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4Tor Sale.
SPRINGS FOR SALE.
MTHE SUBSCRIBER offers
for sale ar. excellent PLANTATION
of iwo Hundred and Fifty Acres,
weti improved, with a good Framed DWELLING
HOUSE thereon, situate on the main road from the
Village of
GAINFSVI! LE TO CLARKSv'JUItf,
and about equi«a><:an< from each. There is a con
siderable quantity of gcod bottom Laud upon the
place, and a
PDF R BLUE LIMESTONE SPRING
near the Dwe.ling For terras, apply to the
aob’criberat CZiviiL'ville. Georgia.
my23-d I&w3 JOHN R. STANFORD.
JEFFERSON COUNTY LANDS FOR
SALE. -
615 ACRES Pine LAND, on the gXg
itnti waters of Big Creek, with good Im- "X
provements, all necessary Oui-bui:diugß, the Pences
in good order, and the place well ’watered, adjoining
Lands of Edward Carswell, Dr. Hook, and others.
For terms, apply to the subscriber, on the premises.
je2s-w4t M. CARSON.
FOR SALE
MTHE SUBSCRIBER offers
for sale his PLANTATIONS, in Co-
Inmbia county, immediately on the
Scott'b Ferry Road, in 20 miles of Augusta. Ono
tract (the home phee, and a most desirable situa
tioa) containing 577 acres; 250 acres open land,
the balance in the woods. On thia tract is a fine
DWELLING— none better in the country, and per
fectly new, and ail necessary out btrldiugs. This is
one of the most desirable locations for health and
convenience to market in the country. There is
also a fine welt of water and a good spring on the
place.
The other place, known as the Tool place, contains
500 acres, 250 acres open, the balance enclosed
and in good repair. These are good productive Cot
ton and Corn Lands. I will tel! both together <r
separate. Any one wishing to purchase the above
property, if they will visit the place 1 will take pleas
ure in showing them both (daces ; cr address me a
Eubanks P. 0., Columbia Co., Ga., and I will give •
them all the information required. Terms easy.
Je2s d3<fcw3 E. T. JONES. ’
PLANTATION FOR SALE.
THE UNDERSIGNED offers
SB his PLANTATION for sale, containing
the rise of 3,700 Acres, 1,200 acres in
the woods, the ino*t of which is well timbered. Lit
tle River runs through said land, equally dividing it,
into Wilkes county, 9j miles from Washington, and
Columbia county, 13 miles from Thornton Depot,
Georgia Rail Road; goed improvements of every
kind, including Grist and Saw Mills. Price, $5 per
acre, one-half to be paid on giving possession the
25th Dec. neat, the balance free of interest twelve
months fdlowingJune 12, 1851.
ja!B-wtf JOHN Q. WEST.
Mountain Cottage for Sale.
a “LEONORA comas,”
on Lookout Mountain, it now offer- cS#
cd for sale. 1 his commodious and
eiegam. vzottage is situated on the eastern cliff of the
Lookout Mountain, a short distance from the cele
brated Leonora Spring, and in the immediate vieini- 1
ty of Lookout Point, the Natural Bridge, &c.. &c. 1
Attached to the Cottage there are several acres of j
ground, partly improved, with the necessary out
bttildings, tec. For pure air, wholesome water, and <
magnificent scenery this situation is without a rival i
in the South, and the easy access to Chattanooga,
by Rail Road, Steamboat and Stage, can not fail to i
render it a delightful residence for a family of taste i
and leisure. For particulars, apply to i
B. CHANDLER, !
Chattanooga, Tennessee, or i
D. REDMOND, i
my2B-d3 w&Ctf Atlanta, Georgia. <
FOR SALE,
A HOUSE AND LOT, AND 910 ACRES OF
LAND.
AW THK Rf'OW
yli rabie Situations In the town of Madi Jt
son, equal distance between the Court House and
Depot, containing 200 feet of ground, front back,
well improved.
Also, 910 Acres cf LAND, a goad poition wood
land, an i well timbered. The neare&l line, about 1|
miles from the Madison Steam Mill. Look for your- j
selves. WASHINGTON G. BALLARD.
Madison, Ga., June 16, IPSL je!B-w6.*
FOR SALE,
aTHE SUBSCRIBER’S Summer
Residence, sirueted on the South Sand
Hills, on the first eminence, southwest of
nett Spring. The situation is a pleasant
one- of easy aocees to, and in full view of the Geor
gia Railroad. The DVI ELU NG is large and com
modious, and in good repair.
For further particulars, apply to
my3!-*»aTuW&w3 SAMUEL C. WILSON.
Valuable Plantation for t ale,
THE subscriber offers for rale her gna
<■o PLANTATION, lying directly on the
-A- line of Rail Road, about 19 miles from
the city of Montgomery, AUoama. The tract of
Land contains about 960 acres, 400 ofwhch taopen
and, and is one of the best sandy land cotton plan
tati'nsln Alabama Por further particulars, address
the subscriber, at Decatur, Macon county, Ala.
mylS-wlO ELIZA BURCH.
FOR dALB
MTHE SUBSCRIBER offers for
sale hie FAMILY RESIDENCE in the
Town of Marietta. It is loes'ed in a de
sirable pert of town, is well improved, contains
about two acres. The dwelling has nine nx irs and
one basement, all well finished. Possession ca •be
bad the first of July.
For terms, apply to Col. David Dobbs, Win. P.
Young, or John F. Arnold in the absence of
Aol s P 3O w NELSON M. BENTON.
NEGROES, NEGROES. NEGLgpbb.
JUST ARRIVED, SEVENTY-SIX ycuug,
likely NEGROES, which, added to our former
stock, will make one hundred and lour (ecu we have
now on the Market. By calling at our Depot at
Hamburg, S. G., purchaserscan be suited, and those
wishing to purchase are requested to examine our
Stock before purchasing elsewhere.
o4.twAwtf JENNINGS & ROBERTSON
AUGUSTA FRENCH BURR MILL
STONE MANUFACTORY
THE subscribers,
I thankful for the kind
jpt' \ / patrenage received,
i would respectfully
inform their triends
am * ’k® P ub *’ c »
: T*’r**** a '*J continue toexe-
MHrJf cUle orders for their
SmSm? we!l known - '' arrant
| \ ed French BURR
Xj&v/- MILLSTONES, of
I every desired site, at
th® l° weM price and
shortest notice. 1 hey also furnish
ESOPUS and COLOGNE STONES,
SMUT MACHINES of various patients,
BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best brand,
CEMENT, for Mills use.,
And every other article necessary in a Mill.
Ater, for Planters, email GRIST MILLS to at
tach to G:n Gears *
Ail orders promptly attended to.
alB-wtf SCHIRMER & WIGAND.
GLOCKS? WATCHES, JEWELRY
Arc..'Ac.. Ac.
GOLD AND SILVER .
jpM Watches, of all kinds.
wbuim Jewelry, and various rich fancy Goods.
Fancy Hardware and Cutlery.
Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles.
Silver Ware, Plated Goods of all kinds.
Guns, Sporting Apprratus ? Pistols.
Solar Lamps, Girandoles, in gold and silver.
Table Cutlery, of Rodgers and others.
China Ware, Cut Glass Ware, of latest style.
Clocks, Parlor and Office Clocks, and a large
stock of cheap Clocks tor country trade.
Andirons, Fenders, Shovels and Tongs.
Watch Materials ami tools of all kinds for Watch
makers. For sale at fair prices by
CLARK, RACKET? £ CO.,
I dealers in Fancy and Military Goode.
LY Repairing of Clocks and Watches by good
Workmen.
N. B. Whenever it may be inconvenient for per
sona residing at a distance to visit the city, any thing
m the above line will be furnished promptly upon re
resiptot an order and on the usual time. u -
NOTICE TO
THE Subscriber has on hand a set < f MA
CHINERY, made expressly fora Cabinet and
Carpenters’ Shop. It consists of Daniel’s Plat ing
Machin?, Fay’s Mortice and Tenenting Machire the
beet new in use, a Turning l aihe and Boring Ma
chine, up and down Saw, Circular Saw or Bars, of
different rises, Tongue and Grooves. Beltings, Ac.,
Counter Shafis, end two inch Shafting, all tigged
and finished in the meet approved manner. This
machinery would t-c sold ala bargain, and warrant
ed good*
The subscriber will ako act as Agent in getting up
or purchasing any kind of Machinery iu use. and
his advantages are such, that he feels warranted in
•eying he can give satisfaction.
For reference, inquire of most any of the business
men of Madison. Ge. Address,
H. V. ATKINSON,
j*l3-w _ Borno wen. Madi*. n, Geo
LAW NOTICE
J. C. A G. A. SNEAD.
TUIE VNDF.RSIGYKD having assoc sated
A bfo soo. Garland A. Snkab, with him in the
practice of LA W, under the above style, the firm
will continue the practice, in the several Conits of
the Middle District cf this State ; and the Senior
partner will attend to such business as may be placed
“ ** th * C urts of Edgefield and Barn-
well Districts, South Ccroiiaa.
°®ee— Law over the PonO£c«. Augusta.
)a>l-w<w J NO. C. SNEAD.
FLOUR *
OfJB BBt ' S ' Su!, d> suv-rSne Canal
wV V sad prune Baltimore FLOUR
)aXI HAND, WILLIAMS * CO.
fjdtcls.
INDIAN SPRING.
TDK UNDERSIGNED asks leave
to state to the public generally, that
he is yet the Proprietor of the INDIAN
SPRING HOTEL at this place, and is now prepar
ed to receive company. The virtues of the Indian
Spring waters have been bo long k own, and so
generally tested, that I presume it is not necesssry
here to say any thing in their praise.
The Proprietor of this Hotel has only to add that
in addition to these requisites of the Indian Spring
as a summer residence, that he has, since the last
season, largely added to the Indian Spring Hotel,
by extending bis Dining Room so as to make it equal
to any thing of the kind south wardly, and he has also
added many fine rooms for families, as well as for
persons without families. He also assures those that
are pleased to call at this old established Hotel that
the bestot every thing that the country affords shall
be [rovi .'ed for their accommodation, and renews
former pledge, that no Hotel shall surpass the Indian
Spring, and no pains spared to make all comfortable ;
with this assurance he inv tes the culls of the com
munity generally. my22-2m EDW. VARNER.
ROWLAND SPRINGS
MTHE Subscribers beg leave to inform
their friends and the public, that they have
leased the above well known place of re
sort, and that they intend keeping them during the
summer season in a style superior to any watering
place in the up-country. The House will be open
and readv for the reception of visitors by the first of
JUNE next. LANIER de USHER.
N. B.—There will be a line of Hacks at the Depot
at Cartersville, at all times, to convey Passengers to
the Springs, both from up and down Trains of Rail
Road. apll-3m !-. & U-
COTOOSii SPRINGS.
THIS POPULAR AND fashionable
fe'utf Watering Place will be opened for the recep
tion ot visitors on the lOth day of June.
