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THURSDAY MOKNING, JULY 14,1859.
£9* The communication of Gen.
Hardy and the proceedings of Town
Council shall both appear next week.
Editorial Call.
We bad tho pleasure of a call from
brother Knowles, of the Macon Jour
nal £ Messenger, on Tuesday. Wc
were pleased to sec him looking so
well.
Third District.
Thomas Hardeman, Jr. of Macon,
hup been nominated by. the Opposition
convention in the Third District, as
a 'candidate for Congress, in place
of Hon. Robert P. Trippe, who de
clines a re-election.
The Democracy will probably nom
inate Col. G. A. Lochrane.
Columbus Bank Cases.
We understand, through a reliable
.-Source, that through the agency of
Judge Lumpkin, the Bank war which
has agitated the Courts and country
for the last ten years has been ami
cably settled, at Macon.
Democratic In last Congress.
We have heard -of several igno
rant Democrats excusing Mr. Bu
chanan’s extravagance on the ground
that the Opposition had a majority in
Congress. Of course no intelligent
man would say so. The Democratic
majority in the Senate over all par
ties was 14 : in the House it was 22
'. 1 9 >
as we have repeatedly stated before.
Here are the facts and figures :
rigHtTof
Tho decision of tlie Secretary of
State, backed by the Democratic press
generally, shows 1;he utter wortJilesS-
uess and hollow hypocrisy of Demo
cratic professions.
When a portion of the American
people made an eifort to prolong the
period of naturalization, and throw
around the ballot-box such restric
tions as would prevent the balance of
-power in this country from falling in
to the hands of aliens who acknowl
edged allegiance to a foreign power,
they were denounced by the Demo
cratic press and leaders as proscrip-
tionists—they were villified. abused
and blackguarded by some of these
creatures to such an extent as was
never before witnessed. One who
did not know Democracy would have
though that the dearest object to them
on earth was the interests of the for
eigners in th$ country. But some
of us knew them better, and at the
time denounced all their professions
of friendship as hypocritical cant.—
Subsequent events have proven* as
we always knew they would, that we
were right in thus branding them.
A remarkable correspondence has
lately occurred between Gen. Cass,
Secretary of State, and two adopted
citizens, Mons. LeClerc, of Memphis,
and a Mr. Iloper, of Cincinnati.
Mons. LeClerc, it seems, is a
Frenchman by birth, but now an
adopted citizen of this country, hav
ing sworn fealty to our Government
and renounced his allegiance to al]
others. He wishes to visit his native
land, and asks Gen. Cass to protect
him from being impressed into the
army of France. Gen. Cass, as the
mouthpiece of the Administration,
tells him that the Government cannot
protect him in a foreign land-:—that
it can only do so while he remains
upon American soil!
This answer created great conster-
35<A Congress, 1857-8—’58-9.
Senate—Democrats, 89; Repub
licans, 20 ; Americans and Whigs,! nation as well as indignation among
5; Democratic - majority, 14. our naturalized citizens, and the vete
House of Representatives—De- 0 t . ’
mocrats, 128; Republicans, 92 ; ran Secretary hastened to write an-
Americans, 14; Democratic majori- j other letter, explanatory of the first,
formance, either personally or by a sub
stitute, upon re-entering the realm.
"No obligations which lie can take up
on himself to another country, and no
protection which such country can extend
to him, can impair this claim, because it
is of anterior existence,
“For instance, if a male slave of Vir
ginia—one of Mr. Bolts', for instance,
were to escape from his owner, proceed
to Prussia, thete become a subject of
' the Crown, and subsequently return to
Virginia, it is not likely dipt he would be
restored to Prussia upon the demand
that he is a Prussian subject.
“The notion is too absurd to be enter
tained by a rational being. Old Vir
ginia would surrender her existence be
fore she would surrender him.
“ The cases are identical."
Quite complimentary to our -adop
ted fellow-citizens, is it not, to place
them in the same political status with’
Virginia buck negroes! How will they
lik6lt?
Hr. Cobb In the Fifth.
The-Convention of Delegates which
recently met in the Fifth District to
nominate a Congressional Candidate,
seems to have had a rather protracted
and excited struggle. After ballot-t
ing on Wednesday and Thursday, and
finding it impractiable to no , metre
either of the prominent asprihnts^the
name.,of. the Hon. J. W. H. Under
wood was accepted by acclamation.
We learn that a resolution was pre
sented to the Convention, by one of the
Rome Regency, recommending the
Hon. Howell Cobb, for the next Pres
idency. A motion was made to strike
out tho name of Mr. Cobh, and insert
that of the Hon. A. H. Stephens—
which was carried with considerable
applause.'
