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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 20, 1855.
The Savannah Republican and the anti-Know
Nothing Whigs.
A short time since, we published an article, Survey
of the Field, in which, after giving a true history of
the action of the Democratic party of Georgia in the
June Convention, and the consequent co-operation of a
large body of the old whig party of the State in the re
centoanvass, we held tliat every citizen, whether he was ,
heretofore classed as a whig or Democrat, who endors- 1
ed the Platform of the June convention, was entitled to
be consulted .as to the future policy of the party, and
especially with reference to the policy of sending dele
gates to the next National Democratic Convention, and
urged upon them the duty of exercising “their rights”
in their premises
Our respected cotemporar’es of the Savannah Re
publican have seen fit to seize upon a paragraph trom
this article and make it the occasion of a homily to the
anti Know Nothing Whigs, tho burthen of which is
that they were sold to the Democracy by their leaders,
and of unmeasured abuse of the Democratic Party.
We may surprise the Savannah Republican by the
declaration that the June Convention inaugurated anew
party in (Jeorgia, which is only so far Democratic as it
was an application of Democratic principles to new
measures of National and State policy, and was compo
sed almost exclusively, but not entirely, of members of
the old Democratic organization. This is no new idea
suggested by the exigencies of the occasion. It was
the view taken >f their action by tho Convention. It
is expressly declared in their preamble that the issues
“involved in questions of national policy, involving the
subjects of finance and taxatiou, and appropriations of
money, and of constitutional power in re.’eence thereto,
which formerly divided Southern Democrats and Sjuth*
ern Whigs, no lunger afford ground for continued sepa
ration and conflict among them and that “now other
questions of practical and paramount importance are
pressing upon the earnest attention of Southern meu,
and are of such a nature as require cordial and frater
nal concert of action among all who concur in senti
ment upon those questions. ’’ The Convention then pro
ceeded to lay down its platform of principles , which,
in brief, was a re assertion of the 4th Resolution of the
Georgia Platform of 1850 J an endorsement of the Ne
braska Kansas act ; unqualified condemnation of the
organization and principles of the Know Nothing order;
the declaration of a fixed and settled purpose to cut off all
party affiliation with every man at the north or elsewhere
that does not come up to thin line of action ; and an ex
pression of confidence in the national Democracy. The
Convention “cordii‘ ,,w arid earnestly invited the co-ope
ration of all citizens ... .eorgia, regardless of all party
destinations, who desire to see this platform of princi
ples established as the true basis of the constitutional and
just notion of this government.”
Acting upon this invitation, hundreds and thousands
of the h-,*t and most patriotic men in Georgia, who for
merly to the old Whig Party l eo operated’
with the Democracy of Georgia, and the result is
known to the editors of the Savannah Republican
Neither wing of the party sold out the other ; the
good and true men of the State met Upon a common
platform of principle and are now bound together by
the indissoluble cement of a common faith, which the
Savannah Republican and kindred presses will find it
impossible to shake. We have long ago forgotten that
we ever mustered under hostile flags, or waged frater
nal war upon each other. We have common joy and
common sorrows. The victory of Stephens in the Bth,
was hailed with as joyous a shout by the Democracy
of tho 2d District, as was the utter route of Know
Nothingism in the moutitians of Georgia by Cobb and
Lumpkin ; and we feel as levily a sorrow over the de
feat of his gallant brother in the 7tb, as we do over
the overthrow of Smith in the beleaguered 4th. With
such feelings glowing ie our hearts towards our new
allies, we thought we were justified in offering to them
a friendly greeting, accompanied by such advice as to
our future policy as the exigences of the times deman
ded. The editors of the Savannah Republican must
find it difficult to aduiess men as old friends whom it
lately attempted to degrade by the insinuation that all they
required to be sold as slaves by their leaders was a
oKiting of lampblack 1 We do not quote literally;
but we give the sense of the imputation.
