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THE WIltE-GIMSS KEPHHTEji.
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Wi:DNI.^AyTbKITKMmiIt I, 18T>8.
nrriM Wmc-ORAsa RaroKrea la the Official
OrKn for publinhinu tU Sheriff*’ Salvi of tlio coun
lie* of Telfair, Berrien, Ware, Colquitt, Pierce nml
Thomas ; alao, for publisliin the Advertisement* Os
the Ordintrica of Clinch, Colquitt, and Ware.
, OUB ACCOUHtT
Tbs firat year of thin paper will expite*on
the 15th September. We commence with
this paper to forward our accounts, and shall
continue them, from week to week, till all are
served. Woliope ourpaljj-ons will give them
their The moat of them
arts of small size, and can easily be paid, while
in the aggregate they ore of vast inxportahce
to ns, and the very bone and sinew of the
establishment. We tender onr acknowledge
ments to stick of our patrons as have paid us
in advance. This they should all do.. It
would enable ns to do many things for the
improvement of the establishment. To those
who have not yet paid any thing, we may be
permitted to aay, that as we have credited
them one year, it ia now bnt reasonable they
should credit us one, and send four dollars
instead of two, all Os which will be duly cred
ited. 1 * p . t ■ *
There may he errors in some of the ac
counts sent. We presume there ore, for it
is very difficujf „nnd requires much care in a
printing office to avoid them. We request,
wherever they have been made, that wo may
be jfrooptly informed of tbo same, that thoy
may bo Corrected on our books.
ADVEBTIfIING.*
The first week In September Is usunlly considered
the opening of tbe business season, and although
neither buyer fir seller may bo fully prepared by
that time, It Is always well lor ovary in ere haul to
let his customers know what he has “on hand “ sod
what may ho “ Super tod in a few dny.” It takes
■e paper to be printed and get to its
tton in the country. Then too it
er time to consider, particularly by
one realty needs, and then it re
opportunity to come to town. All
occssity of early advertising. And
icon more need for it than the pre
and derangement in money matters
of last fail, brought every one up square, buyer and
seller. Purchasing Was In a great measure auspend
d. Shelves were suffered to become empty. Con
fidence Is now being restored, business is resuming
its wonted channels, but who can tell whether tbe
shelves sre replenished or not, or what with, unless
they art* so informed through an advertisementt
ty For want of room we ore obligod to
postpone the Railroad meeting at Hahira
Academy til! onr next publication.
LARGE XAX OP COER.
Hr. T. T. Stephens brought to our office,
on Saturday last, an ear of corn, or rather a
aeries of ears connected, fourteen In num
ber, twelve inches in circumference and ten
incite# in length. It was grown on the plan
tation of Mrs. Stephens, in this county, four
teenth district, raised on the first year’s new
ground, pine land. It may bo seen at our
office.
BAHT! BAIN ! BAIN !
The Tains in this portion of tho State nre
still quite abundant, and rather on flic in
crease than diminishing. We have had rains
ahont Thomasville at least four days out of
the seven for the last six weeks. We do not
mean to say that it rains all day, but for
some portion oi the timo of the twenty-*four
hours. It tins learned to rain with all ima
ginable ease—from practice we suppose, as it
is said “ practice makes perfect.”
THE BURIAL GROUND
‘• Nothing so well indicates the refinement
of a community, as tbe condition of its buri
al ground.” Thus writes a chaste and beau
tiful writer in the last Enterprise. Do you
hear it, municipal authority of Thomasvillo?
With your beautiftil new conrt-house, your
secure and comfortable jail, bow can you suf
fer tho grounds to lie open and desolate
where repose the ashes of your friends and
relatives, and where you may expect sooner
or later to make your own last resting place ?
Barely a genteel fauco about it is most loud
ly called for.
LONDON QUARTERLY.
We are in receipt, tins week, of the New
York republication of the London Quarterly
for July, To show its merits we need only
state that this number contains a review of
The History of Civilisation in England,”
‘tXivo of Wycliffo,” “ The British Muse
um “ and “ British India,” besides other pa
pers of much information. It is one of the
fonr reviews published singly for three dollars
per annum, but in connection with Black
wood’s Magaaine, the whole may he obtained
for ten dollars. Leonard Scott & Cos., New
York. “V;. V s” ”
THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. *
Wij have received the September number
of this favorite Agricultural publication. It
contains its usual variety of valuable read
ing matter for the Planter and House keeper.
No Planter should be without it. Published
monthly at Augusta, by William S. Jones.
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LOWNDES COUNTY DIVISION QUESTION.
