The Empire State. (Griffin, Ga.) 1855-18??, April 09, 1856, Image 1
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Sales of I*ands by Administrators, Executors or Guar
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* in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the county in
which the Land is sitnated. Notice of these sales must be
given in a public Gazette forty days previous to the day of
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Sales of Negroes must be made at public auction on the
flnt Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale,
at the place'of public sales in the county where the Letters
Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship may
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Heuse where such sale is to he held.
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. like manner, forty days previous to tlie day of sale.
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llnarv f*r leave to sell Land, must be published for two
Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published two
onths l<efore any order absolute shall be made thereon by
he Court.
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Wjw from Executors and Administrators, where a bond has
r*n given by the deceased, for the space of three months
LEONARD T. DOYAL,
attorney AT LAW,
IWcDoitougfc, Georgia.^
WILL practice in the counties of Henry, Fulton, Fay
ette, Coweta. Spalding, Butts, Monroe and Newton
UtHevekescb —hlui v ;•“©*
April 2, 1856 4s ly
JA . ES H 3 : :ARK,
ATTORNEY AT L A W
CrtOlti. ‘
WILL practice in the Courts of the Flint- Circuit., a .and
in the Supreme Court at Atlanta and Macon.
Feb. 13, 1856....41....1y
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
ATTORNEY AT LA IV,
Office front Rooms, over John R. Wallace & Bros., corner
of White Hall and Alabama streets,
ATLANTA, EORG i A.
January 30,1850 ts
W. L. GORDON,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
UEORGIA,
January 30, 1856 39 ly
HENRY HENDRICK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Jackson, Butts County, Georgia.
May J, 18M. ts
DANIEL & DiSMUKE,
Attorneys at Law,
Will practice in the District Court of the United States
At Marietta.
Georgia.
il_. R- DANIEL. F. !>• DISMUKE.
May 3. 1*55. tt_
~ W. PoT'E JORDAN,
Attorney at Law,
Mefanlou, Georgia.
WILL practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit.
May 3, IMS.
ST.ELL &, BECK,
Attorneys at Law,
.TDonoogh, Georgia.
ALL business entrusted to their care, will receive prompt
attention.. •
M. BTW-L, - E * BECK *
May 3. 1855.
’ J. 11. MANGIIAM,
Attorney at Xiaw,
GKIKKIN, (JEOIIGIA.
May *, l*5S-ly 1
ANDREW M. MOORE,
J! TTO .RJYE Y AT LAW,
IuGRANGE GEORGIA.
T]|TILL practice in the Courts of the Coweta Circuit. All
VY business entrusted to his care will meet with prompt
attention.
July 4, 1855. - ts
WM. H. F. HALL,
attorney at law,
ZKBULON GEORGIA.
Jaly 4, 1855. -M*
A D. NUN N ALLY,
ATTORNEY A T,L AW,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
jm. 27..1RS- iy-
UKBERWOOD, HAMMOND & SON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WILL snre personal attention to all business entrusted
to their management, and attend the Sixth Circuit
Coart of the United States, at Marietta, the Supreme Court
At Macon and Decatur, and the Superior Courts in Cobb,
Mergan. Newton, DeKalb, Fulton, Fayette, Spalding, Pike,
Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, Troup,
Whitfield and Gord*i, in Georgia, and Hamilton county,
IGhattaaoeca.) in Tennessee. May 3,1855. ts
C RIQy, .W• B. FL LLER.
GRICE & FULLER,
A'TTO RNE YS AT LA W,
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
December lfrth.lßss. 33-ts
GJICB*. Mi S* R ALLACK.
GRICE & WALLACE,
A TTO RFE Y S AT LAW ,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
QERSOXS intrusting business to them may rely on their
Jl fidelity, promptness and care. Dee. 10, ’55-33-ly.
GARTRELL & GLENN,
attorneys at law.
ATLANTA. GKOKUIA.
II7TLL attend the Courts in the Coimtie Fuh De-
TV Kalb. Fayette. Campbell, Meriwetlu i. Cw. Ctu-
U, Henry .*Tn>up, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding.
Heirs J.Gartkkll, | Luther J. Glenv.
Funwerty of Washington, Ga. j Formerly of Me-Don- <*a.
May 16, 1855. 1
DR. WM. M. HARDWICK,
GUTFFIN GEORGIA.
OFFICE AT wTbTsEATS DRUG STORE.
