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Clje (tontjjire State.
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA,
Wednesday Dec. 17, 1856.
AjTR G BYARS is our authorized Agent for tlio county
ofßutts. -ra
Judge tff tlie I'lint.Circnit.
Col. 0. C. GIBSON, of I’ike county, is a can
didate for the office of Judge of the Flint Circuit,
Coanmcrcial Convention.
From the Savannah papers, we have the pro
ceedings of this body for three or four of the first
day? of the session. The number of delegates was
unusually large,eleven States being represented.—
Several subjects of great commercial as well as
political importance had been introduced, discus
sed with much ability, and tabled or postponed for
further consideration. Among the most exciting
topics brought forward, was a resolution offered
by Mr. Gaulden of Georgia, in favor of restoring
the African Slave Trade. This question brought
out the ablest talents of the convention, and a pro
tracted debate ensued. The resolution was finally
rejected by the following decisive vote; in the af.
finnative, South Carolina, 8, Tennessee G,Texas 4,
—total 18. In the negative, Alabama 9, Georgia
10, Maryland 8, North Carolina 10, Virginia 15,
Tennessee G, Louisiana 6, Florida 3—total G 7
In the foregoing statement, it will be perceived
that each State cast a vote equal to the number of
electoral votes it is entitled to. What will be
the final action of the convention upon the various
other subjects brought before it, we are yet unable
to inform our readers. When we are posted up,
on these points, we shall lay before our readers
such information as we may deem interesting to
them and the public generally.
Aas Erroneous Position.
The Fillmore prints persist in making the asser
tion that, if their candidate had been withdrawn.
Mr. Buchanan would have been beaten. Though
the fallacy of this assertion has again and again
been exposed, yet we continue to see it re-asserted
in the Know Nothing prints, and by the members
of that party. The object of this course is too ap
parent to be mistaken. It is evident that Mr.
Fillmore’s candidacy put the election of Mr. Buch
anan in eminent peril, not by raising hopes that
Mr. Fillmore could be elected himself, but that the j
opposition made by lus friends to the nominee of
the Democratic Convention, might secure the elec
tion of Fremont. Seeing that the course pursued
bv them, in thus offering a factious opposition to
Mr. Buchanan, was likely to injure them in the
estimation of the Southern people, they at once go
to work, and endeavor to create’ the impression
that they are deserving of praise instead of cen
sure, for dividing the opposition and giving the
victory to the Democratic Party. Facts are stub
born things, and figures will not lie. A plain j
matter of calculation, will show that all these pro |
tensions are false, and that Mr. Buchanan would!
not only have been elected, if Mr. Fillmore had j
been withdrawn, but that he would have received 1
the vote of one State, certain, which he lost, and
probably three others, which were cast for Fre
mont. Maryland, doubtless, would have given
her eight votes to Mr. Buchanan, if Fillmore had
been out of the way; and if the American party ot
Ohio, New York and Connecticut, were as sound
and conservative as their Southern allies claimed
them to be, they certainly would have chosen Mr.
Buchanan in preference to Mr. Fremont. These
three States, with Maryland, give seventy votes.--
These added to the vote which Mr. B. actually re
ceived, would have made his victory nearly as com
plete as that of Gen. Pierce in 1852. The four
teen Southern States which cast their votes for
Mr. Buchanan, all gave majorities for him over all
opposition, amounting to 112 electoral votes. In
Pennsylvania, the official returns show the vote to
be
For Buchanan, 230,500
“ Fremont 147,548
“ Fillmore 82.200... .229,748
Democratic majority, 752
The official vote of Indiana stands,
For Buchanan, 118,G72
“ Fremont. 94,370
“ Fillmore, 22,386... .116,762
Democratic majority over both, 1,910
The 14 Southern States gave Mr. Buch
anan 1 i 2 votes.
Pennsylvania, 27 “
Indiana, 13 “
Tola'. 152
Which gives Mr. Buchanan three votes more
than necessary to elect him, and all this in spile of
Mr. Fillmore. Away, then, with the spurious
claim, sot up by the K. Ns., that they contributed
one jot to Mr. Buchanan’s election.
