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from the Journal 4- Messenger.
The Caevail lu Georgia.
Both the candidates for the executive chair
are now fairly before the people. They of course
may be regarded as the exponents of the views
and opinions of their respective parties. Gov.
MaDonald was the President of the N ashvllle
Convention, and of the notorious disunion Con
vention which aasei bled in Macon last year.
He is by these and other acta fully identified
with thedisunionists of C.ro.ina, and the abo
litionists of the North, both of whom recognize
the right of secession, and are anxious lor a dis
solution of the present government. He was
also the sole manager of the State government
during the disastrous convulsions of 1838 to
1842. He is the identical man who brought ruin
and bankruptcy upon the State treasury—who
borrowed money at a high per cent, to loan out
to political favorites at a low per cent—who
squandered the capital of the Central Bank
wire mismanaged the Penitentiary, and who
forced the Legislature to add twenty-five per
cent, to the public taxes. The people know him
well —they know him to their sorrow. If he ever
possessed any popularity beyond the mere
strength of Ilia party, that popularity has long
sines been lost, and he now stands before tne
people doubly condemned—condemned as a mis
erable bungler in State affairs, and as an open
enemy to the national Union. I« >•
that such a candidate will meet with the public
Cobb' on the contrary, is endeared to the
friends of both the State and the Union. He
differs, it is true, with many -of .the old Whigs
upon the issues which divided the now extinct
political parties. He and they however, now re
gard those issues as comparatively unimportant.
He and they both agree that it is useless to wran
gle about the manner in which the government
ought to be administered, so long as the very
Union itself is i n danger of destruction. He and
they have thereiore resolved to co-operate with
the good men of all parties—with old Whigs and
old Democrats —in a common effort to resist the
tide of fanaticism and treason which threatens
to overwhelm the government. He and they
have joined hands to defeat the schemes of the
Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and of
the Southern disunionists on the other. He
and they have swom to protect the constitution
of our fathers, and to observe the compromises
and laws of the early patriots, so long as the for
mer can be protected with honor, and the latter
observed with safety. A sense of common dan
ger, and a feeling of common patriotism, have
brought them together, and elicited resolutions
of common sympathy and support. The past
has been forgotten. Mutual errors have been
mutually forgiven, and he who proved himselt a
patriot in the hour of trial, and who stands fast
by bis integrity in the hour of triumph, will be
cordially supported by thousands who widely
differed from him in regard to his views of na
tional policy. It is enough for them to know
that he is a Union man—that he stands by the
compromise—that he is no higher law advocate,
but atiil acknowledges allegiance to the consti
tution and the laws Upon this ground, and
upon this alone, if there were no other, Mr-
Cobb would receive the cordial and unanimous
support of every Union man in the State.
There are other considerations, however,
which will gather around him hosts of ardent
advocates. He is a Georgian of which the State
has just reason to be proud. Though compara
tively young, he has filled stations of high re
sponsibility, and has displayed a degree of cool
ness, of tact and talent which elicited universal
praise. He has won reputation abroad as well
as at home, and has reflected honor upon the
State as well as the nation. His only crime has
been that he has ioved the Union, and adhered
to the Constitution, and thereby elicited the ha
tred of the abolition disunionists of the North,
and of the Southern Rights disunionists of our
own section. Asa Georgian, therefore, the peo
ple have reason to be proud of him, and are
bound to|support him.
On State issues, Mr. Cobb will be found com
paratively unexceptionable, even to the most
ultra of his old opponents. Having never taken
an active part in local legislation, he is not com
mitted in any way to that financial policy of
Governor McDonald, which wasted the public
funds and brought the State to the very verge of
bankruptcy and ruin. From him, therefore, we
may anticipate an enlightened, liberal, and at
ths same time a safe administration of State
affairs. He will protect the treasury, reform the
management of the public works, abolish all
sinecures, place honest and competent men in
power, foster our industrial interests, and favor
a liberal system of education. Such are the two
mon now before the people for the Executive
ehair, and we have no apprehensions for the
result.
From the Savannah Republican.
Governor McDonald's Acceptance.
Governor McDonald's acceptance of the nom
ination conferred upon him by the Disunion
Convention as their candidate for the Guberna
torial Chair of Georgia has been published to
the world, and, as was to have been expected,
his letter is received with plaudits from all the
organs of the Secession party, and heralded as
"frank, bold, truthful and able,” marking its au
thor as “a statesman and patriot.” Doctors will
differ, however, and from a cursory glance of it,
w« think it is neither "fish, fowl, nor flesh,” but
a mere concatenation of garbled words and
ideas, from the stereotyped edition of the procee
dings of the Nashville and Macon Conventions,
at both of which Mac was the honored head.
In short, it is a Southern Rights, union and dis
union, secession, resistance, any-lhing-to-catch
votas-sort of a document, which if it means any
thing in particular, other than as a broad net to
< i 'ch votes, is set forth in a style entirely too
> -taphysical for our comprehension. Pity ’tis
that in giving an explanation of liis principles
he coulonot have given his readers each, an un
derstanding also.
The nominee began his letter admirably, and
la the first two paragraphs he affects to have
forgotten his prejudices against the Compro
mise measures of Congress, and assures the
people that, if they will ratify his nomination
I. e. elect him Governor of Georgia, “every ob
ligation imposed upon hitn by the Constitution,
State and federal, and the law enacted in con
formity thereto, shall be faithfully fulfilled.”
This part of the net is laid to catch the votes of
Union men* But will he fulfil this declaration,
if elected 1 If the nominee is sincere in his
declaration, why is he nut standing < n the
Georgia platform 7 Why is he the candidate
of the recusant party who refuse to acknow
ledge the supremo authority of the Georgia
Convention, which, as we have before rem’rked
bus sanctioned the “Compromise,” and imposed
an obligation on Georgia to observe its measures
as fully, and to all intents and purposes, as
though those measures had passed under the
Sanction of the Constitution 1 Why does he
still denounce those measuresas an instance of
the most flagrant and fatal violation of our con
stitutional rights 7 And whydoes he still clam
or about the right of secession resistance,
dissolution, and what not, if he intends really
to fulfil ths obligations of the constitution and
laws of the land 7 Union men of Georgia I
Patriots! be not deceived. Georgia, by her
aoaventlon, is estopped from secession or re
sistance for any past event I and the declaration
of the nominee io fulfil the obligations of the
Constitution and laws of the country was made
o nmcseilale rei, and not willingly, or without
reservation, as a perusal of his Tetter will show.
Tlm disunionists are opposed at heart to the
Compromise measures of Congress, and to the
platform laid down by our convention. They are
striving to gain party strength to effect their par
ty plans—and at present, finding themselves
powerless in Georgia, but determined to carry
out their nefarious designs, they are attempting
to urge South Carolina to take the latal stop, by
representing, first, that our convention did not
represent the opinion of a majority of our peo
ple, and next, tnat our people are committed to
thedoetrineof the right of secession, and that,
if Carolina will secede, as we cannot, Georgia
stands ready to uphold her in the exercise of tiffs
right. This, we say, is the position of the dis
union party of Georgia, which has nominated
Mr. C. J. McDonald as their candidate for Gov
ernor. As a test then of the sincerity of his
pledge to fulfil the obligations of the constitution
and laws of the land, we would respectfully ask
of the nominee—
-Ist. Whether the Constitution does not em
power Congress and the President to call forth
the militia, “to execute the laws of the Union,
to suppress insurrections and repel invasion.
2nd. Whether the laws of 1795 end of March
1897, are not now in full force ; and,
3d. In case of opposition to the execution of
the laws, or of insurrection or secession in
Georgia, or Carolina or elsewhere, whether, if
Governor of Georgia, he will obey a call to fur
nish the militia of Georgia to suppress such in
surrection or secession, and toaid in executing
the obligations which may be imposed upon him
by the Constitution and laws of the land 7
D«eUloa. under the New Poatege Act.
made by the Postmaster General, after consult
ing with the Attorney General,
The poetage on all bound books, and on all
other printed matter, except newspapers and pe
riodicals, published at intervals not exceeding
hree months and sent from the office of publica
tion to actual and bona tide subscribers, must be
prepaid.
If the amount paid and marked on auch print
ed matter la not sufficient to pay the whole post
age due, the excess of weight beyond that paid
for, la to be charged with double the rate which
would have been charged if prepaid, and the
poet -ge on such excess collected at the office of
doUeorg. If, by the neglect of a Postmaster,
ouch matteris sent without any prepayment, the
double prepaid rate must be collected on delivery.
Poetage must be charged on all letters, newspa
pers, and other matter according to the distance
on the route .►« which they are forwarded; and
thia (unless otherwise directed by the sender)
must be the route by which they will soonest
reach their destination, although that may not
ba the shortest route.
On letters to and from Great Britain (andtho
casstinud of Europe t wh:nsentlhrough England]
the rates of postage and modes of rating will be
the same as heretofore, except as to letters to or
frona California and Oregon, in respect to which
special instructions will be herealtsr given.
On all letterstoor from the Continent of Eu
rope, not eent through England, the United
States inland and sea postage will in all cases be
combined, and will be twenty cents the single
rats, to the distance the same
are carried within the United Stales. The
mods of rating will be the same as heretofore.
[Full tabular statements in regard to the rates of
postage, both foreign and inland, will soon be
pabliehedj
Subscribers to periodicals, to obtain the bene
fit <rf the provision in regard to prepayment,
must pay the full quarters postage before the
delivery of the first number, when there are
aevrral numbers to be delivered during the
Sarter. If, by reason of any increase in the
• of the periodical, or otherwise, it shall ap
pear that the whole quarter's postage was not so
paid in advance, the subscriber will lose the bene
fit of prepayment, and the numbers received
during the whole quarter will be charged with the
deuble or unpaid rate, and the subscriber will
be credited with only the amount paid in ad-
VBUCe.
Under the proviaiona of the 2d section of the
**** J newspapers others than those
JP*Anohsdweeh.youtv,w entitled to circulate
bee ofpostageln the counties where published.
The office of publication is the office where the
newspaper is printed.
In determining newspaper postages, the dis
tances are to be computed from the office of pub
Meation, and not from the countv line of the
county in which the paper is published ; and the
distance is also to be computed over the rou e
on which it is carried.
ffiotoepapero published weeUy or ly, in a reun’v
tie Canada line, mar be sent free to
OHB* '■». provided they do not leave the county
i publication until they cross the line into
anada.
Newspaper publishers may send and receive
their exchange newspapers to and from Canada
ftsa of charge.
A newspaper is not a periodical within the
meaning and intent of the provision which re- i
quires the postage on periodicals to be paid in
advance, and declares that the postage thereon
shall be one half of the rates previously spect
fied la the 2d section of the act. All subscribers
to newspapers were and still are required by the
Envisions of the 30th section of the act of
arch, 1825, to par one quarter’s postage in ad
vaaoe bat by so doing they are not entitled to
have the postage reduced below the established
rates.
