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• COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT, 31.
South Carolina and the Ctncinnatti Convention
an excitement has been produced in our fiery
little teigbbor across the Savannah, by a proposition to
send delegates to the next National Convention of the
Democratic party. Col. Orr, M. C., is a decided ad
vocate of the proposition. Col. Keitt, M. C., is as de
cidedly opposed to it. Capt. Brooks, M. C., thinks it
best to send delegates, if the other Southern States re
quire it, but would not do any thing which would dis
tract the Slate.
The Edgefield Advertiser comes in as a pacificator
between these distinguished contestants and proposes a
compiomise :
Mr. Keitt, and those who think with him, agree
to go into the National Democratic Convention as an ex
periment, with the stipulation (on the part of Mr. Orr and
his friends) that, if our principles are compromitted in the
least for the purpose of secuiing the election of any given
candidate, our delegation shall instantly leave the body !
Suppose we unitedly offer to Virginia, Georgia and the
other Southern Stales, or any ot them, our faithful co-ope
ration in this business, upon a like stipulation to be observed
by them with like promptitude ! Could or could not our
State, thus guarded and thus fore armed, go into the Cin
cinnati meeting without infringing her consistency or in re
ality loweiing her tone !
We hope the compromise of the Advertiser will be
accepted. The Georgia delegates will be specially in
structed to insist upon an endorsement of the Nebraska
Kansas act aud of the fugitive slave law as a prelimina
ry to co-operation on their part with the National De
mocracy. Cannot South Carrolina follow suit ‘/ She
has stood aloof too long already and weakened her in
fluence by her supposed haughtiness and self conceit.
It must nov be evident that if the Union is saved, and
the rights of the South are protected in the Union, the
National Democracy is the only party which has the
will and power to do the work. It is, therefore, the
duty of every Southern State to strengthen the Demo
cratic party and at the same time to purify it by the in
fusion of sound men and the expulsion of unsound men
from its bosom.
Male College in East Alabama-
Rev. George W. Price is now on a visit to this city
for the purpose, of laying before our people the elaims of
this noble enterprise upon their liberality. The parties
engaged in this undertaking are determined to erect a
first class college at Auburn, Alabama. The very inti
mate business relations which have receutly sprung up
between the two places, encourage the friends of the
project to expect not only sympathy, but liberal assis
tance from our citizens. We hope it will bo given
promptly and cheerfully. Whatever tends to build up
our environs is beneficial to us.
Wo havo the pleasure of knowing Mr. Price inti
mate, and cheerfully commend hint to the confidence
of our citizens. He will remain with us a few days
and will find opportunity to lay the claims of the col
lege more at large before the Columbus public. We
wish him evory success in his praiseworthy undertak
ing.
The Campbell Minstrels.
This crack company has arrived and are giving
nighffy entertainments to the public, at Temperance
Hall. The distinguished success which has crowned
their efforts to please, renders eulogy on our part un
necessary. Their audieno.'s are large and fashionable.
Kansas Meeting in Harbour County,]Alabama.
We learn from the Clayton Banner , that a large
and respectable meeting of the citizens of Barbour county,
Ala., was held on the 27th inst., “to take some action rel
ative to*the subsisting relations between the slave holding
States and the Territory of Kansas, and further to de
vise means and raise funds to aid in sending emigrants
from the slave (holding) States to Kansas.”
The meeting was organized by calling lion. John
Gill Shorter to the chair, and appointing Wm. Ivey,
Esq., Secretary.
The following resolutions were introduced by Jeft'er
sou Buford, Esq., aud uuauimously adopted by the
meeting :
the Kansas Nebraska bill lor the government
of the Territories ot Kansas and Nebraska restored the
ancient land marks ol the Constitution in vindicating the
equal right of each State North and South to colonize the
common Territories; and whereas the State of
Stitts in the prosecution ol her unhallowed war against the
forms of Southern civilization, and with the view by unusu
al and extraordinary legislation to defeat the principles and
provisions ot said bill, has chartered a company with a
capital of Five Millions of Dollars witli the avowed object
oHloodiog the country with a population hostile to our in
stitutions and dangerous to the prospeiity and welfare of a
contiguous Southern State ; and whereas, allhough in the
absence of any such effort on the part of our enemies to
supplant and oust Southern emigration to said Territories
we should have been content to leave to time, and accident
to prbvide for their settlement, yet believing that these ag
giesive measures, and the necessity of providing lor seT
preservation, justify and demand counter action on our part
at least to the extent of stimulating the emigration oibona
fide settlers :
Therefore bt Resolved, That the Chair appoint a Com
mittee of Fifty to memorialize the next Legislature in re
gard iq our relation to Kansas Territory ; and to petition
lor the immediate passage of a law presently appropriating
One Hundred Thousand Dollars, (to he reimbursed out of
a special tax on slaves) for the purpose of pioinoting South
ern Emigration to Kansas.
