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TIMES & SENTINEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA
THURSDAY EVENING, AUG. 19, 1858.
Erratum.
By a mistake, somewhere, our last issue on Tuesday,
was dated Thursday, August 19th. The error will be par
doned, we hope, when it is remembered that on that day
we published news from Europe, at least nine days ahead
of the usual time. It aroee, we presume, from a diposi
tion in the office to keep up.
TheSayannah Republican thus humorously alludes to
it. “Travellers are said to gain a day in going round the
world; our cotemporary gains more than a day and stays
at home.**
Douglas and Crittenden— Again.
The Enquirer thinks we “evaded the point,” in a reply
last week to an article in that paper, headed “Douglas and
Crittenden contrasted.” Their conduct iu respect to the
Kansas question, was the subject under consideration, in
reference to which the “contrast” was affirmed. The ex*
amin&tion we gave it satisfied us that there was no material
point of antagonism, but several points of agreement. The
position of our neighbor, if we understood it, was exactly
what it is in his reply to us, that Judge Douglae in addition
to his vote against the South violated former pledges, while
Mr. Crittenden merely voted the same way without incur
ring the charge of inconsistency. He says, “He (Douglas)
could not set up the plea that he could “.do right” in op
posing its legal effect, because he was the author and
champion of the bill, and had always affirmed that it was
founded on truth and justice. But Mr. Crittenden was net
so committed, and could question the justice of that mea
sure without at all involving either his consistency or his
political integrity.” According to the political ethics of
the Enquirer, it would seem that consistency is synony
mous with virtue ; for whilst it is undeniable that Douglas
and Crittenden gave the same vote against the South, the
former is branded infamous and held in utter loathing,
while the course of the latter is merely regretted. Now
we differ entirely with the Enquirer, as to the importance
to be attached to this point of asserted contrast. We de
ny that, of itself, there is any virtue in consistency. That
agreement of conduct which results from a discharge of
duty and an unfaltering adherence to truth and right, is
indeed, beautiful; but there is no virtue in il, per se. The
virtue consists in the motives which govern the conduct.
We deny then, the proposition in reference to Douglas*
contained in the first clause of the quotation we have made,
aod we say that the fact that “he wast he author and cham
pion of the bill, and had always affirmed that it was right,’
should not ‘have weighed a feather in determining his
course, if he honestly believed he was right in “opposing
its legal effect.” His antecedent pledges may assist us to
interpret the motive of his opposition,but they could never
justify him in doing what he believed to be wrong. We
do not and never expect to believe that he so thought; and
we are equally far from supposing that Mr. Crittenden
honestly “questioned the justice” of that measure. Our
neighbor’s favorite of these gentlemen owes his exemp
tion from condemnation solely to the fact, that he was
not in Congress at the time of the passage of the Kansas-
Nebraska bill. Had he been, it is fair to as6ftme that he
would have voted for or against it. Had he voted against
it, his name would have been inscribed on the “roll of in
famy ’ beside that of his colleague, and he would have
been placed in the category of “hostility to the South,”
to which even his own party in Georgia, consigned all
those who stood in opposition to that measure. Had he
voted for it, he would doubtless now share the damnation
which our cotemporary so lavishly, but justly, metes out to
Mr. Douglas; for he would now bo inconsistent. Which
horn ot the dilemma will he accept for Mr. Crittenden ?
The Enquirer further says, ‘‘ He (Douglae) bases his
opposition to the Lecompton Constitution upon the fac.
that it was not submitted as a whole to the vote of the
people—assuming that the spirit of the Kansas-Nebraska
Act required it to be so submitted. Yet he announces that
he will vote for the admission of Kansas with anew eon-
etitution, in direct violation of the letter of an act as bindin
m the Kansas-Nebraska law !” Not so fa&t, neighbor
you are forsaking your standard —consistency ! Would it
not be consistent for Mr. Douglas or Mr. Crittenden, who
supported a bill to reler the Lecornpton Constitution direct
ly to a vote of the people of Kansas, and which provided
that, in the event of its rejection on such reference, anew
Constitution should be framed and the State admitted un
der it by proclamation, would it not be consisent we say,
for these gentlemen to vote for the admission of Kansas
under any constitution she might adopt, in opposition to
the provisions of the conference bill ? They are not “coni”
mitted” to carry out the provisions of that bill further than
Mr. Crittenden was “committed” to the Kansas-Nebras
ka-Act.’ Ou the contrary, they are committed against it.
