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Vol. 2.
THE EMPIRE STATE
13 PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
By A. A. Gaulding
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in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and
3 in the afternoon, at the Court House, in the county in
which the Land is situated. Notice of these sales must he
given in a public Gazette forty days previous to the day of
sale.
Sales of Negroes must be made at public auction on the
first Tuesday of the month, between the usual bouts ot sale,
at the place of public sales in the county where the Letters
Testamentary, or Administration, or Guardianship may
have been granted—first giving forty days notice thereof in
‘one of the public Gazettes of the State, and at the Court
House where such sale is to be held.
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like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to Del)tors aud Creditors of an Estate, must be
published forty days.
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dinary for leave to sell Land, must be published tor two
months.
Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published two
onths before any order absolute shall be made thereon by
ke Court.
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ly six months ; for Dismission from Guardianship, forty
days.
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tlos from Executors and Administrators, where a bond has
, t-en given by the deceased, for the space of three months
JOSErU K . THRASHER, JAMES M. HAMBKtC'K
THRASHER & HAMBRICK,
ATTORNEYS AT LA W,
McDonough,. Georgia.
April 30, 1856 1...Ay
DOYLE & RANSONE,
ATTORNEYS A T LAW,
Griffin, Georgia.
April 16, 1856 50 3m
LEONARD T. DOYAL,
ATTORNEY‘ A T L A W,
McDonough, gin.,
WILL practice in the counties of Henry, Fulton, Fay
ette, Coweta. Spalding, Butts, Monroe and Newton
Bar Reference—
April 2, 1856 48....1y
JAMES H. Si ARK,
ATTORNLY A T L A W ,
Griffin, Georgia..
WILL practice in the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and
in the Supreme Court at Atlanta and Macon.
Keh. 13, 1856 .. .41... ly
JARED IRWIN WHITAKER,
A TTOR NBY AT LA W,
Office front Rooms, over John R. Wallace & Pros., corner
of White Hall aud Alabama streets,
ATLANTA, GEOKGiA.
January SO, 1856 ts
W. L. GORDON,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA
January 30, 1856 39 ly
IIENRY HENDRICK,
ATTORNEY A T L A W ,
Jackson, Butts County, Georgia.
May 3, 1855. ts
DANIEL sTdISMUKE,
Attorneys at Law,
Will practice in the District Court of the United States
at Marietta. _
Griffin, . Georgia.
L. R. DANIEL, F< D - DISJfUKE.
MayS, 1855.
W. POPE JORDAN,
Attorney at Law,
Ecbulon, Georgia.
WILL practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit.
May 3, 1855. ts
J. 11. MAIN GUAM, j
Attorney Xaaw,
GrKIF'KIN, UKORGIA.
May 3, 1855-ly 1
WM. H. F. HALL,
ATTORNEY A T LAW,
ZEBULON GEORGIA.
July 4, 1855.
A. D. NUNN ALLY,
ATTORNEY AT LA W , |
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA.
Jane, 27,1855. B’-
UNDERWOOD. HAMMOND h SON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW ,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WILL give personal atteution to all business entrusted
to their management, and attend the Sixth Circuit
Courtof the United States, at Marietta, the Supreme Court
at Macon and Decatur, aud the Superior Courts in Gobi/,
Morgan, Newton, DeKalb, Fulton, Fayette, Spalding, Pike,
Cass, Monroe, Upson, Bibb, Campbell, Coweta, Troup,
Whitfield and Gordon, in Georgia, and Hamilton county,
(Chattanooga,) in Tennessee. May 3,1855. ts
C. GRICE, tt- FULLER.
GRICE & FULLER,
ATTORNEYS AT L A W,
FAYETTEVILLE, GEORGIA.
December 10th, 1855.
W. L. GRICE, WM. 8. WALLACE.
GRICE & WALLACE,
ATTORNEYS AT L A W,
BUTLER, GEORGIA.
PERSONS intrusting business to them may rely on tlieir
fidelity, promptness and care. Dec. 10, 55-33-ly.
GARTRELL & GLENN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
WILL attend the Courts in the Counties of Fulton, De-
Kalb, Fayette, Campbell, Meriwether, Coweta, Car
,,ll Henry, Troup, Heard, Cobb, and Spalding.
