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Plantation for Sale.
AtiA THE subscriber offers for sale,
foj«| his PLANTATION, four miles oast
Appling, Columbia county, and -A
2U mHM from Augusta, oontaiaing about 975 acres,
one half of which is aealaared. On the place is a
good comfortable DWELLING, w.th ail tbo noses
•ary out-buildings, including Negro Houses, Cribs,
Barn, Gin House, Packing Screw, <e.. all in good
repair, and a meet excellent spring; and the whole
tract is very well watered.
Terms liberal, and psoas trie a given by or befor
the first of January, 1852. Neese also supply th
purcbater with 12 to bna&ekocrv.
Pernors who >uicba*o will p’ l
ute promises.
jy26 wtf M. A HEGGIE.
Valuable Land for Sals.
I mow or»B SALS
jsssag one of the moot desirable FARMS in
JMHN Middle Georgia, and one of the moot
beautiiui and delightful siteationo in all the country,
and not equalled by any place in the oewntrv for iti
convenient arrangements and ffxtvree vs all kinds
neceoearj for comfort and convenience; good water,
and as healtby as any place it Goergia, It being and
lying in Upson county, on Tobler’s Greek, contain*
ing near eleven hundred acres, well watered. About
half of the land open, and a largo portion of it fresh;
lies well tor our eoanfry. That in the woods well
timbered ; has a good Mill Sent on it, a large Gin
House and Granary together, being 64 fcet long and ,
32 feet wide. T a lanl bas soaie excellent meadows
for grazing. If desired, I will sell roy crop of corn, ,
fodder, oats, da , which, notwithstanding the drought,
will boa plentiful supply made, and any stock of all
kinds. Terms easy, and to su’t purchaser*.
|y22 wtfJ. CW. LINDSAY. J
PLANTATION IN RICHMOND CO 8
q q PGR SALE.
* OFFER for Mieths r
|s*g*J whereon I now reel'd v, situated in «£?
Ricuiiauud County, at the heed «f Little Mcßean g
Creek, 2 miles from the Waynesboro Railroad, ad-
fmning lands of Jas i.awvea, DieKiason and Mr*.
Fulcher, containing 434 aeree Fine land, about 135
acres cleared, the balance woodland, well timbered.
There ore two good dwellings on the place, each -
with a Spring of good weter.
For further particulars, apply to the undersigned, j
•a the premises. SARAH PRESCOTT, or to
SEABORN A. PRESCOTT, -j
jylß-wtf Augusta, Goo.
Richmond County Laud for Sale *
MTHK HUBUBIBSa .fler. /
for sale 477 j Aerss, mere er lees, of
good Farming 1 RISiD lying within 2-T q
if Augusta, on Big Spirit Creek. There is p (
about One Hundred Acres cleared, the balance in b
the woods, and well timbered. There is a two story n
DWELLING, Kitchen and Out hoaxes, and an ex- £
•client well of water in the yard. There ia also a
goo I Mill Site on th» creek, with Cum complete.
The water power is sufficient to propel any kind of
Machinery at all seasons.
For terms and particulars,app’y to Mr. Joseph E.
Burch, who will take pleasure in showing it to any P
person wishing to buy. Titian indisoutable.
jy!7-d3&w4 A. McDADE. J
Houghton Lands for Sale.
The following lots op land,
be'onging to the estate of John W. H >oghton,
late of Richmond county, deceased, arc offered for
Mie.
No. Dist, Sec. County. Acres. Quality.
361 11 Forsyth 40 3d qua t. O. (ft H.
742 2 1 do. do. do.
1280 14 1 do. do. 2d do.
B*4 3 I do. do. 31 do.
1273 3 4 Floyd d?. Pino Land.
1279 3 4 do. do. 3d qual. O. &H.
675 4 1 Lampkin do 2d do.
616 5 1 do. do. 3d do,
,381 1 do. do. do.
1000 12 1 do. ft Lot Gold Lot.
136 13 1 do; 40 2d qual. O. AH.
305 15 1 do. do. 3d do.
12*0 4 8 Cass da. do.
1094 17 3 do. do. Pine Land.
9 23 2 do. I*o luqual.O. &H.
10 23 2 do. do. 3d do.
276 10 1 Union do. do.
370 U 1 40 do.
~ -rife it 1
930 18 2 Cam.' ball do. 3d do.
133 18 2 do. do. do.
675 19 3 Paulding do. do.
811 20 3 do. do. do,
6 20 3 do. do. 2d do.
7 20 3 do. do. do.
71 2d 3 do. do. 3d do.
279 21 3 do. do. Pine Land.
482 21 2 Cherokee do. 3d qnal. O. AH.
110 19 4 Dade do. do.
56 11 Habersham 2'o OnSoquseß.
42 13 do. do.
35 1 Ma<*on 202 j Pine Land.
43 15 Talbot do.
5 1 R« Joko Slew.rt 7« by ISO ft. Tow n Lot.
217 18 1 do. i IxM.
22ft 16 1 Sum er. 202 ft Pine Land.
175 28 1 do. do. do.
175 17 1 do. do. do.
70 9 1 Randolph de. do.
108 3 Wilkinson do. do.
M * do d#
60 y Houston de. do.
35 10 do. do. de.
152 5 Dooly da. do.
196 5 do. do. do.
203 5 do. do. de.
122 12 do. do. 4a.
255 16 do. ft Lot do.
Bft 3 Baker 2‘o do.
14 6 Early do. Swamp Land.
252 15 Decatur de. Pine La ad.
343 15 do. do. Oa Flint River.
228 20 do. ft Lot Pine Land.
344 27 do. 250 do.
375 27 do. do, de
376 27 do. do. do.
377 27 do. do. do.
373 27 do. do. do.
383 27 do. do. de.
481 2 Appl.ng 490 do.
213 8 Thomas do. do.
322 8 do. do. do.
506 8 do. do. do.
518 13 do. do. do.
499 8 Ware do. do.
260 9 do. do. duv
367 9 do. do. Swamp Laud.
320 12 do. do. du.
322 12 do. do. do.
925 12 do do. do.
326 12 do. do. do.
327 12 do. do. do.
612 12 do. do. Pine Land.-
613 12 do. do. do.
629 12 do, do. Swamp Land*.
551 13 do. do. Pine Land.
552 13 do. do. do.
219 3 Irwin d-x do.
112 3 do. ds. do.
266 3 do. do. do.
12 4 do. do. do.
49 4 do. dv. do.
50 4 do. do. do.
99 4 do. do. de.
103 4 de. dx do.
104 4 do. (in. do.
13ft 4 do. do. do.
137 4 da. do. do,
139 4 do. do. do.
162 4 no. do. do.
103 4 do. do. de.
160 5 do. do. do.
163 6 da. do. de.
442 6 do. do. do.
52 1 de. da. Swamp Lind.
PeraoM wishing to parchase, pleaae apply to
the nnderaigned, in pence er t,» Utter, at Augusta,
GeorgU. WF lt a. WALTON,
jyl7-dlkwlm Executor.
BURKE PLANTA Uorj FOR SALE.
MI OFFER FOR FALK, cn
liberal teimr, Bv PLANTATION in «®
raid eonnty ,10 m ,|«« e w ot Wavura- “*’*
lb* middle ground iSavannah) Road, son
taming Six Hundrad and Thirty Aeons, exenllenl
and tor corn and eotlon, andornrrn’enX to water.
Thera lea joed DW g-.I.LING HOU ?E on it, whh
onthonaea, Gin How,, , nd Screw. Plan ration in good
repon. Early ay piiealiona ere deaired ,as lam de
trammed toaeU MACKEY Mel «<>RRU U
Wayneebcr o >, Ga. j> 12-wtSl
Pt ANTATION FOR S ALE.
9 THE UNDERSIGNED orfan —.
aia PLANTATION tor tela, coo laining SS*
the rise of 3.700 Acres, 1.400 uoreain -L.
th*, woods, the meet of which is well limb-red. Lit
*je River rune through said land, equally dividing it,
into Wilkes county, 9j milae trow Wnahmgtoo, and
Columbia county, 13 miles from Thoaneon Depot,
Georgia Rail R.wdi good iinprvceme eta of every
kind, ioeluding Gnat and Saw Milla. Price, »t> per
■era, one-halt to be paid on giving poasesaicn the
351 h Doo. neat, the balance <T« ot interact twelve
■noeiba following J una 12, 1951.
jelS-wtf JOHN Q. WEST.
FOR SAutl.
MTHB SUBSCniBKR edam for
aale hie FAMILY RESIDENCE in. the
Town of Marietta. Il ta loca’ed in a de
wraois part of town, in well Improved coritaiaa
about two acree. The dwelling hae nine rm s.s and
one baaemant all well fimoheu. P.weaaoe oai be
bed the Scat of July.
Fra terras, apply to Cd- David Dobbs, Wm. P.
Young, er John F. Arnold; in the abaeeee o f
Aul ap3U w NEI SON M, HEN TON.
FOR SALE,
A HOUSE AND LOT. AND 910 ACRES OF
LAND.
Bonk or the most desi-m
rable Sitnatioua In the town of Modi ■
ate, eptal distance between the Court Heoao and
D«a<x, containing 20i? faetol ground, ire si rod back,
W«M f*prN*«cl.
Alee, Sl» Acres rs LAND, a good p-Hton word
land, and well timbered. The eraraat lies, about It
■ilea tram the Madwon Steam Milt. LooX for vour
eslvvs. W ASHINGT«N G. BALLAKD
Maifcn, Ga, Jnao 16, 1(61. |e‘Lwb.e *
hotels.
FLOYD HOUSE,
MACONGEORGIA.
MTHIS WELL known and popular Ho
tel, having been recently repaired and put
in complete order, is now open for ths re
ccpuuu of Hoarders and Transient persons. The
proprietor pledges himself that nothing shall be want
ing on bis part, to make and continue it one of the
most popular Hotels in the South.
15* The Ladies’ Deparimeut is under the special
care of Mrs. JAMES, formerly of Columbus, and
favorably known to the travelling community, who
will sec that cotbing is wanting to make visiting La
dies and Families entirely at home, their epartment
having been newly and beatifully furnished.
THUS. WILLIAMS, Proprietor.
A. B. Habt well, Superintendent.
N. B. —An Omnibus will always be in readiness
to convey Passengers to and from the Railroad De
pots.
JjTThe Alligator Line of Stages has its office per
manently located at the Floyd House.
jy3-w6mF. K. WRIGHT, Owner.
PLANTERS’ TEMPERANCE HOUSE
GRIFFIN, GEO.
(Southwest Corner of the City.)
MI AM at myoid stand with enlarged
accommodations, and prepared to give all
that may call a plenty cf
COLD WATER Tt) DRINK,
and as fir the balance they must take the chances,
and if not satisfied no pay required. My prices for
the future will be as follows:
For Man and Horse, Breakfast, Supper and
Lodging,3l.2s
11 lc Single Meal, 35
“ n Lodging, 15
“ Horse Feed,-* 35
f * u per day and night, 76
“ “ *• m0nth,315.10
WILLIAM FREEMAN.
