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Himts rnifo Sentinel. | ~ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA ~ WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC, 19. Druu.swick anil Florida Railroad. A portion of the citizens of Columbus assembled in Temperance Hell on Saturday, 15th inst, at the call of the Mayor, F. G. Wilkins, to take into consideration the action of the Senate on the bill to give State aid to the Brunswick and Florida Railroad. The meeting was addressed by Seaborn .Jones. N. N. Howard, •James Johnson, and Wiley Williams. The following resolution was adopted ; Reunited, “That the Chairman appoint a committee of five to repair to Mill dgevilleto attend to the interest of the city ol Columbus, and that they use their best efforts to aveit the termini's from Eufaula and make Coiumbus th j termi iius of the Brunswick. Road ; and that Columbus will, to the beet of her ability, aid in that enterprise.” We would respectfully suggest to our citizens that the interests of Columbus are safe in the hands of our Senator and Representatives. The State aid to the Brunswick and Florida Railroad is limited to $1,000,000 at the rate of S6OOO per mile. One hundred and sixty six miles will exhaust the appropriation. This will not curry the Eufaula branch beyond Albany. This will de volve upon the citizens living on the Chattahoochee river the whole burthen of extending the road west from Albany. From such a competition, the city of Columbus will not shrink ; and if the Legislature will amend the ] Oth section of the act so as to place Co lumbus on an equal footing with Eufaula, all conflicting interests will be harmonized. And this much at least, the city of Columbus has a right to expect from the Legislature. Unaided, except by the liberal aid which whs extended to us by Savannah, Columbus has built Railroads which bring to the port of Savannah 100,000 bales of cot on which she never could otherwise have obtained. Such enterprise ought to be encouraged, not cheeked, by wise and patriotic statesmen. We have no enmity to Eufaula. We wish it all pros perity. Her citizens, however, cannot complain if we urge upon our own Legislature to place Columbus, Georgia, on an equality with Eufaula, Alabama. We hope, therefore, that our delegates will not place themselves in opposition to the bill, but urge upon the Legislature the propriety and justice of giving Columbus “a place in the picture.’’ Shall Kansas be Ssirrendcted without a Struggle ? We call the special attention of our readers to the letter of Jefferson Buford, Eq., of Eufaula, Ala. lie proposes to raise a company of 300 Emigrants, and to s'art with them for Kansas by the 20th February. To effect this object he proposes to invest $20,000 of his ample fortune in the undertaking, lie offers to each Emigrant a free passage to Kansas, a support for the tirst year, and forty acres of the best land in the world. Major Buford is too well known in this community to need commendation at our hands, lie is a South Caro> linian by birth, an ardent friend of Southern Rights, a bold and fearless man, and the leading lawyer of his circuit. lie is also a man of fortune and is willing to expend part of it in the enterprise. A t our instance, he has consented to visit Columbus about tlie 10th Jan uary, when, if it will he agreeable to the members of the Kansas Emigrant Aid Society, he will develope his plans to them, and beat up for recruits. An opportunity is here offered to the Fiends of Southern settlers in Kansas to give them efficient aid. The whole South is being agitated upon the subject.— Virginia lias already sent out a large body of Emigrants. But the other day, Mr. Cirgyle took out 42 settlers from Griffin, and was followed shortly afterwards by Capt. Allison Nelson with 100 more from Atlanta.— Capt. Hamilton is engaged at Adairsville. Let us fol low suit. What has become of our Kansas Society ? For the information of persons who desire to emi grate, we publish, in connection with Maj. Buford’s communication, a letter from a highly respectable citi zen of Platte city, giving a minute description of the country and of the present attitude of the controversy between the Missourians and the New Englanders. We will follow it up with other letters from the scene of strife. Local New#. Affray. —On Sunday night last, 16th inst., a fight occurred between John C. Cieglurn and William Don ald, in the sitting room of the Perry House, during which, Donald fired three pistol shots at Cleghorn, the last of which took effect in his shoulder. The wound is a painful one, but is