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Mr. HULL’S ADDRESS.
Clark* County AfTr’l Fair Grounds
Octol>er 12. 1859.
On motion of T. W. Rucker, Esq.
Resolved, That the President of
this Society, appoint a committee of
five, to request of Henry Hull, Esq.
a copy of his very able and appropri
ate address, just delivered, for pub
lication.
Athena. Oct. 1 Zth.
Henry Hull, Esq :—])ear Sir:—
In pursuance of the foregoing resolu
tion, we* the committee, request a
copy of your excellent address, for
publication.
Very respectfully,
T. W. Rucks*,.
M. G. M. Haiimoxd.
J. F. Morion,
.Jacob Kujtts,
JKFFEUSON JkNMSOS.
Committee.
Athena, Oct. 14/A.
T. JF. Rucker and others:—Gen
tlemen:—I have received your note
of the 12th inst., asking a copy of
■my address for publication.
I have no manuscript of the ad
dress, as delivered, but will writo-out,
in concise form', some parts, which
seem to me practical in theuf nature
and of general interest, onmting all
rhetorical embellishments, or other
ornament, which, however appropri
ate in a public speech, are at least
unnecessary to convey useful sugges
tions.
With the highest appreciation of
the very complimentary terms in
which the Society have been pleused
to speak of the address, I am
Very respectfully,
H. HULL, Jr.
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Extract from an Address delivered
before the Clarke County Agricul
tural Society, by JIfnry Hull,
Jr. Esq: ~
How can we use - our heritage of
exhausted acres in the best and most
profitable manner? Can they be
made to sustain a large and increas
ing population in prosperity ? and is
there any pract icable way of restor
ing these .wasted lands to fertility?
These are questions of vital impor
tance to us all, and worthy of our
most serious consideration.
In discussing them I propose to
leave out of view all modes of apply
ing stimulating manures to growing
crops, as necessarily limited to small
quantities of lands, and as not reach
ing the real seat of the disease un
der which our Agriculture suffers.—
I take it for granted that every sen
sible man will save and use all that
he can, in that way which his own
experience and observation, aided by
the experience of others, may prove
J® he best. But this, at last, is like
giving invigorating cordials in small
doses to a man whose condition abso
lutely requires a total change of cli
mate aud habit. It is absolutely ne
cessary tj change our whole system
of culture. I hold that we can no
longer afford to make cotton our sole
source of revenue; and the higher
cotton gets, the less wo hi Middle
Georgia can afford to make it. Par
adoxical as this may seem, it is cer- burnings
tainly true, and for this simple rea-
son, that it is a staple in the produc
tion of. which, the annual value of the
land used is very mail, and the val
ue of the labor employed is enormous
ly large.
Now observe, that if our tlavea
were fixtures upon the soil, the whole
question would exhibit different re
sults ; but when the slave of Clarke
county can, in three days time, and
at ten dollars cost, be set to work up
on the bottom lands of the Mississip
pi, where he can make ten bales of
Cotton in one year, we can no longer
afford to work the same time, and
make three bales. The Red River
planter can obviously afford to pav
three times as much for that slave as
wo can, and the higher cotton gets,
the greater is the difference in profits
there and here.
What then can we do ? The only
answer a sane man can give is, to
. employ our labor ‘n making' cotton
only on those lands whose fertility
may justify it, and in making other
. products ou all lands which will not
justify the production of cotton. If
you ask what othe" things, I answer,
all usefnl products which require in
raising them, less of labor which is so
dear, and more of land which is so
cheap. The whole essence of agricul
tural philosophy for Middle Georgia,
is in that one tdea.
D®ur it in mind, and observe its
application. Notice the fact that on
ly the land upon which a vast amount
of_ very costly labor is expended
brings us in one dollar of cash return.
All our old fields, all our wood-land,
now so scarce and valuable, costs us
annually the taxes for support of the
State and county, and yields not one
cent of income.
How we can use these lands pro
fitably, is the real question of inter
est.
Cato, the Elder, being asked one
uny what vras the best use that could
be made of land, answered "Good
Grazing." ‘‘And what next,” said
the seeker after knowledge; "tolera
ble grazing" ‘‘And what .next ?”
"Bad Grazing.” “And what next ?”
"Tillage," was the reply. This re
ply of the renowned Roman censor,
a fanner, may seem to have more
point than wisdom, but the experi
ence of all countries where the want
of an enormous population makes the
heaviest demands upon the produc
tive power of the soil, fully proves
the truth of the position, that good
grazing is indeed the most profitable
use of land.
