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re but few lawyers front other coun-
111111 ”m r them, however, was Samuel Hall,
iie« ; s f t i. e city of Oglethorpe, who has per*
a lawyer, no superior, of his age, in
I and who. by the way, is very strong-
;h eSl “ • of aS the nominee of the Demociat-
I 1 ■ the Second District, for Congress.—
k W Stone.
‘ alxive we clip from one ot Bro. Be-
\ excellent letters, which he has lately
:bnne )]j f()J . ),, s paper, front Perry Court. We
! Mr Hall, and cheerfully endorse the
r*’,,anpliment to oue of Georgia s promi-
1 , If Mr. Crawford is not returned,
' will would make an exeJIiny .Bepreseu-
uli re in Congress. _ __ v ’
now call niton V. to say if he did not,
ijk »resident of Fayette county, in this
-tat'-.
:MiM he
Vi
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advocate the doctrine that negroes
allowed to testify in courts of jus-
•' 'uVfvotouivn all questions affecting the
T-hc-to which they l«elonged.—Motional
May H.
t ,iec--!it irsjH-ct for public opinion, some-
call-' for an explanation. We do not
. the above, from any resi>ect which we
jn-fi’i the source from whence it emanated.
Mire have just moved to Atlanta, and nn-
have come into contact with one
. „-, .m old sinners which tire city affords,
...Iw write this to put our readers in posses-
.irtiof ear -hi ' n Hiis case.
one-expressed the opinion in •’Fayette
tliiit. in criminal cases and those only
, , vvliite man has killed a negro and
but dcltocs saw the killing, and where
i. u- mis ether evidence in the case, it might
r uic of law. to allow the negroes to
,, t]|,.( i)cuin«tanccs of the killing, without
worn, and let their savings go under the
, jjol'ru, ' inst/infuil testimony, for the Jury to
, p for just what they considered them
jtl, We also stated, that such a rule of
uliili it never could convict, bv itself
■ i iit have a tendency to deter men from
tilling ut-gr<M-s. without cause for the reason,
:bt other circumstances, in connection with
;atA . uarrations. might be more clearly un-
Jerstood.
We also stated that negroes should never be
braid in such cases where even one white
Ts*n Inside the killer was present to seethe
. 1. fertile word of a negro should never
m.’in contact with that of a white person.
Iks- notions were expressed around (lie
r.itlo without mature deliberation, and
jmifi-.it a- well as we remember by the con-
■ rsfitioii upon a case made whore a white
nil had I.i!led allegro, with none hut neg-
.. prt -' Hi We did not assert these positions
. a (inn conviction and would not now
imrinind was xv
■ ,...lilr Mai to increase the means of protect-
ii, the lives ol ourslaves.
UValso talkefl of the relations existing be-
-.i -.ii slave-members of churches and free.
remarked, that so tin- as the Bible was
menied. tiie slave-members were notfor-
'|.|< n a voice in (he clmreli. AYc did not
Ihe • ‘contemptible’-' personalities aimed at
ns, we believe proceed from the malignity of
the Senior Editor, and we can say to him, not
■‘merely as a rumor,” but upon statements
entirely responsible, that we have never con
ducted ourself upon the slavery matter, so as
to cause onr fellow-citizens seriously to con
template the necessity of resorting to violent
measures to punish us for our imprudence.
I V in the Intelligencer of the 12tli instant.
We pronounce his insinuation false, and the
author of it a liar. The Editor and his “en
tirely responsible” informants are equally in
cluded in this denunciation. They have now
the alternative presented, either to prove their
charge, or stand branded before this commu-
uity as willful calumniators.— [ National
American, May 17th,
We clip the following from the “Atlantaln-
telligencer” of Aug. 30th, 1850—
For the Intelligencer.
Meeting or the Citizens.
At a meeting of the citizens of Atlanta held
in the Council Chamber on Tuesday evening
27th inst. the following resolution was unan
imously adopted -
Resolved, That the citizens of Atlanta do
disapprove in toto, the language and senti
ments of a letter recentlj' published in the
‘Georgia Citizen,’ purporting to have been 1
written by a citizen of Atlanta and published
over the signature of “Gabriel :” and express
our decided condemnation of the striking as
similation to Abolitionism, w'hieli its senti
ments manifest.
PENDLETON CHEEK, Chairman.
Fred. H. West. Secretary,
lu the “Intelligencer” of same date just
above, is a communication, signed C. R. Han-
leiter, admitting the authorship of the Macon
letter, signed “Gabriel.” When “Gabriel”
wrote his letter, the “Holland House” was
not completed.
If we understand the matter “Gabriel”
thought it was to be “a depot tor the safe
keeping and sale of negroes.” \.'e quote from
“Gabriel’s” letter. “On Sabbath last howev
er, the heavy rains with which we were visits
ed, washed away nearly one third of the Eas
tern wall—thus showing (to the minds of
omen believors at least ), that.Providence dis
approves the unhallowed purpose for which
the building is designed. For my own part.
I am free to say 1 should rejoice to see it razed
to the ground as often as its owner rebuilds
it.” Said Hanleiter, states in explanation,
that “I find but one solitary word that, were
it to be re-written, I would alter ; it is the
word “unhallowed.” The word disgusting
would have more correctly expressed my feel
ings.” “Suppose the Holland House” was
used to-day “as a depot for the safe-keeping
and sale of negroes.” would any Atlanta Edi
tor be allowed now to say, “that Providence
disapproves the disgusting purpose for which
the building is designed?” Is its nearness
to the Atlanta Hotel, a foundation for the
above remark! How much further from the
“Exchange Hotel” in Richmond, Va., are
some of t he houses for the “sale of negroes”
in the great slave mart- of the world ?
The letter ot “Gabriel” we hear, caused
“ Mr. Foote.” to feel “the necessity of asking”
Gabriel “to retire from the” Telegraph Office.
Macon was aroused, and Said Hanleiter writes
kiag for some safe and rca- i in the letter referred to, “I learn that they
had the audacity to adopt resolutions request
ing the Mayor ami Aldermen of Atlanta, to ex
pel me from the State.”
Suppose the “Holland House” was used as
a slave-mart to-dag, would the American of
May 185ft, lie allowed to speak of it as “a mti-
suncf under” its “very nose” as devoted to an
••unhallowed” or rather “disgusting purpose?”
If so we do not rightly read this people. We
say again, that we have never conducted our
self, so as to cause the citizens of our place of
residence seriously to contemplate the necessity of re
sorting to violent measures to punish us for our im
prudence. We do not care as yet, to parade
the mimes of residents of Atlanta, in 1850, to
prove the above charge. We can do so, and
probably will, if not let alone. We have been
told by a plentl v of good and true men, that
all we have said. is true and can be abundantly
established.
But by an implication strong as fate, we
have already proven our jKiiut. No man ever
yet in this Southern country wrote for the
press, whaf “Gabriel’ - wrote, which caused a
neighboring city “(oadopt resolutions request
ing, what. Macon asked, viz: Expulsion from
the State” and which brought out such ac
tion as was had in a public meeting by citizens
of Atlanta and which caused a dismissal from
the Telegraph office—without, citizens serious
ly contemplating ciolenl measures. If so, we
have never heard ol' such a case. Will the
Senior Editor let us alone? Or shall the war
“go into Africa.” We are disgusted and tired
of this quarrel, but we must take care ol our
character for truthfulness.
