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Opposition Platform. PREAMBLE. The Opposition Tarty of (Vcqff* p'sals it lf upou the principlasof Riplita f-p-iri prmlagsa in the • uier., sr.i aqual J atriomixn ol its banficii*, anu the oxen e by only of sucfi power* u nr* •peoihi'elly delay. t'i in t)<* CoattU-.urn, aoJ those clearly in !*rr*Uo Irani, and incident to. the granted pon j era and ueceaaary to carry out inch granted power*. 1. Itesolrni, That the Union, oa establish- i •and by the Kde.-nl Constitution, if ihe latter lie i faithfully carried out, la the sweat unaranty of lh* right* and inlaccata of all sections of the ‘ country, and preserved 2. Itesolred. That a. the institution ofi Blavery existed in llie State* of the confed eracy prior to the adoption of tile Constitu tion of the I'ntted Slates, and the right te hold slaves aa property was conceded by tho framer* of Lite Constitution and fully recog nised therein, therrlore, Slavery exist* inde- ‘• penitently of the ConMitiinon and, as slave ry i* recognized ami s*ucliourd by the Constitution, Congress, which deuces *ll ; its ]>oweit from that instrument, cannot Icg islata on the subject of slavery, *r rept/or i lt protection wlu-ro it legally exist* ; that the Territories are tho common property of all the States, an l therefore, tho jieople have the right to mtor upon and occupy any Territory with their slaves, as well a* other property, and are protected by the Consti tution and Flag of tho couutry ; that Con- gress lias no right to legislate slavery into, nor exclude it from a Territory, and that wo hold that the doctrine of “non intervention” with tho institution of slavery in the States. Territories, or the District of Columbia, does not, nor w as it intended to conllict with the aaaerttoo of the power of Congress to pro tect the properly of the citizens of the sev eral Stales who may choose to settle in the several Territories. We lielieve also that the further agitation of the subject of slavery will tend to no practical good to any portion of the conn- j try, and should therefore cease, regarding llie principle as settled, both by legi'lalire enactment and judicial interpretation, (bat the people of the Territories, when they come to form a State Constitution, nod at nooth lej limr, (by unfriendly legislation or otherwise shall delude the igicstion for themselves. We lurtliermore repudiate the doctrine ol ‘squatter sovereignty ‘ in all its forms as an invidious and certain mode of excluding the South from the common territory of the I mou, and stand ready to oppose sternly and uncompromisingly all who advocate that doctrine X Renlvett, That the reckless extrava gance of the preceding and present Admin istration of the Federal Government, and especially the utihlushlug corruption which has marked tha latter, by which the public expenditures have been increased from fifty to near one hundred millions of dollars |>er annum ts a den wrong that should be re bu id aits ; • corrected. We hold < ‘on gross i ,u*v u .non si Mr with tho Ad rnin: ratiou for ‘h . qn-ngauce. I. Ve r-n n i recommendation ot i the President that Congress should uouler upon hint the war-making power, and sub jeot the army and navy to bi control, coupled with the demand lor enormous ap propriations ol tho public money to carry out his view call lor and deserve the most unequivocal ar.d um/o*l>iied condemnation of the whole country. 6. Hetnlvrd, The present representation in the State Legislature wo regard as cumbrous, , an unnecessary tax upon tiie |x-ople and In imical to sis- and prudent legislation. We advooafo a decided luductiqn and at tbecath- . est day im,i.i.i.b. Jiic Kroxt II H rile, altollt .lee Hroti ii. “Modesty i .1 quality that adorns a wo- | man,” say’ the old proverb, but whether his Excellency Joseph E. Ilrown boasts such an adornment, the reader must de termine after reading the following arti cle which we find in the Atlanta Confute- j racy. It evlines a modest appreciation of his own merits, quite as refreshing as the late Demonstration of Mr. Stephens in this city : Jos Brown \S kicks a in.it Jos Riowi.—ln the fall ot 1855, Joe Brown was a candidate tor the judgeship of the I heroicee Circuit. lie was opposed by Judge Irwin of Marietta. There being much political excitement at the time, the canvass partook of a political na ture, and as much so as Joe Brown mid his lriends could make it. This ,vas , done for the purpose of securing Joe’s election. Not having any legal mer it, he appealed to the Pemociatie party which was largely 111 the ascend ant in the district, to elevate hint to the bench. (It should have been a pillory.) lie visited the city of Atlanta and ap pealed to the editors of the Intelligencer, to advocate the claims of “(U. //rmwi, o/ Vhrrol.tr.” They did so to some ex tent, but it was not satisfactory. The capabilities, excellences, legal attain ments, end superhuman qualifications of “Cut. Itromi,” were