In Scotland and Ireland, whero ag
riculture is brought to great perfec
tion, out of about eight millions acres
of land under cultivation, four mil
lions wero in grass in1857, (as showft
by the reports of Parliament,)'—the
other four millions divided among the
various grain and root crops. In
England, Belgium, and other lands,
where population is dense, the pro
portion is as great. KfiKjflHl
_ Hence, we hastily conclude that a
dense population, and local markets,
are necessary to justify the Bcedinc
«P|ol good lands to grass. Rut let u-
af least open onr eves to existing
p ' <•••> v *
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facts. The grass of New York and
the valley of the Connecticut, is
brought in the concentrated form ol
thousands of pounds of cheese, but
ter and beef,
fit remane
The grass ofl&eutucky and
is brought ir. the shape of tliousan
of mules and hogs, and millions of our
money goes to enrich the gross-pro
ducers there; and worse than that
even, the grass itself, unconcentrated,
in all its natural bulk and weight,,
raised upon land worth 0200 per apre,
is bvought by steamboat a thousand
miles, and by the more costly rail
road transportation .three hundred
miles more, up into the hills of Clarke
county, where land is not worth more
than §10 per acre, and sold in the
utreetifof Athens'at 530 per ton.
Now compare the profits of ah
acre of bur best land (alluvial creek
or branch bottoms) seeded to grass,
and planted in cotton, both in the
best way. The aero in grass may
be safely estimated at two tons (four
tons is not unusual in grass coun
tries). The labor employed in pro
ducing it, was the seeding in the fall,
and the mowing in the summer.—
The value at prices of this season,
560. The acre in cotton might be
estimated at 1000 pounds seed cot
ton, worth at present prices, 030.—
The labor (that costly element) was-
unceasing toil f.om January to De
cember. Tlic : acre in grass is great
ly increased in value. The aero iti
cotton somewhat diminished.
Now lor the second year. On the
grass, half ilie labor is not needed—^
the yield largely increased, the pro
fit greater. On the cotton, the same
toil for long months is gone through,
the yield sensibly smaller, the profit
sdneibly less, the land somewhat poor
er. But leaving the subject of “good
grazing,” or even “tolerable grazing,'
as requiring little argument to estab
lish their claim to high rank in agri
cultural investments, let us consider
the third head of Cato: “bad graz
ing,’’ of which wc certainly have
enough for the greater part of the
year. For nature, ever kind, evei
beneficent, looking with pitying eye
upon the brvren wastes left by oui
destroying progenitors, first casts a
mantle of broomsedge and other
grasses over the land, as if to hide
its nakedness from the gaze of others
till a second growth should begin the
slow work of restoration.
Of these old fields, we have enough,
and they furnish abundant grazing in
spring and summer. We all have,
and must of necessity keep some land
in original forest. These virgin acres
should yield winter grazing. But,
say’s the unbeliever, there is no grass
in the woods, no matter bow rich the
soil. I appeal to the older men to
know, if fifty years ago, the wood
lands of this country were not cov
ered with luxuriant native grasses
which fed and fattened the cattle
upon st thousand hills. Do you sup
pose that the essential elements ol
those soils are changed ? Are the
rains of Heaven less refreshing ? I?
the air less pure, or the sunshine less
genial than then ? Not at all.—
What condition of the soil then is
changed ? J; . pimply that when annual
t out tho thick under
growth, and let in the sun and air, the
grasses took possession. Keep out
the undergrowth now, and let in the
sun and air again, and the woods will
again be covered with native grasses,
or if seeded properly with richer and
better perennial grasses, green in
winter.
Reason and experience, in many
places in middle Georgia, go to
establish the fact that these grasses
can be successfully grown npon our
original forest lnnd and on our best
open land, and if so, horses and mules,
and hogs, cattle and sheep, with all
their valuable products can be pro
fitably reared in Georgia.
The prices of horses and mules
have steadily and rapidly risen, til)
we can hardly realize the fact that a
pair of horses which could be bought
a few years ago at 0300, would bring
to-day 0800. We complain loudly;
bnt it is all right, for it takes just
euoh astonishing developments, and
just such enormous burdens to make
men forsake the old and beaten paths
of error, though leading directly to
poverty.
But says the “croaker,’’ if this
system -of husbandry be adopted
generally, there is danger that there
would be no demand for hay, and but
ter, and beef, and mutton, and horses
and mules, as every body would raise
their own, (a consummation most*
devoutly to be wished) while for cot
ton there is an unlimited demand, and
local markets, and if the price does
not suit at one time you can hold till
it does, without injury or cost; while
if horses and mules are not sold they
will “eat off their own heads,” and
breadstuffs if not consumed perish on
our own hands.
These are indoed most admirable
and valuable conditions which have al
ways made cotton a favorite staple.
But there is another product Which
equally with cotton, possesses all these
with one immense advantage over
cotton, that it can be raised on poor
land with little labor; that staple is
wool, worth in all markets about three
times as much per lb. as* cotton.
There is good reason to believe that
in this region it can be raised with
much larger profit. Sheep possess
in a most remarkable degree all the
requisites for profitable husbandry.
They are very prolific, of early
maturity, and transport themselves
even to distant markets at little cost,
aud best quality of all, they will live
where other domestic animals would
starve.
