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ATLANT! WEEKLY EXAMIW WF TP.T<i.-v eJIRCULATIOIN OK •X'XCJEn IQOOO CCJPIEfei! JOHN IL STEELE . Editor VOLUME 11. THE WEEKLY EXAMINER P üblhed every Thursday morning in the City of Atlanta, at OAE DOLLAR PEA ANNUM, To be paid strictly in ad vi ce. LAP' No subscription lai, co for less than si x months. RATES OF ADV bRTISING-. Advertisements are insert I in the Weekly Examines at the following rates: Seventy-five cents per square (of 10 lines brevier) lor the first insertions, and 37 J cents per square for each sub sequent insertion. 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Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be published monthly for four months—for establish ing lost papers, for the full space of three months —for compelling titles from Executors or Admin istrators, where bond has been given by the de ceased, the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless other wise ordered, at the following Rate? • Citations on letter* of Administration& c. $2 75 do do diamissory om Adminis tration, ’ J' 1 ' Citation on dismisaory from Guardianship, 3 00 Leave to sell Land or Negi.es, Notice to debtors and credi >rs. Sales of personal property,! i days, 1 square I 50 Balos of land or negroes by Executors, &c. 5 (It. Estrays, two weeks, 2 50 For a man advertising his wife, (in advance,) 5 00 Letters on business must be (post paid) to en title them to attention. THU HSDAY, MAT 15, It-oG. Astounding Profanity. The Montrose Democrat says : “We recollect a little over a year ago, that we heard Mr. Wilmot make the following declaration : “I am determined to arouse the people to the importance of the slavery issue, and g t up an organization through winch they can get control of the government in ’56. And if 1 become satisfied that these efforts will fail, and that these people will not assert their rights then I'll be d 1 if I don’t join the party that I think will send the country to h—ll the quickest I” Well, this is exceedingly rich! What a “ determined” fellow this Wilniet is! First, he is “ determined ” to arouse the people to the importance of the slavery issue, by which con trol of the government can be had in this bless ed year of our Lord, 1856 ; and if his efforts to efli'ct so important a result;hon’d fail, then this desperate, “ diti rmmed ” fellow, is deter mined to bed dis he don't join the party that will send the country to b—ll the quickest. What a desperate rascal! Wonder if he will do as ho says ! It is now the month of May. and he is hard at work with the Black Repub licans; and if in November, he does not. suc ceed in maki g the “people assert their rights." then the country may look out for thunder, for the redoubtable Wilmot will join a party tha* will send it to h—ll, not by any slow process, so that it may prepare for the great change in its way below, but the quickest." Man. man. are ye daft? Give us time to prepare, if ye please 1 , for there is no telling what one may suf fer by so sudden a change of temperature*, as you w ould inflict upon the whole country, and all out of mere spite. THE CHEAPEST POLITICAL AND NEWS PAPER IN THE SOUTH—A WEEKLY FIRESIDE COMPANION FOR ONLY ONE COLLAR A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 15. 1856. “President Pierce’s Withdrawal” Under the above head, on yesterday, we pub lished an extract from the Washington city “Sentinel,’' in which it was stated, upon "reli" able authority,” that President Pierce would withdraw his name from the contest for nomi nation as a candidate for the Presidency, and that his determination would be made “public" within “sixty hours." As intimated by us at the time, we had no confidence in the rumor. We now see it em phatically contradicted in the Washington Un ion of the following day. That paper states the rumor originated in a despatch sent from Washington to New York, and was reproduced in one of the Washington papers (the Sentinel); and that it is part of a system of fraudulent devices which are concocted, day by day, for the purpose of operating prejudicially upon the prospects of President Pierce. These devices the Union further states, originate in Wash ington ; are put forth through that convieu ient vehicle of fabrications and falsehoods, the New York Ikra'd,and are reproduced in such journals as belong to the league which have un dertaken at all hazards to prevent the public mind from coming to a dispassionate and im partial decision as to the democratic nomina tion. Now, what will onr friends of the “Sentinel,’ say to this? We told them, on yesterday, that President Pierce had no idea of affording them “relief” so soon. Were they gulled bythe“r«. mor," or are they influenced by the motives to which the Union refers? If in the latter quandary, we trust that they will tack about, and, from this time out, fight fair.