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COLUMBJJS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 27, 1855.
Calhoun on Government.
We give up our editorial apace to-day, to a very in*
teresting review of this great work. W e have never
studied the “Disquisition” with reference to the objec
tions raised against it by our able correspondent, and
are, therefore, not'prepared to give an opinion as to the
merits of his criticism. It is but justice to ourselves to
say that the objections to the “Disquisitioa” are con
fined to mere speculative opinions as to the origin of
Government, and do not touoh the great practical ques
tions which are discussed with such transcendent ability
by the greatest of American statesman. In respeot to
the powers conferred upon the Federal Government
and the rights and remedies reserved to the States re
spectively or to the people, we presume our correspon
dent will agree with us in the opinion that the ‘‘Disqui
sition” is the “American text.” It is unquestionably the
most masterly development and exposition of the States
Rights theory of government that has ever appeared in
print. On these accounts the labors of Mr. Calhoun are
invaluable, however liable to objection his theory as to
the origin of government may be. In reply, however,
to the remark of our correspondent that Mr. Calhoun*
“has legislated God out of his own woild,’’ we remark
that the natural forces are as much a part of God’s work
as the supernatural, and that a careful consideration of
the one is as much a duty of the Christian philosopher
as of the other. God is the God of nature as well as
of grace, and may be discerned in the one circle of his
works as well as iu the other. Mr. Calhoun’s thoughts
were tuned especially to the consideration of the
laws of nature which it was the duty of Govern
ment to observe to preserve the harmony of society and
promote the happiness of man. Hence the very slight
and, may be, sometimes, inaccurate allusions he makes
to supernatural agencies. If the subject of Providence
had come within the perview of his design, we doubt not
but that our correspondent would have found Mr. Cal
houn orthodox. We have the highest assurance that
he was a believer in the Christian religion and not only
heard but heeded “the advent bells of Jesus Christ.”
With these remaiks we commend the views of our
correspondent to our readers as eminently worthy of
their consideration.
By the way, two more volumes of Mr. Calhoun’s
Works (V and VI) have been issued from the press.
Kansas Emigrant Aid Society.
lion. Robert Toombs will address the citizens of Colum
bus at Temperance Hall this evening, in advocacy ol the
claims of this society. The public are respectfully invited
to attend. .
Democratic Maes Meeting at MilledTgeville.
Our proposition to hold a mass meeting at Millfedgeville
during the first week of the session, meets with very gene
ral favor. Friday of the first week, is suggested as the
most convened and suitable time. We hope our exchanges
will call attention to this proposition.
The Campbell Minstrels.
This capital band of Minstrels will be here on Monday
next’ The old favorites Peel, Rutnsey and Farrenburg are
still attached to the troupe, and there is besides a very large
addition of now talent. The bills are very attractive, and
promise a rich treat of music and drollery. Go and see
them.
Kansas—its Soil, Climate and Productions.
It is very easy to get to Kansas. There is a continuous
line of steam conveyance from Columbus to Kansas city.
The easiest, shortest and cheapest route is by the Western
and Atlantic railroad to Nashville, thence down the Cum
berland river to the mouth of the Ohio river by steamboat,
1 hence up the Mississippi to St. Louis by steamboat, thence
up the Missouri river to Kansas city by steamboat. The
whole tj;ip may be made in 12 days at a cost of S4O for
cabin, and $25 for deck passage.
The soil of Kansas is represented as the most fertile in
the world. It will produce 50 bushels of corn, 20 bushels
of wheat and 1000 lbs. of hemp to the acre. The hemp is
worth $5 per hundred pounds, and one hand can cultivate
10 acres of it besides the usual quantity of land in provisions.
Negro fellows are worth from 1000 to 1500 dollars ; hire
from 150 to *250 dollars, and easily clear SSOO per annum.
Lands ol similar quality to that in Kansas Territory sell
readily for S4O to SSO per acre in Platte county, Missouri.
The climate of Kansas is better than that of Virginia, and
is as healthy as any new country. The diseases are prin
cipally cnills and fever.
For the Times <fc Sentinel.
Mr. Calhoun’s Work on Government.
Messrs. Editors : —I send you for publication an ex*
tract of a private letter which came into my hands a
few days since. It will explain itself and I doubt not
will prove highly interesting to your readers. A.
