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WEDNESDAY MORNING, April 15, 1856
Antiquity of Know Nofhingiam.--
Speeds of Mr. Olds, of Olsio.
We are indebted to the kindness of the Hon.
John H. Lumpkin, for a eopy of a speech delivered
by Mr. Olds, of Ohio, at a Democratic meeting re
cently held at Circieville, in that State. We have
carefully perused this speech, and pronounce it
among the ablest and soundest political documents
we have read for many a day. The Ohio Democ
racy have been charged with the taint of Aboli
tionism by the Southern K. X. Press. If they
w ill read the speech of Mr. Olds, and possess a
spark of magnanimity, they will straight way re
tract this unmerited charge. Mr. 0. takes the
same view of the question of Slavery, considered
politically, as the Southern Democratic politicians
do, and in this connexion, we will take occasion
to say, that there can be but one opinion on this
as a political question, among Democrats North
and South. It is one of the fundamental doctrines
of the National Democracy, that Congress has no j
right to interfere with Slavery either in the States I
of Territories, and he who does not subscribe to j
and abide by this principle, has no just claim to j
fellowship with the party. Mr. Olds handles the
Black Republicans and Know Nothings without
mittens, showing how they are both inimical to
Democratic Principles, the great principles .upon
which our Government has been administered for j
the greater portion of the last half century. We j
give clsewh re a short sp ci ncr. eft’ e speech, from j
which its general character can be judged. We j
regret that its great length and the contracted lim-!
its of our columns, forbid that we should attempt ‘
to lay the whole address before our readers.
Judge Warner’s Speech.
We invite attention to an extract from the
cpeech of the Hon. Representative from the Fourth !
Congressional District of Georgia, which we pub.
lishtoday. We have received but a single copy
and have only had the chance of a hasty
glance at it. The great anxiety on the part of his
numerous friends and admirers in this community
to read this first effort of Judge Warner, has forc
ed us to the necessity of loaning .it to cne and an
other, till it isworn almost threadbare. The argu
ment of Judge W. on the all absorbing question of!
slavery, is powerful and conclusive, and proves
that the Judge rs entitled to occupy as high a po-1
sitioa on the list of Statesmen, as he Las so long
maintained on the list of profound Jurists. This
effort, like all others heretofore emanating from
him, is remarkable for the plain, practical, logical,
common sense reasoning which characterises the
production. N o effort at rhetorical display up.
disdaining the tinsel of flowery language,
or flights of fancy, he drives with Herculean force
to the strong points of the questions he discusses
*ad prostrates with a giant’s power the puny arl
guments of bi3 fanatical adversaries. We hope
before long to be able to lay the speech, entire, be
fore our readers, that they may see for themselves
how ably their rights have been vindicated by
their worthy Representative.
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TSie Weather and the Crops.
Stern Winter has at length relaxed its icy grasp
and genial Spring, with sunshine and reviving
warmth is upon us. We have for the last week been
favored with open, pleasantereather, the buds are
expanding, flowers opening, and dormant nature
seems to be rapidly waking up to o<?w life and ex
istence. The farmers have generally finished plant
ing their crops ot com, and are now putting in
their cotton seed. The small grain crops are im
proving rapidly, oats begin to grow, and wheat
looks well where there are good stands. On some
farms the severe winter has destroyed much of the
stand of wheat and left it too thin, but this is by
■no means general. Fruit has not yet been in the
least injured, in this vicinity, and if we can escape
x>ne week longer, the late frosts, this crop will prob
ably be more abundant than for several years past.
Look up farmers, there is a better day a coming,
and that not very distant.
The Atlanta Examiner.
Our cotemporary of the Examiner, is disposed
to make merry over a small notice which we in
serted in our issue of two weeks ago, in inference
to the existence of Small Pox in LaGrange at that
time. We are pleased to find our friend in such
good spirits, as it indicates a prosperous condition
of his valuable paper, and we are always gratified
to know that our brethren of the Press are doing
well, let our own prospects be ever so gloomy.—
We are not disposed to retort upon our brother by
throwiug into his teeth the thousand and one ty
pographical errors with w hich his sheet has abound
ed, for the last five or six months, but will, as far
as our acts and words are concerned, cover them
over with the mantle of fraternal charity, and hide
them forever from the gaze of a captious world.—
The little er"or in the date of our paper, was occa
sioned by our Foreman’s not having the list of the
twelve calendar months before him, and not recol
lecting distinctly the order in which they stood,
made May immediately succeed March; forgetting
at the time, that there was such a month as April
in the calendar. After printing a few copies of
the paper, however, the error was fortunately dis
covered and corrected. The Examiner, standing
first on our list of Exchanges, as it does in our af
fections, happened to receive one of the unlucky
copies which has proveu truly unlucky to us. We
hope this explanation, though a very poor one, will
be fully satisfactory to our cctunporary, remem
bering the old maxim which says, “a poor apology
is better than none.”