One or two words as to the National Democratic
Convention. The great issue in the pending contest
between the North and trie South, is the Nebraska-
Krnsas act. It is a fact, which even the Savannah
Republican will not controvert, that a majority of the
Democratic members of Congress from the North, voted
aye , on the passage of this act, and that not another
Northern vote was cast in favor of the Bill—Whigs,
Federalists, Know Nothings, Freesoilers, Abolitionists,
all voted against it. The South, therefore, cannot affil
iate with either of the last named parties in National
Cohveution. Wo must either affiliate with the North
ern Democracy, or form a Southern Sectional Party.—
This is so clear a proposition that even the Savannah
Republican will not deny it.. It does not, however, fid
low, that the South can, with honor, affiliate with the
National Democracy, without terms, and no such prop
osition has been nude by us, nor was such action
contemplated by the June Convention. The sth and
6th resolutions of the platform of principles adopted
by the June ‘Convention, contain the views of the Dem
ocratic and Anti Know Nothing Party of Georgia up
on tiiis delicate :-übject ; and for the special information
of the Savannah Republican we will re publish them ;
sth Resolved, That-in accordance wi'h the above res
olution, [ he Nebraska resolution of the last General As
sembly,) whilst we are willing to,act in p arty association
with ail sound and reliable men in every section of the
Union, w are not willing to affiliate wi.h any party that
fhiil not recognise, approve, and carry out the principles
and previous of the Ncbraska-Kahsas act ; and that the
iJremocrade Party of Georgia will cut off ail party con
nection with every man and party at the North and else
where, that does not come fully and fairly to this line of
action 4*’
Glh Resolved , That the National Democracy of the
North, who have patriotically Sought for the Kansas and
Nebraska acts, and the m.iimenanee of the Fugitive
Slave Luv,against the combined forces of Know Noth-*
ingism anil Abolitionism, winch seek their repeal, and
vv.i 5* 1 and pledged to support the admission of Kan
sas into the Union as a slave State, shoo id she ask it; mer
it, the heartfelt sympathies, thanks, and encouragement of
Snilhen) men in th if patriotic position.
These sound Northern men the Democratic and Anti-
Know Nothing pirty of .Georgia propose to meet in
Convention. What objection’ oan the Savannah Re
publican urge to this proposition ? That they are j
Democrats? Well be it so, and it is welcome to all :
the capital it can m .ke gut of it. A rose by any other !
n une would smell as sweet. But, however much the ;
Savannah Republican may be secretly influenced by
its hatred of the Dem >oraoy, w® are quite sure it will
not avy.v that it would rather the South would sink
under Northern aggression than sea her triumph over
fanaticism by the aid of Northern Democrats. It,
therefore, takes the bold and indefensible position that
the Democratic partv of no Northern Slate except V er
rnont has taken position infavor of the Nebraska Kansas
act. If this is true, and the Georgia delegates to the
Cincinnati! Convention shall find no sound national
men it, or not enough to controll its action and purge
it of its unsound elements, it will be their duty as set
forth in the foregoing resolutions, to quit the Conven- j
tion and come home to their constituents. But the j
Savannah Republican is mistaken as to the position of j
the Northern Democracy. There has been no Demo
cratic State Convention, in the Northern States, since
the passage of the Nebraska-Kansas act, jvhich has
refused to endorse that act and the principles on whio i
it was founded, and very many of them have sanctioned
and approved it in the most unequivocal terms : we quote :
a few of them :
The New York State Convention assembled at 1
- :
Syracuse ;
Resolved, That we insist, as an article of our creed, upon j
the well-established Democratic doctrine of State Rights, |
of a strict construction of the Constitution, and toe princi
ple of non-intervention upon all domestic State questions;
and that the peace and quiet of the country demand that it
should he left to the people of the Territories, as it pertains
to the people of the States, to determine all local questions,
including the subject of slavery, to the end that a subject so
disturbing.in its nature and influence may be wholly ex
cluded from the action of the Government of the Union ;
and that in furtherance of these principles we give our un
qualified adherence to the Nebiaska bill, and oppose any
effort to re-establish the .Missouri Prohibition.
That of the Massachusetts Democratic State Con
vention :
Resolved, That we are infavor of the great doctrines of
popular sovereignty, lor Territory and for State, and are
opposed to all violations of it, whether by the unjust action
of the Abolitionists of the lree States, or by bolder aggres
sions from the slave States.
That of the Vermont Democratic Slate Conven
tion :
Resolved, That wo denounce and repudiate all attempts
I of demagogues and misled philanthropists to form sectional
| parties, believing the Government cannot be administered
| expressly for one interest oi section, but that all have equal
j lights and privileges, and equal claim? to protection. The
! Constitution cannot be construed so as to bestow special
favors upon any portion of the confederacy, it being a fide
i ral relation to the several States, leaving to the people ot
| each State or Territory the exclusive right to institute and
I regulate their own internal affairs.