Yet the Enquirer is forging the thunders of its wrath, in
advance, for Mr. Douglas’s anticipated action, while it
seeks to blunt theedge of condemnation of Mr. Crittenden
for like conduct, under similar circumstances, Fiat Jus
titia ! So far, therefore from “evading ‘.he point,’ of the
controversy, we respectfully submit that we took the only
rational view which can be taken of it. Crittenden and
Douglas having acted together, and in opposition to the
whole South,upon this Kansas question, the only point to
be decided, under any system of ethics of which we have
any knowledge, is in respect to the motive which actua
ted their conduct—whether it be virtuous or vicious,
praiseworthy or blameworthy. In our former allusion to
this subject we adduced some considerations to show that
each was controlled by an unworthy sentiment—the lust
of power and place. Both desire to be President. In res
pect to Mr. Crittenden, we believe that his course was adop
ted for the purpose of courting Black Republican favor in
advancement of this object. The result is beginning to
prove the hypothesis, and commends in some degree, the
policy of his conduct, while it leaves his patriotism still j
questionable. We received to day, from a frieod in Illinois, j
a Black Republican sheet, called the Mattoon Gazette
published in that State, and we find blazoned on its ban
ner the names of “Hon. J. J. Crittenden, for President, and
Hon l A. Lincoln, for Congress.’ This Lincoln is notori
ously and opeoly one of the vilest Black Republicans in
the State. Verily, the times or Mr. Crittenden must be
“sadly out of joint.”
No Opposition Victory.
We learn from the Ashville News, that Col- Avery the
Democratic candidate from the Clingman District, owes
his defeat to reports which were circulated in reference to
an unfortunate difficulty in which he was involved some
years since, and which resulted in his shooting a man by
the name Ellis, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, beat Mcßae in the same Congressional dis
trict several thousand votes. The News says that Mr.
Vance,the opposition candidate declared on many occa
sions that he would support the administration of Mr. Buc
hanan.’
United States and Nicaragua.
A correspondent of the New York Times, at Granada
writes that the rumor that the United States Government
was about to blockade the ports of Nicaragua, had crea
ted quite a sensation there. Gen. “Lamar, our minister,
had a protracted interview on the 22d ult. with the Nicar
aguan cabinet, and informed them that his Government
was about to take decisive measures in the pending ques
tions.
Crossing the Atlantic in Six Days.— We see it sta
ted in one of our exchanges, that Mr. Winans, a wealthy
locomotive builder of Baltimore, is now building an iron
steamer (not steamship) which he is confident will [run
from New York to Liverpool in less than six days. He
has been several years perfecting his plans which are now
accomplished,and has procured a paient. Such a trick
would peem improbable, but in days of wonders who
oan doubt but that it may be done.
What are you going to do with Douglas?”
This is a question which every Know Nothing Journal
is now propounding to us with an air of taunt and self
gratulation. We do not hesitate'to answer and contrast
the integrity of the i two parties—the American and the
Democratic. For Douglas’ treason to the South —his
abandonment of the great principles upon which the South
could rest with security in the admission of new States in
to the Union, and his affiliation with Black Republicans
in opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, framed
by the voice of the people of Kansas, we (the democracy
of the whole country,) propose to take his political life;
dissecting the body and dividing the good from the evil. —
The good, embracing all his past services, patriotic deeds,
and glorious achievements, we will bun/ with great honor
and eclat, and hope the clods of the valley will re9t sweet’
ly upon it! The evil , including his present heresies and
low demagoguism, we will hang on a gibbet, where the
vultures of the air and the wild beasts of the forest may
devour it. This is what we design doing.
