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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER SO, 1855.
The Macon Telegraph
Has changed bauds, both in its proprietorship,
’ and its editorial department. Mr. Tracy leaves
the fraternity amid the universal regrets of the '
profession, not less sincere than their good wish- 1
«, which will attend him in any path he may
tread, are hearty and soul-felt. To his success
or we cordially extend the hand of fellowship,
and welcome him to the Georgia press, with
earnest wishes for his success in liis enter
prise.
We’ll let You Know.
The designing leaders of the Know Nothings,
the exploded Whig party, and the several ele
ments of the old and new factions now organised
into a heterogeneous mess of political fusion,
thov been speculating for some time upon the
prospects of the great Democratic party for an
available candidate for the next Presidency.—
lake the man who is horror-struck at beholding
the moto in his brother’s eye and fails to dis
cover the beam in bis own, the various frag
ments of political heresies at present in antag
onism to the true Democracy, have forgotten to
look to the interests of their own households.—
A proverb by Solomon, the wise, says “no good
comes to meddlers." As this precept never
belies itself, we think it would conduce
much to their respective interests if the Aboli
tionists, Know Nothings, anti-Southern men,
and other fanatical political organizations,
would look up a successful Presidential canc i
date to oppose the Democracy in theapproach
ing contest for 1856.
But, as opposing factions have disputed the
probability of success on the part of the Demo
crats, we will give them, from late election sta
tistics, an evidence of our availability that will
strike deep into their affrighted ranks. In re
viewing the State elections for the present year,
we mid that the Democratic ticket has largely
triumphed in the several respectable States of
Virginia, Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee.
Alabama. Texas, Maine. Georgia. Indians.
Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jcr
. v, and Wisconsin. These States have a weight
1 U votes in the electoral college, while on/y
11 j are necessary to the choice of a President
In addition to this statement—officially sub
scribed to—South Carolina, Arkansas, and
Florida, arc certainly ours. Thus, with these
sovereignties alone, we have ten votes to spare
to our opponents, without considering many
“more of the same sort" that will be given us
from the remaining States not enumerated in
thii article.
THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Kansas.
“Wars and rumors of war” seem to be a pop
ular programme with the citizens of Kansas.—
It is painful to the order-loving mind to con
template the baneful extent to which political
rancor will sometimes lead an entire community
or government; yet that such a deplorable state
of things now exists among our own blood and
kindred in that inviting, fertile spot of our Wes
tern possessions, is a fact—one to be deeply la
mented, and calls upon the Government of the
United States for prompt and immediate re
straint.
At a convention recently held in Leavenworth
the members of that body adopted several reso
lutions highly acceptable in the eyes of South
ern interests, among which we find one denun
ciatory of the Fiee-Soilera—another declaring
the “admission of Reeder to a seat in Congress
“a violation of all law and precedent”—the third
approving the Kansas Act—and the fourth ex
pressing gratitude to such of the Northern Dem
ocrats as helped to sustain that measure.
The 12th resolution expresses full confidence
in them ability to wrest the territory from the
fetters being forged by the Free Boilers, and
highly approves the present conduct of Gov
Shannon and his determination to see the laws
of the territory faithfully executed.
While upon the subject of Kansas, we can
not omit to publish the annexed paragraph from
our last St. Louis exchange :
“A man by the name of Coleman, a slave hol
der, having been driven from his claim by a
gang of free-soilers, who burnt his house—not,
however, without the loss of one of their num
ber—the civil authorities intervened and arres
ted the ringleaders in the outrage, who were
taken to LeCompton. The free-soilers then
rallied their forces, marched in a body of 1000
men (!) from Lawrence, rescued the prisoners,
burnt several houses and destroyed other proper
ty. Thereupon the President is asked by Gov.
Shannon, to order troops from Fort Leaven
worth, to aid him in the execution of the law.
Gen. Pierce replied promptly as became him,
ordering the troops to the scene of trouble. It
is to be hoped that the guilty parties have ere
this been subdued, and will be rigorously dealt
with. Further intelligence is, however, waited
for with intense interest.
Milledgeville Correspondence.
[For the Daily Examiner.']
Good News I
Mb. Editor : —**l am pleased to inform you
that the Cherokee claims” have been decided to
be admissible.”
This information is from H. G. Fant, Banker
of Washington, D. 0.
The object of this publication is to spread
wide the GOOD NEWS to those who served
in the Cherokee Campaign, that they may be
ware of unscrupulous purchases. Dont sell your
chances— your warrants are coming. M. A. B.
The)Wyandot Com.
This truly singular production was first intro
duced to the notice of the public in 1853, by
Mr. J. R. Thomas, of Waverley, Illinois, who
received nine grains Ifrom Wyandot Indians,
through a California emigrant, which he plan
ted in a sandy soil, and the product was fifty
eight full-grown ears. In 1854, there were rais
ed from twenty-five grains, planted on the 20th
of May, one hundred and thirty-two ears; and
from one-fourth of an acre, thirty-two bushels
a?d three pecks of shelled corn. It only re
ceived the common cultivation given to other
kinds of corn.
This com is represented to possess the follow
ing peculiarities. We copy as follows from the
eircular of Mr. Thomas.—
“First, it requires but one grain to be plan
ted in each hill; more than one is useless. Se
cond, each grain yields from three to eight full
grown stocks, equal in length and strength, be
ing from nine to twelve feet high, and proceed
directly from the grain. Third, each stalk bears
from two to four ears, of a large and beautiful
pearl white corn, the meal of which is equal in
appearance to flour manufactured from wheat.
Each hill will yield from eight to twenty ears.
From an equal quantity of seed planted, it
will produce double the quantity of ears that
can be raised from any other kind of corn
grown. The quantity of fodder which it bears
is immense, and for stock-feeding it is superior
to all other varieties. The kernel is shaped
similar to the ‘yellow flint,’ the grain soft,
twelve-rowed, and small cob. Ear from twelve
to fifteen inches.