The resolution was then withdrawn
by the mover. There is a signiflean-
cy in this vote which the friends of
-Mr. Cobh in this District would do
well to heed. There can be no ques
tion in regard to the authenticity of
our information. Thus it would seem
that Mr.-C. and his immediate friends
are prostrate in the strongholds of
Democracy. How far Joe Brown is
implicat ‘d in these new movements
upon the political chess-board time
perhaps will disclose.
a native Georgian, who is getting up
a bona fide Georgia book—printed in
Georgia upon Georgia paper, bound
in Georgia, and offered to the
people of Georgia for their approval
or condemnation. It is unjust to con
demn without an examination; we
therefore advise all to examine the
book, which will appear in a very short
time. „
It is duo to Mr. L. to state that he
does not claim to impart a perfect
knowledge ofgrammer in twenty days.
He professes, however, to give apnpil
a practical knowledge of it in one
month—such a knowledge as will en
able him to speak and write correctly,
point out false syntax, and show
wherein the error consists.. This we
believe be can do, and this is as much
as. ought to be reasonably expected
—certainly a great improve mentupon
the old system.
ty,22.
Executed.
John Cobb, one of the murderers
of old Mr. Landrum, was hung at At
lanta on Friday last. The American 1 due tlie Government cannot be pro-
says the concourse of people was es-1 .tected from a compulsory fulfilment
addressed to Mr. Holier, of Cincin
nati, in which he takes the ground!
that naturalized citizens who left their
native land with any sort of service
tunated at from twelve to fifteen thou
sand.
Ex-Whlgs.
The Democracy have now nomina
ted candidates in three of the Con-
of that service. This decision is prac-1
tically worth nothing. All govern
ments, we believe, claim military ser
vices at the hands of their subjects.
Hence, under this ruling, all foreign-1
For the Southern Watchman.
Lamar’s Grammar.
Mr. Christy—A great deal is said
in relation to Lamar’s system of tea
ching the English language, and I
wish to bear some gentleman’s opin
ion on the system, who has studied it
throughly, but with no intention of
teaching, if you will grant a small
space in your valuable paper. I want
to know if it is an improvement on
Lindley Murray an^ Gould Brown,
or is it another one of the thousand
Pike Peak humbugs ? Why, sir, in
my rambles through this and adjoining
counties, I find this class of teachrcs
—nearly all beardless boys—as nu
merous as Shanghai chickens were
House and kitchen fur
niture over §300
All other property not
before enumerat
ed ■. V . --
Aggregate of whole
property in default
After doubling default
property
Grand total of whole
200 00'
2,050 00
46,750 00
93,500 00
property given in,
and in default
8, 508,884 00
Grand total, after de- -
ducting §200 and.
adding default pro
perty 8,377,134 00
Increase over last year 1,795,816 00
Amount of tax on polls,
professions, Den
tists, Daguerrean
Artists and free
negroes
Amount oh polls and
profession? in de
fault
451 00
21 50
ends, thereby arraying one section of!
the Union against tho other in hitter
hostility. It has squandered the
public treasure with a prodigality
unprecedented in the history of the
Government. It has spent the enor
mous sum of near ninety millions
per annum of the people s money,
and much of it has gone to support
and strengthen the “failing fortunes”
of the Democratic party, and to re
ward its faithful partisans ; and more
than this, it has perpetrated the
Kansas swindle, and by its double
dealing and duplicity made Kansas a
free State. It - has. appropriated
money from the public treasury to
educate African Negroes—-has de
pleted the treasury, and fastened up
on the Government a large public
debt in time of peace; and has, in
Befos flf %
—
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF. TEE ADELAIDE.
St. Johns, July 6.—The steam
ship Adelaide has arrived, with Liver
pool' accounts to the afternoon of
Saturday, June 25th.
Commercial.
Liverpool Cotton Market, June
25th—Afternoon.—The sales of cot
ton to day reach 6,000 bales. The
market opened with an advancing
tendency,.but closed-quiet.
Breadstuff's closed steady ; and pro
visions were reported (full, and sales
unimportant.
General News.
'^1
suffering such extraordinary
heavy losses. ;
The Emperor Napoleon ig
ed to have been constantly J
hottest part of tho.battle. J °
7 The Emperor of Austria,
stated, will soon return to ViL
important business.. 64
Large re-inforcementsare con,i
ly leaving France, and an a
Vienna was expected cn the
June.