not set forth in Inn gunge sufficiently explicit and cogent. W h*mi|M>u “CW. Jirutcn” proposed lo write an editorial about “fW. Hr own.’ 1 Thin whs assented to. Olid in the Intelli genoar of the - Ith of Sept., In.Vi, tan lie found line rare gem id, suit'uiUalewl i laudation. ror far “F nauseating the | ‘ll Iliife f w will only make one extract of the most modest “character. Itoud it: “If be (Judge Irwin) had taken th open, candid mid independent course pursued by 1 <>l. Ilrotrn , his cpgtonent, anti avowed his sentiments witliout dis guise or dimble dealing, he would not now stand in the unenviable position be now oenpies before the community. ‘ *’ Hut the trick is exposed, the people have learned the secret, and .in Monday next they will stamp the seal of their condemnation upon it, and will elevate /’<>/, Hroirn to the Bench—a anif/entan eminently qual ified, and one who is not ashamed ot his principles, or afraid to avow them.” Now, reader, reflect, ‘I he (question may be asked, upon what authority do 1 we make this charge ? We answer, that the authority Is incnnlestibl*. It is from a gentleman who wax connected with the office nl the Intelligencer at the time the article was written. We challenge an investigation. This is the same, identical “Colonel Hroirn” that was accidentally nominated for < Jovcrnor. Will theStateol Ueorgia again dis- j grace her fair escutcheon by the re eled tion of this self laudatory in fialux f riicre is a popular movement in ■ Nebraska for a Statu Government, proposing a convention in October, mi’ election in November, and appli cation for admission simultaiiuoualv with Kansas. From the Knoxville Whig. DwiagUt*’ -Order of Iparfun..'’ Dougin* nnd hi a parttturs in New Yotk, mostly ,re#3oil Democrats lutve got up a Seat: Order—if the reader 1 please, u <(trtt ,J> ti, ,il (n tuini'tt t 1 n — ‘ mtetuligjl ho Advance his chum* to the Presidency, The Pennsylvanian, n lending Democratic paper in Philadel phia, stated that this order i* to he ex tended into all the other States, between now nnd the time of the meeting of the I < harlealon (’i nvention, so m to pack the I delegation* from every State. The-r ----! gam cation i* known by the name of the i “Order of Spartans.” having sign*, grips, and pass words. The Petisylvanian saya it is n well organised secret political so ciety, and h.is its agents out in other States, paiil by Douglas and his friends. They avow themselves in favor of the | Cincinnati Platform “at expounded Ay tin pinole's ch<iwpu>n f j!Ste/‘hei< A, Jhiuy i In* j’’ and the following i* one of their resolutions made public in one of their organa at Buffalo, colled the Republic, w here there is a branch of the order : /{eeolred, ‘Hint in order to make our- \ selves effective at the (mils, we will act as a unit in casting our ballot for men who tha'.l have been endorsed by this or der. Now, is this the party, whose leaders every where cried out against secret pu I litieal Organitolione, in 1 85(1, warning the people against them, as dangerous to civil and religious liberty? And is this the same I hmglas, who, while Senator in i Congress, spoke to a mass meeting in \\ ashington, denouncing the signs, pass word* aud oaths ot tho Know Nothings! What an unmitigated pack of hypo crites ! Gov cruel by no principle, they alone act in reference to the Semi.*. Hut they adopt the Cincinnati Plat form “at expounded Ay Stephen A Jtautjlas” And here are the words in i which I hiuglas expounds one of its most important articles of faith: “A Territorial Legislature may RIGHTFULLY exoIudeSLAVEKY by NON-ACTION and UNFRIENDLY legislation. ’ W ith this avowal of Abolitionism, the Free Soil States are sending dele gates to Charleston, instructed to go for Douglas! And the power and influence of this secret organization and the charm of its signs, grips, and pass-words back ed up with a love for spoils, will even drive the Slate Rights Democracy of \ irginin, the Nullitier* of South Caro lina, the Fire-Eaters of Georgia, nnd the Slave-Trade Democracy of Alabama and Mississippi, to the nomination of Douglas. The corrupt and prolligate leaders of I fomocraoy in Tennessee are for Douglas now. T hey already endorse the affirmation that n territory may ex clude Slavery by non action : and the nomination of Douglas nt Charleston, will open their eye-, to e the potency nnd truth of “unfriendly legislation , and by the time the canvass fully opens, they will admit that “a territorial Leg. islature iniii/rlyhlt,illu • relttih slureryr‘ ? ‘ol.. A kin.— Vl I 4 lloi n XT's ()|-|s ion The Ring--AM l-lAiroxV, a In : moerntie journal./published nenrCol. Akin’s home, tint!- -.peaks of him : Cm,. Akin.