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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
VOLUME II.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1855.
NUMBER 34
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
BY JOHN H. CHRISTY,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
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charged accordingly.
$53111*55 anti '^rofr55innnl (Ms.
j o h nIiTc hrTsty™
PLAIN AND FANCY
Hook and Job Printer,
“Franklin Job Office,” Athens, Ga.
♦% All work entrusted to bis care faitlifully, correctly
and punctually executed, at prices corrospond-
janlR ing witli thehardnessof the times. tf
C. B. LOMBARD,
DENTIST,
ATHENS, OF.OROIA.
Room* over the Store of Wilson & Veal. Jan3
PITNER & ENGLAND.
Wholesaledc Retail Dealersiri
Groceries, Dry Goods,
HARDWARE, SHOES AND BOOTS,
April 6 Athens, Ga.
MOORE & CARLTON,'
DEALERS IN
SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS.
If A R D \VA 11E AND CR 0 OK Ell Y.
April No. 3,'Granite Row, Athens, Ga.
LUCAS & BILLUPS,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DIALERS IN
DRY GO O DS,
G ROC ERIKS, HARDWARE, «fce. Ac.
No. 2, Broad Street. Athens.
WILLIAM G. DELONY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office over the store :il VVm M; Morton A Son
Will attend promptly to all basinessentrust-
ad to his car» Athens, April 6
P. A. SUMMEY & BROTHER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Staple Goods, Hardware, Crockery,
AND ALL KINDS OF GROCERIES,
Corner of Wall and Broad streets. Allien's
WILLIAM N. WHITE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONED,
Asd Newspaper ami Magazine Agent.
• '•) nKAi.rn t.v
MUSIC and •MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
LAMI'S. KING CUTLERY, FANCY GOODS, AC.
No. 2, Cidlcge Avenue, Newton House. Athens, Ca
sign of •• While’s University Book Store.”
Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates.
T. BISHOP & SON,,
Wholesale and Fffpi! Certs,
April 6 No. 1, Broad street, Athens.
JAMES M. ROYAL,
HARNESS MAKER,
H AS removed liis shop to Mitchell’s old
Tavern, one door east of Grady it Nich
olson’s—where he keeps always on Land a
general assortment of articles in his line, and
isalwaysready to fill orders iutl*c best style.
Jan 2d tf
LOOKHERE!
T UB undersigned have on hand u general
assortment of
STAPLE DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES A ND HA RD WARE.
which they will sell low for cash or barter
Call and examine.
April 13 P. A. SUMMEY & BRO.
Coach-Making and Repairing.
JAMES B. BURPEE,
A T the old stand recently occupied by R. S.
Sclicvencll, offers for sale a lot of superi
or articles of his own manufacture, at red u-
ced prices—consisting ot
Carriages, Buggies, &c.
Orders for any thing in hislinu thankfully
received uml promptly executed.
J-ST - Repairing done at short ioticeand on
reasonable terms.
NOTICE.
T UG subscribers arc prepared to fill orders
for all kinds of
Spokes for Carriages anil Wagons,
Also, at the same establishment we manufac
v- tuie all kinds of
BOBBINS,
(tout manly used in our cotton factories. All
done as good and cheap us cun be had from
the North. Address,
P. A.SUMMEY & BRO, Athens,Ga
who will attend to ull orders, and the ship
ping of the same. March, 1854.
SLOAN & OATMA.N,
DEALERS IN
Italian, Egyptian <£’ American
AND EAST TENNESSEE MARBLE.
Monuments, Tombs, Urns and Vases; Murblc
Mantels and Furnishing Marble -
- or ah orders promptly filled.
„ ATLANTA, G A.
lajrRefer to Mr. Ross Cfrane. junel4
30
8acks Flour for sale by
April JOtli Ghady i&N’iciiolsok
Blank Declarations,
O F both forms, (long and short) together
w,th the proce.-i*nuit!!bcd— just printed
uud for sale at this Office. Also, v-rii.us
other Blanks.
