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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY EXAMINER.
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FIIUiWDAY, J VNUtItY, 29, 1856. __
The Mails and Ourselves.
Despite the frigid temperature prevalent
hereabouts, it requires all our usually large
stock of patience to "keep cool” about the mails.
North, east south and west, the cry comes up,
<‘no mails.” Human nature can’t stand it; and.
but that we are in the situation of the boy who
lost his ashes, we might be tempted to forget
the seventh admonition of the decalogue, and
ejaculate terribly. But it’s no use—we “ can t
do justice to the subject.”
The irregularity of our mails, and the ex
tremely cold weather, p ay the Old Harry with
the types ; and we havs to thow ourselves upon
the charitable forbearance of our readers for
the uninteresting character of oc ■natter, and
the unusually “short allowance" of reading fur
nished in our daily issue. If the mail-bags ev
er do thaw, we will try to recover our good hu
mor, aad, at the same time, improve our paper.
Legislative intelligence.
It is really provoking that we cannot receive
the letters of our Senior who is at present in
Milledgeville ; and it is a little singular too
that such a preference should be shown to the
Augusta poet office over Atlanta. Our Angus
ta exchanges furnish us with the latest dates
from Milledgeville, and upon them we are com
pelled to rely for legislative news. The fault
must lie in Macon or its vicinity, since we can
see no good reason why matter mailed in Mill
edgeville should not reach Atlanta os soon, or
nearly so, as Augusta. The latter city seems
to have regular communication with the seat
of Government, while we may co: sider ourselves
unusually fortunate if me get two or three
mails a week. The facts speak for themselves.
Now who is to blame? We can easily say
who suffers.
Kansas.
We published yesterday the Bill of Mr. Crook,
of Chattooga, providing for the appropriation
of $50,000 to Kansas emigration, and reim
bursing the State by a special tax upon the ne
gro property of the State. It is sincerely hoped
this bill will meet no opposition in either branch
of the General Assembly. We are confident it
•rill not be opposed by holders of the property
opoeed to be taxed. Nothing can be more
equitable, and the small tax per head will be
paid without a murmur by every slaveholder in
the State. It is their own property particular
ly which is menaced by the mendacious crowd
of higher law hirelings who have been sent to
Kansas to resist its laws and disturb the peace
of the country. Let Southern men. whether
slaveholders or not calculate the individual in
tcrest they bare in the adnuKon of KauMs m
THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL ANB NEWS IN TH? SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANI9N FOR ONLY ONE COLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE,
a slave State, and it will be found that liny or
an hundred thousand dollars contributed by
the State is a mere pittance, compared with the
incalculable injury its admission as a free State
would inflict upon the South. Let those go.
then who can, and those who want the means,
receive of those who have an abundance. The
entire S tate will sustain any judicious action
of the Legislature to secure to the South her
unquestionable right of equal participation in
the Territories.
The following notice of Gen. Whitfield, the
regularly elected Delegate from Kansas, may
interest our readers. We clip it from the
Washington correspondent of an exchange pa
per.
“The regular delegate from that Territory,
General Whitfield, is here, and of
the most unconcerned spectators ofxnie contest
which shadows forth the struggle that is to arise
over his own right to a seat in Congress, In
deed, be avows that he “cares not a fig hovthe
question is decided, so far as his own personal
interests are affected;” that if unseated, he*can
go back npon his claim in Kansas, and 1 lien the
trouble will begin.” He thinks there may be
blood shed in the pre ent difficulties, and he
thinks there certainly will be if Congress adopts
the State Constitution of the anti-slavery party
in Kan as, and admits that Territory as a free
State. He declares that now is the time for
the South to save Kansas—that unless enough
Southern men go there du ing the winter and
spring to countermine the northern emigration,
the Southern party will be overruled. The Ab
olitionists are making sternuous efforts to secure
an ascendancy in Kansas, and will succeed in
so doing uuless the south sustains her friends
in that quarter.
Whitfield is a bold, resolute fellow, somewhat
upon the “rough and ready” order, and well
qualified, we should think, to be a leader in such
a struggle as that of which Kansas is the are
na.”
Our Relations with England.
We sometime since expressed a belief that
our friendly relations with England were pred
icated upon a basis too questionable for secu
rity, and concurrent facts which have since
then traaspiered would seem to have satisfacto
rily established the conviction then forced
upon us by the tone of the British Press.—
Whether an open rupture is to be apprehen
ded or not, these facts have nt least the effect
to set our thinking men to calculating the
consequences of such an event. This is one
step in advance. The security which our busi
ness men have so long felt we have regarded
as mistaken upon their part, and being calcu
lated to distract attention from the develope
ment of home resources, and the evident neces
sity for a greater independence of English mar
kets, we were earnest in our appeals to them—
to study the uncertain chances for he per
manency of tha accessibility of those markets
to them, and provide for the revolution in trade
which would necessarily follow the closing of
British ports to our commerce. We consid
ered that our business public were risking too
much by their continued slavish dependence
upon the fluctuating markets of the old world,
and that, in view oi »jj deplorable consequen
ceof an abrupt ten •'.a of our friendly reia
lions with Euglanu,. > ..3 imperatively de
manded they should ,s for a contingency
so probable. We hope naw a proper attention
will be awakened, in the right quarter, to the
subject, and that we will be relieved as soon a
possible, at least to some extent, from our too
closely interwoven commercial relations with
England. When it comes to this, that the
slightest pulsation of trade in trans-Atlantic
cities is felt with electric rapidity, and a force
increased with every mile of the distance, by
every cross-road hamlet in this country, men
may well be alarmed for the permanency ol
our national independence which is itself so
intimately connected with the prosperity of
our commercial interests.
