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AND CHEROKEE ADVOCATE.
BY RUGGLES & HOWARD.
ATLANTA AND MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1855.
VOL. VII. NO. 6.
THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER |
Dally', Trt-Weekly end Weekly.
BY grr.RLES & IIOWIRD.
.Editor*.
W. B. RUGGLES,]
T. C. HOWARD, i
\V. H. HUNT. Associate Editor.
Washington, June 10, 1855.
Clark Mills, the American artist, haa
I changed very much in his personal appear-
i ance, since he first came here from Charles-
| ton to make the equestrian statue of Jack-
J son. Ilis labors of mind and body in pro-
j ducing this masterpiece has turned his hair
aAd blanched his cheek. But he is still
full of enthusiasm and hope. In crossing
the street yesterday, he espied us, and as
usual, hauled up his quiet little “carryall/
TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION.
Daily Iattlli(eiic«r p«r annum, in adeaacs, $6.00 _
Tri-Waakiy. 5“ “ 4 - 00 and stopped for a chat. He has decided on
WmMTi “ " _ 2 1°° j his conception for the grand equestrian stat-
KATBSOP ADVERTISING. i “® of Washington, for which Congress has
Aireru«nsin the Daily Intelligencer will be ' aPP r ‘*P«-«ated ^ but Its execution
in*erted at the following rates per square of ton
; lBeJ: I new urieans on tne etn oi January, leoo.
One insertion. fiO cts. j One month, t5 oo i «,f the Statue of Jackson—a copy of the one
Two *1 on Two “ ® here. After studying all the published roe-
Thre * ! I hrer ,9 nn m "irs of the Father of his Country, and
i 76 SiT “ is oo 1 gathering every tradition find recoll«c-
* week 2 oo ■ Ore year, 25 00 ' of him, our artist has chosen to repre-
-Sncria! contracts a ill be made for yearly adver- j "?»* Washington in the most trying and ex-
t.-ements occupviug n quarter, half or whole eol- | citing scene of the Revolution, when the
, Jmu j American troops were wavering under the
ntf Adverii»eraeuts from transient persons . terrible fire of the well-disciplined British,
] when he had exhausted every effort to rally
his army, and as if inspired with the idea
, that he was under the special protection of
the God of Battles, or perhaps in a feeling
sut bo paid in advance.
Legal advertisements published at the usual
fiVfj Otiituary notices exceeding ten linos charg-
| ,, %iv*riisem«nt*. Announcing candidates for
-*re. $6 on. to be paid in advance. . . ... . .
When advertisements are ordered in all the is- of despair in which he would rather fall
ae». including Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly, i than witness a defeat, he charged forward
?i ner cent, will be added to the above rates. «o far in advance of the American troops as
The nrivilege of yearly advertisers is^ strictly • between the fire of the two armies!——
li-aited to their own
neat.
Pmfe-.innal Cards
immediate and regular busi-
not exceeding six lines, $15
per annum.
Advertisement* not specified a* to time will be
yuMi-hed till ordered out, and charged at regular
rates.
Advertisements inserted in the Weekly paper
•nlv will V-e charged at former rate*.
TFIE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER.
Pt ni.t-HEt. EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 3ft.
The Atlanta Bank
Some of the little Banks out West, troub
led with the rivalry of the Atlanta Bank,
The Northern Democracy.
j Our attention lias recently been called,
combined together and sent an agent to this ■ says the Savannah Georgian, in a very for-
-itv a few days since, with a bundle of i sihle manner, to the rottenness of the North-
twenty thousand dollars of the Atlanta bills, | ?
for the purpose of demanding the specie.—
»- am. Pierce to Akc Democracy af Vir
ginia
Gen. Pierce having been invited by th-
Democracy of Fredricksburg, (Va.)to at ten ■
a celebration of their late victory, addressee
them the following letter:
Gentlemen :—I shall be constrained b
official engagements to deny myself the plea
sure of participating in the proposed cele
bration at Fredericksburg on the I3th inst..
but I beg to present my hearty congratuln
tions upon the late signal triumph of sound
principles and manly sentiments in the
“Old Dominion.”
_ Pre-eminently prominent as the sons ol
will be delayed until the inauguration at I V irginia have been from the commence
” ~ . _ . - _ ment of the Revolution, for their bold advo
caey of the cause of freedom—for their con
sistent and patriotic devotion to the onl\
principles upon which a government consti
tuted like ours, can be sustained; it may
well be doubted, whether they have evei
rendered a higher service to this Union.
If political heresies and religious intole
ranee could hare shaken and carried the
stronghold of that party, upon the faithful
ness, patriotism, intelligence and courage
of which the country has been obliged
mainly to rely in every period of serum-
danger, whether arising from foreign arm*
or domestic dissensions, it would have beei
the occasion, if not of discouragement, ye
of profound regret and sorrow, to those win
revere the constitution under which, as a
nation, we have attained such amazing ad
vancement, and have realized sociallyresult
so unexampled in the history of the human
race.
The proud elevation on which the Com
monwealth of Virginia now stands is freely
recognized and deservedly honored from one
extremity of the Union to the other.
With my best wis ies for a joyous gather
ing, worthy of such a State and such a tri
umph, you will please accept my cordia.
thanks for your kind invitation.
I am. gentlemen, with high respect, youi
obliged fellow-citizen,
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
Messrs. Eustace Cornway, J. G. Gaily
her, A. K. Phillips, and S. G. Daniel, Com
mittee.
1 The horse is wild with affright at his posi-
' tion, nostrils distened, main flying, and
: flung hack almost upon his haunches, while
I the Chief is cool, self-possessed, dignified
; and now confident. In this statue Wash
ington is clad in lhe Continental costume,
; modelled from the identical coat he wore in
1 the service, and now preserved in the Na-
- tional Institute. There will be no Roman
togas nor long skirts about the original
American statues ofthefirst American patri-
I ota. Long live Clark Mills to fulfil the ex-
- ; pectations of the country and enjoy his
1 fame. He was intoduced to the world’s
notice, you rememl>er, by his admirable
bust of Carolina’s Calhoun.
The hill* were accordingly presented at the
counter of the Bank, and the amount in
g .ld counted out for the same, instanter.—
The agent thereupon t<«>k his course West
ward .Again, with his load of specie, sorely
disappointed at the promptness with which
his demands had been honored.
Iron forr the Stale Road.