not considered fatal. In the ear ly part of the affray, Cleghorn was disarmed by a by stander. The difficulty originated in the competition which has sprung up between opposing Omnibus lines. The proprietors, we hope, will interfere and prevent in the future, these dreadful collisions between their em ployees, in which the peace of society is disturbed aud the lives of citizens put in peril. Rain. —During Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 14th, 15th, and 16th inst., heavy iains fell in this section of the State, which hove raised the Chattahoochee fiver and made it navigable. The steamer Laura , Capt. McAlister, arrived at our wharf on the loth and left for the 15ay on the 17th. The steamer J. L. Day , Capt. Vau Veghten, has siuoe arrived. Accident. — A lad named Win. Williams was thrown from a loaded dray and run over, on Monday 17lh, near the Muscogee Railroad Depot, by which he was serious ly injured. Ilis recovery, we Itarn, is however proba ble. To Kansas Emigrants ! ! —Who will go to Kansas ? I wish to raise 300 industrious, sober, discreet, reli able men, capable of hearing arms ; not prone to use them wickedly, or unnecessarily, but willing to protect their section in every real emergency. 1 desire to start with them for Kansas by the 2uth of February next. To such I will guaranty the donation of a homestead of forty acres of tiist rate land, a free passage to Kan sas, and the means of support lor the first year. To Miniuters of the Gospel, Mechanics, and those wi h good military or agricultural outfits, l will offer greater inducements. Resides devoting $20,000 of my own means to this enterprise, 1 expect all those who know and Have confidence in um, aud who feel an interest in the cause, to contribute as much as they are able. 1 will give to each contributor my obligation that for eve ry fi'ty dollars so contributed? I wiM, within six months thereafter, place in Kansas* one bona tide settler, able aud willing to vote aud fight if need be for our section, or iu default <*f doing so, that l will, on demand, rotund the donation with interest front the day of its receipt, i will keep an account of the obligations so issued, and each successive one shali specify one emigrant more than its imniediute predecessot—thus No. I shall pledge me to take one envgrant, No. 2, two, No. 3, three, &e., aud if the State makes a contribution it shall be divided into sums of tiny dollars eaeh and number ed accordingly. Here is your cheapest and surest chance to do something for Kansas —something toward holding against frtesoil hordes this great Thermopyhe cf Southern institutions.^ In this their dayjof darkness — nay, of extreme peril, there ought to be—there needs must be, great individual sacrifice or they cannot be maintained. If we cannot find many who are willing to incur great and unequal individual loss in the com- ; tnon cause—if we cannot find some crazy enough to peril even life in the deadly breach, then it is not because individuals have grown more prudent and wise, but | because public virtue has decayed , and thereby we have already become unequal to the successful defense of our rights. J. BUFORD. Nov. 26th, 1655. Information about Kansas—Letter from Platte City* Platte City, Mo., Nov. 30, 1855. My Dear B.— ******** Os all things, I eschew politics, but alas ! the inva der cemes, and I have to put my shoulder to the wheel. I have to shoulder my rifle to protect my own fireside from fanatical abolitionism. I live in sight of Kansas. My first two children were born there. You are aware that on the passage of the Kansas Nebraska bill, New England rose in her might, formed aid societies, nnd vomiud forth on us all the dirt and filth of her degraded fanaticism. They sought and made a war on us of social ex.ermi nation, declaring their determination to abolitiouize Kansas, and through her, Missouri and Arkansas. If you keep yourself posted in the news of the day, you also have learned that they met with a Waterloo defeat. Mis souri, alone, unaided and almost uneheered by her sister Southern States, met all New Eugland, and laid them to the wall. We have elected again and agaiu, the pro slavery candidates, and secured to Kansas, with an overwhelming majority, a South Carolina code of slave laws. And now we ask the South to enter into the vineyard. New England has not given it up, but is making preparations to continue the war, and it is unreasonable to expect or believe, that one State, with but one million of souls, can successfully stand up against New Eugland, with Europe at her back ; but we have many advantages, and