It is a fact, not generally known,
that all over Georgia many varieties
of herbs grow, on which sheep feed,
which no other animals touch. They
are browsing, as well as grazing, aoi
mals. In our old fields, wherever a
few tufts of broomsedge grow, or a
patch of briers, or oven that badge
of sterility, a thicket of sassafras
bushes, there sheep will exist.
You cannot find any whero
hundred acres of land, which will not
sustain a hundred sheep in the spring
and s\immer, and with winter grazing
on ouv forestlands, all the year. If
this be true, our old exhausted lands
can be made to pay an annual profit.
would make the usurer open
es in wonder.
These lands (extensive old fields
with small quantities of original forest,
and strips of branch bottoms) can be
* ought readily at three or four dollars
r acre, or even less. Throw to
other a thousand acres of such land,
put 1000 sheep upon it,' obtain 8
lbs. of wool from each worth one
dollar, and a lamb Worth one dollai
and a quarter, and you may pay a
shepherd to protect them from dogs,
and realize a clear profit of 30 or 40
per tent; -
Then, how rapidly these wasted
lands mightbe enriched; by hurdling
a thousand sheep upon them at night,
instead of paying enormouspnees for
manures, brought from the distant
■ islands' of ocean p for his « Tact,
established by careful experiment,
that a given height of food, fed to
sheep, will produce greatly more
enriching manure, than when fed to
any other domestic animals.
Let us then like sensible people,
use the lands we have in raising such
staples as they are adapted to, and
soon we can change the tons of brootfi-
sedge and other forage found in
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goveriunciit, now, therefore i
siiaiMje of the authority vested ir
by said Constitution, wc do hereby
appoint aud commission the said'
Lecmaii ns Captain.
“Given at the office of the Seer ctar
ry of war, this the 15th of October
1859.
“John Brown, Commander in Chief,
H. Keys, Secretary of W ar.”
An anonymous letter was sent to
the Secretary of War at Washington,
some time since, of which tho follow
ing is a copy: ,
Cincinnati, Aug. 20. ’50.—Sir : I
have recently received information’
of movements of sb great iinpoi-tano
that I feel it to be my duty, to.impurt
it.to you, without delay.. I have dis? r
covered the existence of a secret
i%'Soctation7 hat*frtg~ fo£ ' their obj&r
the liberation of all the slaves in the
South by a general insurrection. The?,
leader of this movement'is old Joffn
Brown, latcofKansas. He, (Brown,)
has been to Canada during the*winter,
drilling negroes, and they are only-
waiting his word tg. start for tlrt>
South and assist the slaves. They
have one of their leading men, a
white man, m an armory, in Mary-
The letter appears to be one of the
many that informed him from time
to time, as thetponj'v was rivciwd.
ATH.BN 3, GA.
Till USD V V MORNING* OCIOB’R «, 1859.
abundance into pounds of meat and tend. Where it is situated 1 am not
wool,
men
for the food and raiment of
Btfos department
LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE ANGLO-SAXON.
Farther Point, Oct. 23.-Tlie steam
ship Anglo-Saxon, touched off this
point to-day. She brings.Liverpool
dates to the 12th inst.
Commercial.
Liverpool Cotton Market.—The
sales of Cotton for the three past
business days foot up 28,000 bales,
of which speculators took 2,500 and
exporters 6,000 bales. The market
was firm, with an improved demand,
but no actual advance. Fair and
Midding qualities some say, have
advanced |d.
General News.
The steamship Nova Scotian reach
ed. Liverpool on the 12th.
The Great Eastern has reached
Holyhead ; her performance was suc
cessful, but she made only moderate
speed. There is some doubts about
her leaving England this season.
The peace negotiations, have made
but little progress.
A prolongation of tho conference
is anticipated, on account of the
difficulties that remain unadjusted.
They were considered doubtful whelj
the treaty was signed.
A Paris correspondent says that
the datey is attributable to the Aus
trian and Vienna cabinet, who are
doing all they could to win France
to their views, while at the same time,
they are preparing for coalition
against her in Germany.
able to learn. Jof;
tiling is ready, those
who are in tile ~~
Canada, aro to. come.jjver 'In s
companies to wqjHfendczvous, wliic
is in the mountaiiy of Virginia. They
will then pass down tlirough Penn
sylvuia amb Maryland, then enter;
Virginia at JlSftkr’s Ferry. ‘ :
“Brown left the Noyth.about three
or four weeks ago, ufitl lie will arm
the negroes,'and strike the bldtjrjff
a few weeks. So that whatever is
done must be done at ofice, as they
have large quantities of arms at their
rendezvous. Brown has probably dis
tributed them already.
“Iam not fully in their confidence
and this is all the information that I
can give you. I dure not sign my
name to this; but trust you will not
disregard the warning on this ac
count."
Among the arms found at Cook’s
house are fifteen hundred pikes, made
in Connecticut; the handles are six
feet long, with a blade a foot in
length; here were also found nine
hundred Sharp’s rifles, a box of re
volvers and a box of swords.
