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THURSDAY, MAY 19. 1859.
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The Georgl* Military Institute.
Hie difficulties in which this institution has
for some time past been involved, have been
a fruitful theme of newspaper comment.—
From the report of a committee of the board
of Trustees, to the Governor, we gather the
following facts, in substance. Some of the ca
dets had offered repeated indignities to the
chaplain of the institute, as weil as to the place
where “prayer was wont to be made.” Ef
forts were made to discover the guilty paities,
without success. In process of time it turned
out that sentence of death was to'be passed on
a man, convicfed of murder at the Spring term
of Cobb Superior Court. Leave to go to Ma
rietta to hcar’the sentence.was granted to a
number of the cadets with a proviso that they
should return to their quarters at a certain
hour. The passing of the sentence was delayed
beyond the expected hour, and the boys did
not return until some time after the expiration
of the appointed" time, and the committee
say two of them went to the institute in a
state of intoxication. The whole crowd was
court-martialled and sentence of expulsion
was passed upon all. Certain mitigating
circumstances, induced the Court to recom
mend that the sentence shonld be remitted,
so for as eight of the offenders were concerned,
which they refused to accept. The committee
say “The whole number dismissed, including
the first class is 29.—resigned 8.—deserted 4.
—total 41. So it goes. Petty tyranny on
one ride, and insubordination on the other,
m <Ag a bad state of things. Better would it
have been that the State of Georgia, had
never hod anything to do with this concern.
SABBATH REFLECTIONS.
[continued from last week.]
We have seen that Heaven is a place & well
as a state. It remains to notice that it is a desirable
and an attainable place. It is desirable from iff*
nature—its inhabitants—its employments.
is desirable from its nature. It is everlasting. For
we know that if our earthly house of this taber
nacle were dissolved, we have a building of
God, an house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens, dt is an inheritance incorrup
tilde, undefiled and thatfadeth not away ; reserved
for the faithful. Perfectly free from corruption
it must endure forever, for corroding time
finds no food to feed upon, and purity cannot
corrupt itself. Undefilcd, it can never be
corrupted, for defilements only works cor rup-
tion. Incorruptible and undefiled, it can neve
fade, for corruption and defilement alone
are the causes of fading aud that which is
without them is eternal. Not only is the
place unfading, but all that enter it “receive
a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”—
Heaven is vlplace of holiness. We read in Deut
Look down from thy holy habitation, from
heaven, aud bless thy people. God sittetli
upon the the throne of his holiness. He
dwells in the high and holy place. Heaven is
a desirable place, for it is Goil’s throne. The
most high dwclleth not in temples made with
hands *, as saith the prophet, Heaven is my
throne. It is desirable, because flesh and blood
cannot enter it, “now this I say brethren that
flesh and blood cannot enter the kingdom of
God ; neither does corruption inherit incor
ruption.” All the ills that flesh is heir to, are
banished heaven for the re it cannot enter,
No decay, no old age, not one tottering frame
is there. All exhibit the brightness and beau
ty of youth, in one eternal bloom. Here we
are exposed to and suffer hunger and thirst,
but those who go to heaven, “shall hunger
no more, neither thirst any more, for the
Lamb, which is in the midst of the throne
shall feed them and shall lead them unto liv
ingj fountains of waters.” Here we are made
to sorrow and weep, but there, God shall wipe
away all tears.
Heaven is desirable, forit is a place of perfect
purity. One of the great reasons that makes
earth undesirable to the good man is its im
purity, but in heaven all is pure. God is pure
and “of purer eyes than to behold iniquity’
aud will let nothing impure enter into his
presence.: But we read that “Blessed are the
pure in h Vart for they shall see God. ” Heaven
is a place of peace. Turmoil, contention and
war is the state of earth, but he, who enters
heaven “shall enter into peace.”
Cowper sighed, “for a lodge in some vast
wilderness, some boundless contiguity of shade
where rumor of oppression and deceit, of un-
euccesssful and successful war might never
reach him more.” His ear was pained. His
soul was sick with every days report of wrong
and outrage with which earth was filled. He
sighed for peace and quiet, but 1 it can never
be fully realized this side the new Jerusalem,
where a God of peace reigns supreme and all
who are true, “dwell in peaceable habitations
and in sure dwellings and in quiet resting
places.
Heaven k not only desirable for its nature,
but its inhabitants. In heaven will be fo und
the best society in the nniverse and is not this
an object of desire ? How often do we hear
of a place, that it is underirable as a place
of residence, on account of its bad socie
ty ? aud if men will choose good society
for a life-time, how considerate should they
he, as to their dwelling place for eternity ! If
society renders peculiar locations on earth de
rirable will he the home of the Christian,
where dwell none but those who have been
washed in the blood of the Lamb and arc white
as snow, and in their mouth will be found no
guile, for they are without fault before the
throne of God. In heaven, we shall find who
go then, those gathered from every nation
and kindred and tongue aud people, all dwel
ling in perfect peace and joy and all speaking
the same language, and all engaged in the
same glorious pursuits and not one note of
djsoord'will be heard in that countless throng,
as they shout torth the praises of the Eternal.
Those are greatly favored who dwell with
Christians on Earth, for a few years, but
those who go to heaven will dwell with them
forever. There the Christian will enjoy the
company of angels and saints and just men
made perfect. There will be found Abraham
and Isaac and Jacob and Moses and Aaron and
Joshua and Daniel. What better society can
mortal wish, than can be in heaven ? and those
who enter it partake of its nature and illus
trate its glories.
Heaven is desirable not only from its nature
and inhabitants ; but also its employments.
Heaven is a place where all are active and ac
tive in doing what gives happiness. One desi
rable employment is singing with music. Those
who get the victory over the beast, “having
the harps of God, and the song of Moses, th i
servant of God, and the song of the Lamb say
ing, great and marvellous are thy works, Lord
God Almighty ; just and true are thy ways,
thou king of saints .” Few of us, we imagine
fully conceive or it is doubtful whether we
can fully conceive, the great employment that
will result from the pleasures of song and mu
sic. Singing on earth are one of the great
joys of the Christian. An exhuberance of hap
piness often prompts to song. And singing
the noble and soul-stirring strains of David,
in a proper spirit, elevates the moral feelings
and lead the soul to sympathize with God.
The saints of the Old Testament, appear to
have greatly enjoyed the songs and music of
their worship. They were “joyful in their
King,” and sung “praises onto him with the
timbrel and harp." They were tahght to white robes given yon, and your wWk and
“ring unto the Lord a new song, and hia praise
n the congregation of the i; Saints.” They
praised him with the sound of the trumpet—
with the pdalteryand harp—with stringed in-
istruments and organs—with high sounding
cymbals; and the great and unrivalled psalm-
writer of the world, said, let everything that
hath breath praise the Lord. One of the Apos
tles also says, “is any merry ? let him sing
psalms.” It was the custom, also, of the first
Christians, to be often “singing spiritual songs
and making melody in their hearts to the
Lord. 1 ’ It is also the advice of David, to sing
unto the Lord with thanksgiving, and sing
praise upon the harp unto our God. It is said
of Luther, that his stem heart was often melt
ed by the sweet strains of sacred music, of
which he was very fond, and quite a proficient.
