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(Limes ants %mtind. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, NOV. 3, 1855. “Dead or Sleeping.” The Georgia Citizen says that “as the State Coun cil seems to be dead or sleeping” it approves the sug gestion, made by many prominent members of the American party of Bibb county, “that a meeting be held at Milledgeville, during the first week of the ses sion to consult as to the future course of the party in Georgia, and to appoint a day for a State Convention at an eatly period.” We incline to the opinion that the party in Georgia is in the same condition with the Executive Committee, and that it is unkind in the Doctor to attempt to gal vanize the dead. Auburn Gazette. —During the last week, Mr. J. S. .Slaughter the Junior of the Auburn Gazette has been spending some days in Columbus looking after the interest of his paper Our business men will find the Gazette an admirable advertising medium, through which to bring themselves in contact with the wealthy planters in Eastern Alabama, among whom it has an extensive circulation. Georgia Legislature. —The Georgia Legislature will convene at Milledgeville on Monday, inst. The Senior Editor of this paper will be present at the open ing of thj session, and will make arrangements to keep our readers posted in the sayings and doings of our law-makers. The session promises to be a protracted aud animated one. Mail Derangements. —Mail failures were never so frequent. They are principally caused by accidents on the Railroads. Wc do not see how the Postal Depart ment can be justly held responsible for these mishaps. Deferred Articles —The communication cf our esteemed corresponded Zoiu, and accompanying edi torial, have been necessarily deferred by press of other paying matter. They will appear in our next issue. Kansas. The people of Columbus, says the Savannah Jour nal Courier seem to have taken hold of the Kansas business in tho right spirit. Volumes of fiery denuncia tion have been spoken and written in regard to the course of the Northern fanatics in relation to slavery in that Territory ; but verbiage is not a defense against active efl'ort, nor can our desires be accomplished, sim ply by eloquent talking or well turned periods. It re quires, to give practical efficiency to our protestations, earnest and continued effort. We feel that it touches the honor of the South to meet promptly and boldly the first open attempt made by Abolition to inflict injury upon of the South by the arm of violence. The issue presented by our foes is, that Kansas shall perforce he free soil. Are we already cowed enough to shrink from a trial of this issue—ajjvindication of our rights. We trust not. We hope that the Southern heart is yet sulficiently strong, sufficiently true to itself, to scorn the idea of submission to insolont dictation, to prefer to such submission the struggle even to the end. If such be our choice if wo would repel insult to ourselves, injury to our property and ultimate ruin to our seotion, by defeating upon the soil of Kansas the fanatics, who threaten snd conspire against us, it is time we were up and doing. Muscogee begins the work bravely. Who will be second ? Thanksgiving Days. —The following days are to be observed : in Maryland and Virginia November 15th •, Pennsylvania and Ohio, the 23d ; Massachusetts, the 29th. Delegate to the Cincinnati Convention. —The Democrats in the lifth district of Massachusetts, have chosen the Hon. B. F. Ilallett. as their delegate to the National Democratic Convention at Cincinnati. Oglethorpe University.—We learn that 36 students have entered this institution the present term. Lecture at Boston. —Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, of Montgomery, Ala., has agreed to deliver one of the course of lectures at Boston, the ensuing winter, on slavery. Convention of Husbands. —The papers state that a convention of husbands is to be called shortly at Syra cuse, N. Y., to adopt some measures in regard to sash--, ion. They say that since they have to support the ex penses of fashion, they have the right to regulate its caprices. It is also said that a proposition to raise boys only, in future, is to come before the convention. The members are to resolvo themselves into a husbands’ rights party. From Washington. Washington, Ojt. 29. 4 Reliable advices received by the Ali-ica, state tliat Mr. Luchauan would, ere this, have left London for Paris, and tliat he will probably visit Italy before returning home. The President has entirely recovered from the chills and fever, with which he was all’ected. A circular letter from Denmark, relative to a settlement of the question of the Sound Dues has been received by the Government. In the Court of Claims to-day the testimony taken in case of Isaae Swam was admitted, thus deeid>ug that government stores are not subject to impost duties, and that Government is liable for injury sustained by citizens in consequence of the improper conduct of its agents. Ihe argument in the Florida cases was continued. 