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~ COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN, 23, 1856.
Retaliatory Legislation.
The Democratic party of Georgia is committed to
retaliatory legislation against Massachusetts and Ver
mont, and any other State which shall pass laws to ob
struct the execution of the fugitive alave law—provided
6ch legislation is consistent with our constitutional ob
ligations. Anxious that our party should reedeem its
pledges, we have given the subject of retaliatory legis
lation our most earnest attention We are very sorry
that up to this time we have not been aided in arriv
ing at a satisfactory conclusion by a suggestion even from
any one of our cotemporaries. Jones, of Muscogee, in
troduced a bill into the Legislature which provides
tlvat when a slave is abducted to a Northern State, it
shall be the duty of the Governor of Georgia to demand
him of the Governor of the State in which he is harbored;
and in case it is not surrendeied by a given time, con
fers upon the owner of the slave the right to levy an
attachment upon the property of any citizen of the de
relict State which he may be able to find in Georgia ;
and to sell the same, and thereby reimburse himself
for the loss of the slave.
The only objection we can find to this bill is that i
may operate harshly upon the friends as well as the ene
mies of the South. Indeed it would generally operate
upon our friends, other class of citizens except
cotton spinners and ship owners have property in the
South, upon which an attachment could be levied, and
these classes are generally friendly to the South.
Another, and as we think, more effectual method of
retaliation would bo to levy a heavy tax upon all goods
sold in Georgia which were purchased or manufactured
in Massachusetts or Vermont. This would at once
stop the direct trade between the South and these abo
litionized States. True, their goods might still find their
way into the South, under false brands and at second
hand ; but the bare fact that they would be compelled
to re-ship their goods to other ports and pay commis
sions to factors to sell them, would reduce their profits
very materially, and’accomplish the very object of retali
tory legislation, which we take to be the enlisting of
the pecuniary greed of the Puritans in the enforcement
of the provisions of the law and the constitution in fa
vor of the South.
The superiority of this mode of redress over that ad
vocated by Jonek, of Muscogee, is, that while his plan
will operate only on a small class and will eventually, by
driving this class out of the ports of Georgia, render
itself inoperative, this plan will touch the pocket nerve
of every mechanic and manufacturer of Massachusetts
and Vermont, and enlist them at once against the dis
graceful legislation of their respective Statos.
We will not argue the constitutional power of the
Legislature to pass such laws. The citizen who doubts
it is prepared for submission to any outrage. The only
question is as to the constitutionality of the legislation
on the part of Massachusetts and Vermont. If their
acts to prevent the enforcement of the fugitive slave
law are unconstitutional and oppressive to the citizens
of Georgia, and are beyond the capacity of the Federal
Government to reach and remedy, or even if the Fede
ral Government fails to do its duty, then we hold that
the State of Georgia is bound to seek redress for the
injury inflicted upon her citizens by any means which
shall prove efficient, and is the sole judge of the mode
and measure of redress.
Indeed, “the personal liberty bills,” as they are call
ed, of Massachusetts and Vermont, being in violation
of the spirit and letter of the Constitution, place those
two States out of the pale of the comity established be
tween the States by the Constitution, and justify the
United States, as well as each individual State, in treat-
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were meeted out to them, their Senators and Repre
sentatives would be refused admittance into Congress,
and all intercourse with them as members of the confed
eracy of States be brought to an end, and they placed
on the footing with hostile Governments.
Suppose the State of Georgia were to pass a law con
fiscating to the use of the State, any property of citi
zens of Massachusetts which might be found within her
limits ; would any sane man expeot the Federal, or State
governments to respect her as a sister State ? Would
not suoh legislation, ipso facto, dissolve the Union, and
place the State of Georgia in the attitude of an alien
euemy to the other States ?
Well, what difference is there between such legisla
tion and that of which wo eomphin ? Are not slaves
as much properly as ships and bales of merchandize?
Do not the acts of the Legislatures of Vermont and
Massachusetts, as effectually destroy our property in our
slaves who escape as if they were sold for the public
use ?