Paymenlt in adcance on newspapers and peri
odicals caamtiy be made by Ike eubsc-ibers at the
post office wher. they are to be delivered. The
postage on newspapers, periodicals and other
matter not chargeable with letter postage, when
sent out of the United States, must be prepare
at the full rate. Publishers may prepay postage
on their issues but can have no ‘ ,ed “ cU s,h.n
poatage on account of such prepayment
a periodical is published only 9 UBr *®h y ’ rin a ica i
tual and bona Sde subscriber
frequently than quarterly, the
published ess >r u d /
P °l Auers''mailed tefore the Ist day of July,
thmreh delivered after, will, in all cases, be
charged with postage at the rates in force at the
time of the mailing thereof.
N. K Hall, Postmaster General.
Post Office Department, June 11, 1851
Notice to the Public and Instructions to Post
masters.
Post Orrtcx Dxpahtmsht, June 11, 1851.
The five and ten cent postage stamps issued
by this Department under the provisions of the
11 th section of the act of March 3, 1847, and
now in use by the public, will not be received in
prepayment of ; jatage after the 30th of the
present month. Therefore persons holding any
such will, as soon as practicable after that date,
and before the3oth day of September next, pre
sent them for redemption to the Postmaster of
whom they were purchased, or to the nearest
Postmaster who has been authorized to sell post
age stamps.
Postmasters who have heretofore received
stamps for sale directly from the Department,
and such Postmasters only, are directed to pay
cash lor all genuine postage stamps of the
denominations of fire and ten cents, as above
mentioned, which shall be presented to them for
redemption between the Ist July and the 30th
September of the present year.
Postmasters who shall redeem postage stamps
under the foregoing order will return them to
the Third Assistant Postmaster General, with
fiarticular certified statements thereof, on the
ast day of each month in the quarter ending
September 30, 1851.
Postmasters who have been authorized to sell
postage stamps will close their stamp account on
their quarterly accounts current by the amount
of stamps remaining unsold by them, respect
ively, on the 30th June, 1851, and enclose the
stamps unsold in a sealed package, addressed
to the Third Assistant Postmaser General, ac
companied by a separate statement showing the
amount of each denomination of stamps return
ed.
The statements or accounts of stamps receiv
ed for sale by Postmasters and by them return
ed, as above directed, must be entirely separate
and distinct from the statements of stamps re
deemed. N. K. Hall,
Postmaster General.
Farther from Mexico.
It appears, as we stated last evening, that the
Mexican Congress did not adjourn on the 20ch
ult., both houses having agreed to prolong the
session for two days.
The principal question before the Chambers
was that of granting extraordinary powers to
the President. The Senate had passed a resolu
tion giving the Government the privilege of dis
posing of the remainder of the American in
demnity to the public creditors, and allowing
loans to be negotiated to the amount of 82i0,-
000 per month ; of suppressing the maritime
and frontier custom houses, and of doing
various other things suited to the exigencies of
the times. The Trait d! Union says of these
resolutions, that they are all a mystification.
They give with one hand and take away with
the other, and would be of no practical utility for
the raising ot funds. Wken the subject came
up in the House, fourteen deputies withdrew,
thus breaking the quorum. After this it was
agreed to remain in session two days longer, hut
during the time nothing was effected. The
Monitor Republicano speaks as follows of the
closing of the sessions :
The capital of the Republic, on the night of
the 23d was witness to one of the most un
heard of acta in the history of our Congresses.
Congress, in closing its sessions, has
exposed the nation to the fate of perishing
for the total want of resources to carry on the
Government. In vain we endeavor to justify
this conduct, for the honor of the nation ; good
faith and patriotism alike resist the effort and
compel us to present to the country a view of
the events of that memorable day, when bad
faith and party spirit made use of all their arti
fices and of all their sophisms.
The following is a translation of the remarks
made by the President on the occasion :
“To explain that which is now going on, gen
tlemen, would only be to repeat what all the
world knows. The Governor has assumed no
powers of any kind, the Chamber of deputies
itself the popular Chamber, suggested that
project, repeating it whenever it had an oppor
tunity.
1 regret, gentlemen, the blindness of those
who did not see the impropriety of placing ob
stacles in the way of an administration born o
the law, and which aspires to preserve intact the
fundamental character.
I have never believed that I should find, in
this position a bed of down. I am resolved to
meet evety thing that fate may prepare for me;
but I am firm in my determination that all those
shall meet a just punishment who endeavor to
violate the constitution, and thus bring ridicule
on republican institutions.
The laws will be maintained, and when, gen
tlemen, you return to this august station, you
will be saluted by a Government sustained by
the compact which unites all Mexicans—a
government prererving peace and complying
with the duties which the nation has imposed
on it.
I should not conclude without returning thanks
to the Senators and Deputies who have honored
the Executive with their confidence. The Al
mighty, who watches over the fate of nations,
will preserve ours. 1 hope it in all sincerity. I
have spoken 'j
A few daysbefore the adjournment of Congress
the Government presented to the Chamber ot
Deputies official despatches from the Command
ant General of Sonora, announcing that an ex
pedite n for the invasion of California was in
process of organization at San Diego. The
Trait a* Union places no credit in the statement,
but it says ills ready to prove that if Mexico
persists in her present con rec Sonora, Lower
California, and perhaps Tehuantepec, will be
invaded, and that the torrent once let loose, all
efforts to restrain it will be useless. The ques
tion of the relations between Mexicoand the
United States, says the Trait d' Union, has been
most deplorably compromised by the press, by
the Chambers, and to a certain extent by tire
Government of the country. It involvss the
life or death of the Mexican Republ c, and thus
merits very serious attention.
Ssnor Olaguioel has resigned his place as a
Senator. He was one of the most zealous
members in favor of raising the prohibitions, and
the failure of his favorite project disheartened
him. He thought there was no use trying to
make the Mexican •sensible.
The decree of Congress, annulling that ot
Salas in favor of Garay, finally passed on the
21st ult The Trait d* Uniin prophecies that that
day will be fatal to Mexico.
On the 22d ult., a meetingof French residents,
who had been expelled in 1838, was held at the
restaurant of the Bazaar. The object of the
meeting was to receive the report of a commit
tee, concerning the proper reclamations to be
made for injuries resulting from their expulsion.
The report was to be transmitted to France
through the French Legation in Mexico.
The city of Tantpico has imposed a munici
pal tax of a bit on every barrel ot flour import
ed into the place under the late decree admitting
foreign bieadstuffe.
The quicksilver mines, which we mentioned
yesterday as having been lately discovered at
Cuernavacas, yield from 60 to 65 per cenf. of
pure metal. The least product is 25 per cent.
Tne people of the district of Orizaba have
petitioned to have their department raised to the
rank of a territory.
The extra session of Congress was to meet on
the Ist instant, it was to employ itself exclu
sively in taking measures to iurnish resources
for the Government, in organizing the Treasury
Department, and In other duties of a similar
character.
,f Senoi Pina y Cuevas has taken charge of the
n Treasury Department, and Senor Ledo of that
If of Relatione t Senor Pedro Ramires has been
.. appointed of the “Council of Government.”
We learn from Yucatan, that Gen. LaVega
e arrived at Campeachy on the 20rh ult., and was
n received with great rejoicing by the inhabitants.
The war has taken a turn favorable to the whites.
Col. Rosado had made an excursion into the
eastern portion of the peninsula, and had re
. duced a great many of the rebels to obedience.
. The city of Carmen has been again visited by a
destructive conflagration. It will be recollected
I that on two occasions last year the town was
nearly destroyed by fire. There is no doubt that
’ incendiaries ate determined on its destruction.”
i Latxs vbom Txxas —By the arrival yeater
day of the steamship Louisiana we have receivj
ed Galveston papers to the 6th lust, together
■ with our usual files from the interior of the
I Stale.
i The Un Antonio Ledger of the 29th ult., has
> a let. , r from the great El Paso train, dated May
f 21st, near the mouth of the San Pedro. This
, letter says that, so far, the journey had been
> pleasant, though rougher times were anticipated.
The letter says :
To-day we crossed the San Pedro. Tou have
heard of the “ Arkansas Traveler,” I presume,
1 and so have I; what la more, I have seen him, in
) the shape of an old man and woman, whose
t united ages amount tv one hundred and sixteen
t years, with their little grandson, seven or eight
years old, travelling to California by the way o
> El Paso and Jack Hays’s route, with no other
) company than the four poor miserable mules.
> that draw a wagon made “ Down East,” as he
r tells me, twenty years ago. When 1 mentioned
t to him the folly of two such aged persons mak
ing so dangerous a trip, he seemed to be aaton-
- ished. Why could there ba any danger, as he
i should accompany us to El Paso, and folks had
e told him that it was moat to the El Dorado,
e The Galveston News, of the 6th insL, men
s tious having seen a eotton boll an inch in length,
o It is a fair evidence of the advanced state of the
crop on Trinity river.
f A sudden rise has taken place in the Colorado
e river. It rose 16 feet in one night.
The Galveston News, in treating of Mr
Payne’s r port on the Opelousas railroad plan.
, says that the trade of Galveston with New York
• is increasing three times as fast as her trade
• with New Orleara and that a railroad would be
> the only means lot us to compete with New
■ York. During the present year, Galveston ex
ported 8,604 bales of cotton to New Orleans, and
> 20,621 to New York.
The Texas Monument, in an ably written edi
torial article, headed “ The State Debt and the
Pacific Railroad,” holds the following sensible
language:
Allthough the Pacific railroad is one which
we prefer, we think it probab e that the people
of Texas msy prefer a road from Virginia Point,
byway of the Colorado Valley, to Austin, with
a branch road byway of the Trinity Valiev to
the northeastern section of our State. This im
provement would be of incalculable importance
to our State, and would eventually insure the
construction 01 a road to the Sabine, so as to
communicate with the New Orleans and Atta
kapasrailroad. From Austin, the railroad would
co to El Paso, in its march to the Pacific, and
might be constructed by selling the public land
within a reasonable distance of the road. If
Texas abouid take the proper course at this
w' h .‘ r m ’ reh 1* onward.
We do not see a word in any of the Texas pa
re'*“on 'o Col. Hardee’s expedition into
the t. amanche eountrv.
Cor P u » Christi, dated on
tht 30th ult., informs us that four Mexicans
were recently killed by Indian, between that '
place and the tuo Grande.
I The reports of the crops from almost every
part of the State are very favorable, and the
•ountry is rapidly filling up with farmers from
every quarter.
Statk Cowtb*tiow. —The State Temoer
ace Convention of Georgia will meet in Gris
•in on the last Wednesday, isch of the pr*vent
TremsndoHs Ov.rgow at St. Louis.
Thx St. Louie InUUigenrer of the Gth inst.
contains the following notice of the late over
flow at that city :
The waters are upon us I We write amid a
scene of confusion and excitement S'-ldom
witnessed. Al! the business portion of our
town except one or two houses is covered with
water deep enough to afford passage fur
steamboats. The condition of affaire is be
yond description, and can only he realized
by being seen. The Flood of '44 was noth
ing in comparison with the present, and as
nearly as it can now be ascertained the memo
rable nee of 1828 failed of reaching the pres
ent mark.