— Pr< s dent Pierce deserves no such treatment, and although he is not our first choice, we would scorn a resort to such trickery to defeat him in the nomination. We demand for him, and for “ Old Buck," and (he “ Little Giant," fair play; in the name of the Anti Know Nothing and Democratic party of the whole Union, we demand it! No more tricks, Mr. Sentinel, no more tricks! It is a “ small potato game ”we dislike much to see attributed to a paper that has so ably sustained the great cause of Civil and Religious Liberty, and of the Constitution. Mr. Fillmore I—How He is to be Run. We believe it was the Savannah Republican that first started the game in the South to run Mr. Fillmore, as Millard Fillmore, for the Presidency, and not as the Know Nothing candidate for that office. In other words, to unhitch him from the car of Know Nothingism; to divest him of all the harness placed on his shoulders by the “ Secret Order,” in the shape of oaths to proscribe men because of their place of birth or on account of their religion ; aud to run him outside of his nomination because of the odium which attaches itself to his party. Now if this is not a most arrant piece of hum buggery, then we will give up that Barnum never did humbug the people—that his Joie! Heath, aud his Mermaid were just what he represented the flesh of one and the fish of the other to lie, and that there was no guile in him! Il is as utterly impossible to present Millard Fillmore to the people of Georgia, as a candidate for President of the United States, and to root from their minds his connection with Northern Know Nothings, as it would to make them believe that Henry Clay was net a whig, or that Andrew Jackson was not a de mocrat. Why Millard Fillmore is now the very embodiment of Know Nothingism. He is the chief around whom Northern Know Nothings are to rally, and Donelson is his lieu tenant. Pray, in this now arrangement, what is to become of the latter ? Is he to be drop pi d by these self-styled “ conservative whigs ” of Boston, and of Georgia ? We say of Bos ton too, because although the Republican starts the idea, South, yet the Boston Courier was in advance of it. What, then, we repeat will they do with Donelson ? But this is not all. It is proposed to “drop all platforms,” they being neither “evidences of present opinions, nor of future bona fide inten tions, but simple promises held to the ear, du ring the struggle lor power, only to be “broken to the hope when the end is attained.'' Doesnot Mr. Fillmore.we ask, stand upon a platform—a party platform ; a platform of principles ; the platform of the falsely styled American party. lie does, aud every voter in Georgia knows it. There is no mantle with which he can be covered, that will hide the deformity of his position from the people. He has already accepted the nomination of the Know Nothings, and as a Know Nothing will his claims be discussed in every militia district in our State. We know well that this will be mortifying to many a good whig, but there is no help for it. When Millard Fillmore, for getful of the honors that had been heaped upon him by the American people ; forgetful of the high position which he bad occupied as the Chief Magistrate cf this Union ; connected him self with the “secret order.” he forfeited the es teem aud confidence of every right thinking Souther:; Whig; aud by no trick or device can one io ten thousand of them be induced to sup port him. As lor the specious device to which we Lave referred, it will deceive nobody. Atlanta Eire Company—No- 1. We publish with great pleasure the proceed ings of an interesting meeting held by this company, at their Engine House on Monday evening last. The meeting was called in pursuance of a resolution to that effect, for the purpose of presenting to its energetic and popular chief Mr. W. W. Baldwin, an elegant SILVER HORN, as a testimonial of the respect and regard which the Company entertained for him. We regret not being present on the occa sion, having been confined to our room by sick ness. We are advised, however, (hat all things passed off handsomely, and much to the credit of this, one of the finest organized Companies of Firemen in the State. Atlanta Fire Company .