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6. 3’he United {States Courts have also
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117“ Our Correspondents will confer a
-special favor rs they w ill use but one side
•of a page of paper when writing for the Or
gan. Also, number the pages at the top
The communication of * A Foe to
•Controversy’ has been handed us, but we
•decline publishing it. from the fact that it
‘Contains nothing poetical. We would
inform our correspondent that if we were
tocoirect all the pieces sent to us for
publication, we should have naught in
which to engage, save the correction ol
pieces; and besides, we do not publish
articles because they claim oiiginality
and have some jingle of words.
o
wishing to “secure *he
shadow,” are requested to call at the Da
guerreian Rooms, at Hall’s Hotel, as they
will be closed “ in a few days.”
o———.
Southern Musical Talent.— Wc
Were invited a tew evenings since, by a
young friend of ours, Mr W P Howard,
of Hamilton, Ga., to hear some pieces ol
music he had just prepared for publica
tion. The names ot the pieces, as near
•s we can recollect, were as follows :
•Why hast thou Taught me to love Thee’
—Song. ‘Uncle Ned’—Schotti-he. *La
Belle Fannie’—Polka. ‘Jordan is a Hard
Road to Travel’—Polka. Mr H is a
Georgian by birth and education, nnd pos
cesses undoubted musical talent, which he
“has spared no means to cultivate. The
pieces mentioned we have heard, though
not being the proprietor ol a great fund ol
musical knowledge, they are what we
call good. They will soon be out, and
we bespeak for them a fair oiticism.
We clip the above article from the
Columbus Times & Sen'inel. Mr. How
ard has resided in our village for the last
twelve months, having under his charge
the Musical Department of the Hamilton
Female College. We have heard the
pieces above mentioned petformed, and
unhesitatingly pronounce them far supe
rior to the majority of the Northern Mu
ic. We trust they will meet with a
heavy sale.
COMMISSIONERS OF TITE MID-,
DLE GROUND RAIL RO\D.
The following are the Commissioners
tiamed in the charter of the above Rail
road :
Dr. Wm. D. Conyers, J M Clark ol
Newton county; Allen W Turner. Jo
*eph A Thrasher, A W Walker, of Hen
ry county ; A A Gaulding, Wm R Phil
ips, Jame W Simmon, Augustus Burr.and
Henry P Hill ot Spalding county; Wm
D Alexander and Giles Driver of Pike
county ; Dr Wimbush, G G Howard. Wtr
Moreland, Peter Maitin, Henry Hatris
and R T Marks of Men whether county ;
Jno Mnrphey, A F Johnston, and George
H Bryan of Harris county: Henry T
Hall. Jno Ruse, Geo W Winter and Jos
8 Hill of M uscogee county.
The Commissioners will please beat in
mind that they are requested and solici
ted to meet in G'iffiu on the 9di of July,
next. Let every county send ten dele
gates, each, to assist them in their delibe
rations*
In pursuance of a resolution of the late
convention at GiilFin, I have appointed
the following committees to unite with
those above named:
For Muscogee—James Hamilton, Esq
B A Thorton, E q Hugh M King, E q.,
Maj P J Phillips, Cos! R C Forsyth, Rosi
well Ellis, Esq, Benj Clark, John W
Thompson, Thos D Fortson, O M Stone
Esq.
For Harr s—Henry Kimbrough. Geor.
\ B Dozier, Esq, Mathew Robinson.
Wm E Failey, James N Ramsey, E q.
Joel C Henry, D P Hill, Esq, Dr C C
Gibbs, Maj B F White, Dr Chas Bedell
The Committees will receive the plan
of opeiation after the meeting of the Com
missioners. It is irfiportant that as many
as can do so, will meet with the Com
missioners on the 9 h July next, in Grif
fin,
JAS. M. MOBLEY.
O
For the Organ.
REPLY TO ONE OF THE GUESTS,’
AND NOTICE OF ‘JUSTICE.’
Dear Major —Permit me to answer
your correspondents. I will begin by
saying to the ‘Guest,’ tltut he is great
ly mistaken, if be supposes 1 intended
any personal attack on him or Uncle
Dick, by the review 1 made ol his
notice of the supper.