“If planted five feet apart from each way,
(and which is near enough,) it will require
about 2,500 grains, or one quart of the seed
per acre. Allowing each grain to produce
but six ears, (and my yield for the present year
1855, will average ten ears to the hill.) and the
produce of 2,500 hills is 15,000 ears; and al
lowing 120 ears to the bushel of cern, and the
result will be 125 bushels per acre. By actual
measurement it has been conclusively proven
that three of the average sized ears of the Wy
andot corn will make one quart, or nine-six
ears to the bushel—say one hundred ears—and
the result is changed from 125 to 150 bushels
per acre, the latter being nearest correct.”
The Prizes to be Scrambled For—The
following list comprises offices, with pay
attached, for which the scramble has begun in
Washington:
The Speakership, sl6 a day; Public Print
ing, about $75,000 worth of work (exclusive
of paper) for the session; Clerk of the. House
of Representatives, $3,000; Various Clerks in
his office, combined salaries, §13,320 ; Seargent
at arms. Doorkeeper and Postmaster of the
House, $6,480; Messenger. $1,756,8(1; Libra
rian of the House, $1,800; Reading Clerk, sl,-
800 ; Clerk to Seargent at Arms, SI,BOO : five
messengers for the Poet Office of the House of
Representatives, $7,200; Chaplain of the
House, $750. Now for the contingent expen
ses : for the binding documenta, 70,000: for
furniture and repars, (a good job for a cabinet
maker.) $3,000; for stationary for members,
$12,000; twenty-one messengers, including
superintendent of folding and document rooms,
$28,413; for engraving and lithographing,
$50,000; messenger in charge of the hall,
$1,740; for two messengers in clerk's office,
$3,600 ; laborers,s2,soo: pop’s, (boys) $5,935;
for folding documents, including pay of folders,
• etc., $20,000; draughtsman and clerks. $9,000;
binding Congressional Globes, $6, 940. Be
sides variou other contingencies,’ to be supplyed
by friends of the dispensing parties.
A Paris correspondent savs:—The
■ apartment destined for the future offspring of
’ the Empress is already prepared It is close to
. the Emperor's cabinet.'
Southern Commercial Convention.—A
I public meeting was held in Richmond. Va, on
> Wednesday, to make arrangements for the
, Southern Commercial Convention, which as
sembtes in that city ou the 38 th January next
’ A resolution was passed requesting the "Gover
’ nors of the South and Southwestern States tc
i attend the convention personally, and to appoim
• Option from their State:.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20. 1855.
Coming Events Foreshadowed.
The twenty-ninth parallel oflatitude is named
as the next southern boundary of the Union.—
General Gadsden is said to have been negotia
ting with Santa Anna for a new cession of ter
ritory, including all north of that line, when the
progress of the revolution interrupted the pro
ceedings. Os coarse no one knows how true
this is; but Gen. Gadsden has away of writing
home to his friends vague hints of important
things going on, which sets conjecture all agog
to ascertain the precise truth. The difficulty
about the payment of the three millions of the
last indemnity, and the demand for reparation
for Callahan’s invasion and the burning of
Piedras Negras, all conspire to assist this con
clusion, and probably before President Pierce
goes out of office he will communicate a new
treaty with a fresh demand on our surplus
millions. The twenty-ninth parallel would throw
into the United States two-thirds of the Mexi
can State of Sonora two-fifths of Chihuahua,
with population enough to form one of our
States, In such case the new territory would
have to go under political pupilage as a Terri
tory, or else New Mexico would have to be
admitted as a State. A rumor is afloat in the
newspapers to the effect that Gen. Gadsden has
sent word to Washington that if the balance of
the Mesilla indemnity be not paid to the present
Government of Mexico not another foot of ter
ritory will be ceded to the United States.
Meantime we have various other projects for
acquiring new colonies. Tims the report is
revived that Russia is willing to sell her Amer
ican possessions to us for a consideration in
money—rather too Artic a matter for the folks
at Washington, as neither, cotton, tobacco,
hemp, rice, nor sugar can be grown up there.—
Then there is a report coming from Europe that
Russia has suggested to Denmark the propriety
of settling the difficulty between the latter and
the United States by selling to us the Danish
West India Island of St. Thomas, the price of
which, five millions of dollars, may be taken
also as our consideration for freeing us of the
Sound Dues, St. Thomas is a small island to
the windward of Porto Rico, with a population
of seven thousand souls. Right near to it is
another small island called Santa Cruz, also
owned by Denmark, with thirty-two thousand
inhabitants. For five millions of dollars we
ought to get both of these. But St. Thomas
is of much importance from its geographical
position, which is such as would render it a for
midable position in the hands of a naval Power.
It has a fine harbor, and is always first sought
by vessels in distress coming from seaward.—
Were it in our possession it would, in a great
measure, nullify the purpose for which the
British hold the West Indies, as a naval Power
might from it command the whole eastern front
of the West Indies and the coast of the United
States.— Ph.ila. N. Amer.
English Bacon.