V.
ATLANTA, GEO., THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1859.
NO 31
allocate" their voting, but simply stated
tint:: they were not lonsuited, it was a mere j
.,n.-i uf policy, as with minors and women. |
"V ln’licvc liiat women have no vote in the
iiunagemcnt of a church, by the Bible, and |
.i*7 many churches allow them to vote and we
.kik'li. ic that male minors have a right to
.•>vmi<l yet some are not allowed. To Hie
i-st remembrance, have we faithfully reeor-
i tliis i videnoe of unfaithfulness to the
Nrtltll.
litis is the “head and front of ourofifend-
.. We desire the respect and confidence
a 1-1 low-men. We intend to behave so as
- are tin- respect of gentlemen. We have
: iti-u this, ibr fear that some of our friends
vf-.'ht surmise matters to be worse than they
• illy arc. It we have erred, we have never
■ milled the world nor the church with these
■life. 'Die unprecedented and shameful at-
U upon us in the American, we could not
icv*-*. in we would never have noticed the
'iii* sheet. John Randolph once said of Hen-
1 I n . like a mackerel by moonlight, lie
•iiiru and stinks and stinks and shines. These
ittni'k*. have none of the brilliance, but all of
foMitfensiveness, attributed by Randolph to
' lax. < tin respect for law—our position in'the
liurcli. which we hope we shall never act so
- to forfeit anil our confidence that there is
I- stronger than we. will see us righted and j
ivillii gness w far ;is we can to forgive even
the meanest, makes us endure the slang of
• Arm tit an. We do not believe that any
.•|ir. t tut public opinion, or any appeals for
e. honorable warfare would affect its course.
“ wart subdued it. with a stick, successfully.
H iuis let alone. Tic who will take the
J in course, will secure the same result. Wc
! ie. xve shall sec no need to reply to the
i*is (Utilities of the American anymore. We
distrusted with the quarrel, which the
■Wiican liascioxvdc non us. Its violation of
*!li diluvial courtesy and the proprieties which
‘ long ti. a gentleman, by its personal assault
l«*u us, instead of answering our notice of its
olitical error, lias led us oil thus far. Heaven
>.rii,\\s, that we have desired to keep on terms
"itii the American. Wc hax'e failed as all
’ i i will fail who are democrats and criticize
ivtkiiig it may do. We slialI endure the
•lane m the American, without further reply,
■ '-.iii do su without personal injury. We
ve niily to ask. that if the American sees fit
"It* to make a point, upon us, on the negro
:‘ ~tioii. it will do us the justice to copy onr
'Klim statement upon that point. V.
tn Kitltnv In a light Place.
"Id Tom Dryer,” editor of the Oregonian
iid member of the Oregon 1 legislature, says
Maript sa Gazette, has at last got what his
" : 'riw tongue has earned long ago. The ac-
’'*iA of his sufferings are truly graphic :
’Lasater immediately repeated and repeated
trit we were a liar and blackguard whereupon
did take our inkstand from the desk and
' 'led it in his face, intending it as a rebuke
t Iris gross insults. More than half an hour
'-H intervened, when, as we were passing
'''"'ii the principal street, Lasater seized us
■ the throat, at the same time planting a
Mny Mow upon our forehead, and rushed us
t" the door of a store where we both fell upon
itni' ojien shoe boxes, Lasater on top still
gasping our throat. After a few blowshe
■inerted the thumb of his right hand into our
•tft eve. and forced it almosti from its socket.
Hter several fruitless efforts to insert his
•nimii into our right eye, he then commen-
■ ;d pounding us on the back of the head with
•i* lists. The only aid and comfort wc had
the vociferous yell of—“Give him hell”
'Dig his damned eves out. - ’ “Go in. Lasa-
. Temperance men and women Seals
a decidedly a woman’s man (and what good
emperance man is not ?) generally, encour
age him in the good work by frequent solicit
ations to speak to the people. His pen is a
mighty weapon, as the public already know,
but his tongue is a mightier. The power of
eloquence is something divine—its influence
is irresistible. Let friend Seals Tie called out.
Let his wwee be heard in the mountains and in
the plains of Georgia. He would bring clas
sical lore and a wit and eloquence to the task
that would gratify the souls of good men, and
cause King Alcohol to shudder at its coming.
, all him out, friends. He is not obliged to
be still. The “Crusader” can have the ben-
benefit of his dottings by the way, whilst the
renowned and gifted pen of Mrs. Bryan would
commend the “Crusader” to every hearth
stone, if none other marked down for its pages
the warm soul-sentiments as they gushed up
from the pure fountain of the heart!
In his perigrinations, let him solicit sub
scriptions for the “Crusader”—and let every-
friend of Temperance subscribe at once to the
best literary family paper in Georgia. Thus
much good might be done, ;md true merit
find its just reward.
. PIROMTk.
The Revolution In Tuscany.
The war panic in Europe lias disposed of—or
rather deposed—ony of the European tyrants
—the Grand Duke of Tuscany. His army
and the people turned against him the mo
ment that they foun l it safe to express their
feeling. Tliis-incident more forcibly illus
trates the hatred of Austrian domination in
Italy than any commentary that could be
written. Speaking of the revolt in Tuscany,
the London Times, says:—
Tuscany has declared in favor of Italian in
dependence, or, in other words, has cast in its
lot with France and Piedmont. Of all the
Italian States the Grand Duchy has been the
least misgoverned since 1815; but even there,
the rulers, in the hour of trial, find a long
score of arrears which they must now dis
charge. Even so short, a xvliile back as 1848,
the present Grand Duke might have concilia
ted to himself the good will and respect of his
people—for his, in truth, had never been a
grinding tyrany. The farmers and peasantry
of that rich valley of the Arno had lived hap
pily and peacefully enough under his rule, and
they remembered it to him in the hour of his
need. When he absconded—-for there is no
other term in whicli to describe the manner
of his precipitate flight—after the events of
1848, he was recalled by the affections of his
people, and tranquilly replaced on his prett-v
throne. The return lie made was to fill Die
Archducy with Austrian troops, and to convert
it into a mere satrapy of Austria. He hail
sxvorn to a Constitution—he repealed it. He
violated every promise, express or implie t,
which he had made in the midst of the tur
moil of that eventful year. The rectionary
policy of the little Tuscan court was tolerated
with singular discretion and forbearance by the
people. The desire to tree themselves from
the despotism of Austria xvas there, but they
engaged in no idle plots, and gave no excuse
to their foreign taskmasters for the infliction
of useless misery and pain. They had made
up their minds to bide then- time, and the
time has arrived at last.
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1859.
Col. S. T. Bailey.
The bar of Macon lias been giving the above
named gentleman a public dinner, on the eve
of his departure for his new home in Tennes
see. Col. Bailey ranks among the ablest law
yers in Georgia, and is much esteemed for his
many virtues and excellent qualities. We re
gret to see such men leave our State. V.
Hon. I'. H. Come.
1 in our trip to Griffin, on Wednesday last,
we met the late Senator from Greene county,
who informed us that Judge Cone could not
possibly live the wi“ek out. His friends are
looking for his death every day, and before
this notice gets to our readers, we presume his
spirit will have passed that “bourne whence
no traveler returns.” Judge Cone has long
been known in Georgia.,as one of the best law-
vers in the State. V.