We n .tice by the riivannah papers of
Wednesday, that the Bark Charles Keen
from Cardiff. Wales, to Messrs. Paddleford
k Fay, arrived in S.ivannab. Tuesday, hav
ing on board eight hundred urn* of iron for
the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
The Season.—The M mtgomery (AiA-)
Journal of Saturday says: “The I’eceni
rains have made a difference of hundreds
of thousands of bushels of corn in this sec- I
tion. and have largely benefitted the cotton
and other crops. In fact, the crops never
louked better or further advanced at this
season. The river has also received a ben
efit. and has risen during the last few days
II feet.
Corn Falling.—The Montgomery (Ala.)
Advertiser of Tuesday last, says:
** Corn wn* offered at 80 cents per bushel
—and seemed to go a begging at that. It
will soon, we think, lie down at the old live
and let live price, fifty cents.”
The Monster Steamship.—It is stated
lhat the monster steamship of 25,000 tons
and 10.000 horse power, building on the
Thame-, i* expected to make a trip from
England to the United States and back,
early next Spring, in a fortnight. She will
be a sight worth seeing when she comes.
A \«*w Orleans oorrespondent of the New
York Tribune, who is. or seems tolas, in the
secrets of all the filibustering expeditions of
the day, says that the barque Magnolia now
in charge of the United States officers, on
suspicion of being the storeship of the Kin
ney expedition. was in no wise connected
with that enterprise, but was laden with a
large cargo of arms, ammunition and tents
for the Quitman expedition against Cuba,
and that he lias seen a complete list of her
cargo.
■SUThe Hon. John Kerr, late Whig
member of Congress from North Comlinia,
has recently written a letter to the public,
strongly condemnatory of the secret conspi
rators. Whilesotne oft he wishy-washy Dem
ocrat* have abandoned their party (as Mr.
Wise *ays, "for their party’s good”] their
places are supplied in the opposition to
a national organization. In pleasing con
trast with them, is the sound position of the
Northern democracy. Alluding to Ex Gov.
Cobb’s letter, the Albany At jus says it is
one which citizens of every portion of the
Union will read with much satisfaction. It
breathes a patriotic spirit, and cultivate*
feelings of pence and concord, instead of
strife and disunion.
“On every principle of our Government,
it belongs to her citizens to determine the
character of their domestic institutions, and
we think Gov. Cobb is right iu assuring his
fellow citizens of Georgia that the Demo
crats of the North will acquiesce in this po
sition. It is a practical settlement of the
slavery agitation upon a just and honorable
basis, and one to which we tl ink, the North
should hy no means object.”
The New York National Democrat, after
a careful analysis of the resolutions adopt
ed at Milledgeville, says.-
The time is at hand when the National
Dem«.'cratic party of the whole Union must
have a common platform upon which to
stand, ana these propositions seem to us so
sensible, «o s elf-evident and so universal and
anti-sectional t".*» their scope—so entirely in
accordance with those with those which the
Old Guard in t.his <?iate. under all disadvan
tages, and in the face " f all proscriptions,
have maintained—that v*" 8 invoke their ap
proval by the National Convention of our
party in 1856, .as furnishing i.he true basis
for unity among all who wo,*Id be of l's, and
with us in the effort to lay these excising
and dangerous questions, and to keep them
at rest wh.le our nation pursues her march
to greatness and prosperity under the gui
dance of Democratic Republican principles,
and under the administration of sound and
patriotic and true men—such as we trust
that Convention will give us.
When men talk like this of our platform,
we ask if it is not our duty to stand by
them. What say our friends of the “Co
lumbus movement ?”
The War on the ‘ rime a.— The Towns of
Tanganrog and Simpheropol.—The most im
portant town on tho Sea of Azoff is that of
Tanganrog, with 25.000 inhabitants. It
forms the depot for theproduce of the south
east of Russia. The town was founded by
Peter the Great. Amongst its public build
ings are remarkable the Admiralty, the
Marine Hospital, the Quarantine Building,
the Bank and the College. It has an Ex
change, and about 170 warehouses. The
fort or citadel which protects the town is
said to be in a state of decay. Tanganrog
ha* 26 vessels of a larger description, and
684 for the coast navigation. The harbor
is only accessible for inconsiderable draft.
It was here that the Emperor Alexander
died, on the 1st December, 1825.
Simpheropol, against which Gen. Pellis-
sier’s movements appear to be directed, is
tbo capital of the Crimea. It counts 14,-
000 inhabitants, of which from 5,000 to
6,000 are Tartars
( The town is situated on
Knew Nuthingism hy such men as Stephens f * 18 base °f the Taurian mountain chain.—
and Toombs, .if Georgia, Preston of Ken- ! ' N desc ribed as roll built, and presenting,
tuck v, and Keir. of North Carolinia Have 1 W,th th ® t™** 8U . rrou . ndin S \ a beaut ful
,* , . . ' aspect. It contains six churches, amongst
we lost anything hy the operation?
tar t he editor of New York ledger has
-ued twj of his cutempomries: one, the
Philadelphia Times, for lil>cl. The grounds
of the suits are that the*e papers said that
they didn't lielieve the Led get man paid
Fanny Fern 8100 a column for her milk
and water stories. The Herald advises the
defendants to plead guilty as follows:
aspect. It contains six churches, amongst
which the ealhedral is remarkable for being
built in good architectural taste. .The town
ha* alsoa Russian College, four other schools
and several factories. It is central, and
consequently regarded as a most important
point in regard to the trade in the produc
tions of the Crimea. Its acquisition by the
Registration of Letter*.
On the first of July the system of regis
tration of valuable letters, prescribed by the
Post Office Department, in accordance witl
the provisions of the act of March 3, 1855
will go into operation. The regulations o
the Department provide that on the paymen
of a registration fee of five cents, a reeeip
shall be given by the Postmaster when th«
letter is mailed, and extraordinary precau
tions shall he used in its forwarding and de
livery. This is not to he confined to mone?
letters, as any letter which the writer deem-
valuable will he registered ; and while the
Department does not make tkem*elves liable
for the loss of such letters or their contents,
the additional care taken in their transmis
sion and delivery, and the proof of mailing
furnished hy the receipt, will he deemed by
many an ample equivalent to the additional
charges.—Char. Mercury.
Southern Flour.
A Liverpool paper by the last steame
has the following notice, which will be in
teresting to both our city and country rea
ders :
Breadstcffs from the United States.—
The reports of the growing crops of bread
stuffs in America are now favorable, and ii
the weather should he au*picious for the in
gathering, the quantity will exceed an ave
rage, as a greater breadth of land than
usual has been sown. We are glad to find
that Charleston, (S. C.,) is likely to be able
to export flour, (which is very unusual.) for
we have seen a very beautiful sample,
branded Williams, Bronson & Co., which
will be sare to command a liberal price, as
it possesses great strength, and is finely
dressed.