Americans visiting England are aften struck
with the superiority of English bacon over our
own, particularly of that from Wilts and York
shire. It is behoved tliat the difference is ow
ing solely to the mode of preparation. We
publish the following from the Agricultural
Bureau of the Patent Office. It is worthy of
the attention of our agricultural readers :
“As soon as the bacon comes from the butch
er’s hands it should have a covering of salt,
dried and rolled to a fine powder, well rubbed
in with the hand to every part, using the finger
to fill every bole and joint, as it is most impor
tant that the meat should take the salt when
quite fresh. In twelve hours all the brine and
damp salt not absorbed should be scraped off
the bacon and removed from the vessel, and dry
salt added again, as much as needed to cover it,
as before, and well rubbed in. This process
should be repeated every twelve hours for three
days, when saltpetre should be added, getting
off previously all the damp salt and brine as
before, and applying the saltpetre as the com
mon salt, adding a handful of the latter. A
quarter of a pound of saltpetre to a side of ba
con weighing seventy pounds is sufficient; then
mix one pound of coarse brown sugar and one
pound of treacle or molasses, and pour over
the saltpetre on the bacon, adding a little more
salt daily for three days, which serves to make
the pickle keep well, and the whole liquor
should be laded with a teacup over the bacon
as often as convenient, four times a day for the
first two weeks after it was first put to the ba
con, and then never less than twice a day for
the remainder of the time needed for its pick
ling, which is four weeks, or longer if large
bacon; and then it should be sent to the dry
ing house, and smoked over a wood fire.”
Fork Packing in Chattanooga.—The
Gazette of Saturday says : The large establish
ment of Chandler &. Co. is now in full blast—
the fires are all kindled, and a wholesale slaugh
ter is in daily progress. The Sebastopol of
porkdom is falling to;the tune of five handred
fat throats per day. ’ A hundred men make
sorties ofdirections, and there is no telling where
it will end.
This concern is complete in all the details;
and the result is, that the meat, lard. &c, are
prepared in the nicest'order. The salting house
is detached from the other operations, and con
sequently every thing is pure and cleanly.
Those who arc unacqaainted with the minutiae
of pork packing, will find much te interest tnem
in a visit to this establishment.
Some three or four million pounds of bacon
and mess pork will be slaughtered at this one
house.
In our ramble yesterday, we fouud that the
old stand of C. E. Grenville, near the river, is
being prepared for a temporary slaughter house
this fall. Esq. Mitchell, formely agent at Bridge
port for the N. & C. R. R., will kill several
thousand head for himselfand others as soon as
the building can be made ready. Others will
kill, and altogether the pork trade is becoming
the great business of our city. Wc learn that
two or three porkeries will be erected another
year, which will be* concentrated and make
Chattanooga a great hog market.
Texas Cotton Crop.—The Galveston Civil
lian, of the 30th ult., in its commercial article,
says:
In Texas the weather has continned favora
ble for securing the cotton crop, and where the
yield was short that task has been nearly com
pleted. We hear, however, of plantations on
which the whole crop will not be secured before
the Christmas holidays. The present dry and
cool weather is much more favorable to the su
gar crop than the previous warm and moist at
mosphere.
Cotton continues to arrive pretty freely at
this port, in the absence of river navigation—
the chief supply being byway of Houston,
where upwards of 16.000 bales have been re
ceived, and 11.000 shipped since the Ist Sep
tember. The receipts at this port during the
week ending this morning sum up 1,319 bales.
The exports, 2.713 bales.
The Laraca Herald, of the 24th ult.. reports
that the daily receipts of cotton continue nn
diminished. ' Main street is"nndered almost im
cassible by the blockade of wagons end
s ales.
8®“ A Committee of the New York Cit]
Council have reported in favor of the crectiot
of a monument on the battery in that city, ti
be six hundred feet high, with a statue.of Wash
ington 23 feet in height upon its summit, tb
I whole to’be constructed of iron and finishet
within tea years.
Milledgeville Correspondence.
Friday, December 7,1855.
The Senate met at the usual hour this morn
| ing. Upon a motion of Mr. Dunagan, to re
, consider the rejection by the Senate of the
' amendment offered on Saturday to the Bruns
wick & Florida Rail Road Bill, referring the
question of State Aid to the people, a» anima
ted discussion took place, in which Messrs.
Baxter, Spaulding and Dunagan, participated
in favor of reconsideration, and Messrs. Mc-
Millan, Peeples, and Hardeman, agr'nst it.—
The Senators who advocated a reconsideratio i
did so with great plausability and ab : 'ity, but
failed to effect their object. The adv; ates o r
the Bill, and of giving State Aid to this very
important Road—one in which not only South
Western Georgia, but our Mountain Country, is
so much interested ; and indeed the noble State
were on the alert, and ably defended the meas
ure of State Aid to the content a ted link against
which the motion to re consider the vote refer
red to, was aimed. The vo. 3 upon the motion
stood for reconsideration 42, against it 51.
The Senate then, on motion, suspended the
order of the day, which wrs the unfitvshed bus
iness of Saturday (the bill above referred to)
and proceeded to consider the Bill regulating
the places of holding the Supreme Court of the
State. Pending the consideration of an amend
ment, the Senate adjourned.
At 3P. M. the Senate again assembled and
resumed the consideration of the Bill last re
ferred to. After several amendments had been
received the Bill passed. It locates the Courts
now at five points in the State, to wit—Savan
nah, Milledgeville, Macon, Athens, and At
lanta.
The regular order of the day, the Brunswick
Bill, as it is now familiarly tenne l, was then
taken up, and consumed the umainder of the
afternoon. We have only time to say, that
the Bill passed by a ma jority of two voles.—
Every effort to defeat this great measu 3—a
measure second in importance to none before
the legislature, and of vital importance to the
State and the South. Several of its friend-,
however, were absent when the vote was taken,
otherwise the bill would have passed the Senale
by a large majority.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, Dec. 10.
The subject matter considered by the House
this morning, except in one particular, was of
too little general interest to render a report of
the proceedings at all interesting' to our read
ers.
