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TIMES & SENTINEL COLUMBUS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 29, 1858. H oa. Josh HUI) of Georgia. This gentleman was somewhat at a loss how to vote on the Report of the Conference Committee in the House. He was evidently in a foa, and fluttered in great uncer tainty where he should light. To avoid the chance o perching on a rotten limb, he proposes an alternative t at evinces rather unusual caution. He desires to come home and feel the popular pulse. He said, “by postponing t e question I will have time to reflect, and by staying m Geor gia for for a few weeks, I would have the sentiment of the people of the State.” Not knowing how to act in a given emergency, looks to us like anew ground of application for a furlough. Yet we think,under the circumstances, it should have been granted. This Kansas question is anew one, (?) and should not be hastily considered. Besides,we are opposed, utterly opposed, to compelling a man to give a vote, wken he knows not how to cast it; especially,when he is ignorant how it will effect him at home* But, per. haps Mr. Hill’s constituents would have applied to him language similar to that once addressed by Mr. Burke to the Bristol Electors. They might have said—“ Sir, we elected you our representative, because we had confidence in your ability to understand and maintain our rights.— You should not look to us for instructions. You should comform to the instructions of truth and justice. A repre sentative worthy of us ought to be a person of decision and stability. We chose you, in your place, along with others, to be a pillar of the State, and not a weather cock on the top of the edifice, exalted for your levity and versatility and ol no use but to indicate the shittings of every popu. lar gale.” To guard against any future difficulty on the score of ignorance, we would suggest to Mr. Hill to come home and stay, and let the people of his district have a representative who, if he should not know the opinion o his constituents upon a given question, may yet have an opinion of his own, and will not be afraid to act upon it- Come home, Mr. Hill! Capt. James N* Ward's 3d Infantry, V. S. A, —Fire Arms. It will be gratifying to the many friends of the gallant officer whose name beads this article, to learn, that the Board of Commissioners appointed by the Secretary of War to examine his improvement in fire-arms, have made a favorable report on some of them and recommended their adoptiou in the army. The Board appointed to ex amine the improved fire-arms, consisted of Lieut. Col. J, E. Johnson, Major Bell, Lieut. Cel. May, Major Macrae and Capt. Whiteall. They first examined the arrange ment for attaching tape primers to Bmall arms, called Ward’s Magazine Hammer. To test its working, forty shots were fired. The board were satisfied that it was an invention which would be of service to the army and re ported that it was “a great improvement on any other me thod known and recommend that it be applied to all the small arms, except revolvers; and also recommend Ward’s Cone Seat adopted with the Magazine Hammer.” The other improvements presented by Capt. Ward were not re commended for the service by the Board. We regard the favorable report of such a Board as the one appointed to examine these improvements in fire-arms as equivalent to aa adoption, and we congratulate the'army upon the in vention. The day will not be far distant when our gal lant Volunteer Corps will reap the benefit of these im provements, and their arms will be exchanged lor the modern and improved style—the invention of one who was reared up in their midst —who bore a noble part in Mexico,and who awaits, we trust, a bright future in the army. Since writingthe above, we understand that Capt. Ward has arrived in this city on a visit to his relatives- The Purchase of Mount Vernon* The Washington Union b rings us intelligence that the contract for the purchase of this estate, or a portion of it has at length been concluded between the Ladies of the Mount Vernon Association and Mr. Washington. The Association agrees to pay the insignificant sum of two hundred thousand dollars for two hundred acres—one thousand dollars per acre —including the mansion and lan ding place, and the tomb of the immortal dead. Eighteen thousand dollars ar9 to be paid in cash, and the balance in four bonds, payable in yearly installments. If this con summation pleases the ladies we are content, notwithstan ding it involves the gratification of an unworthy cupidity and niggardly avarice. We freely applaud that overflow ing gratitude which seeks, at any cost, to withdraw from private possession, and dedicate to public and patriotic worship all of earthly that remains of the “father of his country;” while we as cordially contemn the ineffable lit tleness of him who would exact or consent to receive the profit from a speculation on the bones of his benefactor. Young’s Spirit of the South* We have before us the first number of Young’s Spirit of the South aud Central American, published at Nashville Tenn. The Central ‘American, heretofore published in Central America, is merged into the Spirit. It is devoted to the field sports, turf, and the staee, and the advancement of Southern enterprise, and support of Southern Institu tions. “None but those friendly to the