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THE ATLANT! WEEKLY EXAMINER.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY, 2L 1856.
S ale of Stock.
Attention of all interested, is called to the
sale of stock, advertised by the Lawrenceville
Manufacturing Company, in another column
Persons desiring investments in manufacturing
stocks, will find it to their interest to look into
the matter, and can readily be satisfied that the
stock offered, will be desirable.
Amusements.
The different portions of our State, except
tliis particular region, seem to be stocked with
all sorts of amusements. Circuses, et id omne
genus, are amusing the people generally, mid
the young folks here look enviously at the an
nouncements of the different companies in al]
the other cities of the State. A meritorious
exhibition just uow would do well, and go far
to enliven the long winter evenings, which hang
upon our hands. i
Hon. Howell Cobb in Concord-
At a recent mass meeting of the democracy
in Concord, New Hampshire, H Ilowelon.l
Cobb is reported to have made a most forcible
speech, which was enthusiastically received by
the immense crowd assembled, who cheered him
repeatedly, and gave the most flattering demon
strations of satisfaction with the effort and the
man. Wo arc truly glad to hear of such suc
cesses of Georgia's distinguished sone, m sec
tions from which so much is feared for the Uni
on. They give hope- that those sections arc not
altogether so lost to the power of argument, as
haa been feared. Where such men as Mr. Cobb
have access to the publie car, that people must
be deaf, indeed, who do not profit by his argn.
ments, seconded, as they are, by the tried and
proven national democracy, whose claims upon
the confidence of the conservative men ot the
country, are so ably urged by Mr. Cobb.
We clip from the Boston Post, the following
brief report of Mr. Cobb's speech :
.. Hon Howell Cobb, of Georgia, expressed
hi» pleasant feelings at meeting a N ew England
audience for the first time, and said that it the
the people of the different parts of the Union
each other better, many of the vils
“ hieh now arise from misconception would be
übaU’d and the spirit of sectionalism be lessen
ti The great principle of the revolution,
ieh had been aud shou’-d be now the ammat
. nui na American republic, was
i pnucij <■ doctrine of non-interfer-
enee g tX'eeuthe States in the matter of slavery
™Sl7 Sweated at length by the speaker
to the preservation aud harmony 01
“eTmou. aud the errors ot know uothmgisu
tu* union.« theaddress closed witl
b. "b. “X“,
by which our fhthcra lived? * • ~ •
fought and died, aud by winch we should bv,
united*
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Kansas.
The spirited and truthful letter of P. S.
Brobks, which we publish to-day will be found
as interesting as it is earnest. The writer is
“ one who knows,” and who takes a correct
view of the subject.
It is a subject of regret that our Legislature,
now in sesion, should have refused to pass the
bill introduced by Mr. Crook, providing for an
appropriation for the aid of Kansas emigration
With the provisions of that bill, our readers are
already familiar, and we need not recapitulate
here. We believe there were no objections of
weight urged against the bill itself, except the
principle upon which it was predicated. It
was objected to any action on the part of the
State, which might be construed into official in
terference with the affairs of Kansas, which
might furnish precedents for counter action by
the Legislatures of the free States. And it was
also urged, that such interference coming from
other sections, being deprecated by us, it would
be inconsistent with our position to thus prac
tice what we have so long condemned. What
ever weight these arguments may have had with
the Legislature, they do not seem to us exactly
to reach the case. While we cordially approve
the policy of non-interference with the affairs of
Kansas and the leaving the question of slavery
or no slavery with her people, were at the same
time unwilling that advantage should be taken
by our respect for the principle to support us
in Kansas by over riding that principle, and
where it is so clear that the lex talionis is the
only defensive measure we can avail ourselves of,
no puritanical notions of consistency should
prevent that protection to our institutions de
manded by the exigencies of the times. As to
governmental interference (the right to interfere
at all being conceded) we confess we can see
no essential difference between individual and
State a:d. Every individual at the South is in
terested in the discussion of the question,
and in just the same degree is every State
bound to afford protection to the property of
her citizens. It is clear to the minds of all, that
the blow which makes .Kansas a free State,
will be eventually felt by every individual citi
zen of Georgia, who is interested in slave prop
erty. Was Georgia ever known to refuse pro
tection to the property of her sons, when it was
menaced? We opine not; and it is a subject
of regret, that such an interpretation may be
given hsr late refusal, upon ths grounds stated,
to give material aid to Kansas emigrants, by
our Legislature.
The Adams’ Express Company.
We are glad to have the opportunity of giv
ing place to such merited notices of this com
pany, as the following, since we have ourselves
seen so much of the energy of its agents, that
corroborates the statement We might add
much to it, from our own observation cf its
admirable and perfect arrangements, for the
transaction of its diversified and extensive busi
ness, but refrain from more than an expression
of our obligations for the recent effectual ser
vices rendered us by Mr. Bulkley, the agent of
the company here, and his corps of messengers :
The embargo laid upon the various lines of
communication by the recent frigid ‘term,’has
reminded the public of the great obligations
they are under to Adams & Co., for the facili
ties afforded by their übiquitous Express. De
spite the frozen rivers and railroad interrup
tions, wherever the steam engine finds its way,
Adams & Co.’s car is sure to follow, accompa
nied by one of their prompt and faithful agents
to attend to the receipt and delivery of pack
ages, from a diamond finger-ring, to a mountain
of goods. Within the last few days, the busi
ness of the company has exceeded all precedent,
and extra cars, horses and hands, have had to
be employed here and elsewhere. It will be
seen by advertisements in another column of
the Mirror, that their lines extend in all direc
tions, and connect with all the leading cities,
East, West, North and South. And when we
add that the United States Mail is not a more
regular or more responsible mode of conveyance
than Adams & Co.’s Express, we pay the De
partment, perhaps, a greater compliment than
it deserves. Mr. John Hoey, the superinten
dent of the transportation department, is a man
of sufficient energy and method in his business,
to make a Postmaster General worth any two
we have had these dozen years.”— New York
Mirror.
