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(Times mtir Sentinel. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1855. Congressional Convention, 2d District. We suggest that the Democratic Congressional Conven tion for the Second District be held at Americus, on Wed’ nesday, 11th July next. The Supreme Court will be in session at that time in Americus. What say our Demo cratic cotemporaries to this suggestion? The time and place ought to be agreed upon at once. wtwtd. Democratic Convention in Muscogee. The Democratic Party of Muscogee county will meet in Convention at the Court House at 12 o’clock M., on Wednesday, 23d May, for the purpose of selecting delegates to the Gubernatorial & Congressional Conven tions. w twtd. A trip to the Country befoie Breakfast. At the invitation of Mr. Charles A. Peubody, of the Soil of the. South , we arose on Wednesday morning last before the sun, and, in company with an esteemed friend, paid a visit to his charming country scat, five miles from town. The atmosphere was as refreshing as a shower bath, and every tree and flower was re joicing in the dewy breath of morn. In an hour we had reached his mansion, and stopping just long enough to shake hands with our hospitable host, we proceeded at once to his strawberry grounds. The sight surpassed our most sanguine expectations. They consist of a ten acre field, and every foot of ground was red with the ripp and luscious fruit. The Hovey Seedling was the prevailing growth ; but wo found a part of the ground eoveied with the Peabody Seedling, a cross between the llovey and a native wilding, which pleased us better oven than the llovey. The vine is larger, the fruit quite as large, more luscious and abundant. It is like the llovey, a contuous bearer. We saw vines of this Seedling which contained over two hundred berries, some just forming, others turning, aud others again ready to melt on the tongue. It was a sight to tempt an epicure. The most astonishing feature in the condition of this crop is that it has been produoed without artificial watering. We attribute the success of Mr. Peabody to his system of culture in which mulching forms a conspicuous feature. In tha'same field Mr. Peabody has 2000 water melon vines, many of which have fruit already formed, and he expects to supply the market with this delightful fruit by the 10th proximo. In each hill of the meion vines was a tomato plant. Mr. I\ informed us that the tomato dues not interfere with the melon while it protects it from the bugs that prey upon it. If this be true, it is a fact worth remetnbeiiug by cultivators of the water melon. After feasting our eyes an<l mouth upon theso da lightfal grounds, we repaired to the house where the good lady of the mansion had prepared a breakfast ta ble groaning with every variety of viands to which our unwonted exercise enabled us to do ample justice, and concluded the repast with strawberries and cream. — Having selected some of the eho’sest flower.# which grow in profusion in every nook and corner of this de lightful retreat, we hitched up and in an hour were again seated in our sanctum in time for the eastern mail, blessing our stars that Columbus is our home and Peabody our friend. By the way, we selected a burial place for ourselves as brother Knowles of the Recorder suggested, and will bo prepared to occupy it if Wise is defeated in Virginia and the Parson will come over to perform the funeral service; and made a special agree ment with friend Peabody to relinquish all claims to the chosen spot to friend Knowles in the event he should want a place to bury himself and the Know Nothings in the event the fortunes of war go against them in the old Dominion. The Washington Union and Gov. Reeder. The Washington Union , under date of the 11th ins?., denies the report that Governor Reeder visited Wash ington City for the purpose of procuring Executive aid in the discharge of his duties as Governor of Kansas. “Not for a single moment,” says the Union , “has ho been diverted from the plain, straightforward path of duty. Refusing all participation with either extreme in the late disturbances in the Territory, and planting himself upon the conceded principles of the Kansas and Nebraska bill, he has steadily maintained the attitude which might be expected from a man who for thirty years has been a leading and consistent member of the democratic party—the party of the constitution. A northern citizen, a Pennsylvanian after the school of Buchanan and of Dallas, he has, throughout his politic cal career, opposed the TVilmot proviso, sustained the fugitive-slave law, advocated the Kansas and Nebraska bill, denounced abolitionism from first to last, and bold ly co operattd in every movement for the protection of the South in its rights under tiie constitution. lienee it is that, while ho has resolutely and consistently re sisted all attempts to control the destiuits of Kansas by means not entirely legal and fair, he has never sought to give the advantage to either of the contending in terests. Perfectly conscious, and deeply regretting, that the mischievous efforts of Greely and the nor-, them fanatics have been made the pretext for the cent border excitements, he has firmly occupied the ground of discouraging every movement that might disturb the public mind, or revive those unfortunate di visions which have so often convulsed our happy coun try. We are not disappointed that general