The last Troupvtlle Watchman hat an excellent
communication, signed “Public,” on this subject,
and tho suggestion contained in it is Wfijthy of con
sideration. We have heard from other sources be
sides this cinumanlcatlon, that the meeting held in
pursuance of tba recommendation of tbe Grand Ju
ry was a perfect farce, and although we honcstlj
thought at one time that tbs plan was a good one,
jet, if it has failed, let the otter be tried. That
some definite and satisfactory action ought to be had
before the meeting of the Legislature, is evident to
every body* We have much mistaken tbe charac
ter of tbe majority of the people es Lowndes, if
they will jump out of tbe way at the “blow ing ” ol
spy tedpV “ whistle.” They are a people who trill
think for themselves; and tbe same privilege which
they take tbemseKes, they are vrijlipg to accord to
others.
DOUGLAS AND LINCOLN.
We believer that we must aihnit that tho
members of the American party have been i
watching the signs of the times rather clo- c
ser than the Democrats. They have been i
iropliesying that it would not be long before
Southern Democrats would turn and espouse
tho cause of Douglas again, notwithstanding
their angry denunciation of him, and we be
lieve their prophesying is about to become I
trno. If the Democrats bnd known Vis well,
or paid &s much attention to his opponent,
this would all have been plain enough to
them, a# far as any question might arise be
tween Douglas and Lincoln. Mr. Douglas,
until hit aberrations on the *Lecompton
Kansas constitution, Ims always been a firm
and staunch - #upporter of the principles of
the Democratic party, and has ever boon
true to the constitutional rights of the South.
Mr. Lincoln, on the contrary, has ever been
a bitter, ultra and uncompromising abolitiofi
ist. It would require ho ghost from the
grave to inform ns that when men of such
different political characters cptne In con
tact with each other, which one Southern
Democrats would espouse and wish success
, whatever follies or faults he may* have com
mitted in times past. Lincoln, as we hnvl
■aid, is an open, rabid abolitionist. Mr. Doug
las still professes to be a Democrat, and is
still Bottling manfully against the abolition
ists. Nay further, if ho docs not admit his
error pn the Kansas constitution, he argues
that the people of that territory hare de
termined the question, that it is no longer
ppen, and he sees no reason why it should
longer separate him from the administration.
Hero him ia a recent speech of his in Illi
nois, which we copy from the Augnsta Con
ililutionalist:
I never could consider Hint the terms of Hint
proposition nnd the mode of submission were fair,
but I was willing to abido by tho expression of tho
people npon that election. That election was held
last. Monday, and the general result ia known, the
returns being mostly in, and it has been rejected by
move thuu ten to one.
A great many friends come to me ond ask me,—
“Are you willing to acquiesce in that Knglish bill? 1 ’
I nlways told them I would acquiesce in the decision
of the people under it. They have rejected it, and
I now want to know if thev will acquiesce in its
death; I am certain that I will.
By the death of tbe Leeompton constitution there
is a termination forever of the I.ecompton contro
versy. It is at an end, and there will he no excuse
for the controversy to arise auxin,unless it is brought
up in an improper and mischievous manner, for mis
chievous and iuipiopcr purposes.
I say the controversy can never arise again, for
this reason i tbe President of the United States, in
his annual message, declared that he icgrettcd
that the Lecomptua Constitution had not been
submitted to the people of Kuusas. I joined
him in Hint regret. Thus far we agreed. He
then declared that it was a sound policy to require
the submission tis every Constitution to the people
I agreed with him on that. He then declared, in his
opinion, that hereafter tho example set in the Min
nesota ease, where Congress required such a submis
sion, should be forever (oliowed as a rule of action.
I agreed w ith him on that. Then what did we dif
fer about f Ho added, that while it was a sound
principle tbat-a Constitution should be submitted to
tho people, and that he hoped hereafter Congress
would always require that to be done, yet there
were such circumstances with regard to Kansas
that rendered it expedient to admit her at once. I
differed with him as to that. Tbe poin,t is now de
cided. The people of Kansas have decided it forev
er. I trust Hint he is satisfied with that decision ns
well as I.
“ That being the esse, why should not he and I go
together in the future, eaeb standing firmly by his
Minnesota recommendation, that hereafter u Con
stitution shall be required by Congress to be submit
ted to the people in all eases 1 If we only do that
—stand by that principle in the future —then the
Lecnmpton can never again arise ; the
friends of self-government will all be united. led
us then rally upon a common plank and platform,
upon which all national men may stand, and upon
which all the frienda of popular sovereigidy may
stand shoulder to shoulder.”
