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THURSDAY, !•’ EBkUARV, SB, 1866.
A New Book.
Messrs Long & Bro., Nassau, SI., New 7 ork
have laid us under obligations for a copy of a
new novel by that deservedly popular writer G.
W. M. Reynolds, called “Vivian Bertram, or
A Wife’s Honor,” a story of the same thrilling
interest which characterizes the voluminous and
extensively read writings of this indefatigable
author. We hardly knew which to commend
most, the astonishing labors of Mr. Reynolds, or
the freshness and and brilliancy ot his world
wide reputation and will be eagerly read by
every one at all familiar with his style.
The Business Men
Os Savannah and Macon will be waited on by
Mr. P. M. Sitton, our Book Keep r, who will
afford those desiring to advertise in an interior
paper the opportunity of doing so upon terms
made agreeable to them. He will represent
fairly and satisfactorily the extent of our circu
lation in sections from which those cities derive
a considerable and remunerative trade, and
merchants and others will find him well ac
quainted with the business of the north-west,
he having been engaged for some time in busi
ness in that section, and having also by his
acquaintance and travel in NAtl.ern Georgia
ami East became familiar with the
points of interest to business men in those sec
tions. Our friends will confer upon us au ob
ligation which will be gratefully appreciated,
by extending him such assi tancc in the prose
cution of bis bu. incss as may be within their
power and convenience. They will find hun a
well informed, polished und reliable gentleman.
Presidential Speculations.
It is but natural that tl.e f riends of the mau y
prominent and deserving men attached to the
National Democratic party should feel an aux
ous solicitude that the claims of their favorite,
should receive a fair consideration from the
approaching Cincinnati Convention, and the
great number of names presented from difl’eront
sections for the nominatiors to be made by that
Convention would seem, to the outsider, calcu
iat«l to embarrass its action. Such, however,
will not be the case. It is generally understood
' believe, that the Delegates to the Conwu-
■ from all of the different States which will
ne represented in it, are left free to act for i..<
best interests of the party and the count: y.
Our individual choices twe subject to the will of
the majoritv. which from time immemorial has
been held in veneration by the Democratic par
ty, and there is no fear that the direction c 1
that will will be towards the best interestsof tl.e
—MNamirv.agd tee constitution unimpaired, and its
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natics and traitors North and South. Some of our
opposition cotemporaries sneer at what they
term the want of unity in the Democratic par
ty, when they see the efforts of the friends of
the proposed candidates. “ The wish is father
to the thought,” and, not to discuss the cyni
cal disposition manifested by such sneers, it is
like whistling against the wind, for there is
nothing to apprehend for the harmony of the
Convention. Since it is so universally under
stood that upon the action of that co nvention
and the ultimate success of the men and meas
ures it promulgates, depends the permanency of
this government, it comes badly from the mouth
these editors to attempt to sow seeds of discord
amongst its delegates; but opposition to De
mocracy is so deeply rooted and in their natur e
that to sneer it seems a part of that nature, a
practice handed down from generation to gene
ration until it has wholly occupied much soil
which were bel ter appropriated to the growth of
conservatism and patriotism. But let them rail
on. Let George Law represent the views of all
such men as speak lightly of Democracy, and the
Cincinnati Convention. Let their traditional
hatred to the name of Democracy drive them to
the sacrifice of every Southern 'sentiment upon
the “live oak 1 ’ altar, and let them complete their
estrangement from the South and her honor by
perfect ng their far advanced affiliation with
Abolitionism and and its kindred fanaticisms un
til they receive the amount of obloquy due their
unfair and unnatural course. God save those
men who would throw cold water upon the last
hope of a constitutional union.
Washington’s Birthday.
The respect paid by the American people to
their departed great, in the annual celebration
of their birth days or tho jubilant observance
of the anniversaries of the great events which
marked their lives, is a standing rebuke to the
proverbial ingratitude of Republics, and no na
tion on earth so religiously observe those gala
days as our own. The practice is commendable
from numerous considerations, and each neglect
of its observance is a step backward from our ad
vanced position in morals and intelligence.—
The patriotic feelings which animated tho great
dead whose memory these festivals are intend
ed to perpetuate, becomes stunted in its growth
in the wild chase after gain which characterizes
the age, unless we sometimes throw off the clog
ging weights which hang round it, and cultivate
it by reflection upon the great deeds of these men,
whose memories are the proudest monuments of
our nation's glory. We teach our youth to emulate
their noble examples, and nothing impresses up
on their minds the beauties of their characters so
much as the respect we pay their memory by set
ting apart one day each year to the celebration of
their deeds. Our own patriotism is refreshed
and invigorated ; the youth of the country are
excited into a laudable enthusiam which more
effectually incites them to follow in these great
“ foot-prints on the sands of time,” and other na
tions look on with envy and admiration of the
characters whose memory we thus cherish,
when wc scrupulously respect the time honored
custom. But it is, unfortunately, too apparent
that these customs of our ancestors arc becoming
less and less respected every year, and it is seri
ously apprehended that they will eventually be
entirely neglected and abandoned by our peo
ple. Washington’s birth day, the annual re
turn of which was once the ruling subject of
pleasurable anticipation and joyful preparation
for weeks beforehand, is now, except in compar
atively few instances, seldom thought of until
it is past, or too late for preparation to cele
brate. Why is this ? Certainly not because
we have less regard than formerly for the great
father of his country—to charge such ingrati
tude upon a single individual would bring the
blush of resentment at once to the cheek. But,
while we cannot think the failure to observe his
birth-day io a proper manner springs from any
such want of respect, we cannot evade the con
viction that such continued indifference must
eventually entail upon posterity the sin wc so
universally deprecate. 11' we forget to celebrate
the virtues of the great hero and keep them
prominently before the youth of the country,
they and their posterity, in their turn, will es
’chcfr the custom until finally it shall be said of
the nation that it has lost all reverence lor the
past and its bright examples, und it will sink to
u level with those who live not in tho past, but
solely in the exciting present.
