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THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.
THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN
SAM’L JB. CKAFTON,
COUNTY PRINTER.
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Accident on the Western ami At
lantic Rail Road.
The following account of the accident on
the Macon and Western Railroad, is from
the Ckristain Telegraph, of Atlanta, and is
the most complete we have seen;
A fearful catastrophe occurred on the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, usually
known by the State Road, on last Thursday
night, between 8 and 9 o’clock, P. M., 23d
inst.
The up train had been detained by some
defect in the Engine, and this threw her be
hind her time; but proceeding on after night,
which was quite dark from its being very
thick, cloudy, and raining some at the same
time, till near one of the Chickamauga
bridges, the engine was thrown from the
track by a large ox which was lying down
on the road. The engine entered”the bridge
off the track, and tore it up so as to let the
engine, tender and baggage car fall through.
The wood-passer and fireman were killed.
The latter had one leg torn from his body
at the hip joint, and we have not heard
that his leg has yet been found—he died
directly.
The former was caught between the boil
er, and tender, with the lower parts of his
logs and feet fastened against the burning
boiler where he remained for several hours,
all attempts to relieve him proving abortive,
till a Physician was obtained, and cut off
his legs, when he soon after expired. The
poor fellow begged them to ctr, ofl'his legs;
but no one seemed to have fortitude enough
to do it. Oh! what suffering he must have
realized! Mere for hours with his feet on
nearly red hot iron!
The Engineer escaped, being badly seal-
d id, but it is thought he will recover. He
j mped from theingine as she went down,
8.vam the river, and was found quite irra
tional some distance from the bridge on the
road.
Mr. Thomas B. Daniel, of Atlanta, the
Mail Agent, was carried down with the cars
nearly or quite twenty feet, and was very
seriously bruised about the loins; but he is
mending, and will probably recover soon.
Mr. Chandler, the conductor of the train,
did all in his power to relieve and help tLe
sufferers, and to render them as comfort
able as possible in their suffering condi
tion.
This awful accident was caused by the
neglect of the man appointed to watch the
bridge. Had he been at his place with his
light, those lives might have been saved, and
the sufferings of the injured prevented, and
the damage and cost to the Road company
Baved. Such unfaithful servants deserve
sound chastisement, for such breeches of fi
delity.
SANDEBSVILLE, GEORGIA-
TUESDAY OC’T. 5, IIS52.
St. Mary’s Money
In bills under $5 will be received in pay
ment of demands due this office.
Elections.
Tickets will be furnished at this office for
the approaching Presidential election at 50
cents per hundred, cash. Orders solicited.
M3T We call the attention of the reader
to ad vertisements of this paper. Our rea
ders in Wilkinson county will see by the
advertisement of Mr. Lewis Gardner, that
he has received and is offering an extensive
stock of Goods for sale at his Store in Ir-
winion.
23T Our Superior Court adjourned on
Saturday night about ten o’clock. The bu
siness was not quite finished and could have
extended a few days into the present week,
had the health of the county warranted, no
cases of felony was tried on account of the
dfficulty of obtaining a full panel of Petit
Jurors.
Oglethorpe University.
We are indebted to our young friends
T. O. Wicker and W. A. Williamson iff this
University rbr a Catalogue of its officers,
students, and alumni. We are pleased to
learn from this Catalogue that the institu
tion is in a flourishing condition, the num
ber of its Students being 108. With the
able and learned Faculty who have control
of the Institution, we dare say it compares
favorably with any in the country. We
observe in this list the name of C. W. Lane
as Professor of Mathematics and Astrono
my. He is a learned and excellent man,
an honor to that or any other similar Insti
tution. The Principal in the Preparatory
Department, Mr. R. H. Ramsay, though
not so venerable in years, is so in that pro-
-ession, which he has pursued with unusual
success for the greater part of his life.
iEST The Camp-meeting at New Chap*
pel passed off very pleasantly, notwithstan
ding the occasional showers of rain that
fell during the time. Owing to the great
amount of sickness in the surrounding
neighborhood, there was not so large an at
tendance as usual at that place. The
Preaching was conducted with much abili
ty and zeal; some of the best sermons that
we have evei heard from the Pulpit were
delivered at that meeting. We are pleased
to learn that the best order was observed
by persons visiting Ground.
