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COLUMBUS, - GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 8, 1856.
Break Down.
The cold weather, always disagreeable in a Printing
Office, has brought us numerous evils in its train. On
Saturday last, a part of the machinery of our Steam Kn- ;
gine, gave way, and though we had Machinists at work
at it immediately after the accident, it took two days to 1
set it at work again. This lias delayed our weekly issue,
and compelled us to issue a half sheet Tri-weekly. The
damage is now repaired, and we hope no accident will in
terfere with us for some time to come. Accidents will
happen in the best regulated families and have to be borne
by editors just as other people are accustomed to bear
them. “Grin and endure it,” is the only true philosophy
when evils are irremediable. We have ordered anew
engine.
The Speakership.
We last week predicted that if the Democratic and
National Americans attempted to change front in the
then posture of affairs in the H case of Representatives,
their action would be followed by the election of the
.abolitionist, Banks. Events have verified our predic
tions. The Democracy very patriotically, but unwisely
wo think, withdrew their caucus nominee, and concen
trated their entire vote upon Aiken, of South Carolina,
who is not recognized as a party man, though he gene
rally votes with the Democratic parly. All the South
ern members of the American party voted for Mr.
Aiken also, but six of their Northern allies steadfastly
adhered to Mr. Fuller, 3nd thereby secured the election
of Mr. Banks: The union of the South, if it is secured
by this calamity, will make amends for the chrgrine
caused by the election of an abolitionist to the Speaker
ship. We very much fear, however, that the little
band of South Americans yet left in Congress will at
tempt to keep up their organization and thus perpetuate
the divisions in the South, notwithstanding the notori
ous fact that not one of their Northern allies had nerve
enough to vote for Aiken against an abolitionist and an
amalgamationist. The paucity of their members ren
ders them powerless in a separate organization. We
would gladly receive them into the Democratic ranks
and forgive and forget the past. But will they
come? We very much fear that they have not
the moral courage to renounce their so called
Americanism, and rally under the Democratic stan
dard. What they hope to gain by continuing the
farce of Americanism, we are at a loss to conceive.
They must see that the triumph of their party at
the North has turned wholy to the advantage of abo
litionism, and that the whole body of their brethren in
that stotion of the Union, are utterly unworthy of
Southern affiliation.
The Southern people will not fail to appreciate the
firm and unbroken front the entire Democratic party,
North and South, presented to abolitionism throughout
the whole of this long controversy. The Richardson
rote was transferred entire to Orr, of South Carolina, and
when he gallantly withdrew his name to prevent further
divisions among the Southern members, every one of
them exoept two, gave his vote for Aiken, of South Caro
lina, notwithstanding he had previously declared he was
not a member of the Democratic pariy. Are not these
gallant Northern Democrats more worthy of the confi
dence of Southern men, albeit they are Amerioans, so
called, than Messrs. Henry M. Fuller and Jacob Broom,
of Pa., and Bayard Clark, William W. Valk, and Tho
mas R. \\ hitnoy, of New York, who threw away
their votes, though it was apparent that by so do
ing they would elect Banks, notwithstanding they
have been initiated into all the mysteries of the order
of united Americans ? We hope we shall hear no more
of the superior soundness of the National American
party North. The Northern Fuller men stood by and
saw Banks beat Aiken, and would not raise a finger to
prevent it; and thereby showed that they prefer the
vilest abolitionist to the least objectionable of Southern
men.
Messrs. Walker, of Alabama, and others, time and
again, pledged their party friends of the American order
to give a united vote for any unobjectionable Democrat,
such as Boyce or Aiken, of S. C., if the Democracy
woulu throw their votes upon him; and for several
months the Democracy have been taunted with infi
delity to the South for refusing to accede to their pro
position. How his party friends have redeemed his
pledge, the election of Banks is a sufficient commen
tary. We hope we have heard the last of this tannt. !
A reliable correspondent writing from Washington ;
under date of the 3d February, says :
“Some few Democrats voted for the plurality rule on
Saturday, 2d iust., because, on Friday, Ist inst., Mr.
of S. C., received 103 votes, and Banks, of
Mass., ouly 102 votes. Messrs. Henry M. Fuller, and |
Jacob Broom, of Pa., and Bayard Clark, Wm. W.
Valk, and Thomas R. Whitney, of New York, all 12th ‘
section Americans. had on that day supported the reso
lution declaring Aiken Speaker.