if the South will do but half her duty it will be no fight at all. And is she not interested ? Are we not all passengers in the same ship? If we sink you will most inevitably (go down) with us. Let .Kansas and Missouri become free nigger States, (and these must stand or fall together,) and it will bo only a question of time with the other States. We consti tute your frontier ; we are your picket guard •, you must stand up to us, or have the enemy in your own camp ; but a word to the wise is enough. As far ns health, olimate, and profits of negro labor is concerned, this is better than any country in the Union. It is true, we have hot and cold, wet and dry weather ; but I never saw the country where a man can be more in - j dependent, and make his bread and meat with lesscapi | tal than here. * * Ten or twelve furrows run in corn will make ten barrels to the acre. One thousand pounds of hemp is a common crop to the acre. Wheat and oats do well; oceans of grass and swarms of cat tle ; and, with all, good markets for everything. This is the stake that poor, bairen New England contends for, and hates to surrender ; and it remains ft.r the South to say. Your blood and treasure paid for half of the seven Territories, which at present be long to the United States. Has not the South manli ness to take possession of ene? And if you doß’t get Kansas, which one can you get ? None—none. I see that the South, like old Rip Van Winkle, has, at last, opened her eyes, and begun to stir ; but to what extent, or for how long a period it will continue, I can not judge ; and my object in addressing you, is to con jure you, by everything that our common interest can suggest, to stir your country up and come to the rescue. ******** We want your moving population to come here. We want your poor and your rich, who are inclined to move at all, to come to Kansas, and while they (thus) secure this glorious Territory to the South, and the Union to us all, tako my word, as a man of honor, they will reap a rich harvest in their own personal advancement. With every wish for your temporal and eternal welfare, I remain, Ever your friend, Dr. W. E. B**** Columbus, Ga. The Proposition of the Times & Sentinel. Our neighbors over the way regard our proposition to the American party of Georgia to disband and join with their Southern brethren in the defence of their homes and hearthstones as “impudent, ’’ nay “insolent.” It eertaiuly was not so intended, and if we have made that impression, we have failed entirely of the object we had in view. To suit, however, the fastidious tastes of our neigh bors, we will beg leave to amend our proposition, and in stead of asking them to disband, will beseech them not to commit themselves irrevocably in opposition to the Platform ol the Georgia Democracy ; for every South ern man must ooncede that if the Georgia Democracy shall succeed in committing the National Democracy to the Platform of the Geoigia Democracy, it will be un wise as well as unpatriotic in the Southern people to make war upon them. The proposition was made in the first instance aud is now repeated as amended, in view of the fact that the members of the American pat ty from the South have been deserted by their Northern brethren. We beg leave to assure the Enquirer that however much we may have spoken against the American party of Georgia, we have a higher regard for the meant st member of the older than for the best abolitionist that breathes. If we were not assured to the contrary, we would think the editors of the Enquirer designed a personal affront to us by the editorial headed No Importance. We respectfully suggest to them that the language used in that article is not consistent with the kind personal relations which have always existed between us. Colton's Atlas of the World. Mr. Charles C. Kellog, is now in Columbus for the purpose of introduc ing to the notice of the public, Colton’s Jtlas of the W orld. For accuracy, completeness and finish of workmanship, it is not surpassed by any work of the kind we have ever seen. The first volume is devoted to the western continent, and gives a complete view of every State, Province and Kingdom in the Hemisphere ; including counties, cities, towns and railroads, up to tlie latest daus ; and equal justice is doDe ttfevery sec tion of the Union. Mr. Kellog will remain a few days iu the oity and vr.ll wait on the public and mere fully explain the mer its of the work. We commend him to the favorable m Po? of oar citizens. Ladies’ Fair. M e are requested to announce that the Ladies of the I’resbyterian Church will hold a Fair