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Newspaper Page TextitfafeltaiiMis. roR tub wnnisMXT plKsb; Mr. Editor:— -About six weeks ago, T v, Vote n short article for the Indc pciicLmt Press, under the bead of -« 'Si range' Theological Distinctions.’* — m the press of Jnst week I noticed a ; v:o that article from the Re>\ Mr. ‘Wilkes, in which, he makes several very unjust charges against me. To justify' myself of these charges then, is {he main object of this rejoinder, which vou will please publish in your next .i-sue. The first charge Mr. Wilkes makes, is, that I have “assailed him.” Toes lie know the meaning of this :n, when used in the connection in Th he employs it? In this sense, ways means “to make an attack on Tee v ith argument, censure, abuse, or ism with a view to injure.” Now m Mr. Wilkes show that 1 have made su T an attack on him in any part of my article? By no means. True, I alluded to his sermon—to its strange and istinctions and seeming contradictions; but does it follow from this, that 1 as- j sailed him ? It is certainly a marvel- ■ ous doctrine, that a man must be pub-' i shed as an assailant, simply because! i'.e alludes in a public manner to a ser- | mon, and asks a “little more light” up u its mysterious doctrines. In this \ Ten, it is manifest that Mr. Wilkes ■ has done me injustice. I will forgive him however, on condition that he nev r again uses the word assail without ) revocation. The second charge, is, that I have ‘sought to throw odium upon the doc rin sos Grace, and contempt upon the Baptist denomination.” On what grounds these allegations rest, I am at a loss to know ; I do know, however, that the)' are wholly untrue. What does Mr. Wilkes mean by the “ doe rines of Grace ?” If he means an y of lie doctrines of the Gospel, though I might differ with him as to their true Import, I nevertheless trust, that I have as much faith in, and reverence for, .hern, as lie has, and hope, they may suffer as little in my hands as in his own, minister though he be. Those referred to in my article were uncon ditional election, predestination, condi tional salvation, atonement, and re demption. Now I defy Mr. Wilkes to show that I have spoken of any of these with the slightest disrespect.— Where thou have I sought to throw ditttn on the doctins of Grace ? I .Oli ver no where. unless a mere dissent mom Mr. Wilkes’ opinion of them, •ould be so considered. The second art ot the charge is as groundless as first. The Baptist Church is men but once by name, and but once | 10 in the whole of my article: 1 way of designating the do- ! n to which Mr. W. belonged, j hUv. bv an intimation that ! ■ ■>{ oil that occasion, make a <1 'ejaration of his own faith, or hat of ins church, which was honestly ’ ■ii'ived to be Culvinistic. But I have yet to learn that in attributing Calvin* istic sentiments to the Baptist church I *a vc been guilty of treating them with contempt. The charge, then, is entire ly gratuitous, and made I fear with the Intention of awaking the sympathies, md enlisting the feelings and prejudi ce of his brethren. Mr. Wilkes is a bolster of the Gospel; how he can •■•eoncile it with his holy calling to '"dec such uncharitable and ground -1 \ss imputations against me, I shall . ave for my readers to determine. His third charge is, that I have "di rectly, positively, and wantonly mis represented him, his people, and their sentiments." If my readers had not already a fair specimen of the heed* s manner with which die deals his ‘ pithets, I should have cause to trem ble under the weight of those contain ’d in the above allegation. But seri ously, I regard them ns most grievous and unjust; and but for his personal ities. I might not have given any at 'ion whatever to his unmanly re* .by. I low have I misrepresented him? i \ tve I done so by saying that he pub lished from the pulpit his belief in the doctrines of unconditional election and ■ondititmal salvation ? Certainly not; for he admits, he did this, intimating bis belief in the former, and arguing at some length in defence of the latter doctrine. Did I misrepresent him in stating that he declared the atonement to be general and the redemption par ticular? Surely not; for ho not only ad mits this, but fully one-third pf his reply was written in its defence, A»d ye't, strange as it may appear, these, contain all that is anywhere attributed to Mr. Wilkes, ns 1 laving been said by him on that maamon. What than be comes of my “direct, positive, and wanton misrepresentation of him, &e. t ” and wherein does it consist ? He tells us that it consists in alleging that he said “God did of Ilia own sovereign vill. without any reference to their character or conduct, elect and predes tinate ascertain number of the human family to eternal life/' How I |po#i •fivfr!y deny having road# r<;yh al legation. True I used these vWf words; but Ino where attribute them to Mr. Wilkes.