But, while it is proper this subject should
receive more attention, our people are too prone
to exaggerate alarms, and lose their presence ol
mind when immed’ate dangers threaten them,
thus becoming incapacitated for that deliberate
action demanded by the exigences of the threat
ened storm. As instance of this, we see the
press of the country pouring into the public ear
sounds of alarm, and forgetting that all this rut
tliug of drums and sounding warlike notes but
confuses the popular mind and makes it ineffi
cient for the overhanging crisis. This is all
wrong. The fact- ;nem«elves will awaken the
people. It had oeen well for us could they
have been awakened sooner, and before the cri
sis was so near, but now that its probability
approximates so alarm'ngly to certainty, it i*
reasonable to assume that everybody sees it, and.
instead of calling to arms against a foe that
cannot possibly reach us in some time, let u s
set ourselves to work preparing defenses against
him, and by all means take the most effective
measures to deprive him of the power we have
heedlessly given him over an interest so vital as
our trade. It is presumed that American mus
kets are always ready, and particularly when
they are required to be pointed at Albion—in
stead then of burnishing arm? already fit for
service, let «s concoct prescriptions for the
wounds our trade must receive in the conflict,
and, since overt acts of hostility need not be
apprehended until eastern affars assume a more
settled appearance, let us ns soon as may be,
untangle trade alliances which threaten such
disatroui consequences from an abrupt termina-
I tion. How this shall be effected those more
immediately interested are better able to sng
gest. To them the country looks for relief from
a state of affairs in which they have involved it.
Let them come to the rescue. Meantime, let
the press cease to u ’necessarily excite the pub-
I lie mind, and deal more in arguments than
! phillipics.
j The American people are a reflective people,
i when once they rise above unnatural excite-
I ments. and there rever was more necessity for
i the exercise of their proverbial sagacity than
| now. We have gunpowder enough—give us
| cooler beads, to prepare for its use.
Letters from Grenada say Walker’s
; force has been decimated by cholera, which
j has broken out with violence in Nicaragua :
: that the place is nearly deserted; and that
i heavy conUibutiens are levied on everybody
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ATLjLSTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1856.
Georgia .Legislature.
Milledgeville, Jan. 21, 1856.
SENATE.
Mr. Alrcad, of Pickens, moved a reeonside'ra
tion of tjg? action of the Senate on the biff re
ducingj'the Senate, and providing for annua:
sessjjjiis'bf the General Assembly. The motion
was lost. Yeas 31—nays 53.
resolution fixing the hours for
at nine A. M., three P. M., seven
at night, was agreed to. *
-'The bill introduced by Judge before
the recess, altering, amenTng and modifying
the statutes of limitation, was taken up, consid
ered by sections, amended in various respects,
after a thorough and careful discussion of very
portion of it, by the ablest lawyers on the floor,
and passed. As soon as I can obtain an au
thentic transcript of the bill, as amended, it
shall be forwarded for insertion. The charges
which are made by it in the periods of limita
tion, and its recognition and adoption of new
legal principles in controversion of old judicial
maxims, will probably interest the public whose
interests are effected by it; and the profession
whose practice is altered,
The friends of the "Georgia Military Insti
tute bill,” exceedingly anxious to have its fat -
settled immediately succeeded this afternoon in
getting it before the Senate.
On Motion of Dr. Screven, of Chatham, th
- was amended so as to require a complete
transfer of the entire property of the Institu
tion to the State; and iim : tii:g the cost of the
stock, to he held by the State in the Institute,
to twenty-five hundred dollars-
On motion of Mr. Calhoun, of Fulton, the
bill was further amended so as to free the State
from any liability for the debts of the Institu
tion, and to reserve to successive Legislatures
the liberty of refftffig the annual appropria
tion of five dollars, as given in the
bill. .'
Mr Hardeman, of Bibb, offered a substitute
making a donation of a sufficient amount to
cancel the debts of the Institution, and an ap
propriation of five thousand dollars to erect
suitable collegiate buildings.
He said he was opposed to making it a State
Institution, was willing for it to prosper and
thrive, and was ready to advance it with State
money, but he wanted appropriations, how
ever, liberal to be unquestianably specific, and
then we would know when we were done aid
ing.
He wishes the blank in his substitute filled
with an ample amount, and then he wished to
stop.
Mr. Miller moved to insert twenty-five thous
and. Lost. This was no test vote. Many
friends of the against the insertion.
Being very sanguine as to the safety of the or
iginal, which was preferable to them, they Were
unwilling to risk the adoption of the substitute
with a smaller amount.
The Senate adjourned without proceeding
further.
HOUSE.
Bills Introduced.
By Mr. Sapp, of Whitfield—A bill to give
the election of City Marshal, Clerk, and Treas
urer, of the city of Dalton, to the qualified
voters thereof; to compel a publication of semi
annual Reports on the state of the city finances
by the Mayor; and to confer the election oi
County Treasurer of Whitfield o the people
of said county.
By Mr. Montgomery.—A bill giving all per
sons furnishing materials for the construction
or repairs of buildings the same lien as that now
allowed Masons and Carpenters.
By Mr. Smith, of Tatnall.—A bill to repeal
the act of 1851, giving persons in possession u
perference over others in granting lands under
the Head Rights laws; and conferring on occu
pants of migrant! d lands, who survey the same
within three months after having received a
written notice from the County Surveyor of
the intention of some oue else to do so, a para
mount right to a grant to such land. The
County Surveyor is entitled to a- ee of one
dollar fee giving this notice.