Great Invention for Negro Cloth
ing.
The Mississippi Free Trader says:—The
best invention we have yet heard of has been
related to us by Zebu Ion York, Esq.,
which he received from a wealthy and influ
ential planter, Mr. Jonson,of the lower part
of Concordia parish.
We give the recipe—
SO MAKB WATER-PROOF SACK8 FOR NEGROES.
For a plantation of 50 or 100 negroes,
take 20 gallons of Linseed Oil, into which
mix 3 pounds of Litharge, after the oil shall
have been boiled a few moments. The Lith
arge should be pulverized before being in
corporated with the oil, and well stirred
in.
Previously, an overcoat or sack should
have been neatly made from common cotton
cloth, called Domestics, long enough to reach
below the knees, to be closely buttoned up
in front.
When the mixture of oil and Litharge is
boiling hot, immerse the garment, wring it
as dry as possible and let it hang in the sun
for three days, when it will be completely
water-proof—an overcoat for the negro, se
cure against storm or tespest impervious to
the wintry winds, or the chills of the nights.
It will cost less than sixty cents per Back,
and last one or two years.
[from the savannah courier.]
By Magnetic Telegraph.
Arrival of the Canada.
Charleston, Sert. 28.
The steamship Canada has arrived at
Halifax, with Liverpool dates to the —th in
stant. The Cotton market had recovered
since the sailing of the Africa, and all qual
ities had slightly improved. We quote fair
Orleans at 6 1 2.; middling do. 6 5-8.; fair
uplands 6d,; middling do. 5 l-2d. The
sales of the week 47,000 bales—17,000 on
speculation, and 3,000 for export. Con
sols closed at par.
83F The following singular contract was
taken from a stray leaf of an account book,
under date 7th May, 1766;
I Nathaniel Parsley have agreed to be
overseer and residenter upon John Smith’s
plantation on the Carolina side Savannah
River for twenty-four pounds sterling a year
in money, three pounds ten shillings in
meat and two pounds ten shillings in Rum
and Sugar, begun 7th April 1766 & signed
this 7tli May 1766
£24—money
3.10 -meat Nath’l Parsley
2.10 Rum and Sugar
£30—
Judge H. R. Jackson.—This gentlem 30
has written an able and interesting letter id
favor of supporting; the first] Democratic e-
t >1 c al ticket for Pierce and King. Hisjetter
is in reply to some statements made by the
Editor of the Marrietta Constitutional Un
ion in relation to the Atlanta Meeting, it is
a scathing rebuke to that Editor, and a full
vindication of the course pursued by the
Atlanta Meeting,
Graham.—The October number of this
interesting Book is before us. It is a large
Dumber and filled with an unusual variety
of reading matter and is handsomely em
bellished, with five steel engravihgs. As
a Book for the Parlor, and family reading,
Graham has no superior. The terms of
subscription are $3 in advance. Address
Geo. R. Graham 134 Chest ut st. Philadel-
jh'a.
Monument to Henry Clay.—An efforj
is about being made in Washington to form
an association having for its object the erec
tion of a National Monument in honor o^
the late Henry Clay. The association is to
be composed of members in every section
of the Union, and a number of members of
Co lgress have announced their readiness
to co-operate in the movement at the next
session of Congress.
Mill-
Laurens Superior Court.—The
edgeville Recorder of the 28th says: “We
are requested to state that Judge Hausell
has further adjourned the Superior Cou r t
of Laurens county to Friday 17th Demcem-
ber as the earliest day on which there could
he a full attendance of the attorneys prac
tising in that Court.”