* * * * I have an unpleasant recollection
that io a running conversation at my house, I ventured,
without muoh cosideration, to express somewhat of dis
sent from the great work of Mr. Calhoun—that you
suggested a willingness to see in a letter a statement of
my points, and that I rashly acquiesced in the sugges
tion, and so fiud myself in possession of a gage that
perils my knighthood. I do not hesitate to display the
disadvantages under which I labor in attempting to re
deem my promise. Hereafter you will never question
that 1 possess a certain sort of courage, whether it en
rolls me in the lists of chivalry or not.
Mr. C.-dhoun’s name is “a tower of strength, ’’ but 1
have been in the habit from boyhood of acting on La
con’s advice, and “considering the consequence of what
is said , rather than the consequence of him who said
it.’ Ido not quite adopt the zeal of Cicero, however
much his devotion and eloquence are to be admired.—
“ Errore , Mehercele , malo cum Platone quam cum istis
vera scnlire.
I have little difficulty in disposing of the argument
derived from Mr. Calhoun’s name and authority—
Homer sometimes nodded. ’’ Hut enough and in
mediar res. ,
Mr. Calhoun (but l have forgotten to tell you after
ail, at what disadvantage I enter on this task. 1 am
here in tny sanctum, worn dowu by the anxieties in*
separable from long attendance upon a sick family, and
subject to constant interruptions by the ever recurring
demands of duty. In the midst of such distractions
J am hardly capable oj* the Hose analysis a considers
lion of Mr. Calhoun’s “Disquisition on Government”
demands ) But once more to begin : Mr. Calhoun lays
the bas.s for all government in the fact that “our indi
vidual are stronger than our social feelings,” and that
this constitution of our nature “uoessarily leads to con
ffict between in Jividuals.’’ With respect to which I
observe that if our constitution were directly the reverse,
we should still require government to maintain the “so-
oial state,” for which he justly says, man was oreated.
I remark additionally,, that “individual conflicts” are
not prevented by Governmeut; and if no such con
flicts existed the necessity for Government would be no
less than it is. Order, development and progress would
remain as rational'ends to human society and these
would demand “Government.” I again say the fact is
doubtful, whether our individual feelings, as contra
distiguiehed from our social feelings are stronger •, most
of our individual feelings are social and are so strong
as to overcome uniformly the centrifugal force of de
praved selfishness and result in sooiety, which is a state
essentially anti-selfish-—that in fact social more than
selfish ends demand government. There is Government
in Heaven—perfect government where the facts of his
supposition are reversed ; not to say in our families,
the most affeotionate, where all individual preferences
are lost in a desire to promote the comfort and well
being of others.
Mr. Calhoun’s is the antagonistic philosophy. If the
social feelings predominated over the selfish or indi
dividual, we should then have had social “ conflicts. ’*
It is all battle with him, all antagonism ; “a state of
nature is a state of war.” I, on the other hand, think
that the ends of government lie be v ond the juris
diction of feeling 5 that God intended harmony and ol
der, and constituted man for both, and that government
is ipdispensible to support the social frame, originating
in 6ur infirmities—our limited powers and depraved
appetites, so far only as government looks to restraint ,
hut having beyond them a wide sphere of activities em
bracing exalted ends of development and discipline.—
In one word—that without any “conflict” or “antago
nism,” government, like man and society, would be
all the more perfect; that this “antagonism aod conflict’’
are disturbing forces and not originating causes. —
That the world might get along tolerably well without
a fight ! But we may see moreofthis hereafter. The
which lam laboring to present is simply, that the
whole nature of man— all his powers and capacities—
his wants and offices, rights and duties, individual and
social , imply government , and that God who gave him
a constitution requiting government, established govern
ment with reference to this whole nature, and solely
with reference to its restraining office upon the evil
elements of his nature. Mr. Calhoun seems to have
had a glimpse of this when he said, “government is
necessary to the perfection of (man’s) faculties.” This
seems to convey him beyond his circles of “antagonism,’’
which, like Dante's interminible “oireles,” involve every
thing from the “central hell” to the empyreum •, he
seems to have passed beyond the “concentric rings,”
the noise and tumult of ceaeeless “conflict,” beyond the
“everlasting no,” and to catch a glimpse of the “bright
world.”
