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ATHENS POST. S. P. IVIXS, Editor aiiaVTropik-tor. idTl'rop liable wit nu'suv SO it umr. mutable within three months from tie time of tuh'rribing : $J,5Ui SmoilH, '" " ".' (vy- JVb ;i;i r disimUinutd until amrrear- letare pant, cxc;t ni Mc ' f ll,e 1'ub- "'h'Jr announcing the nanus nf candidates for A'ce $'! Cash. ' "tr K' Thomson, is lite authorred r. i... up.,t in the citv ol Iflti' t niKte yen, w . lure, lU. tei-Circiiit Court Cor Polk county at Bunion next Monday. Death of Col. Elmore. Col. F. II. E'niore, recently appointed to llie United Sta'es Senate from South 1 arolina, In fill the place mndf vacant by the death of Mr. Cat houn, died at Washington abcul 8 o'clock on the night or the 20ili ult. FitiE. They had mother large firo at Charleston on ths Uih ult., which it is sin) destroyed properly to the amount of four hundred thousand 'dollar. Supposed to be Ihfl work of incendiaries. Neill S. Bitow.N. W learn from the. Nashville papers that this gentleman left that ciiy a few day since, preparatory to his departure for Russia. His aelcction In fill the post of Minister lo Hie Court of St. Petersburg, was a most judicious one, and is so regarded by men of all parties. Grave Yards. If the citizens of Athens II.. ..-m nunrn III tllQ COIldiljoll of tui; ibiij - the burial grounds in this vicinity, we think they would immediately take sonic steps to remove the disgrace which will 'necessarily attach to the town as long as thej ore sut' fercd to remain ns at present, and we there, fore desire to call their ottcnlion lo the sub jeet. The fences are clown on every side, niul the humble hillocks which mark the resting places of many who once movid in our midst, are being trampled down, dese crated and destroyed by the cattle ond h"gs, which aie suffered to range there, within what should bo regarded as sacred enc'o sures. Some one has said, or ought lo have said, thnt the character of a community might be judg. d by the degree (if attention and respect that was paid lo the deposi'o ries for the dead. We hope no stranger who rmy pass the graveyards in this vi cinity w-ill es'imate ;',,o characier of our people by that standard. "A proper degree ol respect for the memory of those whose remains there repose would at least sug. get the erection of a good substantial fence to protect the graves from the ravages of the cattle and hogs. Temperance Cei.eisration. A copy of the proceedings of the recent Temperance Celebration at Decatur, Meigs county, anil of the speeches delivered on llie occasion, have been srnt to us, with a request that we publish them. We wiil do so as soon as we can possibly find room. It is grati fying to us at all times to publish any ihing that may be calculated to pro'note lh cause of Temperance. But we must admonish our friends that our space is limited, ond if wo were to give place, to all the speeches and lung coinmiimcations on the subject which Wv receive, every lliing dso would be excluded from our columns. The refusal to do so sometimes r.roduccs coldness uf feeling, we know. A very little reflection, however, will sutisfy any one that wo are right about it. The majority of our sub scribers take no other paper, ond of course expect us lo furnish them with the current news of the day This we must do, in or der to sustain Ihe paper. Newspaper read ers generally want as much variety as pos sible, and the mind crows weary and sick of continuation of articles on one subject, no matter what its merits, or how ably the productions may bo written. We have had in tho office for several weeks an address on the subject of Temperance, delivered in Monroe county, by Iho Kev. W. II. II Duggan, written out with a good deal ol ability, yet owing lo its extreme length we are compelled lo forego the pleasure of fublishing it at least for somo time to come. Female Academy. The first session ol the Female Department of Bolivar Acade my. Madisonville, will commence on Mon day, the 17th inst. The high character which Miss Melville has acquired as a teacher, cannot fail to draw 'a large number of pupils to the Institution. The Trustees certainly deserve great credit for securing the servi ces of one every way so competent lo the successful discharge of the important duties devolving on the head of an institution for the education of females, and we know their efforts to build up a School that insy be worthy of support, will be properly sppre ciated. Sea advertisement in another col umn. Tornado. A letter from fond Creek. Monroe county, states that a violent torna do visited that section on the 23th bit., causing great destruction to properly, by prostrating barns, orchards, fences, &c. Several persons were seriously, though not fatally, injured. One individual whojiad rnuirht