1 did not undertake that task unbidden,
but was urgently requested by many
friends—some of his personal friends
requested it. After I learned bis
name 1 hesitated, for I did not wish to
wound his feelings. I was his friend,
am still his friend—my friendship was
increasing—all this did not make me
insemitde of his fnul s. I say. then,
to you, my good sir, that I thought you
could appreciate 1 lie sage advice of
King Solomon, ‘Kind are the wounds
of a friend, hut the kisses of an enemy
are deceitful.’
I am sorry you have been induced
to believe that I was aiming to under
mine your influence and stab your
character. You have had injudicious
advisers, I suspect. Men, under the
false guise of friendship, tell interested
in exciting a feud between us. Did
not your complimentary notice deserve
criticism or pruning ? Pause and re>
fleet. Here is a specimen, ‘ What
kind of a world would ours be. had we
not in our midst men whose libeiality
did not distinguish them IVnn the sor
did herd of the ge ions homo.’ This
vou sav in reference to Uncle Dick. —
It you had been called on to vvri'e a
panygertc upon the dislingui-hed How
ard, you could not have said more.
Again. You say, *We have a cle
ver individual in our pleasant little vil
lage, rejoicing in the cognomen of
Dick Tu rner,* whom everybody res
pects.’ Could you have said as mm h
for the Father of his Country? No
sir, nor any other individual of our
race.
You strongly intimate in the first of
the above quotations, that the world
could not get along without Uncle
Dick. It is no and sparngement o him
to say that the world has got along
without much greater men. For in
stance, in our own State, the venera
ble and beloved Tioup, the eloquent
Hern n,the accomplished and amiable
Dawson have paid the debt of Nature,
and yet our suit rises and sets as usual,
the evening as sweetlv,
the showers are as fertilizing as ever,
and we ste no visible evidence within
the moral, physical or political would
that we cannot get along without him.
Did not Uncle Dick rebuke you lor
this extravagant encomium? He ought.
You say you are no drummer for
custom for Uncle Dick’s grocery-
Well, ! do not say you are, hut if I
were to say as much for any of our
dry good merchants as you said for
Uncle Dick, I would consider it quite
a drum—that it would help them
much.
But you say you have roamed with
old ltomulus seen die wandering Pil
grim, have seen heroes and been by
heroes seen, but never saw so untimely
an article as mine. True sir, I have
roamed with the Wandering Pilgrim,
seen the most distinguished heroes of
modern times—have seen the gre at til
lihtisler, Lopez, and have communed
with those distinguished heroes of an
tiquity upon the classic page, but nev
er, until week before last, saw a ful
some panygeric pronounced upon a
supper given by a grog seller.
You say you are sorrv at the pros
pect of the Temperance cause being
injured by tny strictures tipon die sup
per. We fear no danger. Our num
ber has been nearly doibled since the
article was written.
Again. You say* you are ready to
second any effort 1 will make to pro
mote the cause of morality. lam
glad of that—Temperanco is morality
itself—the chief of social virtues—th*c
most sparkling gem in the casket of
Christian virtues. Come up to the
.Male Academy next Tuesday night, at
the sound of the bell, and sign vour
name to the pledge, and 1 will warrant
there will be as loud a shout raised as
was ia£ meeting, when at the call of
one of the members, with steritoiiari
voice, ‘all in favor of Sagitariits, rise,’
when, in the midst of a forest of heads
there was a deafening roar, ‘ Hurrah
fur Sagitarius.’ Now my good friend,
wc were friends when this discussion
opened—l see no reason whv friends
should fall out for the expression of an
opinion. 1 can but congratulate you
upon the ingenious manner in which
you have got out. of this affair. In
conclusion, permit me to say that I
claim it to be my privilege, whenever
any article calculated to injure the
morals of society, oreorrupt the minds
of youth, whether from friend or foe,
I can say I have yet a few more ar.-
row s in my quiver.
So far as ‘Justice’ is concerned, 1
can say in caiidtic, if there is an argu
ment, or anything that deserves the
name of argument in his communica
tion, I have not able to find it.—
Hut friend Justice, lest you should
charge me with indiflerenee, I will sav
that the instructor of your youth ought
to have informed you that vituperation
is not argument, nor Billingsgate logic.