-d. Resolved, That the Cnair appoint a Committee of
Thirty to receive, collect and disburse private subscriptions
for the advancement of Southern emigration to Kansas”
and that any six of said committee together with the Chair
man or his proxy shall form a quorum to discharge the
duties ol said committee.
:{ d. Resolved, That we recommend the people of each
and every county in the State to hold similar meetings
with this ; to devise the manner and means of extendii?g
Southern institutions into the Territory of Kansas, and thus
insure a general expression of opinion of the people of this
State, and practical aid to our Southern brethren in said
1 erritory.
•Ith. Resolved, That we also recommend the people of
each Hjat in this county to hold meetings, and demonstrate
their tee*nigs and opinions upon the important issue now
podding in Kansas, By furnishing practical aid in nionev to
he turned over to tne committee appointed under the second
resolution.
i *l 1 That a committed of three be appointed
>v irio Oh unnasi for each Beat in this comity, whose duty
it shall .e to obtain subscribtions to h Kama* Company to
he chartered by the next Legislature with an adequate capi
ta! with the view o! investing i„ Kansas lands, and settling
fain territory witn Southern emigrants. °
,i .h. tve.'Oived, I hat the la.st named Committee Io re
fine-ten to meet m Clayton on the third Monday in Novem
ber next to organise and apply tor a Charter.
The committees appoint *.i consist of the best men iu
the county. The meeting was addressed by Messrs.
Shorter, I inker, Bullock, and Buford.
Barbour county is third iu population and second in
wealth iu the State of Alabama. Its citizens have a
great stake in this Kansas question aud, if we arc not
entirely mUtahan iu their spirit, will meet this question
Ike men. N\ e will give them a hard race in Muscogee
and it they do not look sharp will send most emigrants
to Kansas.
i ais is the fourth K msac meeting we have noticed
in the S >atnern creates. The first was held iu Henry
oouti.y, tii.; the second in .Spaulding oouuty, Ga.; the
‘bird in Muscogee county, Ga. Birbonr is in the lead
■ abama. We take it, tfj3t th§ lit# v,ill spread aud
that the whole South will respond to the movement.
Whatever differences of opinion there may have been
originally as to the propriety of this movement, it is now
too late to urge them. United and efficient action upon
the line of policy adopted is now the duty of every
Southern patriot.
Kansas Emigrant Aid Society ol Muscogee.
Temperance llall, Oct. 27tb, 1855.
The Society met this evening according to adjournment,
the President and vice President being absent. On mc
ton Senator Ivenon took the chair. After briefly stating,
for the benefit of many who were not present at the
former meeting of the Society, its objects and purposes,
ed to the audience Senator Toombs, who had
been previously invited to address the Society.
Col. Toombs said this was an oecassion not for words
but for action. Why had this Society been organized ?
Why had Muscogee urged upon every county in the State,
the importance of a similar organization in each]? Whence
the oecassion, and why the necessity for them ? Let us
understand the objects and purposes of the association
fully. It presents a practical question, one that addresses
itself both to our interest and our patriotism. Upon the
admission of Missouri into the Union, by consent of the
South, slavery was prohibited in all the Territories lying
north of 3G deg. 30 min. For a long while this vast count
ry was inhabited only by the red man. For a few years
; past the fertility of that portion of it, know'as the Terri”
I lories of Kansas and Nebraska, lying immediately west
of Missouri and lowa, lias attracted thither a large num
ber of enterprising pioneers and emigrants. They recently
; applied to Congress for Territorial governments; the result
was the passage of the Kansas Nebraska Bill. The prin
ciples of the bill are familiar to all. The prominent fea
ture of it—th“ only one of practical importance to the
South, was—that it was a repeal of the Missouri restric
| tion, that it left to the people of the vast Territories ol
; the west, the sole regulation of their domestic itstitutions.
i That it prohibited the interference of either Congress or
1 the States in iheir regulation, lie had voted for the bill;
he was content to abide by its principles. The North
consented to let the national laws of emigration people
these Territories. Such was the understanding of all upon
the passage of the bill. The South desired to carry h'r
institutions into them, yet she did not ask for them the pro
1 tection of Congress. She was and is now ready to stand
jby her compact. Has the North done so? Has she
| acted in good faith ? Is she not doing anything in her
powder to thwart the manifest objects and purposes of tie
bill? Why, her Emigrant abolition Aid Societies? She
does not disguise her intentions ; are they not wrong up*.
