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ATHENS" POST.
S. P. IVlNe, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Jrm: 1 jar, tiayahle in advance.
l?aV No p.per tliaoiitiuuvii nmil all arrearata are
paiti, escept at the option of the Publiaher.
Announcing nainea of candidatea for office A, Cah
Obituary No ticca over It linea, charged at the regular
advertising ratea.
A If coramuuicatlona InlrojSed to promote the private
nua or Uitaraata of CorjxieViions, Societies, Schools or
Individuala, lll be charged aa advertisementa.
ATIIl:,S, t lllUAY, APlIILgj. 158.
t3f The following are tbe time fur hold
ing the Chancery Court! in the Fifth Chance
ry Division of Tenneuee :
Benton lat Mondays of February and Anguat.
Athanit 8d do .do do .
Cleveland, tt do do do
Harrison, 1't do March September.
Jai)er do do do
Pikeville, d do do do
Pparta 4th do do do
Uvinaaton 1't do April October.
Jameelown, . ...Sd do do do
llnntaville, Thursday after id Mondays of April A Oct.
Montgomery, ...Ad Mondays do do
Klngitoii,Thuralay after 8d Mondays do . do
tirestnr, 4th Mondays ' do " do
Waihluirton, Thursdays after 4th Mondays do do'
Maryville 4th Mondaya of May and November.
Aladleouvllle,...lat do June and December.
t3T We cannot publinh the communica
tion from Fountain Hill except as na adver
tisement, to be paid for as other advertise,
mentsaro. Our friends ought not to expect
us to publish matters of strictly individual
interest upon any other conditions.
VS" Circuit Court for Meigs county will
commence next Monday, 2Gth. ' -
Kucxvillk Branch. The' Brunch Bonk
of.Tenaessee, at Knoxville, . organized
on Monday last, by .the election of John II.
Ciiozier as President;' M. B. McMahon,
Cashier; nnd B. R. Stiioko, Clerk.
Athens Female College. The work on
the College building is progressing rapidly
towards completion. We learn that the
Agent Appointed by Conference, Rev. Mr.
Phillips, has been successful in procuring and
collecting subscriptions, that the payment of
twelvo hundred dollars due last week nrss
promptly met, nnd that the building, ono of
the best structures in the country, will be
ready for use in n short time. No point fur
nishes more advantages, or could be more
desirable for n Female School of a I'igh and
Urge character, than Athens, and we trust
the effort will not be relaxed until it is crown
ed with full success. The enterprise is one
in which we nre nil largely interested, and
is entitled to our earnest and united exer
tions. . '
Fountain Him.. The name of the post
ofHuo at Mouse Creek Depot has been chang
ed to "Fountain Hill" for what purpose we
are unable to state.
trf We nre requested to give notice to
persons wishing to write to Cnpt. John
Shields, formerly of Polk county, that his
post office at present is, "McKlnney, Cal
houn county, Texas."
E3f As usual, the defeat of the Lecomp
ton Constitution in tliti House of Represen
lives is being laid upon somebody else than
the really culpable partius. ,,The democracy
firs' responsible for Its defeat, as they have
beer, for every wrong inflicted on the South
since the organization of that party. The
democrats have a majority of twenty-five
in the House, and no ono can be misled by
tho silly charge that the Know Nothings d
footed the measure.
Alarmino Intelligence. Drighani Young
threatens if the President does not back out,
that ho will send his destroying angels on a
mission of incendiarism, to burn down St.
Louis, New York, (,'lticngn, and even tVnsli
ington city itself, Capitol, White House nnd
all! This is terrible news, truly. It must
raise the premium on insurance policies at
least fifty per cent. It is to be hoped that
the President will "buck nut."
Inviting Invasion. A despatch from New
Orleans, with news from Tnmpico, says:
"Garza had fired at nn American vessel,
and attempted to extort the payment of dou
ble duties.'1
Garza must be in favor of "annexation" to
the United States. Our manifest destiny
men, lie ought to know, are but waiting for
a plausible pretext to pay their respects to
Mexico, and such outrages as these are likely
to supply it.
t :
The Philadelphia Enquirer says: Al
though Co, Benton went through the usual
formalities of making a will, he nevertheless
died very poor. The creditors of his estate
aro not likely, however, to press their claims
unpleasantly, and if n project on foot in refer
ence to n certain disposition of his latest lite,
rary labors Is successfully carried out his
debts will probably be puid in full.
Anti-Administration Movement. A dis
patch to tliu Baltimore papers, says that a
meeting of the opponents of the Adminis
tration was held on Tuesday evening, at
which a series of resolutions were adopted
for the establishment of a national ' party,
composed of the "friends of the rights of the
jeoplsj
Col. Benton. The Washington eorres
pondent of tho Charleston Courier, writes
under date of the 11th:
"There appears in the New York Times,
of Yesterday, a biographical sketch of Col.
Benton, which was prepared for the second
volume of the new American Encyclopedia),
and was submitted to ("ol. Benton's revision.
From this it appears that though Col. Ben
ton favored the election of Mr. Buchanan, for
reasons which he had given, he has since
changed his mind, and had taken part w ith
the republicans against his policy in regard
to Kansas.
" The nrtinle admits that it was Mr. Ben
ton's feud with Mr. Calhoun that had led to
hia discomfiture in Missouri, throwing him
out of public life.
"It was the defeat of Mr. Van Buren in
1840, and the annexation of Texas under Mr.
