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Especially have we been pleased with the
liroM natioi)*Ktjr of the subjoined letter of
FSlliS. trdnT which 1W quote A
•iagle extract. It will bo teen that both
these gentlemen, in giving their support to
to one of tlie gubernatorial candidates befdlo
the people of Mauacluiaetts. rather than an
•thar. are- utjbeite# b* that principal of
- ettutlvi’ not finding any
“'naturally” In the political elements around
£ gives in an independent adhesion to that
which, undw the aspects of the case, seems
latter tt Hr. Wiathrvp. *
Boston, Octobku 16, 1857.
My iikar sir : Unavoidable engagements
would have rendered it impracticable for me
to be at Fanoutl Hall this evening,.even if 1
I*4 m* previously resolved to attend no
■{ during the preseut season,
o at die approaching election
hce to comply with your re
expression of them,
no one who stands before
the avowed candidate of n
t and whose grant end and
im to be to array “ a united
Aorth” against tlie other parts of the country.
Others may go for a united North; I shall
souths* to prefer a upitod Nation. ?
Nor as. 1 rote for one who places so
few an estimate on the value of an inde
pendent judiciary that lie would either re
move a State judge or denounce, revile, and
ataalT national bench of judges, for a decree,
however unpalatable, which may have been
gfrew rathe semciention* diseharge of duty.
Nor am I ready to sustain a party winch
a for placing a hundred thousand dollars at
•xexutive discretion, or indiscretion, to be
east *way anjerrands of sympathy, while our
awn state treasury is in ‘such Li me uta bio need
sf nff, and more than all, its resources.
It is no time in my humble judgment, for
inflaming and stimulating soetional antlpa
titles or animosities. They have already;caus
sd more evil* than they can ever cure. We
•ftßlt need all the old co-opcmion and mutunl
good will of tho various parts of Ihe country
At concert and carry out measures for rostor
ma the prosperity of our commercial and in
dustrial pmsuits.
Tire labor of the North cortninly requires
some bettor encouragement and relief than
any which can result'from such wholesale
and inflammatory denunciations sf Southern
la Was were heard Int the late Republican
Convention, s • • • •
Yours, respectfully and truly,
RoHKRT 0 WIXTHKOP.
Col. J. W. Sbvku.
Xktrtcti from th of Mr. HtlUrd
s There is a clhm of fictiUoun corripSmitions
It the English language in which the story
■ twill SwiffeaMeaMKof somebody in search
•f something—C®reba h* search of a wife,
Japkst it search of a father, the travels of
Mt Irish gentleman in seaaefc at a religion,
ace instances <in point. lam not m search
•Ia wife, or of a father, or of a religion, hut
]am i* starch of a party/ [laughters.] I
•she it tßrat lam by no means the only man
ta that pred ienment. I take it there is a re
spectable body of political outcasts and I*a
afelfewb* an somewhat in the same condi
tion. Undos what iag they once served,and
by what name they were once ealled, it mat
ters net now fe inquire- 1 do not mean to
name the- name of the Whig fatty excepted
incidentally and occasionally, If it be dead
S will not disturb Hs ashes ;, it it he asleep
1 will not disturb its slumbers. Btot if the
Whig party ha (load, J. take it that Whig
griuciules are not dead, /Applauao.J 111
be ihr die country and the State if
*■*% so. 1 take It that there are “some
thousands of voters In Massachusetts, per
haps some hundreds witbiu the sound of my
voice, who-do yet hold substantially to the
priuciplesaud the creed whifh were of the
Whig party r who pits nation# booling
and conversative by instinct; whose patriot
ism grasps nothing less than the wholo conn,
try, and who mean to submit to the laws ot
the so entry which have boon pronounced
constitutional by those tribunals upon whom
the organic laws of the land devolves the
trust of pronouncing thorn to bo so. |Ap
ffowM. . , I
Sow there are three parties which spread
•ut to us their arms of invitation—the Native
American party, the Republican party, and
tft* Demesnetia party. My fifends, 1 intend
a |o speak to you in all fruuknew upon this
occasion! and when I say that there are
aome of us #ho yet hold to the principles of
the Whig party, .1 have said that we cannot
sue mh way quit* clear to give our bauds to
tile oread of any one of those throe parties
in its eariretly. Gould we take tlio creed of
these three parties by picking and choosing
hjr selecting and rejecting, we could make a
•ot C . principles doctrines to which
WC Could give our assent, but we cannot take
any one of the three entire and’ mutdultera-
lair party,to serve under some particular flag,
and to give his entire countenance to e par
ticular set of reiolofiont or expositions of po- ;
litical doctrine, but ! do bold to it be every
man's duty to Vote for somebody In National
and State EleCtlotfa. And the question now
Is, for whom shaltw* veto! We.once Whigs,
deprived of our natural parenU and protec
tors, naughty little orphaus that nobody
can love—where shall wo go in search of a.