The Proprietors would inform (he public, that
since the last season, they have added to their es-tab
it-Lmenf one hundred spacious and comfortable
rocuis vi:h other improvements, and as it is thoir
put pose “o devote their united personal attention to
the ucvu m modal ion of their guests, they hope to
make it a delightful and pleasant resort to al), as
well those in f urauit of pleasure as health.
The Water from several of the Springs has been
recently analysed Lv that accomplished Chemist
Prof. A. Means, of the Medical College of Geor
gia, whose report of the same, will shortly be given
to the public.
The-® Springs, the mineral properties of which,
are unsurpassed, are situated in Walker County,
Georgia, within miles of the Cotoosa Plat
foium, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, one
hundred and twelve miiea from Atlanta, and twenty
five from Chauanooga, in a most delightful and salu
brious fountain climite. The company’s Hscks
will always be in waiting at the Depot on the arri
val of the cars, to convey visitors and their baggage
to the Springs.
HATTEY, HICKMAN & McDONALD.
May 16, 1851. w!0
MERIWETHER WARM SPRINGS
MTHIS establishment will be open for
the reception of visitors, on and after the
first day of June. Visitors will at all
tunes, find a ready conveyance from Greenville, or
Pleasant Hill, and a four horse Post Orach, three
times a week from Columbus to the Spring. Th
Proprietor w>it also keep Hacks and other convej
ances ei the Spring Jr» ’he conveyance of bis guests.
mvß wG»| j. j , MUSTMN. Prcrrinnr.
GORDON SPRINGS
M'IIIIS favorite Watering place, the
valuable medicinal properties of which
have been so generally appreciated, will
be open during the present season, for the reception
of visitors under the charge of one of the Proprie
tors, whose undivided attention will be devoted to
tbe accommodation and comfort of his guests.
These Springs are in Walker county, within a
few miles of the Western end Atlantic Railroad, in
country distinguished for the salubrity of its cli
mate, and the beauty and variety of its scenery.
<?VA Hack will run daily between ‘‘Tunnell
Hili” and the Springs, for (ho conveyance of pas
sengers, je!2.w6 GEORGE W. GORDON.
BRADFIELD’S HOTEL
SOUTH-EAST CORNER
CF TBS Hiili
PUBLIC SQUARE,
LaGrange. Georgia*
<ny24-w6m*
EAGLfIIaOTEL,
MADISONVILLE, TENNESSEE.
THE SUBSCRIBER takes pleasure
in returning his thanks to his friendsand gijaj
the public, for the very liberal patronage here
tofore extended to him. And having recently im
proved and extended his buildings so as to afford the
bast accommodations to almost any number of trav
ellers and persons wishing boarding, he confidently
expects an increase of public favor and patronage-
Building situated on second block south cf the
Public Square—one hundred and fifty feet long—
rooms regularly laid off and well furnished. He is
also *ell prepared to take the best care of horses, dtc.
Stable large and secure—careful and attentive ser
vants. In short, the greatest attention will be paid,
and pains taken, to render all comfortable who may
call at the Eagle Hotel. JOSEPH R. RUDD.
Madisonville, August 3, 1850. au3-wtf
FRANKLIN HOTEL,
BROAD STREET, Augusta. Ga.,
03 • sou above Urn Globe Hetel, on the
side ot Broad stteei.
n!0-wly D. B. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
KINGSTON HOUSE.
KINGSTON, GEORGIA.
ttSf THE VNnERSIGNED haring la-
HIIB ken the KINGSTON HOUSE, on the north
si ic of the Railroad, at Kingston, Ga., is now ; re
pared to accommo ate the Travelling Public, es; e
daily. Meal : for I’ass-ngers on the Cars.
jc4 -d:w&wß WM. H. MASSENGALE.
MOUL TRIE HOUSE, SULLIVAN’S
ISLAND.
THIS delightful establishment will be
ready for the reception of visitors on the Ist
of May next. Poescsaing in climate and location
(directly fronting the ocean,) all the advantages of
the most celebrated watering-places of the North, it
has the additional one of furnishing to the Southern
people a imx t agreeable resort at home. The estab
lishment is in thorough order, and no pains or ex
pense will be spared to render it equal in every re
spect with any similar one in this country.
The comfort of Ladies and fe mi lies will be partic
ularly cared for, and all such amusements provided
as will contribute cotlvdr pleasure and their health.
In addition to the opportunity for surf-bathing a com
plete suite of plunge and shower Baths have been
erected. Every delicacy that the season and cli
mate can afford will be supplied, and it will be only
necessary, on this subject, to say that the culinary
department will be under the charge of John Lee, so
long and favorably known as a Caterer in our com
munity.
An extensive Livery Stable has been established
on the premises by Mr. B. Carroll, who will afford
every facility for enjoying rides and drives on the
extensive and beautiful beach. A fine Band will be
in attendance to furnish music for Evening and Danc
ing parties, to be conducted by Mr. F. T. Strawin
ski, who will reside in the house and give lessons in
all the fashionable dances With such advantages,
and a determination to leave nothing undone on hie
part to ensure comfort and pleasure to bis visitors,
the proprietor hopes for the patronage of those who
are desirous of enjoying, in our own Southern land,
ail the benefits which can be afforded by a journey
to the North.
ap!s-tw JAMES PAINE, Proprietor.
AMERICAN HOUSE,
HANOVER STREET, BOSTON.
THE UNDERSIGNED hav-
Hing entirely RE BUILT and EN- gU|i
LARGED the abovo extensive establishment, con
taining in all about three hundred and fifty rooms,
ivould respectfully give notice that it is now ready
br the reception and accommodation of the travel
ling community.
An extended notice of the unsurpassed convenien
ces of this House is deemed superfluous, as the nu
merous improvements which have been made cannot
be properly given in an advertisement. Suffice it to .
•ay that no expense has been spared to render any :
apartment per Mot.
The furniture was made expressly to order, re
gardless of cost, and certain portions of it, esfteciaily i
the Drawing-rooms, will be found to be of the mos».
beautiful and tasteful manufacture. The Dining
rooms arc capacious, and the hours of meals will be
so arranged as to suit the convenience of the early
and late.
Every department will be conducted in an unsx~
ceptiouatdc manner, and the Proprietor pledges hiir»-
self that the American House shall be truly th*
Traveller’s Home. LEWIS RICE.
faß-2aw6m-wlam
TOTHOSE INSEARCHOFA
PLEASANT SUMMER RETREAT.
'THE SUBSCRIBER, late of the Nawton
&. House, Athens, Georgia, having taken tl>e
Hotel in this place formerly owned and occupied by
Col. Griffin, takes this method of in form mg his triends
and the public generally, that he has settled perma
nently (he hopes) in the pleasant village of Gaines
ville, that th-j house he has purchased has under
gone considerable rei airs, and is newly furnished in
neat and comfortable style.
Nothing is haxarded in saying that the house is in
better condition every way than it has been for ten
years past.
He feels authorised in assuring the public that
the well earned and deservedly high reputation
which Col. Griffin has given to the house, shall not
sufiei iu his hands.
With a liberal patronage and our best exertions,
we hope to make Gainesville just the place.
Travellers to this section of the country can bea-r
--commodated with first rate stage travelling eitiwr
from Athens (the terminus of the Athens branebsf
the Georgia Railroad) or from Stone Mountain, tbaae
times a week, 10-wit: Ou Tuesday’s, Thursday's
and Saturday’s, and 1 am authorised to say that
Messrs. Saulter Ivy, oi Athens, (the present stage
contractors trem Athens to this place,) will keep
co: stoutly on band a number of extra Corxhes,
Hacks, Ac., which they will at all times putt m tbs
road when required, so that noon need fear having
to remain in Atncns longer than inclination or pleas
ure may dictate, and I am informed that an*ange
mentsaxe being made at the Stone Mountain for the
accommodation of all who may wish to come b y that
delightful place on their way to this section st the
State. There is also a pleasant Hack line running
in connection with these two stage lines from Ibis
place to Dahlonega, and Mr. Smith of ibis place will
give his best efforts for the sccommodation of Ihoee
wbo mav w-.sh to pass to the Sulphur Spring* or to
CUrkeviUe. L. ? THOMAS.
Gaioesvide. Hall Co.,Ga., May 23, 1851. w 4
WATCHES, CLOCKS & JEWELRY
WOODSTOCK & WHITLOCK,
Silversmiths, jkwkllers.
two doors abtaw U. S. Hotel, and
o|>poeite Hans ol Auzustn, bare on band,
and ere conalandy recessing, a fine assortment
of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Surer and
Plated Ware, Fancy Goods, Guatd and Fob Chairs,
Breast Pins, la., 4e.
Ttrtir stock is entirely new, and will be sold cheap
for eash.
yv W G. WooosToca willgie* his str ct at:en
iionw REPAIRING W ATCHES .nd CLOCKS,
haring nerved a regular apprenticeship in eoa ol its
l.nreet ■MBofseto iesin Loadaa, end from b . long
eTperienee, ho feels smntvd rs giving perfect Mt»
seuen io all whe my enirnst lhear wwk t. U*.
Jal6-«rly _
CHRONICLE .t SENTINEL
SELECTED POETRY.
For the Chronicle if* Sentinel.
MY CHILDHOOD’S HOME.
Adieu to thee, my childhood’s home
I’ve left thee, ne’er to dwell
Again within those humble walls
That I have loved so well.
And strange is doth possess thee now ;
With careless eyes they gaze
Upon the scenes where 1 have passed
My childhood’s blissful days.
Dear to this heart is each old tree—
Oft, ofi beneath their shade
I’ve eat with those I deemed my friends—
Some lowly now are laid ;
Some roam in distant lands, and some
From me are now estranged ;
Ho v sa l to look on forms once dear,
And know their hearts are changed I
But thus it is with all earth’s joys—
All, all is changing here;
Hearts which at morn may wear a smile,
Ere noon may wear a tear.
Before I left thy roof for aye,
1 knelt me down and prayed
To God to guide my footsteps
Where e'er on earth I straye I.
And Oh! I trust be heard me then,
That he iny li<e may bless,
And be a father untome —
The lone —the fatherless.
Columbia Co., June 5, 1851. Virginia.
THE LAMB IS THE LIGHT THEREOF.
REV. XXL 23.
BY THE BEV. H . BON A R .
Tnat clime is not like this dull clime of ours,
All, oil is brightness there ;
A sweeter influence breathes around its flowers,
And a fai milder air.
No calm below is like that calm above,
No region here s like that realm of love ;
Earth’s softest spring ne’er shed so soft a light,
Earth’s brightest summer never shone so bright.
That sky is not like this sad sky of ours,
Tinged with earth’s change and care;
No shadow uime it, and no rain-cloud lowers —
No broken sunshine there.
One everlastin? stretch of azure peurs
Its stainless splendor o’er those s’niees shores ;
For there Jehovah shines with heavenly ray,
There Jesus reigns dispensing endless day.