, af »*cL
28tt
DUKE HAMILTON, R. T. It.
gressional Distriots-4th, 5th and ers returning to their native land, are
8th—all of whom are Ex-Whigs.- liab,e to bc com P (!lled to go into the
Suppose they try the same thing in arm J’* nd our Government, to which
this District, which we believe was the thc ? bave transfcrred tbeir allc S iance
only one represented in the last Con- ~° ur Democratic Government, the
gress by a Democrat. It would be 6 uardlan of the oppressed foreigner,
hard to lose any thing here by a quietly stand by, without even
change; and the Democrats elsewhere attem P t,n g to relieve its adopted cit-1 through the country a few years since;
teem to have a hankering after the I ’ zeT ’’ because by “accident of birth, | all armed and equipped with pockets
McWhigs, any way. ( to use tbeir OTT » language) he is
■ I placed beyond the pale of their sym-
“Rance” Wright for Congress. I pa thies!!! This is pure, unadulter-
We have seen many persons from ated bogus n ematraeg j
the 8th District within the last two We have purft0Sely a b st ainedfrom
or three weeks, all oF whom are for sa ; ng anythingon this subject>wait _
“Ranee.” We take it for granted he 1 J 6
ing to see what course the Democra-
will be nominated by the Augusta C y pnrsue , As far as we are
nvmmcn, and if he accepts, 'we I a -bi e t 0 judge by tlie tone of the press,
regard his election as almost certain. the party will 8u8tain tbe decision of
Filth District—the He Whigs still In the tbe Secretar y of State
ascendant! The “bloody-minded know noth-
We learn from our exchanges that I ings” never pretended, to disturb tbe
the Democratc convention of the 5th rights of naturalized foreigners—they
District, which assembled at Calhoun, never made any warfare against them,
on the bth inst., after balloting and On the contrary, they respected and
quarreling all day, failed to make a felt bound to protect their rights.—
nomination. They re-assembled the It was not those in our midst that
next morning, however, and nomina- they were after—it was the paupers
ted Col. John W. H. Uuderwood by and convicts of Europe, sent here by
acclamation. tyrannical Governments and associ
We are pleased to see that the De- ations, the very offscourings of the
mocracy of the Fifth are so ready earth, that they made war upon.—
and willing to carry out the doctrine This was a heinous offence in the
laid down by one of their leaders in eyes of Demoracy. They wanted all
the Cassvillo Standard; viz: that I these fellows to come on and vote the
somo men are bora with saddles on Democratic ticket. This is all the
their backs and others booted and use they have for them ! According
spurred, ready to ride them. Our to the holding of the present Demo-
excellent McWhig friend, Col. Un- cratic Administration, American cit-
derwood, will ride very gracefully, izenship is valuable only to those who
mad by the way “won his spurs” in are “to the manor bora.” A foreign-
the distinguished race he ran against bora citizen, by his oath of allegi-
Howell Cobb in this District some ance, acquire.» the right to vote the
years ago! We hope our Ex-Whig Democratic ticket, but not to the pro
friend may have better luck as a tection of the stars' and stripes in a
Democratic candidate than attended j foreign land! This is Democracy,
him as the Whig standard-bearer in
this District on that occasion.
“pure and undetkld!"
Oh, what base hypocrisy! what
miserable cant the leaders and press
es of that party arc daily guilty of!
At voting time they will tell our fo-
are
full of written lectures and a dozen or
or of snatched sentences ready to
crash downall skeptics.
To hear some of these youngsters
discourse on their art in teaching a
backwood’s class to perfection in fif
teen or twenty days, you would most
probably think as I did, that some of
them had swallowed more grammars
than were stored away in their heads.
I am not disposed to condemn this
system until I understand it better,
bat I do object to the peoplo’s being
bamboozled out of their m6ney, to
the tune of $10 per scholar, by these
youngsters.
Before some of these would-be-
tcachers think of teaching an English
class to perfection in so short a time,
I would advise them as a friend, to
consult Webster's Spelling book and
Gould Brown’s or some other gram
mar equally as good, ns many years
as they profess, in so many weeks, to
teach the Lamar system.
JACK HALL.
Out West, Ga. July 2d, 1859.
We publish the abiAe, as we do
many other things—not that it pre
sents our own views, by any means
but simply- that all parties may
have a hearing before the public.
Although wo have not studied Mr.
LamaT’s system thoroughly, but had
time only to give it a cursory exam
ination, we will venture to say that
it is a work of merit, and the public
will so decide.
Of the merits of the complaint of
our correspondent, as to the capacity
of the young men teaching this new
system, we know nothing. Wc are
acquainted with somo two or three
For the Southern Watchman,
Stephens—Slave Trade—Caba.
Friend Christy :—The cat is out
of the bag—the Hon. Alex Stephens
at his dinner speech in Augusta, un
tied the string and pussy flew out!—
Did you or any body ever expect
that tlie man who in his Texas speech
was so bitterly opposed to the exten
sion of slavery! the man who sup
ports * squatter sovereignty,” and
Stephen Arnold Douglas—.the man
who cursed so bitterly toe poor fire-
eaters, in days past—the man who
has for years past, been singingpasan*
to the Union, and who supported that
arch old Federalist, Jimmy Buchanan
—should now, in the light of day—
amid the smiles of beauty—the ap
plause of men and the roar of cannon
—Come out, and advocate a repeal of
the neutrality laws, and a re-opening
of the African slave trade!! “Tell
it not in Gath—publish it not in the
streets of Ask&lon,” but for your own
sake, your children’s sake, your coun
try’s sake and yonr section's sake,
people of Georgia 1 ponder well the
last dodge of the political trickster of
Taliaferro!