’ an principle ? Should she succeed by such efforts in over
i powering the gallant Missourians aud make t Kansas free
-1 soil. When she applies for admission into the Union the
South is pledged net to object. If she applies with a C©-
| stilutiou recognizing slavery the North is bound by asin.f
la* pledge.
The day is nearat hand when she will be seekirg id
mission. Our enemies p were already in the field, why
stand we here idle? Delay was fatal. It w; s time the
South was aroused to a full sense of her danger. He
was now in favor of Emigrant Aid Associations at the
South, to counteract the efforts of the Abolitionists, to
avert if possible the threatened danger in Kansas. We
| must look to our own stout hearts and strong arms for tha
protection of our rights in the Territories. lie would have
opposed the taking of initiatory step3 of this character by
the South, in aiding emigration to the Territories. The
South had not done so. The North was responsible (or
them. Self-protection required, demanded that we should
teach the latter that we will not submit to such diatolica
attempts to abolitionize a Territory whose climate, soil and
productions indicated it so favorable for the extension of
savory. It was an attempt to circumscribe it. Tie was
not disposed to force slavery upon any people or Territory;
the natural laws of emigration ought to settle tho questien
of its extension! in the west. Yet, since the North will
not agree to this, let us'look to it at once that Southern
rights, Southern interest and Southern honor shall be
defended and represented there by “good men and true.”
For one ho was ready to open his purse and provide with
means, those who were willing to battle in Kansas for the
South and slavery.
lie appealed to the patriotism and pride of all present
to give, and to give liberally, material aid to the Society,
to carry out its patriotic purposes ; to give promptly, for
now was the day and now the hour. The North has
forced this course upon us ; we have no other alternative
left. Let us not be laggard in maintaining our rights ;
1 the issue was a momentous one ; the struggle in the Ter>
ritory was for Empire : it was worthy of our best, our
. noblest efforts.
lie proceeded to show the importance to the South, of
1 the admission of Kansas into the Union as a slave State ;
it was the key to the great West ; the high road to the
Pacific ; its influence in the formation of States from the
Territories Soutli and West of it. It was of vital conse
quence to the slave holder in Missouri.
It had been said that slavery would not be profitable in
Kausas ; this was a great mistake. It was in the same
lattitude with Missouri, its soil very much the same. In
no State in the Union was slave labor more profitable
than in Missouri ; the history of the Institution there was
the best evidence of this. By the census of 1840 her
slave population was only 40,000 ; by the census of ] 850
it was more than double this cumber. Out of its eighty
old thousand slaves, the census showed that 50 000
them were iu the western border oouaties of the State,
immediately adjacent to Kansas. Hemp, Tobacco, Wheat
and Corn, are the principal products of Missouri. The
soil of Kansas had been found equally as well adapted to
their growth. Their cultivation was by far more profita
ble than cotton ; the history of slave labor in Virginia, i
Kentucky and Missouri, had proven it to be so.
It is impossible in this brief and hurried sketch of Se
nator Toombs’ remarks to present bis views fully. He
was prevented by business engagements, ealiing him from
the city o:i Monday, from giving a synopsis of them, as
promised. The Secretary, reiying on this, look no notts
at the lime,swhich is his apol >gy for the imperfect sketch
given.
At the conclusion of Col.Tootnb? speech, Capt. Tennect
Lomax being loudly called for, responded in a few brief j
and spirited remarks. Kansas was the keystone of the arch
of the Uuiou. It was of vital importance not only to Mis-
Pout i, but to each of slateholding States that it should come j
into the Union ao a slave State. The admission of Cali
form* had deprived us of the balance of power in the Sen’
ate. Now was the time, and this the occason to restore it.