Counting certainly upon their voles, after the ma
jority rule was adopted, the Democrats felt confident
that they oould elect Aiken ; but upon the final vote,
these gentlemen ? who had on Friday voted for Aiken,
proved themselves utterly unworthy of confidence :
Messrs. Broom, of Pa., Clark and Whitney, of N. Y.,
cast their votes for Henry M. Fuller ; and Messrs!
Fuller, of Pa., and Valk, of N. Y., refused to vote at
all. You will thus discover that Banks was elected on
Saturday by the same vote which Aiken received on
Friday, and that if the five, so called, National Ameri
cans, above named, had voted for Aiken, he would
have been elected by 105, to Banks* 102 ; but in the
hour of peril the nationality of the Northern Know
Nothings failed and we lost all.
“.411 the Northern Democrats ‘stood fire’ except
David Barclay aod John Hickman, of Pa., they de
serted on Friday and we had notice of their treason.
We did not, however, expect that any man who had j
voted with us on Friday for Aiken, as these five Nor
them Know Nothings had done, and whose nationality
was the boast of the Southern wing of their party,
would, when their votes were needed to effect a na!
tional organization of the House, desert us and leave us
at the mercy of the Black Republicans ; but they did
do so, and upon their heads must rest the unpardonable
sin of having, by their treachery, elevated to the third
office in our Government, the blaekest of the Black Re*
publicans.
“We have no justification to offer for the two pre*
tended Northern Democrats who refused to support
Mr. Aiken •, they must be cut off from the party at
once • and the Union ought to have read them out this
morning.”
We have no more to add. The Southern members
were evidently entrapped into the adoption of the plu
ra ity rule by the Northern Fuller men and were theu
asserted by them on the final vote. We have no lan
guage to express our utter detestation of their trcaohery.
When the published proceedings are received we
may have a word or two more to say upon this subject.
Since the foregoing was written, we found in the i
Charleston Courier the following account of the. final
vote:
The House then proceeded to the one hundred and thirty
third vote for Speaker, and the last vote under the plurality
rule, with ihe following result. Whole number of votes,
214 —0f these
Mr. Banks received 103
Aiken 100
11. M. Fuller 0
L. D. Campbell 4
Wells 1
The following is the vote in detail:
For Mr. Bank*. —Messrs. Albright, Allison, Ball, Bar
botir, H-nry Bennett, Benson, Billinghurst, Bingham,
Bishop,Bliss, Bradshaw, Brenton, Buffington, Burlinggaine,
James H. Campbell, Lewis D. Campbell, Chaffee. Ezra
Clark, Clawson, Colilax, Comtus, Covodc, Cragin, Cum*
back, Damreil,Timothy Davis, Day, Dean, De Witt, Dick,
Dickson, Dodd, Darfee, fcidie, Flagler,Galloway, Giddings,
Gilbert, Granger, Grow, Robert B. Hall,Hallan, Holloway,
| Thomas R. Horton, Howard, Kelsey, King, Knapp,Knight,
; Knowlton, Knox, Knnkel, Mattcson, McCar
i ty, Meacham, Killian Miller, Morgan, Morrill, Mott, Mur
i ray, Nichols, Norton, Andrew Oliver, Parker, Pearce, Pe
ton, Pennington, Perry, Petit, Pike, Pringle, Purviance,
Ritchie, Robbins, Roberts, Robison, Sabin, Sapp,
Sherman, Simtnoti9, Spinner, Stanton, Stranahan, Tappan,
Thorington, Thurston, Todd, Trafton, Tyson, Wade,
Walbridgo, Waldron, i iadwalader C. Washburne, Ellihu
D. Washburne, Israel Washburne, Watson, Welch, Wood,
! Woodruff, and Woodworth —103.
For Mr. Aiken. —Messrs Allen. Barksdale, Bell, Hend
\ ley, S. Bennett, Bocock, Bowie. Boyce, Branch. Brooks,
Burnett,Cadwalader, John P Campbell, Garble, Caruthers,
Caskie.Clingnran, Howell Cobb, Williamson R. W. Cobb,
Cox, Crawford, Davidson, Dencver, Dowdell, Edmundson,
Elliott. English, Etheridge, Eustis, Evans, Faulkner, Flor
ence, Foster, Thomas .1. D. Fuller, Goode, Greenwood,
Augustus Hall, J. Morrison Harris, Sampson W. Hatris,
Thomas L. Harris, Herbert, Hoffman, Houston, Jewett,
George W. Jones, J. Glancy Jones, Kei't. Kelly, Kennett,
Kidwell, Lake, Letcher, Lindley, Lumpkin. Alexander K.