Artesan
Wells.—A planter in South
Western Georgia informs the editor of The
Soil of the South, an agricultural paper,,
that a successful operator would find in that
rich section of our State a large demand for
his services. A want of good wells it is
said, is almost the only drawback upon those
valuable cotton plantations, and their ow
ners would be willing to pay almost auy
price to have this difficulty supplied.
Official Vote of North Carolina.—
The result of the late Gubernatorial election
in North Carolina has been officially pro
claimed. Reid, dem., received 48,484 votes,
and Kerr, whig, 42,993—majority for Reid
5,491. The vote for Governor, in 1850,
stood—Reid dem., 44,845; Manly, whig,
42,071—Reid’s majority, 2,774.
The Late Sale of Government Can.
non.—The Republic says the two hundred
and two new iron guns, old pattern, weigh
ing nearly half a million pounds, offered at
public sale in Washington, were sold at pri
ces ranging from eight to twelve and a quar.
ter cents per hundred pounds.
Girls, do you want to get married, and
do you want good husbands? If so, cease
to act like fools. Don’t, take pride in say
ing you never did housework—never cooked
a pair of chickens—never made a bed—and
soon. Don’t turn up your pi etty noses at
honest industry—never tell your friend that
you aiaiiot obliged to work. When you
ne ver take your mother with
to carry the bundle.
Thb Farmer of Marshfield.—It appears
by the list of prizes awarded at*the late ex
hibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society, that the Hon. Daniel Webster has
carried away two prizes and a gratuity, for
vegetables grown upon his farm in Marsh,
field.
have a man-boy in Washing,
ton four years old, four feet in height, and
Weighing seventy-five pounds. His physi.
cal strength and masculine developement
are nearly equal to those of mature man
hood, while his mind and temper, though
sound and natural, are infantile.
Death of the Duke of Wellington.—
The Charleston Courier, speaking of the
death of the great warrior of Europe, Ar
thur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington,
says:—“Apoplexy has done that which the
bullets of the enemy failed to effect, and the
victor of a hundred battles, on whom honors
were showered with an unsparing hand, is
now content with a tomb. ‘Death alone,»
as the great Roman Satirist truly observed }
‘maketh appear how small the little bodies
of men really are.’
“The Duke of Wellington was the fourth
son of the second Earl of Mornington, and
was born at Dagan Castle, in the county of
Meath, Ireland, on the 1st of May, I769 i
consequently at the time of his death he
was in his 84th year.
“He is succeeded in his vast estates and
title by his eldest son, the Marquis of
Douro.”
Singular Companionship.—The Buffa
lo Commercial relates a curious fact in nat
ural history, developed at the American Ho.
tel in that city. A family, having rooms in
that Hotel, lately left town for a few weeks.
On their return they found that a mouse
was in the habit of constantly visiting the
cage of a canary bird which had remained
in the room during their absence, having
taken the opportunity of forming the ac
quaintance during the unusual stillness of
the apartment. To the surprise of the fam
ily it was found the mouse had been taking
lessons in singing of its musical friend, and
would constantly give forth notes in exact
imitation of the canary’s tone but low and
sweet. The little creature now visits the
cage nightly, eats of the seed, and endeav
ors by singing to excite the attention and
and call forth notes of the bird.
Fugitives.— Some considerable excite
ment exists among the citizens of Lexington*
Kentucky, in consequence of thirty slaves
having runaway from that city to Ripley*
Ohio. The Kentuckians have expressed
their determination to recover them.
jTJSr Mr. Vanderbilt, it is said, has of
fered to sell out his whole interest in the
steamers on the Nicaragua route for $1,100,-
000, and that a party of capitalists have un
dertaken to make the purchase.
Direct Importation.— The Savannah
Republican of Friday says:—The Sweedish
barque Jor gen Beck, Capt. List, arrived
here yesterday direct from Stockholm, Swe
den, with 11,620 bars of Swedes Iron for
Messrs. N. B. & H Weed
The Rome (Ga.) Courier predicts that
there will be a large accession to the ranks
of the supporters of Webster and Jenkins
in the Cherokee county inasmuch as the
Southern Rights people would not consent
to re-organize their ticket.
it is said that Parson Fnss, of New
Hampshire, is about to sue Gen. Houston
for libel in charging him with having been
in the State Prison for horse stealing..
