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VOLUME X.
THE AMERICAN” UNION,
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A (• Ml’ K If AY. “ Aiiieriean I'ni-oi
MISCELLANEOUS.
Joe Blunt’s First Game of Loo.
N'iw Joe Blunt was a voting man who had
grown tip with good teachings. (I'm jnsi idling
VIMI ;is Unde Joe used to tell- it on liiins -lt )
Well, hv hook or crook, or howsomever, he got
’quitiled with a set. of wild fellows, and, said
ilier. ’Joe,don’t you want to know how to pi n
L.. 0 r
•And what's Loo?’ says I.
•Why. Joe. a pretty li'tle game ;tt card- —can't
loose anything by it. S’pose you trv it. Joe, I
know volt know how to play seven tip, and w.-'ll
tench von how to plav Loo.’
•Well.’sez I.‘l’ll go it.’
•Now you see there was Dick Duke an I Joint
Duke, a great thick headed chap named Carter
Weaver — so we sat down. I had ‘limit the dol
lars and they about the same. We ‘gait to play
it at ten cents a quarter, (volt see I learnt it. then
and I can tell it to you straight) and ‘fore long
all the change I had was up, and them too. —
T*as mv ileal and I turned up six of hearts—l!
shall never forget it—for trump*. I then raised
tnv hand, and there, looking me right in tin*
face, was the aee. king and queen. “Os course
you took the cakes then. Uncle Joe,’ sez I Let
me tell you how it was. Sez I. ‘hoys, it's
of playing these pape's. I’m got it, sure.’ I was
’bout raking down the stutf. when that >w. II
headed Carter Weaver snog out — Hold on,
Joe, my boy, you ain’t got it yet ; not so ea
sy.’
•flow come I ain’i ?’ sez 1.
‘Flay ‘em out,’ sez lie, ‘and I'll show you.’
’Same thing,’sez I, and I popped down the
queen first, and he put down the ten spot (he
called it jail windows.) Then 1 let linn have the
king, and lie put down the cine spot —and said
l, laughing. In course you cant beat the ace.’
•There,’ said lie, ‘this must be a foul deck, for
darn me if I wunt jist playing off on Uncle Joe
fur I’ve got the ace of hearts myself’—holding
down a card with his two thumbs on the ends
‘lt’s a right hard case, Joe, but yon see my
ace.’
‘Count the cards,’ said I, ‘count the cauls. and
’twas all right, 52 in there. ‘Well now, let’s
all take down the pot,’ says Carter, ‘and divide
equally.’
‘All right, sez T ; and so little did I know I hen
’bout the things, that I never ’spected that scoun
drel, Carter Weaver, had the tray of hearts be
tween bis thumbs. When I think of Carter Wea
rer’s ace, I cant help laughing at my greenness,
but whew ! boys, I’m some now’, that is, folks tell
me so.
Well. I vowed I’d git even with that crab.
Carter Weaver, so one court day 1 put at Carter
for a game of Loo. Os course he said ‘yes,’for
he’spected to pluck me agin. So we set at it.
Carter and me, and two other hoys, and after a
while g..t a smashing 100. I kept my eye on
Carter and seed him crib the aee of clubs, and
lay it on his knee, and pretty soon lie got the
king and queen too. I never said a word
but the very next deal tip cornea club for trumps,
•nd Carter knocked the table hard for a stand.
‘Well,’ said lie S*idi cards as these is tike steal
ing your money. I* tvs;’
‘l'll stand.’ said I, and slipped my hand onto
Carter’s knee and tuk off the ace, king and
queen, and put rfiy hand in its place. I watch
ed Carter, and he quietly put his hand down and
tuk up the other. Carter had the lead, and
wnb a broad grin on his ugly face, sez he, ‘Come
to this one’—playing from the back—and down
came the deuce of hearts and I mounted it wit It
the queen of trumps. You ought to have jist
*een Carter’s face then ; it looked as long as a
garden rail; ‘ana here’s the ace and king too,’
*•* I raking down the pewter. Carter looks all
round the table, and sez he, dryly, ‘Gentlemen,
I m goin’ to quit, there’s cheating going on
here.’
‘I thought so, too, Carter,* saifl I, ‘when you
found them two aces of hearts in that pack hist
week.’
Let’s play o n,* said one of the other boys.
. believe net, sez Carter, and be left, look
,ng a huffish ob an old maid.
(Eire American Union.