ES?"Any Uliuiks not on hand—as, indeed,
ajmostany kind of job printiug—can be fur
nished uu a few hours’ notice
The Little Frock and Shoes-'' *
BY BENJAMIN R. MITCHELL.
A little frock but slightly worn, ^
Of blue and white dclain, ^
With edgiuground the neck and sleeve^
Lav foldedneat and plain ;
Beside a little pair of shoes.
With here aud there a flaw ;
Lay half concealed among the things
In mother’s bureau draw 1
Snmmerbad passed away from.earth
With all her sweetest ties.
The birds had left their sujmnefTiaunts,
For more congeuial skies- _
The twilight bfeezes sweetly played
Aipong the dews of even—
An angel left his home on high,
To gather flowers for henren !
The angel near and nearer came,
Whore sister sick did lie-;
Then gently fann’dher faded cheek,
And pointed to the sky !
The morning shone upon the bed,
The autumn wind blew free.
The angel moved its S’lvery wings.
And whispered “comewith me!”
We gathered round her dying bod
With hearts to weep and pray,
And many were the tears we shed.
When sister went away !
No bitter tears bad she to weep, •
No sin to be forgiven.
But closed her little eyes in sleep,
To opeu them in heaven.
We laid her in the earth’s green breast,
Down by the village green,
Where gently weeps the dewy grass,
And summer flowers are seen;
And often when dear mother goes
To get her things to use,
I see her drop a silent tear
Ou sister’s frock and shoes.
ftlisrellfliitj.
MUSIC BY STEAM.
A Yankee genius has succeeded in
harnessing steam to a musical instru
ment, which will out-sax Mr. Sax’s
noisy inventions moM decidedly. Ilis
name is Joshua C. Stoddard, of Worces
ter, Mass., and the following (from an
exchange,) description will give some
idea of the invention :
“ The instrument is of simple con
at ruction, and when once thoroughly put
together, will seldom if ever, get out of
repair. It consists of a-horizontal steam
chest or cylinder, some six feet in length,
and from tony to six feet in diameter,
which is fed with steam from the largi*
boiler in the establishment where it is
located. Upon the fop of this cylinder
is a series of valve chambers, placed at
equal distance from each other, into
which«tcam is admitted without obstruc
tion. Each valve-chamber contains a
double metalic valve, with no packing,
yet it fits so closely upon its seat .as to
allow no steam to escape. To each of
these valves is connected a very small
piston rod or stem, which passes through
the chamber, and is operated upon by
machinery without..
“ Were it not for this stem, the valve
would be simply a double balance-valve,
and would remain stationary wherever
placed, the pressure of steam being
equal on all sides ; but a part of one
end of the valve being carried outside of
the chamber gives it the self-closing
power, which ts the nicest part of the
whole invention, and perhaps the best
paltenable feature. With a slight pres
sure against these rods, the valve is
opened ; and when the pressure is re
moved, it closes as qnick as steam can
act, which is not much behind electrici
ty, Directly over each of these valves
is placed a common alarm whistle, con
structed similar to those used upon loco
motives, except that it admits of being
raised or lowered, to flatten or sharpen
the tone. These whistles are made of
different sizes, so as to produce the de
sired tone corresponding with each note, :
etc. This completes the' machine, with
the exception of a cylinder similar to
those used in a common hand-organ or
music-box, containing cogs which, when
properly arranged, will, when turned by
liand or otherwise, operate upon the
valves in such a manner as to play any
tune desired by simply changing the
position of cogs, which are intended to be
movable.
“ One of these instruments can he
heard from teq to twenty-five miles on
the water, and every note will be perfect
and full. We heard the inventor play
Rosalie on it, and it looked like 4 * getting
off all notes” mechanically. This inven
tion is so completely under the control
of the opeiator, that were it arranged
with a keysboard similar to a piano, it
would obey the slightest touch, and a
child could play slow or quick tunes,
every note of which might be heard
several miles. It is the design of the
inventor to place instruments upon lo
comotives and steamboats. It would ap
pear rather novel to John Bull to hear
Yankee Doodle from one of our ocean
steamers as she was about to enter a
British port, (say twenty miles, and it
would remind a Yankee of hip jack-knife
to hear Sweet Home from the same ves
sel on its return to New York or Bos
ton. The inventor if it meets the ex
pectations of most who have seer, it will
alter the tone of public demonstration
on important occasions very essentially.”