shcl'cr in a barn was buried beneath the ruins, yet miraculously escaped with Lis life. We praise men for righting, and punish children lor doing the same. Fur the Athens Post. Mr. Editor, You are doubtless aware that the nolion of a distributing post. office at Kuoxvillo has been canvassed with some earnestness for some several months past. Petitions have been circulated and many signatures obtained in lower East Tennes see. The true interests of this section do net require such an office to lie established at thai point. Not Ihot there is any objec linn lo the town or its inhabitants, but aim ply because its geographical position is such as render it the :nost ineligible point that could b" found any where on a straight line through the centre of the valley. It is near ihe half-way ground in every direction, and if Knoxville was the seat of government, of commerce, fashion, lileiature, news, &c, it would be necessary to have o distribut ing office; bul the most direct communica- tiou with Washington ond the eastern one Southern cities, and Europe, ond the world is by the Georgia railroads. If such nn office were established other offices vould concentrate all East Tennessee packages hi Knoxville, and thenthe very letters or.d papers thai would pass through Ballon sod Chattanooga on the 1st, would go on and return (or distribution among readers about ihe4'hor 5th of the same month. By this system those in East Tennessee neorostihe business world would be last to hear from t, Our citizens could tolerate no such movement. 1 do not intend to cast imputa tions upon any one in this cose, hut this would be the result: the people of Knnx villi? would have the channeJs of news emp tying at their own doors, and every body would have lo look lo that point for infor, nation from abroad tho business men and capitalists there would always be ahead if the surrounding country in the commercial news, prices current, etc., so that they could the more rasily buy ami sell to an ad vantage; and, of course, the importance of the p ace would be greatly enhanced. To i In s I have no objection, so far as it can be donn without manifest injury to other sec tions. As it is now arranged, the office at Augusta is hut 30 hours, more or less. from our lower border. The largn packages are there sent directly lo the individual ail- dresses, and every town ihen gets its own precisely according to its mail facilities. Tho offices ol Cumberland Gap, Abingdon, and Ashevilln do the same way. In this way every pari of Esst Tennessee is nn an equality, ond no monopoly can possibly be enjoyed. Let the office be at Knoxville and all other offices ala distance will send news for East Tennessee to the central office, whence, it will radiate Every one must at once perceive thai our share of light must pass through our very hands lo Knoxville and bock ogain before we will be permitted to see it. CLIO. Ungrateful. Our friend of the Chatta nooga Gaztle, having succeeded in secur rng, beyond the possibility ( f a contingency, the prosperity of that city of aquatic lo ctilities ond " magnificent distances," has recently manisfesled a disposition to throw his upholding and sustaining arm beneath the declining lorlunes of Knoxville, and warns the citizen", with all Ihe prophetic solemnity of a mesmcriwd bull-frog, t" " bowarc of over-trailing"' lo "build no gorgeous palaces," erect no tail reaching columns lo the genius of public improvement, or unclify their dreaming souls with the vain and delusive hope that (he Kailroad will ever be built to that point ! And this self sacrificing piece of disinterestedness, how has it been received by those for whose henifitit was intended! With grolitude, and heartfelt thanks! Not at all. On the contrary, (he last Register lakes right after Ihe Gazette, calls it Ihe old "Fireside Jour. nal,"and says Chattanooga is the present terminus of a Kailroad italicising the word "present," and meaning thereby that when (he Nashville Road shall be in operation, the Gazette will be bul a "country paper," and Chattanooga a village by the way side like Lovcville. Campbell's Station, or rump kin Town. We don't believe a word of it, nor never will while there are so many sleambuals ploughing the "noblest tributary of the Mississippi." If Mr. McKce don't get it "laid on to him" next week it will be because Ihe Gazette man's nature and ci Pacini's have been very much changed since we first knew him. ORDINANCE. En il ordained by Ihe Mayor and Alder men ol Hie town or Athens. I lint Die Con stable of said Corporation shall have power in call an any person or persons within said Corporation lo assist in arresting any per. son or persons who mav be guilt v ol a vio lalion of any of the ordinances of said Cor poration, and sol person or persons refus inC in