I confess myself to be staggered by the following
paragraph: “If man had been differently constituted
in either particular—if instead of being social in his na
ture, he had been constuted without sympathy for his
kind, and independent of others for his safety and exis
istence ; or if on the other hand, he had been so created,
as to feel more intensely what affected others than what
affected himself, (if that were possible) or even had this
supposed interest been equal , it is manifest that in
either case , there would have been no necessity for
government, and none would ever have existed.
None of all this is “manifest” to me, and a part of it
entirely heterodox. What, if man bad as much inte
rest in his brother as himself, it would break down
human government! Such is the clear import of what
he says. I cannot believe a word of it. That he means
this, is apparent from what follows : “If their feelings
and affections were stronger for others than for them
selves, or even as strong , the necessary result would
seem to be that all individuality would be lost; and
boundless and remedeless disorder and confusion
would ensued*
To “love our neighbor as ourself” then, would be a
great calamity! and it would seem to be doubtful
whether we ought to love him at all 1
In strong contrast with the opinion just expressed,
that government would be impossible , if men had a
greater or even equal interest in their neighbors as
themselves, he goes right forward to depict a govern
ment based on such a constitution of nature. The “ob
ject” of government “would be reversed”—he says,
“selfishness would have to be encouraged and benevo
lence discouraged, ’’ “and this too by a government ad
ministered by those, who, on the supposition would
have the greatest aversion for selfiishness, and the
highest admiration for benevolence.” It is true, he
says, such a government would be impossible, but why
a whit more so than on his own theory ? And be
sides, the impossibility, if it existed in the ease of a
greater interest in the welfare of others, all vanishes
in the other case of equal interest; and so far from
any impossibility on h;s own theory as well as on his
own supposition , all difficulty would disappear, exeept
upon his own violent assumption, that there can be no
government in the absence of “conflict.”
lon will perceive how impossible it would be for me
to express in the space allowed me by any tolerable
letter, my views of Mr. Calhoun’s work. It is Grecian
in its style of thought and severity of diction. We
are charmed by ths noble simplicity whiohadorns the
work, yet much as I fear to do so—very much as I
fear to seem to affect to do so, I cannot help thinking
it plainly certain that his theory is radically and logi
cally wrong—like his mind—a great and “nice machine,
scarco ever turned aright.” Mr. Calhoun is a sort of !
political Compte. He is too intellectual —too loyal to j
the uncertain “canons of logic”—reasons God out of
his world —fixes his rapt gaze so intently on his earthly
resplendencies that he never lifts his eyes up to the
unimaginable sun. Himself; forgets,'not being a prac j
tical cxpei imental Christian—not having been thor- \
(Highly broken on the wheel —not realizing even the I
sublime formula of the Magi of the East, that ‘-‘the seien'*
ces are no otherwise valuable than as by steps they
lead up to the Great God, and descend thence to man”
—much less the half Christian doctrine of Cicero—
de potestatc Deorum (in relation to that of which the j
Gods have the disposal) least of all, the Christian certain* !
ty, that in politics as in physical nature and morals, j
God is the central thought. God in Christ is the
only philosophy. The world resounded with the “ad- ;
’ vent bells” of Jesus Christ for four thousand years
and man was deaf. He came—died—rose—ascended
to lle?mn, and for two thousand years, the lightnings
of Omnipotent Love, hurled by the hand of the Holy j
Spirit from the dark and stormy brow of Calvary, have
scarcely broken up the outer crust of *sin and igno - j
rancc t whioh fortifies the human heart 1 and now in j
this year of our blessed Lord, A 855, a Christian statesman
is half ashamed to whisper the name of Jesus Christ
in the high counoils of State I But quoniam ? Calhoun
believed in God doubtless. In his “disquisition on gov- !■
emmeM'* he set out by saying—“To the Infinite Being,
the Creator of all, belongs exclusively the care and
perintendence of the whole. Here is Providence
Orthodoxy—,Methodism. He adds, almost, perhaps
quite devoutly, “lie in his infinite wisdom and goodness
has allotted to every class of animated beings, its condi
tions and appropriate functions, and has endowed each
with feelings, instincts, capacities, asd faculties best
adapted to its alloted condition. He proceeds conforma
bly to the “Divine wisdom and goodness,” to assign
man to the social and political state. Would not the
logical conclusion from these premises be, that the hu
man <( fcelings t instincts and capacities , and faculties
are such asbest (i adapted' y him to the government
necessary to maintain u the social and political stale ?
