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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAM»JL B. CRAFTOar,
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Arrival of the Africa
Three Days hater from, Europe.
Advance in Cotton.
New York, Aug. 12.
The steamship Afriea, with three davs
later news from Europe, she having sailed
on the 31st ult., has arrived.
Liverpool Cotton Market.—The sales of
the week, up to the sailing of Africa, a-
mount to ons hundred and fifteen thousand
(115,000) bales, of which speculators took
forty thousand and exporters twelve thous-
and bales.
Prices remain unchanged since the sail-
ing of the Pacific. The following are the
quotations, Fair Orleans six and ahalf(6 1-2
penee. Upland six (6) pence.
Stock of Cotton, six hundred and fifty
four thousand (654,000) bales.
Havre Cotton Market.—The sales of the
week up to the 31st ult., comprise twelve
thousand (12,000) bales, at an advance of
from two to four (2a4) francs.
[FROM THE SAVANNAH REPUBLICAN.]
Interesting Letter from Presi
dent Fillmore.
The Hon. A. H. Chappel, the President
of the late Union Convention at Milledge-
ville, has transmitted to us lor publication
the subjoined highly interesting letterfrom
President Fillmore. It will be remember
ed that the Convention adopted resolutions
approbatory of Mr. Fillmore’s course in re
ference to the great questions on which the
Union Party was organized, and inviting
him to visit Georgia. Mr. Chappel avails
himself of the earliest opportunity as the
organ of the Convention, to lay the letter
before the people through the daily press
Washington, August 5, 1852.
A. H. Chappell, Esq., Macon Ga:
Sir i I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your favor of the 31st ult.,
enclosing a copy of Resolutions adopted bv
the Constitutional Union Partv of Georgia
in their recent Convention, expressing their
approbation of my course in reference to
the great questions on which the Union
Party of Georgia was organized, and in
viting me to visit that State. I am happy
of the opportunity to assure you, sir, that
that this unexpected expression of appro
bation from so distinguished and disinter
ested a source, could not fail to elicit the
grateful emotions of my heart, and I avail
myself of the occasion to tender to the
members of that Convention my sincere
thanks.
watched its progress in 1850, and there
lief which I felt when I saw in its triumph,
that it had given the death blow to the
treasonable doctrine of secession, and had
reared an insurmountable barrier to the
spread of that dangerous heresy. But the
necessity for a party is deeply to be regret
ted, and I shall be happy to* learn that it
no longer exists.,
I have long intended to visit the South,
but circumstances beyond any control have
hitherto prevented me. I now hope to en
joy that pleasure soon after retiring from
public life; and if anything could add to the
inducements to do so, it would be the cor
dial invitation thus extendedfrom the “Em
pire State of the South.” The time, how
ever, is yet quite uncertain, but when it
shall arrive, I hope to have the satisfaction
of meeting many of those kind friends who
have so generously given me their confi
dence and esteem in advance.
I am your obedient servant,
MILLARD FILLMORE.
SANDERSYILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY AUGUST 17, 1852.
St. Mary’s Money
In bills under $5 will'be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
ESP The weather for the past week has
been remarkably cool for the season, and
considerable rain has fallen. Our farmers
are busily engaged at pulling fodder, and
some complaints are made of too much rain,
a damp wet season now would destroy a
great deal of fodder. Yesterday morning
there was a considerable fog, which, accord -
J Dg to the old sign, will give us frost about
the 16th of October. -
A Large Watermelon—Mr. Vincent
Tanner, of this county, will please accept
our thanks for a fine large watermelon which
was grown on his plantation, and which
weighs 49 pounds. This is (he finest we
have ever seen. Long mav he live and dis
pense such favors among his friends.
Cobb.—Gov. Cobb
Letter from Gov.
has written a letter to Mr. Stroud, of Wal
ton, on the subject of the approaching Pre
sidential election, and the position of parties
in this State. He thirks that the move
ment of the Websteritcs as useless and ab
surd, and puts it to the candor and fiank-
ness of his Union Whig friends whether they
can hope or expect to carry out the princi
ples of the Union organization by casting
their votes for a man who can in no possible
contingency obtain the Electoral vote of any
State in the Union. He invites their at
tention, too, to Mr. Webster’s “antecedents,”
particularly to refresh their memories with
another perusal of his Buffalo Speech.