It is not well for a people to lose sight of its
history, whether like dangers to those through
which it has passed are to be apprehended from
the future or not. The mariner who loses his
starting point can but poorly calculate his
whereabouts, and if the influence and experi
ence of the past, and its bright examples be for
gotten, then indeed are our people a prey to
that spirit of speculation and fanaticism, the de.
velopmeat of which our past history alone
checks.
These reflections and forebodings arc nature]
consequences of the seeming entire forgetfulness
of ou ' citizens to prepare for the appproprlate
celebration of the 22nd inst. So far as we can
learn, the matter has not even been talked
about, and instead of the festivities with which
we are wont to observe the day, it blds fair to
pass as every other day, in the dull round of
business, without one indication of respect to
mark it from the rest. It is too late now for
preparation unless our young friends get up a
party for the occasion, which we think might
readily be done, and get together to evince
that veneration fcr the immortal Washington,
which their elders seem to have forgotten is dee
his fame. We do hope the like neglect will not
have to be again deplored in our city.
Canadian Parliament, at its ap
proaching sessions, will it is said, probably turn
its attention to the following subjects:—The
selection ot a permanent seat of government;
the constitution of ths upper branch of the
Parliament, denominated Legislative Council;
the clergy: reserve commutation; the demand
of the Roman Catholics for sectarian school,
and representation according to the population
ATLANTA, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1856.
The Legislature of Georgia.
Milledgeville, Monday, Feb. 81,185 G.
House of Representatives.
Mr. Terhune move to reconsider the bill pass
ed on .Saturday, providing for the removal of
the penitentiary. He wished to amend the bill
sons to restrict the cost of removal and erection
of the new buildings to the sum ($72,500) ap
propriated in the bill. An appropriation, said
Mr. T., had been made for the enlargement of
the Lunatic Asylum, but the amount thus ap
propriated has been expended by the commis
sioners, and this Legislature had been obliged
tj appropriate an additional sum, more than
double the original appropriation, to complete
the building. His object was to guard against
such a recurrence as this. If this was not done
the $72,500 would be sunk before the contem
plated work was half effected, and the next
Legislature would be compelled to make ad
ditional appropriations. He did not believe that
872,500 would cover the expense of removal.
The motion was snsported by Mr. Rumph of
Wayne. He was opposed to removal. It re
quired a large expenditure of money, and the
success of the propos' d scheme was very prob
lematical. He doubted whether the peniten
tiary could ever be made topay at Stone Moun
tain. It had always been a curse, a burthen to
the State, an annual expense of thirty thous
and dollars. He bel’eved that the best policy
would be to pnt the present building in proper
condition, to make all necessary improvements
and to continue it at Milledgeville, Messrs.
Smith of Union, and Fields opposed. The
whole subject had been carefully considered by
the committee. And from all light that could
be thrown upon this question; it was their un
animous opinion that the State would be largely
benefitted by removal. The cost of removal
and construction of the propored building had
been made by a competent architect, and there
was no probadility of its costing any more
than the amount appropriated. If the gentle
man from Floyd only wished to reconsider for
the purpose of adding the amendment he pro
posed, that could be done in the Senate just as
well. Motions to reconsider occupied too much
time, the session was rapidly drawing to a close
and much important matter had yet to beaded
upon. The motion to reconsider was lost. 78
nays to 33 ayes.
FEDERAL RELATIONS.
The comittee on the State of the Republic,
to which were referred the resolutions of the
State of Vermont, reported the following
resolution, which was unanimously adopted :
Resolved, by the General Assembly of the
State of Georgia, That the State of Georgia
will not consider any resolution emanating from
the State of Vermont till she has learned to re
gard her constitutional obligations to the State
of Georgia, and the courtesy due to her sistee
States; and that no law, ordinance, act or reso
lution of the State be communicated to the
State of Vermont till further ordered. The
Governor is instructed to communicate this res
olution to the Governor of Vermont, with a
request that it be laid before the Legislature of
said State. ,
BOUNDARY BETWEEN GEORGIA ASD S. CAROLINA.
Some time since a resolution was introduced
by Mr. Porter, of Effingham, instructing the
committee on the State of the Republic to
inquire whether the islands in the Savannah
river belong to this State or to South Carolina.
The committee reported a resolution, this morn
ing, instructing the Governor to take such
measures as he may deem proper to the adjus
ment of this question. 'The resolution was
adopted.
ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD.
The House next took up, as the special order
of the day, the bill to incorporate the Atlantic
& Gulf Railroad Company, for the building of
a “main trunk” railway from the “intersection
of the counties of Appling, Ware and Wayne,
thence by the most practicable route to the
western boundry of the State of Georgia, at
any point between Fort Gaines, in the county
of Clay, and the junction of the Flint and Chat
tahoochee roads, in the county of Decatur."
It was moved to take the bill up by sections,
and the House went into committee of the
whole—Mr. Lewis, of Hancock, in the Chair
for that purpose.
Section I—Which incorporates the compa
ny and appoints commissioners, was amended
by the addition of the following names as com
missioners, viz: Charles Spalding, Charles J.
Munerly, J. Hamilton, N. W. Collier, James
McCrea.
Sec. 2. —Adopted without amendment.
Sec. 3.—Organizing the company after the
subscription of one million of stock, and pre
scribing the mode of procedure, was adopted,
after filling up the blank, fixing the time foi
the annual election of Directors, by inserting
the second Monday in February.