obey said summons shall be liablo to (inn of not less than five nor more than twenty five dollars. By order of the Board. U. W. ROSS, Recorder. June 3, 1S50. The Compromise. The Washington Correspondent of the Baltimore Sun of Wednesday, says-. A careful estimate made this morning of ihe probable vote of the Senate, would show thai it will receive the voles of twenty Southern Senators, of il.ree Noithern V hiss, and of seven North em Democrat. In tny opinion, at leasi four voles not in Ihe estimate, will, upon a pinch, be given for the compromise. Let it pass ihe Senate, and ihe people will see mat u passes uie House, CO-See Card of A. Welles & Co., Sa. vannsh. Georgia; also. Card of Dr. E. I. Gilbert, Decatur, Tcnn. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, May 20. There is much feeling, here, on the par! of the friends of ihe compromise plan, or adjustment plan, in opposition lo ihe course of the Cabinet orgon, llie Republic. Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay have evidently fal len under Ihe sore displeasure of the ad ministration, by reason ol their hostility to, or neglect of, Ihe President's plan, ll is by no means certain, however, thai either one or the other will meet with ihe appro bation of a majority ol either House. The friends of Mr. Clay's scheme would not like to trust the vote jusl now, indeed, un til every chance has been exhausted for rendering il as acceptable as possible lo the majority of the Senate. For Ihe scheme of the Committee, after certain further modifications, are put down: Mr. Webster, Mr. Dickinson, Mr. Slur geon and Mr. Cooper, Mr. Pearce, and Mr. Pratt, Mr. Dadger and M-. Mangiim, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Iving Mr. Jefferson Da vis and Mr. Foote, Mr. Downs, Mr. Un derwood and Mr. Clay; Mr. Bell ond Mr. Turneyj Mr. Atchison, Mr. Houston and Mr. Husk; Mr. Dodse, of Iowa, ond Mr. Jones; Mr. Phelps, Mr. Bradburv and Mr. Hamlin; Mr. Bright and Mr. .H'Wiconih; Mr. Cass, Mr. Dodge, of Wisconsin, and ' Mr. Walker 30. 01 these, several Senators cannol be re lied upon for instance, Mr. Phelps. Mr. Webster may oppose the union of bills, and. if so, he will be as dangerous a foe to the adjustment as Mr. Renton is. lioih would support the several nieasuies as separate measures; Bul more (ban thirty votes cannot be counted upon. Upon a vote ol indefinite postponement, several of ihem might go in the affirmative. In opposition to the scheme are Messrs Hale anil Nor.-is; Mr. Upham, Mr. Davis, of Moss.; Mr. Greene and Mr. Clarke; Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Smiih; Mr. Seward, Mr. Dayton and Mr. Miller; Mr. Sprunnce nnd Mr. Wales; Mr. Mason and Mr. Hunter; Mr. Butler and Mr. Elmore; Mr. Berrien, Mr. Clemens, Mr. Soule, Mi. Corwin and Mr. Chase, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Shields, Mr. Benton, Mr. Borland and Mr. Sehas- tian, Mr. Yulce and Mr. Morion, and Mr. Felch-30. Not one cf these is likely to give way. This is as fair a statement of the proha. ble vote as can now be made. Things may occur materially to change it. In case of a lie, the Vice President would vote against the measure. It was remarked, today, by a very sa gacious Senator, partial lo the scheme, that nothing would give it any chance of suc cess hut the possible inability of Mr. El more to attend when the final vote shall he taken. Even should he be here, the gen tleman referred to thought thai ihe meas ure would be indefinitely postponed. Mr. Elmore has been very ill, tit his lodgings in ibis city, bul was a lutle belter today. Tl.e Union spreads an alarm of a plot lo dismember the Union. That is, Ihe Union has discovered that there exists some dis unionists in the South. The Benton and Foote Committee are in session almost every morning, for the pur nose of enabling Mr. Benton lo examine witnesses which he has summoned, with aviewlo prove an intention of Mr. Fooie io murder htm. The committee are quite lired of the whole affair, and most of the seven members present, occupy themselves in reading newspapers while the investi gation goes on. Towards the end of the session, ifever, the Committee may report the evidence taken. Washington, Mny 31. 