Brown denies that any others,
besides those at the Ferry, are con
nected with this movement. ^Hift
wounded son, however, says that there
are other parties at the Noith con
nected with it.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the Steamship Ocean Queen.
New York, Oct. 24.—The steam
ship Ocean Queen has arrived with
Liverpool dates to Oct. 13th.
Liverpool Cotton Market.—The
market was steady. Sales of the
two days 18,000 bales. There was
a good enquiry at extreme rates.
L ondon Money Market.—Consols
quoted at 95$@95§.
Safety of the Falton.
New Orleans, Oct. 21.—The U. S.
steamship Fulton, that wont ashore
off the coast of Florida has been got
off and towed to the Pensacola navy-
yard. "
Additional from Harper’s Ferry—The
Pay Office not Bobbed—Several Par
ties Implicated—Letters and Docu
ments Found.
Washington, Oct. 19.—At Harper’s
Ferry at noon to-day, no signs of the
fugitives had been discovered.
The Chambersburg and Bedford
rangers were searching the moun
tains.
Yesterday morning a detachment
of the marines and volunteers visited
Brown’s house and found a large
quantity of blankets, boots, shoes,
clothes, tents, and fifteen hundred
pikes, with long blades affixed, to
gether with a carpet bag containing
documents which thro* a good deal
of light upon the affair. There was
an the carpet bag a printed Constitu
tion and by laws of the organization,
showing or indicating ramifications
in the various States of the Union.
The letters were from various indi
viduals at the North, and one of them
from Fred Douglas, containing ten
dollars from a lady; there was also
one from Gerritt Smith about money
matters, and a check or draft by him
for one hundred dollars, endorsed by
a cashier of a New York bank, the
nam$ not recollected. All of these
are in possession of Gov. Wise, who
lias issued a proclamation offering
one thousand dollars reward for the
arrest of Cook. Largo numbers of
armed' men arc now scouring the
mountains in pursuit of him. Cook
took tea at his father in law’s house
near the Ferry on Monday night,
only a few hours previous to the ar
rival of the marines. It was report
ed that he was seen on Tuesday morn
ing, only three miles off.
Two wagonaloaded with Govern
ment anus have been recovered.
The insurgents did not rob tho pay
office as was reported; a large amount
of money was in the office.
Among the letters found at Brown’s
house, the following is a specimen:
Lear Sir: I have been disappoint
ed in not seeing you ere this to take
charge of your freight. They have
been here two weeks, and as I had to
superintend, the providing for them
has imposed upon me no small task.
Besides, they aro getting discon ter t-
ed, and if not taken charge of soon,
.will go back to Missouri. They can
not be kept here much longer ; and
if any of them go back it will be ■ a
bad termination to your enterprise.
It appears that the insurgents had
printed a constitution and bye laws
for the provisional government of the
United States; and also issued com
missions from their war office near
Harper’s Ferry. The following is a
specimen:! . •
“■Whereas, W. H. Lceman lias
been nominated Captainof the army
established under the provisional
Additional from Harpers Ferry.
Jurisdiction of the Prisoner’s
Settled: List of Killed and
Wounded Rebels.
Harper’s Ferry, Oct. 19th.—
The prisoners taken in the late con
flict with the insurgents at this place
have been committed to tbe^ jail of
harlcstown, (Jefferson county, Yu.,)
ait tho action of the Grand
ry., They will be indicted and
tried in a few days. . The arrange
ment labout jurisdiction has been
settled in this way; the local author
ities to try the prisoners for murder;
meanwhile the United States author
ities will proceed to try them on th
charge of treason. Gov. Wise s^h
to United States District Attor,
Quid that he had no objection to
Hr. Hull's Address..
As will be seen by the correspond
ence accompanying it, Mr. Hull has,
at the request of his friends, furnish
ed for publication a synopsis of his
Address at the Clarke County Fair.
The reader will find it in our columns
this week.
SSgr-Scethe advertisement of Mes.
Thos. P. Stovall & Co. in this paper.
The fertilizers they offer for sale are
believed-tp be better adapted to a
Southren soil-and climate than any
now before the public.
Premium List.
Qn.our,first page will bo found the
fist of premiums awarded at
Into Clarke County Agricultural
Tt would have appeared last
had it been received in time.
Large Potato.
Dr. N. W. Pridgeon presented us the
other day with the largest potato re
ceived at our office this year. It is of
the “ nigger-killer” variety, and big
enough to kill half-a-dozen ‘niggers.’
Athens Fire Company No. 1.
We learn, that at the annual elec
tion held on Saturday evening last,
the following gentlemen were elected
officers for twelve months:
Captain—R. Nickerson.
LicuUnant—J. J. Servntius.
Secretary—C- S. Newton. * ,
1st. Pipeman.—J. O. Fulgham.
2d. “ —0. Shurley.
We learn that on tho occasion of
the annual parade (Saturday week)
there will be a Fireman’s Supper at
the Newton House. We hope the
citizons will turn out —especially the
ladies.
Extensive Sale.