A PRINTER’S EPITAPH.
The War in Italy.
The following telegrams comprise the latest
intelligence, additional to that already pub
lished relating to the warlike state of affairs in
Europe:
Turin, Saturday, April 30.—An official bul
letin confirms the fact of the passage of the
Ticino by the Austrians yesterday evening at
several points, but no further advance on the
Sardinian territory was made during the night.
Yesterday the King, accompanied by the
French Generals Canorbert andNiel, visited
the line of the river Dora.
Turin, Saturday, April 30, 3.30 P. M.—Ac-
cording to intelligence received here the Aus- j
trian troops which had been concentrated at j
I’avia, in Lombardy, entered the Piedmontese |
territory yesterday in three bodies; one body, ■ The copy of his wrongs—
as it appears, passing through Gvovellona, to j Tlie proofs of all hispi-ety are there ;
to the ."outheast of Novara; a second, taking j And the fair title which to truth belongs,
the road through Abbiate Gmsso, penetrated : ^ ill prove his title fair,
during the night to Cassale : and a thir^f die- .'
embarked this morning at States and Arona. 1 Though now in death’s em-ltrace.
on the Lago Ma°goire. i A- menddering heap onr luckless brother lies.
5,30, P. M.—The corps d'armee which en- | He’ll re-appear on Gabriel’s royal chase,
—j • - -"" ! And frisk-it to the skies.
Here lies his/orai in pi,
Beneath this bank, with briars o’ergrown ;
How many cases, far un worthier, lie
’Neath some imposing stone.
No column points our loss—
No sculptured caps his history declare,
Although he lived a follower of therm**.
A member of the bar.
The golden rule he prized,
And left it as a token of his love ;
And all his deeds corrected and roused,
Ai e registered above.
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1858,
Hg°If our readers are as much disgusted
with our controversy with the American, as
we are, it is time to end it. Our only regret
in the whole matter, is that we did not leave
' the American alone in the unenviable glory of
! personal abuse. We have established our
! charge against the American, and have names
j which, if ever needed, we will give. Our con-
| troversy with the American, has soundly con-
: vinced us that it “is no whit” better in some
! respects, than a Black Bepublican sheet. It
] has already told falsehoods upon us. and we
j believe wilfully. 8o far as the American is
; concerned, we shall pass it in the future, as we
j would any other vile “thing," beneath the
i notice of a gentleman. * V.
Vincent Santonl.
| We regret to learn that Uncle Vincent San-
| ford, Clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts
j of this county, is now in Penfield, lying very
i low. We hope, however, that he will soon
I be up and able to return to his home in this
| place.—[Greensboro Gazette.
“Uncle Vincent Sanford” is one ol the very
best men in Georgia. His praise is in all the
tered Piedmont by Gravellona consists of 20 j
battalions and eight batteries of cannon. At 5
11,80 this morning the advanced posts were at '
i Vespolate fc in the province of Novara, anil a
| still more numerous corps d’armee is on its
! march from Yigevano by Mortara.
j [°This is not the Gravellona near the Lago j
: Maggolre. but a small town of the same name j
! between Yigevano and Yespolate. ]
Saturday Evening, April 30.—The following
I official bulettin has been published :
: The Austrians ivho were concentrated at |
j Pavia, are marching in large bodies towards j
: Mortara. Gen McMahon has arrived at Genoa. ;
churches. He is an excellent citizen, and a
“model Christian, and we sincerely hope the i qy 0 ops have quitted Genoa en route for Ales-
old Clerk of the Greene county Courts, may j sendria.
be spared still longer to illustrate “the beauty !, Turin, May 1, 9,40.—There is a considers •
' y [ble movement of troops to Alessendria; the
ii 0 mc-s. ; |£j n g pas gone to take command. The Aus-
i trians are in forge at Novara and also at Pavia.
The French infant ty and artillery continue to
No decisive movement has vet been
; A Olnjiec at the Past—Battles In Europe.
As a matter of interest, at present, xve give i arr iy e .
the following result of desperate battles fought j made.
ill Eurnne since 1 ts• ! Turin. .Sunday, May 1.—An official bulletin j
1 ‘ . i just published states that the King and his
On the heights, four miles trom Salamanca, t staff left this morning to take command of the I
ti-.. ■Kwiiih KiMiniawiE Yesterday evening the Austrians oc- 1
A Bear Killed.
Messrs. J. R. Boyd, A. Boyd, John Scott
and G. W. Brinston, killed a bear about seven
miles from Waynesboro, in this county, on ihe
10th inst., weighing txvo hundred pounds.—
His foot measured eight inches in length and
and five in width, lie was run some time by
nine dogs, and shot seven times before lie
“gax'e up the ghost.”
He must hax'e been an emigrant from the
mountains, or one of the passengers of the
Wanderer ; at any rate we think he was a
stranger in old Burke.—[Waynesboro News.
State Bank.
At a special meeting of tlie Board of Direc
tors of the Bunk of the State of Georgia, held
at the Banking house in this city on yester
day, the following gentlemen xvere duly re
elected Directors of the branches of the Bank
for the ensuing twelve months :
For Washington.—Samuel Barnett, Garnet
Andrews, A. L. Alexander, A. A. Gleveland.
L. P. Irvin, G. I’. Cozart.
For Augusta.—Thomas Barrett, L. P. Gar
vin, W. C. Jessup, .1. If. Phinizy, Lindsey
Warren, Johu W. Walker, Geo. W. Lewis.
For led on ton.—A. S. Reid, 51ieh.il Dennis,
W. B. Carter, S. B. Marshall, IJ. F. Adams.
Fur Athens.—John B. Cobb, Edward Ware,
John U. Mathews, R. I.. Moss. Wm. <!. De
long.
Savannah Repulbiran, May 18.
A Fugitive Slave returned to Florida.
Tlie Hyannis (Mass.) Messenger, of yester
day, says that the brig Roleson, Captain Or
lando, came into that port on Sunday the 8th
inst., with a fugitive slave on board. The
slax'e hail secreted himself on board the brig
at Pcnstieola, and did not show himself until
the vessel had been several days out, when he
was forced to do so by hunger. The brig put
iuto Hyaunis xvith the man in irons, for the
purpose of telegraphing to the U. S. Marshall
at Boston to be in readiness to take charge of
him on the arrival of the brig at that city.—
The schooner Elizabeth B., Captain Bacon,
was chartered for $500 te carry ihe slave to
Norfolk, Va., Captain Bicon agreed to liave
him sent from thence to Pensacola.
in Spain, the English and Spaniards under
Wellington, totally defeated the French under
Marmont, on the 22d of July, 1812. The al
lies lostlix'e thousand txvo hundred men. and
the French sixteen thousand.
At the battle of Smolenski, in Russia, in
1812, the French loss x\-as sex’enteen thousand,
and that of the Russians ten thousand.
At Borodine, on the 7th September, was
fought a desperate battle between the Rus
sians and the French. The French lost in
killed, xvounded and prisoners, fifty thousand;
and the Russians about the same number.—-
The survivors of the French army, from tlie
Russian campaign, were not more than thirty-
live thousand out of au army of live hundred
thousand men.
At Lutzen, in Russian Saxony, on the 2d
May. 1813, the allied Russian and Prussian
forces xvere defeated by the French under Na
poleon, the French losing eighteen thousand,
and the allies fifteen thousand men.
