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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, DEC. 15,1855.
Patriotic Words to Patriotic men.
Every hour adds to the proof, that the date of a
great and final struggle between the North and the
Soath, draws nigh. The intense heat of the abolition
fanaticism haa melted down the partition walla which
have hitherto separated parties at the North. Profess
ed Democrats, Free-soilers, Know-Nothings and Whigs,
have all been faced by this powerful alembic, and stand
shoulder to shoulder in an ins; ne war upon the consti
tutional rights of the South, as is painfully exhibited
this day in the Hall of the Hobse of Representatives
in Washington city, in the contest for the Speakership.
If this contest were for the distribution of spoils—if it
involved only measures of finance and taxation—it
ought to arrest publio attention at the South, and force
as into an opposiag union of parties : but when we know
that the equality of the Southern States in the Union ;
the sopreniaoy of the white rqce at the South ; the
very form and structure of Southern society, are all in
dissolubly involved in the struggle, we are amazed that
the Southern people are not one people and one party.
What can be done to perfeot this union ? This is the
great question for our day and generation, and we
hope to be heard with patience and candor while wo
attempt to answer it:
One month ago, a portion of the people of Georgia
assembled in convention at Milledgeville. Their party
had control of the Federal Government, and the people
of Georgia had pronounoed in their favor at the Oc
tober election with singular unanimity. Aotuated, how
ever, by an enlarged and unselfish patriotism, this body
of citizens gallantly put themselves in the breaoh for
the defence of Southern Rights, and resolved not to act
with their party, endeared though it is to them by a
thousand glorioua memories, and illustrated by the lives
of moat of our great men, and triumphant both as a
national and State organization, unless the national
democratic convention, shortly to assemble at Cincinnati,
would incorporate in its platform the following proposi
tions :
Ist. The recognition and adoption of the principles
established in the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
3d. That neither the Missouri Compromise nor any
other anti-slavery restriction shall hereafter be extend
ed over any territory of the United Stateß.
3d. The prompt and faithful execution of the fugitive
slave law, and its permanent continuance upon the
Statute Book.
This is all the South can demand of the North. It
oovors the whole groand of controversy between the
two sections upon the slavery question.
Now, we put it to the opposition, if the Georgia
delegates can induce the Cincinnati convention to adopt
these propositions, and a candidate is nominated for
President in whose fidelity to the platform laid down
they have oonfidenoe, will it bo either wise or patriotic
in them to continue to make war upon the Democracy ?
We demand an answer, upon their honor as gentlemen
and their loyalty as sons of the South.
What good can oomo of it ? Whatever expecta
tions were onoe entertained of the northern members
of the, so oalled, American party by their Southern
brethren, it is now certain that between the two wings
of the Order there is a great gulf fixed—a gulf as
wide and deep and dismal as that which separates
Dives from Lazarus. The northern wing is nbolitioni
zed. A Southern slaveholder, brother though he be,
is more hateful to the northern fanatic than St. Patrick
himself, or Pope Pius the IX. There is not, and oan
not be ever after, any union between the northern wings
of the Order. What good can then come of keeping
■p the organization at tho South ? We are not trou
bled with either Catholic or foreigner. Besides, the
great body of the Southern people are irreconcilably
opposed to what they conceive to be the prosoriptive
features of the Order. So far as we are advised, Ken
tucky and Maryland are the only Southern Slates in
which the American party have carried a majority of
the people. Is it not then the duty of the Southern
branoh of the Order to yield acquiescence in tho pop
ular verdiot, or at least to postpone for the present the
disoussion of their peonliar tenets, and join their South
ern brethren in the defenoe of their homes aud hearth
stones from the assaults of a ruthless northern foe,
whish, if successful, would involve in one oommon ruin
Demeorat and Whig, Know Nothing and Anti-Know
Nothing ? One party or the other at the South must
yield their peculiar views on the questions involved in
the contest between them before there can be union
at the South. It is democratic and republican that the
minority should give way to the majority. We insist,
therefore, that doty and patriotism demand a dissolu
tion of the American Party at the South. They are
clearly in the minority. But it may be said in opposition
that the Democratic Convention denounced the Ameri
can Party, and that it would not be manly in its mem
bership to lay down their arms to an insulting foo.