Repeal tlie neutrality laws! and
for what ? Annex Mexico and revo
lutionize Central America, for what ?
That all Yankecdom may crowd Afri
cans upon us, and utterly drive out
and ruin every man who owns slaves
in the South! That all Yankeedom
may thus find out that the Hon. A.
H. Stephens of Georgia, wants Nor
thern votes in the Charleston Con
vention, and as a quid pro quo, is wil-
ling-to. open the doore to the importa
tion of Africans and to the “fillibus-
terism” of the country, in stealing
Cuba from Spain, thus crowding
slaves upon us in fcuch numbers as to
ruin utterly the profits of slavery,
and pander to abolitionism in the ac
quisition of Cuba, for the formation
of another Free State. If I were an
infidel and did not believe that there
is a God and that He reigns, I do
not know but that I should fear for
my country. As it is, however, be
lieving as I do, that this great and
glorious country was and is a special
object of His care, I am satisfied that
the machinations of the evil disposed,
will result in ouly discomfort and ut
ter condemnation to themselves
am serious. Tbe subject is of too
much importance to he made light"
of, and I cannot think of it, without
indignation! I am interested in do
mestic slavery, and I am jready at a
moment’s warning to take up arms
if need be to defend it; hut God
knows, I utterly repudiate this ele
venth hour advocate—I should say,
apparent only on the surface—advo
cate, of our peculiar institution!
the larguago of Senator Toombs,! The Emperor Napoleon had tcle-
onirnnfc Govern- g^phedto the Empress on Friday
evening, the,24th of June, that an
other hot and terrible battle had been
fought, and that a great victory had
been achieved.
Opposition Meeting in Oglethorpe Go.
The Opposition of Oglethorpe coun
ty, held a meeting in the Courthouse
to-day, July 5th, for the purpose of
appointing delegates to the Guberna
torial Convention, to be held at Mil-
Icdgeville, on the 3d Wednesday in
this month, and the Congressional
Convention at Augusta, on the 27th.
On motion, P. H. Hanson was call
ed to the Chair, and Thodias H. Do
zier, requested to act as Secretary.
The meeting being organized and
its object stated by the 0%irman,
On motion of G. H. Lester, a com
mittee of seven were appointed to
draft resolutions for the meeting, and
to propose the names of delegates to
the two Conventions.
The following gentlemen were ap
pointed on the committee, to-wit:
Messrs. G. H. Lester, F. J. Robin
son, Wm. B. Brightwell, Dr. W. W.
Davenport, Parmenins Haynes and
S. R. Maxwell.
The committee having withdrawn
for a short time, returned and sub
mitted the lollowing report, to-wit:
1st. Resolved, That we hail with
satisfaction, tlie movement in Georgia,
for tlie formation of an Opposition
party, to bo composed of the conserv
ative men of all parties, for the glo
rious purpose of rescuing the govern
ment from the hands of the spoilers.
Resolved, That .we cordially invito
the conservative men of Oglethorpe,
with whatever party they may have
heretofore been allied, to join us in
the patriotic objects we have in vivw.
Resolved, That wo give Gov. Brown
credit for all that he deservesfbut we m
prefer an Executivo to manage the
State Road," who can make it pay at
least nineteen instead of four per cent.,
and we-think tho man who can do
this is R. R. Cuyler, Esq., of Savan
nah.
“The shine of the serpent,
Rests ou it still 1”
From 1844 up to 1859, not one act,
one speech or one sentiment from the
1Ton. A. 3. Stephens, has added an
iota to our security as slaveholders
I defy his most abject follower, to
point it out. Let us have it for the
honorof our section, if it can be found.
Jofy 8, 1859. R.
Walking a Rope.
A certain Monsieur Blondin
Frenchman, of coarse—has accom
pliahed the useless and perilous feat rei « n born fellow-citizens they
of crowing tho Niagara river on a I their peculiar friends! Will any of gentlemen who are teaching it, none
rope below the great falls The ca-1 tbem be enough to believe it ? of whom fill his deBpriction. That
.tie was stretched from one bank to I They cannot thus deceive such men incompetent teachers of various branch-
the other tho Canadian bank being ** Joba MitdieU, “the Irish patriot.” es of learning are to be found all over
W9, aad the American 160 feet high. He is giringthis new-fangled doctrine the country, we are well aware j but
* Ho walked across to Canada *nd wormwood through the col-1 we have jet to learn that this lessens
rested awhile, and then walked back mnns of his P a l ,er * He is b «6 innin g t0
to tho American side, where a num- 8ee Demooracy as it is.