The Prince of Landlords,
On a recent visit to Columbus, we bad occasion
to stop at Geneya, on tlie Muscogee “Railroad, and
fell in at the house kept by Mr. Samuel Koock
agy, better known by the travelling public as
“Uncle Sam.” We had often heard this house
spoken of in terms of commendation, and from ac
tual experience, wc are prepared to add our testi
mony to that of hundreds ofothers, in favor of the
excellent fare which Uncle Sam deals out to his
visitors Passing for miles through a waste, bar
ren, uninhabited country, the traveller arrives at
this “Oasis in the desert,’” and has his inward
man strengthened and refreshed by all the substan
tial, delicacies and luxuries, which abound in the
most fertile regions. The contrast between the
dreariness of the surrounding country and the com
forts dispensed at Uncle Sam’s board, adds an ad
ditional relish to the enjoyments of the hours of
refreshment. And when the delicious repast is
over, the jolly old landlord will smoke a cigar with
you, around his fireside, and keep you in social
chitchat, till Somnus admonishes you that the
hour of retirement has arrived. Uncle Sam served
in the American Army in the War of 1812, and
was at that time, the companion in arms of our
fellow-townsman, Maj. Cline. He is moreover, a
Democrat of the purest stamp. To all those trav
elling over the Aluseogee Road, we would say nev
er pass Geneva without trying Uncle Sam’s fare.
Hiß house is the place for supper, going to Colum
bus, and for breakfast returning. He is indeed
and iu truth entitled to the distinction, named at
the head of this article—the Prince of Landlords.
Municipal Election.—At the Municipal Elec
tion inMacon, on Saturday last, the entire Demo
cratic Ticket was elected by an average majority
of 100 votes. Samuel, where art thou ?
Gen. Pierce’s last Message.
This sterling patriot has delivered his last annu
al message to the National Legislature, and at the
close ol the present session of Congress, will return
to the retirement of private life. Like all other
documents emanating Lora his pen, the late mes
sage is marked with wisdom, sound judgment, and
a patriotic devotion to the interests of every por
tion of this great Confederacy. He reviews with
the firmness and ability of a great Statesman, the
slavery question, which has so powerfully agitated
the country for several years past. His opinions
on this subject have undergone uo change since the
day of his inauguration. Gen. Pierce’s whole po
litical course, exhibits a conservatism upon this
question, to which the soundest Southern rights
man could not with propriety object. In his mes
sage to the present Congress, he administers a re
buke to the Northern fanatics which few men, in
the free States have the boldness to do. The course
of the l'reesoiiers in reference to the Kansas and
Nebraska Bill, and the repeal of the Missouri re
striction, are spoken of in terms of the most une
quivocal condemnation. He shows likewise that
the whole public debt may be extinguished inano
ther fiscal year, and in view cf the occurrence of
this event, he recommends a reduction of the tariff,
in order to bring the receipts of the Treasury down
to a revenue standard, thus lightening the burdens
of taxation, and advancing another step toward
free trade. llis comments upon our complicated
foreign relations, as well as all our domestic con
cerns, are characterised by the same Statesman
like sagacity, and large and comprehensive views
of public policy. Though Gen. Pierce has been
the subject of the vilest and most bitter opposition
both from the Abolitionists of the North, and the
Know Nothings of the South ; yet when the im
partial historian shall set down to record the events
of his Administration, he will assign him a place
along with Jefferson, Jackson and Polk, and when
the present unscrupulous opposition shall have
gone down to the tomb of the Capulets, posterity
will render merited justice to Franklin Pierce.
Mr. Whitfield of Kansas.
Recent accounts from Washington state that
Whitfield has been admitted to take his seat, as a
delegate from Kansas, by a majority of four votes.
This looks a little like a returning sense of justice
on the part of the Black Republicans. Bad as
they may be as a body, it is a source of some grat
ification to find that a few of them, have not be
come insensible to every feeling of honor & justice.
Their recent defeat in the late Presidential and
Congressional elections, has probably opened their
eyes to the fact, that the people have some sort
of idea of that line of aggression beyond which for
bearanee ceases to be a virtue.
Gess. James N. Ileßatne.
This distinguished veteran of the Georgia Press
was a representative from the City of Columbus,
to the late Commercial Convention at Savannah.
From some ot our own immediate delegates, as
well as from our exchanges, we arc happy to learm
that the General delivered a speech, which made a
strong impression upon the convention. Indeed
it was the speech of the convention, and was highly
complimented by many of the most distinguished
members of thut body, bailing from other States.
It is said to have exhibited a knowledge of statis
tical facts, the result of long and laborous research,
of which few in this land and country can boast.
The great misfortune with the General (if we may
so call it) is a too strong and ardent devotion to
his native South. If this be an error, it is a par
donable one, and we hold in much higher esteem
the Southern uitraism of Gen. Bcthune than that
morbid sympathy for the Union, which leads some
politicians, to affiliate with those of the North, up
on whose garments the sm ll of Abolitionism is
very perceptible. In theory, the General is in
most instances correct, but in many, his opinions
are in advance of the age, appreciating too highly
what may be denominated correct abstractions,
I and undervaluing those utilitarian views, which are
alone practicable, in the present imperfect state of
human society and civil government. We trust
! the General will pardon us for the freedom we have
! exercised in this brief criticism, assuring him of
our kindest regards and best wishes for his pros
perity and happiness.
