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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, OCT. 26. 1855^
Subjects tor Legislation.
\Ye find in the Constitutionalist ty Republic an
elaborate article upon this subject. The editor sug
gests the following as of special importance. 1. The
return to annual sessions. 2. Removal of the seat of ,
Government. 3. The repeal of the usury laws. 4. :
Banks and Banking. 5. Retaliatory Legislation against !
those States which have nullified the Fugitive Slave j
law. (5. The re-organization of the Supreme Court, j
7. Agricultural’ Education. S. Military Education,
9. The Stato 10. Sale or Rase of the
State Road. 11. State aid to Railroads.
All these subjects at© of vital interest to the well
fare of the people of Georgia. During the past year i
we have discussed most of them at some length in our
columns. May we not hope that the next Legislature j
will devote its time to their consideration instead of i
squandering it upon local questions, bills of divorce, !
and such like matter. We copy the remarks of the
Constitutionalis tty Republic upon some of these sub- |
jects of Legislation :
5. The Retaliatory Legislation against those States ;
which have nullified the Fugitive Slave Law. —The I
dominant party in the Legislature is pledged to this j
course. The resolution of the Democratic Convention
of last June was explicit on this point, and we doubt
not the members of the Legislature will carry out those
resolves with alacrity. The only difficulty in the way
is the practical one of shaping the legislation within
Constitutional limits.
G. Reorganization of the Supreme Court. —There
is a necessity for some change in regard to this branch
of the State Government. The Judges of the Supreme
Court are made itinerants to an oppressive degree, aud
their decisions necessarily become in a manner, saddle
bags decisons. They are kept travelling ail over the
State, and required to sit iu remote points inconveni
ent to books and to a thorough consideration of legal
questions, and yet are required to make their decisions
at once and on the spot. What guarantee can the pub
lic have of correct decisions under such circumstances ?
There should be fewer terms of Court, and they held
at fewer places.
Popular education and a common school system,
should attract the attention and invoice the best efforts
of the Legislature.
9. The State University. —To maintain a literary
College of the first rank, and to secure to it Professors
of ability aud established reputation, and thus be ena
bled to give a thorough-education to her own sons at
home, Georgia should stand by her own University,
and aid it with a generous hand. Otherwise, one after
another, its best Professors will be drawn off to other
Colleges'more liberally endowed, and our own students
will follow after them.
30. Sale or Lease of the State Road. —Since last 1
session the public mind has, we believe, made a decid
ed advance on this suject. Then it could make no de
cision either way, and the result was the Legislature
took no action upon it. Many were opposed to the
State’s parting with the ownership or centre 1 of the j
road at any time. Others only thought the proposed j
changes premature. Time and events, however,, go to !
confirm previous impressions, derived from the experi
ence of other States with regard to all public works of
the kind, that Georgia ought to divest herself of the ex
clusive management of a property like this. Whether
well, or ill-managed, it is uot the proper province of a
government to be owning and managing such proper- !
ty. There are two alternatives; to lease the entire j
work, or to sell a controlling interest.
We believe the latter to be the wisest course. Let !
the State place a fair value on the road, make that value ;
the^ Capital Stock, and sell out three fifths to individu- j
als under a charter incorporating them as a Railroad !
Company. The two-fifths retained by the State, and j
which would be represented in all meetings of Stock- j
holders, and at the Board of Direction would prevent j
any one party preponderating to give one connecting !
line of railroads an advantage over a rival line.
We can only glance at this proposition. The details
of carrying it out could be readiiy matured afterwards.
Several feasible modes have already been suggested.
This being disposed of, we arrive at
11. State aid to Railroads. —The immense benefit
/■ conferred directly on Cherokee Georgia, and inciden
tally on the whole State by the construction of the
Western & Atlantic Railroad, should encourage the
State to other like enterprises—or at least to aid in
them. This policy is prompted by justice to a portion
hitherto neglected portion—and by wisdom for all.—
The State could not better appropriate her means and
her credit than in opening new channels of trade,
bringing fertile lands and their rich products into mar
ket, enhancing property, aud increasing the wealth,
the enteprprizes and the resources of her people.