bev of asses mounted him. npon their We subjoin an extract from Th*
hacks and carried him around- the I £fate«, one of the Democratic organs
at a great rate! Our Yan- at Washington, to show how the De-
ethren are a great people! mocratic papers defend Gen. Cass’
» <Ioctrine: R “ d,T,mt
Merchants’ Magazine enumerates -no “l n . Prussia every male'*=hild is born
less than thirty-oightsubstanceswhich a •oldie#-. The King has a claim upon
arc employed to give potency, flavor,! hi ®. f, ’ r a , cerm j r ! of years of
and other desirable qualities to this "I 1,it , ar / du l y ’ just asvnHd . V.
For the Southern Watchman«
Mr. Christy:—Below I hand you
for publication, a statistical statement
of the various items of taxation of
Clarke county, for the present year,
viz:
No. of Polls given m 924
“ “Professions 29
“ “ Dentists
Daguerrean Artist,
_ __ n
Ct “ Free Negroes
No. of white children between 8
made this the most corrupt Govern
ment under the heavens!”
Therefore, in view of these iniqui
ties, it is tho duty of all good citizens
to unite together, and hurl thia cor
rupt party from power, and restore
the Government to its former purity.
Resolved 1st. That we condemn
the policy of the Buchanan Adminis-
I tration, and call upon honest, conser
vative men every where, of all parties,-
to unite wall the Opposition to over
throw it.
Resolved 2nd. That the South has
nothing to hope^eitlier from the open
enmity of the Black B.epublican
party, or the duplicity of those who
manage the Democratic party, and. a
true devotion to^he welfare of our
own section requires us to oppose
both.
Resolved 3rd. That the appropria
tion by the last Congress of forty-
five thousand dollars to educate the
Echo Africans is an . insult to the
South, and an intolerable outrage;
and while we commend those six
Representatives from Georgia for
voting against, we unqualifiedly con
demn the other two, who voted for it.
Resolved 4th. That we cordially
invite conservative men of all parties,
whether old line Whigs, American, or
independent Democrats, to unite
with us; and let our watch-word be,
to guard the public credit, educate
the masses, maintain the supremacy
of the laws, reform the abuses of the
Democratic party, retrench the ex
penses of the Government, purify the
public counsels, maintain the reserved
rights of the States, support the
Constitution, continue inviolate the
union of tho States, and maintain
faithfully the rights of the South.
Resolved 5th. That we will send
delegates to the Convention to be
held in Milledgeville on the 3rd
Wednesday in July inst.; and that
William A. Cain, R. D.- Parks, M.
L. Lenoir, James C. Dunlap, Abra
ham Martin, R. D. Winn, J. S. McEl-
vaney, Wm. Garner, R. B. Martin,
J. W. Shamblee, H. W. Mills, Samuel
Martin and B. E. Strickland be, and
they arc hereby appointed delegates
to said convention, and that each
delegate have power to fill his own
acancy, if he cannot attend.
The resolutions being read, they , ,
were adopted thejneeting.without “^ br0U S h tbat countr ? t0
Resolved, That our first choice for
Congressional Representative is A.
R. Wright, Esq., of Jefferson county,
but we shall cTicerfully yield to the
action of the "approaching Augusta
Convention.
We recommend the following gen
tlemen as delegates to the two Con
ventions : To the Gubernatorial—Z.
H. Clark, Thomas S. Gresham, Thom
as H. Hawkins, J. M. Brawner, C.
G. Hargrove, T. H. Dozier, F. J.
Robinson, W. P. Smith, (of Bowling
Green,) Parmenas Haynes, H. J.
Hall, D. H. Johnson, J. S. Gresham,
Woodson Daniel, J. M. Brightwell, H.
M. Horton, William-M. Lane, Rob
ert H. Lampkin.
To thq7 Congressional—J. H.
Wright, Q. -T. Boggs, E. H. Shack
elford, John J. Daniel, J.-H. Tiller,
W. B. P. Haynie, J. B. Thornton,
M. L. Rains, R. M. Flemming, A.
Little, James Young, Robert Eber-
heart, T. J. Mattox, A. Dozier, W.
Moody, W. B. Brightwell.
On motion of Z. H. Clark the re
port of the committee was adopted.
On motion of F. J. Robinson, the
proceedings of the meeting were
-ordered to be published in the South
ern Watchman and the Chronicle &
Sentinel, and other Opposition papers
in the State be requested to copy.
On motion, the meeting adjourned
till the first Tuesday in August.
P. H. HANSON, Chairman.
Thomas HI Dozier, Secretary.
Lexington, July 5th, 1859.