1 find that somo persons who have can vassed ihe Senate, nre of the opinion that Mr. Clay' bill will be killed by a side blow that it will bo indefinitely posl potted by a vote of 32. Unless some changes should take place, on the port nf the Southern or Northern men, this will be the case. The prospect of an odjnslment of pending difficulties is not so good as it was tunic weeks ago. Theio is no consistency in the course of Congress, and, in Ihe Iluuse, Ihe voice of patriotism is never heard. On the part of mosl of ihe Norlh rn members, sec tional and parly feeling have been suereeded by entire apathy ar,d indifference. The only two principles of action known to them are lidulity to their party and obedience to the anti-slavery feeling of their constituents. The. parties nre broken up. Rut there is safety for them in obedience lo local preju, dice, Tho Northern members now uuliesi. latingly declare that they do not cam a straw what may be the isneof the slavery question. All Ibey intend to do is lo secure themselves with their constituents. They do not hesitate to say that they care not whelh er the South withdraws from the Union or not. On Ihe part of the Southern men, they now avow the opinion that Ihe question is one that is incapable of adjustment. On Tuesday week Ihe House will stop all debate in Committee on tho California bill, and proceed lo consider amendments. It is useless in predict the result but the signs are unfavorable lo any adjustment. This Congress must expire and a new one be elected, under better auspices, before any beneficial action can be t-xpecied. Among the whig, personal riva'riea and jealousies obstruct harmonious action. Henry City is denounced by many of them as a faclicnist, and a traitor to the whig cause, an aspirant for the Presidency the Presidency! There will never be another Presidential election, unless a very great change lakes place in the feeling of the country. Cor. Chr. Ccur. The man who owes bis primer left town on Saturday, with the man who flogi his wife. for 7te .Mens Post . TO THE TEOPLE OF EAST TENNES SEE: It is with senliincnts nf profound ond sincero regret that I now find myself forced lo change, radically change, my opinion of Gen. Duff Giieen. Prior lo ihe month of Juno, I had never scon Gen. Green, and only knew hi.n by reputation as an edi tor of a political newspaper. Aficr he be. caniec 'Cted with the East 'Jcnnessee and Georgia Railroad, I heard many insinu ations, n ml fcvn direct chorges, io his preju dice, but he had by his gentlemanly deport- i il and engaging manners, s i ingratiated himself with me that I considered those in sinuations and charges as the promptings of malevolent and envious hearts, and up to ihe lime of his surrendering his contract my feelings and conduct towards him had been ever that of a sincere ond confiding friend. Although for a lew days afler that event km 1; p'oce his conduct was such Ihat my judgment did nut, nor could approve, yet I was disposed In allrihuto it lo something else rather than an obliquity of the heart, and I fondly trusted and believed that a lit tie time for reflection would bring about o change of feeling and conduct. Thu sev eral oddresses to the pcoplo of East Tell" nessen. by Gen. Green, has dissipated from my mind that deluiveai t cipation particu larly his last address, (a pamphlet of six teen pages,) conclusively prove to my mind, that if not deranged in mind, he is desperately wicked and reckless, wilfully reckless in the osscrlion of facts. The real object and purpose of Gen. Green in publishing and circulating that pimphlel might be very reasonably, and I have no doubt will bo variously conjectured, hut I apprehend no one yet certainly knows, save the Genital himclf. One thing is very apparent in it to those who know Ihe fuels to which it olliides, it so blonds and connects truth and falsehood, that it could only he the emanation of an ingenious in tcllrct and a depraved and wicked heart. It is nol my purpose lo review and com ment upon that pamphlet so faros it treats of the act of the Booid of Directors of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad C un, pany, and of his own in relation to the con tract being given lo him, and nf its subse quent surrender by him. Il makes a wilfully erroneous and false exposition of the whole ull'uir by the suppression or many mosl ma, tcrial facts, and by Ilia assertions of more untruths, if Gen. Green has only one rain of common sense left he must know that now there is n it even a bore possibility of his ever again being connected with the Road as a contractor, for could tho Directo ry, with the lights now before them, be per suaded by fair promises, or coerced by threats, to give him another contract, every one of Ihem should be sent to the peniten tiary os felons or lo ihe lunatic asylum as idiots. Rut Gen. Green has chosen to introduce me by name into his pamphlet, and. as he has placed me in a fulsc position in several particulars, I feel il due to truth nnd to myself that this matter should be set right. On Ihe first page of his pamphlet Gen. Green says: "My attention was called lo the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail Road by Mr. Crozi'r, then a member of Congress, and Mr. Van Dyke, then Ihe President of Iho Company, who came lo Washington and urged me lo make a contract, assuring .lie that the company would give two hundred