Lucius J. G art iiei.l, | Luthek J. Glenn,
Formerly of Washington, Ga. 1 Formerly of McDonc ugh, Ga.
May 16, 1855. 6tl
Window Glas*J
FRFVCH Window Glass, of all sizes, for sale by
Sept 19, HILL & SMlThtrss--
To the Public—Negro Dogs!
V—The public are respectfully informed that my
are now well trained for capturing ltuna-
fail to catch, if put on the right track. Price.
S3b3? S3KteKS , s a. sws
DR. H. W. BROWAj
Giiffin, Georgia.
i OFFICE, in the basement story, under the Store of Messrs.
J. A. & J. C. Beeks.
! May 3, 1855. ts
”l). IVT. WILLIAMS,
RESIDENT PHYSICIAN,
| GK.IFFIK, GEOtiGIA.
Office on Hill Street, over Banks'Boot & Shoe Store.
May 3, 1855. ts
TENDERS his professional services as a Physician and
Surgeon, to the citizens of Griffin and vicinity,
jgsr Office on the same floor with the Empire State
Griffin, March 5, 1856 44... .lv
. 103.--
HAS changed his residence arid office to the first lot be
low Mrs. Reeves’ Boarding House, on the east side ot
the Railroad, nearly opposite the Freight Depot, where he
may be found at all times ready to attend to calls, except
when professionally engaged.
Griffin, Ga., May 3,1856- ly
DrTwmTm Til ARD WICK,
GRIFFIS GEORGIA.
OFFICE AT wVeTsEAY’S’ DRUG STORE,
Residence, TIISI Si reef, one Door North
of the Presbyterian CSmrcli.
Chronic Diseases, Midwifery, and diseases of Women and
Children will receive special attention.
March 18th, 1856 45 ly
BOOK AND JOB OFFICE
—OF—
THE EMPIRE STATE,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. .
THE PROPRIETOR. OF THE
Having recently received a large assortment of
NEW AND BEAUTIFUL
FANCY TYPE A.\ 1> BORDERS,
Are now prepared to execute, in the best sty.e, and at short
notice, all kinds of
|Mtt anti (Dnmmmtat printing, .
SUCH AS
PAMPHLETS
Circulars, Labels, Business Cards,
Catalogues, Programmes, Address Cards,
Bill Heads, . Posters. Visiting Cards,
Bank Checks, Hand Bills, Freight Bills,
Blank Notes, Legal Blanks, sc., fyc., <§*.
Li, m C£J t,
PBLBTIHi t COLONS
PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.
rates of ADVEimstiio.
following are the Rates of Charges for Advertising,
. determined on between the undersigned, to take effect
from the time of entering into any new contract: —
JTSrTransient Advertising. $1 00 per square, for the first
nserlion’,'an<n>o ceiYtA foTeVery subsequent one.
CONTRACT ADVERTISING, 3 mos. 6 mos. 9 mos 12 ms
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Changed quarterly... 7 00 10 00 12 00 16 00
Changed at will, 8 00 12 00 14 00 j 18 00
2 squares, without change,.... 10 00 15 00 20 00 25 00
Changed quarterly,... 12 00 18 00 21 00 28 00
Changed at will, 15 00 20 00 25 00 30 00
3 squares, without change,.... 15 00 20 00 25 00; 30 00
Changed quarterly... 18 00 22 00 26 00 34 00
Changed at wi11,..... 20 00 26 00 32 00 4000
Half column, without change.. 25 00 30 00 40 00 50 00
Changed quarterly,.. 28 00 tflL.oo 45 00 55 00
Changed at will, 35 00 fIPOO 50 00 60 00
One column, without change,.; 60 00 70 00 80 00 100 00
Changed quarterly,.. 65 0!) 75 00 90 00 110 00
Changed at will 70 001 85 00 100 00 125 00
*5” All transient advertisements will be inserted until or
dered discontinued and charged for accordingly.
A. A. GAULDING. “Empire State.”
A. P BURR “AmericanUnion.”
CARRIAGE, CAB! MET
. AND
SASH M AKIN G!!
| rjMIU subscriber takes pleasure in annonn-^jMlJfflOL/
_L cing to the citizens of Griffin and sui -
I rounding country, that he still continues the KN> w
business of CARRIAGE aud CABINET Making. UAleut A
GES, BUGGIES, and WAGONS made to order at short no
tice. A few of tlie best made Buggies always on hand.
