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COLUMBUSGEORGIA
FRIDAY MORNING, SEPT, 21, 1855.
FOR GOVERNOR.
IIERBCHEL V. 4011 \SO\.
• FOR CONGRESS.
l>t District.-James L. Seward, of Thomas*
. *,* M. J. Crawford of Muscogee,
3d. “ * James M. Smith, of Upson.
I Hiram Warner, of Meriwether.
f*th ** Jno. If. Lumpkin, of Floyd.
Oth “ Howell Cobh, ol Clarke.
7th l.intongStephens, of Hancock.
Bth “ A. 11. Stephen**, of Taliaferro.
MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
FOR THE SENATE.
ALEXANDER J. ROBISON,
FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
JOHN B. DOZIER.
GEORGE J. PITTS.
Win • L. Yancey m Columbus.
Avery large and enthusiastic meeting of citizens was
held at Temperance Hall, in the city of Columbus, on
the night of the 18th inst., to hear an address from
the Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama, upon the
current political issues.
Mr. Yancey commenced his speech by calling special
attention to the fact that while the public mind of the
South is now intensely excited and divided upon po
litical issues, there was, twelve months ago, almost en
tire unanimity of sentiment among us. He then has
tily reviewed the contest of 1850 and showed that the
Southern Rights party, being defeated upon the issue of
secession, had fallen back upon the line of the -Georgia
Convention, which accepted the Compromise Measures
as a final adjustment of the slavery question, but had
determined to resist, as a last resort, even to disruption
of the Union, any further aggression upon the consti
tutional rights of thef'South. He then reviewed the ac
tion of the State Convention of the Georgia Democrat
cy which assembled at Milledgeville on the sth June
last,-and showed that it had. fully appreciated the posi
tion of affairs North and South ; had laid aside, for the
sake of Southern Union, all old party issues; had taken
position upon the Georgia Platform ; and had pledged
the party to cut off* all connection with every man and
party, North or South, that would not come up fairly
and squarely to this line of political action. “Since
1848,” said Mr. Yancy, “I have been out of the com
munion of the Democratic pat ty, because it would not
take higher ground on the slavery question than was
demanded by the pressing exigencies of the immediate
oooasion. The Georgia Democratic State Convention
has fully and fairly met the issue, and I am happy to
find myself again in alignment with my old party
friends.” This announcement was received with tre
mendous applause by theaudience, which was re-doubled
tieme and again as the brilliant orator analysed the
Platform of the Georgia Democracy and allowed that it
fully covered the whole ground of controversy between
the North and the South and held out the only hope of
saving the Union and, it that was impossible, of saving
the imperiled rights of the South. In this connection
he paid a merited tribute to these National Democrats
who alone were making a stand for constitutional gov
ernment, at the North, an<f with most convincing pow
er urged upon Southern men the duty of cutting loose
from all other parties and coming to their resoue upon
the Platform of the Georgia Democracy.
He next ealled attention to the fact that on the same
day the Georgia Democracy met in Convention there
was an assemblage of men from all parts of the Union
at Philadelphia under a strange name which had erect
ed another Platform in which were enunciated strange
doetrins alien alike to the feelings, principles aud pledges
of the people of Georgia, lie then reviwed the Phila
delphia Platform at length and showed conclusively that
its principles were utterly inconsistent with those enun
ciated in the Georgia Platform : Ist. The Philadelphia
Platform regarded the union of the States as the para
mount political good ; The Georgia Platform regarded
the Union as secondary to the rights it was intended to
protect. He entered into a philological criticism of the
language used iu the Philadelphia Platform and showed
that, by the use of the definite article the and the word
paramount , the Philadelphia Convention inteuded
to hold up the Union as a fact, whether constitutional
or not, as the chief political good. 2d. The Georgia
Platform asserted for the States the sole power of de
termining upou their reserved rights as well as of the
mode and measure of redress for their violation ; and
especially upon the subject of slavery, had determined
that there should be no more compromises : The Phila
delphia Platform asserted the heretical doctrine, that all
political diftereuces'which threaten the integrity of the
Union must bo settled by “equitable adjustment,” and
in case of failure, then of unqualified submission to the
laws until “they are either repealed or declared uncon
stitutional by the proper authority which is declared
in the 4th article of the Philadelphia Platform to be the
“judicial power of the United States,” or the Supreme
Court, Mr. Yancey here went into an elaborate argu
ment to show the absurdity of submitting questions of
State sovereignty, which were reserved to the States as
against the Federal Government Lself, to a creature of
the Federal Government, which was itself a creature
of the States ; and appealed with telling effect to the
history of Georgia, which gallant Stats had three times
asserted her sovereign rights against the encroachments
of Federal power. He also ridiculed the idea of ad
justing constitutional differences between the North and
the South by “equitable adjustment” when the umpire
is Congress, whose Northern majority had inflicted
the iujury out of whioh the differences arose.
