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"THE XII \\T\ WEEKLY EXAMINER. X*/- TC- V . "tg" CIRCULiATIOIN «O THE ES X A HUE IN ES iFC., I£3O O O COPIES feS! J OHM H. STEELE, i OH AS. L. BARBOUR, f ”v GLUME IL THE WEEKLY EXAMINER j L Published every Friday Morning in the City , of Atlanty, at ’ ONE DOEEAR PER ANNUM, To be paid strictly in advance. No subscription taken for less than six months. RATES OF -ADVERTISING. Advertisements are inserted in 'the Weekly fixAMlxxa at the following rates: Seventy-live cents per square (of 10 line, brevier) for the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square toreaCh sub sequent insertion. 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LV - All Advertisements not specified as to nmo will be published until forbid and charged I .accordingly. Legal Advertisements. Sales of Laud and Negroes, by Administra tors, Executors or Gurdians, arc required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 lin the afternoon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notices of these sales must be given in a pub ic gaxette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in ,iko manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to the debtors and creditors of an es tate tn us* also be published -10 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be oublished for two months. Citation, for letter, of Administration, Guar dianship dee., must bo published 30 days—for dis mission from Administration, monthly six months —for dismission from Guardianship, 40 day,. , Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage, must be published monthly for four months—tor establish ing lost papers, for the full space of three months —for compelling titles from Executor, or Admin istrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always bo continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rates: Citations on letters of Administration &c. iJU 75 do do diemissory from Adminio tration, J Citation on dismiesory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negroes, 4 00 Notice to debtors and creditors. . 3 «« Bales of personal property, ten days, 1 square 1 50 Bales of land or negroes by Executors, Ac. 5 00 Estrays, two weeks, - For a man advertising hie wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en itlo them to attention. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1855. The Russell Recorder. We welcome this handsomely printed and ably conducted paper to our exchange list.— Published at Salem, Ala., by Joseph 8. Perry, at 82 per annum, in advance. Those interest ed in the section it represents will ’find their subscription a profitable investment. The Hon. N. L. Hutchins. We perceive, is recommended by it corves- j pondent of the Augusta Constitutionalist & Re public, to fill the vacancy on the bench of the Supreme Court, of this State, should Judge Starnes decline a reflection. We take pleas ure in copyiug into our paper the communica tion, as it will doubtless be read with satisfac tion by the numerous friends of Col. Hutchins all over Georgia. Senator Dixon of Kentucky. This distinguished old line W hig, like many of his old fiends, has distinctly declared his in tention to “co operate in fixture with the Dem ocratic party,” a determination for which he accounts in the following language, which we extract from a letter recently written by him: “ You are right in supposing that it is my < intention to co-operate in future with the Dem- 1 ocratic party. The Whig party, with which 1 have so long acted, has no longer a politica | existence. I have no party now but my conn- ; try. To this, I shall not cease to be faithful. — i T'ie American party, divided as tt is into ftw! two great sectional parties, the one Northern and the Southern, can Only injure where it, would scree the country: for instead of strength- j ctunr the national men of all parties, it can on- i ly divide them in all the elections, when union I and eonccrt of -.'ration are necessary to the wry I salvation of the c wintry. As far as I can judge. 1 the Democratic party, although weakened ini the free States, is still national, and still co operates with the Southern Democracy, in op. position to the Abolitionists and Free Soilei - of the North, who, to destroy the institution of Slavery, would rend tin* Union asunder and burr beneath the ruins of the Conatitu’.o the liberties of the country." Thus cue by eno the Statesmen of the day are acknowledgcing the nationality cf the Dstn ocralie patty, and turning to it as the only, re fuge for the country in this hour of .danger. Jasper County Academy Lottery. The following are the localities where., the principal Frizes were drawn: S No. 9888 $15,000 in Vu.. ai d Rochester, N. Y; 2239 Ss,o|jA?^tn‘*u’Ca 8896 84000 Nashville, Ter.i.. end Frederick City, MJ.; 849 <3OOO Savannah. Ga.; 840 d THE CHEAPEST POUTICII AND NEWS PAPER IN TH: SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY CNE COLLAR A YEAR, IN IOVANCE. A Sweet Potatoe. We arc under many obligations to Mr. W. | O. Holliday, us Fayetteville, for the mammoth ! Sweet Potatoe, which we received from him on yesterday. Such a present we have not receiv ed since the first number of the “Examiner” was issued. At the time we write, we have no! scales to weigh this magnificent esculent; but fried, or roasted, it will serve us a week or more. We should like to know how many more such have been cultivated by Mr. Holliday, and if his neighbors have been equally successful ? If ! they have, the vicinity of Fayetteville beats cre ation for potatoes. 