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THE WIRE-GRASS REPORTER.
PITU I. LOVE A WILLIAM CLINE, EDITORS.
THOMASVHJjE, GA:
WEPNEBPAY, SOV’BEB 1 •
Declaration* in Assumpsit.
We have just printed perhaps
the neatest and inert beautiful form of
DoclsrstUn in Assumpsit that ha* ever made It* ap
pearance in Tbomasvllle or any where el*e. It la a
treat for an Attorney to 611 one ont. Call and aee
them. A general assortment of other Law Blank*
alway* on band.
We have aleo just added eoiMiderably to oar rtock
es Job Type, and re flow prepared to do all manner
•f hand-bill*, pamphleta, Ac., in the neateat rtyle
and *t the ihorteat notice. .
COMMON SOHQOIJS.
TEACHEUB and all other*
poa*e**ing any Information of v*lne to
the Legislature on the above sutjact. are re*p*ct
ftolljr requested to forward tbe *me to A. P. Wright,
Ksq., es ThoniasvHls, without delay, preparatory to
laying it before that body. By repeat of Hon. J.
C- Browning.
The undersigned manager* of a Co
tillon Party to be given on the 23d Novem
ber inst.* having pnt thamaelvea to sonfe
trouble to make suitable arrangement* for the
name, moat cordially itnd respectfully solicit
the prompt attendance of the ladies invited,
and we promise that no pains shall be spared
er any thing left undone to make their time
pass pleasantly and agreeably.
W. L, Holland, J. Mitciibll,
H. Wychk, W. J. Young,
W. H. Hall, J. T. Hall.
Professors Titus and Blount musicians.
TINE SVOAH'etn.
Mr. Thomas Stanaland, of this county, has
presentwi'ns a few stocks of fine sugar cane,
having twenty oddjoints to the atock. It
was grown on bottom land, without manure,
and the stocks are about at fine as any we
have ever seen.
HOMICIDE IN BEBBIEN IBOH NTT.
An unfortunate difficulty occurred near
Nashville, during the sitting of Berrien Su
perior Court, on Monday evening tbe first in
stant, between Elias Tyler and Samuel Draw
dy, which resulted in tb* death of the latter.
The difficulty commenced on the court ground
in the afternoon about a horse trade, and was
renewed agaimon tbe road home, about two
miles from town, shout dusk, when Drawdy
received a stab from a knife, piercing his
body between the*'nipple and breast bone,
Entering the left ventricle of tbe heart, from
tbe effects of which he died in about ten
mintites. Mr. Tyler promptly surrendered
himself to authorities. The grand
Jury of the county took the matter under
immediate consideration, but found no bill
against Mr. Tyler.
WfMEWICK U FtOUDA RAUXOAD COMPANY.
An instalment of 20 per cent, on the capi
tal stock of this'company is called for, to be
paid at Ecnnswick, on tbe second day of
January next.
Tho Brunawick Herald of last week says
—<lt will he gratifying to tbe stockholders
and onr readers generally to he informed
that 250 tons of iron are to be delivered to
ifr. Wheeler this week; 250 tons on the
25th Inst., and thereafter 1000 tons a month,
if necessary. We may reasonably expect
tbe first shipment to arrive between the 15th
and 20th inst.”
STEAM MUX AT DARIEN BURNT SOWN.
The total destruction of the Uppei; Steam
Saw Mill, at Darien, belonging toR. &. J.
Lachlison, took place by fire on the morning
of the 20tb ult. shout 3 o’clock, with about
200 cerds of wood.
THE PRESIDENT'S FHOCLAMATION.
Wo publish this week the,Proclamation of
the President of the United States, aimed
at what mny be termed Walker’s third expe
dition to Nicaragua. expedition is
like the others, of a military and hostile
character, we have no hesitation in saying
that we approve the Proclamation and it*
sentiments. We are no friend of the fillibus
tering order, and never have been. We
could never Bee any good excuse for the
stronger overrunning the weaker, upon the
plea of giving them a better government,
even were it a settled question that the gov
ernment wouhj he better; aud when these
expeditions ar? set afoot by military adven
turers, lawless in their designs and desperate
in their purposes, against a neighboring na
tion with whom we are at peace, it is the
province and duty of the Chief Executive
to quell them by every lawful means at his
command. They have worked much injury
to the United Stato already. They have
sown the seeds of prejudice and disaffection
throughout tbe entire Isthmus, and these
seeds are growing np in rank opposition to
the United States government. These expe
ditions have implanted a feeling of fear at
the unscrupulous rapacity of the citizens of
this government in the citizens of those na
tions, and have caused them to look to the
nations of Europe for protection. They are
forming commercial aud national alliances
with them, and we are mistaken in our infor
mation if the government of Nicaragua lifts
not already pot that nation under the protec
tion of England and the latter guarantied to
them safety from further invasion. This is
all the result of Walker’s former expeditious.
