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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
TliE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
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W Washington, July 3 r 1852.
» °V r event all mistake aud misapprehen-
v°> Ve, the undersigned, Members of Con-
5 r? -ss, ado’^jt this method of making a joint
statement t o our constituents, respectively,
and to allwho may take an interest in the
A that weeannot and will not support
.0. Scott for the Presidency, as he now
s .cauds before the American People; for the
following, amongst other reasons:
He obstinately refused, up to the time ot
his nomination, to give any public opinion
in favor of that series of measures of the
last Congress known as the compromise;
the permanent maintenance of which with
us is a question of paramount importance.
Nor has he since his nomination made any
declaration of his approval of those meas
ures as a final adjustment of the issues in
controversy.
It is true the resolutions of the Conven
tion that nominated him are as clear and as
explicit upon this question as need be; but
Gen. Scott, in his letter of acceptance, which
contains all that we have from him on that
matter, does not give them the approval ot
his judgment. This he seems studiously to
have avoided. He accepts the nomination
“with the resolutions annexed.” That is,
le takes the nomination cum onere, as an in
dividual takes an estate, with whatever in
cumbrances it may be loaded with. And
the only pledge and guaranty he offers for
his “adherence to the principles of the reso
lutions” are “the known incidents of a long
public life,” &c.
Amongst these “known incidents'' 1 of his
life there is not one, so for as we are of, in
SANDEBSVlEIiE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY 1(11 13, 1853.
Mr. E. W. Forks is agent for this
paper at Louisville, and will receive and re
ceipt for what is due us in Jefferson.
St. Mary’s Money
In bills under $5 will be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
More Improvements.—We notice that
friend Hodges over the way, is tearing
down and removing his old Store House
preparatory to erecting a new one in its
stead. Our Town is begining to present an
entire new appearance, the paints, oils and
dye stuffs of friend Hirst is brightening up
its countenance. In a little while, if things
keep on this way, its father, old Mr. San-
dersville, would’nt know it.
Judge Johnson’s Speech.—We publish
on our first page tho speech of this gentle
man delivered at the Macon Ratification
meeting. It is a calm and dispassionate
review of the attitude of parties, and a wai m
appeal to the people of Georgia to unite up
on Pierce and King. Like every thing
that eminates from that gentleman, it is
worthy of a perusal by all parties, but we
hardly think that the political millenium,
which the Judge seems so earnestly to wisll
for, has yet arrived.
JS3P We understand that a Scott meet
ing was to have been held in Louisville, on
Saturday last, but have not heard what was
done.
favor of the principles of the compromise.
In one, at least, of his public letters, he has
expressed sentiments inimical to the insti
tutions of fifteen States of the Union. Since
the passage of the compromise he has suff
ered his name to be held up before the peo
pie of several of the States as a candidate
for the Presidency by the open and avowed
enemies of those measures. And in the
Convention that conferred this nomination
upon him, he permitted himself to be used
by the Free-Soilers in that body to defeat
Mr. Fillmore and Mr. Webster, because of
their advocacy of these measures and their
firm adherence to the policy that sustained
them.
To join such men, and aid them in com
pleting their triumph over, andlsacrifce of,
the true and tried friends of the constitution,
and the faithful discharge of all its obliga
tions, is what we can never do. The dic
tates of duty and patriotism sternly forbid
it.
We consider Gen. Scott as the favorite
candidate of the Free-soil wing of the Whig
party, ihat his policy, if he should be elec
ted, would be warped and shaped to con
form to their views, and elevate them to
power in the administration of the Govern
ment, can but be considered as a legitimate
and probable result. And, believing as we
do, that the views of that faction of mis
chievous men are dangerous, not only to'the
just and constitutional rights of the South
ern States, (whichjwe represent in part,) but
to the peace and quiet of the whole countrv,
and to the permanent union of the States,
>e regard it as the highest duty of the well-
wishers of the country every where, what-
Savannah Courier.
"We have received from S. T. Chapman,
formei lyoneofthe editors of the Macon Jour
A Messenger, the prospectus of the ‘Courier’
which he will shortly issue at Savannah.
It will appear in our next. The Courier
will be published Weekly; Tri-Weekly and
Daily, and will be devoted to the advocacy
and defence of Commercial, Social, Agri
cultural, Manufacturing and Internal Im
provement interest of the South, indepen
dent, but not neutral in politics. In the
present campaign it will support Pierce aud
King, believing them to be honest, compe
tent,faithful to the Constitution, good Union
Compromise men^H will also support
the administration of Gov. Cobb. Of the
Editor and Proprietor, Mr. Chapman, it is
unnecessary to say anything. He is al
ready known to a large number of the peo
ple of the State as an able apd talented ed
itor, and one who understands the wants
of the reading public, and will cater ac
cordingly.