excitement has resulted from the local troubles in Kansas ; but we unhtsitatingly say to the true friends of constitutional painciplcs, in every part of the Union, that no man could more faithfully represent the conservative senti ment of the country, or will more steadily and consci entiously labor to bring order out of confusion, than the present governor of Kansas.” We give the above for what it is worth. Southern j men in Kansas place a very different estimate upon the j conduct and character of Gov. Reeder. The following article from the New York National Democrat breathes a very different spirit, and, if true, w ill account sor the very favorable light in which the conduct of Gov. Reeder is viewed by the Union. Jt may be propt-r to add that the Democrat is hostiie to ; the ad mist rat tod. It is needless for us to say that fill i pur sympathies are with the Kansas squatter*: THE OCSriMJ OF KEEDEK DEMANDED. Social and shmutaneous information appears to have been received yesterday by our Abolition eotemporanes The Tribune and Tinree, to tlie effect that the President has been requested by Virginia Democrats to “remove” the inefficient and epeeniating Maine Law gentleman who has already removed himself Irom the office of Governor of Kansas. Over this very natural and probable political sug gestion, the Sew <rdite chonsters set up a hideous bewailing —pending lor the moment their own quarrels iu their denu'ic uUoas ol the Kansas squatters. c Oi cdurse the Virginia Democracy have demanded the removal of Kt*-4£f; di*-y did so long since, on grounds not only of partizan policy, but of public justice. And the De mocracy of New York afcd every State iu the Uuiou will, when acquainted with the cucmnstances ol the. ease, echo the demand. The simple-fact is, the appointment of Ree der, in lie first place, was brought about lor tin? benefit of a number of land speculators in or connected with The Washington Union, and prominent among whom was the Clerk ot the last House of Representatives. The maneuver was to procure a Governor by whose official influence and participation these parties might succeed in getting posses sion ot some of the best lands and most prominent village sites in Kansas. There were parties in this State connected with the arrangement —Van Buren politicians, whom we could name, in the interior, whose association in the enter prise wa cunningly invited for the purpose of securing Mr. Marcy’s connivance In fact, the combination, depending upon Reeder’s management and astuteness in furthering their speculations, included a formidable body of capitalists, monopolists and paupei politicians in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York, and contemplated no less than the owner ship of pretty much all the land worth haying in that tertile Territory. It was a monstrous plot, bearing the apparent sanction of the President, and numbering most of those ras cally chevalierß d’ industrie, known about Washington as members of the Kitchen Cabinet, among the actual con spirators. .... When Reeder arrived out in Kansas, he set industriously to work to push his own fortunes and those ol the clique to which he owed his appointment and opportunity. Why first one locality and then another was indicated as the teiritorial seat of government, by apparently well authenti cate rumors circulated by his tools, we presume need not be explained at any length Speculation follows rumors, and many a poor Western squatter, honestly locating his prescribed acres, has been victimized by the adroit Yankee agents of imaginary land companies. It was not long be fore the Governor’s associates joined hands with the Mas sachusetts company of forestalled, known by the designa tion of the ‘Emigrant Aid Society,” and which already owns one or two entire villages, destined for its tenantry of mill operatives, cotton spinners and other white slaves. The squa ters began to see an immense monopoly threat ening them, backed by official authority and New England capital; and it is little wonder that the sturdy Democratic spirit of the men irom lowa, Illinois and Missouri, who form the mass of the actual settlers of the country, revolt ed at the outrage. We honor the determination they have shown, that the Territory of Kansas shall not be one im mense preserve for the pleasure and benefit of corrupt Free Soil officials, and of hypocritical Boston “friends ol free dom,” stockholders in emigrant forwarding societies. Ree der has been positively frightened out of the 1 erritory by his liege subjects, but not, we fear, before consummating some of the selfish projects of his partners. It will be remembered that the Massachusetts Society, organized and incorporated by the Legislature of that State lor the ostensible purpose of forwarding Anti-Slavery emi grants to Kansas, entered upon its career some months since with great flourish. Its large capital stock was said to have been rapidly subscribed by Boston men of ample means; and it was evident from the first that profit rather than principle had prompted its orign. Its plan of operations was carried out with true Yankee cuteness. A judicious distribution of the stock among editors of a certain class vastly increased their admiration of “free institutions,” and bred a tremendous enthusiasm on behalf of the “Emigrant Aid Society.” It was everywhere announced that this wonderful Yankee nation was to preserve “freedom to Kansas !’