— I In- 1 qipokition Cum veiition \v l l ie l l assembled at Ntlnn ta on the lutli nil . put in innnimi ; lion Col. Warren Akin, of Cass, for tiovernor. Wc speak only vvliat ev -1 erv one in 11 1 i— seel ion know s in he true, when we say that no man of the Opposition could have been found, who eonhl enrry more votes in this section ot’ the Slate, than Col. Akin, lie is a man of undeni able ability, andiiTcproaelnihle mor al ehnrucler. lit-Inis no political re cord, having neVer taken an active ; part in political allairs, lie was an old line whig, hot never belonged to the know tint hipg orgnniy.nl ion, or to the American |i/irtv, hilt was gencr -1 ally known to be among its syiiipa- I thizers. Since* the death of the old Whig party, ho lias always been found following in the wake of those opposed to 1 lit I•eniccnicy, he they whom they might. No party mime, therefore, woiri l better suit himthan that ot the party of w hich lie is now aeknowled h-aller. We are inn- among Col. Akin's mum personal friends andndmircra, and we arc exceedingly sorry that so good n 11181/11- lie is, should he sacri ficed to keep tlie party organiy.ation up—lbr w e apprehend no candid per son will pretend to deny, that lie who rims against (Jov Brown is ’ doomed to defeat 1.1 A r or Orb ii ns fruiter Coimnittril r " r M'TR slemjliU-i. -\V. II I’ King, toreinan in the composition room of llie New < IrlcuiiH Crescent office, was examined in that city on .Sutiiidav lie-1, on a charge of murder and iii dieted for manslaughter. During a meeting of the New Orleans Typo graphical tnion, on the 3d of.fitly, \rthur Meiell, (who was assistant loremun in lie same department, ot’ 1 ihe (’rosccnt office, ) and the accused, lmd an altercation, during which \lel,ill was -tnhhcd by King in the lun k. w hit'll result, and i'u the death of Mi-(i. on tlieMh iiisi. The dying do clnration of Met.'ill was not allow,si to he used in evidence, hut the tcsli- ’ inniiv of sewrai witnesses went to fix the net II ,011 the licensed, mill lie w as fully coninittcd to take his trial , for iiiiiiislamliier. He was admitted to bail in tin sum of kj.auo Among tli’ recent contributions to the \\ itsliington Monument is a liloek ot cur’cd marble, in wbieli is j inserted a (iirioiisly carved bead, with this iiis riptioii beneath : -This bead was curved between two and \ three tinman id years ago bv the au x S'icut Egypt ana, tor their temple, ; erected in imtior of Augustus, on the j banks of tl, Nile. Brought from j ; there by .1 I l.elimilll.” , I okc being asked bv George 111 w ictlicr he pin ved cards, | replied— '“"not. y our Majeatv. tell a king flrotn a kimre !” DAILY CITIZEN?! L. r. W. ANI>RETT?, Editor. MACOM, 8u Toil DAY BEPI ~ iBot- 1 FOR GOVERNOR COL. WARREN AKIN, Or Cass. FOR CONOR ESS, THOS. HARDEMAN, jr„ Os Bibb. For Congreu. I#/. Dintrict. — - ‘.'J. “ Marcellas Ittarlaw, of Kandnlph. 3rd. “ Tboata Hardraii, Jr., of Hihb. till. “ Mm. I’. Wright, of Coweta. 6th. “ Bth. ith. “ Ilea. Jasliaa 11111, of I’utnam. hth. “ A. R. Wright, ol Jeflr*on. Appointment! cf Mr. Hardeman. Kart Wile;. Irldst, Srpt. i i Batter, Taylor co., Satardat, Srpt. 3 ll.talll ia. Harris ro., Tnali), Sept, tt Whltr-avllle. “ Wntamda,, Srpt. 1 i Hr. suers Spring, Ttiumtej, Sept. S i tallej Plains, I'rUa,,.. Srpt. tt TliaaderlagSprlac, rpsonro., Tarn!'}, “ 13 Hardeman’s Appointments. PKATTSBCRG, Talbot county, Thursday, September 15. GENEVA, Talbot county, Fkioay, September 16. GRIFFIN, Spalding county, Monday, September 19. LIIIERTT IIII.L, Hike county, Trssnxv, September 20 Cl LL<)T)KN, Monroe county. Tin ksday, September 22. KNOXVILLE, Crawford county, Sati bdav. September 2‘l - Due. file very able article in our yes terday's edition upon the subject yl “Direct Triid,,” we omitted to credit to the proper source. It was taken from the editorial columns of the Mo bile He, titter The Sovonth District. We learn by a private letter, that Col. A. 11. Kenan and Hon. Joshua Hill, had an in terview a few days since: and with a mag. nnniinity that has ever characterised his po litical conduct, Col. Keuan has withdrawn his name from the canvass. Wo are truly | gratified t lint this difficulty has been ar ranged : and while xve cheerfully tke down our fiiends name, and substitute Bon I Joshua Bill’s in th place we are proud of j the generous, noble, self-sacrificing pirit that preferred bis own retirement to the de i feat of his party and it principles. I.et us | not forget Col. Kenan, in the future, —and j let every true friend rally to Mr. Hill, und save the District to the Opposition. Cm.. Ann, in Savaxbxu.— Wo un derstand that Col. Akin xvnked up the people in Savannah on Tlittrsnny night. \ private letter snys his presence has created great euthusiaam. There is no doubt of the power and influence which ( 01. Akin’s character carries with him. His success is almost certain. Singular Night Scone. Avery ‘ingiihir appearance of the i heavens was noticed bv inanv of our citizens between the hours of 1 and J 8 o’clock this morning. We first discovered it about ft o'clock ; lit w hich t inn- t lie sk v was ot'a brilliant red I rout zenith to horizon, and so bright, as to make objects plainlx visible in an ordinary lighted cham ber. It xvua quite clear, auil the stars shone out brightly. Those who no ticed the l-l cnomcnoil at all earlier hour, ilcscrihc it as light, as middle way between the break of day and sunrise, and extremely red. It was certainly un interesting sight. We are not over weather wise, but we think it portends storm\, laii.