Residence, Hill Street, one Door North
% of the Presbyterian Church.
Chronic Diseases, Midwifery, and diseases of Women and
Cliidren will receive special attention.
March l*th. 1856 45...’ ly
TENDERS his j.roU-sional services as a Physician and
Sarjpeon, to the citizens of Griffin and vicinity.
pyOflke on the same floor with the Empire State,“©&
Urd ßn. March 5, 1*56 44....1y
_ .W. WfLUAMST
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
GRIFKIK, G* OR6IA.
9Officeon Hill Street, over Banks'Boot & Shoe Store.
May 3, 1855. r ts
DR. H. W. BROWJV,
■mu,.... . - •
OFFICE in the basement storv, under the Store of Messis.
J. A- & J. C. Becks.
May 3, 1855. ts
rn (fmpire Stotf,
H. % fielding, ©ifolr.
VoL. 1.
BOOK AND JOB OFFICE
—OF—
TIIE EMPIRE STATE,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
THE PROPRIETOR CP THE
Having recently received a large assortment of
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL
FANCY TYPE AND BORDERS,
Are now prepared to execute, in the best style, and at short
notice, all kinds of
|Mit anil (Dninmnitnl printing,
SUCH AS
PAMPHLETS
Circulars, Labels, Business Cards,
Catalogues, Programmes, Address Cards,
Bill Heads, Posters, Visiting Cards,
Bank Checks, Hand Bills, Freight Bills,
Blank Note s, Legal Blanks, fyc., fyc., fy.
PRINTIITe IH*eOLORS
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
bates’ of advertising.
THE following are tlie Rates of Charges for Advertising,
determined ou between the undersigned, to take effect
from tlie time of entering into any new contract:—
JUSrTransient Advertising, $1 00 per square, for the first
nsertion, and 50 cents for every subsequent one.
CONTRACT ADVERTISING, 3 mos. 6 in os. 9 mos 12 ms
i I square, without change, $ 6 00 $ 8 00 $lO 00 sl2 00
Changed quarterly... 7 00 10 00 12 00 16 00
Changed at will, 8 00 12 00 14 00 18 00
2 squares, without change, 10 00 15 00 20 00 25 00
Changed quarterly,... 12 00 18 00 24 00 28 00
Changed at will 15 00 20 00 25 00 30 00
j 3 squares, without change,.... 15 00 20 00 25 00 30 00
Changed quarterly... 18 00 22 00 26 00 34 00
Changed at will, 20 00 26 00 32 00 40 00
i Half column, without change.. 25 00 30 00 40 00 50 00
Changed quarterly,.. 28 00 32 00 45 00 65 00
Changed at will, 35 00 45 00 50 00 60 00
One column, wilhoutchange,.. 60 00 70 00 80 00 100 00
Changed quarterly,.. 65 00 75 00 90 00 11000
Changed at will 70 00 85 00 100 00 125 00
S“A11 transient advertisements will be inserted until or
dered discontinued and charged for accordingly.
A. A. GAULDING, “Empire State.”
A. P BURR “AmericanUnion.”
Farbiage, cabinet
AND
SASH MAKING!!
UpiiE subscriber takes pleasure iu annonn- fV gpOpi’ SL^
I ciug to the citizens of Griffin and
rounding country, that he still continues
business of CARRIAGE and CABINET Making. CARItIA
GES, BUGGIES, and WAGONS made to order at short no
tice. A few of the best made Buggies always ou hand,
lie has recently added to his establishment the business of
RASH MAKING —cheap, and good as the best.
--.-sw-a He is also
fi&mT’ ‘item agent for
IWte-W- - FISK’S
WUVttftiiJu - Meta 1 i c
‘ •*-’ Burial ca
ses, newstyle. ne will be found at his old stand, always
ready towait upon bis customers. Give him a call.
A. BELLAMY.
Griffin, Aug. 29,1855.... 18.... ts
J. K. WILLIAMS, JNO. RHEA, WM. M. WILLIAMS.
J. E. WILLIAMS & CO.,
Successors to J. E. Williams,
General Commission Merchants,
AND DEALERS IN
GRAIN, BACON, I,ARB. FEATHERS, and TEN
NESSEE PRODUCE, GENERALLY,
Decatur Street, near the “Trout House,” Atlanta, Ga.
j3£T 1 .etters of inquiry, in relation to the Markets, &c.,
promptly answered. May 16, 1855.-3tf
U- JL. WRIGHT,
EXCHANGE BROKER ,
ATLANTA, GEO.