1 lie Star says that the resignation of Dona Piatt Secre tary of Legation at Paris, has been received, and that A. . eiiKins \\ ise, son of Gov. Wise of Virginia, will be trans* •erred from Berlin to Paris to fill the vacancy. From California. New Orleans, Oct. 30. Tiie steamship Granada, from Aspinwall, has arrived with dates from California to the sth inst. The news brought by her is unimportant. The reported murder of Gov. Stephens, of Washington •territory is untrue. T,le S [ earns hip Geo. Law sailed for New York on the 21st, with one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars in specie. J The steamer Qeorgo Law, that arrived here to-dav I tom Aspmwal, brought a million and three quarters of specie, the .John L. Stephens, which connects with the George Law, brought down nearly five miliious. -Johnson, the American candidate for Governor, has been elected by a majority of live thousand. The Legis ■ttuie stands 72 Americans to 39 Democrats. Foote, 1 aiti and Peyton are among the members returned. v r * , ~ lt ‘ S ‘ ti,te,i ,hat U,e Hon ’ Go - W - Hop’ recpnd,- . Ip^ in ' a * lmcs the very fl. tteri ig appoinment w,n ‘>>■ Chief J.„. Os tile JJ.Ltiict of Columbia. LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL 0F THfc: STEAMSHIP ARIEL. New York, Oct. 30. The steamer Ariel has arrived. Since the exhibit of September the Bank of France has lost $7,000,000. The condition of the Austrian Government Exche quer, and also city Bank of Vienna, is prosperous. Ten thousand French off Odessa. The Allies antic ipate being able to land. Gortßchakoff telegraphs that the cannonade against the northern forts is actively kept up but without no ticeable result. It is rumored that there is an insurrection in Sicily. The cholera is committing dreadful ravages in Ma drid. The Congress to settle the Sound Dues is to be held in November. From Texas. New Orleans, Oct. 30. Late accounts from Texas state that Governor Pease is in favor of Callahan’s course, and refuses to issue his pro clamation agaiust it, at Gen. Smith’s request. More ran gers have gone to the frontier. Gen. Scott’s Back Pay. Washington, Oct. 30. The Cabinet has decided that Gen. Scott is entitled to back pay as Lieutenant General, since 1847. Steamer and Cotton Burnt. New Orleans, Oct. 31. The steamer Exchange, with 250 bales of cotton, has been destroyed by fire on Red River. From the Savannah Jovraal 6; Courier. Waste —Valuable Discovery. Messrs. Editors:— At the reqsest of an officer of the Muscogee Railroad of Georgia, I have experimented on an article known, by Machinists and all connected with Railroads, as Waste. This article is the refuse thread of Cotton Factories, for which Railroad Companies pay eight cents per pound, for the purpose of keeping clean their Engines, &c. The demand and cost of the article havo induced some to think of some mode of saving this heavy expense to Railroad companies. To accomplish the woik, it is requi site that the process should be cheap and quick. When first spoken to I doubted the work being done so as not to injure the texture of the article ; in my experiment on spe cimens, taken from the Depot of the Central Railroad, I would inform the Muscogee Railroad and all others inter ested, that success has crowned my efforts beyond my most sanguine expectations. Tho article cleaned has been subject to the examination of the first Machinists of Savannah, pronounce it su perior to that which has never been used. I send to you specimens to which l respectfully ask vour attention, and ali connected with Railroad, 6tc., &c.— This improvement will be welcomed by those who spend thousands of dollars for Cotton Waste, which is thrown away as valueless after being used once. I have not the least doubt that some of our enterprising railroad citizens will inform you of the value of the success of my experi ment. The cost of reclaiming the Waste used on Railroads, throughout the country, will not exceed a half cent per lb; after it has undergone this powerful Chemical process, in a few minutes it is restored back to its original finish and cleanliness, and is superior to the new for its intended pur poses. The cost for every Railroad to clean their own Waste will be but a trifle,’ 1 as the work is easy and simple. Those connected with Railroads, who wish to see a specimen of the cleaned article, can obtain it by mail,by endorsing pos tage stamps to the address of your obedient servant, WM. HUMPHREYS, Chemist, Savannah, Ga. Death, of James 17. Norrell. We regret to learn, that a dispatch was received in this city yesterday morning from Montgomery, Alabama, announcing the death, from yellow fever, of Mr. James N. Norrell, Cashier of the Bank of Montgomery. Mr. Norrel was born and reared in our midst, and pos. sessed an urbanity of manner and strict integrity, that won fr him many warm and devoted friends. To his parents, who were so justly proud of their so promising son, this visitation comes with peculiar severity. We learn that his remains will be brought to this city for in terment.—Con. <s• Rep., Ist. Death of Mrs. Susan M. Beil. The remains of Mrs. Susan M. Bell, late Matron of the Savannah Female Orphan Asylum, were borne to their fi nal resting place in the Laurel Grove Cemetery yesterday, followed by a large number of friends and the orphans who had been the objects of her charge. Three weeks ago yes terday morning, tho fire occurred at the Asylum, by which the edificefiwas nearly consumed. It was in attempting to rescue one of the little girls from the burning building, that Mrs. Bell received the injury that caused her death.