-No. 1. At a regular meeting of the Atlanta fire Co. No. 1, held at their Engine house on Monday Evening sth inst., after the regular business had been disposed of, W. Barnes, Chairman, of a Committee,-who was appointed to prepare a testimonial for their President, reported that the Committee had attended to their duty, aud were prepared for the presentation ; whereupon Mr. S. Frankford,who had beersseiected for the purpose, made the following ADDRESS: Mr. Baldwin, I am appointed (as incompe. tent as I am) to extend the testimony of a Fire man’s love to its President, for his valuable services. I deeply appreciate the pleasurable duty assigned me, and well do I remember when first you come into our midst. It was a sad and portentious time for our Company.— Atlanta Fire Company No. 1, torn by factions whose unnatural cavillings shook it to its cen tre, and threatened its entire dissolution; its members governed since its formation by len ient and indulgent hands; had become slaves to feelings engendered by such indulgence; hence the gloomy state of affairs, until the bal lot box by an overwhelming majority gave the reins of government in your hands, aud placed you in that seat, which you have held for the last three years, and occupied o justly, and so honorably. Sir, we never repented our choice. Hospitality, justice, and friendship, are your attributes. Your integrity has been unshaken, and your friendship unselfish. These cardinal virtues glittering with an undimmed lustre, have made Caesar's words most applicable.— “You came, yon saw, you conquered.” A g lance at the past and the flourishing present, will fill the hearts of all who study the welfare of our Company with emotion, in which gratitude to you, and joy for our prosperity arc chiefly blended. Aud now, sir, in behalf of the members of the Atlanta Fire Company No. 1, accept this Horn, for it is yours—yours through right, yours through merit, yours through zeal, yours, entirely yours, through years of the honorable discharge of your duties as President of this Company. Accept it, sir, appreciate and prize it as the most precious of treasures, for it is a token of the gratitude, friendship and esteem of your friends. And in long, long years from this, when time shall have silvered your hair, and bowed your manly form to feeble age, and wlfbn Death, that undesired, though unerring guest shall s tun mon you to hat sleep—tqat last sleep from which there is no wakening on earth. “ and yon travel to that undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns," Ob. then bequeath this Horn, teeming with a Fire man’s love, as a rich legacy to your issue, and jf they inherit their father's qualities, they will proudly grasp the treasure beyond all price, and keep it sacred and inviolable. To which the President replied— Gentlemen and Firemen, to know that my efforts meet the approval of those with whom I have been associated, is highly gratifying to my feelings. My success at the head of the Fire Company, is mainly due to the officer* and members of the Atlanta Fire Company who now p.esent me with this token of their respect. Yonr magnificent present will be treasured as a visible symbol of your kind feelings, and my associations with the Atlanta Fire Com pany will ever be amongst the pleasantest re. collections of my life. Gentlemen, I can only say that you have my heart felt thank; for this Demonstration of your regard. After spending a short time in a social way. the meeting was adjourned. W. BARNES, Chr’mn. Oxs of the Mothers of '76.—Sarah Phil brook, of Hardwick, Vt. a widow of a revo lutionary soldier, and whose age is ninety-fonr years, made aud sold last season, from two cows, six hundred pounds of butter, besides milk and butter for family use. The writer saw twenty-two and a half pounds of beauti ful butter that she had just made, in eight days from the same two cows, being the first churn ing o’ the season. Mrs. Philbrook never keeps any hired girl; has no assistance about the house, except what is rendered by her boy who is not quite seven years old, and who does not intend to marry while his mother is able to do her work. Death is abroad in the Land. But yesterday, as it were, we were called up. on to announce the death of the late George M. Troup, than whom no man had secured more of the love aud veneration of t lie people of our State than be. And to-day we are sum moned to the performance of a similar, mourn ful duty. for another of