- They arc my own, and contain the true definition of un conditional election, as held and defin ed by the most eminent calv’lhistic writers. It is clear then that I have not misrepresented Mr. Wilkes by at tributing those words to him, nor his people, unless they have deviated from the ancient Oalvinistie faith, which I had no reason to suppose to be the fact when I pound the article. If, however, they have recanted that heresy, and have adopted in its place “moderate Calvinism,” none will be found more ready than myself to make the “amende honorable”, when it is demonstrated that there is any substantial difference between the two systems. Having thus shown the groundless nature of the charges contained in Mr. Wilkes’ reply, and the little occasion there was’for the use of the opprobrious epithets heaped on with so much pro fusion, not to say recklessness ; I may content myself to pass without com ment the false insinuations—contempt uous and impious allusions which he has seen fit to impute to me, not fear ing but they will go for their full val ue. Having found it. necessary to occu py so much space in defending myself against that portion of Mr. Wilkes’ re ply, which I consider personal and of. fensive, it might not be proper to tres pass further on your columns at pre sent, by examining the points of doc trine contained in his article. This I reserve for another communication, which, with your permission, will ap pear in your next issue. DID Y MI'S. Eatonlon, Nov. Bth, 1854. Bon. Solon Borland. A FIRST RATE NOTICE. The N. Y. Herald , after copying some advertisements from an Arkan sas paper, in which Dr. Borland ap pears as a vender of drugs, and a prac titioner of medicine, thus discourses: Now these advertisements furnish us a most striking illustration of the beauti ful, simplicity and flexibility of our re publican institutions. It is but one il lustration of a thousand. But com ing in just now, when so many decay ed politicians are thrown off the track, or are laid upon the shelf, this case is particularly refreshing and full of en couragement. Let us look at it. Hon. Solon Borland in the outset re moved from Virginia to Arkansas, and commenced his career in the useful and honorable vocation of a regular physi cian. Becoming popular, he became a politician, and was rapidly advancing as such when the war broke out with Mexico. Thereupon, fired with mili tary ardor, he volunteered in the en listment of volunteers and “marched to the battle field” with the column of Gen. Wool. A few days before the battle of Buena Vista, being, with an advanced detachment of cavalry, tak en prisoner by the Mexicans, Major Borland was marched off to the city of Mexico with his force, as prisoners of war. Major Gaines and Captain Cassius M. Clay, ofKentucky, with an other cavalry detachment, were also taken at the same time and place, and sent off to the same destination. A single prisoner, Captain Dan Drake Henrie, in a bold dash through the Mexican lines, after much peril and suf fering, effected his escape to the camp of Gen Taylor, who, being thus inform ed of the rapid advance of Santa An na was enabled to put himself in the splendid defensive position of Buena Vista, and thus he “saved the day.” Major Borland, Major Gaines, and their fellow prisoners, were relieved with the conquest of the city of Mex ico by Gen. Scott, and returned home with their full share of the honors of the war. With a livel y sense of grat itude for 'nis services in the tented field, Major Borland, by the democracy of the Arkansas Legislature, was returned to the Senate of the United States and had two years of’an unexpired term yet remaining, when he was appointed by President Pierce, (perhaps on aoountof his military recollection efthe Major,) Governor of New Mexico. But, upon reflection, the Major concluded that Santa Fe was too far removed from the white settlements, and so he declined the place. llc was then appointed, un der a sort of gencial roving commis sion established by Congress, Minister to the States of Central America, sev erally or collectively, as circumstances might require. This office he accepted, anti after defining in the Senate His ul tra Young American position on the Monroe doctrine, he went down to en- ter into the knotty diplomacy of Ni caragua and the Mosquito kingdom.— Ilis active career in thiscapa ious field for an enterprising diplomat , begining with the shooting by Captain Smith of that unfortunate mulatto in hisbunga lo, was victoriously terminated in the magnificent bombardment and storm ing and burning of Grey town. With this crowning achievinent Ma jor -Borland was content to rest upon his military, senatorial and diplomatic achieyrnents, and accordingly he re signed Ida Central Arncricau commis sion, tookapartingdinuer at the White House, and after a long conversation with Mnrey on the affairs of Grey town, he returned to Arkansas, re-opened the practice of medicine, and is now com fortably established in business in a “new drug store" at Little Hock.