At Bautzen, in Saxony, on tlie 21st and 22d
of May, 1813, a battle took place bet ween the
allies and tlie French loss xvas put down at
twenty-five thousand, and that of the allies
fifteen thousand.
At Dresden, in Saxony, on the 26th and
! 27th of August, 1815, the allies were defeated
i by the French. The loss of allies was about
twenty-five thousand in killed, xvounded and
prisoners, and that of the French about twelve
thousand.
At Leipsic, in Saxony, in October 1813, a
desperate battle was fought, xvhich lasted
three days, and the French were totally de
feated by the allies. Napoleon lost two mar
shalls, txventy generals and sixty thousand
men. 'Hie allies lost one thousand seven hun
dred and ninety officers and about forty thou
sand men.
At Victoria, in Spain, on the 21st of June.
1815, the English and French fought a battle,
in xvhich the French lost sex'en thousand anil
the English free thousand one hundred and
eighty men.
At Toulouse, in Fiance, Wellington defeat
ed the French under Soult, on the 10th April,
1814. The French loss xvas four thousand
seven hundred ; allied army’s loss four thous
and live hundred and eighty men.
At Ligny, in France, a battle occurred be
tween the Prussians and French on the 16th
of June, 1815, two days before the battle of
Waterloo, in which tire Prussians lost fifteen
thousand men, and the French six thousand
eight hundred.
In the indecisive battle tit tjuatre Bras, in
Belgium, on the 16th of June, the day before,
that of Waterloo, tlie allies lost fix-e thousand
two hundred men. and the French one hun
dred and fourteen.
ir Gov. Brown has appointed Dr. Samuel
D White, of Milledgeville, Ja Trustee of the
,'corgia Lunatic Asylum, in the place of Dr.
“Uiliufcoij Fort, deceased.
[COMMUNICASEW. J
JOHN II. SEALS.
(i)ad, indeed, ought the xaliant soldiers of
the cold water army feel, to knoxv they have
such a bold advocate, such an intrepid Crusa
der, as Jonx H. Seals, to lead them omvaril
against the tyrannical forces of the demon of
inhumanity.
It is evident that grogshops are the greatest
evils tint afflict the xvorld : and it is a source
of gratification to see such a man as “friend
Seals’ ’ foremost in the ranks of tlie virtuous,
battling lievocally fort ic beautiful and good,
against the insidious wiles of those disgusting
nuisances.
I had the pleasure of listening to an address
of Mr. Seals at the eelebratien of the Knights
of Jericho, in Atlanta, on the 14th instant,
and xvas rejoiced to be assured by the manner
and tone of the address that Temperance in
Georgia has at least one able defender.
Indeed, I am aware it is a vital living, moral
principal, xx-ith thousands of true representa*
trees, “friend Seals” being one of them—and
truly a host within himself. When I see a
man of such versatility of talents dex-oting his
time and talents to the cause of Temperance,
the liand-maid of virtue. I loxe to praise
him ; especially xx’lien he “shares the spirit of
independence’ ’—
“Nor Leeds the storm that howls along theskies.’'
Seals is one of the fexv in this xvorld xvho is
not afraid to speak out plainly against the
contemptible business of making drunkards
and vagabonds. In his speech on the occasion
referred to, he asserted in unqualified terms,
and I think truthfully, that he xvho favors the
license of grogshops from mere policy, hoping
thereby to be promoted to office, or flame, is
a contemptible creature.
Of rather small physique, and not accused of
much beauty, at first sight his personal appear
ance does not raise in the beholder any extra
ordinary emotions—but like all truly great
men he grows better, and better looking, up
on acquaintance. Some of the xvould-be-wit
ty liax e even gone so far as to say that the
Editor of the “Crusader” xvas nearly as ugly
as his associate, Veazy. For my part, I con
aider the disparagement as to both, the de-
tr.-ietion of envy ; for they are courteous and
manly in their deportment, and withal pretty-
good looking.
When Seals rises to address his audience his
high commanding forehead, aud intelligent,
brilliant eyes promise something worthy at
tention and his hearers soon become spell
bound by his touching appeals.
He must be heard to be fully appreciated.
He has the happy faculty of pleasing his audi
ence whether grave or gay—interspersing wit
and fun with sound logic and unanswerable
argument. There is a certain class, however,
he always displeases, to wit: Keepers of grog
shops and their accessories—those who foster
the mo6t disgusting nuisances that infest
the social compact .
Death of Dr. Snffohl.
Another one of our old citizens has gone,
i On the evening of the 13th instant, Dr. S. J.
! Saffold, for thirty-five years a successful prac
titioner of medicine in this place, exchanged
the scenes of earth for another state of exis
tence.—[Madison Visitor.
army.
cupied Novara, and then made further adx-ance
towards Vercelli. ’The French troops left
’Turin this morning for Alessendria. Other
troops have arrix-ed from France with two bat
teries.
Vienna, Saturday, April 30.—Nothing im- j
portant is known from the seat of war. The
French minister, M. de Bonneville, was to
quit Vienna this morning. Count Buol has
forwarded circular notes to the foreign go\--
eruments, stating the diplomatic and political
reasons for the declaration of war by the Em
peror. An order of the day to the army by
the Emperor, has been published to-day, and
numerous military promotions have been
made.
Piedmont—Turin, May 2.—The following
official bulletin has been published to day.
i he Austrians have concentrated their force
on the SeSia, hut no encounter has yet taken
place, No movement has yet been made by
the Austrians on the right bank of the river
Po.
Turin Sunday evening.—The folloxving offi
cial bullettin has been published :
2,000 Austrians occupy Mortara, and 400
infantry and 50 cax alrv Novara. No move'
ment has been made towards Vercelli. Tlie
Austrians in large numbers have quitted Pia
cenza, aud proclaimed a state of seige. They
ai>pear to have concentrated their forces on
| tlie left banh of the Po. Gen Bonat died on
j Saturday hist at Susa of an, attack of appo-
| plexy.
| Paris, May 2.—The Press, of tliis ex’ening
j announces that a movement similar to that
| xvhich lately took place in Florence has just
j occurred in Parma. The Grand Dutchess has
] taken, her departure, after having instituted a
! Council qf Regency. The new government
j lias expressed its adhesion to Piedmont,
j Turin, May 2.—Tlie official Piedmontese Ga-
j zette publish au account of the late ex-ents in i possession
| Tuscany, drawing the conclusion that prove j l^st.
tin- unanimity of feeling entertained by the
From Meek's “Songs of the Smith."
The mothers of the South.
Tlie mothers of the South!
In the lurid mom of battle,
W hen from the cannon’s mouth,
Came the thunder’s deadly rattle
Their fair and fragile forms
Shrank not. in terror from us.
But—rainbows on the storms—
Still gave us freedom’s promise !
Then pledge to-niglit their memories bright,
Our noble southern mothers !
Who in the strife—maid, matron, xvife ;
Stood by their sons aud brothers!
On Camden's fatal plain.
At Eutaw and Savannah,
Tlie star of freedom’s train
Was beauty’s woven banner
Throughout the night of woe.
The flag xvas still resplendent,
And many a son fell low
To keep its folds asceudant!
Then pledge to-night their memories bright.
Our noble southern mothers!
Who in the strife—maid, matron, wife—
Stood by their sons and brothers !