Georgia’s distinguish ed sons nas passed away, and at a period when his friends and his State calculated lately on his future influence. Yes, William C. Dawson is dead 1 George M. Troup is dead! Andrew J. Miller is dead ! And, but a short time ago, John Mc pherson Berrien preceded all these to the tomb! Who can fail to be impressed with the truth, that “death is abroad in the land 1” Our relations with all of these deceased, were for many, many years, intimate. We might fill page after page with a history of their worth and of their patriotism, and devotion to Geor gia. But to abler hands we surrender the task. The last sad event, the death of Mr. Dawson. is thus noticed by the Augusta C< nstitutional ist & Republic. We present it to our readers in lieu of comments of our own. Death of William Crosby Daw son. The painful intelligence reached our city yes' terday i f the death of the Hon. Wm. C. Daw son, and produced a deep and universal feeling of sorrow'. It occured at bis residence in Greensboro, about three o’clock yesterdavmor ning. This sad event will cause the most sorrow ful emotions, not only in the community in which this di tinguisbed gentleman lived—not only throughout the State of Georgia, of which he was a favorite and much honored gon, but in every part of the Union ; for he was exten sively known and general! beloved. Mr. Dawson filled many posts of respnnsi bslity and distinction during his long ami hon orable career in the public service of his State and country. In early life he was a member of the Legislature, and for ten years Clerk of the House of representatives. He was. subse quently, under the general ticket sys'em elec ted, several times, member of Consrress, where he served with credit and distinction. He al so, for a short period, filled the office of Jndqe of the Superior Court, and was Senah/r mJJoa grtSs for six years prior to March, 1855. At Washington City he was a universal favorite. He was much admired for his courtliness of manners and amenity of temper. When about to retire at the close of bis Senator: ! term, he was presented with a service of plate, as a to k n of the esteem of his many friends and ad mirers in the Federal City. M r. Dawson served the people of Georgia long and faithfully in the public counsels. In mut ters of private business for his constituents, re quiring vigilant attention and patient labor, he was ever their efficient representative. In mat ters of high public import, he was ever at his post, ready to give to the subject in hand his best energies and most patriotic efforts. But it is not as the advocate or the statesman, the loss of Mr. Dawson will be most deeply felt and mourned by his fellow citizen?. It is as the kind and amiable gentleman—the warm 1 hearted, hospitable and generous friend—the 1 benevolent and sympathising man, with a hand “ open as the day to melting charity,” that he | will be most feelingly remembered. The death of such a man is a public calamity. There can be no division of sentiment—no distinction of classes or parties—in doing honor to his memory. We compile from the Historical Collections of Georgia, the following: The Hon. W. C. Dawson was born in Greene county, Ga., and bis academic course was first taken under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Cum mins. and afterwards at the county academy in Greensborough. At an early age he entered Franklin College, and was graduated in 1816. Upon leaving College, he immediately com menced the study of law in the office of the Hon. Thos. W. Cobb, at Lexington ; anu at the ex piration of a year he entered the Law School at Lichfield, Conn., under the c .roof Judges Reeves and Gould. After taking a full course of lecture', he returned to Greenesborough, was admitted to the bar, aud in a short time ranked very high in his profession. In 1821, he was elected Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State Legislature: and it is proof of his fidelity as an officer, and his amiable character as a man, that through frequent changes of party supremacy, he fiiltd that office for ten or eleven consecutive years. In 1828, he was appointed by the Legislature to compile the statutes of Gerogia, which duty he performed to the satisfaction of the General Assembly and the legal profession. In 1854. he was appointed by Gov. Crawford to fill a vacancy on the bench of the Ocmulgee Circuit. In 1834-'5, he represented Greene county in the State Senate. In 1836. he was elected to Congress, and re-elected in 1838 aud in 1840. The Creek aud Seminole Indians in Florida and on the line of Georgia, becoming hostile in 1836, Judge Dawson raised a company of vol unteers, to the command of which he was elec t:*d, and, under the authority of the State Government, took the field. Gen. Scott, who had at tuat time taken the conduct of the Florida war, gave him a separate command and detailed him upon a special service, which he performed to the satisfaction of that gallant soldier. In the winter of 1847, he was elected to the United States Senate, aud at the close of bis term retired to private life. Mrs. Clayton.