That of the Pennsylvania Democracy:
Resolved, That we are infavor of the Compromise mea
i sures of 1850, including the fugitive slave law, and infavor
| of the Kansas-Nebraska act, which repeals the Missouri
; Compromise, and which provides for the admission of said
’ Territories as States, “with or without slavery, as their
j Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission”—
; it neing the true intent and meaning of said act not to leg*
j islale slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it
! therefiom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to
j form and legulate their domestic institutions in their own
way, subject only to the Constitution oi the United States.
The Resolutions of the Indiana and Illinois Conven
! tions were equally explicit, but we have not preserved
| copies of them.
j But uot only have the Democracy in most of the Nor
| them States endorsed the principles of the Nebraska
j Kansas act ; they have triumphied over the combined
j forces of abolitionism and Know Nothingism both ir.
j Maine and Pennsylvania upon the issues presented.
Mr. J. W. Forney, writing from Philadelphia, thus
j notices the grand result in Pennsylvania ;
The Nebraska question, in all its phases, and the bold
and patriotic attitude of President Pierce and his adminis
j tration on that question, were not only openly at issue be
| tween the two parties, were not only urged upon the voters
I of the State in the most industrious and most unscrupulous
| manner by the fusion leaders, and particularly by Cameron
and VViimot, but wore accepted by the democracy without
i observation. The whole opposition was concentrated
i against the nationality of the democracy and in favor <4 the
| sectional creed of the abolitionists. ‘The order of Know
; Nothings postponed for the moment their impracticabilities
j on the subject of foreign influence and the Pope, and threw
| themselves into the abolition combination with malignant
| readiness. At no election within rny intimate and some
what extended experience in Pennsylvania politics have I
: ever seen more industry, confidence, and desperation on the
part of the adversaries of the democracy and of the Union
than at the last. The traitors from our ranks forgot all
their past professions in favor ofsound principles—forgot all
! the honors and favors bestowed upon them by a confiding
party —and took up the battle-cry of the fanatics and dis
! unionists who sought to make Pennsylvania the basis upon
which to build up a fortress to scatter fire-brands, arrows,
and death among our brothers of the southern Stales. But
if they were bold and reckless in this course, the democracy
were united in sentiment and in action in opposing them ;
and although denounced as “slaves of the South,” as
“doughfaces,” and as “pro-slavery tool?,” they enunciated
1 the most thorough constitutional principles at their meetings,
arid defied the epithets and the intrigues of the opposi-
| lion.
A similar triumph, in our humble judgment, awaits
! the Democracy in most of the Northern States. The
i Nebraska Kansas test will purge the Democracy of its
unsound materials and the good and true men of the
j Northern Whig party will flock to our standard in
i every other Northern State, as they did in Maine and
1 Pennsylvania. Hear Mr. Forney again :
We have last, all our bad material. The Know Noth
ings were organized to “puriiy the two old parties;” and they
j have done so with a vengeance by receiving into their
i lodges all the invalided, corrupt, diseased, and discarded
: intriguers who have so long infested our councils. In their
places, however, we have received, with gratitude and joy,
; a host of constitution-loving whigs, who came forward on
j Tuesday, and, like patriots, forgot all past differences in
! assisting to wage war upon the common enemy. Inspired
by the recollection of Clay and Webster, and by the vic
! torions examples of Stephens and of T-oombs, of Evans
: and of Farley, of Kerr of North Carolina, and Landry and
; of Rost of Louisiana, who refused to follow a corrupt lead
• to a still more corrupt conclusion, they spurned the tainted
bribe of a combination, which, at.one and the same time,
! tempted them, by a cheap promise of coming power, to vote
against their country and to dishonor themselves. Hence
j forth these brave spirits are, let us hope, to be-treated like
i brothers and friends, They are with us on the greatest
| ijuestion of the day, and in the luture will be found true to
; the constitution and the laws.
With such bright prospects before them, the Anti
: Know Nothing Whigs of Georgia can afford to laugh to
! scorn the puny efforts of the Savannah Republican
\to malign them. It will be glory enough for them
that they have saved the rights of the South and pre
served the Union by their patriotic course.
I ft
Depredations on the New York Central Rail
road —Two Conductors and a Breakman on this Rail
road have been recently arrested on a charge of steal
ing numerous articles of freight intrusted to their care.
I A large quantity and great variety of goods were found
jin their possession. Ttieir names are W in. Hooper,
Geo. 11. Lyon and Sam*). Huntington.
