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Vice President Breckinridge.

This gentleman made speech in the
hall of the House of Representatives at
Frankfort, KY, on the evening of the 2lst
inst. The Louisville Courier says:
He discussed briefly the important po
litical issues of the day, and assumed a
bold and decided position on the question
of slavery. He would stand blythe bred
Scott decision, which he fully endorsed
and approved. He denied that Congress
had the power to prohibit or abolish slave
ry in the Territories; nor had the Terri
torial Legislature any such power. He
denounced "uniriendly legislation
against slavery in the Territories, and
held that the South should stand by the
laws and constitution, and require the
same of others. Congress could protect
slavery in the Territories, and ought to
do so when necessary, though he regard
ed no necessity existing at this time for
the enactment of protective laws. He
then referred in strong terms to the Har-
per's Ferry affair. and declared that the
Union was eminently endangered by the
action of the black republican party. He
opposed fillibustering and the re-opening
Of the slave trade. ...
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MORE ABOUT THE SEcEDINo STUDENTS
From the following, extracted from the
New York Journal of Commerce, it ap-
pears that the Richmond Enquirer's state
ment in relation to thesecession of South
ern students from the Colleges of New
York city, was premature. The journal
says: " r
SOUTHERN MEDICAL SruDENrs.-The
Richmond Enquirers statement relative
to an intended withdrawal of $50 South
ern Medical Students from this city is
believed to be incorrect The Southern
students at the University Medical Col
lege, who number probably twice as many
as those at any other college in the city,
have resolved, with but very few excep-
tions, to continue their course. Their
action will undoubtedly be followed by
the Southerpers in all our Medical Col
leges, in no one of which, so far as we can
ascertain, has any Southern stampede
, ever been contemplated. .g
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swept round the glacis and flanked it,
They were seen to fall numbers shot
down from the embrazures. But the liv.
ing took the place of the dead, and the
fight ranged evenly there. Where are
the colors? Towards the rear. There
the Colonel and hundred men are fight
ing hand to hand with the Prussians,
who have charged out at the bastion.--
Success there and the bastion must fall
both sides know this.
All in a moment the colors disappeared
There was groan from the French line
No! there they were again, and close un.
der the bastion.
And now in front the attack was SO hot,
that often the Prussian gunners were
seen to jump down, driven from their
posts; and the next moment a fierce hur-
rah from the rear told that the French
had won some great advantage there
and presently down came the Prussian
flagstaff. That might be accident A
few moments of thirsting expectation,
gade upon the Bastion st. Andre
The whole French army raised shout
that rent the sky, and their cannon be-
gan to play on the Prussian lines, and be-
tween the bastion and the nearest fort,
to prevent recapture. Then shot from
The earth cubic acre of fire., where last
the bastion was seen; it carried up a
heavy mountain of red and black smoke.
that looked solid as marble. There was
a heavy, sullen, tremulous explosion, that
snuffed out the sound of the cannon
and paralized the French and Prussian
gunners' hands, and checked the very
beating of their hearts. Thirty thousand
pounds of gunpowder were in that awful
explosion. s.l.
War itself held its breath, and both
armies, like peaceful spectators, gazed
wonder struck, terror struck. Great hell
seemed to have burnt through the earth's
crust, and to be rushing at heaven
Huge stones, cannon, corpses, and limbs
OF soldiers, were seen driven or falling
through the smoke. Some of these came
quite clear of the ruins, aye. into the
French and Prussian lines, that even the
veterans put their hands to their eyes.
Raynal felt something spatter on him
from the sky it was blood-a comrades
perhaps. Oh war! war!
The smoke cleared. Where moment
before the great bastion stood and fought.
was a monstrous pile of blackened bloody
stones and timbers, with dismounted
cannon sticking up here and there.
And rent and crushed to atoms be-
neath the smoking mass, lay the relics of
the gallant brigade and their victorious
colors.
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SOUTHERN SnoEs.-One Of our cotempo-
raries asks: "What is to hender us from
manufacturing our own shoes!" 10
which we answer, the want of Shoe Pegs.
Thousands of bushels Of shoe pegs are
brought from the North and sold to South
ern nshoe-makers. Is lsitpossible that there
is no wood in the Southern States suitable,
or that the manufacture of Il shoe peg is
beyond Southern ingenuity? We know
the contrary and we think that those
who very properly advocate the manufac-
ture of southern shoes had better begin
at the beginning and let their motto be,
Independence in Shoe Pegs.---4uJuSta
Dspatch f
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A GEORGIA CRITICISM ON TIE ALABAMA
SENATE.-The Senate of Alabama having
passed series of brave resolutions, re-
commencing the Governor to call a Con-
vention to consider how to protect the
State in case a Republican President
'seizes" the government, the Atlanta
(Ga.) American says: -.l.
"The simple meaning of the preamble
and resolutions passed by the Alabama
Senate is the same as that of Democratic
resolutions generally, viz AS long as our
leaders can retain power and govern the
country, no matter what they do, we
consider the Union great blessing, and
the paramount public good;" but just as
soon as our leaders lose po,oer, orwhen ever
they have so misgoverned tho country,
and become SO corrupt that the people
threaten-dnd only thredten-to eject them,
then in our judgment, the time has come
to dissolve the Union That is the gist
ofthe whole of their resolves, editorials
and speeches."
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POPULATION, PROPERTY AND DEBT OF
NIRGINA.-The Auditor of Virginia's re-
port gives the increase of population in
that State, from 1850 to 1859, thus whites
1913, lis, or % per cent. gain; free blacks
1875, or per cent. gain. The total val.
ue of assessable property is set down by
the Auditor at SLAB, ,0S7, which being
divided between l,0S7,9lS persons, the
total number of the whole population
givesto each Sl057. The total debt is
$50, l06,559, the entire annual interest of
which is 81, 1877, 1898.
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Save Your Earnings.

