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VOLUME I.
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HARRIS & HARRIS.
frEßsox L. Harris, I Charles J. Harris,
0- Milledgrville, Ga. J Thomatfville, Oa.
march 31 - w ts -
K. S. BURCH A WM. McLENDON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
TUOXASVILEE, GEORGIA
eetlt 1!) woy
B.lkllß A IUI\ YI;T,
ATTORNEYS AY 1 LAW,
Tronpville, Lowndes Cos., Gr.
sept ls w ts
EUGENE L. IIIAES,
ATTORNEY. AT LAW.
TItOMAfU'IU.E, GEORGIA,
Office over McLAßi’r store. (jnn2C>
~ JOKY JI. DYSON,
# ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OFFICE next door to I)r. Bruce’s, Thomasville,
Georgia, jans-Iy.
“ G. 11. ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMAS! 11.1. E, GEORGIA
Office one door above Joint Stark's on Fletcher St.,
formerly occupied by 1,. (’. Bryan.. {janlflly
JOHN V. KIcIIOLLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WAREBBOROUGH, WAK£ CO., GA.
AVILL practice in all the counties of the liruna
wick circuit, and Lowndes and Berrien of the
fioiithern
GEORGE It. WILLIAMSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WARESIIOROUGII, GA.
WILL PRACTICE in the following Counties f the
Brunswick Circuit: Appling, Coffee, Pierce, Ware
Clinch', and Charlton. mar'dltf
SAMUEL B. SPENC ER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
WILL give his entire attention to the practice of
Law, In the Counties of the Southern Circuit.—
Office on the floor of Dr& E. McLean's
brick building. (janilOoy
E.C. HO ROAM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NASHI'IELE, GF.ORGIA.
WILJL practice in the counties of the Southern Cir
c*it,and the counties of Dooly, Worth and Dough
erty of the Macon, and Coffee, Clinch and Ware
of the Brunswick Circuits.
Flat Creek, Ga., Oct. 7. ts
RITE A MERSIIOM,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MAGNOLIA, CLINCH CO., GA.
ATTEND to ail business entrusted to their care, in
the following counties, to-wit: Clinch, Ware, Ap
plies, Coffee, Charlton, Lowndes and Berrien, Geor
gia. Also, jn the counties of Hamilton, Columbia,
and Jefferson, in Florida.
**>A VIO P. RICE. I HENRY. M. MERMION,
jnfi f* iv fin*
JAMES M. FOLSOM, ‘
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAGNOLIA, CLINCH CO., GA.
WILL practice in all the courts of the Brunswick
(jlrcuit and in the cbm ts of Lowndes and Bcrrlbu
of the Southern Circuit.
fobrnu-n 1 Judge A. E. Cochran, Brunswick Ct.
I Judge Peter E. Love, Southern Ct
jan 5 w ly
(Reform Practice.)
(■, Bps. BOWER & EE El Si.
OFFER their proicssiona! services to the citizen*
of 1 homasville and vicinity. Calls at all hours
prompt If attended’ to. feb2i >y
Dr. S ABE EE R. WILLIAMS,
HAVING located in ‘l'bomasville respectfully ten
ders his professional services to the citizens of
<■ Thomasville and vicinity. He may be found at the
Office of Dr. 8. S. Adams. [octlSoy
0 DR. E. O. AR\OED
WILL contihyb the practice us Deu
tistry in Xhmjnaimlle and vicinity
Any order left at the Pi*t Office or at
hi* Office miring his absence from town will receive
attention at the earliest opportunity. [jaus~ly
MORRIS STEINJKRT,
Profe*ar of music will give private logons to the
citizen* of ThouiaSville and vicinity upon the Piano,
Melodeon, Guitar. Flute, Violiu, and Viohon’celk).—
H* tmay be found at Fletcher Institute from 9 a. in. to
12, Pianos timed. (oct2ooy
* 1 ‘ ROBERT BONNER, ‘ “
(Elite of Georgia.) WITH
BOWES, HYATT & CO.,
No. 80 Warren Bt./New York.