Atter the analysis*ot the two Platforms of which we
have given a megre outline, he asked, with startling
emphasis, why Georgians had left the Georgia Platform
to maintain which they had not only pledged their own
honors, but the honor of Georgia, and gone upon the
Philadelphia Platform the whole object of which is to
preserve the Union at al! hazards and thereby commit
ted themselves to “opposition to all attempts to Weaken
or subvert it’ and “uncompromising antagonism to every
principle or policy that endangers it ?” But we have
no room■*to follow the able and eloquent pratur further
in his splendid address. It was listened to with pro
iound and earnest attention by one of .the largest au
diences ever assembled in Temperance Hall, and is
universally regarded as one of the ablest arguments yet
made in this city in defence of the 2jvat _ principles for
which ths Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing party
is contending. A chain *>f missive logio connected eve
ry sentence the earnest orator uttered, but it was com
posed of golden links set with jewels. He looked at
the politico! itsues of the ’day from the stand point of
southern patriotism and was forced to condemn the
to Ca !tf d American party a# anti Republican and anti-
Soutberu. He treated the foreign and catholic ques
tions as mere abstractions, of no political value to the
South. His whole Speech glowed with a spirit of devo
tion to constitutional and Southern Rights, and was
commended lo the hearts of his hearers not less by its
courteous tone, than by its deep earnestness and glow
ing eloquence. ‘lt was worthy of the man and of the
occasion.
Sale of Cars upon the state Koatl.
Every body at all acquainted with the conduct ul
Tennesseeans towards the State Road, must be aware that
they leave no effort untried to make money out of it.
The Legislature of Tt-nntssee has actually passed a law
allowing her citizens to sue the State of Georgia in the
Tennessee Courts upon all claims against the Georgia
State Road. Under this law certain citizens of Ten
nessee rteently recovered judgment against the Slate ot
Georgia and, we presume, without any demand tor the
money from the public authorities, caused a levy to be
made upon certain stock cars which were lying idle on
the upper part of the Road. As soon as th3 notice
was received of the levy by the officers of the State
Road, the money was promptly sent to a local agent
who bid the cars in for the State of Georgia, and they
are now in the possession of the offices ol the Road.
We give these facts upon the authority of Messrs. Rug
gles & Howard, of the Atlanta Intelligencer , whose
veracity not even a Know Nothing will dare to ques
tion. And thus ends another of the slauders against
Governor Johnson. What next ?
The Atlanta Intelligencer closes as follows, a capital
article upon the management of the State Road :
“There is now on hand, or at call, between §BO,OOO
and SIOO,OOO of earnings of the State Road. Every
just demand against the Road can be met at the short
est notice, and as to outstanding bonds not due, il the
great Know Nothing financier, Judge Andrews, will
tell us how to make capitalists surrender such seeuri
ties, whether they will or not, it may be possible we
can quiet his alarms upon the question of the ways and
means.
“This incessant gabble about the State Road has
come to be a contemptible boro. Not one in a huudred
of those who make most noise over it know what they
are talking about, aud as for Judge Andrews we doubt
if he has capacity even to learn any thing about it.”
Since the foregoing was in print, the letter ot the Su
perintendent of the State Road came to band, to which
we refer those of our readers who still have doubts on
the subject, and also upon the of Gover
nor Johnson to bribe Maj. John H. Howard by selling
him a lot of old iron ! It will be fouud in another
column.
Election Tickets !
Send in your orders early, and let no precinct go
without a bountiful supply of tickets. Appoint in each
district distributors that you can rely on, and all will be
well. We will fill orders at the following rates ;by the
100 to 300, 50 cents per hundred ; 1000 for $3 ; 2000
for $5.