Griffin, Ga., July 3, 1361. jy6-w4
-THIS establishment will be open
pustjS the rceef? : .rn.af„ti3(fnr e ‘ nttehH
oT June. ~VSsitorl wIH at all
times, Ig<J a ready conveyance from Greenville, or
Pleasant Hill, and a four horse Post Coach, three
times a week from Colambus to the Spring. Tb
Proprietor will also keep Hacks and other convef
ances at ths Spring W »he conveyance of hie guests.
n>v!3-wi<H J. L. MUSTI4N. Pronristrr.
BRADFIELDS HOTE~L
SOUTH-EAST CORNER
JgjL O» tsb giiji
PUBLIC SQUARE,
LaGra.gs,Georgia.
my24-w6<xi»
EAGLE HOTEL,
MADISONVILLK, TENNESSEE.
THE SUBSCRIBER takes pleasure
in returning his thanks to his friends and
the public, for the very liberal patronage here
tofore extended to him. And having recently im
proved and extended bis buildings so as to afford the
beet 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 of the
Public Square—one hundred and fifty feet long—
rooms regularly laid off and well furnished. He is
also well prepared to take the best care of horses, Ac.
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-wtt
FRANKLIN HOTEL,
BROAD STREET, Augusta, Ga.,
Hl one square above the Globe Hotel, on the
touth side of Broad stieei,
n!0-wly D. B. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
DISSOLUTION.
THE Copartnership heretofore existing under
the firm of Flkmins, Whitlock A Co., was
This Day dissolved by mutual consent, to take effect
from the first of October next until which time the
business will be continued at the Old Stand, and the
naie of the firm used by either party fur the settle
ment of the same. PORTER FLEMING,
J. W. WHITLOCK,
J. M. HAND.
July 22, 1851.jy24 wire
DISSOLUTION.
THE Copartnership heretofore existing between
the subscribers, under the firm of Coskery,
Janes A Co., was dissolved on the 18th inet., by
mutual consent. The name of the firm will hereaf
ter be used only by John Cookery, in settling up the
business. JOHN COSHERY,
A. G. JANES,
THOS. W. COSKERY.
Augusta, July 24, 1851. wit
COPARTRER3HIP
THE undersigned have entered into Copartner
ship, under ihe firm of Whitlock A Coskk
ry for the transact on of a General WAREHOUSE
and COMMISSION BUSINESS, and will occupy
the large aod entirely Fire Proof Warehouae, for
merly occupied by Cookery, Janes de Co., on Camp
bell Htreet, and nearly opposite the old stand of Fleu
ing, Whitlock A Co. They beg leave to say to the
former patrons of Fleming, Whitlock A Go., and
Goskery, Janes A Co., and others, who may send
them pmducs, that their personal and undivided at
tention will be given strictly to their interest. Or
ders for Bagging, Rep:, and other articles, will be
furnished at the naofd favorable prices. They are
prepared to make liberal advances, at all times, on
produce in Store. J. W. WHITLOCK,
JOHN GOSKERY.
IWI. w3m
COPARTNERSHIP.
THE undersifned having thia day purchased of
John Glarke bis interest in the late firm of
Clarke A Ramey, will continue the GROCERY
BUSINESS, under the firm of Ramey A Story,
and have now on hand a large and general assort
ment us goods, which will be disposed of on the
most accommodating terms.
JOHN D. RAMEY,
jy24- w3m SA M L G. STORY.
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
HAVING associMed Mr. W. s. Royal with
mo f r the transaction of a General SHOE
BUSINESS, under ths name of Aldrich A Royal,
1 embrace this opportunity of returning my thanks
to my old Friends and Patrons for the liberal patron
age ex'tnded to me, and solicit a continuance if the
same tor the new firm. H. ALDRICH.
jylfd&w3
TRAINING STABLE.
A PUBLIC TRAINING STABLE has
be?n openened in Augusta, Ga., by A. M.
Jewell, for the purpore of training Horses for the
Turf. Those having Horses to Crain, can have the
opportunity of testing thsir speed end bottom, at the
Fl Races, that take place on the 1 2th of January.
The Stable will be open to receive Horses on the first
day of August. The Proprietor can be found at the
Race Track, or United States Hotel.
Jjr I w2m A. M. JEWEL!', Proprietor.
THE MONTGOMERY MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY’S IRON WORKS,
Montgomery,Alabama,
BIANVPAOTURKf in superior stylo, Hori
lv ■ gonial and Upright STEAM ENGINES, of
all sizes; Steam BOILERS; LOCOMOTIVES;
Cast-iron WATER WHEELS; Sugar MILLS;
Saw and Grist Mill IRONS, of every variety, (in
cluding Hoxie's continuous feet for Saw Mills;) En
gine and Hand I ATHES; Iron and Braes CAST
INGS, of all kinds, Ao., Ac.
All orders d e <’i.i leeoe'nb.
ar 22 GINDR AT A CO
uSI <"> o
fi MADE
WW
' VKEWYOKK-V
. COTTON, WOOL, Jim-Crow *nd Horae
J CARDS, of the above celebrated stamp*, are
of unequalled quality, and wherever introduced, take
the place at all others. They are manufactured on
our new improved machinery, and each pair is war
ranted in every respect. Our inferior Cards—the
common “Whittemore’’ stamp—are of the usual
well known qualify.
Sold by the Hardware houses in all the eities r and
Cocntry Merchants, and to the trade, by the Manu
facturers. JOS. B. SARGENT,
mylO-wly* 24 Cliff-Street. New York.
NOTICE.
IHEREBT forewarn all persons againat trading
for a Pronrseory Note given to Hiram Seger in
September, 1849, for the sum of Thirty Dollars, and
signed by Wm. H. Dox; er. The consideration for
which said note was given having entirely failed, I
have determined not to pay it unless compelled by
law. jy!7-w4 WM, H. DOZIER.
American Sunday School Union
THE Subscriber® would call the attention of
Sunday School Teachers, and all those inter
eeted in the management of Sunday Schools, in the
town and country, to their constant supply of Sunday
School Union QUESTION FOOIS, Child’s Scrip,
tare Questions, Union Hymns, Catechitne, Testa
ment*, Reading Books, and Sunday School Libra
ries, of 50 and 100 volumes each. Ail of which will
be aold on reasonable terms.
DUNHAM A BLEAKLEY,
je2o-dlmdtw2m Booksellers. Aucneta, Ga.
GROCERIES, GROCERIES.
THE 81BSCRIBERS are now re
ceiving an extensive assortment cf Heavy
BBmI and Fancy GROCERIES, which they of
fer :• the Planters, Merchants and Families of Geor
gia, on the most advantageous terms. Their Stere
is just above the principal Hotels, and thev eobcit
ail purchasers visiting Augusta, to favor them with a
call, and examine their S ock.
They new offer the following Goads for sale low :
100 bales Gunny BAGGING,
250 coils j inch Kentucky ROPE,
50 nbds. St. Croix, Porto Rico and N.O. SUGAR
100 bbls, btuart’s crushed, groun land yellow Do.,
250 b’gw Java, Rio and Laguita COFFEE,
300 kegs NAILS, Peru brand,
20 tons Swede* IRON, assorted sisea,
200 bbls. Canal FLOUR, ot the Hiram Smith
and ether choice brands,
100 boxes Sf arm, Adamantine and Tallow CAN
DLES.
: SQLOOO SEGA RS, sf various qualities,
100 bex*s TOBACCO, of different brands,
5 3,000 sacks Liverpool SALT, n fine order,
And all other articles usually kept m the largest
Groce nr Houses.
.Dw J. R A W. M DOW
REUBEN RICH’S PATENT CENTRE
r VENT WATER WHEEL.
CAUTION. --Having been informed that a cer
tain person named REED, is vending a Water
Wheel upon which the water is conducted by means
of a spiral sc roil, as upon “Reuben Rich’s Patent
1 Centre Teat,” we hereby notify and caution tbe
, public, that we will prose? Ke, in ail instances, for
anv m»wn or infringemem upon said patent, both
i ’be maker and partv using, will be thankful for
I wy iaformatwn refirrng'ns »
'Maatgnoary, Al*., Jm.ll, 19H*.
I jsJl-U
MISCELLANEOUS LI
TERITUIiE « NEWS.
Cuban Meeting in New Orleans.
A very large and enthusiastic meeting of the
citizens of New Orleans was held at Banka’
Arcade on Saturday night last the 25th ult., at
which Capt. Jas. Stockton preaided, assisted
by numerous Vice Presidents and Secreta
ries.
The Chair announced the object of the
meeting in a brief speech, when Judge Walk
er read the following Declaration of Indepen
dence, which was made on the 4th of July,
and signed by wo hundred Cuban patriots.
TO THB INHABITANTS OF CUBA AND TO ALL FREEMEN.
Every people poeaesgea the unalienable right of
changing the form of government by which it is
ruled, whenever its interests, its hoaor, and its safe
ty require such a change ; since it is only for its
advantage that it has delegated its powers to certain
determinate persons.
A Government which io a standing conspiracy
against the governed, loses its vitality and becomes a
despotism intolerable to rational men. In such a
case the sovereignty reverts, of right, to (he centre
whence it emanated, to be again remodeled into
such a form as may best suit the wants and circum
stances of those to whom that sovereignty appertain?.
The people oi Cuba present a strong, perhaps the
strongest of all possible cases, for the application of
these sacred principle?, inatm. ch as the colonial des
potism of Spain over this island is unequalled in the
history of nations: Wherefore, resuming our out
raged lights, we have this day determined to throw
eff the shackles of our tyiauta, and to raise the
bright standard of freedom to lead us to victory,
with the unalterable purpose of raising ourselves to
the rank cf a free people, or of mefit n> nn
at biXtt-» glorious .»-«Ar*cve, a n»<is :Lu
the degfaeing slavery which is now our
lot.
But as a revolution is always attended by sacri
fices, calamities and disasters, it is incumbent on us
—in addition to the self-evident axiom, set orth in
the commencement of this solemn declaration—to
expose the just causes wl ich have impelled us to
assume the position which we now occupy.
The world must know the grievous injustice, and
arbitrary vexations, which the Spanish Government
has exercised, and does now exercise towards the
miserable inhabitants of Cuba—injustice and oppres
sion of such magnitude that ths sufferings of any
other people, compared with ours, are but as a
shadow to a reality.
The Spanish Government hss deprived us of all
political rights, maintaining us in a state of pupilage,
notwithstanding that our population, wealth and
other circumstances render us superior to the greater
part of her turbulent, poor and ignorant provinces,
ihe natural consequences of this usurpation is, that
she imposes upon us the heaviest contributions
against our will and consent, (which alone could
make them legitimate,) and which, whilst they im
poverish the country, are employed in the support of
a numerous army and navy, in the payment of many
and uee'esa salaried officers, and the keeping up the
luxury of a corrupt and vicious court.
The Spanish Government does, in effect pro
hibit us from embracing either the ecclesias
tical or civil professions ; because education, in
stead of being gratuitous, is rendered so costly
that the rich alone—who in general are absorbed
in the management of their estates, can partici
pate therein. Such a system has been evidently
framed for the purpose of keeping us in igno
rance, in order that despotism may relga trium
phant.