—We learn from good au thority, that Mrs. Elizabeth Clayton, late of this city.—who was charged with having cans, ed the death of a negro girl by cruel punish ment, and fled to avoid an arrest, —was recently sent from Mobile to insane asylum in Kentucky the unfortunate woman having become a raving ■MUM- ' Democratic Meeting in Clinch County. A mecting«of the Anti-Know Nothing and Democratic party was held in Clinch county, on the 17th ult., at which John Nichols, Esq , presided as Chairman, and C. Joyce, Esq., act ed as Secretary. The object of the meeting was to appoint delegates to the Convention which is to assem ble at Milledgeville on the -Ith of July next. The following gentlemen were appointed— Judge Rastingcr.T. W. Newton, R. A. Ben net, J. P. Prescott, R. G. Stephens, J. L Minton, and Col. W. M. Nichols. On motion of Col. Nichols, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted. Resolved, That the Democratic and anti- Know Nothing Party of Clinch county, fully and cordially endorse the administration of our present National Chief Magistrate, Franklin Pierce; aud it is our firm conviction that he has discharged his constitutional duties with unflinching zeal. Resolved, That Franklin Pierce, is our choice for the Presidency, and Herschel V. Johnson, Georgia's able and patriotic Execu tive. is our choice for the Vice Presidency. Resolved, That we earnestly desire to do honor to that “Spartan Band” who fearlessly threw themselves into the ‘'Straights” of our national well being, in the election for Speaker, and boldly stemmed the tide of Black Republi canism, which bid fair to submerge the last vestige of America’s proud laurels, in that 11 ell generated, factious, miasmatic, cess pool. Resolved, That we i.eartily approve the ap pointment of Hon. A. E. Cochran, Judge, and W. 11. Dasher, Solicitor General of the Bruns wick Circuit. We feel proud of the courteous, dignified, and able Jurist, his Excellency select ed to preside over our Courts. Interesting Letter from Jenny Lind—Her Sympathy for Bar num. “ A friend in need, &c.” We have been favored with the persual of a letter from Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, to a lady in this city.says a Philadelphia paper, of which the following is an extract : I had been apprised, some time previous, of his difficulties with the Company, [Jerome Clock,] but had not tfie lea -t idea he was sp deeply involved. Now that the crash lias come and ruin and poverty stare him in the face. I feel that h. has all my sympathies. Yes, Ido most deeply sympathize with him. I know the hardly believe hiux ta be utterly ruined. This is to be expected, as he [BarnnmJ had the reputation of being a smart, shrewd, and intelligent business man, the truth cf which I can myself bear witness to. Mr. Barnum had other qualities, of which the American people knew little or nothing ; his nature was the very acme of generosity, aud thousands of untold and unheard of generous deeds will fully atone for any errors of judg ment he may have, and doubtless has commit - ted. You know, my dear friend, those gifts I and charity concerts, which I was made to par ticipate in, not that it did not meet with my most cordial approval, yet they all sprung from Mr. Barnum, which, although he was shrewd enough to know would return again’tenfold.jyet his soul was in the act, nor would he listen to my remonstrances that he, too, should share in whatever credit might have been attached to them. I know, also, that he was continually importuned by needy persons for assistance, and I positively assure you, as I believe to be the case, that none every left him unsuccessful, who was in the least deserving. I think, how ever, that his genius and talent will not long permit him to remain in impoverished obscu rity. His dete-mined will, will soon arouse him to action, and in a short space of time he will have surmounted the difficulties that now sur round and oppress him, and which would have paralyzed the energies of an ordinary man. “I will not dwell longer upon this subject.