* ♦
Savannah Hospitality.
From some of our returned delegates, who at
tended the convention in Savannah last week, wc
have received accounts of the hospitality of our
countrymen residing at our seaport, which are
truly praiseworthy. In fact when first cotnmunica
ted to us, we hesitated to give credence to them,
until assured of their truth by gentlemen who par
ticipated in the magnificent festival, and whose
characters for truth and veracity, we dare not.
doubt. Think you reader, of a dancing saloon,
large enough for forty cotillons to dance at once,
aud thirty of these actually on the floor at the
same time, with the leader of a most magnificent
baud of music, giving his commands through the
medium of a speaking trumpet. Think of fifteen
hundred bottles of sparkling Champaign, with ev
ry other delicious accompany men t, calculated to
gratify the taste, and feast the appetite, and every
other convenience and accommodation necessary
to contribute to the comfort and pleasure of the
vast number of guests. This was the great feast of
the occasion; and then there were private intertain
ments, on a larger or smaller scale. At one of
these given by Mr. Green, at his private residence,
seven hundred guests were present. This is but
a brief sketch of the events of this interesting oc
casion, and we feel proud of the ancient city of
Oglethorpe. She has long plodded her way wiih
an old fogy tread, but she has shaken off her loth,
ergj, and now marches with proud slops, to take
her position alongside of the greatest cities of the
Union. One t housand cheers for Savannah 1
Duels.
\\ e learn from the Atlanta Intelligencer, that the
Hon. A. H. Stephens has challenged Benj. H.
Hill to fight a duel, which the latter declined to
accept, for reasons not stated. The challenge was
borne by the Hon. Thomas W. Thomas.
We see also a rumor, going the rounds of the
papers, that John C. Fremont, late candidate for
President, has challenged lion. Robert Toombs,
for expressions uttered by the latter, disrespectful
of the birth and parentage of the former. Wc
have recently seen this rumor contradicted.
Toombs and Fremont.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald, in his letter of the 6th, writes
that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, says the report
that Fremont had challenged Senator Toombs,
is false.— lntelligencer.
For the Emj ire State.
‘Anti-American Nominations.’
Mr. Editor : The Editor of the American
Union in his last week’s issue, places the above
phrase over the list of Democratic nominees for
our county offices ; and you have doubtless ob
served that the whole Fraternity of Kuov
Nothings make a very free use ofthe same kini
of slang, thereby endeavoring to claim to them
selves the title of being the peculiar Americans
ofthe country. Now, sir, if any thing the)
can say could amount to a slander, we might:
feel ourselves injured in reputation by having
such a name applied to us as characterizing our
principles ; but want of confidence on the part
of their acquaintances, render. powerless any
assertion of detraction which thoy in the pleni
tude of their elastic capacities can invent.—
They Americans ! Why, sir, it is larceny from
the house of Democracy, for them to be caught
with the name about their persons ! They do
not hold oue principle which characterizes them
as a party, that entitles them to the name of
Americans ! Every distinctive principle they
hold, is foreign, and was borrowed from Mon
archies and Despotisms. Is the denial of reli
gious liberty and freedom of conscience Ameri
can or European ? Is it American or English
to say a Roman Catholic shall not hold office?
Is it American or European to forbid naturali
zation to a foreigner for a long term of years ?
Is it American or English to place foreigners
in a middle state between a foreigner and a
naturalized citizen, such as the state of English
denization ? Is it American or French to get
up secret political societies ? But their slang
and detraction has lost the potency of slander,
namely, that quality which induces belief ! The
devil has as much right to claim himself and
host as the peculiar Christians and followers of
Christ, and that all true followers of Christ are
anli-Christ inns, as they have to assume that
they are the peculiar A me) icons of the present
day ! True, they arc, some of them, Ameri
cans by birth, but not by principle. In princi
ple they are aliens and strangers to the Com
monwealth of America. Their papas and ma
mas are entitled to all the credit of their Amer
icanism ! They are but half Ilcpublicanized
at best ; and the true idea of Americanism is
seen by them like the blind man saw with par
tially restored vision, “men as trees walking ”
O, sir, they ought, wi;h shame and disgust at
their corrupt foreign principles, to hush their
mouths, and never apply the term “Anti-Amer
ican’’ to a Democrat again while they are per
mitted to breathe under a pure American and
Republican Government, which they have fail
ed to despoil and contaminate with their unho
ly designs. Democrat,
Democratic Meet in >-SpaSding Coun
ty.
Griffin, Dec 9th, 1856.