A man in Maine who had stolen a
watch, gave as an excuse, that be was
unwell, and his physician advised him to
take something.
A “ STRANGE PREACHER.
His name was Strange. Many will
think his conduct was strange also. He
was a zealous preacher and a sweet sing
er.. Nothing gave him so much pleasure
as to go about the country preaching and
singing. A benevolent gentleman, well
off in .worldly gear, desiring to make him
self and his family comfortable in their de
clining years, generously presented him
a title deed for three hundred and-twenty
acres of land. ^Strange accepted the
donation.with thankfulness, and went on;
his way, preaching and singing as he
went. But after a few months he Te-
tnrned and requested his generous friend
to take the title deed. ‘ Surprised at the
request, the gentleman inquired :
b Is there any flaw in it ?”
“ Not the slightest.”
•‘Is not thfe land good?”
“ First rat .”
“ Ia’nt it healthy ?”
“ None more so.”
*• Why, then, do you wish me to take
it back ? It will be a comfortable home
for you when you grow old, and someth
ing for your wife, and children,.if you
should be taken away.”
Why, I’ll tell you. Ever since, I’ve
lost my enjoyment in singing. I can’t
sing my favorite hymn with a good con
science any longer.”
“ What is that ?”
“ This; .
“ No foot of land do I possess.
No cottage in the wilderness,
A poor warfaring man.
“ I dwell awhile in terns below.
Or g'adly wander to and fro,
’Till I my Canaan gain.
“ Yonder’s my house and portion fair.
My treasure and my heart are there,
And my abiding home!”
“ There!” said Strange. “ I*d rather
sing that hymn than own America. I’ll
trust the Lord lo take care of my. wife
and children.”
He continued singing and preaching,
and preaching nnd singing; and the
Lord, said the lecturer, did take care of
him, nnd his children aftenhim.
THE SHORTES V WAY.
Some twelve years ago,Napoleon Ind.,
was clebrated for two things, one for the
carousing propensities of its citizens, and
the other for the great number of cros
sroads in its vicinity. It appears that
an eastern collector, stopped at Dayton
to spend the night and gain some infor
mation about bis future course. Dur
ing the evening he became acquainted
with an old drover, who appeared well
posted as to the Geography of the coun
try, and the collector thought lie might
as well inquire as regards the bast route
to the different points to which he was
destined.
“ I wish to gc to Greenfield,” said the
collector; “ which will be my shortest
router”
“ Well, sir,” said the drover, ‘ you
had better go to Napoleon, and take the
road leading nearly north.”
The traveller noted it down.
“ Well, sir, if I wish to go to Edin
burg r”
f? Go to Napoleon and take the road
going west.”
•‘ Well, if I wish to go to Vernon?”
Go to Napoleon and take the road
going south-west.”
The collector looked at his note book
every direction had Napoleon on it; he
began to feel bis mettle rise, and lie
turned once more to the drover with—
“ Suppose, iny friend *1 wanted to go
to hell ?”
The drover never smiled, but scratch
ed his head, and after a moment’s hesi
tation, said:
“ Well, my dear sir, I don’t know of
any shorter road you could take than to
go to Napoleon.
WOMEN OF JAPAN.
As might be imagined from the char
acter of the government, woman plays
no part in the history of Japan, though
allowing for orieutal usages, she is treat
ed, on the, whyle with tolerable leniency.