WILL attend to collections entrusted to him, and remit
promptly, at current rates of Exchange: buy and sell
uncurrent Bank Notes, Coin, &c. The highest cash price
paid for Bounty I/and Warrants. es~ Apply;* W. C.
Wright, Grifiin, Ga., for sale of Land Warrants.
REFERENCES.—John Thompson. Banker, No. 2, Wall
street, and Carhart, Bko. & Cos., New York ; Converse
& Cos., New Orleans. Atlanta, May 16, ’55 ts
. J. THRASHER, J- M. DORSEY
J. J. TIIRASHER &■ CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
Grocers and Commission Merchants,
(At the Warehouse formerly occupied by J.E. Williams,)
ATLANTA ,- GEORGIA.
11. n. GLENN, W. A. CnAMBLESS
May 16, 1855. 3-ts
NOTICE.
THE advertiser would respectfully announce to his cus
tomers and the public generally, that he continues to
supply tlie various Magazines named below at the prices
annexed :
Harper, $2 25 ; Putnam, $2 25 ; Knickerbocker, $2 25 ;
Household Words, $2 00 : Blackwood, $2 25 ; Gndey,s2 25;
Horticulturist, (plain) $1 63 ; Little's Living Age, $5 00 ;
Frank Leslie's Gazette of Fashions, $2 25 ; Ballou’s Picto
rial, $2 50 ; Ladies’ Repository,, (Cincinnati,) $1 63 ; Ar
thur’s Home Magazine, $1 63.
He is prepared also to fill orders for standard and miscel
laneous books. whether from the trade, or persons hi other
walks of industry. Having had an experience of 16 years
in tlie Book and Periodical trade, he can give satisfaction to
all parties entrusting him with orders.
Specimen numbers of the Magazines on receipt of six
Post Office letter stamps for the $3 or $2 Magazines, and
for twelve such stamps a sample of the $5 or $6 works will
fie sent. Letters of inquiry must contain a stamp for the
return postage. Books sent post paid, on receipt of tlie pub
lisher’s advertised price. Address
WILLIAM PATTON’ Bookseller,
Hoboken, New Jersey.
MSiALUOLLEGE.
BEING left alone in the managemet of this Institution for
the present, the rates of tuition will be as follows :
Ist Term. 2d Term.
For Spelling, Reading, Writing, &c 10 00 8 00
For Arithmetic, Geography,Grammar, &c. .12 00 10 00
t-’or Algebra, Philosophy,Geometry,Ac 14 00 12 00
For Latin. Greek, Trigonometry, c sl6 00 sl4 00
extra charges, except for damage to the College
Building
Tlie first term will close about the 4th of July.
The second term will begin on the 4th of August, and
dose about the last of November. J. M. CAMPBELL.
Griffin, Feb. 13, 1856... .41... .ts
Fulton House.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
D. I*. GORDON, Proprietor.
January 30tli, 1856. .30. ly.
lijuuuML m sprs mi
THE undersigned haveassocia
ted themselves together under the p.Ay
firm name aud style of B—(Xy-f.
CLARK & NIX, r 4,
For the purpose of carrying on the CARRIAGE MAKING
and REPAIRING, WAGON MAKING and BLACK
RMITH’S BUSINESS, in all their various branches. Their
Shop is on the corner of Hill Street and Broadway, ojipo
ite the Georgia Hotel, down stairs, in the house formerly
1 ccupied by A. Bellamy Esq. Promptness, dispatch and
| urability of work, they feel confident will secure for them
liberal patronage. GEO. W. CLARK,
S. 11. NIX.
Griffin, Dec. 24,1856. .35. .ts
Window Gins'! X
i TT'RENCII Window Glass, of all sizes, for sale by
t U Sept 19, HILL & SMITHtf 55-*
“ o pent iip tyticq coirffyds oiji* f otoeirp —Jfje tofyoie toilless Gorfefjf k 01!^.”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 9, 1856.
Married Mens’ Report upon Womens’
Rights.