According to previous appointment, Delegates
from the several districts met at the Court House,
in Griffin, this day, for the purpose of nominating
County Officers
On motion, Dr. J. T. Ellis was culled to the
Chair, and W. J Jossey requested to act as Sec
retary. The meeting then proceeded to nominate,
which resulted as follows :
For Justices ofthe Inferior Court,
A. A UAULDIXG,
THOS. D. JOHNSON,
S. C. MITCHELL,
R. P. CROWDER.
WM. CHITTENDEN.
For Clerk Inferior Court,
T. E HICKS.
Tax Collector,
RICIIARD LAW RE X CE.
Tax Receiver,
SAMUEL HAMMOND,
County Surveyor,
JOSEPH BUNTYN.
County Teasurer,
JAMES S. JONES.
On motion, the proceedings were ordered to be
published in the “Empire State.”
On motion, Convention adjourned.
J. T. ELLIS, Clim’n.
W. J. Jossey, Soc’y.
Something of a Change.
It is said that the Hon. S. A Douglas, when lie
set out for Washington, was not allowed to pass a
station between Chicago and Cleveland without
bsing called out, While acknowledging the com
pliment of an impromptu demonstration at .Toledo/
he said it “was but a short time since lie might;
have travelled from Boston to Chicago, by the j
light of his own effigies burning in every village!
where abolitionism could muster courage enough ;
to attempt the disgraceful act, the sole provocation j
for which was that he had dared to introduce a bill :
allowing the people of every State and of every I
Territory to regulate their own affairs in their own I
way. But ho congratulated his hearers that the j
just principle of that bill had been adopted and j
made a fundamental principle of our Government; I
aud he felt a proud satisfaction in the approval
and endorsement of his own course, and that of his !
gallant colleague, Gen. Shields, embodied in the !
triumphant election of the veteran statesman, I
James Buchanan, to the Presidency.”/!/c/mond j
Enq.
Interesting from Kansas.
It is slated that a special messenger has arrived
at Washington, from Kansas, says the Richmond
Enquirer, bringing despatches from Gov. Geary re
lative to the release of Hayes and other matters in
issue between himself and Judge Lccompte, which
are submitted to the consideration of the adminis
tration. Gov. Geary reiterates the peaceful condi
tion of the territory. The St Louis Republican
says :
“Kansas is now in a state of perfect quiet and
the emigration there is very large. Claims are in
creasing rapidly in value; and the man who secur
es a good oue, within reaching distance of wood
and water, considers himself rich.
Many persons are locating in the open prairies
and sewing large fields of wheat. Col. A. G. Ege,
formerly of Maryland, lias a field of some six hun
dred acres already sown and looking well ; and
Messrs. Jones and Richardson, two Virginians,
have about five hundred acres. They call these
places their Ranclie
1 lie sale at Leavenworth is still progressing,
and will continue several weeks. To give you an
idea of the enhancement of propcity there since
the titles are settled, one hundred and eighty acres
near Leavenworth city, that cost $2,000, was the
next day purchased by Col. Ege for $18,500 in
cash.
All the settlers in the country are looking anx
iously for the opening of the Land Office at Lc
compton, to enable them to pre-empt their lands.
The President has removed G. W. Clark, the al
leged murderer of Barber, in Kansas, from the of-”
fice of Indian Agent in that Territory, and ap
pointed Isaic Winston,(Whig) of Culpepper coun
ty, V r a ,in his place. Mr. Clark was shielded by
Gov. Shannon and Marshal Donaldson.”
Albany, Dec. 6—l he jury in the case ol
Baker, for trial on the charge of murdering
William Focle, being unable to agre“, have
been discharged. They stood six for mar slau
gi ter in the third degree and six for acquital.
Baker has been 1 1 ken back to New York,
where an effort will be made to bail him.
Sp veil off lion. Jams Lyons,
Os Richmond, Va., on t a ling the Chair as
President of the Commercial Convention.
Gentlemen of the Southern Commercial
Convention : In returning my thanks to you
for the entirely unexpected and fully unmerited
honor which you have been pleased to confer
upon me, 1 must be allowed to say that I do
not take any part of.it to myself, it is, I know
a tribute from the heart of the South,, not to
tiie individual, but to that ancient and venera
ble Commonwealth, of which I am one ofthe!
•humblest citizen.?—to a State which, while she
has always been loyal to her obligations to the
whole country, has been ever, as she ever will
be, true to the South in all her interests. (Ap-
plause.)