Now with equal fairness and truth, we essay to answer
the question, “What will the South Americans do with
Crittenden?” For his desertion to the South —his oppo
sition th the Lecompton pro-slavery constitution—his al”
liance with such Republicans as Seward, Corwin and
Lincoln, in (heir assiduous attacks upon our institutions,
they (South Americans) will join hands with the Black
Republicans—will chant with Seward and Crittenden the
same litany—will “sound the loud trumpet o’er Egypt’s
dark sea” at the mention of the “incorruptible” Kentuck
ian’s name, a.id will elevate him, if possible, to the high
est position in the gift of the Americ in people!
Such in brief is , the attitude of Messrs. Douglas and
Crittenden towards the National Democracy and the
American party! Such the light in which two enemies
to a common cause are regarded, that one is consigned to
infamy, and the other is sought to be elevated and pro
moted. Crittenden, the “patriot,” eulogised by the Black
Republicans and South Americans. Douglas, the rene
gade, is denounced by the . Democratic party, North and
South. Decide, reader, as to the integrity of the two par
ties! Which the most spoils loving? Which the most
patriotic and honest?
Supreme Court Decision—Again.
We lay before our readers a communication from the
Savannah UeorgianAn relation to the recent decision of
the Supreme Court at Macon, in a Bank m case,
from the Superior Court of this county. That decision
has been assailed bitterly by several presses in the State,
whose editors doubtless are more thoroughly acquainted
with the science of the law than politics, and who essay to
enlighten their readers on the abstruse questions recently
tried before that high tribunal. Indeed, they affect great
wonder at the ignorance of {Judges . McDonald and Ban
ning on so simple a question as that brought before- their
Honors, and intimate a want of integrity on their part, and
an interest in the settlement of the cases, as an excuse for
their unusual dullness and stupidity. Stripping the ques
tion of all its flummery; with the cogency and power of
analysis of a Craig in Longsireet’s Debating Society, they
conclude with a gusto, that by “internal suggestions ,”
and not the “bias of Jurisprudence ,” the votes of faction
should predominate at public [elections. Those who de
sire to ascertain the law in this case, we hope will take the
trouble to look over Kent and Blackstone, and abuse them,
and not Judges Bentiing and McDonald, for f this decision.
As to Judge Benning’s presiding, the reason be s gave four
years ago, when the point was made as to his sitting in
these cases, and which we published from the 16th Vol
ume of Georgia (Reports, we think are satisfactory and
conclusive. A few partizan editors may seek to impugn
his reputation, but those acquainted with the man will not,
for a moment, suspect his uprightness and purity.
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia.
Adiepatch trom Philadelphia, published in the New
York papers, dated the 12th inet., states that five cases
were reported that day.
Yellow Fever in New Orleans*
New” Orleans, Aug. 13. —There were fifty two deaths
from yellow fever iu this city ou Thursday.
The Queen’s Message,!!! full.
New York, Aug. 17. —At ten minutes before eleven
o’clock this morning, the following message was received
from Trinity Bay, for Mr. Archibald, one of the Honorary
Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company:
Trinity Bay, Aug. 17, [IBSB.
To Mr. Archibald, New York:
The Queen’s Message was completed at 5 o’clock this
morning. It was commenced yesterday, and during its
reception, Valencia desisted sending it io order to make
; some slight repairs in the cable.
Though a mistake, the part received was sent South, as
: if it constituted the whole message.
[Signed] DeSantes.
The following was immediately sent to Washington,
together with that for Mr. Archibald:
New York, Aug. 17, 1858.
Tv the Honorable the President of the United Stales,
Washington:
1 beg leave to transmit a message, this fmoment received
Irom Trinity Bay, explaining the cause which preveutod
the whole of the Queen’s Message being telegraphed
from Valencia yesterday.
Shall we consider your message to Her Majesty a full
reply, aud date it this day accordingly? The operatorsat
Trinity Bay await our reply.
[Signed] Peter Cooter.
The following is the Queen’s Message in full.*
THE QUEEN’S MESSAGE
To the President of the United States:
Her Majesty desires to congratulate the President upon
the successful completion of this great work, in which the
Queen lias taken the deepest interest.
The Qveen is convinced that the President will join
her in fervently hoping that the electric cable, which now
connects Great Britain with the United States, will prove
an additional link between the two nations whose friend
ship is founded upon their common interests and recipro
cal esteem.