Calhoun's administration of the State De
partment, that first threw Mr. Benton out of
the lino of precendenlal succession which
Gen. Jackson had arranged. That arrange
ment was that Mr. Van Bnren should follow
him, end next Benton in 1844, and then Silas
Wright in 1848, uud Mr. Polk in 1853.
This fact does not appear In the biographical
sketch, but it was mentioned, since the death
of President Polk, by hie relative, Bishop
Polk." i
hF" Sehoru & Hornsby loom pretty large
ly this week. See advertisement next page.
-f" Robeson, Sartnin Si Co. have a tre
mendous pile cf Fine and Seasonable Goods,
nnd there Is no telling how cheap they sell
until jou give them a call.
WASIHNGTON CORRESPONDENCE."
, Washington, April 15.
Thinking an occasional letter from Na
tional Head Quarters may interest the read
readers of the "Post," you can count me as
"tn". while I remain here, which will proba
bly be until mii'-summer.
As you sre aware, "Lecompton has been
the absorbing aud paramount subject through
the session, In and out of Congress. A
committee of conference has been appointed
by the two houses to try to hit upon some
plan for an adjustment of tho measure, and
persons professing to be well posted believe
the effort will be successful. hope so.
While I have no sympathy with the demo
cratic party nd but little confidence in either
the wisdom or integrity of the men -who
manage it, I believe that Congress ought to
have accepted the "Lecompton Constitution,"
aa the easiest method .of getting rid of an
embarrassing and troublesome question. At
the same time, I auioot disposed to damn
uli who differ with rue, or classify Southern
men who voted against "Lecompton" as ene
mies ef their section. On the contrary, I
think it probable they are quite as patriotic
arid as ardent in' their attachment to the
South and Southern institutions as the nois
es, of their opponent.;' For Illustration, I
would as soon risk the rights Of the South
with John J. Crittenden,,. pf Kentucky, as
any man in the Union, yet he; voted against
"lecompton," and I wpaldivote for it were I
a member of either tfi .'Sfcnate; or House.
I have no taste for that eecliotml fanaticism,
whether it reside in Massachusetts or South
Carolina, which requires riiy neighbor to see
things in precisely the same light that I do,
and denounces him as a tmitor because he
cannot so see them, Such intolerance is
worse than the chains which despotism
. forges for the limbs of its debteed subjecU.
There has been aa immense amount of po
litical villainy mixed up. with the Kansas
business from its inception to the present
time, and the end is not yet, though it is be
lieved the committee of conference may sue
ceed in ridding Congresi of the question.
The Administration has failed in several
of . its measures, and the President has no
doubt been much annoyed. Still, you must
place but little reliance in the many reports,
put forth by letter-writers, about dissensions
1. 1 r- l ' . .. 1 1 1. i i.i. r 1 1 n :
ill mu onuiiiBfc auu mo ucuiiii oi me i resi
dent giving Way under the continually accu
mulating cares nnd troubles of his position
Your professional letter-writer generally is a
man of words, of fancy," not of facts, and
his statements should at all times be taken
with many giains of allowance. My oppor
tunities for information are pretty good.
I assure you there are no serious dissensions
among the members of the Cabinet, and that
old Buck looks hearty and robust enough for
a second term a contingency, that, accord
ing to some of those who study the ever
ehiftiogpoliticnl horizon, may possibly oc
cur.
Another subject you hiay oaten the appre
hensions of your readers about: Dissolution
of the Union. No one her of influence and
position dreams of such : a catastrophe hU
though allusions to it are occasionally heard
in both branches of Congress. Calm your
fears on that score, if yon have any. ' The
time for dismemberment and division has not
arrived yet; and God forbid that it ever
should. . -i
There is said to be a prospect now of set
tling up the "Mormon .War" without much
bloodshed. Tho difficulty ms given the Ad
ministration no little uneasiness, and the
policy is to avoid n conflict as long as possi
ble, with the hope that the deluded people of
Utah will finally succumb to the United
States authorities without a resort to force
U Minors have been rife recently that the
President would shortly send in a message
in reference to Fpnnish agressions, with a
squint at Cuba, nnd that we shall soon have
Stirling times. - I do not place much reli
ance in them, and shall wait the appearance
of the message with all the equanimity lean
command.
You will have received intelligence of the
death of that extraordinary mnn.THOs. Hart
Benton. In many respects, he had' no supe
rior. Thus one. after another the 'mighty
men who succeeded the Conscript: Fathers
nnd sustained and perfected the, structure
which they reared, are passing from our
sphere, and, judging from the majority that
now find their way to place and station, a
race of pigmies are springing in their stead.
May the memory of their greatness and la
bors ever keep us faithful to the Union!
The member from the Second District of
your State, Mr. Maynard, has made a favor
uble impression in . the House, and, unless
he should full into a habit fatal to so many
that of speaking too oftenbe promisee to
take rank among iu ablest hid most useful
members.
Washington is, pfcrlinps'i ju its' municipal
regulations, the worst governed city in the
Union. Murders and-robberies are almost
of nightly occurrence. ThWpVfie frequently
consort with the perpetrators! of these out
rages, nnd there seems to be no longer safe
ty for life or property. Uulesi efficient mea
sures are speedily adopted to bring about a
different condition of things, the peoplo will
have to take the punishment of the outlaws
into their own hands.