This flour, we learn from inquiry, was
Tennessee. We are informed that sample-
<>f flour from the mills of Knoxville have
been received in ;*>is market equal in eve
ry respect to the best any other quar
ter. Choice Georgia brands have gained
an established reputation.
The great difficulty with southern flour
has been in the imperfect milling and put
ting up'. Remove this, and it will speedi
ly take its place at the head of the mar
ker, both at home and abroad.
The Flour of warm climates is stronger
than that of the colder. It has more nutri
ment. and suffers less from transportation.
The Flour of the Richmond Mills was es
pecially favored in California. It was the
only kind that could lie depended on to bear
the passage round Cape Horn without
souring.
Tennessee, Northern Georgia, and the
Western Carolinas, thus promise to become
one of the chief graneries of the world.—
Charleston Mercury.
Hon. Amos Kendall.—The Indianapolis
(Ind.) State Sentinel, speaking of a recent
v isit of Mr. Amos Kendall to Indianapolis,
sa^vs :
“ The old gentleman is feeble and worn,
exceedingly grey-haired, and tottering, as it
were, .on the very verge of eternity. His
presence calls to mind many thrilling events
of the adm inistration of that ‘ By the Eter
nal ’ spirit, whose indomitable will met
and overpowered that monster of centrali
zation, the United States Bank.
[For the Atl.vnta Daily Intelligencer.]
Blackberry W*“«—Another Receipt.
Messrs. Editors r— I observe in your
issue of this morning a receipt for making
blackberry wine copied from the Newbury
“Mirror,” South Carolina.
Mr. William Summer, of Pomaria, gives
jadfr Jones’ Better. j just here, ia the condemnation of that party irre-
We trust we have not committed any improprie- : vocably pronounced. A secret political party! A
y in publishing the private note addressed to ns by I set of men—a man, for aught yeu know, way nn-
fudge June*, as it is germane to what we have to : der ground, forging hand-cuffs foryonr wrist? and
ty in reference to his letter addressed to the pub-
c. We will frankly avow that under the existing
ircumstances, we should feel it to be a plain duty
> publish what the Judge has written in explana-
ion of bis present relations to his former political
riends, even if wo had supposed it was in a parti-
to view impolitic to do so. We have always
■lead guilty to a certain greenness in a way we
lave of giving a good deal of play to our trust-
ulness and sympathy, and it may be we are just
is green in the notion we have had in our heads
hr some time, that if our party principles cannot 1
>ear rude handling they had better be given over j
■o the poor of other parties who have nothing bet- |
ter. It may be that wo do not fear danger because i
ve are too ignorant to know what it is, and that our j
■onfidence in the strength of our cause results from i
'he weakness of the men who attack it. But any j
way, we like to eee Democratic principles and I
■ledges subjected to the hardest tests, and if at i
iny time they cannot survive the expert mention
■ rucis, why—then let them go. We suspended, !
gyves for your legs! Men at politicians, discus
ing principles and measures that are to bind you
and yours, and you thrust out of the council!—
Who teas the daring conspirator that first con
cocted this wholesale perversion of the Republi
can sentiment ot this people? Bnt because we
don’t know what these patriots are doing in secret
for us, we are uncharitable if we suspect them—
and because their deeds are done in darkness, it
is uncivil and hard in us if we think them evil.—
Enough of this. One word as to tile charge that
the Democracy are protectionists.
All will think this sounds paradoxical to say the
least of it. But there is, we know, many a vital
fact that lives and moves and has its being
against ai! sorts of probability and appearance.—
Let us then bring the charge up to the test of
truth. When did the democratic party countenance
the protective policy? If that party were the
State Rights men of 1832-3 they could not have
been protectionists, for they were nullijiers. If
the party or the mas3 of it were Union men, then
it was not a protection party, for they oondemned
nerely, the publication without the least idea of t ... .. . ,, -
• „ ... . , i the wrong while they disavowed the remedy-
ejecting the letter of Judge Jones. We confess, - , .. .. , /.
„ . ,, , . , . : Down to 1S-13 the limit, if we recollect, of the
. hat we shared largely in those regrets that he so i _. . ... . ’
. it ii j . . r. .. . . . . . , , j Clay compromise swindle, no party were for pro-
•vell alludes to, in the thought that John A. Jones ! . . , ._ , .
. . , , , tecticn, for the the tariff was undergoing a scaling
vas about severing the ties that have for such a ■ , . . . f .. “
, ... „ doicn, but after that, say m 1842, who does histo-
ength of time bound him to bur party friends. Go ; . ... ., . . . ,, . ,, , ,
, . . , . . . , • ry charge, with the most abominable of all the le-
vtere he may. or one thing we feel assured—that .. , . . , , „ ,
. . .. . . r , . i gained piracies upon our substance? Surely, sure
no future friends and political associates will trust : - —• -
lis unselfish, brave and patriotic heart more than
■ee have done. That is impossible, for as widely
as many of us have differed with him when the
(uestion was one of “ways and means,” never
lid a shadow of suspicion cross one of our breasts
hat jiis was not one of the most thoroughly honest
ly not the anti-Harrison—YanBuren democratic
party—or call the opposition by what name you
will. In letter and in spirit, with all its anoma
lies and inconsistencies, the tariff of 1846 is
certainly in the line of reform, and it did, most
indispntably meliorate the hardships of protec
tion, fastened upon ns by opposing parties. Then
and devoted hearts that ever glowed with the love of | w jj en (jja tho Democracy as a party ever recog-
mme and country. At the risk of being too per- j nize or decIare Bro t e ction for protection's sake, as
mnal will we be pardoned for saying, that like j the gettled policy of the party ? We have always
Mr. Calhoun, Judge Jones, after viewing a ques- ] ghared with oar distinKnighe a correspondent, a
aon ,n the strong lights of hts own powerful mind. I keen regret ^ the Democratic party South,
s not as well prepared as most other men to bear ] could n#t havo it6 way , and that there gllould have
with differences of opinion or to compound with
those differences for less than the abstract percep
tion of truth seemed to require. It is certainly a
venturesome thing for us to say, but we do, that
n our minds, this inflexibility that conceded no
iot or tittle of the perfect measure, that his under
standing demanded of others, crippled if it did
iot render abortive somo of the noblest efforts of
he great Carolinian. Men of quick and powerful
been any semblanco of partiality or reservation in
the application of the great principle of free trade.