Railroad Meeting.
citizens of Spalding who may feel in.
forested in the construction of the projected Mid*
die Ground Railroad, which is to connect Coving
ton with Columbus, and to run via of McDonough,
Griffin, Greenville, and Hamilton, arc respectfully
requested to convene at the City Hall on Saturday
next, at 2 o clock, P. M., for the purpose of con
sulting with regard to the propriety of appointing
some suitable day ou which delegates from the re
spective counties interested in the enterprise, will
be invited, for the purpose of taking some action
n regard to the construction of said Road.
Pifae Superior Court.
We had the pleasure of spending a few days in
Zebulon last week, in attendance upon the session
of the Superior Court of Pike county. This was
the first opportunity we had enjoyed of seeing
Judge Green presiding. We were pleased to find
our expectations fully realised in the ease, grace,
dignity and efficiency with which he does the hon
ors of the bench. His energy and industry may be
inferred from the fact that although two weeks are
allowed by law for Pike Court, he dispatched all
the business ready for trial in the short space of
five days, and on Friday evening adjourned the
Court till Court in course. The newly appointed
Judge is likely to be very popular with the bar, as
well as the people, and a persistence in the course
thus auspiciously begun, will no doubt ensure his
election by the people in January next. This sum
mary disposal of the business of the Court, works
isl to no one, except our friend, Capt. Tyler, the
gentlemanly proprietor of the Zebulon Hotel, who
had prepared good things enough for two weeks,
when his guests only remained one week to par
take of his bountiful supplies. Better luck next
time, Captain.
We met many of our old comrades of former
days, and exchanged friendly salutations with them
and had substantial evidences from many of our
subscribers, of their due appreciation of our hum
ble. labors in their service. We were also honored
with an invitation from our friend Mr. N. to spend
an evening at his hospitable mansion, which we
gladly accepted, and partook of his cordial hospi
tality, which was doubly enhanced by the presence
and conversation of his kind and amiable lady
We are fond to revisit occasionally scenes endeared
to us by so many pleasant associations, and though
while at Zebulon we missed many faces upon which
we used fondly to look, yet we found many of the
old standards of Democracy still remaining, with
whom we had in days gone by, stood shoulder to
shoulder in many a hard fought political battle.—
The memory of thosa days, and of those events,
will linger around our heart till it shall cease from
its pulsations iu the peaceful and quiet repose of
the gra re.
MajorEitford asset else Kansas Emi
grants.
Thi3 gentleman .left Columbus a lew days since,
as we stated in our iast issue, with a number of
Lmigrants for Kansas. We learn from our ex
changes that the number was considerably increas
ed at Montgomery and still further additions of
men and money were made in Mobile, which place
he left for New Orleans with some six hundred
men. It is presumed that the company will be
swelled to one thousand at the latter place. We
are gratified that Major B’s efforts in behalf of the
cause of Kansas, have been crowned with such
flattering success. Be has been laboring for
months to arouse the people of Georgia and Ala
bama to a sense cf the importance of sending aid
and comfort to our friends in Kansas Territory.
The force he will carry to our struggling friends,
who are already on the battle-field, will convey joy
and comfort to their hearts, now throbbing wi<h
painful anxiety, as to the result of the contest in
which they have so gallantly enlisted. May their
numbers increase till the black flag of Abolition
i ism shall be driven in discomfiture and disgrace
j from ihe soil it now desecrates.
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- Arilaur’a Magazine
Wc were very agreeably surprised, a few days
. ago, on receiving this valuable Periodical for May,
| being considerably iu advance of its usual lime of
j arrival. This promptitude shov.s-a commendable
’ diligence and good management on the part of the
j Proprietor and Publisher, which we trust will meet
their merited reward. The present number is
worthy of perusal, and sustains fully the former
well deserved reputation of this Journal.
A a Editor isa Luck.