The Spanish Government, so far from encour
aging the cultivation of the mechanical arts, has
constancy induced persons ot color to apply
themselves thereto, with the sjle diabolical and
avowed object of preventing the Cubans from
dedicating themselves to those useful and hono
rable pursuits. It has looked to our idleness
and ignorance, fostered by their heartless policy,
as the surest means of unfitting us for the asser
tion of our rights as freemen, and the perform
ance of our duties as men.
The same Government bestows upon the na
tives of the Peninsula all the offices and places
of emolument ar honor, without any regard to
merit; and faithful to its pernicious maxim, it
has provided no law for the Cuban but the ever
changing will of the Captain General of the
Island.
The Cuban possesses no security for his life
and property; for, besides the notorious partial
ity of the Government, always exercised against
the native Cuban, the criminal laws have fallen
into disuse, and most of the civil laws, through
the progress of the age, have become inapplica
ble.
The Spanish Government, contrary to the
plainest principles of sound legislation and of
humanity, and as if the island of Cuba were
constantly in exceptionable circumstances, has
for years past established and maintained in our
midst an executiveand permanent military com
mission, which, in utter contempt of individual
liberty, without proof, and often without a just
cause of auspicion, and solely upon the bidding
of the Captain General delivers the unfortunate
Cuban to an ignominious death upon the
ecaffbld, confiscates his property, or sends him to
exile.
As a necessary consequence of the odious
tyranny of the Spanish Governenment the lib
erty of speech and the press is prohibited, and
a rigid censorship pervents the defence of the
people’s rights and the development of their in
telligence.
Commerce, fettered by a multitude of cnutmK
nuuses, revenue offices, and vexatious regula
tions, instead of expanding and extending, is
notably on the decline; and agriculture,
through the same causes, is found to be in a
miserable situation. The laborer gains not
enough for the payment of exori itant taxes, and
is, moreover, obliged to contribute gratuitously
his personal services in police duties, to the fur
ther detriment of his labors.
The Spanish Government prohibits free travel
ing through the island, obliging the inhabitants
to take out a transit passport, in defect of which
they are severely punished.
Such criminal proceedings, such violent in
fractions of every right and of every principle,
fully’ just’fy our determination to throw off the
yoke of Spain and proclaim our independence ;
to which we do in the name of the All-poweiful
God, in whose protection we confide, and to
whom we fervently appeal to sustain us in a
struggle into which we bring our lives and our
fortunes.
The sun which shone for Junius Brutus, for
Washington, for Boliver, for Hidalgo, and for
Suere, will not be less resplendent for us ; and
when our blood shall have watered the tree of
liberty, it will produce the same fruits as it did in
Rome and Greece of old, and as it does now in
the favored land of our brothers of the North
American Republic.
To carry’ us successfully through this fearful
contest, weak, unarmed and without guides, we
rely upon the merciful protection oi the Most
High, for the j ustice of our cause, the valor of the
Cubans and the generous assistance of our free
neighbors and brethren.
When the reading was concluded, Judge
Walker addressed the meeting, saying that
sympathy was not what the Cabans wanted,
they needed something more tangible, in the
shape of men, money and arms, and closed
by introducing the following resolutions, which
were adopted by acclamation:
Re'olved, That we greet with joy and enthusi
asm the recent intelligence from the Island of Cuba
as indicative of the heroic resolution and devotion of
that leople, and of their purpose to make every
sacrifice to achieve their independence.
Resolved, That the Cuban* having given an
earnest of their sincerity and constancy in the strug
gle for liberty, it iaour duty, as nrother republicans
and men, to aid by all mens in our power their
efforts, until they shall be crowned with success.
Resolved, That a committee of ten be appointed
by the Chairman of thiameeting to drift au address
to the citizens of lx>uisiana and the United State* in
behalf of the Cuban revolution.
Reeolved, That a committee of ten be appointed
by the Chair, to be called the Committee for the Pro
motion of Cuban Liberty, whose duty it shall be to
collect contributions from our citizens to aid tbs Cuban
patriots, and to forward the same as speedily as pos
sible.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by
Gen. F. Hoostoh,, Gen. Lorßl. and Cant.
Clmdbmiii., after which en adjournment was
moved and carried.
A Siaoui-sR Cotla.t.—Mr. Nathan R.
Cobb, an exemplary vouog merchant, connect
ed with the Baptist Church in Boston, at the
ate of 23 drew up and subscribed the follow
ing covenant: "1. By the grace of God I will
never be worth more than *50,000. 2. By the
grace of God i will give one-fourth of the net
profile of my business to ebaritable and reli
gious uses. 3. If lam worth *2O 000, I will
give one-half my net profits; and if lam worth
*3O 000. 1 will give three fourths; and the
whole after *SO 000.” To this covenant Mr.
C. adhered till he acquired *50,000; and gave
all bis income afterwards. He was thus ena
bled to say on his death bed: " By the grece
of God I have been enabled to give away more
than *IO.OOO. How good the Lord has been
to me.”
Fkmslx Laaoa. — Mr. Greeley writes of hav
ing seen women driving carts opon tbe roads
of Germsny, in which men were asleep.
A correspondent of the Boston Transcript
says he saw more than one woman yoked in
with a deg. dragging a email cart, between
Munich and Dresden. Everywhere abroad
women are doing the worst work of men. part
ly because of the absence as real, refined civil
ization, partly that men are drafted away to the
army tn such numbers that, did not the females
plough, hoe and manure, famine and starvation
would come.
SwiMMitro—E ixur Wright gives the ration
ale of swimming as follows: No braneb of ed
ucation has been so much neglected as this.
Man is the only animal which does not switu
naturally. Ha sinks tn deep water from tbe
sue of itie brain when not properly exercised.
That is to say tbe weight of bis brain above bis
nose sinks that organ a little beneath the ear
lace, when he is in an erect position, before his
body displaces its weight tn water, and thus
finds an equilibrium. With the nose under,
one must breathe water and drown. But
when the brain comes to be exercised enough
to the very seaitb, and keep the hands and feet
to th'ow the head oack and the nose up, pointlug
carefully under water, then by tbe eternal laws
of hydrostatics, the nose will continue ahove
water and the person will foal liks an empty
bottle wntch is so bslanced as to keep its mouth
uppermost. No human being can sink in s ill
water of any depth lying on bis back with
bands and feel under water.
Naw Cottos.—The steamer Brilliant. Capt.
[Hart, wrueb arrived tn is nto'uing from Bayou
Sara, brought down one t»le of new cotton
It is from tne plantation of R. Flower, Esq., of
East Fekisaaa.—Fw, 2&A. .
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY CORNING, AUGUST 6, 1851.
Post Office Circular.—The Washington
papers contain th® annexed circular from the
Post Master General, in which he gives
various important decisions on questions aris
k ing under the new Postage Law :
Post Office Dbpartmbnt, July 26, 1831.
The postage on al! bound books and on all other
printed matter, except newspapers and periodicals
published at intervals not exceed.ng three months,
and “sent from the office of publication to actual
i and bona fide subscribers,” is required by law to be
pre-paid.
If tbe amount paid and marked on such printed
I matter is not sufficient to pay the whole postage due,
the excess of weight beyond that paid for is to be
charged with double the rate which would have
been charged if prepaid, and the postage on such
excess collected at the office of delivery.
If by the neglect of a poetmas er such matter is
sent without any prepayment, the double prepaid
rate must be collected on delivery.
Postage must be charged on ail letters and other
matter according to the distance or the route by
which they are conveyed; and this, (unless other
wise directed by the tender) must be the route by
which they will soonest reach their destination, al
though that may not be the shortest route. Postage
should be charged by postmasters according to the
tabular statements of the rates of postage, both for
eign and inland, which have been late y forwarded
to every postmaster in the United States.
Subscribers to periodicals, to obtain the benefit of
the provision m regard to prepayment, must pay the
full quarter’s postage before the delivery of the first
number, when theie are several numbers to be de
livered during the quarter. If, by reason of any
increase in the size of tbe periodicals or otherwise,
it shall appear that the whole qu. rter’s postage was
not so paid in advance, the subscriber will lose the
benefit of prepayment, and the numbers received
during tbe whole quarter will be charged double or
unpaid rate, and the subscriber will be credited
with only the amount paid ia advance.
Under the provisions of the 2d section of the new
postage act, no newspapers ether than those pub
lished weekly only are entitled to circulate free of
postage in the cunties where published. The
office of publication is the office where the newspa-
X’er is. prig ted, andthpra --c-fITCe ct
. u6T’cni»' c irj ainnaer county mr the purpose of s® •
curing an additional free circulation.
In determining newspaper postages, the distances
are to be computed from the office of publication,
and not from the county line of the county in wbi :h
tbe piper is published ; and the distance is also to bo
computed over the route oa which it is carried.
Newspapers published weekly only in a county
adjoining tho Canada line may be sent free to Can
ada, provided they do not leave the county of publi
cation until they cross the line into Canada.
When such pipers are sent out of the county
where published, to be delivered from a post office
in an adjoining county in the United States, no
matter how short the distance, full postage must be
charged.
Newspaper publishers may send and receive their
exchange newspapers to and from Canada free cf
charge.
Publishers cf newspapers, pamphlets, periodi
cals, and magazines, under the provisions of the
second section of the new law, may interchange
their publications reciprocally free of postage, pro
vided such publication do not exced sixteen ounces in
weight. Such interchange must be confined to a
single copy of each publication ; ba*, is not limited
to an exchange of newspaper for newspaper and
periodical for periodical; but publishers of news- 1
papers have the right to exchange with publishers
of periodicals under the late act of Congress Sucb '
publishers may also enclose in their publications the
bills fir subscriptions thereto without any additional <
charge for postage; and this privilege extends also
to the transmission of a receipted bill after the same
has been paid.
A newspaper is not a periodical within the mean- ;
ing and intent cf the provision which requires the
postage on periodicals to be paid in advance, and ’
declares that the postage thereon shall be one-half ’
of the rates previously specified io the second sec- I
tiou of the act; but all subscribers to newspapers 1
were and still are required by the provisions of tbe 1
thirtieth section of the act of March, 1825, to pay t
one quarter’s postage in advance ; by so doing, g
however, they are not entitled to have the postage
reduced below the established rates*
The postage on new.-pipen weighing less than
three ounce®, “<ent from the office of publication
to actual and bonaJide subscribers,” is fired by law
by the quarter only, and is required te be paid in
advance. Hence, no person can be considered an
actaal and bona fids subscriber to a newspaper, and
entitled to piy postage thereon at the quarterly dates,
who shall only take a newspaper f<r a less time than
three months. Actual and bona Jide subscribers to
pipers for three months or metro, who change their
residences temporarily, may have their papers sent
without prepayment, but must piy a quarter’s post
age in advance at the office of delivery, or else pay
the unpaid trans ent rate.
Publishers cannot eend specimen numbers of their
papers to postmastersand others (as has been much
practised heretofore under tbe old law) without pra
pay:ng tbe postage thereon.
Publications borrowing the name, having the form
and some of the characteristics of a newspaper, print
ed for gratuii&us circulation and depending on their
advertisements for support, cannot be sent t»y mail
gratuitously to persons not actual and bonaJide sub
scribers upon the footing of newspapers ’sent from
the office of publication to actual and bona Jide sub
scribers; 19 but must be charged with the transient
rates, which must be collected at the mailing office.