Iron and salt, and indeed everything else, should
be made to pay a revenue rate, and that only. But
we fjlt certain that we got more concessions to the
truth, more practical acknowledgements of the
right principle in the collection of revenue, from
the Democratic party than from any other, and if
we did not get perfect Bills from the hands of the
uinds cannot with any grace be asked to take ; party, they never ungenerously forced Bills upon
o crooked ways, that the rest of the world hasten- ! the oountry that were Bills of abomination. But
■°8 a ^ ter t k em ma ? enabled to keep up, but • it is useless to pursue the argument further. If
11 rely the cause of prog, ess and truth are not the Democracy are robbing us b> the principle of
- ■mpromised or perilled by begging them just to protection “the vice has lost half its evil, by losing
io!d up a little till we, the slow ones take breath, i all its grossness,” for it is done so kindly, so deitly,
it may be, however, that in this particular trait of ■ with such exquisite grace, that wo really do not
eading minds, “whatever is, is right,” and we ■ miss the money. Something after the Arabs’
■iad better preserve a perfect measure of right ; style wo suppose the thing is done, who would be
■ mong us, even though none of us can come up to i shocked with the coarseness of the old Whig
t. But are the objections of our correspondent j “stand and deliver” method, but that in the most
■veil tak»n ? We think not and we give our rea- debonaire manner in the world, begs us to have the
-■■ns. The points of objection taken to the recent ; goodness to strip for our aunt (meming his wife)
iction of the Democratic party by Judge Jones ] j s dreadfully in need of a shirt. One word more
>re—tha". while he thought it of great importance i and we have done. Tho Columbus movement note
o our best interests that we should unite all par- j g a solecism. Unless all agreed to the plan of
cies in Georgia that our position as to slavery
-hould be made impregnable, the party in conven-
.ion determined upon a different, and we infer the
Tudge thinks, an opposite policy. In other words,
re desired a national party, he a sectional one.—
Che remaining material objection is, that by en
larging previous Democratic measures and legisla-
1 ion we have given in our adhesion to the protect-
ice policy which Judge Jones seems to suppose,
s thereby regarded as the settled policy of the
Democratic party. As to the first ohjeotion, six
weeks ago or more, the editors of this paper took
:i8 broad ground in favor of the unity of the politi
cal strength of the State, as we could do without
igreeing to make vital principle-subsidiary to this
end, and subordinate to it. For this indiscreet fa- j
cility of disposition we have had to brook tho ’
keenest reproaches from men whose gooi opinion j
was once very dear to ns. In a frame of minu
perfectly congenial with these committals, we at
tended the Convention and Judge Jones can bear
union that this new party proposed, why of course
there could be no sort of consistency in attempt
ing to unite all parties in Georgia by startingano-
tber, and giving us four instead of three. We
might in whittling down ip this way. probably
reach the last infinitessimal point, and have unity
in that way—may be. Tho true policy for
Georgians is now to take things as they find them,
and make the best of them. That in our view is
not done by criminations of each other, or in ex
acerbating old wounds. Mr. Stephens has by h is
course covered himself with glory, and by bis pre
sent sublime patriotism established a fame that
will be as lasting as it is unimpeachable. Would
that all others would go and do likewise.
believe me capable of supportinga man who
bad rode ruff shod over the constitution of
the country, by creating an office, and affix
ing a salary to it without authority of law,
for the purpose of paying a political parti-
zan, or one who suffers, as I conceived, a cor
rupt contract to be made to secure the influ
ence of one of the most corrupt men in the
State.
I can support no man who iB pledged to
maintain and support the present protective
tariff as the settled policy of the Democratic
party in the United States. Under these
circumstances, I would not have voted in
convention, but that I had the warrant of
Col. Iverson, and the men who elected him to
the Senate, who are all honorable men, and
the Colonel is a very honorable man.
MONDAY, JULY 2.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE
STEAM
BALTIC
SHIP
Masonic Female College.
We avail ourselves of the earliest oppor
tunity of noticing the recent commencment
exercises of this flourishing Institution. It
may be interesting to our readers to inform
them, that this Institution ia under the im
mediate guardianship and patronage of the
Masonic Grand Lodge, of this State. The j Cotton Cndtangcd—Consola Declined:
citizens of the town of Covington, first ap- |
propriated $20,000 towards the completion
of the necessary buildings, for which liberal
and truly praiseworthy donation, we are in
debted in a great measure for the existence
, ir , _ , of this noble Institution. At its last annual
lnn^pfsirion to SvIews nfThf molt th ® ^ raud ^ appropriated
self in opposition
prominent men of the Convention. They
desired a national party—I a Southern one.
The reason, perhaps, is, they had tasted the
loaves and fishes at Washington, and honed
after the flesh pots of Egypt. I had never
learned their flavor,
$2000 towards the necessities of the Insti
tution, and to the honor of the Fraternity,
five girls are maintained at the Institution
by the Grand Lodge annually. Much re
mains to be done, however, before a perma-
They said we must support our Northern ! ,,ent foundation shall be secured to the Ma
and cordially and ear-estly invite the co-opera
tion of all without party distinctions, who desire
to see them established as the true basis of the
constitutional aud just action of this government.
Beginning here and taking the resolutions teri-
allics would prove therefore a great aefran- j j n that paper, to the Rev., Richard Johnson j ded b v them from^narticinat^™ ^k hl “ ,se ' fexcI “‘
JSl£ YnTKe “5* ‘ h « -ffirmanceof the Georgia pJ^exchT °
Letter (Tom Judge J. A. Jones.
FairieKnowe, Jnne24, ’55.