O’ The cash must accompany the otder.
Massachusetts Democratic Convention.
The Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts,
was in session in Worcester last week. The Conven
tion uomiuated Erasmus D. Black, for Governor, and
Caleb Stetson for Lieutenant Governor. Both of these
gentlemen were strong opponents of the election of
Charles Sumner to the United States Senate. The
resolutions adopted approve the administration of Presi
dent Pierce, denounce the Know Nothings, and recog
nize the principle of popular sovereignty in the territories
as follows:
Resolved, That we are in favor of the great doctrine of
popular sovereignty for Territory and for Stale, and are
opposed to all violations of it, whether- by the unjust action
of abolitionists ot the free Stales, or by border aggiessions
irorn the slave States.
GOVERNOR JOHNSON VINDICATED !
THE STATE ROAD.
We call particular attention to the following correspon
dence. It is a full and pet feet vindication of Governor
Johnson, against the petty calumnies, which have come
swarming into existence at the close of the campaign.—
Read and circulate! Read and circulate! Let the people
see the truth, and the slanderers be confounded.
MACON, Sept. 18,1855.
Dear Sir :—As various repojts are circulated through
the Newspapers aud elsewhere, in regard to the sale of old
iron of the Western & Atlantic Road, and also as to
the levy and sale of the Cars of the Road recently at Chat
tanooga, and as these revolts reflect injuriously not only
upon Gov. Johnson but also upon yourself, as the Superin
tendent of the Road, will you do me the favor to state
she facts of each case that the truth maybe known and
published in regard to both.
Very respectfully,
Y our Ob’t Serv’t,
W. K. DeGRAFFENREID.
Macon, Sept. 18, 1855.
i My Dear Sir .-—I have seen the allegations to which
! you refer, and scarcely thought them worth notice, but as
i you think they may be exercising an injurious etlect, 1 take
pleasure in giving you the tacts.
Thcßails which we are now taking up betweenßesaca and
i Dalton, were sold to the highest bidder, Maj. J. H. liow
j ard. I had several other propositions, but none so high as
j his. ltisjtrue that itdFeoruary, 1854,1 wrote to Mr. Wells,
Engineer of the Thomaston Railroad, that 1 would hear
trom him before l made the sale. When we were ready
to take up the Rails I opened a correspondence with some
Iron dealers relative to the purchase of these Rails, but l
received only a lew distinct propositions. 1 recollect now
only two besides Maj. Howard. One was from Mr. T.
R. Bloom who bid S2O per ton, the other was from Mr. J.
F. Mims, who first bid sl6 50 and afierwards 1 think $lB.
Maj. Howard’s bid was $25 payable in Columbus bonds, or
$22 50 in cash. Mr. Wells accompanied Maj. Howard
to Atlanta, and before closing the trade I reminded Mr.
Wells of the promise I made him for the Thomaston Com
pany. He seemed to attach no importance to it, and I
supposed that their project for a Railroad had been aban
doned. Gov. Johnson knew nothing ot my promise to the
Thomaston Company. -I alone am to blarne for overlook
ing them as I did. As soon as Maj. Howard returned to
Columbus, 1 received a letter from Mr. J. D. Gray offer
ing S4O per ton for the Riils delivered in Atlanta—this of
ter it appears was for the Thomaston Company. The very
high price offered for old Rails which have been used lor
eignt years under a heavy trade, aud the time of the oiler,
being wijhin three days after I had closed with Maj. How
ard, gave it the appearance of a political manoeuvre under
taken for the injury of Gov. Johnson. Why did they
want to buy oid Rails at S4O, when new ones could be
bought at SSO? the last being mo, price paid for those we
are now laying down, and why were they silent for eigh
teen months, to make’ their application within three days
alter the sale had beeu effected ? I have since learned that
Gen. Mims was acting in behalf of the Thomaston Com
pjany, which, it true, leaves them nothing to complain of
tor nbtnade two bids, but under the price which the sale
was effected. But be this as it may, I only an* to blame',
the Governor knew nothing of the previous correspondence
with the Thomastbn Company, and 1 had forgotten it un
til 1 saw Mr. Weils, iheir Engineer, in company with \laj
Howard at Atlanta.