Th® dwellers there are not like these of earth,
No mortal stain they bear ;
And yet they seem of kindred bl?od and birth—
Whence, and how came they there?
Earth was their native soil; from sin and shame,
Through tribulation, they to glory came;
Bondslaves • elivered from sin’s crushing load,
Brenda ; luck'd from burning by the hand of God.
Those robes of theirs are not like these below—
No angel’a half su bright!
Whence came that beauty, whence that living glow ;
Whence came that radiance white?
Wash’d in the blood cf the atoning Lamb,
Pair as th® light those robes of theirs became ;
And now, all tears wiped off from ev’ry eye,
They wander where the freshest pastures lie;
Tarougb alt the nightless day of that unfading sky.
Speiial -Notices.
Tile Annual Oration, before tbe two
Literary Societies of MERCER. UNIVERSITY,
Penfield, Ga , will be pronounced, in tl e College
Chapel, on the Evening of the 30th JULY, by tbe
Hou. Jab. L. Orr, of South Carolina, an Honorary
Member of the Ciceronian Society. je27-w4
Tribute of Heaped*—At a called meet
ing of Newborn Chapter, No. 14, the fidlowing Pre
amble and Reso'utions were parsed unanimously:
Whereas, it has phased the Almighty to remove
from this lile our worthy Companion, T'hqmas R.
Smith; and whilst we bow with submission to this
dispensation of the great disposer of human events,
we can but deplore, with hearts smitten deeply, with
this tad bereavement, th t on® so worthy of our
esteem, so amiable in aia deportment, one who filled
with so much usefulness ami respectability, his sta
tion id society, should have been so early taken
from our midst. We feel that a vacancy hag been
created by his departure which we cannot easily
supply ; that a companion has been removed from
j’ssociation in this Chapter which we shall long de
plore. And whereas, we are left only to pay this
slight tribute to bis memory, and to mingle our grief
with his family and friends in the following Resolu
tions !
Resolved, Tint this Royal Arch Chapter most
deeply deplore the death oi our esteemed and wor
thy companion. Thomas R. Smith, who so recent,
ly associated with us as one of our brightest orna
ments and most useful and worthy companions
kesolced, That wc present cur sincere regard and
unaffected sym pit hies and condolence to his relations
who survive him, for this afflicting dispensation of
Divine Providence, which has robbed them of a sen
and brother, find this Chapter of a companion and
friend.
Resolved, Tfatthe Members of this Royal Arch
wiH uh**<*i Hat’gecf Mourning for
the space cf thirty days.
Resolved, That the Secretary furnish the parents
of the deceased with a copy of the above Resolu
tions.
Resolved, That a copy cf the above proceedings
be forwarded to the Chronicle and Sentinel, Augus
ta. and Masonic Journal, Marietta, for publication.
je2B w 2 E. R. POKIER, S cretary.
Notice--Every body read title. —D
W. R. MoflZLir is still in Griffin, and continues to
cure Cancers, Wens, Fistulas, and Ulcers of all
kinds. E*ery persen afflicted with Cancers, would
do well to give him a call, and have their health re
stored. He has, during the last twelve months,
cured a great many cases of Cancers, that seemed
to be from their appearance, almost incurable; in
fact, a number of them was of long standing, and
had been under the treatment of the most eminent
Cancer Doctors in the world.
Dr. Moseley has now in his office some fifteen or
twenty Cancer* and Tumors, weighing from 2 to 8 oz.
which he has preserved for a specimen, that those
afflicted with the disease, may fee and satisfy them
selves that there is no humbuggery in Dr. Moseley’s
curing the very worst kind of Cancers. my23-wt
CHEAP READY MADE CLOTHING.
iCfJ. M. Newby &. Co*, under tbe United
Slates Hotel, will dispose of the SU MMER GOODS
they have on hand, al prices less than they can be
bought for elsewhere. Those in want, can gel bar
gains, by calling early. They have just received a
large lot of line Cotton and Linau SHIRTS, DRAW
ERS, die., &c., which will be sold low. je29
CELEBRATION OF THE 4TH JULY.
Or At 8 o’clock, A. Ml , a Procession will be I
forned in front of the U. S. Hotel, under the com- 1
mand of Capt. John B. Campbell, Marshal of the
dav. The Procession wil'lhen move down Broad to ,
Centre Street, through Centre to Greene, and up ]
Greene Street to City Hall Park, where, after Pray- i
er, the Declaration of Independence will be read by ■
A. W. Church, Esq., and an Oration delivered by ’
Jas. G. Collier, Esq. The centre seats reserved
for the Processi n. •
ORDER OF PROCESSION. i
1. Oglethorpe Infantry,
2. C linch Rifies,
3. Mejcr General and Staff,
4. Brigadier General and Staff,
5. Officers of the 10th Regiment,
6. Officers of the Army an I Navy,
7. Orator and Reader,
8. Reverend Clergy,
9. City Authorities,
10. Magistra es of the City and County,
11. Fire Companies,
12. Odd Fellows,
13. Sons of temperance,
14. <3old Water Army, (
15. Mechanic’s Society,
16. Medical Faculty,
17. Students at Law,
IS. Young Men’s Library Association,
19. Citiaeus generally.
After a Benediction, the procession will again form
and return up Greene-street t > Campbell, through
Campbell to Broad-at., and down Broad to U; S.
Hotel.
At sun-rise a Federal Salute will be fired, and a
National Salute at 12 M.
The Rev. Clergy, the City Authorities, Members
of the different Societies, the Fire Companies, .Medi
c d Faculty and Students, the Students al Law. and
the Ciliaens generally, are respectfully invited to
participate in the Celebration of the day.
By order of the Committee of Arrangements. je29
LOOK HERE
RKfILL BE RENTED, on reason-
Tv able terms, for one, ora term of pasxgj
veers, from the first of January next, (he
DINNER AND SUPPER HOUSE,
known as the Ninety Mile Station, between Savan
nah and Macon, on the Central Railroad. Upon the
premises are a spacious Hotel and ail needful build
ings. Two store houses, barn, stables, negro houses
and vegetable gard?n, all in good repair, with a farm
attached, under a gool stale of cultivation, from fifty
to one hundred acres. For an active and enterpris
ing man, this situation presents one of the finest open
ings for mercantile business in the State, having an
extensive region of country to sustain it. Tn me
eha ics, aI«K this place offers the best opening in
Georgia. A superior Blacksmith and Wagon ma
ker, a Boot and Shoe maker, a Tanner and Currier,
will find more business and at higher prices, than at
anv ether point. There is an ample supj-iy of the
best materials and one of the finest S-'eam >aw Mills
in (he country, within a short d’stince. Industrious
and temperate men can “ drive’’ a profitable busi
ness in tbeir trades at this place. Tenements suffi
cient for all.
Within a mile of the Hotel is the Ogeechee River,
with fishing not surpassed by any stream
of its sixe, and the finest fish at all sea*, ns.
There is at thia place a Post and Telegraphic Ot
fice. With the exception of the wood and waier
station, which will be reserved, any part or all of the
premises will be Rented, by application to the pro
prietor, H. P. JONES, Birdaville, Burke Co..
ie7-wlm ar to J V. JONES, Atlanta, Ga
——— horses.
KIRKBRIDES TATTERSALIS
zWC HEAVE POWDERS are the only remedy
I ever used in thi> country which will cure HEAVES
J OK BROKEN WIND l> HORSES, and they
I are now recognized as a standard infallible remedy
for those They are the production of a
I celebrated English farrier, and have been used for
many years in the fawvas TattersaUs stables, Lon
don, and other parts of England, with distinguished
sneoese. And since tneir iotmiaction into this coun
try they have cured, in this city and vicinity alooe,
more than four hundred horses, many of them afflic
ted with meet aggravated cases of heaves, broktn
wind and chronic cough. Price—sl per bundle.
For sals in Augusta by
>2l dAw PHILIP A. MOISE, Druggist.
T'aKBANT'B klxt. cubebs and co
paiba. for sate by
>l4 _ I|WM. H. TUTT, Druggist.
-VUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY WORDING, JULY 2, 1851
MISCMUraOUS li
terature AND NEWS.
STATJK ROAD,
REPORT ON THE ROAD. BY THE FINANCE
COMMITTEE.
Milledgeville, June 14th, 1851.
His Excellency Gorge IF. Towns. — Sih:
—Until very recently the undersigned, the
committee appointed by you under an act of
the Legislature, were unablo to comply with
the desire expressed in February last of per
son illy inspecting the Western & Atlantic
Railroad, and reporting to you generally as to
its condition, &c. On the 22d lilt, we assem
bled at Atlanta and entered upon the discharge
of the dutv imposed. Accompanied by Mr.
Mitchel! and the late resident civil Engineer
Mr Wells, who joined us above Atlanta, we
proceeded slowly with a view to make a care
ful urvey and examination of the entire road
to the Tunnel a distance of 106 c iles from
Atlanta. With a view to perspicuity we place
under appropriate haads tne results of this ser
vice.
OF THB RAIL.
The entire long h of the S;ate road to Chat
tanooga on tin Tonnesse river is 133 miles.
Four kinds of Iron rail are used on the road;
thus:
Prom Atlanta to Casy’s water station, a plate
or fl t bar 5 miles
From Casy s to a short distance beyond the
Chattahoochee river, a bridge or U
rail 5 miles
From that point to Ackworth, a plate or flit
bar 24 mile?
From Ackworth to Kingston, the bridge or
U rail 25 miles
Frcivi Kingston toColb?jn, rt plnte rail* • ■ *2l roiloj
From Calhoun to Dilton, a fling® rail of 40
tons pel mile 20 miles
From Dalton to Chattanooga, a flange rail of
50 tons per mile 38 miles
This statement exhibits the fact that fifty miles
of the Stale road is laid with a plate or flit bar
rail. Itshould be borne in mind that this rail
rias been in use since the commencement of
business on he road, say 1845. It is much
worn—broken in many places and would be
very dangerous, buts >r the numerous repair
ing parties, distributed along this distance en
gaged actively in patching where needed It
appears to us that every par ide of the flat
bar should ba removed at the earliest practica
ble moment. It has become exceedingly ei
pensive to keep in a condition so as to answer
the necessities of the hour, as will be evinced
by reference to the books of the Superinten
dent of transportation. It is evident that it
cannot be made to answer the anticipated
freights of the next fill and winter.