On Thursday last the water commenced
flooding the lowest portions of the flat—and
the report was brought us by Capt. Harris, of
the Dr. Franklin, of a very heavy rise coming
down. By Friday morning the water had
risen several inches, and every exertion was
made to secure the grain and other property
from any injury that might result from the con
tinuation of the rise. The water, however,
rose so rapidly as to cause the des ruction of
large quantities of produce. Many of those
suffering from the effects of the flood are farm
ers who had stored here in sheds, and who, in
spite of every exertion have sustained heavy
losses
Throughout the whole of Saturday, tho work
of salvage was carried on with renewed activi
ty. During the evening aud night the river
commenced rising more rapidly than ever,
while a heavy thunder storm roaring and crash
ing arourd added to the already gloomy pros
pects.
On Sunday the town presented a scene of
bus'le and activity. Families, driven from
their tenements by the encroaching waters,
were deserting their homes and seeking
refuge in the upper part of town —for in this
case the Homestead Exemption Law failed to
secure them in the undisturbed possession of
their property.
On Monday the water was s'ill coming up
and it was found necessary to remove all the
household goods and considerable quantities
of merchandise to higher ground. Wagons,
skiffs, and rafts were occupied all day in con
veying men and merchandize from point to
point
At this moment (Monday evening) the en
tire bottom presents a spectacle of devastation.
From the bank of where the river -‘used to
was,” to the foot of the sand ridge, the water is
from four to five feet deep, aud is standing
from ten to fifty inches deep in the houses
west of the east side of Second street south
of and including Spectator Row, and the
whole of the flat south of the .Post Office.
In our press room the water is Over twenty
five inches deep. The farms along the bot
tom of the ridge are completely inundated—
aud many of the fences have disappeared.
Several hundred cords of wood have been
washed down stream. The distillery premises
are under water, and operations suspended.
Messrs. Moir will sustain quite a loss by
damaged corn.
Just as we are “puttingup" this hurrygraph,
a flatboat is passing up First street laden with
several hundred sacks of grain—and others
are loading at different warehouses Lum
ber yards are being floated inland, or being
staked down to keep them fast; rafts and boats
are plying everywhere—and men are wading
shoulder deep from house to house.
Steamboat Explosion—Loss of Life*
We regret being compelled to record anoth
er steamboat explosion in our waters, accom
panied by loss of life. From a communica
tion received from a gentleman at Gretna, it
would seem that about 10 o’clock yesterday
morning, while the steam ferry boat which
usually plied between Lafayette and Gretna
was lying at the landing of the latter place, the
boiler exploded with a terrific shock, shaking
the houses of the village, throwing down piles
of lumber near the scene, and tearing portions
of the boat to pieces. The boat was called the
Gretna, belonging to Capt. W. A. High we be
lieve, and had landed about five minutes pre
vious to the catastrophe. A young man, who
had some knowledge of steam, while walking
on board thought he smelled burning iron; he
opened the flues, and a minute afterwards the
explosion took place.
So great was the force of the shock, that one
portion of the boiler passed through the cabin
of the boat, tearing every thing to pieces; the
other portion of the boiler passed through rhe
upper deck, and landed on the wharf, while rhe
flues remained on the upper deck. The boat
was greatly injured, the deck limbers were
broken near the boiler, and it is considered
astoni hing how so many escaped, considering
the many missiles which flew in every direc
tion, and 'be number of persons present.
Among the killed was Francis Gillan, a deck
hand, who leaves a wife and four children ; Ju
lius, the pilot, a slave belonging to W. A High,
who was passing up stairs to the pilot house
when the accident happened ; Tom, a slave
belonging to F. V. Labarree, supposed to be
killed.
Among the injured was Hiram Harwood,
passenger, who bad one of his legs badly
crushed between the ankle and knee—recov
ery considered doubtful; Michael Welsh, pas
senger, was also badly bruised, both flues fall
•ng upon him; Michael Tool, passenger bruis
ed ; David Garey, passenger, much bruised;
Win. Howe, passenger, slightly jammed;
Wm. Dixon, passenger, thrown overboard,
bu’swam ashore; John Cox bruised; John
Slinger, bruised; Perry, a slave belonging to
Labarre &, Leroy, badly burned and bruised ;
William, a slave belonging to Capt. High,
badly bruised. Such is the list of casualties so
far as known.
The Gretna lay just above a raft when the
accident occurred, and several persons were
seen in the river immediately after, who, it is
feared, passed under the raft.
Our informant states that there was no waler
in the boilers. If this be true, it shows that
the accident was the result of gross and cul
pable carelessness, and the affair requires strict
investigation. In one sense, it was fortunate
there was no water in the boilers, an in that
case a great many persons would have been
killed or badly scalded.
P. S.—Since writing tho above, we have
been informed, by a gentleman who visited
Gretna this morning, that many of the pasien
gers, put down as badly bruised, were bat
slightly injured. The boiler was nearly new,
and in good order, and to the absence of wa
ter alone tho accident must be ascribed. He
thinks'hat only two persons were killed, and
that the report that many persons are missing
is much exaggerated. aV. O. Picayune, [)th
isut.
Prom the Charleston Courier. 1-ith inst.
Public Mkbtimg.—A large and respectable
meeting of our citizens was convened at Hi
berian Hall, last evening, pursuant to previous
notice, to hear the reports of Gen. Jones, of
Tennessee, the President of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad Company, and of 11. W.
Conner. Esq.. President of the South Carolina
Railroad Company, in relation to the action of
the City Council of Augusta, on the subject of
crossing the Savannah River, ard also to con
sult on such matters as may be deemed advisa
ble to aid in the contraction of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad.
His Honor the Mayor was called to the
Chair, and T. L. Wragg and E. J. Pringle,
Ebqrs., were requested to act as Secretaries.
The meeting having been organised, the
Chairman briefly explained the object of the
call, when it was aldresse I by Henry W. Con
ner. Esq , the Commissioner appointed to eon
fer with the Augusta authorities on behalf of
the South Carolina Railroad Company, and
ExGovernor Jones, of Tennessee, one of the
Delegates on behalf of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad Company, on the sub
ject connected with their recent mission to
Augusta, rels'ive to the removal of the re
stnctiona at present existing as to the right of
way over the Savannah River.
On the conclusion ot Ex-Governor Jones'
addrea*, C G. Mem in inger.
following Preamble and Reeolutinna, which
| were passed unanimously ;
I The people of Charleston have been informed by
i the Delegation just returned from Augusta, that the
City Council of that town have referred to n Com
mittee the proposal of the South Carolina Kail Road
Company for removing the obstruction to crossing
the Savannah River at Augusta, and that some time
must elapse before final action wilt be had by Coun
cil; they have also been informed that tho arrange*
manta of the Memphis and Charleston Rail Road
Company require that the subscription for 32,500,
000 should be filled up by the Ist July ensuing ; and
believing it to be more ix portant at once to assure
the commencement of this great work, rather than
await the removal of a burdtn upon trade, which
caunot long be continued, they deem it best to with
draw the condition attached to the subscription late*
iy recommended to the City Council. Therefore,
Resolved, That the City Council of Chariest, n
be requested immediately to subscribe 3250,000 to
the Stock of the Memphis and Charleston Rail Road
Company, to be paid at such time, and in such man
ner as they shall see fit to arrange with said Com
pany.
Resolved, That a Committee of 25 Citizens be
appointed in behalf of this Meeting, to merooria'.ise
and confer with the City council on this subject.
The Chairman having been requested to ap
point a Committee io pursuance of the second
resolution, the meeting then adjourned.
Fbom Maxrco.—The schooner Robert Sped
den, Capt. Goldin; arrived here this morning
from Vera Crux, which port she left on tho 31st
ult. The Britsh steamer arrived on that day,
took on board some passengers, and left imme
diately for Kingston.
We learn from Major J. A. Kelly, our Tehuan
tepec correspondent that theromi/o was prevail
ing to a great extent in Vera Crux. The Amer
ican consul, Capt. Rogers, had been ill of it, but
was getting better when the Spedden left. Ma
jor Kelly, who came passenger on the Robert
Spedden, is dirvet from Miniatitlan, which place
she left on the 23d ult. He brings despatches
from Mr. M. W. Sidell, Engineer.
Wekam from Major Kelly that the survey is
entirely completed, and that the hydrographic
party was waiting at Miniatitlan for transporta
tion home. Mr. Avery’s party was expected ev
ery day from the Jallipan.
It was expected that Mr. Williams and his par
ty would be ready to move from Miniatitlan on
the sth of this month A portion of this party
was at the Pass of Cbevcla at the latest ac
counts, and the other part was at the Cerro En
cantada.
The schooner Helen Mar. Capt. Selkirk, wax
siezed at Miniatitlan on the 19th ult. by the Mex
ican authorities. The soldiers and a sergeant
were placed on board, and the next dav the rig
ging was cut away. The captain entered a
protest before the American consul, J. A. Pleas
ants, Esq. and thus the matter stands at present.
The Helen Mar had cleared at Vera Cruz for
Miniatitlan. and the captain was unaware that
he had committed any violation of the Mexican
laws.
The revenue cutter Duane had gone down to
the Coatzac>>alcos, the commander having given
notice of his intention to the Collector at Vera
Crux. The Sears had also left for the Coatza
coaiccs.
Thirty four Californians came passengers from
Vera Crux on the Sears. They had taken the
Acapulco route, and had been four months at
sea. having been becalmed that length of time ;
cn the Pacific.
By the arrival of the Spedden we have files of ■
I ™ r v !ron J-' he c,ty t,f Mexico to the 26th, and
trom Vera Crux to the 30th ult. I'
Congrea. did not adjourn till the 23d, and it I
had not decided the queauon ot granting extra- '
ordinary powers to the President. The Monito r
says that an extraseseion was to be called in a
few days. The President, iu his address at the
elosing of the session, spoke in rather a depre
catory manner of the failure of the bill for con
ferring ' extraordinary faculties” on him.
The President approved the decree of Congress
annulling that of 1846, issued by Salas.
Sr. Yallez has resigned the place of Secretary
of Relations, which he had assumed alter vaca
ting the office ol Minister of the Treasury.
'rhe Mexican papers announce that six very
rich quicksilver mines have been discovered at
Cuernavaca. —Pic. Ith inst,
from the New Orleans Picayune.
Spread ot Mormonism.
In a late number of the Philadelphia Epis
copal Recorder we find the following extract
from a private letter from Paris, of the 25th
April, giving some account of a remaikable
instance < f falsely directed zral:
In the house where I live is a gentlemen by
the name of B - ——d, an American, a Mor
mon,and a Prophet. He is one of the moat
polite and pleasant men that 1 have tret since I
left home, a graduate of the New York Uni
versity, and familiar with several modern
languages. He has a family in the great val
ley (Deeere',) and has been connected with
the Mormon fraternity ten years. He is one
of the twelve Prophets who conduct tho af
fairs, and guard the interests of the whole com
munity. He is now engaged in the laborious
occupation < f translating the Mormon Bible
into French, and when I tell you that he has
been occupied four mouths already, from 11
to 5 each day, with a prospect of four more
before the work is completed, you must ac
knowledge that it is no small task 1 trust
confess that I have been perfectly amazed
when in bis company to think lhateuch a man
could believe in such a tissue of nonsense and
monstrosity.
The Boston Transcript gleans from the
Newburyport Herald many facts of interest
in regard to the present. Ute of the Mormons.