He, whose sturdy arm shook thrones and made
a continent tremble, as he hurl’d at the king
doms of darkness, the thunder-bolts of truth,
red hot from the altar of God, could not resist
the charms of music’s power, but child-like
and submissive, yielded to its soothing and
happifying influence. “There is in souls, a
sympathy with sounds ; some chord in unison
with what we hear, is touched within us’’—
“For all the arts beneath the heaven,
That man has found, or God has given,
None draws the soul so sweet away,
As music’s melting, mystic lay ;
Slight emblem of the bliss above,
It soothes the spirit all to love.”
If the pleasures of song and music are so rav
ishing on earth, what will be the unspeakable
joy of those whose hearts and harps aie tu&ed
in unison with the heart and harp of God, as
they make celestial music in the choirs of
heaven, and sing the song of redeeming love,
around the pure throne of the Father and the
Lamb.
We have reason to think that another employ
ment of heaven will be to enjoy the pleasures
of social intercourse. At least, there must be some
communion of spirit with spirit, or joy would
not be perfected. If Abraham could converse
with Dives ip Hell, it is no more than reason
able to suppose, that he could do the same with
Lazarus in his bosom ; and if Lazarus enjoyed
and enjoys the company of Abraham, may we
not reasonably hope that if we enter heaven,
we may also hear blessed words drop from the
lips of the father of Israel. VVe read that Pe
ter, and James and John, knew Moses and
Elias, and to know one another in heaven, is
to converse, for knowledge of persons only,
would be of no value. Moreover, we read that
there appeared unto them, Moses and Elias
talking with them. The pleasure of that com
pany-, (a foretaste, as it were, of heaven) may
be seen in the fact that Peter said unto Jesus.
Lord it is good for us to be here, if thou wilt
let us make here three tabernacles; one for
thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
No one can doubt the great pleasure of so
cial intercourse in heaven, admitting that it is
enjoyed there. To see the purity of motive
that will prompt every word—to enjoy the
company of the most experienced in the histo
ry of the church—to hear Solomon forever
dropping nothing but pearls of truth from lips
of wisdom—to listen to the prophets and apos
tles, as they magnify the law and make it hon
orable, and yet praise the glorious scheme of
iedemption, and descant upon what on earth
was so intricate, and now so simple ; and con
tinue to look into the hidden mysteries of god
liness, and never tire with looking ; to talk
with the Savior, and “see him as he is” ; to
enjoy all these things, which arc more than
probable, is sufficient to make Paul, or any
other true believer, more than willing “to de
part and be with Christ.”
Notwithstanding all the follies and slanders,
and backbitings of social society on earth, con
sider how needful it is, with all its evils, to
the happiness of our race. Without it, earth
would be a lonesome dwelling place—worse
than a desert, and every man might as well
be a Robinson Crusoe, on his lonely isle, away
from the face of man. If the converse of earth
is so desirable to the happiness of man, and so
productive of pleasure, what must be the pleas
ure of that celestial society, where he, whose
words on earth made his disciples’ hearts burn
within them, is to be the companion of the
saints in glory, and the chief promoter of their
joy-
Without dilating, we may expect that all the
employments that benevolence can dictate, or
love or gratitude inspire, will cheerfully and
happily lie undertaken. To do good in any
way that can be imagined, will be nothing but
the full fruition of a pious heart. Praise will
be another employment desirable to the re
deemed, for they will rejoice in praising God
“for his mighty acts, and according to his ex
cellent greatness.”
Another pleasurable employment, will be in
creasing onr knowledge. Mind will be pro
gressive in another state as in this, or its char
acter must be changed. The infinite expan
sion of which miud is capable, and the heav
enly and inexhaustible source of expansion, is
a cheering thought to one who is “hungering
and thirsting after righteousness.”
Heaven is attainable. This is the thought
alone that saves from despair, and leads the
sinner to ask for the way, the truth and the
life. No matter how desirable a place heaven
might be, if unattainable, it would have no
claims upon the notice of fallen man. But a
ladder has been seen, reaching from earth to
Heaven, and he who will, may ascend.
The life-boat has been launched upon the
ocean of time, and he who will, may take pas
sage for the haven of eternal rest. Abraham
is there, and Enoch and Elijah and Moses and
Elias. Reader, Heaven is attainable. Did you
know it ? Do you realize it ? But to attain
it you must strive, and that manfully. Christ
has burst the bands of death, and ascended on
high, “leading captivity captive,” and is cry
ing in the ears of a hell-bound world, follow
me, “why will ye die.” But we must pass
this subject, with barely saying, all preaching
is based upon this fact : “Ask and ye shall re
ceive.” This truth needs no enforcement.—
All who believe in a heaven, believe it attain
able ; and is it possible that heaven is attain
able and we so inert ?
Reader, what a blessed home is the Chris
tian’s heaven—once obtained it is never lost.
How earnestly should we be striving to win
Christ. He is preparing a mansion for every
one that will prove frithful, and how serious
ly should we be preparing to enjoy that man
sion. What cause, what abundant cause for
gratitude to God, have we, if we can truly say
in the language of Paul: Blessed be the God
and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which ac
cording to his abundant mercy, hath begotten
us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheri
tance incorruptible and undefiled, and that fa
deth not away, reserved in heaven. Our in
heritance is in heaven. It is reserved for the
persevering. Our title will be made manifest
by the trial of our faith. If it is much more
precious than gold that perisheth, though it
be tried with fire, then we shall be “found un
to praise, and honor and glory at the appear
ance of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen
we love ; in whom, though now we see him
not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeak
able and full of glory.” The description of
the glory of heaven, by the “shining ones”
who attended Bunyan’s pilgrim on his jour
ney, after he had passed the river of death, is
inspiring to the hopeful heart. They told him
that the beauty and glory of it was inexpressi
ble. There, said they, is Monnt Zion, the
beayenly Jerusalem, the innumerable compa
ny of angels and the spirits of just men made
perfect. You are going now, said they, to the
Paradise of God, wherein you shall see the tree
of life, and cat the never-fading fruit thereof,
»pd when you come there, you shall h»ve
and talk shall be every day with the King,
even all the days of eternity. Then you shall
not see again, such things as yon saw when
you were in the lower region upon the earth,
to wit: sorrow, sickness, affliction and death,
for the former things are passed away. Yon
are going now to Abraham, to Isaac and to
Jacob, and to the prophets—men that God
hath taken away from the evil to come, and
are now resting upon their beds, each one
walking in his righteousness In that place
you must wear crowns of gold, and enjoy the
perpetual right and virion of the Holy One,
for there you shall see him as he is. There
your eyes shall be delighted with seeing, and
yonr ears with hearing the pleasant voice of
the mighty one. There you shall enjoy your
friends again, that are gone thither before you.
There also, you shall be clothed with glory
and majesty, and put on an equipage fit to
ride out with the King of glory.
Cold hearted reader think of heaven, it may
warm you to action. Wordly-minded reader,
think of heaven it may lead you away from
things of time and sense. Ambitious reader,
think of heaven, it may chill your love for
the flattering breath of a fickle and ungener
ous world. Backsliding reader, think of heaven
it may lead your prodigal heart to consider
the joys you have lost, by leaving your fath
er’s house. Readers, come one, come all,
and think of heaven. It is the Christian’s
home; the land of rest, the paradise of God.