We are requested to call the read
er’s attention to the extensive sale
of land, &c. advertised by Col. A.
Griffeth, of Oglethorpe county.
the General Government proceeding , '
isoners, if anything be ren “ crc, ‘
against the prisoners,
left of them when the Virginia author
ities get through with them.
Brown is better. lie has made:a
fuller statement, in which he says that
he rented the farm on which his
rendezvous was located, from Dr.
jCenhady six months ago, and that he
has‘paid the rent for it until next
March. He says that he never had
over 22 men at the farm at one time,
who belonged to his organization, but
that he had good reason to expect
reinforcements from Maryland, Ken
tucky, North and South Carolina,
and the Canadas. He states that he
bad arms and ammunition for ljoOO
men; that lie had 200 revolvers,-200
Sharp’s rifles, and 1000 spears, which
were left there at thfe farm,
he had alsq an abundance of powder
and fixed ammunition. He Iffbfggbt
his arms from time to time IroBr
Connecticut and other points, in the
Eastern States, to ChamberB%rg,
Pa.; they were directed T. Smith &
Sons, Kennady Farm, (his assumed
name) and were packed in double
boxes, so as to deceive the parties
who handled them in transporting
them to the farm. He says that he
made one mistake, in either not de
taining the train, or in permitting it
to go on unmolested. This mistake
he seems .to infer, exposed his doings
toosoou, and prevented his reinforce
ments from reaching him.
The names of-a 11 his party at the
Ferry on Sunday night, except three
white men, whom Brown admits wero
sent off on nn errand, are as follows,
with their proper titles under the
Change of Name.
We understand that at a meeting
of the Executive Committee of the
Clarke County Agricultural Society,
eld in this place the other day, it
s determined to ehange the name
of the association. This change was .
necessary on account of the
very general interest taken in it by
the citizens of adjoining and contigu
ous counties. It will be known here
after as the “Union Agricultural So
ciety,” and we predict for it a bril
liant career hi the future. Let all
cheerfully unite in building it up,
and it need not fear competition.
Woi. A. Choice.
We learn from the Atlantai Amer
ican that this individual has been
tried, found guilty of murder, and
sentenced to be hung in December.*
The case will go up to the Supreme
Court, however.
-■ Fine Horses.
Col. Reuben Jordan, of Jasper
-county, contributed largely to the in
terest of our Fair by the exhibition
of his fine horses. His stallion Boat
man, by Monte, who was by Wagner,
is certainly the most faultless speci
men of a thorough-bred horse wo havo
seen in the State. He very deserv
edly attracted much attention at the
late Fair.
provisional government affixed; Gen.
John Brown, Commander in Chief,
wounded, but will recover;.Capt.'
Oliver Brown, dead; Capt. Watson
Brown,dead; Capt. A. C. Stephens,
of Connecticut, has three balls in his
body, and cannot survive; Lieut
Edwin Coppiee, of Iowa, unhurt;
Lieut. Albert Hazlett, of Pennsyl
niat dead; Lieut. Wm. Lecman, of
Maine, dead; Capt. John E. Cook,
of Conn., escaped; Capt. John Kagi,
of Ohio, (raised in Virginia,) dead;
Lieut. Jeremiah Anderson, of Indi
ana, dead; privates Stewart Taylor,
of Canada, (lead; Charles P. Todd,
of Maine, (lead ; Win. Thompson and
Dolph Thompson, of New York, dead.
These, with the three previously sent
off, make 17 whites. The
were
raised
New Yoik, raised in South Carolina,
a prisoner, not wounded; lie was
elected a member of Congress of the
Provisional Government, some time
since; Dennis Leary‘of Ohio; ra
in Virginia, dead; Coptland, Ohio,
raised in Virginia not wounded, a
prisoner at Charlestown. • **.
Gen. Brown received nine wounds,
but none it is thought would prove
fatal. There was about a bushel of
letters, discovered fiom all parts of
A Georgia correspondent of
a Southern Agricultural paper, says
that he lias seen sugar maple grow
ing in Clarke county, near Athens,
and it is not unfrcquently seen all
through middle Georgia. Its growth
is confined mostly to* or near, water
courses. He is not mistaken about
it, for when he .was a boy he used to
cut into the trees and.driiik the sap.
There is another and different maple,
a native of Georgia, which is called
white maple; it has no saccharine
juice, it is the wood of which shoe-
pegs are usually made.
&&* We would be obliged to this
correspondent if he would' show us
.some of this Clarke county sugar-ma
ple. We were shown a couple of
trees two or three yeais ago which
we were told were sugar-maple, but
upon . examination we found they
were of the shoe-peg stripe.
iake 17 whites. The negroes New Senators.
Daingerfield Newly, of Ohio, The following Senators elccl
l in Va.‘, dead; Emperor,'of their seats foi the first time ii
elect take
in the
U. S. Congress, on the first Monday
of December next: Salisbury, of
Delaware; Grimes, of Iowa; Powell,
of Kentucky; Brigham, of Michi
gan ; Ten Eyck, of New Jersey;
Bragg, of North Carolina ; Anthony,
of Rhode Island ; Nicholson, of Ten
nessee; and Hemphill,.of Texas.