during the cur rent week, at Temperance llal’, commencing at 11 o clock A. M., Thursday next, nnd continuing until Fri day night, when the performances w ll close wi h grand Tableaux Vicants , Muio and Supper. We have not been informed as to the objects proposed to be advanc ed by the Fa r, but as the Ladies are the prime movers in it, we know it is something noble and good. Let every body attend. Vote on tho Brunswick Railroad Bill. The following were the ayes and nays on the passage of the Brunswick Rail Road bill through the Senate: Ayes. —Atkinson, Bloodworth, Brice, Brown, of Bald win, Calhoun, Causey, Gumming. Coffee, Gibson, Guery, Hamilton, Hardeman, Hayes, Hines, Jamison, Jeter, Knight, Lawson, of Burke, Lawton, Long, Lott, Mat thews, McCrimmon, McDonald. McMillian, Mocdy, Mur phy, Mwi ray, Newton, Nichols, Patterson, of Gilmer, Paulk. Peebles, Ponder, Ragan, Rentroe, Riley, Robin son, Rodenberry, Sapp, Snropthire. Suns, Scott, Screven, Studstill, Sumner, Swinney, and Winn. fO. Nays. —Allred, Ashe, Avery, Baxter, Beal, Beasly, Billuys, Brown of Gwinnet, Buchanan, Camden, Cannon, Cantrell, fColbert, Cone, of Greene, Crowder, Dabney, Dixon, Dunnagan, Dupree Fambro, Gray, Gordon, Har ris, of Taliaferro, Head, Hill, King, Landrum, Maddux, Marshall, McGuire, Moore, of Cobb, Moore, of Lincoln, Moreland, Morris, Patterson, of Jefferson, Pharr, Pope, Rudisill, Smith, Spaulding, Turner, Wales, Ware, Whit aker, White and Wingfield. 48. Mr. Miller, President, pro tern, of the Senate, was tem porarily occupying his seat on the floor, when tho ayes and nays were called. Upon the call of his name, he rose and stated that he had no vote except in the event of a tie, iu which event he would vote for the bill. Alabama Conference. We have not yet been able to obtain a copy of tho ap pointments for this year for publication. The following are authentic : Eufaula District. —S. f*. Pilley I‘. E. Eufaula, James L. Colton. Glennville, W. 11. McDaniel. Villula, W. B. Adams. Enon : and Chunnenuggee, W. 11. Ellison. — Barbour Circuit, J. W. Rush, J. W. Clems. Abbeville, J. W. Solom. Woodville, W. H. Carter and N. Gillis. Jackson, J. W. Jordon. Holmes Mission, J. Bond. Green wood,! 1 . L. Densler. Marianna, Elisha Phillips. St. An drew’s Bay, R. A. Markham. Tho other appointments are to be supplied. Montgomery District. —S. Armstrong, P. E. Mont gomery, T. VV. Dorman. Montgomery Colored Charge, J. W. Brown. Catoma Colored Mission, W. M. Shoek ler. Montgomery Circuit, J. T. Carry. Tuskegee, E. J. Hamil. Tuskegee Circuit, W. A. McCarty. Andrew Colored Mission, C. N. McLeod. Crawford, J. C. Strick lin. Uchee Colored Mission, W. P. Miller. Auburn W. B. Neal. LaFayette, L. F. Dowdell. Tallassee, R. R. Dickinson. Dadeville, T. 11. Wardlaw. Tuskegee Female College, M. S. Andrews. The other appointments are to be supplied. Philharmonic Concert —We are gratified to an nounce that the Philharmonic Society will give another Concert at Concert Hall on Thursday night, 20th inst The lovers of good music will of course attend, and those only who are “fit for treason, stratagems and spoils” will stay away. , The laudable efforts of Prof. Saroni to cultivate musical taste at home, deserve the pationage of a discerning public. Dedication. —The Glennville Male Collegiate In stitute will be dedicated oft Thursday, 27th December. The address will bo delivered by Hugh B. Dawson, Esq , of this city. The public are invited to attend. Georgia Legislature. Millelgeville, Dec. 14. The Cadets of the Military Institute arrived here last night. They encamped at the Railroad Depot la.-t night, and marched into town this afternoon, where their tine sol dierly appearance and the accuracy of their drill made a very favorable impression on the numerous spectators—the ladies especially. It is to be hoped that the Legislature will fos ter this valuable institution which exhibits such promising pupils. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Robinson—To change the time of holding the Superior Courts in the counties of Irwin, Telfair, Pulaski and Laurens. It provides that said Courts shall sit in Ir win on the third Mondays in January and July ; in Telfair on the Thursdays thereafter; in Pulaski on the fourth Mon days in January and July, and in Laurens on the Mondays after the said Courts in Pulaski By Judge Cone—Toailow all persons who have been legally divorced in this State to marry again, and to relieve persons so divorced who have married again, from all the penalties attached to the same. By Mr. Atkinson—To provide for taking the census ol the Counties of Camden, Glynn, and