Now, wo ask, is not that the amende hon
orable on tho part of Mr. Douglas, and as
much as Buchanan Democrats ought to ask
of liitn, provided his future actions square up
to it? We think it is.
We do not forget that Mr. Douglas, in the
stand ho took’ on the Kansas constitution,
opposed the views and policy of the party
of which he professed to boa member and
was recognised to be a leader and defeated j
the constitution as originally drawn, and for
this wo do .not hesitate to say he deserved
censure and punishment. He has received
tho one pretty liberally, but the Democrats
iu Illinois would be biting off their nose to
spite if they aided the abolition
ists to elect Lincoln in the plnco of Douglas.
This would boa punishment that would ro
coil upon their and be most effect
ually aiding and comforting the Black Re
publicans. We ask, has the hostility of the
American party at the South to Mr. Douglas
so blinded their eyes that they would wish
such a result? We think not. We have
more confidence in the bone and siuew of
that party than, to believe any such thing.—
We do not know what the leaders might bo
willing to do, after seeing the Rvowals of the
Richmond Whig, which we published in
our last, but the honest yeomanry, who have
no lust for office and power and expect none
of tbe “ loaves and fishes,” would spurn the
idea.
JUDGE ALLEN DECLINES.
It will be seen from the following note addressed
to the editor of the liuitibridge Argus, that Judge
Allen decline* to be a candid at • for re-election in
tho South-Western CfrcuitiT j
Rai*uuu>uf, Auaost 23, IfISS.
Mr. Editor:—l take occasion, iu reply to jour
article of last week (apeakiug of me aa a candidate)
to aDnouuce to you —ami through you to tho public—
that I shall rut be a candidate for reflection to the
office of Judge of the Superior Court* of the South-
Western Circuit. Recent development* show very
clearly that this contest will be of a very unusual
character. I would not hold the office, iff could be
re-elected, after a heated contest, and shall, there
fore, retire when my successor is elected and quali
fied.
I shall return to Bar with a consciousness of
having discharged (lie duties of this very delioate
and responsible trust to the Best of my ability.
Very respectfully, ‘
Ai.EXANDr.it A. Allen.
City Life.—A girl was arrested on Green
wich street, M. Y., one evening last week for
promenading with, rather unusual for the
Street, a very scanty covering, ‘consisting of
a pair of high heeled boots, leghorn hat anil
feathers, and a skeleton skirt.
THE 8, B.WAWiT 1
Wear® sorry, tbat our neighbor was ‘‘at,
any loss in regard to tbe intended application j
of the funeral anecdote,” and aa tho Colonel is
a man of undoubted clear bead, we think we ‘
must bavo told it badly. Nor did vre mean,
in tbe slightest degree, to insinuate tbnt our
neighbor, in saying a good word for us,
infringed the “ eleventh commandment,” but 1
Iwe roally felt tbe obligation expressed. Tbe
Colonel says, however, that he canuot “re
ciprocate bis obligation for a kind word vol
unteered in behalf of TroupviHo.”
Now, we have never failed to say at all
timqg, and all places, Ofheuever it became
necessary, *at the citizens of Troupville
were kind, intelligent and in every way as
worthy as any people in any town ia tbo
State of Georgia, and we take great ploas
nre in repeating the statement; but outside
of (be worthiness of your citizens and Smith’s
Hotol. what else have you that wecould brag
on Colonel? That the town is -and always has
been fai’ below what it should have been, is too
plain a truth to talk about. We regret the bit
terness which “sticks out” so plainly in the
Watchman’s editorials Rgaiiist Thomasville,
tbe effect, if not the object of which, is tocreate
prejudice against this place. Why is t liis? Wbat
have we done ? We believe that we can
Basely say that the people of Thomasville
would rejoice at tho improvement nnd pros
perity of every sister town in Southern Geor
gia, and we say in all kindness to our neigh
bor that lie would be much more profitably
and creditably employed in building np lps
own town than in ridiculing ours.
In regnrd tlKlie lino of tho Railroad, wc
have advocated-the upper line, because we
believe that the beqj interests of tho whole
country, and the spirit and intention of the
charter, required that it should go there, but
we would infinitely prefer the Troupville line,
if it be at all practicable,to the line below. But
we do not propose to answer tho Colonel’s arti
cle in detail upon the subject of the location of
the road, as we have already at other times
snid perhaps enough on tho subject, but we
will say a word, and only a word on one
point.
