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mt& %tvAind. 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. ‘