Mr. Harris, of Meriwether, moved the recon
sideration of the Bill, increasing the jurisdic
tion of Justices Courts in Troup County and
amended to extend to all the counties in the
State which was agreed to, and, at his instance,
the Bill was taken up. The Bill encountered
considerable opposition, in various shapes, from
different gentlemen, and its discussion has pre
pared the minds of members for a proposition
to restrict the jurisdiction of these magistrates
to that of mere conservators of the peace.—
There seems a strong disposition prevailing
amongst certain members, to favor such a pro
position, and, upon the other hand, an equally
decided determination on the part of others to
resist it, should it come before the House. Be
the result what it may, the subject will at least
be investigated, and whether the evils com
plained of are substantial or groundless, they
will be remedied, or the complaints effectually
silenced by the action of the House.
The debate occupied most of the time we
were present, and upon a call of the ayes and
nays resulted in the passage of the Bill, by 84
to 48, which if it is fair to call this bill a test
question evidences the feeling of the House as
decidedly in favor of the Court.
The hasty glance at the Journal of this morn
ing we were enabled to give, (having reached
the Representative chamber at a late hour) dis
covered little important action to-day, the bus
iness of legislation being confined to local and
personal interests, a class of matter, of which
there is an unusually large amount this session
and which is a convincing argument in favor of
annual sessions. People complain of unneces
sary waste of time and money by our Legisla
tures generally, but when they come to examine
the printed journals and see the amount of mat
ter actually considered by the General Assem
bly, and the innumerable and often conflicting
interests which claim its attention, they are
less disposed to complain, and those who come
here with such views, no matter how honest
their intention to work a reform in this particu
lar, are little likely to return again with the
game object. The business of Legislation, so
far as our observation goes, is not a remarka
bly pleasant one, even though there may be a
fascination about it which brings many back
who leave the Capitol with the settled determi
nation never to be candidates again.
But we have been ungallant enough to omit,
until now, any allusion to the LEVEE, which
came off last Thursday evening with greater
success than many heretofore held. It would
be impossible for us to give anything like a de
scription, for, to tell the truth we entirely for
got our readers in the absorbing interest of the
occasion, and failed to take notes. For this
dereliction wo can only offer in extenuation the
inate gallantry of our nature which (we confess
it without shame) drives from our thoughts all
other consideration in the presence of such a
congregation of the beauty and intelligence of
our State as was in attendance upon the Levee
One thing we did notice, however, and that par
ticularly too —the tables. Wc were honored
with the privilege of examining them before the
work es destruction commenced, and we cer
tainly appreciated the privilege, as we after
wards substantially testified. We have never
seen anything of the kind that equalled the en
tire work of decoration, which seemed to us to
have centered the whole range of taste in such
matters, and thrown it with graceful profusion
upon the refreshment table, until we were in
formed that the unassisted hand of the Gover
nor's estimable and accomplished lady had
worked all the ornamentation which called forth
the flattering laudations of every one present.
Altogether the Levee,in theeclat of itajgeneral
•‘going off,” the brilliancy of its attendance, and
the unrivalled elegance and excellence of the
supper will bang
“A beautiful picture on our memory’s wall"
long after our interest in participating in such
afiairs. shall have passed away.
But enough about thejLevee, and we turn to a
subject to which puts to flight every recollection
of its enjoyment. We allude to that editors
nightmare—the type. Reader, have you ever,
when deeply interested in the discussion of a
certain delicate subject with a pretty girl, which
you fondly hoped would terminate in a change
of yoar mode of life, and just at the witching
moment you expected a blissful affirmative to
fall from ber lips had you castle of hopes
■•knocked into a cocked hat" by her abrupt de
parture from the room and, immediately after
-1 wards, an uncomfortable tete-a-tete with a papa
indignant at your presumption ? Did you ever
prepare vouraelf, in winter time, for a warm
bath, and when expecting the grateful tepid
shower, find on pulling the string that your
careless servant forgot tu -take the cold off?”
• Did you ever, in fact, calculate certainly upon
, the success of any darling project, and then,
, when you thought you had its fruition in youi
grasp.'found an “airy nothing” in its stead ?
, If you have frequently experienced these, you
[ may be able to imagine the feelings of the luck
lew editor who leaves his post, and, while rev
Hing in his otium cum dignitale is suddenly
confronted with a paragraph from under his
own hand, which, by a single error in setting up,
changes the entire sense of his intention. Lan
guage is inadequate to the expression of his
vexation, and he must get out of it with the
best grace he can.
Instead of recording the vote in favor of the
reconsideration of the Georgia M ilitary Institute,
on Friday last, as 58 to 62 against it, by wh : ch
the motion to reconsider was of course lost, we
were made to say that the affirmative vote was
88. leaving the impression that the bill was re
considered, which was not true. Types are too
often like the negro’s white man “n ’ghty on
certain.”
Tuesday, Dec. 11,1855.
The whole time of the Senate, today, until
a very late hour in the evening, when it pro
ceeded to call upon Senators for new bnsiness,
was taken up in discussing the question of
State Aid to the “Brunswick Road.” The
discussion opened on a motion of the Senator
from Coweta, Mr. Buchanan, to reconsider the
vote of yesterday on the passage of the
Bill.
In a very able argument this gentleman (Mr.
B.) sustained his motion. Not a point did he
fail to direct the attention of the Senate to,
where Bill and its provisions could, with any
hope, be successfully assailed. An advocate of
the measure ourself, we must confess that we
felt quite uneasy when this Senator, with oth
ers who addressed the Senate in favor of a re
consideration, proceeded with his remarks.—
Had we time, we would pre ent to our reade ■s
a synopsis, at least, of his argument. But as
we have not, we must let this occasion pass
with the remark that Mr. 8., in this debate,
won honors as a Senator, even if he did, in our
humble opinion, arrange himself on the wron o,
side of the question.
Mr. Buchanan, was followed on the same
side by the Senators from Wilkes and Greene,
Mes'-rs, Pope and Cone. Most earnestly and
eloquently did these gentlemen urge the recon
sideration of the vote upon the Senate. Like
the gentleman first alluded to, their arguments
covered all the ground upon which the oppo
nents of State Aid to this Road, could possibly
stand. We regretted much that gentlemen so
esteemed for their ability and clear-sightedness
in the Senate, should have felt it incumbent up
on them, to oppose a measure fraught with so
many advantages to the State.