f;ye per cent. Stalo bond, (part of the .State's subscription ) three hundred nnd fifty thousand du'Hars in bonds of the Comi pany, guarantied by the Slate, and three hundred thousand dollars in Jimicy, tu be obtained by new subscriptions, one, half in East Tennesree.and the other half in South Carolina end Georgia. I told him that if he would first get iho three hundred thou sand dollars in new subscriptions, I would find parties who would contract tu make the road, and take a large part in stuck. "He returned to Tennessee, by South Carolina and Georgia, for the purpose of getting Iheir part ol Iho new subscription, which be failed l do, because those to whom he applied required that East Tennessee should first do her part." Nuw, it is strange, passing strange that Gen. Green should make such statements as are contained in the above extracts. The words, "and Ihrco huudrcd thousand dollars in money," are italicised in Gen. Green's pamphlet; this I desire to be borne in mind, as it proves he wrote Ihe words de liberately and for a particular purpose. What took place between (Jul. Crozinr and Gen. Green relative to the Railroad, if any thing, I know not, but every statement in the foregoing extracts with which he connects my name is inverted, perverted and misrepresented; and this will be palpable from Ihe Maiemcnt which I now make, of what did take place on Ihat occasion, snd how the interview between Gen. Green and myself was brought about. , It) the Spring of 1819, myself and several oilier gentlemen were appointed by the Board ol Directors, as Agents Tor ihe pur pose of visiting Georgia and bouth Carolina and obtaining the subscription of stock. Accordingly several of us visited Augusta, Charleston and Savanr.ah. A few days afi tcr our arrival in Charleston I called at the Post Office for loiters, expecting lo receive some from home; at that lima 1 had no idea that Gen. Green knew there was such person in being as myself, never having had directly or indirectly any communica. lion with him upon any subject whatever; upon calling for letters one was handed to me, directed to me in Charleston and post marked Washngton cily;I was surprised that any person in Washington city could hsve found out so soon my presence in Charleston and upon opening ihe letter found it ws from DufTGreen.staiing that he wrote as the Agent of some Northern gentlerrrnho dc sired lo obtain contract for the construc tion of Iho Road or & part of it. and enquiring if H-o Company was about lo In t the contract; iho letter also requested that, if coiiveni.mt. I "l"''d visit Washing" inn city and confer with Gen. Green upon ihe subject. This letter was submitted by me in Mr. Keys and Mr. S. A. Smith lo ihoir consideration, ond ofter wo had ap. olicd and failed to obtain any subscription of stock in Charleston. Angus'a nnd Ni taniiah, in was d. ler.nin-'d thai I should visit Washington city and hear what nropo. sition hu had to ma ki. I went to Wash, in.'ton, and ii.itn' diMoly upon my arrival sent my card to Gen. Oceii's resiileiice soon niter a son of the lien-nil called nnd introduced himself to me ond informed inc thai his father hod a few days beforu gone lo Boston, leaving directions with him that if I should arrive there in his absence the I'll el should be telegraphed to him and he wood iiiiuiediat-ly lelli n. 1 l""'d yoii-g Mr. Green Ihat I was going to Philadelphia for a few ilsys nnd could probably meet with his father there, but at all events could see him on mv return lo Wasliingion. At this we parted, anil upon my return to Wasliingion from Philadelphia I ogain sen' mv card" to the residence of Gen. Green. and in a short lime alter lie calleil up-n Mo ot my room. He first enquired about the condilioii iind prospects of the Coinpnm; I inforlii"'d him thai Hie distance Iroin Knox ville to lh point where we expected l.i con nect with the West, rn nnd Atlantic Hail, road wits about HO miles; that iihou'. half that distance was grsdedt this bridge built across the lliwassee river; thnt lb'1 Compa ny was in debt boie;u thirty anil forty thousand dollars; that t'lo-r,' was an unex pended balance of R'e subscription ot in-e per cent, bonds amounting to to i$V.'01 ,0U0; ihat afler the comphtl ion ond equipment uf ihe Road to the lliwasee river the Compa ny had the privilege of is-uing its bonds 'or $:l-rU.