He has recently added to his establishment the business of
SASH MAKlNG—cheap, and good as the best.
| scs, oewstyle. He will be found at his old stand, always
ready towait upon his customers. Give him a. call.
A. BELLAMY.
Griffin, Aug. 29,1855. ...18... .ts
J. K. WILLIAMS, JNO. RHEA, VM. M. WILLI AMS.
J. E. WILLIAMS & CO,
Successors io J. E. Williams,
General Commission Merchants,
AND PEALEHS IN
I GRAIN, BACON, LARD. FEATHERS, and TEN
NESSEE PRODUCE, GENERALLY,
Decatur Street, near the “Trout House,” Atlanta, Ga.
j(ST-Letters of inquiry, ill relation to the Markets, Ac.,
promptly answered. _ May 16, 185.*i.-3tr
IT. L. WKICHT,
EXCHANGE BROKER,
ATLANTA, CEO.
WILL attend to collections entrusted to him, and remit
promptly, at current rates of Exchange: buy andsell
uncurrent Bank Notes, Coin, &c. The highest cash price
paid for Bounty Land Warrants, a®* A pplyi> W. C.
Wright, Griffin, Ga., for sale of Land Warrants.
REFERENCES John Thompson, Banker, N0.2, Wan
street, aud Caukart, Buo. & Cos., New York; Converse
& Cos., New Orleans. Atlanta, May 16, ’56 tt
.J. THRASHER, > T - M - DORSEY
J. J. THRASHEIt & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
j Grocers and Commission Merchants,
(At the W arehouse formerly occupied by J. E. Williams,)
A TLA NT A, GEO IIGIA.
H. H. GLENN, W. A. CHAM BLESS
May IC, 1855. 3-ts
MARSHALUOLLEGE.
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, Ac. .12 00 10 00
Jb or Algebra, Philosophy, Geometry,&e 14 00 12 00
For Latin, Greek, Trigonometry, &c $lO 00 sl4 00
w,No extra charges, except for damage to the College
Building
The lirst term will close about the 4th of July.
The second term will begin on the 4th of August, and
close about the last of November. J. M. CAMPBELL-
Griffin, Feb. 13, 1850,.. .41... ts
Fulton House.
ATLANTA, JU|H GEORGIA.
D. L. GOUDOV, Proprietor.
January 30th, 1856.. 39.. ly.
OA AAA POUNDS of BACON, just received by
!&U,UUU A. B. MATTHEWS k CO.
Griffin. March 26. 1856 47. ts
“ Ko p2i}f up ijlieq coolrqds oiji* ?oh)el v s —Jl it tof>oic bougie?? is Oi^s.”
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 7, 1856.
§s£ is((£tan i o n $ e
From the Georgia Banner.
Georgia Hoysiu Kansas.
We have before us a letter from Wm. F
Wriolit., Esq. who left our place some few
weeks since, in company with others, on a
visit to Kansas, from which we are permitted
to make the following extract:
Y\ est Port, Mo., April 8.
* * * * “We left the City of
St. Louis, as I wrote you we would, on the
same evening .at four o’clock, on the packet
James H. Lucas. Nothing of much interest
occured on our trip. The country through
which we passed was rich and beautiful. —
Twenty miles from S-t “Lours vre h-fi ■ the Mis
sissippi and came tip the Missouri Kiver This
river is very crooked, and although Affording
an abundance of water, is difficult of naviga
tion, on account of the sand bars and snags.
We were from ! nesday 4 o’clock until Satur
day 4 o’clock getting to Kansas City. We
were under the impression that Kansas City
was in the Territory of Kansas. It is locat
ed on the South side of Kansas river in the
State of Missouri, and you must cross the river
before you are in Kansas Territory. D e catne
from Kansas City to tin’s place called West
Port, about four Miles from the river. Our
reason for coming to “est Port was, that we
were informed that the Hotel in Kansas City,
was an Abolition concern—-aud one might well
determine that fact by making a. few observa
tions.