— The tire, which occurred at a late hour in the night, had almost completely enveloped the upper portion of the buil ding before it was discovered. In the panic and excitement of the moment, the Matron had roused the children from their beds and gathered them in the basement; but with a presence of mind only equalled by her heroic devotiqp, she counted her little, terror-stricken flock, when she found that one—one of the youngest—was missing. Hastening back to the chambers, now tilled with smoke and flame, she searched for and found the child. With it in her arms, she was seen at one of the windows, but before she could effect her retreat from the room it is supposed that the smoke became so dense as to cause her to faint. Search being made for her and the child, they weieboth recovered but not until life was almost extinct. Mrs. Bell was con veyed to the House of Solomon Cohen, Esq., from whose family she received the kindest caro and attention during the three weeks of her suffering, which she bore with un complaining resignation. She died on Saturday night.— Sav. IS'cws, Oct. 29. INAUGURATION ÜBALL THE Inauguration Ball will be given at Newell’s Hall, in the City of Milledgeville, on the evening of tlw Ttli November next. Senior Managers. lion. Howell Cobb, Athens, “ F. 11. Cone, Greensbprough, “ Robt. Toombs, Washington, Capt. Samuel T. Beecher, Milledgeville, Col. T. T. Long, Brunswick, “ Joel A. Biliips, Madison, lion. John H. Lumpkin, Rome, Col. A. H. Kenan, Milledgeville, “ O. G. Sparks, Macon, “ James Gardner, Augusta, “ John W. H. Underwood, Roms, “ W. K. deGraftcnreid, Macon, “ Chas. E. Nisbct, Cuthbert, “ Allison Nelson, Atlanta, Capt. Alex. 11. Cooper, Columbus, Col. John A. Jones, *• “ T. Lomax, “ Hon. Linton Stephens, Sparta, “ B. A. Thornton, Columbus, Junior Managers. Col. James A. Pringle, Perry, Hon. G. T. Howard, Savannah, Col. L. A. Jordan, Milledgeville, “ John T. Ector, Columbus, “ John M. Tucker, Milledgeville, “ O. G. Dawson, Greensborougli, “ W. A. Reid, Eatonton, “ J. 11. Brown, Milledgeville, “ Geo. H. Kimbrough, Starksville “ M. D. McComb, Milledgeville, “ B. B. deGraffeuried, Dr. A. A. F. Hill, Athens, Col. John Bilbo, Savannah, •* B. F. Powell, Bainbridge, “ 11. M. Law, Albany, “ W. A. Harris, Pennsborough, “ P. Tracy, Macon, “ Isaac Newell, jr., Milledgeville, J. 11. Lovejoy, Esq , Atlanta, L- F. Choice, Milledgeville. Milledgeville, Od. 16th, J 855. Snow’ Storm in Virginia.— Them was a heavy enow ! slwnii on ihe Blue Ridge rpoynuips Wednesday 24t|i. Free Lovers Discharged. Judge Osborn discharged all the patties arrested at the “free love” club on Broadway, declaring that their arrest was unwarranted. The Mirror says: The free lovers held a sly session last night—with doors closed to all but invited guests. Brisbane was present.— Dancing was the principle order of exercise?, in which about 100 males and half as many females were engaged The investigation as to the late arrests was advanced, but not completed yesterday. A Plain Spoken Witness —“Facts, are stubborn things” said a lawyer to a female witness under examination. The lady replied: “Yes, sir-rce, and so are women; and if you get anything out of ine, iust let me know it!” “You’ll be committed for contempt.” “Very well, I’ll suffer justly, lor 1 feel the utmost contempt for every lawyer present.” Death of an Army Officer. —Advices’ received from Texas give intelligence of the drowning accidentally, at Eagle Pass, in the Rio Grande, on the 2d instant, o! Se cond Lieutenant William M. Darant, of the regiment of mounted riflemen. The deceased was a mtive of South Carolina, and a graduate of the West Point Military Academy, of the class of 1854. — Star. A Good Hit.— The Quincey (111.) Herald says: An abolitionist has the same right precisely to steal a three dollar Kentucky bill from the pocket book of a Missourian traveling in Illinois, on the ground that the laws of this State do not recognize the money of foreign banks, that he has to steal the Missourian’s nigger, on the ground that our laws don’t reccgnize slavery. THE STATE. ) Indictment for Murder. vs. > Randolph Court, Thomas Ozmore. ) October, 1855. Testimony taken in behalf of the State in said case. First Witness Sworn for the State. —Peter Brown says:—26th Sept, went from school house with deceased and Mr. Cristy to prisoner’s Cane patch; as we went up saw a negro boy and woman hunting with dogsjthey set dogs on us; Coleman and witness went into the cane patch,and Cristy staid out-ide of the fence. Each cut two stalks and set them up against the fence, close to the fence ; went then some 15 feet into the patch—Coleman nearest the fence; heard someone say stop; looked up and srw priso ner—do not think Coleman saw him; Coleman started to go out where he went in; got nearer the fence and turned; thinks he was nearly out. Prisoner was at the place of crossing; did not see prisoner at the moment deceased got nearer the fence and turned; Witness heard prisoner mutter something and shoot; after he shot witness started, and supposed Coleman was following; got out and waited, when he failed to come; Witness went to the house and found prisoner there, sitting by a tree, with a gUn in his hand; Witness saw Coleman next, 14 paces from the fence, the place where prisoner was when he fired the gun. This was ten or fifteen minutes after the shot. Coleman was dead when witness found him; Deceased was some five feet or ten from the