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Lnmpfc'n nnd A, „ tr j Cn , Road ‘V O publish this week an article Irom ‘-Lump 'in, with the above caption, which el.ouhl have Hppeared ionur last issue, but came in too late, “e admire the expression and suggestions or i the writer very much, and, in our opinion, he ’ seems to take a very libera! and correct view of the subject. jfcj The writer intimates that to terminate the tftilfßuad at tlnsplace would more greatly bene 1 fit our town a ,,d county, ,l„ in a continuance! f!? U f h ‘“Eufauia We very readily coincide Mth him upon this point— .not a particle ofobicc. n-n, provided .t can be done. But the question I bother this .can he cfil.ctcd. Are our lake hold of this enterprise and ( any foreign aid. We ‘ i the swcalih, power and But oiir citizens ■MUtt"’ this sutijcct so ,J|,e I giealiy l ! > - l " 1 ’ k ; • For the f*Mtjrif*r. M UMPKIS SXU AHWUcfs Hill, UOaB M nssns. liie very reasonable and appropriate | the subject at the head of this article, in Jur last Editorial. You will permit me to avai'Xy. self of the hints so judiciously thrown ot; b v yourselves, as the ground wotk of a few.= i or t j numbf,rs intended to present this enterj >j, e more fully before our peop'e. And in the outset, it is proper that we sb aid deal candidly. Asa town we have no motive to extend this Road further westward, or to nfflfcate ourselves with any interest or people whAan-’ not assimilate with us in efforts. Such polirTv ill but serve to increase the probabilities of defeat ing or retarding our immediate object, an Buev t*r can do u.y any good. /will bestow a few llioughts on th.e-mpor tance of the measure to our towiFand cottnty. And shall then show its easy and convenient practicability. |,ii*other words f will sliiv that the enterprise greatly liour interest Jid that it is fully withjff our 4 Our town would be the >• ‘V and Ceuti - ;,|d ii.Tii-..1 ■ W,’ M “It i■ r ipHBSRk •’ ■ Even with an average dtljc a Pcent in the pound in our favor in the price of oar r great staple, what an immense annual contribu • lion would this Railroad annually make, to the wealth of the county ofStewart ? 3rd. And last. There would be at once cre ated in the midst of our country a market where the Stewart county planter could control and e,l his cotton for increased prices,’ when lie could keep every thing under bis own eye and where all the supplies of his family and plantation could be purchased, at reasonable prices, at, as it were J hs very door. a’ Who.can fail to perceive the- immence infiu ences, which would and must accrue to our plat * ten*from this road, from year to year and to all coining time ? It is no! too much to say that every year from the moment that the first whistle of the engine is heard in our streets, there would be received by our town and county, a bounty from this Railroad that, collected together and viewed in the agregate, would amount to a sum Ibat would insure, at once, its completion and equipments and places at and in possession of commercial advantages far beyond my abilities to describe or foresee. When shall we awake I to our true interest? EU.MPKLY. I Protection tii :li„ American Citizen. I IVesident Pierce, in his inaugural.) RailroadiiLuinpkiii--Amrricu4— Aibn ny-~ Savannah ami Biuiigmck. It seems to be a settled point, that , the South-Western Road is to be ex i tended from Oglethorpe to Americas; j an d the Georgia Courier , in remarking j upon the fact, encourages ihe people ! of Stewart county, to extend it still further (thirty-six miles) to Lumpkin. I here are some things connected withjthis subject, which are not so far in the future as to cast no shadows be fore. We say then, that sooner or later,and we think within a few years, there'will be aR a 1 Road from Bruns wick to Columbus, as well as fromthe i i°rmer to Pensacola. The i P" 8S f hrou S h Albany and Lumpkin. Wc give the proof in a few words.— Brunswick is by far, and in every re spect, a better location for a commer- cial seaport-town than Savannah is. Her harbor is amply large, and deep enough lor vessels the largest class. [•She is healthy at all seasons. The Railroad connecting her with Colum bus, will be free from curves, that will materially increase its length or retard hespeed o travel flpon it . it sa cmal length will he ( -snout fifty miles less than that of the Railroad between MMgmaajßflnd’ brunswiclv Rond ytmll have ■died Albany, its -Stockholders, as [ Hi as the owners of land along the Hs, and of lots in the city, will see, ■ plainly, the advantages she will Hve over Savannah, by contesting the Hid with her in Columbus. Colum ns*'.’ too, will see the vast advantage ■her of having another (and wc think 1 Httcc bidder for her trade, than Sa- Hnnah will be—better by far at least Han Savannah will he without ior- Hidable competiton. By this Road, Brunswick will be connected with the State Road, and thereby with the Mis sissippi Valley, and by the Operlika Imd Chunnenuggee Ruuds, with the ■cart of Alabama. I Now il we were citizens of Lump- ■ kiii. we should come to this conclusion : , I We will exert every muscle to form ft. connection with Brunswick All Ihe means wo have to share, shall go. Into the project. It will secure to us j ft better outlet to the Atlantic, and til ■lO same time, will connect us with lie up counties of Crorgia. and oven I'itli the \ alley of the Mississippi— Irith Savannah and Augusta, via Co s by a route hut. little greater i ■1 length than by Americas and Ogle ■lorpo; and lastly, it will compel Sa- Bannah to build without our aid, the Birty six miles between Amerieus and ■umpitin, or relinquish all hope of Bmllnereialiniercour.se with us. She Bill htiild the road. \V ■ therefore Bit three roads by moving fa the ili- Bction of Brunswick—first. Hie Bruns j tho road to ( olumbus. u. wM i t •►mV • ominous from a direct Railroad; connecting with Brunswick, would he many and important, and are too ob vious to require ducussioti.— Tunes <§• Scut hid. XaPoT.EiiS’s WIU, JSI'KKI'.XI'CKKII To I’IiASCC I — The lasi will and statement ot ipnlenu If - naparle, nn the 17tn ins l ., were deuvert-d over to j the French Government at the request ul ti e Ci'ieen s udvoraV, speaking lir the Serretan el State for Foreign Adairs m the Prerogal.ve Court, j rmi!en. I tie ajipiit'atiou was i.eard ..r ----gued as a point o! law, and derided nke an mail nary ease in iavor o! the applicant. Napoleon's will, therefore, will he transtered Iroin the lint ish Court to the custody of his own cuuntrvmoii, I and this proceeding billowing on the trans'auou of his remains, may be said to extinguish the ; last record of his detention. The London Times say s: ” Napo'ecn exp r and in the British possessi. n of St. lltdana, on the fl’h of ,\!av. 1821, eiving aiToperty to the amount of some jjiiOO ithin the iiroperjurisdiction ot the comt at question. In jthe month ot August, 182 1, his nil 1 , with seven podicals, was duly proved by the Court de Mon* lholon, one of his executors, and deposited in the j registry. The question now, was whether, con* lormable to law and tmge, it could be taken from j Ibis registry, and surrendered to the keeping of, lathers. Lord John Russell, in whose name the Application was preterred, had communicated liis Intentions of delivering the will to the French ■government, and lie put in an affidavit to the et ■ect that the whole proceeding was based upon ■[roundsof public policy. The Judge, however, ■jhatacteristieal'y observed, tlmt ‘public policy’ ■otild not be allowed to determine of itselt the Hecision of an Knglish Court, but that the au- Ribrity of the Court to act in (he first place, and Hi the next the warrant lor action proved no Hasv matter. A search into precedents disclosed Holy three cases in which assent had,been given Hi similar applications, ami these cases were Bertainly wanting in precise analogy. However, ■ doubt existed, and it was turned, as it should Have been, to the advantage of the application, Hnd the satisfaction ol a neighboring State.— Bubstituting merely ‘the legal French authori- Res.’ in place of the ‘French government.’ as the Harties to whom the will should be transferred, Bir John Dodson made the requisite order for its ■elivery bom the registry of the Court, and the Hast testament of the lir-t French Emperor will Bow find its proper place in the archives of B’rance.” I Mb. Clayton's Defence of his Treaty.— B'lte Washington correspondent of the Charles* Bon Courier says : H_MoCUytoii was very prompt in bringing be l entale Priests in I'cuierai Africa- One of the most singular customs of j Grewhe, says an African traveller, is [ the admission of females into the order ; of priesthood. A young female, gen erally the daughter of a fetchic man, i or priest, is selected for the purpose, 1 who undergoes a probationary pen- I ance that continues six months previ ous to her admission into holy orders. During this period she is initiated by . the priests into all the mysteries and (chicanery oi the religion of their fore- I fathers, which consisted in the worship ot the black and white snake, dnd in the mummery of giving sanctity to * bones, rags, dec. When she appears in public during the period of her pro bation. her manner is grave and sol ; emn ; her skin is painted with a kind of white clay; rows of shells of vari ous forms and sizes, are hung upon her neck, aims, and ankles; and her loins at e girt with long grass, which reaches to her knees. A dwelling is provided for her, m which she eats and sleeps alone, and into which none tire admitted but fetchic men and wo men. At the expiration of the six