Although not ipso facto in Kansas Territory
from our proximity to it, we feel as though
we were. We have been over the line twice,
once merely to say that we had been in the
Territory, find again to visit the VVyandott
Indian Village, two miles above Kansas City
Gen. Calhoun, formerly of Illinois, the Survey
or General of the Territory, is located at this
Tillage, with his corps; quite a clever, gentle
manly set of men. This was a very pleasant
jaunt, and rather a novel one,as I rode a small
Indian pony—the little fellow paced finely—
and though small, carried me with perfect
ease. A fancy pony here will cost a hundred
dollars and freight home.
‘! his is a very Vie! , productive country. —
Kansas, I am informed, is richer iltnn Missou
ri. While over in Wyandott, Kansas Territo
ry, I saw some exceedingly beautiful farms—
richer than 1 ever saw before. I learn as we
go farther out i the Territory, the lands be
come richer. O what little I have seen,l know
of no land on earth to compare with it Since
I have arrived here I have seen fields of corn,
or where corn grew last year, with three and
i;i the hill, whfeh excelled out* finest
in size. From ten to twenty barrels of corn is
usual cropping*. Wheat grows in great abun
dance, and every thing else in.like proportion.
It, must be the most plentiful country in the
world. Farmers get rich in eight or ten years
lam now speaking of the b> rder country of
Missouri and Kansas. When 1 return from a
tc r we are going to lake, (starting to mor
row) I can report on Kansas.
I here was nothing that we were more
agreeably surprised in than the people of this
border country. They are well diessed,polite,
very refined, rich and intelligent. From this
town,West Port, we can see into the Territory
walk into it in Dirty- minutes— and here you
find a town with a population of near one
thousand, tine schools, Churches,, two large,
well kept commodious Hotels, Drug Stores,
Prv goods, Jewelry and JVlillitavy Establish
ments, Barber shops, &c. This place I am
ni'ormed does a trade of itself amounting to
eight hundred thousand dollars per annum.—
it is on the great thoroughfare to Santafee and
Sail Lake ( ity. .Several tribes of Indians are
paid off their annuities by the General Gov
ernment, and they come here to supply them
selves with merchandize. Thi re is also a’ hea
vy trade carried on between this point and the
Mexicans I have seen Indians, Mexicans,
Irish, Dutch and border ruffians all mixing,
mingling and merrily getting ‘ along togeth
er
The term ‘border ruffian,’ is aj plied to all
citizens on the border of Kansas without any
reference to refinement > r any thing else. 1
have seen border ruffians here that would not
have disgraced the Court of Queen Victoria.
V\ c have met with a cordial reception gen
erally since *ve left home, but since getting in
to this particular location, it has been special
For a man to be known as coming from the
South is a license for any Missourian or Kan
sas man to recognize him Georgians have
been quite source i-n the Territory, and we are
made more particularly welcome on that ac
count. The citizens here held quite an enthus
iastic meeting last night, to welcome the Geor
gians. Mys elf and Dr. Bruce, ndd>essed the
meeting on the part of Georgia. Were wel
comed by a young Virginian who han made
Kansas his home. Gen. Whitfield a delegate
from Kansas to Congress, was also present,
and addressed his constituents and friends in his
own peculiar happy way.
f here is one thing can be said of Kansas, it
is filling up with a more intelligent, well se
lected population than any new country I ever
knew. I ier position is so remote it, requires
nerve and money to reach her soil; and he
must be bold and adventurous indeed who
undertakes the enterprise. Here we find Vir
ginia gentlemen—of the first families of course
—Boutli Carolina chivalry—Georgia’s noble
sons—Alabama’s best blood; all men, proud,
high minded, intelligent, refined—mostly young
men, who, either from love of adventure, or
prompted by a love of Southern interest, come
hither to unite their destinies and share a com
mon fate with those Rod and patriotic Missou
rians, who have hitherto kept the Frcesoi!
packs at bay, and thus preserved the fair soil
of Kansas from their foul dominion. We leave
this point to mqriow morning for the interior
of the 1 erritoiy; our mode of travelling will be
a hack drawn by a pair of milk white mules,
driven by a Border ruffian,but by the b\e, one
if those who owns land in Missouri worth from
eighty to ninety dollars per acre. We buy
our own provisions—Dr Bruce lias rather vol
unteered as cook, or steward; I guess we will
do well, fare sumptuously, having two ex-hotel
keepers along We shall be out about ten
days, when we will come in, as they say out
here. Our object in returning is to get letters
from home, at Kansas City We then go up
the Missouri river to the City (if Leavenworth;
we Kill make another tour into the Territory,
and then -home again—hutne again from a
foreign shore.’