UpWe are amazed that Southern men sdbmit with such
patience to be robbed under the forms of law. It is a
burning shame that the hara earnings of citizens of
Georgia should be wrenched from their grasp by the
iniquitous legislation of what are called, by courtesy, sis*
ter States, and no effort be made to redress the wrong
either by the Federal Government, or by the State of
Georgia.
W e commend these reflections to the members of
the Georgia Legislature. The time has come for firm
and decided action on the slavery question. The fanati
cism the North has invaded and overrun the House of
Representatives, and aspires to control the Federal Gov
ernment. The time has come for the South to say to it
—thus far thou shah thou go and no further.
Parodi, Strakoseh, Leonardi, Patti.
We call special attention to the announcement, to be
found in another column, that MMe Teresa Parodi, ac
companied by Madame Strakoseh, Sig. Leonardi and
M. Strakoseh, will give a grand concert in this eity be
tween the 25ih and 30th inst. Wo have no hesitation
in saying that such an array of musical talent never but
once before appeared before the Columbus public, and
that was the occasion of MMe. Parodi’s last visit to cur
city. In the expressive lauguage of the N. O. Crescent ,
Parodi stands confessedly at the apex and topmost height
of her profession ; eminently fitted, both by nature and
education, to translate into'song, those written “thoughts
aud ideas of harmony which the great composers have
left as the product of their lives. There is in her singing
something bbyond the mere correctness of vocalization
which sustains the claims of many artists ; a spirit, a
fire, life and significance that is rarely attained, and
which clearly conveys the idea, though the language In
which it is clothed may be strange and unfamiliar. She
sings as the birds 6iog, because the melody is there and
needs to be expressed ; and, like them, her pure outgush
ings have in their naturalness a merit which art very fee
bly imitates.’’
Add to this the sweet ballads of Amelia Patti, the
magical beats of Strakoseh upon the Piano, and the rich
barytoue of Sig. Leonardi, and you have a musical feast
worthy of the patronage of the most cultivated au
dience. \ *
“Tempora Mutantur, et Nos Mutantur in illos.*’
So sang the bard of Venusiun ISOO years ago, and
these latter times have furnished a most appropriate and
happy commentary upon his verse. But the other day
we regarded Henry M* Fuller, of Pennsylvania, as but
little better than a Freesoiler. In the face of the peo
ple of the United States and upon the floor of Congress,
he declared, not four weeks ago, that if he had been a
member of the last Congress he would have voted
against the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and
against the Nebraska Kansas act. lie now declares
that he believes the Missonri Compromise to he uncon
stitutional. We rejoice in this favorable change of opin
ion, and will not question his motives. We prefer to
accept ais aid in the support of the right, and leave it
to our enemies to point out his defects.
In a like temper we hail with pleasure the commenta
ry upon the maxim of Horace, lately furnished by the
Softs of New York at their late State Convention at
Syracuse. Up to a very recent date it was generally
btlieved at the South, that the New York Softs were
opposed to the Nebraska Kansas act and in favor of the
re-enactment of the Missouri restriction. In view of
the fast approaching National Convention, when the
loaves and fishes will be distributed, they have adopted
a series of resolutions quite as sound as the last plat
form erected by Mr. Fuller. We give them as we find
them in the Washington Union.
THE SYRACUSE PLATFORM OF PRINCIPLES.
The New York democratic (soft-shell) convention met
at Syracuse on the 10th ir.st., nnd remained in session
two days. After electing delegates to the Democrati c
National Convention, the subjoined resolutions were
adopted :
Resolved, That our federal government’being restrained
by the constitution to specific Junctions, the legitimate pro
vince of national politics is confined within the same lim
its, and that every popular agitation or movement that
aims to transcend these constitutional bounds, and to avail
itself of the organic force of government to accomplish its
purposes, is a perversion of the uses and objects of party,
tending 7 to great and serious usurpations in government,
and, when unjustly enforced against any particular section
of the country, is a tyranny that should be resisted by all
good citizens.