Gen. Pierce, he thinks, is undoubtedly
the choice of a large majority of the people
of the State, and will probable receive the
largest vote ever given in this State to a
Presidential candidate since the days of
Jackson.
In relation to the two tickets for Pierce
and King, he says that the nomination of
the second ticket was forced upon the Union
Democrats by the position assumed by
Southern Rights Democrats—that this lat
ter party, assuming the name of the Demo
cratic party, met previous to the meeting
of the Baltimore Convention and placed
their Electoral ticket before the people of
Georgia—that up to the time that the Bal
timore convention adopted their platform
and issued their Candidates, there was no
That the Union Party of your State ren- ' —
dered most important service to the coun- assurances that they would be cordially re-
r IUO LUUI1- *
try at a most critical juncture in our public ceived by the people of the State ; from
affairs, none can justly deny. I can never the time, however, that it was seen that
forget the anxious so .citude with which I they would be well received, he had favor
watched its Dro.oress in 1 J ’
The National XJnion Convention at
Philadelphia.—It appears from the Phila
delphia papers that a convention was held
in that city on the 31st ult., which nomi
nated Mr. Webster for the Presidency.
The following are said to have been the of
ficers :
“President,, Hon. Charles E. Stewart, of
Mississippi. Vice Presidents—Noah Bees-
ley, Mass.; G, Burgess, Conn.; Edward
Young, R. I.; Edward Sanford, N. Y.; H.
C. McIntyre, N. J.; William Baker, Pa.;
William Ray, Del.; Atlee Morgan, Md.; S.
J. Caldcleugth, Va.; William Lane, N. C.;
Benjamin F. Clark, D. C.; Richard Thom
as, Ga.; W. S. A. Anstay, Ala.
“The convention nominated Hon. Daniel
Webster for President and Hon. J. W.
Kennedy, of Penn., for Vice President.
The former unanimously; for the latter
two ballots were had, as follows:
“First Ballot—Howell Cobb, 17; H. S.
Foote, 9; C. J. Jenkins, 23;- J. W. Ken
nedy, 14; R. Toombs, 12; A.*H. Stephens,
9. Total cast, 84—necessary to a choice 56.
“Second Ballot—C. J. Jenkins, 22; J. W,
Kennedy, 58; Howell Cobb, 3; Wm. A.
Graham, 1.
“Alter providing for a formal tender of
nominations, the Convention adjourned sine
die.
Fven Fish Bite at It.
On lake Champlain they troll for Pick
erel with apiece of silver, shaped like the
bowl of a spoon, to which hooks are at
tached.
Mankind has a universal sympathy for
this useful metal; but how in the world
Pickerel took a taste to it, is unaccountable.
Tflfi lih/\ nahlvU Wa«^c*au
IUC ° IftOUllj BUTfCYCI J gWU
ed the proposition to run but one ticket
he could not himself—nor could he ask his
friends—to support a ticket, in the selection
of which they had not participated, and
whose friends and supporters pertiuaceous-
ly insisted should not be disturbed for the
purpose of conciliation and compromise.
Under these circumstances the Union con
vention had no other course left them but
to nominate a ticket of their own, and stand
by it to the end, unless a compromise could
be effected whereby all the friends ofPierce
and King could be united. Such, he says,
has been, and still is, his policy. If divis
ions exist and continue in the Democratic
party and any unhappy consequences result
from it, the fault will not be with him or
his triends. In his opinion, however, the
vote of the State for Pierce and King is cer
tain in any event, and this relieves the case
of much of its embarrassment.
So stands the Governor, not only anxious
but keen for a compromise. His friend
Holsey, of the Banner, however, is rather
shy of thejiroject. He once offered to com
promise, he says, on proposals from a re
spectable quarter, but they were repudiated
by leading presses in the Democratic ranks.
He will, therefore, not give them an oppor
tunity to play the same trick upon him
Besides, HE “considers the present South
ern Rights ticket a most audacious summons
to Union Democrats to surrender.” Ah,
Mr. Holsey, then you should have them
beat, sir, and not throw out a plan by which
the compromise could be effected without
disturbing the dignity of either party.