— And, wo repeat it, and are proud to repeat it, that this example is but one of a thousand or ten thousand of the beau tiful simplicity, elasticity and flexibil ity of our benficeufc institutions,— W ithout recurring to the early fathers of the Republic, a return to the hon est industrial pursuits of private life h&vbcon the yule, and not fjje occasion- ' td Exception, among our grout statemen. Old Hickory&nt the Hermitage, Clay and Webster among-their Tine cattle, Van Buron among his potatoes and cabbages, are prominent examples.— Captain Tyler, returning, from the of fice of President of the United States to the superintendence, of a country road in Virginia, is si so aUstriking ex ample in the premises- There is nothing wonderful, there fore, in Major Borland retiring from the mission to Central America and opening a. “hew drug store” at Littb Rock, in Arkansas. Regularly educa ted as a physician, and having had much experiance in this noble profes sion, we are inclined to think that the Major, as a doctor and a druggist, may render more useful services to the pub lic than he has rendered as senator, mil itary chicftian, or ambassador, or in all these capacities combined, includ ing even the muss and the fuss and the bombardment of Greytown. In this view we gratuitously give his adver tisements the benefit of our world-wide circulation, and recommeud Dr. Bor land and his “new drug store” to the patronage of the citizens of Little Rock and the public generally. And this is what we should eall “a first rate no tice.” Treaty Between - the United States and Russia. —The Union pub lishes officially the treaty recently made beetween Secretary Marcy, on behalf of our government, and Mr. Ed ward do Stoeckl, the Russian charge d’Affairs, on behalf of Russia. The two high contracting parties recognize as permanent and immutable the fol lowing principles to wit: Ist. That free ships make free goods tluit is to say, that effects or goods be longing to the subjects or citizens of a power or State at war are free from capture or confiscation when found on board of neutral vessels, with the ex ception of articles contraband of war. 2d. That the property of neutrals on board an enemy’s vessel is not sub ject to confiscation, unless the same be contraband of war. They engage to apply these principles to the commerce and navigation of all such powers and States as shall consent to adopt them on their part as permanent and immu table. By another article the contending parties reserved themselves to come to an ulterior understanding as circum stances may require, with regard to the application and extension to be given, if there be any cause for it, to the principles laid down in the first ar ticle. But they declare from this lime that they will take the stipulations con tained in said article Ist as a rule when ever it shall become a question, to judge of the rights of neutrality. Putnam on Slavery. —Mr. G. P. Putnam is industriously writing down his Magazine in the South. In the last number lie characterizes slavery in these words: From its very nature it is a dispotism of force, of law, and of opinion combined—partially mitigat ed in practice by human personal con sideration, but in theory absolute.— It is administered for the most part by the whip; it is sanctioned by legisla tion ; and it admits of no scrutiny 'or discussion. All that can be said of it in the regions where it prevails, even by those most deeply interested in its result, must be said in its favor on pain of peremptory banishment or assassina tion.” If all Northern periodicals would speak in this spirit, there would be some hope of Southern literature. We are glad to learn from the book sellers here that Putnam is rapidly vanishig from the market. The void should be supplied by the Southern Quarterly Review, the ablest periodi cal in the country. —Richmond En quirer. Copper Mines. —The Copper Mines of this county, East of this are being prosecuted with energy. In conse quence of the heavy volumn of water flowing from the lead, the operators were forced to change their mode of operation, in a few weeks this obstacle will be removed, when ore rich and rare will be taken out in abundance. We learn that Mr. Gray from Duck Town visit ed these mines last week, and speaks of them in the most flattering terms. — Mr. Gray, we learn has thirty years experience in the Cornwall mines and is regarded by far the most practical miner in Duck Town.