This singular sect continue to increase in
numbers, both by migration from the Eastern
and Western States, and from Europe, princi
pally from England Since their iorc.ble ex
pulsion from Missouri and Illinois, they have
settled in the great and lonely v o || e/ of the
Salt Lake, thousands of miles from anv other
< iviliz d people, and here, for th> present,
they are likely to be unmolested There is
reason to believe that they do not adhere to
tho marriage code of the New Testament and
of the land; but how far they have set aside
■his code, we find nothing definitely stated.
Probably this relaxation of law is one inducing
cause of their colonizing by themsslves, and
of their increase in numbers.
> The Mormons to have established a
melter svstem of discipline than any others of
the modern reformers. Our shipmasters who
have brought over so many thousands, speak
in the highest terms of the good order which
they preserve. Each cargo of them chooses
a Governor, and Ire is assisted by subordinate
officers, and the most rigid obedience to or
ders s exacted and accorded. If the Mor
mons continue to increase for twenty years
to come, as they have for the last teti years,
t eir movements will oecome of importance
both in a political and social poin' of view to
the United States. The St. Louis Republican
of the 9th May announces that two hundred
Mormons left that city the day previous on a
steamer for Council Bluffs, whence they will
proceed immediately to the Salt Lake Valley.
One-fourth of these were emigrants from
New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and the
others from England and Wales. Ou tr.e
same day two hundred and forty English
Mormons came up on a steamboat from New
O. leans.
A citizen of New York, who recently passed
through the Salt Lake city, on his way to
California, writes:
It seems to mo that as a community they
cannot prosper long, though all of t em pro
fess to have great confidence in their future
success, and speak in loud terms of satisfac
tion with their present haopy condition. Hu
man nature is the same in the valley of the
Great Salt Lake as elsewhere, and if nothing
else is to work their destruction, it seems to
me that their licentiousness must do it. The
spiritual wife sys’em, as they call it, is nothing
less than a system of unbri Hed licentiousness ;
and although many, very many ainonj them
are virtuous and good examples of morality,
yet thia is a part of their religious system, and
is allowed as such, aud I see not how they
can fail to reap the rewards consequent upon
it in due season. Young, the successor of
Joo Smith, nnd their present Prophet (aud
civil governor under United States authority,)
has, it is slid, seven wives at the present time.
A women lives a while with one man, and
then, one or the other becoming tired of the
relation, she goes elsewhere, and lakes up her
abode with some other man. They cl imthat
in this matter they act under special revelation
Irom God. Do not understand me mspeak
ing of every Mormon in thisway—far from it.
Massacre and^anniralism.—A recent let
ter fro a Puns in the London Times contains
the following extraordinary particulars of a
horrible occurrence not heretofore made nub
lie:—
Private letters have been received from the
corvette Alcmene, commanded by Capt.
d’Harcourt, which tnen’ion an incident of a
honible kind. It appears that about the end
of November last, ihe Alcmene reached the
bay of Balade, one of the ports of New Cale
donia, in the Pacific. On the 29th an armed
boat, under the orders of Second Lieut. Deve
resme, was sent to find a passage for Ihe cor
vette on the Western side of New Caledonia.
The boat, that was to be absent only eight
days, had not returned on the lOih, and serious
apprehensions began to ba entertained on
board the covette.
On the 11th the barge, under the orders of
First Lieutenant Ponlhier. reached Boillabia,
to look after the boat, and the crew soon learn
ed that the tribes of Menema and Bellep, the
most savage among the savage, had massacred
the crew of M. Deveresme’s boat, and that
three seamen only had escaped death. This
was the more strange, as the young officer and
his men had been perfectly well received at
first by the natives of Hienguebune, and it was
only at ths moment they were preparing to re
turn to the oorvete that, all of a sudde , and at
a signal from one of the natives, they were
fallen on and massacred, without having a mo
ment to make use of their arms. Three men
attempted to escape by throwing themselves
into the sea. They wore, however drugged
back, and naked and bleeding from manv
wounds, they wera forced to remain on the
spot while the bodies of their comrades were
devoured by the savages.
For nine day’s they lived with them, and to
all appearances were reserved for the same
fate, when at the last moment, the barge pro
videntially approached H euguebuoe, but still
kept at some distance Pom the 'bore. The
only person that landed wan a priest, one of
the members of a mission in these islands, who
courageously advanced info the midst of the
savages, and assuming a bold attitude, threaten
ed them with destruction if the surviving sea
men were not instantly restored. The cannibals,
finding the boat's crew preparing their arms,
gave up their captives. One the 15th the
Alcmene quitted Balade, the men burning with
desire to tske vengeance on the savage*-'. On
the 17th, the whole of the huts at Tulse were
razed to the ground, the plantations destroyed,
I o canoes of the natives captured, and twenty
of the tribe shot. At Hienguebune and Paubla
the huts and plantations were also destroyed.
On the 2d January the Alcmene quitted New
Caledonia.
A later letter gives the following additional
particulars:
The name* of 11 of the victims belonging to
the crew of the Alcmene, al Hienguebon*, in
the Pacific, as mentioned in my latter some
days since, are not known. They are 12 in
number. Among them was au English pilot,
name nut given, it appears that the boat’s
crew amounted to 15 men, three of whom, as
I aso mentioned, also escaped the horrible
butchery of their comr des. They were drag
ged to the spot where the dead bodies werely
ing, and were forced to look on while the sav
ages tore out the entrails with sbe'ls, which
served them ns knives.
The three survivors naturally believed that
their 'as: inoinen: wa« come; they fell on their
knees and recommended their souls o Heav
en, while the burning brasiers for which they
were in ail probability destined, were close by
them They were, however, taken from the
spot, but again brought back at nightfall, when
they were offered a share in the horrible re
past of the cannibals; and their hearts were
filled wish horror when one of the cannibsis
presented to them a hum tn arm, still bleeding
and half roasted ! The letter from which these
details are taken is dated Hobart Town, Jan.
23. It states that the number of savages sac
rificed to the vengeance of the comrades of
the massacred amounts to 40, and everything
they possessed was burnt or otherwise destroy
ed.
Agricultural Interests.
It is understood that the Navy Department,
with a view to add to the Agricultural interests
of the counjry, has issued special instructions
to the East India equa iron to procure and send
or bring home rare plants and seeds, particu
larly of the Sugar Cane and Tea plan*, adapt
ed to our climate and soil and useful for domes
tic purposes.
The attention of the Department has been
called :o this subject by a letter from a distin
guished citizen of Louisiana, and by one from
the Secretary of tne Department of the Inte
rior. lu the former it is stated that “the in
creasing difficulty experienced for the last two
or three years in keeping good seed canes for
plants has induced many of the planers to try
the introduction of new varieties, and large
quantities of caneshave been imported during
the last twelve months, mostly from Mexico
and Cuba. But these differ very little if at ail
from the old species we are in the habit of
cultivating, and can therefore produce but a
very slight if any change in our crops; whilst
India possesses varieties of the sugar cane
plant wiich have not been tried in America,
and the introduction of which might be ex
tremely beneficial.** “If you can conven
iently do so. I would thank yon to try particu
larly to procure for us the Salaogore cane,
which I 6nd described in ‘The Practical Bu
gar Planter’* a work published in London in
1848, as lAs finest description of cane t« the
Straits Settlements. and perhaps tn the whole
world." And the Secretary of the Depart
ment of the Interior sta.ed that he was inform- i
ed that a National vessel of war is about to
proceed to the East Indies and that it would
be gratifying if instructions were issued to the
proper officer to procure for distribution a
large quantity of the seed of die Tea plant.
“It is desirable that seed of every variety of
the shrub, and of the latitudes in which it
grows, be selected, and that the variety and
latitude of each be separately marked on each
package." “It is hoped ‘hat the experi
ments it is proposed to make wih this plant
may result in its successful cultivation la our
country*’
Our National vessels can without doubt add
much to the Agricultural interests of the coun
try ; and this to » without interfering in the
least with other important objec s of the Gov
ernment in sanding them abroad. The pri-
mary • bjectsoftheGovornmentin maintaining
squadrons in distant seas in times of peace are
the protection of trade and the whale fisheries,
to enlarge the opportunities of oommercial
intercourse, and to increase the efficiency of
our Navy, by affording ac ive service to the
officers and crews of the vessels All these it
is believed may be effectually attended to, and
yet afford the opportunities and tho means of
doing something for other great and increasing
public interests.
fsirom
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AUGUSTA, GA.:
WEDNESDAY MORNING - JUNE 18.
TRAVELLING AGENTS.
Mr. J. E. Wills and Mr. A. P. Bubr, will ac
as Travelling Agents for the Cbromio l -® & Semti
ksl and Southbui Culyivatob. Any assistance
that our friends in the various counties may furnish
the segentlemen, toward increasing our eircu STion,
will be thankfully received.
Union or Disunion.
That this is the question presented to the
people of Georgia in the present canvass,
however disunionists may attempt to conceal
the fact, no candid man who has watched the
course of events will for a moment deny.
Their whole course from the commencement
of the controversy in Congress has tended di
rectly to that result—at first openly, by many
and indeed most of them, but finding that the
people condemned them, they have changed
their tone, yet as steadily pursue their purpose.
The ball was eet in motion, in Georgia, at the
Macon Meeting in 1850, over which Gov.
McDonald presided, and whereat Mr. Rhktt,
officiated amidst the enthusiastic cheers of tho
multitude, and protflaHo*d the purpose to dis
solve the government. So zealous were they,
that the fact was noL concealed, but openly
admitted, that the most ultra disunion senti
ments of the speaker were most vociferously
cheered.
In this spirit was the canvass conducted, and
not till after the November election, when
they encountered such an overwhelming de
feat, did they deem it necessary, in order to
ingratiate themselves into favor with '.he peo
ple, to pursue a more moderate and cautious
policy. Now, however, we find them proclaim
ing their ardant devotion to the Union whi'e
they are secretly plotting with and urging for
ward the disunionists of South Carolina, with
the view of producing a collision between that
State and the government, hoping thereby to
involve Georgia and other Southern States
in the conflict, and thus accomplish indirectly
what they dare not openly avow themselves in
favor of before the people.
We might and may hereafter, enlarge upon
this subject, but our time and space, to day,
forbid. We must, therefore, content ourself
with proof, on the present occasion, re
marking that we could add much other evi
dence of the same character.
The first we shall introduce, is an extract
from an article in the Hamburg Republican, in
which the writer is endeavoring to persuade
the people of that State to abandon the idea ot
separate State action, and among other rea
sons, urges the following :
I am for South Carolina, right or wrong, and I
say, if after using all honorable means to obtain co
operation, we find it impossible, and the issues which
are now pending in our sister States are “ brought
tojudgement ” and Federalism prevai’s, my voice,
though feeble it be, shall be for secession, regardless
of consequences; and I believe, too. that in that event
the people of South Carolina would all be ready to
go, and would move as a unit. Then where is the
danger io waiting ? If the Southern Rights par
ty in our sister States should succeed, we will get
co-operation and a Southern Confederacy wilt be
formed. If they fail, we will occupy no worse po
sition than we now do ; why then, shall we bv pre
cipitale action go off half cocked and alone? 7?Ure
is yet some hope of the success of our friends in
the o'her Southern Slates, but they tell us, if South
Carolina acts hastily and draws out of the confed
eracy, she will force the issue of union or disunion
upon them, which issue if now made, would
work, not only the defeat but the annihilation of
the Southern Rights party, in their respective
States, and in cur judgment this would be the ef
fect. The case, then, stands simply thus, by wait
ing for nur friends to come up, we will lose noth
ing, but may gain every thing—co-operation ! By
hasty action we put in jeopardy the dearest righ’s
and interest of the South, because we force upon
our friends, an issue which would overwhelm them
with a ruinous defeat.