temporary guardian p That seems ti> be just
tlie question before us.
I pals to the consideration of the question
of the removal of Judge Boring Stiff the re
pealof tlie personal liberty bill. Yon and I
know very well that Governor Gardner stauds
committed, one way on these subjects, sr.d he
does not expect to get a vote of any man who
thinks Judge Boring ought to he removed, or
who thinks that the personal liberty bill
1 ought to be kept upon tb* statute bool, 1
1 put those two measures together because
they ere really expressions of tliq same prin
ciple t It it this—that Massachusetts may
1 torco upon lUcitixen* a divided allegiance
instead of a double ope t it forces every sob
■ ject tossy whether he will be a citizen of
Massachusetts is r -nnd must be, also a eititep
; of the United States. The personal liberty
bill puts the State pf Massachusetts in an
attitude of direct hostility to the General
| Government. So does the removal of Judge
Loring. The position of Massacuaetts is
juatthis : it treats the General Government
as a hostile, and foreign nation, whose laws
; mar be resisted by force whenever they con
flict with the public sentiment of the
I need not sey to you that this is a false doe
, trine; that it is wholly inconsistent with a
Sound constitutional relation between the
General Government and the several States,
*nd that it is a principle w hich, if extended
and carried out, is fraught with danger to the
best interest of humanity and liberty in this
hemisphere.
It is no answer to me to say that there is
. nothing in the letter of the Constitution of
the United States, that there is nothing in
the letter of the Constitution of Massachu
setts, forbidding Massachusetts to say that
any man who exercises the office ofiJ. 8.
Commissioner shall not, at .the same time,
Jtold any State office. By the letter of the
constitution of Massacuaetts she might dis
franchise every United States officcer; Bhc
might provide that a postmaster, a district at
torney, or a marshall shall be forbidden to
vote in State elections. She might if she
chooac, as far as the letter of the law is con
eemod .put her brand of exclusion upon every
functionary of the United States Govern
ment ; nor does the letter of the Constitution
of tho United States forbid it. If I am
asked'why no such restrictions were put in
to the Constitution of the United States, my
answer is, for the snme reason thnt the old
Grecian laV-giver omitted to provide for the
crime of parricide—he thought it wasimposi
ble that it should ever be committed.
Go back to the time when the Constitution
was made, when those illustrious men who
had just passed through the glories and dan
gers of the Revolution, and had their hearts
melted together by tho inspiring recollections
of that great struggle, met together to form
a Constitution for tho common good of the
whole, and suppose for a moment that some
•ne had proposed to insert a claus6 forbid
ding any State to disfranchise, or visit with
any penalty, tho functionaries of the United
State*for the Lawful discltargeof their national
duties would not the universal response have
been that such a thing was impossible—that
it was insulting to the patriotism of tho Sta
tes 1 AVould it not have been ns , unseason
able as the insertion in a marriage’ settlement
of a clause making provision for the contin
gency es divorce ! it was not done.