We are quite sure that there is nothing iu the 14th
resolution of the Milledgeville convention which can
be oonatrued into hostility to the members of the Or
der. We believe, and no question the Convention be
lieved, that there were and are, very many patriotic
Southern men in the Order ; men as true to the South
as any that live in Georgia. The hostility expressed
by the Convention was to the organization and princi
ples of the Order. Nor is this strange. The lodges
in various parts of the country have, themselves, con
demned the aecreey, oaths, religious intolerance, and
proscriptive features of the Order, and have abandoned
them ; and very few members of the Order sanction
the third or UnioD degree.
Nothing, then, divides this class of men from the
demooraoy but a difference of opinion as to the length
of time a foreigner ought to stay in the country before
he is admitted to the privileges of citizenship. Now,
wc submit to the members of the Order, that it is im
possible to maintain a great political party upon this
narrow basis.
We hope, therefore, we will net be considered im
pertinent, if we urge upon the patriotic portion of the,
so called, American party, which will assemble in Con
ventioo at Milledgeville, on the 20th inst., the policy
of disbanding their organization, and thereby securing
unity at the South.
Other arguments in favor of this polioy oome throng
ing upon us, but We have no room for them new. In
another issue we hope to be able to adduce other and
stronger arguments in favor of the line of policy we
suggest.
Columbia Races.
Columbia, Dec. 13.
Mr. F. G. Murphy’s o. f. Nannie Lewis, 4 years old,
by Glencoe, dam. Motto, won to-day the Jockey Club
porsp of s£oo ; 3 mile beats.
Abstract of the Remarks made by Mr. Jeter,
of Marlon, npon the Brunswick Rail Road
Bill,
Mr. Jeter said that he was opposed to engrafting by
way of amendment any other application for State aid
upon the bill now under consideration.
The claims of this bill aro peculiar, differing from
those presented by any other proposition. They rest
not upon the fact that the Road will bo peculiarly pro
fitable to the Stockholders, but that it will develope a
large extent of territory—large enough to form a small
State —which is now comparatively shut out from the
balance of tho world, and by enhancing the value of
the lands and other properly in that region of the State,
thousands will bo thrown into the Treasury, from
whence it does not now receive but a small pittance.—
The State itself, is to be the greatest recipient of its
benefits ; and it is upon this ground that this bill press
es itself with peculiar foroe upon the consideration of
the Senate.
Mr. Jeter compared, at some length, the present
with the past condition of Northern Georgia. Twenty
years ago northern Georgia was a wilderness ; now a
town or village surmounts every hill, and every vale
is oovered by a flourishing and profitable farm.
What has produced this astonishing result ? The
Railroad enterprises of that seotion. The money of
South-western Georgia has been contributed liberally
to sustain those enterprises. “Whenever they have ask
ed for aid we have unlocked the Treasury and told
them to take what their necessities required.
When the State Road was first projeoted and the aid
of the State asked for in its construction, South-western
Georgia petitioned to participate in the benefits of that
aid. She was told that the State could not then en
gage in such an extensile scheme of Internal Improve
ment—to wait her time, and in turn her claims should
be heard and respeoted. She has waited long—waited
patiently—waited without a murmur. Her petition is
now met with the response, that unless we run a Rail
road to every Gin House, and to the door of every corn
orib in northern Georgia, no aid will be granted her.
Mr. Jeter said he desired to know, whether or not,
Senators intended to fulfil these promises—whether or
not, they intended to discharge these obligations ? and
to this intent he desired that this bill should stand or
fall upon its own merits.
We pretend only to give a very imperfect abstract of
the Senator’s remarks.
Kansas Movements.
Capt. Charles A. Hamilton of Adairsville, Georgia,
pledges himself to take his family and some negroes to
Kansas by the first of March or April next, with a
a Physician and med cine for the company, and 100
Southern Emigrants (a portion of them with families)
in whom confidence can be reposed, equip them for the
journey, bear their expenses to the Territory, aud keep
them there prepared for any emergency, until the ques
tion of slavery is settled by the people of Kansas for
or against the South : Provided, a fund of $25,000
shall be placed at his command by the people of Geor
gia, through voluntary contributions of oitizens, for the
purpose.