Sec. 4.—Prescribing the route of the road,
applying the 15th section of the amended char
ter of the Central Railroad to the decision of
question, growing out of the right of way and
damage,and conferring all the immunities, priv
ileges and exemptions granted to said company
upon the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, was
amended by the insertion of the following after
the word “ Wayne”—“ crossing the Satilla
river at or near Walker’s Ferry, in the vicinity
of Waresboro.” This settles more indefinitely
the point from which the road is to start. Sec
tion 4 was adopted without amendment.
Sec. s.—Prescribing the conditions upon
which the State shall subscribe and pay up in
stallments on her stock, was amended by the
following: “But no payment on the part of
the State shall be made, until the Savannah,
Albany and Gulf Railroad Company, a d the
Brunswick and Florida Railroad Company,
shall heve released any right with either of them
have or claim to interfere with the location A
said road, on acconnt of any privileges granted
in the charters of either of them.
Sec. tl.—Giving to the Savannah, Albany
and Gulf, and the Brunswick and Florida Rail
road Companies, the right to connect their tracks
with the track of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail
road. was amended by giving the same right to
all radroads in the State. “ Provided the stock
holders thereof build said roads with their own
money.”
Col. Lawton offered the following additional
section, which was adopted : •• That it shall be
the duty of the President of said railroad com-1
pany to’ make returns, under oath, semi-annn-1
ally’ to the Governor of the State, containing a 1
full and accurate statement of tne pecuniary as- j
fairs of the company, with a list of the subscri- j
bers to stock, the amount subscribed and paid
in by each, which return shall be placed on file i
in the office of the Comptroller General."
The following additional section, offered by <
Mr. Harris, of Fulton, was also adopted : That |
the produce of the State ot Georgia, deposited i
at any depot within the State, shall have prece- i
deuce’over through freight coming from any |
other State, so iong as the State of Georgia re- i
mains a stockholder in said road."
Dr. Phillips and Mr. Pickett labored hard to
attach their’projects, the North-Eastern and !
the Elijay Railroads, to this bill. The Dr. was
loud in his condemnation of the policy of the I
State taking stock in any internal improvement
scheme. Bankruptcy, ruin dire and disastrous. ]
a dishonored credit, a fair name sullied, would
be the consequence, contended the Dr., of such
a policy as this. Our State debt now was
marly three millions. Were gentlemen willing
to increase this! Would their constituents be
willing to bear the burthen of taxation to meet
it! He opined not. In fine be protested
qgainit the whole bill, m aa odiow ducrimina
tion between the people of Georgia- And yet,
with this black seal of condemnation upon the
bill, with this gloomy picture of financial dis
tress, as the consequence of its passage, the Dr
was willing to be a participator in these evil
doings. He was not only ready and willing to
be the recipient of the disgorged plunder, while
the sharing was going on. but would be willing
to sail under the black flag of the pirate, or
rather, what the Buccaneers won in desperate,
hazardous conflict on the high seas, lie would
claim a share when the plunder was being
distributed. The truth is those gentlemen want
ed to “ log roll ” their roads into this bill, and
because they failed to do this, so great was
their chagrin, so uncontrolable their tempers
that the inconsistency, indeed the absurdity
of t-lieir positions, did not for a moment strike
them. These flimsy objections to this measure
were thoroughly refuted by Messrs. Jones and
Thornton of Muscogee, and Lawton of Chatham
They not only demonstrated the fallacy of such
objections, but in lucid, incontrovertible argu
ments, showed the necessity for the road, its ad
vantage to the State as an investment, the splen
did, rich agricultural country through which it
would pass, the immense increase of commerce
from a connection with the Gulf of Mexico, the
urgent necessity of a speedy connection with
that part of our coast, all were thoroughly ex
amined and proven clearly as holy writ, that
the road would be profitable, was needed, and
that the State would be much benefited by its
construction. But it was of little avail. The
North-Eastern, Elijay and Cherokee, to some
extent, interests were opposed to the bill unless
they too could come under its provisions. The
combination was strong, and much to the sur
prise of the friends of a “ Main Trunk Rail
way ” the bill was defeated upon the call of the
ayes and nays.
1 suppose a motion to reconsider will be made
in the morning, and prevail too I think. The
friends of the bill were confident of success.—
Everybody, said it would pass
And this, I’m inclined to think, threw its friends
off their guard. They were sanguine of success
and relying upon the merit of the measure, can
vassed none at all, while their opponents were
well drilled and ready for the attack.
Senate.
Upon the readirg of the journal thismorning
Mr. Welborn moved to reconsider the acton of
the Senate relating to the amendment of the
9th section of the bill incorporating , the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad Company, which
strikes out the the provision for excluding indi
viduals or corporations north of Mason and Dix
on’s line from purchasing stock.
Mr. Welborn, made a short speech defending
his position, Saturday, and reflecting upon the
“passage at arms” that occurred between him
self and the Senator upon Greene. Upon re
ceiving information that he could not re-consider
the section without re-considering the whole
bill, ho withdrew Lis molten.
The Senate agreed to House amendments, to
the following bills, viz :
A bill changing the time of holding courts
in counties in the Patania and Middle Circuits.
A bill pointing ont the mode by which or
phans and widows can receive support from the
estates of deceased husbands.
A bill to change the county line between the
counties of Coffee and Irwin.
A bill to incorporate tho town of Bruns
wick.
BILLS ON THEIR PASSAGE.
A bill to form a new circuit from the coun
ties of Heard, Coweta, Campbell, Carroll, liar
raison, Paulding and Polk, to be called the Tal
lapoosa Circuit—amended by adding the coun
ty of Floyd. Passed.