‘* Now, csoyte, didn’t I gather old Carter that
pop ? Anti we all used to tell l.nele Joe I bat he
did, sure, and he’d take a few mote whiffs at his
pipe and leave us with our game. — Spir lof the
Times.
The. Shortest Way. — Some twelve years ago,
NVipoh-on, Tod., was clehrated for two things, one
for ‘>fir carousing propensities of its citizens, and
Ibejpther for the great number of crossroads iu
ys vicinity. It appears that an eastern collector
st<J|)ped at Dayton to spend the night and gain
some information about his future course. Dur
ing the evening he became acquainted with an
old drover, who appeared well posted as to the
Geography of the contilry. ami the collector
(bought he might as well inquire as regards the
best route tot le different points to which he was
destined.
“ 1 wish logo to Greenfield.” said the collec
tor ; “ which will lie my shortest route ?”
“Well, sir.” said the drover, “you had better
go to Napoleon, and take the road leading near
ly north.”
The traveller noted it down.
“ Well, sir, if I wish to go lo Edinburg ?”
“Go to Napoleon and take the road going
west.”
“ Weii, if I wish to go to Vernon ?”
“Go lo Nopuieon and take the road going
South West.”
! lie collector looked at his note book-—every
direction had Napoleon on it ; lie began to feei
tus mettle rise. ;llid li<“ T(TlTfed onre ore to the
drover with—
•• Suppose, my friend, I wanted to go to hell ?”
The drover never smiled, hut scratched his
head, and after a moment’s hesitation, said :
“Wt 11. in v dear sir, I don’t know of any shor
ter l ead vou could lake than to go (•■ Napoleon.”
POLITICAL.
The State Road—Grave Charges.
That.tin- people, tic tax |iavcrsof Georgia, are
being aroused on th<* subject of tile management
of tie- Slate Iload, is very apparent from tile
manner in which they speak out n tltcir primary
meetings. They coiiuot hut see that Governor
Johnson is using it to promote his re-election,
and as freemen they feci it a duty they owe tiiem
seLvusaud the -enquiry, to aid in xpusiug—and
proclaiming the fraud.
No one will deny that the citizens of Atlanta
have opportunities for knowing how the road is
managed which few enjoy. They are on the s| sit
and their voice is the voice of “a jur\ of the vi
cinage.” We. therefore, invite the attention of
the reader to tile following proceedings of a ’large’
meeting of the citizens of Fulton County, held
in Atlanta, on the 6th iiist.. of which A. W.
Mitchell was Chairman and Geo. W. Adair Secre
tary.
In accordance with a resolution adopted by
the meeting the Chair appointed the following
Committee, to prepare a preamble and resolu
ions expressive of the sense of I lie meeting, touch
ing the cases of clear violations of law by the
Governor of our State, and the General Superin
tendent, of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
which have b en developed in the progress of the
present campaign : Col. A. \Y . Hammond, J. T.
Doane, 11. E. Matigain. James Loyd. James Cald
well, Dr. N. Angier, W. F. Ezzard, J. Farrar,
M. J. Ivv, (’apt. John Jones, W.J. Foster. R. M.
Clark, 11. W. McDaniel. J. F. Arnold. 1’ E. Me
Daniel. T. li. Daniel, Ur. Albert. A. W. Stone,
Maj. A. Stokes, Win. Lawslte, W, . Butt, and
E. M. Seago.
The meeting was addressed hv Messrs. .Lis. M.
Calhoun and J. L. Hariis of Atlanta. When the
latter gentleman had concluded, the Committee
made the following report which was unanimous
ly adopted hv the meeting:
••Your mmitte were much embarrassed, and
were compelled to pass over several of the most
serious charges'which are rife in the community
relating to favoritism by the Superintendent of
the State Road, for the want of positive proof.—
We have therefore, confined ourselves to the no
tice of a few facts of “favoritism” and “discrim
ination,” which we know to be true , and which
we believe to he plain violation* of the law en
acted for the government of tlie Road, as well as
a ty rani cal proscription of a portion of our citi
zens, and others having business connections
with the Western and Atlantic Rail Road. We
presume that no man will deny that it is the du
ty of the Superintendent of the State Road., to
know no man in his official capacity. In order
to show to what extent partiality and favoritism
have been shown in the cases we design present
ing. it becomes necessary to refer to the oath
which the. Superintendent was required to take
before entering upon the duties of his office. It
is in the following words :
“I, James F. Cooper, do solemnly swear that
I will faithfully and impartially perform all the
duties of my office ; that I will make no appoint
ment, not do any act from fear, favor, reward,
or the Impe thereof, hut that in all things I will
he governed solely by regerd to the interests of
the State of Georgia, and that in the discharge
of tnv duties, I will neither make or permit to
he made, a"v discrimination of, or against any
Rail Road Company in the State, or other per
sons nr parties having business connections with
or rela'ious to, the Western and Atlantic Rail
Road.”