Our friend Howard, of the Atlanta Intelligencer,
seems of late to have become the peculiar favorite
oi fortune. W e learn “by the hearing of the ear”
that he has recently received the lucrative appoint
ment of Agent of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, at Atlanta—been appointed Post Master at
Atlanta, and secured the printing business of the
W. &A. Railroad. All this, as well as a good
slice of the Stale Printing, for the next session,
which he procured at the late session of the Legis
lature, must open up a bright future to our broth
er Howard. He must not expect, however, to re
pose upon a bed of roses, while filling these mani
fold responsible trusts, but the hope of ample re
ward must be his main consolation. We trust he
may be able to lay up an abundant supply from
1 these various sources of revenue, so that when we
j poor hungry Democratic Editors shall have been
| starved out in the service of the party, he may
: have wherewith to bestow charity upon his less
fortunate co-laborers. Go it my brother; make
hay while the sun shines, for when the Know Noth
ings get the control of things, they’ll throw you a
lofty fall.
The Lion changed to the Lamb.
Bishop Pierce, on his late visit to the West,
for the purpose of holding the conference of the
Indian Methodists, relates the remarkable fact that
the celebrated Jim Henry, the leader of the hostile
Cicek Indians, at tne time Roanoke, in Stewart
county, was burnt, was received into the connex
ion as an itinerant preacher, at that conference.
Jim Henry was a noted character in Georgia afld
Alabama about the years of 1836 and 1837, as the
leader of the savage band of Creek Warriors, which
for a time struck terror and dismay among the
frontier inhabitants of Georgia and Alabama, lie
was finally taken prisoner by our troops, and
brought to Columbus, but was released at the close
of the war, and emigrated to the West with the
remnant of his tribe. This instance of the power
of God’s grace to change the heart and molify the
savage and rebellious disposition, even of the wild
man of the forest, is a strong proof of the truth
of revelation, and foreshadows the final triumph of
the gospel, when “tne Wolf shall lie down with the
Lamb and the Leopard with the Kidd, and nation
shall no more lift up sword against nation.”
Kansas Emigrants,
Hugh M’ Moore,Esq.and several other gentlemen
from Sumpter cofenty, passed through this place,
on Saturday last, en route for Kausas. Mr.
Moore was Secretary of the Senate of Georgia, at
the session of 1853—a lawyer of respectable stand
ing—a gentleman of undoubted character, and a
sterling Democrat. He goes out to the seeno of
strife to examine the country, uud aid in securing
the rights of his native South against the machi
nations of the abominable hordes of Aboliliovists,
which are bent ou our destruction. He will re
main in the Territory till after the election, and
will then probably make a permanent settlement
in that country. Our good wishes accompany him
and his brave comrades in their patriotic enter
prise.
The Medical Reformer anti Review.
From the April number of this Journal, just re
ceived, we learn that Professors Cox & Loomis l
have retired from their former position as Editors,
and been succeeded by Professors Lochraue &
Bankston. Prof. Lochrane salutes the readers of
that Periodical with a very neat address, exhibit
ing his great capacity a3 a graceful ‘hujeogent
writer. Prof. Bankston’s long connexion with the
Medical Profession, and his experience as a wri
ter and lecturer upon medical subjects, eminently
qualify him for the editorial chair of a Medical Pe
riodical. Under the joint superintendence of these
gentlemen, we anticipate for the Reformer & Re
view, an enlargement of its sphere of usefulness,
and a brilliant career in its onward progress in
support of medical reform.
Small Pox.
This loathsome disease seems to be invading ma
ay parts of our State. It has made its appearance
in Talbotton, and one person is said to have died
with it in that village. From the Sandersville
Georgian we learn it has broken out in Irwinton,
Wilkinson county, in consequence of which, the
buperior Court ol that county rvas adjourned over
on the first day of its term. It would be well for
all to keep a sharp took out for its movements.
BJor the Empire State.
Grl/lin Female College—Mr. Martin’s Lecture.
Mr. Editor : I very unexpectedly had the pleas
ure of listening to the opening lecture in the above
College for the present Term, on Friday night last,
by the Rev Mr. Martin, upon the subject of “Me
terorites,” delivered before the Pupils of the Col
lege, and a large and very attentive audience. Ihe
subject was most ably handled—the lecturer en
chaining his audience for about an hour. These
lectures, though designed for the immediate.benefit
of the Young Ladies of the College, are free to all,
and all may derive much information from them.
We were truly very much edified with the one we
listened to on Friday night.
President Morrow gave notice that the lectures
would be continued on every pleasant Friday even
ing during the Term. We also observed that Prof.
Briggs’ Class in Vocal Music have not degenerat
ed any from their former proficiency, judging from
the specimens they gave us on the opening and
closing of the lecture. Prof. Briggs, wc believe,
“holds lorth” next Friday night, when, at the re
quest of many who were unable to hear it when
delivered last Term, he will repeat his Essay on
•‘American Scenery.” A. B. C.
For the Empire State.