Opposed to a reconsideration, and staunch
advocates of the Bill on the floor of the Senate
were Messrs. Miller, Gibson, Long, Lawton,
and Peeples. Each of these genJemen, advo
cated the measure in eloquent terms,and turned
the argument, most happily, against their ad
versaries in the contest. Wc never saw great
er interest manifested in the Senate than there
was during the discussion, ar.d particularly
while the two last named gentlemen were speak
ing. The gallery and lobby of the Senate
were crowded with spectators. Men stood on
tip-foe to hear the speakers ; and when; as the
Senator from Clark took his seat, the previous
question was called for, seconded, and the vote
on the main question was taken, one might
have heard a pin drop upon the Senate floor so
silent, and so interested, had the assemblage be
come, as trfthe final result. It affords us how
ever great pleasure te say to the readers of the
Examiner that the result was what we hoped
it would be. The Senate refused to reconsider
the vote by a majority of nine—the vote being
for reconsideration 45, against it 54. So the
Bill as it passed the Senate will be sent to the
House to-morrow for its action. There, we
trust, it will be dealt with as wisely as it has
been in the Senate. Justice to Southern and
South-western Georgia, requires this, while the
true interests of the State and of our Mountain
Country demand it.
Wednesday, Dec., 12,1855.
We were prevented, by business which re
quired our attention elsewhere, from being in
the Senate to-day. We are advised, however,
that this Body devoted its attention, mainly, to
local matters—and that nothing of general or
public interest was done. After a storm, as
the old saying hath it, there comes a calm.—
Having disposed of the “Brunswick Bill,” on
ves.erday, after a struggle will long be remem
bered by those who participated in, and wit
nessed it, there was no disposition, we appre
hend, on the part of Senators to take up any
measure of great public importance. But this
will not last long. As soon as local bills are
disposed of, or have been read a second time
the attention of the Senate will again be di
rected to more important matter.
We are advised that the standing Commit
tees of the Senate are industriously engaged in
preparing to report upon the business that
has beeu referred to them, as well as to suggest
legislation upon topics which have not yet been,
by bill, or resolution, before the Senate. The
Committee on the state of the Republic will
not report before the recess. We are pleased
at this, for the Legislature will be better pre
pared to act after the organization of the House
of Representatives at Washington, and when
better advised as to the affairs of Kansas.—
The Committee on Banks have not yet report
ed as te their condition, although it has re
ported on bills providing for new Charters.
You are aware that to a special Committee was
refered thc affairs of the Atlanta Bank. We
are advised that this Committee will soen make
its report. As it will be a report in which
Atlanta has a deep interest, as soon as a copy
of it can be procured, it will be forwarded to
the “ Examiner ” for publication.
We learn that a Resolution will be intro
duced into the Senate suggesting the appro
priation of 8160.000 to aid the pro-slavery
party in Kansas. We hope that this, or some
other measure of tbe kind will be adopted by
the present Legislature.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, Dec. 12.
The House session to-day was quite interest
ing, having been occupied almost entirely in
the consideration of Mr. Lewis’ common school
Bill. Our notes of the debate, which was
marked by much sound argument—were inter
rupted by other business, and we cannot, as we
would be glad to do, render to the gentlemen
participating in it the justice .to their ef
forts. Suffice it that they alntl deeply inter
ested in the adoption of EOBR system which
shall relieve our State from the only blot upon
our State pride, and we think it beyond doubt,
whether this passes or not, that this Legislature
will take the initiative step towards such a sys
tem as shall place Georgia foremost in the ranks
of States which have prece<led her in thc great
work of education.
No system can be at once perfected which
will meet all the wante of our people, bnt a ba
sis may, and doubtless will, be established whicb
in time may be adapted to our peculiar position-
The sparcity of our population, and many other
difficulties equally as difficult to provide for,
forbid the hope of at once setting in successful
motion a system adapted to our diversified wants,
but as time developes the defects of any plan to
accomplish the important work, they may be
remedied until it does supply the desideratum.
It should not, therefore, be expected that this
Legislature will entirely meet the wants of the
people, now so justly clamorous for speedy and
effectual action. It can only give the outline
of a plan, {thick subsequent Legislation may
fill up aa tune, and observations of it* workings
, j may direct. That such will be the action of
, I the Legislature we do not question, since every
member manifests a lively appreciation of the
absolute necessity of setting tbe ball in motion
at once. Difference of opinion may exist as to
the merits of the plan proposed, but the feeling
is universal in favor of some plan, and that
Which promises most success will be the eie
agreed upon. With the provisions of Mr.
Lewis’ bill our readers are already familiar, and
they require no comment from us to indicate its
merits or defects. From the direction of feelirg
to-day, wc infer the Bill will be amended in sev
eral particulars, and perhaps eventually passed
The action of the House was postponed until
to-morrow, when the consideration of the bill
will be resumed.
Mr. Crook moved the suspension of the rule
to allow him to introduce the Bill providing for
the removal of all free persons of color in this
State to Liberia, or some other point beyond
the limits of the United States, which we©
agreed to, and the Bill read a first time.
A motion of the same gentleman, made ear
lier, to reconsider so much of the Journal of
yesterday as related to the action of the House
upon his Bill to appropriate $2,000 for the
purpose of grading a road over Taylor’s Ridge,
was agreed to.
The House adjourned at 1 1-2 o’clock, pur
suant to rule.