Some of our party speak of remaining in
Kansas permanently,! must go home,what my
determination is as to making Kansas my final
home,! will reveal anon. lam sure were I
just setting out in life, that Kansas would be
tny home. If I were a farmer I would come
to th s country Gen. V\ hitfield, who is a very
practical man indetd, assured me on last night
that farmers were making from six to eight
hundred dollars per hand Negroes (men)
hire here from three to four hundred dollars
per annum, and sell higher than they do in
Georgia,!. V ‘ ~
in tire border country here, ten acres will
produce as much as thirty or fifty of our best
lands in Georgia. Everything we heard in re
lation to the soil, X think will be realized fully
r l he climate here is colder than in Georgia;
however we have pleasant weather now, and
lam informed b.y reliable gentlemen that the
winters have been mild heretofore until the last
aud here as everywhere else, it was unprece
dentedly cold. ‘ * * *
[From Life Illustrated.]
Death in the Cars.
With my hand close pressed to t! at of a
friend, I bade him good bye, and sprang upon
the platform, as the train wound out of the de
pot. Ihe ears were crowded. Every seat
was full, and at the first stopping place a large
number of new passengers got on and stood
up around the stove aud leaned against the
seats in the passage way Every window was
closed, and the stove glowed’ red with heat
The aij* wis .close,oppressi .*e,almost suffocating.
The Strong*and nauseating stench of rum and
tobacco ‘fusion’ seemed to gather like a vapo
ry miasma between us and the dio ly burning
lamps We had been dozing, but awoke with
a choking sensation. The windows we left
raised had been closed by someone afraid of
God’s pure air Not wishing to commit the
impropriety of letting fresh air in too suddenly
upon the fragrant embodiment of personal filth
which had lodged upon the other half of our
seat, vve climbed over two dirty bundles and
three young ones more so, and st ggered out
upon the platform. When we returned to our
seat, we found that an Irishman and two strap
ping boys had been practising ‘squatter sov
ereigntyJ upon our robe and seat, and exclud
ed us from our territory.
Near the middle of the car was an
a consumptive from the land of gold going
home to die. With a Hasping movement, he
4 <><\ t<-> raise the window, but had - not
strength to do so. Promptly putting our
hand on the catch, vve lifted the sash as high
as it would go Like a child tt irsting for wa
ter, lie raised his hat and leaned forward to
cat'h a .breath of pure an- which rushed in up
on his faded chock.
S hank you sir, said he feebly, as he turned
his languid eye gratefully upon us. That is so
blessed--! was < early fainting
IVe can’t have that window up 1 growled
an old passenger, v. ho looked as though lie
had vitality enough to stand any storm, put it
down sir !
Ihe invalid tried to look the boor in the
face- The latter, with an oath, sprang up
and closed the wiudovv. ‘fine consumptive again
drooped and again we raised the window.
The old passenger closed it. 1 aking our seat
by it we raised it a thiid time and placed our
shoulder under the sash. Ihe old passenger
stortn-'’:* “‘filially went to the conductor
with his complaint The passenger.-, imagin
ing themselves freezing, all sided with the
weliman. The conductor closed the window
and peremptorily forbade us to raise it again,
brutally remarking that‘one sick man’s whims
should not freeze a whole train to death.
Still the wood was crammed into the stove,
and the hot putrid air freighted with poison,
was inhaled by the passengers. In the meau
time the invalid had leaned heavily upon our
shoulder, feebly remarking as he did .*o, t at
he lmd not far to go
1 only wish to live to see my mother, who
will be waiting lor me at the depot.
The eats stopped at the station,
twenty minutes for refreshments, said the eat
ing house runner. Still the invalid did not stir.