Mr. Calhoun quite otherwise finds “confliotand in
this very Divine constitution of human nature, the
great difficulty to a rightly ordered oommnnity—the
elements that need to be controlled; and that are in
“ antagonism ” to good order and government. The
defect he says is tadical and inherent in the nature of
man, and yet God gave him that nature ! Constitu
ted him for government , and so constituted him that he
would be in eternal “convict” with his fellows, and
with government !
This defect being inherent in man necessarily attaches to
all government —it produces “antagonism” and “conflict,”
and must be remedied- He proposes to show how. A
Christian it seems to me could not overlook moral powers ;
the regeneration of man, and the control of man’s adverse
instincts—by the introduction of such forces as are known
only to the scheme of the gosp el. Even a Deist might hope
something from the blind auguries of natural religion. Mr.
Calhoun is perfectly independent here and everywhere of
God and religion as a divine system. He docs not even ap
peal to man’s better “ instincts ” his sentiments and the as
pirations which in the midnight of infidelity and heathen
ism, lost themselves among the stars in theimilky way,philo
sophy and poetry. He sticks to human nature. His “con
flict” he must have. It is his vade mccum. In the most
wonderful, and as I think absurdmanner, he invokes as re
medies for the inherent defects of all government —“suf-
rage,” “organism,” “Constitution,”
Now all these, towit: “organism,” suffrage,” and “consti
tution,” would seem to constitute parts, of that any gover
ment which he finds to be inherently and necessarily de
fective, and so to partake of the infirmity of the human
constitution. How then is order and peace and g<rveinment
to spring out of “conflict ?” How is (one) defect to correct
another ? How shall an accumulation of defects remedy
the “antagonism” oI the human instincts ? That there is
difficulty in human government is obvious enough—that it
springs from human passions, depraved by sin and pervert
ed by ignorance is certain. Now is “suffrage,” organism,”
constitution,” the remedy ? What shall correct these ?
The truth is what we want, and if it is “at the bottom of
a well,” we shall not see much of it until we let down our
buchets and draw it up. We may gaze into its depths and
see stars, and seeing these, speculate and imagine they
are coals of fire, but experiment resolves the doubt, and
reveals the light, coo], refreshing water of life. Govern
ment is a thing of experience. It is not a proposition in
Bonchelet’s Mechanics or Gummer’s astronomy. It is a
practical operation involving a few fixed facts, and many
changeable Conditions. After all that may be done, per
fection will remain the dream of Zealots. To purify the
great popular heart and instruct its mind, processes that im
ply more forces foreign to human natures Divine, and bring
God into his world, are worth a thousand times more than
all the “suffrage,” “organism,” and constitution,” on earth.
In this way approximation may be made to the ideas of
social happiness and political perfection— approximation
only. I do not say “suffrage,” “organization,” and “con
stitution,” are. indifferent things. I think very differently.
But as remedies, radical and efficient ones for the inher
ent difficulties of government, springing out of human in
stincts—they are with all submission just as absurd.
Mr. Calhoun puts the governed and the rulers in “antago,
nistic relations.” Nothing can be more untrue. The rela
tion is a natural one. God established it and harmonized
its perfectly consistent elements. How partial and humil
iating a view, it is to consider “ religion ” and “education,”
as mere “devices” (vide 10th and 11th pages) to prevent
government from abusing its powers, and to rank “the in
stitution9 of the Jews ” with those of the “Chinese” and
“Hindoos,” as mere conventional establishments looking to
the ends alone of human government ? To the successful
application of these and other “devices,” viz: “supersti
tion,” “ceremonies,” and organic arrangements,” he traces
ala Gibbon in his “ Decline and Fall of the Roman Em
pire”—the subsequent advancement of qyr race in civiliza
tion and intelligence.” All this I cannot regard as good
history and logic and orthodoxy.
I am obliged to think John Lock’s Ezsay on civil govern-,
ment,” superior as a logician, to Mr. Calhoun—the only
superior I know him to possess in any language. And now
having tried you down without scarcely touching this great
subject, I must leave off where I began, in medias res.