1 Hotel Accommodations at Milledgeville. We are pleasad to see that the hotel accom : modations at Milledgeville, are greater than j they have ever yet been at that place. The ■ Federal Union, in referring to the interest with | which the coming session is looked to by the j people, says : ' “There are more men of talent and experi ence elected to the present Legislature, than I perhaps any that have preceded it. The new I Hotel and increased accommodations in Mil- ■ ledgeville will enable those who wish todo so, I tb bring with them their wives and daughters j and this will make the Session more pleasant I and interesting ” i In response to this, we are gratified at being I able to state, that during the session, Atlanta will be fairly represented at our State Capital, and from what we know, we are almost ready to wager that our young and rising city will bear of the palm of beauty from her sister cit ies, in the person of more than one of its /air representatives at Milledgeville, during the ses sion. So look out widowers, and bachelor mem bers of the Legislature—guard well your hearts, while you guard the interests of the State 1 , The Result of the Election Complete. ! . We are indebted to the “Southern Recorder,”! j the only paper from Milledgeville received by :us on yesterday, for the following results of | the election held in this State, on the first Mon day of the present month. As the returns are taken from the Executive Department, they may be relied upon as correct. “The whole number of votes polled is 104,- 443. Gov. Johnson received of this number, 54,461. Judge Andrews 43,721, Mr. Overby 6,- 261. Gov. Johnson’s majority over Judge An drews, is 10,737 ; over Andrews and Overby together, 4,479. The number of votes polled for Congress men. were 102,600. Mr. Seward's majority in the Ist district, is 1635. Mr. Crawford’s in the 2d, 593. Mr. Trippe’s in the 3d, 896. Mr. Warner’s in the 4th, CB. Sir. Lumpkin’s in the sth, 3,317. Mr. t'obb's in the 6th. 3,976. Mr. Foster's in the 7th, 212. Mr. A. H. Stephen's in the Bth. 2,- 729. ' The Senate is composed of 73 Democrats and 38 Americans; the House stands 87 Demo crats, 61 Americans, and 1 independent Whig —showing a Democratic majority of over 60 on joint ballot. Upon the question of Removal, it will be I seen that Milledgeville is far ahead of her com- j petitors. The whole number of votes cast is j 83,116. No Removal, 48,707, To Atlanta. 29.347. To Macon, 3,436. Milledgeville over Atlanta and Macon, 15,934; over Atlanta, 19,- 360.’’ Upon a result so glorious, we cannot but re new our congratulations to our readers. FOUR THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE VOTES over both An drews and Overby ; and TEN THOUSAND, SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN over Andrews ; are majorities for our gallant “standard bearer,” GOVERNOR H. V. JOHNSON, that we did not anticipate at any period of the late exciting canvass. They show, however, most * ouclusively, that the peo ple were alive to tho dangers which threatened the South, and the Constitution, and that, de spite the malignant and dastardly assaults made upon the Chief Magistrate of our State, they reposed full confidence in his ability and integ rity, and manfully, at the polls, set their seal of condemnation upon his traduccra, as well as upotx the falsely styled “American Party!”— The jieople may well rejoice nt the result. Subjects for Legislation. The Constitutionalist & Republic, of Augus ta, contains an article under the above head, in which there tire many valuable suggestions, al though there are a few from which we dissent.; On ‘ Banks and Banking” we agree with the 1 editor of that paper, that the discussions of the j i past twelve mouths, “will have prepared the > ! members of the Legislature to give this whole! subject full attention”; and we also trust that I there will be “retaliating legislation against those States which have nullified the Fugitive Slave Law." This can be done, and within con stitutional limits. Beyond that point, no one. we presume, desires to go. A “re-organization of the Supreme Court’, is also desirable- The ‘ Constitutionalist" juat ; ly remarks that, I “The Judges of the Supreme Court are made (itinerants to an oppressive degree, and their de cisions necessarily become in a manner, saddle Lugs decisions. They are kept travelling all i I over the State, and required to sit in remote I i points, inconvenient to books and to n thorough . consideration of legal questions, and yet are re- j quired to make their deeistone at once and on' j the spot. What guarantee can the public have' ; of correct decisions under such circumstances'! i i There ahonld be fewer term of Court, and they I held at’fewer places.'’ tVe are also pleased to roe the i-ecommcnda. | ' tion cf tln'.t paper, that “popular education and ■ «. common school system should" receive the at : tention of the Legislatuie ; and that “agricul ' tnral education’’ should be encouraged by the State. XVe cordially, too, endorse the editor’s ! view; ’n relation to the Georgia Military Insti r tnte. and our State University, Both ;. * the fostering care cf the legislature. . I There are other topics of great interest to the j people, in the article referred to, to-wit: An i nual Sessions; Repeal of the Usury Laws; and Sale or Lease of the State Road—all of which c • wo shall take occasion to comment on at a fu *,tu®tinie; in connection with them, there will d ‘ Joilbtles be many propositions before the Leg i. Is’aX-rS The feteis by which they, or acute oi k ; them will be accompanied, will exereiee a.deci -61 ded influence ever, and give shape to, legislation. 1-1 Until then, we shall not attempt to diseow the ATI,ANTA. GEORGIA. The Democratic Party and its Opponents. The “American” press, in more places than I oue, makes desperate efforts to prevent those old-line Whigs xvho co-operated with the Dem ocratic party in the recent election iu this State from continuing their support in the coming i presidential contest. It is but natural that it should make touching appeals to its old friends i to follow, in the course it has chosen; but-we| think it is mistaken in its estimate of those j friends and the motives which have prompted j their action in the recent canvass. Hatred to j democracy is rooted and grounded in the very j natures of its editors, and as long asvur party * bears a name so obnoxious to them there is J no prospect of their co-operation with it in any I measure, no matter how much it promises for | the South or the country. They have opposed i Democracy from their youth up, and their prej udices against it blind them to the perpetua tion of the Union, the hope of which alone rests in the hated Democratic party. Not so, how ever with those intelligent Whigs who responded so promptly, and with so much-credit to their patriotism, to the call of Democracy for help against the secret order which threatened the Constitution of the country, and the peace mid security that inseparably attached to that ven erated instrument, unimpaired. They onco op posed the Democratic party from principle, and not from a traditionary hatred of its name; and when the issues which divided them from that j party had passed away; and when it contended for nothing but what they could heartily on dorse; they disavowed farther opposition to St and seeing that there was no hope for the coun try in any other organization, and that its poli cy was all that they cotdd ask, they came out > from their own organization, which they felt to i i be unsound and insufficient fox- their purposes, | and fought bravely under the banner of the ! Democratic party. They acted conscientiously, and the country will uphold them in their noble disregard for the shackles of party prejudice.