Deer Mr. Editor : Army body would naterally
spose if they was to see cur Church, that it was
finniehedan furnished all eempkat, but they’d be
dreliently mistaken Why thar is a sewin’ cociety
that dont do army thing but work for the Church,
and more an ahas a dozen emmuitty’s ol ladies
goes about every little wile begin, coaxin and
wheeulin to get money to buy this, that and the
other piece of fixin for cur Church. To tell the
truth, it is a tcribelevtravegant Church. I’m aferd,
and the sooner we manage to get it fixed about
rite the better it’ll be for poor fokes, for would
you believe it, there is some fokes eaven hear that
ain't got so many close as they orter to have, nor
near euuf patuters or bred, lettin alone afire to
cook ’em with. 1 found that out a wile ago by
wachin Breuster wen he goes about in the kichen
and pant trey. ‘Why he. and cossin Mary have put
vi ttels arid close iu baskets, and doged ’em out ol
the back door all winter, and I nearer found out
what it meat till a lew days ago. Breuster used to
tell me wen I axed him wat he did it for, tlmt he
was goin’ to let Lize or Clem tumbel ’em in the
gutter to git rid of ’em, but I deciair I hev seen
cum of ’em very close runuin’ ’bout the streats on
little cur ley negers, and Ide bet the bred was just
balked. I've cuut him pokin’ ‘bout the house for
baby close, wen hies you, he didn’t no wat a baby
needed, but got sum of Fiery '3 pairymittys and
her muslens. Fiery and i took the jo bin hand)
and if we didn’t surprise that p c -or little wornman
that had the uaiked baby with a basket full ofpur
ty coats and things, then I reckon you never seen
a well dressed be by !
Warn tla tellin ’bout the Church and the sew
in’ society and the comraites ? Wei, seemes to me
I was. One commite was a Fountain commite. —
They was a begin to get a wite marbel Fountain,
(you no wat a Fountain is, I reck in.) If you don’t
I’ll tell you. It is a cup or a big bole to hold the
waiter for sprinklin of babes in babtizzeu. They
had'bout has the money razed. ThcQ there is
another commite try ing to get a grand, new chand
lcar to hang up to those rafters over head. Them
and the winder cqmmites do have a letle the great
est time'3 ’bout their affairs. Now somebody is a
tryiu’ to get a commite ou a geld communion tea
kittle an plaits, just as if crockkery wash t good
enuf. Wei, I didn’t cair’bout the chandlair.be
cause I’ve scan ’em ; 1 nould like a winder full of
picters out of the Bible. That would be some
thing grand in sermon time. So wen the eband
lair commite came hear, and noboddy was to hum
but me, and they was very perlite, and expashiated
’bout the chaiidiair, and so on, I jist said, “I fealt
sory, it was unfortunit, but I didn’t happen to have
any money on hand just then, or I should, prehaps>
have some to give. As it was, I hadn’t a pica
yune.” The little black eyed wommen with the
satten mantiilcr, she said it wasn’t a bit of matter
—not a bit. “Don’t you trouble yourself,” says
she, “there is no compulshun, no compulshuu, not
at all, my dear ; you can say no. if you like.” So
they gathered up their flounces,and went offspark
lin and tustlin along like a cuppel of cats a hoJdiu
roosters, so that his tail {others should civer up
their heads. Couseu Breuster said if one of them
wiratnen would sell her saten mantiller, it would
just buy a* nioe chandlair ; but mercy on us, that
would be axiu tu much of one alone, on the whole,
I ruthcr think the satten nmntillers, if they go to
meetir reglav, (I declare I forgot to say Church 1)
If they go to Church reglar, they will make it look
as grand as ahas dozen chandlairs, for they cost a
deal more. Mr. Buttersidc says Mrs. Goldball is
ihe greatest ornament of the Church, and 1 really
think she is, carrage, feathers, flounces and gold
clasped him books. She is rather conspickus any
way, but every body expects it of her and sets her
tine things douu on the spout; of goodworks. Her
nice brother, and her detir MiVLG.t>sfball, (you nev
er seen so effeeshunate a wife,) treat her as if *he.
was tu clean and tu .little to-tfe- trusted in a crowd
by herself. Mrs. Goldball sent word That she Want
ed us all to cum round to her house and dine next
weak. 1 don’t mean she sent word. Dear me, she
writ it all off on a piece of paper that smelt as
good as patchluy, and had a strip of gold around
its edge too. Flory saya we must all go, and I
spec vye shall go. But lor a massy, I have looked
over what 1 have writ, an I iiud 1 have got tilings
sorter mixed up ; but never a mind. 1 declair I
can’t, think of etery thing now, but there’s more
to saj—you can think wat it is yourself, and some
other time I will tell you about Mrs. Goidball’s
dinner. Yours tel deth doth us forever part,
BKTfcsEY BROOM CORN-
For the Empire State.