We are pleased to see that Mr. Boohanan is
taking measures to check, his farther course.
But it is said that this expedition is to be
peaceable, and a atep at colonisation from
this country to that, for agricultural purposes,
and that government has no power to pre
vent a citixen of the United States from ex
patriating himself and becoming a citizen of
another country. This is all good logic, if
it were true. But after Walker has lead two
hostile expeditions to Nicaragua in military
array, sod been expelled by military opposi
tion, one must be weak to suppose the! he
would lead a third eae there ie tha coetnme
of a Quaker. That is evidently aH ham
bug. He may feign peaceable objeeta until
he gta away from tbe United State*, but
the pig will be a peppy.or the poppy a pig
when he gets to Nicaragua. Besides. Walk
er is not a eitiaen of the United Btates—
does not claim to he—claim* to have expa
triated himself aod become a citixen of Nic
aragua, and upon hie own allowing might be
arrested and punished for fittingout a milita
ry expedition in tbe United States, and levy
ing war upon a nation with whom this gov
ernmen ia at peace.
In a word, Walker is becoming a great
nuisance in tbe United States, and his expe
ditions have done and are doing much harm
to tbe eonntry. They have been founded in
wrong, and thus far have ended in defeat and
disgrace, and we cordially hope that this will
continue to be their fate to the end.*
Some of tbe friends of Walker attempt to
mix np hia matters with the arrogant preten
sions of Qreat Britain and France on this
continent.. We cannot see the least connec
tion between them. While we think tbe
United Btates should go tbe Entire length of
their strength and means to sustain the Mon
roe doctrine, we thing they should go to the
same length against individuals in this coun
try wbo attempt .expeditions on their own
book.
BY JAMES BUCHANAN,
PrtsUleM of the United State* of America.
A Proclamation.
Whereas, information has reached me |
from aonrees which I cannot disregard, that
certain persona, in violation of the neutrality
lawaof the United States, are niakiug a third |
attempt to set on foot a mlitary expedition
within their territory against Nicaragua, aj
foreign State, with which they are at peace. |
In order to raise money for equipping aud
maintaining this expedition, persons connect
ed therewith, as I have reason to believe,
have issued and sold bonds and other con
tracts pledging the public lands of Nicaragua
and the transit route through its territory as
a security for their redemption and fulfill-1
ment.
The hostile design of this expedition is
rendered manifest from tho tact that these
bonds and contracts can be of no
value to tho holders, unless tbe present gov-1
eminent of Nicaragua shall be overthrown.]
by force. Besides, the envoy extraordina
ry and ministor plenipotentiary of that gov- j
eminent in tbe United States has issued a
notice, in pursuance of bis instructions, dated
on the 27th instant, forbidding the citiaens
or subjects of any nation, except passengers
intending to proceed through Nicaragua over
the transit route from ocean to ocean, to en, 1
ter its territory without a regular passport
signed by the proper minister or consol-gen
eral of the republic resident in tbe country
from whence they shall have departed.—
Such persons, with this exception, “ will bo
stopped and compelled to return by the same
conveyance that took them to the country.”
From these circumstances, tho inference is
irresistible that persons engaged in this ex
pedition will leave the United States with
hostile purposes against Nicaragua. They
cannot, under the guise which they have as
sumed, that they are peaceful emigrants, con
ceal their real intentions, and especially when
they know, in advunce. that their landing will
be resisted, and eau only be accomplished by
an overpowering force. This expedient was
successfully resorted to previous to the last
expedition, and tbe vessel in which those
composing it were conveyed to Nicaragua,
obtained a clearance from the collector of tho
port of Mobile. Although, after a careful
examination, no arms or of war
were discovered on board, yet, when they ar
rived in Nicaragua, they were found to be
aimed and equipped, and immediately com
menced hostilities.