The Colonel says:
“ It is tbe opinion of eminent jurists, tfe
have been iuformed, that tho Brunswick
Company have never parted with the control
over their located line, and that the Main
Trunk Company, in using any portion of it,
would incur the risk of being stopped by an
injunction ; or that they would be permitted
to complete the road upon it to the Alapa
*lia, when the Brunswick Company could im
mediately claim that tho condition, upon
which certain notes, in Mr. Wheeler’s pos
session, arc made redeemable, jiad betm-/'per
formed.”
It is’ barely possible that such rascality
might be attempted, but the Judge who, af
ter being fully informed as to the facts, would
grant such an injunction, or suffer a recovery
on those notes, ought to be impeached. It
is, pcrhnps, presumption in -us to speak so
harshly, especially ns “ eminent jurists” have
given a contrary opinion on the subject, but
to our mind, knowing tbe facts as well as
we do, the proposition appears monstrous and
preposterous. This, however, may be used,
as an excuse for keeping off that line, and a
poor excuse, it is said, is. better than none.—
This is probably the last word we may ever
have to say ondhese subjects, as by the time
this is published and sent off to our patrons,
we shall be absent thiukiug of other things
and attending to other business. If any
one should striko at us in any capacity, tho
force of the blow will be half lost* as wo
perhaps shall never know it. In all that we
have ever said, our object was to enforce and
defend what we believed to be tbe truth, and
we shall not hesitate steadfastly to abide the
consequences of our position. That the
i Main Trunk Railroad may be speedily built
j in accordance with the true spirit and inten
tion of its charter is our sincere and earnest
! wish.
Cy There is n ordinance, in the city of
London, requiring a five-eighths inch tube to
be inserted near tho ceiling in everj- room,
for the purpose of letting off the gas in case
of accident or carelessness. A tube of this
description might {drawer a valuable purpose
in our court-houses and other places of pub
lic declamation, to be used in the same way.
But they would have to be more than five
eighths of an inch caliber in this country.
GEN. HEIWINGSEN TURNED AUTHOR.
Wo see an article hearing the above cap
tion going tho rounds of tbe. newspapers.—
Gen. Ileuningson has been a literary writer ;
for many years, is a gentleman of highly
classical education, nud we think has pub
lished a book. So thcro is no necessity of
his turning author, ns he is one already, and
has been for a long time. It is said be will
write for anew New Yorkjinper, to be call
ed the Golden Prize.
Dr. lfiram Cox, a chemist, of Ohio, states
that during two years he has made 579 in
spections of various kinds of liquors, and haa
found nine tenths of them poisonous concoc
tions. Os brandy, ho found one gallon in
one hundred pure; of wino, not a gallon in
a thousand, but generally made of whiskey
as a basis, with poisonous articles for condi
ments., Not •:*?p of Madeira wine has j
been mndo in that island since 1851. The
whiskey he inspected, some of it contained
sulphuric acid enough in a quart to eat a hole
through a man’s stomach.
There is a man in Thornssvillo who thinks
he has made that u\any inspections himself,
within the last two years, and he found nine
tenths of the liquors pretty good. He has,
Como to ■ the conclusion that the liquor is
much bettor in Southern Georgia than in
Ohio, owing perhaps to the salebriou* sea
breetc which daily conics up upon Hfrorn the I
OuTf.
THROUGH IN M DAY,
Mayor TIEMAN, of New York, ou the 85th ult.,
i received a menage from the Mayor of London, ia
’ answer to oils from him of the day previous. Thi
;i a rapid movement towards annihilating apace. Aa
we are three or four boora later in time on thia con
tinent than In Europe, we have no doubt we shall
often verify the phrase here, and receive messages
j“ in less than no time.” That is, a message started
i from Londou at 12 o'clock meridian, will arrive at
I New York at an earlier hour New York time; and
from Valencia, in Ireland, the terminus of the ocean
cable in Europe, it will be ahead of the time there,
when it arrives at Trinity Bay, the terminus on this
continent, between, two and three hours.
TBX MAIN TRUNK MEETING.
We regret to state that the contemplated
meeting of the Directors of the Atlantic and
jGulf Railroad Company, which was appoint
ed to bo hold in Thomasville last Thursday,
! did not take place, owing to the absence* of
seteral at the Directors and the want of a
quorum to do business. Dr. Screven, the
President of the company, and Mr, Roberts,
one of the Directors, were present from Sa
vannah: The last Enterprite makes the
following statement of all that was accom
plished by those present.
Main Trunk Railroad. —There was to
have been a meeting of the Atlantic &. Gulf
Railroad Company in Thomasville on Thurs
day last, for the purpose of harmonizing, if
possible, the conflicting views of the people
along the line* ns to the location of
the road, and for the consideration of the
proposition made by the stockholders of the
county of Decatur, to grade thirty miles of
the road in the direction of Thomasville from
Bai’ubridge, upon the condition of their sub
scribing an additional rum of $50,000. Dr.