Much interest is felt here in the result of the
election for Speaker of the Hcuse in Congre !>,
and the noble stand taken by the Democracy is
applauded by every unprejudiced mu in Mil
ledgeville, and no considerations of party pride
disguises their dissatifaction with those South
ern members who have ignominiously sided with
the Northern candidates. Those who hold
back, and refuse to stand by the noble band of
Democrats who have so early evinced their do
termination to war upon everything that comes
in the shape of anti-slavery intention, are up
braided for their action, and freely suspicioned
o I too little watchful interest in the cause of the
South. Upon them rests the onus of disorgan
ization, which freights them with the anathemas
of an outraged people.
This will be the Congress to unite the Sout
as one man, and we cannot say we regret the
effect, though we are pained to witness the ex
istence of causes producing it. Had such an Un
ion been perfected, and upon a proper basis, long
since, we should not now listen with such painful
interest for reports from the present Congress.
Report of Committee on the Lunatic Asy
lum.
The Committee on the Lunatic Asylum hav
ing discharged the duties of their appointment,
report.
That their investigations enable them to
speak in terms of commendation of the general
management of the Institution. The cleanli
ness exhibited on several ossasions of the bed
rooms and bedding of the inmates, together,
with the great care exercised in providing for
their wants reflects credit ou the Resident Phy
sician and his sub-officers. The financial af
fairs of the Institution are conducted ou a most'
rigid system of economy, and were ascertained
to be correct as stated in the report of the Trus
tees (Bid Superintendent.
The obligations to make proper provision
for the cart of this peculiarly unfortunate class
of our feilow creatures, is now fully recogni*~d
in all civilized countries. And a most lauda
ble emulation is every where manifested in ef
forts to effect additional, more liberal and com
plete provisions for the unhappy victims of
this fearful diseas 3. In reference to whom we
may well say, “As ye would that others should
do for you, in like circumstances, so do ye for
those helpless ones, cast through the providence
of God on your sympathy and care.” Be the
guardians and benefactors of those, who as a
writer expressed himself in the 17th century,
“are the particular rent charge on the great
family of mankind; left by the Maker of us all,
like younger children, who, though deprived of
their estate, yet the Father expects the heir to
take care of them.”
It is a subject iu which we have all a com
munity of interest; for while it is true, that
those who grovel in sensuality and excess, and
give loose rein to the vicious passions and ap
petites of their nature, together with those who
are left by the calculating charity of the world
to the pinchings of cold and hunger, with all
the bitterness thereof, are specialy predisposed ;
it is not less true, that no human being can
claim exemption from the visitations of this,
the direst of all calamities in the dark cata
logue of this world’s evils. It often happens
that the most amiable, highly gifted and wealthy
arc marked as its victims, and through the mys
terious influence of some unexpected mental or
corporeal agency, are transformed into beings
in whom the form alone indicates humanity.—
They become at once sources of distress, anxie
ty, and alarm to their nearest and dearest friends,
and nothing less than nuisances to the commu
nity. Under such circumstances what a blessed
work it is, how high and holy a duty, to furn
ish all the means, through which, under Provi
dence such an one may be reinstated to all their
capacities for happiness and usefulness, and the
hearts of the stricken and desolate gladdened.
The necessity of making this report as brief as
may be, at all consistent with our duties, pre
cludes the possibility of presenting the vast
amount of facts which might be furnished veri
fying the foregoing opinions and statements.—
While Georgia has made suitable (though not
sufficiently extensive,) arrangements for the care
of the indigent insane, idiotic and epileptic
within her borders, no suitable provision has
yet been secured for a different class of persons,
whose claims have no right to disregard, and
who pay that principal proportion of your taxes,
from which you derive the means of support
for your pauper patients, and the means of
building up the institution. And to whom,
moreover it is neither humane nor just to say,
if unhappily your friends fall into such circum
stances, you shall find no provision for them in
your own State, but must seek it in those States
whose enlarged benevolence has made appropri
ate provision for all classes. This state of
things was sought to be remedied at the last
session of the Legislature, and the Joint Stand
ing Committee on the Lunatic Asylum, intro
duced a bill for the accomplishment of that ob
ject. On a motion to fill a blank in the section
of that bill, which specially related to the com
pletion and perfection of the institution, with
the amount deemed necessary, a substitute for
that section was offered, received and Adopted.
That substitute provided that his Excellency the
Governor should appoint five competent, disin
terested individuals, from different sections of
the State as Commissioners, who were to make
the necessary careful examination into the whole
subject and determine what additional buildings
were necessary, and upon what plans they should
be erected to meet the wants and subserve the
interests of the people of Georgia, in connection
with tills institution. They were to select the
plan for -ueh buildings, and report the plans so
selected to his Excellency the Governor, with
all necessary details and estimates, which report
he should have published. To this section was
added, “provided their estimate does not exceed
fifty thousand dollars.”
Under this act the Governor appointed, Dr.
R. D. Arnold of Savannah, Dr. Minis of
Whitfield, Dr. R. D. Moore of Athens, Col.
Hines Holt of Columbus, and A. M. Nisbet,
Esq., of Milledgeville, the board of Commis-
Igiouera —five gentlemen of high character and
unquestioned ability. Those Commissioners
f met, and after thorough and deliberate investi
r gation, determined upon the course, which in
s justice to the people of Georgia it was tl dr
1 duty to pursue. They advertised for plans,
i and in duo time re-rs. cmbled, selected tbe plans
, and employed a competent Architect to super
t intend their execution, who was instructed to
> prepare an advertisement calling for proposals,
. for such proportion of the material and work
I as would comprehend the putting up all the
i brick work, putting in all the door and window
• frames, the entire inside framing, and the put
! ting on and covering the roof.