— It is, indeed, painful for me to contemplate. 1 believe a good man should never fall, nor shall he [Barnum] do so, for the want of a friend.— His pride will not permit him to write to me under the circumstances—mine compels me to write to him. He, nor his, shall never know want while 1 have it in my power, (which, owing to the goodness of Heaven, I have now) to keep it away. But let ns hope that things are not as bud as represented, and that the next steamer will bring more agreeable tidings. This in confidence. Affectionately, your friend, Jenny Lind. Kat her Sharp. Lake shore train from Buffalo stops at a way station. Enter a raw looking long legged Yankee, and finds all the cam chuck full: Yankee to Conductor—Say, you, what i’the] name of Wetherfield onionr am I gwitie to do? Can’t get a seat nohow. Conductor—Hang yourself upon a nail. Yankee—l II be hanged if I do. Conductor—Well you night as well get used to hangging first as last. Yankee —Sure enough, cos I might be call ed on to hang you some day. Conductor—Well, I cave, and am willing to drop the subject, aud you’ll stand treat at the next station. Yankee—Wall, I'm agreed, serin’ as hon it's a purely knotty question. Conductor—Why, you are as sharp as a meat axe. Hain’t been eatinz razors lately, have you? Yankee—Wall, not ezictly. L’ut yu see the train I come deoun ou cum into a pile of grindstuns! This was too much. Conductor vamosed with his lantern. Fop. K ansas.—The Charleston Courier says ; Thirteen young men, from Georgetown, under the lead of Mr. J. R. S. Alllston, left this city in the afternoon train of yesterday for Kansas. They were to be joined at Branchville, by a party from Williamsburg and another from arion, bringing the number of the entire par ty cp to 32. The U. S. aud Great Britain. The events now occurring in Central Ameri ca, can hardly fail to bring the pending contro versy between Great Britain and the U. 8. growing out of the Jlayton and Bulwer Treaty to a speedy issue. The English Cabinet with out the slightest excuse for its breach of neu trality, has openly espoused the cause of Costa Rica' (the aggressive party.) against Nicara gua, who is doing nothing more than defending her invaded soil. The only conceivable ex planation of this British interference is to bi found in the fact that among those who are fighting the battles of Nicaragua is h consid i erable number of Americans (I'rotn the U. B.) who have sought aud obtained a home in that country. No excuse whatever is furnished by the action of our government. So anxious has it been to give to Great Brit ain, no ground of complaint by its policy to wards the ruling authorities of Nicaragua, that it has violated all the precedents in its history by resolutely refusing to recognize the Admin istration under whose authori y Walker is act ing—through the only government possessing the shadow of power, either de jure or de facto. in tuat country. But the English government having taken sides with the Costa Ricans, there would now seem to be no alternative for ours but prompt action in behalf of Nicaragua—unless the Ad ministration is preparid to suireuder the whole of Central America to the influence of British policy. Arrests for Negro Stealing. | A young man by the name of Larkin R Parker has been arrested nt Atlanta and brought to this city and committed to jail, un der the follow.ng circum tances: He brought a negro mm to Columbus from M ilkinson county two or three weeks since, and sold him here, on the 17th of April, to Dr, Bozeman— giving as bis own name William Scott. The negro was mis.-ing within a few days thereafter, and Dr. Bozeman advertised for him in the newspapers. Receiving an intimation from Atlanta that a negro answering the description was in that place in the possession of a man calling Ills name W. C. Jackson, lie telegraph ed the Marshal to arrest them, and proceeded thither and found the slave and the same man from whom he purchased him, in jail. A man from Wilkinson county by the name of Spann was also there seeking the arrest of Parker on a charge which he intended to bring again:” him. In the meantime, Mr. Ihomas IL Par ker, the father of Larkin R. Parker, hearing of the arrest, started for Atlanta, but did not reach thereuntil a'ter Dr. B. had started with ifie prisoners on Ins return to this city. The old gentleman then came on, accompanied by ? pann, to Columbus. At