The leaders of former illegal expeditions
of the same character have openly express
ed their intention to reuew hostilities against
Nicaragua. One of them, who has already
been twice expelled from Nicaragua, has in
vited, through the public newspapers, Amer
ican citizens to emi grate to that republic,
and has designated Mobile as the place of
rendezvous and 4eparture, and San Juan del
Norte as the port to which they are bound.
This person, who has renounced his allegi
ance to the United States, and claims to be
President of Nicaragua, has given notice to
the collector of the port of Mobile that two
or three hundred of these emigrants will be
prepared to embark from that port about the
middle of November.
For these and other good reasons, and for
tho purpose of saving American citizens who
may have been honestly deluded into the
belief that they are about to proceed to Nic
aragua as peaceful emigrants, if any such
there be, from the disastrous consequences to
which they will be exposed, I. James Bu
chanan, President of the United States, have
thought it fit to issue this, my Proclamation,
enjoining all officers of the government, civ
il and military, in their respective spheres, to
be vigilant, active, and faithful in suppress
ing these illegal enterprises, and in carrying
out their standing instructions to that effect;
exhorting all good citizens, by their respect
for the laws aud their regard for the peace
and welfare of the country, to aid the efforts
of the public authorities in the discharge of
their duties.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused of the Uni
ted States to be affixed to these presents.
Done at the city of Washington, tbe thir
tieth day es October, One Thousand
. . Eight Hundred and Fifty-eight, and
l 1” s 'l of’ the independence of the United
States tbe eighty-tbird,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
By the President t
Lewis Cass, Secretary of State.
Thr Sardinian Mission.— lt ia rumored
in private circles here, that this post has been
tendered to the Hon. John E. Ward, and
that be has determined to accept it On tbe
other hand the Washington correspondent of
the New York Herald states that Governor
Winslow, of North Carolina, has declined
the mission to Sardinia, which had been of
fered to him, and that consequently Mr. Dan
iel’s resignation of the post will not be ac
cepted at pteaent. ‘-v
IJrombings of % ftgislafuri.
Agreeably to law, the Legislature of tbe
State of Georgia met at Milledgeville on
Wednesday, the 3d inst., and was organized,
in Senate, by Hon. John E. Ward taking
the chair.
Mr. Ward stated that doubts existed on
tbe minds of some of the members as to tbe
eligibility of the officers of tbe last session to
a re-occupancy of their seats, aod he should
vacate hi* in favor of Mr. Reynold*, and then
handed in hia resignation as President of the
Senate.
He was immediately re-nominated by Mr.
Cone, of Bulloch, and unanimously re-elect
ed.
Mr.,Bartlett, of Jasper, then moved that
new members lately eleeted be qualified, so
tbst they might have the privilege of voting,
wbicn was agreed to. The following gentle
men then presented themselves to be sworn
in. Judge Lumpkin of tbe Supreme Coart,
administering the oath.
Hon. Seaborn Hixon, of Schley.
Hon Littlebury Holcomb, of Cherokee.
Hon. Cornelius M. Bozeman, of Pulaski.
Hon. Jeremiah Witcher, of Glascock.
Hon. John Q. Adams, of Rabun.
Hon. Andrew Cumbie, of Mitchell.
Hon. E. D. Williams, of White.
Hon, Norman McDuffie, of Wilcox.
Hon. Harrison W. Riley, of Lumpkin.
Hon. Lawson Fields, of Milton. —-
Hon. George Young, of Irwin.
Hon. Johu B. Graham, of Dawson.
Hon. John Donaldson, of Pierce.
The Senate then went into an election for
Secretary of that body, aud Mr. Tkrhunk
was also unanimously re-elected.
E. W. Alread, of Pickens, was re-elected
door-keeper, aud Vau A. Brewster, of Har
alson, messenger.
The usual privilege of seats on the floor
was extended to members of the Press.
About this time a message was received
from the House informing the Senate that
they had organized, and requesting the body
to appoint u committee to join their commit
tee to wait on the Governor. Committee-
Cone, Fields, Reynolds.