At the expiration of the period specified in
the adverti_ment, the Commissioners again
and having received a large num
ber of proposals for each portion of the work,
and also for the supply of the different kinds of
material demanded, let out the several contracts,
as is shown, upon favorable terms, and the exe
cution of those contracts was promptly entered
upon. Satisfactory bonds having been given
in every instance, the Commissioners were im
pelled to adopt the course pursued from several
considerations. They were authorized and re
quired to determine what additional buildings
were necessary. Necessary for what? Why
of course, to meet the wants and subserve the
interests of the people of Georgia in reference
to the Institution.—This was truly the impor
tant question. They were fully aware that
additional room must be provided ; for, accord
ing to the last census of the United States,
there were more than eight hundred individuals
in the State, who, under the law as it now
stands, had a right to admission, and not one
fourth of the number was found in* the Asy
lum. That for some years, the present build
ings had been full, and new cases could be
received only as vacancies occurred, and that
applications were constantly on hand for the
admission of our own citizens, to the number of
twenty to thirty, besides many from the neigh
boring states, which could not be entertained
at all. That while there existed suitab'e ac
commodation (except in extent) for the pauper
patients of the State, there was no satisfactory
provisions for the educated and wealthy; and
no possible chance for the most judicious clas
sification, eve» of the pauper patients. That
the class of our people who could afford to pay
liberally for satisfactory accommodations, and
the lest system of classification, wore driven to
the necessity of seeking an asylum for their un
fortunate friends in the institutions of other
States, or keep them at home (and in most ca
ses) under circumstances deeply afflicting to
themselves, and destructive ofhopesxif restora
tion*to the patient. They knew that in every
other State Institution of the Union, feuitable
provisions were made for all classes of society, ;
and while, in their construction, all necessary .
arrangements were made for the proper res- i
traint and care of all the inmates, every effort
was made to render those edifices as unlike i
prison-houses as posible.
The alternative was before them, either to
proceed to make arrangements for expending
'he amount which had been appropriated, in
patching on to those buildingspiow in use, others
of a similar cliaracter, capable only of partially
supplying the demand for additional roams for
the pauper insane of our State, with yet no suit
able provision for any other class, thereby
fixing upon tbe institution more firmly and
hopelessly, the character of an exclusively pau.
per establishment; which they conceived could
never have been contemplated by the Legislature,
wou'd be a reproach upon onr people, and
serve to fasten upon them an annually increas
ing burden—or set on foot a plan of improve
ments, which, when completed, would present
an institution that would be a pride and honor
to our State; provide suitably for all classes of
her citizens, who may unhappily become the
victims of this malady; compare favorably in
its capability of promoting the comfort and
restoration of the insane, with any in onr coun
try ; and if allowed to receive patients from
other States, as is done elsewhere, within a few
years sustain itself, or at the very least we can
expect, importantly diminish the annual tax for
its support. Believing firmly, that such a
course wa demanded by every consideration,
and that with due regard to the ultimate i nter
est and welfare of the people, no other could
be pursued, the Commissioners adopted the lit
ter of the alternatives ' presented, confidently
relying up»n the wisdom, justice s benevolence
of the representatives of the people, for supply
ing the additional means Recessary for the sat
isfactory completion of the plans which they
have adopted. And your committee, after the
necessary investigation, feel called upon to ex
press our highest approbation of the course
adopted by the Commissioners in this great
work; and insist that such additional appropria
tions shall lie made immediately, as are necessa
ry for the most speedy and practical comple
tion of the buildings now in process oferection.
It would not only be bad policy for our State,
but it would be acting in bad faith towards the
conntractors, to abandon the work in its pres
ent position, thereby affording no additional
accommodation for any class of lunatics. Your
committee further insist, that these appropria
tions shall be made before the recess of the leg
islature, for the purpose of settling the minds
of contractors in regard to employment for
the ensuing year, and securing the services of
such servants as are necessary to carry ou the
work.
The Commerce between the Uni
ted States and Liverpool.
There is no seaport town in the world so inti
mately connected, by commerce, with the Uni
ted States, and whose prosperity is so depen
dant upon this country as that of Liverpool.—
The annual amount of products exported to
Liverpool alone, may be roughly estimated at
two millions of cotton, and fifty thousand hogs
heads of sugar, the greater portion of which Jis
from Louisiana, together with tobaco, corn,
flour, and provisions, the amount of which wo
have no means of determining, although we
may obtain some idea of the imense trade car
ried on between the two countries from the fact
that twelve hundred vessels, whose aggregate
burthen mav be set down at five millions of
tons, annually enter the port of Liverpool from
various parts of the United States.
Tbe population of Liverpool is about three
hundred thousand. Its magnificent docks, the
finest, perhaps, in thc world, stretch for three
miles along the shore of thc Mersey, and we
have an extent of quay some teu or twelve miles
in length. Liverpool owes its pre-eminence,
as a sea port, partly to its favorable geograph
ical position, but more especially to its being
situated in Lancashire, by far thc most impor
tant manufacturing Co. in England, the staple
manufacture being cotton goods; but it also car
ries on an extensiv trade in silk, woolen and lin
en fabrics; in pottery ware, machinery, and in
manufactures of iron and brass. These form
no immaterial part of England's guarrantees for
the preservation of peace with this country.—
Baltimore Patriot.
Thc entire receipts of thc Department
from postage on letters, of newspapers, &c.,
from Ist July, 1853 to 30th June, 1854, sum
up six million twenty-three thousand two hun
dred and sixteen dollars and seven cents. The
entire receipts of the Department from the
same sources, from Ist July, 1854 to 30th June,
1855, amount to six million three hundred
1 seventy-three thousand and forty-four dollars
and seventy-six cents. The increase of receipts
up to thc fiscal year closing on 30th June last,
amounted to about three hundred and fifty
thousand dollars; but the expenses of transpor
tation of the mails have proportionally increased.
WM. KA? proprietor
NUMBER 19.
Later from Europe.
’ ARRIVAL OF TH E STEAMER.