We respectfully suggest to the Kansas Aid Society of
Muscogee Cos., that they collect the amounts subscribed
at the first, and, we are sorry to learn, last meeting of
the Sooiety, and offer it to Captain Hamilton. There
can be no question of bis fitness to fill the position to
which he aspires.
Congressional.
Washington, Dec. 12.
In the Senate to-day the Standiug Committees were
announced.
In the House there were five ineffectual ballots for
Speaker, the previous votes being but little changed.
Washington, Dec. 13.
In the Senate nothing was done to-day.
In the House there were five ballots fur Speaker. The
last stood for Banks 104; Richardson 72;.,Fu11er 88.
It is thought some new jpjan wiffbe adopted to-morrow.
The Prosent Aspect of Affairs in Washington.
Washington, Deo. 13.
In the Senate Demooratio cauous to-day, Senator
Iverson, of Georgia, introduced a platform of principles
required by the South, and after a warm discussion it
was referrEd to a committee consisting of Messrs. Iver
son, Cass, Bayard and Rusk, who will report thereon.
The Banks men will stand fast for him, but a compro
mise may be effected by the Democrats with the nation
al portion of the opposition.
Grand Lodge of the State of Alabama.
The Grand Lodge of the State of Alabama, A. Y.
M., was in session here during the last week. We
learn that the surplus funds in the Treasury were or
dered, by votes of the chartered Lodges, to be distri
buted among the subordinate Lodges in proportion to
the amounts paid in by each since the last distribution.
The following gentlemen were elected Grand officers
for the next year :
S. A. Wood, M. E. G. M.;
J. H. MoWiley, M. E. D. G. M.;
H. S. Shelton, Sr., G. W. ;
J. Danforth, Jr., G. W.;
Thomas Weloh, G. T. ;
A. P. Pfister, G. Sec. ;
Thomas MoDougald, G. T. ;
Benj. Blakeny, G. Lee. for Southern Div.;
M. K. Clopton, “ “ Middle do.
J. M. Brundige, “ “ Northern do.
[Advcr liter cj- Gazette.
Columbia Races.
Columbia , December 12.—Mr. Thomas Puryear’s c. h.
Charley Ball, by Magner, 4 years old, won to-day the
Jockey Club Purse of S3O0 —two mile heats.
Death of Charles M. Cheves, Esq.
We observe by the Charleston papers the death of Charles
M. Cheves, Esq., the youngest son of our venerable and
respected fellow-citizen, the Hon. Judge Cheves.
Gen. James Gadsden.
By private advices we learn that our Minister at Mexico
i- convalescent from his illness, and has been ordered by
his physician to the sea-coast to recruit his health.
Resignation of Prof Lieber.
At the last meeting of the Board of Trustees, of South
Carolina College, Prof. Lieber gave notice (in accordance
with the requisition of the College laws) of his resignation,
to take effect in December next.
Milledgeville, Dec. 12.
A lady (a Mrs. Gordon of Atlanta) delivered a lecture
in the Senate Chamber last night, on tho subject of Educa
tion. Quite a number of members of the Legislature were
present, and they evidently listened to the arguments and
appeals of the fair speaker with much more favor than if
those arguments had proceeded from bearded lips. The
lecturer’s object was to get the Legislature to aid in the es
tablishment of Institutions, where pupils—both male and
female —might lie educated for teachers. — Correspondence
of the Savannah Journal.
The Rev. Mr. Dean, who has just been elected Chap
lain to the U. S. Senate, is said to be a Methodist, and
eound on ihe Nebraska question.
[Correspondence of the Savannah Daily Journal.]
Georgia Legislature.
SENATE.
Milledgeville, Dec. 13.
Mr. Smith introduced a preamble and resolutions declar
ing in substance that inasmuch as the Emigrant Aid Socie
ties of the North, are doing all they can to setlle Kansas
with a free soil population, to tho detriment of the rights
and interests of the South, therefore the Legislature should
appropriate one hundred thousand dollars to aid Southern
men who desire to emigrate to that Territory. The resolu
tions lie on the table for the present.
