rymandered districts for the purpose ol dividing, and thus
defeatining the pr>>-slavtry party.
He has usurped legislative and judicial power! In the
ono cast-, assuming to arrest, imprison, and try a man un
der the charge of jmurder! In the others, craftily au.i
cunningly assuming to impose qualifications on voters,
which lie hoped would operate in favor of abolitionists;
appointing justices of the peace, and introducing them to
administer the law of the State from which they removed,
and, finally, prohibiting and punishing the sale of whiskey!
This last, though a clear, usurpation, is the only instance
in which a good motive can be found for liis action.
Brunswick Railroad Meeting*
The annual meetiug of the stockholders in this road, says
the Savannah Republican, was held at Brunswick, Thurs
day last, and we learn was largely attended both by Geor
gia and Northern stockholders
11. S. Wells, the President of the company, submitted his
annual report, which was adopted.
The gentlemen representing the Northern stockholders,
pledged themselves to build the road to the West bank of
the Satilla river a distance'cJ 30 miles. After reachbig that
point, it was agreed that thf wotk should be cairied on by
the joint aid of all the stocliholders both North and South.
. To insure the ti e to Thomasvilfe, the
people aiong the route prorth-- a .ascription in available
means, to the amount o! Su* foMhe main trunk to
ThomasvilJe, and t j ie |, r^c h to Albany.—
Every disposition was mtuftfosiptf hi T peopJo cf Ware,
Lowndes, Thomas, Baker and Dougherty counties, to aid
in the construction of the work, and great harmony prevad
ed among the delegates to the meeting.
Col. Schlatter, chief engineer, and Mr. A. Dexter, asl
ant engineer, are both on the ground with their Ismilies,
and have invited proposals ior ail the work to the Satilla
river.
The following gentlemen were elected directors for tho
ensuing year:
President, Henry S. Wells.
Directors, Chanoey Vibbard and Geotge E. Gray, of Al
bany. New York, Parris (7. Clark,Charles B Stuart, S. V*.
Goodrich, of New York. Gen. Levi J. Kuight of Georgia.
Mr. Vibbard is row Superintendent ot the New Yo>k
Central Railroad, and Mr Gray is engineer on the same
road. Clias. B. Stuar t has filled the office of State Engi
neer of New’ York.
Meeting of the-Legislature of Connecticut.
Hartford, May 2, 1855.
The Legislature of tins State met in this city this morn
ing.
The Senate was organized by the appointment of tie-
Hon. Jam u s F. Babcock, of New Haven, President pro
tern., and Orville 11 Platt, of Meriden, Clerk.
The House was organized by the choice of Austin Bal l
win, of Middletown, Speaker, and Francis E. Harrison, <
New Haven, and Edwin B. Trumbull, of Norwich, Clerk.-
The two houses meet in convention to-morrow morning
for the choice of Governor and other Stale officers.
The Medical Convention at Philadelphia.
Pnir.ADF.LHiiiA, May 2, 1855.
Dr. George B Wood, Jr , of Philadelphia, was elected
President of the convention to-day.
Nashville was recommended by the committee appointed
on the subject, as the place lor the meeting of the convon
tion next year ; but their report not being unanimous, De
troit was selected by the unanimous vote of tho conven
tion.
The delegates were welcomed to tire city by Mayor (. ■
rad, at independence Hall, at noon.
From Boston-
Boston, May 2,1855.
r ln the House this afternoon Gov. Gardner’s veto of the
Vermont aud Massachusetts Railroad bill was sustained
The vote was yeas 173, nays 130 — 29 short ot the required
two-thirds. The motion to reconsider the biil will be act
ed on to-morrow.
< In the Senate, a resolution was introduced directing the
Committee on Federal Relations to consider and report
what action should be taken by this Legislature ’or the pro
tection of the rights ot Massachusetts emigrants to Kansu
against invasion and violence.
A Mixture for Washing Clothes.—la Ber
lin, Prussia, the washer-women use a mixture o
two ounces of lurpentitn’ and a quarter of an
ounce of spirits of sal ammoniac, well mixed to
gether. The mixture is put into a bucket of warm
water, in which half a pound of soap has been dis
solved. J.Jo flris mixture the dirty clothes a.
immersed during tire night, and the next and.
washed.
The most dirty cloth is perfectly freed of ;,K
dirt, and afer two rinsings in fresh water, the clou
lias not the least smell of turpentine. The doth
does not require so much rubbing, and line Jim ;
is much longer preserved by it.
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON STATEMENTS.
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*2 3% j? c '-~ <5! on.
g -t o'2 ‘'x -3 S ~ hat-
Igif ; -:c §][ §'£. t :
~£. • r <*- 5 day.
: 42 312 63867 70222 125 60428 60553 9713
1855, 2771 41 62528 65740 321 69759 6108< 4*^s
Columbus, M-y £
COTTON—The f- w transect ons of yesterday and
•lay indicate no change in tur ntarktf, sn-.-e the ut
ptr Atlantic, and, we cod tin ue to quo;e prmelp*] sfck*
to 9 cents.
New TviHK, Mry 5
Float under t’m Allas tic’s iateiiigcLco has thcl. -
from 13. to 1% ets. per fearre.'. Colton is un-h-.n t ;r.d