8 ft
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BALTIC.
Columbia, Dec. 13.
J The st«amer Baltic has arrived at New
York.
f Cotton has declined on> eighth to a quarter
, but closing firm. Sales of the week 49,005
’ bales.
! Flour has declined sixpence.
Consoles quoted at 89 3-4.
1
Washington, Eec. 12.
i The Senate has appointed the Committees.
In the House tc day there were five ballots
for Speaker without an election. The votesis
changed but little.
Latest from Congress,
Washington, Dee. 11.
The proceedings of the Senate to day were
unimportant.
In the House there were six ballots for Speak
er, with the same result as yesterday. Banks
107 ; Richardson 76 ; Fuller 28. There is no
prospect of an election at present.
Fire in the Sing Sing Prison.
New York, Dec. 7.
A large fire was raging in the Sing Sing
prison last night. At last accounts all the
shops on the west side were iu flames, and the
prisoners were yelling in the most demoniac
manner, lhe main building was not supposed
to be in immediate.
.SingularDiscovery.—Found on Chowoca-
Ice Creek, in Macon county, Alabama,’ in the
quarries of Edwin Reese, Esq., where he hrs
bten blasting marble to burn lime, some beau
tiful and curious specimens of marl le, having
trees and shrubbery, with their branches and
leaves, plainly stamped upon the layers into
which it is divided, It is certainly a most
wonderful curiosity of nature, orc which pre
se thc rcll ection an<| investigation
of the skillful geologist. As geology is BO w
exciting enquiry in the scientific world, it is
worth the attention of thc curiout and specula
five to examine these specimens, some of which
have been left at our office by A. B. Crofi»
Esq., of our town. Lime manufactiu ?d from
this marble is said to be of a verv suoerior
<^y—lKesf Point (Ga.) Beacon. ?
Snoring.—Old Hick was an awful snorer.
He could be heard farther than a blacksmith’s
forge; but his wife became so accustomed to it,
that it soothed her repose. They were a very
domestic couple—never slept apart for many
years. At length the old man was required to
attend court some distance. The first night af
ter his departure, his wife never slept a wink;
she missed the snoring. The next night passed
rway in the same manner, without sleep. She
was getting into a very b„d wi-y, and probably
would have d ! ed, had it not besn for the ingenu
ity of a servant giil. She took the coffee-mill
into her mistresses’ chamber, and ground her to
sleep at once.
W“Thc Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier writes, under date Dee. 7th :
“borne five or six Southern Senators have given
in their adhesion to the Democratic party.—
This was made known iu a formal and definite
manner yesterday. Among the names of South
ern Whigs, mentioned as having gone over to
the Democratic organization, are those of Mr.
Benjamin, of Louisiana, Mr. Geyer, ofMissouri,
Mr. Pratt, of Maryland, and Mr. Toombs, of
Georgia. Os the Southern Senators elected us
Whigs, Mr. Crittenden, Mr. Bell, of Tennessee,-
and Mr. Clayton, of Delaware, are supposed to
be more or loss identified with Know Nothing
ism. There are, therefore, but few Whigs left
in the Senate; that is, what are called “straight
Whigs.”
Dickey and Scsey.—Dickey was poor—
Susey had a rich mother—Dickey loved Bnsey,
and vice versa —Dickey wanted to marry—
Susey’s mother was “down” on the measure—
Dickey was forbid thc premises—notes were
exchanged through u knot-hole in the high
board fence that enclosed the yard. One day
the old lady wont out “calling," and Dickey
was duly informed of thc fact—called ou Su
tay—remained a little too long—old lady was
close at band—no escape without detection—
at the instance es Susey, Dickey popped into
the closet—old lady saw that Susey looked
confused—guessed that Dickey hud been about
but-supposed that he had rendered good his
escape—thought perhaps the young couple ha 1
agreed to elope together—determined to bo too
smart for them,accordingly shut Susey up in
the same closet where Dicky was concealed,
and giving her a pair of quilts and pillow—
didn't see Dickey uud—next morning went to
the closet to let Susey out—
“Oh, Lord 1” a scream—couldn’t get breath
for a moment.. Finale—
“ Ahem? Dickey is that you?”
“ Yes ma'am.”
“ Ahem 1 ahem—well, Dickey—Susey,. dear,
go and the breakfast.” [Exit
Susey.
“ Well, Dickey.”
“ Well, ma’am.”
“ Dickey you must stay to breakfast.”
“ Couldn't ma’ain.”
Dickey consented to stay.
Breakfast table—“ Dickey, 1 liavc lieen tbiuk
ing about you a good deal lately.”
“ So I suppose, ma’am —very lately.”
“ You arc industrious and honest, 1 hear.”
“ I never brag ma'am.”
“ Well, now, upon the whole, Dickey, I
think you and Susey had better get married.”
Sensible ’omau that?
Recruiting in the North of Ireland.—
Thc numerous recruiting parties in Belfast are
beginning to complain of the scaroiety of
young men, of whom they are now unable to
pick up in one month scarcely one-fourth of the
number they obtained in the same period this
time twelvo-mcnth. For some time past an
active recruiting was "oing on in Belfast for
thc I .and Transport Corps, but an order to
cease recruiting was received here ob Satur
day last, as enough men for thc present bad
been obtained for that corps. The height for
those joining that service was five feet two, and
the bounty £5, with rations, Is. 3d. per day.
Thc term of enlistment is ten years, with the
privilege to well conducted men to receive their
discharge at thc end of five years.—The entire,
number of young men who enlisted for the
Land Transport Corps and tbe line durifig the
month of August last and passed by Col
Adair, Inspecting Field Officer for the North
ern District, which includes tbe whole of the
Province of Ulster, was only ninety-m’ue, for
September seventy-one, and for October one
hundred and fifty-six,