Screven, the President of the road, and Mr.’
Roberts were here from Savannah, but there
being no quorum of Directors present, there
was no meeting, and consequently nothing
definitely done. The proposition of the
citizens of Decatur was favorably entertain
ed by the President and wc have no doubt
but that the contract they seek will be grant
ed them at an early day. Dr. Screven ex
presses willingness also to let out similar con
tracts to the citizens of Thomas and Lowndes.
We trust they may at once avail themselves
of tire opportunity and begin the work. In
regard to the settlement of the question of
location, which now divides the people along
the different lines, Dr. Screven expresses his
determination to be governed by the charter of
the Main Trunk in every respect, and that the
difficulties shall be settled by fairand impartial
surveys, to be determined by a competent
Engineer or Engineers, as may be desired,
of character and standing. This seems to
him fair and honorable, in accordance with
the charter, and we hope may put an end to
fends arid harmonize all parties. There lias
been enough talking, meetings, speeches,
wrangling and fighting over this Road to
build every Railroad in the South. Will
they never end ? What good can any sensi
ble man expect from such work? Must the
minds of the people he always poisoned
with these feuds, aud their stolid indifforcuce
perpetuated ? #
We arc requested to state, at the instance
of Dr. Screven, that a phrtize occurs in the
above statement which may be misconstrued.
He does not intend to resurvey the routes,
ns may be inferred, but will submit the whole
matter to a competent Engineer or Board of
Engineers, and then determine, fiom their
report, the proper line to be adopted.
Correspondence of the Wire-Grass Reporter.
Messrs. Editors: —As ue nil have some inter
est in the choice of a Solicitor General for the Sou
thern Citftiit, it iimportant that we should hare
some concert of action. It is now evident that
Vornon McLendon will control votes enough to
elect him, if Messrs. Harris, Lowry and Sheftull all
remain in the field. Mr. McLendon is no mean op
! ponent. A good lawyer of his age, springing from
“the masses, and having risen to hie present position
by his own efforts, from an huuihle orphan boy, fcis
claims appeal strongly to the popular heart. The
pretensions of Such an oijpnjrent must always be
respected, and may be feared. His friends are wide
nWnke, and are rallying With an increasing strength,
until it is a fixed issue that he is the strong man we
have to contend with. Shall we remain divided
and be defeated, or shall wo unite and conquer. —
What say our friends 1 Telfair.
Our correspondent will* see, by the following
Card, that our friends have already been at work,
and Mr. Lowry, with much magnanimity, self-denial
and devotion to party, has waved his pretensions in
favor of one of the other candidates:
A Card.
The Mutual friends of J. .7. Lowry and Charles
J. Harris,Esqrs., considering the propriety of avoid
ing any conflict in the election for Solicitor General,
8. C., and upon conference with them, Mr. Lowry
withdraws for the purpose of harmonizing the Dem
ocratic party, aud declines in faror of Charles J.
Harris, Esq.
Arthur P. Wright, Chairman of the Commit
tee of Friends.
Thomasvillc, Ga., Aug. 30,1858.
CLINCH MEETING.
At a meeting of the citizens of Clinch county at
Magnolia, on the 21st Aug., 1858, David John
-1 son was called to the Chair, and L. C. Mattox re
| quested to act as Secretary.
j The following resolutions were unanimously adopt
! ed. Whereas, there being a project now set on
foot to form anew county out of the counties of
Berrien, Clinch and Lowndes, making Mill Town
the county site of said new county, which will badly
disfigure our county,and cutoff a large number of
our most valuable citizens, which will reduce the
tax of*our county to a considerable extent, render
ing us more unable to discharge the iudebtedness of
our county, which the torch of an incendiary has
heaped upon us by burning our court house.
Therefore he it resolved, That we oppose, with
: manly firmness, the granting ot any portion of
j Clinch for the object contemplated in the foregoing
j preamble. ■’
Aud he it further motived, That a committee of
five be appointed from each district to secure as large
a number of petitions as possible (opposing said pro
! ject) to be sent up to the next Legislature.
| And he it further resolved. That a committee of
three be appointed by the chair to wait on our Sen
! atbr and Kepresentative.jcquesting them to meet
the citizens of the comity to be assembled at Mag-,
nolia, on the third Saturday in September next, to
make known their views on the new county que#!
tion. And in the ergut it should not be convenient
to be present, that they be requested to express
themselves by letter, to be laid before the said Con
vention in September next
The committee appointed to act in each district
wena as follows: r 7
Laatinger Dltrict->-G. Lastinger. Dane Burkhtl
ter, Newsom.C'ui Bit, Jas. Mullis. EH. Burhbalter
; North's District —Jan Vliter*, Jas. North, Jobfl
North, ja. Cqxe, John Cyrbit.