Oil, yes! we’ll keep their names
Embalmed in song and story.
Those lion-hearted dames,
Who cradled freedom’s glory ;
And should the strife of war
E’er tinge again our waters,
We’ll find our hearts to cheer,
Those matrons in their daughters!
Then pledge to-night their memories bright,
Our noble southern mothers !
Who in the strife—maid, matron, wife--
Stood by their sons and daughters!
Murrell, tlie land Pirate.
The Memphis Appeal says thst Shaxvnee Vil
lage, where John A. Murrell and his clan had
their head-quarters, has been coverted into a
farm, and Ls cultivated by Dr. McGax-ock.
The old log huts of the gang may still be
seen, but they have fallen greatly into decay
and are covered xvith moss. The old Syca
more tree under which they held their coun
sels, was hloxx-n down in 1856, and has been
removed to make room for the plough. Last
summer a “mill;” as the natives term it, was
plowed up, which was used by Murrell for
manufacturing the bogus one dollar. The
financial machine was sent to Washington,
where it noxv occnpies a place in the archrees
of the Cajxttol’s curiosities. Murrell, it may
be remembered, served twenty years in the
Tennessee Penitentiary, xvorkinjc as a black
smith. On being released, he xx-andered off
into East Tennessee, where he lived blit a short
time, and died of consumption, the disease
being doubtless constracted in prison. His
grave is in the neighborhood of Bon Air
Springs, upon the Cumberland Mountain.—
His remains xvere disinterred, and decapitated,
and then placed back. The skull is noxv in
ot' one of the Medical Colleges
Internal Improvement Convention.
In our yesterday’s issue, we gave a short ar
tide from the Albany Patriot., suggesting an
“Internal Improvement Convention,”, and
“Atlanta as the place, and the first Wednes
day in August as the time for it to he held.”
Iu all free countries, all measures affecting
j extensree interests of the people, have ever
; been subjects of public conventions and con-
j sultations. And. indeed, iu a free country,
| but little, if any, progress can be made in pub-
| lie improvements, without such consultations
j and discussions. Under the rule of despots,
I such meetings are either prohibited, or are use-
| less if held. We see no good reasons xvhy the
| subject of farther internal improvements in
j Georgia, should not be one of further public
I consultation by its friends. Not more than
i one half of the territory of Georgia, and not
| more than one half of her people are, as yet?
f accommodated xvith the “Great Modem Agen
cy,” and notwithstanding the early embarka
tion and progress in Railroads in Georgia, the
State is by no means as yet, sate against the
rapid strides and growing competition of ad
joining States. 'The strife is a noble and glo
rious one for this “Great Modern Agency.”—
Beginning xvith individuals, it extends from
them to villages, from xfillages to cities, and
from cities to States and national divisions,
and all results in the promotion of the best in
terests of the world. “We suggest Atlanta,”
says the Patriot, 1 ‘as the place for this Con
vention to be held. ’ ’ We would ask too, what
say the people of Atlanta to this proposition ?
We would suggest that a meeting of the citi
zens be called at an early day, to moke the
necessary arrangement for the Convention, as
suggested. V.
population of the cause of national indepen- ■ Tit*- ( huoket Georgia t>npii*t Convention
denee. The King of Sardinia has accepted
the military dictatorship of Tuscany solely to
facilitate the co-operation of the Tuscans in
the war of independence, and also to protect
public order. The Sardinians in Venice have
placed themselves under the protection of the
Russian Consulate.
Wheat—Three Crops from one Sowing.—
An experiment has been successfully made by
Mr. Wm. A. Elder at Indian Spring in Butts
county, in the growing of xvheat, xvhich is
deemed as remarkable as it is extraordinary.
Has any one else ever tried it in Geor
gia'
At Waterloo the total loss of the allies was j He has now growing on his plantation, near'
We clip tlie folloxving from tlie Waynes
boro’ Nexvs, of May 17tb :
Homicide.—It is reported here that a Mrs.
Gibbs hung her husband in Richmond county,
near the Burke line, on Saturday, the 7th in
stant.
The particulars, as are rumored about the
streets, are these : That Mr. Gibbs xvas intox
icated and in a quarrel xvith his xvife, when she
' told him he ought to be hung ; lie answered,
j that she had better hang him, and stood up-
| on a chair and dared her to do it; xvlien his
j wife fastened a chain around his neck and over
j a joist in the house, then knocked the chair
I from under him, which resulted in his death.
Internal Impro\ t emext Convention.—The
question of State aid in the construction of
railroads, excites a very deep interest in Geor
gia. For several legislatures it has been dis
cussed, and different plans hax'e received a
strong support, showing that if there could be
unity among ail their lriends. State aid would
triumph. Noxv, in order to bring about this
| necessary concentration, xve propose that a
convention of all the friends of State aid, ol
Georgia, in any shape, be called. We suggest
Atlanta as the place, and the first Wednesday
in August as the time. What say onr Atlan
ta friends to tliis, and xvliat say the people of
Georgia ? It is worthy of consideration, xvheth-
cr it would be better to liave the convention
composed entirely of the friends of State aid,
or to give its opponents a seat and hearing al
so.—[Albany Patriot.
Arrest of an Express Employee.
Mr. N. Marroncy, was arrested by the Uni
ted States Marshal for embezzlement of the
funds of the Adams Express Company, and du
ly committed.
The particulars, so far as ascertained, are as
folloxvs : Mr. Maroney has been an employee
of the Adams Express Company, at Mont-
"01 cry, Ala., where lie had lived on a high
scale xvith a lady known generally as his xvife.
At Philadelphia, as the report goes, the mar
riage ceremony was performed for tlie oouple
and thcnewly-mad husband and wife repaired
to this city and engaged passage for Europe.
Meanwhile was sent to New York, a war
rant obtained from a United States commis
sioner and placed in the hands of a deputy
marshal, who succeeded on Wednesday m ef
fecting his arrest. Mr. Mamrney is accord
ingly spending his honeymoon in Eldndge
street, instead of on board an ocean steamer.
—Nem, York Evening Poet. May 14.
Forney’s Press, of the 12th inst. , contaiiis
the marnageon the 7th inst., at Philadelphia
ofNathanMarroney, ofMontgopjery, Ain.,
to Maria B. Irving, of Philadelphia.
sixteen thousand six hundred and thirty-six
men. Napoleon’s xvas about forty thousand.
Neither the Austrians nor the Prussins can
derree much encouragement from history to
engage in a war xvith France. The French
troops have only been matched in these xvars
by tlie English, the Spaniards and tlie Rus
sians—scarcely by the last named.
Tli<-*Ro!ul over Mount Ccnis.
As this road will soon become famous as tlie
route of the French army into Italy, the fol
lowing description given by a correspondent
of tlie N. York Times, xvho recently passed
over it, will be read with interest:
The road ox er Mount Cenis is macademized
throughout its xvhole extint, and is wide and
in perfect order, consisting of easy grades.
On the top of the mountain there xvas much
noxv, but most of it xvas remox'cd from the
road—a work of great labor, as the cuts in
some places xvere ten feet deep, and the snow
so compact that its sides xvere perpendicular.
The diligence xvas several hours in passing
through this region of snow, and it xvas
snowing at the time, and extremely cold.
