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TIMES & SENTINEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
SATURDAY EVENING, AUG, 14,1858,
Onr Agent.
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sponding to his call.
Douglas and Crittenden Contrasted.
With the above caption, the Enquirer of this morning
treats its readers to an t article ot considerable length in
which it labors to prove that Mr. Crittenden is a better
m an than Judge Douglas. The ingenuity of our cotem
porary is employed very dexterously, we admit, but we
think that, by the use of a ‘more direct and plainer test,
he could have arrived at a different conclusion with greater
satisfaction and lees space. Had he succeeded, he would
not necessarily have established Mr. Crittenden’s claim to
any great regard. It is true, he condemns the course ot the
last named gentleman on the Kansas question; but he af
terwards, commends him so highly and in such a manner,
as to acquit him of all blame. The ‘apology more than
counteracts the censure. Both may be likened to a huge
plaster of mongrel ingredients, say ammonia and honey,
possessing respectively caustic and emollient properties;
and they are combined in the proportion of about an inch
of ammonia to a loot ot honey.
Our charge against Mr. . Crittenden is, that he voted
againet the admission of Kansas with the Lecompton con
stitution, and that in so doing he did wrong—he violated
the principles of justice. We assume of f course, that the
application was m form and proper. This we understand
our cotemporary to admit. It makes no difference, in this
view of the matter, whether any “considerations of person
al good faith or of consistent statesmanship existed” in
the case ot Mr. Crittenden or not. Every man is under a
personal prior obligation to do right, and whenever such
“considerations” come in conflict with such obligation,the
former must yield. Judge Douglas did exactly what Mr-
Criiieuden did. He voted against the Lecompton Consti
tution and for Mr. Crittenden's own hill. If that bill was
right and just, Judge Douglas ought to have voted for it,
and sent his “consistent statesmanship” to the dogs. They
are the same then upon the record in respect to this ques
tion. Now in regard to the inducement that operated up
on these gentlemen and controlled their action. We heart
ily endorse the strictures of the Enquirer, on the conduct of
the Illinois Senator. The‘attribution of motive is not
proper, or, rather, is not sufficiently precise. He says it
was “hostility to the admission of Kansas as a slave
State.” This hostility was the result of r selfish consider
ations. Judge Douglas remembered the record'd the last
Presidential contest in his State. In the ominous union
of the two forces of the opposition which were then divi
ded ,he read his inevitable defeat at home. This party
therefore had to be conciliated. Judge Douglas, also, is a
man of large ambition. He is very anxious to be made
President. A survey of the field convinced him that the
government would certainly and soon pass into the hands
of the anti-slavery power. Against this power he had
spent a life-time in honest, zealous warfare. He could
not, therefore, expect from it mercy or promotion, without
a large atonement. The favor of the god must be won by
a great sacrifice. It occurred to him if he were to break
with his party upon this great and vital question,and could
succeed in defeating the administration upon it, he would
propitiate the wrath which had been treasured up against
him. His plan, therefore, WBS to divide the Democracy
and, at the head of one of its divisions, with the aid of the
Black Republicans, to march to power. To do this, re
quired him to abandon his professed principles, nay, to re
verse his political life, and for his conduct, thus interpreted,
he merits 4 the reprobation and contempt of all honest
men.
Let us see, now,how Mr. Crittenden’s motives will stand
the test. We have seen that they were together on the
record. Mr. Crittenden moved a substitute to the Senate
bill for which Judge Douglas voted. What induced Mr*
Crittenden to bring forward his substitute? Our neighbor
pays that gentleman a poor compliment when, ;in speaking
of the Kansas-Nebraska act,he says, “it is not even known
that he (Crittenden) would have voted for it had he been
in the Senate.” Such a suspicion is unjust. A bill which
was applauded and endorsed with the superscription of
“good” by the whole South, would have received the suf
frage of tho venerable Kentuckian. We are not begging
the question of our neighbor. He says himself that “the
essence of the bill was strict non-intervention by Con
gress.” It is, in the nature of things, impossible that any
true Southern man, or any right minded man anywhere,
should honestly object to that principle. We may as well
expect a man to declaim against charity or truth. It is
further admitted in the article on which we are comment
ing, that the spirit of the Kansas-Nebraska act was fairly
and fully carried our in the formation of the Lecompton
constitution. The conclusion, therefore, is unavoidable
that Mr. Crittenden’s motive for opposition to that consti
tution was sinister. What that specific motive
cumstances have not left to conjecture. It is clearly de
veloped by the machinery which was immediately and
stealthily set in motion to nominate him for the Presidency.