Now, as to the sale of cars. Several judgments were
obtained against the Road in Tennessee, on account of
claims instituted in 1852 and 1 made arrangements which I
thought would prevent the issuance of executions—never
theless one of the creditors did issue,and levy was njadeupon
fiitoen stock cars standing on,the track out of use, at Chat
tanooga —they Wont to sale, and were bid in for our Road,
by a gentleman who was requested to act for us. We paid
tire money in two or three days afterwards—ihe cars never
left our tracks —never went out ot our possession oneme
meiß and the Road lost nothing by the transaction but
Sherift'a Commission on §1601).
Very re;pectfully,yonfQb't. Serv t.
JAMES F. COOPER.
Superintendent of the W. & A. Rad road.
The Southern Times. —We have heretofore called
the attention of our readers lo this admirable literary
paper. The presence of one of the accomplished Edi
tors, William Preston Hilliard, Esq., in our city,
affords a good opportunity for our cultivated classes to
put themselves in connection with the best weekly
journal of literature and news published in the United
States.
Richmond County Nominations. — h or Senate Alex.
C. Walker; for the House, William A. Walton, and
Geo. T. Barnes.
A Candidate lor C ongress raised ‘•clean” out
ol his Boots.
Messrs. Editors At Pataula on the 13th inst., .
Judge Crawford and Col. Hawkins were expected to
meet in discussion. The Democracy served up a fine
Barbecue and dinner for their standard bearer. The
Know Nothings were solicited to contribute but refused.
A delegation came over from Bumbleton, in Stewart,
with a banner. They formed a procession at Shipp’s
grocery, and marched up to the grove near the Church
where five or six hundred Democratic ladies and gen
tlemen awaited the speakers. A Know Nothing dem
ocrat bore the banner. He was followed by Col. 11.
and 124 live Know Nothings, all told. The banner
was placed on the stand, and Hawkins commenced bis
“splurge.’’
lie was rather bitter against the “Times & Sentinel’’
because it published an extract from the South West
ern Neios reeferring to Jack Shine and other
gentlemen to prove that he [Hawkins] told them
that be would have voted against the Nebraska bill.
We don’t blame him for that because he knows
it will “hurt” smartly with all true Southern
men. He said something about an anonymous writer
who was stabbing him in the dark through the “Times
& Sentinel.’’ Denied some things contained in his
communication which we understand could have been
proven on him by forty gentlemen then present. He
then dashed off’ and repeated things that vve have seen
in reported speeches of his ever since the canvass com
menced.
He occasionally put in a little rhetoric. Here is a
sample. Pointing to the banner he said, “that tri-colored
flag waves over the land of the brave and the homes of
the free again he would talk about the bird of Ame
rica “flopping his golden pinions.” The latter made
us think of the story of this same bird “dabbing
down on daddy’s wood pile.’’
, Judge Crawford arose in reply aud in a
few minutes put out all his tracks and got the
“grin” of the audience. They supported him vocifer
ously the whole way through. He pointed to their ban
ner and asked them if it was the one they pointed to in
their Council when they swore their liberties away ?
He wondered that deep shame had not struck them
dumb when they pointed to th*t flag in such solemn
mockery. That flag was borne in the Revolution and
secured to us civil and religious liberty, liberty of the
press and liberty of speech. Their Order swore much
of this away. If they voted against him in October,
he wanted them to do as they had done in Muscogee—
j throw off the cover and meet him at the polls as free-
men.
lie asked Col. 11. where he got his authority for
stating that Irishmen deserted our army in Mexico be
cause it was a Catholic country.
Mr. Hawkins.—From an English history of the Mex
ican War.