The hour for action had arrived—united and vigorous ac
tion. Missouri led on by her gallant Atchinson,had done
nobly. It was a struggle for file with her ; it behooved
the South to rush at once to her rescue. Shall she appeal
in vain to Southern hearts and Southern patriotism ? Her
cause was the cause of the South. He concluded by calling
upon all present to unite with the. society in it3 patriotic ef
forts, to open their purses and give material aid to those
stout heai t 9 and strong arm’, who were now ready to emi
grate to Kansas and battle for Southern rights. Capt. Lo
max declined addressing the Society at length. At the re
quest of the Executive Committee, he has promised to co
so at its next meeting.
lion. Alfred Iverson theu arose and addressed a few re
marks to the Society:
The policy of the North, said he,'was to surround the
South with a cordon ot free States, and, by confining s!avse
ry to a limited area, to crush it out. In this point of view
the maintenance of slavery in Kansas was a matter of vi
tal interest to the Sout . If slavery gives way in Kanste,
Mi.- ouri will be surrounded on'three sides with non-slave
holding States, and the institution must give way there: it
wi’l also be in peril in the Indian Territory lying South of
Kansas ; it will then only remaiu for the abolitionists to
extend their influence to western Texas, and the great object
of thoir ambition will be attained. The South will then
be reduced to a hopeless minority in the Union ; her insti
tutions will be confined to the narrow limits they at present
occupy; and their oveithrow will only be a question of
time.
On the other hand, he contended that il slavery were
maiutained in Kansas, that it would be also maintained in
Missouri; it might possibly be extendod to Utah, New
Mexico and Southern California; it would certainly be
protected in the Indian Territory and Texas; and when
the Northern provinces of Mexico are annexed to the United
States, as they certainly will be in the course of time, the
field of the extension for Southern institutions will be indefi
nitely enlarged.
These views were enforced with the usual grace .and a
bility which characterizes all the efforts of Senator Iverson
upon the rostrum, and were received with much enthusiasm
by the audience.
After the conclusion of his remarks, tha opportunity was
offered, to such persons as desired to do so, to make con
tributions in aid of the objects of the Society; whereupon
the following subscriptions mere made:
Robert Toombs SIOO
Allred Iverson ]#o
M. J. Wellborn ICO
John A. Jones i()0
J.J. Boswell 190
•Tas. R. Jones ]OO
Geo. Hargraves 100
iU.J. Crawford 50
Porter Ingram 50
T. Lomax 50
B. A. Thornton 50
The following named gentleman came forward and be
came members ol the society by enrolling their names and
paying the initiation fee.
M. J. Crawford, Jas. A. Girdner,
P. Ingram, James Lovelace,
J. J. Boswell, Wm. Williamson,
John A. Jones, Wm. Gesuer,
Robert E . Dixon, M. Dessau,
Wm. B. Hutchins, D. St Ledger,
P 11. Colquitt, A. Calhoun,
Robt. G. Mitchell, R. C. Forsyth,
P. A. Clayton, Joel S. Scott,
O. Danforth, Geo. Shorter.
Upon a proposition of John A. Jones, Esq., to be one
of ten to subscribe $250 each to arm and equip a company
of emigrants to Kansas, a short discussion arose, partici
pated in by Mr. Jones, Judge Crawford and others—as to
the best and most expedient method of raising funds for
the use of the Society. Judge Crawford suggested that ev
ery man should subscribe one dollar for each slave he pos
sessed; that if every slaveholder in the State would do so,
a lund of not less than lour hundred thousand dollars could
ba raked, which could ;be increased at least to ha fa
million of dollars by the subscriptions
other slaveholding States would unite with us in this un
dertaking, and the subscriptions be in accordance with this
per capita system or some similar method, we might, in
the fifteen slaveholding States, raise a fund equal to that
which may be raised by the E. A. Societies of the New
England States. Give Southern emigrants four millions
of dollars, in addition to the inducements to, and the bright !
prospects of slave labor in Kansas, and ere long she will i
be seeking admission into the Union as a slave State.
The Society then adjourned to its next monthly meeting.
ALFRED IVERSON, Pres’t pro tern.”
E. G. Dawson, Secretary.
From the Vincennes [lnd J Gazette.
Rev. Mr. McCormick Suspended.
At the late session of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, of this State, the Rev. S. B. McCormick, one
of the ministers of that Church, was tried, and suspend
ed from ministerial duty, on account of the following
charge and specifications :
Charge —Unchristian conduct.
First Specification —For associating himself with
an association known as the Underground Railroad,
whose avowed business is to assist slaves from slave
States to escape to free territory.
Second Specification —For actually engaging in
the business of assisting slaves in making their escape
from slave to free territory, which is contrary to the
laws of the State of Indiana.