May the thought of it animate us to greater
diligence to live a holier life, to run with pa
tience the race that is set before us. Readers
strive for heaven for there—
“No storms shall ride the troubled air,
No voice of passion enter there;
But all be peaceful as the sigh
Of evening gales that breathe aud die.
You, who would be with the dwellers in
the land of the blest, strive for heaven,
“For there the God of mercy slieds,
His purest influence on their heads,
And gilds the spirits round the throne,
With glory radiant as his own.
V.
Mr. -.etcher, &c.
The Opposition papers express much surprise
at, and censure strongly, the Democratic par
ty of Virginia for nominating this gentleman
for Governor as he professes sentiments antag
onistic to Southern institutions. Mr. Letcher
at one time, no doubt, entertained and express
ed views which no true Southern man can ap
prove ; hut he has long since recanted, as his
record in Congress shows. Our object, how
ever is not to defend Mr. Letcher, but to ex
pose and hold up to public view the gross in-
constacyof the Opposition.
The Opposition, it was, that supported Mil
lard Fillmore for the Presidency, who believ
ed that Congress had the power to abolish sla
very in the District of Columbia, to prohibit
slavery from going into the territories, and
the slave trade between the States and whose
record while in Congress, lrom beginning to
end, was one of opposition to Southern inter
ests. With these avowed sentiments, and
with his Congressional life before them, men
in Georgia- supported him, and those very
men are now denouncing the Democracy of
Virginia for aiding the election of a man
whose recorded political life every impartial
man must admit to be far preferable to true
Southerners than that of Mr. Fillmore’s.—
Such bare faced effrontery and inconsistency
are unparalleled in the annals of |H)litieal his
tory.—[Bainbridge Argus.
Minute of Points Decided by the Supreme
Court nt MllledgevIIlc—May Term, 1850.
E P Ponder, plaintiff, in ersor vs. C S Cox,
Defendant, in error. In Equity from Thom
as.
This was a motion in the Court below to
amend the hill—defendant objected to the
amendment. The Court overruled the ob
jection and allowed the amendment. To
which decision defendant exeepted.
* Judgment affirmed.
McIntyre, Young & AHHansell, represent
ed by Iverson L Harris, Alexander & Burch,
contra.
H Hendry, plaintiff in error, vs. James W
W Smith, Defendant, in error, Assumpsit
from Thomas.
Motion for new trial, on the ground that
the verdict was contrary to evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
McIntyre & Young represented by Burch for
plaintiff in error.
A H Hansell, represented by Iverson L Har
ris.
Georgia Railroad & Banking Company, plain
tiff in error, vs. Geo M Willis, deft- in error
Trespass, from Green.
If cattle are killed by a Railroad Car, the
presumption, in the absence of proof, is that
the killing was the result of the negligence or
carelessness or improper conduct of the Rail
road, its agents or officers.
Judgment affirmed.
Phillip It Robinson for plff in error.
Geo O Dawson, contra.
Elijah Osburn, plff in error, vs David Herron,
deft in error. Assumpsit from Green.
This was a motion for a new trial, on the
ground that the verdict was contrary to evi
dence.
Judgment affirmed.
P B Robinson, for plaintiff in error.
No Counsel appeared for defendant in
error.
Geo O Dawson et al Adm’r Plaintiff in error
vs Geo W Godkin, deft in error—Assumpsit
from Green.
A promise to pay a promissory note, haired
by the Statute of Limitations (new promise
made before Act of 1851,) is not barred by the
Statute of Limitations until six years from the
time or period of the new promise. .
Judgment affirmed.
G O Dawson, for pltf in error.
Philip H Robinson, contra.
Ezra D Morton, pltff in error, vs Sarah J Pear-
man, deft in error—Attachment from
Jones.
Attachment will lie for the recovery of dam
ages for breach of promise to marry
Judgment affirmed.
Rutherford & Hill, for pltff in error.
Davis & Lawson, & Hardeman, contra.
John D Diamatori, plff in error, vs Thomas S
Choate, deft in error—Equity from Putnam.
Motion for new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
Junius Wingfield, for pltff in error.
Hudson & McKinley, contra.
« »-♦ •
Cheering Reports.
It will he seen by reference to the reports of
the Democratic meetings in Franklin, Jack-
son, Walton and Lumpkin, which we insert
this week, that the Democracy of this district
come nobly to the support of their leaders.—
Resolutions commendatory of Gov. Brown’s
course are to be found in each, and show how
earnestly and sincerely his re-election is desir
ed. Our representative, Hon. James Jackson is
sustained in a manner worthy to those honest
mer, who know how to appreciate honesty in
others. The abused charge of voting money
to educate Africans has exerted no greater in
fluence than that more comprehensive one of
“bargain and sale,” which was intended to
cripple three eminent men. From Gwinnett,
we hear words of approval of Joseph E. Brown,
but nothing for or against Judge Jackson, yet
wc feel sure that when the test is applied,
neither will meet with dangerous opposition
from that quarter.—[Southern Banner.
TUESDAY; l&Y 17,
“We advocate a development of out* re
sources as a means whereby to become Inde
pendent, instead of agg^vating sectional bit
terness byinfhenmatory appeals to sectional
prejudices. To promote it, we have labored
harder, arid written more in the last two years
than all the other papers in the State put to
gether. ’ ’—[National American.
Modest, very. V.
“It is consistent to say the country could
not have been one whit worse off with Fre
mont for President, than it is and has been
with the treacherous demagogue, James Bu
chanan.”—[National American, May 14.
“Fremont” no “worse” than “the treach
erous demagogue, James Buchanan !”-—
“Worse” and “worse.”
Y.
~W
“We repeat, that the country could have
BREN NO WORSE OFF IF THE REPUBLICANS HAD
triumphed instead of Buchanan. This is all
we have said.”—[National American.
1 ‘This is’ ’ more than you ought to have said.
The South denounces “the Republicans.” The
South, almost to a man, voted for Mr. “Bu
chanan. ’ ’ Has the South aided in the election
of a man no better than a Black Republican ?
Has “Buchanan” shown no regard for the
South, in the organization of his Cabinet ?
V.
Democracy the only .Hope of the South.