By the “dark lantern” which he held in his land he dimly
discerned at the end of his path, what he supposed to be
the Executive Mansion. Ah! fatal illusion! he will find it
instead, the cheerless abode of dishonored retirement.
We*have thus shown, we think, that these distinguish
ed gentlemen, in the Kansas drama have acted the same
part, with similar, if not identical, motives. We .have en
deavored to eliminate every consideration which did not
bear upon the question of right. In determining this ques.
tion, it is obvious that a man’s sectional position, and past
politcal affinities can have nothing to do. Such conside
rations, however, are generally taken into account in es
timating human conduct, and, availing ourselves of the
usual license, if we had space, it might be interesting to
enquire whether a traitor to a party, is not entitled to, at
least, equal sympathy with a traitor to his home and sec
tion.
Editorial Change.
The last number of the Empire State contains the val
edictory of A. A. Gaulding, and the salutatory of J. H.
Steele to the patrons of that paper. We part with the for
mer to welcome him soon in the editorial chair of the At
lanta Intelligencer. We have space for only the follow
ing short extract from his address:
“We have purchased an interest in the “Atlanta Intelli
gencer,” and for the future, shall be connected with that
paper as one of its Editors and .Proprietors. In leaving a
position which has been,in many respects,to us a pleas
ant one, we are relieved from many of our regrets, at part
ing with so many kind friends, by the consideration, tha*
we shall be succeeded by one ( whose j longer experience
and superior abilities in the Editorial profession, render him
much more worthy of your support than we have been.”
Maj. Steele has long and favorably been known to the
press and the reading public in an editorial capacity. We
insert the following from his graceful salutatory:
To assume that we shall be able to fill the place, either
as Editor of this paper, or as a resident of Griffin, cf the
gentleman who has selected another city for bis future resi
dence and labor, would be arrogating to ourself more than
we can justly, or have any desire to claim. We will how
ever, assume to say that we shall zealously discharge our
duty both to the readers of the “Empire State,” and the
beautiful and prosperous city in which it is located; tha t
we shall “set down nought in maliceand that, while ad
voocating the “stern and liberal principles of Democracy,”
and the cause of the South, we shall permit no partisan J
spirit to lead us into intemperate expressions offensive to I
our political adversaries, as they invariably are to a refined I
taste. The “argument exhausted,” we shall abandon the I
field of political disputation rather than resort to personal
vituperation or abuse. In all things though, that which
duty prompt?, we shall, with alacrity fearlessly perform.
United States Agricultural Fair,
It is confidently believed (gays the Richmond Dispatch)
that this great National Fair will bring a greater crowd of
visitors to this city than ever has been tsen in Richmond*
One ot the gentlemen who has been most active in its pro
motion, informs us that he has received letters from as far
North a9 Canada, expressing an intention to be present, and
the whole country, from the Lakes to the Gulf ot Mexico
will have its representatives. The vaiiety of articles on
exhibition, of blooded horecs, and all kinds of stock, will
surpass anything ever before seen in Virginia. To add
to the attractions of the occasion, the Hon. Caleb Cushing,
of Massachusetts, one of the first statesmen and scholars of
the country, is expected to deliver the address, which,
alone, wouljl be Worth traveling a long ways to hear.
s|cw Advertisements.
Mr. A. W. Speed, of Chattahoochee county, offers his
valuable place for sale. The land is oak and hickory,
and produces wel !• Read the advertisement.
William N. Neal, Executor, will offer at public sale on
the first Tuesday in October, a valuable Plantation in
Talbot county.