To entitle actual and bona fide subscribers to a re
duction in the rate of pasta >e on periodicals sent them
from the office of publication, payments must be made
by them in advance at the post office where such
publications are to be delivered.
Tbe United States postage on newspapers, period
c air, and other matter not chargeable with letter
postage, when sent out of the United States, must
btt prepaid at tbo full rite.
Publishers of periodicals may prepay the postage
on their issues, but can have no deduction on post
age on account cf sucti prepayment. ape
ttodical is published on'y quarterly, the actual and
bona Jide subscriber for such p eriodicai may pay
in advance and have the benefit of the t dvanes pay
ment, provided be pays to the postm ster at the office
where he is to receive the periodical belo’e its deliv
ery. If a periodical is published less frequently,
tbe postage must be prepaid, and at the full rt te.
Postmasters are not b und to receive from the
publishers weekly newspapers published in the city,
town, or village where the post offiie is kept, and
deliver them to subscribers calling at their office for
them. The right to “circulate ia the mail within
the county where published,” does not impose on
postmasters the duty of receiving and delivering pa
pers which do not go into tbe mail; and wbera a
publisher seeks to throw upon the post master the
labor of delivering his paper®, for the purpose of re
lieving himself from the eip*nse of their delivery,
tbe postmaster will be justified io refusing to deliver
them. He should, in such cases, inform the publish
er of hi® determination not to receive such papers.
If a postmaster receives and delivers such pipers
for the convenience of the publisher or subscriber,
he cannot charge any postage thereon ; and tbe De
partment des res that pis master® should act with
courtesy in this respect, and d* liver such few paper®
a® may be sent to .heir offices for the convenience of
tbe sub»criber; but they are not expected to receive
them when the number is such as to indicate that it
is the intention to throw upon tbe postmaster a labor
which tbe publisher should perform.
Foreign newspapers re-mailed, or first ma'led, in
this country, must be charged with che rale for tran
sient papers, which must be prepaid.
N. K. Hall, P. M. General.
ErrncT or Writirs Sighiso thsir Namis
to Articlss for News rat'it rs.—The corres
pondent at Paris of the New York Commercial
Advertiser makes the following remarks in a
letter descriptive of French newspaper liter
ature :
‘ The efiectof the law requiring each news
paper writer to agn his ar'icles has not bee
what was predicted by the pre s. No bad
consequences has followed Grea er decency
of tone has been introduced, and the political
articles are prepared with still greater eare.
The necessity each journal is now under to
publish the names of men of character end
ability among its editors, and the unwillingness
of such men to expose themselves to danger
by imprudent articles, or to discredit by false
ones, have ceitainly contributed to the eleva
tion of the press. Several men of talent,
heretofore hid in the obscurity of the columns
of a large journal, have established their rep
utations on solid bases There is more liberty
ofinitistion allowed to individuals ; being per
sonally responsible for their articles, they
enjoy the liberty of saying what they think tn
their own way. without regard to the political
direction the proprietors wish to give to the
journal
„Each of the principal papers has from
twelve to fi.teen editors, among whom the
different departments of labor are distributed.
La Press* employs as regular editors fifteen of
the ab est writers of the capital. These meet
at a certain hour of the day, in order to hear
such articles as are considered important, and
discuss the I ine of policy to be pursued in
regard to subjects of interest.”
Was Sir Phiuh Fhavcis ‘•Ju.vtvs 7”—Mr.
Philips, in ‘ Curran and bis contemporaries,”
thus relates an interesting incident in the life
of Sir Philip Francis, which tends to substanti
atettbe prey iling opinion of bis identity with
"Junius ”
"It may not perhaps, be out of place here tc
relate an anecdote nt this singular person,
which I had from Mrs. Ridgway, the wife of
the well known and equally respecte 1 publisher
in Picadily. Francis frequently visited the
shop, where the excellent proprie'or permitted
a daily assemblage of his old political friends.
Francis was wail known to have been hesty.
sensitive and irritable to excess. He walked
in one day very mnch excited, and addressed
Mrs. Ridgway, who happened to be alone—
" Pray, madam, have you seen the newspapers
much of late ! The wretohes !—but I don't
mind them, not I, the wretches! Now I have
not done one single thing which they ascribe
to ms. Ah! but what would the wretches
say if they knew I wrote”—the word was aft
but out. Mrs Ridgway ventured to add.
"Junius. Sir Philip 7” and be rushed, almost
choked into the street. This is a remarkable
occurrence, and there is no doubt of its au
tbenticity
The worst influence whish the Faculty of a
College can exert upon young tnieds is to en
courage them to plutigs tn the tntoxicat ng wa
ters of pol ncal strife Tney will imbibe its pas
sions. jealousies and prejudices soon enough—
too soon for their happiness and interests—
without being ttimu'ated to it by those to whom
they look for guidance and instruction.
But of all poll tea those are the most unna'a
ral and detestable which tend to inflame the
young mind its cout try. The pares:
pa'notism is generally found in youthful
breasts. Tbe young heart looks to its country
as to its mother, to whom itowes nurture, shel
ter. pro eciion and every earthly goad. A cruel
and tyrannical’Government will alienate even
tbe affections ot the young, and rouse them to
resistance. But when we see them inflamed
against a good and parental Government, one
whose influence has only been felt in kindness
and love; to whom they owe liberty, law,
equal.ty, freedom of religion, honor, peace and
plenty; when we see them urged to hate, re
vile. and draw the sword against such a Go
vernment, we cannot but feel a degree of hor
ror akin to that which we should entertain for
a chi d who would array himself against a
parent, and plunge a dagger into the breast
upon which he hijig in infancy.— Kichtnond
Republican’ -
A Kiss for CHARJTt’e Bikk.—The follow
ng nmusing little Fjench story is translated
Iron, a recent number of the Cturier des Etati
Uni?, whiclf is always picking up the beet things
which appear in the Parisian journals:
At a racecourse in wmandy, some English
men were admiring the picturesque and histo
ric costume of the women of the country.
Several of these gentleman jockeys, slightly
excited by the impressions of their dejeuner
were gathered together in a knot, admiring not
only the costume, but the captivating faces of
the women of Normandy, whose beauty was
heightened by the piq jut originality of their
lofty lace head gear. These sportsman were
uttering their commeron the passers by in a
loud tone of voice, n their attention was
arrested by the ext beauty of a
young woman, ©videruy just mirried, who at
the moment patsed » She was walking in
the midst of a group of country lads and lasses
in their silk dresses koi long tailed short waist
ed black coats, and in ue company might be
seen the black cassock of the cure and vicar
of the parish. *'
“What a beauty” ’xclaimed one of the
sportsmen, “o nmy hf“ r, I’d give two sove
reigns for a kiss of het ' sy cheek”
“Hallo ! here’s a bit k, who says he’ll pive
two sovereigns to ku Louise,’ said a
bumpkin in black W' £ Vest and hob-c'riied
shoes.
“Ah! ah!” cried sevc J of the girls together
“how generous,two ioi; are not Peru !”
“Well, then 11. give &aid the English
man.”
The young woma’’ , whom the provoca
tion was addressed, towards the Eng
lishman, and smiling .i, *4f it would give
you a great deal o foeu, monsieur.”
“Oh! an imine^** '**•»•• J
• Wjh, t-_ she, after a
little hesitation, “give five louis and here’s mv
cheek.”
Thus challenged, his liberality would not
have backed out had it cost him twenty guineas.
The five goldrn pieces were drawn from his
purse and placed in tbe young woman’s bands
who honestly performed her part of ths con
tract, and received a brace of kisses.
“What a windfall,” cried she gaily* “Here,
M. le Cure, are five gold pieces for the poor
of our parish.”
As she finished, acclamations arose on ail
sides.
“Oh, if that is to be the use of the money, a
guinea more for the poor,” said the sportsman,
and the acclamations were louder than ever.
Mineral Wealth of Ohio.—The Athens
(O.) Messenger makes the following remarks
respecting the iron mines of that State:
“That the iron business in this region is
destined at no very distant day to become one
of vast magnitude, must ba apparent to even
the casual observer. Ei ending through the
connties of Lawrence, Gallia, Jackson, Meige,
Vinton, Athens and Hocking, we have a belt
of iron ore averaging some twelve miles in
width, and extending a distance of one hun
dred or more in leugth, each square mile of
which can be made susceptible of keeping op
a furnace employing one hundred hands, and
yielding eight tons per day, (valued at $25 per
ton.) for any desirable period of time. Coal
of the very best quality, from three to twenty
and even thirty feet in thickness, also underlies
the counties named, together with others—suf
ficient to last for ages as a means of fuel for
manufacturing in their midst, as well as far
supplying the market demand northwest and
south of us.”
Place fifty or a hundred or more of these fur
naces at different points in this mineral region
—each producing annually from SC>O 000 to
SIOO,OOO worth of pig iron—creating a great
variety and an inexhaustible demand for busi
ness and labor—furnishing a steady, sure and
profitable home market for all productions of
the soil—and who can calculate its future im
portance and value ? England, with an avail
able coal region occupying an area less than
the counties of Athens and Meigs uni .ed, man
ages to produce annually $50,000,000 worth of
iron—or an aggregate nearly equal to the en
lire agricultural exportations of the United
States; and yet, at this day, the mineral region
of Ohio alone is susceptible of being rendered
foor-fold more valuable than the entire mineral
region of England!
The First Book Printed in I\kw York.—
An interesting bibliographic fact connected with
Fishkill was communicated to me by Guiian C.
Verplanck, Esq. I have already noticed the har
rasssinn circumstances under which the first
republican constitution of the State of New
York was elaborated, discussed and adopted—the
legislators retiring before the approach of British
bayonets first to Harlem, then to Kingsbridge,
Yonkers, White Plains, Fishkill and Kingston.
“ The Constitution of the Stale of New York, 19
says Mr. Verplanck, “was printed in 1777, and
was the first as well as the most important book
ever printed in the State. The people con d find
but one press in their domain with which to
print this work of their representatives. It was
done at Fishkill, by 3arnuel London, who had
been a whig editor and printer in tho city of
N(fcW York, ead who hid retired with his press
to FisMriW, where- ww the chief deposits of
stores, hospitals, tec., of the United States. ’
Mr. Verplanck possesses a copy of this pre
cious piece of American typography. They
have become almost as scarce as the Sibylline
Books and quite as relatively valuable ; for
the principles therein imbodied fore-shadowed
the destinv of the Commonwealth. Unlike Tar
quin the Proud, the possessor values it above
all price.—Pictorial Field Book of the Revolu
tion.
‘Prkpay, Prepay I—What bootat man will
ccmpel another to pay five cents for the postage ol a
letter when he can pay it with three 1 Let every
body prepay. Few letters will be taken from th?
offices not prepaid.”
A correspondent, who sends us the above,
cut out of a contemporary journal, says that he
fully endorses it, and considers it the duty of
every one under the new systen to prepay foeir
letters.— Net Intel.
Ths New Flvis-o Ship.—On Saturday, In
company with several gentlemen, invited by Mr.