Charlton, from which no returns were made at the taking ‘*f the last census It proposes that John Sheffield, ol Camden, Horace Harris, of Glynn, and Robt. Paxton, shall take the census of iheir re spective Counties. The bill from the lloue explaining’the act of 1823, and declaring that persons who have once taken ‘ prison bounds” are also entitled to the benefits of the act for the relief of honest debtors, was taken up. On motion of Mr. Miller it was so amended as to extend its provisions to those who have given baii ; and the Bill then passed. The General appropriation Bill from the House was then taken up, and the Senate have spent the greater portion of the morning in amending it, adjourned without making any final disposition of it, to 10 o’clock to-morrow. HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Ward—To add an additional clause to the 16th 1 Section of the Ist Article of the Constitution, providing that ; the General Assembly shall not,in appropriating money or i extending the credit of the State, exceed the sum of SIOO,- | 000 over and above the ordinary expenses of the Govern ; meat, unless the same shall have been submitted to and up ! proved by a majoiity of the citizens of the State, except m j case of war. j By Col. Lawton, from the Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvements—A bill to provide for the Survey of | the Okefenokee Swamp, and for other purposes. It pro poses to authorize the Governor to employ a competent I Engineer to make a survey of said Swamp and the adja ! cent country,and estimate of the cost of draining it; and the Governor is to report to the next Legislature w’hat, in his opinion, such Engineer should be paid for his services. The Education Bill introduced by Mr Lewis of Ilan- I cock, occupied the attention of the llou.-e during the greater i portion of the morning, and various amendments were ! adopted Without making any final disposition of it, the Houce adjourned to 10 o’clock to-morrow morning. Milledgevjlle, Dec. 15. The House of Representatives have passed the Bill ap : proptiating some SIIO,OOO, to be expended in the next two years in finishing the new buildingsat the Lunatic Asylum. SENATE. | The Senate was engaged during the greater portion o : the orningin the consideration ol the General Appropria tion Bill. Those who participated in the debate were, Messrs. Mc- Millan, Cone of Greene, Landrum, Moore of Lincoln, Peebles, Pope, Allred and Long. The bill was fina.ly passed and sent to the House. I avail invselt of this occasion, to return my thanks to the Secietary of tin Senate and his assistants, for the very obliging manner in which they have uniformly afforded me ai! the facilities l in the:r power, to get the necessary daia for making up ray reports. As I have passed the greater portion of my time in the Senate, l have had hrquent oc casions to avail myself of their kindness. The Clerks of the House, w lien it has been necessary for me to look at their Journals, Ac , I have found to be equally accommodating. The Senate took up the Bill to amend the Act of 1853, in relation to the Trustees of Glynn County Academy. It requires the did Board of Tru-tees to turn i ver the property ’ and tundsofthe Academy io the new Board, and the ia.ter are required to apply the funds to the education ol poor children generally, throughout the county. Messrs, Spalding and Billups opposed the Bill, and Messrs. Miller and Long advocated it; and after a some what lengthy debate, it passed. Some other unimportant business was transacted, and the Senate adjourned to JO o’clock to-morrow morning. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. BILLS INTRODUCED. By Mr. Lawton—To amend the charter of the Ogoechee Piank Road Company so as to allow the Company to re build their road w:'th shells or stone. By Mr. Hoyle—To give witnesses in attendance upon the Superior Courts in behalf of the State, in counties in which they do not reside, the sum of one dollar a day, instead ot two,as now provided by law. Mr. Dawson,trom the Committee on Manufactures, re ported a bill repealing the act of tho last ses-ion, which restricted the hours of labor of operatives in manufactories, who may be under twenty-one years of age, to the hours between sunrise and sunset. Mr. Cook introduced a bill to lease the State Road. It provides for the incorporation of a company with a capital of $1,000,000, who shall lease the road for twenty years and pay S3'JO,OOO per annum for it; $150,000 when they take charge of the road and $150,006 every six months thereafter. All the roacis connecting with it are