Let the enemies of Democracy rant and rave,
and vent their spite as much as they please;
every Southern man must admit, who has a
spark of candor and fairness in his composi
tion, that if the rights of the Southern slave
holders are preserved, the National Democra
cy is the only party which has the power to
effect this object. The American party, North,
has long since become abolitionized, and the
great body of it has been amalgated with the
Black Republicans. A small remnant only, is
left to tell the tale that “Samuel” ever exist
ed. At the South, the great mass of the Amer
ican party are at heart true to the interests of
their section of the country. But the party is
demoralized by its past hostility to foreigners
and catholics—disorganized and broken down
in every Southern State, save one. Wc al
lude to Maryland ; and in that State there is a
strong free-soil sentiment prevailing, and some
of her representatives in Congress are hut lit
tle better than Black Republicans. Hence the
American party is powerless to resist the at
tacks of our Northern foes upon our peculiar
institution. To what source then, are we to
look for succor in this hour of our peril ?-
There can be but one answer to this question
The National Democracy is the only hope for
the South. We do not remember a single in
stance, in which one Southern Democratic mem
ber of Congress has proven recreant to his du
ty as a Southern Representative. The same
cannot be said of all the Know Nothing mem
hers. We do not pretend that all the profess
ed Northern Democrats are reliable when the
question of slavery is involved. But that
very respectable portion of them do stand by
the South, in the struggles for her constitu
tional lights, none can truthfully deny. Ral
ly then, fellow-citizens, to the banner which
floats ovewthe citadel of our rights, haying in
scribed upon it the name of “National Democ
racy. ’ ’ Let those who oppose us, because they
hate tire name of Democracy, or because they
have been disappointed in their political aspi
rations, rave and rant as much as they please,
“they gnaw a file,” and are doomed to wither
under the frown of an indignant Southern peo
ple The destruction and overthrow of the
Democracy of the nation, sounds the death
knell of the Union, and in its ruins will he
buried the hopes of our illustrious ancestry.—
While we never have, and never shall subscribe
to the doctrine that “the Union is the para
mount political good,” yet we shudder at the
consequences which would follow from the
severance of the ties which bind us together as
a nation. But if the National Democracy is
to be overthrown, and Black Republicans are
to run riot over our rights, in the language of
Senator Toombs, we say, “let discord reign
forever. ’ ’
Democratic Meeting In Forsyth County
Gumming, Ga., May 3d, 1859.
Pursuant to previous notice a respectable
portion of the Democratic party of Forsyth
county assembled in the court house to-day
for the purpose of appointing delegates to the
Gubernatorial and Congressional Conven
tions. *
On motion, the meeting was organized by
calling A. G. Hutchins, Esq., to the chair and
equesting Col. S. B. David to act as Secretary.
The Chairman briefly explained the object of
the meeting, and on m°f i°Q> appointed a com
mittee consisting of Messrs. J. R. Thompson,
B. J. Rice, Ransom Foster, Dr. C. H. Cun
ningham, and E. W. Lewis to report business
for the action of the meeting. The commit
tee retired for a few minutes and upon their
return presented the following report, which
\yas unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That \ye fully approve of tlje qd
ministration of Joseph E- Brown, and cheer
fully bear testimony to his able, faithful and
efficient management of the affairs of the
State.
Resolvedj That it having been the time-hon
ored usage of the Democratic party of Geor
gia, to nominate the incumbent in office to a
second term (if he desire it) and being fully
satisfied with the official conduct of Joseph E.
Brown, we see no reason of departing from
said usage of the party in the approaching
Gubernatorial Convention, we therefore in
struct our delegates to said convention to cast
their votes tor him and to use all honorable
means to secure his eomination.
Resolved, That for the able, faithful and
honest management of the Western & Atlan
tic Rail Road so as to make it yield a valua
ble revenue to the State, its officers are enti
tled to the thanks and gratitude of the whole
people ef Georgia.
Delegates to the Gubernatorial Convention.
Col. Hardy Strickland, B. J. Rice, and J. S.
Clement, Esqs.
Delegates to the Gainsville Convention.
Col. S. B. David, A. G. Hutchins, Esq., Dr-
J. L. Hugs, Dr. M. W. Sutton, Dr. L. H.
Cunningham, Curtis Green, and E. W. Lewis,
Esqs.
On motion,
Resolved, That the Secretary forward a copp
of these proceedings to the “Atlanta Intelli
gencer,” “Athens Banner” and “Lawreuce-
ville News” with a request to publish them.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
A P. HUTCHINS, Chm’n.
S. B David, Sec’y.
A Dead Wife Comes to Life and Claims
a Widow’s Dower,
The Boston Journal describes a remarkable
will case now on trial before the Massachu
setts Supreme Court in that city Twenty
seven years ago Benjamin Lakin, a Boston
pilot, married, but in a few years his wife
left him, and afterwards received notice of her
death. Instead of dying, however, she mar
ried a Mr. John Davice, with whom she lived
until two years ago. Sixteen years after de
sertion of his first wife, Mr. Lakin married a
lady, named Louisa Cummings, with whom
he lived until the time of his death in Octo
ber 1857, and to whom he left all his property
amounting to $12,000. At his funeral, the
first wife again made her appearance, and rel
ics followed the remains to the grave. The
heirs at law dispute the will on the ground of
illegal influence exercised by the second wife,
and the first wife joins them in endeavoring to
set it aside. The court has decided that the
first wife is not entitled to dower, but no full
decision has yet been reached.
ST 1 It is related that lawyer Talcott once
called a fellow practitioner the “right bower”
of the profession. When asked to explain,
he said he meant “the biggest knave in the
pack.” (Ancient—but there’s a rising gener
ation!)
The Cause of the War.
Austria claims that she rightly owns and
controls Lombaroy and Venice ; that she had
a right to control them as she sees fit; that in
order to this she must maintain with the sev
eral neighboring Italian States, such an influ
ence as will render bur LjOiqbardoy Venitian
sovereignty safe. Therefore she keeps up a
partial military occupancy of the central Ital
ian province which is an exception. There
Austria has no power, and the policy of Sar
dinia, which is favorable to the establishment
of constitutional governments in Italy, is hos
tile to that of Austria, which tends to the
maintainance of the strictest military despo
tism, Sardinia and France sympathizing with,
on thejeontrary claim that the Austrian occu
pation of Italy is injurious in its effects on the
Italian States, prevents the development of
that country, and is virtually in violation of
the treaties and compacts ot 1815.
They demand the abandonment of the Aus
trian occupation of Italy and the Sardinia
frontier, and that Austria shall cease to exer
cise any more control in Italian affairs than
the other great powers. These demands Aus
tria refuses to comply with, alledging that her
policy in Italy is necessary to her own depen
dencies of Venice and Lombardy. These mat
ters have been in controversy for three years.
France and Sardinia proposed in 1856 the
consideration of this subject by the Congress
of the European powers. Austria would not
consent to this. Diplomatic negotiations were
carried on however, between France and Aus
tria, but the difference has grown wider and
wider, the longer the discussion has continued
until now they propose to settle the whole af
fair by a resort to arms.
[idmhnnridATED.]
The Gold Lash or Georgia—New System of
Derelopmeat—E mployment of Extensive
Waiter Power—Results.
That region of Georgia over which is scat
tered, in rich profusion, the abundant eviden
ces of mineral and metallic wealth, is again
coming into prominent notice, at home as well
as abroad. Twenty-five years ago, it was re
garded as an El Dorado ; people rushed to the
“Georgia diggins,” as they did in 1848-49 to
California. Lots, whether supposed to be val
uable or only located in the “right direction,”
were bought and sold at fabulous prices. Large
amounts of gold were obtained, as the records
of the Mint at Dahlonega, testify. Some got
rich, whilst many of the poor population of
the country got a respectable living with but
little labor. For several years, the country has
been neglected, owing to a variety of causes.
The California excitement being the most
prominent—that wonderful mania seized upon
the diggers of Lumpkin County with more
power and fury, than anywhere else. Large
numbers at once left their homes, for the rich
prospects held out on the Pacific ; and so mar
velous were the accounts that came by every
steamer, that the more moderate products of
Georgia labor, were dwarfed in comparison
with those of California. Another cause for
the neglect of the Gold lands of our State, is
attributed to the necessity, at a certain stage,
of considerable capital, to develop the aurifer
ous ore from its hidden abode in the bosom of
the veins where it is usually found.