1,258
the intrinsic valne of the school-books
they use or the system they profess
to teach.
So far as regards “pockets fall of
written lectures” and “snatched sen
tences,” we will state for the informa
tion of our correspondent, and the
public, that Mr. Lamar’s book will be
out in a very short time, when they
can pass judgment upon its merits.
We have said this much, not for
and 18 years of age,
No. acres of land, 840,-
823, valued at $1,190,201 00
Value of town proper
ty ’
No. of slaves given in,
5,412; valued at
Money and solvent
debts
Amount of merchan
dise
Capita] invested in
tmfnufacture
House and kitchen fur
niture, over$300
All other property not
before enumerated
Aggregate of whole
property given in $8,462,134 00
qualities to tnis tk . cla ( m Virginian toa slave child] '
detestable form of grog. Among them y- or hfe i s J va udby the Constitution of\ the purpose of provoking a controver-
are clmlk, marble dust, opium, tobac- tbe jj„i on ■
co, henbane, oil of vitrol,- conueres,! «i fa m ' B le quits his realm, at what-. . ... tl ,
arum, strichnino, and other deadly e *er age, without having discharged ience of the worthy author of the
drugs. ! suck duty, he is ever liable for its per- ‘ new grammar, the Rev. P. F. Lamar,
sy with our correspondent, hut in de- Xo' of ves^ 00
761,536 00
3,363,980 00
2,085,790 00
442.541 00
249,085 00
y 78,460 00
350.541 00
Amount in default, viz:
No.’polls
“ Professions
No. acres laud, 520,
valued last year at
Money and solvent
debts
1,900 00
18,000 00
11,100 00
13,500 00
Opposition Meeting.
Pursuant to a previous call, the
“Opposition” of Gwinnett assembled
in the Court House at Lawrenceville,
on Tuesday tho 5th inst., and the
meeting being called to order, Dr.
W. J. Russell was called to the chair
and Tyler M. Peeples requested to
act as Secretary. J. N. Glenn, Esq.,
then explained the object of the meet
ing, and R. D. Winn read tho card
of the “American Executivo Com
mittee,” calling a .convention of all
who oppose tlie present corrupt nftd
imbecile . administration, to convene
in Milledgeville, on Wednesday, the
20th inst.
On motion of S. J. Winn, Esq’r.,
a committee of five was appointed by
tho Chair to prepare-business for the
meeting. The Chair appointed as
members of that committee, R. D.
Winn, Samuel Martin, M. B. Mont
gomery, R. D. Parks, John S. McEl-
vaney, and on motion,. S. J. Winn
was added to the number. The com
mittee having retired for a few mo-
2 ments, returned and submitted, thro’
their chairman, the following pre
amble and resolutions:
Whereas, the party in power has
brought the country into peril -by its
continued agitation of the .slavery
question, solely to subserve party
3
The whole Austrian army had for
med a line of battle extending five
leagues.
The battle commenced at four
o’clock in the morning, and lasted
until eight o’clock in the evening.
The French had taken many flags,
cannon and prisoners.
A Vienna dispatch says the battle
was still progressing, but no details
were given.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE YIGO.
St. Johns, N. F., July 6.—The
steamship Vigo from Cork, was board
ed off Cape Race to day-, by the boats
of the Associated Press. She brings
Liverpool dates to the 25th of June.
Commercial.
The sales of cotton for the week
were 35,000 bales. There was a de
cline in the inferior grades of l-8d.
The market closed dull. Breadstuff's
were quiet, and provisions were de
clining.
Consols were quoted at 92 1-4.
General News.
No battle hajl been fought since
the sailing of the last steamer.
The allies occupied Leonato, Casti-
gleone, and Monte Chiaro,
Napoleon had joined the allied
camp.
The Austrian government had for
mally declared that the cruelties at
tributed to Gen. Urban, in' Count
Cavohr’e proclamation, were entirely
unfounded.
Th®'Paris Bourse had declined;
The. ^Prussian army was moving
upon the Rhine.
Previous accounts state that the
Austrian force on the Mincio was ful
ly two hundred and eighty thousand
men.
The entire French force
Monte Ghiaro. They pushed their
reeonnissances as far as Cate, in Pied
mont, and advanced towards Pes-
chiera
Napoleon demanded permission of
Hanover to inarch thirty thousand
the
One hundred and Seventy-five
sand Austrian reserve troops a ,.
their way to Ituly, and t fi e ’ e ‘
called tho flower of the Aim
army, being veteran troops. ‘
- Five French Generals wer e * n
ed at tho battle at Salfereno.
The. latest'intelligence says
the French had nassed the M
"Oh
Austria,!
?8«w A
passeu
unmolested.
It was-reported that th.
Emperor would shortly have
view with thg Prince R
Prussia.
The Atlantic Telegraph Con,,
have issued proposals for subscript
to their new loan. ‘ J
Commercial.