protected from unjust discriminations against them, and the company are required to return it in as good condition as when they received it. Col. Lawton, from the Special Committee to whom was referred the memorial of the heirs of Moses and Mordecai Sheftall, reported “a bill for the relief of Rebecca B B. Cohen and Perla S. Solomons, of Savannah.” It provides for an appropriation of $6,468 60, as full compensation for all claims against the State by the heirs above named. Alabama Legislature. Montgomery, Dec. 14. Senate. —The bill allowing the Court of County Commissioners of Limestone county to tax her citizens $200,000 for subscription to the Alabama and Tennes see Railroad, vetoed by the Governor, was passed by yeas 23, nays 4. It also passed the House on the same day by yeas 62, nays 33. House. —The hill to make a lean of $300,000 to the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, was ordered to a third reading by yeas 55, nays 41. The bill to incorporate the Huntsville Hotel compa ny, vetoed by the Governor, was passed by yeas 52, nays 35. It had already passed the Senate. General Assembly. —Thomas M. Prince, of Choc taw, and James T. Brock, were elected Trustees of the University of Alabama, to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignation of Turner Revis and Alexander Bowie. Montgomery, Dec. 15. Senate. —The day was consumed in hearing reports from committees. House.— The House passed the following bills : To incorporate the Medical College at Mobile. To prevent more effectually the commission of burglary and theft. To require the Comptroller, Treasurer and Superintendent of Public Schools to make their reports to the Governor one rnomh before the session of the Legislature, To allow’ Executors and Administrators to compromise doubtful debts. To prevent the sale of goods of greater value than $5 to minors. To authorize Constables to execute all attachments issued by Justices of the Peace. To change the county boundary of Han cock county. Several o her bills were passed of a local nature. South Carolina Legislature. Columbia, Dec. 12. In the House to-day the Committee on the Lunatic Asy lum reported favorably upon the report ot the special com mittee, relative to the removal of the Asylum to the coun try, and recommended the appointment of a committee to select anew site, and state that $50,000 had been offered for the present Asylum. The house went into committee of the whole on the Educational hill, and after some debate, the committee reported a bill to improve the Ftee School System to the House, with a recommendation that it pass. The bill to incorporate the Edgefield Rail Road, was taken up, but. the tiou-e adjourned without acting thereon. In the Senate, the lull to extend the King’s .Mountain Rail road, passed its third reading. The joint Committee to nominate the President and directors of the Bank of the State, reported C. M. Furman, Esq., lot President, and Messis. .1. 11. Steimneyer, W C. Dukes, P. C. Gailiard, Thomas Lenre, Fleetwood Lanneau,.). P. DeVeaux, C. J. Coleock, Andrew Sintonds, .1. H. Honour, H. F. Stio hecker, L. VV. Spratt, and G. H. Sheppard, for Directors. ” Columbia, Dec. 14. , The House last night passed the bill to amend the charter of the Savannah River Rail Road, In the House to-day a number of Senate bills were read the first time ; among them a bill to authorize the City Council of Charleston to grant Auctioneer licenses,— The bill to grant aid to the S,tate Agricultural Society was amended by striking out $5,000 and inserting $3,000 and passed. Perry’s bill, to give the election of electors to the people, passed its second reading by a vote of 54 to 53. The bill to amend the 10th section of the Ist article of the Constitution was taken up, and. sundry amendments having been agreed to, was rejec ted by a vote of 67 to 27, and the whole subject laid on the table. The following hills w'ero read the second time :—A bill to amend the charter of the Spartanburg and Union Rail Road, and a bit I to provide better regu lations for the Commissioners of Cross Roads on Charles* ton Neck. The House tyen took a recess until seven o’clock this evening. In the Senate the bill to amend the charter of the Savannah River Rail Road was read the first time. Tho bill in relation to colored seamen was, on motion of Mr. Porter, laid on the table. No other business of im portance was transacted, and the Seuate took a recess until seven o’clock this evening. Virginia Legislature. Richmond, Dee. 11. The committee on federal relations in the legislature of this State made a report to*day on that