T. Robjohn, we had an opportunity of examining
the immense usnal ship “United States,” now
on the stocks at Hoboken and nearly ready for
launching into the air. Trusting that some ac
counts of this unique affair may be interesting
to our readers, we took a few notes, which wifi
serve as reliable data for a brief description. The
carls 64 feet in length, very sharp at either end,
width 6 feet, height 6 feet 4 inches, the whole
composed of a strong, light wooden frame cov
ered with canvass, with doo s and glass win
dows. The boilers are of copper, on the tubular
plan, and occupy a space equal to four cubic
feet; the engines are very perfect, being com
posed of gun metal and cast steel; they are of
12 horse power and are to work 20 inch stroke
66 times per minute, which will give 400 revolu
tions of the floats whicn are placed in a substan
tial frame work on the top of the car. There is
sufficient room for 36 pas-engars, with fuel for
four hours The float is 260 fest in length, of a
cigar like shape, 24 feet diameter in the centre,
and has a gas Capacity aqual to 90,000 cubic feet
which gives a lifting power to 5,500 lbs. The
entire weight of the car, float and fixtures is but
4,000 lbs., leaving 2500 pounds surplus. It is
designed to run about 200 feet above the surface
of the earth at a rate of speed varying from 25
to 60 miles per hour. The engines are a curios
ity, their weight being 181 pounds, and so per
fect are thev that by the force of his iungs, Mr.
Robjohn caused both pistons to work a full rev
o’ution, carrying a driving wheel of five feet di
ameter. The rudder is worthy of minute ex
amination, and by it it is designed to run up or
down, or in any required direction. The car is
suspended by cords to the float, and when the
whole is inflated and suspended in mid air under
the estimate I velocity, it wiil be a rare sight.
The reality of such a scheme can hardly be com
prehended until one examines the admirable ma
chinery an i actuall y sits down in the car, when
its feasibility seems to be probable. The sltip
thusfar has cost the inventor about <5,500, and
he now requires only a few hundred more to
perfect and set afloat his air ship. It is designed
to drive this vessel by steam and to obviate the
necessity of fuel, Mr. Robjohn says he has dis
covered a plan for decomposing water, igniting
the gases, which again become water, which
is converted into steam by the combustion, and
this steam is again condensed and returned for
decomposition, thus securing entire Immunity
front waste and a uniform weight during the
longest voyages. The present arrangement of
the engines are, however, on the usual recipro
city plan, driven tty steam generated from coke
and spirits of wine.
The vessel lies on the plain west of Hoboksn
village, and is surrounded by a strong enclosure
290 by 275 feet—the whole under the constant
surveillance of a watchman. Several capitalists
are exaininingthe plan, and it is to be hoped that
the want of a few hundred dollars may not be
the means of preventing a fair trial of this grand
attempt to navigate the air.—N. Y. Tribune.
Rxmabkaxu Avtomatos Taxa —We had an
opportunity, says the Wolverhampton Herald,
(Eng.,) ol inspecting, at the Bazaar of Mr.
Cheeham, on Thursday last, an automaton, as
novel in its action as it Is beautiful In design.
This remarkable piece of mechanism consists
of a hawthorn tree in full bloom, faithfully co
ied, the crusted or semi-perished bark on the
trunk, and the foliage, being most naturally im
itated ; and on several of the branches stuffed
humming birds are perched, which, now waving
their wings and anon hopping from spray to
spiay, and pouring forth a flood oi music, almost
charm the spectator into the belief that it is a
pleasing reality and not an illusion, which is
presented to his admiring view.
jJOno of the tiny creatures jumps from one
branch to another in pursuit of flies and insects
—another lies basking on one of the hawthorn
flowers, a third sits on its nest, whilst several
others are disposed in different parte of the tree.
Tne singing of the birds is not only accurate
and natural, but the motion is also admirable
one of them flying from one branch to
another, a distance or about eight inches, with
the greatest possible precision, and alternately
turning completely round in going or returning,
and without anything being observed to cause
such an effect, or even discover the motion of
this unique and eiegant specimen of indus
trial art. On the base of the tree, which abounds
in moss, tufts of grass, and the concomitant
herbage (composed of a material which, above
al! others, appears less suited to the purpose)
with a number of shells, Ac., Ac , are a taniger
and Chinese fly-catcher, both birds of beautiful
plumage, and the latter is incessantly pecking
the carcase of a golden beetle amongst the moss
in the foreground, now and then stopping to
swallow, what he may have managed to cuii
with his slenderbeak. The artist has achieved
a work of which be may be justly proud, the
ensemiie being such as to strike the beholder
with involuntary wonderment, whilst the erudite
ornithologist or professor of boivnv would tan
to distinguish the imaginary from the real at first
sight. The whole is enclosed in a glass case,
and has been produced by that renowned Paris
iirn, Stevenard.
POLITICAL.
For the Chronicle <!• Sentinel,
Is It Fair 1
My caption ia suggested by a recent article
in the Const tutionahat, headed “Unfairness,”
in which tho editor of that journal complains
that Mr. McDonald is represented by his oppo
nents as a disunionist. My object ia not to
defend the course of the Union pre,a in this
regard, that ia unnecessary. If the candidate
of the namelece party i, not obnoxious to the
charge of aeoesaionism and disunionism, then
it is not »afe to judge of men’s “faith by their
works.” But 1 would inquire, if it is fair to
reproduce the abolition articles of such pa-
pers as the New York Tribune, as evidences
of “Northern popular sentiment” upon the sub
jactof plavery, when the editor, (as also every
intelligent reader) well knows, that the Trib
une represents but a very small portion of the
Northern people—that it is opposed by nearly
every influential journal in its own vicinity,
and that the very article quoted by the Consti
tutionalist is a bitter and spiteful fling at the
South, prompted by its conviction that “the
Fugitive Shve Law is destined to remain on
the statute book,” and by its being forced by
that very “Northern popular sentiment” to
retire ungracefully from the position assumed,
and vigorously maintained in regard to this
question. And again, is it fair to pub’.ish an
extract from Mr. Webster’s Buffalo speech,
to utter iEe moat objectionable aem uaents, and
refuse to disabuse the minds of its readers by
publishing the correction, but rather to con
firm the error by intimating in a subsequent
i.egue, that the Chronicle & Sentinel and other
Constitutional Union pacers, were waiting
for an edition of said speech, revised express
ly for publication at the South? In short, is
it fair to catch at every treasonable and mis
chevous sentiment, whether spoken or writ
ten, by white or black, man or woman, and
herald it far and wide, for the purpose of ad
ding violence to the prejudices which already
exist among discendan s of a common and
glorious ancestry, who have a thousand sym
pathies and interests in common, with but one
“occasion of discord a remedy for which is
certainly not found in a dissolution of the
Union. And now what is “popular Northern
sentiment” in relation to slavery. The history
of the “Liberty” or “Abolition ’ party shows
clearly that for twenty-five years prior to 1818,
they had made but little pr'gross —’tia true,
that imbued with a zeal worthy of a better
cause, they annoyed committees and legisla
tive bodies with their fanatical ravings, but
they accomplished iittlejof positive harm, and
as to numbe s, I believe their vote never
reached to ten percent, of the whole number
in any one state, and composed of broken
down politicians and 'eiigious enthu iasts and
their dupes, there was not a single man distin
guished for talents, or position to be found in
their ranks ; as an evidence of which, James
G. Birney, an obscure preacher, was their
candidate for th© Presidency. With the ac
quisition cf territory from Mexico, arose the
free soil question, which, for a time, swept
every thing before it. ‘ Popular Northern
sentiment” was undoubtedly in favor of
making the exclusion of slavery & prerequi site
to Territorial organization This after a long
and somewhat angry discussion, they were
forced to yield. Btate and Territorial govern
ments have been provided for the whole of
the acquired domain, and all that the South
had ever demanded —non-intervention on the
subject of slavery— was conceded. The free
soil question is now regarded as a mere ab
straction, and would, long ©re this, have been
among the things that were, but for the old
Abolitionists of the North, and the new Dis
union'sts at the South, these by catering to
th © morbid appetites of each other, continue
to exist; without such food, either would die.
That the so m rare hated and contemned by
the large conservative portion of the Northern
psople, th°ro is abundant evidence, their
meetings occasion riots—their lecturers are
mobed. as in a late instance at Troy—and the
very name by which they are called, is a by
word and a reproach among them. As evi
dence upon this point, allow me to qiote a
venerable and distingu shed Georgian, who,
having been educated at a Northern Universi
ty fifty years ago. had learned to esteem the
Ya.ikees for an intelligent and order loving
people. He slid for fifteen years circumstances
had prevented his visiting the scenes of his
school and academic career, and during that
time, it flue need by unfair representations of
Northern sentiment, he was constrained to bo
lieve that the whole population was tinctured
with Abolitionism, and he determined, old as
he was, to satisfy himself by personal inter
course and observation. He had spent four
months in travelling through New England by
ran ears and stage—stopping in Mansion
and Cottage—conversing with people of all
classes, and said he, as his6ne countenance
glowed with joyous recollections, “I have not
met with a single person in the whole of that
time, who entertained opinions or feelings
inimical to the South—’tis true they do not re
gard the institution of slavery in the same light
that I do, but they have no denire to interfere
with it, as it exists, and that is aliVny fair and
candid Southerner can ask.” This I regard
as a fair aud enlightened judgment—and from
a source too, fully entitled to the respect of
the people of Georgia and of the South.
For the Chronicle 3? Sentinel. I
Mr. Robert McMillan.
The last that waj heard of this gentleman,
was as a candidate for Cass elector, making
speeches in favor of “non-intervention” and 1
the Nicholson letter. His name was announced
as a speaker at a Southern Rights celebration '
or two, but he did not speak ; and his refusal
to do so was regarded by his old Casa friends
as a refutation of the calumny that he had
proved traitor to them and the Cass p'atform.
“ The confidence in his fidelity ” expressed by
the committee, must have been, therefore, a
plant of rapid growth. His newly acquired
“ devotion to the rights of the whole South,”
(according to their understanding of them,)
they could have commended on no other prin
ciple than that “ young converts are zealous.”
In expressing his grstification at their confi
dence, Mr. McMillan might well have added
some expression of his amazement.
This candidate for Cass elector—who ran on
“ non intervention ’’—this Gov. Towns’ man—
this upholder of th a Democratic platform, State
and Narionil, which demand’d “non-interven
tion”—has the hardihood to ask,
“ Is there an acre of this vast territory upon which
a Southern Bliveholdir can settle with his slaves and
securely enjoy his property ?”
Oh, Mac! Mac! Is it for you to “spake”
thus ? What hinders, Mac, in your principles,
unless you have deserted them—what binders
a Southern slaveholder from go ng into any
part of those two large territories denoted New
Mexico and Utah ?
Are “Mexican laws” in the way? Pray
tell us, Mac! You were a candidate on this
very iisue, and are posted up on these points.
Os course, the hindrance can’t be “ Mexican
laws,” for you are a Nicholson letter man, and
are far from believing in the right of legisla
tion “ Mexican laws ” are not the obstacle,
else you did bad business when you went to
and fro about the country preaching the doc
trine of “non intervention.”