Resolved , That the agitation of the slavery question by
the people of the non-slaveholding States, with a view to
impair the security of the domestic institutions of the South,
whether pursued in demonstrations by political conven
tions or by discussion and legislation in Congress, falls
within this category ; and that the experience of the past
has shown that, while it has compassed no good, it has re
sulted in serious evils, weakening the brotherhood of the
States and that mutual and unconstrained association that
was once their chief bond of union, and substituting in
their place the domineering influence of political parties,
and the coercive power of the federal government.
Resolved, That the recent manifestation of this evil spirit
in the organization of the so-called republican party, by
showing to what a treasonable head it has already arrived,
demonstrates the unfortunate tendency of all its antecedent
steps in this agitation ; and that we point to its avowed
doctrine of hostility to the constitution, its imputations
upon the spirit in which it originated, its denial of the
equality of the States, and its invocation of a higher law
than the constitution, and its whole scheme of civil dis
cords to be accomplished by political usurpation, as the
natural result and consummation of the latitudinarian doc
trine and false and erroneous policy which, since the foun
dation of the government, have characterized the ereed of
th# opponents of the democracy.
Resolved, That the determination of Congress, avowed in
the Kansas-Nebraska bill, to reject from the national coun
cils the subject of slavery in the Territories, and to leave
the people thereof free to regulate their domes ic institu
tions in their own vvay, subject only to the constitution of
the United States, is one that accords with the sentiments
of the democracy of the State, and with the traditional
course of legislation by Congress, which, under democratic
auspices, has gradually,.in successive territorial bills, ex
tended the domain of popular rights and limited the range
of congressional action ; and that we believe this disposi
tion of the-question will result most auspiciously to the peace
of the Union and the cause of good government.
Resolved, That (in the language of the recent message
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their domestic institutions, are entitled, while deporting
themselves peacefully, to the free exercise of that right, and
must be protected in the enjoyment of it without interfer
ence on the part of the citizens of any of the States.”
Resolved, That the democracy of the State of N. York
deem this a fit occasion to tender to their fellow.citizens
ot the whole Union their heart-felt congratulations on the
triumph, in the recent elections in several of the northern,
eastern, and western, as well as southern States, of the
principles of the Kansas-Nebraska bill and the doctrines of
civil and religious liberty, which have been so violently
assailed by a secret political order known as the know
nothing party ; we hold it to be our highest duty to con.,
tinue our eftbrts in the maintenance and defence of those
principles and the constitutional right of every section aud
every class of citizens against their opponents of every de a
seription, whether the so-called republicans, know-nothings
or fusioaists ; aud to this end, we look with confidence to
the support and approbation of all good and true men
friends to the constitution and the Union throughout the
country.
Resolved, That though we have encountered in the field
of polities, for upwards of twenty years, as our determined
and more elFeetive opponent, the whig party, vve cannot
forbear the expression of our regret at its death ; and vve
deem it due to the memory of a gallant adversary to say,
that its open and manly warfare, the national scope of its
principles, aud the high tone and ability of its leaders,
made it an antagonist worthy of the democracy ; and that
the record of its life contrasts well with that of the secret,
sectional,and narrow-minded factions which have succeed
ed it, and which claim to divide its political inheritance.
Resolved, That the administration of President Pierce
lias merited the approval of tire democratic of this State
and the Uuion; manifesting, as it has, on every occasion
in which the national honor has been involved, a most pat
riotic and determined spirit, exhibiting iu all its depart
ments vigilance, energy, and rigid probity, protecting the
treasury from the corrupt combinations of Congress by the
exercise of the Vi to power, and maintaining the cause of
democracy, by the enunciation of sound opinion and the
example of good government and wLe measures.
Similar resolutions have been recently adopted by the
Ohio Democracy. In commenting upon the proceed
ings of their late State Convention, the Cleveland
Plaindcaler, says :
“The spirit prevailing in the Convention, and among
the Dem craey outside of the Convention, was admirable.