Should you think my scrawls worth pub
lishing, I will write you again ae i find leisure
and inclination. J. G. I.
Trains Running Through th(t Blue
Ridge Tunnel. Tho passenger train on the
Central Rail Road for Stanton, Va., ran
through the Blue Ridge Tunnel, on Tuesday,
and hereafter the trains on the road will run
through it regularly. , i.
Polite. The N. Y. Herald Is very com
plimc utnry to the Democratic editors. For
instance, it snys:
The Democratic journals in New Hamp
shire, from the Concord Patriot down, are
conducted by blockheads and nincompoops.
Bacon Is selling here at 8g cents hog
round. Wheat, red, 60 cents per bushel.
tf The Nashville papers quote Bacon at
8n8J, with declining tendency.
Augusta Provision Market. Beef on
foot 7a8 cents; Hogs 7)a8. Beef, retail, 10
al3i; Mutton 9a 10; Pork 1013; Veal 10a
13 per !
- RAILROAD CONVENTION.
. Mr. E. A. Goodwyn, the efficient Gen'l
Agent of the South-Side Railroad, has just
returned, says the Petersburg Express, from
the Convention of Railroad officers held In
Chattanooga, last week, for the purpose of
arranging a schedule for the through line
from this city, Richmond, Washington and
New York, to Memphis and New Orleans.
Wo learn from him that the design of the
Convention was fully and admirably carried
out, and ample and liberal arrangements
agreed upon for the accommodation of travel
lers. The roads represented were the South
Side," Orange & Alexandria, Richmond Si
Danville, Virginia Si Tennessee, East Ten
nessee Si Virginia, East Tennessee Si Geor
gia, Nashville & Chattanooga, Memphis Si
Charleston. The schedule adopted by th
Convention makes the entire line direct with.
out detention.
From Memphis to Petersburg and Rich
mond, or vice versa, the time required will be
58 hours, to or from New York, three days
and eighteen hours. From Memphis to New
Orleans, the passengers will have the choice
of travelling eit'ier by railway or by steam
boat, full arrangements being effected on
both sides. Tickets will be issued from all
intermediate points, and in fact everything
arrnnged complete. The schedule will take
effect on the nth of May . next, at which
time the staging on tho East Tennessee and
Virginia road w ill be obviated, and the entire
route one continuous line of railway.
An Unhappy Editor. Our neighbor of
the Cleveland Banner, who was up here last
week, seems to have met w ith some disturb
ing and unpleasant incident! before he reach
ed home. Tho following is the account of
his trip as published in his paper of the 16th
"We have been at Athens b part of the
present wcex, w hicii accounts lor the more
than usually interesting character of our edi
torial columns. Athens, though not us large
as somo oilier places, is one ol llie plensnnt-
est of villages; and notwithstanding we have
heretofore lied a good deal about it, we be
lieve it will be in a few years, in a business
point of view, as it is now in every other re
spect, the best town on the inilroad.
"After knocking round a couple of days,
collecting more money than we ever collect
in the samu time in our own eounty, and be
ins refreshed by an hour or two's conversa
tion with the pleasant and clever editor of
the Post, we concluded to make tracks for
home. On reaching tho depot, which is about
the same distance Irnm town as that at Cleve
land, but more accessible in bad weather, we
entered the oflice to wait for the down train
Being somewhat fatigued, after purchasing
a ticket we reclined on one of the benches,
when w-e were roughly ordered out by a rail
road official with the polite information that
they didn't furnish lodgings for strangers.
Hardly h aa we passed through the "hole 'h
carpenter hod made," w hen a chap hailed us
with "I say, feller, help ni to carry this
trunk! We meeKlv passed to the extreme
east part of the depot, and took hold of the
end of a large trunk, which we assisted to
place in the desired location and were di
charged without the customary dime. Sadly
pondering on our hard fate we passed slowly
along, nnd stumbled in among a pile of bag
gage, when we were, greeted with, "d n
you get out of this!" adding in an under
tone, "wonder what tho d I you expect to
steal here." just at this moment the train
arrived, and Conductor Urocius called out to
us: "here, get into the cars and go home be
fore thH cows eat you up!" . We crawled in
to the car like n whipped hound and threw
ourself recklessly into a sent. Smash! we
squatted on a lady's bnnd-bnx. She seeing
the damage we d none, squalled out: " There,
you great gander-legs, you've spiled mv new
bonnet!" Concealing our shame nnd confu
sion as well as we could, we subsided into
the smallest possible dimensions until we
were dumped out of the curs nt the Cleve
land depot.
"Upon the whole, it was the most interest
ing trip we ever made, and if we are ever
treated that wsy again, somebody will be
apt to catch It.
Close Voting. At one o'clock, on the
14th, Mr. Stephens, of Ga moved that the
message of the Senate, asking a conference
with the House upon the bill for the admis
sion of Kansas into the Union, be taken up.
Mr. Montgomery, (Dem.) of Pennsylvania,
moved that the House insist upon its amend
ment, nnd on this motion demanded the pre
vinus question. The vote upon ordering the
previous question was: Yeas, 108 Noes,107
the Speaker voted in the negative, making
it a tie, and me onject ot air. Montgomery
was defeated.