Parents and Guardians are referred to the notice of the
Cottage School. The experience of Mr. Edgar as a tea
cher, and the privacy and beauty of bis location, equally
recommend this school to public consideration.
The Troy Factory is offering bargains in their line to
city and county merchants, as well as others needing ar
ticles of their manufacture. Patronize home industry. Al3
work done by this company is done well.
Read also notice of Legal sales in Talbot county.
Southerner and Advertiser for Sale.
The proprietor, D. H. Mason offers the above paper for
sale. He says it has 1000 bona fide subscribers ; the prin
ting material almost altogether new, and the office ad
mirably fitted up. He says, moreover, that “the paper is
doing an unusually good business—has a ol ad
vertising patronago—and, in fact, could hardly be misman
aged so as not to make money. The {location is quite
healthy, and thejprospects of Rome were never so bright, at
any period in her history. A good Democrat, with some
little means, has an opportunity which seldoms occurs,
to establish himself in business.” Address the proprietor a t
Rome, G a.,
Hon. A H. Stephens.
A Cincinnati paper atates that the Hon. A. H. Stephens
of Georgia, did not hesitate to declare, while in that city a
few days ago, en route for the Northwest, “that he was in
avor of the re election.ot the Senate of Judge Douglas,
and that he regarded the war made on him and the anti*
Lecompton (Democracy of IllinoisJ wickedly foolish.”—
Wash. States.
This little morsel is in the mouths of several of our
American friends and they roll it about and chew it with
characteristic gusto. We have no idea that Mr, Stephens
ever said it. If he did, he is no better than Douglas, of
course.
Westminster Review. — The July number of this pe
riodical is on our table with it3 usual amount of interest
ing matter. We notice particularly a highly ingenious and
very readable article on “Recent Astronomy and the Neb
ular Hypothesis.”
LaGrange Reporter announces r the death o f
Major George Heard, age 73years, a . prominent citizen ot
that place. _ _
OF*Mr. Reuben Hill, aged about ninety-five years, died
recently in Dawson county, in this State. He was a native
of North Carolina, and emigrated to this State about twen
ty years ago.
telegraphic dispatch from Yow, Pa., on the 7th
inst., says there is great rejoicing going ou. “The town is
in a perfect uproar, owing to the news of the successful lay j
pig of the Atlantic cable. There are bonfires at every cor
ner, and all the bells in town are ringing, with a grand
display of fireworks, &c. The Worth Infantry Band was
also out, playing animated music. In short it is a second
edition of the 4th of July.”
In many other cities and towns like demonstrations have
already taken place, but the grand jubilee of all the civil
ised nations of the earth has yet to come off. What a
spectacle! Every nation rejoicing at the triumphs of
science and skill.
[COMMUNICATED.]
Rust in Cotton.
Since my article for your paper on “Rust in Cotton,”
written on last Monday, I have made another examina
tion of my crop and I am satisfied that I did not represent
matters as bad as they really are, a practiced eye can de
tect it in any part of the crop and in any direction. The 10
acres I mentioned as being destroyed are just now begin
ing to bud out afresh.
I passed a neighbors house yesterday, and learned from
from him that he had no rust of any consequence, upon
my calling his attention to its peculiarity ot color, &c—he
was induced to make a more minute examination, and on
my return in the evening of the same day he reported it as
“every where in his crop.”
All persons who have no rust had better look again and
look carefully. If you detect a glossy mahogany spot in
the centre of a leaf near where the stems of the leaf unite,
set it down as rust. On the under side you will see the
same spot, not so glazed and glossy. Go aga n and look
at the same stalk in a week and you will agree with me
that you had the rust and did not know it. Quere ;Is it
rust or insects? A miecroscope will tell. Who has one
and will examine.
The New Loan—The Award.