Asa means of aiding, by her subscriptions, other j
Railroads in progress, and in contemplation, the State i
would probably Issue bonds for the payment of which ;
her sale of stock in the Western & Atlanta Road would j
be a reliable fund, and the Cupons would be met by the
dividends on that portion of “stock retained. This is !
leaving out of view the value of the stock subscribed
for in the new Roads, and the profits thereon when
completed. Yet, this value would probably reach par,
or near it, soon after completion.
Collateral to this, and of essential importance to the
credit of the State, we would here urge on the Legß- [
lature the importance of redeeming all the outstanding
bonds of the State, with coupons payable in Georgia, !
and to issue in their stead bonds having the same time !
to run, with coupons payable in the city of New Yoik. f
Karras Emigration Aid Society.
A\ e call special attention to the proceeding of this !
S ‘Ciety which we publish in full in another column. It
U a movement -itr the right direction ; and if it is hearti- !
lv pressed by the Executive Committee upon the consid
e ation ot the people of Muscogee county, we doubt ■
not but than SIO,OOO can be raised to forward the lau- !
dabie objects of the association. And if success shall •!
crown the efforts of the Muscogee Society, we are
confi lent that similar associations will spring up in’
‘very county in every Southern State ; and that!
Kansas, the loveliest and most productive, and, in
p ant of position, the ni't important Territory in the i
United States wII be rescued from the all grasping I
gre, and of Northern avarice aud ambition, and become
one of the first of the Southern States of this confede- 1
rscy.
‘Uiere will be an other meeting of the Society on
Saturday night next at Temperance Hall, when the
objects and purposes of the society will be explained
more at length by competent speakers and its claims to
Southern support pressed upon the consideration of the I
Columbus public. Ju this great effort to advance South- i
* t ‘
ern interests we may hope that the people of Muscogee
county will be “one people and one party.” Let every
body attend.
N. B. The Executive Committee, are now prepared
to receive donations. Citizens may become members
of the Society by handing their names, and one dollar
to the Secretary and Treasurer.
Kansas Meeting in Columbus.
According to previous notice, a portion of the citizens
of Columbus in Temperance Hall on the
24th inst , for the purpose of organizing a Kansas Emi
grant Aid Society. The meeting was organized by
calling James N. Bethune to the chair, and appointing
T. Lomax, Secretary.
Ihe Chairman having explained the objects of the
meeting, Beverly A. Thornton, F.?q., arose and offered
the following
Preamble and Resolution-’.
Wherea*, the action of the non-slaveholding States with
regard to the settlement of the Kansas Territory, has
i thwarted the natural Jaws of increase and immigration, and
tend'to form upon that Territory their peculiar institutions in
| violation o! the spirit and intent of the Kansas Nebraska
| act; it behoves the South, and every patriot who desires to
preserve the equality of the Southern States in the Union
j to counteract these insidious attempts of Northern Aboli
tionists to stifle the free action of the citizens of Kansas in
i the lormation of their social institutions, and thus to con-
I vert that magnificent domain into an engine of oppression
j to the South.
Be it therefore Resolved, By the citizens of Muscogee
! county, without regard to old or existing party divisions,
j that we form a Kansas Emigration Society ; that the Chair
] man of this meeting appoint a committee often persons to
j draft a constitution for the government ol the society ; and
to select the names of permanent officers for the same.
Mr. Thornton supported his preamble and resolution
in a spirited addrtss, in which he very clerly showed
the incalculable importance of Kansas to the Southern
States both in a political and social view ; and the abso
lute necessity the South was under to encourage immi
gration to that Territory if she expected Southern in
stitutions to be maintained there. By the provisions
of the Kansas act, the South had agreed to lente the
people of the Territory free to abolish or establish Afri
can slavery as they saw fit. If a majority of the im
migrants who settled that Territory hailed from the
Northern States, they would unquestionably abolish
slavery, and the Sod lit was pledged to receive Kansas
as a free State into the Union, if she made application
aa each. At present, however, the South had the as
| cendaticy in Kansas, and if the South would back the
i Missourians now there, there was no sort of doubt but
! that, they would maintain their supremacy. He urged
| the importance of immediate efficient action.