* Whether this Society, which in fact was nothing but an organization having fine water lots, city sites and similar monopolies in view, has profited by Reeder's labors equally with his political comrades at Washington, we are unable to say. Judging by the outbreaks of wrath from the Abo lition press and from the lanatical Legislature of Massa chusetts, we should think it had not, and that it now looks lorward, as its only hope of realizing fat dividends, to his return to Kansas, backed by a military force by which the “insubordination” of the squatter soverigns may “be crush ed out ” It is the duty of the Democracy in every section of the Union to protest against the further permission of these scandalous operations by the Administration ; and to demand that Reeder be deprived of that pretense of authori ty which lie still, we suppose, claims, and that some fit and proper man acceptable to, and if possible chosen by the free people of Kansas, be recognized as Governor by the Presi dent. Such a concession to the true principle of popular sovereignty—a principle to which, as we have always be lieved and insisted, the Pierce Cabinet was never honestly a convert—would go far to allay the distrust of the people of Virginia and to strengthen the hands of the Democracy, now in the midst of an unequaled struggle in that State, and threatened with absolute overthrow in their very citadel.— Let Reeder’s commission bo required Irom him and let his place be stiled by someone not obnoxious to the people as a mere land shark and waterlot grabber. Or let the Presi dent take the consequence in the lorfeiture of the little re maining respect now accorded to him by any portion ol his own party, and fall back upon the support of Abolition Aid Societies and Seward Maine law presses.— National Demo crat, l'2th The tendency R'notT Nothiugism to Riot una Murder. j However peacefully iaolined our Know Nothing j fellow citizens of Columbus may be, their “worthy | brethren” of Louisvillo, Ivy., resorted to the most ex | treme measures at a recent election for magistrate* and constables in that city. We learn from the papers pub lished there that on the day of election “a mob of brui sers and bullies usurped the power, and to all interests and purposes determined the r vsult by violence and bloodshed.’’ The Courier , a Know Nothing organ, gives the foU 1 lowing ancount of the disgraceful proceedings : “But there were other transactions on Saturday, in the First Ward, for which we must take some of the inconside l ate friends of Americanism to task. There were foreigners innocent of any wrong, or intention of wrong, who, when passing along the stieet, when in their own houses, when distant from the polls, were attacked and beaten most un mercifully. The houses of some Germans were entered and their property destroyed ; others were pursued by crowds of infuriated men and boys. These attacks,in many cases without provocation .cannot be excused, it is true that there was much in til? shape of rumor to teed the excite ment. A boy was reported to have been shot by a German front the windows of a house and other indignities cornmit ! ted ; but of these things we could ascertain nothing definite. 1 One outrage, of which we have been advised, entirely by i American citizens, deserves particular notice. Three Ger i mans—Charles Hunt, John Snyder, and Paul Bessinger— ; being chased from the polls, took refuge in Peter Merkel’s, ! on Market street, two squares distant. A large gang pur ! sued them, and guns being fired from the upper stories, they 1 broke into the house, destroyed all the fixtures about the ! bar-room, beat Merkel, who had not even attempted to ’ vote, entered his private room, destroyed the furniture, and j one ruffian actually struck Mrs. Merkel while she was at j tempting to save her husband. For such an outrage there j can be no apology, and yet of this character were many j others during Saturday.” It has been pretended that the main object of the Know Nothings was to secure the purity of the ballot box and put down riotous proceedings at elections. Many good men, we doubt not, have been lured into the council rooms of the order by these specious pre tences of its advocates. It is for them to justify to their fellow citizens the consistency of the foregoing outrages with the professed objects of the order, and the free dom of the ballot. It is urged, and with some show of plausibility, that the parties to these outrages acted without authority and their conduct is chargeable to them iu their individual oapaeity. But then the order is responsible for arousing the passions which resulted in these outrages upon private rights ; and, so far as w© are intormed, the members of the order stood by and saw them perpetrated without raising a finger to pre vent them. In commenting upon these disgraceful proceedings, the Louisville Democrat uses the following appropriate remarks; “Such transactions strike at the vitals of free institutions. A riot or a mob may be a trifle, but when it is an organized body, designed to desecrate the rights oflranchise, and con trol elections by force, it i3 a damning crime against free institutions. “We read with contempt the pervasion of the ballot, by Louis Napoleon and Santa Anna, when we saw the sacred emblems of freedom made to subserve despotism. It was ahoriid mockery of liberty ; like using the sacramental cup in bacchanalian revels. “The Americans couldn’t