A petition for Woman’s Rights, addressed
to tlie New York Legislature, was referred in
that body to the Judiciary Committee, which
has lately made a report. According to the
New York Daily News, the committee say
that they are enabled to state that ladies al
ways have the best piece and choicest tit-bit at
table They have the best seat in the cars,
carriages- and sleighs ; the warmest place in
winter, and the coolest place in summer.—
They have their choice on which side of tlie
bed they will lie, front or back. A lady’s
dress costs thre<* times as nuch as that of a
gentleman, and at the present time, with the
prevailing fashion, one lady occupies three
times as much space in the world as a gentle
man
“It has thus appeared to the married gen
tlemen of your committee, being a majority,
(the bachelors being silent for the reason men
tioned, and also, probably, for the further red
son that they are still suitors for the favors of
the gentle sexj that if there is any inequality
or oppression in the case, the gentlemen are
the sufferers. They, however, have presented
no petitions for redress, having doubtless made
up their minds to an inevitable destiny.
“On the whde, the committee have con
cluded to recommend no measures except that
as they have observed, several inches in which
husband and wife have both signed the same
petition. In such case, they would recom
mend the parties to apply for a law authoriz
ing them to change dresses so that the hus
band may wear the petticoats and the wife
tlie breeches, and thus indicate to their neigh
bors and the public the true relation iu which
they stand with each other.”
Agricultural Truths.
The following statements will be found cor
rect as to soils long under cultivation:
1. All land on which clover or the grasses
are grown, must either have lime in them na
turally, or that mineral must be artificially
supplied. It matters but little whether it be
supplied in the form of stone lime, oyster lime
or marl.
2 All permanent improvements of lands
must look to lime as its basis.
3. Lands which have long been in culture,
will be benefitted by the application of phos
phate of lima, and it is unimportant whether
the deficiency be supplied in the form of bone
dust, guano,native phosphate of lime, composts
of flesh, ashes or that of oyster shell lime—or
marl—if the lands need lime alone’
4. No lands can be preserved in a high
s ate of fertility, unless clover and the grasses
are cultivated in the course of rotation
5. Mould is indespeusible in every soil, and
a healthy supply can alone be preserved
through, the cultivation of clover, aud the gras
ses, the turning in of green crops, or by tlie
application of composts rich ai the elements of
the mould.
6. All highly concentrated animal manures
are increased iu value, aud their benefits pro
longed by admixture with plaster,salt, or with
pulverized charcoal.
X. Deep plowing greatly improves the pro
ductive powers of every variety of soil that is
not wet.
8. Subsoiling sound land, that is land that
is not wet, is also eminently conducive to in
creased production.
9 All wet land should be drained.
10. All grain crops should be harvested be
fore the grain is thoroughly ripe.
11 Clover, as well as the grasses intended
lor hay, should be moved when in bloom.
12. Sandy lands can be most effectuallv im
proved by clay. When such lands require
liming or marling, the iime or marl is most
beneficially applied when made into compost
with clay. In slacking lime, salt brine is bet
ter than water.
13 The chopping, or grinding of grain to
be fed to stock, operates as a saving of at
least twenty five per cent.
14. Draining of wet lands and marshes adds
to their value, by making them to produce
more, and by improving the health of neigh
borhoods
15 To manure, or Ime wet lands, is to
tliiow manure, lime and labor away.
16. Shallow plowing operate to impoverish
the .-oil, while it decreases production.
17. By stabling and shedding stock through
the winter, a saving of one-fourth the food may
be effected; that is, one fourth less food will
answer, than when the stock may be exposed
to the inclemencies of the weather.
Pensacola & Montgomery Rail Road.—
We clip the following from the Pensacola De
rnocrat :
“We learn from Mr. Milner, ■. hies Engineer,
who arrived in this city on Saturday last, that
the corps of Engineers were : route for this
place,, but that the citizens of Conecuh county,
(with a view to enter into contract,) had ore
vailed upon them t< stop or a few day-, and
make an estim ate of the cost of that portion
of the road which will be constructed in that
country.
The hands that, are employed to work on
the road, will probably arrive here during next
week, aud will commence to work according to
Ia survey previously made.
| The Greenville Alabamian ot Saturday last,
| says :
“Mr. Milner and his surveying corps, left
this place on Monday for Florida, to finally
locale that end of our Raiiroad from Pensa
cola 10 tut- State line, that, contractors may
immediately commence operations, for which
they are ready in force, aud anxious ‘The
time when the entire road is completed from
Montgomery to Pensacola, will be hailed as a
bttle millenium. Even now we hear, from
those who profess to know, glowing accounts
of the delights ot a rumble on the beach, the
em ek farmed by fresh invigorating breezes from
the Gulf, which almost gives ns a foretaste of
enjoyment in prospective.”