—- There is not a man of them but feels he has done ' his duty, and no lachrymose appeals, or biting ; taunts, can drive them from the course they hax*e conscientiously pursued. We believe these “old line Whigs,” as they are termed, understand fully the position of na" tional politics, and will act in the future, aa they have in the past, in comformity with the pr< mpt ings of their clear sense of duty; and it is plain enough which way that directs. A glance at the position of the parties now organized may not be uninteresting to those who are still dis posed to question the sufficiency of the Demo cratic party for the wants of the people. It is a significant fact that the entire Free soil and Abolition party at the North, make di rect war upon the Democracy. Were other proofs wanting, this fact would alone be suffici ent to establish the purity of the Democratic party upon the slavery question, showing, as it I dues, that it alone stands between the abolition ! ist and the consummation of his hopes. They propose fusion with the “American" Party, and with all other petty organizations that with mushroon rapidity, have sprung up at the North. And for what ? To defeat the Democracy!— They combined with any and every faction for the same purpose, and now they organize a grand scheme, which they call the Republican party and invite in all the isms of the North to make one grand attack upon the stronghold of the South—the Democratic party. Do we want proofs of this? They are abundant. The New York Courier if Enquirer, a. rabid free-soil sheet, in speaking of the ways and means of securing the objects of its party says: “The first duty of all who wish to take th* Government ont of the hands which direct it, is to break down the Democratic party.” To break down the Democratic party, it in sists, is absolutely necessary; and the first great object of the Republican party, as openly avow-- cd by its leaders, is just what the Courier & En quirer recommends—the breaking down of the Democratic party 1 The attempt to do this was first made by the organization of the “American” party. Henry Wilson, who was one of the founders of that party ; does not hesitate to declare the purposes for which it was organized. In a recent speech he says of it : I “ Gentlemen, within ayoe.r and a half a new : ]>arty sprang into being, and that party i wished to carry the country. It united trifh ! the anti-Nebraska sentiment hi 1854. and aided ' in sending some sixty or seventy members cf I Congress tfho are opposed to the extension ,’f I sla very; but the South demanded that the Arner ! ican party should be a proslavery organization. I saw last winter, gentlemen, in Washington, that an effort was made to enforce the Ameri can party to bow down in abject submission to the slave power ; and gentlemen, I made up my mind that as a member of that organization, if that organization undertook to be apro-dav. ry j organization, if I had the power I would shiver it into the thousand fragments. I came houu from Washington, gentlemen, resolved to d > ■ what I cou.d to save the American party from | becoming a pro-slaVcry erganimtior.—to tstve ■ it from annihilation.” Here then we see that the original intention ; ; of the “American” organization was to “unite* j with the Auti-Nebraska sentiment*” a sent!-; ! ment opposed to every principle of Democracy. ; and the very first step it made was to elect j ■ some sixty or seventy members to Congress’’ ; ’ over the heads of Nebraska Democrats I How , much Wilson and his followers expectel fr :n ' ■ the “American” party, may be gather;! fr t ’ the rage he exhibited when it was attempt ’■ !-to make it a pro-slavery party." He detcr- i mined to “rhiverit into a thousand pieces; ' ‘ and be did so at Philadelphia. One of the shat- ■ ! ’ tercd fragments was brought South, and tree • j to the instincts of its progenitors, commenced i| n war upon the Democracy. The people of the i South, however, understood the matter, and ev. f! erywhere, Democrats and Whigs repudiated ■ i the remains of Saturn’s half devoured offspring: I and told these men who had brought the thing " j South, in teras that unmistakably expressed ; their determined oppoc’ti n to It. that they saw II through, the veil of Atnericaaisa” which :■ shrouded the free-soil abolition hatred cf De it mocracy- i- As time wore on, new <kvßopinents were i- made, until now it s not sought to be disgi'is e ed that upon the destruction of the Democrat- FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26. 1855. iition—Republican party. No man will, with the lights before him, dare deny this. And yet we still see Southern men and Soathcm presses, threatening and cajoling by turns; those Whigs who have stood by the Democracy to come out from them. For ourselves, we can not appreciate the patriotism of those who com bine with the Republic;’.:! party in effecting its main object—the overthrow of the Democratic party. To us, it looks a litllQ queer to see Southern nun striking blow after blow, in echo ,of the abolitionist and free-soiler, at tho Dc itfocracy. whqjx they candidly acknowledge that it is die only barrier to the accomplishment of their designs' la view of this state of facts, “ old-linc wbigs" who have, in the late election, co-ope rated with the Democracy.” will be amused at the efforts of the foe to win them over. They feel that in the hands of the Democracy rest the preservation of the Constitution and the rights of the South, and will never strike at hands thus employed ; but will stick by us til! the en emies of tho country and tha Democracy, wheth er hailing frem the North or South, are rout ed “horse, foot, and dragoons.” The Legislature' The organization of this Body is command ing the attention of thi-Ar-ti- Know Noth ing and Democratic press at several points of our State. Prominent among those who are suggested for President of the Senate, we see the names of Bailey, of Butts; Morris, of Murray ; Lawson, of Burke; Cone, of Bulloch ; Screven, of < ’bat ham; Murphy, of DcKr.lb ; Lawton, of Dough, erty ; Dabney, of Gordon ; Spalding, of Mcln tosh; Wingfield, of Putnam; Guerry, of Ran dolph ; and, for speaker, Stiles, of Chatham; Phillips, of Habersham ; and Irwin, of Wilkes. We doubt not-that the organization of both branches of our Legislature, will be such as will do credit to the State, and facilitate the business I thereof. From the names suggested, as well as I from others in the list of Senators and Repre tatives, competent selections can easily be made. But it is equally important for the transaction of business, and its prompt despatch, that an efficient Secretary and Clerk of the House, should - besflected. These, with .competent subordinates, wii! do more to advance and perfect the business of /each branchy then either the President of the’ Senate, or Speaker of the House. Incompetent Clerk®, retard mote than any other one thing, the legislation of the State. Who will be iu the field for these offices r Letter of the Hon. H, A. Wise. We presenj our readers to-fisy with tho let ter of the Hon. Henry A. Wise, of Virginia to the Anti Slavery Committee, of Boston, in reply to their invitation to address them on the subject of Slavery. The Chronicle & Sent in :-i of Augusta seem‘ to think the letter is written in bad “forte?'— Taste, ornotaste, it suit® the people of tlw South, we venture to assert, better than any thing else that could hare been written by that sterling defender of Southern Rigiits sad South ern Institutions. Henry A. Wise. The invitation, in our opinion, was insultinr to all Southern men to whom it was addressed; its accompaniments, proposition to defray e>.» penses, and pay One-Hundred and Fifty- do • Inrs, to the lecturer, doubly so; and, to crown all, the frank of the abolitionist Sumner, on a letter addressed to the Governor cleet of Vir ginia, was aa downritrlrt u. piece of Aboliti-n impudence as was ever perpetrated. We re joice that die gallant Virginian has responded in the way he has done, despite its “bad taste," as tbo Chronicle & Sentinel has it. We would like to see tho Southern States man who would go to Boston at the invitation of the Abolition herd there, to deliver a lecture on Slavery, pocket Abolition go’; for it. and then return to face his people in t ; Sou* ■! — So will not Henry A. Wise, and so we hope and trust will no one else. Foeiuxers asd Catijoucs at thsSouth. The following statistics, compiled front the c n-l sus returns of 1850 for partisan purposes po.- j sesss interest in tither respects. They show the' proportion of Ibreigue’S and Cathoiica to tin-i total popnl.itiun us the'fourteeti Southern St;.; ; Compared with the native population to the I number of foretegners is but two to thizty-niee ■ and the nuuiber of Catholics not quite one to| thirty-five : States. Catholics. Foreign Native.' 1. Alabama, 7.498 5,200 426.51-l; 2 Arkansas 1,46? 1,600 162 514 3. Florida. 2.740 1.850 47.2031 4. Georgia, 6.452 4,250 551.572- 5. Kentucky, 31,401 24,240 751.44 hi 6. Louisiana. 67.108 37.7c0 205.491 • 7. Maryland. 51.011 37.100 417,9131 7 Mississippi. 4.782 9.240 295.71 tj 9 Missouri. 76.670 33 950 592X011 10. N. Carolina. 2.565 1,41'0 553.02 c j U.S. Carolina. B.4<i? 6,030 264,563, 12. TennCsse 5.616 1,400 750.836 13. Texas, 57.620 6,769 153.034, 14. Vigiaiu. 22.953 72*30 884 80:;: ! Total 364,192 172.740 5,993,31?' Mr. Thflmas Francis Mcagher lectured ' in the Broadway Tabernacle. New York, -r ■ Friday evening, before an audience cf fifteen • hundred ptoplo, on the Life and Ciijractez of I John Pb’lpot Curran. H-? portnivcd, with : ire; *, force, the early struggles ■ ? Currrn ! from the moment be lejt is native town ot : Newmarket, in Cord: his career c: ’he bnr. ; i.i professicnal triumph 3, and hi* xar.tcr i services, concluding with n pathetic de*;; !; ; tion of hig appearance on tb? right when ’ ! iadependense < f his country was ~ ted away , ihe/veto:’Union. Mr. Msec: t-r was ieid;. ‘ cheered at variottc point, cf his d’jcourzo. t New Sugar and Mi. i.at- tts.—The stetm - | New Laton a. Capt. GT- - arriv 1 yesterday t from Waterloo, having ine ’T'rehead of s-.ure J and three barrels of molossee vs th • new'erep j Capt. Hooper, cf the steamer Dick KeyV | states that many plantations cn the cesu ! have ctJtnmsnced grind : .—-V. O. Delta, ID . ; Ooi.xthori'E University.—The Fall term | this Institution opened on the 9th i st., wit- ■ eighty students, we are informed, of the Cc’ e > giate Department in attendance. The numb- 1* of applicants for admission, has been unuamii large, and a large proportion r.f them arc front other States—South Carolina and Florida, ±la- ! From the New Yuri: Journal of Commerce, Jr. : Return of dhe Arctic Relief Expe ditioii—Sufety of Dr. Kane and > and Isis Party—Their Arrival at ! New York. Our citizens were cheered yesterday by the arrival at this port, of the Arctic Relief Expe dition. consisting'of the bark Release, Capt. Hartsteine. and propellor Arctic, Lieut. Charles S. Simms, from Lievely, Island of Disco, Green land, September 18th. The Release and Artic left New York 30th. of May last, in search of Dr. Kane’s party, who it was’feared, might hare had their vessel crush ed in the ice, and so have been unable to return. The relief vessels arrived at Lievely, on their trip to the Northward. July sth. Thence they coasted along the shore of Greenland, to lat. 78 38 N., touching at Hare Island, Upernavick, Haklnvt Island, Cape Hatherton, and other places. They were twenty-eig’it daya boring through t c pack ice in Melville Bay. Thence they crossed Davis’ Straits, and went up Lan caster Sound as far as Admirality Inlet, where the were opposed by a solid pack, which entire ly stopped their progress. Then they passed down the Western coast, examining Possession and Pond’s bays. They were fast in the great middle pack for several days, and had a f ir prospect cf remaining there for the whiter; but fortunately the ice, after a while, broke away, and they were enabled to e cape. The Expedition, passing still Southward, reached Lievely on the 13th ult., having entire ly circumnavigated the Northern waters as far as the ice would permit. Captain Hartsteine's vessels left Lievely on the 18th of September for New York. The last winter in the Arctic has been unus ually servere. Many of the native perished from exposure and starvation, having been com pelled to eat their dogs. The extreme cold pre vented the vsual hunting expedition. The brig Advance, of one hundred and forty five