— Dah. /Signal. The Fashions. —The New York Times gives the following as the fall “agonies” for 1854: “The fall fashions for gentlemen make a sensation. Hats have a fringe that reminds you of the eyes of the horned owl, and coats have changed into long-tail surtouts —very nice in themselves, but such articles as a Broadway exquisite would have made merry over last year. Tailors and hatters have conspired together, and the results arc funny. The young ‘bucks’are conspicuous objects, just now.” The New York .Evenin'/ Post pub lishes the project of an important scheme for the promotion of emigra tion from the United States. The terms, which are fully stated in the letter from the Sydney house, of Bier & Lowe, contemplate the accommoda tion of poor persons who are healthy, but have not money to pay their pas sage. They arc to enter into an agree ment to work out their passage money when they reach Sydney, the Council of the Colony having passed a law de signed to enforce such contracts strict ly- Dunsby says, ‘ the reason why the ladies wear such small bonnets is a just idea that, ladies have of making na ture and art correspond; having noth ing inside of their heads, they have put as near nothing as possible outside.— What ft vile perpetration J In lieu of attaching 1 JtJsq/ to men’s names now, the letters IS, IV are pub stitutedj signifying PumkitW Tiie Mail Difficulties.—*- I The CliarleHoii Mercury remarking on the difficulty between the Post Office De partment and the South Carolina Rail- Road Company, in consequence of which the mail transportation was re cently interrupted for several days, says, the Postmaster of Charleston) un der proper authority, made a tempo rary arrangement for ten days to al low of some remedy being devised. — The time expires on Monday, and as far as we can learn, it has. been abso lutely fruitless of result. We cannot find even that any attempt has been made to devise a remedy. An agent of the Department, authorised to set tle all the difficulties, was confidently expected to come here, —we under stood, indeed, was promised. No such agent has been sent, and the time is now too short to allow us to hope that matters can be arranged so as to pre vent another disruption of mail con veyance. The prospect is provoking ly bad, and we feel unmistakably the sensation of being victimized. President of tiie Senate. —lt is reported that Mr. Atchison, of Missou ri, President ‘pro (cm. of the United States Senate, will be absent from his post during the approaching session.— His term is about to expire, and in the contest for refilling his place he desires to be on the ground to light Benton and the Bentonites, who are resolved upon his defeat. Upon this point we have only to say that if Mr. At chison cannot be at his post at the next session of Congress, according to his contract, he ought to resign at once, or a substitute should be ap pointed in his place. Every friend of the constitutional rights of the South, of cither house, will be wan ted at the approaching session of Con gress.— A r . Y. Herald. Tiib Telegraph vs. Type. —lt ap pears that the types are not the only medium of communication that can mystify men’s thoughts and make them say queer and unintelligible things. The telegraph sometimes tries its hand in that way ; and if we might judge by the success of a recent effort wc should say that already, it has had considerable practice in tiie blundering line. Here’s a specimen : a despatch comprising the words “ Come Home all safe,” v as on its pas sage recently, metamorphosed into “ Coal Hole all safe.” That beats our “ old Harry” all Iloilow. The Battle of Petroiiaulous- KI. —The English and French fleet in the Pacific had attacked the Russian fortress of Betrohaulouski, and been repulsed with loss. The California pa pers have tie details of the battle of Betrohaulouski. It is a Russian for tress of 120 guns and garrisoned by 1800 troops. It was attacked by six of the allied ships, and several of the forts having been silenced, the assail ants landed, but fell into an ambush and were forced to retire, having sus tained a terrible loss. Two Russian frigates were damaged, and two small er ones captured after this affair. Health of St. Mary’s.—A physi cian writing under date of the Bth inst. from StMary’sGa., says: The epidemic which nas visited so many of the sea board cities and towns and which has been so severely felt here, has, I hope, nearly ended. "We have had no new cases of yellow fever, at least I have had none in my practice for a week past. The deaths since the 10th of September from all diseases, in this place are twenty eight white and seven blacks ; total 85 so far. We have suffered sadly for want of nurses and nourishment-. The stoppage of the steamboats prevented our obtaining necessary supplies from your city, aid we had no other resort. It is to be hoped that the darkest hours are past. The British Fund.— The British community of New Y ork have made a spirited demonstration for the benefit of the widows and or phans of soldiers, seamen, and marines of the British service employed in the war against Russia. The reception of eighteen subsriptions of SIOO each, sev enty of SSO, and a like number of $25 each, are ackowlodged from the resi dents of New York. Advices from Washington state, that our government will shortly issue a treaty circular, providing for the admission of the produce of Canada, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, on the same terms as recently established respecting colonial fish. An Atrocious Act.