portion of the govtruor’s message relating to his returning the resolves of the Massachusetts legislature. The committee agree with the governor as to the infamous eomluct of Massa chusetts, but claim that the gov rnor should have sent the resolutions to the legislature for action. In the Senate yesterday resolutions were offered author iz ng the governor to call out a regiment ot volunteers to aid in suppressing he difficulties in Kansas. Missouri Legislature- St. Louis, Deo. 11. The hi I making large anpropriati ins for the completion of railroads in the State, recently passed by the L ‘gisla ture, and vetoed by the Governer, was passed to-day over the veto by a two-thirds vote Death, of Ecbert H. Griffin, Esq. The feelings of our community riceived a painful shock yesterday morning in the announcement ol the death ol Robert il. Griffin, E-q., who died at his residence on S >u;h Broad street, between twelve and one r>’clock on fhursdiy night. The deectised had been in ill health for some two ot three months. Within the week past ap prehensions were felt for liis recovery, and though Iris death was not wholly unexpected, it is saddening to realize the loss of one who enjoyed so universally the affection and esteem of his tellow citizens, and who tilled s promi nent a position of public usefulness in our midst- Few men possessed in so eminent a degree the qualities of mind and heart which adorn and eutioble human character, and which eimim ind the respect and friendship of all. We leave it to abler hands to write a fitting tribute to his mun>ry. — Sav New*. 1 bt’h. — —ar Hancock Manufacturing Company. — Messrs Monroe and Miller, geiwhmeu ol V rguia and Rlmde Island, have purchased the houses, machinery and appurtenances of this esiahl shsr.t ot for L believed that the u'd sto k! old-rs will share a dividend us about 40 |>ei cent, on the actual capital pai.vin. Quite n number u* sh ires htd chanced hands but a short tune prior to the sale, at 25 and 28 cents. From Washington. Washington, Dec. 15. There was no session of the Senate to-day.- Iri the House to-day, there were two ballots for Speaker,, without an election. No change in tire vote, lire pros pect fur an organization soon, i rather dull. Washington, Deo. 14. Iu the U. S. Senate to'day nothing of importance was transacted. In the House tin re have been live ballots for Speaker, in the last of which Banks had 105 votes, Rich ardson 74, and Fuller 41. There is no prospect of an election. The Democracy of Florida —National Convention. The Democratic members of the General Assembly of Florida at a rtcent meeting, Hon. M. A. l ong in the- Chair, and F. L. YilLepique, Secretary, appointed the 3d Wednesday in April next, for the nomination of delegates to lire Cincinnati convention. These dt legal* s will bo instructed to insist upon the adaption of a platform of principles es the basis of a national organisation prior to the nomination of candidates, and that said platform shall among other things, iuelude, in substance, the following propositions : 1. The recognition and .adoption of the prineipl s es tablished in the Kansas Nebraska act, and their applica tion to the admission of new Stans. 2. That neither the Missouri Compromise nor any other anti-slavery restriction shall hereafter ha extended over any territory of the United States. 3. Tire prompt and faithful execution ot the fugitive slave law, and its permanent continuance upon the statute book. If these propositions shall not in substance he incorpora ted iu the platform adopted by the Convention, the dele gates from Florida Will he instructed to withdraw. This determination on the part of the Democracy of our sister State is wise and just, and in accordance with the position which Georgia has already taken. Railroad to Montgomery. While the opinion has become almost universal lha the commercial interests of Mobil* and Montgomery de mand a railway connection between the two cities, it may irot be known to allot’ our read* rs that the work of con struction is being pushed with vigor and energy from its Northern terminus. A section of the road, reaching fifty miles from Montgomery to a point seven miles below Greenville, in Butler county, is under contract. There are 600 hands hard at work on it. Thirty miles of tho grading is finished and the whole grading will be done by the first of next July. If provision were made for tho iron, this section, being about one third of the whole dis tance between the two cities, could be put iu running or dor in twelve months. We do not exactly understand un* dec what charter this work