The thing of pretending to say anything on the subject in
a letter was absurd. The whole work I think liable to in
finite criticism, but dismiss it for the present at least, with
the expression ol the hope, that common hope of sinners,
that I shall have more mercy than I show to others. There
is not a particle of vanity in a word I have written. I think
it extremely probable that in my haste and circumstances,
I have misconceived much and said almost nothing intelli
gibly. I say nothing of Mr. Calhoun’s double-headed gov
ernment ; nothing of his State votes, &,o. See. Sec. Take
all together, I think the American text remains to be writ
ten. * * * * * ‘ W. T. S.
Hon. W. L. Y*****.
Free Soil Proceedings in Kansas.
St* Louis, Oct. 22, 1855.
j The Kansas correspondent of The Missouri Democrat
! says, the returns from twenty-two precincts give Reeder
for Congress 1,935 votes. There were still twenty-nine
precincts to hear from, and it was thought his vote would
i exceed 3,000. The election passed off peaceably, and no
j persons were permitted to vote unless they had been actual
! residents of a city or town for thirty days preceding the
j election.
The Free Soilers are getting up documents wherewith
to contest Whitfield’s seat in Congress. They profess to
b“ able to prove that there were only four legal pro-slave
ry voters at Franklin, while Whitfield received 61 votes
there; that out of 200 votes east tor Whitfield at Wyan
dott only 30 were legal; that out of 230 cast at Oaawat
j tamie, not over 50 were legal; that at Baptist Mission,
i which gave Whitfield o\er 100 votes, there w’ere but 17
j ,e g*d voters, and only 13 of thorn oast ballots; and in fine,
that Dot 1,000 legal votes w ere cast for Whitfield through*
I out the wdiole territory.
’ Delegates to the Constitution Convention had beeu
chosen. They will form a State Constitution for Kausae,
and apply for admission into the Union. Mr. Reeder
will be the bearer of the Constitution and petition to
Washington.
The Know Nothings in Virginia.
Baltimore, Oct. 22, 1855.
A Convention o’ the Know Nothing party in Virginia
was held at Lynchburg last week, and finally adjourned
on Saturday.
Resolutions were passed fully endorsing the Philadel
phia platform, especially that port-on of it in relation to
slavery, and recommending an opi n organization. It was i
also recommend* and that the nomination of a candidate for
the Presidency should be postponed to a period not later
than the Ist of June next.
Personal. —Thackeray will deliver the first of his series
of lectures, on the four Georges cf England and English
society during their reigns, on Thursday evening. Novem
ber 1, at Dr. Chapiu’s church, New York.
Further by the Africa.
From the Seat of War.
Columbia, Oct. 24.
The papers say the Russians have withdrawn from the
North side of Sevastopol towards Baelbeek. A few are
left in the forts.
The Czar is at Nioolaiff attending a council of War.— ’
The French are concentrating men and ammunition at
Silistria.
Austrian circulars to the Representations say that
though Prussia is at liberty to offer a mediation, the pres
ent is not the time; that the Western Powers must follow
up the advantage alreaky gained, and not treat with Rus
sia until she is expelled from the Crimea.
An engagement had taken place between the Russians
and the Turks in Asia, in which 400 of the latter were
killed, and Ali Pasha taken prisoner. The garrison of
Kars was reduced to great extremity ; Omar Pasha was
advancing to raise the siege.
Nineteen Russian merchantmen had been captured in
the Baltic on the coast of Finland.
Denmark invites all the maratine powers, including the
United States, to a Congress at Copenhagen to settle al]
questions arising under the Sound Dues.
The Ministry of Greece has resigned, and anew one
been formed.
The Allied Fleet is before Odessa.
Markets.
Brown & Shipley’s circular says there is almost a panic
in the cotton market. There are more sellers than buy
ers, and some sales have been forced at a decline of nearly
£ a penny. The market dosed steadier, as Bank rate of
interest has not been increased.
Mount Vernon.
A speaker at a meeting of the Mount Vernon Associa
tion of Philadelphia last week, stated that .$12,000 had
been collected in North Carolina —that Georgia, Alabama
and Virginia had responded, and that $70,000 of the
$200,000 asked for Mount Vernon by its owner, had been
raised.