Terms.—Daily Paper, $8 per annum ;
Tri-Weekly $4 per annum and Weekly
(double sheet) $2 per annum in advance.
Address the Editor at Savannah.
Death of Gov. Calhoun.—We regret
to announce the death of Gov. James S.
Calhoun, of the Territory of New Mexico.
He died at Doon the 30th June, on the prai
ries near the Missouri line. His health had
been bad for some time, and with the hope
of improving it, he had started to the States,
and was on his way hither at the time of
his death. He was a resident of Columbus,
ever else they may do, to at’ least withhold in this State, at the time of his appoint-
This we intend to
from hini their support
'do.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, of Ga.
CHARLES JAS. FAULKNER, ofVa.
W. BROOKE, of Miss.
ALEX. WHITE, of Ala.
JAMES ABERCROMBIE, of Ala.
R. TOOMBS, of Ga.
JAMES JOHNSON,'of Ga.
For reasons to some extent indicated in
speeches and addresses heretofore made by
the undersigned, they deem it to be their
'duty to withhold their support from Gen.
Scott as a candidate for the Presidency. If
it should seem to be necessary, we will here-
-after, in some form, exhibit more fully to
Our constituents the facts and reasons which
have brought us to this determination.
M. P. GENTRY, Tenn.
C. H. WILLIAMS, Tenn.
Irish Wit.—A couple of Irishmen, who
had not been long in this country, met in
•ftn inn, and called for a dinner. As it so
happened, there was a dish of horseradish
grated for dinner. Pat thinking it was
something to be eaten with a spoon, put a
large spoonful into his mouth. The tears
immediately filled his eyes, and roiled down
his cheeks. His companion saw it, and
said:
“Pat, what is the matter ?”
“1 was thinking of my poor father who
was hanged in swate Ireland,” answered
Patrick
But Jemmy soon filled his with the
same, and the tears gUshed from his also,
when Pat said:
“What’s the matter—what ha3 happen
ed to ye ?”
“Ah !” said Jemmy, “I was just think
Sng what a pity it was you were not hang-
ud when your father was/
ment to the office of Governor of New Mex
ico. He leaves many friends in Columbus,
and throughout Georgia, who will deeply
lament his death.
The Whig Review.—We have on our
table the July number of this valuable
Journal. It contains a portrait of the Hon.
Thos. Corwin, Secretary of the Treasury, &
has a variety of interesting ‘Literary and
Political matter. Published by Champion
Bissel, at 120 Nassau st., New York, at $5
in advance.
The Southern Press—Messrs. Fisher
and DeLeon, the two proprietors of this pa
per, having differed in the propriety of com
ing out in support of Pierce and King, the
sole proprietorship has- passed into the
hands of Mr. Fisher, who will conduct the
paper as heretofore, without regard to eith
er of the political parties.
National
Another.—A witness testified in relation
te a room which he and others occupied.
In answer to an iterrogatory from Justice
Rogers, as to why he wa3 in her, the de-
fondant’s room, he replied :
“Yer Honor, it wasn’t no room at all, but
fc[kitcben.”
The court wiped it’s nose, and held the
woman in $500.The witness was recom-
oaeuj.ij to dine oft architecture. Y
Portrait Gallery.— We
have on our table the first number of this
publication. It is designed to contain the
portraits and biographical sketches ofdis
tinguished Americans, and will contain one
hundred and twenty engraved portraits of
the most eminent persons who have occu
pied a place in the history of the U. States-
The present contains the portrait of Gen’l.
and Mrs. Washington. It is an interest-
ing publication, to be completed tsn forty
numbers and is richly worth the price of
subreiption, which is 25 cents per number,
or $10 for the work complete. Address Rob
ert E. Peterson & Co. of Philadelphia.
EFT At a meeting of the Massachusetts
Cincinnatti Society in Boston on 5th inst.,
Gen. Frank Pierce introduced a series of
resolutions, and passed a warm eulogium
upon Mr. Clay.
Wbht will the Union Conven
tion do ?