To THE Editors of the Intelligencer,
| Gentief ; —I presume it is scarcely nec-
j essary for me to 1 wft ? d | pa PP ,,i . n,ed in
us witness himself, that we uttered no word while i P ot finding my letter to the
there, that wus inconsistent with them. We go i * 8Sue °f the 22d inst. I did believe
further (and this we suppose is the point at which j wou * d allow me a small space in your pa-
mr roads fork) and contend that no member of the i Plf t0 88t . m J s ®if rightly before a people,
Convention spoke or voted for any measure that i m ’ ^ lth a11 th . eir faults, I still love.—
closed the door to the union of Georgians, or that I Yo ,l C a“ d n,,t do it—the fel1 destro yer and
even looked reluctant or inhospitable while we ! UD r»- n =.? n ® tyrant, party, would not allow it.
professed a willingness to nnite,
Be it so: I
t , —i, — —— . * complain not. I mav be
OU U» prosmble 0» ZtZJTS I SSt 8 ? W~ » Ltm
friends; I replied, I was sorry we had any,
but if they would tell me how to do it, I
would willingly support them, but. it seemed
to me that their connection with us served
us little, and our sympathy was to them
a positive evil. No one would tell me how
we were to aid them, and I was perfectly
in the dark until i; was read to me, “Dem
ocratic principles and Democratic measures
on all leading questions of National policy,
involving the subjects of finance and taxa
tion (Protective Tariff) and appropriation of
money, and of constitutional power in refer
ence thereto, have become the fixed and
settled policy of the country. (The cap
itals are mine) Now, brother Democrats,
are you prepared for this? Will you, in
stead of depending on your own gallant-
hearts and your own strong arm, consent
to pay the Democrats of the North a tribute
of 40, 50 or 60,000,000 annually to aid you
to keep your own property, perish the
thought out—yes, perish the property 1 can
hold only by so base a tenure.
In 1838 or 1839 the old State Right’s
Party ran Dawson, Colquit, King, Alford,
C 1 !mper, Black, and two others whose names
I do not recollect, for Congress. Tne Union
party asked them who they intended to
support, Clay or Van Buren. The Decor-
der, at that time the organ of the State
Rights’ party, replied, we are not bound to
worship Baal or Beelzebub—that we would
have a candidate of our own, and insert the
name of Geerge M. Troup at the head of
its columns.
The State Rights ticket was elected im
mediately after the commencement of the
next session, llumor said Mr. Dawson was
to be the next speaker. Dawson, Nesbit,
Alford, King and two others, entered warm
ly into the support of Clay. I do not in
tend to say the prospect of the speakership
produced that result, hut it eertain’y is a
tempting bait in the eyes of a Southern poli
tician. Colquitt. Cooper and Black went to
Van Buren, Dawson, and his five were call
ed the faithful six—Colquitt and his, the
traitorous three. To my mind the nine dis
regarded the wishes and disappointed the
expectation of the men who elected them.
One set worshipped Baal and the other Bel-
zebub.
Harrison and Van Buren took the field ;
the Whig party North were in full vigor
unt)er their then new name (they had worn
out several) and supported Harrison ; the
States Rights party of Georgia, with a few
exceptions, supported Harrison, The Union
party of Georgia called them Whigs and
said they would coalesce and amalgamate
with the Northern Whigs. They refused
the name and scoffed the idea.
The canvass progressed—the eloction
came. Harrison was elected, and a large
majority of his friends controlled the Legis
lature of Georgia, and on the first Monday
in November the old State Rights party,
that had stood by Troup and the treaty, had
fought the Bank, the tariff, internal im
provements by Congress, and all the latitu-
djnarian acts of that body, expired. From
**-• nntenpess of thecharnel whereitwasjbu-
l “-- — ub that called itself Whig.
ried, sprung a fc . - ‘ : - „ ar ty jn Geor-
_ lhe first act of tho whig r and
gia was to endorse the U. S. ba..^,
then I quit them with the warning that their
sonie Female College. It will yet take
$100,000 to place the Institution upon such
a basis as shall place its suocess beyond all
contingency. This desirable end may be
attained, and we believe it will be, in a
short while, for the Fraternity are 10,000
strong in Georgia and its benevolence and
enlightened public spirit are equal to all
the claims that can be justly made upon it.
The classes of the last session numbered
140, and the prospects for the ensuing ses
sion, which begins on the 20th of Septem
ber next, were never brighter. We were
not so fortunate as to witness the Examina
tion of the classes, but good judges and im
partial ones assured us that as a general
thing the ordeal through which they pass
ed was highly creditable both to the Board
of Instruction and the pupils.
Wo were present at the exercises of the
junior and senior days, Tuesday and Wed
nesday last. We sincerely agree with the
criticism of Judge Dawson, and accord to
the compositions read, our hearty commen
dation. Both as to subjects, and the treat
ment of them, it was the Grand Master’s
opinion, publicly expressed, that he had
heard nothing more creditable, on any simi
lar occasion. Two things pleased us hugely
—the healthy appearance of such a large
number of young ladies, showing that
physical education was a matter of ooncern
to the faculty, and tho practical train of
thought that pervadod almost every paper
read. This latter peculiarity, was very
striking, and we venture to say that in the
forty-three subjects that were written upon
by tho two classes, dew drops—sighing
winds—humble violets, and rainbow hues,
were more sparingly divided out to us than
is usual. This was not from penury of
mind, or parsimony of taste, we feel certain,
for much could have been done in that way,
we plainly saw, if the young ladies had
thought we needed them. Out of the large
number of papers read that were good, we
may be excused for taking special notice of
the composition^ of Miss M. E. White,
Miss Ward, and Miss Delia Green. We
were deeply interested in the paper read by
Miss M. E. Garland, a Choctaw Beauty,
and the treatment of her subject, “ My
Western Home,” was exceedingly happy
and characteristic.
By the Senior Class several compositions
were read that were fully up to the average
of such productions heard in our male col
leges. We were delighted with the felicit
ous treatment of their subjects by Miss
Ray, NIias Mattie Greon and Miss Pitchlynn.
Miss Pitchlynn, we are told, is the heir ap
parent of the Choctaw Chieftainship, and
among the other sovereigns educated by the
Masonic Female College we suppose it has
* signal honor of the care of the od-
A % *•' ™ ts* * tttll MI ill L L U U J X " | « g g -
adversaries, the Union party, would occupy j llu(1 . tIUi - ‘"hie queou.
their abandoned position and beat them to ( “cation of a veriu., ‘- 1 request of the
■jo-operation of any citizen are rejected in the | Country, and high authority tells us we can
language of that preamble. So far from it, that I not serve two masters.
language is as conciliatory as a patriotic and good- I If, as I suppose, you have determined
conditioned spirit could make it. That preamble ; not to extend that courtesy to me that you
! deny to so few, plea-e send me my manu
script, that I may be indulged elsewhere
before the canvass closes. If, however, I
gay 8:
Democratic principles and Democratic measures
on all leading questions of national policy, invol
ving the subjects of finance and taxation, and am misrakpn vmi '7 ~ J*T’ t
appropriations of a oney, and of constitutional “ J r - te ” d P ubll . sh , I
power m reference thereto, have become the fixed 8U PP° 8e t snail see It in your next issue,
and settled policy of the country. The issues aud r8ceive the handbills by the next mail,
therein involved, which formerly divided South- ’ Very respectfully,
era Democrats and Whigs, no longer afford ground JOHN A. JONES
for continued separation among them. Now, other - -
questions of practical and paramount importance Fairie Kvkwf Qrh Tnno loec
are pressing upon the earnest attention of South- ! f ! WE * yt . h «J un e. 1*55.