tolerate such crimes, but right here mLouisville, wiien the day for choice for civil officers came, and legal voters were called to make their choice, a j mob of br.isers and bullies usurped the power, and to all in- j tents and purposes, determined the result by violence and j bloodshed. “The facts and the purposes admit of no concealment or disguise. The transaction called an election was a farce, and a mockery of our tree iortitutions, “Plain as the case is, excuses and denials will be tolerat ed, and the re ult chuckled over with faint condemnation by men who would be thought respectable. Hueh deeds don’t happen without countenance and connivance on the part ol men who would not dare take an open hand in such transactions. The mass of any party is responsible Dr such deeds, continued systematically ; not alone place only, but any where that it is needed ior an object. We can only say in conclusion that this scoundrelisra must stop here. There will bo less or more r*t the next attempt to repeat it. If our elections are to be determined by ruffians, bullies and bruisers, the sooner we know it the better. It is high time we should know w'ho is ready to identity him self with the ruffian and bruiser party, and sit by quietly and see law and decency trampled under foot, and our elections turned into mobs. No wonder men become dis gusted with popular suffrage, and seek refuge from scoun arelism in more formidable weapons than the ballot box. Better have one tyrant than a hundred bruisers and bullies. We give the details elsewhere, and we can’t help it if any one is compelled to blush at the desecration of the assumed name, American. “This will no doubt be treated as a mere trifle in some quarters —a little wrong to be sure—not exactly (justifiable, but then the innocent Americans were very much provok ed at the sight of Dutchmen, and the boys could not be well restrained in their youthful sports. The parties that E reconcerted the whole business will excuse and protect it; ut let all good men of all parties read and reflect.” B. 11. Overby in Columbus. —On Thursday night last Mr. B. 11. Overby, the Prohibition candidate for Governor, addressed a large meeting at Temperance Hall. We go to press in advance of the occasion and must reserve our comments upon the address un til a future issue. Mr. Overby is a man of high char acter and fine talents ; has a noble form and an enga ging elocution, and we wish him God speed in his war upon dram shops and dram drinking, but whether his plan of legal reform is the best is very questionable. Mr. CRisr in Coi.umbus.— Concert Ilall will be opened to-night and to-morrow night for the laßt time this season by Mr. Crisp aud his excellent dramatic Company. Match in the Dark , and Cross of Gold , are the pieces selected for this evening’s entertainment. Mrs. and Mr. Crisp, Mrs. and Mr. Rea, Miss Jessie Crisp, and Messrs. Morton and Chippendale are the dramatis persona. Mrs. and Mr. Rea are just from the Charleston and Savannah theatres where they made a most favorable impression. Mrs. Crisp makes her first appearance in Columbus this season to-night. Her success upon the Charleston boards was most decided. In genteel comedy her equal has never appeared iu Columbus. The re-appearance of Mr. Crisp in Columbus is most kind, and we hope our community will show their ap preciation of his efforts to contribute to their amuse ment by filling the Hall to its utmost capacity. The lovers of good tnusio are promised a rich treat. Various popular ballads will be sung by Mr. and Mrs. Rea and Miss Jessie Crisp. [From the Hartford Times.] State Know Nothing Council in Connecticut. Norwich, May 11,1855. The State Council of Connecticut have been in session here this week. It commenced on Tuesday, at Uncas Ilall. The important question was presented of abolishing the recresy of the order, and organizing in an open manner, as other parties do. The proposition was defeated, and the secret plan is to be continued. As an example ot the operation of the secret wires of the Know Nothing organization in Connecticut, I will state to you the results of the proceedings of the State Council in relation to the members of Council No. 147, of Lyme, numbering about 75 voters. Council 147 was charged with having voted for the Hon. Samuel Ingham for Governor, and their charter was revoked. So you see that there can be no independence on the part of a voter who belongs to this order. His conscience and his rights as a freeman are in the keeping of other hands. State President Sperry was here, and 135 delegates out of COO w-ho were entitled to seats. The State Council holds its quarterly meetings on the se cond Tuesdays of May, August, November and February, the latter being the annual meeting. The quarterly pass lor this quarter, is “Connecticut—Our Homes.” Lynching a Catholic Priest. Atrocious Outrage. —lt is seldom we have to record so diabolical an act as was perpetrated on Sunday by some scouivdrels on the road to Dog river. It appears that the proprietors of the Dog River Factory had given a piece of ground on which has been erected a building for school and religious purposes. The services have been occasionally supplied lor some time past by Catholic priests fiom the Spring Hill College. The Rev. Father Nashon has for the last eighteen months, been in the habit of officiating at this chapel. On Sunday morning last, while in his buggy on the road to the Factory, and