From San Francisco.—Accounts from
San Francisco state that the Fugitive Slave
cases have been decided, and that the slaves
have been remanded to owners.
There is a firm in St. Louis bearing
euphonious title of Grinn & Barret.
A short time since 2.000 hogs were
sold in Harden county (Ky.,) at |5 per cwt*
X8T Betting on the Presidential election
is getting quite brisk in this city. Some
pretty heavy ventures have been made du
ring the few days past. The influx of citi
zens from the North produces an evident
stir and agitation of the political waters,
which provokes and leads to bets. Few
bets are taken on the general result, the
whigs fighting shy on that brag,—but on
particular Stales, such as New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, North Carolina,
and Louisiana, the betting is quite active.
Democrats prefer New York, Ohio, and
North Carolina, and when hard pushed take
in the other States mentioned. The whigs
are strong on Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and
Tennessee; now an then, they venture on
Ohio and New York. A favorite bet is on
Ifer or five Slave States going for Scott A
good deal has been put up on this. We
heard of several thousands yesterday, In
deed, we are requested to intimate as much,
but we scorn to do so, which are deposited
here by democrats, who wished to venture
them on the general result.;—JV. O. Delta.
[FOR THE CENTRAL GEORGIAN.]
Uetter IX. •
To the Hon. Charles J. Jenkins -
I have taken some pains to ascertain the
general sentiment of the Whigs, who are
inclined to support what' they commonly
term the Webster Ticket—I {allude to the
masses. A very large portion of them,, so
far as I have learned, do so, only as a pre
ference toScott and Graham—while I have
found none unless it be here and there,
some would be leader, of the toady de
scription, but would vote for the regular
Whig nominees, many times over, before
Pierce and King. At the same time they
do not seem to have any idea of abandon
ing Whig principles, or that they are in the
least jeoparding their success. I must con
fess I was somewhat astonished at ascer
taining the last mentioned fact, for the rea
sons I shall proceed to show.
Conversing a few days since, with an in
telligent and influential gentleman, who is
a strong Whig, and from a strong Whig
county, he remarked, “I did not approve
of Gen. Scott’s nomination at first, and fa
vored the starting of a 3rd candidate ;
and have pledged myself to support Web
ster and Jenkins; bat I would now very
cheerfully support Scott and Graham, if the
other ticket was withdrawn.
I said to him, “Sir, do you not endanger
the success of the Whig party, by support
ing the 3d candidate ?”
He answered, “I think not:—they are
both Whigs.”
“But will they be elected 2” I asked.
“Ob, no,” he admitted, “we have no hope
of electing them.”
“Well, then, whom do you expect to
elect 2”
To which he replied, “I do not know, but
I believe Gen. Scott will be elected—and I
di eidedly prefer him to Gen. Pierce.”
“Then,” said I, “why not vote for him at
once, and not risk the injuring of your party
and defeating your principles 2”
“I do not think 1 run any risk—Jenkins
and Toombs, and Stephens, are good whigs;
they recommended the 3d ticket. I can
not believe they would endanger the suc
cess of the Whig party—and certainly
would not give the State to our old ene
mies !”
“Sir, said I, “they have most assuredly
not promised to do otherwise P To this he
made no direct reply, but seemed as though
the idea suggested, was new to him; while
I proceeded to submit for his consideration,
the following facts connected with yeur
nomination and the leading men concerned
in that monstrous piece of absurdity,
First:—That those who put in nomina
tioo with “the greatest intellect of the age,”
were men opposed to Gen. Scott's election /
Second :—The two most prominent lea
ders in the movement, Toombs and Ste
phens, have not only declared against the
election of Gen. Scott, under any circum
stances, but have openly preferred, and re
commended Gen. Pierce, the Democratic
candidate.