This is a question which almost every
one asks, when speaking of this assemblage,
to take place in Milledgeville on Thursday
next. If the Union sentiment about Ma
con, or at least of a meeting recently held
at that place, is to be taken as an index as
to what will be done, the question is easily
answered: they will put up an Electoral
ticket for Pierce and King, and thereby at
tempt to give the Union a third saving.—
They appear to be anxious that the vote of
the State should be thrown, unanimously,
for the Democratic nominees. If this were
their sole object, what objections have they
to the present ticket ? Do they suppose that
the nominated ticket would faulter in their
support of Pierce and King if elected ?—
The idea of giving Georgia to Pierce and
King by an “almost unanimous vote,”
through the agency of an Union Electoral
ticket, is alia humbug, and as visionary as the
project which the Macon Unionists contem
plate. If there is any thing like a respect
able representation at Milledgeville on the
15th, the convention, as such, will not.take
up the Democratic nomination, but will
leave each member of the Union party to
his own choice between the two; and this
would be the most sensible conclusion at
which they could arrive, for the very just
reason that both the Democratic and Whig
parties, have adopted the one idea of tho
Union party.—then why should the con
vention, as such, make a preference of one
over the other ? Clearly for no other rea
son than party predelections, and on that
score they would most surely divide, for the
Whigs have given evident symtoms ofdes-
trust whenever it was proposed to swallow
them, and the democrats of that stripe want
to be national, and therefore won’t go for a
third man. They may get up au outside
meeting, or, with but few counties in con
vention may do what the Maconites propose.
But suppose they do, will it be backed by
the vote of the party that elected Cobb
Governor ? for this is evidently what they
are striking at. It certainly will not. The
Chronicle & Sentinel has already stated
that it would treat such a movement with
contempt, and so would not only thousands
of its readers, but thousands of the Whigs
of Georgia in every direction.
Mr. Stephens, though opposed to Scott,
is no less an opponent ol Pierce. Although
Mr. Jenkins abhors Scott, he has no venera
tion for Democracy, even in the modified
form in which the Macon Regency would
gulp it down. The Savannah Republican,
Columbus Enquirer, and Southern Record
er, would hardly staud by such a fiat from
the Union party. With this powerful and re
spectable influence in the Whig ranks ar
rayed against the movement, where could
they get the “unanimous” support for that
ticket ? Indeed, where would they get any
support at all ? They would certainly get
Cobb’s influence among the Democracy—
those Whigs that he traded offinthe winter,
and were returned as bad property, and a
few of the Whigs who rode Fillmore to the
Baltimore convention and were swapped
afoot, summing up in all, some twelve or
fifteen thousand votes. ‘Unanimous’ voting
this would be, and such as would keep
Pierce and King this side of the White
House* for all time to come.
It is all a mistake to suppose that Scott
will receive no votes in this State. If no
third ticket is run, Scott will get from fifteen
to twenty thousand votes ; and there are
thousands of Whigs who will lie idle, pre-
fering, in the language of Mr. Jenkins, “to
do nothing rather than to do wrong.” It is
true that Scott’s nomination has not been
well received in the State ; the party was
angry and mortified at not getting their
choice, and said many hard things about
Gen. Scott, but'a revulsion of sentiment is a
sure consequence, where party dissensions
have been violent. As soon as the public
mind becomes calm, and the party realizes
the idea that Fillmore or We_bster cannot
be got at, then they will begin to canvass
the propriety of voting for Scott. They
will take the endorsement of the Compro •
mise by the convention as a guaranty of his
safety, and thus support him, not as their
own choice, but as an abhorence of Demo
cracy and love of Whiggery. How is it,
possible then, for this fragmentary part of
the Union party of Georgia to give Pierce
and King anything like a unanimous sup
port ? But the Democratic party can give
the majority of tlie vote of the State to
that ticket. The present Electoral ticket
will receive, under the above suggested cir
cumstances, over forty thousand votes, a
sufficiency for their election, and this is the
nearest approach to a unanimity that we
can, at present, imagine.
Imprisonment of the American Consul
at Acapulco.—The circuinstances attend
ing the imprisonment of F. W. Rice, Esq.
the U. S. Consul at Acapulco, in Mexico*
have been communicated to the N. Y. Ex
press, as follows: “Mr. Rice advertised and
sold the propeller Commodore Stockton, by
order of the Captain, and she was purchas
ed by the Chief Engineer. The terms of
the sale were a certain sum to be paid with*
in a few hours, and the balance within one
day.
The purchaser asked and obtained a de
lay in making the first payment; he again
asked and obtained a delay, and at length,
not complying with the terms of the sale,
Mr. Rice, in accordance with mercantile
custom, advertised the vessel for sale on the
former purchaser’s account, and posted the
notices about the city, which notices were
taken down by the Chief Engineer, as was
a notice posted on the Consul’s House.