The preamble aud resolution were then unanimously
| adopted.
The Chairman appointed Messrs. B. A. Thornton,
! E. G. Dawson, R. T. Simons, S. A. Wales, Jo n John
| son, Tencent Lomax, Alfred Iverson, John Quinn,
1 A. G. Foster and D. A. Winn, on the committee to pre
j pare a constitution and select officers for the society.
! The committee retired and after a short absence, re
| turned and reported the following
CONSTITUTION.
Article I. —This association shall be called the Kan
sas Emigrant Aid Society of Muscogee County.
Article 2—The objects of thi3 Society shall be to
raise money, by voluntary contributions, for the purpose
of aiding reliable Southern men, who are attached to
Southern Institutions in emigrating to Kansas Territory.
Article 3.—The officers of this Society shall be a
Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer, and
au.Executive Committee.
Article 4.—The President shall have power to call
special meetings of the Society as often as may be judg
ed necessary ; and shall discharge all the usual duties of
a presiding officer In the absence of the President, his
duties shall devolve upon the Vice President. The Sec
retary and Treasurer shall keep a correct record of all
the proceedings of the Society and Executive Committee,
and collect the usual dues of the members.
Article s. —The Executive Committee shall consist
of seven members. They shall have the general direc
tion of the affairso! the Society ; shall have unlimited pow
er in selecting Emigrants and appropriating the funds of
the Society ; and upon them more especially devolves the
duty of raising money.
Article 6.—A1l the officers of the Society shall be
elected at the annua! meeting in October, and shall hold
their offices for one year.
Article 7. —Any citizen may become a member of
this Society on the payment of one dollar ; which fees
shall be exclusively appropriated to defraying the ordina
ry expenses of the Society.
Article B.—The Society shall hold regular monthly
meetugs at such time and place as the President shall
designate, when the Executive Committee shall submit
fall reports of their action for the preceding month.
Article 9.—The officers of tha Society aud the Ex
ecutive Committee shall have power to make such By-
Laws as may be deemed necessary for the government
of the Society.
j Upon motion, the constitution wa9 unanimously
adopted. The committee also reported the names of the
permanent officers of the the society.
President.— JAMES M. CHAMBERS.
Vice President. — John Woolfolk.
Secretary and Treasurer. — Edgar G. Dawson.
Executive Committee —James N. Bethune,chair
man,'John 11-Howard, James R Jones, William 11.
Mitchell, Ilines Holt, Edmund T. Shepherd, Samuel
R. Andrews.
The Report of the committee was unanimously adopt
-1 ed and the officers selected were unanimously elected
for the ensuing year.
| T. Lomax then proposed that the opportunity he now
1 offered to such persons as desired to do so, to become
I members of the society.
In support of the proposition, Hon. Alfred Iverson
I arose and addressed the meeting at some length. By
i the Missouri Compromise, he said, the Southern peo
j pie excluded from all the public domain lying
North of 3fi deg. 30 miu. This restriction was remov
; t“d by the passage of the the Nebraska-Ivansas act. By
that act the South was admitted into all the Territories
| of the United States, and the power was conferred upon
the people of each Territory of regulatiug their own do *1
mestic relations, fiee from the interference of Congte-s
or of the other States of the confederacy had I
a right to 1 ave her property protected in the common
Ten itories by Congress; but this right had been surrender- j
ed. We mustnowdepend upon ourselves for cur pr .teo
tim in the Territories Emigrant Aid Societies in the j
States were wrong iu principle. The settlement of the
Territories ought to be left to the natural laws of em'g-a- :
t on. The Northern States, however, anxious toii f rss
their peculiar institutions upon Kansas, had o gan zel
immense societies for the purpose of sending emigrants
thither ; and self protection demand that the South should
counteract s the tftbrte of these Northern Societies by
similar organizations here. He was, the refore, proud th n
this society had been organized in Columbus. It was
an honor Jo the county, apd to the State. If the mo#.
ment shall become general throughout the Southern
States, he believed it would settle the destiny of Kuisas.