You have not touched the first point
made in my strictures. If you wish a
discussion with me. and will employ
courteous, gentlemanly language, I
challenge you to and scuss the following
propositions, I w ill affirm and you de
ny :
1. Liquor shops, however orderly,
are ruinous to the interests of society.
2. Suppers furnished by the keepers
of liquor shops are calculated to en
snare and mislead the young and un
suspecting.
3 When professed Christians and
Temperance men attend them, religion
is leptoached, and die cause of tem
pera nee weakened.
4. The attendance of Ministers of
the Gospel on those festal occasions, is
far more iijurious than any of the
above evils. SaGI I'AlilUS.
* For the Oi'Kiin.
•* V “ nina ii mov’d is like a fountain tr*n!ile<].
Muddy, ill-seeuiiog. bereft of beauty.’*
Mr. Editor —ln your last issue, 1
find an answer given to ihe query
‘Why don’t the ladies of Hamilton
marry?’ Thinking that we me un
just 1 \ assailed, and the conduct and
morals of a ‘evv of tw exposed anu
represented as bring that ol all, J de
sign btiffly to notice it. Your lair
corre-pondt ut logins by expns-iiu
sorrow for the dullness of our concep
tion, and proceeds by cxpiessing hei
intention of giving a laconic response
and to expiess the contempt she en
tertains towards the piece and its an*
thor.
She quotes the language f the vv *t.
who expressed himself on seeing tin
equestrian statute of George 111 ; but
having some doubts about our abilities
for clearness of comprehension, she,
extends her article, and by the aid of
intelligible enlbymemes. endeavors to
show cause why they have not mar
ried. We meant no aspersion whatev
er, in asking the question but as ‘Met*
ciful Ann’ has east some reflections
upon us s a cltss, we strike Se De
fendendo.
1 thought while reading the piece,
that Merciful iinn intended to give
quite a logical discourse, or demon
strate some great mathematical truth,
but in the end I was forced to the ve
ry old expression of ‘alas! poor Yo
rick,’ I trust J shall be too generous
to delineate the true characters of oui
ladies, and thereby expose to the pub
lic their faults. I*shall endeavor to be
‘merciful.’
She asks us firs*, to remember that
they arc ‘prudent’ ns well as ‘pret
ty,’ nnd must j idge others by tlmse
they best know, thereby mtimntiig
that they will not marry other young
men lor the reason that they are to be
jud cd by us. She then proceeds, bv
intelligible enthymemes to show why
they do not marrv. She has number
ed eight causes, (or enthymemes, ns
she pleases to term them )
She says first, *We cannot love such
homely meu.especi illy when we think
that homeliness producer] by the inces
sant, unnatural twist of the eye and
lace in watching the billiard mace and
hazard nets.’ My experience in the
billiard amusement teaches me to the
contrary ol what Merciful Ann would
impress, i. e that it requires a straight
optical vision, a calm arid studied arm.
to direct a cue and watch a ball. Thus
1 am forced to believe that her first,
in part, has failed ; and in reference
to ’hazard nets, 1 I must acknowledge,
that Miss Ann has a more extended
knoMledge of gaming than your cor
respondent. Her first reason is by no
mtHirrs &itliymematical, ns it is unsup*
ported by sound and truthful logic-
She charges us in the second placp,
of having brought the diverging rays
of our affections to a focus, and of hav
ing made our * venerable Unrle Dick’
[the point of concentration. This can
ensi vbe refuted,-by the confessions of
our young men, and has been denied
by th-ir frequent avowals and protes
tations of love to the ladies. This
however, is given only as an opinion.
And why, iNliss Ann, do you even give
it ns an opinion. The affections of
some may cluster there, yet will yon
condemn the whole for a crime of
which a part only is guilty? You
claim, by your nomenclature, to In
merciful ; allow ns to ask vou to beal
soj isl or else to shuffle off your name
or u part ihereof. for justice and mer
cy are inseparable.
Thirdly, You say we are deficient
in moral courage, and why? ‘Be
cause we hear the moral abused and
hold up for the vicious.’ Can .Merci
ful \nri refer us to a single instance in
which the young men has not defend
ed the right and condemned the wrong
where they, as a < I tss, have ever
upheld or aided any vice or immorali
ty? 1 fear again, that j i-t here, Miss
Ann. you lost one of those great attri
butes which you claim by your name
to be yours.