We are gratified to learn from Mr. Mitchell
that under an Execulive order, he had p ircha
sedzif Messrs. Padelford & Fav of Savannah,
1005 tons of a good T rail and which was
daily expected, sufficient to displace at once
twelve miles of the flat bar. With a view to
provide for the r maining thirty eight miles of
flat bar, Mr. Mitchell had bee.) in correspon
dence with Messrs. Pad!eford<fc Fay as agents
of a London house, which correspondence
was submitted for on- cunsiderat on and coun*
sei. Whilst we disclaim the possession of any
authority or power over the subject, and are
entirely sensib'e that we hive not been clothed
with any advisory authority upon which the
Chief Engineer might safely proceed to con
tract for Iron, we did not hesitate to say to
that functionary, that it was a responsibility
whicn he should promptly assume, and that
we did not doubt tha. the people and their
representatives would commend the course
which would so materially contribute to pla
cing their road in a condition to do the busi
ness pressing on it. We cannot permit our
selves to question the readiness of the Legisla
ture in hastening to make ample provision for
the faithful fulfilment of coMtrac's mada by
public agetits when thoss are manifestly large
ly conducive to the public security and ben jfit.
Nor are we disposed to think from any con
siderations, will the Leg slature attempt to find
in the eiidbi ion of zeal, energy and inte li
cence in this regard, ground for censure, but
on the contrary with ail liberal minded men
we should hope forth ir distinct and unquali
fied commend tuon.
OF THE BUPERVTRUCTURE AND BIUEGES.
The superstructure of the road to the tunnel
is in proccssof an early and thorough renew,
al.
The Bridges were most carefii’ly examined,
and it gives us pleasure to say, that they have
6een made stronger and more secure than
when first erected under the supervision of Col.
Long, in this remark we do not include the
old bridge over the Chattahoochee, as that is
so shortly to be superseded by the very supe
rior bridge nearly completed by contractor Mr.
Denmead-
The apprehensions which we know were
entertained and freely expressed during the
last year as to the Bridges and superstructure,
have been discovered by us, on examination,
now to be unfounded.
ur th*:
The road is miserably equipped. We feel '
humiliated, as Georgians who have stood in
this enterprise in its infancy and through all the
trials bnd opposition it has encountered, to be t
compelled to say, that it never has received
from the State ‘‘a decent suit of clothing ” I’
has been left to sustain itself by every shift and
expedient which those who supervised it, could
devise; begging borrowing and making ruin
ous contracts with other railroad compands
in consequence of its poverty and depen
dence, until at length it is about being refused
the hire and use of the box and other cars of
the company to which so much has been paid
and so much is still due. Can it be that this
state of things will be permitted by the Legisla
ture to continue ? It never could have existed
for a moment, had the Legislature originally
equipped the road. We feel constrained to
present the great deficiency which has hitherto
enisled and now exists, that it may receive the
considera’ion to which such a fact is entitled.
Belonging to the road at this time are thir
teen Locomotives of which seven have been
purchased since April, 1848,—and which may
be esteemed good:
4 Passenger Cars,
2 Baggage Cars,
4 Box Cars, and
6 Platform Cars.
The road needs at this time additionally :
10 Pa c senger Cars,
200 Box (Jars,
100 Pat form Cars, <
4 Baggage Cars, and <
15 Locomotives.
In the absence of Legislative provision for
a moderate equipment, as above suggested, .
with a view in some degree, to render the ’
State Road less dependent than it is. and has
ever been, at leas’, until a Legislature shall
assemble, we have advised Mr. Mitchell to
negotiate at once, if practicable, with the seve
ral Rail Road Companies connected with the
Slate Road, the purchase from them of fifty
box and platform cars.
To obviate the dirticulty frequently arising
with the companies wh *se roads connect with
the Sts’e Road, ot fixing with entire certain- <
ty, which should be responsible for loss of
produce, or damage to freights, we would
recommend that you invite the Legislature,
having fully equipped the State Road, to pro
hibit the running of any cars whatever on that
road except those owned by the State.
A subject demanding legislation is the fact
which wo have learned with reference to a
prohibition which exis s on the Rome Branch
Railroad, of he Cars of the Macon and West
ern Railroad, not being permitted to go up
to Rome f r freights, whilst the cars of the
Georgia Railroad may. As a general prin
ciple, we would abstain from interference with
the conduct of a private company, leaving it
to regulate its business in its own way ; but
there is an obvious propriety of interference
on the part of the State here, to prevent the
perversion of her road from the great design
of its founders At Atlanta, it was expected
and designed that competition shoti'd begin;
at that poin . fre'ghts be distributed among
roads connecting there. Perfect equall y was
intended to be dispensed, and no preference
of the one over (he other, to be given, through
the instrumentality of the Sia e Road. Tha
prohibition referred *o, has this effect pre i«e
ly—that to tbs extent of the expense of Iran
snipmsnt of produce and freights at Kingston,
from the Rome Railroad cars to the Macon
and W. R. R. cars and the delay attending
it—a bounty to tho«r forwarding over the
Georgia Railroad, is g.ven and small as it may
be, serves to gi»e a direction to h very large
ami valuable trade, which otherwise mig it be
divided between the gmit markets of the
State If me Legislature should equip the
Stale Road, and prohibit the running of other
cars on it exc-pt ’hose of the State—no otner
corrective will be wanting.
Depots, larje, substantia! and secure, are
wanted at several ooiits- indeed, we thins they
should be pn vided at every important point
along the road
A machine shop with capacity f r .very pur
pose ot the road, shuu'd be erected at or near
Kingston or Adairsville, so as to enable Loco
motives requiring repair, to be put in order, with
out traversing the whole length of the road.
It occurs to us, that upon the completion of
the Milledgeville & Gordon R. Road, the Peni
tentiary might readily, and most profitably to
the Slate, be converted into a shop for the man
ufacture of cars for the use of the State Road
only. The employment of convict labor in this
form will prove more profitable to the State, and
be less '..able to the objections which are con
stantly andspeciously made, to bringing such la
bor into competition with other mechanic labor.
Tne condition of the finances ot the road, up
to the first day oi October, ISSO, having been
presented to your excellency, and published,
our examination was limited to lhe operation of
the road tor the last seven months; and as the
expenses of the maintenance of way, and of
transportation, could not be precisely arrived at
by us, until the adjustment of some accounts,
n..w under examination by Mr. Mitchell, we re
train from the presentation oi any statement
connected with thtsdepsrtment of our service,ex
cept that of the gross receipts of the read du
ring the seven months counting troin Ist Octo
ber last.
Reviewing the whole subject, with all the
lights which have been thrown ipon it in the
fol', and free intercourse we have had with En
gineers ot other roads, and with gentlemen of
intelligence familiar with the wants of the State
Road—we are persuaded that a sum less ttiau
five hundred thousand dollars will be inadequate
to placing it in a condldon to meet the accumu
lated and rapidly increasing freights, which
await the action of the Legtsiatnre. We doubt
not that the expenditure of a million of dollars,
' so as to relay the entire roaii wjiihu rail ot from
85 to 90 tons to the mile, and tfce substitution of
a much heavier class of I;bca,notives, will be
found in the end to be the wis??and better policy.
In thus recommending the’ tn-jrough renewal
and equipment of Iter great road, we cannot for
a moment indulge the Idea that Georgia will be
insane enough to disappoint her own high desti
ny, by allowing this work front any oftha con
siderations which we hive seen stated, to pass
into other hands. Now, wh ßi nearly all our
troubles and difficulties arising f-om this source,
have ended; when the St itedebt springing from it
has ceased to press heavily and to give annoy
ance ; when the friends of the road who did
battle originally, and those who continued to
battle since in its behalf, are re«ising in their
tents, thinking that no further exertion was
necessary on their part to sustain a policy which
they had labored so long, so zorsously, and as
we think, so wisely, to establish,, we are pained
to find that the question of thcSlle of the road,
at the moment of the full frult&n of the rich,
varied, and illimitable returns is>ich the State
is on the eve of receiving, hasibeen agitated, i
and enforced with every argumeur, which the
experience and mental resources, could supply, I
of gentlemen distinguished for teputation and
unquestionable patriotism. We beg leave to
difier with them entirely as to what is the true
policy of ths State ol Georgia. \
In this connexion we lament, as the sincere
friends of Education, to find some more dis
tinguished by zeal in i-s cause, than wfr claim
to possess, are desirous of the sale of the State
road with a view to found with ffe proceeds a
scheme of general education. A 4<le purpose
indeed, and worthy of the of the
Philanthropist and Statesman I But what pros
pect can there be of the s, plication of the pro
ceeds of such sale to this beneficepl purpose 1
A brief reflection must dissipate euch
hopes. It should be rememberetUhat upon the
road are existing liene to a verw-considerable
amount which must be first public
faith is pledged to suejr,. ,d e ht oi
near two mltlious in of,the
buildin'' of the road exists, in addition to these
liens. Can any one, after the statement of these
facts, seriously believe that the people will tole
rate the appropriation of the proceeds of the
sale of the road,any part thereof, to an Edu
cation scheme, until that debt and liens are paid,
say $2,500,000? Will the road sell for more?
We question it. We may safely predict that no
Legislature will venture to found with the pro
ceeds of the sale of the State Road, an Educa
tion scheme, which leaves the State debt to be
paid through all time to come, by an annual,
never-ending, never-diminishing taxation.—
Why then, should the friends of Education fa
vor a sale of the road—since it must be evident
to every man who will allow himself to be direct
ed by his common sense—that not a dollar of the
proceeds will, in any reasonable probability, be
applied as they would desire ?
file true policy of every friend of Education,
is to stimulate the Representatives of ths peo
ple, to the wise expenditure of the amount in
dicated by us, on the road, that its capacity for
profit, its ability to maintain itself thereafter ;
and ability to repay a'l tne money which has
been exoended on it, may be as it will be, fully
demonstrated. Let the future net proceeds of
tho road, alter the payment of the entire State
debt, be set apart as sacred to the cause ol Gen
eral education ; and we doubt not that the time
is rapidly approaching when they will be found
to be ample. A sale of the road is not only de
sired—but by some, it is insisted that the sale
should be made to the two great companies—the
Georgia R. R. Company, and the Central R. R.
Company, or rather to a new Company, to be
composed ot Stockholders of both.
Whilst we have never belonged to that class
of politicians, whose apprehensions of monop
oly arealike excited, and equally, by the incor
poration of a burying ground—or a bank—we
must be permitted to say, that we view with se
rious alarm the project of a sale to these Com
panies, of the State Road. From the instant of
the consummation of such an idea, will the star
of Georgia pale in the constellation of the
States. Her legislation will be no longer free ;
it can be, and who doubts, if it can, that it will
not be dictated, by two overpowering and weal
thy monopolies, acting in unison, aa their inter
est' will then have become identical. Separate
ly, the influence of each of those Companies is .
nou> felt in the halls of legislation. L'niled, their
power for any will be irres. stable. It is
the dictate of prudence to preserve tha relations
ot honorable rivalry now existing—certainly not ,
to invite, tobring about, such a union between
them, as that proposed—a union which wou'd
pl ice the interests of Georgia at their mercy. It I
will be no answer to this view of the question. <
to reply, that in the contract of sale, restrictions
can, and will be imposed by the Legislature, for
the protection of the people. So they can—and
a subsequent Legislature nominated and elected
by the power and influence of these companies,
cin annul or re’ease those restrictions, and where
then will be the boasted protection of the three
great classes of the people, the agricultural, com
mercial and manufacturing ? In making these
remarks, we would, by no means, be understood
as imputing a design on the part of these Com- 1
parties, to possess themselves of the State
Road, at the supposed sum of $2,500,000—a
large sacrifice upon its cost—or of any wish or
purpose to control the legislation of the State.