There seemed to be no disagreement about the principles
and platforms. The committee unanimously reported,
and the Convention enthusiastically adopted, a set of res
olutions which have set tied-/ore ver the principles and the
policy of the Democracy of this State on that much mis
apprehended question of slavery.
“They have one and all agreed to go back to the prin
ciples of the constitution, as embraced in the Nebraska
bill, and.'have incorporated the very words of Douglas,
the framer of said bill, into their resolutions, tvs most clear
and expressive of their Sentiments on that subject. This
great bone ot contention beiug*thus settled, all minor mat
ters of political differences were at once disposed of, and
a harmony hitherto unknown reigned throughout our
ranks.”
The violence of fanaticism has, no doubt, tended to
produce this reaction in the public mind, but we incline
to the opinion that the firm position taken by the De
mocracy of Georgia, and endorsed by the other South
ern States, has been a prime motive power ip this good
and hopeful result.
Firmness, decision and self-saerifice, on the part of
our delegates to the Cincinnati Convention will guarau- i
tee the adoption of a sound platform by the National
Democracy,and give a newlease to oar Institutions.
An exchange editor publishes the President's
M ssage and hopes “it will prove as interesting to his
ie, ders as any thing he cau write.” |
Georgia legislature*
Milledgeville, Jan. IT*
House. —Mr Cottle of Sumter introduced a bill lo
incorporate the S. W. Electro-magnetic Telegraph Com
pany, from Macon to Americus.
The morning was consumed in the discussion of the
bill to repeal the act of the last session, limiting the
hours of labor of minors in Factories from suu rise to
sun set. Lost.
The bill authorizing the Governor to have Okefenokee
Swamp surveyed for the purpose of ascertaining wheth
er it can he drained, was passed.
Senate.—The Senate reconsidered the vote of yes
terday, rejecting the bill to organize anew county out
of parts of Gilmer and Lumpkin counties ; also the
vote rejecting the bill to repeal the law requiring En
gine-drivers to whistle at all road -crossings,
° The bill of Cone of Greene, proposing several amend
ments in the organization of the Judiciary system of
the. State, was amended in some slight degree and
passed.
The resolutions of Cone of Greene, commending
the Message, and advising all sound men
to unite and elect a Speaker, excited considerable dis
cussion. Judge Cone declared that if he were a mem
ber of Congress he should vote for Richardson, the
Democratic nominee, notwithstanding the adoption of
an objectionable and unnecessary resolution by ihe cau
cus which nominated him. He considered the slavery
question paramount to all others, and was willing to
waive all minor issues, so that he could thereby protect
and advance the rights of the South. The resolutions
were referred to a special Committe.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Milledgeville, Jan. 18.
The action of the House upon the bill to repeal the act
of the last Legislature in relation to Factory Operatives,
was reconsidered.
The House refused to concur in the amendments of the
Senate to the general appropriation bill, upon the ground
that the Senate had no power to add new items.
Afternoon sessions will here after be held.
The resolution of Harris, of Merriwether prohibiting the
introduction of new mater after the 31st inst., except on the
recommendation of one of the standing committees, c- 1
the consent of two-thirds of the House, was adopted.
The following new matter was introduced:
Mr. Crook : A bill to appropriate §35,000 lor the erec
tion of monuments to W. H. Crawford, John Forsyth and
Daniel Newnan.
Mr. Walton: A bill to give Courts of Ordinary general
jurisdiction over estates of deceased persons.
Mr. Davis : A bill conferring upon the Interior Court of
Bibb county the power to levy a poll tax on all males be
tween 15 and 50 years of age for the purpose of keeping
public roads in repair.
Mr. Phillips: A bill allowing the Inferior Court of the
county of Habersham to levy a Railroad tax, upon a vote
ot a majority of the people ot the county.
Mr. Hill, of Troup: A bill prohibiting the running ot
passenger trains on Railroads on Sunday.
Mr. Brantley: A bill to allow interest on open accounts.