The Queeu has much pleasure in thus communicating
with the President, of renewing to him her wishes sfor the
prosperity of the United States.
Wealth of tlie United States.*
Thelast number of Deßow’s Review gives the follow
ing estimate of the national wealth of the United States
It will be seen that the value of farms, |stock and imple
ments of agriculture amounts to nearly one third of the
whole valuation, equalling the combined estimated value
of the public lands, navy yards and vessels, fortifications,
public buildings, marine, railroads, cauals,
factories, mills,gold and silver coin and bullion, and for
eign and domestic goods on h&nd-
Value of (arms and cultivated soil, $5,000,000,000
Value of horses, cattle, sheep, &c 1,500,000.000
Value of agricultural implements 500,000,000
Value of mines 4,500,000,000
Value of dwelling houses 3,500,000,000
Value of railways and canals..... 1,100.000.000
Value of factories, mills and machine shops, 400,000,000
Value of [commercial marine 200,000,000
Value of agricultural produce, domestic man
ufactures and foreign goods on hand 1,000,000,000 j
Va'ueofgold and silver coiu and bullion,.. 300,000,000
Value of public lands, ships of war, fortifica
tions, navy yards, public buildings, &c... .4,000,000,000
Total $22,000,000,000
The Moniteur Beige announces that the
new treaty of commerce between Russia and j
Belgium will come iuto operation on the third of!
August.
From the Savannah Georgian.
The Supreme Court Decision-
Mr. Editor: The Supreme Court at its last
session in Macon, in the case of Robison vs. Beall,
(Lumpkin J., dissenting) decided : That upon the
expiration of a Bank Charter by its own limitation,
the debts due to and from it, are extinguished.
Upon this the press, and to the extent of its in
fluence, the public has become remarkably exer
cised. Even covert hints at corruption in the Judg
es, who trade the decision, have been indulged in,
while it is assumed as settled that it is not the law.
It is conceded that these editors who have in
dulged in the.e denunciations of the Court and
its decision, and thus essay to enlighten public
opinion, are wise and learned in all the law. And
it is perhaps less with the hope of showing that
they are or can be wrong—than with the hazard
of exposing the ignorance of Blackstone and Kent,
and Story and Lumpkin, that the publication of
this brief communication is asked.
The debts due to, and from a Bank, are extin
guished by its dissolution or the expiration ol its
charter. This is the naked decision and is it the
law ?
“A corporate grant is indeed only duripg the life
of the corporation, which may endure forever; but
when the life is determined by the dissolution of
the body politic, the grantor takes it back by re
version, as iu every other grant for life.
“ The debts of a Corporation either to or from
it, are totally extinguished by its dissolution, so that
the members thereof cannot recover, or be charged
with them in their natural capacities.”
It is thus that Judge Blackstone answers the
question. See 1 Black, Com. 484.
“According to the settled law of the land, where
there is no special statute provision to the contra
ry, upon the civil death of a corporation, all its
real estate remaining unsold reverts back to the
original grantor and his heirs. The debts due to
and from the corporation are all extinguished.
Neither the stockholders nor the directors, or trus
tees of the corporation can recover these debts, or
be charged with them, in their natural capacities.”
And it is thus that Chancellor Kent answers.
See 2 Kent. Com. 307.
“A corporation by the very terms, and nature of
its political existence, is subject to a dissolution by
a surrender of its corporate franchises, and by a
forfeiture of them for wilful mis-user, and non-user.
Every creditor must be presumed to understand
the nature and incidents of such a body politic,
and to contract with reference to them. And it
would be a doctrine new in the Jaw that the exis
tence of a private contract of the corporation should
force upon it a perpetuity of existence contrary to
public policy, and the nature and objects of its
charter.
And thus it is that C. J. Story, after having re
cognized, comments upon the rule as laid down by
Blackstone and Kent.
See Mumma vs. the Pat, Com. 8 Peters 281.