But there is a spirit of the Constitution ns
well as a letter; and by that spirit of the
Constitution Massachusetts is bound to repeal
the personal, liberty bill, and every citizen of
Massachusetts is bound to sustain by bis vote
the Chiot Magistrate .who refuses to remove
a United States officer for the lawrful dis
charge of tho duties devolvod upon him by
the law of the United States.
Fellow-citizens, 1 bold in my hand a re
markablo article from thft Julynumber of the
Westminster Review, published in England,
on tho “ Manifest Qpstiny of the American
Union in many respects a most noticea
ble production. The conclusion to which
the writer comes la summed up briefly in
these words: “We believe if a radical re
constitution is not immediately agreed open
there must be a dissolution of Union; the
•lave States being subject to the eurae of a
military despotism, and tho perils of a ser
vile war.” Tbe writer comes to this conclu
sion not unnaturally. He takes it for grant
ed that the elements which so nearly produc
ed tbe election of Col. Fremont last actum
are permanent elements, and that they are
still ta force and on the increase. I need not
say to you that aueh ia not the case, and that
tbe signs of the times to-day, especially the
news from Pennsylvania. Ohio, and Minneso
ta, allow that the natural reaction is following
tbe extraordinary excitement, almost convul
sion of feeling, by which the country was
moved lust autumn.
Btat my main purpose m calling your at
tention ** this avticte was to read a single
passage touching this State of Massachusetts.
It is m these words: *• Massachusetts, the
intellectual and moral leader el the Btatea
of the Federation, is at this moment Actually
not in the Union. [Loud laughter.}
i 1 remember, in Boott’a novel of “ The An
tiquary,” that Mr. Dousterswivel, a German
necromancer, after having beeu soundly bea
ten, as he well deserved, remarked tonne
of the characters that he had been murdered,
robbed, and put m peril of his life that Very
night p to which his friend replied very per
linentiy, “Mr. Donstorswivel, you apenk
blithely for a murdered man.” fLauglitor.J
I look around upon your faces, and if seems
to me that you look blithely, considering you
nro out*f tho Union! I suppose you have
all boon to the post office to-day aud taken
letters put of Undo Sam’s hag. The Cir
cuit court is in session, aud the docket is to
he called next Monday. If any of you vi
olate the laws of tho United States, my
friends Mr Wbodburry and Mr. Freeman
will be after you very quickly. And yet we
are out of tho Union!
But, aftorall, there is some show of truth
in this writer's conclusion, in as much as he
says that tiie reason why Massachusetts is not
in the Union it that her personal liberty law
is in direct conflict with the Federal law re
garding ftigkivo slaves. Though wc are ac
tually in the Union, to that extent we are
untrue to the spirit of the Union. Let us 1
1 amend this. Let every good patriot and ev
ery good citizen give Jim support to that man
! land to that system of measures which shall
cause us not only to be, but to seem to be, in
tbe Union, even to one who looks at us from
the other side of the ocean. Let Massachu
setts no longer stand salky and pouting in
the corner while her sisters are dancing
around the flag-staff of the Union, because
she don’t quite like the tune the fiddler is
playing; but let her coine forward with a
I sinile upon her lips, take her sisters by the
; hand, and land to that fair circlet the grace
of berriorm and the lightness of her step.
, Mr. Hillard took his seat amid lood and
. prolonged cheering.
From the Home Journal
1 7XZ XSXIRABUt OICHTOH.
——
1 The jperson of Crichton was eminently
’ beatiful: but bis beauty waa consistent with
! Such activity and strength, that in fearing
he) would spring stone bound the length of
1 tweity foot upon bis antagonist; and he
used tbe sword in either hand with such
force and dexterity, that scarce any one bad
1 courage to engage him.