Letter From lion. P. S. Brooks.
House of Representatives, Feb. ", 1856.
My Dear Sir: Last winter Gen. Stringfellow
adressed a letter to myself and others, giving a
description of the soil of Kansas, and the av
erage products of agricultural labor. That
letter was published in the newspaper of our
State, and every aditioual testimony confirms
the truth of theslatemends therein contained.
Gen. Whitefield is now at my side, and in
reply to the question relative to the demands
and rewards of mechanical labor, bids me say
the minimum of wages for labor in Kamas is
fully double the price in Charleston.
But higher considerations than pecuniary
profit are now presented to the young men of
our State; and they are just the considerations
which soonest reach, and most excite the heart
of young Carolina. They are the considera
tions of patriotism and honor. Civil war has
virtually begun in Kansas. The lives of such
friends of. the institutions of the South and of
the Cqnstituton, as have gone to Kansas to
disseminate our principles, strengthen our insti
tutions and protect your rights, my rights, and
the nguts of every slave owner, are in peril.—
By the fiat of “Abolition Aid Societies,” mon
ey and men are going into Kansas. The spirit
of popular sovereignty is being crushed, and the
principles of non-mtervent.ou circumvented bv
lawless fanaticism. J
With the permission of Gen. Whitefield, I
me the following extracts from a letter dated
“Lecompton, January 23,” and writen bv a
gentleman m high position, and of intelfgence
aud integrity, whose name (for reasons which
you would concur with me in regarding satis
factory) is withheld:
-About six days ago six men were sent to
lowa to conduct 500 fighting men who are to
be here by the last of Febtuary. Thev will be
here without doubt. Yesterday, wagons were
sent to meet a train with two cannon and five
hundred Sharpe’s rifles from Illinois, which are
being smt to Lawrence.
“There things go to show that the traitors
are industrious and are working. By the first
of March they will have 1100 or 1200 men
more than they have now, and be better pro
vided with arms and munitions.
“ On the 4th of March next, they put their
t Government into operation, and if we are not
strong enough to put down them and their mil
itary organization, we will be driven from the
Icffitory.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1856.
“ For myself, I think that no man, in or out
of the Territory, is willing to risk more of eve
rything that is dear or valuable, according to
I his circumstances, than I will, if the cause is
; appreciated by the South, and they show their
appreciation by sending men and money to help.
But if the slave owners of the South content
themselves with temporary luxury and ease, and
■ make no effort to save their institutions, they
: may take care of themselves in their own way,
and I will of myself in mine. If there is a man
who is enlisted more deeply in the cause of the
South than myself, I don’t know where he is to
be found. I am fortified in my position by
: principle and feeling. I hate the adverse cause,
• and love to war upon it. I have risked my life
and my property, which are now in daily peril.
“The South must act with energy and prompt
ness. They must do the entire thing or give it
up—acknowledge themselves whipped.
“ Our friends must be here on the 28th of
February, or the few pro slavery men in this
part of the Territory will be burned out and
driven off as refugees. If the South can not
send fifteen hundred men by the 28th of Febru
ary next, and double that number by fall, and
in time for the elections, they need not send a
man.”
Such is the state of affairs in Kansas, as rep
resented by one who is on the ground.
The admission of Kansas into the Union as a
slave State, is now a point of honor with the
South. Every assistance which legislation can
render, was given by the last Congress, when
the Missouri prohibition was repealed. What
more can Southern chivalry ask of Congress ?
An open field and a fair fight were all that our
ancestors asked of an enemy. Has the spirit
of the sires departed from the bosoms of their
sons ? Shall the page of South Carolina histo
ry, which records the lofty sentiments and glo
rious deeds of Gadsden, of Hayne, and of Moul
trie, grow pale, when reading of us ? And shall
it be written that their blood was transmitted
without their virtues? and of their spirit, that
the “ grace of the fashion of it perisheth ?”
The last Congress gave to the people of the
South a fair field, and the Abolitionists have
thrown down the glove upon it. Who in all
the South will take it up ?
It is my deliberate conviction that the fate
of the South is to be decided with the Kansas
issue. If Kansas becomes a hireling State,
slave property will decline to half its present
value in Missouri as soon as the fact is deter
mined. Then Abolitionism will become the
prevailing sentiment. So with Arkansas—so
with Upper Texas. While we are thus de
creasing in political power, the North will in
crease. War with England is desired by Sew
ard, who is the most dangerous man in Ameri
ca. And why ? To exhaust the Sauth of men
and money, and with our blood and our treas
ure to acquire Canada as freesoil territory; and,
then with freesoil power thus augmented, te
reduce the South to provincial dependence.—
And this war would be popular. The West is
always ready for war. They fatten upon it
and are out of danger. War enhances the val
ue of all their products—grain, bacon, horses,
beef. Their women and children are so far in
the interior as to be at all times secured, and
their young men are warlike by nature. Nor
would its advocates be few even in the South
Atlantic States which would be devastated by
the enemy. Popular orators might be heard
at every Court House in our State raising the
cry, “to arms 1” who mope about now, as if
they never heard of Kansas. May they not
hear of it when it is too late. *
If our State had imposed a tax of one dollar
per head on each negro in the State, and ap
plied the amount to the transportation of armed
emigrants to Kansas, the people would have
sustained the Delegates, and the funds would
have wrought more good towards strengthening
our institutions if thus applied, than if the har
bor of Charleston was crowded with steamships,
and every village in the State had its armory
with a coup'e on the top.