—The authori ties of Philadelphia are investigating a horrible case of infanticide. A wo man has been arrested who confesses to having murdered live of her chil dren. The Irish Apostle of Temper ance.—Late London papers report that Father Mathew arrived in that city from Cork, on his route to Madei ra, whither he was going for the bene fit, of his health. The accounts state that the Rev. gentleman, although much broken down by the painful dis ease under which he has 70 long suffer ed, lacks not the cheers ul spirits for which he was remarkable. It is to be hoped that the sunny clime to which he goes may contribute to the restoration of his health. Father Mathew is not the first individual in the world who lias sought and found relief in Madei ra, A Gentleman playing whist with an intimate friend, who seemed as far as hands wore concerned, to hold the Ma hommedan doctrine of ablution in su preme contempt, said to him with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger, I My good fellow, if dirt, were trumps, what a hand you would have!’ Thomas F. Meagher has accepted the invitation of the Meager Guards of Charleston to deliver in that city a 1 cture in behal sos the Ladies Calh un Monument Association. The Mercury in announingMr. Meagher’s acceptance says—The subject is one likely to call forth the finest powers of this distin* guishccforhlor, for lie is not likely to for get that in paying due homage to the memory of Carolina’s Great Statesman, he is also contributing to ennoble the memory of thesonofonewho like him self fled from the oppressions of the Old World to the shelter of the New. Ire land and South Carolina have a com mon interest m perpetuating and hon oring the genius of John C. Calhoun, and Andrew Jackson. INDEPENDENT PRESS. “ Without Feur, Favor or Affection.” EATONTON, GA. SATURDAY MORNING, ITOY. 18,1854. Printers Wanted. Two good compositors and pressmen are wanted at this office immediately, to be paid by the thousand m’s. None need apply who are in the habit of using intoxicating liquors. Nov. 18th, 1854. Gov- Johnson, &c- The editors are beginning to stir up his Excellen cy, and his Excellency is beginning to stir up other folks. One paper stirred him up to turn out some of tho Whigs and Know Nothings on the State Road, and his Excellency's ire fell upon a Mr. McPherson, a petty clerk on said road, who, it is stated, loaded that he hissed his Excellency in the campaign last fill. The sin seems to have been, not that ho made a goose or an adder of himself but that ho boasted ot it. Now look out Mr. Mc- Pherson, next time, how you come a bragging round me! Just you do, now! And Pll tell ma, too! But Mr. McPherson lias proved that lie did not hiss, or brag, whereupon ho is reinstated, although lie confesses to Know Nothingism. The Cherokee Georgian says, “Events are about to verify tho truthfulness of all we said of tho lion. 11. V. Johnson in 1853. We described him as a man of superficial intellect, remarkable in nothing but demagogueisin.” Tut, tut! Mr. Georgian! You should open your batteries against some weaker point than the Gov ernor’s intellect, unless you wish to show how des perate you can be. And then, Johnson is not a demagogue, tho' you seem to think so. He neve r panders to the prejudices of the populace. If ho panders to any prejudice, it is his own. The Chero kee Georgian must try again, unless it is determin to go it blind. The Southern Recorder, because it lives within good smelling distance of tho public crib, becomes exceedingly ferocious, and growls savagely because it does not have thrown it occasionally, a bone to pick. Nay, more than this, it soi.-.etimes sees a morsol to which it considers itself entitled, thrown over its head to some more favored expectant. — This is the uukindest cut of all. Hence the Record er cannot be quiet. To offset its ferocity, however the Federal Union, as in duty bound, (faring sumpt uously every day—vide the public printing,) com es to the rescue, as the Recorder thinks, “by auth ority.” Then there are various other papers that complain, or defend, just as they receive, or do not receive executive patronage. The contest is waxing hot, and in it we see the germs of an opening gubernatorial canvass. People of Georgia, keep your eyes open—keep wide awake ■ —be on tho alert—for you will soon be called up on to decide the most momentous issues—issues up on which depend tho weal or the woof this great country—issues vital to tho safety of your homes, your firesides, and your sacred honor, to wit: wheth er a man shall hiss Governor Johnson, and then boast of it—and who shall have the public printing. General Pierce- The president is an unfortunate man, rather than a bad one. We believe that all the abolition ex citement at tho North is attributable to bis mis taken policy, but not to his anti-slavery feeling.