The Governor announced himself ready,
and through his Secretary, Mr. McComb,
transmitted his annual message j and on mo
tion of Mr. Cone, of Bulloch, the message was
taken up and read instanter, and 300 copies
ordeied to bo priuted for the use of the Sen
ate. ‘
Mr. Jarrard, of Habersham, in a bectjmiijg
tone and manner,announced the death, since
the last session, of Gen. Edward Coffee, Sen
ator of Rabun county, and offered the usual
resolutions on such an occasion.
The resolutions were passed and the Sen
ate then adjourned to 10 o’clock next day.
The House was organized by the Hon.
Speaker, John H. Underwood, taking the
chair, and the other officers and members of
last session taking their places.
The roll of the members elect for new
counties, or to fill vacancies, was called, aud
the new members qualified ami seated, viz :
Baker—Alfred 11. Colquitt.
‘Calhoun—George W. Colley.
Dawson—James I>. Heard.
Glascock —Calvin Logue.
Glyim?—John L. Ilnrrie.
Habersham—Robert Allen
Irwin—John B. Dorminy.
Milton —Robert Webb.
Mitchell—Augustus A. Jones.
Pierce—James Sweat.
Randolph—Seaborn A.Smith.
Schley—Charles Edwards.
Ware—William Brantley.
Warren—Aaron Jackson.
1 White—James West, Jr.
Wilcox—Mitchell J. Faulkner.
The committee to wait on the Governor
consisted of Messrs. Smith of Towns, Mil
ledge of Richmond, and Colquitt of Baker.
The editors and reporters of papers had
’ seats awarded to them.
! The Governor’s Message was received and.
1 read, and on motion 300 copies of the mes
sage and 250 copies of the accompanying doc
uments were ordered to he printed for the
! use of the House.
The House then adjourned till 9 o’clock
next day.
We have read the message of Governor
Brown, rind find it to be an able business
1 document. It opens upon tho financial affairs
jof the State, and speaks of the general im
provement of the monetary matters of the
country since the last session.
This leads to Banks and the banking sys
tem of the State. Gov. Brown reviews the
transactions on this subject of last session—
the suspension—the passage of the act to
provide against the forfeiture ofthe bank char
ters—the resumption, and the general effects,
of these movements upon the financial ope ra-'|
tions of the country. He then takes a lucid ,
common sense view of theeffectsofthe bank
ing system as at present constituted upon the
general affairs of the Satte, and although be
may not distinctly understand the debtor
from the credit side in a bank report, he ap
pears to be perfectly conversant with the
debtor and credit side of the banks vs. the
people.
There is only one point on which we dif
fer with the Governor, and that is one of
minor consideration. We refer to the with
drawal of bank bills below the denomina
tion of fivjj dollars from circulation. The
small bills are of more general convenience
than the iargeroncs. A one dollar note is
oftener called for than a five, and a five than
a twenty, and as loug as the present banking
system exists, the smaller notes ought to re
main with the larger. If the circulation of
the bank notes was stopped altogether, gold
and silver would no doubt take their place,
but it is very doubtful if gold and silver
would take the place of one and two. dollar
bills, if they aloue were thrown out of circu
lation. They are a greater convenience “Tor
small remittances, alto* as the larger remit
tances are usually made by draft. #
Gov. Brown also advocates a sub-treasury
system for the State, in which we heartily
coincide with him. The State should deal in
gold and silver, and receive aud pay out no- i
thing else. ‘ This, of itself, would be a salu
tary check upon expansive banking opera
tions, aud keep tbem, where they strictly
belong, within theoperations of the commer
cial community.
The next topic of geueral interest which
is treated by Gov. Brown is the Western &
Atlantic Railroad. He speaks in high terins,
and we think quite deservedly, of the excel
lent management of the road by the present
Superintendent, Dr. Lewis, ami with coofi- j
deuce that three hundred thousand dollars,
can be annually realized by the State from
this source, besides keeping it up to good t
repair and paying all it* expenses. 80 con
fident is Gov. Brown of this, that he is rea
dy himself, as he says, to make a contract
with the Slate to that effect, taking the road j
for ten years, paying the Btate
thousand dollars per month, and giving bond
and ample security for the performance of
the contract. Such a contract, he states,
would realise to the State upwards of 4,000,-
000 of dollars,
The next inquiry is i Wh'at shall be done .
with this money ? Governor Brown propo-1
ses to pay off the public debt, amounting
now in the whole to about #3,500,000, and
funding the same at six percent, as a perma
nent common school fund. That a common
school system is much needed in this State
is admitted by every one, and to us the pro
position of Gov. Brown is sensible. The tax
es of the State would remain ,as they now
are for the next ten years, and they are not
at present oppressive or even burthensome. —
At the end of that time we would have a
permanent common school fund ; and the
proceeds of the Western and Atlantic and
the State’s interest in the South-Western
Main Trunk to extinguish principal and in
terest, after which the State would be wholly
free from debt, ands till hold her interest in
these roads.