On Monday and Tuesday of this week it rain
ed hard on the west side of the mountain, and
it was feared that the passage of troops xx-as.
impeded by fresh suoxx’s. The journey ox'cv
the pass is no pleasant affair, ex - en to one who
occupied tne protected seats of a comfortable
diligence—such xvas my fortunate position—
what must it be to soldiers on foot xvet xvith
sex'ere rains, and incumbered with knapsacks
and arms.
The pass is 6,825 feet high, nearly 300
feet higher than the famous Simplon pass,—
That of the great St. Bernard, over xvhich
Napoleon conducted his army before any road
bad been formed is 8,200 feet. Tlie easy
gradef os the Mount Cenis road, and the pro
tection furnished by granite posts on its ex
terior, with seven or eight feet of each other
—firmly planted iu the earth, and about four
feet high—indicate that a principal object, in
thus forming it, xvas tlie easy and safe hauling
of cannon aud baggage ox'er the line. I
walked for miles over the road, in the ascent
from the Sardinian side, and carefully obserx*eii
its construction. The engineering difficulties
xvere immense, but they have been ox'ercome
xvith such skill, the ascent is uniform and easy
in every part. Occasionally a level place is left
to afford relief to horses lrom the wearisome
ness ol a steady pull. I noticed that tlie marks
of the drill used in blasting xvere nearly oblit
erated, the effect of long continued exposure
to severe storms, and the character of the
rock, which is a soft limestone.
It may be, if the history of tlie road shall
ever lie ‘lost, that futvre antiquarians may
contend from the obliteration of all signs o
blasting, that at least no great difficulties,
were encountered in its construction, even if
they do not insist that it xvas formed on a nat
ural bed. One is struck xvith wonder that
such a great work, over high mountains,
should have been formed aud finished on a
line exceeding fifty miles, so completely that
it exceeds in excellence any road I know of in
the United States, whether public or private,
and long or short. It is kept in high order,
and is ascended in a brisk trot with entire
safety.
It seemed most appropriate, as this great
road was the work of the elder Napnleon that
the representative of his name should distin
guish himself by using it for the march of a
great army aimed at the same power which
Napoleon successfully encountered soon after
crossing the Swiss Alps.
The shad lives but a single year. It is hatch
ed in the early summer—descends the streams
as soon as large enough—-feeds and fattens in
the winter, at the mouth of the stream—as
cends in the spring to deposit its spawn—de
scends to die at the bottom of the ocean.
the Spring, and xvith a lair prospect of harvest
ing an ordinarily good crop, a field of 20 acres
of xvheat, which is the third successive crop
made upon the same field, since it was first
sown by him in that grain, in 1856. In that
year the ground was prepared and soxved and
a good crop harvested in 1857. After cutting
and gathering it, the field xvas pastured xvith
horses, cattle, and hogs, until the fall, when
in November of that year, without resoxving,
the land was turned up by the plow and from
the xvheat left on the ground of the previous
crop a good average yield was harvested in
the Spring of 1858, as good in quantity and
quality as was usually made in the neighbor
hood. The field being pastured as before xvas
again ploughed in iu November 1858, without
resoxving. He has noxv on this field the third
crop maturing xvhich xvill probably yield an
equal turnout, to either of the previous years,
uo seed having been *oxvn on it since the fall
of 1856.
This remarkable result, of three crops from
a single sowing, made xvith no labor or ex
pense, except the plowing tlie field and har-
x esting the product, goes fai to establish the
singular hardiness of this grain as well as its
pertinacity to x-egitation and reproduction, ev
en, xvlien exposed to the severest cold, freezes,
rains, and all other elements of this climate
calculated to destroy its vegetation capacities -
The xx inter of 1856-7 were perhaps, noted for
their coldness, freezes and the like, as any
known to the inhabitants of Georgia; whilst
the best xvinter and spring hax-e been equally
remarkable for mildness and rainy weather.—
If this experiment is something new to our
farmers as it is to us, may it not elic enquiry
and the facts given induce others to try it ;
and xvith equal success ? What a saving of la
bor and expense in the rearing of this valuable
article of consumption ; besides, what a ben
efit xvould result to the lands of this countiy,
if our farmers could, from one sowing, raise a
succession of wheat crops and pastures, by
simply turning them oxer every fall with the
plow.—[Georgia Citizen.
Alessandria.”
This place the rendezvous of the Sardinian
army, xvhither the king has gone to take com
mand, is probably destined to play an impor
tant part in the coming war. It is a fortified
city near the eastern frentier of Piedmont,
and is to the Sardinians xvhat Gibraltar is to
the English, or Sebastopol xvas to the Russians.
During tne reign of the French in Italy, its
formidable fortifications made it one of the
strongest place in Europe, but these were sub
sequently demolished, leaving only the cita
del. Within the past tew years workmen
have been busy in reconstructing them in an
ticipation of the events now at hand. In the
surrounding plain, two miles distant, is Napo
leon’s celebrated battle-field of Marengo.—
Alessandria is garrisoned xvith several thou
sand troops, and, being connected with Turin
and Genoa by railway, any number can readi
ly be concentrated there. To capture it would
be a crowning glory to the Austrian Generals,
and to lose it a deep humiliation to Sardinia.
The .Southern Convention.—The Vicksburg
Southron says: After a laborious session of
live days, the Southern Convention adjourned
on Friday evening, 13th inst., to meet at At
lanta, Georgia, on the second Monday in No
vember, 1860. Having acted as Secretary du
ring the entire session, aud exhausted as he
finds himself, the editor ot this journal cannot
pretend to give, this morning, the very volu
minous proceedings of yesterday. A6 is Usual,
a large amount of business was crowded in the
last day of the session, and the record would
exceed Hie capacity of our columns, even if
we were physically able to write them out.—
There are many things connected with the Con
vention to which we would gladly refer if we
could, which we roust postpone to a more eon*
venient season.
at. Dalton,
We are inilebteil to solue friends, who have
just relumed from Dalton, for the following
particulars in relation to the action of that
ho ly. Ihe Convention conx’ened on Satur
day last, and adjourned on Tuesday evening
following. A large number of delegates were
in attendance from various sections of this
State, and several from other States, among
xvhom xvere Rev. Mr. Pendleton, of Murfrees
boro’ College and Rev. Mr. Dayton, of Nash
ville, Tenn., and some from Kentucky. It
xvas determined by the Convention to use
every effort to have the Cherokee Baptist Col
lege at this place endowed and placed on a
permanent basis, and to establish a paper to
advocate their interests It was not determined
at what point the paper should be-published,
but Cassville and Rome appeared to have
the preference, and it is more than likely if
the enterprise succeeds, of which there seems
to be no doubt, that one ox these places will be
selected. This matter has been left iu the
hands of a Committee to select the place of
publication. Rev. Daniel was appointed agent
for the fund to endow the College.
We hope that both enterprises will suc
ceed. —Standard.
Sold.—A sailor, calling upon a goldsmith in
Now York, recently, asked what might be the
value of an ingot of gold as big as his arm.—
TJie shop-keeper beckoned him into a back
room, and primed him xvith grog. He then
asked to see the ingot. “Oh,” said .Jack, “I
haven’t got it yet, but I’m going to Pike’s
Peak, and would like to know the value of
such a lump before I start.” Salt xvater gen
tleman ordered out.