Sir : An anecdote, or even a joke, carrying no
personality, will some times teach a good lesson in
social morals, consequently unobjectionable. It
gives Attic salt to conversation and vitality to
friendly intercourse, and social feeling. It violates
no amoral obligation. By exciting risibility, it
contributes to liealth, both of mind and body.—
“Laugh and grow fat.” But there is another side
of the question. To all persons, whose minds pos
sess correct taste by proper cultivation and moral
refinement, there is nothing more Unpleasant than
that little word and thing, but powerful in effect,
called tattle or scandal. The Homans,had amongthem
a proverbial laying, ‘lts a fiilthy bird that befouls
its own nest,’ Esopalso hasn fableteachingthe injus
tice and ingratitude ofbeating the old hound, which
after long faithful service, had lost his teeth, be
cause he could not hold on to the game after over
taking it. One of the best rules of behaviour in
society, is to overlook the faults of others, aud prac*
tice constant and close self-examination ; to carry
the end of the wallet of life containing your neigh
bor’s errors behind you, the other end containing
your own before you. ihis you will always find,
the fullest. * Mind yourown business, and you will
have enough to do, and, if well done, it will be
much to your praise, and all will give you due cred
it. More than all, vou will live and die happy.
C. D. F.
Speech oftlse.HON. E.B. OLDS, at a
Democratic Meeting at Circleville
Ohio.
*****
Though secondary in importance, yet being
first, in chronological order, you will allow me
to bestow a few passing remarks upon the
Know Nothing organization.
Most secret societies claim great antiquity.
The Masons date back to the building of Solo
mon’s Temple. The Odd-Fellows to the cov
enant between Johnathan and David, record
ed in the history of the first King of Israel.—
The Kechabites, to the life and time's of Jona.
dab. But Know Nothiugism, can with more
clearness, be traced back almost to the ‘fall of
man.’ For in die days of Adam and Eve, it
is rccorded’that ‘Cain talked with Abel his
brother, and it came to pass when they were
in the field, that Cain rose up against his bro
ther and slew him.* And the Lord said unto
Cain, where is Abel thy brother ? and he said
i Kuow Not ’ This is the first account we
have of Know Nothiugism. To the “1 know
not’ 4 of Cain may be ascribed, not only the
name ‘Know Nothings,” but also this peculiar
distinguishing feature of their organization,
‘deception and falsehood ’ Such a reprobate
was this great founder of-the order, that the
Almighty cursed him as a vagabond, and set
his mark upon him, and he went out from the
presence of the Lord and established Knov.
Nothiugism in the land of Nod For Laim.ce
the great great giandson of Cain ‘said unto
his two ‘wives Adah and Zilah, hear ray voice
ye wives of Lantech, unto my speech
for i have slain a man 10 my wounding,, and a
young man to my hurt, it Cain shall be aveng
ed seven loid, truly Lantech seventy and seven
fold. ’
he order then was founded in falschue and
and blood, as witnessed by ihe murders ol
Cai:: and Lantech, and 10 mis day its onward
course is marked by rapine and bUod-shed as
witnessed by the Native and Know Nothing
riot in Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Louis
ville.
Ihe next event in Know Noihingism, in
chronological order, to which I shall advert,
you will find recorded in the old Levitical law
By this time it appears that in addition to nmr
tier and biood-sheu, oppression of foreigners
or strangers had been me one of the distinguish
ing features of the t ruer. The pratt.ee had
I ceome so common, even among God’s own
peculiar people, the eh klren of Israel, that
the Almighty i itusilf, in the old Levitical law
made an express provision agsimt it. You
will find it recorded I think in Leviticus, 19th
chapter, Sod and 34th verses Buts lam mis
taken in the chapter and ver-e, you may r, ad
on until you find it, the reading will do you
no harm. *t is in these words:
“And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye
.shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwellcth with you,
he shall be uuto yon as one bom among you, an thou shah
love him as thyself: for ye were strangers in, the laud ol
Egypt. lam the Lord your God.”