era men, and are of such a nature as require cor- ! ,> Ge ’ liIemen :—I got home last night from
dial and fraternal concert of action among all who | . ® Lonvention and hasten to define my po-
concur in sentiment upon those questions. ! 9ition, and to place myself right before the
In view of these obvious truths, and to secure : P e<, P*® Georgia. I am aware that it is of
this concert of action, the Democratic party of consequence to any person but me, and
Georgia in Convention assembled, submit to their ' very little to me, yet I desire to do it and I
Mowing platform of principles, , ask space in your columns to gratify that
supplies from the resouees of the country,
which they have hitherto been unable to
effect. General Pellissier has told his sol-
Ledger and • Fannv Fern/ by which' the i di «' s p that wutdd receive for tl
] desire.
! went to the convention, as your Mr.
Howard knows, to endeavor to conciliate all
! parties to adjourn the convention over for
| the purpose of giving time to bring in all
I the sons of Georgia to the support and
i maintainance of our rights in the Union,
any : not in consequence of the Columbus move-
“ We believe that there a t , 1 they ha^e hiiherto ^nunabiTfc j this . T &>uth Caroli ”* f Vir ' I Wekno " *»• «^nes, ofa great man, j Zth
its ‘ ‘ t ,he re is a contract he- effect. General Pellissier has told his sol- ! g> aia ah “ ut fifteen years ago. Mr. Summer ! who once were noisy in their boasts over their han- ' • • -
tween the proprietor of the New York I dierH that ttiey WOU ld receive for
wL ,U ,T n i 'enrertafn l Tr f 'J l, l i ' i iel . ieve *''«• j lms’n«rbee.Tabie to
wi t ntu tuin the belief that the editor 1 #>*,•/
m question must be like the man in the
play : ‘ a d—d fool to pay so much for small
tbev must be in the town. But
cross the Tchernaya.—
. „ _ r --j niM.i.i , Betting on Sebastopol.—We have heard
beer when gin and water can be bad so i °f bets between sanguine subjects of Vioto-
much cheaper. j ria and non-sympathizing Americans on the
L- t , , ■ news which the Asia would briner. The
Ias T 1 kotting.-A trotting match for i English “ Bulls ” bet that the Asia would
>_ftftft. mile heats, came off on Friday last. ; bring news that the Allies were in nosses-
over the Union Course. L >ng Island, be- H * on Sebastopol. The American “Bears”
tween the gr. g. Hero, and the s. m. Poca- I L*? 1 f * lat she would not, and have won.—
bonus. The match was won by the latter j the"All™ '‘25Sd be^mpTetely triumphal
in a single heat, distancing Hero, and mak- ; in the Crimea before the first of July, and
tng the mile in 2 m. 17} a. the fastest time I the “Bears” disgusted them by offering to
■m record. The harness, wagon, and driver ! deliver ascertain quantity of foreign wine—
whighed 265 pounds. ! irrespective of the Maine Law Prohibition
- : —it the Allien should be successful within
The recent shipment from San Fran- t 11 Rftcr they first landed in the Crimea.
cisco. to Canton, of 70 cases, purporting to ! S ,,n -
conuin the remains of deceased Chinamen, j Interesting Debate.—The following sub-
are suspected, trim, their weight, to contain ; ject is proposed for debate at the meeting of
articles of war, as the rebels, it is asserted, a society at Rochester, N. Y.—“ Who have
nave, t irm:g i the agency in San Francisco, the most to fear, the uninsured from fire, or
been furnished with large snppli QS of Colt’s j the insured from the bursting of insurance
ptstok and other munitions of war of companies.
American manufacture. r
v —r 7t A Case of Poisoning.—We learn that an
Jenny Lind Goldschmit.—We copy the ■ entire family residing in the lower part of
following from a late foreign journal: ! the city, were poisoned the other day—Mrs,
‘Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmit has been [ Maic< ; tn Persons, her three children, father
the great attraction at the Musical Fes
tival of the Lower Rhine held at Dussel-
dorf. The ladies of the chorus showered
upon her boquets—trumpets were sounded
an her welcome—she was corwned with a
wreath—and the ceiling opening, a posi-
tive rain of flowers and ribbons, the latter
having imprinted upon them some nonsense
blackberry AVine, about the time Mr. Sum-1 enough to craw i un(Ur it . But we are not to
mer names, but it differs widely from the j blame for this spitefulness. We condemn it as
one pubilished in the “Mirror" and copied • narrow patriotism, and as a scurvy political mor-
into your paper. I subjoin it for the ben- | ality. Then what is there now in the glorious,
efit of any one, who may be disposed to i l ^ e bloody 4th. to repel any one from our ranks?—
indulge in a cheap, wholesome, and delici- ' J 1 before this been regarde 1 a mighty
' cions lieveraTe I br0ad an< ! a mo8t beautiful P ,ank - What now is the
“To every 8 gallon of juice pressed with I matterw,th lt? Who objects to the 3d resolution
the hand from ripe berries, add one quart
of clear water, aud three pouuds of good
Brown Sugar ; mix well, and put into tubs,
at the end of thirty hours skim and put
into barrels, or jugs with slack cords.—
When it is ten months old, pour the wine
off carefully, bottle, and cork tight; in a
few months it will be fit for use.
At the time when the above receipt was
copied, it was very popular in Virginia ;
of the series that approves the Kansas Bill to the
5th that only ranks next in our mind to the bloody
4th, and the retaliation resolve. Here in this 5th
resolution is a Catholicity not limited by State
bounds, but is as bread as this great country. And
so we might go on to the last word to the last let
ter of the programme. But we exclude Know
Nothings! We 1 what could we do else ? Such
recruits we imagined—we rather thought—would
ba like the one the soldier captured. He was told
to bring him in, but the reply was, “he won’t
and wine made by it had received the first come -” “Then do yon come yourself!” But the
jdemiums at large agricultural exhibitions. ] honest fellow admited that his captive would not
Atlanta Juu» 27 1855.
TESTIS.
” g “ *•
and sister. A negro woman, the cook, be
long to Mr. John Walker, is strongly sus
pected. At last accounts three of tne fam-
jly were better; two are still dangerously
negro bad runaway.—(ftlumbus
Times, 21th.