It is indeed no small honor to be called at
such a time, and by such a body to preside over
its deliberations, and to render such aid as an
humble individual may, to the labors and suc
cessful discharge of the duties of this Conven
tion. The time at which you meet, the very
moment of your assembling here, makes the
fact important in the eyes and estimation of
the Nation The objects and the influence and
the value of your deliberations, arc perhaps be
yond that attaching to the deliberations and
results of any Convention, spontaneous with
the people which has assembled for many years
past. We are assembled as a Convention of
free men, live citizens of the S®uth not for the
purpose of discussing political questions in the
manner and estimation, and with the interests
and feelings of politicians ; but for the pur
pose of considering what we can do ; all ad
mitting and conceding that something we ought
to do, to restore what has in part been lost, the
commercial independence, and with that, inde
pendence in every sense, of that South to which
we arc all in heart and spirit devoted. (Ap
plause.)
It is but a moment, gentlemen, since we have
passed through one of the most memorable
struggles which this country has witnessed
since first her character as a free and indepen
i dent Nation was established. A war as utipre
: cedcnted for tho means and manner in which it
! has been conducted, lias but recently been \va
| ged upon us. But thanks to that God who
I has always governed and controlled the desti
nies of our land, we have come through it, a
Nation yet united, happy and free, and the
stout South still, as she always has been, loyal
and true to the whole country. (Applause.)
: But it is not to be disguised—the man who
I would disguise it from you, would, in my hum
! ble judgment, mislead you—it is not to be dis
! guised that the contest is not yet ended. Al
: ready from the Senate Chamber ofthe United
; States, has it been announced that the war is
! not yet ended, but only deferred, to be finished
in the year 1860, when this war upon our insti
tutions, and our homes, and, of course, upon
our liberties, is to be renewed. Under these
I circumstances, following in the footsteps of oth
: ers who have gone before us, wc have come to
gether for the purpose of considering what is
to be donc--not to dissolve this Union, as onr
enemies falsely charge upon us : not to disturb
the constitutional compact in any wise, not to
’ mar the general happiness of t lie country —but
! for the purpose of considering what we can do
j on this occasion to make this Union, if it can
i still be preserved, a union of the whole coun-
I try, a union of the free aud independent North,
| uo less than a union of the free and independent
! and an equal South. (Applause.)
Our enemies have already assailed us in ad
vance—already have they endeavored to bring
charges against us which your deliberations
will prove, as all deliberations of Southern men
hitherto have proven, to be unfounded,
j At oue time possessing the almost entire
; trade and commerce of the country, we have
{ seen by degrees, aud year after year, this trade
: and commerce transferred to other portions of
i the country —our cities dwindling, our com
i merce gone, and those who have derived the
| benefit of our decay and loss, have used
! that benefit as I have just said, as a means of
j warring upon us and onr institutions in this
Union which our forefathers formed, not as the
end but as the means by which liberty and hap
piness and more perfect union and domestic
tranquility were to be obtained. We come
here not for the purpose of disturbing 1 lie
Union, but for the purpose of determining
j what can be done by our own means, and by
| our own energies, for the purpose of making
| more comfortable, more strong, more equal, in
all respects, that portion of the Union which
; furnishes the means for the whole What is
! there in that that should excite the hostility of
any just man ? Y\ hat is there that should* be
: regarded as inimical to any obligation of any
I patriot, m the fact that the people of any por
tion or the country should come together for
the purpose of considering what they may do
wit li their own means, by their own agencies,
for the purpose of securing the common inde
pendence of that part of the country they re
present ? I beg leave to say this for myself,
as I am sure I may say for all of you, that
there is not within this assembly a heart disloy
al to any patriotic obligation. The South asks
but justice, but equality, and to nothing else
will she submit. (Applause.) She asks only
tiiat she may enjoy with others what this Union
was intended to secure to all, to her as well as
the rest ; and she is too proud, too independent,
too just, too patriotic to ask anything for her
self which should not he conceded to all. Why
then should there be doubt or hesitation in re
spect to the course we are to pursue here ?
We come here as Southern men it is true, but
a Southern man who is true to the South can
not be otherwise than true to the Union, while
the Union is a Union under the Constitution,
aud according to the Constitution. (Applause)
What we may do within these limits, and un
der these feelings, aud guided by these princi
ples—what we can do to restore what has been
lost, remains a problem perhaps yet to be solv
ed. Your deliberations I am sure, will point
to a practical result. Wc have come here not
for the purpose of declamation or abstract res
olution, but we have come here to ascertain
some practical result which, while it shall do
justice to the South, shall also strengthen the
North, while the North is loyal to those obli
gations which we admit and by which we mean
i to abide while this Union remains a Constitu
tional Union. But the day may come, we do
not attempt to disguise it, for to do so were
more than folly, when the South may find that
she will be driven to the necessity of exerting,
and will have need and occasion for all her pow
ers, to preserve her rights and her honor. It
is to be cxnccte*! then that in that view of the
‘CtfSo, we will sit down quietly, and permit our
resources and means of power to waste, and
waste, and waste away, until at last when the
moment for action shall come, wc will have the
misfortune to find that we have overlooked,
neglected and slept upon all the means which
we had at our disposal, and which we should
have used to place us in a .condition to protect
and preserve that which every man in this as- j
sembly, I am sure, holds dear as his life, the j
honor and safety and happiness, and above all, j
if it can be considered as such, the indepen-1
rlence of the South equally with that of the i
other portions of the Union. (Applause.)