Marshall. Humphrey Marshall, Samuel S. Marshall, Max
wed, McMullen, McQueen, Smith, Miller. Millson, Mor
decai Oliver, Orr, Paine, Peck, Phelps, Porter, Powell,
Puryear. Quitman, Reade, Ready, Ricard, Rivers, Ruffin,
Rust, Sandidge, Savage, Shorter, Stephens, Stewart,Swope,
Talbott. Trippe. Underwood, Vail, Walker. Warner, Wat
kins, Wells, Wheeler, Williams, Winslow, Daniel B.
Wright, John V. Wright, and Zollieoffer —100.
For Mr. Fuller. —Messrs. Broom, Clark of New York,
Cullen, Davis of Maryland, Millward, and Whitney—6.
For Mr. Campbell. —Messrs. Dunn, Harrison, Moore,
and Scott—4.
For Mr. Wells. —Mr. Hickman.
Cold Weather. —Not since the deluge have we on
record any account fa worse spell of cold, wet and
disagreeable weather than we have experienced since
the 26th ult. While we write, the ground is covered
with sleet, and the prospect for still more falling weath
er vety flattering.— Cassville Standard , 51s? ult.
The Kidnapping Case. —ln the case of Wm.
11. Lambdin and Benjamin Collins, master and mate
of the schooner Sarah Ann, charged with feloniously
carrying away several slaves from that city, on the
21st day of November, 1855, came before the exam
ining oourt, and Capt. Lambdin was examined. The
court remanded the prisoner for trial before the next
term of the circuit court.
A Chance for Enterprising Young Men.
By reference to another column our readers wi/1 see
that the Executive Committee of the Kansas Emigrant Aid
Society of Muscogee county, have resolved to turn over
their funds to Maj. Buford, of Ala., unless some reliable
I citizen of the county will accept them upon terms offered
by him. The Society have already obtained about one
thousand dollars subscriptions from reliablo citizens, and
we have no doubt but that the amount could be trebled
if some public spirited citizen of Columbus would pu
himself at the head of the movement. When the country
| is in danger, Columbus has never yet failed to respond
cheerfully to her cal! for aid heretofore. Is the race of
I gallant spirits run out? Here is a tempting offer of lame,
and a fair and noble field for generous devotion. Will
none of our young men accept the tempting offer of the
Executive Committee !
Losses by Fire m Augusta.
j From the Constitutionalist of the 3d inst., we learn
that the recent fire in Augusta consumed 25 houses, large
and small, two of which were brick, the rest of wood.—
The losses of Insurance offices are ats follows : Augusta
Insurance & Banking Cos., SI,OOO ; the Hartford Si
| Home Cos., $6,000 ; Southern Mutual $7,000.
, Miss Eliza JiCgan.
The Augusta papers give most flattering accounts of the
* success of this accomplished woman in Augusta. A cor
respondent of the Constitutionalist says that her recent
performances in that city “justly entitles her to the proud
distinction she bears, of being the greatest American ac*
! tress now on the American boards. She displayed the
; various passions of the human heart with a degree of
perfection which nothing but great genius and skill could
arrive at.”
Miss Logan will visit Columbus about the 18th iast.,
and, assisted by Mr. Crisp’s Company, give us a week's
entertainment.
Kansas Emigrant Aid Society.
At a meeting of the Executive Committeee of the Kan
| sas Emigrant Aid Society of Muscogee County, held at
J the Secretary’s office at 12 M. on the 6th inst., the fol
!
: lowing resolution was offered by T. Lomax, 1 Esq., and
j unanimously adopted by the Committee:
Resolved, That the subscriptions to the Kansas Emigrant
Aid Society, of Muscogee county, when collected, be of
j sered to Maj. Jeffc r son Buford, of Ala., on condition that I
he shall execute bond payable to the President of this soci- I
ety, with such security as the Executive Committee stall
approve, to transport to Kansas, free of charge, one reliable
citizen of a Southern State, within three months from the !
Ist April next, for every fifty dollars he may receive from i
the society ; unless some good and teliable citizen of Mus- 1
cogee county, shall, by the 20th March next, accept the
proposition upon the same tei ms.
JAMES HAMILTON, Gh’n pro tern.
Jas. M, Russell, Sec’y pro tern.
[Correspondence of the Savannah Georgian, Jan. 30 I
Hon. Martin .7. Crawford —Mr. Crawford, of
Georgia, made his debut in the House, to-day, on a pro
position submitted by him to elect a Speaker by States, as
is the case with the election of President when carried
iuto the House. The proposition was rejected by the
opposition for fear that it would elect a Democrat. Mr.
Crawford is a fine debater, aud will make a useful mem
ber of our State and the country. I predict for him a
successful eareer in national polities.