’ JB@““What is a back-biter ?” asked the parson
of his Sunday School. 1 Ins was a poser, till a
| little urchin answered, “lie it it flea f”
Letter of Hon. Samuel Carutliers
Member of Congress from MissotirL
We have bad a most exciting and protract
ed struggle in the organization of the House.
I have voted uniformly for the democratic
nominees for the Speakership. For this lam
charged with the of the; the Whig
party, and with an abandonment of the princi
pies upon which I was elected. And who is
it that makes these charges ? Is it the old-line
whigs ? I have not heard of an old-line whig,
either in my district or elsewhere, who does
not indorse my course. These ,charges are
made by the Know Nothing press of my State,
and by anonymous Know Nothing scribblers,
the latter of whom, never having had an hon
est motive themselves, have no conception of
the thing in others. They charge me with be
traying the whig ‘party ! They who decoyed
it into their councils, and assassinated in the
dark—they who come forth from these con
claves, with their hands dripping with its
blood—they who met at Philadelphia iu con
vention, and vauutingly proclaimed its death
with a pharisaical affectation of party, declare
that they are not ‘responsible for its obnox
ious ac’sand violated pledges: that it has. ele
vated sectional hostility into a positive element
of political power t and brought our institutions
into per<!. t l r es, while I stand a mourner at
the grave of the whig party, they aie rejoicing
at its death and calumniating its life ! Yet
these men have the unblushing hardihood to
twit me with abandonment of that once noble
party ! Was ever impudence more gigantic
and more absurd ?
But it is sometimes softly and gently whis
pered that the American party is the whig
party iu disguise If this is so,they have solmn
ly declared a lie in their conventions, and it is
a cheat and a fraud upon the democrats in
the order. So they have either abandoned
their party, and have no right to abuse me. or
are engaged in a fraud which makes their
abuse a compliment. I tell these gentlemen
that they have slain my first love, and left me
a political widower; and I have a perfect right
to marry another if I see proper.
* * * * *
Ay, the earliest practical abolition of slavey
Look at it I For free soil--opposed to the
exteution of slavery—in favor of its earliest
practical abolition—intreguingfor the nomina
tion of a free soil convention; aud in addition
to all tins when the final vote for Speaker
came the last vote —the vote which tried the
souls of men—the vote which was to determine
whether Banks, the political Abolitionist —the
Black Republican—the Northern Nothing—
the ‘Union-sliding’—the absorption Banks,
should be elected Speaker of the American
House of Representatives, or that accomplish
ed gentleman and sound national, and con
servative man, Gov Wra Aiken —lie, under
the flimsy and miserable pretext of having
paired off with a man who tvas present himself,
dodged, and did not vote at all !
And now wiih his record fairly before you
elected upon the prnciples on which I was
elected- I submit it to your candor, if I would
not have exposed myself to the just son and
contempt of every good man of my district, of
any party, If I had voted for Henry M. Fuller
I voted for Win. A. Richardson, of Illinois.
I knew him. I had served with him in the
last Congress. I knew him to be the very
soul of honor. A man whose ‘word was as
good as his bond;’a man whose iarge heart
could take all the Union into its affections; a
man who was all seamed with scars received in
battles for the rights of the South; a man who
had been passed around by the Abolitionists,
(within black lines,J in woat they call their
‘roll of infamy,’ because of his gallant bearing
in those battles;a man who lias stood unmov
ed while mad fanaticism poured its vial of
wrath upon his head; a man who breasted the
storm in ‘its wildest ragings’ after passage of
the Kansas Nebraska bill; the man who bid
them a proud aud bold definance; the states
man who was our champion aud leader through
all the great struggles upon that bill, the
statesman who had counseled his friends in the
North to ‘stand and brave the fire without
flinching:’ the mau who full of courage and
patriotism, dares to do whatever his learge
heart approves and his uomoreliensive mind
suggests; and a man too, who is of the West,
western—who is of ns and with us 1 would
not l should nos, I do not hesitate for a mo
meat, which to choose—tnis man, or Henry M.
Fuller. WAS I NOT RIGHT.