In the early history of all gold regions, it
has been regarded an easy matter to gather
the “dust” from “pockets” or surface depos-
its ; hut wdien the country h.as been thorough
ly explored by the “digger,” and the surface
deposites have been exhausted, it is an entire
ly different affair to obtain gold. It requires
continuous labor, and capital and science, to
dive into the earth to search out the veins,
and extract from the ore, the particles of pre
cious metal which it contains. But with the
proper and practical use of these elements, it
is just as certain as it ever was, that gold can
now be gotten in such quantities as to make
its pursuit profitable.
A visitor to the gold regions of Georgia at
the present time, will find much that is inter
esting, to attract his attention. The country
itself, is picturesque and romantic—the moun
tain scenery lending an ever fresh and gratify
ing charm, at least to the eye of such obser
vers as are not too practical to admit the poe
try of nature into their view. The pure and
bracing atmosphere, so conducive to health
and all its enjoyments, is not the least impor
tant feature of the country, and is calculated
to benefit those, at least, who are immured in
the sedentary life of cities. Wdien the visitor
reaches the heart of the country, and makes
use of his powers of observation, he is not left
long in doubt as to the character of the region
around him. Nothing is wanting to make up
the invariable indications of the rich mineral
and metallic resources, with which a bounti
ful Creator lias endowed it. That aspect im
presses even the most casual spectator, whilst
the man of science may find at every step,
abundant material to call forth all his powers
of investigation and analysis.
As you enter from the South-east, that por
tion of Lumpkin county where the gold dig
gings were once carried on so energetically and
prosperously, you see all around the signs of
that peculiar sort of labor that characterized
the early efforts of the gold hunters. On
every branch, creek or river, the soil looks as
as if it had been upheaved by some hidden
power. But those mounds and hillocks are
only the work of avaricious man. The glit
tering dust was at fust chiefly discovered in
the bed of streams, and there with spade and
pan, the anxious and devoted worshippers
gathered and bent to tlieir idol. Hardly a
water course throughout the country, but still
exhibits, the work of the insatiable gold hun
ter.
The next feature which the aspect of the
country presents, is this, No systematic and
thorough process of developement has as yet
been carried on to bring from the bowels of
the earth, the immense wealth, which is there
hidden. That which was easy toget%as soon
gathered and as if such easily gotten treasure,
revolutionized the moral nature of all those
engaged in it, they seemed to remain satis
fied, without the desire to dive deeper down
into the depths of the earth, to sec what
should be the reward of their industry.
But the old era of manual labbr has nearly
passed away, and those who visit the gold
fields will find but few who think it worth
while to engage with pickaxe, spade and pan
in exploring their already exhausted surface.
The new era is just commencing, and promi
ses to be as fruitful in a rich harvest to those
who embark their capital as any enterprize
managed with ordinary skill and prudence.
'ilie writer of this ai tide on a recent occa
sion nqade a visit of pleasure and information
to the county of Lumpkin and was gratified
to witness, the new life which seemed to ani
mate the people there from the prospect of
having a large capital brought into the conn,
try to develop its valuable resources. The
great want of the county—water, is being
brought by a system of extensive canals, to
the very heart of the region where the ore con
taming gold is known mostly to abound. One
canal commencing at the Yahoola river which
runs through the north-easterly corner of the
county will soon be fidished to a distance of
thirteen miles. It will pass near the town of
Dahlonega over a trestle wore of 245 feet in
height and certainly one of the highest on
the continent. Another canal will commonce
.at the river Chestatee which runs in a north
easterly direction and will carry water to a dis
tance of 10 miles, over the course of the veins
with power sufficient to wash all the most
important ridges and bring their hidden veins
of ore to light. This canal will reach the
very best lots in the country and enable them
to he thoroughly tested and developed. The
Stovers Branch Gold mine, which lies about
a mile and a half in a south-westerly direc
tion from the town of Dahlonega, and known
to be one of the richest mines in the world,
will he reached by the water power from th is
canal.
Among the enterprizes already in success
ful operation in Lumpkin county, there was
not one which so interested the writer, as the
operations now being carried on by Mr. Hez-
ekiah Kelly of New York. This gentleman
is possessed of great practical sense, and mnch
experience in mining. A considerable resi
dence in California, gave him access to
all that that was going on there in the pro
duce of gold, and the mode in which lie
is conducting his affaire in Lumpkin county,
bear ample testimony to his capacity. About
three miles from Dahlonega, he has erected a
mill with eight stamps. This mill is run by
water, brought through a small canal or ditch
a distance of two miles. vV ith another small
canal which brings water a distance of nearly
five miles, he is laying bare the hills, develop
ing the quartz and procuring a sufficiency of
ore for bis mill. We learn from an undoubt
ed source, that he is realizing from $50 to
$100 per day by his operations. The capital
invested in the machinery and water power
does not exceed twenty-three hundred dollars
exclusive of the cost of the lot say $11,000.
The results of Mr. Kelly’s skill and industry;
are destined to be productive of immense ben
efit to the country and confidence is being res
tored by the unquestionable assurance, that a
small capital carefully and practically applied
will yield handsome profits.
SIGMA.
From Uie Washington Constitution.
Dead Issues.
Extract from the National Democratic Platform
adapted at Cincinnati June, 1866.
“And that we may more distinctly meet
the issue on which a sectional party, subsist
ing exclusively on slavery agitation, now re
lies to test the fidelity of the people, North
and South, to the Constitution and the
Union—
Resolved l, That, claiming fellowship with,
and desiring the co-operation of, all who re
gard the preservation of the Union under the
constitution as the paramount issue, and rep
udiating all sectional parties and platforms
concerning domestic slavery which seek to
embroil the States and incite to treason and
armed resistance to law in the territories, and
whose avowed purposes, if consumated, must
end in civil war and disunion, the American
Democracy recognize and adopt the principles
contained in the organic laws establishing the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as imbod-
ying the only sound and safe solution of the
slavery question, upon which the great na
tional idea of the people of this whole coun
try can repose in its determined conservatism
of the Union—non-interference by Coxgress
WITH SLAVERY IN STATE AND TERRITORY, OR IN
the District of Columbia.
2, That this was the basis of the compro
mises of 1850, confirmed by both the Demo
cratic and whig parties in national conven
tions, ratified by the people in the election of
1852 and rightly applied to the organization
of Territories in 1854.”
When the above authorative statement of
the views and sentiments of the national De
mocracy was framed, it is evident that the sla
very question was regarded as settled by the
adoption of the principle of non-intervention
by Congress with slavery in the Territories,
and by the investiture of the people of the
Territories with the sole power to deal with
the subject when they frame the constitution
under which they shall ask admission into the
Union as a sovereign State. But when the
national Democracy met at Cincinnati "and
framed the platform of which the above is an
extract, it was still a matter of controversy
whether or not the constitution recognised
slavery as existing in the territories, and
whether or not slave owners had a right, un
der the constitution, to settle in the territo
ries with their slave property. The Supreme
court of the United States—the highest con
stitution tribunal in the land—has since de
cided this question in favor of the equality of
the States.