Fifth Congressional District.—Col. James
R. Gamble, of Chattooga county, is announced'
as an American candidate to represent the 5tli
Congressional District in the next Congress.
That Austria lias been right—just to herself
and to all concerned, we think cannot be suc
cessfully denied. She would have been blind
not to see that the diplomacy of Sardinia xvas
preparing a blow against Lombardy; that soon
er or later it must come ; that Sardinia xx-as
armed and arming, xvith this contingency
alone in vie w arid alone possible Hence, from
tlie first, she has commenced to prepare, and
she only steps forward to crush, if possible,
with the first bloxv. If it be right to arm when
menaced, or right to fight in self-preservation,
or light, xvhen tight is inevitable, to take the
advantage of a firm stand, and a hard blow,
then Austria is right. She fights for the trea
ty of Vienna.—[The Press.
It xvill bs remembered by our readers that
xve a week or txvo since, represented the Na
tional American of Atlanta, as saying it pre
ferred an abolition President to James Buchan
an. It seems we were mistaken 1 The folloxv
ing is the language of the American:
“The election of a Black Republican Presi
dent, in our view, would be ro whit worse
than the election of James Buchanan, and wc
should no more think of resorting to revolu
tion on the one account than the other.”
The actual sentiments of the American are
bad enough without our misrepresenting
them—as will be seen by the above quota
tion.—Soulhenier &f Advertiser.
Hints far the Earners.
Toads are the best protection of cabbage
for lice.
Plants when drooping, are revreed by a few
grains of camphor.
Sulphor is valuable in preserving grapes, &c.
from insects.
Lard never spoils in xvaim weather, if it is
cooked enough in frying out.
Iu feed com, sixty pounds ground go as far
as one hundred pounds in the kernel.
Com meal should never be ground very
fine. It injures the richness of it.
Turnips of small size nax r e double the nu
tritious matter that large ones have.
Rats, and other \ r ermin, are kept away from
grain by sprinkling of garlic when packing the
sheax r es. ’
The (Judergnmnd Railroad.
Seventy fugitive slaves arrived in Canada,
by one train, from the interior of Tennessee.
A week before, a company of twelve arrived,
and are now at the depot at Malden. Nearly
the same time one of the seven and another of
the five safely landed on the free soil of Cana
da, making ninety-four in all, xvorth at the
present market price the handsome sum of
$94,000.—( Detroit Advertiser, “th.
“Opposition Meeting.”
“All voters in Fulton County opposed to
the present State and Federal Administrations
are requested to meet at the City Hall in At
lanta, on the first Tuesday in June next, at
12 o’clock, M., for the purpose of organizing,
and to select Delegates to represent Fulton
county in the Gubernatorial Convention.”
The above call Ls followed by some pretty
plain statements, (much easier to announce
than to establish) about “the present. State
and Federal Administrations.”
Said call is endorsed by 12 responsible
lines.
The charges made against the “State and
Federal Administration” of “disgraceful aud
discreditable practices—approaches to tyranny,
anarchy or one-man power—profligate, cor
rupt and poxver grasping—corruption” and
various other sins too numerous to mention,
reminds us of a part- of the “curse of lirul-
phus,” viz:—
“They cursed him at home and they cursed
him in bed,
From the sole of his foot to the eroxvn of his
head,
They cursed him walking, and they cursed
him flying, m
They cursed him living, they cursed him
dying.
Never xvas heard Ruch a terrible curse.
And the result xvill be about the same as
followed, in the case as cited :
* “What gave rise to a little surprise,
No body seemed a penny the worse.
Will the Democracy survive this wholesale
condemnation? “That’s the question.” We
shall see. Y.
[communicated, j
Jonesboro, May 18th, 1859.
Messrs. Editors:—In pursuance of a previous
notice, the citizens of Jonesboro’ met tliis day
for the purpose of making suitable arrange
ments for celebrating the anniversary of the
Independence of the United States, in Jones
boro. Whereupon, on motion of J. J. Hanes,
James Coker, Esq., xvas called to the Chair,
and M. Arnold requested to act aa Secretary.
Tlie object of the meeting haxTng been ex
plained, on motion, a committee of five xvas
appointed to select the Orator of the day, a
Reader of the Declaration of Independence,
and a Chaplain.
That committee was composed of the Hon.
James F. Johnson, J. J. Hanes, Dr. R. A.
McDonald, A. J. McBride and J. C. Ellington,
who having retired, returned in a fexv mo
ments, and through their Chairman, made the
folloxving report:
Orator of the day, A. J. McBride, Esq. ;
Reader of the Declaration of Independence,
Hon. James F. Johnson ; Chaplain, Rev. John
W. Reynol's.
John C. Ellington was appointed as Marshal
of the day, and James C. Hightower as assis
tant Marshal. Also a Committee of Arrange
ments was appointed. Said Committee con
sists of J. J. Hanes, Stockton S. Fears, Esq.,
and Dr. R. A. McDonald.
It xvas ordered, on motion of the Hon. Jas.
F. Johnson, that the proceedings of this meet
ing be signed by the Chairman and Secretary,
and forwarded to the Atlanta “Intelligencer”
for publication.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
JAMES COKER, Chm’n.
M. Arnold, Sec’y.
Opposition Gubernatorial Convention..
The Opposition still disagree about the poli
cy of running an opposition candidate to Gov
ernor Brown.
The ‘Enquirer,’ says :
“We shall very soon know what kind of an
issue our opponents will force upon U6.”
To which the Atlanta ‘American’ answers,
as follows :
“For ourselves, we do not feel like waiting
for them to force on issue upon us. We prefer
forcing an issue upon them. The ‘Enquirer’
certainly will not let the democratic party
give the challenge, and then to appoint the
time and place, aud make the rules, aud se
lect the weapons for the contest. Wherein
has Governor Broxvn done anything to entitle
him to the support of any member of the Op
position Party ?”
“We have no issue to make with Governor
Brown. ’ ’ ‘ ‘Let the American Convention en
dorse and support him. ”—[ Sumter Republi
can, (Am.)
“We would go to the rack” first.—[Sav.
Republican, (Am.)
“We will support. Gov. Broxvn, whether
nominated or not.”—[Ringgold Paper, (Am.)
“Wc agree with our cotemporary of the
Sumpter ‘Republican’.”—[ Bainbridge Geor
gian, (Am.)
Tbe Macon ‘Journal & Messenger,’ (Am.)
also doubts the policy of opposing Governor
Brown.
Reader, this is not tbe “harmonious” democ
racy !
Secretary Cobb on Mitchell.
Howell Cobb, Buchanan’s Secretary of the
Treasury, passed up the Road last Saturday
night, and in conversation with several citi
zens of our toxvn, stated that Mitchell,s South
ern Citizen has done more harm to the South,
than it ever could do good, and that it xvas
move objectionable than a Black Republican
journal, its objections being equally hateful.
—-[ Knoxville Whig.
Tne Men of the Times.
We condense the following sketches of some
of the leading men in the impending struggle
from xrarious sources:
Victor Emanuel n. King of Sardinia, which,
bears almost the same relation to the pending
European war that Turkey did to the Crimean
is one of the prominent actors in the great
drama now being enacted on the eastern hem
isphere. The Honso of Savoy, of which he is
the head, descends from the old Counts of
Sardinia.