Third:—That Toombs attempted to
unite the Whigs upon Pieree aiid King ;
and failing in that, as a “contingency," had
the 3d candidates started, as the only
means of accomplishing his original design,
of giving the vote of the State to the Dem
ocratic nominees.
Fourth :—That one of the main objects
of the movement is to defeat Gen. Scott,
and consequently Whig principles and
Whig measures.
Fifth :—That the running of a 3d can
didate will throw the election before the
Legislature; where the influence of Toombs
and Stephens among the disaffected Whigs,
will enable them to diminish the scant
Whig majority in that body, and thereby
cast the vote of the State for Pierce and
King.
Sixth:—That every Whig who votes the
Webster and Jenkins ticket, assists in bring
ing about this result:—And that, if the
vote of the State of Georgia is necessary to
make an election ; they will have assisted
in electing Pierce and King—defeating
their own party, and destroying the “con
servative influences” of Whig principles in
the administration of the Government.
To these undisputed and indisputable
positions and facts, the gentleman alluded
to simply expressed his disapprobation ;
but regretting at the same time the hasty
manner in which the 3d ticket was gotten
up.
Now, sir, whatever may have been the
motives of the gentlemen, who projected
this movement, were they supported by the
dictum of even your august judgement,
would have little weight in'determining me
against an array of facts, which it is not in
the power of truth to controvert.—Those
facts, then, clearly demonstrate that the po
sition in which you have been placed, is a
cheat,-—designed as a cheat upon the hon
est Whigs, who not preferring Gen. Scott,
readily-support Mr. Webster, under author
ity of vour name, without a thought of en-
dangering-the suceess of Whig principles,
or of betraying a trust. Is not the gentle
man spoken of,, and thousands of others,
who, believing that Toombs & Stephens are
“goodgWhigs,” deceived in voting the 3d
ticket, for the six substantial reasons given
above?—If it is not so, why were you put in
nomination 2-—Why the indecent haste to
put up the 3d ticket 2—Why put your
name in the place of Mr. Graham? Why 2
but that it would better cover the deception 1
Will any one have the hardihood to dispute
it ? If there is one, let him show in the first
place, conclusively, who they intend shall
have the vote of the State.—I say that
Webster and Jenkins will not get it under
any circumstances—that it was never con
templated they would ; and that you, and
your leading supporters have declared sub
stantially against giving it to Scott and
Graham. How then do you carry out whig
principles and measures 2—Do you expect
to effect it by defaming Gen. Scott and
praising Gen. Pierce/—-By dividing the
whig vote, so as to give the democrats the
chances of any accident ?—By causing
some of our principle whig presses to sup
press the truth, and the true issues in this
campaign ?•—Look at the whig journal in
your own city, sir. While it exclaims dai
ly, “Give the people light! is deliberately
suppressing everything tba^ would give the
people a just idea of the true merits of the
whig nominees of the National Convention?
What abominable hypocracv !—Why has
it not published Mr. J. M. Bott’s letter ?—
Why Las it not spread in its columns the
Hon. John C. Spencer’s speech, in New
York, and Mr. Adam’s of the Mississippi
delegation, and many other like documents
of the highest importance, in elucidating
the true principles of the campaign?—
Why does it keep from its readers a full
knowledge of the true position of the whig par
ty towards Gen. Scott,—that everywhere but
in Georgia, the true whigs are rallying with
a cheerful alacrity under their glorious old
banner ?—■Open it, sir, and look in its col
umns—would an uninterested man know
from thence, that one of our sublime na
tioaal conflicts for the supremacy of prinei
pies, is now going on, and will close in a
few weeks, sealing the weal or woe of this
this eountry for the next four years?—No
sir, the saroe may be said of other papers
of a like stamp.—I ask is that the way your
supporters expect to carry out whig prinei
pies 2—Do. they expect to do it by making
a scare-crow of Win. H. Seward,—proclaim
ing Gen. Scott to be his tool—while they
are silent about such men as John Van
Buren and Stephen A. Douglass, support
ing Gen. Pierce ?—The latter, one of the
most falsifyers that ever wagged a tongue
a man, while he received a large vote in the
Democratic convention, for President, en
tertains the most dangerous doctrines of
progression, it is possible for a wild, radi
cal, crack-brained Jehu to. conceive!—
demagogue, pushed forward by extremitist,
under the cognomen of a cast off British
phraise, that is a childish impeachment of
the common sense of mankind, whose ta
mest ideas are whirlwinds that would tear,
and crash, and rend this Union to fragments*
in rash, blind fury of their brute-like force!---
And yet, sir, that man is destined to. exer
cise an influence in the next Democratic
Administration, if he should live to see it.