SALE OF THE WESTERN AND ATLANTIC BAIL ROAD.
The Senate resumed the consideration of this
bill. When adjourned on Saturday nine sec
tions had been acted upon. The tenth which
gives to the proposed company all the rights,
privileges and immunities enjoyed by the State,
was adop.cd without amendment. Section 11
was stricken out and the following, offered by
Judge Cone, was adopted in lieu thereof, viz:
the office of the company shall be at Atlanta
and the rates of freights shall be uniform and
the same as the present. No discrimination
shall be made in favor of an individual or cor
poration, under forfeiture of five times the
amount of produce discriminated.” The follow
ing amendments were also adopted. “Shinld
any director move from the State, he shall no
longer be a director.”
2nd. Any person or body politic may sub
scribe for the stock at the minimum price of
seven millions of dollars.
3rd. Nothing in the bill shall be so constru
ed as to authorize this company to hold stock
in any other road unless by the consent of the j
Legislature. ,
4th. The stockholders shall pay the same tax ,
upon their stock as is paid upon real estate.
sth. When a vacancy occurs among the di- .
rectors, the Governor must appoint a director '
pro tem, till the meeting of the Legislature.
6 th. Suits may be instituted against the com 1
pany in any court of competent jurisdiction, and j
service of process may be made upon any depot '
agent or at the depot office. ’
Mr. Buchanan of Coweta, made a powerful ■
speech in opposition to sale. In my judgment
his arguments were unanswerable, and my only 1
regret is that 1 cannot report it in this. My ‘
next shall certainly contain it, for I think it
ought to be published and distributed over the ’
State. The people should know what a curse '
this sxle would prove. The bill passed by ayes ’
53. nav 46.
gentle man in Petersburg, Va., ha '
kindly favored the Express of that city with :
the following particular of a body tragedy that'
occurred at Jerusalem, Southampton, on Friday ! :
last, the Isth instant:
“On the night previous to the perpetration ,'
of the deed, at a party or ball given in Jeeu- |
salum, Capt, George Newsom, a highly csteem
i ed and respected citizen, and late the rep: esen
tatives of his county in the tState Lcgislaure,
gave some offence to a young lady, which a
relative of hers, a young medical student, un
der the instruction of Dr. Parker of that place
I named Calhonn Barret, resented, by telling him
I not to speak to her again, for if he did he (B) I
' would shoot him. Newsom being somewhat
i intoxicated, afterwards asked the young lady to
; dance with him, upon which Barret shot at him
the bad passing through some part of his-coat,
i Newsom then left, and sent word to Barret that;
I he must prepare to die, for he intended to shoot
I him.
j -On the next day Barret saw News, m com-1
i ing along the road in a buggy, with a d- »• e|
| barrelled gun. a black man driving for him.—
; When N ewson perceived him, be raised the gun '
iasif to tire, but Barret Being also proved"d ’
| with a gun fired first, the contents striking N.
somewhere about the breast, causing him to
I fall forward over the spatterboard. B. then '
1 advanced and discharged the second barrel into
I rhe head of Newsom, killing him almost in-:
j stantly.
I “Young America,” a new comic paper,
I illustrates the beauties of our jury system by a,
• wood cut, representation of the scales of Jus
tice, iu which one man at one end of the beam
is shown as weighing down eleven at the other ■
i end, while with his thumb to his nasa organ be S
II coolly informs them of his determination not to'
I yield'to their opinion.
TEie Indian War in Southern
Oregon.
The Crescent City Herald, of January 16tli
says, that "about New Year’s day a small
party of whites discovered a baud of Indians on
Applegate Creek, some twenty-five or thirty
miles from Jacksonville. t Pretending to be
miners on a prospecting tour, they managed to
remain ou the ereek, unsuspected by the Indians.
until they could send word to the nearest settle
ments. As soon a- information of their where
abouts was received in the valley, about one
hundred and fitly of the troops, aud many citi
zen volunteers took up the line of march for
Applegate outlie 2d of January, carrying one
of the mountain howitzers along. When about
two inilei>.£om Jacksonville, Mr. Martin An
gel amT John Mel .aughlin pas cd ahead of a
troop of thirty soldiers, and within a distance
of only four hundred yards of them wcr shot
at by’ the Indians. Mr. Angel’s horse took
fright, and while cantering off the trail, the In
dians succeeded, with several more shots, in
killing'horse and rider, and then stripping them,
taking Mr. Angel’s two revolvers and rille.—
Mr. Henry H. Hutchins, our informant, learned
that on the same morning, JZr. Hili was out
hunting with his son, when the latter was killed
by the Indians, and it. is thought this was done
by the same scout which killed Angel.”
Lute in the afternoon of the sth, the howitzer
was got ready, fired, and the shot fell directly
upon one of the cabins, killing three Indians.
Several more shots were fired before night, but
without effect. Daring the night, the Indians
judging discretion to be the better part of valor,
broke through the guards and escaped. We
learn with great regret, that in this untoward
affair, Dr. Wm. Myers was killed, and several
others wounded.
The disappointment of the public in hearing
of the inglorious i sue of th s movement is the
more acutely fit, as from the previous successes
at Butte Creek it was confidently expected that
the troops at len ;th had concluded to go at it
with a will. The escape of the Indians remains
to many inexplicable. Five weeks earlier, from
four to five hundred troops withdrew from be
fore one hundred and fifty Indians at the “ Big
Meadows,” now thirty-three Indians elude the
vigilance of eight times their number of whites.
We arc too remote from the scene of action to
judge correctly of the merits of the case, but
this much we might infer from the past—that
it takes a long time to whip two hundred hos
tile Indians.