tons; » t sail in May. 1353, for Smith’s Sound, under the command of Dr. Kane, who was detailed to make exp.orations in the Arctic regions by Mr. Kennedy, the Secretary of the. Navy under Mr. Fillmore. The present Secre i tary cf the Navy, M . Dobbin, entered upon the performance of his duties before the Ad vance sailed, and fully carried out the views of his predecessor. On the 23d of July. 1853, she arrived at Uperaavick, latitude 73 deg North, on the coast of Gr enland. Nothing further was heard of the Expedition from that time un til vesterday. The Advance wa left in Rensselaer bay, in latitude 79 deg., where the expedition passed two winters, The vessel was abandoned on the 17th May last, (her flag and pennant flying,) imbedded in ice fourteen feet thick, from which it was found impossible to extrictae her; and Dr. Kane and his men accomplished the remark able journey cf one thousand three hundred miles, on foot and iu boats, following the .ndeu tations of the bays from Renssal; er to U|)erna ■ ick, where they embarked on board a Danish v.?s! bonnd to Denmark. Thia vessel put into Lievely. (Disco Island, where, by a remarkable coincidence, she was falle in with by the 1.1 steine expedition, as above stated. As the propeller of Captain Hartste no entered the han dur, he espied a brig which immediately raised i iie American flag. This ceremony was sup posed to be a mere compliment from the Danish vessel, but a whale boat soon left the brig with Dr. Kane on board, and spread out “Pot Rock Hag,” which had the name of Henry Grinnell iqxm it, wb.er the truth flashed upon Captain 11 rtsteine that the lon absent explorers had been found. Dr. Kane and his party accord ingly embarked on board the Release and the Arctic—the vessels of Hartsteine’s expedition —mid arrived last evening at seven o’clock P. M., at this port. Three of the deceased in the Arctic re i n , vi.: Christian Ohlsen carpeiler. an excellent man, who died of lockjaw, produc ed by intense cold. Jefferson Baker, seamen, who died w .th the game complaint and Pierre Schubart, cook. (French) who died from the effects of amputation of his foot which was ren dered necessary from being frost bitten. The scurvy, hitherto the scourge of the Arctic re gion. was entirely under command, but the lockjaw was difficulty of management, and t hreatened serious disaster. Fifty-seven dogs died >f it breaking un entirely the sledge organ i ation. The number of deaths among the crew is much smaller than would have occurred if 'he voyage had been to any tropical climate, instead of thest cold regions. The most intense cold suffered was in latitude about eight -two deg. North where the thermometer fell to sixty be low ; ro. or ninety-two degr » below freezing point When the th .'rtnome • r was at thislow rang.. Dr. Kane and his party were engaged with instruments in making a survey of the in dentations of the bay in which their vessel was then imbedded. The discoveries made by Dr. Kane reach to a print Northward much further than ever before explored. Numerous bays and capes have been explored, and some of them ! namea. They will make an addition to the • maps of the country, which will ever remain a I conspicuous monument < f American enterprise. I i On reaching the Northernmost point of land. 1 'he expedition passed in sledges over an ice bar | rier of e ghty.one miles in width, when they ' came to open water, which arrested their move 's meats Vt rangle, a Russian, made a like a dis i overy travelling North to the Siberian islands ’in sledges. The existence of this open water t at least in the month of August, is now made i certain; but the theory hitherto maintained. I that this open water arose from a milder climate '. must now, we suppose, be aban oned, in view i of the intense cold found in the highest latitude ; of the expedition. The last map pub ished by authority or the I British explorers, ounded on the explorations ' of Captain liiglclield, are found to be incorrect' far as the North coast of both America and' Greenland are concerned. I is probable that! 1 uo explorer will ever hereafter undertake topass' 1 'ver the eighty-one miles of ice etween the 1 1 North coast of Greenland and the open water I mentioned, or that there will be any important; .' al eration in the maps now to he made. Dr. ' Kane return? in fine health, better than when' ■ we had t e pleasure to bid him good-bye on his ‘ outward voyo.e. The Esquimaux wer found • as far Nor h us Rensselaer bay. and were tron ( blesome and dangerous, until Dr. Kane took • deeisire measures to etop their depredations.— fwo Esquimaux women who had stolen a Buf falo robe. Wv-r» followed by him sixty miles on ibot, brought back to the vessel, exposed wit’s- v.t much clothing to severe cold, and kept in nSnemcr.t until a sort cf treaty bad been en . ered into by which the Esquimaux agreed that 1 their boys might be taken and held if farther lepredatiora were committed. They had de stroyed s<>me of the boats cf the expedition be -1 . re’the adoption cf this system. The Esqr.i --i mans were found in that high latitude to be an xtreiuely harlyand vi crons race—fullofcour- ■ Age—so much so that one of them, armed with , a iance, would not hesit te to attack the pow | ertul polar bear of that region. Dr. Kane and L is pa ty were often on short allowance, and at . ■.dica were object iiged to refly ch efly on the u ijt fe d. Ou their return along the coas' j '.f Greenland, he knew, from his experience o' ; the region, where to 2nd tho wild duck and its :e-t>. and they bad plenty of meat and eggs on I must of the homeward journey along the coast although previously they had been reduced tn .ivuig on tallow in* their boat expeditions.