A demonstration was made the other day
against the American Hotel, in K«»fi* city,
and the landlord’e wife appeared and offered
to fight the whole erewd.
The late Legislature of Massachusetts did
not actually abolish imprisonment for debt,
but it did what iB nearly the same thing.—
Among the laws passed, it is stated, was a
homestead exemption, which secures to ev
ery one (who can first get it) an estate of
the value of $800. Another law exempts
personal property of the value of $500 from
seizure. A third secures a man’s imple
ments or tools from the law’s clutch, and
let him, for he teas a Tartar. Pray, so long as a
Know Nothing was fastened to the long chain that
encircled every Lodge in the Union, how could he
act with us or for us ? Indeed it would have been
a beautiful piece of machinery, (this wheel within
a wheel,) too carious in its complexity to have
been of any account on the earth. We have said
before that the Nationality of a Know Nothing
utterly destroyed h<s independence and as a Know
Nothing, he could act with no party ""i^r
action met the sanction of bis order, so long as an
oath was a bond upon n man of honor. At least
this is supposed to cover the libraries of .
lawyers and scholars as well as the adzes j so far ns we are informed. Appropos of sm t _'
and squares and planes of oarpsntsrs. The our friend repeat* what has in every ahep* of
trustee process for $11 rams under $50 has , iteration gone the Know Nothing reaadathst
ako boon alyllehed. gome other measures j knowing npthing of the principles of the order,
of $ kuaiMiluiaoter ware peaeM. he sea say setkiag—he should say MtUng. Bint
... absolutely
rabid on the subject of Know Nuthingism.
and because I attempted to allay the storm,
I was killed off on Monday evening by hav
ing it circulated that I was a member of the
Order. I took little pains to contradict it,
because I knew that those who knew me,
and for whose favorable opinion I cared,
would know that I was one of tbe last men
in Georgia to go blindfold into any engage
ment, or bind myself to obey the behest of
any man or set of men. To me it is of
very little consequence what strangers think
of my political opinions or associations.
This much, however, permit me to say, I
have neither sympathy or antipathy to the
Southern Know Nothings. Simply, because
I know nothing about them. When I am
rightly informed what they are, it will be
time enough to take a position with regard
to them, and I shall do it without caringone
straw who they are. One thing I can be
sure of, that I will not find them more sel
fish. or less patriotic than the leaders of the
onslaught upon them.
I found I was killed off, and that it was
useless for me to attempt to do anything
which I thought would benefit the country.
I determined, however, to move the post
ponement of a nomination in accordance
with what I believed my duty, and should
have done so, but for a letter of Col. Hines
Holt, published in one of the Columbus
papers.
I made one or two attempts to amend (or
alter perhaps I should say) the resolution
in the committee of 24, and found it vain,
I moved m convention, to strike out the reso
lution approving the administration of Gov
ernor Johnson, not because I expected to
carry it but to pat myself right before the
pMfMhRhoIwM detemlned ihosld not
death. A short time found mo in line with
the Union party, under the name of Demo
crats. battling as I had always doneagainst
tbe Bank, the Tariff and Internal Improve
ment. Up to the 5th of June 1855, at which
time they agreed to surrender at discretion
to their Northern friends, and have consent
ed to consider the Protective Tariff, as the
settled policy of the Government, in the
hands of the Democratic party. A tariff
more odious by protection than any that
has proceeded it, inasmuch as it raises mil
lions for which the Government has no use
and which is merely employed for purposes
of corruption.
Under these circumstances I felt compell
ed to cease for a season to struggle and strive
in the political field. I cannot support a
tariff man or a tariff party. I prefer Abo
litionism, with all its hidcousness, to a state
of tributary vassalage, and will alone fight
the point to the death in all its deformities,
and fall fighting, before I will consent to
escape it on the ba-~e terms indicated ; and
I will join any Southern party with an hun
dred faults for the chance of dying as my
father died—a freeman, disinthralled from
tributary vassalage.
I part with my old friends with more re- l
grets than 1 had believed I should feel for
the dissolution of any political ties, after
the melancholy dissolution of nearer and
dearer ties which I have experienced.—
However, what cannot he cured must be
endured, and I trust I shall at all times be
able to endure all the ills that flesh is heir
to, and endure them as a man and as a free
man. I cannot bow down to a heartless and
corrupt Oligarch. I cannot willingly and
voluntarily submit to a state of tributary
In parting with my old friends by stop
ping short while they press onward to the
support and maintainance of Mr. Clay’s
American system, (which helped to crush
the whigs) I feel the less regret. I have
asked little from the party, I have received
less. It has never held out the helping hand
or the encouraging smile to me or mine, no
matter how furiously the adverse storm
raged around me, and we have heard it howl
and felt its pelting unawed and unsubdued.
Nq hardships or neglect could shake our
principles, and nothing but au act of felo
de se could detach us from the party that
professed them.
We can exclaim with the Grasme—
“ Tell Roderick Dhu I owe him nought.
Not even the favor of a boat,
To waft me to the further shore.”
I am fellow citizens, very respectfully,
your obedient servant.
JOHN A. JONES.
19* General Sam Houston delivered a
speech at Houston, Texas, on the 8th inst,
in which ho took occasion to rail at the Ne
braska bill, and also to fire a few random
shots at President Pierce. The General
said it was his intention to retire into pri
vate life.
Writing tor Instructions.—Hon. J. Y.
Mason, U. S. Minister to France, has writ
ten to the Government for instructions re
lative to some infringements of the rigkts
of neutrals, by the British fleet in the Bal-
tie.
Judge Dawson, by specie. * style,
Class, extemporised, in his happiest. .
one of his characteristic speeches. But
much ot bis admirable advice to the young
ladies will not be appreciated till it is rath
er late to be of practical individual benefit.
For young ladies have a way of discussing
marriage by the lights of instruction, and
they think any body's experience bnt their
own much to be distrusted.
The address of Dr. Means was well re
ceived, and the speech of Proffessor Sass-
nott was not, only by a minority of the au
dience. We were in that minority, and we
now speak what we earnestly believe, that
there was more of profound truth—more of
honest fearless exposure of popular error in
that address than in all the addresses on fe
male education we ever heard. That speech
was an honor to the occasion that evoked it,
and it s'tould by all means be given to the
public. Our friend Sassnett, however, is
not in tbe habit of hutching any thing he
takes in hand, he is bullion every inch of
him. AV e shall watch the progress of the
Masonic Female College with great interest,
and it has our most earnest wishes that it
may realize the hopes of its founders and
friends.