Gen , Houston Letting Down a Peg. —The Know
Nothings of Indianola, Texas, have instructed their dele
gates to Philadelphia to vote for Fillmore as their candi
date for President, and for Gen. Samuel Houston fur Vice
President.
Escape from the Penitentiary —Calvin Lewis escaped
from the Penitentiary in MflledgeviHe, on the night of ihe
21ili January. He is about twenty-one years of age, five
feet ten inches high, fair complexion, b'aek hair, brown j
eyes ; a native of Wilmiugton, North Cavolina. He was j
convicted rt the July Term, 1353, of the Superior Court of
Richmond county, of larceny from a house. One hun
dred dollars reward is offered for hie apprehension and de- ■
livery in Milledgenlle.
Georgia Legislature.
SENATE.
Milledgeyille, Feb. 2,1856,
The Senate agreed to the resolution directing the Gov
ernor to apply to the Federal Government to exchange the
old arms in our State arseneh for arms of a more approv
ed workmanship.
BIT. 1-8 ON THEIR PASSAGE.
A bill to prescribe the manner of empanneling juries iu
criminal cases, passed.
A bill to amend the claim laws —lost.
A bill to constitute a court of arbitration, passed.
A bill to amend the 10th section of the 13th division of
the penal code, passed.
A bill to prevent employees on the State Road from
freighting their own commodities in preference to thoso* . !
other persons, passed.
A bill to allow interest on accounts from Ist January
after they are|made, passed.
A bill to punish persons disturbing thejpublic peace, by
cursing and using obscene language, passed.
HOUSE.
State Aid to Railroads. —The bill to give State Aid
to the Savannah, Albany Sc Gulf, and Brunswick & Flo
rida Rail Roads was again taken up. The previous
question was called and sustained, and the Jmain question
was put and the bill lost by ayes 58, nays 70. An effort
will be made on Monday to reconsider; which will proba
bly succeed.
Appropriation Bill. —The House again refused *to
agree to the Senate’s amendments to the Appropriation
Bill.
BILLS ON TIIHR PASSAGE.
Bill to prohibit camp hunting in Lowndes county, lost.
Bill to extend the charter of the Brunswick Sc Florida
Railroad, passed.
Bill to cede to the United States a lot in the city of Sa
vannah for a Light House, passed.
Senate’s resolution to exchange old arm3 with the Uni
ted States, was amended so as to include ordnance, and
passed.
Senate’s bill to create the Palaula Circuit, passed.
Joint Resolution to adjourn on the 20th, adopted.
Bill to change the time of holding the Superior and In
terior Courts of Sumter county, passed.
Bill to incorporate the American Mining Cos. located in
Cherokee county, passed.
Bill to compel mining companies to pay taxes in the
counties in which the mines are located, passed.
Bill to amend'the act providing for the disposition
ungranted lands in the county of Chatham, and to vest the
same in certain charitable societies, passed.
Bill to cede to the United States a lot in the city of Sav
annah for a Light House, passed.
Bill to incorporate the S. W. Electro-Magnetic Tele
graph Company, passed.
Several local, private, and unimportant bills were passed.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
j By Mr. Smith of Union, to add an additional sec-
I tion to the penal code. The bill provides a merit roll in
the Penitentiary.
Also, a bill to provide for the removal of the Penitentia
ry, and erection of anew one. The site to be Stone
Mountain.
HOUSE.
Milledgeville, February 4.
The House reconsidered, by a vote of 67 to 52, its ac
tion rejecting the bill to give. State Aid .to the Brunswick
I Sc Florida, and Savannah, Albany & Gulf Railroad com
| panies.
The Senate’s bill to create the Brunswick circuit out of
j counties lying round the county of Glynn, was taken up
j and passed.
SENATE.
The bill to organize anew county out of parts of
Lumpkin and Gilmer, was lost.
Mr. Spalding’s bill providing for the sale of the State
Railroad was indefinitely postponed by ayes 43 nays 34.
I The bill to incorporate ihe Bank of Middle Georgia to
be located at Macon, was passed. Judge Cone made an
unsuccessful effort to attach to the charter the amendments
proposed by him on the discussion of the Athens Bank
i bill.
The bill to incorporate Greensboro’ and the bill to
: charter the Bank ol Greensboro’, were both passed.
The bill to incorporate the Southern Bank of Georgia,
. to be located at Bainbridge, was also passed.
DEATH OF ANDREW J. MILLER.