You will make no compromises, Mr Holsey,
butyou honestly wish some of those “audaci
ous” fellows would, and you will even “sus
pend hostilities until negotiations have fail
ed.” Clever, Mr. Holsey.
E3T The returns from North Carolina
have not been fullv received. The Wil
Immigration. — The statement of the
mington Journal says that there is no doubt
of the re election of Reid, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, by upwards of 3000
New\ork Commissioners of Emmioration : ,. . ~ ,
for the month just closed, show, that the votes, aod the whig joan.aU seenfto eon.
tide ofemmigration from Europe to this
country is still setting strongly towards our
shores. The total arrivals at New-York
cede that such is the case
It is doubtful how the Senate and Com
mons stand. The contest in each is very
tor the montfr^were 53,206 from various ! c i ose .
foreign countries, chiefly Irish, German, and ’
French. This shows an increase of eight-' Graham and Godey. We have the
een thousand eight hundred and four, as September numbers of these Magazines.—
ramipared With the corresponding month of They are recoguized as among the leading
last year. The total immigration at New ones of the country. Their respective raad-
i oik tor the first six months of this year, is 3 * xt
162,582, against 151,263 during the cJ r _, "i» greet the present Nos. with a great
i _ . _ , - - -— deal of interest. Published at Philadelphia
i‘-'ap°ndiRg period of last year, and
’ jgus^ar.'’ ’
agi'ftv. •.
59,000
at $3 each.
for anything, and the love of man for it, is
sometimes stronger, even, than the fear of
death. Speaking of this, reminds us of an
anecdote that is told as having happened^
this place some eighteen or more years
since.
In about the year 1834—at any rate about
the time when it was generally believed
that the “stars fell,” there lived a jolly set
of fellows about Sandersville—in fact there
always has been, as far back as the records
and legends reach—just such fellows, good
clever, honest and straightforward in their
dealings, eminently social and convivial in
their habits, and religiously attached to
“old sledge.” Much of the same spirit yet
remains, but the vivaciousness of the origin
al element (as the chemists say,) has been
considerably tempered by the Utilitarian
spirit of our age; the change of opinions
and conventionalities of society on matters
relating to manners and morals which has
somewhat modified the one, and improved
the other.
But howsoever this may be, whether from
Railroads, steam engines or Temperance
Societies, the fact is undeniable, that the
present Sandersville is not the Sandersville
that used to be, in the good old davs of
“red Rum and brown Sugar,” when a fel
low did’nt have to stand behind a green
lattice to take his “horn” or sneak oft* and
hide himself with a few select cronies mere
ly to amuse themselves at a small game of
Berds—alas ! how the “good times” do
pass.
But to return to where we left off. As
late back as the “falling of the stars,” “old
sledge,” was a favorite amusement, and was
freely indulged in, by the youth and gentry
of the times. On that memorable night
several gentlemen (whose names we shall
withhold) were comfortably seated round a
table, industriously trying their skill and
luck at that interesting game. They had
been playing all the evening, and the pile
of bankable funds, most of which was in
silver, and which was lying at different
points of the board, was a considerable
stake to any one man, and as a means of
travelling, would have carried a steady
young gentleman far on a lengthy journey.
Mose, the colored gentleman, who was
doing the honors of waiter to the party,
and kept them pretty well supplied with
such beverages as the occasion required,
first saw the curious capers which the stars
were cutting, and seeing, as he thought, an
evident conflagration on hand, becoming
therewith pretty much alarmed, rushed in
to the room to apprise the party of danger.
“Mas, Bill,” says he, “the world’s com-
min’ to an end, certain, the stars is all a
fallin. Nothin’ ain’t caught fire yet, but
gemmen, you’d better quit dat and go to
prayin.”
Bill K——, who was thus addressed,
looked round and says, “boys it’s caught us
in a d—n bad scrape, but we must get out
of as well as we can.”
Gus. J , a clever fellow, and one not
easily alarmed, thought there must be some
mistake about it, and says to them, “Hold
on boys, I’ll go out and see, and come back
and report.”
Out he went, and immediately came
back as much alarmed as any of them.—
“Yes, boys,” says he, “its a fact, and we shall
all be in h—II in less than five minutes.”