He was born in Perthshire, studied at St.
r Andrew’s, in Scotland, and went to Paris
1 in his twenty-first year, aud affixed on (lie
gate of tlie college of Navarre a kind of
challenge to the learned of that university,
to dispute with them on a certain day, offer
ing to hie oponents. Whoever they should be,
1 tbe choice of ten languages, and all the fac
ulties and sciences. On the day appointed,
three hundred auditors assembled, when four
doctors of the church, aad fifty masters, ap
- peered against him : and one of bia anta
gonists confessed that the doctors were defeat
ed ; that he gave proof of knowledge above
the reach of man ; and that a hundred years
passed without food or sleep would not be
sufficient for the attainment of his learning.
After a disputation of niiiu hour*, he was
presented, by tbe president and professors,
with a diamond and a purse of gold ; and
dismissed with repeated acclamations. From j
Paris he went to Rome where lie made the j
same challenge, and had in the presence of
the .pope and cardinals, the same success.
Afterwards be contracted at Venice an ac
quaintance with Aldns Manutus, by when he
was introduced to the learned of that city.
He visited Padua, where he engaged in an
other disputation, beginning his performance
with an extemporal poea, in praise of the
city, and the assembly then present, ami
concluding with an oration, equally unpretne
ditated, in condemnation of ignorance.
He afterwards published another challenge
in which he declared himself ready to detect
tbe errors of Aristotle, and all his commenta
tors, cither in the common forms of logic,or in
any his antagonist should propose, in a Hun
dred different kind of verses.
These acquistions of learning, however
stupendous, were not gaiued at the expense
of any pleasure in which youth generally
indulges, or by the omission of any accom
plishment in which it becomes a gentleman
to excel. lie practiced in great perfect ion,the
art of drawing and painting; he was an em
inent performer in both vocal and instrumen
tal music; hedanced with uncommon grace
fulness ; and on the day of his disputation at
Paris, exhibited his skill in horsemanship
before the court of France*-where, at a
public match of tilting he bore away the
ring upon his lace fifteen times in succession.
Ho excelled, likewise, iu domestic games of
less dignity and reputed n; and in the in
terval between his challenge and disputation
at Paris,he spent so much of his lime at cards
dice, and tennis, that a lampoon was fixod
upon the gate of the Sorbonne, directing
those that would see this modal of erudition,
to look for him at the tavern,
So extensive was his acquaintance with
life and mnnncrs, that in an Italian comedy,
composed by himself,and exhibited before the
couit of Mantua, lie is said to have persona
ted fifteen different characters, in all of which
Its succeeded without great difficulty, since
he had so much power of retention, that once
hearing an oration of an hour he would re
peat it exactly, and in the recital follow the
speaker through all his variety of tone and
gesticulation. Nor was his skill in arms
less than his learning, nor his courage inferior
to his skiH. There wns'a prise-fighter at
at Mantua, who traveling about the world,
according to the barbarous custom of that
age, as a general challenger, bad defeated
the most celebrated masters in many parts
of Europe; and in Mantua, where lie then
resided, had killed three who appeared
against him. Tlie duke repented that Ira
had granted him hia protection; when Crich
ton, looking on bis sanguinary success with
indignation, offered to stake fifteen hundred
pistoles and mount the stage against him.
The duke with some reluctance, consented,
and on the day fixed the combatants appear
ed ; their weapon the single rapier, which
waa then in use in Ita,y.
The prize-fighter advanced with great
violence and fierceness, but Crichton conten
ted himself with calmly warding off hia op
ponent, and suffered him to exhaust hia vi
gor by bis two fury. Crichton then became
we assailant, and preened upon him with
such force and agility, that he thrust him
thrice tlfrongh the body,and saw him expire:
he then divided the prize he had won among
the widows whose husbands bad been killed.
The Duke of Mantua having received so
many proofe of his varied merit, made him
tutor to his son Viccuto di Gonxago, a prince
of loose morals and turbulent disposition. It
was at this time that he composed tbe come
dy in which he exhibited so many different
characters with exact propriety.