Troublesome District—T. L. Geo. Car
ter, Harris fomilsou, Wui. S. IJoberdl Matthew
Moore.
Magnolia District—J. 1,. Morgan, T. Alderman,
Jas. C. Smith, Jonathan Knight, Jesse Smith,
Kirtland District—Geo. W. Newborn, J. C. Kirt
land, Manning Sipitb, L. C- Mattox, Charles Griffis.
LighUey's District—Cornelius Lightsey,’ Jacob
Lightsey, E. J. Simian, Sauiuel Staten, Shiniuol
Tiuiuienmn.
Thirteenth District-H. A. Mattox, Hughey Ted
der, T. J. Paggett, Wra. Crews, John Crews.
The committee to wait on our Senator and Rep
resentative were, Djkvid Sirman, Shimuel Tirnuie
mauaud.Jas. Whitehurst. ; *r’ • ‘
Httohtd, That the proceedings of this meeting
“be published in the Georgia Watchman and Wire-
Grass. Reporter.
The meeting then adjourned.
DAVID JOHNSON, Chairman.
L. C. Mattox, Secretary.
Correspondence of the Wye-Grass Reporter.
Dry Lake, August 28,1858.
Messrs. Editors:— No event that ever did, or
perhaps will happen in this neighborhoml, can cuuso
me more unfeigned pleasure, than in giving publici
ty to the public manifestation of the “Holy Spirit”
in this land of religious liberties.
During the past week, with untiring energy and
indefatigable zeal, God's ministers have been dis
pensing gospel truths in our midst. We were
visited by several ministers from ThmnasTille of the
Methodist denomination, amll feel that their sound
, logic and beautiful teaebiuge have sent the arrows
of conviction to every sinner's heart. We feel that
their divine precepts have furnished us w ith a key
’ to unlock the door of our hearts that, have been so
long inaccessible to the treasures of div Tue frufhs. .
“ O, how sublime is such a dispensation.”
During the tirst few days of the meeting there
were many callous hearts that hoard the word of
God with cold indifference; but ere the meeting had
pi ogressed mnny days, their hearts, tied with the
adamantine chains of sin, were burst asunder. The
arrows <>T odfivictfdh, sciifhy “ Udd” from the bow
of the “ Holy Spirit,” sunk deep into thefr hearts
who are now made the legitimate children of God.
Many were the mourners that went up to the'al
tar to seek religion, and several became members of
the church. May the effulgence of divine glory ever
rest upon their hearts and conduct them in the true
faith that leads to eternal salvation.
But a few Sabbaths ago it was my good fortune
to listen to a sermon delivered by Rev. Mr. T- ,
of the Qnptist denomination, aud in his discourse he
had occasion to allude to a friend who met him one
day in the road and said that so far as the dispensa
tion of divine truths was concerned, Thomas coun
ty was the most cursed of nil lands, r must con
fess J differ with that friend. I wish that lie could
make it convenient to come in our midst at the pre
sent time and behold the Visible influence of the di
vine w ill over the peopie. I feel that the arrow of
conviction vwiilifbe sent fn his own heart, ami lie
be compelled (may be) reluctantly to acknowledge
that he most egregiously erred in his opinions of
Thomas countv in a religious point of view.
X. Y. Z.
COTTON PROSPECTS.
• Extracts from a letter to the Savannah Republi
can, dated Columbus, Aug. 23.
Complaints of damage from rust are becomin?
very general. In some instances entire plantations
have been overrun by it, and it is on them all more
or less. Wherever it goes, it. is equal to a killing
frost. I hear some talk about boll worm. Ou some
plantations they are reported in great numbers and
very destructive. I think it too late for them to do
much damage. lam stlTNtf the opinion that the up
j land crop of Carolina, Georgia and Alnh iffit will be
a full . ne. Whether it turns out a very targe one or
not, depend* upon the season ami spread of the rust.
A letter to the New Orleans Crescent, dated Pick
ens, Mi*r,'Aug.itf>; says.
