, 1860-03-20
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

J,,ha \. {" D. VIZ Logan announces himself
in the Joucsboro' Go=etts rs candidate Tor re-
election ~ Copyrcss.
Martha, widow Of Oliver Brown, killed at
Harper. Ferry, died ut North ELba On the cd
instant
-I;cv. Henry C. Alexander, son Of The late
James ". Alexander, D. D., has been appoint
cd Professor of Logic and Bellies Leitrcs In the
College Of New Jersey.
Of 1t. Louis, M Eice-Co1s uf tile Grand
Duchy of Ol!cnburg for Missouri, ansl also Con-
sui Of the Grand Duchy Of lIcase Darn,stadt
for Missouri, Illinois and Iowa.
1T appears that the twenty third Of April,
tie day fixed for tue Charleston Convention, is
the birthday Of Senator DousIax. 4 llichnund
paper observes TINT it is one big with events,
Shakespeare and Cerrantes having departed
this lie that day. 1t will be remembered in
future as tic occasion when the Little Giant
Eavc Up the :l,o=t politically.
"A Western letter says Of Kit Carson:
"W'lcn On his feet, Mr.. Carson las d somewhat
dunlpy |ovk-tlle result Of what the uoosier uirl
described Ill Mr. Douglas lis an 4in-fynite s,nal
chance for 1css;' hut he sirs upon horse like q
king. never saw man presenting amore re-
gal aspect than this veteran nlountaiAecr, wien
upon bis lavori,e animal dashipg along like the
wind"
Rev. DR.. Peabody, who is nsminated to tho
Atcs6UasiI4H ~ l1HIfIsA4 VICE
Huntington, is conservative Unitarian, resid-
iEg at Portsmouth. y. II. Of late lie has been
editor OF tue North 4jme+tcun Htrietr, in which
capucity he las won friends in 1ntnv quarters
by his liberal course on III! questions discussed
in its pages. lie il 4 graduate Of Harvard Of
The class ot 1875.
The New Orleans Data adrocatcs the re-
tircKntnt ol the Southern Delegates from the
Charleston Convention, in cuse the majority Of
that body insist upon the abroGation OF !he two
thirds rule. Tie Del&a thinks the South would
be better utf to nuke an exclusively Southern
nomination, thaa it Il should submit to The
Northern sec.ionalisn1 Of the party represented
in the Douglas faction.
--Thc only book which has lately appeared in
tbs lutte Lcspot l;otnb3, by jesuit priest. Of
.h's royal wretch who died in abject terror Of
his soul, and unspcakabic rottenl,eas Of body,
his pancgyrist say " liz died de eath to which
tile philosopher would in vain aspire, unless he
were at tue saue tiale saint"
When Hon. Salmon P. Chase Of 0hiu, be-
comes u member "t The United States Senate,
On the tourl, Of .Narch, 1861, seven If the meu,-
bers 1T that bn1y will be natives Of this State
Messers. Chase, Grimes, Chandler, Hale. Clark,
Fe*ssndon and Wilson. All Of these are Repub-
Ecans. ! l'1c:ty Sood exhibition Of Sens of
Mem Hampshire. when one considers that the
In'pn'asinn is no: much abovc SIX, ,00e.-Euacord
4-as A} St'ltfAWUH.
Mir. Sum .er has submitted to the Senate,
tic fol'o~r. resolution, which was considered
hy unanimous consent and a,rced to:
Lsss9[Fea, Thut the committee on the Judiciary
be directed tn consider the expediency Of pro-
vidtpg by law for tho appointment Of q COM
n.1ssion to revise The public statutes Of the
United States; TO simplify their language; TO
correct their inconssui1ics; to supply their de-
fic,cncics; to arrange them in order: to reduce
them to Que come lied te1:; and to report them
tAcs improved tn Congress tor the final action,
to the end that the public statutes which ali are
presumed to knnw. may be il such farm Us to
be more within the apprehension Of all.
-sonth Carolina papers are besinning to snub
Virginia for her lack ot devotion to the South.
csn cause. in spite Of her hospitality to Mem-
| minycr L Co. On the 'ate action, o. rather
non-actioll, Of her LEGISLATURE, the Columbia
Guardian ohserycs"Th response Of Virginia
is u poor return for such manifestations Of y tn
pathy and. at the present juncturc is 1nanifestly
IN injudicious and short sighted policy. 1t will
strengthen the hands Of the enelnics vi our iu-
stitutionr, by exhibiting TO them that entire
| Southern union, even upuu such yitn3 question
Us tue protection OF Slavery. need not be cx-
| pected. This will cmbotdsn them to further
ncs. caslon, and in all probability will hasten
what the Legislature prolesscd 10 fear from the
proposed conference "a dissolution o: the
| Gni0n."
K.G.C.-The New Orleans Courier announces
that many leadin:. members Of this orcsnization
are now iu that c1sy. The X. G. c. {kniehts oi
the Golden Circlc) was organized in ls'a, to
cultivate the martial spirit Of tile people, and
now numbers 3',uel members, scattered over
the Souil;crn States. 1t i. understood, says
that journal, that this order is preparing to
operate in the broad ti.ld which civil war hs.
opened in Mexico. "lf We we're allowed ia
guess, VIC should say that these gentlemen ars
about embalking iu q scheme not unlike that II
whicl. Lafayette, kosciusko, De kalb and their
conpatriots so generously engaged. when We
were striving to shake off .hc shtckles Of Brit
lab dcspotisin; aud we arc assured that it j:
their steady determination to plscethe Liberal
OF Juare= party in the full and peaceful occupa
lion Of the City Of Mexico"