about a mile from it. lie was stopped by four men, they enquired if he was a Catholic priest, being answered in the affirmative, thoy desired him to get out ot his buggy. The Rev. Father thinking their manner suspicious, hesitated a moment, but on reflecting that sonto person might be sick and in need of his services, he complied. Upon reaching the ground he was seized and dragged off the road into the woods, where he was held by two of the villians, while t lie other two beat him severely, the one with his hsts about his head and face, and the other with a large stick on other parts of his person. Having brutally beaten him iu this manner ono of the four drew out a dirk or bowie knife, and holding it towards their victim, told him, that if he ever attempted to go to the factory for the purpose of preaching, he would ne! that weapon, that the punishment now inflicted, was nothing to what he would stiff r if he persisted in coming down.— They then left him to pursue his way as best lie could.— Bleeding and faint he managed to reach the factory, and it was some time before he was sufficiently recovered to re ; turn home with an escoit which was provided for him. We heard fan evening that the Rev. Father is in a very precarious state, and badly bruised about the head. The police are oil the track, and we hope, that the perpo trators of this outrage on the person of a defenceless and unoffending Minister of God, on his way to perforin the functions of his ministry, will meet the punishment its enor mity demands. — Mobile Register, 15 th.- Miscellaneous News. Columbia, May 10. Postmaster Kendall, of New Orleans, has been held to bail for trial before the U. S. District Court. From St. Louis we learn, that the slander suit of Brick vs. Col. Benton has been decided in favor of Brick, Ver dict, $4,000 for Brick. The case will be carried up to the Supreme Court. Capt. Ingraham, the hero of the Smyrna aiTiir, declines the public dinner tendered him by the citizens of Phila delphia, as business calls him to South Carolina, his uativa Stale. The Know Nothing State Council—Great Excitement —Hard Labor—Doubtful Result. Syracuse, May 10. The Know Nothing State Council is in a tttxe of great excitement on the question of principles. They have been mainly occupied up to this time on the usual amend ment* of their rules, discipline, constitution, ritual, &e., —a very troublesome business. Titty are coming no.v to the question of a platform. Some of the old fog'cs are disposed to dodge it ; but the real Young Americans are iu favor of following ths example of the Fifteenth ward of New York city, in a bold constitutional procla mation, which will hold good in all sections of the Union. The result is said to be doubtful, the rural districts of the western part of the State being a little fishy on the r.e gro question. Ullnian and Bai ker are desirous of doing something that will tell in Virginia, and jerhaps we may ; get it. Some of the imps of Seward are dodging about : the doors. The scenes inside are sublime beyond de- j scription. To the unitiafed they would be fearful to look at, and perfectly incomprehensible. Lock out for a splen did result or a split. It is understood that there was considerable strife las’ i evening, between Young America and the old fogies: j the former getting the best of it.- -N. I". Herald. The Military —The Columbus Light Guards, under the com man 1 of that gallant soldi* r, Lieut. A . H. DeW t , arrived in our city from Camp Thom, on Satu day sf-er noon. escorted by the B’ues and Rtl _*s. We 1 -arn that the L'.ehl Guards were brought in under an “at ohneii!’’ “fro <” or “to” (we didn’t exactly iuid<.rttauu whiel ) he ladies of Montgomery. I>y the bye, we understand tha: •he y> ung lad es couldn’t be induced so look at L 'our boys,'” °n Friday. Nobody but a “Light Gi ard*’ was good enough for them. Well, boys, the Light Guards will Lav* to leave after a while, (though, we should like to have them stay always, if possible) and then who’ll hold the best hand of trumps, oh On yesterday, the Light Guards and Rifles, attended the morning services ut the Baptist church, where their presence, formed a very prominent part of the brilliant coup de'il, which the scene presented. This morning, the Light Guards joined the Blues in a battalion parade, and the and seipline and fine appearance of both these crack corps, excited universal admiration. Mont. Mail, 14th. Camp Thom. —This encampment of the Montgomery Rifles presented a gay scene on Friday last. It was the “festal day’’ of the annual encampment of the spirited and well disciplined company, and great crowds from the city were in attendance. Feastling, dancing, and good cheer of all kinds, were the order of the day, and Capt. Thom, his officers, and the members of the gallant corps vied with each other in ministering to the pleasure of their numerous guests—and so thoroughly did they perform the sell * imposed task, that all came away, at the close of ths j >yous day, with warm and enthusiastic praises upou their lips. The Columbus (Ga.) Light Guards , Lieut. De- Witt commanding, were also the guests of the Rifles on the occasion, and remained such until the breaking up of the encampment on Saturday eveniug, when they march ed into the city aud encamped on the river bank at ‘ Camp Columbus,” below Bcchmer’s Garden. The “Light Guards” is a handsome company, and its true military appearnce and discipline