fence when the gun was fired, and about 14 yards when found dead. This was in Randolph county, at prisoner’s cane patch. The tree at which pris oner was sitting was not in the yard. The night was not very bright; it would have been moonlight, but there was a misty cloud over the moon; it was bright enough to have seen a man forty or fifty yards. I have seen prisoner olten, but am not acquainted with him; knew hitn well enough to recognize him that night by the light, after it was brought. Prisoner is the tnan who shot the gun, lor he told me so ; I could not tell him from his appearance at the time of the shot. A white boy and negro woman went with the wit ness to the body; after found deceased, witness went back to the house—found no one there but prisoner and his fam ily. Ozmore told me, when I first went to the house, that he had shot deceased; witness asked if he had killed him; prisoner said he thought he had. The conversation took place at the tree, and witness saying to prisoner he had shot Coleman; Prisoner replied he had shot someone in the cane patch, he did not know’whom. Witness asked him if he had killed him; Prisoner replied he thought he had. Witness then asked prisoner to let him have a horse and buggy and to get a light to carry deceased home, if alive, if dead to have an inquest. Prisoner had the lights got and then refused to go with witness. The boy and woman went, by prisoner’s orders. No one else came to the house before we went back to the patch. Coleman was about witness’ size; don’t know his age; was not fully grown.— At the moment ol firing the gun, a row ol cane prevented witness from seeing prisoner ; as Coleman turned from the fence he was in a stooping position; heard him groan; left deceased then and came to town. Cross Examined —Witness thinks it was between 8 and 9 o’clock at night when the shooting took place—was be tween one and two miles from town. It rained immedi ately alter the killing—a slight sprinkle; there was a (loud over the moon. r l’he cane was planted up to the fence about as near as corn is usually planted; the cane was not very large nor very thick; don’t know the height; it was higher than witness’ head; not twice as high again; perhaps it was 6or 8 feet high. It was not as high at the fence as in the middle. The two stalks cut by eaffi were off the first row, and witness went in about 15 feet; Coleman was not so far in; there was one row of cane between them.— Witness when he heard the word “stop,” was stooped down; Saw Cofenaan then; he was about five or six feet from witness. Witness saw prisoner just as he spoke the word stop; witness was then some 15 feet in the patch ; when prisoner said stop he was coming up by the side of the fence. Witness did not see prisoner when he fired ;he saw him a moment before; he was then by the side of the fence. Witness does not know how he was dressed; wit ness was stooped dawn when he heard the word stop; lie then raised up and stood still till the gun fired; Witness then started out of the patch in a walk. Witness walked down to the path about 100 yards from the patch, waited there a short time. It was ten or fifteen minutes after wit ness left the patch till he got to the house. Coleman star ted to follow alter witness to go out of the patch after the shot. Witness went across the rows of cane in going out of the patch ; witness went, as he went out of the pafch, a direction that led further from prisoner. At the time of the shot, prisoner was opposite about the middle of the cane patch; prisoner shot up and down the rows. Wit ness in going out, went up the rows and across. Witness was between 5 and 10 feet, when he saw Coleman appa rently following, out of the patch. Did not see Cristy alter witness was in the cane patch, till he saw him in the road near the Baptist College. The tree at which witness found prisoner, was some 15 or 20 steps from the house. Priso ner told witness he had shot somebody; prisoner seemed distressed at it ; witness did not judge this from his words but by his acts; don’t remember the acts; he was weeping; did not say anything about inquest; does not recollect the negro woman saying prisoner’s wife was dying at the time prisoner refused to go with me to the patch. Prisoner gave as the reason for not going that his wife was sick ; does not recollect of his sayingshe was very sick. Witness had not returned to the patch at the time he had the con versation at the tree with prisoner, and did not then know that any one was killed. The body was found 8 or 10 paces further into the patch than deceased was f at the time of the firing of the gun; to ,get to that spot, deceased would have gone partly down the rows and partly across. Don’t know the size ot the patch between 25 and 30 yards wide; did not go in irom the .road, nor on the side next the house, nor the end next the house; did not go through tho indigo patch, or come out through it ; left the road at a patch about 150 or 200 yards from the house on i (he felt ot the road.. On our return we were to meet in | that path; we agreed to this before we went int o the patch, i and on going in or coming out we went through no cow ! pen, or any patch; we went in up and down the rows. I came out not far from where we went in, at least 20 yards nearer from where we went, nearer the house, further front the path. Left Cristy on die outside, as