Dr. Hill, of Troup: To consolidate the Stocks of the
Atlanta & LaGrarige, and the West Point &. Tennessee
Railroad Companies, and for other purposes.
Mr. Lewis, ol Hancock: A bill to incorporate the Macon
and Warrenton Railroad company.
Mr. Owen : A bill allowing Justices of the Peace to es
tablish lost papers within their jurisdiction.
Mr. Brown, of Talbot: A bill to permit Juries to allow
a divorced wife a part of the husband’s estate.
Mr. Lawton, ot Chatham: A bill fixing the first Mon
days in January for the election of Judges, Attorneys and
Solicitors General ; also a bill defining what shall be suffi
cient allegation of the offence in indictmems agaiust per
sons for tradincr l 1 * 1 *
ot criminal cases:
SENATE.
The bill legalizing, the issuance of Land Warrants by
Land Courts, under the laws in relation to head rights, was
taken up and passed.
The bill incorporating the Oglethorpe Medical College
in the city of Savannah, was amended and passed.
Some time was spent in the consideration of the bill re
ducing the number of Senators and providing tor annual
sessions.
The following new matter was introduced, besides a num
her of local bills :
Mr. Poole: A bill to authorize the Tax Collector of
Hart county to pay 400 dollars of the State tax into the
county treasury for county purposes.
Mr. Scott: A bill declaring Courts of Ordinary to be
Courts of general jurisdiction. *
Mr. Screven : A bill to limit the service of Jurors in the
county oi Chatham to one week : also a bill to incorporate
the Welaka’steamboat company : also a bill to increase the
powers of the Mayor of Savannah : also a bill allowing he
Georgia and Florida steam packet company to limit their
liabilities by notice or contract.
Mr. Peebles: A bill making alterations in the poor
school laws,
Mr. Miller: A resolution providing for night sessions.
Mr. Calhoun : A bill to be entitled an Act to require all
Banks in this State having Agencies to redeem ceitain bills
at the same, to prevent them from discounting or buying
bills, bonds or notes at more than lawful interest, and to
prevent them from buying without the limits of this State
such paper on the citizens of the same.
Mr. Atkinson, of Camden : To incorporate the St. Ma
ry’s and Gulf Railroad, to run from St. Marys to some
point on the Brunswick Road—Capital §300,000; on a un- i
ion with the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Road, it may be
increased to $1,000,000.
Judge Cone, of Greene : To permit persons having claims |
against trust estates to collect by suits in Courts of Law. i
Also, to’ prescribe the mode of changing names, and o
adopting and legitimatizing children undei the Constitu-
tion, as lately amended. Jurisdiction in such case:
given to the Superior and Interior Courts.
Also, a bill allowing Tax Collectors to issue summon?
of garnishment, returnable to the Superior Counts, tor the
collection of the Taxes of such persons as have no property
within reach of a Tax/, fa.
Milledgiville, Jan. 19.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The committee appointed to ioquiie into the policy of
j removing the Penitentiary, made a lengthy report in favor
of removal to Stone Mountain.
An effort wasmade by Messrs. Rumph, of Wayne, and
Haynie, of Floyd, to reconsider the action of the House on
the resolution of Lewis, of Hancock, in reference to the
per diem and mileage of this and-the last General Assem
bly, but tailed.
The bill incorporating the Middle Ground Railroad front
Covington to Columbus via Griffin, was passed.
The balance of the day was consumed in the discussion
ot the bill to give to the corporation of Atlanta full powers
over the liquor traffic in the limits of the city, and the bill to
appropriate §IO,OOO to the Atlanta and SIO,OOO to the Sa
vannah Medical Colleges, but both measures were post
poned to a future day.
The following new matter was introduced:
Jones, of Muscogee: To legalize the opening of books
of subscription to the Exchange Bank of Savannah and tor
other purposes.
Fields, ot Cherokee: To compel all incoporated Min
ing companies to give in and pay taxes in the counties v\ he
the mines are located.