Govoruor Brown then speaks of the mode j
and manner of providing teachers for these
common schools, and proposes to endow tlio !
different Colleges of the State and take itl
out in tge tuition of teachers.” This is an j
elaborate subject, and would take more time ;
and consideration than we are able to give
to it to make it all out. At the fivst glance
we have some doubts of the working of the
Governor's scheme. The Georgia Univer
sity has beeu largely endowed from time to
time, and much money.,has been spent, it ap
pears to us, to but tittle purpose. Whether
further appropriations would be managed any
better, is doubtful. Os all men, literary men
appear to be least calculated to manage mo
ney matters. They are ever getting and al
ways out. A Normal School, for the er
press education of teachers, it appears to us
would be much better; and with less ex
pense to the State, accomplish that object.
We have no room to go over the Govern
or's Message further in this paper. In its
farther progress he treats of the reduction of
taxes, State aid to railroads, the penitentia
ry, State asylum, military institutes, weights <
nud measures, salaries of the Judges, sub
scriptions to legal works, the penal code, tax
laws, the militia system, boundary line be
tween Georgia and Florida, index to the re
cords of plats, agricultural interests, financial
condition of the State. We shall probably
make some extracts in our next number.
THE VICE PRESIDENT FOB DOUGLAS.
MR. BRECKINRIDGE’S LETTER.
Versailles, Kv., Oct. 4, 1858.
Dear Sir : 1 received this morning your
letters of the 28th and 29th ult., written as
chairman of the Democratic State committee
of Illinois, also one from Mr. V. Ilickox,
who informs mc-tkat he is a member of the
same committee. My absence from home
will account .for the delay of this answer.
In these letters it is said that l am report
ed to have expressed a desire that Mr.
Douglas shall defeat Mr*. Lincoln in their
contest for a seat in the Senate of the Uui
[ tud States, and a willingness to visit Illinois
and make public speeches in aid of such re
sult ; ami if these reports are true, I am in
vited to deliver addresses.at certain points in
tlie Slate.
The rumor of my readiness to visit Illinois,
and address the people of the present can
vass is without foundation. Ido not propose !
to leave Kentucky for the purpose of mingl
ing in the political discussions in other States.
The two or three speeches which I delivered
recently in this State rested on peculiar
grounds, which I need not discuss.
The other minor to which you refer is
true. I have often, in conversation, express
ed the wish that Mr. Douglas may succeed
over his Republican competitor. But it is
due to candor to say, that this preference is
not founded on his course at the late session
of Congress, and would not exist if 1 suppos
ed it would ;be construed as an indorsement
of the attitude which he then chose to as
sume towards his party, or of all the posi
tions ho has taken in the present"canvass. —
It is not necessary to enlarge on these things.
1 will only add. .that my preference rests
mainly on these considerations : that the
Kansas question is practically ended—that >
Mr. Douglas, in recent speeches, has explicit
j ly declared his adherence to the regular De
mocratic party organization—that ho seems
!to be the candidate of the Illinois Demoera
! cy, and tho most formidable opponent in that
State of the Republican party, and that on
| more than one occasion during his public life
■ he has defended tlte Union of the States and
j the rights of the States with fidelity, courage
’ and great ability.
1 have not desired to say anything upon
this or any other subject about which a dif
ference may be supposed to exist in our po
litical family, but I did not feel at liberty to
decline an answer to the courteous letter of
your committee.
With cordial wishes for the harmony of
the Illinois Democracy, and the hope that
your great and growing State, which has
never yet given a sectional vote, may con
tinue true to our constitutional Union, I am,
very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
John G. Breckix ridge.
lion. J. Moore, Chairman of the Committee.