Important to Building Associations. —The Supreme
Court of Connecticut has just rendered a very impor
taut decision in regard to Savings Banks and Building
Associations. The decision was made in a case where
an association attempted to foreclose a mortgage, and
the eourt decided that it could only recover the amount
of the principal, less the legal interest and bonus which
had been charged.
Naval Retired List.— The Charleston Mercury learns
from a “leUable source’’ that the President has decided
to make no Nava! promotions before the meeting of
Cos igress. An opportunity will be thus given to the
friends of those who consider they have been un ustly
judged by the R-frm Board, to appeal to the S rate
\vhto|the nominations for the new commissions are pre
sented . A dispatch from Washington says extens ve
preparations are making to operate on the coming
Congress in reference to the matter.
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Political.
The Ohio Know Nothing organs recently announced
in staring capitals that four hundred stand of arms had
been sent, boxed up, to the depot at Cincinnati, and
that a patriotic Know Nothing, one Gen. Sergeant, had
lighted upon tlieee boxes of treason, and taken them in
keeping, thus preventing the bloody Irish and Dutcli
from getting hold of the implements of death, sent for
their use, no doubt, by Medill, the Democratic Gover
nor. The story Was very hoirible, and the organ of
the ruffians expected to get up a mob by it, and lio it
through. But Know Nothing lies had become too
stale; the public didn’t believe much about the story,
and Gov. Medill scon informed them tHbt he had sent
no arms to Cincinnati. It is a very good sample,
however, of the miserable trickery to which Kuow
Nothingism is occasionally foroed to resort.
Douglas and Trumbull, the two Senators of Illinois,
recently met at Salem, in that State. The former re
quested the latter to state the issue between them, and
discuss it before the people. Trumbull made a rambling I
speech, shunning the issue altogether. He got a mer
ciless skinning, of course. The crowd testified their \
gratification by the loudest applause. In reply to the i
gasconade of the Fusionists, Douglas proposed to Trum- !
bull th.3t they should both resign and leave the Legis
lature, to be elected this fall, to choose two Senators
who should properly represent them. Trumbull de
clined that proposition. A bird ia tbe hand is worth |
two in the bush, he thinks, and he is not mistaken that
a resignation would he the end of bia Senatorial life.—
Charleston Standard.
A Hive of Industry. —A visit to tho Central Rail
road Depot, yesterday afternoon, gladdened our eye?
by the sight of a degree of busy acting, which even the
laziest mortal is glad to zee, in other people. The view
presented by the really vast area of the Depot reserved
for the interior, is especially a fine scene of well regulat
ed industry.
By the way, the building intended, wo believe, for
offices, which terminates this depot, forming its front,
is fast approaching completion. It fulfills, admirably,
tho prime conditions of adapinees to its object, while its
plain but tasteful front, relieved by the broad porch
I resting upon six massive pillars, combines as much or
. narnent, with utility, as is compatible with the purpose
, to which it is to be devoted.— -Savannah Journal <£•
: Courier, llth.
Health of Montgomery.
Office Board of Health, }
Oct. 17, 1855 —t> o’clock, p. rn.
The board report one new case of yellow fever, at and
no death for the font 24 hours—leaving 47 cases and 18
deaths, from the first report on the 25th uit.,todate.
Physicians do not yet advise citizens to return with
| heir families.
Foreign Criminals Sent Back.
New Yore, Oct. 15, 1855.
Mayor Wood has sent back four German criminals
brought to this port by the ship Datchland from Ham
burg.
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| Shocking Crime—A Tram Thrown from the Track—
Two Lives Lost
New York, Oct. 15.
j A freight train from the North, due here at fiveo’cl’k
i this morning, on the Harlem railroad, was thrown from
| the track near Williams’ bridge, in consequence of a rail
! having been placed across the track by some infamous
| miscreant.
The engine and two cars were shattered, and the en
i gineer and fireman were both killed. They were brothers.
! The perpetrator of this most shocking crime has not been
arrested.
Latest from Norfolk.
Norfolk, Oct. 15
On Saturday 7 new cases occurred among the returned
absentees.
On Sunday there were 3 deaths, two of which were of
tbe new eases*
The authorities advise that none of the refugees now
abroad should return before the Ist of November.
Shocking Murder.
Baltimore, Oct. 16.
j Dr. Hadeli, formerly of this city, and brother-in-law of
C. C. Fulton, Esq., one of the Editors of the Baltimore
American, and bis student, were murdered by a German,
near Cumberland, Md., on Sunday last. Both bodies
were stripped and mutilated. Dr. lladell’s head was cut
off and buried at a distance from his body.