But what is in the way, Mac ? If, as you think,
the watchman who cries “all’s ri?ht,” is mistaken
in relation to New Mexico and Utah, pray tell us
what it is in those two territories which is wrong?
Art they inaccessible by reason of “ non-interven
tion Theo, Mac, you tried very hard to put that
obstacle in the way. If that is the difficulty, you
made a big blander —a terrible blander. If you
helped us, to the best of yoar ability, to lose these
territories of “incalculable value,” men, Mac, in
stead of seekinf promotion, you ought now to be sit
ting up?n the stool cf repentence. You ought to tell
the people that it they would but forgive you thia one
time, you would for the future meddle no more with
“ edge tools.”
But we are anxious to learn when and why the
change took place from a Cass elector to an unbe
liever in the Casa faith —from a “ non-intervention
ist” to a “repealer?' Wm the easiness of the
change—or its suddenness—the foundation of tbe
confidence expressed by your committee ? Did they
consider recent apostaey from your former principled
a capital guaranty of fideliiy to your new creed?
But come oat, Mac, and defend yourself. Put in
your plea. Perhap you never were a non interven
tionist. Perhaps yor were not a candidate for Cass
elector • er pe rad venture, the Cass platform was not
“non-intervention.” Whatever your plea, Mac,
come up to tae scratch on this charge of renegacy.—
It admits of a distinct issue. Leave California out,
end speak to the count which treats of New Mexico
and Utah. We thought nre knew where you were.
We are confi lent we mow where you say you are.
Pray tell us why, when and you got there?
Your committee insinuate that your opponents are
not those “ wno love their section better than
national toners, rnd their rights an 1 liberties more
than the spoils of office.” We presume they meant
to contrast your opponent in the present campaign
with your immaculate self. From the fact that yoa
ran for Cass elector in ’43, they judged you perfectly
to “ national honors.” Your running fur
Judge in ’49, they regarded as evidence that you
cared nothing lor “the spoils ofeffice.” Defeated
ou yoar th-.n creed as a candidate 00-e for local pro
fit and again for mtional honor, you now change
your track, and run on a different creed for a nation
al office of both honor and profit. This change of
creed and new candidacy, they look upon as conclu
sive evidence that you, at least, are above all temp'a
tion, however the present incumbent {of the office
you seek) may be.
How delightfully well-timed the insinuation 1—
Who will tail to appreciate it as he beholds you,
Mac. scampering from the Case platform, running
cnee more on a new track and on new principles, for
national bonor=, and hopelessly grasping after the
spoils of office ?
We should like if we had time. Mac, to glance at
some parts of your letter. I- furnishes, however, no
aew light. Like most of your new allies, you rpeak
favorably of “ that Union ” which is thus and bo—
w bile you have nothing to say of this present U rtion.
i ike oomu ran. eentd, and fcr redress pro
pose sub'uission. To attack your version of South
ern wrongs, (remedies, you propose none,) it has
only been necessary Io show that it “ non interren
— tion ” in the territories waa one of the wronga of the
Somh, then you helped to pile those wrongs upon
her.
A large number of Gars men were in earnest, asd
o have memories. Many Taylor men hare memories
o too. Both suspect you. The latter fear you might
betray them, because they know that you base be
-8 trayed the former already.
i. Yau are the standard bearer of the Southern Rights
party of the Sth Congressional distric*. What has
1 become, Mac, of the dig you bore in ’4B, whereon
a were inscribed “Cass, BuTLaa, and mon-inter
a vbntioss? ’ Don't the new jlag burn your fingers’)
There is one consolation to your old friends. When
3 you hare been beaten under the new flag, you will
! treat it as you did the Cass flag—l. e. —aeiT it.
VVe’ll ail be together again, Mac. But our confi
dence in you won’t grow es fast as did that of your
> Southern Rights friends. They may promote a de
, eerier, who Iras deserted but once. When you get
back to us you will hare been twice renegade.
I Rie, Mac! thou quardam would-be Caos elector,
now “leader of freemen, sensitive to wrong, and
jealous of their rights”—thou who dost run f r Con
gress, and yet art not a candidate for “ national
honors”—Fie, Mac, whata queer game you are play
ing. An Old Panbl Dxmoobat.
For the Chronicle <p Sentinel.
Solatia Carolina.
Mb. Editor :—I send you an editorial from
the Southern Patriot, entitled “Inequality of
Representation,” which I think will interest
your many readers. There are few of them that
know the organization of the government of
South Carolina, and of course don at understand
how the many are kept under by the few. The
proposed “Secession Convention” is based tn
the number ot its delegates upon the same ine
quality as exists in relation to members of the
Legislature, and it is very easy to perceive how
-v ,i u- —-«t ■ - .',.?>rnr:z. ,-irra.
when tiiere appears to' be unanimity. If the
Legislature were to call a convention of delegates
to be elected upon principles of justice and
equality, it would soon be seen where and to
what extent the people wo speak, and they
would be heard.
But look at the contrast afforded by old Pen
dleton and the Parish of St. Thomas and St.
Dennis. Kbbshaw.
Inequality os' RsrneszNTATinN. —In South
Carolina me Senate is composed of forty-five
members. The white population of the State is
two hundred and eighty-three thousand seven
hundred and eighty-seven men, women and
children. The following Pansies, St. Thomas’
and St. Dennis’, St. James’ Santee, St. An
drew’s, St. Stephen’s, Christ Church, St. John’s
Colleton, St. Paul’s, St. John’s Berkley, St. He
lena, St. Luke, Prince William’s, St. John’s
Goose Creek, St. George’s Dorchester, St. Pe
ters, All Saints, Prince George Winyaw, Wil
liamsburg, St. Bartholemew’s Orange, St. Mat
thew’s, Claremont, Clarendon and Kershaw Dis
tricts, have a white population ot lony-seven
thousand, four hundred and fifty seven persons.
This, in numbers, is about one s'xth of the whole
white population of the State, and yet these par
ishes and districts have a majority of the nnm
bers in the Senate of South Carolina. They
send twenty-three Senators to make lawsfor the
State and rule the Senate, with a white popula
tion of 47,457. The other districts, with a white
population of 226,230 persons, are entitled to
only twenty-two Senators. Now, is there the
semblance of reason or j ustice for such gross in
equality in the representation of a republican
people 1 Forty-seven thousand, in round mem
bers, having more influence In one branch of the
government, than two hundred and eighty six
thousand! With this basis of representation
confined to the lower country, what is the Sen
ate but a house of lords in South Carolina ?
And these lords are to drive us out of the Union.
In the Parish of St. Thomas and St. Dennis
there is a white population of two hundred and
ten persons. The District of Pendleton has a
white population of twenty-seven thousand one
hundred and seventy-nine persons. St. Thomas
and St. Dennis may be ten or fifteen miles in
extentor territory, and Pendleton is about seven
ty miles long and fifty broad. St. Thomae and
St. Dennis has a slave population of only two
thousand three hundred and eighteen, whilst
Pendleton has a slave population of eleven
thousand one hundred and ninety three. St.
Thomas and st. Dennis pays into the treasury
of the state, in the wav ol taxes, the sum of two
thousand and twenty dollars, whilst Pendleton
pays seven thousand six hundred and fifty eight
dollars. Yet this little parish has aa much pow
er and influence in the Senate of the State, and
in voting to break up the Union, as Pendleton
District. Is it right 7 Is it in accordance with
the spirit of republican liberty, that Pendleton
District, twenty times as large as St. Thomas
and St. Dennis, one hundred and twenty-five
times the white population, having five times as
many slaves, and paying four times the amount
of taxes, should have only the same influence
and power in the Senate of the State?
Let us examine this matter a little further.
When the State of South Carolina came outof
the American Revolutioi, the population and
wealth of the State were below. The upper 1
country was, in great measure, a wilderness,
with a very sparse population, not much wealth,
and few slaves. The lower country had been
long settled, possessed a great deal of wealth,
and had controlled snd governed the State en
tirely. In the formation of our constitution,
these things naturally had their influence in fix
ing the Seals of repiesentatiou. But since that
time, the condition of the country has changed.
The upper part of the State has become densely
populated, possessing great wealth, energy and
improvement. The lowercountry and lhe parish
es hat e retrograded, or at least have not kept
pace with the upper districts in their growth and
prosperity. It is, therefore, proper that there
should be a change in our basis of representa
tion, in order to equalize the political power of
the State.
A man living in St. Thomas and St. Dennis is, *
compared to one liv ng in Pendleton, a sort of ’
nobleman, and on the game principle that the t
proudest peer in England.holds his seat in the c
House of Lords. It is true he may be no better, 1
although he lives in sight of Charleston, sur- ]
rounded by swamps, than a citizen of the raouc- f
tains, and he may not have half the intelligence (
and property of the mountaineer, yet by the or
ganization of one branch of our government, he ■
is equal to one hundred and twenty-five men 1
living in Pendleton. One dollar oi his money
is worth lo the State, it would seem, four dol
lars of theirs. One of his slaves counts for five
of ours ; and one acre of his land, though cov
ered with alligatorsand bull frogs, is equal to
twenty in Pendleton.
How fit and proper is it for a man thus situa
ted, and thus clothed with political power, to
lord it over his fellow-citizens in the upper
country, to cry out against the inequalities and
injustice of the Federal Government 1 He
wishes to break up the Union, but one hundred '
and twenty-four men, living in the mountains
of South Carolina, are against it. This makes '
no difference, and in the Senate of the State his
voice is more potential than theirs.
We think these are evils which should be re
medied, and should no longer be borne by a i
people who profess to live under a republican ,
form of government. But if our Federal Gov
ernment is to be broken up, and South Caro i
na to go out of the Union, it should be done by
the people of the State y after mature reflection
and consideration, and not by the parishes. In
matters of ordinary legislation, we have borne 1
with and submitted to their power, but when a
great revolution is to be undertaken, and the
government changed, the people, who will have
to bear the burdens and pay the taxes, must be
consulted in their original power and strength.
The House of Representatives, in South
Carolina, is composed of one hundred and
twenty-four members. The Districts of Pen
dleton, Edgefield, Spartanburg, Barnwell,
Greenville, Abbeville, Laurens, Marion, Union
and Ycrk, have a population of 141,336 white
persons. This is more than half of the white
population of the State. But instead of elec
ting one half of the Senators and Representa
tives, these districts have only ten Senators and
forty-fae Representatives. In other words, a ma
jority of the white people of the Stale are not
permitted, by their constitution, to have one
fourth of the Senators, and only about one-third
of the Representatives.
Why is this that the upper country is not
allowed to be equal to the lower country in
their representation ? Not allowed to have one
fourth of their political influence in one house,
and only about one-third in the other ? Are we
inferior in strength, intelligence, or patriotism ?
Do we not belong to the same class or race of
mankind ? The history of South Carolina, for
the last thirty years, will prove that the sons of
the upper country have equalled their fellow
citizens of the lower division, in the Legisla
ture, in Congress, and on the bench.
With what heart can the people of the upper
country »o forth to fight for equal rights abroad,
when thev are strangers to those rights at
home? In no other State, in the Union,
amongst all the thirty-one States, does this in
equality exist between one section of the State
and another. In no other State is the rotten
borough system known ; in no other Slate is
their Senate a sort of house of lorus, and the
inhabitants of the swampsan order of nobility,
in reference to the sons of the mountains.