” ILL be prepared to show cbuutry merchants this
spring the best and cheapest stock of Boots and
offered to the Southern trade.
tVOrdrrx solicited and carefully attended to.
9S W ly
gKsdlantons.
DOEBTICKS GETS MARRIED.
We’ve token r partner for life, anil I've get
a IFife. In my room a pair of brown gaiter*
occupy the comer where our bootjack used
to hang, and we flatter ourselves that I’ve
mado a bargain in the exchange. T now take
a renewed interest in the price of beef, and
we bully our butchers with theair of arespec
table married man. We buy my potatoes
now my sell, and we are not to be bamboo
zled out of my spare change hy any body.—
But I am not a “malefactor,” and I did not
go on a “train” We have finished all my
“trains,” and I henceforth claim for ourself
the name of a correct and sober individual.—
Beer we will not take into my mouth, and
our lips shall he sealed when ‘the festive
“cocktail” would tempt me to iffdulge, nor
shall the social “cobbler,” or the genial “ju
lep”or the seductive “ smash” induce me to
fracture our resolutions. Ourself is the best
judge of the properties of my domestic life.
Triangle avaunt! Jones, get thee behind
me! Mare weight, aint thee! Tying, my
jolly joker, not even with thee will 1 take our
accustomed “nip.” “H. W. 8..” we es.cem
thee, as my friend and our jocose contributor,
but thou and I, Henry, have taken our last
• swig” from our little private wicker bottle.
Delinonieo’s shall know us no more, and at
Mauarnn’a shall 1 never a gain comfort my
self with my midday sherry, which did so
much refresh us. Depart from us, Arnold!
tempt me not.
We are now a Benedict, and I am determ
ined to become respectable, steady', and seri
ous. I have invented an anti-cobbler’s mul
tiplication table, which wo have learned hy
heart, and which I commend to the careful
consideration of our leaders:
Twice two “smashes” buys a box of hair
l in.
Twice three “cobblers” buys a pair of ear
rings (cheap.)
Twice four “ agers” buys a pair of gloves
(female.)
Twice five “juleps” buys a breast-piu (fe
male.) ’ ’
Twice six ‘ punches” buys a linen collai
(female.) ’ •
Twice seven.“ales” buys a pair of shoes
(female.)
Twice eight “toddies” buys a calico dress,
with clolli enough for a basque and pnnta
teffefi ~ ..
Twice nine “hitters” buys a summer bon
net, and leaves a trifle towards the veil and
trimmings
Twice ten “cangarees” buys a pair of stays
(machine stiehed, with patent eyelets am.
embroidered down the neck)
Twice eleven “slings” buys a collar and
undersleeves, and leaves a bollatice toward.-
the fringe. y .
Twice twelve “brandy straights” are good
for a hooped skirt (light house size.) Anil
soon through, ending up with: *
„ Twelve times twelve baskets of cliani :
paignepays house rent for'a year, and leaver
a margin.
It’s astonishing how much I’ve learned oi
the mysteries of feminine apparrel in leu
days. ‘I kuow that the dear creatures trim
tlicii bonnets with foundation of muslin: that
it lakes three breadths and a half to make a
dicss, qnd the lower edge of theie wfitte skirts
is always hein-stiched and lace-work.
Good-bye, Bachelordora. We are a mar
ried individual, though still, as etcr, with n
considerable reservation, ~
Yours, Doksticks, F. B.”
From the Albany Knickerbocker, March 10.
TBAVIB, THE BPOETING WILLIAM-TELL SHOOT
ING OBANGEB FBOM A BOY’S HEAD.