Of the sales speculators ana
porters t< ok 3,000 bales. 'jV
ket .was dull. Holders offered f r !*|
but showed no disposition to c 7t
sales. Quotations were barelv 7,7
tained. J
State of Trade.—Manchester
vices were favorably but bu 3 : 5 I|
was quiet and dull.
Liverpool General Math
Breadstuff's were very dull, with
dining tendency. Beef dull,
quiet. Bacon inactive. Lardhean
and all qualities slig htly
declii
Sugar quiet. Flour declining ,
limited sales. Wheat easier, but
tations nominally unchanged " ‘
slightly declining.
London Money Marled -II 0 J
was slightly mors active. ; i
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ARRIVAL OF TBE CITY OF BALTIC J
New-York, July llfh.—Thest«J
ship City of Baltimore has arrived, tr:y.3
ing- chiles from Liverpool to WecwS
day, June 30.
The sales of cotton on TVedi
were 8.000 bales. The market —-fj
steady.
Breadstuff's were steady. a«il
ions dull.
London Money Market.- - Cottfeh wjWI
quoted at 92§a92£. * ■!
General News.
Gen. Gynial has 'taken command
Colonel, of.-the regiment bearing!
name. .
Count Peurtails, the Prussian k
bassador, had arrived k« the h-n
quarters of the Au.-.t.rian army, wki
had been fixed at Verona.
The French were preparing to
the army on the Rhine.
Laybach has been designated at
seal of Government of Lombardy.
[Laybach, or Laibach, is a ton
Austria, in Illyria, Duchy of C-irii#!
and is situated on a river of the tnj
name. The population in 1846,
17,357-]
dissenting voice,
R. D. Winn, in response to a call
made a short and telling speech, de
nouncing the administration of James
Buchanan, and challenging its sup
porters to point out a single act
worthy of approval by the Southern
people. He called upon all—of every
shade of opinton—whatever may have
been their views heretofore, to cast
aside their former differences, and
lign themselves with the party whose
motto is retrenchment and reform.
He alluded very forcibly to the un
paralleled expenditures ofthe present
administration, whnh had. wasted
ninety millions of the people’s money
in time of peace; and referred, to Ypn
Buren’s administration that had been
hurled from power by the up-rising
of the honest and conservative por
tion ofthe people, for spending only
forty millions per annum. He spoke
of the appropriation of forty-five
thousand dollars for the education of
the Africans brought over upon the
“Eoho,” and thought, that “that ap
propriation in itself was enough to
damn any administrationhe thank
ed the editor of the Lawrenceville
News for bringing this subject before
the people.
S. J. Winn Esq’r, was then called
upon, and addressed the meeting in
a very appropriate speech of twenty
or twenty-five minutes. He called
upon the “Opposition” to act—act’on
was essential to the success of any
party; the Democratic party was in
debted for its success to its sleepless
vigilance, its untiring* unceasing
activity and its thorough organiza
tion.
He made no war upon Southern
Democrats, but they have got into
bad company—among strange bed
fellows, and are acting with men who
make pretensions to being sound up
on the slavery question^ simply for
personal advancement; whose real
sentiments are in as direct antagon
ism to tlie interest of the South ns
those of the vilest abolitionist who
musters beneath the banner of Black
Republicanism. He lauded the “Opt
position” of Virginia for the noblo
effort in behalf of humanity and the
South, in striving to defeat that
avowed emancipationist and insidious
traitor, John Letcher.
In answer to a call, J. N. Glenn,
Esq’r, made a short address, confin
ing himself to State “affaire.” He
held up the cowardly action of the
late Democratic Convention to scorn
and ridicule. He pointed to theij
wishy-washy resolution as an evi
dence that the Democratic party of
Georgia were afraid tc> express their
real sentiments—afraid either to de
nounce or Bustain the national ad
ministration. He was opposed to
Joseph E. Brcwn,' and the majority
of his acts, but was willing to give
him credit for his successful manage
ment of the “State Road;” yet he
believed he had done no more than
his duty, as Governor of Georgia.
It was moved and ca rried, that the
proceedings of this meeting be pub
lished in the Laiorenccville News
and Southern Watchman. The meet
ing then adjourned sine die.
WM. RUSSEL, Ch’m]
1 Tyler Mi Peeples, Sec’y.
It was believed that the basis of
mediation proposed by Prussia, had
not proved acceptable. Franee there
by involves Prussia in tlie war.
It was rumored that Prussia had
threatened to assist in suppressing
the meditated insurrectionary move
ment in Hungary.
The Swiss troops had been sent
from Rome to suppress the rising, at
Perugui, where a desperate en
counter between the troops and peo
ple had taken place, the shooting
being indiscriminate.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARBIYAL OF THE HUNGARIAN.