The bids for the new loan opened yesterday by
the Secretary of the Treasury disclosed very nu
merous applicants and very large claims. It is
very remarkable that the utmost range of the bid
ders extended over seven per cent., the lowest be
ing at par and the highest about that premium.—
Messrs. Riggs of this city, and Mr. Belmont of New
York, offered for the entire amount 3f per cent,
premium, and as $5,000,000 of the loan was
awarded at 5 per cent, advance, and the balance
at about per cent., they took “nothing by their
motion.” As Messrs. Riggs and Belmont are
about as well qualified as any of our moneyed men
to detect the smallest change of the financial pulse,
and regarded the 3£ per cent, as likely to control
the award, we may infer that they are looking for
ward to the period when money will be worth
more than the present rates of three or four per
cent, a year. It must also be remembered that,
had any large operator succeeded in getting the
entire loan, the bonds would have been worth
from one to two per cent, more in the market than
under a distribution such as the Secretary is re
quired to make on the bids opened yesterday. It
was stated by some of the leading applicants that,
had the rate of interest been six instead of five per
cent, the bids would have ranged about ten per
cent, higher than those opened. If this is so, a lit
tle calculation will show that the losses of the
treasury by the redemption of stock are, after all,
very inconsiderable; in fact, it we consider the in
terest saved on the new loans and the old stock
redeemed, we doubt if the transactions do not
prove that the treasury has been the gainer. Of
course nobody anticipated the financial revulsion
o*’ last year, and much less than in eight months
after it reached its height money would be worth !
only 3 per cent, a year.
Union. I
Brigham Young’s Wives, as seen by a Gentile.
A letter from Salt Lake to New York, furnish
es the following description of the spiritual wives of
Brigham Young. It says :
“Brigham is a man of some taste, and his spir
ituals are generally fine looking women, some of
them, indeed, quite pretty, and all of them, so far
as I could judge, intelligent. 1 suppose I saw in
the shanty “quarters” some thirty women, but
whether they were all of them wives of the
Prophet, or w hether these constituted his entire
household, of course I am not informed. The
general impression here seems to be that he has
nearly or quite fifty wives. He only claims to have
forty children living, having had 47 altogether.—
This, doubtless, is the highest figure he can claim,
as the “Saints’’ consider a large number or chil
dren a subject of pride and boast. These wives
are all their own servants, and the nurses of their
own children. To see them sitting under the over
hanging eaves of the shanties just at dusk, with
their numerous children hanging around them, all
crying, chattering or teasing at once, was certainly
suggestive of a foundling hospital.
1 was curious to know whether these women
were happy in the strange life they led, and a
glance at their faces impressed me with the con
viction that theirs was the happiness of stolid lis
tlessness, an existence in which all the higher and
holier sentiments of refinement and affection had
been sacrified upon the altar of fanaticism. They
seemed to be virtuous—willing, perhaps, and re
signed—but nevertheless unhappy victims of self
inflicted tortures, by which they hoped to merit
saintly reward. To a few of them, perhaps, these
remarks would not apply. Some of the younger
females appeared thoughtless or reckless, but the
elder, who were educated in circles where woman
was queen rather than vassal slaves, wore their
chains evidently with inward murmuring.
From the Independent South.
From the Necessity of the Case.
The Savannah Republican, noticing our identi
fication with the new movement for the organiza
tion of an association of “United Southerners,” is
at a loss to determine where we got our new “rev
elation from.” Suppose, friend Republican, we
were to answer— from spirit land! Perhaps w T e
have been holding converse with the spirits of de
funct Compromises, buried Platforms and crushed
out Resolves. Who knows? The disembodied
ghost of murdered Southern Rights, rises up be
fore us, even now, to tell its story ot Federal wrongs
and oppressions. The spirit of the Compromise
of 1850 admonishes us that the Savannah Repub
lican then planted itself upon a line beyond which
aggression must not go, at the hazard of a ‘'dis
ruption of every tie which binds the South to
the Union.” The same spirit tells us that the Sa
vannah Republican and every Union press in
Georgia, was then pledged to disunion when Con
gress should refuse “to admit as a State any terri
tory thereafter applying, because of the existence
of slavery therein ;” and the Savannah Republican,
we think, will even now admit, that Kansas is not
a State of this Union because of the “existence of
slavery therein.” The spirits also whisper us, that
there were no conditions to this pledge; it was
not made contingent upon the act.of any particu
lar party, but was to be carried out whenever a
territory was so refused admission. To be consis
tent with its promises the Savannah Republican
should have planted itself upon the fourth resolu
tion of the Georgia Platform, and announced its
readiness to comply with the conditions thereof,
so soon as the English bill of rejection passed
Congress. If departed spirits have not told us
thus much, the spirit of patriotism and true devo
tion to the South enjoins it.