Wp have already .alluded to-the thousand
dollar wngcr made by John Travis, that lie
will shoot three oranges from the head and
hands of a boy—distance, thirty feet—weap
on, a pistol. When we reflect that the tre
mor or movement of a muscle may be suffi
cient to cause a premature discharge, and
that the deviation of the fraction of an inch
to the precise aim might terminate fatally to
the lad, the feat appears as wonderful as it is
certainly novel. Travis formerly resided in
Saratoga. The feat comes off in Louisville
in Juno. The oranges are each to be 2)
inches in diameter—ond'is placed on the top
of the head, and one on each hand the arms
being extended. In this position, at the dis
tance of ten paces, of three feet, facing the
shooter, and with no intervening object, Cap
tain John Travis proposes to hit the orange
and has only three shots to hit the three oran
ges. The boy who is to support the oranges
is ten years of age and is a bright and spright
ly lad. He has every confidence in the abil
ity of Capt. Travis to hit each object, and
has equally as much in his own nerve, which
cannnot be surpassed. He is how under dqi
iy training. The boy’s feet-are placed twelve
inches apart, and lii§ hands upon his hips.—
The Captain shoots between the angle made
by the bending of the arms and between the
feet. This is done to accustom the boy to
the firing, and, if possible to give him more
confidence and mnke him feel at ease. The
little fellow is a native of Louisiana, and his
mother is always present during the practic
ing. She is entirely satisfied that it will re
sult in safety to her son. This is probably
the most dangerous feat.ever undertaken by
any man in this country.
The Bainbridge Argus comes to us enlar
ged the size of the Telegraph, ahd is beauti
fully printed The editor says of it: “No
higher compliment could be bestowed upon
the Messrs. L. Jolmsou & Go., of Philadel
phia, than that the material with which the
Bainbridge Argus is printed, was manufac
tured by them at their Foundry ; for no one
that any paper, in the South or
North, has ever surpassed the Argns in typo
graphical elegance and beauty!” —Macon
Telegraph.
A man is fed not that be may be fed but
that may work. *
There is no* heart so hard that it can re
sist grace, tempered by beauty.
“'’ & ■ t
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 7, 1868.
ALT NOT A NECESSARY OF XITB.
In an article Copied into Gfie ClinHeston
Medical Journal ands Rertett, for Marcfi,
1858, and credited to the Allge. Med. Cent.
Zeitung, from tbe American Medical Ga
zette, it is stated, that although salt perforins
an important office in sanquification (or the
conversion of cliyle into blood, and really
the production of blood itself,) and is regard
ed by phisiologists as an indispensable article
in our dietary preparations—a commodity
supposed by many to be in use among tbe
inhabitants of all countries—yet it is now
claimed in the article before us that the in
habitants of Mauritius, an island in the Indi
an ocean, entirely obstain from the use of
salt. The Patagonian inhabitants of the
vast prairies in the extreme southern portion
of tins continent are also classified among
the non consumers of salt. The Mauritians
and Patagouians have every facility for ob
taining salt in abundance, and iu the absence
of positive evidences to tbe contrary, it is fair
to infor fliat they make use ol the salient
condiment.
The same article further states :
“ I have,” says M. Gatton, “ recently learn
ed of another tribe who-never eat Salt. It
is the Damaras of tropioal South Africa. In
their country there is no salt. In Europe it
is universally believed that salt is iiidispeusi
blo to life, hut M. Gatton, in the country of
Damaras, saw this proven to be a fallacy.—
He made a journey with eleven other men,
on horseback, of six weoks’ duration, with
only a pill box full of salt. The whole of
them used no more than this. They eat
nothing hut flesh and drank coffee alone.—
there can.bc no doubt that people who live
on flesh and milk need much less salt tlmn
those whose-sole nourishment is derived from
the vegetable kingdom. Tbe half of the
people of Darnara eat nothing but piggnuts,
the most meagre and indigestible of nourish
ment, and which must be taken in very large
quantities to afford subsistence enough. The
Hottentots of Wallfish Bay, who live almost,
entirely on squashes, with the sea on one
aide and salt springs on the other, take no
pains to collect salt for use, which they cer
tainly would do if they experienced the same
need of it as tbo Europeans, Wild animals
in Swakop, according to Gatton, do not fre
quent salt licks like they do in America, lie
visited these places, and although the tracks
of wild anim ijs were abundant, they were a
month old, and indicated that they were pass
ing without coming, near enough the salt
rocks to lick then’. He mentions tribes also
th it not only eat their food without salt, but
actually loathe it.” “
It may he possible that there is no salt, or
such as is known to commerce as salt, in the
s lutbern Africa referred to oy 31. Gatton, but
it does not follow that there are no salt
springs or vegetable productions in that re
gion in which salt or chloride of sodium foay
lie found. The opinion so long entertained
by phisiologists will not he severely shaken
by the revelations of M. Gatton.