She occupies a better position in the
family, from not entailing any charge at
her marriage, as a bride receives no
dowry, but, on the contrary, is present
ed by her husband with a handsome
donation, which is invariably appropria
ted by her father. In Japan,therefore; it
is considered more fortunate ‘o have
daughters than sons, as the former ultir
mately prove a very handsome invest
ment. On the birth of a son, the event
is commemorated by planting a tree,
which, if the little stranger lives, is
carefully (ended to. tiie day of his mar
riage when it is cuUdown, and furnishes
material for a chest, designed expressly
to hold the wardrobe af the newly mar
ried couple. The marriage, as in China
aud Tartary, is an affair betweeu the
parents : aud the wishes of the young
people themselves are never consulted
The bride is usually in her fifteenth
year: but maturity being early develop
ed wedlock may be contracted at a great
deal younger age, aud the mother is
often a child berseif. Marriage is a reli
gious ceremony, and is celebrated with
great pomp and many forms in a public
temple, in presence of the r priests and
idols, aud the friends and kindred of
both parties. The bride, using for this
■purpose the indelible liquor applied to
coal, scuttles and other similar Japan
ware, and this sen es, from that time to
her death, to notify, like the ring of
Europe, that she Jias entered the mar
riage state.
‘ Political.
mark a. cooper s letter^
Major Cooper is out in another let-
tef of near two columns, pretending
to reply to our artidgfe in relation to the
“Johnson and Cooper bargaiu,” but
in truth he really never meets the issue
presented by us. His’sole object seetns
to be to mystify the whgle matter so as
to prevent those not familiar with the
subject from compiehending its true
merits. We are really under obliga
tions to the Major for this second letter,
and trust he comply with hisqiromise of
continuing, the subject. Nothing will
afford us mod pleasure, thorough
ly inflated as he is, than to take the wind
out of his sails, and expose the trans
action between him and the Governor
in qll its deformities to the people.
The Major concludes his vapid letter
with the assertion that "it is false, every
icord false, that any favoritism has been
shown him.” This is decidedly cool
and refreshing, to come from a man
who acknowledges that he complained
ofthe freights because from $0,030 to
$8,000 was annually taken from him—
who admits that the rates on Coal, Iron,
Flour and Wheat, the articles in which
he is almost exclusively interested, have
been reduced above twenty-five per
cent.—while no reduction extends to
any other person or depot ! Was
there ever such a case of self-stultifica
tion ? Or does he imagine that because
he asserts that it is 'false” that there
fore the people are so stupid as to be
lieve it, simply because he says so, in
the face of his own admissions to the
contrary. He says they took from him
annually $6,000 to 88,000—he admits a
reduction to quite that extent, (no re
duct'on has been made oh any but his
freights) and yet he has the unblushing
effrontery to assett, that no favoritism
has been shown him ! People of Geor
gia, what think you of the man and his
admission and denials.
We will now proceed tosh >w to what
extent favoritism has been shown him,
and it will be our duty, in the course of
the invesligatiou, to show that Mark A.
Cooper has, in his letter, deliberately
and knowingly misrepresented the facts
as to (lie freights he now pays. The in
telligent people mny characterize such
conduct as they please, and detirrmine
with what propriety Mark A. Cooper
charges auy one with **falsehood.”
He makes a great parade aiul con
siderable flourish, because lie pays the
same freights as to Kingston on Cheese,
Dry Goods, Sait, Molasses, Bonnet and
Hal boxes, &c. That U something ex
traordinary indeed, he thinks, and he
seems to rely on it as disproving every
fa£t connected with the “ bargain” L tin<l
44 favoritism.” Nobody ever pretend
ed that there was any reduction upon
any article, but Iron, Coal, Wheat and
Flour, and .these probably constitute
ninety-nine hundredths of the freights
paid by Mark A. Coopf.r. We doubt
if more than one dollar in every hundred
paid by him for freights is paid for any
other article than Coal, Iron, \\ heat and
Flour—the very article on which the re
duction lias been made
Let us now show to what extent he
has been favored. To do this, we shall
use (he freight lists ad ed and p ublish
ed by Mr. YoNGEin September' 1S53,
and (bat of (lie present Superintendent,
by which the rate was advanced, Maj.
Cooper says, “2b .per cent.” Maj.