South Carolina has taken a position from which sbo
cannot recede without disgrace ; but she may pause,
and rest upon her oars for a while without incurring
any degrading slang from our friends, or even honest
enemies ; and even if she could, with honor, recede,
she should not, for in case our friends are successful,
they will come up and go with us, and aid us in the
great work of building up a Southern Confederacy,
and a temple of liberty.”
We desire to make no comment on this ex
tract, hut simply to call the reader's attention
particularly to those portions which *e have
italicised, and especially to that in which the
writer assures the secessionists of that State
that their friends “ZeZ/ ux,” &c, —a direct ac
knowledgement of their purpose to form a
Southern Confederacy.
But, again, the ” Spartan," published at
Spartanburg C H., So. Ca., has been permit
ted to make the following extract from a pri
vate letter from a gentleman in Georgia, “who
has baen for some years in public life in that
State—a member of the Georgia Legislature
—and has every opportunity of correct obser
vation aril intimate acquaintance with the
feelings and views of the people of that State.’'
Here is the extract referred to, and we trust
no reader of this journal will omit to read it,
and study carefully its contents and declara
tions :
“I liav* but one idea on the subject now agitating
the country, and that is that South Carolina holds
the destiny of the South and of slavery in her own
hands. If she backs out, then is slavery doomed,
and that at no distant day. Hut if she will secede
from the Union, she can save the South and protect
slavery. Either the Government will let her go out
peaceably and quietly, or will endeavor tn force her
into subjection. If the Administration permits her
to go out without interruption, then three-fourths of
the cotton States will follow suit in less than two
years; for they are only restrained now through
fears of an interminable civil war. The people of
Georgia do not love the Union, as a sentiment. Well,
reason teaches me that we would be more prosper
ous, happy and secure, in a Southern Confederacy
than we are in the Union. But suppose the Gov
ernment determined to coerce South Carolina back
in o the Union, then the Southern people are driven
into the civil war any way ; and when forced to
fight, they will never fight on the side of the North—
for full well will they know that “the self-sarne
yrave, oppression is preparing for Carolina’s right-*,
will bn yawning f?r them.” I have never heard a
man of any party here speak on the surject, but that
said, if forced to light at all ba would fight on the side
of Carolina ; and every hat headed Disunionist
would flock there at once, and with arms in their
hands and means at their command they would do or
die in the cause of South Carolina. J have heard
many a man of wealth and influence and standing
and reputation vow, in public and private, that if
South Carolina ?ecede and Georgia did net, they
would remove with all thsir means to South Caroli
na.”
A young man of wealth, an old friend of mine
and a native Georgian, did go into Edgefield District
last Pall, and buy a plantation and settle his negroes
there, simply bee anas he honed South Carolina would
secede, and he saw that Georgia would not. It is
tree, some of your citizens would run away as they
did in the days of nullification, but better citizens
would migrate there and take their places. 1 tell
yon the Southern Rights party (1 don’t mean the
States,) would back you with life and fortune, from
the Savannah to the Mississippi river. If we had had
a bare majority in Georgia, we wvu'd haveseceded:
and as you have a large majority in South Caroli
na, why do you hesitate ? Delays are dangerous
hesitation is ruin. 11 you will not resist now, you wil’
not when they abolish slavery in theDistrictof Colom*
bia, in the forts, dock-yards, arsenals and on the high
seas. A strong Union party will soon spring up in
South Carolina—your strong men will be bought up—
your Congressmen are already under a bad influence,
and if you do not act now, and that promptly, the
Southern Rights party will ere long get in the
minority in South Carolina as wail as every where
else. And we may then give np the ship—for
slavery will bd doomed and the South degraded.
God may have a hand in ail tbia matter ; for it is
said whenever He wishes or designs to destroys
people, be first dements them. And the great ma*
jority of the Soatbern people do seem to me to have
lost their foresight, their nenetration, their
Citizens of Georgia, tbese are the men, and
those who aympa’hize with them, who have
presented the name of McDonald, a? their
candidate for Governor of Georgia,—of who.«e
principles and purposes he is the acknowledg
ed and proclaimed standard bearer. Are you
prepared to advocate the Principles or anstain
the Leader f
Dlvlsible or Indivisible •
Gor’d. Lumpkim, Towms and McDonald,
will doubtless be quite excruciab ngly entertain
ed with the denunciations now heaped upon
the Nullificat on Proclamation and Message of
Gen. Jacksow, which they so much approved
and glorified, and to hear their then favorite
doctrine of a “divided State sovereignty” in
the formation of the Federal Government, so
violently assailed by their present associates
and partizan«. Such assaults upon their long
cherished opinions, may amuse the tyr>aof
their party, but they will certainly prove any
thing but agreeable to these three supporters
of the Proclamation, and advocates of a divi
ded State sovereignty. Perhaps, however, a
change has come over the spirit of their
dreams; if so, such reminiscences will be any
thing but pleasi g or grateful to them.
Thu Wkathzr.—Yesterday was a cold
bleak day, during the greater part of which
there was a moderate rain falling, with the
wind from the Northeast. The thermometer
f eil to 58.
•• Alabama and Georgia Polities. ’’
The Savannah Georgian, with a coarseness
peculiarly its own, the imitation of which our
self-respect forbids, den'es the correctness of
our construction of its article, upon which we
commented some days ago, and from which
we made the following extract:
Alabama and Georgia Politics. — Common.
Ground occupied by the Democracy and friends
of the South in both. Stales.— lt will be cheering
to our Democratic and Southern Kights friends in
Georgia, to find that they go into the ensuing canvass
standing on precisely the same platform with the
Democracy and Southern Rights men of Alabama.
This the Georgian is pleased to call “base
coin—a palpable counterfeit presentment of
the truth/' notwithstanding it is an exact copy
of its own language. If, therefore, it is either,
the Georgian has no one to blame but itself,
for it is it’s own “coin” and own “present
ment,” uttered and published by it, on which
we made the following remark :
*• We thank the Georgian lor the above admis
sion, that the position of its party in Georgia is iden
tical with that of the Disunion party in Alabama.’’
To show that the party in Alabama, with
which the Georgian and its parly in Georgia is
acting and sympathizing, is the disunion party,
wo copied several of the resolutions adopted
by a Convention of the party, at Montgomery,
in which they declared that “secession was a
measure of time only,”
The Georgian denies having made any such
admission as we ascribed to it, and remarks :
“ Our “admission,” or rather our assertion, was,
that the position of the Democrats and their Southern
Rights Whig friends in Georgia, ia identical with
that— not “of the disunion party in Alabama,” but
—of the Democracy and Southern Hights men of
Alabama. And this we proved by the tacts which
we alleged in the piece from which the Chronicle
quotes. Wo stated, as our readers wil remember,
that in Alabama, Collier, who was opposed to the
Compromise—who believes in the right of secession,
but is not in favor of its exercise for past aggressions
—who, moreover, is an unflinching Democrat—is
the candidate of the Democrats and Southern Righ's
Whigs. We did not state, what we might have
stated, that the “disunion party” there, with Mr.
Yancey as its leader and the Montgomery Atlas as
its organ, are bitterly opposed to Gov. Collier, be
cause of the latter’s hostility to disunion.”
The Georgian also refers to the opinions of
Judge Bragg, the candidate of the party, for
Congress, in the Mobile District, and adds :
“ As for the Convention in Montgomery, whose
resolutions the Chronicle quotes, that paper knows
full well that its action bus been repudiated from
one end of the State to the other. It was denounced
by tne Mobile Register and the Montgomery Adver
tiser, together with every Democratic and Southern
Rights paper in the State, as far as we know. Its
resolutions were verily and truly the work of the
disunioniets of Alabama—but not of the Democratic
and Southern Rights party, whose |>osition we have
shown to be identical wi.h that of the same party in
this State.”
The special pleading of the Georgian, in in
troducing tne opinions of the Mobile Register
and Judge Bragg, as opposed to the action of
the Montgomery Convention, will not serve to
relieve that print from its dilemma. The opin
ions and principles of a party are to be de
rived from the authorized expression of them
through their Conventions, and not from iso
lated individuals. It is true, the Mobile Regis
Ur opposed the Montgomery Convention.
The Montgomery Advertiser, a journal which
recently declared that, “the Union was not worth
attempting to preserve; 1 ' did not oppose the ac
tion of that Convention, except so far as related
to the resolution adopted by it, proscribing all
those who did not endorse fully its platform.
The Advtrtiser concurred in the principles laid
down by tho Convention, but was averse to
any such a “ Procrustsan bed,” by which all
were required to conform strictly to the plat
form. And Judge Bragg was nominated by a
convention, called ‘‘of all those opposed to
the compromise.” Again, the assertion of the
Georgian, that ‘‘the action of the convention
was repudiated (by its party) from one end of
the State to the other,” is untrue. So far from
it, every (< Southern Righ's Association” in
the State, without a single exception, wo be
lieve, have formally, in their meeangs, con
firmed the action of the Montgomery Conven
tion, and fully endorsed the platform. The
Georgian is equally at fault, in reference to the
position of the press of the party in Alabama-
We thank the Georgian for tho frank ad
mission, that “the resolutions (of the iMout
go inery Convention) were verily and truly the
work of the disunlonists,” and that the “Hon.
W. L. Yancey, is the leader of the disunion
party.” These admissions, we think, fully
sustain our position, viz. that the party in
Alabama, with which the Georgian and its party
act and sympathize, is the disunion party. W 0
have already shown that the action of the As
sociations, has endorsed the Montgomery
platform, in which Mr. Yamcry fully concurred,
and it is on’y necessary to add, that a Conven
tion of the party in the Montgomery District
nominated the Hon. Wa. L. Yancey, “ tho
leader of the disunionists.” for Congress.
Indeed, S 3 anxious were they that he should
be their candidate, that he was nominated in
the face of a letter, in which he positively
declined the nomination, a fact known to the
Convention. Upon these facts, comment is
certainly superfluous.
But the Georgian seeks to evade the force
of its admission by repeating that Gov. Col
lier, the candidate of the party for Governor
s opposed to the Compromise, diuj. Hence
the identity between the two parties in the two
States. It is a sufficient reply to this portion
of the Georgian's article to quote the follow
ing extract from die letter of Gov. Collier
to John W. Burke, of Wilcox County, Ala
bama, on the 31st March last, in which he
uses this decided language :
“ That the South should honestly abide by the
Compromise acts, without attempting a disruption of
the Union for any thing contained in them.”