Mr. Crawford.—l thought it ought to have been
from the pen of an Englishman. England had trod
den Belaud down beneath the iron heel of oppression
for centuries. He did not wonder, judging from the
past, that they would wish to persecute them even in
the uttermost parts of the earth. Probably the same
spi it that dictated that assertion of an Englishman
murder* and Emmet and banished the Mitchells aud
O’Briens : was that same which had attempted to
crush out that “love of liberty and hatred of oppres
sion’’ which has ever animated the bosom of an Irish
man. He could say this, that where his competitor
could point to one Irish deserter he could point to ten
thousand faithful ones, that have fought nobly under our
banner from the death of Montgomery down to the
days of Shields and Patrick Leonid, before the walls
of Mexico. Ha could point him to the thousands* of
i Irish in the Pennsylvania regiment in the days of the
! Revolution and to the Catholic Irish of Philadelphia
j who contributed nearly $300,000 to the support of our
| half starved and naked soldiers tracking the snow with
blood under Washington when he could get aid from
no other quarter. This money has never been refun
j ded to this day. Jack Randolph said he bad heard of
that rara avis called the black Swan, but had never
heard of an Irish tory.
lie drew an amusing figure of a live Know Nothing
approaching the six signers of the Declaration of In
dependence who were foreigners, and proposing to dis
franchise them and their descendants ; said the scowl
on their faces would make the applicant wish to hide
himself in a hole deeper than he (Hawkins) said John
son was going around the country to call them out of.
He asked how one would have felt in approaching the
framers of the Constitution composed of rnen of all
religious persuasions and asking them to “jine ,r and
strikeout the clause which says there shall be no reli
gious test.He fancied such an one would wish to go in a
boleand “pull the bole in after him,” No man but the
elder Adams dared attempt to extend the naturalization
laws to ft longer period than five years, until this par
ty sprung up Which out federals federalism itself. Jef
ferson advocated the repeal of Adams’ law, and said in
his first annual message that fourteen years was a virtu*
al denial of the right of suffrage to the foreigner.—
This new party is wiser thau their fathers. *’*’
I have written too much now. It would have done
you much good to have heard him answer the portion
of his opponent’s speech abo.ut adding representatives i
yearly to Congress ; the right of a State to regulate
her own voters ; the remedy the Know Nothings pro- ‘
pose to adopt when they oftet* all a “friendly reception
and protection.” lie got in a “weaving way” about 1
this time, and when he touched the abolition prcclivi
ties of the Know Nothings North ; that as much as j
Whigs hated the name Democracy, they must now take
that orDisunion ; that the K. Nothing party now was |
nothing more than a sectional party because they had
no men to co operate with them North ; [ thought “raly” 1
that he would raise his vanquished competitor out of I
his boots.
Col. Hawkins concluded in a half hour. The Know
Nothing endeavored to get up a yell but von could see
it was not heartfelt.
I hey were invited cordially to participate with the
Democrats in dinner. When they had feasted, instead
of remaining aud hearing another discussion they found
an excuse that they had not beeu iuviud with due for
nudity, took tbeir banner, leaving two thirds of the
crowd behind, who were Democrats, ard retired to the
grocery. They feared the fire of Col, Kiddoo,
Set Randolph down to the Democrat? by a banS -i
majority. j
Fat avi. a. |
For the Times & Sentinel.
Messrs. Editors:—! see that the Know Nothing Coun
cil in Cohmibus is formally dissolved, and many like ex
plosions I have noticed with great pleasure— upon which
occurrences a minister ol the gospel to make a
remarks.
1. They deserve no credit lor this abandonment o
secrecy, seeing by the public indignation that such claiming
and swearing could not be tolerated, especially in the
South. The whole affair had been revealed and no one
had the boldness to deny the correctness of the exposition,
and it looks very much like a .man’s turning State s evi
dence, after being detected in their crimes, to con less.
2. Did the council unsware or absolve their members? If
| they did, this looks very much like the dispensing power cl
I the Pope— if they did not.it is ridiculous to talk about
1 abandoning secrecy, oaths, &c., as they pretend. T hey
■ can’t escape this diiemma, I think. Let them try.
3. I seethe Council in Washington, Wilks Cos., (called
| Dickinson—oh what a blunder in the name!) have dissolv
-1 ed, and actually publish to the world, as a record of their
i guilt and shame, “that secret oath bound political societies
| are anti republican.” Well,gentlemen, you have confessed
i your sins at last, and boldly. This is exactly what we told
! you all the while. Garnett Andrews, I presume, was a
member of that Council which has now declared itself
anti-republican, and I should like to know how he can
expect any republican to vote for him, after this humilia
j ting confession of his own town council? He had better
give up now.