In regard to the cotton crop in this section of the
couutry up to a few days hack, it looked well. The
crops generally have had better prospects for a large
yield than for several years past, but, within the
last few days, I learu that tbo boll worm has com
menced its ravages : also, the army or cotton worm
has. aiade its appearance on many plantations, and”
already destroyed fifty acres on one plantation. Up
to this time, the boll worm has been the most de
structive. One of my neighbors informed me yester
day that they had destroyed half the crop in many
’places, and are doing very great damage tu'hia own
cotton, hs w ell as the army worm. I Lave just been
over my place, and find that one’field of one hundred
acres is cut short one fourth, and the worm still at
work, boring through full grown bolls, a thing I
have never known before. In the same field the
army worm has made its appearance. Corn crops
are generally good in this county It rains about
enough here for the grow ing crops.
The Cotton Croi’.— Within the last week or
teu days, wc have made consiiff-rablo inquiry as to
the condition and prospect* of the cotton crop in
this section. From several neighborhoods in the
black lands we have beard complaints of the boll
worm. In ,the Walker Prairie, fUuiontown and
Newbern neighborhoods, the crops have already been
seriously injured. ’And should the cloudy aud show
ery weather, which wo had here for several days past,
have been experienced in the black lands, we
shall expect to hear much more general complaints
of the boll ivorui, and complaints also of the cater
pillar. _ _
Froia the sandy lands, there is eonsideruble.com
plaiutof the rust. -* „
F. 8 Since the foregoing was in type, we have
received most unfavorable reports from both the
black and sandy lauds. — (Jretnsliuro’ (Ala ) Beacon,
IC tkintC. %
Cotton Planter’s Convention.
An adjourned meeting of this body will
be held in the city of Macon, on the.second
Tuesday in September. TJie Cotton-grow
ing counties of the State nro earnestly re
quested to send Delegates to said Conven
tion. The Officers of the Convention and
the Chairmen of Committees are respectful
ly requested to meet at the Lanier Houso in
Macon, at four o’clock of the day previous
to the meeting of the Convention, on busi
ness of importance.
Howell Colib, President.
Look out for Counterfeit*.
Tho Augusta Dispatch of a few days ago
says: Wc were shown this morning, a one dob
lar h.ll of the Bank of Savannah, raised to n
five. It is well executed and calculated to
deceive any one not in the habit of handling
money. It can he easily detected, however,
as the left hand has a full length of Liberty
with the cap and shield, and on the right edge
a small vignette, while the genuine fives have
no viguette- on the right hand edge of the
bill.
Treasury Receipt*. .
The receipts of the -Treasury for the
week ending the 21st ult. were nearly nine
million six hundred and fourteen thousand
dollars, making the entire amount on deposit
fourteen and a half millions, ten and a third
of which is in New York. Tho receipts,
apart from the payment on account of the
ten million loan, Were over a million—an in
crease of three hundred thousand over those
of tho previous week.
RAILROAD TO TAMPA.
The Wakulla Time* of the 25th ult. says:
We are greatly* pleased to learn that Mr.
Yulee, has lately closed a contract for the
lgrading and cross-ties of forty miles of roatC
from Bellamy Station, on the Florida Rail
read, in tho direction of Tampa. The work
is to bo commenced by tho 15th November:
uext ; , . rmimi : r m
We understand tlttt a survey, of the vari- l
ous routes .which have been suggested, will
bo made in season to permit a final location
j to be determined upon, before the date fixed ‘
, fer fbc beginning of the work. f
The slujkSu tan vjas recently struck by
lightning while lying in % stream, which
shattered her fore top gallant mast. A few
days sincere was hauled alongside of (he
damaged, and in such a rnguner as it would
be fair to presume-was caused by the light,
ning, which, after„ striking the mast, n, us j
have passed down the conductor, alone tin*
chain, out of the hawser-hole, thence 9bwn
to the anchor, upon which it spent its 6 pite
scoring deeply into the shank and taking i
piece off’ the crown A-Key Wett Key of tk.
Gulf, 7 th. ’ y J **
Later New* from Utah—Hostile # ~
Hormone. -
The New York papers of yesterday con
tain one week’s later news fromtab. Tho
news is not hopeful of peace prospects. q’| l 0
temper of the Mormons continues hostile
the old grudge against the Gehtileg j s bat
imperfectly covered by the existing armistice
and there is reason to apprehend a fresh out
break at any moment; tire probabilities of a
new difficulty, previously hinted at, being
rendered stronger by recent advices. Brig,
ham Young is reported to be in a tross and
sullen humor, lie remains all the time with
in his walled enclosure, evidently fearings*-
sassiaation ; his followers refuso the com
monest courtesies .to Gentile visitors • the
Peace Commissioners have retired disgusted,
and none of the Federal officials are regard
ed with favor except Governor Gumming,
whose course t is singular, The Mormons
were returning to Salt Lake City, hritigiug
their wives and children with them, and the
place was resuming its wonted aspect.—-Bal
timore Clipper, lOM inti. , ,
Another Telegraphic Project.
