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♦ which stands in its natural position
v tbe second ninth and sixteenth degrees, to
*that of the 4lh 1 Ith and Ist, of the major
notes anil there will be no more difference
tin its intervals than while in its primative
place, although it has taken the locality of
‘the natural major key. Each key con
>ejs its own intervals, let it be transfered to
► whatever letter we choose o place them,
* thesame. quantity of tones aad semitones will
I be found as were found in their original
- Scale, impropriety in making
cau be performed
fcprrunvjhi lev e r
jfimii’ ofwH
Brier m >!■, or IBS
to aii^H
■assWMMPKontrary. Mr. S.,
wre cannot use the two keys upon the sMB
•letter, forming one time a major third, corner
iposed of two whole tonds, and the second,
* lime a minor third, composed of one tone
nd a half. He makes this assertion with
■ out adducing any support in its favor. I
will try-aod-chetv some” example on the
• reverse.
Take, if yon please, Mr. Sikes, the old
’lune Liverpool, keyed upon the letter F, by
‘the art of one flat, its mediant, j’ou will find
’-npon A,< it* dominant C, &c.. He careful
‘to notice that from the letter F. to that of
A, will die a major third, composed of two
‘full tones, ‘Now turn, if you please, to old
.■ Windham, Observe in this pieee that the too
tle if placed upou the same letter as that of
or the tonic-of that piece, notice
also that-its mediant is upon the le:ter A.
’dominant’ C.'&c. Now sir, perform mie
•and then try* the other; be careful to strike
right and with a proper tone pro**
• eeed to in each scale, and then tell if
<<me#ees not prove to be a major 3d, and
tthe other the minor 3d. I think this will
! be-a sufficient proof of the existence of the
•two thirds, not as you would have it, that
ftbe difference is in the pronunciation f the
♦.syllable, or the sound that we may choose
•to place upon those numbers.
The days of singing and calling notes or
►syllables by those nick-names are past by
and goue. we are now taught to say saw,
flaw, sol, &c„ and not fe or fa la sole, &c.
As you arb disposed to U9e such it will os*
Hy confirm us in thinking that you are in a
fjCratn or somewhere else.
The notion of your dtfeemed friend, I
• think -very false and wild to common theo
ry of vocal music ; 1 know he could not
ftiave beeu a theorist, for no sound theorist
‘Would ever say or teach that in performing
‘•a minor 3d we must recollect to depvessthe
♦mediant ; signify jug, if you doyi’t depress
•that it will prove to be sometbing else, per
haps the 4th or sth sound from the key
There is no need of depressing any sound
►of the scale ; nature will do enough of that
•without assistance. Time does not make
‘placet of music pensive or solemn, a side
vrom that of intervals.
It is true, time governs consiiferab/a, yet
♦the pensiveness does not originate in ibo
mode of time used iu the arrangement of
ta piece. Many tunes written and performed
Ho one second and a half to each measure
*re rery mealneholy and pathetic, while
►others sung in a slower time, does not have
Tthat pensiveness which is perceived iu the
tpower, I might state many as an example
•hut deem it useless at the present. YVe
■have lively pieces written in both the major
and minor modes, likewise pensive music
nay be written in either scale. 1 must
Come t a close I have ivriten more than I
untended doing in the outset of this article.
Mr.‘Sikes, you must not become any
way excited at this communication, ton
♦requested a real uame out with the article
if any should answer you. I do not think
this requisite hardly reasonable, unless you
♦had given your real name, Sikes does not
•sound like a roal -name to me, so 1 must
•decline giving my real name, hut will sub
*coibed myself as usual. Georgia Boy.
For the Organ.
In the Wilderness . Feb. Bth, ’55.
•To Mr Esteemed Friend ‘ Blanch.’
It is with emotions of plonsurc, far better ‘
•felt than delineated, that 4 address you
Feeling an all-pervading enthusiasm in
your welfare as a friend, it is through this
tmliiim i te impart •* y - sente*
men is of friendship. I shall be pardoned
and not censured with the direful impuia..
tions of an egotist, for communicating to a
friend my aspirations for friendship—for I
can assure you, 4 * Blanch,” it i not my tie*
aigu, were 1 competent, to edify you in the
diction of niy letter—but to engender a
spark of friendship, and to give you a his*
tory of my travels during the past year
•among tho Highlands and Mountainous
regions of North Georgia—-but more par
ticularly to let you know that I still have
an existence among the * breathing tribe.’