Burnett, of Glynn : To amend the attachment laws so as
to authorize issuance of writs against estates ot deceased
persons, and to enable parties plaintiff to perfect service o
all legal processes against non-residents by leaving copy at
place of business or with agent.
Jones, of Lowndes: To prohibit inhabitants of other
counties from camp-hunting in Lowndes county.
Rumph, of Wayne: To authorize Executors, Adminis
trators, &c., to sell land and negroes in the counties where
they reside. *
Terhune, of Floyd : To form anew county out of Polk
and Floyd.
Judiciary Committee : To appropriate $5,616 10 to the
Union Branch Railroad company.
Ilaynie, of Floyd: To extend the corporate limits of Cave
Spring.
SENATE.
The bill of Cone, of Greene, providing for a reduction ot
Senators and for a return to annual cessions, was made as
good as ne w by amendments and passed.
The bill as passed provides for annual sessions, beginning
on the Ist Wednesday in November and ending in 40 days,
unless it is extended by a two-thirds vote ot both Houses
on a call lor the yeas and nays.
The resolution of Camden, of Cherokee, prohibiting the
introduction of new matter after the Ist February, except
ou a vote of two-thirds, was adopted.
Long, of Glynn, introduced a bill to add the counties of
Clinch, Ware, Charlton and Appling, to the Southern Judi
cial Circuit.
The Alabama Legislature —Election of Judge of the
Supreme Court.
On the 17th inst., the General Assembly continued
the hallo* ‘or Judge of the Supreme Court. On the
| 22d ballot. George W. Stone, of Dallas, having receiv
.d < majority of the whole vote cast, was declared duly
’ elected. His principal competitors were Mr. Brickell
of North Alabama, and David Clopton, Esq., of Macon
county.
Montgomery, Jan. 18.
SENATE. —The following bills were passed :
The bill to provide for the burial expenses of the dead.
The bill to incorporate the Wesleyan University it
Florence.
HOUSE. —The following bills were passed :
The bill to incorporate the Hilabee & Goldville Mining
Company. The bill to incorporate the Southern (Methc *
dist) University at Greensboro’. The bill to incorporate
the East Ala! ama College at Auburn. The bill to incor
porate the Gainesville Insurance Company. The Senate
bill to incorporate the Wesleyan University at Florence.
The bill to incorporate the Winchester and Alabama Rail-,
road Company. The bills to authorize the dismissal of
suits and the appointment of Receivers in Chancery in
vacation ; and several local bills.
Washington, Jan. 17.
The U. S. Senate to-day requested the President to
communicate all instructions in relation to Central Ame
rican affairs, not yet furnished, and, also, called for the
adjudication of the American Commissioners at Paris,
respecting the French Spoliations of American Com
merce. The Senate then adjourned until Monday next.
In the House one ballot took place. Banks obtained 94
votes, there being necessary to a choice 102.
The Mexican Government has formally claimed in
demnification for depredations committed by an armed
body of Texans, last Fall
Washington, Jan. 18.
A resolution declaring Banks Speaker, Cullom Clerk,
Glossberenner Sergeant at arms, Johnson Post Master,
and McKnew Door Keeper, was laid on the table by a
vote of 111 to 90. All the anti-Nebraska men have resol
ved to adhere to Banks. The South Carolina members
have returned to the support of Richardson.
Dispatches received in this city announce the nomi
nation of Jefferson Davis for U. S. Senator for six years,
from the 4th of March, 1857, by the Democratic cau
cus of the Mississippi Legislature.
Washington, Jan. 19.
House. —One ballot was taken for Speaker to-day. A
resolution was adopted preventing debate for one week, ex
cept by unanimous consent, without a Speaker is sooner
elected.
Communicated,
We have often heard of votes being purchased at a high
price, by politicians anxious for office, but in the last week
we have heard of anew fashioned bribery, at the expense
| of humanity and decency, which ought to be known to the
| public. There liyes (if it be life,) not a mile Iroin town, a
| poor,sickly woman, cursed for fifteen years with a drunk
en husband —enduring ill-treatment and neglect of proper
provision in her own person and that of her children. He
has turned her out of the house at night and beaten the
children until she stands in fear of him, and without re
dress; for the proper officer has several times been sent to
remove the brute to the guard house, without any action
on his part in answer to the appeal. The reason given to
the sufferer by the lord and master was, that Mr.
promised if he would vote for him that he would nev
er take him up !