“Upon the threshhold of this discussion we are
met with the common law principle, that upon the
dissolution of a corporation the debts due to and
from it are extinguished. A doctrine which re
sults necessarily from the fact that the corporation
having expired, whether, by its own limitation, by
surrender, abandonment of its members, or judg
ment of dissolution, there is no one in law to sue
and be sued.”
And thus Judge Lumpkin, Warner and Nesbit
concurring answers, in Hightower, vs. Thornton, 8
Ga. Rep. 492.
And again he answer with the same concur
rence :
“Why so much time and talent, and labor, and
learning have been employed to establish a pro
position which nobody denies, viz: That the debts
of a corporation , either to or from it, are extin
guished by its dissolution, I am at a loss to com
prehend. Certain it is that it was recognized by
this court, at this place two years ago, as it had
been in more than one occasion previously.”
See Thornton vs. Lane, 11 Ga. Rep. 492.
The Hon Judge’s assumption that “nobody de
nies ’ this doctrine may have been made, for the
only reason that the sapient editors of the present
day had not enlightened the legal world by their
opinions.
But again :
“Morever I agree that the elementary writers,
both in England and the United States, do every
where assert distinctly that the debts due to, and
from a corporation, are extinguished by its disso
lution, unless prevented by the terms of the char
ter itself, or by aliunde legislation. And that in the
Courts of both countries this doctrine may now be
considered too well settled to be overthrown or
shaken. And so totally extinguished that the
members of the corporation cannot recover or be
charged with them in their natural capacities.”
Judge Lumpkin, Starns concurring in Moultrie
vs. Smiley, et. al. 16 Ga. Rep. 294.
Indeed Mr. Editor, Judge Lumpkin might wel
have added that this principle, as the law, has been
asserted, maintained, upheld, and administered by
every Judge who has sat upon the English and
American bench, since the origin of corporations.
And what more than this have Judges McDonald
and Benning done?
Instructed by the light of ages, and by the re
peated and emphatic recognition of their predeces
sors upon our own Supreme Bench, they have de
cided “that upon the expiration of a Bank Charter
by its own limitation, the debts due to, and from
it, are extinguished,” thus, but giving effect to what
nail been so repeatedly and emphatically admitted
to be the law, even by our own Supreme Bench.
And yet the effort is to hold them up to public
censure and reproach, because they have overrul
ed a decision of their predecessors.
Now as to the application of the law, because of
certain charter provisions, and certain attempts at
differences of opinion do exist
between the members of the present and the for
mer Supreme Bench.
It is no part of the purpose of this communica
tion to discuss these differences. That the Judges
who made the decisions complained of are fully
able to vindicate its correctness, and will do it, I
have not a doubt.
It remains to be seen whether those editors who
have ventured to assail and denounce, as not law,
the great principle upon which it rests, will give
this brief communication a place in their columns,
and adhere to the maxim,
“Fiat Jistitia.”
Mails on the Sabbath
“A petition to the Postmaster General has been
I gotten up at Knoxville, Tenn., requesting him to
j discontinue the Suday mail through East Tennes
see. Similar petitions are said to be on foot be
tween Richmond and New Orleans. A general
j stirring up of the question of Sunday observance
j seems to be determined on.”— Shelbyville Exposi
j tor.
This is as it should be. We have never yet
been able to perceive the reasonableness of allowing
Railroad service on the Sabbath, when all other
work had to cease. If it is criminal for a single
individual to labor on the Sabbath, it is certainly
not less so for a company of individuals to do so.
The argument in favor of a continuance of the
custom, drawn from its interruption to business,
will not bear examination.
the petitions go round, and let the abomina
tion of Sabbath Railroading be discountenanced
and discontinued. No business obligations are so
big!) as the claims of the Christian Sabbath.— At*
lanta American.
From the Savannah Republican.
Capt. Deßiviere in Hew York.