First, I propose and offer a few thoughts
■ my visit to Look-Out Mountain. The
day was quite inauspicious that I left the
beautiful village L.; for a number of miles
the country appeared almost uuinhabited
and I saw nothing to excite my curiosity
(‘‘you know i am as curious as Pandora”)
or arouse me from the pensiyeuess in which
I had. fallen. But suddenly the gloomy
sensations which were tacitly gaining su
premacy over my better feelings, were dis
carded .and forgotten. The Look Out loom
ing up iu the distance in enormous grandeur
and serene repose, to bathe its cloud cpt
summit in the dews of heaven, caught my
vision; “ ill vidi, ut peni ,” and was per
fectly delighted with the romantic scenery
which decked the mountain side as far as
the eye could penetrate. I halted to ad -1
mire and look upon its variegated beauty'.
The wniks of Nature, how grand ! how
sub ime! aud how replete with bright man
ifestations of the omnipotent power and be
neficent w isdom of Nature’s Architect. lj
arrived, at length, to the foot of the moun
tain, which I at once determined to ascend.
My horse *(old Wiley) being fatigued - by
continued travelling find the excessive hear*
was inclined to debate the practicability of
so great an undertaking ; suffice it for me
to say that tho and the
most preset
; ■ 1 ill
|Pt*!?"oT the
- (mi the
k*’ f .■••irtes and imi i
icli time 1 had
PPrultivating a limit.,
Miss , and gain_
interest in the limp F.s
---|! i 1 Miss , was indeed abril-
S. hut I think tiie “ Prairie I'low-
HFlipse her; for she, you know, is
model of Divine perfection. Par
doufjie, ‘ Hlaiich,’ Tor tresspasstngon’ jour”
patience i remain, with much respect,
- Your Friend,
j Signor i>r Gaston.
\©ijr Qrfi&ti*
\ Is published by authority o the
Southern Musical Convention.
\
G.\W. WILKINSON.'-Editor,
Terms\-$ 1,50 Per Annum
( discontinued until settled for.
Hmilfon, F,eb. 14,1*55.
I
ACTION OF THE SOUTHEKN MU
SICAL CONVENTION.
On motion, the Superintendent of the
Organ is instructed to collect the outstand
ing dues to oid paper, with ©r withnutsuit,
at law, as circumstances may require ; and
at the close of tho third Volnme, the cash
system, only, shall be recognised. The Su
perintendent is further appoint
agencies for tho purpose of collection— and
on refusal t pay to said agents on applica
tion tho said agents he authorized to sue
and collect, as above intimated. The mo
tion prevailed unanimously.
OUR PATRONS
will take notice that one paper more closes
the 3d volume of the'Organ; at which time
we shall cutoff all non-paying subscribers,
aqd out their accounts for collection
if not settled before. It is unreasonable to
suppose that we can furnish paper, ink, ma
terials of all kiuds, pay workmen to set our
music and common type, and then ‘furnish
those with a paper who refuse to-pay for it.
We published-a piece of music in No. 50
the setting up of which, cost us $4,95 cents
enough to buy five Note -Books of common
Alter the dose of this volume we
shall adopt tho cash system null uuless our
subset iption list is kept up and paid for, w*
shall be compelled to abandon our music
Type ; we cannot live by working for oth- I
er people for nothing. We invite those who
keep a file of our paper, to-go back and see
the Receipts from the first number, and ask
yourselves the question, how can the pro
prietor live aud fitpply hia readers with a
paper, on such pay as he receives ?” Now,
when W'e call on a mini for his two or three
years dues , he replies. “ 1 h t S'O'l'd
m~y co t f-o-tt.” We have made no spe
cial stipulation with our patrons to wail
with them for one dollar and a half till they
have ‘ sold their cotton.’ Cotton sold or
unsold, tvo have to pay our office dues, and
every principle of equity cries aloud—PAY
UP. Sup.