The rates of freight to the Etowah Depot,
have within a few weeks pas', been reduced in
accordance with the wish of the proprietor of
the Etowah works, to the tariff which prevailed
during a former administration. \Y hen this was
done. Rev. C. W. Howard, o iter and worker of
the extensive lime quarries near Kingston, respect
fully asked of the Governor and Superintendent
a similar favor, —sent up hi* tiwn petition, en
dorsed by forty citizens of Cass county, praying
that his business relation* might be placed as
Mr. Ymige left them—precisely what had been
done for Mark A. Cooper. The Governor of
Georgia refused to make the reduction for Mr.
Howard, and the Superintendent refuses to do
for him, what he has done for a party friend.—
Be it therefore,
Resolved. That we regard .this a plain case of
‘discrimination’ in favor of, and against, ‘persons
having business connections with the Western &
Atlantic Rail Road,’ and that we utterly condemn
a policy so unjust and discriminative in its ope
rations.
Again when the Railroad Bridge across the
Etowah river was destroyed by fire in the early
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1855.
’ present year, a spirited competition
for the contract to haul passengers across the
burnt section, grew up liefore it was awarded
to anv one. Messrs Lnyed <fc l’ulliam, of this
city, who we all know are reliable and responsi
ble in every respect, proposed to take the contract
and give good security for its faithful perforra
-1 mice, at 35 cents a passenger. The Superinten
’ dent gave jit toother parties, at 50 cents per pas
senger.
Resolved, That in the opinion of tnis meeting
here is another act of ‘favoritism’ and ‘partiality’
which cannot heexptained away, and is indirect
violation of what we understand to he the duty
of the Superintendent in his official capacity,
win-n called upon to decide ‘between persons and
parties.’
On the first day of Inst month. (Aug.) the
American party held a Mass meeting at Carters
ville. The Superintendent fixed the rale of fare
to go and return from Atlanta at tiro dollars
and thirty cents per passenger. <>n the 30th day
oftlie same month, the anti-American democrat
ic party held a inass meeting at the same place,
and the rate of fare to go and return from this
point, was fixed by tlie Superintendent at two
dollars thirty rents per /ntssenyer less tlitin was
the American party. A similar discrimination
in favor of one political patty, and ayainst anoth
er, was carried out at all the stations where any
abatement was made from the regular rates. —
Therefore,
Resolved, That we deem this a violation ot
Ahe +rtrst confided to the Srrpermtcmiettt, and an
act of proscription towards a portion of the cit
izens bf Georgia, w hich ought not to be permil
ted. The law which clothed the Snperi-vb ndent
with power to preset ibc rates of fare, did not con
template that he should charge a ccttain politi
cal party one price, and its opponents another. — i
If it had. we do not hink the oath above qtiot-j
e l, which he is required to take before entering
upon bis duties, would lone been incorporated
into the Act.
Hut again. Sometime hist year, a man nam
ed llutidimg', said to be a 1 iroker trollt Kenttteky
passed down tbe WestcltuY Atlantic Railroad to
Atlanta, carrying i-v his side on the seat, a car
pet bag, which the conductor supposed contain- ;
ed specie. Freight <<” carrying it was demand- j
ed. but tbe owner refused to pay any. < fit the j
arrival of I lie train here, the Superintendent di- j
reded that the carpet bag and contents be seized
and detained unt l the owner paid S4O IrieglitJ
which we UdieVe was the sum demanded. The
l property was, accordingly seized, and its owner
detained here several days, in endeavoring to get j
possession of his specie or whatever it was. Alter
the man hail been harrassed out ot all patience j
before our Justice Courts, lie finally paid a por- j
lion of the demand, under protest. In this pro j
reeding, the Siqierwiteudent exhibited a praise-1
w< rtliv solicitude for the interests ot the State,
and we commend him for it. lint about two!
weeks ago a Western Hanker drew’ from the
Hank of the Interior, at (iriflin, and the Atlanta i
Bank, in this city, something vet $200,000 in
coin. According to the published tales for car
eying specie, flic M. it W. road chatged and col- j
lected SIOO 00 for bringing it here. By direc
tions of the Superintendent, the w hole amount j
was conveyed over the State lload, free ! I lie *
freight would have amounted to S2OO, it charg- j
ed and collected. .