Unless he has changed since this sentence
was penned, there is no identity between his
opinions and the Georgian's party in this Slate,
which is organized upon the basis of opposi
tion to the compromise ; a position which is
also assumed by the Mobile Register, as shown
by us a few days since.
Hon. A. H. Stephens.
A deep solicitude has been felt in this com
munity, for the last several days, for the health
of the Hon. A. H. Stephezs, who has been
in a very critical if not dangerous condition,
from a severe attack of remittent fever, at his
residence in Crawfordville. It aifords us sin
cere pleasure therefore, to be able to relieve in
gome degree the anxiety of his fr ends, by the
following extract from a letter from his brother
to the Editor, written Thursday afternoon, the
12th inst.
“His physicians ray that be is improving and ba
a fair prospect of recovery. But he is certainly very
ill and must, if recovered, remain long unable to
attend to any engagements.”
P. S.—Since the foregoing was in type, we
are gratified to learn from passengers who ar
rived by the afternoon train, that at 1 o’clock
P. M., yesterday, when they passed Crawford
ville, Mr. 8. was considered much better, and
quite out of danger unless some unfavorable
change occurred.
At the request of several, we republish the fol
lowing prescription. Several of our neighbors and
friends, as well as ourself, have given it a fair trial,
and are prepared to endorse it, as a most valuable
remedy.
Rscipz fob Bowel Complaint. —Take of Rhu
barb 30 grains—Calcined Magnesia 60 grains—
powdered Gum-arabic half an ounce—four grains
Sulphate of Morphine—rub them well together and
add 8 ounces mint water —mix the whole in water,
well sweetened with loaf Sugar. Dose for adults,
two table spoons full; proportionately less for chil
dren.
It seems to us, if tha size or strength of the
dose is a matter of any importance, the Rome
Courier, from which we clip the above, should
have stated, with equal precision, the quantity
of sweetened water to be uaad.— Ed. Chron.
& Sent.
Wilmington and Mancheiter Road.
We invite the attention of Capitalists to the
advertisement in this day’s paper, of Messrs
Wijilow, La.vikr & Co., of 52 Wall Street,
New York, in which they announce that they
will receive proposals for the purchase of
$300,000 of the Bonds of the Wilmington
and Manchester Railroad, which, when com
pleted will form an entire chain of Railroad
communication from Chattanooga, Tenn . and
Montgomery, Ala. to Portland, in Maine.
The importance of this road is therefore ap
parent to every intelligent mind, and when
the extreme small cost of construction is con
sidered, no one will question the probability
of its paying a good interest, and consequently
re nder the Bonds a most excellent investment.
The Bonds are payable in 1866, with cou-
I ions attached, at the rale of eeven per cent per
annum, payable semi annually on the lat of
Jane and December, at the Merchants’ Bank
in New Y’ork and are secured by a mortgage on
the entire Road, 162 miles long. We have in
our possession a copy of the Report, Map,
•&c. t referred to by Messrs. W., L. <fc Co ,
which we will take pleasure in exhibiting to
shose who may desire to examine it.
For further iniormatiou see the advertise
ment.
Major Wm. H. Polk is the independent
democratic candidate for Congress in the
Colombia (Tenn.) District. He is the brother
of the late President, and holds to the opinions
expressed by him while alive. In a speech
on the 27th alt, “he took high ground for the
Compromise and the Union; said that if be
was in Congress he should be for standing
square up to the compromise, and would re
buke any effort to alter it, either by the North
or South, as he thought it probably the only
course to sustain the Union,”
Mr. VVebnlar'a Speech In Albany.
Thk read* r« ol this journal *vill thank us, we
feel assured, for Hying before them the speech
delivered by the Hon Daniel Webster, to
the young men of Albany, New York, which
we should have done immediately after its de
livery, but for the conviction that numerous
errors had probably occurred in its transmis
sion by telegraph. We therefore preferred to
await the reception of a copy revised and cor
rected by himself, which we now have, and !o
which we invite the reader's attention.
This will be followed by his celebrated speech
at Buffalo, New York, which was also the vic
tim of numerous errors in passing over the
telegraph wires, and which has likewise bean
revised and corrected by him. The publica
tion of this speech at the South, is especially
duo to Mr. Webster, the more so because of
the advantage taken of the errors in it, by those
who desired to make capital against the Presi
dent, Mr. Webster and the Union Party, and
thereby sought to prejudice the public mind
against Mr. W. particularly.
Like good wine, Mr. Webster’s speeches
“ need no bush,” to attract the public atten
tion; yet we deemed it proper to say thus
much, to disabuse the public mind in relation
to he errors and misrepresentations of his
sentiments, as expressed on the occasions re
ferred to. We sha'l, therefore, leave the reader
to judge of the merits of the two productions,
which, in our opinion, have contributed as
much to display all the qualities of a great pop"
ular orator, as any efforts of his long and
eventful career.
Mr. Webster’s Speech at Buffalo.
As already announced through our columns,
this speech as published from the telegraphic
reports, was the victim of numerous errors,
some of wh ch Mr. Webster deemed of suf
ficient importance to correct at once, and the
National Intelligencer has been authorized to
promise a revised and corrected report of the
entire speech by Mr. W. himself. When this
comes to hand we shall give it a place, that the
public may judge of it and determine upon its
merits, as also upon the hot haste of those jour
nals of the South who manifested such an eager
anxiety to copy and comment upon the erro
neoud passages. Prominent among these stands
the Federal Union, who avails itself of the op
portunity these errors have afforded, to assail
Mr. Webster with its accustomed virulence
notwithstanding the proclamation of the fact
through the press, that the report of the speech
was very erroneous.
Os course no one familiar with the character
of that journal, will feel any surprise at its
course, or expect even-handed justice toward
any one whom it opposes. Nor will it excite
any particular astonishment that its article has
been extensively copied by the disunion and
secession organs of the State.
It was not our purpose to have noticed the
article in question until we published the eu
tire speech, but as its publication in a corrected
form has not yet reached us, and may not for
some days, we deem it but an act of justice to
Mr. Webster, to transfer to our columns, the
subjoined letter from him on the subject to the
lion. John M. Dorrs, of Virginia. This cor
rects one very material and important error,
one too which has afforded the disunionists a
line theme for the exercise of hoir faculties of
denunciation. It remains to be seen how
many of them will publish the correction.
A point to which we desire to direct the public
attention, with a view to ask them to wa ch
the columns of those journals.
Washington, June 4, 1851.
Aly Dear Sir: When I arrive'! at New York, my
attention w-:s called to a paragraph in the telegraph
ic report of my speech at Buffalo. Unier the cir
cumstances, it is wonderful that the accomplished
reporter performed the service ns well as he did, but
a mistake occurred of some importance, which he
corrected as soon as it met his eyes. Toward the end
of the speech, I am represented as having said —
“ Gentlemen, 1 reg. et exceedingly that slavery exists
in the Southern States, and that Congress has no
power over it ” This is so entirely in opposition to
the whole drill of my remarks, that it might have
been hoped that nil would hive regarded it as a mis
print, or an error. It appears, however, that this
was not universally the case; and therefore the re
porter very promptly caused the following correction
to he inserted in the Herald, the paper in which die
report first appearer!: *• Gentlemen, I regret exceed
ingly that slavery exists in the Southern States; but
Congress has m power to act upon it. It may be,
however, that in the dispensation of frovidence, some
remedy for this evil may occur, or may be hoped for
hereafter.”
It must be obvious to every intelligent person, that
if Con/ress possessed power over slavery as it exists
in the Southern States, any attempt to exercise such
power would break up the Union, just as surely as
would an attempt to introduce slavery into Massa
chusetts. These are subjects of mere State right
and State authority, intended originally to be left
entirely with the Slates, and they must so ba left
still, if we wish to preserve (he Union.
You are at liberty to make any use of this letter
which you may think necessary to remove false im
pressions.
I am, my dear sir, with the truest regard, your
obedient servant, Daniel Webstem.
Hon. John M. Botts, Richmond, Vs.
“ Mr. Sumner was elected Senator for six years
by one vole ; and Mr. Burden, a Whig, voted for
him.”
If it had been the purpose of the Washing
ton Union, from which we clip the above, to
have told tbe whole truth, it would have also
stated that Mr. Borden voted under positive
instructions from his constituents, and that
some one hundred and fifty democrats who
had corruptly bargained with the Free-soilers,
also voted for Sumner. But we presume the
wholo truth was not palatable to a journal who
is earnestly seeking to keep afloat the national
Democratic party; for it would expose to
Southern democrats, a disgraceful fact, that
most of their journals have studiously con
cealed, while denied its exist
ence.
We are however, free to confess that we
see no difference between Sumner and Win
throp who was run by the whigs. Indeed we
regard Sumner the less obnoxious of the two,
because his ultra fanaticism deprives him of
the influence which the artful and cunning
Winthrop would exercise. Winthrop is
not less opposed to Southern institu’ions
than Sumner, ho ia only more cautious, dis
creet aud intrigueing, and therefore, more
dangerous. Neither of them are fit represen
taiives in either house of Congress of any
true hearted American patriot.
The Lynchburg Tragedy.—The Baltimore
American, after noticing that both Saunders
and Terry had died of the wounds received
in the late murderous conflict in Lynchburg,
with much poinfremarks:
“ If this bloody and mc-at barbarous butchery might
have the effect of moderating the tone and temper of
newspaper discussions nod of bringing general con
deninatio upon the miserable system ot newspaper
personalities, the event, lamentable as it is, would
not be without a salutary result.
“ The notion which seems to be entertained by
many that abusive epithets and derogatory imputa
tions add strength to an argument, is one of the most
mistaken notions that the most weak minded children
of vanity ever indulged in. It is akin to that other
offspring oi egotism—the idea that the public arc in
terested in the persons! bickerio.s of two individuals
who happen to be editors of newspapers, and that
either is believed in hie vituperations of tbe other.”
It is a source of sincere gratification to us to
learn that the citizens of Lynchburg, with a
noble liberality, in a few hours after the burial
of Mr. Terry, subscribed ten thousand dollars
to be invested for the education of his four
children.
Mississippi.—Colonel John A. Wilcox, of
Monroe, has bean unanimously nominated as
the Union candidate for Congress in the se
cond district of Mississippi ; and Colonel
W. S. Featherston is the resistance candi
date in the same district.
Connecticut Senator.—At the last ac
counts the Legislature had not been able to
elect a Senator. The election was postponed
till Wednesday next—Baldwin wanted 3 votes
of an election. We fear be will succeed.
Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad.—
Great preparations are making at Murfrees
boro Tenn., to celebrate on the 4th of July
the opening of the Chattanooga and Nash
ville Railroad to that place. The Road is al
ready completed to within four or five miles
of the place, and by the 4th will finished
several miles this side. We congratulate the
Tennesseeans and friends of this great work
upon its rapid progress, and the now certain
prospects of an early completion. Well may
the citizens of Murfreesboro and indeed all
that section of the State tributary to the road
rejoice at its advancement to completion, for
it is destined to exercise a most important and
controlling influence upon the industrial and
agricultural resources of tnat great, growing
and fertile Stale.