By Mr. Warihen, of Washington.—A bill
authorizing a levy of an extra tax of five thou
sand dollars for each of the years 1856. ’57 and
’SB, for county purposes, by the Justices of the
Inferior Court of said county.
By Caldwell, of Walker —A bill incorpora
ting a railroad company to construct a road
from some point on the Western and Atlantic
Railroad,at or near Johnson, to the town ol
LaFayette’ in Walker county. The company
to be c lied the Lookout Railroad Company.
Capital four hundred thousand lollars.
By Dr. Phillips, of Habersham—A bill to
reduce the stock of the Dalton mid Gadsden
Railroad Company to three hundred thousand
dollars, with the privilege of increasing, as tiecs
sity may require for the completion of the
Road.
By Mr. Smith, of Union—A bill appropr a
ting ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof
a: may be necessary, to compensate Capt.
Sami Patterson’s company of Mounted Volun
teers for fifty-three days tservi.es rendered in
the Cherokee Nation in 1838.
By Mr. Lawton, of Chatam—A bill ceding
to the United States jurisdiction over the in
tended site of the Light House in the city o.
Savannah.
By Mr. Durden, of Morgan—A bill compell
ing "persons between the ages of fourteen and
fifty to perform road duty in Morgan county.
By Mr.’Owens, of Talbot—A bill abolishing
the necessity of producing the original books
of entry in suits for the collection of open ac
counts ; and making a true transcript, from
such original books, properly sworn to before,
and attested by an officer authorized to admin
ister oaths, sufficient evidence.
By Mr. Wood, of Fannin—A bill to incor
pornte the Georgia Baptist Convention.
The bill giving the city authorities of Atlan
ta, the entire control of the retail traffic in
spiritous liquors was passed, after having been
amended so as to submit the question to the
legal voters of the city :to be determined by
endorsement of ratification or disapproval on
their t ckets.
Mr. Terhune sought to kill the bill by num
erous restraining amendments, all of which
were decisively voted down. If finally passed
bv a large majority of the legal voters of the
city of Atlanta, it’ becomes a law : if not. a
nullity.
The Elijay Railroad bill was taken up. Mr.
Pickett, of Gilmer, off red a substitute basing
the aid to be given on the same terms as that
of the the Brunswick Road. Mr. Smith, ot
Union, opposed the biil and Mr. Puckett, of
Gilmer, favored it. Both the gentlemen made
fervent speeches, and manifested a deep feeling.
The hour for adjourning arrived, and the bill
was necessarilly left undisposed of. The ru es
of the House provide for the entertainment of
other matter in the afternoon, and the discus
sion will be resumed on to-morrow. Probably
Mr. Crook’s suggestion may yet be e. tried
out, and this bill postponed until the ‘ Bruns
wick bill ”is disposed of. Mr. Crock urged its
postponmeut in a short speech. He thought
the principle involved in both bills the same
that the Brunswick and Florida Road was of
tar superior importance, and that it should first
be acted on.
The bill appropriating money for the endow
ments of the Atlau’a and Savannah Medical
Colleges, which was Jett ou Saturday evening
last to be called up this morniagas ••’uufiuishcc.
business ” was made the special order oi the day
for Saturday next.
I House btlla we.e read a second, and Senate
I ji iis a third tins evening, 'the three following
bills were introduced:
By Mr. Butts, of Ba’dwin—A bill to allow
coroners twenty dollars for burying pau
pers.
By Mr. Jones of Muscogoe—A bill to al
low the Mayor of Columbus toissu new bonds
for the city of stock in the Gas Light Compa
ny, with interest payable semi-annually, thes<
to supercede the bonds of 1853. Also, a bill
repealing the laws prohibiting the introduction
of slaves into this State.
Passed
A bill refunding to the State Bank, three
thousrnd three hundred and nineteen dollars
and ninety-eight cents, the amount of taxes,
improperly paid on the stock of the State in
■aid Ba k.
From the Savannah Morning News.
Tlse Disorganization of Congress.
The continued disorganization of the Houst
•f R presentatives is beginning to cause dissat
isfaction. if not uneasiness and apprehension, in
the public mind. The people are becoming
tired of this disgraceful war of cliques and fac
tions, and are beginning to consider the conse
quences'to the interestsand character of the cou
try. Nearly two months have elapsed since ti e
Representatives assembled at Washington and
still we are without a Congress. Day after day
passes in fruitless ballottings and profitless par
ty disputation, whilst, as has been justly re
marked, the Government is brought to a dead
lock, important domestic interest ssufier, and
foreign affairs that should be promptly submit
ted to public inspection and made subject to an
expression of popular will are allowed in the
seclusion of Cabinet secrecy to drift into com
plications that may be dangerous to the inter
ests of peace. Such a condition of things is
disgraceful in the eyes of the world and will
tend to prejudice our republican system in the
opinicn of European nations. The responsibil
ity rests somewhere, and however it may be
shirked the people will be sure to visit it in the
right quarter.
We believe that the present condition of
things in the national Legislature has its origin
in a reckless, licentious spirit of hostility to the
constitution and the rights of the South, aud
whilst we applaud the firm, uncompromising
stand taken by the democratic minority, we
believe the patriotic men of all sections of the
country, will hold them blameless for conse
quences which they could only avert by a com
promise of their principles. In the issue be
tween them and the black Republicans, the du
ty of patriotism is plain.