It is probable that climate, altitude, pecu
liar religions views, or other causes, may pro
duce a restricted use of salt, with persons in
some localities of the earth ; but that the to
tal disuse of it, or of any commodity in which
the saline ingredient abounds, exists among
any of the inhabitants of the earth, we very
much question.
’ V
THE TABANTULA AND ITS DEADLY PERSECUTOR
Some of our readers may have heard of
the tenacity with which the venomous taran
tula is pursued by an inveterate enemy in
the form of a huge wasp—invariably result
ing in the defeat and death of the former.
We were an eye witness to one of these con
flicts last week, while on a ramble nmon’
the adjacent bills. This is the season when
the poisonous tarantula leaves his well fash
ioned abode to perambulate the dusty roads
and smooth paths so often trod by the indus
trious miners, and about their haunts a dozen
or so bo seen any day of this hideous
eulargemeht of the spider race, within a cir
cuit of a few s yards, leisurely wending their
way along the roads and by-ways. Often
have we marked, with attentive curiosity, his
awkward gait while lifting his long unwieldy
legs above the short blades of grass, and won
dered for what uses and purposes this ugly
little tnonstcr was placed upon this beautiful
globe.
While attentively watching the motions of
one of these insects during our wnlk, wc were
much surprised to see the object of our at
traction suddenly stop short in his wander
ings, and raise itself up to its full height, hr
though watching the coining of some unwel
come visitor. We at first supposed that it
just espied ns, and was expecting danger
from our hands; but upon our retreating a
Jiy steps he quickly crouched behind a tuft
of dried grass, and remaining very quiet,
setmed to make himself- as small ns possible.
A slight buzzing was heard in the air, and in
a moment a wasp passed quickly near, hover
ing on the wing over his trembling victim,
the much dreaded tarantula. Like some bird
of prey, the wasp remained thus poised'a
moment, and then, quick as thought, darted
down upon his enemy, and stung him many
times with great rapidity.
The tarantulA, smarting under the pain,
began to retreat with all the speed of which
he was capable, .but wasp bung over him
with revengeful tenacity, and again and
again struck him with his venomous sting.
Gradually tbe flight of the tarantula became
slower and more irregular, and at length, un
der the repeated thrusts of his conqueror, lie
died biting the grass with bis terrible fangs.
The wasp now seized his enemy, ana com
menced dragging him away, with what in
tent, we could busiues called us thence,
at that time discover. ... *
The wasp whose attacks upon the tarantu
la are so fatal, has a long, slim, glossy, black
body, yellow wings, and is arined with a ve
ry sharp, long, thorn like sting, which may
be seep protruding as it flies. It fears not
the presence of niAn or beast when in pnrsnit
of his enemy.— Mariposa (Cal.) Democrat.
IJoHtrntl.
SENATOR TOOMBS’ REPLY TO MX. CXITTIMDSa.
The speech of this gentleman, in point of
ability and oratory, will compare favorably
with any other delivered during ilie Kansas
debate-; and coming immediately after tire
defection of Mr. Crittedden, will have a moat
favorable effect in averting the •* American”
stampede which was apprehended, and ral
lying again to the soppoit of tho Adminis
tration, upon this most important question,
all who firmly intend to staunch the bleed
ing issues which distract the country.