A Jewish Mayor.
Mr. Alderman Solomons, a Jew, has been elected Lord
Mayor of London by a large majority. After a thousand
years, through Catholic and Protestant dynasties, England
has at length learned the doctrine of true religious liberty.
The Catholic emancipation bill,’ so gloriously carried
after years of opposition, was the lirst victory, of reasou
and justice over religious prejudice. Whatever else has
followed had been but the natural result of the original
movement.
On the same ground where King John or any English
Baron robbed or tortured Jews ad libitum , this victory
[ over their prejudices so far as to electa Jew Mayor
of London, we esteem not the least among the many
glories that adorn the history of the English people.
Texan Items.
By the arrival of the Nautilus we have Gal vest ou dates
j to October 17.
A writer in the San Antonio Ledger says Gen. Smith
has ordered three companies of mounted rifl.-men from
the Rio Grande to San Antonio, and they are to be placed
at points where depredations have bee.n recently committed
Another company will also be added to these, and all of
them will be filled up by recruits, who are now on their
way to San Antonio. Col. Johnson’s regiment is expect
ed in about a month, so that Gen. Smith will soon have
sufficient force to afford ample protection to the frontier.
! A letter received by the Civilian, dated at Austin on
the 10th irist., says the Adjutant General’s office was to
tally destroyed by fire—not a record has been saved.—
Every vestige of the military rolls of the Republic aud of
the State has been annihilated. The fire was the work of
an incendiary.
The Lockhart Clarion notices the departure of several
young men from Webberville to take part in the Mexican
revolution.
Mexican Items.
Acoording to the Brownsville Flag of the 29th ult. .
San Lnis Potosi, about which so much has beeu said of
late, seems not to be in the hands of the insurgents, after
all. From the best accounts we can learn, it seems that
the insurgents were invited to the city, and that eight
hundred of them had presented themselvt j near the place,
when one of the commanders, Gen. Garza, entered the
city for the purpose of conferring with the pronunciados.
But that gentleman had no sooner entered the city tbau
he was seized upon and compelled to subscribe to such
terms as were dictated to him, with the pleasing alterua.
tive to “sign or die.”
Gen. Garza signed and was allowed to retire. He
hastened to rejoin his troops, under whose cover he ab
solved himself from his forced obligations, and proceeded,
vi tt armis, to force bis enemies to terms. A bloody
fight is said to have ensued, which lasted three days and
resulted in no other advantage to either side than that of
leaving Garza in possession of the field. Thus matters
are said to have rested at the last accounts, when Vidauri
is reported to have dispatched from Monterey reinforce
ments both for Matamorasand San Luis Potoei.
Health of Montgomery.
Ofifce Board of Health, )
£Oct. 26th, 1855 —6 o’clock, P. M. $
The Board of Health are at length enabled to announce
that, in consequence of the very favorable change in the
weather, and the successive black and white frosts of last
night and the night before, the physicians advise that all
absentees may return with entire safety.
Death of Maj. Woodbridge, U. S. A.
? From the Pennsacola Gazette, of the 20th inst., we learn
that Maj. Woodbridge, U. S. A , died very suddenly on
Saturday morning last, at Fort Barrancas, near the Pensa
cola Navy Yard. No particulars are given.
Bed Republicanism.
Political.— An appeal to the European Democracy
(Red Republicans) has been made by Kossuth, Mazzini &,
Ledru Rollin, announcing that by the fall of Sebastopol,
the war is irrecoverably and indefinitely prolonged—it be
ing impossible for Russia to treat after a defeat,, without
sinking into a third rate position and it being impossible
for the allies in the face of public opinion, to offer peace
on less onerous conditions. They call upon the European
democracy now to unite against their enemies and act, pro
claiming liberty and fraternal association for all.
Revolution in Spain.
The Paris correspondence of the London Times con
tains a curious statement, to the effect that the fillibusters j
ot the United States have been forwarding money to the j
Carlists of Catalonia, to assist them in their insurrectionary I
movements. The object of this proceeding is said to be !
to lacilitate with the Comte de Montemolin, (when he be :
comes king') negociations for the transfer of Coba to this
country.
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Whitfield or Boeder.