Time can only disclose the extent of the evil
which may result from the disorganization of
the House. If no worse consequences should
ensue it will in all probability, devolve upon
the other branches of the government the exer- '
cise of new aud questionable expedients of gov
ernment policy. Alluding to this subject the
intelligent Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says:
The Senate will have a question of some im
portance to dispose of very soon in relation to
the proposition for the preparation of the ap
propriation bills in that body. The subject
lias been referred to the committee on finance,
who will report thereon. The right of the
Senate to take this step is unquestionable, al
though by long neglect of its exercise, the right
has become a subject of dispute. The next
question it whether the Senate will proceed t
the eoMtlwation of legislative subjects while
the House is without an organization. So far
they have been undecided in regard to it, unless
the vote of yesterday for adjournment be re
garded as a decision. The question is yet to
be more maturely considered. It would be
somewhat encouraging to the country if the
Senate should, at this time, assume some degree
of responsibility.
In times of disorganization, revolution and
commotion—the occurrence of which will be gen
erally attributable to the more popular branch
of tiie legislative body—we must look to the
Se ate as the sheet anchor of the government
as the only barrier between the people and an
unrestricted and absolute executive power.
The probability is that the present state of
the House will be continued, but With agreater
degree of demoralization, till the spring, and
perhaps till so late a day in the fiscal year as to
render it impossible to supply, in a constitution
al manner, the wants of the government. The
government is not therefore to stop. It will be
continued by a resort to extra constitutional
means.
From the Memphis Appeal. Jan. IS.
Death of Maj. A R. Williamson.
We have the sad duty to record the melan
choly and horrible death of this estimable man
—Maj. R. A. Williamson, Superintendent ot
the Memphis and Ohio Railroad. This fear
ful accident occurred yesterday morning about 9
o’clock, some sixteen miles from town, ou the
“Hatchie Bridge.”over waters kuowu as Griffin
creek, some three hundred yards from Shelby
depot. 'Mr. W. was on the train and it is sup
posed that he put his head too far out of the
train’s passage’ and was looking backward
when his head came in co tact with a post ot
the bridge, kiliing him instantly. His body
fell from the ear in the water below, aud as no
one in the traiu was noticing his position at
the time of the accident, the train passed ou
without discovering it.
Maj. W. was a native of Baltimore, and
has been known as connected with important
railroad enterprises in our country. For many
years he had been engaged on the Memphis
a d Cha .leston road, giving much ot life and '
impetus to the same when he resigned his posi
tion and was placed iu the same official capaci
ty over an important railroad in Georgia. i
The Savannah Republican, of yesterday,
says: I 1
’•■We were in error yesterday in stating that I
the bark E. Shultz, which left this port for'
Charleston the 28th ultimo, had not since been i
beard from. She arrived safely, and at last
accounts was about completing her cargo for
another trip.
“The Wm. Hitchcock.—We have already
made mention of the burning of this ship at sea.
while on her way from Savannah to Havre
with a cargo of cotton. We gather the follow
ing particulars concerning her from a northern
exchange:
••The cargo of Wm. Hitchcock consisted of
two thousand two bundled and fifty bales of
cotton, and was valued at about $112,000. Os
the above number, we hear one thousand six
hundred bales are insured in France; the re
mainder, six hundred aud fifty bales, or a large
portion of it. is insured in Wall street. The
W. H. was an A 1 1-2 vessel, of six hundred
aud ninety-three tons register, built at Newcas-1
tie, Me., in 1848, owned by Bogert <fc Knee-'
land, valued at $32,000, and fully covered by |
insurance, as also the freight money, in New .
York. The ship was consigned to "the Havre •
branch of the house of Messrs. Lahens £ Co.,
of New York."
The special agent of the American Gu
ano Company writes from San Francisc. under |
date of Dec. 19th. that Commodore Merwin, of
j the U. 8. razee Independence, had ordered the
I U. S. steamship Massachusetts, at San Juan
)to proceed at once to San Francisco to fit oat
I for an examination of the new guano island in
I he Pacific.
1.1 IHen uud Money lor ixiiusas.
These are the articles now wanted to secure
v Kansas as a slave State for the South. It is
h now a practical question of dollars end cents.
Theoretically, and on paper, the Constitution
has triumphed, and the equal rights of the
s South, in the common territories of the Union,
have been recognized in the Nebraska Kansas
r act. The South has stood up firmly in Con-
I gress for her rights, and President Pierce and
the national Democracy have seconded and
sustained her. But while she has won the vic
tory, let her not lose the spoil. Let her’s not
, be a barre l victory, ou paper alone, and the
substantial fruits of the contest enure to the
benefit of the Freesoilers. It is now the tini
’ for Southern men to act as well as speak. We
have published Mr. Buford’s proposals to emi
graats. We have published Senator Atch
inson’s appeal. Let the South act. Let the
Lesislatures of the Southern States act. Geor
gia stands in a position to set the example.
The initiative is already taken in our Legisla
ture by Mr. Jones, of Muscogee, and agreed to
unanimously:— Aug. Const.
Resolved. By the General Assembly of the State
of Georgia, That the Superintend, nt of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad be instructed
to give to Maj. Jefferson Bufford, of Alabama
aud his company of Kansas Emigrants, or any
other company of like character, free passage
over the State Road.