Mr. Peebles from the Committee on new Judicial Courts,
&c.—reported.
A bill to form three new Judicial Circuits, the first from
the Counties of Habersham, Rabun, Lumpkin, Union, Gih
ner, Fannin and Murray, to be called the North Eastern
Circuit, the second from the Counties of Clinch, Coffee,
Camden, Wayne, Charlton, Glynn, Ware and Appling, to
he called the South Eastern Circuit, and the third from the
Counties of Dougherty, Baker, Lee, Sumter and Dooly, to
be called the Albany Circuit. Some of the counties of the
old Circuits are also changed, but the Bill is too long tor me
to report in full.
The Resolution from the House to appoint a joint Com
mittee to select a site to which the Penitentiary may be re
moved, was taken up and agreed to. The Chair appointed
Messrs. Dunagan and Pharr, on the part of the Senate.
The Senate took up the special order, the bill to pardon
Jacob Mercer.
After the reading of some additional evidence which has
been obtained since the bill last occupied the attention of
the Senate.
Mr. Guerry moved to strike out all after the enacting
clause, and to amend by providing that Mercer shall be con
fined four years in the Penitentiary.
Judge Cone moved to amend the amendment so as to
require him to be confined in the Penitentiary for life.
Mr. Miller raised the point of order, that the object pro
posed to be effected by the amendment, was beyond the Ju
risdiction of the Legislature.
A long discussion ensued in which Messrs. Miller, Mur
phey, Buchanan and Peeples opposed the Jurisdiction of the
Senate, and Messrs. Cone of Green, McMillan, Gibson and
Landrum, sustained it.
The presiding officer, Col. Bailey, decided that the Sen
ate had jurisdiction.
Mr. Miller appealed from the decision of the chair, and
the Senate refused to sustain the decision. Yeas 38, Nays
56.
The amendment was therefore rejected.
The original bill then being put upon its passage, it was
lost. Yeas 30, Nays 67.
The bill having been already once reconsidered, the Sen
ate has made a final disposition of it and the wretched man
has nothing now to look forward to but his death by the
hands of the executioner. He is to be hanged on Friday
the 21st instant.
The Senate adjourned to 9 o’clock to-morrow morning.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
By Mr. Swearingen—To form anew county from Baker
and Early.
By Mr. Lawton, from the committee on Agriculture and
Internal Improvement—Te provide for the creation of the
office of “State Geologist and Chemist.’* The incumbent
is to havo a laboratory at Milledgeville, and among the
duties he is to perform are to be the analyzation of soils and
the testing of ores, and the delivery of a lecture before each
Legislature. Salary, $2,000 a year.
By Mr. Pickett, Chairman of the special committee on
Education—To provide a general system of common
school education. The funds are to come from the nett
profits of the Western and Atlantic Rail Road.
Mr. Lawton—To refund to tho Bank of the State of
Georgia, the sum of $3,319 89, which was unlawfully paid
iDto the Treasury, through ignorance of the tax laws.
By Mr.McLary—To incorporate “the Bank of Morgan,”
in the town of Morgan, Calhoun county.
By Mr. Cottle—To change the time of holding theSupe
rior Courts in Sumter county to the second Monday in
March and September, and the Inferior Courts to the third
Monday in May and November.
By Mr. Wood—To incorporate the North Georgia Min
in” Company.
The bill to authorize Ordinaries to pay the tuition of poor
children in certain cases. This hill covers cases where
children really entitled to the benefit of the Poor School
Fund hare not been entered in accordance with the forms
of law. It bars accounts of over four years standing, and
those which hare been in part paid, rateably with other ac
counts.
A message was received from the Governor recommend
ing the passage of a law to have all the vacant lands in the
State sold at public out cry by an Agent appointed by the
Executive.
The message was referred to the committee on the Judi
ciary, with instructions to report a bill to carry out the re
commendation, if in their opinion it was expedient to do so.
The Education Bill of Mr. Lewis, of Hancock, was laid
over till to-morrow. Spectator.