The practice which apprentices, clerks
and others have of spending their earn
ngs as they accumulate, is one great
reason why so many never attain posi-
ton above mediocrity in life. A person
who receives but a small compensation
for his services, will, with a little care
over his exchequcr, and system of regu-
larity in his expenditures, find that at
the end of the year he is prepared to en-
counter any emergency or mishap. But
as a general thing they manage to get
rid Of their earnings quite as quick as they
are due, leaving them wholly unprepared
for emergencies, by sickness or other
wise. A system of curtailing unnecessary
expenses, if adopted by our younger folks,
would bring around the most happy and
gratifying results, and be the means of
raising to eminence and standing in So
ciety, many who have now contracted
the habit of parting with their earnings
so readily and foolishly-for the habit Of
keeping continually in debt begets indif-
ference and dissipation, a lack Of self-re-
spect, and utter disregard for future pros
poets. The real cause for great deal Of
crime may be traced to the habit Of fool
ish expenditure of money in early days.
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The Next Presidency.

The Augusta Constitutio aalist favors
the nomination of a Southern Democrat
for the Presidency by the Charleston
Convention. 1t says;
The Charleston Convention NAV adopt
q platform which, in reference to slavery
asserts the obligation Of the General Gov
ernment to provide protection for slave
property in the Territories, against un-
friendly legislationor hostile public opn-
ion, by the enactment of slave code for
the Territories; but this will not secure
its nominees the undivided support of
the South 1t must do something more
than this, and that something in our
opinion, is The nompiaton Of some southern
manto the Presidsss,A. teho is thoroughly soutt-
ern, wthom Jei,, w., III teehny, in IN
terest and in opI Scii--a nomination
will commant bort of the entire
South, and V Democratic par
ty from all t pch have been
brought again hsincerity and
double dealing I subject of slave
ry. Such a nomi Hon, too, will test Sc
verely the soundn&s of northern Demo-
Gratis, and that is an additional reason
why it should be made For many years
past, the nominees of the party have been
northern men. Indeed within the last
quarter of century, Mr.. Polk is the only
southern man who has been nominated
for the Presidency by the Democratic
party. We care nothing about an equal
division of the honors of the party be.
tween the two sections of the Union, but
we want to see the soundness of our north
ern allies demonstrated; and this can be
Ia L..
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The TuRF-'TESNEssEE AND VIRGINIA.
Tho Momphis Avalanche saws.

The TURF-TENNEssEE AND VIRGINIA.
The Memphis Avalanche says:
A gentleman well known to turfmcn
as perfectly reliable to all his transactions,
Yesterday desired us to state that lie
would wager $4,000 that he could pro-
dnce a nag which would beat the celebra-
ted Virginia clipper planet" in a four
mile heat race, to be run over the Mem
phis course whenever the match is made.
We don't know the animal which the
gentleman has in view and would pit
against the acknowledged King of the
turf in this country, but as he is "know-
ing one" and the proposition was made
in earnest we presume that the sun
known" must be crack horse.
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Esy- The Directors of the Bank of
Commerce, and also, of the Mechanics
Saving bank, in Savannah, have declared
a semi-annual dividend of four per cent.
4 The Directors of the Macon and Wes-
tern Railroad Company have declared a
semi-annual dividend of nine per cent.
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Austria.