Mr. Cr.ooK, of Chattooga, has introduced
the following bill which we trust will meet
with a like unanimity :
A bill'entitlcd an act promote the settlement
of the Territories of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia, and
it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same, that whenever any citizens of this State
wishing to emigrate to the Territory of Kan
sas. but unable to do so for means, ’ upon the
fact being made known to the Go.ernor, and
when the leader of said company shall have giv
en bonds, payable to the State, with such
amount of security as the Governor shall ap
prove, conditioned to expend the money ad
vanced thereon, in transporting, subsisting and
outfitting such destitute emigrants, and also
conditioned, within twelve months thereafter to
transport one hundred emigrants to Kansas,
then the Governor shall issue his warrant in
viivu uuv Oilex; I 1.-CUV UJO < t 1 si'lt 111
favor of the principal obligor in said bond up
on the treasury of this State, for a sum equal
to fifty dollars per head, of such distressed emi
grants, provided that the sum expended under
this act shall not exceed 550.000. And pro
vided further that the amount so expended
shall be re-imbursed to the Treasury of the
State, by a special tax on slaves, and any mon
ey in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
is hereby appropriated for the purpose aloresaid.
Read the first time.
1 ‘ The Grey-eyed Man.”
The El Nicaraguensehas the following:
In an English work, published in London in
1840, called the Gospel ii Central America,
there is recorded a singular fact. This work
is the only reliable authority on this country.
'The author. Fredreck Crowe, was an exempia
ry preacher of the Gospel of the Baptist per
suasion, and lie has recorded so many facts
that the work has been suppressed by’ the Brit
ish Government. He states that there exists
among the Indians an old traditionary pqphe
ey, that they would be delivered from oppress
ion aud cruelty by “The Grey-eyed Man.”
Mr. Crowe, in a note, adds this prophetic
remark: -“'We would remind those who are
disposed to attached any importance to the
prognostic that grey eyes are common to ti c
entire Aug'o Saxon race; and that the fulfill
ment of this prophecy may be reserved to our
Transatlantic descendants, (the Yankees,) who
are tow, even, taking u livery iuteici t in Cen
tral Aaieiica.” [See Crowe’s Central America
pagr 248.]
Tllstr»dition is well known to many’ residents
nowin Nicaragua to exist among the Indians
and is religiously believed by them. It has
been narrated by many to us.
If.we were disposed to believe that the race
bf -pYophetsdid not die with Isaiah and Jeremi
ah, jand why should they?) we would say that
tbisir.ditionary prophecy i as been fulfilled to
thepiter. “The Grey-eyed man" has came.
He las come not as Attilla, oru Guarola, but
as Jfriend to the oppressed aud a protector to
thebelpless and unoffending. The prophecy
is dtetned by the Indians as fulfilled: for lust
we<k we saw in Granada a delegation of them
wh«| ran-ly visit this city, who desire to see
Gen Walker. They were charmed by his gen
tle (eception, and offered him their heartfelt
thaiks for their liberation from oppression and
for the present quiet state of this country.—
Tley laid at his feet, the simple efli rings of
tleir fruits and fields, and hailed him us the
•Grey-eyed Man." so long aud anxiously waited
fir by them aud their fathers.—N. Y. News.
Stabbino.—O Tuesday last, in this city, a
nan by the name of Samuel Leak stabbed
Vm. H. Coats in the head, in the left temple,
be knife penetrating the skull, and fastening
iself so tight in the bone that it could only be
attracted by f equent and severe exertions of
trength, the blade even having been snapped
iff in the effort. We are informed that tin
tnife blade passed directly into the 10., er region
jf the brain, severing the temporal artery and
its branches, from which the blood flowed very
copiously. Coats is recovering; Leak is in jail.
—Griffin Union, Jan. 10.
Aotiic“t.TrßAL Papers.—Those excellent
agricnluual papers, Soil of the South, L nnax
i Ellis, Columbus, and Cultivator, W. J.Join.-
Augusta, came to hand this morning. Their
existence and prosperity is a credit to the State
laud the p’anter who does not take and read
Ibotb, isa loser by his parsimony. Subscribe
for then this month—only a dollar each.
We endorse fully the above cotap iiaent which
we find In the Macon Telegraph of this moru-
Tie Russian ship Russia, which arrived
at Bost® some time ago, and has since been in
port, thqowners being doubtful what disposi
tion to lake of her, was burnt on Saturday, at
East Bston, i« order to obtain her iron and
copper. 1
ery little delay is now experienced, as
we leal, in transmitting freight on the Nash,
ville & ihattanooga Railroad. The new Bridge
struct® is progressing well.
Frighting Business.—There are loading
this waj, at New Orleans for Liverpool, seven
ty vesejs. aginst twenty-nine at the same period,
last yei. No less than one hundred andeigh.
ty ship and barques arc at this time loading
in the leathern ports for foreign ports, one
hundrd of which are for Great Britain.
SoMfnixG about Gas.—The Engineer of
the Gal Works in Philadelphia siy- th t the
difficult inmakingGas burn in very cold weath.
er. removed by ponrinsr boiling water
on a d>th spread over the metre and the pipe
1 ‘'hat «mea in through the front wall.
AjtUiiss avitu iungiand.
Our relations with England are rapidly as
suming a grave and threatening character. In
the unorganized condition of Congress, it is al
most imposible to know what is transpiring in
Washington, so far as our foreign relations are
concerned ; but intelligent person at the Capi
tol have communicated with the press, in dif
ferent localities, and there seems to be re
markable unanimity in the statements they
make.
Ist. The correspondent, of the South . Side
Democrat. (Petersburg, Va.) says :
"Rumors to day are rife that a meeting of
the ('abinet, held last night, at which it was |
decided to recall Mr. Buchanan, and thus sus-1
pend diplomatic intercourse with Great. Brit- i
ain. The last steamer brought dispatches in-1
ilicating a determination on the part of the i
English Government to adhere to its position I
relative! to the questions at issue between the I
two countries. 'The intelligence is supposed to I
have led to the action of the Cabinet last
night.”