Alabama Legislature.
Montgomery, Dec. 12.
Absence from home is our excuse for the very mea
gre accounts which have appeared in our columns of
the “sayings and doings” in Re Alabama Legislature.
Nothing of special interest occurred on this day ex
cept the consideration of the bill to loan money to the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad. A test question
was made in the House on the motion to fill a blank in
the bill with $300,000 ; upon which the yeas and nays
were demanded, and resulted in yeas 51 nays 41. Be
fore final action was taken the hour of adjournment
arrived.
The bill to abolish Hancock oounty was ordered to a
third reading by yeas 57 nays 35.
Montgomery, Dec. 13.
Senate.— -Geo. W. Gunn, successor to N. 11. Clan
ton, from the county of Macon, appeared, was qualified
and took his seat.
The bill to incorporate the Huntsville Hotel Compa
ny, vetoed by the Governor, was reconsidered and
passed by yeas 25 nays 8.
The bill to increase the salary of the Treasurer, and
also the bill to establish a Medical board in the county of
Chambers, were passed.
House of Representatives. —The bill to incorporate
the Florence Synodical Female College, vetoed by the
Governor, was reconsidered and passed by yeas 04
nays 23.
South Carolina Legislature.
Columbia, Dec. 12.
The Senate passed a bill to amend the Constitution
of the State so as to require two years residence, af
ter naturalization, as a prerequisite to the enjoyment of
the elective franchise, by a vote of yeas 38 nays 3.
The House rejeoted, by a vote of yeas 58 nays 56,
the bill to establish a separate Court of Appeals.
The following curious epitaph is described by a corres
pondent of the London News, who ba* recently been ex
amining the burial ground of the British troops near
Balaklava:
Here lies an old soldier whom all must applaud ;
He fought many battles both at homo and abroad;
But the fiercest engagement he ever was in,
Was the battle of self in the conquest of sin.
The health of the French Empress is now better.
She was playing at billiards the whole of Tuesday morn
ing, the 23d ult.
Senator from Macon. —G. W. Gunn, Esq , has been
elected to fill the vacancy in the State Senate caused by
the death of the lamented Col. N. H. Clauton, of Macon
county.— Mont. Jour.
A Western Boy. —“I understand your father is dead,"’
said a man to a little boy, as he entered Ihe house.—
“You’re right now. old hoes,” said he, “lie’s laid out in
t’other room as cold as a wedge!”
Affray at a College. —An affray occurred at the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on the 7tb inst.,
between a student named Singleton and one from Ten
nessee named White, in which the latter shot the former,
it is supposed fatally. White made his escape.
The Hermitage —A bill has been introduced in the Ten
nessee Legislature to purchase the Hermitage, the house o(
the late President Jackson, and to establish an Agricultural
and Military School at that place.
BY TELEGRAPH.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THK
STEAMSHIP BALTIC.
Cotton Declined—Consols 89 1-4.
New York, Dec. 12.
The Baltic lias arrived with Liverpool advices to the
Ist inst. Cotton has declined sto the market closing
firm. Sales of the week amount to 49,000 bales. Fair
had declined most. The market closed steady at the fol
lowing quotations
Fair Orleans, 6}d.
Middling, 5 U-16J.
Fair Uplands, sfd.
Middling, sid.
Liverpool Breadstuff Market.
Flour had declined Is. per barrel, and was dull. Canal
was quoted at 425. 6d.: Ohio at 455.
Corn was quiet, yellow 475. 3d.
Provisions were quiet. Lard lower. r
Political Intelligence.
There is no war news. It is rumored that Russia has
proposed peace negotiations. United States stocks are
better. Consols are worth 89 l-4s.
The principal feature of the week’s news is the vari
ety of rumors to the effect that there is at last a pros
pect of peace.
One rumor says that Russia has directly requested
Prussia to make oonciliatory offers to the Western
Powers. ►Prussia is said to have accepted the mission.
To this Austria assents.
Another rumor, and the most definite in form, is to
the effect that propositions have already been submitted
to the Emperor Napoleon, in behalf of Russia, which
can be honorably accepted. They are as follows, viz.:
Russia will conclude peace with the Western powers,
without tho intervention of either Austria or Prussia.
