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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?