We simply state with ireedom, our views, and ,
run out the consequences which appear to us,
will necessarily flow from the act deprecated, no
matter by whom the companies may be man
aged. Under the control of their present very
distinguished heads, we should fee! less appre
hension, than perhans under the management
of any two other eininonl piiizetis of Georgia ;
tiemen ot meir probATy u.t.i-u.uvi,
willal ways be at the head oiKMr v mnpanies ?
A reason assigned tor the ssl-e of the road is,
that it has been, and ever wilf.be used as a party
engine in our State elections. This, perhaps,
is The strongest reason which has been, or can
be presented in support of such policy. We
t?ink that it requires no very great skill to de
vise a system of control, by which this great en
terprise can be withdrawn almost entirely from
the vortex of party. Why may not its agents
and employees be placed in an independent po
sition in reference to the Executive Department,
and to uusure capacity and probity, why may not
such a term be given to their offices, as to allay
the fever for place —often created by the frequen
cy of change? If this may be do"e, and we do
not doubt it, much, if not the whole strength of
the argument, will be thereby destroyed. The
magnitude of the interests of Georgia—present
and prospective—would seem to require that a
hearty effort should be made by our public men
to re-organize the system —and in all its details
to demand of, and fix responsibility upon its
agents: and until this shall have been attempted,
and failure has been the result, we cannot think
the idea that a State cannot manage as well as a
private corporation, her interests, should receive
an assent from any intelligent man.
Herewith, we present a tabular statement of
the receipts of the road. The increase annually,
and as the road was extended, demonst'ates the
truth of the proposition, that if Geor ia will do
her full duty, and that without a blind parsi
mony, she will receive in a few vears, a large
revenue with which she can easily provide for
the payment at an early period, of her public
debt, and for other imports at purposes. Under
a liberal and proper policy y we venture to assert,
that she will, in five years, be in the receipt of
a nett income from the road—of not less than
half a million of dollars annually. That such
an anticipation is not extravagant, let us refer to
the sources of supply, al! of which are con
nected intimately with the business of the State
Road :
Rairoads, Miles.
Georgia R. Road to Atlanta 171
Athens Branch 39
Warrenton 4
Washington Branch, (in progress,) 18
232
Central R Road—Savannah to Macon 191
Milledgeville G >rdon, (in progress,) 17
Eatonton to Milledgeville, *• “ 22
Macon & Western to Atlanta 101
South Western to Oglethorpe 51
Columbus R. Road, (in progress,) 73
455
Waynesboro’ R. Road, (in progress,) 52
Atlanta & LaGrange R. Road 85
Rome Branch R. Road 19
Nashville & Chattanooga, (in progress,) •••151
Hiwassee R. Road, “ “ 110
Memphis & Charleston R. Road, projected-*290
654
In addition to the roads enumerated, built and
in progress, may be added the roads of Alabama
and South Carolina, as also the extension of the
Hiwassee road, from Knoxville. East Tennes
see, into Virginia, to Lynchburgh, a point east
of the Alleghany mountains—this latter ex
tension, rendering the State of Kentucky and
Virginia, and a portion of North Carolina, tribu
tary to our road. In fact, through the instru
mentality of some of the roads in progress be
yond our limits, the Cumberland, Tennessee,
Ohio and Mississip-i rivers yniut necessarily
furnish pass ngers and freighta. Nor should
we omit the important fact, that throughout the
greater part of the entire length of the road
, 138 miles,] we have a dense, active, industrious
and thriving population, the products of whose
laoor are tobe borne to market over this road,and
its return freights.
Already new subjects of labor are springing
up by its wayside, and furnishing large and proi
itaole employment to the road. Articles of
transpiration, nut contemplated when the State
road was projected, now demand from their
quantity and value, our attention ; as for exam
ple, 'a’n-batk, large quantities of which are
being prepared lor shipment to Erance;
feathers from East Tennessee, by the hun
dreds of thousand pounds; coal, sandstone,
cedar and other woods used in various
manufactures; and last, though not least,
cotton. Ytß; the valleys of Cherokee are now
competing in the production of the great staple,
with Southwestern Georgia.
A paper of this description will not admit cf a
full survey of the ULimitabU jUids, in which a
great internal commerce is struggling to find an
outlet; 'hat autlet is tfirough cur mountain gate*..
Tne subject admits on y of a faint illustration
by maps delineating the streams of trade and
intercourse which have gushed forth as almost
under Providential bidding, to renovate a land
before decaying tin fer various causes and descri
ed by its chillren. The subject is so vast that
it can be measured with any tolerable certainty,
only by an arithmetical mini and by entering
into a computation of thj various articles of a
nation’s wealth and produce along .he whole
stem and branches of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad. The name is strikingly indicative of
this gigantic State wotk
Georgia has been lau led as the Empire State
of the South. T-> what other cause has she
been indebted for this distinction, so much as
to this work, which, breaking through the
mountain barrie’s which seemed to defy her
labor and perseverance, has made smooth her way
to the valley of the Mississippi lying beyond
them.
Let the fruits f this labor and perseverance,
of her revenue expended and of the power she
now possesses, be parceled out, or sold under
conditions ii it the Legislature; and the
moral of the Drama of him who parted his
kingdom among his two daughters, wall find a
quick realixation in the insignificance to which
the State will be reduced.
GkO.iD. Phillips. j
Wm. W. Clayton
luuox L. Committ.ee.
Bueiw of 'M Wultrn <f- Atiantit R Uroad
i \ fronithe 15 Sept 1845, io April, 30 1851, inclusive.
From 15 Sept. 1845, to 3U Sept. 1846*$ 38,127 32
; “ 1 Oct. 1846 to 30 “ 1817- 89,483 86
“ lOct. 1847 to 30 “ 1818- 115,585 30
[ “ 1 Oct. 1848 to 30 “ 1949- 132,105 70
. “ 1 Oct. 1819 to 30 “ 1850-199,56134
. *• 1 Oct. 1850 to Ist May 1851,
is 7 months, 170,713 45
8744,579 97
Supreme Court*
AJi i ute of Points decid ed at Hawkinsville. June
Term, 1951.
Carey, Assignee vs. Giles, Receiver—from
Twiggs:—l. The questions—propounded to
witnesses examined by commission—need not
be inserted in the Bill of Exceptions—unless the
same are necessary for the elucidation of the
answers to such questions.
2. The rule requires only so much of the evi
dence as is necessary to the proper adjudication
of the errors assigned.
3. Where a portion of the evidence ia also a
j part of the record, it is unneessary to include it
■ within the Bill of Exceptions.
; 4. Merc nominal parties—who are in no wise
interested in the issue, judgment or decree, ren-
I dered in the Court below—need not be made
parties to the Writ ol Error.
5. Under the Acts of 1850, allowing amend
ments to be made to the Bill of Exceptions.
Writs of Error, &c., in the Supreme Con t—
held the Bill of Exceptions and Writ of Error
may be amended by adding other parties as
Plaintiffs in Error, who were parties to the decla
ration or Writ below.
6 Such parties will then be al’owed either to
assign Errors or to sever.
7. Where a Court rendering 8 judgment sub
sequently in a proceeding betv een the same
parties, reverses that judgment—it cannot be
pleaded in bar of any subsequent proceeding,
so long as the last judgment remains unreversed.
8. The functions of the Cashier of a Bank
remain even after the resignation of the other
officer?; One of those functions is tp t pay off
demands against the Bank.
9. Where the Receiver of a broken Bank is a
party to suit, it is unnecessary and impossible
to make the extinct corporation a party.
IC. An assignment by a debtor in failing cir
cumstances to a creditor, of assets more than
sufficient to pay the debt, with an agreement to
return the surplus if any, after paying the debt,
is not fraudulent, perse, under the Act of 1819.
11 The other creditors may still be allowed
under proper allegations in the Bill, to prove
that the assignment, w s in fact fraudulent.
Poe and Chappell, for Plaintiff in Error.
S.T. Bailey <fc McDonald, for Defendant.
Executors of Hopkins vs. E. H. Hopkins
and anotheb—from Camden. —Under the act
of 1839, allowing the family of the deceased one
year’s support and maintenance out of the es
tate, the special jury allowed 86000, being one
half of the net annual income: Held on a
motion for a new trial, on the ground that the
verdict was excessive, that the court will not in
terfere, unless there appears in the record evi
dence to show that thejury were influenced by
prejudice or partiality, the court below having
refused the new' trial.
Law for plaintiff in error ; Ward for defendant
in error.
G. J. Bulloch vs. The State—Larceny—
from Chatham.—!. Upon the trial of an indict
ment, against a Bank officer, lor embezzling a
largo sum of money from the bank, evidence
going to show that he was straightened in cir
cumstances. and was dealing to a heavy amount,
shortly before the larceny, in the purchase of
lottery tickets, thereby creating a necessity upon
hitn for the use of large sums of money, is ad
misaable for the consideration of the jury, es
pecially when corroborated by confessions of the
prisoner himself of large losses in the lotteries
about the time of the larceny.
2. In such an indictment, the description of
the bank bills, by amounts, value, by what bank
issued, and by whom signed and countersigned,
is sufficient, without specifying the numbers of
the bills, and the dates thereof.
3. If there be several counts in the indictment
charging different grades of the same character
of offences, with punishments differing in
amount, but of the same nature, and the jury
return a general verdict ot “guilty,” the judg
ment will not be arrested, but the court will pass
judgment for the highest offenco
4. If some of the'eounts be good and others
defective— and a general verdict of guilty be
raturned—the intendment of tho law is that the
jury find the charge in the good counts to be true,
and will rende r judgment thereon.
5. The Court in charging the jury do not vio
late the law in explaining to them the nature and
effect of direct and circumstantial evidence.
6. Counts in an indictment against a princi
pal and accessories, concluding in the words of
the Statute, is sufficient without repeating the
words “contrary to the laws, ifcc.” at the end of
the charge against the Principal—and such is
the proper conclusion of ah indictments.
Ward for Plaintiff in Error; Law <fc Bartow
forJDefendant in Error.
Mexican Boundary.—Let ers have been re
ceived in this city from El Paso del Norte,
under da‘e of the 14th April, stating that Lieut.
A. W. Whipple, Acting Chief Astronomer of
the American Commission, h id determined the
initial point on the Rio Grande where the
southern boundary cf New Mexico strikes hat
river, in latitude 32° 22' north, being the lati
tude agreed on by the Joint Commission.—
This parallel of latitude was deduced from four
hundred and thirty-four astronomical observa
lions on eleven stars On the third of April,
Lieut. Whipple met DL Silazart, the Chief
Astronomer of »ha who
had aUu thtl poiut. They then
agreed to incorporate their observations, and,
by giving equal weight to each, to recommend
to the John Commissi' n the result as the point
to he adopted. The Joint Commitsion bad
agreed <> meet at the initial point, as above
determined, on t! e 2ls April, to ratify the de
cision of the astronomers, and to lay tbe corner
stone of the monument which was to be placed
thereon.