05 s * vVo find ourselves under the necessi
ty, this week, of giving up a largo portion
of our editorial space to make room for the
favors of correspondents.
v—.
O’/ 5 * A bill has been introduced into thp
Illinois Legislature, making it the duty of
Railroad companies to fence in their rail
roads on each side, w ith good and sufficient
fences; and to provide cattle guards at the
limits of towns and the crossings of fences-
Until roads ar6 so protected, it makes the
companies liable for all damages to cattle
and for injuries to passengers, to be recover
ed in any court of competent jurisdiction.
Effects oe tiie War in France.—A
letter from Paris, in the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, dated the 4th inst.,says
—ln conversation last evening, with the
buying partner of an importing house of
New York, who spends a great portion of
his time at Lyons, the great manufacturing
city of France, I was informed ihat almost
all foreign orders for goods have ceased,
and was it not lor the large amotmt-of work
demanded of the manufactuters of that city
by Government foi the increased wants of j
the army, there would be a state of destitu-1
lion that might well give serious alarm to I
the goverumeut. The financial crisis in tho
United States, following upon the war in !
i Europe, is very *s bly fell.by the manu
facturing-classes inirrancc. v
RAIL RO AD MEETING. !
A large and enthusiastic meeting (and the
! citizens of Henry, Ssalding and N*wton
. countjdsT'was held vi the Courthoppe in
M6J},,rough inst., for thelpnr
pote of taking
struction of a Railroad from Covipghou,
via McDonough and Griffin to ’ Coluawbue,
Ga.
j A Committee of one from each eounty
was appointed to procure,-on or before the
1 25th of this month, a competent surveyor to
Hecate s’aid’ road, and set forth the probable
Amount it will require to procure the right
of way and build tlie road. The citizens of
Henry have resolved to go to work ©o jhe
road as soon as surveyed and located.'^i
There will l>e another “Convention of 2)
delegates from each county, held in Griffin,
on the 2d Wednesday in March, for the pur
j pose of considering the report 61 the above
| mentioned Coma *Jy&e.
1,4 Us .hi ehjj&WPmtiQZP* of
Merriwether were ‘wajpmg up to their inter
est, and (to ther©) all im
portant subject.’’
We think if a few such energetic and en
terprising men ns Dr. C. C. Gibbs and
Judge Bryant. were to take hold .f,f the
matter, Hamilfotr and Harris county could
not be better represented, nor th<* company
receive more cfficigpt and indefatigable
members to CPiiouorithle bodj.
|V t
0 Q“ By the latest intelligence from Salt
Lake City. we4parn that Mr. “Babbitt, the
present-acting Governor ofUtah, is very un
popular svith the Mormons, from a belief,
whether well founded or not, that he has
abjured the religion, of the Latter Day
Saints. They'hilt? Trown tired iff him as
Governor, and anxiously awaited his remo
val. All the tm-ti belong* ng to the Mor
mon Church, who are able to bear arms,
are constantly drilled, and at short notice
several thousand could he collected togeth
er. Col- Sleptoe and command are occu
pying T ,afters in a central :part of Salt
Lake City. *
The Soil Of 1 valua
ble agiirubural has
been received ; say, that it is
one the most %
South, and is exHicli
fell by
occupation of Publish
ed in Az. ’Ellis,
at the low price of SI.OO per annum.
General* I ntef ligence*
SUSPECTED OUTRAGE.
It will be recollected by our readers, that
we published in this paper a short time
since, a statement of the ndvel case of-Cbl.
U W Walker, together with th- dectssinn
of Chancellor'Diekiiisim. after a full hear
ing, discharging him from custody under a
w rit of habeas cprptrs, and which it was
supposed-would put the matter to rest, so
far as the present feeufity and quietness of
t’ol. \V., as a pemrjhblo sojourner in our.
community, is concerned. But we regret to
learn, upon the best Authority, that a set of
desperate men, redding in and about Tits
kegee, Macon co#hence Col. W.
came, have bander together, in ennsidera
tion of the payment of one hundred thou*,
sand dollars -if ■successful in their object,
and a week or feu days ago, left the above
named place for this -vicinity, with the in
tenttou *f carrying out this nefarious scheme
of kidnapping and carrying Col. W., over
the line of Alabama, and then delivering
him up to the Sheriff-of Macon county!—
And the lattet individual, it is supposed, is
now lying in wait,-somewhere on the line
between the two States, not far from this
city, in antictpatMti rtf the consumption of
the schema of tbis hireling band!