The Memphis Enquirer of the 4th inat.,
says: “His excellency Gov. Jones received a
presen* yesterday morning going to
donor was a believer in the Patriarchal sys
tem. A plump female child, evidently of but
a very youthful age, was left at the door of
the Governor, snugly ensconced in a basket
and wrapped up in a blanket. The Governor
being absent the little stranger was sent to the
Mayor's office, by whom it was placed in the
hands of one of our most respectable citizens.
We presume that the parents considered, that
the Governor ought to be the father of bis peo
ple.”
Shelton, one of the murderers of the Cos
den family, was tried before Kent County
t £ourt last week, and convicted of murder in
first degree.
THK SUBMISSION PL.ATFOHM.
Being the proceedings of a mun less Con
vention held in Mi’ledgeville on the 28th of ’
May, 1851 —paraphrased, fills I out, and dine ’
into English by
A genuine Southern Rights Man. ,
Milledgeville, Ga., )
Wednesday, May 28th, 1851. $
<’ The ( a —hem! the --a, no matter what)
Convention to nominate a candidate for the office of
Governor, this day assembled in the Representative
Hall.
A committee of • was appointed to examine
tho credentials of the delegates. They reported as
follows, after a long sitting:
The committee on credentials beg leave to report,
that their task has been a most arduous one. They
found, on examination, 156 delegates applying for ;
seats, of whom there were :
Southern Rights Democratic Republicans, 4
Southern Rights Republicans 14
Democratic Southern Rights men 28
Democrats.
Democratic and Southern Rights men>> 25
Southern Rights men 17
Scattering. •• •• •• ”51
In this embarrassing state of things, your commit
tee was at a loss how to act, and all their efforts at
deliberation were drowned in “ the noise an 1 confu- i
sion” which prevailed among the advocates of the ■
respective names above ennmerated. At length, in !
the midst and stnoke of this great doubt in which
your coinmittae was encompassed, a distinguished
member arose, and with great emphasis, demanded
“ What’s in a name?”
This startling interrogatory produced a decided im
pression upon your committee, who, after lengthened
discussion, (see Editorial correspondence of the Ga.
Constitutionalist,) concluded not to be governed by
names, and as there was rUbihing in a name, to leave
the Convention without one.
It was here objected, however, that we would have
no banner under which to fight. This difficulty gave
rise to some discussion. It was at length decided
that each soldier should fight under the flag which
suited his own taste, and if in the heat of conflict, he
found himself ata loss, hs had merely to look up, and
wherever he saw the flag of “ the Constitutional
Union ” hoisted, to make haste and get on the other
side.
Having thus discharged their arduous duty, your
committee would suggest that the planks sent up by
the county meetings are knotty, shapeless and crook
ed, so that it is utterly impossible to construct a de
cent platform out of them, and with this suggestion,
beg to be discharged.
‘ The committee to wbonc was assigned the duty
of reporting matter for the action (passion?) of this
Convention, beg leave to submit (ominous word !)
tbe following
Preamble and Resolutions:
The country is passing through an alarming crisis.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The government is undergoing
change equally marked and momentous in the open
assumption of powers touching finance and revenue,
tbe collection an I disbursement of the public money,
the schemes of internal imrr_vement and squandering
the public lands, (specific instances of which assump
tions of power we wi*l not undertake to point cut, for
fear the records of the country might not sustain us,)
tending directly to a corruption and consolidation of
the Government, and utterly unknown to the Con
stitution as understood by tho makers of that instru
ment, and as heretofore interpreted by all parties at
the South. De it therefore,
Ist. Resolved, That we hereby re-affinn, magna
charta, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, the
Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the
United States, and ail other important State papers.
2d. Resolved, That two and two are undoubted
ly four.
3d Resolved, That as each State was free to re
ject the contract before entering it, it was therefore
impossible for any State, by the termscf the contract,
to relinquish this freedom, in other words, “that
ns a man is not compelled to make a bargain, he can
not, by the very nature and constitution of things,
be bound to stick to it when made.”
4th. Resolved, That etch State, in virtue of the
doctrine so conclusively established above, has the
right to secede; but that this Convention has not
the remo’est idea of exercising it.
sth. Resolved, That whenever a copartnership
makes money, all the copartners have a right to share
the prof's.
6//1. Resolved, That witholding due protection is
equivalent to hostile Legislation.
Ith, Resolved, That the principles of the two last
resolutions, and the Constitution of the United States
have been violated by Congress in rhe admission of
California —the establishment ofTerritori.ll Govern
ments for New Mexico and Utah—and in the Bill
abolishing the slave trade in the District of Colum
b’a. And all this, and more 100, wc believe (con
siderng that as our copartners, the North, even had
a right to a part of Texas) aliliougii wc have always
held and still hold that there is now, and never was
any obstruction in the way of carrying slaves into
New Mexico and Utah. Ami if any persons should
consider these positions incompatible and unreason
able, we hereby declare our unalterable determina
tion that we will never submit to the tyranny of
Reason —never —never—never.
Sth. Resolved, That in the spirit of our illustri
ous forefathers, who set forth their wrongs and
remedy in the Declaration of Independence, we
(their only worthy descendents) as a picayune re
dresv for cur pa-t wrongs, and in pursuance of a bad
bargain, (the Missouri Compromise) demand of
Congress (or to speak m >re accurately) declare it to
be the duty of Congress to obtain the consent of
California to a division of her territory, and that
the country below 36 deg 30 min., be put under the
provision of that Compromise, not so much to furnish
land for our negroes to cultivate us byway of a
huge salvo to our feelings.
Resolved, That those Southern Rights meetings
which advocated nun-intercourse and al! that sort
of thing, were indiscreet and deserve to be ‘‘repudia
ted.”
Resolved, That we pass by with silent contempt
the idea of discrirnimting against Northern goods,
wares and merchandise.
Resolved, That any procedure more decisive or
practical than grumbling, is injudicious in the ex
treme.
Resolved, That discretion is the better part of
valor.
Sth. Resolved, That if it costs more to get a
“nigger” than he is worth after you get him, that it
would be as well not to try to get him at all.
10. Resolved, That we are on the right side of all
obsolete issues.
1 Uh. Resolved, That the Union is “not as it used
to was” and that we don’t much like it as it is now.
though we used to like it as it was then.
12iA. Resolved, Thit in the spirit of Compromise
we adopt the candidate of the t trong, but the plat
form ot our weaker brethren.
13JA. Resolved, That this convention, repudiating
old party lines, has a strong hankering after the old
Democratic organization, and regrets exceedingly it
cannot get the benefit of it; that agreeing as to the
grievances recited, it is firmly convinced of the ef
ficacy of those means ‘it has instituted for their re
dress; and that it does hereby recommend Charles
J. McDonald, as the exponent and standard bearer
of their principles in the approaching canvass, be
lieving that his maintenance of the same will be the
more disinterested from the fact that the principles
avowed are not his, and having perfect confidence
that he will never bring his own principles (expres
sed at Nashville and elsewhere) into conflict with
those of this convention.
Mr. Wiggins moved that the preamble and resolu
tions be adop ed. Mr. Schley mevod to strikeout
the Bth resolution, on the ground that it proposed 0
practical redress (toa certain, though limited extent)
of the grievances complained of—a principle he
hoped the body would meekly repudiate. After
discussion, however, only 55 members of the Con
vention fell quite meek enough, 79 being contuma
cious.
Mr. Crawford moved to reconsider this thing.
He h fed the Convention was not prepared to pre
sent itself to the world in the ridiculous attitude of
seeking redress for wrong. After considerable dis
cussion, the Convention being convinced that it could
do no harm to reconsider the matter, on second
thoughts, struck out the unchristian resolution.
The question then recurred upon the motion to
adopt tho resolutions, thus purged of all offensive
ideas of the smallest practical redress, and the re
port was adopted with but one dissenting voice,
showing an unprecedented unanimity in that laud
able spirit, which scolds, but smites not.
Mr. Calhoun—A Southern Confeder
acy.—ln a recent speech before the citizens
of Attala county, Miss., Senator Foote bore
the following testimony as to the views of Mr.
Calhoun in relation to the formation of a
Southern Confederacy:
“ He said that the idea of demanding amendments
to the Constitution, and in cave of failing to obtain
them, resorting to secession, was first broached by
Mr. Calhoun, after the Mississippi October Conven
tion in 1849; that Mr. Calhoun told him that he,
(Mr. C] had no expectation of obtaining these
amendment?; but Mr. C. thought that if they should
be refused, why then the South world unite in the
formation of a Southern Confederacy,’; and that Mr.
Calhoun had prepared a constituti n for this new
republic, which was to have been formed out of the
fragments of our present Union.”
Vessel Struck by Lightning.—Tho bark
Emily Minor, Capt. Smith, lying in Mobile
Bay, was struck by lightning on Saturday 7th a
bout 3 o’clock, P. M. and set on fire in the hold
by tho fluid. The lightning struck the main
top gallant mast, descended the mainmast and
went into the pumps below.
She was immediately scuttled, and her cargo
of 900 bales of cotton and assorted freight
will be saved and sold a sin a damaged condi
tion. The leak had been stopped, 300 bales
of the cotton taken out and the work of pump
ing her out was progressing rapidly.
Fatal Affray in Lynchburg.—The partic
ulars of the fight in Lynchburg, Virginia, be
tween Mr. Terry and Mr. Saunders, in
which the latter received injuries of which he
died the same day, are thus detailed in the
Richmond papers;
“A violent, and probably fatal personal combat
occurred in Lynchburg, on Thursday, the sth inst.
between iMr. Saunders, a son of Dr. James Saun
ders a member of the State Convention, and Mr.
A. W. C. Terry, the Editor cf the Lynchbnrg
Viiginian. The difficnlty originated in some stric
tures by the “Virginian” on tbe course of Dr. Saun
ders in regard to the basis question The Doctor re
plied through the Lynchburg Republican of Monday,
in a card of some length and bitterness. The Vir
ginian of Thursday morning rejoinedj commenting
upon Dr. Saunders’s style, and charging him with
desertion of the East. A bout 8 o’clock that morn
ing, Mr. Saunders met Mr. Terry in tbe street, ac
costed him. and asked him if he was the editor of
tbe Virginian. Upon receiving an answer in the
affirmative, he struck Terry with a walking stick.
Thereupon the latter drew a revolver and fired, but
witbont effect. Saunders drew another revolverand
fired, likewise without effect. Each then con
tinued firing until five shots in all had been ex
ebanged on either side Tbe result was that eachjof
the parties received two wounds, and each of them
one shot in the body, which it was feared would
prove mortal.”
Mr. Terry was alive on Sunday night, the
Bth, but says the Virginian, “was in a most
precarious condition and with but faint pros
pect of recovery.”
Hom. W. C. Dawj-om.— i’he numerous
friends of Senator Dawsow will regret to
learn that he had a leg fractured on the 10th
inst. The following letter from a gentleman
at Greensboro furnishes the particulars:
Gbbensbobo, June 10th, 1861.
Dear Sirr—The Hon. Win. C. Dawson, while
at hie plantation this morning, had hie left leg badly
fractured above the ankle, which will doubtless con
fine him to hi> room fcr weeks. He had just dis
mounted and lied his horse to the top rail of the
fence, when the h?ree became frightened and ran wit
the rail fastened to the bridle, and m Judge
D. was struck by ths rail, which caused the ivjury.
He is now suffering much, though doing rery well.