“Well,” says Bill K , “I’ll do one
good thing before I die,” and he picks up
the deck of cards, which was lying on the
table, and throws them into the fire.
Every man had disposed of himself to
the most religious frame of mind which the
circumstances could throw around them.
In much tribulation, some concluded to com
mence praying, while others thought it was
advisable to call a meeting at the church
and have prayer for all.
In the meantime the funds lay upon the
table in the position which the last “hand”
left them. The religious frame of mind in
which the party' found themselves thus
summarily placed, prevented any allusion
to.
Jake W , however, a quiet, easy fel
low, who was always in bad luck and late
hours, seemed to be considerably moved
with the idea of quitting this world to go
to another in the unsettled state of his af
fairs—saw the party begin to leave, and,
with melancholy faces and saddened hearts
bewail their lot. “Boys,” says Jake, “if we
must die we must ; it’s no use to cry about
it now. We’ye been playing h—11 all our
lives any how, and here we are—don’t know
where we’ll be sent to. But boys, here’s
what’s going to take these funds along with
him, certain—I never heard of a country
yet where silver would’nt pass/’-
Agricultural Matters.
Several of the farmers of this county, for
the past year or two have been in the habit,
during mid-summer, of giving Agricultural
Dinners, inviting their friends and neigh
bors together and inspect crops, discuss the
mode of culture, and other matters connec
ted with the farming business. To say
nothing of the benefit which each engaged
in planting derives from the observation,
reflection and discussion which such occa
sions afford, they are highly social and de
cidedly interesting even to the uninjated.
We were honored with an invitation to at
tend the most of these, and regret that in
disposition prevented our doing so, we how
ever did attend those given by Col N. A.
Hardee, and Mr. John Kittral. The din
ners were most excellent, and we unhesita
tingly decided in our own mind, that if the
crops were even half as good as the savoury
viands, which were spread out with pro
fusion and taste, they indeed had flat
tering prospects. A friend who visited the
round, and kindly furnished us with the
following notes of the condition and pros
pects of the crops, assures us that the Din-
ners given by each were equally nice and
well served up, and that he has tender re
collection of the well furnished tables and
delicious fruit to this day. He will not
consent that they can be beat in arrange
ment or preparation.
The notes which he gives were made up
on inspection and consultation, at a time
when crops were growing, and from pros
pects indicated by them, and of course must
be taken with the allowances of weather
and seasons which they will have till har
vesting and gathering.
Green Brantley, July 20.—Crops gen
erally in good condition. A large Corn
crop, probably 300 acres, best acres of which
will yield forty bushels, has a field of 100
acres which it is thought will average 20
bushels, gem ral average for corn crop, it
set down at 12 or 13 bushels. Cotton
looks pretty well, and 240 acres wili pro
bably average from 5 to 600 pounds.
N. A. Hardee, July 23.—Corn crop
pretty large is planted close in new land,
looks well and is in good condition, best a-
cres of corn will yield 35 bushels, with a
general average of from 13 to 14 bushels,
cotton is mostly on old land, and will aver
age from 5 to 600 pounds.
This plantation has been greatly improv
ed, within 2 years, the system of tillage and
manuring has brought the old land to a
good productive state, compared to what i?
has been, and the same course which Col.
H. is now pursuing must in a few years
make it as good and productive a plantation
as there is in the county. *
Mrs. Sarah Jackson, July 24.—This
plantation is uuder the management of Mr.
E. B. Whiddon. The crops generally look
remarkably well, be has about 140 acres
planted in corn, best of which will yield 40
bushels, and will average from 14 to 15
bushels throughout. Cotton looks very
well and in good condition, and yield
from 7 to 800 pounds.
N. W. Haines, July 30.—There is 150
acres planted on this place. It is fair look
ing corn, in good growiug condition, and
will average from 10 to 11 bushels; best
acres from to to 30. The Cotton looks
very well and will give an average of from
7 to 800 lbs to the acre.
Mrs. A. Harris.—This plantation is un
der the management of Mr. Dempsey
Whiddon—is in good cultivating order and
upou it a fine growing crop. The corn will
average, probably, from 14 to 15 bushels,
and the best acres about 25 bushels. Cot
ton looks well and in fresh land it will pro
duce heavily. The most of it being in old
land the yield will not probably be more
than from 5 to 600 lbs to the acre.