We thought him asleep, aud did not attempt
to awaken him
Close uppn the heels of the runner a fine
looki g old lady followed, and passed through
the car. Shej-eturned and again slowly pass
ed vrfiereYve tuff, looking closely air 1 anxious
ly as she did so. Hie was evidently disap
pointed in the object of her search, and stood
hesitatingly in the car door.
Were you looking for someone ?we ventur
ed to in quire.
Oh yes, sir. for my son, whom we expected
on this train, from California. But I fear he
is sick.
Hear is a gentleman asleep on tny arm,’ we
reply ed; ‘he is a stranger, and may possibly be
the „ono you are looking for.’
She came quickly forward, ancl peered into
the face of the sick man. She . turted as though
a corp e had met her gaze. A strange, pecu
liar feeling thrilled over ns as we watched her
couiiten&ce She lilted the hat gently trom
the sleeper’s brow, and looked again.
‘No,’ die murmured, ‘it cannot be,’
The sleeper’s arm lay out over the end of
the seat, and upon one of the lingers a heavy
diamond ring sparkled in the light of the
lamp. She saw the gem, and almost convul
sively snatched the hand. As she pressed the
ring open, she saw her own miniature —her
gift to her boy when he went from home.
‘lt’s him! It’s him, Wake up, Howard! You
are home again, God be uraised! The carriage
waits.,
But the boy did not. wake, even at the sounds
of a mother’s voice As she lifted his head
tenderly from our shoulder, he fell forward
heavily into our arms. The half closed leaden
eye told the tale—lie was dead!
The shriek of the mother, as she was made
aware of the terrible truth —so full ot heart
broken agony—will not be forgotten for many
a day. fehe swooned, and fell heavily upon the
floor.
We carried out the wasted form of the sleep
per, and then the insensible mother. Fast
and hotly our tears fell as we straightened out
the attenuated limbs of the consumptive, for we
thought of the mother's bitter waking.
The sick one, wandering back, over land and
seo, to die at home, did not have far to go
His mother was in waiting, but not to see him
alive. He was taken to Ins home in a hearse,
instead of the family carriage.
We thought then, and still think, that with
sufficient of pure air, the boyjmght have lived
to look noon his mother again, and returned
her holy kiss, and died with his weary head
pillowed in her arms. He was poisoned in] that
foul and heated den!
Office LaFayette Kansas Emigrating
JtoWy *
LaFayette County, Mo., March 25, 1856.
To the People of the Southern States :
On the undersigned, “LaFayette Emigrat
ing Society,” has devolvedlhe important duty
of calling the attention of the people of the
States, to the absolute necessity of immediate
action on their part, in relation to the settle
ment of Kansas Territory. The erLi-t is at
hand. Prompt and decisive measures must be
adopted, or farewell to Southern rights and in
dependence
The western counties of Missouri have, for
the last two years, been heavily taxed, both in
money and time, in fighting the battle of the
South. LaFayette county alone, has expend
ed more than $160,000 in money, and as much
or more .in time. Up to this time, the border
counties of Missouri have upheld and main
tained the rights and interests of the South, in
this struggle, unassisted, and not unsuccessful
ly. But the Abolitionists, staking their all
upon the Kansas issue, and hesitating at no
means, fair or foul, are moving Heaven and
earth to render that beautiful Territory not
only a “Free State,” so called, but a den of
negro thieves and “higher law” incendiaries.