Now, inasmuch as it was determined that
Congress had no right to interfere with slave
ry in the territories; inasmuch as full powers
of local legislation were granted to the terri
torial population subject only to the Constitu
tion of the United States ; inasmuch as the
Supreme Court had determined the right to
hold slaves in the territories; and inasmuch
as it was universally conceded that, when the
people should come together to frame their
State constitution prior to asking admission
into the Union as a State, they had absolute
power to adopt or abolish slavery, we believe
that we are justified in considering that any
attempt to revive the slavery question now is
is an attempt to revive “a dead issue,” and
should he so regarded by all “democrats.
Whether Congress is bound to enact laws
for the special protection of slave property in
the territories, and whether territorial legis
latures have the power to inhibit slavery in
the territories, either directly by express in
vestment, or directly by refusing to recognize
the propriety rights of a master in his slave
or, in other words, whether squatter-sover
eignty is to supersede popular sovereignty as
understood and accepted by the Democratic
party North and South—are matters which
are now being discussed with considerable, ae-
rimior.y in different parts of the country, aud
by which it is songht. for sinister purposes, to
revive in national politics, in the halls of Con
gress, and before the country, this dead anil
buried question, and reawaken the hitter ani
inosities which formerly surrounded it.
We believe, however, that the effort to re
suscitate this defunct controversy is confined
to a few professional politicians of ultra views ;
and that the “good men and true” of the en
tire nation, who only desire the safety of our
institutions, the maintenance of the equal
rights of the various members of the confed
eracy, and the preservation of the constitution,
are emphatically opposed to any renewal of
srctional strife, or to any departure from the
beneiicient compromises of 1854 and 1850. by
whjcli the Democracy of the North as well as
of the South solemnly agreed to abide.
First as to the assertion that it is the duty
of Congress to intervene directly, by special
enactment, to protect slave property in the
Territories : We maintain that this is the pur
est abstraction, the discussion of which can
not subserve any good or useful purpose, be
cause there has not occurred, and there is not
likely to occur, any case in which congression
al intervention was or will be needed for the
protection of slave or other private property
in any territory of the United States. The
existence of slavery in the territories has been
distinctly recognised by the Constitution.—
Congress has no power to interfere either for
its establishment or for its abolition in any
portion of the public domain, in which, being
the common property of the entire Union,
the slave owner of South Carolina has as per
fect a right to settle with his negroes as the
free-soiier of Massachusetts has to settle with
bis oxen and farming implements, and in
which the proprietary rights of the master in
liis slave and the freesGiler oxen, being rights
guarantied by the Constitution of the United
States, are alike entitled to protection from
the federal judiciary. Congress has clearly
no power to make that property which is not
property under the Constitution ; neither has
it any power to curtail, extend, or destroy any
property which the Constitution has recog
nized and guarantied. The protection of all
property so recognise and guarantied rests
with the federal courts created for that pur
pose, and armed with ample power for its per
fect fulfillment. In ne instance has any dis
position beer, evinced by the people or legis
lature of any territory to invade or deny these
vested proprietary rights. In Kansas, where,
from the recent excited condition of the pub
lic mind with reference to slavery, it was most
to be apprehended that the attempt would he
made to impair or destroy the right of a slave
owner to protection in his slave property, the
legislature, by a large majority, refused to
enact any laws interfering with that acknowl
edged constitutional right. In New Mexico
the people have recorded their sentiments with
regard to the institution of slavery in such a
manner as to remove all doubt as to its popu
larity there, and there is certainly no ground
for alarm that the settlers of Washington or
Nebraska territories will pass any legislation
on the subject of slavery to which the most
tenacious stickler for constitution^ rights
could take exception. What need is there,
then, to discuss the question whether Congress
is or is not bound to protect rights which no
body is disposed to attack ? Are we not justi
fied, therefore, in our opinion that the ques
tion is a mere abstraction, the discussion of
which can only create dissension in the Demo
crat!- party, and thus tend to strengthen the
hands of the deadly enemies ofemocracy.
We believe that no such issue would ever
have been mooted were it not that a few self-
styled democrats who are hostile to the pres
ent administration, and who were anxious to
get up some distinctive dogma of tlieir own.
no matter at what sacrifice of principle or po
litioal consistency, raised the other question
as to the abstract right of a territorial legisla
ture to pass laws hostile to slavery or to neg
lect to provide for its protection. Tho posi
tion which this feeble band of disorganizers
have assumed, and which has, not unnatur
ally, been construed as aggressive by the South
amounts in fact to the assertion of the most
odious form of squatter-sovereignty, and the
admission of the right of the first handfall of
settlers in a territory, at any time, and no
matter what their number, to determine posi
tively the nature of its institutions, and to pass
laws by which the citizens of nearly half the
States in the Union would he practically ex
cluded from a portion of the public domain,
unless they consent to abandon any private
property, and renounce and social predilec
tions which might he obnoxious to those who
had preceded them tn the settlement of a ter
ritory which belongs to all in common. Since
the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, abol
ishing the Missouri Compromi e, ai d remov
ing the imaginary geographical line north of
which the right of the United States citizens
to hold slaves was denied, it has been undor-
stood by the democratic party in every sec
tion of the Unionjthat Congress had no power
tointefere in any way todetermin the charac
ter of the institutions of a territory; but that
the power to regulate their fundamental law
was vested exclusively in the people of a ter
ritory, to be exercised whenever they ask ad
mission into the Union as a State.
This is the great doctrine of non-interven
tion which both the north and the south
agreed to adopt and uphold as an equitable
adjustment ot the constitutional relations
which should exist between the States and
territories, and as the establishment of the e
filial it, V ftf nrrlifii uml nr? I'llocrnn ik.% !
quality of rights and privileges of the various
members of the confederacy, and as a compro
mise of the conflicting interests of those who
approve, and of those who are opposed to, the
institution of domestic servitude. This com
promise was agreed infeood faith, and has been
scrupulously adhered to ever since by
both southern and north™ democracy. Every
principle of honor, every feeling of respect foi
plighted faith*every sentiment of patriotism
demands the most faithful and punctillious ob
servance of the spirit and letter of our agree
ment, which was based on the constitution
and sanctioned by the wisdom and modera
tion of the American people.
There are unfortunately, some men, calling
themselves democrats, who, in consequnce
of disappointed ambition, or of some past grie.
vance, real or imaginary, would violate all the
pledges of th democratic party, abandon all
its principles, and destroy its very cxistance
were their power commensurate with their
disposition to do evil. Fortunatety for the
country, the followers of these disorganizers
constitute hut a feeble hand. The great in
telligent masses of the people adheie to the
democratic party as the only national,
national conservative in the land—as
the great bond by which the States are held in
one common country—as the only faithful
guardian of the rights of the people. What
ever selfish factionists may devise or pettifog
ging quibblers may suggest to the contrary
the democratic party of the north, south,
east, and west will never abondon the consti
tutional doctrine of popular sovereignty, as
defined by President Buchanan in his letter of
acceptance and inaugural address, to adopt the
the justly odious doctrine of squatter sover
eignty, and reopen the slavery question with
increased bitterness. We have plenty of liv
ing practical issues to discuss. Let us not be
come the resurrectionists of buried questions
which have no practical importance at the
present day.