Movement of the U. S. Troops.—On
Wednesday last the brig Nonsuch, from Hum
bolt Bay, arrived off our harbor, and landed fif
ty soldiers under command of Capt. Jones, for
merly stationed at Humbolt and on the Kla
math. The brig had also ammunition and pro
visions on board, but finding the sea too rough
to discharge them, she stood off, and has conse
quently to call .again. We arc informed t'.at
Lieut. Garber, with thirty men of Capt. Jones’
Company, is now stationed at Witchipeck, on
the Klamath.
"The Puget Sound Courier of December 21st
says:
Wc are informed that the Indians have com
menced the work of destruction in this vicinity,
by burning the house and smithshop of a Ger
maft, situated on what is known as Puyallup
plains; his bouse »?s situated about six miles
from this place and not me,re than a mile from
other houses occupied by other families. Tliis
is doubtless but the beginning of their work
which will no doubt be followed upon every
opportunity. The heavy timber which skirts
the prairie to the eastward is peculiarly favora
ble to predatory incursions by these miscreants,
aud we shall not be surprised to hear of the
burning of all the houses in this portion of the
prairie.
The Puget Sound Courier of the 4th of Jan.
says:
On the night of the 28th of December, a
number of Indians were seen about the Fort,
and one of them is supposed to have been shot
in the act of levelling his musket at one of the
sentries. Ile was immediately picked up and
carried off by the others, and when at a safe
distance one of them returned the fire. The
garrison immediately turned out, but did not
succeed in capturing any of the red-skins.—
Blood was said to have been seen n short dis
tance off, telling the effect of the ball discharged
from the sentry’s musket.
Prospects of a Treaty.—Wc have heard
from some quarters, whether justly founded or
not, talk that the Indians in this vieinily were
ready to make peace with the whites; and fur
ther, that there has been on the part of some o
the officials an effort to bring about a “t Ik’
with them.
We have a copy of the message of Governor
Mason of Washington Territory. It is occu
pied principally with the details of the Indian
difficulties in that territory The remarks in
reference to the gold mines we copy :
During the past summer, rumors of discover
ies of gold fields near Fort Colville, induced
many enterprising and energet'c citizens of the
territory to visit that region. Many have re
turned on account of the war. and the impossi
bility of obtaining provisions there, during the
winter. Although the extent of the gold bear
ing district is not known, yetthe fact is certain,
that those who w’orked the bars and prospected
the country near Fort Colville, found gold in
sufficient quantities to pay for working.—
Wherever the more experienced miners dug,
cither upon the bars or upon the hill sides, gold
was found, and even with the rude mode of
working with pans, an average of 810 per day
has been made, and those who are : till at the
min.'s report profitable employment. I have no
doubt that with improved machines and better
preparations for working to advantage, these
gold mines will prove amply remunerative to
many citizens who may go there whenever the
state of the country will permit communication
betw.cn the Columbia river and Puget Sound
settlements and the gold-bearing region.
The War in Kansas.—G.n. Stringfellow’ i g
still “slashing round” in Kansas. lie has just
issued a notice, in which he says:
“It seems now’ to be certain that we shall
nave to give the abcMtionists at least one good
thrashing before political matter* can be settled
jin this territory. To do so we must have arms;
'we have the men. I propose to raise funds to
■ furnish Colt’s revolvers and ether arms for
: those who are without them. I propose to do
.-o without taxing any one but myself. I will
I sei! some shares of town stock ia the territory
i and bind to invest all the money in the above
■ articles, which shall be loaned to such soldiers
jas are unable to purchase them, ar.d shall re
' main for such use fur the space of one or two
I years. The arms to be used by the volunteers.!
i and militia of Atchison county, when in ser- ;
■ vice.”
' rgre. Os the forty-nine Greenfield ladies who
' ga c as many gentlemen a sleighride last week.'
and a supper in Deerfield, sixteen were single.'
; and thirty-three were married—an 1 of the thir- j
ty-three only ten invited their husbands: the
' quotient twenty-three found more agreeable
'companions. Such are leap year amust.-
i meats.
Mr. Ha talcs-- The Committees.
When Mr. Banks was declared Speaker, a
verdict in favor of Abolition was recorded by
the House of Bepresentatives. The first acts
of his administration were naturally anticipated
with much interest, and it was predicted by
many that his course would be one of political
moderation. We had no such hopes. We re
garded Mr. Banks as the chosen instrument of
anti-slavery, and felt that his acts would be
colored with its nt most intensity. Rut we were
scarcely prepared to find our convictions so
fully realized, as the character of the Commit
tees recently appointed makes manifest. The
Washington Union, in its comments upon the
subject, uses the following language :
When the Know Nothings of the Northern
States threw themselves i. to the arms of aboli
tionism, and contributed all the requisite votes
to place in the popular branch of Congress a
majority of men to act against the Democratic
party, the idea of an organization to control the
politics and 1 lie interests of the whole Union,
which organization should be confounded to a
minority of the people of that Union, though a
majority of the free States, was boldly avowed.