Opelika they met with one John G. Smi h, who resides in Wilk inson county, and whom old Mr. Parker left al home when he started for Atlanta, and suppos ing him in some way connected with the stea ling, by the use of a little artifice Spann in duced him to come on to Columbus. On his arrival here. Smith was arrested at the instance of Thomas H. Parker, who charges him with having influenced and aided his son in running off from him not only the negro in question, but another one previously, selling them and dividing the proceeds. It is thought that Smith, when met at Opelika, was fleeing the country to avoid the charge of complicity with young Parker, and there are suspicions that he is engaged with others in an extensive scheme for running off and selling negroes. He has been sent back to Wilkinson county for exam ination and commitment. Young Parker has been committed to the jail in this city, having waived a formal examination.— Columbus Sun, May 2. We find the following in an English paper: “A good joke is told of Hon. Rufus Choate, a popular American orator and lawyer. He had been invited by a committee of some pub lic institution to lecture before it; but, from his reply, the committee were unable to deci pher whether he had accepted the invitation or not 1” Not to pause to inquire “ what is fame ?” a question suggested by the phrase “ a popular American orator and lawyer,” we would re mark that the “good joke” here is, that alien the committe submitted the “reply” itself to Mr. Choate, he could notread it himself, as he had forgotten whether his answer was in the negative or affirmative to the particular invita tion. Two captains in the French army had a duel at Grenoble on the Olli ult. Distance twenty paces, to advance five and fire. Their revenge was complete; both were killed on the spot. Mountains of Silver. —A letter in the New York Sun, purporting to give an account of a recent' exploration in the Masilla Valley says : “We have seen and examined the “ Silver Mountains of Arizona," on the line of 32 degs They are but a short fifteen miles south of Gray's : line for the Southern Pacific Railroad, and I 1 assure yon that for miles ogether the richest on s—richer and more abundant by fur tlian those of Potosi—lie heaped up. and pil' d hills upon hills, as if Nature bail there p urul out her treasure in one grand overwheming mass. I have se n the best mines in Mexico, but noil - iug can compare with the Silver Mountains.’ ’ Cay- I'lie college Judge Douglas has endow ed at Chicago is to be called at Douglas Uni versity, and Rev. J. C. Burroug! s is to be tin first president. Law and medicine are to be taught with the other sciences, and a theologi cal school is to be attached, in which students will be fitted for the Baptist ministry. Exchange Bank of Georgia. -Books of sub scription to the stock o.'the above batik, were I opened in Griffin on Thursday, aud the whole amount (200,000) taken by citizens of that place. The bank will go info operation in time for the fi*U bugfoew. T. BURKE, PROPRIETOR NUMBER 40. Conga visional. XV asitinoton. May 2.—Senate.—A message was received from the President of the United States transmitting a report of the Secretary of State witli documents in relation to the settlement of the controversy with regard to the Lobos Islands ; also, a message from the same, transmitting a letter from the Post Mas ter General and the correspondence in relation to the mail transportation between the Atlantic and Pacific possessions, in which the President commends the subject to the early considera tion of Congress. Mr. Benj min addressed the Senate on the Kansas question. He said that for the third time within the short history of our Republic had its internal peace been imperi led, and each time the disturbing element had been the same, fn 1820, when it was endeavored to admit Maine into the Union and exclude Missouri, for the purpose of securing harmony, the Missouri Compromise was agreed to; but that did not answer lite desired object. Scarcely had it passed, when it was broken by nearly every \V estern State ; it was scorned, derided and repudiated. When, in 1850. the South pro posed its extension to the Territory acquired from Mexico, that proposition was contemptu ously njeted. When, in 1854, it was finally agiecd to r peal its terms that which for more than a quarter of a century had ceased to have any active ctlect, that was made use of ns a ground for vituperation towards the South— She was accused of violating hcrplighted faith, with very much the same regard for truth that has recently been observed here in the menda cious tales in regard to the aflairs of Kansas. 