The presses which support you, in their
zeal to condemn Gen. Scott, on the account
of the personal opinions of one of his sup
porters, (for which he is no more responsi
ble than you would be for receiving the
vote of a' horse thief)} overlook the danger
ous opinions of the hosts that are uniting to
elect Gen. Pierce.—Why does John Van
Buren support him ?—Because ho “expects
the Democratic party to be the great Anti
Slavery party of the Union /”—Which of
theTertium Quid presses has condemned
Gen. Pierce on account of Douglass and
Van Buren and a score of others, equally
as obnoxious as Seward 2—Which of them
have condemned him because the N. York
Post supports him?--Which has not
thrown up the “spittings” ol the N. York
Tribune to Gen. Scott ? Whijeh has con
demned Pierce, because twelve of the thir
teen Abolition presses in Ohio support him/
Sir, you will pardon me, when I acknowl
edge my want of patience with such “good
whigs”—while l am not inspired by “an
overweening confidence” either in themselves
or the proposition by which they expect to
carry out whig principles, and continue
their national affilliation. If they ) succeed
however, I will endeavor to do them the
justice to commend them for the novelty of
their plan.
But again, sir:—you have said you will
not support Gen. Scott. Mr. Stephens has
declared himself to the $ame effect—while
Mr. Toombs says he believes the slid Gen
eral to be a “dangerous man,” and will not
support him for the Presidency “in any
eaent." Admit, for the sake of argument jiou
are all “good whigs.” Then, sir, 1 not on
ly challenge you, but any other man, to
show to the people of Georgia , how you will
carry out Whig principles upon those de
clarations, if the vote of Georgia is ne
cessaryto make an election !—-There
now, you have the whole matter in a nut
shell. And I maintain that you will have
to recede trom your present position* or
vote the Democratic ticket—-else throw a
way the vote of the State, and let the elec
tion devolve upon the House of Represei>
tatives of Congress. There are no other
alternatives. Are we to be blamed then,
for declaring our want of confidence in the
integrity ot leaders who would, for reasons
which have no foundation in reality, thus
jeopard the success of long cherished prin
ciples, and place the party in a ^buimn
from which it could not be extricated, but
by the sacrifice of its honor and consisten
cy 2—Certainly not. This is a great na
tional contest for the supremacy of Whig
or Democratic principles—and the election
of Scott or Pierce will have to decide it.