2nd. The correspondent of the Baltimore ,
Sun "Ion.” says
The delay has not prevented the President I
from the exercise of his proper functions in ;
relation to foreign affairs. He sent an execu-1
five message to the Senate to day, which was
the subject of consideration in that body lor'
some time. It may be presumed that it related ■
to the subject which was mentioned in my letter j
yesterday, ond none of greater importance has I
ever been submitted to that body or to this I
country in relation to our foreign affairs.
'The packet for Liverpool on Saturday will i
take out a despatch to Air. Bhchanan that will |
test the full extent of Lord Palmerston’s irrita- j
bility.
It is already known to our government that j
Lord Palmerston had stated t' at it would
bring the subject of Ameri an relations before
tin Parliamnetupon their meeting, (to morrow
the 18th.) and urjre upon that body an adher
ence to the positions which the "government
had taken on these subjects.
If Mr. Buchanan be withdrawn and diplo- .
matic intercourse suspended, it is very certain ,
that intercourse will never be restored while
Palmerston is at the head of the ministry.
3d. We publish below, almost entire, the let- 1
ter of the correspondent of the Charleston Cour- ;
Washington, Jan. 17.—The President has
■ conferred with a number of members of the
i House, of different parties and given them in
| timation us to the present condition of our
i foreign relations, which ought to induce them
■ to complete their organization.
I Yesterday the Cabinet determined, after a
I long sitting, to suspend diplomatic relations
with England. This bold and decided, if not
rash measure, has been adopted for the reason
that the President, in the present condition of
the House, cannot communicate a special mes
sage upon the state of our relations with Eng
land, to Congress.
It was his purpose to send in a message,
stating that the British Government had finally
refused to make any further explanation o’s
their orders for the prosecution r f their recrui
ting services in this country. In the annual
message of the 31st ult.’ the President states
that he wculd communicate to Congress the
result of the pending question upon the enlist
ing case. <
The final answer of the British Government
came out by the Atlantic. The ultimatum of
the British Government amounts not only to
an utfer refusal of further explanation, but is
accompanied with a declaration from the head
of the Government—Lord Palmerston—that I
he will bring before Parliament upon its meet
ing. the whole subject of American affairs, and
will advise that the Government shall adhere
to stand they have taken npon the enlistment
question aud the Central Americon question.
The answer is considered by the Administration
as rude, harsh, and unfriendly. One thing
more was necessary to make hostile—and that
one thing has happened, as the Government is
advised—the British Government have again
ordered another re-inforcement for the West
India squadron.
Though no alarmist, yet knowing what is
passing in the Executive Goverment, I must
say that our affairs are in u most critical posi
tion. You will scarcely believe it, but it is a
fact, that yesterday the Cabinet, after a pro
longed session decided in favor of the suspen
sion of diplomatic intercourse with England.—
Mr. Buchanan is to be withdrawn, with a dec
laration that no other Minister will btaccred
ited to that Government, until it shalHassume
a more friendly attitude towards the U. B.
This course, as you may remember, was adop
ted by our Government towards France, during I
the administration of John Adams. He sus
pended diplomatic intcreourse, and in a{* mes
sage to congress declared that he would not
resume it. until France was prepared to do us
justice. 3he result was that, through our Min
ister at the Hague, an intimation was given
that th" French Government was prepared to
treat on more liberal terms, and Messrs. Mar
shall Pickney and Gurry were sent out as cdhi
missioners. But. in this case, there is no prob
ability that the British Government will, while
that wild, wilful, blundering” Palmerston, as
Lord Grey’s frietals used to denominate him
shall remain at the head of the Ministry.
From the Swunnah Georgian,
Minutes of Points decided by the
Supreme Court at Savannah,
January Term, 1856.
BY THOMAS U. E. COBB, REPORTER TO THE COURT.
Phillips vs. Phillips from Montgomery—l. A
bequest of a negro was to A. for life; and alter
her death “to become the property of B." In
a subsequent part of the will the testator said
■I-give and bequeath” lhe negro to B. after
the death of A. Held that the remainder was
vested in B. and that the increase of the negro
during the life estate passed to the remain
derman. Gaulden for Piss: Shewmake for
Deft.
Akin vs. Anderson, from Chatham—l. Un
der act of 1819, giving the property of free
persons of color to their “descendants,” a sister
cannot claim as a descendant.
2. The wife of a free person of color takes
bis realty in preference to hie sister. DeLyon
for Pl’ff; Gordon for Def’t
New Line of Atlaxtic Steamers.—The
Montreal Ocean Steamship Company have giv
en notice that five first-class powerful screw
steamers will form the government mail line
between Montreal and Liverpool. The stea
mers are named North America, Anglo-Saxon.
Indian. Canadian, and Sardinian. They are to
leave each city semi-monthly. The North
America is to leave Liverpool on Wednesday,
the 23d of April, and on her return leave Mons
treat on the 24th of May; the others follow in
regular succession.