Cooper and Gov. Johnson both say that
the rates of YoNGEare restored, so that
a comparison of, the rates. qf each will
show how much Mark A. Cooper has
been favored. We have the lists before
us, and make nn extract transcript of the
rates, jvhicli any man can see who will
caU and examine them nt our office.
Under the, tariff of the present Super-
intendant, Etowah, (Mark A: Cooper’s
station) Cartersville, CaSs, and Kingston,
all paid the same freight, on all articles
of produce or merchandise. The rates
to Atlanta from all four of these stations
was as follows on the following arti
cles:
Pig and bar Iron ami Castings, per ton $2,50
Flour, per single barrel- * 30
Floor, by the car lead, per barrel 25
Flour, bv the ear load, per 100 lb. sack 13
The above are the rjite3 paid before
the bargain. Tbe following are the rates
now paid by Major Cooper from Etowah
to Atlanta.
Pig nnd bar Iron nnd Castings, per ton $2,00
Flour, per'singlebarrel 25
Flonr, by the car load, per barrel 20
Flour, by tbe car load, per 100 lb. sack 11
These are the rates since the bargain.
Recollect, reader, that there has been no
reduction, orireights to or from any Depot
on the road except Etowah, and no onfe
but M.ark A. Cooper rarely ever ships
or receives a dollar’s worth of freight
there.
Again, while he is paying now the
rates last mentioned. Mr. Denmead,
who is also, extensively engaged in the
flour business, pays the following rates
from Marietta, which is only 20 miles
from Atlanta 1 , while Etowah is 43 miles
from Atlanta more than double the dis
tance.
Flour per single barrel 20 ct6.
Flour, by the Oar load, per bbl 15
Flouy, by the Gar load, per 100 lb. sack 8
Recollect that Marietta is not half the
distance,, ami then see how much higher
rale Denmead j>ays than Mark A.
Cooper. Denmead is not a Demo
crat!
Again, Mark A. Cooper, pays* 12.-
85 a car load for coal IVotu Chattanooga
to Etowah, which is 90 miles, while a
man at Kingston, 15 miles nearer Chat
tanooga, pays 819,60 per load.
Again, the proprietors of the Foundry
in Dalton r which is only 38 miles from
Chattanooga, pay $16,00 .a car load for
coal front Chattanooga, while Mark A.
Cooper pays only $12,85, forttransport
ing it 90 miles to Etowah
that Major Cooper has vindicated him
self in the letter, should have Col. Ben
ton’s operation, of “cutting or the sam
ples,” performed on him immediately.
There is no sensible man who does not
know better—who does not know that he
never once .touched the question of dis
crimination made by the Road between
him and his neighbors. That is the
Another illustration, and we shall j question of discrimination, and he never
close. That the reader may properly attempted to show, that the charge was
understand this, it is necassary to state \ not true. Why ? Because he knew it was
that Cartersville is twband a half miles,! true, and a full and plain expose of the
and'Kingston fifteen miles above Eto- rates of freight would, establish it be-
' va |'l iyondadoubt.— Chronicle <§• Sentinel.
Wheat from Kingston to Etowah, 15
miles, per bushel, 4 cents.
Wheat from Kingston to Cartseville
12J miles, per bushel, 5 cents.
Wheat from Cass to Etowah, 8 miles
per bushel ,.8 cents.
Wheat from Cass to Cartersville 5J
miles,per bushel, 4 cents.
We might pursue these illustrations
through all the ramifications, and show
that on the articles mentioned, a like
reduction had, in every case and from
every point, been made in favor of
Mark A. Cooper. And yet he says he
has not been favored; while bis letters
show that he now pockets, from $6,000
to $8,000 per year, which would have
gone into the State Treasury but for the
'*baryian,” and the reduction of freight
on coal, iron, wheat and flour!
We said we would show that Mark
A. Cor per misrepresented as to the rate
of freights he pays &c.—Now to the
proof:
He says, “on Pig and Bar Iron, per
ton, (to Atlanta) M. A. Cooper pays
$2.30, Kingston $2.30.”