Murder i of Judge Clingman of Missouri.
Chicago, Oct. 13.
Judge Thomas Clingman of Carroll County, Missouri,
was murdered on the Oth inst., by one of his field slaves,
Tlio r neighbors immediately assembled, seized the murder
er, and hung him by Lynch law.
The U. S. Consul at Panama in Trouble.
New Orleans, Get. 15.
j The steamship Philadelphia from Havana on the 12th
! inst., arrived lu re today, bringing the California mails of
; the *2oth uit., which Lad reached that city from Aspiu •
j wall.
i The United States Consul at Panama had struck his
j flagon account of seme insults offered him by the Govern
| rneni at that piace
Death of Professor Hancock.
I Our community was shocked on Tuesday last, to hear
of the sudden death of Rev. Geo. 11. Hancock, Professor
j in tbe Wesleyan Female College, who expired at his resi
; dence near the Institution, earlv on the morning of the
j same day, after an illness of a few days only. His gen or-
I al health, had, however, been tailing tor some months past,
but he was able to attend to Ids classes in College on the
Thursday preceding hia death — Geo Citizen , 30th.
New Invention.
We notice in the Scientific American, of tiie oth icst.
that Messrs. H. & It. S. Schevenell, of this place, have
taken out a patent for manufacturing fancy eccentric
moulding, which is so txtensively used in Steamboats,
Raih’oad.cars, and cabinet turn Lure. That paper speaks j
in very high terms of its utility and worth. We wish 1
our cit zens, 11. & R. S. Schevenell, much success, and i
hope they way realize a sufficient remuneration for their j
ingenuity and perseverance.— Southern ( Ga ) Banner, i
Te Oeum in Notre Damo.
Mach has been said by the opposition press about Mr.
Mason being the only MiuisUr representing a neutral
power, who attended the celebration of the Te Deum in
Notre Dame on the ocoa'-sion of the Allies’ victory at
Sebastopol. The Paris Manitcur says :
“Avery greet number off r<ign Ministers were pres
ent at Notre Dame. We there observed their Excellen
cies the Papal Nuncio, the Ambassador of Great Bri’nin,
and the Ambassador of the Sublime Porte; the Ministers
of Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Spain, P< r.uga!, the Two
Sicilies, the L nited States, Baden, and the N tuer’ands;
the Charges d’Affaires of Tuscany, Switzerland and
Greece; representatives of the United States of Amer ca,
and the secretaries of the Saxon and Hanoverian legation.”
Wheat from California —The c ppar ship t Adelaide’
from San Francisco, arrived at New York, with a cargo
of 40,000 bushels of Wheat and Barky, and J ,003 bbls <
of Flour. j
fFrom the Daily Sun.]
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL 0F T,IE
STEAMSHIP ATLANTIC.
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Further Decline in Cotton.
Columbia, Oet. 18, 12-00, r. m.
The Atlantic has arrived at Halifax, with dates lioin
Liverpool to the 6th inst.
A further decline iu eotton of an eighth is reported?
with sales of 41,000 bales for the week. Market closed
doll.
Breadstuff* firm.
Increased pressure in the money market; late ol in-*
terest advanced to five and a hail.
a Consols down to 87i*
The deficiency in the crops has excited great unease
ness in France and Germany.
The Allies are preparing mines to blow up Sevastopol.
GortschakofFs left flank has been menaced by the Al
lies from Kupatoria.
Gortschakoff telegraphs, Oct. 3d, that the Allies made
an ineffectual movement against the Russian flank.
The Czar was at Odessa, and would soon visit the
Crimea.
Allies sent out a secret expedition, probably agaiust
Odessa or Nicolieff.
Louis Napoleon. —The Paris correspondent of the N.
York Courier <fc Enquirer, says that the Emperor
was wounded in the point of the shoulder by the
Cent Garde , who fired upon him in the Palace of St.
Cloud on the night of the 20th u!t., and that, had the
wound been an inch lower, it would have been mortal, —
He also says, it has been satisfactorily ascertained that the
assassin was bribed with 30.000 francs ($60,000) by the
Orleanists, to commit the crime.