Upon tho announcement of this event, both Houses
pointed a committee to attend his funeral. The Senate
appointed a committee consisting of ’Messrs. Pope, Cone,
of Greene, Wingfield, Dunnegan und Wales to draft res
olutions suitable to the occa.-ion.
Both Houses also adjourned as a token of respect for
his memory.
Alabama Legislature.
Montgomery, Feb. 2d, 1856.
Senate. —The following among other bills were pass,
ed : To define tlr. liabilities of Railroad eompinies : To
appropriate $150,000 to the completion of the Insane
Hospital, by ayes 10, nays 9, over the veto of the Gover
ns.
House.— Mr. McMiileu introduced a bill to loan SSO,- !
000 to the Mobile & Girard Railroad, which was lead !
the first and second time, and referred to the committee 1
on Internal Improvements.
The House sustained the veto of the bill to appropri
ate $150,000 to the completion of the Insane Hospital,
by ayes 45, nays 42, it requiring a majority of the whole
House to override a veto.
The bill to renew the charter of the Georgia, West j
Point, & ialiadega Railroad, w r as passed under a suspen- j
sion of ihe rule.
Nothing else of importance to our readers took place j
to-day.
[From the Boston Times, Jan. 25th ]
Hen. Robert Toombs in Boston.
The lecture upon Slavery, by Hon. Robt. Toombs, at
the Tremont Temple, last evening, was attended by an im
mense audience, who listened throughout with much bet
ter attention and more respect than many had been led to
anticipate. The suhje.'t of the. lecture was the consisted-,
cy of slavery with the Constitution of the United States,
and the effect of the Revolution upon tlie African Race
The first portion of the subject consisted in a history of the
Constitution, an exposition of the principles of the men
that formed it, and an endeavor to prove that there was
riot an article in it that could possibly lie interpreted as
prohibitory of s'avery, hut that though not upholding that
institution, it strongly protected it. The second portion
was a consideration of the mental aud physical capacities
of theJAfrican race, and an able argument, sustained In
facts of history, to prove that the negro was in his best es
tate when inas'nteof subjection to a superior power.
Comparisons were diawn between him as a slave to the
white, and as a freeman under his own government, and
the former ami present condition of Hayti and Jamaica,
were a 1 tided to as examples upon which to found the ar
guments of tin* speaker. At the conclusion of the lecture,
the audience dispersed in the best of order, although three
cheers were attempted lor Charles Sutnner, hot which
failed entirely, the only man that shouted being the or.e
that called for them.
Parsons Case.— Mr. J. A. F. Martin, a member of the
House nf Delegates, received a despatch yesterday evening
from Baltimore,stating that thefPars ms case was at) right,
with the exception c?f the costs, which were sought to be
entailed upon Blair county, Pa., the scene of Warfare
Rich Enq. Feb. lf.
Trouble in the Know Nothing Camp —“A Whig
Trick.”
The Georgia Citizen , a zealous Know Nothing paper
of large circulation, published at Macon, thus protests
against the action of the late Know Nothing Convention
at Miliedgeville. It would indicate that the jaek-planing
and re-varnishing of their plattorm threatens to lose that
versatile party numbers of its old supporters, without a
very bright prospect of supplying their places by converts
from the ranks of the Democratic anti-Know Nothing
party. The Know Nothings, in leaving out “by particu
lar request,” the part of Hamlet , will be in no need of the
prayer of that melancholy Prince:
“Oh, that this too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and dissolve itself into a dew.”
They are, in fact, melting and dissolving away under the
lire of popular indignation.
From the Georgia Citizen.
Proceedings of the American Convention.
For the sake of our readers who did not reoeive our
Extra Citizen, of Dee. 29, containing the proceedings of
the late American Convention, at Miliedgeville, we re
publish the same on the last page of to-day’s paper. To
the general pricinples embraced therein, we have no
thought of disseut, but are not so well satisfied with the
policy which the Convention thought proper to pursue in
a reconstruction of the American Platform, to suit per
haps the fastidious tastes of certain gentlemea, who have,
at the last hour, oondcscended to make common cause with
us. The Philadelphia Platform was good enough, and
ought to have been re-endorsed by the Convention, as
Judge Cone desired and labored in vain to effect. Instead
of that, however, we find that the Philadelphia Platform
has been jack-planed, here and re varnished there.—
Here a plank has beeu removed and another substituted.
Here a knot-hole has been filled with gutta-percha, and
there a rough place has been smoothed over with the “oil
of blarney.” In fact, we do not think that all the tinker
ing done has been either profitable or judicious. It has
only served to show that there was some uncertainty in
the principles of the party, where none existed in reality.