Resolved, That we here make out another
plain case of ‘•favoritism” and “discrimination, !
which is not only improper and contrary tolaw, j
but well calculated to disgrace Georgia in the
eyes of citizens ofother States.
Hut another, and more serious charge. It is
well known to the citizens of Atlanta generally,
as well as to those present this evening, that the
Georgia Kail Hoad, and Macon it Western lines
each have an outside Agent, who reside in Atlan
ta. An Agent outside their respective 1 Vpot.
Mr. John Glen represents the Georgia line, while
the Savannah line is represented bv Mr. A. <•.
Ware. Both these gentlemen, in the discharge
of their duti-s, arc frequently required to tiavel
over connecting lines in order to look alter the in
terests of the respective companies which they re
present. And let it be remembered that both
these great rival lines occupy exactly the same re
lation to the State Koail. Mr. A. G. W are. who
represents the Savannah line, in a certain capaci
ty, is required to pa \ full fare, wherever he irnv- !
els over the Western ik Atlantic Hail Hoad, while
Mr. John Glen, who occupies precisely the same
relation to the Georgia Had lload, is passed free !
Both these Agents have passed over the State
Road free, until very recently. We learn from
Mr. Ware, that he called on the Superintendent,
a few days ago, at Marietta, for an explanation,
as to whv he was required to pay fare, while in
the discharge of his duties as Agent of the Cen
tral, and Macon & Western Companies. The
Superintendent replied, it was because be (W are)
“was editor of a Know Nothing paper,” and gave
no other reason. Mr. NVare is not the editor of
any paper —has the control of none—-is respon
si tile for the editorial department of none. He
may ocasionally write for political journals, as
time and inclination prompts, but is not the edi
tor of any. The “American Discipline,” to
which we. suppose the Superintendent alluded,
is owned and controlled exclusively by Mr. A. M.
Eduleman, a gentleman well known in this com
munity—of unimpeachable character and intege
ity, and in every way responsil le for the col
umns of liis journal. Therefore, he it.
Resolved, That, we recognize in this case of pet
ty political proscription, not only a disposition on
the part of the Superintendent to crush those who
dare to oppose the re-election of Gov. Johnson,
with the power which he wields for the time be
: ing, but we fear, entire disregard of the solemn
joath which he has taken, not to “discriminate in
(favor of, or against any Rail Road Company in
i this State,” if passing an Agent of a connecting
Road over the State Road free, while he charg
es the Agent of another, and a rival line, full
fare, does not come in direct conflict with the
loath which he has taken as Superintendent, as
the case now stands, then we do not understand
the meaning of words.
Hut more. As some of the democratic papers
jin this vicinity, were among the first to make
charges against the Slate Road for its corrupt
and partizan management, and for some cause,
have now ceased to allude to its delinquenccs,
we hold it to be a solemn duty we owe to the
State at large, thus to notice, and publish to the
world these acts of favoritism, discrimination and
i wrong—that tbe whole people of Georgia, to
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
whom the Road belongs, may apply such reme
dy, as to them may seem fit and proper, to re
move the evils complained of.
On motion, it was Resolved, That these, our
proceedings, after being signed by tbe Chairman
and Secretary, lie published in the “American
Discipline,” and that every paper in Georgia,
opposed to the prostitution of our great State
work to selti-.li party purposes, lie earnestly re
quested to insert them. A. NV. Mitchell,
Cli’mn.
George NV. Adair, Sec’y.
I’ruai the ('hronicli a Sentinel.
Gov. Johnson-Rev. Charles Wallace Howard.