The election of Mr. Banks as Speaker of our
House will precipitate the Kansas issue. The
Abolitionists are emboldened here and every
where.
I venture this prediction—that in thirty days
there will be a Proclamation by the President
relative to Kansas; and that in sixty days af
terwards there will also be a Proclamation per
taining to the same matter, by the Governor of
South Carolina.
I tell you that the battle of the Constitution
against Fanaticism is to be fought on the soil of
Kansas.
Let our young men wake from their lethargy.
Let them organize companies in every District.
A regiment of a thousand men, under the com
mand of Maxey Gregg, if now in Kansas, would
bear triumphant the flag of State equality and
of constitutional liberty.
If our institutions obtain in Kansas, the
slavery question is settled and the rights of the
South are safe. If fanaticism prevail, we may
pjit our houses in order to die by inches.
Let our people but understand the Kansas
issue, and they will meet it with alacrity. Let
them bnt see that every dollar expended in
Kansas, and every blow there struck, is in de
fence of their homes and firesides, and they will
come up to the mark like men. They have
been confused by the thrusts at the Kansas
Nebraska bill, indiscreetly made in our own
State, and the taunts of squatter sovereignty.
The bill is not as I would have had it in every
respect, but it is a good bill for the South; for
under it we can go with our property, where
before we could not go. Let the theorizers
forget their theories and practise what is prac
ticable. Every dollar appended in this cause
by our people, is as “bread cast upon the wa
ters.” Those of you who so see the points
of the case should at once put the ball in mo
tion. It you cannot act with much concert at
first, go to work individually. Present a sub
cription list to every man you meet who owns
a single slave. Let others do likewise. A
long step will be thus taken towards perform
ing our part in Kansas.
Col. J. D. Wilson of our State arrived th’s
morning, and tells me that the people in his
region are becoming alive to the issue. He
pledged himself to arm and transport five deter
mined young fellows to Kansas at his own ex
pense. " The example is worthy of imitation,
aud the sentiment which produced it patriotic.
The route to Kansas is ria Nashville, from
which point it is but six days journey to the
promised land.
I am, with wannest personal regard, and
lively sympathy, with you in “Border Ruffian
ism.”
Truly yours. P. 8. BROOKS.
j@°*ln England the hour of dining indicates
precisely the rank. The Queen dines at eight
o’clock, P.'M., the higher nobility at seven and
half-past; the ordinary country gentleman at
six ; the professional people and richer classes of
merchants and manufacturers a four or five; the
shop-keepers at two or three: clerks at one;
workingmen at twelve. As a man rises in
social importance his dinner hour advances.—
Some men of humble origin and great luck have
eaten their way from plebeian twelve ail down
the hours of the afternoon, and. nded a glorious
i career by solemnly dining with royalty at eight,
i Splendid reward for the labors of a lifetime ?
tSflt is said that young Lord Bury has re
: signed as private secretary to the governor gen
eral of Canada, and superintendent of Indian
1 affaire—and the Canadian newspaper! are glad
of it.
, Abolition Appeals to the Noss-
Slaveltolding Men of
the South.
, The power of truth has never been more
forcibly illustrated, than in the influence pro
duced by a single sentence tn the annual mes
sage of President. Pierce, in regard to the ob
jects and consequences of fanatical agitation of
slavery. For the last twenty years, the bur
den of the appeals of the abolition agitators has
been directed to the sufferings and oppressions
• of the “ poor slave. Oceans of crocodile tear
have been poured out by heartless hypocrites,
as well as some genuine effusions of misguided
fanatical sympathy, in behalf of the enslaved
and degraded Africans. “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin"
has obtained a world-wide reputation as a de
lineation of the horrors of slavery in the South.
Os a' sudden, however, everything like a tear for
the “ poor slave” has disappeared—he is, all at
once, turned over to the tender mercies of his
master—and now all abolitiondom is in tears
over the sufferings, the oppressions, the degra
dation and the ignorance of “ the poor whites
of the South.” This wonderful transfer of ab
olition sympathy from the “ poor slaves” to the
“ poor whites,” is the result of a single sentence
in the President’s message; that sentence is as
follows:
“ If the passionate rage of fanaticism and
partizan spirit did not force the fact upon our
attention, it would be difficult to believe that
any considerable portion of the people of this
enlightened country could have so surrendered
themselves to a fanatical devotion to the sup
posed interests of the relatively few Africans in
the United States, as totally to abandon and
disregard the interests of the tv. enty-five mil
lions of Americans, to trample under foot the
injunctions of moral and constitutional obliga
tion, and to engage in plans of vindictive hos
tility against those who are associated with
them in the enjoyment of the common heritage
of our national institutions.”
The announcement of the truth contained in
this extract exploded abolitionism from its very
foundation, and ever since its promulgation, we
have seen the discomfitted leaders busily em
ployed in trying to repair the damage by a
transfer of their sympathies from “the poor
slaves” to “ the poor whites.” With an impu
dence that none but an abolitionist could as
sume, they now deny that it was ever the slave
who was the object of their philanthropic la
bors, but that they were working all the time
for the emancipation of the white men of the
South, who were suffering under the thraldom
of the slaveholders!
The New York Tribune leads off on this new
tack ; its shrewd editors saw. from the first re
sponse given to the President’s message, that
he had blown up the magazine of abolitionis a ;
that negrephobia was no longer an available
ground to occupy ; that the idea of endanger
ing the happiness of twenty-five millions of free
white men for the supposed benefit of a com
paratively few well fed, well clothed contented
blacks, was made perfectly absurd by its bold
and pointed exposure by the President; and
hence its editors led oft in the effort to save ab
olitionism by abandoning the cause of the slave,
and pretending to have been all the time the
champions of “ the poor Southern white men.”