we went in the patch, 15 or 20 feet from the fence; he remained on the out ! side of his own netion; no agreement to that effect be tween us. In going in the patch, we did not go around it, : went partly round one side about.to the middle. Sawpris’ i oner after I got intothe patch about 15 feet; he was about 15 feet off’; did not see him until 1 heard him hallo stop • as soon as the gun fired witness started out and Coleman after him; when the gun fired witness’ face was towards prisoner. Did not see Coleman at the instant of the shot; the cane prevented my seeing him. Coleman was at that time some 5 or 10 feet from witness, and that much nearer prisoner; one row of cane intervened; when the gun fired witness turned his back to prisoner and went out° ot the patch on i the left of prisoner. In going out of the patch witness came out to a road which runs by the patch; does not know where the road leads; don’t know if this road runs by prisoner’s corn crib. There runs a road by the patch; in quitting this road to get to the patch where ; w e were to meet, I went to the left, as I then had my face towards where prisoner was; in going this road I went on ! it jiff after I passed opposite the point where I had seen prisoner when he shot. As I went from this road to the patch, did not see, as I went, any turnip or potato patch. Did not see Cristy again until l saw him by the Baptist College; did not stay with Christy that night; staid at home; did not, that night, write down with Cristy the facts ; wrote down the facts next Jay, with Mr. Cristy; did not show’ this statement to any one; witness tore it up; there was but one copy made. Witness did not return to the patch till we went with the light; we went with the Jhffit light to where Coleman was; did not have to hunt lor him —he was lying sideways ol tho rows and sideways to where the prisoner was when he shot; he was 14 paces from the fence; did not measure it myself, nor see it W itness was told the distance. Did not see any knife by the deceased nor any cut stalk of cane; saw blood at the place ol the wound; saw none on his clothes or any place except at the wound. Did not examine the wound. When prisoner said hie wife was sick, lie went towards the house and sent nis son and negro with witness to search the cane pajeh ihe ground of the cape patch tolerably Jgyel ape side a little lower than the other; it was the side of the hill, prisoner was on the lower side towards the hollow ; never saw the patch in the day time. Witness was nearest the road at the time ot the shot, Coleman to the right of the prisoner and witness to the left. State Resumed. —According to witnesses .judgement, that night he thought the body was 10 or 15 paces lrom where prisoner was when he shot, not closer than 10 paces —only saw Coleman start to follow —alter the shot and heard'him come through thfe cane. Dr. G. B. Hurd, sworn for the State, says, saw dec’d an hour or hour and a half after he wasehotas he supposes; he was dead then ; made an examination ot the wound ; prob ed it; the wound was the cause of his death, two shot en tered just at the brim of the pelvis and glanced out; other shot scattered further up through the spaced K or 2 inches in width up to between the 4th and sth rib, and then en tered the cavity ; at the time of examination, the head was rather on the ridge of oue row and his body across the rows The wound was in the left side; the shot ranged upwards and glanced out, the upper shot ranged at an angle of about 30 degrees with meredian line ot the body. The shot were common sized squirrel shot; took two out ot the wound. From the range of the shot, witness supposes de i ceased was at the time of the shot, stooping and running diagonally from the spot where prisoner is said to have stood. The blood run from the wound and trickled down bis side towards his back ; vvas lying on his back ; blood run from his mouth ; the clothes were bloody all about the wound. The body was 194 paces from the fence ; witness stepped it three times; up the rows the cane was pretty thick at the spot where the body lay, there was a vacancy in the cane about three feet wide, where there was no cane. Cross Examination. —A gun fired at object 15 feet off would not scatter as much as these did—witness supposes so; if not more than 5 or 10 feet, the hole would be more like that produced by a ball; the skin was broken through a space ot 14 to 2 inches in diameter. In witnesses’ opin ion it was six inches from the bottom shot to the top shot; the upper shot entered the aorta, some others entered the blood vessels at the point where they leave the heart. The aorta is the principal artery that leads from the heart; the lungs were also injured. Witness judges from all the wounds that the death must have been instantaneous.