The Quartermaster, Commiasary and Medi
cal Departments had inored to the ‘copper
mints,” accompanied by ail persons connect
ed with the Commission not on duty near the
Rio Grande.
As soon as the initial point should have been
ma'ked, the operations of the Commission
would be west of the Rio Grande ; al! it<* mem
bers would then be beyond the Rio Grande,
except tnosa stationed at the Astronomical Ob
■erva‘ory near El Paso.
The Domestic Trade.—The United States
are becoming a little world almost complete
within itself. Our diversity of climate and
soil, and our rich mineral resources, supply near
ly every want. The rapid increase of our man
ufactures will soon render us independent of for
eign supplies. It is most remarkable that our
largest importations of British goods were pre
vious to tho embargo in 1808, when our popula
tion was only one-fourth of what it is now, and
our consumption of manufactured articles prob
ably one-twelfth or less Th s speaks loudly for
cur increase of manufacturing ability. Our com
merce is now mainly not with foreign countries,
but between the States. Between the North
and the South —between the Atlantic States and
the West—on the great Mississippi and its
branches, and on the great lakes—and, what is
becoming much more than these, on our numer
ous railroads branching out in every direction,
our domestic trade is immense. General Pack
er. of the Pennsylvania Senate, in a speech re
cently delivered before that body, gives the value
of the lake trade for the year 1848, as follows :
Lake Erie $115,785,049
Lake Huron 847,152
Lake Michigan 24,310,491
Lake Champlain 16,750,700
Lake Ontario 28,144,1.00
Lake St. Clair 639,524
Total $186,484,905
Forty millions of dollars more than the whole
foreign export trade of the United States. —;Veu>-
ark Advertiser.
The Chinese in San Francisco.—The
success which has attended the labors of the
industrious Chinese in California, as indicated
by the return of s >me of them with their gold
en acquisitions, has given quite an impetus to
the feeling of emigration from the fatherland.
We learn from the Aita Californian that the
movement is spreading all along the Chinese
seaboard, and as i consequence that nearly all
the vessals that are up in the Chinese poris for
Cal fornii are intended to convey passengers.
Through their chief and agent, the Chinese
in California have obtained possession of a
large tract of laud which they have commenced
cultiv ting : they are settling it rapidly. They
are said to be among the most industrious,
quiet and patient people in the whole popula
tion. “Perhaps the citizens of no nation,”
says the Californian, 4 except the Germans,
are more quiet and valuable.” Manv letters,
it is added, pa.ss to and fro between China and
California, and at each departure of ships for
the Celestial Empire great numbers of Califor
nia papers are sent to friends beyond the
Pacific.
It is gratifying to bs farther told that the
Chinese in California, instead of adhering te
naciously to the customs and usages of their
own country, show a great facility in adopting
our national characteristics in place of their
own They adap. themselves to our laws and
manifest a preference for our institutions by
applying for citizenship according to our
laws. In dress, too, they are becoming Amer
icanized. The woodern shoes give way to
leathern ones ; the longqaeue is disappearing ;
the wide and fall nankeens are found io be
not so convenient as the more closely fitting
American garment. They are also adopting
the American hat—whether with any improve
meet or not in costume we do not know
These particulars are strongly significant of
the future destiny of California and our whole
Pacific coast. We took occasion some time
ago to refer to the analogy which our reli'ions
with Europe, already established by s'.eady
immigration on our At antic seaboard, must
soon hold with the relations wn’rch by a simi
far process are likely to grow up between our
Western territory and the old nations of the
East. I: seems that this latter process is rapid
ly making itself familiar; and wi>h tha. aevvi
ty in view which quickens the growth of all
thing? iu the golden soil of California, we may
expect to see a wonderful advance in the mul
tip ication of Oriental imo igranis in that at
tractive region, it may not be far in the fu
ture when a son of the Celest.al Empire, con
verted into an American citizen, may take his
seat in the Congress of the Republic.— Halt.
Amer.
All the accounts of the late terrible confla
gration at San France co men'ion the destruc
tion of the Custom House tn that city in such
a manner aa to lead to the inference that the
contents of it m ght have been al! destroyed
1; will be acceptab'e information to our read
ers to learn that be public treasure (to a large
amount) in that building was entirely saved jn
the fire-proof vault, so constructed as to resist
all the external hear by which it was surround
ed, and also the heavy and crushing weight of
the building which fell upon it. Even the
wax of the seals on the papers which it con
•amed was no: melted !—ATzt. Intel.
i Central America and Hayti.—U has been
announced in the New York Tribune, on the
j authority of a let er and despatch from Wash
ington, that a negotiation has been on foot
which contemplates the establishment of a pro
tectorate by the United States with England
and France for the “bocurity, safety, well being,
and entire independence of all the Central
American States and their territories,” and
“for free and untrammelled action with refer
ence to any line of communication which it
might be for the inlhre of the commercial
world to have constructed between the two
ocoane.” It is also stated that, “connected
«*ith these propositions re'erring to Central
America, is a similar propo. ition with refer
ence to Hayti,” through whicn it i« expected
to restore tranquility, and to p jserve the con
tending parties of that island in their “present
position.”
We have reason to believe th it this state
ment is wi hout foundation as fa. as Central
America is concerned, although we suppose it
to be true that an earrest effort is making to
settle the questions that disturb the epublics
which occupy the Isthmus.
j In regard to Hayti, it is true that the United
State* Government, together with the g vern
ments of France and England, have made
strong representations to the Emperor Sou
loque against any further belligerent opara ins
J upon his part against the Dominicans. There is
reason to hope that he will be so well advised as to
follow these counsels. Mr. R. M. Walsh, the
> American agent, has lately returned from that
island to Washington, accompanied by Mr
Rabeau, French consul general at Hayti, who
> represented his government in this transaction.
’ —Washington Republic.
European National Debts. —The total
debt borne by the fifty-eight Euro
’ pean States is shown to be 1 753,273 127 Z., cf
V’hich b-...
tieths and the moanrehies the remaining sev-
J enUen twentieths. Every geographical square
mile in Europe is burtheued with an average
of 9.740 Lof the public debt. Hamburg!)
i sustaining the maximum ofdebt in proportion
, to its area and Prussia and Turkey the mini
mum And in proportion to the population
of Europe an average of 15s per head ia
indicated in this case—the Netherlands
sustaining tin maximum and Prussia the mini
mum. The revenues of the European States
yield a lo al 0f207,301,752?., of which 53, 386 -
293/. is derived from ;he republics, and 153,
915;459/. or three-four hs, from the monarch
ies -Spain holding the worst posi'ion as re
gards the amount of revenue opposed to the
National debt, the ’nterest on which at SZ. per
cent would consume the whole revenue—
whilst Prussia requires onl/ a fourteenth of
its revenue to be so applied.
Schooner Capsized and 9 Persons Drown
ed —The Racine (Wis.) Advertiser says that
the schooner S. Marvin, from that port, with
the captain, crew and three passengers, nine
persons in all, was lost in the gale of Thursday,
the22dult. The names are W. P. Denton,
captain; Alexander Atwood, mate; Harvey
Slawson, James Underhill, Philip Kinsley, and
a Welchman, name not known, the balance
hands. The Marvin was lying bottom up
ward, with her bow nearly drawn under by
her anchor. Her masts both broke off and
were lying alongside of her. Nothing could
be discovered of any of her crew or passsen
gers. It is supposed the gale struck her while
the hands were at supper, and withsuch vio
lence as to break off both masts and capsize
her before they could get to duty, and no doubt
is entertained that they found a watery grave.
Tho captain was a young man of eighteen
years of age, and of much promise.
Extensive Farming Operation.—The most
extensive farming operation probably ever en
tered into in any country, has been successfully
carried through in California during the past
autumn ard winter. We allude to the specu
lation of Harner & Co.
“Day before yesterday the lastsackof the
potato crop was gr id, and the gross procee
of this crop have amounted to $178,0 )o—yield
cf 130 acres I There have been eighty hands
employed ou the Ranche, and the total ex
pense of carrying it on during t e season has
been SBO,OOO. The sacks (gunny bags) in which
the potatoes have been shipped cost above SB,-
000, while the gross receipts for the total crop
of the Ranche have amounted to $223,000.
We have seen in the New York Journal
of Commerce, in a letter signed “ Ontario,”
an estimate made of the probable sales of
this potato crop when it was first planted.
This writer judged that they would amount
to $176 000 ; and to show how close the cal
culation was, had it not been for the recent
fires and the rite of potatoes, the extra S3OOO,
making $l7B 000, the actual receipts would
not have been made.
The Maine Gold Mines —Mr. George H.
Campbell, of Boston, who has spent several
years in the gold mines of California, has lately
paid a visit to the gold mines of Maine He
writes to the Times from Madison, on the Ken
nebec river, about twenty males above Water
ville, and says that gold tn small quantities is to
be found between that place and she Canada
line; but the writer is inclined tojkthink that
five cents per day per man would be'more than
the average result of diligent labor. The first
d scovery made on this side of the Canad an
line Whs at Carney Brook, where a Mr. Car
ney keeps a public house, and since that time
some hundreds have tried their hands there at
prospecting, and some hundreds more are ex
pected. Tne writer is of opinion that gold is
scattered all along over the northern part of
Maine, but probably searching for it would
prove ruinous to the undertaker.
Great Lock Picking.—There is a Mr.
Hobbs, of New York, attending the London
Exhibition, whose skill in solving the riddle of
the mofet intricate locks, and which were sup
posed to defy human ingenuity, has astonished
the world at present in London. Dr Smith,
in one of his letters to the Tran’cript, says—
“he picked the heretofore supposed unpicka
ble Chubb lock, which laughed at all the Eng
lish Hcksmiths and rogues. It is the reliance
of bankers, and secures the archives of the go
vernment. He opened the chest in just fifteen
minutes with soma sort of crooked Yankee
nail he carried in a vest pocket. He offered
ten thousand dollars for the privilege ol trying
to open the lock of the safe in which the great
regal iamond, belonging to the Quoon, valued
at two million? of pounds ster'ing, is deposited
nightly, at the close of the daily oxhibivon.—
But no one dared trust him near it with that
strange looking hook.” Mr. Hobbj proposes
to try his hand at several other locks, to the
successful opening of which largo rewards are
offered by the inventors.
A New Variety of Sheep—We had the
pleasure of seeing yesterday a new variety of
sheep, a ram and an ewe, just imported from
Africa, and intended tn be conveyed to the
fine sheep farm of M. B. Ives, Esq , at
Potowoinut. They came from the mountains
about 300 miles in the interior, from the East
coast of Africa, and were a present from H.