Missouri, we feel confident, has done her du
ty, and will still be found ready and willing to
do all she can, fairly and honorably, for the
maintamance of the integrity of the South. —
But the time has come when she can no longer
stand up, single handed, the lone champion of
the South, against the myrmidons of the entire
North. It requires no great foresight to per
ceive that if the higher law men succeed in
this crusade, ‘ it will he but the commence
ment of a war upon the institutions of the
South, which will continue until slavery shall
cease to exist in any of the States, or the
Union is dissolved
liovv then shall these impending evils be
avoided ? I'he answer is obvious—settle the
Territory with emigrants from the South.—
The population of the Territory at this*ti:iu is
about equal, as many pro slavery men as Aoli
tiouists—but die fanatics have emissaries in
a 1 the free States—in almost every village
and by misrepresentations and falsehoods, are
engaged in collecting money, and enlisting
men to tyranize over the Scuth. Is it in the
nature of Southern men to submit without re
sistance, to look to the North for their laws
and institutions ? We do not believe it. If,
then, the South is influenced by a spirit of
self respect and independence, let Societies be
formed to assist cm grants. ‘! hose who can
not emigrate can contribute money to as
sist those who can. We have such Societies
in Missouri, and we can induce more people to
emigrate than we are able to support. If die
whole South would adopt this system, we would
succeed. Kansas would be a slave State, and
the slavery agitation would ccuffe. If we per
mit the North to make an Abolition State of
Kansas, the whole South must submit to be
governed by the North. Will the South help
us ? The great struggle will come off at the
next election ir October, 1856, and unless the
South can at that time maintain her ground,
all will be lost We repeat it, the crisis has
arrived. The time has come for action, bold
and determine i action —words will no longer
do any good We must have men in Kansas,
and that, too, by tens of thousands. A few
will not answer. If we should need ten tbous
and, and lack one of that number, all will
count nothing. Let all, then, who can come,
do so at ot.ee. Those who cannot comb, must
give their money to help others to come.—
There are hundreds of thousands of broad
acres of rich land, worth from $5 to S2O per
acre, open to settlement, and pre-emption at
$1 25 per acre Let, then, the farmer come
and bring his slaves with him. There are now
ohe thousand slaves in Kansas, whose presence
there strengthens our cause. Shall we allow
these deli lands, and this beautiful country to
be overrun by our Abolition enemies ? We
know, of a surety, that they have emissaries
and spies in almost every town, village and ci
ty in the South, watching our movements, and
tampering with our slaves. Let us, then, be
vigilant and active in the cause. VVe must
maintain our ground The loss of Kansas to
the South, will be the death knell of our dear
U niou.
Missouri has done nobly, thus far, in over
coming the thousands who have been sent out
by Abolition Aid Societies ; we cannot hold
out much longer, unless the whole South will
come to the rescue. We need men ; we need
money ; send us both, and that quickly. Ho
not delay ; come as individuals, come in com
panies, come in thousands.
Our hearts have been made glad by the late
arrival of large companies from South Caio i
na and Alabama. They have responded
promptly to our call for help. The noble Bu
ford is already endeared to our. hearts, we love
him : we will fight for him, aud die for him
and his companions Who will follow his no
ble example ? Be tell you now, and we tell
you frankly, that unless you come quickly, and
come by thousands, wc are gone he elec
tions once lost, are lost forever. Then fare
well to our Southern cause, and farewell to our
glorious Union. We repeat the cry, “come
over and help us.” W. 11. Russki.l,
Martin Slaughter,
O. Anderson,
G. W. Baker,
Edward Winsor,
Nathan Cokder,
William Shields.
A Yankee has invented a plague which kills
off all who do.not pay the printer. It is more
I destructive than the consumption.
leiring—§2,oo, To
Difles-ent Destinies of two Brothers,
J. C. and Frank Fremont.
The Montgomery Mail traces the history of
the two brothers Fremont , one of whom stands
a good chance of gaining the empty honor of
the Black, Republican nomination for the Prfe^ J
Idency. In the course of its sketch, that pa
per says :
“If Col. Fremont was not born in Charles*
ton, he w'as carried there at a very early age
by his mother, and . he certainly received there
the education which fitted him for subsequent
success and distinction. lie was the protege
of the Ladies’ Benevolent Society of Charles
ton, some members of which found the
in great need, and aided them. Young J. C.
Fimn.mt. .was discovered to have talent, and by
the interest of these ladies; became the benefi
ciary of a charity scholarship in Charleston
College. lie was graduated there with dis
tinction, having shown (as wc always heard,)
decided mathematical talent; Subsequently
through the influence already mentioned, Air.
Poinsett was induced to get him an appoint
ment as a teacher of mathematics on board a
national vessel, thence he was transferred to
die corps of Topographical Engineers —not
very long after married a daughter of Hon;
Thomas II Benton, and began his brilliant
and rapid rise. Erery one knows his subse
quent history.