A Curious Mixture. —They sang a Te Deum at the
Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, in honor of the recent
achievements of the Allied armies in the East. The flags
of the Allies, says the New York Herald, were intertwin
ed, and in this Roman Catholic Cathedral the standards
of Mahomedan Turkey and Protestant England were dis
played, side by side, with the eagles of Prance—a nation i
which remains faithful to the Romish Church, for the
present. Think of a social party made up of the Pope,
Martin Luther and Mahomet, and you can have ome
idea of the changes which a few years make in war, re
ligion, politics, creeds and diplomacy, gjgyg|
The Grain Market. —Our latest advices from N. York
show a decline from the prices mentioned yesterday. On
the 12th flour was quoted at $8.62£ for straight state 5
good Ohio at $8 625; and Southern at $9.12£.
The demand for wheat has fallen off’, and prices are
unsettled. Sales of Southern white were made at $2,10,
and red at $1 95.
Cora advanced 2 a 3 cents per bushel on the llti;,but
was dull the next day, aud prices were tending down
| wards.
i This decline has been caused by the buyers for export
[ pausing in their purchases. The market for ail descrip
i lions of breadstuff's is at present irregular and uncertain.
[<Sci\ News , 16ta.
I Another Fugitive Slave Case. —The mate of the
| schooner Matilda which left Jacksonville on the 2Uth
| September for Boston, secreted a colored man on board,
i On the arrival of the vessel at Boston on the blh inst., he
I was put 011 board the Gazelle, then about to sail lor Jack
• sonviile. This coming to the knowledge of Wendell
| Phillips & Cos., they procured a writ, ot habeas corpus,
j took the negro out of the vessel and sent him to Canada.
[iS’flo. News, Oct. 1 0th.
Policemen and Politics. —Mayor Wood, of N. York,
has issued an order that no policemen shall belong to a
political organization, or meddle in any way with politics.
Dividends. —The Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany has declared a dividend of 3£ per cent, for the past
six months. The Mechanics’ Bank and Bank of Augus
ta. have each declared a dividend ot 5 per cent, for the
same time.
Washington Irving. —Among the auditors at Niblo’s
theatre, New Yura, on Friday evening, was Washington
Irving, “the great original” of the opera of Rip Van Win
kle, which the Pyne and Harrison troupe were perform*
I ing. He was the observed of ail observers, and one en
! thusiastio friend so far forgot the bounds of propriety as to
j propose “three cheers for the genuine Rip.”
! Kansas Before the Supreme Court. —As soon as the
| fi r st corner-stone of the Capitol is laid at Lecompton, a
j writ of quo warranto , it is said, will be served on the
i commissioners, demanding by what right they are expend -
j ing public money at that point. The question of legality
| of the Legislature will thus be carried before the Supreme
! Court of the United States.
I * I
j Return of Physicians. —We learn frm our city co
i temporaries of yesterday morning that Drs. Reid and
■ Nunn, and Mr. Godfrey, who have been engaged for
| weeks past in administering to the sick and guJFering of
! Norfolk, have returned to the eitv. We unite in wel
* corning them back to their home and friends from the
I sad scene of their perilous labors.— Savannah Rcpulli •
| can, 18/A.
Returned. —Rev. E. D. G. Prime, late chaplain of the
American chapel in Rome, has returned to the United
States in good health, and improved by his travels.
Personnel of Marshal Pellissier. —The following is
an extract of a private letter (dated before Sevastopol :
“I was rather surprised at the appearance of the French
commander of the forces. From his character I expected
to have seen a young active man. whereas General Pel
liflsier is an enormously fat man, with very white hair,
which is cut very close ; he is so fat that he is unable to
ride any distance. lie was in an open carriage drawn
by four greys, and two soldiers as out-riders,and an Arab j
with a white flowing robe followed it. The General was |
dressed in uniform, with a number of decorations on his ]
breast, and over his shoulders he wore a white cloak
somewhat similar to those worn by the Arab chiefs. He
is not very tall, and his face has rather a good humored
expression, and quite different from what vour imag
ination would portray from his history either here or in
Africa.”
Thanksgiving in Virginia. —The Governor of Vir
ginia has, it isea : and, for the first time in the history of that
State, set apart a day to be religiously observed with !
thanksgiving and prayer.
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON STATEMENTS.
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, 15 3. %2.22. ir- Ifg.oig =% ! hand
week if< |S < | : ii.o.’lg. :2 - I this
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1854. * ‘-771 1258 3256 1544 632| 1040 1672 *5643
Oct. 13,
1855. j 521 6077 1660 23722 2687, 7623 10310 11151
Columbus, Oct. 20.