For your aid, gentlemen, in the discharge of
the duties you have devolved upon me, I need
not say I shall be greatly indebted, that I must
j to a great extent, rely upon your wisdom, your
; calmness and your determination to abide by
; and sustain the Chair, in the enforcement of the
I rules of order, by which you have determined
ito be governed. Satisfied that you will give
:me your aid and assistance, I trust I commit
|no error when I say, in the beautiful and ex
! pressivc language of the prayer we listened to
! this morning, our object will always be pure
and peaceful too.
The President resumed his scat amid renew
ed applause.
[Fthe Sumter Republican I-.xtra, Dee. 12. J
The Georgi.t Cosifermee.
Tills body convened in this plac -, on Wed 1
nesday, the brd iust and adjourned this morn
ing after a long and union-, but harmonious
session The following is a fall aid corre t
list of Appointments for the ensuing year :
VTT ‘TV?’* py*f*Q
| AuGUsi.v i)i.strut—.la? R i'av, ]> E. Aligns- j
| ta—St John’s A T v.dun, St James, VV M
Cru nbiev: • riniiy Coi Aiksbu au-iFactory
j Miss on, i. O A1 • n
Savanna—Trie. ty, h S Key; Westlv
i Chapel, T!I .jo! rJ-.u ; Andrew Chap L B
| Pay no; Cirv Mission, f)Holmes, Chatham
| Mission lo be ?;r plied.
Spri-gfi . ied —l* (’ j larri
Sy v nil .
bcr.ven Cos! Mission—l) E Starr.
Waynesboro—W J Cotter,.) G Worley.
| Buiko C< i .Mission— R.l Harwell.
Loui'vi’le—.l M A .1 Dean.
I JeffciS a Co s: Miss to be supplied,
i Il'chmoad—Dennis O'Diiseoll.
| War: cat on—Jodr.h Lewis
i S)url a- Wll Du to.
Hancock—.F I'’ Reynold? j
Hun ock—Col Miss Jas Jones,
i Columbia-J II Grogan.
I Athens Dm—Join, W Talley, P E.
Athens—ll II Parks; Col MLsion, W S
i Turner.
Watkinsville WII C Cone; J C Necse
Factory Mi-sion-IA Crawford.
Madison - I) Kclsev.
i Morgan—A W Rowland
Kingston—Col’d Miss, J P Howell,
j Greensboro—G Bright, C A Mitchell.
Lexington—lt Lane, W 11 Moss.
Washington—J 0 A Clarke.
Wilkes—John S Dunn.
Lincolnton—Vt p Arnold.
Elberton—.l W Knight, J W McGeehee. j
I Broad River Miss—*X II Palmer.
| Daiiloneg.v Dist —J) I) Cox, PE.
Dahlonega—J W Turner, W B Haily.
j Gxinesvillc—W W Brewer.
Carusviile—A J L’eavours, W A Parks.
Cl .kesv lie —i T Christian, W A Edwards, i
Clinton—VV G Allen j
Eiijuy Mission J II Masl.burn, S A Cla k
B’.airville Ms-ion—Goodman Hughes.
Moiganton Mission—-Jos. Chambers.
Miirphy Mission—J W Brady, Jas VM j
-Morris.
Clayton Mis. ion—lt H Waters.
Atlanta Dist—W It Branham P E.
Wesiy Chapel and Col Charge—C W Key.j
Trinity and Evans Chapel Mission, 11 J
Adams.
Atlanta, C Trussell.
Decatur, J M Armstrong.
Lawreucevdie, .J A Burke, M T Hamilton.
Monroe, It W Lovett.
New ton, J W Yarborough.
| Covington &. Oxford, EVV Speer, A Means,
I ‘'UP-
M Donough, A Grav.
Powder Spring, A Dorman, J K Owen.
Sup.
Marietta, W J Scott.
Roswell, I .N Craven.
Emory College, W J Sassnet, Professor; W
J Parks, Agt; G J Pearce, Agt, Bible
Society.
Rome ni.vr.: —J C Simmoi.s, PE.
Rome, W II Evans.
E.owali Mi sion, To be supplied.