elicited high praise from all who had the pleasure of witnessing its inanamv res. Yesterday the *“L!u?s,” Capt. Owen, had the pleasure of entertaining the Columbus oompany at a collation given by the former at ihtir Armory ; and last eveniug th festivities closed Pwitli a grand ball at Concert Hall, given by our soldiery and citizens in honor of our Colum bus military guests. This morning the “Light Guards” leave for their homes, bearing with them the respect of our community for their gentlemanly conduct during their stay iu our midst. May they have a pleasant trip, and a joyous welcome from their fellow citizens of Columbus. By the way, these military courtesies between the two cities are linking Columbus and Montgomery “by hooks ; of steel,” from which we anticipate many good results— social, commercial, and political.— Mont, Advertiser <J- Gazette, 15 th. _ Two Schooners Sunk by the Keystone State-Loss of Life. The steamer Keystone State, which arrived at Philadel phia Saturday morning, 12th from Savannah, reports that at 10 o’clock 35 minutes Friday night, while coming up the Bay, .he was run into by the schooner Adrian, coal laden, from Philadelphia, bound to Fall River, Mass.— The Adrian sunk in fifteen minutes after she coma in collision with the steamer. The Keystone State imme diately lowered a boat and picked up three of her crew, viz : Warren Small, first mate; Oliver Clark, seaman; and John Rodriguez, seaman. The captain and cook are supposed to have been lost, as the Keystone State saw no trace of them after the schooner struck. Their names are George B. Matlette, captain, and Prince A. i/ovel, cook. At 2 o’clock Saturday morning, ofTßombay Hook, tho Keystone State was again run iuto by the schooner Little Tom of Millford, Delaware. The Lttle Tom filled with water immediately and floated off. The steamer lowered a boat and saved her crew, which consisted of five indi* viduals. The injury sustained by the Iv-ystone State is very sight. “In the Midst of Life we are in Death.” j We are pained to announce the death, after a protract | ed and wearying illness, of Mrs. Elizabeth W., consort of IMaj. John Hart, an old and esteemed citizen of this place. Deceased was born in Providence Rhode Island, but tor the last 25 or 30 years was a resident of the South. She Iwas a consistent member of the Episcopal Church for the last 2 or 3 years of her life, and her high-toned, vet am r iable Christian deportment endeared her to ail her numer • ous acquaintances, who, with the large and interesting family she left, mourn her loss.— Evfaula True Whig, ! m m Later from California. New Orleans, May 14. The steamship Prometheus ‘ has arrived at this port from San Juan with advices from San Francisco to the 24th u!t. There is, however, very little news by this ar rival. The U. S. Land Commissioners have confirmed Waber’s.claim to eleven square leagues on which the city of Stockton stands. Two failures had taken place, viz: Jose Duncan for SBO,OOO, and Geo. B. Upton lor SIOO,OOO. Business was dull. Saunders, the forger, had escaped from San Francisco in a vessel bound to Cliinr. Abbeville— The Calhoun Family. The editors of the Abbeville Banner are engaged in furnishing their readers with sketches of the early history of that District, and have given many interesting aud sugges tive details. From a late notice ot the “Long Cane Set tlement,” we extract a lew particulars, relating chiefly to the Calhoun family. The immediate predecessor of our late Senator, a re* reser.tative of the Congressional District of Edgefield, Ab beville, and Lexington, was Col. Joseph Calhoun, a son of VVm. Calhoun, who was ono of the emigrants from Pennsylvania, and a brother of Patrick Caihotin. In ref erence to the election of 1810, which first ushered John C. Calhonn into Congressional life, the sketch before us re marks: “Col. Joseph Calhoun was then an oid man, and was desired by his family to decline a re-election, in favor of Ins young kinsman, whose extraordinary talent, together with bis peculiar views in relation to the difficulties then pending between the United States and Great Britain, had made him a favorite and rising man. lie refused indig nantly, however, to yield his place in this tame way to the pretentious youngster—ventured upon a contest with him and was defeated in 1810, tho commencement of John C* Caihoun’s public career ” Patrick Calhoun, the father of the great Senator, was elected one ot the associate district Judges for Abbeville,on the first restoration of civil order and legal process, after the revolution. His colleagues were Richard Rapley,(Rapel je,) and Dr. John De La Howe, the founder of the Do La Ilowe Agricultural School, which is now in successful op eration under the supervision of the Abbeville delegation as a Committee of the Legislature. The conditions of tiie foundation, wo believe, limit the school to twelve bene j fieiaries of each sex. j Os Patrick Calhoun, the following sketch is given: “lie . was rather below the medium height, squarely and ■ Jy built, slow and deliberate in speech, cautious in deciding, i but indomitable in action The rapaid utteream eso char j acteristic of the Senator, he inherited from the more nor ! votis temperament of the Caldwells.” | He continued in his judicial office until his death, which j occurred in l?9fi A monument was erected over his grave, j in 1844, by his distinguished son, who was then the only j survivor of a family of five—the only sister, .Mrs Wad • de'l, having died in early womanhood, while the brothers i all reached three score or more.