The eloquent orator then went into a consideration of
the important influence the admission of Kansas into j
the Union as a slaveholding S ate would have upon
Missouri, Utah, and the Territory South of Kansas;
and very clearly proved that the highest and best inte
rests of the South and the Union would be promoted
thereby. So important did he consider the, interests
involved in Southern Emigration th? Territory, that <
he inolined to believe the next Legislature would be
justified in appropriating one hundred thousaud dollars
to the advancement of it.
After Senator Iverson concluded his remarks, the
proposition of Mr. Lomax was submitted to the meeting
ar.d the following named gentlemen came foward and
beeame members of the society by enrolling their
names and paying the initiation fee :
James N. Bethune, J. R. Corcoran,
Tennem Lomax, J. R. Johns,
Fred: Wilhelm, Henry W. Hawes,
B, V. Iverson, John Johnson,
Sam’l. A. Wales, B. A. I hornton,
Alfred Iverson, Wm. R. Turman,
John Quinn, .Tames Ligon,
James Hamilton, Jifcob W. Sharpe,
John Adams, Wm. Champion,
William Perry, David J. Winn,
James R. Jones, Henry fi. Barker,
John McCarty, Col. W. S Dogan,S.C.
Robert T. Simons, E. G. Dawson,
j.b. nicks,
The meeting then adjourned to meet again atTem
peranco Ilall on Saturday night next, at which time
and place the Executive Committee hope to see every
citizen of the county present who takes any interest in
the maintenance of Southern institutions.
JAMES NVBETHUNE, President.
Tennent Lomax, Secretary.
Rew York and Virginia Compared.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
First, in reference to her intelligence. We must re
mind the N. Y. Times, that in measuring this article,
quality, as well as quantity must be regarded. We con
cede that great numbers of her(N. Y.’s) sons can read,
write and cipher ; and that a large portion of her children
are striving to attain this Ultima Thule of New York
education, consequently, that she has a goodly amount
of the cheap, coarse, rough article, answering very
well to work in a factory, to make voyage before the
mast, or to have a potato patch, but she has not a pro
portionate share of that higher order of culture neces
sary to elevate and refine society, and to administer
pubiic aflairs wisely and virtuously. In other words,
she is wofully deficient in college education or its equiv
alent. Turning to the last April number of Deßow’s
Review, we find the relative condition of New York
and Virginia in this respect thus stated :
White population of New York in 1850, 3,048,325
White population of Virginia in 1850, 894,800
The white population of New York is, therefore,
proportioned to that of Virginia nearly in the ratio of
3 1-2 to 1. Bearing this in mind, we call attention to
the following table:
New York. Virginia.
No. of Colleges, S 10
No. of Professors, 82 72
No. of Students, SS3 1,309
Volumes in Libraries, 55,000 65,875
Alumni, 0,37! 6,459
To make New York equal to Virginia in the propor
tion of her youth receiving college education, she will
have to increase the number more than four and a half
fold.
Let us now see how the two States stand in “wealth,
agriculture and railroads,” these being the topics spe
cially selected by the Times for the disparagement of
Virginia.
According to the compendium of the last census, the
white citizens of New York possess, on an average,
$354, and the white eitens of Virginia $435, without
oounting slaves as property. If the property of Virgi
nia be divided among her whole population, bond and
free, the dividend will only be 20 per cent less than in
New York ; and if slaves be considered as property,
it is nearly twice as great in the former as in the iutter.