Several of the witnesses stated that Mr. McCormick
had boasted to them the number of slaves he had aided
to escape, giving the names and places in Kentucky from
which they had escaped, and one of them testified that
he heard him say that he had never denied belonging
to the Underground Railroad, and that he had said, in
April last, in speaking of the rtlative number taken to
Liberia by colonization, aud to Canada by underground
railroad, that 10,000 had gone Liberia, and 35,000 to
Canada by underground railroads. One of their papers
states that he visited one of his misterial bretfiren in
Kentucky, partook of his hospitalities, prayed with his
family, and iu the meantime was arranging matters with
his servants to make their escape.
American Iron for the British Market.— On Monday
last, a sloop arrived at New York, bringing from the Jersey
sho e forty tons of iron machinery constructed tor use iu
Scotland, and ths tame is now being shipped direct to
j Glasgow. It is designed for the manufacture of India rub
ber goods, a process in which America is ahead of all the
| world.
m and
A Coal of Recent Formation. —At Ilaroe Island the
; Arctic expedition found coal, apparently ol recent Jornta
lion. The grain oi the wood was stijl perceptible, and it
j was interspersed with small masses of a very white resin.
I I lie supply was limited in depth only by the frost, and was
| 30 loose that it could be shoveled up without much diHicul
• ty. It was found to bum,well.
Beautiful.—A hejqllowing beautiful sentiment was ut
tered by C. U Carrigan, Esq., at a late Democratic festival
at ilnJSdejpliia. Eloquent and truthful ?
in sunshine or in storm, come weal or wo, we will stand
by the faith ol our fathers. They may strip us of the green
leaves ol success ; they may lop of} one by one the branches
or our strength, but the old Democratic trunk will still
stand, and lift aloft its defiant front. Moored in the rift
ed rack ot the Constitution- proof to the tempest shock ol
Po * firmer he roots him, tlie ruder if blows.”
State Department.
The Political Condition of the German Confede •
racy. —Extracts of a letter from a correspondent residing
at Augsburg, Germany, dated the 28th ult. :
“The address voted by the Bavarian House of Repre
sentatives in answer to the speech from the throne is the
most remarkable public document that has appeared in
Germany since the year 1850.
“It is the first time since the last revolution that a
German House of Representatives has made itself the
tongue and organ of the whole nation. Before that un
fortunate epoch it was generally the House of Represen
tatives of Baden that assumed the post of champion of
the people’s rights and liberties ; and there it was that
the celebrated and unhappy Basserman brought in his
motion for a general representation of the German people,
to sit, with the German Diet —a motion that seemed des
tined to torebode the revolution of March, 1848, which
it preceded but for a few days.
“The revolution of 1848 was followed, as revolutions
are wont to be in Europe, by a long and severe repres
sion. The electoral laws were changed throughout all
Gemany, and the representatives were made the obsequi
ous servants of the rulers. Ihe leaders of the constitu*
tional party were excluded from the public assemblies, or
withdrew of their own accord, as in Baden. Baron Mon
tauffel, the Prussian Prime Minister, had given a transla”
tion of the Russian Emperor’s famous remark “that he
considered a monarchy and a republic by no means con
stitutional governments ;” so the minister said “that true
democrats deserved praise for their frank and courageous
opinions, but that he despised revolutions in nightgown
and slippers.” There was policy in this saying. The
democrats could be praised for frankness without any dan
ger, as they were killed and dead. The democratic mass
es had been filled with hate against the liberal chiefs,whom
they accused of weakness, and who seemed to be held
responsible for the bad success of the revolution. Then,
in order to restore absolute power, it was only necessary
to destroy the influence of the constitutionalists in the
representative assemblies. They had already become in
different to tlie greatest part of the people, and so the
work of the absolutists seemed easy to accomplish.
“But the elections for the Bavarian House of Repre
sentatives have proved that that system will do no longer.
The constitutionalists are in a great majority at Munich.
“The King in his discourse had expressed his satisfac
tion that German unity had not been disturbed by the
complications of the Eastern war. The House has an
swered that the German unity requires to be improved by
a representation of the Germau people, for such is the
plain sense of the address.
“The opinions of the great majority were so well known
as to deter Baron Von der Pfordten, the Prime Minister,
from opposing them in any way whatever. However, he
said that the moment was not favorable for proposing
any changes in the fundamental laws of the confederation
—the common subterfuge of German statesmen when
ever great questions have been, or shall be, raised ; tor
there is no doubt the German governments will never find
the moment favorable, unless theyjbe compelled by force to
admit reform.