— Charleston Courier. A Riot Among the Students —The Lebanon (N. II.) Whig has an account of a riot at Hanover between the ! students ol Dartmouth College and the cadets of the Nor wich Military School. Itseeinsthat some difficulty had occurred wherein the cadets felt themselves insulted, and crossed the river in skiff? to seek redress. Tiie college mu dents met them promptly,and quite a battle ensued,iu which the cadets were vanquished by the superior numbers of the students. Finding themselves worsted, the cadet- drew their knives and pistols, and were about to wage deliberate war, when the officers of the college interferred. Moan while the college boys set the boats adriit. and thus cut off all letieat to the cadets, who were obliged to travel along distance, to regain the western shore ol th< river. The mat ter is to be investigated. “■A 1 oire from the Past” — What John Raxdomi Ihocsht.”—“l have been the steady, firm, constant and strenuous advocate, to the best of my poor ability, of the oppressed people of Ireland. In the course of my not uneventful life, 1 have seen many things—l havesee a blaek swan—but I have never yet seen that rara avis in territ, ail Irish Tory, or the man who has seen one ’’—John Ra.vdolpu. Z. Lie ton tli in 7 czeusell paragraph proc aimin o the opp.-.Mtion of this venerable etaic-inan to the election of Hftnry A. \Vi.*e. was paraded in the columns of the Richmond I enny Fust u lew weeks ago We have h*-en aum ‘i tically ir.iotmed on the subject, and t;-ke picture in ratltug iiie ni'-reptes-'iirati-.n to the counter. Gov. Taze we iis still tree to the Democratic faith as the need] •to me. pole. He detests the principles and prejudice* of the Know No’ lung organization, and is and cply interested in the wedaie ol Mr. V* iso, as well as in the issue ol the inv end ing gubernatorial election %-Norfolk News. Arrival of the Empire City. LATER FROM CALIFORNIA. Accident to the Steamer Golden Gate. LATER FROM HAVANA. _ c ~ _ New Orleans, May 11. The U. S. steamship Empire City, has arrived from New York via Havana, at which latter port she received the California mails to the 17tb, and South American advices to the latest date. Accident to the Golden Gate.— The Pacific mail steam ship Golden Gate, which left San Francisco on the 17th ult. with the mails, 750 passengers and Sl,* 10,000 in gold struck a sunken rock, on the night of the 28th, off the Is land ot Quibo, [about two hundred miles from Panama i Tho “Gate” was going at full speed, but Capt. Watkins succeeded in getting her oil and so far stopping her leakage as to get her within three or lour miles of Panama when he was compelled to beach her on tho small island of Tericho The passengers remained on board until taken off by the steamer John L. Stephens, of the same line, which carried them to the city, where they landed on the 3d, and cross ing the isthmus to Aspinwal), where those bound to New * a? ’ n ok P assa S e on tho connecting steamer, Illinois Ihe 1 anama, a reserve steamer, lying in the harbor of Panama, had gone to the relief of the “Golden Gate”— and such strong hopes were entertained ol saving her al though the tide ebbs nnd tiows through her——tfiflt it was supposed she would be prepared to leave Panama for San * rancisco with passengers from the Atlantic, on the sth. California News. —Latest advices state that copious rains had been tailing in the neighborhood of San Fian cisco. The Mines. —The California mines were producing well, and a better feeling in general confidence aud mone tary aflairs was gradually returning. The Legislature. —The Legislature of the State, it was supposed, would adjourn on the 30th ult. In the meatimo, it had been agreed upon to again make an effort, on the 23d,t0 electa United States Senator, to fiil the vacancy oc casioned by expiration of the term of Dr. Gwinn. Presidency of Liberia.—The Presidential election iu Liberia was to have taken place on the first instant. Presi dent Roberts had declined a re-election. Edward J. Roye and Stephen A. Benson were the opposing candidates.— Roye, some ten years ago, was a barber at Terro Haute, Ind., and on emigrating to Liberia became a successful merchant at Monrovia. He has been a member and speak er of the House of Representatives of that Republic, was a candidate two years ago for tho Presidency against Rob erts, and is now editing and publishing a paper in that coun try. He is said to be a pure African. Benson emigrated to Liberia when a child. He is the principal merchant at Ba3sa Cove; has filled the office of Judge ot one ot the highest Courts of Liberia, and is now Vice President of the Republic. He is represented as a man of talent, and of great popularity. D. J. McCord, Ksq., a prominent citizen of Columbei (S. C.) and ason-iu-law, we believe, of the venerabl eJudga Chevee, dUd on Saturday last, lie was one of the co* editors of Nolt 6c McCord’s Reports, so well known to lawyers. Rights of Neaulrals—Decision of the Attorney General. —The Attorney General of the United States, in regard to Americans purchasing vessels of any of the belligerant European Powers, has decided that, according to the law of nation, a citizen of the United States may, at this time, lawfully purchase a Russian merchant ship of either of lhe belligerents, Turky, Russia, Great