But his success was of short continuance;
for as he was one night, in the time of car
nival, rambling about tho streets with his
guitar in his hand, he was attacked by six
raeq masked. Neither his eourage nor skill
in this emergency deserted him. lie oppos
ed them with such activity and spirit, that
bo soon dispersed them, and disarmed tbeir
leader, who, throwing aside his mask, dis
covered himself so be a prince, jus pupil.
Crichton, felling on his knees, tc&k his own
sword by the point, and presented it -to the
princo, who immediately seised it, and in
stigated as some say, by jealousy, according
to others, only by drunken fury and bru
tal resentment, thrust him through his heart.
Thus was the admirable Crichton brought
to that cute, in which tie could, excel the
meanest of mankind only by a few empty
honors paid to life memory. The court of 1
Mantua testified their esteemed by a public
mourning. Tips contemporary wife were
profuse in tbeir encomiums; and the palaces
of Italy were adorned with pictures re pro#
scuting him on horseback, with a lauee in
baud, aud a book iu tho other. I
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B|jt
• Llli *Ol'CJ>
THOMASyiSST”
TaeMiar. December 8. IM.
Colquitt Sapfritr Court
Will stand adjourned until the Wednesday after
tbe firiit Monday in January next. Partiea, Coun
sel, Jurors and Witnesses will take due notice there
of and govern themselves accordingly.
P. E. LOVE, Judge 8. C.. 8. D.
Deomber Ist, 18f7.
jyWe hope that any of our subscribers
who do not receive their papers regularly
will give ns notice immediately. Os late,
subscribers have come in ao rapidly that
some confusion has arlsejt aa to Post Offices,
which we will be happy to remedy at once. .
13^*We trust thatd>ur lady friends will re
member that on Tuesday night the young
gentlemen give the Cotillo# Party at Sew
ard’s Hall, under the management of several
distinguished gentlemen, who intend giving
j their undivided attention to its proper man
agement. These reunions of late have been
so well conducted, that they are deservedly
| popular with the Ladies.— Communicated.
MOUNT VERNON AMS KB A. H. H. DAWSON
Mr. Dawson of Savannah will deliver his
promised lecture to night in behalf of the
ladies Mount Vernon Association at the
Methodist Church, lie hna been winning
golden opinions for himself and bis cause
wherever he has lectured in the State. Ad
mittance fee for gentlemen 85 cents, ladies
! free. We hope that the friends of this no
ble and patriotic cause wiH l>e in attendance.
>t. ATKINSON OF CAMDEN
Every praise is due the Representatives
and Senators of ail the counties iii this sec
tion tor the interest they felt, and the efforts
they made in the settlement of our Railroad
difficulties, bnt to the gentleman above nam
ed we owe an especial debt of gratitude.—
Living entirely off the line of the Railroad,
and in no way personally interested, be nev
ertheless gave this matter his special atten
tion, and labored for us faithfully up to the
i. very moment of final adjustment. We hope
the time may come when we may he able to
’ j give more substantial evidence of our appre
ciation of his valuable services.
MILLEDGEVIMLE.
We have just returned from another flying
trip to this city, where we spent nearly a
week very pleasantly.
The young people have tlieir parties twice
1 a week as usual, but we arc sure that there is
not that extravagance in any line there,
which hns existed during former sessions of
the General Assembly. We noticed sonic
fine stock in the streets for sale, among them
i a number of pairs of match horses rated at
, a thousand dollars. There was one team,
j however; wnieh attracted more attention
than nil others, am! which doubtless is owned
!by some gentleman in Milledgevillc or the
vicinity. This team consisted of a very
small jackass and a red bull, and was em
ployed in the honorable occupatiou of haul
ing wood. After delivering a load, it was
1 truly refreshing to see them trotting out for
another.