B. M. Consul in Zanzibar to a gentleman in
Salem. The variety is entirely new, and
quite unknown to naturalists. It is distin
guished by the enormous fatness of the tail,
and a singular dewlap, resembling that of
cattle, and lh°! absence of horns in the ram.
The wool is very coarse, more resembling
hair then the article which is beginning to
form so important a staple in the productions
of our State ; but in recompense of this the
mutton is said to be unrivalled in flavor and
tenderness ; and it is probable that by ju
dicious crossing with our native breeds, a
very important variety way be produced,
sustaining, or perhaps improving, the wel
known reputation of Rhode Island mutton!
and not depreciating its fi’ness for wool.—
Providence Journal.
Union Monument—lt is contemplated by
gentlemen of this city to construct a full cap
ped Corinthian column on the neutral ground
between Royal and St. Charles, in Canal
street. It is io ba surmounted by a square
turret, on the four sides of which will bo en
graved tho names of the Compromise Com
mittee of the Senate of the United States. On
the lop of the turret will be a town clock with
four large illuminabie dials, and above all will
be a full length bronze ratue of H.nry Clav.
The column is to be of ca«t iron, about 126
feet high and fifteen feet in dia » eter. It is et
.imated that $20,000 will cover the whole cost,
the amount to be raised by public subscription.
We believe that the idea of con-tructing this
monument has originated with Mr. William
Freret, who has already procured lithographic
engravings of the plans, and we trust he will
prosecute his object to a successful completion,
—N. O Picayune
Recipe for Snake Bite.—A subscriber
w-iting us from the river, says that one of bis
children, a small lad, was bitten a few days since
by a poisonous snake. and in fifteen minutes
afterwards bis arm was swollen almost to burst
ing, but by a very simple remedy he was en
tirely relieved in a ehort time. He sends us
the following recipe, which may not be gener
ally kuawn, and as ii may be of importance we
give ii a plice in oar columns :
Cotton wood leaves, beaten up or bruised, so
which add sweet milk Let the person bitten
drink of this, arid at the ssmetims apply it ex
teu »ively io the wound.— Pic
A female writer having said that “nothing
looks worse on a lady than darned stockings,”
the Boston Post says : “Allow us to observe
that stockings which need darning look much
worse than earned ones—Darned if they don’t!”
Mr. Lawrence, the American Ambassador,
save on Friday, May. 30 h. a great banquet at
London, at winch Prince Henry of rhe Nether
lands, the Duke of Wellington and Rutland,
and many othe-s of the nobility, were present.
Heavy Yield.—We are glad to see most of
our planters turning their attention, of late years,
to the raising of breadstufls. Mr. Parker Calla
way. a large and successful planter of this county,
cut and threshed from two acres, a few weeks
since, fifty bushels of clean wheat, each bushel
weighing 65| lbs. The wheat is of excellent
quality, and the entire field containing twenty
five acres, was but little, if at all, inferior to
the two whose products were reduced to a meas
urement.— FFosAingtm Gazette.
A Sad Affair. —A little school girl, in Mc-
Donough county, HL, was accused by her mis
tress ot stealing a piece of money, who threat
ened to hang her if she did not confess. She
protested her innoceuce, when the mistress pro
ceeded to put a handkerchief around her neck,
with which she lifted the child from ths floor, dis
locating her neck, and of course causing her
death.—Pic
VoL.LXV—NEW SERIES VOL.XV- NO. 27.
POLITICAL,
MR. COBB’S LETTER OF ACCEPT
ANCE.
Eatonton, Juno 18, 1851.
Hon. Howell Cobb.—Sia: At a Con,en
tion recently held of the Constitutional Union
party, you were unanimously nominated as
their candidate for the Chief Magisi’acy of
Georgia. The undersigned were appo nted a
committee to notify you of your nomination,
and to solicit your acceptance.
In the performance of this duty, we may
add, that many of that Convention, were those
with whom you have hitherto agreed upon the
political issues which have divided the country;
many were those who have hitherto differed
from you on those issues. Yet all, animated
by an ardent love for the preservation of that
government which has been transmitted to us
by Washington—now, when an imperilled
Union demands the loyalty of every patriotic
heart, forgetting all past differences of more
policy, and striving after a higher and nobler
object, have united to eave that Union itself.
Not only has the spirit of fanaticism else
where, but that of ultraism among us, sought
to destroy the principles of our government as
expounded by Washington, Jefferson, and
Madison, but it has even sought to lay its sacri
ligious hands upon the government itself, and
to throw into revolution an anarchy, that whicli
is the freest, happuit, and best on earth.
To avert ibis calamity and to preserve this
Union, upon the principles of the constitution,
have united the hearts and purposes of that
portion of the people of Georgia who were
represen ed in the late Convention of the
Constitutional Union party. By that party,
wi.b such principles, you have been nomina
ted as a candidate for the Chief Magistracy of
Gee’g.y;-,., . • ....
Permit us !o add the expression of our in
dividual preferences as to its acceptance."
Your ob't. serv’ts.
Jah. A. Mkriwkthkr,
W. H. Hull,
J«o. Milledoc,
W. T. WorrORD,
T. W. Thomas.
Athens, Ga., June 24, 1851.
Gentlemen:—l have this day received your
letter of the 18th inst-, informing mo of my
nomination oy the Convention of the Consti
tutional Union party of Georgia, for the office
of Governor. With a full appreciation of tho
honor which the Convention has conferred
upon me, 1 accept the nomination, and, if
elected, will endeavor faithfully to discharge
the duties of he office.
The resolutions adopted by your Conven
tion, present in distinct terms to the people of
the Slate, an issne involving the peace and re
pose of the country, if not the very existence
of the Union. No one can over-estimate tbe
importance of the decision which is o be pro
nounced by the people upon it, audit is only
in a due estimate of the consequences depend
ent upon the result, that we can look for a
judgment worthy ol tbe intelligence and pa
triotism of our fellow citizens.
During the exciting scenes that characteri
zed the deliberations of tbe last Congress on
the slavery question, the public mind was di
rected with intense anxiety to the action of our
national legislature Every patriotic heart in
the land felt that the issues of life and death
were involved in the final adjustment of that
angry and exciting contest, which was threat
ening the overthrow of the noblest structure
ever erected by human wisdom—the American
Union. That result, so long and anxiously
looked for by the people of the States, was
at length consummated by their representa
tives, in the adoption of those bills, familiarly
known to the country as the “adjustment” or
“compromise measures.” Ido not propose at
this time to discuss those measures—it would
not bo altogether appropriate to the occas on,
even if I felt impelled to such a course by the
apprehension of any doubt existing in the
public uiicd, in reference to my views on this
subject. I have alluded to the subject as in
troductory to another growing out of those
measures which challenges, iu an emphatic
manner, the public attention, from recent polit
ical movements in our own and neighboring
States.
When, in consequence of the passage of the
compromise bills by Congress, the people of
Georgiawere summoned to a Convention, to
consider of the course and policy, which the
adoption of those measures required them to
pursue, we all felt that circumstances had de
volved upon our State a responsibility of
no ordinary character, but one which the intel
ligence and patriotism of her people peculiar
ly adapted her to assume. The anxiety mani
fested in reference to 'he action of that Con
vention, was not confined to tho limits of our
own State. It was felt throughotA the length
and breadth of tho Union, and was second in
intensity only to the solicitude which had pre
viously been exhibited about the adoption of
the measures, which had caused its assemblage.
The questions which that Convention was
called upon to consider, were discussed by the
public press—by our public speakers—in pri
vate conversetioa—indeed, in every mode
known to tbe political canvass, with unusual
warmth and marked ability, it is certainly no
reflection upon any previous political struggle
in our State to say, that on no former occasion,
was there more talent, learning, research and
patriotism brought into requisition than by the
respective friends and advocates of the varioui
policies indicated in the course of the canvass.
The representatives selected under these cir
cumstances, assembled in Convention: a
body of as w seaud patriotic men as ever be
fore convened in any State in the Union.
They came fresh from the people, fully en
trusted wi’-h their wishes, and empowered to
speak authoritatively for them ; and in the
name of their constituency, they placed upon
the records of our State the enlightened judg
ment of an honest and patriotic people. Ilfs
unnecessary for me here to speak of the action
of the Convention in detail. It is of too ra
cent occurrence, and, therefo-e, too famaliar to
the people to require a recital of it. Not only
will it be remembered what was the action of
the Convention, but it should likewise be borne
in mind that it met the approving voice of the
people throughout the State.
The universal sentiment of approval which
greeted the represents!!' es upon their return
to their respective constituencies, was rendered
the more striking and remarkable by the feeble
and occasional mutterings of the sow restless
and discontented spirits who withheld their
sanction. Who supposed at that time that there
would have been arrayed in a few months a
political organization in the Sta'e, based upon
a repudiation of this wise, just and enlightened
judgment of the people?
ll'the people of Georgia are prepared to ra
verseadecision so recently and solemnly made,
and madly to rush the ship of State into the
gulf of disunion, in obedience to the summons
of a neighboring State, then it is manifest that
I am not the man to select for their Chief Ma
gistra’e. For, while I concede that the South
Las cause of complaint against the North for
their conduct in the past, in connection with
the question of slavery, yet I must, in candor,
declare that there is nothing vhich, in my
judgment, will justify us in dissolving a go
vernment formed by Washington and his im
mortal compeers, and which the committee are
right in pron mneing “the reest, happiest and
best in tbe world.’’ It will be a dark day for
liberty throughout the world, when this step is
taken.
The ©fleet produced throughout the Union
by the aciion of that Convention is not only
grateful to our feeling of State pride, but should
not be without its influence upon our
minds, when wu are invited to a recons:dera
tinu ofthe deci-ion which was then pronounce L
With our sister States of the South, and with
the patriotic friends of the Union every
where, the action of that Convention was hail
ed with exhibitions of unbounded applause.
The highest encomiums were passed upon the
wisdom, intelligence, and patriotism of its
members, as exhib.ted in their firm and un
yielding devotion to the rights of the South,
the Constitution of the country, and tha Union
of the States. Georgia, already proudly pre
eminent among her sister States, was thus ele
vated to a yet higher and nobler position As
one of her citizens, I give to the action of her
Convetion my warm, cordial and unreserved
approval, and am prepared to give to the main
tenance of he* decision my best efforts. She
has declared, in the most soiemn manner, that
“she can, consistently with her honor, abide by
the general scheme of pacification.” In that
declaration I fully concur. When 1 give to
ibis action of her Convention my unqualified
approval, I do not feel that my native State
has required me, as one of her citizens, to sub
mit to an act of degradation. I will not cast
upon her the ungrateful reflection that she
has taxed the allegiance of her citizens to the
extent of requiring at their hands a humiliating
submission to a condition of degradation and
inequality among her sheer States
It is with far different feelings that 1 regard
her action. I look upon her in ‘.he proud po
si lion which she occupies in thia confederacy
of States, and feel no bhish of shame mant
ling my cheeks as I read her history in the past
realize her present pre eminence—and look
forward to the bright prospect which the
future opens up before her Should, how
ever. the time ever arrive when the conditions
of her remaining in the confederacy are deg
radation and inequality, I shall be prepared
with her, “ to resist, with all the means which
a favoring Providence may place al her dipo
sal,” even ‘ (as a last retort ) to a disruption
of every lie which binds her to the Union,”
any and every power that seeks to put upon
her such debasing terms. Nor am 1 particular
by what name this resistance may be character
bed—whether secession, revolution, or any
thing else—for no one can For a moment
doubt, that should this feaiful collision ever
come, the issue will be decided only by the
arbitrament of the sword Where constitu
tions end, revolu ions begin.