progresses. Col. Charles T. Pollard, the able President of the West Point and Mont-* gomery road, is, however, at th* head of the enterprise, aud S. G. Jones, Esq , of the same company, is the high-* ly competent engineer who has charge of it. The plan is to push the road in the direction of Mobile as rapidly as possible, and to reach some good crossing point on tho Alabama river, below Tate’s shoals, which is the last ob struction to navigation all the year round to Mobile. — Thus, until the line can he continued to this city, we shall have the benefit of a speedy and certain communication by boats to Tate’s shoals and thence by rail to Montgom* cry. —Mobile Register. Columbia Races. Columbia, I)*-o. 14. The Jockey Club purse.*,f S7OO, four mile heats, was won to-day by Calvin Greta's c. f. Linda, bv Belshazzar, out and Bode lyght, by Glencoe, 3 years *ild, beating T. B. Gold: by’s e!i. g. Rough aud Ready,,dam by Belshazzar, 5 years old. Shooting Afrray. Columbia, Deo. 14. Mr, Crqes, our City Marshal, was shot to-day by a man named McCuoii, and is believed to he mortally wounded. Later from Kansas. Chicago, Dec. 14, Persons from Massachusetts, who left Kansas on the 3d instant, state to the Chicago Tribune that seven hun dred men were under arms at Lawrence, and that livo hundred Missoni inns were at Wauk*sa Creek, seven miles distant, with rifles and cannon, and that other Missourians had been met, two days after, with cannon, &e. Sailing of Missionaries. Boston, Deo. 12. The following miss'onnries, sent out by the American Board of Foreign Missions, sailed to day in the barque Sultan for Smyrna : Revs. Daniel Bliss and wife, from Geneva, Ohio ; 1 lenry .Joseph,of Montrose, Pennsylvania ; Tilghrnan Trowbridge, of Birmingham, Michigan ; A . Pollard and wiffi, of Salem, Massachusetts; and Sarah West, of Palmyra, New York ; and Mary Taney, of Hartford, Connecticut. Liberal Operation of the Maine Law. —During (he present year there has hem sold at the city agency of Bangor, Me., under the provisions of the prohibitory law, 5.583 gallons of liquor for “medical purposes,” which is about four gallons each to every male adult, teetotallers in cluded, in the cite. Free Negroes —The legislature of Missouri have just passed an act t expedite the removal of free negroes from that State. They have appropriated $3,600 annually fur kn years towards accomplishing this purpose. J. R. Biddings, one of the leaders of the “republican” party, has uitercd the. following altrocious sediments: “1 iook forward to the day when there shall be a servile, insurrection in the South ; when the black man, armed with British bayonets, and ltd on by British officers, shall assert his freedom, and wage a war of extermination against his master; when the torch of the incendiary shall light up the towns and cities of the South, and blot out the last vestige of slavery. And though I may not mock at their calamity, nor laugh when their tear eoineth, yet 1 will hail it as the dawn of a political millennium.” Pork Packing in Chattanooga. —The Gazette of Satur day The large establishment of Chancier &. Cos. is now in lull blast—the fires are all kindled, and a wholesale slaughter is in daily progress. This concern is complete in all the details, and the result T that the meat, laid, &.C., are prepared in the nicest order. 1 he salting house is detached Irom the other operations, and consequently everything is pure and cleanly. Some three to four million pounds of bacon and iness ork will be slaughtered at this one home. COMMERCIAL. COTTON STATEMENTS^ is c, =T=; ~ -a S-2p§ r r StocH. :- & “g 1.0 § .*'•=• <5: s’^ i- * <2. -2. . < ~ c:= s£. hand week o £5 ; %_ a. g a §JL this ending *"0- ■< a- • r ‘< £ day. J 2771 3700 31080 31786 1845 131)33 1577 b -1779 ‘-‘55. 52 \ 4280M08.8*06288 3317 33056 3520: ! 33330 Qjlumiius, Dec. 18. CO 1 ION—Wo notice an impr.-versient in the lower grades since pur last quotations of the market, and veiy considerable inquiiy lor Middling. The stock < fleeing is comparatively light. \\ e quote Middlings to 7|,strict Middlings to 8, Goni to sj rents. Savannah, Dec. 15. COTICXN—The market on yesterday w.-.s rather quiet, With sale* of <4 ( 6 baits at Bto 10 cell's. New York, Dec. 11. COTTON is unsettled, and 3.000 baits changed hands io-day. Ohio ru-ur is worth 75 and oouiiieru $3 62 per bid. Corn commands 39 ten's per bushel. £ Exchange oil London is quoted at from 8| a 3 per cent premium.— * Jtrie rules at an Reading at 83J. N’nvv York, Dec. 15. COITON.-- ihe matket is du'l. Two hundted Tales were sold in day. bLOI R.— Ohio i*i quoted at $8 81. Southern $3 75