-icr ous xveutli. r tir llook Table. “ P.X III. OR CIIAKAIIKH .A N|l I’ltO v Kims, intemled for the Parlor or Saloon, ami requiring no expensive a]i]mrat us, or scenery, or proprieties, tiir their pcrfonuaucc ; by S. Anno; Front : J. 11. IJppincott A Cos., pub lishers, Philadelphia Avery pleas ant volume of evening umusclnents. For sale by .1. M Hoard man. ” tenertintf Wort. :it irrlt ot’ mnnij Ti rtiifis, wrought Ilf/ Until Parting ton. (II P. Shellahcr.) Hi •own, I,og gnrd. A ('base : Shehloit A t'o.. New soi k, ami J 11. iiippiueot 1, Philadel phia, pitldishers. Those who have a wish to look over the savings of Mi's. Partington, and the doings of that peculiar specimen of Young America. “Ike,” can do so, by call ing at Mr. .1 M. lb>unlman's Hook Store. Price. HI 25. Htir/irr - Anr Monthh/ Mnt/u;in<. Mr. Konrdinuii has laid on our table the Septcmlmr number of this peri odical NYc shalll notice this work niot'e tally at some future time. “To Point a Moral.” Issnrlnir in iih .fas that stoo/irth hrbirren Uvo burden*,” Cannot the honeat, conserva tive Democrats of Georgia see Ibat the lac lions which divide the Democratic party, have placed it in the condition of Isaac!.or ? Mr. Douglas and Gov. Broyvn are the bur dens on one baud, aud Senator Iverson on tli® other. Will they not come out from among them, and let Irotb burdens fall to the ground? “A bouse divided against itself cannot stand. ’ The Opposition party pre sents s place of relief and safety. “A word to the wise is sufficient I” Mr. Toombs and the Deinoc - racy. Mr. Toombs’ speecn at Lexington ha> thrown the Dtrrocracy into* terrible stew They will find jlio nM \Yi o leader ome- Until; of a tyrant beloio tlicy got done with bint, lie tried to domineer over tlic old Whigs but finding they were al-oul to fling him ofT he slid over on to the hacks of the Detnooracr. We shall watch the coming events with soma interest. If the honora ble Senator shakes bis list so threateningly at Mr Gartrell, It is a matter of speculation what he will say to our friend, Col. Speer. For llw ♦'<rt<ig rmwn, At l( Attain. Mr. Editor:— Tin* Km pin Stop tell* u* tno < ntliu-.Rin for Col. Spoor i tm u abound* fit'’ in Houston. Well, ifthcre i* no bound* to tin* onthiiftia*m for Cos!. Spoor, b will b* oloctoil liLo Od. Hailey was rite fat. I reckon tli* Empire Siatr lift* a ferUnff recollection I of the cn\aft- for Copgro** in thU district lin JH.V. The Empire State -aid then the l enthusiasm for Col. Hailey wun unbounded } and the eiitliuidmmi for Col. Spoor will !*• boun<lcd by the* triumphant election of the gallant and trustworthy Capt Ilardernnh.— Tho|roopl< of the 8d District will reintmher how the Empire Stair, the Ucorgia Telegraph, the Columbus Time*, talked and wrote then. Thojr told the people Haily would he elcctfil any how, for the enthusiasm was nnhoundod for him. Oh, there were largo gains then for Haily, as now for (’ol. Sj**er. The Em pire State speaks of large guins for o*l. Speer. It is only an old song men-un and by anew note of vain-boasting ami misrepresentation —that is all. Tin- truth is the Empire Staff | ha* been so long in the habit ol raising ex pectation, and &o long auhjectcd to di*up pointment and de/hat in this District, we can afford to let him revel in the anticipation of how ‘die would if he could,” only heat us once in the District. How delightful it must be to the Empin State to think how he would fed—(the thought ravishes his soul,) if he could just beat Hardeman with Col. Speer, in this District. There is no chance, Mr. Empire State. You and the Col. de ceived the people too had in 1865 and 1858, with Douglas and the Kansas bill. Don't you recollect how Douglas and Walker and Hucbanun defended the rights of the South in Kansas, by insisting that tin* people should vote upon the Constitution of Kansu with out even consulting the Convention, or learning Whether or no it met the wishea of the delegate of the Convention that framed the Constitution. Have you forgot ten the 3rd resolution of the Democratic Con vention that nominated Brown in 186 b, for Governor ? You remember how you hel|H*d to fool the jteoplu oftho 3rd District—l mean the people of the Democratic party. Don t you remember lion Brown dodged that res olution ? Think! lookback, and try and ! call to mind what you promised then. What I did you and votir lenders promise the people while you were fastening Dougin-Territorial Legislation, and Squatter Sovereignty upon them Are you not tired of hearing Squat. ter Sovereignty apoken of? You ought to admit a defence of Squatter Sovereignty in your columns again, a* you did in IH-V, or is"- 1 - xv i—,..:..n