Purity of the Ballot-Box.
Wc are pleased to observe that
some of oui; cotemporaries are caH-.
,ing attention to the shameful ain't de
grading practice'of “penniug voters,
:as it is called. Now, it is not our in
tention to denounce one party and
let the other pass without a word.—
We are after those who are guilty
whatever Alley may call themselveff-—
Whigs, Americans, Democrats, oi
what not. *;,.. 11:. ; ? 1 {• r: *•
For the information of those who
do pot understand this thing, wc will
state the process. A number of per-
sons-recognized as respectable, col
lect the vagabonds and drunkards,
the outcasts and. vagrants of society,
on Saturday night and Sunday pre
ceding the election, and furnish then
with food and very mean whiskey
until the polls are opened on Mon
day morning; they arc-then led to
the ballot-box, reeling and stagger
ing, tickets are placed in their hands,
they are banded to the dfficers super
intending the elections, and the vot
ers,never know to the day of ihtir
death who they voted for J After the
election is over, the parties who em
ploy these diabolical agencies to ef-
fect .their hellish purposes, are loud
and blatant in proclaiming the result
“an intelligent verdict of the people!”
This is what is called penning. Is
there a man who has one spark of pa
triotism left—is there a citizen who
has any claim to common decency—
who does not feel indignant at the
idea that the glorious liberties for
which Washington fought and free
men died have already been practi
cally subverted, and the verdict of
the ballot-box has become the mere
record of the insane ravings of the
offscourings of the community, besot
ted with potations of the vilest rot-
gut!
This mockery cannot continue much
longer. If the people themselves do
not turn upon and destroy those who
thus degrade the rights of freemen,
the justice of Heaven will be turned
loose upon us, and thp liberties which
now exist but in name will be lost
first in anarohy and afterwards swal
lowed up either by a monarchy or
military despotism.
We see it stated that at Columbus
mean whisky was not considered suf
ficiently potent—it was drugged with
snuff and other compounds—the re
sult of which h»s been, that some of
the creatures who were “penned”
there have since died!! If the cor
rupt and abominable scamps who
“penned” them, and all who are in
any way concerned in this iniquity
there or elsewhere should die, it would
be a happy deliverance to our coun
try.
We hope the Legislature now about
to meet will do something to check
this abomination.
ABOLITION INSURRECTION.
We publish elsewhere the particulars
of the insurrection at Harper’s Ferry
—from which it will be seen that it
was the work of a few fanatical
Abolitionists, freedom-slmekersYrom
Kansas—a specimen of the “sove
reigns’’ in to whose hands Mr. JJouglas
and his Georgia followers(Bob Toombs
& Co.) would commit the settlement
of the slavery question ! Ossawata-
mie Brown, and such cattle as he, arc
consummate asses. Whenever they
attempt to interfere with slavery as he
did, they will surely die, and that
without accomplishing any thing.—
Douglas understands the matter bet
ter. His plan is not intended to cre
ate any tumults or outbreaks, but
slowly, surely and quietly to strangle
the institution—to kill it by inches.
Douglas or any of his followers are
ten thousand times more dangerous
than all the Ossttwatamie Browns be
tween this and sun-rise. Abolition
ism can never accomplish anything
by direct attaoks upon the institu
tion of slavery. Whatever it does
must be done covertly and indirectly.
Douglas knows this, and hence his
attempt to accomplish his nefarious
ibjects through the instrumentality of
squatter sovereignty. Let the people
of the South guard against Douglas.
He is a more dangenous enemy than
even Ossawatamie Brown.
• ' 'The Fire In Now Orleans. * ; .
New Orleans, Oct. 24.—Nearly
PIUPIPjlHpH five blocks of buildings were consa- ;
the country. One from Gerritt Smith,! med by the fire last night.' The loss
that informs Brown of some money | is variously estimated at from 300,-
being deposited at a bank in New 000 to half a million of dollars.
Tfic crli'
his
the i
Donglas vs. Sew:
A portion of the Dcuv
attempting to dragoon the
people into the support o
by holding up Seward as a
and bloody bones,’’just as they fri
ened them into the ranks of Buchan
an in 1866 by threatening them wftB - .... "us— l'kl
Fremont. This trick caV’t be repeat- j ^ci
ed - successfully. They had better liabilities, i ft the
try something else. The people al- j amount to two or three hu n ,f^
readj look upon Douglas as n more 8 a,| d ( h)ll.irs, for iRe pavnjJ^*
■ » o v t» , portion ’.n Bills the 7 <
dangerous Tpait than Seward. Read j £. idg , ijrf)|e fay ^
the following ./rom the Charleston 's, eju^pt the B.mk'of
Mercury, Democratic: ** : None orlliem are
Douglas or a Black Republican. j in any manner affected 1> V th e
When a man in the South says ment '' r compromise below ,,
that-although-he-does not approve of -AlwjT, Qf the holile r? 0 f .