A ou believe fourthly, that we would
nm make sociable companions, from
the fact that we loiter about ihe ‘cor
ners,’ while we should be engaged in
the improved) nt of our minds We
acknowledge our discrepancy in this
respect, but as we have been crimina j
ted, we consider it our privilege to re
criminate, and would just remark here,;
that should the ladies apply themselves;
as assiduously to the standard works of!
Literature and Learning, as thev do
to the light and trashy titles of romance
iind rietmn, when they wee driwn
out upon any piim'iplc of learning and
‘bought, their hecks woo and not be
emus':nt’l w ith the bluish of shame.
He can tul. then, not to chuge upon
us tin t o which you yourselves aie
guilty.
Fill lily. You charge us with selfish
ness ud par-mionv. because we spend
moiu y for our >w ne j-\ ment, and do
not expend as mu. h upon you proba
bly as \on liiiuk is pio'per. We love
neither the we.Jili of Croesus en trees
dial brill golden apples; \et we chal
lenge iin> lown or village lo .-how re
<>i(l ol expenditures for lemale asso
ciations.
You brand us again with extravu
ra
gaiic.e, (strange iiu-.onsistcney.) Will
yon not allow us ihe pleasure ol regal
i"g ourselves v\iih it pleasant cigar,
while \ou ine secreted in your closets
with a silver lined snuff-box, squiiting
away yum constilutions ? Bo just, if
not generous. And will vou not allow
us in occasionally sip shat which \ou
paitiike of with so much avidity at
parties and pic-nics?
lias there yet been a case of vvluil
vou charge us in your 7 1 h enthymeme ?
li so, I am ‘mi as y et informed of it, or
my mental obfuscation is so great that
i cannot clemlv distinguish right from
wrong. And had 1 not known the
true reason why you all do not marry,
1 should certainly have considered
my-elf extremely dull of concept ion.
Allow me, in conclusion. Miss Aim,to
say that you’ cntliynv ines have mostly
been jrmen to be par log sic and
should you wait inquiries from one
who has never smelt a grocery, or
puffed a cigar, 1 am fearful that you
will live to be
Aii old and disappointed maid
A student of ihe prudish scln ol—
lu single sorrow doomed to f de.
QUERIST.
o
From the Border Times Extra.
STIRRING NEWS FROM KANSAS
Y\ E.-TPORT, June 3 1656.
We learn from Mr F. M. Coleman,
who arrived at this - place last night aboui
BP. M., the following interesting and
stirring particulars of ‘he fight and cap
ture ol Capt. 11. C. Pale’s co i pany ot
Shawnee Sharpshooters ; the company
(Pate’s) was a pos.-e under the U. Stales
Marshal, and hid been sent out in quest
ol Pottawattamie murderers.
Mr. Coleman on his way to Hick
ory Point and arrived ai Capt Pale’s camp
about 4P. M., Sunday. Capt Pate in
si-ted on Ml. Coleman’s remaining ovei
night Mr Coleman consented to do so
Capt Paie saving he would escort him to
Hickory Point in the morning.
On Monday morning, about sunrise,
the picket guard of Capt Pate’s company
mfoimed him that a large body ol men
wese near at hand, marching towaids hi.-
camp. Capt Pate immediate ordered hii*
men to arms. They had barely time to
lorma line, when the company hove in
sight, about four hundred yards distant.
