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dimes mrfr Sittfitwl. 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. [ Washington, Oct. 21. j 1 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,