“The address has been voted by ail the members of
the House, two only excepted. It is believed here that
this will have no small influence on the result of the Prus
sian elections, which are to take place in a few days.”
[From the Leavenworth (Kansas) Herald.]
The Election of Reeder in Kansas.
On Tuesdav last the farce of Reeder’s election came off
at this place. It may be asked by some why was tins elec
tion held I In the first place we deny that it was an elec
tion at all. It is a well known fact, that the Legislature
fixed on a day—the first Monday in October—for the elec
tion of a Delegate to Congress. The election was held in
accordance with the law, on the day si ‘cified, and Gen.
John *W. Whitfield was elected without < position.having
received upwards of three thousand votes n the Territory!
There was nothing to call out the full strength of the pro
slavery party, there being no opposition to Whitfield,hence
our vote was not so large as it would have been.
But Reeder and his party hold a meeting—a caucus—at
Bi” Springs, he is nominated as a candidate lor Congress—
a different day for holding the election is fixed on, and all
the forms are prescribed for holding this election, by this
self constituted legislative assembly ot tricksters and wire
pullers. The election comes off accordingly on the second
Tuesday ot October, and Reeder is elected—getting all ihe
votes given on the occasion alluded to, for we presume no
body else voted but Reeder’s friends, and the nullifiers of
the laws of our Territory.
Reeder will go on to Washington and claim a seat. He
will proceed on the ground thafi there is no law in the Ter
ritory, and that as all power resides in the people, they
have in their primary capacity assembled and elected him
to represent their interest. This is the miserable humbug
and pretext he and his friends will set up, relying for success
upon an anti-Nebraska majority in the House of Congress.
Fearing to open a poll at Kickapoo and other places in
this country, their whole forces rallied at this point to make
a big show, and we learn did poll 514 votes! Over this
victory, they huzzaed, and burnt tar barrels, and cut many
fastastic tricks at night. But what of all this ? at last it is
only about half the votes polled for Whitfield in this
county.
From the N. Y. Tribune, Oct. 17.
Ohio.
The Ohio election returns are now in from eighty coun
ties leaving only seven to be heard from. In these the ma
jorities given foot up as follows:
Republican 33 800.
Democratic 13,339.
Majority 20,461
The State officers elected are the following:
Governor—Salmon P. Chase.
Lieutenant Governor—Thomas H.Tord.
Auditor—Francis M. Wright.
Treasurer—Wrn. H. Gibson.
Attorney General —Francis D. Kimball.
Member of Board Public Works —A. C. Conover.
Judges of Supreme Court—Jacob Brinkerholf, C. C.
Conovers.
The vote on Governor, in round numbers, probably
stands about thus:
Chase, Republican 160,000
Medill .Democrat 140,000
Trimble, Know Nothing 55,090
Bounty Land Warrants —Business of the Pension
Office.
An abstract of the business of the Pension Bureau under
the act of March 3j, 1855, to the 20th inst.
Total number ot applications for bounty land re
ceived 221,200
‘ ‘ en ve I oped, briefed, &c... 209,120
“ acknowledged 202,703
! “ “ examined or re-examined 81,141
“ “ allowed 45,993
“ of warrants or certificates issued.... 44,940
During the past week 3,356 land warrants have been is
sued as follow-:
Warrants calling for 160 acres each, 330. cov
„.eri,,2 60,800 acres
Warrants calling tor 120 ac’s each,2,126, cov
ering 255,120 “
Warrants calling tor 80 acres each, 849, cov
ering 67,920 “
Warrants calling for 60 acres each, J, cover
ing 60 “
—a
Total 383,900
The Pension Bureau will hereafter issue three thousand !
warrants per week.
War Department.
Resignation --Brevet Brigadier General E. A. Hitch
cock, colonel of the 2d infantry, has resigned his commis
sion m the aimy. General Hitchcock entered the service
nlßl7.
Rachel’s Debut in Boston.
Boston, Oct. 22.
Mdlle. Rachel made her first appearance here at the Bos
ton theatre to-night—weather very stormy. The receipts
are about three thousand dollars. All the aristocracy of
Boston attended. Rachel played Camille very finely, and
received a great deal of apulause. All the best seals are ‘
taken up to next Saturday night.
The Isthmus of Darien.— It appears that Mr. F.