“On approaching to remove another no
tice which the Consul had posted on the
door of his office, Mr. R. appeared, pistol in
hand, and obliged the man to desist. For
this a complaint was made and a file of sol
diers sent, who arrested the Consul and con
veyed him to prison in his uniform, and car
rying his flag.”
its humility tho brilliancy of her mental en
dowments.
It may seem presumptious to constitute
oneself thus a judge of such matters, but,
surely one need not dread a charge of ego
tism, in giving expression to his honest, un
biased convictions. I am gratified to find
that many gentlemen, more competent than
I am to decide, concur fully with me, in en
tertaining a very high opinion of this in
teresting Seminary. Were I a parent I
should seek no far distant school, to which
I might confide the duty of instructing my
daughter, while such advantages were near
at hand.
The enterprise and intelligence which pro
jected the Sandersville Female Institute,
and raised it to its present high rank as a
nursery of learning, will no doubt secure to
it, at all times, instructors fully competent
to sustain its present well merited reputa
tion.
I feel that I have already grown too pro
lix, I shall therefore subscribe myself,
Yours, Very Sincerely,
J. fl. S.
jS3P“ Some writer from Columbus, Ga.,
informs the Macon Citizen that Muscogee
will give Scott 200 majority in the coming
election.
The Atlanta Republican has hoist
ed the flag for Scott and Graham.
H3T Gov, Seward it is said will seize up
on a favorable opportunity to attack the
Whig platform in the Senate.
Crops in the Southwest.—The crops
in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Mississip :
pi are reported to be very promising. In
Alabama the prospect is not so good. Alto
gether, southern planters never had more
reason to congratulate themselves upon the
prospect of a general and abundant yield.
[FOR THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
S. B. Crafton, Esq.
Dear Sir :—Having enjoyed the plea
sure of attending the late-Examination of the
young Ladies, at your flourishing Female
Institute, in Sandersville, may I be allowed
the favor ofexpressing, through the columns
of the “Georgian,” the deligh t and satisfac
tion which that yisit has occasioned me ?
To the visitors who were present at those
interesting exercises, any encomiums on
teachers or pupils, must seem a work of
supererogation; they, like^ myself, listened
with a feeling of silent admiration, of which
all were mutually conscious, and, which
proceeding from the free conviction of our
minds, made no labored eulogy to elicit or
enforce. To the parents in Washington
county, who were not present—to all those
who are in search of anurseiy in which
their daughters may receive that mental
and moral learning, which would fit them
for a high and useful sphere in life, to such
especially, I would address these remarks.
Having had an opportunity of visiting
many of the best schools in foreign coun
tries, as well as in the northern States, I
will candidly own that I never felt more de
lighted, at any exhibition of juvenile at
tainments, than at that which I lately wit
nessed in your village. It was not so much
the variety of the studies that attracted my
attention, as the thorough and familiar ac
quaintance with fundamental principles in
each department of science. The facility
with which the leading truths of science
were applied to the solution of every ques
tion, shewed that these axioms had a home
in the perception, and that the judgment
was well versed in their application. This
accuracy of thought was as perceptible in
analysing the abstruse questions of Algebra,
as in the tedious operations of Arithmetic;
as visible in investigating the spirit of the
Classic authors and pages of Racine as in
examining the genius and structure of our
own language. Nor was there a premature
development of judgment, whilst the mem
ory was neglected : who that heard the
unerring accuracy and precision, with which
each fact in Natural Philosophy, each pro
position in Ethics, and details of Geography
were forthcoming on inquiry, did not feel
convinced that every thought had a place,
and that all was in order, notwithstanding
the plenitude of those mental storehouses ?
“The more we gazed the more our wonder
grew.
“How these young heads could carry all they
knew”
It must have proved a source of pure
gratification, to the intelligent and effective
Principal and his amiable and accomjflish-
ed Assistants, to here witness on the day of
trial, the matured fruit of their unwearied
toil. None can impart knowledge unless
they possess it, and few of those who do
possess it, are favored with that engaging
disposition and peculiar aptitude that are
necessary to communicate it effectually, to
others. More gratifying still must it have
proved to the parents, to witness their fond
ones proving, by the accuracy of their re
sponses, that a father’s solicitude, a mother’s
love, and a teacher’s zeal, did not look in
vain for co operating exertions on their
part. I did not expect, in cbildret of their
age, so much presence of mind, so little ex
citement and such ready command of at
tention, how varied soever the questions
that were proposed. If any feature in the
Exhibition merited a more marked notice, it
was that lady-like gentleness of demeanor
so manifest in every pupil, beautifying by
Agricultural meeting.