We have already given the reason why we
are not now a Union man, and, having done
so, cannot, for the life of us, see any cause for the
Republican's special wonder at our present posi
tion. The Republican and ourself, may have ta
ken different views ol the obligation imposed upon
Southern Union men. In 1850 we were dissatis
fied with the federal encroachments upon South
ern rights ; we were alarmed and indignant at the
anti-slavery manifestations, and insisted, as a con
dition to the South remaining in the Union, and that
slavery agitation should thence-fjrward cease, and
the slave-owner’s rights be respected. Our friends
of the Republican will hardly contend that either
of these conditions have been complied with, al
though they may say, that the renewal of agitation
and the rejection of Kansas have not been the
work of any party to which either of us were
attached. No such reservation was stipulated in
the bond. It is not for us to deliberate about cau
ses or their authors, when the naked contingency
provided for, and upon the happening of which we
promised to act , confronts us. We were hon
est in our position in 1850, as we are now.—
We became a Union man upon the express condi
tion that slavery agitation should coase—that the
slaveholder should not bo excluded from the Union
of States, upon a proper application; and but for
the assurance that these reasonable demands would
be conceded, we would have united with the South
ern Rights party of that day, and urged immediate
dissolution. Such is the view we took of our ob
ligations as a Union man ; if the Republican view
ed them differently we cannot help it. We are
willing to accord its editors honesty of purpose, and
trust they will do the same for us.
As for our Americanism , we are no less an
American in sentiment to-day, than we have here
tofore been; but the Savannah Republican will ex
cuse us for saying, that it was among the first to
suggest at the South, a reformation of parties—
thereby acknowledging, in effect, tho abandon
ment of the ’ American organization. We think
the Republican was right. The American paity at
the South never has had any considerable strength,
and in all probability never will have as a distinct
political organization; while North it has hardly
attained to the dignity of a party nomenclature
since purged of its Black Republican element,
Had we adhered to that fragment of a party, we
should have been in a hopeless minority, inefficient
for good. We can be no less so where we are,
and it may be, that the South will yet pay some
respect to the opinions of men who, disregarding
the suggestions of expediency, and reckless of the
crushing influences of arrogant majorities, have
dared to declare themselves on her side, and have
cast their lot with hers, come weal or woe. We
cannot promise ourself any great amount of person
al profit, or aggrandisement in the course we have
adopted, but we do feel a proud consciousness of
rectitude, and believe that the Savannah Republic
can , whatever it may think now, will some day be
compelled to concede that we have only been a lit
tle in advance of an absolute necssity. Hence
our “new revelation” arises from the necessity of
the case !
The Fith Husband Gone. —A few weeks since
we mentioned, as a singular circumstance, the mar
riage of a German widow in the Third District to
the fifth husband—no'one of the previous four hav
ing outlived his wedding a year. Well]a few days
since"this fifth husband took the yellow fever. He
died, and on Friday he was buried. This singu
lar and most remarkable fatality among the hus
bands of one lady would create doubtful talk among
that lady’s acquaintances, were she not well known
and respected, and the causes of death of her dif
ferent husbands well known to their friends. As
it is, it is one of the most curious instancesjof ma
rital fatality we ever heard of— N. O. Crescent of
9th inst.
Suicide of Another Author. —The New York
Daily News thus notices the latest literary sui
cide :
The suicides of Wm. North and H. W. Herbert,
among others of the slightly remote period of the
presenters, are still fresh in the memory of their
friends and a very large portion of the literary and
reading public. That of young James was added
to the list during the last week. And to swell
the number we read in the weekly Sunday papers
of yesterday that
James A. Maitland, the novelist, author of “The
V/atchman,” “Old Doctor,” “Cabin Boy,” Pirate
Doctor,” has probably committed suicide.