With us a cardinal feature of Americanism is eternal hos
tility to conferring political power upon any men orsetol
men who owe paramount civil and spiritual allegiance to a
foreign potentate. To emasculate our Platform, then, of
the anti-Catholie feature, is to offer us the play of Hamlet,
with the part of Ilamlot left out! That is not the “feast
to which we have been invited.” So much on that point.
Another part of the proceedings of the Convention ap
pears to us to have been exceedingly impolitic at the pres
ent juncture, if not disastrous to the best interests of the
party. We allude to the appointment, as delegates and
alternates to a national convention, of men who never
lifted a hand or raised a voice, in public defence of our
principles, during the late hard struggle. To all intents
and purposes that was managed so as to “pretermit” the
claims to honor of many gallant men of both wings of the
party —the Whig and Democratic—for the l>enrfit of some
doubtful or “fishy” politicians of the old “Tertium quid'’
school, who have, for years, “had noplace to go.” For
instance, how many old liuc Democrats are placed on the
roil of delegates ad committees 1 How many, on the
1 contrary, are Fillmore men, who are now moving beaten
; and earth, all over the country, to push the gentlernr.n Ibr
waul as the American candidate for the Presidency, (par
excellence ,) without any assurance whatever, that we have
seen, that he has ever identified himself with the cause
of Americanism ? We repeat that the proceedings o( the
Convention have this appearance to many of our most
candid and judicious friends. We may bo wrong, and
if so, will rejoice to be so convinced, but we certainly can
not he expected to join in “a wild hunt” to restore ifiete
and defunct Whiggery to power under the guise and name
of unadulterated Americanism! No! no! Gentlemen!
when you engage in any such “Whig Trick,” phase
“count us out” of ihe scrimmage. We are determined
to know nothing politically,save the “pure and undcfihd
religion” of a vital, practical and thorough rtnovation of
the American Republic from the baneful tfleets of all
“Foreign Influence” and every species of our unconstitu
| tional higher-lawism ! That is the altar on which we
j have laid our vows, and may our “right hand forget its
cunning,” if we falter by the way-side or prove recreant
to our trust.
Sketch of Gen. Walker.
The following sketch of this remarkable fillibusler is
furnished by a correspondent to the Washington .Star :
“William Walker was born in Nashville, Tennessee,
and is now about 3.Tjyears old. 11 is father is James Walk
er, Esq., a citizen of Nashville, of Scottish birth, and very
j much respected. His mother was a Miss Norvell, an
[ estimable lady from Kentucky. Walker, after quilting
; school in his native State—which he did with much cred
it and honor—commenced the study of medicine in the
University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated. He
then went to Europe, entered the medical schools of Par
is as a student, received a diploma there, and, after some
time spent in travel, returned to this country, went to
Nashville, and commenced the study and practice of the
law. Walker is thus both lawyer and physician.
Fiorn Nashville, he went to New OrU-aus, and was
for some time editor of the Crescent. In June, ISSO, he
went to San Francisco, and became one of the editors of
the Herald. While in this position an article appeared
in the Herald, animadverting upon the judiciary, to which
exception was taken by Judge Parsons, of the District
Court, who forthwith summoned him before his Court,
and inflicted on the editor a fine of $5(10. This Walker
refund to do, and was accordingly imprisoned, but was
subsfpjent y discharged ou a writ of habeas corpus , is
sued from the Superior Court, which action was sustained
by the Legislature at its next session. The next enter
prise in which Walker was engaged was the famous ex
pedition to Sonora, with the disastrous result of which
your readers are as familiar as they aie with his more
recent history. He is, besides, a man of indomitable
courage and perseverauce. When a studeut in Philadel
phia, strange as it may seem, he was remarkable for his
diffident and ever taciturn manner and gentle disposition.
In person, he is rather under than above the medium
height, and was formerly of fair complexion, somewhat
freckled face, with light hair, gray eyes, and high cheek
bones.
Virginia.
From tb proceedings in the House of delegates,
of the Virginia Legislature, January 21st, we extract
the following in relation to penal difficulties which rt
suited to Mr. Parsons, from his efforts to reclaim his
fugitive slave in Pennsylvania:
“Mr. Heitf, from the select committee appointed some
days since, presented a bill ‘‘to protect dames Parsons,
Jr , of Hampshire, and other citizens of this Common
wealth, in the prosecution and maintenance of their con
stitutional rights.” The said Parsons is now under recog
nizance to appear before the county court of Blair coun
ty, Pa., to answer to the charge of kidnapping, under
the laws of said State, he, having pursued to said county,
and endeavored to reclaim a fugitive slave, in pursuance
of the provisions of the act of Coegress known as the
“Fugitive Slave Law.”