(J00 with Ihe Stale's L'uton"y. upon tho pledge of the road and its earniujs to the Siato as a security ngoinsl her guaranty; that we had no available individual sub scription unexpended; thai I helieveu that the people along the line of the ll-md in East Tennessee could be induced to sub scribe slock to the amount of .j(l.l)(MI, if 1'iey could be permitted to pay it in th)iY dnce of the country and limbers fur Ihe uper'tnuturt if Ihe Hand; that I did not believe am suhscriiitioiis ronld- be obtained in East Tennessee if il lews reijiiind to be. paid in money; Mini it' we c uiiii i-ounin m:- operations on llie Road agni ml ilu-SnuHi Carolina and Georgia Kailroad Companies could selhal the Road could and would In made by their Old of 150,0011, I believed l liny would come lo our aid lo that extent. Upon this Gen. Green remarked Ihat ijjTJOl.OOO of S'ate sub-criplion mil the 350.000 of Company bonds, guarantied by the Slate, were good available menus; that $150 000 to be paid in produce and timbers would he equal lo cash to contractors ns at least that amount would have to he ex pended along the line ol the :ond (lorinj its construction, and Ihat he had no doubt 8 150,000 could he obtained in South Car olina nnd Georgia. He lunher observed, thai if Ihe company would give llie con tract lor the construction and equipment of Ihe whole road lo the genilfiuen for whom he was acting, ihev would subscribe stock lo the amount of jjji.5U,C00, this sum with the others helore staled would make $1,100,000, and for Hits last amount, alter deducting these from the nmnunl of Ihe debts ol ihe company, Ihe road could he made and equipped at least to the Tennes see river. Before this conference was ended. Gen. Green informed me that two of the gemle men lor whom he was acting, were then in the city, one from the South and one from the North that he would confer with them that evening, that they did not wish that their names should be known unless the contract was entered into; I inlormed him that I bad no authority tu enter into any contract, but that I would receitTe and sub mit lo llie Directory any proposition he might be pleased lo make; lie then told me he would call again the next morning at 8 o'clock, and if the two gentlemen to whom he had alluded were willing to he made known lo me, lie would bring them with him lo my room. The next morning soon afler breakfast, I received a note from ( Jen, Green, request ing me to meet him and ihe two gentlemen, at 9 o'clock, in the Congressional Library room. Accordingly I attended at that hour, at the place designated, and found G-n. Green, F. II. Klmore nnd mother gentle man, whose name I do notiow recollect, standing around a table with a map of the United States spread oul before ihem and which they were examining. Mr. El more I immediately recognized, having been introduced lo him but a shun time before in Charleston, upon which occasion be appeared lo feel and l ike a deep inter est in ihe success of our road; lo the oihpr gentleman I was introduced by Gen. Green. Alter general conversation tor n short lime, at llie suggestion of Mr. Elmore, we four retired ton mote private room, where substantially the same enquiries were put lo me, ihat Gen.Gieen had previously put, and I made Ihe same detailed stat-mi-nt, both the other gentlemen concurred with Gen. Green in his views .. hefnie luleil, and at the conclusion of the interview, Mr. Elmore rose and enthusiastically ex claimed, addressing himself to ioe,,n home, get your subscription of $150,000 in ptoduce and limbers such as the con. iractors will necessarily need, and I will guaranty a subscription of $100,000 in Charleston alone, and thte will l no difficulty in peitinz the other $50,000 in Georgia; get your Hoard to enter into such contract as we propose, and the road can and shall be made. It is true that I returned lo Tennessee by South Carolina and Georgia, but il is not true that I returned thioush those Stales lor the purpose of getting their part of the new subscription I came directly through to Tennessee, without slopping any where, for the purpose of repotting lo Ihe Board of Directors, and if they ap proved ol giving a contract to Gen. Green and his associates, lo gel ihem lo act up on the suggestion of Mr. Elmore, and first eel in East Tennessee a subscription of $150,000 payable in produce nnd railroad limbers; neither did I call Gen. Green's attention lo the East Tennessee and Geor gia Railroad; he called my attention to it as connected with him. I did not go lo Washington and urge him lo make a con tract; I went (here upon his invitation lo hear his propositions; I gave him no as surances ihat ihe Company would do any thin; to his enquiries, I merely made a statement fully and truly of the condition and prospects of the Company, and so far from assutiog him that tho Company would give linn three hundred thousand dollars in money to he ohinineil by new subscriptions, one hall in East Tennessee I expressly informed hint mat I ilid not del lieve $150,000 of to w subscriptions in money could be obtained in Dim 'IVnnes sec nor does the extract from my li-ticr lo lien Green, nfl?:ih August, ISltf, which he has published, any where Mule, as ht alleges, ihat this subscription was to be a cash subscription. As Gen, Green, since his surrender of his contract, in nil his puhlic iiious has manifested such nn adhesive propensity (nr misrepresentation and suppression of the truth, I feel constrained now- to believe that t lie r. has been loo innr.'