K< lly, who represents the New York Inter-Oceanic Com
pany, pn seated lately to the Cab net at Washington the
maps, drawings, and reports of a eorps of engineers* un
der the direction of Mr. K., showing the seoverv of a
practical Gianuel for an inter oceanic ca. ! across the
Isthmus of Dir en. The Cabinet, it is said, is favorably
impressed with the plan and the report. The drawing<
exhibit gre; t skill, and a thorough examination of the pro
posed route.f wh'ch is trom the Gulf of Darien l y the
Atrato and iid mdo r'ner# lo Humboldt Bay, va the
Pacific
FURTHER BY THE AFRICA.
English Money Market.
The Arica, arrived at Boston, brings the following fur
ther intelligence:
Gen. Simpson had tendered his resignation, which the
Government had refused to accept.
The decrease of bullion in the Bank of England amount
ed to 669,000 pounds sterling. Consols had advanced Its.
from Thursday to the latest quotations of Friday,iu conse
quence of the advance of the Allies upon Perekop.
Money is in good demand. Thcsupply was fair. There
was a cessation of the drain of gold to the credit of the Vi
enna bankers.
A'rumor prevailed that Russia was contracting a loan
with the United States.
LATER FROM MEXICO.
ARRIVAL OF; THE ORIZABA.
New Orleans, Oct. 28.
The steamship Orizaba has arrived, with dates from the
city of Mexico to the 18th inst. Affairs were harmon
ious, the difference between the Tamaulipus factions and
the supposed plan of Ayuntla having been settled.
Vidauri is said to be willing to support the government
as long as the plan of Ayuntla continues as the basis of
administration.
The latest news from Mexico mentions a report that
Alvarez had resigned, owing to advanced years and feeble
health, and that Gen. Commonlort had been chosen iu his
place.
Later?from Bio Janeiro.
New Orleans, Oct. 28.
Advices from Rio Janeiro to the 16tb ult., state that
Coffee was active, and had an advancing tendency. The
cholera had created a panic in Bahia and the surround
ing districts. A revolution occurred in Montevideo on
the 26th of Aug., and Flores was compelled to leave. La
mas had,been mode Provisional Governor, and the capital
w ? as being placed in a state of defence. Hopes, however;
of a reconciliation were entertained, as Flores had pro
posed to renounce the Presidency; provided the Adminis
tration allowed it to be resumed by the Vice President.
The Works of Calhoun, Vols. V. & VI.
These volumes, invaluable in themselves, will be hailed
with peculiar pleasure by those who have read and possess
the previous ones, and by all who admire the political wri
tings and cherish the fame of the greatest of American
Statesmen. The first, V., contains all the reports ot gene
ral and permanent interest, made by Mr. Calhoun, during
his congressional career and while Secretary of War.—
They comprehend a period of surpassing interest in our
political history—from 1811 to 1646 —and are invaluable
lor the historical facts they contain, as well as for the views
of public policy therein expressed. The second, VI., con
tains. without special reference to dates, such papers as may
he classed under the head of Political Essays. They will
be iound to give a very perfect idea of Mr. Calhoun’s po
litical system, especially his sound views on the relations
of the States to tne Federal Government. In particular
they comprise all his principal papers on the great and ex
citing questions which arose in the days of Nullification.—
The South Carolina Exposition; Report on Federal Re
lations; Address to the People of South Carolinu, if,c ,
6[c., —together with the correspondence between General
Jackson and Mr. Calhoun, all of them invaluable and of
surpassing interest. —IS av. Hep. Oci. 21.
From the Osicego (A’. Y.) Gazette, Oct. IG.
Letter from President Pierce-
Washington, Aug. 26, 1854.
My Dear .Sir: —Accept my thanks for your kind letter
of the 22d instant,in the general views of which 1 heartily
concur.
The members of our party can only act together cordial
ly and efficiently when they can cordially recognize a com
mon platform.
The principle of “non-intervention,” which constitutes
the leading feature of the Nebraska and Kansas bill, re
ceived the sanction of the Democracy of the Republic in
1852. It was re affirmed by more than seven-tenths of tho
Democracy ot the House and Senate upon the passage of
the bill referred to;nr.d will, within eighteen months, furnish
from its inherent soundness, the strongest issue we caD ten
der to our opponents.
But even if it ‘.’ere otherwise, we are to abandon the
right, or manifest our want of faith in the intelligence and
patriotism of the people, by significant silence ?
