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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 ’ “ *