Mr. English, (Dem.) of Indiana, then mov
ed that the sor.ference asked for by the Sen
ate be granted, and upon that motion de
manded the previous question. The previous
question being sustuined, the motion was
then carried, the vote being yens, 108; nays,
108, nnd the Speaker voting in the affirma
tive! The fate of both propositions to insist,
nnd to grant the proposed conference were
determined, it will be observed, by the vote
of the Speaker,
Fire. About 2 o'clock, A. M., yesterday,
the dry goods store of W. SI. & J. Camp
bell, situated on Market street, below Church,
was discovered to be on fire. It burnt rapid
ly, and, together with the entire stock of
poods, was soon destroyed. The house of
H. & J. Metz adjoining, north, became in
volved and was partially burnt, with n por
tion of the stock of ready made clothing
contained. The grocery store of Robert
King, next door above, together with the
slock on hand, also sustained some dnmagp.
The Messrs. Campbell, we learn, had no in
surance; the Messrs. Metz were partially in
sured. .The firemen, as usual, did tlieirdmy
faithfully and effectual ly. Xashville Patriot,
20i. .
Aint A Caring. The Livingston (Ala.)
Messenger answers an interrogatory from
one of its democratic cotemporaries in rela
tion to Kansas, as follows:
. "Well, to be ser'wut and answer you plain
ly, we do not care one continental darn w he
ther Kansas is ever admitted or not! That
country is filled up principally by rogues
nnd rascals, and if they are not nil hoio
abolitionists they will be in a few year
to keep up with the present Aatwnal Demo
cratic Administration."
The Senators and the Saints. A me
morial from the Legislature of Utah, couched
in Brigham Young's customary insolence of
tone, was presented in the United States
Senate on Wednesday, and luid on the table,
by a vote of 13 to 33.
These polygamous rebels will probably be
persuaded, by nnd by, that Congress has no
mind to put up with their insults forever, and
that forbearance, nt Washington, ia rupidly
ceasing to be virtue.
tW That man who is afraid to make nn
enemy, or afraid of his enemies when they
come ready made as come they will is not
made of quite the metal to cat his way thro'
this world.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, April 14. An address from
the people of Salt Lake City was read in the
Senate to day. They ask a redress of their
grievances nnd complain of the utter con
tempt with which the acts of their Governor
and Assembly have been treated. They point
to conflicts between the United States troops
and the States as indicative of the decay of
the Union, adding that riots occur even in
Congress. They recount their trials and ex
pulsion from the western States, and speak
of the Utah expedition aa unwelcome, saving
that no officer protected by the Administra
tion shall exercise dominion over them while
the army remains in the Territory. They
vow to uphold Brigham Young and hia poli
cy, and by the help of God, to maintain their
religion, &c.
Washington, April 15. The Senate on
yettslerdny passed a resolution to adjourn on
.Monday tho 7lh of June.
To dny in the Senate the Consular appro
priation bill was passed, and the Pacific Rail
way bill was discussed. ..
In the House the conference committee
appointed consists of Win. II. English, of
Indiana, A. I J. otephens, ol tiuorgta, and
Wm. A. Howard, ol Michigan.
This committee is to cooler with the com
mittee of the Senate in relation to the differ
ences of the two branches of Congress on
the bill tor the admission or Kansas.
The Committee on commerce reported to
day in a bill appropriating 81.600,000 to con
tinue the river and harbor improvements; and
only recommended -three new works.
. . -F . I . I I.
Washington, April 17. In the Senuto to-
duy the Pacific railway bill was postponed
until next Dec -mber, by a vote of 25 to 32.
The Deficiency bill comes up on Monday.
In the House, to-day, privute bills -vere
considered. The Conference Committee on
the Kansas bill have had two meetings, but
as yet have not agreed upon any course to
recommend Congress to pursue. The final
meeting of the committee will take place on
Monday, and in case of continued disagree
ment, the Senate will probably request the
House to appoint another committee.
Washington, April 17. A gentleman has
just reached this city from Camp Scott, who
expresses the opinion that Colonel Johnston
is perfectly able to cope with any Mormon
force which he may meet; and that the offi
cers and nen are all anxious to commence
active operations.
Wasiiiigton. April 19. In the Senate to
day the deficiency bill was discussed. In the
House the Washington police bill was under
consideration. No notion was taken in either
branch.
The House Committee on Foreign Aff.irs
will report in favor of the abrogation of the
Clayton Bulwer treaty.
Tho Kansas conference committees failed
to agree at their meeting this morning. It is
understood that at the next meeting a substi
tute for tho Lecompton bill will be presented
in the form of an ordinance, which will be
referred to the vote of the people of Kansas;
and if they approvo of it, then that Territo
ry will be admitted into tho Union by the
proclamation of the President, but if rejected
by the people then n new Constitution will
be required to be formed, and the Territory
admitted when it is known by census returns
that Kansas has a- sufficient representative
population. '
It is understood that the original policy of
tho administration has uidergone no change
in respect to Utah. Powell and McCulloch
nre not sent as peace commissioners, but ns
agents for counsel and alvice during the pro
gress of the army. Col.' Johnston has not
been ordered to await their arrival.
G- ii. Harney has received his final instruc
tions, and leaves to-morrov.
Flunketism. I he Washington corres
pondent of the New York Times informs the
"good society" readers of that journal, that
"The Saturdoy receptions nt the White House
ore the more agreeable from the fact that
both the clerks mid trades-people of Wash
ington are unable to attend them." The
mnn who writes thus must be one of those
miserable jxtrvenues with which society in
this country is so greatly cursed. The
"trades-people" are the bone and sinew of
our country, the fabricators of its greatness,
the pillars of its prosperity; and no man of
good breeding, or with a particle of brains,
will affect to despite them.