Isa petty place, or any place, worth having at the ex
pense of woman’s tears and bruises—or to a mother, worse,
the blows on her children? Is she to endure the hell of a
drunkard’s presence, when by discharging his duty of kee
ping the peace, the officer might relieve her and protect
her?
Mr. takes the “Times.” It is hoped he will hear
the sufferer’s cry the next time she sends a child out in the
stormy darkness of a winter’s night, to a neighbor, to beg
it the officer might be sent to remove bis father ere he
cr *ent his alchohol on wife and children ‘in the shape ol
mows and curses. At least he should remember hereafter
that “in vino veritas,” and that he may be exposed when
he trusts a drunkard.
[Signed] q RIGHTS.
Steamboat Arrivals.
The Steamer General Stokes, Capt. Stapler, and the
Oswichee, Capt. Van Vecjiten, arrived at our wharf on
Sunday, ‘2oth inst., both laden with groceries. The
Oswichee brought up the river some hundred bales of
groceries.
Fernandina & Cedar Keys Railroad.
The Thomas G. Haight, hence for Southern Ports yester
day,took oat a largenumber of negroes for this road, which,
we are gratified to learn, is being pushed forward with energy
and rapipity. Four hundred bands are now at work and
two hundied more on the wuy thither. Seven miles are al
ready graded, twenty miles cleared. The whole distance
from Fernandina to Cedar Keys is 130 miles. The cost
of construction is estimated at three millions of dollars.
The State gives the right of wav. The whole work is un
der the management of Col. Mcßea, contractor for the
Wilmington & Manchester Road.— San. Georgian , 19?A,
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAMER AMERICA.
Halifax, Jan. 17.
The British and North American Royal Mail Steam
ship America has arrived at this port, with advices from
Liverpool to the sth inst.
Commercial Intelligence.
The Liverpool Cotton Market has declined id. per lb.
The sales during the week comprised 24,000 bales, of which
2500 bales were taken for export and on speculation, leav
ing 21,500 bales of all descriptions to the trade. Fair Or
leans was quoted at 6?d., Middling Orleans at sid., Fair
Uplands at 53d , and Middling Uplands at 53d. The mar
ket closed dull.
The Liverpool Breadstuff's Market was dull. Western
Canal Flour was quoted at 415., and Ohio at 43s 6d.—
Messrs. Richardson’s Circular, however, says that Flour
had declined 6d. per bbl. of 196 lbs.
The Liverpool Provision Market. —Beef was lower but
active. Pork was quiet. Lard was quoted at 695. per cwt.
The Liverpool Naval Stores Market.— Rosin was un
changed. Spirits of Turpentine was quiet.
The London Money Market was tighter. Consols clos
ed at from 87|©87L The Bullion in the Bank of England
had decreased £‘70.000 Sterling.
General Intelligence.
The peace prospects are not improved. The Czar’s an
swer to Esterhazy was expected on the 18th of January.
Nesselrode, in a previous circular, puts an interpretation on
tta third point not satisfactory to the Allies namely: “that
Russia and Turkey should mutually agree relative to the
strength of the Black Sea fleets.”
Appearances indicate that Austria will not take the field,
unless she be assured of the active support of the German
Bund. Russia w r as displeased at the Baron Seebach’s mis
sion to St. Petersburg, and had sent the Baron Manteufle
to Dresden, to enquire to what extent Bavaria and Saxony
had engaged themselves with the Allies.
The advices Irom Sweden are very warlike. The mili
tary commanders have received orders to have their re
spective corps in the highest state of efficiency beiore Spring,
when it is probable that Sweden will take the field. Den
mark has consented to the establishment of depots for the
English fleet at Kiel, as it will rendezvous there in April.