©gF* Maj. E. A. Ogden, U. S. A., was among
the victims of the cholera at Fort Riley, Ist
August. His friends have erected a very hand-1
some monument to hia memory, with a suitable.
inscription. ]
I'xoi’. Bache on tlie Stream
Prof. Bache says that the Norwegian p< u
1 ant who picked up on the shore of his couiitr;
• unknown fruits, and the inhabitant, ol Scotian
1 who found the logs of the cotton wod, knei
2 that these were products of another land. ’I Ii
■ botanist knew that they grew in a mere genit
■ clime, but, the route by which they came wa
• conjectural. The facts were early known, am
were thought to indicate a north west passage
they proved at least that the fruits of the South
’ ern point of North America were landed oi
Northern Europe. He went on to say tha
the beat of Ute sun was the cause of motion ii
■ I the air. He described the log in the vallevs
on a Summer morning, resting in the valleys
I and shrouding the rivers and the lakes, but si
in motion by the snn, and rising to the moun
i tain tops, to be diffused as a haze through tin
i atmosphere. These ma tes show Jhe motion o
I the air. The same process is carried on, on r
great scale in the great belt which is traverse!
by the annual course of the sun, ai d the coast-
I ets and landsmen of temjierate iTgiops have in
I idea of form and regularity of the winds ol t in
I topics, which point with the accuracy of tin
| hands of a clock to the position of the sun.—
I These winds carry the waters to the equatorial
i regions, and give rise to the circulation long
| known, two gn at streams of which are known
as the North Atlantic or Gulf Stream, mid tin
; Asiatic Stream in the North Pacific.
| Ponce de Leon in 1512 may be considered
I the discoverer of the Gull Stream, and Anto
| nia D’Allmenes, the pilot of Fortes, sail d a
] long it to bear the news of the conqn.st*o|.
Cortes to Europe. The first delineation
that by Dr. Franklin in 1769-70, and the in
I formation was principally derived from Capt;
i Folger, a Nantucket shipmaster. Franklin wa-
I then in the management of the post office, and'
I the circumstance that, the merchant ships from
Europe to Rhode Island made their passages a
fortnight sooner than the Falmouth packets to
New York, excited the attention of AgJL>rds
of the Admiralty. Capt. Folger exptiiitv dit
by saying that the Rhode Island captains w. re
aware of the existence of the Gulf Stream, and
avoided its current.
Prof. B, showed a chart drawn, by Dr. Frank
lin, and which has been copied into" modern books
without acknowledgement. He alluded to Ma
jor Rennell’s chart of the currents of the ocean,
and various valuable papers on the sudject of
the stream contributed by Lieut. Maury.
In the hydrographic department of the coast
survey, the temperature had been regarded the
leading fetrturo of the stream, nd the observer
had been directed to go below the surface to a
void the disturbing influence of winds, rain, &c.
It was difficult to carry on these investigatiors.
for the pressure increasing at the rate of an ad
ditional atmosphere for every 29 feet of depth
soon broke the thermometers. Mr. Saxton of
the coast survey had invented a thermometer
consisting of a spiral slip of silver and one of
platinum of about four inches in length, sold
ered together. These metals expand unequally
and the coil is wound up or the reverse by a
change of temperature. An index cun be made
to mark this change and thus a thermometer
is obtained which is applicable to any depth of
water. Another instrument Massey’s
Lead, is used to ascertain the depth of the wa
ter, and with these two the depth and tempera
ture are accurately measured. Sections of the
stream arc measured at right angles with the
coast line and with the axis of the stream,
which conforms to the main direction of the
coast. The bst time of observing is Summer,
both because the navigation is less dangerous
and the surface is less affected by rains, winds
and the cooling of (he air.
Lieut Charles 11. Davis was the first observer
in 1815—he had found bottom in 1,300 fath
oms, and it consisted of Cue clay, which Prof.
Bailey of West Point pronounced to consist
almost entirely of the shells of iyfusoriff. The
speaker paid u high tribute to the scientific la
bors and industry ol Lieut, George N. Bar be
another observer who perished in a storm 81li
September, 1846. He discovered a wall of
cold water bounding the stream on the nst.
the warm water overflowing it on the surface.
Lieuts. Maffitand Craven had discovered ridges
of hills in the southern portion of the stream.
And the latter observer found in the Straits of
Florida a stream of cold water only three
degrees above the freezing point below the
warm current of the gulf. The difficulties of
observing were very great; the section of]
Nantucket was attempted to be observed three
times and as ofton resulted in a failure.
A number of diagrams were exhibited show
ing the temperature at various depths at the
cold wall. 'J’he temperature diminished rapidly
from the surface, and after reaching a tempera
ture of 37 degrees than slowly, the line marked
by the temperatures and debth being what
mathematicians call the logarithmic lurvc.
This Prof. Bache said, was identical with the
curve indicating the conduction of heat slowly
downward through water. 'J’he curve at th<
axis of the stream was different, indicating di
ur bonce and motion in the fluid. At othn
points t e curves were of a mingled character.
Another set of diagrams showed the distribu
tion of heat at the surface on the section aero.-
.Sandy Hook. There were three bands of cold
water alternating with warm on this Stu ds
Hook section. Prof. Bache ascribed these
bands to the conformation of tho bottom.
There were three ranges of submarine hills, tl,<
inner one 1,500 feet high, the second 800, the
third 300.
The lecturer concluded and was greetto
with hearty applause by the audience.
DSp-The National Intelligencer publishes ::
letter from a friend who has recently visited tie-
Crimea, and examined, with a crtieal eye, its.
military works. Speaking of the tremendou
sweeping fire which the French had to nice'
in trenching toward the Malakoff for two
miles over a level narrow ridge, he says that
•‘Fiance will never know the number of French
men sacrificed in those two miles.” The Mid
akoff itself, he says, is not a steep tower, bein'
only twenty feet to its top above the level o.
approach by the French, but its great strength
lay in its commanding position, and he think
if the Russians had exercised extreme vigi
lance, they might have defied the French and
everytbinge.se. The French, it appears, had
trenched up to within sixty or seventy feet ol
the Malakoff. According to the estimates of
seveial French officers, forty thousand brav<
fellows slept their last sleep and fought their
last bat tle, in the assault upon that famous tow
er.