The Express of Saturday contains a long and
circumstantial account of the Blount-Deßiviere
affair, from its culmination in New York to its close
in Savannah, the materials for which were evident
ly furnished by the gallant Zouave himself. Ac
cording to his own account, he came off with fly
ing colors, and made a complete conquest of all
his enemies in this city. We shall simply refer to
this latter branch ofhis statement, for the purpose of
correcting the Zouave’s facts, which he seems gen
erally to adapt to the emergencies of his case. The
account says:
“On reaching Savannah, however, the Colonel,
(so says our informant) broke his agreement and
caused the arrest of the gallant Zouave on the
same charges as those preferred against him in
New York. This so maddened De Riviere that he
determined to enter into no more arrangements, but
to put the whole matter before the public and let
them be the judges, and he therefore concluded to
go into Court for that purpose. But a great excite
ment prevailed against him; some five or six thou
sand persons turned out and determined to take
him out of the hands of the officers and Lynch
him at once. With much difficulty he was brought
into court, and on producing the document printed
above, as well as other letters signed by Col. Blount,
and authorizing him to go to Savannah, the opin
ion of the public was entirely changed, and the
Captain was not again molested.”
There is something diverting about the Captain’s
(it seems he has grown into the full dignity of a
“ ColoneV ’ since his return to New York) “conclu
ding to go into court,” when he was in the Sheriff’s
hands and could not have kept out of it if he would.
As to the Savannah mob of some five or six thou
sand who determined to lynch him, there is not a
word of truth in the Zouave’s statement. We be
lieve everybody believed he deserved lynching, but
we have no idea that three men in the city had the
first thought of administering the punishment.
The fact 4hat no demonstration was made while
they had every opportunity, is proof conclusive on
this point.
There i6 another statement of the Captain which
we desire to repudiate as a reflection upon the in
telligence and moral sense of our community. He
says that when he left here “the whole population
was on his side ; he had not a friend when he went
to Savannah, he had hundreds when he went
away.” This is, if possible, a greater untruth than
that we have already contradicted. There is no
man so base that will not find congenial spirits al
most in every place of large population, but that
any respectable portion of our community took the
“side” of a notorious adventurer and bigamist,
whose offense towards Miss Blount, whatever may
have been her wishes, subjected him to the penalty
of imprisonment as a felon in the penitentiary, and
who infamously abused the hospitality of an un
suspecting man who had befriended him in adver
sity, by stealing away his wife and daughter—no
man who knows anything of the people of Savan
nah will credit it for one moment.
The Oregon Senators Elect. —Gen. Joseph
Lane, one of the new Oregon Senators, is too well
known to require any notice. He is an able, sound
and suitable man for the place. Of the other Sen
ator the Rochester (N. Y.) Union has the follow
ing:
“Delazon Smith. —lt will be seen by reports
from Oregon, that Delazon Smith has been elected
U. S. Senator from the new State. Mr. Smith
was once, and for some time, a resident of this city.
We think he left here since 1840, about which
time he conducted a daily paper called the Wes
tern Herald. Previously, he published for a year
or two, an infidel paper called the New York
Watchman , and he used to lecture to the “Free
Inquirers” on Sundays. Soon after leaving this
city he was converted to Christianity, and was at
one time a preacher of the Gospel at the west.
He is a gentleman of considerable ability, and we
were assured by citizens of Oregon a long time
since, that he was popular in that Territory, and
likely to be sent to the Senate when the State should
be organized”
New York Corporation Dinners.— The Trib
une stoutly objects to a dinner in celebration of
the success of the Atlantic Telegraph, and adds, by
way of reason:
“There was a public dinner'not long since, at
which a number of members of the Common Coun
cil were so drunk as to be entirely helpless ; and
there has not for years been such an entertainment
at the city’s expense at which scenes of debauch
ery have not been common, on the part of city
officers, or the miserable gang, of vagabonds who
follow at their heels. Is it too much to hope
that better councils will prevail, and that the gen
eral joy at the success of the greatest undertaking
ever attempted f by man, will not be marred by
the scandal which will most certainly follow
upon the tide of liquor let loose at a Corporation
dinner ?”
A Bold and Beautify! Figure.