THB LBUISLAYCRB
Was progressing slowly with its business
on account of the lengthy discussion of tbe
Bank question. The Senate finally perfec
ted and passed a bill on the subject, which is
perhaps as good as it can be made. This
bill suspends the operation of the act of 1810
until next November, and provides that,
when specie is demanded of the citixen, upon
making a proper showing of tbe fact to the
Bank, the Bank shall pay him specie for its
bills if demanded. It also prohibits the
Banks from charging more than one per
cent for exchange, and provides farther, that
in the event of a general resumptian of spe
cie payment by tlie Banks in New York be
fore November next, it shfdl be the duty of
the Governor to make proclamation of the
fact and the Banks in Georgia are to resume
in days thereafter. There are perhaps
other provisions in the bill, but these are the
most important at present remembered. It
was thought that this bill would be substitu
ted for the onto in the House, and pass that
body also without mndi difficulty*. *
THB MAIN TRUNK RAILROAD
Is entiielf unfettered and will certainly be
built That part of tbe bit) before the Leg
islature which fixed tbe line of tbe Road, was
stricken out, and with another very proper
amendment tlie whole bill has passed both
branches and is Row the law- We were dis
posed at first not to like the striking out of
that part of the bill which fixed tbe line, bat
reflection and observation convinced us that
it was both politic and proper. The Repre
, sentatives from several counties, west of us :
would have complained, and there were a
number of members who, being enemies of
I the road and the measure, would have de
lighted iusocing a family quarrel amoug us.
If trouble of this sort -had arisen, it would
have emboldened them to’ make war upon <
the bill, and this was rtot only to be avoided
but feared. We had repeated conversations
with the President of the RbiUrafid are per
fectly satisfied that wliatever pertains to jus
tice and good faith will be scrupulously done.
So soon as a Secretary and Treasurer of the
Company con be elected, and an engineer
appointed, an instalment upon the stock
subscribed will be called in and the work,
immediately bdfiun. ‘ Should their be no dif
ficulty in the procurement of the iron, and
none is apprehended, the trains will be run
ning to the Alapaha in time to carry off the
next crop. But the amount of stock now,
subscribed will be insufficient to bring the
road to this place, and books of subscription
will be opened for the purpose of raising U>c
means necessary to do this. These subscrip
tions, we were informed could be paid in ;
part or in whole in work, and so soon as the
necessary amount shall be subscribed, the
line will be located, and contracts let out.—
Remember, that the amout over the amount
new subscribed which may he necessary to
bring the road here, will not have to be rais
ed exclusively by the people. For the pur
poses of organization, the charter required
that six hundred thousand dollars should bo ;
subscribed by private companies arid citizen*,
and then the State should subscribe five hun
dred thousand, but now without limits ns to
amounts, except as to the million, the state
subscribe as five is to six. In other words,;
for every six dollars that we subscribe, tire 1
State subscribes five.
What say you now, fellow citizens of
Lowndes and Thomas ? Are you ready to
“put yonr hands to the phjw,” and enter in
to this great and glorious work / _ If so the
field is open, and success beyond the shadow
of a doubt.
MACON.
On our return wo stopped half a day in
this city, and although it is steadily improv-,
ing, ,we were sorry to see and hear that its
business for the season was exceedingly’ light.
The trial of the great collateral issue of
“ Spriukling’*vß “ Immersion'’ arrising under
the laws of Christianity, Evans for the plain
tiff, Landrum for the defendant, which has
been progressing here fur some weeks past,
has been brought to a close.
We doubt, and JmVe ever doubted the
propriety of such discussions,, for the reason,
that they always engender had feelings in
the community occur, and for the
further reason that there can be no defiuito 1
’ i
settlement of tiio question.