She consents to guarantee the independence of the
Danubian Principalities, also the freedom of the Black
Sea to both parties.
Preparations ol war are to continue, but not active
hostilities, up to a certain time to be agreed upon.
All these rumors may be premature, but hopes of
peace are strong.
The excitement respecting American affairs has al
most entirely passed.
The Danish Conference met on the 20th ult. No
business of importance had been transacted.
The King of Prussia, in his speech to the Chambers,
had proclaimed the government decidedly in favor of
continued neutrality.
Tliere had been unimportant changes in the English
Cabinet; but there was nothing new from the Crimea,
Asia, or the Black Sea.
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, Dec. 12.
By tho Texas we have Vera Cruz advices to the Bth,
from the City ol Mexico to the sth. A conspiracy had been
discovered, the object ot which was to make Uraga, Presi
dent. Uraga, Padre Miranda and Col. Orsollo had been
arrested. The affair had caused a great excitement. CoJ.
ltobles had been appointed to succeed Almonte. It is ru
mored that Cornonfort had retired from the Ministry. Tho
Church is opposed to the Government. Things are in gen
eral confusion.
[From the New Orleans Della, of Thursday ]
The Great Race between Lecomte and Arrow.
The fall races over the Metairie Course commenced
yesterday. The weather was rather cool, and owing to
the rain the previous day, the track was exceedingly htavy.
The attendance at the course, notwithstanding tho circum
stances, was quito respectable. The members’ and stran
gers’ stands were pretty full, the gambler booths were
well patronized, and roulet, faro, chuck-a-luck and all such
games, came in for a full share of the profits. The out
side stands were crowded to overflowing.-
The race was for a Jockey Club Purse of SSOO, three
mile heats, between the renowned horses Lecomte, of
7:20 memory, and Arrow, who has several times been the
competitor of the celebrated Red River nag. As the
track was very heavy, it was not expec ed that anything
liwe good time would be made ; and the horses being
about equal in speed, so tar as three mile heats are con
cerned, there was no excitement in the betting ; Lecomte,
however, had the call, as a friend of ours facetiously re
marked, at SIOO to nothing. The track, yesterday, was
in about the same condition that it was when the great
Post Stake race was run, when Arrow was distanced on
the first heat, and L comte pressed Lexington so closely
throughout the entire race. The horses looked uncom
monly well, and did not appear to have lost any of the
spirit they possessed in former times. Arrow had the ad
vantage of Lecomte in years, having reached the horse
venerable age of six, while Lecomte could only boast of
having seen the sun of five summers. The renowned
“Abe” rode Arrow, while Lecomte by anew aspirant to
equestrian skill, an humble little darkey named “Sain,”
was bestridden. But to the faets of the race.
First Heat. —Tho horses were saddled and mounted
and duly brought forth. Seeing them all ready for a start,
Judge Coxe gave the signal and away they went, Arrow
taking the lead by several lengths. Both horses took the
outside of the track—a position which they maintained
throughout the entire race, it being the dryest and best,
Lecomte gained upon Arrow on the back stretch, but
lost again, ana as they passed the stand, was several
lengths behind ; he picked up a little on the second mile,
and made a brush for the lead on the quarter stretch,
passing the stand very close with his antagonist, and evi
dently gaining, but the first turn on the third mile, Le
comte darted ahead of Arrow, and took a respectable dis
tance which he kept all the way home, winning the heat
io the slow time of 6:00.
Second Heat —After half an hour’s blow the horses
were ready for the second trial. There was no betting—
Lecomte continuing to be the favorite at the long odds. —
Arrow again had the start by at least five lengths. Le
comte pursued him under a strong pull, and on the back
stretch reduced the distance slightly, but soon again fell
behind. A brush was made on the quarter stretch of the
third mile, but vain were the efforts of Lecomte—he fell
back and Arrow came home several lengths ahead, win
ning the heat in 5:59, with apparent ease.