Senator Douglas’ doctrine of squat- clauns are. now pressing ti^.j r
rer sovereignty, yet that he will sup- t I° n N stn< ! su ' ts ai e pendin '
>ort him if nominated by the Charles- . ,' e Stockholders or BireculH
«»n Convention, for the Presidency, d not all of these- Bnnki- ■
in preference to a black republican,
he may be considered as an out-and-
out Douglas adherent. The northern
States (as tlic Convention will be or
ganized of those admitting into the
Convention whole tiers of States,
like the New England States, which
cannot give a single vote for the dem
ocratic party) will have the absolute
control of the Convention. What
they want is, not support from the
South in the Convention in nomina
ting the candidate. That they can
do without a single vote froth the
South; but they want, simply, ac
quiescence^—submission— co-opera
tion from the South, aftor they have
exercised their power of nomination.
Now, it may not do in Douglas’ ad
herents in the South to support di
reetly Douglas with his abolition here
sy of squatter sovereignty. The di
rect sttpport of Douglas may weaken
them in the Southland is not at all
important to his nomination. But
let them give an indited, conditional
support—let -them declare, before
hand, their acquiescence, in ease Doug
las is tbs nominee of the Charleston
Convention, and this is all that is ne
cessary for. his success. The pre
text that they will support him in
preference to a black republican, is,
of course, nothing but a pretext
He is just as bad as a black republi
can. He co-operated with, and ob
tained for the republicans their tri
umph over the South in the rejection of
Kansas from the Union. Eli Thay
er, and whole hosts of black republi
cans, look upon his policy as the very
best to secure the exclusion of sleve-
ry from our territories, and their set
tlement and appropriation by the
free States. But if this was not so
the alternative they are pleased to
make between Douglas and a black
republican, is a mere fiction to suit
their policy. There is no such al
ternative in the nature of things. If
really intent on maintaining and pre
serving the rights of the South, they
would naturally support a man for
the Presidency who would truly and
faithfully reflect this policy. When,
therefore, they refuse to sit up and
support such a man, and support
Douglas, the shallow game is appa
rent. They are playing a part—the
best game they can in the South, ta
suit the end they have in view—the
elevation of Douglas to the Presiden
cy. To make Mr Douglas President
of the United States, is of more con
sequence than the maintenance of
the rights and interests of the South.
Party is stronger than principle, and
the South is a mere makeweight to
lift them to power. They are the
best Douglas sharp-shooters, because
they fight behind trees.
ami
United States* Senator.
In an article written by us just af-
ter the election, we- stated that in
Joe Brown the Democracy had
caught a Tartar,” and expressed
the hope that they might have a safe
deliverance. What we then expected
would shortly happen has already
come to pass— his name has been sug
gested for the vacant seat in the U.
S. Senate! Just thirtk of it! what
a figure Joe Brown would cut in the
United States Senate ! If it were
Toombs’ seat instead of Iverson’s, we
would not, were we a Democrat, ob
ject to th-» change. Anybody rather
than Toombs. We have no confidence
in or respect for any man who will
betray his principles and friends.
In the “Kilkenny-cat-fight’’ about
to come off among “the. faithful,” we
hope the Opposition members will
stand aloof and refuse to give aid
and comfort to any t>f tho factions.
They are all'rotten. Let them work
out their own political damnation with
greediness! *
General Jackson a Schoolmaster.
Who would have thought it ? It
is nevertheless true that Old Hickory
begun his career as a teacher of an
“old field school,” in South Carolina,
and in that vacation earned the mo
ney which supported him while he
studied law. There’s one among
many curious and unexpected, facts
presented in Mr, Parton’s life of
General Jackson, the first volume of
which is now in the hands of the pi int
er. flMany eminent Americans have
begun life as teachers, but we hard-
ly expected to find the indomitable
hero of New Orleans added to the
list.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
We are inclined to the opinion that
Mr. Par ton is laboring under a slight
mistake. We.doubt whether Gen.
Jackson, when a young man, had suf
ficient education even to teach “an
old field school.”
rights and liabilities 0 f ,L
are yd to be adjudicated M
Courts. I have dimed it LSI
just to the parties iinraediat l ^
terested, bnt due also to the 'A
that the erroneous iuipres$i on f5M
seem to prevail on this subject
be corrected, and respectf^
the privilege t,f doing sj tboIiS
columns of your paper. ca ’*i
' Very Respectfully, vonr, t
■ WM,D0U(Wi$
tent tVutehman.Att,—* ^
Ta Editor Southern Dutchman,Athens, 0^
For A• Southern fFatehnuat
Friend Christyv-I*h ave t^.l
lent sometime, from various andj!