South will patron ize it.” It is edited by Mr. Young and Madam F. Lewel len Young, who were in Central America during Walk er’s stay. Mr. Rumsey, the agent, is at the Perry House- Southerners should patronize this paper. Sad Accident. Thomas J. McKinney, son of Mr. Jeremiah McKenney* of Harris county, Ga., was drowned in Mulberry Creek on the 25th inst. He, with several other boys, were attempt ing to cross the Mulberry Creek at its mouth, in a and when about the middle of the stream, their boat sunk and he only was unable to reach the bank. He was about thirteen years old. _ Union Prayer Meeting. TLe Union Prayer Meeting of the several Churches of this city, is going on with uabated fervor and interest The Presbyterian Church, where the services have been conducted by Rev. Dr. Higgins, has been crowded fc r several mornings past, and this morning, at the early hour of eight o’clock, the Methodist Church was thronged with a large and attentive Congregation. The prayers of God’s people were asked in behalf of many by their iriends today f and from thff deep feeling manifested, we would not be surprised if there was a great awakening on this subject among the worldly and irreligious class. The meetings alterna'e in the different churches. Hour of meeting eight o’clock—adjournment at nine. Meetings every afternoon by the Young Men at 5 o’clock Over Temperance Hall. Duel at Hamburg. We learn that a duel was fought at Hamburg, S. C. yesterday, between two gentlemen of Montgomery, Ala. —Mr. Blackmire and Mr. John Pollard. Shots were ex changed and the affair was made up. Mr. Robinson was the challenger, bot his brother-in-law, Mr. Pollard, took his place. Mr. Samuel Hardaway, (Mr. R.’s second) we understand, proposed to stand ior his principal. Advertisements.— Our readers will please notice the new advertisements. Read those of Messrs. D. P. Ellis, ThomasMorriß. Hamilton & Jefferson, and others, and ponder and “inwardly digest.” Gov. Brown—A Delegate. Gov. Brown attended the recent Baptist Convention at Americus as a delegate from Milledgeville. He was made Chairman of the Committee on Missions. Our printer <n* tenaine fears that be will veto all of them and suggests pba* the Convention pa them by]a tw o'third vote. Messrs, swan & Cos. We published in a few issues past the remarks of the Sa vannah Republican and Sun m regard to the drawing of a $60,000 prize in Messrs. Swan & Cos’., Lotteries, in which it was doubted vyhetber that amount had been drawn. In justice to Messrs. Swan & Cos., we publish the following. From the Savannah Republican. Swan's Lottery; Editor Republican : Having noticed the article in your issue of the 21st, copied from the Colum bus Sun, I request that you assert the following affidavit and oblige yours, respectfully, J. J. Hesler. Savannah, Ga., April 23, 1858 I, the undersigned, agent in this city for Messrs. Sam. Swan &Cos., of Augusta, Ga., do hereby cer tify that I was present in my office April 6th, and saw the cashier of Messrs. Swan & Cos., pay to a gentleman of this City the money due on his prize ticket, Nos. 6, 19, 28, Class 357, which was drawn in Augusta, Satnrday, April 3d, and which combi nation drew the capital prize of $50,000. And I also certify that the gentleman purchased the tick in my office, and that he requested his name should not be made public. J. J. Hesler, Agent, Savannah, Ga., Sworn to before me, R Wayne, Mayor. Mercer Uuiverssty. Rev. N. M. Crawford has been elected President of the above University. He was President many years ago and the selection is well made. Washington Correspondence. Washington, April, 24. Yesterday, in both Houses of Congress the Conference Committee Report was submitted under an incessant vol ley of small shot from Black Republicans, aggravated in the House, by the impotent manoeuvres of a few Southern Know Nothings. A bomb shell thrown among a squad o* Chinese Jugglers could not have produced more dismay among the loDg tails, than the reading of the report caused among the nigger-worshippers and a lew disconcerted Americans. Messrs. Hill and Trippe were especially un ruly under the bit, and kicked up awfully when they found they must run or bolt. They were not, evidently, prepar ed for the turn things had taken, and they asked for time. Time! to think over a matter that has convulsed the Dation for three years—that has been discussed over and over, in every village and precint in Georgia, and that is now pre sented in such a shape as to preclude even a discussion on the slavery question, and remove from the Halls of Con gress and national politics a subject so fruitlul of strife and difficulty. We must regard’the Report of the Conference Commit tee virtually as presenting anew question for the future ac tion of Congress. The silly boast of the Black Republi can leaders, that no more States, with slavery constitutions shall be admitted, has been hurled back into their teeth, shivered arid blasted. At every stage of action, and by every vote so far given.it has been falsified and spit upon. Kansas has been admitted, under the Lecompton Consti tution, though other details could not be accepted by the South. Now,Kansas it is proposed to admit—with her constitution just as it was framed at Lecompton—the slavery clause of her constitution not even adverted to, undisturbed and untouched—but as her ordinance accom panying