— whole company arrived here iu good health as follows: In the Kelese—Dr. Kane, U. S. N. John M . W xlson. Amos Bonsall. Dr. J. J. Hayes. Augustus Sontag, Henry Goodfellow, George Stephenson, W n>. Mort -n and Thos. Hickey. □ xr r *' c —Henry Brooks, boatswain U. S. A., Jame# McGarry, Geor<re Riley. Win. Godfrey, Charles Blake and George Whittle. Commander Hartstein, when he accidentally fell in with Dr. Kane, at Lievely (God Haven) was about to proceed Northward to spend a se cond winter in the Arctic Ocean. He deserves great credit for his perse eranee, and for the admirable manner in , hich he has carried out the humane objects of the Government, which properly sent him to relieve Dr. Kane from his dangers. The propeller was found highly use iul in navigating the intricate and narrow openings of water among the ice. The highest point reseed by commander Hartsteine, waa by the propeller, i having been found that steam was far better than sails in Arctic navi gation. The British Government, acting through the Hadsons s Bay Company, Is now engaged in ascertaining the full particulars of the loss of Sir John Franklin, of which explicit informa tion may soon be expected, when the history of tha unfortunate adventures will be fully known to the world, and put an end to the necessity of further efforts in the dager us field cf Arctic exploration. The Case oY Col. Wheeler’s Slaves. DECISION OF JCDOE SANK. Philadelphia, October 12 Judge Kane de- livered an opinion this morning adversely to the reception of the petition of Jane J ohnson to quash the writ of habeas corpus in the case of Passmore Williamson, pronoiraciug her to have I no status in Court, being entirely without its | jurisdiction. The opinion is very elaborate, reviewing the i whole case, and reaffirming his former opinion, j He assertiil that the law of nations guaranteed | the right of transit of slaves, and of even- oth- ■ er species of property, through territory where I slavery was not recognized. If the contrary principle was sanctioned the time might come when the cotton of Louisiana, the rice of Carolina, and the rum of New Eng land, would be restricted from transportation, without tho bounds of the Steto producing them. He maintained that the federal constitutution recognised slaves as property, and up to 1830 slavery existed in the thirteen original States. He said that Williamson’s duty then r.s now was to produce Jane Johnson’s children. Were the petitioner here to abide the action of the courts she would have a right to be heard, but being without the jurisdiction, the records of the Court canuot be opened for a stranger. . On the conclusion of the delivery of this opin ion, John Cadwallader, a member of the bar. but not engaged in this case, in order to re move a false impression fi’um the public mind said from bis reflection of the circumstances at tending the commitment of Passmore William son, a proposition was made to amend the re turn to the writ when Judge Kane replied : “I will not receive an amendment now, but will be prepared to receive it when the record lias been completed.” No such motion was subsequently made, and the public impression that permission to amend was refused is not warranted by facts. Judge Kane replied that his (Mr. Cadwalla der’s) impression was correct. He had been prepared to receive a supplementary return from Mr. Williamson's counsel, but none bad Itecn offered. Mr. Cadwallader suggested that an addition be made to the opinion of the Court embracing the remarks of a member of the bar not enga ged in the case, and the reply of the Judge.— He was induced to make the suggestion by the best feeling towards a worthy but mistaken man. hoping it might load to the adoption of such a course as would end in his liberation. Mr. Cadwallader is to embody the remarks he made, when the Judge"wiil follow with his an swer, bo aa to complete the record. John M. Read, counsel for the petitioner, said he had listened with attention to the opin ion, but it bad failed to convince him that the : petitioner and her children were not free the 1 moment they touched the soil of Pennsylvania. I SS?* The last number of the Revue des Deux' .Vo/iu'ci.cotitains a curious passage on the food i of the ancients: The common notion is that the ancients wore much simpler in their dishes than we are—perhaps so, at least so in earlier days—but, as we learn here, their viands were more numerous; for, beside the dont'-stic ani mals and the game eaten by us, they ate many animals we never think of touching, except in the last extremity. They did not disdain the hedge-hog, the donkey, the cat, the dog. nor that horseflesh, which as our school geography used to tell us, ' is publicly sold in the markets of Norway,” end which Isadora Geoffrey Saint Hiliare has recently declared to be eminently nutritious; nay, what is more, tiny considered dog flesh to be equal in nutritive value to chicken, and placed the donkey on u par with the ox. Pork they consider the most indigesti ble of al , and fit only for artisans and athletes. It would be difficult, says the Leader, to pur suade John Bull to dine off a surloin of donkey, i or to ask the waiter to bring him "ribs of dog with fried toadstools,'’ so strong is prejudice: I we eat oysterg, and a few other mohisc’a, and. shudder at the mention of snails. We eat mush roons and truffles with gusto, and believe ail other fungi to be poisonous. Nor can famiia itself displace our fears. Find the Greeks bet ter digestion, or were their dogs and donkeys more succulent than ours. Prophecy Fru.rtu.no.—The Hon. 11. M. T. Hunter, in a speech delhvr. JinPetershn.-'. h. Va., some three months since on the persecution of the Catholics, .--aid: •• Deprive the Catholics of all the office*, be..- them out from every avenue of political distil" tion, deny to them the opportunities which yon aceord without hesitation to Infidels and Athe ists; and when you iiave placed their hour ‘ ambition to enjoy the honors and emoluments of political preferments under the ban of a 1 ruthless proscription, your work is not y“t fin ished. i “There will still remain offices for them. I Ye*. my friends the sweet office of the Christiai love will still be left, and in the midst -:1 you; I persecutions their bi-hops and priests: as in th' i recent pestilence iu your Southern cities, w'll , throng the hospitals and the pest-ho".i<s. bring ing succor and consolation to the poor victim? lof the placne. Aye. and their sifters cf Chari- I ty will still brave thefr-rrors of loathsome anti ufcctions disease, will still wipe the death damp from the suffering brow, trill still venture it, when the courage c-f man shrinks back appal led. and will point the dying gaze through th mysterious gloom of the Valley of th" Shadow o' Death to the Cross and the Cri:ci£ -d ' This prophecy has been fulfilled or; the eo.i of his own State. Tan Texts Debt.—The Galveston News publishes a letter from Gen. Lamar to Gen Rusk on the subject of thepcblic debt ofTexa- Gen. Larnsr has’retired from political life, and has only that interest in the mutter which shoe ■. influence every good citizen—the preservation of the fai* name of the State of his adoption.— ,ae_feel* a just pride for Ui> bMtQry Pi wfecMife ’A’ue >.