Examining the relative agricultural products, we find
that Virginia makes, in proportion to her population,
nearly twice as much wheat, four times as much corn,
half as much wool, and eight times as much hemp as
New York, besides tobacco and cotton, which New
York does not produce at all.
From the same authority, we ascertain that New
York had, in 1854, 2,909 miles of Railroad completed
and under construction, or one mile for every 1200 in
habitants, while Virginia had 1562 miles, or one mile for
800 inhabitants, white and black. Wo take the popu
lation of New York, as recently ascertained by her cen
sus, to be 3,500,000, and estimate that of Virginia at
1,500,000. The proportion af road actually completed
to the population is about the same in both States—one
mile for 1500 persons.
And yet the Times tells us that “railroad iron, rather
than muskets is the great need of Virginia. ’’ If so, i
New York must be in a sorry plight, for she has less of
it than we have in proportion to her wants.
Virginia needs something, however, “to restore the
former robust manliness of her character.” Where
shall she borrow it ? Will the robust manliness of Fifth
Avenue, Saratoga, or Newport, supply her deficiency?
Wo greatly fear that they have none to spare.
We see, in fancy, one of our fine old country gem
tlernen, who lives ten hours a day iu the open air su
perintending his plantation, who rides a high mettled
blood horse as if he were a part of him, follows the
fox hounds in spite of fences and ditches, brings down
a partridge on the wing with each barrel, and when
the day is over, returns to a home characterized by.
comfort without luxury, and simplicity without mean
ness, we see him, in fancy, advised to live with the ro
bust simplicity of his fathers, by a gentleman who win
ters in a Parisian house on Fifth Avenue, and sum
mers at Newport or Saratoga, whose greatest feat of
strength and skill is to driven fast horse on a smooth !
road, who .copies assiduously European luxury, European j
manners and European morals, and anxiously escapes
from all contact with, or knowledge of, his own coun
trymen.
If manliness and simplicity have left the rural popu
lation of Virginia, what traces of them exist in a State
which is draining off her country population to crowd
her oitiea ‘/
Lease of the State Hoad,
j “We give place to the communication of our eorres*
j pondent, “H,” solely because we entertain the highest
j respect for his talents and character. We are uncom
promisingly opposed to the project of leasing the State
i Road. Anything else before that. There are many
■ objections to the proposition. We will refer briefly to
\ one of them. It will bring into being a powerful com
pany, whose interest it will be. at the end of the tease,
to control legislation for the purpose of obtaining a re
lease, upon the same or perhaps more favorable terms,
ind thereby embarrass the management and disposition
of the Road for all time to come. This objection, it
i stems to us, is conclusive against the policy of leasing
the Road. In our opinion, the best interests of the
State d-. mand a sale of the Riad ; or, at least, of three
fifths of it. It is now in first rate order ; it has been i
proven to be valuable stock ; the State needs two miK
lions of the money it will bring, to pay the public debt ;
the balance of the proceeds of the sale can be appro
priated to the extension of the Savannah & Gulf
Railroad 5 while the income from the remainng two
fifths of the stock can be applied either to the support
of education iq the State'or the'paymerU of the orflinar
expenses of the Government. Let it be sold then by
all means,
Capi. John Forsyth.
After an absence of two years, we are delighted to
welcome this accomplished gentleman to our city and
sanctum. No editor in Georgia ever acquired greater
distinction than our immediate predecessor. lie was the
life and soul of the Southern Rights party, apu his deter
mination to quit the press and retire to private life, was
universally regretted. For one year or more, last pass
ed, he has been connected with the Mobile press, and
as*editor of the Mobile Register , has added to the lau
rels acquired in the columns of the Columbus Times.
During the late canvass in Alabama, the editor of the
Mobile Register was the leader of the friends of civil
and religious liberty and in the very thick of the figth.
We are very happy to find him rejuvinated by a short
sojourn in a more Northern clime, and inline trim and
spirits for the campaign of next year. lie spends a
few days in Columbus with his relations and friends and
then returns to his post in Mobile.