her constitution she asserts inadmissable and un usual claims oyer the public lands within her territories. — Congress purposes certain modifications relating exclu sively to this land question, and it is but fair as well as in dispensable that there should be two parties to every bar gain, she is herself to say, in the usual manner, at the bal lot box, whether she accedes to these modifications or not. If she does, she becomes ipso facto a State under the Le compton constitution. If she does not, she cannot be re ceived under any constitution. Were this anew question is there a man South who would dare to take a stand against it? Certainly no Georgian would be likely to do so, unless for factious or covert purposes of his own, he were madly to count and indiscreetly to provoke the very contingencies which the Georgia Platform is as honest in deprecating as it is firm and stern in providing against should it occur. Why Messrs. Hill and Trippe should desire a postponement and delay, when now every mo ment’s time granted is a concession to the fell spirit of Black Republicanism, would be unaccountable to one not posted in regard to the powerless condition of Know No thin gism in Georgia. That the former gentleman, espe pecially, should kick up a fuss with Col. Gartrell, for the morning papers state that the Speaker ordered the Ser geant-at-Arms to conduct Mr. Hill to his seat—is not so easily explained, and can only be accounted for on the supposition that his usually good temper was unhinged by the the annoyiog supplications of H. Winter Davis and a few others to aid them in their humiliating and irrevocable doom. He was perplexed and worried, else he would have paused awhile before provoking a fisticuff,on the floor of Congress, with the stoutly built and highly mettled rep resentative of the Atlanta District. But, notwithstanding yesterday’s exhibition, it strikes me that both Mr. Hill and Mr. Trippe will view the matter to-day in a different light, and place themselves square on the platform of the national democracy, and thus show that so long as the in terests of the South and the honor of Georgia remain un touched and unsullied —her representatives in Congress will not place her in the unenviable position of provoking a contingeacy from the mere wantoness of bravery which she has solemnly avowed to the world she deprecates and would regret. There is no man in Georgia or out of i who would cling to her platform with more life blood de votion and die upon its shivered fragments with more loy al fidelity than your humble correspondent; but the age lor fighting wind mills ha 9 gone by, and there are but few Cervantes now-a days, to immortalize a spurious and run mad chivalry. In Georgia, at least, there are no enchan ted Kingdoms. The men of 1850 were sober, practical pa triots —and when the emergency shall actually arise, if it ever does, their words will become deeds, and their vow will be fulfilled. The dark lantern party would be rather doubtful guides* certainly there is nothing in their ante cedents to commend their counsel. Gen. Quitman of Mi-3, Messrs. Shorter and Stallworth of Ala., and Gen Borham of S. C.,felt some reluctance in giving their sup port to the measure before the House—viz: the Conference Report. Should Messrs. Hill and Trippe come right, the question will be closed, as the motion to postpone is still pending. If the bill granting pensions to the soldiers of the War of 1812, &c .comes up on Monday, the vote will be ta ken in three hours. That measure will probably pass the House. BRUTUS. i The late Gool Weather, &c. The unseasonably cool temperature prevailing in this region since the squall and hail of last Tues day afternoon, has occasioned, during the week considerable anxiety among planters and garden ers, but probaly little or no damage has been done. The wind probably saved us from one injurious irost, and another actually observable in some lo calities in town, was too slight to harm vegetation. Thus far, agricultural prospects in this whole re gion never were better. Cotton, grain and fruit have made an unsually promising start, and in re spect to the latter particularly, all are forming ex pectations of an abundance.— Georgia Tele graph 22 and. There is a most encouraging prospect at this time for an abundant fruit year and early garden vegitables. The cold change of last week passed off without sufficient frost to do any injury. Some of our farmers fear that at the next full moon we may have frost We have known it later than the 27th of April. The bpring thus far has been one of the best we remember. Cotton planting is pret ty much through with in this county .