— Supposes the phrenic nerve to have been wounded. The large blood vessels being wounded would cause death qick* er than if even the heart were wounded. The bundle of arteries as they go out of the heait, appeared to have been wounded. It is witness’ professional opinion from the char acter of the wounds, that the deceased must have fallen on the spot where he was shot, if making a step might got his foot down. The blood must have instantaneously flowed copiously internally, so as to cau*e immediate cessation of respiration and locomotion. Witness saw the body about halt-past nine o'clock ; the body seemed not to have been moved, the external bleeding was small and ran towards the spine and ground. Witness saw about 14 inches from deceased band, as it lay on the ground, a closed knife,close by a stalk of cane ; does not know if the stalk was cut or broken, it v/as partly trimed ; saw no evidence of cano having been eaten. Witness in stepping the ground, step ped as he usually walks in the street; could not say he stepped three feet; the elevation ol the spot where the body was, was in witness’ judgement, 5 or 6 feet from where prisoner is said to have been ; tho cane was very tall and thick, as witness went up, could hardly see from the fence, the light that was at the body ; the light was a torch two or three pieces of lightwood. It would have been almost impossible, that night, for one in the cane any distance, to have been seen by a person out side. The plat made by witness, I have in Court, is a plat of the position of the patch; knows nothing of the indigo and turnip patch.— Witness went there at the suggestion of his partner. Pris oner’s wife was ill with neuralgic pains in the head, at times very painful, though no danger of immediate death had be fore that tithe, Witness explained to prisoner his wife’s condition, and that the knife vvas the only remedy, and prisoner had expressed despair of her recovery. YVitness was her attending physician. Witness and another looked with lights for the gun wad ; at the distance of 10 or 15 Jeet, the gun would, in his judgement, have carried the wad to the clothes; there was no sign of burning or powder on the clothes or wound, and this would have been the case at 5 or 10 feet. In general, a gun shot wound in the upper part of the body from the shock to the system, causes the body to fall immediately. This is tho result of the opinions of Physicians ; the Writers on medical jurisprudence give the condition of the wound and the appearance of powder &,c.,as indications of the distance of the shot. State Resumed. —The shot were pretty much in a line up and down the body ; the main body of them, about 14 to 2 inches in width. The coat, a linnen one, was torn in the pocket; it was ragged and the coat must have been doubled in some way to have been rent as it was, from the point of the body, as it lay; where the wound was in a straight line with the fence—there was no cane, it was up a row —though the leaves of the opposite rows met; did not notice if any of the cane was torn with the shot; some of the cane leaves, witness would suppose must have been . tom wiiii ttioj9tK.il; from me fence to the point wnere me body was; it was more open, up and down tne row's, thence across. The effects of a wound of the organs depends up on the size, and force of tho shot; only two shot were taken out of the wound ; only a tew entered the cavi ty ; we could not tell how many entered. The nearer the shot, the blacker the powder would make the body. Wit ness has no practical knowledge of the coloring power of the powder, distance <fcc.; his knowledge is derived from his medical reading. Prisoner by leave of the Court.—ls acquainted with with prisoner; has known him since the Ist September, 1855 ; his general character he does not known. Joseph Cristy sworn fur the State. — Witness was about 25 feet from deceased when he was shot on the night of 25th September. Coleman, Brown and Witness, started from the Baptist Chuch ; went to hear the band at Metho dist Male College. Just before we got to the college, we agreed to go to Mr. Ozmores lor sugar cane. When w-e got near the cane patch, we sat down. There were Mr. Ozmore’s son, a negro woman and boy hunting o’possums. While there, the dogs came up and barked. Witness told the hunters to let the dogs come on and he would kill them. Brown said if they set on the dogs he would whip them, (the hunters.) The hunters lelt for home, and we shortly after went to the cane patch. Coleman and Brown went in, and witness staid out side about 15 feet, beside a tree.-- In a few minutes after the boys went in, witness saw a man come up with a gun in his hand, near the boys. Witness at first thought it one of the boys with a stalk of cane.— About that time J saw Coleman come to the fence ; sup posed he saw the man, for he started back, walking fast, stooping. The man with the gun jumped to the fence, put his left hand on the fence and his ieft foot in the fence and raised himself so as to shoot over the fence, and held the gun in his right hand and fired the gun ; just as the man got to the fence he said, “God damn you stop,” when the gun fired, witness left. When deceased turned back he was right at the fence, ttie man with the gun was about six feet off when Coleman turned. Coleman turned about the time the other said “stop,” and the other jumped to the fence and fired as soon as he could after Coleman turned. Wit ness saw deceased when the gun fired. Coleman was about ten feet fiom the man when the gun fired. Witness left and heard nothing said more; did not see Coleman af ter the gun fired ; man who fired rite gun was out side of the fence ; did not see Brown at the time of the fire ing. Witness was about 15 feet from the man who fired the gun ; did not know the man who tired ; had never seen him before as he knows of; did not go back next day.