The 'Tribune quotes the foregoing passage of
the message to show how “ignorant” the Presi
dent was as to the objects of abolitionism and,
with cool effrontery, says: “How ignorant and
mistaken the President is; how he has been be-
trayed by his ignorance into the most calumn- [
ious charges against men quite as patriotic as
himself, quite as much devoted as he, and pre
haps a little more so, to the intrest of the twenty
five millions of Americans,”&c- When the
President assumes that abolitionism has looked
to the condition of the slave as the grand object
of its agitation, the Tribune says he was not
only “ignorant,” butthat he makes “calumnious
charges” against such pure patriots as Horace
Greeley. Joshua Giddings, and the like! Has
it come to this, that, after abolitionists have
toiled for twenty years in trying to excite sym
pathy all over the world for the poor slaves of
the South, the bare announcement of their ob
ject, as heretofore avowed by themselves, is
characterized as a “calumnious charge ?” We
have said a thousand times that the sympathy
of the anti-slavery agitator for the poor s aves.
was sheer hypocrisy; and when we said it, he
turned upon as, and charged us with calumnia
ting bis generous. philanthropic heart. Now,
the President says that the object of the aboli
tion agitator is to benefit the slave, and the agi
tator turns upon him, and says, you are not only
an ignoramu", but you are a calumniator; it is
the poor white man of the South, and not the
slave, that abolition is seeking to benefit and
protect.
The remarks of the Tribune to which we have
just referred were made for the purpose of re
commending to its readers a communication
from Mr. Weston, occupying six or seven col
umns of that journal, in which, under the head
“ The Poor Wliites of the South,” the writer
undertakes to sustain the new dodge of aboli
tionism to which we have been directing atten
tion. Mr. Weston, like Mr. Greely, has no
conscientious scruples in abandoning the cause
of the poor slave, and. with even less show of
candor than before, becoming the voluntary
champion of “ the poor southern white men.”
But are these agitators sure that “the poor
white men of the South ” will accept their sym
pathies or their intervention 1 We can tell’the
Greeleys aud Westons that when they surren
dered the original ground on which abolition
ism rested they gave up its stronghold. They
could appeal to the hearts of the philanthropic
in behalf of the slave, and he could make no
response- If he could have responded, in nine
ty-nine cases out of a hundred his reply would
have been an indignant rebuke. But “ the
poor white men of the South ” can respond and
they will show abolition agitators how grossly
ignorant they are of the condition, character,
and sentiments of the white non slaveholders.—
Without now referring specially to the calum
nious observations of Mr. Weston, we quo'te a
fair synopsis of his communication as made by
the editor of the Tribue. He says :
“It is shown in that article beyond all dispute
that the largest number of white persons who,
on the most liberal calculation, can be supposed
to derive any advantage from the existence of
slavery among us, is less than two millions,
while the remaining four millions and upward
of the white population of the slave States are
exposed to it by terrible humiliations and de
gradations, growing every day worse and worse,
and out of which it is utterly impossible for
them to emerge by any efforts of their own.—
Hitherto those wretched people have had a re
source in emigration to new States; but that I
resource is now almost exhausted.V/Ol the un
occupied territory of the United States, there
remains very little the climate of which is at
all suited to southern constitutions. No doubt
the southern peapie may still find some relief in
seeking enjoyment in our rapidly-growing west
ern towns and cities; bnt a great obstacle to
that is their ignorance and their total destitu
tion of means or opportunity at home to learn ;
any useful trade or calling.”
The gist of this six-column article of Mr.
Weston, as extracted by Mr. Greeley, is that
-four millions and upwards of the white popula
tion of the slave States are exposed by slavery
to terrible hummilitations and degradations,
growing every day worse and worse, and out
of which it is" utterly impossible for them to
emerge by any effort of their own.” Mr. Gree
lev, with all his hostility to the South, could
not state the oondition of ths oca-tlaveholdan |
| half as bad as Mr. Weston’s communication
represented it. lie says this population is
“entitled to the deepest sympathy and commis
eration, in view of the "material, intellectual,
and moral privations to which it has been sub
jected, the degradation to which it has already
been reduced, and the still more fearful degra
dation with which it is threatened by the inevi
table operation of existing causes and influ
ences.” 1
If we did not know that the writer was’drnw
ing a picture of the no. -slaveholdi ig population
of the South, we should take this to be one of
those stereotyped appeals in behalf of the “poor
slaves” with which abo.itionists have excited
the sympathies of fanatics and misguided phi
lanthropists for the last twenty years. It is
the exact language of those appeals that eman
ate from some crack-brained enthusiast whose
fanaticism renders him incapable of understand
ing the true condition of the southern people,
or whose malignity renders him indifferent to
the oblig itions of truth. His description of the
material, intellectual, and moral privations and
degradations of the southern non-slaveholders
is without even the semblance of truth, and it
will have no other effect than to intensify that
feeling of disgust and scorn with which this
population already regards abolitionism.
If it is supposed by abolitionists that they
can excite jealousies and dissensions between
the slaveholders nnd the non-slaveholders at the
South, they will find that their officious inter
medling will only draw together more closely
than ever the bonds which now unite them in
one brotherhood. It is a total misapprehension
to suppose that there is any diversity of inter
est or antagonism of sentiment between those
who own and those who do not own slaves.—
The hostility of the former to the aggressive
intentions of abolitionism is not stronger nor
more marked than that of the latter. There
b a perfect union and indentity of feeling and
of sentiment between them. To assume that
the latter are less intelligent, less independent,
less devoted to the constitutional guarantees on
the subject of slavery than the former, is to do
them the grossest injustice. To say that they
are degraded either materially, or morally, is
to utter an unmitigated calumny against as
brave, as honest, as patriotic, as intelligent a
population as exists in om country. Such men
will know how to appreciate and to repel the
hypocritocal sympathy so insultingly thrust
upon them. They will know how to estimate
the philanthropy which first sought to elevate
the slaves to a level with free white men, even
though the process of amelioration involved the
cutting the throats of their owners, and which
now manifests itself in an effort to degrade
free white men to the level of their slaves, with
the hope of exciting the termer to wage a war
fare on slave-owners which may inure to the
benefit of abolition aspirants for the presiden
cy. In conclusion, we repeat to abolition
agitators, what we have heretofore said, that
if their purpose is to engender dissensions and
discords between slaveholders at the South, with
the expectation of having allies in the non
slaveholdcrs, either for political ends or purpos
es of aid and comfort in the event of a sectional
war, they will assuredly find the non-slavehold
ers, in either contingency, the firm, fast, and
efficient friends and allies of the slave-owners.