NVe find in the last Koine Courier, the following
letter from Rev. Charles Wallace Howard, of <iisa
county, to Gov. Johnson, asking that the sumo re
duction be made in his freights which had been
made in favor of Mark A. Cooper Mr. Howard is
extensively engaged in making lime, and if the
amount of freight given to the road, or the devel
opment of the resources and mineral wealth of
the State had been the true reasons for the
“bargain"’ with Mark A. Cooper, the same rea
sons should have secured a reduction of freight
on lime to Mr. Howard; who also furnishes n
1 irge amount of freight to the road, and is enga
ged in developing a very important resource of
the State—important to the Planters and Farmers
asa manure and to builders for building—an arti
cle which lias heretofore been almost exclusively
obtained toiii Maine, aye frecsoil and abolition
Maine. The refusal of Gov. Johnson, therefore,
to make the reduction asked by Mr. Howard,
throws additional light upon the motives and pur
poses of the Governor for the Cooper “arrange
incut.Cooper is a Democrat, anil had from
three to five hundred voters in hi* employ, and
threatened to take the stump against Johnson, il
the freights wore not reduced Mr. Howard is a
clergyman and no politician, and therefore the
Governor did not dread his takinj the stump be
fore the people. Mr. Howard asked nothing
more than what had been done for Cooper, it was
refused, and he. as a Christian patriot, deemed it
a duty he owed to the State to lay the facts be
fore his fellow citizens.
Mr. Howard publishes in the Rome Courier, a very
interesting artiele, in relation to the use that is
now. and might be made of lime in Georgia, if an
enlightened policy were pursued toward him. We
regret that we have not space to-day for this en
tire article, we cannot omit, however, the follow
ing extract, in which lie introduces the subject
to the public.
Kingston, Aug 22d. 1855.
Km roils Rome Cot iiika ;
(i ntictnca : It is with some reluctance that I
send you the enclosed letter to Guv. Johnson, and
also a statement of sonic of my neighbors relative
to the subject matter of that fetter, with the re
quest that you publish them, together with the
remarks of my own which will follow. A natural
aversion to a step of this sort is removed to a great
degree, by the impression of my friends, whotnink
this publication luc not only to myself but a num
ber of persons who are interested with me. In
fact I sec no other resource for one of the people
when aggrieved by the chief servant of the peo
ple. but AN API’KAI. ,ro THE Peol'l.K.
My letter tii Gov. Johnson is dated July 25th.
Nearly thirty days have now elapsed and no no
tice has been taken of it. It is not to he presumed
that the Governor of Georgia is so long absent
from his post—or, if absent on the business of the
State, it is to be supposed that his letters are trans
mitted ti) him. 4 cannot, therefore, consider his
silence as other than intentional. If there were
anything discourteous in my manner —if I asked
anything improper for me to ask. or f r him to,
consider, there would be a reason for the silence
of the Governor. But I cannot see anything of
fensivo either in the manner or matter of my letter.
It refers to a subject of much pecuniary interest
to myself and several hundred persons besides my
self. “ The silence of the > iovernm is therefore both
an incivility and an injustice to a 1 parties con
cerned.
Since Mr. J. F. Cooper has had the manage
ment of the road. I have repeatedly sought to be
placed on the same freight footing which I iiecu
nied during Mr Yonge s administration. There
was then an arrangement ns stated in my letter to
the Governor, by which there, was a reduction of
freight, on lime to certain points, as Savannah.
Charleston, Columbia, Columbus, hie , the usual
rates amounting to a prohibition. T lie consump
tion of lime in Savannah is very great. The Cen
tral Kailroad this summer agreed to make such a
reduction on freigets as would enable me to supply
that market, if the other roads would concur. —
But the >uperintendent of the State Rond would
not concur , The opportunity was lost to me
The supply of the city of Savannah witli lime
would not have been less than $30,000 jier an
num.
When it was understood that Governor Johnson
had interfered, and had directed such an action
on tlie part of the Supeiintendcut as would place j
Maj. M. A. Cooper in the same position in which
Mr l unge left hint, it gave me great pleasure,
thinking, ol course, that it would lie necessary
merely to inform the Governor that I was labor
ing under similar injustice, in order to secure jus
tice to ntysclf You have seen the result of my
application. I make no comment upon it.
Mr. Howard was backed in his application to
the Governor, by forty of his neighbors, who uni
ted in a petition in behalf of his request, hut we
have no space for it. Here is the letter of Mr.
Howard to the Governor:
Kingston, July 25th, 18;>5.