The latest advices from the Crimea state that the Rus
sians had been reinforced to some extent, and that large
parties of the Russian troop3 were marching from the Cri
mea into Bess-Arabia. There was no intention, however,
to evacuate their position, as the places of the troops that
had marched were supplied by the reserves. Prince Gorts
chakofl’ has announced that on the 16th ult. a detachment
of Kossack* had defeated a strong squadron of General Vi
vian’s Cavalry near Kertsch, and that the English Com
mander had been made prisoner. The Russian Govern
ment had advertised for contracts for the supply of immense
quantities of artillery, stores and new rifles, &c., for the
Regiments being enrolled
The gun boats of the Allied fleet were frozen up at Kin
bum. Omar Pasha has renounced his intention to attack
Katars.
Advices from China state that a serious difficulty had oc
curred at Hong Kong, the American Consul having been
imprisoned by the British authorities for attempting to rescue
the captain of the ship Reindeer, who had been fined for an
assault upon the carpenter of his ship. Com. McCluney,
of the Powhatan, declared the action of the court illegal,
and stated that he would resist by force any attempt to ex
ercise jurisdiction over American citizens on board Ameri
can ships.
Two hundred and fifty Coolies had died from suffocation
at Manilla, on board the American ship Waverly. The
mate and crew were imprisoned.
Later from Havana.
New York, Jan. 18.
The steam ship Cahawba has arrived at this port,
with advices from Havana to the 13th inst. ft was re
ported that Santa Anna’s agents had gune to Mexico to
observe the condition of political affairs in that country.
The advices from Mexico are gloomy.
Kansas Troubles.
St. Louis, Jan. 18.
Advices from Kiekappo, annofffice that a conflict occur
red between a company Irom Lawrence, under Capi. Brown,
and the Kiekapoo rangers. Numbeis were killed and
wounded ou both sides. Many persons are flocking to Eas
ton. The disturbance is supposed to have originated about
tlie election held ou the 15tii.
Karine Disaster.
Halifax, N. S., January 17.
The ship Wm. Hitchcock, from Savannah for Havre,
has been burnt at sea.
Gov. Bigler and Jnines Buchanan. —We are author
ized by Gov. Wm. Bigler to say, that the telegraphic dis
patch which was sent over the Union, and published re
cently in Philadelphia and other cities, announcing his
election to the U. S. Senate to be a triumph of General
Pierce, and a defeat of James Buchanan in Pennsylvania
for the Presidency, is unqualifiedly false.
Senator Bigler has been, and is new, the devoted and
active friend of Mr. Buchanan, and will sustain him for
the Presidency, with all the tneigy and intellect of
winch he is master. His preference for Mr. Buchanan
was known to the Democratic members of the Legis
lature, niDe-tenths of whom are Buchanan men, before
he received the caucus nomination.— Pennsi/lvanian,
Jan. Voth.
Message of the Governor of New York.
Albany, Jan. 17.
The Governor of this State in his message to the Legis
lature, shows a deficit in the revenue of the State of over
§500,000. He opposes the Nebraska Bill, and recommends
further legislation on the liquor law, after the question of
its constitutionality has been decided by the Supreme Couit.
New York Money Market.
New York, Jan. 18.
The Bank of the Republic quotes Southern Bank drafts on
London at I08|(S)108i, and Produce drafts at from
Erie Railroad Stock was quoted at 521 and Reading at 87i".
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Columbus, Jan. 22.
COTTON—Offering stock continues light. We quote
Middlings 7| to B£, Good Middling 8f to 8£ cents.
New York, Jan. 18.
Cotton is easier, but not quotably lower, and only 1,000
bales changed hands. Flour is firm. Wheat is improv
ing and tSouhr rn White commands $1.95 per bushel.—
Cos nis firm. Spirits of Turpentine is firm. Rice is quiet.
Freights are quiet.
New Orleans, Jan. 17.
Cotton is firm but the demand is moderate. Middling
is worth from 8| to 9 cents per lb.