Mexican Affairs. Zulsoga is reducing
the Mexic.m people generally into submission
to his government. Only Vera Cruz sti'l
holdsoutfortheComonfortparty. By timely
compromises with the Church authorities,
which ore ail powerful there, and by prompt
ly restoring to them the property confiscated
by Comonfort, he is giving his power an ap
pearance of stability at home; while, by ma
king friends with Spain, he has secured him
self from danger from abroad. By these two
mat-tor strokes of policy he has also given
the Santa Anna party Usi quietus for the
present. This is Zuloagus brief hour of
sunshine. The showers writ follow. The
political skies of Mexico know only April
weather.
Bridging the Mississippi. The people of
St. Paul, Minnesota, have recently voted to
raise a loan of one hundred thousand dollars
to complete the bridge now in course of con
struction across the Mississippi at that place.
The estimated cost is one hundred and forty
thousand dollars, and the structure ii to be
completed during the coming summer.
IriT" Mr. Trippe, of Georgia, in his speech
last Wednesday iu the House of Representa
tives, said: "The Kansas question had created
such a sectional excitement, that the Amer
ican party fell between Democrats and Repub
licans, like a righteout man between thiecet."
A Capital Fellow. An editor at the
East says: "Our stock in trade consists of
industry, economy and untiring perseverance.
Our industry we consider worth to us at least
fifteen thousand dollars, economy fifteen
thousand dollars, perseverance fifteen thou
sand dollars, making in all an active capital
of forty-five thousand dollars."
Foreign. The steamship Arsgo arrived
at New York on the 30th, with four days
later advices. The Liverpool Cotton market
had advanced 1 8d and was sclive and firm.
Breadstuff reported dull. In London money
is abundant.
The mammoth iron steamship, the Levia
than, hsd got adrift from her moorings, but
had been secured without being In the slight
est degree injured.
" REPUDIATION.
There seems to be no doubt that Mr. Jef
ferson waa the father of Repudiation. Ilia
biographer, Mr. Randall, not only admits the
fact, but glories in it. Ha first broached the
subject in a letter, from France, to Mr. Madi
son. Mr. Madison dissented. The biogra
pher says:
-Ninety-nine out of nearly everv hundred
well educated persons in fie Uuitrd States,
we doubt not, would have concurred w ith the
conclusions of Mr. Madison at the period
wnen inese letters were written. iny, we
can readily fancy thuhard names" that would
hnve beeu showered upon J. fferson then, had
his views found publication. But it has hap
pened in this instance ns with most of his
political 'radicalisms.' But little over half
century has p issed away, and they are now
adopted ana practiced theories nmonir men.
constantly spreading over and controlling
inrjjnr portions 01 nuionn society anc wnere
they huve not been adopted by the majority.
they are no longer met ns frightful innova
tions, but as open questions where men have
a nutit to doubt and discuss. Hie principal
practical application which Al r. Jefferson pro
posed to make of the above theory the limi
tation of power of goternmenls to contract
debts beyond the life of a generation, and a
provision, in all instances, simultaneous with
the contracting for the payment of annual in
terest has been engrafted with the happiest
ellecia into the constitution ot several Amen
can States. The radicalism of the eighteenth
century becomes conservatism in tho nine
teenth." We hope ninety-nine out of every hundred
would have repudiated this odious doctrine
at that day we hope the whole hundred
would repudiate it now. It is nothing more
or less, as for as we can see, than the incul
cation of downright robbery. Several loco
loco States acted it out, but we do not think
their example is likely to be followed in i
hurry. Pennsylvania tried it, and her "drab
colored men" will never get over the stiir'na
as long ss she remains a State. Sidney
Smith consigned them to immortal infamy.
Mississippi tried it under the lead of Gover
nor McNutt, nnd Mississippi will never re
cover from the stench of the transaction, until
it repudiates locofocoism, nnd pays its debts,
This system of plunder, so quaintly termed
"political radicalism" by Mr. Randall, does
not suit our people yet a while, thank Meav
en, whatever may be their feelings towards it
a few years hence. There are certain other
little "radicalisms" which, although they re
ceived the sanction of Mr. Jefferson's name,
are not likely to be much admired, by South
ern people at least. One of these is aboli
tionism, and the other infidelity. These are
"nut adopted nnd practiced theories" among
men in the South, nnd though they are not
regarded as "frightful innovations" they are
looked upon as something fully as bad.
Richmond Whig.
Times at Leavenworth. A leaven
worth, (Kansas) letter published in the Bos
ton Post, says :
"A general complaint of 'hard times' is
heard upon every hand. An unusual and un
collected scarcity ol money is experienced in
consequence of tho inability of the Govern
ment to pay the liabilities incurred in the
purchase of mules, horses, forage, grain and
produce. The purchases have been unusuul-
ly large this year, and faith in the solvency
of the Government has given them almost
tlfb monopoly of the market. Drafts drawn
bv the Quartermaster al the tort payable 'five
days alter the passage of the Appropriation
bill are selling at a tremendous shave. The
universal outcry is one of indignation at the
neglect of Congress to provide for its inevi
table expenses, aud very little gratitude is
felt toward those philanthropic friends of
Kansas w ho insist upon postponing its ma
terial interests to indulge themselves in high
falutin comparisons between Topuk.i and Le
compton. 1 he taste for this sort of thing is
rapidly becoming satiated, and 'bleeding Kan
sas' is becoming as offensive in the nostrils
of its own people as elsewhere.