Dr. E. C. Williamson, July 31.—The
crop generally looks well on this place.—
The corn is in good condition, the best of
which may produce 25 bushels, and average
generally from 12 to 14 bushels. Cotton
looks well and will yield, probably, from
7 to 800 pound per acre.
John Kittral, Aug. 4.—This is another
plantation that has been much improved by
culture and manuring, and the proprietor
is still pursuing the plan with much benefit.
The corn looks very well, some of the best
acres of which will produce 25 bushels, and
average about 13. Cotton also looks well,
is in good growing condition and will yield
about 600 lbs. to the acre. *
R. W. Flournoy, Aug. 5.—Crop on
both places look very well. The Tennille
place is under the charge of Mr. Cato Rid
dle, and corn will yield him about an
averane of 8 bushels to the acre, and cotton
from 5 to 600 pounds. Home place corn
will yield about an average of 10 bushels,
and cotton frqm 5 to 600 pounds per acre
Law'.-—A lawsuit about a calf has just
been decided at Burlington, Iowa. The
Iowa Gazette says that the case originated
in West Point, Lee county, and the cost
now amounts to $500, independent of coun
sel fees. The value of the calf was $3.
The Fineness of Austrian Gold;—
Through the politeness of the Assayers of
the United States Mint, the editors of the
Philadelphia Ledger have been shown sev
eral specimens of Australian gold;, about
three ounces in W'eight, which have been
imported from London, by the mint, for the
•purpose of testing its character. As it was
expressly written for, the probability is that
these are the first specimens of the gold
production of Austria which have ever been
seen in this country. It was received only
recently at the mint, and an assay of part
of it gives result of 966-1000ths fine, which
is equal to about $20 per oz. The valuation
is, however, upon the metal after melting,
for which an allowance of two or three per
cent must be made, making the value of the
native grains about $19.60, which was the
price charged in London for this lot. Pre
vious assays, in London, of other parcels,
are reported to have given the result of
988-1000ths fine. On the whole, it is pre
sumable that Australian gold is better than
California (that is, containing less silver)
by six or seven per cent.' on the average.—.
There is a remarkable similarity in the phy
sioal or external character of the gold from
the two great mining regions, occurring
both in flat spangles and in amorphous
lumps,
£3T The Paulding (Miss.) Courier has
the most glowing accounts of the growing
crops, from all sections of that State, and
says that the planter is blessed this year with
teeming harvests. The corn has the deep
green tint of healthy and luxuriant growth,
and the Cotton crop bids fair to be an aver
age one.
The army-worm, however, it is said, 1
made its appearance on the Mississippi a
Red Rivers, and already several very valu
ble cotton crops have been nearly destroye
[communicated.]
To Dr. J. R. Smith.
Dear Sir .'—Having been present at the
late Webster meeting in this county, and
having heard you address that body, I con
fess to some surprise when I read the notice
taken of that speech in the report of the
meeting given by its Secretary. After giv-
mg the positions assumed by Mr. Lang-
made, the first speaker—and paying him
quite a handsome compliment—he proceeds
by saying: “Dr. Smith being called upon,
also addressed the convention ” or words to
this effect.
Now, sir, while the writer knows the Se
cretary of that meeting too well to believe
him capable of wishing to give you a false
position before the community, yet, I would
respectfully ask if th6 presumption is not
that you concurred in the action of the
meeting ? You were distinctly understood
by the undersigned—and many others—to
speak as though you looked upon the whole
movement as little better than useless.—
You seemed to think that true consistency
required the C. U. Party to stand by Pierce
and King, as they had both distinctly placed
themselves in the true position on the com
promise question, whieh you were under
stood to say had been the great and only
issue for the past two or three years. Now,
sir, you cannot but be apprised that your
real position in this political exigency is a
subject of some interest to many of your
warm personal and political friends of this
county, and I do assure you that none will
be more pleased to hear it and understand
it than A SPECTATOR.
Washington co., Aug. 12,1852.