The speech of. tiro Senator from Georgia
Commences witii assenting to tlio assertion
of Mr. Crittenden that this was not a section
al issue. It was a,grave constitutional ques
tion. It was to determine whether this gov
ernment should continue to be what its foun
ders desigued, or whether it shall be pervert
ed liito an agency to establish the suprema
cy of the non-slavebolding States. This
contoatkivolves the duration of the Union.
He had Calculated the value of tbat com
pact, and, |f ever the proper time should ar
rive, was prepared to announce the estimate
he placed upon it. He never doubted that
the North derived more advantage from tbo
Union than tlitr South. The South neither
asks nor received protection to any interest
at the hands of the government. For him
self, he had stood for eight years', in the low
er house, tlie representative of a district, and
no constituent during that period had asked
for an office from tho Federal Government
or protection from his-industry. This con
troversy originated in the efforts of the Fed
eral party to recover power when driven from
it under the elder Adams. Rtifus King had
made opposition to the admission of a State
because it was n slave State, and tbe opposi
tion had continued ever since. It was a con
test on one side for victory and conquest,and
for freedom and cjistene on the other.
must refer our readers to the able and con
clusive proof from the record, furnished by
Senator Toomb'S, that the Lecomiiton Con
stitution is morally and legitimately the fruit
of the principles of equality and justice An
nounced and enforced by Congress in good
faith from the beginning cf thin controversy.
We do not propose to offer even a synopsis
of the speech, but to employ it is accidental
ly directed to contradict and to counteract
the theory of Mr. Crittenden, that the whole
transactions in Kansas, except so fur as the
Black Republicans have conducted its gov
ernment, have been founded in tbe grossest
frauds, perjuries, forgeries and violence.
In the course of this exposition it was
shown that the authorities upon which Mr.
Crittenden relied, were chiefly tho declara
tions of..the runaway Governors of Kansas,
who had recognized the nuthoritj’ of tho
Legislature as long as they remain in Kan
sas, but it wlieu it no longer serv
ed their purposes. Walker and Stanton had
become cmiriei t authorities, and tbe Senator
of Georgia expressed bis conviction that they
had intended from the beginning to deceive
and defeat tbe Administration ; but tbe one
hnd been recalled and tbe other ba<Jj aban
doned his post. They were now witnesses
like other private men,and they were indebt
ed to his courtesy that he admitted even so
much. But their statements were not. “of
ficial,” nor had the Senator from Kentucky
cited any “ official” authority to contradict
the record testimony adduced to support the
legality of the Lecomptpn Constitution.
Mr. Toombs paid a passing tribute to tbe
Virginia resolutions of *9B, derided by many
wbo had never rend them, but indispensable
to the just administration of tbe Federal
compact. His argument constitutes an irre
fragable demonstration tbat Congress can on
ly decide whether a State applying for ad
mission is Republican iti its form of Govern
ment; that Kansas lma complied with that
condition, and is qualified, under a proper con
struction of the Federal compact, for imme
diate admission’into the Uuion under the Le
compton Constitution.
Mr. Toombs considered the repeal of tbe_
Missoni i restriction and its consequences.—
Hottttributed the difference which separated
him from the Senator from Kentucky to rad
ical difference of principle. He did not re
gard the Missouri condition as a compact.—
Congress could not make such a compact,
and did make it. Tbe North bad repu
diated it—the South was never bound by it.
It was dishonorable and oppressive, aud be
rejoiced that it had been in his power to aid
ill throwing it off. Its consequences to the
South would have been ’ destructive ; she
would,liave bi|cn excluded from occupying
any more territory.
Hamilton bad predicted the American peo
ple would one day include Louisiana and
Mexico, and “ squint at South America.’—
The first teas history ; the secoml would be.
The consequences to the South of the repeal
of all anti-slavery restrictions were incalcu
lable.
Jn ffiis connection he complained that Mr.
Crittenden had affirmed tbe constitutionality
of the Missouri repeal, and claimed that Mr.