Truly yours, tec , io baste.
The telegraph announces that Josiah Ran
dsll, Esq , of Philadelphia, has been appointed
.Minister to Russia, and Dr. Eckart, of the
eatne city, to the Presidency of the Mint.
Union Meeting in Jefferson County.
At a meeting of a portion of the Convtitutiona
Union party of Jefferson county, on Satai day, tbe
7th day of June, on motion, John W. Bothwell
was called to the Chair, and Henry Arrington re
quested to act as Secretary. Thomas H. Polhill,
Esq., offered the following resolution :
Resolved, That the Chairman appoint a commit
tee of three to suggest the names of suitable persons,
being two from each District in the county, to meet
the delegates from Burke, to nominate a candidate
for the Senate • and also three delegates to tbe Con
gressional Convention of the Bth District.
The Chair appointed Thomas H. Polhill, John W.
Whigham and i'homas Hannah, Esqrs that com
mittee, who returned and reported the following Del
egates :
761 h District— John W. Whigham. Thoma. Han
nab. ’
77th District—Edward R. Carswell, Ebenener
78th District—Nathan K. Whigham Jamee P
Gohert. ’
79th District—Jesse T. Mulling Darifls P Wells.
81st District —Robert Patterson, James F Rmwn
82d District—John W. Bothwell Dr. P. S. Lemin
83d District—Benajah A. Moye. Hamilton Raiford*
84th District—Eli McCroan, William 8. Alex
ander.
05th District—Arthur B. Walker, Robt. Stephens
i to Senatorial, and ’
George Staplekn, Patrick B. Connelly, Thomas
H. Polhill, to Congressional Convention; which re
port was adopted.
Thomas H. Polhill, Esq., offered tbe following res
olution :
Resolved, That we approve of the time and place
suggested by the Burke meeting, for the Senatorial
Convention to assemble, via ; Davies’ Spring, on the
last Saturday in July next; and that we also ap
prove of Augusta, and the fourth Monday in June,
as a proper place and time for the Congressional Con
vention. Which was adopted,
William T. Jordan offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That we have every confidence in the
ability and integrity of our late distinguished Repre
sentative in Congress, Hon. Robert Toombs, and re
quest our delegates to support him in Convention for
rc-nomination. Which was adopted.
Patrick B. Connelly effered the following resolu
tion.
Resolved, That the proceedings of the meeting be
published in the Chronicle <& Sentinel. Augusta, and
request all papers favorable to the Union to copy,
which was adopted.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
John W. Bothwell, Chairman.
Henry Arrington, Sec’y.
Educational Meeting In Walken
Pursuant to a general call which had been previ
ously made, a number of tbe citizens of Walker
met to take into consideration the subject of sending
Delegates to the Common School Convention, which
is to meet at Marietta.
Col. Parris was called to the Chair, and H. B.
Johnston requested to act as Secretary.
Upon suggestion, Rev. M. Dyer, in an address of
some length, explained the expediency of the Con
vention, and the benefits to be expected from it, and
also, ably discussed the necessity of a better educa
tion, especially amongst farmersand mechanics.
On motion of R. A. Lane, Esq., a committee was
appointed to suggest suitable names for Delegates to
said Convention. The Committee reported the
names of the Rev. A. J. Leet. Edwin Dyer and W.
H. Johnston as Delegates.
The Committee recommended to the meeting tbe
following Resolutions.
Resolved, That we bail with pleasure the inter
est manifested throughout our Stalo in behalf of
Common School Education.
Resolved, That the present system needs to be
bettered, and that we will cheerfully co-operate
with ths friends of Education in improving it; be
lieving as we do, that upon the general intelligence
of the common people depends the interest of the
community, and of our common country.
Wm. Martin, Esq , of Lumpkin, being present,
was called upon, and gave us a good speech in behalf
of the general cause.
The report of the Committee, with the Resolu
tions, was then adopted.
The proceedings were ordered to be published in
the Chronicle & Sentinel, and the Cassville Stan
dard. H. B. JOHNSTON, Sec.
Constitutional Union Meeting in Warren.
Warrenton, June 14th, 1851.
In pursuance of a call, a meeting of the Con
stitutional Union party of Warren county,
was held at the court-house, on this day, at elev
en o’clock, A. M. On motion of E. 11. Pottle,
Esq., Wtn. W. Anderson, Esq., was callled to
the Chair. On motion of James Cody, Esq.,
Isaac B. Huff was requested to act as secretary.
M. D. Cody, Esq., offered the following:
Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed
by tbe Chair to nominate and report the names of
four suitable gentlemen to represent this county in
the Congressional Convention of the' eighth district,
to be held in Auguste on the 23d inat.
The resolution was adopted, and the Chair ap
pointed as that committe Messrs. Madison D. Cody,
Cbirles C. Johnson, Jahn F. Kinsey, John Kemp,
George V. Neal, James S. Latimer and Thomas
F. Persons.
The committee retired for a few moments, return
ed and reported the namest of the following gentle
men as suitable delegates to the Congressional Con
vention : George V. Neal, Thomas F. Persons. Isaac
B. Huff and John F. Kinsey. The report of the
committee was adoptei.
On motion Resolved, That the delegates be em
|>owered to fill vacancies.
E. H. Pottle, Esq., offered the following resetu
tions, which were unanimously adopted :
1 Resolved, That we cheerfully endorse the ac
tion of the Gubernatorial Convention, and that we
will cheerfully support the Hon. Howell Cobb, the
nominee of the said Convention, for Governor.
2. Resolved, That whilst we will support whoever
may be the nominee of the Union Convention, we
take pleasure m expressing our preference in the
ability and fidelity of our late representative, the
Hon. Robert Toombs.
On motion, Resolved, That the proceedings of
this meeting be signed by the Chairman, and coun
tersigned by the Secretary, and forwarded to the
Chronicle & Sentinel of August i for publication.
On motion, the meeting adjourned sine die.
Wm. W. Anderson, CRm.
Isaac B. Huff, Sec f y.
Summary Execution of a Wretch*
Some weeks since a murder was committed
in Washington county, Ala., by a man named
John B. Hardin, and a negro whom he had
stolen, with other property, from a gentleman
in Florida. From the correspondence of the
Mobile Tribune, we obtain the sequel of the
tragic affair. It seems that Hardin was arres
ted in Shelby county, Ala. The writer says:
“He was carried from Shelby county to Henry
county, Ala. A delegation was sent from Milton,
Santa Roia county, Fla. to get him from the autho
rities in Alabama, and bring him to Milton, which
was done. Yesterday he was executed in Milton
by the people, without a trial. The negro who as
sisted him. belonged to Joseph Forsyth, was also
hung at the same time yesterday, Friday, May 30th,
at half-past 12 o’clock. He confessed the crime,
and said he richly deserred death, for he has been a
villain all his life- He had twenty wives living and
had killed sixteen men, and all be was sorry for
was, that he waa not permitted to live long enough to
kill four more. He and the negro Jack were both
hung to one tree, and buried in one grave. Re
pentance and remorse were strangers to him. He
said his father and brother were both hurg. He
refused to make any further confession, as he would
imrlicate many heads of families who passed as
respectable, and would thereby leave many widows
and orphans.
He met death without a shudder ; was as cool as
a cucumber. He repented of nothing he bad done,
and said be would, (if turned loose,) be as bad as
ever, if not worse. The only request he had to
make, was not to be put to torture. He said he
wished to be hung and decently buried.” Yours,
very respectfully.
Gas from Wood. —The New York papers con
tain a report on the comparative value of New York
and Philadelphia gases, being the result of investiga
tions made by Drs. Torrey and Ellett, and subse
quently verified by Prof. Chilton. From this report
it appears that one hundred cubic feet of either of the
New York gases will afford as much light as one
hundred and fifty*two cubic feet ■ f the Philadelphia
gas. Now, at three dollars per thousand cubic feet,
which w II be the price of the New York gases from
the first of January next, they will be as cheap to
the consumer as the gas now vended at Philadelphia
would be if sold at one dollar and ninety-eeveu cents
per thousand.
In coineciion wish th«s subject, it may not be un
interesting to state that the process of making gas
from wood is engaging attention both in this country
and in Europe. We learn from the National Intelli
gencer that Dr. McConnell, of Washington city, has
invented an apparatus, for which he entered a
“ caveat,” and has since applied for a patent, con
sisting of a retort and furnace, in which he makes
his gas, coal and tar from pine wood. He is now
having constructed in Baltimore an apparatus la r ge
enough to test the fact on a useful scale. It is stated
that if this plan proves successful, gas can be made
from nine wood, and a city supplied with a better
and purer article than can now be made from bitumi
nous coal, oil or rosin, and at half the price ; and the
company manufacturing it can make sufficient tar
to pay ail expenses, and a profit besides.— Baliimort
American.
This discovery has already been brought to
a practical test in Europe, by an eminent
chemist of Munich, an account of which we
published a few days since.
Cbnsus of California. —When the census
tables, which we copied the other day from
the Washington Republic, were made up,
the official returns from California were want
ing The population was, however, estimated
at 200,004), and two representatives assigned
to her in the list. It appears, however, says
the N. O. Picayune of the 6:h inst., that the
Stipulation of California was much overslated,
y the accounts received yesterday, we learn
that the Marshal has only reported about 117,-
000 as the number of inhabitants in the State.
This being so, California will not be entitled to
more than one Representative in the House of
Representali res, with an inconsiderable frac
tion. There will then be sixteen members to
be distributed to the States having the highest
fractional numbers. This would give South
Carolina six members, instead of five, as the
fraction of that State is next in order in the
table unrepresented. — Ch. Cour.
Discovert or a New Plemet—Mr. J. R.
Hind, the astronomer at Bishop’s Observatory,
Regent Park, London, has discovered another
new planet. The discovery was made May
19:h, in the constellation Scorpio, about 8
north of the ecl’ptic. and forming at the time
an equilateral triangle with the stars (xi) Scor
pii and (ph) Libra. It is of a pale bluish
color, and its light is about equal to that of a
star of the ninth magnitude.
The U.S. mail steamers of Collin.’ Line have
achieved a series of triumphs of which the
whole Union may justly be proud. Four pas
. ages of the Pacific across rhe Atlantic have
been performed in a shorter time than has ever
yet been achieved by any other steamer. They
were as follows:
Terne from Wharf to Wharf.
October, 1850, 10 days, 4 boors, 45 minutes.
Afrit, 1851, 9 “ 20 “ 15 “
May, 1851, 10 “ “ 12 «
June, 1851, 10 “ 2 « <•
On the 6th instant, when the Pacific was ap
proaching New York, her passengers assem
bled in tbe saloon and passed resolu'ions ex
pressive of their high satisfaction with the
snip, her commander, accommodations, &e.
The Washington papers announce that a
general court-martial, to couaist of thirteen
members, will assemble in that city on Mon
day, the 23rd inst., or as soon thereafter as
practicable, for tbe trial of Brevet Brigadier
General George Taleotl, Colonel of Ordi
nance,