After the great earthquake of Lisbon, the
King of Portugal asked his minister, Pombal,
what was to he done ? and the latter won the
intimate and enduring confidence of his sover
eign by his wise, practical reply : “Bury the
dead, and find food for the living.” We have
buried the dead, and it now behooves us “to
find food for the living.”
The Southern Convention.
We begin to receive some account of the
procedings of the Southern—“Commercial”
no longer—Convention, which assembled at
Vicksburg on Monday.
The Convention was called to order at 12
o’clock m. by Mayor Folks, of Vicksburg, who
after a congratulatory address welcoming the
delegates to the city, suggested Hon. JolmC.
Jones, of Georgia, as temporary Chairman,
which on motion was agreed to. Gen. Mc-
Cardle, editor of the Vicksburg Southron, was
then appointed Secretary.
A call of the States was then made, when it
was found that South Carolina, Georgia, Lou
isiana, Mississippi and Tennessee were alone
represented.
Upon motion of Hon. Walker Brooke, of
Miss., a committee on Credentials was appoin
ted, consisting of one delegate from each of the
above States, viz : Hon. W. Brooke, Col. N.
D. Coleman, of La., J. B. Allan, of S. C.,
John Delafield, Esq., of Tenn., and Col. S. R.
Adams.
’The Convention then adjourned, to meet at
5 o’clock p. m.
At the opening of the evening session, the
committee on Credentials reported delegates
present from the following States, viz : South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Miss
issippi, Tennessee, Texas and Florida.
Upon motion, a gentle.nan from Kansas was
admitted upon the floor as a delegate. Kan
sas may now, we suppose, be set down as
“Southern State - ”
A committee of two from each State was
then appointed to report permanent officers
for the convention during whose absence reso
lutions were introduced, inviting reporters to
seats prepared expressly for them ; also for
the proper accommodation of visitors, &c, &c.
The committee soon returned, and reported
the following officers, who were unanimously
elected, viz :
President, Gen. Charles Clark, of Miss.,
Vice-President, J. C. Jones, of Ga.,C. E. Ed
wards, ofS. C., B. F. Dill, of Tenn., C. M.
Whaley of Tex., Hon. H. S. Bennett, of Miss.,
Col. Amakee, of Fla., M. C. McLemore, of
Ala., J. C. Seaborough, of La., Secretaries,
Wm. H. McCardle, Janies Barrow, of S. C., A.
M. Haynes, of Tenn.
On taking the chair, Gen. Clark called the
attention of the convention to the pi ominent
questions which are now agitating the coun
try.
The first regular business before the couven
tion was the report of the special committee
on the want and supply of African labor in the
South. This was read by the chairman. Mr.
Spratt, of Charleston, who at the same time
offered three resolutions, embodying the con
clusions of the report, which was strongly in
favor of the re-opening the slave trade.
Mr. Delafield, of Tenn., moved that they he
referred to the committee on resolutions, and
they were so referred.
Mr. Spratt addressed the convention in fa
vor of the report, reiterating its statements
and conclusions on the subject of re-opening
the slave trade.
Mr. Davis, of Panola, Miss., followed with
an able speech on the same side.
Col Archer, of Port Gibson, presented reso
lutions of Clairborne county,(Miss., in favor of
the re-opening of the slave trade, and, in do
ing so, made a strong speech in tlieir fa
vor.
On convening in the afternoon session, Mr.
Moody, of Clairborne, Miss., addressed the
convention in an able speech against the res
olutions, and in l he course of his arguments
he read laws from the statutes of ten of the
slave States against the importation of Afri
can negroes.
Mr. Hughes, of Clairborne, presented and
read a written address aDd resolutions offered
hy ex-Governor McRae, of Miss., the success
or of Gen. Quitman in Congress, who was net
able to be present.
The first declares it to be the duty of the
American Government to seek by every hone-
rable means to acquire and Americanize the
Islapd of Cuba. The second also declares it to
be the duty of the American Government to
protect, by force if necessary, the Isthmus
transit routes, and to so direct its policy as to
insure the preponderating influence of the
United Statesfat Panama, in Nicaragua and
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. The last de
clares it to be the duty of the Southern States
at once to assemble in convention, in the sup
posed contingency that a Black Republican is
elected President the acoming campign, and
then and there to take measuies of resistance,
by force if necessary, to the disruption of the
Union.
Gen. McRae’s resolutions were referred to
the sjiecial committee to consist of two from
each State, W. H. Johnson, of Miss., Chair
man.
Mr. DeBow, of Louisiana, offered a resolu
tion authorizRig the publication of the speech
of Mr. Spratt, in favor of reopening the slave
trade, in the official proceedings of the con
vention, and supported his resolution by some
remarks.
This gave rise to a violent and exciting de
bate, in which Gen. II. S. Foote, of Memphis,
bitterly opposed the resolution, and Gen - Mc
Cardle, of Vicksburg, supported it.
The subject was then postponed till do’clock
next day. And the convention soon adjourn
ed till 9 A. M.
SECOND DAY.—morning session.
The telegraph furnishes the New Orleans
papers with the following account of the pro
ceedings of Wendesday morning :
In the convention this morning, the com
mittee on resolution- presented a majority re
port in favor of the opening of the African
slave trade, and resolutions to that effect.
Mr. John Delafield, of Tenn., of the same
committee, presented a minority report and
resolutions against the opening of the trade,
Both reports and resolutions were laid on
the table for forth -r consideration.
Mr. Delafiold presented the report of the
proceedings of the Memphis Chamber of Com
merce, and their correspondence with leading
buisness houses aud capitalists in Belgium,
proposing direct steam navigation from An
twerp or Ghent to Memphis.
He offered resolutions in regard to this sub
ject, showing the interests of the whole South
in it, and urging the constitutional rights of
the South, under the power of Congress, to de
mand, as a regulation of our commerce, the
removal of obstructions to the navigation of
the Mississippi.
Prof DeBow resumed his arguments In favor
the opening of the slave trade.
Gen Foote, of Mississippi, obtained the floor
and spoke in the strongest terms against the
report and speech of Mr Spratt, of South Car
olina, in favor of re-opening the slave trade.
He denounced the sentiments of Mr. Spratt
as tantamount to high treason, and expressed
the opinion that the authors and advocates of
the measure should he visited with coudign
punishment.
He is still speaking as the report cloaca.
men
THE CAPTAHTWITH HIS WHISK*" 3
Ob, I crept to tbe window to bear the baud pi ajr ^
As the troops with their music were playhig do’,,, ^
I peeped through the window so cautiously at then^*^ ’
Lest tho neighbors should say I was looking at the
Oh, I heard the drums play and tho music so SSf
A3 they marched on their way to the foot or th c -
Oh, the troops were tho finest I ever did see ^
And the Captain with his whiskers took a sly g| anc
When we mot at the ball I of course thought itr h 3 * 1 "*
To appear as we had never met before that night •*'
But he knew me at once I perceived by his glanee
And I hung down my head when he asked me toi
Oh, he sat by my side at the end of the set
And the sweet words he preached I shall never f
Oh, my heart was enlisted and 1 could not get
atm t
For the Captain with his whiskers took a sly g| aBce ^
THREE DAYS
LATER FROM EU Ropg
ARRIVAL OF THE StIT^h,’
WESER AND BO RUSSIA
Sales of Cotton for two days 9,000
Declined l-8d., to nearly 1-4<i
WAR ACTUALLY COMMENCED
AUSTRIAN XRMS SUCCESSFUL
New York, May 15.—The Bremen sW
Weser, and the Southampton steamer
sia, have arrived. I lie latter brings Ui
dates to the 3d of May.