Let the people remember the fact. 1 suppose they broke
up voluntarily and confessed guilt, rather than to endure the
wrath of Mr. Toombs, who has just arrived. It is said af
ter Mr. Stephens spoke in Waynesboro’ the order scatter
ed like a tiock of frightened birds. Toombs would have
done the same with that Washington Council, but they
were in such a hurrry they would not give him a chance.
4. They pretend to abandon secrecy, &c. Why have
they waited until just before the election, when, as it is
said, there are more withdrawals than accessions. They
might well quit swearing when there was none to swear.
5. I have just read that the Know Nothings in N. York
—and they brag on New York in Georgia—have formed
another degree called “Templars,” with awful sweating
and a penalty of death. Gentlemen, we have told you
from the first, that this crusade would lead to sad scenes.
Wc prav you to think of such a pitch as this new move,
and, with the Democrats, rally to put down these Jacobin
clubs—these sappers and miners of our civil and religious
liberty. Every Christian, every ’patriot, Southern
man should come to the rescue of our imperiled country.
Thank God, Know Nothihgism can do nothing in the
South. Abolitionism is its appropriate ally, and Yankee
dom its latitude. Now, since every state North—even N.
Yoik and Pennsylvania—have openly repudiated the sla
very plank of their platform, it can no longer be doubted
that the whole affair is ruinous to Southern interests, and
ought to be abandoned instanter. It is cheering to see
while Know Nothings are getting worse, the Northern
Democrats arc bolder in our defense. Let all true States
Lights Southern men sustain them.
Yours, &c., CALHOUN.
For the Times &, Sentinel.
Not Posted.
Coi. Kiddoo.in a speech at Pataula, aroused his audi
ence by relating some unguarded assertions of Willis, A.
Hawkins while on the stump. He said he heard him
make the statement that of the inhabitants of the U. S.
one in four is a catholic. The census says lin 12.
He [Hawkins] said in his speech at Pataula, that there
are more foreign paupers iliati native in the United States,
and Jest the inference that (.their expenses were greater.
The fact of the case, as shown by the Census, is that the
whole number of paupers supported, in whole or in part,
within the year ending June Ist, 1850, was 65,431 native*
aud 68,538 foreign. This led Mr. Hawkins into error. A
majority of, native paupers are supported the whole time ;
the foreign paupers are only supported a few days when
they first land funtil they get employment. Though the
number ol foreign paupers that are supported is great
er than the native for the whole year, yet the average num
ber supported each day of the year, is not one third as
much. Thus on the first day of June, the same table
shows that the number of paupers supported was 36,916
native, and only 13,437 foreign. Take any single day du
ring the year and the proportion will not be greater. For
eign paupers in Georgia and Alabama cost the inhabitants
about a half a mill a year a piece. The same proportion
in most of the Southern States. UxNcle Sam.
From the Georgia Telegraph Extra, of Sept. 19.
The Grand Mass Meeting at Macon.
The Grand Mass Meeting oi’ the Grand American Par
ty, which was announced with such a grand flourish of
trumpets ot this day, has grandly, and gloriously, and
egregiously, and confessedly failed. The procession,
which started out m {font of the Lanier House, numbered
just two hundred and eighty, it was about the length of
an odinary funeral cortege. Garnett Andrews was borne
along by a carriage in the front—the mourners followed in
double file—and it only needed that the band should strike
up the dead march to make the illusion complete. We
are informed that the barbers of the city raised the price of
shaving to 15 cents; in consequence of the unnaturally
long faces which were offered to the razor. We heard a
tew squeaking sounds arise from the procession, which
were probably intended for cheers, but poor Sammy evi
dently has the asthma, and is growing worse rapidly The
crowd had some accessions alterwards, but never rose to
the dignity of a Mass Convention, Five or six hundred at
the veiy freest calculation—and in fact we very much
question whether that number of voters, outside of our own
county population, are in attendance. It is “one very poor
show” and hardly worth a paragraph. The “speaking” is
progressing at the depot, while we write, and the orators
will no doubt prove the existence of a Supreme Being to
the satisfaction of the audience. Good bye Sam! Good
bye, old fellow! Try and keep up your pluck and die
with decency.