They marched down within seventy yards
of Captain Pate’s company. Capt Pate
hailed them and inquired “who they
were,” when about twenty of the compa
ny commenced firing on Captain Pate’*
company. The company returned the
. file, six Os Capt P's company were woun
ded at the first fire. The Abolitionists
then changed their position, and Capt,
P s company then fell back into a ravine
some ten steps. The Abolitionists then
took a position about 75 yards south of
Capt P., and kept up nn icessant firing
for about four hour*. °
Capt Pate seeing his critical posiiion,
that he was about to be overpowered
consulted with L?. Brocket} and Mr. Colei
mm. ('he Abolitionists receiving rein
torcemery* every hour ) and they conclu*
led it was best lo send a flag of truce, in
forming the Abolitionists that his compa
ny was there as a U. S. posse. This was
done. The Abolition outlaws then sent
back for Capt Pate. He met their Cap-*
tain, and whil-t they were conversing,
twelve of the Abolitionists marched with
in thirty yards of Capt P's company, and
ordered them to lay down their arms.—*
L* Biock'-tt answered that if they advance
further he would order his men to fire
upon thrm. Capt Pate and the Aboli
tion Captain seeing that there was about
to he an encounter, matched down to the
company of twelve. The Abolitionist
Captain then orileied Capt Pate’s compa*
ny to lay down their arms. Lieutenant
Siocke'.t replied that it Would not be done
without Capt Pale’s order. The Aboli
turn Captain then said that Capt Pate
should give that order. Capt P. being in
their power, was compelled (ogive the or*
der. About twenty ot Capt P’s company
-imemlered when Messrs Coleman,
Long and Ream mounted their horses and
made (heir escape, whilst the entire Abo
lition force was'firing on them—-they pre.
feting death to being taken.
LI.'T op WuL’NEED IN CAFTAt.Y PATH’S
COMPANY.
Edward Gouldnch. of Ga.. mortally.
J Benj L unbeit, Savannah, Ga mortal.
I v.
R YV Y\ nod. Gi., mortally.
James M< Gee dacgerou-ly.
11 trury Jair.es and 1 iin Connelly, slight
■y-
Several persons, names not known
were wounded.
A ni! ‘ ber on pieqnet guard have not
been heard from—supposed to be muid
ered.
file ah .ve i> strictly true, as made bv
Messrs Coleman. Long and Ream*
ST'U. LATE ft.
Capt J img in, vvttu four others, wero
taken prisoner-, yesterday, at MrGee'ti
Ciossi g, on the VVakanis*, b v about 5(1
•'b'litmo outlaw-—they were kept *
prisoners, some five or six hours, and fre*
qu-n'ly threatened with instant death—
thev were then relea-ed. having been
robbed rt ’heir arms, horses, &c.
Capt J. wa® on his way (when arrested)
to join Gen Buford.
TERRIBLE NEWS.
We-tp ut June 4 —II A- M.
Dr Tehbs, a member of the Territorial
L-gts a’ure., has just reached this place.
IF gives o* the Pillowing ;
Ye-rerday morning the U. S. Marshal
I B Don el.son, together with four of his
men, were murdered at Hickory Point.
K. T. Mj D mel.sor* was on his official
duty, when he and his men were attack
ed and cut to pieces by the Abolition out*
laws!
Fron the I.ejoirmton Union.
M ’RE ‘ FREE STATE RUFFIANS.”
The following letter was received yes*
lerdny from Mij Muford, of Alabama,
ams we publish it adding another witness
to the already overwhelming evidence as
to the real • Border Ruffians” in our couo*
try
dll -Vc Gee s Crossing of the Waknrusa )
May 29th, 1856. {
His Excellentcy Wilson Shannan :
Dear Sir: Last night abant 1 o’clock,
A M.. a guertilla party of twenty five
armed abolitionists attacked the house of
Martin Bowen, E-q , two miles south of
this place, robbed him ot all his money,
(about fifty dollars) a rifle, a revolver,
thn e horses, and five saddles and bridles,
and ordeied him, on peril of death, to
l*-a\e with his family in twenty four
h"iirs. They also threatened to plunder
Mr. Lehay and Capt Saunders. Twenty*
three ninped mounted men ("supposed to
be ol the simp party) were about9o’clock
this morning seen on the swamp, within
half a ‘idle of Capt. Saunders’ house, on
Washington creek. The undersigned
ouiselves went in pursuit, and saw ten of
’ba’ paitv retreating across the praririe.
F torn Capt Saunders's place he saw the
other filteeii The probability is that they
*ere in the act of enacting a descent up*
on Saunders with a view to plunder him
and seize sixty str.nd ot arms known to be
at his house. Seeing our party, with the
U. S. mounted men, they escaped over
towards Rock creek. Mr Bowen and
family, Heler and family, and Jones and
family are now here with us, flying for
• heir lives from their homes. Must the
law and order men thus be driven from
the land ? Do not blame us if we tell