Ni«w we have the rates before us, nnd
if he and his friend Governor Johnson
have told the truth as to reduction, the
following is the rate: on Pig. anil bar
Iron, from Etowah to Atlanta $2.90 per
ton—and $2.50 per ton from Kingston
to Atlanta—and $2.50 per ton from Car
tersville,only two and a half miles above
Etowah.
Another instance of misrepresentation:
—He says ‘‘his freights were'advanced*
by the present Superintendent 25 per
cent., while no advance was made in the
rates to Kingston.”
We have both tariffs of freight before
us as published, and they show that pig
and bar iron and- eatings under Yol’g'e’s
tariff paid $2.25 per ton from Kingstpn
to Atlanta, and under the present tariff
pay $2.50 per ton.
What think yon now, reader, of all
the slung the Johnson organs have put
forth about Mark A. Cooper’s high
character, for veracity, &c.
But says Major Cooper: **M. A.
Cooper did complain to the Superinten
dent before it went into operation. Gov.
Johnson declared it very wr jng: lie and
the Supcriutendent agreed that it should
bo rectified before it went into operation.
If M. A. Cooper is the favorite, why
has this wrong and injury been put on
him, nnd suffered to oppress him to this
hour!”
The Governor tnld him it was all
wrong, did he, before it went into opera
tion, and agreed that it should be recti
fied? Was that what the Governor told
him at Gordon ? How does it happen
that Mark A. Cooper, in neither of
his long letters, ever told the people
anything of ’that interview nt Gordon
between him and the Governor ? He
has told of tbe meeting at Dalton, and
the “accidentalmeeting when tbe freight
was reduced, but never a word as to the
interview at Gordon. Why is this?
Llensks if he was a favorite, why was
he compelled to pay the high rates to
this hourt” The Major forgot that the
reduction was made more than a month
ago ! The answer is easy—the Governor
wanted his support, and Mark A.
Cooper had resolved not to give it to
him unless the reduction was made ! This
is the solution!
In conclusion we shall be rejoiced-to
hear from Major Cooper again—we
congratulate him that he has ‘ 4 plucked
up courage” enough to attempt a defence
of their transaction. Helms certainly
shown much more than either of the
Johnson organs in Georgia.
LETTER FROM JUDGE AN
DREWS.
The subjoined letter from the lion.
Garnett Andrews, reached us yester
day :
Mr. Editor:—I have just read the
article in the Constitutionalist signed
“ Calhoun.” I wish to say how the
matter stands: I was in the Convention
as stated, and I voted for the Federal
basis. There were several amendments
of the Constituion passed at the same
time. The free basis having been adop
ted by the Democratic party to which I
belonged. I voted against them in C6n-
vention on the free basis ;but when the
amendments came before the people for
ratification us a whole, I voted for ratifica
tion, notwithstanding the objectionable
section, in order to secure the other
amendments.
If I can find the old files of the Wash
ington News,” my letter will shew I
took that ground in the canvass
Yours,‘&e., Garnett Andrews,
P. S. I think if “ Calhoun ” will
publish the whole of the letter, it will be
found I objected to the Free Basis clause.
I will try and look it up. G. A.
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE AND
FOREIGN EMIGRANTS.
It is well for the South to look at the
understanding, and estimate the impor
tance which th« Northern Abolishion-
ists place upon the annual accession of
half a million of foreign emigrants, to
aid them in tlieir cause and in Anti-
Slavery agitation. That the foreigners
who conq to this country are chiefly and
lor the most part Abolitionists, is an ad
mitted fact. They settle in the Free
States and swell the Abolition vote.
Hence it is. that the most violent, rabid
and influential abolition presses at the
North are hostile to* tbe movements of
the Americifti parly Here is wlmt the
New York Tribune says about it —Jour
Sf Mess.
“The r suits of immigration hither are
these: It has dug our canals, built our
railroads, Started branches of industry,
made our Western free States. It is
our principal hope for the Territories
now menaced by slavery—the great coun
tertide to the currents of that barbari.
ing institution. Yet multitudes -of
Northern men. professing some compre
hensiveness of glance, believe in check
ing and abridging immigration, by rais
ing a hue and cry against foreigners.