* * * * *
It is but just to a large and respectable Pro
testant denomination —I allude to the regular
old Baptists—to say that they have never,
anywhere, at any time, under any circumstan
ce.-, eithej North or South, interfered iu poli
tical affairs.
* . * * # *
I have been often asked if 1 am not in favor
of recognizing the Whig party ? 1 answer
that, in t.he present condition of parties and
the country, in my j< dgement, such aud effort
can do no good, and might do great harm
I say to you, that we have no sound ma
terial North out of which to reconstruct that
party Look back at the [last. Every Whig
Representative horn the North, in 1849, vot
ed for the Wilmot proviso But three of them
out of seventy-three voted for the fugitive slave
law —that law which does but common justice
to the South, and which is commanded by the
Constitution itself ! Not one Whig north of
Masun and Dixion’s line voted for the Nebras
ka Kansas bill of 1854 ! On all these meas
ures a majority northern Democrats voted
with the South. Have we, then, not reached
that point, in the North, presupposed by Mr.
Clay when he said, Ts the whig party ever be
comes merged info contemptible Abilition
party, I will abandon it in disgust ? and should
not we, his old followers, take his implied
counsel and his proposed example, when lie
says, ‘I will act with that party, whatever its
name may be, that stands by the Constitution
and the Union?’ To endeavor now to to re
cognize the Whig party, would be but to de
vide aud distract the sound national men of the
South
Where have we an ally in the North, out
side of the democratic oigamzution ? These
allies have been true lo us iu the past V\ ith
a pm iotic devotion to the Union of the Stutes
ad a patriotic regard to the Const.tutionul
! rights of the South, they have barred their
Jeirtflgs—ll,oo, In
bcfsoms to the ragings of the storm —they have
stood unmoved, while malignity and fanati
cism have poured their firery torrents upon
them. I take them to my heart as political
bi other, and wear and cherish them there.
*****
All,every where,frcm Maine to Texas, speaks
the same language, declare the same principles
and rally under the same flag ? is not this
party national ? Contrast the resolves with
the fact, that the Know Kothing party, but
two years old, has managed,even in that short
time, to be in favor of secrecy agaiust secrecy,
in favor of test oaths against test oaths —in
some States for the Catholic test, in others
against Catholic test —on one side of the Union
for the twelfth section; and in their late con
vention, at one time the Southern chlivalry
bolt, at another the northern Frcsoilers bolt,
and tell me if you can support such a party,
even though Millard Fillmore is its candidate
for the Presidency 1
As to the Black Republican party, it now
has the the Speaker of the House of Kepresen
tatives. Encouraged by past successes, it has
become insolently bold, and grasps with an
eager hand for the reins of Government. If
it succeeds, if it elects a President, and gets
possesion of both Houses of Congress, it will
carry out its infamous circle of measures: the
repeal of the fugitive slave law, the abolish
ment of slavery in the District of Columbia,
interdict the inter slave trade between the
States, restore the Missouri restriction, and re
fuse to admit any more slave States I Who
is it that does not kuow the Union would not
survive an hour ? Our danger is not from
the Pope, not fiorn foreigners, but is from the
Abolitionists. What, then, is our first solemn,
patriotic duty ? It is that we should band
toget. her as one man It is that we should
each bring his former prejudices and lay them
down upon the alter of our country —that we
should leave the past to‘bury its own dead/
and look to and fight alone for the preserva
tion of the Constitution and the Union.
I have seen the democracy come down from
the North and up from the South, and gather
ing in solid column around the Constitution,
declare that the rights of the south, the just
eqallity of the States, the capacity of man for
self-government, are their bonds of brother
hood; that they will protect the Constitution
against ali the assaults of all the isms in the
land. While they continue to occupy the prond
position, lam with them and of them ! Un
der God, I believe that that the democratic
is he only political organization with which
we can beat back this abolition horde from
the Capitol. While I thus believe, 1 shall
continue to act with them; and when the fight
is done, when the victory is achieved, when
our gallant old ship is again afloat in the sun
shine and upon quiet seas, I shall turn round
to my democratic brethren, and if I have any
unadjusted quarrels, I will settle them then.
Specimens of ‘American’ Sentiment.
Albert Pike, of Arkansas, in Ins famous
protest, gives as one reason for his withdrawal
from the National Organization of the Ameri
can Party, the sentiments of the members of
the National Convention, who represent seve
ral of the Northern States. We have taken
the trouble to look through the proceedings of
that body, to cull some of the most striking
opinions promulgated by some of the ‘North
ern members.’ We commend them to the no
tice of Southern men. We quote from the N.
