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gimfs attir Stxdinci 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. ’ _ 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 CELEBRATED VERMIFUGE, and* take none else All other \ ermtfuges, in comparison, are worthless. Dr. W’Lane* gen uine Vermifuge, also his Celebrated Liver Pills, can low 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 bottles in my family, with decided advantage in every case, I can recommend it as the best-and rpost plea-nt medicine I have ever seen. W. D. F- SAWRJK. Tuscumbia, March 22, 1848. by all Druggists everywhere. Fee long p■- veithement in another cofnmit. eefll—lin