The success of this first movement of north
ern fanaticism, combined as it was with that
extended secret order, (which, strange to say,
■ till maintains its existence in the South, even
with this fact before the public eye.) however
alarming as a symptom of the extremity to
which abolition hatred aud frenzy might be
carried, was generally regarded as the result ol
impulse rather than of calculation. It will be
remembered, however, that in the columns ol
the Washington Union we took early occasion
to signify that the beginning of such a move
ment threatened serious results to the national
tranquillity. The Albany speech of Mr. Sew
ard, delivered in October of 1855, invoking the
grand army of abolitionism in the free States
to the conflict, proved that this sectional pro
ject was a well deliberated scheme, and that it
would be carried forward at every hazard.—
The election of Mr. Banks ns Speaker of the
House by an exclusive Northern vote was tie
next development. Wc are now called upon
to behold the third, though not the last, scene
of the drama. Wc allude to the standing com
mittees of the House of Representatives of the
United Slates, yesterday announced by Speak
er Banks. Never, within the exprience of the
American people, has such an exhibition as this
been made. Never before has any man dared to
desecrate the chair occupied by Muhlenburg, Ma
con. Clay, mid other patriots, by exercising the
power he holds under the constitution—that
constitution which acknowledges and protects
the rights of all—that constitution which ex
tends alike over tho North and the South—to
insult the people of the South by a proclama
tion which implies that these people are not en
titled to share the common blessings of the Un
ion with their (ellow-citizens of other States.
Northern men have occupied that chair be
fore, but they have never misused the power
conferred upon them to degrade and to outrage
any portion of the people of the United States.
But what oth rs would have spurned with loath
iug, Mr. Banks undertakes with deliberate com
placency. Look at the list of Standing Com
mittees of the House, published in another por
tion of this morning’s Union, and there find the
justification for such language. Ol’all the prom
inent committees, the people of the South, in
habiting fifteen States, have hot been honored
without a single chairman. Mr. Banks selects,
as the heads of those committees to which are
to be confided questions immediately material
to the people of the South—questions involving
not merely their interests and their rights, but
directly connected with considerations of life
itself-—the most offensive and the most reckless
fanatics of the free States ; the very worst of
those who, speaking of the people of the South
proposes to “give their roofs to the flames and
flesh to the eagles.”
At the head of the Committee on Territories
we find Mr. Grow, of Penn., the successor of
Wilmot, and far surpassing him in malignant
antagonism of the equality of the States.
The next on the list is Mr. Washburn, of
Maine, as chairman of the Committee on Elec- j
tions. This gentleman’s ultra violence on the
subject of slavery has made him notorious. To
the lion. Lewis D. Campbell, the most dange
rous enemy of the rights of the States, because,,
the most popular and apparently fair of all his
party, is entrusted the important chairmanship I
of the Committee of Ways and Means. As I
chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary,
Mr. Simmons, of New York, is announced.—
The chairmanship of the Committee on Public
Lands has been conferred upon Mr. Bennett, of
the same State. The Committee on Foreign
Affairs has been placed in charge of Mr. Pe i
nington, of New Jersey, who supported Mr.
Banks so steadily during the long und trying
contest for Speaker. Joshua R. Giddings, of
Ohio, is chairman of the Committee of Claims;
Mr. Meacham, of Vermont, chairman of the
Committee on the District of Columbia; Mr.
Washburnc, of Illinois, chairman of the Com
mittee o” Commerce; Committee of Indian
Affairs, Mr. Pringle, of New York, chairman; i
Committee of Naval Allairs, Mr. Benson, of
Maine, chairman; aud on the Committee of
Patents, Mr. Morgan, of New York, chair
man.
Every one of these men is the avowed and
unscrupulous adversary of the rights of the
States, and especially of the rights of the
South 1
It will be perceived that no Southern man
has been appointed chairman of a single im
portant committee, if wc except the selection
ol’Gen. Quitman on the Military Committee.
-The rcpi csentative ofthc strongest anti-slavery
district in the United States” could pay no
higher compliment to the Democratic party
than by this ostracism of its tried champions ;
but it will be seen that no favor has been ex
tended even to those Southern men who agree
with Mr. Banks in regard to secret oaths and
obligations. Wc look in vain for a recogni
tion of the talents of Humphcry Marshall, of
Ky., or of Percy Walker, of Alabama. The
whole scope and design of Mr. Seward—that
of consolidating all abolitionism North against
a minority South—is supserviently assisted by-
Mr. Banks iiTtlio exclusion of the Representa
tives of the South from leading positions on
leading committees.
That Mr. Banks should adopt the novel and
monstrous policy we have exposed, and then
that l.e should complacently look forward to be
peacefully sustained in the administration of
his high duties —that he who starts with this
declaration of war upon the rights and the fran
chises of others, should look to be sustained by
them in return —that he who prated, and hypo
critically prated, of a desire to be impartial and
just with the Representatives ol the American
people, should dure to follow this pions fraud
with the display of malignity and fanaticism
which lias disgraced his first formal step in the
Speaker's chair —almost passes comprehension.
Two grave charges lie at the door of Mr. |
Banks, both fastened upon him by irrefragable
evidence we allude to the declaration in which
he fancied a contingency where he would be
willin. to let this gio. 1 ous Union “ slide ;” and
to that other revolting doctrine in which he
submitted the cpiestion of the absorption of the
races to a suggested test. We are now enabled
ito see that neither of these were the impulsive
outbreaks even of Abolition enthusiasm, but
that they were the well-conned conceptions of
his heart and his brain. That a man should be
willing to let this Union slide, who thus, for the
first tune in American memory, coolly proceeds
to ignore and to insul fifteen sovereign States
of this Union, and who, without blenching, ex
ercises powers conferred upon him tinder the
laws, not merely to encourage a cruel interfer
ence in the affairs of others, but to fetter and
to paralyze those who are thus interfered with
—we can well believe that such a man is will
ing to let tho Union slide. And, also, when
the same man appoints, at the head of the most
important commit tees in the House, demagogues
who have grown gray in obscene obloquy of
the people and the institutions of the South, it
is easy to conceive how fully he believes in the
doctrine of the absorption of Ihe races, accord
ing to the scientific and philosophic sense pre
sented by him in a late speech in the House of
Representatives.