His Excellency, Gov. Johnson :
Sir; —During Mr. Wadley and Mr. 5 onge's
management of the Western i Atlantic Railroad,
there was an arrangement Between the several
Railroads, by which a reduction was made on the
freight of lime from my kilns to ny points be
yond Macon and Augusta.. The reason of this
special arrangement was. that the usual rates of
freight amounted to a prohibition beyond these
points named. In consequence of these arrange
ments I was enabled to s- nd liinc and cement to
Southwestern Georgia, and a great deal to Caroli
na. as high up as Anderson C. H . for the Ribun
Gap Railroad. When Mr. Cooper took charge of
the road, this arrangement was broken up. and an
extra charge made on these articFs of lime and
cement, the freight on a car load of lime from
Kingston to Atlanta now is sl6, the freight on
the same car load from Atlanta to Augusta S2O,
the first distance is 60 miles, the second 170 miles
and tbe State Road has no depot expenses—l
loading the car —tbe Georgia road has to unload
and store the lime.
The freight on a car load of lime or cement be
ing sl6 from Kingston to Atlanta, the freight
from Atlanta to Savannah is S4O. The one dis
tance 65 miles, the other 300 miles, one fifth the
tlistunoe— I bearing all the expense of loading and
storing as before When 1 pointed Mr. Cooper
to this exceptive diflerenee, he simply replied
•• that, there was no competition with the State
Road-”
It is generally understood that you liaTe direct
ed Maj Mark “A Cooper to he placed on the freight
footing in which he was left by Mr Yonge. and
the excess of freights charged by the present Sui
perintendent lie refunded to him If this be the j
case, | beg that the same thing be ordered in ref i
erence to myself, being precisely in the same con
dition witli Maj. Mark A. Cooper I have writ
ten today to the Superindent ndvising him that I
shall address you upon this subject.
It is proper to state in this connection that there
isn deep dis-atisfiictiotriti this section at the great
preference shown to Tennessee produce over that
of Georgia. My establishment gives a support to
between one and two hundred persons. It is the
market besides, for the small tanners in the vicin
ity. Whenever the road refuses to take off my
produce they suffer ; of course I cannot employ
them at an entire loss, when therefore, they see
cars loaded with marble, copper ore and wlicnt
passing by them, while they are thrown out of
employment for want of„ a small proportion of j
these same cars, the murmuring was deep and
loud. It is n time of great distress among the
labouring classes, from the scarcity and high price
ol provisions. I beg your excellency to take their
case into consideration, and direct that the freight
in lime shall be reduced, and a proportion of cars
Ih allowed, and that they may find the regular nn
ployroent to which they are accustomed It ian
additional motive that this lime employs Georgia
labor twice, in its manufacture and consumption
Not only myself and my labourers, but a large
number of builders throughout middle Georgia
suffer whenever the Hoad refuses to take off iny j
lime.
If the freight on lime, especially for manure,
were reduced even as low as it was during Mr
Mitchell s Superintendence, and if cars were sup- :
plied regularly, this ono. .establishment will pay
6,000 dollars freight annually to the W. te A
| road, besides greatly increasing the cotton crop
| below. lam the more emboldened to bring this
j subject to your Excellency's attention, as prior to
your election, you expressed great interest in
bringing this valuable manure within reach ot
the planters of Middle Georgia In the cares of
j office, this has probably escaped yon. anil I avail
I myself of this opportunity to tiring it again to
your notieo. I lie demand for this artiele of lime
j “for manure, if earned at Northern rates. cents
1 per ton per mile, would warrant a regular train
for the purpose. This, besides increasing the cot
\ ton Crop one-third, where it can he used, would
give employment to hundreds of laborers in Cher
okee Georgia. It might cot pay a direct profit at
once, but must certainly by an indirect::" 1 in the
increase of taxable property. There is no reason
why the sale of lime in Georgia should not create
a town as large as I'hoinastou in Maine, a town
larger 1 believe, than any interior town in the
Hiate.
In hope of receiving an early reply especially to
my request of being placed on the same freight
footing with Maj M. A. Cooper,
I am with great respect your obd't serv't,
C. W. Howard.
People of Georgia, this is a plain unvarnished
statement of the course pursued by Gov. Johnson
i toward Mr. Howard You have already had
I spread before you an equally true account of the
very different policy pursued toward Mark A.
Cisiper. Look calmly and dispassionately upon
the two pictures, voters of Georgia, and determine
whether such a man as H. V. Johnson is worthy
of your confidence and support.
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The Federal Union Corrected.