We also learn thft tho leader of the kid
napping party fust Employed, one John Dry
er, who in dimlinga fence with a pistol in
his pocket, in Macon county, the other day,
singularly enough -i>-1 himself in the leg.
and at the last accflijfits w hile laboring un
der the appreti ensio/j “HiaT he was about to
dip, disclosed th* whole s* heme to one of
his acquaintances! Whether the wound has
proved mortal, we are not informed.
Col. Walker is here quietly enjoying the
righ's of an American citizen—has won
for himself the respect and sympathy ‘of a
“ge number of out most respectable -citi
z ns—is well informe 1 of the k'<!napp'i".g
-chetnes st on foot in VI bain a, and assist
ed by his mimen u- f*'iends,if necessary rill
be certain to give his prowling pursuers a
warm reception, should t’h y attempt to
force him awa\ from our city And we
would seriously advise th se who pursue
birn wi'h th t innntion to trina* heir cot
fins along with them.— Columbus Miss.
Standard.
OPENING THEIR EYES.
In the evening
we find a series of resolutions, purporting
to have been passed by the Know Nothing
Council of South Salem, in this county,
denunciatory t>f certain newspapers pub
lished in different se< tions of the country
’ pretending to be organs of the Order, which
j have ptorlaimed that the subject of slavery
I must not and shall not be discussed oi act* and
upon by the order, or its members, but that
the subject must be ignored and the mem
; bers silently-aubmissive to their mandate.’
They avow they will lot not “knowingly
vote for any slaveholder or his abettor or
apologist for any political office in’ the gift
of the people,—hut for such only as they be
lieve to be honest, capable, and deeply im
bued wiih the.principles of liberty, justice
and equality.’ And call on ell councils of
the order throughout the Country who
would maintain their integrity to speak out
proclaim to the world iu falsity of the
rtaracter sought to he fixed upon the Order
by such persons .—Chihcpthe Advertiser.
Rev. John Moore, who was nominated
as the Know Nothing candidate for Gov. of
New Hampshire, hut - subsequently declined
ineligibility, died at Concord, on the
monlibjj. of the sth.
S
importaVp treaty.—congreS
. SION AL.
Feb,'6. — The new Mexican
f recognizing the principle that free
free good, was seut to the. Sen
ate today,
The Senate, to day. debated the Spolia
tion Bil’, aud the appropriati'-g $:i00,000
for the improventent of the mouth of rbe
Mis-issippi. No decisive evote taken.
Noth ; ngeLe important,
. W be Holts'* after the Consular
Bill, went into Conttpittee of the JiVhole on
the Texas (Creditors Bill, which was approv
ed, hut the IL use adjourned without deci
sive action, ‘
. The House has parsed the bill for the re
lief of the Georgia Railroad & Banking
t’omoany, The consideration of a reducs
tioo of the tariff'has been postponed to (he
TUJth inst.
Washinton.
sed the TexasGreditors Bill by a vote of
154 to 43. 1t then t>>ok up and discussed
the Tariff and Civil Diplomatic Bills.
In the Senate, petitions were presented
in favor of slavery'iq, the District of Colum
bia., A number of internal Improvement
Bills wete passed by the Senate.
New York, TVb. 6. Wm. H. Seward
has been re-elected to the U. S, Senate by
22 majority on joint ballot.
The wedther here is the coldest that has
been known for tweuty years. The ther
mometer. ranges in various parra of the
State’from zero to 40 degrees? below!
THE “ , FcKJR~PoINTS.”
The ‘FourToints,’ of which so much is
said in the accounts from abroad, ate set
forth in the following propositidiis.’ - The
• i hree Powers’ mentioned are rar.ee
Great-Britain anti Austria.
‘The three powers ete equally rtf opinion
that the relations fth sublime Porte with
the Imperial -Court of Russia could not be
re-established upon solid aud durable ba
sis.