Sandersville, July 6, 1852
According to previous notice a number
of the citizens of Washington county met
at the Court house this day. Gen. T, J.
Warthen, was called to the Chair, and Dr.
E. C. Williamson, requested to act as See-
ritary. The Chairman having stated the
object of the meeting, Dr. J. R. Smith,
j moved the organization of the meeting into-
a Society to be called the Washington
County Agricultural Association, and offer
ed a senes of rules and regulations for the
government of the Society, which were adop
ted. Dr. Smith made a few remarks touch
ing the benefits which must result to the
farming interest by such au organization
Dr. E. C. Williamson was then called out
and: made a few remarks on the subject.
Tho Association elected its officers to
serve one year, as follows : President, Gen.
T. J. Warthen, Vice Presidents, Dr. E. C.
Williamson, E. D. Taylor, John Kitral and
James Gainer, Recording Secretary R. L.
WartheD, Corresponding Secretary, Dr. J.
R. Smith, and Green Whiddon Treasurer.
After this some thirty-five gentlemen came
forward aud subscribed their names as
members of the Association.
It was ordered that the Recording Sec
retary procure a Book for the purpose of
recordi ng the minutes of the association,
and that the Treasurer likewise procure a
book and record his actings and doings as
such.
Oa motion the Corresponding Secretary
was requested to obtain the services of some
one to address the association at its next
regular meeting on first Tuesday in Au
gust. The association then adjourned till
half-past nine o’clock A. M., on that day.
R. L. WARTHEN, R. Sec.
Ratification Meeting—-Pierce &
King.
A large and enthusiastic meeting of the
Democracy of Washington county was
held at the Court-house in Sandersville, on
Tuesday the 6th inst.
Gen. Sam’l. Robinson and Zachariah
Brantley were called to the Chair, and John
Ivey and A. A. Cullens appointed Secreta
ries. A brief statement of the objects of
the meeting having been made by the chair,
Col. Jas. S. Hook was then introduced upon
the stand and addressed the meeting in an
[correspondence of the central GEORl
tfEW York, July 2, 1852 J
Mr.Editor:—The death of Henry Clav
has put a temporary stop to the warfare
that had commenced between the two $r reat
political parties of this city; But the l u U
will be of short duration. In a few davs
conscience and every other moral faculty
will be seared, and selfishness and rascality
will reign triumphant. Exaggerations in
smuations, prevarications, and downright
palpable lies manufactured out of whole
cloth will be in the mouths and ears, or be
fore the eyes, of our entire population. Our
most active politicians on both sides already
look as if they had been boarding for the
last three mouths in vinegar casks, break
fasting on gall, aud dining on wormwood.
Thank Heaven, 1 am not a “prominent pol
itician. r
The land-reformers of this city do not re
ceive General Scott’s remarks on their fa-
vorite subject, with the enthusiasm which
it was conceived by the Whigs they would
call forth. They complain that he ex
presses himself with a guardedness and hes
itation that betrays a want of real sympathy
with them, and a desire to make patroni
zing concessions to views that he does not
consider sound, but that he sees himself
compelled to treat respectfully or lose his
election. From present appearances, I
hardly think that Scott will get the land-
reformer vote of this city, not perhaps be
cause he is less favorable to the movement
than Pierce; but because the leading and
most devoted land-reformeE here is John
Oocbrand, an eminent lawyer, and a most
rabid out and-out locofoco. Cochrand is
spouting for Pierce at every meeting in the
city, and claims for him and the Leofoco
party, the guardianship ot every reform ev
er spoken of- His influence with reformer*
is unbounded.
Two distinguished foreigners have been'
engaged by the brothers Lelandto fill im
portant positions in the Metropolitan Hotel
j which is to be opened for the reception of
visitors on some early day in August. Al
though the arrival of these two personals
may not create much excitement,
their labors will—on the palates of the
guests of the Metropolitan—for one of
them is no less a personage than the ci-de-
vant maitre de cmane of the -late Louis
Pbiliippe, by the grace of God not King of
the French, when he died ; and the other
has held, for many years, the same position
in the establishment of the Duke of Well
ington, from whom he has been eeaxed a
way by the brothers Leland. Wo are ®
great people. Viva la gastronomic.