Such is the brief view of the first step in the
proposed administration of the Federal Gov
ernment by (lie sectional party of W. 11. Sew
ard. We shall have more to say of it hereafter.
A closer inspection reveals still more. Next
to Mr. Grow, on the Committee on the Territo
ries, is Jo hua R. Giddings, of Ohio; and, be
sides these, four others of the same stripe, against
two from the South, and Mr. Richardson,of Il
linois. So, too, the Committee on Elections
contains six members from the North, and but
three from the South. The Committeof Ways
and Means, five from the South. The Commit
tee on Claims, seven from Ihe North, and two
from the South. The Committee on Commerce
five from, the North, and four from the South-
The Committee on Manufactures, five from the '
North, and four from the South. Tims on
every Committee, before whom questions direct
ly involving the lights and inter sts of the South
—taxation, protection to Northern manufac
tures claims, commerce, and, more than all, the
fate of the Territorias, and of Kansas—Abolition
ism has not‘only secured the Cha'rmnn, but the j
Committee. Well docs the Union declare it to |
be a distinct “step in the proposed adininistra- j
tion of the Federal Government by the section-1
al party of William H. Seward.” '
Arrival of the California Mails.
IMPORTANT FROM THE FEJEE ISLANDS.
The steamer St. Louis arrived at New York
from Aspinwall, with the California mails, on
Thursday last. The New York Times thus
sums up the news from the Isthmus and South
Pacific:
From Panama we learn that a revolution in
that State was threatened, and trouble, in don
sequence, apprehended. A riot bad taken place
in Aspinwall between the natives and the Ja
maicans. The timely interference of thcauthor
ities, however, prevented any serious mischief.
The S nth Pacific news is not important. In
cendiarism had been at work in Valparaiso.—
Peru was, as usual, in an unsettled condition,
and a revolution against Castillo was anticipa
ted. Our extracts from Australian papers fur
nish some interesting news, together with the
latest commercial intelligence.
BURNING OF FIVE FEJEE TOWNS BY THE U. S.
SHIP JOHN ADAMS.
We take the following from the Panama
Star and Herald, of Feb. sth :
The U. S. sloop of war John Adams, E. B.
Bontwell commander, arrived at this port early
on Sunday morning, (Feb. 3d.) from the Fejee
Islands, via Valparaiso.
The following interesting particulars have
reached us :
The U. S. ship John Adams left this port in
July last, bound to the Fejee islands, to inquire
into, and seek reparation for, many cruellies
committed by the natives inhabiting those is
lands, and to demand indemnity for the plunder
of several American ships trading and fishing
in the Fejeean Archipelago.
Tne obstinate and refractory nature of these
savages demanding the exercise, of vigorous and
harsh measures, tho commander of Ihe John
Adams deemed it expedient to teach them their
obligations to the human race, and did so in a
manner that made some impression upon them,
an l which, it is to be hoped, they will long re
member. During the cruisimr oi the John Ad
ams in tho Fejee group of islands, live sharp
engagements took place between her crew and
the cannibals of Polynesia, in which American
valor was always victorious.
Five of their largest towns were burnt, and
all the houses therein reduced to ashes.
We learn that an important treaty has been
ratified between Commander Boutwell ai.d Tui
Vite, or Thokambau, the King of Fejee, on
behalf of the American government, the par
ticulars of which have not transpired.
The visit of this ship to the Fejre islands has
resulted in re-establishing order and restoring
the confidence of American citizens residing
there.
We also find the following paragraph in the
Valparaiso Mercery of December 30th :
The American covcrette John Adams came
in on the 21st, forty-fonr days from the Fejee
islands. She was here in February last. She
returns from a visit of punishment to the Fe
jeans, on account of depredations committed by
them on whaleships and their crews wrecked on
their coasts. It is hoped the severity of the
lesson inny be effective to restrain the propensi
ties of these cannibals for the future.
The Panama Star says :
We regret to learn that some of the officers
and men of the John Adams are obliged to re
turn to the United States in bad health, owing
we presume, to the hardships they had to un
dergo whilst at the Fejee islands.
The John Adams is likely to remain in port
for some weeks.
Subjoined is a list of officers of the United
States ship John Adamas:
E. B. Boutwell commander; D. R. Lambert,
first lieutenant anti executive officer; J. R. Eg
gleston, second lieutenant; F. 11. Baker, third
lieutenant; E. 11. Oakley, fourth lieutenant;
T. R. Potter, surgeon; Henry Myers purser;
L. T. Cbatard, captain’s clerk ; Wm. M. Ma
honey, sailmaker ; W. S. Hatch, gunner; and
G. IL Leach, boatswain.
4» ♦- >■ » . . -
Slavery at the South.—A correspondent
of a Cincinnati paper, who is evidently deeply
imbued with abolitionism, has lately visited
New Orleans. lie describes quite pleasantly
the features of Southern scenery, and is incon
tinently led into the following admission in re
gard to Southern slavery: “After getting
below Vicksburg our passengers began to leave
us, and on the last day there were many inter
esting scenes, as the planters, with their families
and servants, landed at their several homes on
the river bank. The steamboat bell rings, and
and by the time the boat has swung around
and fastened to the shore twenty or thirty ne
groes—men, women and children—come run
ning down the bank to. meet ‘massa’ and ‘mis
tress.’ Bidding farewell to their friends for
two weeks' acquaintance on the beat, they fol
low their trunks and boxes to the landing
where evary slave takes them by the hand and
welcomes them home, seemingly with as much
affection as they would a father and- a moth
er.”
General Hornsby, the second in com
mand in Walker's army in Nicaragua, is in
Washington city.
wm. kaz pnorniLTon
NUMBER 29.