Britain, France or Sardinia ; if purchased bona fide, such ship becomes American property, and entitled as such to the protection and the flag ol the United States ; and although she cannot take out a register by our law,l yet that is be cause she is foreign-built, not because she is belligerant built, and she eau obtain a register by special act of Con gress. The Rev. C. B. Parsons, D. D , of the Methodist Epis copal Church, South, has resigned his ministry in Louis rille, to take charge of the Independent Methodist church in Cincinnati, at a *aiary. of $2,500 per rear. Mr. Morse, U. S. District Attorney ‘for Lonisianin, account of his hav!?Tg been superseded in | the prosecution of Postmaster Kendall, by the order of ’ Attorney General Cushing. Two Estimable Citizens Gone. — Montgomery ha lost two of her most estimable citizens iu the death of William Bell and T. T. lLolt—both of whom died on Sunday. Mr. Bell, who was the father of Messrs. W. U. A r .A. I ! R. Bell, had readied a ripe old age [S3 years.) and had been gradually failing for several years. A severe at.*/ protracted attack last year well nigh prostrated him, from f which he never recovered. He was a native of Virginia ; j where, too, he resided til! the last ten years, which ever* | spent in our city. A more agreeable old gentleman cev. er lived in our midst. He was buried yesterday with | Masonic honors. Mr. flolt died after a short illness, r.rul leave* a large j family and numerous friends to mourn h s loss, lie was : originally from Georgia, whence he emigrated to Mobile about 1819, and became among the earliest commission ; merchants of that citv. I D had resided iu this city since i 1842. At the time of his death he was City Treasurer. ■ His quiet unassuming manner, and strict devotion to b | s’ness, won the respect and friendship of at!. - Adv. J ---* Gazette, 15 th. | ’ _ Anniversary Meetings in New York. The American Anti-Slavery Society—the G;.rriseni*n i abo! itiou party—held its second dav’s .‘.pniversary strsu ”• !at the Free Will Baptist Church, Sullivan sited. Ti.c j attendance at both morning and evening st ssh m wrs j very thin. The day was spent in the most filiation! m I contemptible discussion in r< ferenee to the proposition t > ; dissolve the Union and establish r Northern *"htVu,i;** ; t on. In point of modern!ion arid good s< use *Le colon > speakers stood in strong contrast to the wild, absurd, ar.<i ranting orators of the white race, who exhibited on fiat j occasion. f I be New Imk Bt:fe Colonization Society ec-ciaak-d the first exercises ot its first anniversary in the Reformed i Dutch Church, Lafayette place, last evening, before & : crowded audience lUv Dr Gourlev made an opening address, in wh'eh be denounced fie seditions and disuu ’> harangues of the abolitionist orators during die week, 1 s calculated to injure the causes of the colored man, and alienate the feelings *<!’ nil hum; ne .southerners from th© causa of Abioau colonization. Rev. Mr. P at *y, return* i from his fourth voyjige to Liberia, interested the sooie’ intensely with a vivid description of the actual state of the settlers in the colony. Their wan's, fault?, progress, and capabilities were pointedly alluded to, and the *1; n set's attending the acclimation of the colored imn from the United -States rot concealed. The building of beta r depots for the reception of trn grants on binding,and tiie cultivation of a healthy American trade wit’, the coast, ko looked on r*s the only mums of salvation o’ Africa no'.v. The finance? wi re reported good. It. appeared from t'-•* annual r* port that the Britsh government h.-al preset ;-*i the republic with a vessel of war, aud Nnjxdceu 111. i . . #ent*une thousand s'nnn of unit- w ill aeCoutic-inHUs. At the National Gamed of c**loid r<?so!mi< i ■> were adopted appointing a Committee- t<> aid color*, and you ill obtaining instr■uctiou.s met !iau; < ; id*<* i>c;*n Tun - ing exertion* to count*.ra< t the efforts* f* the Odotiizatict* bocieti. J red. J)<>ug!ass presented reports upon the * • uca!ionul privileges, the religions t nd benevolent soon ‘its. and the number of median cs among the color.d pe< pe. The proceedings ‘were* conducted with decorum, v. hi* ii miy beaccountel for by the fa A that Fred, ani on tr two otheis transit ted all the business. Ih Duel between Gumming and McDuffie. . writer in the GharLston Mer. urv. j dint leg out the in accuracies of Sabine’s account of'the duG bt-; * > these distinguished gent'tincn, m. rtions the c-ircumsi - Ctsof their recon -Lia- on previous* to tie and ih il McDuffie. M a tmo'.e tuo l-.dlo.ving pir g/aph ito a ‘- •> communication : Mr. Sabine has erred in ad op irg at vof • !.- *Ui .-r ’ of fa Did antagonist newspapers t th • t.m-, or j?, ing those only of one side. If tie Giorgu pr .nf ■ to ridicule McDuffie, that .)<* Son h OioVmu - tuned b tjorapliment, in kind, to Omening. No‘o.i\ m.d hafdly then, ever supju sed e;l ■ r f the cm. h 1 ; ! s to oowardly, or that McDuflie or Ciuomhjg pro c .and i - ; though some of the priKetdmgs v.-re t. > m much diplomatic diseu-sion—ti,. n.-u::, re.d‘y, of. ti >;.> cable solicitude, uj th - part of their ro; •;■ lri t .d*, to mitigate as much as powdbV, the dang- rs of lbs ; fc . o: wo such eminent persons. Cutuming is a m lives—of the higfntt rank for t.U :t aid elntrantct n Georgia. McDuffie’s reputation is too w : | kn> v a r comment, They nut. first, at the “Slst, rs’ l\-t: v,* ! in