But. to my mind, ‘he future presents no such
gloomy forebodings. So far we have main
tained the honor ot our State, and at the same
time preserved the Union. A firm and un
yielding adherence to the principles laid down
by our Convention, will ensure the future
i>eaceand repose of the country, and will ena
ble us, in common with our brethren of the
American Union, to realize all those blessing*
which the future has in store for our country,
if we will prove true to the high destiny to
which we have been called. Let Geo g‘ a,he “
remain firm in the decision ?he has made, an
not invite, by a vacillating course, a reD©w d
sectional strife and jealousies-
Returning you, gentlemen, my thanks (or
. the nattering manner in which you have been
I P eased to communicate to me tny nomination
"T ‘be Convention,
am, very respectfully, your ob't serv't,
M 0... x Howell Cobb.
ford,"nd T^m ß T her ’ H “"’ Mill9d « e - Wof ‘
For Ike Chronicle !t Sentinel
Got. McDonald’s Tracks*
In the confusion of a campaign, especially
upon new issues, it is often difficult to convict
a man of occupying a position which he occu
pies in fact. He may have acted with a party,
yet made no speeches, written no letters, at
tended no conventions —in a word, made no
tracks. In such cases, it is only by means of
the company he kept that a judgment can be
formed of him.
Gov. McDonald does not occupy this posi
tion. His positionasa Disunion man'—among
the Disunion men of Georgia, and ofthe South,
has been far from unconspicuous. It was ta
ken with an apparent honesty which we hon
ored, until he abandoned it. Wo will first take
occasion to point out his
TRACKS TOWARDS DISOkIOX.
He made one tolerably distinct track at
Nashville, at the first session of the Southern
Convention, of which he was Vice President
A second pointing in a like direction he made
at Macon m August of last year, when presi
ding over a Mass (?) Meeting then, which was
agreeably entertained by Mr. Rhett, of South
Carolina, Mr. Yancy of Alabama,—Messrs
Colquitt, nod others of ~ -.,,j , 10 . jp,.
so agreeably by the non-moderato Mr. Stiles
ol Georgia. A third, and the most distinct and
decisive track of all was made at Nashville,
while acting as President of that body, at the
second session of the Southern Convention.
He was at the times referred to among that
class of disunion men who were tn favor of a
dissolution of the Union for existing causes.
This is what we mean by classing him among
Disunion men'. In other words, he was among
those who preferred Disunion to the Compro
mise. The compromise at the latter of these
dates was an existing thing.
We have been thus precise in determining
his location, to give his friendsan opportunity,
if they can, of proving an alibi. Whether he
ever was a Disunionist, per so, is a matter of
indifference. He was once, as we shall show, a
D.siinionist rather than abide the existing com -
promise.
The first Nashville Convention pronounced
the Missouri Compromise line its "extreme
concession.*' As Congresshadnot thanacted, it
declared that it “did not feel at liberty to dis
cuss the method suitable for a resistance to
measures not yet adopted.” It intimated it to
bo the “duty of Congress” to accept its ultima
tum in order to avoid theelimax of shame aria
ing from a “a termination of this controversy
by the disruption of the confederacy.”
If these resolutions meant more than an idle
boast, they me-nt “the ultimatum—or Disu
nion ”
While presiding over the Macon Miss Meet
ing the cry of “Disunion” was received with
cheers. We believe the President did not of
fer to rebuke the mode of its reception. But
passing over ail equivocal signs, the third track
distinctly defines Gov. McDonald’s position.
With the second Nashville Convention he was
thoroughly identified He called it. He was
its President. If he stands uncommitted by
its action, then is it impossible for any man to
find means to commit himself
That Convention declared that all the evils
anticipated by itself at its first session had been
realized—it recommended the formation of
local societies—the appointment of committees
of vigilance—and other machinery of a sec
tional party —declared that it had no powers
that were binding on the States it represented
and (byway of filling the gap in its own pow
ers) oeased the following resolution :
Resolved. That in view of the oppressions and
outrages inflicted upon the South and those threaten
ed and impending, we recommend that each of ths
Southern States in the mode she may adop', do ap
point delegates to a general Convention of all the as
sailed Slates to ba held at on the day of
clothed with full authority to deliberate and act,
with all the sovereignpower of the people, with the
view of arresting further aggrenru and restoring
the conatitutionl rights of the South—if possible—
and if not, then to provide for the safety and inde
pendence of the South in the last resort.
The constitutional rights nf the South they
declared to be violated by the compromise.
There was an existing state of things to be
subverted a compromise to be overthrown
—ff possible. If not, then Dlsuuioa, liuitpen
deiice.
This is the meaning of it, open, not covert.
The resolutions do not “squint” at Disunion
merely. They openly avow it, and provide the
means to accomplish it.
On this platform stood Gov. McDonald last
year. Not as a private soldier—but as com
mander-iu-chief. If there be any man in or
out of Georgia entitled to the distinction of
ring leader of the disunionists, Gov. McDon
ald is that man. If there were such thing as
Disunion men, he was among, and of, and over
them.
But how are the mighty fallen, and the weap
ons of liar perished. We come next to
Gov. McDonald’s back tracks.
Where does Gov. McDonald now stand I
Has he, or not, been “taking steps backward ?"
Having fast hold of two or three of his po
sitions, we will discuse there questions leisure
ly. When we ascertain his present position
we can coolly compare it with the former.
The tracks do not point the same way.
On tbe 28th day of May, a motley conven
tion of an unchristened portion of the people
of Georgia assembed in Milledgeville, under
no name or style. Did this convention back
the Nashville Convention > We wot not. It
proposed no such thing as a Southern Con
gress—the leading idea of the Nashville Con
vention. It proposed no concert with South
ern States. It proposed no primary meetings,
as did that Convention, to establish private (as
distinguished from legislative) non-intercourse
—no appointment of committees of vigilance
It proposed uo measures of redress—not a
solitary measure We are too fast It did
propose one, pitiful enough at that—but dis
creetly, rejected it. Resistance I—“Oh no, they
never mentioned it." ‘‘That once familiar
word” has become obsolete in the vocabulary
of those once “reliant for the South.” Reais
tance! Redress! Who hears these words iu
Georgia now 1 Last summer they were house
hold words."
The Nashville Convention, backed by tbe Con
vention in Milledgeville, “ of Southern ma t, Demo
crats and Whigs?” Why the vary existence of a
Nashville Convention was ignored.
Os suob a Convention as this, could Gov. MeDvn
al 1, tbe President of tbe former, consent to be the
candidate, the standard bearer ol their —heaven
save the mark I —their principles ? Could he coma
down from too height of his demand, and occupy this
paltry platform?
Verily he could, and did. Look to bis letter of
June stli. Nominated by a Convention whose very
name he must express by a circumlocution, (a de
scription, not a name,) he offers hie profound ac
knowledgments for the honor, aul replies that “a
call so made he does sot feel at liberty to decline."
Political liberty is a different thing from what wo
had fancied it We should have thought Gov. Mc-
Donald “al liberty ” to have replied to these gen
tiemen with perfect courtesy. “ Gentlem-n, look at
my Nreh-ille tracks and see whether 1 can reasona
bly be expected to taka this new direction. I can
only accept nominations from those who back roe.”
“ Not feeling at liberty co decline 1 ’ their nomina -
lion, and unwilling to leave them nameless, he pro
ceeds with all convenienldcspatcfi to dub them " tba
party of the Constitution.” He considers tbeir re
pudiation of old party ties “ the most gratifying evi
dence that the p ,ny of the Constitution is determined
to sustain tire Union of the Slates on the principles on
which our venerated ancestors established it." A
much higher evidence, to our minds, would bava
been furnished by tbe adoption of some practical
means of vindicating tbe principles they asserted to
be violated.
“The habitual violation of these principles”
<■ the flagrant and fatal violation ” of them, one would
have thought needed action louder than mere resolu
tion. The violation of them did n« give rise even
to valiant resolutions. “ The fraud open an injured
people” is to be submitted to in a quiet way, of
which, among nations, (not abiding by the scripture
rule of forgiving injuries,) few precedents are to be
found. Laboriously does the Governor argue to
prove that be ought to do what he does not propose to
goresist. To bis own satisfaction, he demonstrates
that the South has been plundered, ontraged and de
graded. Tbe Convention which nominated him la
bored the same point. But, oh, lame and impotent
conclusion I They ,-ropoee, in the way of redress, to
do what? Why—nothing!
Last summer it used —with the mildest of them—
to be something. Something must be done. But
now they all, with one accord, (one man di 1 vole to
'.he contrary in that grand a-abu lesion meeting—we
do him the justice to record it,) have let go even that
uncertain measure of redress.
“ Considerations like these,” indue d Gov, Mc-
Donald to endeavor to promote united action at tbe
South. ... .
Well might they. They might have moved a
milder spoken mao than he was—at that time. But
why not now as well as then? Have the Governor's
spirits failed him ? Are m.jorities indeed an potent ?
Is it so hateful to his feelings to be in the minority ?
Wny, says Gov. McDonald —“ The wrong having
been done, each Mate must judge for itself without
consultation with the rest in the matter." Indeed, —
Why then did you call the second Nashville Con
vention? Was that to enable each State to “judge
for itself?" We should think it ill adapted to any
such purpose. If it was for any purpose, it was to
promote “ united action.”
But “Georgia, in advance of her sisters has met
in her sovereign capacity, and her people have de
terminer to pretermit the oulrage committed on her
right by the admission of California as a baste,, with
her higblyot foot enable Constitution Georgia has
not been wont in her past history to prelermdout
roots ’’ If Georgia had agreed with Guv. McDor
xfo, in sentiment—bad believed her rights outraged
would not have •admitted to the outrage.
Ho# mildly the world “pretermit” strikes the ear.
<ubmi39ion has dwindled down into “ extraordinary
forbearance;” very extraordinary indeed. We
are not tube now, only preterit; no*. Bubuiieeiontaa,
only pretetmiamciiiftte.
But wbatebali we eay ot (he uext few sentences?
How sbad we characterize it 7 It is a/crwA. h
bends its Deck to tbe yoke ; « Uck« tbe rod. bbewe,