months, a large assemblage oj’ men, women and --hildren, accompanied by the va rious orders <?f priesthood, and the musicians belonging to the town, takes place in an open space of ground, to assist at, and also to witness, the last grand ceremony. Soon after assem bling, the women form a circle by joining hands, among whom are the companions of the noviciate’s youth, and also her relations, who commence dancing circularly, reversing the move ments alternately, after making one complete circle. The dancing is ac companied by the most barbarous and horrid din imaginable, caused by the musicians beating on drums, tom-toms, gongs and blowing horns manufac tured out of elephant’s teeth and reeds; lo which are added the most strange and uncouth grimaces and contortions of the facies and bodies of the priests, so that a spectator might easily imag ine them to be a number of maniacs, who had been turned loose to eive o effect so the ceremony; and were it not Jpr the presence of the little chil dren, who look on with fear and aston ishment depicted in their countenan ces, would be no bad representation of Pandemonium. The noviciate, soon afier dancing commences, is biought, out, by appa rent force, from a little but which had concealed her Iront the spectators, and placid in the centre of the circle lormeti by the dancing females, from whom she endeavors to-escape to the hut whence she had been brought, and this she is allowed to accomplish.— This ceremony is repeated three limes; an ine;i> tatton is then delivered by the Chief pti's's, and the tbree qndaaflHß < >n <| •*> <•11101 KDtHIM lasil a lemale is admitted into the order of priesthood, is that of leading a life of celibacy, and renouncing the pleas ures of the world; and but few are permitted to enter it at all. Mf.T!T'liis.m in the. United States.— The editor o! t: e Zion's lb raid takes the following vlf w of the pr gre.-s ul Mctlu di.-m in this coun trv lie say-: ■ Aoi tiimii M oluidis'n is not yet a century oL 1 > ttie o cicd lily shoil space ol eighty* v ni years, ii h. - bio.lt tour tin sand two Inin (!:■ and .mil twenty churches, (which is a little less t an oi.o tor every work of her existence,) at a cost of ton tern millions seven hundred and thirty thousand fiNr hundred and seventy-one dollars. It Inis a!-o erected aid endowed its college and numerous academics w ith large sums. It has bat iumoneralle parsonages, and suppliei itself with Church and Satnb tit school literalnre.—• Now, most of tl ese churches, having been newly erected, rebuilt, or remodelled, and most of these vast outlays having hern made in within the last quart* r of a century, we think it no exaggera t on to estimate the expenditures of Methodism in the United States for home purposes, at an ave rage very little short of one million of dollars per annum for the last twenty-five years ; in ad dition to that, it has paid lor the support of its ministry. - ’ Progress.—lt seems that Miss Lucy Stone had appeared as a public lecturer in men’s clothe.-, somewhere down eu.-t. Tins indicates progress among the he women, as this class of reformers are getting to be called. They aim at having things common between women and men ; employments, dress, political principles ; and the final consummation of “ bed and board.” Fanatical reforms have always tended to such a result.—Petersburg Intelligencer. An Item for Mrs. Stowe. —The Fredricks* burg Herald says: “ Had Mrs. Stowe witnessed the funpral of M avor Semple, one of its features would have taught her wisdom, and may bo, incubated a spirit of charity in her breast towards us in re gard to our colored population. In the rear of the procession, and dressed in as shining silks and pure broadcloths as the most favored, march ed a company ol blacks, male and female, num bering near one hundred. They came of their own accord, took position, and were as deeply afflicted with the loss of the town and themselves had sustained, as any other class who parlicipa j ted in the sad and solemn obsequies of the day. The Rush ecu the Treasury. —The Charleston Standard >ays ; “ All ac counts agree that the rush at Wash ington, for office, is a downright Ni lagara. Secessionists, Co-operation lists, Union men, and Democrats of ■Brery hue, all join to make up the tor- Irent. To crown all, the correspon dent of the Carolinian says, that the ll’almetto Attorney, built to manufac- Iture arms to fight the General Gov- I eminent, have received a contract Itromthe “War Department to make I arms for Uncle Sam. He also says, Ithat they will be better than those the I Yankees sent South Carolina in nulli ■ fication times, a portion of which, ■ though good looking guns, had no ■touch-holes. Succcssattetul the South- Hern Armory.” 1 Have the courage to let your igtior ■ance be known in order that you may Hlenm.