Commercial News.
Liverpool Cotton Market.—The sale
Cotton for the past two business davs l 01
9.000 bales, of which speculators and * r ’‘
ere took 2,000 bales. All qualities of Con
had declined. Clarke & Sons, in their
lar, say that the decline is folly l-gq ' e,] :
other circulars report the decline nearly Li
and the market irregular. 3 ^
London Money Market.—Consols had fir
tuated and were variously reported at fr C
89| @ 91*
General Yews.
The Austrians had taken the Buffa] 0 r
bridge, alter a sharp conflict, and with consi/
erable loss. This bridge is remarkable for it'
magnificent structure, and crosses the riv
Ticino at Buffalora, a town of northern Itoj
in Lombardy.
It was also reported that the town of Mor
tara, in Piedmont, had been taken by the Aui
trians. It is a walled city, with a sparse Lt
ulation. 1 ”
SECOND DISPATCH.
The steamship Weser left Liverpool onth
2d of May.
The steamship Canada, which left Bosto-
on the 20th of April, reached Liverpool' ’
the 2d May.
The cotton market at the* time of the sail,
ing of the Weser was dull.
Richardson & Spence, in their circular,
port the breadstuffs market buoyant, with
large speculative demand, and a considerabh
advance in all qualities. The market was si
unsettled and excited that it was impossible
to give quotations. Provisions were advanc
ing, and quotations were nominal, as a specu
lative feeling continues. Rice was buoyant
and holders were demanding an advance.
ONE DAY' LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIPS
AH AGO,
AT CAPE RACE.
NOVA SCOTIAN,
AX QUEBEC.
Cotton Declined In Three Days
New York, May 16.—The steamship Arag„
with Liverpool dates to May Ith, hash\n
boarded off Cape Race, by the steam yacht be
longing to tlie New York Associated Press.
I’lie steamship Nova Scotian, from Liver
pool , on the 4th fast., has arrived at Que
bec.
Commercial News.
Liverpool, May 4.—The Riles of Cotton for
past three days {were 10,500 hales, and the
market closed at a decline of 1-4.1.
General Yews,
The Bank of France lias raised its rates for
discount from three to four {>er cent.
Louis Napoleon’s manifesto appeaiv
the 3d inst.
SECOND DISPATCH.
The sales of cotton in Liverpool to specula
tors and exporters, for the three days were
2.000 bales. The cotton market closed very
dull. Clare & Sons quote Fair Orleans at 34-
and Fair Uplands at 7 3-4d.
Manchester advices were unfavorable .sales
light, trade very dull, and with a slight de
cline in goods aud yarns.
Richardson & Spence in their produce circu
lar report that there was a large speculative
enquiry in Breadstuffs on Monday, but the
feeling subsided on Tuesday and the market
closed steady. Flour had advanced fid. to 9d.
Wheat advanced 6d. to 9d. Corn advanced 6d.
There wos a largo speculative enquiry for
Beef and prices had largely advanced. Bacon
was quiet and holders demanded an advance.
Rosin firm at 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. Spirits ei
Turpentine firm and an advance demanded
Sugar steady- Coffee quiet. Rice firm, ad
vanced 6dbut closing quiet.
In London, the Wheat market was buoyant,
at an advance of 2d., making the advance
10d. to 12d. on the week. 8ugar quiet. Cof
fee firm. The quotations for tea were barely
maintained. There was a large speculative
enquiry for Rice
The Bank of Frankfort had advanced its
rates of discount to 4 1-2 per cent.
The Dutch government has appealed to
the Chambers for a credit of five hundred
thousand pounds sterling.
The French Minister at Vienna, and the
Austrian Minister at Paris have retired from
their respective posts.
The Emperor Napoleon was expected to
leave ior Italy on the 6th of May. In his
manifesto he says that as Austria lias virtually
declared war against France, nothing is left
for him to do but to take up his sword. In
defending Italy, he disclaims all idea of con
quest. As he is about to place himself at the
head of his army, he leaves his Empress and
json under the protection of his patriotic peo
ple.
Copartnership.—It may interest our breth
ren of the press to know that Dr. J. C. Ayer
of Lowell, (Cherry Pectorial and Cathartic
Pills, has associated with him, his brother
Frederic Ayer, Esq., long and favorably
kpown as a leading merchant of the West.—
Mr. Ayer will conduct the widely extended
business of the firm, which now reaches to the
commercial nations of both hemphispheres,
while the Doctor wilt - devote himself to his
scientific investigations and pursuits.—Mer
cantile Journal.
v\Yl»at « Democratic Paper Says.
“Such,” says the Richmond "Enquirer.' 1
“is the ever recurring emblazonment of d*
‘Opposition’ press—‘what’ the “Southern Cit
izen says; or the Washington States says: m
the Charleston Mercury says; or the Rich
mond Enquirer says ; or the Alabama Signal
says ; or the Flag says ; or the Times says:
or the Advertiser says : or some other Demo
cratic paper says. Indeed the whole staple or
the Opposition argument consists of the out
spoken patriotic protests of the Democrat'
press against the invasion of Democratic poli
cy, or the violation of Democratic principles
by Democratic officials.
“It is true, too, that all the objections urg
ed by the Democratic press against this Ad
ministration are not a feather in the s®' 1 '
against the objections urged by that same in
dependent, unsought, nnpurehasable presi
against an Opposition which has no principles
of its own, and which blushlessly avows its*®
the advocate of the worse parts of DemocrtK
malfeasance. ..
• “If the Democratic papers arc such ui?
aiitliority with the Opposition, pray why e
they not refresh their renders with what tnej
say a hideous conspiracy of political free -
ere, who have luiuded themselves together»
no purpose under the sun but to plunder «
public treasury and revel iu the spoils
iqnitons taxation ?—a conspiracy as reeki*-
as that of Catesby, which steal an honors f
name and binds itself together, like th eiSl \
ciates of Guy Fawkes, by oath of secrecy-^
impudently parades thc badges of virtue
disguises of its horrible objects. a
“Language cannot convey an adequate '
of that despertion which whould not comm
itself to the murderous “gun powder Fy
by which a wicked Stuart, amlavaciua -
Parliament were to be blown into eteffl^-
but would nearly bury our American
tution and American liberties, in Ike
of the Democratic party—of Democratic p
ciples and Democratic policy. ,
“It is the glory of the Democratic
it dares to expose the errors of even * .
cratic Administration and rebuke the wai:
togs of honored Democratic chiefs. Iu e '[4
pie will not fail to percieve that herein ^
their security—a “free press,” that wu
disguise their perils or palter with them ^
matter which concerns their rights an
integrity of their constitutions. B
glory of the Democratic party that its
such a press and derides the canting
cy of an unscrupulous opposition which
convert this shield fata a sword.”
Southern University.—Messrs. —— ^
Tenn., Groom of Ala., and Warren o*, 1 ; nj r .
have each subscribed $25,000 to the ®
sity of the South," and nineteen other
the aggregate sum of $100,000, makin^
000. The work goes bravely on.