a* t--vVu.v'avt ‘.iu-i ter Sovereignty now? remit'*, I think, was hi* cognomen, limit; him out again: knock olf the splint nnd give him h fair trial. Squatter Sovereignty is a fiVtfaspnvined : but rub him tip, cover him. bv throwing tiie Um pire State over him, us von and Cifl. B|ieer did over hi* stall, ill the Kansas bill. You liuvo but little to aay for llie Kmisiis bill noxv. Oh, no, don't mention it: for our Democratic candidate for Congress in tho fird District, Col. Speer, did battle manfully for the Kansa* bill, and denied that Squatter Sovereignty was in that ( heat nnd swindle. Think how you and Col. Speer have helped to fix this Pole Kvil of the Kansas hill, upon your section nnd country. You know, I reckon, something iifomt that disease (Pole Kvil,) among horse-. The people of the :(nl Di.-triet remembers too well your promise about that nee” to mu’ e Kan-as a Slave Stale, to trust the political “wisdom of your self or Col. Spi sir. The Kmpire .Stale spexta and publishes Home remarks made by (’el, Speer, nt Tsl bottou, in defence of the extravagant waste of the l’ublic .Money by tlif adimiii-trntion, and the Democratic h aders at Washington, and Col. Speer itenir .> what. Robert Toombs asserts us a fart , that the ortlinarv expenses ) oftheGovernment have ts*on raisi-d from 4*> millions to SO or ‘.Hi millioj&s a year. Col. Speer says “large have been made bv Coiigress'tO"slreng|lien our defence in the construction of shipsfof war.” Well, let us see what Senator Todnhs says about Ibis same matter, on the gjli of February, 1K.V.1, in the Senate ofthe f”nitcd States. — ’ Toombs says thi—“YiH'j HAVK CAIt- IMKD YOI'H NAVAL K,\ I'KNSES, IN TEN YKAHS, KKoM FIVK OR SIX MILLIONS HOLLA Its Ty THIRTEEN MILLIONS, WITH NO AltljyE EFFI CIENCY, AM> BI T YtW 51 Olt T snirs.” Mr. Toombs, in that same >],<■,-cl), insinuates that a large portion AfYlieinttrCiv amount is spent in polities : Ju ar him, listen to him—**/ (hint this rnonegfts Indhi spent, er* nif spent fcrpoHtie*. ffjttiinbi appro peialrJ men ft* that bit sin eae,tit untfht to brlnt/ more result* Now, youfßavo what Col. Speer said, and 1 have given y-ou what Mr. Toombs anys. I'Soe Appendix to t'ongre*- •lolialGlobe. INdhand 1 S f, page lh.) Per il)! p- they have a const rush i/n account at Washington fur the NnvyJ as they lmd on the State Rond while Johnson was tiovern or. You know how that was managed 1 give seven dollars 11 yard for work on the State lload to favorites, when it eould liavo been oontrneted for at lbi|r dollars a yard. Tell Col. Speer to rea l Tooiiilm’ speech and expose of the extravigaiiA of the admini*. tration at Washington, before he makes another Talbolton. Hardeman is right in hfs charge of Feder al corruption and cvtfftvngaacu—Toomlia bears him out in it. Whatever Capt. Har deman voted, is a permanent investment for die benefit of the State and people; not so with tin- money voted at Washington. Not one dallar of money voted for by Hardeman, was ever appropriated sos political purpose®, as Sir. Toombs insinuates the money at Washington Im- ls-en Used. Use or rui. old tinauji. I’rofS. O. IJillycr has accented the Chaplaincy and Professorship of Theology of Mercer University. ‘ fWi\lMt”vtl‘ATKll.‘| M AVON, Hf|*t. Ist, 1 S.V.*. I*r. Andrews: 1 For the benefit of “A Friend,” J mentionedlnyouvcHi t...1i.ft0-.|:iy, nlcu-sc pubic h .1 JcW t?/ ‘ i ,j‘i tis r rri/ HiM/iilar trrorn, committed by said “friend,” ill looking over tln* re port of tho censu , t!*r the city and county., at published in the ‘‘Journal and Motteeiiger” ol’ yester.lav. He asserts positively, dial according to the report, there uro i but 7‘J2 males <>Ver Its years of age in the city.—- ■ There are more than I wire dial miiiil.fi- and die report av* so. “A Friend” finds nut from die report, that the niiniber ol female* over 15 years of age, is double that of the males over lii years in the city.— Such is not the liiet, and the report does not so stale. “A Friend” says, the city votesov er Mill and that there are, aeoork mg to t lie report. only 71*2 males over Hi, in the eity. The report neither says or inlj imites any sueli figuivn. “ A Friend” discovers from the report that lliciv are hut 1121 males over Hi years of ttffe in the county , and says every body knows w e vote 17<*• * votes.