1 be policy of seeking for other compromises than those contained in the Constitution, was a mistaken policy on the part of the South, and be (Mr. 11.) thanked Heaven that the South at length become aware of its mistake. She had no longer any compromises to offer or accept.— She would adhere to the Constitution, and if its provisions should be violated to her injury, tie n she would calmly and resolutely withdraw from a compact, all the ol ligations of which she is expected scrupulously to fulfill, and from all the benefits of which she is ignominiously repulsed. He argued t at the Constitution might be as plainly violated by the abuse of the powers expressly conceded in it, as by the usurpation of powers not therein contained.— He contended that the crusade against slave ry on the part of the North was merely a struggle for power. A principal motive of the North to sustain the negro or Black Republi can cause, was nn ignorance of facts. 1 hey had been so m sled by a continuous perversion of the truth as to induce them al most to hnte-thc white man of the .South, and love the black man in preference. The graphic narrations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin was preferred to history and official statistics. In conclusion, he said,the Whig party was dissolved, because a common cement was wanting; and he said that whether right or wrong the bare suggestion that the Senator from New York (Mr Seward.) was in favor of General Scott for the Presidency, was fatal to his success. The opposition of the Senator would have secured many Southern votes for General Scott which he failed to receive. Mr. Cass asked and obtained permission to address the Senate, on Thursday next, in de fence of ‘squatter sovereignty,” which had been assailed by Mr. Brown. Mr. Seward replied to Mr. Benjamin’s allu sions to his political course. Mr. Halo, alluding to what he said, were grossly personal attacks upon him in Mr. Clay’s recent speech, remarked that he had but one word to submit in reply; That it will take some king besides malignity to redeem imbecil ity Irom contempt! Mr. Clay sprung to his feet, greatly excited saying: I defy the Senator’s malice as much as 1 contemn his baseness. No man shall assail my rights or those of my constituents, and shirk his responsibility by skulking behind u pica of non-combatancy. If he had lieen ani mated by those heroic feelings which he pro fesses. he would not come upon this floor, ami, under the protection of its rules, seek immuni— ity for his insolence. J know he is pleased by this attention. There are those of his class who, like the London Attorney, Mark Middle, in the play, are ambitious of a kick. [Sensa tion.] lie concluded by remarking that he had nothing more to say to that Senator, having twice declined his acquaintance; and he asked pardon of the Senate for consuming so much time about a Senator who soils the carpet upon which he treads. Mr. Hale replied that he had never sought an introduction to him but once, and that was on professional business for the benefit of a ci tizen of Alabama. Mr. Clay rejoined. He did not think his reputation for veracity would suffer by conflict with one who had repeatedly eaten his own words. Mr. Hale a rephed that if he did eat his own words, he would have a more palatable meal than the Senator from Alabama, if he should undertake to cat his. (Laughter.) Adjourned to monday. liocsi:.—Mr Ritchie presented the memo rial ot Judge Irvin, of Pennsylvania, in response to the charges of the Pittsburg bar, against bis official conduct, and asking an investigation.— Referred to the Judiciary Committee. ’I he private calendar was then taken up, and thirteen private bi.ls were pas ed. '1 he Committee of Conference on tire part of the House, on the disagreeing amendme ts of the Deficiency bill, being unable to agree, a new Committee was ordered to be appointed, and the House adjourned until Monday. " The New York hardshell state commit mittee and d.legates to the national convention met at Syracuse on Tuesday—andon motion of Gen. Ward, the delegates adjourned to meet at the Burnett House in Cincinnati on Satur day, May 31, to be ready to demand admission or rejection in the national convention on the 2d of June. A few days since a little son of Mr. Bower, was drowned in Memphis, Tenussee, by failing into the immersion pool of the Bap church.