No earthly tribunal cau give a verdict
which will be either ‘Satisfactory of final—
the matter must be ultimately adjudicated by
the Supreme Court of Hoaveijf
ALBANY,
We also passed through this flourishing lit
tle city on our way home, and wero happy’ j
to see in its streets strong evidences of a .
brisk business. AVe took an excellent break
fast at the Crnmmey house, and left in an
hour after. There is bnt one objection to
this place and that is the water. Our sympa
thies are always drawn out for the women
and children whenever we drink it. • The
male part of the population do not need nr.y i
sympathy, for according-ito our observation
they do not indulge very freely in tiiis liquid
in its natural state.
Democratic Convention, j
A Democratic Convention will be
held in Thomasville, on Tuesday the
Bth day of December, for tlije nom
ination of County Officers.
■■ ‘.in 1
Jacksonville, Tklfair Cos., Ga., l
Nov. 22d, 1857. f
Mu. Kditor :—Tbe Wire-Grass Repor
ter, has jumped on a letter published in the
Georgian of the 20th of October, and is dis
posed to make a noise because some of us
in Telfair and the adjoining counties, think
the Democracy of Chatham, did well in the
past contest, and deserved honor for it,which
we stood ready to acknowledge and accord
to them.
But that I think, ia not the trouble. If
wfr hyl given our preference tor a certain
Judge out West, for the succession to Con
gress, all would have been # right, and the
matter would not have appeared ridiculous,
within or without the District. W. W;
The above is clipped from the Savannah
Georgian of-t he 2d inst., and all that induces
me lo notice it, is tlie most illiberal and un
just insinuation which it makes in regard to
myself. This man knows or ought to know,
that for several years past, I Lsve steadily
and positively refused ttf allow my name to
be used in connection with the candidacy for
Congress in this District, and even in the
writing to which he means this as a reply, I
distinctly stated that I thought that fairness
and justice required that she next candidate
should come from the east. If this man be
a personal enemy, which is very probable
and desires to work me an ’injury, I would
advise him to change his mode of attack, for
I-have no poftrcal aspirations whatever, and
not only do not expect,hut do not Jesire the
nomination for Congress. Whoever may
be tho candidate of my party, if he be made,
so fairly, I expect to support faithfully, whe
ther lie live in or out of Savannah. This Is
the last word I have tossy on this subject.
The two first volumes of professor Agas
sit’s great work Contributions to the
Natural the United States"—have
been published iu Boston.
CORRESPONDENCE of the WIRE-GRAM REPORTER
Mallbuorvillb, Ga., Dec. 3d, 1857.
Mr. Editor This Has been a week of
some excitement, and many measures of
genera} itttpcst, heX*J besn before both Hous
es of the General Assembly.
In the senate, the bill suspending the set
of 184 ft, arid giving the” Biinks until the 15tl
of November, 185S, to resume specie pay
inents, passed, after an auiinatcd discussion.
Some of the speeches were truly good and
racy, and at one time which
came near interrupting tbefricrtdly relations
between the Senators from Richmond sod 1
Coweta, but lam happy to state the matter
was honorably adjusted, and that the gentle-*
men are now, as ever, good friends. One
1 section of this sct.c.ompels the Bauks to pay
specie on their Ails, when presented by •
defendant in execution,, of whom specie has
been demanded by the Plaintiff, this is right
1 and* proper, and secures the unfortunate
! Debtor, from any Shy lock Plaintiff. This
bill has not passed the House of Representa
tives, but I bope 1 shall have the pleasure of
reporting it as a law *in toy next, and the
country released from all suspense on this
Mr. Atkinson’s substitute to the
bill in relatiou to the Main Trunk Railroad
has passed both Houses,and been approved by
the Governor—-this secures the State’s appro
priation of a Million of dollars to this greet
work, wnd no doubt will (trove a great bless
ing to your section, by the speedy building of
: the Road. . -
I The pupils - fi-om the Institution of tho
bind are now exhibiting iff the Representa
tive Hall.—it is astonishing with what facil
ity these unfortunate children can learn to
read and write ; some of them pi ay beauti
fully on the violin and other instruments,
and some of the young ladies are good sing
ers, and the all seem bright and happy, al
though blind. The committee on the Insti
tution ask for an appropriation of thirty-five
thousand dollars, which from present appear
aiices 4 I tiiink will be voted.