— Neither Mr. Burnett. or the tables of the report over which “A Friend” looked, says any sueli thing. “A Friend” says, that the census taker, puls down 227 k femalesover 16years of age, and only 1121 males over If! in the county. The census taken, puts down no sueli thing. The re port as published in the Journal A .Messenger,'shows first, that there are 1(124 heads of families in the city of Macon—of that number 1X1! are fe males—the remaining x:ix heads, are males over Hi years of age ; add to that nun) Iter, males over Hi. asset down in the report in the 41 li column, and it makes Midi) males over Hi years of age in the city of A!aeon. The Report hlioxvs 1680 run lon ox er Ifi years of age, and 1206 females ox-- cr 15 years age—add to that number I*6 females heads of families and xve have 1482 female* ox er 15 x cars of age. Tiie Report shows 18.55 heads of families in the county ; 1555 of these are mules over 16year ofngo—add to this number 1121 males over Hi. as in the report, and xve have 2676 males over Hi years of age. Now I I think I have proven from the re port itself, that “A Friend” did not understand anything about it, nnd that he has made a vai.sk report of the same. Tile census of the fitx nin I county has been taken properly and the figures show just what tliex are I heliexc I liax'e every mans name doxvn in the city, and his cen sus taken properly, and 1 am sorry to know that some men in Mtieon, who pretend to he my friends un making false statements in regard to the nuttier. The Lord deliver me from such friends, forever. J (’. <’. BURNETT, < Vnstis Taker of (’ity ‘".Y TtfciUK.xmi. Dn ti xi. Mr. John T. Johnson, lately a Custom house officer in Alexandria, Virginia, publishes n card in the Gazette of that city, explanatory of the eunso of his removal from office. It ap pears that he voted for Mr. Shackle ford for Congress, instead of Gov. Smith, And, although Mr. Shackle ford was a Democrat, yet the Gov ernor was considered the regular party candidate, und therefore Mr Johnson was ousted from his office. Ft appears that he called (o see the President in regard’to his removal. Here is his own account of the inter view : The President informed its, that persons who hold office under his Administration would he expected to support the rc-eleofion of mem bers of Congress who were friendly to his Administration, regardless of tlteir antecedents. Opposition to such a candidate,to ho regarded asjust cause fin - removal. Mr. Jones golog out of his nay to (stall Mr. Jrnkins la IS.U. Do the friends of Mr. Jenkins intend to support the pretensions of Mr. John J. Jones for a seat in Congress ? To all who do, we wish to present the follow ing extract from the correspondence of ihe Chronicle and: Sentinel of 1853, when this same Mr. .Jones was a candidate for Congress, in opposition to Mr. Stephens, and when he tra\ eled out oi his way, in his rapid support of Johnson, to make such a lling ut one who towers ns far above him ns the mountain above the ant hill. Head the extract, mid try how it rests on your stomachs 1 “ Me [Jones] also told us that no mat ter it Johnson was a Disunionist and BplriV Hf>jqier,Wey nercr foil nit him pass ing any Algerine Lair.” Navigation ok tub Mishocki Ri vku. —.V steamboat has just return ed to Si. Louis, (Vom a trip up the .Missouri river to Fort Benton, three thousand miles from its mouth, and only seventy miles from the source of the Colombia river. This is the furthest point yet reached hv stenm boat, anti it is now demonstrated, a steamboat may, without any difficul ty, go from Pittsburg to Fort Hen ton nnd hack. In truth, the intern al navigation of the west is as yet in its infancy. The hippopotamus of the Jardan des Plants at Paris had a son last year which she killed hy pressing it against the side of the tank. This year another callow hippopotamus was horn. He seemed at home in the watery cradle provided for him, yet when lie had reached his fifth day site brutally nnd unfeelingly killed him, with her tusks. The next scion of this family will he “raised by hand” and apart from the cruel instincts ofits mother. I hiring the year there have been thirty-two tons of gold coined at the California .Mint. — ——— | Newspaper*. Consider how universal are news- J papers in America. They penetrate 1 every nook and corner of society. No .-tin r element es power has such nsphere i The pulpit, the court, the lecture, oogi j paroj with the newspaper, touch society in but few places. The newspaper in 1 America is universal. It reaches within j and without, Loin surface to cole; it j travels everywhere, is bought by every body, read by all classes, and is wholly j or nearly tho only reading of more than halt our population. It* service to good morals nut) to intelligence among the ; people is incalculable. All the libraries of Europe are not of as much serx ice to j the nations as tho newspaper is to this American nation. Its power is growing. Who would, twenty years ago, have dreamed es such a growth ami power as has hern developed ! But the next 20 years will witness a greater. The editor is to be schoolmaster. The beat talent find its highest sphere in tin editorial j room. Already that chair is tmire in I Ihicnliu! than the bench or the platform. No brain can act upon so many as that j which speaks by the printing press af the daily paper. Ink heats like blood in llie veins of the natiou.