A General Indian War Apprehende]
—A telegraphic dispatch from Washing;
to the New York Express, states that “1
ters from officers of the U. S. Army on t
frontiers of Texas, and in New Mexico,
the War Department, say a general Indi
War is apprehended, and they demand th
the army be put in a war condition—wi
horses, &c.—in the quartermaster’s depar
ment.”
Hog Statistics of Kentucky.— 1
Louisville Journal has received returns
the number of hogs in twelve counties, ij
addition to the statement published a fe
days since. The number now exceeds o
million, and returns from some counties y
to be made.
Georgia Univesity Magazine.-
have before us the August No. of this boo
It has a number of interesting articles,
is published under the patronage of the S
nior Class of Franklin College, at $1. p
vol., or $2. per year. Address proprieto
at Athens, Ga.
The JiYorld of Art.—We have the
number of the 2d volume of this monthl
devoted to practical instruction in pecil an
crayon 5 drawing, monochromatic, oil an
pastel painting, and fine arts generally. To
the student it is thought to be a most val
uable assistant. Published by N. H. Bar
ber, 74 Chambers street, N. York, at $1
per year, or 10 cents per copy, six copies at
$4, or 20 copies at $10.
Appointment by the President.—The
Washington Republic announces, officially,
the appointment of Judge Alfred Conkling,
of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States, to the Mexican Republic, vice Hod.
Rob’t P. Letcher—recalled at his own re
quest.
A Sick River.—The Pittsburgh Chron
icle says that the River is so low at that city
that is is confined to its bed.
There ought to be a steamboat or two to
set up with it, ip its affliction.
“Barney Let the Girls Alone.”—
Messrs. Raymond, Jones & Wesley, of the
New York Times, have been arrested at
the suit of Lola Montez, for libel. Dam
ages laid at $50,000.
The Queen of Spain attended a
Bull fight on the 4th ult., at which 14 bulls
were killed.
Wonder if her Majesty hadasfea/fc in
this matter ?
The Fire anihilator proved success
ful at a trial given it in Boston on the 3d
inst.
j£3T Hon Jno. M. Botts, has taken the
stump for Gen. Scott, in Virginia.
Things I have never Seen.—I have never
seen such hard times as the present in all
my life. I have never seen old maids de
cidedly opposed to matrimony. I have
never seen a pretty girl that did not know
it. I have never seen lawyers refuse a fee
on account qf his client’s poverty. I have
never seen a woman that was tongue-tied.
I have never seen rich men prefer marry
ing poor girls. I have seen but one lady
use a bed wrench and to tighten her cor
sets. I have never seen a woman die with
the lock-jaw.
Owing to the unlimited confidence which
their constituents are measurably obliged to-
place in them, and the ease with which
talented men, with a genius for intrigue,
like your own, can gloss over the grossest
political atrocities,—or by a false issue, di
rect the public mind into a wrong channel,
or disturb it with fears, that have no found
ation in reality--makes it very difficult for
the virtue of any people to discover the cor
ruptions that are practiced, before evils of
great magnitude grow out of them. Re
presentatives, who regard their own politi
cal interests above those of their constitu
ents, have, on occasion, betrayed principle
for power; and in consummating a scheme
of treachery, dragged their unsuspecting
and confiding constituents into the mazes of
political intrigue, until they have become
so completely bewildered and confused, that
they with difficulty, if at all, recognize old
and long-cherished principles and land
marks of party;—and not unfrequently
present the ridiculous spectacle of follow
ing a mere abstract idea, to the virtual a-
bandonmentof every cardinal point of their
political faith!
That a large portion of your oh
ebts afford such a spectacle at the present
moment, is not to be denied ;—and that
your lack of sincerity, truthfulness, candor
and devotion to high principle and strict
justice, which should characterize a con
scientious representative and an honest
man, is the true cause of it, is also not to
be denied. You purchased place and pow
er at the expense of an abler and better man;
even that could have been overlooked
—but as if determined to make “the deep
damnation of his' taking off” an eternal
blot of infamy upon your career, you not
only voluntarily sacrificed the integrity of
your party, but every generous' feeling in
your own bosom, - in the hope of covering
up the evidence of your bad faith, tr^ch-
ery and deceit I
Sir, you began this audacious e of