York Hera IB :
‘Mr. Webster, of lowa, consumed nearly
an hour in a weak, nigger worshipping speech.
“Mr. Campbell, of Pa., desired that the
party should ignore niggers altogether ; the
North could not be crowded upon any pro-sla
very, or Democratic, or Kansas platform.”
“Gov. Johnson, of Pa., said that out of 200
delegates in the State Council, only 30 voted
for the Philadelphia platform of 1856.”
“Mr. White, of Ohio, said he had bolted
on the 12th section of the Philadelphia plat
form, but knew he was wrong, and was willing
to agree to the doctrine of Squatter Sover
eignty.”
“Mr. Stambaugh, of Ohio, made a strong
negro worshipping speech, declaring that Ohio
would sectionalize on the February platform ;
which would awaken a feeling there almost
bitter enough for knives ; and not a district in
Ohio could be carried on it.”
“Mr. Richmond, of Mass., gave notice that
whatever the nominations may be, if the plat
form does not come up to the anti-slavery stan
dard of Massachusetts, she would repudiate
it”
“Mr. Thurston, of Mass., considered it a
disgrace that to be anti-slavery, should exclude
a man from being national.”
“Mr. Kellinger, of Pa., offered a resolution
declaring that the Convention would nominate
uo person for President or Vtce President who
was not in favor of interdicting slavery north
of 39 deg. 30 min.”
“Mr. Sheets, of Indiana, was in favor of
leaving paper platforms on the slavery ques
tion to the several Congressional Districts in
the country ”
“Mr Perkins, of Ct, demanded the resto
ration of the Missouri line. The North de
manded this as a plain, practical question, and
they intend to have it ”
“Mr Booth, of Ct., stated that Connecti
cut cannot, and will not endorse the l‘2th sec
tion of the Philadelphia platform of June
1855.”
Now be it remembered that these men were
members of the Convention which nominated
Fillmore for President, and Donaldson for
Vice President. How do you like these ‘Amer
ican’ seutiments ? Are you willing to belong
to a party which recoguizes them as members ?
It is but justice to say, that some of these
fellows retired from the Convention after Fill
more’s nomination. They did the same thing
in June, 1855, after the adoption of the plat
form, but they got back again then, and there
is every reason to believe that they will got
buck again, before the election, uuless the par
ty goes by the board before then.— Times
/Sentinel.
Smart Children. — A writer in Black
wood’s Magazine, thus discourses on the prac
tice of trying to stick “book lamin’’ in the
heads of children while they are yet “babies:”
t “How I have heard you, Eusebius, pity the
poor children 1 I remember your looking at
a group of theta; and reflecting, “For of such,
is the Kingdom of Hdavfen and turning
away thoughtfully and sayiiig, “Os such is the
kingdom of trade.” A dhild of three years oi
age with a book in its infant hands, is a feal* J
fnl sight ! It is too oftetl the death warrant,
such as the condemned stupidity looks at—fa
tal, yet beyond its comprehension. What should
a child three years old—nay, even five ©r sist
years old; —be taught ? Strong bleats for the
weakig|jgestk)n make not bodily strength. Let
there De nursery tales and nursery rhymes. I
would say to every parent, especially every
mother, sing to your children, tell them pleas
ant stories ; if in the country, be not too care
lul lest they get a little dirt upon their hands
and clothes ; earth is very much akin to us
all, and in children’s out of door play, soils
them not inwardly.
There is in it a kind of consanguinity be
tween all creatures ; by it we touch updu the
common sympathy of our first substance, and
beget a kindness for our poor relations, the
brutes. Let children have a free, open air
sport, and (ear not, though they make acquain
tance with the pigs, the donkeys and the chick
ens—they may form worse friendships with wi
ser looking ones ; encourage familiarity with
all that love to court them ; dumb animals love
children, and children love them. There is a
language among them which the world’s lan
guage obliterates in the elders. It is of more
importance that you should make your chil
dren loving, than you should make them
wise—that is, book wise. Above all things,
make them loving ; then will they be gentle
and obedient ; and then, also, parents, if you
become old and poor, these will be better than
friends, and will never forsake you.”