The truth is that all of o*ir agitation, in South
Carolina, has come from the parishes. Ail of
thissternal clamor against the Federal Govern
ment, and alarm and consternation for evils
which never accrue, have sprung up and taken
root in the parishes, and by constant agitation,
have soread over the State. So it was in the
daysof nullification, in the Blufftonfai’ure,and
so it is now in this slavery agitation. The peo
ple of the parishes have been so much accus
tomed to lor i it over everything at home, and
in their own State, that they think, most con
scientiously, it is nothing but riirht that they
should have their own way in the United States.
All would be well it these gentlemen can con
trol their parishes, their 1 parishes the State, and
the State the United States. Then we should
have a “ Globiocs Union.”
Our Prospects.—Tne people of Cherokee
Georgia, are now wide awake and g rding on
their armour for the conflict. XV e will not say
with our ardent contemporary of the Columbus
Times, that there is fire in the mountains;
though we admit that here and there may be
found a fire eater—hut will aver that there is a
spirit of enthusiasm in the cause of theConsti
tation and the Union which bodes no good to
the hopes of the secessionists. We may be
mistaken, but it is our candid belief, that Cobb
and Chastain will carry this district by at least
four thousand votes. Wo know that some few
changes have occurred against us since last fall;
but we know also of some that have taken
place in our favor. On the whole, therefore,
our prospects are most bright and cheering.
Let our friends but do their duty, and a glorious
triumph awaits them, from the Lookout to the
seaboard.
We would caution our friends below against
the exaggerated statements of anonymous letter
- writers.— Rime Ccur.
_ . -■ .. SW —ir.
' Poob Vkbicb. —Since the IBih of May last
' the court mar.ia! of the eastern Lombardo
Venetian districts baa pronounced two hun
dred and twelve condemnations, including one
handled and fifteen sentences of death.
VOL.LXV—NEW SERIES VOL.XV NO. 32*
Senatorial Convention,
1 Davis’ Sfbiso, July 26, 1651.
, The delegates from tho counties of Burke
i and Jefferson assembled this day at Davis’
Spring for the purpose of nominating a constitu-
I tional Union candidate to represent the 9th Sen
-1 atorial District.
On motion of Dr. T. A. Parsons, Dr, Philip
S. Lemle, of Jefler-on waa appointed chairman,
and Dr. W. C. Musgrove of Burke county, Sec
retary.
On motion of J. B. Jones—
Resolved, That the delegate* from the two
counties be empowered to fill any vacancy which
may occur in their respective delegations.
The following gentlemen then reported them
selves as Delegates and took their seats :
Rurke.— Wm. W. Sturges, John Attaway,
81. McCollum, J. McCollum, T. Dillard, 81.
Walker,Seaborn Cox, E. B Gresham, B. Pal
mer, Sr., J. B. Netherland, Cyrus Hudson, Wm.
Nasworthy, G. S. J. Price, T. A. Parsons,
Wm. C. Musgrove, Bailey Carpenter, R. S.
Scruggs, Benj. Gils rap, J. B. Jones, J. A. Mc-
Gruder, Win. B. Sikes, B, Patterson, J. B.
Lumpkin and J. Applewhite.
Jrflerson.— J. W. Whigham, Lucius Brown,
Pipkin, Eb. Brown, N. K. Whigham, J. P.
Gobert, J. T Mulling, T. Dorley, Robt Patter
son, James T. Brown, John W. Bothwell, Dr.
P, S. Lemle, B. A Moye, 61. Moxley, Eli. 61c-
Croan, Wm. P. Alexander, J. Parker and Robt.
Stephens.
The Convention being fully organized, on
motion the Convention adjourned to the public
siand, when Dr. Lemle in a chaste and eloquent
address, returned his thanks snd defined the po
sition of himself and friends upon the exciting
topics of the day.
On motion of Dr. Parsons of Burke, Capt.
P. B. Connollv of tho county of Jefferson was
unanimously nominated as the Constitutional
Union Candidate for Senator of the 9lh Sena
torial District.
On motion, J. W. Whigham, J. B. Jones,
s^'i»?. a Jl e !2 on >
trr melton Capt. Connelly'and request his accep
ts ice of the same. The Committee after a short
absence introduced Capt. Connelly, who in a few
brief and pertinent remarks, planting himself
upon the Georgia Platform, accepted the nomina
tion.
On motion of Dr. Parsons of Burke, seconded
by Mr. Alexander of Jefferson, the follwing reso
lutions were unanimously and enthusiastically
received:
Resolved, That the proceedings of the Georgia
Convention meets with our cordial approbation,
and that the Constitutional Union party, which
was organised to carry into tffect the opinions
and view sos that convention, will receive our
zealous support.
Resolved, That we approve the nomination of
the Hon. Howell Cobb, as the candidate for
Governor of the Constitutional Union Party, and
the Hon. Robert Toombs as :he candidate of the
Bih Congressional district, and Capt. P. B. Con
nelly as the candidates of the 9th Senatorial dis
trict, and will use all proper and honorable
means to secure their election. It is further
Resolved, as the sense of this convention, that
the question of the rature of the right of seces
sion, is not properly involved in the issue now
before the people of Georgia. If an occasion
rha’l arise demanding the exercise of such a
right, we shall not stop to consider or discuss its
nature and character, and in this contingency we
would not care what the notions of the individ
ual might be as to the character of the right, so
that he would aid us in making it effective and
successful. So in the present emergency, we
are indifle ent about tha abstract opinion ot the
individual upon the question—so that he will
help us to protect the country from the intem
perate, unwise and ruinous exercise of the right
under existing circumstances.
On motion—W. S. Alexander, W. U. Stur
ges and Dr. Parsons were appointed a Commit
tee to wait upon Mr. Toombs and conduct him
to the stand—when, upon being presented to the
Convention and a large audience, he made one
of his most able and masterly efforts.
Moved by Mr. J. B. Jones, that the thanksof
this Convention be returned to it© .Chairman
and Secretary.
Moved by C. B, Gresham, that the proceedings
of this Convention be published in the Consti
tutional Union Papers.
On motion of J. S. McGruder the Conven
tion then adjourned.
P. S. Lzmlb, Ch’n.
W. C. Musg-ove. Sec’y
Constitutional Union Meeting in Lincoln*
At a meeting of tbe Constitutional Union Party of
Lincoln, he'd 30th ult. at Lincolnton, for the pur
pose of noaiinating a Candidate for tbe House of 1
Representatives in the next General Assembly, Har
vey Wheat was called to the Chair, and H. J. Lang
requested to act as S*cretary.
Tbe object of the meeting, aa above, being stated
by B. B. Moore, Esq., on motion of H. J. Lang, it
was—
Resolved, that the meeting proceed by ballot to
nominate a Candidate.
On motion of B. P. Tatcm, Esq . it was —
Resolved, That a majority of the whole number
of rotes be reqaieito to a choice.
Cd. L. Lamar suggested the propriety of propos
ing names of in Jividuris to the meeting as candidates '
for nomination, in accordance with that suggestion I
the name of John Bentley was suggested by Col. ’
Lamar; tha name of C. R. Strother by John M. i
Cuiliff; the name of Col. Lamar by B. F. Tatom, |
and the name of Col. Hendley by H. J. Lang Up
on the second balloting, (Col. Limar having previ
ously withdrawn his name) Coi. M. Uzndley hav
ing receive 1 the requisite majority, was declared the
duly elected nominee.
Coi. Hcncftey b Jr.g pie font, was called upon, and
in response addressed the meeti g, ae.ting forth the
principles which he advocated, and signifying hi®
acc°( tance of tbe nomination tendered him.
After the adjournment of (he meeting, the assem
bly was addressed by B. B. Moore, Esq., upon the
issue as presented to the country.
HARVEY WHEAT, Chairman. ,
H. J. Lang, Secretary.
Whois afraid to speak Out I— Our neigh
bor ol the Times, still insinuates that Mr. Cobb
is afraid to meet the disunionists, and discuse
the great questions on which the people are to
decide in the coming elections. How is this 7
Mr. Cobb every where pr..poses to meet Me
Donald, or any one else who is authorised to
speak in his name and for whose views and
expressions McDonald will hold himself res
ponsible. Who else should he meet 1 There
are hundreds of men that would like to be
pulled into notoriety by hanging at his heels,
but for whose opinions his competitor would
he unwilling to be responsible. Such men Mr.
Cobb will not consent to discuss these great
matters with He is not afraid however to
stand on the Georgia Platform, and defend the
integrity of the Union end the value of the ex
isting government before tho people ofGeor*
gia. This he intends to do every where.
But how stands his competitor f where is
the bugle blower of Air. Rhett 7 Do we find
him blowing bis horn for a Southern
Congress 1 Does he come forward and
proclaim the fact that he and his master, Mr.
Rhett, are bent on destroying the Union 1
That he and Quitman are blowing the bugle
to rouse up the slumbering people of Georgia
and Mississippi to a sense of their rights, and
when they are awakened they are to rush
blindfolded into the darkness of despotism 7
We ask again, where is AlcDonald 7 Shall we
answer I He it seems has taken up with
the chivalry of South Carolina. He will not
condescend tn mingle with the people and give
his views about that Southern Congress. Oh
no! He is the candidate for the short tailed
aristocracy, who are a little better that vulgar
inen ! The people have no right to his opin
ions. Mum is the word with him.
But this will serve no vote gettin > purpose.
We all recollect that he was as prominent in
the Nashville convention, that vile assemblage
which endeavored to place the South in a
wrong position; we all recollectjthat |he presid
ed over the Macon Convention, where disunion
was open y avowed and vociferously applaud
ed ; wo all know that he is in favor of a
Southern Congress, the very object of which
is to form a southern confederacy and dissolve
the Uuion. What more do the people wish to
know 7 He may then assume an onfall dignity
and stay at home and keep mum, or like a mas
come forth and meet his competitor—it will
be all tho same. He is a dead cock in the pit,
and the people will snow him on the first Mon
day in October that no man who blows the
bugle for Rhett can sit in the Executive Chair
of Georgia.— Columbus Enquirer.
Coloxki. Cha,tais.—Oar paper went to
press last week whilst the discussiin between
Messrs. Stiles and Chastain was going on at
the Court House; we, therefore, barely
alluded to it. Wo now take pleasure in say
ing. that it terminated to tbe entire satisfaction
of the friends of Conatitu ional Union. There
were not a few who looked forward to this
meeting of the candidates with deep solicitude.
The diaunionivts were confident, and many of
them expected for their champion an easy
and complete victory over the “Gilmer
hoosier,” as they were pleated lo think him.