The ranks of southern me: may seem to be
divided and distracted by know-nothing issues,
but, when the crisis so mindly precipitated by
abolition agitators comes, the South will be a
unit in sentiment, in feeling, and in action.
Discovery e s ths open CircumpO
lar Sea appears to have been made by a Rus
sian- officer thirty years ago. This was Lieut.
Wrangel, who, somewhere about the year 1824
advanced by sleds across the ice "from the
northern coast of Siberia, due north to the open
sea. Lieutenant (now Admiral) Wranjel took
frequent soundings during the trip, mid found
the water shallow, with a mud bottom. The
climate became moderate as he made nothing.
According to his estimate of his position at the
margin of the open polar ocean, he must have
been near the parallel of 82 degrees north, on
which Dr. Kane wa< when he saw the same sea,
almost on the opposite side of the pole. Lieut.
Wi angel coceah’d provisions in tho ice as he
advanced, which he cut out for supplies on his
return. The party s'ept in lodges warmed by
a spirit lamp, which also cooked their meals
Tteir suffering were not as great as those of
the land parties that have gone out from the
British exploring ships.
Condition of Jamaica.—A Southern gen"
tieman writing from Kingston to Jamaica, to
the New Orleans Picayune, gives a sombre ac
count of the dilapidation which negro emanci
pation has produced in that colony :
“Kingston,” he says, “which once counted
eighty thousand prosperous inhabitants, who re
sided more in a great accumulation of beauti
ful gardens than in densely built squares, now
contains only about forty thousand poverty
stricken people, composed in a great measure,
to the use the expression, of an English gentle
man resident here, of liberty-crippled negroes.
The white population has 'largely diminished,
a dis rapidly disappearing. The coloied pop
ulation presents the most marked contrasts
within itself. The young men look hale, well
fed, and joyous; and the young girls, if at all
good-looking-, give evid .nt tokens of prosperity
in theirjdress and adornments. The middle aged
of both sexes seem everywhere joyless; aud the
old are images of hagga'rd want aud despair.”
A Petrifie Indiam. —While engaged in ex
caviling recently, upon the Milwrukie and La
Cross Railroad, near Schleseugerviliee, (lowa.)
the workmen came upon the petrified remains
of an Indian, and with the remains some singu
lar relics of olden times. The body was per
fect. not having suffered by decay. His hight,
at the presen time, would be considered gigan
tic, measuring seven feet two inches. On his
baeast was a plate of coppca, on which were
engaged numerous hieroglyphics, the meaning
of phiee can hardly be imagined. An arrow
of considerable strength and curious constrution
was also found with him.
Sam Houston Intends to Resign. —Mr. J
C. Porter, in a letter to the Cincinnati Colum
bian, says :
“ I was present at a conversation between ’
Judge Perrin and Gen. Houston, in which the;
General distinctly said, that the Legislature of
Texas had passed a resolution instructing him
to resign, and he intended to obey instructions.
In a conversation with Judge Perrin, an hour
since, he confirmed this statement, and author
ized me to say so to you.”
We believe this intelligence will be bailed
with peculiar joy throughout the South.
The Accident to Ges. Cass.—Gen. Cars'
fell the distance of four steps leading to the i
Patent Office, and was picked np and conveyed I
to tne Nation’ Hotel in a state of insensibili
ty. His forehead is badly cut, and it is feared
his sku 1 is fractured.
When taken up he was bleeding profusely
from the temple and month. He was speechless j
for some time, but has recovered his voice, and i
now recognizes some of his friends.
The New York Veterans of 1812, will
celebrate Washington’s birth-day, by a Cou-i
vention at Albany.
Mr. Cullom, the Clerk of the
(House.
Why did the Southern National Know Noth
ings vote for Mr. Cullom for Clerk, and refuse
to vote for Mr. Banks for speaker ? They are
both anti-Nebraska men—they are both mem
bers of the “American party.” The Black
Republicans voted for both, and the Southern
Know Nothings for one of them. The New
York Tribune's correspondent, of the 4th inst.
says :
“The compliment was well deserved ; for no
man in the last Congress had been more earnest
in resisting the Nebraska bill of iniquities, and
none had suffered mere severely from the con
sequences of that vote. Gen. Cullom was en
titled to this mark of respect.”
A Southern constituency refused to send
Mr. Cullom back to Coegress, after his oppo
sition to the Free States in Congress, aided by
Southern Know Nothings, were determined
that a notorious enemy of the Nebraska bill
should not be prostrated at the South. Mr.
Cullom, by the joint support <# those parties,
tucceeded to the responsible and lucrative po
sition of Clerk of the House of Representives
of Congress.
, Messrs. Foster and Trippe voted for Mr.
Cullom, and Mr. Cullom voted against the Ne
braska bill. What principle was sustained or
announced in thus voting for Mr. Cullom, will
be matter of interesting inquiry for the people
of Georgia and the South. What party nomi
nated Cullom, and who supported him, and for
what, the people will diligently enquire about.