COTTON.—There continues good demand for Cotton,
P"ioe.-; being easier since publication of the unfavorable
‘intelligence per steamei Atlantic. We notice consider?*-
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‘ole sales yes erday and te-day at following rates : Mid
dlings to Strict Middlings a 7f, Good Middlings 7s,
Middling Fair U> Fair 7£ a 8. Principal sales, 7* a7s
cents.
Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing Demo
cratic Meeting.
On the 12th inst., while the Court was taking recess
for dinner, a large number of Anti-Know Nothings
assembled in the Court House for the purpose of appoint
ing a day of nomination for County officers. The
meeting was presided over by Col. David Kiddoo as
chairman, and John Atwell, Secretary. The chairman
is a speech of a half hour, made* one of his best eftbrts
against the Anti-Republican designs of the secret order
of politicians who proscribe some on account of of their
birth place, and make the teligion of others a test for
office.
A few remarks were made by J. A. Tucker aud
B. K. Harrison, of Lumpkin, cheering to the victors of
the late campaign, and urging the importance of uni
nimitv and cousert of action for the winter campaign ‘ t
thJsecret monster had been bruised and mangled in
his den ; unmasked and routed, end another vigorous
effort would make the capture certain.
On motion of L. A. Gonike, Esq , the people of each
militia district in the county were requested to appoint
! five delegate* to meet in Cuthbert on the 2d Saturday
j in November next, to nominate candidates for the seve
ral county officers, and the party are generally invited
to attend.
On motion of Richard Davis, the Secretary was re
quested to forward the proceedings of the meeting to
the Times & Sentinel for publication, from which, others
i friendly to the cause are requested to copy,
j On motion, the meeting adjourned.
DAVID KIDDOO, Chairman.
John Atwell, Secretary.
cr WE are authorized to announce N. N. liOWALtD, a
Candidate for re-election to the office of Clerk of the Superior
Court of Chattahoochee .County at the enduing election in
January next. oct22— wtd
James G. Cobb announces himself aea candidate
for Sheriff of Chattahooche County at the ensuing election is
January next, and runs as an Independent cambdate.
Cusseta, Oct. 18,1 800. oct2i2—wtd
A Card.
, EATONTON, Oit. 11, 1855.
Messrs. Editor*:—As tam informed that ‘my friend Col.
H&ffold will not run again lor the Solicitorship ol tht- Ocmu!-
gee Circuit, you will please announce 11>at I >r ail mjeeli be a
candidate for that post, before the approach ing Legislature-.
I have labored as hard as any man iu Geertia to promote the
success of Johnson and our principles, though in a ten hum
ble sphere, and in a very feeble maimer Yet I have done all in
my power. If our antr-Know Nothing and Democratic lrit nda
shall see fit to honor me with the office 1 seek, it will lay me
under a debt of lasting gratitude. U their choice should tall
upon someone worthier than myself, it (will only afford me
leisure to manufacture arms with which to fight the i. xt 1 at
tle of civil and religious liberty. It is but justice to Col. rid
i and myself tosav that if he had been a candidate, f shorn-, r.%
j have been. J A.TULM.JI.
MARRIED,
lit this city on Tuesday evening, the 16th instant, by the
; Kev. VV. R. Branham, Robert Flournoy and Mias Eugenia
! Maffett, both oi‘ this city.
In Columbus, Ga .on Monday, 10th inst.. by Rev. Mr.
j Speer, William P. Woruum, Esq. and Miss Sarah E. Hud
j son, allot this city.
OBITUARY.
| Departed this life suddenly on Wednesday, the 10th inst.
| at his residence, near Greenville, Meriwether < ounty, Mr.
i James Swim, Sen’r , in the 64th jrear ol his age.
He was born in Hancock county, and lor the last 23
| years has been a resident of Meriwether county. Having
j been one among the earliest settlers, he had pasted through
! the changes ail new counties undergo; and in all the pha
! ses of life through which be was called to go, in ti e vari
j one relations of father, husband, master, neighbor and
| friend, he well earned and well deserved and well enjoyed
| the character of a kind and honest man. It ra eiy falls
! to the lot of any one to jive as long and enjoy as c< rn
■ pletely and as uniformly, the respect and confidence of his
; neighbors and acquaintances, as did our deceased friend.—
He has left an example truly worthy of imitation.
“An honest man is the noblest work of God.”
A Secret Tor the Ladies.