THI MISSIOH TO CHINA.
We are gratified to learn that, the mission
to China has been tendered to, and accepted
by, Hon. John E. Ward, of Georgia. That
• Southern man, from a cotton State, should
have received this appointment, just at this
juncture in the commercial history of Chi
na, is indeed roost fortunate; but the fact
that a Georgian, and one so well qualified
and deservedly esteemer! as Mr. Ward, should
fill the post of Minister to China, is, to his
friends, a source of unminglod pride and
pleasure. By this appointment the State
and the Democratic party are honored, and
the country supplied with a public servant,
honest, faithful, and well qualified. —Daily
Federal Union.
Oglethorpe Medial College. —We
are pleased to learn . thai the fourth Annual
Course of Lectures of this Institution com
menced on 2d November—the preliminary
course having closed on Friday previous. A
majority of the faculty and quite a number
of students were already present, and we
learn that the prospects of a large attendance
was never more fluttering.
DEMOCRATIC MEETING. •’
According to previous notice, a portion of
the Democratic party of the Thomasville
district met in Thomasville, on Saturday she
JHh inst.. to appoint Delegates To represent
said district in the Democratic County Con
vention to be held in Thomasville on the Ist
Tuesday in December next. !
On motion, E- L. Anderson was called to
the chair and James C. Boss requested to
act as Secretary. a
At request, A. P. Wright, Esq., rose and
1 explained, in a few brief and appropriate re
j marks, the object of the meeting, and moved
that the chairman appoint committee of five
to present to the meeting five suitable
names to represent the district in the Con-
vention. . ,
The motion being seconded, and unani
mously carried by the meeting, the chairman
appointed, on said committee, A. P. Wright,
Jared I. Whiddon, John W. Luke, David
J. Hall and W. F. Sanford.
The committee after retiring for a short
time returned and reported the following
names, viz : J. W. Walker David T. Owens,
i A. F. Everitt, H. M. Chastain and Orman
1 James.
On motion, the report was received and
j subsequently adopted by the meeting.
On motion of W. F. Sanford, it was re
! solved that should any of the appointed Del
-1 egates fail to attend the Convention, the Del
egates in attendance be instructed to cast the
i full number of votes to which this district
will be entitled in said Convention.
On motion of 11. H. Tooke, Escj., the
| Secretary was instructed by the meeting to
publish the proceedings in the Wire-Grass
Reporter, and the meeting then, on motion,
adjourned. .
E. L. ANDERSON, Chairman.
J. C. Ross, Secretary.
Nov. 6, 1858.
THE LATE ELECTIONS—DEMOCRACY.
It is a matter of congratulation with every
patriot of the country that the Democracy at
the North have fallen in a struggle for prin
ciple. Rising above the horizon of present
passion and local prejudice, they planted
themselves upon those immutable truths
which have heretofore guided as a beacon
light the Democratic party and preferred a
temporary defeat to a sacrifice of principle
and an 111-gotteu victory. The Republican
party stooped to every subterfuge for success
and had no bond of union except the cohe
sive power of spoils. They gathered to their
embrace protective tariff and disaffected”
Douglas Democrats and fieo-labor Americans,
and fought with a desperation worthy a bet
ter cause. Tht renegade Forney—whose
vaulting ambition bad overleaped itself,whose
disappointment and chagrin at not receiving
a high office from the President burned as a
brand in the quivering flesh—used all his
great powers to defeat his old friends and
accomplish a victory for his former enemies.
Notwithstanding this unholy alliance against
the Democracy, we find men, like J. Glan
cey Jones of Pennsylvania, rejecting the
olive branch tendered them of a high impost
on iron and clinging to the old tUue-houored
democratic principles with all the zeal ami
honest enthusiasm, that the Christians of the
Middle age hugged to their bosoms the Holy
Cross. Is not the prestige of such a defeat
| worth a thousand victories.
11l lowa and Indiana, however, the De
i mocracy have triumphed ; and the true men
; of the party are encouraged to believe, that
; in those places where it Iras met with defe&U.
:it lias been accomplished by an opposition
whose elements are incongruous and whose
union will prove to be a “rope of sand”—
then the democracy should not bo disheart-.
ened. The voice-of the South will soon
speak in tones of approbation to those true
men at the North who recently fell in the
hard-fought Leconipton struggle—
“ Pa., ing a tribute of just applause
To those who died in such a cause.”