“( 01. Fremont had a brother, Frank, a year
or two younger, who went on the stage very
early. He was a bluff looking, hearty fellow,
seeming very much more like a man destined
to military leadership, than his Mother. Fof
some little t.me, Frank made a sensation, and
got to be called the “Charleston Roscius,” but
gradually came to be considered merely a tol
erable stock actor Affter lie had been on the
ntn-c wine yenrs, ho miirncG —in Knv YurKy
as well as we recollect Somewhere about
IS3B or ’B9, while playing an engagement in
Buffalo, N. Y., he got into flu abolition riot of
some kind, aud while fighting gallantly for
Southern principles, received a heavy blow oii
his head which affected his brain. From this
he never recovered—the injury finally settled
upon his lungs, and lie died of consumption.
“Hecontinued to play, we believe, up to a
few days before his death, which we think oc
curred in Columbus, Ga., in 1839. At any
rate, the writer of this found him there, with
some little trouble, as he was playing under an
assumed name, having been charged with a
message to him by his mother—who, it may bfe
remarked, was a quiet, melancholy woman,-
greatly devoted to her sons.
“It is a little striking, that these two broth
ers, born and raised on slave soil, should, by
the merest accidents, both have been so nearly
ass cted by abolitio; ism, personally. The ouc 1
is knocked on the head, and ‘ done for” by fa
naticism, while the other makes a name infa
mous which had else been truly famous, by giv
ing his influence to the miscreants who wage
an unholy war upon thfc institutions of his own
section, and of a people who raised him from
his lowliness and placed him on the high road
to fame and boundless wealth. If he ever thinks
of his origin, he must see the depth of an in
gratitude almost sublime ”
Barnum’s Masterpicec;
Barnum has performed many wonders, but
the greatest of all is the following: It consists
in nothing less than passing down the Niagara
cataract in a vessel constructed for this pur
pose. The vessel is a ball of gutta pereha,
thirty feet in diameter, supported in its inte
rior by hoops, rings of steel, and wood.—
Strings of gutta pereha, coming from four
points of the rings, meet in the centre of the
sphere, where they are fixed to a coat of mail
made of the same material. This is so fixed
that a man buckled in it hangs, supported by
the four strings, safe in the middle of the ball.
At the lower end of the ball, where the lower
part of the mail is directed, some lead is put,,
so that swimming in the water the head part
will be turned upwards. In this upper part
there is a hole which may be opened by the
person in the interior. ‘I he ball is so strong
as to sustain, without danger, the shock of the
fall. On account of its size it cannot sink,nor
can the person buckled in the coat of mail suf
fer any harm from the violence of the fall. As
soon as the ball, after its fall, has found its
centre of gravity, its inhabitant unbuckles him
self, opens the flap, and gels out of the hold
waiving the United States colors under the
applause of some 50,000 or 100,000 spectators
whom Barnum intends to assemble, ouc dollar
each, upon the occasion of his first perfor
mance. From every such performance a gain
of $20,000 or $30,000 is to be counted on,
since from all parts of the Union spectators
will flock to the cataract of Niagara. Barnum
is about to make an experiment with a dog.—
If that animal arrives all right below, a nigger
or an Irishman will be engaged for the next ex
periment. If that one arrives equally safe,
the Yankee undertakes the first serious passage
himself.
clergyman having on a certain occa
sion, delivered himself of what is called a fine
address, was met by one of his hearers the next
day, when, in the course of conversation
allusion was made to it. The parishioner
remarked that he had a book contained every
word of it, and had heard it before. To this
the clergyman boldly answered, that the ad
dress was written by himself the week pre
vious to its delivery, and therefoie the asser
tion could not be correct. The next day her
received a splendid copy of Webster’s diction
ary.
A Man With Nine Wives. —The notorious
Nathan Brown, the most remarkable, bigamist
ever known in America,was brought by officer
Elliott, the other day,from near Jeffersonville,
Indiana, under a requisition from Gov. Chase.
He is reputed to have nine living wives 1 Hig
practice has been to live with each about three
months, get hold of their property and desert
them. lie is now safe in Butler county jail,
at the instance of his seventh wife, a resident
of this city. The old scamp is fifty three
years of age and has married three wives with
in two years. —Hamilton (0) InteUigenetr.
When once infidelity can persuade men that
they die like beasts they will be brought to live
like beasts also.
No. 2.