.i truth in all Mint those havn said who have ins'iiiii..et3 and charged the worst nutiinst him, nnd as to myself I now am done with lum, at least for the present. T. NIXON VANDYKE. (jjT The Southron snys there nre several excellent ni-'ti of our neqnainlnnce, u ho nre perfect political hypochondriacs in reference to the anticipated oner' nehnioiits of iho No'ih upon the South. They never think of the subject, but what Ihe horrnr.i of San Domingo appear, in all its tragical rcali lies, before Iheir tlis'rmperrd imagination, Those who philosophically say, '-Millicient for lliF; day is llie evil I hereof,'' they set down "us free goiters in disguise," as men who nre in, but n it of the South. EtM lirclv too provident to pmy for their mere "daily bread," ihese knights of tho rueful counti'iiani es would uclually die of inilici fated starvation, unless they could see inapeil up b-'I'oro llo-ir eyes, ei-oue-h nf eve ry tiling nerdl'ul to keep themselves and 'their posterity" olso. from want in all lime lo come. They nre not fiilisfn-d unless they enn rent their own and tiu-ir posterity's ti tie clear In "indemnity fur ihe past ond sei curily for the future'' noaiust the, rea', tho imaginary and the threatened aggressions of those whom a ton vivid imagination bo dies for h ns iuiihn-lle riii'inies, ever ready tnp-i'v upon their sub-iance in d tlieir rights. To muni t firu'tios ns 1 1 1 y iiri-i-, is beneath tlie far rewriting ambition of individuals rt li'jsnuir danger in every hrei-K-t niul nspiro lo la tr rare of the world lor n'jt s after their holies shall have iniii'led wiih Iho clods of ihe. valley 'i he) could nut sleep in their Ws if they su,iosei Ihi inselves incompe tent to devise, "equilibriums'' In guurd ihe South against the North "at tho end of llie present century," as fllecttinlly as for the lime bein. They nro perfect d.nibting Thomases; Ihey torment nml worry theiiii selves almost lo death about ihings ilu-y fear iiud apprehend, because they cherish jealousy nnd suspicion, n nil hnvo neither laiilt nor coiuideuci' that Northern trnns. grcssors will ever sen iho error of their woy! These men little drrnin that the stain of their dii'i'stivn organs his much more to lu with ltieir unhappy eotulilioti of mind than t lie rtal facts of the ease. r,i:v. .iuiv Neivi.a.m) At aititt. Tin's giiut'enian, widely known throughout Ihe UlliTil S'aies as a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, departed this life in this ' city, yesterday morning, very suddenly, from n n affection of the heart. Few men j have b'-en more conpicious, or have ntlrnc--' ted greater attention, as pulpil orators in ! Ibis country. Mobile Jlc. 20i ult. Ednittnd riorlif , asoci'ile editor of tho i Wasliingion Union, announced in that psi per, of the ol si till., thnt his connection iv i 111 thnt journal was closed, in conformity with the terms of'ihe original contract with the Senior Editor and h fining parting compliments were exchanged between ihem. I Some men have souls so mean, nnd j minds so narrow, that the otic is repulsive lo a liherel thought, and a generous idea I could never worm itself into the oilier. An Ixrr.nar.NCE. A suspicion is afloat that persons who cannot eat mince pies without brandy, can drink brandy without mince pies. A New Cuhioitv llnruum it is said i is endeavoring lo effect an engagement. for hiit museum, with the man that made money by goins to law. They debate strange questions down East. The last was, "What is the dif ference between the Bridge of Sighs nnd tl e siz- ol a hiiJe?" The next is lo be, "the difference between a fac simile and a sick family." The Frankfort Commonwealth says that Mr. Clay will probably resign bis seat in the Senate, after the adjustment of tht questions growing oul of slavery shall have been effected. Another mysterious woman has attemp ted lo poison herself" at Buffiln. She was found on Monday in one of the moms ol the Western Hotel, suffering from the ef- feels of poison. She gave her name as Mrs. Alonzo Allen. What has got into the women? 07" Letters from Washington stalo that the Committee on Foreign Affairs, in the House, have agreed In report in favor of paying the long standing claims for French Spoliations, Commerce of the Westf.kx Kivem. By a document lately ordered In be printed by the Senile we find that llm neii-value of Ihe commerce of the Obi" and .Mississippi rivers and iheir tributaries, for the year IU9, i estimated at $5G.2:V..V0. aud the value nf vessels employed therein is cstima ted at 819 001,000.