—Central Georgian . Report of the Committee of Conference upon the Bill to Admit Kansas as a State. The committee of conference appointed to con sider the disagreeing votes of the t woffiouses on the amendment to the Senate bill No. 161, entitled “A bill for the admission of the State of Kansas,” report that they have had the subject under consideration, and have given it thatcarefnl, patient, and mature deliberation which they conceive its importance de mands, and have agreed upon an amendment in the nature of a substitute for the House amendment to the Senate bill. They earnestly recommend the adoption of this amendment by the two houses of Congress. JAMES S. GREEN, R. M. T. HUNTER, Managers on the part of the Senate. WM. H. ENGLISH. ALEX. H. STEPHENS, Managers on the part of the House. The undersigned, one of the managers on the part of the Senate, does not agree lo the foregoing report. WM. H. SEWARD. The undersigned, one of the managers on the part of the House, does not agree to the foregoing report. WM. A. HOWARD. A BILL EOR THE ADMISSION OF KANSAS. Whereas the people of the Territory of Kansas did, by a convention of delegates assembled at Le compton, on the 7th day of November, 1857, for that purpose, form for themselves a constitution and State govornment, which constitution is republican; and whereas, at the same time and place, said con vention did adopt an ordinance, which said ordi nance asserts that Kansas, when admitted as a State, will have an undoubted right to tax the lands within her limits belonging to the United States, and proposes to relinquish said asserted right if certain conditions set forth in said ordinance be accepted and agreed to by the Congress of the United States; and whereas the said constitution and ordinance have been presented to the Congress of the United States by order of said convention, and admission of said Territory into the Union thereon as a State requested ; and whereas said ordinance is not ac ceptable to Congress, and it is desirable to ascer tain whether the people of Kansas concur in the changes in said ordinance hereinafter stated, and desire admission into the Union as a State as heie- in proposed : Therefore, Be it enacted, <spc,, That the State of Kansas be, and is hereby, admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects what ever, but upon the fundamental condition precedent, namely: that, the question of admission with the following proposition in lieu of the ordinance framed at Lecompton be submitted to a vote of the people of Kansas, and assented to by them or a majority of the voters at an election to be held for that pur pose, namely : that the following propositions be, and the same are hereby,'offered to the people of Kansas for acceptance or rejection, which, if ac cepted, shall’be obligatory on the United States and upon the said State of Kansas, to wit: First, that sections number sixteen and thirty-six in every township of public lands in said State,’ or where either of said sections or any part thereof has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands, equiva lent theieto and as contiguous as may be, shall be granted to said State for the use of schools.— Second, that seventy-two sections of land shall be set apart and reserved for the support of a State University, to be selected by the governor of said State, subject to the approval of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and to be appropriated and applied in such manner as the legislature of said State may prescribe for the purpose aforesaid, but for no other purpose. Third, that ten entire sections of “land, to be selected by the governor of said State, in legal subdivisions, shall be granted to said State for the purpose of completing the pub lic buildings or for the erection of others at the seat of government, under the direction of the leg islature thereof. Fourth, that all salt springs with in said State, not exceding twelve in number, with six sections of land adjoining, or as.,contiguous as may be to each, shall be granted to said State for its use,the same to be selected by the governor thereof within one year after the admission of said State, and, when so selected, to be used or disposed of on such terms, conditions, and regulations as'the legislature may direct: Provided, That no salt spring of land, the right whereof is now vested in any individual or individuals, or which may here after be confirmed or adjuged to any individual or individuals, shall by this article be granted to said State. Fifth, that five per centum of the net pro ceeds of sales of all the public lands lying within said. State which shall be sold by Congress after the admission ol said State into the Union, after deduc ting all the expenses incident to the same, shall be paid to said Siate for the purpose of making public roads and interna] improvements, as the leg islature shall direct - Provided , The foregoing prop osiiion* herein offered are on the condition that said Slate ol Kansas shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the lands oL.’the United States, or with any regulation which Congress may find necessary for securing the title in said soil to bona fide purchasers thereof; and that no tax shall be imposed on lands belonging to the United States, and that in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed* higher than residents. Sixth, said State shall never|tax the lands or property ofthe United States in that State. At the said election the voting shall be by ballot, and by endorsing on his ballot, as each voter may please, “proposition accepted” or “proposition re jected.” Should a majority of the votes cast be for “proposition accepted,” the President of the U. States, as soon as the fact is duly made known to him, shall announce the same bv ploclamation, and thereafter, and without any further proceedings on the part of Congress, the admission of the State of Kansas into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, in all respects whatever, shall be complete and absolute; and said State