How great then their surprise and mortifica
tion, and how great the gratification of the
Union men, when it was perceptible to all,
that the ‘ rude mountaineer of Noouatootla”
was more than a match for the polished cour
tier of ‘‘Etowah Cliffs,” who for the last few
years had mingled and banquetted with
European Princes and Nobles. Oir oppo
nents uad represented Mr. Chastain as desti
tute alike of commoo sense andTommon hon
esty —without talents and without principles,
and many of our friends wended their way
to the discussion with fear and trembling It
la needless to say, that they ware moat agree
ablv disappointed. Instead of the imbecile
swaggerer, they found a wan, plain it is true
in his exterior, and unassuming in his manners,
but fu'ly prepared, at every point, to meet fata
antagonist. Several who had determined be
fore they heard him to vote against him, went
from the dtacuasion his zealous supporters
So hot and heavy was hit canonade, that in
bis closing address tbe fire-eaters endeavored
to scream him down ; but they forgot that a
man who had been in the Seminole war, and
who had heard the yells of Indians, panthers
and wolves in the swamps of Florida, would
hardly be dismayed by the vociferations of a
few disan io nieta
Mr. Chastain is a plain, practical, free and
easy speaker. He is remarkably fluent and
ready, and altogether a very able and efficient
champion of our cause. We commend both
tne man and the cause to the ardent support of
our friends throughout this district. Let no
man falter in this momentous crisis. Every
thing dear to the hearts of American freemen
is directly or remotely involved in tbe present
great struggle. Will yoa send to tbe national
Legislature men who openly denounce the
Union of yonr fathers, or those who love and
are ready to defend it 7— Rome Courier.
IThe citizens of Mobile have taken the ’“’’j®"
tory steps for the establi hment of a Wf!
line of steamers between that city an
York.
For the Chronicle k Sentinel.
Diicunlon In Warren.
> Mr. Editor ; According 'o previous notice,
the Hon. A. H. Stephens addressed the people
efour county at Kent's, in Dooly district, on
Saturday, the 26th uh., and 1 assure you it was
a great day for the Union party in Warren.—
On the day previous we ware agreeably d-aap
pointed to find that Messrs. Gartrell and Mc-
Millan had arrived, for the purpose of joining
in the discussion. Knowing that “ Little Ei
leck ” had been very sick, and was just reco
vering and hardly able te speak, and that
Toombs would be in Burke on that day, the
“Fire-Eaters” of the county despatched run
ners after the aforesaid valiant gentlemen to
come down to overpower “ Little Elleck,”
and taka everything by storm. But the day
came, bright and beautiful, though warm, and
the champions of Southern Rights were not a
little surpris-td to find Stephens ready and anx
ious for the fight.
The arranx ement for speakinc was perfected,
and Mr. Gartrell, “a bettor Union man than
Mr. Tomba,” led off in a apaacb of one hour,
starting with the proposition that the “ South
ern Rights” (they call themselves Southern
Rights down here,) party were better Union
men than the Union parly, and that the doc
trines of the Union party tended to disunion.
The only proof adduced in support of it was
that there were only seven or eight disunionists
in Wilkes, and that they were attached to the
Union or Toombs party ' This was a nice tale
to tell the piney-woods boys ; but, as it was,
none would believe bis report. The balance of
Mr. G.'e speech was, as usual, abuse of Daniel
rsr a. ■ ,« ... - Jf',
■, h'« gentleman often makes a clover speech,
but never a good argument. This effort, how
ever, was very far below himself, and was so
esteemed by all. His aentenoea were fixed for
applause, but none came except at the conclu
sion, when a few faint claps were heard, I
imagine, more in gratifica'ion at his display of
good sense in closing, than at the speech itself.
Mr. Stephens followed in a speech of one hour,
which astonished even his friend?, and carried
dismay into the ranks of (be opposition. Your
correspondent has heard bios upon many occa
sions, but a more effective, powerful speech
he never beard from him. Ha was frequently
interrupted by deafening applause. So feeble
was he that be tottered and trembled in bis po
sition ; yet he seemed to gather strength every
moment, and such a basting as he gave the
Fire-Eaters, and especially Mr. Gartrell, that
crowd will remember as long as they live. He
vindicated himself and bis party, their princi
ples, and their standard-bearer, Mr. Cobb, in
such a manner that none but those whose eyes,
like the dying mule’s, "uasaot," could re.ist
him. “ Poor Gartrell," was on the lips of
many when he concluded.
Next in order, came Col. McMillan, loaded
with documents! He started off with a full
head of steam; said he loved the Union of
Washington, but despised the Union of Cobb,
Toombs and Stephens, with much o'her of the
same slang. After speaking about twenty
minutes, a fight look place, in which two of the
gentler sex participated, which so much alarm
ed the fire eating Candidate for the B.b district
that he gathered up his papers and — sloped!
After order was restored, the fire eater was
looked for and was missing. We sought him,
but he could not be found.
As Stephens had reserved the right to con
clude with a half hour’s speech, order being
restored he again mounted the stand—and such
a speech!—the power of which cannot be
described. He charged Mae with running
from the records he produced on him, namely:
the Resolutions of the Democratic Convention
of 1848, of which Mac himself was a member.
Hie reply was withering and scathing. He
said that he didn’t wonder at Mac’s hatred of
the union of Cobb, Stephensand Toombs, for
all traitors despised the union of Patriots for
the preservation of the Union. Mr. Gartrell,
after S.’s speech, camo forward and apologised
for Mac.’s running; said be bad met Stephens
in ’44, and stood his ground then, to .vhich S.
replied that the case put was unfortunate, for
he runthen. You know how good Elleck is in
a skirmish. I reckon Gartrell knows itsnd
feels i. by this time. So the discussion ended.
The result was, the Union men were confirm
ed. Many who were on the fence turned over,
and we have the best evidence already of much
good having been done. But Dooly, Mr. Edi
tor (have you never heard of Dooly district?)
I wish I had time,if I had the ability, to call to
my aid a little of Longstreet’s geniua, and de
scribe to you the scenes exhibited on this fes
tive occasion with them.
The 4th of July has been postponed by them
to the 4;h Saturday in July, a day which they
have been in the hahit of commemorating for
these many years. The dance where the boys
and gals took the trot together; the old folks
looking in with wonder at the ilegant perform
a aces of the young folks; the fiddler, for there
was a great variety, among whom I must not
forget (o mention the Taliaferro delegation
with their gig topped caps, all would amuse
you. and I wish you bad been there to see; up
on the whole the time was pleasant. These
Dooly people are a plain, hospitable, straight
forward, honest people; and the best of all is,
they love Union, and the Union, and they in
tend to show it in October by giving one hun
dred of their one hundred and fifty votes to the
true Union candidates. Cobb and Toombs.
On Tuesday, the 29 h, Mr. Toombs met Col.
McMi'lan in discussion, in Warrenton, in the
presence of a very large company, estimated
at from five to six hundred persons.
Mr Toombs led oIT in one of his finest ef
forts. 1 believe it is conceded on all hands,
(even by the fire eaters, whose only principle
is opposition to Toombs and Stephens) that his
speech was unusually aide Do you under
stand what it is to draw one’s fie f (I think it
is a term in duelling ) That is just what B b
did on that occasion. He s'ated that he had
got hie opponents behind hie “masked bat’ery,”
and he intended to poke them out; and true to
his word, he did doit. Mac didn’t expect the
exposure, and I tell you he looked bad. T.’s
denunciation of those who said that “the Go
vernment had oppressed us, our rights were
destroyed, and yet cried out, I am for the
Union,” was irresistible and powerful. He
could meet a man who was for secession or
disunion, but the man who was for the Union
at all haztrds, notwithstanding the “ great
wrongs” and "fatal" (mark the word) “ag
gressions,”—in the language of McDonald,
one who would, like Job of old, say “though
He slay me, yet will I trust in him,” he did not
know what to do with. They reminded him
cl the love-sick swain in Moore’s verse,
1 I know not, I ask not, If guilt's in that heart,
I but know that 1 love thee, whatever itiou art."
His argument upon the settlement b Ils was
able and conclusive. He showed that they
violated not a single principle (upon tbe
slavery question) that had been maintained
either in the Nashville Convention, or in the
Georgia Legislature; and referral in support
of this, to the resolutions reported by the
Committee, and tb» bill which became a law.
Mr. Lawton, one of the Prince of Fire-eaters,
moved to strike out the uAois of the slavery
clause in li»> California bill, so that the only
e . urgency was in case “the sparsely peopled
tei >ry of California” was admitted, a Con
vention should be called, &c. His argument
upon the Territorial bills, the District bill and
Fugitive Slave bill, was so conclusive that it
never was answered. The speech throughout,
was listened to with almost breathless silence.
Col. McMillan followed in a speech of two
hours. He commenced by saying, that Mr.
Toombs was like the partridge used to be
when he was a boy, in order to conceal her
young, she would runaway from her nest, but
he could not befooled by this game, he would
walk up and put his finger in. And co he did.
but it was just a put in, for he soon found that
it was a hornet's, instead of a bird’s neat, and
I tbirk the siiug will never gel out until he
gets a little of the ‘‘hair of the dog to cure the
bite unless he applies to Toombs to extract
tlie poison, and then he will be very apt to
sting him in another place. As was expected,
tbe Col. got behind the "masked battery j"
loved the Union, “in youth it had sheltered
him. and ho would protect it now.” He
argued iu the same old way—“the same old
grind atone had come again”—the admission
of California waa aggressive, lost all of that;
lost all of New Mexico and Utah, but atill tbe
impediment was not there ; no law in force
that was aggressive, because they didn't re
move the impediment. Failure to do, waa
something— nothing is something— that is the
Colonel’s notion. Slavery, tie contended,
was abolished virtually, in the Diitrct, the
Fugitive Slave law was nothing any bow, the
North were encroaching every day and still
“my friends” submit ; do nettling, hail glorious
Union! He must be one of the “Union
croakers” to whom Mr. Gardner referred in
one of his editorials la.t winter Then follow
ed a defence of slavery, and the principal
reason for his wanting to preserve the institu
tion, was on account of the ladies, whom he
advised so much to keep their dear tender
“hands from the wash tub and cooking." You
have heard fine hits in speeches, but this cer
tainly waa the master piece !
When called op in for wnatha proposed to
do—what bis principles were—he said, if they
sent him to Congress in the plaee of Mr.
Toombs, he proposed to do what be bad left
undone, that Mr. T. had got a part and that he
would get the balance. Mr. Teoubs, in his
last reply turned the juke upon him, by any
ing he had no principles to go before the peo
ple with or any where elre, and that tha gen
tieman h.mself and hie party had shown that
his only cause of complaint wag that “Morde
eai the Jew aittelhat the King’s gate." Col.
McMillon spoke h;a two hours about out with
out making any impression whatever upon
the men, certainly none upon the ladies, f° r
that wash tub and cooking rmsiners didn t san
their taste, and sat down amid some mock ap
plause, for it wassvidenl that nene wc.n hear
ty in it, save a few title 100. v., an
big ones too. who it has been » i-pei - a
1 don’t wish any thing said about i
exoose ’em) were sent there for tho pur
The big Show of the day was Toombs r. j .
which was full of power. He toru.d Me.Vi
position upon him, and hts wcnld-be wil, too,
and took his seat amidst the applause of the
men and the smi'es of the ladies. One thing is
certain, the ladies are all with Toombs, and
yoa may look •onfiaently tor an inere wed
majority for nimiu rid Warren, in October.
The truth is, the Mi's, ean’t abi«e down in
ibis fan of the country. Years. X.