Will some of the Know Nothing papers ex
plain this matter ?
Let tlie Thoughtful heed.
There is something in the littb telegraphic
dispatch subjoined, which speaks with more
point, significance and force, than any editorial
against Know Nothingism which the wit of
man can devise. It is a mere news item, to set
forth the proceedings of the New Hampshire
State Know Nothing Convention. Who are
chosen as exponents? John P. Hale, Amos
Tuck and Geo. Nesmith—radical abolitionists
all. On the other hand, the New Hampshire
Democrats appoint a rally, and whom do they
invite as speaiers? John B. Weller, Howell
Cobb and Jas. L. Orr. What a contrast! and
is it accidential ? Is it not, rather, a fair il
lustration of the animus of the two parties,
upon the great question of Southern equality.
When will intelligent, patriotic Southern gen
tlemen, tire of even a quasi association with
such allies ?
New Hampshire Politics—Concerd, N. H.,
Tuesday, Feb. 5,1856. —The New Hampshire
American State Convention to day was atten
ded by about 500 Delegates.
Gov. Metcalf was re-nominated by acclama
tion, and Greanlcaf Cummins of Lisbon was
chosen for Railroad Commissioner.
A mass meeting held in the afternoon was
largely attended. The Ron. John P. Hale,
Amos Tuck and Geo. Nesmith were among the
speakers.
The Democrats anticipate a grand rally on
Thursday next, when the Hon. John B. Wel
ler of California, Howell Cobb of Georgia, and
James L. Orr of South Carolina, ara expected
to hold forth.
Ma. Buford and,Kansas.—Mr Buford ad
dressed the people of Dallas county, Ala., at
Selma on the 31st ult., and at Cahawba on the
2d inst. At Cahawba, the Gazette says seve
ral gentlemen subscribed SIOO each, and
expresses the opinion that 5000 will be raised
iu Dallas for the cause of Kansas.
L!:ap Year.—lt must be recollected that
any woman during the present year can marry
any man she pleases—provided he be willing.
One of the authorities, writing in 1600, lays
the law down as follows:
“Albeit is nowe become a part of the com
mon lawe, in regard to social relations of life,
that as often as every bissextile year dothe re
turn, the ladye’s have the sole privilege, during
the time it continueth, of making love unto the
men, which they do either by wurds or lookes,
as to them it seemeth proper ; and moreover, no
man will be entitled to the benefit of the clergy
who dothe refuse the offers of a ladye, or who
dothe in any wise treat her proposals withe
slight or contumely.”
P r 'A., The Texa- Debt Bill, which has passed
the Legislature of that State, distributes about
seven millions of dollars from the U. 8. Treas
ury, to those who hold claims against Texas.—
One-third of these claims are held in Philadel
phia, one-third in New York, and the remain
der in various other cities. Some of these
claims were bought very low, and the profit re
aized will be la'-ge.
■
When Mr. Adams was elected Presi
dent by the House of Representatives, General
Jackson, his great competitor, was the first to
advance to him on the floor ot the hall and
give him his hand in congratulation, an inci
dent which drew plaudits in Europe.—Phila
We think this is a mistake. We have an
impression that Gen. Jackson was not In Wash
ington at the time.
Senator Douglas in Washington.—The
Union of Saturday morning last, says: “It is
w ith great satisfaction that we announce this
morning that Hon. 8. A. Douglas, who has
been so long detained on his way to the seat of
government by a violent and protracted inflam
mation of the throat, arrived in this city yester
day morning. He is in ranch better health and
spirits than his numerous friends here expected
or hoped for; and we sincerely trust that it will
not be many days before he will be able to re
turn to the scene of his distinguished labors and
distinguished triumphs in all his wonted vigor
of mind and body.”
Hon. Millard Fillmore was in Rome,
1te1.., by last accounts, sitting for his bust in
marble to Bartholomew, the celebrated Amer«
ican sculptor.
Hon. Robert Toembs, of Georgia, de
clining to receive any compensation for his lec
ture on slavery, the committee, at his request
that the amount should be given to a society
for aiding emigrants, has paid over the sum of
one hundred dollars to the German Emigrant
Aid Society of the city of Boston.
■ ■—
ggy The New Jersey Geological Report
states that the ocean is steadily and rather rap
idly gaining on the shore. At Cape Island the
waves have gained ou the beach fully a mile
since the revolution, and the rise of the tides on
the eastern uplands is higher than formerly, in j
the opinion of the oldest observers.
jgy* The Cincinnati Gazette states that the
five leading offices in that county, yield the fol
lowing profit*: Treasurer, 840,000; Clerk, 825,-
000; Auditor, 818.000; Sheriff, 820,000 ; Pro
bate Judge, 815,000.
Remarks of Judge Cone,
ON THE DEATH OF MR. MILLER.
Judge Cone said : Senators, — The duties
which now devolve upon us, and which are both
pleasing and mournful, admonish us all how
brief a thing is life I There is nothing which
so commands and deserves to command our at
tention, as the stroke of “ Death.” Our recent
bereavement tells ns in language that can not
be mistaken, that erelong, we too shall be called
upon to walk through the dark valley and shad
ow of death. We shall soon be called upon to
resign the joys and pleasures of social life. The
relatives and friends that now know us, shall
soon know us no more ; and it is useful amid
the conflict of passion, and the strife of clashing
interests, for us to remember, that we have to
render an account to God. One short week
ago, and him we now deplore was with us, en
gaged in the active and able discharge of the
duties of his station. He stood among us more
than a peer. He was among the ablest in this
chamber. His experience, his wisdom, bis in
tegrity, his truth, all caused us to look upon him
as a counsellor and an exemplar; but God had
numbered his days, and said to him “Thus far
shalt thou go, and no further,” so inscrutable
are the ways of Providence. The moan of the
widow and the cry of the orphan shall ascend
to God so. the loss of their protector, amid the
lamentations that go up from his grave.