There never was a more complete dog-
in-the-manger policy, never a more
deadly blow aimed at the cause of free
dom. ’
SENTIMENT IN DEKALB.
At a large meeting of the opponents
of the present State and Federal Admin:
istrations held recently in DeKulb coun
ty the following resolution, among others,-
was passed :
Resolved, That we as citizens and tax
payers will support no man who will
pretend to justify the wholesale swindle
of Johnson, Cooper, Cawart & Co., and
that wu call upon all honest and upright
voters to aid in dethroning an adminstra-
tion, false in position, rotten in heart
and totally devoid of political principle.
THE
•BARGAIN”—THE JOHN
SON ORGANS.
A Battallion of Irish Deserters
Caftured.—“ Notwithstanding the par
ley, one Mexican battery continued its
fire upon our troops. This was the 18
and 24 pounder battery of the 'battallion
of San Patrico, composed of -Irishmen,
deserters from our ranks, and command
ed by an Irishman named Riley.”
We would recommend the toadies to
till the War Department dhat an Irish
man was as brave a man and as good a
.
It is really amusing to see what stilts America as a Missuwppian!
J ° North Carolina Sta.
the “dry rot” Johnson organs get on
about the high character of Johnson
and Coot’ER—their veracity, integrity,
&c., in relation to the “Bargain” or the
''arrangement.”—They have no defence
to make—they cannot vindicate the
transaction, and their only hope of es
cape is, to try and blind the people by a
grand display, of grandiloquence about
character, integrity, veracity, &c. This
won’t do, gentlemen, you have to face
the music,'and show to the people that
Cooper, and Johnson, are what you re
present them.
We have shown that Mark A. Coop
er’s statements are not reliable, in rela
tion to tbe discrimination made for his
benefit. Our facts and figures are ob
tained from the ft eight lists, which show
what Mark A. Cooper does pay, and
show also that his statements aTe untrue.
This is the music you have to face, and
you must enter at once upon your de
fence, or the people will render a ver
dict against your friends Johnson, Coop
er and Cowart.
We challenge a refatation of our ex
pose of this whole affair, or a denial
from any respectable source of any sin
gle faerstated try us.
The truth is, the man who pretends
From the American Free Mason.
The Pope.—What is to become of
masonry now? An old chap at Rome,
whose name sadly belies his character,
somewhat famous for his peregrinations
to Gaeta and back, has expressed his
opinions relative to “ secret societies”
in an allocution (what does that mean ?)
on the 9th of December last: “ We
have still to lament the existence of an
impious race, who would exterminate
all religious worship, if it were possible
for them ; and we must count amongst
them before all the members of secre
societies, who bound together by a crim
inal compact, neglect no means of over
throwing the Church and State by the
violation of every law. It is against
them assuredly that the words of the
Divine Redeemer are directed : “ You
are the children of the Devil, and do the
work of your father.”
Not so, Mr. Pius; our Saviour had
no such persons in view. His denun
ciations were against a corrupt priest-*
hood whose delight i. was to throw dust
in the eyes ot religiously-inclined per
sons and whose * tithe uf miut and cum
min” was “ too grievous to be born.”—
You can make the application much
nearer to Rome tHnti ariy Masonic
Lodge.
ACTION OF OUR COUNCILS.
An article appeared in the Georgian
of yesterday touching the proeedings.'of
thfe American Councils Monday night,
unnoticed, may convey to tiie public
abroad an impression very wide of the
truth. If the Georgian’s iinformnnt
iqeant to say that the American party df
Chdthoih hair disbanded, as some; evert
here, have inferred from the article; dr
departed from the recognized principles
of the part) - , the averment is an unmiti
gated falsehood. The party was never
tnove Ofijted and harmonious, or more
confident of success, and their late action
embraced nothing buta simple change
in the manner of tiieir organization,
without affecting, in the slightest degree,
its integrity.—Sac. Rep.