Affair of Honor. —Thus. F. Meagher, Esq., the Irish
patriot, had occasion a few days ago to call one of the
distinguished parvcnues of New York, an upper tendom
Fifth Avenue Millionaire, to account for insulting language
to him, the said Meagher, spoken and uttered, and which
his Mile.-ian pluck would not allow him to brook. Mr.
Meagher, placing greater reliance, and finding, we sup
pose, greater congeniality with his own natuie, in Southern
chivalry than in Northern prudence, called into requisition
the services of our senior, Mr. Forsyth, and committed to
him the management ot the affair, involving his honor and
perhaps liis life. We are glad to see by the New York
papers that the matter was settled honorably and amicably
without, as “Ariel” says, a trip to Canada and pistols in
the sharp morning air before breakfast. Our Southern
men have a way of bringing such things to a focus whica
is novel to the inhabitants of the higher latitudes. *loj.
Keg. 13 th.
The Kansas Judiciary.
Washington, Sept. 13.
The President has appointed Stirling G. Cato, of Al
abama, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ivan
sas, in place of Rush Elmore, A. B. Moore having de
clined. lie lias also appointed J- M. Burrjll ot Pa., As
sociate Justice of the same Court, vice Saunders M .
Johnson removed. — N. \ . 1 irnev.
Stirling G. Cato Esq., is a native of Hancock Coun
ty, Ga., but has resided for fifteen years past at Eufaula
Ali., where he has acquired an enviable reputation as
nn amiable geDtlermn and profound lawyer, tie is a
Southern R gists Democrat. We congratulate our es
teemed friend upon bis biushiDg hoDors, aod predict for
him an eminent position upon the bench in his new and
far distan* home. May H raven’s best bless ng* reel
opoit bon.
Maine Election—The Fusion Party No More!
Such is the most gratifying announcement of a Maine
paper, containing returns of the election in that State on
Monday 17th. Tie following is the rtsult lor Governor
60 far as heard from : *
Morrill, Know Nothing Abolitionist it r,u
Wells, Democrat 13 2in
Reed, OldJine Whig * 2
It is evident from this that there is no choice for Gov
ernor by the popular vote. The lower branch ol the I* c *
islature is Demoeratic, which secures the election T.f
Wells. All hail tor Maine ! She has broken the tliackks
in which Know Nothing Abolitionism has bound her and
stands fortii redeemed, disenthralled.
Morrill was a candidate for re election, and supported
by what is called the Fusion or Republican party, un
bracing, says the State of Maine , printed at Portland,
Freesoilers, Whigs, Democrats, Maine Law Advocates
and Know Nothings.
Nicaragua Route-
New York, Sept. 13.
The long-pending difficulty between the Nicaragua
Transit Company and the Pacific Steamship Company
has at length Lten amicably settled. The latter havu
agreed to pay the amount claimed by the former, (about
815,000,) and the following rates of passage money have
teen fixed: From New York to Sau Francisco, steerage
$10J; second cabin $l5O, and 8200 for first cabin
From San Francisco to New York $25 additional to the
above ratts. Steamers to leave San Francisco and New
\ oil. weekly, instead of semi-monthly.
The Plague-Stricken Cities.
Norfolk, Sept. 15.
In this city to-day twenty deaths occurred, and tn
Portsmouth twelve. There ;*re Jtss new cases.
Norfolk, Sept. 18.—The fever is abating and very
few new cases occur.
Relief for Norfolk.
Columbia, Sept, 15.
The collections in this city, thus far. amount to $2,000,
and they will be increased considerably.
More Aid for Norfolk.
New York, Sept. 15.
The general relief committee of this city yesterday au
thorized the remittance of SO,OOO tor the relief oi the Nor
folk sufferers.
From Norfolk.
Baltimore, Sept. 15.
Letters from Norfolk state that the new eases have con
siderably diminished. During the 24 hours ending liotu
yesterday, there were 30 deaths in Norfolk aud 12 iu
Portsmouth. Among the deaths iu the latter place wer*
those of Mr. Bartlett and Miss Patterson, a nurse from
Philadelphia.
Fire in Augusta.
A lire broke out on Monday 17th, ou Calhoun street,
and destroyed property to the amount of about $5900.
Supposed to be the work of incendiaries,
Georgia Railroad stock.