The following is the strange story about
the resignation of the Emperor, referred
to by telegraph. 1t is taken from a let
ter from Pesth ON the 7th inst
"A piece of news so extraordinary has
reached the high political circles of this
city, that it is not without hesitation ven
ture to communicate it, and yet these
circles have excellent means of obtaining
the earliest and best information. The
news is, that the Emperor of Austria con-
templates abdicating the crown in favor
of his son, a child born on the 2lst of Au-
gust, 1858, and appointing as Regent his
brother, the Archduke Maximiian, for
mer1y Governor of Lombardo. Venetia.-
The reason assigned for the projected alb
dicaton, is that the Emperor sees with
dismay that Austria is going to wreck
and ruin and shriEks from the risk of fig
uring personally in history as "t the last of
the lIapsburg" On the other hand, being
an obstinate and ng-headed young
man, he will not. consa1k to make the i'm
portant concessions t. !. different parts
of his empire, and especially to Hungary,
by which alone the dangers now impend-
ing over Austria could, perhaps, for n
time be averted."
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A "CuMsrxAs FRoLIc."-A Philadel-
phia paper says that several students
who left jefferson College for Richmond.
have returned and resumed their stud
les; stating that they only Joined the
stampede to have Christmas frolic.
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Prices OF HIRING IN VIRGINIA.-The Pc
tersburg Express of Thursday says hire
lings are bringing enormous sums this
season. Female cooks are ranging from
$50 to Sl00; good female house servants
and nurses from $50 to $50, and little
girls from $40 to $40.
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eGFa The Washington States, Of De-
cember 2Sth, mentions a case of "hered-
itary suicide in that city. a young man
by the name of James Stewart, aged nine
teen years, committed suicide by hanging
himself to beam in barn or shed at
his mothers residence. James Stewart,
the father of the deceased who was for
mcrly messenger at the Capitol, was
found dead iE that building, some fonr
or five years, ago, and was supposed
to have committed suiside.
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PRoTEoTIoN OF MARRIED WoMEN.-An
act for the further protection of married
women is before the General Assembly OF
Missouri. 1t provides that all property
beoueathed to the woman after marriage,
or of which she becomes in any way pos
sessed, shall remain hers, independent
of her husbands oontrol.-N. O. True
Dslfa
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WARNING TO SNUFF DIPPERs.-Miss Ten
nessee Gibson died recently near Strang-
er's Home, Lawrence county, Ark. She
was passionately addicted to snuff dip
ping, so much so that she retired for the
night with the poison in her mouth and
in the morning was found a corpse-with
the snuff adhering to her lips.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-13

re- In Australia, when bank sus-
pends, the usual practice is to take tho
President to the nearest tree, and serve
him in the same manner. The remedy
is simple, and is believed by some to be
cflicacious.
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gsY- The female nose in America is
now the subject OF philosophical discus
sion. A German traveller says of our
beautiful ladies: "They cannot be cal
led, in general, beautiful, because they
are wanting in that fullness of form which
perfect beauty requires, and because the
majority of them have long noses" The
Home journal asks, is the length of the
American nose owing to the fact that the
sex, in our country does not allow itself
TO be snubbed
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-01-13

gs, Times are hard in Minnesota
The Governor, in his message, says there
is not money enough in the Treasury to
pay the interest on the State debt of
S2jS 900,
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An IMposTER.-The Dispatch, of Thurs
day, says: "A person calling himself DR..
James Ross, was last week in this city,
and announced that he could cure deaf
ness. He put up at the Augusta Hotel
Among those who tried his skill was a
lady of this city, who has been quite deaf
for years. She made contract with him
mo cure, no pay, but if he cured her she
would pay him S25 As a stranger he in
sisted that this must be paid in advance,
but gave written obligation, on the 23d
inst, that it would be refunded if she was
not essentially relieved on Monday, the
Goth inst. She by appointment called
on Saturday, when he was not in. On
Monday call was made again, when
she ascertained that the DR.. had left on
Saturday. Ho is swindling imposter
and publishers would do well to hand him
around. He is of low statue, heavy built
with large head and face, dark hair, anc
about feet inches in height"
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Bay" The earnings Of the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad for the month of November,
were SlSl 900 against Sl20,0O0 the same
month last year--an increase Of SCI, 900.
The total earnings for the quarter end
ing the Both ult., amount to S425, 900.
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vile to the oath report two engagements
with Cortinas. On the l4th. troop of
three hundred Texan Rangers attacked
a portion of his band, and fell into an
ambuscade. On the Goth, his whole force
was met and defeated, after severe
fight, near Brownsville, and by last ac-
counts was fleeing before hot pursuit.
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neS~ In Texas, out ola population of
453, ,94S returned by the assessors, the to-
tai number of insans persone and idiots
is 26l, or one insune to every 4,0l7 per-
sons, and one idiot to every 5,O6S of the
populution of ta,e State,
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pY~ A firm of Republican merchants
in Chicago are charged with having taken
two negro children, who belonged to a
delinquent Southern debtor, and sold
them for 500.
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Eay- A beautiful woman who hes the
qualities of an accomplished man, is OF
all conversations in the world, the most
delicious. In her is to be found Ill the
merit Of both sexes.
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R1- The bill for the prohibition Of
slavery in Nebraska, which passed the
lower branch of their Territorial Legisla-
ture by vote of 2l to IL, has been de-
feated in the Council by vote Of ] to 6.
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peS- Learn in childhood, if you can,
that happiness is not outside but inside.
good heart and clear conscience
bring happiness /; no riches and no cir
eur,gtarces alone ever do.
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DEATH OF DR. PALMER. w. R. Pal
mer whose name was mixed up with the
IIarper's Ferry foray, and whose arrest at
Memphis, in November last, caused no
little talk and excitement at the time,
died in that city on Saturday last. 3lst OF
December, of Consumption.--NashriNe
D1;Iu Ne,ps
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Gle gost.
Athens, Friday, January 1 8, 1850.
Conversational.

