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weMftr't biTgratify our etpu ^£??SS 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 - ‘A * 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.