shall be entitled to one member in the House of Represen tatives in the Congress of the United States until the next census be taken by the Federal Govern ment. But should a majority of the votes cast be for “proposition rejected,” it shall be deemed and held that the people of Kansas do not desire ad mission into the Union with said Constitution, un- der the conditions set forth in said proposition ; and in that event the people of said Territory are hereby authorised and empowered to form for themelves a Constitution and State Government by the name of the State of Kansas, according to the Federal Constitution, and may elect delegates for that pur pose whenever, and not before, it is ascertained, by a census duly and legally taken, that the popula tion of said Territory equals the ratio of representa tion required for a member of the House of Repre sentatives of the United States; and whenever thereafter such delegates shall assemble in conven tion, they shall first determine by a vote whether it is the wish of the people of the proposed State to be admittted into the Union at that time, and, if so, shall proceed to form a Constitution, and take all necessary steps for the establishment of a State Government, in conformity with the Federal Con stitution, subject to such fimitationsand restrictions as to the mode and manner of its approval or rati fication by the people of the proposed State, as they may have prescribed, and shall be entitled to admission into the Union as a State under such Constitution thus fairly and legally made, with or without slavery, as such Constitution may pre scribe* Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That, for the purpose of insuring, as far as possible, that the elec tion authorized by this act may be fair and free, the governor, United States district attorney, and sec retary of the Territory of Kansas, and the presid ing officers of the two branches of its legislature—- namely the president ofthe Council and speaker of the House of Representatives—are herby constitu ted a board of commissioners to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and to use all the means necessary and proper to that end. And three of them shall constitute a board; and the board shall have power and authority to designate and estab lish precincts for voting, or to adopt those already established; to cause polls to be opened at such places as it may deem proper in the respective counties and election precincts of said Territory ; to appoint as judges of election, at each of the sev eral places of voting, three discreet and respecta ble persons, any two of whom shall be competent to act; to require the sheriffs of the several coun ties, by themselves or deputies, to attend the judges at each of the places of voting, for the pur pose of preserving peace and good order; or the said board may, instead of said sheriffs and their deputies, appoint at their discretion, and in such instances as they may choose, other fit persons for the same purpose. The election hereby au thorised shall continue one day only, and shall not be continued later than sundown on that day. — The said board shall appoint the day for holding said election, and the said governor shall announce the same by proclamation ; and the day shall be as early a one as is consistent with due notice there of to the people of said Territory, subject to the provisions of this act. The said board shall have full power to prescribe the time, manner, and places of said elections, and to direct the time and man ner of the returns thereof, which returns shall be made to the said board, whose duty it shall be to announce the result by proclamation, and the said governor shall certify the same to the President of the U. States without delay. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted , That in the election hereby authorized, all w r hite male inhabi tants of said Territory over the age of twenty-one years, who possess the qualifications, which were required by the laws of said Territory, for a legal voter at the last general election for the members ofthe territorial legislature, and none others shall be allowed to vote; and this shall be the only qual ification required to entitle the voter to the right of suffrage in said election. And if any person not so qualified shall vote or offer to vote, or if any person shall vote more than once at said election, or shall make or cause to be made any false, fic titious, or fraudulent returns, or shall alter or change any returns of said election, such person shall upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, be kept at hard labor not less than six months, and not more than three years. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the members of the aforesaid board of commissioners, and all persons appointed by them to carry into effect the provisions of this act, shall, before enter ing upon ther duties, take an oath to perform faith fully the duties of their respective offices; and, on failure thereof, they shall be liable and subject to the same charges and penalties as are provided in like cases under the territorial laws. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted , That the officers mentioned in the preceding section shall receive for their services the same compensation as is given for like services under the territorial laws. From the Augusta Dispateh. The Etowah Manufacturing and Mining Company. Among the pioneers in the development of the mineral, agricultural and manufacturing resources of the South, Mark A Cooper occupies a position which many who have distinguished themselves in the walks of literature and statesmanship might envy. To him principally belongs the credit of building up the Etowah Manufacturing and Min ing Company, comprising important works in con nection with the iron, wheat, coal and gold re sources of upper Georgia. These works were commenced in the year 1845, and embrace Ist. A Rolling Mill for the varieties of Merchant Iron; with a nail factory, spike machine, and all necessary apparatus for building and fitting up, with shops, warehouses, operative houses, hotel, store, &c., attached. The rolling mill makes from six to eight tons per day. 2d. A Blast Furnace and Foundry, with all the needful patterns, shops, office rooms, and operative houses hereto attached. Its products are hollow ware, heavy machinery, and pig metal. 3d. A Merchant Flouring Mill for Wheat, with warehouse, cooper shop, hotel, and operative houses therewith connected, making from 150 to 200 bar rels of flour per day. 4th, Two Grist Mills for Corn. sth. Two Saw Mills for Lumber. 6th. A Coal Mine for the supply of fuel to the rolling mill. 1,000 acres of timber and mineral lands in Dade county. All these operations are, and have been, in successful movement for the last seven or eight years. The motive power is furnished by the Etowah river, which would also furnish ample water power for the largest manufacturing town in New Eng land. The iron ore is abundant, and of the best quality, while wood, timber and labor is cheap and abundant. Maj. Cooper is now building a railroad from the Western & Atlantic road to the rolling mills a dis tance of four miles. Two miles of the road is near ly completed. He is also building anew blast fur nace in sight of his flour mill, and immediately on the railroad. The public has been made familiar with the obstacles this indefatigable man has en -countered and overcome in bringing so extensive a business up to its present profitable condition.— During the late pressure in money matters he has literally kept his works in full blast, employing from 400 to 600 hands. There is no place in our whole country more ad mirably adapted for the successful prosecution of manufacturing enterprises of every kind and es pecially those requiring iron, cotton, wool, wood and cheap labor. The valley lands ak‘e fertile, and offer ample agricultural resources to sustain a dense population. No country on the map is bet ter adapted to the growth of fruit, and especially to the vine. The scenery of the Etowah valley is attractive.— We have spent days—when worn out by over work in town—in recreation among its wild hills and bounding streams ; and have seen no region surpassed by it in all the attractions of pure air, sa lubrious climate and fine water. We could write columns on the natural attractions and resources of this section, but our purpose was simply to call attention to the extent and success of a Georgia enterprise, and to throw our mite in the scale of popular appreciation which we are too apt to with hold from those truly great and noble characters who are bringing out the boundless resources which God has bestowed on our old Common wealth. _ Augusta, April 24 — We have heard from those who come in by the cars, that early this morning there was a heavy frost up the country. Last night there was a hail storm, and a slight frost. It is very cool now at 10 P. M. Advantages of Rotation in Crops. 1. Each'crop exhausts the soil of certain ele ments. Continuing the same crop for many years consume these elements. The soil will not pro duce that crop longer. Another crop will consume another order of elements, and will flourish when the first will not grow. 2. Each plant, while growing, throws off certain matters which are not favorable to the growth of successive crops of the same plant. Plants in this respect are some what like animals, always avoid their own excrements. Now, other plants may use these matters. Hence a rotation js profi table, because one crop may take up what another throws off. 3. Certain crops have certain insects that prey on them.’ The cultivation of the same crop for many years, favors the multiplication of these in sects. Change the crop, and you diminish or de stroy them. 4. Various crops furnish various kinds of man ures, which are found profitable on alarm. He who wants this variety will find a rotation the sim plest easiest way to secure it. 5. A rotation in crops results in some great so. cial advantages. Among these are the following : A community which pursues a good rotaiion will be more independent of foreign supplies. It will pass through a season of scarcety with less suffer ing. Its farmers will be more intelligent, because their experience will be more varied. Their pros perity too will not depend on the ups and downs of a single crop.