<>i:uixx»ie .Miss Murray on American Slavery. We find the following interesting announce ment in the New York Times of last. Wednes day : We bear from pretty good authority that the Honorable Miss Murray, the distinguised En glish lady who has been traveling in the U. Statec for some mouths past, is preparing a book of observation and criticism upon our people? and institutions ; and that she intends to vindicate the institution of Slavery from the alleged misrepresentations of Uncle Tom's Cab in. Unless we have been entirely misinformed. Miss Murray has come to the conclusion, as the_ result of her personal observation, that the social institutions of the Southern States are decidedly in advance of those of any other por tion of this country: that a higher degree of culture and refinement is to be found there than elsewhere in the Union : that Slavery is a bless ing rather than a curse to the negroes themselves, and that the picture of its cruelties and atrocities, given by Mrs, Stowe in her celebrated novel, are very gross exagerations, or so exceptional as not at all to be taken into the account, when forming a judgment of the institution itself. She wiii make this a prominent feature in her forthcoming book, and designs, we understand, to enter upon a special refutation of the views and representations of Mrs. Stowe. “ Miss Murray’s book and especial}’ that part of it which relates to this subject, will undoubt edly make a sensation in this country us well as in England. She is a lady of very decided intellectual ability, of great accomplishment and holding a position in English society which will secure for her opinions on such a ’subject the greatest consideration and respect. Mrs. Stowe will undoubtedly find it necessary to make some reply, and we are, therefore, likely to have a brisk and exciting warfare on this controverted subject. The Tran-atlantic Telegraph. —In an ar ticle which we published immediately after the return ol the Telegraphic Expedition from New foundland, —which article was written by a gentleman not regularly connected with this office, who accompaneid’ the Expedition in the capacity of Reporter,—it was stated on the au thority of Lieut. Maury, that a kind of plateau existed, at the bottom of the ocean elevated above the common level, on the route between New foundland and Ireland, as if for the special pur pose of facilitating the construction ol’a line of telegraph, connecting the two Continents. In his “Physical Geography of the Sea? Lieut Maury alludes to this “remarkable steppe,” which he says is already known as the “Telegraph Plateau. The depth of water on it was repre sented in’the article aforesiad to be in the neigh borhood of “70 fathoms;” which however, was a clerical error for 700 fathoms. Even this would be more than three quarters of a mile,—a depth by no means contemptible,—but we are informed by Mr. G. W. Blunt, the Hydrograph er, that there is no evidence that any such plateau exists there.—Lieut. "Maury, in the work above alluded to. speaks of the sounding along the supposed plateau as being “probaolv no where more than 10,000 fret,” Ten thousand feet is about two miles, and there is a‘probable’ at that. On referring to Maury’s Sailing Dir ections, dated Jan., 1854, we find a map of the North Atlantic, but no soundings un the direct route from Cape Race, (N F.,) to Cape Clear. (Ireland.) Some distance to the southward ol N ewfoundland, begining near the southerly limit ol the Grand Bank, a line of soundings in the directions of Capt* Clear is noted on the Map averaging near 2,000 fathoms (hr 12,000 feet) iu depth. None of the soundings are less than 1.650 fathoms, while one in the latitude of Cap perhaps 500 miles distant therefrom is 2.675 lathmos deep, or about three miles Chis, to be sure, is better than six or seven miles (the greatest depth ever reuehed by the plum net.) hut cannot, on the whole, be considered remarkably favorable.—J* ur. Com. Good News from Mississippi. The canvass, ns we learn front the Mississippi smprogre-sisglor ously for the Democratic ca« e. All the political gatherings are large, enthusi astic.und determined. The best spirit prevails, and a strong, determined resolution is possess ed by every Democrat to carry the election triumphant this Fall. Governor Mcßae and others, are making good work wherever the, go. and argue fairly and fearlessly all the issues of the day—while the Know Nothings dodgi the issues, and utterly refuse to come up to th«- test, and endeavor to avoid fair debate. Tin pres peels of the Democracy, for a glorious tri umph, were never brighter. From the sea shore in particular, says the same paper, come cheering advices. In Jackson county, the Know Nothing wigwams have gen erally desbanded. In Perry, the democrats and many wbigs have abandoned the Know Noth ings as an unconstitutional and dangerous organ ization. In Hancock, where the Know Noth ings commenced operations at any early day. n great reaction has taken place, anil the Order is fizzling cut—its prominent leaders now being a yankce parson and a defaulting fax collection Hurrah for th.-.S a he e counties I They have beet: often tried, and never found wanting.— S'.iv. Georgian. • 4 A Saddlebags Grocery.” Among the presentments of the Grand Jury, of Cass county, Go, the first week, we notice the following: “ The Grand Jury of the present week would also most respectfully represent it as their opin io:*. that something like e. saddle-bags grocery has been kept by the Superior Court of ths week, in the august personage of one of tie constables, without license; wherefore we can not eutely conclude that the Temperance cause is highly esteemed, by that arm of the law, and while we exonerate the Court from a knowledge even of this newly established feature in the traffic, still we must set our faces against nil -addle-bag groceries, and mere especially when kept by ticonstable in attendance upon the Court. The particular constable we have con clud'd thus to cannouiae, and hand his deeds < f consummate effrontery aud shame, down to fu ture constables, as a’well-marked instance ol wilful contempt for Court. We did not set I he liquor, but we did see the saddle-bags—anti I it is the deliberate opinion cf this Jury that n> I 'tht.