— Wo think that if he had based bis administration upon the living principle which elected him, by appointing to office those who agreed with him in principle, instead of those who differed with him, he would now be a popular man, good for another term, and the country would have peace upon sec tional issues. Tut Pierce is now politically dead, and his feelings must be akin to those of the wound ed eagle who feels in his bosom the shaft to which his own pinion lent a plume. “So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart. And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, lie nursed the pinion which impelled tho steel; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, Drank the last life-drop ol his bleeding breast.” But we commenced this article merely to give our readers an extract from the National Era, an abolition journal, to lot them see what abolitionists say of tho president. Wc wish to give them light on all sides. Hero is the extract: “Putting aside the influence of Kuow-Nothing isni, the political revolution which has been accom plished in the free States is the work of a combina tion of Whigs, Free Democrats, and members of the Democratic Party disgusted by ihc pro-slavery policy of the Administration.” Cau beat us Cussin’. The Times and Sentinel reminds us of a scene wo once witnessed between two school-boys by the name of Jack and Bill. Jack mot Bill one morning, and proposed a gamo of marbles. Bill acquiesced, and beat Jack playing. Next, Jack proposed a game at ball, and was beaten at that. Then fol lowed racing, wrestling, and several other things, in all of which Jack was badly beaten. Lust of all, Jack feeling that bis reputation was at stake, roso upon tip-toe, and said : “Well Bill, I know what I can do—damned it I can’t beat you cussin’.” Bill declined the test, and Jack took unto himself some degree of consolation. Thus may tho Times and Sentinel console itself) at being beaten at every gamo it has proposed, except enssiu’, when it tells us wo are engaged in a “dom small business." Aud, by tho way, sinco our cotemporary puts a proper estimate upon itself by telling any one who engages in showing up its errors, that ho is engag ed in a “dom small business,” we can't find it in our heart to dissent from its conclusion, and quit the “dem small business.” Will our cotemporary try again, or ‘'give it up so ?" Gcu. Cuss. Wo publish in to-day’s paper an extract from the CasuviUe Standard in delVnoo of this veteran states man against the rabid attacks of \hv> Richmond En quirer. We have noticed with pleasure that the Standard and Federal Union are not disposed to be unleashed against the old hero. Seme of the Whig prints too —tho Albany Courier tor instance—rare speaking out in opposition to the insane policy of the Enquirer . “A Teaehct.” We publish this week another communication from “A Teacher,” upon the subject of female col. leges, and if any answer were necessary, the arti. ole bears with it its own antidote. The great error of our modest correspondent, around which cluster all his other errors, is that he considers himself fe male colleges, and female colleges himself. Hence when anything is said about these institutions, he looks upon it as an attack upon “A Teacher. This is the only ground he has for saying wc “virtually accused him of being engaged in perpetrating on evil.” We commend him to a rigid self-examiua tien upon this point. ■ When we commenced this article, our intention was to indite but a line. But “ A Teacher s communication affords such a good target to riddle, tlidt the propensity to shoot at it is irresistible. We fed something of the same spirit which used to actuate us when a boy to crack away at a spar row simply because it afforded a good mark. Our correspondent infers that we made our “char ges” against female colleges “without just reasons, or due consideration.” Now, in the first place, wc don’t know that wo have made any particular char ges against female colleges, with a view of demon, drating them. Wc have said that we regarded fe male colleges as an evil, without making any set effort to prove them so. for tho very sufficient rea son that wo have found all men of sense with whom we have conversed upon the subject, to agree with us. In the second place we will say to our cor respondent that we are not in the habit of making charges “without just reasons, or due considera tion and his inference that we are, is but the re sult of looking into the mirror of his own nature. “A Teacher" thinks that when our correspondent who wrote against female colleges admitted that the “college at Macon was erected with a good pur pose,” he “yielded the whole ground.” Now if a good result always followed from a good purpose, “A Teacher” might bo correct in his conclusion.