The delay in printing the returns of the-
U. S. Census, taken in 1850, lias disgusted
every one who has occasion to consult-
tbem. The Census of Great Britain, taken
in 1851, a year later, was printed long ago;
but it must be remembered that the British
Parliament attends solely to legislation,
and doe6 not waste two-thirds of its time,
as our Congress does, in Buncombe speech
es. The fact is, there is some doubt whe
ther the Census of 1850 will ever be pub
lished by Our Government. The select
committee ot the Senate, after considering
the subject very profoundely, for more than
a year, have reported unanimously, that
the work is not worth printing, that it will
perpetuate errors in facts and opinions 4 and
that it is not deserving of the least notice
or countenance. T his is rather hard upon
the Superintendent Mr. J. G. Kennedy,
who has been laboring to excel all his pre
decessors. All his improvements will be
discarded ; aud if anything is printed, it
will be the bare figures of population and
all his geological, historical, and other in
formation being stricken out, as inaccurate
aud superfluous.
Considerable panic has been occasioned
among capitalists who have been buying up
land-warrants, by the discovery and arrest
of a gang of brokers, lawyers, and other
“highly respectable” people, who have been
successfully forging claims, and fraudulent
ly procuring land-warrants, during the past
eighteen months. These swindlers are said
to have procured thousands of warrants in
able and eloquent speech, in which the ^ wa y 5 the iiiimccnt, deluded pur-
r chasers will have to suffer.
speaker reviewed the brilliant life and pub
lie services of the nominees of the Conven
tion, after which the following resolutions
were introduced by Gen. T. J. Warthen
and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the Democracy of Wash
ington county respond to the action of the
late National Democratic Convention. In
the Platform of principles presented to the
country we feel an abiding confidence in
the sincerity of that action, that Democrats
in all portions of the country will stand by
the great principles promulgated and re
affirmed, as principles upon which the par
ty has 6tood amidst sunshine and storm,
and which, for sixty years, have expanded
with the growth of our country, embracing
every section and every interest, and by the
force of its example, conveying hope to the
hearts of desponding millions, and cheering
by its rays, the down trodden nations of the
earth. They are principles upon which we
believe depend the liberty, prosperity and
glory of our own country, aud the hope of
the world.
Resolved, That we will give an enthu
siastic support to FRAKLIN PIERCE, our
nominee for President, and to WILLIAM
R. KING, our nominee for Vice President;
in them we repose entire confidence, that
Some callous and pitiless burglars enter
ed the store of the Shirt-Sewers’ Union, in
Bieecher-street, on Monday morning last,
and abstracted some $300* worth of stock,
made up by the poor seamstresses. Had
the vagabonds who perpetrated this .cruel
theft been possessed of one redeeming qual-
ity, they would have spared the poor shirt-
women, who are almost stricken down by
this unexpected reverse in their fortune —
By the aid of kind friends, they had strug
gled up to an independence, with every as
surance of establishing a permanent organi
zation, which would point out to their strug
gling fellow-laborers, an exodus from their
present misery, by associating themselves
together, and securing to themselves the
full proceeds of their industry, instead of al
lowing heartless employers to appropriate
the lion’s share. The poor women are much
disheartened at their loss ; but I hope that
the Police will succeed in capturing the rob
bers and their spoils.
We have recently had a judicial opinion
on brandy, from judge Greenwood of the
Brooklyn City Court. In a case recently
tried before him, one of the jurors was de’-
tected in smuggling a bottle of brandy into
the jury room. The audacious malefactor
was unceremoniously brought before the
they will faithfully discharge every’duty r, ud S e > aild tIlQ bottle was duly produced in
devolving upon them in the event of their Tlie prosecuting attorney tasted
election.
The meeting was then entertained by an
appropriate and eloquent address from R.
W. Flournoy, Esq
On motion the Central Georgian was re
quested to publish the proceedings.
The meeting then adjourned.
SAMUEL ROBISON,) ,
Z. BRANTLEY. f 0ba,r n -
John Ivey, ) a , .
A. A. CulLens.j Secretaries.
the liquor, vehemently denounced it, and
offered to prove the nature of the contents
by “parole testimony.” The Judge decided
that the question was purely one of law;
and, after taking “a long pull and a strong
pull” at the bottle, he indignantly declared
the brandy to be of shocking bad quality,
and likely to prevent the judgment of the
jury, if drank by them ; he therefore fined
the offender $25, and declared the liquor
forfeited to the Court.
Yours Truly,
- PULASKI.