Clay was the author of that measure,when Mr.
Clay had himself proclaimed tbat be was
not, and bad neither introduced, advocated,
nor voted upon it.* ‘
He expressed Ida gratitude to those Nor
thern men who had stood by the common
rights of the South and the country. /I’bey
were few in number, and their ranks were
rapidly diminishing, as tbe waves of a Phar
isaic fanaticism swept first one and then an
other of this little bandJ'rom amongst them.
But their fame would be immortal, and* their
reward would be found in an approving con
science.
*ylio statesman at tbe bead of the Gov-”
eminent, with the eminent chief of the Fed
eral Judiciary, had nearly reached the lim
its assigned to human capacity for active
usefulness. The) bad filled the highest sta
tions of human honor. They bad no motive
to do wrong or to promote strife amongst
their fellow citizens. They deserved and
would receive tbe approbation of their coun
try for the noble ana patriotic stand taken by
them in behalf of the rights guaranteed by
the Union.
He regretted the position taken by tbe
Senator from Kentucky, wbo had brought to
the aid of the opponents of the Sonth sod
Administration the weight of hi* name nnd
character. The Senator from Kentucky
differed.both with himself and the section to
which they belonged. If the gallant and
noble State which Mr. Crittenden represen
ted, should be doomed by the act of her Sen
ator to inequality and deprivation of her
righto, it must add to her pain that the blow
had bean in part inflicted by her ewn son—
like— f! a
“ Tbe struck eagfo stretched tpon the plain.
No more through rolling cloud* to mu again,
View’d lit* own feather on tbe ratal dart,
And wing'd thshaft that quiver’d iu hi* heart:
Keen were hi* pang*, but keener fin to /eel
He nursed the pinion* that imerit'd the rtrel,
While tbe same plumage (hat bad warm’d hi* amt
Drank thelaat life-drop of bia bleeding breast.”
SENATOR TOOMBS’ SPEECH AT THE BALTIMORE
MASS MEETING.
* Last week a grand mass meeting was held
in Baltimore to give expression to the views
of tha Democracy of tbat city on the Kansas
question* The great speech on tlie occasion
was delivered by Hon. Bobert Toombs, of
this State. We find ill our exchanges the
followiug brief synopsis of bis remarks.
The question before Congress and which
was exciting so much attention out sis doors,
was not anew one. For forty years it has
occupied much attention, aud for eleven
years nearly all the attention, of the people
of the United States. The principles the
true men North and South, nnd elsewhere,
have been contending for those forty years
are tbe principles of tbe resolution* offered
here to-night. The question now was wheth
er the American Congress shall usurp the
rights of the Territories, or tbe Territories
sfiall maintain their own.
1, Ho /held that Kansas should be immediate
ly admitted into the Union, as a matter of
policy and of justice. Ho would take notice
in what he intended to say of the objections
to this course, and among the objections they
would recognize the old enemies of the
Democratic party under anew name. Tlie
leopard could not change his skin, neither
can the enemies of popular government
shield themselves from the popular gaze.—
Tho American Congress may admit new
Slates in accordance with tlie Constitution—
there is no difficulty about the power.
New Slates were admitted into the Union
from 1789 to 1820, with constitutions such
as they saw proper to make. No man op
posed or denied this power except in the
North-West Territory; but in all tbe rest of
the States brought in, till 1820, no public
man or portion of the people claimed that
Congress had the power to control the peo-’
pie in making a constitution in any way they
wanted, but in such a way as they wanted.
There is no clause in tlie constitution of the
United Status requiring a State to make a
constitution—if was only uecessary for them
to make a republican form of government.—
If they had no constitution it was their ewn
business.