UTThe Memphis Avalanche of the 13th
insl., has a severe phillipio againt Bolton,
who was acquitted last week at Covington,
of the murder of McMillan. It charges th-.t
the trial was a most shameful mockery, a
miserable burlesque upen justice. Then-suit
has surprised no one. 1 he Judge did his
duty, the prosecution wan ably conducted,
but the pleadings ot justice was lost mid the
silvery ring of the almighty dollar. From all
we can learn, a more diabolical murder was
never committed, but the assassin had money,
and hence escaped unwhipt of justice. Bul
lous acquittal fully vermes what the poet
said centuries ago:
" Plate sin with gold,
And the itrons lance or Justice hurtle" breaks;
Clothe it In rars, a pigmy straw
Doth pierce It."
When this scandalous butchery was first
committed, justice cried so loud for the mur
derer's Mood, that an indignant public could
scarcely wait for tho slow nnd tardy process
of law. But the accused has gone through
the mockerv of a trial, and triumphantly ac
quitted of the murder of McMillan. This is
l-a-w lLfauu JS'eivt.
The Flood. A despatch from St. Louis
dated Wednesday, 14th, says thut frightful
consequences are apprehended to lower Mis
sissippi, by the combined floods now coming
from the upper rivers. The Mississippi is
rising from St. Paul down. The Missouri
nod Illinois are both high and rising. All
their tributaries are at flood height, occasion
ed solely by the hesvy rains through the
whole western and north-western country.
Should the usual spring mountain rise, now
occur, Immense devastation will necessarily
follow.
Rumored Slave Insurrection at St.
Croix. Captain Ward, of the bark Hyperion,
from Trinidad (Port Spain,) arrived at New
York Monday, reports having touched at
West End br St. Croix, about 3d inst., and
that a schooner had just arrived at thut place
full of passengers, fleeing from an Insurrec
tion that had taken place on that Island. An
English wur steamer lying at West End, im
mediately got under wsy and proceeded to
Antigua. No further particulars are given.
A Green Old Age. The "Stuyvesant
Pear Tree," w hich stands on the corner of
Third avenue and Thirteenth street, New
York, is again in bud. It -"as planted in 1547
two hundred and eleven years ago.
IjfT Some little progress in manufacturing
enterprise hue been made In Miaisippi.
The Mississippi Mniifscturing Company has
factory In Choctaw county, about forty-five
miles from Grenada. Its capital is (80,000.
It wna established In 1848. Its clear profits
for the last four year have not been less
than thirty per cent, per annum on the capital
invested, lis chief operationa are in making
cotton yarn, eotton osnaburgs and linseya.
The only things you can safely put
off till to-morrow are idleness and vice.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Attention is invited to the annexed article
in relation to the Southern Pacific Railroad
It is copied from the New Orleans Creole
one of the best snd most reliable newspaper
prims in Louisiana:
Tho "logic of dollars," presented by the
Bulletin of last week upon this subject, elicit
ed so much interest that we propose to ex
tend this line of argument, to uulo'd the sub
ject of its pecuniary aspect. We huve, here
tofore, viewed it politically, socially and com
mercially, and now to the dollars. It is pro
posed to sell only I2,000,OdO of five per
cent, stock six millions of this amount be
ing sold. This amount of stock sold, w i
furnish the means, ample and abundant, with
the assets of the company, to construct at
least fifty miles of the road: when this
done, the company will be entitled to receivn
from the State of Texas 513,000 acres of
land, and a loan of six thousand dollars per
mile, making 8300,000. The rights of the
company will then be complete nnd fixed-
subject to no forfeitures. J he company may
issue, we think sale I y, $3,000,000 of its
bonds upon 513,000 acres of laud, and a road
in full operation of fifty miles, with fair, yea
certain assurance of n ready sale.
This amount could be expended in slaves,
and, at Itfl.SOU each, would purchase, if sold
at par, 3,000 hands. They, together with the
land, would constantly add, by finishing sec
tion alter section or the rond, additional lai;ds
to the property of thecompnny for, it is be
lieved, 3,000 hands can construct two hun
dred miles per annum. The loan of six
thousand dollars pr aiile is almoat sufficient
to purchase the iron nnd equip the road.
The money acquired by -the issue of bonds
upon the 512,000 iicibs of land for the first
fifty miles of road, being invested in property,
becomes, in addition to. the road and the
lands, security of the fullest, most unbounded
character for the protection and payment of
the bonds oi ttie company. There can be no
difficulty in selling bonds which are so per
fectly secured. It will thus be seen how the
pittance of five per cent paid upon the SCO,
000,000 of stock Is ample to construct tho
rond ihroti.'b the State of Texas, because its
expenditure brings the company in full pos
session of property, rihts and franchise
nnd neh section thereafter supplies addition
al resources to the company as the work pro
giesies. Three millions p dd upon the sixty
millions of stock, constitute nil that can be
required of its stockholders. If more be
needed, it will nut be raised by additiunal or
further calls or assessments upon this stock,
but from the sale of more stock. It is, how
ever, believed no more will b- needed. Then,
it will be seen that three millions constitute
the capital, by stockholders; and the Stnte of
Texas supplies the remainder of the means
to construct the road.