The Washington correspondent of the New York Cou- j
l ier & Enquirer says that the'organization of the nextU. !
S. House of Representatives willptobably turn upon the
question of admitting Whitfield or Reeder, because the
Northern members will, generally, vote for no man lor
speaker who is not previously pledged to constitute the
Committee on Elections in a manner which shaL preclude
the recognition of Whitfield’s pretensions.
European Designs of the Allies.
A Paris Correspondent of the N. Y. Courier says, that a j
programme ol future operations by the Allies, has been
drawn up by Emperor Napolean and has been approved bv
England and Sardina. Its great principle consists in efforts
to disable Russia. Italy it h said, will be transfer)ed to
the advantage of the Sardinian sovereign who has so adroit
ly entitled himself to the favor ot France and England by
the liberal form of bis government, and by his entering into
their alliance. Northern Italy to constitute a kingdom,
and to be his portion—the Roman and Neapolitan States
to be formed into a separate one for a member of his fami
ly. Spain to be protected against the designs of Don Car
los (the heroic Count de Monternolin'i nnd ~ .
lustrious Due de Montpensier. tS •
says he is equal to the task of combattin e .? r *'‘ aP M 6011
chivalrous Count de Chambord, in his pretlnsion/t? 1 Brly
in France, without foreign aid. “ a3lO re, cn
Died.—On the 16th inst., Mr. Joseph M. Nanier th
son of Leroy Napier, Esq., of this county, expired J l
residence of his father in Vineville. He u-L ti, !*
years of age—just standing on the threshold of life nl's
hopefully contemplating the prospect ahead, when dea h
called him away. We knew him well—he was fall ,■
good qualities, both of head and heart—an affectiona°o
temper aud cultivated uuderstandirg made 1 im gener; ]) -
beloved—he was the centre of mat y warm aympath es
and around him were clustered many loving hopes. ’
[Geo. Telegraph .
A Steamship Race Decided. —The United States mail
steamship Arago and the Vanderbilt steamer Ariel both
sailed from New York for Havre, via Cowes, at ISo’cl’k
on Wednesday, September 26th, and it was understood
that was to be a trial of the speed of the two steamers
The Ariel was ahead the first day or two, but the Atlan
tic brings news of the Arago’s arrival at Cowes cn the
ith of October, and there is nothing said of the Ariel, 8(>
that she could not have arrived. The ti ip of the Arago
was a remarkably short one—only nine days. For her it
is extraordinary, as she has generally been from eleven
to fourteen days in making her voyages.
Disastrous Fire in Mississippi. —The Concordia In
telligencer, of Friday 20th, says :
W. W. Wilkins, Esq,, of Natchez, has received infor
mation by letter of a disastrous fire ou Wildwood Planta
tion, on Lake Washington, Washington county, Miss.,
belonging to Wade Hampton, Jr., Esq., by which his
splendid gin edifice, embracing the steam saw r and corn
mills, was consumed by fire last week, on Tuesday, to
gether with one hundred and eighty bales of cotton. The
loss, including the value of the cottoD, caunot be less than
$22,000.
Cholera in Paris. —A Paris correspondent of the New
York Tribune, says the cholera has appeared in that city,
and that at Hotel Dieu there were about one hundred
deaths during the month just passed, and almost an equal
number at each of the other large hospitals. The gov
ernment is endeavoring to suppress the fact of its ep.
pearance.
Outrages. —Theophilus Pierce, a grocery keeper of this
place, was arrested ou Thursday uight last, for shooting
through the window of the Knights of Jericho Hall at the
guard in the ante-room. The glass from the broken
window covered the body of the Guard, but he was not
hit by the shot from the gun. Pierce is undergoing an
j investigation before a magistrate’s court. — Griffin Union.
I Giving up the Ship. —lt is rumored that Capt. Nve,
j of the steamship Pacific, will retire from the service on
i his return from his present voyage, and Capt. EMridge
! will succeed him.
i Death of Wm. Poe , Esq —We learn that Mr. Poe,
j the President of the Bank of Montgomery , died yesterday
| morning, soon after day-break, bis illness having been o(
about a week. The nature of his disease we have not
i learned.— Mont. Mad.. 220f.