Jefferson had said tlmt the old Federal
party, despairing of retaining power by hon
est means, sought to wriggle themselves into
power by raising sectional issues, and that
was the very beginning of this question.—
From that old federal party, every Whig,
Republican nnd Kuow Nothing is a finiat de
scendant. Missouri applied next foradmissiou
with a constitution recognizing slavery, and
these Republicans and others said, you shall
not come in. Not because you have not’ a
republican government — uo ; but because it
docs not suit tbe New England States. A
great contest arose from one end of tlie coun
try to the other. : ‘•.
There was not a freesoilcr in Congress—
and lie know them for thirteen years past—
who cared not a dime for the black man;
they have carried on this hypocrisy in order
to defect tbe Democratic party. If he wan
ted partners now hi tho african slave trade
lie would just as soon go to these freesoilers
as Aliy ono else; they even now have shares
in such expeditions. They agreed to admit
Missouri hy putting ifi a clause that there
should be no more slave Btotes North of
36.30; but did any State in the Union agree
to tbi* condition through their Legislature,
or was any public meeting held to endorse
it ? Not one. They have, resolved that
there should be no more slave Slates, and
Rufus King gave tlie reason when he said it
was a question of political power. It was
not the poor Africans. Neither party, North
or South, was satisfied with the arrangement.
The Democrats have asked them for the
power they assumed, and the principle of
their action, and they said they had none—
they had the majority.
Mr. Toombs then proceeded to give • his
tory of the admission of ‘Texas, California,
down to the Kansas question, tbe paaa
age of tlie Kansas Nebraska bill and tlie in
tention of that act. By repealing tbe Mis
souri prohibition they only left the people
the SAme right they always bad over slavery
—to prohibit it or establish it.as tbe people of
a Territojy saw proper. Tlie subsequent
transactions in Kansas were next reviewed
in the most graphic manner, as well aa the
contest which bas resulted in congress. He
(Mr. Toombs) bad introduced a bill in con
gress so as to enable tbe people to rote fair
ly ; it passed tlie Benate, went to (he House,
where it received every Democratic vote and
was opposed by every Republican. They
did not pass the bill, but sent back to the
Senate Topeka—nothing but Topeka.
Subsequently, in electing delegates to the
convention in Kansas, tbe Republicans stood
off and would not vote; they were soma
thing like the people when Noah was build
ing tbe ark—they stood off and did not be
lieve there would be a flood, but there was.
They now tell ua in Kansas, if we don’t do
as they want, they will take up arras—tease
twenty-five hundred vagabonds in rebellion
against the twenty five millions of the peo
ple of these United States!
Mr. Toombs concluded by saying tbat tbs
punishment he intended to inflict upon these
rebels was to give them a free constitution
number, so;
*"d admit them into the Union. They Jfc.
sered auch miscreants m they am, W *fl
raittnd into the Union, and sy Jw,* t w , nt
to accept it! He intended to net rid efjthia
J nest ion as aoon as pc,sbleu~to let them set
• the matter in their own way. Should life
•moka of tha inceadiary curl e*r*be top #
every cabin in Kansas, he/venldmake than
free and get rid of the question.
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A Telegraphic summary of the Canada's .
newt bring, us the annonneeme* of t&l
of the Palmerston Administration. The Wh
Premier is the Earl of Derby, wlr tikk
with him into office the small baad efeew
rerratnre statesmen whose adherence to wry
tradition, and unity Os aotied hara given
them a sort of balance weight in parliament,
i 11. ir elevation to power is of course meriily
an accident which eool4 only hwve. bm4
caused by a peculiar combination of circunw
atances. In itself the party has no moral or
political weight, its only consideration being
derived from ike talents of Hi leadeV. Tlio
latter have been forced into offich oti tfie
shoulders of the rsdacals, in q-W to ate*
fuller effects to public opininn on the refugee
question by the combination of extreme.,
and as soon as they have served the purposes
ot the moment they, will be compelled to
give place to men of more comprehensive
aod progressive view*. ‘ A
Nothing can indicate mor* unmistakably
the unstable character of the relations 1m
tween the English and french governments
than this change. The recent defeat oftTO
administration would not in itself have ne
cessitated the resignation ot Lord Pshntfr
ston and his colleagues if they had not beam
sensible that the opinions of the British ns.