Cave Spring, T B Harbcn: one to be sup
plied.
Cedar Town J VV Traywic.
Cassvilie, L J Davies.
Ca houn, It F .Jones.
| Dalton, St a. M A Clouts.
Circuit, II P Pitehford.
j Spring Place, II A Mcllan.
| Lafayette, WM D Bond, J B Key
I Dade Mission, John Strictland.
j Summerville, W F Conley.
Sublignia, VV T Norman.”
i Lookout Mission, To be supplied,
j Lagrange Dist.— S Anthony, PE.
Lagrange, Jesse Boring.
j Troup, W A Florence.
Greenville, J 11 Littlejohn, Geo Patillo.
ZebuloD, S C Quillian.
Jackson, J Kush.
Griffin Ft a, C II Jewett,
Fayetteville, W M Watts,
Newnan, James Harris.
Palmetto and Colored Mission, M II Hub
bard one To be supplied.
Carrol ton, R Stripling.
Villa Rica, Thomas Poring.
Franklin, W P Clonts.
West Point, L G It Wiggins.
Haralson Mission, To be supplied.
W G Conner, Agent F College.
C W Thomas, Chaplain, U S N.
Macon Hist. —John W Glenn, P K.
Macon and inevido, Janies E Evans, and
one to be supplied.
City Mission and Col Ch, W F Cook.
Clinton and Bethel Col Mission, M W Ar
nold and F L Bra.ut.ly.
Monticello, .1 B McGehee.
Eatouton and Col Mission E F Burch, and
A M Thigpen.
Milledgeville, Thomas H Stewart.
Jeffersonville, 1* M Itybnrn.
Perry and Oenmlgee Mission, C A Fuhvood
and J M Bright.
Fort Valley and Col Mission, I) Blalock, J
Bunwoody.
Colloden and Knoxville Mission, F X Fors
ter, W McMichael.
Forsyth and Col Mission, J M Marshall and
Morgan Bellah.
J Blakely Smith, Tract Agent.
O L Smith, President Wesleyan F College,
J P Duncan, Agent.
E H Myers, Ed S C Advocate.
Columbus Hist., L. Rush, P. E
Columbus, A M Wynn, and Geo G X Mac-
Donald.
Col. Charge, E N Boland,
Factory Mission, Raleigh Greene.
City Mission, W A Simmons.
Cusseta, T II Whitby, J II Harris.
Buena Vista, J B Wardlaw, and J W Rey
nolds.
Butler, Smith Davenport.
Flint River Mission, Wyatt Brook.
Talbotton Ct., II A Conner, W W Tidwell.
Thomaston, Thomas F Pierce.
Upson and Col’d Mission, E W Reynolds &
i
M H Hamby.
Hamilton, W II Potter, It Dixon.
Whitcsville, M F Malsby
Lovic Pierce, Conference Missionary.
Americus Dist.. George C Clark, P E.
Lumpkin, W G Parks.
Stewart, J T Turner, J D Junkin.
Chattahoochee Miss. To be supplied
Cuthbert and Ernmaus, J B Jacks*.n.
Fort Gaines, D Crenshaw.
Terrell, I) Williamson,
Starkville & Ced’d Mission, J T Ainsworth.
Americus, J W llinton,
Americus Ct. A Sumter Mission, JL Potter,
W Park
Oglethorpe, W I) Shea.
Vienna and Dooly Mission, J E Heutell, A
II Ogle tree.
Hawk ins villo, J H Her-o.
San"u:rsyii,i.k Dist., VV Knox. P E.
SuiukrsviUe 1 D J Myri.-k.
Irwlntou, W 8 Baker.
D iMin. \V C Rowland.
Jacksonville B X Cotter,
llcidsvillc, VV I* I’ledger.
ITine viilc. T 8 L Harwell.
D’ricn, J M Austen.
Mclntosh Mission. E White.
Bryan and Bulloeli, B F Breedlove.
Emanuel Mission, to be supplied,
W D Mathews. C L Hays transferred to*
the Alabama Conference.
F Gates and M Davis transferred to Florida
Conference.
J L Terry transferred to Texas Conference.
Next Conference lobe held at Washington,
i W :lkes Countv, Ga.
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IB in. Mm T ake and ms Slaves.— We have
already stated that the Hon. Mr. Lake, of
Miss., in passing through Ohio, on his way to
\\ a-Lingtou, with several >f Ins slaves in com
pany, was annoyed at Cincinnati by a number
of abolitionists, who fruitlessly endeavored to
get his .servants out of his custody, notwith
standing their desire to remain with their mas
ter. On arriving at Columbus, the officious
intermeddlefs again interfered, and detained
Mr. L. some hours. A letter says :
A writ was sued out, but the Sheriff refused
to execute ii. Mr. Lake avowed his perfect
willingness to appear before the Court with his
servants, and for them to say whether they de
sired to leave him. They refused to leave their
master. Force was next threatened, but Mr..