The hill reported by Mr. Iliett prohibits the s; id Par
sons under a penalty of SO,OOO, from appear ng and p’eid
ing to the charge aforesaid ; and provides that the Com
monwealth of Virginia shall assume on his behalf, all
i costs, flues forfeitures <fcc., incurred by his nonappear
: ance —the amount to be paid by the Governor, out of the
: contingent fund. The bill further provides that ii the
sid Parsons shall hereafter be arrested and imprisoned
upon the charge aforesaid, the Governor of Virginia is
directed to demand his immediate surrender, and in de
fault thereof, shalFeause the writ of halms corpus to be
apphed for, &c. If his ideas© be not then effected, the
Governor is directed, ten and ivs alter the proclamation
thereof, to seize and imprison all citizens, and hold ail
property of the State of Pennsylvania and of citizens
thereof, until the release and surrender of said Parsons.
Por the enforcement of the proceedings contemplated by
this proposed law, the Governor is authorized to call up
on, and demand the set vices of all civil and military offi
cersof the State, and all private citizens whosoever, etc.
it is turtner provided that the provisions of this bill shall
be extended to any other citizen of Virginia, who may
hereafter be placed in the situation of the said Parsons,
sec., &
Great Fire at Toledo
ever happened in Toledo, Ohio, broke forth at an early
hour on the morning of the VOth ult. The range of wood
en building- on frwnmtt street, and ihe Duel! Nock, were
entirelv consumed. The loss in goods alone was upwards
of $39,000.
Later from Mexico.
Vera Cruz, Dec. 21, 1855.
Editors Delta .-—Matters are now at a crisis. The
revolution is in full blast. A tremendous struggle atten
ded with much bloodshed, has been maintained in Pue
bla for several days past. The report is that the forces of
Ilaro y Tamarlz, Guitian & Cos., have possession of near
ly the entire city, whilst the Government troops are eon
lined to one or two squares. The result will soon be
known, and if Comonfoi t don’t pronounce against him
self he will be a used up individual. As he played tricks
on old Alvarez, he would, nu thinks, hardly renture to
slope for Guerrero again. Ills late demonstration must
have disgusted Degollado and other friends in the West.
Whilst, although on seen ingly good terms, he would hesi
tate surely about taking refuge in Vidaurri’s bailiwick
If he attempts to absquatulate in this direction, he’ll be
beaded off to a certainty. It is evident, therefore, that
he has no recourse but to steal his enemies’ thunder and
get up a pronunc-iamento against his own ministry—which
mode of doing things is one of the peculiar institutions
of this extraordinary country.
New Orleans, Jan. 28.
The. Texas has arrived at this port with advices from
Vera Crnz lo the 22d inst. Anew revolution to overthrow
Comonfort had been headed by Tamirez, and the revolu
tionists had possession of most of the city of Puebla, after
severe fighting. Affairs were in a general state of con
fusion.
Farodi at Vicksburg.
Vicksburg, Jan. 31.
Parodi has advertised a concert here on Saturday night
The price, of seats is fixed at $2, and nearly every seat is a],
ready taken. She will give a second concert ou Wednes
day night.
Louisiana Legislature.
Baton Rouge, Jan. 31.
Senate. —Mr. Ryan’s bill, granting appeals in contested
election-, passed.
A resolution passed, referring all matters of legislation
in which New Orleans is concerned, to a Committee con
sisting of all the members from that city.
House. —A resolution was adopted authorizing the
Speaker to appoint a chaplain—the election of Father La
vay being an error.
A resolution was introduced by Mr. Wooldridge provid
ing fur the building of an executive mansion by the State.
River Intelligence.
Vicksburg, Jan. 31.
The Highflyer passed this port at noon, bound for New
Orleans.
Arrival of the Cahawba.
New Or leaks, Feb. 4.
The steamer Cahawba has arrived lvith Havana datea
of the Ist. Rachel had gone, to Key West.
Congressman Missing—Rumored Duel.
Washington, Jan. 31.
Great anxiety is fell in regard to Hon. Thomas T. Flag*
ler, who started from Baltimore for Washington to-night,
with his family, but left the car before reaching the Relay
House, since when he {has not been heard from, ll is
I oped, however, that he missed the train at. the Relay
House.
It is rumored 10-night that Dr Vadi has challenged Hon.
Goy R. Peltm. in consequence oi the latter’s recent letter
published by ihe New York press. As Pelton has a res
pectable character lo maintain, it is nor supposed he will
accept the invitation to make himself a felon.