— But as men arc liable to orr in judgment, bad re sults often flow from the very best intentions.— Ilcnce the intention which induced the erection of Macon Female College might boa very good one, and tho result might be a very bad one. But even admit it to bo true that good results always flow from good intentions, a man’s admitting that the Macon College was founded in proper motives, but denying that others were, looks like any thing else but “yielding the whole ground.” \Te did not expect such reasoning even from “A Teacher.” What Treatise on Logie dees he use in his college ? But our correspondent makes ati endorsement in blank for all the colleges and their teachers in the State. If lie knows all the teachers lie is very right m doing so. We arc not acquainted with them all, and hence will not “without just reasons, or due consideration,” endorse or condemn. Being a president or a professor of a Female College is uo evidence in our mind of a man's being a bad one, or a knave—certainly it is not conclusive, either, tiiat he is a good one or a gentleman. “A Teacher” thinks that our other correspon dent in his “exception of the College at Macon, aL lowed his sectarian prejudices to get tho better of his argument.” Now so far as we know our other correspondent—and we think we know him pretty well —lie is as free from “sectarian prejudice” as any man living. And if he has any partiality for the denomination which controls the Macon Col lege, he lias the best talent of concealing it that we have ever known. But “A Teacher's” logic is at fault, here too. If all the other female colleges in Georgia were under the control of sects different from that of tho Macon College, there might be some force in his reasoning. But we opine, (with out knowing certainly—for we can't begin to keep up with the mush-room growth of female colleges)— tiiat the denomination which controls the Macon Col lege, has as many other female colleges in the State as any other denomination. Hence they conic in for their distributive share of what is said against fe male Colleges, with the “exception of the College at Macon.” Ergo. q. o. and., “A Teacher" has no rea son to say our other correspondent was influenced by sectarian prejudice. This readiness to ascribe sectarian prejudice, without rhyme or reason, is the very best evidence of sectarian jealousy in the heart of him who makes the charge. Our correspondent concludes that “Female Col leges are established upon too linn a basis, to be shaken by such unreasonable and unjust accusa tions as have been brought against them.” And really we are afraid so too. We are afraid they are established upon two linn a basis to bo shaken by even reasonable and just accusations—since tiiey are built upon liumbuggery and a love of money— two rocks as immovable in this world as Gibralter. A word in conclusion. We have not pretended in any thing wo have said in this or other articles, to make an elaborate argument against female col leges. As we have said before, should it become necessary to do so, we have the material on hand. We do not consider this article an argument against femalo colleges, though “A Teacher ’ will probably think so, since it is directed against him and he con siders himself female colleges. Wo dislike this kind of skirmishing: But it seems nothing else will satisfy “A Teacher.” For, from tho outset, ho has been “picking at us" —to use a homely phrase— instead of saying what might bo said in defence of female colleges. ‘ Who struck Billy Pattei'sou?'' Wo clip from the Joker, published in Pcnfleld, the following paragraph, thinking it might inter est some of our Putnam county folks : “Want to know if Putnam county had not better provide an asylum, to keep her host of old widow ers, until some girls in their “teens” shall volunteer their services to “tout their keys?” “Didy mus.” We have one more word to say for Didytnui and bin opponent : It they wish us to publish their arti cles, they must not wait so long between times. Gratifying. V care pleased to see in the National Era, that it has “yet to learn that there is a single Southern paper which has the good taste, sense, or indepen dence, to exhibit common courtesy in its bearings towards Anti-Slavery men.” “The American Cotton Planter/’ The November number of this valuable journal is on our table. It is one of the best agricultural papers we know of, and is edited by Dr. Cloud, who has applied more of science to the study of tho nature, and cultivation of our great Southern sta ple than any other man. We will publish his fourth letter to Gov. Broome next week. Terms: $1 per annum. Address Dr. N. B. Cloud, Lockland P. 0., Macon Cos., Ala. Daniel S. Dickinson. V e publish on our first page some extracts from a lute speech oi this distinguished statesman aud pa triot; —a man who is too pure and holy for the pollu ted atmosphere