THE TRUE AND ONLY l88UE
The real people of this country, ir
respective of parties, arc becoming more
interested in the great question at issue
every day—whether or no “Americans
shall govern America.”—and in the
Presidential race for 1855, they will
give an affirmative answer to the ques
tion. The issue is not Whig and Dem
ocrat— not wether Know Nothiagjsirt
is Whiggery in disguise—but whfethef
the party advocating the Protestant faith
or the one taking si tes with Romartism,
shall triumph ; it is whether the native
born citizens of this republic shall fill
its offices and direct its affairs, or
whether Foreigners, paupers and con
victs from Europe, shall gctvd n ortr
country. This is thetiue arid only is
sue. and we intend to hold the opposing
party to it.—Ibid.
JUDGE ANDREWS—FEDERAL
BASIS.
In answer to the charge of nn annony-
tnous writer in the Augusta Constitu
tionalist, charging Judge Andrews of
being in favor, of the white basis, we
simply publi. h the following extract from
the Journal of the Reduction Conven
tion of 1833. See published proceedings;
•‘ Monday, May 12th. 1833,”
*• The second section being read ns
follows:
“ The House of Representatives shrill
be composed of members from all thfe
counties which now are or hereafter
may be included within the State, ac
cording to their respective numbers of
free white persons!
Mr. Dalson moved to insert after
‘•free white persons,” the words 44 and
including three-fifths of the people of
co/or”—-and on agreeing to the same the
year were 122, r.ays 126, to wit:
Yeas—Mes-rs. Allen, ANDREWS,
Bacon, Bailey, &r. &e.
Nays—Messrs. Adams, Acre, Adair
of Carroll, Adair of Madison, Anderson,
Beall, Blair, A&e. &e.
[Yeas mostly Troup men—nays almost
exclusively Democrats.—Southern Re
corder. /.
THAT GI?AVE CllARCit
Our readers may remember that a
charge has been made ajninst Gov. John
son of rather a disreputable clutrrfcler.
It is alleged that whilst in Cherokee,
stumping it with Mr. Jenkins in 1*53,
he professed himself satisfied with Mr.
Jenkins’ connection with the Algerine
law, and in tlieir discussions that subject
was 'therefore ignored. It is further al
leged' however, that after the election.
Col. Dodd, the editor ol the Rome South-
e nor, declared, that several thousand
copies of live aforesaid law were printed
under the order of Judge Johnson for’
private ctrcnlfrtion ifl tbrtt Region* ahil
when the bill was presented, the Govcf-
nor refused to pay it. In proof of the
truth of this last allegation, a certificate, ’
signed by three very honorable and in
fluential citizens of Rome, has appeared
in most of the American prints .of th«f
State, including our own, !
Under the Caption of 44 a lie nailed to
the counter ,”a recent number of the Cass-
villr Standard suites that it has received
a letter from Judge Summers,of Kingo-
ton, in which that gentleman admits that
Judge Johnson acquiesced in the pro-
po-ition to print, 44 but heard no expres
sion from him which, by any possible
construction, could make him responsi
ble for the printing.” Noxv, we hai'rt
no doubt but Judge Summers lias staled
correctly such facts as came under bis
own personal observation. But we must
be pardoned for relying upon the state
ment of the editor of the SouL’ienur, who
did the work, rather than the impres
sions of Judge Summers. Col. D »d-f.
last winter, openly asserted in our pres
ence, that her did do the printing for
Gov. Johnson, had sent in the bill f!ot
the same, and expressed in warm terms
his dissatisfaction with Gov. Johnson that
it had never been paid. Ho stated
furthermore that if tbe contest was again
between Jenkins aud Johnson, Ire Would
support tbe fofnief. And it may be re
collected that when he established the
South'd'rt Statesman at Calhoun, he
favored the' claims of Mr. Jenkins.
In justice'to all parties, we make tho
foregoing statement, which CoL Dodd,
we doubt not, will substantially eoufirm-—
Southern Rtcordir.
Served Him Right.—The genii -
man who kissed a lady’s 4 snowy brow,
caught a severe cold, and has been laid