Further by the Cnnada.
i Boston, Feb. 19.—The steamer Canada has
arrived from Halifax. A firm at Halifax had
i received a dispatch, dated Liverpool, Jan. 28th,
j stating that the steamer Pacific was safe. The
i report, however, was doubtful.
It was rumored that Turkey would mediate
j between Persia and England.
In the House of Lords, Lord Derby regret
. ted that the Queen’s speech did not contain a
[ conciliatory paragraph upon the enlistment sub
; ject. Lord Clarendon explained that the dis- •
. Acuity would probably soon be settled arnica
I hly. and that no slight to the United States
I was meant by tbe omission.
I In India, the English were about to seize on
| the Kingdom of Guide, allowing the King a
! pension of $500,000.
Arrival of the Cahawbn.
N ew 7 ork, Feo. 19.—The steamer Cahaw
.ba has arrived with Havana dates of the I3tb.
Markets unchanged.
No Tidings of the Pacific.
Halifax, Feb. 19.—The propeller Artie,
sent in search of the Pacific, arrived here yester
day, but brought no tidings of that steamer.
Congressional.
Washington, Feb. 18 -Iu the Senate, to
day, a message was received from the Presi
i dent, relative to Kansas, enclosing corrcspon-
I deuce with the Territorial officials, and inclu
ding the letter of instructions to Col. Sumner,
.to be in readiness with troops, to respond to
Gov. Shannon’s requisition.
In the House, resolutions wore passed calling
on the President to transmit the laws passed
by the Assembly of Kansas, together with all
the Executive proceedings, and the correspon
dence with the Governor ol the Territory.
A bill was introduced re-establishing the
boundaries of Kansas, und prohibiting slavery
in Kansas and Nebraska, which was referred
to the Committee on Territories.
A bill was also introduced to enable the
people of Oregon to form a State Government.
Confirmation.
Washington, Feb. 19.—The Senate to-day
confirmed Shannon ns Governor of Kansqs.
New York Market.
New York, Feb. 19.—Cotton is firm—sales
of 2,000 bales. Flour lower—Ohio $8.12,
Southern $9.12. Corn 78c. Red Wheat
$1.82. Rice 5 l-4c.
Efforts to Prevent Emigration to the
United States.—A correspondent gives us
the following information in reference to the
efforts which are bein§ made in Europe to di
vert tlio tide of emigration from the United
States to Australia, Chili and so on :
“ I have already advised you that strong ef
forts were being made to turn the tido of emi
gration from tho United States, mid ant sorry
to say, that wherever I have been, 1 have wit
nessed tho effects of these movements. The
short crop in the United Stales in 1854 was
published all over this country, and a knowl
edge of the distresses of the season was general
among the laboring classes. It may seem st range
that those win know so well about, matters in
the United States in 1854, should know so lit
tle of the present condition of the country. But
parties have not been idle in order to direct
emigration to Australia, to Chili, and to other
places.
“ Misrepresentations have beet! made, and
every possible means resorted to, for the pur
pose of adding to the baneful effects of Ameri
can know-nothingism, which latter, in itselfi
was likely to keep from our shores a vasj
amount of capital and productive labor. 1
have been assured that one of the misrepresen
tations that commanded full belief among ’the
poorer classes in many prrts of this country is,
that the crop of 1855 in the United States was
equally as bad as that of 1851 ; that there ex
ists a great deficiency, much suffering, and the
like ; that the boast by the Americans of full
crops and freedom from distress hud been put
forward in order to put in motion again tho
current of emigration to the United States;
and the ignorant countrymen here have been
cautioned against placing reliance in such inter
ested reports.”
Treason in Ohio.
Wc first had Gov. Chase’s inaugural. Wc
next had Mr. Kelly’s murderous speech in tho
senate, which made the üboltionists declare
that “that went further than weever thought
of going.” We, thirdly, had Gov. Chase’s war
message. Then followid Mr. Todd's resolution
to raise “five regiments” for war purposes.
And now follows a memorial from Colum
biana county, as the legitimate fruits of this in
tensifying of public sentiment, to Desolve the
Union! On this proposition for a dissolution
of the States, pretty much all the time of the
house was taken up on the 3th inst.
As much as this extraordinary memorial may
startle the people of Ohio, who have been
slumbering in supposed security, never dream
ing that the madmen were preparing for this
last coup d clat, to argne with men politiculy
deranged is a waste ot breath; the huir of the
dog must cure the bite. Political derangement
is like any other derangement, und if the luna
tic is not tied with thongs, he has got to strug
gle on until exhausted.
When u man guilty of the traitorous speech
made by Senator Wade at Portland, Maine,
last summer, is seriously talked of for still fur
ther promotion, what may wc not expect?
These Columbiana traitors to their government
arc not a whit behind Wade himself, who holds
the important position of senator of this Slate
at Washington.
The memorial from Columbiana county was
referred to the committee ou federal relation,
•62 to 47.
B®»An act has passed the Rhodp Island
Legislature, repcalirg that portion of the mar
riage act so long existing in that State, which
requires the publication of notice of intended
marriage in religious meetings. So the flutter
ing hearts of the timid and bashful will hereaf
ter be free from a serious annoyance, Miss
Jones may keep her secret till the deed be done,
and so be spared the commentaries of the op
position party. Mr. Smith will not be the butt
of his friends about bis approaching execution.
Mr. Brown will not be talked at for invitations,
and Mi« Bluebonnet will not be lectured upon
the folly of her choice.
meanest man in the world lives in
West Troy, In helping him out of the river
once a man tore the collar of his coat. The
next day bo sued him for assault and battay