The lowest estimates placed upon the
hinds which this company will acquire, is rive
dollars per acre. We believe they will yield,
if well selected and wisely disposed of, the
price of the lands belonging to the Illinois
Central Railroad, and more, selling at about
fifteen dollars per acre. Al the lowest prices
they will give the company g 10,000,000.
The estimated cost of the road, by able and
competent engineers, fixes it nt less than
15 000,000. lt us, however, assume the
cost at $30,000,000. Now w ho nets the sur
plus 830,000,000? The 3,000,000 of stock
subscribed nnd paid for, which will be $33,
334; for every $5 paid by stnckholde t. This
the stockholders will receive as a fund for
distribution, or else expend it in building the
road from El I'uso to the Pacific Ocean.
Who then, receives the dividends from the
road itself, which is believed, by calc tinting
men, will not fall short of twenty or twenty
five per en t. upon its. actual cost? The
three millions of capital paid in by stockhol
ders must receive annually and forever, the
dividends. It will thus be seen the most en
ormous results which ever came from so pal
try nn investment must and will inevitably be
realized with a faithful administration of this
work. Let us assume the Illinois Central
lands ns a basis of calculation and we think
even this below the reality and what have
we t
The vast sum of one hundred nnd twenty
millions of dollnrs. Twenty million expend
ed upon the mud, leaves $100,000,000 for
distribution. Who gets it? The $3,000,000
of cnpiiul stock of the company must be the
basis of its distribution I For every $5 paid
in bv stockholders, they then have upward
of $160 for distribution; nnd tho annual
profits of the road which has cost the sum of
$20,000,000.
Kansas in the South. The New Orleans
True Delta, in referring to the Green-Pugh
amendment to the Kansas bill, says: "South
ern men may aupport, in the House of Rep
resentatives, as they have done in the Senate
of the United States, propositions so trans
parently unsound and incompatible with their
professed principles at home; but such aup
port will neither deceive or mislead the peo
ple, who, upon this Kunsaa humbug, In all
its aspects, are neither to be frightened into
alarm dangerous to the stability of their deep
rooted principles, merely to ward off from
themselves an imaginary danger, to enable
their servants to enrich themselves and their
connections by the spoils of place. Delegates
from the South may vote to admit Kansas
into the Union on the Lecompton programme,
which hits passed the Senate, and the will of
the people of that interesting Territory may
be thus set at nuught and defied; but the mnn
or men who do it will look In vuiu to their
constituents for their npproval."
Col. Benton's Will.-j-CoI. Benton's will(
it is stated, places his esile in the hands of
Mr. Jones, Mr. Jacob, and Col. Freemont,
(sons-in-luw,) Mr. Montgomery Blair and
Capt. Lee, ns trustees. Kl'he house in Wash
ington, where he passed the lust portion of
his life, Is bequeathed to Mrs. Jones, and his
library to her husband. The remaiuder of
the estuteis equally divided.
T A young man wus lately rode on a
rail and driven out of the neighborhood at
Madison, Monroe county, by the citizens fur
shamefully deserting sn orphan girl, whom
he hud married fur her property.
A circuit judge at a late session of hia
court in one of the western counties, highly
complimented the people upon the fact that
not a single Indictment had been returned.
It is sincerely to be hoped that the compli
ment thus puid to the community, was not
more properly due to the Grand Jury.
(r A new play ia announced in Boston
under the title of "An Editor with $5,000."
The Providence Journal wonders whether ho
was a Government officer or had been rob
bing a bank.
HP" The Supreme Court of California has
decided the case of Biddle Boggs vs. the,
Merced Mining Company reversing the judg
ment of the Court below. The question In
volves the title of Fremont to the mineral
wealth of his Mariposa claim. The Court
decides againat Fremont, and that a fee sim
ple to land doea not carry with it the title to
the gold extracted therefrom. This is eun
si'lertd a greet triumph for, the miners.
Sound Views. The New York Express,
in an article rebuking the spirit nf Free Love
lam, which is manifesting itself in Western
Ohio, gives utterance to the following sound
views:
"When once a people diverge, or are en
couraged from the true paths of conserva
tism, there is no foretelling where they will
end or, in other words, w hen a man catchta
one ism, he ia almost sure lo catch soother.
The New England people have been led ot
lute years to such a high pressure upon the
subject of sluvery and kindred topics, that
w hile some have denied the Bible, because
the Patriarchs were slaveholders and even
Christ, because he did not, when in the midst
nf Roman slavery, rebuke it, as they would
have tbe Tract Society do now others have,
there, gone off into nil sorts of extremes, snd
many into infidelities, licentiousness, ilc.
The mind can be kept sane in a free country
like ours, where free discussion is universal,
only by adhering atrictly and rigidly, in reli
gion, to auch conservatism as the Bible
teaches, and in politics to such conservatism
as is luid down in the great charter of the
Federal Constitution, as illustrated and ex
pounded by its Fathers and Frumeis, snd by
their acts. When once we cut loose front
these charts, we voyage npon unknonn seas,
in unknown regions, without compass, lesd.
or polar star to guide us, or holm to steer
ns."
