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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 The Fillmore prints persist in making the asser tion that, if their candidate had been withdrawn.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. * 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.