— fndepeiulent. Col. Speer defending the Engliah Bill! We have it upon reliable authority, that Col. Speer, in his speech at Zebufon, on the 18th tilt., “defended the English Rill earnestly, and declared that it con tained no objectionable feature.” Southern Rights men—lverson men, do you hear that { Mr. Iverson, in his speech iu this city, denounced the popu lar sovereignty doctrines of the Kansas Nebraska Act, as defined by Mr. Doug las. The English Bill sustained Dong las construction, (by giving the people of Kansas the right to exclude slavery after a pro slavery constitution haJ been adopted and submitted to Congress.) aud Mr. Speer defends the English Bill! Nor is this all—he refuses to say that he is not the friend aud advocate of Douglas, or that he will not support him, if nominated, for the Presidency. Is this the candidate that Southern Kiyhts Democrats are preparing to elect ; with their votes? We do not believe | it.— fnd South. The Democratahavo been claim ing the election of Gen. Houston, ns Governor of Texas, for a Democratic victory. Hear what the Huntsville j hem, a Democratic paper, published nt Houston's home, has to say: The Know Nothings have won Texas! It is useless to deny the fact. Around here, they me the most jubilant set of t fellows you ever saw; nothing now will suitthem but to make Houston President ‘of the Union! nothing less comes up to their lofty ideas ; they even talk of his ■retting the Charleston nomination! Why should he not ? Two weeks ago, we would as soon have thought of (lying to the moon as that Sam Houston would be Governor of Texas, yet that imp< issibilily has c itne to pass,—Sam Houston is the (Jovernor elect of Texas! We shall I deebi nothing impossible flfTtb this out. ■Bkn ITii.i. at Forsyth.—Tbis*popu lur orator addressed a rou-sittg meeting : of the people, at Forsyth, Tuesday last. He spoke, we learn, for host's, and held his immense auditory spell-hound to the close. We hear of this best re sults. The truth is, the people are waking up and becoming alive to the impositions that have so long been heaped upon I them. There is “lire in the mountains,” and the coullagiation is beginning its march over Middle Georgia. May we j not hope that some spark will light ttpii blaze in the South, nnd thus by sweep. ’ ing over the entire State, purge it of the chaffy demagogues that have so long he strided and disgraced it. Let Chatham nnd the First District awake from their slumbers, and lend a willing hand to the gloriouscotisummalion.— Situ. Ihon’ Banos for Cotton Balks.— The V V. Courier and Enqtlirer says: (for attention has been called to an abuse in the use of sheet iron hands on cotton hales. Six hands which were Inken from a bale yesterday weighed twenty-seven pounds—the cords usually employed weigh only about six pounds. The difference in this case amounted on, the value ot the cotton, to 1-2 t0.,8-4 cents per lb. We do not learn what steps are proposed to stop this abuse, it it may he so termed, hut we hear that the New Orleans Cnamberof Commerce discountenances it. Akbkst ok a Mail Kouiikk.—The Memphis Bulletin of Sunday, Aug.'iftlh, says: Lewis, alias Cobb, whose arrest on suspicion of horse stealing was mens tinned by u* yesterday, lias been recog nized by Deputy (Sheriff Swan, cdy, as Lewie A. Noble, an indivißuil at present under indictment in one of the courts of Georgia for robbing the. mails. lie will be retained in custody until the facts in the case arc deliuitcly ascertained, or until a requisition lor Ins person is received from Gov. Brown, of the above State. Pkkhiiith on the Central Rail road. — Wo learn that the two regu lar express freight trains which left the depot this morning, consisted of forty curs, laden entirely for Atlan ta und points beyond Atlanta, and for Columbus and points l>yon Co lumbus. The regular way train con sisted of twenty-live curs, laden with goods for way stations and Macon— for Augusta and points on ihe S. \V. Italruad. The steamships and road are daily doing a large business.— Stir. Krimhliriiii. A marble sarcophagus for the remains of Henry Clay, intended to be placed in the base of the monument now being erected to his memory in Lexington, Ky., has just been completed at a marble yard in Pmladelphia. It is cut out ofa solid block of marble from Montgomery county, and is in the form of a common coffin. The interior is of sufficient size -o admit the leaden case containing the remains of the departed itati small. The outside o( the sarcophagus is beautifully carved with appropriate emblems. The Democracy of Bibb have reiused a proposition from the, Opposi. lion to run a compromise tieke'— they taking the Senator and yielding the Rep resentatives, or t iking tho Repreuelitu lives and yielding dio Senator. l"his was a reasonable proposition, that (had i it been acceded to) would have avoided .in acrimonious county contest, strife and laid feeling: uud ve can hut h -ps the ‘party rejecting it in ly he beaten. None >ut political demagogues could desire ft heated contest, where no public good is to be subserved by it. <*a what meat i ,|o these party leader* feed, that the peo | pin must he forced into