Third Heat. —The aspect of things was now slightly
changed—honors were easy,and the betting became quite
brisk—no odds being asked. Lecomte’s friends began
to show signs of letting down, and several attempts were
made to hedge. There was a good deal of difficulty ex
perienced in getting a fair start in this heat—the trainers
and riders endeavoring to out-general each other. Ar
row started off, and was brought back ; then Lecomte was
taken with a leaving and had to be pulled up finally,
both left without the signal, and were ordered back by
the judge. At leDgth the animals and their riders be
came reasonable, and, at the tap of the drum, shot forth
like a brace of bullets, atid commenced their flight around
the track. It was a splendid start. They kept together
for some distance, when suddenly Lecomte darted ahead.
It was then a serits of struggles for the lead, until the
two horses came thundering down the home-stretch of the
second mile, when it was almost neck-and-neek. In Im
position the stand was passed, Lecomte leading Arrow
about half a length ; but before the first turn on the tin and
mile was reached, the backers of the great Red River nag
surrendered all hopes, and admitted that the day was lost
for Arrow had shot ahead of his antagonist with the
rapidity of lightning, and took thelead-a position that the
brave little horse maintained all round the track, coming
,i n am jd the cheers of the excited spectators, at least six
engths ahead—winniug the heat and the race ir. the slow
time of 6:03
The fastest timv on record of a three mile race, was
made by Brown Diet over the same course, and that
time we believe was 5:28. Considering the condition of
the track yesterday, the time made by Arrow and Lecomte
is no* bad. We have, however, neither space nor time to
say anything further iu regard to the race of yesterday,
except to express our opinion that all who failed to attend
the course missed the most exciting race of the season.
We close by adding wh t is considered by all turfmen
by far tho most important part of a race report, and that
is the
SUMMARY *.
Metairie Jockey Club Races—Fall Meeting, 1855. —
First Day, Dec. s—Jockeys—Jockey Club Purse, SSOO, three milo
heats.
A. L. B nghaman’s eh. g. Arrow, by Boston,
out of Jeannctteau, 6 years 2 1 1
Wm. J. Minor’s (Thos. j. Wtlls) cb. h. Le
comte, by Boston, out of Reel, 5 years.... 122
Time— 6:00—5:59—6:03.
The management of the track is at present in charge of
Mr. James A. Valentine, agent for the club, and we
must say that there is a decided improvement in every
respect over former years. Tho Judges were Governor
P. O. Hebert, J. G. Coxe and J. MeCloskey.
FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.
The following verses were written in contemplation of
Death, and are addressed to one whose many excellencies
have endeared her to tho heart ol an
Irish Exile.
When all my light of life is lied,
And I am numbered with tho dead,
Let yon green oak its branches wave
In solemn silence o’er my grave.
When you shall be where I have been,
When you shall see what I have seen ;
When your eyes test on things once dear —
Will you not wish that I were hero ?
When you shall walk where once I’ve tread,
When I am numbered with the dead ;
Say, will not tears thy cheeks bedew 1
I’m sure mine would if it were you.
When some cold voice shall speak my name,
Perhaps to praise—perhaps lo blame ;
It you perchance that voice should hear,
Will you uot feel the starting tear I
The hand you’ve clasped will soon be cold ;
The tale of life will soon be told ;
The lip that smiled, the tongue that spoke,
Will soon be silent, ’neath that oak.
When yon pale moon its silvery light.
Sprinkles o’er the face of night;
Alas! its beams no more I’ll ;ec,
For all will then be dark to me.
But from the grave a light doth rise,
That gleams above the starry skies ;
That brightly shines on Belhle’em’s plain,
And glitters o’er Jerusalem.
That light shall pierce the awful gloom ;
That light shall guide me from the tomb,
And gleam till Jordan’s banks 1 see
All clothed in immortality.
No lovelier spot on eartli I’ve seen ;
Beneath that oak the grass grows green j
The turf is soft, the flowers are fair,
Methinks ’twere sweet to slumber there.
’Tis true I once had hoped to fall
On some red field, or tower tall,
Revenging wrongs, now grey with years,
And wet with Exile blood and tears.
’Tis true I once had hoped to die,
Where death incarnadine did lly ;
Where English soldiers, red with gore,
Could light lor British fraud no more.