One hundred and thirty-four shares Georgia Railroad
stock were sold yesterday at public auction, by Messrs. C.
E. Girarduy & Cos., aud brought the following prices:
Ten shares $37.75-, ninety shares $35, and thirty-font
shares $95.50. — Con. <j- Rep , 1 0th.
Census of Boston.
Boston, Sept. 15.
The census of the city has just been completed. The
totoi population is 163,000. Os this number >'*,ooo Ri
ot foreign extraction. In addition to the above amount, it
is estimated that men of business iu the city, with ttmr
families, numbering 50,000, reside in the country.
Indian Attack on a .Surveying Party.
We have received advices from Nebraska city to the s tb
inst. Col. Mouuies’ party of Government surveyors was
attacked by a band of Pawnee Loups about thirty nulw
up the I’lat'e River. Col. Monniesand five others readi
ed Nebraska safely, but six others were dispersed and
have not been beard from. A company of fifty men was ;
immediately raised and started in pursuit.
Loss of the Brig Glide with all hands.
East port, Me., Sept. 15.
Thejbrig Glide of Windsor, Ellis, from Glasgow lor
llalif; x, loaded with railroad iron, struck on the Mime
Ledge about the Ist inst., ami sunk. It is supposed 8
hands were lost. Some wreckers with diving bells suo
ceeded yesterday in getting up about twenty tons of tb<
iron.
Western Produce Afloat.
Oswego, Sept. 15.
By reliable data it is ascertained there are now 364,0' 1
bushels of Wheat and about 100,000 Vlo. oi Corn atW
from Upper Lake ports bound here.
I. 0. 0. F.
Baltimore, Sept. !*
The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge <>t the IT'*'’
States of the Independent Order of Odd Fellow* Re
place to day in this city. The officers were installed
elected last year. Nothing else of importance oceumo
Missouri Senator. —The reported election of Senator
Aohisou to the United States Senate, was a hoax plan
off 1 upon the New York Tribune. The Missouri 1 .rn ■
lature is not in session, and will not be for some nioiii.'e
Another Change. — We understand that at a gn
conclave of the Know Nothings, held at (he Bucket ‘r
tory last evening, Andrew J. Miller, Esq., (who sajr
will vote for Stephens and Andrews, men diametric*
opposed to each other on the questions of ihe day, hn
Nothing and anti-known Nothiugism ) has been nomin
ed for Senator from this comity.
Col. John Miliedgehas been dropped a peg. The h i
Nothing ticket, now stands—tor (Senator, A. *l. M •
Representatives, Col. John Milledge and Dr. Barton.
[Augusta Constitutionalist, 1 oik in-*!.
Colored Children in the Boston Public Schools
Among some of the laws passed by the famous legis:*
i of Massachusetts, last winter, was one allowing coi<”
j children to attend the public schools with the w! ile < !■
| dren. This law went into effect recently, and m h
i ton many of the blacks availed themselves oi the pit
lege. Ihe Transcript says they created quite a “sen*
tion” among the white boys and girls, but no violent ii
ife tit ions of dislike were seen. The Post inent urn, •
remarkable part of this new Northern “fusion,” * Pat
Smith (colored) school was neatly depopulated, but.-*
primary school children attending, out of oighlv-itiue o'-n
posing it at last report, and none of the eighty then im
ported in the grammar school.
Sickness iti Effingham. —We arc sorry to learn by
letter from Effingham county, that the typhoid levt-r
prevailing there. A good many are said t<> be down
the disease, and some of the eases are very severe.
- [Nr. Journal,
Crops in Louisiana. —The accounts from every F
of Louisiana are that the recent very heavy rains
injured the cotton crops very seriously.
H'vicft!. — .1 revival has been recently going op
Baptist Church at Atlanta, and forty-th it**’ persons
been added to the Church as its fruits.
Revivals. —We hear of rebgious revivals w vs
sections of the escuoty. The C ntral Georgian sa}
revival oLconsidera’ole extent has been prevailing y
pa6t week at Powelltpu ; the rtsull of an union nn.
begun 3tj 1 carried on conjointly fcv ,v “- ~
Methodint-. This leaves better savor beb u■ ll “
bacuet and m-iss mootings for peH*wal purp *-*•