If we of the Northern and Middle States are unable to
sustain ourselves upon the ground of maintaining for, and
securing to, the people of every State and Territory of the
Union all their constitutional rights and immunities, our
nominal ascendancy would cease to be either honorable to
ourselves or useful to ilie country. Besides, so far as the
Democratic party is concerned, all experience proves that
eveiy apparent advantage gained by a temporizing policy,
or by concessions to error and lanaticism, have only resul
ted in ultimate distraction and weakness, individuals who
desire to retain nominally a position in the Democratic
ranks, but who are unwilling to stand upon a national plat
form, should understand, that while the masses can well
dispense with their co operation, they cannot,by silence,oc
cupy a doubtful position upon fundamental questions affec
ting tne coidial and permanent union of these States with
out losing public confidence, and with itself respect.
1 am, with high esteem .your friend,
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Hon. J. J. Taylor, Oswego, N. Y.
Letter from Hon. D. R. Atchison.
Platte City, Mo. Sept. 12, 1355.
Gentlemen:—Vour letter of invitation, requesting my at
tendance at the Celebration ot the Battle ot King’s Moun
tain, has been received. It will be altogether inconvenient
forme to be prerent on that occasion. I have certain du
ties, botti private and public to discharge at home. The
battle of King’s Mountain was fought by the Whigs under
the lead of Campbell, McDowell,Shelby, Sevier and Wil
liams, against the lories under the gallant Ferguson. We
have a similar foe to encounter in Kansas, on the first
Monday in October next. The “border ruffians,” such as
iought with McDowell, Shelby, &c., on the one hand, and
| the Abolitionists —such men as fought with Ferguson, on
the other. We, the “border ruffians” have the whole pow
| erof the Northern States to contend with, single handed
I and alone, without assistance and almost without sympa
! thy from any quarter; yet we are undismayed. Thus far
we have been victoiious, and with the help of God we will
j still continue to conquer.
Gentlemen, 1 thank you for the kind expression in the
concluding paragraph of your loiter—“three cheers for
Atchinson and Kansas!” I have read this paragraph to
sundiy of the “border ruffians,” and their eyes sparkle ;
their arms are nerved. We have been acting on the defen
sive altogether. The contest with us is one ol life and
death, and it will be so with you and your institution if we
fail. Atchinson, Stringfellow, and the ‘ border luflians” of
Missouri,fill a column of each Abolition paper published
in the North, abuse most foul and falsehood unblushing is
poured out upon us, and yet we have no advocate in the
Southern press ; and yet we receive no assistance from
the Southern Slates. But the time wdl shortly come when
that assistance must and will be rendered; iiie stake the
“border ruffians” are playing for is a mighty one. If Kan
sas is abolitionized, Missouri ceases to be a slave State,ar.d
New Mexico becomes a free State, California lemains a
free State; but if we secure Kansas as a slave State, Mis
souri is secure; New JMexico and Southern Califor
nia, it not all of it, becomes a slave State. In a word, the
prosperity oi the ruin of ihe whole South depends upon the
Kansas struggle.
Your obedient servant,
UJU. ATCHISON.
Messrs. W. B. Wilson; John L. Miller, and Samuel W.
Melton, Committee of Invitatiou.
Curious Stale of Affairs. —We Jearn from the Lawrence
Herald of Freedom, tnat Col. Lane, a member of the last
Congress, who voted for tiie Nebraska Kansas bill, and
who was formerly Lieutenant Governor ol Indiana, and a
practising lawyer there for twenty years, has been refused
permission to practice in the territorial courts of Kansas,
because he would not take an oa’h to sustain the enactments
ofthe Legislature, recently in session. He was the consel
of MeCrea, who is ind’eted lor murder ; and the same per
mission was refused to J. L. Lmery, of Lawrence, for the
same reason. MeCrea can get no counsel except those in
favor ol his conviction.
Religious. —The Rev. J)r. Preston, of the Indepfn
dent Picsbyu rian Church, arrived on iraturday. W c are
gratified to Jenin that the health of the Rev. gentleman
i has been much improved by his sojourn of a l w mouths
at the Norib. IVc hops he may long be spaied to the
Church and to our city,-where his la!x>rs have Lecii sj
acceptable.'— Sav, News, 29th.
Alexander Houston, F.eq. —This venerable ediz -ti of *ur
distiict di*-d suddenly, of apoplexy, on Weducf-day, 17th
mst. —AlbtciUt Banner.