of New York polities, and against whom we occasionally aoe a poisonod shaft leveled from the quiver of the servile organ at Washington city. Bead the extracts and see how much good sense ami patriotism there is in these New York liards Torti Ucoughiun. We give on our first page, a graphic dosciiplion of Lord Brougham, written about a quarter of a cen tury ago. In the effort of the Lords to put him down by the cry of question, and in his reply, wo are forcibly remiucled of tho words uttered by Mr. Toombs on a similar occasion in the House of Kep resentativear—perhaps when he was making his Hawker speech, Youth’s National Gazetta We have received tho prospectus of th* »boy e I which says as follows: The first number of a Semi-Monthly sheet, 0 f I the above title, will be issued on the first of Nov- I ember, 1854, printed upon a medium sheet, in fy;,, I form, and published concurrently at Boston, .Mass , I and 1 ndianapolis, Ind., and devoted to the Instruc- ] tion, Amusement and Moral Training of the gre a ; 1 body of the youth of our land. terms: l copy, one year 40cte Six mo*., 25c, 6 “ to one address, $2,00. “ $1,20 20 “ “ 6,00. “ 3,^ Three Hays EaUr From Europe./ ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMsiuPATIANTIC. Sebastopol Not Yet Taken. New York, Nov 14. The American steamship Atlantic , with Liverpool dates to the Ist Novem ber, has arrived at New York. Her dates are three days later than those by the America. Liverpool Cotton Market. Since the sailing of the America, on I the 28th ult., the demand for cotton in I the Liverpool market has been rnodtr-1 ate, without change in prices. The sales for the three'days comprise 20,- 000 bales, of which speculators took 2,000, and exporters 2,000 bales. Liverpool Provision Markets.-- Flour lias declined nearly 2 shilling*, and Corn has also declined 2 shillings. | Wheat is 6 pence lower. Pork am] Beef remain unchanged. Lard wa.-a quoted atsß to 5-fs. —London Money* MarXet.— Consols, 0-4 1-2 a 04 5-8. From the Seat of War.—Offi cial despatches from the Crimea, dated the 20th ult., state that thej seige of Sebastopol was progressing fa vorably for the Allies. Not much damage, however, thus far, had been done to the fortifications. Later pri vate advices say that two of the outer forts of the harbor had been destroyed by the fleets. The Allies lost 100 men, and the Russians 500, including Admiral Karneleffi A French steamer which left Crimea, on the 21st, reports that the land forces have made a breach in the wall, but that it was not yet practicable to storm. The Russian official report of tie 21st says that the garrison made a successful sortie, and spiked sixteen of the French guns, and destroyed the battery. The Russians also took an Engl is n general, Lord Dunkellin, pris oner. The Czar’s two sons had arrived at the Crimea. From the Baltic Sea there is noth ing new. The defeat of the Russian army in Asia by the Turks, is con firmed. New York Elections. New York, Nov. I*4. The latest returns show that Myron 11. Clarke, the whig and abolition candidate for Governor, is 700 votes ahead. The Steamer Jewess Ashore.— The steamer Jewess, from Havana for New York is ashore on Brigantine Beach, and will probably be lost. Another Railroad Accident.— A serious collision lias occurred on the Michigan Central Railroad be tween two passenger trains. Many persons were severely injured. Gov. Manning, ofS. C., has appoint ed Thursday the 23d inst., as a day G Thanksgiving and prayer. The same day has been designated in most of the Southern States. Wc learn from Quebec that the leg islative Assembly had come to an un derstanding to vote a sum cf inoiuy, amounting to about one hundred thous and dollars, for the relief of the wid ows and orphans of the soldiers wh > were killed in the late battles of the allied army in the war against Rus sia. Gen. Houston is reported to be assid uously employed in organizing lodges and advocating the doctrines of the Know-Nothings in the interior of Texas. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans, Nov. 11. The sales of cotton for the week comprise 35.000 bales. Middling is quotod at 8 7-Bc. The increased receipts amount to 43,- 000 bales. ' Health of New Orleans. New Orleans, Nov 18. The total number of deaths for the week from yellow fever are only 38. The disease is rapidly abating. The weather is cold, and there has been heavy frost in the interior ot tho State. Later from Texas. By an arrival at this port later dates from Texas have been received. Tho Texas papers say that Messrs. Walker and K i ng’s deposit, consisti n g of stock of the Sussex Iron Company, has been accepted by the State Treas urer, but that the Governor of tho State did not assent. The Cotton Market—Frost. New Orleans, Nov. 14. The price of cotton to-day remained unchanged, with sales of 6,500 bales. In the State of Alabama, Mississip pi and Louisiana, there was frost last night.