- Jury ever -aw a pair of saddle-bags as ; much like a jug o! brandy before—for they i ii:..it like the jug Aad been broken. Now, a | constable is quite a small appendage to tin ( Court any how, and when he grows so beaut' \ fully less, es to become part and parcel of saddle bags, that smells just like a broken jug oi j "randy, he attains to a station so email in otu - yes that we think hc'a of no twe a! all." Washixomos, Oct. 14. i Hume or the Naval Officers, dropped and fur- H oughed hy the action of the Retiring Board, ' i.ave ineffectually complained to the President , >f the action of the Board in their cases. They xhibited letters from the Navy Department : e-eiv'-d before the action of the Board wa# known, which attested their capacity. Thet and their friends are making extensive prenara tions to operate on Congress at its next session with a view to obtain redress. The conductor Judge Mason, our Ministei • ■ France, in attending the Te Denm, order's >y Napoleon at Paris in honor ft the fall o ‘■Sevastopol, is regarded here as possessing m political significance, aod if tg mere WM. KAY PROPRII TOR NUMBER IL I.ATT.R FROM 1.1 Rol 1., ARRIVAL OF THE B’l LAMER ATLANTIC. The steamer Atlantic has arrived ia New York; bringing obc week’s later news from Europe. • Liverpool, Oct. 6.—Cotton.—The market is depressed and prices irregular. Dennistoun quotes dull and a further decline of 1-8.. the market closing heavy. Salts of the week 41,- 000 bales. Trade in Manchester was quiet. The rate of interest has been advanced anoth er 1-2, and is now 5 1-2 per cent. There is some uneasiness in commercial af fairs. Brown & Shipley say the quality of the new Wheat is unpromising. Old is in active de mand and prices full. Flour is in letter request Corn quiet. Lower qualities of beef in consid er ible demand, fork moderate. Bacon not h ing. Consols 87 1-4. American Stocks quiet. The War. Sebastopol is to be blown up by the Allies, and mines are sinking for the purpose. Gortschakoff’s army was threatened by larg» forces of the Allies Irom Eupatoria. The Russians have been defeated near Eupa toria by the French cavalry. Gortschakoff on the 3d of October reports an ineffectual attempt of the Allies on his flank. The Allied fleet had sailed on a secret expe* dition—it is supposed to Nicolaef or Odessa. The Czar is at Odessa and will Shortly be in the Crimea. A collision between Greece and the Western powers is' expected. The food question ia still serious in Francs and Germany. The steamer Africa had arrived out. Insincerity of Englund. Our attention has been called to a letter from Dr. Wolf, the celebrated converted Jew, and Eastern traveller, from which we quote the fol lowing passage: The advocates of tho war, say: “We shall convert the Turks? A fine method adopted in order to convert Mahummedaus, by murdering Christians! The Dutchcsg of Southerland, in order to show her abhorrence of slavery, patronized the call to the sympathy of the ladies in America, and opened her drawing room to the m liilitv, in order to pay homage to Mrs. Stowe. I ask now, why did not her Grace call on the British ladies to address the Senators of the British na tion. in order that her Majesty nmy be advised, lo permit the King of P<i-sia to liberate 200,- 000 Persian slaves, among whom are people of the highest intellect, hi m the hands of the kings of Bokhara, Khiva. Hermit, and Auk hoy—instead of which the British Gaveroment in 1840, sent their best ofiicera to Hermit, in order to prevent the King of Persia Irom forc ing till* tyrants, Yuar Molitimcd Khan, of He rmit, and Naur Ulhihe, ot Bokhara, and the King of Kh va, from restoring the Persian slaves who were forcibly taken by the savage Turkomans, who every }Cur invmli d Kl.oini* sunn and herewith openly declare that England ages war with Russia, not in order to pro mote civilization. bnt in ordei tn prevent Ri> sia from civilizing th*' barbarians in Asin, by which England’s possessions in India may Im endangered I England tries to ruin Rps-ia ■or she civilizes her country, mid makes ii;-e of Englishmen, Americans. Germans. Freud nu n, mid Swedes, as instruments, without allowing England to prescribe laws to the civilizing ami philanthropic Czars! This the reason, nettle hypocritical pretext, of assisting poor oppressed Turkey 1 Railroad Movement in Albany.—We learn from the Albany Patriot tliul a meeting of tho citizens of Dougherty county will be held at the Court House on Saturday,the 13th ot October, for the purpose of instructing onr uiemb'TS of the Legislature relative to asking State aid for the construction of a railroad to Albany, and concerning a law authorizing coun ty subscriptions. A meeting of the citizens of Lee. Dougherty and Baker counties, and the subscribers to the Georgia anil Florida Railroad ('onipany. is call ed at the same time and place to consider tho matter of building a railroad between Albany and Americus. WoxDEBFt L Cvriosity.—Signor Pietro Bo na, said to possess a most remarkable mi chun ieal genius, has just arrived in our midst from Rome, the Eternal City, with a curious and most wonderful piece of nii.-chanism, which he proposes to exhibit to the people of Suvunnah. If consists of no less than 150 human figures, representing various nations and costumes, and capable of such curious arrangements and move tents as to give a true picture ot human life in all its various combinations. Signor Bona is now engaged in unpacking these curious figures, and we understand they will be ready for exhi tion in about ten days, when particulars as to the time and place of exhibition will be given ngj,. A French poper mentions that a pea*- , in t received lately by mail, a letter from his son b.aeph. u Zouave before Sebastopol. Th* oung man mentioned the fact that Ins legs wore vet whole, but that his shoes were the X for wear. The affectionate father hav ingpurehased «]»!>’ ° f nme was flexed as to he means of forwarding them. \t last he thought ol the telcgraph-the Ime lo Marseilles run through Ins village. He put :he address on one Os the soles and slung the -hoes over the wire. A pedlar passing by track by the soldiditv of their workmanship, .pprupriated them and placed his used nptram r. ns in their place. The next morning the old ,'lnddv returned to the spot to see if the tele zraph had executed his He saw the subsititntion which had been effected “I vow," he exclamed, “if Joseph hare t sent back iiis aid ones!" Manta Anxa A report has been put In cir- culation that thiidistlnguislKNl, and wemay add. xnerienced refugee, has arrived in this country .irag and is at present secretly domiciled in fiahtlng and patiently^-ft