The analogy between the condition of the
children of Israel, and the people of the Unit
ed States, is too striking not t merit a pass
ing notice. They had in the land of Egypt
been subject to the utmost oppression of tin
K now Nothing Pharoahs. The Almighty him
self, with a strong arm had delivered them,
and brought them into a land flowing with
milk and honey. The Canaanites had been
driven from tfieir homes and lands, in order
to make room for the people of Israel. Y r et
no sooner were they established in the land of
Canaan, than they turned Know Nothings, and
became so oppressive to foreigners aud stan
gers, ns to call forih the direct interposition
of the Almishty In like manner our fathers
were subjected to the know nothing oppres
sion of the old world. Religious persecution
and intolerance drove them across the broad
Atlantic to the s ores of North America.—
The same overruling Providence that watched
over and gun! L them whi'e crossing the bois
terous ocean, drove back the Indian Tribes,
and established our Pilgrim fathers in this
“land of the free arid tLo home of the brave’
And now although we ourselves have scarcely
ceased being stiangers, where once roamed
the wild savages of the forest jhaving possessed
ourselves of their homes, and their pleasant
hunting grounds, like the rebellious Israelites,
our people are waging a war of extermination
against the stranger, and rallying under the
Know Nothing cry of “death and destruction
to all foreigners.”
Condition of Walker’s Army.—We lravfi so
many, and such contradictory reports of Walker's
army in Nicaragua, that it seems quite impossible
to arrive at the truth
The New York Sun pretends to have private
intelligence from reliable sources as to the condi
tion of the army, and says that “tho reports sent
to the United States are fabricated here, regarding
the dissatisfaction of AValker’s troops, are utterly
baseless. Men and officers, with rare exceptions,
are contented and enthusiastic-in the cause they
have espoused. They are paid regularly to the
last farthing, and every way better provided for
than they could have expected. The reports of
sickness have also been exaggerated. Not a man
has suffered from sickness, except from dissipation,
or his own indiscretion. Gen. Walker will not
want for money or means to defend himself against
his enemies iu Central America. There are capi
talists at New York and at the South, who are ad
vancing money. They advance as much and av
fast as wanted.”
It is estimate ! that tho yield of gold in
California during the year 1856 will amouut to
about sixty millions of dollars.
Productions of Kansas'.
Gen. Whitfield Territorial Delegate from ’Kan
sas, writes a letter confirming all that has been
said of the inducements which that Territory offers
to emigrahts. “VVe quote as follows:
In regard to soil, Kansas is unsurpassed, pro
ducing from sixty to eighty bushels of Corn per
acre —twenty-five to forty bushels of wheat per
acre. The finest oats I have ever seen grow, we
raise in Kansas. In fact, I have seen nothing
planted iu Kansas (except cotton) that does not
produce more to the acre than on the best lands in
Tennessee.
Besides being a fine grain and grass country, it
is a part of the hemp region of the United States.
Hemp is decidedly the most profitable crop now
raised, and the statistics will show that the plant
ers of Western Missouri rre making more money
per hand than is made in any other Btute in the
Union. It is nothing uncommon for farmers to
pay three hundred dollars hire for negro men per
year.
I was raised in Tennessee, and have been in near
ly every State in the Union, and I say to you in
all candor, that I have never seen any country that
possesses as many advantages to new or old set
tlers as Kansas. Our friends in Western Missouri
—with similar soil to Kansas, make from six to
eight huddred dollars a hand per annum. This will,
I have no doubt, seem large to you, but I assure
you it is strictly true.
I'he climate of Kansas I regard as being far bet
ter than in Tennessee; from first September until
first March, we have but little'rain—mostly clear
dry weather. The past winter has been, though,
colder than ever known before. Our country I re
gard as very healthy; in some localities chills and
fever prevail to some extent—we have no pulmona
ry diseases in Kansas. In regard to supplies you
can procure anything you may want in Missouri
—if you get to Kansas by May or June you can
raise plenty of corn. Our lands are ready cleared
—you can make your locution or.e day’ end com
mence farming next.
[Cor. of the Sav. Journal.]
Washington, April 1, 1856.
The lion. Mr. Warner, of Georgia delivered a
calm, argumentative and able speech in the House
to-day, and was listened to with fixed attention by
the most quiet and respectful audience I have
looked upon this session. Uis speech was cf a
character not admitting of a busty and graphic
sketch. It was a clear and philosophic argument
in proof of the assumption that negro slavery,
wherever it exists, is sustained Ly the law of,na
tions. lie quoted authorities in proof of this posi
tion, some ei which were v.eli admitted in English
legal and legislative tribunals. He also assumes
that slavery exists in the Uniiid States by virtue
of the Constitution of the republic, and that its ex
istence in the t err if cries it undoubted, until inhib
ited by legislation.
Mr. Allicon, of Fenufylvania, on rising to reply,
remarked that lie would do so with the greatest
pleasure, because of the spirit that manifestly in
fluenced the Representative from Georgia, whose
sincerity was only equalled by the gentlemanly
courtesy he had exhibited. The House, Air. Alli
son remarked, needed such an example, and he hop
ed its influence might be felt in the future bearing
of its members.