During the delivery of a sermon last {Sunday in
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, in Washington City,
the eyes of the congregation were suddenly riveted
upon the speaker, Rev, France X. Boyle, by u r hat
for the moment, seemed to be a digression to the
all-absorbing topic of conversation and conjecture
throughout the civilized world—the Atlantic Tel
egraph. The eloquent divine spoke in terms of
glowing panegyric of this wonderful triumph of
human science, and dilated upon the revolutions
which the grand achievement will accomplish in
the commercial, political and social condition of the
two hemispheres thus successfully united by means
of the electric wire. What is it after all, exclaim
ed the speaker, when compared with the instanta
neous communication between the Throne of Di
vine Grace and the heart of man? Offer up your
silent petition for grace. It is transmitted through
realms of unmeasured space more rapidly than the
lightning’s flash, and the answer reaches the soul
ere the prayer has died away on the sinner’s lips.
Yet this telegraph, performing its saving functions
ever since Christ died for us on Cavalry, fills not
the worid with exultation and shouts of gladness—
with iiluminations and bonfires and the booming of
cannon. The reason is, one is the telegraph of
this world, and may produce wonderful revolu
tions on earth; the other is the sweot communion
betwean Christ and the Christian’s soul, and will
secure a glorious immortality in Heaven.- Wash
ington Union.
Col. A. A* Franklin^Hill.
Of this place, was elected on Tuesday evening
last, at the annual meeting of the Society of the
Alumni, their orator for the next year, We con
gratulate the Society upon its choice, and the
gentleman, hi mself, upon the high honor confer
red.
Flr In Memphis.
A fire broke out in Memphis on the afternoon
of the Ilth jinst., in the Drug Store of Messrs.
Ward & Jones on Main street. They were bot
tling Spirits of Turpentine, and in driving the cork
a bottle broke and its contents ignited by a light
used on the occasion. The room and a portion
of the third floor were destroyed. The following
are theTprincipal sufferers: Messis. Ward & Jones,
Ford, Begbie & Cos.; Candee, Nix & fcCo., and G.
W. Hanna. The total loss is about $15,000, most
ly covered by insurance.
DrOhapiAon the Ocean Telegraph.
The following is the very passage in
Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin’s discourse on Sunday, in
the Second Universalist Church, Boston, in rela
tion to the great submarine Telegraph.
“Let us not fail to recognize the greatness, the
grandeur, of this achievement. Let no supposed
honoring of religion—no exalting the
moral or spiritual above the merely physical-hide
from us the full glory of that effort by which, for
the last three hundred years, man has ob
tained this mastery over nature. For, in sim
ple truth, it is not man’s glory, but God's glory,
that is unfolded in the gradual development of hu
man knowledge and human power. Thus the
magnificent consummation of the past week,which
has simultaneously startled two hemispheres, has
awakened in us those feelings that are deepest
and highest, making words inadequate, and send
ing our thoughts upward not only in astonishment
but in reverence and thanksgiving. In such a
work we feel the thrill of God's band sweeping
through events, and translating into a prophetic
symbol the processes of ages and the significance
of history.
“Men wait upon it breathless, conscious that it
inaugurates an era, wondering to what new music
the earth’s round wheel will turn, and pondering
the incalculable consequences. Yes, first sen
timent awakened by such a triumph is a religious
sentiment. It demonstrates the fact that spirit is
the beginning and the end of all mechanism and
all matter. Through every physical barrier mind
rushes to the embrace of mind, and heart to heart
—sending, swiff as lightning through the larches of
the tumultuous 6ea,the viewless course of thought
and tempering the thunder of the sky into the si
lent pulsations of a world-fell love and joy. In
this view, scientific achievement, expanding be
yond all mercenary uses, becomes the Shekinah of
the living God—at once Hi 9 awful veil of myste
ry and the signal of His presence.
Texas Items.
The Galveston Civilian, of the 9th, says:
Our accounts last week from the interior repre
sent many portions of the country as beginning to
need rain. Not only had the sugar cane began
to suffer from drought, but cotton was begining
to languish. The Register says that on some plan
tations 1 in Washington county the ground is liter
ally covered with “squares,” while the plant is
undergoing a rapid change from the! healthful and
vigorous appearance to the sickly hue consequent
on the absence of £the proper nourishment. The
state of things is said to be confined chiefly to the
uplands.