WAsuINGToN, Jan. 3.-In the Senate to-
day, the proceedings of the Union meet
ing in Rochester, were read and tabled
The Hon. A. 6. Brown, of Miss, was
speaking in reference to the Message
lie disagrecs with the President in rela-
ton to the question that slavery in the
Territories has been settled He says
that the judiciary has done all that they
can, but more legislation is necessary
Messrs. Doolittle and Pugh opposed furth-
er legislation.
In the House, the Hon. w. w. Boyce,
of South Carolina, concluded his speech
of last week.
Hon. w. Ii. English of lndianan,
charged the Republicans with endeavor-
ing to reopen the Kansas compromise,
for the purpose of acquiring political
power. ....
There was no ballot for Speaker, in
consequence of the absence of several
Democrats.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-In the Senate
there was nothing of Importance trans
pired.
They have adjourned until Monday.
In the House there were two ballots
for Speaker. On the first ballot l07 were
necessary for choice
John Sherman, of Ohio, 104
c. l.. Vallandigham, OF Ohio, 60
John A. Gilmcr, of n. Carolina II
The remainder were scattering.
On the second ballot LOG were necessary.
John Sherman, of Ohio, l03
Thomas S. Bocock, of Virginia, Sc
Thomas A. II. Nelson, of Tennessee, s
The remainder were scattering.
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n6s- George P. Deatherage, of Rich
mond county, sold last week to Pierce
Davis, of Jessamine county, twenty year
Ing mules 70. S2, loo,--Lou. Dsm.
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BY" Gen. Lane, of Oregon, is one of tho
delegates from his State to the Charles
ton Convention, and is under instructions
to vote for himself for President.
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ESy" The New York Evening Post gives
the following account of a strange case:'
A man by the name of Levi Ostrander
formerly of Mechanicsville, Saratoga,
county, was sentenced to be hung at Lou
isville, KY, on the Goth inst. Ostrander
was tried and convicted of manslaughter;
his counsel appealed and obtained a new
trial, and on this he was convicted of muir
der. An appeal, on the ground that he
could not be convicted Of murder, when
on u former trial he was convicted of a
lesser offence, has been overruled.
The Post adds: We think this case is
without a parallel in tho history of Grim
inal trials.
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nay The word "reverned" occurs only
once in the Bible, which is in the 9th
verse Of the llth Pealm.
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WORTH KNowING.-"Cold Sores" or fe-
yer blsters, as they are sometimes called,
can be prevented by applying piece of
saltpetre to tho effected place, when the
feverish sensation is first felt. Simply
moistcn the lip and apply the saltpetre.
1t is-a sure cure if applied when the
burning sensation is first experienced.
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HEAVY DRAuGHT OF SPECIE.--The At
lanta Intelligencer is informed that the
Cashier of the Bank of Fulton returned
from Augusta, few days since, bringing
with him 100000 in specie, which he
drew from the Augusta Banks in ex-
change for their bills.
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BgyH 1t is said tnat when the massive
walls of the citadelat Quebec We're in pro-
cess of erection so great was the draft on
the treasury of France that the Queen
asked if they were building it of gold!-
The frowning fortress, stands 1000 feet
above the river, and has been appropri-
ately called the "Gibraltar of America"
1t includes about 40 acres on the summit
of Cape Diamond. This mount is COM
posed chiefly of dark slate rock, with
veins Of quartz crystals, sparkling like
diamonds hence the name. In its deep
vaults are deposited fifty-seven thousand
tons of powder. Four Martello towers,
forty feet in height, stand upon the plains
about half mile in advance Of the other
Notifications. This old walled city has a
dark, dingy and forbidden appearance
and one feels on entering its low and
massive gates as if he were going into
prison.