£ Great Fire m Augusta.
Augusta, Feb. 4th.
A fire occurred here eaily this morning, consuming
some twenty building* on Broad Street, opposite Eagle
&, Phoenix Hotel. The buildings were mostly of no great
value.
; hill that had been in circulation for fity two years. Is
; not that a reasonably good circulation? Who would not
j issue hills if they had fifty years to get ready lo pay?
—
Bl t pfalo Jan. 29
White, Ayers and King, the alledged robbers of the
$50,000 from the American Express Company were ar
raigned before the Supreme Couit here this morning.—
They put in the plea ot not guilty and weie remanded back
to jail.
Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 30v
A resolution was unanimously adopted by the Legisla
; ture ot this State to day, instructing the judiciary commit
j tee to report a law to prevent the recurrence of such scenes
* as the recent slave tragedy in Cincinnati.
A Novel Sleigh Ride —Mr. Price, of the firm of Price
A- Fisher, of this city arrived to-day from Green Bay, in a
novel turn out. He drove the entire dis ance in a light
sleieh drawn by a single dog, averaging tliiity miles a day.
1 his inrn out exciieri a great deal of curiosity in the
j streets tlii* morning, which growler appeared to relish amaz
j ingly, showing verv liitle evidence if fatigue by reason of
j li is long journey.— Chicago Journal, Jan. 28th.
—
| Pennsylvania Legislature. —A resolution was offered
j in the Pennsylvania House Friday, directing the Judiciary
j Com mi fee to inquire if further legislation was not necessary
i In protect the persona’ liberties of citizens from the arbitra
j rv proceedings of judges of the United States, exercising
j jurisdiction in this State. Rejected by 64 to 31.
■ A hill was then introduced tochange the venue, in the
! Kane and Williamson case, from Delaware County to Phila
i delphia.
j Revenge of a Lover—Cutting off a Girl's Noe*. —
I We ha\e learned from Mr. Warner, some of the partic.u
----i lars of a most diabolical outrage, that occurred last week
; about three miles below his landing on the Mississippi It
j appears that a Dutch widower, living at ihat place has a
| family of grown up girls, which he is anxious to get rid
i of. The oldest, a good looking girl of 2J, is living with a
neighbor, and lias lately attracted the attention of an Ilal
j ian, who had been slaying about there, and ha- wanted to
! marry her. Hi* suit lias been backed by the old man, but
; the girl has steadily refused to marry him. Last week the
i fellow called at. the house and requested to see her at the
j door. When she appeared, he seized her by the end of the
nose, and with his pocket knife cut it off close np to the
bridge. The poor girl screamed and tainted, and while the
family rushed to her assislance and tried to staunch the
i blood, the ruffian took leg bail across the Mississippi, and
! has not since been heard of.—Lo Crosse (IVis.) National
| Democrat, Jan 9.
Bishop Haniline Acquitted. —The i barges of seduc
tion against bishop Hamline, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Cincinnati, apjear to have originated with Rev.
L. D. Harlan, a member of the Cincinnati Conference,
who, after :hreed.vys trial, has been expelled therefrom,
by a vote of two to nearly two hundred, and his charges
thus dismissed as false.
New York, Feb. 4.
Colton is improving. Sales of four thousand bales at
JO 1 16c. for Middling Orleans, and 9Je. for Upland.—
J Flour. Ohio $8 31, Southern .$8.90. Corn 87c. Freights
; firnrur.
Charleston, Feb. 5.
| GOT TON
| hundred bales. Middling Fair 9J to 9*c.
A CARD,
Colo: bus, Ga., Feb. 7,181)6.
The undersigned, membeis of the last Grand Jury of
s Muscogee county, in their note of the 4th inst., replying
’ to the note of Jack Brown, Esq., Solicitor General of the
Chattahoochee Circuit, may be con.-idered as reflecting on
the administration of Chailes J. Williams, Esq , a former
Solicitor General.
We did not intend that our note should admit such a
construction, and cheerfully take this occasion to state
that in our general presentments we had no reference
, whatever to Mr. Williams or his term of office.
I We adopt this course as our note unexplained may do
him injustice.
Alex. J. Robison, Foreman Charles Cleghorn,
A. M. Walker, Weslev Sturkie,
Wiley Adams, John J. McKendtee,
E. C. Bandy, Andrew J. Floyd,
William N. Jones, W 11. Griswold.
febß w&twlt
DIED,
At hts residence in Harris county, on the 22d ultimo,
John R. M. Farland, in the fortieth year of hie age, after
an illness of ten months.