1 Senator ’ Toombs, —We see it stated that Senator
Toombs, has accepted .he invitation of the Boston Com*
mittee on Slavery Lectures to feeture in that city. He
will deliver his address on the 24th of January, and has
i selected for his theme, “The consistency of African slave*
ry with the constitution ot the United States and repub
lican institutions, and the effect of the American Revoiu*
tion upoi the African race.”
Ancient Church Dignitaries. —Of thirty-nine English
i and Irish Bishops, tour are upwards of eighty veals of
■ age, eleven are between seventy and eighty years, four
■; teen between sixty and seventy, five between fifty and six
ty, aud five between lorty and fitly.
The Evening News —By an announcement made
i yesterday, we learn that our evening cotemporary has
! changed proprietors and editors. Mr. Howard takes leave
! of the readers of the paper in a neat and appropriate vale,
j dictory, and C. C. Langdon Esq., is announced to take
! charge of the paper on the Ist of November, prox. Our
i friend Howard ha3 proven himself a very zealous defender
| of Samnite politics, while he lias been uniformly courteous
| to his cotemporaries—those who differed as well as those
j who argued with him on matters political. We tender
him our very best wishes for his success and happiness in
whatever business lie may pursue for the future.
Mr. Langdon, as all our readers know, is a veteran
campaigner. The News under his management will at
once take a leading position among the papers of the State.
VVe desire to welcome him back to the “field of his fame’
with unaffected cordiality.— Mobile Rogisler , 16th.
Shooting Scrape. —W’e learn that on Sunday night
last Duncan McCall of this place had a difficulty with a
Mr. Terry from Georgia.in which the former was shot and
dangerously wounded by the latter. The ball we under
stand, entered the breast of Mr. McCall and lodged in the
shoulder. Some doubts are entertained of his recovery ;
we hope, however, his condition is not so dangerous.—Eu
faula True Whig
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON STATEMENTS.
:§ 2 .3 PS ? Erg| V ,§r ,Stock
“ g i.g § •5-51 on
‘2 * * 2 o®. ! - 3-a og 32. ; hand
week a.g 1 g < g < ; So.'a® §£L ■ this
ending << o- • ? r •< % j day.
J 2771 1631 4544 6175 1071 1672 274: 1071
1855. * j 524 4341 22722 27063 2547 10310 1285': 134G9
, Columbus, Oct. 27.
COTTON.—Prices have been irregular since the pub
lication of the steamer Africa’s accounts. There has,
however, been a good demand at a reduction ol i to |c on
some grades. We quote, Middlings 7f to 7f, Strict Mid
dlings 7£, Good Middlings 7g, Miod.ing Fair 7} cets.
Montgomery, Oct. 26.
Since the steamer’s news CoUon has declined from J
to |e. But little offering to-day. We now quote Mid
dling 6£, Good Middling 7 cents.
What do ihe Physicians Say ?
Listen to the testimony of an eminent physician in
1 favor of M’Lane’s Vermifuge, which is now universally
acknowledged to be the best in use, even members of the
; Inedical Jaeulty (who are so often opposed to the use ot
j patent medicines,) cannot withhold their approval of thi s
invaluable remedy:
j Lind, Stark Cos. Ohio, Jan. 8, 1819.
I have used Dr M’Lane’s Worm Specific in my private
practice, and am prepared to say that the unparalleled suc
cess with wriich I have prescribed its use. both for children
and adults, induces me to say the most in its favor of any
specific or patent medicine ever before brought to iny no
tice. The mode of administration, the smallness of the
dose, and the certainty ot its efficacious effect-, give it, in
my opinion, a decided advantage over any pother medicine
ot the kind before the public.
Purchasers will please be carelul lo ask for DR.M’I.ANE’S
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be had at all respectable brugStorebiu the United Mates and
Canada.
by all the Druggists in Columbus, and b\ one
igent in every town. oct2s—wfetw^w.
From the Ministry.
The following evidence in from Ike AV. IV D. F. Saif
rie, Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal
Church for the District of Sorth Alabama.
Dr. Charles Williams, — Dear Sir: I take pleasure in
giving mv testimony tulhe virtue* ot your excellent TuJ
monic Bal.-am of Wiicft£H?frs\’ Having used several
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Tuscumbia, March 22, 1848.
by all Druggists everywhere. Fee long p■-
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