unnecessary strife, simply to appease their vitiated j appetites lor excitement! — Inti. South. llai.timokpc. —Two hundred oftho best citizens of Baltimore have signed a call with the following heading: The undersigned, citizen* ami business men of Baltimore, in view of the prea- I cut deplorable condition ofulTaira in our I city, call upon all favorable to ilia resto. ration of law and order, the purity of j the ballot box, uni the protection of lo cal voters, to assemble with them In mass meeting, at Monument Square, on Monday afternoon, the fifth day of Sep* ; leather, til lour o’clock, to take into oon* siduialkMi such measure* as tho present crisis may warrant. The largo body of land—s2,ooo acres—lately owned by Messrs. Ander son & Met'lung,known as the “Hollings worth Survey,” aud lying in the coun ties of Highland, Randolph and Pendle ton, Vh., has been sold tor SOO,OOO, or 80 cents per acre. The land has been sold to a Northern Emigration Com pany, whose design is to settle upon it. The Providence Journal snys that Mr. Powell, whose picture of the “Discovery of the Mississippi by ]),; Soto” adorns the lotunda of the Capitol at Washington, has been commissioned by the Statu of Ohio to paint the “Rat tle of Lake Erie” for the Capitol of that Slate. A letter from Raleigh, N. C., dated August l!*th, says that about noon on that day a son of the Hon. Kenneth Raynor, a fine promising youth, about thirteen years old, was hunting with a shot, gun, in company with his brother, several years younger than himself. The gun went off accidentally, the whole load passing through the head of the older, and producing instant death. Enomsii Nkivscapir in Havana.—A Prospectus is out fora weekly paper, to he called “The Cuh<tn Messenger/’ and to ho printed at Havana, in the English language, by Col. J. \V. Bryant, late a well-known lawyer of East Florida.— The first number w ill be issued in < foto ber next. J-frf” The first American woman who ever went ashore in Japan was Mrs. Bailey, wife of Capt. Bailey, of I’hila delplt;a,juaster of tli*ihip Mary Ellis. She was surrounded and followed he a large crowd of Japanese, hut all their movements wore perfectly respectful. Kli'timer Burnt. Memphis, Sept, Ist. The steamer Messenger, from Memphis for New Or leans, having taken fire, was run n-horc, scuttled and sunk near Bayou Sara. The passengers and cotton on board were saved. Kfh-isoiiam County— The Opposition ot Effingham have nominated Thomas R. Hines for tin Senate, and Lewis Grovenstein, for the House of Repre sentatives, of the next general Assetn-’ lily Turks 1-land advices are to Aug. 18. A railroad was in course of construc tion, under American auspices, connect ing an interior salt pond of the Island w .th the coast. Market Reports- Nkxv Ohlkxns, Sept. I,—The receipts of tiie year at this port were 1,672,814 bales. Receipts ahead of bi-tyear 100. 405 bales. Exports 1,777,000 bales,— Stock 26,822 bales. Arrival of Ike Africa. New Yolik, Sect. I. —The steamship Africa arrived here to day at noon, and her mails will go forward by theevening train. She brings the same dates as the Jason. -It was rumored in Paris that Marshals Canrobert and Neill had fought a duel, in which the latter was killed. Napoleon had ordered two steamer* to Algeria to bring home political exiles. The municipality of Parma hud w i sued a proclamation expressing their i ‘iiWiilntfuiw desire for Paretii as Dicta | tor. , it was reported from Vienna that the j Emperor was getting impatient at the j delay in restoring the Grand Dukes; also, that an Austrian Corps d’Armie was to lie concentrated near Koroso, on the road to Modena. A decree had been issued at Bologna, 1 declaring that nil citizens ot’ Kotiogoa, without distinction of religion, were equal in law and in the exercise of polit cal rights. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. KKGULAK MEETING. Cornell. Chamber, i Ah mi*! l.sM*. } The Mayor : Aldermen Origgar*, Ander lduigle\, mirrnH>ii, <freer, Homs, and I lie minute* of the la>t fnoetina Were rend, and continued. ; Tim Bridge ke*}*tr reported toll* for the week, ?I(J7 &'* I’lie < Jerk of Miirket reported fee** for the * ti no I lie rmiiiiee < ommittee reported in favor of the following accounts ; m V ' : r - w Kllsl*; John Mu*- ** Arnold 50; and Win. J. M< Kl ro>, H.i 87. I. act tliat tli.- Committee oil I mill* Property Is- raqueste.l t..ascertain what the protxibie east i.f eularKina the Engine4ionae will lx-, amt report at Ihe nejl meeting sfCmiuoil. w-hi.-li was carried. 1 u motion of Aid. Langley, l{**o|ved. That Messrs. Mu n roe, and Anderwon. J** allowed to rnoroach upon the street °. r .reserve, on a parallel line with Ihe North-West “Hie of tlitftr I oh* twenty (‘JO) feet, upon complying Hlnctly with tie* ordinance relating to eneronch nient?*.—Pas.fetl. Bills raferred to the Finance < oinmitfoo, J. B. Hupgln*, and T. C. < mined then adjourned until next Tuesday ere* o'clock. BtCHAKD CVRD,