Is. Unless ihe prdtectcirate hitherto ex
ercised by the Imperial Court of Russia
oyer the Principalities of lV;>l|achia. Molda
via a**d .Setvia, ceases hjiccforth.,s*ll d J I aii
less the privileges accorded by the Sultan
to these dependent provinces of their em
pire be placed under the collective guaren
tee of the powers, by virtue of an arrange
ment to he concluded with tfie Sublime
Po rte, the dispositions of whi h should reg
ulate at the same time all questions df .de
tn. tV -
2d. > Unless the navigation df the Danu
be to its mouth fee delivcred < from all em
barrasment. and subjected to the application
o! the priuc p’e* recognised (cmsacres) by the
acts of the Congress of Vienua.
3d. Unlees the treaty of the 13th July,
1841, be revised in concert by the high con
tracting parties with a View to secure the
European equilibrium
4th. ynless Russia ccases to claim the
right of exercising an official protectorate
over the subjects of the Sublime Porte, no
matter to tvhat religious rite they may
belong, and V race. Austria, Great Britain
Prussia and Russia lend their mutual co-op
eratiou to obtain from the initalive of the
Ottoman Government the formal recogni
rirtn‘(/n coliservaHun) and ob-cjvance of the
religions privileges of the Various Christian
•communities, and to carry into effect, for
the common benefit of their co religionists,
the generous intentions manifested by his
Majesty the Sultan, taking care that there
ri suit therefrom no violation of, the dig* ity
and independence of his Crown.
The intelligence brought by the Pacific is
to'tlie effect, that the Czar accepts the four
points as a basis of settlement and the'inter
pretations given them by the allies.
THREAT F. ne and ~di s m e VI.BE r men t
OF RUSSIA,
‘Schkm in the Imperial family —ThePafis
Pressc, t Vntg bin ed at a I'clicate discussion
in a European royal family. ’Gailignanti
lately published the following facts, as if
from authority: “There is a serious schism
In the imperial fami y. The Giand Duke
Constantine disputes the right of his elder
brother* the Grand Duke Alexander, to sue'*
reed to the Imperial throne—The order of
succession laid down hyPeter ‘heGreat be
ing the eldest son of the reigning emperor.
When the'Great Duke Alexander was horn,
bis father was not Emperor, nor did he
ev’ ti stand in succession to the throne. The
eldest son. after Nicholas became Emperor,
is Constantine, and he therefore claims to
he the rightful heir to the throne of Russia.
It is inconsequence of this discision, .(says
the Gtallignam) that the Emperor Nicholas
resolved to wait no longer lor the accom
plishment of his views in the East. Dread
ing a civil war between the two brothers af
ter his death, be was anxious to find means
to induce his son Constantine to withdraw
pretentions which have for partisans a larg
er portion of Russian nobility, and nothing
presented itself but the chance of creating a
new empire of sufficient magnitude and im
portance to gratify his ambition Hence the
determination to prepare measures for the
couques-tof Constantinople and consequent
ly. hence the difficulty of concessions to the
Westeru Powers, which would amouot to
the bandonroent of the designs of the Czar
on Turkey.
OUR CRIMINAL CODE,
The Rev. Chas. Wadsworth, of Philadel
phia, who is oiie of the most eloquent and
effective preachers in this country, saild
some xcellent things in a sermon, not long
since, Loin which we extract tbe follow
*iitg. N ■
•While the great end of all legislation in
regard to public vices (he said) should be
the preventation of crime and the reforma
tion of the criminal, and should be always
characterized bygreat moderation and mef
cy —nevertheless, such legislation should be
p .werliil and prompt, at once impartial in
its application and unyielding in its enac
ments.’ It shculd bnmpailial in its applied
tion. “AncThere. perhaps, name than else*
where, is the shortcoming of our criminal
code. It bears unequally upon the castes
of society. Its type is too truthfully a spi*
strong as a hempen cord around
the*ving of a poor fly; hut as weak as go9*
samer to the golden “plumes of the hu-atming
bird. It punishes with- ut mercy tfie sliivef*
ing begger who make theft of a coat to keep
‘Mm fro. freezing, but -miles graciously on
the fraudulent bankrupt, who out of enor
, mous rohfrewirsk‘l jear.a _ palace of mat
bte. and crowd it with tne magtiTffceoceVf*
an oriental monarch. 4t to poor
draymen who happens 10 jostle your cf
riage and mar a wheel or a p annel;’ b.ut on
ly puppy and rose leaf to a titled command
er vi fio in a ntad race upon the <wrer.* rutls
his hark into shipwreck -the tufMess mur
derer of your beloved ones. Tl has fetter
and dungeon foj the .poor cofner who utters
a spurious shilling, hut Ottoman and
cologne for the swindfi*,|pTficial of a bank
ing house, ‘flooding the whole land with
utterances as^.worthless. Verily the crim
ina! jurisprudence of our times has the"Pah
raise’s moral consc en out
ith shuddering recml the poor gnat of ‘in
iquityyt Swallowing withoutshrug or con
tortioVs, bump and all, the w hole -monstrous
■ .- *
Cr*7rt.—This btxfy, a'fter fe
long laborious session of two and a hall
we< ks, will probably adjourn in the course
of this day. YVe understand the only busk
ness now before the Court is tbe announce
ment of tlie decisions in several which
have been held , over for advisement during
the Term.—Tri Weekly Enq.