How to Preserve Health.—Don’t use Chalk, Lily
| White, or any o! the so-called cosmetics, to conceal a fa
! dec! or sallow complexion.
| If you would have t.ie roses brought back to your cheek,
| a clear, healthy and transparent skin, and life and vigor
; infused through the system, get a bottie of Carter’s
; Spanish Mixture, add take it according to directions. It
does not taste quite as well as your sweet meats; but, if
fcfter a few doses you do not find your health and beauty
reviving, your step elastic and vigorous, and the whole
system refreshed and invigorated iike a Spring morning,
then you case is hopeless,and all the valuable certificates
we possess, go for naught. It is the greatest purifier of the
blood known; is perfectly harmless, and at the same time
powerfully efficacious. For sale by
THOMAS M. TURNER & CO.
JAS. H. CARTER,
_ „ Savannah, Ga.
1 BROOKS A, CHAPMAN,
, Dan FORTH &N AG EL,
j Octll—wA-twlm Columbus, Ga.
from the ministry.
| The following evidence is from the Bee. W. I). F. Saio
rie, Presiding Eider oj the Methodist Episcopal
Church for the District of North Alabama.
Dr.Chast.es Williams, —Dear Sir: I take pleasure in
; giving rnv testimony to the virtues of your excellent ‘Pul
| rnonic Balsam of Wild Cherry.’ Having used seveiai
j bottles in rnv family, with decided advantage in every’
; case, 1 can recommend it as the best and most pleasant
’ medicine I have ever seen. W. D. F. SAWRIE.
; Tuscumbia, March 22, 1849.
i by all Druggists everywhere. See long ad
vertisement in another column. oetll—Jin
Have You a Diseased Liter t
The question, though startling, is sufficiently suggestive,
; wli?*n the fact is taken into consideration that diseases of
j the Liver have become most alarmingly frequent in the
| United States. Indeed, there aro lew formidable diseases
that are not in some way traceable to a deranged state of
that important organ. Many of the complaints usually
classed under the head of Consumption, have their origin
in the Liy. r. “Any remedy that would insure regularity
and healthful action in the Liver, would he a blessing to
mankind!” has been the exclamation of thousands. That
remedy has been found; nis safe and sure. When a fair
trsal has been offered it, it has'never been known to fail.
Reader, have you any disease ot the Liver, or disease
which you believe proceeds from hrpatie derangement ?
Lose not a moment, but purchase a box of Dr. M ’Lane’s
Pills,and they will restore you to health. Ir is the only
remedy yet discovered, in which imp lie j t confidence niHy
be placed.
Purchasers will please be careful to ask for Dr. M ’Lane’s
Celebrated Liver arid take nori6 fcJso. Thcr© t r©
other Pills, purporting to be Liver Piiis, now before the
public. Dr. M’Lane’s Liver Pills, also bis Celebrated Ver
rniiuge, can now be had atali respectable Drug btores in
tna United States arid Canada.
rr^old h by all Ulto Druggists in Columbus, and by on
azentin eterj town. oetll—\v At wVw e
zORGIA —Randolph County:
[ . Court of Ordinary , June Term, 1855.
UKDERED, That ail and singular the parties interested,shew
’ cause on or before the next January Term ol this Court,
ly Allen James, adm’r., ami Sarah Butts, acirn’x., on thees
.e of £pyrua Butts, oec’d, should not be dismissed from their
id administra'ion, otherwise they wiil then 1 e dismissed
‘nroilli)’ buykE
MI HE subscriber offers for sale his plantation in
Macon County, Alabama, containing r IOOO acres
or land. It lies! on the Middle Cowikee. is peilect
!y level, and embraces five hundred acres of hammock,
capable of producing titeen hundred pounds o’ Colton
per acre It is in a fine state of cultivation, and in point
ot eligibility of location 3nd good water, cannot be stir*
passed in tnis country. The improvements consist oi a
tine, newly built liamod dwelling fiou-e, with the necessary
out houses, good gin house and screw, and st'o acres of
open land. It is situated within three miles ot the de;‘ot
on the Mobile and Girard R ailroad, 36 miles from Colum
bus and 4t miles from Enon.on the Chunennuggee R'dgo.
Price Sl2£ cash If desired long time will given bv
adding interest. For further particulars apply to A._P.
Cleckley.at the Store o* Andrews, Ridgeway A. Cos., Co*
lumbus, or to the subscriber on the premises
Oct. 20—tw2m JOHN L. CLF.CKLEV,