It is proposed to establish a line of sub
marine telegraph from Key West (Fla.) to
Ilavannn, thence to Yucatan across the Te
huantepec, and down to Panama, and ulti
mately to San Francisco. Mr. Tibbets, of
this.city, is tbfe principal mover of the enter
prise. Ho has been to Florida to procure a
charter from the Legislature of that State,
and is now in Madrid for the purpose of ob
taining the same right in relation to Cuba.—
He w ill return in September next, when the
Company will he formed and go to work.—
The distance from Key West to Havana is
only seventy miles, and the cost of laying
the cable, it is said, will be about SSOO a mile.
’Plie cable will ho of the “ tbrpe threaded”
pattern—that is, with the insulated conduc
tors. The magnetic telegraph company havo
agreed to build a branch from Savannah, Ga.,
to Key West, so that at no distant day New
York can. ho put in telegraphic connection
with Havana. The advantages of such a
line to shippers and traders in New Yarkand
elsewhere are too obvious to need pointing
out.
The project had been postponed to await
the termination’ of the Atlantic telegraphic
experiment.— Sac. flew*. t
Destruction of Oyster*.
According to the New Orleans True Delta,
the recent floodsproved destructive to the oys
sters. Itappears, says that paper, that owing
to the extraordinary quantities of fresh water
which have been discharged during this sum
mer from the overflowing banks and crevasses
of the river into the sea along the Golf shore, be
tween the mouth of the Mississippi and tho
coast of Texas, all the oysters in this great
nursery of tho delicious fish have been de
stroyed ! All dead! At first, as we learn, the
unusually large admixture of fresh with salt
water, had tho effect of making the oysters
unnaturally large and fat, hut insipid, if not
disagreeable to the taste. Continuing to
grow under the same influences, they at
length became too large for tho shells, and
pressed them open. Mud aud sand being
thus admitted, they died; and separating
from the shells, came to the surface. We
learn that millions of oysters are floating in
this way on the surface of the waters along
tho seacoast. But for the myriads of gulls that
have collected and are revelling in the unex
pected feast, tho quantity of oysters thus
destroyed would have been sufficiently great
to poison the atmosphere of an extensive
region, and might have created a pestilence.
• India. m ...
A letter of one of the East India officials,
May s{oth, say's that, as for the insurrection
being at an end, it is no more so at this
moment than it was twelve months ago. If
any thing, further from it.” He maintains
that it was not a mere nylitary mutiny, but
a universal rebellion of the people against
oppression and misrule. “For years and
years,” he says, “ ever since that abominable
Afghanistan campaign, our course has been
all down hill,; and we have been acting as if
we were under jio moral responsibility what
ever—ns if India were a tiling made expressly
for our mere worldly advantage, and for
northing else—the natives of the soil no bet
ter than the wild beasts of the jungle, or be
ing more helpless, only fit to be made hewers
of wood aud drawers of water, the slave of
the white man—that any pretense on their
part to a share of the inherit a nee-'God had
assigned them, was rank treason —that opin
ions, customs aiul usages as old as those
hills, and as fondly cherished ns aa English
man’s liberty, were to be given up and east
aside, with as much ease as you would throw
aside an old bonnet, if they did not square
with John Bull’s notions, or stood in the
way of his selfishness and cupidity. This is
exactly what, we have been doing for the last
twenty years—we hAve attempted many
things whictr even the boldest and more dar
ing of their own native princes would never
have had the madnes%tO venture on.”
The evidences,that tlm writer is right, and
that this is popular rebellion, thicken as time
passes. It is 1 said that foundcrics for the east
ing of cannon and powder in abundance,
are found in the captured forts, that splendid
cavalry is more numerous than ever among
the insurgents, and the women are seen in
embfasures assisting to work the guns. —
Added to this is the awful heat the weath
er, which the English feel the more because,
not only their constitution, but their very
clothing is not adapted to the
monel JJttpatch.
Melancholy Occurrence.
We learn from the Pensacola Observer,
that Ghent,-who was arrested sonfe time
since for robbing the mail, ami confined in
prison in Pensacola, awaiting his trial before
the U. S. District Court, now in session,
leaped from the window of his celHlta tho
morning of the 15th irist., and so Injured
his spine that lie died about four hours aftci
ward. Jt is supposed, his object tftß l®
Capci