L. assured the District Attorney that, as lie
livid been ready to submit, to the law, so was he
prepared (with friends) to repel force by force
The respectable portion of the citizens of Co
lumbus, including the Sheriff and District At
torney, were on the side of the master, and dis
countenanced any interference with his slaves..
A despatch was next prepared for Newark,,
calling on certain parties there to seize tin? ne
groes, but the despatch was destroyed in the
telegraph office and not sent.
Air. Lake tins since arrived at Washingtons
with his slaves, who resisted every effort to se
parate them from their master. — West ten Ex
j change.
Tex vs Rvii.road.—We understand, says the’
j Journal & Alessengvr, that a basis of a contracts
j has been made between Gen. Hugh McLeod, for*-
1 merlv of this State, and a large number of eontrac
| tors, composed of Messrs. Grant, Colt, Maj. J. F...
Cooper, iv.te Engineer of the State Jtoad, and oth
ers. who will visit Texas shortly, for the extension
vfthe Harrisburg Railroad front the town of Rich
mond, on the Brazos River, to Austin, tho stat off
Government. This Road will be about 200. miles*
in length, flanking the fertile valley of the Colora
do, and will connect. the city of Galveston, by
steamboat? and railroads, with .-Austin. This con
tract is the first fruits of the liberal policy of the
State of Texas in donating 16 sections, (610 acres’
each.) of land, and loaning SG.COO in money, (U.
S. bonds.) per mile, to the Railroad that may be •
built withm a cvrtani pvriod. The rich lands of.
the interior v, ill rapidly enhance in value, and come
into cultivation. This Southern Pacific Railroad
on latitude T. 2 deg. across the State of Texas. wiili
no doubt engage the attention of the Southern-
Convention now sitting at Savannah.
Later from Kansas.— -Chicago, Dee. 4.
Kansas ndv’ee state that Gov. Geary is taking
measures to capture the prisoners that recently
j escaped At Lecomptim, the grrnd jury having?
found lulls against several proslavery men, a
j public meeting bad been called. Surveyor
General Calhoun was chosen President of the
meeting, at which Gov. Geary and his Inquis
itorial Courts wore repudiated and denounced*
and a call issued for the law and order men to*
meet at Leavenworth on the first o! December
Col. Tit us gives notice to all persons wishing
to go to Nicaragua to rendezvious at Ft. Louis
on the 10th of December. A free passage is
offered to ail who will go. He. says after the
settlement. <;f the Central American question,,
the purpose is to turn attention to c üba.
Vr.nv iMro; tanti-rom Northern Mexico.--
The Consul General of Mexico, Com.lleybaud
residing at New Orleans, has recievcd, says
the Picaune, highly important, iuteiigenec from
Northern Mexico, to the effect that the in
sur; eel ionary movement in New Le< n is at an
end, tliis result having been happily accompli
shed by a treaty entered into between Vidauri
and Gen. Lauda, by which the lounir aelcno
| wledges the authority of the Supreme Govern
ment, and yields allegiance to it on behalf of’
himself and his To!Evers. Os course the ad
miuistr ii ion of Comfort, will be materially
: strengthened by this m w and imexpected.
! course of events.
Business at New York.—A letter from
New York says :
‘'Business generally is dull, particularly the
dry goods branch, but not. more so than usual
at this period of the year. Winter now at
hand, and with the closing of the canals and in
land water communication of the eountrv, ex
cept the rivers and tributary streams of the
South-western States, trade will, in a few days,
be curtailed and confined to its winter quar
ters. No business season has ever come to a
close leaving the country in a more prosperous
condition than it is at present, nor with bright
er prospects in the future. Despite the exces
sive imports of foreign goods, our manufactur
ing interests are slightly reviving, a very im
portant fact when properly viewed.”
American Traie in Siam.— We learm from
Bankok that tlie first ship which has departed
for tin* West under Sir John Bowring’s treaty
is neither bound for Great Britain nor the Uni-.
ted States, but for France. The Pur Sang had
left Siam with a cargo of Siamese produce for -
Nantes. The China would follow her in a few
days for London, taking a general cargo for ,-
account of Singapore house. The Americans
however, have entered far more largely than...
any other Nation into the Siamese trade, which
is understood to have been very profitable hitli-.
erto—a circumstance that cannot fail to bring
many new competitors into the market. The
powers of production in Siam are immense, but
they will require time for their development.—
London Post, Oct. 31.