Death of Youtsg Kamimmd.
Our readers will remember the horrible death of
Amos W. Hammond, Jr., who was found on the
morning of Christmas last, affixed to the cow catch
er of the passenger engine of the Macon & West
ern Railroad. We stated iu our notice of the af
fair that suspicions were afloat that the young man
had been foully dealt with. Nothing,however, de
finite at that time could be proven, and the matter
has remained to the present a mystery to those who
believed otherwise than that his death was the re
mit of ait accident. At length, however, after the
lapse of three mouths, the question of young Hum
moud's death has been revived. We learn that a
woman Ly the name of Taylor appeared before the
Grand Jury on Tuesday, and charged two men, by
th.e uauie of Taylor and Harrison, and a woman
by the name of Davis, with the murder of Ham
mond. We have not learned the nature of her
testimony; it was sufficient, however, to induce
the Grand J ary to find true bills against all the
parties The woman, Davis, bus been arrested ;
Taylor succeeded iu escaping, after being shot at
bv the £ her iff. Harrison, wo learn, is iu jail at
Chattanooga.
The entire matter w ill soon undergo the investi
gation of a regular trial, w hen w e will inform our
readers of the
Worn tin’s lliglits in the Xetr York
legislatures
It strikes Us,-says the Savannah Journal, that
the subject of ‘‘Woman's Rights” is admirably
treated in a late report of the Judiciary Commit
tee of the New York Legislature. Having lmd
under mature consideration a great number of pe
titions and memorials bearing on t.ne (as Carlyle
would say) condition of Woman Question, mar
ried men on the committee made a report from
which wc quote as follows ;
‘The Committee say that they are enabled to
state that ladies always have the best piece and
choicest titbit at the table. They have the best
seat in the ears, carriiges and sleighs; the warjnest
place in Winter and tho coolest place in Summer.
They have the choice on which side of the bed they
will lie, front or back. A lady’s dross cost three
times as much as that of a gentleman, and at the
present time, with the prevailing fashion, ouc lady
occupies three times as much space iu the world as
a gentleman. t
“It has thus appeared to the married gentlemen
of your Committee, being a majority, (the bache
lors being silent,) that if there is any inequality or
oppression in the case the gentlemen are the suffer
ers. They, however, have presented no petition
for redress, having doubtless made up their minds
to an inevitable destiny.
“On the whole, the Committee have concluded
to recommend uo measure except that, as they
have observed, several instances in which husband
and wife have both signed the same petition, in
such case they would recommend the parties to ap
ply for a law authorizing them to change dresses
so that the husband may wear tho petticoats and
tho wife the breeches, and thus indicate to their
neighbors and the public the true relation iu which
they stand with each other.”
Lathi from Santa Fe. —St. Louis, April
3, —Santa Ke advices have been ie;eived iu
this city stating that two hundred and sixty
troops had been ordered by General Garland
to invade the Gilo country, and to seek redress
for tbe murders and robberies cf the Apaches.
NEWS ITEMS.
Cotton Burned.
On Tuesday last a car load of Cotton took fire
on the Macon & Western Railroad, about three
miles below this city, and was entirely consumed.
The cars at each end of the burning car were de
tached by the conductor of the train, and thus
preserved from damage. The total loss., of the
company is supposed to be some $2,000. Some
thirty of thirity-five bales of cotton were burnt
with the car containing them.— American Union.
A Considerable Item.
Within the last twenty years, according to the
showing of the Secretary of the Treasury, upwards
of three hundred millions of dollars have been lost
by tlic defalcation of the officials of that depart
ment. The most of them attempted to take shel
ter under the wings of the Bankrupt Law, but Mr.
Secretary Guthrie, backed by the opinion of able
lawyers, has come to the conclusion that said law
did not relieve those indebted to the government.
He is consequently tracking up these defaulters,.-
and intends to try the strong arm of the Judicia
ry in making them toe the official mark. He is
said to have realized already about thirty millions
of dollars of this kind of indebtedness.— Da-ly In
telligencer.
The Small Pox in Talbotton.
We understand that there has recently bccn !
a well defined ease of this loathsome disease in Tal
botton, which resulted fatally. It was brought
thither by the unfortunate gentleman, fronfoTre of
the Northern cities, whither he had been to trans
act some business. Every precaution has been ta-”
ken by the citizens of the village to prevent its
spread, which it is hoped will prove effectual. It
is also reported that the disease also exists in sev-’
era! places that are in Railroad and stage connec
tion with this city. The question therefore natu
rally arises, “have we any vaccine matter among
us V” If yea, will not our “City Fathers” take
steps to have the people vaccinated as far as pos
sible. It is their duly to guard alike the health
and morals of the city, and we doubt not they will
punctiliously discharge it..— Corner Stone.