On Friday afternoon, at 4 o’clock he left his
house in Degraw street, Brooklyn, in a state of
great excitement. Since that time nothing has
been heard of him. The following letter, addres
sed by him to the editor of the New York Dispatch
was received by post yesterday morning, and suf
ficiently explains itself:
“Brooklyn, July 30, 1858.
“3fr, Williamson —Dear Sir : I find it impossi
ble to sustain the accumulation of misfortune
which has befallen me. Long before you shall re
ceive this I shall be no more. You have ever
been my friend, so has Captain Toone, Mr. Jones
and others; but I have found enemies among those
whom I would a year ago have trusted with mv
life, and among those whom to .have for enemies
were worse than death.
“I shall die unseen and uncared for. I hope,
even if my remains are found, they will never be
recognized; and I hope that the curtain of silence
will be drawn over my errors since I call God to
witness that I never willfully wronged a human
being*
“To only one person beside yourself have 1
confined the subject of my death. I wish for no
notoreriy, and that I may be forever unknown.
Yours truly.
James A. Maitland.
Mr. Williamson, on receipt of this letter, dis
patched Captain Toone and other friends of Mr.
Maitland in search of him, but up to a late hour
last evening no tidings ofhim had been obtained.
Mr. Maitland was an Englishman by bird], and
served for several years as a midshipman in the
British navy. Some years ago he came to this
country, and entered upon the profession ol an au
thor, maintaining a strict secrecy as to his family
relations. We believe that he was married about
two years ago to a widow lady named Miller, al
though he has frequently denied the fact. He was
an accomplished classical scholar and a proficient
in the modern languages. Ho was assiduous in
the pursuit of his profession, the proceeds of which,
with proper economy, would have enabled him in
a few years to acquire a competency ; but he lav
ished everything upon the woman of his choice,
and in order to gratify her wishes, involved him
self pecuniarily in every direction. His death is
doubtless attributable to the fact that Jiis creditors
were becoming clamorous for Jheir dues, and the
lady for whom he had thus involved himself lat
terly manifested a coolness towards him.
A French Flying Machine. —The Emperor has
justmadea present 0f5, 000f, to a private in the
line, who asserts he has discovered a solution for
the great problem in mronauties—the art of flying.
He has invented a kind of airship, consisting of a
platform of silk stretched over whalebone, to be
propelled by two gigantic wings of the same ma
terial, placed on each side. The aerial navigator is
to be suspended at a distance of about tour feet
from the platform, while his feetiest on pedals, by
means of which the wings are set in motion while
his arms rest on a lever which imparts to the
platform the direction heffehooses to give it. Only
a model of this machine has yet been constructed,
and it appears to work well. It is now about to be
constructed on a large scale.
Capt. de Riviere Discharged and Constable Galloway
Incarcerated —The Finale of the Blount Romance.
We were not present at the special Justices’ Court
held at the Court House on yesterday, and cannot,
consequently, give a detailed account ot the ludic
rous termination of the famous Blount de Riviere
romance.
The facts of the case however, are substantially
as follows. After the imprisonment of the Count,
Miss Emily was despatched under care of one of
her counsel for Mobile, and the remaining counsel
of both parties set themselves to work to bring about
a settlement without the further intervention of the
law. In pursuance, therefore, of a plan agreed upon
Constable Galloway conducted the Count to the
Pulaski House, where he was closeted with Mrs.
Blount.
In the meantime, Justices Russell and Staley had
assembled with due solemnity, and surrounded by
a large and curious crowd, were gravely awaiting
the appearance of prisoner, prosecutor, attorneys
and witnesses to commence the investigation anew.
After remaining in quiet conclave for sometime, and
none of the parties making their appearance, the
crowd began to give unmistakable evidence of a
fast spreading belief that they were ‘sold, ” and the
Court seriously considered whether or not it had
not been treated with contempt, the result of which
was the sending of the county Sheriff with at
tachments against the persons of sheriff Pendergast,
Col. Blount and constable Galloway for a contempt
of Court. The parties were soon arrested at the
Pulaski House, and proceeded to the court House,
followed by a large crowd of anxious spectators.