The Federal Union says Judge Andrews isin fa
vor of the white basis. This is unirue. Judge
Andrews was never in favor of the white basis, hut
has always been opposed to it, and when the sub
ject was brought up in the convention of 1833. he
voted against it This the editors of the Federal
Union knew, if they read the papers; for Judge An
drews laid already stamped the charge ns false be
fore they put it in circulation. We refer them to
page 22 of the Journal of the convention, and to
Judge Andrew s letter published in the Augusta
Chronicle of Friday, by both of which it is e,stub
lished that he voted against the white basis, in op
position to the Democratic members of the conven
who generally voted for it.
The Federal Union suys further, that the Amer
ican party ill Georgia “refused to make the Nebras
ka and Kansas bill a test question with the North.'*
This is also untrue The American conven ion
which iiHscnihlcd at Macon in June last unanimous
ly adopted the following resolution :
j Itesoleed 6th, That this Council, (while repudiat
! ing the policy of allowing, in the future legislation
! of the country, unnatura ized foreigners tu-votc in
the Territorial elections.) regards all opposition to
| the principles of ttie Nebraska Kansas Act, in re-
I lation to slavery, as hostility to the constitutional
! rights of the South ; and all persons who partake
i in such opposition, as unfit tube recognized os mem
i bers of the American Party.
W'e are unwilling to believe that the Federal
Union would deliberately misrepresent the position
of the American party ; and yet candor constrains
us to say it requires the exercise of no little chari
ty to bring us to this conclusion, since the editors of
that paper knew that the foregoing resolutionscon-
I stituted a part o’ the platform of the party, and
since also they must have seen the letter of Judge
Andrew*, flatly denying the charge in regard to
the basis of representation -Sac. Republican.
An Irish Know Nothin*). —On the morning
of the bill of August la*?, which, as our readi-r
----are aware, was the day uj>oit which the recent j
: general election in Kentucky occurred, two men ■
I met upon the road, both of them traveling on
horseback, towards the shire-town of a certain j
county in that State. One of them was a native
and a Democrat—the other was an Irishman
who laid resided in the county for a numtier of
years, and was known as one of its best citizens;
and ho was a member of the American party. — ‘
After exchanging the usual friendly greetings,|
the following conversation occurred between j
them, the Native Democrat being the first inter-1
locutor:
“ Well, Mr. , I suppose you are going to
town to the election, this morning
“ Yes sir.”
“ And, if I may be jiermitted to ask the ques
tion, what are you going to do ? how arc you go
ing to vote ?”
“ Well,” says the Irishman, with a merry
twinkle in his eye, and a smile lurking about the i
corners of his mouth, “ I expect I am going U do;
just exactly as you are going to do. ( ain going
to vote against my country, and you are going to j
vote against yours.”
Tbe gentleman who related, this incident to.
us did not give us the reply of the native Dem
ocrat —most probably, however, liis next observa
tion was about the weather or the crops.
Editor aad Prop net##
The Secrecy of our Party.
Our opponents have been busy crying ogt sgalssff
our party, and denouncing it as a band of “eoo
spirators,” “midnight assassins,'’ “allies of the
devil,” and all that. Below we present the view
of Judge \ndrcws, our gallant affaadaiA-bsarav, aw
that subject:
The nitivo American Party, the forerunner of
j the present American party, had its origin in an
1 effort to counteract the evils of that foreign inflo-
I once whiali Imd been greatly increased by tbe
bids made fofTureign votes by the old Whig and
Democratic parties. The natural consequence of
bidding for a floating vote, is to increase tbe im
portance of that vote, n'.,d so powerful had tbe
foreigner* become, that the Native Araerioana wercr
subjected to personal violence, and beaten downaff
the polls. Many of my readers doubtlsas reoollect
the Kensington riot at Philadelphia in the year
144
A number of the Native American party weva
assembled. May 6th 1844, to hold a public wwt
ing. and on account of rain, retreated into the
Market. As anon ns Mr. rose to address
th in. they were attacked by Irishmen, and a young
nun who supported the American flag was shot
down The Amcr cans assembled were draws awl
’ into the open square, when being no longer pro
tected by the market, their assailants hid them
selves behind windows, roofs, loopholes and allies,
id the yards in the vieimtv, and Bred on them till
they dispersed. Upon the trial it was proved by
, many witnesses that port holes had bees previoaa
ty cut in the houses of the Irish in the vicinity,
, out of which to fire upon the Americana. A esm
mittee. appointed to search for concealed a ram,
; found them in the Queen Street Roman Catholio
, j Church, after a positive denial from tha priest,
put upon his soered word asa man and a Christian
j that there were any there The report was pub
! li-hed. and signed by the Committee and A. Mfl-
I Kinley, Alderman.