The administration, too, lias gallantly
stood by the South. The tone of the Wash
ington Union towards those democrats who
hankered after the flesh-pots of Federalism
—who advocated an unjust discrimination
against the agriculturists of the country in
favor of a few manufacturers of iron—is in
deed significant. It proves conclusively that
the administration, with principle for its guide,
will oppose all false doctrines with tbe same
purity of purpose and patriotic motive, which
actuated the iron-nerved Jackson to demol
ish a United States Bank or veto iniquitous
internal impiovement bills passed by Con
gress. All honor to the administration and
its faithful followers.— Columbus Times.
BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS—SUPREME
COUBT DECISIONS. i
The Supreme Court of Georgia has lately
decided, in the case of Mrs. Cope vs. the Sa
vannah Mutual Loan Association, that the
widow's right to dowet out of the property
takes precedence of the Association’s mort
gage. The same point was decided here, in
the Cole case, by which decisions the securi
ties of Loan Associations are placed in a
somewhat critical condition. For example
—tho widow is entitled to her dower, which
is one-third of the landed property. Sec
ondly, she and her children areentitlod to
one year’s support out of the remaining two
thirds. The mortgaged property is subject
to both of these claims, and in many instan
ces, after they are met, there is nothing left
for the mortgagee!
This, we understatid to he the settled law
of the,State as interpreted by the highest
tribunal of Georgia, and', of course, must be
submitted to, until the decision of the court
is reversed, or the legislature interposes a
remedy, which, in this age of “ woman's
rights,’ 1 they are not likely to do. Nor do
we think they ought to legislate adversely to
the interests of the widow and tho orphan.
It will be well, therefore, for the Mutual
Loan Association to understand how precari
ous are the securities on which they have
relied and are still relying, and take prompt
measures to wind up their business, Every
member of these Associations ! s interested in
the question—not only those who have not
but those who have—as all losses
incurred from such a cause, do, to that ex
tent, retard the successful winding np of the
Association, and, of course, subjects all par
ties to mote or less loss.— Georgia Citizen,
Oct. 23. ~ ■’ -*
Very flowery stiles of head dresses are
given in the late “ Fashions.” One of white
daises, with a cluster of moss roses on the
left aide; another of blue forget-me-nots,
with a similar cluster; one of tiger lily, for
ming a wreath, with a white feather on the
left; and another a wreath of moss roses, ■
with grasses sod * large rose. j
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
No subject has exhausted so much gas aa
that of public education ; none that has call
ed into requisition more of that commodity,
denominated humbug. From the sign* 0 f
tbe times this is to hue one of the great ques
tions of the Session now about to, be inaugu
rated. Our proposition to the Legislature is,
to invite communications from the practical v
Teachers throughout the State, on this sub
ject. These suggestions when laid before
the committee on education will furnish the
j most reliable data for future legislation. If
| a roan wishes to build a house lie employs
an architect; if be wishes information on a
law point, he goes to-a lawyer ;if he is sick,
the doctor is called in ; and if the Legisla
! ture wishes reliable information on the sub
ject of education, information that has been
acquired by years of patient labor spent in
teaching, let it go to the teachers of th coun
try —a class of men who, fortunately or un
fortunately, never have time to fill the office
of a legislator, but whV> alone can afford that
sort of experimental knowledge which is es
sential in inaugurating any system for edu
cation of tbe children of the State. To ex
pe.ct lawyers and planters, who have never
taught school a day in their lives, and who
know as little about the wants of education
as they do of the duties of a teacher, to ex-
pect such men to frame a system for tbe edu
cation of the children of the State, which
shall be adapted to the wants as well as the
means of the State, is to expect an itnpossi
bility. The experience of one teacher who
has spent a dozen years in his profession, is
worth more than all the speeches that will be
m/tde on the subject of education in the
Halls of the Legislature, from this day until
the close of the Session.
Asa means of saving time as well as of
procuring much invaluable information, we
would respectfully suggest to the Legislature
immediately on its inception, to adopt a reso
lution, calling upon the practical teachers of
Georgia for information touching the subject
of popular education.