Exemption of the Fourth.—The New
York Liquor Law was to go into operation
on the Fourth of July; but it is now, under
stood that the Mayor would not enforce until
the fifth. It seems that Mr. Wood has been
advised by the legal officers of the corpora
tion that the law has no bearing what
ever on imported liquors, and that he con
sequently designed enforcing it as against
tho sale of American wines and liquors only.
Which though it may affect the pockets of
American producers, will make but little
difference, indeed, in the quantity of wines
and liquors consumed in the city of New
York.
Tbe Memphis Appeal says that Col. Gent
ry, Knov Nothing candidate for Governor
ot Tenn ee, admitted and boasted in a
recent Si • * eh that he was the only member
from thu state who voted for the abolition
of slavery in tbe District of Columbia.
Fire in Macon.—We learn that a fire
broke out in Macon, on Wednesday night,
about 8 o’clock, in a bnck building known
as Rolston’s, on Third street, and occupied
as a grocery store. The fire was discovered
in the cellar, and was extinguished before
much damage was done.
Tremendous Rains.—The Eatonton Press
states that very heavy rains have fallen in
Putnam county. Low grounds com and
cotton have been injured, and in many in
stances rained. Some persons have aban
doned the cultivation of their low grounds.
The railroad between and
Biver has received considerable damages-
New Orleans, June 28.
The Amerioan steamship Haiti;, with
Liverpool dates to the 16th inst., arrived at
New York to-day, with seven days later
dates than those brought by the Asia.
Liverpool Cotton Market
Since the departure of the Asia, on the
9th inst., the Liverpool Cotton Market has
remained unchanged. Tbe sales for the
week were 39,000 bales.
Provisions.—Wheat has declined 4s.;
flour, 2s.; and corn? 2s.
London Money Market.—Consols have
declined, and closed at 91}.
Progress of the War.
The capture of tbe Mamelon and White
Towers by the Allies is confirmed. The
Allies have obtained further successes, and
have bombarded Azoff and Taganrog.
Lstti from Havana.
New Orleans, June 29.—Tho steamer
Crescent City has arrived from Havana with
dates to the 28th inst. Her news is unim
portant. Sugars firm and unchanged.
The Steamship Isabel bas also arrived at
Charleston with dates to the 25th. No
news of importance.
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, June 28.— Brazos dates to
the 21st state that all towns in Tamaulipas
and Nueva Leon, except Matamoras, Rey-
nosa and Camargo, have pronounced in fa
vor of the Revolution, without blood.
The Crescent City has arrived, with Ha
vana dates to the 25th inst. News unim
portant. Sugar firm and unchanged.
Additional Foreign Newt.
Neai York, June 28—The London Times
of June 16th, says it is impossible that Se
bastopol can hold out much longer, owing
to tho supplies being cut off by the capture
of Kertch.
It is thought that the force under Gen.
Biowne would return and joiu the force
East of Balaklava.
Parliament had adopted a proposition for
a decimal coinage of cents and wills, hun
dredths and thousandths part of a pound.
The b’mpress Eugenie, it has been for
mally announced, is enciente.
Spain.—The insurrection has been sup
pressed. A hand of seventy mon had left
Pampeluna for the French frontier to pro
cure arms. The Madrid and Paris mails
had been burned by the insurgents, who
had been arrested and placed in the Bastile.
A movement in Catalonia is apprehended.
The Cortes have rejected the proposition
censuring the Ministry.
The King of Sardinia will visit London
to negotiate.
The aasassination of Cardinal Antenette
was attempted. The assassin was arrested.
Mr. Fillmore had beeu presented, and
subsequently dined with Queen Victoria.
Philadelpai, June 29.
A salute of one hundred guns was tired
yesterday at Chicago, to celebrate the de
defeat of the prohibitory liquor law in Illi
nois.
At midnight on Wednesday, a heavy shock
of earthquake occurred at Baltimore, which
was felt for many miles around the coun
try. Many persons, aroused from their bed
in alarm, ran out into tho streets, and were
afraid to return to their houses.
President Pierce and lady are sojourning
at Capo May.
The Massachusetts State Council of
Know Nothings met yesterday iu BostoD,
and resolved to hold its sossions with open
Last evening a ratification meeting
do 0ia u; «h resolutions were passed
was held, at wu.. ~ seceder* from
commending the course .
the National Council.
A U. S. Grand .Jury in New York has
indicted six persons for enlisting men for
the British service in the Crimea.
Advices from New Mexico say that on
the 29th the U. S. troops under Col. Faunt-
leroy, attacked the camp of the Utahs, 20
miles north of the Brencha pass, killed 40
took six prisoners, and captured their camp
equipage, horses, sheep and provisions. On
the 1st of May the same command attacked
another camp of the Utahs, killed two men.
wounded four, captured the chief, and took
all their horses, provisions, &c.
The Ocean Telegraph.—St. Johns (N.
F.) papers received by the Asia, contain the
following, showing the progress making by
the New York, New Foundland and Lon
don Telegraph Company:
The New York, New Foundland and
London Telegraph Company’s steamer Vic
toria had returned to St.Johns, having been
engaged in transporting laborers and sup
plies to Bay Despair, and oilier places on
the telegraphic line where the work was to
be resumed. Two hundred men have been
left there with six week’s provisions, and
the Victoria, after having received some
slight repairs, would leave with additional
men for the line. The St. John’s papers
are sanguine that this great work will be
speedily accomplished. The Victoria also
brought cheering accounts of the fishery
from all parts of the coast where she had
visited.
Rise in the Chattahoochee.—The late
rains have bad a sensible effect upon our
River says the Advertiser, which on Sunday,
24th, had risen over three feet, and enabled
two boats—the Oswichee and General Stokes
—to reach their wharves on that day. We
understand they brought full freights. We
fear that the favorable state of things is
destined to be but temporary, as the river
commenced falling again on Monday.
Railroad building in Michigan meets
with obstacles nearly as great as those en
countered in billy countries, but of a reverse
character. Tbe Michigan papers state that
on the line of several roads through that
State, marshes are found whose bottoms
seem to have fallen ont, so infinite is their
capacity for the reception of soil thrown in
to make a solid roadway. Several marshes
over which railroeds were built, have sunk,
occasioning much loss of time and money to
the railroad companies.
_ Professor Stuart once said to his
class, that when he began his ministry
be used to find many texts where he
thought he oould improve the rendering,
and so altered King James. Some fifteen
yean later, be found lees occasion to alter
and now, at the end of thirty years' study'
hs oould only admire the excellence of our
oommoD version, and seldom attempted to.
improve a verse. r