tion were decidedly averse to tbe spirit W
svbservieney which they had lately exbibT
tedto the French autocrat. AbatmcTMfff
proper as were the alterations proposed hi
the existing laws in reference to, foreigners,
there was sufficient in the manner m which
they were extorted from the tears of Lord
Palmerston’s government to Arouse tbe ‘eaf
oosy and sensitiveness of the English people,
and to induce them to view with tHatenigA
ministry which was so ready to yield to the
alarms inspired bv the military bravadoes es
the Moniuur. The English have pride aa
well aa material interests, their Monti
naturally boils at the assumption of a tone
which implies, if it does not actually eonvey,
a threat. The overthrow of a minister cow
tossed ly one of the most popular that Ims ev
er held the reins of power m England,show’s
how deep rooted and universal is tbe
of resentment excited amongst them by such
conduct, and how slight j a the dependence
to be placed upon the cootiouanee of the ah
h*ic between the twa countries. Tlio very
defeat.of this ministry cannot, in fact, be res
garded In any other light thau as a gauutlet
thrown down to France, and as the com
mencement of s series of com plications which
will involve the whole of Europe hi trouble.
The best barometer of public feeling by
connection with political questions is to be
f mod in the operations of tbe money market.
It was only few days since that we had
occasion to note tbe tact that notwitbstand
ing the depressioe attending the lata panic,
American stock* were again rising into fares
abroad with a rapidity which nothing bat po
litical influences cenH explain. We ex
pressed our belief that these influences were
due to the precarious state of tbe relations
between England and France, and tbe tm
viction that seemed to prevail that the refer
gee question would prove the rock on which
the create rot diale would split. The resig
nation of the Palmerston ministry felly real
izes tbe anticipations suggested by this eh
cumstance, and we are now testified in look
ing upon the alliance between thi two conav
tries as virtually dissolved.
‘I hat public feeling in England should bav#
precipitated a result which Louis Napoleon
may have remotely contemplated, but aer-
Uinly did not immediately desire, fa, we
thmk creditable to the spank and manlineaf
of the English peopio. In the universiA ex
pression of indignation elicited by the lath
xhominable attempt upon lin life, the French
Emperor thought that be bed feend the
means of extending bis system of
terrorism to constitutional countries. It jp
but right that he should be taogbt that what
he mistakes tor a tribute to the merits of
that system is bat the expression of a moral
sentiment,which applies equally to the safety
of the humblest citizen as to bis own. In
the excess of hi* eagerness to avail himself
of (his supposed feeling, he has ov erleaped
the barrier of prudence, anil destroyed in a
moment the fruits of his last few years polit
ical scheming. Had he been intent on pro
voking a quarrel with bis English allies, he *
certai lily could have taken no readier steps
towards it than the coarsb that be has lately
pursued.
in the present excitable and irltated stale
of public feeling in the two countries, it W
not of coarse easy to foresee what propor
tions the existing difficulties are liknly.to as
sume. Judging from present
no more serious danger baa threatened the
peace of Europe since the troubles of 18£S
than the slap in the face dealt to theFfeoeb
Emperor in the overthrow of bis friend end
political ally—Lord Palmerston. This event
can only bo considered, in fact, as the enatv
mencement of another great reactionary
movement against European despotism,which
is likely to spread its flames overwrite conti
nent, and again deluge the atraeta ot its cit
ies with blood. The fire of political discon
tent has been thus far kept down by repres
sive measures; but this stale of things can
not always last. Should it succeed fa over
whelming the obstacles opposed to Its prog
ress by the fiieodly aid of the English peo
ple, Louis Napoleon will bare his own iadie
cretion to thank for tiie disasters that it will
bring in its train.— Netc York Herald .
Madeleine the alleged poisoner es L’Jtfe
geiier, baa arrived in Australia—e tbe Bal
ls rat Times reported