Upon being brought into the presence of the Court,
Justice Russell delivered a short and sententious
speech, containing many patgiotie sentiments and a
fair amount of concentrated judicial wisdom, and
wound up, amid the applause of the crowd, with the
emphatic declaration that he intended to do his duty,
and to maintain the majesty of the law and the re-
spectability of the Court. Sheriff Pendergast was
then called upon to purge his contempt. Upon
motion of his counsel he was released, as the Court
had no jurisdiction over him. Col Blount, upon
motion of counsel, was also discharged for the
same reason, and poor Galloway, the most inno
cent party, but unfortunately an officer of the Court,
had to bear the brunt of the storm, and was fined $2
and imprisoned six hours.—Taking in considera
tion the dignity of the Court and the enormity of the
offence, the judgment of the Court stands as a noble
instance of the sword of justice, tempered with
mercy. Col. Blount’s counsel then made a motion
to dismiss the prosecution against the Count—to
which the Court objected and insisted upon trying
him, and Col. Blount was sworn and exam.ned. As
he stated that he could not substantiate the allega
tions contained in his affidavit—the Court after a
neat speech from Justice Russell was discharged,
amid the cheers and congratulations of his friends
of whom, he seems to have any quantity—now that
his star is in the ascendant.
Thus ended a farce, whose various acts have
been performed in Mobile, New York, New Jersey
and Savannah—and which has left a record of
American morals and manners’ that every consid
eration of pride and policy would induce us to hope
should be buried in oblivion as soon as possible.
Col. Blount and Lady are to go to Mobile, the
Count remains in our city. It is rumored that the
terms of the honorable and amicable sett ement of
the difficulty are as follows: Miss Emily is to re
main with her parents, while the Count proceeds
to arrange the little obstacles that now stands in
the way of a marriage, after which, he is to return
to the full possession of the charms, ideal and solid,
in the pursuit of which he has encountered so
many “moving accidents by flood and field.”
Incite from California.
New York, Aug. 11.—The steam-hip St. Lonis
from Aspinwall has arrived, with California
dates to the 20th July.
The Star of the West left Aspinwall on the 3d
inst. with one million five hundred thousand doll
ars in treasure.
The Frazer river excitement had somewhat
subsided.
A collision had occured between the miners
and Fremont’s men, in which the latter were vic
torious.
The Douglasites, under the lead of Broderick
are contesting for seats in the nominating conven
tion, with the Administration Democrats.
Gen. Lane and De Lazon Smith, have been
chosen as United States Senators, by Orgcon.
Murder in Forsyth County.
The Athens Watchman says: We learn by a
letter received from Mr. Thomas Collins, that a
murder was committed on Saturday nfoht last
about a mile from the Wild Cat Court ground in
Forsyth county. The man killed was Claiborne
Vaughn. At the time our correspondent wrote his
letter, an investigation was going on before the Cor
oner, front which it appeared that some half dozen
or more persons were concerned in the perpetra
tion ol the foul deed. We omit their names, be
cause, it seems, the testimony was incomplete. All
of them save one had been arrested.
Bloody Murder in Cobb—The Editor of the
Augusta Dispatch writes from Marietta, August
Bth.
“A horrible tragedy was perpetrated at Powder
Spnngs on Wednesday last. A. Mr. Duncan was
ktlled by Mr. Lingo, his brother-in-law, in a most
cold blooded atul fiendish manner.
“Duncan ran away with Lingo’s sister, about
three months ago, and married her, at which Lingo
threatened to kill him; and on the day the fatal
deed was committed, he publicly avowed his pur
pose, and started in pursuit of him about the vil
lage. Duncan avoided him, and asked the bystan
ders not to let Lingo reach him, as ho had threat
ened to take his life. But Lingo persisted in fol
lowing him up, with a drawn sword cane, when
Duncan, finding that he could not get away from
him, fired a pistol at him. A scuffle then ensued,
in which Duncan was thrown down, when Lingo’
stabbed him several times, causing his death in°a
few seconds. Lingo is in jail in Marietta, chained,
and the jail is guarded.”