Just from Europe.
Our fellow citizen, Jonas Smeeton, has just returned
from Europe, where he has laid in a splendid assort
ment es gentlemen’s clothing. For style, quality aud
variety, see advertisement in another column. We
are in favor of encouraging home industry, and partic
ularly of direct importers from Europe.
Reward of Patriotism. —A portion of the citizens
of Oglethorpe county presented Hon. A. H. Stephens,
on the 18th inst., “a handsome, gold mounted, rose
wood, walking stick,” as a testimonial of their esteem
for his distinguished services.
For the Times and Sentinel.
Western & Atlantic ItaiFßoad.
It is evident that the present Legislature^w r ill have to
dispose of the State Road, if the many plans proposed do
not prevent any action being taken’in the matter; and the
large interest which the people have in this question will
make it the most important of any that will probably
come before the Legislature.
The State Road, though a source of no revenue until it
passed into the management of Major. Cooper, has, nev
ertheless, been anything but a profitless investment to the
people of Georgia, and the benefit which it has conferred
upon the State of Tennessee, without taxing either people
or State for one cent, certainly ‘entitle the corporation to
something better than vexatious litigation in her courts.
The object of its construction was accomplished when
it reached Chattanooga, and private enterprize could, then
extend it into the valley of the Mississippi at whatever
points the necesities of that population demanded. The
Hill of Difficulty had been tunnelled, and the State, after
having accomplished what private capital would have do
ferred for a quarter of a century, should now let the direc
tion of the road pass into the hands of a private corpora”
tion. We doubt if the State has lost anything by retain
ing the property until the present time. The construction
of the East Tennessee, Nashville and ‘Chattanooga, and
Memphis and Charleston Rail Roads, and the three feed
ers" 1 at Atlanta, causes the State Road to serve, as
it were, as a Venn C'ontracta, venting the supplies of six
different Railroads, a position from which no competition
can dislodge it.
The superiority of Railroad over all other stocks, par
ticularly at the South, where it is a legitimate and safe, not
a fancy stock business, is now a settled Jact. The road,
too, with all its appointments, will compare favorably
with any other in the Union. The road bed is in excellent
condition, most of it newly laid with T rail; the long
trestles have been filled in with earth work ; substantial
masonry for bridge piers and culverts, and ample depot
buildings of stone and brick, with large rolling stock 1 from
the best manufactures, make this the best investment
which can'be offered in the Stock market. V r e take it,
therefore, that the disposal of the road, on fair terms,will
not be a serious difficulty. The tug of war will be in the
mode of appropriating the proceeds of the sale. This : b
the matter in which the people are most interested, and
the wrangling of different sections may prevent any action
by this assembly. Since the people have been taxed ior
years for the road, it is just and proper that they should
receive some other than indirect benefit from it.
Os the different plans we have seen suggested, none pro
pose to apply the proceeds in such a manner that ithe peo
ple will be benefitted equitably. To apply it to other
schemes of internal improvement is of doubtful proprie
ty; even if a plan in which the different sections would
concur could be adopted, it would probably be changing a
good for a bad investment. Nor do the same reasons ex*
ist now for such investments by the State. Every part of
the State is supplied with railroad facilities except South
West Georgia, and there no natural difficulties are prer
sented greater than private enterprise surmounted on any
of the railroads except the W. & A. R. R.
As the fund now invested in the State Road was created
by taxation of the property of the citizens, the same plan
should be adopted in its distribution or return. To divide
it’ equally among the voters is, therefore, unjust. This ob
ject, we think, can be accomplished by a lease of the road
for five, eight or ten years to a Georgia Company, who
will work ths Road on their .own account, paying into the
State Treasury $£50,000 (in addition to the tax) annually—
the Road to be returned at of the lease in
as good order as it was recejj£gd —a failure to maintain the
road working a forfeiture of the contract. The receipts
of the road for the next year will not fall short of $700,-
000, continually increasing. Allowing fifty per cent fo r
working expenses, including the State tax, and a profit of
one hundred thousand dollars w r ould be left the lessees,
which could not be le?9than fourteen per cent.fper annum
nett profit.’