The correspondent adds that the Russian?
appear to be surrounded by very heavy for i
fications on the North side, extending from
hill to hill up the Tchernaya, as far as he could
see with a glass. These fortifications, he says
are far stronger than those on the South
side.
The Petersburg Express says that at
City Point the people are passing ov# to Ber
muda Hundred and returning, the ice being con
sidered of sufficient strength for the crossing of
a team. This is certainly a state of things ua
usual for that latitude.
WM. KA/ PROPRIETOR
NUMBED 25.
LA TEST N EWS?
J”" „ *
Uuteriiom luurwpe.
A ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP
I '
AFRICA
( [telegraphed expressly FOR the daily ex
am INER.)
Aug ,sta Jan. 23- 3 p. tn.
The Sf’anier Africa has arrived.
Ih' political intel igei.ee she brings is uu ni
portant.
Cotton —Some circulars indicate a decline
of ] -4d.; oth( rs quote it as unchanged. Suhs
of the week 18000 bales.
■ !• iirthcr by the Africa,
i New York Jan. 23.-0 ’ the sales of t
i week spoeulators mid exporters, each took 1000
i bales, 'rhe quotations were nm changed since
the last, s teamer. Corn had advanced 6d. at. I
I Wheat 2d.
r orn tending upward. Canal Flour 40 a
. 125.. Oh 042 a 445.. Southern 41 a 435. Red
t U hen’ 1 Is. 3,1. a i Ja . 9J< hite Corn 4(J &
40s. Fellow 425. a 43s 9J. Rice firm at 32
I a 355.
j 'flie answer of Russia to the Austrian ulti
- nntuni cannot arrive 111 the 10th. It is ex
| pected to contain neither an absolute assent or
i rcfllsa, > I’ 1 ’! will p.obably consist of counter
to be settled by a renewed Confer
ence.
Public feeling in France mid England was
again becoming warlike, and Russia continues
incessant preparations for war.
The- French blew up the docks at Sebastopol
on the 22d.
Affairs in Asia were unchanged.
Our Foreign Relations.
Washington, Jan. 22.
The following statement in reference to bur
Foreign Relation may be relied upon as authe
tic and official. The American Government
lias demanded the recall of Mr. Crampton- Mr.
Buchanrn will not be recalled except nt his own
request. No Special Message relative to Foreign
Affairs has been contemplated by the Presi
dent, nor has such a message been the subject
of Cabinet delibrations. Mr. Boyce’s resolution
was offered to-day without the previous knowl
edg of the Executive. Negotiations betwe n
the United States and Great Britain are still
open.
Washington Rumtors.
The geneally well informed r»td ecut ions cor
respondent of the South Side Democrat, thus
writers under date of Washing t 0„ J„ n 17th
“There is a well fonded rn.J m’losf here
that the next four or five w ..,. « h ibit
movements indicating the f tl - , ; ;1 great
plunder party, embracing a t ... s>*tween
the Southern Know Nothing! aaok Re
publican, and disaffected u,” with
Crittenden ns its candidate for ’residency
standing on the spoils plutfi,;;.,. It j s under
stood hue that Seward and Grecly, despairing
ol ob aining possession of the government,
through their recent antislavOry fusion move
ment. have given in their adhesion to this new
scheme, mid that in the course of sixty days the
corrupt league will a.-sume a well defined und
unmistakable shape. heir hopes of being able
to sweep the most of the North and to carry
Ki ntncky, Jennessee, Mrrylund. and Georgia
and perhaps other States at the South.
5 ou may rely on it that this plan of getting
charge of the federal treasury, bus been talked
of for weeks past among the hegb contracting
perties and is now prclty well agreed upon. The
Botts movement in Virginia is to be part of
the programme." ,
I here may lie a rumor, that such an arrange
inent is hoped for, but. we have no idea that
■o"nd Southern men can be inveigled iu any
«uch combination.
4@“K\-Gov. Tom Corwin has broken Ills
thigh, by a full on the ice at Cincinna ti.
.Seizure of Ambriz by the Poiitcocfsk.
Ambriz, on the w<st coast of Africa, has been
tuMi posses ion of by the Portngues govern
ment. An expedition was secretly fitted out
nt Lisbon, consisting of a frigate, two brigs
of war an J a transport. A governor and four
hundred troops embarked, ai d on arriving at
Ambriz a proclamation was published, stating
the object of the expedi ion to be that of chas
tising the natives for some annoyances lately
given to Portuguese residents. Thu governor
ad no sooner landed his troops tlufti the no.
tives all fled ; nun, after burning several de
fenceless towns, he commenced erecting a fort,
forming entrenchments and temporary public
building. A proclamation declares that the
place is to be considered a porto franco for all
nations for twelve months, after which time du
ties and imposts are to be levied on all foreign
hips undgoods, as at Loando. It remains to
be seen what view the British government will
fake of these proceedings; but they were view
'd with the greatest anxiety and alarm by the
British und other foreign traders on the coast,
and must involve questions of serious importance
to all parties connected with the legitimate
trade to Africa, now so greatly increasing.
An Appropriate Prayer.—a miserly
church member becoming excited by a sudden
burst of eloquence from the minister, clapped
his hands, and shouted out—
“ Thank God for a free gospel 1 Twenty-five
years have I been a church member, aud it has
not cost me as many coppers!”
“And may the Lord forgive your stingy
soul!” exclaimed the preacher.
BQy* A western e litor, in speaking of’ one
of the newly-elected Senators, says that his
ignorance is so dense, that the auger of common
sense will be longer iu boring through it, than
it would take a boiled carrot to bore throuh
Mont Blanc.