The Register says that the cotton on the bottom
lands still holds its own, though there are evident
signs of its soon following in the wake of the for
mer, if not immediately relieved by refreshing
showers. Similar accounts reach us from some
other sections ; but we trust that the rain which
has visited Galveston has extended to the interior,
if it was not preceded by the |rains there—a cir
cumstance indicated by the northwesterly winds of
Saturday and Sunday nights.
A meeting of the citizens of Washington and
vicinity was held, on the 29th ult., to tender Gen.
Sam Houston a public dinner.
The Houston'Telegraph, of the 9th, publishes re
turns of the election for Justice from
twenty-four connties, which show the following re
sult : Buckley 5,002. Bell 5,592.
From Mexico.
The Havana papers received by the Empire City
publish intelligence from Vera Cruz to the 27th
ult., and from the capital to the 23d.
Gen. Zuloaga is reported as continuing at the
head of the government, and a6 having formed the
following new ministry: of Foreign Relations,
Senor Don Jonaquin Maria Castilloy Lanza; of
Home Government, Senor Don Manuel Fernandez
de Jauregwi; of Justice, Dr. J. J. Miranda; of
Finance, Senor Don Pedro Jorrin ;of War, Senor
Don Jose Maria Garcia; of Fornento, Senor Don
Jose Maria Zaldivar. They x have issued decrees
creating a civil guard composed of citizens pos
sessing certain qualifications, re-establishing the
press-law of Santa Anna, organising companies
for the defence of property and public order, call
ing in arms in the procession of private persons,
with compensation, and enacting anew conspiracy
law.
Ex-Minister ot War Parra had been nominated
Commandante General of Guanajuato and of the
Division of the Centre, formed of the forces of
Michoacan, Queretaro, and Jalisco, in combination
with the divison of the North commanded by
Miramon. Gen. Parra was to leave the capital
immediately for his command.
The report of the capture of San Luis by the
constitutionalists, and of the entry of Pueblita into
Guanajuato is confirmed ; and it is stated that the
latter appears to have subsequently abandoned
the city. Gen Moray Villamil is reported to have
joined Miramon.
—Contradictory|reports are noticed with respect
loan alleged defeat of Degollado by MiramoD, on
the 2nd ult., at Guadalajara.
The constitutionalists, under Gen. Alatriete, are
reported to have taken Tuxpan.
The death of Senor Gomez Farias is announced.
The papers of the capital report that the Gov
ernment forces were about to press the attack on
Vera Cruz with Vigor; but the Progreso , of the
latter city, ridicules the assertion, and declares
that Echeagaray has been recalled to protect the
capital from the constitutionalist forces, advancing
from the South.— N. O. Picayune , Avgust 13.
Danger of Gas Explosions. —In speaking of
the late serious accident which happened at De
troit, Michigan, by which Senator Chandler, hie
daughter, and two other persons were severely
burned by an explosion of gas, Quantico , the
Washington correspondent of the Alexandria Sen
tinel, says:
“I had a narrow escape myself “last fall. The
placing of large station metres in the new wings
of the Capitol rendered a change necessary in the
position ot the pipes and the metres that supplied
the old building. One of the meters as large as a
hogshead, was placed back of the furnace under
the old hall of Represntatives, the connections
made about six o’clock, p. m., and the gas turned
. .R? n v * B^n g the Capitol at night, I found
the building filled with gas. Afraid to cany a
light, I traced the leak in the dark, by the smell,
until I found it in a pipe near the metre, to which
connection had been made, and afterwards discon
nected, and which had been overlooked by the gas
fitters. The gas rushed from the hole like steam
from a boiler, and I was thus enabled to find the
leak, and temporarily plug it until morning. Tho
danger from the explosion arose frora the fact that
the furnaces were in full blast within thirty feet of
the leak, and an explosion was liable to take place
any moment.”
Market Report*.
CHARLESTON, Acg, 16.—Sales of cottoo for the
past three business days 250 bale*, without change in
prices.
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Sales of cotton 7CO bales, aod
quotations nominal. Flour firm with sales of 10,500 bar
rels. Wheat buoyant with sale of 10,000 bushels, and
holders are demanding an advance* Corn firm with ealea
of 30,000 bushels. Spirits of Turpentine firm but unsettled.
Rosin steady. Rice quiet,