An act organizing anew county from
Lumpkin and Gilmer has passed, and been
approved by the Governor, tho county is
called Dawson, and is the only ono made
this session—yet I think there will lie many
more before the adjournment. Tbs one I
spoke of in my last from Henry and Fay
ette, was lost in the” House by a majority of
fourteen votes. The House has had under
considerafifin, for the last two days, the Om
! nibns bill, as is termed—this hill gives State
aid to several Railroads. Hardeman of
j llibh, made tho best speech of the session,
on this Bill, and answered in a satisfactory
manner, tho arguments of Messrs. Glass
and Bigliain.who oppose this measure.- The
bill is still under conaidcyßinn.
I heard yesterday tlm Mr. Overstreet,
! Senator from Emanuel county was dead—he
left two weeks ago for home, and was taken
sick.
The .health of the members is generally
: good. A'ours,’ Ai.apaiia.
■ *** [cu.MM t.\IC ATI',tl.J
Mr. Editor :—l regret the necessity of
again asking a very short space In theßc
portcr.
i Again lias an anonymous scribbler seen fit
’ to refer to me through the columns ol your
paper. Whether he is the same person who
; first dragged my name into public print or
| not, I cannot say; if tiie same, he has chang
ed Ins signature, (ashamed of himself, no
doubt,) and now from behind another “inask
led battery.” where lie skulks and dinlges.
attacks my character. If he be a rnan let
-him come out over his otrn signature, and
I then, should ho happen to be n gentleman, I
, shall notice him, otherwise will pass him* by
’ and his filthy communications as they egerve,
with silent contempt.
Thomas J. Bottoms.
Comptroller General’s Ofkick, )
Columbia, Oct, 28. 1857. J
Messrs Editors Allow me the use of
your columns, to answer, the numerous in
quiries made Df me of the banks in this state
that have suspended specie payments and
those yiat still continue to pay coin for their
bills, viz: ”
Susp* ruled Banks: —Bank of the State of
South Carolina, Branch Bank of tlifc state at
Camden, Southwestern Rail Road Bank,
Planters and Mechanic’ Bank of South Caro
tins, Farmers and Exchange Bank of Char
leston, Bauk of Hamburg, Bank of New
berry Exchange Bank, Columbia, Peoples’
Bank, Chnsleston.
Banks Pay ing spror. —Union Bank of
Charleston, State Bank of South Carolina
Bank of Charleston, Commercial Bank of
Fairfield, Merchants, Bank of Cberaw, Bank
of Chester, Bank of Camden, Bank of Geor
getown.
Eleven of our Banks havesuspended. Nine
of them still continue to redeem tlieir notes
in specie. Many mis-statements have been
made. The above is reliable as reported to
to this office. Other papers will perhaps do
the public a service by giving this communi
cation an insertion in thoir papers. As to
the solvency of our banks, there is not one
of them but havq psets abundantly sufficient
to meet its liabilities.
Very Respectfully,
• Your obedient servant,
J. D. ASHMORE. -
Comptroler General. ;
GOOD DEAL DISCOURAGED.
A man was once relating a story of beinjf
on a locomotive that struck a cow-standing
<u the track, and threw her several rods in
to a field,where site lit squarely upon her feet
with her head toward the traip, and strange
to tell, she wasn’t hurt a mite.
’ didn’t she look scared 1” inquired a
listener. .“Well, 1 don’t Jukiw wlicther she
or not, but .theJookcS, a good dial
Jiscoitaged. >
The price of corn is established at 65 cents
.in this county. Several largo sales have
j bccu made at that rate.— Sjuifta Georgian.