First Bale at Madison, Fla.—We notice the
arrival in town this morning of a bale of new cot
ton from the plantation of Mr. J. D. Watts, and
from the sample shown us by Mr. M. D. Griffin,
his overseer, we judge it to be a fine article. Mr.
Griffin informs us that he has about three bales
picked out. This is early.— Messenger, Itli.
Fatal Affray— The Cuthbert (Randolph c 0.,)
Reporter, says :—A terrible affair occurred in our
streets last Wednesday, between William Millirons
and C. C. Watson, brothers-in-law, both living in
this county. Itseemsthata family difficulty ex
isted between the parties, and being in town on
the day mentioned above, a rencontre took place
in which Watson received two wounds from a
double-barrelled shot gun in the hands of Millirons,
from which he died in about fifteen minutes. The
Coroner’s jury returned as a verdict that Millirons
killed Watson in self-defence.
The Rail Road. —The Cuthbert Reporter says
—We learn that some four hundred hands are at
work upon the Railroad between Dawson and this
place. A large portion of the Road is graded, and
the cross-ties placed upon the grade for laying.—
It is probable that the will be completed to
the Little Nochaway, ten miles from this place,
by Christmas, in which event, a large portion of the
cotton crop of the present season will be carried off
by the Road, from this section. The Road will be
completed to this place by the first of June, 185A.
We also iearn that the Company contemplate erec
ting a splendid Depot at this place, with Machine
Shops attached.
Florida Rail Road— The Mobile Mercury
quotes from the Florida Messenger the statement
that the Florida Rail Road Company has trans
ferred its entire interest in the road to a company
in New York consisting of George Law, Vander
bilt and others—all millionaires; and that they are
about to establish an Atlantic and Gulf iine of
steamers, constructed with all modern improve
ments, and will have the whole under their own
control. It is expected that the work on the road
will progress rapidly, and that the whole will be in
full operation by the first of April next.
Kansas —The Richmond Dispatch says: The
Kansas, correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, states
that the only business which is at all brisk in Kan
sas at this time is horse stealing. It appears that
the Free State men in the neighborhood of Law
rence, are becoming as much enamored of free
horses as free negroes. A reverend pol iticia 1 per.
son, a resident of Douglas county,who commands
a company of horse thieves, preaches on Sundays
and steals horses on week days, has been arrested
for stealing a number of hon-es from a pro-slavery
man. If his reverence can secure a free soil jury
he need not concern himself about the result, for
it will be easy to show that a Southern man has no
more right to property in a horse than in a negro,
and that a fine horse is a peculiarly Southern in
stitution, and therefore entitled to the benefit of
the underground railroad.
The Right of Search Question.— Official
1 View. —The Union adverting to the doubts that
have been expressed as to the completeness of
the settlement of the right of search question,
says:
“The facts are briefly these: When the English
Cabinet repudiated the claim of a right to search
or visit our vessels, and abandoned the practice,
they suggested at the same time to our govern
ment that abuses might take place from the as
sumption of our flag by vessels not entitled to it,
and proposed that some plan should be agreed
upon by which the nationality of vessels-might be
verified, and thus these abuses They
stated, at the same time, that the French govern
ment had proposed, with this view that a boat
should be permitted to come alongside the vessels
but should not enter unless allowed to do so
And our government was invited to propose such
plan which would be acceptable to us, and at the
same time provide for an adequate verification.
“To this proposition it was answered that the
American government saw great difficulty in the
way of reconciling any examination with that en
tire immunity of our vessels, which was dear to
the American people, and had no proposition to
make upon the subject. But it was added, that
if the British Government would submit any pro
ject, for” that purpose, it would be fully consider
ed by the government of the United Stales. This
is all that has passed upon the subject, and here
the matter rests. Should the United States agree
any plan upon this subject, that conventional ar
rangement will settle this point. If it does not
fake place, the parties will occupy their respective
positions under the law of nations, that neither of
hem has the right to enter by force the vessels of
l he other, under any circumstances whatever.”