Fire at FCrt MiTCHfeur.—We regret
to hey that the beautiful residence of Jas.
A'beßcrombie jr.. (formerly owned by‘©of.
John Crowell.) at Fort Mitchell. Ala. wfe’i
destroyed by fire on Saturday morning last,
about 10 o’clock. The fire caught from fe
sparii falling on dry leaues that - lay npob
iheroof. Loss about $8 000 ;no insurance’.
Mr. A was absent at the time.— Ib.
Uexalk -
lea’rns'frnri Capt. Carey, late from Fort
Myers, that the few niniiig Sevages. oV
a mrjority df them, trartifest an invincible
determiiitttinn not to accede to the proposi
tion for their peaceable removal, hryontl
tbe limits of the State. A considerable
number of the party averse to ibis step,
were in attendance at Fort Myers, manifest*
i'-g much excitement and solicitude to kunW
what the concentration of troops at that
point meant.
This party in the most adfoTt manner,
managed to prevent an intervie w or talk Wy
Carpt. Casey with that portion of the trihb
which had on previous occasion* evinced a
disposition to emigrate. A porfion of troops
at Fort Myers are now penetrat
ing the interior of that country, euttiftg
roads and makingotherdemtfhstratious, that
the war spirit is up. aud that the kind over
tures of our Govtrnmeut irj no longer to-Le
treated with cotmmpr.
Si!\Gcx r‘Con*irac’t -s-The New York
Tribune save there are rumors abroad of b
most extraordinary and dangerous scheme
in progress thete, whi<*h threatens serious
consequences. A party has been secretly
organized at Point Richmond-for the pur
•pt.sa of destroying the steamboat owned by
the Ferry‘Company, because the Company
it is alleged has acted b-. dly Tn reference to
accommodating the citizens, running this
boat to suit themselves and a‘few propti
nent'men at New Brighton. At the last
meeting of the secret party, held on Tues
day night, it is’said, there were 133 persons
present, of whom about 20 volunteered to
blow up *he Ifuegenot. It is further alleged
that the powder and ajl other, things are
reacTy ; that the men are armed with revolve
era, and will resist any officer who attempts
to arrest them.
FsEiN’t} “up TrtE TuRKs.-ii.lt would seem,
that the wars of the East, are telling most
severely upon the ‘sick man,’ whom all pro*
fess to be rpady to cure. The last few
months in particular, according to authentc
ic accounts, have developed - the utter
ness of the Ottoman Empire. iPhe natiojfl
al treasury is exhausted, the military vJM
er is fearfully reduced, and a
of approaching dissolution has rjJM
every department of the **
luding to the terrible
Turks during the past
dispirited condition of th
Crimea, a letter says:
What remains of t iJjM
dispirited, wanting
totally changed ! Ufl
first met the cnerjrj
no longer men
do there exist i Mi
of it. TheTj
Cgy nor t'vijM ’
tions; they Jra j ‘
entirely in M ‘ . - ’
ers, and >Jm
whi eh I * ’#| f ' 5 ’•
Tifl ’ “ *