Farther Point, (off Quebec,) July
,8.—Tho steamship Hungarian has
arrived with Liverpool dates to June
29. .
Commercial.
Liverpool, June 29.—Sales of Cot-
Cass’ Naturalization Letters DenoaBctiy
New York, July 8.—The Ta|
many Society has passed resolutia
denouncing the views expressed Ij
Gen. Cass, in his letters on tliq c»
struction*of our naturalization lap
YeutilatlngRats.
A great number of hardship, hi
are made with a small opening core
ed with gauze in the. crown of eiek
and with" this arrangement it is suj
posed th'cy afford ventilation for ti
head, and tend to k^n it cool dur:K
warm weather. T1W is a raistah
because ventilation can only be eft*
ed by a current of air, and as ties
are no means provided for the in's
of air, hut only for its outlet, in soa
hats, of course they cannot affo.il
ventilation. The true ventilating*
must have perforations at or near &|
band to "secure the inward passage d
air, and qnite a number of such h«j
are now manufactured and were.’
Felt hats, being somewhat porous is
their texture, afford partial ventib
tion. Silk plnsh hats being satuntd
ton for past three days 18,000 bales. with l ac . V arni8h are perfectly *
The market closed dull but unchang- pei v iouato the atmosphere.-^
ed " fic American.
Breadstuff’s were declining.
Provisions were reported dull.
At London Consols were quoted at
92f@91J.
Second Dispatch,
No movements of the contending
armies are reported -to have taken
place since the battle of the 24th
June.
The details of the last battle have
not been received, nor any estimates
of the losses.
The Austrians and Sardinians ad
mit that their losses have been very
great.
Napoleon says, in a dispatch to
Paris, that he took 6,000 prisoners,
three flags, and 30 cannon.
The Austrians bad recrossed the
Mincio.
Gen. Hess has been appointed
Commander in Chief.
The latest news from the army
states that the French had crossed
the Mincio.
Additional by the Hungarian.
A dispatch of the 25th from Na
poleon to the Empress Eugenie, says:
“The enemy withdrew last night. I
slept in the room ^zli'ich was occupied
in the morning by the Emperor of
Austria. General Neil has been ap :
pointed Marshal of France. The
Austrians crossed the Mcncio for the
purpose of attacking us with their
whole force; but were obliged to
abandon their positions, and with
drew to the .left-bank ofthe river, af
ter blowing up the bridges of Gorta.
We took thirty pieces of cannon and
7,000 prisoner?.”
_ Private despatches, say that the
Austrians had 35,000 nren placed
hors de combat—that they ldtffr' 16
flags 75 cannon.
No circumstantial account of the
battle had reached Paris, but private
despatches intimated that the French
army had suffered so severely as to
be unable to resume the offensive.
Vague rumors place the French loss
at 12,000 in killed and wounded.
Tho battle was fought at Salfereno.
The Austrians were making- pre
parations for another battle, under
Gen. Hess. - t - ' -
The Austrians acknowledge that
they were obliged to retreat after
French Candies.
A NOTHER lnrge supply of those delici® 1
Candifg. just receWedby Taylor A t"®!'
kill, contistiug of
Cream a la Mode
* Bon Bona
“ Apple Spices
“ Hems
“ Chestnuts
“ Chocolate
“ Orange Slices
“ . Strawberries
Conversation Lozenges
Lemon Platt Cnn4y
Mini Cream ”
Tea Nut ’’
Gum Drops, all flavors
Liquorice Drops
Coooanul Candy
Assorted candy of all varieties
one to nien’ion.
tlr?t i vu m” ;
July H. l 8i?
TJ. S. Mail Line,
< -2-
From Athens, via DanielsvilMk
son Springs, Franklin Springs
Bowersville and Hartwell, to
Anderson C. H., S. C.
- >L . WOllIo'
/Tilla Proprietors of the above line wou ;
1 specifully announce to (he tmve.nnir^
lie that they have this lino stockeijn^
best horses and Troy coaches.
to tbe Ma jisoc Springs, or from the ‘
tb# upper Districts of South .^“ ro . ! |0 j
from Carolina westward, will ® D “^
the shortest, cheapest and
with the trains on the Georgia ,,
Athens,'and the Greenville anti
trains, at Audcrsmt. No night trarv*-
Fare, Six Dollars A
A foir-hersfe coach will leave 4 ! ,Lit!
days, Wednesdays and Fridays,
after' the arrival of the cars, n '" “
Anderson next days. Leave Amler*™'^
days. 'Wednesday* ami Fridny*. ,nin ' 4
after the arrival of the cars.
Athens next mornings in time for
Stage Office, Lanier Hon*e, Ath« n *v
• *• Benson Houee. Andw%
D. B. LANGSTON, £
J. •. VILLI FORD,