! For this account of the riot. lam indebted to a
■ panmi let. forms ed by J H Jones. Esq , editor of
j the Philadelphia American Banner.
This is but n *|>ccimen of the dangers to which
American citizens were subjected when assembling
, openly, under the name of the Native American
, j-oriy II iving been thus warned, by tbe fate af
i ‘ their forerunners, the Native Americana who were
I si ot at ii open day like wild beasts, and beaten
f down at the polls, when the present American
I party was organized, it was necessart ron ra
---,! son Ci. safety to organize secretly, and not under
. | the name Native American. The secret organ
,l iz.ition was found to work well, the canae prosper*
i ed, and gained adherents all over the country and
!on the fifth of July, 1855, the National Couneil
| met and adopted the Philadelphia Platform.
i Doinus in Kansas. —We perceive by theeor-
I respotnlcnco of the St. Louis Democrat that tba
Legislature of Kansas has had the prudence to
reject the proposition to call a Convention of the
people of that Teritory in October next to frame 0
, Constitution preparatory to asking admiaaion in
to the Union asaState. The committee to which
the proposition was referred reported.
“That it would he premature to provide for
’ the calling>>f a Convention to form aSlatecon
stitution without first submitting the question to
the pcoptu at the polls as to whether theydeeire
such it step to he taken, even if the proposition
was concluded that we [tossese by the propoeed
time the requisite population. There are otbef
reasons of importance which would tend to the
conviction that the hill is pn-mature. which will
appear from a mere suggestion. Kansas will
apply f<>t admission as a slave State, and, if ad
mitted at all, it must he done partly by Northern
vote*. In the present state of fanatical excite*
merit existing in *omo of the non-slave-holding
States there is some doubt w hether we would be
admitted into the Union with a slavery clause io
our constitution; for it will be charged that Kao
sas does not possess the requisite population—a
charge which cannot lie statistically anil official
ly refuted. In view of all the circumstances, tb
committee are of the opinion that Kansas should
not apply for admission into the Union as long
as there is a question as to her right to demand
admission hr virtue of the Constitution and laws
ofthc United States.”
The committee submitted a substitute for the
hill, the provisions of which are not clearly stat
ed. It appear*, however, to be in accordance
with the fir-t jsirt of the above report, in pro
viding fur taking the sense of the people as to
the propriety of calling a Convention. Tbiasub
stitu* was adopted.
laUggprriage of Blood Relation*.
On the fifth day of the session of the American
Association f or the Advancement of Science,
hold recently in Providence, a remarkable paper
was read in the de|xrtinetrt of Natural Historr,
by tire ICev. Charles Brook-, of Boston. lu title
was, ‘Remark* on the Intermarriage of Blood
Relations, and the transmission of peculiar traits/
Mr. Brooks, in presenting this paper, remarks!
It is believed that the laws of
marriage of near blood relatiene doth each other,
because the children from such affiances are fre-
I quently found to be in a partly obnoraul state of
j body or mind. There seems to be so arrest of
: normal development. They often lack thatentire
and symmetrical equilibrium of the physical, in
tellectual and moral [lowers which constitutes tba
whole man. Yet, it is true, that the children of
parents who were not related, do not present ■
normal development. Ilow decide I By obeer
ration, simply. If you bare experience aad eh
nervation, count up the children know* 40 have
been tiorn from first coorimpimd compare with
the offsprings of others who have not married
near blood relations, and I think, adds Rev. Mr.
1 Brook*, that any man will be convinced there in
j a deep and durable difference between them.
The learned speaker then presented a frightful
; list of examples of the pernicious fruits of iater
i marriages in families. It cannot be,said he, that
all these results are merely chance. Is it not
more probable that they are proofs of the viola
-1 tion of natural laws? The Professor arrived at
the following conclusion*:
Ist. That the laws (use.l and misused) which
improve or deteriorate the breeds in lower ani
mal*, are the same laws of nature which improve
| or deteriorate the human race.
2d. That an unusual number of Imbecile chil
dren, horn from parents who are first eooaina, are
often found in the same family.
3d. That few (if any) children bore of parents
i who are first cousin*.exceed theirparentsiu bodi
;ly strength or mental power; while children who
i are t>orn of parents not related, are frequently
: found to and” o.
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