This would reduce the State tax more than fifty per
cent., the benefits of which would be directly felt by every
citizen of the State. Every branch of industry would ,be
fostered, and the road could be sold if desired by the peo
ple, at the expiration of the lease at a much better price
} than at the present time.
This pi a q can be perfected to consist with the well-be
ing of the Treasury and the rights of connecting interests.
It will riJ the management of its political complexion
which is, on many accounts, objectionable, though we be
! iieve the Governors and {Superintendents connected with
this road, would compare favorably in honesty and intelli
gence with those of neighboring States and connecting
roads. ‘
The Kansas Election.
St. Louis, Oct. 20, 1855.
Returns of the Congressional election of the 2d of Oc
tober from all the Counties in Kansas, give Whitfield i
Democratic, 2.504 votes, and Reeder 36.
The < lection on the 9th of October passed off quietly. !
In Leavenworth City Reeder got 530, and in Lawrence
City, 325. These two precincts give Reeder more than
twice the number of votes ihey gaye to Whitfield at the
election of the 2d of October.
Health of Montgomery
w Office Board of .Health )
Oct. 22, 1855—6 o’clock, p. m f
The board report two new case of yellow fever, ard
no death for the last 48 hours—leaving 50 cases and IS
deaths, from the first report on the 25th ult . to date
Physicians do not yet advise citizens to return with
their familieF.
Office Board of Health )
0ct.23,1855-6 o’clock, pm. \
The Board report no new'case ot yellow fever and
one death, for the last 24 hours—leaving 50 eases and 1U
deaths, from the first report on the 25th ult. to date.
[From the Daily Sun.]
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
•ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMSHIP AFRICA.
Further Decline in Cotton.
Columbia, Oct. 24, 4, p. m.
The steamship Africa has ‘arrived with dates from
L : verpool to the 15th inst.
She brings a further decline r of n quarter to three”
eights in cotton. Sales of the w’eek 31,000 bales.
Flour advanced one shilling.
Mo icy tighter. Consols S7£.
Allies active on the Danube. Kars bolds cut. Sevas
topol quiet. Allies threatening Perekop. Bombardment
of Odessa expected soon.
Revolution Expected in Naples.
It is stated that ‘‘King Bomba” lias withdrawn his
capital moneys from the National Bank, and invested
them in Amsterdam and America. The uncertainty of
the future is believed to be the cause. Meantime larrre
bodies of troops are in constant motion and the coast is
being strongly fortified. The capture of Sebastopol was
received by the people with great exulation. The house
of Bourbon seems tottering to its fail.
Pennsylvania Election.
Philadelphia, Oct. 20.
We have full returns from every county in the State.
The vote for canal commissioner stands as follows : Plum
er, (democrat,) 161,281; Nicholson, (fusionist,) 149,745.
Democratic majority, 11,536.
The legislature will stand : senate, 17 democrats to 16
fusionists ; house, 68 democrats to 32 fusionists.
Massachusetts Politics.
Boston, Oct. 20, 1855.
The lion. Robert C. Winthrop has written a letter to
the Whig Executive. Commit eo, expressing his continued
cordial co-opi ration with the Whig party, and denouncing
the Fusion movement in strong terms.
Hurricane at St. Domingo.
Boston, Oct. 22, 1855.
Advices received at this port from St. Domingo, state
that there had been a tremendous hurricane, which bad
blown down uearly half the houses, and destroyed the
crops. The merchant vessels in port were much injured,
I and two frigates were wrecked.
There was great distress among llie people on account
j of the destruction oi the crops, which the Government
j was taking measures to alleviate.
Governor of Utah.
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Washington, Oct. 21.
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From what can be ascertained nothing will he done
about the Governor of Utah until Congress meets, when
it is believed a strong military force vviilbc asked lor to
sustain the new Governor, whoever lie may be.