Sir I have known Mr. Miller for twenty
years—for twenty years of professional life-and
I never knew one more courtou* or more kind
than he. He was the embodiment of truth,
and no professional temptation swerved him
one iota from the path of duty. No language
can do him justice in his domestic relations ;
as a father, he was devoted and kind; as a mas
ter charitable and forgiving; as a lawyer, the
soul of honor and embodiment of truth. He
has left his character upon our laws, and the
records of the Senate attest how much he did
for Georgia.
Sir, he was a gentleman—a man of honor.
As a legislator, enlightened and liberal. Full
of honors, he has resigned his soul to God. He
has gone to that bourne from whence no travel
ler returns. But, sir, he was guided by the pre
cepts of that religion which “brought life and
immortality to light'’; neither sin nor sorrow
reigns in the sphere where he now dwells, and
the entrance to which he has won by his worth.
I would here call upon the young men of the
Bar of Georgia, to gaze upon his bright exam
pie, and learn from him how to be good, useful
and great. The sacred griefs of the bereaved
family, I cannot approach. None can know
how bitter are the widow's tears, but she who
sheds them. None but an orphan knows an
orphan’s grief. But we may leave it to God
whose hand strack this blow, to pour the oil of
consolation upon the hearts he has himself af
flicted, and commend to them that religion
which has solace for every woe. The ways of
the Lord are strange and inscrutable; but he
has told us, they are wise—let us not repine be
cause we cannot understand. We, too, will ere
long be called upon to meet the great event. My
years admonish me, and the companions I have
long known, and so many of wh;m are gone, all
bid me remember that my own end cannot be
far distant, in the future. Colquitt, Meriwether,
Dougherty, Charlton, Sayre, and now Miller—
all friends and long companions with me at the
Bar are gone, I too must go ere long.
Sir, let us take to heart the solemn lesson
which our affliction teaches, aad so act our part
that we mny merit at its end, the same eulogies
which are the right of him we deplore. Let us
endeavor to merit the consolation of our di sine
religion, and its last great reward—a home iu
that Paradise, where sin, sorrow and suffering
are no more ; and in which sinful man sha 1
stand up, redeemed, regenerated and disen
thralled I
Tub Next Presidency.—The Friends of
Messrs Filmoreand Law, in New York, seem
to be getting a little excited. The New York
Times of yesterday says the friends of the for
mer gentleman look upon the forthcoming Phil
adelphia Convention of the 22d as a device of
Geo.. Law’s supporters to force his nomination
upon the American party, and they are not in
clined to give it the benefit of their adhesion
in advance, of its action : It then adds:
It is pretty well settled that Mr. Law will
have a majority of the delegatas at Philadelphia
and that he will be put in nomination by that
convention. If Mr. Fillmore’s friends should
not succeed in postponing action, we presume
they will.withdraw him from the convention. At
all events, they will not, unless we arc misin
formed, give their support to Mr. Law if ho is
nominated now.
The Committee on banks of the Legis
lature of New Jersey, presented an elabsrate
report on Tuesday, against granting special
charters for banking purposes, and recommen
ding that the charters passed at the last session
be repealed. They reiterate the arguments,
sentiments and opinions of the opponents of the
special banking system at the last session of
the Legislature. They regard the granting of
special charters as conflicting with the provis"
ions and principles of the General Banking Law.
They then proceed to argue the banking ques
tion, contending that no notes to circulate as
money should be allowed to be issued without
fuads being secured for their redemption; to
charter a banking institution without such pro
vision they consider a palpable legislative if
consistency, and a violation of the duties that
the members of the Legislature owe to their
constituents, as servants of the Ipeople. They
also contend that to grant special charters is
unjust to those who have associated for bank
ing purposes under tflb general law. Ths re
port eulogises the free banking system, allu
ding to its success in New York, where 820,000
000 are invested unler the General Law in
banking business. It concludes by recommen
ding the repeal of all the bank bills passed at
the last session.
Letters from Jerusalem state that at present
the European consuls hoist their flags regularly
ou Sundays and all feast days—a ceremonj
which has hitherto been jealously prohibited by
the Turkish officials throughout’the Ottoman em
pire, excepting at the seaport towns. It was
first done on the occasion of the capture of Se
bastopol, when the English, French, Spanish
aud Austrian consuls displayed their flags, and
the Prussian consul has since done the same.—
Rain is very much wanted throughout Syria,
and the inhabitants are enduring great suffer
ings, as prices of ail provisions are very high.
The Austrian coisul at Jerusalem has received
from his goveremeut a very large sum for the
erection within the walls of the town of consu
lar buildings, an hospice, and a place for the
archbishop of Vienna. The Latin patriarch is
building a place for himself and a college at
Beit Sala, near Bethlehem. The Greeks are in
possession of about two-thirds of the land with
in the walls of Jerusalem, generally supposed to
hava been bought with Russian money.
WM. KA if PROPRIETOR
NUMBER 28.
[From the Detroit Free Pres*.]
Complexion of the House.
The votes on several resolutions in the U S
House of Representatives on Saturday, involv
ing the question of the restoration of the Mis
souri compromise, exhibit the tem|K>r and com
plexion of the House. The substance of the
resolutions is thus stated :
By a majority „f vote, the Houso repudiated
the doctrine, that no one but a strong anti-Ne
braiika man ought to be elected Speaker.
By a majority of one vote, they declared that
the restriction against slavery in Kansas and
Nebraska, imposed by the compromise of 1820,
ought to be restored.
By a majority of three votes, they decided
that it was not their solemn duty to persist in
their efforts to restore that restriction, until the
object should be accomplished.