In this connection, we invite communica
tions from tbe teachers of Georgia. Con
densed articles will be published with pleas
ure. — Fednhl Union.
j ILLINOIS-ELECTION.
ministration pb<ty only polled 250 votes, out
of 15,000 votes. \So far as heard from, tlja
Legislature stands 4t4Jepnblieans, 43 Dem
ocrats aud 10 Douglas Democrats.
> [second despatch.]
Chicago, Nov. 4.—The Republicans con
cede! hat Douglas lias a majority of eight
in the Legislature. Three members are still
doubtful. ‘
NEW TORE ELECTION.
New York, Nov. 3. —Parker’s majority
for Governor is 20,000.
The Republicans have elected twenty-six
Congressmen, and tbe Democrats seven.
Yellow Fever in New Orleans.
NEW Orleans, Nov. I.— The Howard
Association close their labors this day, tbe
fever being no longer considered epidemic.
New,. Orleans, Nov. I. —Tbe deaths
from yellow fevfc on Saturday were twenty
—ilnring the week one hundred and seven
ty-five. *
New Orleans, Nov. 2. —The deaths by
yellow fever on Monday were twenty-seven.
There was frost in the suburbs this morning.
New Orleans, Nov. 4. —Tlwro were sev
enteen depflis by yellow fever in this city ou
Wednesday.
SaVa.tnAll, Nov. 4. —There were six in
terments to-day, four of which were caused
by yellow fever
PORTRAIT OF GOV. TROUP.
We visiten Hie Senate chamber a few
days ago, and there saw what is thought to
be an admirable likeness, full length, of
George M. Troup. Thin is one of the paint
ings ordered by the last Legislature, and
was,” we in Atlanta. It is
a finopainting, and doubtless a good likeness.
The old patriot sets in bis- sanct'um, pen in
band, having just concluded that memorable
document which closes with the words—'“ the
argument having been exhausted, let us stand
by iror •arms.” , ‘ ——
His library, containing a few favorite vol
umes, many of tlipin minus a cover, occupies
a conspicuous position in the picture. The
painting was executed by a Mr. Mier.—Frd
erul Union.
BATTLE WITH THE INDIANS IN WASHINGTON
TEHBITORY.
Tlte Department at Washington have re
ceived intelligence of a battle between the
U. S. Troops under Col. Wright and the hos
tile Indians in the Spokan country. The
Indians were defeated, losing many warriors
and one chief. Since the battle they have
sued for peace.
Three members of the present Legisla
ture have died since the adjournment last
winter. Messrs. Moore of Glynn, Jones of
Warren nud Julian of Forsyth, all members
of the House of Representatives. —Federal
Union.
THE BIGHT VIEW.
A letter from Milledgeville to the editors
of the Augusta Constitutionalist closes by
saying—“ All the Democrats I have con
versed with are in favor of Douglas’ election,
without being unfriendly to Buchanan’s ad
ministration.”
Ncuj QMltJcttiscmc te
Office Atlantic A Gulf Railroad Co
s Nov. 6, 1858.
SEALED Proposals will bo re
•*■***‘'s'’ ceived at this office until the 7th day of
December next, for the grading, bridging and furn
nioliing croaa-tiea for forty five niilea of road, extend
ing from the Great Satilla river to the Allapaha.—
bids will be received for one or more aectiona, or for
the entire work. Addreaa the underaigned.
JAMES P. SCREVEN,
Nov 10—3 t Prtaident.
Onions, Apples and Cheese.
r 4 bbla. Applet.
” 4 “ Onion*. •
25 boxea Dairy and Pine-Apple Cheeae.
20 “ butter. Soda, aweet, fancy and Pio
Ntc Crackeri, juat received and for aale by
nov 10 JOHN STARK.
N~ EW RAISONS, ALMONDS,CITRONS, CUB
ranta, Prunea, Filberts, Pican, Paradiae, Bra
zil and Coconuts; Cooking-extract*, Sweet Oil,
Sauces, Spices assorted, Cordials; Muscat, Hock,
Port, Sherry, Madeira Wloec ; fine Brand U*s, Whis
keys and C in; Tobacco, Railroa * Snuff, Cigars and
many other things, good to eat, drink, smoke snuff
or chew. The undersigned having selected them
‘himself with care, and is just receiving them, omre
j for .Me. nov fO JOHN STARK.