An Act
To raise the Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, Ac., That from and
after the Ist day of March next the jurisdic
tion of Justices of the Pence shall extend to
the amount f Fifty Dollars, principal, with
interest.
Sec. 2. That it shall and may be lawful for
all promissory notes, accounts, and all other
evidence of debt that do not exceed fifty dol
lars, to be sued before a Justice of the Peace
in a Justice Court, in the same manner as is
now prescribed by law, and when any person
shall be sued in a Justice Court on a sum that
exceeds thirty dollars, and a judgment obtain
ed against the party defendant, the defendant
within four days after the adjournment of said
Court upon paying all cost that may hare ac
crued, and giving good and sufficient security
for principal and interest involved in the case
shall have the right to stay the execution 60
days, and on all judgments obtained in a Jus
tices Court where the amount is thirty dollars
or under, the stay of execution shall be the
same as now prescribed by law.;
Approved March sth, 1856.
A Tempest in A Tea Pot.
We have read in the Constitutionalist, the
proceedings of a very indignant meeting in the
county of Union—the indignation being the
result of the veto of the Hiwassee Railroad
bill, by Gov. Johnson. We have read biter
er resolves—we have seen more angry assem
blages of men,but never read through so many
words, without finding more ideas The Un
ion county meeting made a great mistake in
making their public expression personally in
sulting to the Chief Magistrate. We are not
pretending to discuss the merits of the ques
tion in issue, but we cannot repress the mor
tification we feel for so uncalled for and illiber
al an attack upon the Governor, by men who
call themselves Democrats. Because the Ex
euctive would not sacrifice the interests of the
people of Georgia and enrich a few interested
parties in Georgia and South Carolina, by
opening a highway through one corner of her
territory for the ingress of produce into a
neighboring State, he is all at once an aristo
crat ! a tyrant ‘and unworthy the respect of
the meanest reptile that crawls the earth !
We know the friends of the measure were dis
appointed—they felt bad, but the circumstan
ces aud the occasion do not justify the anath
emas hurled at the head of the Chief Magis
trate. At, first we favored the bill offered by
Mr: Smith of Union—at least we saw no dan
ger lurking beneath its specious outside; but
after reading the veto message, were satisfied
of its impolicy, and the more we think on it,
the more confirmed in this opinion do we be
come. The ‘sober second thought’ will pro
duce a better feeling among the people of Un
county.—Fed Union.
Philadelphia, March 16—About halfpast
nine o’clock last night ferry boat New Jersey,
while crossing the Delaware to Camden, took
fire in the middle of the stream aud after great
difficulty, run upon the bar opposite Arch
street. There was about 100 passengers on
board; many of them ware rescued after cling
ing sometime to pieces of flloating ice. It is
asserted that over thirty passengers were
drowned and burnt, but so great was the con
fusion that it was impossible to gather any
authentic details The boat was burned to
the water’s edge —When her distress was first
pereeived, several steamers immediately went
to her assistance arriving too late to be of use,
as the passengers who were in the water had
nearly all been rescued by the small boats.—
thus iu the space of one week have we been
called upon to chronicle four fatal and heart
rending calamities.
A Shanghai hen near Porthmonth, Virginia
has laid an egg, through the halt transparent
shell of which could be read the inscription,
inside, ’’Fever will not return in 1856”! The
editor of Noifork Herald has seen the egg,
which was sent to him by Mr. Berry, the owner
of the hen. There were a number of Chinese
characters on the inside of the shell but these
were probably some Shanghai lays, and were
not intelligible to the good people about Nor
folk. It is not recorded that Wyman had
been in that neighbhood; neither had the
’’foolkiller’—that’s evident Columbxs Sun.
Small Pox. —This loathsome disease pre
vails in Hall and Gwinnett Couuties, and we
learn from a correspondent in Chattanooga
that there were twelve cases of the disease in
that place, on the 23d inst. Would it not be
well for our city authorities to be on the look
out to prevent the infection being brought to
this city? Our communication with Chattanoo
ga is so constant and direct, that the gratest
care will be necessaryto exclude the pestilence
from our limits.
wag adveftised in the N.Y. Her
ald for men with pick axes, watch dogs,
terriers and poodles; and that application
should be made at the office of Richard Bus
toed, Esq, or at that gentleman’s residence in
Madison avenue, New York. Ihe application
both places were so anoying that the police
were called upon to disperse the crowd.
No. 49.