I income of Western &, Atlantic Rail
road.
Foi March, 18f>6.
From Freights, $81,568 32
“ Passengers 16.565 70 4
“ Alai!,. 1,895 83*
Atlanta Intelligencer, April 11.
Rome Advertiser states that that town
now numbers about 5,000 inhabitants, and that by ‘
the census of 1848, it had then only 580. Her’
railroad and the navigation of the upper Coosa -
river, have contributed very largely to this great
increase and prosperity of Rome.
Major Buford’s Company, bound fur Kan
sas Territory, left Columbus on Friday morning,
4th inst.. for Montgomery. Ilia colonists number
ed about 140 or 150, of whom some 40 or 50 join
ed him nt Columbus. 30 came from South Caroli- •
mi. uiukr the direct ion of Cap’. Bel!, of Edgefield, -
and the balance were brought up by Maj. B. from
Barbour, and ether counties in Alabama. About
$l,lOO were subscribed for the cause in Colunibas
— -Citron. Sen. •
Kansas Mittixg in Mehiwethfi: County
The citizens of Merriwether have already sett
out nine young men to Kansas, and twenty to •
twenty-five men, headed by F A Boykin, Esq.
are preparing to follow them The citizens of
the county intends to defray their expenses.—
At a recent meeting held at Greenville, April
4th, three hundred and fifteen dollars were
raised, and banded ovc-r to Judge WHiite, of
Kansas.
Tiie .State flail Hoad,
j The Atlanta InUlligcucer of Friday morning
I states that “In about two weeks, the line of
| roacl from Atlanta to Dalton (about one
] huiidvcod miles) will be laid with heavey T
I rail, and the road will soon be in receipt of an
j additional IGO ) tons, enough to furnish the cn
i tire line v\ itii the same iron. Four more of the
i number of lir.-t class engines ordered out last
I spring have arrived, and we soon will have an
! equipment second to that of no road in tho
country of the length of the State work. We
have no doubt that our resources in this
respect arc decidedly superior Our freight
cars number now four hundred and fifty of
first rate constrm tion, and we are at this
j time using only fifty-five cars of any other
j road whatever. F- r mutual convenience that
j number of the East Tennessee cars are cm-
J ployed ‘ V the Western & Atlantic rail road.
| Const ii'.iiknalist.
The New Dome for the Cafetol.—The
estimated cost of the new dome to be placed
on tho Capitol at Washington City, D. C.
is §946,009, or, say $1.U00,000, in round
numbers. It Is to be of cast iron, and surely
ought to be a. very maguifieentaffair for that
money. The national Capitol, with its ira- •>
raeu.se additions and i.cw dmno, will be not
only the 1 argot, but one of the most expensive
edifices devoted to legislative business in the
wo Id.
Ca:i)i<.itknt El(lon<
Columbia, April 9.
The opponents of the Administration have a
majority of twenty-eight iu the House, and
one in the Senate.
April 9 P. M.—The majority of the Fusion
ists on joint ballot is 12.
Mail Robbery—Five Thousand Dollars Sto
len.—The Indianapolis (lnd ) Journal, ofthe27th
ult., states that on the 7th or Bth of March, Mr
Doming, tho mail agent, missed a Chicago mail,
and lie had reason to believe it was lost at Michi
gan City. Accordingly special officers were ap
pointed to detect the thief, and suspicion having
fallen upon Thomas McDonald, an Irish watchman
at the railway office iu that place, bo was closely
watched. A few days after, the mails failed to
Connect, and tho bags that were lying over were
placed in a room which was under tho eye of the
officers. There McDonald was observed stealthily
to enter by a wiudow, undone of the offkais im
mediately raised a pistol, and ordered him “to
stand or die,” He was secured, and the officers
proceeded at once to search his house. They found
a mail bag, fullot opened envelopes, <fcc. They de.
marided of the prisoner’s wife tho money and par
pers which her husband bad taken from the letters..
She showed them a large trunk in which the plun
der was concealed, and on opening they discovered
8800 or 8900 in cash, and near 84,000 indrafts,—
This made a tolerably plain case. McDonald was
shipped for Indianapolis ejarly next morning. His
wife quite a good lookiug young woman, accompar
uied him. McDonald is a stout and not a bad
looking man, who had, up to the time of his ar
rest. borne a good character.