— Am. Agriculturist. To be Hung. Radford Crockett, elsewhere noted as confessing to a participation in the murder of Samuel Land rum, near Atlanta, on the Bth instant, was on Sat urday last sentenced to be hung on the 18th June next. The Intelligencer says : About nine o’clock, Judge Bull entered the room, and Court having been duly opened, the prisoner was brought in and took his seat, with his father by his side immediately in front ofthe Bench. The poor young man—for he does not seem more than 21-appeared terribly affected by his miserable sit uation. He wept most ofthe time during de livery of the sentence, and his frame seemed over come with the internal agony that was withing it. Terrible Whirlwind at Tuskegee. —On the 20th inst., we learn that a terrible whirlwind visit ed Tuskegee in Macon co. It destroyed, totally, only the house of Joshua Willis, Esq., though sev eral others were injured. Five or six persons were badly injured. A negro was blown to a considera ble distance in the air and was killed. He was in a carriage house, near Mr. Willis’ house. Mr. Willis, his wife and child, were all badly injured, though there are hopes of their recovery. The scope of the tornado was not more than from sixty to one hundred yards wide. Further particulars hereafter.— [ Montgomery Mail. Since copying the above from the Mail, we have received the Tuskegee Democrat , from which we copy some particulars: “There was in and about Mr. Willis’ house, at the time, eight or ten persons in all, and how they save one, escaped death seems nothing short of a miracle. All were hurt, and some of them se verely. Soon after the wind had abated the neigh bors hastened to the relief of the sufferers, whom they found so paralyzed as to be unconscious of what had occurred. They were removed to the residence of Mr. J. B. Bilbro, where they are re ceiving every kindness and attention that heart felt sympathy can suggest. Several of them had their arms broken, and their faces badly bruised; and Mr. Herbert, who was present at the time, is thought to be dangerously hurt in the spine. A little child of Mr. Willis, received a contusion on the forehead, which is considered quite danger ous. Mrs. Willis and Mrs. Herbert are also bruis ed and have each a broken arm. One negro man, the property of Mrs. Peterson, was found dead at the distance of two hundred yards from where the houses had been. Another negro the properly of J. E. Reese was blown to a great distance and severely hurt, but not danger ously. A negro infant was found in its cradle, buried in the rubbish entirely unhurt. The rest were unhurt. The family were just sitting down to dinner when the awful crash came upon them. It was all the work of a moment, giving them no time to make their escape. The hurricane then passed the house of Mr. Bil bro, doing some little damage, and next that of Mr. L. Johnston, which it unroofed, severely hurt ing two negroes, one of which will likely die. It then passed the residence of Gen. B. Graves, which it damaged and wrecked to a great degree, killing horses and blowing down all the fences and timber in its way. A perfectly new carriage, belonging to the latter gentleman, was so torn io pieces, that no two parts were found together. We are still hearing of further destruction, to the distance of ten miles from this place, but have not learned the particulars.” A Remarkable Difference. The Savannah Georgian has the following time ly remarks upon a recent and former difference upon the floor of either House in Congress. Remarkable. —When Mr. Brooks of South Ca rolina, gave Charles Sumner a sound flogging for his impudence in the Senate Chamber, the Anti- Slavery papers exhausted their vocabulary upon him. The other day when Hinton R. Helper, a renegade and apostate from North Carolina made a deliberate attack upon Mr. Craig, M. C. of the same State, in the Honse of Representatves, not one word has been said by those philanthropists, who so much deprecate violence, but he is made an es pecial pet of. Mr. Greely takes his statement for gospel in the Tribune, and Senator Hale of New Hampshire, and Blair of Missouri, two noted abo litionists, at once volunteer as his friends. We give two paragraphs of the manifesto of this arrant rogue, taken from the Tribune. ‘‘Three quarters of an hour after the fight, Mr. Keitt, a young man from South Carolina, who has recently grow-n into public notice, and who made himself ridiculously busy in Craige’s behalf, said he would know whether I had weapons or not; and so the magistrate having heard the law laid down came up and asked me if I was armed. ‘Yes,’ I replied, and at his request, I handed him “Colt” and “Bowie,” which, however, he gave up to my order the next morning. “Senator Hale and Judge Blair, two of nature’s noblemen, neither of whom I had ever the honor to meet before, voluntarily stepped forward and kindly acted as my friends throughout the whule affair; and but for their valuable services for which I beg to tender them my unfeigned gratitude, I suppose the Border Ruffians of Washington would have fined me very heavily for successfully defen ding myself against the violence of an overgrown slave-driving garroter.” Mr. Brook’s walking cane was a bludgeon, but Mr. Hale volunteers for a man who goes into one of the Houses of Congress with •‘Colt and Bowie.” There is a great difference between the two cases. Helper got a merited chastisement at the hands of Mr. Craige, and Southern men immediately for got all about it. Mr. Summer got the same, but the defence of cowardice required the lungs of ev ery orator and the type of every press at the North. What can be expected of such arrant hyp ocrites?