In conclusion, therefore, I ask do you ap-
prove of what is being done 2—Have those
who sprung this political monstrosity upon
us, requested your approval of it 2—No 2
Why then are you silent?—Why do you
not throw the weight of your influence in
the scale of right and truth 2—You have
the examples of a Clay, a Webster, and a
Graham—noble examples !—Do you say
you have no opportunity? Then make
one ! Speak out like a man !—like a true
and consistent Whig!—like a patriot with
out fear and without reproach ! Show to
these men that you love truth and honor
more than their fulsome, time-serving prai
ses !—That though you are proud of bej
ing honored to office by your countrymen,
yet you would scorn to receive their suffra
ges at the expense of national success,—up
on any plea, however politic or plausible,
that veiled a dangerous deception 1—“The
path of duty is the path of safety.” If we
have lost the credit that may attach to “In-
dependent Whigs" by our adherence tuthe
regular nomination—we shall at least pre
serve our consistency—while we would not
be adding a cubit to the statue of your re
nown, though we supported you. If we
have erred, we open to you the opportuni
ty of rescuing us, like the great Fabius did
his less cautious colleague, Marcus Minu-
cens. If you have erred, act like a noble
gentlemen would—aet like Minuceus did-—
show that you have the candor to- acknowli
edge, and the magnanimity to> retract an
error ! If you have been deceived, who*
will dare charge it as a fault 2—But yon
will betray a great moral weakness, if you
permit otners to stumble, in your endeavor
to-conceal it. If you have never deceived
your fellow-citizens, do- not take this occa
sion for the first attempt, nor suffer others
todo it under the broad aegis of your high
character.—For thousands will vote for y. u
who do not mean the election of fierce a/d
King. Let them not be deceived.
Sir, the world accords to you a pure pa
triotism. I am not the man to deti act from,,
or add to it, without reason. I can admire
you without flattering—and condemn an.
unjust political position without being your
enemy ; differ from you, yet respect you..
But there is a high duty before you.—a re
sponsibility which attaches to the position,
in which you have been placed, from the
circumstances attendant. Though uevec
so reluctant, yon must assume it—assume it
too, without timidity ; with a bold and
open, but a calm and manly firmness. You.
see the gulf that has opened between us—
it is to be closed it must be closed—not by.
the immolation of another victim ; but by
the outpouring, the free-will offering of a.
noble patriotism. To you belong the task I
Will you assume it 2—I know there is
rauchof the lordly mastiff ir. your compo
sition-—but I believe there is also a deep,
rich view of the generous self-sacrificing
spirit of a Curtins. Remember, then, there
is nothing dearer to a true Whig, than the
SUCCESS OF HIS PRINCIPLES, HIS DUTY, AND
his honor. Hold these above the breach ;
present them to us in the good, old-fash
ioned, genuine spirit of a true . Whig, and
they will prove the talisman that shall draw
us together. Yourobt.servt,
PATHFINDER.
Death of Gen. S. Armstrong Bailey.—
It is our painful duty to announce the de
cease of Geu. S. A. Bailey. He died sud
denly at his re»itUnee, in the vicinity of this
city, on Sunday, the 26th inst., at half past
eleven o’clock, A. M, The deceased was
born, w r e believe, at Mount Zion, in the
county of Hancock, in this State. He has
for many years been a resident of this city,
where in .all his relations to society, he has
maintained the highest reputation for in
tegrity and'honor. Asa member of the
bar, he enjoyed a lucrative, practice from a
large circle of steady commercial clients and
correspondents, whose confidence in his a-
bility and fidelity as a lawyer was unboun
ded; for several years past, he has held the
responsible position of Agent of the Bank of
Charleston in this city, and of a general su
perintendent of its interests in the surroun
ding country in Georgia and Alabama.
The death of such a man makes a void in
any society to which he belongs. He leaves
behind him an unblemished character for
honor and integrity, as a citizen, a man
and a gentleman. He leaves a large fami
ly to deplore a loss which earth cannot re
pair, and into whose heart-wounds only
the God of the fatherless can pour the balm
of consolation.— Columbus Times 29 th ult.
Razors.—Barbers often tell us that ra
zors get tired of shaving, but if laid by for
twenty days they will then shave well. By
microscope examination it is found that the.
tired razor, from long stropping by the same
hand and in the same directions, has the
ultimate particles of fibres of its surface or
edge of a piece of cut velvet; but after a
month’s rest these fibres re-arrange them
selves helerogenously, crossing each other
and presenting a saw-like edge, each fibre
supporting its fellow, and hence cutting the
beard instead of being forced down fiat with
out cutting, as when laid by. These and
many other instances are offered to prove
that the-ultimate particles of matter are al
ways in motion, and they say that in the
process of welding; the absolute momentum
of the hammer causes an entanglement of