Conviction.
At the late October Term of Jones Superior Court, the
case of the State vs Morris Abraham, for the muider of
Richard J. Choate; the weight of testimony, on the part
of the State, being, on the minds of a majority of the Jury,
in favor of the defendant, the Jury after being out about
twenty hours, returned a verdict ot voluntary manslaugh
ter, whereupon his Honor Judge Hai deman sentenced
him to four years imprisonment in the Penitentiary—Poe,
Bonner and Sol. Gen. Saffold for the State, —Loehiane,
Stubbs aod Moses for Defendant.— Geo. Telegraph.
Rumored Murder of Ex-Governor Reeder.
St. Louis, Oct. 18.—It was rumored at Lexington,
Missouri, that ex-Governor Reeder was murdered at St.
Joseph’s, but it was pronounced to be a hoax. The edi
tor of the Lexington Express says that Reeder had been
fighting, but was not injured.
Fire in Madison.
I From the Madison Visitor we learn that a fire broke
j out in Madison Ga., Friday 19th, which at one time* threat
j ened with destruction the business portion of that beautu
ful town. The following were the buildings burutd:
A Blacksmith Shop, a Carpenter Shop, belonging to
the estate of Saft’ord, a two story house occupied by Mr.
Copeland, belonging to Mr. A. Atkinson i and the dwelling
house occupied by Mr. Goldberg, also belonging to Mr.
! Athinson, w’ere the buildings burned. To save the rest
j of the tow'n, the large wooden building occupied by Mr.
; Weathers as a Carpenter’s shop was cut entirely down.
China—American and English Victory over Pirates.
j —The boats of the U. S steamer Powhsllan and the
| British steamer Rattler, aided by the steamer Eaglet, re
i cently attacked a patty of pirates near Kuiac, chastised
j them severely, and captured a great quantity of stores, am
munition, and about $200,000 in treasure. Tlsecffietrs
employed estimate the guns taken at 200. large and small
and the pirates at 1000, of whom 500 were killed.
| Miss Eliza Logan - -Strange incidents some times
: occur in the life of au actor or actress. One evening last
! w'eek, while Miss Logan was performing in the “Hunch*
1 back,” at the Albany Theatre, aitd just us she said ‘“Clif
ford, why don’t you speak to me ?” one cf the spectators
replied, in an audible voi< e, “Do Clifford; I would, if she’d
talk to me in that way.”
Some of the Effects of the Fever. — lt appears that all
1 is not gloom and darkness; some of tljose who were for
tunate enough to escape the ravages of the epidemic are
beut on re-king sublunary happimss, despite the ordeal
through which they have passed. We aie credibly in
formed that ihe nt ptiijfs were celebrated a few dins ago
between a widow and widower —tbe husband cf the form
erjjhaving died just two weeks, and the spouse of the lat
ter deceased weeks previous. Quick work.—Nor
folk News.
Foote again in the Senate. —lt is said Mr. Foote w ill
be returned to the U. S. Senate, from California, by the
Legislature elect, provided the friends of other gentlemen
should n t succeed in staving off the election.
It is reported in the New Orleans papers that Charles
Derbigny, the know-nothing candidate for governor in
Louisiana, is a native of France !
Georgia and Florida Railroad Company —This Com
pany was duly organized at Albany on ihe 15th inst., the
sum required befoae organization, ($100,090) having born
subscribed. The road is to be bnilt from Albany to A
mericjs, a distance of 36$ miles, the estimated cost of the
grading and bridging of which is $175,0<*0. The Pot*
riot thinks the whole work can be let at the estimates,
payable half in cash and half in stock of the company.
Liberal Pay. - The Rev. lleniy Ward Bceeher is
giving lectures out West at $125 each and expenses paid *
Gen. CuUom, an ex-member of C ingress from Ten
nessee, is a, candidate for the Clerksh p of thv m xt TliiU'4
Sttttes House pf Reprefeiuativep,