— Coleman as he left the fence, went stooping, half bent. Ci oss Pxamiiied. —We went to the patch by a path from V nla Nova to get behind the patch from prisoner’s house, we sat down about 150 yards from the patch, sat there half an hour or three quarters of an hour. To get to the point where they went in, they did not go round any part of a patch, there was a corn pen, we went along the back string P'j’ i . n< - e witness stood by an Oak tree, large enough to i hide his body, from one coming up the other way, witness stood still till the gun was shot, witness left alter the 1 straight back fiom the patch into the woods in a run, j did not see the patch any more, kept the woods, does not i “now w ,hen he got to town ; next day witness expects he { “id Sa y he was not there, and that any man was a damn liar | who said he was there, did not say this that night to any ; body, witness told several this—told Wm. Cuilhrso. Wit ness was about 15 feet from the cane patch and 15 feet lrom the man who shot, and on the right side, not much tho • the man was nearly north of witness. The cane patch was also north, while there by the tree witness saw Coleman come back to fence, witness supposes hi saw prisoner and turned, witness did not see Brown come back to the fence witness thought Coleman had come, as he come up to the tence, as he heard something fall as Coleman got theie Coleman come to within about four feet of the man who 5 hred, who was walking along the ience, don’t know the height ot the fence; the words, “God damn the man,” spoke J 9 st aJ he went to get on the fence, he put his foot on about u tjt be held the gun in his right hand, not to his shoulder but in his hand, at the instant of the firing, witness saw Coleman, lie was about 10 feet from fence, the cane comes up to the ler.ee as it is usually planted. Witness wa& n 9* behind the tree at the time; the man was between me and the boys, at the lime I was beside the tree. Wit. ness has not told Mr. Goss that he did not see Coleman at the time ol but only heard a rustling in the cane did never tell this to Dr. Perkins, did never go to Chatlev Goss and consult with him about it except to tell him E 1 had spoken to Mr O’Brien, I told all the matter to Mr OBrienhrct; Witness saw his mistake in supposing the man was one of the boys when he spoke. beside the tree, not behind the tree from the patch ibm horse lot that was fnrther up, as he ieared someone m ain see him from the horse lot, witness stood stih on the Km side ol the tree, until the shot. Tne hore lot Wue .i!f yards oft, the cane was large and thick oe bnn?, fu° r 30 ol the blades -Bor 10 lcet hmh When £i,i PS man at the time of the shot ”i, e was in mSni C , ole ‘ *ane directly between them, witness could” lie 6 ’i and row, sup posses the rows were lor 5 leei <>n > a,on g the , '* d •*** *£ where witness stood wa9 about 2 or 3 feet to the right’of where the man stood who fired, witness did not go back ; the horse lot wa9 to witness’ left hand and the man with the gun a very little between witness and the horse lot.— Witness next saw Brown at Villa Nova at the Female College ; there was someone with him, did not know him; witness went some 50 or 60 yards this way from the Meth odist College; Brown come to town ; saw Brown next morning, we talked about the matter, Peter Brown wiote down the evidence, Brown tore it up ; the same day, wit ness read it; did not know if the cane patch was lev. 1, thinks it was level, thinks it was noton a h’ll side ; there was a hollow behind where witness stood, thinks the cane patch was on the top of the hill, had seen the patch in the day time. (State here closed the case.) Randolphs. Court, Oct. Term 1855, Wed. Oct. 10,’55. The State vs ) Murder. True Bill. Seaborn A. Thomas Ozmore. $ Smith, Foreman. Randolph S. Court Oct. Term 1855, Tfairs. Oct. 11. ’55. The State ) Furnished John A. Tucker counsel for vs £ defendant, with a copy of the bill of In- Thomas Ozmore. ) dictment and list of Witnesses previous to the arraignment Oct. 10,1855. The State ) The defendant, Thomas Ozmore lor vs £ maly arraigned pleads not guilty, Oct. Thomas Ozmore. ) 11, 1855, Oct. Term, 1855, John Lyons, Sol. Gen’l. Randolph Superior Court, Saturday, Oct . 13, 1855. The State vs ) Mur d er Thomas Ozmore. $ vluraer - We the Jury find the defendant not guilty. 1 Samuel C. Scott, ~ E. H. Martin, 2 Henry Nichols, 8 John Yarborough, 3 Eli Aycock, 9 John Ilay, 4 Samuel Dickson, 10 Samuel N. Hurd, 5 John Merkerson, 11 Lewis Sanderlin, 6 John E. Tabb, 12 Thomas Tinsley. Georgia, Randolph County.— l do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and true copy of the evidence as was given in the case of The State ot Georgia vs 1 homas (h ----more, at the October Term ot 1855, Randolph Superior Court, and which is of file in my otlice, and also a true ex tract lrom the minutes ot said court ot the arraignment and verdict of the Jury in said case with the names of fne Ju rors attached to said verdict this day DUNCAN JORDON, Clerk. OBITUARY. Depaited this life on Monday, the 22d of October,lßss, Dowdell Tukbevjlle Samfokd, son of Wm. F. Samlord and his wife Susan Lewis, at 12 o’clock, M., aged 3 years, 1 month and 19 days. He is lifted up for a light and carried forward to guide us through the wilderness to the better home. With the faltering step of a broken manhood and a heart heavy with sorrow, I follow my bright,.brave little boy to the grave—not without the consolations of the Gospel, and faith in “the resurrection of the just.” His little sister, Georgia, says she will “always hang up the Christinas stocking for Dowdell,” and the little negro nurse, Edny, tells his disconsolate brother Walter that “ Dowdell is playing with the little Angels .” Death has captured hint —has bound him with his massive chains and consign ed him to his prison-house in the grave —but thanks to mv Savior Friend! immortal honor, eternal glory to his royal name!