dry causes, but for the future, Q,
endeavor to make amends. * ^
; Daffords me great pleasure toijjj
tion a movement now in progress ’ I
our county, (Oglethorpe,) f 0r 5
formation of a “Planter’s Club"
the purpose of joining the great
of progressive farmers, in other,
ties in Georgia, to carry on the
work of increasing productions
knowledge, at oneandthesamet£
Our plan is founded upon the gnjj
object of increasing knowledge,
at the same time, developingagri,
ral capacities, now lying dormant,
such a lamentable degree, in this p,
of the cotton-growing region,
purpose is, by the fees for meml
ship, to establish a circulating Ii,
ry of agricultural and mechaai
works, of standard value, togettg
with the kindred topics, so necea
to the farmer, his wife and his
dren! Wc believe it is a sealiiS
question, that the day has passej,*
when farmers, as a class, turn up thel
noses at “book farming;” and,fhi|
the avidity with which agridltw!
works are read, (and not forgotta
wc take courage in the idea, that k
shall do a good work. Agricultril
Fairs are good in their places; tiwl
gather the people in what should id
brotherly and neighborly associate,*
and contests for supremacy. Bat
at the same time, we doubt the at
mate good, from such meetings. Hi
thSik that the “greatest good of the
greatest number,” can be morefaiiil
accomplished, by the silent, rendH
and pleasant work of good booh!
In the displays of domestic wotil
animals, fruits, flowers and vegeafc
bles, it is true, the sense of sight if
gratified and the excitement of thl
moment is great, but the calm comhrf
and the real object has not IkoT
gained; that is, Instruction am! cs-l
largement of the mind of thcma!. : <
A few take premiums or diplomas
for beasts in shapeless masks, orb
a us naturae, in the vegetable king
dom ; but, the concrete good to b
done, is small, and we doubt if, event-
ttally, it pays for the candle spec
at the game !! Without, liowenr,
entirely discarding in the future, ag
ricultural fairs, for the present, w
shall meet for debate, exchange K
ideas, rehearsal of actual experiment
by the members, and for the mutt'
improvement of each other. The
first meeting will be held at Antioch
Depot, on Wednesday, the 2nd d*J
of November next, when the Cb'
will be organized by the election i
officers, &c. I expect to be on luni,
and will give you further items.
Oct. 23d, 1859. B.
•>
Three of the most celebrated
authoresses in this country, are na
tives of Georgia, Miss M. J. McIn
tosh, Madam LcVert, and Miss Evans
of Mobile, whose new novel, Beulah'
has rendered her. famous in a few
short months.
Columbus Bank Cases.
Frotp the following note from Col.
Dougherty, u appears that there is
great misapprehension existing in
reference to the Columbus “Bank
cases.” We published some, time
ago a statement that they had been
settled. We supposed that this com
promise included all of them. So
far from this being true, it appears
that! t embracedbu tone.
Columbus, Oct. 18,1859.
Mr. Editor: I find that the im
pression generally prevails that all
the “Bank Cases'’—that is, the suits
and claims of Bill-holdoffi and other
creditors of the broken Banks at this
place, have been settled. This is a
mistake. Tiie facts are these: Last
summer, during the Supreme Court
at Macon, a compromise was effec
ted, ami the terms agreed on, so far
as the liability of tho Stockholders
and Directors of the Planters and
Mechanics Bunk of Columbus were
concerned.
The arrangement itself, has not
as yet been fully carried out; but it
is being done, and it is believed will
be consummated very soon. When
that is done, it will not extend to any
other Bank nor embrace any other
liability than that of the Stockholders
and Directors of that particular Bark
to pay its debts. The amount to be
paid will not discharge the debts
|»Aa
Mian
ANCIENT FICTION AND MODERN Fid
The Enchanted Salve story
CerVantes puts into the month l ;
Don Quixote was doubtless inten -* 1 :
as a satire upon the extra v *e Jtl L
pretensions and miserable failure - ■
the physicians of that day. I> u:t " s i
fictions of one age sometimes i
the facts of another, anJ w
iCervantcs revisit the earth, he
aeo many of the cures ironically
trihuted to Don Quixote’s nostrui-B
actually accomplished by Hoik**! |
Ointment. The magic of science a
shamed the legends of necronianv
in the beneficent effects of the L
medies introduced by that (listing 11154 '
od man. . ,
Extravagant eulogy is ‘‘» ot in !,
way ;” but there is a difference i
tween flattery and simple justice- j
has happened that in
stances w$ havs witnessed the* -
of Holloway’s Ointment upon cX . tel ?..
diseases. That it will cureerys>P e .,
salt rheum, and virulent, deep“ c ' j
ulcers, we can testify from f» cts N !
have come under our own obsena
and if faith is to be placed m ^
consentaneous declarations (, j ^.
thousands aud tens of thousan Q * I
in I
trySi t throughout the worm,
can be no doubt that it is a spec 1 .
the only specific—for scr . oi p :
cancer. The ’ n 1
afforded a gr
tain
wound:
and it
official repor
Ii*-*
dressing for .
and conia^!
the
the army s
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