Spiritualism in the U.S. Senate. The
correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
says :
Hon. N. P. Tullmadp-e. formerly a mamhar
of the United States Senate, in a letter de
fending modern spiritualism from a recent at-1
Lick unon it h Gen. Shield inlimnti a that
a number of our Dinnt Senator ara belie.
ers in the doctrine, and that the political his
tory of 1860 will be greatly effected if not
controled by it. That the former assertion
is entirely true, I happen to know; but that
the hitter will prove eo. I prefer to entertain
some doubts.
Land Wasuants in Kansas. The Lawrence
Republican of the 19th ult., hse the following
ou Lend Warrants in Ksnsss:
We have received a number of letter
making inquiry with regard to tbe location
of land warrants in Kansas. We will state
that no lands in this territory are subject to
an entry by warrants, except by pre-emptere.
who may uae them in payment for their
claims. For this purpose a large demand
now existe for land warrants, 160 aere war
rants selling best, as the office deeided that
but one warrant can bo laid on each claim.
Thus, a pre emptor cannot use two 80 aere-
warrente in payment of 160 acres of lsnd.
but can use one 40, 80 or 120 aore warrant ir -payment
for a coi respondent number of acres
of bis claim, and the remaining portion must
ue paid lor in specie at fl, 'it per acre. Tbe
re-enintor pays at tbe land ottice one dollar
lor eaoli lorry acres paid lor by warrant
Most claims are paid for at the land offices
by warrants, ae the pre-emptore esve thereby
from (20 to 1 50, depending upon the cost of
the warrants. There is conquently no small
demand for 160 sere land warrants in tbe
territory. Owing to the extreme ecareity of
money many warrants are sold to pre
emptore on from three to twelve months
time at an advance on New York prices, and
at from S to 6 per cent, per month interest,
with security on the land pre empted.
This offers to those having land warranta
an excellent opportunity to invest them at
an advance on eastern quotations, where they
will pay a large per eeutage on the invest
ment, and be secured on the real estate that
ie rapidly rising in value.
The Position or tui I'sesidint. There ia
eotne misapprehension as to the supposed po
sition of the President, in regard to the Crit
tenden amendment, which deserves to be cor
rected. My information ie that ha has aerer Y
gone farther than to assert it was clearly
within the province of Congress to authorise
the submission of the Lecompton constitution
to the people, if they saw lit, but in regard
to the latter clause of the amendment, which
provide, in the event of its rejection, that a
new constitution may be framed, and Kansas
be admitted by proclamation of the President, -he
considers it unconstitutional, snd trourf
not $ign th bill, if patted in the pretent form.
More thsn this, it is well understood that the
President was consulted before the reeent
speeches cf Mr. Bigier and Mr. 1'ugh against
the amendment, so that their declarations
may be regarded as quasi reflections of the
views entertained at tbe While House.
Philadelphia Enquirer.
Boston, April 14. The twenty thousand
dollars lately taken from the Grafton Bank
has been recovered. Stock well, the yonng
lad previously arrested on suspicion, on being
examined relative to the robbery, confessed
that a clerk of the bank nrrangtd with him to
be absent while he (the lad) should take the
money nnd hide it iu a box in the bank build
ing, which he did. Upon the clerk's return
ing he went to the box and removed the .
money to a spot near his house. On these
facts being known officers waited upon the
clerk and demanded the money, the whole of
which he returned w ith the exception of eight
dollars.
New York, April 17. The United State
steam frigate Susquehanna, Joshua R. Sands
commander, arrived at quarantine, lower Byr
yesterday, from San Juan. She has on hun
dred nnd fifty-five esses of yellow fever en
board, and there were seventeen deatha oo
her passage here. Eighty-five patients were
left at Kingston Jamaica, including six of her
officers. Mnrine Officer, First Lieutenant,
Henry VV. Queen, (a native of Maryland, but
appointed to the service from the D'wtriet ef
Columbia on the 14th March, 1841) ie ta
only officer of 4he frigate whose death ie an
nounced.
New York, April 19. Coiuonfott write
to the Herald, denying auy connection with
Walker or any other filibuster, and snys he
has no knowledge of their plans r sympathy
With them.
The Black Warrior has arrive with Ha
vana dates of the Nth. Sugar firm; Eighteen
British guu-boats hsve been atutionti along
Cuba to prevent I We landing of slaves. Taey
have boarded and searched several Aanerisen
vessels.
Mobile, April 30. Sales of eotton yester
day 1,200 bales at rather aliffer prices, but
quotations are uuchnnged. The receipts
sinus Saturday morning are 9,370 bales.
Nsw Orleans, April SO. Hales of cotton
yesterday 6,500 bales at unchanged prices.
Sugar firm aud Flour active.
Savannah, April 19. Sales of Cotton to
day 3,150 bales. The market is firm at full
prices, and with a good demand. Good Mid
dling 13t cents.
Charleston, April ID. Sales of cotton
to day 1,700 bales, at advancing prices. Mid
dling Fair 13 cents.
New Yoiik, April 19. Sales of cotton to
day 300 Imles, snd the market very dull.
Flour firm, w ith sales or 14,500 barrels, at
an advance of 5c. per. barrel on Ohio grades.
Wl,u,.t huuo. -l ,.r n nun hnJieTs: red
$1 13 a $1 30, and while 1 37 a SI 45.
Corn firm; bales 43,000 bushels; while ivt"
and yellow Ttt cents.
n . a ...ii iu I'ntiiinsslee to
day, 800 bales, at 13 to I3 cents. There
ia a fair demand al full and stiffening price1.