’Tis true I once had hoped to tee
The land of the Geraldines made free ;]
Arid hoped to slumber on the field
Willi victory—my sword as shield.
’Tis tiue I longed in Irish clay,
My bursting heart and wrongs to lay;
In hopes that on my tomb might kneel,
Alen who for Ireland’s wrongs would feel;
And with their hearts make pledges there,
No longer tyrant’s chains to wear;
To do or die—in Freedom’s cause,
The slaves no more of British laws.
This hope is gone, it flickered bright
A moment, ere it left my sight;
It may not shine again lor years,
And only then to show our tears.
This dream of fame, alas ! “tis o’er,7
’Tis Irish valor sleeps in gore ;
No burning thoughts of vengeance spoke,
Oh, let me die beneath the oak !
Lucan.
Superintendent’s Report.
Superintendent's Office, C. R. Road, )
Savannah, 4th December, 1855. $
R. R. Cvyter, President:
Sir: 1 beg leave to submit the following Report of op
erations on our road lor the fiscal year just closed:
The aggregate earnings have been $1,428,682 99
Do. “ expenses for the same peiiod
have been G 59,028 71
Shewing a nett profit of. $739,654 28
The increase oi gross earnings over the
previous year is $419,889 66
Andot nett profit 205,127 51
Rev. Dr. Wm. A. Smith, a distinguished divine of tho
Methodist Episcopal Church South, is being tried by tho
Conference now in session at Petersburg, ou the charges
of falsehood, immorality and sjnnder. Dr. Smith’s ac
cuser is the Rev. Chas. F. Deems, of the North Carolina
Conference.
Abolitionism in Kansas.
The New Yoik Tribune, the rampant abolition organ
of New York, is filled with accounts from Kansas, repre
senting the free State party as blameless, and justifying them
in the present difficulties in that Territory, and bidding de
fiance to the Territorial and Federal Government. Tho
writer in the Tribune boasts that the abolitionists in Kan
sas, have a force of upward of one thousand men at Law
rence, armed with Sharp's rifles, and six pieces of cannon,
furnished by the Emigrant Aid Society, of New England.
With this force in open array against the constituted author
ities, they bid defiance to Governor Shannon and his civil
officers.
They speak in the most insulting and contemptuous terms
of the “border ruffians,” or pro-slavery men, whom they
say are unable or unwilling to cope with the abolition re
volutionists. They have no lear ot any interference on the
part of the General Government, as any action on its part
to maintain the supremacy of the law by military force
would, they say, be extremely unpopular and destroy the
political prospects of the administration in tho free States.
A Washington letter-writer says:—Gen. Cass has writ
ten a letter to a committee in Pennsylvania, which will make
its appearance shortly, withdrawing from the field as a can
didate for the Presidency.
A Washington letter alluding to the contest lor speaker
says:—The fight is between Northern Know Nothings and
black republicanism for mastery at home, and rrval factions
will never harmonise.
COMMERCIAL.
COTTON STATEMENTS.
fl 9 ETPc if TO H {rCCfS a jj* ‘ Stock
a-o-l “ g ;ig | on
1n 5 2. 25. ~ 52 ~x hand
week !?-g ® % £.5 : ®£- j this
ending ?rf r n-<&- • r ‘•< -Z day.
1854. ’ ;2771 3462 27624:31086 1470 1*463 13933! 19924
1855. ’ i 524 6370 55618 61988 1777 31279 33056 31843
Columbu*, Dec. 15. m
COTTON—But few transactions yesterday and to-day,
and at very irregular prices. Middlings 7 to 7s, Good
Middlings 7|, Middling Fair 8 to 81 t ents.
Married.
On Thursday, the 6th inst, at the residence of Dr. N.
B. Powell, on Chunnenuggee Ridge, by the Rev. Dr. W.
H. Ellis-on, Col. Jas F. Carter and Miss Bettie Powell, all
of Macon county, Ala.
NOTICE.
r IMIE undersigned takes this method of informing the public
that he has disposed nt bis entire stock of MUBIC to T
H. Vandeti Berg. dec!5 —twit H. S. ‘