—the Hero Sufferer of earth! the Conquerer of Death! —Death and the Grave cannot hold him. The,/?rs£ of mv children that has died is in Heaven, beyond a contingency. How sweetly does Jesus say : ‘‘Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones: for I sav unto you that in Heaven their angels do always be hold the face of my Father which is in Heaven. For the Son of Man is come to save that which is lost. Even so, it is not the will of your Father which is in Heaven, that one ot these little ones should perish ” •‘Millions of infant fouls compose The family above.” A clear, distinct,persuasive, melting voice rise o amidst the harmonies of heaven, and swelling over the floods of death, and gliding in soft and sifvery echoes through tho storms and noisy anxieties of life, cries to mv heart—‘Steer straight to me,father, steer straight to me[V Here then, at'thegrave of my dear little boy. whose brow in life was bathed in baptismal water bv the trembling hand of my venerable lather, and now sleeps in death with the smile of God upon it—l renounce this poor worid with all its “vain pomp.” bind upon my soul afresh the vows ot God, and avow for my Master and friend, the “Man ot Sorrows and acquainted with Griefs.” Oct. 23th, 1855. Wm. F. Samfokd. COMMERCIAL. COTTON STATEMENTS. i2 Cj S-jn ps H ! S-w.'Z rn Stock .:lsr srg s !*! 3 Si on !2 ® j §. ‘ ®'2. : r~ 3"5 32- hand week I a-g ‘ ® So 2 this ending | ; r a? day. 1854. J j 277 2243 6175 8418 1082 2743 3825 ! 7364 COLUMBL’B, NOV. o. COTTON—Our market has been active to-day and notwithstanding some uneasiness in reference to the com plexion of steamer’s accounts now luiiy due-, in some grades a shade improvent is noticeable. We con’ 0.. our quotations, Middlings 7i to 7*, Strict Middlings load Middlings 7y to 7s, Fair 8 cents. New York, Nov. 1. Cotton is dull, with sales to-day of 400 bales. Flour is firm and unchanged. Wheat is improving. Southern white is quoted at $2.25, red $2.10. Corn is unchanged. What do ihc Physicians Say? Listen to the testimony of an eminent physician in favor ot M’Lane’s Vermifuge, which is now universally acknowledged to be the best in use , even members of the medical lacuity (who are so often opposed to the use of patent medicines,) cannot withhold their approval of this invaluable remedy: Lind, Stark Cos. Ohio, Jan. 8, 1849. I have used Dr M’Lane’s YY’orm Specific in my private practice, and anj prepared to say that the unparalleled suc cess with which 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 my no tice. The mode of administration, the smallness of tho dose, and the certainty of its efficacious effects, give it, in my opinion, a decided advantage over any jollier medicine ot the kind before the public. Purchasers will please be careful to a*k for DR. M’LANE’S CELEBRATED VERMIFUGE, andj take none else. All other Vermifuges, in comparison, are worthless. Dr. M’Lanes gen uine Vermifuge, also his Celebrated Diver Pills, can i.o\v be had at all respectable DrugStorcsin the United Mates and Canada. by all the Druggists in Columbus, and bv one agent in every town. oct2s— w&twtlw. A Secret for the Ladies. Ilow to Preserve Health.—Don’t use Chalk, Lily White, or any of the so-called cosmetics, to conceal a la ded or sallow complexion. It you would have t.ie roses brought back to your cheek, a clear, healthy and transparent skin, and life and vigor iniused through the system, get a bottle of Carters Spanish Mixture, and take it according to directions, if does not taste quite as well as your sweet meats; but, it alter a few doses you do not find your health and’ beauiv reviving, your step elastic and vigorous, and the whole system refreshed and invigorated like a Spring morning, then you case is hopeless, and all the valuable ‘certificates we possess, go lor naught. It is the greatest purifier of the olood known; is perfectly harmless, and at the same time powerlully efficacious. For sale by THOMAS M. TURNER & CO. JAS. H. CARTER, „ Savannah, Ga. BROOKS & CHAPMAN, n .i c D -vnforth <& Nagel, Oct 11 w&twlm Columbus, Ga. Prom tlie Ministry. The follow ins evidence is from the llev. VV. D. F. Saw rie Presiding Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church fur the District of North Alabama. Dr. Charles YVilliams, — Dear Sir: I take pleasure in giving mv testimony to the virtues of your excellent Tul; montc balsam ot Wild Cherry.’ Having used scveial Dottles in my family, with decided advantage in every case, I can recommend it as the best and most pleasant medicine 1 have ever seen. W. D F SAWRILw 1 uscumbia, March 22, 1848. by all Druggists everywhere. See long ;Ui * verttsement in another column. ect41 —1 1,1 James CJ. Cobb auuouuces himself as a cauda (or Sheriff of Chattahooche County at the ensuing ’electa’!’ ” January next, and runs as pu InUepejideut candidate. Cits Maj UcL 18,1855. od S and