By a majority of one vote, they decided that
any agitation of the question of slavery, in or
out of Congress, is unwise, unjust to a"portion
of the American people, injurious to every sec
tion of our country, and, therefore, should not
be countenanced.
By a majority cf fifteen they voted, that the
repeal of the Missouri compromise line was an
example of useless and factious agitation of the
slavery question, unwise, and unjust to the
American people.
Upon all these resolutions,the recognized de
raocrats voted in a body, as did, also, on the
opposite side of the question, those members
who acknowledged allegiance to the “ republi
can ' party. The Southern and a few Northern
know-nothings u and some old-line whigs, voted
on most of the resolutions against the “ repub
licans.” Mr. Peck, of this State, steadily acted
with the democrats, of course, and Messi s. How
ard, Walbridge and Waldon, with the “ repub
licans.”
One certain conclusion can be arrived at from
the disposition made of the several resolutions :
that a proposition actually to restore the Mis
souri compromise, would not. be sustained by a
majority of the House. This is an interesting
fact—especially wheu we remember the claims
set up as to the complexion of that body, by
the leading “ republican" journals of the coun
try, when all the congressional elections had
transpired. It was asserted, with singular con
fidence, that “ repeal” (of the Nebraska Kansas
act) had been carried at the ballot-box, and
that the popular branch of Congress would pass
a repealing bill. See what is the fact I Not
only cannot the supposed anti-Nebraska major
ity elect a Speaker, but the votes on the resolu
tions we have given, amount to a solemn, reite
rated declaration of the House against “repeal.”
With such a result of the election of mem
bers of the present Congress, the friends of pop
ular sovereignty have reason to be filled with
courage. Another contest will throw black
republicanism into a smaller minority than
know-nothingism at present.
A late number of tlie’ Louisville (Ky) De
mocrat, in speaking of. the Ganlt House says :
“The entire roof fell in, and the wall, four
stories high, crumbled to the earth. Some time
since, it will be remembered the doors of
the hotel were closed, and a large force of work
men placed upon it, in making repairs, additions,
changes, alteiations, &c. Fortunately there
were but few engaged at the’ir work at the time
of the accident.
“A workman by the name of James Carrack,
or McCarrick, was killed. His body was re
moved from the ruins literally torn to pieces by
the fallen timbers. A little boy, the adopted
son of Mr. John Ryan, who was playing in Iho
yard, was so badly hurt that he died in a few
mintitcs. Mr. John Ryan, one of the workmen,
was very badly hurt, but will recover. Ann
Hearn, a little girl, who was also in the yard,
had her nose completely shattered end Ji.-r head
terribly bruised. Her nrm is also broken in
• several places. aMr. C. White one of the ear
penters, had his coat completely torn from his
back, by the falling timbers, without any seri
ous injury to his person.
“The foreman, who was in the lower story,
was not hurt, though literally overwhelmed with
• timbers, brick and mortur. He extricated
himself.
“A man whose name wc did not learn, saved
himself by leaping from the third s.ory a mo
ment before the crash. The keeper of un ad
joining shop wus so badly frightened at tho
noise that ho leaped out through th window,
cutting himself severely with the glass.
At the time of the accident some of tho work
men were endeavoring to raise one of the floors
by means of pulleys attached to onoof the joists
above.
The Nicaragua Minister.—Secretary Mar
cy bits addressed the following note to Col.
Parker H. French, the minister from. Nicaragua:
Department of State, |
Washington. Feb. ", 1856. f
. Sir.-1 have received your letter of the sth
tnst., with a copy of your letter of credence, and
laid them before the President. lam dfrected
by him to reply to your request to be received
as Minister Plenipotentiary to this government
from the Republic of Nicaragua, that ho has
again taken the subject into deliberate con
sideration, but has not seen sufficient reason for
changing the determination made known to
you in my letter of the 21st of December last.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
W. L. Marot.
Railroad Connections in Cities Mr.
Floyd, from the committee of roads iu the Vir
ginia Legislature, has reported u bill entitled
“a bill to promote the convenience of the trav
elling public on railroads.” It proposes to ac
complish the object by authorizing the connec
tion of railroads terminating in cities; and in
the event of the refusal of any city to permit
such connections, the roads are authorized to
make it outside said city, and shall procure the
right of way as provided lor tinder the general
railroad law.— Richmond Dispatch.
Flour in New York.—The stock of flour
in store in New York is said to consist of 410,-
000 barrels Western Canal, 46,000 barrels
Southern, and 14,000 barrels Canadian. The
market is very dull.
United States Senators to be Elected
—Both houses of the Maryland Legislature
have agreed to go into an election for United
States Senator on the 14th instant, to supply
the vacancy which will occur ou the 4th March
1857, by the expiration of Mr. Prutt’s term. ’
The Abolition and Know Nothing legisla
tive caucus in Ohio, has postponed the nomina
tion of a candidate for United States Senator
until the 27th of February. Sir. Wade's term
expires on the 4th of March, 1857.
tl k - elccted b ? the sanl ° Plurality
aa T A Ob a’ I ,D 1849 ' Tbe lut,cr recc »’«i one
hundred and two votes against ninety-nine for
W inthrop. Mr. Bank's vote was one hundred
and three against one hundred for Aiken. And
!P* e 81x K n°w Nothings who were reported
toted fAt B °A U ? d I \ at,onal Americans/’had
voted for Mr. Aiken, he would hav > been elect
ed by the same majority that Mr. Cobb was.
It appears, from the annual report o
birtlw, marriages and deaths, just made to the
legislature of New Jersey, that there have
been 3,184 marriages in tbe State during the
past year, so far as reported ; 14,930 births, 7 J
337 being of males, 6,550 of females, and 1,043
of kx not reported, and 8451 daatai.