The latest, nexvs places Gen. Marmora in
command of the Sardinian army, ready to co
operate with Louis Napoleon against Austria
at a moment’s notice. Gon. Marmora is an
old and tried soldier. When the Crimean
xvar broke out, and Sardinia joined the Wes
tern Powers against Russia, and the Sardinian
contingent was raised, ho was placed In com
mand, went to the Crimea, and behaved in
the noblest manner, making himself famous
as one of the Generals of Europe.
The Marquis D’Azeglio has figured in the
quarrel very, prominently. He is the Sardin
ian Ambassador, and one of the oldest tauii-
lies in Piedmont and of considerable distinc tion
at the present time.
The firm Btand taken by Count Cavour, the
Sardinian Prime Minister, to cempel the ad
mission of the Sardinian Govemmei t to a
representation in the proposed European peace
Congress, and to enforce a recognition of the
importance of t hat Power among the great na
tions of Europe, has marked him as a promi
nent man in view of the impending war, and
of tbe part iu it which is necessarily -assigned
him. He was born in Turin, August 10 1810,
aud beloug to an ancient and wealthy family
of Piedmont.
The name of Joseph Mary Garibaldi-he
who now commands the ten thousand Italian
x olunteers in defence of Sardinia against Aus
tria—is suggestive of Liberty, and by many of
his countrymen he is revered almost «s a
Washington.
On Louis Napoleon—alternately the Prince
the outcast, the fugitive, the piisoin-r. the
pamphleteer and the Emperor—the eyes < >f the
world are now fixed, as upon the arbiter of
the destinies o; Europe.
Francois Certain Canrobcrt, Mondial of
France, Senator, xvas born in the year 1809,
and belongs to au honorable family of Bre
tagne.
Baraguay D. Hilliers, it is announced by
the Niagara, xvill command oneof the divis
ions of the French army to co-operat -• with
Sardinia, and is, therefore, of note iu th pres
ent crisis. He was in 1849 Military Gox rnor
of Rome and Commander-in-chief t.f the
French army in Italy, though formerly he had
been a French prisoner of war in Port 'tester
castle, at a time when no parole xvas granted
to any prisoner, whatever might be his
rank.
Count Jacques Louis Cesar Alexandre R in-
don, Marshall of France, formerly minister
and Senator—now named as the Major-Gene
ral on the Piedmontese frontier—was -m at
Grenoble, on the 25th of March, 1795.
Francis Joseph, Emperor of Austria, who
has been so energetically preparing for war,
in spite of his youth and inexperience and of
the Napoleon with whom he had to deal, in
connection with the infuriated liberals of Italy
has undoubtedly been actuated by a deter
mined ambition. He was bom in August,
1830, and is consequently but nearly txvcnty-
nine years of age. He is a son of the Arch
duke Francis Joseph. His titles, l>esid s
that of Emperor of Austria, are Kingo: Hun
gary and Bohemia, King of Lombards aud
Venice, Archduke of Austria, aud other minor
titles.
Extravagance and Corruption of (be Na
tional Government—a Reminiscence.
We would remind our old political asso
ciates that, twenty years ago, our opponents
had far more to say than they have at present
in relation to the alleged extravagance and
corruption of the Democratic party. This whs
the great rallying-cry of the Opposition in
1840. It. was started in this State by Wm. C.
Rives, and echoed and re-eelioed by his friends
and partizans from one end of the country to
the other. They charged that the Govern
ment xvas corrupt in all its departments, and -
pledged themselves to make good the ao na
tion if the people xvonld but give tlie.'i the
opportunity, The people yielding to i heir
earnest solicitations, turned the Government
over to them with a view to its purification.—
The opposition party xvere thus favored with
a rare chance to acquire “glory enough” by
ferretting out the abuses and corruptions of
preceding Democratic Administrations. They
announced, in advance, that they wou'd, in
due time, shock the moral sensibilities of the
nation by the “awful disclosures” they xvould
make respecting the frauds and specula (feu,
“that had tolerated, if not perpetrated by the
highest officials” for eight years prec ding.
The Opposition Congress met in extra session
‘to reform the abuses of the Government and
bring it hack to the palmy days of it.* pros
perity.’, (We quote tlie language"of oneof
their ablest men.) One of the early acts of
that famous Congress was the appointm nt of
a committee of three to investigate and report
upon the alleged stupendous frauds which, as
one of them expressed it, “had turn d the
nation pale. ” The enemies of the Demoi -racy
were all anxiety and expectation to receive
the report of their rogue-catching committee.
Weeks elapsed, and no report came;—months
passed away, and still “mum was the xv* ad”
of the chosen three reformers and purifvers.
Finally, near the close of that extraordinary
Congress the public herd something from them
in the shape of a card from one of the three,
preferring some serious charge against . col
league, to which the accused replied in the
shape of a card, denouncing his accn-eras
destitute of the essential qualities that consti
tute the gentleman and the patriot ! The
third member of the committee withdrew
from it we believe, in dignified disgust ! So
that the Whig committee appointed to ferre t
ont the thieves and money-changers in the
temple of American liberty, never reported
anything beyond the result of a rigid self-ex
amination ! They found out and reported
some naughty things on each other, bnt made
no disclosures igaiust the Democratic party.
— Virginia Index.
A Happy Man.
George Wilkins Kendall, formerly editor of
the New Orleans “Picayune,” but who for a
number of years past has lived upon his iarni,
near New Braunfels, Tex.-s, xvrites thus gloxv-
ingly to a friend in Boston:
I have now abont five thonfand sheep, and
all fine stock. Have realized o* er seventy five
per cent, profit per annum on the investment
since I have been here, which will do for hard
times. Flocks now in healthier and finer con
dition than ever. My good luck has now
lasted three years without intermission. 1 went
to New Orleans last Christmas time, xvit h my
wife and oldest girl; was gone six xvecks,
xvhich was quite long enough. I would’nt
live in a city if yon would give me one. I am
in the enjoyment of the very best health, and
am now 10 years younger than I was ter. years
ago—and twenty years gained in the life of a
man passed the middle age, is something worth
the while. ° ® * No such country u • this
for children on the face of the earth It is
never hot here—never cold, always yleisant.
I have a set of good neighbors, and snal! soon
have the best kind of society around me.
Our position in reference to the nomination
of Governor Brown. It is oue of strict neu
trality. We do not favor his re-nomination,
but at tbe same time we do not opp Be it.—
We have done nothing to defeat it; wc shall
do nothing to accomplish it; but shall main
tain our position of neutrality until the Gub
ernatorial nomination of the party is made.—
And if Governor Broxvn is the nominee, xvith
the lights before us, we shall cheerfully sup
port him ; believing, as we do, that the har
mony of the party and its success in the ap
proaching State elections, are matters of move
importance than his defeat, even if be xxas
more objectionable to ns than he really is.—
[Constitutionalist, May 19.
“New England a Unit.”—The Republican
press is boasting that New England is “a unit''
in opposition to the Democracy, and that
not one Democratic representative is elected
from that, region to Congress. True ; but not
so novel as true. Nexv England was a unit in
1801, when Jefferson xvas elected President,
New England than voting in a body araius-
him; and again in 1828, xvheuGen. Jackson
was elected. Now she is ‘ ‘a unit’ ’ in supp< n t
of Abolitionism, and the very men who boast
of this unity, profane the names of Jackson
and Jefferson with the mockery of their praise
—Albany Argus.